Southampton-Isle of Wight County Virginia USGenWeb Archives Patents.....Boykin, Edward, 1714 

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Southampton County Virginia USGenWeb Archives Land Records 
     Edward BOYKIN, patent, 160 acres, 16 Jun 1714 

[margin notes]  Edwd. Boykin 
                    160 
                  New land 
                 Form in 2d. page 

Anne &ca.  To all &ca.  Know ye  that for diverse good Causes & Considerac'ons but more especially 
for & in Considerac'on of the Importac'on of ffour persons to dwell within this our Colony of Virginia whose names are 
Mary Lane, Mary Whiteing, Eliza. Dixson & Anne Dixson  We have Given Granted & Confirmed & by these presents for 
us our heirs & Successors do Give Grant & Confirm unto Edwd. Boykin of the County of Isle of Wight one certain tract or parcell 
of land containing one hundred & sixty acres lying & being on the South side of the main black water Swamp in the upper parish of the 
Sd. County of Isle of Wight & bounded as followeth  to wit,  beginning at a white oak a Corner tree of Thomas Howell's on the 
north Side of Seacock Swamp  then by his line South Sixty five degrees East ninety Six pole to a pine his Corner tree  then north 
twenty degrees East one hundred & fifty eight pole to a pine  then north fourty four degrees East ninety six pole to 
a pine  then north six degrees west fifty six pole to a Small red oak  then north fourty three degrees west Eighty two 
pole to his own old line & so by his lines south eight degrees west one hundred & four pole to a white oak Corner 
tree  thence South fourty four degrees west one hundred & seventy eight pole to a poplar near the mouth of a __ 
branch issuing into the Seacock & so down the run of the Seacock to the first stac'on;  with all &ca.  To have 
hold &ca.  To be held &ca.  Yielding & paying &ca.  Provided &ca.  In Wit= 
=ness &ca.  Witness our Trusty & welbeloved Alexander Spotswood our Lt. Governor &ca.  att 
Williamsburgh under the seal of our Sd. Colony the Sixteenth day of June one thousand seven hundred & fourteen 
In the Thirteenth year of our Reign _____                                           A Spotswood ___ 

[margin note]  Exd. 


Virginia State Land Office Patents No. 10 (1710-1719), p. 149 
The Library of Virginia (LVA), Richmond, VA, 
   Land Office Microfilm Reel 10 

images online at the LVA's Virginia Memory website (Digital Collections): 
   http://www.virginiamemory.com/ 
   [this patent is barely legible; the rest of the page is worse] 

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 own land, 13 Nov 1713 
   (PB10:99-100) - claiming these same four headrights [though DIXSON 
   was spelled DIXON]; file at: 
   http://files.usgwarchives.net/va/southampton/deeds/10pb099d.txt 


Contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by:
Matt Harris, zoobug64@aol.com [brackets mine] 

file at: 
http://files.usgwarchives.net/va/southampton/deeds/10pb149c.txt