Brunswick County Virginia

April the 27th, 1710. Present Post Merediem The Honble Edmund Jenings Esqr President, Dudley Digges, John Lewis, Henry Duke, William Churchill, John Smith Esqr., and William Byrd Esqrs. . . . On the Petition of John Bolling setting forth that when leave was given for takeing up land on the Southside of Blackwater Swamp he together with Robert Hix entered with the Surveyor of Prince George's County for four hundred acres of land begining at the mouth of Stony Creek thence up the same and Nottoway River for the said Complement as by the sd entry may appear and therefore praying an order to the Surveyor of Surry County in which the said land is found to ly, to Survey and lay out the same for the Petitioner and Lewis Green to whom the said Robert Hix assigned his Right. It is thereupon ordered that the Surveyor of Surry County lay out & Survey for the Petitioner & Lewis Green the aforesaid four hundred acres of land they produceing Right for the same according to Law. Executive Journals, Council of Colonial Virginia, published by The Virginia State Library, H. R. McIlwaine, Editor, 1928, Vol. III, page 244.

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