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Image found at Library of Virginia http://lva1.hosted.exlibrisgroup.com/F/BF54S14ILF5233KLNI9IMQ2GN92I51LJED8VXN88VC9C9CI1TK-28119?func=full-set-set&set_number=000863&set_entry=000016&format=999 System # 000855552 Page 227 The Right Honorable Thomas Lord Fairfax Baron of Cameron in that part of Great Britain called Scotland Proprietor of the northern neck of Virginia: To all to whom the present writing shall come sends Greeting. FRANCIS JACKSON of the County of Prince William setting forth that he was in Possession of a certain tract of Land which was granted to his father for Two hundred & twenty seven acres by Deed from my Office bearing date the 4th day of April 1712 and conceiving there was surplus Land within the known bounds desired a warrant for a resurvey whereby there was found one hundred & thirteen acres of Surplus, & thereupon moved to have an including deed. Know ye therefore for the Cause aforesaid for & in Consideration of the _mposition paid for the said surplus Land, And for the annual rent hereaforesaid reserved out of the whole being three hundred & forty acres, I have given granted & confirmed & by these presents for me my heirs & assigns Do give grant & confirm unto the said FRANCIS JACKSON the said recited tract bounded by the said resurvey made by Mr George Byer/Byrn as followeth: Beginning at the beginning ??acres?? of the said Land on the main run of Quantico, being a white oak on a hill on the Westerly side of the So run there marked several trees then with the old Lines So 30 degrees Wt Sixty three poles to the corner black oak, then N 58 degrees Wt Sixty nine poles to a Spanish oak near a Glade the corner, then No 55 degrees Wt ninety four poles to a black oak the corner, the So 81 degrees 30degrees Wt one hundred & thirteen poles to two red oaks near the long branch the corner, then Crossing the branch So 7 degrees 30 [min mark] Wt Seventy five poles to a white oak lying down the old corner marked a red oak Saplin, then with the line of PHILEMON WATERS the younger, So 60 degrees Wt Thirty eight poles to the corner a black oak Saplin on a ridge, then So 72 degrees Et One hundred & two poles to a road or large path & in the Line of the Land of JOHN BENNETT, then with his line No 1 degree Wt Sixty nine poles to a red oak in the Line of said Jackson, then with another Line of Bennets No 75 degrees Et Thirty Eight poles to a white oak in another Line of Jackson's Land, then with another of Bennet's Lines, So ??? One hundred & twelve? poles to a red oak Saplin corner of Bennet near the head of a branch, then crossing the branch with another of Bennet's Lines Et One hundred & eight poles to a red oak Saplin corner of Bennet near a branch or Glade, then crossing the branch So 50 degrees Et Thirty poles to a black oak Saplin in Jackson's old Line, then with another of his Lines & the Line of Bennett So One hundred & two poles to a box oak Corner to the said Bennet, then with Bennet's Line ? Sixty poles to the old Line of Jackson, then leaving Bennet as finding the? run to Jackson's old Land & running with Jackson's old Line So 55 degrees, Et Twenty three poles to a red oak the old corner by a path ?side? going or Leading from Jackson's to Chappawamsick**, then with another of Jackson's lines No 65 degrees ?? thirty poles to Bennet's Line where it runs out of said Jackson's Line, then with Bennet's Land Et Fifty six poles to the Line of Jackson's old Land, then with Jackson's Line So 50 degrees Et Twenty four poles to a white oak on an hillside the Corner, then with the old Line crossing the main run of Quantico No 51 degrees Et forty four poles to a red oak the Corner on the NoEt side the run, then No 24 degrees 30 [min mark] Wt Thirty Eight poles to two red oak Saplins on an hill side near the ?run? corner, then No 80 degrees Wt Eighty poles to a branch the Corner, then No ?9? degrees ??? Two hundred & thirty poles to a black oak on a hillside the corner, then So 51 degrees Wt Eighty six poles to the Line of Hodges, then with his Line So 4 degrees Et Twenty four poles to three white oaks by a branch side ??? ??? at Quantico run, thence up the said run & finding therewith & the Land of HODGES to the first station. Containing Three hundred & forty acres Together with all right members & appurtenances thereunto belonging, Royal mines Excepted, a full third part of all Lead Copper Tinn Coals Iron mines & Iron ore that shall be found thereon. To have & to hold the said Three hundred & forty acres of Land Together with all rights profits & benefits to the same belonging or in any wise appurtaining Except before excepted. To him the said FRANCIS JACKSON his heirs & assigns forever the said Francis Jackson his heirs & assigns therefore yielding & paying to me my heirs or assigns or to my Page 228
certain Attorney or Attorneys Agent or Agents or to the certain Attorney or Attorneys of my heirs assignes Proprietors of this said northern neck yearly & every year on the feast day of St. Michael the Archangel the fee rent of four Shilling sterling money for every fifty acres of Land hereby granted so proportionably for a greater or lesser quantity: Provided that if he the said Francis Jackson his heirs or assigns shall not pay the before reserved annual rent so that the same or any part thereof shall be behind or unpaid by the Space of two whole years after the same shall become due if Lawfully demanded That then it shall & may be Lawfull for me my heirs or assigns Proprietors as aforesaid or their certain Attorney or Attorneys Agent or Agents into the above granted premises to Reenter & hold the same .. as if this Grant had never Passed. Given at my Office in the County of Fairfax within my said Proprietory under my Seal. Witness my Agent & Attorney fully authorized thereto. Francis Jackson's Deed } signature illegible; could be Fairfax
for 340 acres of Land }
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