Deed, DE, Sussex, WILLIAM BURROUGHS to BELITHA LAWS 1780 Deed BELITHA [BOLITHA] LAWS from WILLIAM BURROUGHS This indenture made this _____ day of March in the year of Our Lord 1780 between WILLIAM BURROUGHS of the one part and BELITHA LAWS of the other part both of the county of Sussex upon Delaware yeoman. Whereas a certain ISAAC FREELAND obtained a proprietary warrant dated at Philadelphia the 12th day of May 1741 for 200 acres of land situated in Cedar neck in Cedar Creek hundred including a small improvement in said County of Sussex by virtue of which set warrant said land was surveyed and now ready to return. Beginning at a stake in room of a white oak now down and rotten being a corner of land formerly belonging to JOHN TRUITT and MAGDALIN MANLOVE, widow; thence running S 79 degrees W 100 purchase along an old line of marked trees to a stake in room of a white oak now down and rotten being a corner of said MANLOVE’s land; thence along and old line of marked trees N 48½ degrees W 44 perches to a corner marked Spanish Oak; thence N 55 degrees W 5 perches and 3 ft to a corner Black Oak; thence S 78½ degrees W 77 perches to and Oak in JEREMIAH MORRIS's line now belonging to ANDREW COLLINGS; thence S 19½ degrees E 224 perches to a stake in a Savana standing on HART’s line on the SE side of a road leading from HAY’s [HAYE’s] Tavern to Fork Landing and in 9 perches of a white oak corner of said HART’s land; thence along HART’s line by old marked trees S 60 degrees E 149 perches to a corner Black Oak of said HART; thence N 43½ degrees E 48th and 1/2 perches to a corner Red Oak; thence N 51 degrees W 52 perches to a steeping White Oak of said through its land; thence along or near said through its wine N 2 1/2 degrees E 19 scratch 219 perches through a Great Swamp to the place of beginning. Containing and laid out for 244 acres and 120 perches of land be the same more or less, the which said warrant: on the 7th of January 1752 was by said ISAAC FREELAND assigned over on to a certain JOHN BURROUGHS and by said JOHN BURROUGHS … on the 13th day of April in the year of 1765 assigned over onto his son WILLIAM BURROUGHS and … on the 28th day of April 1769 WILLIAM BURROUGHS did assign over onto a certain WILLIAM CLIFTON all his right, title, claim and interest of in and on to the above warrant and at the same time gave his bond to the said CLIFTON for the advance and making over the above cited and described land surveyed by virtue of above warrant as by said bond reference thereto been had may more fully appear and … on the 25th day of July 1776 CLIFTON assigned said bond over onto a certain LUKE DAVIS and said LUKE DAVIS on the 5th day of February 1780 assigned this Bond over to a certain BELITHA LAWS party to these presents. NOW THIS INDENTURE WITNESS that the said WILLIAM BURROUGHS for and in consideration of the sum of £60 lawful money of Pennsylvania to him in and paid by said BELITHA LAWS, it being the money he received of said CLIFTON, the receipt whereof he does hereby acknowledge and himself therewith to be fully satisfied, contented and paid hath granted, bargained, sold, aliened, enfeoffed, released and confirmed and by Page 1 of 4 ** PAGE BREAK ** Deed, DE, Sussex, WILLIAM BURROUGHS to BELITHA LAWS 1780 these presents doth grant, bargain, sell, alien, enfeoff, release and confirm unto the said BELITHA LAWS his heirs and assigns all his right, title, and interest of and unto the above recited land warrant together with all the land, woods, ways, waters, rights, privileges, hereditaments and appurtenances thereby held or to be held by virtue thereof, and the reversions and remainders, rents, issues, and profits thereof, and every part thereof and all the estate, right, title, interest, property, claim and demand whatsoever in law or Equity of the said WILLIAM BURROUGHS of in the said hereby granted premises. TO HAVE AND TO HOLD the said hereby granted premises, and every part thereof with the appurtenances to the said the BELITHA LAWS his heirs and assigns forever subject to the quit rent now due or Hereafter to become due to the chief Lord or Lords of the fee thereof. And the said WILLIAM BURROUGHS for himself, his heirs and administrators doth hereby covenant, promise and agree to and with the said but BELITHA LAWS is errors and a signs that he the said WILLIAM BURROUGHS his heirs, executors and administrators the above described tract of land and the hereby bargained premises with the appurtenances unto the said BELITHA LAWS his heirs and assigns against him the said WILLIAM BURROUGHS and his heirs and against all and every other person or persons lawfully claiming to or to claim by, from, or under him, them or any of them shall and will warrant and forever defend by virtue of these presents. IN TESTIMONY WHEREOF the side WILLIAM BURROUGHS have hereunto set his hand and affixed his seal the year and day first above written. WILLIAM BURROUGHS {seal} Signed sealed and delivered in the presence of us JOSHUA LAWS SAMUEL BASNETT Page 2 of 4 ** PAGE BREAK ** Deed, DE, Sussex, WILLIAM BURROUGHS to BELITHA LAWS 1780 Sussex County viz At a court of common pleas held at Lewes town for the county aforesaid the 4th day of May in the year 1780 the within deed of sale was acknowledged in due form of law by and unto the parties there in named. Test JOSEPH HALL, Deputy prothonotary Page 3 of 4 ** PAGE BREAK ** Deed, DE, Sussex, WILLIAM BURROUGHS to BELITHA LAWS 1780 ###### # # ##### ####### # # ##### ####### # # # # ## ## # # # ## # # # # # ## ## # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # ###### # # # # #### ##### # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # ## ### # # # # # # ###### # # ##### ####### # # ### ##### ####### # # Transcribed from original documents by Brent R. Brian & Martha M. Brian. This document and others can be found on our website: BMGEN We claim COPYLEFT on the documents that we publish that are our original work. COPYLEFT “rules” can be reviewed on the web site: GNU Free Documentation License In short, use what you like. But if you use our stuff, mention us as the source. Brent R. Brian Martha M. Brian BrianMitchellGenealogy@gmail.com Page 4 of 4 ** PAGE BREAK **