William Pinckney Womack

Other Events and Attributes:

• Occupation: farmer

William married Mary Ann Wheeler on 21 Mar 1848 in Warren County, Tennessee. Mary (daughter of Nathanial Wheeler and Catherine Grandstaff) was born on 25 Sep 1828 in Tennessee; died on 12 Dec 1914 in Warren County, Tennessee; was buried in Womack Cemetery, Warren County, Tennessee. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

1. Dillard Denton Womack was born on 13 Feb 1849 in Warren County, Tennessee; died on 14 Dec 1910 in Warren County, Tennessee.
2. Ascenith C. Womack was born on 27 Jul 1852 in Warren County, Tennessee; died on 31 Aug 1878 in (Warren County) Tennessee.
3. Franklin P(ierce) "Frank" Womack was born in 0___ 1855 in (Warren County) Tennessee; died on 20 Apr 1920 in Warren County, Tennessee; was buried in Womack Cemetery, Warren County, Tennessee.
4. Martha Evelyn Womack was born on 29 Oct 1856 in Warren County, Tennessee; died in 0Oct 1934 in Warren County, Tennessee; was buried on 27 Oct 1934 in Wood Cemetery, McMinnville, Warren County, Tennessee.
5. Pandora Prudence "Dora" Womack was born on 28 Feb 1859 in Warren County, Tennessee; died on 22 Oct 1922 in Warren County, Tennessee; was buried in Womack Cemetery, Warren County, Tennessee.
6. John Pinckney Womack was born on 27 May 1861 in Warren County, Tennessee; died on 25 May 1955 in Okemah, Ofuskee County, Oklahoma; was buried in Highland Cemetery, Okemah, Okfuskee County, Oklahoma.
7. Sarah Elizabeth "Betty" Womack was born on 1 Oct 1863 in (Warren County) Tennessee; died in 0Jul 1938 in White County, Tennessee; was buried in Old Philadelphia Cemetery, Center Point, White County, Tennessee.
8. Abner Clemmons "Clemmons" Womack was born on 11 Oct 1865 in Warren County, Tennessee; died on 25 Aug 1953 in Warren County, Tennessee; was buried in Mount View Cemetery, McMinnville, Warren County, Tennessee.
9. Mary P. Womack was born in 0___ 1868 in (Warren County) Tennessee.
10. Tennessee Gertrude "Tennie" Womack was born on 26 Sep 1870 in (Warren County) Tennessee.

Other Events and Attributes:

• Occupation: farmer/$1000

Notes:

http://www.womacknet.com/sources/wgv4n1.html

A BRIEF SKETCH OF THE WOMACKS IN THE UNITED STATES.

By Capt. J. J. Womack (5th child)

After a painstaking search and investigation of over forty years I now undertake to set forth the facts I have been able to gather concerning my genealogy. Nothing will be inserted in the following sketches that I do not know, or fully believe, to be literally true.

Womack is a Scotch name., and Abraham Womack, Isaac Womack and Jacob Womack., three brothers, emigrated from Wales, in 1615., and settled in Virginia; and from these brothers have descended all the Womack families now in the United States. From the names of these three patriarchs it is at once inferred that they sprang from Bible reading parents, consequently were Christian people.



Nothing definite is known to the writer of this sketch of the immediate descendants of these men.



Jesse Womack, of Va., is mentioned as Lieut. in Capt. Smith's Co., serving from Aug. 13, 1813 to March, 1814. He was born in 1789, in Va. and died in Madison Co.., Ga.

We find that one Abraham Womack, with his brothers Abner, David, Robert, William and Jacob and one sister, Dorothy, moved from Va. to East Louisiana and West Miss., but just at what time we have not been able to ascertain. Abraham and Jake Womack served as privates in Capt. William Georgets Co., 12 and 13 consolidated regiments., Louisiana Militia., and that Abraham was transferred from Capt. Georgets Co. Jan. 10, 1815, to Lieut. A. Kirklandts Mounted Men, twelfth Regiment, and served therein from Dec. 14., 1814P to March 109 1815. He and his brother Jake participated in the battle of New Orleans, under Gen. Jackson., and it is believed and claimed by his comrades that Jake Womack is certainly the man who killed Gen. Packingham.(NOTE: Others attribute this deed to a Michael Womack who left Tennessee and settled in and around Nashville AR. Draw your own conclusions.).

Abraham married Elizabeth Burton,, daughter of Col. Richard Burton of Wilks County, Ga., and was born in Burks County., Ga. and died in Georgia in 1800. He was the son of David Womack, who was the son of Jesse Womack, mentioned above., of Va., who was a Col. in the War of the Revolution, and participated in the battle of King's Mountain.

Iam indebted to Hon. W. L. Thompson, of Beaumont., Texas, whose mother was a Womack, for most of the foregoing facts.

He is a very intelligent gentleman, has served as State Senator repeatedly in the State of Louisiana and also in the State of Texas, and now lives in Beaumont, and is contributing to the effort being made to establish the true history of the Womack family.

Ifind that the masses of the family, both in the mother country and the U. S. have been tillers of the soil, preferring the humble, honest walks of life to the so-called higher spheres; yet there have been among them Colonels in the armies, judges on the bench and minor officials all down through the generations.

Having traveled and lived in more than thirty of the states of the Union, and met them in nearly all of them and traced their genealogy, I have readily found that we have all descended from the original three Scotchmen,who sailed from Wales and landed on the shores of Va. at Jamestown., or near there.



Thomas Womack, [b. 1743, in Va.] and his wife Louvisa Rice Womack were the ancestry of another branch of the family descended from one of the three., Abraham, Isaac and Jacob, who first came to America, from Scotland, and located in the vicinity of Jamestown, Va. Just how many generations down the line of descent they began life has not been ascertained, but from the most reliable data Thos. Womack was born in the latter part of the sixteenth century in Va. From Thomas and Louvisa have descended five brothers, (possibly others may have been in the family, as there is no mention of any daughters,) Anderson, Abner, William, James and George. All of whom were native Virginians, and migrated with their father to North Carolina.

Abner Womack, Eb. 177021 emigrated to Tennessee when about 40 years of age, and settled in the north part of Warren county, Tenn., near Collins River, where now stands a church and school house known as Cross Roads.

During the war between the states his family bible was lost, or destroyed, so that the exact dates of his birth and death are not known. but by computation he was born about 1750, and died about 1855, at his home above described. He came to Tennessee in 1791.

He was one of God's Noblemen., and a member of the Old Baptist church, a highly respected citizen and a good farmer. He married Miss Martha Byars, who was born in Spartanburg Co., S. C., and to them were born twenty-two children, fourteen of whom lived into mature manhood and womanhood, and everyone good and upright citizens. Their names v in the order of seniority, were William, John, Nathan, Burgess, Abner Clemmons, Ransom Pinkney, Robert B., Greenberry H., with six sisters among them as follows: Martha, Elizabeth, Lucy, Lecyp Mary and Drucilla.

Some of these brothers emigrated to Alabama, some to Mississippi and Louisiana, some to Illinois, Indiana and Missouri, while others remained in Tennessee where there is at this time a very extensive connection --- too extensive to be followed in this sketch further than to state that each and all made good citizens wherever they lived; all were believers in the Christian religion, and most of them became members of some branch of the Christian church. Only two of them abandoned agricultural pursuits, one became a clergyman and the other a doctor.



Abner Clemmons Womack was born Feb. 8y 1799 in Rutherford County., NC and emigrated with his father to Tennessee when a small boy.

As such he was an active helper in felling the trees and clearing

the lands heretofore mentioned at Cross Roads, where he grew to manhood under the eyes of a careful and industrious father and a loving and devoted mother.

He married Aseneth Hand, daughter of Samuel and Mary Hand, who was born May 27, 1804, Rutherford Co. N. C.., at the home of her parents, now known as the Nathan Byars farm, five miles due north of McMinnville, Tenn.

To them were born eleven children, six sons and five daughters; ten of whom grew to maturity, the fourth one died in early infancy.



They lived in the Cross Roads neighborhood till after their sixth child was born, when they purchased and moved to the place on the McMinnville and Short Mountain road, seven miles N.W. of McMinnville, where their oldest son. W. P. Womack, now lives and has resided the last forty years.

Two years later, in 1834, they bought and moved one mile south to the place which was their home to the close of their lives.

At this time the country round about was almost an unbroken forest, and only here and there a settlement within a radius of two miles. On this purchase there was only two log cabins and two little cultivated patches of ground.

Here they settled for life and went to work, and by rigid economy and close application to business they succeeded in their under taking.

As the years rolled by they added acre after acre and tract after tract to their first purchase, until they could travel two miles north and south and one mile east and west on their own territory. Meantime adding other buildings to the home, erecting commodious barns and cribs, sinking wells for more convenient water, etc. Never after the writer of this sketch was old enough to recollect common things, was there a year when there was not live stock and other products of the farm for market.

My father was a peculiar man in some things, (better to say consciencious)---he believed corn grown on his farm cost him fifty cents per bushel and that when his neighbor was in need he ought not to sell him for any more than that,, and if it was very scarce the neighbor who could not pay cash was a preferred customer.

One year when I was a boy almost the whole county had failed to make corn, and many could not get enough for their bread, he divided with them and refused others who offered cash---I thought that strange! The people that year had to go down in Smith and Dekalb counties for corn - they called it going to Egypt, which I did not understand then.

Religously he and my mother were both "Old Two Seeded Baptist"., but neither connected themselves with any church. Their idea of the true Christian was so exalted, so far above and beyond their ability to live, that they doubted their fitness for membership in the church, and therefore would never consent to membership although urged to do so by their pastor.

Politically they were Jeffersonian Democrats, and all their sons grew up democrats.

The first three of these sons, William Pinkney, Samuel Marion and Abner Monroe enclined strictly toward the farm for an occupation and bought lands adjoining the old homestead and later each became, by purchase, owner of parts of the home tract; Pinkney and Monroe getting theirs off the north and Sam off the east side.

Pink and Monroe, like their father, remained through their lives on their purchases, but Samll M. sold and bought again on the south side of Charles Creek, at Yager, two miles south of the old home where he died.

The three younger sons, the writer of this sketch., Burgess Riley and John Byars did not select the farm for an occupation, as the older sons did. They seemed enclined to a wider field for an occupation.

All these brothers espoused the Southern side in the war between the states, and all, except William P., who was invalid, were actively engaged., and all went through, except the youngest, John B.., who was killed on the 30 day of Nov. 1864, in the charge on the works at Franklin, Tennessee.

He was a valiant soldier, always at his post of duty and ready for any emergency. He was unable for duty and could have been excused from duty on the day he fell but elected to go into the battle, and was near the enemyts works when the fatal Minny ball crushed through his brain.

He was unmarried and twenty-five years old and a Christian gentleman. He laid down his books, left the schoolhouse and loved ones at home, everything near and dear to him., rather than sur render his constitutional rights as an American citizen and as a citizen of the State of Tennessee.

Burgess Riley was the eighth member and fifth son in the family, born Dec. 16, 1836, and now living. With the other brothers he worked and grew to manhood on the farm,, receiving only a good common school education. At the age of twenty-two he married Miss Mary Webb, daughter of Wadkins and Sarah Webb, who lived ten miles north of McMinnville, Tenn. To them were born three boys and four girls.

At the age of twenty he began the study of law under Col. Thos. B. Murray, in McMinnville. Before beginning practice, in the year 1858, father having been elected county tax collector, he was made deputy collector, and his work was accepted as satisfactory.

From some cause he abandoned the idea of practicing law and began merchandising and farming and continued in these until the war between the States began, 1861, when he volunteered his services on the Confederate side and was elected first lieutenant in Company B, Capt. Jno. W. Towles, 5th Regiment Confederate Infantry, Col. Ben J. Hill.

In the Battle of Shilo, (Pittsburg Landing) he commanded his company, April 6 and 7, 1862,, and was in the thickest of the fight both those terrible days, coming through much fatigued but other wise unharmed.

After this battle his health gave down, and in the summer follow ing he was discharged from the service and went home, where he remained until his health was restored, when he joined Murray's Battalion, in the latter part of December., 1862, just in time to participate in the battle of Murfreesboro. In this engagement he was acting quartermaster and ordinance master of his battalion.

After-the battle at Murfreesboro Murray's Battalion was allowed to return to Tennessee, having gone with the regular calvary as far south as Tupelo, Mississippi, and here he was captured and thrown into prison, and rather than remain in prison, there being no chance for exchange, he was released on parole of honor and returned home. Here, after the war was over and the remanant of the soldiers had come home he again went back to the farm and store at the same old stand and continued there until March 1874, when he removed to Smithville Tenn., and engaged in the practice of his originally intended profession. He remained about one year and went to Cookeville, Putman county, Tenn., and continued the practice of law in partnership with Hon. B. M. Webb, his Brother-in law. While here in 1878, he lost his wife. In Sept. 1879, he again married, this time Miss Leonova L. Lisk, daughter of William Lisk.

In connection with his law practice here he conducted a news paper, The Cookeville Times.

In the latter part of 1881 he emigrated with his family to Weatherfordp Parker county., Texas and engaged in hotel business., and continued in that work over twenty years; when he sold out and retired to private life., having accumulated a competence for the evening of life.

At this writing he and his second wife still reside in Weatherford surrounded by his children, loved and respected by a large circle of friends and neighbors, in robust health for a man in his seventy-third year.

Abner married Ascenith Hand on 17 Jun 1821 in Warren County, Tennessee. Ascenith (daughter of Samuel James Hand and Mary Campbell) was born on 27 May 1804 in Rutherford County, North Carolina; died on 25 Jul 1877 in Warren County, Tennessee; was buried in Womack Cemetery, Warren County, Tennessee. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Occupation: farmer
• Residence: 1805, Warren County, Tennessee
• Probate: 7 Jan 1856, Warren County, Tennessee

Notes:

Will of Abner Womack, Warren County, Tennessee
From Generations of Thomas A and Louvisa Rice Womack, by Oscar B Womack

Warren Co, TN Will Book 3, p.279

The last will and testament of Abner Womack, deceased.

I, Abner Womack do make and publish this my last will and testament, hereby revoking and making void all other wills by me at any time made.

First, I direct that my funeral expenses and all my debts be paid as soon after my death as possible, out of any moneys that I may die in possession of or that come into the hands of my executor.

Secondly. I give and bequeath unto my beloved wife, Martha Womack, a certain tract or parcel of land lying and being in the county of Warren and State of Tennessee, on Mountain Creek, it being the same tract that I am possessed of by my marriage to her. I also direct that she have one the first choice of my cows and calves, also a choice two or three year old heifer or steer, also a choice bedstead and furniture and half the bedclothing now in my possession. One brass mounted bureau, a choice set of plates, teacups and saucers and dish, also choice of three knives and forks, three chairs and three glasses, the smallest size kettle, a choice pot and skillet, all her own clothing and the value of five dollars in small articles not herein mentioned together with twenty-five dollars in good and lawful money out of my effects, also a small dining table. I also desire that my beloved wife shall be treated with all the respect due a faithful and virtuous step-mother by each and every one of my children and that they at no time see her in need without ministering to her relief.

Thirdly. Having given something more or less to all my children and not having any correct knowledge of the amount, I therefore desire that no account be taken of it.

Fourthly, I also desire that all my lands, negroes, horses, cattle, hogs, and sheep and every other description of property that I am possessed of, be sold and the proceeds thereof be equally divided between all m children or their heirs (that is to say), William, John, Nathan, Burgess, Drucilla, Abner C., Lucy, Elizabeth, Ransom P., Artelera, Robert B., Mary, Berry H., and Martha.

Lastly. I do hereby appoint Burgess H. and Ransom P. my executors. In witness I do to this my last will set my hand and seal this 28th day of December, 1842.

Abner Womack (seal)

Signed, sealed and published in our presence.
W. T. Christian
Henry Watkins
Hiram Christian

I also desire that my wife, Martha, {have?} a spinning wheel and cards and her own looking glass, candle stand, and candlestick, also one white flowered pitcher. In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and seal this 21st of January 1843.

Abner Womack (seal)

Attest.
W. T. Christian
Henry Watkins
Hiram Christian

State of Tenn. Warren County. January term County Court 1856.
This day the will was proven by the oath of W.T. Christian, one of the subscribing witnesses to this will and also the oath of proven the handwriting of Henry Watkins and Hiram Christian, they living in another State, and ordered by the court to be spread {?} of record.
Given under my hand at office in McMinnville, this 7th day of January 1856.
R, McGregor, clk.

Moved to Warren Co. about 1810...Gina R. Glenn.
14 out of 22 children lived to adulthood...Gina R. Glenn.

Abner married Martha Druscilla ByarsCaswell County, North Carolina. Martha (daughter of Nathan Byars and Drucilla Harrelson) was born on 31 Dec 1774 in Granville County, North Carolina; died in 0___ 1822 in Warren County, Tennessee. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Birth: 31 Dec 1774, Spartanburg, South Carolina

Notes:

Middle name of, "Druscilla", cited... http://www.larrygen.com/TNG%20Genealogy/getperson.php?personID=I8147&tree=larry

Other Events and Attributes:

• Military: Revolutionary War Patriot

Notes:

Revolutionary War Captain.

Samuel HAND, Private, SC Militia, $46.66 Annual Allowance, $139.98 Amount Received, October 14, 1833 Pension Started, Age 73; applied 6 Oct 1832, Warren Co, TN aged 71, declared he had lived in Union Dist SC at enlistment & aft 1781 he moved to Washington Co, TN for 3 yrs, then moved back to York Dist SC for 20 yrs, then moved to Pulaski Co Ky for 4 yrs, then to Bedford Co TN a few mths then to Rutherford Co, TN for 2-3 yrs, then to Warren Co, TN; was born 11 Jun 1761 in New Jersey. His widow, Mary, applied 7 Jun 1844 Warren Co, TN aged about 69, and declared they had married in 1792, that he had died 19 Jun 1840. Children named were: Elkins b 12 Oct 1783, Afee b 10 Mar 1786, Temperance b 28 Feb 1788; and James C. was his 1st child by his 2nd wife and was b 10 Mar 1793, then Elizabeth, b 3 Sep 1795, Jene b 18 Jan 1798, William Bradford HAND b 2 Jan 1801, Asenath b 27 Mar 1804, Harriet b 16 Dec 1809 & Nanch [Nancy? Nance?] b 20 Oct 1812. Also shown: Abner C. WOMACK b 10 Feb 1832, James Jackson WOMACK b 7 Jul 1834, the exact relationship of the WOMACK births not stated. (RW Pension File W10) See also Combs-Hand families of Surry Co NC . Re possible naming patterns, see Asenath ELLIS Combs of Wilkes Co NC and Tempie Combs (unidentified) of Warren Co, TN. Question: Has Tempie HAND been identified?

http://ftp.rootsweb.ancestry.com/pub/usgenweb/tn/statewide/military/warof1812/pensions/pen1835.txt

SAMUEL HAND
WARREN COUNTY
PRIVATE
SOUTH CAROLINA MILITIA
$46.66 ANNUAL ALLOWANCE
$139.98 AMOUNT RECEIVED
OCTOBER 14, 1833 PENSION STARTED
AGE 73

1840 Warren County Census, p. 9: "James Hand: M02120010001; F1112001001
RW - Samuel Hand, 85 yrs.".

Samuel married Mary Campbell in 0___ 1792 in (York County) South Carolina. Mary was born in 0___ 1775 in South Carolina; died on 5 Sep 1858 in Warren County, Tennessee. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Alt Death: ~ 1790, Burke County, North Carolina

Notes:

Excellent websites for WOMACK:

http://donwomack.blogspot.com/2008/02/generation-one-william-womack.html
http://www.womacknet.net/

Possible antecedents for Thomas...

Posted By: Donna Morris
Email: donna1507@centurytel.net
Subject: Re: William Womack, The Immigrant
Post Date: February 22, 2009 at 12:21:53
Message URL: http://genforum.genealogy.com/womack/messages/1864.html
Forum: Womack Family Genealogy Forum
Forum URL: http://genforum.genealogy.com/womack/


Cody - hope you are still at this e-mail address. Saw your 10 year old post. My husband is the Womack line as follows:

Wm. B., the immigrant - 1607 Eng. - 1677 Va.
John Sr - 1653 Va.-1726 Va.
Abraham Sr. - 1678 Va.- 1700 Va.
Abraham Jr. - 1692 Va. - 1747 Va.
Thomas - 1724 Va. - abt. 1799 N.C.
Bird (Byrd) - 1772 Va. or N.C. - ?
Thomas John - 1808 Ga. - ? Ga.
Wm. "Larkin" - 1832 N.C. - 1863 Ga.
John Henry - 1856 Ga. - 1940 Ga.
Wm. Larkin - 1878 Al. - 1968 Ga.
Eugene Henry - 1900 Ga. - 1972 Ga.
Jeanette Womack Morris - 1924 Ga. Still living (my husband's mother).

I would love to have a copy of your Womack file. Hope my e-mail will accept it. If not I will gladly pay any costs to send it snail mail. My address is

Donna Morris
186 Ricky Lane
Pell City, Al. 35128

Thanks in advance.
Donna

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..."Thomas Womack (son of Abraham, son of Thomas) who married Louvisa Rice"...http://rebgen.blogspot.com/search?q=rice

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Click here for the "Descendants of Thomas and Louvisa Rice Womack Revised Version - Oct 14 2000"... http://dubbie.tripod.com/thomas/thomas.html


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Follow the links on this page to view Thomas' antecedents (no proof offered)... http://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Womack-242

Found another Ahnentafel report (5-Generations) for Thomas, again, no sources are cited... http://www.larrygen.com/TNG%20Genealogy/ahnentafel.php?personID=I7545&tree=larry&parentset=0&generations=10

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More on Thomas, blog written by Robert Burke...

1) The children of Thomas/Louvisa were Lucy, Anderson, Abner, Abraham, James, William, and George, in more or less that order. There was no Thomas or Lewis that I know of. The Thomas or Lewis attributed as a son of Thomas/Louvisa was actually Thomas Womack, son of William Womack (son of Isham) & Lucy Womack (dau of Thomas/Louvisa). More on that below.

People ask me how I "know" that George Womack was a son. No one knows for sure, because there aren't any probate or deed or Bible records that list the children of Thomas/Louvisa. However, from the letter of Francis Marion Womack, dated 1905, (http:// www.womacknet.com/features/fmwletter.html ), we know that Lucy and Abner were children.

Captain James Jackson Womack wrote a sketch of the Womack family circa 1909 (http://www.womacknet.com/sources/ wgv4n1.html ) in which he lists 5 brothers as the children of Thomas Womack and Louvisa Rice: Anderson, Abner, William, James and George.

We can add Abraham Womack as a son as well, since he is the right age to be a sibling of the other 5, he appears in records with them, and Thomas's father was Abraham Womack. In fact, all 6 sons of Louvisa were with her in the 1790 census of Rutherford Co, NC. Abner must have married around the time of the census, because he is listed a second time as head of household in Spartanburg Co, SC, which is adjacent to Rutherford.

2) Francis Marion Womack's letter had just a little to say about his uncle Thomas Womack: "Thomas Womack had a wife and two children. He died. I never knew what became of his wife and children." Rev Christenberry Lee (http://rebgen.blogspot.com/2010/02/womack-blanton- reminiscences-of.html ) described a "Lewis Womack", son of Anderson, who married Manima Padgett and had children Isham and Leah, before dying young.

Rutherford Co, NC court records indicate Minimy Womack was given letter of administration on the estate of Thomas Womack, deceased, in July 1809. Alanson Padgett (male) was the bondsman of Leah Womack's marriage to Sampson McDaniel. Christenberry Lee made several mistakes, such as saying Sarah Womack, wife of Jeremiah Blanton, was the daughter of Thomas Womack [and Louvisa Rice], when she in fact was the daughter of William Womack and Lucy Womack, as stated in Francis Marion Womack's letter. "Lewis Womack" was actually Thomas Womack, and he was not the son of Anderson Womack, but rather of William Womack and Lucy Womack. He had a wife and two children, and then died, exactly as Francis Marion Womack described; Francis never knew what became of them because they stayed in NC when most of the rest of this family moved to TN, and later AL.

3) David Womack who married Esther Tanner in Rutherford Co, NC was almost certainly a grandson of Thomas/Louvisa. He was probably the son of William/Lucy, and Francis Marion Womack forgot about him when he listed his uncles and aunts. He might have been Anderson's son, but the census records don't seem to fit. He was in the same military company in the War of 1812 as Thomas Womack, who was certainly Anderson's son. David's daughter Louisa E Womack, married Squire Rutherford Davis on 23 Nov 1832 in Union Co, KY. In 1829, Louisa Womack had been a buyer at her fathers estate sale in Union Co, KY. See the bio of Andrew Jackson Davis (http:// freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~bryant/obits/ Davis_Andrew_Jackson.html). It states that Squire R Davis was born in Warren Co, TN, where of course, the majority of thedescendants of Thomas/Louvisa wound up. Squire R Davis was likely related to the big Davis clan that intermarried with Anderson Womack's kids.

Thomas married Louvisa Rice in 1760 in Halifax County, Virginia. Louvisa (daughter of John Rice and Mary Finney) was born in 1745 in Halifax County, Virginia; died in 1828-1830 in Rutherford County, North Carolina. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Posted By: Paul Womack
Email: paulwomack11@msn.com
Subject: Re: Louvisa Rice wife of Thomas Womack
Post Date: September 21, 2006 at 18:57:57
Message URL: http://genforum.genealogy.com/womack/messages/1687.html
Forum: Womack Family Genealogy Forum
Forum URL: http://genforum.genealogy.com/womack/

Well Fay, it does get interesting. Here is what I have:
In the US Census of 1790 Louvisa is listed in Rutherford County N.C. as a 'Head of Family' with 2 males over 16 years (Abraham & Abner) and 4 males under 16 (William, James, Thomas Jr & David). Lucy (the eldest child and only girl) is not listed as part of this family during this census because she was married a distant cousin - William Womack- in the late 1780's

In the 1800 Census, Louvisa is still listed in Rutherford County N.C., but with only 1 male 26-45yrs(probably Thomas Jr) and 1 male 16-25 yrs (David). Louvisa is listed as 'over 45' when in fact she is probably over 50. By the time her youngest son David marries in 1809, she is about 60 yrs old.

At the time of David's death in 1828, it appears the Louvisa(about 85 yrears old) is still living with David and Esther, because she is named as purchaser of some property at the sale to settle his estate.
In the 1830 census, no mention is found of her, therefore it is assumed that she died sometime between late 1828 and 1830. It is unknown exactly where she died; possibilities include Ky , Illinois, Missouri, and possibly Iowa.

20 Sep 2009:

http://files.usgwarchives.org/nc/burke/census/morgandis.txt

This census is from Microcopy No. T-498 Roll 2

"Womack, Louisa 2,4,1,0,0"

1790 Census North Carolina
Rutherford County Morgan District

2 of 1st # free white males 16 year upwards and head of families
4 of 2nd # free white males under 16 years
1 of 3rd # free white females and head of families
0 of 4th # all other free persons
0 of 5th # slaves

Other Events and Attributes:

• Burial: Byars-Ezell Cemetery, Chesnee, Cherokee County, South Carolina
• Military: Revolutionary War Patriot

Notes:

Big news from the Byars dna project.

Recent dna results prove that James (Henry) Byars of Hanover Co, VA is NOT the ancestor of Nathan b 1749, William who married Sarah Doggett or William who married Elizabeth Bedford. DNA from a proven descendant of James through his documented son Capt John, matches with dna from a descendant of the Byars who went from Granville Co into West Tennessee.

NO CONNECTION to old Nathan, William or William

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22 Aug 2014: I spoke to Clovis Byars Herring, the "Grand-Dame" of BYARS historians, and she concurs...

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Saturday, November 24th, 2018: I found, John Harris Byars, along with many other 2nd-5th cousins citing the common ancestor of James Henry Byars. This is a repudiation of Clovis Byars Herring's note. I tried to call her however both telephone lines were disconnected. I sent her an email for her comment...DAH

Mr. John Harris Byars
PROFILE
NOTES
Email
jjbyars62@roadrunner.com

Earliest Known Ancestor
Paternal: James Henry Byars b. 1713 and d. 1792

Maternal: Elizabeth Adams b. 1837 and d. 1911

Haplogroup
Y-DNAR-M269
mtDNAN/A

https://www.familytreedna.com/my/family-finder/chromosome-browser

Biography

Nathan Byars is an NSSAR Patriot Ancestor. http://www.sar.org/
NSSAR Ancestor #: P126851 http://patriot.sar.org/fmi/iwp/cgi?-db=Grave%20Registry&-loadframes
Rank: Private

Nathan Byars served North Carolina during the American Revolution
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Nathan married Drusilla Harrelson between 1770 and 1772 in North Carolina. The date is uncertain because Drusilla was listed as "Drusilla Harrilson" in her father's will dated 9 May 1772 in Orange County, North Carolina. Does this indicate that she was still unmarried in 1772? It would seem likely.[1]

Nathan married second Delphia Logan 8 October 1819 in Spartanburg County, South Carolina.[2]

http://logan-family.org/doc/byars.html This site put up by Joe Logan

Some of the other information comes from the following records:

Family Data Collection - Births U.S. and International Marriage Records, 1560-1900 U.S. Veterans Gravesites, ca.1775-2006

Nathan Byars article from Bridges to the Past

An article about Nathan Byars appeared in the "Bridges to the Past" column of the Forest City This Week newspaper on July 14, 1971. It was reprinted as part of the book Bridges to the Past HYPERLINK "http://logan-family.org/doc/byars.html" \l "S4#S4" 4 by Roy Brooks and Mrs. Ernest Newton. The information in the article is attributed to a Mrs. C.M. Moser of Shelby, N.C. The article includes details from Nathan Byars' pension application. It indicates he purchased land that included the Cowpens battlefield, and he was buried 1/2 mile from the Cowpens battle monument. The article also includes the following listing of the "known children of Nathan Byars and Drucilla (Harrelson) Byars". No sources are provided for the information on his children:

Martha (b. Dec 31, 1774) married Abner Womack
George (b. about 1773)
Nancy (b. 1776) married Thaddeus Dudley Walker
Nathan (Jr.) (b. about 1770)
John (b. 1777) married Mary Ann "Passer" Logan, daughter of John and Pamey Collins Logan [Note: Yes, these are the correct spellings as listed in this article]
Harrell (b. 1781) married Jane (?)
Elizabeth, married (1st) Daniel Watkins and (2nd), Enoch Anderson
Robert (b. 1786)
Joseph
Drury
Deliah (b. 1785) (died 1860) married Robert Martin (1783-1865) ***
Jackson, known to be by Nathan's second wife Delphy (Logan) Byars
Nathan Byars article from Warren County (TN) Genealogical Association Bulletin

An article about Nathan Byars appeared in the Warren County Genealogical Association Bulletin in the Fall of 2000. HYPERLINK "http://logan-family.org/doc/byars.html" \l "S34#S34" 34

The article is attributed to Marjorie Stewart Tucker. It includes substantial information about Nathan Byars and his two wives Drucilla Harralson and Delphy Logan. It goes into some detail on Nathan's pension application and Drucilla's request for a divorce. However the article doesn't provide indication of any Nathan's parents and doesn't attempt to enumerate all his children. Some points from the article are as follows:

Indicates Nathan took the State Oath of Allegiance on May 22, 1778 according to the Acts of the Assembly passed at New Bern the November 15, 1777. He was among 77 persons in the Island Creek District (Granville County) doing so. Also taking the oath was a William Byars who the article indicates may have been a brother to Nathan. At the end of the article the following source is referenced which may be the source of the information on the Oath of Allegiance: State Records of North Carolina, Vol 22, pp. 174-5, 1907.
Identifies a daughter Elizabeth who married Daniel Watkins, Sr.
Indicates he had land transactions in Granville, Caswell, Rutherford, and Spartanburg Counties. It includes the statement that "On Apr 13, 1802 he sold lands secured by title bond and gave possession to Arthur Clark the whole of 8 plantations containing 1,250 acres". The source for this piece of information is not indicated.
Includes details of his marriage and divorce of Drucilla Harralson, as well as his subsequent marriage to Delphy Logan. Regarding his divorce from Drucilla, it quotes papers from the General Assembly of the State of North Carolina, the Burke County Court of Equity, and The North Carolina Genealogical Society Journal (Vol III, No. 1, Feb. 1977, pp. 43-45).
Indicates that Drucilla's son-in-law, Thaddeus Dudley Walker, helped her get some money from Nathan. Rutherford Co., NC Deed Book 25, page 174 is quoted. Drucilla received 50 pounds as a result of an execution issuing from the Superior Court of Burke County.
References a photo of Nathan Byars' cabin taken April 14, 1978. The cabin was on the grounds of the Cowpens National Battlefield but has since been torn down.
Includes details of his purchase of the Cowpens Battlefield property as well as his subsequent loss of the land when it was seized to pay his debts.
Nathan Byars information from Haralson Book

The book "Haralson - Harrelson Family History and Lineage" HYPERLINK "http://logan-family.org/doc/byars.html" \l "S17#S17" 17 by Danny K. Haralson lists the following children of Nathan Byars and Drucilla (Drucetta) Haralson. No source for this information is indicated.

Nathan Byars
Drucilla Jane Byars
Martha Byars
John Byars
Harrel Byars
Elizabeth Byars
Nancy Byars
George Byars
Robert Byars
Andrew Byars ?
Nathan Byars article from Madison County (AR) Musings

An article by Bobbie Byars Lynch entitled "The Great First Lady of Arkansas" HYPERLINK "http://logan-family.org/doc/byars.html" \l "S33#S33" 33 appeared in the Winter 2002 issue of Madison County (AR) Musings. It details how Celia Alta Faubus, the wife of Gov. Orval Faubus, was descended from Nathan and Drucilla Byars' daughter Martha who married Abner Womack, son of Thomas and Louvisa Rice Womack. It indicates Martha was born 31 December 1774 in Virginia and died in 1820 in Warren County, TN. The author indicates she descends from Nathan and Drucilla's son Harrell who was born in 1781 in NC. The following children of Nathan and Drucilla are listed:

Drucilla Jane Byars Womack
Nathan Byars, Jr.
George Byars
Martha Byars Womack
Elizabeth Byars Watkins
Nancy Byars Walker
John Byars
Harrell Byars, Sr.
Joseph Byars
Robert Byars
The article indicates that Nathan divorced Drucilla and married a second time to Delphia Logan on 2 January 1800.**** They had two children, Delila Byars, born 1802, married Robert Martin; and Jackson Byars, born 1815 at Cowpens, SC, married "a girl named Tabitha". [Note: A statment from Joshua Richards found in Nathan Byars pension file indicates that the marriage date of Nathan and Delphia was 8 October, 1819.] *****

George Byars article from Granville County Queries

An article by Gail Shepard Tomlinson entitled "Three Generations of Descendants of George Byars of Granville County, N.C." HYPERLINK "http://logan-family.org/doc/byars.html" \l "S51#S51" 51 appeared in the Nov 1997 issue of Granville County Queries. It is two page article that details the descendants of George Byars, b. Circa 1748, d. 1785 at Granville Co, NC. Some points from the article are as follows:

George Byars' will in Granville Co., 1785 mentioned wife Mary, son Nicholas, daughter Barbara, and two minors of unproven relationship: Christina Hoofman and George
Census
The 1790 census, Rutherford County, North Carolina, lists Nathan Bias [Byars]. In his household are 4 males under age 16, 2 males age 16 and over (Nathan and probably his son Nathan Jr), and 6 females (including wife Drucilla and 5 daughters).[3]

The 1800 census for Nathan has not yet been located. In 1810 he is living in Rutherford County, North Carolina. There are some anomalies in this census record. Nathan is listed as 1 male age 45 and over. In his household are 1 female age 26 to 44 and 1 female under age 10. Nathan and Drucilla did not have any children born after 1800, so the daughter born between 1800-1810 cannot be Drucilla's daughter. The adult female age 26-44 (b 1766-1784), presumably Nathan's wife, cannot be Drucilla who was born about 1750.

We know that Nathan and Drucilla were divorced, but I have yet to locate the actual date of the divorce. It appears as if it was around 1800, or at least they were separated by that time. One source gives the marriage date of Nathan and his second wife Delphia Logan as 2 January 1800. The actual marriage record gives the date of 8 October 1819. Nathan and Delphia are said to have a daughter, Delila, born in 1802 and a son, Jackson, born in 1815. It seems to me that the 1810 federal census includes Nathan, Delphia and their daughter Delila.[4]


Sources
? Orange County Will Book A, p.152 as cited on Byars Family
? Byars Family
? "United States Census, 1790", database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:XHKB-PP2 : 29 May 2015), Nathan Bias, 1790.
? "United States Census, 1810", database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:XHL9-FX5 : 1 December 2015), Nathan Byars, 1810.
Source: Southern Campaign American Revolution Pension Statements & Rosters Nathan Byars.
Source:Find A Grave Nathan Byars, Memorial# 74053197.

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Click here for information and a slide show of Nathan's burial site and Revolutionary War records, documented and presented by John McLain...

http://logan-family.org/photos/Nathan_Byars_grave/slideshow/p007.html

Served 3 three-month tours during Revolutionary War and volunteered for three months duty in the Indian Wars. DAR Patriot Index, Vol. II, p.5.

Inscription: Pvt Continental Line Revolutionary War, Replacement stone, original is in Park Storage.

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Majorie Stewart Tucker writes,

Nathan Byars was born in 1749, Granville Co., NC, d. Aug. 18, 1846, Spartanburg District, SC. He m.1st. after 1772 (date of Burgess Harrelson's will), Drucilla Harrelson, b. ca 1743-50, d. probably ca 1818, dau. of Burgess Harrelson and wife, Elizabeth.

The will of Burgess Harrelson was made Oct. 9, 1772, in Orange Co., NC. In it he named his daughter, Drucilla Harrelson and gave her two hundred acres of land, indicating that Drucilla was not married when the will was written.

Nathan Byars is buried in the Cowpens National Park, Cherokee County, SC. His tombstone reads "In Memory of Nathan Byars Sen. who died Aug. 18, 1846 in his 97th year." Note - Cherokee Co., SC was formed 1897 from Union, York, and Spartanburg Counties.

Nathan Byars served as a Private from North Carolina during the Revolutionary War. On May 22, 1778, he took the State Oath of Allegiance according to the Acts of the Assembly passed at New Bern the 15th day of November, 1777, in the second year of the Independence of the State of North Carolina, being one of seventy- seven persons in the Island Creek District so doing. Among this number was also one William Byars, who may have been his brother.

While a resident of Caswell County, North Carolina, Nathan Byars was drafted three times and served three months each tour. He then volunteered a tour of three months and went south against the Indians. He was stationed principally at Hillsborough, NC. On Dec. 31, 1844, at the advanced age of ninety-five years, when he applied for his Military Pension, Nathan was unable to remember the exact date of his birth or the exact dates of his service.

He did remember that his father told him that he was a small boy at the time of Gen. Braddock's defeat (1755, during the French and Indian War). He recollected that he was in the service at the time the battle was fought at the Eutaw Springs (Sept. 1781) and at King's Mountain (1780) and at the time of Gates' defeat (Aug. 16, 1780, Camden, SC), though he did not participate in these battles.

Nathan's application for pension was supported by an affidavit submitted by Jesse and Rev. Drury, two sons of his neighbor, Richard Scruggs. His application was also supported by Philip Davis and Sarah (Davis) Wadkins, who made oath that their brother, Jacob Davis, was drafted at the same time and that they served the tour together. Sarah Davis was married to William Watkins, whose brother, Daniel Watkins, Sr. married Nathan's daughter, Elizabeth Byars. She stated that she was raised and lived in NC until she was twelve or fourteen years of age and that she lived near Nathan Byars.

The following is a copy of the interrogation of Nathan Byars when he applied for his Military Pension, Dec. 31, 1844:

NATHAN BYARS
Pension Records
#W6223

Interrogatory put to the applicant -

1st Where and in what year was you born - ?

Ans I was born in Granville County, N.C., but cannot recollect the date of the year, but my father told me I was a small boy at Braddock's Defeat.

2nd Have you any record of your age?

Ans No more than what I have told you -

3rd Where were you living when called in to the service and where have you lived since that time and where do you now live - ?

Ans I lived in Caswell County, N.C. I then lived several years in Rutherford County, N.C. and since that time have (and now do) live in Spartanburgh Dt. South Carolina -

4th How were you called in to the service?

Ans I was drafted in the Militia of N.C. three different times and served three months each tour and volunteered one tour of three months against the Indians -

5th State the names of some of the regular officers who were with the troops where you served.

Ans Col. Ramsey and Major Moore, Capt. Cunningham and Capt. Forker -

6th Did you receive a discharge from the service and if so, by whom was it given and what has become of it?

Ans I had a regular discharge and believe it was given by Capt. Cunningham - which is now lost or mislaid.

7th State the names of persons to whom you are known in your present neighborhood and who can testify to your character for veracity and their belief of your service as a soldier of the Revolution -

Ans Richard Scruggs - Drury Scruggs, Jesse Scruggs and H. Hicks.

Sworn to and Subscribed the day and year before written -

his mark Nathan Byars

R. Bowdin, Judge of the Court of Chancery

Nathan Byars engaged in many land transactions, both buying and selling in Granville Co., NC from 1780 through 1784, yet in Caswell Co., he bought and sold land from 1781 through 1784. It seems likely the family moved to Rutherford Co., NC about 1783-85.

Nathan purchased 200 acres from James Webb April 10, 1783, located on Main Broad River in Rutherford County. A few years later, in 1795, he sold a part of it to William Dobbins. On Apr. 13, 1802 he sold lands secured by title bond and gave possession to Arthur Clark the whole of 8 plantations containing 1,250 acres. Either he or his son, Nathan, Jr. bought land in Spartanburg Co., SC beginning in 1817.

About 1801 Nathan and Drucilla's marriage began to fall apart. Quoting from the Haralson - Harrelson Family History, compiled by Danny K. Haralson, page 47 - "Nathan had been living with Delphy
Logan since 1801." No source was cited as proof for this statement. Delphy Logan became Nathan's second wife, Oct. 8, 1819.

In Delphy's application for a widow's pension, made Dec. 29, 1853, she stated that she and Nathan were not married prior to Jan. 2, 1800. Drucilla filed a petition for a legal separation to the
North Carolina General Assembly October 11, 1808. The following is a copy of the document:

To the Honorable the General Assembly of the State of North Carolina

The humble petition of Drusilla Byars of Rutherford County in the said State wife of Nathan Byars of the same County she with, that your petitioner when married was worth a considerable estate, that her said husband had little or no property; that your petitioner lived in harmony with her husband for a great many years in which time she had 10 children during all which time ever since she hath used her best endeavor to improve their property and support their family, did use unremitted exertions to render her said husband happy. That about seven years ago her husband did withdraw his affection from her and did refuse giving her any protection or support and did convince her to leave his house, she repeate and returned and was often obliged to abandon his house to resort to the cold charity of the world for substenance.

Your petitioner on representing these facts to the Court of Equity of Morgan District had a decree was made in her favor, but she finds no decree can be availing until she is authorized to hold any property she may acquire as she can find no friend who feels sufficient interest to induce him to act as a trustee, and to secure and defend any property to which she might be entitled.

Now your petitioner humbly prays that an act of Assembly be made authorizing her to hold property which she may acquire and to maintain and defend suit in her own name.

October 11, 1808 her
Drusilla X
Byars
mark

Petition of
Drusilla Byars
of Rutherford County

State of North Carolina
Burk County Court of Equity
I Adolphus L. Erwin, Clerk
Master in Equity for said County do hereby certify that Drusilla Byars, did prefer a Bill of Complaint in the Court of Equity for the district of Morgan against her husband Nathan Byars, and obtained a decree in her favor for a separate maintainance in said Court that Writs of purefacing up side from several terms of said Court, and the Sheriff hath not found by his ruling sufficient property to satisfy the Court of the said Suit and that no part of the decree hath been yet satisfied.

Given under my hand at office in Morgantown November 2nd 1808

A.L. Erwin Clk.
Petition of Drusilla Byars of Rutherford County
Praying a law be passed securing to her such property as she may herself later acquire.

In Senate November 24th 1808
Read and referred to the committee on Divorce and Alimony E/e

By order M. Stokes, Clk Mr. Pickens

Granted in House of Commons 24 November 1808 read orders at by the Senate
By order
Honorable H.B.

With the help of her son-in-law, Thaddeus Dudley Walker, Drucilla received some money from Nathan. From Rutherford Co., NC Deed Book 25, page 174:

"This indenture made this 13th day of July, 1809, between William Carson, Esq., high sheriff of the County of Rutherford, State of North Carolina, on the one part and Thaddius Walker of the County of Rutherford and the State aforesaid of the other part. Whereas by virtue of an execution issuing from the Superior Court of Burke County against Nathan Byars for the sum of fifty pounds 5/ which sum was recovered by Drucilla Byars as on record may appear."

The following information about the early divorces and separations is from The North Carolina Genealogical Society Journal, Vol. III, No. 1, Feb. 1977, pp. 43-45:

"Divorces and Separations Granted by Act of North Carolina Assembly from 1790-1808" by B. Ransom McBride.

McBride gives a history of Divorce and Separation during colonial times through 1808. He says, "With the advent of liberal Jeffersonian democracy, the upward trend continued, and in the six years between 1802 and 1808, the NC Assembly had approved four more complete divorces and 116 separations." A complete listing of divorces and separations is part of the article with divorces indicated with a D. On page 45 is this entry: Byars, Prusilla, husband not named; of Rutherford Co. (1808, page 39)". Complete information for each entry is available in the Legislative Papers of North Carolina.

According to Maurice Rasmussen (Enquirer, Vol. I, No. 4, p. 109)

Drucilla lived with her daughter Elizabeth Watkins and was with her daughter, Nancy Walker when she died.

Tradition says Drucilla died in 1818. Since there was no divorce, Nathan had to wait until she died before he could marry Delphy, so that may well be the year Drucilla Harrelson Byars passed away.
Nathan and Delphy Logan were married Oct. 8, 1819, in Spartanburg Dist., SC, by Rev. Joshua Richards.

Nathan moved from Rutherford Co., NC to the area of the Cowpens Battleground, in the Spartanburg Dist., SC, settling on the high ground separating the Suck and Little Buck Creek watersheds. About 1822 he built a cabin and cleared and fenced a field southwest of the intersection of the Island (Coulter's Ford) and Green River roads. (This info from the Report of U.S. Park Service, Gov't Study).

Shown on the next page is a picture of the cabin that Nathan Byars built, taken April 14, 1978, courtesy of Dorothy Eubanks Hays. Even though it was recommended that the house be studied, the National Parks Service tore it down."

In April 1826, Nathan Byars had Joseph Camp survey for him a 394 acre tract, as evidenced by the following:

State of South Carolina

Pursuant to a warrant from Jabez Galt, Esq., Commissioner of Locations in Spartanburgh District dated 8th of March 1826 - I have admeasured & laid out unto Nathan Byars, Senr. a Tract of Land containing three Hundred & ninety four acres Situate in Said District and on the head waters of Island, Suck & Buck Creeks including his own home & plantation, also including the Cowpen Battle Ground Bounded East by Scruggs' & Earle's Land and all other sides by unknown Lands - and hath such shape & form as above Plat represents. Surveyed this 5th day of April 1826 ___
By me, Joseph Camp,

Andrew Rhea
& C.B.
Robt. Scruggs Recorded 12th April 1826. Paid $2.00 and
Recorded in

Plat Book B, at page 383.

A copy of the plat is presented on the next page, followed by a Historical Base Map of the Cowpens National Battlefield.


The following is quoted from a Report of U.S. Park Service Gov't. Study, page 12:

"Gov. Richard J. Manning, on examining the plat and its accompanying certificate, granted on October 2, 1826, to Nathan Byars, "his heirs and assigns," a 394-acre tract or plantation on the headwaters of Island, Suck, and Buck creeks.

An examination of the Byars, Steadman, and McClaren plats shows that in 1826 Byars had been granted 394 acres of the 2,000 acres granted to McClaren 23 years before. McClaren had conveyed title to most of the acreage in his grants to Wilson Nesbitt, who, plagued by lawsuits, had failed to maintain and defend his title. To the west Byars' grant intruded onto the acreage granted to James Steadman in 1787 by Governor Pinckney. The parties to whom the Steadman heirs had conveyed his 2,482-acre grant were absentee owners. Although the plat prepared for Nathaniel Gist by John Gibbs in 1845 shows a conflict, there were no court challenges.

The Court of Common Pleas for Spartanburg District issued on November 16, 1840, a writ of Five Facias in the suit of Samuel Ezell against Nathan Byars. When Byars was unable to pay the judgment, Sheriff A.C. Bomar of Spartanburg District was ordered to levy $36.60 on his goods and chattels, with interests and costs.

To enforce the writ, Sheriff Bomar seized and taken of the Lands and Tenaments of the said Nathan Byars all that certain piece parcel and tract of land containing three Hundred Acres, more or less."

