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| 2051 | Faddere: Thor Nielsen, Christopher Christiansen, Anne Westergreen, Maren Kirstine Schou, Anne Olsdat | Beyer, Barbara Marie Absalonsdatter (I36162)
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| 2052 | FAIRBANK. Jonathan Fairbanks or Fairbank, immigrant ancestor, was born in England before 1600, and came to Boston with his family in 1633. He remained there about three years, then settled in Dedham, where he was pioneer, and a signer of the Dedham convenant. His house is still standing in Dedham, and is now owned by the family association, having been occupied to the present time by Jonathan and his lineal descendants. He was a town officer, and died December 5, 1668. He married Grace Lee, who died December 28, 1673. Children: 1. John. 2. George. 3. Mary. 4. Susan. 5. Jonas, mentioned below. 6. Jonathan. (II) Jonas, son of Jonathan Fairbanks, was born in England and came to Dedham with his parents. He signed the covenant in 1657, and March 7, 1659, became one of the fathers of the town. He was a farmer and believed to be a carpenter also. In 16752 he was fined for wearing great boots, not being worth two hundred pounds, the amount of wealth prescribed by the laws of the colony, in 1651 to suffice for men who could lawfully wear great boots. He removed to Lancaster in 1657. There he met his death in the assault by King Philip and fifteen hundred warriors, February 10, 1675, 76. Some fifty persons were slain that day, including Joshua Fairbanks, son of Jonas. Jonas Fairbanks married, May 28, 1658, Lydia Prescott, born in Watertown, August 15, 1641, daughter of John Prescott, who came from Sowerby, Halifax, England, the English home of the Fairbanks family. she married (second) Ellis Barron, of Watertown, Groton and Lancaster. Children: 1. Marie. 2. Joshua. 3. Grace. 4. Jonathan. 5. Hazadiah. 6. Jabez, mentioned below. 7. Jonas. (III) Captain Jabez, son of Jonas Fairbanks, was born at Lancaster, January 8, 1670-71, and settled there after the war. He died March 2, 1758. He was a very efficient soldier and officer in the Indian War, and was no doubt incited to heroic exploits by the massacre of his father and brother in 1676, and of his only surviving brother in 1697, during a raid on the town. At the time his brother Jonathan and one of his children were killed, Captain Jabez was the means of saving a garrison and perhaps many lives, including that of his little son Joseph. Twenty-one persons were killed this raid, two were wounded, and six carried off captives, of whom five were ransomed later, including the wife of Jonathan Fairbanks. In 1700 Jabez Fairbanks had land granted him on both sides of the brook above Thomas Sawyer's sawmill. This site was the homestead of Jabez and his descendants for a hundred years. He was deputy to the general court in 1714-21-22-23. He married (first) Mary wilder, who died February 21, 1718, in her forty-third years, daughter of Thomas and Mary (Houghton) Wilder. He married (second) March 25, 1719, Elizabeth Whitcomb, who died May 11, 1755, aged about eighty years. Children of first wife: 1. Joseph. 2. Jabez. 3. Elizabeth. 4. Jonas. 5. Thomas, mentioned below. 6. Abigail. 7. Jonathan. 8. Grace. 9. Joshua. 10. Anna. (IV) Deacon Thomas, son of Captain Jabez Fairbanks, was baptized in Lancaster in 1708, died February 10, 1791. He was sentinel in Captain Josiah Willard's company in the Indian War, June 3, to November 10, 1725. He was also a soldier in Captain Ephraim Wilder's company, Colonel Sam- | Fairbanks, Jonas (I1582)
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| 2053 | FAIRBANK. Jonathan Fairbanks or Fairbank, immigrant ancestor, was born in England before 1600, and came to Boston with his family in 1633. He remained there about three years, then settled in Dedham, where he was pioneer, and a signer of the Dedham convenant. His house is still standing in Dedham, and is now owned by the family association, having been occupied to the present time by Jonathan and his lineal descendants. He was a town officer, and died December 5, 1668. He married Grace Lee, who died December 28, 1673. Children: 1. John. 2. George. 3. Mary. 4. Susan. 5. Jonas, mentioned below. 6. Jonathan. (II) Jonas, son of Jonathan Fairbanks, was born in England and came to Dedham with his parents. He signed the covenant in 1657, and March 7, 1659, became one of the fathers of the town. He was a farmer and believed to be a carpenter also. In 1652 he was fined for wearing great boots, not being worth two hundred pounds, the amount of wealth prescribed by the laws of the colony, in 1651, to suffice for men who could lawfully wear great boots. He removed to Lancaster in 1657. There he met his death in the assault by King Philip and fifteen hundred warriors, February 10, 1675/76. Some fifty persons were slain that day, including Joshua Fairbanks, son of Jonas. Jonas Fairbanks married, May 28, 1658, Lydia Prescott, born in Watertown, August 15, 1641, daughter of John Prescott, who came from Sowerby, Halifax, England, the English home of the Fairbanks family. she married (second) Ellis Barron, of Watertown, Groton and Lancaster. Children: 1. Marie. 2. Joshua. 3. Grace. 4. Jonathan. 5. Hazadiah. 6. Jabez, mentioned below. 7. Jonas. (III) Captain Jabez, son of Jonas Fairbanks, was born at Lancaster, January 8, 1670/71, and settled there after the war. He died March 2, 1758. He was a very efficient soldier and officer in the Indian War, and was no doubt incited to heroic exploits by the massacre of his father and brother in 1676, and of his only surviving brother in 1697, during a raid on the town. At the time his brother Jonathan and one of his children were killed, Captain Jabez was the means of saving a garrison and perhaps many lives, including that of his little son Joseph. Twenty-one persons were killed this raid, two were wounded, and six carried off captives, of whom five were ransomed later, including the wife of Jonathan Fairbanks. In 1700 Jabez Fairbanks had land granted him on both sides of the brook above Thomas Sawyer's sawmill. This site was the homestead of Jabez and his descendants for a hundred years. He was deputy to the general court in 1714-21-22-23. He married (first) Mary wilder, who died February 21, 1718, in her forty-third years, daughter of Thomas and Mary (Houghton) Wilder. He married (second) March 25, 1719, Elizabeth Whitcomb, who died May 11, 1755, aged about eighty years. Children of first wife: 1. Joseph. 2. Jabez. 3. Elizabeth. 4. Jonas. 5. Thomas, mentioned below. 6. Abigail. 7. Jonathan. 8. Grace. 9. Joshua. 10. Anna. (IV) Deacon Thomas, son of Captain Jabez Fairbanks, was baptized in Lancaster in 1708, died February 10, 1791. He was sentinel in Captain Josiah Willard's company in the Indian War, June 3, to November 10, 1725. He was also a soldier in Captain Ephraim Wilder's company, Colonel Sam- | Fairbanks, Jonathan (I1574)
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| 2054 | Fakta Forlot skolen etter 2. gymnasieklasse, gjennomgikk et handelsskolekurs, og reiste i 1916 til Amerika. Var i noen år bestyrer ved en laksehermetikkfabrikk i Alaska. Ble i 1921 knyttet til The Great Atlantic and Pacific Tea Corporation, hvis innkjøpskontor i København han ledet samme år. 1922-25 var han disponent for samme firmas laksehermetikkfabrikker i Alaska samt dets innkjøpskontor i Seattle. Fra 1926 er han visepresident og generaldirektør for The Nakay Packing Corporation, som er et datterselskap av The Great Atlantic and Pacific Co i New York. Siden 1923 tillike visepresident i Association of Pacific Fisheries og fra 1933 president i samme sammenslutning. Ble amerikansk borger 26. April 1930. | Friele, Haakon Beyer (I23908)
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| 2055 | Family Bible Thomas Giles Son of Geo. Giles and Martha Giles his wife Thomas Giles was born 20th July 1783 Lucy Giles wife of same and daughter of Thomas Easley was born 13th day of May 1788 The above couple was married the 27th Dec 1806 Elizabeth Giles daughter of same was born 15th May 1807 Martha Giles daughter of same was born 3rd April 1809 Jane Giles daughter of same was born 17th March 1811 Ellis Giles son of same was born July 4th 1813 Ann Giles daughter of same was born 11 July 1816 Wilson Giles was born 20th June 1820 Garrett Giles was born 7th of July 1825 Asa W Jones was bron December 16th 1830 Judith Giles the wife of Garret Gles was borned the 25th of April 1830 Judith Ann the daughter of the same borned the 19th of November 1857 William T Giles the son of the same borned the 9th of October 1852 | Giles, Thomas (I16676)
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| 2056 | Family bible gives as birthplace Amelia County. Birth certificate gives as birthplace Prince Edward County. Death certificate gives middle initial as A. Family Bible as N. Buried in Danville. | Moore, Thomas A (I22)
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| 2057 | Family Bible of Jesse Lewis Bennett and Nancy Bennett The Testament of Our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ J.B. Lippincott & Company, 1858 On Page labeled Births Jesse L. Bennett and Nancy Bennett (written in upper right corner) Oct. 3, 1860 William D. Bennett was born September the 10 1828 Mary.. H.. Bennett was born December the 13 1829 Lark E. Bennett was born November the 21 1831 John N. Bennett was born April the 27 1833 Judith A. Bennett was born March the 1 1835 Joel L. Bennett was born March the 8 1837 Thomas C. Bennett was born April the 8 1839 Charles D. Bennett was born October the 14 1840 Henrietta ? Bennett was born June the 12 1842 Jesse.. L..Bennett was born October the 21 1844 Nannie C. Bennett was born December the 31 1846 Martha E. Bennett was born August the 2 1848 Liticia N. Bennett was born July the 20 1850 Taxanar N. Bennett was born August the 19 1852 the last On bottom right corner was written J.L.B. When this you see remember me. On page labeled Marriages Nancy Bennett was born December the 12 1810 Mary Jiles was born June 1815 Transcriber's Notes: The date Oct. 3, 1860 on the page labeled 'Births' appears to be the date that the information was recorded in the Bible. The bible is dated 1858, which is after the last recorded birth. The handwriting was the same throughout indicating that all information was recorded at one time. It is likely that Jesse and Nancy purchased the Bible about October 3, 1860 and recorded family births at that time. This bible record was transcribed by David E. Bennett on June 9, 2000. The bible was in the possession of Sam G. Bennett, grandson of Jesse L. Bennett. Sam Bennett related that he found the Bible in a trunk in his home, which was purchased by Jesse Lewis Bennett in 1847. | Bennett, Jesse Lewis (I21761)
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| 2058 | Family Bible of Jesse Lewis Bennett and Nancy Bennett The Testament of Our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ J.B. Lippincott & Company, 1858 On Page labeled Births Jesse L. Bennett and Nancy Bennett (written in upper right corner) Oct. 3, 1860 William D. Bennett was born September the 10 1828 Mary.. H.. Bennett was born December the 13 1829 Lark E. Bennett was born November the 21 1831 John N. Bennett was born April the 27 1833 Judith A. Bennett was born March the 1 1835 Joel L. Bennett was born March the 8 1837 Thomas C. Bennett was born April the 8 1839 Charles D. Bennett was born October the 14 1840 Henrietta ? Bennett was born June the 12 1842 Jesse.. L..Bennett was born October the 21 1844 Nannie C. Bennett was born December the 31 1846 Martha E. Bennett was born August the 2 1848 Liticia N. Bennett was born July the 20 1850 Taxanar N. Bennett was born August the 19 1852 the last On bottom right corner was written J.L.B. When this you see remember me. On page labeled Marriages Nancy Bennett was born December the 12 1810 Mary Jiles was born June 1815 Transcriber's Notes: The date Oct. 3, 1860 on the page labeled 'Births' appears to be the date that the information was recorded in the Bible. The bible is dated 1858, which is after the last recorded birth. The handwriting was the same throughout indicating that all information was recorded at one time. It is likely that Jesse and Nancy purchased the Bible about October 3, 1860 and recorded family births at that time. This bible record was transcribed by David E. Bennett on June 9, 2000. The bible was in the possession of Sam G. Bennett, grandson of Jesse L. Bennett. Sam Bennett related that he found the Bible in a trunk in his home, which was purchased by Jesse Lewis Bennett in 1847. | Bennett, Jesse Lewis (I21761)
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| 2059 | Family Data Collection validates mann page was married to judith wormeley and they had a daughter maria judith page Christ church has a record that judith wormeley is the daughter of Collo Christopr Wormeley and Ffrances Wormeley | Wormeley, Judith (I47339)
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| 2060 | Family history says he was brought by Henry Golden from England before 1651. Henry Goldam was the father of Susannah Goldam, who married John Bishop Jr of Guilford, and step-father to Nicholas Munger. Henry Goldam had no other children and by his will, dated July 9 1661, he left to Nicholas Munger, his "son -in-law," "all my land in the Neck, paying myself, if demanded during my lifetime, one barley corn by the year by way of acknowledgement, and, after my death, if my wife shall survive and shall demand the same, the sum of five bushels of whete by the year, but if she miss demanding in or at the very expiring of the year, then to be free from any payment that present year, and at the death of my aforesaid wife, to be to him fully and freely and to his heirs forever." [The New England Historical and Genealogical Society , New England Families Genealogical and Memorial, New York , 1913, reprinted Genealogical Publishing Co., Inc., Baltimore, MD, 1996, 1997, p. 1328 1652, Connecticut Nicholas Munger took the Oath of Fidelity and became a freeman in 1652. To qualify, he had to be of age, of sober and peaceable conversation, orthodox in religion, and possessed of a ratable estate of at least twenty pounds. He came to Guilford, Connecticut, in 1639, and was one of the founders of the church there on Jun 1 1639. he served as a representative to the General Court in twenty-seven sessions between 1643 and his death in 1661. He also served as a towrate. He was one of six people selected to purchase land from the Indians in Guilford and was one of four who received "full power and authority to act, order and dispatch all matters respecting the publick weal and civile government of the plantation until a church is gathered amonge us." Because of his experience and rank, he was the chief military man in the town of Guilford. His home lot was on the south side of Broad Street at the turn west of the green. His estate was inventoried at 677 pounds 16 shillings and 7 pence. Source: Title: Ernest Flagg, The Founding of New England (The Case, Lockwood & Brainard Co., Hartford, Connecticut, 1926) Page: 287. Title: John Brooks Threlfall, Twenty-Six Great Migration Colonists to New England & Their Origins (Madison, Wisconsin: n.p., 1993.) Page: 260. | Munger, Nickolas (I2151)
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| 2061 | Family moved to Texas and after General Green's death, Sallie remarried. | Bennett, General Green (I21730)
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| 2062 | Family of Laurent Granger & Marie Landry Laurent Granger was born Abt. 1643 at Plymouth, England, and died Bet. 1700-1703 at Port Royal, Acadia. Wife Marie Landry was born Abt. 1650 at Port Royal, Acadia, and died 26 October 1719 at Port Royal, Acadia. Burial was 26 October 1719 at St. Jean Baptiste, Port Royal, Acadia. They were married Abt. 1667 at Port Royal, Acadia. Their children were: 1- Marie Marguerite Granger b: Abt. 1668 Port Royal, Acadia; d: 11 April 1719 Port Royal, Acadia; burial: 11 April 1719 St. Jean Baptiste, Port Royal +Nicolas Babineau b: Abt. 1653 Soudan, Poitou, France; m: Abt. 1687 Port Royal, Acadia; d: Bef. 17 November 1723 Notes for Marie Marguerite Granger: - 1703 Port Royal: Nicolas Babineau, wife, 3 boys, 1 girl - 1707 Port Royal: Deslaurier, wife, 1 boy 14 or older, 2 younger boys, 1 girl 12 or older, 1 younger girl; 22 cattle, 32 sheep, 22 hogs, 8 arpents, 7 guns. - 1714 Port Royal (near the fort): Delaurier, wife, 3 boys, 1 girl. 2- Pierre Granger b: Abt. February 1671 Port Royal, Acadia; d: 19 January 1737 Grand Pre, Acadia; burial: 19 January 1737 St. Charles aux Mines, Grand Pre +Isabelle Guilbeau b: Abt. 1675 Port Royal, Acadia; m: Abt. 1693 Port Royal, Acadia; d: Aft. 1741 3- Jacques Granger b: Abt. 1672 Port Royal, Acadia; d: 28 February 1739 Grand Pre, Acadia; burial: 1 March 1739 St. Charles aux Mines, Grand Pre, Acadia +Marie Girouard b: Abt. 1678 Port Royal, Acadia; m: Abt. 1700 Port Royal, Acadia Notes for Jacques Granger: - 1701 Grand Pre: Jacques Granger, wife, 1 boy; 8 cattle, 5 sheep, 12 hogs, 6 arpents, 1 gun. - 1703 Les Mines: Jacques Grange, wife, 1 boy, 4 girls (sic) - 1707 Les Mines: Jacques Granger, wife, 1 boy <14, 2 girls <12; 8 cattle, 8 sheep, 9 hogs, 2 arpents - 1714 Les Mines: Jacques Grange, wife, 4 boys, 2 girls 4- son Granger b: Abt. 1674 Port Royal, Acadia 5- Rene Granger b: Abt. 1676 Port Royal, Acadia; d: November 1740 Riviere aux Canards, Acadia +Marguerite Theriot b: Abt. 1679 Port Royal, Acadia; m: Abt. 1695 Port Royal, Acadia; d: 1740 Riviere aux Canards, Acadia Notes for Rene Granger: - 1698 Port Royal: Rene Granger 23, wife Margueritte Teriot 21, Marie 2, Magdeleine ½; 6 cattle, 10 sheep, 10 ½ arpents, 1 gun. - 1700 Port Royal: Rene Granger 28, wife Marguerite Teriot 21, Marie 4, Marguerite 2; 4 cattle, 6 sheep, 3 arpents, 1gun. - 1701 Port Royal: Rene Granger 26, wife Marguerite Thiriot 22, Marie 5, Marguerite 3, Francoise 1; 13 cattle, 13 sheep, 4 arpents, 1gun. - 1703 Port Royal: Rene Grange, wife, 2 boys, 1 girl - 1707 Port Royal: Rene Granger, wife, 2 boys <12, 3 girls <12; 20 cattle, 20 sheep, 13 hogs, 4 arpents, 1 gun. - 1714 Port Royal (near the fort): Rene Granger, wife, 5 boys, 3 girls 6- Claude Granger b: Abt. 1678 Port Royal, Acadia +Jeanne Guilbeau b: Abt. 1685 Port Royal, Acadia; m: 27 November 1703 Port Royal, Acadia Notes for Claude Granger: - 1707 Port Royal: Claude Granger, wife, 1 boy <14, 1 girl <12; 13 cattle, 15 sheep, 6 hogs, 2 arpents, 1 gun. - 1714 Port Royal (near the fort): Claude Grange, wife, 3 boys, 1 girl 7- Marie Granger b: Abt. 1680 Port Royal, Acadia; d: Bef. 7 February 1745 +Pierre Lanoue b: Abt. 1683 Port Royal, Acadia; m: 21 November 1702 Port Royal, Acadia; d: Aft. 1725 Notes for Marie Granger: - 1707 Port Royal: Pierre Lanoue fils, wife, 1 boy <14, 1 girl <12; 6 cattle, 10 sheep, 8 hogs, 4 arpents, 1 gun - 1714 Port Royal: Pierre Lanoue, wife, 5 boys 8- Anne Granger b: Abt. 1684 Port Royal, Acadia; d: 13 October 1749 Port Royal, Acadia +Pierre Melanson b: Abt. March 1685 Port Royal, Acadia; m: 7 November 1712 Port Royal, Acadia; d: 6 August 1725 Port Royal, Acadia; burial: 6 August 1725 St. Jean Baptiste, Port Royal Notes for Anne Granger: - 1714 Port Royal (near the fort): Pierre Melanson, wife, 1 girl 9- Laurent Granger b: Abt. 1688 Port Royal, Acadia +Marie Bourg b: Abt. 1690 Port Royal, Acadia; m: 24 April 1711 Port Royal, Acadia; d: 20 October 1752 Port Royal, Acadia Notes for Laurents Granger: - 1714 Port Royal (near the fort): Laurent Grange, wife, 2 girls Notes for Laurent Granger: - Laurent Granger arrived in Acadia c1659. - 1671 Acadian census: Laurent Grange 34, Marie Landry 24, Margueritte 2, Pierre 9 months; 5 cattle, 6 sheep, 4 arpents. - 1686 Port Royal: Laurens Granger 46, Marie Landry 36, Marguerite 18, Pierre 16, Jacques 14, Rene 10, Claude 8, Marie 6, Anne 2; 1 gun, 3 arpents, 8 cattle, 6 sheep, 6 hogs. - 1693 Port Royal: Laurens Grange 50, Marie Landry 43, Jacques 21, Rene 18, Claude 14, Anne 9, Laurens 5; 15 cattle, 20 sheep, 12 hogs, 2 guns. - 1698 Port Royal: Marie Landry (widow) 42, Claude 20, Marie 17, Anne 13, Laurens 10; 8 cattle, 15 sheep, 6 hogs, 20 arpents, 50 fruit trees, 1 gun. - 1700 Port Royal: Laurens Granger 57, wife Marie Landry 50, Claude 21, Laurens 12, Anne 16; 12 cattle, 21 sheep, 12 arpents, 1 gun. - 1703 Port Royal: Widow Granger, 2 boys - 1707 Port Royal: Widow Granger, 1 boy 14 or older, 1 girl 12 or older; 7 cattle, 10 sheep, 12 hogs, 2 arpents, 1 gun. | Granger, Laurent (I24795)
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| 2063 | Family of Light-horse Harry Lee Between April 8 and 13, 1782, at Stratford Hall, Lee married his second cousin, Matilda Ludwell Lee (1764–1790), who was known as "the Divine Matilda". She was the daughter of Philip Ludwell Lee, Sr., and Elizabeth Steptoe. Matilda had three children before she died in 1790: Philip Ludwell Lee (1784–1794) Lucy Grymes Lee (1786–1860) Henry Lee IV (May 28, 1787 – January 30, 1837), was a historian and author who also served as a speech writer for both John C Calhoun and presidential candidate Andrew Jackson, also helping the latter to write his inaugural address. On June 18, 1793, Lee married the wealthy Anne Hill Carter (1773–1829) at Shirley Plantation. Anne was the daughter of Charles Carter, Esq., of Shirley, and his wife Ann Butler Moore. They had six children: Algernon Sidney Lee (April 2, 1795 – August 9, 1796), died at Sully Plantation, buried there in an unmarked grave. Charles Carter Lee (1798–1871) Anne Kinloch Lee (1800–1864) Sydney Smith Lee (1802–1869) Robert Edward Lee (January 19, 1807 – October 12, 1870), the fifth child of Henry and Anne, served as Confederate general-in-chief during the American Civil War. Mildred Lee (1811–1856) | Lee, Henry III (I43278)
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| 2064 | FAMILY OF STEPHEN AND EXPERIENCE ELLIS CHURCHILL Stephen Churchill was born February 16, 1685, the son of Eliezer and Mary Churchill. In 1708, he married Experience Ellis, who was the daughter of Matthias, from a place called Sandwich. Stephen and Experience had six children. Stephen died in 1750. Ephraim, born October 15, 1709. Married on March 27, 1730, to Priscilla Manchester, and had eight children. Ephraim died December 14, 1749. In the family tree materials, he is referred to as "Ephraim I" because he had a grandson also named Ephraim. Nathaniel, born December 19, 1712. Married on January 2, 1733, to Mary Curtis and had 4 children. Mary, born April 29, 1716, and died December 13, 1716. Stephen, born August 24, 1717. He married Hannah Barnes on July 4, 1738, and had seven children. Zaccheus, born October 30, 1719. He died November 18, 1732. Benjamin, born August 19, 1725. He married Ruth DeLong on November 3, 1746 and had nine children. Source: http://www.marthachurchill.com/family/ChStephEliez.htm | Ellis, Experience (I34648)
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| 2065 | Family tradition says he was a Captain in the Revolution. Married: Bef 7 Jul 1767 in , Virginia Note: Married Well and Often marriages of the Northern Neck of Virginia 1649-1800" by Robert K. Headley, JR. Pendleton, Philip and Awbery, Martha (Awbery); bef 7 Jul 1767; bride was a dau of Chandler Awbrey (d WC 1756); Philip and Martha Pendleton were res. of St. Mark's Par., Culpeper Co. Va. by Apr 1770; (WC DW 13:28; DW 15:74; RI 5:17) | Pendleton, Phillip (I239)
