Contributed
by Anne R. Baker
Orange Co., Va. Woolfolk
Records
Typed from photo-copies ordered from the clerk of Orange Co., Va.
August 29, 1999. Anne R. Baker, starr460@home.com
NOTE: Have more Orange Co., Va. records which are not yet typed off –
February 18, 2001 – Anne Baker
REFERENCE:
Patents 14,
1728-1732, Virginia State Library Archives, Richmond, Va.
Pages
101-102 Richard Woolfolke 920
acres New Land
GEORGE the second TO ALL WHEREAS WE HAVE given…..do grant unto Richard Woolfolke of King William County …one tract or parcel of Land containing 920 acres lying between the Northanna and the North Fork of the Northanna in St. George's Parish in Spotsylvania Co & bounded as followethe …beginning at 3 corner pines of Charles Steven's near the top of a hill on the Southwest side a branch in John Cook's line thence Southwest 390 poles to 2 corner white oaks & a red oak of Joseph Woolfolke's on the southwest side of a branch on flat ground thence northwest 360 poles to a corner red oak of the said Joseph Woolfolke's on the side of a hill and on the northeast side of Beaverdam thence north 40 degrees east 390 poles to a small white oak and pine by the head of a Valley thence southeast 388 poles to the beginning…… 28 September 1728
William
Gooch
Note: this land today is in
Orange Co., Va.
NOTE: all of the patent to Joseph Woolfolk went to
his sons Joseph Woolfolk, Jr (m Christian Bibb) and Thomas Woolfolk (m Mary
Sutherland) – we can account for 500 acres to each son which they or their
children sell the land, they clearly identify it as the land of Joseph Woolfolk
(patent land)