Person:George Sutherland (2)

Clayton Torrence in "Winstons and Allied Families": "Total destruction of the records of New Kent and King and Queen counties and the fragmentary condition of the records of King William County prevent definite tracing of Sutherlands prior to 1701."

Two separate groups of Sutherland exist.

First records for this line: Journal of the House of Burgesses, page 283, "Thursday, Septmeber 4, 1701, JOSEPH NORMENT appears on behalf of Joseph, Phillip and George Sutherland, orphans of George Southerland." This entry appears in the Journal of the House instead of County records because the land left to the orphan sons of George Southerland was part of a former Indian reservation that lay in the vicinity of King and Queen and King William counties and was under the jurisdiction of the Colonial government since it was public land before it was sold to individuals, one of those being this George Southerland who left three orphans in 1701 to the care of one, Joseph Norment.

Joseph Southerland, probably the oldest of the three brothers, received a larger portion of the estate earlier, but in 1720, George and Phillip Southerland still owned jointly two hundred acres in King William County. (Virginia Historical Magazine, vol. 25, page 67.)

Our Sutherland first generation is most likely this George Sutherland who died in 1701 and left three orphans.