Gen" Court to give in evidence ag' ye s'd Paul Carter on ye behalf of his Mags". Whereas George Hope pr'sented himself as security to ye Court by recognizance to his Magesties in the sum of 40" sterl❜g for the p'sonall appearance of Mary Mikell before the honor ble Govern' & Councell the 4th day of ye next Gen" Court to give in evidence ag' ye s'd Paul Carter on the behalf of his Magt, w'ch the Court accordingly accept and have ent'red him security accordingly. Whereas Joshua Lee was ordered to appear at this Court to answere as the Putative father of Mary Oben bastard child, and the said Lee utterly denying the same and the Court being sufficiently satisfied in the cause and Thomas Parramore having acknowledged in open Court himself secu'ty to save the pith harmless & the Court accepted the same, It is therefore ordered that the said Joshua Lee be discharged he paying Court charges. At a Gen" Court held at James Citty 27th of April 1680. His Maties Deputy Govno' & Councill. tics ye re Whereas its vehemently suspected that Paul Carter hath contrary to all good manners and behaviour accompanyed wth Mary ye naturall daughter of Sarah ye wife of him ye s'd Paul, Its therefore by this Court ordered that his Ma Justices of ye peace of ye county of Accomack doe take effectual order for movall of ye s'd Mary from ye house and being of ye s'd Paul Carter father in Law to her ye s'd Mary, & place ye s'd Mary in some convenient part of ye County of Accomack to ye intent y' ye s'd Paul Carter and Mary, ye natural daughter of Sarah ye wife of ye s'd Paul may not cohabit, as likewise that ye s'd Paul be constrained from accompanying w'th ye said Mary, the afores'd Justices are desired and required to compell ye s'd Paul to finde good security for his due performance of this order and for his future good behaviour. Test: HEN. HARTWELL, Cl. Cou. Whereas there was an order from the Hononrble Govern' and Councill dated ye 27th of April, 1680, this day p'duced to ye Court wherein it was ordered that his Magssties Justices of the peace for this County of Accomack should take effectual order for ye removall of Mary ye natural daughter of Sarah ye wife of Paul Carter for sev. reasons, viz., ye s'd order menconed as allso to cause ye s'd Paul to finde good security for ye due p'formance of their Hon" Shereff of the county forthwth take ye s'd Paul into safe custody and him to detaine untill he hath fully satisfied every p'ticular part and clause of ye s'd order according to ye true sence and intent thereof. Copies. Test: M. OLDHAM, JR., Clerk. July 21st, 1896. EARLY SPOTSYLVANIA MARRIAGE LICENSES. [In most of the Virginia counties very few if any traces of marriage licenses granted prior to the year 1775 are preserved in the county records. On a recent visit to Spotsylvania Courthouse, however, I found in the first order-book, which covers the period from the formation of the county, in 1722, down to 1750, in the account of "the Governor's Dues," a list of the marriage licenses that had been granted by the clerk during that time. The "Governor's Dues" for each marriage license was 1. The record is not continued after 1750, and for the first few years the name of the man only was given.