Surry County, Virginia Patent Book 7, 1679-1689
(C. Avis Catalog entry #941)
p. 603
To all, etc. whereas, etc., now know ye, Francis, Lord Howard. Gov., etc., with ye will & ye consent of ye Council of State accordingly give and grant unto Mr. John Mooring, six hundred & ninety seven acres of land lying in Surry County, begining at a saplin, River Jordans corner & running along his line of marked trees, South by West one hundred & twenty chains to Thomas Jordans line, thence along ye sd. line North eighty eight degrees West one hundred and sixteen chains to Thomas Jordans corner tree, thence North .... to Thomas Cibsons corner ... and is due by the importation of fourteen persons .... to have & to hold etc. dated ye 25th of October Ano. Domi. 1687.
John Mooring 2, his wyfe, Charles & John White, John Isaac, Tho. Fisher, Jno. Giddings, Jno. Broomwood, Eliza Jennings, a negro, Andrew, Jno. Atwood, John Oneal, Thos. James.
[Note: Between 1667 and 1687, John Mooring imported fourteen persons to Virginia, including himself (two times). Each person imported into the colony was worth fifty acres of land to the person who paid their passage.
The "2" after John Mooring's name means that he paid the cost of his transportation on two passages to Virginia. He evidently returned to England twice after he first arrived in 1652.]