This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: DeWitt Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/an/WBC.2ACI/2862 Message Board Post: I have information that my ancestor, Jacob DeWitt, in August of 1637 received an assignment of a land patent for 950 acres in Henrico County. Can someone please look this up and see if this is correct? If it is, then this opens up many doors for me. I have been thoroughly stumped when it comes to Jacob's arrival to the Virginia or New Amsterdam. I have tried to contact the Northern DeWitts without any success. I live in Oklahoma and have never been to Virginia and can't see a visit in the near future to do this research myself. So if someone could please look this up, I would be so ever grateful. My many thanks in advance, Linda DeWitt Hughey