-A. C. QUISENBERRY.] October 3, 1722. John Quarles. June 7, 1723. Robert Slaughter, Junr. October 12, 1723. William Johnson. June 3, 1725. Zach: Lewis. October 20, 1726. John Catlett and Mary Grayson. November 22, 1726. Benjamin Winslow and Susannah Bev erly. August 5, 1727. Richard Phillips and Catherine Smith. November 25, 1727. Alexander Howard and Joana Tripilo. October 16, 1727. George Home and Elizabeth Proctor. Samuel Hensley and Martha Snell. March 3, 1728. October 22, 1728. Morley Battaley and Elizabeth Taliaferro. April 9, 1729. March 3, 1730. June 1, 1730. March 1, 1731. Jonathan Wood and Elizabeth Barefoot. Joseph Fox and Susana Smith. Larkin Chew and Mrs. Mary Beverly. April 18, 1731. George Webb and Lucy Hinkston. John Mansfield and Ann Waldo Gratty. September 15, 1739. November 17, 1739. John Gordon and Margaret Tennant. October 17, 1739. Robert James Marye and Ellen Pursel Dun. James Martin and Mary Lynes. Edmund Waller and Mary Pendleton. July 18, 1740. July 3, 1745. June 18, 1746. Henry Elley and Esther Herndon. Parmenas Bowker and Ann Stevens. Patrick Connelly and Ann French. July 28, 1746. James Anderson and Margaret Troy. November 11, 1747. December 26, 1747. December 27, 1747. - 1748. Gregory Grant and Sarah Wharton. Richard Shackelford and Mary Lewis. March 16, 1748. Rev. Mungo Marshall and Lucy Marye. April 1, 1748. John Harris and Hannah Stevens. January 30, 1749. January 31, 1749. March 7, 1749. John Jones and Barbara Reynolds. Richard Bryan and Frances Battaley. January 16, 1750. Francis Meriwether and Mary Lewis. April 19, 1750. Beverly Stanard and Elizabeth Beverly Chew. September 27, 1750. Benjamin Pendleton and Mary Mason. ABSTRACTS OF VIRGINIA LAND PATENTS. PREPARED BY W. G. STANARD. (281) THOMAS KEELING [1], 100 acres in the county of Elizabeth City, adjoining the land of Henry Southwell and William Morgan and the Back River; due for the transportation of 2 persons. Nov. 18, 1635. NOTE. [1] Ensign Thomas Keeling, the patentee, was ancestor of a family which has been resident in Princess Anne and Norfolk counties to the present day. Doubtless a careful examination of the records of this section would supply a nearly complete genealogy of the family. The following are some notes from the records of Lower Norfolk: Ensign Thomas Keeling lived in that county and was a vestryman of Lynnhaven parish in 1640. In 1642 he made a deposition in which he stated that his age was 34. In August, 1642, a deposition of Anne Keeling, doubtless his wife, gave her age as 22. On July 26, 1656, “Mr. Thomas Keeling" was a justice of Lower Norfolk. In 1666 there is an entry that Mrs. Anne Keeling's son, Edward, was heir to his brother, Thomas Keeling, deceased. Adam Keeling lived in Lower Norfolk in 1670. The will of Elizabeth Keeling was dated October 30, 1670, and proved April, 1671. Legatees: her brothers, Alexander and Thoroughgood Keeling. Lieutenant Thomas Keeling was a justice in 1656. The will of Thoroughgood Keeling was dated March 31 and proved August 15, 1679. Legatees: eldest daughter, Lucy, youngest daughter, Ann, wife, Lucy; mentions his property then in the possession of "my father Bray' [his step-father, Colonel Robert Bray]. Deed dated July, 1679, from Lucy, wife of Thomas Keeling, conveying land left her by her father, Edward Hall. Deed, December, 1680, from Adam Keeling and his wife, Anne, to John Martin, "my wife's brother and my nephew.” Deed, August 15, 1682, from Ann Bray to her son, Alexander Keeling, to Ann Keeling, daughter of her son, Adam, to her daughter, Frances Waker, and her grandchildren, Anne, Edward, and Robert Land [she was the widow of Colonel Robert Bray, of Lower Norfolk]. Will of Adam Keeling, dated April 2 and proved December 10, 1683. Legatees: wife, Ann, sons, Thomas and John, brother, Alexander Keeling, daughters, Elizabeth and Ann Keeling; mentions father-in-law, John Martin, and appoints brother-in-law, Lieutenant-Colonel Anthony Lawson, an overseer of his will. Deed, March 18, 1683, from Ann Bray, in which she states that her former husband, Thomas Keeling, in his will gave her certain property, with reversion after her death to her sons, Edward and Thomas, who have been some years dead; she therefore deeds said land to Alexander Keeling, the surviving son and heir of her said hus |