1600s
Patents and 1700s Statutes
Cavaliers
and Pioneers: Abstracts of Virginia Land Patents and Grants, 1623-1666
NUGENT 1934 Volume 2 page 6
CORNELIUS DEBANY, 200 acs. New Kent Co., 27 Sept. 1664, P.
370, (406). Beg. at the mouth of Totopotomoys
Cr. upon the S. side of Yorke Riv. a little below the fort of Manaskin, running up the river, bounding on same N.W.
&c. Part of patent of 312 acs. granted to
Capt. Gyles Brent…
NUGENT 1934 1:524
Volume 1 page 514
MOYSES DAVIES, Gent., 1450 acs., same Co. & page, 19
Mar. 1666. S. side of Yorke Riv. over against Manskin, beg. at the mouth of
Tottopottomoyes Cr. &c. to tree in sight of Capt. Anthony Langstone's plantation, crossing the Road, &c.,
below the mountaines, to Robt. Anderson's
land…
NUGENT 1934 Volume 2 page 42
EDWARD BOMPAS, 280 acs. New Kent- Co., S. side of York Riv.,
8 -Apr. 1668, p. 161. Beg: at Cornelius
Debany, above Manskin. Crosse to-Totopotomoyes Cr. to Mr. Moses Davis, &c.
Sd. land granted to Edmond Machyn 20 July,
1662. conteyning 1000 acs., assigned to ;d. Bompas, & upon resurvey there is found but the contents of this
pattent.
Hening'sStatutes
at Large LAWS OF VIRGINIA, OCTOBER
1765 −− 5th GEORGE III.
“give unto
his daughter Judith Wormeley, and her heirs for ever, fifteen hundred acres of
land out of his land at Manskin in Pamunkey
neck,”
These patents in the 1660s in lands adjacent to Manskin
Lodge show the naming convention of using the local
tribe was common during this period.