Lease - William Bunbury to Humphrey Arnold

March 25, 1751

Source: Prince William County, Virginia, Deed Book M, p. 161-2

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This indenture, made this twenty fifth day of March in the year of our Lord one thousand seven hundred & fifty one between William Bunbury of the county of Stafford of the one part & Humphrey Arnold of the County of Prince William of the other part.

Witnesseth that the said Wm. Bunbury hath demised, granted, sett & to farm lett & by these presents doth demise, grant, sett & to farm lett one messuage tenement & tract of land containing one hundred & fifty acres situate, lying & being in ye aforesd. county of Prince William, bounded as followeth, viz.

Beginning at a white oak corner of Col. Lee's & Denice Conner's and running south forty two degrees & an half east thirty two pole from thence north thirty seven degrees & a half east one hundred & thirty nine pole from thence north sixty eight & a half degrees east one hundred & sixteen pole thence north sixty three degrees west two hundred & twenty six pole south two degrees west two hundred thirty one pole to the beginning.

For and in consideration of the rents & duties hereafter mentioned & for and during the space & term of the natural lives of him the said Humphrey Arnold & Anna his wife & Isaac his son or the longest liver of them together with all houses, edifices, gardins, orchards, woods & underwoods, profits, comodities, hereditaments & appurtenances whatsoever belonging or in any wise appertaining to ye same to have and to hold ye sd. messuage, tenements & premises to him the said Arnold, his heirs, exrs., administrators or assigns during the term aforesaid yielding & paying thereof yearly & every year during the term aforesaid unto the said Bunbury or his heirs, exrs., admrs., or assigns the sum of five hundred & thirty pounds of good sound merchantable lawfull tobo. at or upon ye eighteenth day of October yearly during the said term & if it shall happen ____ ye whole or any part of the said yearly rent of five hundred & thirty pounds of tobo. shall be behind or unpaid twenty days after the eighteenth day of October as aforesaid, if the same be lawfully demanded that then it shall and may be lawfull to and for ye sd. Wm. Bunbury, his heirs, exrs., adms., or assigns to enter the sd. messuage, tenement or tract of land & being so entered to make disstress & the said distress to keep untill ye said rent with ye arearages be lawfully satisfied & paid but if it shall so happen that the said yearly rent as aforesaid shall be behind or unpaid as aforesd. and no sufficient distress shall be found on the premises to satisfie & answer ye said rent with ye arearages of rent as aforesd. that then it shall & may be lawfull to & for ye said Bunbury, his heirs, exrs., adms., Or assigns to reenter & posses the premises aforesaid as if this lease had never been made & further ye sd. Bunbury doth covenant & agree to & with ye sd. Arnold, his heirs, exrs., adms., And assigns that he or they shall have liberty to work but only four servants or slaves & himself or an oversees & that said Arnold, his heirs or assigns shall not have liberty to sell or make any waist of any timber on ye tenement aforesaid & further the said Bunbury doth agree with the said Arnold, his heirs or assigns that he or they shall have ye use & benefit of ye aforesaid tenement or tract of land during ye space of three years from the eighteenth of October one thousand seven hundred & fifty one before the said yearly rent becomes due.

In testimony whereof the parties to these indentures have interchangeably set their hands & seals the day and year first written.

Wm. Bunbury

Sign;d, seal'd & deliver'd in the presence of

Wm. Durham
Jos. Smith
Thos. Withers

At a court held for the county of Prince William, 25 March 1751, this lease was proved by the witnesses and admitted to record.

Test, ____ Wagener