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This Deed of Bargain and Sale from Mordetai Moses Mor- 

 decai to Josei)h Simon was i)ro\ed by tlie Oaths of John 

 Anderson and Robert Campbell two of the \N'itnesses thereto 

 and Ordered to be Certified 



Test. 



This Indenture 

 made this twenty 

 sixth day of August 

 in the Year of our Lord One Thousand Seven Hundred and 

 Seventy five Between William Dunbar of Manchac Settlement 

 on the Missippi of the one i)art and Charles Simms of Pitts- 

 burgh Attorney at Law of the other part Witnesseth that the 

 said William Dunbar for and in Consideration of the Sum of 

 Ninety three Pounds Sterling to him in hand paid by the said 

 Charles Simms the Receipt whereof he doth hereby acknowl- 

 edge, Hath Granted Bargained and Sold aliened and Confirmed 

 and by these Presents doth Grant Bargain Sell Alien and Con- 

 firm unto the said Charles Simms his heirs and assigns one 

 third part of a Certain Tract of Land situate lying and being 

 on Raccoon Creek on the West side of the Laurel Hill in the 

 County of Augusta Beginning at the most South Easterly 

 corner of two thousand Eight hundred and Seventeen Acres of 

 Land Granted to Alexander Ross by George Croghan Gent 

 thence South twelve degrees East Sixty Eight Chains and 

 thirty three links to a Corner of a Certain Tract of Land 

 granted as aforesaid to Robert Lettis Hoopers Land South 

 Seventy Eight degrees West four hundred and thirty seven 

 Chains to another Corner of the said Hoopers Land thence 

 North twelve degrees West Sixty eight Chains and thirty three 

 links to a Corner of Alexander Ross's Land aforesaid thence 

 (65) by the said Alexander Ross's Land North Seventy eight 

 Degrees East four hundred and thirty se\en Chains to the 

 ])lace of Beginning containing two thousand pjght hundred 

 and Seventeen Acres which said Tract of Land was sold Con- 

 veyed to the said William Dunbar by George Croghan Gent 

 by deed bearing date the Ninth day of January in the year of 

 our Lord One Thousand Seven hundred and Seventy two and 

 all Houses Buildintrs Yards Gardens Orchards Wavs Woods 



