the best help & means the country afforded for their Recovery, which now thank God is perfected. I refer to Sr. Humphrey Winch his relation, what I design about his supply with Negroes, according to my poor ability. I hope Sr. by this I have shewn you the steps to the match, the agreement before & after it and my behavior hitherto & future intentions, and I presume cleared, that it is pure affection & respect and not any obligatory promise or engagement. I could heartily Sr. have wished that the money bestowed upon goods & brought in with him, had been lodged in some able merchants hand in London, ready for a purchase of Negroes or laid out with some of the Royal African Company for such an intent, according to my letter last year, for as you say in your trading by sea is very difficult & uncertain in these war times, for a Trader, today he may be worth 1000 and tomorrow not worth a groat. I speak experimentally by my own losses within this 3 years at sea. hope Sr. you will be so kind as to continue your correspondence by an early letter next year, which will highly oblige & honour

Worthy S',

To Oliver Luke Esq' at Woodend &c.

Your Wff.

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ABSTRACTS OF VIRGINIA LAND PATENTS.

PREPARED BY W. G. STANARD.

(255) SERGEANT THOMAS CROMPE [1], 500 acres in the county of James, in the Neck of Land [2] bounded on the east by a Creek which runs between the Glebe Land and said neck of Land, and adjoining the land belonging to the orphans and heirs of Mr. Richard Buck [3]; due said Crompe, 50 acres for his personal adventure, and 450 for the transportation of 9 persons (names below). September 28, 1635. By West. Jon. Gorving, Roger Armwood, Robert Ackerman, Frances Peale, Jon. Abott, Lewis Depina, Peter Brill, Wm. Mallett, Thomas Tinchfield.

NOTES.

[1] Lieutenant Thomas Crompe [Crump] was Burgess for James City February, 1631-2; Sergeant Thomas Crumpe, Burgess for the Neck of Land September, 1632, and Thomas Crumpe, gent., Burgess for the same place, February, 1632-'3. It is probable that he married a daughter of Rev. Richard Buck. In March, 1654-'5, the Assembly made the following order (Hening I, 405): In the case of John Bromfield, plt., and the widdow Crump, defendant. It being found that the will of Richard Buck, from whence the land descends to the orphant, there does not appeare any estate past to Bridget Bromfield, late wife of John Burrowes, otherwise than for terme of life only; there.being not mention in the said will of heirs, assignes for ever, nor in fee simple or likewise it being found, that this very case in November 29, 1642, was adjudged by the Governor and Councill to be but an estate for tearme of life and soe thene voted by this Grand Assembly: likewise it being further found that there were 5 other guardians of the said Buck's children by the said will and that they never claimed an estate in ffee simple but only for tearme of life. It is therefore ordered that the said Elizabeth Crumpe continue her possession without any further molestation in the premises, it being voted and concluded as aforesaid.”

In 1654 John Crump had a grant of 1,250 acres in James City county. near Mr. Batte's landing and the Glebe land, 750 of which were granted to Richard Buck, clerk, January 20, 1619, and 500 granted Peleg Buck in 1638, and both tracts now the property of John Crump by inheritance. Wm. Crump patented in James City in 1656.

[2] Neck of Land is the name of an estate in James City, separated by a creek from Jamestown Island.

[3] Rev. Richard Buck the early minister. See Neill's Virginia Vetusta.

(256) JOHN TRUSSELL [1], 200 acres on Back river, adjoining the

land of John Green; due for the transportation of four persons, October 12, 1635.

NOTE.

[1] John Trussell, born 1605, came to Virginia in 1622; was a Burgess for Northumberland 1649, 1651, 1654, and 1655, and a justice of that county in 1653. Lieutenant-Colonel Jno. Trussell was chosen a vestryman for "Chickoan Congregation," Northumberland, November, 1653. In 1655 he was styled Lieutenant-Colonel, and in August, 1659, as "Colonel John Trussell" he was presiding justice of the county. There is on record in Northumberland a deed dated June 14, 1653, from Mathew Rhodam to Elizabeth, daughter of Mr. John Trussell. On May 21, 1660, it is recorded that Colonel Jno. Trussell was dead, and that Mary Trussell was his executrix. In July, 1669, is recorded an account of the cattle belonging to Colonel John Trussell's orphans, viz: Elizabeth, Anna and John. There is a deed dated 1711 from John Trussell, of Northumberland, conveying to Thomas Bearcroft 100 acres on King's creek "which falleth into Cone River," being part of a patent formerly granted to Colonel John Trussell. The same deed states that Robert, son of John Trussell (party to the deed), was dead without issue. On August 16, 1693, is a record which mentions John Trussell, deceased; Henry Hutson and his wife Elizabeth, relict of said Trussell, and of the children of Trussell. The inventory of William Trussell, deceased, is recorded in Northumberland, and dated 1748. There is in Northumberland a deed dated February, 1662, from Mary Gooch, formerly wife of Colonel Jno. Trussell, deceased.

(257) ROBERT GLASCOCKE, 200 acres in Elizabeth City county on the south side of the main river, adjoining Lieutenant Cheesman's land; due for the transportation of four servants, October 7, 1635.

