Col. John Blake, of Nansemond

Col. John Blake and Mary Francis were married. Father of Mary (Blake) Baker

Henry Baker inherited the Buckland Plantation’s original 2,750 acres in the year 1670 from his father-in-law, Col. John Blake.

http://bakersofbuckland.org/preservation-projects/

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John Blake served as Sheriff in Nansemond and as a Burgess 1666-1676.

Col. John Blake and William Cadogan patented 3,000 acres of land in the Upper Psrish of Nansemond County at a place called Wickhams hard by South Key on Feb. 25, 1673. (Patent Book 6, page 501) (Note: his daughter Mary Blake Baker bequeathed her son William a tract of land called Wickham.)

see Southside Virginia Families, Volume 1

by John Bennett Boddie

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As Sheriff, he apparently had a hand in persecuting the Quakers in Nansemond. He is named in this testimony by Thomas Jordan II, who married Margaret Brashere: "Presently John Blake took away my three servants and left my wife in a distressed condition with a young child at her breast . . . which servant was kept nine weeks and released by order of the Governor. There was taken by John Blake, sheriff of Nansemond, two feather beds, two feather bolsters, and furniture which together with other goods amounted to 3,907 lbs. tobacco and also a serving man who had three years to serve. There was taken by Thomas Godwin, sheriff, ten head of cattle amounting to 5,507 lbs." This testimonial was signed, "Thomas Jordan, Chuckatuck, 1st month, 1661."

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