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SEVENTEENTH CENTURY ISLE OF WIGHT COUNTY VIRGINIA
by
John Bennett Boddie (Chicago, IL: 1938)



The following excerpts were sent to the Bartlett-L group July 14, 1998 by John Brandt. It is with his permission that it is used here.

The Bartletts mentioned:

page 37:
On February 16, 1623 there were thirty-three persons shown in the census taken at that time at Warrascoyack, as follows: "John BATT, Henry PINFFE, Wassell WEBLIN, Anthony READ, Frances WOODSON, Henry PHILLIPS, Peter COLLINS, Chr. REINHOLD'S, Edward MABIN, John MALDMAN, Thomas COLLINS, George RUSHMORE, Thomas SPENCER, George CLARK, Rich. BARTLETT, Francs ANTHONY, FRAUSE, Margrett, negroes; John BENNETT, Nicholas SKINNER, John ATKINS, John POLLENTIN, Rachell POLLENTIN, Margrett POLLENTIN, Mary, a maid, Henry WOODWARD, Thomas SAWYER, Thomas, a boye. Total 33, including 4 negroes.

page 108:
Thomas WOODWARD, Assay Master of the Mint, had also fled from England to the Isle of Wight County about 1649. His story is told in a petition of his son John to Charles II, upon his restoration as follows, "November 1661, Petition of John, son of Thomas WOODWARD, to the King: to be put into possession of the house and office of Assay Master of the Mint, held by his father until the late troubles, when John BRADSHAW, the so-called President of the Council of the State, on the 23rd of October, 1649, dismissed him for refusing obedience to the usurper's power and put in Samuel BARTLETT.

page 536:
Will and Deed Book 1
John WHEATLEY (WHITLEY?), aged 36 dep. that Thomas MOSS paid by order of Peter SPURSTOO had bill in hands of James ENNIS. Robert (X) BARTLETT, aged 25, deposed. John GARDINER (signed Garner) aged 40, deposed. 9 Aug. 1664.

page 554: William WILSON assigns over certain bills to John BRADWAY, as follows, Robert BARTLETT, Ed. HYDE, John ABBOTT, Mr. Giles DRIVER, Stephen SMYTH, Henry TUCKER, Wm. RUFFIN, Edward WEBB,Thomas PARNELL, Wm. WORRELL, Edward HINCKSON, Mr. John PITT. 9 Oct. 1668.

page 568: At a Grand Assembly holden at James City, Oct. 11, 1673, in a difference between Col. Robert PITT and Wm. EARNEST, defendant, who as tenant seated a patent of land formerly belonging to John UPTON, 850 acres. This land escheated to the King for want of legal heirs of Capt. UPTON and the office found out the land said escheat for the King and Joseph BRIDGER puschased it whereby the said BRIDGER came to appear in defense of his title and asked it be surveyed according to Capt. UPTON's patent, Sept 1637 and 1643, etc. It was decreed that a jury see the land surveyed. James MINGE. Whereas the jury at James City, 20 Oct. 1673 upon the appeal of Robert PITT, it was ordered that the 850 acres, etc. Now Robert PITT to avoid further trouble has settled with certain provisions--Joseph BRIDGER to have from Little Creek that runs S.W. by lower landing of Joseph BRIDGER and lying towards the plantation of Samuel BAGNALL as the creek branches to the old road over the swamp up the Piney Hill of said BAGNALL from plantation where Capt. Henry PITT and James WATSON lived including where said BRIDGER lived and to where Thomas CLARKE and Robert BARTLETT lived, etc. 27 Nov. 1673. Jno. BRASSEUR, Robt. COLEMAN, Mary BRASSEUR.

Notes..st:  Robert BARTLETTb. ca 1639 (age 25 in 1664), died April, 1679 [Rec. of Wills & Deeds, Vol. 2, 1661-1719, p. 194: Nuncupative will pro. 1 May 1679; p. 198, Inv. rec. 9 June 1679]


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