Cavaliers and pioneers, a calendar of Virginia land grants, 1623-1800

164 Cavaliers and Pioneers
rent as shown by certificate of Richard
Whitehead, Clerk. Entry renewed Jan.
8, 1692 & prayed for conveyance "which
through the multiplicity of business of
our said clerk could not then be granted
and soon after our office being closed"
etc. Adj. Mathew Thompson, Richard
Carie, Giles Brent & George Brent.
WILLIAM DOWNING, 228 acs. Staff.
Co., Oct. 4, 1694, page 18. Upon main
run of Potowmack Cr., adj. John Waugh,
Thomas Meredith & James Butler.
JOHN WHEELER, 64 acs., Westmoreland
Co., Oct. 5, 1694, page 19. Upon
N. side of a small run that falls into
the head of Popes Cr. dividing this &
land of William Kimbar, adj. George
Sayward & John Foxall.
GILES VANDEGASTEEL, 420 acs.,
Staff. Co., Oct. 5, 1694, page 19. On
Little Hunting Creek.
JONATHAN MOTHERSHEAD, 301
acs., Staff. Co., Oct. 5, 1694, page 20.
On Little Hunting Cr., adj. Giles Vandegasteel.
ANTHONY BEARD, 492 acs., Westmoreland
Co., Washington Parish, Oct.
5, 1694, page 21. On W. side of the
main road from the head of Appomatox
Cr. to Washington's Mill, near John
Weedon & Daniel White.
THOMAS DERRICK, JR. & SAMUEL
WELLS, 363 acs., Staff. Co., Oct. 5,
1694, page 22. W. side of Doeg's Cr.
CAPT. MALAC. PEALE, 1,614 acs.,
Staff. Co., Oct. 1, 1694, page 23. On
S. side main run of Potowmack Cr.
JOHN OWEN, 347 acs. in the forest
bet. Rappa. & Potowmack, Oct. 8, 1694,
page 24. Beg. at land formerly belonging
to Francis Haile, adj. land taken up
by sd. Owen & Hugh Williams, by a
small branch of Papistansie & over Nangattico
path, crossing divers branches of
Rappahannock.
ROBERT FRANKE, 335 acs., Westmoreland,
Oct. 8, 1694, page 25. Upon
branches of Appomattox. Whereas
Robert Hoges, now of Staff. Co., but
then of Westmoreland Co., surveyed
and took up this sd. tract of land, &
on Nov. 23, 1684 sold the same to sd.
Franke. Adj. land of Marie Smith, orphan.
CAPT. MALACHAY PEALE, 489 acs.
in forest of Potomack Cr., Oct. 5, 1694,
page 26. Adj. Capt. William Downing.
JOHN EDWARDS, 197 acs., Westmoreland
Co., Washington Parish, Oct. 9,
1694, page 27. On Appomattocks Cr.,
adj. Randolph Davenport & near Robert
Franke.
WILLIAM CARTER, 89 acs., Oct. 9,
1694 ,page 28. Adj. his own plantation,
land of Giles Matthews, David
Stirne & James Trent.
GEORGE THORNE, 152 acs., Westmoreland
Co., Oct. 9, 1694, page 29.
Beg. on S. side of a path that leads to
Nanjattico, & adj. William Baltrop.
JOHN STORY, 150 acs., Staff. Co., Oct.
10, 1694, page 30. On West side of
Dodson's Cr., adj. Francis Dade, near
Jonah Rivett's plantation.
WILLIAM FITZHUGH, 1,000 acs.,
Stafford Co., Oct. 1, 1694, page 30.
Taken up by Rice Hoe, Apr. 28, 1671,
who left same to his son Rice Hoe, who
sold sd. land to Col. William Fitzhugh,
who now prays for a grant to same.
GEORGE BRENT, 50 acs., Stafford Co.,
Oct. 9, 1694, page 31. Robert Prouse,
of Quanticott, Staff. Co., by will, devised
sd. land to Emblem Roggers for
life & then to Charles, son of sd. Emblem,
for ever. Chas. died in his
minority without heir & Emblem, his
mother, (later marrying Richard Gibson)
being dead, George Brent, who represented
sd. Prouse, prayed to be admitted
tenant of this escheat land.
Bounded on the S. E. by land now in
possession of sd. Brent, formerly leased
to Rawlinson & Ann, his wife,
N. E. with Quanticott Cr. & N. W. by
tract sd. Brent bought of William
Brown.