To all Christian People Wee send Greeting Bet [sic] it remembered & kept in Perpetuall Memory that Whereas Richard Kemp & Elianor his Wife being Possessed in ffee of a tract of land formerly granted by Pattant unto Hugh Mead the said Richard & his wife did by one deed of Gift Recorded &c in Essex County give unto Mary & Katharine Aldyn the said Elianors two Daughters all the said tract of land Containing 200 Hundred Acres More or less Now know ye that the said Mary now wife of Martin Nalle & her said Husband & the said Katharine now wife of James Sames all of the parish of Southffarnham in the County of Essex afforesd have & by these presents do by one Consent agree & Oblige themselves to Severe the Joyntennacy And by Equally deviding the Same the said Devision line runing S5E from a red Oak by a Swamp between Richard Gatewood & this tract to a red Oak in the last line To which Agrement we Oblidge our Selves heirs Exers & Admrs Each & Either of Them firmly by these presents As Wittness our hands & Seals this fifteenth day of October 1722. Signed Martin Nalle, Mary Nalle, James his + mark Samis, Katherine Samis. Witnesses: Richard Gatewood, David Scott, John Bates, Richd Horsley. [Essex County, Virginia, Deed Book 17, page 108.]