1684 Goddins Ilse – Mark Warkam
In Virginia Historical
Magazine, volume 11, page 308, is the following: “Mr. Mark
Warkam was granted on April 20, 1684, a dividend of land called “Pampetike”, 918 acres,
in New Kent County (in 1682 King and Queen, King William,
and New Kent Counties were all under the name of New Kent County, King
and Queen was cut off in 1691 and King William in 1701) on the north side
of Pamunkey River, Pamunkey Neck, beginning at the mouth of Goddin’s Creek
or swamp, a little below Goddin’s Island (this creek is now called the dam
creek and has had a flood gate at its mouth for many years, now out of repair,
and runs between the island and the Shop Spring meadow fields on “Pampatike”) purchased
by one _____ Booth, of the (Indian) Queen of the Pamunkey,
after whose death (Booth’s) the said land was granted to his son Robert
Booth by an order of Assembly dated the 25th of April 1679, and by said
Robert Booth assigned to Mark Warkman.”