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| 2066 | Famous Trials By Professor Douglas O. Linder The Witchcraft Trials in Salem: An Account O Christian Martyr Who for Truth could die When all about thee Owned the hideous lie! The world, redeemed from superstition's sway, Is breathing freer for thy sake today. --Words written by John Greenleaf Whittier and inscribed on a monument marking the grave of Rebecca Nurse, one of the condemned "witches" of Salem. From June through September of 1692, nineteen men and women, all having been convicted of witchcraft, were carted to Gallows Hill, a barren slope near Salem Village, for hanging. Another man of over eighty years was pressed to death under heavy stones for refusing to submit to a trial on witchcraft charges. Hundreds of others faced accusations of witchcraft. Dozens languished in jail for months without trials. Then, almost as soon as it had begun, the hysteria that swept through Puritan Massachusetts ended. Why did this travesty of justice occur? Why did it occur in Salem? Nothing about this tragedy was inevitable. Only an unfortunate combination of an ongoing frontier war, economic conditions, congregational strife, teenage boredom, and personal jealousies can account for the spiraling accusations, trials, and executions that occurred in the spring and summer of 1692. Rev. Samuel Parris In 1688, John Putnam, one of the most influential elders of Salem Village, invited Samuel Parris, formerly a marginally successful planter and merchant in Barbados, to preach in the Village church. A year later, after negotiations over salary, inflation adjustments, and free firewood, Parris accepted the job as Village minister. He moved to Salem Village with his wife Elizabeth, his six-year-old daughter Betty, niece Abigail Williams, and his Indian slave Tituba, acquired by Parris in Barbados. The Salem that became the new home of Parris was in the midst of change: a mercantile elite was beginning to develop, prominent people were becoming less willing to assume positions as town leaders, two clans (the Putnams and the Porters) were competing for control of the village and its pulpit, and a debate was raging over how independent Salem Village, tied more to the interior agricultural regions, should be from Salem, a center of sea trade. Sometime during February of the exceptionally cold winter of 1692, young Betty Parris became strangely ill. She dashed about, dove under furniture, contorted in pain, and complained of fever. The cause of her symptoms may have been some combination of stress, asthma, guilt, boredom, child abuse, epilepsy, and delusional psychosis. The symptoms also could have been caused, as Linda Caporael argued in a 1976 article in Science magazine, by a disease called "convulsive ergotism" brought on by ingesting rye--eaten as a cereal and as a common ingredient of bread--infected with ergot. (Ergot is caused by a fungus which invades developing kernels of rye grain, especially under warm and damp conditions such as existed at the time of the previous rye harvest in Salem. Convulsive ergotism causes violent fits, a crawling sensation on the skin, vomiting, choking, and--most interestingly--hallucinations. The hallucinogenic drug LSD is a derivative of ergot.) Many of the symptoms or convulsive ergotism seem to match those attributed to Betty Parris, but there is no way of knowing with any certainty if she in fact suffered from the disease--and the theory would not explain the afflictions suffered by others in Salem later in the year. Cotton Mather At the time, however, there was another theory to explain the girls' symptoms. Cotton Mather had recently published a popular book, "Memorable Providences," describing the suspected witchcraft of an Irish washerwoman in Boston, and Betty's behavior in some ways mirrored that of the afflicted person described in Mather's widely read and discussed book. It was easy to believe in 1692 in Salem, with an Indian war raging less than seventy miles away (and many refugees from the war in the area) that the devil was close at hand. Sudden and violent death occupied minds. Talk of witchcraft increased when other playmates of Betty, including eleven-year-old Ann Putnam, seventeen-year-old Mercy Lewis, and Mary Walcott, began to exhibit similar unusual behavior. When his own nostrums failed to effect a cure, William Griggs, a doctor called to examine the girls, suggested that the girls' problems might have a supernatural origin. The widespread belief that witches targeted children made the doctor's diagnosis seem increasingly likely. A neighbor, Mary Sibley, proposed a form of counter magic. She told Tituba to bake a rye cake with the urine of the afflicted victim and feed the cake to a dog. (Dogs were believed to be used by witches as agents to carry out their devilish commands.) By this time, suspicion had already begun to focus on Tituba, who had been known to tell the girls tales of omens, voodoo, and witchcraft from her native folklore. Her participation in the urine cake episode made her an even more obvious scapegoat for the inexplicable. Meanwhile, the number of girls afflicted continued to grow, rising to seven with the addition of Ann Putnam, Elizabeth Hubbard, Susannah Sheldon, and Mary Warren. According to historian Peter Hoffer, the girls "turned themselves from a circle of friends into a gang of juvenile delinquents." (Many people of the period complained that young people lacked the piety and sense of purpose of the founders' generation.) The girls contorted into grotesque poses, fell down into frozen postures, and complained of biting and pinching sensations. In a village where everyone believed that the devil was real, close at hand, and acted in the real world, the suspected affliction of the girls became an obsession. Sometime after February 25, when Tituba baked the witch cake, and February 29, when arrest warrants were issued against Tituba and two other women, Betty Parris and Abigail Williams named their afflictors and the witch hunt began. The consistency of the two girls' accusations suggests strongly that the girls worked out their stories together. Soon Ann Putnam and Mercy Lewis were also reporting seeing "witches flying through the winter mist." The prominent Putnam family supported the girls' accusations, putting considerable impetus behind the prosecutions. The first three to be accused of witchcraft were Tituba, Sarah Good, and Sarah Osborn. Tituba was an obvious choice. Good was a beggar and social misfit who lived wherever someone would house her, and Osborn was old, quarrelsome, and had not attended church for over a year. The Putnams brought their complaint against the three women to county magistrates Jonathan Corwin and John Hathorne, who scheduled examinations for the suspected witches for March 1, 1692 in Ingersoll's tavern. When hundreds showed up, the examinations were moved to the meeting house. At the examinations, the girls described attacks by the specters of the three women, and fell into their, by then, perfected pattern of contortions when in the presence of one of the suspects. Other villagers came forward to offer stories of cheese and butter mysteriously gone bad or animals born with deformities after visits by one of the suspects.The magistrates, in the common practice of the time, asked the same questions of each suspect over and over: Were they witches? Had they seen Satan? How, if they are were not witches, did they explain the contortions seemingly caused by their presence? The style and form of the questions indicates that the magistrates thought the women guilty. "Examination of a Witch" The matter might have ended with admonishments were it not for Tituba. After first adamantly denying any guilt, afraid perhaps of being made a scapegoat, Tituba claimed that she was approached by a tall man from Boston--obviously Satan--who sometimes appeared as a dog or a hog and who asked her to sign in his book and to do his work. Yes, Tituba declared, she was a witch, and moreover she and four other witches, including Good and Osborn, had flown through the air on their poles. She had tried to run to Reverend Parris for counsel, she said, but the devil had blocked her path. Tituba's confession succeeded in transforming her from a possible scapegoat to a central figure in the expanding prosecutions. Her confession also served to silence most skeptics, and Parris and other local ministers began witch hunting with zeal. Soon, according to their own reports, the spectral forms of other women began attacking the afflicted girls. Martha Corey, Rebecca Nurse, Sarah Cloyce, and Mary Easty were accused of witchcraft. During a March 20 church service, Ann Putnam suddenly shouted, "Look where Goodwife Cloyce sits on the beam suckling her yellow bird between her fingers!" Soon Ann's mother, Ann Putnam, Sr., would join the accusers. Dorcas Good, four-year-old daughter of Sarah Good, became the first child to be accused of witchcraft when three of the girls complained that they were bitten by the specter of Dorcas. (The four-year-old was arrested, kept in jail for eight months, watched her mother get carried off to the gallows, and would "cry her heart out, and go insane.") The girls' accusations and their ever more polished performances, including the new act of being struck dumb, played to large and believing audiences. Arrest warrant for suspected witchcraft Stuck in jail with the damning testimony of the afflicted girls widely accepted, suspects began to see confession as a way to avoid the gallows. Deliverance Hobbs became the second witch to confess, admitting to pinching three of the girls at the Devil's command and flying on a pole to attend a witches' Sabbath in an open field. Jails approached capacity and the colony "teetered on the brink of chaos" when Governor Phips returned from England. Fast action, he decided, was required. Chief Judge William Stoughton Phips created a new court, the "court of oyer and terminer," to hear the witchcraft cases. Five judges, including three close friends of Cotton Mather, were appointed to the court. Chief Justice, and most influential member of the court, was a gung-ho witch hunter named William Stoughton. Mather urged Stoughton and the other judges to credit confessions and admit "spectral evidence" (testimony by afflicted persons that they had been visited by a suspect's specter). Ministers were looked to for guidance by the judges, who were generally without legal training, on matters pertaining to witchcraft. Mather's advice was heeded. the judges also decided to allow the so-called "touching test" (defendants were asked to touch afflicted persons to see if their touch, as was generally assumed of the touch of witches, would stop their contortions) and examination of the bodies of accused for evidence of "witches' marks" (moles or the like upon which a witch's familiar might suck). Evidence that would be excluded from modern courtrooms-- hearsay, gossip, stories, unsupported assertions, surmises-- was also generally admitted. Many protections that modern defendants take for granted were lacking in Salem: accused witches had no legal counsel, could not have witnesses testify under oath on their behalf, and had no formal avenues of appeal. Defendants could, however, speak for themselves, produce evidence, and cross-examine their accusers. The degree to which defendants in Salem were able to take advantage of their modest protections varied considerably, depending on their own acuteness and their influence in the community. The first accused witch to be brought to trial was Bridget Bishop. Almost sixty years old, owner of a tavern where patrons could drink cider ale and play shuffleboard (even on the Sabbath), critical of her neighbors, and reluctant to pay her bills, Bishop was a likely candidate for an accusation of witchcraft. The fact that Thomas Newton, special prosecutor, selected Bishop for his first prosecution suggests that he believed the stronger case could be made against her than any of the other suspect witches. At Bishop's trial on June 2, 1692, a field hand testified that he saw Bishop's image stealing eggs and then saw her transform herself into a cat. Deliverance Hobbs, by then probably insane, and Mary Warren, both confessed witches, testified that Bishop was one of them. A villager named Samuel Grey told the court that Bishop visited his bed at night and tormented him. A jury of matrons assigned to examine Bishop's body reported that they found an "excrescence of flesh." Several of the afflicted girls testified that Bishop's specter afflicted them. Numerous other villagers described why they thought Bishop was responsible for various bits of bad luck that had befallen them. There was even testimony that while being transported under guard past the Salem meeting house, she looked at the building and caused a part of it to fall to the ground. Bishop's jury returned a verdict of guilty. One of the judges, Nathaniel Saltonstall, aghast at the conduct of the trial, resigned from the court. Chief Justice Stoughton signed Bishop's death warrant, and on June 10, 1692, Bishop was carted to Gallows Hill and hanged. The hanging of Bridget Bishop As the summer of 1692 warmed, the pace of trials picked up. Not all defendants were as disreputable as Bridget Bishop. Rebecca Nurse was a pious, respected woman whose specter, according to Ann Putnam, Jr. and Abigail Williams, attacked them in mid March of 1692. Ann Putnam, Sr. added her complaint that Nurse demanded that she sign the Devil's book, then pinched her. Nurse was one of three Towne sisters, all identified as witches, who were members of a Topsfield family that had a long-standing quarrel with the Putnam family. Apart from the evidence of Putnam family members, the major piece of evidence against Nurse appeared to be testimony indicating that soon after Nurse lectured Benjamin Houlton for allowing his pig to root in her garden, Houlton died. The Nurse jury returned a verdict of not guilty, much to the displeasure of Chief Justice Stoughton, who told the jury to go back and consider again a statement of Nurse's that might be considered an admission of guilt (but more likely an indication of confusion about the question, as Nurse was old and nearly deaf). The jury reconvened, this time coming back with a verdict of guilty (LINK TO NURSE TRIAL). On July 19, 1692, Nurse rode with four other convicted witches to Gallows Hill. The trial of Rebecca Nurse Persons who scoffed at accusations of witchcraft risked becoming targets of accusations themselves. One man who was openly critical of the trials paid for his skepticism with his life. John Proctor, a central figure in Arthur Miller's fictionalized account of the Salem witch hunt, The Crucible, was an opinionated tavern owner who openly denounced the witch hunt. Testifying against Proctor were Ann Putnam, Abigail Williams, Indian John (a slave of Samuel Parris who worked in a competing tavern), and eighteen-year-old Elizabeth Booth, who testified that ghosts had come to her and accused Proctor of serial murder. Proctor fought back, accusing confessed witches of lying, complaining of torture, and demanding that his trial be moved to Boston. The efforts proved futile. Proctor was hanged. His wife Elizabeth, who was also convicted of witchcraft, was spared execution because of her pregnancy (reprieved "for the belly"). No execution caused more unease in Salem than that of the village's ex-minister, George Burroughs. Burroughs, who was living in Maine in 1692, was identified by several of his accusers as the ringleader of the witches. Ann Putnam claimed that Burroughs bewitched soldiers during a failed military campaign against Wabanakis in 1688-89, the first of a string of military disasters that could be blamed on an Indian-Devil alliance. In her interesting book, In the Devil's Snare, historian Mary Beth Norton argues that the large number of accusations against Burroughs, and his linkage to the frontier war, is the key to understanding the Salem trials. Norton contends that the enthusiasm of the Salem court in prosecuting the witchcraft cases owed in no small measure to the judges' desire to shift the "blame for their own inadequate defense of the frontier." Many of the judges, Norton points out, played lead roles in a war effort that had been markedly unsuccessful. Among the thirty accusers of Burroughs was nineteen-year-old Mercy Lewis, a refugee of the frontier wars. Lewis, the most imaginative and forceful of the young accusers, offered unusually vivid testimony against Burroughs. Lewis told the court that Burroughs flew her to the top of a mountain and, pointing toward the surrounding land, promised her all the kingdoms if only she would sign in his book (a story very similar to that found in Matthew 4:8). Lewis said, "I would not writ if he had throwed me down on one hundred pitchforks." At an execution, a defendant in the Puritan colonies was expected to confess, and thus to save his soul. When Burroughs on Gallows Hill continued to insist on his innocence and then recited the Lord's Prayer perfectly (something witches were thought incapable of doing), the crowd reportedly was "greatly moved." The agitation of the crowd caused Cotton Mather to intervene and remind the crowd that Burroughs had had his day in court and lost. The hanging of George Burroughs One victim of the Salem witch hunt was not hanged, but rather pressed under heavy stones until his death. Such was the fate of octogenarian Giles Corey who, after spending five months in chains in a Salem jail with his also accused wife, had nothing but contempt for the proceedings. Seeing the futility of a trial and hoping that by avoiding a conviction his farm, that would otherwise go the state, might go to his two sons-in-law, Corey refused to stand for trial. The penalty for such a refusal was peine et fort, or pressing. Three days after Corey's death, on September 22, 1692, eight more convicted witches, including Giles' wife Martha, were hanged. They were the last victims of the witch hunt. By early autumn of 1692, Salem's lust for blood was ebbing. Doubts were developing as to how so many respectable people could be guilty. Reverend John Hale said, " It cannot be imagined that in a place of so much knowledge, so many in so small compass of land should abominably leap into the Devil's lap at once." The educated elite of the colony began efforts to end the witch-hunting hysteria that had enveloped Salem. Increase Mather, the father of Cotton, published what has been called "America's first tract on evidence," a work entitled Cases of Conscience, which argued that it "were better that ten suspected witches should escape than one innocent person should be condemned." Increase Mather urged the court to exclude spectral evidence. Samuel Willard, a highly regarded Boston minister, circulated Some Miscellany Observations, which suggested that the Devil might create the specter of an innocent person. Mather's and Willard's works were given to Governor Phips. The writings most likely influenced the decision of Phips to order the court to exclude spectral evidence and touching tests and to require proof of guilt by clear and convincing evidence. With spectral evidence not admitted, twenty-eight of the last thirty-three witchcraft trials ended in acquittals. The three convicted witches were later pardoned. In May of 1693, Phips released from prison all remaining accused or convicted witches. Governor William Phips By the time the witch hunt ended, nineteen convicted witches were executed, at least four accused witches had died in prison, and one man, Giles Corey, had been pressed to death. About one to two hundred other persons were arrested and imprisoned on witchcraft charges. Two dogs were executed as suspected accomplices of witches. Scholars have noted potentially telling differences between the accused and the accusers in Salem. Most of the accused lived to the south of, and were generally better off financially, than most of the accusers. In a number of cases, accusing families stood to gain property from the convictions of accused witches. Also, the accused and the accusers generally took opposite sides in a congregational schism that had split the Salem community before the outbreak of hysteria. While many of the accused witches supported former minister George Burroughs, the families that included the accusers had--for the most part--played leading roles in forcing Burroughs to leave Salem. The conclusion that many scholars draw from these patterns is that property disputes and congregational feuds played a major role in determining who lived, and who died, in 1692. The repentence of Samuel Sewall A period of atonement began in the colony following the release of the surviving accused witches. Samuel Sewall, one of the judges, issued a public confession of guilt and an apology. Several jurors came forward to say that they were "sadly deluded and mistaken" in their judgments. Reverend Samuel Parris conceded errors of judgment, but mostly shifted blame to others. Parris was replaced as minister of Salem village by Thomas Green, who devoted his career to putting his torn congregation back together. Governor Phips blamed the entire affair on William Stoughton. Stoughton, clearly more to blame than anyone for the tragic episode, refused to apologize or explain himself. He criticized Phips for interfering just when he was about to "clear the land" of witches. Stoughton became the next governor of Massachusetts. The witches disappeared, but witch hunting in America did not. Each generation must learn the lessons of history or risk repeating its mistakes. Salem should warn us to think hard about how to best safeguard and improve our system of justice. Other Resources The Witchcraft Trials in Salem: An Account Chronology of Events Relating To The Salem Witchcraft Trials Warrant For The Arrest Of Elizabeth Proctor And Sarah Cloyce Biographies of Key Figures in the Salem Witchcraft Trials Images Of The Salem Witchcraft Trials Map of Salem Village in 1692 ( W. P. Upham) Petitions of Two Convicted Witches Awaiting Execution Examinations of Some of The Accused Witches In Salem,1692 The Dead Two Letters of Gov. William Phips (1692-1693) Petitions For Compensation And Decision Concerning Compensation The Man Of Iron: Giles Corey Procedure Used In The Salem Witchcraft Trials The Crucible (1952) You're Accused! The Salem Witchcraft Trials: Bibliography & Links Deodat Lawson's Report on Witchcraft in Salem Powered by UMKC School of Law Copyright © 1995 - 2017 Professor Douglas O. Linder | Clark, Sarah (I31719)
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| 2067 | Fasting - The Norwegian family originated from Lyder Fasting (died 1677), born in Dipholt (Lüneburg), who took up citizenship in Bergen 1659. He was the father of a merchant in Bergen Johan Fasting (c. 1665 - c. 1700) and mayor of the same place Claus Fasting (1674–1739), who became the ancestors of the family's two main lines. Merchant Johan Fasting was the father of the parish priest Thomas Fasting (1692-1736) and the naval officer Lyder Montaine de Fasting (1693-1739). Thomas Fasting was married to Alida Marie von Krogh (1688–1750) the father of Lieutenant General Johan Jacob Fasting (1723–90) and Colonel Lieutenant Søren Christian Fasting (1729–82). The grandson of Lieutenant General JJ Fasting was the parish priest Michael Sundt Tuchsen Fasting (1806–85), who was the father of Rector Georg Frederik Christopher Fasting (1837–1914), railway engineer Johan Jacob Fasting (1848–1926) and instructor Ole Wilhelm Fasting (1852–1915). ). Grandsons of engineer JJ Fasting were architect Georg Fredrik Fasting (1903–87) and journalist and author Kåre Bøgh Fasting (1907–83). Colonel SC Fasting was the father of Minister Thomas Fasting (1769-1841). Mayor Claus Fasting was the father of parish priest in Fana Lyder Fasting (1714–63) and parish priest Frederik Fasting (1718–69). The son of the former was bell at Bergen Cathedral, the bibliographer Claus Lydersen Fasting (1743-1827). Son of the parish priest Frederik Fasting was the author Claus Fasting (1746–91) | Fasting, Lyder Johansen (I16145)
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| 2068 | Father Imigrated Developed Rice. | Lynch, Thomas (I37287)
