"Robert COLEMAN came to Virginia about 1638. He was named as head right in a grant to Thomas SYMONS, March 2,1638. Patent Book I, Part II, Page 624. It is to be noted that Thomas SYMONS, by grant dated October 10, 1642, received a tract of land in that part of the Colony which was to become Gloucester County. Patent Book I, Part II, Page 830.
 Robert was born in England c1620 and married Elizabeth GRIZZELL, daughter of William c1655 in Virginia. She was born in England c1622. Robert died in Gloucester County, VA c1680. His descendants relocated throughout the United States. Those remaining in Virginia included many politicians and judges in Pittsylvania County, VA. Some of his descendants still reside in Southwest Virginia.
 Robert COLEMAN was settled in Gloucester County in 1658, for by deed dated August 2, 1658, Francis CARPENTER conveyed a tract of land in Westmoreland County to "Robert COLEMAN of Mobjack Bay, Gloucester County". D.& W. Book I, Page 103, Westmoreland County Records.
 Thereafter he acquired by grant a tract of land on Burnt Creek in Gloucester County, adjoining lands of Daniel CLARK, Richard FOSTER "and another development of his own." This grant is dated March 18, 1662.Patent Book 5, Page 352. By grant dated March 10, 1672, he acquired two hundred acres more adjoining CLARK and other.Patent Book 6, Page 34.
 His neighbors and adjoining landowners were, among other, Captain Lawrence SMITH, Daniel CLARK, Daniel LAUGHAM, Thomas and Jeffrey GRAVES. See Patent Book 5, Page 240; Patent Book 6, Page 560: Patent Book 7, Page 163.
 From the location of the lands described in the various grants, the property of Robert COLEMAN can be said to have been situated near "The Great Road leading to Tindall's Point" (now Gloucester Point) in Gloucester County, VA. No activity can be found for Robert after 1680. Submitted by Ronald Eugene Coleman Dawson."
 "Robert of Mobjack Bay first appears in the Virginia Patent Records on March 18, 1662, When he was granted 110 acres in "Gloster" County, on a branch of Burt's Creek adjoining "his own land." He had a son named Robert, later known as Captain Robert Coleman, who became Sheriff of Essex, at Rappahannock. This Robert, the son of Robert of Mobjack Bay, was born in 1656. Therefore, the future sheriff was only seven years old when the Appomattox River Robert Coleman, Jr., received the deed of gift from Robert Coleman, Sr.
 It might further be pointed out that neither of the patents dated March 18, 1662, and March 1, 1672, to Robert Coleman in Gloucester County (Who most certainly was Robert Coleman of Mobjack Bay) referred to the grantee by the descriptive Senior or Junior. Robert of Mobjack Bay did have a son by the name of John. This is well established by the writings of Judge S. Bernard Coleman, supported by the records cited by Essex County, Va., Deed and Will Book 13. p. 76."

SOURCE: "The Coleman Family of Mojack Bay, Virginia" compiled by Sherrianne Coleman