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WILLIAM TARVER
Land Grant to William Tarver
1651 June 11
St. Marys Parish, Maryland
CAECILUS &c To all persons
a grant of a
freehold to
Will Tarver,
100 acres
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Know ye that wee for and in consideration
that William Tarver of our said province of
Maryland planter Transported himself into
our said province the last year there to
Inhabitt and Dwell and upon such Conditions
and Termes as are Expressed in our Conditions
of plantation of our said province
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under our Greater Seal at Armes bearing Date at London the Second Day of July in the year of our Lord 1649 ad remaining upon record in our said province do hereby grant upon the said Will Tarver att that parcell of Land on the North side of Petite's Creek lying near a Branch of the said Creek called Manner's Branch beginning &c (put in certificate inde fol:) Containing now laid our for one hundred acres more or lefs. Together with all proffitts right and benifitts thereunto belonging (Royall mines Excepted) to have and to hold the same unto him the said Will Tarver and his heires and asfignes for ever To be holden of us and our heirs as of our Manner of West Maries in Free and Common Soccage by Fealty only for all services yeilding and paying therefore yearly unto us and our heires at our usuall receipt at St. Maries two shillings in mony sterling or the value thereof in such Commodities as we and our heires or such officer or officers appointed by us or our heires from time to time to collect and receive the same shall accept in discharge thereof at the choice of us or our heires or such officer or officers as aforesaid at the Nativity of our Lord. Given at St. Maries under our Great Seal of our said province of Maryland the Eleventh day of June in the nineteenth year of our Dominion over the said province annog Dom 1651. Witness our Trusty and Welbeloved Will Stone, Esq our Lieutenant of our said province.
Will Stone
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NOTES
I am unaware of any proof connecting THIS William Tarver of St. Mary's Parish, Maryland and our line of Tarvers, although I am convinced our line descends from one William Tarver. If this is our William Tarver, then the dates for our Thomas Tarver need to be revised, as William Tarver's wife, Elizabeth, did not join him in Maryland until five years had passed. Her passage is recorded in 1665, while William's is recorded in 1650 (Skordas).1 We lose track of this William and Elizabeth Tarver after Elizabeth arrives from England. Elizabeth did not bring an infant child with her; she sailed alone to St. Mary's Parish, as did William. If they are our Thomas' parents, Thomas could not have been born in 1640, else he did not immigrate with them.
Thomas first appears on a list of tithables in Surry County, Virginia in 1688, so we know he is taxable as an adult by this year. Prior to that year, he is brought into court for indebtedness to Captain Hugh Campbell (see below), and ordered to pay. In June 1694, he is tithed with one Thomas Nicholson, who later sues his father-in-law, Thomas Torver, for unkind treatment. Thomas Tarver is tithed alone in 1698. In 1702, he is tithed with his son, Samuel Tarver, Southwark Parish, Surry County, Virginia (Boddie).
While on a research jaunt in Virginia, mother and I were lucky enough to run upon an out-of-the-way book store that speacialized in out-of-print materials, antique books and old newspapers. There we found and purchased a collection of old Surry County Court Books,2 from which I transcribe the following: Surry County, Va Court Records,2 B4, Pt Jan 1862 - Pt 1691 (1) p.694. Thomas TORVER conf jud to Hugh CAMPBELL. (2) B4, p.694 -- Ex. 10?th. Tho. TORVER being indebted to Capt. Hugh CAMPBELL by bill four hundred forty Eight pds. of of tobo. & Caske, Came into Court & confessed Judgemt for ye. same It is therefore ordrd. that the sd. TORVER pay ye. said four hundred fourty eight pds. of tobo. & Caske to ye. sd. CAMPBELL with Costs als. Exce. (3) B5, p.193: 7br. 1697 --
Tho. NICHOLAS appeareing at this Court & complaineing of the ill & bad usuage he receives from his ffather in Law Thomas Thomas TORVER and it appeareing, It is ordered that the said NICHOLAS have the benifitt of his Labour for the future. [N.B. "Thomas" is struck through and then reprinted with no change.]
SOURCES
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Skordas, Gus. Early Settlers of Maryland. Maryland: Baltimore Geneal. Publ., 1964
- Surry County Records; Surry County, Virginia, Book 4 1682-1691, Book 5 1691-1693.
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