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| 2069 | Father of George Washington, America's first President. The British were well established in America with thirteen colonies prior to the American Revolution led by George Washington culminating in independence from England and the formation of a united county. Cities, seaports, schools, churches and thriving industry doted the landscape. In the south, large plantations sprang up, constructed and operated by cheap labor in the form of slaves imported from Africa. By the time of the birth of George Washington to Jane Butler and Augustine Washington Sr., three family generations had past since George's Great Grandfather John Washington had immigrated to the Colonies during the British Civil War in 1631. The extensive family became prosperous and thriving when Augustine Washington was born in 1694 in Westmoreland County, Virginia on his father's plantation. He was only four when his father died and his inheritance consisted of 1,000 acres on Bridges Creek (Popes Creek). When Augustine came of age, he married Jane Butler, an orphan with considerable wealth of her own. The couple settled on his inherited property and quickly constructed a new house called "Wakefield." He developed the land known as Popes Creek Plantation into a modest but successful farming venture. In addition to cultivating tobacco, he was active in the church, local politics and served at various times as justice of the peace and county sheriff. The marriage would produce two sons, Lawrence and Augustine Jr. Jane would pass away in 1728 and three years later Augustine would marry a second time to Mary Ball. Their first born would be George destined to be the first President of the United States. Although born in the "Wakefield Mansion," he would only spend the first three years of his life as the family moved many times, living at various plantations owned by Augustine Sr. The family lastly settled at Ferry Farm Plantation near Frederiksburg where Augustine owned and operated Accokeek Iron Furnace located nearby. Five other children followed...Samuel, Elizabeth, John Augustine, Charles, and Mildred (died in infancy). When Augustine Washington Sr. died in 1743 at Ferry Farm, he left his wife Mary Ball with many small children but well provided. George the oldest was but eleven. He along with other family members conveyed their father's remains by land and river 35 miles back to Popes Creek where they buried him beside his first wife and near his father and grandfather at the Washington family burial ground (Popes Creek Cemetery.) Mary would continue to live with her children and operate Ferry Farm with enslaved labor until selling the farm and moving into the town of Fredericksburg in 1774. Soon after the death of his father, George would live with his half brother Augustine Washington Jr. (Austin) in order to pursue an education at the Henry Williams School in Westmoreland County. At age fifteen he was a land surveyor. His first assignment was a land survey of 22 acres at Popes Creek. Legacy...In 1779, William, the son of Augustine Washington Jr., accidently burned down "Wakefield" after building a large fire in the mansion fire place then leaving to attend Episcopal church services on Christmas day. A spark from the chimney ignited a fire that destroyed the dwelling. A replica plantation house was constructed on the plantation land in Westmoreland County to approximate the original birth house in 1932 and is today known as the "Memorial House." The historical area today consists of 538 acres with the house, the Washington family burial ground, a working demonstration farm and 18th century period garden. Also interred in the burial ground are 28 other early members of the Washington family. President George Washington was buried at Mt. Vernon in 1799 and his mother Mary Ball Washington in Frederiksburg. The original foundations of what is believed to be the birth house were discovered by preservationist and is outlined. The site is now known as the George Washington Birthplace National Monument. An unmarked slave graveyard discovered at the Washington birthplace is an infamous legacy of Augustine Washington Sr. It contains 156 bodies of slaves owned by George Washington's father. Trivia note: Washington's birthplace eventually was sold and passed from the holdings of the Washington family. It was allow to disintegrate until preservationists realized the historical significance of the site. However, it was to late, nothing remained but finally a concerted effort with private and government assistance began to restore the plantation in the early 30's in a style of how it may have looked. Even the burial grounds was a vain attempt at restoration and creation. The finished project today resulted after disinterring of family parts, and a few vandalized markers from around the plantation and area with reinterring on the site. Parents: Lawrence Washington (1659 - 1697) Mildred Warner Washington (1671 - 1701) Spouses: Jane Butler Washington (1699 - 1728) Mary Ball Washington (1708 - 1789) Children: Lawrence Washington (1718 - 1752)* Augustine Washington (1720 - 1762)* George Washington (1732 - 1799)* Betty Washington Lewis (1733 - 1797)* Samuel Washington (1734 - 1781)* John Augustine Washington (1736 - 1787)* Charles Washington (1738 - 1799)* Burial: George Washington Birthplace National Monument Colonial Beach Westmoreland County Virginia, USA Plot: Popes Creek Plantation | Washington, Lawrence Augustine (I47616)
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| 2070 | Father's will. | Sturman, Rosanna (I49501)
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| 2071 | Fauquier Co., VA Deeds, Pages 609-611. 29 September 1766. B & S. Between Joseph Dodson and Ann, his wife, and Jacob Hays ... pounds 40 ... 150 a. ... adj. Land of Mr. Humphrey Brooke & Mr. William Hunton ... high hill ... Mr. Wm. Hunton's linine ... land formerly owned by Thomas Dodson, Sr. ... given by him to Joseph Dodson by deed of gift. Signed : Joseph Dodson, Ann (X) Dodson. Wit: John Creel, Lazarus Dodson, Benjamin Edward, Rosannah Creel, Obed Cornwill, William Davis, Thomas Dodson, Sr., Abraham Dodson, Robert Sanders, John Benett, Edmund Hays. Rec: 23 March 1767, ack. By Joseph Dodson. | Family: Joseph Dodson / Anne (F5741)
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| 2072 | Fauquier County Court, 26th of May 1763 "We present David Thomas, Thomas Dodson, Abraham Dodson, Elisha Dodson, Joseph Dodson, Edmund Hayes, Peter Cornwell, Obed Cornwell, Alexander Higgins, & (William Davis on the Biskett Mountain), John Davis, William Carter, Timothy Stamps, John Stamps, William Stamps, Mary Stamps, John Bennett, Fortunatus Dodson, Joshua Owen, Joshua Dodson, John Creel, Rawleigh Dodson, Samuel Bailey, William Shirley, William Young, Joseph Owens, Joshua Scurlock, Edward Hughes, John Cundiff, Anthony Seale, James Shackleford, Henry Hampton, John Shirley, Joseph Morrison, Benjamin Edwards, Anthony Morgan & George Bell of Hamilton Parish for absenting themselves from their Parish Church within this six months last past." | Bennett, John (I21766)
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| 2073 | FAURE FORE FORD ORIGIN OF THE NAME The immigrant ancestor of this family was a native of Auvergne, France; who came with a party of French Huguenots who were refugees of religious persecution who fled to Virginia and were one of the founders of Manakin Town. The original spelling of the name was FAURE, later Anglicized to FORE and still later to FORD. ARMS Argent a heart gules, pierced by three arrows sable, two and one. SYMBOLISM ARGENT: (silver) Denotes Peace and sincerity GULES: (red) Military fortitude and magnanimity SABLE: (black) Constancy HEART: Denotes ardent affection. It is so very symbolical, and it is by no means of modern composition. It was confirmed as an ancient bearing, in 1768 by Heralds College. ARROWS: Signifies a man resolved to abide by the uttermost hazard of battle, who to that end has furnished himself to the full. This coat is of ancient origin, since it bears no crest and no motto. Mottoes did not come into use until the 16th century. Crests came into being after the Crusades, when the knights wore them in the tournaments to distinguish one from another. (Wade’ Symbolism) (Coat of Arms drawn from the original by: Lillian B. Cady, Santa Ana, California.) THE HUGUENOT FAMILY OF FAURE, FORE, FOARD, FORD Of the army of William of Orange, numbering eleven thousand, which sailed from Holland, and by whose aid he obtained the Crown of England, three regiments, each containing seven hundred and fifty effective men, were Huguenots. To these were added a squadron of horse. In gratitude to these zealous and effective supporters, and in sympathy with the great multitude of their suffering brethren driven violently from their homes and native country simply for their religion the King invited them to make their home in his new dominions in America. A large number sought a home in Virginia and settled along the Potomac, Rappahannock and James Rivers. In the year 1700, more than five hundred emigrants, at the head of whom was the Marquis de la Muce, were landed in Virginia by four successive debarkations. (Beverly’s History of Virginia p. 244.) They appear to have settled at different points; a portion about James Town, some in Northfolk County, others in Surry, and two hundred or more at a spot some twenty miles above Richmond, on the south side of James River (now in Powhatan County), where then thousand acres of land, which had been occupied by the extinct Manakin tribe of Indians were given to them. They were also exempt from the payment of taxes for seven years, and were allowed to support their minister in their own way. The records relating to the emigration to Virginia in 1700 of the Huguenot refugees, are taken from the originals now deposited at the Bodleian Library, Oxford University, England. These originals consist of a vellum bound volume of MSS. endorsed: “ORIGINAL PAPERS RELATING TO THE FRENCH PLANTATION IN THE WEST INDIES.” They are undoubtedly the original documents emanating from the Provincial Government of Virginia under Francis Nicholson, as they bear the official signature of Dioniisius Wright, who was Secretary to the Council. We now find the name of Faure under the following heading: “A List of The Refugees Who are to Receive of Ye Miller of Falling Creek Mill One Bushel A Head of Indian Meale Monthly as Settled At Or About King Williams Town, to Begin in Feb, 1700-1. ” “Efaure, his brother, and two sisters……….4” “Rolle Des Francois, Suisses, Genevois, Alemans, Et Flamans Embarquest Dans Le Navire Nomme Le Nasseau pour Aller a la Virginia. Pierre Fferre, sa femme et un enfant.” (Virginia County Records Volume 7, p. 161 by Crozier.) From the above we find Pierre Faure had a wife and child as well as two brothers and two sisters. The names of the two sisters cannot be ascertained. The brothers were Daniel and Jean (John). One might expect the name FAURE found on the lists of Manakin Town settlers to change to the English word FORE, but not to FORD. However, stranger and more surprising changes than this have happened to many surnames. This tradition cannot be totally ignored nor discredited, nor can it be wholly without investigation of authentic evidence from other sources such as church or parish books, land grants and deeds and other court records. These should be read carefully and taken together with a reasonable Consideration of the local influences. The Frenchman, or any other continental European, coming into the English colonies, where all the clerks and office holders were Englishmen, we met with the tendency of the English to Anglicize all proper names. The many ways in which names were changed often produced meaningless names of unrecognizable origin. The individuals themselves, reacted variously to the process of this change in their name. Some clung tenaciously to the original forms, others spelled the name one way but pronounced it another, while others did not resent or resist changes either orthographically or phonetically far from the original. In each individual case of change in name no matter how ordinary and logical or how extraordinary and unusual, it may be, it is necessary to provide by authentic records that the family bearing the changed name is beyond a doubt the very same one which bore the former name. It is not a question of what can or cannot happen, but a question of what did actually happen in that one particular instance. Reference to this change in name together with much data on the family was published in the Huguenot Society book for the year 1936 volume 7. Before taking up the abstracts from the court records it may be advisable to review certain items which enter this specific problem. The land set aside “as the King’s donation to the French Refugees” was “to encourage the French to remain close to Manakin Town”. It is the opinion of persons who know the old records of this settlement intimately, that only French Huguenots were accorded the right to hold this land and to enjoy the special privileges for a number of years, such as freedom from taxes for seven years. Thus it is not until 1709 on the records of Henrico Court and 1715 upon the land grants books of the Colony of Virginia that these French settlers came into court to prove their importation, claim their headrights and take out their land patents. When they do appear on these books were find both the name of FAURE and FORD for grants within the lines defined and laid aside for the French Refugees. This is no surprise if you have been reading the Henrico Court records from the year of 1700 down to 1715. Nor is it any shock to see that the land records slip Peter Ford into the shoes of Peter Faure or vice-versa. Peter FORE and Peter FORD received grants in King William parish on the tracts set aside for the French Refugees as the Manakin Town settlement. The deeds in the court house show both names. To follow the land holdings under both names on the books we must recognize the location of this land set aside for the settlement and use the French Refugees, and included at that date within King William Parish. This has been most ably presented by Mr. Morgan P. Robinson, Archivist, of the Virginia State Library, in Volume XLIII, Number 1, of the Virginia Magazine of History and Biography, under “Henrico Parish of the Diocese of Virginia.” These lands were under the jurisdiction of the Court of Henrico County in 1700, when they were first designated and appropriated for this special use. But the lands actually lay in what we know as Powhatan County, Virginia, today. In 1728, this are came under the jurisdiction of the newly formed Court of Goochland, and in 1749 under the Court of Cumberland County and in 1777 became Powhatan. That is, all of the French tract excepting that part of it which now lies in Chesterfield County, Virginia. This part remained under the Court of Henrico County until 1749, when the Chesterfield Court was erected. Hence we must follow the French Settlers who lived within King William Parish, in what is now Powhatan County, through this succession of court records to trace their land holdings, and to stay with the Henrico records until 1749 for the families whose land was on the Chesterfield side of the present dividing line between that County and Powhatan County. The books of this period of Henrico County are in the Archives Division of the Virginia State Library. The land grants or patent books are in the Virginia State Land Office in the Capital. The Goochland, Cumberland, Powhatan and Chesterfield books are in their respective court houses. The family of Daniel Fore lived on the Chesterfield side of the parish. The name FAURE, FOURE, FORE, and FORD runs through the records on the Powhatan side of the parish with all variations in spelling. What became of Peter Fore (Foure) and his land grants? He dodges about on the tithing lists with Peter Ford from 1710 to 1734, neither appearing when the other is there. No inventory, or other vague or even fait sign of his death appears on the books. Peter Ford leaves a will, the original of which is in the court house at Goochland, Virginia. This will was written by some one else and Peter Ford signs with a tiny o for his mark. This is interesting when compared to the mark used by Peter Faure, a small o with a slight tail to it, in 1709. In all this research particular attention has been paid to the spelling of the name under observation in each record and is given exactly as found in each instance. When the name appears two ways in one record it was found to be that very way in that record. The land grants to men by the name of FOURE, FORE, and FORD of King William Parish will be followed by the deeds relating to them. The following Court Order of Henrico County: The court places the name of Peter Ford as one in the list of five men, any four of whom are to take an inventory of the estate of Jean Durran, deceased, in 1709. When the inventory is made and is returned to the court, Peter Fore has been one of the four men who responded to this order and as Peter Faure, with his characteristic French mark, he signs the inventory with his French neighbors. Henrico County, Virginia Court Order Book (1707-1709) p. 138. “Court held May 2, 1709…A paper was produced in this Court by Jean Forcey as the nuncupative will of Jean Durran, deceased, and proved by the oaths of Peter Dutoy, James D….and Francis Bening….the motion was rejected…the Court presuming that said Jane died under coverture…and that Peter Durran her late or present husband is not yet dead…but for securing her estate to whom it does belong this Court orders that Stephen Mallett, Peter Ford, John Jones, James Shampane, Stephen Chastain, and four of them to appraise the estate and report to the next Court.” Henrico County, Virginia Court Order Book (1707-1709) p. 154. “June 1, 1709 Jane Durands estate appraised on May 20, 1709 and returned by… Peter () Foure.” Henrico County, Virginia Court Order Book (1707-1709) p. 169. “The appraisal of Jane Durand’s estate ordered May 2, 1709 and made May 20, 1709 and returned to the Court held June 1, 1709…” is signed by the four men of the five named by the court fur this duty…” Etienne Chastain, Joanez, Peter () Faure Stephen X Mallett Note: This is signed, as usual, by the imitation of the original signatures.It is still customary in the courts to ask men who are nearest neighbors to make such inventories that it may not be a burden to them to perform this task. In the analysis of all of these data, please notice the neighbors of Peter Faure, Peter Fore, Peter Ford. This same Court Order Book of Henrico County, Virginia, records many importation’s of the French Refugees who now come into court with their declaration and petitions to claim their headrights. Among these we find Peter Foard. Henrico County, Virginia Court Order Book (1707-1709) p. 154. June 1, 1709. “…Upon the petition of Peter Foard…to certify that there is due to him 150 acres of land for the importation of himself and his wife Elizabeth and John Foard his son…” This record shows that Peter Foard brought a wife and a child with him into the Colony. The King William Parish records show that a Pierre Faure was the elder brother of the Faure children of the Widow Faure. The above record is the clerk’s record and not a copy in his book of any special document. Hence he was not following a written statement. Book 10 p.296 Oct. 31, 1716. George I, to Peter Foure. “107 acres, 1 rood, & 13 poles, in Henrico County on the south side of the James River; beginning at a small corner hiccory & elm standing on the river parting Stephen Chastain and Peter Foure thence on Chastain’s line w. 35 degrees s. 400 poles to corner white oak and hiccory standing near a small meadow thence e. 37 degrees n. 420 poles to a corner white oak & Hackberry standing on the river thence up the river according to the meanders 36 poles to the place begun at. It being part of the upper tract of the last 5000 acres of land surveyed for the French Refugees.” Book 5 p. 552 Dec. 9, 1748. Daniel Ford of King William Parish, Goochland County, Virginia sells to Peter Soblett; land described as …”all that pllantation whereon the said Daniel Ford now lives situated and lying in King William Parish, Goochland County, Virginia, between the lines of the said Peter Soblett and lands of Daniel Perro…adjoining the James River, which said lands are bequeathed to the said Daniel by the will of his father…containing 107 acres, more or less.” Witnesses: John Harris, William Harris, Mary x Heughs. Book 4 p. 146 Feb. 12, 1742. Goochland County, Virginia. Stephen Renno of King William Parish, same County sells to Daniel Perro of same place… “44 acres bounded at a corner white oak & Hackberry standing on the river parting Peter Ford and the said Renno’s lands thence on Foure’s line…” Stephen Renno’s deed to Daniel Perro accounts for the change in name on the boundary line shown on Daniel Ford’s deed to this land, and Stephen Renno’s patent confirms this land as the patent of Peter Foure of 1715. Patent Book 10 p. 283 Stephen Renno’s patent dated March 23, 1715. “Lands in Kimg William Parish, on the south side of the James River adjoining Peter Foure’s land…133 acres.” The will of Peter Ford, dated April 17, 1744 and proved April 16, 1745, devised this land referred to in Daniel’s deed, in these words “I give and bequeath to my son Daniel Ford and his heirs forever the plantation whear I now live in Mankin Ton on the River.” This carries the 107 acres from Peter Foure to Peter Ford and down to Daniel Ford. This land was re residence of Peter Ford in 1744 and Daniel in 1748. (See will of Peter Ford.) Daniel Ford inherited land from his brother John Ford. This land was also in the posession of their father and devised by his will. This land is described as lying on Jones’ Creek and contains 125 acres. In 1755, it ajoined lands of John Harris, Peter Sublett and William Randolph. Peter Fore received a patent dated July 19, 1735 for 125 acres adjoining the said Peter Fore’s old bounds, James Robinson, Peter Sublett, Joseph Woodson, William Randolph, Anthony Rapine. These names are repeated in the boundaries of the deed of the Fords. If you will closely follow these deeds and compare them with the land patents and with the bequests made in the will of Peter Ford (1744) you will see that the name Fore and Ford was used for and by the same individual, in the family residing within King William Parish and by that family as they spread out. It would appear that certain ones kept the name of Fore later and that others preferred the English name of Ford. The following abstracts from the Deed Books confirm this statement. Book 1 p.66 March 17, 1728, Goochland County, Virginia. “Peter Foard of King William Parish, planter, to my brother John Foard of St. James Parish…land on a lane parting Peter Chastains’ land…” Witnesses: Joseph Bingley, Henry Blagrave, Jr., Benjamin Stedam. Judith, the wife of Peter Foard signs this deed. Book 1 p.74 1728 Court Order, Goochland County, Virginia. “Peter Ford acknowledged his deed to John Ford and Judith wife of Peter relinquishes her dower.” Book 1 p. 78 May 12, 1729 Goochland County, Virginia. John Ford of St. James Parish to Joseph Bingley… “land which was devised to the said John Foard by his brother Peter Foard…150 acres beginning at a red oak tree parting Peter Chastains lands from the said Fourds which is the upper part of the said survey made by Peter Fourd and given to the said John Fourd.” Anne the wife of John Fourd signs her dower rights in this land. Book 1 p.233 Feb. 15, 1930. Goochland County, Virginia. Joseph Bingley sells this 150 acres to James Robinson. Book 4 p.361 Deed dated May 17, 1744. Goochland County, Virginia. John Harris of Goochland County, Virginia sells to Alexander Speers of Henrico County, Virginia… “150 acres of land on the south side of the James River by name of Forks of the Road on the right hand leading up the county to Fine Creek and on the left hand to Peterville Church…it being the same parcel of land which was granted by a patent to Peter Foard and by the said Peter given to his brother John Foard by deed March 17, 1728 and by several conveyances came to Charles Taylor who by his will left it to his wife Mary who married George W…wood who sold the land to the said Harris.” Peter Foard signed his deed with the same small o that he used in signing his will. Book 1 p. 315 March 20, 1731. Goochland County, Virginia. James Ford, planter, King William Parish, Goochland County to James Robinson… “95 acres on the south side of the James River…at a corner Hickory tree parting Peter Lews Sublett and the said James Ford’s lands.” Ann the wife of James signs her dower rights. Witnesses: Tarleton Fleming, Isaac Bates,…Bondurant. The land grant to Peter Ford dated Jan. 13, 1725, for land on the west side of Jones’ Creek for 350 acres, was the land he gave to his son James Ford by his will as shown by the following deeds. Book 5 p. 175 Jan. 31, 1745. Goochland County, Virginia. “William Battersby to Stephen Renno…200 acres on the west side of Jones Creek, Goochland County, whereon the said Battersby now dwells…bounded by land of the late Col. William Randolph, dec’d … by the said Creek…and by the lands of James Fore.” Deed Book 1 p. 471 December 17, 1751. Recorded in Cumberland County, Virginia. “James Ford of King William Parish, Cumberland County, Virginia sells to Thomas Prosser of Hanover Co., Va…land lying in King William Parish, Cumberland County, Va. … being a part of a larger tract of land which was granted to Peter Ford and by his will left to his son and said James Ford, as will be seen by reference to records in Goochland County, Va…200 acres…beginning at a white oak in Thomas Turpin’s line…and on the west side of Jones Creek.” On p.474 Ann the wife of the said James Ford relinquished her dower in this land. Witnesses: Valentine Wood, Tucker Woodson, David Murry, Gideon Marr. James Ford signed with a mark. Recorded