Poplar Grove Deed

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This indenture made and executed the sixteenth day of December in the year of our Lord eighteen hundred and fourteen between john Higginbotham and Thomas Higginbotham acting as Executors of the Last Will and Testament of John Higginbotham the elder late of Amherst County deceased, the former residing in Nelson County, the latter in Campbell County of the one part and Richard Harrison of the County of Amherst of the second. Witnesseth that whereas the said John Higginbotham the elder by his Last Will and Testament bearing date on the 22^nd day of June in the year of our Lord 1813 and now of record in the County Court of Amherst and to which for greater certainty reference is her had, did among other things devise and appoint that the lands of which he died seized and possessed should be sold by his Executors and the money arising therefrom distributed by them to the several persons named in his said Will; and by the same Will did constitute and appoint the aforesaid John Higginbotham and Thomas Higginbotham Executors thereof, who have heretofore duly qualified as such in the aforesaid County Court and whereas the aforesaid John Higginbotham and Thomas Higginbotham in pursuance of the trust reposed in them by their said Testator, having first duly advertised the time and place of sale for one month in the Sentinel and Press two public newspapers edited in the Town of Lynchburg, did on the twenty ninth day of November now last past expose to public sale the following tract and parcel of land lying on the branches of Rutledges Creek and hereafter more particularly described, at which sale the aforesaid Richard Harrison being the highest bidder became the purchaser of the said tract and parcel of land for the sum of four thousand and sixty one dollars by the said Richard Harrison to us in hand paid before the unsealing and delivery of this indenture, the receipt whereof is hereby acknowledged, we the aforesaid John Higginbotham and Thomas Higginbotham Executors as aforesaid, have granted, bargained and sold by these presents do grant, bargain and sell to the aforesaid Richard Harrison the following tract and parcel of land lying on the branches of Rutledges Creek in the said County of Amherst and bounded as follows, to-wit: Beginning at pointers on William Morrison’s corner; thence N. 6^o W. 400 po. To poplar pointers and stone, N. 85^o E. 85 pos. to four red oak pointers 56^o E. 394 po. To pointers of red oaks and 385^o W. E. ____ W 85 poles to the first station, being one of the several tracts and parcels of land of which the said John Higginbotham died seized and possessed, to have and to hold the said tract and parcel of land containing by estimation the quantity of two hundred acres of land be the same however more or less to him the said Richard Harrison and to his heirs in fee, and the said John Higginbotham and Thomas Higginbotham acting Executors as aforesaid do for themselves and all persons claiming under or thru them or either of them warrant and defend to the said Richard Harrison his heirs forever all such rights and title in and to said described tract or parcel of land as the said John Higginbotham the elder possessed and was seized of on the day of his death, and all such right and title in the same as is vested in them as Executors by the aforesaid Will of their Testator. In testimony whereof we have this day and year aforesaid, as Executors as aforesaid set our hands and affixed our seals in the presence of witnesses.

John Higginbotham {SEAL}

Thomas Higginbotham {SEAL}

At a Court held for Amherst County the 20^th of March, 1815. This deed was acknowledged in open Court and ordered to be recorded.

Recorded in Deed Book M, page 625

Amherst County Clerk’s Office

Amherst County, Virginia

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