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<a —— OVD
HasToRnic. GARDENS) OF VIRGINIA
hath hereto subscribed his name and afhxed his seal on the day
and year first above written.
BENJ. Harrison. (Red Seal)
Signed, sealed and delivered in presence of:
Ro. C. NICHOLAS
Epm’p PENDLETON
J. S. MERCER
| Endorsement ]
Harrison
to Deed
Coles
Proved by 2 Witnesses
Fully proved & to be Reco’d
Recorded & Exe’d
Virginia Jct’s
At a General Court held at the Capital the 5th day of May
1770—
This Indenture was proved by the Oaths of Edmund Pendleton
and James Mercer witnesses thereto and on the seventh day of the
same month the said Indenture was proved by the Oath of Robert
Carter Nicholas Esq. another witness thereto and ordered to be
Recorded.
Leste BEN WALLER, Cl. Cor't.
The several hands through which the estate passed from
Colonel William Byrd, of Westover, were Richard Bland, Benja¬
min Harrison, Isaac Coles, the Bruce ancestor; General Edward
Carrington, and to his first cousin, James Coles Bruce.
The original house of red brick was built by Isaac Coles and
had a garden enclosed by a brick wall. ‘These were replaced by
James C. Bruce in 1839, but the original box hedges, thirty feet
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