Volume 13 , Issue 22

Virginia Magazine of History & Biography

According to The Virginia Magazine of History & Biography, Vol. 4, by Philip Alexander Bruce, Virgiia Historical Society, William Glover Stanard, we find the following this history and biography of Virginia, dated July 1896, Vol. IV, No. I. This little history book is for those searching their ancestry that settled in the Virginia's. If you view the "Contents" you might find such things as "Abstracts of Virginia Land Patents" prepared by W. G. Stanard, beginning on page 75. For example, "(255) Sergeant Thomas Crompe [1], 500 acres in the county of James, in the Neck of Land [2] bounded on the east by Creek which runs between the Glebe Land and said neck of Land, and adjoining the land belonging to the orphans and heirs of Mr. Richard buck [3]; due said Crompe, 50 acres for his personal adventure, and 450 for the transportation of 9 persons (names below). September 28, 1635. By West. Jon Gorbing, Roger Armwood, Robert Ackerman, FRances Peale, Jon. Abott, Lewis Depina, peter Brill, Wm. Mallett, Thomas Tinchfield.

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