Living Individual - Details withheldSouthside Virginia Families, Vol I, John Bennett Boddie, Baltimore, MD, Genealogical Publishing Co., 1999, p 291
Among the headrights of John Moone in 1635 were Anth. Jordan and Rich. Baven. This Richard might have been the grandfather of Elizabeth who married Arthur Jordan.
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Surry County, VA Records , Book I, 1652-1672, p 18, December 15, 1652
John Flood, aged 30 years or thereabouts, sworn sayeth that Wm. Ha
slewood, mariner, deceased, being at Richard Bavin's, the said bavin's wife gave sd Haslewood a ring to carry home…and tould him that shee hoped to see his in again, whereupon he said that if he never came again they had enough in their hands to fortify themselves, the sd Bavin's wife replyed that shee would not take…the vallew of what they owed him for the ring He answered her that what they had in their hands they might keep, if he never came again, and further sayeth not. Signed, Jno. Flood. Wit. Robert Stanton.
John Blackborne, aged thirtye years of thereabouts, sworn and ex. Sayeth that he bought a servant of Wm. Haslewood, mariner, deceased, for Richard Bavin for which he ws to give eleven hundred pounds of tobacco, and that the sd Haslewood was to allowe the sd Bain one hundred and forty pounds of tobacco and casks and that this Deponent brought the servant from aboard the shippe to the sd Bavin's house and that the sd Bavin paid him all of the tobacco except on hhd. That this Deponent heard Mrs. Bavin say to Haslewood that she would venture a ring home by him, the sd Haslewood said unto her that she would not make him, for her husband had enough in his hands to satisfie himself if he never came again and that he would leave the sd Bavin's bill in the hands of Coll. Browne but noe levys of Attorney…if he never brought the ring again and further sayeth not.
p 19, February 16, 1651, Ind. between Richard Bavin of the Par. of Southwarke in Virginia,k planter, of the one part and Jno. FLood, planter of the part. RIchard Bavin, moving, sells to Jno. Flood for 800 weight of tobacco and caske a parcel of land, togehter with woods, timber, tet., being bounded upon ye land of Coll. Jno. Flood, southward upon the Springe Swamp...toward Sunken Marsh, Rec. 15 Xbris 1652.
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