1781 Dinwiddie County VA Records
This Indenture made the twelfth Day of January 1781 BETWEEN Matthew Smart &
Mary his wife and John Moodie of Dinwiddie County of the one part and Buckner
Harwell of the Brunswick County of the other part . . . for and in consideration
of the sum of thirty two pounds . . . whereof the said Matthew Smart and John
Moodie and our wifes Mary Smart and Mary Moodie doth hereby acknowledge . .
. doth grant bargain and sell alien a certain parcel of Land containing sixty
six and two thirds acres, lying and being in Saint Andrew Parish in the County
aforesaid being part of one hundred acres formerly William Browder now the property
of his three Daughters bounded as follows BEGINNING at Drury Lanier, and William
Lanier's corners, thence along Drury Lanier's Line to Buckner Harwell's line,
thence along his to Borrow's line thence along the said Borrow's line to the
said William Laniers to the BEGINNING . . . Signed by Matthew Smart (his mark)
and John Moodie (his mark) and witnessed by William Walker, Matthew Harris,
and Samuel Harwell. Deed Book 14, page 99.