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BOOKS BY MR. CABELL
Genealogy :
THE MAJORS AND THEIR MARRIAGES
BRANCH OF ABINGDON
BRANCHIANA
Fiction :
THE RI\^T IN GRANDFATHER'S NECK
THE SOUL OF MELICENT
CHIVALRY
THE CORDS OF VANITY
GALLANTRY
THE LINE OF LOVE
THE EAGLE'S SHADOW
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JAMES BRANCH CABELL
With Collateral Accounts of the Allied
Families of Aston, Ballard, Christian,
Danc3% Hartwell, Hubard, Macon, Mar-
able, Mason, Patteson, Piersey, SeaweU,
Stephens, Waddill, and Others.
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BALLARD HARTWELL CABELL
In Commemoration op His Christening
Acknowledgment at Large
MATERIAL for this volume has, for the most part,
been dra^^-n firsthand from the original Virginia
county records, notably those of Charles City and
York and Chesterfield. Equity demands, however, that the
compiler confess his obhgation to divers stray items in the
Virginia Magazine of History and Biography and, especially,
in the William and Mary College Quarterly, for verj' often
indicating the most remunerative lines of investigation.
Among other volumes consulted and freely used should in
particular be specified Mr. Lyon G. Tyler's Cradle of the
Republic, Mr. W. G. Stanard's Colonial Virginia Register,
Hotten's Original Lists of Emigrants, Hening's Statutes at
Large, Neill's Virginia Carolorum, and Mr. Philip Alexander
Bruce's monumental books, the Institutional History, the
Economic History, and the Social Life, of Virginia during the
seventeenth centurj'.
To the last-named three histories in particular the compiler
stands so deep in debt that it seems hideously ungracious to
point out in Mr. Bruce's account of the Stephens-Harrison
duel, as given on page 245 of the Social History, a curious
misprint, whereby the wrong participant is killed; but, thus
embalmed in a work of such perdurable worth, the error
is of grave weight to all descendants of Captain Richard
Stephens, since it untimeously bereaves them of their
progenitor an awkwardly long while before his marriage.
Yet — be it repeated, — it is only the splendor and the finality
of Mr. Bruce's achievement which lends importance to any
mistake therein, such as elsewhere might be trivial.
In conclusion, the compiler is under no little personal
obligation to Mr. :Morgan P. Robertson, for facilitating
access to the Virginia State Archives; to Mr. Daniel M.
Patterson, for assistance in investigating the Virginia Land
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ACKNOWLEDGMENT AT LARGE
Grants and Bounty Warrants; to Mrs. Kate Pleasants Minor
of the Virginia State Library, and to Mr. W.G. Stanard of
the Virginia Historical Society, for innumerable helpful
courtesies; to Mr. Reginald S. ALijor, for much verj- patient
guidance and aid among the Charles City records, as to Mr.
T. T. Hudgins for similar pilotage among those of York;
also, to Mrs. Beverley B. ]\Iunford, for placing her excellent
library of Virginiana at the compiler's disposal, however
unintentionally: and above all, to ]\Irs. John R. Waddill,
"vsathout whose invaluable co-operation in every line of
research this book would never have been possible.
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CONTENTS
PAGE
Edward Major of Naxsemond 13
Aston of Charles City 26
Note on Major of Accomac: and of King William . . 28
William Major of York 34
Mason of Norfolk: with Seawell of Elizabeth City . . 46
Note on Macon of New Kent: and Christian of Charles
City 50
John Major of York and Charles City 56
Hubard of York 68
Supplementary Note as to Ballard of York 71
James Major of Charles City 77
Ballard of Charles City: with Dancy of Charles City . 86
Supplementary Note as to Ballard of James City ... 90
John Major of Charles City 102
Marable of James City ' . . . -113
Note on Piersey, Stephens and Hartwell of James City . 118
Descendants of John Major 133
Note on Waddill of N'ew Kent and Charles City . . . 139
Appendix — Patteson of New Kent and Chesterfield 154
Note on Waddill of Amherst 186
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T LEAST four persons sumamed Major
came to Virginia early in the seven-
teenth century, and left descendants
there in the male hne. An Edward Ma-
jor was living in Old Accomack before
1635, and died before 1646, lea%-ing a
son, Thomas Major, who married Eliza-
beth Pierce, and had issue. John Major, who according to
a deposition was bom in 1607, seemingly another son of
Edward Major, was lj\dng in Accomack in 1634, where
he married, first, ^Maudlin , and, second, in 1640,
Jany Lorrimer; and he too left issue. The descendimts of
John Alajor and Thomas IMajor, however, appear all to
have made their homes upon the Eastern Shore.
Upon the mainland a Richard Major patented land ui
Charles River, afterward York, county, 12 ]\lay 163S; and
eventually acquired by further patents and purchases a
considerable plantation in the present King William county.
He died circa 1670, lea\ang four sons, John, Richard, George
and Francis Major, of whom all save Richard certauily had
issue. Many circumstances indicate the probabihty of
this elder Richard ^Major's ha\'ing been another son of the
Edward Major who settled in Old Accomack, although of
this there is no positive proof. For a more detailed notice
of these IMajor immigrants compare page 28.
Another Edward Major — who despite the similarity of
name appears to have had no connection with either the
Accomack or King William county Majors — ^^^'as bom in
England in 101.5, and came to Virginia in the Bonavcnture,
arriving in the January of 1634-5. He is named as a head-
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right in Robert Bennett's land-patent of 26 June 1635. A
headright, it may jjermissibly be premised, was a person of
sixteen or upward whose passage to the Colony had been
paid for by the patentee, whereby the latter became en-
titled to fifty acres of land.
This Robert Bemiett was brother to the Richard Bennett
who was Governor of Mrginia in 1652-1655, and there was
perhaps some tie of blood between the families of Bennett
and of Edward Major. There was certainly a close friend-
ship; and the vrWl of Anthony Barham of Mulberry Island,
Richard Bennett's brother-in-law, (dated and proved in the
September of 1641), leaves a bequest of £10 — the equivalent
then of S250 — to "my friend Edward Major," and "50
shilUngs, to make her a ring" to "Martha Alajor, wife of
my loving friend"; and appoints Edward Major as one of
the two executors in Virginia, with an additional legacy
of £3, to purchase a mourning ring.
Edward Major seems to have hved for a while in Charles
River county, (the name of which as has been said was
afterward changed to York), where he witnessed a deed
given by Captain John Utie of "Utimaria", 20 November
1635. He eventually settled, however, in Norfolk, in that
part of the county from which Nansemond was formed a
little later, where, on IS ^lay 1637, Edward IMajor patented
450 acres, in the upper county of New Norfolk, on Nanse-
mond river, and adjoining the land of Da:iiel Gookin. The
land was claimed as due for the transportation of nine
persons, who are enumerated as Ed^vard Major, Thomas
Terrell, William Beates, William Young, Arthur Pumell,
John Ripple, Richard Grigson, Jane Grigson, and John
Griffith. The inclusion of his own name as a headright
suggests that Edward ]VIajor had revisited England in 1636,
after having a glimpse of the Colony; and returning perma-
nently, had paid his own passage over, with that of eight
other persons.
This patent was renewed 4 October 1644, and again on 10
February 1645-6, with fifty additional acres of marsh land
added for the transport of one more headright. Edward
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Major had meanwhile also patented 300 acres in "\Var\Yick
county, 24 September 1645.
Edward ^lajor was evidently a Puritan, one of the many
whom the Beimetts brought to Virginia; and it was most
natural he should have made his home in Xansemond,
which was then a stronghold of the non-conformists. It
was this Xansemond colony of dissenters from the Church
of England which in 1642 sent letters to Boston requesting
that Puritan clergymen be assigned them, to minister to
their spiritual wants. John Winthrop, then Governor of
Massachusetts, sent in reply three eminent divines; and Sir
William Berkeley, then Governor of Virginia, and whatever
his other virtues a staunch churchman, caused the Assembly
forthwith to decree:
"FFOR the preservation of the puritie of doctrine & \Tiitie
of the church, It is enacted that all ministers whatsoever
which shall reside in the collony are to be conformable to
the orders and constitutions of the church of England, and
the laws therein established, and not otherwise to be ad-
mitted to teach or preach publickly or privatly; And that
the Gov. and Counsel do take care that all nonconformists,
vpon notice of them, shall be compelled to depart the collony
with all conveniencie."
