Richard Bevin

Richard Bevin is named as a headright in the 1635 patent of John Moone south of the James River in Surry County, Virginia

Richard Bevin
02/16/1651     Surry County   Book I, 1652-1672   page 19
     Indenture between Richard Bavin of the Parish of Southwarke
     in Virginia, Planter, of the one part and Jno. Flood,
     planter of part.  Richard Bavin, moving, sells to Jno. Flood
     for 800 weight of tobacco and caske a parcel of land,
     together with woods, timber, etc., being counded upon ye
     land of Col. Jno. Flood, southward upon the Spring
     Swamp...toward Sunken Marsh.  Wit: Daniel Hutton Jno.
     Dibdall, Jno. Dobbs, Rich Dibdall.

Richard Bevin
04/06/1653     Surry County   Book I, 1652-1672   page 26
     Jno Garye, aged 50 years, testified that he, on the first
     day of April last, being at Goodman Woodhouse, sall Richard
     Bavin fall from a mare "upon a log lyinge on the ground of
     so fall he dyed in three or fower hours thereabouts," but
     that he was not hurt by the mare, and that his burial there
     was twenty people or thereabouts.  Signed Jno. Garye.

Southside Virginia Families, Volume I, by John Bennet Boddie, Pacific Coast Publishers, Redwood City, California, 1955.