Nansemond County Virginia USGenWeb Archives Patents.....Sprye, Oliver, 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 Oliver SPRYE, patent, 600 acres, 26 Nov 1638 To all to whome these p'sents shall come I S.r John HarVey K.t Oliver Sprye Govern.r &c send &c whereas &c Now Know yee that I the Said 600 Said S.r John HarVey K.t doe w.th the Consent of the Councell of State accordingly give and grannt Unto Oliver Sprye Exm:d Six hundred acres of land Scituate lying and being in the Upper Countie of New Norfolke being called or knowne by the name [page break] [p.] (606) name of the thickett begining Upon the Land of M.r Daniell Gookins and extending it selfe South west - Up a long a branch of the maine river North West - into the woods South East Upon the river The Said Six hundred acres of Land being due Unto him the Said Oliver Sprye (vizt) three hundred acres of the Said Land being grannted to him the Said Oliver Sprye by order of Court bearing date the Sixth of June 1635 and the other three hundred acres by and for the transportac'on of Six p'sons into this Colony whose names are in the Records menc'oned Under this pattent To have and to hold &.c dated the 26.th of November 1638 Ut in al˙s Thomas Roberts William Spencer William Baker Christopher Piddington Abraham Burcher[?] William Collins ___ ŻŻŻ Virginia State Land Office Patents No. 1 (1623-1643), pp. 605-06 The Library of Virginia (LVA), Richmond, VA, Land Office Microfilm Reel 1 [Half this tract had been patented by Sprye 24 Oct 1637. (PB1:487-88) While the surname is clearly given as Sprye, in the original patent 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] [BAKER, BURCHER, COLLINS, GOOKIN, GOOKINS, PIDDINGTON, ROBERTS, SPENCER, SPRYE, SPUY] file at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/va/nansemond/deeds/01pb605c.txt