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Frants Beyer mistet i februar 1849 paa samme dag 3 små sønner, som døde av "pustula maligna". De havde leket med farens puddelhund og var av denne paaført den dræpende sykdom. Søren de Fine Augustinus Brun Beyer, Frands Georg Dekke Beyer ogard Christopher von Krogh Beyer.

Beyer, Frands Georg Dekke (I23836)

Store Norske Leksikon Berent Johan Beyer Friele

Forretningsmann. Foreldre: Forretningsmann Berent Friele (1862–1902) og Dagny Stockfleth Høegh Beyer (1869–1963). Gift i Rio de Janeiro, Brasil 29.12.1920 med Jenny Müller Camps (29.12.1897–januar 1985), datter av konsul og kjøpmann Edvard Müller og Jenny Camps. Sønnesønn av Herman Friele (1838–1921); dattersønn av Fredrik Beyer (1827–1903); fetter av Harald Beyer (1891–1960).

Berent Friele var USAs største kaffeimportør og virket som Nelson A. Rockefellers rådgiver i internasjonale spørsmål. Han høstet stor anerkjennelse for sin innsats som “USAs faste uoffisielle ambassadør i Brasil”.

Frieles far var fra 1898 medeier i firmaet Berent Friele & Sønner, et av de ledende grossistforetak i Bergen med kaffe fra eget brenneri som en av de viktigste artiklene. Faren døde allerede 1902, og unge Berent var eslet til en toppstilling i familiefirmaet, som hadde importert kaffe siden 1854. Han skulle i sitt yrkesaktive liv komme til å stelle mye med kaffe, men ikke i familiefirmaet.

Etter endt skolegang drog Berent Friele til Hamburg 1912, fullførte sin handelsutdannelse der og arbeidet på kontoret til et firma i kaffebransjen. Under den første verdenskrig gikk ferden til Brasil, og etter en kort tid i et tysk kaffefirmas tjeneste etablerte han sitt eget kaffefirma i Santos. Her skaffet han seg sine omfattende kunnskaper om kaffedyrking, kvalitetsbedømmelse av råvaren og internasjonal kaffehandel.

Det gylne øyeblikk i Frieles karriere kom 1918, da han under et besøk i New York kom i kontakt med den største amerikanske kjedeforretningen i kolonialbransjen, The Great Atlantic and Pacific Tea Company (A&P). Etter først å ha fått i oppdrag å forestå innkjøpene av kaffe i Santos for denne kjeden, ble han 1919 ansatt i et av datterselskapene. Han grunnla American Coffee Corporation (ACC) og opprettet kontorer for selskapet i store deler av den kaffeproduserende verden. Fra 1924 var han leder av ACCs hovedkontor i New York, to år senere ble han generaldirektør og visepresident i selskapet, og fra 1929 var han selskapets president og visepresident i morselskapet, A&P.

I begynnelsen av 1930-årene hadde A&P 16 000 utsalgssteder i USA og Canada. Særlig sterkt stod kjeden på østkysten av USA. Som leder av ACC importerte han 15 % av USAs kaffeforbruk, dvs. 5 % av verdensforbruket. Berent Friele var på dette tidspunkt verdens største kaffekjøper. Etter den annen verdenskrig avsluttet han sin karriere i American Coffee Corporation, og han tok ikke imot tilbudet, som han etter sigende fikk på sine eldre dager, om å bli president i A&P.

Friele gjorde en stor innsats for å styrke forbindelsene mellom USA og de latinamerikanske statene, særlig Brasil. Fra 1934 var han president i American Brazilian Association. Hans posisjon i Brasil gjorde ham til en effektiv døråpner, noe også Norge nøt godt av i forhandlingene om clearingavtalene med Brasil i 1930-årene, som innebar bytte av kaffe mot norsk klippfisk. Som direksjonsmedlem i Det norske handelskammer i New York kunne han yte norsk næringsliv mange tjenester. Han spilte også en viktig rolle i organiseringen av samarbeidet mellom de kaffeproduserende landene som i løpet av mellomkrigstiden ledet frem til et prisstabiliserende kvotesystem.

Kontakten på topplanet i Brasil klarte Friele å bevare på tross av regimeskiftene som fulgte av de hyppige politiske omveltningene i landet. Hans intime kjennskap til Latin-Amerika, først og fremst til Brasil og Colombia, og hans omfattende kontaktnett gjorde ham til en viktig rådgiver ved utformingen av USAs latinamerikapolitikk. Allerede 1940 tok han permisjon fra forretningen for å tjenestegjøre hos Nelson A. Rockefeller i Federal Office of Inter-American Affairs. Dette ble innledningen til et tett og livslangt samarbeid mellom de to.

Fra 1946 viet Friele hele sin tid til ulike organisasjoner som skulle fremme forståelse og samarbeid mellom USA og statene i Latin-Amerika og dels også yte utviklingsbistand. Flere av disse organisasjonene var etablert og finansiert av Rockefeller-brødrene. Da Rockefeller ble valgt til guvernør i New York 1958, knyttet han Berent Friele til seg som rådgiver i internasjonale spørsmål. Den posisjonen hadde han i hele Rockefellers tid både som guvernør og som USAs visepresident. Friele var også medlem av Council on Foreign Relations, som i en lang periode etter den annen verdenskrig hadde en innflytelsesrik rolle i utformingen av USAs utenrikspolitikk.

Berent Friele fikk flere utmerkelser både i USA og Brasil. 1932 ble han ridder av 1. klasse av St. Olavs Orden “for hans fortjeneste for Norges deltagelse i vinterolympiaden i Lake Placid 1932”. Kilder og litteratur

A. H. Wiesener: Stamtavle over slekten Friele, Bergen 1934
O. Delphin Amundsen: Den kongelige norske Sankt Olavs Orden 1847–1947, 1947
T. Grønlie (red.): Friele 200 år 1799–1999, Bergen 1999
kirkebøkene fra Bergen i Digitalarkivet

Friele, Berent Johan Beyer (I23906)

Kildeinformasjon: Bergen fylke, Bergen by, Dødsfallsprotokoll 13 , 1921-1924, oppb: Statsarkivet i Bergen.
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Beyer, Gudny de Fine von Krogh (I23891)

On 30 Dec 1807 a survey was recorded for Hugh Reynolds for 425 acre tract on waters of Banister River and Tomahawk Creek adjoining land owned by [Balland] Devin, William and Joseph Reynolds (sons of Hugh Reynolds) near the original survey for Robert Neally's 452 acres on Tomahawk Creek and Bannister River

Reynolds, Hugh (I1044)

Pittsylvania County Wills vol. 3 p. 74
Will recorded 9-18-1871.
Buried in Danville at Greenhill Cemetery.

Moore, Calvin B (I18)

The will of James Booker was written on 3 May 1790. Daughter Mary Shepard. Daughter Joanna Woodson, deceased. Son Lewis Booker. Granddaughters Betsy and Nancy Wild, daughters of deceased daughter Ann Wild. Daughter Elizabeth Jeffries. Sons-in-law Jno Webb, Richard Jeffries [and?] Captain Thomas Wood. Signed James Booker, dated 3 May 1790. Witnesses: Francis Hutton Lodge, William Wood, John Croxton, Thomas Wright. Proved 18 June 1793. Probate granted to Lewis Booker. [Essex County, Virginia, Will Book 15, pages 101

Booker, James (I22424)

"May have been born in Gloucester Co., VA. Joseph was a Captain under General George Washington in the French and Indian War. Was a supply agent for the Continental Army in the Revolutionary War." Author: Pannill, Mrs. Fitzhugh Hastings, State Regent Title: The Roster of Texas Daughters Revolutionary Ancestors; Publication: Texas Society, DAR/1976; Title: World of Whitney.

Title: Sons of the American Revolution Patriot Index CD

Motley, Joseph (I213)

Land Processioners in
Bedford County, Virginia, in August 1795
From Court Order Book 11 (1795-1799), pp. 30-32

Ordered that this County be laid off in Districts agreeable to the boundaries of the several Militia Companies for the purpose of processioning all the lands within the limits of said County and the persons nominated in each District shall divide the same into two precincts and in it is Ordered that where the Boundary line of a Company Divides any tract of Land that the processioners in the bounds where the mansion House stands shall perform the business, and, also in the largest part of an unimproven tract of land.

Ordered that Samuel Hancock, Edward Hancock, John Nichols & Levi Squires be appointed [-smudged word-] procession all the lands in the bounds of Capt. Saml. Hancock's Company & to make return thereof to Court according to law.

Lawrence M George, Lewis Turner, John Board, and Jeremiah Meador in Capt. Jos. Board's Company.

Joseph Stith, Benjamin Stith, James Board, & John Dent in Capt Joseph Stith's Company.

Matthew Pate, Thomas Pate, Robert Nimms, & George Scott in Capt John Pate's Company.

William Leftwich Junr., Charles Moorman, William Davis (Jr.), & Admin Turner in Capt. Wm. Leftwich's Company.

Isaac Winfrey, Robert Dallier, John Dearen, and Mordecai Morgen in Capt. Isaac Winfrey's Company.

Stephen Preston, Augustine Leftwich, Wm. Trigg (Col.o) & John Wright (other) in Capt Stephen Preston's Company.

Jesse Leftwich, Silas Garrett, John Coffee, and Wm Pidgeon in Capt Jesse Leftwich's Company.

John Clayton, James Ayres Junr., Edward Terrill & John Murphy Senr. in Capt. John Clayton's Company.

Stephen Hook, William Bagby, William Arthur (Ensign) & William Sutphin in Capt. Stephen Hook's Company.

Henry Buford, John H. Otey, William Ewing & Thomas Campbell in Thomas Campbell's Company.

George Dooley Senr., Wm Quarles Senr., John Dooley Senr. and James Pettross in Capt Wm. Quarles's Company.

John Buford, Robert Sinkler, George Dixon, & Joseph Holt in Capt. John Buford's Company.

Julius Hatcher, Henry Jeter, Joseph Fuqua & Thomas Haynes in Capt. Julius Hatcher's Company.

Col.o Charles Gwatkin, Thomas Hubbard, Charles Jones, & Francis Halley in Capt. Thomas Hubbards Company.

David Saunders, Jabez Leftwich, Isaac Wade, & James Austin in Capt. Jabez Leftwich's Company.

Samuel Mitchell, Michael Graham, Samuel Wilks & Griffin Dobbins in Capt. Saml. Mitchell's Company.

David Jones, John Leftwich, Samuel Clayton, & Jacob Anderson in Capt. David Jones's Company.

Simon Miller, William Miller, Benjamin Robinson, and David North in Capt. Simon Miller's Company.

Ordered that William Burton, Charles Bright, Junr., James Gatewood, & Robert Price be app.d Processioners in Capt. William Burton's Company.
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Fuqua, Joseph (I15123)

Name: Rawleigh Travers Sex: M
Birth: 1622 in England
Death: BEF 14 MAY 1670 in Lancaster County, Virginia
Name: Rawleigh TRAVERS
Surname: Travers
Given Name: Rawleigh
Sex: M
Death: BEF 14 May 1670 in Richmond, Virginia, USA
Note:
. RAWLEIGH1 TRAVERS married Elizabeth (--?--) circa 1655. He died before 14 May 1670 in Richmond County, Virginia.· On 9 Mar 1653 in Virginia Rawleigh Travers, received 300 a on south side Rappa. River, 2 miles s'ly from James Bagnal; trsp. 6 persons. (Nugent, CP I:241). · On 6 Dec 1653 in Lancaster County, Virginia. He received a POA from Tho Paine to sue Moore Fauntleroy. (Fleet, VCA I:190) · On 5 Feb 1654/55 in Lancaster County, Virginia Nich. Forman was to view Mr. Raleigh Travers' tobacco house and report. (Fleet, VCA I:191). · On 19 Apr 1655 in Lancaster County, Virginia, Tho. Purifye to Raughley Travers, 650 a. (Duvall, VCA S2V2, p. 50). · On 24 Oct 1665 in Westmoreland County, Virginia, Raleigh Travers, 3, 650 acres: 3350 acres on the s side of Potomac Riv. SSW of Pot. Cr. & NE upon a maine SW upon the head of a br at said Cr. which divides this land & Land commonly known by the name of the fort land, ESE. 300 acres upon head of a br of Pot. Cr NE against land of Capt Brent, SE upon land of John Withers. Granted to Gerrard Fowke 18 Nov 1662 and assigned to Travers 11 Nov 1663. (Nugent, CP IP 535-536). · In 1667 in Lancaster County, Virginia, John Carpenter and Mary his wife, extrx of the will of Anthony Stevens, heir apparent of the sd. Anthony, sold 500 acres call ...Fairweather, to Raleigh Travers. (Lancaster County, DB 4:35). · In Mar 1669 in Lancaster County, Virginia, Rawleigh Travers to John Chinn, Qtr part of the mill lying at the head of Morratico Creek. Signed Ra:Travers & Elizabeth Travers. (Duvall, VCA S2V2 p. 43). · On 11 May 1670 in Lancaster County, Virginia, Elizabeth Travers, POA, to cousin Will Travers re mill sold to John Chinn. Wit. Robert Beckingham and James Lane. (Duvall, VCA S2V2 p. 43).

The five known children of Rawleigh1 Travers and Elizabeth (--?--) were as follows:

i. JOHN TRAVERS was born circa 1656. · He was was named as the oldest son of Mr. Raleigh Travers, deceased, in a suit against the estate on 10 Mar 1674/75 in Lancaster County, Virginia.

ii. RAWLEIGH TRAVERS, born circa 1658; married Hannah Ball.

iii. MILLION TRAVERS, born circa 1660 in Gloucester County, Virginia; married William Downman.

iv. GILES TRAVERS, born circa 1662; married Anne Waugh.

v. ELIZABETH TRAVERS was born circa 1664. She married 1 John Carter Jr. She married 2 Christopher Wormeley. She died in 1693/94 inMiddlesex County, Virginia. 12 Nov 1693 Middlesex Co.,Va., Will of Elizabeth Wormeley, Rec. 5 Mar 1693: Mother: Mrs. Elizabeth Spencer; Sister: Million Downman; Brother: RawleighTravers; Brother: Giles Travers; Children of sister Million Downman: Wilmoth Downman, Million Downman the younger, Elizabeth Downman, Husband: Christopher Wormeley, his children: Judith Wormeley, Thomas Wormeley, William Wormeley. (Hopkins, Middlesex Wills & Inv. 1673-1812, p.54).Marriage 1 Mrs. Elizabeth TRAVERS
Married: AFT Nov 1654 in Lancaster, Virginia, USA
Children
Giles TRAVERS b: AFT 1654 in Lancaster, Virginia, USA
Rawleigh TRAVERS b: 1658 in Lancaster, Virginia, USA
John TRAVERS b: 1656 in Lancaster, Virginia, USA
Million TRAVERS b: 1660 in Gloucester, Virginia, USAElizabeth TRAVERS b: 1664 in Lancaster, Virginia, USA

Name: Mrs. Elizabeth TRAVERSSurname: Travers
Given Name: Mrs. Elizabeth
Sex: F
Note:
ELIZABETH (--?--), the wife of Rawleigh Travers. Her maiden name has not been found. · She married 1 Thomas Stephens. On 17 Nov 1654 in Lancaster County, Virginia: Thomas Stephens, late of this colony died intestate and Elizabeth Stephens, his relict, was granted administration of his estate by the Gov. · She married 2 Raleigh Travers. On 14 Dec 1670 in Lancaster County, Virginia,: Commission of administration on the estate of Mr. Raleigh Travers, deceased, was granted to Elizabeth, his widow and relict. On 14 Dec 1670 in Lancaster County, Virginia,: Dominick Therriott by Elizabeth the now wife of Robt. Beckingham and late widow of Mr. Raleigh Travers became security for the sd. Elizabeth for the Administration on the estate of her late husband Raleigh Travers, and Robert Beckingham and John Chyn gave bond for the Adm. 31 Dec 1672. · She married 3 Robert Beckingham before 14 Dec 1670 in Lancaster County, Virginia. On 24 Nov 1671 in General Court of, Virginia, Elizabeth , as Mrs. Elizabeth Beckingham, was ordered by the court to testify whether some land held in controversie had been the property of her first husband, Thomas Stevens, or whether the property had been purchased by her second husband, Mr. Rawleigh Travers. (McIlwaine, Minutes of the Council & General Court of Colonial Virginia, pp. 270, 271, 287). On 8 Mar 1675/76 in Lancaster County, Virginia,: probate of the will of Mr. Robert Beckingham, deceased, was granted to Mrs. Elizabeth Beckingham, the widow & relict · She married 4 Thomas WILKES circa 1677 in Lancaster County, Virginia. On 4 Jun 1677 in Lancaster County, Virginia,: an inventory of the estate of Robert Beckingham was admitted to court by Mrs. Elizabeth Wilke, being the relict of Robert Beckingham, deceased. On 4 Jul 1686 in Lancaster County, Virginia,: an inventory of the estate of Thomas WILKS was presented to court by Eliza WILKES. Will Book 5:104, rec. 16 Jul 1686. On 8 Feb 1687/88 in Richmond County, Virginia, Mr. Raleigh Travers, a member of the county court, appeared in behalf of his mother, Mrs. Elizabeth WILKES. · She married 5 George Spencer. (12 Nov 1693 Middlesex Co.,Va., Will of Elizabeth Wormeley, Rec. 5 Mar 1693: Mother:Mrs. Elizabeth Spencer.) · She married 6 William Mann. On 4 Feb 1696 in Richmond County, Virginia,: William MAnne as marrying the relict of George Spencer is granted an attachment against the estate of Samuel Jordan. (Boddie, HSF, Vol. 2, p. 255). On 15 Feb 1697 in Lancaster County, Virginia, Mrs. Elizabeth Man, the wife of Mr. Wm. Man, of this county personally appeared before us, Capt. David Fox & Capt. Richard Nusom, Justices of ye peace for this county -- she doth freely of her own accord & free will & without any compulsion or threatening acknowledge ye bill of sale made to William Draper, his heirs... for ye mill called Foxes mill as she hath formerly appointed her attorneys Mr. Charles Harris & Mr. John Tavenor to doe for her .... (Sparacio, Will Abstracts of Lancaster County, Virginia 1690-1709, p. 63). On 7 Mar 1697 in Lancaster County, Virginia, Know all men by these presents I Elizabeth Man of Lancaster County, in Virginia doo authorize and appoint Joseph Tayloe my true and lawfull Attourney for me ... indenture of sale of part of Morraticon Mill ... Wit. Samll Jones, Wm. Downman. Signed Elizth: (her mark) Man.
Marriage 1 Rawleigh TRAVERS
Married: AFT Nov 1654 in Lancaster, Virginia, USA
Children
Giles TRAVERS b: AFT 1654 in Lancaster, Virginia, USA
Rawleigh TRAVERS b: 1658 in Lancaster, Virginia, USA
John TRAVERS b: 1656 in Lancaster, Virginia, USA
Million TRAVERS b: 1660 in Gloucester, Virginia, USA
Elizabeth TRAVERS b: 1664 in Lancaster, Virginia, USAMillion TRAVERS b: 1660 in Gloucester, Virginia, USA

Marriage 2 Thomas STEPHENS

Marriage 3 Robert BECKINGHAMMarried: BEF 14 Dec 1670 in Lancaster, Virginia, USA

Marriage 4 Thomas WILKESMarried: 1677 in Lancaster, Virginia, USA

Marriage 5 George SPENCERMarried: AFT 1686

Marriage 6 William MAnne b: 17 Apr 1677 in Willington, Beds., Engl.Married: ABT 1693
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URL (Click on link) http://image.lva.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/GetLONN.pl?first=521&last=&g_p=P5&collection=LO Patent
Title Traverse, Raleigh.
Publication 24 October 1665.
Other Format Available on microfilm. Virginia State Land Office. Patents 1-42, reels 1-41.
Note Location: Westmoreland County.
Description: 3650 acres on the south side of Potomack River bounded S. S. W. upon Potomack Creek. Source: Land Office Patents No. 5, 1661-1666 (v.1 & 2 p.1-369), p. 521 (Reel 5).

===CAVALIERS AND PIONEERS PATENT BOOK No. 3; Pg 240
RAWLEIGH TRAVERS, 300 acs. on the S. side of Rappa. River., about 2 mi. Sly. from the plantation of Mr. James &gnat, 9 Mar. 1653, p. 28. Trans. of 6 pers: Mary Marloe, Jon. Heath, Antho., Negro, Margt., Negro; & 100 acs. by assignment from Mr. Spry to Mr. Bagnall, wch. was found lesse than the bounds of a former patient mentioned.
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CAVALIERS AND PIONEERS PATENT BOOK No. 4; Pg 333
MR. JOHN PAINE, 610 acs. on the head of the Eastern Br. of Pepoticke Cr. on N. side of Rappa. Riv. 6 Oct. 1656, p. 42, (64). Trans. of 13 pers: Marga. Paine, Jno. Paine, Junr., Wm. Emaston, Morris Williams, Elizabeth Pusie, Jno. Capell, Raughley Travers, Rich. Peacocke, Mary Smith, Law. Thompson, Wm. Walker, Tho. Jelly.
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CAVALIERS AND PIONEERS PATENT BOOK No. 4; Pg 358
CAPT. EDWARD STREATER, 3000 acs. Westmoreland Co., 19 Mar. 1657, p. 143, (210). Upon S. side of Patomeck Riv. at the head of Niopsco Cr., N. E. upon Ochaquim Riv., S. E. to Freston pointe, to Mussell Island. Granted unto Elizabeth Burbage 30 Mar. 1655 but now deserted for want of seating & now granted for trans. of 60 pers: Miles Atkinson, Wm. Brickwell, Rich. Hogson, Thompson Symons, Wm. Massinborne, Eliz. Hooper, Jno. Ward, Jno. Debarr, Mary Benfor, Rob. Niccolls, Rich. Goodman, Jno. Throught, Wm. Higginbottom, Jno. Morgan, Bryan Harkin, Rich. Stanton, Donaugho Bryan, Wm. Stephens, Wm. Sharpe, Eliz. Brooke, Dennis Shollman, Edwd. Jones, Edwd. Tanner, Roger Preston, Tho. Beedes, Robert Mason, Wm. Wildy (or Wildes), Andrew Bonny (?), Elia. Ackers, Rob. Brenore, Wm. Mundy, Rowland Trevers, Edmond Methoe, Wm. Hurden, Clemence Herbert, Paul Waller, Garrett Sennett, Edwd. Legge, Wm. Paine, Roger Wilkins, Margarett Davis, Mary Leamore, Jno. Clerke, Jno. Henland, George Merritt, Rich. Browne, Rob. Younge, Tho. Ringe, Wm. Webb, Jno. Tunstead, Jno. Mackey, Fra. Stephens, Sam. Yates, Nath. Pally, Jno. Peury, Wm. Breeham, Wm. Greens, Richard Nelmes, Wm. Rayle, Wm. Clemence.
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CAVALIERS AND PIONEERS PATENT BOOK No. 4; Pg 374RAWLEIGH TRAVERS 300 acs. on S. side of Rappa. Riv., about 2 mi. from the plantation of Mr. James Bagnall. 15 Oct. 1657, p. 202, (295). Renewal of patent dated 9 Mar. 1653. The following names appear: Samuel! Cole, Tho. Goodry, John Granger, Eliz. Packing- ton, Thomas Arther, Tho. Tillett.

