Person:Richard Sims (3)

Land Records

• 26 June 1741, O.S. p. 406 - ORANGE COUNTY ROAD ORDERS 1734-1749. James Coward Wm Bell & Ambrose Bullard having returned on the Order /: petitioned for by Richard Sims :/ for Viewing and laying off a road from the honble John Grymesís Quarter to the main road, that they had marked a road from the sd Grymesís plantation along the Upper Side of Capt Scotts Plantation between Robt Martins & the run & So along the sd Road about a quarter of a Mile below Colo Chews old Mill Its ordered that the said Sims have liberty to Clear the Same according to the return of the Viewers.

• Orange County, VA. Deed Book 12, page 160: William Sims and Annister Sims, his wife, of St. Thomas Parish, Orange County, Planter, to William Bolling of same co. and Parish, Planter, for #19 current money of Virginia, 300 acres on a branch of the Pamunky River granted by Patent March, 1736 to Richard Kemp...Kemp to William McDonaugh by deed July, 1741...by deed to Richard Sims, deceased, father to William Sims. Wit., Zachery Taylor, John Cave, William Bickers. Recorded June 28, 1753.