Joseph TANNER, Sr.  (c.1635 - 1667)

Resided in that section of Henrico Co. lying south of the James River in 
the Bermuda Hundred tract; now a part of Chesterfield Co.  He was living 
there certainly before 24 Mar 1662 when he received a grant of 650 acres 
of land for the transportation of four persons to the colony. This land 
was actually given to his children since he had died before the government 
got around to granting the patent on 30 October 1673.  There were other 
Tanners living in the colony before him and contemporaneous with him, but 
their relation to him has not been recorded.  However, he is the first 
Tanner named in extant Henrico Co. records. His plantation was called in 
the records both "Fauldinge" or "Bauldings", a corruption of "Baldwyns", 
and was located in an area of the tract known as "Hell Garden Bottom".

Source: 
"WAMCQ(1)", Vol. XXV, 1916, pp.87-95, 198-205.
"Virginia Families", Vol. 2, pp.447-458, "Family of Tanner of Virginia".
"Henrico County, Virginia Deeds 1677-1705", pp.10, 28, Benjamin B.
Weisiger III, Richmond, VA, 1986.