MR. RALEIGH TRAVERSE, 3650 acs. W'moreland Co., 24 Oct. 1665, p.1, (521). 3350 acs. on S. side of Potomack Riv., S.S.W. on Potomack Cr. &c. N.E. upon a maine Sw. upon the head of a br. at sd. Cr. which divides this & land commonly known by the name of the fort land, E.S.E. &c; 300 acs. upon the head of a br. of Potomack Cr. &c. N.E. against land of Capt. Brent, S.E. upon land of Jno. Withers. Granted unto Col. Gerrard Fowke 18 Nov. 1662 & assigned to sd. Travers 11 Nov. 1663.
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CAVALIERS AND PIONEERS PATENT BOOK No. 6; Pg 50
MR. RAWLEIGH TRAVERS, 580 acs. S. side Rappa. Co., aboute 3 mi. from the Riv., 12 Sept. 1668, p. 194. Beg. nere a run of Occupaso Cr., adj Cornelius Nowell, & Vall. Allin, to E'wd. of Chickahomani Path, towards Potobaco Towne &c, Trans. of 12 pers: Eliz. Hall, Geo. Hearne, Jane Strydick, An Lorkin, Robt. Metcale, Aug. Sanderson, Geo Spivy, James Young, Eliz. Jones, Eli. Uty, Jane Blundall, Eliz. Plume.
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CAVALIERS AND PIONEERS PATENT BOOK No. 6; Pg 79MR. JOHN BLAGRAVE, 800 acs. Staff. Co.. S. side of Oquia Cr.. adj. Mr. Edward Sanders, the maine run of Aquokeeke Cr.. Mr. Rowland Travers, &c; 25 Oct. 1669, p. 309. Trans. of 16 pers: Ann Chapman. James Gregory, Tho. Gibson, Morris Filcher, Hen. Lee, Jno. Bright. Tho. Allen, Alice Hamford, Dorothy Rowles. Mich. Hollis, Robt. Humfryes, Jno. Pell. Jno. Watts, Rich. Jones, Rich. Watts, Sara Beverly.

Marriage 1 Female MNU Travers
Married: ABT 1642 in England
Children William Travers b: 1644 in England

Marriage 2 Elizabeth {Unproven} Hussey b: ABT 1637 in EnglandMarried: AFT 17 NOV 1654 in Lancaster County, Virginia
Children
John Travers b: 1656 in Lancaster County, Virginia
Rawleigh Travers b: 1660 in Lancaster County, Virginia
Giles Travers b: ABT 1661 in Lancaster County, Virginia
Million Travers b: 1660 in Lancaster County, Virginia
Elizabeth Travers b: ABT 1660 in Lancaster County, Virginia

Travers, Rawleigh (I767)

Richard S. Forrest was born 1721/45 Nottoway Parish, Amelia, VA. He married Elizabeth Oliver.Richard Forrest may have died in Halifax, VA. Their known children are: Judith and Elizabeth.

Richard S. Forrest is the son of Abraham Forrest b.1675 in Nottoway Parish, Amelia, VA. It is believed that Abraham Forrest married Judith Billups b. ca 1680; daughter of George Billups of Amelia County born 1630 and died 1662 and wife, Sarah. Abraham Forrest died before 22 Feb 1759 in Amelia, VA. Children of Abraham and Judith are: Richard S., Abraham, George, John, Elizabeth, Mary, Joyce and Ann. Abraham Forrest's will was proven by the oaths of Henry Ward, Joseph Brown and Lawrence Brown. His wife, Judith, was executor of his will.

Abraham Forrest is the son of John Forrest and Ann Long. John Forrest was born about 1650 in VA. Children of John Forrest and Ann Long are: Abraham, John and Richard.

John Forrest is the son of Henry Forrest and Elizabeth Cheesman. Henry was born about 1623 probably in England, but perhaps in Jamestown.. He died in VA. Elizabeth Cheesman was probably born in England around 1630. Children of Henry and Elizabeth are: John and Edmond. Henry was granted land in Gloucester, VA in 1658 which was passed to his sons: John and Edmund. It is possible that this Henry Forrest is descended from or related to Thomas Forrest of Jamestown 1608.

Ann Long was born ca 1650 probably in VA. She is the daughter of Richard Long b. ca 1620 probably in England and Sarah English who was born ca 1620 probably in England. A Richard Long, born 1591 in England died in the Isle of Wight, VA. He married an Alice who was born 1601 in England. This Richard had issue:Robert. It is possible that Richard was also connected to this Richard Long.

James Wade was born about 1697 in Amelia, VA. He married Elizabeth, possibly Ballinger. James and Elizabeth probably died in Goochland, VA. James and Elizabeth had children: Angelica, Robert, James, Philip and John.

James Wade was the son of James Wade and wife Mary Hampton, daughter of Rev. Thomas Hampton. James Wade was born about 1660 in VA (possibly Amelia). He died in 1740 in Hanover, VA. James and Mary had the following children: James, Henry, Margaret, Edward, Andrew, Richard, Robert, John, William and Sarah.

Forrest, Abraham (I5243)

"John Cave's will was dated August 6, 1714 and proved in 1721 at Stafford County Court; it was recorded in now lost Will Book "K", page 2. He devised 200 acres of land on Axton's Run and adjoining the property of John Gowry and Giles Travers to his son John Cave but he "died so that the above mentioned land fell and reverted to "David Cave of Orange County who was joined by his wife Sarah in conveying the said property to
Keene Withers of Hamilton Parish, Prince William County, on September 12, 1748."

("The Register of Overwharton Parish, Stafford County, Virginia 1723-1758 and Sundry Historical and Genealogical Notes," George Harrison SanfordKing, 1961, p. 247)

Importer of fine wine, he and John Echols sponsored settlers to come to Virginia by paying their transportation for which they received headrights for fifty acres.

Cave, John III (I26604)

"Mayflower" Ship Log of 1st days at sea

Excerpt from Azel Ames, M.D.'s "The May-flower and her Log" . It was released 7 Oct. 2006 and produced by David Widger as an eBook. It takes place from July 15, 1620-May 6, 1621 and is mostly from original sources. It can be found here---

http://www.gutenberg.org/files/410 7/4107-h/4107-h.htm#image-0003

TUESDAY, Sept. 5/Sept. 15 At anchor in Plymouth roadstead. Ready for
sea.

WEDNESDAY, Sept. 6/Sept. 16
Weighed anchor. Wind E.N.E., a fine gale.
Laid course W.S.W. for northern coasts of
Virginia.
THURSDAY, Sept. 7/Sept. 17
Comes in with wind E.N.E. Light gale
continues. Made all sail on ship.

FRIDAY, Sept. 8/Sept. 18
Comes in with wind E.N.E. Gale continues.
All sails full.

SATURDAY, Sept. 9/Sept. 19
Comes in with wind E.N E. Gale holds.
Ship well off the land.

SUNDAY, Sept. 10/Sept. 20 Comes in with wind E.N.E. Gale holds.
Distance lost, when ship bore up for
Plymouth, more than regained.

MONDAY, Sept. 11/Sept. 21
Same; and so without material change, the
daily record of wind, weather, and the
ship's general course—the repetition of
which would be both useless and wearisome
—continued through the month and until the
vessel was near half the seas over. Fine
warm weather and the "harvest-moon." The
usual equinoctial weather deferred.

SATURDAY, Sept. 23/Oct. 3 One of the seamen, some time sick with a
grievous disease, died in a desperate manner.
The first death and burial at sea of the
voyage.

[We can readily imagine this first burial at sea on the MAY FLOWER,
and its impressiveness. Doubtless the good Elder "committed the
body to the deep" with fitting ceremonial, for though the young man
was of the crew, and not of the Pilgrim company, his reverence for
death and the last rites of Christian burial would as surely impel
him to offer such services, as the rough, buccaneering Master (Jones
would surely be glad to evade them).

MONDAY Nov. 6/16
William Butten; a youth, servant to Doctor
Samuel Fuller, died. The first of the
passengers to die on this voyage.

MONDAY Nov. 7/17Must be Tuesday The body of William Butten committed to the
deep. The first burial at sea of a
passenger, on this voyage.

MONDAY Nov. 8/18
Must be Wednesday
Signs of land.

MONDAY Nov. 9/19
Must be Thursday
Closing in with the land at nightfall.
Sighted land at daybreak. The landfall
made out to be Cape Cod the bluffs [in what
is now the town of Truro, Mass.]. After a
conference between the Master of the ship
and the chief colonists, tacked about and
stood for the southward. Wind and weather
fair. Made our course S.S.W., continued
proposing to go to a river ten leagues
south of the Cape Hudson's River. After
had sailed that course about half the day
fell amongst dangerous shoals and foaming
breakers [the shoals off Monomoy] got out of
them before night and the wind being
contrary put round again for the Bay of
Cape Cod. Abandoned efforts to go further
south and so announced to passengers.

[Bradford (Historie, Mass. ed. p. 93) says: "They resolved to bear
up again for the Cape." No one will question that Jones's assertion
of inability to proceed, and his announced determination to return
to Cape Cod harbor, fell upon many acquiescent ears, for, as Winslow
says: "Winter was come; the seas were dangerous; the season was
cold; the winds were high, and the region being well furnished for a
plantation, we entered upon discovery." Tossed for sixty-seven days
on the north Atlantic at that season of the year, their food and
firing well spent, cold, homesick, and ill, the bare thought of once
again setting foot on any land, wherever it might be, must have been
an allurement that lent Jones potential aid in his high-handed
course.]

SATURDAY Nov. 11/21
Comes in with light, fair wind. On course
for Cape Cod harbor, along the coast. Some
hints of disaffection among colonists, on
account of abandonment of location

[Bradford (in Mourt's Relation) says: "This day before we come to
harbor Italics the author's, observing some not well affected to
unity and concord, but gave some appearance of faction, it was
thought good there should be an Association and Agreement that we
should combine together in one body; and to submit to such
Government and Governors as we should, by common consent, agree to
make and choose, and set our hands to this that follows word for
word." Then follows the Compact. Bradford is even more explicit in
his Historie (Mass. ed. p. 109), where he says: "I shall a little
returne backe and begin with a combination made by them before they
came ashore, being ye first foundation of their governments in this
place; occasioned partly by ye discontent & mutinous speeches that
some of the strangers amongst them [i.e. not any of the Leyden
contingent had let fall from them in ye ship—That when they came
ashore they would use their owne libertie: for none had power to
command them, the patents they had being for Virginia, and not for
New-England which belonged to another Government, with which ye
London [or First Virginia Company had nothing to doe, and partly
that such an acte by them done . . . might be as firm as any
patent, and in some respects more sure." Dr. Griffis is hardly
warranted in making Bradford to say, as he does (The Pilgrims in
their Three Homes, p. 182), that "there were a few people I
'shuffled' in upon them the company who were probably unmitigated
scoundrels." Bradford speaks only of Billington and his family as
those "shuffled into their company," and while he was not improbably
one of the agitators (with Hopkins) who were the proximate causes of
the drawing up of the Compact, he was not, in this case, the
responsible leader. It is evident from the foregoing that the
"appearance of faction" did not show itself until the vessel's prow
was turned back toward Cape Cod Harbor, and it became apparent that
the effort to locate "near Hudson's River" was to be abandoned, and
a location found north of 41 degrees north latitude, which would
leave them without charter rights or authority of any kind. It is
undoubtedly history that Master Stephen Hopkins,—then "a
lay-reader" for Chaplain Buck,—on Sir Thomas Gates's expedition to
Virginia, had, when some of them were cast away on the Bermudas,
advocated just such sentiments—on the same basis—as were now
bruited upon the MAY-FLOWER, and it could hardly have been
coincidence only that the same were repeated here. That Hopkins
fomented the discord is well-nigh certain. It caused him, as
elsewhere noted, to receive sentence of death for insubordination,
at the hands of Sir Thomas Gates, in the first instance, from which
his pardon was with much difficulty procured by his friends. In the
present case, it led to the drafting and execution of the Pilgrim
Compact, a framework of civil self-government whose fame will never
die; though the author is in full accord with Dr. Young (Chronicles,
p. 120) in thinking that "a great deal more has been discovered in
this document than the signers contemplated,"—wonderfully
comprehensive as it is. Professor Herbert B. Adams, of Johns
Hopkins University, says in his admirable article in the Magazine of
American History, November, 1882 (pp—798 799): "The fundamental
idea of this famous document was that of a contract based upon the
common law of England,"—certainly a stable and ancient basis of
procedure. Their Dutch training (as Griffis points out) had also
led naturally to such ideas of government as the Pilgrims adopted.
It is to be feared that Griffis's inference (The Pilgrims in their
Three Homes, p. 184), that all who signed the Compact could write,
is unwarranted. It is more than probable that if the venerated
paper should ever be found, it would show that several of those
whose names are believed to have been affixed to it "made their
'mark.'" There is good reason, also, to believe that neither
"sickness" (except unto death) nor "indifference" would have
prevented the ultimate obtaining of the signatures (by "mark," if
need be) of every one of the nine male servants who did not
subscribe, if they were considered eligible. Severe illness was, we
know, answerable for the absence of a few, some of whom died a few
days later.

The fact seems rather to be, as noted, that age—not social status
was the determining factor as to all otherwise eligible. It is
evident too, that the fact was recognized by all parties (by none so
clearly as by Master Jones) that they were about to plant themselves
on territory not within the jurisdiction of their steadfast friends,
the London Virginia Company, but under control of those formerly of
the Second (Plymouth) Virginia Company, who (by the intelligence
they received while at Southampton) they knew would be erected into
the "Council for the Affairs of New England." Goodwin is in error
in saying (Pilgrim Republic, p. 62), "Neither did any other body
exercise authority there;" for the Second Virginia Company under Sir
Ferdinando Gorges, as noted, had been since 1606 in control of this
region, and only a week before the Pilgrims landed at Cape Cod (i.e.
on November 3) King James had signed the patent of the Council for
New England, giving them full authority over all territory north of
the forty-first parallel of north latitude, as successors to the
Second Virginia Company. If the intention to land south of the
forty-first parallel had been persisted in, there would, of course,
have been no occasion for the Compact, as the patent to John Pierce
(in their interest) from the London Virginia Company would have been
in force. The Compact became a necessity, therefore, only when they
turned northward to make settlement above 41 deg. north latitude.
Hence it is plain that as no opportunity for "faction"—and so no
occasion for any "Association and Agreement"—existed till the
MAY-FLOWER turned northward, late in the afternoon of Friday,
November to, the Compact was not drawn and presented for signature
until the morning of Saturday, November 11. Bradford's language,
"This day, before we came into harbour," leaves no room for doubt
that it was rather hurriedly drafted—and also signed—before noon
of the 11th. That they had time on this winter Saturday—hardly
three weeks from the shortest day in the year—to reach and
encircle the harbor; secure anchorage; get out boats; arm, equip,
and land two companies of men; make a considerable march into the
land; cut firewood; and get all aboard again before dark, indicates
that they must have made the harbor not far from noon. These facts
serve also to correct another error of traditional Pilgrim history,
which has been commonly current, and into which Davis falls
(Ancient Landmarks of Plymouth, p. 60), viz. that the Compact was
signed "in the harbor of Cape Cod." It is noticeable that the
instrument itself simply says, "Cape Cod," not "Cape Cod harbour,"
as later they were wont to say. The leaders clearly did not mean
to get to port till there was a form of law and authority.]

Allerton, Remember (I26526)

'Seventeenth Century Colonial Ancestors'
In Supplement #2, Page 23 lists Fouquet, Guillame (ca 1667-ca1698) VA; m. Jane Eyre. Transportee.

Book of members of the 'National Society Colonial Dames XV11 Century' 1915-1975. Compiled by Mary Louise Marshall Hulton.

Fouquet, Guillaume (I25869)

Begravede 1842 Lavik
No 30
Döds Dat: 3d Juli
Jordf. Dat: 9d Do
Den Begravedes fulde Navn og Stand: Frue Majorinde Anne Catharine Fasting, födt Tuchsen
Alder: 77 Aar
Opholdsted: Ortnevig (Nedre ........)
Kilde:
https://media.digitalarkivet.no/view/11560/115
Skannede kirkebøker
Sogn og Fjordane
Lavik: 1821-1842, Ministerialbok
Døde og begravede 1842 (475)
Folio 478

PS:
Ortnevik og Vik ligger på sydsiden av Sognefjorden.
Kyrkjebø, Høyanger og Måren ligger på nordsiden av Sognefjorden. Det gjør også Lavik, men lenger vest.

Tuchsen, Anne Catharine (I39527)

Bio
Mary Norris was probably about 30 years old when she came to Plymouth on the Mayflower in 1620, estimated from the known age of her husband, and on her known marriage date. She married Isaac Allerton in Leiden, Holland in 1611, one of the first marriages amongst the Pilgrims after they had fled to Holland from England. Her marriage record indicates she was from Newbury, perhaps Newbury, Berkshire, England. She had children Bartholomew, Remember and Mary in Leiden, all of whom came on the Mayflower with her. She and Isaac buried a child, not yet named, at St. Peters, Leiden on 5 February 1620, and she gave birth to a stillborn son ten months later, on board the Mayflower in Plymouth Harbor, on 22 December 1620.
Mary died on 25 February 1621, during the height of the first winter when half the Mayflower passengers and crew died. Her husband Isaac, and her three children Bartholomew, Remember, and Mary, all survived, however. Isaac would later remarry to Fear Brewster, daughter of Plymouth's Elder William Brewster.
Source: Mayflower History Web Site, http://www.mayflowerhistory.com/Passengers/MaryNorris.php

Norris, Mary Leigh (I26528)

Chalk Family of England & America: 1066-1942

In the Chalk Family book, page 68, Jacob Rutledge and two others have been bonded to serve as administrators in the estate of John Chalk on 25 Sep 1810. On pages 77 and 78 a number of dees passed from Chocke family members to the Rutledges including: Bennett Chocke to John W Rutledge in 1826, 1827, and 1828; John, George, Tudor, Mary, Margaret, and Sarah Chocke to Abraham Rutledge in 1784; and Tudor Chalk to Jacob Rutledge in 1814. On page 80 reference is made to a note received from Oran Lee Chalk dated April 1942 that gave the following information: "In the history of Harford County, Maryland, Charles Bakers Company No. 15, Maryland Militia, raised to fight the British for freedon, in the roster under date of January 27, 1776, we find the names of John Chalk and George Chalk." In this same history by Preston: "Ruffs Chance was one half a square mile in area and was patented in 1714 by Richard Ruff. Part of the house near Upper Cross Roads was occupied by John Randolph Rutledge and was erected before the time of the Revolution when the property was purchased by Abraham Rutledge, (father of Ignatius Wheeler?). The house was built by a man named Jacob Rutledge who married Monica, daughter of Colonel Chalk. Incidentally, the Rutledges, Hollands, and Stephensons were related." John Rutledge transported himself to this country in 1640." In Preston History of Harford County, Maryland, 1901. Ruffs Chance was one square mile in area and was patented in 1714 by Richard Ruff. Part of the house near upper Cross Roads now occupied by Mr. John Randolph Rutledge, was erected before the time of the Revolution when the property was purchased by Abraham Rutledge, father of Ignatius Wheeler. The house was built by a man named Jacob Rutledge, who married Monica, daughter of Col. Chalk. The name as shown in the book is Col. Ignatius Wheeler. Further on in the history of Col. Wheeler it says: The farm called Garden Spot, belonging to the late Joshua Rutledge, near the rocks of Deer Creek, belonged to Col. Wheeler who was an ancestor of Mr. Rutledge. John Rutledge was a member of the Grand Jury 1798, Overseer from Thos. Bonds on the Little falls of the Gunpowder to upper Cross Roads. William Rutledge enrolled by Lieut. Asell Hitchcock, July 25, 1776. Col. Ignatius Wheeler, a very prominent man in Harford County, who liveed on his estate called Deer Park. He was first Lieutenant of Comp 16, Harford Militia. Besides Deer Park, Col. Wheeler owned the estate called Belle Farm. A large portion of the Belle Farm is now owned by the Jenkins and McAtee families, who are direct descendants of Col. Wheeler. In the Maryland legislature of 1786, 1787 Col. Wheeler was one of the delegates from Harford County. He died on his estate, Deer Park, August 1793 and his will is dated dated July 13, 1793. Recorded in office Register of Wills, Harford County, Liber., A. J. R. Folio, 217. His children were Monica, who married Jacob Rutledge, whose decendants are now living in Harford County. Rutledges, Stephensons, and Hollands. John W. Rutledge and Ignatius Rutledge were her sons. Anopther child Teresa married Capt. Henry McAtee, Henrietta remained single. Mary Ann (Polly) married Samuel Brown who after her death married her sister Elizabeth. In Maryland Colonial Statistics & Judices compiled by Annie Walker Burns, Annapolis, Maryland, 1936, page 39, Will of John Chalk, September 8, 1776, wife Castor, son-in-law William Crandle-to my children-probated October 20, 1777. Same source-Will to my sister, Margaret Chalk. Same authority-John Chocke Baltimore County 1765-1766. John Rutledge Baltimore Co. 1763. Hannah Rutledge Baltimore Co. 1765. John Caulk Kent County. John Choke, Ann Arundel County 1744. I can find no evidence that links Monica Rutledge nee Wheeler, daughter of Ignatius Wheeler Jr. to the Chalk Family. References here that she is the daughter of Col Chalk must be incorrect and the person suggesting that probably meant Col. Wheeler.

Rutledge, Jacob (I27056)

Clarice Fitzer; A funeral will be at 11 a.m. Friday, Feb. 8, 2002, in the Lake Oswego Stake Center of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints for Clarice Fitzer, who died Feb. 2 at age 81.

Mrs. Fitzer was born Clarice Smith on July 14, 1920, in Los Angeles. She was an assistant librarian in Palmdale, Calif., before retiring and moving to Scappoose in 1977. In 1944, she married Milton Fitzer; he died in 1993.

Su rvivors include her sons, Michael and Stephen; daughters, Carole Cook and Gayle Travis; sister, Beverly Pope; 15 grandchildren; and 21 great-grandchildren.

The Oregonian; Fri 08 Feb 2002; Sunrise Edition; pg C08

Smith, Clarice Lillian (I27603)

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

Travers, Rawleigh (I769)

Death
In 813, Charlemagne called Louis the Pious, king of Aquitaine, his only surviving legitimate son, to his court. There he crowned him with his own hands as co-emperor and sent him back to Aquitaine. He then spent the autumn hunting before returning to Aachen on 1 November. In January, he fell ill with pleurisy. He took to his bed on 21 January and as Einhard tells it:

He died January twenty-eighth, the seventh day from the time that he took to his bed, at nine o'clock in the morning, after partaking of the Holy Communion, in the seventy-second year of his age and the forty-seventh of his reign.

Frederick II's gold and silver casket for Charlemagne
He was buried on the day of his death, in Aachen Cathedral, although the cold weather and the nature of his illness made such a hurried burial unnecessary. The earliest surviving planctus, the Planctus de obitu Karoli, was composed by a monk of Bobbio, which he had patronised. A later story, told by Otho of Lomello, Count of the Palace at Aachen in the time of Otto III, would claim that he and Emperor Otto had discovered Charlemagne's tomb: the emperor, they claimed, was seated upon a throne, wearing a crown and holding a sceptre, his flesh almost entirely incorrupt. In 1165, Frederick I re-opened the tomb again, and placed the emperor in a sarcophagus beneath the floor of the cathedral. In 1215 Frederick II would re-inter him in a casket made of gold and silver.

Charlemagne's death greatly affected many of his subjects, particularly those of the literary clique who had surrounded him at Aachen. An anonymous monk of Bobbio lamented:

“From the lands where the sun rises to western shores, People are crying and wailing...the Franks, the Romans, all Christians, are stung with mourning and great worry...the young and old, glorious nobles, all lament the loss of their Caesar...the world laments the death of Charles...O Christ, you who govern the heavenly host, grant a peaceful place to Charles in your kingdom. Alas for miserable me.”
He was succeeded by his surviving son, Louis, who had been crowned the previous year. His empire lasted only another generation in its entirety; its division, according to custom, between Louis's own sons after their father's death laid the foundation for the modern states of France and Germany.