June Court 1752. This deed accounts for 200 acres of the 350 acre grant. The name Fore and Ford are found applied to the same person in the foregoing deeds in the case of James Ford which fact when compared to the tithing lists and the other records of James Ford (Fore) either spelling make him the same identical person. Peter Ford by his will, dated 1744, proved 1745, left to his son Peter Ford, “300 acres of land on Matthews Branch where he now lives.” This land was granted to Peter Ford by a patent dated Jan. 13, 1725. (Book 12 p.336) The whole tract was for 400 acres. Peter Ford had sold 100 acres of this tract on Jan. 29, 1725 to Francis James. This 100 acres as well as the 300 acres again show in the deeds the name of Fore and Ford for the same person. The following abstracts are for this 400 acres in the division of the 100 acres and the 300 acres. Book (1725-1737) pt 1. Henrico County, Virginia, records p.16. Deed dated January 29, 1725 and acknowledged in Court on May 2, 1926, by Peter Ford of Henrico County, Virginia who sells to Francis James of the same county, “for divers good causes and 6… land lying on the south side of the James River and on the east side of Jones Creek known as Matthew’s Branch…100 acres of land…” Judith, wife of the said Peter Ford signs her dower rights on May 2, 1926. Witnesses: Daniel Stoner, John Payne, Anthony Rapine. Book 1 p.136 Oct. 21, 1729. Goochland County, Virginia. “Francis James of St. James Parish, Goochland County, Va. Sells to William Lansdon and Hester his wife…500 acres…100 acres of which was purchased by the said Francis James from Peter Ford and Judith his wife by a deed acknowledged in court of Henrico County on May 2, 1726…and 400 acres which was purchased from David Croom in 1723.” Witnessed: Joseph Bingley. The following deed was made during the time (1726-1729) when Francis James held this 100 acres and the remaining 300 acres was still in possession of Peter Ford (Fore) the patentee. Book 1 p.12 June 11, 1728. Goochland County, Virginia. Matthew Agee of Goochland Co. Va. Sells to John Smith, “…100 acres of land on the south side of the James River along the east side of Matthews branch…and bounding on the lines of Edward Maxey, Francis James and Peter Fore…” In Peter Ford’s patent to this land, his land is further described as adjacent to land of Daniel Croom. The deed of Francis James shows that he bought this land from Croom in a previous deed. Book 2 p.23 Nov. 27, 1752. Cumberland County, Virginia. Peter Fore of King William Parish, Cumberland County, Virginia sells to Samuel Flourney… “land on Matthews Branch…lying between the lines of James Smith, Peter Anthony Lookadoo, Daniel Fore, Esther Lansdon, John Smith and Gideon Flourney…300 acres…it being the land on which the said Peter Fore now liveth…” Mary the wife of the said Peter Fore signs her dower rights in this land, witnesses: Bennett Goode, John Bondurant, James Harris. Peter Ford was living on this land in 1744 when his father devised it to him by his will and Peter Fore is still living on it in 1752 when he sells it to Samuel Flourney. Book 1 p.79 May 12, 1729. Goochland County, Virginia. William Lansdon and Hester his wife of St. James Parish said County sell to John Joseph Bingley, Matthew Bingley and Henry Blagrave. Book 1 p.426 August 21, 1733. Goochland County, Virginia. “William Lansdon & Hester his wife sell to John Fore and to Stephen Fore of King William Parish, Goochland County, VA… land on the south side of the James River…133 acres…lying in King William Parish…beginning at a Walnut standing on the river parting Stephen Reno and Capoon’s lands thence on Reno’s line…which said land is a part of the last 5000 acres surveyed for the French Refugees and taken up by a patent to John Jones dated March 23, 1715.” Witnesses: Stephen Chastain, Marmaduk Hix, Thomas Turpin. Hester Lansdon was the daughter of John Jones and her sister Elizabeth Jones, was the wife of Anthony Bennan. John Jones was a neighbor of Peter Faure, Peter Ford. Book 5 p.261 May 19, 1747. Goochland County, Virginia. Stephen Ford of Parish of Dale, Henrico County, Virginia to William Harris of King William Parish, Goochland County, Va. “…a plantation in King William Parish on the south side of the James River and on the upper side of Wm. Harris’ land…land which was left to the said Ford…by will of his grandfather Renno and which now falls to said Stephen as Heir-at-law…133 acres…part of a tract of 178 acres.” Ann the wife of said Stephen signs her dower. In the following deed may we call your attention to the grant of Peter Foure on 107 acres adjoining Stephen Chastain’s land which said 107 acres was devised by Peter Ford in his will to his son Daniel Ford and on which land Peter Ford was living in 1745 and Daniel was residing in 1752. (Peter Foure patent Oct. 31, 1716). Benjamin Harris of Goochland County, Virginia, made a deed to Peter Sublett dated July 24, 1745 for 95 acres on the south side of the James River adjoining the river and along the lines of Peter Louis Sublett and the lines of Peter Ford…as by a patent to Stephen Chastain and being transferred several times until it came to Bennett Goode she conveyed it to the said Benjamin Harris. Book 2 p.197 March 6, 1755. Cumberland County, Virginia. Daniel Ford of Cumberland Co. Va. Makes over to John Pleasants Sr., and to John Pleasants Jr., the following land to secure a debt owing by him to the said Pleasants… “land which was left to the said Daniel Ford by the will of his brother John Ford, deceased, 125 acres on Jones Creek bounded by the lands of John Harris, Peter Sublett and William Randolph.” Witnesses: Robert Rutledge, John Epperson, James Pleasants. No wife signs a dower. (See the will of Peter Ford, to his sone John, in 1745 and of John Ford, dated 1753, and the grant of Peter Fore for 125 acres, July 19, 1735.) (Patent Book 16 p.42). The examination of the land books, court order books and the wills recorded in the several counties quoted whose courts held jurisdiction over King William Parish, now in Powhatan County, Virginia confirms this unusual change in the name Fuare, or Foure, to Fore and to Foard, Ford, in the particular instance of the family residing in King William Parish, Virginia. We can see where as time went on certain descendants of Peter Foure (Ford) retained the name of Fore while others changed their name to Ford (Foard). The family that removed to Buckingham County have kept this tradition of the origin of their name as being the French name, Foure, handing it down in their family to the present day. The records of King William Parish both in the parish books and on the court records testify to the fact upon which they have based this tradition. The data given under the Faure-Fore-Ford family deals mainly with this family residing within the limits of King William Parish on the land “donated to the French settlers to encourage them to remain close to Manakin Town.” Data on Daniel Fore of Chesterfield County, not shown. Pierre Faure was allowed to draw supplies for his brothers and sisters and a Pierre Ferre and his wife and child came over on the Nassu in 1700/1. (Huguenot #7 p.192). Peter Ford and his wife Elizabeth and their son John declare their importation in 1709 along with many other of the French men of Mamakin Twon. The records show that the land patents of both Peter Fore and Peter Ford come down to the family of Peter Ford who died testate in 1745. The records of Henrico, Goochland and Cumberland Counties show that the descendents of Peter Fore (Peter Ford) were by both names in later generations. The study of the land grants made to Peter Fore, and to Peter Ford together with the deeds under both spellings of the last name and the will of Peter Ford (dated April 16, 1745) give us his sons and daughters and show that their descendents carried down the two spellings of this name. The following abstracts from the records of certain Virginia Court houses help to identify these descendents and the descendents of his brother John Fore to whom he made a deed for 150 acres of land in 1729. (Huguenot #7 Faure-Fore-Ford). Peter Ford who died testate in 1745 left the following children: John Ford, who died testate in 1753, no wife or children named in his will, all property left to his brothers and sisters. Daniel Ford who inherited the home place of his father, 107 acres, which he sold in 1748 to Peter Sublett; and later inherited from his brother John Ford the 125 acres on Jones Creek, which he mortgaged to John Pleasants in 1755. Peter Ford who inherited the 300 acres from the grant of 400 acres, which he sold to Samuel Flourney in 1752. Peter’s wife was named Mary in 1752. James Ford who inherited 200 acres from his father, he and his wife Anne sold this land on Jones Creek in 1751 to Thomas Prosser. Judith Ford who married John Leake after 1745 and Mary Ford who married William Fuqua after 1745. The children of John Ford, the elder, brother of Peter Ford, the elder, also carried the name as Fore and Ford. Albemarle County, Virginia Records: Book 1 p.371 Oct. 17, 1751. James Ford of King William Parish, Cumberland County, Va. to Mary Agee and her husband James Agee of St. Ann’s Parish, Albemarle County, Va. “for the love and affection he hath for his said daugher and son-in-law…200 acres in St. Ann’s Parish on Huberd’s Creek…” Witnesses: Daniel Ford, and John Beasley. Signed James ( ) Fore. (Note the signature on this deed which is written in the name of James Ford. He signs it James Fore.) Book 3 p. 14 dated 1761 Matthew Agee to his son James Agee land on Hubbard’s Creek adj. James Ford, Witnesses: Shelton Raile, Chas. Garrett and James ( ) Ford. Book 3 p.15 James Ford of Tilletson Parish, Albermarle County, Virginia. “… for divers good causes and valuable consideration to Anne Chastain…100 acres in Albemarle County, VA…on Slate River…Feb. 28, 1761. Witnessed: Chas. May. The foregoing deed is indexed as a deed of gift, signed by James ( ) Ford. James Ford had sold his home place in King William Parish, Cumberland (now Powhatan) County in 1751 to Thomas Prosser and by his deed to his daughter Mary Agee was “of King William Parish, Cumberland County, in 1751.” He removed before 1761 to Albemarle County, Virginia. Tilletson Parish of Albemarle County became Buckingham County when that County was formed in 1761. So we see that James Fore removed to AlbemarleCounty, Virginia from King William Parish, Cumberland County, Virginia when he sold his home place which he had inherited from his father Peter Fore (Ford). Book 2 p.8 March 8, 1768. John Bondurant Sr., of King William Parish, Cumberland County, Virginia makes a deed of gift to his son John for land on Slate River granted to said John Sr., in 1746...200 acres. Witnesses: James Ford and Ann Ford. Book 2 p.175 April 11, 1759. Peter Bondurant of Cumberland County, Virginia to Anthony Agee of Albemarle County, 200 acres on Greens Creek. Witnesses: Stephen Ford, Chas. May and Martin Benien. (Huguenot #8 K.C. Gottschalk; Valentine Papers volume 1,2,3,4; Virginia County Records by Crozier; Virginia Genealogies & Records by Burns; Huguenot Emigration to Virginia by Brock). WIDOW FAURE On the Mary Ann, which arrived at James City, Virginia July 31, 1700 after a passage of about 13 weeks was Widow Faure and four infants, two sons and two daughters. (Any child under 21 years was considered an infant.) This Widow Faure whose husband died before they left London or during the long voyage over is supposed to be the mother of Pierre Faure. The two sons were Daniel and Jean. The daughters names are not known. (Va. County Records by Crozier). Pierre Faure was the son of “Widow Faure.” It is to be presumed that the husband died either before the start from England or during the voyage. (see page 11) Pierre Faure was the son of Daniel Isaac Faure and Mary Chastain (Widow Faure). (From Huguenot #7; letter of Miss Josephine Dupuy who has record of Ford family Bible, member of Huguenot Society Founders of Manakin Town.) DANIEL FAURE, BROTHER OF PIERRE FAURE, SR. “From the land grants at Richmond we find that a grant of 296 acres was given Daniel Faure the 3d day of March, 1715, the said land lying chiefly in Henrico County.” (Book 10 p.285). In the Vestry Book of King William Parish, Manakin Town, under date of a Vestry assembled 25 August 1718 the ‘Sieur Daniel Faure is elected a vestryman.’ As Pierre Faure was not granted land until 1716, and then only 107 acres, it is almost impossible that his son Daniel should have had a large grant of 296 acres given him a year ahead of his father, and he was too young to have been a Vestryman in 1718. The name of Daniel Faure is found on the list of Tithables in King William Parish from the year 1717-1736. During the later years it is more than likely that Daniel, the son of Peter, is meant. While no will of Daniel Faure can be found, it is extremely probable that he was a brother of Pierre, Snr., and Daniel, the son of Pierre, was named after his uncle. JEAN FAURE, BROTHER OF PIERRE FAURE, SR. We have ample evidence to show that Jean (John) Faure was also a brother of Pierre Faure, Snr. In the Vestry Book of King William Parish, Jean and Pierre Faure are on the list of Tithables for the year 1713, and in1717 Daniel Faure is included. There is no grant of land recorded in the Land Office to John Faure until the year 1742 when in conjunction with Thomas Vann he was granted 178 acres in Henrico County. (Book 20 p.339) In the County Records for Goochland, we drive the information that Pierre and Jean were brothers: “Conveyance from Peter Ford, Snr., King William Parish, Goochland County, planter, 7 March 1728 to my dear and well beloved brother John Ford of the Parish of St. James, County afsd., 150 acres of land in sd Parish of St. James.” From the Parish Register of Manakin Town we find the following entries: 1 March 1721/2 Jean Faure godfather to Elizabeth Morriset. (p.17) 12 Dec. 1728, was born a boy to Jean Faure. (p.22). There is no further entries in the Parish Registers under the name of John Faure. It is evident that after selling the land, the gift of his brother, that John moved to Henrico County, where he died about the year 1748. WILL OF JOHN FORE In the name of God, Amen. I, John Fore, of King William Parish, County of Henrico, being very sick, do make this my last will and testament, etc: I give to my loving wife Mary the use of the Plantation I now live on during her widowhood, and the use of all my slaves and personal estate until my children come of lawful age. Item: I give to my daughter Elizabeth forty pounds, to be raised out of my estate, and a bed and a cow and a calf. Item: I give to my daughter Mary a negro girl named Sarah, and a bed and a cow and calf. Item: I give to my son John all my lands that I am Possessed of and the land I greeed with Captain John Nash for, I give to him and his heirs. I appoint my wife Mary my who extx. And Robert Goode, my truly friend, to be guardian to my children. In witness this 16 day of November, 1747. JOHN (X) FORE His Mark Witnesses: William Scott John Morriset Walter Scott Probated by Mary Fore, the widow, the 1st Monday in July 1748. It will be seen that from the existing records, John Faure, the brother of Peter, married a Mary ________, by whom he had issue: 1. John, probably born 12 December 1728 2. Elizabeth 3. Mary There is nothing further concerning the children of John Faure in the records of Henrico County, and it is likely that they removed with other members of the family to Buckingham County, Virginia. (Virginia County Records by Crozier, volume 7). PIERRE FAURE, SR. Peter Faure, son of Daniel Isaac Faure and Mary Chastain, grandson of Isaac and Mary Ann Thiboult. Peter was born about 1675 in France, married Elizabeth Agar (Agee) born about 1677 in France. One of the founders of Manakin Town. Children of Peter Ford and Elizabeth Agee: Peter Ford, James Ford, Judith Ford, Mary Ford. (This record sent to this compiler by Miss Josephine Dupuy, member of Huguenot Society Founders of Manakin Town; from Ford Family Bible; Ayers Family Bible; Huguenot records.) PIERRE FAURE, SR. Pierre Faure, Sr., his wife Elizabeth, and a son, Jean sailed on yet first ship, la Nasseau and landed at James Town March 5, 1701. Pierre Faure and family settled in the Manakin Town. His coat of arms show that he was from the Faure family of Auvergne, France. In the Vestry Book of King William Parish 1710-1738, translated from the French, we find Pierre paying tithes only on himself until 1713 when he paid on his oldest son, John, who was born in 1697. In 1717 he pays tithe on Daniel, born 1701. In 1723 he pays tithe on Peter, born 1706. In 1724 he pays tithe on James, born 1708. Pierre Faure and wife Elizabeth had two daughters: Mary, who married William Fuqua. Judith, who married John Leake. The Virginia Law, … The Assembly expressly exempted all women from payment of tithes, except slaves or servants over 16 years of age who were capable of doing work in the field. All men of whatever rank or station over 16 years of age were regarded as tithable, only the Clergy and members of the Council being exempt. The tithe was 10 shillings and one half pence. Pierre Faure, Sr., was a member of the Vestry of the French Refugee Church from 1731 to 1744, when he asked his discharge which was granted. Sept. 30, 1732 The Vestry assembled, present were Estine Chastin, Gile Allaigr, Pierre Faure, Pierre Loouys Soblet, Guileaume Salle, and Jean Jaque Dupin. The Surr’s Pierre Faure and Andre Amonet took the oath of Church Wardens in the presence of the Vestry named above. (Virginia Magazine of History & Biography volume 11,12,13). The sight of this first church is in Manakin Town, Powhatan County, Virginia south of the James River. The fourth church now stands near the sight of this first church. Peter Fuare was naturalized May 12, 1705 (Legislative Journals Volume 1 p.421-8). A List of King William Parish June 1744: Peter Ford, David Ford, Jogg, John Ford, Peter Ford, Jr., and Giles Ford. (Huguenot Emigration to Virginia by Brock). WILL OF PETER FORD OF GOOCHLAND COUNTY, VIRGINIA 1745 In the name of God Amen, I Peter Ford of the Parish of King William in the County of Gochland being sick and weak but of perfect mind and memory and calling to mind and duly considering the uncertainty of human life do make my last Will and Testament. First and Principally I commit my Soul into the hands of my Blessed Maker, trusing in his mercies and in the Merits of my Redemmer for the Remission of all my Sins my body I commit to the Earth to be decently intered at the Discrtion of my Executors herein after mentioned as to Temporal Estate I bequeath and Dispose of it in the following manner. First Item: I give and bequeath to my Son James Ford the Plantation where he now lives to him and his heirs and assigns forever. Item: I give and bequeath to my Son Peter Ford to him and his heirs forever three hundred acres of Land on Matthews Branch where he now lives. Item: I give and bequeath to my Son John Ford to him and his heirs forever one hundred and twenty-five acres of land where he now lives on Jones’ Creek. Like wise one negro Wench, Jugg to him and his heirs forever. Item: I give and bequeath unto my Son Daniel Ford to him and his heirs forever the Plantation where I now live being in the Manakin Ton (town) on the River. I give to my son Daniel one Negro Boy, Tom to him and his heirs forever. I give to my son Daniel one fether bed and furniture, two cows and calfe one sow and Piggs. Item: I give and bequeath to my two daughters Judith and Mary Ford to them and their heirs forever all the Remainder of my movable estate to be equally Divided between them both. If either of my Daughters should Die under the age of Twenty-one years or not marry, the Survivor shall heir her part of the Estate. I do Apoint my Son John Ford and Daniel Ford to be Executors of this my last Will and Testament. Dated twenty nine day of April seventeen hundred and Forth-four. Peter o Ford His mark Signed in the presence of us Samuel Weave (Weaver) Demetrius Young John Harris At the Court of Goochland County, April 16, 1745 This writing was proved by the Oaths of Witnesses hereto to be the last Will and Testament of Peter Ford Deceased and it was thereupon admitted to Record. A copy from the records Teste: P.G. Miller Clerk of the Circuit Court Goochland Co. WILL OF JOHN FORD, SON OF PETER FORD, SR. In the name of God amen. I John Ford of Cumberland County, and Parish of King William, being of perfect mind, memory pleased to God do make this my last Will and Testament in manner and form following: First, I commit my sould to the hands of Almighty God, hoping through the merits of Jesus Christ to receive pardon of all my sins and my body to be decently interred at the discression of my executors here after named, Vis: I first of all give divise and bequeath to my beloved brother Daniel Ford my negro man named Tom and all the land I now hold, one piece giving the mill line on Jones’ Creek one hundred and twenty-five acres and my horse and mare, the horse is light gray and the mare is bright bay, to him and his heirs forever. Item: I give to my sister Mary Fuqua my negro woman named Jug to her and to her heirs forever and I leave my negro Ned to William Fuqua for twenty pounds I owe him. Item: I give to my sister Judith Leake my negro girl Jane to her and her heirs forever. Item: I give to Peter Bondurant my household goods and wearing clothes and bed and two cows and calves or big with calf, to him and to his heirs forever, and my other Cattle and Hogs to be sold to pay my debts. Item: I appoint John Leake and William Fuqua Executors of this my last will and Testament and do orther and direct if my brother revoke all wills heretofore by me made. In witness where of I have herunto set my hand and seal this 3rd day of September 1753. Signed Sealed and delivered in the presence of JOHN A FORD His mark Isaac Sallee James Smith Allen Criddle Probated in Cumberland County, Virginia the 24th day of September 1753. In the will of John Ford, born 1697, we find that he left no heirs, and at this time (1753) his brother Daniel, born 1701, had no heirs; neither had their been found Court Records naming a wife of Daniel Ford. The will also shows that his sister Mary Faure married William Fuqua and that his sister Judith Faure married John Leake. KING WILLIAM PARISH RECORDS 31 May 1729 was born Joseph Faure, son of Pierre Faure and Judith Faure his wife, and baptized by Mr. Mason July 16th. Godfather Joseph Bingli, Godmother Judith Bingli. 2 September 1730 was born Marie Faure, daughter of Jaque Faure and Anne his wife. 6 September 1732 was born Judith Faure, daughter of Jaque Faure and Anne his wife. 11 January 1733 (34) was born Pierre Faure, son of Jaque Faure and Anne his wife. 20 August 1736 was born Magdalene Faure, daughter of Jaque Faure and Anne his wife. 24 February 1738 was born Anne Faure, daughter of Jaque Faure and Anne his wife. 27 August 1739 was born Rachel Faure, daughter of Jaque Faure and Anne his wife. 4 March 1742/3 was born Jaque Faure, son of Jaque Faure and Anne his wife. 14 February 1745 was born Ruth Faure, daughter of Jaque Faure and Anne his wife. 3 September 1743 was born Judith Faure, daughter of Pierre Faure and Marie his wife. 31 May 1744 was born Joseph Faure, son of Pierre Faure and Marie his wife. 25 September 1745 was born Pierre Faure, son of Pierre Faure and Marie his wife. 22 June 1747 was born Archelaus Faure, son of Pierre Faure. 