Capt John Cralle^{[1, 2, 3]}

1650 - 1728  (78 years)

• Name	Capt John Cralle
  Birth	1650	Wicomoco, Northumberland, Virginia, USA
  Gender	Male
  Death	16 Apr 1728	Wicomoco, Northumberland, Virginia, USA
  Person ID	I26386	Master
  Last Modified	6 Apr 2016

  
  

  Family	Anne Mathew,   b. 27 Feb 1679, Wicomoco, Northumberland, Virginia, USA d. 16 Apr 1728, Wicomoco, Northumberland, Virginia, USA (Age 49 years)
  Marriage	1694	Wicomoco, Northumberland, Virginia, USA
  Children	+ 1. John Cralle,   b. 1693, Wicomoco, Northumberland, Virginia, USA d. 1757, , Northumberland, Virginia, USA (Age 64 years)  [Father: Natural]   2. Thomas Crallé, Sr,   b. 13 Mar 1697, , Northumberland, Virginia, USA d. Oct 1726, , Northumberland, Virginia, USA (Age 29 years)  [Father: Natural]
  Family ID	F6728	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	6 Apr 2016

  
  

• Event Map		Birth - 1650 - Wicomoco, Northumberland, Virginia, USA Marriage - 1694 - Wicomoco, Northumberland, Virginia, USA Death - 16 Apr 1728 - Wicomoco, Northumberland, Virginia, USA  = Link to Google Earth
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• Notes

