5 Sept 1666 Richard White and his wife Adria of Rappahannock County for 20 lbs in goods, 3 English Servants sold to Robert Taliaferro Gloucester Co, 1500 acres in Rappahannock County on the south side of the Rappahannock River.  p. 79

ESSEX COUNTY DEED BOOK 13, Page 428:  9 August 1711 Conveyance of Robert Taliaferro to Samuel Short.  40 pounds sterling.  Tract of 100 acres, part of land formerly granted to Robert Taliaferro, deceased, father of Robert Taliaferro, containing 739 acres by patent of 17 March 1673 which is bounded as follows: a marked cedar tree by the riverside near mouth of a gut next above plantation where Samuel Short lives, running up gut E 110 poles to large birch close to the stream, N 14 degrees, E 127 poles to large oak standing in sight of plantation called Short's Quarters, N 69 degrees, W 68 poles to oak standing by pocosin or sunken land, through pocosin to river, then up river to place it began.  Includes all houses, outhouses.  Dower release by Margaret Buckner recorded.

ESSEX COUNTY DEED BOOK 16, PAGE 246:  3 SEPTEMBER 1719 Conveyance of Robert Taliaferro to Samuel Short.  14 pounds. Tract of 25 acres, part of land granted to Robert Taliaferro, dcd, father of Robert Taliaferro, containing 739 acres by patent of 17 March 1673.  Beginning at a cedar tree by the river near mouth of a gutt (beginning at the point where previously sold land began) the up said gutt to the fork, up the fork next the plantation to the of Grimes, then SW by Grimes to land of Corbin, then down several courses of Corbins's to the river, then down river to the beginning, including all houses, outhouses.

ESSEX COUNTY DEED BOOK 18, Page 218:  20 April 1726 Robert Taliaferro to Richard Buckner.  600 pounds.  Tract whereon said Taliaferro lives normally called the Church Neck, being 600 acres, the remainder of a patent of 739 acres to Robert Taliaferro, son of Robert Taliaferro, now deceased, the other part sold to Samuel Short; includes all houses, outhouses. Dower release by Ann Taliaferro.