Samuel Ezell sold the 300 acres to his son, James H. Ezell.

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Nathan Byars was now left penniless, his land and home having been seized from him. On Dec. 31, 1844, he applied for a Military Pension which was repeatedly denied to him. Finally, Oct. 3, 1851, Michael Thompson wrote a letter to James E. Heath, Commissioner of Pensions, pleading emphatically for Nathan's claim to be allowed. This letter must have had a decisive effect. Of Nathan he wrote:
"But I should reproach myself were I not to exhaust all proper means to establish what I solemnly believe to be a clear, legal and valid claim for a poor bedridden, half starved soldier of the revolution, who literally cries to me for help, to prosecute what he conceives, and what I conceive, to be his rights under the law."

A typed copy of the Certificate issued for his claim appears on the next page. It was made retroactive to March 4, 1831 and his widow, Delphy recovered the sum. On Dec. 29, 1853, Delphy's application for the widow's pension of half-pay was executed.

Nathan Byars had died in poverty Aug. 18, 1846 and was buried in the family graveyard behind the house and outbuildings. It would seem that he had died in obscurity, but in the late summer of 1971, descendants from all over the country gathered at his gravesite to dedicate a permanent government marker at his grave. It is reported by Clovis Byars Herring that in 1985 when she visited the cemetery the stone was in pieces and there was no sign of the DAR marker that was put there.

It is not known when Delphy Byars was born or when she died. She is enumerated in the Census of 1850, Spartanburg District, SC:

#1278 Delphia Bian 65 SC
Juda Turner 36 SC male
Simpson Russ 22 SC
Miranda " 10 SC
John H. " 8 SC
Barbara " 5 SC
Sarah " 3 SC


According to this census record she was born in 1785, but in the Census of 1860, Spartanburg District, SC, she was living at Cowpens with the family of Robert and Delilah Martin, and was born in 1776. It is not known who the people were who were living with her. The last mention of her is in a letter which was found among the papers in Nathan's Pension File. It was written July 20, 1937 by A.H. Hiller, Executive Assistant to the Administrator, to Will Franke of Birmingham, AL. He states that in 1868 Delphy Byars was living about sixteen miles north of the Spartanburg Court House.


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May 4, 1852

DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR
REVOLUTIONARY CLAIM.


I certify that in conformity with the law of the United States of the 7th June, 1832, Nathan Byars of South Carolina who was a private in the Revolution is entitled to receive Twenty dollars per annum, during his natural life, commencing on the 4th of March, 1831, and payable semi-annually on the 4th of March and 4th of September, in every year.

Given at the Department of the Interior, this fourth day of May one thousand eight hundred and fifty two

Alex H.H. Stuart Secretary of the Interior

Examined and )
Countersigned )

J.E. Heath
Commissioner of Pensions


SOURCES:

1. Pension File W6223, Nathan Byars.

2. Byars - Byers Enquirer, Vol. I, No. 1, page 7.

3. The State Records of North Carolina, Vol. 22, pp. 174-75, 1907.

4. Rutherford County, N.C. Abstracts of Wills 1779-1822.

5. Affidavit of Marriage by Rev. Joshua Richards.

6. Report of U.S. Park Service, Gov't. Study. "

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Nonie Webb,"Henry Byars is the brother of Nathan Byars",abstracted from land deeds,Granville,NC

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http://ftp.rootsweb.com/pub/usgenweb/va/halifax/bios/guthrie1.txt

22 Jan. 1779 James Guttree and William Guttree enter 250 A on waters of Adams Creek; borders Nathan Byas, Charles Bostick and William Allen. Includes the improvements where Garritt Guttree now lives

13 Oct. 1783 to William Guttery and James Guttery 250 A. on Adams Creek adjacent Nathan Byas, Charles Allen Caswell Co., Deed Book B

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Rutherford County, NC Records

Rutherford County was created in 1779 from the western portion of Tryon County.

SARAH BYASS was listed in Captain RUSSEL's Company in the 1782 Tax List of Rutherford County, NC. She was listed with 200 acres of land, 1 negro, 2 horses, 8 cattle, and an assessment of 208.
(Source: http://www.northcarolinagenealogy.net/downloads/1782.txt)

Deed Books A-D, P.77: 17 Oct 1783, MICHAEL MCELWRATH to THOMAS MORRIS, for ¹ 60 "Hard money" ... land on E side Mountain Creek adj. DAVID BYERS, 300 A, granted to sd. BYERS 18 Apr 1771 ... MICHAEL MCELWRATH (SEAL), No wit.
(Source: Holcomb, Deed Abstracts of Tryon, Lincoln, & Rutherford Counties, North Carolina, 1769-1786, p.138)31

Deed Books A-D, P.173: 10 Apr 1783, JAMES WEBB of Rutherford Co., to NATHAN BYERS of Caswell Co., for ¹ 150 ... 200 A on N side main Broad River adj. MCCLANNAHANS ... JAMES WEBB (+) (SEAL), Wit: WILLM HACKINS, JOHN WEBB, WILLIAM COOPER.
(Source: Holcomb, Deed Abstracts of Tryon, Lincoln, & Rutherford Counties, North Carolina, 1769-1786, p.145)31

Deed Books A-D, Pp.175-176: 28 July 1779, ALEXANDER COULTER of Rutherford Co., to ROBERT SHIPLEY of same, for ¹ 400 ... 300 A on Cleghorns Creek, formerly Sheppards Creek, JAMES BYARS pattentee ... ALEXANDER COULTER (SEAL), Wit: D. DICKEY, RICHARD SINGLETON.
(Source: Holcomb, Deed Abstracts of Tryon, Lincoln, & Rutherford Counties, North Carolina, 1769-1786, p.146)31

Deed Books A-D, Pp.192-193: 10 Sept 1779, JOHN BERRY of Dist. of Ninety Six, S.C. to JAMES GRAY of N.C., for ¹ 2000 S.C. money ... land on N side Broad River on McDonalds Creek, adj. JAMES BYARS ... JOHN BERRY (SEAL), Wit: RICHARD MCCLURE, ANDREW THOMSON.
(Source: Holcomb, Deed Abstracts of Tryon, Lincoln, & Rutherford Counties, North Carolina, 1769-1786, p.147)31

Deed Books A-D, Pp.214: 15 July 1775, ABRAHAM KIRKENDALL of Tryon Co., to JOHN WEBB of same, for ¹ 35 ... land on W side Second Broad River, 300 A ... ABRAHAM KIRKENDALL (A) (SEAL), Wit: JOHN BYAS (J), ROBERT BYAS.
(Source: Holcomb, Deed Abstracts of Tryon, Lincoln, & Rutherford Counties, North Carolina, 1769-1786, p.149)31

Deed Books A-D, P.228: Grant to ANTHONY DICKEY, 400 A on Mill Creek of Broad River, adj. his own land, BYERS ... 13 Oct 1783. ALEX MARTIN.
(Source: Holcomb, Deed Abstracts of Tryon, Lincoln, & Rutherford Counties, North Carolina, 1769-1786, p.150)31

Deed Books A-D, Pp.442-443: 6 Jan 1786, THOMAS MORRIS to JOSHUA TYLOR, both of Rutherford Co., for ¹ 80 ... land on N side Main Broad River on E side Mountain Creek, adj. THOMAS JOHNSTON, granted to DAVID BYERS, 29 Apr 1768 ... THOMAS MORRIS (SEAL), Wit: MOSES WRIGHT, JAMES JAFFREY.
(Source: Holcomb, Deed Abstracts of Tryon, Lincoln, & Rutherford Counties, North Carolina, 1769-1786, p.166)31

Deed Book G, Page 183, No. 753: 20 April 1786, THOMAS MORRIS to ANTHONY DICKEY for 100 pds. tract of 300 a. on both sides Mill Creek on E. branch of Mountain Creek begin. at DAVID BYERS corner, Land orig. granted to JAMES BYERS 18 April 1779. WM. GRANT, Sp--? COLEMAN BROWN.
(Source: Davis, Rutherford County, North Carolina, Abstracts of Deeds, 1773-1795, p.28)15

Deed Book G, Page 233, No. 801: 25 Sept. 1787, THOMAS WHITESIDES to GARRET VINZANT, JR., for 25 pds. tract of 60 a. on both sides First Broad River being part of a grant to WILLIAM SIMS & MAYDDN BYAR, adj. ROBT. WHITESIDES, SMITH or VINZANT, BARNETT or OZBORN corner. JOHN SMITH.
(Source: Davis, Rutherford County, North Carolina, Abstracts of Deeds, 1773-1795, p.34)15

Deed Book I, Page 379, No. 927: 6 Oct. 1792, JOSEPH BOREN of Ninety-six Dist., S.C. to JOSEPH CAMP of Rutherford Co. for 100 pds. proc. money of N.C. 222 a. in Rutherford Co. on branch of CARTIN's Mill Creek and on E. side of Broad River begin. at a line formerly called JOHN WILSON's line. Land was first granted to JOSEPH CAMP by JOSIAH MARTIN, Esq. by pat. dt'd. 15 May 1772 and conveyed by deed to JOSEPH BOWREN and now from BOWREN to sd. JOSEPH CAMP. Rec. July 10, 1792. WILLIAM CAMP, WILLIAM B. BYARS-x-.
(Source: Davis, Rutherford County, North Carolina, Abstracts of Deeds, 1773-1795, p.52)15

Deed Book J, Page 53, No. 1047: 31 July 1786, STEPHEN SHELTON to JOHN CARVER for 5 pds. paid by ROBERT BYARS lately dec'd., 50 a. in Rutherford Co. being part of tract of 400 a. pat. granted to sd. SHELTON. Said 50 a. lies on N/E of survey join. Beaverdam Creek and First Broad River. Rec. 3 Aug. 1793. JOEL SHELTON, "CON PACK".
(Source: Davis, Rutherford County, North Carolina, Abstracts of Deeds, 1773-1795, p.70)15

Deed Book J, Page 95, No. 1090: 22 Nov 1791, FREDERICK MORNINGSTAIR of Spartanburg Dist. S.C. to JONAS BEDFORD for 50 pds. 150 A. originally granted to GEORGE SAYLOR 26 Nov. 1789 and by deed convy. to FREDERICK MORNINGSTEER. Land on N. fork Floyd's Creek near BEDFOR & ESHLEY. Rec. 7 Dec. 1793. Signed: FREDERICK MORNINGSTER, ELEZABETH MORNINGSTER. WILLIAM-x-BYERS.
(Source: Davis, Rutherford County, North Carolina, Abstracts of Deeds, 1773-1795, p.76)15

Deed Book K, Page 239, No. 1238: 24 May 1787, ELIZABETH THOMASON to BUSHROD DOGED (sic) for 35 pds. proc. money of N.C., 150 a. in the Old Field where JOHN THOMASON used to live on both sides Rocky Creek of Floyds Creek. Rec. 5 July 1794. NATHAN BYARS, GEORGE SUTTLE.
(Source: Davis, Rutherford County, North Carolina, Abstracts of Deeds, 1773-1795, p.96)15

Deed Book L, Page 328, No. 1326: 18 Oct 1788, THOMAS TOWNSON, planter, to SARAH BYARS for 30 pds. Virginia money and one Negro girl, 200 a. on S. side Broad River. Land granted to JAMES MOOR by Pat. 5 April 1766. JOEL-x-BLACKWELL, NATHAN BYARS. Rec. 6 Jan. 1795.
(Source: Davis, Rutherford County, North Carolina, Abstracts of Deeds, 1773-1795, p.108)15

Deed Book L, Page 333, No. 1330: 20 June 1788, NATHAN BYARS to WILLIAM DOBBINS, 90 a. adj. MRS. CLONAHAN on E. side Broad River being part of tract of land granted by Gov. WILLIAM TRYON to JAMES WEBB. The parcel of 90 a. being part of 4 grants granted to WM. WEBB. Rec. 9 Jan. 1795. WILLIAM DOBBINS, JAMES DOBBINS.
(Source: Davis, Rutherford County, North Carolina, Abstracts of Deeds, 1773-1795, p.109)15

[I failed to copy the page that contains the first part of this deed abstract ... probably deed from Robert Crockett listed below ... REMINDER: get a copy of page 110 of this source] ... York Co., S.C. to NATHAN BIAIS (sic) for 100 pds. (no acreage stated) land on N. side Main Broad River. HENRY McKINNEY, GEORGE-x-SWILL, JAMES-g-GLEMONE.
(Source: Davis, Rutherford County, North Carolina, Abstracts of Deeds, 1773-1795, p.111)15

[Note: The list of deeds below is taken from the Rutherford County Grantor/Grantee Deed Indexes available on microfilm from the NC State Archives. In a few cases I have also looked at deed books which are also available on microfilm and created my own abstracts which are listed below. And for selected deeds I have transcribed abstracts found in the Bulletin of the Genealogical Society of Old Tryon County. Also, the Byars/Byers deeds I have listed below from Rutherford County are only for the years prior to 1850. There are many more Byars/Byers deeds in Rutherford County after 1850.]

From Crockett, Robert to Biais, Nathan, Deed Book J-L, p.344, 1795

From Byars, Nathan to Good, Edward, Deed Book 11-Oct, p.487 & 490, 1799

Deed Book 11, p.487, 20 January 1797, Nathan Biers/Byars of RCNC to Edward Good of same, 60 pounds, 105 acres on Grog Creek and Sandy Run, part of a grant to James Webb 28 November 1792, conveyed by Webb to Daniel Shipman Junr. and from Shipman to Nathen Biers. Wit. L. Moore, Harrelson Byars. #873, 25 September 1799.
(Source: Bulletin of the Genealogical Society of Old Tryon County, November 1996, p.181)

Deed Book 11, p.490, 20 January 1797, Nathan Biars/Byars of RCNC to Edward Good of same, 60 pounds 100 acres on Chesnut Log Branch of Sandy Run, conveyed from Daniel Shipman to Nathan Biars. Wit. L. Moore, Harrelson Byars. #874, 26 September 1799.
(Source: Bulletin of the Genealogical Society of Old Tryon County, November 1996, p.181)

From Byars, Nathan to Blackwell, Joel, Deed Book 15-17, p.125, 1801

From Byers, Nathan to Lee, Edmond, Deed Book 15-17, p.146, 1801

From Haney, Richard to Byers, Nathan, Deed Book 15-17, p.194, 1801

From Byers, John to Black, Joel, Deed Book 18-19, p.72, 1802

From Hunter, Samuel to Byers, Nathen, Deed Book 20-21, p.32, 1803
18 January 1800, PATRICK SANDERS of Spartanburgh Co., S.C. to NATHEN BYERS of Rutherford Co., for $333, a tract of land originally granted to JOHN TURNER on October the 19th in the eight year of the independence of te United States, containing 100 acres on the S. side of Broad River on [? ashworths] Creek ... PATRICK SANDERS (Seal), Wit: GEORGE CAMP, WM [? ABBOTT JUNR]. Rec. 28 April 1803.
[Note: The Rutherford County deed index indicates this deed was from Samuel Hunter to Nathen Byers, but the recorded copy of the deed shows that it was actually from Patrick Sanders to Nathen Byers. The next deed recorded in the deed book was from Samuel Hunter to Warren Metcalf.]

From Byers, Nathan to Byars, Nathan, Deed Book 20-21, p.49, 1803
24 August 1802, NATHAN BYARS of Rutherford Co., to GEORGE BYARS of the same, for $50, 50 acres on the S. side of Main Broad River, beginning on the river bank at SARAH BYARS corner, from a patent granted to FRANCES ALEXANDER dated 15 Dec 1799 ... NATHAN BYARS (SEAL), Wit: GABRIEL [? MARTIN], JOHN BYARS. Rec. 6 May 1803.
[Note: Again, the Rutherford County deed index is in error as it indicates this deed was to Nathan Byars when the recorded copy indicates it was to George Byars.]

From Good, Robert to Byers, James, Deed Book 20-21, p.316, 1804

From Byers, Nathan to Hamilton, Joseph, Deed Book 22-23, p.273, 1805
26 November 1804, EDMAND LEA & NATHAN BYARS of Rutherford Co., to JOSEPH & NOBLE HAMILTON of the same, for $600, land on the N. side of Main Broad River adjoining the land of MARTIN MARTIN, containing 48 acres. Another tract of land on the N. side of [?] Broad River joining the land above described, including the Island Ford commonly known by the name of the Island Ford Tract, containing 167 acres ... EDMOND (x) LEA (SEAL), NATHAN BYARS (SEAL), Wit: [? ??? CAMP, ???]. Rec. 29 March 1805.

339. Jan 25, 1806, Nathan Byas enters 100 ac in Rutherford Co on each side of Ashworths Cr and S side of main Broad R; border: Joseph Turner and "the" speculation line; issued.
Source: Pruitt, Abstracts of Land Entries: Rutherford County, NC, January 1804-April 1826, p.23)42

340. Jan 25, 1806, Nathan Byas enters 40 acres in Rutherford Co on S side of main Broad R; border: "his" Harel Byas and near "the" speculation line; issued.
Source: Pruitt, Abstracts of Land Entries: Rutherford County, NC, January 1804-April 1826, p.23)42

342. Feb. 12, 1806, Nathan Byars enters 100 ac in Rutherford Co on both sides of main Broad R; border Wm Dobins and Stephen Philips; issued.
Source: Pruitt, Abstracts of Land Entries: Rutherford County, NC, January 1804-April 1826, p.23)42

343. Feb 12, 1806, Nathan Byars enters 50 ac in Rutherford Co on N side of main Broad R; border: Geo Byars, Richd Goode, Wm McGouin, & his own line; issued.
Source: Pruitt, Abstracts of Land Entries: Rutherford County, NC, January 1804-April 1826, p.23)42

From Byas, Nathan to Alexander, Francis, Deed Book 22-23, p.514, 1806

From Good, Joseph to Byers, Nathan, Deed Book 24-26, p.55 & 84, 1807

Deed Book 24, p.61, 3 February 1807, Stephen Duponceau & William Tilghman Esqrs., Abraham Kintsing Junr., George Worral, and Tench Coxe, by Peter Fisher, their attorney, to Enoch Andrews of RCNC, 30 dollars, 100 acres on Suck Creek, joining Joel Blackwell, Evan Watkins, Daniel Watkins, part of Coxes 6000 acres. Wit. David Webb, Harrel Byars. #67, 7 September 1807.
(Source: Bulletin of the Genealogical Society of Old Tryon County, February 2003, p.33)

Deed Book 24, p.84, 16 October 1802, Joseph Goode of RCNC to Nathan Byers of same, ¹25, 35 acres on the south side of Main Broad River on Suck Creek. Wit. Jas. Wyle, Horrel Byars. #90, 16 September 1807.
(Source: Bulletin of the Genealogical Society of Old Tryon County, February 2003, p.35)

From Byers, Nathan to Walker, Thadius, Deed Book 25, p.174, 1810

From Byers, Nathan to Hamilton, Noble, Deed Book 27-28, p.55, 1813

From Byars, Nathan to Clarke, Arthur, Deed Book 29-31, p.285, 1817

From Byars, George to Patterson, David, Deed Book 32-33, p.31, 1819

From Byars, Samuel to Scoggins, Joseph, Deed Book 32-33, p.45, 1819

From Blackwell, Joel & Sarah to Byars, George, Deed Book 32-33, p.91, 1819

From Byars, Nathan to Hamilton, Noble, Deed Book 32-33, p.115, 1819

From Byars, William to Durham, Edmond, Deed Book 37-38, p.299, 1831

From Byars, George to McKinney, James, Deed Book 39-40, p.176, 1834

From Guthery, Jonathan to Byers, John, Deed Book 41-42, p.118, 1835

From Byars, John to Byars, Drury, Deed Book 43, p.463, 1838

From Byars, Nathan to Guthrie, Joseph, Deed Book 43, p.534, 1839

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Lincoln County, NC Records
Lincoln County was created in 1779 from the eastern portion of Tryon County.
Drury Logan and Polley Bias; 19 Nov 1803; Bondsman: Abner Massee
(Source: Bynum, Marriage Bonds of Tryon and Lincoln Counties, North Carolina)12
Joseph Houston (Hueston) and Pagy Byers; 20 Feb 1809; Bonsdman: John x Mattiss, Witness: Mic Cline
(Source: Bynum, Marriage Bonds of Tryon and Lincoln Counties, North Carolina)12
Robert x Byars and Jane Houston; 24 Mar 1804; Bondsman: William x Tucker; Witness: John Dickson
(Source: Bynum, Marriage Bonds of Tryon and Lincoln Counties, North Carolina)12
Edward Byars and Jane Henry; 27 Feb 1812; Bondsman: Wm J Wilson; Witness: Lwn Henderson
(Source: Bynum, Marriage Bonds of Tryon and Lincoln Counties, North Carolina)12
Wm x Byers and ------ ------; 8 Jan 1796; Bondsman: Wm x Earwood (Carwood)
(Source: Bynum, Marriage Bonds of Tryon and Lincoln Counties, North Carolina)12

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Spartanburg County, SC Records
Spartanburg County was created in 1785 from the district of Ninety-Six. Prior to 1772 when the NC / SC state line was surveyed, the area encompassed by present day Spartanburg County was administered as part of Tryon County, NC.

Deed Book F, p.251-252, Jul. 31, 1798: DRURY SCRUGGS (Spartanburgh) to JAMES BLACK (same); for 11¹ 11s sterling sold 85 ac on for of Horse Cr; border: conditional line between DRURY SCRUGGS to RICHARD HANEY; part of 655 ac grant Dec. 2, 1793 State's Office to REUBIN WARREN. Witness WILLIAM MORROW and NATHAN BYARS. Signed DRURY SCRUGGS. Wit. oath Aug. 18, 1798 WILLIAM MORROW to WM MCDOWELL. Rec. Apr. 15, 1799.
(Source: Pruitt, Spartanburg County / District South Carolina Deed Abstracts, 1785-1827, p.161)43

Deed Book F, p.273-274, Aug. 24, 1798: MATTHIAS TURNER (Spartanburgh) to JOHN SUTHERLAND (or SOUTHERLAND) (same); for 50¹ sterling sold 100 ac on Surratt's Cr; border: THOMAS HARRIS. Witness: NATHAN BYARS and ZACHARIAH BLACKWELL. Signed: MATTHIAS TURNER's mark. Wit. oath Jan. 10, 1799 NATHAN BYARS to GEOR LAMKIN. Rec. Apr. 21, 1799
(Source: Pruitt, Spartanburg County / District South Carolina Deed Abstracts, 1785-1827, p.163)43

Deed Book G, p.116-117, Mar. 1, 1800: JOHN SUTHERLIN (Spartanburgh) to WILLIAM MORROW (same); for 30¹ sterling sold 100 ac; on both sides of Horse Cr of Broad R; part of 300 ac grant Jan. 1, 1787 States Office to JOSEPH WARREN and sold by NATHANIEL PACACE (or PERRACE) to JOHN SUTHERLIN. Witness: NATHAN BYARS, JNO BONNER, and DAVID PARIS. Signed: JOHN SUTHERLIN. Wit. oath May 10, 1800, DAVID PARIS to GEO LAMKIN. Rec. Nov. 13, 1800.
(Source: Pruitt, Spartanburg County / District South Carolina Deed Abstracts, 1785-1827, p.195)43

Deed Book I, p.423-424, May 29, 1804: JAMES PHILIPS (Rutherford Co, NC) to REUBIN PHILLIPS (Spartanburgh); for $50 sold 170 ac on both sides of Ashworth Cr; border: N-North Carolina line, S-Camp; on lower end of 300 ac grant to THOMAS THOMSON; survey Sept. 23, 1794 for THOMAS THOMSON. Witness: JACOB PHILLIPS and NATHAN BYARS. Signed: JAMES PHILLIPS' mark. Wit. oath Jul. 21, 1804 JACOB PHILLIPS to JNO RICKMAN. Rec. Oct. 8, 1804.
(Source: Pruitt, Spartanburg County / District South Carolina Deed Abstracts, 1785-1827, p.276)43

Deed Book K, p.37-38, Sept. 5, 1803: JOHN COOPER (Spartanburgh) to JOHN CHAMPION, WM HESTER, NATHAN BYARS, and VARDRY CAMP, deacons of Church of Providence; for $5 sold 4 ac; plat attached. Witness ABISHA CAMP and JOSEPH CAMP. Signed JOHN COPPER. Wit. oath Mar. 25, 1805 ABISHA CAMP to WILLIAM LANCASTER. Rec. Mar. 25, 1803.
(Source: Pruitt, Spartanburg County / District South Carolina Deed Abstracts, 1785-1827, p.288)43

Deed Book L, p.337, Dec. 9, 1807: JACOB CROCKER (Spartanburgh) to JOSEPH BYARS (same); for $300 sold 286 ac; border: Camp, Cherokee Cr, Watson, Markley, and Green's Cr. Witness: NATHAN BYARS and THOMAS BYARS. Signed: JACOB CROCKER. Wit. oath Aug. 27, 1808 THOMAS BYARS to JOHN LIPSCOMB. Rec. Oct 3, 1808.
(Source: Pruitt, Spartanburg County / District South Carolina Deed Abstracts, 1785-1827, p.377)43

Deed Book O, p.247, Apr.3, 1815: DETITHY MERRIMAN (Bledso Co, Tenn) to BRIANT BONNER (Spartanburgh); for $100 sold 100 ac on Sarratt's Cr of Broad R; border: SILAS YARBOROUGH, NATHAN BYARS, path from NATHAN
[I failed to copy the page that contains the last part of this deed abstract ... REMINDER: get a copy of page 508 of this source]
(Source: Pruitt, Spartanburg County / District South Carolina Deed Abstracts, 1785-1827, p.507)43

Deed Book P, p.290-291, Nov. 19, 1813: WILLIAM MORRESS (Spartanburgh) to WILSON NESBETT (same); for $250 sold 573 ac in two parts -- (l) (ac omitted); border: TURNER and WILSON NESBETT (bought from JAMES HARRISON); part of grant to JOHN BOMAR; and (2) 79 ac; border; WILSON NESBETT (bought from JAMES HARRISON, WOFFORD, and TURNER; 23 ac excepted "where Spece's old line runs into (1)"; WILLIAM MORRESS is to return money if older grant takes the land in 10 years. Witness: WILLIAM CAMP JR and NATHAN BYARS. Signed: WILLIAM MORRISS. Wit. oath Jul. 28, 1813 WILLIAM CAMP JR to J CAMP. Rec. Jul. 23, 1817.
(Source: Pruitt, Spartanburg County / District South Carolina Deed Abstracts, 1785-1827, p.556)43

Deed Book S, p.375, Jan. 14, 1824: JACOB CROCKER (Spartanburgh) to THOMAS THOMAS (same); for $50 sold 211 ac; border JAMES CROCKER and JEREMIAH MARTIN. Witness NATHAN BYARS and SHADRICK WEER. Signed: JACOB CROCKER. Wit. oath Jan. 14, 1824 NATHAN BYARS to JOSEPH CAMP. Rec. Aug. 2, 1824.
(Source: Pruitt, Spartanburg County / District South Carolina Deed Abstracts, 1785-1827, p.720)43

Deed Book T, p.135, Oct. 24, 1825: THOMAS THOMAS and NATHAN BYARS to CABRED MCCRAW; for $131.25 sold 211 ac on waters of Island Cr of Pacolate R; except what is in BONNER's tract. Witness: JOHN MARTIN and STERLING GORDEN. Signed: THOMAS THOMAS and NATHAN BYARS. Wit. oath Oct. 24, 1824 JOHN MARTIN to J CAMP. Rec. Nov. 12, 1825. Dower renounced Oct. 31, 1825 NANCY THOMAS to GEO CAMP.
(Source: Pruitt, Spartanburg County / District South Carolina Deed Abstracts, 1785-1827, p.750)43

[NOTE: I have only transcribed selected Byars related deeds from the Pruitt 1785-1827 book. The full list of Byars/Byers given names from the index is as follows: James, James Jr., James Sr., John, Jonas, Jonathan, Joseph, Joshua, Nathan, Robert, Thomas, and William]

Deed Book U, 590, p.487-488, 7 Jan 1828: ASPASIO EARLE [ESPASIO EARLE in one ref.] (Rutherford County., N.C.) to ROBERT S. SCRUGGS JUNR. (Spartanburgh Dist), for $130 sold a certain tract of land in Spartanburgh dist on the head branches of Suck creek. Containing 300 acres more or less as will appear by patent, bearing date to SAML. EARLE 5 June 1786. Witness: NATHAN BYARS SR., CHARLES B. DURHAM. Signed: ASPASIO EARLE. Witness oath by NATHAN BYARS SR. 29 Sept 1828 to GEO. CAMP, J.Q. DOWER relinquished by POLLY (X) EARLE 21 Feb 1829 to WM. S. MORGAN, J.Q. Rec. 7 Mar 1831.
(Source: Vehorn, Spartanburg District South Carolina Deed Abstracts, 1827-1839, p.127)57

Deed Book V, 735, p.586, 19 Sept 1834: ANTHONY GILMORE (Ga.) do hereby appoint DANIEL GILMORE my lawful attorney to recover and receive from ELIJAH TURNER, Executor of the Estate of READICK ARNDEL late of Spartanburgh Dist. Decd. all my right, title and interest in the said Estate. Witness JOSEPH CAMP, NATHAN BYARS. Signed ANTHONY GILMORE. Witness oath by NATHAN BYARS 2 Jan 1836 to J. CAMP J.Q. Rec. 4 Jan 1836.
(Source: Vehorn, Spartanburg District South Carolina Deed Abstracts, 1827-1839, p.315)57

Deed Book W, 13, Page 236-238, 9 Nov 1836: MARY RICHARDS and sons NOAH RICHARDS, JAMES RICHARDS, JOSHUA RICHARDS, JOSEPH RICHARDS for $200 paid by the treasurer of the So. Ca. Manufacturing Company, do sell unto WM. WALKER, HUGH BAILY, S.N. EVINS, JNO. BOMAR JR., SIMPSON BOBO, President & Directors of said Co., all that tract of land on the waters of Thickaty. Border; CROCKER, MARKLEY, PRICE, BIV. Containing 269 acres more or less. Witness FREDERICK PRICE, WILLIS SMITH, E.S.E. CHAMBERS, DRURY BYARS. Signed: NOAH RICHARDS, JAMES RICHARDS, JOSHUA RICHARDS, JOSEPH RICHARDS, MARY (x) RICHARDS. Witness oath by WILLIS SMITH that he saw NOAH RICHARDS, JAMES RICHARDS, JOSHUA RICHARDS, and JOSEPH RICHARDS sign the deed. Given 10 Feb 1837 to J. CAMP J.Q. Witness oath by DRURY BYARS that he saw MARY RICHARDS execute the conveyance. Given 10 Feb 1837 to J. CAMP J.Q. Dower relinquished by HANNA (x) RICHARDS, ELIZABETH (x) RICHARDS & NANCY (x) RICHARDS, the wives of NOAH RICHARDS, JAMES RICHARDS, and JOSEPH RICHARDS, 10 Feb 1837 to JOSEPH CAMP J.Q. Rec. 4 Apr 1837.
(Source: Vehorn, Spartanburg District South Carolina Deed Abstracts, 1827-1839, p.384)57

Deed Book W, 18, Page 243-244, 26 Sept 1836: NATHAN BYARS (Spartanburgh Dist) in consideration of $109 paid by WILLIAM CLARK Agent for the So. Ca. M. Co. (same), have sold unto WILLIAM WALKER, SAMUEL N. EVINS, JOHN BOMAR JR., HUGH BAILY & SIMPSON BOBO, President and directors, a certain tract of land in said Dist. on the branches of Turners fork, of Thickaty Creek. Border: TURNER. By computation 96 acres more or less. Witness JOHN R. RICHARDS, JOHN BYARS. Signed NATHAN BYARS. Witness oath by JOHN R. RICHARDS 20 Nov 1836 to J. CAMP, J.Q. Dower relinquished by EMELIA (x) BYARS 6 Oct 1836 to JOSEPH CAMP, J.Q. Rec. 5 Apr 1837.
(Source: Vehorn, Spartanburg District South Carolina Deed Abstracts, 1827-1839, p.384)57

[NOTE: I have only transcribed selected Byars related deeds from the Vehorn 1827-1839 book. The full list of Byars/Byers given names from the index is as follows: Drury, Emelia, John, Joseph, Joshua, Nathan, Nathan Sen., Robert, Thomas, and Wm]

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Nathan Byars, was born in Granville Co., NC sometime in 1749 and, according to his pension declaration, he had no proof of his birthdate except that his father told him that he was a small boy at Braddock's defeat.

At the time of his entry into the service, he was a resident of Caswell County, NC and was drafted for a 3-months tour of duty, serving as a Private under Captain Cunningham and Captain Forbes (?) (Forker?) in the Regiment commanded by Col. Ramsey and Major Moore. He was drafted for two additional tours of duty and later volunteered for a three-months tour. He did not remember the dates of his services; however, his declaration for pension, indicated that he was in the service `at the time of the battle of Eutah Springs, Kings Mountain, and at the time of Gates' defeat', although he did not fight in any of those battles. During the various tours of duty, Private Byars was stationed principally at Hillsborough, and adjacent counties, and, during one tour, went out against the Indians' in the western part of the State. In support of his claim for pension, two of his neighbors, Rev. Drury Scruggs, and Jesse Scruggs, attached a statement supporting the facts given by the claimant, Nathan Byars.

Sometime just prior to, or during the Revolution, Nathan Byars was married to Drucilla Harrelson, Drucilla Harrelson born 1750, in Hanover Co., VA, daughter of Burges Harrelson and Elizabeth Green. According to a Rutherford Co., NC book 25, page 174, Nathan was ordered by the court to pay Drucilla $50.00 cash. Thought to be a divorce. After the divorce of Nathan and Drucilla, in 1799, Drucilla went to live with her daughter Elizabeth Byars Watkins in or near McMinnvile, TN. She later went to live with her daughter Nancy Byars Walker. She lived there until her death in 1816. Nathan later married Delphy Logan on October 8, 1819, and at least one, and possibly more, children were born of this marriage. Delphy Logan was born about 1779, and was married to Nathan Byars on October 8, 1819 in Spartanburg District, S. C. by Rev. Joshua Richards.

Nathan Byars purchased 200 acres of land from James Webb on April 10,1783, located on Main Broad River in Rutherford County, NC. A few years later in 1795, part of this land was sold to Williams Dobbins {special note not included in article - William Dobbins is the 4th great-grandfather of Cecil VanDyke}. Byars moved to that area now in Cherokee County, SC about 1822, and on April 5, 1826, received a South Carolina State grant for 394 acres of land, in Spartanburg District located on the headwaters of Island, Suck and Buck creeks, part of an original grant to James Steadman. This land included that tract that is now the Cowpens National Battleground. Part of this land was sold by Byars to James H. Ezell on November 16, 1840, and on January 6, 1886, James Ezell sold part of th land, but reserved one acre, where the Cowpens Battleground monument now stands, as belonging to the Washington Light Infantry Company of Charleston, S.C. The federal government later erected the present monument on the site.

Nathan Byars died August 18th, 1846, at the age of 97 years, and his grave is located about 1/2 mile from the battleground monument, about 11 miles west of Gaffney, Cherokee County, SC.

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1778--22 May: took loyalty oath in Granville Co. NC along with Nathan Byars. Source: The NC State Records, Vol 22, p 174, "Persons of Island Creek District." (Nathan Byars was a Rev. War patriot, b 1749 in Granville Co., NC, died 1846 in Spartanburg Co SC. Nathan had land where the National Cowpens Battle Ground is in Cherokee Co. SC. To the writer's knowledge, the descendants of Nathan have not found his parents as of 1999.)

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Military:
At the time of his entry into the service, he was a resident of Caswell County, NC and was drafted for a 3-months tour of duty, serving as a Private under Captain Cunningham and Captain Forbes (?) (Forker?) in the Regiment commanded by Col. Ramsey and Major Moore.

He was drafted for two additional tours of duty and later volunteered for a three-months tour.

He did not remember the dates of his services; however, his declaration for pension, indicated that he was in the service `at the time of the battle of Eutah Springs, Kings Mountain, and at the time of Gates' defeat', although he did not fight in any of those battles.

During the various tours of duty, Private Byars was stationed principally at Hillsborough, and adjacent counties, and, during one tour, went out against the Indians' in the western part of the State. In support of his claim for pension, two of his neighbors, Rev. Drury Scruggs, and Jesse Scruggs, attached a statement supporting the facts given by the claimant, Nathan Byars.

Nathan married Drucilla Harrelson in 1770-1772 in (Orange County, North Carolina), and was divorced on 24 Nov 1808 in (Rutherford County, North Carolina). Drucilla (daughter of Burgess Harrelson and Elizabeth Gaines) was born in 1744 in (New Hanover County, North Carolina); died in 1816. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Birth: 0___ 1725, NJ

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Uriah married Ascenith Brewer in 0___ 1754 in Union County, New Jersey. Ascenith was born in 0___ 1741; died in 0___ 1778 in (Charlotte, Mecklenburg County) North Carolina; was buried in Charlotte, Mecklenburg County, North Carolina. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

1840 Warren County Census: "Achany Hend: M1021001;F110101".

8 Nov 2001:

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Brewer
Posted By: Muriel Brewer
Date: Thursday, 15 November 2001, at 9:35 p.m.

Looking for the parents of David Brewer and Sallie Brewer listed on the Rocky River Primitive Baptist Church roll. David born 2-12-1774, Ga. Sallie (Sarah) born Jan 22, 1781, S. Car.


Attached this inquiry to Ascenith - Probably family related...DAH

refer to: http://genforum.genealogy.com/cgi-bin/pageload.cgi?uriah::brewer::277.html

Birth:
(NY or NJ)

Died:
of Smallpox...

Other Events and Attributes:

• Alt Death: 5 Aug 1804, Lincoln County, North Carolina

Notes:

Excellent websites for WOMACK registries & history:

http://donwomack.blogspot.com/2008/02/generation-one-william-womack.html (December 11th, 2017: now extinct ... DAH)

http://www.womacknet.net/

www.womacknet.com/sources/wgindex.html

Abraham married Elizabeth Stubblefield on 30 Oct 1751 in Spotsylvania County, Virginia. Elizabeth (daughter of Richard Robert Stubblefield and Anne LNU) was born in 1737 in Spotsylvania County, Virginia; died in 0Mar 1780 in Caswell County, North Carolina. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Elizabeth Womack formerly Stubblefield
Born Mar 1737 in Spotsylvania, Virginia
ANCESTORS ancestors
Daughter of Richard Robert Stubblefield and Anne (Unknown) Stubblefield
Sister of Jeremiah Stubblefield [half], Edward Stubblefield [half], John Stubblefield, George Stubblefield, Richard Stubblefield, Joel Stubblefield, Wyatt Stubblefield, Thomas Stubblefield and William Stubblefield [half]
Wife of Abraham Womack — married 30 Oct 1751 in Spotsylvania, Spotsylvania, Virginia Colonymap
DESCENDANTS descendants
Mother of William Womack and Nancy (Womack) Ingram
Died Mar 1780 in Caswell, North Carolina, United States
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Elizabeth Stubblefield was born 1736 in Spotsylvania, Spotsylvania, Virginia, the daughter of Richard Robert Stubblefield and Anne (Wyatt) Stubblefield. She was the sister of Jeremiah Stubblefield, Thomas Stubblefield, Elizabeth Stubblefield, Edward Stubblefield, John Stubblefield, George Stubblefield, Richard Stubblefield, Joel Stubblefield, Wyatt Stubblefield, Thomas Stubblefield and William Seth Stubblefield.

Elizabeth married Abraham Womack on October 30, 1751 in Spotsylvania, Virginia. They had the following children:

William Womack
Elizabeth died on March 1780 in Caswell, North Carolina.

Sources

Source: S1166902475 Repository: #R1151000561 Ancestry Family Trees Publication: Online publication - Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com. Original data: Family Tree files submitted by Ancestry members. Ancestry Family Tree http://trees.ancestry.com/pt/AMTCitationRedir.aspx?tid=18269855&pid=2145
Repository: R1151000561 Ancestry.com

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Other Events and Attributes:

• Immigration: 1746-1747, (Virginia)
• Military: 1747; Lunenburg Militia (Virginia)

Notes:

Posted By: Robert (Sonny) Turner
Email:
Subject: John RICE in Va abt 1745
Post Date: June 13, 1998 at 06:37:20
Message URL: http://genforum.genealogy.com/rice/messages/291.html
Forum: Rice Family Genealogy Forum
Forum URL: http://genforum.genealogy.com/rice/

If the note on John RICE below is my John Rice and I think that it is, then John came to America abt 1745/46, if Louvisa's birth is in Ireland in 1745.
John was a member of the 1st court of Lunenburg and served in the Lunenburg Militia in 1747. Grantland Rice is a relative. If Grantland is a relative then Louvisa must have a brother

My info on Louvisa came from the book "The Descendants of Thomas A. & Louvisa Rice Womack" by Abner Womack McMinnville TN. I have never been able to find a sibling for Louvisa. Was Louvisa a only child?

Descendants of John Rice

1 John Rice b: Abt. 1720 in Ireland d: in NC/VA?
.. +Unknown
.. 2 Louvisa Rice b: Abt. 1745 in Ireland d: Abt. 1810 in Burke or Rutherford County NC.
...... +Thomas A. Womack b: Bef. 1743 in Halifax Co., VA. d: 1790 in Burke or Rutherford County NC. m: Abt. 1762 in Rutherford County NC. Father: William Womack Mother: Mary Unknown







Notes: John Rice in Lunenburg military 1747 and mbr of lst court of Lunenburg Co. VA. Louvisa was on the head of household census for Rutherford NC, 1790 and 1800.

Some RICE background data...

From: stonewall jackson >
Subject: Womack/Rice VA
Date: Mon, 24 Jan 2000 11:06:59 -0800

I can't make much of this, but maybe it will help one of you.

Paul Rice

Ray Womack wrote:

WOMACK & ASSOCIATED FAMILIES GENEALOGY EXCHANGE
Ray Bryan Womack I Email: WomackRayB@gulfcoast.net
PO BOX 96 PALMDALE FL 33944-0096 PH 941-675-0013 [18 May 2014: Line is disconnected...DAH]

21 Jan 2000, Page - 1

1 - John RICE Esquire - 488
Note - ! Data source: WFC; article by Martha M. thompson, 3782 Alma, Redding, CA 96002.

Others also:

In 1752 Thomas finney had land in the South District of Lunenburg Co, now Halifax Co., Va.

In 1747 William Rice had land in South District of Lunenburg Co., Va.

William Rice died Culpepper Co., Va. in 1780.

Richard Rice
John Rice m/ Mary Finney
Benagah Rice
Anna Rice m/ Jno Graves
Sarah Rice m/ Edward Graves.
> sp- Mary FINNEY - 489 ( 140)
> 2 - Louvisa RICE - 122
> Born - Abt 1745 Rural, Halifax Co, Va
> Died - Aft 1790 Rural, Rutherford Co, NC
> Bur. - Aft 1790 Rural, Rutherford Co, NC
> !d/o John Rice & Mary Finney (see WFC Apr85). John Rice was a member of the First Court of Lunenburg Co., Va. and served in the Lunenburg Co., Militia in 1747, then in Halifax Co, when created from Lunenburg Co., Va. (pg32 W.G. Dec1957).[DT&LRW pg 13].
> sp- Thomas WOMACK - 121 ( 15)
> Born - Abt 1743 Rural, Halifax Co, Va
> Mar. - 22 Feb 1766 Halifax Co, Va
> Died - Bef 1790 Rural, Burke Co, NC
> Bur. - Bef 1790 Rural, Burke Co, NC
> Note - !Thomas Womack h/o Louvisa Rice, parents un-certain.
> !From Descendants of Thomas & Louvisa Rice Womack; he was known only as Thomas.

WOMACK FAMILY COURIER, P.O. Box 1320, Winnfield, LA 71483-1320 (Jan84 Oct88)

his first name as John, No Proof?? Also, middle initial "A" believe to be for Abner, Abrams or Abraham, No Proof?

(publication terminated)

John married Mary Finney in 1743 in Valley, Botetourt County, Virginia. Mary was born in 0___ 1723 in Culpeper County, Virginia; died in 0___ 1808 in Rockingham County, Virginia. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Birth:
View Map & History of Culpeper, Virginia ... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Culpeper,_Virginia

Other Events and Attributes:

• Military: Patriotic Service (DAR Ancestor #: A017964)
• Alt Birth: 1713, New Kent County, Virginia
• Alt Death: 1792, St. John's Parish, Granville County, North Carolina

Notes:

From "Colonial Granville And It's People", by Ray, p. 174; we know that a John and James Byars were early Granville settlers...Margie Tucker

end of note


Message #27 Monday, September 27, 1999

Subject: JAMES HENRY BYARS/BYERS b.1713 VA, m. PEGGY (MARGARET) GENTRY & CHILDREN

Posted by: CLARA BYARS/BYERS GREEN

Message:

Really hit jackpot today, my ancestors were the above, their son, Capt. John Henry Byars b.1734 m. Elizabeth Thomason (Thompson?) b.1735, they had a son called Capt. George Byars (1771-1843 )m. Sarah Watkins (1794-1869), their son William Peyton Byars (b.1792-1873) m. Nancy Sutton.

These two moved their family to southern Illinois (Marion Co.) in 1827 and the family pretty much stayed there until WW2 when my oldest brother,

William D. Byars, Jr., relocated to Oklahoma. His only son,

William Robert Byars lives near Tulsa. I've been trying to find info about James Henry's parents and how they came to America & from where.

Believe this is the Byers sept of the Clan Lindsay and they came from Scotland via Ulster in the Plantation of the 1600's.

Do please write me if you have anything to add. Sure hope you find this useful. CGreen2505@aol.com

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James (Henry) Byars Deed Granville Co NC

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James (Henry) Byars Deed Granville Co NC
Posted by: Tim Byars Date: January 25, 2001 at 23:08:44 of 473


I would like to share the following information from Marjorie Tucker. Marjorie was a Byars researcher over the past 20 + years. She passed from this life last year but wanted to share her work with other Byars
researchers. I have included below her comments regarding the James Byars deed in Granville County, North Carolina (1757), and her transcription of that deed.

From: MTucker211@aol.com
Sent: Wednesday, October 06, 1999 5:28 PM
To: tblife@bigfoot.com
Subject: James Byars Deed

Tim, I suppose you gave up on my transcribing the deed! It was very difficult, but I am satisfied with my results. I very much appreciate your scanning it for me. That helped a lot.

I am attaching it as a file, but I have made comments that I will paste here. I would very much like to have copies of this deed sent to all serious Byars researchers. I consider this a very important new breakthrough. I welcome comments by others.

Marjorie Stewart Tucker (1932-2000)

COMMENTS

The following is a copy of the abstract of the Granville Deed, which has appeared in print for many years - at least as early as 1944 in the Will Franke papers:

Granville Co., NC, Book C, page 334 - Indenture Nov. 3, 1757 Nathaniel Henderson and wife, Parish St. John to James Byars of Hanover County, Va. 400 acres in County of Granville, Parish of St. John - Both sides of Michael's Creek along Haywood (?) line. Witness Wm Sims - Proven Dec. 6, 1757.

There is a very important inaccuracy in this abstract. The location of the 400 acres is crucial to Byars research. It is a "parcel of land containing by estimation four hundred acres situate lying & being in the County of Granville & Parish of St. Johns & on both sides of Michael's Crook of Island Creek."

Both Nathan Byars and William Byars took the State Oath of Allegiance Nov. 15, 1777, being of 77 persons in the Island Creek so doing. For some time I had been unsure of the identification of this William, because there was only one William who received a pension from the Rev. War from either North or South Carolina, and he was William, son of David Byars and Margaret Carson.

I now believe the William of Island Creek, was the William who married Sarah Ann Doggett. I found a note in the Byars/Byers Family Enquirer, Vol. No. 1, March 1986, page 5 that there is a reference to William Byers being a Rev. Soldier in the DOGGETT FAMILY BOOK, Pub. 1894. This William has no DAR record, and did not receive a pension.

Nathan Byars and William Byars were most likely brothers or cousins.

It is important to find that James Byars bought land in the Island Creek area, but it is still unclear whether he ever lived there. Note that he paid for the 400 acres with Virginia currency, indicating he was living in Virginia at the time (1757). Note also that James and his wife, Rachel, of Hanover Co., VA, sold half of New Market Grist Mill Feb. 8, 1790, indicating that he was still living in Virginia then.

The 400 acres bordered the land of Capt. Sherwood Haywood. His name was not clear in the abstract.

Note: I still have not found that James' name was James Henry.


