Household 10- Daniel Mifflin - Contributed by Gail M. Walczyk
Daniel Mifflin heirs
HH 10
Daniel
Mifflin was noted in 6 Procession Districts in the 1795/96 Procession;
Accomack Parish District 1, Accomack Parish District 2, Accomack Parish
District 3, Accomack Parish District 10 and Accomack Parish District
11. Accomack Parish Districts 1, 2, 3, and 4 adjoin one and other and
are all on the seaside. This is District 4. See Map
(The southern section of Daniel Mifflin's "Mansion Plantation" as it
was named, was either included in or bordered this District. The
1795/96 Procession notes this District as: 4th Between Mifflins Mill
Branch & Assawoman Creek and up said Creek and Branch by Assawoman
Church up to Wallops Road (Walczyk, Processions: 1).
He died on 31 December 1795 and was buried in the Family burial ground (Wright, Vital Records: 87).
On
Jany 15th 1796 the lands of Daniel Mifflin's heirs were noted. The
procession reads in part: Lines between Mifflin's heirs & John
Kendal's heirs. Lines between Mifflin's heirs & George Wallop
(Walczyk,1 Processions: 18).
On 5 November 1800 his daughters,
Patience and her husband, Elizabeth and her husband, Eyre and Rebecca
sold eleven hundred and thirteen acres of his seasid lands to Charles
Stockley. The deed in part reads: . . . the whole of Graveyards at the
Mansion Plantation where the said Daniel Mifflin resided in his life
& to the time of his death, in which said grave yards the said
Daniel Mifflin, his ancestors, Children and relatives are interred . .
. adjoining the lands of Doctr Fenwick Fisher the Virginia line, the
lands of William Chapman decd Gingoteague Bay & Swan Gut containing
by a late survey eleven hundred and thirteen acres of land . . .
(Accomack District Wills &c 1800-1806; pp. 196-198).
Sources:
_____. Accomack County District Court 1800-1806; pp. 196-198.
Walczyk, Gail M. Accomack County Processioners Returns 1797-1816 . Coram NY: Peter's Row, 2004.
Wright, F. Edward. Vital Records of Kent & Sussex Counties Delaware 1686-1800. Westminster MD: Willow Bend Books, 2001.
© Copyright 2008-2012 by Gail M. Walczyk