Southampton-Isle of Wight County Virginia USGenWeb Archives Patents.....Turner, Joseph, 1715 ************************************************ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/va/vafiles.htm ************************************************ Southampton County Virginia USGenWeb Archives Land Records Joseph TURNER, patent, 150 acres, 23 Mar 1715 [margin notes cropped] [Joseph] Turner [150] acres [New] Land [Form in] 2d page Virginia Ss/[?] George &c To all &c Know ye that for divers good causes & considerac'ons but more especially for and in considerac'on of the Sum' of fifteen Shillings of good and lawfull mony for our use paid to our Receiver General of our Revenues in this our Said Colony of Virginia We have given granted & confirmed and by these presents for us our heirs & Successors do give grant & confirm unto Joseph Turner of Isle of Wight County one certain tract or parcell of Land containing one hundred & fifty acres lying and being on the south side of the main black water Swamp in the Said County of Isle of Wight, and bounded as followeth, ___ to wit begining at a red oak near the edge of Tuckers poquoson thence north twenty five degrees east two hundred pole to a pine, then South seventy degrees east one hundred and twenty pole to four trees chopt inwards, then south twenty five degrees West two hundred poles to a white oak and north seventy degrees West one hundred & twenty pole to the begining With all &c To have hold &c To be held &c yeilding & paying &c Provided &c In Witness &c Witness our Trusty & welbeloved Alexandr. Spotswood our Lt. Govr. &c At Williamsburgh under ye Seal of Our Said Colony the twenty third day of March one thousand Seven hundred & fifteen in ye Second Year of our Reign A. Spotswood [margin note cropped] [Ex:]d. Virginia State Land Office Patents No. 10 (1710-1719), p. 257 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/ 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. Contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by: Matt Harris, zoobug64@aol.com [brackets mine] file at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/va/southampton/deeds/10pb257c.txt