2 May 1749 was born William Faure, son of Pierre Faure June 1749 was born Boos Ford, son of Jaque Ford. 13 May 1749 a slave born of ownership Jean Ford. (Huguenot Emigration to Virginia by Brock; Huguenot #7 p.196) Note: Pierre, Joseph, Archelaus and William were sons of Pierre Faure, Jr., and Marie. All went to Kentucky except Archelaus. Joseph and William had families born in Prince Edward County, Virginia. Three other sons not on the Register of King William Parish were: Hezekiah Jesse Silas In the old tax record of Buckingham County, Virginia how in the Virginia State Library, Richmond, Virginia, in District #2, is found the names of Joseph Ford, William Ford. These are carried on the tax book as of Prince Edward County, Va., thereafter spelled Fore. In 1814 is found the name of Stephen Fore, in District #2, and Peter Fore lives at Stephen Fore’s Residence. These were the sons of Pierre Faure the second, and this proves that the sons of Pierre Faure, the emigrant, come down through his two sons, Peter, born in Henrico County, Virginia in 1706 and James (Jaque) born in Henrico County, Virginia 1708. JAQUE FAURE, SR. (JAMES) Jaque Faure, Sr. born 1708 died 1810, (102 years at death) son of Pierre Faure and his wife Elizabeth, Emigrant who arrived in Virginia on la Nasseau in the York River, March 5, 1701, settled in King William Parish, Manakin Town. Jaque Faure, Sr., married about 1728 Anne Bondurant born about 1710, died after ________. She was the daugher of Jean Pierre Bondurant and wife Anne, also French Huguenots. Jean Pierre Bondurant arrived in Virginia on the “Peter and Anthony”, ye 20th of Sept’r 1700.” Jean Pierre Bondurant married Anne after he arrived in America as the ships list does not show that he had a wife at that time. He was a prominent planter and large land owner of Henrico County. He was a member of the Vestry of King William Parish in 1731-32 and elected again November 23, 1734. WILL OF JOHN PETER BONDURANT (Goochland County, Virginia Wills.) In the name of God amen, I, John Peter Bondurant being sick and weak but of good sound disposing mind and memory. All praise be given to God for it, and now minding to settle my wordly estate which it has pleased God to bestow upon me before I depart this life, I do make and appoint this my last will and testament in manner and form following: First I give my soul to God that gave it and my body to the earth from which it was taken to be decently buried according to the discretion of my executors hereafter mentioned. Item, I give and bequeath unto my son John Bondurant one hundred and forty-five acres of land which he now dwelleth on and one horse and one hog and blanket and rug and sheet and hide and bed cord and one frou pot and dish and basin and three plates and one cow and calf that is now possessed of him to his heirs forever. Item, I give and bequeath unto my son Peter Bondurant one hundred and fifty acres of land on Age Creek and up along through Creek Goos, and a horse named Smoker and one cow and calf and two sows and four shotes and one pewter dish and one basin and one porringer and six pewter spoons and one frou pot and one rug and blanket and one sheet and brown lining to make him a bed, to him and his heirs lawfully begotten forever, but if one or all of my two sons died without issue then the survivor and his heirs lawfully begotten forever. Item, I give and bequeath unto my son Joseph Bondurant one hundred and fifty acres of land with the purtenances belonging thereto where he now dwelleth and one cow and calf in the possession of James Ford and two sows and four shotes and one ram sheep and one mair with the hors colts that she has and the mair fols to return to me and two dishes, one large and one small, one basin and four shoes, to him and his heirs forever. Item, I give and bequeath to my daughter Ann Ford one heffer eighteen months old and one sow and pigs to her and her heirs forever. Item, I give and bequeath to my daughter Frances Salle one heffer at the age of eighteen months and one sow and pigs, to her and her heirs forever. Item, I give unto my son Peter Bondurant all my wearing clothes and it is my desire that my wife shall keep them and let him have them as she thinks fit and my carpenter tools and shoemakers tools and croscut saw and wagons I lend for the use of my wife and two sons and their heirs be no hindrance or molestation of any person or persons whatsoever. Item, I give to my loving wife Ann Bondurant after my just debts and funeral charges and legacies are paid, all the remainder of my estate real and personal in this place or also wherever to her and her heirs forever, and I do allow my loving wife Ann Bondurant whole and sole Executor of this my last will and testament, revoking all other wills by me made heretofore. As witness my hand and fixt my seal this 25th day of September, 1734. J.P. Bondurant (Seal) Test:John Cook James X (his mark) Ford John Bondurant It is my desire that my son Peter Bondurant heirs his share of land on the S. & E. and of Age Branch and my son John Bondurant and my son Joseph Bondurant to have their share on the S. & W. of by branch to be equally divided between them according as the lines go and to have the liberty of cutting any pine trees upon my son Peter Bondurant’s land for their house. At a Court held for Goochland County January 25, 1735, this will was proved by the oaths of John Cook and James Ford two of the witnesses herto and was admitted to record. H. Wood County Court Clerk… CHILDREN OF JAQUE FAURE, SR., AND WIFE ANNE BONDURANT 1. Marie (Mary) born September 2, 1730 married James Agee. 2. Judith born September 6, 1732, married Edward Maxey. 3. Pierre born January 11, 1734 4. Magdalene born August 20, 1736. 5. Anne born February 24, 1738 married __________Chastain. 6. Rachel born August 27, 1739. 7. Jaque born February 14, 1745. 8. Boaz born June 2, 1749. (King William Parish Resigter) When the name is recorded by a member of the Huguenot Colony it is always spelled in the French Faure. When Goochland County was formed from Henrico County in 1727 the Faures’ found themselves in this new County. By this time the name began to be anglicized and recorded as Ford. When this part of Goochland County was cut off to form Cumberland County, Virginia in 1748, the Fords’ were then in Cumberland County. James Ford, Sr. had sold his home place in King William Parish, Cumberland (now Powhatan) County in 1751 to Thomas Prosser and by his deed to his daughter Mary Agee was “of King William Parish, Cumberland County in 1751. Between December 17, 1751 and February 28, 1761 James Faure, Ford moves up the James River to his grant of 1600 acres in Albemmarle County, Virginia, Tilletson Parish. Then Tilletson Parish, Albemarle County, Virginia was cut off to form Buckingham County, Virginia in 1761, James Ford and his family were living in this new county without having changed their residence; where they lived until some of them began to move westward. James Ford and his family settled on his grant of 1600 acres while his children acquired other land besides this. The Buckingham County Court Hose was burned soon after the Civil War about 1869 and all records in it at that time were destroyed. A Surveyor “plat Book” has been found since of which there is a photostat copy in the present Court House. In this is found the record of some surveys made for different members of the Ford family; one of the surveys of 72 acres of land the grant for which had been made for James Ford, Jr. His son James Ford at this time (1814) designated as James Jr. fell heir to it either by a deed or gift or sale. Old tax books of Buckingham County, Virginia are now in the Virginia State Library, Richmond, Virginia. These run for over a period of several years “The Land Roll” Book beginning with 1782. Another Book designated as “Personal Tax Book”; there are three lists, 1782 to 1789; 1790 to 1797; 1798 to 1805. These books are divided into two districts; District #1 and District #2. In District #1 we find the family of James Ford, Sr., along with his three sons, Peter, Boaz, and James, Jr. On the first tax list 1782 “Land Roll” of Buckingham County, Virginia now in the Virginia State Library we find: James Ford, Sr. (now 74 years old) paying taxes on 100 acres of land’ Peter Ford on 505 acres; Boaz Ford on 400 acres; James Ford, Jr. on 400 acres. These amounts vary from time to time except James Ford, Jr. who pays on 400 acres until the time of his death in 1787. After 1793 James Ford, Sr., appears on the tax list as exempt. This was perhaps on account of his extreme old age and afflication. FRENCH AND INDIAN WARD 1754 In the Journals of the House of Burgesses of Virginia 1770-1772 p.31, we find the following: Tuesday the 29th of May to Goerge III 1770, A petition of James Ford was presented to the house and read; “setting forth, that the petitioner being in the service of the Colony, at the Battle of the Meadows in the year 1754, received a wound in his right eye, by a musket ball which deprived him of the sight thereof and that he is growing old, and become weak and therefore praying the House to take his condition into consideration and grant relief. Ordered, that the said petition be referred to the consideration of the Committee of Public Claims; and that they do examine the matter thereof, and report the same, with their opinion thereupon to the House.” Page 49, Wed. the 6th of June to George III 1770. Resolved, that it is of the opinion of this Committee, that the Petition of James Ford, late soldier in the service of the Colony, under the command of Col. Washington, is reasonable; and that he ought to be allowed the sum of five pounds for his present relief; and the future sum of five pounds per annum during his life in consideration of the wound he received at the Battle of the Meadows and his being thereby rendered incapable of getting as necessary substance. REVOLUTIONARY PUBLIC SERVICE CLAIMS This is to certify that the following is a true copy of a Certificate issued to James Ford, Sen’r. for supplies furnished for the use of the Army during the Revolutionary War, which said Certificate is now deposited in the manuscript division of the Virginia State Library, Richmond, Virginia, and designated “Buckingham County Public Service Claims.” Buckingham County 22 lb Bacon @ 9d is 0.16.6 “Received of James Ford, Sen’r. Twenty Pounds Bacon at Nine Pence per lb. Specie in Sixteen Shillings & Six Pence. Given under my hand this 21st May 1781.” 0.16.6 Thomas Anderson, D.C.P. This is to certify that the following is a true copy of a Certificate issued to James Ford for supplies furnished for the use of the Army during the Revolutionary War, which said certificate is now deposited in the manuscript division of the Virginia State Library, Richmond, Virginia, and designated; “Buckingham County Public Service Claims.” “At a Court held for Buckingham County the 9th day of December. 1782. “Pursuant to an Act of Assembly intitled ‘An Act of adjusting Claims for property impressed or taken for Public Service’ The Court proceeded to receive and adjust the Claims of different Claimants produced to them in Specie as hereafter mentioned.” Page 30. To James Ford… To 360 lbs Grass Beef @ 2d Dr. 3.0.0.” (This claim is for James Ford, Jr. sometimes he is called Jr., other times just James Ford.) This is to certify that the following is a true copy of an entry in a booklet deposited in the manuscript division of the Virginia State Library, Richmond, Virginia, designed “Buckingham County Public Service Claims.” Being an account of the disbursements ordered by the County Court of Buckingham County in settlement for supplies furnished for the use of the Army during the Revolutionary War. “At a Court held for Buckingham County the 9th day of Dec. 1782. (Pursuant to an Act of Assembly entitled ‘An Act for Adjusting Claims for Property impressed or taken for Public Service’ The Court preceeded to receive and adjust the claims of the different claimants produced to them in Specie as hereafter mentioned.)” “To Peter Ford… To 410 lbs Grass Beef @ 2d Dr. 3.8.4.” Richmond, Virginia, A true copy. F.W. Sydnor, Record Searcher. James Ford, Sr., married Anne Bondurant and they were the parents of James, Jr. and Peter Ford. The foregoing claims are accepted as Revolutionary Service by the Daughters of the American Revolution. PETER FORD SON OF JAMES FORD AND ANNE BONDURANT Peter Ford born January 11, 1733 married four times and had children by three wives as follows: First, Peter Ford married Judith Maxey, daughter of John Maxey. Issue: 1. Rebecca Ford 2. Ruth Ford 3. Anne Judith 4. Daniel Ford 5. Joel Ford 6. Jacob Ford 7. John Ford 8. Obediah (Obey) Ford By Peter Ford’s second marriage he had no off-spring. Name of wife unknown. Peter Ford’s third wife was Widow Brooks, issue: 9. Laban Ford 10. Sally Ford 11. Polly Ford Fourth he married the Widow Sloan and only one child was born to this union: 12. Peter, Jr. born in Kentucky. MARY ELIZABETH FORD DAUGHTER OF JAMES FORD AND ANNE BONDURANT Mary Ford born September 2, 1730, married James Agee, son of Mathew Agee. Both died 1821, married 76 years. BOAZ FORD, SR. SON OF JAMES FORD AND ANNE BONDURANT Boaz Ford born June 2, 1749 married and reared two sons, Ambrose and Boaz Ford, Jr. The number of daughters are not known except Maria. Boaz Ford’s residence was where the Buckingham Baptist Church stands on Jashways Creek 10 miles east of the Court House. Boaz Ford, Sr., died in 1810. His son Ambrose died about 1814 when he was living in Nathan Ayrs Home on Hatcher Creek 10 miles east of the Buckingham County Court House. Boaz Ford was born February 14, 1748/49 in Manakin Town, Virginia. He married Hannah. Children of Boaz Faure and Hannah are: 1. Ambrose Faure, born 1778 in Buckingham, Virginia. 2. Boaz Faure, born abt. 1783 in Buckingham, Virginia. 3. Marie Faure, born abt. 1787 in Buckingham, Virginia; died bef. 1846. 4. Samuel Faure, born October 30, 1790 in Buckingham, Virginia; died April 2, 1846. 5. Magdlen Faure, born abt. 1793 in Buckingham, Virginia; died abt. 1864. Boaz Ford, Jr. son of Boaz Ford, continued to live on his plantation. Boaz Ford, Jr. was a man of great wealth and influence in Buckingham County, Virginia. (Tax List; Huguenot #7) JAMES FORD, JR., SON OF JAMES FORD AND ANNE BONDURANT James Ford, Jr. born March 14, 1743 in King William Parish Goochland County, Virginia. Died 1787 in Buckingham County, Virginia, sone of Jaque Faure and Anne Bondurant, daughter of Jean Pierre Bondurant and wife Anne. James Ford married about 1766 Sally Agee (tradition tells us the name was Agee). In 1782 we find James Ford, Jr. paying only one tithe (himself), while on May 26, 1787 the year of James, Jr’s death we find his wife Sally paying tithes on two, Joseph born in 1768 and James born in 1770. Sally pays in 1789 on Isaac born in 1773 and in 1976 on Elisha born in 1777. (Buckingham County, Tax List.)On the “Land Roll” of Buckingham County, Virginia for 1782, James Ford, Jr. pays taxes on 400 acres of land. This he continues to do until his death in 1787, after that his name is carried on the tax list with 72 acres designated as a new grant, this was re-surveyed for his son James on 4/14/1814, who fell heir to it either by gift or purchase. After the death of James Ford, Jr. in 1787, Sally Ford pays taxes on 100 acres of land until 1897 when she drops out of the tax list. CHILDREN OF JAMES FORD, JR. AND WIFE SALLY AGEE 1. Joseph, born 1768 married Mary Maxey 1788. 2. James, born 1770. 3. Isaac, born 1773. 4. Elisha, born 1777 married Elizabeth Duncan 1796. AGEE (Des Ages) MATHEW AGEE Mathieu Agee, or Age, is the progenitor of all the Agee family in America. He was born in France in 1660, and died in Virginia 1741. He was of the Des Ages of the old Bishopric of Saint Malo, in or near Nantes, France, who were of noble birth. On account of their espousal of the cause of the Huguenots, their claim to nobility was abrogated and their lands confiscated in 1688, as were the titles and lands of many Huguenots and other non-conformists. Mathieu Agee’s fathers name was Anthony Des Ages, born 1639. There is a well founded, and we believe true, tradition, which has been handed down from generation to generation, which states that Mathieu Agee left France in 1688, going to Holland where he, with some two thousand Huguenots, attached himself to William of Orange and was a part of the expedition to England, where William dethroned the then Catholic K | Faure, Jean Pierre "Peter" (I15256)
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| 2074 | FAUREFAURE FOARD-FORD PART I AUGUST 1965 F A U R E – F O R D This record would not be possible without the report by Katherine Cox Gottschalk, Genealogist, Washington, D.C. found in Huguenot #8 p. 178. The compiler is indebted to the many records in the Los Angeles City Library, Los Angeles, California; the Genealogical Library, West Los Angeles, California; the Lawson-McGee Library, Knoxville, Tennessee; Virginia State Library, Richmond, Virginia; National Archives, Washington, D.C.; The County Court records of: Goochland, Cumberland, Powhattan, and Chesterfield Counties, Virginia; Roy Gentry, Recorder of Deeds, Houston, Missouri; Grand Lodge of Missouri, Ancient Free and Acceptable Masons, Grand Secretary, Elmer W. Wagner, St. Louis, Missouri; The Huguenot Society Founders of Manakin Town publications; Adjutant General’s Office, Jefferson City, Missouri; Family records of the descendents of Charles Ford. The descendents of Charles Ford have carried down the tradition that their name was originally French and the spelling had been changed several times. The research and information in this record bears this information out and is thoroughly proved. FAURE FORE FORD ORIGIN OF THE NAME The immigrant ancestor of this family was a native of Auvergne, France; who came with a party of French Huguenots who were refugees of religious persecution who fled to Virginia and were one of the founders of Manakin Town. The original spelling of the name was FAURE, later Anglicized to FORE and still later to FORD. THE HUGUENOT FAMILY OF FAURE, FORE, FOARD, FORD Of the army of William of Orange, numbering eleven thousand, which sailed from Holland, and by whose aid he obtained the Crown of England, three regiments, each containing seven hundred and fifty effective men, were Huguenots. To these were added a squadron of horse. In gratitude to these zealous and effective supporters, and in sympathy with the great multitude of their suffering brethren driven violently from their homes and native country simply for their religion the King invited them to make their home in his new dominions in America. A large number sought a home in Virginia and settled along the Potomac, Rappahannock and James Rivers. In the year 1700, more than five hundred emigrants, at the head of whom was the Marquis de la Muce, were landed in Virginia by four successive debarkations. (Beverly’s History of Virginia p. 244.) They appear to have settled at different points; a portion about James Town, some in Northfolk County, others in Surry, and two hundred or more at a spot some twenty miles above Richmond, on the south side of James River (now in Powhatan County), where then thousand acres of land, which had been occupied by the extinct Manakin tribe of Indians were given to them. They were also exempt from the payment of taxes for seven years, and were allowed to support their minister in their own way. The records relating to the emigration to Virginia in 1700 of the Huguenot refugees, are taken from the originals now deposited at the Bodleian Library, Oxford University, England. These originals consist of a vellum bound volume of MSS. endorsed: “ORIGINAL PAPERS RELATING TO THE FRENCH PLANTATION IN THE WEST INDIES.” They are undoubtedly the original documents emanating from the Provincial Government of Virginia under Francis Nicholson, as they bear the official signature of Dioniisius Wright, who was Secretary to the Council. We now find the name of Faure under the following heading: “A List of The Refugees Who are to Receive of Ye Miller of Falling Creek Mill One Bushel A Head of Indian Meale Monthly as Settled At Or About King Williams Town, to Begin in Feb, 1700-1. ”“Efaure, his brother, and two sisters……….4” “Rolle Des Francois, Suisses, Genevois, Alemans, Et Flamans Embarquest Dans Le Navire Nomme Le Nasseau pour Aller a la Virginia. Pierre Fferre, sa femme et un enfant.” (Virginia County Records Volume 7, p. 161 by Crozier.) From the above we find Pierre Faure had a wife and child as well as two brothers and two sisters. The names of the two sisters cannot be ascertained. The brothers were Daniel and Jean (John). One might expect the name FAURE found on the lists of Manakin Town settlers to change to the English word FORE, but not to FORD. However, stranger and more surprising changes than this have happened to many surnames. This tradition cannot be totally ignored nor discredited, nor can it be wholly without investigation of authentic evidence from other sources such as church or parish books, land grants and deeds and other court records. These should be read carefully and taken together with a reasonable Consideration of the local influences. The Frenchman, or any other continental European, coming into the English colonies, where all the clerks and office holders were Englishmen, we met with the tendency of the English to Anglicize all proper names. The many ways in which names were changed often produced meaningless names of unrecognizable origin. The individuals themselves, reacted variously to the process of this change in their name. Some clung tenaciously to the original forms, others spelled the name one way but pronounced it another, while others did not resent or resist changes either orthographically or phonetically far from the original. In each individual case of change in name no matter how ordinary and logical or how extraordinary and unusual, it may be, it is necessary to provide by authentic records that the family bearing the changed name is beyond a doubt the very same one which bore the former name. It is not a question of what can or cannot happen, but a question of what did actually happen in that one particular instance. Reference to this change in name together with much data on the family was published in the Huguenot Society book for the year 1936 volume 7. Before taking up the abstracts from the court records it may be advisable to review certain items which enter this specific problem. The land set aside “as the King’s donation to the French Refugees” was “to encourage the French to remain close to Manakin Town”. It is the opinion of persons who know the old records of this settlement intimately, that only French Huguenots were accorded the right to hold this land and to enjoy the special privileges for a number of years, such as freedom from taxes for seven years. Thus it is not until 1709 on the records of Henrico Court and 1715 upon the land grants books of the Colony of Virginia that these French settlers came into court to prove their importation, claim their headrights and take out their land patents. When they do appear on these books were find both the name of FAURE and FORD for grants within the lines defined and laid aside for the French Refugees. This is no surprise if you have been reading the Henrico Court records from the year of 1700 down to 1715. Nor is it any shock to see that the land records slip Peter Ford into the shoes of Peter Faure or vice-versa. Peter FORE and Peter FORD received grants in King William parish on the tracts set aside for the French Refugees as the Manakin Town settlement. The deeds in the court house show both names. To follow the land holdings under both names on the books we must recognize the location of this land set aside for the settlement and use the French Refugees, and included at that date within King William Parish. This has been most ably presented by Mr. Morgan P. Robinson, Archivist, of the Virginia State Library, in Volume XLIII, Number 1, of the Virginia Magazine of History and Biography, under “Henrico Parish of the Diocese of Virginia.” These lands were under the jurisdiction of the Court of Henrico County in 1700, when they were first designated and appropriated for this special use. But the lands actually lay in what we know as Powhatan County, Virginia, today. In 1728, this are came under the jurisdiction of the newly formed Court of Goochland, and in 1749 under the Court of Cumberland County and in 1777 became Powhatan. That is, all of the French tract excepting that part of it which now lies in Chesterfield County, Virginia. This part remained under the Court of Henrico County until 1749, when the Chesterfield Court was erected. Hence we must follow the French Settlers who lived within King William Parish, in what is now Powhatan County, through this succession of court records to trace their land holdings, and to stay with the Henrico records until 1749 for the families whose land was on the Chesterfield side of the present dividing line between that County and Powhatan County. The books of this period of Henrico County are in the Archives Division of the Virginia State Library. The land grants or patent books are in the Virginia State Land Office in the Capital. The Goochland, Cumberland, Powhatan and Chesterfield books are in their respective court houses. The family of Daniel Fore lived on the Chesterfield side of the parish. The name FAURE, FOURE, FORE, and FORD runs through the records on the Powhatan side of the parish with all variations in spelling. What became of Peter Fore (Foure) and his land grants? He dodges about on the tithing lists with Peter Ford from 1710 to 