"Windows Into Our Past A
Genealogy of Lewis Green & Associated Families, Volume 6", compiled by
Judy Parsons Smith © 2005
This Indenture
made this nineteenth day of June in the year of Our Lord One Thousand Seven
Hundred and Seventeen, between William Gower
f Southwarke Parrish in
Surry
County
of the one part and Lewis Green
of the Parrish of
Bristol
in the
County
of
Prince Geo
of the other part. Witnesseth that
he said William Gower
for and in consideration of the
sum of five shillings sterling to him in hand paid by the said Lewis Gree
, the receipt whereof he doth hereby acknowledge and himselfe therewith fully
satisfied, and also for divers other good causes and considerations him
thereunto moving, hath devised granted bargained leased and to form letters and
by these presents doth devise grant bargain and to form letters unto that said
Lewis Green
and to his heirs and assigns, all
that messuage, plantation, dividend and parcel of land situate lying and being
upon the East side of the Citty Creek in the Parrish of Bristol in the County of
Prince George containing by estimation Seventy Acres is bounded as followeth viz
Beginning on the East side the said Creek up the line of Thomas Nunley
, thence Easterly along the said Nunley Line to the Line of Lewis Green,
thence southerly along the said Green’s line to the line of Thomas Lewis
, thence westerly along the said Thomas Lewis’s line to the said Creek,
thence down the said Creek to the place where it began at including the said
Seventy Acres, be there more or less, together with all houses messuages
tenements and all other the appurtenances whatsoever to the same belonging or
appertaining. To have and to hold
the said devised premises and every part thereof with the appurtenances unto the
said Lewis Green
his heirs executors and
administrators from the day of the date hereof for and during the term of one
whole year fully to be completed and ended yielding and paying for the same upon
the last day of December next one ear of Indian corn if the same shall be
demanded unto the said William Gower
his heirs executors and
administrators to the intent and purpose that by virture of these presents and
of the statute of transferring uses into possession the said Lewis Green
may be in actual and peaceable
possession of the premises before, granted, and may he thereby the better
enabled to accept of a grant or conveyence of the revertion and inheritance of
the same to Him and his heirs forever. In
witness whereof the said William Gower
hath hereonto set his hand and
affixed his seal the day and year above written.
/s/ William Gower
sealed with a wafer
1.
William Gower
, d. 1692[i]
2.
Abel Gower
2.
Abel
Gower
, d. 25 Dec 1688/89; m.
Jane
Hatcher
, daughter of
Edward
Hatcher
, b. 1640; ca. Oct 1699.
Abel Gower
, of Henrico Co., was Justice from 1677 until his death.
Member of the House of Burgesses
in 1679, &. Sheriff in 1681.
From the Valentine Papers,
Vol
III
, p. 1375: On 1 Aug 1687 there
is an entry related to
Richard
Bland
, (?son of
John
Bland
&
Sarah
Green
, daughter of
Giles
Green
) Witnessed by:
Richard
Cocke
Sr.
and
Abel
Gower
(d. 1688, m.
Jane
Hatcher
).
Will of Jane Hatcher
Gower
, Oct 1699
Grandson: William Cox
and daughter Mary Cox
Granddaughters:
Obedience Turpin
; Priscilla Wilkinson
Grandson:
William Farrar
Granddaughter: Mary Womack
& Priscilla Farrar
Grandchild: John Spike
, William Womack
[son of William
& Martha Gower? Womack
, b. 10 Sept 1723?], Abell
& William Farrar
, Judith Womack
Sister: (unknown) Hatcher
.
[i]
VA Colonial Abstracts, Vo. 12, Fleet