On 20 August 1646 he took out a patent for 1,250 acres (5 km²) on the Pamunkey River in York, later New Kent County, at the spot ""where the foot Company met with the Boats when they went Pamunkey March under ye command of Capt. William Claiborne"" during the counteroffensive against the Indians after the massacre of 1644. He did not develop these lands, but exchanged them in 1648 for a tract of the same land along the north side of the York near the present Capahosic, retaining the he called "War Captain's Neck" and selling the other .