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700
To do., for Nath'l Bridgwater,
500
To do., for Aaron Freeman's Wife,
1,000
To do., Henry Britain,
500
To do., for Capt. McBurnet,
1,000
To do., for Benja. Goode,
1,000
To Mary Franklin,
500
To Mary Swinton,
600
To Richard Moore,
1,000
To John Enroughty, for felf and fon,
600
To John Orange,
600
To John Childers and wife,
1,000
To Matthew Jordan,
300
To Jane Morris,
1,000
To Efther Stedman,
300
To John Ragland, for Rachel Burton, orphan of Benjamin Burton, 500
To Richard Cottrell, for Pridgeon Waddell, as per Acco. £17, 4, 8}, 500
To Sufa. Parfons, for Henry Britains and Pridgeon Waddels, as per Acco., £7, 4, 6,
To Geo. Scherrer, for Burying a man that was drown'd, per Acco., £1, 5, 0,
John Gordon, Exempted paying Levy,
To Doct. P. Strachan, per Acco., £6, 2,3,
To John Myers, per Acco., £3, 0,0,
To Mary Thomfon, 500
To Ch. W'ds, for Shad. Vaughan, Alt. Simpfon, a bastard child of A. Weft, 300
148
VESTRY BOOK OF
To Jas. Sharp, D. Sheriff, for Infolv'ts, per Acco.,
300 To William Burton, do., for do., 150
To Com's, for collecting,
3,329
To Depofitam, in Collectors Hands,
12,796
55,660
Cr.
By 2,420 Tiths, @ 23 1b. per Poll, 55,660
Ord'd, Ch. W'dns bring Suit Ag't Mr. Sam'l Duval on his Agreem't for Bricking in the Lands belonging to Richmond Church, he having failed to do the fame accd'g to f'd Agreem't.
It is the Opinion of the Veftry that an addition of Forty feet in Length and the fame Width as the preft. Church at Richmond, be built to it, at the North fide, with Gallery on both fides, and one end with proper windows above and be- low; and Ordered that the Ch. W'dns Lett to the Loweft Bidder the faid addition.
Mr. Thos. Watkins29 and Mr. William Randolph30 are chofen Veftrymen in the room of Wm. Lewis and Bowler Cocke, dec'd.
Daniel Price and Turner Southall are appointed Ch. W'dns for the enfuing year.
Nath'l Wilkinfon, Sheriff, is appointed Collector of this levy, and that he give Bond to the Ch. Wd'ns for Collecting of fame.
TURNER SOUTHALL, DANIEL PRICE.
AT A VESTRY, held at Richmond, on Fryday, the 17th Day of December, 1773, for laying the Parifh Levy.
Prefent.
The Rev'd Mr. Selden, Sam'l Duval, Jofeph Lewis, Daniel Price, George Cox, Turner Southall, Nath'l Wilkinfon and Thomas Watkins.
149
ST. JOHN'S CHURCH.
Dr.
Henrico Parifh.
Lbs. Tobo.
£ S D.
To Rev'd Mr. Selden, his Annual Salary, 17,150 125
1 0
To Wm. Street, Clk Deep Run Church,
1,789
13
0 10
To Jas. Sharp, do., at Curl's,
1,789
13 0 10
To a Salary to be paid a clk Richmond
Church, hereafter to be app'd, and to remain in the Church Wardens hands till fuch appointment,
1,789
13 0 10
To R'd Trueman, clk Boar Swamp Church, 31
500
3 12 11
To the Sexton of Curl's Church,
536
3 15 07
To R'd Williams, Sexton of the Town
Church, and a power granted the Ch.
