is Wyatt Kt, Governr and Capt: Generall
of Virginia, by vertue of the great charter of orders and lawes
concluded on and dated at London in a generall quarter court the
eighteenth day of November one thousand six hundred and eighteene
by the treasurer Counseil and company of adventurers for the first
southerne colony of Virginia, according to the authority graunted
them from his Matie under his great seale, the said charter being
directed to the Governr and Counseil of State here resident, and by
the rules of justice, equity & reason, doe wth the approbation and
consent of the same Counseil who are joyned in commission with mee,
give and graunt unto Mr. Thomas Hothersall of Paspehay gent., and
to his heires and assignes for ever, for his first generll:
devident, to bee augumented and doubled by the said company to him
and his said heires and assignes when hee or they shall once
sufficiently have planted and peopled the same.
Two hundred acres of land scituate and being at Blunt Point,
confining on the east the land of Cornelius May, on the south upon
the great river, on the north upon the maine land and on the west
runing towards a small creek one hundred rod (at sixteene foote and
a half the rod);
Fifty acres whereof is his owne psonall right and fifty acres is
the psonall right of Frances Hothersall his wife, the other hundred
acres in consideration of his transportacon of twoe of his children
out of England at his owne cost & charges, Viz: Richard Hothersall
and Mary Hothersall,
_To Have and to Hold_ the said twoe hundred acres of land with all
and singular the apptennces, and with his due share of all mines &
minneralls therein conteyned, and wth all rights and privileges of
hunting, hawking and fowling and others within the prcincts and
upon the borders of the said land, To the only pper use benifitt
and behoofe of the said Thomas Hothersall, his heires and assignes
for ever,
In as large and ample manner to all intents and purposes as is
specified in the said great charter or by consequences may justly
bee collected out of the same, or out of his Ma'ties letters
patents whereon it is grounded.
_Yeilding and paying_ to the treasurer and company and to their
successors for ever, yearely at the feast of St. Michael the
Archangell [September 29], for every fi
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