Charlemagne, Emperor Charles I Emperor Of The Holy Roman Empire (I36657)

DIED - In Manchester, on the 7th inst., of disease of the liver, Phebe Covill, wife of Joseph Covill, aged 63

years. http://ontario.nygenweb.net/marriagedeathnoticeontariomessenger1859.htm

Stringer, Phoebe Elizabeth (I27743)

Early parishes and hundreds, Baltimore County, Md., including tax lists, years 1692, 1694, 1695

Two source citations from Early parishes and hundreds, Baltimore County, Md., including tax lists, years 1692, 1694, 1695 show a connection between Edward Rutledge (Rutlidge) and John Ferry. In 1670 John Boreing transported his daughter Ann Boreing, along with several other men to Maryland as colonists, one of whom was Edward Rutledge (Rutlidge). Edward R. married Ann B. Ann Boreing's parents are John Boreing and Anne Sawyer. After John Boreing's death, his wife marries John Ferry. The above source citation shows tax lists with Edward Rutledge listed under John Ferry. I'm not sure why, but perhaps Edward and wife Ann B. are renting from Ann's mother now remarried to John Ferry. John 2 Boreing died in 1690, a few years before these tax records. John Ferry died in 1698.

Rutledge, Edward (I27067)

Excerpt from "Pittsylvania's Eighteenth Century Grist Mills" by Herman Melton

page 102-105

JEREMIAH WHITE: PATRIARCH MILLER ON SWEETING'S FORK

Three Sweeting brothers entered grants of land along the Banister River in 1748. It was from these early settlers that Sweden's Fork, as the waterway is now called, got its name. Jeremiah White called it "Sweeting Fork, a branch of Sandy Creek," when he wrote his will in April of 1788. This branch heads up on the south slope of White Oak Mountain near Chestnut Level. It is the mniddle branch of the creek and is joined by John's Run at a point a few hundred yards from its confluence with Sandy Creek of the Banister. This location is approximately three miles southeast of the village of Spring Garden.

Some distinguished patriots of the Revolution lived along the banks of Sweeting Fork. Among them were Nathaniel Terry, who was a member of the Pittsylvania County Militia during the Revolution. His father, Benjamin, lived on Sweeting's Fork, and Nathaniel may have been born there. Colonel Robert Williams had holdings on that branch also. In the Colonel's property was a grist mill and over five thousand acres of land. Williams was one of the most prominent Pittsylvania County patriots during the Revolution. Since he was a lawyer before the founding of the county, and a planter with enormous wealth, milling was not his chief pursuit. Nevertheless, Patsy, one of his daughters, married into a milling family when she married John Henry, one of the owners of Henry's Mill on the Sandy Creek of the Banister.

From the sale of inherited land by Jeremiah's son William, the historian learns that Matthew Clay, who served in the Virginia House of Delegates and in the United States Congress, was a neighboring landowner. Although Clay was a distinguished public servant, who was at least partly responsible for the founding of the Town of Danville at Wynne's Falls, his career was overshadowed by that of Henry Clay of Kentucky who descended from the same family.

Jeremiah White moved to the Sweeting's Fork area from Dinwiddie County in 1778. He filed a petition to erect a grist mill on the waterway in August of 1782 -- "he being the owner of the land on both sides." The move was made during the Revolution, and that would have been the most difficult of times. Jeremiah was in declining years by this time, but county records show that a Jeremiah White served as a member of the County Militia during the Revolution. He was to die ten years later, but managed to accumulate 2108 acres of land on six tracts in the county, most of which was presumably on Sweeting's Fork. He left the use of his land to his wife and named sons William and Jeremiah as Executors.

County records show Jeremiah White to be a very prominent citizen. He was commissioned First Lieutenant of the Militia in the County and took the Oath of Allegiance in October of 1780. White was a charter member of Pittsylvania Lodge No. 24, of the Order of Ancient Free and Accepted Masons when it was constituted on September 15, 1788. He was named Justice of Peace in 1780, and qualified as Coroner on March 15, 1787. It was common practice in the early days for prominent men in the communities to qualify as Deputy Sheriff. Jeremiah White did likewise on May 16, 1786.

His son, Jeremiah Jr., rose to the rank of Captain in the Militia in 1794 before being elected to the office of Commisioner of Revenue in 1798.

Old Jeremiah was one of the landed people who owned slaves and was sometime granted exemption from paying property taxes on them. From County Court records, it appears that slaveowners were often exempted thusly when they furnished "tithables" (laborers in this case) for the buildling and repairing of roads, bridges, public buildings, etc.

A Jeremiah White diary would make interesting reading. However, as is the case with the histories of most of the early pioneers, there is a paucity of records. Even so, there is at least one trait which characterizes Jeremiah White. He wa a loyal family man who loved his children and went to any extreme to be fair. This assessment is based on the wording in his will. One can see the effort he went to in trying to divide his estate equally among his heirs.

There were eight children in Jeremiah and Jane White's family. One was a daughter who married a prominent county leader, politician, planter, businessman and miller known as Col. Clark. William Clark. He lived some seven miles east of Competition in the elegant high columned home he called "Pineville", near the Banister River. His wife was the daughter of a miller, married a miller, and gave birth to a daughter who married a miller. The daughter, Lettice, married Col. Leonard Claiborne who applied to build two mills in the county during the late 1820s and early 1830s. One was on "Sawyer's Mill Creek" and one was on Burch Creek. It is known that he operated one of them for awhile, since the name "Claiborne's Mill" appears on a batteaux manifest of the Roanoke Navigation Company during the 1830s. It was not unusual to find three generations of millers in one family in Pittsylvania County during the 19th cCentury.

Jeremiah White's will was written on April 28, 1788. The will included the following dispositions of his property:

A. He left the use of his "Manner" (manor) house to his wife, Jane, for her natural life "to enable her to educate my younger children." He left seven slaves to her and the use of all land and slaves bequeathed to younger children until they "become of age".

B. One half interest in a tract of land was mentioned. It was a parcel he acquired in an agreeement in which he was to share ownership with the "Conway orphans." This was a strange arrangement which defies understanding.

C. The share of any living child who preceded him in death was to be divided equally among all living children upon his (Jeremiah's) death.

D. He defined the boundaries of the land each child was to receive. This provision gives historians the identity of his neighbors which included the aforementioned families of Terry, Clay and Williams.

E. There was a division of some four hundred acres in Charlotte County.

The disposition of the grist mill became the most interesting and poignant provision in the will. He driected that interest in it should be divided equally between "my two sons, William and Jeremiah, to them and their heirs forever, subject to the following encumbrances, to Wit: As my children have laboured hard with me in assisting to build said mill, I am desirous to give them some privilege therein, but hope this privilege may never become a bone of contention between them, but as a recompence for their labour and dutiful behaviour. It is my will and desire that all my children be entitled for their own families to grind their grain to be free and they bare an equal share of all expenses in keeping the said mill in repair." He also directed that ten acres of land be set aside for the mill.

This will, one of the most carefully crafted wills in early Pittsylvania County history, was proven on May 19, 1788 -- a mere fortnight before the Virginia Constitution Ratification Convention in Richmond. Col. Robert Williams, one of his closest neighbors, was duly elected, in the March past, to be one of Ptittyslvania's two delegates to the convention.

Old Jeremiah tried painfully hard to divide land, slaves, personal effects and household goods equaillly among his heirs. The provisions covering the ownership and operation of the grist mill after his passing are unique in that all were to share in its upkeep and all were to share in its output.

The inference from the reading of the will is that it was a closely knit family which was kept that way by a stern but caring and considerate patriarchal father. The provisions in the deed indicate that he was an impeccably honest man also.

The mill property was buried in tax records as ordiinary acreage with assessed value and all of White's property stayed in his name until after the probation of his estate. Its final disposition is obscured by settlement of the estate and by missing, or non-existant. There is no reason to believe that it was as successful a mill operation as was that of his son-in-law William Clark on the Banister. Perhaps it was largely a plantation mill since there were many slaves in the White fields and a large personal family in the manor house to feed. It is believed that it stayed in the White family for an extended period, since no record of the sale of it was found in county archives.

The records concerning the fate of the remaining White property are confusing. Some heirs begin selling property as soon as their mother departed this life. However, one cannot judge their successes or failures on land transactions and tax records alone. Furthermore, the new nation was to endure at least two of its worst financial panics during the next half century. Failures were not always the fault of the property owner, but were frequently the direct results of distant events and forces beyond the control of local citizens.

Present day Jeremiah White descendants believe they know the location of the mill site because of some stone formations, etc.

The story of Jeremiah White's Mill affords the best example of a family run mill wherein everybody worked and everybody shared in the output. This arrangement worked during Jeremiah White's lifetime because he appeared to have been every inch the "Patriarch of Sweetings Fork". All unanswered questions aside, he deserves having this title applied to him in 1988 -- the bicentenial of his passing.

Terry, Benjamin M Sr (I11153)

Family Tree Book; Genealogical and Biographical, Listing the Relatives of General William Smith and of W Thomas Smith

By William Alexander Smith Publisher: Published by the author Publication date: 1922

502 (See 902) -501B-C-John Smith No. 5. son of Samuel Smith Sr., and Elizabeth Cartlitch, born 1719, about 1735 emigrated to Virginia and shortly afterwards plunged into the forests where few white men and many Indians lived, and settled in what was then Bertie County, N. C, but territory which later became Johnson County, and in 1770 became Wake County NC, and there lived the life of a farmer. He perhaps
married about 1739, as his son, John Smith, whom we shall hereafter speak of as John Smith No 2, was born in 1740. We know he was a grandson Thomas Smith Sr. and his wife Fortune Collin, and that he used the same Coat of Arms as is described in paragraph 900, and which was granted to all the "male issue alike of Thomas Smith Sr., deceased, of Nottingham and Gaddesby" when granted to Thomas Smith Jr. in 1717, as representative of his father's family. John Smith No. 2 born in 1740, married Mary Flake.-503-

-502-John Smith No. 2, born in territory now known as Wake County, NC, in 1740, at an early date emigrated to Anson County, NC, and located near Lilesville, NC. on Smith's Creek, it taking its name from him. He married Mary Flake, the daughter of Samuel Flake by his first wife. See Flake Table-301-A- Children:
(A) Thomas Smith, born 1768, died after 1 820, married Jane Goff.-504- (B) John Smith No. 3, born 1770, married Mary Bellew. (also spelled Bellyew)-600-
(C) Eli Smith No. 1 , married Sarah (Sallie) Hicks.-710-
(D) Samuel Smith, married Margaret (Peggy Hutchinson.-750-
(E) James Smith, married Mary Gathings.- 550-
(F) Jessie Smith, married Mary Seago.-700-
(G) Sarah Smith, married George Lindsay. - 711-
(H) Mary Smith, born,lived,died in Anson County NC, single.
504 (See 912)
-503-A-

Thomas Smith was born near Lilesville, N. C, lived and died there. Jane Goff lived and died there. We know nothing of her ancestry.  

Smith, John (I15331)

From Dennis Moore's "Irby: An American Saga"

In 1688 Joshua Irby sued his brother, William, for failing to give him his inheritance from his father, Dr. William Irby's estate, since the 1st of October (1687). It is likely that Joshua had turned 21 at that time so he was probably born in October of 1666. He married Elizabeth Ludson (or Hudson) in 1694. He was a cantankerous man. One
can catch a glimpse of his personality from the numerous records that have survived. In 1692 the young doctor was fined a shilling for swearing. In 1716 James Westbrook appealed to the court saying that he was a servant of Dr. Joshua Irby and he was being illegally held in bondage. Westbrook stayed with his brother John Westbrook until the case could be decided. The court agreed and Joshua had to release him and pay him 5 shillings. The next year John went after Henry and Margaret Westbrook, his brother and a sister. He claimed that Joshua unlawfully was detaining them and that he abused them in the most violent and gross manner. The court agreed and ordered them to be released. The orphans were the children of James Westbrook who died in 1711 in Prince George County. The children of Westbrook were Samuel, John, James, Thomas, Margaret, Frances, and Elizabeth Westbrook.

Mrs. Irby, Elizabeth Ludson Irby, was still alive in 1708 when she and Joshua sold Robert Hicks 240 acres 10 but sometime later she died and he married a woman named Jane. He lived most of his life in Prince George County but about 1721 when he was about 55 years old, he moved to Cedar Creek
on the North Side of the Appomattox in what is Chesterfield County today. He received grants for land where Great Branch enters Waqua Creek in Brunswick County but does not appear to have moved there himself. Joshua made some bitter children when he wrote his will August 28, 1745. In that will he left much to his grandchildren and little to his own offspring. His sons, John and Peter, and his daughters, Mary Dewberry and Sarah Worsham, received land and slaves
from the estate. His grandchilden by Anthony, Mary, and Sarah all received the bulk of his fortune. He left his eldest son, William, a mere shilling. He left his son Joshua a shilling and added that it was his desire that Joshua be put out of doors by the last of November. He left his daughter, Penelopie Parrot, the things that she had and added that "it is more than she does deserve." The biggest blow came to his son, Anthony, who was left absolutely nothing! The will caused an uproar among the children that felt they had been cheated in the will. William sent his attorney, a Mr. Hayles, to court to stop the horrible will from being probated. The court gave Irby a month to appear in court himself to show why the will should not be allowed. A month later he did just that but not to the satisfaction of the court and the will was recorded. Anthony, John, and
Penelopie hired their own lawyer to fight the will naming their stepmother, Jane Irby, as defendant.

Irby, Dr Joshua (I25129)

Fuqua ancestor was originally from France

By Curtis Thomasson (Contact) Andalusia Star-News

Published Saturday, September 5, 2009

It is believed that Guillaume Fouquet was the first Fuqua ancestor to arrive in America. It appears that Guillaume was born circa 1667 in France. He and his relatives were most likely among the French Huguenots who left France during the late 1600s in an effort to escape the religious persecutions they were experiencing. The Huguenots were Protestants in France whose churches had been outlawed, so they had been suffering for about 100 years.

Guillaume and some of his relatives settled in England for a time before making their way to America. He came as a headright to Thomas Cock, Sr., who was granted a land patent in Varina Parish, Henrico County, Virginia, to transport 17 headrights from England to the Colony of Virginia. On October 20, 1689, Thomas Cock, Sr. was granted 816 acres on the south side of Chickahaniny Main Southwest.

Guillaume arrived circa 1685 and was most likely a part of the large exodus of French Huguenots migrating from the British countries. He was soon married in 1685 in Charles City County, Virginia, to Jane Eyre, daughter of Joseph and Margaret (Humphreys) Eyre. William Humphreys was her maternal grandfather. All of Guillaume and Jane’s children were born in Charles City County.

It is a challenge to track Guillaume through local records due to the various spellings of his names. The traditional spelling of Guillaume Fouquet is generally not recorded, but it is listed as Gill, Gillo and Gille and the last name as Fuquett, Fueque Ffuckett. The most common spelling used was Gill Fuquett.

Most of Guillaume’s sons, with the exception of Giles, soon changed the spelling of their name to Fuqua. Giles, who was most likely his father’s namesake, used the “Fewqua” spelling. He was married to Elizabeth, and he moved his family from Henrico County to Charles City County where they settled. He died there in 1771 and left a will in which he named his children: Samuel, William, John, Joseph, Hanna Rock, Elizabeth Johnson, and Dina.

Giles’s son, Samuel, used the Fewqua spelling as his father. He and his wife, Mary, moved across the James River and settled in Prince George County. No record of his children’s names has been located, but the Personal Property Tax Lists of Prince George County offer some clues as to possible sons.

Randolph Fewqua was one of Samuel’s possible sons. He also used the same spelling as Samuel and Giles, Samuel’s father. He followed the usual pattern of naming two of his children Samuel and Mary after their grandparents. Randolph was married to Lydia, and they resided in Prince George County where he died in 1802. From that date, his wife, Lydia’s, name replaced his on the tax lists until her death in 1812. Their children were named in the settlement of Lydia’s estate.

One of their children, Randolph R. Fuqua, used the common form of the name. He was born circa 1770 and was one of the first in this family to begin the southerly migration. By 1800, he had reached North Carolina where at least one of his sons, Absalom Fuqua, was born. The family had moved to Washington County, Georgia, by 1805 and was listed as a participant in the 1805 Georgia Land Lottery. Although he received a prize of land, he did not pay the fee and actually claim the land.

Randolph R. finally settled in Savannah, Chatham County, Georgia, where his youngest children were born. In 1814, he was listed on the tax lists for that county. He had two sons, Absalom and Randal III, and it is believed that Amos, John M., Sterling and Cornelius were also his sons.

In 1821, Absalom Fuqua was living in Early County, Georgia, when he drew land in Monroe County, Georgia. He was still in Early County six years later when in 1827, his father, Randolph, had joined him. In March 1827, both were drawn to serve jury duty. In October 1827, Absalom sold his land in Early County to Jeremiah Fowler, and moved his family to Walton County, Florida.

It appears that the father, Randolph R. Fuqua, followed his sons into new territory again in Walton County. He, Absalom and Randal Jr. all signed a petition in which the settlers in Walton County requested the U.S. Government to provide funds for clearing the snags and sunken logs in the Yellow River in 1839. Prior to this time, only Absalom’s name showed up on the census and other records.

An aged Randolph R. Fuqua was last found in the 1840 census records for the western area of Walton County, which is now a part of Okaloosa County. He was residing between his son, Absalom Fuqua, and who appears to be Absalom’s father-in-law, John Barrow. It is most likely that he died and was buried in that vicinity.

Absalom Fuqua appears to have arrived in Walton County prior to 1829 when he was still single. Records show he sold two pieces of property in Early County, Georgia, in 1827. His first noted appearance in Walton County was in 1829 when his name was recorded on the voting list for electing a delegate to Congress from the Yellow River precinct. A voter was required to have lived in the voting district for two years. He would have married about this time, since his first child was born there in 1832.

Absalom was married to Tabitha Barrow, who is believed to have been the daughter of John and Elizabeth Barrow of the Yellow River community. This has not been documented, but all available records strongly suggest it. Absalom and Tabitha had moved into Covington County by the 1830 census. However, they were there only a short time, because Absalom voted at Almarante, Florida, in the 1831 election. He continued to be found on Florida election records and petitions in 1832, 1839 and 1842.

Absalom’s father and brother, Randal III, joined him in the 1830s. Some voting records list them during the late 1830s. In 1840, Absalom and Tabitha were living next door to the John Barrow family, and Absalom’s father, Randolph R. Fuqua, was on the other side of the Barrows in Walton County.

Absalom and Tabitha made their final move to an area in Conecuh County that later became a part of Escambia County, Alabama, when it was formed. They were enumerated there in the 1850 census. Some reports suggest he died in 1855 when he was about 55 years of age and was buried in the area near Sepulga, but this has not been confirmed. In 1860, Tabitha was residing with here son, James, and daughter, Elizabeth. Her younger children were living next door with her son, John.

It has been reported that Tabitha gave birth to 13 children in 14 years, which is quite a record. She and Absalom Fuqua reared the following children: William Wesley, b. 1832, d.1897, m. Nancy Caroline Archilus; Henry Morton, b. 1834, d. 1917; John, b. 1835, d. 1921, m. (1) Esther ? (2) Roxie Susan King; twins, Nancy J. and Elizabeth, b. 1836; James F., b. 1835, d. 1917, m. Elizabeth “Babe” Haveard; Sarah A., b. 1840; Minerva, b. 1841, m. George Nieser; Reuben, b. 1842, d. 1932, m. Lottie Cincinatti Adkinson; George, b. 1843, d. before 1870, m. Elizabeth ?; Wealthy, b. 1844; Mary Pollyanna, b. 1845, d. 1904, m. William Henry Barneycastle; and Samuel, b. 1846.

http://www.andalusiastarnews.com/news/2009/sep/05/fuqua-ancestor-was-originally-france/

Fouquet, Guillaume (I25869)

George or John Hampton Rev. Pension

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GEORGE HAMPTON
of Georgia

John Hampton applied for revolutionary pension while living in Jackson County, Georgia. He entered the service in North Carolina in 1778 and participated in General John Ashe's Defeat at Briar Greek, Georgia. He served with General Thomas Sumter's forces in engagements at Ramsour's Mill, King'sMountain, Fishing Creek and Musgrove's Mill. Captain Wade Hampton, General Andrew Pickins, Colonel John Purvis and Captain Williams are mentioned in the application papers.

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Gill Fueque and Jane Eyres

At Court Varina, Henrico County, August 1687
Upon ye petition of Gill Fuquett as marrying ye Granddaughter of Willm Humphrys late decd, and ye depositions in Court taken for proof thereof, It is ordered That four cowes, one feather bed, & boulster, & two pewter dishes given by ye Sd decedt unto ye Sd Fuquett’s wife before his death be, and remain to ye Sd Fuquett’s proper use, & be nott held nor deemed any part of ye sd decedents estate.

[Henrico Co., Va., Book 2, Orders and Wills, 1678-1693, (Trans) Reel 53, p. 242; Va. State Library]

At Court Varina, Henrico County, August 1692

Gill Fueque who Maryed Jane Eyres ye Daughter of Joseph Eyres decd did this day appear in Open Court and acknowledged receipt of his Wives full part of her legacy left her by her Grandfather Wm. Humphreys decd from every part and parcel thereof doth hereby acquit and discharge Margt Floyd, Exex of ye Last Will and Testamt of ye sd Humphreys and ca: together with their majties: Justices of ye Peace and their Heirs and successrs. Ralph Hudspeth who Marryed Margaret Eyres ye Daughter of Joseph Eyres decd did this day appear in open Court and acknowledge ye receipt of his Wives full part of her legacy left by her Grandfather Wm Humphreys decd from every part and parcel thereof doth hereby acquit release and discharge Margt Floyd Exect of ye last Will and Testament of ye sd Humphreys and Her heirs and ca: together with their majties Justices of ye Peace of ye sd County their Heirs and Succr..

[Colonial Index: Henrico Co., Va., Book 4, Orphans Court Book, 1677-1736, p. 32]

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Fouquet, Guillaume (I25869)

Grandson of the original settler Hugh Reynolds and Mary Nealey

Alternate marriage date: 21 Sep 1801
Chancery Court record dated Aug 1805
BIRTH: Reynolds Bible, Gilmer Evans Reynolds, page 1
BIRTH:Boisseau, Mary Leigh, Boisseau, Mary Leigh
DEATH:Boisseau, Mary Leigh, Boisseau, Mary Leigh
BURIAL:Boisseau, Mary Leigh, Boisseau, Mary Leigh

Reynolds, Hugh (I1044)

HANCOCK LEE NOTES

Collier, Martin L. EMAIL packet sent 27 Mar 2001, micollier@kreative.net:
Hancock Lee, born 1652 in Paradise, now Gloucester County, Virginia; died 25 May 1709 in Hancock's Neck (Ditchley), Dividing Creek, Wicomico Parish, Northumberland County, Virginia.
Hancock Lee married (1) Mary Kendall 1675 in Northampton County, Virginia; she was born 1661 in Cherrystone Creek, Northampton County, Virginia; and died 24 Dec 1694 in Hancock's Neck (Ditchley), Dividing Creek, Wicomico Parish, Northumberland County. Mary Kendall was the daughter of William Kendall, a Speaker of the House of Burgess in 1966. Four (4) children listed with marriages.
Hancock Lee married (2) Sarah Elizabeth Allerton abt 1696; she was born 1671 in Westmoreland County, Virginia; died 17 May 1731 in Ditchley, Wicomico, Northumberland, Virginia. Sarah was the daughter of Colonel Isaac Allerton.. His daughter by this marriage was a progenitor of President Zachary Taylor (more detail).
Four (4) children listed with marriages.
Hancock Lee first settled about 1675 in Northampton County where he held office, but returned to Northumberland County in about 1686 and established Ditchley. He was a justice of Northamption in 1677 and Northumberland in 1687; Burgess from Northumberland in 1688. Hancock was appointed "Naval Officer and Collector of Virginia Duties" in Northumberland County on 3 Jun 1699. He was also a vestryman for Wicomico Parish.

