Person:David Mansell (2)

Will

Wills of Old Rappahannock County, Virginia [William Montgomery Sweeny]

MANSELL, CAPTAIN DAVID, 24 July, 1672; 4 September, 1672.

In perfect memory and sence yet sick and weake in body.

I make and depute my well beloved friend and nearest neighbour William Wheeler my full and whole Executor putting my whole trust in him my said Executor to take on himself the same charge and Care to bring up and educate my godchild David and to take to himself all the said David ffristo his Estate which I now possess or might possess and retaine until the said ffristo be come of age if lived. His Executor to pay all his lawful debts.

To daughter Mary my sealed ring.

To my grandchild Mansell Blagrave and his heirs and successors for ever one tract of land adjoining the land of Mr Robert Bayly on which land standeth a house called the block house there being neere 200 acres.

To my said Executor William Wheeler the 1/2 part of my Estate that shall appeare to remaine after these debts and legacies be deducted out of the whole.

To my said grandchild Mansell Blagrave the other 1/2 part of my Estate that shall remain after my debts and legacies be deducted as above said out of the whole. The remainder of my Estate to William Wheeler and Mansell Blagrave or their heirs or assigns either to be divided or sold by my aforesaid Executor or by him my said Executor to be retained putting in security for the 1/2 part to be delivered when my said grandchild cometh to be of age- or whensoever my said Executor shall see best for both him and my grandchilds advantage.

Wit. JONAS X PAGE, aged 47 years or thereabouts,

MARTHA X LEWIS, aged 30 years or thereabouts.

Page 125.

Records in Virginia

On 6 July 1659 Capt. David Mansell sold 460 acres of land to Thomas Maddison and John Scott [(Old) Rappahannock County, Virginia, Deed Book __, page ___]

On 30 Oct. 1659 Thomas Maddison and John Scott witnessed a deed from Capt. David Mansell of 270 acres to John Chin, Quintyn Sherman and Thomas Dean. [(Old) Rappahannock County, Virginia, Deed Book __, page __]

On 26 May 1661 Thomas Maddison and Anna, his wife, of Farnham Creek, carpenter, deeded 250 acres Richard Powell lying towards the head of said Creek, adjacent to Mr. Thomas Griffith, deceased, the land of Madyson in breath and in length, along the marked trees of John Scott. This land was land that Thomas Maddison had acquired from David Mansell. The witnesses were Robert Bedwell and William Field. [(Old) Rappahannock County, Virginia, Deed Book __, page __]

Old Rappahannock Co Deed Book 2 - 1662-1664; Antient Press; pg 230

KNOW ALL MEN that I DAVID MANSELL of the County of Rappahanock for the good will & affection that I bear to the Child I do give and bequeath to WILLIAM HODGKINS JUNR. Son of WILLIAM HODGKINS & PHEBE his Wife one Cow calf coullered redd & marked with an underkeel on the right ear & one whole in the Ear with a upper slitt in left Ear I do give freely to the Child with increase both male and female to him & his heirs for Ever the male catle to be at his Fathers dispossing or his Garner to be sold & put the produce of it into female Catle for the use and benefitt of the Childs stock & no otherwise Given under my hand & seal this third day of September 1662

in presence of us DOROTHY FRISTO. DAVID MANSELL

FAYETH EMBERSON

Recordat 12th June 1663 Test WA GRANGER Cl Cur Rappa.

Old Rappahannock County Deeds and Wills, 1665-1677; Antient Press; pg 8-9

KNOW ALL MEN by these presents that I DAVID MANSELL of the County of Rappa. in Virga. for & in consideration of the sum of Eight hundred pounds of tobo. in hand paid & received of JOHN JACOB do hereby bargaine & sell enfeoff & alienate & hath by these presents bargained sold enfeoffed & alienated unto JOHN JACOB his heirs Exrs. Admrs. & assignes a tract or parcell of land containing One hundred acres begining at a white Oak being a corner tree belonging to the land of RICHARD POWELL & from thence runing for breadth alongst the side of the Swamp known by the name of MADDISONS SWAMP & for leanth runing a mile into the woods, To have and to hold to him the said JOHN JACOB his heirs Executors Admrs. & assignes for ever with Ediffices & Emolumts. whatseover thereunto belonging without the let hindrance or molestation of any person or persons whatsoever thereto belonging by for or under me my heirs Exrs. Admrs or assignes or any person or persons that may or shall lay or make claime thereunto or any part thereof & in Testimony of all & singular the premises I have hereunto set my hand & Seal this 29th day of June 1665