Granville County, NC, Book C, pp. 334-335 November 3, 1757

This Indenture made this third day of November in the year of our Lord one thousand seven hundred & fifty seven Between Nathaniel Henderson & his wife Patience in the County of Granville Carolina of His own part and James Byars in the County of Hanover in Virginia the other part Witnesseth that the said Nathaniel Henderson & Patience his wife for and in consideration of the sum of forty pounds Virginia Currency to them in hand by the said James Byars at or before the onsealing & delivery of the sd. presents the sd. script whereof they the sd. Nathl. Henderson & Patience his wife doth hereby acknowledge & thereof & of & from every part & parcel thereof doth acquit & discharge the said James Byars his heirs Exers. & Admrs. They the said Nathaniel Henderson & Patience his wife hath granted bargained & sold aliened (transferred) enfeoffed (made a gift of any corporeal hereditamints to another) released & confirmed and by these presents doth grant bargain & sell alien enfeoff Release & Confirm unto the said James Byars and to his heirs & assigns forever one certain tract or parcel of land containing by estimation four hundred acres situate lying & being in the County of Granville & Parish of St. Johns & on both sides of Michaels Crook of Island Creek the same land being part of a greater quantity granted by Deeds to the said Nathaniel Henderson dated the fourteenth day of May 1757 and bounded as follows to wit Beginning at a Red Oak in a line of the said Nathl Henderson thence along Sherd Haywoods (Capt. Sherwood Haywood - his name is spelled in full in the deed preceding this one) line South 30 degrees West one hundred & fifty two poles to a Red Oak thence South one hundred fifty six poles to a Hicory thence East two hundred poles crossing the I Creek (Island Creek) to a Red Oak then North one hundred & four poles to a red oak then East ninety poles to a pine then North one hundred seventy three poles to a Red Oak then West two hundred & four poles to the beginning and all houses out houses edifices buildings trees woods underwoods waters water courses fences yards gardens feedings profits commodities advantages hereditaments & appurtenances whatsoever to the said tract or parcel of land belonging or in anywise appurtaining and the Reversion Remainder and Remainders Rents issues & profits of all & singular the said premises and of every part & parcel thereof and also all the Estate Right Title or claim whatsoever of them the said Nathaniel Henderson & Patience his wife of in or to the sd. premises above memtioned & every part thereof To have and to hold the said four hundred acres of land & premises above mentioned & every part & parcel thereof to the appurtenances unto the said James Byars his heirs & assigns to the only proper use and behoof of him the said James Byars his heirs & assigns forever and they the sd. Nathaniel Henderson & Patience his wife for themselves their heirs Exers & Admrs doth covenant & grant to and with the said James Byars his heirs & assigns forever against the claim challenge or demand of them the sd. Nathaniel Henderson & Patience his wife their heirs and all & every other person or persons shall & will warrant and forever defend by these presents.

In Witness whereof they the sd. Nathaniel Henderson & Patience his wife hath hereunto set their hands and Seals the day and year first above written.

Nathaniel Henderson (LS)
Patience X Henderson (LS)

Memorandum that on the day & year first within mentioned (can't read) & quiet possession and Livery of seizin (archaic phrase meaning an act of transferring physical possession of property) of the lands & premises within mentioned was conveyed & delivered by the within named Nathaniel Henderson & Patience his wife unto the within named James Byars to hold to him his heirs & assigns according to the purport bias intent & meaning of the within written Deed.

In the presence of Nathaniel Henderson (LS)

William Sims mark

Patience X Henderson (LS)

Received the day & year first within mentioned of the within named James Byars the sum of forty pounds Virginia Currency it being the consideration within mentioned to be by him paid.

William Sims Nathaniel Henderson

At a Court for Granville County 6th December 1757. Nathaniel Henderson acknowledged this Deed with the Livery of Seizin & the Receit thereon endorsed to be his Acts & deeds, previous to which, Patience, wife of the sd. Nathaniel Henderson, who being first privately examined according to Law by Samuel Henderson, Esqr. appointed for that purpose by the Court, relinquished her right of Dower in the Lands by this Deed conveyed all which on Motion were Ordered to be Register'd.

end

Truly Register'd. William Eaton, Public Registrar

Will book- 8 Feb 1790

James Byars of Hanover Co., and Rachel his wife to Pleasant Terrell; 1/2 of New Market Grist Mill on Little River and 2-1/2 acres of land loining said mill; the one half acre on the opposite side of the river from the mil and the other acre and 3/4 joining the mill house...Dossels line...Browns line...to the mill house there being about 1-3/4 acres in said line; further I give said Terrel liberty to build a Cay Dam on my land joining William Harris provided said Harris is willing for same to be built and logs to build said dam.

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http://duplin.lostsoulsgenealogy.com/ncparishes.htm

St. John’s Parish in Granville County In 1746, when Granville Co., N.C. was formed from Edgecombe, St. John's Parish was created, including all of Granville Co. In 1761, Granville Co. was divided into two parishes, the western part becoming Granville Parish and the eastern part remaining St. John's. In 1764, the whole of St. John's Parish, the eastern part of Granville Co., became Bute County and a small part of Northampton Go., N.C. was added to Bute, in 1766.

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Military:
provided supplies to the American Army...

James married Margaret "Peggy" Gentry(Louisa County, Virginia). Margaret was born in 0___ 1693 in (Virginia); died after 1734 in (Louisa County, Virginia). [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Probably connected to Nathan Gentry... http://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Gentry-249

Notes:

Twelve children... http://familytreemaker.genealogy.com/users/f/u/e/Andrew-T-Fuentes/WEBSITE-0001/UHP-0392.html

Burgess married Elizabeth Gaines in 1740 in (Orange County) North Carolina. Elizabeth was born in 1720 in Hanover County, Virginia; died in 1758 in (Orange County) North Carolina. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

View Tree for Elizabeth GainesElizabeth Gaines (b. 1720, d. 1758)
Elizabeth Gaines (daughter of Fnu Gaines)53, 53, 53, 53 was born 1720 in Hanover, Hanover, Virginia, USA53, 53, 53, and died 1758 in North Carolina, USA53, 53, 53.She married (1) Richard Howell.She married (2) Burgess Harrelson on 1740 in North Carolina, USA53, son of Peter Harrelson and Mary Chambers.
More About Elizabeth Gaines:
Date born 2: 1716, Rec.53
More About Elizabeth Gaines and Burgess Harrelson:
Marriage 1: 1740, North Carolina, USA.53
Marriage 2: 1739, Hanover, Virginia, USA.53
Marriage 3: 1740, New Kent, Virginia, USA.53
Marriage 4: 1740, New Kent, Virginia, USA.53
Children of Elizabeth Gaines and Richard Howell are:

Elizabeth Howell, d. 27 May 1901, Montgomery, Alabama, USA53.


Children of Elizabeth Gaines and Burgess Harrelson are:

Burgess Harrelson, b. 1740, Hanover, Virginia, USA53, 53, d. 183153, 53.
+Elijah Harrelson, b. 1743, Hanover, Virginia, USA53, d. 1789, Caswell, North Carolina, USA53, 53, 53.
Elisha Harrelson, b. 1745, Hanover, Virginia, USA53, 53.
Elisheba Harrelson, b. 1746, Hanover, Virginia, USA53, 53, d. 1779, Caswell, North Carolina, USA53, 53.
Ezekiel Harrelson, b. 1746, Hanover, Virginia Beach, Virginia, USA53, 53,d., Caswell, Cumberland, North Carolina, USA53, 53.
Penina Harrelson, b. 1749, Hanover, Virginia, USA53, 53.
Jermima Harrelson, b. 175053, 53, d. 177753.
Jermima Harrelson, b. 1751, Orange, North Carolina, USA53, d. 177753.
Drucilla Harrelson, b. 1753, Orange Factory, Orange, North Carolina, USA53, 53, d. 1816, Rutherfordton, Rutherford, North Carolina, USA53, 53.
Drusetta Harrelson, b. 1753, Orange, North Carolina, USA53, 53, d. 1816, Rutherford, North Carolina, USA53, 53.
Elizabeth Harrelson, b. 1755, Orange, North Carolina, USA53, 53,d., Caswell, Cumberland, North Carolina, USA53, 53.
John Harrelson, b. 1758, Orange, North Carolina, USA53, 53

Jonathan married Mary Margaret LNU in ~ 1718 in Easthampton, Suffolk County, New York. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Thomas married Mary Elizabeth Farley. Mary was born in ~1692 in Henrico County, Virginia, a British Colony in North America; died in ~1759. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Richard married Anne LNU in 1726 in Spotsylvania County, Virginia. Anne was born in 1702 in Gloucester County, Virginia; died on 1 Mar 1787 in Big Bugaboo Creek, Wilkes County, North Carolina. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Editor's Note, March 19th, 2019:

Anne was unlinked to the WYATT family as there does not appear to be any records which confirm that fact...DAH

endo of note

Anne Stubblefield formerly [surname unknown]
Born 1702 in Gloucester, Virginiamap
Daughter of [father unknown] and [mother unknown]
[sibling(s) unknown]
Wife of Richard Robert Stubblefield — married 1726 in Spotsylvania, Virginiamap
DESCENDANTS descendants
Mother of Jeremiah Stubblefield, Edward Stubblefield, John Stubblefield, George Stubblefield, Richard Stubblefield, Joel Stubblefield, Elizabeth (Stubblefield) Womack, Wyatt Stubblefield and Thomas Stubblefield
Died 1 Mar 1787 in Bugaboo Creek, Wilkes, North Carolina, USAmap
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Sources needed

Suggested LNAB include Wyatt or Parker.
Anne married Richard Robert Stubblefield in 1726 in Spotsylvania, Virginia. They had the following children:
Jeremiah Stubblefield,
Thomas Stubblefield, Elizabeth Stubblefield, Edward Stubblefield, John Stubblefield,
George Stubblefield,
Richard Stubblefield,
Joel Stubblefield,
Elizabeth (Stubblefield) Womack,
Wyatt Stubblefield,
Thomas Stubblefield and
William Seth Stubblefield
Anne died March 1, 1787 in Bugaboo Creek, Wilkes, North Carolina, USA.


Sources

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Anne Stubblefield formerly Wyatt
Born 1702 in Gloucester, Virginia
Daughter of James Wyatt and Grace (Newton) Wyatt
Sister of Sarah Wyatt, William Wyatt, Daniel Wyatt, David Wyatt, James Wyatt, Sallie Wyatt, John Wiatt, Francis Wyatt, Frances Wyatt, Elizabeth Wyatt and Conquest Wyatt
Wife of Richard Robert Stubblefield — married 1726 in Spotsylvania, Virginia, USA
Mother of Jeremiah Stubblefield, Thomas Stubblefield, Edward Stubblefield, John Stubblefield, George Stubblefield, Richard Stubblefield, Joel Stubblefield, Elizabeth (Stubblefield) Womack, Wyatt Stubblefield, Thomas Stubblefield and William Seth Stubblefield
Died 1 Mar 1787 in Bugaboo Creek, Wilkes, North Carolina, USA
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Anne Wyatt was born in 1702 in Gloucester, Virginia, the daughter of James Wyatt and Grace (Newton) Wyatt. She was the sister of Sarah Wyatt, William Wyatt, Daniel Wyatt, David Wyatt, James Wyatt, Sallie Wyatt, John Wyatt, Francis Wyatt, Frances Wyatt, Elizabeth Wyatt and Conquest Wyatt. [1]

Anne married Richard Robert Stubblefield in 1726 in Spotsylvania, Virginia. They had the following children:

Jeremiah Stubblefield,
Thomas Stubblefield, Elizabeth Stubblefield, Edward Stubblefield, John Stubblefield,
George Stubblefield,
Richard Stubblefield,
Joel Stubblefield,
Elizabeth (Stubblefield) Womack,
Wyatt Stubblefield,
Thomas Stubblefield and
William Seth Stubblefield
Anne died March 1, 1787 in Bugaboo Creek, Wilkes, North Carolina, USA.

Sources

? Weis, Frederick Lewis, and Walter Lee Sheppard. The Magna Charta sureties, 1215: the barons named in the Magna Charta, 1215 and some of their descendants who settled in America. (Baltimore [Maryland]: Genealogical Pub. Co., Unknown edition (1955-1999)).

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Notes:

William Rice
Born about 1710 in Hanover County, Virginia Colony
ANCESTORS ancestors
Son of William Rice and [mother unknown]
[sibling(s) unknown]
Husband of Sarah (Nelms) Rice — married about 1733 in Orange County, Virginia Colony, British Americamap
DESCENDANTS descendants
Father of Benajah Rice and John Rice
Died about 17 Apr 1780 in Culpeper County, Virginia, USA

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William Rice was a US Southern Colonist.

William was born about 1710 probably in Hanover County, Virginia Colony. He was the son of William Rice. He passed away before 17 April 1780 in Culpeper County, Virginia.

29 July 1736 "deed from George II, etc., to William Rice, for four hundred acres of land in the forks of the Rapid Ann, in the county of Orange, beginning at four pines on a point on a branch of Dark Run." The deed is signed by William Gooch.[1] This land was surveyed 26 December 1734.[2]

12 December 1749 "William Rice of Culpeper Co. 394 A. in said Co. Surv. Mr. George Hume. In Fork of Robinson R., adj. Robert Cave, Rice's other land, William Philips, John Barnet, John Bruce. G-338.[3]

8 Apr 1793 "Benajah Rice 337 A. (13 Jan 1772) in Culpeper Co. in Robinson Fork adj. wid. Redman, Christian Riner, Jacob Croswait, Terrel, William Rice. W-188.[4]

Marriage & Children
William married Sarah Nelms about 1740 possibly in Hanover County or Orange County (Culpeper Co. formed from Orange in 1749), Virginia Colony. Their documented children (named in William's will):

Richard Rice
John Rice, md Mary Finney
Benajah Rice
Hannah Rice
Ann Rice, md John Graves
Sarah Rice, md Edward Graves
Death & Legacy
William's will was dated 9 February 1780 and probated 17 April 1780 in Culpeper County, Virginia. He leaves one half of his estate to his wife, Sarah, for her natural life. After her death it is to be divided among his children. Children named in his will are Richard, John, Benajah, Hannah Rice, Ann Graves, wife of John Graves, and Sarah Graves, wife of Edward Graves. He left a copper still to his daughter, Hannah Rice. Executors named are Benajah, John and Richard Rice, and son-in-law, John Graves.[1]

William's widow, Sarah Rice, was listed in the Virginia Property Tax list, Culpeper County in 1783. Also listed were Richard and Benjamin Rice.[5]

The last will and testament of William Rice was probated and recorded in Culp eper, Virginia April 17, 1780. It was written the 9th day of February, 1780 . Children listed Richard , John , Benajah , Hannah Rice ,Ann Graves , wife of John Graves , and Sarah Graves , wife of Edward Graves .

"I lend to my be loved wife, Sarah Rice , one-half of my estate during her natural life." Ex ecutors Benajah , John , and Richard Rice , his sons, and John Graves , his s on-in law.

William Rice Land holdings:20 July 1736. Virginia State Land Office. Patents 1-42, reels 1-41.Orange County. Description: 400 acres i n the fork of the Rappidanne River beginning on the point of a branch of Dark Run.

Henry Rice survey: Orange Co. 29 June 1739.Virginia State Land Of fice. Patents Orange County. Description: 400 acres among the heads of the branches of the South fork of Mattapony River beginning on the north side the Robinson Run.

Source: Land Office Patents No. 18, 1738-1739, p. 310 (Ree l 16).

Culpeper County / Also partly in Frederick County. April 10, 1771 Description: 400 acres on the Blue Ridge on the So. side of the Main Hedgman River, near the head thereof. Source: Northern Neck Grants P, 1771-1775, p. 25 (Reel 296).

12 December 1749. Northern Neck Grants, reels 288-311.

Culpeper County. Description: 394 acres in the fork of Robinson River adjoin ing Robert Cave &c.

Source: Northern Neck Grants G, p. 338 (Reel 292). 12 July 1750.

Available on microfilm. Virginia State Land Office. Patents 1- 42, reels 1-41.

Lunenburg County. Description: 150 acres on the north s ide Irwin River and on the Owle Branch.

Source: Land Office Patents No. 29 , 1749-1751 (v.1 & 2 p.1-532), p. 282 (Reel 27).

Sources
? 1.0 1.1 Raleigh Travers Green. Genealogical and Historical Notes on Culpeper County, Virginia. Embracing a Revised and Enlarged Edition of Dr. Philip Slaughter's History of St. Mark's Parish. Culpeper, VA, USA: Regional Publishing Company, 1900. p 132, 133.
? ancestry.com English Duplicates of Lost Virginia Records [database on-line]. Cognets, Louis des, Jr., comp. English Duplicates of Lost Virginia Records. Princeton, New Jersey, 1958. Reprinted 1981, 1990, Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Co., Inc., 1958. p 119
? Virginia Northern Neck Land Grants, 1742-1775. [Vol. II] [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations Inc, 2006. Original data: Gray, Gertrude E. Virginia Northern Neck Land Grants, 1742-1775. [Vol. II]. Baltimore, MD, USA: Genealogical Publishing Co., 1997. p 38, 210
? Virginia Northern Neck Land Grants, 1775-1800. [Vol. III] [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations Inc, 2006. Original data: Gray, Gertrude E. Virginia Northern Neck Land Grants, 1775-1800. [Vol. III]. Baltimore, MD, USA: Genealogical Publishing Co., 1997. p 160
? Property tax list of Culpeper County, Virginia [database on-line]. Provo, UT: Ancestry.com Operations Inc, 2004. Original data: Norris, Mary Boldridge. Property tax list of Culpeper County, Virginia: and names of slaves, 1783. Raleigh, N.C.: unknown, 1936. p 21
William Rice Land holdings:20 July 1736. Virginia State Land Office. Patents 1-42, reels 1-41.Orange County.
Source: Land Office Patents No. 18, 1738-1739, p. 310 (Ree l 16). Source: Northern Neck Grants P, 1771-1775, p. 25 (Reel 296).

Source: Northern Neck Grants G, p. 338 (Reel 292). 12 July 1750.

Source: Land Office Patents No. 29 , 1749-1751 (v.1 & 2 p.1-532), p. 282 (Reel 27).

See also:

Raleigh Travers Green. Genealogical and Historical Notes on Culpeper County, Virginia. Embracing a Revised and Enlarged Edition of Dr. Philip Slaughter's History of St. Mark's Parish. Culpeper, VA, USA: Regional Publishing Company, 1900. Note that in this text on p 132, it is stated that William Rice who settled in Orange (later Culpeper) County was the son of Thomas Rice the immigrant. This is incorrect. This William is actually grandson, son of William Rice.

William married Sarah Nelms in ~1733 in Orange County, Virginia. Sarah (daughter of William Nelms and Elizabeth Bledsoe) was born on 4 Mar 1713 in Northumberland County, Virginia; died on 17 Apr 1780 in Culpeper County, Virginia. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Sarah Rice formerly Nelms
Born 4 Mar 1713 in Northumberland County, Virginia Colony
Daughter of [father unknown] and [mother unknown]
[sibling(s) unknown]
Wife of William Rice — married about 1733 in Orange County, Virginia Colony, British America
DESCENDANTS descendants
Mother of Benajah Rice and John Rice
Died after 17 Apr 1780 in Culpeper County, Virginia, USA

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Sarah (Nelms) Rice was a US Southern Colonist.

Sarah was born in 1713 in Northumberland County, Virginia Colony.[citation needed] She was the daughter of William Nelms and Elizabeth Bledsoe. She passed away after 17 April 1780. (She is named in the will or her husband, William Rice, dated 9 February 1780 and probated 17 April 1780 in Culpeper County, Virginia.)[1]

If the birth date found online is correct, it appears as if Sarah was second wife to William. Some of the children attributed to William were born when Sarah was too young to have been their mother.

Marriage William Rice Wife Sarah Rice. Child: Benajah Rice. Child: @I205@. Marriage 1733 in Orange County, Virginia Colony, British America.


Sources
? Raleigh Travers Green. Genealogical and Historical Notes on Culpeper County, Virginia. Embracing a Revised and Enlarged Edition of Dr. Philip Slaughter's History of St. Mark's Parish. Culpeper, VA, USA: Regional Publishing Company, 1900. p 132, 133.
Source: S6 WikiTree Publication: MyHeritage www.wikitree.com Media: 10109 Collection https://www.myheritage.com/research/record-10109-55621413/sarah-rice-born-nelms-in-wikitree 19 JUN 2017 Sarah Rice (born Nelms)
Gender: Female
Birth: Mar 4 1713 - Northumberland County, Virginia Colony, British America
Marriage: Circa 1733 - Orange County, Virginia Colony, British America
Death: After Apr 17 1780 - Culpeper County, Virginia, USA
Husband: William Rice
Children: John RiceBenajah Rice Certainty: 4


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Other Events and Attributes:

• Alt Birth: ~ 1675, (England)
• Will: 18 Jan 1734, Hanover County, Virginia
• Residence: 1748, Lunenburg County, Virginia, British Colonies of North America
• Residence: 1749, Lunenburg County, Virginia, British Colonies of North America

Notes:

27 Feb 2013 Follow-up and 15 years later...

Found on WikiTree, John BYARS, born 1612, Newcastle Upon Tyne, England, lists three more BYARS generations. Very likely that this is an early progenitor... http://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Byars-36

----- Original Message -----
From: David Hennessee
To: Margie Tucker
Sent: Thursday, March 19, 1998 11:13 AM
Subject: John BYERS

Cuz - Was searching through County Durham,England Marriages 1575-1837 confirming a DURHAM line of mine and ran across:

"21 Apr 1694 John Byers + Jane Kirton". There are no further references to BYERS/BYARS. Many "Johns" appear in progeny of James Henry. Through serendipity I think I've found a possible clue. What do you think? Could this "John Byers" be our "John Byars'" antecedent?

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From: MTucker211
To: schoolstuff@worldnet.att.net
Subject: Re: BYARS
Date: Tuesday, March 31, 1998 11:35 PM

Cuz, I found a page sent to me years ago by Faye Robbins. This is what has led Byars researches to believe that it constitues proof. A note at the top of this page she writes that she never tried to prove it. I need to xerox it and send to you. I have a fax modem but don't know how to use it, so I am typing it..

John Byars m. ______?

Children: (2)

1. James Henry Byars b. ca. 1713
wed (1) Peggy Gentry
(2) Rachel Mathews

2. Jonas Byars b. ca 1718

According to THE VESTRY BOOK, ST. PAUL'S PARISH, Hanover County, Virginia, pages 130 and 183 that John Byars was living in New Kent Co., VA on Sept. 24, 1708. That he resided in St. Paul's Parish before 1734 was living in St. Martin's Parish on Feb. 8, 1734.
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(1) JAMES HENRY BYARS

James Henry Byars, m. , (1) Peggy Gentry

Born: ca. 1713

Died: ca. 1792

Children:- (4) (known)

1. John Byars Mar. 16, 1734, Louisa Co., VA

2. James Byars 1740

3. William Byars Apr. 6, 1747
wed Sarah Ann Doggett

4. Nathan Byars 1749
wed (1) Drucilla Harrelson
(2) Delphy Logan

(2) JONAS BYARS

Jonas Byars m. Frances "Fanny" Collins Born: ca. 1718

Children: (2) Known

1. William Byars 1755/60 1819
wed Elizabeth Bedford

2. Henryetta Byars

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An excellent monograph on the BYARS Family by Joe Logan ... http://logan-family.org/doc/byars.html

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28 Mar 2007 Joel Hager reports a compilation of "John Byars" sightings in the Virginia Colony... http://wc.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=GET&db=hagerj&id=I278629

Hanover County, VA 1706 - 1786 Vestry Book of St. Paul's Parish File submitted for use in the USGenWeb Archives by: Pat C. John

This volume was the sixth in the series of parish books started in 1931. Churchill Gibson Chamberlayne, B.A., B.D., M.A., Ph.D., LL.D., the editor of four previous volumes in the series, agreed to transcribe and edit the volume. Dr. Chamberlayne was headmaster of St. Christopher's School near Richmond, and a recognized authority on the history of the Protestant Episcopal Church in Virginia. His efforts on four of the five previous volumes in the series, plus three volumes published at his own expense, made him a highly qualified transcriber and editor of early parish records. He undertook the work as a labor of love without remuneration.

Soon after the volume had gone to press in January 1939, Dr. Chamberlayne died on April 3, 1939. Under the general direction of Mr. Wilmer L., Hall, State Librarian, members of the library staff assisted in completing the work. Mr. William J. Van Schreeven, then Head Archivist and later State Archivist edited Dr. Chamberlayne's rough draft of an introduction and compiled the appendix. The proof reading was done by Mrs. Marjorie C. Gough and the index was prepared by Miss Virginia E. Jones. St. Paul's Vestry Book and four other vestry books published in the series relate to the contiguous area in which the early local records have been either lost or destroyed. This volume is distinctive because it was regularly used to enter processioning orders and returns as well as the recording of minutes of vestry meetings. Thus it is a comprehensive record of land owners in the parish. Since records of Hanover County were destroyed during the evacuation fire in Richmond in 1865, the entries in the vestry book are the only existing record of land ownership. Louis H. Manarin State Archivist Richmond, October 27, 1972 Introduction (p. xi) The manuscript volume hereinafter reproduced in print embodies the earliest consecutive records of St. Paul's Parish, Hanover County Virginia, known to be in existence.

It covers, with more or less completeness, the period from January, 1706 to August 1786. The history of the volume from the day the last entry in it was written until 1907, when the writer examined it along with other parish records at the Theological Seminary at Alexandria, is unknown to the editor. That Bishop Meade was unaware of its existence when writing his "Old Churches, Ministers and Families of Virginia" (first published in book form in 1857) is evident to those who have read his chapter on the "Parishes in Hanover County - No. 1." At some date unknown to the editor the volume was deposited by someone, whose identity the editor has been unable to establish, in the library of the Protestant Episcopal Theological Seminary in Virginia, at Alexandria. With the other parish record books on deposit there, it was in 1931 transferred for safe-keeping to the Virginia State Library in Richmond, and is preserved in the Archives Division of the library. It is the property of the Protestant Episcopal Church in Virginia. It has not hitherto been published…. (p. xii) St. Paul's Parish was established in 1704 by act of the General Assembly convening on April 20 of that year. Under the terms of the Act the parish was to come into being on June 1; it may fairly be assumed therefore that the vestry records began with the minutes of a vestry meeting held within a month or two of that date, and it is possible that they began with a transcript of the proceedings of the meeting of the "ffreeholders and Housekeepers of the Parish" which was scheduled under the Act to convene on the "second thirsday in June next and there choose twelve of the most able and discreet persons of the parish to be Vestrymen for their said parish…"

But whatever may have been the date of the first entry in the original vestry book, the first complete vestry minutes in the extant book are those for the meeting held on July 10, 1706 - or two years subsequent to the establishment of the parish. Another circumstance of interest, and indeed of importance, in connection with this old manuscript volume, raising as it does some doubt as to the absolute validity of the record up to the year 1754, is the fact that the volume is for the first two hundred and forty- one pages merely a transcript, of an older and long since disappeared, manuscript volume, which was ordered to be made ( p. xiii) in the year 1754. Furthermore it is not certain that the volume transcribed in 1754, was the original record prior to the year 1742, for under the date Oct. 12, 1742, there occurs the item "To Do, for Transcribing the Register Book from ye; year 1704, to this p'sent time. 1000," the matter hinging entirely upon the meaning of the term "Register Book." If this term means here vestry book, then there were two transcripts made (one in 1742, the other in 1754) and the present manuscript is from 1742 to 1754 a copy of the original record, while for the entries prior to 1742 it is only a copy of a copy of the original. On the other hand, if the term "Register Book" here refers to the record kept of births, baptisms, and deaths in the parish, then the present manuscript vestry book is for the entire period prior to 1754 a transcript of the original record. The Extent of the Parish In order to determine the extent of St. Paul's Parish in 1704, the year of its establishment, it is necessary first to know the boundaries of St. Peter's Parish, from which St. Paul's was cut off. In 1704 St Peter's Parish was bounded on the north-east by the Pamunkey River up to the fork and from (p.xiv) that point on by the north fork (North Anna River); on the south-east by the line dividing it from Blisland (or Blissland) Parish and by the north-west boundary of Wilmington Parish, if there ever was any definitely fixed north-west boundary line of that parish; on the south-west by the ridge between the Pamunkey and the Chickahominy rivers (the dividing line between the parishes of St. Peter's and Wilmington) up to the north-west extent of Wilmington Parish, and then by the Chickahominy River. To the north-west the parish extended theoretically indefinitely; practically it extended to the farthest point of settlement. From 1704, then, until St. Martin's Parish was in turn cut off from it, St. Paul's Parish extended indefinitely north-west from the north-west boundary of St. Peter's Parish between the Pamunkey (in its upper reaches the North Anna) and the Chickahominy. In 1726 when St. Martin's Parish was cut off from St Pauls, the new parish included all that part of St. Paul's Parish lying in the fork of the Pamunkey (made by the junction of the North Anna and the South Anna rivers) together with all that part of the original parish lying north-west of Stone Horse Creek, which flowed north-east into the South Anna. In 1923, that part of St. Paul's Parish lying between Stone Horse Creek and a line running parallel to the Richmond, Fredericksburg and Potomac Railroad and two and a half miles to the east of it was by action of the Episcopal Diocesan Council formed into a new parish to which was given the name Ashland. The St. Paul's of this vestry book, however, which originally extended from Matadequin Creek on the east indefinitely to the west, after 1726 extended west as far as the fork of the Pamunkey and as far as Stone Horse Creek for the territory south of the South Anna. Processioning (p.xv) Each one of the parish vestry books still in existence has perhaps something of peculiar interest attaching to it. The thing of most outstanding interest in connection with the vestry book of St. Paul's Parish, Hanover County, is that the volume served a unique as well as a double purpose. It was the repository of two very different sets of records; i.e., the minutes of the vestry meetings and, as well, the orders for processioning and the returns made by the processioners. In view of the fact that in this old vestry book the processioning orders and processioning returns together comprise so large a part of the record as a while, it may not be out of place here to make clear what the terms "processioning" and " processioners" mean, what the practice of processioning was, and what the reason for the practice; and all the more so as even the term, "processioning" itself has become practically obsolete, and therefore meaningless, in Virginia. The first reference to processioning that the editor can find in the Virginia colonial records occurs in Hening's Statues…..

This reference is embodied in Act LXXVIII of the session of the Grand Assembly begun March 23rd 1662, the preamble of which, giving clear the purpose of the proposed practice, is as follows: "Whereas many contentious suites are dayly incited and stirred up about the bounds of land for which noe remedy hath yett bin provided, the ffifty seaventh act prohibiting resurveighs not applying the expected remedies, for if the surveighs be just (p.xvi) yet the surveighors being for the most part careles of seeing the trees marked, or the owners never renewing them, in a small time the chopps being growne up, or the trees fallen, the bounds become as uncertaine as at first, and upon a new surveigh the least variation of a compasse alters the scituation of a whole neighborhood and deprives many persons of houses, or chards and all to their infinite losse and trouble; for prevention whereof, Bee it enacted" etc. The purpose of processioning, accordingly, was to obviate lawsuits over boundary lines, with the necessary expenses and possible injustices incident to resurveys, which were almost inevitably attendant upon law suits over disputed property lines. The wording of the Act proper was as follows: "….that within twelve months after this act, all the inhabitants of every neck and tract of land adjoining shall goe in procession and see the marked trees of every mans land in those precincts to be renewed, and the same course to be taken once every fower years, by which meanes the inconvenience of clandestine surveigh will be taken away, and the bounds wilbe soe generally known and the marks soe fresh that noe alteration can be made afterwards. And be it further enacted that the bounds by the consent of the present proprietors being once thus setled shall conclude the said proprietors, and all others clayming from or under them, from any future alterations of their bounds, be there within the said bounds more or lesse land than they pretend to: And if it shall happen any difference to be at present that cannot be by the neighbors themselves decided, Bee it further enacted that two honest and able surveyors shall in presence of the neighbour-hood lay out the land in controversie, and the bounds than laid out to be the certaine bounds, and ever after to be renewed and continue soe, but the person causing the difference to pay the charge of the survey, it tending much more to the preservation of ffriendshipp among neighbors to have a present and finall decission of their (p.xvii) differences, while men yet live that are acquainted with the ffirst surveys, and while land is yet at a low value, then it will be when time hath rooted out all knowledge to the bounds and added a greater value to the land. Be it enacted further that each county court shall appoint and order the vestrys of each parish to devide the parishes into soe many precincts as they shall think necessary for the neighbors to joyne and see each others markes renewed, and to appoint certaine dayes between Easter and Whitsunday to goe the said processions and put this act in effectuall execution, and in case the court shall omitt to make such orders and to send the same to the severall vestryes of the parishes in their counties, they shalbe fined ten thousand pounds of tobacco, and the vestry failing in ordering the precincts and the persons to goe together shall be fined twelve hundred pounds of tobacco and the persons fayling to goe upon the day appointed, or to renew his marke accordingly shall for his neglect be fined three hundred and fifty pounds of tobacco." The practice of processioning, as inaugurated under the above Act of the session of 1662 was later amplified and altered in certain important details by subsequent legislation, as follows: 1. In 1673 provision was made for the processioning of lands of orphans 2. In 1691 the time of year for processioning was changed to the six months between September 30 and March 31st. 3. In 1705 it was directed (1) that the court orders for processioning should go out between June 1 and September 1 of every fourth year, beginning with the year 1708; (2) that the vestries were each to appoint "at least two intelligent honest freeholders of every precinct, to see such processioning performed, and take and return to the vestry an account [in writing] of every persons land, they shall proscession, and of the persons present at the same, and of what lands in their precincts, (p.xviii) they shall fail to proscession, and of the particular reasons of such failure"; (3) that the vestries were to see to it that the written returns of the processioners were "registered in particular books to be kept for that purpose by the clerk of the vestry," the registers to be examined by the churchwardens for the purpose of seeing that the returns made by the processioners had been copied fully and exactly; (4) that specified fines should be the penalties for failure on the part of county and parish officials, and the other persons affected by the act, to perform their respective duties under the act; and (5) that bounds three times processioned should be considered settled and determined forever. 4. In 1710 the processioning legislation of 1705 was ineffect re-enacted, the one change of importance being the requirement that from thenceforth the court orders for processioning should go out every fourth year beginning with the year 1711; and the one material addition being a provision for the processioning under special court orders of lands whose owners had refused to have them processioned in ordinary and regular course. 5. In 1748 the processioning law of 1710 was re-enacted without any important change by way of addition, omission or substitution. C.G.Chamberlayne,

In extracting this data on the Surname Harris from the above referenced book, there are two things I want to tell you. I will indicate the book page first and in parenthesis, I will indicate the page in the actual vestry records. When given, I will also show the date. I will extract data only, making no assumptions. You will also note that there are entries in the vestry minutes that have the abbreviations C: and C:C. From what I can determine, the C:C stands for Contra: Credit and the C: stands for Credit. Permission to publish this data online was obtained from John T. Kneebone, Director of Publications & Educational Services, Library of Virginia on February 3, 2000. Pat C. Johns (pacj11945@aol.com)

P. 39 & 40 (46), dated April 11, 1710 "In Obedience to an order of New Kent Court, dated 28th Feb. 1709/10, Its ordered that Henry Mills, Joseph Poors, Joseph Brown, Henry Farmur, Col. Dukes Quarter, Roger Smith, Charles Rhodes, William Howlet, Samuel Rennolds, John Byas, Rob't Walker, John Kinbrow Junr., John Harris, Rennold Allen, Wm Hatfield and Daniel Dishman, with all their Male Thitables, are to Assist John Glenn to clear the road according to the said Court Order."

RECORDS OF HANOVER COUNTY, VIRGINIA William and Mary College Quarterly Historical Magazine, Vol. 21, No. 1. (Jul., 1912), pp. 47-63. File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by: Edward Reynolds I have tried to maintain the exact format of the originals. This is a copyrighted Transcription of this article by Edward Reynolds on 9-15-1997. It may be distributed and copied for any non-profit use without written permission from Edward Reynolds. All other uses are prohibited. WLLLIAM AND MARY QUARTERLY 47 RECORDS OF HANOVER COUNTY. There are only two old books in the clerk’s Office of Hanover county, Va The oldest, designated the "Small Book" in these notes, covers the years 1734 and 1735, and contains orders, wills, deeds, etc. The other, "The Larger Book" of these notes is a deed book for 1780-1790. The following are the abbreviations: adj, adjoining; extor --executor: adm.-administrator; s.-son; d.-daughter or died; est. estate; X - his mark; a.---acres. These notes were copied by me in the winter of 1910-1911 - S. 0. Southall. THE SMALL BOOK, 1734-1735.

P. on Totopotomoy Creek. Feb., 1734.~John X Byars to his son James Byars.

Hanover County, Virginia Deed Book References Page 181-182

I John Byars of St. Martins par., Hanover Co., for good will and fatherly love do give my loving son, James Byars my plantation and all my 200a. of land with houses edifices buildings and tenements, gardens, ordhards, and woods: sd. James Paying what quitrent shall grow due to the king. 18 Jan 1734. Wit: Robert Harris, Wm. Hendrick, Richard Harris.

Note: there are many othe references to James Byars and James Byars, Jr. and wife Rachel in Hanover records until the late 1790's.

Transcribed by Alan Bias

http://ftp.rootsweb.com/pub/usgenweb/va/brunswick/deeds/book3pt1.txt

BRUNSWICK COUNTY, VA - DEEDS - Deed Book 3 Abstracts Part 1 (1744-1749)

Indenture dated 1 August 1745, between Runall Alling of Brunswick County and Andrew Presley of Amela County, 100a, œ25, Release. Signed Runall Alling (bhm), Mary Alling (bhm). Witnesses: John Hearn, John Byas (bhm), Edward Matthis (bhm). Court August 1, 1745, Indenture acknowledged by Runal Alling and Mary the wife of the said Runal personally appeared and relinquished her Right of Dower. Deed Book 3, Page 57.

http://ftp.rootsweb.com/pub/usgenweb/va/lunenburg/census/sun002.txt

Lunenburg County, Virginia Lewis Deloney's List of Tithables, 1748

John Bias .................................................. 1

http://ftp.rootsweb.com/pub/usgenweb/va/lunenburg/census/sun003.txt

Lunenburg County, Virginia

William Howard, "from Butchers Creek to the extent of the County downwards."

William Howard's List of Tithables, 1749 Tithes H. & Scalps

John Byas [?] ................................ 1 6

Carrie Bias Hoffert - Mar 14, 2005

"April 11, 1710, O.S., p. 24 [new pagination p. 32; Chamberlayne p. 40] In Obedience to an Order of New Kent Court, dated 28th Feb,ry 1709/10 Its ordered that Henry Mills, Joseph Poors, Joseph Brown Henry Farmur, Col,o Dukes Quarter, Roger Smith, Charles Rhodes, William Howlet, Samuel Rennolds, JOHN BYAS Rob,t Walker John Kimbrow Jun,r John Harris, Rennold Allen, W,m Hatfield and Daniel Dishman, with all their Male Tithables, are to Assist John Glenn to clear the road According to the said order of Court" Source; This is information copied from original ROAD ORDERS for the state of VA NOTE THE YEAR 1710 in NEW KENT CO, VA….Could this be the father of our JAMES BYAS????? Maybe this is where we will finally find his origins??? Definitely bears a lot more investigation. NOTE THE NAMES OF others, FARMER, HATFIELD, names that have continued continuity with the BYAS/BIAS family for generations! I wonder if we might find a will for the above JOHN BYAS…..Naming patterns for our James Byas are correct, he had a son Jonathon. Give me your thoughts…. IS there anyone out there that has access to NEW KENT Co, records on a direct basis, also can someone might want to check out adjoining counties that were formed from part of NEW KENT Co, after 1710 to see if we might find a will there. I live in NC, so I do not have access to NEW KENT county court house and their records.

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http://www.surnamedb.com/surname.aspx?name=byars

Surname: Byars

Recorded in a number of modern spelling forms including Byars, Byers, Byre, Byres, Bier, Biers, and Buyers, this is an English topographical or occupational surname, and one associated with the pre 7th century Viking. It derives from the word "bi or byre", meaning the cattle barn or dairy, and is one of a group of surnames which originate from working or living on a farm. These include Bull, Heffer, Stott, and Palfrey, and all relate to the keeping of livestock, the prime agricultural function of the medieval period. Perhaps not surprisingly given the importance of the occupation, this is one of the earliest of all recorded hereditary surnames, and it is also not surprising that it was in the then cattle breeding regions of East Anglia and the West Country, where originally the surname was most prevalent. There is also a possibility that in some cases the surname may have descended from an Olde English personal name "Bye", of unproven meaning. This is suggested by the recording of Thomas filius Bye of Cambridge, in the Hundred Rolls of the year 1279. Other early examples of the name recording include John Attebey also in the same Hundred Rolls of Cambridge and John Buyres of Somerset in the Subsidy Tax rolls of 1327. The famous portrait painter of the 17th century Nicholas Byer, who died in 1681, was actually born in Norway, although possibly of English parents. The first known recording is believed to be that of Elias de la Byare of Devonshire in the year 1275. This was during the reign of King Edward 1st of England, 1272 -1307.

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John married Elizabeth Glen in 1712 in New Kent County, Virginia. Elizabeth (daughter of James Glen and Hanna (Thompson)) was born in ~1694 in New Kent County, Virginia; died in ~1763 in Louisa County,Virginia Colony. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Elizabeth Byars formerly Glen
Born about 1694 in New Kent County, Virginia
ANCESTORS ancestors
Daughter of William Glen and Constance Taylor
Sister of Elizabeth MacKyger [half]
Wife of John Byars — married 1712 in New Kent, Virginia
HIDE DESCENDANTS
Mother of James Henry Byars and Jonas Byars
Died after 1763 in Virginia
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US Southern Colonies.
Elizabeth (Glen) Byars settled in the Southern Colonies in North America prior to incorporation into the USA.
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Questioned Parents
No evidence is presented on this profile to substantiate the statement that William Glen and Constance Taylor are Elizabeth's parents. Other sources state that Elizabeth is the daughter of John Glenn and Hannah Thompson.[1] Also note that in a court order of 28 February 1709/10, John Byars is required to join other neighbors in assisting John Glenn to clear a road.[2] This seems to indicate a relationship between this John Glenn and Elizabeth Glenn.

There is another possibility. James Glen's will, dated 11 June 1762 and proved 3 February 1763 in Hanover County, Virginia names wife Hannah and children. Among the children are Elizabeth Byass.[3] It is of course not certain that this Elizabeth is the one we are dealing with here.

Biography
Elizabeth was born about 1694.

Sources
? Tucker, Marjorie Stewart Genealogical Collection: Descendants of John Byars https://dcms.lds.org/delivery/DeliveryManagerServlet?dps_pid=IE66973
? Hanover County, VA 1706-1786 Vestry Book of St. Paul's Parish, p 39 & 40 as cited on The Hennessee Family http://www.thehennesseefamily.com/getperson.php?personID=I25588&tree=hennessee
? Tucker, Marjorie Stewart Genealogical Collection: Descendants of John Byars
See also:

http://trees.ancestry.com/tree/11183518/person/65435048

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Other Events and Attributes:

• Occupation: Danish Army Captain
• Residence: Address:
  Dorothy Hogwood
  412 Parkside Drive, Ft. Worth,TX 76108
  817/246-1642
• Probate: 1733, Hanover County, Virginia

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"William and Mary Quarterly",Aug. 1773, abstracted by Edward Reynolds,
September 15, 1997;


"Peter Harralson (will) dated Jany 20th, 1732, Gives wife Mary Harralson the place where Daniel Tyler lives, Sons, Paul, Burges, John and Nath; Harralson; daus, Elizabeth, Agnes and Sarah.

Witness, Paul Harralson, Rolf Hunt, and James Hooper. Admtor Mary Harralson. Security, Henry Chiles and Paul Harralson."

23 May 2007

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Re: Paul Harrelson b. 1650 Denmark
Posted by: Joy Smith (ID *****4293) Date: May 04, 2007 at 13:09:49
In Reply to: Paul Harrelson b. 1650 Denmark by Michele Petersen of 1366


Michele:
Here is the info I have on Paul Harrelson. I have more information on descendents if you are looking for it. Contact me at jjoysmith@excite.com.

Joy


PAUL1 HARRALSON was born circa 1655 in Denmark; was a crusty old sea captain who brought immigrants to New Kent Co., Virginia; migrated to America about 1670 and died 1734 in New Kent Co., Virginia. His father is possibly PETER HARRELSON. Paul was naturalized in Virginia House of Burgesses 2 APR 1703. He attended St. Paul’s Episcopal Church in Hanover Co., Virginia. First located 03 Dec 1692 Deed. Last located 25 JAN 1734 when he sold 150 acres to Henry Power of Parish of James City. From William and Mary Quarterly – Paul’s estate was administered 1 April 1734 in Hanover Co., Virginia. The will was proven 5 APR 1734, dated 1718. Son Peter to receive 200 acres on Crump Creek. Also listed son Paul, daughter Ann Chiles, daughter Judith Harralson, granddaughter Rebeckah Sims, wife and all 5 children begotton of Paul Harralson I. Cr. Paul Harralson, Henry Childs security, executor’s bond. It is believed that Paul, Jr. and his wife, Patience, returned for the probate. The plantation where Paul, Sr. lived, all land and appurtenenaces were left to Paul, Jr. (no children were listed) (Record Book 46, New Kent County, Virginia). Paul, Sr. married about 1734 to REBEKKA BURGESS b. 1670, d. after 1734 in Hanover, Virginia. Rebecca’s father was PETER BURGESS b. 1630 in Holland. Paul was a guardian over JAMES PERRIN in 1713.

Children of PAUL HARRELSON and REBEKKA BURGESS:

1. PAUL2 HARRELSON II (PAUL1) b. 1682 in Hanover Co., Virginia; m. Patience Lewis. See Generation No. 2.

2. PETER2 HARRELSON (PAUL1) b. 1683 was a captain in Danish Army; came from Holland; died 1/21/1733 in Hanover Co., Virginia; will proved 8/1773; m. in St Paul’s Parrish, Virginia in 1715 to Mary Chambers (daughter of EDWARD CHAMBERS b. 1660-1669, d. 1731 and ELIZABETH HARRISON b. 1660-1670) b. 1694 in Virginia, d. 1752-1757 in Albemarle, Virginia.

3. ANNE2 HARRELSON (PAUL1) b. 1690, d. 6/20/1760 in Halifax Co., Virginia; m. about 1718 in New Kent Co., Virginia to Henry Childs II (son of HENRY CHILDS and MARGARET LITTLEPAGE) b. 11/13/1698, d. 1746 in Amelia Co., Virginia.

4. JUDITH2 HARRELSON (PAUL1) b. about 1695 New Kent Co., Virginia; m. William Chambers b. 1686 in New Kent Co., Virginia

5. REBECCA2 HARRELSON (PAUL1) b. about 1696 in Culpepper Orange, Virginia; d. 4/21/1784 in Culpepper Orange, Virginia; m. Thomas Sims circa 1716 of Richmond, Virginia.

GENERATION NO. 2

PAUL2 HARRELSON II (PAUL1) (son of Paul Harrelson and Rebekka Burgess) b. circa 1683 in Hanover Co., Virginia; d. about 1754, at age 72; petitioned the Virginia House of Burgess in 1702 for naturalization; m. about 1707 to Patience Lewis (daughter of Maj. JOHN LEWIS b. 12/15/1633 in Monmouthshire, Wales; d. 1690 in Cheokins, New Kent, Virginia and ISABELLA MILLER b. 2/8/1639 in New Kent Co., Virginia; d. 2/19/1703 in Cheokins, New Kent Co., Virginia). Paul leased 360 acres of land in 1705 in Hew Kent County, Virginia. There are numerous records, between 1715 and 1743, available in the Vestry Book of St. Paul’s Parish in Hanover Co., Virginia. Listings involved clearing roads, and forming precincts and appointing overseers for them. Last appears in Vestry of Books of Virginia 11/18/1743. After Jan 1739 the family was in Edgecombs Co., N.C. buying land 10/23/1740 that they sold 4/9/1741 to John Hardy. 11/29/1744 he petitions for 450 acres of land in Fredericksborough Township, near present-day Camden, S.C. Paul was paid 50 pounds by the Township for establishing a mill. This petition was never certified. The family is presumed wiped out in 1750-1755 in Indian uprising around Wateree River, S.C. However, some sources say he died about 1754 in Fredericksborough Township, Marion Co., S.C.

From Petitions for Land from South Carolina Council Journals, Volumbe 1: 1734/35-1748 by Brent Holcomb, page 201: “Pp. 505-506: Read the humble Peition of Paul Harlson & others shewing tha the Peti’rs family consists of nine White Persons who being lately arrived in this Province with design to Cultivate & Settle 400 and 50 acres of land, therefore prays that his Excell’cy and their Honours to grant him a Warrant for y’e same by virtue of his family Right in Fredericksbourgh Township and the said Paul Harelson with ‘ye under written Inhabitants humbly pray that the Boad would grant ye s’d Harleson fifty acres more of land on a Creek called Sander’s Creek for y’e building & settling up a Water-mill in y’e frontiers of Fredericksburgh Town ship and which millis of extraordinary benefit to y’e distressed subscribers and further pray that an order be Granted for a road to be Cut to y’e said Town’p of Fredericksburgh which will enable them to Convey their Small produce to y’e market . . . Signd Paul Harleson, Mark Catterton abot 24 more Subscribers. The Peitioner appearing before his Excell’cy the Gov’r in Council and Swearing to y’e Truth of the allegations of his Petition, the Pray’r thereof with regard to the land was Granted . . .”

