Southampton-Isle of Wight Virginia USGenWeb Archives Patents.....Drew, John, 1737 

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Southampton County Virginia USGenWeb Archives Land Records 
     John DREW, patent, 270 acres, 9 Jul 1737 

[margin notes]      John DREW 
                      270 Acres. 

George the Second by the Grace of God of Great Britain France and Ireland King 
Defender of the Faith &c. 
To all to whom these Presents shall come Greeting  Know ye That for divers good 
Causes and Considerations but more especially for and in Consideration of the 
Sum' of Thirty Shillings of good and lawful Money for our Use paid to our 
Receiver Gen:l of our Revenues in this our Colony and 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 John Drew one certain Tract or Parcel 
of Land containing two hundred and seventy Acres lying and being in the County 
of Isle of Wight on the South Side of the main black Water Swamp and bounded as 
followeth (to wit) 
Beginning at a white Oak on the East Side of the Cabbin Branch a Corner of 
William Bailey's Land 
Thence by Bailey's Lines South sixty five Degrees East one hundred and thirty 
Poles to a Pine 
and North seventy six Degrees East seventy two Poles to a white Oak 
Thence North thirty eight Degrees East thirty two Poles to two small red Oaks a 
Corner of William Gray's Land 
Thence North twenty five Degrees West two hundred and sixty eight Poles 
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[p.] (376) 

Thence West by North one hundred and thirty six Poles to a red Oak 
Thence South seventy five Degrees West seventy six Poles to a Pine a Line Tree 
of the said John Drew's other Land 
Thence by his own old Lines South East by South twenty Poles to a red Oak 
and South sixty Degrees East one hundred and sixty nine Poles to a Pine by the 
Side of the Cabbin Branch aforesaid 
and down the various Courses of the Run of the said Branch to the beginning 
With all Woods Underwoods Swamps Marshes Lowgrounds Meadows Feedings and his due 
Share of all Veins Mines and Quarries as well discovered as not discovered 
within the bounds aforesaid and being Part of the said quantity of two hundred 
and seventy Acres of Land and the Rivers Waters and Water courses therein 
contained together with the Privileges of Hunting Hawking Fishing Fowling and 
all other Profits Com'odities & Hereditaments whatsoever to the same or any part 
thereof belonging or in any wise appertaining 
To have hold possess and Enjoy the said Tract or Parcel of Land and all other 
the before granted Premises and every part thereof with their and every of their 
Appurt's unto the said John Drew and to his Heirs and Assigns forever; To the 
only Use and Behoof of him the said John Drew his Heirs and Assigns forever 
To be held of us our Heirs and Successors as of our Mannor of East Greenwich in 
the County of Kent in free and Com'on Soccage and not in Capite or by Knight's 
Service 
Yielding and Paying unto us our Heirs & Successors for every fifty Acres of Land 
and so proportionally for a lesser or greater quantity than fifty Acres the Fee 
Rent of one Shilling Yearly to be paid upon the Feast of Saint Michael the Arch 
Angel and also Cultivating and Improving three Acres part of every fifty of the 
Tract abovemen'oned within three Years after the Date of these Presents 
Provided always that if three Years of the said Fee Rent shall at any Time be in 
Arrear and Unpaid or if the said John Drew his Heirs or Assigns do not within 
the Space of three Years next coming after the Date of these Presents Cultivate 
and Improve three Acres part of every fifty of the Tract abovementioned Then the 
Estate hereby granted shall Cease and be utterly Determined and thereafter it 
shall & may be lawful to and for us our Heirs and Successors to grant the same 
Lands and Premises with the Appurt's unto such other Person or Persons as we our 
Heirs and Successors shall think fit 
In Witness whereof we have caused these our Letters Patent to be made 
Witness our Trusty and Welbeloved William Gooch Esq.r our Lieutenant Governor 
and Com'ander in Chief of our said Colony and Dominion at Williamsmsburgh Under 
the Seal of our said Colony the Ninth Day of July one thousand seven hundred and 
thirty seven In the Eleventh Year of our Reign. 
                                                   William Gooch ~ 
[margin note] Exa' 

[This tract lies in that portion of Isle of Wight Co. from which Southampton Co. 
 was formed in 1749.] 

Virginia State Land Office Patents No. 17 (1735-1738), pp. 375-76 
The Library of Virginia (LVA), Richmond, VA, 
   Land Office Microfilm Reel 15 

images online at the LVA's Virginia Memory website (Digital Collections): 
http://www.virginiamemory.com/

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Matt Harris, Zoobug64@aol.com [brackets & line breaks mine]