Nansemond County Virginia USGenWeb Archives Patents.....Slater, John, 1638 ************************************************ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/va/vafiles.htm ************************************************ Nansemond County Virginia USGenWeb Archives Land Records John SLATER, patent, 700 acres, 10 Mar 1637/8 John To all to whome these p'sents shall come I S.r John HarVey K.t Slatter Govern.r &c send &c whereas &c Now Know yee that I the 700 said S.r John HarVey K.t doe w.th the consent of the Councell Exmd: of State accordingly give and grannt Unto M.r John Slater Seaven hundred acres of land Scituate lying and being in the Upper County of New Norfolke East South East Upon Nansamund [page break] [p.] (524) river North North West into the woods South Upon the Land of Francis Maulden North Upon a Creeke adjoyning to the Land of Edward Major The Said Seaven hundred acres of Land being due Unto him the Said John Slater by and for the transportac'on at his owne p'per costs and charges of fourteene p'sons into this Colony whose names are in the records menc'oned Under this pattent To have and to hold &.c dated the 10.th of March 1637 Ut in al˙s [transportees not given] ___ ŻŻŻ Virginia State Land Office Patents No. 1 (1623-1643), pp. 523-24 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/ [database & index give 1637- the British did not adopt the Gregorian calendar until 1752.] Contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by: Matt Harris, Zoobug64@aol.com [brackets & line breaks mine] [MAJOR, MAULDEN, MAULDIN, SLATER, SLATTER] file at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/va/nansemond/deeds/01pb523c.txt