**Notes on Patience Lewis**New Kent Co. is now King and Queen Co., Virginia. Her older brother COL. JOHN LEWIS is buried at Warner Hall in Gloucester Co., VA. Patience’s grandfather, the Immigrant, was JOHN LEWIS b. 2/22/1594 in Monmouthsire, Wales, d. 8/21/1657, New Kent Co., Virginia. Her grandmother was CATHERINE PHILLIP, John’s second wife. See “Lewis of Warner Hall” on GenForum.


Children of PAUL HARRELSON and PATIENCE LEWIS:

1. Dorothy3 HARRELSON (PAUL2, PAUL1) b. circa 1714 in Virginia

2. William3 HARRELSON (PAUL2, PAUL1) b. 1720 (no proof – believed to be a son) in Virginia; d. 1792 in Georgetown District, S.C.; m. Jane Anderson. .

3. Benjamin3 Lewis HARRELSON (PAUL2, PAUL1) **NOTE** It is possible that William (PETER2, PAUL1) is the father** b. 1725 in Virginia; will proved 3/2/1802; m. in 1745 in S.C. to (1)Selah Commander b. 1745; d. 1802 in Marion District, S.C. Found in 1800 Georgetown District Census (page 447).

4. Andrew3 HARRELSON (PAUL2, PAUL1) b. 1727; d. about 1773

5. Prudence3 HARRELSON (PAUL2, PAUL1) b. 1735; m. William Reaves b. 1724 in Virginia. See family sheet for children.

6. Nathaniel HARRELSON (PAUL2, PAUL1) d. 1774 in Orange Co., N.C.; m. Anne Bush 11/18/1787 in Caswell Co., N.C.

7. Paul HARRELSON III (PAUL2, PAUL1) b. 1710 in Virginia; d. after 7/1769 in Georgia; m. Mary Unknown

8. Joseph3 HARRELSON (PAUL2, PAUL1) b. 1720; d. before 1800 in Washington District, Marion Co., S.C.; m. Su Song, a Sawra Indian.


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Peter married Mary Chambers in 1715 in St. Paul's Parish, Hanover County, Virginia. Mary (daughter of Edward Chambers and Elizabeth Harrison) was born in 1694 in (York County) Virginia; died in 1755 in Albermarle County, Virginia. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Re: Peter Harrelson/Mary Chambers

Posted by: Marcia McAllum Harrelson Robovitsky
Email: marcia327@mediaone.net
Date: November 25, 2000 at 18:42:43

In Reply to: Peter Harrelson/Mary Chambers by Bruce N Cross



Peter Haralson (Harralson) married to Mary Chambers (daughter of William Chambers) had seven children. John (will dated 8-10-1764 Halifax County, VA), Burgess (will made Orange Co., N.C. 1772), Paul (married Nancy Lea about 1754 Orange Co. N.C.)I have more info about him, Nathaniel who married Dorcus Forbes and died 1781 (this is my line and I don't have much information), Elizabeth, Agnes, and Sarah.
If you have any information to share, I would love it as I'm just getting started. I'm working from information found from papers discovered among grand parents belongings.

Samuel married Elizabeth LNU in ~ 1690 in (Easthampton, Suffolk County, New York). Elizabeth was born in 0___ 1672 in Easthampton, Suffolk County, New York; died in 0___ 1710 in Easthampton, Suffolk County, New York. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Abraham married Sarah Worsham. Sarah was born in ~1644 in Henrico County, Virginia, a British Colony in North America; died in 1690. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Birth:
Bristol Parish

George married Ann Nash(Gloucester County, Virginia). Ann was born in 1676 in (Gloucester County, Virginia); died in 1715 in (Gloucester County, Virginia). [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

William married unnamed spouse. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

William married Elizabeth Bledsoe in 1701 in Northumberland County, Virginia. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Probate: 0___ 1762, Hanover County, Virginia

Notes:

JAMES GLEN, who in 1717-1719 owned land adjacent to the North Anna River in St. Paul's Parish, New Kent County.

He is listed in the Vestry Book of St. Paul's Parish from 1719-1724, in connection with John Glenn.

In 1725-1731 he owned land further upstream along the same (North Anna) river, in Hanover County. He is probably the same James of St. Martin's Parish, Hanover County, who purchased land in 1739 on Great Guinea Creek, St. James Parish, Goochland County (southeast of Hanover), an area that later became Cumberland County.

He left a will in 1762 in Hanover County naming wife Hannah (maiden name probably Thompson) and children:

GIDEON,
NEHEMIAH,
NATHAN,
JAMES,
GEMIMA GLEN SYMES,
HANNAH GLEN AUSTIN,
MARY GLEN HOPKINS,
ELIZABETH GLEN BYARS,
ANNA GLEN,
THOMPSON GLEN,
KEZIAH GLEN HARRIS, and
SARAH GLENN DABNEY.

Also named were grandchildren Frances Harris, Judy Harris, Anna Glen Harris, Molley Glen Harris, Peter Harris and Tyre Harris.

James married Hanna (Thompson). [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Occupation: Sea Captain
• Occupation: Surveyor & Land Owner
• Alt Birth: 1669, Denmark
• Will: 18 Aug 1718, St. Paul's Parish, Hanover County, Virginia
• Probate: 0Apr 1734, Hanover County, Virginia

Notes:

Paul Peter Harrelson
BIRTH 1664
New Kent County, Virginia, USA
DEATH 5 Apr 1734 (aged 69–70)
Hanover County, Virginia, USA
BURIAL
Saint Pauls Church Cemetery
Hanover, Hanover County, Virginia, USA
MEMORIAL ID 105493041 · View Source

Paul Peter Harrelson was born abt 1664 in St Peters Parish, New Kent, Virginia. He was the son of Peter Harrelson (1633-1715) and Rebekka Mary Chambers Harrelson (1635-1664).

Paul married Rebekkah Burgess (1667-1734) in New Kent County, Virginia in 1687. Rebekkah was the daughter of Joseph Burgess and Patience Freeman Burgess. In the book "Seventeenth Century Colonial Ancestors, Vol. II" on page 28 shows that Paul Harrelson was married to Rebecca Burgess, and that he was a Surveyor and a Landowner.

From ancestry.com: Family Data Collection - Individual Records about Paul Haraalson: Name: Paul Haraalson - Spouse: Rebekkah Burgess - Parents: Peter Haraalson - Birth Place: New Kent, of St Peter, VA - Birth Date: 1664 - Marriage Place: of New Kent - Marriage Date: 1687 - Death Place: W, Hanover, VA - Death Date: 5 Apr 1734.

Paul Peter and Rebekkah Burgess Harrelson became the parents of the following known children: Judith Harrelson, Rebecca Harrelson, Anne Harrelson, Peter Harrelson, Paul Harrelson, Dorothy, William, Benjamin, Andrew, Joseph, Nathaniel, Prudence and Mary Frances Harrelson.

Books and articles about Paul and his family: "Virginia Genealogical Society Quarterly" - page 63. "Denizations and Naturalizations in the British Colonies in America, 1607-1775" - Page 122. Paul's dad was naturalized in Virginia on 23 March 1703. "Virginia Land Records" - page 87, page 97. "The Edward Pleasants Valentine papers : abstracts of records in the local and general archives of Virginia" page 4 - 2171. The book "The Compendium of American Genealogy, Vol. IV" on Page 583 "First Families in America" is talking about Paul's dad, Peter Harrelson who was Captain of the Danish Army, went from Denmark to Holland, then on to Hanover County, Va (1715), married to Miss Chambers. "The vestry book of St. Paul's Parish, Hanover County, Virginia, 1706-1786" page 136.

Paul died on 5 April 1734 in St Paul Parish, Hanover, Virginia, United States. He was 70 years old. The interesting parts are that the records of Paul's death is at St Peters Parish, New Kent, Virginia, and the records of his death are at St Paul Parish, Hanover, Virginia, United States. This is the same church and the same location.

History of Saint Paul's Episcopal Church, Hanover, www.stpaulshanover.org:


St. Paul's Parish was created in 1704 from St. Peter's Parish, New Kent. In 1720 the parish boundaries also became those of Hanover County. Two Church of England edifices existed in St. Paul's Parish at the time of its creation. One was near the present day community of Old Church and the other near the present day Hanover Courthouse. By 1724 the Parish which was 60 miles long and 12 miles wide had outgrown itself and a new parish, St. Martin's, was formed from its western end. In 1729 the church building near the Courthouse was replaced by the church known today as Slash Church. The Rev. Patrick Henry (uncle of the famous patriot) was the rector of St. Paul's Parish from 1737 until 1777. Toward the end of his tenure a new brick church was constructed. Its location is unknown today.

After the American Revolution the work of the Church of England in rural Virginia was put to an end. Slash Church was used by the Methodists and Disciples of Christ. Today it is a congregation of Disciples of Christ. It was not until 1836 that services began to be held in the Hanover Courthouse area again. In 1840 the Bishop of Virginia laid the cornerstone of a new church on the site of the present day St. Paul's. The new brick church was consecrated in 1845. It was in the thick of things during the Civil War as the Courthouse area changed hands between Union and Confederate forces. During the Battle of Hanover Courthouse the church's Bible was stolen. It was found in a California bookstore in 1967 and returned to the church. In 1893 following the annual Christmas Pageant, the church burned down. In 1895 a new church was built on the same foundations in the late Gothic Revival style. Additions for offices, classrooms and a parish hall were completed in the 1930's, 1960's and in the first decade of the 21st century. St. Paul's Church, Hanover is a Virginia Historic Landmark and on the National Register of Historic Places.

Family Members
Parents
Peter Harrelson
1633–1715

Rebekka Mary Chambers Harrelson
1635–1664

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"William and Mary Quarterly", abstracted by Edward Reynolds and contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives, Records of Hanover County, Virginia, September 15, 1997/elreynolds@atl.mindspring.com, p. 7;

"Jan 25, 1734 - ...whereon Paul Harrelson decd., father of Paul Harrison(Harrelson) lately lived..."

p. 10;

"Aug. 7, 1735 - Estate of Paul Harralson decd to Paul Harralson for going to York to take in his Father's mortgage for Mr. Nelson."

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Re: DENMARK Rebekka Burgess b. 1668
Posted by: melquiades melquiades (ID *****2882) Date: June 14, 2007 at 13:55:54
In Reply to: DENMARK Rebekka Burgess b. 1668 by Michele Petersen of 5084


Michelle,

Rebekka Burgess was my 6th great-grandmother. Here's what I have, including conflicting info and speculations that may stimulate hours of pleasant researching. I've suppressed the footnotes to save space; most sources are secondary at best, so if anyone has different and more reliable information, please let us know. I think I've sorted out the Peter/Paul confusion correctly.

melquiades


PAUL1 HARRELSON (son of PETER HARRALSON) was born 1665 in Denmark, and died Apr 01, 1734 in St. Paul Parish, Hanover Co./New Kent Co., VA. He married REBECCA BURGESS Abt. 1690 in Hanover, VA, daughter of PETER BURGESS. She was born Abt. 1665 in Denmark, and died Aft. 1734 in Hanover, VA.

Notes for PAUL HARRELSON: See the book "Haralson-Harrelson Family History and Lineage" 3rd edition, includes the lines of all lineages bearing the name in the Americas. The book is $60.00 plus $3.50 for shipping to Danny Haralson, 828 Kimball Lane, Safford, Arizona 85546; email klech@zekes.com.

More About PAUL HARRELSON:
Date born 2: Abt. 1650, Denmark
Date born 3: Abt. 1655, Denmark
Date born 4: 1669, Denmark or Holland
Immigration: Abt. 1670, North Carolina (?)
Naturalization: Mar 24, 1702/03, Petition to the House of Burgesses, VA
Residence: Abt. 1734, St. Paul's Parish, Hanover Co., VA
Will 1: Aug 18, 1718, Date signed; St. Paul's Parish, New Kent Co.
Will 2: Apr 05, 1734, Proved; Hanover Co., VA

Notes for REBECCA BURGESS:

Rough check of name frequency at rootsweb.com suggests that Rebecca and/or her parents were born in what is now the UK. Holland was a frequent stop for Brits escaping religious persecution.
The cohesion of such refugees suggest that the Burgess family may have travelled with the Lewis family; Patience Lewis, whose father John was born in Wales, married Paul Harrelson II.
Alternatively, BURGESS might have been anglicized from BERTGES.

More About REBECCA BURGESS:

Name 2: Rebekkah BURGESS
Date born 2: Holland
Date born 3: Abt. 1670, Hanover, VA?
Died 2: 1728

More About PAUL HARRELSON and REBECCA BURGESS:
Marriage 1: Abt. 1690, Hanover, VA
Marriage 2: Bet. 1678 - 1689, VA
Marriage 3: Bef. 1718, Denmark

Children of PAUL HARRELSON and REBECCA BURGESS are:
i. PETER2 HARRELSON, b. Abt. 1690, Denmark or Holland; d. 1733, Hanover Co., VA; m. MARY CHAMBERS, 1715, St. Paul's Par., Hanover, VA; b. 1694, VA; d. 1752, Albemarle Co., VA.

Notes for PETER HARRELSON:

'On page 22 of "Walter Chiles of Jamestown" Joanne states (after Paul's will),"In the same Will book (Hanover County, Virginia Court Records 1733-35) we find the will of Peter Harralson, father of Paul Senior, dated 25 Jan 1733. Paul Sr. and "my friend Henry Chiles" were appointed executors. Paul Harrelson, Sr.'s will was acknowledged 5 April 1734 by Henry Chiles and Paul (jr.) Harralson.' (http://genforum.genealogy.com, Harrelson forum)

See also 'WILL BOOK B PAGE 46-47 ST PAULS PARRISH NEW KENT CO. VA 189 AUG 1718'

from www.rootsweb.com (family trees, Nathaniel Harrelson):

In the book LINEAGE AND DESCENDANTS OF JOHN WESLEY HARRELSON OF MARION CO, SC 1756-1984 by Brent Holcomb, pub in 1984 mentions the family of Paul Harralson, who petitioned the House of Burgesses in Virginia for Naturalizaton March 24, 1702/03. The early records of Hanover County and of New Kent County have been destroyed but one record book of Hanover Co survives in which are two wills for early members of the Harrelson family. The will of Paul Harrelson "of St. Pauls Parish in New Kent County" dated Aug. 18, 1718 names a daughter Judith Harrelson, a daughter Anne Childs, two sons Peter and Paul Harrelson, as well as a granddaughter Reb ekka Sims. The will was proved in Hanover Co., April 5, 1734. The will of his son, Peter, "of St. Pauls Parish of the County of Hanover" in which he names a wife Mary, sons Paul, Burgess, John, and Nathaniel, and daughters Elizabeth, Agness, and Sarah Harralson. The will was dated in 1733/34 and proved March of the same year.

Immigrated: 1715, From Holland (? -- doesn't comport with Naturalization request above)

More About PETER HARRELSON:

Date born 2: Abt. 1680, Denmark
Date born 3: Abt. 1685, New Kent Co., VA
Date born 4: 1689
Date born 5: Abt. 1695, Denmark
Died 2: 1732, St. Pauls Parish, Hanover Co., VA
Died 3: Jan 21, 1732/33, Hanover, Hanover Co., VA
Immigration: 1715 (?), from Holland
Military service: Captain in Danish Army. Came from Holland. Or vice versa?
Will 1: Mar 1733/34, St. Paul's Parish, County of Hanover

More About MARY CHAMBERS:

Date born 2: Abt. 1690, VA
Date born 3: Abt. 1697, York Co., VA

More About PETER HARRELSON and MARY CHAMBERS:
Marriage: 1715, St. Paul's Par., Hanover, VA

ii. PAUL HARRELSON II, b. Abt. 1682, VA; d. Aft. 1755, Fredericksborough Twp., SC; m. PATIENCE LEWIS, Bet. 1710 - 1720, VA; b. 1682, Poropotank Creek, New Kent Co., VA; d. Abt. 1750, Watertree, SC.

Notes for PAUL HARRELSON II:

William and Mary College Quarterly Historical Magazine, Vol. 21, No. 1. (Jul., 1912), pp. 47-63. "RECORDS OF HANOVER COUNTY", p. 58:

Jan. 25, 1734 Paul Harralson of St. Paul's to Henry Power of Parish of James City in Co. of James City 150 acres (same land whereon Paul Harrelson decd., father of Paul Harrison lately lived).

Taken from one of two old books in the clerk’s Office of Hanover County, Va: The Small Book, 1734 and 1735.

More About PAUL HARRELSON II:

Date born 2: Abt. 1719, Denmark
Died 2: 1754, SC
Deed: Jan 25, 1733/34, 150 acres where Paul senior lived, to Henry Power
Residence: 1734, St. Paul's Parish, Hanover Co., VA

Notes for PATIENCE LEWIS: See Book: "The Descendants of Joshua Gore" by Otis Prince

More About PATIENCE LEWIS:

Date born 2: Holland or Denmark

More About PAUL HARRELSON and PATIENCE LEWIS:
Marriage: Bet. 1710 - 1720, VA

iii. REBEKKA HARRELSON, b. 1690, New Kent Co., VA; d. Culpeper Co., VA; m. THOMAS SIMS.

Notes for REBEKKA HARRELSON:
at www.rootsweb.com, family tree of Nathaniel Harrelson, Brent Holcomb (LINEAGE AND DESCENDANTS OF JOHN WESLEY HARRELSON OF MARION CO, SC 1756-1984; 1984) is quoted as stating that Rebekka SIMS is the granddaughter of Paul HARRELSON.

More About REBEKKA HARRELSON:
Name 2: Rebecca HARRELSON
Name 3: Rebekkah HARRELSON
Date born 2: Abt. 1696, VA
Date born 3: Abt. 1700

iv. ANNE HARRELSON, b. 1699, New Kent, Hanover Co., VA; d. 1761, Halifax Co., VA; m. HENRY CHILES.

More About ANNE HARRELSON:

Name 2: Ann HARRELSON
Name 3: Anna HARRELSON
Date born 2: 1690, New Kent Co., VA
Date born 3: Abt. 1721
Died 2: Abt. 1760
Land Patent: 1751, 245 acres on Staunton river, including the mouth of Hills creek.

More About HENRY CHILES:

Land Patent 1: 1745, 104 acres, s. side of Staunton River, Pittsylvania Co., VA
Land Patent 2: 1746, on Staunton River opposite Otter Creek, Pittsylvania Co., VA
Land Patent 3: Four tracts on Falling River, Pittsylvania Co., VA
Land Patent 4: Two tracts of 250 and 300 acres, n. side of Staunton River, Pittsylvania Co., VA
Position 1: Commissioner of the Peace, Amelia Co., VA
Residence: Pittsylvania

v. JUDITH HARRELSON, b. Abt. 1702, VA; d. Bef. Sep 08, 1748, Goochland Co., Va; m. CHAMBERS.

More About JUDITH HARRELSON:

Date born 2: 1690, New Kent Co., VA
Date born 3: Abt. 1695
Date born 4: Abt. 1723

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23 Aug 2008:

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Notes for PAUL HARRELSON:

See the book "Haralson-Harrelson Family History and Lineage" 3rd edition, includes the lines of all lineages bearing the name in the Americas. The book is $60.00 plus $3.50 for shipping to Danny Haralson, 828 Kimball Lane, Safford, Arizona 85546; email klech@zekes.com.

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Re: Actor Woody Harrelson
Posted by: Robert Stapleton
Date: September 26, 1998 at 12:44:58
In Reply to: Re: Actor Woody Harrelson by Dolly Gambrell of 1291

I found the following from one of
Craig Smith's earlier posts :
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Descendants of Paul Harrelson

Generation No. 1
1. PAUL1 HARRELSON was born 1669 in Denmark, and died 1734 in New Kent Co., VA. He married REBECCA BURGESS Abt. 1690.

Children of PAUL HARRELSON and REBECCA BURGESS are:

2. i. PAUL2 HARRELSON II.
ii. REBECCA HARRELSON, b. Abt. 1700; m. THOMAS SIMS.
iii. PETER HARRELSON, m. MARY CHAMBERS. Notes for PETER HARRELSON: Captain in Danish Army. Came from Holland.
iv. ANNE HARRELSON, m. CHILDS.
v. JUDITH HARRELSON.
Generation No. 2
2. PAUL2 HARRELSON II (PAUL1). He married PATIENCE LEWIS.
Children of PAUL HARRELSON and PATIENCE LEWIS are:
3. i. JOSEPH3 HARRELSON, b. 1730-1735; d. Bef. 1800, Marion Co., SC.
4. ii. DOROTHY HARRELSON.
iii. BENJAMIN HARRELSON.
iv. ANDREW HARRELSON.
v. PRUDENCE HARRELSON.
vi. NATHANIEL HARRELSON.
vii. WILLIAM HARRELSON.
viii. PAUL HARRELSON.
Generation No. 3
3. JOSEPH3 HARRELSON (PAUL2, PAUL1) was born 1730-1735, and died Bef.
1800 in Marion Co., SC.
Children of JOSEPH HARRELSON are:
5. i. JOSIAH L.4 HARRELSON, b. 1735; d. 1824, Horry Co., SC.
ii. BENJAMIN HARRELSON.
iii. JOSEPH HARRELSON
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My aunt has the correct info, but going by memory , I think my Benjamin Harrelson was the one who was the son of Paul & Patience Lewis. He married Ruth & had children Celia (my dad's line) and Patience (my mom's line). If you think that makes for a family bonsai, I have found 3 Burgess lines on my father's mother's side & have yet to connect any of them :)
It is my understanding that some of Woody Harrelson's Harrelson's came from North Carolina.
Thanks !

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More About PAUL HARRELSON:
Date born 2: Abt. 1650, Denmark
Date born 3: Abt. 1655, Denmark
Date born 4: 1669, Denmark or Holland
Immigration: Abt. 1670, North Carolina (?)
Naturalization: Mar 24, 1702/03, Petition to the House of Burgesses, VA
Residence: Abt. 1734, St. Paul's Parish, Hanover Co., VA
Will 1: Aug 18, 1718, Date signed; St. Paul's Parish, New Kent Co.
Will 2: Apr 05, 1734, Proved; Hanover Co., VA

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Paul Peter Harrelson was born abt 1664 in St Peters Parish, New Kent, Virginia. He was the son of Peter Harrelson (1633-1715) and Rebekka Mary Chambers Harrelson (1635-1664).

Paul married Rebekkah Burgess (1667-1734) in New Kent County, Virginia in 1687. Rebekkah was the daughter of Joseph Burgess and Patience Freeman Burgess. In the book "Seventeenth Century Colonial Ancestors, Vol. II" on page 28 shows that Paul Harrelson was married to Rebecca Burgess, and that he was a Surveyor and a Landowner.

From ancestry.com: Family Data Collection - Individual Records about Paul Haraalson: Name: Paul Haraalson - Spouse: Rebekkah Burgess - Parents: Peter Haraalson - Birth Place: New Kent, of St Peter, VA - Birth Date: 1664 - Marriage Place: of New Kent - Marriage Date: 1687 - Death Place: W, Hanover, VA - Death Date: 5 Apr 1734.

Paul Peter and Rebekkah Burgess Harrelson became the parents of the following known children: Judith Harrelson, Rebecca Harrelson, Anne Harrelson, Peter Harrelson, Paul Harrelson, Dorothy, William, Benjamin, Andrew, Joseph, Nathaniel, Prudence and Mary Frances Harrelson.

Books and articles about Paul and his family: "Virginia Genealogical Society Quarterly" - page 63. "Denizations and Naturalizations in the British Colonies in America, 1607-1775" - Page 122. Paul's dad was naturalized in Virginia on 23 March 1703. "Virginia Land Records" - page 87, page 97. "The Edward Pleasants Valentine papers : abstracts of records in the local and general archives of Virginia" page 4 - 2171. The book "The Compendium of American Genealogy, Vol. IV" on Page 583 "First Families in America" is talking about Paul's dad, Peter Harrelson who was Captain of the Danish Army, went from Denmark to Holland, then on to Hanover County, Va (1715), married to Miss Chambers. "The vestry book of St. Paul's Parish, Hanover County, Virginia, 1706-1786" page 136.

Paul died on 5 April 1734 in St Paul Parish, Hanover, Virginia, United States. He was 70 years old. The interesting parts are that the records of Paul's death is at St Peters Parish, New Kent, Virginia, and the records of his death are at St Paul Parish, Hanover, Virginia, United States. This is the same church and the same location.

http://www.stpaulshanover.org/our_church/our-history/

St. Paul's Parish was created in 1704 from St. Peter's Parish, New Kent. In 1720 the parish boundaries also became those of Hanover County. Two Church of England edifices existed in St. Paul's Parish at the time of its creation. One was near the present day community of Old Church and the other near the present day Hanover Courthouse. By 1724 the Parish which was 60 miles long and 12 miles wide had outgrown itself and a new parish, St. Martin's, was formed from its western end. In 1729 the church building near the Courthouse was replaced by the church known today as Slash Church. The Rev. Patrick Henry (uncle of the famous patriot) was the rector of St. Paul's Parish from 1737 until 1777. Toward the end of his tenure a new brick church was constructed. Its location is unknown today.

After the American Revolution the work of the Church of England in rural Virginia was put to an end. Slash Church was used by the Methodists and Disciples of Christ. Today it is a congregation of Disciples of Christ. It was not until 1836 that services began to be held in the Hanover Courthouse area again. In 1840 the Bishop of Virginia laid the cornerstone of a new church on the site of the present day St. Paul's. The new brick church was consecrated in 1845. It was in the thick of things during the Civil War as the Courthouse area changed hands between Union and Confederate forces. During the Battle of Hanover Courthouse the church's Bible was stolen. It was found in a California bookstore in 1967 and returned to the church. In 1893 following the annual Christmas Pageant, the church burned down. In 1895 a new church was built on the same foundations in the late Gothic Revival style. Additions for offices, classrooms and a parish hall were completed in the 1930's, 1960's and in the first decade of the 21st century. St. Paul's Church, Hanover is a Virginia Historic Landmark and on the National Register of Historic Places.

Family Members
Parents
Peter Harrelson
1633–1715

Rebekka Mary Chambers Harrelson
1635–1664

Spouse
Photo
Rebekkah Burgess Harrelson
1667–1734 (m. 1687)

Children
Rebecca Harrelson Sims
1696–1784

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Paul married Rebecca Burgess in 1687 in New Kent County, Virginia. Rebecca (daughter of Joseph Burgess and Patience Freeman) was born on 17 Jan 1667 in Sandwich, Massachusetts, British Colonies of America; died on 1 Apr 1734 in New Kent County, Virginia. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Alt Birth: 1670, Hanover County, Virginia
• Alt Death: 1734, Hanover County, Virginia, British Colonies of America

Notes:

Rebekkah (Rebecca) Harrelson formerly Burgess
Born 17 Jan 1667 in Massachusetts Bay
ANCESTORS ancestors
Daughter of Joseph Burgess and Patience (Freeman) Burgess
Sister of Rebecca (Burgess) Rose, Dorothy (Burgess) Clifton, Joseph Burgess, Benjamin Burgess and Ichabod Burgess
Wife of Paul Peter Harellson — married 1689 in Hanover, Virginia
DESCENDANTS descendants
Mother of Rebecca (Harrelson) Sims
Died 1 Apr 1734 in West Hanover, Hanover, Colony of Virginia
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Biography
Rebekkah Burgess was born on January 17, 1667, in Sandwich, Massachusetts to Patience Freeman, age 20, and Joseph Burgess, age 29.

Rebekkah Burgess married Paul Peter Harrelson in 1687 in New Kent County, Virginia, when she was 20 years old. Her daughter Rebecca was born in 1687 in New Kent County, Virginia.

They had only one child during their marriage.

Rebekkah's father Joseph passed away in August 1695 in Sandwich, Massachusetts, at the age of 57.

Rebekkah Burgess died on April 1, 1734, in New Kent, Virginia, when she was 67 years old.

Born 17 January 1667. Plymouth County, Massachusetts, USA. [1][2][3]

Marriage

Date: 1689
Place: Hanover, Virginia, United States[4][5]

Died 1 April 1734. West Hanover, Hanover, Virginia, United States. [6][7]

Buried Hanover, Hanover County, Virginia, USA. [8]



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Find A Grave: Memorial #105498970

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Michelle,
Rebekka Burgess was my 6th great-grandmother. Here's what I have, including conflicting info and speculations that may stimulate hours of pleasant researching. I've suppressed the footnotes to save space; most sources are secondary at best, so if anyone has different and more reliable information, please let us know. I think I've sorted out the Peter/Paul confusion correctly.

melquiades


PAUL1 HARRELSON (son of PETER HARRALSON) was born 1665 in Denmark, and died Apr 01, 1734 in St. Paul Parish, Hanover Co./New Kent Co., VA. He married REBECCA BURGESS Abt. 1690 in Hanover, VA, daughter of PETER BURGESS. She was born Abt. 1665 in Denmark, and died Aft. 1734 in Hanover, VA.

Notes for PAUL HARRELSON:
See the book "Haralson-Harrelson Family History and Lineage" 3rd edition, includes the lines of all lineages bearing the name in the Americas. The book is $60.00 plus $3.50 for shipping to Danny Haralson, 828 Kimball Lane, Safford, Arizona 85546; email klech@zekes.com.


More About PAUL HARRELSON:
Date born 2: Abt. 1650, Denmark
Date born 3: Abt. 1655, Denmark
Date born 4: 1669, Denmark or Holland
Immigration: Abt. 1670, North Carolina (?)
Naturalization: Mar 24, 1702/03, Petition to the House of Burgesses, VA
Residence: Abt. 1734, St. Paul's Parish, Hanover Co., VA
Will 1: Aug 18, 1718, Date signed; St. Paul's Parish, New Kent Co.
Will 2: Apr 05, 1734, Proved; Hanover Co., VA

Notes for REBECCA BURGESS:
Rough check of name frequency at rootsweb.com suggests that Rebecca and/or her parents were born in what is now the UK. Holland was a frequent stop for Brits escaping religious persecution.
The cohesion of such refugees suggest that the Burgess family may have travelled with the Lewis family; Patience Lewis, whose father John was born in Wales, married Paul Harrelson II.
Alternatively, BURGESS might have been anglicized from BERTGES.

More About REBECCA BURGESS:
Name 2: Rebekkah BURGESS
Date born 2: Holland
Date born 3: Abt. 1670, Hanover, VA?
Died 2: 1728

More About PAUL HARRELSON and REBECCA BURGESS:
Marriage 1: Abt. 1690, Hanover, VA
Marriage 2: Bet. 1678 - 1689, VA
Marriage 3: Bef. 1718, Denmark

Children of PAUL HARRELSON and REBECCA BURGESS are:
i. PETER2 HARRELSON, b. Abt. 1690, Denmark or Holland; d. 1733, Hanover Co., VA; m. MARY CHAMBERS, 1715, St. Paul's Par., Hanover, VA; b. 1694, VA; d. 1752, Albemarle Co., VA.

Notes for PETER HARRELSON:
'On page 22 of "Walter Chiles of Jamestown" Joanne states (after Paul's will),"In the same Will book (Hanover County, Virginia Court Records 1733-35) we find the will of Peter Harralson, father of Paul Senior, dated 25 Jan 1733. Paul Sr. and "my friend Henry Chiles" were appointed executors. Paul Harrelson, Sr.'s will was acknowledged 5 April 1734 by Henry Chiles and Paul (jr.) Harralson.' (http://genforum.genealogy.com, Harrelson forum)

See also 'WILL BOOK B PAGE 46-47 ST PAULS PARRISH NEW KENT CO. VA 189 AUG 1718'

from www.rootsweb.com (family trees, Nathaniel Harrelson):
In the book LINEAGE AND DESCENDANTS OF JOHN WESLEY HARRELSON OF MARION CO, SC 1756-1984 by Brent Holcomb, pub in 1984 mentions the family of Paul Harralson, who petitioned the House of Burgesses in Virginia for Naturalizaton March 24, 1702/03. The early records of Hanover County and of New Kent County have been destroyed but one record book of Hanover Co survives in which are two wills for early members of the Harrelson family. The will of Paul Harrelson "of St. Pauls Parish in New Kent County" dated Aug. 18, 1718 names a daughter Judith Harrelson, a daughter Anne Childs, two sons Peter and Paul Harrelson, as well as a granddaughter Reb ekka Sims. The will was proved in Hanover Co., April 5, 1734. The will of his son, Peter, "of St. Pauls Parish of the County of Hanover" in which he names a wife Mary, sons Paul, Burgess, John, and Nathaniel, and daughters Elizabeth, Agness, and Sarah Harralson. The will was dated in 1733/34 and proved March of the same year.

Immigrated: 1715, From Holland (? -- doesn't comport with Naturalization request above)

More About PETER HARRELSON:
Date born 2: Abt. 1680, Denmark
Date born 3: Abt. 1685, New Kent Co., VA
Date born 4: 1689
Date born 5: Abt. 1695, Denmark
Died 2: 1732, St. Pauls Parish, Hanover Co., VA
Died 3: Jan 21, 1732/33, Hanover, Hanover Co., VA
Immigration: 1715 (?), from Holland
Military service: Captain in Danish Army. Came from Holland. Or vice versa?
Will 1: Mar 1733/34, St. Paul's Parish, County of Hanover

More About MARY CHAMBERS:
Date born 2: Abt. 1690, VA
Date born 3: Abt. 1697, York Co., VA

More About PETER HARRELSON and MARY CHAMBERS:
Marriage: 1715, St. Paul's Par., Hanover, VA

ii. PAUL HARRELSON II, b. Abt. 1682, VA; d. Aft. 1755, Fredericksborough Twp., SC; m. PATIENCE LEWIS, Bet. 1710 - 1720, VA; b. 1682, Poropotank Creek, New Kent Co., VA; d. Abt. 1750, Watertree, SC.

Notes for PAUL HARRELSON II:
William and Mary College Quarterly Historical Magazine, Vol. 21,
No. 1. (Jul., 1912), pp. 47-63. "RECORDS OF HANOVER COUNTY", p. 58:

Jan. 25, 1734 Paul Harralson of St. Paul's to Henry Power of Parish of James City in Co. of James City 150 acres (same land whereon Paul Harrelson decd., father of Paul Harrison lately lived).

Taken from one of two old books in the clerk’s Office of Hanover County, Va: The Small Book, 1734 and 1735.

More About PAUL HARRELSON II:
Date born 2: Abt. 1719, Denmark
Died 2: 1754, SC
Deed: Jan 25, 1733/34, 150 acres where Paul senior lived, to Henry Power
Residence: 1734, St. Paul's Parish, Hanover Co., VA

Notes for PATIENCE LEWIS:
See Book: "The descendants of Joshua Gore" by Otis Prince

More About PATIENCE LEWIS:
Date born 2: Holland or Denmark

More About PAUL HARRELSON and PATIENCE LEWIS:
Marriage: Bet. 1710 - 1720, VA

iii. REBEKKA HARRELSON, b. 1690, New Kent Co., VA; d. Culpeper Co., VA; m. THOMAS SIMS.

Notes for REBEKKA HARRELSON:
at www.rootsweb.com, family tree of Nathaniel Harrelson, Brent Holcomb (LINEAGE AND DESCENDANTS OF JOHN WESLEY HARRELSON OF MARION CO, SC 1756-1984; 1984) is quoted as stating that Rebekka SIMS is the granddaughter of Paul HARRELSON.

More About REBEKKA HARRELSON:
Name 2: Rebecca HARRELSON
Name 3: Rebekkah HARRELSON
Date born 2: Abt. 1696, VA
Date born 3: Abt. 1700

iv. ANNE HARRELSON, b. 1699, New Kent, Hanover Co., VA; d. 1761, Halifax Co., VA; m. HENRY CHILES.

More About ANNE HARRELSON:
Name 2: Ann HARRELSON
Name 3: Anna HARRELSON
Date born 2: 1690, New Kent Co., VA
Date born 3: Abt. 1721
Died 2: Abt. 1760
Land Patent: 1751, 245 acres on Staunton river, including the mouth of Hills creek.

More About HENRY CHILES:
Land Patent 1: 1745, 104 acres, s. side of Staunton River, Pittsylvania Co., VA
Land Patent 2: 1746, on Staunton River opposite Otter Creek, Pittsylvania Co., VA
Land Patent 3: Four tracts on Falling River, Pittsylvania Co., VA
Land Patent 4: Two tracts of 250 and 300 acres, n. side of Staunton River, Pittsylvania Co., VA
Position 1: Commissioner of the Peace, Amelia Co., VA
Residence: Pittsylvania

v. JUDITH HARRELSON, b. Abt. 1702, VA; d. Bef. Sep 08, 1748, Goochland Co., Va; m. CHAMBERS.

More About JUDITH HARRELSON:
Date born 2: 1690, New Kent Co., VA
Date born 3: Abt. 1695
Date born 4: Abt. 1723

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Other Events and Attributes:

• Alt Birth: ~1665, New Kent County, Virginia

Notes:

Chambers & Harrelson (Caswell Co NC)

Posted by: Meredith Adams Sheridan

Date: March 09, 2002 at 20:21:52

I see that several of you have roots in the Caswell Co and Person Co NC Harrelsons. Have any of you looked at the message from Mabel Chambers #133 on the Chambers board where she gives the children of William Chambers bn@1728. Of the 14 children, there are two married to Harrelsons: one Jane Chambers who married Ezekial Harralson (who died 1779)and my John Chambers who is believed to have married Rebecca Harrelson. Josias Chambers married in 1783 (Caswell Co NC) Nancy Stanfield. Elizabeth Chambers md Hugh Barnett. The Chambers, Stanfields, Harralsons, Barnetts, and Adams seem to be interrelated for several generations. Can anyone shed light on these families of Caswell Co, NC and then Person Co when it was split from Caswell. Thanks Meredith Adams Sheridan

Edward married Elizabeth Harrison in 1694 in York County, Virginia. Elizabeth was born in 1665 in York County, Virginia; died in 1694 in Hanover County, Virginia. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Stephen married Sarah Bancroft Stratton in 1660 in Wethersfield, Connecticutt. Sarah (daughter of John Stratton and Sarah (Mary) Bancroft) was born in ~1646 in Easthampton, Suffolk County, New York. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

William married Mary Jane Allen. Mary was born in ~1625 in Kent, England; died on > Oct 1677. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Died:
at sea, returning to England...

Thomas married Marcy Hewes. Marcy was born in ~1664 in New Kent County, Virginia, a Colony of the British Empire; died after 1722 in Hanover County Virginia, British Colonies of America. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Marcy "Marie" Rice formerly Hewes
Born about 1664 in New Kent County, Virginia Colony
ANCESTORS ancestors
Daughter of Robert Marcy Hewes and Jane (Plume) Marcy
[sibling(s) unknown]
Wife of Thomas Rice — married [date unknown] [location unknown]
DESCENDANTS descendants
Mother of William Rice, James Rice, Thomas Rice, Edward Rice, Mary Claiborne (Rice) Symes, Matthew Rice Sr, John Edward Rice Sr, Alice Rice, Marcy Rice, David Rice Sr., Susanna (Rice) Hart, Matthew Rice and Joseph Rice
Died after 1722 in Hanover County, Virginia Colony

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1 Biography
1.1 Name
1.2 Marriage
1.3 Children
1.4 Death
2 Sources
Biography

Marcy (Hewes) Rice was a US Southern Colonist.

Marcy was born about 1664 probably in New Kent County, Virginia Colony. Her parents are unknown. She died after 6 November 1722 in Hanover County, Virginia Colony.

Name
Most online family trees give her name as Ann Marcy Hewes. Ann is an error; it was derived from misinformation. The only records where Thomas' wife's name appears are the Register of St. Peter's Parish, New Kent County (Marcy or Marce, wife of Thomas Rice)[1] and the records of St. Paul's Parish, Hanover County (Widdow Rice and Marcy Rice).[2]

Marriage
Marcy married Thomas Rice about 1684/5, probably in New Kent County, Virginia Colony. This estimated date is based on two facts:

Thomas arrived in Virginia in 1679/80 as an indentured servant. It is extremely unlikely he would have married immediately. Indentured servants needed the permission of their master to marry.
Their first known child, James, was baptized 4 April 1686.
Children
Documented in Register of St. Peter's Parish, New Kent County, Virginia Colony:[1]

James the sone of Thom: Rice & Marce his wife baptized ye 4 day of April 1686
Thom: son to Thomas Rice bapt. ye 24th: day of June 1688
Edward Son to Thomas Rice bapt: ye 17 of April 1690
mary Dautr of Tho Rice baptiz the 15 July 1694
John Son of Tho Rice & marcey his wife bapt the 18 Septemr 1698
Alice daut of Tho Rice baptz the 29 September 1700
marcy dautr of Tho Rice baptized the 5 July 1702
Other Children:

William Rice born c 1692
Matthew Rice born c 1696
David Rice born c 1704
Joseph Rice born c 1706
The following profiles have been unlinked from Thomas and Marcy as children. See each individual profile for the reason:

Edward Rice 1620-1650
Phebe Rhuys 1668-1685
Hezekiah Rice 1732-1796
Holman Rice 1720-
Francis Rice
Henry Rice c 1702-c 1746
Sarah Rice c 1705-
Benjamin Rice b c 1710; may be son of William Rice
Elizabeth Rice b c 1709; may be daughter of Thomas Rice
Nathaniel Rice b c 1720; may be grandson
Death
Widdow Rice, or Marcy Rice, is recorded in the records of St. Paul's Parish, Hanover County.[2]

March 31, 1716 - the lands of the Widd: Rice are included for processioning; overseers were Wm. Harris and Adm. Rotherford. (Thomas was known (or assumed) dead on this date.)
July 3, 1720 - To the Widdow Rice for keeping a Bastard Child 6 months, 500 C.
2d of 8,br 1721 - To the Widdow Rice for keep'g a Bastard Child 9 mo: 750: Co.
9,br ye 6,th 1722 - Ordered that Sarai [sic] Tyler a Bastard Child be bound to Marcy Rice, until she be Eighteen.
The last record was in November 1722; Marcy died after that date. Note on dates: In the 1720's the colonies were still using the old calendar. March was the first month of the year. 8,br was the eighth month, or October. 9,br was the ninth month, or November.

Sources
? 1.0 1.1 New Kent County, Virginia St. Peter's Parish Vestry Book and Register, 1684-1786. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations Inc, 2003. Original data: Chamberlayne, C.G., ed. The Vestry Book and Register of St. Peter's Parish New Kent and James City Counties, Virginia 1684-1786. Richmond, VA, USA: Library Board, 1937. pp 388-389
? 2.0 2.1 RICE-SOUTHERN-L Archives
Source: S-183040159 Repository: #R-797968217 Title: Ancestry Family Trees Publication: Online publication - Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com. Original data: Family Tree files submitted by Ancestry members. Page: Ancestry Family Tree Data: Text: http://trees.ancestry.com/pt/AMTCitationRedir.aspx?tid=67146169&pid=227
Repository: R-797968217 Name: Ancestry.com
WikiTree profile Hewes-64 created through the import of Davis Family Tree-1.ged on Nov 7, 2012 by Mike Davis.
WikiTree profile UNKNOWN-77194 created through the import of LHH WIKI.GED on Jun 17, 2011 by Lee Hoffman.
This person was created through the import of LaBach Family TreeApril28_2011.ged on 05 May 2011.
WikiTree profile Hewes-46 created through the import of 2010-09-14.ged on Jul 28, 2011 by Bob Carson.
Hewes-114 was created by Paula Sumpter through the import of Sumpter Family Tree.ged on Mar 10, 2014.

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Other Events and Attributes:

• Military: Danish Army

Notes:

Peter Harrelson
BIRTH 1633
DEATH 1715 (aged 81–82)
New Kent County, Virginia, USA
BURIAL
St. Peter's Episcopal Church Cemetery
Putneys Mill, New Kent County, Virginia, USA
MEMORIAL ID 155722959 · View Source

Peter Harrelson was born about 1633. He married Rebekka Mary Chambers. Rebekka was born about 1637. They had the following known children:

1. Paul Peter Harrelson.

Rebekka died about 1664 in New Kent County, Virginia. Peter died about 1715 in New Kent County, Virginia. They were both buried in St. Peters Parish cemetery in Putney's Mill, New Kent County, Virginia.

Family Members
Spouse
Rebekka Mary Chambers Harrelson
1635–1664

Children
Paul Peter Harrelson
1664–1734

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Peter married Rebecca Mary Chambers(New Kent County, Colony of Virginia). Rebecca was born in 1635 in St. Peters Parish, New Kent County, Virginia; died in 1664 in New Kent County, Virginia, Colony of the British Empire; was buried in St Peters Episcopal Church Cemetery, Putneys Mill, New Kent County, Virginia. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Rebekka Mary Chambers Harrelson
BIRTH 1635
DEATH 1664 (aged 28–29)
New Kent County, Virginia, USA
BURIAL
St. Peter's Episcopal Church Cemetery
Putneys Mill, New Kent County, Virginia, USA
MEMORIAL ID 155723040 · View Source

Rebekka Mary Chambers was born about 1635 in New Kent County, England, the daughter of Edward and Elizabeth (Harrison) Chambers. Ancestry.com family tree titled Rehfeldt Family Tree-(2) follows Rebekka's line back to the 10th century. She married Peter Harrelson in 1664 in St. Peters, New Kent County, Virginia. Peter was born about 1633 in Denmark. They had the following known children:

1. Paul Peter Harrelson

Rebekka's husband Peter was a Captain of the Danish Army. Rebekka died about 1664 in New Kent County, Virginia. Peter died about 1715 in New Kent County, Virginia. They were both buried in St. Peters Parish cemetery in Putney's Mill, New Kent County, Virginia.