W'dns to difplace him if they think fit, To Jos. Freeman, who is App'd Sexton
536
3 13 07
of Deep Run Church, in the room of Jos. Ellis,
536
3 15 07
To Fortu. Sydnor, clk Veftry,
500
3 12 11
To the Ch. Wardens, for Ch. El'mnts,
300
2
3 09
To Thomas Alley,
500
3
12 11
To Ch. Wardens, for Matt. Bridgman,
700
5
2 01
To do., per Margaret Childrefs,
1,000
7
5 10
To do., per John Weft and Daughter,
1,000
7 5 10
To John Grimftead, for his Wife,
500
3 22 11
To do., for Molly Hogg and children,
700
5 2 01
To do., for Nath'l Bridgwater,
800
5 16 08
To do., Catharine McBurnet,
500
3 12 11
To do., for Ben. Goode,
600
4
7 06
To do., for Mary Frankling,
1,000
7
5 10
To Mary Swinton,
600
4 7 06
To Rich'd Moore,
800
5 16 08
To John Enroughty, for felf and fon,
1,000
7 5 10
To John Orange, in the Ch. Wardens,
1,000
7 5 10
To Martha Jordan,
300
2
3
9
To Jane Morris,
500
3 12 11
150
VESTRY BOOK OF
To John Ragland, for Rachel Burton, orphan of Ben Burton,
500
3 12 11
To Sufa, Clarke,
200
2
2 01
To Matthew Bridgman, in the Ch. War- dens hands, for keep'g Michael Cul- ling, Sen.,
500
3 12 11
To. B. Price, for keeping Jas. Cullington,
600
4 7 06
To Elvia. Clarke,
600
4 7 06
To Mary Thompfon,
300
2
3 09
To Sufa. Clark, for keeping Waddell Brittain,
36
6 09
To Robert Spears, for Repairs done to Boar Swamp Church,
1 15 00
To Sam'l Robinfon, for keeping John Thompfon,
8 0 00
To Jofeph Ellis, for Steps to D. R. Church,
5 00
To Clark and Halland,
3
9 07
To Jno. Redcrofs,
1
0 00
To Thomas Watkins, for Elv'a Baker,
300
3 2 09
345 12 15
To the Sheriff, for collect'g, £551, 3, 1,
33
8 06
379
0 11
To a Depofit'm, to remain in the hands of the Church Wardens to pay Contingent Charges,
178
2 02
£557
3
3 01
Cr.
By 2,547 Tythes at 30 Ibs. tob'o or 4, 4₺ per Poll, at the option of the payer, £557
3 01
TH DAHIN A
Z
UMMINION ANGIO
Peter Winfton,32 Gent., is app'd Collector of this Levy and ord'd he give Bond and Sec'y to the Church Wardens for that purpofe, and it is further Ordered, that he purchafe a
ms Church
ALMS BASIN AND COMMUNION SERVICE.
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ST. JOHN'S CHURCH.
fuff'ct quantity of Tobacco to difcharge the Salary of the Rev'd Mr. Selden.
Daniel Price and Turner Southall, Gent., Church War- dens, returned an Account with the parifh, the ball'ce wher- of due to the f'd Parifh is, £74, 3, 14. Ord., The Clk record the f'd Acc't, and in future every account of the like nature, for which the Veftry will make an allowance.
Ord., That Church Wardens pay Geo. Rowland £24, 0, 0, and that Richard Adams and Geo. Cox pay him the further fum of £75, 0, 0, if fo much in their hands, in part for the Brick Wall he is about to raife round the town Church.
Dan'l Price and Nath'l Wilkinfon are app'd Church War- dens for the Enfuing Year.
DANIEL PRICE, NAT. WILKINSON.
Dr. Henrico Parifh in Acco. with Daniel Price and Turner Southall.
1772.
