Nansemond County Virginia USGenWeb Archives Patents.....Storey, William, 1641 ************************************************ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/va/vafiles.htm ************************************************ Nansemond County Virginia USGenWeb Archives Land Records William STOREY, patent, 600 acres, 17 Nov 1641 To all to whome these p'sents shall come I S.r William Berkeley K.t Govern.r &c whereas &c Now Know William yee that I the Said S.r William Berkeley K.t doe w.th Storey the consent of the Councell of State accordingly give 600 and grannt Unto William Storey his heires and assignes Six hundred acres of land Scituate lying and being in the Countie of the Upper Norfolke and lying Upon an arme of a branch of the westerne branch of Nansamund river called the Indian Creeke and Exmd. begining at a marked pokecory runing for length North by West three hundred and twentie pole over the branch [?] head Unto a marked pockecory and Soe againe for breadth from the first menc'oned marked tree East by North over the Said branch Unto a m'ked Small white oake part[?] butting on the miles[?] end of a p'cell of Land of John Garretts and Soe runing againe for length North by West three hundred and twentie pole unto a marked Spanish oake The Said Six hundred acres ["of Land" struck] being due Unto him the Said William Storey by and for the transportac'on of twelve SerVants into this [page break] [p.] (783) Colony whose names are in the records menc'oned Under this pattent To have and to hold &.c To bee held &.c Yeilding and paying Unto o.r Said Soveraigne Lord the King his heires and Successo.rs for every fiftie acres of land herein by these p'sents given and grannted yearely at the feast of S.t Michaell the Arch'ell the fee rent of one shilling to his Maj.ties Use which paym.t is to bee made Seaven yeares after the date hereof Provided &.c Given &.c Seaventeenth day of November 1641 Thomas Bagly Richard Momfort William Howard Nich' May Ann Weshke[?] Thomas Bagly Richard Shirett Sanders Smith Ellis Smith John Griffin ___ ŻŻŻ Virginia State Land Office Patents No. 1 (1623-1643), pp. 782-83 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] [BAGLEY, BAGLY, GRIFFIN, HOWARD, MAY, MOMFORT, MOUNTFORD, MOUNTFORT, MUMFORD, MUMPFORD, MUNFORD, SHIRETT, SMITH, STOREY, STORIE, STORY] file at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/va/nansemond/deeds/01pb782a.txt