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1653 Patented land Old Rappananock Co., Virginia moved to Lancaster Co., Virginia; Was Burgess 1657-65, 69-70

Title Travers, Rawleigh. Publication 9 March 1653. Other Format Available on microfilm. Virginia State Land Office. Patents 1-42, reels 1-41. Related See also the following surname(s): Travis. Note Location: County location not given. Description: 300 acres on the south side of Rappa: River, about 2 miles southerly into ye. woods from ye. plantation of Mr. James Bagnal. Source: Land Office Patents No. 3, 1652-1655, p. 28 (Reel 2). Part of the index to the recorded copies of patents for land issued by the Secretary of the Colony serving as the colonial Land Office. The collection is housed in the Archives at the Library of Virginia.


Raleigh Travers was the first of his family in Virginia, his name was usually spelled Traverse. He patented (or repatented) several tracts of land from1653 to 1665. He died in testate c. 1670 or 1671.


Title Travers, Rawleigh. Publication 9 March 1653. Other Format Available on microfilm. Virginia State Land Office. Patents 1-42, reels 1-41. Related See also the following surname(s): Travis. Note Location: County location not given. Description: 300 acres on the south side of Rappa: River, about 2 miles southerly into ye. woods from ye. plantation of Mr. James Bagnal. Source: Land Office Patents No. 3, 1652-1655, p. 28 (Reel 2). Part of the index to the recorded copies of patents for land issued by the Secretary of the Colony serving as the colonial Land Office. The collection is housed in the Archives at the Library of Virginia. Subject - Personal Travers, Rawleigh. grantee.

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"Raleigh/Rawleigh «b»Travers«/b» was born ca 1630. He married Elizabeth Unknown and had the following children: Giles, John, Rawleigh, Million and Elizabeth. Raleigh is first recorded in Virginia history when he purchased 300 acres on the south side of the Rappa River on 8 Mar 1653. On 6 Dec 1653 he received a POA from Tho Paine to sue Moore Fauntleroy. On 5 Feb 1654/55 in Lancaster Co. Virginia Nich. Forman was to view Mr.Raleigh Traver's tobacco house and report. On 19 April 1655 in Lancaster Co., VA Tho. Purifye sold Raughley Travers 650 acres. On 24 October 1665 in Westmoreland, VA Raleigh Travers purchased 3,650 acres; 3350 acres on the south side of the Potomac River and 300 acres upon the head of a branch of Potomac Creek. In 1667 in Lancaster, VA John Carpenter and his wife, Mary, sold 500 acres called Fairweather to Raleigh Travers. In March 1669 in Lancaster, VA, Rawleigh Travers sold to John Chinn a quarter part of the mill lying at the head of Morratico Creek. Signed by Ra.Travers and Elizabeth Travers. On 11 May 1670 in Lancaster Co., VA, POA to cousin Will Travers re mill sold to John Chinn. Rawleigh Travers died in 1670 in Richmond, VA."