Person:Nicholas Smith (25)

Research Notes

• What you see on this page is just a start to get the page going... Most of the info comes from researcher Mike Marshall's 1658-1758 Charles County MD Families "The first 100 years" - ID: I65090 Nicholas Smith. --Cos1776 14:08, 8 November 2013 (UTC)

Land Record Leads (To be sorted out)

URL (Click on link) http://image.lva.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/GetLONN.pl?first=57&last=&g_p=P9&col lection=LO Patent
Title Snapes, William.
Publication 29 October 1696.
Other Format Available on microfilm. Virginia State Land Office. Patents 1-42, reels 1-41.
Note Location: Gloucester County.
Description: 29 acres beg. &c., at a corner white oak belonging to the land of Nicholas Smith &c., on the south side of Spring Branch.
Source: Land Office Patents No. 9, 1697-1706 (v.1 & 2 p.1-742), p. 57 (Reel 9).

URL (Click on link) http://image.lva.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/GetLONN.pl?first=288&last=&g_p=P10&c ollection=LO Patent
Title Robinson, Wm.
Publication 25 April 1716.
Other Format Available on microfilm. Virginia State Land Office. Patents 1-42, reels 1-41.
Related See also the following surname(s): Robbinson, Robertson, Robison.
Note Location: Essex County.
Grantee(s): Robinson, Wm.; Smith, Nicholas and Burket, John.
Description: 317 acres, 108pers. of Marsh Land, opposite and against Brays Church and the said Birkets. Source: Land Office Patents No. 10, 1710-1719, p. 288 (Reel 10).

URL (Click on link) http://image.lva.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/GetLONN.pl?first=288&last=&g_p=P10&c ollection=LO Patent
Title Smith, Nicholas.
Publication 25 April 1716.
Other Format Available on microfilm. Virginia State Land Office. Patents 1-42, reels 1-41.
Related See also the following surname(s): Smyth.
Note Location: Essex County.
Description: 317 acres, 108pers.
Source: Land Office Patents No. 10, 1710-1719, p. 288 (Reel 10).

URL (Click on link) http://image.lva.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/GetLONN.pl?first=316&last=&g_p=P8&co llection=LO Patent
Title Smith, Nicholas.
Publication 20 April 1694.
Other Format Available on microfilm. Virginia State Land Office. Patents 1-42, reels 1-41.
Related See also the following surname(s): Smyth.
Note Location: Surry County.
Description: 150 acres joining to the land George Williams now lives on. Beginning and extending by a swamp side being a corner tree betwixt Thomas Warren and Peter Deberry.
Source: Land Office Patents No. 8, 1689-1695, p. 316 (Reel 8).

1728-1733 Essex County Virginia Deed Book 19; {Antient Press}: Page 28-29
Know ye that I NICHOLAS SMITH of Essex County do out of pure Love and Natural affection which I have and bear unto my Son FRANCIS SMITH do by these presents make over one Track of land to my said Son FRANCIS SMITH and to his heires forever, Begining at a Poplar tree in a line that parts me and JOHN GEORGE upon a Swamp side and so down the Run of the said Swamp to the CHURCH SPRING BRANCH thence up the said Branch to the CHURCH SPRING and so along the PATH from the CHURCH SPRING to the CHURCH thence down the ROAD to the WHITE MARSH BRIDGE and so down the said Swamp till it comes to the line between JAMES HIPKINS and me and along that line to a Corner tree in HIPKINS tobacco ground and along the line that parts HIPKINGs, JOHN GEORGE & me to a Mulberry tree thence to another Mulberry tree and so along a line to a poplar on the Swamp side the begining place the said Land contains four hundred acres the said land contains my Dwelling Plantation which I do except, I do acknowledge unto my loving Son FRANCIS SMITH the above tract of land unto him and his heirs forever. In Wittness whereof I have hereunto set my hand and Seal this 14th day of July 1729
in presence of, EMAL. WILLIAMS, JOHN SMITH NICHO. SMITH

At a Court he d for Essex County on the 15th day of July 1729 NICHOLAS SMITH gent acknowledged this Deed of Gift to his Son FRANCIS SMITH which is admitted to record

