1. Nathaniel Bradford of Accomack County, Virginia - Lower ...

18.Ralph T. Whitelaw, Virginia’s Eastern Shore (Maine: Picton Press,2001), 23. N.B. Both quotes are
from a secondary source quoting original sources. The original reference given by Whitelaw is Kingsbury,
Susan M., Records of the Virginia Company of London, IV: 11
19.For estimates of population growth on the eastern shore see Whitelaw and James R. Perry The
Formation of a Society on Virginia’s Eastern Shore, 1615-1655, (University of North Carolina Press,
1990).
20.Whitelaw, 28.
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21.McKey, 1: 39. No record has been found for the original grant and the original patent. Both are
referenced in Nathaniel’s sale of the land to Henry Eldridge in Accomack Court, 18 August 1663. Location
of the land may be found in Whitelaw, 527.
22.Dr. Howard Mackey and Marlene Alma Hinkley Groves, CG, editors, Northampton County
Virginia Record Book Orders, Deeds, Wills &c. Volume 5, 1654-1655 (Rockport, Maine: Picton Press,
1999), 37.
23.Dr. Howard Mackey and Marlene Alma Hinkley Groves, CG, editors, Northampton County
Virginia Record Book Orders, Deeds, Wills &c. Volume 6 and 7-8, 1655-1657 (Rockport, Maine: Picton
Press, 2002), 96.
24.Dr. Howard Mackey and Marlene Alma Hinkley Groves, CG, editors, Northampton County
Virginia Record Book Orders, Deeds, Wills &c. Volume 8, 1657-1664 (Rockport, Maine: Picton Press,
2002), 48.
25.For Charlton’s wives and marriage to Ann West, see Whitelaw, 424.
26.McKey, 1: 95
27.McKey, 1: 96
28.Whitelaw, 640. N.B. Quote is from a secondary source quoting an original source.
29.Mackey & Groves, 5: 197.
30.Whitelaw, 640.
31.McKey, 7: 191
32.McKey, 7: 192
33.McKey, 7: 333
34.Mackey & Groves, 8: 81.
35.Pace Dorman, this marriage date is based on the conclusion that Nathaniel probably wed Alice
Smith before the writing of her father’s will. Seen following paragraph for a full treatment.
36.Marshall, 60
37.John Frederick Dorman, compiler and editor, Adventures of Purse and Person Virginia 1607-
1624/5, Volume 3 (Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Company, 2007, 4 th Edition), 196.
38.John Camden Hotten, editor, The Original Lists of Persons of Quality (Baltimore: Genealogical
Publishing Company, 1962), 219. Since there were at least two or more Richard Smiths in Accomack
during the period from the 1630s to 1660, caution should be exercised in accepting the conclusion that
Richard Smith of Occahannock was the same man who appeared on the muster.
39.Hotten, 239.
40.Susie M. Ames, editor, County Court Records of Accomack-Northampton, Virginia 1632-
1640.(Washington DC: The American Historical Association, 1954), 40.
41.Susie M. Ames, editor, County Court Records of Accomack-Northampton, Virginia 1640-1645
(Charlottesville: The University Press of Virginia, 1973), 88.
42. Dr. Howard Mackey and Marlene Alma Hinkley Groves, CG, editors, Northampton County
Virginia Record Book Orders, Deeds, Wills &c. Volume 3, 1645-1650 (Rockport, Maine: Picton Press,
2000), 282.
43.Susie M. Ames, editor, County Court Records of Accomack-Northampton, Virginia 1640-1645
(Charlottesville: The University Press of Virginia, 1973), 171. Since he was inclined to leave his entire
estate to a seemingly unrelated man, this Richard probably had no spouse or children at the time.
44.Mackey & Groves, 3: 300.
45.During the 1640s, some Accomack-Northampton records refer to a Richard Smith Jr., who would
appear to be different from the Richard Smith who was a sheriff of Accomack in 1641. This sheriff Richard
Smith may be the same man who was later churchwarden, given the prestige of the position, which would
mean he survived the illness that is evidenced by Luke Stubbins’ deposition. However, it is not
immediately clear that this Richard Smith, and not Richard Smith Jr., is Nathaniel’s father-in-law. In the
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