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Colonel William Travers

Male 1644 - 1686  (42 years)


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  • Name William Travers 
    Title Colonel 
    Birth 1644  , , , England Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Gender Male 
    Death 1686  , Lancaster, Virginia, USA Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Person ID I788  Master
    Last Modified 17 Feb 2017 

    Father Rawleigh Travers,   b. 1622, , , , England Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 14 May 1670, , Richmond, Virginia, USA Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 48 years) 
    Mother Elizabeth Holsey,   b. 1622, , Richmond, Virginia, USA Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 1697, , Lancaster, Virginia, USA Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 75 years) 
    Marriage 1647  , Lancaster, Virginia, USA Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Family ID F826  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

    Family Rebecca Glascock,   b. 1652, , Lancaster, Virginia, USA Find all individuals with events at this locationd. , , Virginia, USA Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Marriage 1672  , Richmond, Virginia, USA Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Children 
    +1. Samuel Travers,   b. 1660, , Westmoreland, Virginia, USA Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 7 Apr 1698, , Richmond, Virginia, USA Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 38 years)
     2. Captain Rawleigh Travers,   b. 1665, , , , England Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 1691, , Lancaster, Virginia, USA Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 26 years)
    Family ID F6777  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
    Last Modified 17 Oct 2016 

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  • Notes 
    • Source: Wilson Miles Gray, "Pedigree of the Travers Family," William & Mary Quarterly, July, 1895, vol. 4, no. 1.)

      William Travers was born in England, and died Abt. 1685. He married Rebecca Brooks Bef. 1685

      (Source:
      (1) Susan E Roser, Mayflower Increasings, 2nd Edition, (1995, Genealogical Publishing Co., Baltimore, MD).,
      (2) William Richard Cutter, New England Families Genealogical and Memorial: Vol IV, (1913, Reprint, Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Co., 1996).,
      (3) Wilson Miles Gray, "Pedigree of the Travers Family," William & Mary Quarterly, July, 1895, vol. 4, no. 1.,
      (4) "William Travers Family, Maryland and Virginia," Colorado Genealogist, July, 1966, Vol. 27, No. 3, pp. 86-88.,
      (5) "Travers Family, Virginia," Coloardo Genealogist, March, 1967, Vol. 28, No. 1, pp. 22-24.,
      (6) "Schools in Virginia: John Farneffold's Free School," William and Mary College Quarterly Historical Magazine, Vol. 17, No. 4. (Apr., 1909), pp. 244-247.,
      (7) Edward W. James, "Libraries in Colonial Virginia," William and Mary Quarterly Historical Magazine, Volume 4, Issue 1 [Jul., 1895], 15-17.), daughter of George Brooks.

      Notes for Rebecca Brooks:

      Could be widow Hussey and/or a relative of Giles Hussey or Giles Coles and m. John Rice after the d. of Travers.

      Marriage Notes for William Travers and Rebecca Brooks:

      Index to Marriages of Old Rappahannock and Essex Counties, Virginia

      page 198

      : 1688,
      : RICE,
      : JOHN

      : Married Executrix of Col. William Travers

      Book: O 2,

      Page: 79
      Children of William Travers and Rebecca Brooks are:
      + 4 i. Samuel3 Travers, born in of Westmoreland Co., VA.
      5 ii. Rawleigh Travers, died 1701 in Richmond Co., VA. He married Sarah Traverner.
      Notes for Rawleigh Travers:
      Rawleigh Travers, Farnham Parish, 20 Feb 1701, 4 Mar 1701/02 cousins Elizabeth, Winifred and Rebecca Travers; godson Rawleigh Brooke 120 ac. out of the land I bought of Zachariah Nichols; wife Sarah 400 ac. called "Exeter Lodge", if she remarry, then to have only 300 ac.; Capt. Thomas Beale; Mrs. Thomas Beale; Mr. John Travener; Mrs. Peachy; Mrs. Slaughter; Mrs. Sarah Baylis; Dr. Robert Clarke; Edward Jones; Samuel Peachy; sis. Beale; no ex; wits: Samuel Peachy, Robert Clarke, Edward Jones.
      6 iii. William Travers (Source: Edward W. James, "Libraries in Colonial Virginia," William and Mary Quarterly Historical Magazine, Volume 4, Issue 1 [Jul., 1895], 15-17.).

    • William Travers (Politician)



      William Travers (Virginia politician)
      From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

      Col. William Travers (c. 1630 - 1679) was an early settler and politician of Colonial Virginia.

      William Travers was born in England around 1630. His brother was Rawleigh Travers who also emigrated to Virginia by 1653. The first record of William in the Colony was in 1656 when he was witness to a will. He received 500 acres of land on Morattica Creek from Thomas Chetwood in 1661.

      As Captain, with Colonel John Washington, Captain John Lee, Mr. William Mosely, and Mr. Robert Beverly, he was appointed to settle the bounds of Northumberland and Westmoreland Counties. He was given the title of by the Virginia House of Burgesses. In 1675, as Colonel of Rappanhannock Co., the Royal Council of Virginia appointed him to a commission to employ Indians in defense of the Colony.

      William was Burgess for Lancaster Co. and Speaker of the House of Burgesses in 1676. He married Rebecca (Brookes?). Their son Samuel married Frances Allerton the granddaughter of Mayflower passenger Isaac Allerton and great granddaughter of William Brewster. He died in Lancaster Co., Virginia in 1679.

      References

      Ancestral Records and Portraits: A Compilation from the Archives, Volume 2, Colonial Dames.