Gift - Land from Isaac Arnold Sr. to Thomas Arnold

August 30, 1727

Source: King George County, Virginia, Deed Book 1, p. 452-3

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This indenture, made the thirtyeth day of August in the fourteenth year of the reign of our Sovereign Lord George of Great Brittain & Ireland, King Defender of the faith & in the year of our Lord God one thousand seven hundred twenty & seven, between Isaac Arnold of the parish of Hanover in King George County within the dominion of Virginia planter of the one part & Thomas Arnold, son of sd. Isaac of the aforesd. parish and county within the dominion of Virginia aforesaid planter of the other part.

Witnesseth that the said Isaac Arnold, for and in consideration of the natural love, good will & affection that he the sd. Isaac Arnold hath and now beareth to and towards his loving son the sd. Thomas Arnold and Mary his now wife and for their advancement & settlement by the way of marriage & for the setting & establishing the premises herein after mentioned & expressed in the blood & posterity of the sd. Thomas Arnold & Mary his sd. wife so long as it shall please God to continue the same, hath given, granted, bargained, made over and lawfully conveyed and in and by these presents hath fully, freely, clearly & absolutely given, granted, bargained, made over & lawfully conveyed unto the said Thomas Arnold and his heirs forever all that ____, tenement, plantation & parcell of land whereon the sd. Thomas Arnold, party to these presents, now liveth and inhabiteth together also with sixty acres of land or thereaboutes be the same more or less to the same belonging and appertaining situate, lying and being in the parish of Hanover in King George County and bounded as followeth:

Beginning at three maple trees standing in or near the line of Robert Elliston in a small branch which leads into the western main branch of Gingoteague and from thence down the said branch to the line of Henry Long dividing this land from the land of Isaac Arnold, party to these presents, thence along the said Henry Long's line to another branch northardly to the line of the land of James Arnold thence up the said branch dividing this land from the land of the said James Arnold to the line of the land of Robert Elistone, thence southwardly along the said Eliston's line to the place where it first began together with all houses, buildings, gardens, orchards, fences, woods & underwoods, ways, water & watercourses, priviledges & comodities whatsoever to the land and premises aforesaid belonging or in any wise appertaining & the reversion & reversions, remainder & remainders, rents, issues & profitts, thereof with all goods, indents and writtings whatsoever, ____ or concerning the same to the only sole proper use, benefit and behoof of Mary Arnold his now wife for & during her natural life and from & after her decease the death of the survivor and longest liver of them to Humphrey Arnold, son of the sd. Thomas & Mary, to him & his heirs forever more & to and for none other use, intent or purpose whatsoever.

In witness whereof the said Isaac Arnold hath to these presents set his hand & seale the day, month & year first above written.

Isaac Arnold

Ralph Saise
William Harvey

At a court held for King George County on Friday the 1st day of September Anno Dom 1727.

Then came Isaac Arnold and acknowledged this deed of gift to Thomas Arnold to be his proper act and deed which at the instance of him the sd. Thomas Arnold is admitted to record.

Test T. Turner