The history of tracts [A77], [A78], [A79], [A80], seems very hard to follow and starts with escheated, assigned and vague patents. One of the patents was to Matilda Scarburgh and her sister Tabitha. This land lay on Deep Creek. Matilda took up the land on the south side of the creek and Tabitha took the land on the north. (Tabitha's land will be covered in another District.) John West had married Matilda Scarburgh and by 1703, when he died, all four tracts had come into his possession.

Source:
Whitelaw, Ralph T.  Virginia's Eastern Shore A History of Northampton and Accomack Counties. Gloucester MA: Peter Smith p 954.