October 13, 2020
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<br />UP-20-04
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<br />5601 High Street
<br />(Tax Parcel 0814-0010)
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<br />ALL THAT certain lot, piece or parcel of land, with the appurtenances thereunto
<br />belonging, situate, lying and being in the City of Portsmouth, Virginia, being Parcel 5-B
<br />as shown on that certain plat entitled “SUBDIVISION OF PARCEL 5 PROPERTY
<br />OWNED BY STERLING CREEK COMMONS LIMITED PARTNERSHIP” a copy of which
<br />is recorded in Plat Book 17, page 102 in the Clerk’s Office, Circuit Court, City of
<br />Portsmouth, Virginia.
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<br />IT BEING the same property conveyed to Victory Sterling Creek Commons, LLC by Deed
<br />of Bargain and Sale from Portsmouth, LLC and Pocahontas, LLC dated September 22,
<br />2010 and recorded in the Portsmouth Circuit Court Clerk’s Office as Instrument Number
<br />100011167.
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<br />3109 Tyre Neck Road
<br />(Tax Parcel 0815-0020)
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<br />ALL THOSE certain lots, pieces or parcels of land situate in Churchland in the Western
<br />Branch Magisterial District of the City of Portsmouth (formerly Norfolk County), Virginia,
<br />and known, numbered and designated on the Plat of The Churchland Land Company as
<br />Lot numbers Eighteen (18) to Thirty-four (34), inclusive, in Block Number Fourteen (14),
<br />which said plat is duly recorded in the Clerk's Office of the Circuit Court of the City of
<br />Chesapeake (formerly Norfolk County), Virginia, in Map Book 18, page 85 (the
<br />“Subdivision Plat”).
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<br />TOGETHER WITH (i) the southern one-half (1/2) of an alley sixteen feet (16’) in width
<br />adjacent to the northern boundaries of the above lots as shown on the aforesaid plat and
<br />extending from Tyre Neck Road easterly for a distance of approximately 520 feet to the
<br />west right-of-way line of an alley on the formerly Seaboard Coast Line Railroad property,
<br />said alley having been closed by the Portsmouth City Council by Ordinance No. 1983-8
<br />adopted on February 8, 1983, a copy of which is recorded in the Clerk’s Office of the
<br />Circuit Court of the City of Portsmouth, Virginia, in Deed Book 847, at page 359; and (ii)
<br />the northern one-half (1/2) of a street sixty feet (60’) in width and formerly known as Sixth
<br />Street adjacent to the southern boundaries of the above lots as shown on the aforesaid
<br />plat and extending from Tyre Neck Road easterly to the west right-of-way line of the
<br />formerly Atlantic Coastline Railroad right-of-way, said street having been closed by the
<br />Norfolk County Board of Supervisors in April, 1953, by Board Order recorded in Board
<br />Order Book 15, at pages 202-203.
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<br />IT BEING as to the above-referenced lots, the same property conveyed to William Albert
<br />Copeland and Edith Elizabeth Copeland, his wife, for and during the term of their joint
<br />lives with remainder to the survivor of them, by deed from Jesse Edwin Cotton, Jr. and
<br />Mildred Teresa Cotton, his wife, dated April 25, 1949, recorded the Clerk's Office of the
<br />Circuit Court of the City of Chesapeake (formerly Norfolk County), Virginia, in Deed Book
<br />946, at page 67; and as to the above described closed portions of the alley and former
<br />street, upon such closures, title to the southern one-half (1/2) of the alley and the northern
<br />one-half (1/2) of the street, title devolved to the owners of the adjacent property being the
<br />lots described above. Upon the death of William Albert Copeland on April 22, 1996, per
<br />Edith Elizabeth Copeland's List of Heirs recorded with her Will in Will File No. 070000555
<br />in the Clerk’s Office of the Circuit Court of the City of Chesapeake (formerly Norfolk
<br />County), Virginia, the aforesaid property passed to Edith Elizabeth Copeland by
<br />survivorship. The said Edith Elizabeth Copeland died testate September 24, 2007, and
<br />pursuant to her will recorded in Will File No. 070000555 in the Clerk’s Office of the Circuit
<br />Court of the City of Chesapeake (formerly Norfolk County), Virginia, she devised the
<br />aforesaid property to her son, William A. Copeland, Jr., and her daughter, Florence C.
<br />Wynne.
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