Feb. 7, To Cafh p'd for Neceffarys for Mary Bol'g, 5 9
To Cafh p'd for a Bible and Prayer Book for Boar Swamp Meeting Houfe, 4 10 0
To Cafh p'd for the Poft, for bringing the Books, 5 0
To Cafh p'd the Printer, for Adver- tizing the Building-the Church, 7 0
To Bufhels of Corn for Matt Bridge- man, 5 7
To the Depofitam in tob'o, 12,796 Ibs. To Henry Britton, 1,000
13,796
To 2 pr. ct. on 11,102 lbs. Tob'o, at 18 per, 1 19 114 To 10 Cafks, at 30 Ibs. Tob'o each, 300 at 18 per, 2 14 0
152
VESTRY BOOK OF
To Priz'g 10 Hhds. Tob'o, at 2-6,
1
5 0
Aug'ft 21, To 2 Bufh'ls Corn, for Matt Bridg- man,
2 6
To 1 Pr. of Shoes, of John McKnead, for H. Britton, 6
1
Sept. 6, To Cafh p'd Dr. Strachan, his Acco., 6
2 3
Oct. 4, To Cafh p'd Mrs. Parfons, ditto, 7
4 6
To 7 Yds. Linen, of W. Mitchel, for H. Britton, 15 10% 7}
To 1 oz. Thread, for do.,
To 1 1b. Coffee, for Matt Brigman,
1 6
To 2 1b. Bro. Sugar, for Ditto, 1 3
28, To 14 1b. bro. thr'd, 5 Ells Rolls, 4-7 qts, Rum, for Henry Britton, 8
To Cafh p'd Rich'd Cottrell, his Acco., 17 4 8号
To do., Jno. Sherrer,
1 5
To do., Jno. Myers,
3 0
0
To Ball per Contra, 74 3
24
£122 7 2
Dr. Henrico Parifh in acco. with D'l Price and T. Southall,
Cr.
1773.
By 4 Hhds. Tob'o, fold Neil Camp- bell, 4,349 1bs. @ per, 39 2 94
By 6 Ditto, fold Richard Harmon, 4,753, @ 18 per, 60 15
By Tob'o fold the Sheriff on the Notes, 2,694, @ 2 d., 22 9 0
t
£122 7 2
By Ballance due the Parifh, £74 3 14
Truly Recorded.
Teste,
FORTU. SYDNOR, C. V.
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ST. JOHN'S CHURCH.
Dr. Henrico Parish in Acco. with
Turner Southall and Daniel Price, Ch. Wdn's.
1773.
Dec. 18, To Cafh p'd George Rowland,
24 00
1774.
Sept. 24, To Cafh p'd Smith Blakey, To Ball'ce due per Contra,
50 00
3 1ª
£74 3 13
Cr.
1773.
Nov. By Ball'ce Rendered this date,
£74 3 13
Errors Excepted,
TURNER SOUTHALL.
Teft,
FORTU. SYDNOR, C. V.
A.
B.
C.
Ann Cocke, the daughter of Bowler Cocke and Sarah his wife, was born at Bowler's Farm, on Rappahannock river, the Eighteenth day of June, MDCCXX.
Sufanna Cocke, daughter to the faid Bowler and Sarah, was born at Bremo, the Sixth day of November, MDCCXII, and died the October following.
Tabitha Cocke, was born the twenty-fifth of September. MDCCXXIV.
Bowler Cocke, was born the Eleventh Day of March, MDCCXXVI.
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VESTRY BOOK OF
Sarah Cocke was born the Sixth day of February, MDCCXXVIII.
Eliza. Cocke was born the fifteenth day of May, MDCCXXXI.
Richard Cocke was born the Seventh day of March, MDCCXXXIII, and lived but twenty-five days.
Charles Cocke was born the Ninth day of September, MDCCXXXV, and died the Fourth Day of Auguft, MDCCXXXIX.
D.
E.
F.
G.
H.
I.
K.
Francis Kemp, Son of Alexander Kemp and Matilda his wife was (born) ye 13 day of October, 1735.
L.
Ann Lunfford, Daughter of Hannah Lunfford, mulatto, was born Sept'r 13, 1731.
Elizabeth Lunfford, daughter of faid Hannah, was Born July ye 10 Day, 1732.
