These are the early land patents between Bermuda Hundred and Richmond on the south bank of the James River, in the part of old Henrico County that became Chesterfield County.
This is the neighborhood where John Hatchett probably lived as an indentured servant to John Farley in the late 1600s.
The outlines are the ones I drew on the original Chesterfield patents map, with minor corrections, and additional patents. They are placed on a modern map so you can zoom in and out, and switch map types between topographic, satellite, and street map.
Point at a tract to see its patentee; tap it on a touch screen. Names are written on the map only where there is room, so zoom in to reveal more, or use the list beside the map.
The tracts are approximate. They were fitted by eye to a modern map, and the patents themselves were described only by “metes and bounds”, which were not exact and often contained errors.
Blue: the patent describes this boundary as following a creek or river.
Ashen Swamp is now Ashton Creek; Branch’s Brook is now Kingsland Creek.