Pat, At 03:30 PM 4/26/2003 -0600, you wrote: >Can someone who is more familiar with the Fuqua line please identify the >Fuqua's listed in the following entries: > >Vol 4, p. 123…Pt Bk 17, WILLIAMS EVANS of Caroline Co., 300 acs Amelia >Co on >both sides of Pruit's Cr; adj. William Hendrick, William Austin, William >Gates & William Faqua als Bentley's 13 Oct 1736, p. 205 £1 S 10 > >Vol 3. P. 132…Pt Bk 17, JOSEPH WATSON, of Henrico Co., 121 acs Ameliz Co. S >side of Appomattox Riv.; adj William Mayo, Eliza Moreton, Joseph Moreton, >William Faqua alias Bently's & David Lisles; 17 Mar 1736/7, p. 295. 15 shill. These appear to refer to William Fuqua, my 7th great grandfather, son of "Guillaume Fouquet." He obtained the property via a patent for 200 acres on Appomattox River, lying in Amelia County, VA. [Patent Book 15, 1732-1735, p. 242] LDS 0-030-431 ........................................................................................................... >Vol 3, p. 150…WILLIAM FAQUA, 404 acs. Brunswick Co., N side of the North >Fork >of Roanoak Riv, below the Lick Br. At the upper end of Ward's Island, adj. >Mattock Mayes; 2 Jan 1737/8, p. 455 £2 This refers to the same William as above. Grant of Brunswick County land to William Fuqua on January 2, 1737. GEORGE, the second, by the grace of God of Great Brittain, France and Ireland, King , Defender of the Faith, etc., TO ALL to whom these Presents shall come, GREETING: KNOW YE that for divers good causes and considerations, but more especially for and in consideration of the sum of FORTY SHILLINGS of good and Lawfull money for our use paid to our Receiver General of our Revenues in this our Colony and Dominion of Virginia, WE HAVE given, granted and confirmed and by these Presents for us, our heirs and successors, do give grant and confirm unto William Fuqua one certain tract or parcell of Land containing Four Hundred and Four acres, lying and being in the County of Brunswick on the north side of the North fork of the Roanoke River BEGINNING at Mattox Mayes corner on the river, thence along his line… to a hickory on the River at the upper end of Ward’s Island, and thence up said River, as it meanders, to Beginning… TO BE HELD of us, our heirs and successors as of our Manor of East Greenwich in the County of Kent in free and common soccage [means “by purchase”] and not in capite [means “direct from the King or Crown] or by Knight’s service. YIELDING and paying unto us our heirs and successors for every fifty acres of Land and so proportionably for a lesser or greater quantity than fifty acres, the Fee Rent of one shilling yearly to be paid upon the Feast of St. Michael the Archangel, and also cultivating and improving three acres part of every fifty of the tract above mentioned within three years after the date of these Presents… IN WITNESS WHEREOF we have caused our Letters Patent to be made. WITNESS our trusty and well-beloved William Gooch, Esq., our Lieutenant Governor and Commander in Chief of our said Colony and Dominion at Williamsburgh under the seal of our said Colony the Second day of January, One Thousand Seven Hundred and Thirty Seven and in the Eleventh Year of our Reign. /s/ Wm Gooch [Patent Book 17, p. 455, Virginia State Library] .............................................................................................................. >Ibid, p. 60. Pat Bk 15…SAMUEL BENTLEY, 400 acs NL in Pr Geo Co S side of >Appamattox Riv, both sides of Pruitt's Cr adj Joseph Echols near Fuquas >Plantation; 3 Oct 1734, p. 354 £2 > >Idib, p. 242. Pat Bk 18…JOHN SHORT, 743 acs Amelia Co S side of Appamattox >Riv adj William Hendrick's Possom Corner, William Evans, Fuqua alias >Bently's, Joseph Watson, Mayo & James Collins; 1 Jun 1741, p. 960 £1.S5. These two refer to the same Fuqua property as the first two. ........................................................................................................... Frank