William Lunfford, Son of faid Hannah, was born March ye V day, 1735.
John Lunfford, Son of faid Hannah, was born Seut'r ye 19 Day, 1737.
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ST. JOHN'S CHURCH.
Mary Lunfford, Daughter of faid Hannah, was born March 1 Day, 1739.
Entered, October ye 14, 1740.
Delivered me by Capt. John Redford.
SACK BREWER, Clk C Vefy.
Catherine Lorton, Daughter of Robert Lorton and Lucre- tia his wife, was born the 12th March, 1737-8.
Ann Lorton, Daughter of the faid Robert Lorton and Lu- cretia his Wife, was born Auguft 15th, 1740.
Thomas Lorton was born July the 14th, 1746.
Robert Lorton was born January 11th, 1749.
M.
Arthur Mofby was killed by a fall from his Horfe ye 4th day of October, Anno Dom. 1736.
Ann Middleton, Daughter of John Middleton and Judith his Wife, was born ye 12 Day of October, Anno Dom. MDCCXXXVII.
N.
O.
P.
Elizabeth Poval, Daughter of Robert Povall and Judith his wife, was born in December, Anno 1729.
Robert Povall, Son of the Above faid Robert and Judith, was born ye 3rd Day of July, Anno 1732.
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Sarah, the Wife of Jno. Rees, who lately Arrived here in the Snow Phonax, from London, departed this life the thir- tieth day of Aug'ft, Anno 1739.
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VESTRY BOOK OF
S.
Richard Sharp, Son of Henry Sharp and Mary his wife, was born ye 1 day of January, 1735.
Mary, the Daughter of Henry Sharp and Mary his wife, was born the laft day of September, 1739.
Henry, the Son of do., was born ye 27 day of March, 1734.
Ann the Daughter of do., was born ye 10th day of June, 1741.
T.
Michael Taylor, departed this life ye 11 Day of January, Anno 1735.
U.
V.
W.
Y.
DEATHS REGISTERED.
Edmund Liptrot, departed this life December ye 12, 1735.
Benjamin Hobfon, departed this life Decemb'r ye 29, 1735.
Mrs. Mary Randolph,33 departed this life Decemb'r ye 29, 1735.
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ST. JOHN'S CHURCH.
No Perfon fhall be Admitted a Veftryman or Church Warden untill he has taken the Oaths and fubfcribed to be conformable to the Doctrines and Difcipline of the Church of England, as enjoined by the Statiftics of 1 W. and M.
I do fincerely promife and fwear that I will be faith- ful and bear true allegiance to his Majefty King George So help me God.
I do fwear that I do, from my heart, abhor, deteft and adjure as impious and heretical, that Damnable Doctrine and profition, that Princes excommunicated by the Pope, or any authority of the See of Rome, may be Depofed by their fub- jects or any other whatfoever. And I do declare, that no foreign Prince, perfon, prelate, State or Potentate, hath or Ought to have any Jurifdition, power, Superiority, pre-emi- nent or Authority, Ecclefiaftical or Spiritual, within this Realm. So help me God.
THE DECLARATION.
I, do declare that I do believe that there is not any Transfubftantiation in the Sacrament of the Lord's Supper, or in his Elements of Bread and Wine at or After the Con- fecration thereof, by any perfon whatfoever.
JOHN COLES, WM. FINNEY, WM. LEWIS.
Feb. 8th, JOHN ELLIS.
1749. BOWLER COCKE, jun'r.
THE OATH OF A CHURCH WARDEN.
You fhall Execute the Office of a Church Warden in the Parifh where you are Chofen for the enfuing year, Accord- ing to your Skill and Difcretion in his Majes. Laws, Eccle- siastical, now in force.
So help you God.
NOTES.
BY DR. R. A. BROCK.
