ISLE OF WIGHT COUNTY, VA - PATENTS - Francis ENGLAND
                                     26 Jul 1652
                                     946 acres: 746, Isle of Wight Co.
                                                200, James City [Surry] Co.
                                     120 acres, Isle of Wight Co.
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[p.] (110) 

To all &c  whereas &c  Now Know yee that I Richard BENNETT Esq.r &c give and 
grant Unto Francis ENGLAND Nine hundred forty Six Acres of Land 
and Scituating as Followeth Viz.t - 
Seven hundred forty Six Acres being in the County of the Isle of wight 
and lying on a Swamp runing to blackwater 
bounded along Capt PIERCE's Markt trees due west two hundred Eighty four poles 
thence South four hundred and twenty poles 
and thence North to Capt PIERCE's Corner tree where it first began, four 
hundred and twenty poles 
alsoe two hundred Acres of Land lying at blackwater Upon the Eastermost branch 
pointing Up to Upper Chipoaks in the County of James City 
bounded East Upon the Said Swamp, 
North Upon the Land of Francis ENGLAND 
Southward to the Lands of Peter HULL [HALL?] 
and west into the woods 
The Said Land being due Unto the Said Francis ENGLAND as Followeth Viz.t 
Seven hundred forty Six Acres part thereof being formerly granted Unto the 
Said Francis ENGLAND by patent Dated the 20.th of June 1642 
and two hundred Acres the residue by Virtue of a patent granted to John WHITE 
dated the fourth of July 1649 
and by the Said WHITE Assigned to the Said ENGLAND 
to have and to hold &c 
To bee held &c 
which payment is to be made Seven yeares after the first grant or Seating 
thereof and not before provided &c 
Dated the 26.th of July 1652 

[margin notes] Ex.d 


To all &c  whereas &c  Now Know yee that I Richard BENNETT Esq.r &c give and 
grant Unto Francis ENGLAND one hundred and twenty Six Acres of Land 
lying in the Isle of wight County Near the Eastern branch of the blackwater 
begining at a Double Pohikere and runing East into the woods 
one hundred poles to a white oake 
then North one hundred and Sixty poles to a Markt pine 
then Northwest and by west one hundred and twenty poles to his own Land 
thence by his ans Richard JACKSON's Land two hundred twenty Seven poles to the 
first Station, 
The Said Land being due Unto the Said Francis ENGLAND by and for the transport 
of three persons into the Colony &c 
to have and to hold &c 
which payment is to be made Seven yeares after the first grant or Seating 
thereof and not before provided &c 
Dated the 26.th of July 1652 
          Jesse INGLAND; Tob: COOKE  Thomas BARRET. 

[margin notes] Ex.d 

[page end] 

[Surry Co. was formed from James City Co., circa 1652.] 

Virginia Land Office, Patent Book 3 (1652-1655), p. 110 
The Library of Virginia, Virginia Land Office Patent and Grant Database, 
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abstracted by Matt HARRIS [surname capitalization, line breaks & brackets mine]

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