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A map from 1736 map of the Northern Neck Proprietary. The Northern Neck Proprietary – also called the Northern Neck land grant, Fairfax Proprietary, or Fairfax Grant – was a land grant first contrived by the exiled English King Charles II in 1649 and encompassing all the lands bounded by the Potomac and Rappahannock Rivers in colonial Virginia.
Under the terms of the "Instructions to Governor Yeardley" issued by the London Company in 1618, these colonists received the first land grants in Virginia. [9] On August 14, 1624, William Spencer of James City, "Yeoman and Ancient Planter" secured a patent for 12 acres of land in James City described as "a narrow ridge towards Goose Hill."
On November 7, 1634, John George received a patent for 900 acres of land on Bailey Creek, also spelled Bayles Creek, in what was then Charles City County, Virginia but is now Prince George County, Virginia bordering Hopewell, Virginia. [3] [4] The George family moved to Isle of Wight County, Virginia in about 1642.
A patent for 1,200 acres (4.9 km 2) was issued on February 24, 1643, to Edward Murfey and John Vaughan. It is said to be the first patent for land that became Westmoreland County. It bounded on the "Easternmost side of Cedar Island Creek." The name is suggestive of the several little islands that dominate the mouth of the creek.
[1] [8] A list of Virginia land patents sent to England in 1625 included 300 acres in Archer's Hope in the name of William Spence. [ 1 ] Spence had been in England in early 1622 and he returned on the James , which departed for Jamestown on July 21, 1622. [ 1 ]
While Francis Chapman owned land there soon after the colony's establishment, by 1628 it was known as "Perryes Point" because occupied by "William Perry, Gent", Chapman's father-in-law and a member of the Governor's Council. [3] In 1635, British emigrant and tax collector William Swann acquired a land patent for 1200 acres at Swann's Point.
On March 10, 1653, he was listed as a headright of Soane's for a 200-acre patent in Gloucester County on the Mattaponi River. [18] On March 25, 1656, he was listed among 32 of Soane's headrights for a 2,800-acre patent in New Kent County on the Mattaponi River. [18] Subsequently, he assigned 1,200 acres on the Mattaponi River to him. [18]
Major Joseph Croshaw (c. 1610-12–1667) was a planter living near Williamsburg in the Colony of Virginia. He was the son of Captain Raleigh Croshaw. He became a planter and lived a few miles from present-day Williamsburg, Virginia. On December 10, 1651, he patented land which became the plantation known as Poplar Neck: