John Echols, II, The Immigrant

Male 1650 - 1712  (62 years)


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  • Name John Echols 
    Suffix II, The Immigrant 
    Birth 17 Feb 1650  (Lunenburg County) Virginia Find all individuals with events at this location  [1, 2, 3
    Gender Male 
    Alt Birth 17 Feb 1650  Winslow, England Find all individuals with events at this location  [4
    Possessions New Kent County, Virginia Colony  [6
    Death 12 Dec 1712  Lunenburg County, Virginia Find all individuals with events at this location  [2, 3, 4
    Person ID I20051  The Hennessee Family
    Last Modified 19 Jan 2018 

    Father John Echols, I, The Immigrant,   b. ~1619, Gravesend, Kent, England Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 1680, Hampton City, Virginia, Colony of the British Empire Find all individuals with events at this location (Age ~ 60 years) 
    Mother Mary Eleanore Gilmore,   b. ~1620, Bristol, England Find all individuals with events at this locationd. ~1671, Bristol, England Find all individuals with events at this location (Age ~ 51 years) 
    Marriage ~1648  England Find all individuals with events at this location  [4, 7, 8
    Family ID F17897  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

    Family Mary Cave,   b. 1661, Orange County, Virginia, British Colonies of North America Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 1712, King & Queens County, Virginia, British Colonies of North America Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 51 years) 
    Marriage 1688  Caroline County, Virginia, British Colonies of North America Find all individuals with events at this location  [3, 9, 10, 11
    Children 
     1. Mary Eleanor Eckolls,   b. ~1690, King and Queen County, Virginia Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 2 Nov 1771, Halifax County, Virginia Find all individuals with events at this location (Age ~ 81 years)
    Family ID F6993  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
    Last Modified 30 Apr 2023 

  • Event Map
    Link to Google MapsBirth - 17 Feb 1650 - (Lunenburg County) Virginia Link to Google Earth
    Link to Google MapsAlt Birth - 17 Feb 1650 - Winslow, England Link to Google Earth
    Link to Google MapsMarriage - 1688 - Caroline County, Virginia, British Colonies of North America Link to Google Earth
    Link to Google MapsDeath - 12 Dec 1712 - Lunenburg County, Virginia Link to Google Earth
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  • Notes 
    • About John Echols, II

      Source: http://www.armory.com/~vern/family/newsletter/echols.htm

      From HISTORY OF ECHOLS FAMILY by MILNER ECHOLS 1850

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

      (Other details set out in tree as applicable)

      First Echols in Virginia

      ID: I5585
      Name: John ECHOLS Sr.

      Surname: ECHOLS

      Given Name: John

      Suffix: Sr.

      Sex: M

      Birth: 17 Feb 1650 in Wilmslow,Cheshire,England

      Death: 1712 in Lunenburg, Virginia, USA

      Ancestral File #: NNRL-3F

      Note:

      In 1850 Milner Echols wrote-The Short History of Our Family? beginning with his earliest known ancestor, John Echols Sr. who married Mary Cave about 1688. His grandson brought it to Texas and the Dallas Genealogical Society published it. Milner was not a genealogist and other historians have surpassed his work. Nevertheless, it is interesting because he wrote it so long ago. In this Family Topic, we will quote him periodically. Quotations in italics are Milner?s words.-John Echols an Englishman Came to America about the end of the 16th or the beginning of the 17th Century and Settled in Caro County Verginia and married a tall Redheaded woman named Mary Cave - & by her had 5 Sons & 3 Daughters. - Yet, some historians believe Echols was not English but Welsh and perhaps even Welsh Quaker. We do not know who John?s father was.

      Three other Echols were in Virginia before John: Joyce Echoll in 1652 , Richard Eccles in 1653 , and Sylvester Echols in 1664 . The most likely of the three to be the father of John is Richard Eccles. They spelled the name-Echols? many ways in the records:-Eckles,?-Eckols,?-Eccles,?-Eckels,? etc. Some have speculated that John Echols wasidentical to the John Eccles who appeared near Herrin Creek in Charles City County 1677-94 . This John Echols married possibly a daughter of Thomas Harris and his wife, Yuet ?. On 13 September 1677 , administration of the estate of Thomas Harris was granted John Echols and John Hardaway. Thomas Harris, likely the son of the elder Thomas Harris and who had come of age, petitioned the court to summon Echols on 2 March 1690/1 . Charles City County awarded Echols 200 pounds of tobacco for two wolves heads in 1691 . We can find no evidence that John Echols of Charles City County was John Echols Indeed the former John Echols was killing wolves in Charles City County while the latter John Echols was living in New Kent. We do not know who Mary Cave?s father was but we presume he was one of a few men named Cave in early Virginia. The most likely candidate is John Cave [1678] who twice applied for a land patent with John Echols. Mary was said to be born about 1650 and died after 1712. On 20 April 1685, John Echols and William Morris received 350 acres-behind land formerly of Mr. Giles Moody? in New Kent County.

