Person:John Coleman (108)

Court Records in Virginia

1688
In December, 1688, John Coleman, "the orphan of Robert Coleman, Chose his brother, Robert Coleman to be his guardian." [Chas. City CO, 1687-95, p. 180.] This further confirms the death date of Robert Coleman, Sr. as occurring in 1688.

1714
On June 7, 1714 (Deeds, Page 16), John Coleman sold to Robert Munford ten acres of land in the Parish of Bristol, Prince George County, on the dividing line between Coleman and Munford, and on the river, up the river to a point in the John Coleman old field, by the new road leading to the "Chappell," thus down the road to the point of beginning. John Coleman signed his own name. Charles Roberts and Joseph Tucker were witnesses. The deed was acknowledged at Merchants Hope, where court was then held for Prince George County.

1715
On December 8, 1715, Robert Bolling surveyed 313 acres on the South side of the Appomattox River at the Horse Pen Branch for Captain John Coleman. (Deeds, 753) This land was not patented to John Coleman until July 9, 1724. [12 VLP 64.] [per Coleman¹: The surveyor's entry thus shows that John Coleman was known by the name of Captain as early as the year 1715, when he would have been anywhere between 41 and 48 years of age.]

1716
On October 9, 1716, Francis Coleman, Sr. and Francis Coleman, Jr., of Bristol Parish, Prince George County, conveyed to John Coleman a tract of land "whereon he now liveth," bounded on one side by the land of Robert Munford and extending to the Appomattox River. Drury Bolling was a witness. Francis Coleman, Sr. used the mark "FC."(Deeds, 126).

1724
On Jul 9, 1724, Capt. John Coleman receives a patent for 313 acres on the South side of the Appomattox River at the Horse Pen Branch, originally surveyed for him by Robert Bolling in 1715. [12 VLP 64.]

1725
On May 8, 1725, John Coleman and his wife, Mary, of Prince George County, conveyed 208 acres of land to Robert Munford (Deeds, 834). ... Of great significance, as we shall see later on, the deed was witnessed by Charles Roberts, John Mayes, and Isham Eppes.

On May 13, 1725 (Deeds, Page 798), William Coleman sold to John Coleman 185 acres on the East side of the great branch of Whipponock Creek. After 1753, this land was in Dinwiddie County. Robert Bolling, John Poythress, and Drury Bolling were witnesses. William Coleman signed by the mark "W," and acknowledged the deed in open court at Merchants Hope.

On August 10, 1725, Mary Coleman came into Court at Merchants Hope and relinquished dower (for land sold to Robert Munford on May 8, 1725.).

[per Coleman¹: The land was on the South side of the River Appomattox, in the Parish of Bristol, "now or late in the tenure and occupation of the said John Coleman," bounded on the lower side by Robert Munford, thence up the river to a place called the Ridge Bottom, etc. The deed further recited that twelve acres of this land was conveyed to John Coleman by Robert Tucker on March 3, 1701, and "the residue thereof is a part of a tract of land granted to Robert Coleman now deceased, father to the said John Coleman, by patent dated the 29 day of September, 1668."]

1. ↑ ^1.0 1.1 Family Recorded, in Coleman, J. P.. The Robert Coleman family from Virginia to Texas, 1652-1965. (Ackerman, Mississippi: J. P. Coleman, 1965).