Contributed by Carey H. Bracewell
To all pr.ns Whereas &c Now know yee that I . . . William Berkeley Knt Govern &c give and grant unto Mr. ROBERT BRACEWELL Eight hundred Acres of Land in ye upper parrish of Nansimond County, begining at a marked white oake, and so Runing West North West 320 pools to a mkd pine Standing in a pocosson, and soe South South West 400 pools to a marked white oake and soe East South East 320 pools to a marked red oake and soe north north East 400 pools (on ye mile end of ?) his owne Land & JAMES LONGS Land to ye first Station the said Land being due by and for ye Transport of Sixteen prsons &c to have and to hold & yeilding and paying &c Provided &c Dated this 22nd day of Aprill 1670
MARY GREENE THO. MEKINS WM. CROACH HUMP. THORNE WM. MINGAY
PETER GREGORY RICH. ROBERTS CHARLES GRIGSON MARG. RAYSON
JNO. THORNAPE (?) WM. JONES ROBT. BEST HUGH GREEN ABR. KIMBERLY
JNO. DAYVES DOROT. PARSONS
VIRGINIA LAND GRANTS, VOLUME 6, PAGE 310
VIRGINIA STATE LIBRARY, RICHMOND: LAND OFFICE RECORDS,
MICROFILM REEL 6
COMMENT: Rev. Robert Bracewell (1611-1668) received this grant in Nansemond County (VA) posthumously.
“… which grants shall be made respectively to such persons and their heirs at whose charges the said persons going to inhabite in Virginia shall be transported…”
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