ISLE OF WIGHT COUNTY, VA - PATENTS - John WAKEFIELD & John SHERER 5 Apr 1668 1050 acres ----¤¤¤---- [p.] (116) [margin notes] WAKEFIELD and SHERER 1050 [check mark] To all &c whereas &c Now Know yee that I the Said S.r W.m BERKELEY kn.t Govern.r &c give and grant Unto John WAKEFIELD and John SHERER one thousand and fifty acres of land lying in the Isle of Wight County on the branches of the first[?] swampe of the black water begining at a red oake and runing E.S.E: 160[?] pole to a red oake in COOKE's line, then S.S.W: 70 pole to COOKE's Corner tree, then S.E: 120[?] pole to a white oake then S: 64[?] pole to a white oake, then W: 112[?] pole to the [illegible] of marked trees, then S: 154 pole to a white oake, then S.W: 88 pole to a red oake, then W:N:W: 242[?] pole to a pine, then N.N.E: 534[?] pole to the first Station, even hundred acres part thereof formerly granted to Xph.r LEWIS by pattent dated the twentieth day of July 1652 and by the S.d LEWIS sold to y.e S.d WAKEFIELD and SHERER ~ ~ ~ and the [illegible] due by and for [illegible] dated the fifth[?] of April 1668 Tristam EATON Luce MANSEUX[?] Merrick EDWARDS Robert SAMPSON Merlin CANT Joseph BAKER[?] & Francis RIPPINGTON[?] ~ ~ ~ [page end] [Extremely faint in scanned, online image.] Virginia Land Office, Patent Book 6 (1666-1679), p. 116 The Library of Virginia, Virginia Land Office Patent and Grant Database, Image 006_0118.tif abstracted by Matt HARRIS [surname capitalization, line breaks & brackets mine] ___________________________________________________________________ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm This file was contributed for use in the USGenWeb Archives by: Matthew W. Harris Zoobug64@aol.com ___________________________________________________________________