Elizabeth Mason

Caution: the name Elizabeth Cale is not proven.

The will of William Downman. 'In the Name of God Amen, I William Downman of the Parish of North Farnham in the County of Richmond being of perfect mind and memory and considering the uncertainty of this life do make and declare this my last Will and Testament. First I bequeath my Soul to Almighty God, and my body to Christian Buriell, and as for my worldly goods, I give as followeth. Item. I give and bequeath unto my Son Rawleigh Downman and his heirs forever a parcell of land which I bought of Edward King and his wife, being a part of a dividend commonly called Mount Sion and granted to Thomas Stevens. Likewise I give unto my said son and his heirs forever, that parcell of land containing about two hundred and fifty acres which I bought of Charles Cole being part of the aforesaid dividend. (Note: Thomas Stevens was the first husband of Elizabeth, mother of Million Travers Downman. Mary Stevens, their daughter, married Giles Cale, and their children were Nathaniel, Charles, and Elizabeth who married Edward King. LBL) Item. I give and bequeath unto my son Robert Downman, and his heirs forever, three hundred acres of land lying near the branches of Totuskey which I bought of Richard Nutt and his wife. Item. I give and bequeath unto my son Travers Downman all the land which I bought of Arthur Attoy lying in the Forrest of Moratticon, which said land with the land I bought of George Pedley being in the same patent I give unto my son Travers and his heirs forever.... Proved in Richmond County Court the fourth day of June 1712 by the oaths of William Ackors and William Goad and ordered to be recorded.

URL (Click on link) http://image.lva.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/GetLONN.pl?first=153&last=&g_... Patent Title Cale, Giles. Publication 26 September 1667. Other Format Available on microfilm. Virginia State Land Office. Patents 1-42, reels 1-41. Note Location: Warwick County.

Description: 150 acres in Nutmeg Quarter. 

Source: Land Office Patents No. 6, 1666-1679 (pt.1 & 2 p.1-692), p. 153 (Reel 6). 

Part of the index to the recorded copies of patents for land issued by the Secretary of the Colony serving as the colonial Land Office. The collection is housed in the Archives at the Library of Virginia.  Subject - Personal Cale, Giles. grantee.  Subject - Topical Land titles. -- Registration and transfer -- Virginia -- Warwick County  Subject -Geographic Warwick County (Va.) -- History -- 17th century.  Genre/Form Land grants -- Virginia -- Warwick County.  Added Entry Virginia. Colonial Land Office. Patents, 1623-1774. 

Library of Virginia. Archives. 

URL (Click on link) http://image.lva.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/GetLONN.pl?first=154&last=&g_... Patent Title Stevens, Thomas. Publication 12 February 1652. Other Format Available on microfilm. Virginia State Land Office. Patents 1-42, reels 1-41. Related See also the following surname(s): Stephens, Steevens. Note Location: Lancaster County.

Description: 600 acres on the north west side of Moraticon Creek opposite to another tract of land, of Richard Hatton, and Lambert Lambetson. 

Source: Land Office Patents No. 3, 1652-1655, p. 154 (Reel 2). 

Part of the index to the recorded copies of patents for land issued by the Secretary of the Colony serving as the colonial Land Office. The collection is housed in the Archives at the Library of Virginia.  Subject - Personal Stevens, Thomas. grantee. 

Hatton, Richard. 

Lambetson, Lambert. 

URL (Click on link) http://image.lva.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/GetLONN.pl?first=166&last=&g_... Patent Title Herbert, Clement. Publication 8 October 1657. Other Format Available on microfilm. Virginia State Land Office. Patents 1-42, reels 1-41. Note Location: Rappahannock County (extinct).

Description: 500 acres on the north west side of Morattico Creek. Adjoining land formerly surveyed for Thomas Glasscock, the land of William Whitely, Niclolas Forman &c. 

Source: Land Office Patents No. 4, 1655-1664, p. 166 (Reel 4). 

Part of the index to the recorded copies of patents for land issued by the Secretary of the Colony serving as the colonial Land Office. The collection is housed in the Archives at the Library of Virginia.  Subject - Personal Herbert, Clement. grantee. 

Glasscock, Thomas. 

Whitley, William. 

Forman, Nicholas. 

URL (Click on link) http://image.lva.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/GetLONN.pl?first=188&last=&g_... Patent Title Coghill, Samuel. Publication 20 February 1662. Other Format Available on microfilm. Virginia State Land Office. Patents 1-42, reels 1-41. Note Location: County location not given.

Description: 400 acres on the north side of Rappahannock River in Farnham parish: beg.g at the Miles end of a tract of land belong.g to John Meade and run.g &c. Creek proceed.g out of Totoskey. 

Source: Land Office Patents No. 5, 1661-1666 (v.1 & 2 p.1-369), p. 188 (Reel 5). 

Part of the index to the recorded copies of patents for land issued by the Secretary of the Colony serving as the colonial Land Office. The collection is housed in the Archives at the Library of Virginia.  Subject - Personal Coghill, Samuel. grantee. 

Meade, John. 

URL (Click on link) http://image.lva.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/GetLONN.pl?first=184&last=185... Grant

http://image.lva.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/GetLONN.pl?first=185&last=&g_... Grant   Title Jones, Roderick.  Publication 10 October 1692.  Other Format Available on microfilm. Northern Neck Grants, reels 288-311.  Note Location: Richmond County. 

Description: 200 acres in North Farnham Parish, beginning near the plantation of Thomas Colley. 

Source: Northern Neck Grants No. 1, 1690-1692, p. 184-185 (Reel 288). 

Recorded survey available. Northern Neck Grants No. 1, 1690-1692, p. 185 (Reel 288). 

Part of the index to recorded copies of land grants issued by the agents of the Fairfax Proprietary between 1690 and 1781 and by the Commonwealth between 1786 and 1874. Original and recorded surveys are also indexed when available. The collection is housed in the Archives at the Library of Virginia.  Subject - Personal Jones, Roderick. grantee. 

Colley, Thomas 

URL (Click on link) http://image.lva.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/GetLONN.pl?first=16&last=&g_p... Grant Title Bramham, Richard, / Mr., Publication 23 November 1714. Other Format Available on microfilm. Northern Neck Grants, reels 288-311. Note Location: Richmond County.

Description: 101 acres in the parish of north Farnham and adjoining other land of said Bramham. 

Source: Northern Neck Grants No. 5, 1713-1719, p. 16 (Reel 289). 

Recorded survey available. Northern Neck Grants No.5 1713-1719. (reverse). 

Part of the index to recorded copies of land grants issued by the agents of the Fairfax Proprietary between 1690 and 1781 and by the Commonwealth between 1786 and 1874. Original and recorded surveys are also indexed when available. The collection is housed in the Archives at the Library of Virginia.  Subject - Personal Bramham, Richard, Mr., grantee.  Subject - Topical Land titles. -- Registration and transfer -- Virginia -- Richmond County.  Subject -Geographic Richmond County (Va.) -- History -- 18th century.* Reference: [http://wc.rootsweb.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=GET&db=591398&id... RootsWeb's WorldConnect] - [http://www.geni.com/projects/SmartCopy/18783 SmartCopy]: ''Nov 30 2016, 4:04:08 UTC''