News: Looking for females who are in the pure female lines (mother to daughter) from William and Sarah who are willing to do an mtDNA test. Such a person would be descended along an all female line from Mary DEVIN Biggers or Margaret DEVIN Reynolds. The hope is to identify the markers for Sarah SMITH Devin to help identify her parents. Contact the webmaster if interested.

Devin descendant, Stanley Wayne Devin, passed away at 1:30 a.m. on Dec. 4, 2014. He was the last living child of Ira & Oleta Devin.
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    Devin, Sally: Deed to Oakes



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    • Title Devin, Sally: Deed to Oakes 
      Short Title Oakes From Devin Deed 
      Author Virginia. Pittsylvania County Clerk's Office 
      Call Number Deed Book 51 page 263 
      Repository Pittsylvania County Court House 
      Source ID S67668 
      Text

      Oakes
      from
      Devin
      Deed

      This Indenture made this 13th day of May in the year of our Lord one Thousand
      eight hundred and forty eight between Sally Devin of the one part, and James Oakes of
      the other part; both of the County of Pittsylvania and State of Virginia, witnesseth,
      that the said Sally Devin for and in consideration of the sum of seventy seven dollars to her in hand
      paid by the said James Oakes the receipt whereof is hereby acknowledged hath bargained and
      sold and by these presents doth give, grant, bargain, sell and convey unto the said James Oakes one
      certain tract or parcel of land lying and being in the County of Pittsylvania on the waters of Ban=
      ister Creek containing Thirty Eight acres more or less and bonded as followeth, to wit, Beginning
      at a stake formerly a Stump S 17 E 67 poles to a Birch, thence S 85 W 21 poles crossing Banister to a white
      oak, then N 75 W 124 poles to pointers, then North 62 poles to a pointer white oak N 73 E with
      Benjamin Folers line to a walnut then a new line S 30 1/2 E 30 3/4 poles to a forked spanish oak, then
      N 37 3/4 E 25 poles crossing Banister to the beginning. - To have and to hold the aforesaid tract or parcel
      of land unto the said James Oakes to him and to his heirs [&] forever, and the said Sally Devin doth
      for herself warrant and defend the right and title to the aforesaid tract or parcel of land unt the
      said James Oakes to him and to his heirs [&] forever. In whtness whereof the said Sally Davin has
      hereunto set her hand and affixed her seal this the day and year first above written.

      Sarah (her mark) Divin (seal)

      Teste
      Benjamin Fowler
      Zachariah Arnn
      Reuben B. Hall

      In the Clerks office of the County Court of Pittsylvania the 15thday of May 1848 This deed
      was proven by, Benjamin Fowler a subscribing witness, And at another day to wit, At a Court held
      for said county the 19th day of June in the year aforesaid, it was further proven by Zachariah Aarnn
      and Reuben B. Hall the other two subscribing witnesses and ordered to be recorded --

      Teste
      Wm. H. Tunstall Clk

       

    •  Notes 
      • Recorded 19.June.1848; deed dated 13.May.1848 for 38 acres from Sally Devin to James Oakes. Lying on both sides of the Banister river and adjacent to Fowler.
      • Abstact:

        Contains 38 acres lying on both sides of Banister Creek.
        Beginning at a stake formerly a Stump:

        1. S 17 E -- 67 poles to a Birch.
        2. S 85 W -- 21 poles crossing Banister to a White Oak.
        3. N 75 W -- 124 poles to pointers.
        4. N -- 62 poles to a pointer White Oak.
        5. N 73 E with Benjamin Fo[w]lers line to a walnut.
        6. S 30.5 E -- 30.75 poles a new line to a forked spanish oak.
        7. N 37.75 E -- 25 poles crossing Banister to the Beginning.
      • This deed sells a portion of land that Sarah Devin inherited from her father, Willaim Devin, Sr. By his will (Deed & Will Book 11 page 243-244), Sarah could dispose of only a half of the inheritance if she did not have any legal children. This tract is apparantly part of that half. It is just north of her parcel and was part of the land William Devin, Sr. acquired from William Leaks (east side of the Banister) and from a land grant recorded by Grant Book 39:463-464 (west side of Banister). This plat has errors. The plat, as written, does not close by a wide margin and has over 70 acres. Even after adjusting for the most obvious error, it still has almost 48 acres.

        Transcriber's Comments:
        a) The beginning stake could be the "old corner stump in James B. Gatewood's line" per Deed 49:276.
        b) Per Deed 49:276, Line #5 should be South 73 degrees East. Oakes is going the opposite direction from Fowler's plot.
      • Transcribed by David Devin on 30.June.2005 from a copy of Pittsylvania County, Virginia Deeds Book 51 page 263 printed from microfilm #33284 at the LDS Family History Library in Salt Lake City, Utah by K. Venable.


        My appologies in advance for mistakes in interpreting the hand writing. Text in square brackets [ ] indicate my best guess (and may not make sense). Empty square brackets indicate words I could not read at all.