Several references, two identified--

Miller, Mary Rita. PLACE-NAMES OF THE NORTHERN VIRGINIA NECK OF VIRGINIA. Virginia State Library, Richmond, 1983. Pages 40-49.

Salmon, John S. VIRGINIA'S HISTORICAL MARKERS. University Press of Virginia, Charlottesville, 1996. Page 62.

Brown, H. Andrew. JOSHUA & JONAS HUNT OF ALEXANDRIA TOWNSHIP, HUNTERDON COUNTY, NEW JERSEY AND GREENE COUNTY, PENNSYLVANIA, published by author, Los Angeles, Californa 10 October 1990. GPR page 6102. Birth 1653 NorthumberlandCounty, Virginia.

THE "OLD NORTHWEST" QUARTERLY, 1898, Volume I. Columbus, Ohio, published by The "Old Northwest" Genealogical Society, 1898. Copy at Iowa State Historical Society, 600 E. Locust, Des Moines, IA 50319. One foldout, about 18 inches. Hancock Lee 1653-09 & Mary Kendall Nav. Officer "Ditchle", Justice 99-02, Speaker Burg.

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Richard Lee Elizabeth Lee Hancock Lee
1691-1740 (Zach. Taylor)
(Judith Steptoe)
Elizabeth Lee 1764 Rich'd Taylor John Lee
(Peter Conway)
Lettice Lee
Sis. Eliz.
(Col. Jas. Ball)
Zachory Taylor Sarah Lee
Pres. United States (Col. Jno. Crittenden)
Richard Taylor, Gen. C.S.A. plus Geo. B. C.
Sarah A. Taylor (Jeff. Davis) Gen. C.S.A. and
Cornelia C. & Dr. Jno.Young
Pres. W.C. Young

Lee, Hancock (I26557)

History of Echols family

A short history of our family from the first that landed in America till the present time, as far as I can ascertain----.

John Echols an Englishman came to America about the end of the 16th or the beginning of the 17th Century and settled in Caroline County, Virginia, and married a tall redheaded woman named Mary Cave and by her had five sons and three daughters. I shall begin with his sons first and carry out their family as far as my knowledge extends.

John was his first son who left Virginia a young man and settled in the lower part of N. Carolina and raised his family, of whom I know nothing.

Abraham was old John’s 2nd son, married Sarah Tamer and by her had two sons and several daughters. His sons were Joseph and Joshua. Joseph married a Miss King, and by her had 2 sons and 5 or 6 daughters. His sons Abraham and Jeremiah who left Virginia in time of the Revolutionary War and went to Pennsylvania. Of their offspring I know nothing. Joshua married Hannah Brown, had a number of children of whom I know but little. He had one son Darius, a conspicuous man in Habersham County, GA. The rest of his family lives chiefly in the upper part of Georgia. Old Abraham had one daughter who married James Hodges a very worthy man, his family moved to Tennessee. He had one son named Jessee and he had a son named James who was a commanding officer in Tennessee and got drowned in Cumberland River near Cairo. Jessee had one daughter named Tabitha, that is all I know of the family. Old Abraham had another daughter named Sarah who married John Rowden and by her had 4 sons and one daughter. His
sons were Abraham, Laban, Josee, and John. Abraham married a woman named Chick, moved to Tennessee. I know nothing of his family. Laban married Milly Adams raised a large family. I know nothing of them only two of his sons to wit, Hubert and Lot, who live in Guinett County, Ga. Josee married Susannah Adams, moved to Tennessee, of his family I know nothing. John married Milly Brewer, a widow, the daughter of old Jeremiah Reeves, sister to Rev. Malachi Reeves and Rev. Jeremiah Reeves. He also moved to Tennessee and was drowned in the Tennessee River. Of his family I know nothing. Old John Rowden’s daughter was Tabitha. She married Glover Crain, had several children by her and then died. He had one son named Joseph Crane who married a Miss Hood. They had several children, one son named John Glover Crane who was a wholesale merchant in Charleston, S.C.Joshua Crane had a daughter married a Mr.Whitman, a Baptist preacher and a teacher in the Penfield Academy, Green County, Georgia.
P.S. James Hodges daughter married John Lacy. Wm Glass and Hally Shaw Lacy had one son named Elijah and he and wife parted. Glass had 5 sons and 3 daughters. His sons were Hubbard, Mason, Frederick who married Betsy Strother and he was killed by the Indians in Alabama. The other three, David, Elish and Eahlij Mason married a Miss Wyatt and lives in Fayett County, Georgia the rest of his sons I know nothing. His daughters were named Tabitha, Patsy, and Sally. Tabitha married Richard Wood and by him had three sons and one daughter. Her sons were Winston, William and Willis. Her son William represented three different counties in the state of Georgia and was Colo. Of the same counties. He then moved to Randolph County, Alabama and represented that county and is Colo. And judge of the court.
Willis, her third son married a Miss Cochran and died young. Richard Wood’s daughter was named Elizabeth and married Samuel D. Echols. Hally Shaw raised a large family in Jackson County, Georgia. I know nothing of his family only E. B. Shaw, his grandson, who lives in Guynett County, and is a very eminent Baptist preacher.
P. S. If I mistake not, old Abraham Echols had a daughter who married a man by the name of Hubbard in Virginia. I know nothing further of them.
The third son of old English John Echols was named William. I don’t know who he married. He had several sons and daughters. His sons were John and William. John was one of the largest men ever raised in Virginia. He was a Quaker preacher. That’s all I know of him or his family as I never saw him but once. William was also a very large man, married a widow Spradlin. By her had three sons and four daughters. His sons were Joel, Elcanah, and William. Joel and Elcanah moved to Tennessee. Settled on Cumberland River near Caro. I was once at Elcanah’s house after his death. He had a large family. I know the names of none of them only his youngest son named Richard. They are a very wealthy family. Joel I think they told me had no child. William, the third son, married a girl by the name of Elizabeth Farmer - a schoolmate of mine in Virginia. He moved to Alabama, settled in Madison County near Huntsville and was a very great wholesale merchant in that town. I know but very little of his family. He had a daughter married Richard Holden also a wholesale merchant in Huntsville and also had two sons who moved to Mississippi. One of them was killed by a man and the other wrote to me about it. I think the one that wrote was by the name of Larkin. The one that was killed I think was by the name of Joseph. That’s all that I know of that family.
Old William Echols daughters married William Wynne, Vardre McBee and Daniel Williams and Richard Anderson. Of Wynne’s family I know nothing as they moved to Tennessee in an early date. Old Vardre McBee moved from Virginia to South Carolina before the Revolutionary War and was a Capt. In that army and was said to have done as much damage to the British and Torries in that part of the country as any Capt. In that country. He had two sons, to wit, Silas and Vardre. Silas was a very large man, went to Mississippi and died there. I know nothing of his family. Vardre still lives in South Carolina, Greenville District. He has six children, only one married, that a daughter, married a Mr. Carson. He has one daughter Malinda single, one son Luther, the rest I don’t know their names. He is said to be the richest man in that part of the state. His property is estimated at one million dollars. Old Vardre has several daughters. I don’t know their names. One married a man by name of Ross. How many children she had I know not. I only know one of her sons who is by name of Rice F. Ross. One married a man by name of Asher. They have one son in Dade County, Georgia, by name of William Asher, a very smart man. That is all I know of that family.
Daniel Williams, who married the third daughter of old William Echols, went to Tennessee, raised his family there. Of his daughters I know nothing. His sons were Sampson and Oliver. Sampson was said to be an uncommon smart man, represented his county many years. There is a very fine town in Tennessee named in hone of his name - Williamsburg.Sampson Williams was a very large man, rather cross-eyed. Richard Anderson married old William Echols fourth daughter, had five children by her and she died. I know the names of two of their sons, which were Medy and John. Medy became very rich, owned the first merchant mill I ever saw, on Banister River in Virginia, where was a considerable town built named Medsville in honor of Medy Anderson’s name. They both had families of which I know but little.
Joseph Echols was the fourth son of old English John Echols. He never married, consequently had no family. He was an afflicted man, had what was called the asthma which prevented him from lying down. He never lay down for forty years-had an instrument made that fitted his forehead and sat and slept. His common vocation was hunting and trapping on the River at which business he made considerable property as he lived in the frontier country where game was plenty.
Richard Echols was the fifth son of English John Echols who married Caty Evans - he was my grandfather - and by her had fourteen children. Three died in infancy. The rest lived to raise families. Their first son was Moses who married Betsy Wynne. They raised a considerable family. Their first son was John who married Fanny Formby and moved from Virginia to Tennessee. I know but little of the family. He was a one-eyed man, he was very smart and had great property. Their second son was Obediah. He married Betsy Terry. He died at about 65 years of age. I know but little of his family, only one son who lives in the western district of Tennessee by name of Champness Terry Echols, a Baptist preacher. Moses third son was by name of Moses who married a Miss Terry - cousin to his brother Obediah’s wife. I know nothing of his family. Their fourth son was by name of Evans who married Anna Terry, sister to his brother Moses wife. They live in Virginia. I know no more of their family. Old Moses daughters were by name of Rebecca, Priscilla, Tabitha, Betsy, Lucy and Frances. Rebecca married Edward Akin. I have no knowledge of their family. Priscilla married David Bates in Halifax County, a very large man who offered for the legislature in the county that he was born and raised in when he was about twenty-five years old. He got every vote that was given in the county and the county was very large. He continued to go to the legislature as long as he stayed in Virginia. He then moved to Georgia, Wilkes County. He became a representative of Wilkes County in Senate and was once appointed President Senate pro tem - you can see his name in the digest of the laws of Georgia. He became so fat that it was supposed by the doctors that his fat melted in him, killed him before he was sixty years old. He weighed nearly four hundred pounds. He raised his family in Wilks County, Georgia but after his death they moved to Tennessee. I have but little account of them since. He had one son named Randolph and one named Anderson. Of the rest I have no account only one daughter named Susanah who marriedJames Johnson of Oglethorpe County.
Old Moses third daughter Tabitha married Nathan Formby. He moved from Virginia to Georgia and died in Walton County. He raised four sons and several daughters. His sons were named Moses, Obediah and Nathan. The other I don’t know the name of, he married a Miss Harvie in Newton County and died there. Moses and Obediah live in Newton County. They both have families but I don’t know the name of either of their wives. Nathan lives in Alabama. I know not of his family. One of old Nathan’s daughters married John Whitaker and one married Henry Nichols. One Israel Moore and one married a Mr. Park. I know nothing of the family.
Old Moses fourth daughter Betsy married Marlin Farmer. I know no more of the family. His fifth daughter Lucy married Jonas Meadows and that’s all I know about them. His sixth daughter Frances married a man by the name of Shelton. I have no account of them further.
Old Richard Echols second son was named John. He married Lucy Koore, raised a large family by her. They had three sons and six daughters. Their oldest son was James. He married Nancy Winbush of South Carolina. He moved to Alabama in an early date, so I know but little of his family. I have heard that one son named George, a doctor, and another named Saml - that is all I know of them.
Old John’s second son was named John. He married a Miss Moore. He also moved to Alabama. I know nothing further of them. Old John’s third son was named Saml. He married Jane Holloway of Elton, Putnam County, Georgia. He moved to Alabama so I know nothing further of them; old John’s daughter was Prudence who married Christopher Irwin. They raised a large family of sons and one daughter who died young. I know nothing more of them only Christopher and David. Christopher lives in Walton County, raised several sons and one daughter. I don’t know the names of the sons tho I am told they are smart young men. His daughter was Sophrony. She married Raman Ray. They live in Cobb County. David Irwin lives in Marietta and is a very imminent lawyer and a very wealthy man. He has a family that I know very little about. Old John’s second daughter was by name of Temperance. She married Jno. Rodgers. They raised several sons. I know of only two of them, Dr. James Rodgers, who married Wm. G. Springer’s daughter and lives in Carrol County. He has represented that county in the legislature of Georgia. David Rodgers lives in Stewart County and has also represented that county in the State Legislature. Old John’s third daughter named Caty never married, died young. His fourth daughter Patsy married Capt. William Ellis. They live in Pike County near Griffin. They have raised several sons and daughters. I know only two of his sons, Richard and Thomas. One of them is a doctor, both very large men. They had one daughter married a man named Wilson who lives near Griffin. Old John’s fifth daughter named Liddy married Skelton Standifer, moved to Alabama. I know no more of them. His sixth daughter Lucy married Nathan Williams and raised their family in Jasper County. I know nothing further of them only one son, a doctor who lives in Meriwether County, Georgia.
Old Richard Echols third son was named James Echols, a very large man, had a very singular mark in his features. He had one black eye and one blue eye. He married Elizabeth Palmer, widow of John Palmer of Richmond County, Virginia. Her maiden name was Elizabeth Milner. By her he had five sons, three daughters. His oldest son was Milner, who married Susannah Sansom, had ten children. Their first son was Samuel Dorril Echols, who married Betsy Wood. By her he had four sons and four daughters. His first son was named Alfred. He married a girl names Thirston. They had one child and then they parted. His second son was named Wood Echols. He married a girl by name of Patrick, had three children, moved to Alabama and died shortly after he went there. I know nothing of his family. Third son named Winston M. Echols married a Miss Summer Cain, had one child and she died. He married again but I know not to whom. His fourth son is named John, a young man not yet married. His oldest daughter was named Maryan. She married Colo. Thos. J. Johnson, who lives in Herd County, near Franklin. They have children but I know not their names or how many. His second daughter was named Mahaley, married Mercer Babb, had one child and she died. Her daughter is a daughter named Antonett. Saml’s third daughter Betsy Ann married a Mr. Hollandworth, lives in Heard County,. They have one child. I know nothing of them. His fourth daughter Susannah not yet married.
Milner’s second son was named James, died an infant by a fall out at the door. His third son was named Richard, died an infant also. His complaint was the Flux. His fourth son was named Robert Milner Echols. He married Mary Melton and by her had twelve children. His first son was named Jonathan Milner Echols, died at the age of seventeen years. His death was caused by an over hard march in the army in very hot weather. His second son was named Dorrel Sampson Echols, died an infant. His third son was named Thomas Jefferson Echols, married Lucinda A. Pate and by her had three sons, the first Jonathan M. Echols, his second son died young, his third son was named Robert Milner Echols. Robert M. Echols, fourth son of Robert Walton Echols, a youth, his fifth son Samuel D. Echols, his sixth son named Richard, died young. His seventh son Joseph a little boy. Robert M. Echols first daughter Rhoda married Thos. J. Trammel, had nine children by him - to wit - Collumbus, Georgia, John Robert, Thos., and Ugnias. Her daughters are Tabitha, Martha and Susan, the youngest not yet named. His second daughter Martha married Doctor John G. Waddel, she had one child and died when it was nine days old, named Thomas Echols Waddel, who lives with his father in Alabama. His third daughter Elisa, his fourth daughter Mary Ann, his fifth daughter Frances, none married. Robert M. Echols was a man that filled many responsible offices. He represented Walton County upward of twenty years in succession, was six or seven years president of the senate. He was Major General. He was also Judge of the Court and one of the Trustees of the University at Athens and - of all he was member of the Baptist Church at Sardis, Clerk of the same. He was appointed by Congress a Colo. In the United States Service to command 13th Regiment in Mexico. He was also appointed by the President to pay off the soldiers in Mexican War - his office was at New Orleans. He died in Mexico at the National Bridge whilst in command of the 13th Regiment on the third day of Dec., 1847 in the 49th year of his age.
Thos. Echols, the fifth son of Milner Echols, married Polly Harper. By her had six children, two of whom died young. His first son was Robert H. Echols, married Elizabeth Morris. His second son, Joseph M. Echols, married Virginia Norton, had by her three children. Thomas’ first daughter, Susannah North Echols, married John Chappel, lives in Merriwether County, has several children. Her oldest is William, her second one named John, the rest small, I don’t know their names. His second daughter Mary not married.
Milner Echols’ sixth son named William Sampson Echols, married Kitty Holder, had by her four sons and two daughters. His oldest son John Thomas Echols married a Miss Kelly, has several small children. His second son Robert M. Echols not married. His third son Lumpkin not married. His fourth son, an infant named Thos. Rhodes Echols. His first daughter Martha who married Jos. Selvy who had one child by her and ran away and left her. Second daughter Frances not married.
Obediah Echols, seventh son of Milner Echols, married Hannah Holder - sister of his brother William’s wife - had five children by her. His first son James Echols, his second Tapley, his third John Bunyan, his first daughter Susannah, his second Nancy who married a Mr. Shaw. Obediah Echols, son of Milner, died in Milledgeville in the 31st year of age. Was a very business man, was appointed Surveyor Genl. before he was thirty years of age.
Milner Echols first daughter named Leah died before she was three years old. Her death was caused by a burn. His second daughter Patsy married Joshua Ammons. She had two children. First daughter Mary married James Mobley. They have three children. Their oldest a son named Samuel Iverson Mobley, second a daughter named Susan Martha Mobley. Joshua Ammon’s second is a son named John Milton Ammons, not married.
M. Echols third daughter named Nancy married A. B. Rose, by him had nine children. First son named Augustus died about his fourteenth year. Second Dolphus, third son Theophelus, fourth son Aurelius, fifth son William, sixth Marcus, seventh Agenius Mercer, none married. His first daughter Sarah died at about Seventeen years of age, second daughter Martha died at about eight years old.
Robert E. Echols was the second son of James Echols. He married Elizabeth Davis, they had three sons and one daughter. His first son was Wm. Milner Echols. He was a tanner by trade and married in Montauleo, Jasper County, Georgia. I know nothing more of this family, only that he lives in Monroe County. His second son was named Jessee Mercer Echols. He married a girl named Sandel Carrel. They had no children. They live in some of the Cherokee Counties. He is in some office on the railroad, the last I heard of him. His third son named James lives in ____ County, Alabama. I know nothing more about him. Robert E. Echols daughter named Lucy married and went to Tennessee. I know no more about her.
Absolom Echols was the third son of James Echols, married Nancy Sansom. They had no children. He was killed by Johnson Hammock in Alabama. Hammock was condemned to be hanged for it but killed in jail before the day of his execution.
Obediah Echols was the fourth son of James Echols. He married Elizabeth Strong. They had one child and his wife and child both died. He then married Elizabeth Flournoy, by her had two children, a son and a daughter. The daughter died an infant and his wife also died about the same time. His son was named Philip Henry Echols. He had a great deal of property left him by his grandfather Flournoy. He was educated at Schenetida college in New York. He studied law under Judge Berrien at the City of Washington and married the Judge’s daughter, Margaret Berrien. He returned to Georgia and practiced law and died on ther Cirquett in Marion County at his uncle Absolom Echols. Obediah then married Elizabeth Jones, a widow in Hancock County and by her had several sons and daughters. His first son by his last wife was by name of James Walter Echols, a very rich man and lives at Auburn, Alabama. His brother Samuel now lives with him, a doctor.
Their father, Obediah Echols, lives in Mississippi, Carrol County, has four daughters married and lives near their father. The names of the men that they married I don’t know, only one married a Mr. Foreman, he has two small sons lives with him, one named Judson, the brother I don’t know the name.
James Echols daughter - first daughter was named Leah Echols. She married Robert North. They had four sons and four daughters. Two of their daughters died young. Their first son named Wm. North married Frances Arnold, had several children. I don’t know their names. They live in Coweata County, Georgia. Their second son Anthony North married Polly Hubbard, a second cousin to him. They have a large family of children chiefly grown and several married but I don’t know who to. He has one son named Robert and another named Hubbard and one daughter named Adaline. Their third son named Abraham, married Hiss Holms. They have a large family but I don’t know their children’s names. The fourth son named Marcus married Dosha Thurmond. She had two or three children and died. He then married a widow but I don’t know her name.
Robert North’s first daughter Patsy married a Mr. Hale, never had any children, her husband died. She is now a widow. Second daughter Lucy married James Willis, had several children, moved to Alabama and there she died shortly after she went there.
James Echols second daughter named Mary Echols, married Jeremiah Reeves. They had five sons and four daughters. One of the daughters died young and another fell into the spring and drowned. Their first son Absolom Echols Reeves, who lives at Rome married Elisa Tyas, by her had one daughter who died at about the time she was twenty years old while she was attending Association in Chattanooga County. John N. Reeves, their second son, never married, lives in Augusta. Jeremiah Reeves, their third son, married at about 40 years of age, lives in Walker County. Their fourth son, James M. Reeves, never married. Joseph Reeves, their fifth son, married a Miss Hodge and lives in Chattanooga in Tennessee and keeps a tavern in that town. Jeremiah Reeves first daughter, Leah, married Samuel Neblick, lives in Jackson County, Georgia. I know nothing of their families. Their second daughter Elisa married Ben Powell. I know nothing of their family, only they have one son named Evans Powell. James Echols third daughter named Elizabeth Echols married Thos. M. Fagg. He then ran away, left wife and child and never been heard of since............................................

Benjamin Echols was Richard Echols fourth son. He married Sabra Hendrick, his own cousin and by her had three sons and five daughters. Their first son was Richard, he married Betsy Smith his cousin. They had no children, were very wealthy. They differed, parted and never lived together any more. He died from a fever taken in Floyd’s army in 1815. John Echols, their second son, married a girl named Merrel, raised a large family in Mississippi. I know none of his children, but his oldest daughter Elmira. Benjamin Echols was old Benjamin Echols third son. He married Betsy Ellis, lives Chattanooga County, had a large family of children. His first son is Richard Echols, married but don’t know who. Second son Abner not married, third son Robert lately married to Miss Verner. Their first daughter Caty not married. Second daughter (I know not her name) married Amay Dickson, a very fine man. He had several other daughters but I don’t know their names.

Old Benjamin Echols first daughter Lucy married Samuel Paine, had several children; one son named Samuel lives near Rome. One of his daughters married a man named Williamson. She is now a widow. Benjamin Echols second daughter Betsy never married, died rich. Third daughter Sally married Luis Rolston, had three children, one son Robert, the others daughters. One married a man named Edwards. I know nothing of their family. Fourth daughter Caty married Jacob Lawridge, moved to Mississippi, had several children. I know the names of but two of them, one boy named Legon, one John -- . Fifth daughter named Citty married J. Dyche, moved to Mississippi. He shortly died. I know nothing further of the family ---

Obediah Echols was old Richard Echols fifth son. He married a very rich old Irishman’s daughter. His name was Wm. McDaniel, her name was Caty McDaniel. He had five sons and two daughters. His sons, William who died at about 19 years old, second son Benjamin Echols. He was a nearsighted man, not very bright, but had the most extensive recollection of any man. He inherited a large estate from his grandfather McDaniel’s estate but had not forecast enough to take care of it. He married Betsy Milner in Kentucky, his own cousin. They had several children, one son named Obediah, one daughter named Mariea. I know nothing more of his family as they moved to Tennessee but left Blind Ben - as we called him. Old Obediah Echols third son was James, married Sally Rutledge, raised several children. I know but little about them only one of his sons named Silas Echols said to be a very smart man. James was a great farmer, a great hand to make tobacco, and from that was called Horn Worm James. Old Obediah’s fourth son was named Obediah. He married a Miss Franklin in Virginia but moved to Georgia and died young, left two children, a son named Josephus and a daughter. I know not where they are.

Obediah’s fifth son was named Elijah. He married a girl by name of Willingham. I know nothing more of his family. He was said to be the greatest millright that ever was seen in the State. Old Obediah’s two daughters were named Betsy and Nancy, one married Thos. Rutledge, the other married Wm. Arnold. They both moved to Tennessee. I know nothing further of their families. Old Obediah’s wife died. He then married a widow Jones near Richmond in Virginia. Her maiden name was Jackson, she was a half sister to the great General Lawson. By her he had two sons and one daughter. His first son was Philip Jackson Echols, lives in Crawford County, Georgia, and one son lives in a little town in Monroe or Forsyth County, the name of the town I don’t recollect. That is all I know of his family. He has been Clerk of the Court in Crawford County. His second son was Samuel Echols. He married Sally Booker and moved to Alabama and died. I know but little of his family.

Old Obediah’s daughter was named Polly Echols who married a man by name of Raney, moved to Giles County, Tennessee and died a few years ago, so I was informed by a letter from his daughter. Old Obediah was a Baptist preacher of the highest order of his day. Joseph Echols was sixth son of old Richard. He was a Methodist preacher, married Polly Stamps and by her had five sons and four daughters. First son Ruben married Betsy Owen, of whom I know but little. He moved to Mississippi and died shortly. He had several sons, I don’t know their names. He had one daughter Sarah, married Samuel Marshall, a very fine man, lives in Coweata County. Another daughter Caty married a man by name of Bell, of them I know nothing.

Joseph’s second son was Levi, married a Miss Hubbard, became vastly rich and died soon. He lived in Washington, Wilks County, had but one child, that was a boy named Joseph Hubbard Echols. He is a man of great learning. He is a Methodist preacher and a lawyer and he was the president of the Female Academy in Madison, Morgan County, Georgia. Joseph Echols third son named Simeon married Caroline Van Allen, daughter of Peter L.Van Allen. He was a very great lawyer, and was killed by Wm. H. Crawford in duel on the bank of Savannah River in South Carolina at Braksdale Ferry. Caroline Van Allen was said to be worth $20,000 when Simeon Echols married her. They moved to Mississippi near Columbus to a little town called Athens where he shortly died. His wife lives at the same town and keeps a public house. I know nothing of their family.

Joseph Echols fourth son was Josephus, a very tall man, became a doctor. He went to Alabama to a town called Selma and by his Partner I am told he got very rich. I heard he married but I don’t know who to, consequently know nothing of his family.

Joseph Echols fifth son, William, was also a doctor, never married, had a wen on his neck which was cut out and he died immediately at about 24 or 25 years of age. Joseph Echols first daughter Tabitha married Thomas Cooper, had no child, died in Cowetta County. His second daughter Caty married a very worthy man in Jasper County named Archibald Standifer. She was upward of forty years old when she married, had no child. His third daughter Rebecca never married, lives in Newnan, Cowetta. His fourth daughter Olive married an Englishman named John Daughterty, lives in Coweata County, keeps a public house, he is said to be a very fine man, I know nothing of his children.
Old Richard had five daughters, the oldest named Mary Echols, married Thos. Wynne, had 2 sons and 4 daughters. His first son was Obediah, married Onry Bolton in Virginia, had by her several children, first son John Wynne lives Oglethorpe, married a girl Owen, of his children I know nothing only one son named Glen Wynne married a daughter of Samuel Lumpkin and lives in Coweata County. Thos. Wynne’s second son Thos. Wynne Jr. was left very rich by his father but alas - he was a drunkard and gambler and married onto a very low family, spent his property in a few years and went over seas to some foreign land, his family lives in the upper part of Georgia. He had one daughter married a man by name of J. Brand, and two of his daughters married two brothers named Fincher. I know but little more of the family.

Old Thos. Wynne’s first daughter married Wm. Arnold, had three children, one son and two daughters - she was by name Rhoda, weighed nearly 400 pounds. Her son was William, married a Miss Milner, had two sons by her and died. One of his sons is a wholesale merchant in Charleston, South Carolina, the other one I know but little about. One of her daughters married Samuel Lumpkin of Oglethorpe, the other married David Owen of Newnan, Coweata County, all very wealthy people.
Thos. Wynne’s second daughter married Levi Marshall - a brother to the great preacher Abraham Marshall - they had several sons and daughters. First daughter married Robert N. Crawford of Columbia County. I know but little about the rest of their children. Thos. Wynne’s third daughter Kitty married John Bolton, they had three sons and two daughters. Their sons were Thos., Charles and John. Thos. Lives in Newnan, Charles lives Wilks, vastly rich. John died. He lived in Cobb County on the Chattahoochee River near Montgomery’s Ferry. Their daughter Betsy married Philip Cooper and died shortly, their daughter Polly married Thos. Sims, lived in Washington, Wilks County. He died and then she married a man by name of Sherburn, he died.

Old Thos. Wynne’s fourth daughter Lucy married William Booker, had by him three daughters and one son, their names were Polly who died, Sally who married Samuel B. Echols and now lives in Alabama. Third daughter Lucinda married William Galbreath, they have one daughter married Absalom Echols Roberts and another married a Mr. Hester and they also have a young son I know not his name. The son of Wm. Booker was the notorious John W. Booker who died in Monroe, Walton County, Georgia.

Old Richard Echols second daughter, Drucilla, married Wm. Owen, raised a large family. They all went to western countries but one daughter, her name was Rhoda. She married the Rev. Malachi Reeves. I know but little of the family since they went to the west. Old Richard’s 3rd daughter Sally who married John Milner and moved to Kentucky in a very early date raised a very large family. Their sons were Armstead Milner, a very rich man, John Milner and Mark Milner.

Old Richard Echols fourth daughter Anna married James Daniel, had five children, four sons and one daughter. Their sons were Moses, Hopkins, Echols Daniel and Jeremiah. Their daughter Caty never married. Echols Daniel married but never had children by his wife. He is a vastly rich man, lives in Floyd County. Hopkins married the widow Crane, the grandmother of John Glover Crane of Charleston. Jeremiah Daniel married but I don’t know who. He moved to west. I know nothing of his family.

Old Rich Echols fifth daughter Elizabeth married William Raney, had one daughter named Betsy Hunter Raney. She married a very great lawyer by name of Edward Jones who lives in Giles County, Tennessee. Of their family I know nothing more.
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A Short Account of my Great Grandfather Walter Evans Faymily

He was a Welchman. Came to America about the beginning of 17th century, married Betsy Holcomb and settled in Caroline County, Virginia. He had several sons and four daughters. Who his sons married I know not. One of his daughters named Caty married Richard Echols - my grandfather. One other named Kitty married Daniel Terry. From them sprang the Colquitt family. One other of his daughters married John Hendrick. From them came the family of Jones, Smith and Ligon. Another of his daughters married Richard Hubbard. From them sprang the Hubbard family of Oglethorpe County, Georgia.
Old English John Echols had three daughters which I could have inserted had I known enough about them to give any satisfactory account of them. I only know they married outlandish men, one an Englishman named Nicholas Gilington. Of their family I know nothing. The second daughter married an Irishman named Murphy. I know nothing of their family only they had two sons, Joseph and William, that was called the greatest Baptist preachers that ever was known in Virginia of their day. Old English John Echols third daughter married a Scotchman named Marshbank. I know nothing of their family only the family of Deens in DeKalb and Floyd County sprang from that family.

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Descendants of Joseph/Elizabeth Berry, 1750 to 1850

Submitted by Nell C. Hailey and Roger G. Ward

Joseph Berry, first found in Prince Edward records in the 1770's with a land purchase near the village of Jamestown, and Sailors (Saylers) Creek, in the northeastern part of the county, and his wife Elizabeth — identified in 1805 deed records — are known to have at least 10 children (4 sons, 6 daughters). Both of the authors descend from a daughter, Mary (who married Josiah Sharpe), whose son Thomas H. Sharpe moved to Buckingham County about 1815. Due to the scarcity of records in Buckingham, a "burned records" county, we have focused on adjacent counties to "piece together" the ancestral families. The senior author [Roger G. Ward], living in Fredericksburg, Virginia, has made many visits to courthouses, church cemeteries, and libraries in Amelia, Prince Edward, Cumberland and Goochland counties (as well as The Library of Virginia) to find "pieces of the puzzle;" the junior author [Nell C. Hailey], living in Chandler, Arizona, has enjoyed evaluation of the various materials uncovered and serving as both an "interpreter" and "devils advocate" in the process. The material presented below is to be considered a summary of research thus far, and by no means the "final word." Since several of our conclusions have come from multiple documents, a list of sources is listed at the end of the article. Interested readers are encouraged to examine these same documents — should other interpretations be possible.

ANCESTRY OF JOSEPH AND ELIZABETH BERRY.
Although the "convenient" parents of Joseph Berry would be found in Amelia County as early as the 1730's — being Thomas and Catherine Berry — no solid evidence exists. (In fact, Mrs. Dorothy A. Koenig of California, editor of Berry Bulletin, has concluded that "our" Joseph was not a son of Thomas Berry of Amelia County who died in Kentucky in 1824.) Although the International Genealogical Index (IGI) lists Elizabeth's maiden name as "Shaver" or "Sheaffer," we have not been able to document this.

TWO GENERATIONS OF DESCENDANTS.
Summarized below are each of the 10 children, and the information on their families we have collected thus far. Joseph Berry's will was written 22 December 1808, a codocil added 16 May 1812, and probated in Prince Edward County 19 May 1812 {Prince Edward County Will Book, Volume 4, page. 334); other resources included the Prince Edward Marriage Registers, Birth and Death Registers, Deed Books, Page 116 The Southside Virginian, Vol. XIII No. 3 and Court Order Books. {When source material from counties other than Prince Edward is referred to, the county is identified}.

1: THOMAS BERRY. Married Mary (Bond) Hawkins, 18 April 1793. In 1837 living outside of Virginia.

2: ELIZABETH BERRY. Married Johnathon Mason, 9 February- 1792. Apparently a widow by 1815. Married Joseph Gray in Henrico County, 17 June 1816. Living in Goochland County, 1837. Children included: A.) Sally Mason — m. Peter Walker in Goochland County, 16 January 1815; B.) Maria Mason— m. Daniel W. Carter in Goochland County, 22 December 1829.

3: SARAH/SALLY BERRY. Married Johnathon Cressey, 31 December 1795. Married Davis Green, 20 June 1814. Living in Prince Edward County in 1837. Son William Cressey mentioned in Joseph Berry will in 1808.

4: JOSEPH H. BERRY, Junior. Born about 1786, died 1866. Married Isabella Ellington, 27 April 1810. She was born about 1778, died 25 December 1853. Children included: A.) Mary A. Berry. Married William Hardaway, 11 November 1833. Their children included 1) Henrietta Hardaway — born 1844, died 10 January 1896 at Rodophil, Jetersville, Amelia County; m. James Brooken Enroughty; 2) Martha Alice Hardaway — born 2 September, 1842 and died 30 January 1893 at Rodophil, Jetersville, Amelia County; m. John W. Taylor in Amelia County, 20 April 1864; their children included Matthew James Taylor, Eva Ann Taylor, Henry Ashby Taylor, Lula (Mary Louisa?) Taylor, and Willis (William T.?) Taylor. B.) Joseph J. Berry. Born 1819; m. "E. F." before 1859. Children included Pattie E. Berry, born 1859, died after 1910, m. Sylvester Meador 18 February 1875; her children can be found in 1926 and 1927 Deed Book transactions.

5. PETER BERRY. Married Elizabeth Robins 4 January 1794. Later moved to Botetourt County; apparently living outside of Virginia in 1837. Children included: A) Joseph Hardy Berry — born 1803, m. Rebecca Deyerle 8 November 1831 in Montgomery County, died 1867 in Putnam County, Missouri; B) Pliny Berry, m. Mary Irby 29 October 1834 in Botetourt County; and C) Frances L/(0?) Berry, m. Samuel Neighbors 8 May 1817 in Charlotte County. {Provided by descendant Mrs. Dorothea Donnelly, 1509 Highland Road, Roswell, NM 88201.}

6. JOHN BERRY. Apparently never married. Enlisted in 10th Regiment of U.S. Army on 11 May 1812. Court Order Book of November Court, 1818 included testimony of his commanding officer, Captain Emmanuel J. Leigh that John Berry served under him as an orderly and good soldier until his death at or near Plattsburg (New York?) in service of the U.S. The Southside Virginian, Vol. XIII No. 3 Page 117

7. MARY BERRY. Died after 1837 in Prince Edward County. Married Josiah Sharp, 16 May 1785. Children included: A.) Elizabeth Sharp, m. Francis D. Atwell 17 May 1813; B.) Sussanna Sharp — m. William Foster 31 December 1807; C.) Polly Sharp — m. Ambrose R. Wright 16 September 1816; D.) Thomas H. Sharp — m. Mary A. Mann 6 September 1815 — they moved to her father's (John Mann — d 1815) land in Buckingham County, having 10 children, including 1) Elizabeth Sharp, 2) John B. Sharp — m. Nancy Palmer Guthrie, 3) Rebecca Sharp, 4) George E. Sharp, 5) Nancy Sharp, 6) Margaret H. Sharp — m. Thomas R. Jimmerson/Jamison, 7) Virginia H. Sharp — m. Beverly Richard Jamison, 8) Susan Sharp — m. Bartlett Whitlow, 9) Josiah T. Sharp — m. Arriania F. Stinson, and 10) Martha Sharpe — m. Hays Whitlow; E.) Jane Sharp — m. Isaac W. Wade 8 December 1820; F.) Joseph Berry Sharp — m. Mary Alice Morton — they moved to Charlotte County, having sons 1) John Morton Sharp, and 2) Josiah Franklin Sharp; and G.) Rebecca Sharp - m. John D. Waddill 25 November 1831.

8. LUCY BERRY. Living in Prince Edward County in 1837. Married Thomas Berry 4 August 1800. Children included A.) Wingfield Berry.

9. JANE BERRY. Living in Prince Edward County in 1837. Married Pleasant Ellington 21 June 1807.

10. ANN BERRY. Died by 1797. Married John Pillow/Piller 29 November 1792. Children included: A.) John Piller, living at time of Joseph Berry will in 1808; and B.) Joseph B. Piller — m. Martha T. Smith 1817 in Amelia County, moved to Maury County, Tennessee, about 1820, d. Henry County, Tennessee, 1846. {per letter in 1983 from J. D. Walker of Paris, Tennessee, to Mrs. D. Donnelly}

SOURCES
Amelia County, VA, 1885 Deed Book, Volume 31, p. 492.
Amelia County, VA, 1901 Will Book, Volume 23, p. 57.
Prince Edward County, VA, 1818 Court Order Book, Volume 19, p. 112.
Prince Edward County, VA, 1837 Court Order Book, Volume 24, p. 52.
Prince Edward County, VA, 1804 Deed Book, Volume 12, p. 239.
Prince Edward County, VA, 1838 Deed Book, Volume 27, p. 375.
Prince Edward County, VA, 1885 Deed Book, Volume 36, p. 492.
Prince Edward County, VA, Marriage Bonds, 1754 to 1850 (Family History Library Microfilm Reel #33254).
Prince Edward County, VA, 1816 Will Book, Volume 4, p. 334.
Page 118 The Southside Virginian, Vol. XIII No. 3
1810 United States Federal Census

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Jean Guyon, Sieur des Granches, Vicomte de Beaupre Thaumetz

Jean Guyon

Also Known As:
"Sieur Vicomte de Beaupre & Thaumetz"

Birthdate:
circa 1500

Birthplace:
Perche, France

Death:
Died 1600 in France

Immediate Family:
Son of Jacques-Honore Guyon and Francoise Dumast
Husband of Marie-Catherine Jourette
Father of Pierre Guyon; Noel Guyon; Mathurin Guyon and Georges Joseph Guyon
Brother of Marie-Catherine Guyon des Granches

Occupation:
Vicomte de Beaupre & Thaumetz

Marie-Catherine Jourette
wife
Pierre Guyon
son
Noel Guyon
son
Mathurin Guyon
son
Georges Joseph Guyon
son
Francoise Dumast
mother
Jacques-Honore Guyon
father
Marie-Catherine Guyon des Granches
sister
About Jean Guyon, Sieur des Granches, Vicomte de Beaupre Thaumetz
Birth:
Perche,,, France
Death:
France
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Jean Guyon accompanied his brother-in-law Jacques Cartier on one of his early voyages to Canada (1534 or 1535). -------------------- http://www.branches-n-twigs.com/genealogy/getperson.php?personID=I43912&tree=allfam

Guyon, Jean (I24733)

ID Line# County Year/Page# Surname of Deceased Given Name of Deceased Surname of Owner of Deceased Given Name of Owner of Deceased Date of Death Sex White Colored Place of Death Cause of Death Age of Deceased Parents of Deceased Where Deceased Born Occupation of Deceased Consort of Deceased Informant Designation of Informant

173 8 Pittsylvania 1853:4 Silvey Devin Nancy 00/Jun/1853 F No Slave Pittsylvania Cnty 13Yrs " Nancy Devin "

Parrish, Nancy (I40)

It is to be noted that there were two Ralph Sheltons in early Virginia. One was Ralph Shelton of Essex-Middlesex Co (Middlesex and Essex Counties are adjacent along the Western shore of Chesapeake Bay) and the other is Ralph Shelton of King and Queen Co (West of Middlesex and Essex Counties; it was subdivided in 1702 and King William Co was carved out). The two Ralphs lived on opposide sides of the Dragon Swamp and were about 15 years apart in age. The Essex-Middlesex Co Ralph Shelton was imported in 1702 and married in 1707; he is presumed to have been born about 1685. He was the ancestor of the Sarah Shelton who married Patrick Henry. The King William Co Ralph Shelton was born, according to Ellis Family records, on 25 Sept 1698 in King and Queen Co, a son of Sarah Shelton who married Richard C. Gissage, merchant from London, who settled at Acquinton, St. Peters Parish, New Kent County.

“The History of Pittsylvania County, Virginia,” by Maud Carter Clement, has confused the two Ralphs. Ms. Clement discusses Crispen Shelton and says he “was the son of Ralph Shelton and his wife Mary Pollard. She wrote that “Ralph Shelton was the son of Sarah Shelton and Richard Gassage of New Kent, and for some reaon retained his mother’s name. Tradition says that Sarah Shelton and Richard Shelton were the emigrant chidren of a ship’s captain who drowned in the english Channel in 1691.” Crispen Shelton was actually the son of the Middlesex Co Ralph and his wife Mary, whose surname has been guessed to have been Crispen. Unfortunately, appearance of an incorrect interpretation in a book means that more people take it as fact, and the incorrect attribution of Ralph Shelton (the King William Co one) and Mary Pollard as the parents of Crispen Shelton has gone viral; a check of Ancestry.com public family trees on 30 Sep 2011 showed no fewer than 247 trees that contain this incorrect family relationship.

Ralph apparently spent his entire life in Middlesex County as a planter, since he died there in 1733. In his will, dated 10 March 1733, he mentioned his sons Ralph, Thomas, Crispin, his daughter Elizabeth Davis and his wife Mary. He stated that in case his son Thomas should die, he wished his sons Ralph and Crispin would take care of his (Thomas's) children.

Thomas died five years later (1738). After Ralph's death, his widow married William Clark or Clock. Mentioned in her will were sons Crispin Shelton, John Shelton, Benjamin Shelton, James Shelton, Ralph Shelton, Daniel Shelton, grandchildren Reuben Shelton, and Patience Catesby Blakey and daughter Elizabeth Davis. Mary Crispin Shelton Clark was of Nottaway, Amelia County,Virginia.

Prior to the Oct. 10, 1702 Middlesex Co, VA County Court Session, Ralph SHELTON was imported to North America, along with six other persons, by Thomas Merriwether (who was granted a headright for this importation). Ralph's surname was spelled SHELDON. Probably, he was at least 18 years of age. After his importation, Ralph Shelton lived in Middlesex Co., VA for the remainder of his life.

By 1707, Ralph Shelton's name is found on the Christ Church Parish Register with the birth record of his first child, Thomas Shelton.

He was listed as a Surveyor and Appraiser, and primary occupation as a planter.

Ralph was qualified as a general county road maintenance surveyor based on an entry in the Christ Church Vestry Book (page 201 of original, November to March, year not noted in book but context places it c1727, "ordered that Mr. Garrot Daniel and Mr. Ralph Shelton procession every particular person's land between Briery Swamp (from the Millstone Valley to the Dragon Swamp), and the upper end of the county, and from the main road to the Dragon Swamp, on the south side of the main road".

Birth and baptismal records on most of Ralph's children are given in Christ Church Register.

Ralph Shelton's will was dated 10 Mar 1733 in Middlesex Co., VA., and proven in 02 Apr 1734. Elizabeth Davis (daughter), his wife Mary Shelton and his son Thomas Shelton were appointed as his executors.

Following from “RALPH SHELTON, OF MIDDLESEX COUNTY, VIRGINIA AND SOME OF HIS DESCENDANTS”; An Account by his great-5-grandson, Kenyon Stevenson (deceased), Hudson, Ohio, 1953:855

Ralph Shelton married about 1707, either in Essex or Middlesex, a wife Mary, whose surname has been guessed to be Crispin. No record of the marriage or suggestion of a maiden name has been discovered. Birth of the oldest daughter, Elizabeth, about 1711, is not in the Christ Church Parish Register, where all the others are recorded. There were eleven children in all, as follows:
l. Thomas, baptized November 9, 1707, married Mary Probert Jan. 14, 1730/31   2. Ralph, baptized October 23, 1709, married Mary Daniel June 10, 1731   3. Elizabeth, born about 1711, married Wm. Davis, Oct. 29, 1728.   4. Crisp (throughout life called Crispin), born April 1, baptized May 17, 1713, married Letitia ____about 1734   5. Reuben, born Feb 1, 1714/15, baptized Apr 10, 1715; died Oct. 8, 1715   6. Mary, born Jan. 21, baptized February 13, 1716/17; died July 18, 1719   7. Catherine, born Jan. 26, baptized March 13, 1719/20, married George Blakey Dec. 31, 1743   8. John, born July 19, baptized August 12, 1722   9. Benjamin. born June 18, baptized July 12, 1724   10. James, born Feb. 23, baptized March 23, 1726/27   11. Daniel, born May 17, baptized June 22, 1729
Ralph Shelton lived only five years after the birth of his son Daniel. He died March 13 1733/34. His will, badly damaged in the old Middlesex Will Book, was dated March 10, 1733/34. Some of the provisions still legible on the torn pages are , “ My son Ralph Shelton should have my Land….” “……zabeth Davis twenty five Shillings to buy her---“, “------Ralph Shelton one cow and calf,”, “…..my son Thomas Shelton should take care of my children, and if in case my son Thomas should Die, my Desire is that my Children should be left to the -----of my other two sons, Ralph and Crispen.” “Appoint my L (oving) wife Mary Shelton and my son Thomas Shelton to (be executors of) my Last will and Testament.” The witnesses were William Buford, Thomas Clarke, Henry Buford and Abraham______.
The will was presented in Court April 2, 1734 and proved by oaths of Henry Beauford and Thomas Clark. Thomas Buford, John Jones, John Clark and Garrit Daniel appraised the estate. Inventory and appraisement were presented to the court on July 2, 1734. After this there are no later entries in the Middlesex Court Orders or other county records regarding Ralph Shelton. His widow, Mary, remarried – to a Clark, perhaps Thomas – and as Mary Clark made her will in Nottoway Parish of Amelia County on June 30, 1750. A Middlesex deed made Oct. 5, 1757 by Mary Clark and Peter Clark of County Middlesex to John Lambeth transfers 150 acres “beginning at a deep bottom between Edward Bristow and William Bristow’s line, thence along Elizabeth Smith’s line to main run of the Dragon Swamp…”
Ralph Shelton’s two older surviving sons, Ralph and Crispin, after marriage in Middlesex in the early 1730’s, apparently settled in Essex County. In May 1740 Ralph Shelton presented a certificate to the Essex Court for taking up a runaway slave Cheshire belonging to Mrs. Winifred Webb of Richmond , and in August 1742, the Essex court adjudged Sam, a negro boy belonging to Crispin Shelton to be 10 years old.
Shortly thereafter these Sheltons turned toward Amelia County, nearly 100 miles west and south, created in 1734 from Brunswick and Prince George Counties. Amelia at first also included the areas now in Prince Edward and Nottaway Counties. On July 14, 1743 Mathew Smart of Prince George County sold Crispin Shelton of South Farnham Parish, Essex County 620 acres on South Nottaway River in Amelia County. Two years later, on Sept. 20, 1745, Ralph Shelton received a royal grant of 400 acres in Amelia County, on the lower side of Snales Creek and north of Great Nottaway River.
It appears probable that with Ralph and Crispin and their families went with their mother, Mary Clark, and the four younger sons, John, Benjamin, James and Daniel. In 1745 John was 23, Benjamin 21, James 19 and Daniel 16.
Crispin sold two portions of his 620 acres in 1746 – 155 acres to Henry Bueford of Amelia and 203 acres to James Beuford of Orange County. The deeds place the land as lying “on the south side of Rocky Creek in the forks of Nottaway” and recite that “Letice his said wife” joined Crispin in the sale. Ralph Shelton and Benjamin Shelton signed both deeds as witnesses. Recalling that Henry Buford and William Buford were witnesses to the father Ralph’s will in Middlesex in 1733, it is suggested that Crispin’s wife, Lettice, may have been a Buford.
On June 20, 1749, Ralph Shelton had a second land grant – 400 acres in Lunenburg County, on the lower side of Ledbetters Creek. On Oct. 23, 1751, Ralph Shelton of the Parish of Nottaway bought 286 acres more on the lower side of Snales Creek from Samuel Jordan. Snail Creek, on the modern map, is a small stream scarcely five miles long in the southeast corner of Prince Edward County (created in 1753 from Amelia), emptying into the Great Nottaway where Prince Edward, Nottaway and Lunenburg meet. The Great Nottaway was then (1751) the boundary between Amelia and Lunenburg. This places Ralph Shelton’s 628 acre homestead in the extreme southwest corner of present Nottaway County and his land on Ledbetter Creek about 10 miles distant to the south and west.
US and International Marriage Records, 1560-1900

Name:Ralph Shelton Gender:Male Birth Place:VA Birth Year:1685 Spouse Name:Mary Crispin Marriage
Year:1706 Marriage State:VA Number Pages:1

SHELTON SLAVES

Mary Shelton Clark, widow of Ralph Shelton died 1733 Middlesex County, Virginia

On the 1748 Amelia County, Virginia, Tithables List, Crispin Shelton is listed with “The Widow Clark” in his household and she paid the tithe tax on several slaves. Mary Clark was the widow of Ralph Shelton, I, who died in 1733 in Middlesex County, Virginia. Mary Clark’s will is on file in Pittsylvania County. It is recorded in Pittsylvania County Deed and Will Book 5, page 369. The will was proven on August 29, 1771, and it was written on June 30, 1750, in Nottoway Parish, Amelia County. One of the items in her will left to her son Daniel Shelton her “negro wench Taney”.

