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This deed, made this 1st day of August in the year eighteen hundred and sixty one between Matthew O'Keefe of the one part and William H.C. Ellis of the other part, Witnesseth: That the said Matthew O'Keefe doth grant unto the said William H.C. Ellis all that lot or parcel of land situated on Main Street in the City of Norfolk, being the same this day conveyed by Thomas J. Corfrew to the said Matthew O'Keefe, and which was conveyed to the said Thomas J. Corfrew by and of John D. Gordan and Susan, his wife, bearing date on the day of January 1854, and of record in the Clerk's office of the Corporation Court of the City of Norfolk.

In trust, to secure to Thomas J. Corfrew the payment of a certain bond bearing date even with these presents, for the sum of fourteen hundred dollars- 

Witness the following signatures, and seals, the day and year first above written.

Signed Matthew O'Keefe (SEAL)

State of Virginia
City of Norfolk, to wit; I, John T. Hall, a Notary Public for the City aforesaid in the State of Virginia do certify that Matthew O'Keefe, whose name is signed to the writing above, bearing date on the 1st day of August 1861, has acknowledged the same before me in my City aforesaid -

Given under my hand this 3d August 1861 -
Signed Jno T. Hall.

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