Land Grants for John O’Sheal, son of David O’Sheal
1704 “Lewis CONNER, Jr. was granted 90 acres of land in Nansemond County, Virginia, on Loosing Swamp (near John Powell).” (Powell History, Silas Emmett Lucas, 1961) This same Lewis CONNER transferred his land to John O’SHEAL, son of David O’SHEAL.
Lewis CONNER of Norfolk Co., Va., to Jno. O’SHEAL(son of David). 90 acres on Loosing Swamp, formerly part of Nansemond Co., Va. Test, David O’Sheal, March 19, 1720. Deed renewed so as to run in North Carolina, July 18, 1789. Test, Jos. Elliott, Caleb Elliott.” (The North Carolina Historical and Genealogical Register, James Robert Bent Hathaway, 1900-1903)
1739: “To John Osheals, 5,000 acres in Nansemond on the Dismal Swamp beginning at a pine about two miles east of a place called Cat Neck…”(Executive Council of Virginia)
This 5,000 acres of land was the same land Lewis Conner advertised in the Virginia Gazette.
April 13, 1739
Virginia Gazette
To be SOLD, very reasonably,
A Tract of Land, containing 10,000 Acres, lying on the North Branches of Nuse (Nansemond) River, in North-Carolina; and another Tract of 5000 Acres, lying on the same Branches, at a Place call’d Catacta Fort, being purchas’d Land, by Virtue of old purchas’d Warrants, and paying but Six Pence per Hundred Acres annually, Quit-Rent. Any Person inclinable to purchase both or either of the said Tracts, may apply to Col. Benjamin Hill, in Bertie County, or to the Subscriber, the Proprietor of the said Land, at Sewell’s Point, in Norfolk County, and know the Terms of Sale.
Also another Tract of Land, containing 750 Acres, at Sewell’s-Point, whereon the Subscriber now lives, with a good Dwelling-house, Kitchen, Barn, Stable, and all other necessary and convenient Out-houses, the Plantation and Houses being in good Repair. Any Person inclinable to purchase it, may apply to the Subscriber at his House, and treat for the same.
Lewis Conner.
April 6, 1739.