NOTE 1. Curls Church .- Though the orthography Curls appears to have quite generally obtained at the period of the text, and is, we are led to conclude, the only usage at the present time, it is obviously incorrect; the derivation being undoubtedly from the Virginia family name of Curle, to members of which, grants of land, extending over a period of one hundred years, may be found recorded in the books of the State Land Registry Office. A prominent representative of the family was the patriot Wilson Roscow Curle, of the Revolutionary era.
The church was situated on the north side of James river, distant some eight or nine mile below the city of Richmond. Bishop Meade terms it "the Four Mile Creek, or Curls Church," and erroneously, [as is patent from the text,] gives the time of its erection as 1748. He bases his conclusion upon the following extract from a letter bearing date that year, from Richard Randolph of Curls, to his son Richard: "Pray assist Wilkinson all you can in getting the church finished, and get the shells that will be wanted carted before the roads get bad. The joiner can inform you what shells I have at the Falls ; if more are wanted you must get them."*
*Old Churches and Families of Va., vol. 1, p. 138. K
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The Randolphs frequently undertook building. It is said that William Randolph, of Turkey Island, the first of the name in the Colony of Virginia, laid the foundations of the wealth and importance of his family, from the profits ac- quired in "building barns."t One account states that he landed in the Colony of Virginia with a "broad-axe upon his shoulder."# Col. Richard Randolph contracted, in 1739, to build the church at Richmond, agreeing to complete it by the 10th of June, 1741. It is not likely that it was so late as 1748 in being finished. At a meeting of the parish vestry, held October the 2d, 1742, a meeting of the Vestry was agreed upon, to be held at Curls Church in November follow- ing, to treat with undertakers for building a Chapel at Deep Run, and an appropriation was made towards the same of 10,000 lbs. of tobacco. This was, in all probability, the Church mentioned in the letter above quoted from. In May, 1826, Dr. John Adams presented to the Vestry of St. John's Church, Richmond, the baptismal font which had been used at Curls Church.§ It is of white marble, and is in perfect preservation. Curls Church was demolished within the past twenty years.
NOTE 2. Col. Richard Randolph of Curls, the son of Wm. Randoph of Turkey Island, was the grandfather of that me- teoric, though most erratic genius, John Randolph of Roan- oke. He married Jane, the daughter of John Bolling of Cobbs, who was the great-grandson of Pocahontas, his mother being Jane, the daughter of Thomas Rolph, or Rolfe, hence
+Grigsby's Va. Convention of 1776, p. 77. Campbell's Va., p. 424. #Neill's Va. Papers.
§Ms. Vestry Book of St. John's Church. [Period commencing 1785.]
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the royal aboriginal descent so much vaunted by these fami- lies. Richard Randolph was a member of the House of Burgesses from Henrico, in 1740, and succeeded his brother William as Treasurer of the Colony. He died in England, December 17th, 1748, in the 58th year of his age. His widow died March 4th, 1766, aged 62 years.
Mss. Mem. Book of John Randolph of Roanoke.
NOTE 3. Thomas Jefferson .- The ancestors of the Jeffer- son family in Virginia are said to have emigrated from near Mount Snowden, in Wales. They were among the first set- tlers of the Colony. The name, Jefferson, appears as the representative from Fleur de Hundred, in the Colonial As- sembly, which, by order of Governor Yeardly, was convened in the choir of the Church at Jamestown, on the 30th of July, 1619. This was the first legislative body of Europeans, [so far as our historical records exhibit,] that ever assembled in the New World. The first Jefferson of whom any definite accounts are preserved, was Thomas Jefferson, who resided at Osborne's, on James River, in the now county of Chester- field, which was formed from Henrico in 1748. He occu- pied a respectable social station, and was possessed of a com- petency. His children were three in number-sons : Thomas, of the text, [who died in the year 1731, his brother Peter being his executor,] Field and Peter, the father of President Jefferson, who was born February, 1708, and married, in 1738, Jane, the daughter of Isham Randolph, of Dungeress, in Goochland county. Peter Jefferson, though he enjoyed but few advantages of early education, was a man of vigor- ous intellect. Having adopted the profession of a surveyor, by continuous application he had made himself so proficient
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in his calling, that he was chosen, in connection with Joshua Fry, Professor of Mathematics in William and Mary College, to continue the boundary line between Virginia and North Carolina, and afterwards assisted Mr. Fry in preparing a map of the Colony of Virginia. Peter Jefferson was one of the first settlers, [about the year 1737,] of that portion of the county of Goochland which now forms that of Albemarle -the latter being formed in 1744. Goochland itself was carved from Henrico, in 1727. Peter Jefferson was a man of extraordinary physical strength ; he could "head up," that is raise from their sides to an upright position, at once, two hogsheads of tobacco weighing near a thousand pounds each. He died in 1757, leaving a widow, [who survived until 1776,] with six daughters and two sons, of whom Thomas, then fourteen years of age, was the elder.
