Thomas Newson - Who is he??
VA Patents 1, p. 59
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Land Office Patents and Grants
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Lt Thomas
fflint
1000 acres
Exmd
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By the Governor and Capt Generall of Virginia
To all to whome these presents shall come I ffrancis West Esqr Governor and Capt Generall of Virginia send greeting in our Lord God Everlasting Whereas by the Ordinances and constitutions formerly made and established for the affaires of this Colony it hath beene ordeyned and appointed that all devidents of Land any way due and belonging to any Adventurers or planters of what Condicon soever should bee laid out and assigned to them according to the severall Condicons in the same menconed Now Know yee that I the said ffrancis West doe with the consent of the Councell of State Give and grannt unto Lt Thomas fflint and to his heires and assignes for ever by these presents One Thowsand acres of land as his first devident and upon a second division to bee augmented and doubled unto him his said heires and assignes when hee or they shall sufficiently have peoples and planted the same scituate and being upon the Southern shoare of Warwicke river and abutting Easterly upon the land of Robert Poole gent and thence extending Westerly by towards the head of the said river five hundred pole adjoyning next unto the ground grannted by Pattent unto John Rolfe Esqr deceased and Capt William Peirce Northerly upon the aforesaid river and Southerly upon the maine river The said One Thowsand acres belonging unto him by Act of Court the ninth of ffebruary one Thowsand six hundred twentie seaven for the transportacon of twentie persons whoe came in the Temperance 1621 for the account of Sir Georg Yeardley Knight and settoner unto the said Lt fflint (vizt) Maximillian Stone, Elizabeth his wife, Georg Whitehand, Thomas Newson, Thomas Mann, Thomas Harris, Thomas Powis, William Chelmedge, Jon Wray, Phillip Smith, Richard Gregory and John Moyer, Peter Mason, Henry Rowen, Nath Thomas, William Brooke, John Phillipps, John Readford, John Penny and George Deverell To have and to hold the said one Thowsand acres of Land with the appurtenances and with his due share of all Mines and Minneralls therein conteyned and with all rights and priviledges of hunting ffishing ffowling and others within the precincts and upon the borders of the same to the sole and proper use benifitt and behoofe of him the said Thomas fflint his heires and assignes for ever In as large and ample manner to all intents and purposes as is expressed in the said orders and constitutions or by Consequence may bee justly Collected out of the same or out of his Majesties Letters Pattents whereon there are grounded Yeilding and paying for every fifty acres of Land herein by these presents given and grannted yearely at the feast of St Michaell the Archangell the fee rent of one shilling In Witnes whereof I the said ffrancis West have hereunto sett my hand and the seale of the Colony the twentieth day of September Anno domi 1628 and in the fowerth yeare of the raigne of our Soveraigne Lord Charles by the grace of God of England Scotland ffrance and Ireland King defender of the faith &c. and in the twoe and twentieth yeare of this Plantacon.