An appalling massacre of the colonists by the Indians
followed hard upon the putting into efTect of this law, in
1644: and was heralded by the Puritans as an e\Tncement of
Heaven's indignation at the persecutions to wliich they
were being subjected. Thomas Harrison, Governor Berke-
ley's own chaplain and spiritual adviser, was converted to
Puritanism by the manifest miracle. But other churchmen
moralized with a difference, and in the massacre divined an
evidence of the Deity's condemnation of their sin in ever
having permitted \'irginia to be contaminated by the
admittance of Puritans.
In Xansemond — the county was formed from X^orfolk in
1646 — Edward Major was for many years a justice of the
peace, remaining in commission until his death. The
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Governor from among the "most able, honest, and judicious"
citizens of their respective counties: in addition to requiring
these quahties, a poUtic governor most naturally sought
to place the laws' achninist ration in the hands of persons of
sufficient fortunes to render them inmiune to bribery, and
of enough influence, in one way or another, to render their
goodwill of importance to himself. The dignity, following
the English precedent, was honorary', and carried no salary
in any strict sense of the term; somewhat later, by an act
passed in 1661-2, it was ordered that thirty pounds of tobacco
be paid toward the maintenance of the county judges by
every Utigant in their respective courts who failed to uin
his suit.
Edward Major was hkewise long an officer of the Nanse-
mond militia, being named Lieutenant-Colonel thereof in
1653. Membership in the militia was not in those days of
continual Indian warfare a gaud}' matter of marching in a
parade; all freemen between sixteen and sixty were liable to
ser\'ice; and officership therein was so highly esteemed that
the honor and responsibility were awarded, by the Governor,
to each county's most prominent men, and to such alone.
To abridge from Mr. Bruce's invaluable Institutional History
of Virginia in the Seventeenth Century: "The reason for this
is quite simple — serving as officers in the militia did not
merely create an opportunity for personal display on
occasions when an entire county's inhabitants were present
to take part in the muster drill; it meant far more even than
the gratification of a taste for military' exercises, for in
the end, every officer was certain to have an experience of
warfare in its harshest forms . . . The most ordinary-
foresight, therefore, dictated that, when the appointment
of these officers was to be made, the most capable men whom
each county could furnish should be chosen, if for no other
reason, to strengthen the confidence of the common soldiers,
when the hour for fighting arrived . . . The prospect
of personal peril must in itself have been a powerful induce-
ment to the yomiger members of the principal families to
seek a position higher than the file . . . The appalling
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features of warfare with a foe regardless of all the amenities
of civilized combat must also have had its effect in stimulat-
ing that patriotic feeling which was no small factor among
the motives causing the foremost citizens to apply for
positions of command in the militia. And appointments
to such a position as involving the defence of every fireside,
tended also to enhance that general influence in the com-
munit}^ at large already enjoyed by the man filhng it."
Then, too, in the Virginia House of Burgesses — correspond-
ing roughly to our modem Legislature, and modeled upon
the English House of Parliament — Edward Major served
five terms. He represented Upper Norfolk for the sessions
beginning 20 November 1645 and 1 March 1645-6; and
Nansemond county for the sessions beginning 5 October
1646, and 26 April 1652, and 5 July 1653, being Speaker of
the House in 1652.
It is noticeable that he was made Speaker coincidently
with Richard Bennett's accession to the governorship, 30
April 1652. This, of course, marked the reluctant surrender
of Virginia, in March 1652, to the Commonwealth and
Puritan supremacy. Through this momentous turn of
affairs was Richard Bennett — who received the surrender,
as the Commonwealth's commissioner and representative —
made Governor of Virginia, and his friend Edward Major
promoted to the most important position within the gift of
the House of Burgesses. In passing, the speakership was
an office no less lucrative than influential: and the Speaker's
salary was obtained in the same way as the Governor's,
every county being required to contribute thereto in pro-
portion to the number of tithables.
The Speaker elected for the next Assembly, that of 25
November 1652, was Colonel Thomas Dew, the other burgess
from Nansemond: and the following session, that of 5 July
1653, was inaugurated with perhaps the sohtary instance of
a governor's attempt to interfere with the choice of the
Burgesses for Speaker. Bennett's curious letter to the
House (given in Hening, I, 377) to protest against the
election of Walter Chiles, is at least capable of being con-
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strued as a suggestion that Bennett would be glad to see,
instead of Chiles, the Governor's friend Edward Major,
again a member of the House, re-elected to the Speakership.
But this is of necessity guess-work; and at all events, the
Burgesses chose William Whitby of Warwick.
Edward Major was during this session named for the
important office of one of the commissioners to be sent to
Northampton, to suppress the discontent there against
Parliamentary rule. The appointments of the Assembly
are hereinafter quoted; and this seems to have been his last
appearance in pubhc hfe.
Colonel Edward Major died either in the latter part of
1654 or in the January of 1655: he was, according to the
Norfolk records, among the justices of the peace sitting at a
court held in Nansemond 24 April 1654, and among the
Charles City records is a deed, dated 24 April 1655, from
"Susanna Major, relict of Lieutenant-Colonel Edward
Major", confirming her deceased husband's gift of "a mare
fole, that fell last August, of a bay CoUor, unto my brother
Mr. Walter Aston," which document was recorded 21 April
1656.
Edward Major had married twice: first, circa 1635,
Martha, probably a daughter of William Butler; and, second,
very probably in November 1652, Susanna, daughter of
Lieutenant-Colonel Walter Aston of Charles City. In
Charles City county is recorded a deed by Edward IMajor,
dated 17 November 1652, releasing Lieutenant-Colonel
Walter Aston from all past, present or futurely incurred
indebtedness touching the estate of Humphrey Leisher:
this puzzling document, hereinafter given, seems to mark a
relinquishment of dower rights on the occasion of Edward
Major's second marriage; and it was endorsed by Susanna
Major, 23 April 1655, and recorded 16 February' 1655-6.
By this second wife, who as has been seen survived him, he
appears to have had no children.
By his first marriage Edward Major had issue:
I. Edward Major of Nansemond, who married Sarah
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II. William ^L\jor of York, of whom an account is for
the present deferred.
III. Robert Major to whom his father left land in
Warwick county, possibly the land patented 24 September
1645. A Robert Major serv^ed on the jury in Surr}' 15
November 1652, but Edward Major's son of that name
could hardly then have been of age. Robert Major, prob-
ably a godson of Robert Bennett, seems to have left no
issue.
IV. MARTHA Major, who had married before 1654
Buckner. All record as to her descendants has been lost.
Notes made circa 1842 from the records of Nansemond
by a descendant of Edward Major state that Edward
Major's will was then on record there — "recorded in Febru-
ary' 1654-1655" — and that "he left to his son Edward his
lands in Nansemond, and to Robt some land in Warwick,
and to Wm his land in York Co." These notes are herein-
after quoted verbatim.
ILLUSTRATIVE DOCUMENTS
TO ALL TO whome these p'sents shall come, I, Sr
John ILa.rvey, Lft. Govem'r, See, send &c,
Whereas &c, Now Ivnow ye &c. That I, the said Sr
John Harvey, Kt, doe, wth the consent of the Counsell
of State, accordingly give and grannt unto Edward
Major fower hundred and fiftie acres of land, scituate,
lying and being in the upper Countie of New Norfolk, at
Nansamund river: North East Joyning to the land of
Daniell Gookin, gent; South west, upon a Creeke running
into the woods; South East, upon the said Nansamund
river; North west, into the woods: The saide fower hundred
and fiftie acres of land being due unto him, the said
Edward Major, by and for the transportacon, at his
own p'per coste and charges, of nine p'sons into this Colony,
whose names are in the records menconed under this pattent :
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To have and to hold, &c: dated this ISth of May 1637.
Ut in aliis.
Edward Major, Tho: Terrell, William Boates, William
Young, Arthur Pumell, John Ripple, Richard Grigson,
Jane Grigson, & John Griffith. (Headrights.)