Family Members
Spouse
Peter Harrelson
1633–1715

Children
Paul Peter Harrelson
1664–1734

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Descendants
[uncertain] Paul Harrelson Sr ancestors descendants (abt 1650 - 05 Apr 1734) m. Rebekah Burgess (abt 1652 - 05 Apr 1734) on 1672.
Elizabeth Harrelson ancestors ()
John Harrelson ancestors ()
Susanna Harrelson ancestors ()
Paul Harrelson Jr ancestors descendants (1682 - 1754) m. Patience Lewis (1682 - 1750).
Dorothy Glover (Harrelson) Davenport ancestors descendants (abt 1690 - Sep 1767) m. Martin Davenport (abt 1683 - bef Oct 1735) on 1714.
Mary Davenport ancestors descendants (1706 - 1776) m. Henry Gambill Sr. (1714 - Nov 1775) on Oct 1735.
Sarah (Gambill) White ancestors descendants more descendants (abt 1737 - 1828)
William Henry Gambill Sr ancestors descendants more descendants (abt 1740 - 1779)
John A Gambill ancestors descendants more descendants (1752 - 1839)
Thomas Davenport ancestors descendants (1711 - 10 Dec 1809) m. Dorothy Strother () on 1732.
Sophia (Davenport) White ancestors descendants more descendants (abt 1735 - bef 1818)
Mary (Davenport) Wiseman ancestors descendants more descendants (abt 1742 - 17 Jun 1796)
Richard Davenport ancestors descendants (1713 - 1792)
Sarah (Davenport) Matthis ancestors descendants more descendants (abt 1758 - bef 08 Apr 1839)
William Davenport ancestors descendants (1716 - 01 Jun 1795) m. Elizabeth Heale (08 Mar 1710 - 1748) on 26 Nov 1728. m. Anne Arnold (1720 - 1782) abt 1735.
Mary Davenport ancestors (abt 1735)
Augustine Davenport ancestors descendants more descendants (1738 - bef Nov 1799)
Martin Davenport ancestors (abt 1739)
Francis Davenport Sr. ancestors descendants more descendants (1743 - 1803)
Dorothy (Davenport) Baker ancestors descendants (02 Nov 1716 - 1790) m. Thomas Corbie Baker (abt Jan 1711 - 10 Jan 1777) on 1734.
William Baker ancestors descendants more descendants (20 Jul 1735)
Thomas Baker ancestors (06 Apr 1737 - 1860)
Mary P. (Baker) Mallory ancestors descendants more descendants (1739)
Martin Baker ancestors (23 Jan 1741 - 1821)
Crotia (Baker) Gouge ancestors descendants more descendants (12 May 1743)
Josiah Baker ancestors (1745)
Henry Baker ancestors descendants more descendants (16 Mar 1747 - 1806)
David Baker ancestors descendants more descendants (03 Jun 1749 - 15 Sep 1838)
Dorothy Baker ancestors (11 Feb 1751 - 1820)
Richard Baker ancestors (1753 - 1777) [unmarried] [no children]
James Baker ancestors descendants more descendants (18 Feb 1755 - 1839)
John Baker Sr. ancestors descendants more descendants (04 May 1758 - abt 07 Dec 1806)
John Baker Sr ancestors descendants more descendants (04 May 1758 - 07 Dec 1806)
Charles R. Baker ancestors descendants more descendants (02 Feb 1762 - 1850)
John Davenport ancestors (1717 - 1773)
Glover Davenport ancestors descendants (1719 - 1785) m. Ann Jouett (abt 1720).
Matthew Davenport ancestors descendants more descendants (abt 1743 - abt 1767)
James Davenport ancestors descendants (1719 - 1803) m. Frances Jouette (1732).
James Glover Davenport Jr. ancestors descendants more descendants (29 Apr 1759 - 08 Jun 1824)
Jesse Davenport ancestors (1767 - 1822)
Martin Davenport ancestors (1720 - 1790)
David Davenport ancestors (1721 - 1803) m. Jane Yarbough () on 1745.
Lucy Davenport ancestors descendants (1725 - 20 Aug 1772) m. Joseph Venable (1725 - 1818). m. Richard Graves (1750 - aft 1788).
William Venable ancestors descendants more descendants (1755 - 01 Apr 1836)
William B Graves ancestors (1761)
Joseph Venable ancestors (1769 - 1811)
John Wilson Venable ancestors (1770)
Elizabeth Venable ancestors (abt 1772 - abt 1852)
Pheby (Harrelson) Harrel ancestors (1719 - aft 1751) m. Henry Mayes IV (27 Oct 1709 - 15 May 1787).
Benjamin Harrelson Sr. ancestors descendants (1725 - 1802) m. Selah Commander (02 Jan 1740 - 21 Dec 1854). m. Patience Lewis (1689 - 1750) on 1707. m. Cealey Smith (02 Jan 1740 - 21 Dec 1854) on 1767.
Charity Harrelson ancestors ( - aft 01 Jan 1855)
Henry Hugh Harrelson ancestors ( - abt 01 Jan 1845)
Lucy Harrelson ancestors ( - aft 01 Jan 1855)
Mary Ann (Harrelson) Shooter ancestors ( - aft 01 Jan 1855)
Molly Harrelson ancestors ( - aft 01 Jan 1855)
Patience (Harrelson) Norton ancestors descendants ( - aft 01 Jan 1855) m. William Norton (20 Nov 1718 - 01 Aug 1806).
Danat Norton ancestors ( - aft 01 Jan 1835)
James Norton ancestors descendants more descendants (abt 1761 - 31 Oct 1857)
Abigail Norton ancestors (abt 1774 - aft 01 Jan 1835)
Sarah (Norton) Stonestreet ancestors descendants more descendants (1776 - aft 01 Jan 1835)
Rufus Norton ancestors (abt 1777 - abt 01 Jan 1835)
Samuel Norton ancestors (abt 1779 - abt 01 Jan 1835)
Mary C. (Norton) Ware ancestors descendants more descendants (abt 01 Mar 1779 - aft 01 Mar 1838)
William Norton Jr. ancestors descendants more descendants (abt 1784 - abt 01 Jan 1836)
John Wesley Norton ancestors descendants more descendants (22 Jan 1784 - aft 15 Mar 1862)
Benjamin Harrelson ancestors (1737 - 1840)
Lewis Harrelson ancestors descendants (1765 - 12 May 1804)
Susannah (Harrelson) Martin ancestors descendants more descendants (abt 20 Sep 1784 - 20 Sep 1863)
Celia (Harrelson) Bethea ancestors descendants (02 Jan 1768 - aft 21 Dec 1854) m. Jesse Bethea II (1763 - 1820) abt 1786.
Goodman Bethea ancestors descendants more descendants (02 Jul 1793 - 22 Sep 1863)
Benjamin Harrelson Jr. ancestors descendants (1770 - Aug 1840)
Timothy D. Harrelson Sr. ancestors descendants more descendants (1810 - 09 Jun 1884)
Abigail (Harrelson) Grice ancestors descendants (12 Oct 1772 - 1855) m. Jacob Grice (05 Aug 1771 - 29 Mar 1818).
Charlotte A. (Grice) Bethea ancestors descendants more descendants (11 Oct 1798 - 12 May 1864)
Benjamin J. Grice ancestors (30 Apr 1799 - 09 Dec 1882)
Prudence (Harrelson) Reeves ancestors descendants (1727 - 1780) m. William Reeves (1730 - 1763) on 1754.
Solomon Reeves ancestors descendants (1754 - 01 Feb 1835) m. Sarah Floyd (1757 - 1832) on 1777.
Jerusha (Reeves) Norton ancestors descendants more descendants (1778)
Joel Lide Reaves ancestors descendants more descendants (12 Aug 1782 - 13 Jul 1860)
Peter Harellson ancestors descendants (abt 1683 - bef 01 Mar 1734) m. Mary Chambers (abt 1690 - abt 1752) on 1715.
Burgess Harrelson ancestors descendants (abt 1718 - aft May 1772) m. Elizabeth Gaines (abt 1716 - aft 1772) on 1740.
Elijah Haralson ancestors descendants (1742 - 1789)
Pricilla (Haralson) Beadles ancestors descendants more descendants (1775)
Elijah Haralson ancestors descendants more descendants (10 Apr 1779 - 04 Aug 1852)
Drusilla (Harrelson) Byars ancestors descendants (abt 1750 - abt 1818) m. Nathan Byars (1749 - 18 Aug 1846) aft Oct 1772.
Nathan Byars ancestors descendants more descendants (1773 - 09 Sep 1858)
Elizabeth Byars ancestors descendants more descendants (abt 1774 - bef 1850)
Martha (Byars) Womack ancestors descendants more descendants (31 Dec 1774 - aft 1830)
Nancy (Byars) Walker ancestors (abt 1775)
John Byars ancestors descendants more descendants (abt 1777 - abt 1852)
Burgess Harrelson Byars ancestors descendants more descendants (1779 - 13 Feb 1874)
Paul H. Harrelson ancestors descendants (abt 1727 - 1834) m. Nancy Lea (1736 - May 1795) abt 1754.
Herndon Haralson ancestors descendants (12 Oct 1757 - abt 27 May 1847) m. Mary Murphey (13 Feb 1771 - 13 Aug 1847) on 4 Oct 1791.
Archibald Haralson ancestors descendants more descendants (05 Jul 1792 - 29 Oct 1839)
Herndon Haralson ancestors (20 Jan 1796 - 20 Jul 1852)
James Harrelson ancestors descendants (12 Oct 1757 - 1829) m. Rebekah Brown (1768 - 22 Jul 1849) abt 1782.
William M Harrelson ancestors descendants more descendants (22 Jun 1784 - 16 Dec 1882)
Jonathon Anderson Haralson ancestors descendants (1759 - 1832) m. Jane Houston (abt 1762 - aft 1796) on 12 Mar 1782. m. Clarissa Browning (01 Mar 1765 - 01 Mar 1841) on 1798.
Herndon Haralson ancestors descendants more descendants (abt 25 Dec 1796 - 25 Oct 1868)
Hugh Anderson Haralson ancestors (13 Nov 1805 - 25 Sep 1854)
Lea Miles Haralson ancestors descendants (1762 - 05 Sep 1844) m. Mary L Stanfield (1766 - 17 Aug 1848) on 4 Sep 1791.
Zarah Isaac Haralson ancestors descendants more descendants (07 May 1802 - 25 May 1879)
Nathaniel Chambers Harelson ancestors descendants (1729 - 21 Apr 1781)
Forbes Harelson ancestors descendants (1761 - 1824) m. Martha Elizabeth Henderson (1778) on 19 Nov 1793.
Sarah McComas (Harelson) Womack ancestors descendants more descendants (abt 1810 - 21 Jun 1867)
Ann (Harrelson) Chiles ancestors descendants (abt 1700 - abt 1760) m. Henry Chiles II (13 Nov 1698 - aft 27 Jun 1746) on 1718.
Henry Chiles ancestors ( - 27 Nov 1758) m. Judith Daniel ().
Paul Chiles Sr. ancestors descendants (1718 - 19 Mar 1761) m. Ann Rowland (1725 - 1776) abt 1738.
Henry Chiles ancestors (1744 - 1832) m. Frances Nevil (1744) on 1760.
Elizabeth (Chiles) Ingram ancestors descendants (1750 - 21 Jul 1814) m. John Ingram (1756 - 1813) on 1770.
Nancy Anne (Ingram) Martin ancestors descendants more descendants (1774 - 1844)
Elizabeth Chiles ancestors descendants (1760 - 21 Jul 1814) m. John Ingram (abt 1750 - Dec 1813) on 9 Jan 1774.
Sarah Bodkin Ingram ancestors descendants more descendants (abt 1775 - 14 Nov 1872)
Rowland H Ingram ancestors descendants more descendants (1790 - 05 May 1848)
Ann Chiles ancestors descendants (1726) m. John Ward (1708).
John Ward ancestors (1743)
Josiah Ward ancestors (1747)
William Ward ancestors (1749)
Sarah Jane (Ward) Brazill ancestors descendants (abt 1750 - 1809) m. John Lee (28 Mar 1729 - abt 1795).
John Lee ancestors (1769)
Mary Ann Lee ancestors (1773)
Roland V Lee ancestors descendants more descendants (06 May 1774 - 1845)
Sarah Lee ancestors (1777)
William E Lee ancestors (1781)
Able Lee ancestors (1783)
Deidamia (Lee) Fuson ancestors descendants more descendants (31 Jul 1784 - 21 Aug 1862)
Penina Lee ancestors (1789)
Nancy Lee ancestors (24 Mar 1791)
Agatha Ward ancestors (09 Feb 1750)
Anne Ward ancestors (09 Feb 1750)
Henry Ward ancestors (05 Apr 1751)
Mary A Ward ancestors (02 Jun 1754)
Jeremiah Ward ancestors (1755)
Thomas Ward ancestors (1757)
Susannah Ward ancestors (29 Nov 1760)
Luke Ward ancestors (1763)
Polly Ward ancestors (11 Jan 1768)
Anne (Chiles) Ward ancestors descendants (abt 1726 - 01 Jan 1765) m. John Ward Sr. (12 Aug 1720 - bef 11 Nov 1816). m. John Ward (abt 1700) on 1739.
Jeremiah Ward ancestors ()
Thomas Ward ancestors ()
Henry Ward ancestors (aft 1744)
William Ward ancestors descendants (abt 1745 - 15 Aug 1795) m. Mildred Adams (1758 - abt 1777).
James Ward ancestors descendants more descendants (25 Mar 1758 - 15 Jul 1848)
John Ward JR III ancestors (abt 1769 - abt 1846)
Robert Adam Ward ancestors descendants more descendants (abt 1773 - abt 1880)
Mildred (Ward) Dillard II ancestors (abt 1776 - abt 1800)
Ann (Ward) Lynch ancestors (abt 1746 - bef 1766)
Agatha (Ward) Callaway ancestors descendants (abt 1750) m. John Callaway (10 Jun 1738 - 1821).
William Callaway ancestors (11 Oct 1769 - 28 Feb 1808)
Sarah Jane Ward ancestors descendants (1750 - 1809) m. John Lee (1765 - aft 1795).
Elizabeth Lee ancestors (1780 - Feb 1850)
Henry Ward ancestors descendants (05 Apr 1751 - 12 Apr 1823) m. Martha Barber (bef 1800 - 1851).
Lucinda Dillard (Rutledge) Ward ancestors descendants more descendants (21 Nov 1801 - abt 1859)
Henrietta Eloise (Ward) McElhiney ancestors (25 May 1810 - 24 Dec 1891)
John Chiles Ward ancestors descendants more descendants (11 Nov 1812 - 13 Jun 1887)
William Ward ancestors (25 Jul 1814 - Jul 1844)
Robert A. Ward ancestors (08 Dec 1817 - 27 Feb 1871)
John Ward Jr. ancestors (abt 1760)
Ann (Ward) Dillard ancestors (09 Feb 1761 - 08 Aug 1816)
John Chiles ancestors descendants (1730 - aft 04 Jan 1813) m. Elizabeth Unknown ( - aft 1813). m. Elizabeth Garland (1734 - 1817).
Henry Chiles ancestors descendants (1760 - 1832) m. Sarah Ballinger (1775 - 20 Apr 1842) on 10 Nov 1789.
Christopher Lillard Chiles Sr. ancestors descendants more descendants (18 Dec 1800 - abt 1855)
James C Chiles ancestors descendants more descendants (14 Aug 1802 - 23 Mar 1883)
Joseph Ballinger Chiles Sr. ancestors (16 Jul 1810 - 25 Jun 1885)
John Chiles Jr ancestors descendants (23 May 1761 - 02 Jan 1804) m. Elizabeth Lillard (08 Jul 1764 - 14 Jul 1850) on 10 Mar 1785.
Elizabeth (Chiles) Fields ancestors descendants more descendants (17 Jan 1793 - 15 Dec 1872)
Garland Chiles ancestors descendants (17 Feb 1783 - 17 Jan 1858) m. Frances Thomas (1786) on 7 May 1802.
Bushrod Chiles ancestors (06 Aug 1806 - 19 Oct 1854)
Martha Chiles ancestors (abt 1810)
Henry T. Chiles ancestors (20 Feb 1810 - 24 Nov 1836)
Fleming Nuckles Chiles ancestors (06 Aug 1811 - 1884)
Martha A (Chiles) Moody ancestors descendants more descendants (abt 1814 - bef 1914)
Charles Hill Chiles ancestors (1827)
Elizabeth (Chiles) Jennings ancestors (1731) m. Robert Jennings ().

Rebecca Mary Chambers
Born 1635 in Saint Peters, New Kent, Colony of Virginiamap
Daughter of [father unknown] and [mother unknown]
[sibling(s) unknown]
Wife of Peter Harrelson — married [date unknown] [location unknown]
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Mother of Paul Harrelson Sr
Died 1664 in Saint Peters, New Kent, Colony of Virginiamap
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Joseph married Patience Freeman. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

From "Book of Imigrants" found in Person Co. library
The Muster of those that Live in Ye Treasurors Plant
James Chambers in the Dutie 1620
Living in Virginia Feb 16, 1623 At the Eastern Shore = James Chambers
(James was the only Chambers listed in VA at that time).
Church records show Edward's first son as named James. Since it was the custom to name the first son after the father's father and Edward lived in New Kent Co., very close to Williamsburg, I believe that it is reasonable to conclude that James is father of Edward.

1998-2007 Swyrich Corporation - Certificate # 2536320072400681853 - names of early Settlers in US. They list James Chambers who setled in VA in 1620 among the name of early Settlers and James being the earliest.

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In April Court, 1625, James Chambers was placed upon a committee; again, in 1634, he was mentioned. Also, in 1625, Thomas and John Chambers were recognized in some way by the Virginia Court. The above were English representatives of the Chambers family.

James married Mary LNU. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

John married Alice Hatcher GransdenTonbridge, Kent, England. Alice (daughter of Henry Gransden and Alice Harris) was born on 28 Nov 1613 in Tonbridge, Kent, England; died after 25 Jul 1687 in Long Island, New York. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

John married Sarah (Mary) Bancroft. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

William married Abriel Gower. Abriel was born in ~1587 in (England); died in ~1677. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Edward Rice
Born about 1621 in Rappahannock, Virginia
ANCESTORS ancestors
Son of Richard Rice Sr and [mother unknown]
[sibling(s) unknown]
Husband of Mary Elizabeth (Claiborne) Harris — married after 1650 in Old Rappahannock, Colony of Virginiamap
DESCENDANTS descendants
Father of Claiborne Rice and Thomas Rice
Died 1660 in Rappahannock, Virginia

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1 Biography
2 2010-09-14.ged Data
2.1 Name
2.2 Marriage
3 Davis Family Tree-1.ged Data
4 Sources
5 Acknowledgements

Biography

Edward Rice of Virginia[1] In recent years there has been a lot of confusion between the Edward Rice (aka Deacon Edward Rice) whose family immigrated to Massachusetts from Suffolk, East Anglia, England, and "our" Edward Rice, whose family were what some have called "Lace Curtain Irish," meaning upper-class Irish, whose origins were not from the Emerald Isle. Most such families were Anglo-Norman and followed William the Conqueror when his barons extended their invasion of Britain to Wales and then Ireland in the 12th Century. The Rice family, however, apparently were of Anglo-Welsh origins ("Rhys" or "Ap Rhys" were the original spellings) but they identified with the Anglo-Norman gentry.

Ancestors of the "Rhys" or Rice family from which Edward Rice descends went to Ireland with Robert Fitz-Stephen in 1169 CE and settled in County Kerry. They were very likely relatives of "Griffydd Ap Rhys," one of the Princes of South Wales (1081-1137) who allied with the victorious Normans. Within a few generations, their name had become "Rice" and they were intermarried with the other Anglo-Norman gentry of Ireland. James, Stephen and Edward were frequently-used first-names for sons.

The prevailing custom of "primogeniture" meant that only the eldest son would inherit titles and estates; younger sons sometimes inherited from their mother or entered the military or the clergy. According to the library records of County Kerry, researched by Rice family descendants in the 1990s, a Stephen Rice of Dingle, Co. Kerry, Ireland, married Helena Trant and had four sons: James, Dominic, Thomas and David plus three daughters. His son Dominic, married Alecia (Alice) Hussey, daughter of Baron James Hussey of Galtrim, Co. Meath. Stephen Rice was their first son and heir. They lived in Ballymacadoyle, near Dingle, Co. Kerry, Ireland.

Dominick & Alice's youngest son, William (b. ca. 1598), knowing that he would not inherit anything (he had 5 older brothers!), hired aboard a ship that was sailing for North America in 1619. He "jumped ship" when it took on supplies along the Potomac River, hiding until it left. He settled in Rappahannock, Virginia, married a local girl named Sara, and they had two sons: Edward Rice, born ca. 1620-21 and Dominic (1623 - 1664).

Edward Rice married Mary Elizabeth Claiborne, born ca. 1635, when she was a teenager, after 1650. They had 3 sons: James, John/Claiborne and Thomas. Edward died in 1660, leaving Mary with at least 2 babies to raise alone (the 3rd likely died as an infant). As was often the case, young Mary married a local widower, also with young children, Robert Harris, in 1661. Robert, son of Thomas Harris and Adria (Osborne) Harris, had been born in England in 1615 and left behind when his parents emigrated to Virginia in 1619. Raised in England, he sailed for Virginia in 1650 with his own family. His wife (Names: Unknown) died around 1660, leaving him with several young children. Robert and Mary had one son together: William Harris, who married Temperance Overton in 1697.

There are three sets of Rice's who came to North America who claim that they are descendants of Griffith Rhys in Wales but claim not kin.
Our set moved to County Kerry, Ireland in 1169 and changes their name to Rice. In America they were called the Rice family by everyone who wrote about them.
A Henry Rice who was born in Bucks Co., Ireland, went to England and sailed to Virginia in 1620 and was killed by Indiana a few days before the Indiana [sic = Indians] attacked the colony in 1622, leaving a baby boy Nicholas Rice who lived. They were called the County Bucks, Ireland line. They say they moved to County Bucks, Ireland at about the same time our line moved to County Kerry. Also changed their name to Rice when they moved.
A Major Jonas Rice and a Deacon Edmund Rice moved from England to Massachusetts. They claim to have left Wales and went to England and changed their names to Rice at the same time as the other two. In Massachusetts they were called the English Rice's but when they moved from there they were called the Massachusetts Rice's.[2]
2010-09-14.ged Data
Name
Name: "Deacon" Edward /Rice/[3]
Marriage
Husband: Edward Rice
Wife: Mary Claiborne
Child: Thomas Rice
Child: Claiborne Rice
Marriage:
Date: 1680 [Could not be - he died in 1660 & Mary remarried]
Place: St Peters Parish, Hanover, Virginia, United States[4]
WikiTree profile Rice-1284 created through the import of 2010-09-14.ged on Jul 28, 2011 by Bob Carson.
Source: S-2050775419 Title: Family Data Collection - Individual Records Author: Edmund West, comp. Publication: Name: Name: Name: Name: Online publication - Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations Inc, 2000, _APID: 4725::0.
Source: S-2050775427 Title: Ancestry Family Trees Publication: Name: Name: Name: Name: Online publication - Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com. Original data: Family Tree files submitted by Ancestry members

Davis Family Tree-1.ged Data
WikiTree profile Rice-2867 created through the import of Davis Family Tree-1.ged on Nov 7, 2012 by Mike Davis.
Source: S-1302216573 Repository: #R-1552688688 Title: Ancestry Family Trees Publication: Online publication - Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com. Original data: Family Tree files submitted by Ancestry members. Note: This information comes from 1 or more individual Ancestry Family Tree files. This source citation points you to a current version of those files. Note: The owners of these tree files may have removed or changed information since this source citation was created. Page: Ancestry Family Trees Data: Text: http://trees.ancestry.com/pt/AMTCitationRedir.aspx?tid=48331097&pid=288
Repository: R-1552688688 Name: Ancestry.com Address: http://www.Ancestry.com Note:
Sources
? "Rice Southern L Archives," by Roberta J. Estes, Feb. 7, 2007; online at: http://archiver.rootsweb.ancestry.com/th/read/RICE-SOUTHERN/2007-02/1170902742 - Researched & written by Chet Snow, November 6, 2014.
? Added by Chet Snow, November 6, 2014.
? Source: #S-2050775427 Page: Ancestry Family Trees Data: Text: http://trees.ancestry.com/pt/AMTCitationRedir.aspx?tid=13232476&pid=1823738
? Source: #S-2050775419 Page: Birth year: 1630; Birth city: King William Co; Birth state: VA. Note: http://trees.ancestry.com/rd?f=sse&db=genepool&h=5020928&ti=0&indiv=try&gss=pt Data: Text: Birth date: 1630Birth place: King William Co, VA, VADeath date: 9 February 1710Death place: Glen Cairn, Doswell Hanover Co, VAMarriage date: 1660Marriage place: VA, VA
"Rice Southern L Archives," by Roberta J. Estes, Feb. 7, 2007; online at: http://archiver.rootsweb.ancestry.com/th/read/RICE-SOUTHERN/2007-02/1170902742 .
http://dickfrench.tripod.com/id7.html - a slightly different look at the Rice family genealogy.
"Rice Southern L Archives" - part 3; online at: http://archiver.rootsweb.ancestry.com/th/read/RICE-SOUTHERN/2007-02/1170902805 . The source contains the following text about the 3 branches of the 12th Century "ap Rhys" family:
Acknowledgements
Thanks to Bob Carson for creating WikiTree profile Rice-1284 through the import of 2010-09-14.ged on Jul 28, 2011.
Thanks to Mike Davis for creating WikiTree profile Rice-2867 through the import of Davis Family Tree-1.ged on Nov 7, 2012.

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Edward married Mary Elizabeth Claiborne after 1650 in Rappahannock County, Virginia, a British Colony in America. Mary (daughter of William Claiborne and Elizabeth Butler) was born in ~1630 in King William County, Virginia Colony; died on 9 Feb 1710 in Glen Cairn, Doswell, Colony of Virginia. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Mary Elizabeth Harris formerly Claiborne aka Rice
Born about 1630 in King William, Colony of Virginia
ANCESTORS ancestors
Daughter of William (Claiborne) Claybourn and Elizabeth (Boteler) Claiborne
Sister of Jane (Claiborne) Brereton, William Claiborne Jr., John (Claybourn) Claybourne, Thomas Claiborne and Leonard Claiborne
Wife of Robert Harris — married [date unknown] [location unknown]
Wife of Robert Harris Sr. — married [date unknown] [location unknown]
Wife of Robert Harris — married 1640 in Creeksea, Essex, England
Wife of Edward Rice — married after 1650 in Old Rappahannock, Colony of Virginiamap
DESCENDANTS descendants
Mother of Richard Harris, Martha Harris, Judith Harris, Claiborne Rice, John Harris, Thomas Rice, Mary Eppes Harris, Robert Harris Jr., Benjamin Harris, Edward Harris, Judith (Harris) Robertson, Thomas Harris and William Harris
Died 9 Feb 1710 in Glen Cairn, Doswell, Colony of Virginia

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2 Biography
3 Name
4 Birth
5 Death
6 Burial
7 Sources
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8 Sources
Biography
There is no primary source that identifies Mary Rice as a Claiborne or the daughter of William Claiborne. She should not be included in a list of his children. The connection is wholly through supposition by use the Claiborne name in the Rice family.

Biography
Name
Name: Mary Claiborne[1][2][3][4]
Birth
Birth
Date: 1630[3][4]
Death
Death:
Date: 9 FEB 1710
Place: Glen Cairn, Doswell, Hanover Co, Va/[3]
Burial
Burial:
Date: 1714
Place: King William,Virgina
Sources
? Source: #S14 p. 348
? Source: #S9 pp. 518-520
? 3.0 3.1 3.2 "Pedigree Resource File," database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/2:2:3MCV-66C : accessed 2015-04-06), entry for Mary /Claiborne/.
? 4.0 4.1 Mary Rice Claiborne in the Family Data Collection - Births Edmund West, comp.. Family Data Collection - Births [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations Inc, 2001.

Source: Claiborne of Virginia. Dorman, John Frederick. Baltimore: Gateway Press, 1955.
Source: S14 History of Louisa County, Virginia. Harris, Malcolm H. Dietz Press, Richmond, VA, 1936
Source: S9 Tidewater Virginia Families. Davis, Virginia Lee Hutcheson. Self published, Urbanna, VA, 1989

Part 1 - The introduction to William Harris of Jamestown Roots Web
Hylbom Family Ancestry Project
Copeland,Harris,Lawrence,Neville,Pittman,Turner,Wheeler, Roots Web

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Notes:

Died:
DEATH: This John Hand was murdered on the high seas after returning to England from Southampton to obtain property.

John married Joan Simmons(Kent) England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Henry married Alice Harris on 12 Jun 1609 in Gravesend, Kent, England. Alice was born in ~ 1577 in Tonbridge, Kent, England; died on 10 ___ 1645 in Westminster (Cloisters), Kent, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Lawrence married Prudencia Davie. Prudencia was born in 1554 in Kent, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

William Claybourn formerly Claiborne aka Claiborne
Born 10 Aug 1587 in Crayford, Kent, England
ANCESTORS ancestors
Son of Thomas Cleyborne Jr. and Sara (Smith) Cleyborne
Brother of Thomas Claiborne [half], Sara (Clayborne) Claiborne [half], Katherine Claiborne [half] and Blanche Claiborne [half]
Husband of Elizabeth (Boteler) Claiborne — married about 1635 in England
DESCENDANTS descendants
Father of Mary Elizabeth (Claiborne) Harris, Jane (Claiborne) Brereton, William Claiborne Jr., John (Claybourn) Claybourne, Thomas Claiborne and Leonard Claiborne
Died before 21 Mar 1677 in Romancoke, New Kent County, Colony of Virginia

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Note: This William was NOT the son of Edmund Cleburne of Cleburne Hall and Grace Bellingham. DO NOT add them as parents. Please read below.

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1 Caution
2 Biography
2.1 Name
3 Early Life
3.1 1600 Birth
3.2 William's Parentage
3.3 Early Life and Parentage
3.4 Early life
3.5 1617 University
4 Virginia
4.1 1621 Surveyor in Virginia
4.2 1622 Massacre in Virginia
4.3 1623 Appointed to Virginia Council
4.4 1624 Surveying Activities
4.5 1625 Secretary of the Colony of Virginia
4.6 1626 Romancoke and Other Land in Virginia
4.7 1625 Secretary of State
4.8 1626-1634
4.9 1627 Indian Trade
5 Maryland, Puritans and Parliament
5.1 1627 Isle of Kent Settlement
5.2 1629 Return to England
5.3 1629 Kent Island and the first dispute with Maryland
5.4 1631 Settlement Established on Kent Island
5.5 1632 Maryland Charter
5.6 1634 Ark and Dove
5.7 1634 Surrender of Office of Secretary
5.8 1635 Marriage
5.9 1635 First Naval Battle in North American Waters
5.10 1635 Claiborne vs. Governor Harvey
5.11 1637 Maryland Takes Over Kent Island
5.12 1638 Established Colony near Honduras
5.13 1639 Virginia
5.14 1640 John Butler's Land Patent, Maryland
5.15 1642 Treasurer
5.16 1642-1651 Puritan and Parliament
5.17 1644 Trading Expeditions
5.18 1644 Claiborne and Ingle Seize Kent Island
5.19 Richard Ingle
5.20 1644 Indian Campaigns
5.21 1645 Treasurer of Virginia
5.22 1646 St. Marys and Kent revert to the Calverts
5.23 1648 Appointed to Suppress Anglican Disquiet in Virginia and Maryland
5.24 1648-1660
5.25 1652-1660 Secretary of State
5.26 1652 Parliamentary Commissioner with Richard Bennett
5.27 1653 Deputy Governor of Virginia
5.28 1653 Calverts return to power
5.29 1654 New Kent County, Virginia
5.30 1657 Lord Baltimore Regains Control of Maryland
6 Retirement
6.1 1660 Restoration
6.2 1660 Retirement
6.3 1664 Commander
6.4 1676 Bacon's Rebellion
6.5 1677 Death
7 Children[13]
7.1 Family life and descendants
8 Sources
Caution
There may be two William Claibornes, one born in 1587 and the other in 1600. This William's parents are Thomas and Sarah and his wife is Elizabeth Butler. There is proof that Edmond Claiborne and Grace Bellingham are not the parents of this William.

Prior to the 20th century, William was commonly thought to be the son of Edward "Edmund" Cleburne and Grace Bellingham - both from Westmoreland. That narrative was challenged by Dr. William G. Stanard in 1925.[1]

Biography

William (Claiborne) Claybourn is Notable.
English pioneer, surveyor, and an early settler in the colonies/provinces of Virginia and Maryland and around the Chesapeake Bay. Claiborne became a wealthy planter, a trader, and a major figure in the politics of the colonies. He was a central figure in the disputes between the colonists of Virginia and the later settling of Maryland, partly because of his earlier trading post on Kent Island in the mid-way of the Chesapeake Bay, which provoked the first naval military battles in North American waters. Claiborne repeatedly attempted and failed to regain Kent Island from the Maryland Calverts, sometimes by force of arms, after its inclusion in the lands that were granted by a 1632 Royal Charter to the Calvert family (to Sir George Calvert, first Baron and Lord Baltimore, (1579-1632), by the reigning King of England, Charles I, (1600-1649, reigned 1625-to execution, 1649), thus becoming Maryland territory.[1]

Name
William Claiborne (c. 1600 – c. 1677)[1] Also spelled "William Cleyburne") [1]

Contemporaries wrote Claiborne's surname with a variety of phonetic variants, and during his first decades in Virginia he sometimes spelled his name Claybourne, but in later years he signed as Claiborne. [2]

Early Life
1600 Birth
Claiborne was born probably in Crayford Parish, in Kent, England, where he was baptized on August 10, 1600. [2]

Hon./Capt. William Claiborne, born ca 1600, baptized 10 August 1600 in Crayford, son of Thomas & Sara Smyth-James Claiborne. [3]

William's Parentage
Father: Thomas Clairborne of Kent (mayor of King's Lynn).[2][4]
Mother: _____ of Crayford, Kent.[4]
He was the son of Sara Smyth James Cleyborne and her second husband, Thomas Cleyborne, a merchant and former mayor of King's Lynn in the county of Norfolk; Sir Roger James, a shareholder in the Virginia Company of London, may have been his elder half brother. [2]

This discussion is based on Clarence Torrence's research on the parents and English ancestry of William Claiborne.[5][6]

The initial idea that William Claiborne was the son of Edmund Cleyborn and Grace Bellingham started in 1852 by letters from Sebastian F. Streeter. Streeter cited “The Pedigree of Clyborne from the Visitations of Yorkshire in 1530, 1584 & 1612,” and “The Visitation of Cumberland in 1615,” and stated, with no reason, that William “most probably” descended from Edmund. A descendant for William Claiborne, Dr. C. J. Cleborne, took this statement as fact and proclaimed William’s ancestry. From then until about 1925, Edmund has been the accepted father, a fact which was repeated in most genealogies.
The records of Cambridge University show that William Cleborne, the son of Edmund, late of Cleburne, Westmoreland, became a deacon 1614 in Peterborough and then a priest in 1614. He was in the Prebendary of Ripon, Yorkshire from 1616 until 1660, and Vicar of Nidd, 1617. So, this man could not have been the William who came to Virginia.
There was William Claybourne, son of Thomas of Crayford, Kent, at Pembroke College, Cambridge, who matriculated in 1617. Torrence states that T. Woodward Knight reviewed all of the available correspondence and documents regarding William and found several facts:
William had a brother who was a stocking seller without Ludgate, and Thomas the hosier without Ludgate, was a son of Thomas Claybourne;
William took possession of an island in the Chesapeake which he named the Island of Kent;
William called his plantation “Craford” (or Crayford), which was the name of the place William, son of Thomas, was baptized;
William’s had two brothers-in-law: John Butler (Boteler) on the Island of Kent, and William Bulter in London;
John Butler stated in 1640 that he was 39 years old and came from the Parish of Roxwell, Essex Count, England.
Torrence concludes that it was the William Claiborne, baptized at Crayford, August 10, 1600, the son of Thomas Claybourne and Sara Smith (widow of Roger James), who was the Virginia adventurer.
Early Life and Parentage
Though his life in Virginia is fairly well documented; his biographers rarely agree on his early life in England.

Nineteenth century genealogists were quick to associate Col. Claiborne with the Claiborne's of Westmoreland County, England. The Westmoreland branch were members of the landed gentry, holding the title of Baron in this Mid-lands county, known for its political instability. Cleburne Hall stood for many years in ruin, though like the English family, disappeared in modern times. This association with the Westmoreland family is confirmed by William Claiborne's use of the Westmoreland family arms; however, 20th century genealogists have not been able to prove descent from that family. Claiborne's association with the Westmoreland branch is assumed to be very distant. It is thought that his grandfather or great grandfather may have been younger sons of the family.

Modern genealogists identify William Claiborne as the son of Thomas and Sarah (Smith) Claiborne of King Lynn and later of Crayford, Kent. Lissell and Torrence also concur with the identity of his parentage. The main source for this identification is a baptism record, which roughly corresponds with William's age, as given by him in a deposition found in English court records. However, I have seen no additional records that tie him to Thomas Claiborne directly to the Virginian by the same name. His mother, Sara Smythe was a wealthy widow and her son by Roger James inherited a title and it is assumed considerable property. Within these estate record may lie the proof that Claiborne was her son. Other earlier records such as his matriculation at Cambridge also cannot be positively attributed to him based on published research. However, his position in Virginia and wealth suggest the link is reasonable and the further indicated connection of his mother’s cousin-in-law, Elizabeth James, as the wife of Rev. Henry Brereton and parents to Claiborne’s son-in-law Col. Thomas Brereton further increases the likelihood of Claibornes connection to the Smyth-James family.

Early life
Claiborne was born in county/shire Kent, England, in 1600 to Thomas Clayborn, an alderman and lord mayor from King's Lynn, Norfolk, who made his living as a small-scale businessman involved in a variety of industries, including the salt and fish trades, and Sarah Smith, the daughter of a London brewer.[3] The family name was spelled alternately as Cleburn, Cleyborne, or Claiborne. William Claiborne, who was baptized on 10 August 1587, was the younger of two sons.[4] The family's business was not profitable enough to make it rich, and so Claiborne's older brother was apprenticed in London, becoming a merchant involved in hosiery and, eventually, the tobacco trade.[3][1]

1617 University
Col. William was admitted to Pembroke College, 31 May 1616, age 16. [7]

1617 May 31 - Admitted to Pembroke College, Cambridge, England

He entered Pembroke College, University of Cambridge, on May 31, 1617. [2]

William matriculated at Pembroke College, Cambridge, 31 May 1617 at age 16.[8]

Virginia
1621 Surveyor in Virginia
On 13 June 1621 he was chosen by the Virginia Company to undertake the task of Surveyor of the Colony, compensated with 200 acres of land in the colony. [3]

In 1621, he was appointed Surveyor General at the solicitation of his cousin Ann, Countess of Pembroke.

His appointment as Surveyor of Jamestown in 1621, at the age of 21, indicates that he had the confidence of men in high places and that his family connections were probably an important factor in obtaining the position.

Claiborne was offered a position as a land surveyor in the new colony of Virginia, and arrived at Jamestown, on the north shore of the James River in 1621. The position carried a 200 acre (80 hectare) land grant, a salary of ¹30 per year, and the promise of fees paid by settlers who needed to have their land grants surveyed. [1]

Arrived in Virginia Oct 1621 as Surveyor for the Virginia Company of London; [7]

He arrived at Jamestown in October, 1621 on the ship the George. [3]

He laid out the area on Jamestown Island known as New Towne. [3]

Col. William Claiborne arrived in Virginia in 1621 with Sir Francis Wyatt, the newly appointed Governor of the colony.

Four years later, perhaps on his half brother's recommendation, the Virginia Company appointed Claiborne surveyor of the colony at a salary of ¹30 per annum and also offered him an assistant, 200 acres of land, and a convenient house, presumably in Jamestown.[2]

Claiborne traveled to Virginia in the retinue of Governor Sir Francis Wyatt and arrived in October 1621. His first task was to survey the New Town section of Jamestown, but he was soon involved in Virginia's politics and was one of the company's officers who in 1622, following the deadly Powhatan Uprising, requested that the king take over management of the colony. By the spring of 1623 Claiborne was a member of the governor's Council, in which office James I confirmed him in August 1624 when appointing Wyatt the first royal governor of Virginia. [2]

Surveying allowed Claiborne to accumulate a considerable amount of land, including property in Elizabeth City County. After 1640 he lived at Romancoke, near the confluence of the Mattaponi and Pamunkey rivers, in the part of York County that in 1654 became New Kent County and in 1701 King William County. [2]

1621 - Perhaps at the recommendation of Claiborne's half brother, the Virginia Company of London appoints William Claiborne surveyor of the colony at a salary of ¹30 per annum and also offers him an assistant, 200 acres of land, and a convenient house, presumably in Jamestown.[2]

October 1621 - William Claiborne arrives in Virginia in the retinue of Governor Sir Francis Wyatt.[2]

1622 Massacre in Virginia
The Province of Virginia was still a frontier settlement in March 1622 when William Claiborne, (c.1600-c.1677), survived attacks by native Indian Powhatans that killed more than 300 Virginia colonists.[1]

He also managed to survive the March 1622 attacks by native/Indian Powhatans on the Virginia settlers that killed more than 300 colonists. [1]

Quoting from Nathaniel C. Hale in his Roots in Virginia, Lolita Bissell summarizes William Claiborne's career, "As a captain of Colonial troops, he was a successful commander in early Indian campaigns.

Autumn 1622 - Following a deadly attack by Virginia Indians, William Capps, William Claiborne, and other Virginia Company officers request that the king take over management of the colony.[2]

1623 Appointed to Virginia Council
In 1623 he was appointed to the council, and would serve as the first Secretary of the Colony 1625-35, 1652-60, and Treasurer – appointed for life in this position. [3]

His political acumen quickly made him one of the most successful Virginia colonists, and within four years of his arrival he had secured grants for 1,100 acres (445 hectares) of land and a retroactive salary of ¹60 a year from the Virginia Colony's council. [1]

His financial success was followed by political success, and he gained appointment as Councilor in 1624 and Secretary of State for the Colony in 1626. [1]

Spring 1623 - William Claiborne is a member of the governor's Council.[2]

August 1624 - James I confirms William Claiborne's position on the governor's Council when appointing Sir Francis Wyatt the first royal governor of Virginia.[2]

1624 Surveying Activities
1624 Jan 12, pg-7, Capt.John Harvy 6 1/2 acres within the precints of James City. Ground laid out by Willi. Clayborne

1624 Feb. 4, pg-6, Georg Menefy land surveyed by William Clayborne. 1624 June 3, pg-41, William Clayborne, Gent., of James City,

1624 Aug.11, pg-8 John Pott, Esq. 3 acres laid out by Wm. Clayborne

1624 Aug. 14, pg-9,William Spencer, yeoman and ancient planter, 12 acres, James City. Land measured by Wm. Clayborne.

Aug. 14, pg-10, John Lytefoote, 12 acres measured by Wm.Clayborne

August 14, pg-10, Thomas Passmore, carpenter, 12 acres within James City. Ground measured by Willi. Clayborne

Aug. 14, pg-11, Mary Holland, 12 acres measured by Wm. Clayborne.

Aug 14, pg-5, Ralph Hamor, Esq. 1 1/2 acres for house in James City. This ground was laid out by mee William Clayborne it lacketh about 14 po. of one acre and a halfe.

1624 Dec. 1, pg-17, John Bainham,300 acres in Eliz. City Corp., as his first devident. About 3 miles up the main creek between Haxoms Gaole and Blunt Point, adj. Capt. Samuel Mathews and William Clayborne. 100 acres due for the transportation of John Bainham, his son, deceased, who came in the Charles in 1621.

1624 Dec. 4, pg-12, I measured for Mr. Georg Sandys at his plantation over the water 650 acres (vizt.) 200 acres for Mr. Bainhams devdt. the above named 300 acres for said Mr. Sandys and 150 acres more for devident of Edward Grindon by the water side in a right line it conteyneth 320 pole which is just 1 mile and soe it runneth up into the woods on all sides square 1 mile. Willi. Clayborne

1625 Secretary of the Colony of Virginia
Secretary of the Colony of Virginia, 1625-1637, 1652-1660, [7]

Governor's Councillor, 1625-1660, [7]

1626 - William Claiborne becomes secretary of the Virginia colony, an office that ranks second only to the governor in political weight. He and Samuel Mathews lead a dominant faction of Council members whose quest for land and influence produces clashes with Governor Sir John Harvey.[2]

1626 Romancoke and Other Land in Virginia
He accumulated large tracts of land, including 250 acres at Archer’s Hope (James City); 500 acres at Blount Point (Warwick), 150 acres at Elizabeth City; 5000 acres in Northumerland County; 5000 acres on the Pamunkey; and 1,500 acres on the north wide of the York the River. His plantation in Virginia- was called “Romancoke.” By 1626 he had accumulated a total of 17,500 acres in 7 different locales. [3]

1625 Secretary of State
He was Secretary of State of Virginia 1625-1638, again held that post throughout the duration of the Cromwellian Commonwealth from 1652-1658 and after the restoration was honored by Charles I with the same position.

Secretary of colonial Virginia.[3][4][5][6]

1626-1634
1626-1634: In office as Secretary of State for the Virginia Colony. [1]

1627 Indian Trade
1627-8 - With the Governor`s license he was active in Indian trade along the shores of the Chesapeake.

Around 1627, he began to trade for furs with the native Susquehannock Indians from further north on the shores of the Chesapeake Bay and two of its largest tributaries, the Potomac and Susquehanna Rivers. To facilitate this trade, Claiborne wanted to establish a trading post on Kent Island in the mid-way of the Chesapeake Bay, which he intended to make the center of a vast mercantile empire along the Atlantic Coast.[3] Claiborne found both financial and political support for the Kent Island venture from London merchants Maurice Thomson, William Cloberry, John de la Barre, and Simon Turgis.[5][1]

Claiborne made several voyages across the Atlantic to advance his commercial interests and protect his political connections. Growing wealth and influence made him a leader of Virginia's emerging political elite. In 1626 Claiborne became secretary of the colony, an office that ranked second only to the governor in political weight. [2]

Maryland, Puritans and Parliament
1627 Isle of Kent Settlement
In 1627, William Claiborne set out to locate the source of the great Chesapeake Bay. In August 1631, he landed upon the Isle of Kent and established the first English settlement in Maryland. This settlement was one of the first in the nation, predated only by Jamestown, Plymouth, and the Massachusetts Colony. Established on the southeastern side of the island, the settlement stood approximately 2 miles northeast of Kent Point on the shore of what is now known as Eastern Bay. The island was already inhabited by several Native American tribes including the Matapeakes who occupied the southern banks of the Chester River and the Monoponsons who lived on the southern end of the island. The early settlers were often subject to attack from neighboring mainland tribes, the Wicomese and the Susquehannas.

Records indicate that Claiborne built a fort, a church, dwellings and boats. He also built the first boat in Maryland, a small sailboat called a pinnace, which Claiborne named the `Long Tayle.` In addition to planting gardens and orchards, Claiborne stocked farms with cattle and planted tobacco, starting Maryland’s famous tobacco economy that sustained the colonists and dominated colonial life until the 1800s when corn and wheat replaced it as Maryland’s main crops. Unfortunately, due to 350 years of erosion, today the remains of the settlement are most likely underwater.

William Claiborne established a trading post on the island in Chesapeake he called Kent Island, thus we find William Claiborne giving to the island the name of Kent, the county in England of his birth, while we find repeated reference in the archives of Maryland to Claiborne`s personal plantation on the island as `Crayford` which was the name of the Parish in Kent in which William Claiborne appears to have been born and baptized.

The next 25 years were turbulent ones as Claiborne struggled with Lord Baltimore for control of the island. It is reported that the first naval battle of the new world was fought between the forces of Claiborne and Lord Baltimore over possession of the island. Claiborne eventually lost his fight and was forced to relinquish control of the island.

Settled Kent Island, Maryland, 1631, as factor for Clobery & Co., London; Captain and Colonel in militia activities against the Indians; later, [7]

1629 Return to England
1629 - Led an expedition against the Indians.

William may have returned to England 24 Mar 1629/30 where he met Elizabeth Butler and married about 1631. Another source has two marriages - one to Jane Butler and another to Elizabeth Butler. Another source has his marriage 1635 in VA but this does not seem to fit birth dates of children.