Sealed & delivered in presence of us

SAML. GRIFFIN, DAVID MANSEL seal

LEROY GRIFFIN

Recognr in Cur Com Rappa 6 die 7bris Ao. 1665

Old Rappahannock County Deeds and Wills, 1665-1677; Antient Press; pg 9-10

KNOW ALL MEN by these presents that I Capt. DAVID MANSEL for a consideration in hand received hath by these presents made sale of a parcell of land from me my heirs or assignes for ever firmly & by these presents from all person or parsons whatsoever that may or can at any time lay any claime Title or interest hereunto farther I the said DAVID MANSEL doth warrant grant unto ELDER ALDRIGE thirty acres of land binding upon the head line of ROBT. FRISTOE Southerly to the MOUNT FRAILES begining at a valley at a marked tree mining Southerly farther I the sd DAVID MANSELL hath by the sd presents made over from me my heirs or assignes to ELDER ALDRIGE his heirs or assignes firmly & by these presents to have & to hold the sd Land for ever with all rights & priviledges whatsoever in as large & ample manner as Law can maintaine & to the true performance hereof I set my hand & seal this 3d day of September 1665

in presence of us GEORGE HOWELL DAVID MANSELL seal

ROBT FRISTO his mark

Recognr in Cur Com Rappa 6 die 7bris Ao: 1665

Old Rappahannock County Deeds and Wills, 1665-1677; Antient Press; pg 10-11

KNOW ALL MEN by these presents that I Capt. DAVID MANSELL of the County of Rappa: for & in consideration of Five thousand pounds of Tobacco & Cask in hand already received by me DAVID MANSELL I DAVID MANSeLL have given & granted bargained sold aliened enfeeffed & confirmed & by these presents doe give grant bargaine sell aliene enfeof & confirme unto GEORGE HOWEL his heirs Exrs. or Assignes one parcell of land containing fifty acres of land begining upon the corner tree of RICHARD POWELLs joyning to the land of ROBT. FRISTOEs & so runing up the valley till I come to a marked tree that is marked on both sides of the valley from the corner tree of RICHARD POWELL to these two marked trees in the valley I take for my breadth & runing along the line of RICHARD POWELLs for my Leanth together withall privildedges proffits commodityes Emolumts. & hereditamts. whatsoever thereunto belonging or appertaining. To have and to hold the sd land by these presents granted unto the said GEORGE HOWELL his Wife & his Child their heirs Exrs. Admrs. peacably & quietly to enjoy it for ever from all person or persons whatsoever as Witness my hand & seal this Seventh of July 1665

Test ROBT. FRESTO, DAVID MANSELL seal

MARY BRYAN- her mke

Recognr in Cur Com Rapa: 6 die 7bris 1665

Old Rappahannock Co Deed Book 4 - 1668-1670; pg 67-68

KNOW ALL MEN by these pntes that I DAVID MANSELL of the County of Rappa, in Virginia Plantr. for sundry causes herein menconed doe heerby bargaine and sell unto JOHN ARNELL of the aforesd County Plantr, a tract or pcell of land conteynin g two hundred acres or thereabouts scytuated & bounded as Foll, Beginning at the lyne of ROBERT FRISTOW & so running upp a swamp to the Cornr, tree of ROBT. BAYLEY & from thence running along the Lyne of ROBT, BAYLEY to another cornr. tree of the sd BAYLEYs standing by an INDIAN FIELD and from thence to the out Lyne of GEORGE HOWELL & to the place where it first Begann To Have and To Hold the sd Land whether more or lesse to him the sd JOHN ARNELL his heirs for Ever with all Rights & proffitts thereto belonging to me by Vertue of a Pattent graunted for the same bearing date the 7th 9bris 1664 the sd JOHN ARNELL yeilding payeing yearely its accustomed quittrents as is therein expressed, It is provided & agreed upon by & Between the sd pties that if it shall soe happen that the sd JOHN ARNELL doe outlive the sd DAVID MANSELL that then the sd ARNELL shall enjoy the sd land as above menconed But in case the sd DAVID MANSELL outliveing the sd JOHN ARNELL that then the sd Land shall revert unto the sd DAVID MANSELL againe any thing herein expressed to the Contrary notwithstanding. It is further agreed between the sd pties that in consid: of the prmises the sd JOHN ARNELL is forthwth to settle upon the sd land cleering & fencing a Corne Feild pt whereof (which may containe five thousand cornhills) the sd DAVID MANSELL is to have to his pticular use for two years & what more land shall for the future be cleered by the sd JOHN ARNELL or DAVID MANSELL the same to bee proporconable between them according to the number of Servants that they or either of them shall have during both their lives of the abovesd plies But after the Death of either of them all the land to bee enjoyed according to the tenor hereof and likewise it is Further agreed that in consid: of the prmises the sd JOHN ARNELL doe heerby oblige himselfe diligently carefully to looke after & to his power preserve what Cattle & hoggs shall be brought upon the sd Plantacon belonging to the sd DAVID MANSELL & to provide sufficient Fother for the abovesd Cattle for the terme of yeares. In Consid: of which the sd JOHN ARNELL is to have an Equall Benefits with the sd MANSELL of the Coves by their milke for the terme of two yeares & noe longer. In Testimony whereof wee have heer- with sett our hands & seals this 30th day of Aprill 1669