— ViRGiNL^ Land Patents.
TO ALL &c. Whereas &c, Now Know yee that I, the
said Richard Kemp, Esqre, doe, with the ad\dee
and Consent of the Councill of State, Accordingly
give, grant and confirm unto Edward ]Ma.jor four hun-
dred and fifty acres of Land, Scituate, lying and being
in the County of Upper Norfolk, att Nansimond river:
South west upon a Creeke Commonly Called Major's
Creeke; South East and by South upon Nansimond river;
North west and by North unto ye Woods; and North East
adjojniing to Land Claimed by Olliver Sprye: The said
four hundred and fifty acres of Land being by Patent (but
misbounded), bearing Date the 18th of May, Anno Dom'o
1637, granted to the Said Edward ]NLa.jor by Sr John
Harv'ey, the then Govemr, and Councill; and being due
unto the said Edward ]\L\jor by and for the Trans-
portation, at his own proper Cost and Charges, of nine
persons into the Colony, Whose Names are Mentioned in
the records Under the Patent: To have and to hold &c, to
be held &c, Yeilding and paying unto our Said Sovereign
Lord the King, his heires and Success'rs for Ever, or to
his or their rent gath'ers, for Every fifty acres of Land
herein and by these presents given and granted, yearly at
the feast of St. Michaell the Archangell, begining Seven
yeares after the Date of the form'r Patent above Specified,
the fee rent of one Shilling, to his Majestie's Use: Dated the
4th Day of October 1644.
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TO ALL &c, Whereas &c, Now Know yea that I,
the said Sr Willum Berkely, ICnt, doe, with the
Ad\ice and Consent of the Councill of State,
Accordingly give, grant and confirm unto j\Ir. Edward
Major three hundred acres of Land, Scituate, lyeing and
being in the County of Warvvick: and bounding westerly on
the Land of John Salford, Now in the Occupation of Thomas
ffulkener; and thence Extending along the bank of the Maine
river Easterly one hundred and fifty poles, and there bound-
ing on the Land of Thomas Godby Southerly, upon the
bank of the Maine river; and thence running into the Woods
Northerley three hundred and twenty poles: the said three
hundred acres of Land being due unto him, the said
Edward ]\L\.jor, by and for the Transportation of Six
persons into this Colony, all whose names are in the records
Mentioned under this Patent: which said three hundred
acres of Land was form'ly granted to several persons, —
Vizt., one hundred and fifty acres to Pharaoh fThnten, one
hundred to Giles Allington, and fifty to William Bentley, —
but being by them Deserted, is now granted to the Said
Edward Ma.jor: According to the Custome of the Coun-
trey. To have and to hold &c, to bee held &c, Yeilding
and paying unto our Said Sovereign Lord the King his
heires and success'rs for Ever, or to his or their Treasurer
ffor Every fifty acres of Land herein by these presents given
and granted, year'ly at the feast of St. Michaell the Arch-
angell, the fee rent of one shilling, to his Majestie's Use: —
Provided &c: Dated September ye 24th 1645.
— ^Virginia Land Patents.
TO ALL &c, Whereas &c, Now Know yee that I, the
said Sr WiLLLA.>f Berkeley, Knt, doe, "with the
advice and Consent of the Councill of State, Ac-
cordingly give and grant unto Edward Major, Gent, four
hundred and fifty Acres of Land, together -with fifty acres
of Marsh thereunto AdjojTiing, Scituate and being in
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22 EDWARD MAJOR OF NANSEMOND
side of Nansimum river: and bcgining at a Marked red
oake Standing on a point of the Eastward side of the Mouth
of a Crceke Called Major's Creeke, and Nigh unto a Small
Island; and runing upon the Eastward side of the said Creeke
unto a Marked red oake Standing by the Creeke side; and
6oe nniing North East two hundred thirty-one poles unto a
Marke Hicker}-; and South East by South three hundred
and twenty poles, adjoyning on the Land of Mr. Oliver
Spry, unto a Marked Post Standing in a Marsh; and so by,
by or nigh, the Maine river side unto the first Mentioned
Marked tree, Including or bounding the Said quantity of
Land: The said five hundred Acres of Land being due unto
the said Edward Major as fTolloweth: (Vizt.), four hundred
and fifty acres, part thereof, by Vertue of a former patent
granted unto him, bearing Date the 4th Day of October
1644; and fifty acres of the residue thereof, by and for
the Transport of one person into this Colony, whose names
(sic) are in the records ^Mentioned under this Patent:
To have and to hold &c, to be held &c, Yeilding and paying
&c, which payment is to be made Seven yeares after the
Date of these presents, and not before &c, Provided <fcc,
Dated this 10th of ffebruary 1645.
— ^Virginia Land Patents.
WHEREAS the paper subscribed by name of the
inhabitants of Northampton countie is scandalous
and seditious, and hath caused much disturbance
in the peace and government of that county. It is therefore
ordered by this present Grand Assembly, That all the sub-
scribers of the said paper bee disabled from bearing any
office in this countrey, and that Leift. Edmund Scarbrough,
who hath been an assistant and instrument concemeing
the subscribeing of the same, bee also disabled from bearing
any office \Titill he hath answered there\'nto, and the honour-
able Govemour & Secretarie be intreated to go over to
Accomack, with such assistants as the house shall think fitt,
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for the settlement of the peace of that countie, and punishinge
delinquents.
According to an order of this Assembly, vpon the petition
of Ck)ll. Nathaniel Littleton, Coll. Argoll Yarley, Major
William Andrews, and some other commissioners of North-
ampton county, Master Speaker {Williaiyi Whitby of War-
vnck), Left. Coll. Edward Major, Left. Coll. Geo. Fletcher,
Coll. Thomas Dew and Left. Coll. Rob't Pitt are nomina-
ted as assistants to attend the Governour and Secretarie
for the settlement of the peace of that county, and the
punishment of delinquents there according to their de-
merrits, the appointment of all ofHcers both for peace
and warr, the division of that county, and the hearing and
determineing of the businesse of damages between Capt.
Daniel How and Left. Coll. Edm'd Scarbrough. As also
between Capt. John Jacob and the said Edmund Scarbrough,
with all other matters and tilings necessary and incident for
the preservation of the peace of that place, ffor which this
shall be their commission. The charges which the said com-
missioners shall be at, both in goeing, stayinge there &
returninge, to be levied vpon those persons that occasioned
their repair thither.
— Hexing 's Statutes at Large, I, 380, 384.
BE IT KNOVv'NE unto all men by these p'sents, that I,
Lt: Coll: Ed. Major, have remised, released &
quit-Claymed, & alwayes for me, my heires, ex'ors,
Adm'rs & ass'gns, do by these p'sents remise, release &
quitt-Claime Lt: Coll: Walter Aston of & from all &
all manner of avowe, as well ye reall as ye p'sonal debts &
reckonings, & debts or demands ensuing, that I, the s'd Lt:
Coll: ISLajor, my heires, ex'ors, adm'rs & assigns, or any
of us, had, now have, or we shall or may hereafter have
ag'st the s'd Lt: Coll: Aston, his heires, ex'rs, adm'rs, or
Assigns, for, touching or concemeing the estate of Humfrey
Leisher, dec'ed, or any p'rt or parcell thereof, from ye be-
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gimiing of ye worlde to ye p'sent day. In witnesse whereof
I have hereunto Sett my hande & Scale, ye 17th day of
November, An'o D'm 1652. pVEDW: MAJOR
Signed, Sealed & DeHver'd in ye p'sence of: (Signed)
Edw. Hill. Rec: fYebr: 16: 1656.
— Charles City County Records.
This document was endorsed by "Susanna Major, ye
reUct of Lt: Coll: Edd. "SLkjor" 23 April 1655, with an
acknowledgment of ha\dng "rec'd of my father, Lt: Coll:
Walter Aston full & reall satisfacon for all debts, dues &
Demands" touching the estate concerned, amounting in all
to some 5,8S0 pounds of tobacco: and this endorsement
likewise was recorded in Charies City 16 February' 1656.
