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.