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    <abstract id="aspace_03c10421ac4bbbbb022f14efa8f82050">Copy of a 1749 deed signed by Lord Thomas Fairfax, Baron of Cameron in Scotland, for 356 acres of land granted to Peter Casey in the Northern Neck of Virginia, on the Wappacomo or the Great South Branch of the Potomac River (Frederick County, Virginia).</abstract>
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