Nansemond County Virginia USGenWeb Archives Patents.....Sprye, Oliver, 1637 

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Nansemond County Virginia USGenWeb Archives Land Records 
     Oliver SPRYE, patent, 300 acres, 24 Oct 1637 

              To all to whome these p'sents shall come I S.r John HarVye K.t 
 Oliver        Govern.r &c doe w.th the consent of the Councell of State 
  Sprye       accordingly give and grannt Unto Oliver Sprye three 
   300        hundred acres of land Scituate lying and being in the Upper 
              Countie of New Norfolke being called or knowne by the 
              name of the thickett begining Upon the Land of M.r Daniell 
    Exm:d     Gookins and extending it selfe South west Up along the bank 
              of the maine River North west into the woods South East 
              Upon the river  The Said three hundred acres of land being 
              grannted Unto him the Said Oliver Sprye by order of Court 
              bearing date the 6.th of June 1635  being alsoe due Unto 
              him the Said Oliver Sprye by and for the transportac'on 
              of Six p'sons into this Colony whose names are in the Records 
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(488)         menc'oned Under this pattent To have and 
              to hold &c dated the 24.th of October 1637 Ut in 
              al˙s 
                    James Hicks John Longworthy Tho: Bush 
                    John DenoSon  Georg Wilcock  John Cherry 
             ___ 
             ŻŻŻ 

Virginia State Land Office Patents No. 1 (1623-1643), pp. 487-88 
The Library of Virginia (LVA), Richmond, VA, 
   Land Office Microfilm Reel 1 

[Another patent was issued to Sprye 26 Nov 1638, doubling this tract. 
 (PB1:605-06) 

 This patent is followed by another to Sprye, of even date (24 Oct 1637), 
 for 300 acres in the Lower Countie of New Norfolke, on the Eastern Branch of 
 the Elizabeth River, near its head.  The cities of Norfolk, Portsmouth, and 
 Chesapeake were eventually formed Lower Norfolk Co., and that tract seems to 
 have lain in the extreme southeast corner of Norfolk. The patent is less 
 legible, and the headrights (including Sprye himself) and a note from the clerk 
 are much worse, in the online image. 

 While the surname is clearly given as Sprye, here and in one for an adjoining 
 tract to Peter Knight, a later one (1664) was granted to a George Spuy- both 
 Knight's & Spuy's adjoining Randall Crew; the names Sprye/Spuy are close enough 
 to make me wonder. (PB1:529 & PB5:59, q.v.)] 

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] 

[BUSH, CHERRY, CREW, DENOSON, GOOKIN, GOOKINS, HICKS, KNIGHT, LONGWORTHY, SPRYE, 
 SPUY, WILCOCK, WILCOX] 

file at: 
http://files.usgwarchives.net/va/nansemond/deeds/01pb487b.txt