Land Grants, David O’Sheal, Sr.
LORDS PROPRIETORS TO DAVID OSHEAL Aug. 5, 1729. Grant. 440 A. “…according to Our great Deed of grant bearing date the first day of May Anno Domini 1668…” Land on WS *Ahotskey Ridge* at Timber Branch adj. Robert Lanier, Edward Howard, Joseph Jones, John Jones, Jun. Land formerly granted by patent to James Hamelton Aug. 4, 1726, and “lapsed for not seating” Signed: Rich’d Everard, E. Moseley, C. Gale, Rob’t. West, J. Lovick, Sec’t'y…John Blount, John Patin. (Bertie County, North Carolina)
James Sanders to DAVID O’SHEAL of Nansemond Co., Va. Aug. 13, 1729. “several covenants and conditions in bond…” For 300 A. plus one negro man called Coffee; 20 head meat cattle. On condition DAVID O’SHEAL will allow James Sander’s heirs to occupy said land within six months after such heir shall come of age…also James Sanders makes good title to land on west Branch Nansemond river in Virginia “pusuant (sic) to condition of bond…” Wit: Thomas Crew, Thomas Jones. August Court 1729, Thomas Crew D.C/C. (Bertie County, North Carolina)
*Ahotskey Ridge is now Ahoskie, in Hertford County, North Carolina. It is located about 40 miles from Suffolk, Virginia. David O’Sheal’s plantation was located on the Nansemond River near Suffolk, Virginia.