Person:Robert Stuart (3)

!This indenture made the 18th day of May in the year of our Lord One thousand seven hundred and seventy between Robert Stuart, Junior and Elizabeth, his wife, of the County of Culpeper and Colony of Virginia of the one party and Benjamin Pulliam of the same county and colony of the other part witnesseth that the said Robert Stuart, Junior and Elizabeth, his wife, for and in consideration of the sum of seventy one pounds have given grantes bargained and sold (---?) (---?) and confirm unto Benjamin Pulliam one certain piece or parcel of land containing three hundred and fifty one acres which was conveyed to the said Robert Stuart by deed of gift the 15th of October One Thousand Seven Hundred and Sixty Seven sutuate lying and being in the County of aforesaid and Brummfield Parish in the Gourd Vine Fork of Rappahannock River on Beaver Dam run and bounded as followeth Viz. Beginning at tan white oak and a red oak corner to Joseph Strother and runs thence north seventy six degrees west... in Thorton's line... dead chesnut corner to Capt. John Strother... with all houses ways water and water courses profits and envolements whatsoever to the same belonging or in any wise appertaining and the reversion and reversions remainder and reaminders rents issues and profits therof and every part and parcel thereof and all the estate right title interred property claim and demands whatsoever of him the said Robert Stuart, Jun and Elizabeth, his wife, in and to the said land and premises and every part and parcel therof... to said Benjamin Pulliam his heirs and assigns... In witness whereof the said parties to these present have hereunto set their hands and seals the day of year first above written.

Signed sealed and delivered Robert Stuart, Jun. in presence of us Elizabeth Stuart

1.   Research of Geraldine (Gerry) Phillips.

   !Information of family from will 1770, prob., 1789 and Abstract Colonial Families of America, Vol. 7 page 602
   
   !Early Wills Culpepper Co., Va. page 55 Robt. Stewart, May 14, 1770 wife Mary,
   Children Lucy Married to Pulliam; Nancy married to Strother; Robert ---- 21
   Sept. 1789, proved
   
   !Robert Stuart bought land from Coleman Zoderman Brown 15 Oct 1767 in Culpeper
   County 1200 acres Robert Stewart and John Hobson Jt Tenancy, John Hobson died
   without issue and his portion was bought by Robert Stewart.
   
   !15 Oct 1767 he gives 250 acres to Nancy (his daughter) and her husband Joseph
   Strother. 15 Oct 1767 he gives his son Robert Jr. and wife 351 acres (this
   land he sells to Benjamin Pulliam 18 May 1770 when he moves to Sullavan Co.,
   No. Carolina.
   
   !In September 1773 he gives land to Lucy and Benjamin Pulliam to take care of
   them in their old age. This is land on which Robert and wife Mary are living.
   
   !Robert lived in Brumfield Parish. First Spotsylvania, then Orange, then
   Culpeper Co., Virginia.
   
   !Information from Geraldine (Gerry) Phillips, 1703 Buckner, Longview, Texas,
   75604 (903) 295 0271