THE AUSTIN PAPERS. 15 herein before mentioned and expressed-without any default or delay-and for the true performance the said parties do hereby mutually bind themselves their respective_Heirs Executors and Administraters each unto the other of them_in the penal sum of Fifty Thousand pounds firmly by these presents In witness where- of they have interchangeably set their hands and Seals he'leunto the day and year first above written Sealed and delivercd in the presence of us
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JOSEPH RICKEY CHARLES AUSTIN J N° D BLANCHARD GEORGE LA UM AN STEPHEN AND :M AUSTIN [Endorsed:] Contract with Lanman and Blanchard. (Copy.)
AGREEMENT TO SELL LAND
[Copy by l\foses Austin.] ., Be it known that Moses Austin of Wythe County in the State of Virginia hath bargained and sold unto · John D Blanchard and George Lauman of tl!e City of Philadelphia in Pennsylvania the quantity of one hundred and twenty thousand acres of land be the same more or less, that is to say fifty thousand acres part of a loca- tion made in company with the sd John D Blanchard and George Lauman in the County of Grayson in the state of Virginia in pur- suance of their agreement of the 19 th January 1795 and the residue in two several surveys in Wythe County aforesaid at and for the rate or price of sixpence lawfull money of Pennsylvania per acre for each and every acre which the same on proper surveys may be found to contain nnd the sd Moses Austin-doth hereby acknowledge to have received the consideration monies for the said lands, and doth hereby agree to have the surveys of the same lands made and returned and patents therefor issued to and in the name of him the said John D Blanchard but for the Joint Account and benifit of them the said John D Blanchard and George Lanman at the proper cost charge and expence of them sd J n° D Blanchard and George Lauman for the amount of which he the said :Moses Austin shall and will draw upon the said John D Blanchard and George Lanman who do hereby en- gage and agree to honour and pay such his Drafts immediately with- out default or Delay For the true performance the said :Moses Aus- t;in doth hereby bind himself his Heirs Executors and administrators
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