1819, Jacob Harrell of Wythe County, VA

10 Aug 1819

10 August 1819; This Indenture made the 10th day of August in the year of Our Lord One Thousand eight hundred and nineteen Between Henry Hufford and Peggy his wife of the one part and Jacob Harrell of the other part all of the County of Wythe, and State of Virginia, Witnesseth: that the said Henry Hufford & Peggy his wife, for and in consideration of the sum of Two hundred and Twenty Dollars, to them in hand paid by the said Jacob Harrell, the receipt whereof is hereby acknowledged, the said Henry Hufford & Peggy his wife have given, granted, bargained and sold and by these presents do give, grant, bargain and sell unto the said Jacob Harrell and his heirs forever, a certain tract or parcel of land lying and being in the County of Wythe on a South Branch of Reed Creek at the foot of the north side of the Lick mountain, containing twenty six acres and thirteen poles, and being part of a tract of Sixty acres conveyed to the said Henry Hufford by Joseph Davis by Deed dated the 2nd day of June 1819 and of Record in the Clerks Office of the County Court of Wythe and bounded as followeth, to wit, Beginning at a large black oak and two white oaks in a draft, and with a line of division North 1 ½° West, 80 poles to a black oak and white oak on a ridge N 8° W 70 poles to a black oak in a draft, near a corner of said Huffords land, and on his line South 70° West 30 poles to three white oaks on a ridge, South 4° West 90 poles to three white oaks in a draft North 59° East 72 poles to the Beginning, with its appurtenances to have and to hold to the said Jacob Harrell and his heirs forever, to the sole use and behoof of the said Jacob Harrell and his heirs forever and the said Henry Hufford & Peggy his wife to covenant with the said Jacob Harrell, that they will warrant and defend the right and Title of the tract or parcel of land as herein described, to the said Jacob Harrell and his heirs forever free from the claim of them the said Henry Hufford & Peggy his wife and their heirs, and from the claim or claims of all and every other person or persons whosoever In Testimony whereof the said Henry Hufford and Peggy his wife have hereunto set their hands and affixed their seals the day and year first herein written.

Henry Hufford {Seal}
Margaret (her X mark) Hufford {Seal}

Virginia
At a Court held for Wythe County the 10th day of August 1819
This Indenture of Bargain and sale from Henry Hufford and Margaret his wife to Jacob Harrell was presented in Court and acknowledged by the said Henry Hufford & wife as their act and Deed, the said Margaret the wife having been first prively examined as the Law directs, relinquished her right of Dower therein and the same is ordered to be Recorded.

Teste
J. P. Mathews, Cl