"Barb Holmes" <bholmes@austin.rr.com> wrote: >Unfortunately the site no longer exists: > >http://www.delmarvasettlers.org/resources/warrant.html >Peter Parsons, planter  Spittle Fields  100  North side of Wicomico Creeke … >land formerly surveyed for Maj. Gen. Richard Bennet on east side of a creek >called Back Creeke branch  [no date], p. 40 _______ No, this site was just recast when Nabb reorganized its material last year. It's now at: http://nabbhistory.salisbury.edu/settlers/resources/warrant.html The Parsons citations (above and in your other messsage) are from "Francis Jenkins' warrant book", which was his personal rundown of work in the 1670s and early 1680s, often including things which were never actually completed, for whatever reason. Things like SPITTLEFIELDS, and the other unnamed one over on New Haven, never became real. The Jenkins volume is interesting for these glimpses into items that appear nowhere else. But unless one encounters a corresponding official record in the holdings of the Archives, what one finds in Jenkins' notes is often just a curiosity. John

Thanks John, for leading me in the right direction. As I looked further on the site I found the 1685 Rent Roll with Conveyances attached: Peter Parsons: Spittlefield, 200 Ac part of Goddards Folly (800 Ac), from Richard Stevens http://nabbhistory.salisbury.edu/settlers/resources/1685rentroll2.html Conveyances: [1685] Stephen Horsey: Hannahs Delight, 500 Ac from 5800, from Randall Revell* Katherine Revell: Junior: Katherines Content, 500 Ac from 5800, from Randall Revell Sarah Revell: Sarrahs Joy, 500 Ac from 5800, from Randall Revell John Mallett (Marritt or Merritt): Warmington, 50 Ac, from Gilbert James Dennis Sullivan: Hignets Choice, 300 Ac, from Robert Hignet Edward Hamon: Sherbourne, 300 Ac, from Robert Hignet John Evans: Pitchraft, 200 of 1000 Ac, from Henry Smith Thomas Humphreys: Hopewell, 300 Ac, from William Keene John Bowler: Monmouth, 300 Ac, from John(?) Hooke John Bennet: Amitie, 100 Ac of 900, from William Furnise Stephen Horsey: The Exchange, 240 Ac of 5800, from Randall Revell John West: The Good Hopes, 165 Ac of 5800, from Randall Revell George Wilson: Dukes Place, 150 Ac of Dixons Choice (900 Ac), from Robert Dukes William Redelpher: Chance, 200 of 500 Ac, from Benjamin Cottman James Trayne: Basham, 200 ac, from Samuel Cooper William Laurance: 125 of 250 Ac (unnamed tract), from Joshua Light Henry Leaton: Lumms Improvement, 200 of 250 Ac, from Levin Denwood & Roger Woolford Levin Denwood: Lotts Wife, 108 Ac of The Lott (1000 Ac), from William Wright Levin Denwood: Venture, 50 Ac, from William Wright William Planner: Cheape Price, 200 of 500 Ac, from Thomas Price John Goddin: Basing, 1050 Ac, from Matthew Scarbrough & John Cropper Charles Ratliffe: Tanton, 300 Ac, part of Tanton Deane (600 Ac), from Thomas Selby John Emett: Deane, 300 Ac, part of Tanton Deane (600 Ac), from Thomas Selby Edmund Howard: Hignets Choice, 300 Ac, from Dennis Sulivan John Richins: Sawsers Lott, 50 Ac, from Benjamin Sawser William Noble: Tositer, 150 Ac, from William Bradshaw John Walton: 133.3 Ac part of Sonns Choice (300 Ac), from Chritopher Manlove John Mallet: Midfield, 200 Ac, from Henry Morgan Peter Parsons: Spittlefield, 200 Ac part of Goddards Folly (800 Ac), from Richard Stevens Lewis Knight: French Garden, 160 of 450 Ac, from Thomas Davis Thomas Wilson: Turners Purchase, 130 Ac, from Isaac Warren

Bacon Quarter was originally 200 Acres but must have been increased considerably by George Smith Sr. as he sells in Liber I: 405-406, to Elisha Parker 435 Acres of land part of Bacon Quarter containing 1626 Acres of Land... This sale is from George Smith Jr. Blacksmith to Jonathon Parsons & Elijah Shockley {Abstracted} Worcestor County, Maryland Deeds N:60-61 George Smith [Blacksmith] to Jonathon Parsons & Elijah Shockley This Indenture made this 29th day of August 1789 between George Smith [Black Smith] of Somerset County and State of Maryland of the one part, and Jonathon Parsons & Elijah Shockley both of Worcestor County and State aforsaid of the other part. Witneseth that the said George Smith [Black Smith] for and in consideration of 150 pounds doth give grant bargain and sell, unto the said Jonathon Parsons and Elijah Shockley all that part pr parcel of a tract of land called Bacon Quarter which is situate lying and being in Worcestor County and is bounded and limited as followeth: Beginning at a Marked White Oak being the first boundary of the said tract standing on the Northside of Friends Denial Branch and from thence East 160 Poles North 34 Poles across the Mill Pond ruto the fence by a Grape Tree thence North 54 Degrees West 12 Poles, ect..... to a marked Mulberry Tree stading in the mouth of a small of a lane a small distance Northwesterly from where there formerly stood a Black Smith's shop at the Northwest end of a Sawmill Dam, which is now in the possession of Jonathon Parsons and Elijah Shockley from thence with a right line drawn to the first beginning containing and laid out for 27 Acres of Land. In Testimony whereof the said George Smith hath hereunto interchangeably his hand set and affixed his seal and the day and year first above written. George Smith B.S. Signed Sealed and delivered in the presence of us John T. Mitchell Purnell Johnson October the 6th day 1789 then was delivered to me the subscriber the foregoing deed in order to be enrolled among the records of Worcestor County which said deed together with the acknowledgment... are accordinly recorded among the same Records viz. Liber N folio 60 & 61. Sam R. Morris Clk. _________________________________________________________________ Windows Live™: Keep your life in sync. http://windowslive.com/explore?ocid=TXT_TAGLM_WL_t1_allup_explore_012009