Person:Rebecca Hooper (2)

Deed of Trust Rebecca Hooper Maxey to Albert H. Cox

Whereas, Milton P. Atkinson is indebted to me by bond dated the 28th day of December 1840 and payable on demand in the sum of fifteen hundred and fifteen dollars and three cents which said bond is credited by the sum of $300.00 as of the 1st day of November 1847 and whereas the said Milton P. Atkinson and Elizabeth his wife did by deed of Bargain Sale of date the 1st day of November 1847 sell and convey to me all the interest of the said Atkinson and wife in the estate of Mrs Nancy Ferguson late of Cumberland County, both real and personal which said deed is recorded in the clerks office of the county court of Cumberland. Being now far advanced in years and knowing the uncertainty of life and intending to provide for my daughter the said Elizabeth Atkinson, now therefore in consideration of the love and affection I feel towards my said daughter do give and assign to my son, Albert H. Cox (having full and entire confidence in his honesty and integrity and believing that he will faithfully carry out the ______ of the trust herein confided to him) to be held in trust by him for the benefit of my said daughter Elizabeth P. Atkinson during her natural life then her death and then to her children now living and then to be born if any – the aforesaid bond it s accruing interest up to this date and also all of my interest in the Deed of Trust from said Atkinson to secure said bond – and I also give and assign to the said Albert H. Cox in trust as aforesaid all its right, title and interest real and personal in law and equity in and to the aforesaid interest in the estate of Mrs. Nancy Ferguson late of Cumberland ____ to me as aforesaid by etc said Atkinson and wife to be held ____ for the purposed aforesaid and for none others. Intending that my said daughter shall have all of the benefits arising from the two ___ herein before conveyed to her during her life and believing that after ___whole in any part of the said ___ shall have been collected it may be thought necessary by her to invest in real or personal property – the whole or part thereof in that ___ my son Albert H. Cox is hereby authorized it in such manner and in such property as my said daughter shall _____having first obtained instructions from her to that effect in writing attending by at least two or more credible witnesses and the property as obtained shall be subject to my said daughters’ by like instructions to said Cox to resell or reinvest and at the death of my said daughter the property herein before conveyed or what may be remaining shall be equally divided between her children then living and the descendants as such as may have died according to the “Act of Distribution” – and I more particularly stipulate that the aforesaid conveyed bond and interest in the estate of Mrs. Ferguson shall in no ____ be bound for the debts or undertakings of husband Milton P. Atkinson now or hereafter - In testimony whereof I hereunto set my hand and seal this 3rd day of December 1849.

Rebecca X Maxey seal Witness E. C. Mosby Thos A. Ligon Thos H. Ligon Alexander F. Winfree

The word “deed” between the 9th and 10th lines and the words “and also all of my interest in the deed of Trust from said Atkinson to secure said bond” between the 22nd and 23rd lines of the first page and the words “descendants of such as may have died according to the act of Distributions” between the 9th and 10th. Witnesses: E.C. Mosby Thom H. Ligon Alexander F. Winfree

At a Court held for the County of Powhatan at the Courthouse thereof on the first day of April 1850 the foregoing deed of trust was presented in court and was proven to be the act and deed of Rebecca Maxey a party thereto by the oaths of Edward C. Mosby and Alexander F. Winfree two of the subscribing witnesses thereto and was continued for further proof and in the clerk’s office of the said county clerk on the 15th day of June 1850 the same was further proved before me by the oath of Thomas H. Ligon, another subscribing witness, and thereupon the same was submitted to record.

William S. Dance, Clerk

Deed Book Record, Rebecca Hooper Maxey, 1850

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