Associated Claims & Citations

1. unverified

   A Michael Wardrope was a tithable of York County, Virginia, in 1672.

   WikiTree Waldrop Name Study, citing York County levies; the page sits behind a bot challenge and was not read; the project's surname research

2. sourced

   "Micha. Wardrope" was one of eleven persons whose transportation earned William and Thomas Claiborne a patent for 545 acres at the fork of the Chickahominy, 20 April 1682.

   Virginia Patent Book 7, p. 154, abstracted in Nugent, Cavaliers and Pioneers, vol. 2, p. 236; three independent transcriptions (WikiTree Waldrop-1015, the genealogy.com Waldrop forum, acvancestors.com) agree on the acreage, the fork and the eleven names; opened 2026-09-08; the patent book itself not opened; the research draft's page 154 corrected to 236 · https://archive.org/details/cavalierspioneer0000nuge

3. sourced

   He did not hold that land, he was refused it. In June 1699 ninety acres in Pamunkey Neck were assigned to "Mich: Wardrope" by Fuller and Johnson. In September 1701 the House of Burgesses resolved that no patent should issue to anyone claiming inside the bounds of the Pamunkey Indians, and named him among them. Its index records the outcome in one word: rejected. A patent was obtained anyway, and in 1713 the Council ordered the Attorney General to vacate it as surreptitiously got. That is the last trace of the name in this record.

   Journals of the House of Burgesses of Virginia 1695 to 1702, p. 283, index: "Wardrop, Michael, claim of, for land in Pamunkey Neck, rejected, 283"; Executive Journals of the Council of Colonial Virginia, vol. 3, p. 360; Louis des Cognets, English Duplicates of Lost Virginia Records, p. 62. Read 2026-09-08 by two passes independently · https://archive.org/details/executivejournal_c03virg