This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: WIGGAINS Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/2UB.2ACI/1838 Message Board Post: I am looking for info on the John WIGGAINS that is listed in a 1723 land patent for Bertie County, NC as follows: BK A PG. 133 "Robt Braswell & wife Sarah to John Garland of Isle of Wight, Va. 15 May 1723 15 pds for 290 A now in possession of John Garland. By patent dated 1 Mar 1719 for 500 A on NS Meherrion River adj Mill Meadow, Jonathan Sanderson, John Wiggains. Witnesses: Mary Brasswell and Elizabeth Molton. May Court 1723." At this point in my research I am considering anyone with the surname spelling of WIGGAINS to be an ancestor since it very unique. Please reply if you have any info on this person.