Person:William Newsom (9)

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William Newsom
b.1614 England
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Name William Newsom
Gender Male
Birth? 1614 England
Immigration[1] 21 Aug 1635 Virginia Aboard The George
Marriage 1636 to Elizabeth Wilson
Other[3] 3 May 1636 Sunken Marsh, James City, Virginia Land Patent - 550 acres.
Death? 1 Nov 1657 Jamestown, Surry, Colony of Virginia
References
  1. Passengers Which Passed From Ye Port of London, in Hotten, John Camden. The Original Lists of Persons of Quality (1874): Emigrants; Religious Exiles; Political Rebels; Serving Men Sold for a Term of years; Apprentices; Children Stolen; Maidens Pressed; and others who went from Great Britain to the American Plantations 1600- 1700. with their ages, the localities where they formerly lived in the mother country, the names of the ships in which they embarked, and other interesting particulars. (London, England: Chatto and Windus, 1874)
    pp. 124-125.

    21 Aug. 1635. These under-written names are to be transported to Virginea, imbarqued in the George Jo: SEVERNE Mr bound thither p examination of the Minister of Gravesend. (See Internet Archive website: The original lists of persons of quality)

    Wm. Neesam, Age 21

  2.   Nugent, Nell Marion (Main Author), and Dennis Ray Hudgins (Added Author). Cavaliers and pioneers: abstracts of Virginia land patents and grants [8 Volumes covering 1623-1782]. (Richmond [Virginia]: Vol 1 originally published (1934) by The Dietz Press. Subsequently published by Library of Virginia (Vols 1-3) and Virginia Genealogical Society (Vols 4-8), 1934-present)
    Volume I, p. 147.

    WILLIAM NEWSUME (Newsum), 550 acs. James Cittie Co., 26 Aug. 1643, p. 906. N. towards sunken marsh, E. upon a swamp, S. towards Lower Chippokes Cr. & W. into the maine woods. Due by vertue of pattent to him dated 3 May 1636. (See: Ancestry.com imageviewer)

  3. Parks, Gary. Virginia Land Records: From the Virginia Magazine of History and Biography, the William and Mary College Quarterly, and Tyler's Quarterly. (Baltimore, Maryland: Genealogical Publishing Co., 1982)
    p. 627.

    (315) WILLIAM NUSUM [1], 550 acres in the county of James City, towards Sunken Marsh; due 50 acres for his own personal adventure, 50 for the personal adventure of his first wife Mary (1) Ramsey, 50 for personal adventure of his 2d wife Sarah Fisher, and 50 acres for adventure of his now wife Elizabeth Wilsonn, and 350 for the transportation of 7 persons (names below). Granted by West, May 3d, 1636.
    - Cler Rrem, Sarah Kider, Bridgett Fisher, John Barker, Tobias Wraxall, Wm. Wescoine, Jason Ramsley.
    - This patent was renewed August 26, 1643, by Sir Wm. Berkeley, "Teste me, Sam'l Abbott, Cl."