A List of Captain Tobias Belt's Company. Taken in the year Benjamin Ricketts Arthur Thompson son of Ben Nicholas Butt Thomas Hobbs Richard Butt Basil Waring In all 99. Saml. Richards} Serjants. Isaac Lansdale, John Perry Nathan Wells Corporals. John Browne John Evans, Junr. John Richards, Jun. William Linton Junr. Edward Northcraft son of John George Mackseeney Baruch Williams, Clk. John Basill Junr. Alexr. Campbell Morris Dickson John Peters Thomas Hines John Luxon Edward Perry. John Cooke Benja. Ray William Wood John Ray Abraham Russell William Whittaker George Cooke Benja. Cross George Cooke Junr. William Mears Jonathan Miles Wm. Brashears son of Benja. James Waringsford Edward Cooke Samuel Whitehead David Hennis John Wells Dowel Brashears A Roll of Foot Militia in the County afs under the Command John Nicholls the Third Samuel Lucas Thomas Harvey Patrick Reading Francis Piles, Junr. James Blackwood Robert Riddle William Lowel Thomas Williams Philip Mason, Junr. Ninian Willett, Junr. Philip Berry Thomas Upton, Junr. Robert Miller Clement Gardiner Henry Stone James Conner Samuel Hooper William Blackwood son of George Lingan Wilson, Clk. Militia. Addressed The Honnourable Coll: Joseph Belt and Edward Sprigg These a List of Officers and Souldiers under the Command of Gentlemen-I was in hopes to been favour'd with a Line in Answer to my Last; as None has Come to hand presume Your Honours has Concluded not to Gratifie my Request in Signifying by a Line the Num! of Troopers for Each Troop; hope the Delay off making my Return will not be Deemed a Breach of Contempt because I am Y: Ready Hum! Servt Whilst (To be Continued.) J. Wilson. LAND NOTES, 1634-1655. [Continued from p. 374.] [Liber F., Land Office Records.] 7th September 1640. John Gresham of the Isle of Kent Planter demandeth 100 acres of Land... for transporting himself into the Province at his own charge. 24th September 1640. I would have you to lay out 100 acres of Land to John Gresham in any part of the Isle of Kent undisposed of, . . . 7th September 1640. ... William Medcalf and Thomas Yewell of the Isle of Kent Planters pray to have confirmed to them the Neck on the East Side of the Said Island called Mattax Neck which they now hold by Grant of Capt. William Clayborne, And the Same William Medcalf demandeth 100 acres for transporting himself into the Province at his own Charge, and the Said Thomas Yewell prayeth to be allowed fifty acres in Consideration of his Service with Capt W Clayborne, all the Land wherewith the Said William Clayborne Should be enabled to pay him his Said 50 acres being now Seised into his Lordps hands. 25th Sept 1640. Laid out for William Medcalf and Thomas Yewell a Neck of Land called Mattapax neck bounding on the North with a Creek in Piney Bay called Mattapax Creek on the West with a line drawn from the head of a branch in the Said Creek, called Medcalfs branch, Southeast unto a branch of Goose harbour (in the Said Pinie bay) called Cedar branch on the South with the Said branch & on the East with the Said Goose harbour Containing 130 acres or thereabouts. Laid out further for the Said William and Thomas two other Necks of Land on the North Side of the Said Pinie Bay, the one called New hogpen neck and the other Goose hill, the Said two Necks being Inclosed between Pinie Creek on the East, the long Creek on the West, and a paralell line drawn from the head of the Said Pinie creek unto the Said Long Creek on the North Containing in the whole 220 acres or thereabouts. 7th Sept 1640. Richard Thompson of the Isle of Kent Planter demandeth a Mannor of 1000 acres for transporting himself and 4 able men Servants into the Province in the year 1636, that is to Say John Lee, William Smith, Richard Beckley and John Cooke, And he further prayeth in consideration of transporting his wife, Child, Maid Servant Dousbell Gladdus and other two men Servants (that is to Say) John Thompson and Herbert Smith, to have confirmed to him the Island to the Southward of the Isle of Kent, called Poplirs Island, which he was possessed of by Grant of Capt. Will. Cleyborne and whereon he inhabited till in the year 1637, they were Massacred by the Indians. 6th Novemb 1640. I would have you to lay out for Richard Thompson of the Isle of Kent planter a Manor of one thousand acres, lyeing nearest together about his Plantation according to a pretended Grant formerly made to him by Capt. Clayborne and to annex to the Said Manor Popelirs Island and to draw a Patent of the Said Manor and Island unto the Said Richard Thompson by the Conditions of Plantacon... 6th November 1640. Laid out for Richard Thompson, one Island Lyeing to the South of the Isle of Kent in the Bay of Chesapeak called Popelir's Island containing in the whole one thousand acres or thereabouts. Laid out further for the Same one parcell of Land lyeing on the East Side of the Isle of Kent next to the Mannor of Kent ffort, and bounding on the North with a line drawn from a mark't tree |