Southampton-Isle of Wight County Virginia USGenWeb Archives Patents.....Boykin, Edward, 1701 ************************************************ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/va/vafiles.htm ************************************************ Southampton County Virginia USGenWeb Archives Land Records Edward BOYKIN, patent, 200 acres, 25 Apr 1701 To all &ca: Whereas &ca: Now know yee that I the sd: Fra: Nicholson Esqr: Governr: &ca: do with ye advice & Consent of ye Councill of state accordingly give & grant unto Edward Boykin two hundd: of Land on ye North side of ye Seacock swamp - beginning at a white Oake, standing in a branch thence running North fifty three degs: west Seventy two pole to a hickory thence North __ thirty degs: East one hundd: Sixty three pole to a pine thence North __ Eighty degs: East one hundd: twenty nine pole to a white Oake thence South ten degs: west one hundd: twenty eight pole to a white Oake __ thence south west one hundd: fifty four pole to a poplar standing in the aforesd: branch thence up the said branch North forty degs: west forty pole to ye begining the said Land being due unto the said __ Edward Boykin by and for the transportation of four persons into this Colony whose names are to be in ye records mentioned under this patent, to have and to hold &ca: to be held &ca: Yeilding [page break] [p.] 328 & paying &ca: provided &ca: Given under my hand & ye __ Seale of ye Colony this 25th: day of Aprill anno Dom: 1701 ŻŻŻŻ Fr: Nicholson Edward Boykin his patent for 200 acres of Land on ye North side of ye Seacock swamp. ________ R. Jenings ŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻ Three Rights paid for to Wm. Byrd Esqr. Auditor. ________ ŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻ Virginia State Land Office Patents No. 9 (1697-1706), pp. 327-28 The Library of Virginia (LVA), Richmond, VA, Land Office Microfilm Reel 9 images online at the LVA's Virginia Memory website (Digital Collections): http://www.virginiamemory.com/ While this patent is given as being in Isle of Wight Co., it lies in that portion from which Southampton Co. was formed in 1749. Edward BOYKIN patented 190 acres, adjoining "his old Land," 13 Nov 1713 (PB10:99-100); file at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/va/southampton/deeds/10pb099d.txt Contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by: Matt Harris, zoobug64@aol.com [brackets & line breaks mine] file at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/va/southampton/deeds/09pb327.txt