KNOW ALL MEN by these p'sents that I, Susanna
^L\jor, ye Rehct of Lt: Coll: Edd. ?^Iajor, do
ratifie & Conhrme ye guifte of my dec'd husband,
(that is to say, one mare fole, that fell Last August, of a bay
Collor), unto my brother, Mr. Walter Aston; And do dis-
Claime all my Claime of ye s'd fole: As witness my hand,
this 24th day of Aprill 1655.
SUSANNA ^L\JOR
Rec: 21 Apr: 1656. Test: (Signed) Matthew Edlow,
Eklward Smith.
— Charles City County Records.
AT NANSEMOND C. H. is a copy of the w-iUs of three
members of the Major family, beginning with an
Edward Major, which was recorded in February
16.54-1655, and shows he had three sons, named Edward
and Robert and William, and a dater named Martha
Buckner. His wife had name Susanna. He left to his son
Edward his lands in Nansemond, and to Robt some land in
Warwick, and to Wm his land m York Co. His wife
Susannah died eight years after him, and her will names
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her nephews, John Cox and Thomas Binns, and her neice
Susan Binns, and her son in law William ]VIaior. There is
the will of an Edward Major recorded in 1661, I think in
June, which only mentions his uife Sarah and two friends.
In an old book of law I saw once that an Edward Major
was member of the old house of Burgesses in 1650, I think.
Mr Major's grandfather came from York to Chas C, long
before they lived at Burlington, as I have heard Pres Jno
Tyler say. They had Ballard kin there.
There is also a bond for five hundred pounds given by Thos
Cocke on marr}dng the Relict of Wm Major in 168- (the last
digit may be either 2 or 4) -vsith her father Lemuel Mason
and Jas Thelebault as his securities. This was the founder
of the Cockes of Malvern Hill with whom the Majors are
thus closely connected through their joint ancestress.
The foregoing notes were made by a descendant of Edward
Major in the end fly-leaves of a copy of Cooper's Homeward
Bound printed by Carey, Lea & Blanchard, in Philadelphia,
1838: though as the reference to "Pres Jno Tyler" shows,
the memoranda could not have been written therein before
1841. The records of Nansemond were partially destroyed
by fire in the April of 1734, which fact may account for the
notes' bre\'ity, without palHating their woeful looseness of
expression: but as the Nansemond records were destroyed
in toto shortly after the War between the States, it is now
impossible to amplify these notes, such as they are.
The "old book of law" was probably Hening's Statutes at
Large, and the date should be, not 1650, but 1652 or 1653.
"Maior" is, of course, only a variant spelling of "Major,"
frequently encountered; and "son-in-law" often means,
as here, "step-son." The writer, too, was mistaken in
stating that the Cockes of Malvern Hill descend from Thomas
Cocke and Elizabeth Mason, (who married, first, William
Major, son of Lieutenant Colonel Edward Major of Nanse-
mond), as Thomas Cocke left issue only two daughters.
The family in question traces instead from Richard Cocke,
who married Mary Aston, the sister of Colonel Edward
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Major's second wife, as is hereinafter explained: there was
thus in reaUty some connection between the famihes of
Ck)cke and Major, but none such as is asserted above.
ASTON OF CHARLES CITY
GOLOXEL EDWARD IVIAJOR married, first, circa
1636 Martha, supposed to have been a daughter of
Wilham Butler. She was probably the mother of all
his children. He married, second, certainly after 1641, and
presumably in 1G52, Susaima, daughter of Lieutenant-
Colonel Walter Aston of Charles City county.
"QIR WALTER ASTON of Tixall in Com. Staff.
/^ Knight, had issue: Leonard Aston borne in Tixall,
second son; he was of Longdon; who had issue:
Walter Aston of Longdon in Com. Staff. Gent, who married
Joyce, daughter of Nason of Rougham in Co. Warwick,
and had issue: (1) Thomas Aston, eldest son, liveth at
Kilbarry in Ireland; (2) Simon Aston of London, grocer,
A'o 1634, who married EHzabeth, daughter of John Wheeler
of London, merchant, and hath issue, William and Anne;
(3) Robert Aston of London, grocer, A'o 1634, who married
Sarah, daughter of John Stourton of Stourton in Com.
Nottingham, gent, and hath issue, Simon and Robert; and
(4) Walter Aston, now in the West Indies." The Visitation
of London, 1634, gives this pedigree. Virginia at that time,
be it noted, was often spoken of as the West Indies.
The immigrant to Virginia was thus cousin to Sir Walter
Aston, Ambassador to Spain 1620-25 and 1635-38, who was
created a baronet in 1611, and Lord Aston of Forfar in the
Scottish Peerage, 28 November 1627. Lord Aston was
descended in the following line: Sir Walter Aston of Tixall
in Com. Staff, knighted in 1560, who had with other issue:
Sir Edward Aston, knighted in 1570, who had issue: Sir
Walter (afterward Lord) Aston, bom 9 July 1584, died 13
August 1639.
The arms of Aston are: Argent a fess and in chief three
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lozenges sable. Crest, A bull's head couped sable. Motto,
Numini et patriae asto.
Walter Aston, the immigrant, was bom in England 1C06
and came to Virginia circa 1628. He represented Shirley-
Hundred Island in the Virginia House of Burgesses 1629-30;
both Shirley Hundreds, ^Mr. Farrar's and Chaplain's, in
February 1631-2; Shirley Hundred Maine and "Cawsey's
Care" m September 1632, and February 1632-3; and Charles
City county in 1642-3. He was for years a justice of the
peace and miUtia oflBcer for Charles City county, being
named as heutenant-colonel 17 September 1655.
On 26 July 1638 he patented 590 acres in Charles City
coimty — "near Shirley Hundreds", on Kimage's Creek, of
which land 200 acres, known as "Cawsey's Care", were
purchased by a deed dated 7 February 1634, from John
Causey, as heir of Nathaniel Causey. The rest of this land
was due Aston for the transportation into Virginia of ten
persons, named as "James Jefferson, Wilham Ward, Thomas
Shorte, Richard Williams, Wm Johnes, Jon Williams, John
Hobbs, John Esquire, Jon Roberts, & John Maroy." Aston
patented an additional 250 acres in Charles City 10 April
1643, due by an order of the Court dated 15 October 1641 :
this tract is described as bordering the lands of Captain
Epps and Robert Martyn. The entire grant, of 1,040 acres,
was confirmed to Aston 12 August 1646.
Walter Aston died 6 April 1656, being then aged forty-
nine, and hav-ing lived in Virginia twenty-eight years,
according to his tombstone, which still stands at Westover.
He had married, first, Narbow , (or Warbow), and,
second, Hannah Jordan, who survived him, and married,
second, Colonel Edward Hill. Permission to probate the
will of Lieutenant Colonel Walter Aston was granted to
"Mrs. Hanna Aston, his Rehct", in Charles City, 25 January
1656-7.
Walter Aston left issue: Susannah Aston, who married
Edward Major; Walter Aston, whose will, dated 21 Decem-
ber 1666, proved 4 February 1666-7, is preserved in Byrd's
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28 ASTON OF CHARLES CITY
Book of Title Deeds, and whose tomb, likewise at Westover,
shows he died (unmarried) on 29 January 1666-7, aged
"27 Years and 7 Monthes"; Mary Aston, who married and
left issue by Richard Cocke; and EUzabeth Aston, who
married and left issue by Thomas Binns.
The will of Captain Thomas Pawlett, dated 12 January
1643-4, shows that Walter Aston had also a son, Thomas
Aston, Pawlett's godson, who probably died in infancy: to
this child the will leaves "one -silver spoon and one sow
shote"; to Mr. Walter Aston, "my gun", and he, ^-ith
Captain Francis Epps, is named as overseer; to Mrs. Aston
the testator gives forty shillings, and to Walter Aston, the
younger, five pounds.
The plantation known as "Cawsey's Care" was first
patented, 10 December 1620, by Nathaniel Causey, an old
soldier, who came in the First Supply in January 1608, and
from whose son, John Causey, Colonel Walter Aston pur-
chased the place in 1634. Walter Aston, the younger,
inherited and, in 1666, devised the estate to Mr. George
Harris of Westover, merchant. The latter died without
issue, and "Cawsey's Care" fell to his brother, Thomas
Harris of London, merchant. Thomas Harris sold the
plantation to Colonel Thomas Grendon, Jr., who by his will,
proved 3 December 1684, devised the same to WilUam
Byrd, Jr., son of William Byrd, whereupon it became
absorbed in the Byrd estate.