1629 Kent Island and the first dispute with Maryland
In 1629, George Calvert, 1st Baron Baltimore, arrived in Virginia, having traveled south from Avalon, his failed colony on Newfoundland. Calvert was not welcomed by the Virginians, both because his Catholicism offended them as Protestants, and because it was no secret that Calvert desired a charter for a portion of the land that the Virginians considered their own.[6] After a brief stay, Calvert returned to England to press for just such a charter, and Claiborne, in his capacity as Secretary of State of Virginia colony, was sent to England to argue the Virginians' case.[7] This happened to be to Claiborne's private advantage, as he was also trying to complete the arrangements for the trading post on Kent Island.[1]

Calvert, a former high official in the government of King James I, asked the Privy Council for permission to build a colony, to be called Carolina, on land south of the Virginia settlements in area of the modern-day North Carolina, South Carolina, and Georgia. Claiborne arrived soon afterwards and expressed the concerns of Virginia that its territorial integrity was being threatened. He was joined in his protests by a group of London merchants who planned to build a sugar colony in the same area.[8] Claiborne, still intent on his own project, received a royal trading commission through one of his London supporters in 1631, one which granted him the right to trade with the natives on all lands in the mid-Atlantic where there was not already a patent in effect.[9][1]

1631 Settlement Established on Kent Island
Late in the 1620s Claiborne explored trading opportunities in the upper part of the Chesapeake Bay and for much of the 1630s operated a lucrative trading post on Kent Island, which put him in conflict with successive Lords Baltimore, who maintained that the island was within the charter boundaries of Maryland. Eventually expelled from the island and losing perhaps as much as ¹10,000, Claiborne harbored a long and intense animosity toward Maryland and the Calvert family. [2]

Beginning with tobacco and fur, Claiborne built a profitable and influential commercial network that connected the Chesapeake Bay with London. His closest Virginia associates included Samuel Mathews (d. 1657), another merchant, land magnate, and member of the governor's Council, and his initial London associates were William Cloberry and Maurice Thompson, two of the most successful merchants in that city. [2]

Claiborne sailed for Kent Island on 28 May 1631 with indentured servants recruited in London and money for his trading post, likely believing Calvert's hopes defeated.[10] He was able to gain the support of the Virginia Council for his project and, as a reward for London merchant Maurice Thomson's financial support, helped Thomson and two associates get a contract from Virginia guaranteeing a monopoly on tobacco.[11] [1]

Claiborne's Kent Island settlers established a small plantation on the island and appointed a clergyman.[12] [1]

In 1631 he settled the Isle of Kent in the Chesapeake Bay and named his plantation there Crayford, becoming the 1st White Settler in what is now known as the State of Maryland [3]

He would subsequently lose his land on the Isle of Kent due to political machinations of the Royal Governor. [3]

1632 Maryland Charter
While the settlement on Kent Island was progressing, the Privy Council had proposed to Sir George Calvert, former Secretary of State for the King that he be granted a charter for lands north of the Virginia colony, in replacement for the unsuccessful settlements of his earlier colony of Avalon in Newfoundland (eastern modern Canada), in order to create pressure on the Dutch settlements further north along the Delaware and Hudson Rivers (modern states of Delaware, New Jersey and New York). [1]

Calvert accepted, though he died in 1632 before the charter could be formally signed by King Charles I, and the Royal Grant and Charter for the new colony of Maryland was instead granted to his son, Cecilius Calvert, on 20 June 1632.[13] [1]

This turn of events was unfortunate for Claiborne, since the Maryland charter included all lands on either side of the Chesapeake Bay north of the mouth of the Potomac River, a region which included Claiborne's proposed trading post on Kent Island, mid-way on the Bay. The Virginia Assembly, still in support of Claiborne and now including representatives of the Kent Island settlers, issued a series of proclamations and protests both before and after when the news of the granting of the Maryland charter reached across the ocean, claiming the lands for Virginia and protesting the charter's legality.[14][1]

Claiborne's first appeal to royal authority in the dispute, which complained both that the lands in the Maryland charter were not really unsettled, as the charter claimed, and that the charter gave so much power to Calvert that it undermined the rights of the settlers, was rejected by the Lords of Foreign Plantations in July 1633.[15] [1]

1634 Ark and Dove
The following year, the main body of Calvert's settlers arrived in the Chesapeake and established a permanent settlement on Yaocomico lands at St. Mary's City.[16] [1]

With the support of the Virginia establishment, Claiborne made clear to Calvert that his allegiance was to Virginia and royal authority, and not to the proprietary authority in Maryland.[17] Some historical reports claim that Claiborne tried to incite the natives against the Maryland colonists by telling them that the settlers at St. Mary's were actually Spanish and enemies of the English, although this claim has never been proven.[18] [1]

1634 Surrender of Office of Secretary
1634 - William Claiborne yields the office of secretary of the Virginia colony to his rival Richard Kemp, who arrives in Virginia with a royal appointment.[2]

Claiborne yielded the secretary's lucrative office to his rival Richard Kemp, who in 1634 arrived with a royal appointment, and when Harvey returned to Virginia for a second term as governor in 1637 Claiborne lost his seat on the Council. In 1640 he scored a victory over Kemp by obtaining royal permission to found a signet office for the purpose of validating public records, providing the Council consented, which it did. The new office reduced Kemp's influence and income because the great seal of Virginia and its attendant fees were transferred from him to Claiborne. Not long thereafter Wyatt relinquished the office of governor to Sir William Berkeley. Claiborne acted as an intermediary, and in 1642 the new governor reappointed Claiborne to the Council and named him treasurer of the colony.[2]

1635 Marriage
In the mid-1630s he married Elizabeth Boteler, or Butler. They had four sons and two daughters.[2]

William married ca 1635 Elizabeth Butler, born ca 1610 in Roxwell, Essex, England. “She was the daughter of John Butler (1585 - ?) and Jane Elliott (abt. 1582 - ?) of Little Burche Hall, Roxwell, Essex, England. Elizabeth's siblings were John Butler of Kent Island, Sara Butler, ? Butler (female), and Thomas Butler, married Joan Mountsteven Butler wife of Nicholas Mountsteven, haberdasher of St. Marins at Ludgate. Elizabeth's uncle was Capt. Nathaniel Butler, Governor of Bermuda.” [3]

1629-1638 - Married Elizabeth Butler (the exact date and place is uncertain). It is said he married in London, 1638, but a grant of land in Elizabeth City County was made to Elizabeth Claiborne, the wife of Capt. William Claiborne, Esq., his Majestie`s Treasure of this Colony of Virginia. (Was she Jane Elizabeth Buller?) 1637 - Appointed to serve as Secretary of State and continued until 1637

1635 First Naval Battle in North American Waters
In 1635, a Maryland commissioner named Thomas Cornwallis swept the Chesapeake for illegal traders and captured one of Claiborne's pinnaces in the Pocomoke Sound. Claiborne tried to recover it by force, but was defeated; although he retained his settlement on Kent Island. These were the first naval battles in North American waters, on 23 April and 10 May 1635; three Virginians were killed.[19][1]

1635 Claiborne vs. Governor Harvey
May 1635 - While William Claiborne is at Kent Island, a faction of Council members to which he belongs decides to evict Governor Sir John Harvey from office.[2]

He and Mathews led a dominant faction of Council members whose quest for land and influence produced clashes with Governor Sir John Harvey. In May 1635, while Claiborne was at Kent Island, the faction evicted Harvey from office. Claiborne initially emerged from that feud a much stronger politician, and when Sir Francis Wyatt returned to Virginia as governor in November 1639, he handled Claiborne gingerly.[2]

During these events, Governor John Harvey of Virginia, who had never been well liked by the Virginian colonists, had followed royal orders to support the Maryland settlement and, just before the naval battles in the Chesapeake, removed Claiborne from office as Secretary of State.[20] In response, Claiborne's supporters in the Virginia Assembly expelled Harvey from the colony.[21] [1]

1637 - William Claiborne loses his seat on the governor's Council.[2]

1637 Maryland Takes Over Kent Island
Two years later, an attorney for Cloberry and Company, who were concerned that the revenues they were receiving from fur trading had not recouped their original investment, arrived on Kent Island. The attorney took possession of the island and bade Claiborne return to England, where Cloberry and Company filed suit against him. The attorney then invited Maryland to take over the island by force, which it did in December 1637. By March 1638 the Maryland Assembly had declared that all of Claiborne's property within the colony now belonged to the proprietor.[22] Maryland temporarily won the legal battle for Kent Island and won again when Claiborne's final appeal was rejected by the Privy Council in April 1638.[23][1]

1638 Established Colony near Honduras
In 1638 Claiborne received a grant of an island off the coast of Honduras and may have intended to set up a trading post there.[2]

In May 1638, fresh from his defeat over Kent Island, Claiborne received a commission from the Providence Land Company, who were advised by his old friend Maurice Thomson, to create a new colony on Ruatan Island off the coast of Honduras in the Caribbean Sea. At the time, Honduras itself was a part of Spain's Kingdom of Guatemala, and Spanish settlements dominated the mainland of Central America. Claiborne optimistically called his new colony Rich Island, but Spanish power in the area was too strong and the colony was destroyed in 1642.[24][1]

1639 Virginia
November 1639 - Sir Francis Wyatt returns to Virginia as governor.[2]

1640 - William Claiborne obtains royal permission and consent of the governor's Council to found a signet office for the purpose of validating public records. The new office reduces the power of Claiborne's rival, Richard Kemp, secretary of the colony.[2]

1640 John Butler's Land Patent, Maryland
In 1640 Captain John Butler petitioned to confirm title to land granted by Captain William Clayborne. [9]

1642 Treasurer
1642 April - Appointed as treasurer of the colony by King Charles. In 1642 the English King describing him as `My well beloved servant,` appointed him Treasure of the Colony for life.

Treasurer for Life, 1642; [7]

1642-1651 Puritan and Parliament
A Puritan, Claiborne sided with Parliament during the English Civil War of 1642-1651 and was appointed to a commission charged with subduing and managing the Virginia and Maryland colonies. He played a role in the submission of Virginia to parliamentary rule in this period. [1]

1642 - Governor Sir William Berkeley reappoints William Claiborne to the governor's Council and names him treasurer of the colony.[2]

1644–1666 - During the Anglo-Powhatan War, William Claiborne, a member of the governor's Council and treasurer of the colony, commands some of the Virginia militia.[2]

1644 Trading Expeditions
1644 - Led an expedition against the Indians. In recognition of his services, he was granted large tracts of land.

1644 Claiborne and Ingle Seize Kent Island
Soon after, the chaos of the English Civil War gave Claiborne another opportunity to reclaim Kent Island. The Calverts, who had received such constant support from the King, in turn supported the monarchy during the early stages of the parliamentary crisis. Claiborne found a new ally in Richard Ingle, a pro-Parliament Puritan merchant whose ships had been seized by the Catholic authorities in Maryland in response to a royal decree against Parliament. Claiborne and Ingle saw an opportunity for revenge using the Parliamentary dispute as political cover, and in 1644 Claiborne seized Kent Island while Ingle took over St. Mary's.[25] Both used religion as a tool to gain popular support, arguing that the Catholic Calverts could not be trusted. [1]

The two dominant figures in Virginia, Claiborne and Berkeley contested for leadership of the planter elite. They differed over trade policy, with Claiborne opposing Dutch traders whose presence in Virginia threatened his own connections with London. They disagreed over how to prosecute the Anglo-Powhatan War of 1644–1646, during which Claiborne commanded some of the Virginia militia and made an attempt to recover Kent Island. They also took different positions on the issues that led to the English Civil Wars. Claiborne readily accommodated himself to the Puritans and was one of the commissioners Parliament appointed to bring Virginia and Maryland under its dominion. In that capacity he helped negotiate the terms by which Berkeley surrendered Virginia to Parliament in March 1652. Claiborne and his fellow commissioner Richard Bennett, who succeeded Berkeley as governor of Virginia, appointed a new Council in Maryland, action that precipitated two years of intermittent warfare between competing factions in that colony.[2]

Richard Ingle
Richard Ingle (1609–1653) was an English colonial seaman and tobacco trader in the American colonies who took over the government of the colony of Maryland in 1645. [10]

Most of Ingle's background is unknown. He was born in England, possibly in London, around 1609 into a Protestant family that schooled him. He became a trader and ship captain. Ingle transported goods of Maryland traders from England and back and became a prominent tobacco trader. [10]

When the English Civil War broke out, Ingle sided with the Puritans. He fell out with the Catholic leaders of Maryland, and when the royalist governor Leonard Calvert seized his ship, he escaped. [10]

Ingle returned in February 1645 with the ship Reformation and attacked the Maryland colony in the name of Parliament. He attacked the settlement of St. Mary's and imprisoned leaders of the colony. Calvert, the royalist proprietary governor, fled to Virginia. [10]

Ingle took control of the Maryland government.[1] Under Ingle's leadership, his men looted property of wealthy Roman Catholic settlers. Ingle claimed that he had a letter of marque to cruise the waters of Shesapeake (Chesapeake Bay) and the permission of a new government in England. Local settlers regarded him as a pirate. He put two Jesuit priests to chains and transported them back to England. The events are known as the "Claiborne and Ingle's rebellion". [10]

Governor Calvert returned in August 1646 and reestablished his control. Though most of his men were granted amnesty, Ingle was specifically exempted from it and executed. [10][11]

1644 Indian Campaigns
He was a Colonel, commanding all Colonial forces in the campaign against the Indians 1644-45.

He served courageously as Captain of the colonial troops in their struggles with the Indians. [3]

1645 Treasurer of Virginia
In 1645, he was appointed by Charles I, as Treasurer of Virginia for life, which to some extent compensated Clayborne's loss of Kent Island.

1646 St. Marys and Kent revert to the Calverts
By 1646, however, Governor Leonard Calvert had retaken both St. Mary's and Kent Island with support from Governor Berkeley of Virginia, and, after Leonard Calvert died in 1648, Cecil Calvert appointed a pro-Parliament Protestant to take over as governor.[26] The rebellion and its religious overtones was one of the factors that led to passage of the landmark Maryland Toleration Act of 1649, which declared religious tolerance for Catholics and Protestants in Maryland.[27][1]

1648 Appointed to Suppress Anglican Disquiet in Virginia and Maryland
In 1648 a group of merchants in London applied to Parliament for revocation of the Maryland charter from the Calverts.[28] This was rejected, but Claiborne received a final opportunity to reclaim Kent Island when he was appointed by the Puritan-controlled Parliament to a commission which was charged with suppressing Anglican disquiet in Virginia; Virginia in this case defined as "all the plantations in the Bay of the Chesapeake."[29] [1]

Claiborne and fellow commissioner Richard Bennett secured the peaceful submission of Virginia to Parliamentary rule, and the new Virginia Assembly appointed Claiborne as Secretary of the colony.[30] It also proposed to Parliament new acts which would give Virginia more autonomy from England, which would benefit Claiborne as he pressed his claims on Kent Island. He and Bennett then turned their attention to Maryland and, arguing again that the Catholic Calverts could not be trusted and that the charter gave the Calverts too much power, demanded that the colony submit to the Commonwealth.[30] Governor Stone briefly refused but gave in to Claiborne and the Commission, and submitted Maryland to Parliamentary rule.[31][1]

Claiborne made no overt legal attempts to re-assert control over Kent Island during the commission's rule of Maryland, although a treaty concluded during that time with the Susquehannocks claimed that Claiborne owned both Kent and Palmer Islands.[32] [1]

1648-1660
1648-1660 In office as Parliamentary Commissioner and Secretary of the Virginia Colony.[1]

1652-1660 Secretary of State
1652 to 1660 - Served as Secretary of State. Engaged in trade as a member of the firm of `Clobery and Company of London`,

Deputy-Governor of Virginia sometime between 1652-1655; [7]

March 12, 1652 - Supported by a Parliamentary fleet, Richard Bennett, William Claiborne, and Edmund Curtis accept Virginia's bloodless capitulation at Jamestown. Two weeks later they obtain the surrender of Maryland's leaders as well.[2]

Spring 1652 - The House of Burgesses elects William Claiborne senior member of the governor's Council and secretary of the colony.[2]

In the spring of 1652 the House of Burgesses elected Claiborne senior member of the Council and secretary of the colony. He and Berkeley remained on civil terms, despite their differences, and Claiborne eased Berkeley's return to the governorship in March 1660. Berkeley retained him in office for a few months, but Claiborne was too deeply implicated in the parliamentary cause to continue as a Council member and secretary after Charles II returned to England as king. [2]

1652 Parliamentary Commissioner with Richard Bennett
In 1652, William Clayborne served as Parliamentary Commissioner with Richard Bennett, he governed Maryland wisely, without vengeance and without taking advantage of his position to regain control of Kent Island.

1653 Deputy Governor of Virginia
In 1653 Colonel Clayborne acted as Deputy Governor of Virginia. From 1625 to 1660 he was a member of Council and as late as 1666 served in the Virginia Assembly." [ref: Bissell, pg. 65; Roots in Virginia pg. 108]

1653 Calverts return to power
Claiborne's legal designs on Maryland were once again defeated when Oliver Cromwell returned Calvert to power in 1653, after the Rump Parliament ended.[33] In 1654, Governor Stone of Maryland tried to reclaim authority for the proprietor and declared that Claiborne's property and his life could be taken at the Governor's pleasure.[34] Stone's declaration was ignored and Claiborne and Bennett again overthrew him, creating a new assembly in which Catholics were not allowed to serve.[35] Calvert, now angry at Stone for what he perceived as weakness, demanded that Stone do something, and in 1655 Stone reclaimed control in St. Mary's and led a group of soldiers to Providence (modern Annapolis). Stone was captured and his force defeated by local Puritan settlers, who took control of the colony[36] in what became known as the Battle of the Severn. [1]

Given the new situation, Claiborne and Bennett went to England in hopes of convincing Cromwell to change his mind but, to their dismay, no decision was made and, lacking royal authority, the Puritans gave power over to a new governor appointed by Calvert.[37] [1]

Going behind Claiborne's back, Bennett and another commissioner reached an agreement with Calvert that virtually guaranteed his continued control over Maryland through the remainder of the Protectorate.[38][1]

1654 New Kent County, Virginia
New Kent County was established in 1654 from York County and was organized and settled by William Claiborne. The county's name originated because several prominent inhabitants, including William Claiborne, recently had been forced from their settlement at Kent Island, Maryland by Lord Baltimore upon the formation of Maryland. Claiborne had named the island for his birthplace in Kent, England. Part of New Kent County, St. Paul's Parish, became Hanover County in 1719. Its county seat is New Kent. New Kent County is included in the Richmond, VA Metropolitan Statistical Area.

1657 Lord Baltimore Regains Control of Maryland
He maintained a firm hand in the affairs of Maryland until late in 1657 when [Lord] Baltimore conformed and made his peace with Parliament.

Retirement
1660 Restoration
Following the restoration of the English monarchy in 1660, he retired from involvement in the politics of the Virginia colony. [1]

March 1660 - William Claiborne, despite being a supporter of Parliament and the Puritans, helps ease the return to the governorship of Sir William Berkeley just prior to Charles II's return.[2]

March 1661 - William Claiborne, a supporter of Parliament and the Puritans, retires from public life not long after Charles II returns to England as king.[2]

1660 Retirement
With no authority left in Maryland, Claiborne turned to his political offices in Virginia. However, he was a Puritan and an ally of Parliament during the English Civil War, and upon the restoration of the British monarchy in 1660, he had few friends left in government. Claiborne therefore retired from political affairs in 1660 and spent the remainder of his life managing his 5,000 acre (2,023 hectare) estate, "Romancoke", near West Point on the Pamunkey River, dying there in about 1677.[39][1]

Claiborne retired from public life in March 1661 and lived quietly and in relative obscurity at Romancoke. Berkeley threw a few crumbs in his direction by appointing two of his sons to the county court, and one of Claiborne's sons sat in the House of Burgesses. [2]

1664 Commander
1664, chosen Chief Commander against the Indians[7]

1676 Bacon's Rebellion
Claiborne remained loyal to the governor during Bacon's Rebellion in 1676, suffered significant property losses in the process, and may have sat on some of the courts-martial that sentenced several rebels to death, although it is possible that Claiborne's namesake son took on that responsibility. [2]

On March 13, 1677, Claiborne petitioned the Crown to recoup financial losses he had incurred when he was expelled from Kent Island forty years earlier. The following July 16 a Colonel Claiborne, who may have been the father, the son, or an unrelated person, boarded the royal naval ship Bristol to collect eight barrels of shot for use by the county militia.[2]

1677 Death
He died around 1677 at his plantation, "Romancoke", on Virginia's Pamunkey River. According to historian Robert Brenner, "William Claiborne may have been the most consistently influential politician in Virginia throughout the whole of the pre-Restoration period".[2][1]

Torrence states that there is no positive evidence of the date or place of William’s death, but it was about 1677 or 1678. There is no existing evidence of a will or probate.[12]

1677 March - Died in or after March 1677, when he was praised for his loyalty after Bacon's Rebellion. He probably died at his plantation, 'Romancoke,' New Kent Co., VA, although there is no record of the exact date.

The date and place of Claiborne's death are not known, nor is the place of his burial. He died on an unrecorded date before August 25, 1679, when his son Thomas Claiborne was identified in a York County record as executor of the estate of "Coll William Clayborne Decd."[2]

July 16, 1678 - A Colonel Claiborne, who may be William Claiborne, his son, or an unrelated person, boards the royal naval ship Bristol to collect eight barrels of shot for use by the county militia.[2]

August 25, 1679 - Thomas Claiborne, the son of William Claiborne, is identified in a York County record as executor of his father's estate. His father died sometime before this date.[2]

Children[13]
They had 4 sons (William; John; Thomas; & Leonard) and 2 daughters (including Jane, wife of (Col.) Thomas Brereton).[14]

William & Elizabeth’s children were 1) Jane, 2) John, 3) THOMAS, 4) William, Jr. “the younger”, and 5) Leonard. [3]

Dates below not yet verified.

William, b. 1636 New Kent, vA
John, b. 1639 New Kent VA or b. abt 1650 in St. John's Parish, King William, VA.
Thomas b. Aug 17, 1647, New Kent, Va
Leonard, b. 1649, New Kent.
Jane, b. England 1632 or b. 1635 and [[Claiborne-294|Jane, b. 1636, wife of (Col.) Thomas Brereton. In 1648, Jane was still unmarried, so she is likely be one of the daughters mentioned, but there is no evidence of who the second daughter may be and no woman named Mary Claiborne appears in any records.
1 more daughter, possibly Mary Claiborne b. 1630, or 1643 in King William County, who married Harris. There has been ongoing debates over another daughter named Mary. This Mary is said to have married first Edward Rice and secondly Robert Harris. The name “Rice Clayborne” is found among some of Virginia records in Accomack County, but the relationship of Mary as daughter of Col. William is documented by any record or early family history. Many have taken the Northumberland County, Virginia Order, which was found loose in the county papers for William Claiborne as “guardian of his two daughters” in regards to the estate of Thomas Smythe as proof that Mary existed, though in fact it only proves that William had two daughters who were living in 1648 [ref: Order Book, p.36a, 02 Apr 1648].
With the heavy loss of county records, the children of Col. William Claiborne are less easy to document. The family held on to much of the King William County land, until the mid-eighteenth century. Stanard and Clayton concur on the identification of Col. William Claiborne’s children.

The appearance of an Elizabeth Claiborne Jr. by evidence of a New Kent patent dated about 1668, has led most researchers to assume this second daughter was this Elizabeth [ref: Patent Book 6, pg. 204]. Some confusion arises from the title of “Mistress” (Mrs.) given to her, which at that time could have denoted her station rather than her marital status. Subsequent patents suggest Col. Edward Hill took up the same patent in 1699, perhaps being her heir, though the document is too imprecise to determine this as fact [ref: Dorman/Smith, “Claiborne of Virginia” (1995), pg. 6]. None of these records bode well for the identification for the wife of Edward Rice being Mary Claiborne.

Family life and descendants
In the midst of the political turmoil of the conflict over Kent Island, Claiborne married Elizabeth Butler of Essex, who would remain his wife at least through 1668.[4] [1]

Claiborne was also the forebear of a number of lines of American Claibornes, and among his descendants are William C. C. Claiborne, first governor of Louisiana, fashion designer Liz Claiborne,[40] Daniel Sullivan (LtCol USMC), the late minister Jerry Falwell, and a number of political figures from Tennessee and Virginia.[41] Descendants of the Claiborne family have formed a society to advance the genealogical study of Claiborne's lineage.[42] Also some descendants of Claiborne are the families of Wood, Rice, McFarland, Harris and Estes.[1]

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? 1.00 1.01 1.02 1.03 1.04 1.05 1.06 1.07 1.08 1.09 1.10 1.11 1.12 1.13 1.14 1.15 1.16 1.17 1.18 1.19 1.20 1.21 1.22 1.23 1.24 1.25 1.26 1.27 1.28 1.29 1.30 1.31 1.32 1.33 1.34 1.35 1.36 1.37 1.38 William Claiborne on Wikipedia
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Edward Ingle - Captain Richard Ingle, the Maryland Pirate and Rebel (Baltimore 1884)
Timothy B. Riordan - Plundering Time: Maryland and the English Civil War, 1645-1646 (Baltimore 2004)
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See also:
John Herbert Claiborne. "William Claiborne of Virginia With Some Account of His Pedigree". New York: The Knickerbocker Press, 1917. Google Books
Wikipedia, the Free Online Encyclopedia, at William Claiborne
Website of the Jamestowne Society at www.jamestowne-wash-nova.org, at William Claiborne
Article on William Claiborne Publication: The Virtualogy Project, founded by Stan Kahn
Source: S-2050775418 Title: Family Data Collection - Births Author: Edmund West, comp. Repository: #R-16 Publication: Online publication - Provo, UT, USA: The Generations Network, Inc., 2001.
Source: S135 Title: Ancestry Family Trees Repository: #R-16 Publication: Online publication - Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com. Original data: Family Tree files submitted by Ancestry members. Numerous Ancestry Family Trees were submitted as sources for information contained in GEDCOM files.
Source: S32 Dorman, John Frederick; Virginia M. Meyer. Adventurers of Purse and Person 1607-1624/5. Richmond, VA: The Dietz Press, Inc., 1987. [ ]
Source: S37 Weis, Frederick Lewis. The Magna Charta Sureties, 1215. 4th ed., Record Number: CS55 A31979 ed. Baltimore, MD: Genealogical Publishing Co., Inc., 1991. [ ]
Repository: R-16 Name: Ancestry.com Address: http://www.Ancestry.com
Harrison Dwight Cavanagh. Colonial Chesapeake Families: British Origins and Descendants; Page: 46; By the author, 2014. Accessed December 24, 2015
Billings, Warren M. "Claiborne, William." In The Dictionary of Virginia Biography, Vol. 3, edited by John T. Kneebone, J. Jefferson Looney, Brent Tarter, and Sandra Gioia Treadway, 255–257. Richmond: Library of Virginia, 2006.
William Clairborne (after 1598 or c.1600 Crayford Kent - 1677).[7] [8][9][10]
Source: Merchants Brenner, R. (2003). Merchants and Revolution: Commercial Change, Political Conflict, and London's Overseas Traders, 1550-1653. London & NY: Verso. Google Books; Page: 121.
Nelson, V.A. (1981). "Secretary William Clairborne of Virginia." Genealogies of Virginia Families: From Tyler's Quarterly Historical and Genealogical Magazine, 1, pp. 359 - . Genealogical Publishing Co. Google Books. Nelson (1981), tries to build a case for Sec. Clairborne's family relations based on arms, and talks about how O'hart intentionally omitted various other William Clairbornes.
How to Research a Little Bit of Indian, by Afton E. Reintjes. Page 7: "The center of the Virginia Indian trade changed from time to time. At first there was a northern thrust, as William Claiborne and others exploited commerce on the upper Chesapeake Bay. ... Henry Fleet joined William Claiborne in his fur trading business on Kent Island in the Chesapeake Bay. They were among the first to make their fortunes in the Indian trade." (Source: The Only Land They Knew by J. Leitch Wright, Jr.)
The National Society of the Claiborne Family Descendants- http://www.claibornesociety.org/research/dna.shtml
North America, Family Histories, 1500-2000; The Harris Family.
William Claiborne of Virginia,: With some account of his pedigree
Encyclopedia of Virginia biography, under the editorial supervision of Lyon Gardiner Tyler by Tyler, Lyon Gardiner, 1853-1935, Publication date 1915, Call number 31833023903914, pp 96-97

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William married Elizabeth Butler in ~1635 in England. Elizabeth (daughter of John Butler and Jane Elliot) was born before 1612 in England; died after 1 Mar 1669 in New Kent County, Virginia, a Colony of the English Empire. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Arthur married Alice Rouse. Alice was born on 8 May 1532 in Hargham, Norfolk, England; died on 8 May 1602. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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Thomas Cleyborne Jr.
Born about 1557 in Kings Lynn, Norfolk, England
ANCESTORS ancestors
Son of Thomas Cleyborne Sr. and Katherine Reveley
Brother of Dorothy Clayborne, Katherine Clayborne and Johan Clayborne
Husband of Sara (Smith) Cleyborne — married 21 Nov 1598 in St. Dunstan's, Stephney, Middlesex, England
DESCENDANTS descendants
Father of William (Claiborne) Claybourn, Thomas Claiborne, Sara (Clayborne) Claiborne, Katherine Claiborne and Blanche Claiborne
Died 10 Sep 1607 in Creyford, Kent, England

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He built a shipping empire out of King's Lynn dealing in coal and code up the Eastern coast of England. He was alderman in 1591 and Mayor of King's Lynn in 1592. He married the wealthy Anglo-Dutch widow Sara Smythe James.

Name
Name: Thomas /Cleyborne/[1][2]
Name: Thomas /Cleybourne/[3]
Birth
Birth:
Date: 1557
SDATE: 1 JUL 1557
Place: King's Lynn, Norfolk, England, Great Britan[4]
Death
Death:
Date: 10 SEP 1607
Place: Creyford, Kent, England[5]
Age: 49-50
Death:
Place: Stepney, London[6]
Sources
England Marriages 1538-1973 Transcription; First name(s) Thomas; Last name Cleyborne; Name note -; Marriage year 1598; Marriage date 21 Nov 1598; Marriage place Stepney; Spouse's first name(s) Sara; Spouse's last name James; Residence Stepney, Middlesex, England; County Durham; Country England; Record set England Marriages 1538-1973; Category Birth, Marriage & Death (Parish Registers); Subcategory Parish Marriages; Collections from England, United Kingdom; Repository: FamilySearch Intl.
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Repository R-20 Name: Ancestry.com Address: http://www.Ancestry.com
Geni.com
Source: S37 Title: The Magna Charta Sureties, 1215, Edition: 4th ed., Record Number: CS55 A31979 Abbreviation: Magna Charta, 4th ed. Author: Weis, Frederick Lewis Publication: Genealogical Publishing Co., Inc., Baltimore, MD, 1991
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Thomas married Sara Smith on 21 Nov 1598 in St. Dunstan's, Stephney, Middlesex, England. Sara was born in ~1557 in Kings Lynn, Norfolk, England; died on 10 Sep 1607 in Reigate, Surrey, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Sara Cleyborne formerly Smith aka Smyth, James
Born about 1557 in King's Lynn, Norfolk, England
ANCESTORS ancestors
Daughter of John Smythe and Rose (Goddard) Smith
Sister of Ellen Smith, Gertrude Smith, Audrey Smith, Sara (Smith) James and Frances Smith
Wife of Roger James — married 1588 in St. Saviour, Smithfield, England
Wife of Thomas Cleyborne Jr. — married 21 Nov 1598 in St. Dunstan's, Stephney, Middlesex, England
DESCENDANTS descendants
Mother of William (Claiborne) Claybourn
Died 10 Sep 1607 in Reigate, Surrey, Englandmap

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William Claiborne was born in Kent, England, in 1600 to Thomas Clayborn, an alderman and lord mayor from King's Lynn, Norfolk, who made his living as a small-scale businessman involved in a variety of industries, including the salt and fish trades, and Sarah Smith, the daughter of a London brewer.[1]
Birth
Date: ABT 1557
Place: King's Lynn, Norfolk, England
Marriage
Wife of Thomas Cleyborne Jr. — married November 29, 1598 in St. Dunstan's, Stepney, Middlesex Co, England, GB
First name(s): Thomas
Last name: Cleyborne
Marriage year: 1598
Marriage date: 21 Nov 1598; :Marriage place: Stepney
Spouse's first name(s): Sara
Spouse's last name: James
Residence: Stepney, Middlesex, England
County: Durham
Country: England[2]
Death
Date: before June 21, 1626
Place: Reigate, Surrey, England
Sources
? William Claiborne Wikipedia article citing: Brenner, Robert (2003). Merchants and Revolution: Commercial Change, Political Conflict, and London's Overseas Traders. London: Verso. ISBN 1-85984-333-6. Page: 121
? England Marriages 1538-1973 Transcription; Record set: England Marriages 1538-1973 Category Birth, Marriage & Death (Parish Registers); Subcategory Parish Marriages; Collections from England, United Kingdom; Repository: FamilySearch Intl.

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John married Jane Elliot on 27 Dec 1599 in Roxwell, Essex, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

William married Agnes Scarlett. Agnes was born in 1516 in Norfolk, England; died on 17 Jan 1574. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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Thomas Claiborne
Born about 1478 in Cleburne Hall, Westmoreland, England
ANCESTORS ancestors
Son of John (Claiborne) Cleburne and Elizabeth (Curwen) Cleburne
[sibling(s) unknown]
Husband of Joan Sanford — married [date unknown] [location unknown]
DESCENDANTS descendants
Father of Thomas Cleyborne Sr.
Died [date unknown] in King's Lynn, Norfolk, England

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Thomas was the son of John Cleburne.[1]

Sources
? Charles H. Browning, Magna Charta Barons, 1915. Baronial Order of Runnemede (Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Company, 1915), p. 194, digital images, https://books.google.com/books?id=u2skxyBFmU4C&pg=PA194. Google Books (http://books.google.com : accessed 7 September 2015).

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Thomas married Joan Sanford. Joan was born in ~1509 in England; died on 3 Jun 1609 in Cambridgeshire, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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Joan Sanford
Born about 1509 [location unknown]
Daughter of [father unknown] and [mother unknown]
[sibling(s) unknown]
Wife of Thomas Claiborne — married [date unknown] [location unknown]
DESCENDANTS descendants
Mother of Thomas Cleyborne Sr.
Died 3 Jun 1609 in Cambridgeshire, England

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John Butler Esq aka Boteler [uncertain]
Born about 1535 in Tofte, Sharnbrook, Bedfordshire, England
ANCESTORS ancestors
Son of George Butler and Mary (Throckmorton) Butler
[sibling(s) unknown]
Husband of Cresset (St John) Butler — married about 1560 in Bedfordshire, England [uncertain]
Husband of Mary (Gedge) Butler — married 1572 [location unknown]
DESCENDANTS descendants
Father of Anne Butler, Jane Butler, Mary Butler, Oliver Butler, Peter Butler, John Butler, Martha Butler and Sarah (Butler) Vernon
Died before 12 Jan 1614 in Sharnbrook, Bedfordshire, Englandmap

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1.7 Issue
1.7.1 Children of John and Cressett
1.7.2 Children of John Butler and Mary Gedge
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Biography
Names
John Butler was first called "John Butler of Tobies". [1]

1535 Birth and Parentage
John Butler, eldest son and heir of George Butler, was born either in Droitwich or Sharnbrook, probably the latter. [1]

His exact date of birth is not known, though a range can be established from extant documentation. In 1553 his cousin Clement Throckmorton was made his guardian, so he was under 21 at the time, born no earlier than 1532. He first appears as an adult in Essex records in the spring of 1581, so he was clearly over 21 by that year, born no later than 1560. [1]

Stallard [1] believes the birth was earlier in the range 1532-1551. For purposes of estimation, 1535 is a reasonable birth year.

Youth
His father George died in 1551. Since he was given a guardian in 1553, his mother was probably dead by that time. He grew up in the home of his guardian and cousin, Clement Throckmorton in Hasely, about six miles to the northwest of Warwick. [1]

1560 first Marriage to Cressitt St. John
It was probably Clement Throckmorton who arranged the marriage between John Butler of Sharnbrook and Cressitt St. John, daughter of Sir John St. John, of Bletsoe. Sharnbrook and Bletsoe are two miles apart in Bedfordshire. [1]

While Cressitt's status as the daughter of a respected knight and landholder would have placed her above John Butler's social station, the fact that Cressitt was illegitimate would have made the match an appropriate one.[1]

Stallard does not estimate a marriage date for John Butler and Cressitt St. John. Others have estimated 1560 as an approximate time.

John's early residence and the place where he lived witgh his first wife are unknown. [1]

1572 Second Marriage to Mary Gedge
After Cressett's death, John married second Mary Gedge. Mary was the widow of Leonard Berners (died 1563, inquisition), and Christopher Harris, Esq (died 1571. Mary was the daughter and co-heiress of James Gedge, Esq, of Shenfield, Essex. She was born 1541. [2]

It was from her first husband Leonard Barners that Mary Gedge inherited Thobie Priorty and Fryerning Hall in Essex. [1]

Sometime in the period 1588-1603 John and his wife Mary sued Thomas Baker, Esq regarding Mary's claim of dower to property in Essex and Gloucestershire, which was assured her by her former husband, Anthony [sic] Berners. [2]

John and Mary had two sons. Nathaniel became Governor of the Bermudas, Governor and Admiral of the Bahamas. The second son was James. They also had two daughters. Elizabeth married John Cornelius and Sarah married William Vernor. [2]

Death
John Butler, Esq, left a will dated 1 Sept 1612, proved 20 Jan 1613/14.[2]

PROBATE: Will dated 1 Sep 1612; will proved 20 Jan 1613/14 at London [PCC: 2 Lawe].[3]

He was buried on 12 January 1613/14 at Shambrooke, Bedfordshire, England.

Shortly before his death, John began the process of building (or rebuilding) the present manor of Tofte, which was completed the following year by Sir Oliver. [1]

Issue
Children of John and Cressett
They had 2 sons (Oliver & John) and 4 daughters (Anne, Jane, Martha, & Mary).

Cressett and John had two sons and four daughters:[2] They are shown below before the ||with birth years and places currently (Dec 2015) in WikiTree and after the || with data from Stallard. [1]

Oliver, Esq. b. 1565, Sharmbrook, Bedfordshire. m. Berham Ann Oct 26 1596 All Hallows Honeylands, London. father of John, Ann, James, William. d. Nov 22 1632. ||Sir Oliver Butler of Teston, prob. born Sharmbook, Bedfordshire. Married Anne, daughter and heiress of Sir Thomas Berham of Beerham Place, Teston, in Kent. Knighted at Whitehall by King James I in August of 1604. Died 22 Nov 1632 at Teston. [1]
John, Esq b. 1568, Barham, Kent, m. Jane Elliott Dec 27 1599, Roxwell. father Joan, John, Thomas, Sarah, Elizabeth.||John Butler, Esq., of Newland and Little Birch Hall, Essex. Second, probably born Sharmbrook. Married in Roxwell Parish, Essex, on 27 Dec 1599 Jane Elliott, daughter and co-heir of Edward Elliott of Little Birth and Newland Halls in Essex. [1]
Anne (m. George Digby), b. 1557 Sharmbrook, Beds. No spouse, No children.||Anne married George Digby of Darne in Surry. [1]
Jane (m. Robert Wright), b. 1559 Sharmbrook, Beds. No spouse, No children. || Jane married the Rev. Robert Wright of Dennington, Suffolk, the second son of John Wright of Wright's Bridge, Essex. [1]
Martha (m. Humphrey Barrell), b. 1571 Sharmbrook, Beds. No spouse, No children.|| Martha married Humphrey Burrell, called a courtier in the 1569 Worcester visitation. Martha was alive in 1634. [1]
Mary (m. Richard Arkenstall). b. 1562 Sharmbrook, Beds. No spouse, No children.||Mary Butler married Richard Arkenstall of the Isle of Ely, Cambridge. [1]
The birth order of John and Cresset's children is unknown other than that Sir Oliver was the eldest son and John was the second son. [1]

Children of John Butler and Mary Gedge
John and Mary had two sons and two daughters. [2]

Nathaniel became Governor of the Bermudas, Governor and Admiral of the Bahamas. [2] Captain Nathaniel Butler, commonly thought to have been born in 1578. He was a member of the council for the Virginia Company, Governor of Bermuda 1619-1622, author of the highly critical "Unmasking of Virginia 1623", Governor and Admiral of the Bahamas 1638-1641. [1]
James. [2] Married the widow of Glasscock. Alive in 1634. [1]
Elizabeth married John Cornelius [2] John Cornelius was a London merchant. [1]
Sarah married William Vernor. [2] as her first husband, and secondly John Jeffries of London, who died 1657. Sarah was buried in the Church of All Saints in Maldon, Essex. [1]
Sources
National Burial Index for England & Wales Transcription; First name(s) John; Last name Butler; Birth year -; Death year 1614; Burial year 1614; Burial date 12 Jan 1614; Church St Peter; Denomination Anglican; Place Sharnbrook; County Bedfordshire; Country England; Record set National Burial Index For England & Wales; Category Birth, Marriage & Death (Parish Registers); Subcategory Parish Burials; Collections from United Kingdom, England; Repository: Bedfordshire Family History Society.
Family Relationship of George W. Bush; Famous Kin [2]
Sir John St. JOHN Knight - Freepages - Ancestry.com [3]
Family: John Boteler [4]
Roberts, Gary Boyd, The Royal Descents of 600 Immigrants to the American Colonies or the United States, Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Co. (2008), 465. [5]
#230 [5th edition, 1999] The Magna Charta Sureties, 1215 (5th edition, 1999), Adams, Arthur, (5th edition. Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing, 1999), FHL book 973 D2aa 1999., p. 80 lines 61:14 and 61:15 (Reliability: 3) [6]
Weis, Frederick Lewis, The Magna Charta Sureties, 1215 (5th ed., Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Co., 1999.), pp. 61-15, Los Angeles Public Library, 929.273 W426 1999.
Richardson, Douglas, Plantagenet Ancestry: A Study in Colonial and Medieval Families (Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Company, 2004.), p. 115, Family History Library, 942 D5rd.
Harvey, William, The Visitations of Bedfordshire made in 1566, 1582, and 1634 (London: 1884.), pp. 10, 53, Los Angeles Public Library.
Richardson, Douglas, Magna Carta Ancestry: A Study in Colonial and Medieval Families (Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Co., 2005.), p. 94, Family History Library, 942 D5rdm.
Fiske, William Wyman, "Ancestry of Bennet Eliot of Nazeing, Essex...," NEHGR 162:2 (Apr 2008) (New England Historic, Genealogical Society.), pp. 130, 131, Los Angeles Public Library.
Wilde, E. E., Ingatestone and the Essex Great Road with Fryerning (Oxford: University Press, 1913.), p. 27, Library of Congress, DA690.I5 W5.
Metcalfe, Walter Charles, The Visitations of Essex by Hawley, 1552; Hervey, 1558; Cooke, 1570; Raven, 1612; and Owen and Lilly, 1634 (London: Mitchell and Hughes, 1878.), p. 169, Los Angeles Public Library, Gen 942.005 H284 v. 13.
Roberts, Gary Boyd, The Royal Descents of 600 Immigrants to the American Colonies or the United States (Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Co., 2004.), p. 465, Family History Library, 273 D2rrd.
Philipot, John, The Visitation of Kent Taken in the Years 1619-1621 (London: 1898.), p. 223, Los Angeles Public Library, Gen 942.005 H284 v.42.
Richardson, Douglas: Plantagenet Ancestry, 2nd edn. (2011), 3 vols, Volume 1, page 287, BLETSOE 16i.
Family: John Boteler [7]
Fiske, William Wyman, "Ancestry of Bennet Eliot of Nazeing, Essex...," NEHGR 162:2 (Apr 2008) (New England Historic, Genealogical Society.), pp. 130, 131, Los Angeles Public Library.
Wilde, E. E., Ingatestone and the Essex Great Road with Fryerning (Oxford: University Press, 1913.), p. 27, Library of Congress, DA690.I5 W5.
Metcalfe, Walter Charles, The Visitations of Essex by Hawley, 1552; Hervey, 1558; Cooke, 1570; Raven, 1612; and Owen and Lilly, 1634 (London: Mitchell and Hughes, 1878.), p. 169, Los Angeles Public Library, Gen 942.005 H284 v. 13.
Roberts, Gary Boyd, The Royal Descents of 600 Immigrants to the American Colonies or the United States (Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Co., 2004.), p. 465, Family History Library, 273 D2rrd.
Philipot, John, The Visitation of Kent Taken in the Years 1619-1621 (London: 1898.), p. 223, Los Angeles Public Library, Gen 942.005 H284 v.42.
Richardson, Douglas: Plantagenet Ancestry, 2nd edn. (2011), 3 vols, Volume 1, page 287, BLETSOE 16i.
https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.2.1/SRCH-DD6 indicates John Butler 1565 is son of John Butler 1535 with Mary Throckmorton Mother. Also adding alternate last name, Boliter.
http://trees.ancestry.com/pt/AMTCitationRedir.aspx?tid=45601784&pid=1222
http://trees.ancestry.com/rd?f=sse&db=millind&h=10775793&ti=0&indiv=try&gss=pt
Ancestry.com
Family History: Descendants of Robertus de Boteler;
Family trees
http://trees.ancestry.com/pt/AMTCitationRedir.aspx?tid=21923355&pid=1185193926
https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.2.1/SRC8-VH7
? 1.00 1.01 1.02 1.03 1.04 1.05 1.06 1.07 1.08 1.09 1.10 1.11 1.12 1.13 1.14 1.15 1.16 1.17 1.18 1.19 1.20 1.21 Jon M. Stallard, Butler of Droitwich 1300-1700. "John Butler of Sharnbrook & Thobie", pages 78-98. https://books.google.com/books?id=RYoMXDQdlFEC&printsec=frontcover&source=gbs_ge_summary_r&cad=0#v=onepage&q&f=false.
? 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 2.4 2.5 2.6 2.7 2.8 2.9 Douglas Richardson, Royal Ancestry, I, 385
? Family: John Boteler [1]
Acknowledgements

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John married Cresset St John in ~1560 in Bedfordshire, England. Cresset (daughter of Sir John St John and Anne Neville) was born in ~1540 in Bedfordshire, England; died in ~1572 in Bedfordshire, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

William married unnamed spouse. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

John Cleburne formerly Claiborne
Born about 1445 in Cleborne Hall, Westmoreland, England
ANCESTORS ancestors
Son of Roland Cleburne and Katherine (Lancaster) Cleburne
[sibling(s) unknown]
Husband of Elizabeth (Curwen) Cleburne — married [date unknown] [location unknown]
DESCENDANTS descendants
Father of Thomas Claiborne
Died 8 Aug 1487 [location unknown]

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Biography
John was the husband of Elizabeth Curwen.[1][2]

Sources
? Charles H. Browning, Magna Charta Barons, 1915. Baronial Order of Runnemede (Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Company, 1915), p. 194, digital images, https://books.google.com/books?id=u2skxyBFmU4C&pg=PA194. Google Books (http://books.google.com : accessed 7 September 2015).
? Joseph Foster, The royal lineage of our noble and gentle families. (London: Hazell, Watson and Viney, 1884), p. 132, digital images, https://archive.org/stream/royallineageofou02fost#page/n165/mode/2up/search/Curwen. Archive.org (http://archive.org : accessed 20 September 2015).

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John married Elizabeth Curwen. Elizabeth (daughter of Sir Thomas Curwen, Knight and Anne Lowther) was born in ~1458 in Workington, Cumberland, England; died on ~4 Aug 1489 in Cleborne Hall, Westmoreland, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Elizabeth Cleburne formerly Curwen aka Cleyborn
Born about 1458 in Workington, Cumberland, Englandmap
ANCESTORS ancestors
Daughter of Thomas Curwen and Anne (Lowther) Curwen
Sister of Christopher Curwen
Wife of John (Claiborne) Cleburne — married [date unknown] [location unknown]
DESCENDANTS descendants
Mother of Thomas Claiborne
Died about 4 Aug 1489 in Cleburne Hall, Westmoreland, England

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Biography
Elizabeth was the daughter of Thomas Curwen.[1] She was the wife of John Claiborne (Cleyborne).[2]

Sources
? Charles H. Browning, Magna Charta Barons, 1915. Baronial Order of Runnemede (Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Company, 1915), p. 194, digital images, https://books.google.com/books?id=u2skxyBFmU4C&pg=PA194. Google Books (http://books.google.com : accessed 7 September 2015).
? Joseph Foster, The royal lineage of our noble and gentle families. (London: Hazell, Watson and Viney, 1884), p. 132, digital images, https://archive.org/stream/royallineageofou02fost#page/n165/mode/2up/search/Curwen. Archive.org (http://archive.org : accessed 20 September 2015).