      This was for the transportation of seven persons. Echols and Morris allowed their right to the land lapse and James Taylor obtained its patent in 1688 . On 23 April 1688, John alone was granted 321 acres next to land he already owned. John evidently prospered because fifteen years later he, Samuel Craddock, John Cave, and William Glover were granted 1,620 acres on the-branches of Tuckahoe Swamp and the freshes of Mattaponi River in King and Queen and Essex Counties.? John never lived in Caro County because they created it sixteen years after he died. Yet in 1685 the boundaries of New Kent County adjoined the present-day Caro County and part of John?s land may have been in what is now Caro County. On 23 October 1703, John Echols and John Cave secured a patent for 600 acres in St. Stephens Parish in King and Queen County. John Echols paid quit rents on 220 acres in 1704. John and Mary were the parents of five sons: John , Abraham , William , Joseph, and Richard Echols .

      Their three daughters were Eleanor , Ann , and Elizabeth Echols.. The Echols sons were dependable Amelia County citizens and served on juries when called. Of twelve good men on the jury of Robert Vaughan vs. Richard Ward on 9 December 1737, three were Richard, William, and Abraham Echols . On historian reported that seven individuals, including four sons of John Echols Sr., were granted 6,000 acres of land in Spotsylvania County, Virginia, on 11 December 1728. Yet no such patent was ever issued. The Echols sons were Abraham , William, Joseph , and Richard Echols . Another participant was William Echols?s son-in-law, Richard Anderson Jr. We believe these four Echols sons lived in Amelia County, Virginia, until around 1750. They then resettled in what is now Halifax County and Pittsylvania County. The Gillintine, Marchbanks, Collins, Hendrick, and Hubbard families, who intermarried with the Echols, moved from Amelia County to Halifax around the same time.

      After the Echols family moved from Amelia County, another Echols family arrived. Edward Echols, patented 400 acres in July 1738, 548 acres in April 1748, and 364 acres in September 1755. In 1755 as Edward Echols-of Albemarle Parish, Sussex County, Virginia,? he deeded land to his brother, Robert Echols of Nottoway Parish , and his son, Thomas Echols . This was perhaps the Edward Echols who secured a patent for 140 acres in Surry (later Sussex) County in 1727 to which he added 104 acres in 1743. Both Edward and Thomas Eccles were later in Albemarle Parish and the Albemarle Parish Register records the births of some of their children. Edward Echols died in Sussex County [27 Oct 1757 / 21 Apr 1758] leaving Amelia County land to several sons.

      Other notes:

      John Echols, according to the best history, migrated to the US during Oliver Cromwell's time, because of some differences between Cromwell and himself! He is reputed to have had large possessions in England, and to have sold same, turning the proceeds thereof into gold and brought with him. He settled in Virginia, becoming a large planter and slave owner.

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      Notes from http://www.virginians.com/redirect.htm?topics&838

      Land patents for John Echols On 20 April 1685 John Echols and William Morris received 350 acres ?behind land formerly of Mr. Giles Moody? in New Kent County. This was for the transportation of seven persons. Echols and Morris allowed their right to the land lapse and James Taylor obtained its patent in 1688. On 23 April 1688, John alone was granted 321 acres next to land he already owned. Fifteen years later in 1703, he, Samuel Craddock, John Cave, and William Glover were granted 1,620 acres on the ?branches of Tuckahoe Swamp and the freshes of Mattaponi River? in King and Queen and Essex Counties. The tract began on the east side of Potobago Path. A patent for Francis Meriwether places Potobago Path on the branches of Hoskins Creek. Thus the tract was 2-3 miles south of present-day Beazley, Virginia. On 23 October 1703, John Echols and John Cave secured a patent for 600 acres in St. Stephen?s Parish in King and Queen County.

