Ye Kingdome of Accawmacke or the Eastern Shore of Virginia in the Seventeenth Century, by Jennings Cropper Wise, The bell Book and Stationery Co, Richmond, Virginia, 1911, p 95
In 1642 the peninsula was divided into tobacco inspection districts and John Major was one of the official viewers for Hungars.
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Virginia's Eastern Shore, Ralph T. Whitelaw, Virginia's Eastern Shore, (A History of Northampton and Accomack Counties, Published by the Virginia Historical Society in 1951),
p 521
1643 Patent to John Major for 200 acres called Sandy Point. N 111
1651 A son John Major exchanged this land with Stephen Charlton for 200 acres of N75
p 648
1650 Patent to John Major for 400 acres "on the south side of Great Nuswattocks River" A21
1664 Major left to his cousin WIlliam Waller and to his brother Richard Johnson, but in some way the title came into the possession William Major, a brother.
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Accomack County, Virginia Certificates and Rights, 1663-1709 and Tithables, 1663-1695, by Stratton Nottingham, Heritage Books, Bowie, Maryland, 1993
Listed in Tithables for 1663 (3), not listed in 1664 could have died between the two years