NOTE ON MAJOR OF ACCOMAC; AND OF KING
WTLLIAM
JOHN AL\JOR was brought to Virginia by Lieutenant
Thomas Flint, being named as a headright in the
latter's land-patent granted 20 September 1628.
John Major, aged "27 or thereabouts" when he gave a
deposition In April 1634, was U\Tng in Old Accomack as
early as 1632, in which year a suit was brought against him
by the administrators of William Harminson. He was one
of the viewers of tobacco there in 1639. He patented 400
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acres in Accomack in September 1640, by virtue of a certifi-
cate, granted in Accomack 3 August 1640, that he had im-
ported eight persons into Virginia; and this patent was
renewed 4 September 1643. He patented 400 acres in
Northampton, 10 November 1643, by a patent dated 30
January 1640; and 400 acres more in Northampton, 24
October 1650, due for the transportation of eight persons.
His wife in May 1634, as shown in a suit brought against
him for midwdfe fees, was Maudlin Major. But he married,
second, in 1640, "Jany, daughter of Henry Lorrj-mer",
who is so named as a headright in the certificate granted 3
August 1640, and figures among the headrights as "Jany
Major" in the patent as granted in September 1640.
In Accomack, 4 December 1644, a certificate was granted
Thomas Major for the transportation of Edward Major
(his father), Francis Major, Elizabeth ^Major, John Major,
Thomas Major, Christopher Pierce, Stephen Pierce, Henry
Morgan, Edward Rouse, and Mary Sayer. York records
. shows that later, 6 November 1647, this Thomas Major
was attempting to collect from John Broch an alleged
indebtedness of 1,200 pounds of tobacco. The debt was
originally due to Edward Major, dead in 1647, father to
Thomas Major, by a bill dated 16 September 1635, for
goods dehvered 17 March 1635; and the claim had been
transferred by Edward Major to his son. Broch asserted
the 1,200 pounds to be included in a later bill, for 3,000
pounds, dated 3 April 1636, which claim had been transferred
by Edward Major to Lieutenant Richard Poopley, and
discharged. In Northampton, 27 December 1646, Thomas
Major had attached tobacco due to Broch from Rondell
Ronnalds (?Revell) and Thomas Leatherbury. Mary Sayer
is mentioned as a witness to Edward Major's bill. The
affair was arbitrated.
As has been said, both John Major and Thomas Major
left descendants on the Eastern Shore, but there is nothing
to show they settled elsewhere during the seventeenth
century.
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In the mainlEind a John Major was dead at Flower de
Hundred, 16 Februarj' 1623, killed in the Indian Massacre.
He left no descendants, or at any event, none in Vir-
ginia.
Richard Major patented 300 acres in Charles River coun-
ty, 12 May 1638, due for the transportation of six persons,
namely, "George Gaton, Ann Drake, James Holding,
Thomas Breamer, Richard Miller, & Ann Miller." The
land is described as "butting upon Queene's Creeke south."
Richard Major of Queen's Creek sold to Thomas Bowen of
Cheiscake, Cooper, twenty-five acres "on the western side
of West Creek, bordering the land of Wm Barber", by a
deed dated 1 October 1638, and recorded in York. Richard
Major patented 150 acres in Charles River county, 5 Novem-
ber 1639, being land purchased of Joseph Croshaw, "fronting
west upon the land formerly granted the said Major." He
patented 350 acres in Charles River county, "XVII January
1642", due for the transportation of seven persons, namely,
"Robert Wherrj', Wm Sey, Charles fTield, Perrigrin Palene,
Tho: Parker, Tho: Smith, & Martin Shorte"— this tract
being "north east of his first division". He patented 300
acres in York, 17 February 1649 — "at the verry mouth of
the Mattapony river, on the east side thereof, and on nonh
side of York, being a neck of land in York county, bounded
vi^t., on the West by the river, on the south and East by a
Creeke called Major's Creeke, and on the North by another
Creek." This patent is annotated ''Renewed in Edward
Simpson's after the court". Some of his land Richard
Major shortly afterw^ard sold, as is shown by a deed from
"Richard Major of the County of York in Virginia, Boot-
wright" to Daniel Parke of Martin's Hundreds of "a certain
parcell of land situate on Queene's Creek in the county of
York, contayning 200 acres due to the said Major by a patent
dated 17 January 1650; and again, by a deed from Richard
Major and Richard Miller to Edward S^Tnpson — compare
annotation of the 1649 patent — of 150 acres, being "one
Pattent of land, whereof 100 acres is sold to Thomas Holman,
and the other ffifty to Edward Sympson, with the house
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thereon." Both deeds have been preserved in the York
county records.
Richard Major, in addition, patented 1,000 acres in
Gloucester, 25 March 1653: "north of Charles river, fronting
on John Major's land, Perringe's Creek, the land of Ashwell
Batten, the land of Thomas Bell, and another di\-ision of
Richard Major's": 400 acres thereof ha\'ing been purchased
from John Perrin (patented by Perrin 3 April 1655); 150
acres being the remaining part of the 350 acres granted
Richard Major 17 January 1642; and 450 acres being due
for the transportation of nine persons, "\azt, Tho: Parker,
Robt "W'herrj', Jon Garret, Jane Bowden, Jane Moss, Ann
Hingshaw, Kath: Goodman, & Mary Hingshaw." Richard
Major patented 1,350 acres in New Kent, 30 June 1656:
"north of York river, fronting on Perrin's creek, on the land
of Ashwell Batten, of Thomas Bell, on another di\'ision of
Richard Major's, southwest upon John Major's land, on
the head of Perries creek, on the land of James Holden, and
on Sympson's swamp"; 1,000 acres being due by the earher
patent of 25 March 1653, and the 350 additional acres by
the transportation of seven persons, whose names are not
given. And finall}^ "Richard Major, Senior", patented 350
acres in New Kent, 29 April 1659, due for the transportation
of seven persons, whose names are not recorded. This
tract is described as bordering his former grant, and the
patent was renewed by Richard Major 9 February 1663.
Richard Major, thus, was bom before 1610, and died later
than 1663. He hved in that part of Charles River, after-
ward York, county which in 1652 became Gloucester, in
1654 became New Kent, in 1691 King and Queen, and in
1701 the present King William county.
He must have had a son Richard Major h\nng and of age
in 1659, as otherwise he would scarcely be described as
"Richard Major, Senior" in the patent granted that year.
None of his grandchildren could then have been of age.
He had also a son John Major, who was bom in October
1634, as is shown by a deed of gift of cattle, by John Brooke,
Chirurgeon, dated 12 June 1638, and preserved in the
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Virginia Land Patent Office, to his "godson, John Major,
the son of Richard Major of Queen's creek, boateright", —
wherein the child is described as then being "three and three
quarters" years of age. This John Major patented 300
acres bordering his father's plantation, 28 December 1657 —
"on the north side of York river, bordering the river, and the
land of Joseph Haies and John Perrine": 200 acres thereof
being land purchased from Thomas Bell (patented by Bell
3 April 1651) — clearly the land mentioned in Richard
Major's grants of 1653 and 1656 as belonging to John
Major — and 100 acres being due for the transportation of
two persons. This patent was renewed by John Major 9
February 1663. John Major patented 1,245 acres in King
and Queen county, 6 October 1705, the land being part of a
tract patented as 1,400 acres by John Ascough, 20 April
1685, and deserted: the land is described in Ascough's grant
as 1,400 acres in New Kent, bordering on the hne of Captain
William Smith, the Town branch, and the south east side of
Mattapony creek; in John Major's grant, as on the south of
Chappell Run in St. Stephen's parish in King and Queen
county, bordering on Todd's hne, on Captain Smith's line,
the Mattapony swamp, a branch of Moratica, and the run of
the Mattapony creek; and due to John Major for the trans-
portation of twenty-five persons — "vizt, John Major, Mary-
Major, Tho: Jones, Tho: Davis, Frauncs Adams, John.
