John Dalton (1673 - 1733)

Born 1673 in Farnham Parish, Richmond County, Virginia Colony

Husband of Mary Elizabeth (Newman) Lister — married 6 May 1702 in Richmond County, Virginia Colony

Descendants

Died 1733 at about age 60 in Farnham Parish, Richmond County, Virginia Colony

Biography

BE IT KNOWNE unto all men that for the valuable consideration of Thousand pounds of good tobacco and cask paid to me JOHN DALTON of the Parish of Sittingbourne in the County of Rappa. in Virga. by RICHARD PERKINSON of the same Parish and County the receipt whereof I doe hereby acknowledge to be fully satisfied and paid upon wch I the said JOHN DALTON doe for myselfe my heirs give and sell unto the said RICHD. PERKINSON one half of a divident of land containing three hundred acres given unto me by the Last Will &Testament of THOMAS FARRELL deceased and being on the South side of RAPPA. RIVER in the Freshes thereof the one halfe of the said land for all time to come soley and properly to belong to the said RICHARD PERKINSON and his heirs forever wth one halfe of the housen and clear ground and fencing and all other privilidges thereunto granted to as by Pattent doth more at large appear the said halfe of the sd land being divided from what remains more or less by these markes and bounds following (Vitt) beginning at a Cedar standing by the River side and runing into the woods South West by a line of marked trees thence So. E to PUEMONSUM CREEKE thence down along the several courses of the said Creeke to a marked Wallnut tree thence No, W. to the place where it began the other part being the residue of the said halfe beginning at a Red Oake upon the head of CEDAR CREEKE thence So. W. to the place it began the sd land wthin the bounds above- said I doe firmly give and grant unto RICHARD PERKINSON and his heirs forever with warranty from the claime of any persons hereafter to calim under me or my heirs forever and in confirmation of the same I have set my hand and seale this 10th of November 1673 in presence of us JNO. PROSSER, JOHN DALTON THOMAS PANNELL Recognit in Cu Com Rappa x9 die 9bris 1673 ^[1]

BE IT KNOWNE unto all men that for the valuable consideration of Three thousand pounds of good tobacco & Caskque paid to me JOHN DALTON of the Parish of Sittingbourne in the County of Rappa. in Virginia by RICHARD PERKINSON of the same Parish & County the Receipt whereof I doe hereby acknowledge to bee fully satified and paid upon which consideration I the said JOHN DALTON doe for myself my heirs grant and sell unto the said RICHARD PERKINSON one halfe of a Devident of land containing Three hundred acres given unto me by the Last Will and Testament of THOMAS FARRELL deceased & being on the South side of RAPPA. RIVER in the Freshes thereof the one halfe of the said land for all time to come solely & properly to belong unto the said PERKINSON and his heirs forever wth one halfe of the housing clear ground & fencing & all other priviledges thereunto granted as by Pattent doth more at large appear the sd halfe of the land being divided from what remains by these markes and bounds following Vizt beginning at a stake standing by the River side and runing into the woods S. W. by a line of marked trees thence So. E. to PEUMANSEN CREEKE to a marked Walnut tree thence NW to the place we began this part being the Residue of the land itself beginning at a red Oake upon the head of CEDAR CREEK thence S.W. thence by a line of marked trees N. to the place where it began the said Land within the bounds abovesd I do firmly give and grant unto RICHARD PERKINSON & his heirs wth warranty from the claims of any persons under me and in confirmation of the same I have hereunto set my hand and seale this 10th of November 1671 in precence of us JOHN PROSSER. JOHN DALTON THOMAS PANNELL Recognit Et Recordat ( ) 1673 Test EDM. CRASK Cl Cur KNOW ALL MEN by these present that we RICHARD PERKINSON & JOAN PERKINSON doe from us our heirs & assigns give and confirm and sett over all that tract of land contained in this within mentioned conveyance unto JOHN GODFREY & his heirs forever with warranty as Witness our hands & seales this 6th day of May 1674 est EDMO. CRASK, RICHARD PERKINSON ROBERT FERCHAM JOANE PERKINSON Recognit in Cur Com Rappa xx May 1674 ^[2]

KNOW ALL MEN by these presents to whom it shall concern that I JOHN DALTON of the County of Rappa, for a considerable sume of tobacco already agreed upon have made and sold unto JOHN GODFREY Planter of the same County One hundred and fifty acres of land which is part of three hundred acres of land wch was formerly assigned over unto THOMAS FARRELL his heirs Executrs. or assigns forever from JOHN SPEED his heirs & assigns forever lying upon the South side of RAPPA RIVER and in the upper side of the CODD of the Bay opposite to a poynt between NANSEMOND & NANSTIGWON known bounding and adjoyning upon the No. W. with a CODD of the Creeke which divides the land of the land of JOHN GILLETT No, Ea. upon the River upon the So. Ea. with another Creeke & SW into the woods the said land being formerly granted unto CLEMENT HERBERT by Pattent bearing date the 21st of April! 1657 and by him relinquished & upon Petition of Mr. ALEXANDER FLEMING to the Governor and Council! it was given and granted unto the sd Mr. ALEXANDER FLEMING by and Order of Court from the Governor and Council! and the said JOHN DALTON doth warrant the same land from all persons wtsoever that my lay any claime to the same unto the said JOHN GODFREY his heirs and assigns from me the said JOHN DALTON my heirs or assigns forever and in confirmation of the same I have sett my hand & seale this 8th day of April! in the present year of our Lord God Anno Dom 1674 in presence of us SAM. PALMER JOHN DALTON DANIEL WILLIAMS Recognitr in Cu Com Rappa xx7 die May 1674 ^[3]

