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- NORMANSELL, RICHARD 2550 5 June 1666 P 4:443 Northwest side Potowmack River on the main run of Pohick Creek.
Because of "differences" pending in the Stafford County Court, it was ordered that the Normansell Patent be equally divided. Richard Normansell was to have the land on the northeast side of the main run of Pohick and Martin Scarlett was to have the portion on the southwest side. The order for the division was dated 10 November 1674 and was acknowledged in court the next day. (PLC 1:43,44) Pohick Creek was made the dividing line and it was not an equal division of the property.
Martin Scarlett sold his half to George Mason 10 March 1690 with an exception of 320 acres. Thomas Brooke and Sarah (Mason) his wife sold 320 acres to Robert Boggess 22 May 1742. Robert Boggess also had a lease of 100 acres from French Mason, son of George Mason,
made 18 November 1736. (RS 1:42, 43 and 163)
Henry Boggess, eldest son and heir of Robert, deeded 250 acres to his sister Winifred Boggess. This was all the interest Henry had in moiety of land on the south side of Pohick above the falls. (Fx. Deeds L:43. 18 August 1773) Winifred married John Harris and 17 April 1777 they sold 63 acres for £63 to Alexander Henderson. The 63 acres were between land Alexander Henderson purchased from Bryan Fairfax and the main run of Pohick and were described as part of the 250 conveyed by Henry, son of Robert who bought the land from Thomas Brooke and Sarah his wife, to his sister Winnifred Boggess.
The remaining part of the Mason share of the patent was devised by French Mason in his will to his children. (Fx. Wills A:256. Proved 15 November 1748)
Richard Normansell in his will 24 February 1683/4 devised his mare in Stafford to Joseph Summers. Half of his land in Stafford was devised to his sister, Francis Owens, and her children and the other half was devised to Colonel William Pearce. (PLC 1:42,43)
The lower half of the Normansell part was willed to William Pierce (Pearce) of Westmoreland County. He sold to Mary Clark, or Clerk. At her death the tract went to her three surviving daughters. One daughter, Francis, married John Mayfield and they sold 234 acres to Samuel Smith of Stafford County. Samuel had an only son, John Smith, who sold the "middlemost" 234 acres to Robert Boggess 15 December 1742 for £60. (Fx. Deeds A:8)
John Awbrey sold the lower 234 acres to Robert Boggess. Boggess had purchased this 234 acres from Francis Awbrey, brother of John, 26 February 1741. The land had been devised to them by their father Francis Awbrey; John was eldest son and heir-at-law so Boggess took the precaution to have a deed of release from him. (21 July 1743. Fx. Deeds A:65)
John Smith of Truro Parish, possibly in an effort to clear the title on the land he had sold in 1742 to Robert Boggess and which contained more than 234 acres, sold 26 April 1756 for £60 (the same consideration as in the 1742 deed) to Robert Boggess 322 1/2 acres described as being the moiety half of part of 645 acres conveyed by deed of gift from Mary Clark to her six children: William, Elizabeth, Ann, Mary, Jane and Francis. Francis and Anne were the surviving children and Francis married John Mayfield, who sold to Samuel Smith, deceased. John, his only son, made the sale to Boggess. (Fx. Deeds D:258)
The third part of the 702 acres was held by a daughter of Mary Clerk who married George Tomlin of Richmond county. The tract next became the property of Hannah Anne, wife of Francis Randall. Hannah Anne, surviving heir of George Tomlin, and Francis Randall sold to Daniel French 3 April 1764 and the 234 acres were then devised to Elizabeth, daughter and heir-at-law of Daniel French. She married Benjamin Dulany of Frederick County, Maryland, and they sold to Thomas Triplett for £300. The deed included another tract of 130 acres, part of a larger tract purchased by Robert Boggess of Francis Awbrey 26 February 1741 and of John Smith 15 December 1742 and of John Awbrey 21 July 1743. This 130 acres had been sold by Robert Boggess and Anne his wife 16 August 1771 to Elizabeth Dulany "whilst she was Elizabeth French." It is described as between land purchased of Francis Randall and land purchased by Robert Boggess of John Smith, on the north side of Pohick. (Fx. Deeds K:330. 27 April 1773)
The tract of 702 acres had been divided into three parts by Richard Osborn, William Godfrey and Zephaniah Wade by order of the Prince William Court 22 February 1741. The deed of partition was between Francis Awbrey, John Smith and George Beckham. The Beckham part was that sold by Francis Randall to Daniel French. Randall sued Robert Boggess for trespass in an effort to establish the boundary line. (RS 1:45) Litigation continued after the Randall-Boggess suit. John Fowler sued Sarah Triplett in 1787 and recovered a portion of the land. Thomas Triplett sued Robert Boggess early in the nineteenth century. Two surveys were made in 1804 and 1806 concerning the dividing lines of the properties. (RS 2:120-122 and RS 2:127-128. PLC 1: 24-60. Note: Page 35-38 are missing.)
