Northampton County Virginia USGenWeb Archives Wills.....Brereton, Col. Thomas 1675
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Source: Virginia Colonial Abstracts Vol 19 1645-1720 By Beverly Fleet
Written: 1675

Col. Thomas Brereton, Northampton County, Va. Order Book No. 6 pages 83-86. 

Court of 17 Sep 1714. Abstract. Suit of Ejectment Robt. Clay against Elis 
Windsor and Rich'd Kemmer for lands in possession of Cuthbert Bennett. We 
the jury find:

Wm. Clayborne patent 5000 acres between rivers of Great and Little Wicomico 
5 Jan 1651/2. That sd Wm.  Clayborne and Wm. Clayborne Junr, by deed 16 Oct 
1665, sold it to Tho. Brereton of N. Co. That Thos. Brereton in his 
lifetime, 14 Nov 1670, conveyed by deed 2000 acres of above to his son Tho. 
Brereton.

Mrs. Sarah Dickinson sworn says "that sometime before Col. Tho. Brereton 
went to the Susquahannah fort he came to their house and delivered a bundle 
or pacquett of paper unto her then husband Thomas Hobson which said husband 
told her it was the said Col. Breretons will and bid him record it which he 
did a copy of which is with us the jury". Hobson says he knew Col. 
Brereton's hand well "as also he knew one Peter Platt xx on evidence to the 
said instrument and that it was told him that Peter Platt went to England 
betwixt the time of the date of the said instrument and the death of Col. 
Brereton xx who he was not acquainted with but knew one with that name who 
was dead before Col. Brereton dyed as he was informed, also the said Hobson 
being examined how long it was from the making the said instrument to the 
death of the said Brereton he sayeth seven years of thereabouts."

That the will was dated 11 Oct 1675. In it he devised the land to his son 
Tho. Brereton. The will states if the son Thomas die before 21 that then his 
son Henry have the land. Also that Tho. was the eldest son and that Henry 
"was by a second Venture". That Thomas the father died about 1683.


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