Archive for January 2010
IOW and Nansemond Patent Map…
To enlarge this map click and open in another window. Then use Ctrl+ or – to zoom in and out. This is a prelude to a larger map.
I may as well begin with the caveat that I think it impossible to create one static map even though I have limited the scope to original patents. A series of maps perhaps by decades would work. I also think it damn near impossible for one person to approach a project like mapping a colonial county for the simple reason that my brain is about to explode trying to track the numerous changes… no sooner do you nail down a patent location when you find out the grantee has died and another has taken up the land.
Detailed below are some sample difficulties…
John Bryan (from Sally’s website: http://www.sallysfamilyplace.com/Rayner/bryanl.htm)
Patented often on the Indian Creek branch of the Nansemond River in the Upper Parish and close to the Isle of Wight County line; the property extended toward Kingsale
a. 168 acres on 15 Oct 1652 adj John Garrett and William Story;
b. 200 acres on 18 Mar 1662 adj William Denson [whose widow Frances outlived him 33 or 34 years [Chapman wills pp 14, 47] and Hugh Sanders ~ this 200 acres sold eventually to John Moore.
c. 350 acres adj Robert Johnson 8 Oct 1671 and “close to county line”
d. 81 acres 6 Oct 1674 adj his own land, Henry Gay, and William Denson
e. 470 acres on 20 April 1682, inc. the 350 acres of the 1671 grant adj Robert Johnson and Thomas Mason.
John Garrett
In Thomas Jefferson’s library can be found an escheate hearing concerning the death of Garrett prior to 1670. Apparently his son also died by then and he left no heirs. The resulting land transfer(s) have me left somewhere between perplexed, bewildered and befuddled.
IOW and Nansemond researchers may find the few references interesting: (memory.loc.gov/ammem/collections/jefferson_papers/mtjser8.html… see Manuscrpt Volume 19. Virginia. Foreign Business and Inquisitions. 1665-76…. somewhat of an index can be found at image number 460). Braswell researchers will find references to Upton, Bagnal and Robert Braswell if you have not found the site yet.
William Denson
The dog seems to have eaten his patent.
I could whine on endlessly but my head is spinning and a glass of Zinfandel is sounding pretty good right now.
Oh wait…here’s some of my James Long notes…
IOW,Deeds, Wills…Great Book Vol.2 1715-1726 (W.L. Hopkins)
(p.105) 18 Feb 1685…. Henry Bosman of Nansemond County to Henry Pope of the same…. 200 acres in the lower parish of Isle of Wight County (being part of a patent for 500 acres granted Ambrose Bosman on 2 Jun 1673 which land was formerly granted to William Smelly on 5 Oct 1667) on the west side of Queens Creek and bounded by John More and Henry Bozman.
Wit: John Browne and William Oldes (?).
Rec: 22 Jul 1717 Henry Bozman
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By land patent dated February 6, 1663, James Long was conveyed 300 acres of land in the Western Branch of Nansemond River for paying the passage of the following six persons: Henry Gay (I), Simon Lee, Jno. Ardy, Robt. Briggs, Elizabeth Collins, and Jno. Williams. This land patent is recorded in the Virginia State Library in Patent Book 5 at Page 302 (274).
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IOW,Deeds, Wills…Great Book Vol.2 1715-1726 (W.L. Hopkins)… p.137
(p.448) —-… William Price and wife, Elizabeth Price the daughter of Edmund Godwin, and Sarah Godwin the daughter of Edmund Godwin, decd., of Nansemond County to William Denson of Isle of Wight County… -?- acres on the western branch of Nansemond River adjoining William Scott (being part of a patent granted James Long about 1664 for 300 acres and now in the possession of Robert Scott) and (part of another patent granted James Long for 200 acres on 22 Apr 1670 and was sold to Capt. Thomas Godwin and his son Edmond Godwin in a deed dated 1672 and given by the will of Edmond Godwin to the aforesaid Sarah Godwin and Elizabeth Price being the plantation “that John Knowles lived on”).
Wit: Joseph Garner and William Pope
[signed] William Price, Elizabeth Price, Sarah Godwin
Rec; 25 Sep 1721
Isle of Wight Deed Book 1 1688-1704 (William Lindsay Hopkins)
(p.233 —- James Long of North Carolina, eldest son and Heir of James Long formerly of the Western Branch of Nansemond River to Robert Scott…. 200 acres on the south side of the main swamp (mention of a sale from a 300 acre patent to Robert Stocker).
Wit: Charles Roads, Jacob Darden and William Parker James (X) Long
Rec: 9 Aug 1697
Isle of Wight County Deed Book I, 1688-1704
pg. 631 James LONG of N.C., eldest son and heir of James LONG formerly of Western Branch of Nansemond River sells to Robert SCOTT 200 acres on south side of main swamp, father had 300 acres bought of Robert STOKES.
2 Aug. 1697. Charles READE, Jacob DARDEN, Wm. PARKER.
[Robert STOKES was the first husband of Jane BRASWELL. He was hanged for his involvement in Bacon’s Rebellion.]
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Isle of Wight Deed Book 2 , 1704-1715 (William Lindsay Hopkins)
(p.152) 19 Jul 1710… Robert Cooper to Arthur Pursell… 1 acre (being in a patent to James Long and part of a neck of land conveyed by Jane Roberts to Thomas Gale after the original deed by Robert Stork to said Gayle’s father was burnt with the Nansemond County records).
Wit: Arthur Smith, Thomas Cooper and John Sikes Robert Cooper
Rec: 10 Jul 1710
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Isle of Wight Deed Book 2 , 1704-1715 (William Lindsay Hopkins)
(p.170) 9 Dec 1710…. Robert Scott to William Scott, Jr… 100 acres in the lower parish on the west side of Indian Creek Swamp (being land given to me by my father William Scott, decd., and is part of a patent granted William Denson in 1661).
Wit: John (x) Roberts, Thomas(x) Roberts and Sarah (x) Scott
Rec: 29 Jan 1710 Robert Scott
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James Long
300ac Patent 1663
??? 300ac 1664 bought from Robert Stokes
200ac 1670 sold to Th Godwin and Edmond Godwin in 1672
200ac 1697 sold to Robert Scott