Crispin Shelton, son of Ralph Shelton died 1733, Middlesex County, Virginia.

In August 1742, Essex County, Virginia, Court Orders recorded the Essex court adjudged Sam, “a Negro boy” belonging to Crispin Shelton, to be 10 years old. Crispin was on the first Tithables List of Pittsylvania County, Virginia, in 1767 with his son Spencer and three slaves Tom, Lucy, and Primus. Also listed was his son, Gabriel Shelton, with Abraham Payne resident in his household and slaves Zachary and Vilet. His son Lewis was listed with slave Pratt. In his will Crispin made arrangements for 44 slaves, not many when one considers that Thomas Jefferson owned 200 slaves at the time.

Ralph Shelton, II, son of Ralph Shelton died 1733 Middlesex County, Virginia

Ralph Shelton, II, died in Henry County, Virginia, in 1789.

He is listed on the 1762 Tithables List of Amelia County, Virginia, where he lived before moved to the area that became Henry County, Virginia, as follows, which shows him owning two slaves

named Adam and Phyllis. The other names are those of his sons. “Tithes” were a tax each free

white male had to pay to the Virginia government beginning on his 16th birthday and which also

had to be paid on slaves, male and female, and on Indian servants and on indentured persons by

the slave owner and the holder of the indenture papers. Ralph paid no Tithe on indenture individuals.

Ralph Shelton, Ralph Shelton, Jr., Eliphaz Shelton, James Shelton, Palitiah Shelton, Adam, Phyllis 7 Tithes
Ralph Shelton, III, son of Ralph Shelton, II, died 1789 Henry County

Ralph Shelton, III, died in Knox County, Tennessee, son of Ralph Shelton, II, died 1789 Henry

County, Virginia, son of Ralph Shelton, ! , died 1733 Middlesex County, Virginia”

Date is illegible but registered April, 1815, Ralph Shelton of Knox County executes deed for

slaves to his son, John Shelton.. (Source: research of Phillip Lane)

Benjamin Shelton, son of Ralph Shelton died 1733 Middlesex County, Virginia

Benjamin Shelton' s first appearance in the Pittsylvania Records was in 1772 when he bought land from Hugh Innes. The 1782 tax list of Pittsylvania shows Ben Shelton with a family of 7 whites and 8 slaves. Benjamin moved to Caswell County, North Carolina. Benjamin’s will is recorded in Caswell County Will Book C, pages 417

-418. His will was dated March 4, 1799. He stated that it is “my desire that my black people should have the privilege of choosing their master whom they will serve”.

Pittsylvania County Tax Lists show Daniel Shelton, the youngest son of Ralph Shbelton of Middlesex County, Virginia, with a family of 11 owning 400 acres and 9 slaves.

In his will, Daniel made this statement: My desire is for my sons to divide the negroes among themselves if they can agree and keep them in the family as my desire is for them to remain with my sons, also my desire is for sons to give my two old negros Bob and Ester the privilege of living with who they please so they live in the family as it is contrary to law of my Country to free them.

Armistead Shelton, son of Crispin Shelton, son of Ralph Shelton died 1733

September 15, 1794 Armistead Shelton son of Crispin, freed two mulatto girls named Biddy and Juda. His reason was that he desired that they be free. The document is recorded in Deed Book 10, page. 71. In 1806 John Shelton, son of Ralph Shelton of Middlesex County, freed

a slave named Adam, recorded in Pittsylvania County Deed Book 15, page 40.

Collected Material on Ralph Shelton
Posted 25 Mar 2012 by JeanMulhern08
A Collection of Material on Ralph Shelton

Ralph Shelton – beginning with a short review

He was a surveyor, appraiser and planter by occupation.
Ralph's will was dated 10 Mar 1733 and proven in 1734.
Ralph Shelton came to Virginia about 1702 with Thomas Meriwether. (EssexCourt Order Book-1702).

His death is recorded in Christ Church Parish Register, Middlesex Co VA, Will Book B, 1712-1734, p. 418-419.
Recorded in Essex County Deeds & Wills, Book No. 10, 1699-1702, p.133, is a record of Thomas Merriwether claiming land for having imported Ralph to the Colony of Virginia.

At his death, Thomas Merriwether left the land he received for the importation to Ralph Shelton.

Also –

RALPH SHELTON, OF MIDDLESEX COUNTY, VIRGINIA AND SOME OF HIS DESCENDANTS”

Following from “RALPH SHELTON, OF MIDDLESEX COUNTY, VIRGINIA AND SOME OF HIS DESCENDANTS”; An Account by his great-5-grandson, Kenyon Stevenson (deceased), Hudson, Ohio, 1953:855

Ralph Shelton married about 1707, either in Essex or Middlesex, a wife Mary, whose surname has been guessed to be Crispin. No record of the marriage or suggestion of a maiden name has been discovered. Birth of the oldest daughter, Elizabeth, about 1711, is not in the Christ Church Parish Register, where all the others are recorded. There were eleven children in all, as follows:
l. Thomas, baptized November 9, 1707, married Mary Probert Jan. 14, 1730/31   2. Ralph, baptized October 23, 1709, married Mary Daniel June 10, 1731   3. Elizabeth, born about 1711, married Wm. Davis, Oct. 29, 1728.   4. Crisp (throughout life called Crispin), born April 1, baptized May 17, 1713, married Letitia ____about 1734   5. Reuben, born Feb 1, 1714/15, baptized Apr 10, 1715; died Oct. 8, 1715   6. Mary, born Jan. 21, baptized February 13, 1716/17; died July 18, 1719   7. Catherine, born Jan. 26, baptized March 13, 1719/20, married George Blakey Dec. 31, 1743   8. John, born July 19, baptized August 12, 1722   9. Benjamin. born June 18, baptized July 12, 1724   10. James, born Feb. 23, baptized March 23, 1726/27   11. Daniel, born May 17, baptized June 22, 1729
Ralph Shelton lived only five years after the birth of his son Daniel. He died March 13 1733/34. His will, badly damaged in the old Middlesex Will Book, was dated March 10, 1733/34. Some of the provisions still legible on the torn pages are , “ My son Ralph Shelton should have my Land….” “……zabeth Davis twenty five Shillings to buy her---“, “------Ralph Shelton one cow and calf,”, “…..my son Thomas Shelton should take care of my children, and if in case my son Thomas should Die, my Desire is that my Children should be left to the -----of my other two sons, Ralph and Crispen.” “Appoint my L (oving) wife Mary Shelton and my son Thomas Shelton to (be executors of) my Last will and Testament.” The witnesses were William Buford, Thomas Clarke, Henry Buford and Abraham______.
The will was presented in Court April 2, 1734 and proved by oaths of Henry Beauford and Thomas Clark. Thomas Buford, John Jones, John Clark and Garrit Daniel appraised the estate. Inventory and appraisement were presented to the court on July 2, 1734. After this there are no later entries in the Middlesex Court Orders or other county records regarding Ralph Shelton. His widow, Mary, remarried – to a Clark, perhaps Thomas – and as Mary Clark made her will in Nottoway Parish of Amelia County on June 30, 1750. A Middlesex deed made Oct. 5, 1757 by Mary Clark and Peter Clark of County Middlesex to John Lambeth transfers 150 acres “beginning at a deep bottom between Edward Bristow and William Bristow’s line, thence along Elizabeth Smith’s line to main run of the Dragon Swamp…”
Ralph Shelton’s two older surviving sons, Ralph and Crispin, after marriage in Middlesex in the early 1730’s, apparently settled in Essex County. In May 1740 Ralph Shelton presented a certificate to the Essex Court for taking up a runaway slave Cheshire belonging to Mrs. Winifred Webb of Richmond , and in August 1742, the Essex court adjudged Sam, a negro boy belonging to Crispin Shelton to be 10 years old.
Shortly thereafter these Sheltons turned toward Amelia County, nearly 100 miles west and south, created in 1734 from Brunswick and Prince George Counties. Amelia at first also included the areas now in Prince Edward and Nottaway Counties. On July 14, 1743 Mathew Smart of Prince George County sold Crispin Shelton of South Farnham Parish, Essex County 620 acres on South Nottaway River in Amelia County. Two years later, on Sept. 20, 1745, Ralph Shelton received a royal grant of 400 acres in Amelia County, on the lower side of Snales Creek and north of Great Nottaway River.
It appears probable that with Ralph and Crispin and their families went with their mother, Mary Clark, and the four younger sons, John, Benjamin, James and Daniel. In 1745 John was 23, Benjamin 21, James 19 and Daniel 16.
Crispin sold two portions of his 620 acres in 1746 – 155 acres to Henry Bueford of Amelia and 203 acres to James Beuford of Orange County. The deeds place the land as lying “on the south side of Rocky Creek in the forks of Nottaway” and recite that “Letice his said wife” joined Crispin in the sale. Ralph Shelton and Benjamin Shelton signed both deeds as witnesses. Recalling that Henry Buford and William Buford were witnesses to the father Ralph’s will in Middlesex in 1733, it is suggested that Crispin’s wife, Lettice, may have been a Buford.
On June 20, 1749, Ralph Shelton had a second land grant – 400 acres in Lunenburg County, on the lower side of Ledbetters Creek. On Oct. 23, 1751, Ralph Shelton of the Parish of Nottaway bought 286 acres more on the lower side of Snales Creek from Samuel Jordan. Snail Creek, on the modern map, is a small stream scarcely five miles long in the southeast corner of Prince Edward County (created in 1753 from Amelia), emptying into the Great Nottaway where Prince Edward, Nottaway and Lunenburg meet. The Great Nottaway was then (1751) the boundary between Amelia and Lunenburg. This places Ralph Shelton’s 628 acre homestead in the extreme southwest corner of present Nottaway County and his land on Ledbetter Creek about 10 miles distant to the south and west.

Residence Records in the Christ Church Parish registers in Middlesex County, Virginia, mention Mary's husband, Ralph Shelton, from the baptism of their son John in November 1707 to Ralph's death on March 13, 1733. Then she spent the entire time up to 1733 in the Middlesex County area.

Her will of 1750 shows her living in Nottoway Parish in Amelia County, VA. She had remarried a man named CLARK, but this is definitely the widow of Ralph Shelton since her will lists her children by name: Ralph Shelton, Crispin Shelton, John Shelton, Benjamin Shelton, James Shelton, Elizabeth Davis, and Daniel Shelton. Two grandchildren, Reubin Shelton and Patient Caty Blakely are also mentioned, suggesting they took their deceased parent's portion of Mary's estate.

Spouse/Children Mary was the wife of Ralph Shelton (1685-1733). We know this because the Christ Church Parish records list "daughter of" or "son of" Ralph and Mary Shelton for each baptism. Moreover, Ralph's will, though badly torn with large chunks missing, has mention of his wife Mary. References to several of his children remain as well.

A marriage record between Ralph and Mary has not been located, despite several generations of researchers searching for it. The dominant thinking is that Mary's surname was Crispin, but this is speculation based on her son's name of Crispin. The U.S. and International Marriage records on ancestry.com record a marriage between Ralph Shelton and Mary Crispin in 1706 in Middlesex County, VA but it is important to note that the source of this is a collection of research notes acquired over many years by Yates Publishing. These are NOT NECESSARILY original records as family group sheets are used as sources in addition to Bible records and other notes. Therefore, the maiden name of CRISPIN remains in the family lore but is unproven. At some point, Mary married a man named CLARK, as this is her surname in her will.

All of the baptisms of Ralph's and Mary's children appear in the Christ Church register (under the name SHELTON), but no record has been found of the baptism or birth of their daughter Elizabeth. Her existence is known from a reference in Ralph's will (____abeth Davis) and from Mary's will (referring to daughter Elizabeth Davis). The parish registers show a marriage between Elizabeth Shelton and William Davis on 09 Oct 1728, several years before the wills were written, so this data is all consistent. In addition to the baptism records, the names of "my son Ralph," "my son Thomas," "son Crispin" appear in Ralph's will. From these records, the children of Ralph and Mary were the following:
· Thomas
· Ralph
· Elizabeth
· Crispen
· Reuben (died young)
· Mary (died young)
· Catherine
· John
· Benjamin
· James
· Daniel

Mary's estate was probated in 1771 in Pittsylvania County, VA.

He was a surveyor, appraiser and planter by occupation.
Ralph's will was dated 10 Mar 1733 and proven in 1734.
Ralph Shelton came to Virginia about 1702 with Thomas Meriwether. (EssexCourt Order Book-1702).
Wife was named Mary; they were married abt 1707 in Middlesex Co VA.

The children of Ralph and Mary Shelton;
l. Thomas, baptized November 9, 1707, married Mary Probert Jan. 14, 1730/31
2. Ralph, baptized October 23, 1709, married Mary Daniel June 10, 1731
3. Elizabeth, born about 1711, married Wm. Davis, Oct. 29, 1728.
4. Crispen, born April 1, baptized May 17, 1713, married Letitia
5. Reuben, born Feb 1, 1714/15, baptized Apr 10, 1715; died Oct. 8, 1715
6. Mary, born Jan. 21, baptized February 13, 1716/17; died July 18, 1719
7. Catherine, born Jan. 26, baptized March 13, 1719/20, married George Blakey Dec. 31, 1743
8. John, born July 19, baptized August 12, 1722
9. Benjamin. born June 18, baptized July 12, 1724
10. James, born Feb. 23, baptized March 23, 1726/27
11. Daniel, born abt 1729

His parents may be Peter Shelton 1664-1718 and Susannah Jackson/Jaxon. Peter would be the son of James Shelton 1632 MD-1720 VA who married mary Bathurst. James would be the son of Thomas Shelton and Hannah Wood, who lived in Virginia and Bermuda......and on, back, to Sir John Shelton [DeShelton] and Lady Anne Boleyn. John Shelton was the 21st Lord of Shelton. Sir John's wife, Anne Boleyn, was an aunt to Anne Boleyn the second wife of King Henry VIII, and Henry and Anne were parents of Elizabeth I who became the Queen of England in 1588. This line continues back and includes Ralph Shelton 1430 who married Margaret CLERE.

Christ Church Parish Register; page 54 "Peter ye sone of Peter & Susanna Shelton baptz ye 15th November 1687"

"In Middlesex County, a Peter Chilton married Susan Jaxon on March 2, 1685. This is the first notice of a man who appears in the records as Chilton, Chelton and Shelton over the next 30 years. Three of his son's births are recorded in the Christ Church Parish Register as Chilton, but his own name occurs in his 1718 will as Chilton, Chelton and Chellton. He signed his name by mark, Peter Chellton." by descendant, Kenyon Stevenson.

His death is recorded in Christ Church Parish Register, Middlesex Co VA

Will Book B, 1712-1734, p. 418-419.

"Recorded in Essex County Deeds & Wills, Book No. 10, 1699-1702, p.133, is a record of Thomas Merriwether claiming land for having imported Ralph to the Colony of Virginia." "At his death, Thomas Merriwether left the land he received for the importation to Ralph Shelton." From the research of Keynon Stevenson as shared by Hildred C. Shelton.

"Order'd that Mr Garrot Daniel, & Mr Ralph Shelton, procession...between the Briery Swamp, (from the Millstone Valley to the Dragon Swamp) and the upper End of the County, and from the main road to the Dragon Swamp, on the South Side of the main road"....

1728: Mr Garrot Daniel, & Mr Ralph Shelton..."from the new Drago[n] Bridge road on the South side the main road to the upper End of the Parish".... [this year two districts on the south side are combined. In 1729 the processioners for the same two are John Segar and James Macham.]

Prior to the Oct. 10, 1702 Middlesex Co, VA County Court Session, Ralph SHELTON was imported to North America, along with six other persons, by Thomas Merriwether (who was granted a headright for this importation): source - Essex County, VA Court Order Book 1699-1702, (Deeds and Wills Vol 10, p. 133). Ralph's surname was spelled SHELDON in this document. Probably, he was at least 18 years of age. There is no evidence that Ralph Shelton served a formal indenture as an indentured servant, since no release or other documents have been located in support of this matter.

Researcher and author, Ken Shelton, who has a copy of the will, said that Merriwether wrote in his will (Essex Co. Deed & Will Book 1707-1711, p. 185-187): ...I give unto Ralph Shelton & his heirs forever sixty five acres of land granted to me by Patent beginning to the lands of RICE JONES *see note below & John Leh__le the land formerly belonging to Capt Edward Thomas..... At the end of the document, Ralph is a WITNESS to the will as well. This means Ralph could read and write, and was educated to some extent. The clerk transcribed his signature as Ralph Shelteon even though he spelled it Shelton within the text of the will itself. Dated 27 Jan 1708/9, probated 10 Feb 1708/9. The land was near the Dragon Swamp of Essex County (later Middlesex County). What relationship there might have been is unknown, but usually this type of bequest indicated a strong relationship.

The Meriwether Society has a theory that Ralph was a Skelton and that Thomas married his sister, Susannah. They base this on the fact that everyone in Thomas's will were family named as brother, sister, nephew; except for Ralph. They think that is the reason Thomas imported Ralph. That and the fact that Thomas bequeathed to Ralph in his will 65 acres. Dr.Frank Shelton has another area to explore. In the mentioned will of Thomas he asks to sell his tobacco and to pay his debts to Messr. Micajah Perry, London merchant. Dr.Frank thinks if we knew more of Mr. Perry and his type of trade it would lead to more clues as to Ralph's parents."

This is a good theory, worth exploring, and might well explain just why Thomas Meriwether gave Ralph Shelton the 65 acre legacy in his 1708/9 will. For many people, this SHELTON research is confusing for several reasons. There was another Ralph SHELTON, a younger man than our ancestor, who was of King William County. He married Mary Pollard. The two Ralph Sheltons lived, according to Jan, on opposite sides of the Dragon Swamp and were about 15 years apart in age. This was established by a bond for 200 pounds in King William County dated 30 Sep 1703, entered into by Joseph Bickley of King and Queen County with Major John Waller, (see notes below regarding Crispen Shelton's children), King William Co., to cover two years schooling for Ralph Shelton, son of Mrs. Sarah Gissage, whom Bickley contemplated marrying soon. A good article on "the two Ralphs" can be found at Brian Eddy's helpful website (outdated URL - if you know about his new URL, please let me know). In correspondance from Katherine Snow 2/2000, she wrote that the marriage of Ralph Shelton (supposedly b. c1698, while our Ralph SHELTON was b. 1685) and Mary Pollard occurred 05 Dec 1721, which certainly would exclude Mary ?Crisp/Crispen? from being the same person as Mary Pollard. I have not researched the SHELTON/POLLARD connection, so I cannot say for certain if this is all true.

It is unknown who the parents of our Ralph Shelton were at this time. Some researchers would like to believe that Ralph was the son of Peter Shelton and his wife Susannah Jaxon/Jackson, but it appears this assumption is incorrect after all the evidence is viewed. There were men named Ralph Shelton in early England records, but no connection with proof has yet been located. Kenneth Shelton, who wrote "The Shelton Trek Across Kentucky", (LIBRARY of CONGRESS Call #CS71.S545 1987a), said on page 7 of his book that he believed Ralph Shelton was not a son to Peter Shelton. He believed that Peter was actually a CHILTON. Although Peter CHILTON (1664-1718) did live in Middlesex Co., VA, he left a will which did not name a Ralph Shelton as a son, and all of Peter Chilton's children are noted in the Christ Church Parish Register (no Ralph was listed there). Ralph Shelton, by English primogenitor law, would have been included in this will if he was the first born son and by law would have inherited Peter Chilton's 100 acres of land had he been the son as claimed by some researchers. Why would Ralph SHELTON b. 1685, be "imported" if this supposed father, Peter Shelton/Chilton, was already residing in America, as documents prove? Ralph Shelton simply was NOT a son to Peter Chilton/Shelton. The following is another comprehensive message regarding this issue. It was also posted to the Knight5@aol.com SHELTON mailing list:

"Dr. Frank H. Shelton wrote a pamphlet Sheltons in the Christ Church Parish Register-in Virginia, copyright 1985. He descends from Ralph & Mary, through their first son Thomas. Source of his information is "The Parish Register of Christ Church Parish of Middlesex Co., Va From 1653-1812" published by the National Society of the Colonial Dames of America in the State of Virginia, Richmond: Wm Ellis Jones, Steam Book And Job Printer - 1897. Also, Essex Co. Court Records. I quote the following.
"There are records for Peter Chelton (and descendants) in the Christ Church Parish Register from 1685 when Peter Chilton married Susan Jaxon until 1725 when Abby was born to ZebuIon & Mary Chelton. Over this period of 38 years and three generations it was always Chilton/Chelton. There was never any mixing of the Shelton and Chelton names over a period of many years in the Christ Church Parish Register. There is only one exception to this fact: unaccountably on page 54 "Peter ye sone of Peter & Susanna Shelton baptz ye 15th November 1687" does a Shelton enter into the Chilton's records and never a Chilton in the Shelton's records of Christ Church Parish.
The above Parish Register records indicate the following concerning the Peter Chilton family: Peter Chilton 1st married in 1684 Susannah Jackson and by her had William and Peter (Jr) - 1687. Peter Chilton then married 2nd Abigail and by her had Henry - 1691, Thomas and Zebulon. Peter Chilton died October 1718 and his widow Abigail Chelton married Robert Holderness a short time later - Feb 1719."......"I think that Dr. Frank Shelton provides the most compelling evdence, backed up by direct research, that Peter was not a Shelton. Also that he could not have been the father of Ralph. Regards, Wayne Shelton

By 1707, Ralph Shelton's name is found on the Christ Church Parish Register with the birth record of his first child, Thomas Shelton. After his importation, Ralph Shelton lived in Middlesex Co., VA for the remainder of his life. He was listed as a Surveyor and Appraiser, and primary occupation as a planter. Ralph was qualified as a general county road maintenance surveyor based on an entry in the Christ Church Vestry Book (page 201 of original, November to March, year not noted in book but context places it c1727, "ordered that Mr. Garrot Daniel and Mr. Ralph Shelton procession every particular person's land between Briery Swamp (from the Millstone Valley to the Dragon Swamp), and the upper end of the county, and from the main road to the Dragon Swamp, on the south side of the main road". Birth and baptismal records on most of Ralph's children are given in Christ Church Register. Ralph Shelton's will was dated 10 Mar 1733 in Middlesex Co., VA., and proven in 02 Apr 1734. Elizabeth Davis (daughter), his wife Mary Shelton and his son Thomas Shelton were appointed as his executors. Click here to view a transcribed version of the will at the USGenWeb SHELTON board.

