James Thweatt, of Charles City

A 1707 deposition was made by the immigrant James Thweatt to Virginia, r elated to the long standing boundary dispute between North Carolina and Virginia, an issue that was not resolved until 1728. This 1666 North Carolina charter defined the boundary as starting on the north end of Currituck Inlet and running due west to 'Weyanoke Creek. By 1707, the name Weyanoke had been lost and there was disagreement as to whether it had later become known as the Nottoway River. Thweatt, among others, was questioned by the Virginia government as a man advanced in years and as one who had been familiar with the river over a period of years. The section was then unsettled and James Thweatt at an earlier time in his life, may have been an Indian trader. Thweatt's Branch first mentioned in a land grant in 1701, flowing east into Hunting Quarter Creek, and south of the present Sussex County Court House, is a reminder of his early association with the Nottoway River area.

James Thweatt settled on Bailey' Run in Charles City County (after 1702, Prince George) near the present city of Hopewell. He was granted 600 acres on Bailey's Creek 22 April 1670 and on 15 Mar 1673 received an additional 550 acres adjoining the first grant and described as lying on Bailey's Creek and the Blackwater. In both these patents, he himself was listed as an headright, implying he had paid his own passage to the colony and had made a return visit to England. On 22 April 1682, he and Henry Batte took out a 679 acre grant near the lands they both already held. James Thweatt, was granted 125 acres 20 April 1689, again near his other holdings. In the Virginia rent roll of 1704, he was listed with 700 acres.

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