Person:Robert Dearing (3)

Robert Dearing

b.Abt 1685

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m. Abt 1722

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Name^[1]	Robert Dearing
Gender	Male
Birth`^?`	Abt 1685
Marriage	Abt 1722	Virginia, United Statesto Elizabeth _____
Death^[1]	Bef 27 Jul 1753	St. Thomas Parish, Orange, Virginia, United States

Will of Robert Dearing

Will of Robert Dearing of St. Thomas’s in the County of Orange, dated 10/18/1753: To my son Edward Dearing all that part of my tract of land that lies on the west side of the little run. The remaider of my tract to my son Robert Dearing. All my personal estate to my wife, Elizabeth Dearing, during her life or widowhood and then equally divided between Edward Dearing, and Robert Dearing and Dorathear Hubbard and Elizabeth Head and Ann Harrel and Mary Ballard. If any die their part equally divided among the rest. My beloved wife and my son Robert Dearing, Executors. Presented to the Court by Elizabeth and Robert on 7/28/1758. Orange Co., VA Will book 2, 1744-1778.

Pages 279-82. Robert Dearing. Inventory. Sept. 1758. Total valuation £95.0.1½. [No appraisers sign]. 28 Sept. 1758. Returned. [Orange County Virginia Will Book 2, 1744-1778, Dorman, pg. 57].

Winslow vs. Dearing - Benjamin Winslow vs. Robert Dearing. Benjamin Winslow vs. Robert Dearing. For debt of 250 pounds of tobacco, being the charge for survey of land in 1732, billed 19 March 1734. 16 April [1735]. Summons to Anthony Head and Richard Winslow as witnesses for Dearing, 20 Mat (March?)[1735]. [Orange County, Virginia Judgements, 1735, Dorman, pg. 66]. (Note: the land survey/patent records are likely in Spotsylvania County records).

Henry Willis Esq. vs. Robert Dearing - Account, 10 July 1735 for £2.9.9. Summons to Robert Dearing, 16 June [1736], executed 1 July 1736 by Gideon Marr. Dismissed. [Orange County, Virginia Judgements, 1736, Dorman, pg. 85].

Robert Dearing mentioned in a Petition of John Cleveland, who asked for a road surveyed by Edward Franklyn to be re-located through the land of Head Lynch "to avoid going through his land" that "has a very bad way where must be made three bridges" and "therefore the petitioner thinks it is a very g[reat] hardship that they should clear the lower part when your petitoner and others that live lower down myst be obliged to clear the upper part. And there are Michael Pearson, George Head and Robert Dearing as proper persons for a surveyor on the lower part". Filed 16 March 1736; continued and dismissed. [Orange County, virginia Judgements, 1736, Dorman, pg. 92].

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