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Other Events and Attributes:

• Occupation: Chamberlaind of the Household to Princess Elizabeth Tudor (later Queen Elizabeth I)
• Occupation: Guardian to Princess Mary Tudor (later Queen Mary I) 1536
• Occupation: Justice of the Peace for Bedfordshire, 1528-58
• Occupation: Knight of the Body to King Henry VIII, 1516
• Occupation: Knight of the Shire for Bedfordshire, 1529, 1539, 1542
• Occupation: Sheriff of Bedfordshire and Buckinghamshire, 1529-30, 1534-5, 1549-50

Notes:

Biography

John St John was a member of aristocracy in the British Isles.
Name
John Saint John, Knt, [1]
Estimating Birth Year
He was Knight of the Body to the King in 1516. If at least 18 for this role, his birth year was before 1498.
He was first married about 1521. If at least 21 for this role, his birth year was 1500.
While without documentation, the birth year of his eldest child is currently shown as 1516. If he were 18 for the birth of this child, his own birth year would be 1498.
He is currently shown, without documentation, as born 1495. This is not an unreasonable birth year.
Birth and Parentage
John was the son of John St John and Sibyl Ferch Mergan Ap Jenkin Ap Philip. [1]
Vitals
Vitals
Son of John Saint John, K.B., and Sibyl ferch Morgan ap Jenkin ap Philip[1]
father John Saint John, K.B., son of John Saint John, Esq., and Alice Bradshaugh[2]
mother Sibyl (Margaret), daughter of Morgan ap Jenkin and his 2nd wife Margred, daughter of Dafydd Matthew, Knt.[3]
Marriages: (1) in or before 1521 Margaret Waldegrave, (2) Anne Neville[1]
Margaret Waldegrave was the daughter of William Waldegrave, K.B., and Margery, daughter of Henry Wentworth[1]
Anne Neville was the daughter and co-heiress of Thomas and Alice (Wauton) Neville[4]
Children:
by Margaret[1]
Oliver, Knt., 1st Lord Saint John of Bletsoe, m (1) Agnes Fisher and (2) Elizabeth Chamber
John
Margery, m (1) Henry Grey, Esq., (2) Francis Pigott, Esq.
Anne, m Richard Dennis[5]
Margaret, m (1) William Gastwick, Esq., (2) Francis Russell, K.G., K.B.
Alice, m Edward Elmes, Esq.
by Anne (born prior to John and Anne's marriage)[1][6]
Charles
Cressett, m John Butler (Boteler), Esq.
Mary, m John Harvey
Jane, m John Gascoigne
Death: 19 December 1558 (will dated 6 April 1558, proved February 1558/9); wife Anne and son Oliver named in will.[1]
Offices
During his life he carried these titles and offices: [1]
Knight of the Body to King Henry VIII, 1516
Justice of the Peace for Bedfordshire, 1528-58
Sheriff of Bedfordshire and Buckinghamshire, 1529-30, 1534-5, 1549-50
Knight of the Shire for Bedfordshire, 1529, 1539, 1542
Guardian to Princess Mary Tudor (later Queen Mary I) 1536
Chamberlaind of the Household to Princess Elizabeth Tudor (later Queen Elizabeth I)
Places
He owned and was associated with the following properties: [1]
Bletsoe and Keysoe, Bedfordshire,
Ashmore, Dorset,
Paulerespury, Northamptonshire,
Fonman and Penmark, Glamorgan, Wales.
Public Service
He was Sheriff of Bedfordshire and Buckinghamshire at various times.
Marriages and Guardianship
1521 First Marriage to Margaret Waldegrave
He married first, in or before 1521, Margaret Waldegrave, daughter of Sir William Waldegrave, K. B. and Margery Wentworth. They had two sons and four daughters.[1]
Sir John St. John of Bletneshoe, Knight, sonne & heire. m. Margaret, dau of Sir William Walgrave of Smallbridge (Buers St. Maryes) in com. Suffolk, Knight. Liaison with Anne, dau of Thomas Nevell, of Cotterstock in com. Northampton 2 sonne of William Nevell of Holte in Com. Lester. Father of Cressyd ux John Boteler of Sharnbrooke in com. Bedfford. [7]
Affair (and later, second marriage) to Anne Neville
He married, as his second wife, Anne Neville, daughter of Thomas Neville and Alice Wauton. They had five children prior to their marriage.[1]
A review of the children's marriage dates suggests that John was conducting an affair with Anne during the time of his marriage with Margaret, and that he did not marry Anne until after Margaret's death. Since all five of his children with Anne were born before their marriage, if the dates are to be trusted, then Margaret's death, and John's marriage to Anne, came sometime after 1540.
1536 Guardian to Princess Mary Tudor
He was guardian to Princess Mary Tudor in 1536, and Chamberlain of the Household to Princess Elizabeth Tudor.
Issue
John and Margaret
John and Margaret had two sons and four daughters. They had sons Oliver (m. Agnes Fisher and Eliabeth Chamber) and John, and daughters Margery, Ann, Margaret (m. William Gostwick and Francis Russell), and Alice.[1]
Warning - The following is apparently a work in progress that was posted here based on their WikiTree profiles. Notes as to children are also apparently based solely on WikiTree information (e.g., no attached profiles for children=no children note below).
Birth years currently shown for the children of John and Margaret begin in 1516 and continue through 1533.
Oliver St. John, Knt, First Lord St. John of Bletsoe, b. Bletsoe 1516. Unsourced. Named in father's 1558 will along with his brother John.
John (Saint John) St John
Anne St John m. Richard Dennis. . b. Bletsoe 1518 m. Thomas Elye.
Margery St. John, wife of Henry Gray, Esq, and Francis Pigott, Esq. b. Bletsoe abt 1520..
Alice St John m Edmund Elmes, Esq. b. Bletsoe 1520. No children.
Margaret St John m. William Gostwick and Francis Russell. b. Bletsoe 1533. Has children.
John and Anne
John and Anne had five children prior to their marriage: Charles, Cressett (m. John Butler/Boteler), Jane, Mary, and one other daughter.[1]
Warning - The following is apparently a work in progress that was posted here based on their WikiTree profiles. Notes as to children are also apparently based solely on WikiTree information (e.g., no attached profiles for children=no children note below).
Birth years currently shown for the children of John and Anne begin in 1518 and continue to 1540.
Assuming the correctness of these dates, John's children by Anne were born concurrently with his children by Margaret.
Children as currently displayed in WikiTree:
Jane St John m. John Gascoigne. b. Bletsoe 1518.
Charles St John, born Bletsoe 1524. No spouse, no children, unsourced. Currently shown as child of Margaret, not Anne. b. Bletsoe 1524.
Mary Saint John m. John Harvey, b. Bletsoe 1530. No children. Unsourced.
Cressett (Cressyda) St John b. Bletsoe 1540. m. John Butler/Boteler (currently duplicate profiles).
Female Saint John
1558 Death
He died on 19 December 1558, at Bletsoe, Bedfordshire. His will named his wife Anne and his son Oliver[1].
Research Notes
The indication that Sir John Saint John was having children with two women concurrently adds an unusual degree of research interest to this profile. Presumably his wife Margaret and her family were at one of the family's manors in Bletsoe, Bedfordshire. Where was Anne and her children at this time? Did he keep Anne a secret from Margaret? How is that possible in an era when servants gossip? Any additional documentation regarding his family life -- dates and places and events of his children in their minority -- would add additional light to this profile!Day-1904 18:39, 10 January 2016 (EST)
Sources
? 1.00 1.01 1.02 1.03 1.04 1.05 1.06 1.07 1.08 1.09 1.10 1.11 1.12 1.13 1.14 Richardson, Royal Ancestry, I:384-387 BLETSOE 18, 19
? Royal Ancestry, Vol 1, p 384 (2013) shows that John (m Waldegrave) was a Knight (Knight Bachelor) and both his father and grandfather as K.B. (Knights of the Bath). However, in a 2014 Rootsweb Gen-Medieval post ("New Light..." by Douglas Richardson, September 2014), Richardson discusses evidence leading him to change the grandfather (m Alice Bradshaw) from K.B. to Esquire:
John Saint John, husband of Alice Bradshagh, who died before 9 February 1489/90 and was survived by a wife, Elizabeth, who re-married Richard Newton, was "John Saint John, esquire (not knight)".
Richardson posted the following as the current entry in his files:
"I. JOHN SAINT JOHN, Esq., of Bletsoe and Keysoe, Bedfordshire, Paulerspury, Northamptonshire, Fonmon and Penmark, Glamorgan, Wales, etc., son and heir, born about 1432-7 (aged 40 and more in 1482). He married (1st) ALICE BRADSHAGH (or BRADSCHAGH), daughter of Thomas Bradshagh, of Haigh, Lancashire. They had one son, John, K.B., and five daughters, Anne, Elizabeth (wife of Thomas Kent, Esq.), Eleanor, Margaret (wife of John ap Morgan), and _____ (nun at Shaftesbury).
He married (2nd) ELIZABETH MATHEW, daughter of William Mathew Fawr, by Lleucu, daughter of Gruffudd ap Nicholas. They had one son, Maurice. JOHN SAINT JOHN, Esq., was living in 1482 (date of mother's inquisition post mortem), and died before 9 Feb. 1489/90 (date of lawsuit). His widow, Elizabeth, married (2nd) before 9 Feb. 1489/90 (date of lawsuit) (as his 2nd wife) RICHARD NEWTON, Esq., of Wyke juxta Yatton, Aldwick, Ston Easton, Midsomer Norton, North Curry, Thorn Falcon, Ubley, and Walton-in-Gordano, Somerset, South Carleton, Devon, Child Okeford, Dorset, Aust and Down Hatherley, Gloucestershire, etc., son and heir of John Newton, Knt., by Isabel, daughter and co-heiress of Thomas Cheddar, Esq. He was born about 1468 (aged 30 and more in 1498). They had one daughter, Jane (or Jenet) (wife of Thomas Griffin, Knt.). In 1490 Richard and his wife, Elizabeth, widow of John Saint John, Esq., sued her step-son, John Saint John, Knt., in the Court of Common Pleas regarding her reasonable dower in free tenements in Bletsoe and Keysoe, Bedfordshire and Paulerspury, Northamptonshire. In 1492 Richard and his wife, Elizabeth, widow of John Saint John, Esq., sued Richard Emson and William Risley in the Court of Common Pleas regarding her dower in the third part of the manor of Paulerspury, Northamptonshire. RICHARD NEWTON, Esq., died 26 Sept. 1500. He left a will dated 24 Sept. 1500, proved 3 March 1500/1 (P.C.C. Moone). His widow, Elizabeth, was assigned dower 11 June 1501. In 1516 she presented to the church of Exford, Somerset. In 1518 James Perceval, Esq., bought a quare impedit against Elizabeth, widow of Richard Newton and others regarding the church of Exford, Somerset. Elizabeth died in 1524. She left a will proved August 1524 (P.C.C.). In the period, 1532-38, Henry Capell and Thomas Gryffyn, Knts., and Jane, wife of the latter, sued Richard Bydwell, Gent., and another, executors of Nicholas, brother of Richard Newton, Esq., deceased in Chancery regarding the detention of deeds relating to the manor of Down Hatherley, Gloucestershire and other lands, late of the said Richard Newton, father of the said Jane, and grandfather of the said Sir Henry. In 1553-55 Thomas Gryffyn, of Braybrooke, Northamptonshire, sued Henry Capell and William Dale, of Yatton, Somerset, yeoman, in Chancery regarding the goods of Elizabeth, late the wife of Richard Newton, in her house at Wyke, Somerset."
? Douglas Richardson, Magna Carta Ancestry: A Study in Colonial and Medieval Families, Royal Ancestry series, 2nd edition, 4 vols., ed. Kimball G. Everingham, (Salt Lake City, Utah: the author, 2011), page 479
? "see LONGFORD 18 for her ancestry" (Royal Ancestry, Vol I, p 384, #Richardson)
? the profile for Anne St John shows husband as Thomas Elye, son Leonard, with no support or explanation. Anne St John, daughter of John and Margaret (Waldegrave) St John, is shown in Royal Ancestry, Vol 1, p 384 (#Richardson) as "wife of Richard Dennis" with no mention of a Thomas Elye. Source given on Thomas Elye's profile is for his will, which does not mention a wife (Anne or otherwise). The St_John-209 profile for Anne has her husband as Thomas Denny, which does not agree with Royal Ancestry (#Richardson) either.
? "one illegitimate son... and four illegitimate daughters" - only 3 named (Royal Ancestry, Vol I, p 384, #Richardson)
? Frederic Augustus Blaydes, Ed. St. John of Bletsoe; The Visitations of Bedfordshire, 1566, 1582, 1634. London, 1884. Pages 52-55 https://archive.org/stream/visitationsofbed1921harv#page/n23/mode/2up. Accessed Dec 16, 2015.
See also:
Douglas Richardson, Magna Carta Ancestry: A Study in Colonial and Medieval Families, 2nd Edition, 2011 Publisher: Douglas Richardson; ISBN: 1461045207, 9781461045205. Vol. 1, Page 218ff. (See also WikiTree's Source page for Magna Carta Ancestry.)
Richardson, Douglas: Plantagenet Ancestry, 2nd edn. (2011), 3 vols, Volume 1, page 286, BLETSOE 16. (See also WikiTree's Source page for Plantagenet Ancestry.)
Richardson, Douglas: Royal Ancestry, (2013), 5 vols, Volume III, page 619. (See also WikiTree's Source page for Royal Ancestry.)
Blaydes, FA (ed.): Visitations of Bedfordshire, Harleian Soc. 21 for 1885 (but dated 1884), pages 51-55. (Note two books have been bound together, so the index is in the middle.)
pages 51-55, St John of Bletsoe, followed by cadet branches.
Source: The Magna Charta Sureties, 1215, Edition: 4th ed., Record Number: CS55 A31979 Abbreviation: Magna Charta, 4th ed. Author: Weis, Frederick Lewis Publication: Genealogical Publishing Co., Inc., Baltimore, MD, 1991
Descendants of Robertus le Boteler Author prob. TIMOTHY ELLSWORTH DOUGLAS II
History of Parliament Online: Sir John St John
Acknowledgements
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Magna Carta Project
Magna Carta trail
Base Camp for the Magna Carta project shows that the trail from Magna Carta Surety Baron Henry de Bohun to Gateway Ancestor Elizabeth (Boteler) Claiborne was completed by Jack Day. See Base Camp for more information about Magna Carta trails.

This profile was re-reviewed by Gordon Warder Jr in January 2019. The trail from Elizabeth Boteler-112 to Henry Bohun-7 is in the process of being reviewed/approved by the Magna Carta Project.
Magna Carta Lineage
Elizabeth Boteler m. William Claiborne. Royal Ancestry (RA) I:386. Brother Thomas is also a Gateway Ancestor (brother John also immigrated but died unmarried).
John Butler II RA I:386
Cressett Saint John, illegitimate daughter of John Saint John and Anne Neville, m. John Butler I. RA I:385
John Saint John m. (1) Margaret Waldegrave (BLETSOE 18) and (2) Anne Neville RA I:384
John Saint John m. Margred (Sybill) ferch Morgan RA IV:534
John Saint John m. Alice Bradshaw RA IV:534
Margaret Beauchamp m. Oliver Saint John
John Beauchamp m. Edith Stourton RA IV:527
Roger Beauchamp m. Mary RA IV:525
Roger de Beauchamp m. Joan de Clopton RA IV:526
Roger de Beauchamp m. Sibyl de Patesville
Roger de Beauchamp of Powick
Alice de Tony m. Walter de Beauchamp RA IV:411/V:175 Already has MC Badge, other Trail.
Alice de Bohun m. Roger de Tony RA V:174 Already has MC Badge, other Trail.
Humphrey de Bohun m. Maud of Eu RA I:410 Already has MC Badge, other Trail.
Henry de Bohun m. Maude de Mandeveille. Already has MC Badge, other Trail.

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John married Anne Neville after 1540. Anne (daughter of Thomas Neville and Alice Wauton) was born in 1502 in Cotterstock, Northamptonshire, England; died before 22 Aug 1595 in Bletsoe, Bedfordshire, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Anne St John formerly Neville
Born 1502 in Cotterstock, Northamptonshire, England
ANCESTORS ancestors
Daughter of Thomas Neville and Alice (Wauton) Neville
Sister of Jane (Neville) Chamberlain
Wife of John St John — married after 1540 [location unknown]
DESCENDANTS descendants
Mother of Jane (St John) Gascoigne, Mary (Saint John) Harvey, Female (Saint John) St John, Mary (Saint John) Harvey and Cresset (St John) Butler
Died before 22 Aug 1595 in Bletsoe, Bedfordshire, England

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1 Biography
1.1 Birth and Parentage
1.2 Marriage
1.2.1 Issue
1.3 Death
1.4 Research Notes
2 Sources
Biography
England flag
Anne (Neville) St John was born in England.
Birth and Parentage
Anne Neville was born 1502; she passed away in 1595.
Anne Neville was daughter and co-heiress of Thomas Neville of Cotterstock and Cottingham, Northamp;tonshire, by Alice, daughter of Wauton, of Basmead (in Eaton Socon), Bedfordshire. [1]
Anne Neville was the daughter of Thomas Neville, b. c 1480 and Alice Wauton b. c 1490 [2]
Marriage
Anne Neville married Sir John St. John, b 1495, d. 19 Dec 1558, Sheriff of Bedfordshire & Buckinghamshire, Justice of the Peace for Bedfordshire & Huntingdonshire, son of Sir John St. John, Sheriff of Bedfordshire & Buckinghamshire and Sibyl ferch Morgan, circa 1533; His 2nd marriage. [3]
Issue
However, all of their children (1 son (Charles) and 4 daughters (including Cressett, wife of John Butler, Esq; Jane, wife of John Gascoigne; & Mary, wife of John Harvey) were born before their marriage.[4]
Cressitt St. John, b. c 1540, d. c 1566 [5]
Children as currently displayed in WikiTree:
Jane St John m. John Gascoigne. b. Bletsoe 1518.
Charles St John, born Bletsoe 1524. No spouse, no children, unsourced. Currently shown as child of Margaret, not Anne. b. Bletsoe 1524.
Mary Saint John m. John Harvey, b. Bletsoe 1530. No children. Unsourced.
Cressett (Cressyda) St John b. Bletsoe 1540. m. John Butler/Boteler (currently duplicate profiles).
Female Saint John
Wikitree has one linked son not in Richardson:
Son (Saint John) St John
Death
She was buried August 22, 1595 in Blettsoe (or spelled Bletsoe), Bedfordshire."Ann Ladye St John"[6]
Anne Neville died after 27 February 1559. (36 years after!) [7]
Research Notes
Anne Neville was previously shown as married to two John Saint Johns. The second, John St. John-215, has since been merged into John St John-186 (the other profile that had been attached as her husband, and still is). Prior to the merge, the profile for St.John-215 had been attached as son of Alexander St. John and Jane Dalyson.
Sources
? Douglas Richardson, Royal Ancestry, I, 384
? Marlyn Lewis, citing various Richardson publications
? Marlyn Lewis, Our Royal, Titled, Noble, and Commoner Ancestors..
? Marlyn Lewis, citing Douglas Richardson, Plantagenet Ancestry, p. 114.; Douglas Richardson, Magna Carta Ancestry, 2nd Edition, Vol. I, p. 218. and Vol. III, p. 40; Douglas Richardson, Royal Ancestry, Vol. I, p. 383-384. and Vol. III, p. 618.
? Marlyn Lewis, citing Douglas Richardson, Magna Carta Ancestry, 2nd Edition, Vol. I, p. 218; Royal Ancestry, Vol. I, p. 383-384; and Plantagenet Ancestry, p. 114-115.
? The Parish Register of Bletsoe 1582-1812. Transcript by Bedfordshire Counry record Office 1942. https://archive.org/details/bedfordshirepari24bedf/page/n34
? Marlyn Lewis, citing Douglas Richardson, Plantagenet Ancestry, p. 114; Magna Carta Ancestry, 2nd Edition, Vol. I, p. 218; and Royal Ancestry, Vol. I, p. 383-384.
National Burial Index for England & Wales Transcription; First name(s): Ann; Last name: St John; Birth year -; Death year: 1595; Burial year: 1595; Burial date 22 Aug 1595; Church: St Mary; Denomination: Anglican; Place: Bletsoe; County: Bedfordshire; Country: England; Record set: National Burial Index For England & Wales; Category: Birth, Marriage & Death (Parish Registers); Subcategory Parish Burials; Collections from: United Kingdom, England; Repository: Bedfordshire Family History Society.
Family Relationship of George W. Bush; Famous Kin [1]
Sir John St. JOHN Knight - Freepages - Ancestry.com [2]
Family: John St. John/Anne Neville [3]
Roberts, Gary Boyd, The Royal Descents of 600 Immigrants to the American Colonies or the United States, Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Co. (2008), 465. [4]
Descendants of Robertus le Boteler Author prob. TIMOTHY ELLSWORTH DOUGLAS II
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William married unnamed spouse. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Thomas Curwen
Born about 1400 in Workington Hall, Cumbria, England
ANCESTORS ancestors
Son of Christopher Curwen and Elizabeth (Huddleston) Curwen
[sibling(s) unknown]
Husband of Anne (Lowther) Curwen — married [date unknown] [location unknown]
DESCENDANTS descendants
Father of Christopher Curwen and Elizabeth (Curwen) Cleburne
Died 1470 in Workington Hall, Cumbria, England

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Biography
Thomas Curwen of Workington, Knight, was the son of Christopher Curwen and Elizabeth Huddleston.[1][2] He married Anne Lowther, daughter of John Lowther.[3][4] He passed away in the 3rd year of the reign of Edward IV (1463).[5] He died in 1470.[3]

Thomas and Ann had 6 sons and 5 daughters:[3] Foster describes only 5 sons and 5 daughters.[1]

Christopher, heir to Workington[3][1]
Gilbert, apparently died young as a later son was named Gilbert[3][1]
William[3][1]
Thomas[3][1]
GIlbert, he has two sons, Richard and John[3]
Ambrose[3][1]
Anne, married Thomas Blennerhassett of Yrdington[3][1] Foster has Anne born after Margaret and Elizabeth.
Margaret, married Thomas Salkeld of Rosegill (Rosgill)[3][1]
Elizabeth, married john Cleburne of Cleburne Hall, Westmorland[3], son of Rowland Cleyborn[1]
Janet, married first Sandford[3] and secondly to Wytherdington (Wyddrington)[1]
Isabel, married Christopher Battye[3][1]
Sources
? 1.00 1.01 1.02 1.03 1.04 1.05 1.06 1.07 1.08 1.09 1.10 1.11 Joseph Foster, The royal lineage of our noble and gentle families. (London: Hazell, Watson and Viney, 1884), p. 132, digital images, https://archive.org/stream/royallineageofou02fost#page/n165/mode/2up/search/Curwen. Archive.org (http://archive.org : accessed 20 September 2015).
? Charles H. Browning, Magna Charta Barons, 1915. Baronial Order of Runnemede (Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Company, 1915), p. 194, digital images, https://books.google.com/books?id=u2skxyBFmU4C&pg=PA194. Google Books (http://books.google.com : accessed 7 September 2015).
? 3.00 3.01 3.02 3.03 3.04 3.05 3.06 3.07 3.08 3.09 3.10 3.11 3.12 3.13 John O'Hart, The Irish and Anglo-Irish Landed Gentry when Cromwell Came to Ireland: Or, A Supplement to Irish Pedigrees (Dublin: James Duffy and Company, 1892), p. 667, digital images, https://books.google.com/books?id=ZFZHAQAAMAAJ&lpg=PA667. Google Books (http://books.google.com : accessed 18 September 2015).
? Frederick Lewis Weis, Ancestral Roots of Certain American Colonists who Came to America Before 1700: Seventh Edition (Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Company, 1992), p. 41 (37:33), digital images, https://books.google.com/books?id=XLqEWwa7fT8C&pg=PA40. Google Books (http://books.google.com : accessed 6 September 2015).
? John Burke, A genealogical and heraldic history of the commoners of Great Britain and Ireland (London: Henry Colburn, 1833), p. 577-580, digital images, https://books.google.com/books?id=-P4UAAAAQAAJ&pg=PA579. Google Books (http://books.google.com : accessed 13 September 2015).

Thomas married Anne Lowther(Westmoreland, England). Anne (daughter of Sir Robert Lowther and Margaret Strickland) was born in 1422 in Lowther, Westmoreland, England; died in ~1470 in (England). [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Anne Curwen formerly Lowther
Born 1422 in Lowther, Westmoreland, England

Daughter of Robert Lowther and Margaret (Strickland) Lowther
Sister of Mary (Lowther) Pickering and Hugh Lowther V
Wife of Thomas Curwen — married [date unknown] [location unknown]
DESCENDANTS descendants
Mother of Christopher Curwen and Elizabeth (Curwen) Cleburne
Died about 1470 [location unknown]

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Biography
Anne was the wife Thomas Curwen. She was the daughter of Robert Lowther[1] and Margaret Strickland.[2]

Sources
? John O'Hart, The Irish and Anglo-Irish Landed Gentry when Cromwell Came to Ireland: Or, A Supplement to Irish Pedigrees (Dublin: James Duffy and Company, 1892), p. 667, digital images, https://books.google.com/books?id=ZFZHAQAAMAAJ&lpg=PA667. Google Books (http://books.google.com : accessed 18 September 2015).
? Frederick Lewis Weis, 'Ancestral Roots of Certain American Colonists who Came to America Before 1700: Seventh Edition (Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Company, 1992), p. 41 (37:33), digital images, https://books.google.com/books?id=XLqEWwa7fT8C&pg=PA40. Google Books (http://books.google.com : accessed 6 September 2015).

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John married Margred ferch Morgan in 1483 in Langstone, Monmouthshire, Wales. Margred was born in ~1462 in Langstone, Monmouthshire, Wales; died in ~1524. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Thomas Neville
Born about 1484 in Cotterstock, Northamptonshire, England
ANCESTORS ancestors
Son of Thomas Neville and Isabel (Griffin) Neville
[sibling(s) unknown]
Husband of Alice (Wauton) Neville — married about 1500 in England
DESCENDANTS descendants
Father of Jane (Neville) Chamberlain and Anne (Neville) St John
Died [date unknown] in Calstoke, Cornwall, Englandmap [uncertain]

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1.1 Death
1.2 Note
2 Sources
3 Acknowledgments
Biography
This person was created through the import of Acrossthepond.ged on 21 February 2011.

Death
Death: No Date
Note
Ancestor of Thomas Bressey (Frances Brooks).
Sources
Magna Carta Ancestry, 2d Ed., pg. 40 Gives no exact dates.
Acknowledgments
WikiTree profile Neville-895 was created through the import of Family Nov 2011.GED on Sep 6, 2011 by Jim Tarbet. See the Changes page for the details of edits by Jim and others.
Thank you to Timothy Wells for creating WikiTree profile Neville-1514 through the import of My-Family-6-Feb-2013.ged on Feb 6, 2013.

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Thomas married Alice Wauton in ~1500 in England. Alice was born in 1487 in Eaton Socon, Bedfordshire, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Sir Robert Lowther
Born [date unknown] in Lowther, Westmoreland, England
ANCESTORS ancestors
Son of John Lowther and Margaret (Preston) de Kendall
[sibling(s) unknown]
Husband of Margaret (Strickland) Lowther — married 1398 in Lowther, England
DESCENDANTS descendants
Father of Mary (Lowther) Pickering, Hugh Lowther V and Anne (Lowther) Curwen
Died 9 Apr 1430 in Lowther Hall, Lowther, Westmoreland, England

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Biography
Robert Lowther, son of Sir John Lowther and Margaret Preston Lowther de Kendall, was born in Lowther, England and died April 1430. He married Margaret Strickland, daughter of William and Isabel Warcop Strickland and widow of John Derwentwater.[1] They were the parents of Hugh, William, Geoffrey, Thomas, John, Robert, Anne m Sir Thomas Curwen, [2] Isabel m Sir William Leigh and Mary m Sir James Pickering. [3] On January 20 1430 Sir Robert Lowther designated property to be given to his sons. [4] Following is his will written March 17 1429 and was proved April 20 1430. [5]

An overview of Sir Robert Lowther's life and political contributions can be found in the two following sources. [6] [7]and is supported by several sources. [8], [9], [10] In the Church of Lowther there is brass plate with an inscription in his memory. The first source is the Latin [11] and the second is the translation. [12]

Sources
? Roskell, J. S. etalThe History of Parliament-House of Commons 1386-1421. Lowther, Robert (d.1430), of Lowther, Westmld. and Newton Reigny, Cumb.1993. https://www.historyofparliamentonline.org/volume/1386-1421/member/lowther-robert-1430
? Ancestral of Certain American Colonists Who Came to America Before 1700, Frederick Lewis Weis, 2002, 7th Ed., page 41, Line 37:33 https://books.google.com/books?id=XLqEWwa7fT8C&pg=PA41#v=onepage&q&f=false
? Cumberland and Westmorland Antiquarian and Archaeological Society Transactions, Cumberland and Westmorland Antiquarian and Archaeological Society, 2015, Transactions of the Cumberland and Westmorland Antiquarian and Archaeological Society , 1948 Series: 2, Volume 48, The origin and early pedigree of the Lowther family, Rev C M Lowther Bouch, Art VII page 121-122 http://archaeologydataservice.ac.uk/archiveDS/archiveDownload?t=arch-2055-1/dissemination/pdf/Article_Level_Pdf/tcwaas/002/1948/vol48/tcwaas_002_1948_vol48_0010.pdf
? SOME NOTES ON MEDIEVAL ENGLISH GENEALOGY, Feet of Fines: CP 25/1/249/8, CP 25/2/249/8, number 27 https://www.medievalgenealogy.org.uk/fines/abstracts/CP_25_1_249_8.shtml
? Cumberland and Westmorland Antiquarian and Archaeological Society Transactions, Cumberland and Westmorland Antiquarian and Archaeological Society, 2015, Transactions of the Cumberland and Westmorland Antiquarian and Archaeological Society , 1916, Series: 2, Volume 16, ART. VIII.—Early Lowther and de Louther, Rev Frederick W Ragg, pages 158-160 http://archaeologydataservice.ac.uk/archiveDS/archiveDownload?t=arch-20551/dissemination/pdf/Article_Level_Pdf/tcwaas/002/1916/vol16/tcwaas_002_1916_vol16_0010.pdf
? 2012 Popular Blog, Family histories with citations for reference and research http://www.teachergenealogist007.com/2010/05/g20-738786-738787.html
? LOWTHER, Robert (d.1430), of Lowther, Westmld. and Newton Reigny, Cumb. Published in The History of Parliament: the House of Commons 1386-1421, , ed. J.S. Roskell, L. Clark, C. Rawcliffe., 1993 http://www.historyofparliamentonline.org/volume/1386-1421/member/lowther-robert-1430
? Irish Pedigress, or The Origin and Stem of The Irish Nation. 5th Ed., Vol II, John O'Hart, page 290 http://www.archive.org/stream/irishpedigreesor02byuohar#page/290/mode/1up
? Dictionary of National Biography. Vol. 34, LLWYD---MACCARTNEY, Sir Sidney Lee, Ed, 1893, page 222 https://archive.org/stream/dictionarynatio57stepgoog#page/n234/mode/1up/search/lowther
? An accompt of the most considerable estates and families in the county of Cumberland, from the conquest unto the beginning of the reign of K. James , John Denton, etal, 1887 (thought to be written in 1610), page 110-111 https://archive.org/stream/cu31924104091743#page/n129/mode/2up/search/robert+lowther
? The History and Antiquities of Allerdale Ward, Above Derwent, in the County of Cumberland: With Biographical Notices and Memoirs, Samuel Jefferson, 1840, page 371 https://play.google.com/books/reader?id=6GMvAAAAMAAJ&printsec=frontcover&output=reader&hl=en&pg=GBS.PA371
? From the book "The Lowther Family , Hugh Owens, Family Search, https://familysearch.org/photos/artifacts/12719053

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Robert married Margaret Strickland in 1398 in Lowther, Westmorland, England. Margaret (daughter of William Strickland and Isabel de Warcop) was born in ~1365 in Lowther, Westmorland, England; died on ~16 Jul 1449 in Lowther, Westmorland, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Margaret Lowther formerly Strickland aka de Derwentwater
Born about 1365 in Lowther, Westmoreland, England
ANCESTORS ancestors
Daughter of William Strickland and Isabel (de Warcop) Strickland
[sibling(s) unknown]
Wife of John Derwentwater — married [date unknown] (to 1396) in Lowther, England
Wife of Robert Lowther — married 1398 in Lowther, England
DESCENDANTS descendants
Mother of Mary (Lowther) Pickering, Hugh Lowther V and Anne (Lowther) Curwen
Died about 16 Jul 1449 in Lowther, Westmorland, Englandmap

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Biography
Margaret Strickland, daughter of William and Isabel de Warcop de Strickland, was born about 1365 and died July 16 1449. She married 1) Sir John Derwentwater d. about 1396 and 2) Sir Robert Lowther, son of John Lowther and Margaret Preston Lowther de Kendall. After the death of her mother, William Strickland took the holy orders of priesthood and became the Bishop of Carlisle in 1400. She outlived her husband and wrote her will 1448 which was proved July 26 1449. A copy of it is found here and reveals her request to be buried in the Cathedral of Carlisle beside her father and that prayers and masses be said for them and her late husbands. [1] She brought to the Lowther estate these properties: Castlerigg and Tallentire in Westmorland and the villages of Warcop, Ormesby, Soulby in Cumberland. Robert and she distributed the latter properties among their four youngest sons. [2] Sir Robert had helped Hugh, the oldest son, be reinstated in Parliament and counted that as his inheritance. Note in his mother's will above Margaret Restwald was the daughter of Richard and Isabel de Derwentwater Restwald and granddaughter of Sir John de Derwentwater and Margaret Strickland de Derwentwater Lowther. [3]

Sources
? Cumberland and Westmorland Antiquarian and Archaeological Society Transactions, Cumberland and Westmorland Antiquarian and Archaeological Society, 2015, Transactions of Cumberland and Westmorland Antiquarian and Archaeological Society, 1916, Series: 2, Volume 16, Early Lowther and de Louther, Rev. Frederick W. Ragg, page168 http://archaeologydataservice.ac.uk/archiveDS/archiveDownload?t=arch-2055-1/dissemination/pdf/Article_Level_Pdf/tcwaas/002/1916/vol16/tcwaas_002_1916_vol16_0010.pdf
? CP 25/1/249/8, number 27 https://www.medievalgenealogy.org.uk/fines/abstracts/CP_25_1_249_8.shtml
? LOWTHER, Robert (d.1430), of Lowther, Westmld. and Newton Reigny, Cumb., Published in The History of Parliament: the House of Commons 1386-1421, ed. J.S. Roskell, L. Clark, C. Rawcliffe., 1993 Published in The History of Parliament: the House of Commons 1386-1421, ed. J.S. Roskell, L. Clark, C. Rawcliffe., 1993 http://www.historyofparliamentonline.org/volume/1386-1421/member/lowther-robert-1430

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• Alt Birth: 1426

Notes:

Biography

John St John Esq was a member of aristocracy in the British Isles.
Name, Title, Places
John Saint John was born about 1432-7, since he was aged 40 or over in 1482. [1]

He was born August 31, 1426 (see data field) [citation needed]

John Saint John is properly referred to as Esquire, not K.B, or "Sir," reflecting research by Douglas Richardson and others after the publication of Royal Ancestry. [2]

The new research indicates that statements that he was "vested as a Knight Bachelor in 1488"[3] or "made a Knight of the Bath in 1488 by his nephew, King Henry VII"[4] appear to be inaccurate based on the 2014 information posted by Douglas Richardson (#2014info).

John Saint John was of:

Bletsoe, Bedfordshire
Paulerspury, Northamptonshire
Fonman and Penmark, Glamorganshire, Wales
Parentage
John Saint John, Esq., was son of Sir Oliver and Margaret (Beauchamp) St John, [5]

His father was Sir Oliver Saint John, son and heir of Sir John Saint John by Isabel Paveley (or Pavly). His mother was Margaret Beauchamp, daughter of Sir John Beauchamp of Bletsoe and his second wife Edith Stourton, daughter of Sir John Stourton by his 2nd wife Alice.[1]

Marriage
First Marriage to Alice Bradshagh
John Saint John, Esq., married first Alice Bradshagh. He and Alice had seven children. [1]

Alice Bradshagh (or Bradschagh), was the daughter of Thomas Bradshagh of Haigh, Lancashire.[1]

Sir John St. John of Bletneshoe in com. Bedfordshire, Knight, sonne & heire married Alice, dau of Sir Thomas Bradshawe in Hawe, com. Lancashire, Knight. Father of Sir John St. John of Bletneshoe, Knight, sonne & heire m. Sibell, daugher of [Rice ap] Morgan ap Jenkyn ap Philippe. [6]

Second Marriage to Elizabeth Matthew
John Saint John, Esq., married second Elizabeth Mathew. His widow Elizabeth married Richard Newton.[7]

Elizabeth was also known as Elizabeth ferch William Mathew Fawr[1]

Marriage Question
Question: "So did John Saint John, husband of Alice Bradshagh, actually marry (2nd) Elizabeth Mathew, by whom he had a son, Maurice (or Moris) and a daughter married to a Newton?" (#Bartrum)
"To answer that question, I turned to the online records of the Court of Common Pleas on the AALT website. In short order, I was able to locate three lawsuits which conclusively establish that John Saint John, esquire (not knight) died before 9 Feb. 1489/90, and was survived by a wife, Elizabeth, who re-married Richard Newton. In 1490 and again in 1492 Richard and Elizabeth sued for her dower in lands held by her previous husband, John Saint John. Brief abstracts of the lawsuits are provided below.
"In 1490 Richard Neweton and his wife, Elizabeth, widow of John Saint John, Esq., sued her step-son, John Saint John, Knt., in the Court of Common Pleas regarding her reasonable dower in free tenements in Bletsoe and Keysoe, Bedfordshire and Paulerspury, Northamptonshire. In 1492 Richard Neuton and his wife, Elizabeth, widow of John Saint John, Esq., sued Richard Emson and William Risley in the Court of Common Pleas regarding her dower in the third part of the manor of Paulerspury, Northamptonshire."
References for the lawsuits:
Court of Common Pleas, CP40/911, image 307f
Court of Common Pleas, CP40/911, image 679f
Court of Common Pleas, CP40/919, image 1035d
"I've copied below my current file account of John Saint John, Esq. I note that his surviving widow, Elizabeth (Mathew) (Saint John) Newton, left a PCC will proved in 1524, which I haven't yet examined. For the time being, I've assigned his son, Maurice Saint John, to his marriage with Elizabeth Mathew. [see his Rootsweb post]

Children of John and Alice
They had two sons and five daughters. [1]

John, Maurice, Ann, Elizabeth (kent), Eleanor, Margaret, nun.

John St John, K.B.[1]
Morris or Maurice Saint John [1]
Anne Saint John[1]
Elizabeth Saint john, daughter of Alice Bradshaw. No spouse, No children on Wikitree. Elizabeth, married Thomas Kent, Esq.[1]
Eleanor Saint John [1]
Margaret Saint John, married John ap Morgan[1]
____, nun at Shaftesbury[1]
In addition, Wikipedia identifies Alice St. John as the eldest daughter of Sir John St John (1426–1488) and his wife Alice Bradshaigh. [8] Royal Ancestry, however, does not include a daughter named Alice St. John .[1]

Children of John and Elizabeth
Note: Later research has led Richardson to change his conclusion and in 2014[9] he posted that the Elizabeth who married Richard Newton was John's widow, not his daughter.
John and Elizabeth had one daughter.[1]

Elizabeth, wife of Richard Newton
Death
Sir John Saint John died in 1513-14, holding lands in Oxfordshire, Wiltshire, Northamptonshire, and Essex[1].

Descendants: Magna Carta Connections
Barbara Aubrey,
William Bladen,
George & Nehemiah Blakiston,
Thomas Booth,
Elizabeth,
John, and Thomas Butler,
Hannah, Samuel & Sarah Levis,
Joseph & Mary Need,
Elizabeth Saint John,
Mary Johanna Somerset.
Sources
? 1.00 1.01 1.02 1.03 1.04 1.05 1.06 1.07 1.08 1.09 1.10 1.11 1.12 1.13 1.14 1.15 Douglas Richardson, Royal Ancestry: A Study in Colonial and Medieval Families, 5 vols., ed. Kimball G. Everingham, (Salt Lake City, Utah: the author, 2013), Vol IV, pp 528-534 SAINT JOHN #15 Margaret Beauchamp #16 John Saint John
? esquire, not knight, in a 2014 update from Douglas Richardson on information published in 2013's Royal Ancestry (#Richardson). See #2014info below.
? The Peerage
? Royal Ancestry, Vol IV, p 533 (#Richardson)
? information from Douglas Richardson's 2014 gen-medieval post (#2014info), Royal Ancestry (#Richardson, 2013), and #Bartrum
? Frederick Augustus Blayden, Ed. St. John of Bletsoe; The Visitations of Bedfordshire, 1566, 1582, 1634. London, 1884. Pages 52-55 https://archive.org/stream/visitationsofbed1921harv#page/n23/mode/2up. Accessed Dec 16, 2015.
? information from Douglas Richardson's 2014 gen-medieval post (#2014info), Royal Ancestry (#Richardson, 2013), and #Bartrum
? Henry Parker, 10th Baron Morley. Wikipedia. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_Parker,_10th_Baron_Morley. Accessed January 9, 2016
? Douglas Richardson's 2014 gen-medieval post (#2014info)
See also:
The Peerage for Sir John St John citing:
G.E. Cokayne G.E., Gibbs, V., Doubleday, White, G.H., Duncan Warrand, D. & Walden, H. (2000). The Complete Peerage of England, Scotland, Ireland, Great Britain and the United Kingdom, Extant, Extinct or Dormant., (Vol. XII/1, pp.121). Gloucester: Alan Sutton Publishing.
Weir, A. (1999). Britain's Royal Families: The Complete Genealogy, (pp.103). London: The Bodley Head.
Sir John St. John, "Our Royal, Titled, Noble, and Commoner Ancestors and Cousins" (website, compiled by Mr. Marlyn Lewis, Portland, OR; accessed October 13, 2015)
The Bartrum Project (digitization of "Welsh Genealogies AD 300- 1500" by Peter C. Bartrum): St. John 1
2014 info: Rootsweb (gen-medieval) post "New Light..." by Douglas Richardson, September 2014
Acknowledgements
Click the Changes tab to see edits. Thank you to everyone who contributed to this profile.

Magna Carta Project
Magna Carta Ancestry
Base Camp for the Magna Carta project shows that the trail from Magna Carta Surety Baron Henry de Bohun to Gateway Ancestor Elizabeth (Boteler) Claiborne was completed by Jack Day. See Base Camp for more information about Magna Carta trails.

This profile was re-reviewed by Gordon Warder Jr in January 2019. The trail from Elizabeth Boteler-112 to Henry Bohun-7 is in the process of being reviewed/approved by the Magna Carta Project.
Magna Carta Lineage
Elizabeth Boteler m. William Claiborne. Royal Ancestry (RA) I:386. Brother Thomas is also a Gateway Ancestor (brother John also immigrated but died unmarried).
John Butler II RA I:386
Cressett Saint John, illegitimate daughter of John Saint John and Anne Neville, m. John Butler I. RA I:385
John Saint John m. (1) Margaret Waldegrave (BLETSOE 18) and (2) Anne Neville RA I:384
John Saint John m. Margred (Sybill) ferch Morgan RA IV:534
John Saint John m. Alice Bradshaw RA IV:534
Margaret Beauchamp m. Oliver Saint John
John Beauchamp m. Edith Stourton RA IV:527
Roger Beauchamp m. Mary RA IV:525
Roger de Beauchamp m. Joan de Clopton RA IV:526
Roger de Beauchamp m. Sibyl de Patesville
Roger de Beauchamp of Powick
Alice de Tony m. Walter de Beauchamp RA IV:411/V:175 Already has MC Badge, other Trail.
Alice de Bohun m. Roger de Tony RA V:174 Already has MC Badge, other Trail.
Humphrey de Bohun m. Maud of Eu RA I:410 Already has MC Badge, other Trail.
Henry de Bohun m. Maude de Mandeveille. Already has MC Badge, other Trail.

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John married Alice Bradshaigh in ~1454 in Bedfordshire, England. Alice (daughter of Thomas Bradshaigh and Alice Sherburne) was born in ~1433 in Haigh, Lancashire, England; died before 1488. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Sir Thomas "of Rolleston, Nottinghamshire" Neville
Born about 1456 in Holt, Leicestershire, England
ANCESTORS ancestors
Son of William Neville and Katherine (Palmer) Neville
[sibling(s) unknown]
Husband of Isabel (Griffin) Neville — married [date unknown] [location unknown]
DESCENDANTS descendants
Father of Thomas Neville
Died 2 Apr 1503 [location unknown]

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The Birth Date is a rough estimate. See the text for details.
Biography
Sources
Visitation of Northamptonshire Page 24: Griffin of Braybrooke
"Royal Ancestry" 2013 by Douglas Richardson, Vol. III. p. 145
Acknowledgements

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Thomas married Isabel Griffin(England). Isabel was born in 1457 in Holt, Leicestershire, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Isabel Neville formerly Griffin
Born 1457 in Holt, Leicestershire, England
ANCESTORS ancestors
Daughter of Nicholas Griffin and Katherine (Curzon) Griffin
Sister of Richard Griffin, John Griffin and Katherine (Griffin) Digby
Wife of Thomas Neville — married [date unknown] [location unknown]
DESCENDANTS descendants
Mother of Thomas Neville
Died 1514 in Leicestershire, England

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1 Biography
1.1 Birth
2 Sources
3 Acknowledgements
Biography
Birth
ABT 1456
Holt, Leicestershire
Sources
Visitation of Northamptonshire Page 24: Griffin of Braybrooke
"Royal Ancestry" 2013 by Douglas Richardson, Vol. III, p. 145

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Notes:

Birth:
Photos & History of Sizergh Castle ... https://www.britainexpress.com/counties/cumbria/houses/sizergh.htm

William married Isabel de Warcop. Isabel was born in ~ 1300 in Warcop, Cumbria, England; died in ~1365 in High Head Castle, Carlisle, Cumberland, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Birth:
Map & History ... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Warcop

Oliver married Lady Margaret Beauchamp in ~1428. Margaret (daughter of John Beauchamp and Edith de Stourton) was born in ~ 1410 in Bletsoe, Bedfordshire, England; died before 3 Jun 1482 in Bletsoe, Bedfordshire, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Margaret Beauchamp (c. 1410 – before 3 June 1482) was the daughter of Sir John Beauchamp, de jure 3rd Baron Beauchamp of Bletsoe, and his second wife, Edith Stourton. She was the maternal grandmother of Henry VII.

Biography

Margaret Beauchamp, born about 1410, was the daughter of Sir John Beauchamp, de jure 3rd Baron Beauchamp (d. 1412-1414) of Bletsoe, Bedfordshire, and his second wife, Edith Stourton (d. 13 June 1441), daughter of Sir John Stourton of Stourton, Wiltshire.[1]

In 1421 she was heiress to her only brother, John Beauchamp, who died young and unmarried, from whom she inherited the manors of Lydiard Tregoze in Wiltshire, Ashmore in Dorset, and Bletsoe and Keysoe in Bedfordshire, and, according to modern doctrine, the right to any barony of Beauchamp created by summons to Parliament directed to her great-great-grandfather, Roger Beauchamp, 1st Baron Beauchamp (d. 3 January 1380) of Bletsoe.[2][3]

She married firstly Sir Oliver St John (d. 1437), son and heir of Sir John St John and Isabel Paveley, daughter and heiress of Sir John Paveley, by whom she had two sons and five daughters:[4]

Sir John St John (d. 1513/14) of Bletsoe, who married Alice Bradshagh, daughter of Sir Thomas Bradshagh, of Haigh, Lancashire.[5]
Oliver St John (d. 1497), esquire, of Lydiard Tregoze, Wiltshire, who married Elizabeth Scrope, widow successively of Sir John Bigod (d. 1461) of Settrington, Yorkshire, and Henry Rochford (d. 25 October 1470), esquire, of Stoke Rochford, Lincolnshire, and daughter of Henry Scrope, 4th Baron Scrope of Bolton, and Elizabeth le Scrope, daughter of John Scrope, 4th Baron Scrope of Masham.[6]
Edith St John, who married Geoffrey Pole, esquire.[7]
Mary St John, who married Sir Richard Frogenall.[4]
Elizabeth St John (d. before 3 July 1494) who married firstly, before 2 April 1450, as his second wife, William la Zouche, 5th Baron Zouche (d. 25 December 1462) of Harringworth, and secondly, before 10 December 1471, as his second wife, John Scrope, 5th Baron Scrope of Bolton (d. 17 August 1498).[4]
Agnes St John, who married David Malpas.[4]
Margaret St John, Abbess of Shaftesbury.[4]
She married secondly, after 2 August 1441, John Beaufort, 1st Duke of Somerset, by whom she had one daughter:

Lady Margaret Beaufort, Countess of Richmond and Derby, who married Edmund Tudor, 1st Earl of Richmond, by whom she was the mother of Henry VII.
She married thirdly, by licence dated 14 April 1447, as his second wife, Lionel de Welles, 6th Baron Welles, by whom she had one son:[8]

John Welles, 1st Viscount Welles, who married Cecily of York, the daughter of Edward IV of England.[8]

Fictional portrayals

Margaret Beauchamp figures prominently in the 2010 Philippa Gregory novel The Red Queen, and was played by Frances Tomelty in the 2013 television adaptation The White Queen. Gregory also includes Beauchamp in her 2011 prequel novel The Lady of the Rivers.

