Land Patent Citations
Michael King, 1667, 300 acres adjoining Robert Brasseure, pat 6 p 50
Michael King, 8 Sep 1671, 600 acres, had been granted to Robt Brashure, decd. Now granted to King. Pat 6 p 479. (A better description is given in the patent to Robert Brasseure, 12 Apr 1653, 1200ac, 600 on the So side and 600 on the No side of the southern branch of the Nansemond River. Note that the 600 ac on the So side is near the head of Somerton Swamp described in the other King Patents. Details added by HLK.)
Michael King, 24 Feb 1675, 900 acres, Nansemond Upper Parish, In the way to South Key at a place now called Kingston, near head of a branch from Somerton Swamp, South Key. Adj lands of Jno Winborne, Bream and Robinson. Michael had transported 18 persons: Wm Smeberland, Marg Ferrell, Henry Okey, Mary Stepton, Mary Neckunun, Robert Short, Samll Dines, Em Absolom, Fra Young, Thoma Inglish, Eliz Holman, Margt mathewd, Robert Batch, Wm Gwinn, Thomas Ererard. Pat 6 p 597.
These records are cited by HLK:
"The Virginia Magazine of History and Biography", published quarterly by the Virginia
Historical Society for the year ending December 31, 1928 and is
Volume XXXVI. At the end of the article is the statement "The
Bible from which the above has been copied was printed in Edinburgh
by Alexander Kincaid, HIS MAJESTIES PRINTER. MDCCLXIX. (Solomon King's Bible.)
The will of Michael was probated in Albemarle County in the Province of North Carolina in 1700 as shown in a book by Mattie E. Parker and William S. Price, Jr., eds., "The Colonial Records of North Carolina , Second Series, Volume 3, North Carolina Higher Court Records 1697-1701". State Department of Archives and History, Raleigh, NC. Here William and John Early prove the will of Michael King, 1700, Oct-Nov General Court. The will itself has not survived.