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[edit] SurveysSurvey of lands for the Wiccocomico and Chicacoan 1655-1656. See Native Northumberlanders, Bulletin of the Northumberland County Historical Society, Vol 35, 1998. "It is worth noting that the land on which the Cuttatawomens had previously lived was patented by Edwin Conaway and Gervase Dodson, who had done the surveys for the Northumberland Indians" [edit] Land PatentsSource: Crozier. Virginia County Records and Library of Virginia[2]
[edit] Property TransactionsFor a partial listing of real estate transactions involving Gervase Dodson, see article Gervase Dodson Land Transactions[12] [edit] TransportsLand Patents were provided to individuals transporting people to the Virginia colony. Generally a Patent for 50 acres per person transported from England was provided to a person proving transport. Patents required that the Grantee develop the tract, otherwise it would revert to the Crown. Source: See Property references above.
[edit] Law Suits (Maryland) - The matter of one brown cow and Ann HammondGervase Dodson had promised John Hammond six cows in return for an unspecified favor. The records show receipt of one cow by Hammond but don't show that this debt was fully paid. Gervase Dodson is then sued by Ann Hammond for nonpayment of the debt and Walter Pakes (or Peakes) secured the debt on behalf of Dodson. See Jarvise Dodson Maryland Colonial Document, Liber 5 17244 (1658) pg 151, 213, 233, 310, 346.[[13]] [edit] Association with QuakersGervase Dodson was found guilty and punished for his association with religious dissenters, likely a Quaker group. Isabell Dodson was connected to this group through her first husband, Thomas Salisbury, a Quaker. "During Dodson's residence in Wicomico Parish, a small group of Quaker dissenters met for worship, 'contrary to law.' In June of 1660, Dodson and several other dissenters were publicly whipped, each receiving twenty lashes. Later that year Dodson entered a document into the records that asked for a pardon from King Charles II...One cannot determine from this...document whether he actually became and remained a Quaker after the whipping. He died a few months later, leaving his Wicomico land to his wife, Isabel." [[14]] Others condemned included David Cuffin, Robert Lamden, John Smith and Thomas Shiele. In addition to the whipping, the owner of the house was fined and a book, "Perkins & His Works"[15] was confiscated. See William Perkins[16] [edit] Gervase Dodson died without issue (despite numerous reports to the contrary)Gervase Dodson's will gives all property to his wife Isabell. This will is a fragment and difficult to read but there are no children listed. A later effort to escheat one of the Land Patents of Gervase Dodson proves that he died without heirs (or more precisely, that in 1703 there were no surviving heirs. Note that about 1663 his widow Isabell married Andrew Pettigrew). In 1704 when Capt. William Jones of Northumberland County suggested to the Proprietors’ office of Lancaster that a certain tract of land, granted to Gervas Dodson in 1657, should escheat to the Proprietors, for want of heirs or other legal disposition, Edward Humston II, who had been in possession of 200 acres of this tract for several years, having inherited it from his father, entered a counter claim that he should be preferred to the escheat. He was successful, his claim being sustained by the Proprietors, and his ownership was confirmed, as the following deed shows: Margaret, Lady Culpeper, Thomas, Lord Fairfax and Catherine his wife, Proprietors of the Northern Neck, etc. Capt. Wm. Jones of Northumberland county suggested to our office on February 1 last (1703) that 5200 acres lying in Stafford formerly granted to Gervas Dodson Sept. 16, 1657 which did escheat to us (the Proprietors) for want of heirs, or the making of any legal disposition thereof and Andrew Pedigrew having intermarried with Isabella, wido of the said Dodson, repatented said 5200 acres in his own name, he together with his said wife Isabella,k made sale thereto to Robert Howson of Stafford who also sold most of it in parcels to sundry persons—and whereas Edward Humston of said County comes and setts forth that he is in possession of two hundred acres of ye aforesaid land conveyed and made over by said Robert Howson unto Edward Humston his father—and ye said Edward Humston ye father, Descends and comes unto him ye said Edward ye son—Therefore ye said Edward moves to be preferred to ye escheat of ye 200 acres of land and we do for a consideration of ye composition paid unto us grant unto ye said Edward Humston all right, title, etc., to 200 acres belonging to ye said escheat, the said land lying on ye North side of Upper Machitoque Dam Etc. Our Office at Lancaster, Dec. 4, 1704. Katherine Dodson (b. 1649-1659 d. 1680; may have married Henry Bogges) is often listed as the daughter of Gervase and Isabell Dodson. The later efforts to escheat Gervase Dodson's Land Patents indicate that Dodson had no heirs. No children are identified in Gervase Dodson's will. No contrary evidence has been found. Alice Dodson "There are records of a wife Isabell and records that he had a daughter, Alice, who married a Henry Corbin/Corbyn, but there is no indication that he had any sons to carry on his name." notes Betty Dotson Renick [17] This is a misreading of the assignment made by Henry Corbin in October 1660 to his daughter Alice Corbyn. The assignment referred to the 27 Aug 1658 Land Patent to Gervase Dodson (see above) that had likely been sold by Dodson to Corbin. The notion that Alice was a daughter of Gervase Dodson seems to be derived from construing this assignment as being from Henry Corbyn to his wife, Alice (Dodson) Corbyn, daughter of Gervase; however, it is more reasonable that the transfer was between generations. It is unlikely that a transfer of property would have been made from father to son-in-law and then to daughter (heir)/wife. Corroboration that Alice was not Gervase Dodson's daughter is in the later efforts to escheat Gervase Dodson's Land Patents. No children are identified in Gervase Dodson's will. No other evidence indicating that Alice was an heir has been found. [edit] DisambiguationGervase Dodson, Nottingham, England. Married Margaret Cadwallider in Southwell, Nottinghamshire 26 Nov 1610, married Francis Standish, widow, in Peculiar of Southwell, Nottinghamshire 26 Sep 1635. Vicar 1625-1650, St. Mary, Attenborough, Nottingham, England. Details as noted by Susan Johnson in 2006 [18]. This is not the military professional who emigrated to the Virginia Colony. Note: Gervase or Jarvis is not an unusual name in 17th century England [19] and Dodson is not an uncommon name in the Midlands and in southern England during the same period. "Gervis Dodson, Eldr. & Christen Hare married 19 April 1619, St. Peters Parish, Nottingham, England" [[20]] W.P.W. Phillimore and James Ward(eds.) Nottingham parish registers.London, 1900, p. 21. Christen Hare is often incorrectly noted as the wife of Gervase Dodson of Virginia. References
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