White, Dunkan Cameron, Thomas Morris, Mary Farmen,
Saml Coates, Thomas Watkins, Susan Bond, Danl Nash,
Margtt Oldham, Danl Marlow, John Fisher, John Ash,
Joseph Humphrey, John Robertson, Hanna Kerbby, Henry
Kerby, John Davis, Dunking Robertson, Leroy Armeffeilded,
& John Lane."
Richard Major, the immigrant, had also a son George
Major, who patented 250 acres in New Kent, 16 April 1683,
adjoming land already owned by him — evidently inherited
from his deceased father: this 250 acres "north of York
river" being due for the transportation of four persons.
George Major was living in 1694, as is shown by the will of
Edward Porteous of Gloucester; and had, with possibly
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other issue, a son, George Major, who married
Ironmonger, and had issue: Richard, James, Samuel, George
and Francis Major, all under age in 1722.
Richard Major, the immigrant, had also a son Francis
Major who patented 590 acres in King and Queen county,
24 August 1703— "on Major's creek, and bordering George
Major's land": 100 acres thereof being described as originally-
patented by Richard Major, and by him bequeathed to his
son Francis. Francis Major patented an additional 180
acres in King and Queen, 23 October 1703, due for the
transportation of four persons.
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William Major of York
^ILLIAjM major, the second son of Colonel
Edward Major of Nansemond, must have
been bom not later than 1639, smce he
was of age in 1660. He had at this
period established his home in York
county, where, as has been recorded
previously, his father had left him a
plantation. About a decade afterward, circa 1670, he
added to the duties of a tobacco planter those of an at-
torney at law.
Nor is it strange that William Major did not enter the
profession in early manhood. There had been a deal of
trouble with, and consequent prejudice against, attorneys
at law in his Majesty's Colony and Dominion of Virginia.
And in the upshot, just before WilHam IMajor came of age,
the Assembly had decreed, at the session of March 1657-8:
"WHEREAS there doth much charge and trouble arise
by the admittance of attorneys and lawyers through plead-
ing of causes thereby to maintain suites in law, to the greate
prejudice and charge of the inhabitants of this collony, for
prevention thereof be it enacted by the authoritie of this present
Grand Assembly that noe person or persons whatsoever within
this colloney, either lawyers or any other, shall pleade in
any courte of judicature within this colloney, or give council]
in any cause or controversie whatsoever for any kind of
reward or profitt whatsoever, either directly or indirectly;
vpon the penalty of ffive thousand pounds of tobacco vpon
every breach thereof."
This law was for a number of years enforced, in the face
of its patent absurdity. When William Major came of age
there were thus no practising attorneys in Virginia, and,
certainly, no young men entering a profession thus stripped
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of any possible emolument and beset with very positive
dangers. His first experience with legal intricacies would
seem to have been when, in January 1660-1, he brought
suit on his own account against Richard Thompson in York
county for 400 pounds of tobacco, and was awarded judg-
ment at the next April Court: whereafter, whatever his
natural predilection, WiUiam Major was contented for a
decade to remain a tobacco planter. But by 1670 the law
just quoted had begun to fall into disuse; it was not ever
ofiBcially repealed, but lawj-ers a little by a little had again
commenced to practise their profession, and to charge their
chents pretty s^-ingeing bills; and among the practitioners
at least was WiUiam Major.-
Thus in February 1671-2 he was attorney for James Pore,
m a suit against the estate of Jonathan Newell, deceased,
and secured a judgment of £11, os, due for forty-five
bushels of malt; and as security for Samuel Dowse he was
at the November Court of 1672 assessed 115 pounds of
tobacco.
Among other cases before the contemporaneous York
courts wherein William IVIajor was more or less concerned,
the following may be briefly cited:
September 1674 — Reference to the next court of the
difference between Mr. Richard Finney and William Major,
as entrusted ^ith the estate of Mr, James Pore, deceased,
that "the said M.\jor may heare from the dec'ed's widow,
having writt to her ab't the money due to the s'd Finney."
The diflaculty seems to have been settled privately, as no
further reference thereto occurs.
William Major also at this court was foreman of a jurj-
impanelled to try the difference between Nicholas Toope
and George Freeman ''concerning the said ffreeman's
making of Tann vatts & other things for the said Toope."
The jury's decision is recorded. "Verdict, wee fine for the
p'te five hundred pounds of tobacco & caske — Wm Major,
foreman."
March 1674-5 — A suit was tried between Wilham Major
and John Scarsbrooke, "ab't 3 barrells of come bought by
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the said ^L\jor of a servant free from the said Major Scars-
brooke."
August 1675 — A suit between William Major and Captain
William Diggs, "about the Exchange of two servants," was
referred to the next General Court, for the decision of the
Governor and Council.
December 1675 — ]Mr. WilUam IVIajor and Mandiford
Kerby gave security for Morgan Baptist, as guardian to his
brother Edward Baptist. Alandiford Kerby and Charles
Marisby gave security for Barbara Baptist, stepmother to
Edward Baptist, as guardian to his sister.
At the same court WilHam Major brought suit against
Richard Awbome, administrator to the estate of Anthony
Melton, deceased, for 2,000 pounds of tobacco.
A number of other such suits might be enumerated were
they not too tedious and trivial-sounding to justify their
inclusion. But in connection with these items it should be
remembered that money had then rather more than five
times its present purchasing power. A pound sterling was
equivalent to twenty-five dollars, so that the suit against the
Newell estate, for instance, resulted in an actual verdict of
$275. Tobacco, the ordinary- standard of Virginian values
by reason of the great scarcity of specie, was then worth
two pence a pound, or in present day currency twenty cents :
and the suit against Richard Thompson was thus, in reality,
over a debt of S80, and the sum awarded Nicholas Toope
somewhat over SI 00.
In York county 27 Februarj^ 1671-2— "A Certificate is
granted to Mr William Major for 300 acres of land for the
importacon of Isaiah Trill, Mary Gony, James Stringfellowe,
John White, John Arnold & Roger Dale into this Country'."
William ^lajor seems, however, never to have made applica-
tion for the land due him by this certificate; and it was not
until after his death that 130 acres in York were granted,
by a patent dated 20 November 1678, to his oldest son,
another William Major — "as son and heir to Wm. Major,
Dec'd, & due by & for ye transfer of three p'sons, namely
Isak Trill, Mary Gony & Jas. Stringfellow."
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For William Major, the elder, had died intestate in 1677;
and an appraisement of his estate was ordered in York
county 14 January 1677-8. The appraisers named by the
court were John Hathersoll, Isaac CoUier, John Duke and
Robert Morris— "or any three of them." The inventory of
WiUiam Major's personal belongings, hereinafter given, is
of rather unusual length; and the total value fixed on them
is £85, 6s, od — equal, as has been seen, to more than S2,000.
This inventory offers several points of interest. It shows,
as the times went, a comfortable estate, for there were as
yet few luxuries in Virginia. William ]Major, it develops,
had three indentured servants, one of whom, Roger Dale,
he had imported into the Colony as a headright; the James
Stringfellow who owed him 110 pair of shoe-heels was also
brought over by William Major. Some little silverware
too — very sparsely found at this date in Virginia — is men-
tioned: it was almost certainly of the heirlooms brought
over from England by William Major's father: and there is
a sufficiency of brass- and pewter-ware and even three
dozen of the then much admired "alchemy spoons " plated
to resemble gold. There are no table-forks mentioned for
the adequate reason they were practically unknown; but
the absence of knives of any sort from the list is strange.
A curiosity-provoking item is "One trunke of writtings":
in view of the extreme improbabihty of WiUiam Major's
having been an unpublished author, the chances are the
chest contained law papers pertaining to suits wherein he
had figured. The item "3 pr of Damnified Shoes" is of
course more startling to the eye than incomprehensible.
