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1774-1782 Spotsylvania County, Virginia Deed Book J; [William Armstrong Crozier];
June 14, 1780. Wm. Thompson of Spts. Co., Gent., to Dr. George French of Fredksbg. and Ann Brayne, his wife. Whereas, the sd. Ann Brayne, jointly with her sister, Dorothea Brayne Benger, as daughters of John Benger, late of Virginia, decd., are intitled to and seized of a moiety or 1/2 of an Estate in lands in the Co. of Surry, England, which came to them on the death of Ann Brayne, late of the City of London, England, sometime decd.; the other 1/2 of which estate came or descended to Alexander Spotswood, Esqr.; and whereas, the sd. land is supposed to be liable to an incumbrance of £200 ster., etc., by virtue of a deed of Mortgage, 1/2 of which money the sd. co-heirs are bound to pay in order to exonerate the land, etc., and whereas, the sd. Ann Brayne, decd., was in her lifetime intitled to the sd. Mortgage money, etc., and made her last will and testament with a codicil thereto by which, after bequeathing some special legacies, she gave the residuum of her Estate to be equally divided between the sd. Wm. Thompson and four other legatees, etc., and whereas, it is the opinion of Council, that the sd. £200 ster. is to be looked upon as part of the residuum of the sd. Ann's estate and as such to be equally divided among the residuary legatees afsd., of whom sd. Thompson is one and intitled to part, etc. Witnesseth, the sd. Thompson in consideration of £40 ster., relinquishes any claim, right of title he may have to the sd. mortgage money, to the sd. George French and Ann Brayne, his wife, etc. Witnesses, Andrew Buchanan, George Buckner, James Somerville. June 15, 1780.
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1774-1782 Spotsylvania County, Virginia Deed Book J; [William Armstrong Crozier];
March 15, 1781. George French of Spts. Co., po. of atto., to "my beloved friend, Robert Forsyth, of Spts. Co." Wm. Wiatt, John Hall, Abner Vernon.
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Early Colonial Settlers of Southern Maryland and Virginia's Northern Neck Counties
1751 - 1824 (73 years)