1728-1733 Essex County Virginia Deed Book 19; {Antient Press}: Page 426-427
TO ALL CHRISTIAN PEOPLE to whome these presents shall come I NICHOLAS SMITH of the Parrish of Southfarnham in the County of Essex send Greeting. Know ye that I the sd NICHOLAS SMITH as well for the Natural affection and fatherly love which I have unto my Beloved Son NICHOLAS SMITH as also for divers other causes have given and do fully and absolutely grant unto my said Son NICHOLAS SMITH & to his heirs and assigns forever one certain percel of land being in Southfarnham Parrish in the County of Essex & joining to the land I now live on containing Three hundred acres bounded begining at a Popler standing in my MILL SWAMP & runing thence North West along a line of marked trees Parting this land and the land of EDWARD BOMAR to a Corner red Oak parting this land & the land of WILLIAM DOBYNS deceased, thence North East to a Quarter North along the line parting this land & the land of DOBBYNS to another Corner red Oak parting this land & the land of JOHN CHEYNEY to a white Oak standing on the South side of JOHN CHEYNEYS SPRING BRANCH thence down the Branch until it comes into my MILL SWAMP thence up the MILL SWAMP to the begining with all & singular its Rights Buildings, Orchards, Pastures or any profits and heriditaments whatsoever belonging and all the Estate right of me the sd NICHOLAS SMITH To Have and to Hold the said Tract of land with the appurtenances to my sd Son NICHOLAS SMITH to the only proper use & behoof of him my said Son his heirs & assigns forever. In Witness whereof I have sett my hand and Seal this 15th day of May in the year of our Lord one thousand seven hundred & thirty three
in presence of SAMLL. SMITH, NICHO. SMITH
FRANS, SMITH
At a Court held for Essex County at Tappa. on ye XVth day of May MDCCXXXIII NICHOLAS SMITH acknowledged his Deed of Gift indented with ye livery & Seizen thereon endorsed to his Son NICHOLAS SMITH to be his act & deed which is admitted to record

1. ↑ ^{1.0 1.1 1.2} Family Recorded, in William and Mary College Quarterly Historical Magazine. (Omohundro Institute).

   [Vol. V (date), p 220; Meade, 1, pp. 324; Essex Records]
   Petsworth Vestry Book
   NICHOLAS SMITH, of Petsworth Parish, Gloucester County, Virginia, was a vestryman 13 Oct 1697, churchwarden in 1700. In 1714 he conveyed to his son Nicholas Smith, Jr., land in Essex County, purchased of Richard Cocke, and originally patented by Thomas Bowler, Esq.
   
   Taken from the vestry-book is the following copy of an indenture:
   [PETSWORTH PARISH]
   
   This Indenture, made ye 4th day of April, in ye twelfth year of our Sovereign William, King of England, Scotland, France, and Ireland, Defender of ye faith A. D. 1700, witnesseth, &c., &c. . . . .
   I, Nicholas Smith and William Miller, church-wardens of ye Parrish of Pettsoe, and County of Gloucester, Doe, in the name and behalfe of the vestry, sign and Deliver unto Mr. William Bernard, an Indenture for Richard Allen, the son of Richard Allen, according to an order of Vestry, and by the free consent of his Mother, Susanna Allen, we Doe Bind unto Mr. William Bernard ye above-named Richard, for to serve him, the said Bernard, his Heirs, Executors, or Assigns untill he comes to ye age of twenty and one years, and in all such service or imploy as he, ye said master, shall or will imploy him about, as also ye said master by this indenture promise, and oblige himself for to give unto the above Bound Richard Allen three years’ Schoolling, and he to be sent to school at ye years of twelfe or thereabouts, and ye said. master Doe consent and agree to and with Nicholas Smith and William Miller, church-wardens, for to finde and alow ye said Richard Allen sufficient aparell, meat, drink, washing, and lodging during ye said Tearm of time, and ye said master for to pay unto ye above Bound Richard Allen all such necessary allowances as is to his Due, according to the Custom of this Country. In wittness whereof ye Parties above have interchangeably sett their Hands and Seals yDay and year above written. Signed by
   MR. WILLIAM BERNARD.
   Signed, sealed, and delivered in the presence of us.
   HUGH MACKTYER, Clarke of ye Vestrey.
   CONQUEST WYATT.
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   He was a witness and grantor for a deed dated 12 August 1714
   
   from Nicholas Smith, Gentlemand of Petsworth Parish, Gloucester County to his "beloved son Nicholas Smith, Jun" of South Farnham Parish, Essex County, conveying 500 acres of land "adjoining the plantation where my son now lives" (Essex county D.& W. Book 14, p.273).

2. ↑ ^{2.0 2.1 2.2} Family Recorded, in William and Mary College Quarterly Historical Magazine. (Omohundro Institute)
   6:43, 1898.

   [GENEALOGY OF THE SMITH FAMILY OF ESSEX COUNTY, VIRGINIA. Compiled by C.W. Coleman.]