Ralph Shelton supposedly married Mary ?CRISP/CRISPEN? (no proof has yet been found for her correct maiden name) c1706 in Middlesex Co., VA. She was reported to have been the daughter of Thomas and Mary (LONG) CRISPEN/CRISP who married 18 May 1687. I have no good source for this data, and it is NOT proven. Mary remarried after her husband's death in 1734 to William CLARK. From VA Vital Records #1 1600-1800 (Family Tree Maker CD #174), Broderbund, pages 259-260 of "Abstracts of VA Wills of Pittsylvania Co., VA 1803-1860", printed in "The Magazine of History and Biography - The William and Mary Quarterly and Tylers Quarterly", will of Mary CLOCK (sic), Parish of Nottoway, Amelia County, was dated 30 Jun 1750, probated 29 Aug 1770 (Mary had died in 1765). This document was witnessed by Crespen (sic) SHELTON, and John SHELTON. She named her "legitimate sons" Ralph Shelton, John Shelton, Crispen Shelton, Benjamin Shelton, James Shelton, and grandchildren Reuben Shelton and Patience Catesby BLOCKEY to whom she gave 1 shilling sterling. She gave her daughter Elizabeth DAVID (the name was actually DAVIS) the best of her wearing clothes, and her son Daniel Shelton and his heirs all the rest of her estate. For a more precise look at this will, click here to view information sent by Ken Shelton.

Christ Church, Middlesex Co., VA - from Harper's Magazine
THE CHILDREN:

1. Thomas, bapt. 09 Nov 1707, d. 24 Mar 1741/42 Middlesex Co., VA. (Christ Church Parish Records), m. 04 Jan 1729/30 Mary PROBERT, b. 16 Nov 1708 Middlesex Co., VA., d. aft. June 1742, the daughter of William and Hannah Unknown PROBERT (names from the Christ's Church Parish Register).

Named in his father's will .....and if my widow should marry, my son Thomas Shelton shall take care of my children, and if Thomas dies, then my two sons, Ralph Shelton and Crispin Chelton (sic) should care for them. April Miller's book "Shelton County - A Genealogy of Pittsylvania County's Largest Family" (book located at the LDS Morman Family History Library in Salt Lake City, UT.), has information on this line. She wrote that after Thomas died, his grandchildren, from four of his sons, migrated for the most part to Greenville Co., VA and then into central North Carolina. Thomas Shelton's will, found in Middlesex Co., VA, Will Book C, page 91, was probated on 07 Jun 1743. "The Sheltons Lineal Descendants from Ancient, Medieval & Modern Kings & from Fifteen Sureties for the Magna Charta" by Kathryn Morris Brown, published in Knoxville, TN 1981, page 65 gives the date of death for Mary and the marriage date as 14 Jan. 1730 in Middlesex Co., VA., and includes the birth dates for her children. This author added the child Micajah, not seen on other sources. Mary Shelton was the administratrix of Thomas Shelton, dec'd, probate record dated 07 Jun 1743.
CHILDREN: Reuben b. 06 May 1733 m. Priscilla M. MEDLEY; Josiah b. c1735 m. Elizabeth Unknown; Mary b. 21 Feb 1738, died young; Thomas b. 02 May 1740, d. 1802 Orange Co., NC, m. Catherine MUNDAY; and Micajah b. 20 Jun 1742 (reported to have moved to NC). Much more information can be found on this line in WFT Vol. 30 Tree #1350.

2. Ralph b. 23 Oct 1709 Middlesex Co., VA. (Christ Church Parish Records), d. March 1789 Henry Co., VA., m. 10 Jun 1731 Mary DANIEL, daughter of William DANIEL and Mary MOSELEY of Middlesex Co., VA.

For more on these lines, click on the underlined names.

3. Elizabeth b. 1711 Middlesex Co., VA., d. c1784 Hanover Co., VA., m. 09 Oct 1728 William DAVIS who was born 1699 (christined 1700 Christ Church, Middlesex Co. VA), d. 13 Mar 1732/33 Middlesex Co., VA., the son of John DAVIS and Catherine RAGLAND (source William Davis E-mail erich@jjt.com).

In Broderbund's CD Virginia Genealogist, Pittsylvania County Tax Records, page 326, William Davis is shown with 1 tithe in 1767. James Harmon E-mail jharmon@earthlink.net researches this line.
CHILDREN: Elizabeth m. Pettus RAGLAND; Catherine m. James RAGLAND (Pettus' brother); John Dabney b. 22 Jan 1743 m. Anne Ragland TINSLEY; Tolifero; David; Meridith; Evan; William; and Steven m. Elizabeth BOWE.

4. Crispen b. 01 Apr 1713 Middlesex Co., VA. (Christ Church Parish Records), d. 29 Oct 1787 Pittsylvania Co., VA., m. Letitia UNKNOWN c1733, and later a Mary BAUFORD.

The Bauford surname was provided by Millie, E-mail GeneSeek@aol.com, her source unknown. A marriage record is found in "Marriage Records of Pittsylvania Co., VA 1767-1805" a section of the book "The Sheltons-Lineal Descendants from Ancient, Medieval and Modern Kings and from Fifteen Sureties for the Magna Charta" by Kathryn Morris Brown (published 1981 Knoxville, TN). This record shows that Gabriel Shelton also married a Mary Beuford..surety Reddick Shelton..she signed her own consent..married by Rev. Thomas Payne. You can click here to read an entry at GenForum by Janet Hunter pertaining to this line. Interesting too, is the following E-mail sent by Jan Shelton Nixon Sept. 2000:

" I am lead to believe that Gabriel's wife Mary Buford was Mary Waller Buford. Following is correspondence from a Lewis researcher: " Miller correctly notes that Gabriel Shelton's second marriage was to Mary Buford on 29 Jun 1794. In my opinion Mary Buford was born Mary Waller. This opinion is based on the following records.
The Will of Major Waller, written 23 Jan 1793, and probated 11 Dec 1794, in Nottoway Co., VA names wife Elizabeth Waller, his daughters, Susannah Parham (who married James Parham), MARY BUFORD, Elizabeth Ellis, Christianna Bennett, Dicey Waller, and his sons John, William, Hampton, Garred, and Major Waller.
An Order Book entry for the Nottoway County Court for 7 May 1796, names the following litigants:
Susannah Parham
GABRIEL SHELTON and MARY his wife
William Ellis and Eliza his wife
Richard Bennett and Christianna his wife
John Waller
Garred Waller-Exors of Major Waller, dec'd.
VS
William Waller
Hampton Waller
Dicey Waller- Infants and orphans of Major Waller, dec'd.".

Jan continued her thoughts: It is interesting that Major John Waller (1) signed the bond for Ralph Shelton who married Mary Pollard (see above notes) and (2) is the father of one of Gabriel's wives. Coincidence?...or family connections? Also interesting is that Gabriel and Mary were married by Rev.Thomas Payne as I think Gabriel's mother Lettice was a Payne, dau. of a Thomas. The problem area here is I have 3 Thomas Paynes and trying to sort the lot." We certainly thank Jan for these tantalizing comments. More research in this area is needed though.

From the ROOTS-L mailing list for SHELTON surname: Crispin Shelton sold two portions of his 620 acres in 1746, 155 acres to Henry Bueford of Amelia and 203 acres to James Beuford of Orange County. The deeds place the land ....on the south side of Rocky Creek in the forks of Nottaway....and recite that....Letice his second wife, joined Crispin in the sale. Ralph Shelton and Benjamin Shelton signed both deeds as witnesses. Henry Buford and William Buford were witnesses to the father Ralph's will in Middlesex in 1733 (posted by Janet Hunter, June 2001)

CHILDREN: Lewis b. c1734; William b. 04 Mar 1734/35; Abraham b. c1737 m. Chloe ROBERTSON; Gabriel b. c1739 m. (1) Elizabeth SHEPHERD (line of Patty Smith 24 Mar 1762 (2) Mary Waller Buford 29 Jun 1794; Spencer b. c1743 m. Clara SHELTON; Beaverly b. c1744 m. Anne COLEMAN; Jane b. c1745 m. William TODD; Susan b. c1746 m. Griffith DICKERSON; Armistead b. c1750 m. Susannah SHELTON; Vincent b. c1751 m. Susannah ROBERTSON; and Elizabeth b. c1753 m. Moses HURT.

5. Reuben b. 01 Feb 1714/15, d. 08 Oct 1715 Middlesex Co., VA. (Christ Church Parish Records).

6. Mary b. 21 Jan 1715/16, d. 18 Jul 1719 Middlesex Co., VA. (Christ Church Parish Records).

7. Catherine b. 26 Jan 1718/19 Middlesex Co., VA. (Christ Church Parish Records), d. c1745, m. 31 Dec 1743 (bond date) George BLAKEY, b. 03 Apr 1716 Middlesex Co., VA.

In Broderbund's CD Virginia Genealogist, Middlesex County Marriage Records, page 321, the marriage bond is signed by Robert Daniel, brother of Mary Daniel who married Ralph Shelton. George married again, after his first wife's death, to Clara (Smith) DANIEL, widow of Garrett DANIEL (bond dated 28 Apr 1746). Garrett DANIEL was reportly a son to Robert and Margaret (Price) DANIEL, and a cousin to Mary (Daniel) SHELTON.
CHILD of Catherine & George BLAKEY: Patience Catesby BLAKEY.

8. John b. 19 Jul 1722 Middlesex Co., VA. (Christ Church Parish Records), d. 1804 Pittsylvania Co., VA., m. Elizabeth (some say Elizabeth LAWSON 30 Jul 1760, but this is not verified by me).

Some researchers say that John's will was written 18 Nov 1777 and proven 13 July 1778, however this would appear to be a different John SHELTON. The children attributed to him are named in the will of John Shelton 1801 in Pittsylvania Co., VA. The book "Families of James Shelton of McMinn Co., TN and His Father Roderieck Shelton of Buncombe Co., NC and Their Antecedents" by Arthur Paul Shelton Aug 1987 gives his wife's name as Susan HOARD/HOWARD, so I don't know which is correct, but the marriage date with Elizabeth may actually be for a John Shelton, Jr. Vonette Curtis E-mail alvon@apex.net says John was elected a Lieutenant in the Rev. War in Pittsylvania Co.,VA. "The Sheltons, by Clay HENSLEY and Zelois HENSLEY, privately printed, 1988, page 47 (keep in mind, many researchers refute this data): "John Shelton, b. 7-19-1722, bapt. 8-12-1722 sold his land in Amelia Co. 8-25-1774, deed signed by wife Elizabeth, and moved to Mecklenburg County where his sister Catherine Blakey lived. Wife Elizabeth died before John made his will 11-18-1777, probated 7-13-1778. He signed John Shelton, Sr., and named only his eldest son Mark and his grandson William, son of Mark, son John was not named. Mark was executor of his father's will. After the death of their parents Mark and John went on to Pittsylvania Co., VA., where their father's brothers had settled earlier. The wills of both Mark and John were made in Pittsylvania Co in 1801. After John Sr's will was prob. in July, son John bought land in Pittsylvania County 11-7-1778 and made his will 11-26-1801, probated 6-18-1804, sons Joel and Abraham and friend Vincent Shelton, executors. Wit: William, Henry and Lewis Shelton - no wife mentioned. 12 children are named, also a granddaughter Fannie, wife of Tunstal Shelton." Another descendant, Karen Wood, wrote in Nov. 1999, to the Knights5 mailing group that John moved to Pittsylvania County c1775 and died 1804. She also wrote that contrary to previous written material, John's sister Catherine Blakely had died shortly after her marriage and well before 1778. Karen wrote that there was no son John Shelton, Jr....so much work needs to be done on the line of John Shelton.

Hildred Shelton wrote the following in April 2005: (from) South Carolina Records for John Skelton and Mark Skelton from site of South Carolina Department of Archives and History - "1784 John Skelton grant in District of Ninety-Six, SC - There is a record of a land grant in the District of Ninety-Six dated 9-3-1784 to John Skelton for 200 acres of land on Chestoe Creek. This was 16 years after selling his Mecklenburg County, VA, land.
1785 Mark Skelton Administrator in District of Ninety-Six, SC - I have found a record in South Carolina dated in 1785 where Josiah Tanner was administrator for Mark Skelton and sued Paul Abney. This indicates that Mark died soon after moving to the District of Ninety-Six in South Carolina, which was six years after the date of his last Mecklenburg County, VA, deed. Since he was dead (if living, the person has a guardian or Trustee), that forecloses the argument that he went to South Carolina, then returned to Pittsylvania County, VA, and died in Pittsylvania County in 1802.
Mark's last deed in Mecklenburg County, VA, was Deed Book 5, pages 484-485, dated Sept. 1, 1779, from Mark Skelton to Edward Walton stating this deed was between Mark Skelton of the district of ninety-six, South Carolina and Edward Walton of Mecklenburg County. and is dated September 1, 1779."
CHILDREN (from the will of 1801-1804): John b. c1741 m. Elizabeth Unknown; Charles; William; Joel; Francis; Claibourne; Abraham; Jane m. William LEWIS; Mary m. Unknown POORE; Martha m. Unknown TUCKER; Charlotte; Nancy m. Unknown WHITE; Lucy m. West D. HURT; and Lettice.

9. Benjamin b. 18 Jun 1724 Middlesex Co., VA. (Christ Church Parish Records), d. (unknown), m. Mary UNKNOWN.

From a book in the Dallas Library "The Sheltons Lineal Descendants from Ancient, Medieval & Modern Kings & from Fifteen Sureties for the Magna Charta" by Kathryn Morris Brown, published in Knoxville, TN 1981, page 69 shows Benjamin's wife as Mary ________. He owned land on the head of Haw Fork of Buck Branch in Pittsylvania Co., VA. He and Mary had a son Benjamin Jr. and possibly several more children, some give the names a two others as Clever and Leonard. He reportedly received a grant for 119ac in Amelia County, located on the South Fork of the Little Nottoway River, 28 Mar 1759, but sold it on 24 Nov 1763 to his brother James Shelton described as being on Stone House Branch...witnessed by Thomas Payne, Daniel D. Shelton, and John Anderson. In 1764 he bought land on the north fork of the Nottoway Rier and on 24 May 1770 Benjamin and wife Mary sold their land and moved to Pittsylvania County, settling close by his brother Crispin Shelton. In 1782 Benjamin sold 200ac on Haw Fork of Buck Branch to his nephew Joel Shelton who was then relocating from Amelia. The 1785 tax list includes Benjamins' household with 8 family members. By 1790, Benjamin was living in the Hillsborough Dist., Caswell Co., NC.

10. James b. 23 Feb 1725/26 Middlesex Co., VA. (Christ Church Parish Records), d. c1798 Lunenburg Co., VA., m. Jane UNKNOWN.

James Shelton's will is dated 27 Feb 1796 & proved 19 Oct 1798, Inv. 10 Jan 1799. This will is recorded in Will Book 4:227 Lunenburg Co VA (inventory on p. 233). It named his wife Jane and their children: Sons: David Shelton, Benjamin Shelton, Thomas Shelton, Stephen Shelton; Daughters: Mary Harrison, Caty Mason; Grandsons: Stephen Shelton Queenberry, James Queenberry, Thomas Queenberry, Aaron Queenberry, David Queenberry, Duarch [sic] Shelton, Little Berry Shelton; Granddaughters: Polly Shelton, Winnifred Queenberry, Polly Bell, Jane Askew Shelton; Executors: Benjamin Shelton, Stephen Shelton, Thomas Shelton; Witnesses: Vincent Shelton, John George, Mary Smith. A researcher for this line is Shirley Davis through the son Thomas and his son James b. 1770. One excellent researcher, Hildred Shelton of Virginia, a Knights5 member, wrote to our group regarding this matter on March 15, 2002. She said that the James Shelton who married Philapenia, who died in Henry Co. Va, in 1784 is not from the line of Ralph Shelton (d. 1733, Middlesex County). He was not the son of Ralph Shelton (d. 1789 in Henry County), either, as SHELTON DNA tests have proven (see the ROOTS-L mailing list for SHELTON for more DNA results). Hildred also wrote: The James Shelton who married Philapenia is thought by some to be of the Hanover, Rural Plains, Currioman Bay, VA., "Red House" Louisa County, Va., line of Sheltons. Kenyon Stevenson worked on this particular family for years. However, DNA testing for Rural Plains has not matched any tests from the line of James, the son of Ralph Shelton, d. 1733 Middlesex County. James, who was born 2-23-1726, d. 1798, was in Lunenberg County and his will is on file in Lunenburg Will Book 4, p. 228. The name of his wife was Jane and his daughter Heniretta m. Young Shelton, son of Daniel Shelton, b. 5-17-1729, d. 1808/9 Pittsylvania County, Va.

11. Daniel b. 17 May 1729 Middlesex Co., VA. (Christ Church Parish Records), d. before Sept. 1809 Pittsylvania Co., VA., m. Lettice YOUNG, daughter of Michael YOUNG. (Source: Edgar M. Shelton Columbia, Missouri, E-mail eshelton@socketis.net).

On page 69-70, this family of Daniel and Lettice is shown in the book "The Sheltons Lineal Descendants from Ancient, Medieval & Modern Kings & from Fifteen Sureties for the Magna Charta" by Kathryn Morris Brown, published in Knoxville, TN 1981. Ms. Brown says he owned land in Amelia Co., VA which later became Nottaway County. He was in the militia, serving first as a captain in Pittsylvania, then promoted to Major in 1778. He was a member of the Committee of Safety. He died in 1809 Pittsylvania Co., VA. She gives a list of the children. April Miller's book, Shelton County, also lists the children and their marriages.
CHILDREN: Clara b. c1748 m. Spencer SHELTON (son of Crispen); Susannah b. c1750 m. Armistead SHELTON (also a son of Crispen); Millicent b. c1751 m. Edmund TAYLOR; Anna b. c1752 m. Unknown BAILEY; Polly b. c1755 m. Frederick SHELTON (son of Abraham); Young b. c1757 m. (1) Henrietta SHELTON (dau. of James) marriage bond dated 11 Dec 1784 in Prince Edward Co., VA & (2) Elizabeth LEWIS; Daniel b. c1758 m. (1) Elizabeth GARDNER 1785 & (2) Martha KEATS; Willis b. c1760 m. Charlotte SHELTON (dau. of John); Tunstall b. c1761 m. Fannie PAYNE; Leroy b. 1763 m. Nancy LANIER; Sally b. c1774 m. Thomas PAYNE 16 Oct 1795;.

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Shelton, Ralph Sr (I12473)

Jesse Perdue Will

I Jesse Perdue of the county of Franklin and State of Virginia do make this my last Will and Testament.

1st. I give to my son John Perdue the Arthur Tract of Land, which land is bounded by the Louis Island Road, and the Land of Sparrel Dudley, Joshua Starkey and Jordan Perdue and also my Blacksmith Tools and a Rifle Gun.

2nd. I give to my son Otey Perdue the Blackwater Tract of Land which is bounded by the lands of Isaiah Perdue, Ransome Perdue and the Harvey's Road.

3rd To my daughter Arlena Perdue I give my home Tract of Land which I now live, which land is bounded by the Louis Island Road, the Lands belonging to the Estate of Stephen Preston dec'd, the Land of Ransome Perdue, Jordan Perdue & Henry Jenkins: and to her said Arlena Perdue and Jordan Perdue equally, all my household and Kitchen Furniture of every description including waggon, harnesses - all my Plantation Tools of every description. Also all my stock, grain of every sort, horses, cattle, sheep and hogs, also all the provisions that may be on the plantation or elsewhere belonging to me at the time of my death.

4th. I give to my son Jordan Perdue, I give to him my Chitwood Tract which land is bounded by the Land of Ransome Perdue, Randolph Chitwood, Mrs. Fife Hudson, Silas Chambers and the Harvey's Road.

5th. I give to the living children of my daughter Susan Divers, dec'd one dollar each.

6th. It is my desire that all the residue of my Estate both real and personal remaining at my death shall be equally divided between Jordan and Arlena Perdue

7th. I hereby appoint Wm L. T. Hopkins executor of this my last Will and Testament, hereby revoking all former Wills by me made. Witness my hand and seal this tenth day of June one thousand eight hundred and sixty-five. Signed Jesse Perdue (his seal) The above was signed, witnessed, sealed & delivered in the presence of the testator, each witness being present at the same time.

B. Wills, George E. Hurt, William A. Hurt

Franklin County Court July 3rd, 1871, This last Will and Testament of Jesse Perdue dec'd was produced in Court and proved by Bluford Wills and George E. Hurt two of the subscribing witnesses thereto and admitted to be recorded. And at a Court held for Franklin County at the Courthouse on the 4th day of September 1871. On a motion of William L. T. Hopkins the executor named in the Will of Jesse Perdue, admitted to probate at the July term last of this Court, who made Oathe and executed bond in the penalty of six hundred dollars conditioned and prescribed by law. Certificate is granted him to obtain a (??) of said Will in due form. Teste James J. Casper C. F. C.

