Nansemond County Virginia USGenWeb Archives Patents.....Burbage, Thomas, 1636 

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Nansemond County Virginia USGenWeb Archives Land Records 
     merchant Thomas BURBAGE, patent, 200 acres, 16 Sep 1636 

            To all to whome these p'sents shall come I Cap.t John West Esq.r 
            Govern.r &c send &c Now Know yee that I the said Cap.t John 
 Thomas     West Esq.r doe w.th the consent of the Councell of State accordingly 
  Burbage   give and grannt Unto Thomas Burbage Merchant twoe hundred acres of 
   200      of land Scituate lying and being in the County of Warrisquick being 
            on the South Side of Nansamund river about a mile Up begining 
    Exm:d   at a Creeke and soe extending it selfe South East along the maine 
            river towards Elizabeth river Unto another Creeke runing South 
            West into the woods North East Upon the river  The Said twoe  _ _ 
            hundred acres of land being p'te of one Thousand acres grannted 
            Unto him the said Thomas Burbage by order of Court bearing date 
            at James Citty  11.th day of June 1636  To have and to hold 
            &c  dated the 16.th of September 1636  Ut in al˙s 
                        This pattent was renewed by S.r John HarVey K.t 
                        Govern.r and one hundred acres added to it 
                                         Test me Tho Cooke Clk 
          _____ 
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[This patent is preceded by another to Burbage, of even date, for 300 acres in 
 Elizabeth City Co.- also part of the 1000 ordered grant by court- and likely 
 was situated in what is today Portsmouth or Chesapeake. 

 From the description, the 200-acre tract lay approximately where the modern 
 Monitor-Merrimac Bridge (I-664) strikes the Southside shore. While Isle of 
 Wight (1634-37, Warrasquyoke {spelled variously}) and Nansemond (1636-37, part 
 of New Norfolk) Cos. adjusted their boundary in 1769, I am not aware of Isle of 
 Wight Co. ever having extended below the mouth of the main Nansemond River, so 
 it seems this should have been described as being in Elizabeth City Co., or 
 after that county was split sometime in 1636, New Norfolke Co. (whether it lay 
 in modern Suffolk or Chesapeake.)  Patents to the previous two grantees are 
 both so situated and designated as this one- south of the Nansemond, but in 
 Warrisquick Co. 

 Burbage patented another 300 acres in Upper Norfolk Co., adjoining his earlier 
 grant, 12 Oct 1638. (PB1:602)] 

Virginia State Land Office Patents No. 1 (1623-1643), p. 385 
The Library of Virginia (LVA), Richmond, VA, 
   Land Office Microfilm Reel 1 

images online at the LVA's Virginia Memory website (Digital Collections): 
http://www.virginiamemory.com/

Contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by:
Matt Harris, Zoobug64@aol.com [brackets & line breaks mine] 

file at: 
http://files.usgwarchives.net/va/nansemond/deeds/01pb385b.txt