(258) JOHN MOONE [1], 900 acres in the county of Warresquioake, 300 acres thereof at the mouth of Pagan Poynt creek, and extending towards Virgoz creek, and bounded on the north by Warresquioake great bay creek; and 600 acres in the neck and branches of Virgoz creek; due, 50 acres for the personal adventure of his wife Susan Moone, and 850 for the importation of seventeen persons (names below), October 21, 1635.

Head rights: Susan Moone, John Russell, John Prise, Robert Bard, Thomas Nermeyer, Job Sullivard, Norman Williams, John Cloyes, John White, Richard Petway, Thomas Boy, Solon, a negro, John Rowlett, Anthony Jordan, Richard Barren, Thomas Warden, John Neale.

NOTE.

[1] Captain John Moone was Burgess of Isle of Wight county (formerly Warrosquiacke) in 1652 and 1654.

(259) GEORGE HULL, 450 acres, 200 thereof near the head of the old Poquoson river, adjoining a plantation of Thomas Saywell's and that of the widow Tompson, and 250 more lying south of the said Poquoson, and bounded on the east by Warwick creek. Oct. 12, 1635.

(259) WM. SWAN [1], 1200 acres in the county of James City, on the south side of James River "bounded west from Smith's Mount to the half way neck;" due for the transportation of twenty four persons (names below). November 5, 1635.

Head rights: Richard Jones, Henry Dawkes, John Swan, Nicholas Stalling, Wm. Motts, George Yeomans, John Flood, Nicholas Foster, Edward Champin, Judith Greene, Nicholas Barnett, Richard Perry, John Goodson, Richard Flood, Alice Edes, Mary Hawkes, Andrew Jacob, Katherine Cripps.

"This patent was renewed by Sir John Harvey in the name of Thomas Swan.

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NOTE.

[1] See Historical Magazine, Vol. III, 154, &c.

THO. COOKE, Clr."

(260) PEIRCE LENNON, 300 acres in the county of Charles City, adjoining Weyanoke; bounded by Matchocoes Creek, and on the south by James River; due 50 acres for the personal adventure of his wife Rebena [or Rebecca], and 250 for the transportation of five persons (names below). November 5, 1635.

Head rights: Rebena Lennon, James Turner, Thos. Chote, John Robat, John Keene, Georg.

This patent was renewed by Sir John Harvey in the name of Henry Rowen.

(261) JAMES MERRIMAN, 150 acres in the county of Charles City, adjoining Weyanoke; due 50 acres for his own personal adventure, 50 for the personal adventure of his wife Sarah, and 50 for one servant Wm. Bird. November 6, 1635.

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(262) JOHN GEORGE [1], 900 acres in the county of joining the land of William Bayly and lying on Bayly's Creek; due 50 acres for the personal adventure of his wife Jane, and 850 for the transportation of 17 persons. November 7, 1635.

NOTE.

[1] This grant was in the present Prince George county. A John George, possibly the same, was Burgess for Isle of Wight, November, 1647, and April, 1652.

(263) CHRISTOPHER WOODWARD [1], 300 acres on Appomattox river,

and adjoining the land of Mr. Farrar; due, 50 acres for his personal adventure, 50 for the personal adventure of his wife, and 200 for the transportation of four persons, Wm. Thomas, Thomas Williams, Richard Burpott, and Thos. Jones. 1635.

NOTE.

[1] Christopher Woodward, born 1594, came to Virginia in 1620, and was Burgess for Westover 1629. The name was found in Henrico (where the patent was) at a later date. In the county records is a deed dated 1705, from Samuel Woodward, of Boston, Mass., son of Samuel Woodward (who died in 1680, of Charles City county, Virginia, and his wife Sarah, daughter of Robert Hollom. In 1708 Launcelot Woodward, of Charles City, married Elizabeth, daughter of Wm. Cocke.

(264) AUGUSTINE WARNER [1], a neck of land called Pyne Neck, containing 250 acres at the New Poquoson, and adjoining Samuel Bennett's plantation and Mr. Betty's land; due for the transportation of five persons. Oct. 12, 1635.

NOTE.

[1] See Historical Society Magazine, II, 423.

(265) THOMAS BAYWELL, 450 acres on Appomattox river, bounded on the north by the "Conjurer's Feilds" [1], and on the east by the river; due 100 acres for his personal adventure, as being a planter in the time of Sir Thomas Dale, 50 for the personal adventure of his wife, and 300 for the transportation of six persons: William Wader, Walter Colling, Bevis Bulmer, John Weaver, William Gill. Nov. 7, 1635.

NOTE.

[1] Probably the same as Conjurer's Neck," on the Appomattox in Chesterfield county, long the seat of the Kennon family.

(266) FRANCIS FOWLER [1], 900 acres in the county of James City "against Jowing poynt,” and near the Chickahominy river.

1635.

Head rights: William Foye, John Smith, John Mirtley, Anthony Juggins, Susan Ward, Richard Jones, Charles Rogers, John Taylor, Henry Smith, Robert Nash, John Temperson, Robert Lovell, Robert Grace, John Jennings, Robert Pinkes, Richard West.

NOTE.

[1] Francis Fowler, born 1601, was a Burgess in 1642. In 1648 there is mention in the land grants of 400 acres in James City county, left to Captain Bridges Freeman by Mrs. Antonia Fowler, deceased; and in 1639 is mention of 900 acres in James City county, "adjoining the land seated by Mr. Fowler," which was left by Mrs. Antonia Fowler to Captain Henry Browne, Esq.