Posts in April 8, 2025

There are two transactions recorded in the land records of Albermarle County, Virginia, in 1751 where Peter and Elizabeth Rucker are the grantors and John Gough is the grantee. The property is 463 acres in Albemarle County on Harris Creek. Both land transactions have the metes and bounds description of the same piece of property. The text of the documents is different and the second one is longer. The first is dated 10 November 1751 and the second is dated 11 November 1751. They both have the same four witnesses: William Miller, David Rosser, John Rucker, and George McDaniel. Elizabeth signed her mark on both documents. They were acknowledged on 12 November 1751 in court by Peter and Elizabeth. On the second document, Elizabeth was examined privately by […]