For the rest, it will be noted that WiUiam Major had in his
possession at the time of his death 3,000 fourpenny nails,
1,500 hobnails, and 3.000 sixpenny nails, which requires
some explanation. The fact does not necessarily signify
that WiUiam Major was a carpenter, but instead that he
could afford one of the possessions most prized by the
colonists. For nails were imported articles and woefully
expensive: so hard to come by were they that it was custo-
mary- on abandoning a house, to bum it to the ground in
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order to collect the nails from the ashes. In fact, a special
law was eventually enacted, in 1645, to prevent the practise:
"That it shall not be lawfuU for any person so deserting
his plantation as aforesaid to bume anj' necessar>' houseing
that are scituated therevpon, but (he) shall receive so many
nailes as may be computed by 2 indifferent men were ex-
pended about the building thereof for full satisfaction,
reservinge to the King all such rent as did accrew by vertue
of the former grants or planting of the same from the expira-
tion of the first seaven years."
The hst of debts owed to WilUam Major, as appended to
the inventor^' by his widow, would show that, on various
grounds, some S6,000 in present day values was due his
estate, several of these accounts being evidently unpaid
bills for his services as attorney.
WiUiam Major had married, circa 1665, EHzabeth,
daughter of Colonel Lemuel Mason of Norfolk county.
She survived her husband, and was appointed his ad-
ministratrix, 24 April 1678, gi\'ing bond -^-ith her attorney,
Gideon Macon, for £500, as guardian to her three sons. A
note as to Gideon Macon is given on page 50.
In her capacity of administratrix, Eliz.a3eth Major
figured in divers suits in the York courts, attendant upon
the settlement of her husband's estate: thus, in 1678 she
brought suit against John Seaborne, for 1,309 pounds of
tobacco, which claim was dismissed; Richard Awbome con-
fessed a judgment of 1,099 pounds of tobacco due to her as
administratrix, at the January- court 1678-9, as did Ralph
Flowers, for 2,055 pounds of tobacco, at the Februar>' court;
and again, at the October court 1680, judgment was granted
to Mr. Gideon Macon, assignee of Mrs. Elizabeth Major,
against Ralph Flowers, for £8, Is.
Elizabeth Major had thus remained a widow for at least
three years, it may be observed, and probably for five.
This was a rather unusual record for seventeenth century
Virginia; a striking feature of the period, as will be fre-
quently manifested hereinafter, was the celeritj'' with which
a deceased ^\-ife or husband was provnded with a successor,
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and not infrequently for the fourth or fifth occasion. For
girls were marriageable at twelve, Tor all that cautious John
Evelyn, in 1681, estimated that a young lady was not
"capable of disposing of herself judiciously till she was
sixteen": and the young wife, after bearing some dozen
children in rapid succession, was apt to break in health and
die, leaving her husband, almost as a matter of course, to
re-marrj' in the prime of life. To the other side, the position
of a widow, through the necessities of plantation life, was
profoundly unenviable: she was left pecuharly alone, without
any neighbors of her own station in Ufe within miles, and
was left in precarious authority over a horde of semi-barbar-
ous blacks newly brought from the wilds of Africa, and of
white servants who in many cases were transported criminals.
Lacking grown sons, she re-married, if not through motives
of personal sentiment, through those of conveniency and
self-preservation.
So, upon whatever grounds, the widow of William Major
eventually took another husband — her second choice being
fixed, circa 1682-4, on Captain Thomas Cocke of Norfolk
county; and she died in 1696, lea\'ing issue by him two
daughters, ^Slary Cocke and Anne Cocke. As has been
said previously, the descendants of these daughters, if indeed
they left any, cannot now be traced; but information as to
theii father will be found in the Virginia Magazine of
History and Biography, Volume V, page 182.
Wilham Major and EHzabeth Mason had issue:
I. WiLLiAJi M\J0R, in whose name, as has been recorded,
130 acres were patented in York 20 November 1678. He
afterward sold this land, for 3,500 pounds of tobacco, to
Thomas Powell and Seamos Powell of St. Martin's Hundred
in New Kent, by a deed dated 1 February 1686-7, and re-
corded in York 24 February 1686-7. William Major is in
this deed described as "of the parish of St. Peeters in New
Kent, son and heir of William Major, late in the county of
York deceased." The younger William ]Major patented 150
acres in New Kent county, 7 November 1700, (the land being
a tract deserted by Gideon Macon), as due for the transpor-
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tation of four persons, and another tract of 150 acres in the
same county, 2 May 1705. He likewse patented 376 acres
in Essex county, 15 August 1715, this being a tract patented
in 1703 (when Essex was a part of Old Rappahannock) by
his younger brother John Major, and deserted by the latter.
WilUam Major, as is sho^-n by the records of St. Peter's
parish, died 4 October 1716, ha\ing had issue: Frances
Major, baptized 19 November 1699; John Major, baptized
17 May 1702; and Thomas Major, baptized 28 November
1703, died 19 November 1722.
II. Lemuel ]M.\jor, whose name figures frequently in the
York records until as late as 1714, he in that year winning a
suit against WilHam Pegram, for £2, 6s, at the August
court. Subsequently is to be found no mention of Lemuel
Major in York, nor apparently in any of the other survi\Tng
county records of the period. It is therefore not known
whether or no he left descendants; but it is tolerably certain
that, in or shortly after 1714, he removed from York and
made his home elsewhere, just as his two brothers had done
earlier.
III. John M.uor of whom an account will be given
hereafter.
It is more than likely there was another son Edward
Major, who died before his father, since elsewhere this
particular Christian name is prodigally represented in every
generation of the Major family.
ILLUSTRATIVE DOCUMENTS
ATT A COURT Holden for Yorke County, Jan'y 14
An'o D'm 1677 — A commission of Adminocon of
the estate of Air Wm Major, dec'ed, is granted to
Elizabeth, the dec'ed Relict & Adm'r; putting in security
to save the Court harmless, & for performance of the said
Adminacon; & ord'ed that on the 29th day of this instant
the dec'ed'nt estate be appraised by Mr John Hathersall,
Mr John Duke, Mr Isaac Collier, & Owen Morris, or any
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WILLIAM MAJOR OF YORK 41
three of them, being first swome by the next Magistrate;
the appraism'nt to be returned to the next court for con-
firmation.
— ^YoRK County Records.
IN OBEDIENCE to an order of Yorke County Court,
bearing test at York, January- ye 14th 1677-8, wee the
subscribed have accordinge to ye best of understanding
and consiunces appraised ye estate of Mr Willlvm ]M.\jor,
dec'ed, being first swome by Mr Edward Mosse, one of his
Ma'ties Justices -for ye said County.
Imprimis, one new feather bed, 2 pillows, 1 bolster, £ s. d.