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      Change Date: 23 Apr 2008 at 15:50:50

      Father: John ECHOLS OR EXOLL b: 1619 in Grovesend, Kent, England

      Mother: Mrs John ECHOLS b: 1622 in Grovesend, Kent, England

      Marriage 1 Mary CAVE b: 5 Jul 1661 in Misterton,Leicester,England

      Married: ABT 1688 in Caroline, Burswick, Virginia, USA

      Sealing Spouse: 16 Apr 2003 in SLAKE

      Children

      Mary Elenor ECHOLS b: ABT 1690 in , Amelia, Virginia, USA
      Abraham ECHOLS b: ABT 1700 in Amelia, Virginia, USA
      Elizabeth ECHOLS b: ABT 1708 in Amelia, Virginia, USA
      John ECHOLS b: 1671 in Amelia, Virginia, USA
      William ECHOLS b: ABT 1702 in Amelia, Virginia, USA
      Joseph ECHOLS b: ABT 1704 in Amelia, Virginia, USA
      Richard ECHOLS b: ABT 1706 in King Queen, Virginia, USA
      Ann ECHOLS b: ABT 1692 in Amelia, Virginia, USA
      Eleanor ECHOLS
      Sources:

      Repository:

      Name: Family History Library

      Salt Lake City, UT 84150 USA

      Title: Ordinance Index (TM)

      Author: The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints

      Repository:

      Name: Family History Library

      Salt Lake City, Utah 84150 USA

      Title: Ancestral File (R)

      Author: The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints

      Publication: Copyright (c) 1987, June 1998, data as of 5 January 1998

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    • John Echols aka Ecles, Eckles, Eckols, Eccles, Eckels
      Born about 1650 in New Kent County, Virginia Colonymap
      Son of John Echols and Mary Eleanor (Gilmore) Echols
      [sibling(s) unknown]
      Husband of Mary (Cave) Echols — married 1688 in Caroline, Virginia, USAmap
      DESCENDANTS descendants
      Father of Eleanor Echols, Mary Eleanor (Echols) Gillington, Abraham Echols, Drucella Echols, Elizabeth Echols, John Echols, Mary Elizabeth (Echols) Gillentine, Ann Echols, Ann (Eckols) Marchbanks, Eleanor Elizabeth (Echols) Murphy, Joseph Echols, Moses Echols, Richard Echols, William Echols and Sallie Echols
      Died 1712 in King and Queen County. Virginia Colonymap

      Biography

      John Echols, Ecles, Eckles, Eckols, Eccles, Eckels

      John Echols an Englishman came to America about the end of the 16th or the beginning of the 17th Century and settled in Caroline County, Virginia, and married a tall redheaded woman named Mary Cave and by her had five sons and three daughters.

      Research Notes

      The John "Ecles" who signed on as a passenger aboard the America on 23 June 1635, aged 16,[1] may have been the father of this John Echols.[2]

      Sources

      ? Clemens, William Montgomery, (1912) Genealogy : a Journal of American Ancestry. New York: W.M. Clemens, Archive.org (Page 43).
      ? John Echols & Mary Cave
      See also:

      (12 April 2014) Family Search - Abraham Echols, accessed 9 Mar 2015.

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    • John Echols an Englishman came to America about the end of the 16th or the beginning of the 17th Century and settled in Caroline County, Virginia, and married a tall redheaded woman named Mary Cave and by her had five sons and three daughters.

      I shall begin with his sons first and carry out their family as far as my knowledge extends.

      * [3]

  • Sources 
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    2. [S49332] http://trees.ancestry.com/tree/15224945/person/231939394.

    3. [S10935] "Family Tree of John Echols & Mary Cave", abstracted, downloaded and published Saturday, February 4th, 2017 by David A.

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    6. [S49693] http://wc.rootsweb.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=GET&db=bevangenealogy&id=I5475.

    7. [S10938] "John Echols, I", Biography, retrieved, recorded & uploaded to this website, Monday, May 1st, 2017, by David A. Hennesse.

    8. [S14629] "Mary Eleanor (Gilmore) Echols (abt. 1620 - abt. 1671)", Profile, Descendants, https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Gilmore-173.

    9. [S28] "The Wiseman Family & Allied Lines, Vol. I", by Eugene Wiseman, published 1991, p. 359 (Reliability: 3).

    10. [S10936] "John Echols (abt. 1650 - 1712)", Profile & Biography, retrieved, recorded & uploaded to this website, Monday, May 1st,.

    11. [S14622] "Mary (Cave) Echols (1661 - 1712)", Profile, Ancestors, Descendants, select, "Ancestors", to view sourcing, https://www.