Rawleigh Travers

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• Residence: 1723, , Stafford, Virginia, USA

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Rawleigh3 Travers (Rawleigh2, Travers1) died October 15, 1749 in Stafford Co., VA (Source: WM. F. Boogher, Old Stafford County, Virginia - Overwharton Parish Register 1720-1760, (Originally Published Washington, DC, 1899, Reprinted for Clearfield Co., Inc., Baltimore, MD, 1994, 1995, 2000).). He married Hannah Ball (Source: Ida J Lee, Abstracts Lancaster County, Virginia, Wills 1653-1800, (1959, Richmond, VA).) Bef. 1707 (Source: (1) Realeigh Traver Green, Genealogical and Historical Notes on Culpeper County, VA, (1858, Southern Book Co., Baltimore, MD)., (2) Ida J Lee, Abstracts Lancaster County, Virginia, Wills 1653-1800, (1959, Richmond, VA)., (3) "Ball Family, Culpeper Co., Virginia," Researcher, 1983, July no. 106., (4) Elizabeth Combs Peirce, "The Unhappy Life of Esther Ball, Half Sister of Mary Ball and Wife of Rawleigh Chinn, Gent.," William & Mary Quarterly, July, 1938, Vol. 18, no. 3., (5) Wilson Miles Gray, "Pedigree of the Travers Family," William & Mary Quarterly, July, 1895, vol. 4, no. 1., (6) Stella Pickett Hardy, Colonial Families of the Southern States of America: A History and Genealogy of Families Who Settled in the Colonies prior to the Revolution, (1958, Southern Book Co., Baltimore, MD)., (7) Mrs. William Montgomery Sweeny, "Colonel William Ball, of Balleston, Maryland, and Millenbeck, Virginia, Great-Grandfather of George Washington," Tyler's Quarterly Historical & Genealogical Magazine, October, 1948, Vol. 30, No.2, pp. 80-85., (8) "Coats-of-Arms in Virginia," William and Mary College Quarterly Historical Magazine, Vol. 4, No. 3. (Jan., 1896), pp. 164-167.), daughter of Joseph Ball and Elizabeth Romney.

WILL OF HANNAH PEARSON
Her will, proved in Stafford County 1748, names her three children, Raleigh Travers, Eliza Cooke, and Sarah Daniel, son-in-law Peter Daniel, and grandchildren, Travers Cooke, Hannah Cooke, Hannah Daniel, Elizabeth Travers Daniel.

Children of Rawleigh Travers and Hannah Ball are:
i. Elizabeth4 Travers.
ii. Rawleigh Travers
(Source: Sigismunda Chapman, A History of the Chapman and Alexander Families, (1946, Virginia Book Company, Berryville, VA).), died October 15, 1749 in Stafford Co., VA.

Will of Rawleigh Travers:
In the name of God Amen. The 10th day of October 1749 I, Rawleigh Travers being sick and weak of body but of perfect mind & sound judgment, do make this my last Will & Testament. Imprimis, I r negroes now in his possession, viz, Jenny, Winnie, Joe and James, and to the children of his present wife Sarah.
Item, I give my negro fellow Joseph to my sister Elizabeth Cooke, during her life and after to her son Travers Cooke. I give to my sister Sarah Daniel a negro girl called Sarah and her Increase to her three children, viz Hannah, Travers & Elizabeth Daniel.
Item, I give & bequeath to Hannah Cooke, negro Ned; I give to Traverse Cooke all of my negroes not yet mentioned. All my Personal Estate in Corn, Tobacco, Money & Cattle to be divided in three parts one of which I leave to my sister Elizabeth Cooke, the other two parts to my nephew & Heir Travers Cooke, all my debts being duly paid. It em I give to my niece Hannah Cooke one of the best beds & the furniture in my house, together with four Cows & Calves. I constitute & ordain my trusty & loving friends Elizabeth Cooke & Travers Cooke my whole & sole Executor & Executrix of this my last will. In witness whereof I have set my hand & seal.
RAWLEIGH TRAVERS [L.] Signed & Sealed in presence of David Waugh, John Sutherland & Thomas Hays, Michael Ryan.
At a Court held for Stafford Co. 12 Dec. 1749, the above last Will &c was pree of the witnesses, David Waugh, T. Hays & M. Ryan, &c., &c., &c. Teste Copy, Q. A. Tackett, Clk.

iii. Sarah Travers, died 1789.


Crow's Nest

The land comprising Crow’s Nest was originally granted to Col. Gerard Fowke. In 1662, Raleigh Travers received a patent for 3,540 acres on Potomac Creek, encompassing what is now the heart of Crow’s Nest. A large brick house, “Crow’s Nest,” was built on a high ridge that paralleled Potomac Creek. The home was named after The Crow, a black sailing ship owned by the Travers family. It was harbored in Potomac Creek.
Peter Daniel (1706-1777) married Sarah Travers (1717-1788), daughter of Raleigh Travers. An advocate of freedom from England, he was the first to sign a protest against the Stamp Act. The Daniels family cemetery is located in Crow’s Nest, close to Crow’s Nest point. President Martin Van Buren was a friend of Peter Vivian Daniel, and may have visited the area.
Source: Save Crows Nest

http://www.savecrowsnest.org/about_crows_nest.htm



Rawleigh Travers

For the Travers family see William and Mary Quarterly, IV, 27, 203.

8 Feb 1787/88 in Richmond County, Virginia. Mr. Raleigh Travers, a member of the county court, appeared in behalf of his mother, Mrs. Elizabeth Wilkes.

Rawleigh married Hannah Frances Ball in 1707 in , Lancaster, Virginia, USA. Hannah (daughter of Joseph Ball and Elizabeth Julia Romney) was born in 1683 in , Lancaster, Virginia, USA; died on 12 Nov 1748 in , Stafford, Virginia, USA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]