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WASHINGTON, George. Autograph document signed ("Go:Washington"), comprising a certified copy of a "Deed from Simon Pearson to Willm. Triplet dated 25th July 1763," n.p. [Williamsburg?], 18 October 1763. 1 full page, 4to, paper shows partial GR watermark, docketed on verso by Washington: "Copy of the courses of Pearson's Sale to Triplet," fine. WASHINGTON CERTIFIES A DEED A careful, very meticulous transcript, comprising approximately 182 words in Washington's hand of a deed, with certification at bottom "Proov'd in the Genl. Court...& order'd to be Recorded," and beneath, "A True Copy as to the Courses &c." The deed opens with the typical legal formula, and notes that "for and in consideration of the sum" of £58.11s.4p. in "money of Virginia," Simon Pearson "doth bargain and sell unto the said Triplet," 54½ acres, "part of the larger Tract of 558 Acres granted by Proprietors Deed in the year 1694 to one Willm. Williams." Here, Washington adds a detailed description of the boundaries of the land as surveyed, with reference to natural landmarks, beginning "at a Hick[or]y stump." At the date of this letter, with the end of the French & Indian War and the frontier warfare against the Indians, Washington was attending to affairs at Mount Vernon and actively seeking to expand his land-holdings, making a number of purchases of land, many in Fairfax County. Not in Writings , ed. Fitzpatrick.