On 17 March 1823, Dorothy Dunn, and Thomas Harper and Elizabeth his wife sold one moiety of a certain messuage or parcel of land to Dabney Dunn. For $50, a parcel in Essex County containing by estimation 17 acres, it being the land devised by Sarah Sedford decd. to Tola and Dabney Dunn. Signed Dorothy Dunn, Thos Harper, Eliza Harper. [Essex County, Virginia, Deed Book 40, pages 506–507.]