Edward Sanford acquired Thomas Triplett's land, called Barnaby, and it was devised by his will, dated 6 June 1811, to his three surviving children, Margaret, Joseph and Katherine Sanford and to the heirs of his deceased daughter Elizabeth Hough Sanford, formerly the wife of Captain Edward Washington. The executors divided the land into four large lots and two small ones. (See Russell, "Pohick Close," Page 44-45)
In 1767 Daniel French owned the Beckham, or Randall tract, and deeded three acres and 26 perches to the Vestry of Truro Parish for a site for the proposed new Pohick Church. This was a more central and convenient location for the church at the crossroads of the post road, "sometimes called the King's Highway, at the point where it was crossed by the Ravensworth rolling road to Pohick Warehouse and joined by the road to Posey's Ferry." (Russell, "Pohick Close," Page 39)
The remaining half of the Normansell part of the patent, or the northern part, was granted to Major George Eskridge as a Northern Neck grant for 640 acres which were described as escheated land and part of a tract granted to Richard Normansell and Martin Scarlet. It is shown on PS 1:8 as part of a suit Fowler v. Triplett.
James Steptoe and Elizabeth his wife, of Westmoreland County sold 11 April 1754 two tracts of land in Fairfax County to Richard Lee, also of Westmoreland County. One tract was described as the 640 acre escheat patent of George Eskridge. (Fx. Deeds c:816)
James Steptoe and Fanny his wife sold 25 April 1787 to John Fowler 700 acres, more or less, bounded on the north by Chichester and McCarty, on the south by Pohic Run and on the east by the land of Thomas Triplett, decd. (Fx. Deeds m:248 and Q:124)
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1691-1699 Westmoreland County, Virginia Deeds-Wills No. 2; [John Frederick Dorman-1801 transcript];
Page 156. 17 March 1698. William Peirce of Westmoreland County and Sarah my wife to Mary Clarke of same. 600 acres in Stafford County near Pohick Creek being the one moiety of 1200 acres given and left to me William Peirce by the last will of Mr. Richard Normansell, deceased, and formerly sold per my son John Peirce unto William Clarke late of this county, deceased.
William Peirce
Sarah Peirce
Wit: William Linton, Richard Dundridge.
25 March 1698. Acknowledged by Colonel William Peirce.
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1653-1656 Cavaliers and Pioneers, Patent Book No. 3; [Nell Marion Nugent]; Page 234
RICHARD NORMANSELL, 450 acs. lying on Wwd. side of the Eastermost river in Mobjack bay, 28 Nov. 1652, Page 14. 150 acs. beg. at a marked tree on the river side wch. divides this & land of John White, running W. S. W. etc. 300 acs. beg. at a marked pine of William Holders in a small creek, running W. S. W. etc. 150 acs. by patent dated 15 Sept. 1651 & 300 acs. for trans. of 6 pers.*
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1655-1664 Cavaliers and Pioneers, Patent Book No. 4; [Nell Marion Nugent]; Page403
RICHARD NORMANSELL, 2550 acs. Staff. Co., 5 June 1666, Page 323, (443). On N.W. side of Potomack Riv. on the maine run of Pohick Cr. Trans. of 51 pers: Tho. Durant, James Banns, Jno. Stone, Robt. Dumer, Wm. Castro (or Carter), Jno. Redock, Tho. James, Tho. Norrich, Edw. Cooke, Matt. Hutson, Stephen Coleman, Robt. Weddge, Wm. Dolton, George Greene, Wm. Bond, James Porter, Johannah Browne, May Birch, Tho. Metchalfe, Wm. Fox, Tho. Betchman, Tho. Dunce, Eliz. Gardner, James Harny, Xtopr. Wood, Patrick Miller, Jno. Davis, Tho. Godfrey, Tho. Watson, Abram Wright, Fran. Thomas, Win. Price, Ann Clay, Robt. Browne, Walter Key, Wm. Knox, Eliz. Wren, Rich. Glover, Henry Foster, Antho. Thorpe, Mary Atkins, 2 Negroes, Wm. Jones, Xpr. Wood, Hump. Long, Eliz. White, Wm. Griffeth, Jno. Graves, Robt. More, Edward Tilson. (Granted by Sir Wm. Berkeley)
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1742-1752 Fairfax County, Virginia, Will Book A;
[Eula K. Woodward];
John Smith, Truro Parish, Fairfax Co., 14 Dee. 1742, 1st part and Robert Boggess, same place, 2d part, 14 Dec. 1742. Land on Pohic Run, 234 A. of 2,550 A. granted to Richard Normance and Martin Scarlet 5 June, 1666, being one thrd part of 700 A. willed by Richard Normance to Col. Wm. Pierce of Westmoreland Co., who sold to Mary Clark of said Co.at her d. to her daus. One, Frances Clark m. John Mayfield, sold said 702 A. to Saml. Smith of Stafford Co. who had issue, John Smith, only son. Divided by Richard Osborn, Wm. Godfrey and Zephaniah Wade into three parts adjoining Francis Awbrey.
Wit. Susan Lindsey,· F ___Coals, Wm. Windsor, Thos. Graham, Jeremiah Winsor. 17 Feb., 1742, Page 6.
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