William Major, of New Kent

Biography

From James Branch Cabell. "The Majors and Their Marriages." The W. C. Hill Printing Co. (Richmond: 1915). Page 39. GoogleBooks

William Major and Elizabeth Mason had issue:

I. William Major, in whose name, as has been recorded, 130 acres were patented in York 20 November 1678. He afterward sold this land, for 3,500 pounds of tobacco, to Thomas Powell and Seamos Powell of St. Martin's Hundred in New Kent, by a deed dated 1 February 1686-7, and recorded in York 24 February 1686-7. William Major is in this deed described as "of the parish of St. Peeters in New Kent, son and heir of William Major, late in the county of York deceased." The younger William Major patented 150 acres in New Kent county, 7 November 1700, (the land being a tract deserted by Gideon Macon), as due for the transportation of four persons, and another tract of 150 acres in the same county, 2 May 1705. He likewise patented 376 acres in Essex county, 15 August 1715, this being a tract patented in 1703 (when Essex was a part of Old Rappahannock) by his younger brother John Major, and deserted by the latter.

William Major, as is shown by the records of St. Peter's parish, died 4 October 1716, having had issue:

• Frances Major, baptized 19 November 1699;
• John Major, baptized 17 May 1702; and
• Thomas Major, baptized 28 November 1703, died 19 November 1722.