Randall's Jefferson, vol. 1, pp. 5, 6. Campbell's Va., p. 604, and the text.
NOTE 4. Parish Levies .- By enactment, the sheriffs of the county, or an appointment of one of their number by re- spective parish vestries, was required to collect the public and parish levies, giving bond and security for the faithful performance of his duties. The assessments were made for loose tobacco, and for every hundred pounds paid in hogs- head, an allowance of eight per cent. was made for the hogs- head or "cask." The collector was empowered to distrain for failure or delay in payment. Each parish was required to support its own paupers, and the inhabitants of one parish were forbidden, under a penalty, to entertain, hire or employ any tithable person from another parish, unless he or she could produce a receipt from the collector of the parish from
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whence removing, for the taxes for the preceding year. All vagrants were adjudged "rogues and vagabonds," and were bound out for one year, if a hirer could be found. But if of such evil repute that no one would receive them, the County Court was empowered to order them "thirty-nine lashes on the bare back, well laid on, at the whipping-post, and then discharged." They were liable, however, to re-arrest and repeated punishment. Vagrants and paupers were author- ized to be returned to the parishes of which they had last been resident. The Church Wardens were empowered to bind out, to the age of maturity, the children of such per- sons as were deemed incapable of supporting or bringing them up in "honest courses."
Hening's Statutes, vol. III, p. 264; vol. VI, pp. 29, 32.
NOTE 5. Joseph Mayo emigrated from the Island of Bar- badoes, to Virginia, about the year 1727 .* He was a mer- chant, and from the text, appears to have also followed sur- veying. His residence was Powhatan, the location of which is well authenticated as a residence of the aboriginal poten- tate of this name.+ It is about a half mile below Rich- mond, and lies "to the south of the road which runs paral- lel with the river, and on a verge of the second bank, or upper level of alluvium, some forty feet above the lower. The ground falls abruptly on the front or river side, and more gradually on the other quarters. On the east, the deep channel of a brook separates it from the most command- ing point of the upland." Immediately on the selection of
*Bishop Meade's Old Churches and Families, vol. II, p. 39. +Mss. Deed Book of Wm. Byrd of Westover, p. 93.