1734, neither appearing when the other is there. No inventory, or other vague or even fait sign of his death appears on the books. Peter Ford leaves a will, the original of which is in the court house at Goochland, Virginia. This will was written by some one else and Peter Ford signs with a tiny o for his mark. This is interesting when compared to the mark used by Peter Faure, a small o with a slight tail to it, in 1709. In all this research particular attention has been paid to the spelling of the name under observation in each record and is given exactly as found in each instance. When the name appears two ways in one record it was found to be that very way in that record. The land grants to men by the name of FOURE, FORE, and FORD of King William Parish will be followed by the deeds relating to them. The following Court Order of Henrico County: The court places the name of Peter Ford as one in the list of five men, any four of whom are to take an inventory of the estate of Jean Durran, deceased, in 1709. When the inventory is made and is returned to the court, Peter Fore has been one of the four men who responded to this order and as Peter Faure, with his characteristic French mark, he signs the inventory with his French neighbors. Henrico County, Virginia Court Order Book (1707-1709) p. 138. “Court held May 2, 1709…A paper was produced in this Court by Jean Forcey as the nuncupative will of Jean Durran, deceased, and proved by the oaths of Peter Dutoy, James D….and Francis Bening….the motion was rejected…the Court presuming that said Jane died under coverture…and that Peter Durran her late or present husband is not yet dead…but for securing her estate to whom it does belong this Court orders that Stephen Mallett, Peter Ford, John Jones, James Shampane, Stephen Chastain, and four of them to appraise the estate and report to the next Court.” Henrico County, Virginia Court Order Book (1707-1709) p. 154. “June 1, 1709 Jane Durands estate appraised on May 20, 1709 and returned by… Peter () Foure.” Henrico County, Virginia Court Order Book (1707-1709) p. 169. “The appraisal of Jane Durand’s estate ordered May 2, 1709 and made May 20, 1709 and returned to the Court held June 1, 1709…” is signed by the four men of the five named by the court fur this duty…” Etienne Chastain, Joanez, Peter () Faure Stephen X Mallett Note: This is signed, as usual, by the imitation of the original signatures. It is still customary in the courts to ask men who are nearest neighbors to make such inventories that it may not be a burden to them to perform this task. In the analysis of all of these data, please notice the neighbors of Peter Faure, Peter Fore, Peter Ford. This same Court Order Book of Henrico County, Virginia, records many importation’s of the French Refugees who now come into court with their declaration and petitions to claim their headrights. Among these we find Peter Foard. Henrico County, Virginia Court Order Book (1707-1709) p. 154. June 1, 1709. “…Upon the petition of Peter Foard…to certify that there is due to him 150 acres of land for the importation of himself and his wife Elizabeth and John Foard his son…” This record shows that Peter Foard brought a wife and a child with him into the Colony. The King William Parish records show that a Pierre Faure was the elder brother of the Faure children of the Widow Faure. The above record is the clerk’s record and not a copy in his book of any special document. Hence he was not following a written statement. Book 10 p.296 Oct. 31, 1716. George I, to Peter Foure. “107 acres, 1 rood, & 13 poles, in Henrico County on the south side of the James River; beginning at a small corner hiccory & elm standing on the river parting Stephen Chastain and Peter Foure thence on Chastain’s line w. 35 degrees s. 400 poles to corner white oak and hiccory standing near a small meadow thence e. 37 degrees n. 420 poles to a corner white oak & Hackberry standing on the river thence up the river according to the meanders 36 poles to the place begun at. It being part of the upper tract of the last 5000 acres of land surveyed for the French Refugees.” Book 5 p. 552 Dec. 9, 1748. Daniel Ford of King William Parish, Goochland County, Virginia sells to Peter Soblett; land described as …”all that pllantation whereon the said Daniel Ford now lives situated and lying in King William Parish, Goochland County, Virginia, between the lines of the said Peter Soblett and lands of Daniel Perro…adjoining the James River, which said lands are bequeathed to the said Daniel by the will of his father…containing 107 acres, more or less.” Witnesses: John Harris, William Harris, Mary x Heughs. Book 4 p. 146 Feb. 12, 1742. Goochland County, Virginia. Stephen Renno of King William Parish, same County sells to Daniel Perro of same place… “44 acres bounded at a corner white oak & Hackberry standing on the river parting Peter Ford and the said Renno’s lands thence on Foure’s line…” Stephen Renno’s deed to Daniel Perro accounts for the change in name on the boundary line shown on Daniel Ford’s deed to this land, and Stephen Renno’s patent confirms this land as the patent of Peter Foure of 1715. Patent Book 10 p. 283 Stephen Renno’s patent dated March 23, 1715. “Lands in Kimg William Parish, on the south side of the James River adjoining Peter Foure’s land…133 acres.” The will of Peter Ford, dated April 17, 1744 and proved April 16, 1745, devised this land referred to in Daniel’s deed, in these words “I give and bequeath to my son Daniel Ford and his heirs forever the plantation whear I now live in Mankin Ton on the River.” This carries the 107 acres from Peter Foure to Peter Ford and down to Daniel Ford. This land was re residence of Peter Ford in 1744 and Daniel in 1748. (See will of Peter ford.) Daniel Ford inherited land from his brother John Ford. This land was also in the posession of their father and devised by his will. This land is described as lying on Jones’ Creek and contains 125 acres. In 1755, it ajoined lands of John Harris, Peter Sublett and William Randolph. Peter Fore received a patent dated July 19, 1735 for 125 acres adjoining the said Peter Fore’s old bounds, James Robinson, Peter Sublett, Joseph Woodson, William Randolph, Anthony Rapine. These names are repeated in the boundaries of the deed of the Fords. If you will closely follow these deeds and compare them with the land patents and with the bequests made in the will of Peter Ford (1744) you will see that the name Fore and Ford was used for and by the same individual, in the family residing within King William Parish and by that family as they spread out. It would appear that certain ones kept the name of Fore later and that others preferred the English name of Ford. The following abstracts from the Deed Books confirm this statement. Book 1 p.66 March 17, 1728, Goochland County, Virginia. “Peter Foard of King William Parish, planter, to my brother John Foard of St. James Parish…land on a lane parting Peter Chastains’ land…” Witnesses: Joseph Bingley, Henry Blagrave, Jr., Benjamin Stedam. Judith, the wife of Peter Foard signs this deed. Book 1 p.74 1728 Court Order, Goochland County, Virginia. “Peter Ford acknowledged his deed to John Ford and Judith wife of Peter relinquishes her dower.” Book 1 p. 78 May 12, 1729 Goochland County, Virginia. John Ford of St. James Parish to Joseph Bingley… “land which was devised to the said John Foard by his brother Peter Foard…150 acres beginning at a red oak tree parting Peter Chastains lands from the said Fourds which is the upper part of the said survey made by Peter Fourd and given to the said John Fourd.” Anne the wife of John Fourd signs her dower rights in this land. Book 1 p.233 Feb. 15, 1930. Goochland County, Virginia. Joseph Bingley sells this 150 acres to James Robinson. Book 4 p.361 Deed dated May 17, 1744. Goochland County, Virginia. John Harris of Goochland County, Virginia sells to Alexander Speers of Henrico County, Virginia… “150 acres of land on the south side of the James River by name of Forks of the Road on the right hand leading up the county to Fine Creek and on the left hand to Peterville Church…it being the same parcel of land which was granted by a patent to Peter Foard and by the said Peter given to his brother John Foard by deed March 17, 1728 and by several conveyances came to Charles Taylor who by his will left it to his wife Mary who married George W…wood who sold the land to the said Harris.” Peter Foard signed his deed with the same small o that he used in signing his will. Book 1 p. 315 March 20, 1731. Goochland County, Virginia. James Ford, planter, King William Parish, Goochland County to James Robinson… “95 acres on the south side of the James River…at a corner Hickory tree parting Peter Lews Sublett and the said James Ford’s lands.” Ann the wife of James signs her dower rights. Witnesses: Tarleton Fleming, Isaac Bates,…Bondurant. The land grant to Peter Ford dated Jan. 13, 1725, for land on the west side of Jones’ Creek for 350 acres, was the land he gave to his son James Ford by his will as shown by the following Deeds. Book 5 p. 175 Jan. 31, 1745. Goochland County, Virginia. “William Battersby to Stephen Renno…200 acres on the west side of Jones Creek, Goochland County, whereon the said Battersby now dwells…bounded by land of the late Col. William Randolph, dec’d … by the said Creek…and by the lands of James Fore.” Deed Book 1 p. 471 December 17, 1751. Recorded in Cumberland County, Virginia. “James Ford of King William Parish, Cumberland County, Virginia sells to Thomas Prosser of Hanover Co., Va…land lying in King William Parish, Cumberland County, Va. … being a part of a larger tract of land which was granted to Peter Ford and by his will left to his son and said James Ford, as will be seen by reference to records in Goochland County, Va…200 acres…beginning at a white oak in Thomas Turpin’s line…and on the west side of Jones Creek.” On p.474 Ann the wife of the said James Ford relinquished her dower in this land. Witnesses: Valentine Wood, Tucker Woodson, David Murry, Gideon Marr. James Ford signed with a mark. Recorded June Court 1752. This deed accounts for 200 acres of the 350 acre grant. The name Fore and Ford are found applied to the same person in the foregoing deeds in the case of James Ford which fact when compared to the tithing lists and the other records of James Ford (Fore) either spelling make him the same identical person. Peter Ford by his will, dated 1744, proved 1745, left to his son Peter Ford, “300 acres of land on Matthews Branch where he now lives.” This land was granted to Peter Ford by a patent dated Jan. 13, 1725. (Book 12 p.336) The whole tract was for 400 acres. Peter Ford had sold 100 acres of this tract on Jan. 29, 1725 to Francis James. This 100 acres as well as the 300 acres again show in the deeds the name of Fore and Ford for the same person. The following abstracts are for this 400 acres in the division of the 100 acres and the 300 acres. Book (1725-1737) pt 1. Henrico County, Virginia, records p.16. Deed dated January 29, 1725 and acknowledged in Court on May 2, 1926, by Peter Ford of Henrico County, Virginia who sells to Francis James of the same county, “for divers good causes and 6… land lying on the south side of the James River and on the east side of Jones Creek known as Matthew’s Branch…100 acres of land…” Judith, wife of the said Peter Ford signs her dower rights on May 2, 1926. Witnesses: Daniel Stoner, John Payne, Anthony Rapine. Book 1 p.136 Oct. 21, 1729. Goochland County, Virginia. “Francis James of St. James Parish, Goochland County, Va. Sells to William Lansdon and Hester his wife…500 acres…100 acres of which was purchased by the said Francis James from Peter Ford and Judith his wife by a deed acknowledged in court of Henrico County on May 2, 1726…and 400 acres which was purchased from David Croom in 1723.” Witnessed: Joseph Bingley. The following deed was made during the time (1726-1729) when Francis James held this 100 acres and the remaining 300 acres was still in possession of Peter Ford (Fore) the patentee. Book 1 p.12 June 11, 1728. Goochland County, Virginia. Matthew Agee of Goochland Co. Va. Sells to John Smith, “…100 acres of land on the south side of the James River along the east side of Matthews branch…and bounding on the lines of Edward Maxey, Francis James and Peter Fore…” In Peter Ford’s patent to this land, his land is further described as adjacent to land of Daniel Croom. The deed of Francis James shows that he bought this land from Croom in a previous deed. Book 2 p.23 Nov. 27, 1752. Cumberland County, Virginia. Peter Fore of King William Parish, Cumberland County, Virginia sells to Samuel Flourney… “land on Matthews Branch…lying between the lines of James Smith, Peter Anthony Lookadoo, Daniel Fore, Esther Lansdon, John Smith and Gideon Flourney…300 acres…it being the land on which the said Peter Fore now liveth…” Mary the wife of the said Peter Fore signs her dower rights in this land, witnesses: Bennett Goode, John Bondurant, James Harris. Peter Ford was living on this land in 1744 when his father devised it to him by his will and Peter Fore is still living on it in 1752 when he sells it to Samuel Flourney. Book 1 p.79 May 12, 1729. Goochland County, Virginia. William Lansdon and Hester his wife of St. James Parish said County sell to John Joseph Bingley, Matthew Bingley and Henry Blagrave. Book 1 p.426 August 21, 1733. Goochland County, Virginia. “William Lansdon & Hester his wife sell to John Fore and to Stephen Fore of King William Parish, Goochland County, VA… land on the south side of the James River…133 acres…lying in King William Parish…beginning at a Walnut standing on the river parting Stephen Reno and Capoon’s lands thence on Reno’s line…which said land is a part of the last 5000 acres surveyed for the French Refugees and taken up by a patent to John Jones dated March 23, 1715.” Witnesses: Stephen Chastain, Marmaduk Hix, Thomas Turpin. Hester Lansdon was the daughter of John Jones and her sister Elizabeth Jones, was the wife of Anthony Bennan. John Jones was a neighbor of Peter Faure, Peter Ford. Book 5 p.261 May 19, 1747. Goochland County, Virginia. Stephen Ford of Parish of Dale, Henrico County, Virginia to William Harris of King William Parish, Goochland County, Va. “…a plantation in King William Parish on the south side of the James River and on the upper side of Wm. Harris’ land…land which was left to the said Ford…by will of his grandfather Renno and which now falls to said Stephen as Heir-at-law…133 acres…part of a tract of 178 acres.” Ann the wife of said Stephen signs her dower. In the following deed may we call your attention to the grant of Peter Foure on 107 acres adjoining Stephen Chastain’s land which said 107 acres was devised by Peter Ford in his will to his son Daniel Ford and on which land Peter Ford was living in 1745 and Daniel was residing in 1752. (Peter Foure patent Oct. 31, 1716). Benjamin Harris of Goochland County, Virginia, made a deed to Peter Sublett dated July 24, 1745 for 95 acres on the south side of the James River adjoining the river and along the lines of Peter Louis Sublett and the lines of Peter Ford…as by a patent to Stephen Chastain and being transferred several times until it came to Bennett Goode she conveyed it to the said Benjamin Harris. Book 2 p.197 March 6, 1755. Cumberland County, Virginia. Daniel Ford of Cumberland Co. Va. Makes over to John Pleasants Sr., and to John Pleasants Jr., the following land to secure a debt owing by him to the said Pleasants… “land which was left to the said Daniel Ford by the will of his brother John Ford, deceased, 125 acres on Jones Creek bounded by the lands of John Harris, Peter Sublett and William Randolph.” Witnesses: Robert Rutledge, John Epperson, James Pleasants. No wife signs a dower. (See the will of Peter Ford, to his sone John, in 1745 and of John Ford, dated 1753, and the grant of Peter Fore for 125 acres, July 19, 1735.) (Patent Book 16 p.42). The examination of the land books, court order books and the wills recorded in the several counties quoted whose courts held jurisdiction over King William Parish, now in Powhatan County, Virginia confirms this unusual change in the name Fuare, or Foure, to Fore and to Foard, Ford, in the particular instance of the family residing in King William Parish, Virginia. We can see where as time went on certain descendants of Peter Foure (Ford) retained the name of Fore while others changed their name to Ford (Foard). The family that removed to Buckingham County have kept this tradition of the origin of their name as being the French name, Foure, handing it down in their family to the present day. The records of King William Parish both in the parish books and on the court records testify to the fact upon which they have based this tradition. The data given under the Faure-Fore-Ford family deals mainly with this family residing within the limits of King William Parish on the land “donated to the French settlers to encourage them to remain close to Manakin Town.” Data on Daniel Fore of Chesterfield County, not shown. Pierre Faure was allowed to draw supplies for his brothers and sisters and a Pierre Ferre and his wife and child came over on the Nassu in 1700/1. (Huguenot #7 p.192). Peter Ford and his wife Elizabeth and their son John declare their importation in 1709 along with many other of the French men of Mamakin Twon. The records show that the land patents of both Peter Fore and Peter Ford come down to the family of Peter Ford who died testate in 1745. The records of Henrico, Goochland and Cumberland Counties show that the descendents of Peter Fore (Peter Ford) were by both names in later generations. The study of the land grants made to Peter Fore, and to Peter Ford together with the deeds under both spellings of the last name and the will of Peter Ford (dated April 16, 1745) give us his sons and daughters and show that their descendents carried down the two spellings of this name. The following abstracts from the records of certain Virginia Court houses help to identify these descendents and the descendents of his brother John Fore to whom he made a deed for 150 acres of land in 1729. (Huguenot #7 Faure-Fore-Ford). Peter Ford who died testate in 1745 left the following children: John Ford, who died testate in 1753, no wife or children named in his will, all property left to his brothers and sisters. Daniel Ford who inherited the home place of his father, 107 acres, which he sold in 1748 to Peter Sublett; and later inherited from his brother John Ford the 125 acres on Jones Creek, which he mortgaged to John Pleasants in 1755. Peter Ford who inherited the 300 acres from the grant of 400 acres, which he sold to Samuel Flourney in 1752. Peter’s wife was named Mary in 1752. James Ford who inherited 200 acres from his father, he and his wife Anne sold this land on Jones Creek in 1751 to Thomas Prosser. Judith Ford who married John Leake after 1745 and Mary Ford who married William Fuqua after 1745. The children of John Ford, the elder, brother of Peter Ford, the elder, also carried the name as Fore and Ford. Albemarle County, Virginia Records: Book 1 p.371 Oct. 17, 1751. James Ford of King William Parish, Cumberland County, Va. to Mary Agee and her husband James Agee of St. Ann’s Parish, Albemarle County, Va. “for the love and affection he hath for his said daugher and son-in-law…200 acres in St. Ann’s Parish on Huberd’s Creek…” Witnesses: Daniel Ford, and John Beasley. Signed James ( ) Fore. (Note the signature on this deed which is written in the name of James Ford. He signs it James Fore.) Book 3 p. 14 dated 1761 Matthew Agee to his son James Agee land on Hubbard’s Creek adj. James Ford, Witnesses: Shelton Raile, Chas. Garrett and James ( ) Ford. Book 3 p.15 James Ford of Tilletson Parish, Albermarle County, Virginia. “… for divers good causes and valuable consideration to Anne Chastain…100 acres in Albemarle County, VA…on Slate River…Feb. 28, 1761. Witnessed: Chas. May. The foregoing deed is indexed as a deed of gift, signed by James ( ) Ford. James Ford had sold his home place in King William Parish, Cumberland (now Powhatan) County in 1751 to Thomas Prosser and by his deed to his daughter Mary Agee was “of King William Parish, Cumberland County, in 1751.” He removed before 1761 to Albemarle County, Virginia. Tilletson Parish of Albemarle County became Buckingham County when that County was formed in 1761. So we see that James Fore removed to AlbemarleCounty, Virginia from King William Parish, Cumberland County, Virginia when he sold his home place which he had inherited from his father Peter Fore (Ford). Book 2 p.8 March 8, 1768. John Bondurant Sr., of King William Parish, Cumberland County, Virginia makes a deed of gift to his son John for land on Slate River granted to said John Sr., in 1746...200 acres. Witnesses: James Ford and Ann Ford. Book 2 p.175 April 11, 1759. Peter Bondurant of Cumberland County, Virginia to Anthony Agee of Albemarle County, 200 acres on Greens Creek. Witnesses: Stephen Ford, Chas. May and Martin Benien. (Huguenot #8 K.C. Gottschalk; Valentine Papers volume 1,2,3,4; Virginia County Records by Crozier; Virginia Genealogies & Records by Burns; Huguenot Emigration to Virginia by Brock). WIDOW FAURE On the Mary Ann, which arrived at James City, Virginia July 31, 1700 after a passage of about 13 weeks was Widow Faure and four infants, two sons and two daughters. (Any child under 21 years was considered an infant.) This Widow Faure whose husband died before they left London or during the long voyage over is supposed to be the mother of Pierre Faure. The two sons were Daniel and Jean. The daughters names are not known. (Va. County Records by Crozier). Pierre Faure was the son of “Widow Faure.” It is to be presumed that the husband died either before the start from England or during the voyage. (see page 11) Pierre Faure was the son of Daniel Isaac Faure and Mary Chastain (Widow Faure). (From Huguenot #7; letter of Miss Josephine Dupuy who has record of Ford family Bible, member of Huguenot Society Founders of Manakin Town.) DANIEL FAURE, BROTHER OF PIERRE FAURE, SR. “From the land grants at Richmond we find that a grant of 296 acres was given Daniel Faure the 3d day of March, 1715, the said land lying chiefly in Henrico County.” (Book 10 p.285). In the Vestry Book of King William Parish, Manakin Town, under date of a Vestry assembled 25 August 1718 the ‘Sieur Daniel Faure is elected a vestryman.’ As Pierre Faure was not granted land until 1716, and then only 107 acres, it is almost impossible that his son Daniel should have had a large grant of 296 acres given him a year ahead of his father, and he was too young to have been a Vestryman in 1718. The name of Daniel Faure is found on the list of Tithables in King William Parish from the year 1717-1736. During the later years it is more than likely that Daniel, the son of Peter, is meant. While no will of Daniel Faure can be found, it is extremely probable that he was a brother of Pierre, Snr., and Daniel, the son of Pierre, was named after his uncle. JEAN FAURE, BROTHER OF PIERRE FAURE, SR. We have ample evidence to show that Jean (John) Faure was also a brother of Pierre Faure, Snr. In the Vestry Book of King William Parish, Jean and Pierre Faure are on the list of Tithables for the year 1713, and in1717 Daniel Faure is included. There is no grant of land recorded in the Land Office to John Faure until the year 1742 when in conjunction with Thomas Vann he was granted 178 acres in Henrico County. (Book 20 p.339) In the County Records for Goochland, we drive the information that Pierre and Jean were brothers: “Conveyance from Peter Ford, Snr., King William Parish, Goochland County, planter, 7 March 1728 to my dear and well beloved brother John Ford of the Parish of St. James, County afsd., 150 acres of land in sd Parish of St. James.” From the Parish Register of Manakin Town we find the following entries: 1 March 1721/2 Jean Faure godfather to Elizabeth Morriset. (p.17) 12 Dec. 1728, was born a boy to Jean Faure. (p.22). There is no further entries in the Parish Registers under the name of John Faure. It is evident that after selling the land, the gift of his brother, that John moved to Henrico County, where he died about the year 1748. WILL OF JOHN FORE In the name of God, Amen. I, John Fore, of King William Parish, County of Henrico, being very sick, do make this my last will and testament, etc: I give to my loving wife Mary the use of the Plantation I now live on during her widowhood, and the use of all my slaves and personal estate until my children come of lawful age. Item: I give to my daughter Elizabeth forty pounds, to be raised out of my estate, and a bed and a cow and a calf. Item: I give to my daughter Mary a negro girl named Sarah, and a bed and a cow and calf. Item: I give to my son John all my lands that I am Possessed of and the land I greeed with Captain John Nash for, I give to him and his heirs. I appoint my wife Mary my who extx. And Robert Goode, my truly friend, to be guardian to my children. In witness this 16 day of November, 1747. JOHN (X) FORE His Mark Witnesses: William Scott John Morriset Walter Scott Probated by Mary Fore, the widow, the 1st Monday in July 1748. It will be seen that from the existing records, John Faure, the brother of Peter, married a Mary ________, by whom he had issue: 1. John, probably born 12 December 1728 2. Elizabeth 3. Mary There is nothing further concerning the children of John Faure in the records of Henrico County, and it is likely that they removed with other members of the family to Buckingham County, Virginia. (Virginia County Records by Crozier, volume 7). PIERRE FAURE, SR. Peter Faure, son of Daniel Isaac Faure and Mary Chastain, grandson of Isaac and Mary Ann Thiboult. Peter was born about 1675 in France, married Elizabeth Agar (Agee) born about 1677 in France. One of the founders of Manakin Town. Children of Peter Ford and Elizabeth Agee: Peter Ford, James Ford, Judith Ford, Mary Ford. (This record sent to this compiler by Miss Josephine Dupuy, member of Huguenot Society Founders of Manakin Town; from Ford Family Bible; Ayers Family Bible; Huguenot records.) PIERRE FAURE, SR. Pierre Faure, Sr., his wife Elizabeth, and a son, Jean sailed on yet first ship, la Nasseau and landed at James Town March 5, 1701. Pierre Faure and family settled in the Manakin Town. His coat of arms show that he was from the Faure family of Auvergne, France. In the Vestry Book of King William Parish 1710-1738, translated from the French, we find Pierre paying tithes only on himself until 1713 when he paid on his oldest son, John, who was born in 1697. In 1717 he pays tithe on Daniel, born 1701. In 1723 he pays tithe on Peter, born 1706. In 1724 he pays tithe on James, born 1708. Pierre Faure and wife Elizabeth had two daughters: Mary, who married William Fuqua. Judith, who married John Leake. The Virginia Law, … The Assembly expressly exempted all women from payment of tithes, except slaves or servants over 16 years of age who were capable of doing work in the field. All men of whatever rank or station over 16 years of age were regarded as tithable, only the Clergy and members of the Council being exempt. The tithe was 10 shillings and one half pence. Pierre Faure, Sr., was a member of the Vestry of the French Refugee Church from 1731 to 1744, when he asked his discharge which was granted. Sept. 30, 1732 The Vestry assembled, present were Estine Chastin, Gile Allaigr, Pierre Faure, Pierre Loouys Soblet, Guileaume Salle, and Jean Jaque Dupin. The Surr’s Pierre Faure and Andre Amonet took the oath of Church Wardens in the presence of the Vestry named above. (Virginia Magazine of History & Biography volume 11,12,13). The sight of this first church is in Manakin Town, Powhatan County, Virginia south of the James River. The fourth church now stands near the sight of this first church. Peter Fuare was naturalized May 12, 1705 (Legislative Journals Volume 1 p.421-8). A List of King William Parish June 1744: Peter Ford, David Ford, Jogg, John Ford, Peter Ford, Jr., and Giles Ford. (Huguenot Emigration to Virginia by Brock). WILL OF PETER FORD OF GOOCHLAND COUNTY, VIRGINIA 1745 In the name of God Amen, I Peter Ford of the Parish of King William in the County of Gochland being sick and weak but of perfect mind and memory and calling to mind and duly considering the uncertainty of human life do make my last Will and Testament. First and Principally I commit my Soul into the hands of my Blessed Maker, trusing in his mercies and in the Merits of my Redemmer for the Remission of all my Sins my body I commit to the Earth to be decently intered at the Discrtion of my Executors herein after mentioned as to Temporal Estate I bequeath and Dispose of it in the following manner. First Item: I give and bequeath to my Son James Ford the Plantation where he now lives to him and his heirs and assigns forever. Item: I give and bequeath to my Son Peter Ford to him and his heirs forever three hundred acres of Land on Matthews Branch where he now lives. Item: I give and bequeath to my Son John Ford to him and his heirs forever one hundred and twenty-five acres of land where he now lives on Jones’ Creek. Like wise one negro Wench, Jugg to him and his heirs forever. Item: I give and bequeath unto my Son Daniel Ford to him and his heirs forever the Plantation where I now live being in the Manakin Ton (town) on the River. I give to my son Daniel one Negro Boy, Tom to him and his heirs forever. I give to my son Daniel one fether bed and furniture, two cows and calfe one sow and Piggs. Item: I give and bequeath to my two daughters Judith and Mary Ford to them and their heirs forever all the Remainder of my movable estate to be equally Divided between them both. If either of my Daughters should Die under the age of Twenty-one years or not marry, the Survivor shall heir her part of the Estate. I do Apoint my Son John Ford and Daniel Ford to be Executors of this my last Will and Testament. Dated twenty nine day of April seventeen hundred and Forth-four. Peter o Ford His mark Signed in the presence of us Samuel Weave (Weaver) Demetrius Young John Harris At the Court of Goochland County, April 16, 1745 This writing was proved by the Oaths of Witnesses hereto to be the last Will and Testament of Peter Ford Deceased and it was thereupon admitted to Record. A copy from the records Teste: P.G. Miller Clerk of the Circuit Court Goochland Co. WILL OF JOHN FORD, SON OF PETER FORD, SR. In the name of God amen. I John Ford of Cumberland County, and Parish of King William, being of perfect mind, memory pleased to God do make this my last Will and Testament in manner and form following: First, I commit my sould to the hands of Almighty God, hoping through the merits of Jesus Christ to receive pardon of all my sins and my body to be decently interred at the discression of my executors here after named, Vis: I first of all give divise and bequeath to my beloved brother Daniel Ford my negro man named Tom and all the land I now hold, one piece giving the mill line on Jones’ Creek one hundred and twenty-five acres and my horse and mare, the horse is light gray and the mare is bright bay, to him and his heirs forever. Item: I give to my sister Mary Fuqua my negro woman named Jug to her and to her heirs forever and I leave my negro Ned to William Fuqua for twenty pounds I owe him. Item: I give to my sister Judith Leake my negro girl Jane to her and her heirs forever. Item: I give to Peter Bondurant my household goods and wearing clothes and bed and two cows and calves or big with calf, to him and to his heirs forever, and my other Cattle and Hogs to be sold to pay my debts. Item: I appoint John Leake and William Fuqua Executors of this my last will and Testament and do orther and direct if my brother revoke all wills heretofore by me made. In witness where of I have herunto set my hand and seal this 3rd day of September 1753. Signed Sealed and delivered in the presence of JOHN A FORD His mark Isaac Sallee James Smith Allen Criddle Probated in Cumberland County, Virginia the 24th day of September 1753. In the will of John Ford, born 1697, we find that he left no heirs, and at this time (1753) his brother Daniel, born 1701, had no heirs; neither had their been found Court Records naming a wife of Daniel Ford. The will also shows that his sister Mary Faure married William Fuqua and that his sister Judith Faure married John Leake. KING WILLIAM PARISH RECORDS 31 May 1729 was born Joseph Faure, son of Pierre Faure and Judith Faure his wife, and baptized by Mr. Mason July 16th. Godfather Joseph Bingli, Godmother Judith Bingli. 2 September 1730 was born Marie Faure, daughter of Jaque Faure and Anne his wife. 6 September 1732 was born Judith Faure, daughter of Jaque Faure and Anne his wife. 11 January 1733 (34) was born Pierre Faure, son of Jaque Faure and Anne his wife. 20 August 1736 was born Magdalene Faure, daughter of Jaque Faure and Anne his wife. 24 February 1738 was born Anne Faure, daughter of Jaque Faure and Anne his wife. 27 August 1739 was born Rachel Faure, daughter of Jaque Faure and Anne his wife. 4 March 1742/3 was born Jaque Faure, son of Jaque Faure and Anne his wife. 14 February 1745 was born Ruth Faure, daughter of Jaque Faure and Anne his wife. 3 September 1743 was born Judith Faure, daughter of Pierre Faure and Marie his wife. 31 May 1744 was born Joseph Faure, son of Pierre Faure and Marie his wife. 25 September 1745 was born Pierre Faure, son of Pierre Faure and Marie his wife. 22 June 1747 was born Archelaus Faure, son of Pierre Faure. 2 May 1749 was born William Faure, son of Pierre Faure June 1749 was born Boos Ford, son of Jaque Ford. 13 May 1749 a slave born of ownership Jean Ford. (Huguenot Emigration to Virginia by Brock; Huguenot #7 p.196) Note: Pierre, Joseph, Archelaus and William were sons of Pierre Faure, Jr., and Marie. All went to Kentucky except Archelaus. Joseph and William had families born in Prince Edward County, Virginia. Three other sons not on the Register of King William Parish were: Hezekiah Jesse Silas In the old tax record of Buckingham County, Virginia how in the Virginia State Library, Richmond, Virginia, in District #2, is found the names of Joseph Ford, William Ford. These are carried on the tax book as of Prince Edward County, Va., thereafter spelled Fore. In 1814 is found the name of Stephen Fore, in District #2, and Peter Fore lives at Stephen Fore’s Residence. These were the sons of Pierre Faure the second, and this proves that the sons of Pierre Faure, the emigrant, come down through his two sons, Peter, born in Henrico County, Virginia in 1706 and James (Jaque) born in Henrico County, Virginia 1708. JAQUE FAURE, SR. (JAMES) Jaque Faure, Sr. born 1708 died 1810, (102 years at death) son of Pierre Faure and his wife Elizabeth, Emigrant who arrived in Virginia on la Nasseau in the York River, March 5, 1701, settled in King William Parish, Manakin Town. Jaque Faure, Sr., married about 1728 Anne Bondurant born about 1710, died after ________. She was the daugher of Jean Pierre Bondurant and wife Anne, also French Huguenots. Jean Pierre Bondurant arrived in Virginia on the “Peter and Anthony”, ye 20th of Sept’r 1700.” Jean Pierre Bondurant married Anne after he arrived in America as the ships list does not show that he had a wife at that time. He was a prominent planter and large land owner of Henrico County. He was a member of the Vestry of King William Parish in 1731-32 and elected again November 23, 1734. WILL OF JOHN PETER BONDURANT (Goochland County, Virginia Wills.) In the name of God amen, I, John Peter Bondurant being sick and weak but of good sound disposing mind and memory. All praise be given to God for it, and now minding to settle my wordly estate which it has pleased God to bestow upon me before I depart this life, I do make and appoint this my last will and testament in manner and form following: First I give my soul to God that gave it and my body to the earth from which it was taken to be decently buried according to the discretion of my executors hereafter mentioned. Item, I give and bequeath unto my son John Bondurant one hundred and forty-five acres of land which he now dwelleth on and one horse and one hog and blanket and rug and sheet and hide and bed cord and one frou pot and dish and basin and three plates and one cow and calf that is now possessed of him to his heirs forever. Item, I give and bequeath unto my son Peter Bondurant one hundred and fifty acres of land on Age Creek and up along through Creek Goos, and a horse named Smoker and one cow and calf and two sows and four shotes and one pewter dish and one basin and one porringer and six pewter spoons and one frou pot and one rug and blanket and one sheet and brown lining to make him a bed, to him and his heirs lawfully begotten forever, but if one or all of my two sons died without issue then the survivor and his heirs lawfully begotten forever. Item, I give and bequeath unto my son Joseph Bondurant one hundred and fifty acres of land with the purtenances belonging thereto where he now dwelleth and one cow and calf in the possession of James Ford and two sows and four shotes and one ram sheep and one mair with the hors colts that she has and the mair fols to return to me and two dishes, one large and one small, one basin and four shoes, to him and his heirs forever. Item, I give and bequeath to my daughter Ann Ford one heffer eighteen months old and one sow and pigs to her and her heirs forever. Item, I give and bequeath to my daughter Frances Salle one heffer at the age of eighteen months and one sow and pigs, to her and her heirs forever. Item, I give unto my son Peter Bondurant all my wearing clothes and it is my desire that my wife shall keep them and let him have them as she thinks fit and my carpenter tools and shoemakers tools and croscut saw and wagons I lend for the use of my wife and two sons and their heirs be no hindrance or molestation of any person or persons whatsoever. Item, I give to my loving wife Ann Bondurant after my just debts and funeral charges and legacies are paid, all the remainder of my estate real and personal in this place or also wherever to her and her heirs forever, and I do allow my loving wife Ann Bondurant whole and sole Executor of this my last will and testament, revoking all other wills by me made heretofore. As witness my hand and fixt my seal this 25th day of September, 1734. J.P. Bondurant (Seal) Test: John Cook James X (his mark) Ford John Bondurant It is my desire that my son Peter Bondurant heirs his share of land on the S. & E. and of Age Branch and my son John Bondurant and my son Joseph Bondurant to have their share on the S. & W. of by branch to be equally divided between them according as the lines go and to have the liberty of cutting any pine trees upon my son Peter Bondurant’s land for their house. At a Court held for Goochland County January 25, 1735, this will was proved by the oaths of John Cook and James Ford two of the witnesses herto and was admitted to record. H. Wood County Court Clerk… CHILDREN OF JAQUE FAURE, SR., AND WIFE ANNE BONDURANT 1. Marie (Mary) born September 2, 1730 married James Agee. 2. Judith born September 6, 1732, married Edward Maxey. 3. Pierre born January 11, 1734 4. Magdalene born August 20, 1736. 5. Anne born February 24, 1738 married ___________ Chastain. 6. Rachel born August 27, 1739. 7. Jaque born February 14, 1745. 8. Boaz born June 2, 1749. (King William Parish Resigter) When the name is recorded by a member of the Huguenot Colony it is always spelled in the French Faure. When Goochland County was formed from Henrico County in 1727 the Faures’ found themselves in this new County. By this time the name began to be anglicized and recorded as Ford. When this part of Goochland County was cut off to form Cumberland County, Virginia in 1748, the Fords’ were then in Cumberland County. James Ford, Sr. had sold his home place in King William Parish, Cumberland (now Powhatan) County in 1751 to Thomas Prosser and by his deed to his daughter Mary Agee was “of King William Parish, Cumberland County in 1751. Between December 17, 1751 and February 28, 1761 James Faure, Ford moves up the James River to his grant of 1600 acres in Albemmarle County, Virginia, Tilletson Parish. Then Tilletson Parish, Albemarle County, Virginia was cut off to form Buckingham County, Virginia in 1761, James Ford and his family were living in this new county without having changed their residence; where they lived until some of them began to move westward. James Ford and his family settled on his grant of 1600 acres while his children acquired other land besides this. The Buckingham County Court Hose was burned soon after the Civil War about 1869 and all records in it at that time were destroyed. A Surveyor “plat Book” has been found since of which there is a photostat copy in the present Court House. In this is found the record of some surveys made for different members of the Ford family; one of the surveys of 72 acres of land the grant for which had been made for James Ford, Jr. His son James Ford at this time (1814) designated as James Jr. fell heir to it either by a deed or gift or sale. Old tax books of Buckingham County, Virginia are now in the Virginia State Library, Richmond, Virginia. These run for over a period of several years “The Land Roll” Book beginning with 1782. Another Book designated as “Personal Tax Book”; there are three lists, 1782 to 1789; 1790 to 1797; 1798 to 1805. These books are divided into two districts; District #1 and District #2. In District #1 we find the family of James Ford, Sr., along with his three sons, Peter, Boaz, and James, Jr. On the first tax list 1782 “Land Roll” of Buckingham County, Virginia now in the Virginia State Library we find: James Ford, Sr. (now 74 years old) paying taxes on 100 acres of land’ Peter Ford on 505 acres; Boaz Ford on 400 acres; James Ford, Jr. on 400 acres. These amounts vary from time to time except James Ford, Jr. who pays on 400 acres until the time of his death in 1787. After 1793 James Ford, Sr., appears on the tax list as exempt. This was perhaps on account of his extreme old age and afflication. FRENCH AND INDIAN WARD 1754 In the Journals of the House of Burgesses of Virginia 1770-1772 p.31, we find the following: Tuesday the 29th of May to Goerge III 1770, A petition of James Ford was presented to the house and read; “setting forth, that the petitioner being in the service of the Colony, at the Battle of the Meadows in the year 1754, received a wound in his right eye, by a musket ball which deprived him of the sight thereof and that he is growing old, and become weak and therefore praying the House to take his condition into consideration and grant relief. Ordered, that the said petition be referred to the consideration of the Committee of Public Claims; and that they do examine the matter thereof, and report the same, with their opinion thereupon to the House.” Page 49, Wed. the 6th of June to George III 1770. Resolved, that it is of the opinion of this Committee, that the Petition of James Ford, late soldier in the service of the Colony, under the command of Col. Washington, is reasonable; and that he ought to be allowed the sum of five pounds for his present relief; and the future sum of five pounds per annum during his life in consideration of the wound he received at the Battle of the Meadows and his being thereby rendered incapable of getting as necessary substance. REVOLUTIONARY PUBLIC SERVICE CLAIMS This is to certify that the following is a true copy of a Certificate issued to James Ford, Sen’r. for supplies furnished for the use of the Army during the Revolutionary War, which said Certificate is now deposited in the manuscript division of the Virginia State Library, Richmond, Virginia, and designated “Buckingham County Public Service Claims.” Buckingham County 22 lb Bacon @ 9d is 0.16.6 “Received of James Ford, Sen’r. Twenty Pounds Bacon at Nine Pence per lb. Specie in Sixteen Shillings & Six Pence. Given under my hand this 21st May 1781.” 0.16.6 Thomas Anderson, D.C.P. This is to certify that the following is a true copy of a Certificate issued to James Ford for supplies furnished for the use of the Army during the Revolutionary War, which said certificate is now deposited in the manuscript division of the Virginia State Library, Richmond, Virginia, and designated; “Buckingham County Public Service Claims.” “At a Court held for Buckingham County the 9th day of December. 1782. “Pursuant to an Act of Assembly intitled ‘An Act of adjusting Claims for property impressed or taken for Public Service’ The Court proceeded to receive and adjust the Claims of different Claimants produced to them in Specie as hereafter mentioned.” Page 30. To James Ford… To 360 lbs Grass Beef @ 2d Dr. 3.0.0.” (This claim is for James Ford, Jr. sometimes he is called Jr., other times just James Ford.) This is to certify that the following is a true copy of an entry in a booklet deposited in the manuscript division of the Virginia State Library, Richmond, Virginia, designed “Buckingham County Public Service Claims.” Being an account of the disbursements ordered by the County Court of Buckingham County in settlement for supplies furnished for the use of the Army during the Revolutionary War. “At a Court held for Buckingham County the 9th day of Dec. 1782. (Pursuant to an Act of Assembly entitled ‘An Act for Adjusting Claims for Property impressed or taken for Public Service’ The Court preceeded to receive and adjust the claims of the different claimants produced to them in Specie as hereafter mentioned.)” “To Peter Ford… To 410 lbs Grass Beef @ 2d Dr. 3.8.4.” Richmond, Virginia, A true copy. F.W. Sydnor, Record Searcher. James Ford, Sr., married Anne Bondurant and they were the parents of James, Jr. and Peter Ford. The foregoing claims are accepted as Revolutionary Service by the Daughters of the American Revolution. PETER FORD SON OF JAMES FORD AND ANNE BONDURANT Peter Ford born January 11, 1733 married four times and had children by three wives as follows: First, Peter Ford married Judith Maxey, daughter of John Maxey. Issue: 1. Rebecca Ford 2. Ruth Ford 3. Anne Judith 4. Daniel Ford 5. Joel Ford 6. Jacob Ford 7. John Ford 8. Obediah (Obey) Ford By Peter Ford’s second marriage he had no off-spring. Name of wife unknown. Peter Ford’s third wife was Widow Brooks, issue: 9. Laban Ford 10. Sally Ford 11. Polly Ford Fourth he married the Widow Sloan and only one child was born to this union: 12. Peter, Jr. born in Kentucky. MARY ELIZABETH FORD DAUGHTER OF JAMES FORD AND ANNE BONDURANT Mary Ford born September 2, 1730, married James Agee, son of Mathew Agee. Both died 1821, married 76 years. BOAZ FORD, SR. SON OF JAMES FORD AND ANNE BONDURANT Boaz Ford born June 2, 1749 married and reared two sons, Ambrose and Boaz Ford, Jr. The number of daughters are not known except Maria. Boaz Ford’s residence was where the Buckingham Baptist Church stands on Jashways Creek 10 miles east of the Court House. Boaz Ford, Sr., died in 1810. His son Ambrose died about 1814 when he was living in Nathan Ayrs Home on Hatcher Creek 10 miles east of the Budkingham County Court House. The following information was posted by Barbara S. Brill on genforum postings on Faure (July 14, 1999): Boaz Ford was born February 14, 1748/49 in Manakin Town, Virginia. He married Hannah. Children of Boaz Faure and Hannah are: 1. Ambrose Faure, born 1778 in Buckingham, Virginia. 2. Boaz Faure, born abt. 1783 in Buckingham, Virginia. 3. Marie Faure, born abt. 1787 in Buckingham, Virginia; died bef. 1846. 4. Samuel Faure, born October 30, 1790 in Buckingham, Virginia; died April 2, 1846. 5. Magdlen Faure, born abt. 1793 in Buckingham, Virginia; died abt. 1864. The following was posted by Lela Tatum (July 1, 1999): I have a maiden name of Boaz’s wife to be Hannah Burit/Burriet. Boaz Ford, Jr. son of Boaz Ford, continued to live on his plantation. Boaz Ford, Jr. was a man of great wealth and influence in Buckingham County, Virginia. (Tax List; Huguenot #7) JAMES FORD, JR., SON OF JAMES FORD AND ANNE BONDURANT James Ford, Jr. born March 14, 1743 in King William Parish Goochland County, Virginia. Died 1787 in Buckingham County, Virginia, sone of Jaque Faure and Anne Bondurant, daughter of Jean Pierre Bondurant and wife Anne. James Ford married about 1766 Sally Agee (tradition tells us the name was Agee). In 1782 we find James Ford, Jr. paying only one tithe (himself), while on May 26, 1787 the year of James, Jr’s death we find his wife Sally paying tithes on two, Joseph born in 1768 and James born in 1770. Sally pays in 1789 on Isaac born in 1773 and in 1976 on Elisha born in 1777. (Buckingham County, Tax List.) On the “Land Roll” of Buckingham County, Virginia for 1782, James Ford, Jr. pays taxes on 400 acres of land. This he continues to do until his death in 1787, after that his name is carried on the tax list with 72 acres designated as a new grant, this was re-surveyed for his son James on 4/14/1814, who fell heir to it either by gift or purchase. After the death of James Ford, Jr. in 1787, Sally Ford pays taxes on 100 acres of land until 1897 when she drops out of the tax list. CHILDREN OF JAMES FORD, JR. AND WIFE SALLY AGEE 1. Joseph, born 1768 married Mary Maxey 1788. 2. James, born 1770. 3. Isaac, born 1773. 4. Elisha, born 1777 married Elizabeth Duncan 1796. AGEE (Des Ages) MATHEW AGEE (Original French Coat of Arms) Mathieu Agee, or Age, is the progenitor of all the Agee family in America. He was born in France in 1660, and died in Virginia 1741. He was of the Des Ages of the old Bishopric of Saint Malo, in or near Nantes, France, who were of noble birth. On account of their espousal of the cause of the Huguenots, their claim to nobility was abrogated and their lands confiscated in 1688, as were the titles and lands of many Huguenots and other non-conformists. Mathieu Agee’s fathers name was Anthony Des Ages, born 1639. Tghere is a well founded, and we believe true, tradition, which has been handed down from generation to generation, which states that Mathieu Agee left France in 1688, going to Holland where he, with some two thousand Huguenots, attached himself to William of Orange and was a part of the expedition to England, where William dethroned the then Catholic K | Agee, John Mathieu Isaac (I18691)