Test LEROY GRIFFIN, DAVID MANSELL

DAVID GRIFFIN JOHN ARNELL

Recognr. in Cur 5th May 1669

Old Rappahannock Co Deed Book 4 - 1670-1672; pg 161

BEE IT KNOWNE UNTO ALL MEN by these pntes that I DAVID MANSELL of the County of Rappa. & Prish of Farnham for divers good causes & valuable considerations me thereunto moveing as alsoe out of the natural love & affection I have and bear unto DAVID FRISTOE Sonne of DOROTHY FRISTOE one three yeare ould heifer and one Cow marked with a cropp & a hole in the Left eare & Cropt slitt & nick taken out from under the right Eare To Have and To Hould the abovesaid Cattell wth and every the female increase until! he comes to the age of one & twenty yeares and in case he the said DAVID should dye before he comes to the abovesaid age then the said Cattell to revert to me the said DAVID MANSELL or my heires but if the sd DAVID FRISTOE lives to the abovesd age then to enjoy the premises as abovesaid with every their increase by him his heirs forever. In Witness of the premises I the said DAVID MANSELL have hereunto sett my hand & seale this 5th Jully 1670

Test JNO. ROCH DAVID MANSELL

THOMAS FRESHWATER

Recogt, 6th die July 1670

Title Mansell, David.

Publication 6 October 1654.

Other Format Available on microfilm. Virginia State Land Office. Patents 1-42, reels 1-41.

Note Location: Westmoreland County.

Description: 600 acres on the south side Pecomeck Creek, adjoining land of Thomas Pettus.

Source: Land Office Patents No. 3, 1652-1655, p. 297 (Reel 2).

CAVALIERS AND PIONEERS PATENT BOOK No. 1 Part I; Pg 29

DAVID MANCELL (Mansell), 500 acs. in Martins Hundred, James Co., 22 July 1635, p. 259. Adj. the plantation or neck of land in his possession, N. E. towards the maine river & S. W. adj. Mr. Barhams land. Trans. of 10 pers: Fra. Sawyer, Rich. Kenscott, Jonas Evans, Jon. Smalledge, Phi. Powell, Wm. Crouch, Wm. Heyly, Geo. Bullock, Eliz. Lewis, Jon. Bennett. Renewed,

CAVALIERS AND PIONEERS PATENT BOOK No. 1 Part II; Pg 106

DAVID MANSELL 250 acs. James Citty Co., 10 Oct. 1638, p. 635. W. upon land of Thomas Loveing in Martins hundred, N. by a ridge of land whereon the Church standeth, E. upon land of John Oberry & S. upon Keths Cr. Due for trans. of 5 pers: Thomas Armye, Robert Sharpe, Ralph Roberts, Robert Hunt, Lewis Baker.

CAVALIERS AND PIONEERS PATENT BOOK No. 1 Part II; Pg 76

DAVID MANSELL, 500 acs. in Martins hundred, within James Citty Co., adj. his own plantation or neck of land, 24 Nov. 1637, p. 504. Running backward into the forrest N. E. & towards the maine river S. W. adj. land of Mr. Warren. Trans. of 10 pers Richard Kincott, Jonas Evans, John Smallwood, Phillipp Powell (or Pewell), Wm. Crouch, Willi. Hely, Geo. Bullock, Francis Seger, Eliza. Lewis, John Bennett.

