Family:Roger Delke and Alice Davenport (1)

Mrs. Delke, or Dilke, was the widow of Roger Delke or Dilke, who wasBurgess for Stanley Hundred, 1631-2. Their descendants appear to havelived in Surry, where the following notices occur in the records: (1)Deed, Surry, January 1st, 1656, for Roger Delke, of Lawnes Creek,gent., conveying land to Tobias Cooke, of the same place, planter; (2)Deed, Surry, December 5th, 1659, from Roger Delke, gent., to CaptainThoas. Adams, for 100 acres, and on November 9th, 1659, Alice Grebory,relict of Roger Delke and mother of Roger Delke, who made the deed,gives her consent to the deed. Information from Abstracts of VirginiaLand Patents, The Virginia Magazine of History and Biography,Published Quarterly by the Virginia Historical Society, for the YearEnding June, 1896, Volume III, Richmond, VA.: House of the Society,No. 707 East Franklin Street., page 277.