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| 2075 | Fear Allerton Born Fear Brewster c. 1606 Scrooby, Nottinghamshire, England Died c. 1634 probably Massachusetts, British Empire Nationality English Subject Known for Early American Settler Spouse(s)Isaac Allerton Children Isaac Allerton Jr., Sarah Allerton Parents William Brewster, Mary Brewster Fear Allerton née Brewster (c. 1606 - before December 12, 1634) was a woman in Colonial America. She was the third daughter of Mayflower Pilgrim William Brewster and his wife Mary, born in Scrooby, Nottinghamshire, England. She was named Fear because at the time of her birth, the Puritans were holding secret meetings and were under constant threat of arrest. Her early years, and indeed her whole life, were full of unrest. In 1608 she moved, along with the other pilgrims, to Amsterdam (and later Leiden). Fear was only 14 when her parents and two younger brothers, Love and Wrestling, left for America on the Mayflower. She was left in the care of her older siblings, Jonathan (born in 1593) and Patience (born in 1600). Jonathan joined the pilgrims in 1621 on board the Fortune. Fear arrived in America with Patience on board the Anne in July 1623. Fear married Isaac Allerton, another Mayflower pilgrim, around 1626. He was 20 years her senior. They had a son, Isaac Allerton Jr., born about 1627. There is speculation that they had a daughter, Sarah Allerton, who was baptised on August 13, 1633 and probably died in infancy. Fear died young, but the exact date is unknown. She died sometime before her sister Patience's death December 12, 1634. Persondata Name Brewster, Fear Place of birth Scrooby, Nottinghamshire, England Place of death probably Massachusetts, British Empire Retrieved from "http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Fear_Brewster&oldid=524390280" Categories: | Brewster, Fear (I26536)
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| 2076 | Fear arrived July 1623 on the ship Anne with her Aunt Patience Brewster. Fear Allerton née Brewster (c. 1606 - before December 12, 1634) was the third daughter of Mayflower Pilgrim William Brewster and his wife Mary, born in Scrooby, Nottinghamshire, England. She was named Fear because at the time of her birth, the Puritans were holding secret meetings and were under constant threat of arrest. Her early years, and indeed her whole life, were full of unrest. In 1608 she moved, along with the other pilgrims, to Amsterdam (and later Leiden). Fear was only 14 when her parents and two younger brothers, Love and Wrestling, left for America on the Mayflower. She was left in the care of her older siblings, Jonathan (born in 1593) and Patience (born in 1600). Jonathan joined the pilgrims in 1621 on board the Fortune. Fear arrived in America with Patience on board the Anne in July 1623. | Brewster, Fear (I26536)
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| 2079 | FHC Film #31671 Goochland County Court Orders Books 1,2, & 3 Goochland County Virginia Order Book No. 3 1731-1735 August Court 1732 page 110 Parsons VS Davis On the complaint of Richard Parsons that William Davis hath beat him it is ordered that a capias do yous against this said Davis in the sum of one hundred pounds sterling for his appearance at the nex t court to answer in the promises Ordered that Edward Scott to summons a witness Page 118 To Richard Parsons constabe for inspecting stands (?) Page 123 October Court 1732 The complaint against William Davis for beating Richard Parsons is dismissed August Court 1734 On the motion of Lydia Briggs she is permitted to choose Richard Parsons her guardian who accepts the charge. Alliford(?)S. Hughtes and Isaac Hughes offer themselves securities. The last will and testament of George Briggs deceased is presented in Court by Richard Parsons guardian to Lydia Briggs the excecutrix and the same being proved by his oaths of Robert Carter and Jeremiah Dumas (?) Jun to have been signed by Jeremiah Dumas Jun. with the testators name and by his direction it is admitted to record on the motion of the said Richard Parsons Certificate is granted him for obtaining Letters of Administration with the will ann------- is due form during the minority of the executrix. Alliford Hughes and Isaac Hughes, Securities LIBRARY OF VIRGINIA, DIGITAL COLLECTION Parsons, Richard 30 Jany 1741 Goochland County, 80 A on the brances of the North Branch of Muddy Creek alias Little Muddy Creek Patents 20, 1741-43, P. 129 GOOCHLAND COUNTY, VIRGINIA DEEDS, 1741-1745 Deed Book 4 Page 510 February 25, 1744 from Francis Amoss of Goochland and Parish of Southam, to Richard Ligon of same, for 45 lbs, all that tract of land in Goochland on both sides of the upper branc h of Muddy Creek alias Little Muddy Creek, and bounded by Richard Parsons, Major Bowler Cocke, James Terrel, containing 400 acres. Signed Francis Amoss. Wit - John Alexander, Abrm Womack, Abrm Womac k Jr. Recorded March 19, 1744. Judith, the wife of Francis Amoss, relinquished her right of dower to the conveyed lands. Deed Book 4 Page 346. December 17, 1743 from Richard Parsons, and Lydia, his wife, of the Parish of St. James and Goochland, to John Alexander of same, for 70 lbs, a certain tract of land of 200 acre s in Goochland on the south side James River on the west side Muddy Cr, being half of 400 acres of land granted to George Briggs by patent dated Jun 20, 1733, which the said George Briggs, by his Gooc hland will, gave to his sister, Lydia Briggs alias Parsons. The tract is bounded by Bowler Cocke, new lines run by Robert Walton on the division of the said 400 acres. Signed Richard Parsons, Lidi a (L her mark) Parsons. Wit - Francis Amoss, Isac Hughes, Abram Womack, Miles Gathwrit, Joell Chandler, Recorded May 15, 1744. Deed Book 4 Page 325. January 16, 1743 from Robert Yancey of the Parish of St. Martin and County of Louisa, to Francis Amoss of the Parish of St. James and Goochland, for 40 L, a cerain tract of land of about 400 acres on the south side of James River in the Parish of St. James and Goochland, and bounded by Richard Parsons, Major Bowler Cocke, James Terril. Signed - Robert Yancey. Wit - Tarlton Fleming, Charles Fleming, Simon (SW his mark) Ward. Recorded March 20, 1743. Recorded June 19, 1744. Deed Book 4 Page 201 August 13, 1743 from Richard Parsons, and Lydia, his wife, of Goochland, to Nicholas Davies of Goochland for 20 L, a certain tract of land of 200 acres on Muddy Creek in Goochlan d on the south side of James River, and bounded by [trees]. Signed - Richard Parsons, Lydia (X her mark) Parsons. Wit - William Dillon, William Dillon [sic], John (B his mark) Burk, John ( his mark ) Burnet. Recorded September 20, 1743. Deed Book 4 Page 203. April 22, 1743 from Richard Parsons of Goochland, to Nicholas Spears of Goochland, for 5 L, a certain tract of land of about 80 acres on Muddy Creek in Goochland on the south si de of James River, and bounded by Major Bowler Cocke, James Terril, Robert Yancy. Signed - Richard Parsons. Wit - Nicholas Davies, Elizabeth Dewes, John (his mark) Creasie. Recorded September 20, 1 743. At a Court of November 20, 1745, this deed was proved by the oath of William Dillon to be the act and deed of Lydia Parsons, wife of Richard Parsons, and ordered to be recorded. SUNLIGHT ON THE SOUTHSIDE LISTS OF TITHES LUNENBURG COUNTY VIRGINIA 1748-1783, Compiled by Landon C. Bell, Clearfield Company, Philadelphia, 1931, Library of Congress Catalogue Card Number 74-5468 Tax List for 1749 taken by William Caldwell "from Falling River to Little Ronoke River". Richard Parsons ....1 (pg 91) Christopher Parsons.....1 (pg 94) Tax List for 1750 taken by William Caldwell "from Falling River to Little Ronoke River". Richard Parsons....1 (pg 126) Christopher Parsons....1 (pg 128) LUNENBURG COUNTY, VIRGINIA LAND PATENTS 1746-1916, T.L.C. Genealogy, PO Box 403369, Miami Beach, Fl 33140-1369 Patent 28-487, 180 acres, January 10, 1748, Richard Parsons, both sides Banister E, mouth Rocky Branch Patent 28-488, 204 acres, January 10, 1748, Richard Parsons, both sides Great Cherrystone Cr. Patent 31-743, 1148 acres, September 10, 1755, Chirstopher Parsons, left side Cub Creek and both sides Maple Swamp HALIFAX COUNTY, VIRGINIA DEED BOOKS 2,3,4,5,&6, MARIAN DODSON CHIARITO, G929.3755661 C431haLt Denver Public Library, Denver, CO P. 131 20 June 1764 Christopher Gorman of Halifax Co. to John Gorman of same, for L10, 100 acres on the brances of Mill Cr., being the upper part of the land sd Gorman lives on... All houses, building ... Signed: Christopher (X) Gorman Wit: Shadrack Turner, Richard Parsons, Thomas Townsend Recorded 21 June 1764 P. 214 18 December 1766 Jeremiah Hatcher & Margate, his wife, of Mecklenburg Co. to John Adams of Halifax Co., for L30, 616 ac., part of a tract of 1,616 ac. granted to sd Hatcher 6 June 1765; on th e north sode of Banister Ri., beg. on sd river thence west... All appurtenances... Signed Jeremiah Hatcher Wit: Philemon Payne, John Pigg, Benja. Hatcher Recorded 18 December 1766 P. 217 18 Decmber 1766 Jeremiah Hatcher & Margate his wife, of Mecklenburg Co. to Richard Parsons of Halifax Co., for L70, 400 ac. beg. at a white oak th. north... All tress, woods, underwoods... Singed: Jeremiah Hatcher Wit: Philimon Payne, John Pigg, Benja. Hatcher Recorded 18 December 1766 P. 219 18 December 1766 Jeremiah Hatcher & Margate, his wife, of Mecklenburg Co. to Richard Parsons of Halifax Co., for L30, 600 ac., part of a tract of 1, 616 ac. granted sd Hatcher by patent 5 Jun e 1765 on Little Cherry Stone Cr., on the north side of Banister Ri., eg. on the south side of sd creek thence south.. All appurtenances.. Signed: Jeremiah Hatcher THE HISTORY OF PTTSYLVANIA COUNTY VIRGINIA by Maud Carter Clement, pages 53-54 "Hickey's road was authorized at a court held for Lunenburg in June, 1749: It is ordered that a road be laid off and cleared the best and most convenient way from Staunton River to the Mayo Settlemen t at the Wart Mountain, and it is ordered that Joseph Mayes and all the male Laboring Tithables convenient to the said road forthwith mark off and lay open the best and most convenient way from Staunton River to Allen's Creek and keep the same in repair according to law." "Richard Parsons is appointed surveyor of that part of the New Road leading from Staunton River to the Mayo Settlement at the Wart Mountain, to-wit from Allen's Creek to Banister River." "This road led from a point on Staunton River in Northern Halifax, by Mount Airy, Chalk Level and Chatham, crossing Banister River near the Poor Farm, and turning west led across Henry and Patrick counties. The eastern part of this road continues a well known highway today. It took its name from John Hickey, who had made a settlement and opened a store near its western limits." Page 62 "These upper inhabitants of Halifax had increased in numbers until now thay began to petition for more roads. In March, 1753, Richard Parsons and William Adkins were ordered to mark a road from the m outh of Snow Creek to Hickey's Road. In July the inhabitants on Pigg River and Snow Creek (Franklin County) petitioned for a road from the uppermost of the inhabitants to the Snow Creek Road, and Th omas Hall and William Hill were ordered to lay off the road. The following year the same inhabitants begged that the road laid off by Hall and Hill be extended to the top of the Blue Ridge, which wa s accordingly ordered, with Tully Choice as surveyor. This road led across Franklin County to the mountains." From the PITTSYLVANIA COUNTY VIRGINIA ABSTRACTS OF WILLS 1768-1800 the will of Richard Parsons (not dated) from the Deed and Will Book 11, p 159 lists daughter Hannah Madkiff (Midkiff) and her husband , Joseph Madkiff, daughter Agnes Madkiff and her husband John Madkiff, sons George, Joseph, John, Samuel, William and daughter Lyda (Lydia) and her husband Stephen Yates. Richard's wife's name is not given but the will states that he and his wife are living with Lyda and her husband Stephen. Executors were sons, Joseph and William, witnesses were, John Parks, Samuel Parks and Richard Johnson. ENTRY RECORD BOOK 1737-1770 (LAND ENTRIES IN THE PRESENT VIRGINIA COUNTIES OF HALIFAX, PITTSYLVANIA, HENRY, FRANKLIN, AND PATRICK) TRANSCRIBED BY MARLAN DODSON CHIARITO US/CAN 975.56R2c v.1 Joseph parsons 400 acx. Land on Little Cherrystone Cr. Adj.g the Lines of Richd. Parsons, Jos. Hixs and Richd. Southerlon's runing up Trans.d to Saml. Parsons 17 Sapr.1779) Also 400 on the Sth. of the Mill Cr. and Callaways Cabbin Running on Kennons Line and both sides of the new Waggon road for Complement. Thos. Dillard Jrnr. 400 Ac begin: on the upper Line of Richard Parsons's Land on Cherrystone Creek thence off and up both sides. (Surv.d W.S.) At a Council June 14, 1749 Richard Parsons had leave to take up 2000 Acres of Land including the Place he lives on and one other Survey on Mill Creek. Mem.d see if neither of these tra cts have not had the fees due for them return'd insolv.t. Richard Parsons 400 on the S. Side Mill Creek Begin: at Hugh Henry's Cornr. Maple thence up the Br. and Parallel with Parsons's old line. (Void) Richard Parsons 400 on both sides Sycamore Creek Begin: at a Beach on the Nth. Side the sd Creek mark't I E thence up and down. (Surv.d S.W.) Henry Pruett 400 on both sides the South Fork of Great Cherrystone Creek Begin: at Richard Parsons's upper line thence up both sides. (Surv.d J.T.) Elisha Walling 400 Acrs on both sides Br Cherry Stone Cr. begin: just below the Fork thence up including the Fork. for Richard Parsons Joseph Parsons 400 Acs. Land on Little Cherrystone Cr. Adj.g the Lines of Richd. Parsons, Jos. Hixs and Richd. Southerlon's and runing up. In Plea Book 1 of Halifax County Virginia, 1752-1755: " The petition of Richard Parsons to build a water grist mill is granted, he being proprietor of land on both sides Little Cherry Stone Creek, a djacent to his dwelling house Richard sold land, 100 acres each, to Joseph and George for 10 pounds in 1764. These were recorded in deed books of Halifax County. In Plea Book 1 of Halifax County Virginia, 1752-1755: " The petition of Richard Parsons to build a water grist mill is granted, he being proprietor of land on both sides Little Cherry Stone Creek, a djacent to his dwelling house." 1749 - Richard Parsons, surveyor, (Lunenburg Co) 1765 - George Parsons, Richard Parsons (Halifax Voters List) 1767 - Richard Parsons, to mark road from mouth of Snow Creek to Hickey's Road (Snow Creek later in Franklin Co) 1767 - John Parsons, Richard Parsons, George Parsons, Joseph Parsons (Camden Parish Tithes List) 1768 - George Parsons (Antrim Parish, Halifax Co) 1771 - Richard Parsons, Pitts Co Ct Order Records 1782 - Joseph Parsons, Pitts Co (written complaint) 1786 - George Parsons, Pitts Co Ct Order Records 1787 - William Parsons, Pitts Co Ct Order Records 1788 - Samuel Parsons, Pitts Co Ct Order Records 1796 - William Parsons, Pitts Co Ct Order Records Virginia Census of 1782 Pittsylvania County George Parsons 0 3 0 0 0 S1782 John Parsons 0 5 0 0 S1782 Joseph Parsons 0 8 0 0 S1782 Richard Parsons 0500 Samuel Parsons 0 3 0 0 S1782 William Parsons 0 3 0 0 S1782 | Parsons, Richard (I638)
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| 2080 | Fifth Census of the United States, 1830. (NARA microfilm publication M19, 201 rolls). Records of the Bureau of the Census, Record Group 29. National Archives, Washington, D.C. | Source (S252)
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| 2081 | Fifth Census of the United States, 1830. (NARA microfilm publication M19, 201 rolls). Records of the Bureau of the Census, Record Group 29. National Archives, Washington, D.C. | Source (S252)
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| 2082 | Fifth Census of the United States, 1830. (NARA microfilm publication M19, 201 rolls). Records of the Bureau of the Census, Record Group 29. National Archives, Washington, D.C. | Source (S252)
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| 2083 | Fifth Census of the United States, 1830. (NARA microfilm publication M19, 201 rolls). Records of the Bureau of the Census, Record Group 29. National Archives, Washington, D.C. | Source (S252)
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| 2084 | Fikk arv etter Anne Harboe Tuchsen født Frimann: Nummer 1 for 1832 Aar 1832 den 14de Februar blev Skifteretten sat paa Gaard- en Maaren i Klævolds Skibrede, ................................. .... afdöde Enke Frue Anne Harboe Tuchsen födt Frimann og .......... Mand Sognepræst Michael Sundt Tuchsen ....................................................................... ......................................................................................... Lodseddel No. 2. Enkefrue ........... ........................... Karen Fasting födt Tuchsen ...................... Kilde: http://arkivverket.no/URN:sk_read/24178/313/ Sogn og Fjordane Ytre Sogn sorenskriveri Skifteprotokoll A 18, 1828 - 1833 Folio 312 | Tuchsen, Karen Daae (I39525)
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| 2085 | fikk arv etter Anne Harboe Tuchsen født Frimann: Nummer 1 for 1832 Aar 1832 den 14de Februar blev Skifteretten sat paa Gaard- en Maaren i Klævolds Skibrede, ................................. .... afdöde Enke Frue Anne Harboe Tuchsen födt Frimann og .......... Mand Sognepræst Michael Sundt Tuchsen ....................................................................... ......................................................................................... Lodseddel No. 3 Enkefrue Sophie Amalie Michelet födt Tuchsen ........ http://arkivverket.no/URN:sk_read/24178/313/ Sogn og Fjordane Ytre Sogn sorenskriveri Skifteprotokoll A 18, 1828 - 1833 Folio 312 | Tuchsen, Sophia Amalia (I39542)
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| 2086 | Fikk arv etter Sophie Amalie von Tuchsen: Bergen Skifteprotokoll no. 6, 1772-1782. Appendix 31 Marti 1778, F 453: ... Generalinde Weinmans (Sophie Amalie Tuchsens) skifte begyndt den ... Feb. 1775 og ......den 18 Septb. 1777 og ..... 684 - 3 - 7 1/2 Anno 1778 den 31 Marti ......... Hendis broder Major Friderich Wilhelm von Tuchsen som er død og som efterlader sig 4 Sønner og 1 Datter. En broder i Preussen Johan Ludvig von Tuchsen, ... død og han efterladt sig 2s Sønner og 3s Døttre som alle tilsammen ..... 7 Brødre og 8h Døttre .... Broder Sønn Hr. Michael Sundt Tuchsen ligesaa 62 - 1 - 6 1/2 | Tuchsen, Michael (Severin) Sundt (I39519)
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| 2087 | fikk arv ved skifte etter Anne Harboe Tuchsen født Frimann | Tuchsen, Bergitte Munthe Finde (I39634)
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| 2088 | fikk arv ved skifte etter Anne Harboe Tuchsen født Frimann | Tuchsen, Olave Marie (I39515)
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| 2089 | Fikk trolig navn etter farmoren Kirsten Jensdatter. Alle hennes barn var døde ved skiftet. Nærmeste anrørende var fru Karen Daae sal. hr. major Fridrich Wilhelm Tuchsens hustru, madame Marie Daae sal. hr. lektor Leyrdahls samt hr. studiosus Anders Tuchsen. Arvingene var hennes avdøde søns, lektor på Kongsberg, etterlatte 3 barn, Hans Grøn 7 år, Jens Grøn 4 år og Cathrine Christine Grøn 10 år. | Daae, Christine (I39531)
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| 2090 | Filby, P. William, ed. <i>Passenger and Immigration Lists Index, 1500s-1900s</i>. Farmington Hills, MI, USA: Gale Research, 2012. | Source (S747)
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| 2091 | Filby, P. William, ed. <i>Passenger and Immigration Lists Index, 1500s-1900s</i>. Farmington Hills, MI, USA: Gale Research, 2012. | Source (S747)
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| 2092 | Filby, P. William, ed. <i>Passenger and Immigration Lists Index, 1500s-1900s</i>. Farmington Hills, MI, USA: Gale Research, 2012. | Source (S747)
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| 2093 | Filby, P. William, ed. <i>Passenger and Immigration Lists Index, 1500s-1900s</i>. Farmington Hills, MI, USA: Gale Research, 2012. | Source (S747)
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| 2094 | Filby, P. William, ed. <i>Passenger and Immigration Lists Index, 1500s-1900s</i>. Farmington Hills, MI, USA: Gale Research, 2012. | Source (S747)
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| 2095 | Filby, P. William, ed. <i>Passenger and Immigration Lists Index, 1500s-1900s</i>. Farmington Hills, MI, USA: Gale Research, 2012. | Source (S747)
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| 2096 | Filby, P. William, ed. <i>Passenger and Immigration Lists Index, 1500s-1900s</i>. Farmington Hills, MI, USA: Gale Research, 2012. | Source (S747)
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| 2097 | Filby, P. William, ed. <i>Passenger and Immigration Lists Index, 1500s-1900s</i>. Farmington Hills, MI, USA: Gale Research, 2012. | Source (S747)
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| 2098 | Filby, P. William, ed. <i>Passenger and Immigration Lists Index, 1500s-1900s</i>. Farmington Hills, MI, USA: Gale Research, 2012. | Source (S747)
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| 2099 | Filby, P. William, ed. <i>Passenger and Immigration Lists Index, 1500s-1900s</i>. Farmington Hills, MI, USA: Gale Research, 2012. | Source (S747)
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| 2100 | Film 0033270 Vol 15 Pg 236 December 15, 1806 William Parsons gives to his daughter, Elizabeth Farthing, a gift (horse). Will of William Parsons I William Parsons of Pittsylvania County State of Virginia being advanced in life and calling to mind the mortality of the body though at the time of sound and disposing memory do make this my Last Will and Testament as follows viz First I desire that all my just debts shall be speedly and promptly paid Secondly After my ebts & funeral expenses are paid I give to my beloved wife Mary Parsons the whole of my Estate both real & PErsonal or perishable of every kind during her natural life. Thirdly after the decease of my wife I give the whole of my land Viz fifty acres more or less to my Son Richard Parsons and that my unfortunate son Henry shall be supported out of my perishable Estate Agreeable to the will I wish of my wife to each of my other chidlren or their heirs of their body I give One dollar in additiion to what I have already given them. I do hereby constitute & ratify this my last will and testament all _________all others. In Testimony Whereof I have hereunto set my hand & seal this 22nd day of February One-Thousand eight hundrede & eighteen. Also I desire that Richard Jones shall be the whole & Sole Executor of the my Last Will Signed in the presence of Will _______ Richard (x) Parsons Molley (x) Farthing William (x) Parsons At a Court held for Pittsylvania County the 16 Day of March 1818 The Last will & Testament of William Parsons Decd was presented in Court and proved the Oaths of the three Witnesses thereunto subscribed and ordered to be recorded and Richard Jones the Executor named in Said will refusing to take upon himself the burden of the excution thereof on the motion of Mary Parsons widow of said William who made oath according to sa____ _____ James Barnett, Abner Farthing and Richard Parsons her securities entered into and acknowledged there bond in the Penalty of $500. Conditioned as the Law directs certificate is granted her for obtaining Letter of Administration _________________________ in due form | Parsons, William (I679)
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