*

Ancestors of Margaret Beauchamp:

1= 1. '''Margaret Beauchamp'''
|2= 2. John Beauchamp, ''de jure'' 3rd Baron Beauchamp of Bletsoe
|3= 3. Edith Stourton
|4= 4. Roger Beauchamp, ''de jure'' 2nd Baron Beauchamp of Bletsoe (1362 – 3 May 1406)
|5= 5. Mary
|6= 6. Sir John Stourton, [[Sheriff]] of [[Dorset]] and [[Somerset]]
|7= 7. Catherine Beaumont
|8= 8. Sir [[Roger Beauchamp (died c. 1374)|Roger Beauchamp]] (- 1373/1374)
|9= 9. Joan de Clopton
|14= 14. [[Henry Beaumont, 3rd Baron Beaumont]] (- 1326)
|15= 15. Lady Margaret de Vere
|16= 16. [[Roger Beauchamp, 1st Baron Beauchamp of Bletso]] (d. 3 January 1380)
|17= 17. Sybil de Patshull
|18= 18. Sir Walter Clopton
|28= 28. [[John Beaumont, 2nd Baron Beaumont]] (aft. 1317–1342)
|29= 29. [[Eleanor of Lancaster]] (1318–1372)
|30= 30. [[John de Vere, 7th Earl of Oxford]] (1312–1360)
|31= 31. [[Maud de Badlesmere, Countess of Oxford|Maud de Badlesmere]] (1310–1366)

Thomas married Alice Sherburne. Alice (daughter of Sir Richard Sherburne and Agnes Harrington) was born in 1383 in Stonyhurst, Lancashire, England; died after 1462 in Burley Parish, Haigh, Lancashire, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Alt Birth: ~1400, Stonyhurst, Lancashire, England

William married Katherine Palmer(Leicestershire, England). Katherine was born in ~1436 in (Leicestershire, England); died in (Leicestershire, England). [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Thomas Strickland
Born 1299 in Sizergh Castle, Westmorland, England
ANCESTORS ancestors
Son of Walter (Strickland) de Strickland and Eleanor (Goldington) Strickland
[sibling(s) unknown]
Husband of Cecily (Welles) Strickland — married [date unknown] [location unknown]
DESCENDANTS descendants
Father of Walter Strickland III, Peter Strickland, Thomas Strickland, William Strickland and Katherine (Strickland) de Ros
Died 1376 in Sizergh Castle, Westmorland, England

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Biography
"Sir Thomas Strickland† (c.1290-1376) of Sizergh" [1]
Sources
? The History of Parliament: the House of Commons 1386-1421, ed. J.S. Roskell, L. Clark, C. Rawcliffe., 1993 [1]

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Thomas married Cecily Welles. Cecily was born in 0Jan 1310 in Grimstone, Lincolnshire, England; died in 1387 in Sizergh Castle, Westmoreland, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Cecily Strickland formerly Welles aka de Welle
Born Jan 1310 in Grimstone, Lincolnshire, England
ANCESTORS ancestors
Daughter of Robert (Welle) de Welle and [mother unknown]
[sibling(s) unknown]
Wife of Thomas Strickland — married [date unknown] [location unknown]
DESCENDANTS descendants
Mother of Walter Strickland III, Peter Strickland, William Strickland and Katherine (Strickland) de Ros
Died 1387 in Sizergh Castle, Westmoreland, Englandmap

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Contents
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1 Biography
1.1 Parents
1.2 Marriage
2 Sources
Biography
Cecilie de Welle.[2]

"Cecily, da. and coh. of Robert Welles (1295-1320)* of Hackthorpe, Westmld. and Isabel (d.1315), da. of Adam Periton of Ellington, Northumb." [1]
Note: The dates for her father seem incorrect, as Isabel outlives her Welles husband and marries a second husband.
Parents
Father: Robert de Welle.[3]
Marriage
m. Sir Thomas Strickland.[4]
Sources
? The History of Parliament: the House of Commons 1386-1421, ed. J.S. Roskell, L. Clark, C. Rawcliffe., 1993 [1]
Burke, B. (1898). A Genealogical and Heraldic History of the Landed Gentry of Great Britain & Ireland, Volume 2. Harrison and Sons. Google Books.[5]

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John married Edith de Stourton in ~1409 in Stourton, Wiltshire, England. Edith (daughter of Sir John de Stourton and Jane Basset) was born in 1394 in Stourton, Wiltshire, England; died on 13 Jun 1441 in Faringdon, Berkshire, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Alt Birth: 1384, Bletneshle, Somersetshire, England

Notes:

Biography
First Marriage to Sir John Beauchamp
Edith Stourton first married Sir John Beauchamp. [1]

Second Marriage to Sir Robert Shottesbrook
Edith Stourton, widow of Sir John Beauchamp, Married 2nd Sir Robert Shottesbrook. [1]

Shottesbrook was of Faringdon, Compton, Beauchamp, etc., Berkshire. He was King's Esquire, Knight of the Shire for Bedfordshire, Sheriff of Wiltshire. He was the younger son of Gilbert Shottesbrook, of Ordeston, Bedfordshire, by Elizabeth, daughter of Vivian Standon. [1]

Sources
? 1.0 1.1 1.2 Douglas Richardson, Magna Carta Ancestry. Kimball G. Everingham, editor.
See also:

ROYAL ANCESTRY by Douglas Richardson Vol. IV page 527
http://wc.rootsweb.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=GET&db=jweber&id=I23651
hofundssonAnces.ged Abbreviation: hofundssonAnces.ged Repository: #R1
Ancestral Roots of Certain American Colonists, 7th Edition, by Frederick Lewis Weis, additions by Walter Lee Shippard Jr., 1999, Page: 85-34
Burke's Peerage & Baronetage, 106th Edition, Charles Mosley Editor-in-Chief, 1999 Page:
Complete Peerage of England Scotland Ireland Great Britain and the United Kingdom, by G. E Cokayne, Sutton Publishing Ltd, 2000. Page: XII/2:444
Our Kingdom Come Eileen McKinnon-Suggs (suggs1@msn.com). Our Kingdom Come. http://awtc.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=GET&db=emsuggs&id=I39737 last updated October 10, 2004; Accessed December 2, 2005.
The Magna Charta Sureties 1215, Frederick Lewis Weis, addit ions by Walter Lee S Reference: 26 May 2003 Title: The Magna Charta Sureties 1215, Frederick Lewis Weis, additions by Walter Lee Sheppard Jr, 5th Edition, 1999 Page: 57-10
https://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=175084264

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Biography

Richard Sherburne Esq. was a member of aristocracy in the British Isles.
"Richard de Sherburne of Stonyhurst, was born in 1381 (the son of Richard de Bayley and Margaret de Sherburne)[1][2], and married Agnes, daughter of William Stanley of Hooton, Cheshire. Richard attended the Parliaments of 8 and 9 Henry V, 1420-21, at Westminster, for Lancashire. In 8 Henry VI (1429-1430), we find Richard Sherburne settling certain quarrels that had arisen between half-a-dozen women as to where they should kneel in Church. [Cuerdon MS.; W., ii. 494] He is also mentioned in Sir H. Nichols, Proc. Privy Council, iii. 327, on 4 Jun 1429.

"Richard de Sherburne died 19 Henry VI or 1441. His will is an early specimen of English, is dated 3 Jan 1436, and was proved 7 Jun 1441. The inquisition post mortem was taken at Lancaster on Thursday the Feast of St. Lawrence Martyr, 19 Henry VI, or 10 Aug 1441. The jury said that Richard died seised of the manor of Aghton and Hamilton, lands in Baggerburgh and Frekleton, land in Leylond, a quarter part of the manor of Bolton, a moiety of the manor of Wiswall, two burgages in Clitheroe, and together with his wife Agnes of the manor of Lonton, and that said Richard died on Monday before the Pentecost 19 Henry VI (29 May 1441), and that Robert, aged six years, son of Richard, son of the aforesaid Richarch, is the grandson and next heir. " (Ref: A History of the Family of Sherborn, pp. 12-15)

Richard was only 9 at his grandfather's death in 1391, and he became the ward of Sir Nicholas Harington and the subject of a child marriage.

"Richard Bayley, alias Richard Shireburn, adopted his mother's surname. He was born at Stonyhurst on the Feast of St. Wilfrid, 5 Richard II (12 Oct 1381), and baptized at Miltton Church. In 1420, and again in the following year, he was returned to the House of Commons by electors of Lancashire. Richard lived to the year 1440 and was buried before the altar of St. Nicholas at Mitton. His widow survived to 1444. Their son was Richard, who died before his parents." (Ref: Stonyhurst Hall, p. 49)

The 1437 will of Richard Sherburne was published in TESTAMENTA EBORACENSIA Part II, at 75-76, in vol. 30 (1855) of PUBLICATIONS OF THE SURTEES SOCIETY. After bequests to the parish church of Mitton and to religious orders, he left the residue of his estate "to Agnes my wyffe," and named "Robert of Haryngton, knyght, Thomas of Harington, squyer, brother of ye same Robert," among his executors. No one surnamed Stanley is mentioned.

Marriage & Children
He married Agnes Harington, daughter of Sir Nicholas Harrington, Sheriff of Lancashire and Isabel English, before 4 August 1391. They had 5 sons & 4 daughters:[1][3]
Richard [1]
Robert [1]
John [1]
Nicholas [1]
James [1]
Alice, wife of Sir John Tempest [1]
Isabel [1]
Elizabeth [1]
Mabel [1]
Their eight children named in Agnes' will were: Alice, Robert, Isabel, Elizabeth, John, Nicholas, James, and Mabel.
Sources
? 1.00 1.01 1.02 1.03 1.04 1.05 1.06 1.07 1.08 1.09 1.10 Douglas Richardson, Magna Carta Ancestry, 2nd Edition, Vol. IV, p. 204.
? Douglas Richardson, Royal Ancestry, Vol. V, p. 177.
? Douglas Richardson, Royal Ancestry, Vol. V, p. 177-178.
See Also:

http://archiver.rootsweb.ancestry.com/th/read/GEN-MEDIEVAL/2004-05/1085450671 (inacessible link)
A History of the Family of Sherborn, pp. 12-15
Burke's Extinct and Dormant Baronetcies of England, Ireland, and Scotland, by John Burke, Publication date 1838
[https://archive.org/details/visitationofcoun00manc Rev. F. R. Raines, ed. The Visitation of the County Palatine of Lancaster\, Made in the Year 1567, By William Flower, Esq., Norroy King of Arms. Manchester, England: Ch
Roberts, Gary Boyd. The Royal Descents of 600 Immigrants. Baltimore, MD, USA: Genealogical Publishing Co., 2004.
Sherborn, Charles Davies,. A history of the family of Sherborn. London: Mitchell and Hughes, 1901.Original data: Sherborn, Charles Davies.
British Chancery Records, 1386-1558, Hamilton, Rosanna, comp., Online publication - Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations Inc, 2004.Original data - Lists of Early Chancery Proceedings. Public Record Offic Lists and Indexes Volumes.
Test Ebor vol.2, p. 75 Will of Richard Sherburn.
Acknowledgements
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Magna Carta Project
Magna Carta trail
Richard Sherburne Esq. has been identified as being in a trail between Gateway Ancestor Peter Worden and Surety Baron Robert de Roos, and is currently under development prior to review and approval by the Magna Carta project. See Base Camp for more information about Magna Carta trails. ~ Douglass-990 14:09, 16 February 2018 (EST)
Douglas Richardson, Magna Carta Ancestry: A Study in Colonial and Medieval Families, Royal Ancestry series, 2nd edition, 4 vols., ed. Kimball G. Everingham (Salt Lake City, Utah: Douglas Richardson, 2011), Vol I, p xxiii; Vol II, p 165.
See the Magna Carta Project page for more information about the project.
See Base Camp for information about identified trails and their status.
See this G2G post for information about the February Challenge.
:Proposed Magna Carta Trail:

1. Peter Worden is the son of Isabel (Worthington) Worden [unknown confidence]
2. Isabel (Worthington) Worden is the daughter of Peter Worthington [unknown confidence]
3. Peter Worthington is the son of Agnes (Rushton) Bolton [unknown confidence]
4. Agnes (Rushton) Bolton is the daughter of Nicholas Rushton [unknown confidence]
5. Nicholas Rushton is the son of Agnes (Sherburne) Rishton [unknown confidence]
6. Agnes (Sherburne) Rishton is the daughter of Richard Sherburne Esquire [unknown confidence]
7. Richard Sherburne is the son of Richard Sherburne Esq. [confident]
8. Richard Sherburne is the son of Margaret (Sherburne) Bayley [confident]
9. Margaret (Sherburne) Bayley is the daughter of Alice (Plumpton) le Boteler [confident]
10. Alice (Plumpton) le Boteler is the daughter of William (Plumpton) de Plumpton [confident]
11. William de Plumpton is the son of Lucia (Ros) de Ros [confident]
12. Lucia (de Ros) Plumpton is the daughter of William (Ros) de Ros [confident]
13. William de Roos is the son of William (Ros) de Roos [confident]
14. William de Roos is the son of Robert (Ros) de Roos [confident]

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Richard Sherburne
Also Known As: "Richard Bayley Sherburne", "Sir Richard Shireburn"
Birthdate: October 12, 1381
Birthplace: Stonyhurst, Clitheroe, Lancashire, England, (Present UK)
Death: Died May 29, 1441 in Mitton Parish, Craven, Lancashire, England, (Present UK)
Place of Burial: Great Mitton, Lancashire, England, United Kingdom
Immediate Family:
Son of Richard Sherburne and Margaret Sherburne
Husband of Agnes Sherburne
Father of Richard Sherburne, of Stoneyhurst; Alice Tempest (Sherburne); Jenetta Sherborne; Nicholas Sherborne; Elizabeth Sherburne and 3 others
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Married Agnes Harrington 1391 when he was 9 years old. He was a Knight of the Shire of Lancaster and is entombed in the Shireburne Chapel at All Hallows Church, Mitton commonly known as Mytton Church. He was given his mothers surname Shireburn rather than his fathers Bailey. Being of the Bailey line he was the 4th. great grandson of Otto de Mitton whos own family then began to use the surname Bailey after their manor granted to Otto de Mitton by his older brother Hugh de Mitton circa 1200. His son is the next Richard Shireburne and lived until 1494. He was married at 12 years old and lived at Stonyhurst. He is also entombed in this chapel. https://thefamilydemitton.wordpress.com/shireburne-shireburne-and-more-shireburnes/

Margaret Sherburne conveyed all her Shireburne estates and assets to her husband Richard Bayley (descendant of Ralph the Red) to be left to their only son and heir Richard. He was however given the more predominate surname Shireburne to perpetuate the mothers family name and secure the Shireburne inheritance. Margaret’s father in law John de Bailey (descendant Mitton) was the possessor of Stonyhurst at the time. He was the grandfather of Richard Shirburne. Richard Bailey, father of Richard Shireburne never had possession of Stoneyhurst. Richard Bailey died 3 years before his father and eventually his son Richard Shireburne inherited Stonyhurst directly from his grandfather John Bailey in 1391.

He built the aisle to Mitton Church and was the first of the Shireburns of Stonyhurst Hall. His effigy is at Mitton Church with his Shireburne family successors. https://thefamilydemitton.wordpress.com/the-baileys-and-the-shireburnes-are-all-de-mittons/

Richard Sherburne

Birth: Oct 12 1381 - Stonyhurst, Lancashire, England
Death: May 29 1441 - Stonyhurst, Lancashire, England
Wife: Agnes Harrington
Child: Alice Sherburne
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Family Sheet

HUSBAND

Name: Richard SherburneMale Born: Married: Died:

Other Spouses: Alice Plumpton

Father: Richard Bayley
Mother: Agnes Stanley
WIFE

Name: Matilda Hamerton

Born:
Died:
CHILDREN

Name: Isabel Sherburne

Born:
Died:
Husband: John Towneley
Source Information:

Film Number: 170606
Page Number:
Reference number: 18760
Family Sheet

HUSBAND

Name: Richard SherburneMale Born: Married: Died:

Other Spouses: Alice Plumpton

Father: Richard Bayley
Mother: Agnes Stanley
WIFE

Name: Matilda Hamerton

Born:
Died:
CHILDREN

Name: Isabel Sherburne

Born:
Died:
Husband: John Towneley
___________________ http://washington.ancestryregister.com/SHERBURNE00006.htm 6. Richard 'De Bayley' SHERBURNE Esq 5 68 211 488 498 (Margaret SHERBURNE Heiress of Stonyhurst 3, Richard DE Knight ((Sir)) 2, John DE M.P., Knight ((Sir)) 1) was born 12 Oct 1381 in Stonyhurst, Clitheroe, Lancaster, England,68 498 died 25 May 1441 of Stonyhurst, Clitheroe, Lancaster, England 68 498 at age 59, and was buried in Church at Mitton, Lancaster, England. Richard married Agnes HARRINGTON (See Link for Ancestry),5 26 68 488 498 daughter of Nicholas HARINGTON and Isabel ENGLISH, circa 1390.5 68 488 499 Agnes was born circa 1370 in Farleton, Melling, Lancastershire, England,26 68 498 died before 3 Nov 1444 of Stonyhurst, Clitheroe, Lancaster, England,26 68 498 and was buried 3 Nov 1444 in Church at Mitton, Lancaster, England.

Children from this marriage were:

7. i. Alice SHERBURNE 68 211 490 was born circa 1400 in Stonyhurst, Clitheroe, Lancaster, England 68 490 and died of Bracewell, West Riding, Yorkshire, England.68 211 490 8. ii. Richard SHERBURNE Jr. 5 68 488 490 498 was born circa 1403 in Stonyhurst, Clitheroe, Lancaster, England 68 490 498 and died before 1440 of Stonyhurst, Clitheroe, Lancaster, England.490 498 9. iii. Robert SHERBURNE was born circa 1406 in Stonyhurst, Clitheroe, Lancaster, England. 10. iv. Isabel SHERBURNE was born circa 1409 in Stonyhurst, Clitheroe, Lancaster, England. 11. v. Elizabeth SHERBURNE was born circa 1412 in Stonyhurst, Clitheroe, Lancaster, England. 12. vi. John SHERBURNE was born circa 1415 in Stonyhurst, Clitheroe, Lancaster, England. 13. vii. Nicholas SHERBURNE was born circa 1418 in Stonyhurst, Clitheroe, Lancaster, England. 14. viii. James SHERBURNE was born circa 1421 in Stonyhurst, Clitheroe, Lancaster, England. 15. ix. Mabel SHERBURNE was born circa 1424 in Stonyhurst, Clitheroe,

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Richard married Agnes Harrington before 1392. Agnes (daughter of Baron Nicholas Harington, Knight, MP and Lady Isabella English, Baroness of Harington) was born in ~ 1375 in England; died on 3 Nov 1444 in Lancashire, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Alt Birth: 1391, Hooton, Cheshire, England

Notes:

Agnes Sherburne (Harrington)
Also Known As: "Stanley"
Birthdate: circa 1391
Birthplace: Hooton, Cheshire West and Chester, England, United Kingdom
Death: Died November 3, 1444 in Lancashire, England
Place of Burial: Hooten, Cheshire, England, UK
Immediate Family:
Daughter of Sir Nicholas Harrington, Lord of Farleton and Isabella Harrington
Wife of Richard Sherburne
Mother of Richard Sherburne, of Stoneyhurst; Alice Tempest (Sherburne); Jenetta Sherborne; Nicholas Sherborne; Elizabeth Sherburne and 3 others
Sister of Isabella Tunstall; Nicholas Harrington; Sir William Harrington, of Hornby; Sir James Harrington "Esquire of Westby Lane"; Mary Harrington and 4 others
Managed by: Bernard Raimond Assaf
Last Updated: June 15, 2016

About Agnes Sherburne
Many sources show Agnes as a Stanley, but Hickling has shown that she was the daughter of Sir Nicholas Harrington.

TEMPEST WIVES AND DAUGHTERS IN THE LATE MEDIEVAL PERIOD.

PART 4.

BY JOHN R. SCHUERMAN AND DOUGLAS HICKLING

http://www.medievalgenealogy.org.uk/families/tempest/tempest4.shtml

This Richard Sherburne's parents were Richard Sherburne (d. 1441, will in Test. Ebor. II, Surtees Society Publications v. 30, p. 75-76, dated 3 January 1436 and probated 7 June 1441, Test. Ebor. shows the date of probate as 1440, but Wills in the York Registry, YASRS v. 6 shows it as 1441; IPM in Report of the Deputy Keeper of the Public Records, appendix to v. 39, p. 541 says died on Monday before Pentecost 19 Henry 6 [29 May 1441]) and Agnes Harrington (d. 1444, her will is also in Test. Ebor. II, p. 105-06, dated 3 November 1444, IPM in Towneley's Abstracts of IPMs, Chetham Society Remains, v. 99, pp. 52-53, where it says she died in 1445 or 1446; Wills in York Registry gives the date of the will as above, date of probate 30 November 1444). Richard Sherburne the son evidently predeceased his father by a few days. The will of Richard senior identifies his wife as Agnes and makes his son James and Robert and Thomas Harrington (brothers) his executors "at the sight of John Tempest." No other children are mentioned. Agnes's will identifies, among other children, “my daughter, Alice Tempest.” Later in the will she leaves a gold broach “to my son Sir John Tempest” and appoints “John Tempest, knight” as one of her executors. This John Tempest was the son of Piers Tempest who was the son of Richard above and perhaps Margaret Stainforth. Agnes's IPM references her deceased son Richard and his son Robert.

The identity of Agnes (Harrington) Sherburne was the topic of an article on the Soc. Gen. Med. newsgroup (http://groups.google.com/group/soc.genealogy.medieval) on 24 May 2004 by Douglas Hickling, building on work reported by Douglas Richardson in the recent Plantagenet Ancestry (2004, p. 678). Many sources show Agnes as a Stanley, but Hickling has shown that she was the daughter of Sir Nicholas Harrington.

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Ancestral roots of certain American colonists who came to America before ... By Frederick Lewis Weis, Walter Lee Sheppard, Kaleen E. Pg.163

http://books.google.com/books?id=3F9nG8aFJ7MC&pg=PA163&lpg=PA163&dq=Richard+Bayley+1381&source=bl&ots=9jCenIGrzq&sig=BMzkbrS5J3vGBHKB0iNzmc5gHuw&hl=en&ei=Bd2rTK29MZD0tgOW_-HzAw&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=7&ved=0CCoQ6AEwBg#v=onepage&q=Richard%20Bayley%201381&f=false

32. Sir Richard Sherburne (formerly de Bayley), b. 12 Oct. 1381, d. 1441; m. Agnes Stanley, bur. Mitton, 3 nov. 1444, dau. of William Stanley, of Hooton, co. Chester.

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A History of the Family of Sherborn By Charles Davies Sherborn Pg.12

http://books.google.com/books?id=kivhPAHpMjIC&pg=PA12&lpg=PA12&dq=Richard+Bayley+1381&source=bl&ots=R-AtZkSNoV&sig=Uq_rfYcnn_XW-2jI5Uu-OHoYdZU&hl=en&ei=ot6rTKyVNYzksQOEhYDpAw&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=10&ved=0CDoQ6AEwCQ#v=onepage&q=Richard%20Bayley%201381&f=false

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http://thepeerage.com/p17621.htm#i176208

Agnes Stanley married Richard Sherburne, son of Richard Bayley and Margaret Sherburne.1

Her married name became Sherburne.1
Citations

1.[S1545] Mitchell Adams, "re: West Ancestors," e-mail message to Darryl Roger Lundy, 6 December 2005 - 19 June 2009. Hereinafter cited as "re: West Ancestors."

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Richard de Bayley = Agnes Stanley. Vix 45HenIII. Vix 40 HenIII. Seneschal of Clitheroe ... Stanley of Hooton,. Co. Chester; Will dated 3 Nov 1444

http://docs.google.com/viewer?a=v&q=cache:XWUpJ0pfU_oJ:ingilbyhistory.ripleycastle.co.uk/ingilby_3/SHERBURN%2520of%2520Stonyhurst.pdf+Agnes+Stanley+1444&hl=en&gl=us&pid=bl&srcid=ADGEESjO9ITke_P8Jjkg1__i1IbzNBD1kTfN-ruzuLxmIPOgmdOFydbtqG6Wmwrye091-OhA8COkgkpMl-9XQyWSUy0DSTZ30ZHSG6r6q189B0vVn39PcKBn0b6azLzAPT7dJ8i0UvDb&sig=AHIEtbSYqoLPWy24c17m2gafOwgC5oMWQQ

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Other Events and Attributes:

• Alt Birth: 1405, Rolleston, Nottinghamshire, England

Thomas married Elizabeth Babington in ~1417 in Chilwell, Nottinghamshire, England. Elizabeth was born in ~1396 in Chilwell, Nottinghamshire, England; died on 22 May 1482 in Nottinghamshire, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Married:
Map & History of Chilwell ... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chilwell

Other Events and Attributes:

• Occupation: Sheriff of Dorset and Somerset

Notes:

John Stourton aka de Stourton
Born 1340 in Stourton, Wiltshire, England
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Biography
Sir John de Stourton, of Stourton & Preston and Jane Basset

John De STOURTON (Sir Knight)

Born: ABT 1340, Stourton, Wiltshire, England

Died: AFT 1364

Father: William De STOURTON (Sir Knight)

Mother: Joan De VERNON

Married 1: Catherine BEAUMONT

Children:

1. William De STOURTON (Sir Knight)

2. Anastasia STOURTON

3. Anne STOURTON

Married 2: Jane BASSET

Children:

4. Roger STOURTON

5. Edmund STOURTON

6. Elizabeth (Edith) STOURTON

7. Mary (Margaret) STOURTON

8. Huskin STOURTON

9. Robert (Rupert) STOURTON

10. Richard STOURTON

11. John STOURTON

Sources
http://www.tudorplace.com.ar/STOURTON.htm

end of this biography

Buried:
Stavordale Priory in Charlton Musgrove, Somerset, England was built as a priory church in the 13th century and was converted into a private residence in 1533. It has been designated as a Grade I listed building.[1]

The original priory for Augustinian canons was founded by a member of the Lovel family,[2] in 1243, probably following an endowment by Henry, Lord Lovel, who died about 1199.[3]

The list of Augustinian Priors of Stavordale Priory includes one 'John' Bodman who died there, as Prior, in 1361.[4] Closer examination of the (Latin) primary source for this reference, however, reveals that his name was not, in fact, given as the English form 'John' but Johannis, the Latin form of Johannes.[5] This appears to be the earliest historical record in England of a Johannes Bodman, and it is possible that he was a scion of the ancient, noble house of the Ritter von Bodman (also Freiherren and Grafen von und zu Bodman), who lived then and still live today at Bodman am Bodensee.[6]

The bell tower is known to have existed by 1374, and the church was refitted and rebuilt around 1439. The chantry of Jesus was described as having been "recently completed" in 1526.[1] It is thought to be linked to the village's old church near the altar by a tunnel, perhaps used as a priest's escape route, some two miles in length.[2]

It was converted around the time of the Dissolution of the Monasteries, after the priory merged with Taunton in 1533.[7]

It was restored and extended by Thomas Edward Collcutt in 1905 for Mr. F.G. Sage.[7]

It is now owned by Sir Cameron Mackintosh a British theatrical producer notable for his association with many commercially successful musicals. He is described as being "the most successful, influential and powerful theatrical producer in the world" by the New York Times.

Map & Photo ... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stavordale_Priory

John married Jane Basset. Jane (daughter of Ralph Basset and Alice Driby) was born in ~1368 in Glastonbury, Somerset, England; died in 1394. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Richard married Margaret Sherburne before 1377. Margaret (daughter of Richard Sherburne and Alicia Plympton) was born in 1362 in Aighton, Lancashire, England; died after 4 Aug 1391 in Lancashire, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Occupation: Member of Parliament
• Occupation: Sheriff of Lancaster

Notes:

Biography

"Nicholas Harington (or Haverington), Knt., Knight of the Shire for Lancashire, Sheriff of Lancashire, master forester of Quernmore, co. Lancaster, third son, born about 1344 (proved his age in 1365). He was heir in 1361 to his older brother, Thomas Haverington, by which he inherited the manors of Farleton (in Melling), Bolton-le-Moors, Heath Charnock, Aighton, etc., co. Lancaster and Farleton in Kendale, co. Westmorland.

He married (lst) before September 1369, Isabel English, daughter and heiress of William English, Knt., of Appleby, Little Strickland, and Hasket, Westmorland, Knight of the Shire for Westmoreland, by Margaret, daughter of Richard le Brun. She was born about 1345.

They had three sons, William, Knt., James, Knt., and Nicholas, and five daughters,

Isabel (first), Margaret (wife of Richard Huddleston, Knt.),
Agnes (wife of Richard Sherburne),
Mary (wife of John Redman), and Isabel (second). Isabel was co-heiress c. 1369 to her uncle, Robert le Brun, by which she inherited the manor of Drumburgh (in Bowness), Bowness, Cardurnock, etc., and a one-third share in the manors of Bothel (in Torpenhow), Beaumont, and Brunskaith, co. Cumberland.

In 1369 he went to Ireland in the retinue of William de Windsor, Knt., where he fought for the next two years. In 1373 he and William Curwen, knt. (husband of his wife's aunt, Ellen le Brun) caused major devastation on the estates at Beaumont, co. Cumberland of Ralph de Dacre, Lord Dacre.

In 1375 he was implicated in the murder of Lord Dacre, for which action he was excommunicated by the Archbishop of York.

He married (2nd) before August 1397 (date of fine) Joan (or Jennet) Venables, widow successively of Thomas de Lathom, Knt. (died 1382), of Lathom, Knowsley, and Huyton, co. Lancaster, and Roger Fazakerley, and daughter of Hugh Venables, of Kinderton, Cheshire. They had no issue.

Sir Nicholas Harington died shortly before 8 February 1404." (Ref: 21 July 2010 posting of Douglas Richardson on soc.genealogy.medieval)

More information about Sir Nicholas can be found at the History of Parliament online site here http://www.historyofparliamentonline.org/volume/1386-1421/member/haryngton-sir-nicholas-1344-1404

Sources

Plantagenet Ancestry: A Study In Colonial And Medieval Families, 2nd Edition pg 265. http://books.google.com/books?id=kjme027UeagC&pg=RA1-PA10&lpg=RA1-PA10&dq=%22Plantagenet+ancestry%22+Isabel|Elizabeth+Harrington+Stanley&source=bl&ots=quJpHA1imi&sig=MN-L2bh0ZrxX3gah_XQhqRpkRrc&hl=en&sa=X&ei=k0saUuzdCcin2AXxtIDYBg&ved=0CEQQ6AEwAg#v=onepage&q=%22John%20Stanley%22%20Isabel|Elizabeth%20Harrington&f=false
Acknowledgements

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Constituency Dates

LANCASHIRE 1372
LANCASHIRE Oct. 1377
LANCASHIRE 1379
LANCASHIRE 1386
LANCASHIRE 1402

Family and Education

b.c.1344, 3rd s. of Sir John Haryngton† (d. 1 Aug. 1359) of Farleton in Lonsdale by his w. Katherine (d. 7 Aug. 1359), da. and coh. of Sir Adam Banaster (d.c.1329) of Farleton in Kendal and Margaret Holland of Chorley, Bolton-le-Sands and Aighton, Lancs.; bro. and h. of Robert (d. Feb. 1361) and Thomas (d. Aug. 1361). m. (1) by Sept. 1369, Isabel (b.1344/5), da. and coh. of Sir William English (d. 3 Aug. 1369) of Oakington, Cambs. and Little Strickland, Westmld., 3s. inc. Sir James*; (2) by Aug. 1397, Joan, da. of Hugh Venables of Kinderton, Cheshire, wid. of Sir Thomas Lathom (d.c.1382) of Huyton and Lathom, Lancs. and Roger Fazakerley. Kntd. by Apr. 1369.1

Offices Held

Commr. of array, Lancs. Dec. 1368, Aug. 1402 (bis);2 to make arrests, Yorks. Feb. 1375, Nov. 1377, Lancs. Dec. 1397; of oyer and terminer, Yorks. May 1375 (murder at Sedbergh); inquiry, Westmld. Apr. 1378 (unlawful assemblies), Lancs. Feb. 1383 (shipwreck),3 July 1391; to levy troops and lead them against the Scots Mar. 1380;4 hold a special assize July 1398.5

Sheriff, Lancs. 6 Mar. 1379-14 Mar. 1384.6

Master forester of Quernmore, Lancs. for John of Gaunt, duke of Lancaster, 21 Feb. 1380.7

J.p. Lancs. July 1394, Mar. 1400, Feb. 1402.8

Biography

By marrying the heiress to property in Chorley, Bolton-le-Sands, Broughton, Whalley and Aighton, Sir John Haryngton was able greatly to extend his own holdings in Lancashire, which comprised the manor of Farleton in Lonsdale and land in Aldingham. His wife also brought him a sizeable estate in Westmorland, centred upon the manor of Farleton in Kendal, so he came to enjoy considerable influence as a rentier. Not surprisingly, Sir John served on a variety of royal commissions, as well as occupying a seat on the Lancashire bench and representing the county three times in Parliament. He and his wife died within a week of each other in August 1359, being succeeded by their eldest son, Robert. Neither he nor his next brother, Thomas, survived for very long, and since both were childless the Haryngton estates passed, in August 1361, to Nicholas, the third of Sir John’s four sons. Then aged about 17, Nicholas became a ward of John of Gaunt, who granted all his rights of custody and marriage to Sir James Pickering*. The boy had need of a powerful guardian to resist attempts by Sir William Ferrers to gain control of his inheritance in Bolton-le-Sands, where his aunt, a co-parcener of the manor, had already been coerced into relinquishing her title. Despite his persistence, however, Ferrers proved unsuccessful, and in October 1365 Nicholas obtained seisin of all the property left by his parents. He did not choose to remain at home for very long, and in October 1367 he obtained permission from the King to leave England from the port of Dover with a servant and cash to the value of ten marks. His choice of attorneys was approved by the Crown three months later, although he must have been back in England by the following December, when he served on his first royal commission. In April 1369, as a newly made knight, Sir Nicholas prepared to set out for Ireland in the retinue of Sir William Windsor, under whose banner he fought for the next two years at least. Another member of the expedition was his former guardian, Sir James Pickering, who, as chief justice of Ireland, was responsible for the implementation of some highly dubious financial practices.9

We do not know the precise date of Sir Nicholas’s marriage to Isabel, the younger daughter of Sir William English, a wealthy landowner with estates in Cumberland, Westmorland, Cambridgeshire and Huntingdonshire, but it evidently took place during the latter’s lifetime. Sir William died in August 1369, having settled most of his property upon William Restwold, the son and heir of his elder daughter, Julia. Even so, farmland in the Cambridgeshire village of Oakington and houses in Carlisle did revert to Isabel; and it may well be that the holdings in Torpenhow and Bothel, Cumberland, which Sir Nicholas later occupied, were also part of her inheritance. By now a figure of some consequence in the north-west, Sir Nicholas first entered Parliament in 1372, being returned by the electors of Lancashire on five occasions altogether. Yet his increasing involvement in local administration did not prevent him from disregarding the law if it suited his purposes to do so. In 1373, for example, he and (Sir) William Curwen*, at the head of a large force of armed men, caused major devastation on Ralph, Lord Dacre’s estates at Beaumont near Carlisle by ransacking buildings, stealing cattle and carrying off quantities of valuable goods. A royal commission of oyer and terminer was, indeed, set up to investigate the affair (which can now be seen as just one event in a rapidly escalating vendetta), but nothing was done to discipline the offenders. Having so far escaped scot-free, Sir Nicholas pursued his grudge to its logical conclusion, and was personally implicated in the murder of Lord Dacre, who died childless and intestate, in August 1375, almost certainly at the hands of his own brother, Sir Hugh, and our Member, his accomplice. Although both men were presented for the murder at Preston in the following year, having already been excommunicated by the archbishop of York, neither suffered much in the way of long-term retribution. Indeed, not long afterwards Sir Nicholas was accepted by the Crown as a suitable mainpernor for Sir Walter Urswyk† on his assumption of the lease of certain confiscated estates. His appearance, in April 1378, on a commission of oyer and terminer set up to investigate attacks on Sir James Pickering is of particular interest, especially as the latter had agreed to stand bail for Sir Hugh Dacre at the time of his temporary imprisonment in the Tower. Haryngton’s former misdemeanours were apparently forgotten altogether by the spring of 1379, when he became sheriff of Lancashire, a post then in the gift of John of Gaunt, who awarded him letters of pardon soon afterwards. The following year saw his appointment as master forester of Quernmore, again as a result of Gaunt’s patronage; and there is every reason to believe that the duke had intervened personally to protect him during this difficult period. His circle of friends included such other notable adherents of the house of Lancaster as Sir Adam Hoghton† and his son, Sir Richard*, for whom he went surety in August 1384 during the course of litigation over revenues from the manor of Wheelton. He also acted as a feoffee at this time for his former commander, Sir William Windsor, who settled property in Dorset upon him in trust. Together with Sir Richard Hoghton (his future colleague in the Parliament of 1402), Sir Nicholas was commissioned to take depositions from gentry in the north-west concerning the respective claims of Sir Robert Grosvenor and Lord Scrope to bear the same coat of arms, although he was apparently not himself called upon to give evidence. He and Hoghton were by now members of an informal advisory council responsible for the smooth running of Gaunt’s properties in the north. Their colleagues included Sir James Pickering and Sir Robert Urswyk* (whose daughter, Ellen, married Haryngton’s second son); and although they were technically subordinate to the duchy council in London, this small group of knights enjoyed considerable power in Lancashire, where they were the leaders of the ducal affinity.10

The death, in May 1391, of John Bailey, a feudal tenant of the Haryngtons, enabled Sir Nicholas to assert his rights of wardship, and although Bailey’s grandson, Richard Shirburne*, was only ten years old, he promptly married the boy to another of his charges, the young Agnes Stanley, securing a settlement upon them of the Shirburne estates. Not long afterwards Sir Nicholas took a seat on the Lancashire bench. Once again, however, he manifestly considered himself to be above the law; and, unconstrained by either the demands of his new position or his obligations to Gaunt, he repeatedly poached game and held illicit hunting parties in the parks of the duchy. Perhaps he already knew that the duke would turn a blind eye to such comparatively minor offences on the part of an otherwise loyal retainer; at all events, in 1393, he secured a full pardon from his patron and continued to hunt just as before. A second pardon, this time for both the unrepentant Sir Nicholas and his younger son, James, appears to have been issued in 1397, so Gaunt must have viewed his activities with tolerance. By this date, Sir Nicholas had decided to remarry, taking as his second wife the twice-widowed Joan Venables. A somewhat notorious character, Joan was said to have neglected and abused her first husband, Sir Thomas Lathom, while he lay dying, and to have lived openly in the same house with her lover, Roger Fazakerley. Having consigned Sir Thomas to a speedy burial without ceremony or mourners, she married Fazakerley, retaining a substantial share of the Lathom estates in Huyton and Knowsley. She and Sir Thomas had produced four daughters, one of whom was betrothed, in, or before, 1397, to Sir Nicholas’s third son and namesake, bringing as her marriage portion part of the manor of Huyton which she continued to hold during her mother’s lifetime. Having thus made sure that his wife’s property would remain securely in the hands of his own descendants, Sir Nicholas set out, in 1400, to find a bride for his young grandson, John, selecting Thomas Hornby’s daughter, Margaret, as the most suitable candidate. Sir Nicholas evidently took up residence at Knowsley, for in May 1401 he became involved in a lawsuit over the abduction of one of his household servants there. He and his wife were also at this time trying to recover possession of land in Roby, which was, indeed, awarded to them at the Lancaster assizes. A few months later, in the following November, Nicholas Haryngton the younger and his brother, James, were both retained as esquires by Henry IV at fees of ¹10 p.a. and ¹20 p.a. respectively. Sir Nicholas performed his own final service to the house of Lancaster in the autumn of 1402, when he entered the House of Commons for the fifth time. He died before 8 Feb. 1404, leaving estates in Westmorland, Lancashire and an unspecified part of Yorkshire, all of which passed to his eldest son, Sir William.11

Nicholas' 6-generation pedigree... http://histfam.familysearch.org/ahnentafel.php?personID=I55137&tree=EuropeRoyalNobleHous&parentset=0&generations=6

Note: Wikipedia does not cite his kinship to Sir John...DAH

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Nicholas married Lady Isabella English, Baroness of Harington in ~1363 in Hornby Castle, Hornby, Lancaster LA2 8LA, UK. Isabella (daughter of Sir William English, Knight and Lady Margaret le Brun) was born in 1348-1351 in Cumbria, England; died in 0___ 1397. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Alt Death: 21 Aug 1400, Lancashire, England

Notes:

Isabella Harrington (l'Engleys)
Also Known As: "English"
Birthdate: circa 1351
Birthplace: Little Strickland, Cumbria, England
Death: Died August 21, 1400 in Lancashire, England
Immediate Family:
Daughter of Sir William l'Engleys and Lady Margaret Le Brun
Wife of Sir Nicholas Harrington, Lord of Farleton
Mother of Isabella Tunstall; Nicholas Harrington; Sir William Harrington, of Hornby; Sir James Harrington "Esquire of Westby Lane"; Mary Harrington and 5 others
Sister of Juliana l'Engleys
Half sister of Isabella English, Lady
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About Isabella Harrington
ID: I15250

Name: Isabel ENGLISH

Given Name: Isabel

Surname: ENGLISH

Sex: F

Birth: 1344-1345

Death: Bef 1397

_UID: CE8AD904413545F88CC289E6826A64675C9C

Change Date: 27 Jan 2000 at 20:37

Father: William ENGLISH b: Abt 1326 in Lancashire, England

Mother: Margaret LE BRUN b: <1318> in Bownwys, Cumberland, England

Marriage 1 Nicholas DE HARINGTON b: 1345 in Farleton, Lancashire, England

Married:

Change Date: 2 Mar 1999

Children

William HARINGTON b: 1373 in Hornby, Lancashire, England
James HARRINGTON b: Abt 1375 in Blackrod, Lancashire, England
Isabel \ Margaret HARINGTON b: Abt 1364 in Hornby, Lancaster, Eng
Eleanor HARINGTON b: 1370 in Brearley, Yorkshire, England
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Reportedly an ancestress of George Washington,1st US President: http://washington.ancestryregister.com/HAVERINGTONLineage00006.htm

JUST A NOTE : all the accending Tree information was gathered from the Smith-Goodale-Caldwell family tree on Ancestry.com I have attempted to copy accurately, however I may have made mistakes in transfering, so I would suggest going th that site and checking for yourself. I am only copyint the info here, and have done none of the research. Any errors in research belong to the owners of the S-G-C tree.

Robert married Alice Longford in ~ 1385 in (Nevill) Holt, Leicestershire, England. Alice was born in ~ 1366 in Longford, Derbyshire, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

John married Lettice LNU. Lettice was born in ~1335; died before 1374. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Ralph married Alice Driby after 1367. Alice was born in 1340 in Kirkby Mallory, Leicestershire, England; died on 26 Mar 1393. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Alt Death: 1364

Richard married Alicia Plympton in 1351. Alicia (daughter of William Plumpton and Christiana Mowbray) was born in ~ 1332 in Plympton, St. Mary, Devon, England; died in 1384; was buried in St Elphin Churchyard, Warrington, Lancashire, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Alt Birth: ~ 1335, Plumpton, Yorkshire, England
• Alt Death: Aft 6 Nov 1408, Bewsey Hall, Warrington, Lancashire, England

Other Events and Attributes:

• Residence: London, Middlesex, England

Notes:

John Harington, 2nd Baron Harington (1328-1363)[2] of Aldingham in Furness, Lancashire, was an English peer, who inherited the title Baron Harington in 1347 on the death of his grandfather John Harington, 1st Baron Harington (1281-1347).

Origins

He was the son of Sir Robert Harington (d.1334), who predeceased his own father the 1st Baron.[4]

His mother was Elizabeth de Multon (born 1306), daughter of Thomas de Multon and one of the three sisters and co-heiresses of John de Multon.[5] She was the heiress of several estates including: Thurston in Suffolk; Moulton, Skirbeck and Fleet in Lincolnshire , of Egremont in Cumbria and of manors in County Limerick, Ireland.[6]

Elizabeth outlived her husband and in about 1334 remarried to Walter de Birmingham.[7]

Career

In 1353 he confirmed the agreement made by his grandfather with the Abbot of Furness Abbey,[8] his feudal overlord at Aldingham.[9] In 1355 he nominated an attorney to act for him in Ireland, where he had inherited lands in County Limerick from his mother.[10] John Harington was granted a lease of the manor of Hornby by Henry of Grosmont, 1st Duke of Lancaster and also held the manors of Bolton-le-Moors, Chorley and Aighton. In 1358 he moved to London to take part in services for king Edward III.

Marriage & progeny

The name of his wife is not known, possibly she was Joan de Birmingham, daughter of his step-father Walter de Birmingham.[11] By his wife he had progeny including:

Robert Harington, 3rd Baron Harington (1356–1406)

Death & burial

He died on 28 May 1363 at his seat Gleaston Hall[12] in the manor of Aldingham,[13] and was buried in Cartmel Priory in Lancashire.[14]

Gleaston Castle where Harrington died in 1363 https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/67/North-Tower-from-NW.jpg/220px-North-Tower-from-NW.jpg

Sources

GEC Complete Peerage, Vol.6, pp. 314–321, Baron Harington, pp. 314–16, biography of John Harington, 1st Baron Harington

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Died:
Gleaston Castle is situated in a valley about 0.5 km north-east of the village of Gleaston, which lies between the towns of Ulverston and Barrow-in-Furness in the Furness peninsula, Cumbria, England.

The castle is first mentioned specifically in 1389, although Sir John de Harrington, 2nd Baron Harington of Aldingham is said to have died at Gleaston in 1369. It is generally assumed that the castle was begun by his grandfather Sir John, 1st Baron Harington at around the time he was summoned to Parliament in 1326. It has been suggested that the Harington family may have found it necessary to move from Aldingham as the sea was eating away at the cliff on which their tower was built. Another alternative explanation is that they needed more room for a greater number of servants.

Map, image & source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gleaston_Castle

Buried:
Cartmel Priory church serves as the parish church of Cartmel, Cumbria (formerly in Lancashire). The priory was founded in 1190 by William Marshal, created 1st Earl of Pembroke, intended for the Augustinian Canons and dedicated to Saint Mary the Virgin and Saint Michael. To support the new house William granted it the whole fief of the district of Cartmel.[1] It was first colonised by a prior and twelve monks from Bradenstoke Priory in Wiltshire.[2] The only other surviving monastic building is the gatehouse which faces the village square. The church is an active Anglican parish church in the deanery of Windermere, the archdeaconry of Westmorland and Furness, and the diocese of Carlisle. Its benefice is united with those of St Mary, Allithwiate, St Peter, Field Broughton, St John the Baptist, Flookburgh, St Paul, Grange-over-Sands, Grange Fell Church, Grange-Over-Sands, and St Paul, Lindale, to form the benefice of Cartmel Peninsula.[3] The church is recorded in the National Heritage List for England as a designated Grade I listed building.

Between 1327 and 1347 a chapel with four traceried windows was provided by Lord Harrington in the south choir aisle, and in fact his tomb is still in the building. The gatehouse, which apart from the church itself is the only surviving structure of the priory, was built between 1330 and 1340.

Map, image & source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cartmel_Priory

John married Lady (Joan de Birmingham), Baroness of Harington. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

John's wife is also reported as, "Katherine Banastre";

Individual Page
Person Info

Name: Katherine /Banastre/, heir of Farleton 1 2
Sex: F
Birth: ABT 1307 in Bretherton, Chorley, Lancashire, England
Death: 7 AUG 1359 in Farleton, Kendal, Westmorland, England
Person Id: I04346
Tree Id: 162642

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Parents
Father:
Adam /Banastre/, of Bank Hall, Sir: Birth: ABT 1270 in Bank Hall, Bretherton, Lancashire, England. Death: AFT 8 OCT 1315 in Duxbury, Chorley, Lancashire, England (beheaded)
Mother:
Margaret de /Holand/: Birth: ABT 1265 in Upholland, Wigan, Lancashire, England. Death: ABT 1329 in Bracewell, Skipton, Yorkshire West Riding, England

Family
Marriage:
Married: John /Harington/, of Farleton & Farleton, Sir.
John /Harington/, of Farleton & Farleton, Sir: Birth: ABT 1307 in Farleton, Melling Parish, Lancashire, England. Death: 1 AUG 1359 in Farleton, Kendal, Westmorland, England
Children:
Nicholas /Harington/, of Farleton& Farleton,MP,Sir: Birth: 1345 in Farleton, Melling Parish, Lancashire, England. Death: 1403 in Farleton, Kendal, Westmorland, England


Sources
1. Page: 34-32
2. Page: II:266-73

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Katharine (Katherine) Harington formerly Banastre
Born about 1307 in Lancashire, England
ANCESTORS ancestors
Daughter of Adam Banastre and Margaret (Holland) Banastre
Sister of Alice (Blackburn) Sherburne [half] and Adam Banastre [half]
Wife of John (Harrington) Harington — married about 1340 in England
DESCENDANTS descendants
Mother of Nicholas (Harrington) Harington MP
Died 7 Aug 1359 in England

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Sources
British History online: Chorley
http://wc.rootsweb.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=GET&db=jweber&id=I04346
http://archiver.rootsweb.ancestry.com/th/read/GEN-MEDIEVAL/2004-05/1085450671
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Other Events and Attributes:

• Alt Birth: ~1320, Highhead Castle, Cumbria, England

Notes:

Sir William's 5-generation pedigree... http://www.ourfamilyhistories.org/ahnentafel.php?personID=I58809&tree=00&parentset=0&generations=5

William married Lady Margaret le Brun about 1348 in Talton, Lancashire, England. Margaret was born in 0___ 1328 in Bowness, Cumbria, England; died in 0___ 1362 in England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

About Lady Margaret Le Brun
ID: I33824

Name: Margaret LE BRUN

Given Name: Margaret

Surname: LE BRUN

Sex: F

Birth: <1318> in Bownwys, Cumberland, England

Death: Y

_UID: 6DDEDD87A8F24A4FB0D5162AE6CC62EEA90B

Change Date: 6 Aug 2001 at 17:51

Father: Richard LE BRUN b: <1312> in Bownwys, Cumberland, England

Marriage 1 William ENGLISH b: Abt 1326 in Lancashire, England

Married: Abt 1342 in Talton, Lancashire, England

Change Date: 6 Aug 2001

Children

Isabel ENGLISH b: 1344-1345

JUST A NOTE : all the accending Tree information was gathered from the Smith-Goodale-Caldwell family tree on Ancestry.com I have attempted to copy accurately, however I may have made mistakes in transfering, so I would suggest going th that site and checking for yourself. I am only copyint the info here, and have done none of the research. Any errors in research belong to the owners of the S-G-C tree.

William married Joan Vernon. Joan (daughter of Sir Richard Vernon and Juliana Vesci) was born in ~1298 in Hornington, Wiltshire, England; died in 1374. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Simon married Isabel Boteler. Isabel (daughter of Sir William le Boteler, 1st Baron Boteler and Beatrice de Herdeburgh) was born in 1295 in Wem, Shropshire, England; died in 1347. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]