Southampton-Isle of Wight County Virginia USGenWeb Archives Patents.....Boykin, Edward Jr., 1731 

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Southampton County Virginia USGenWeb Archives Land Records 
     Edward BOYKIN, Jr., patent, 325 acres, 25 Aug 1731 

[margin notes]  Edward Boykin 
                       325 
                   New Land __ 
                    Form  Page 1st. 

George The Second &ca.  To All &ca.  Know ye That For 
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[p.] 282) 

Divers Good Causes and Considerations, but more Especially For 
and in Consideration of the Sum of Thirty Five Shillings of 
Good and Lawfull money For Our use Paid to Our Receiver ___ 
General of Our Revenues in This Our Colony & Dominion of 
Virginia  We have Given Granted and Confirmed, and by These 
Presents for us Our heirs and Successors Do Give Grant and 
Confirm unto Edward Boykin of Isle of Wight County One Certain 
Tract or Parcel of Land Containing Three hundred & Twenty Five 
Acres Lying & being on the South Side of the Main Black Water 
Swamp in The County aforesaid and bounded as Followeth __ 
(to wit)  Beginning at the Mouth of a Branch on the East 
Side of Barbakue Swamp) Pine a Corner Tree of Henry Harts land _ 
Thence by Harts Line North (which said Branch Divides this 
Land From Robert Harris Junr. and John Harris's Land ___ 
Thence up the various Courses of the Run of the said Branch 
to a marked Pine on the North side Thereof  Then North 
West Eighty One Pole to a black Oak  Then North Eighty __ 
Degrees West One hundred and Forty One Pole to a white 
Oak  Then North West by West Eighty Pole to a red Oak __ 
Then South West Thirty Three Pole to a Pine a Line tree __ 
of Thomas Halliman's Land  Then by Halliman's Line __ 
                                         said 
South Forty Seven Pole by the side of the ^ Line ___ 
Branch  Then down The various Courses of the Run of _ 
The said Branch South Sixty Four Degrees West Thirty __ 
Eight Pole to a Gum on the other side of the said Branch __ 
a Corner of the said Boykin's other Land  Then by his Own __ 
Old Lines South Four Degrees West Forty Pole to a Pine 
South East Eighty Nine Pole to a red Oak & South Seven 
Degrees East Fifty two Pole to a white Oak  Then South 
Seventy Degrees East One hundred and Four Pole to a ___ 
Small Red Oak a Line Tree of Auther & Joseph Williamson's 
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[p.] (283 

Land  Then by Williamson's Line North Seventeen Degrees 
East Twenty Six Pole to a Live Oak by the side of a Small Branch 
Then down The various Courses of the Run of the said Branch 
to Barbakue Swamp aforesaid and up the various Courses of the 
Run of the 
^ said Swamp to the beginning  With all &ca.  To have hold &ca.  To be 
held &ca.  Yielding and Paying &ca.  Provided &ca.  In Witness &ca.  
Witness our Trusty and Wellbeloved William Gooch Esqr. Our Lieut 
Governor and Commander in Chief of Our said Colony & Dominion 
at Williamsburgh under the Seal of Our said Colony The Twenty 
Fifth day of August One Thousand Seven hundred and Thirty 
One in the Fifth year of our Reign _____ 
                                      William Gooch 
[margin note]  Exa. 


Virginia State Land Office Patents No. 14, (1728-1732), pp. 281-83 
The Library of Virginia (LVA), Richmond, VA, 
   Land Office Microfilm Reel 11 

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 [Jr.] removed to NC by Aug 1737, when he conveyed a 50-acre 
   portion of this patent to Robert HARRIS Jr. (IoW DB5:252) 


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

file at: 
http://files.usgwarchives.net/va/southampton/deeds/14pb281.txt