The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1910-11-27

Point. formerly Tyndalls Point, Whorc
Bacon built the fort But from these
random musings VIC must return 10
Piankctank and tho carly land grants
Ia rather serious subject DIT lihe
many serious things Inclined 10 90
useful. 'rlicgo land grants VIII make q
groundwork for future Investigation:
1872, william Hunt, 1858 acres, joining
Thomas Royston.
1874, Captain John Armistcad, aio
acres In Kingston Parish. In lis2 VIII
liam Armigtead assessed for 1000 acres
and Churchill Armistead for S56 acres,
and Dorothy Armistead for LOO acres,
John Armistends estate SO, ana
Robert Armistead lib. and George
Armistead 500 acres.
i 1874. Thomas polliscr. Joining Mat
thew Kemp, ST.. and Jr., and Mrs. joan
! ma Raunnlls
i 1871, Thomas PaIliser. Joining Mat
acres, Joining Mr.. PallIser and Joanna
Raunelis.
1914 Matthew Kemp. Ir, go acres,
Joining Thomas Pallistcr, and thence
down the Pianketank.
! 1874, George Curtis, 500 acres, eoutf
side OF pianketank. between Colonel
Remp's Greek and Wading Creek. Gu
1889 Christopher and James curtis
were assessed for 3s5 acres. which
Charles and James Curtis transferred
to Samuel guokner in 17s4)
& 1878, Richard Longest. $50 acres
Joining Jacob Johnson, Colonel Dudley,
William Elliott. Captain Arrnistead.
Richard and Caleb Longest, In Glou-
cester, 1852.
| 1873, Thomas Anliss, o9b acres, edge
~ Dragon Swamp. part of the land OF
| Samuel Partridge, dcceaasd, and now
claimed by Captain John Carver.
Thomas Anliss married tl7aal Rachel
Daniel Her sister. Jane, married. 112o.
Oliver Segar. John Aniss lived on Ora
| son swamp, 1852.
| 1879, Humphrey Tompkins, deceased,
/ c,1I acres. now hired by his sons.
| William Humphrey and John, He mar
/ ried QBel). Hannah, daughter Snmuel
Bennett. and widow of Abraham Turn
err of Gloucester. In 1883 B. Homp-
i i,ns was assessed for sos acres: Han
nah Tompkns. 100 acres; William
Tompkins, 100 acres,
| 1862. Robert Peyton (Justice 1880,
$40 acres at Blackwater Creek, owned
in 1888 by Thomas Peyton. Sir John
Peyton assessed for 1000 acres in l7s2.
! They were OF the vestry OF Kingston
Parish. Sir John died 1890. Married
first. 1850, Frances. daughter of Nor
I
widow of James .Taliaferro-
1856, John Carter (died 1900. $40 acres
a spring branch on Dragon swamp,
Joining Charles Roane and Robert
! Shackleford.
l Ferry. He was of the vestry of Pets
worth.
1855, Captain Richard Booker. 74n
/ acres. He married Hannah Hand He
had son. George Booker. In 1852
Lewis Booker assessed for 5al acres
and James Booker, $50 acres.
1851 Thomas Palliser. 4:o acres on
i Plankstank.
4 At the end of this article we will
retrace our steps to the grants of last
Sunday and try to explain the people
who held item.
The following grants lay on Toto
potomoy Creek (sometimes called Alto.
potomoyp and between 1853 and 1864
was called Lewis Branch. but returned
to the frat name after that date: u II
z tributary of the Poropotank.. In 1lla
ing line between the upper and lower
precincts of Petswortil Parish.
1851. Robert Taliaferro fthe fInni-
grant ancestor) and Samuel sollace
Creek. and Joining Oliver Green, re-
moved by Robert Taliaferro only In
1861 and In 1855, Robert Taliaterro
and Samuel sollaee. seo acres south,
branch of Poropotank Creek. commonly
/, known as .Attapotomcy's Creek.
head branches Of Attapoton,oy Greek
tand renewed 1s61). in the county oil
Lancaster, ais Gloucester.
1868, Francis IronWonger. CSC acre:
and Jones's Creek q, e., Thomas Jones
below. See Ironmorser below.
1861. Samuel sollace Cor Sollis1, sor
,of samuel. deceased. .s5c acres. south
!, east side Porototank and northeas
J side of swamp, which divides him from
Isaac Richardson.
1862. William Corduroy. 100 acres OF
a swamp dividing this land from Mich
, 9os II sw Va on ne iss
Of Attapotomoy's Creek He wa
among Mrs. Anna Corduroy Bernard.
head rights viz. Eilinor CORDUROY
John Smith, Of purton1, Corduroy Der
nard Ironmonger, wife of4Willianl, an
nine others, Mrs. Anna Bernard die
1879. Her son Richard died 1871. I
chester's London Marriage License:
1855 Is Richard Bernard, of fettsoe
Buckinghamshire, gent, widower Gage
- ltwenty-sia years., TO Anna Corduro
n taged two4ty.two, years., daughIer e 9
81 Andrews in the Wardrobe." In Ian
81 caster county, Va, records Is a deed
Il January, 1865, from William Ironmong
81 CT, of Gloucester county. Va, whic
81 county where the said Ironmonger late
a ~ lived, and Elizabeth ironmonger, hi
a wife, relinquished dover and appotnt
a cd Mr.. Robert Jones. her brother, he
Il attorney. William lronnongcr's VIII
q Gloucester. August 80. 1895 bequcathe'
his land In Potomac Neck West,nore
Y land, Va. coo acres, TO John. son Q
n Mordecai Cooke, of Gloucsster. and thi
4 John Cooke had son Mordecai of Gloi
cester, who made deed ninety-or
a yeafscafterwards and recorded in west
morelnnd county, rsciting that William
A lIronmonger, OF Cilouceatcr. so LETT t...'
4 legacy in the above VIII (Virginist Mag
Il azine, XII. Evidently Mordecai frs
q mentioned and son OF the emlgrant hat
! married a daughter of William Iron
a lnonger.
From "English Wills VIC find tina
4 Martha Irpnmonger married John J one;
and lived in Gloucester county, Va.
with son, John Jones. Ann lrennlonEcl
married -----v--- Runlney. of st. Botolph:
\ Gate; Corduroy Ironmonser OF Nir
4 ginla, died unmarried. and their sister
A Elizabeth Ironmonger. married Anthons
4 Ependen, AID was granted sdministra
4 tion on tho estates Of all three aatF
4 Nevemher, 1851. stating that Johr
Ioucs, Jr., his NEPHEW, was now ho'
a ypnd ScnS. in NirgiNiaW 3fJIiSt. Mag. Nil