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95-307. At the first meeting of the Burgesses (1619) the College had no representative, but at the meeting held Oct. 16, 1629, the Burgesses "For the plantations at the Colledge were Leftn't Thomas Osborne and Mathew Edlowe," whose names are in the text. See Hening, Vol. I., p. 138. _Att the Neak of Land._[R] Luke Boys, Mrs. Boys, Robert Halam, Joseph Royall, John Dods, Mrs. Dods, Elizabeth Perkinson, William Vincent, Mrs. Vincent, Allexander Bradwaye, his wife Bradwaye, John Price, his wife Price, Robert Turner, Nathaniell Reeve, Serjeant William Sharp, Mrs. Sharp, Richard Rawse, Thomas Sheppy, William Clemens, Ann Woodley, Thomas Harris, his wife Harris, Margaret Berman, Thomas Farmer, Hugh Hilton, Richard Taylor, _uxor_ Taylor, Joshua Chard, Christopher Browne, Thomas Oage, _uxor_ Oage, infant Oage, Henry Coltman, Hugh Price, _uxor_ Price, infant Price, Mrs. Coltman, Robert Greene, _uxor_ Greene, infant Greene. [R] _Neak of Land._--"There is another division of the country into necks of land, which are the boundaries of the Escheators, viz: the Northern Neck, between the Patowmeck and Rappahannock rivers. "The neck between Rappahannock and York rivers, within which Pamunkey Neck is included. "The neck between York and James rivers," &c., &c.--Beverly, Book IV., chap. ii. This list being made up at James city this neck might be the one nearest to that place, and therefore the last one named by Beverly would be the one referred to; but inasmuch as in this MS. list it follows immediately after the College land, and in the list of Burgesses for 1629, occupies the same position, it is not improbable that it refers to the peninsula opposite Henrico, known on all the maps of the State as Farrar's island, and which has been made an island in reality by the completion of the canal begun by the United States army during the late civil war and afterwards finished by the engineer department of the same, under the direction of Col. W.P. Craighill. Hening reports Serit Sharpe a Burgess for this place in 1629, and Serjeant William Sharp is named in the text as living there in 1626. _Att West & Sherlow Hundred._[S] John Harris, Dorothe Harris, Infants { Harris, { Harris, Thomas Floyd, Ellias Longe, William Nichollas, Roger Ratcliffe, 78
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