On 17 March 1863, William G Jeffries and Ella A L his wife sold to Theodore P Boughan. For $3,000, one third of a certain Water Grist Mill lying and being in the County of Essex called and known by the name of “Essex Mills” with twenty five acres of land attached thereto, and all the fixtures belonging to and used with the said Mill, embracing one third of all the land convered by the pond and race of the said Mill it being the same mill which was held jointly by the said Jeffries and Dr John S Trible. Signed W G Jeffries, E A L Jeffries. No witnesses. On 16 April 1863, acknowledged in the clerk’s offce and admitted to record. [Essex County, Virginia, Deed Book 51, pages 569–560.]