"Capt. Wm. Whittington, 800 acres Northampton County, 11 March 1653, page 286. Beginning at North end of land bought by him from Captain Wm. Stone, to head of Mattawambs main branch &c. Transportation of 16 persons: Wm. Harrington, Sam Shewell, Wm. Sherland, Susan Fowler, Cor. the Sweed, Eliz. Godwin, Jo. Godwin, Devorux Godwin, Wm. Whittington, Mary his wife, Edward Dru, Mary Uxor (his wife), Richard Jacob, Wm. Freeman, Peter Nowell, Wm. Varbread." (2)
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(1) Howard Mackey and Marlene A. Groves, Northampton County, Virginia Record Book, Orders, Deeds, Wills &c, Vol. 3, 1645-1651 (Rockport, Maine: Picton Press, 2000), 170, quoting Northampton County, Virginia Order Book 3:89.
(2) Nell Marion Nugent, Cavaliers and Pioneers: Abstracts of Virginia Land Patents and Grants 1623-1666, Vol. I (1934; reprint, Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Co., Inc., 1983), 294, citing Virginia Patent Book 3:286.