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Jamestown for the seat of the Colony, "Newport, Smith and twentie others were sent to discover the head of the river. By divers small habitations they passed, in six days they ar- rived at a town called Powhatan, consisting of some twelve houses, pleasantly seated on a hill; before it three fertile isles ; about it many of their corne-fields; the place is very pleasant, and strong by nature of this place the prince is called Powhatan, and the people Powhatans-to this place the river is navigable; but higher, within a myle, by reason of the Rockes and Isles, there is not passage for a small Boat; this they call the Falles."* "A granite boulder, about a ton in weight, is pointed out as 'Powhatan's Tombstone,' " but there is no evidence justifying the designation. It bears many traces of rude carving. A row of symmetri- cal holes, an inch or more deep, runs along the top. On the sloping side, are graven marks of the shape of a child's and an adult's foot, a horse-shoe, and others less distinguishable. These are obviously of far greater age than other cuttings on the same surface, which are dated 1741, and which give in two or three places, the initial M., of the family in posses- sion : Mayo."§ In a narrative of "Capt. Newport's discov- eries, Virginia," May 21st, 1607, Powhatan is thus describ- ed : "We came to the second inlet described in the ryver ; over against on Popham syde, in the habitatyon of the greate Kyng Pawatah [one of the early modes of spelling Powha- tan,] which I call Pawatah's Tower. It is scituat upon a highe hill by the water syde; a playne between it and the
Smith Hist. of Va., Richmond, Reprint, 1819, vol. I, pp. 151-2. §Loungings in the Footprints of the Pioneers W. C. Bruce, Har- per's Mag., May, 1859.
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water, twelve score over, whereon he sowes his wheate, beane, peaze, tobacco, pompions, gowrds, hempe, flaxe, &c .; and were any art used to the naturall state of this place it would be a goodly habitatyon."" The brother of Joseph Mayo, Major William Mayo, is supposed to have settled in the Colony about the same time. He accompanied, as one of the surveyors, in the years 1728-9, the commission which ran the dividing line between Virginia and North Carolina, so racily chronicled in the Westover Mss. He also, in 1737, laid off for Col. William Byrd, [the second of the name,] the town of Richmond. The brothers were the ancestors of the present very respectable family of Mayo in Virginia. Col. Wm. Mayo, Jr., of Pawhatan, served in the State line during the revolution, and was a member of the House of Delegates in 1780.
The late Hon. Joseph Mayo, for a long series of years Mayor of Richmond, a worthy representative of this family, compiled, we have been informed, a genealogy which con- nected with the Mayos of England. It is to be hoped that it will be made public; the editor craves the privilege of copying.
NOTE 6. Processioning .- By Statute, every fourth year, between the last day of September and the last day of March following, the bounds of every person's land were required to be processioned, or "gone round," and the land-marks re- newed. Such marks being made by chopping the trees. The ·parishes were divided into precincts, and free-holders, at least two to every precinct, appointed to perform such duty.
|| Archeologia, Americana, Trans. and Coll. Am. Ant. Soc., vol. IV, p. 44.
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They were required to make a return, in writing, to the parish vestry of the result of their action. It was "Pro- vided always, That the processioning and settling the bounds of any lands belonging to any person being within the age of one and twenty years, feme covert, non compos mentis, im- prisoned or out of the Colony, shall not be conclusive to such person until after the expiration of six years from and after the said severall capacitys shall be removed and determined."
Hening's Statutes, vol. III, pp. 327-8.
NOTE 7. Field Jefferson, the brother of Thomas and Peter Jefferson, who died young and unmarried.
NOTE S. William Randolph was the second of the name, of Turkey Island, where he is buried. He married Eliza Beverley, of Gloucester county. Had issue: Beverly, of Turkey Island; Peter, of Chatsworth, and William, of Wil- ton. The following is the inscription upon his monument :
Here lieth the Honorable William Randolph, Esquire, Eldest Son of Colo. William Randolph, of this place, and of Mary, his wife, who was of the antient and eminent family of the Ishams, of Northamptonshire. Having been introduced early into Business, and passed thro' many of the inferior offices of Government, with great reputation & eminent capacity, He was at last, By his Majesty's happy choice, and the universal approbation of his country, advanced to the Council. His experience in Men & Business, The native gravity & dignity of his Person & Behaviour, his attachments to the Interests of his Country,
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knowledge of the laws in general, and of the laws and Constitution of this Colony in particular, his Integrity above all calumny or suspicion, the acuteness of his parts, and the extensiveness of his genius,
Together with that solidity of Sense and judgment
which were predominant in all he said or did, Rendered him not only equal, but an ornament to the high office he bore, and made him universally lament'd
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