[A55] was patented in the name of Matilda Scarburgh by her father Colonel Edmund Scarburgh.  She was the daughter of Colonel Edmund Scarburgh and Mary Cade (Upshur).  She married John West, the son of Anthony West (Edwards).  In 1690 John West reissued a patent for these 500 acres and 200 acres of new land.  This land remained in the West family until 1756.  (See Whitelaw p 814-818.)  It was owned by two other people until 1775 when John Smith bought 300 acres and a windwill from Edmund Potter.  NOTE: See household 1.  Other owners in this area in 1795 were Branson Dolby (household 2), Susanna Phillips (household 3), her son Benjamin Phillips (household 6), Michael Parker (household 4), and William Crowson (household 5).

Sources:

Edwards, Lucy Ames.  Ames Mears and Allied Lines.  The Ancestors of Samuel William Ames and Sarah Anne Edmunds Mears of Accomack County, Virginia.  Sponsored by the Eastern Shore of Virginia Historical Society, 1967.

Upshur, Thomas Teackle.  Genealogical Research, Volume I, Manuscript, Microfilm  Swem Library, College of William and Mary, Willimsburg VA.

Walczyk, Gail M.  Accomack County Processioners Returns 1796 - 1816 for Accomack and St. George's Parishes.  Coram NY: Peter's Row, 2004.

Whitelaw, Ralph T.  Virginia's Eastern Shore A History of Northampton and Accomack Counties. Volume Two.  Gloucester MA: Peter Smith.


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