TO ALL TO WHOM these prsents shall come, I THOMAS LORD CULPEPER, Baron of Thorsway, his Majties. Lieut, and Govnr: General of Virginia send Greeting in our Lord God everlasting. Whereas his Majtie. hath been gratiously pleased by his Royal Letters Patents under the Great Seale of England bearing date at Westminster the Tenth day of October in the Eight and Twentieth yeare of his. Reigne amongst other things in the sd Letters Pattent contayned to continue the antient lidge of granting Fifty acres of land for every person imported into this Collony of Virgo.: NOW KNOW yee that I the said THOMAS LORD CULPEPER &c. Governer &c, doe with the consent of the Coun cell of State accordingly give CORNELIUS REYNOLDS Three hundred acres of land according to the antient and lawful' bounds thereof being in the Freshes of Rappa: on the South side of the River in the County aforesaid the said land being formerly granted unto JOHN GODFREY deced and lately found escheat to his Majtie, as by an Inquisition recorded in Mr, Secretarys office under the hands and seales of Coll, ISAAC ALLERTON Escheatr: Generall of said Collony and a Jury sworn before him may appeare dated the Fourteenth day of Decembr: One thousand Six hundred and Eighty one the moyety whereof was sold and assigned him the said JOHN GODFREY the Sixth of May 1674 by RICHARD PERKINSON the assigne of JOHN DOLTON who possessed the said land by the last Will and Testament of THOMAS FARRELL deced; the other moyety being sold to said JOHN GODFREY by the said JOHN DOLTON the legatee of said THOMAS FARRELL assignee of JOHN SPEED the eighth of Aprill 1674 as by the several! Deeds upon record may appeare and since granted to the said CORNELIUS REYNOLDS who lately made his composition according to Act; To have and to hold the said land with his due share of all mines and mineralls with all right and privilidges in as larg manner as hath been allowed since the first plantation, To be held of or: Soveraigne Lord the King &c. yeilding and paying &c. Given under my hand and the Seale of the Colony this Sixteenth day of April One thousand six hundred eighty and threen Recordatr Test NICHO. SPENCER Secrety, THO: CULPEPER Recordatr x4 die Junii anno 1683 Test EDMD, CRASKE CI Cur June 4th 1683: Be it known unto all men by these presents that I CORNELIUS REYNOLDS doe freely give unto JOHN GOSS all the within mentioned land during his own natural life and to my Daughter, SUSAN, his Wife and her heires forever, and if in case my Daughter SUSAN should dy without an heir then the said land is to return to the said CORNELIUS REYNOLDS and his heires forever Witness my hand the day and year above written TEIZE ALLEN, COR: REYNOLDS JOHN CROUCHMAN his marks Recordatr x4 die Junii 1683. Test EDMD. CRASKE Cl Cur ^[4]

Payments to: Robert Ridgely, Richard Smith at suit of Samuell Allen, Thomas Shore, Nehemiah Blackstone, Samuell Dobson, Thomas Mathews, Charles Hutchins, Mr. chesledyn, John Burdet, George Mason, Katherine widow of deceased, Arthur Hart.

• List of debts (runaway): Simon Perdy, Theophilus Twiford, Thomas Smith, William Pitts, William Cox, William Petterson.
• List of debts (can't be found): Mr. Barcker (merchant), Nicholas Gwither, Mr. Wright (merchant), Lewis Griffin, Benjamin George, Thomas Penroy, Martin Phillips, John Vaughan, William Kenie, William Millet, George Knight.
• List of debts (insolvent): Mr. Francis Surton, Mr. Williams, Mr. Thomas Bennet, William Crane.
• List of debts: John Martindale, Henry Hardy, John Watson, Daniell Clocker, William Greengo, Richard Loyd, Capt. Thomas Walker, John Anderson, William Rosewell, Thomas Butler, John Barnes, William Stephens, Col. Steevens, Jacob Peeterson, Miles Gray, Randall Revell, Thomas Keyton, Stephen Cannon, William Alford, Thomas Mathews, John Edmondson, Robert Graham, Henry Exon, John Lewellin, Richard Keene, Col. William Calvert, John Richardson, James Rumsey,John Dolton, Humphry Jones, John Shanks, Joshua Guibert, John Hamilton, Abraham Reade, Robert Carvile, John Addison, Samuell Dobson.

Administrator: Henry Exon. ^[5]

Marriage

Husband: Samuel Dalton

Wife: Mehitable Palmer

Marriage:

Date: 6 Feb 1652

Place: Boston, Suffolk, Massachusetts, United States

Sources

1. ↑ Old Rappahannock Co Va Deed Book 5, Part I - 1672-1674; Antient Press: page 135-136
2. ↑ 1674-1676 Old Rappahannock County, Virginia Deed Book 5, Part II; [Antient Press]; Page 208-209
3. ↑ 1674-1676 Old Rappahannock County, Virginia Deed Book 5, Part II; [Antient Press]; Page 210
4. ↑ 1682-1686 Old Rappahannock County, Virginia Deed Book 7, Part I; [Antient Press]; Page 43-44
5. ↑ John Garnish 6.658 A SM #73498 #78774 Mar 1 1679

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