CAVALIERS AND PIONEERS PATENT BOOK No. 1; Pg 106

DAVID MANSELL, 250 acs. James Citty Co., 10 Oct. 1638, p. 635. W. upon land of Thomas Loveing in Martins hundred, N. by a ridge of land whereon the Church standeth, E. upon land of John Oberry & S. upon Keths Cr. Due for trans. of 5 pers: Thomas Armye, Robert Sharpe, Ralph Roberts, Robert Huett, Lewis Baker.

CAVALIERS AND PIONEERS PATENT BOOK No. 1 Part II; Pg 116

DAVID MANSELL of Va., gent., to WALTER PENROSE of Va., planter, bill of sale for his new plantation in Martins Hundred Parish in the rich neck. No date. Page 687. Witnesses: Robert Wild, & Ralph Roberts.

CAVALIERS AND PIONEERS PATENT BOOK No. 3; Pg 266

MAJOR LEWIS BURWELL & LUCY, his wife, 200 acs., 100 acres of which lyes within the Pallisado at the Middle plantation, taken out of the land of Mr. Richard Brooks; & the other without the Pallisado, taken out of the land of John Clerk, dec'd. The former bounded S. E. upon land of Mr. John Broath (Broach), & N. W. upon the Pallisado; the latter upon land of David Mansell, N. W. & S. E. upon the Pallisado. 8 Oct. 1652, p. 132. Trans. of 4 pers: (& alsoe by order of the Govt. & Councill dated 7 Oct. 1652). John Macargoe, Mrs. Lucy Burwell, Wm. Shurley, Gilbert Mackdull.

CAVALIERS AND PIONEERS PATENT BOOK No. 3; Pg 296

CAPT. DAVID MANSELL, 600 acs. Westmoreland Co., upon S. side of Petomeck Cr., 6 Oct. 1654, p. 297. Beg. at a branch of sd. creek dividing this from land of Col. Tho. Pettus. Trans. of 12 pers: Fra. Hutchins, Tho. Newman, Ben. Venison, Eliz. Lucas, Eliz. Moales, Edw. Phipps, Hannah Huntly, Tho. Army, Clerepian, Ann Jones, Jane Mansfeild, Eliz. Mansfeild.

CAVALIERS AND PIONEERS PATENT BOOK No. 4; Pg 330

THOMAS BROMFEILD 315 acs. Yorke Co., 1 May 1656, p. 29, (45). Upon head of Queens Cr., bounded on N. N. E. with the milne Swampe, & adj. land of Capt. David Mansell. Said land formerly made over by sd. Mansell unto Thomas Pryce & by him bequeathed unto Hannah Price & due sd. Bromfeild by intermarrieinge with sd. Hannah.

CAVALIERS AND PIONEERS PATENT BOOK No. 5; Pg 485

DAVID MANSFEILD & ROBERT FRISTOW, 654 acs. on N. side of Rappa. Co., 7 Nov. 1664, p. 281, (235). 342 acs. coming upon a former devdt. of sd. Fristow, beg. at a white oak & running N.E. &c., & 312 acs. bounding upon sd. devdt. running N.W. &c. Trans. of 13 pers: Jno. Mansfeild, Margt. Biggs, Benj. Vinson, Eliz. Mould, Tho. Newmon, Margt. Johnson, Anth. Davis, Mich. Jones, Mary Bryan, Tho. Scott, Wm. Fowles, Edward Young, Jno. Savin.

CAVALIERS AND PIONEERS PATENT BOOK No. 6; Pg 45

JOHN AXOLL (Axton), 600 acs, Staff. Co.. S. side of Potomack Cr., 23 Sept. 1668, p. 174. On W'wd. side of Weepsiwasson Cr.. adj. Mr. Henry Meese, Mr. Wm. Horton. Mr. Willm. Haberd &c. Granted unto Capt. David Mansfield, who assigned & made over in marryage unto Mr. Henry Blagrove & Mary his wife, daughter of sd. David, who sold to Edward Cirey, dec'd.. & sd. Axton: & now due said Axton by survivorship.

1. ↑ ^1.0 1.1 Ancestry.com. Public Member Trees: (Note: not considered a reliable primary source).

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