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Sussex Co., VA - Deed Book "A" - 1754-1759 - page 304

21 April 1758 - William (W) Avent, of Northampton County, Province of North Carolina, and Sarah, his wife, sell to David Mason, Gent., of County of Sussex, Colony of Virginia, for 310 pounds, a tract of land in the County of Sussex, colony of Virginia, on Otterdam Swamp, adjoining the land of John Avent, son of John Avent, Gent., containin 1400 acres - it being all the land belonging to the said William Avent, devised to him by his father, Thomas Avent, Gent., by his last will, etc.