[61] "Patents Issued During the Royal Government," _William and Mary College Quarterly_ (January 1901), ser. 1, vol. 9, no. 3, p. 143. In the 17th century prior to the building of the College of William and Mary, College Creek was known as Archer's Hope Creek, after the settlement of Archer's Hope at its mouth. [62] There was a patent dated February 6, 1637, to "Humphry Higgenson" for 700 acres "called by the name of Tutteys neck, adj. to Harrop ... E. S. E. upon a gr. swamp parting it from Harrop land, W. S. W. upon a br. of Archers hope Cr. parting it from Kingsmells neck, W. N. W. upon another br. of sd. Cr. parting it from land of Richard Brewsters called by the name of the great neck alias the barren neck & N. N. W into the Maine woods." Richard Brewster's 500 acres were described as beginning "at the great Neck alias the barren neck, adj. to Tutteys Neck a br. of Archers hope Cr. parting the same, S. upon a br. of sd. Cr. parting it from Kingsmells Neck...." _Cavaliers and pioneers. Abstracts of Virginia Land Patents and Grants 1623-1800_, abstracted and edited by Neil M. Nugent (Richmond: Dietz Printing Co., 1934), vol. 1, pp. 80, 81. [63] On July 19, 1646, a patent was granted to Richard Brewster for "750 acres, Land & Marsh, called the great Neck of Barren Neck, next adjoining to lutteyes neck." "Patents Issued ...," _William and Mary College Quarterly_ (July 1901), ser. 1, vol. 10, no. 1, p. 94. [64] "Notes from Records of York County," _Tyler's Quarterly Historical and Genealogical Magazine_ (July 1924), vol. 6, no. 1, p. 61. [65] "Virginia Gleanings in England," _Virginia Magazine of History and Biography_ (October 1904), vol. 12, no. 2, p. 179. [66] "List of Colonial Officers," _Virginia Magazine of History and Biography_ (January 1901), vol. 8, no. 3, p. 328; and "Lightfoot Family," _William and Mary College Quarterly_ (October 1894), ser. 1, vol. 3, no. 2, p. 104. [67] "Patents Issued ...," _William and Mary College Quarterly_ (January 1904), ser. 1, vol. 12, no. 3, p. 186. For similar spelling see note 7, above. [68] "Escheat, in Common-law, signifieth lands that fall to a Lord within his Manor, by forfeiture, or the death of his Tenant without Heirs; it cometh from the French word Escheire, to fall" (PHILLIPS, _New World of Words_). [69] On August 14, 1710, Richard Burbydge was among those who signed a report on the inspection of the vessel _Jamaica Merchant_, lying at anchor in the upper district of the James River, at the precept of Governor Spotswood. The inspectors were sworn by Capt. John Geddes, a justice of the peace for James County. (_Calendar of Virginia State Papers and other Manuscripts, 1652-1781_, edit. Wm. P. Palmer, M.D., Richmond, 1875, vol. 1, p. 141.) This is the only reference to Burbydge that has been found. [70] L. H. JONES, _Captain Robert Jones of London and Virginia_ (Albany, 1891), p. 34.