Land Transactions

Land Transactions
Maunis Alkire & Lord Fairfax
County of Hampshire
May 6, 1765 A.D.

The Right Honourable Thomas Lord Fairfax Baron of 
Cameron in that part of Great Britain called Scotland 
Proprietor of the Northern Neck of Virginia To all to
whom this present writing shall come sends Greetings 
Know ye that for good causes first in consideration of
the composition to me paid & for the annual rent herein 
after reserved I have given granted & confirmed by these 
presents for me my heirs & assigns do give grant &
confirm to unto Maunis Alkier of Hampshire County a 
certain waste & ungranted lot on the S. fork of the S. 
branch of Potomack in the sd. county distinguished by
No. 16 abounded as by a Resurvey thereof made by 
John Moffett - Beginning at a Spanish oak corner to lot
No. 15 & running with a line thereof reversed N.69.E.226 
ps. to a black oak on the sd. fork thence down the several 
meanders thereof N.7.W.28 ps. N.16.E.30 ps. N.77.E.6 ps.
N.17.E.42 ps. N.12.W.60 ps. N.39.W.41 ps. N.63.W.50 ps. 
S.56.W.20 ps. S.35.W.29 ps. to a black walnut corner to lot 
No. 17 thence leaving the sd. fork & running with the 17th 
lot line reversed S.17.W.26 ps. to a red oak & hickory thence 
S.60.W.226 ps. to 2 white oaks & a pine thence leaving the 
sd. line S.55.E.123 ps. to the beginning containing 294 acres
together with all rights members & appurtenances thereunto 
belonging Royal Mines Excepted & a full third part of all 
lead copper tin coals iron mine & iron ore that shall be
formed thereon to have & to hold the sd. 294 acres of land 
together with all rights profits & benefits to the same 
belonging or in any wise appertaining Except before Excepted 
to him the sd. Maunis Alkier his heirs & assigns forever for 
the sd. Maunis Alkier his heirs & assigns therefor [yielding] 
& paying to me my heirs or assigns or to my certain attorney
or attornies agent or agents or to the certain attorney or attornies 
of my heirs or assigns proprietors of the sd. Northern Neck 
yearly & every year on the first day of St. Michael the Archangel 
the fee rent of one shilling sterling money for every 50
acres of land hereby granted & so proportionably for a greater 
or lesser quantity Provided that if the sd. Maunis Alkier his heirs 
or assigns shall not pay the sd. reserved annual rent as aforesaid 
so that the same or any part thereof shall be behind or unpaid by 
the space of  2 whole years after the same shall become due if 
legally demanded that then it shall & may be lawful for me my
heirs or assigns Proprietors as aforesaid my or their certain attorney
or attornies agent or agents into the above granted premises to 
reenter & hold the same as if this grant had never passed.
Given at my office in the County of Frederick under my hand & seal 
the 6th day of May A. D. 1765
         /s/ Fairfax


Maunis Alkier
294 a.
Hampshire