  JAMES GENN arrived in the colony of Virginia from England sometime after 1660 and established himself at Cherry Point on the Northern Neck. James Genn's place of birth and his residence before arriving in Virginia are still shrouded in some mystery. In Northumberland the name is sometimes spelled Genn, sometimes Ginn. It may have been Ginn rather than Genn when James left England. It is also possible that it was Jenn. Our most informative clue concerning James Genn's presence in Virginia comes from the will of Thomas Mathew, dated 6 May 1703, probated by Canterbury Court, London, 28 February 1706-7 and proved in Northumberland County, Virginia, 20 August 1712. It reads as follows: I, Thomas Mathew, formerly of Cherry Point in the Parish of Bowtracy in the County of Northumberland in Virginia, Merchant, ... my body I desire may be buried and if I die in or about London as near to my dearly beloved son William as it can be had in the church of St.Dunstan's-in-the-East... From as for what remains real or personal... in the County of Northumberland, Cherry Point ... I bequeath one half ...to my dear son John... and the other half... to my dear children Thomas and Anna ... my loving Brother-in-Law Capt John Cralle and my old and faithful servant, James Genn and Mary his wife have manifested every great faithfulness and industry in the management of my affairs both whilst I dwell in Virginia and since I came thence I desire and will that my said brother Cralle and the said James Genn and his said wife may quietly remain and reside in and upon and in the peaceable posession of the houses and lands now in their respective tenures during their respective lives and I leave to all my children to be their heir gratefull ...1 Thomas Mathew seems to have arrived in Virginia sometime around 1660 to join his father, also Thomas Mathew. In February 1662 Thomas Mathew, Jr. witnessed a document for his father.2 A land claim in the name of Thomas Mathew, Sr. dated 20 October 1663 indicates that Thomas Mathew, Jr. had travelled to Virginia five times.3 The Will of Thomas Mathew, Jr. (above) discloses that James Genn managed the affairs of Thomas Mathew, Jr. since he arrived in Virginia. The will also established that Mary was the wife of James Genn. On the 18 February 1679/80, a certificate was granted to Mr. Tho. Mathew for 3800 acres of land for the transportation of 76 persons to Virginia.4 Among the names was a James Jenn, given that we are correctly interpreting the hand written original. Jenn may have become Genn after he arrived in Virginia. The names of James Genn, Mary Genn and Thomas Genn would later be used as "head rights" in a land grant to George Eskridge dated 22 February 1704/5.5 Eskeridge may have obtained these head rights from the Mathews. The Thomas Mathews', Sr. and Jr., professional endeavors include planter, rancher, merchant, manufacturer of agricultural implements, miller, captain, attorney, trustee, bondsman, justice and sheriff. It is not clear what aspects of the business was managed by James Genn but his bequest of life tennancy would suggest that he may have managed the plantation. A most illustrious event in the life of Thomas Mathew began in July 1675 when Doeg Indians stole some of his hogs. English settlers avenged the event by killing some Indians. The Indians returned and killed Thomas Mathew's herdsman, Robert Henn and later returned and killed Thomas Mathew's son. The English settlers were outraged and avenged the killings by slaughtering more Doeg and Susquehannock Indians. The Indians retaliated with more attacks. Governor Sir William Berkeley made no attempt to protect the settlers so Nathaniel Bacon, Jr. was chosen by the settlers to lead an attack on the Indians; he proceeded to do this without a commission from the Governor. Nathaniel Bacon died in October 1676, ending the conflict; Governor Berkeley proceeded to hang all those that had supported him. In 1804, with the help of Thomas Jefferson, Thomas Mathew published, The Beginning, Progress, and Conclusion of Bacon's Rebellion, 1675-1676.6 A 1798 Plat of Cherry Point, included in an article on Thomas Mathew by J. Motley Booker, M.D.,7 identifies the land occupied by Cralle and Genn (in this case spelled Ginn). The plat identifies Ginn's Island Acres as the eastern end of Cherry Point, the present site of the village of Lewisetta. By rough measure Ginn's Island scales off to be about 300 acres. Capt John Cralle's land is shown to the south-west on the other side of Kingscote Creek. A sign at the present intersection of roads 624 and 625 reads "Cralle Cove, Private." One source reports that the land that Mathew left to Cralle was never reclaimed by Mathew's heirs but was included as part of Cralle's estate. The same may have happened to Ginn's Island. Virginia Colonial Abstracts--Series 2, Vol. I, Northumberland County,Virginia, 1678-1713, By: Lindsay O. Duvall; Copyright 1979 By: The Rev. Silas Emmett Lucas, Jr.; Southern Historical Press, Inc., Easley, Sc. P.47; Court 19 Apr 1693, Page 620; John Cralle To Be Constable For Cherry Point And John Haynie, Jun'r. For Upper Ffairfield. WILLIAM HAMMOCK ESTATE IN NORTHUMBERLAND CO. SUED BY JOHN CRALLE 1703 John Cralle of the County of Northumberland, Gent., by his bill in chancery exhibited against Richard Hammock, executor of Wm Hammock, setting forth that hee became security to the worshippfull Court of Northumberland with Margarett Macey, relict of Henry Macey late of the County of Northumberland, for Margaret’s due administration of her husband’s estate, that some short tyme after Margrett intermarried with Wm Hammock who removed Macey’s estate into Richmond, which by appraisement was found to amount to 9390 pounds of tobacco and afterwards died leaveing his son Richard Hamock his executor, who inventoried Macey’s estate with his father’s without distribution, that Cralle upon two of Macey’s daughters comeing to age and applying themselves to him for such part of their father’s estate as of right belonged to them, hee to avoid trouble at law paid the two daughters, Ruth and Mary, their respective fifth parts of Macey’s estate, which being divided into five equal parts betwixt his four children and their mother amounted to 1878 pounds of tobacco each, well hopeing Wm Hammock would honestly refund and reimburse the same to him againe. But Hammock departing this life, no part of the tobacco being repaid Cralle, and Macey’s estate being removed from County to County, so that Cralle not come at his debt or the knowledged where Macey’s estate was lodged by the strict rules of the common law, therefore prayed her majesties writt to cause Richard Hammock to discover to this court that hee knew of Macey’s estate and whether the same or any part came to the hands of William Hannock and if it appeared there with sufficient to pay the orator’s disbursements or any part thereof, prayed a decree for the same. Richard Hammock neglecting to appeare or put in any answer to the orator’s bill, the same was continued till this court, and now Hammock appearing but refuseing to make any answer and Cralle produceing severall receipts amounting to 2534 pounds of tobacco, it is decreed that Richard Hamock doe pay to John Cralle 2534 pounds of tobacco out of Wm Hamock’s estate. SOURCE: Northumberland County, Va, Court Records, Page 192a. Received land for bringing others to this country. Was a justice of the county, constable, carried on considerable business & was directly associated with George Eskridge, who raised mary ball, mother of George Washington. In 1711 bought land in Northcumberland Co., Va., still lived on in 1864 by Lewis Cralle, who is the source of much of this early Cralle family lineage. Virginia Colonial Abstracts - Series 2, Vol. 1 Northumberland County, Virginia 1678-1713 by Lindsay O. Duvall. Northumberland County Court 16 ffeb 1697/8 page 802 Rawl. Travers and John Cralle to take pos of the Est of William Harvey, deceased and dispose of the land at outcry.

  
  

• Sources

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