The Netherlands first lived in James City County where John Netherland was high sheriff in 1728 (Lea: 382) and a member of the vestry of Wilmington Parish (Vestrv Book of St. Peter's Parish xviii; 197fF). He then patented a plantation in New Kent which in 1725 fell near the dividing line between the parishes of Blissland and St-Peters's. In Goochland, he became an early justice, sheriff and Captain) of the Militia. He and his wife Sarah (Hawkins?) Netherland had several children including Mary Netherland who, sometime before 1736, married William Harris. Wade Netherland and Richard Mosby became Justices in 1741. The Mosbys of Henrico County had patented land in Goochland on the south side of the James by 1732 (Nugent III, 1979:416), and later intermarried with the Netherlands, the Harrises, and Cabells. The Mosbys are best known for a later descendant. John Singleton Mosby who grew up in present Nelson near Dutch Creek, later becoming the "Grey Ghost" of the Confederacy. He was the son of Alfred Daniel and Virginia McLaurine Mosby.
