Dear Southsiders: I am trying to find out more about 129 acres of land that Edmund Browder sold to John Phillips in 1721, on Second Swamp, south of Petersburg. The land adjoined land that John Phillips already owned there, and had owned at least as early as 1711. This is the history of land near that parcel; but I'm not sure how all this fits together. In April 1690, Henry Randolph, Sr., James Cocke, John Golightly and Solomon Crook patented 647 acres on Second Swamp. Some of the adjacent land was owned by John Sturdivant. The Sturdivants had a mill on Second Swamp. By 1693 Henry Randolph, Sr. had died, and the land was then owned by Cocke, Golightly and Crook. On June 5, 1693, Cocke, Golightly and Crook deeded 129 acres to William Mayes. That land lay between land owned by Cocke and other land owned by Henry Randolph, Jr. On the same day in 1693, Cocke, Golightly and Crook, "for love and affection," gave Henry Randolph, Jr. 129 acres, specifying that they did this, because the land had not been divided while Henry Randolph, Sr. was alive. That land lay between William Mayes' land and Solomon Crook's land. Sometime between 1693 and 1721, Crook sold another 129 acres of his land, presumably from the original patent, to Edmund Browder. In 1721, Browder sold that 129 acres to John Phillips. The Phillips family remained on Second Swamp well into the 1800s. Is anyone working on these families? Or know anything about that land? Thank you for your help. Mary Jane Phillips-Matz