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Book named " LIFE ALONG HOLMAN'S CREEK" by j Floyd Wine.
Lease agreements for Fairfax land were not all recorded. One interesting one on record was my by Fairfax to Joseph Siveley and two sons on Sept 29, 1761 for 640 acres. The indenture states that the lease will be in effect " during the natural lives of him the daid Joseph, Adam Sively and John Sively his sons and longest liver of them yielding and paying yearly reant and every year on the 29th day fo Sept... sum of 40 shillings. If it shall happen that all or any part of the said yearly rent shall be behind and unpaid for the space of two months in any one year... the said Thomas Lord Fairfax can reenter and reclaim the said leased land." I now have copy of map of Early Land Grants,Leases and Patents. Thanks to Our cousin Katherine Smith.
Bk 6 pg. 420, 29 Sept. 1761 [Lease] Between the Right Hon.ble Thomas Lord Fairfax Baron of Cameron [to] Joseph Sively of parish & County of Frederick Yeoman ... for and in consideration of Rents & covenants herein after Expressed ... grant to Farm Lett unto said Joseph Sively ... Tract of Land Situate lying and being on the Head of Holeman's Creek and joining the Boundary Line between his Majesty and his Lordship ... containing by a Survey made thereof Six Hundred & forty Acres ... corner to Land Surveyed for Widow Hill Corner to Land Surveyed for Thomas Holman ... for and during the natural lives of him said Joseph Sively Adam Sively and John Sively his Sons Yielding and paying yearly on 29th Sept. the Sum of Forty Shillings
Wit: Gabriel Jones ----- Fairfax Thos Rutherford ---Joseph Sively ((ZE)
Recorded: 2 Dec. 1761
Joseph Sively apparently was living on the land as early as 1752-3 as his widow Catherine, stated in a deposition in 1791, that her husband had obtained and Entry for said tract of land from Lord Fairfax 38 or 39 years ago.
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