PWCo Deed Book 63, pg. 143
THIS DEED made this 30 day of December, in the year of our Lord nineteen hundred and twelve, between W. J. Ashby and Elizabeth Ashby, his wife, parties of the first part, and R. C. Linton, party of the second part:
WITNESSETH: That the said parties of the first part, for and in consideration of the sum of SIX HUNDRED DOLLARS, to them cash in hand paid by the said party of the second part, before the signing, sealing and delivering of these presents, the receipt of which is hereby acknowledged, do grant unto the said party of the second part, with covenants of GENERAL WARRANTY, all of that certain tract or parcel of land, lying and being situate near Independent Hill, in Coles Magisterial District, Prince William County, Virginia on the Warrenton-Dumfries Road, containing about FORTY ACRES, be the same more or less, it being the remainder of that certain tract of land,c ontaining 62 acres, roods and 11 poles, which was conveyed to Lawrence Cole by deed from Lucien A. Davis, clerk of the county court of Prince William County, bearing date the 13th day of April, 1876, and recorded in the land records of said county Deed Book 30, pg. 438 and by the said Lawrence Cole conveyed to the said William J. Ashby by deed, in which the wife of the said Lawrence Cole united, bearing the date 8th day of December 1883 and recorded in the said office in Deed Book No. 34 P. 418, less, however a tract of land heretofore conveyed by the said parties of the first part to the said party of the second party, and also less another part and parcel of the said land heretofore conveyed by the said parties of the first part to William Retzer, leaving a tract estimated at FORTY ACRES, which is hereby conveyed, to which said several deeds reference is here made for a more detailed description of the said land hereby conveyed, which adjoins the lands of the late Frank Gallahan, Ed. Keys et als., it being expressly covenanted, however, that the land herein conveyed, is sold by the lump and not by the acre, and that there is to be no other compensation or reduction, should the said tract exceed or fall short of forty acres.
In testimony whereof, the said parties do hereto affix their signatures and seals the day and year first above written.
W. J. Ashby (SEAL)
Elizabeth Ashby (SEAL)
STATE OF VIRGINIA, County of Prince William, to-wit:
I, Robt. A. Hutchison, a commissioner in chancery for the circuit court of Prince William, do certify that William J. Ashby and Elizabeth Ashby, whose names are signed to the writing annexed, bearing date the 30th day of December 1912, have acknowledged the same before me in my county aforesaid.
Given under my hand this the 30th day of December, 1912.
Robt. A. Hutchison, Com'r in Chy.
In the Clerk's Office of the Circuit Court for Prince William County, January 1, 1913 at 3 O'clock, P.M. THIS DEED from W. J. Ashby and Elizabeth Ashby to R. C. Linton was received with certificate of acknowledgement of the grantors annexed, and admitted to record.
Teste: J. E. Herrell . Clerk
[Margin Note: "Mailed to R. C. Linton March 4, 1913. J. E. H."]
