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accordingly warrant on the fourth day of September Seventeen hundred and fifty one unto him for that purpose did insure, but the said warrant not being executed within the time therein limited it was on the forth day of October seventeen hundred and fifty two received and continued in force for six months longer from this day, Inforsuance whereof it is certified into our land office that the --- several tracts or parcels of land are resurveyed by which it appears they now clear of each other -----surveys and water contains no more than the quantity of five hundred and fifty four acres, so there appears to be a deficiency of thirty three acres and that there is the quantity of two thousand five hundred and forty six acres of vacant land added thirty three acres.

We do therefore hereby grant and confirm unto him the said John Hawkins Junior all them the aforesaid tracts or parcels of land now resurveyed with the vacancy added reduced into one large tract and called Hawkins Merry Peep-O-Day Beginning for the whole clear of all surveys at abounded Sugar tree and abounded White Oak standing near the bank of a creek which was formerly called Simmons Creek but now the Kettankin Creek which creek falleth into Potomac River between the Kettankin mouth and the Blue Ridge the said trees are likewise the original beginning trees of the part of land called Chance originally surveyed for John Dickerson running thence south thirty six degrees east thirty eight perches then with the said Kettankin Creek to the mouth thereof where it falleth into Potomac River thence up the said river and with it south sixty two degrees west thirty four perches then with the river north eighty

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