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The Mabe genealogy line, from England (1600’s) to the United States (1700’s), Virginia and North Carolina.

three years after the date of these Presence, Provided always that if three
years next coming after the date these presence cultivate and improve three
acres part of every fifty of the tract above mentioned then the Estate hereby
granted shall cease and be utterely determined and thereafter it shall be
lawful to and for us our heirs and successors to grant and use the same lands
and premises with the assured unto such persons as we our heirs and
successors shall think fit. In Witness whereof we have caused these letters
patents to be made witness our trusty and well beloved William
Gooch Esquire our Lieutenant Governor and Commander in Chief of our
said Colony and Dominion at Willamsburg under the Seal of our Colony the
First Day of February 1738. In the twelfth year of our
Rein. William Gooch***
Source: *Wolf Trap Branch runs into Ballenger's Creek, near Dawson Mill, close to Esmont, VA (22937),

located in Albemarle County, Virginia. The Wildlife Foundation of Virginia, Fulfillment Farms currently
owns this property. http://vawildlife.org/fulfillment-farms.html - GPS: 37.806164,-78.597438
( Source: http://goo.gl/maps/QqAL3 )
http://archiver.rootsweb.ancestry.com/th/read/VAALBEMA/1999-11/0942966511 This location is one of
two, which needs to be verified as of August 2012.

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