Perdue, Jesse (I26983)

John Echols married Mary Cave
John Echols an Englishman came to America about the end of the 16th or the beginning of the 17th Century and settled in Caroline County, Virginia, and married a tall redheaded woman named Mary Cave and by her had five sons and three daughters. The Echols sons were dependable Amelia County citizens and served on juries when called. Of twelve good men on the jury of Robert Vaughan vs. Richard Ward on 9 December 1737, three were Richard, William, and Abraham Echols:John Echols [Ecckles] married Mary Cave daughter of John Cave and Ellizabeth Travers. Mary was born abt 1650, Orange County, Virginia d about 1713 in Virginia Their children were: 1 Mary Echols b: ABT 1682 in King and Queen, Virginia 2 John Echols b: ABT 1684 in King and Queen, Virginia **3 Abraham Echols b: 1686 in Comfort, Lee County, Virginia -- d 3 Oct 1749, in Lunenberg, Virginia married (BEF 1729 in Virginia) Sarah Hubbard b: ABT 1700 4 William Echols b: 1686/1690 in Virginia 5 Joseph Echols b: ABT 1688 in Virginia 6 Elizabeth Echols b: ABT 1690 in King and Queen, Virginia 7 Richard Echols b: 1694 in King And Queen Virginia 8 Anne Echols b: ABT 1698 in Virginia

**Abraham and Sarah {Hubbard} Echols had a number of children, including 3 sons who moved to Habersham County GA and several more who moved to Forsyth County, Georgia. I descend from one of the three sons in Habersham County, probably Darius Echols and his two daughters, granddaughters or nieces -- one who married Thomas Stephens, Jr. (Grandfather's side) and another who married Captain Littleton Stephens (CSA) ( Grandmother's side) -- it's a small county in Georgia and they all lived within 5 miles of each other, went to the same Church (Broad River Baptist). I have another more direct tie to the Hubbards, however in England the name was Sir Henry Hubbard (First Baronet). The line on my father's side goes from me as follows: LaRoche-Watkins-Walton-Claibourne-Barber-Archer-Elizabeth (Hubbard) Archer who died in 1727 in VA -then to- John Hubbard-Matthew Hubbard-Robert Hubbard-Sir Henry Hubbard

This line has been traced back to William Hobart (or Hubbar) -- Born c. 1388, at Bedford near Monks Eleigh, County Suffolk, England -- Who died in 1479 at Monks Eleigh, Suffolk, England. Looking forward to Sir Henry Hobart, Esq. Born ca 1553 at Plumstead, Norfolk. Henry died at Blicking, Norfolk, on 29 Dec 1625. It is not totally clear that he is Robert's father but there is a tie to Benjamin (grandson, who also immigrated to the Virginia Colony, Edmund HOBART (immigrant to Hingham, Mass) Rev Peter HOBART (also Hingham) and George (New England)). The Hobart who did not leave England married a person who descends from Mary the Tudor Princess of England through the Seymour family -- so the Hubbard's had legal connections even back then. Some earlier Hubbard history at http://www.garrettfamily.info/family-history/hubbard/Hubbard-Branch.pdf {htlm} -&- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hubbard_family

Sir Henry Hobart, 1st Baronet SL (c. 1560 – 29 December 1625) was a English judge and politician. He was also the son of Thomas Hobart and Audrey Hare. He was admitted to Lincoln's Inn on 10 August 1575. Called to the Bar in 1584, he became governor of Lincoln's Inn in 1591. Between 1588 and 1589, he was Member of Parliament (MP) for St Ives, for Yarmouth in 1597 and 1601, and for Norwich from 1604 to 1611. Hobart was Steward of Norwich in 1595, and Serjeant-at-Law from 1603 to 1606. Hobart was Attorney for the Court of Wards in 1605 and Attorney General for England and Wales between 1606 and 1613. From 1613 to 1625, he was further Chief Justice of the Court of Common Pleas.

Having been Lord Chancellor to Henry Frederick, Prince of Wales, he was also Chancellor and Lord Keeper of the Great Seal to Charles, Prince of Wales. Knighted in 1603, he was made a Baronet, of Intwood in the County of Norfolk on 11 May 1611. Hobart purchased the estates of Intwood in 1596 and of Blickling in 1616, where he was buried on 4 January 1625.

On 21 April 1590, he married Dorothy Bell, daughter of Sir Robert Bell on 21 April 1590 in Blickling in Norfolk. They had twelve sons including John Hobart (from whom George and Benjamin descend) and four daughters.

On 22 Apr 1570 Henry married Dorothy Bell, daughter of Sir Robert Bell (ca 1539-22 Jul 1577) & Dorothy Beaupre (ca 1538-February 1602/3), at Blicking, Norfolk. Born on 19 Oct 1552 at Beaupre, Norfolk. Dorothy died at Covent Garden, Middlesex, England, on 30 April 1641.

Cave, Mary (I2055)

Land Purchase in Greenup County Kentucky

According to Biggs (1951), Captain Moses Fugua sold his property in Virginia and a bought a "trace of land of more than thirteen hundred acres along the Ohio River between Mt. Zion and Tygart Creek. Today this is So Shore, Greenup County, Kentucky. Moses brought his large family and many slaves from Campbell County, Virginia, and settled there. Judith Woodson Fugua [his wife] never came to Kentucky as she died before they left Virginia."

Source: Biggs, Nina M. and Mackoy, Mabel L. (1951). Kentucky. Mt. Vernon, IN; Windmill Publications, p.164.

Fuqua, Moses F (I5468)

Marriage of George & Winney Howell Hampton
Virginia Marriages to 1800
Spouse 1: Hampton, George
Spouse 2: Howell, Winney
Marriage Date: 5 Aug 1787
Marriage Location: VirginiaFrederick County

Source Information:
Dodd, Jordan. Virginia Marriages to 1800 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations Inc, 1997. Original data: Electronic transcription of marriage records held by the individual counties in Virginia.

Description:Database of Virginia marriages to 1800

Hampton, George (I26592)

Marriage Record
Virginia Marriages to 1800 Virginia Marriages to 1800 Spouse 1: Hampton, George Spouse 2: Howell, Winney Marriage Date: 5 Aug 1787 Marriage Location: Virginia
Frederick County

Source Information:
Dodd, Jordan. Virginia Marriages to 1800 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations Inc, 1997. Original data: Electronic transcription of marriage records held by the individual counties in Virginia.

Description:Database of Virginia marriages to 1800

Hampton, George (I26592)

Mary (Cave) Echols was NOT daughter of John Cave and Elizabeth Waugh
Mary Cave

RESIDENCE: King and Queen Co. VA
BIRTH: ABT 1670, Wales
DEATH: ABT 1712

Family 1 : John ECHOLS

MARRIAGE: ABT 1688, Caroline or Essex Co., Virginia

John ECHOLS
+Abraham ECHOLS
William ECHOLS Sr.
Joseph ECHOLS
Richard ECHOLS
Daughter ECHOLS
Ann ECHOLS
Eleanor ECHOLS

NotesMary (Cave) Echols was NOT the daughter of John Cave and Elizabeth Waugh! Her parents are unknown.

Author: Michael Walker Date: 15 Jan 2002
There must be tens of thousands and probably hundreds of thousands of people who descend from John Echols who married Mary Cave. And everywhere you look on the Internet, including many nicely designed websites, we have recorded that this Mary Cave was the daughter of John Cave and Elizabeth Travers, who herself was the daughter of Giles Travers and Ann Waugh. I accept the very very strong possibility that John Echols wife Mary was a Cave, based on their g-grandson Milner Echols's records as well as the many early Cave - Echols connections which he would not have known about. However, Milner also states Mary was the daughter of John Cave. This may be true, (or may possibly not be, a very early David Cave seems another possibility). Even if John Cave is Mary's father, however, it can't be the same John Cave who married Elizabeth Travers! Why? Many reasons, but a clear one is this. Mary (Cave) Echols birth date is not known, but she started having children in the late 1690's. So she was born probably ca 1670 maybe as late as 1680. Some records estimate 1674. Well, Elizabeth Travers's father, Giles Travers, was born ca 1662 proven by various records. So can someone explain to me how Giles could have had a grandaughter Mary Cave who was born when he was twelve years old? My personal opinion is that John Cave who married Elizabeth Travers, was the nephew or possibly even grand nephew of Mary Cave Echols. He could NOT have been her father. Please don't take this posting as confrontational. However it would be a great service if those many people who have posted on their webpages and elsewhere, the incorrect data that Mary Cave Echols' s parents were John Cave and Elizabeth Travers, would remove that incorrect data, and even contact other descendants they have (I realize unwittingly and with no malice) passed this mistake on to.

Cave, Mary (I2055)

Mary (Cave) Echols was not daughter of John Cave and Elizabeth Waugh
There must be tens of thousands and probably hundreds of thousands of people who descend from John Echols who married Mary Cave. And everywhere you look on the Internet, including many nicely designed websites, we have recorded that this Mary Cave was the daughter of John Cave and Elizabeth Travers, who herself was the daughter of Giles Travers and Ann Waugh. I accept the very very strong possibility that John Echols wife Mary was a Cave, based on their g-grandson Milner Echols's records as well as the many early Cave - Echols connections which he would not have known about. However, Milner also states Mary was the daughter of John Cave. This may be true, (or may possibly not be, a very early David Cave seems another possibility). Even if John Cave is Mary's father, however, it can't be the same John Cave who married Elizabeth Travers! Why? Many reasons, but a clear one is this. Mary (Cave) Echols birth date is not known, but she started having children in the late 1690's. So she was born probably ca 1670 maybe as late as 1680. Some records estimate 1674. Well, Elizabeth Travers's father, Giles Travers, was born ca 1662 proven by various records. So can someone explain to me how Giles could have had a grandaughter Mary Cave who was born when he was twelve years old? My personal opinion is that John Cave who married Elizabeth Travers, was the nephew or possibly even grand nephew of Mary Cave Echols. He could NOT have been her father. Please don't take this posting as confrontational. However it would be a great service if those many people who have posted on their webpages and elsewhere, the incorrect data that Mary Cave Echols' s parents were John Cave and Elizabeth Travers, would remove that incorrect data, and even contact other descendants they have (I realize unwittingly and with no malice) passed this mistake on to.

Author: Michael Walker, 15 Jan 2002

Cave, Mary (I2055)

MARY NORRIS
Birth: 1590Berkshire, EnglandDeath: Feb. 25, 1621
Plymouth
Plymouth County
Massachusetts, USA
"Mayflower" passenger
Wife of Isaac Allerton, the 5th signer of the "Mayflower Compact".

She traveled to the Colonies with her husband and 3 children Barhlomew, Remember and Mary Allerton Cushman, who became the wife of Elder Thomas Cushman.

She was the first person to give birth in the Colonies (a stillborn born upon the Mayflower as it was docked in the harbor).

It is said that in the painting by Henry Sargent (1770-1885) entitled "Landing of the Pilgrims", Mary Norris Allerton is represented as having a fine face, rather beautiful, and as being of a "meek and quiet spirit". The painting was painted in 1818-1822 and is on permanent display at Pilgrim Hall Museum; Plymouth, MA.

COLE HILL MONUMENT:
Scene of the secret night burials of those who died during the settlement's first bitter winter. Corn was planted over their unmarked graves so that the Native Americans should not know how many had perished.
Mary Norris Allerton is the 2nd inscription on the monument.

Family links:
Children:
Child Allerton (____ - 1620)*
Barthalomew Allerton (1613 - ____)*
Remember Allerton Maverick (1615 - ____)*
Mary Allerton Cushman (1616 - 1699)*

Spouse:
Isaac Allerton (1586 - 1659)*

*Point here for explanation
Burial:
Coles Hill Burial Ground
Plymouth
Plymouth County
Massachusetts, USA
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Created by: ReLyRoTh
Record added: Nov 25, 2005 Find A Grave Memorial# 12498353

Norris, Mary Leigh (I26528)

Mayflower Genealogy
Mary Allerton Back to the Mayflower Passenger List
Birth: About 1616 or 1617. Some sources claim she was baptized in June 1616 in Leiden; I have not been able to verify the authenticity of the claim. Mayflower Families: Isaac Allerton for Five Generations, contains the best, most thorough and completely researched genealogy on Isaac Allerton and wife Mary Norris. It covers every known descendant of Isaac Allerton for the first five generations, to the birth of the sixth generation. This book is packed full of pure genealogical research. Published by the General Society of Mayflower Descendants.
ORDER NOW! Marriage:

Thomas Cushman, about 1636, Plymouth.

Death: 28 November 1699, Plymouth. Children: Thomas, Mary, Sarah, Isaac, Elkanah, Fear, Eleazar, and Lydia. Biographical Summary

Mary Allerton was born about 1616 in Leiden, Holland, to parents Isaac and Mary (Norris) Allerton. She came to Plymouth on the Mayflower in 1620, at about the age of four. Around 1636, she married Thomas Cushman. Thomas had come to Plymouth at the age of 13 on the ship Fortune in 1621 with father Robert Cushman, a prominent member of the Pilgrims' congregation in Leiden. Thomas and Mary had a surprisingly prosperous family: seven of their eight children survived to adulthood, got married, and provided at least 50 grandchildren. Thomas and Mary both lived to very old age, having never moved from Plymouth. Thomas died in December 1691, nearly reaching 85 years in age. Mary, who gave birth to and raised eight children, lived to the age of 83. Prior to her death in November 1699, she was the last surviving Mayflower passenger.
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Allerton, Remember (I26526)

McKinneys, Webbs and Hamptons

Abstracted Wills Book A abstracted - Jackson Co., GA

Posted on GenForum Jackson County Message Board by Senora 1890

http://genforum.genealogy.com/ga/jackson/ messages/645.html

All McKinneys, Webbs, and Hamptons were copied from list and are found highlighted in red. Arlis Dowd’s notes are in bold italics.

NICHOLAS HOBSON, 3/7/1809:5/1/1809
Wife: Sally. Sons: William, John, Matthew, Baker, Christopher, Francis, Allen. Daus: Jimmy
Smith, Polly, Patsy, Agnes. Exrs:John, Matthaw and Baker Hobson. Wits: George Hampton, Job Rogers.

Notes: This is Captain Hobson born in St. Paul’s Parish, GA and died in Jackson Co., GA. Cannot find a connection to George Hampton as yet.

CHARLES McKINNEY, of advanced age, pvd 3/3/1834 Wife: Elizabeth. Dau: Rachael Webb. To: Horatio and Willis Webb, Polly Lyle, Alcy Hampton,
Wilborn Webb, R. D. Johnson and his ch by my dau., Hilda. Dau: Betsy Hearn. Sons: William,
Samuel. Exrs: Sarah Hampton, James Hampton, James Hargrove. Wits: James Montgomery, Thomas Barnes, John G. Heard.

Note: Daughter Rachel married Claiborn Webb. Their children are listed…. Polly is Mary Polly and Alcy is Olive Melvina and Wilborn is Thomas Wilburn. Daughter “Hilda” is Milda who married Robert Dugan Johnston, “Betsy” is Elizabeth who married Asa Hearn, Sarah is his daughter who married James Hampton.
CHARLES McKINNEY, JR., 5/31/1832:8/6/1832 Sister: Rachael Webb. To: Miss Frances Hogan. Daus: Polly Ann, Hilda Ann, when of age. Exrs: Elljah Cloud, Nathaniel Shotwell.

Note: Charles McKinney, Jr. died before his father and that is why he is not in the Sr.’s will.

RICHARD WINTERS, 5/28/1826:7/3/1826
Daus: Susan Emeline, Elizabeth Ann. Son: John Hampton Winters. Last wife: Betsy, formerly
Betsy Herch, Martha Adeline. Wits: John Winters, Sr., G. W. Winters, George N. Hampton.

Note: Can’t find connection of this family to George N. Hampton or who this Hampton is.

JAMES GLENN, 12/2/1835:11/1837 Wife: Elizabeth. Nine oh: James R., Jane Rian, Mary, Gober, John W., Joshua N., Eunice
Sowell, Elizabeth Hampton, Synthy Shockley, James R., Letitia. Exrs: Sons, John W., Joshua N. Wits: Henry Crawford, James Smith, William O. Smith.

Note: Found Elizabeth Glenn but not her husband who was a Hampton.

JAMES ORR, SR., 4/15/1828:11/3/1828 Wife: Wife: Nancy. Wife's dau: Martha Leviston Orr. Wife's son: Thomas Orr. My three ch:
John, Jr., Rebecca Wilson and Jennett Miller. Exr: John Orr, Jr., James Barr. Wits: H. Webb, M. Witt, John Appleby, Edward Adams, Jr.

ANN ANGEL, 3/18/1812:5/4/1812 Grdaus: Cynthia Lee, Tabitha Pierce, Harriett Christian, Louisiana and Martha Gibson Johns,
daus. of Bartlett Johns. Son in law: Bartlett Johns, sole exr. Wits: Horatio Webb, Bartlett C. Johns, Phoebe Johns.

JAMES COCHRAN, pvd 1828 Wife: Mary. Daus: Judith Winn, Ann Key, Jane Thurmond. Exrs: Elisha Winn, Tandy Key,
Harrison Thurmond. Wits: Horatio Webb, Peter E. McMillan, Andrew McLane.

JOSEPH DAVIS, 4/12/1852:6/1852 Daus: Louise Appleby, Elizabeth Webb, Elvira Wammond. Son: Joseph H. My mother. My wife
and six ch. Exrs: Sons, Thomas J. and Joseph H. and son in law, H. C. Appleby. Wits: William Aenderson, N. H. Pendergrass, James Wofford.

Note: Can’t find this family yet.

JAMES HODGE, old and infirm, 12/27/1854:11/2/1857 Wife: Jenny. Daus: Nancy E., Jenny M. (wife of Frederlck Harwell). Zinley Harwell's Exr:
Son in law: Frederick Harwell. Wits: William P. Miller, Willis Webb, B. F. Park.

Note: Willis Webb is the brother of Horatio and Olive Webb who married Thomas Maxey Hampton.

HARDY HOWARD, 8/13/1859:9/12/1859 Sons: Samuel, Hartsford, Hardy, Homer R. Grch: Virgil Jones, Harper Howard, sons of Harper
H. Howard. Daus: Elizabeth Webb, Malissa Braselton, Emily Niblack, Amends Webb. Elizabeth Webb's two ch., one dau. of T. O. Webb. Sons in law: Hugh M. Niblack, Green M. Duke, errs. Wits: Ephraim Jackson, R. E. Oliver, N. H. Pendergrass.

Note: Who is Amends Webb? Daughters I found for Hardy Howard that were close to this were Emily Almeda and Amanda. Neither married a Webb that I can find. Does the Elizabeth Webb sentence with T.O. Webb mean that he was her husband?

Note: The name of the Webb that Elizabeth Howard married is unknown.

TANDY KEY, 6/1836:12/17/1838, proven in Russell Co., Ala. Wife not named. Daus: Harriett Phelps and her ch.; Ch of dau., Mary Mitchell, decd; Virginia
Appleby and her ch.; Caroline Clark and her ch; Susannah Wilkerson and her ch.; Martha Ann
Moreland and her ch; Malissa and her ch; Elizabeth and her ch. Sons: James C., George W.,
Madison Troup, Tandy, Thomas Jefferson. Exrs: Son, James C., John Appleby, John Wilson.
Wits: Elisha Winn, H. Webb.

Note: This would be Horatio Webb who appears as a witness of several wills. This may be because he was a member of the House of Representatives from the county of Jackson.

MARGARET McDOWELL 7/1824:1/25/1825 Ch: Allen C., Margaret, Elizaheth Caroline Boyle. Exrs: James Waugh, Allen C. McDowell,
David Witt. Wits: H. Webb, George Shaw, Frank: J. D. Depriest.

+++

Franklin Deeds TT: 58-59. 1 Dec 1800: Alexander Beard of Jackson co to David Shelton of JC $285 100 ac in FC on s fk of Flat Cr being part of 140 ac where John Owen lived, adj land where Huky Brown formerly lived, Pittock, Canterberry, Maxfield Kennedy. Wit Joseph Hampton. Rec 14 Jan 1812. Martha Walters Acker, Deeds of Franklin County, Georgia, 1784-1826 (Easley, SC: Southern Historical Press, 1976), 289.

Note: This is probably not the son of John Hampton and Joyce Malone who would have been only 16 in 1800. It is more likely the son of William Hampton who was John and George Hampton’s brother.

+++

Edwin Roger MORRISON married Adeline Elizabeth HAMPTON August 4, 1828 Elizabeth married Alexander Erwin BACON May 7, 1833

Note: This Hampton is the granddaughter of John Hampton and Joyce Malone

Hampton, George (I26592)

More Notes on George Hampton

The following records on George Hampton were found in:

Abstracted Wills Book A -Jackson Co., GA

Posted on GenForum Jackson County Message Board by Senora 1890

http://genforum.genealogy.com/ga/jackson/ messages/645.htm

This entry places a George Hampton in Jackson Co. nine years after Thomas Maxey Hampton was born.

NICHOLAS HOBSON, 3/7/1809:5/1/1809
Wife: Sally. Sons: William, John, Matthew, Baker, Christopher, Francis, Allen. Daus: Jimmy
Smith, Polly, Patsy, Agnes. Exrs:John, Matthaw and Baker Hobson. Wits: George Hampton, Job Rogers.

This entry places a George Hampton in Jackson Co. much later on. Is it the same George Hampton? Probably not. A son of the above George Hampton perhaps?

RICHARD WINTERS, 5/28/1826:7/3/1826
Daus: Susan Emeline, Elizabeth Ann. Son: John Hampton Winters. Last wife: Betsy, formerly
Betsy Herch, Martha Adeline. Wits: John Winters, Sr., G. W. Winters, George N. Hampton.

Hampton, George (I26592)

Name: James ALLAN 1 2
Sex: M
Birth: 13 FEB 1698 in Larbert, Stirlingshire 1 2
Birth: 13 FEB 1698
Reference Number: 179

Father: John ALLAN b: 12 JAN 1667 in Falkirk, Stirlingshire
Mother: Janet HART b: 21 MAR 1663 in Falkirk, Stirlingshire

Marriage 1 Janet CALDER b: 29 DEC 1706 in Falkirk

Married: 26 DEC 1734 in Falkirk

Children

John ALLAN b: 12 OCT 1735 in Larbert, Stirlingshire
Thomas ALLAN b: 25 DEC 1737 in Larbert, Stirlingshire
Janet ALLAN b: 5 NOV 1749 in Larbert, Stirlingshire

rootsweb.com

Allan, James (I26672)

not exactly mr nice guy

p52 Prince George OB 1715-17202nd Tuesday in March, 1715 p. 52
“On the petition of James Westbrook a servant boy belonging to Joshua Irby it’s ordered that the said Irby be summoned to the next Court to answer the same, and that the said James be and remain with his brother John Westbrook til tryall (trial).” [this is the verbatim transcription]

p57 ibid, 2nd Tuesday in April, 1715 p. 57
“In the suit Depending between James Westbrook and Joshua Irby by petition for being unlawfully Detained by the said Irby as a servant, the sd. partys appearing and the cause being well and Sufficiently argued by the attorneys of sd. party’s, the Court do adjudge that the said James was not Legally bound to the said Irby and that Pltf by law is a freeman.”

p65 ibid, 2nd Tuesday in June, 1715 p.65
“In the action depending between Joshua Irby and John Westbrook, the pltf failing to appear to prosecute, on the motion of the defendant’s attorney, it is ordered that he be ?nonsusted and pay the said defendant five shillings with costs Al Exeo

p129 ibid, June 11, 1717
“The petition of John Westbrook concerning two orphan children now under the care of Joshua Irby is referred til the next Court to prove the allegations therein where the sd. Irby is ordered to bring the said orphans to Court.”

p141 ibid, Aug 13, 1717“On the petition of John Westbrook for and in behalf of Henry and Margaret Westbrook orphans and children of James Westbrook Deceased now under the care of Joshua Irby, setting forth that the sd. Irby unlawfully Detained the sd. orphans as servants and then doth abuse in a most violent and gross manner and praying the sd. orphans (as they are not Lawfully bound) may be released from their servitude and barbarous usage. And the sd. Irby being summoned to answer to the sd. complaint and he being called and failing to appear thereupon it’s Ordered that the sd. orphans be acquitted and released from any further service to the sd. Irby and for and During their Minority to remain with the sd. John Westbrook.”

posted by thomas goggin on genealogy forum

Irby, Dr Joshua (I25129)

October 17, 1867, ASHEVILLE PIONEER (Asheville, Buncombe Co., N.C.)

-We have been informed that Phillip SMITH and his two daughters, Melissa and -----, late of this county, have fallen victims to the yellow fever at Chapel Hill, Texas; and that his two eldest sons, Benjamin and Thomas had been attacked by the pestilence at Washington, in the State. At last accounts the latter was convalescing, but the former was lying in a critical condition.

http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~jganis/unionco/newspapers1867-1869.html

Smith, Philip G (I27098)