Newman Virginia Roots

1737

Morgan family cemetery

Land from John Morgan Sr’s will was sold “burying place excepted”. John’s sons William and Ed Morgan, and his widow Ann Morgan, sold 354 acres to James Garnett Essex DB 20, pg 177. John Morgan’s neighbors had land on the south side of the Occupacia Creek. This cemetery was probably near the Occupacia Creek.

1745

Bates family cemetery

John Bates will was written 6 April 1745. His son James Bates gets “one acre of land belonging to the tract of land I sold to Colt Joseph Smith which being the place my father was buried.”

Essex County, Virginia will book 7, page 481-482