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0941

State of Virginia
City of Portsmouth to wit

I Dempsey Nash Clerk of the Court of Hustings for the City of Portsmouth in the State of Virginia aforesaid do hereby certify that a House and lot situate on the Westside of Court Street in the City of Portsmouth and bounded as follows to wit Beginning twenty six feet six inches South from the intersection of Court and Queen streets and running South thirty feet, thence West one hundred & eighty feet thence North fifty six feet six inches to Queen Street thence East along Queen Street thirty feet, thence South fifty two feet six inches thence East thirty feet thence North twenty six feet thence East one hundred and twenty feet to the beginning appear by the records of the said Court to the property of David J. Godwin

In testimony thereof I have hereto set my hand and affixed the seal of the said Court this 27th day of September 1865 in the 90th year of the Commonwealth.
Dempsey Nash c.c.

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[[stamp]]U.S. INTER. REVENUE INLD EXCHANGE FIVE CENTS.[[/stamp]] 

Transcription Notes:
David J. (looks like I) Godwin is written on following pages ---------- Reopened for Editing 2024-04-09 19:34:52 it is David J. Godwin, not David I. Godwin Added missing transcriptions for seal and stamp ---------- Reopened for Editing 2024-04-09 20:29:26