1 Cloth beding Covering, 1 Blankett, bedstead 05 00 00
1 sett of striped curtains & vallons, one feather bed,
striped curtains & vallons, two bolsters, 1 pillow, 2
blanketts, 1 wosted rugg, & bedstead 06 00 00
1 flocke bed, 2 fiocke bolsters, 1 old, & 1 old white
wosted rugg - 01 15 03
1 old flocke bed, 1 old bolster, 2 old Blanketts, 1 green
rugg.__ 01 00 00
1 ft bed, 1 old bolster, 2 old Blanketts, 1 red rugg 01 01 00
One hamocke, cotton.__ — 00 01 00
49 £ of new pewter, at 12d pound.. _ - 02 09 00
23 pounds of old puter, at 9d p. poimd _ — 00 17 03
3 Pewter Tankerdds.___ _ 00 07 00
1 fine pinte pott.__ _ - 00 03 00
2 pewter Candlesticks _ -- — 00 05 00
2 Brasse Candlestickes _ _ - 00 03 00
6 plates- _ - 00 06 00
1 Salt _.„ _-- - 00 01 00
1 old porringer, 2 old pols, & an old pewter Catle.— . 00 02 00
3 New porringers - 00 03 00
One Cubboard & Spice box 01 10 00
4 Chests & One Trunke 01 U 00
A warming pan, & small looking Glass 00 07 00
Pr small Andirons, 2 pr of Tongues, 1 spitt, one old
Gridiron, 1 old fireshov'U, 1 old chafing dish 00 12 00
2 Brass Kettles, & 2 SmaU Skillits _ 03 00 00
3 Iron potts & pr pott racks — 01 04 00
2 pestles, & a frying pann.— 00 07 00
1 small brass skimer, & 1 small brass ladle, 1 Iron one 00 02 06
6 old tin spoons, 1 tin fender, 2 tin funnells 00 04 00
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3 doz of Alcamy spoones 00 06 00
15 Gross of Thread & hair buttons, at Is 6d p. Gross 01 02 06
18 Yds of Kersey, at 2| p. yd 01 16 00
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2 pece of tape, at 9 p. peace _ - 00 01 06
i pece of blue tape 00 00 04
3 doz yds of Cotton ribbon 00 03 00
2 peces & 1 of 3d ribbon „„ 00 15 00
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3 Ink homes _ 00 00 06
1 paper of Clasps & eyes .. _ 00 01 02
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2 pounds of russett Col'd Thred....„ _ „.. 00 04 06
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A pr of Childrens woosted Stockings- _. 00 01 06
25 Ells of Canvas, at 12d p. Ell _ 01 05 00
16 yds of Cotton, at Is 2d p. yd 00 18 00
5 yds & ^ of pure Linsey_ 00 10 06
3 straw caps.- _ _ 00 04 10
3 fine Straw hats, lined in ye head 00 06 06
6 worser Straw hatts, at Is 6d...._ 00 09 00
6 Felts, at 4s.___ _ 01 04 00
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5 pr of old wome shoes _ 01 00 00
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& one towell, old.___ _._ 00 14 00
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7 Towells -..._ _ 00 02 06
4 pillow Cases -. 00 04 00
One painted Callico Carpet. 00 02 06
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1 pr of Drawers & Jackett of Norwich stufTe._ 00 12 00
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2 fixt Guns, being one carbine & 1 fouling Gun 01 00 00
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& women's shoes' leather heales, w'ch when rec'd
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8. pr, besides four shillings more due
One trunke of writtings
Roger Dale to serve till ye 6th of 7br next
William Mansfield to serve till 8 monts, 1 yr
Peter Jobe, free ye 15th of June, & because of Come
& Clothes to be paid him by ye Adm'r'x, valued at
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Cattle belonging to ye dec'ed Estate, 8 Cowes, 3
heifers, 2 year old, 2 two yeare old Steare yearlings,
2 Cow 5'earlings & one Cow Calfe, in all 20 head;
Horses & Mares, 1 Croped Ear horse, 1 old mare,
& a two yeare old mare _ ~— 41 04 09
£85 16 05
The within and above appraisement, amounting to
Eighty five pounds, sixteene shillings and five pence, besides
ye debts due to ye estate & ye Cropp, wee present to ye
court of York for there Oprobation and Confirmation.
Witness our hands: — (Signed) John Hathersoll, Isaake
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A LIST OF YE Tobacco and debts due to ye Estate of
Mr. Wm Major, dec'ed:
Impr, 11 hhds & a parcell, of 1st quality neat. — 5991
Thos Gateman, per acc't — 0389,
Richard Albritton, per acc't_ — — - 0040
Morgan Baptist, per acc't - 0050
Henry Charles, per acc't - — 0047
Edward King, per acc't _ - — OOoO
Wm Allen, per bill _ 0160
Wm Swinerton, Bill — 0050
Wm Chantry, Bill _ ~ 0660
Wm Woodland, Bill - 0580
Anthony HajTies, per Note - — 0200
George Abbott, per Order of Court — 0750
George Abbott, per Bill — _ - 0440
Mand Kirby, per bill 0185
Benjamin Cotton, per Bill ~ -- 0040
Robt Penrice, per Bill.__ _ — 0520
Thos Vines, per Bill — 0798
Jno WjTie, per Bill and acc't - 0342
Thomas Spilman, per Bill — OoOO
Clothier Lewis, per Acc't 0887
ITios demons, per Bill _- - — 2661
John Hawkins, per Bill _ — 7500
Robt Harrington, per Bill — 1000
Richard Awbome, per Bill and Acc't 1435
Mr. John Baskerv\le, per Acc't — — 0927
Ralph Flowers, per Bill _ ^ - — 2055
A LIST OF MONEY DEBTS: 28,257,
Thos Gatman, per Bill _ - £6 00 00
James Miller, per Bill.. 1 04 00
Mrs. Reade, per Note 0 16 00
Clother Leawes, per Order of Court 1 18 00
Jno Hawkins, per Bill - — - 0 03 00
Wm Swinerton, per Bill - 0 13 06
Mr. Isacke Clayton, per Bill 1 08 00
Richard Mare, per Bill 4 08 00
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Ralph Flowers, per BilL... 8 14 06
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E. M.— ELIZABETH MAJOR, her marke.
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KNOW ALL MEN by these presents that wee, Eliza-
beth Major widdow, and Gideon Macon, both
of Yorke County, are holden & firmly bound unto
ye Worsh'p'll his Ma'ties Justices of the Peace for Yorke
County in ye sum of five hundred pound sterl, money
of England, to be paid upon demand; to the w'ch paj-ment,
well and truely to be made, wee bind ourselves joyntly and
sevearlly our and either of our heirs, Exec'rs & Adm'rs
firmly by these presents. Witness our hands and seles,
dated in Virginia, j-e 24th of Aprilis 1678.
The Condicon of the obhgation is such: that if the above
bounden Elizabeth ^L\jor, Guardian to ye three orphans
of Mr WiLLL\M Major, dec'ed, doe save, defend & keep
harmless and Indempnified the said Court & Every of
them & their heirs, relatinge to or conceminge the Estate
of ye said three orphans & every of them, that then these
presents to be void & of none effect; otherwise, to remain in
full force, virtue and Efficacy.
ELIZABETH MAJOR, her E. M. marke.
GIDEON MACON
Signed, Sealed & Delivered in the presents of: (Signed)
Samuel Toplady, John Baskervyle
— York County Records
TO ALL &c, Whereas &c. Now Know yee that I, yee sd
Herbt Jeffreys, Esq, Govemr, &c, give and grant
unto ("Thomas" cancelled) Willm Major one hundred
and thirty Acres of Land lying in Yorke County and in
ye p'ish of York: begining at a m'ked white oake by a
swamp side that parts this land from ye land of owen Morris;
and Tuning from thence S: 20 ds. Ea: 108 po. to a Spanish
oake; from thence so: 15 ds. Ea: 70 poles, along Mr Henry
Clarke's land, to a Spanish Oak; from thence E: 90 poles to
another m'ked oak; from thence So: 15 ds. Ea: 40 po.; from
thence W: 27 ds. S: 52 po.; from thence S: 10 ds W: 47 po.;
from thence W: 15ds. S: 60 po. to a white Gum & white
oake; from thence So: 58 po.; from thence E: 98. po. to ye
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land of John Hill, dec'ed; & from thenn, along ye sd Hill's
m'ked trees, N : 85 po. to two small m'ked white oakes in ye
swamp whence was began; from thence, down ye sd Runn
or Swamp, N: 16 po. to ye place first Specified. The sd
Land is due mito ye sd {"Tho:" cancelled) Wm Major as
being sonn & heir to Wm Major, Dec'ed, & due by & for ye
transfer of three p'sons &c. To have & to hold &c. To be
held &c, yeilding & pa}-ing &c, provided &c, dated ye 20th
day of November 1678.
Isak Trill, Mary Gony & Jas Stringfellow. ( Headrights.)
— Virginia Land Patents
MASON OF NORFOLK: WITH SEAWELL OF ELIZA-
BETH CITY
WILLIAM MAJOR of York married circa 1665
Elizabeth Mason, who survived her husband and
married, second, Captain Thomas Cocke of
Norfolk. She was the daughter, and probably the oldest
child, of Colonel Lemuel Mason of Norfolk, and grand-
daughter of Lieutenant Francis Mason.
Francis ]VL\son of EHzabeth City and Norfolk comities
was bom in 1594, and came to Virginia in 1613, ■^ith his
wife Marj' and their daughter Anne. On 11 July 1637 he
sat as a justice of the peace for Lower Norfolk; on 15 July
1640 he was appointed a churchwarden; and Lieutenant
Francis Mason is named again as a sitting justice 16 July
1642. He patented 1,250 acres in Lower Norfolk, ''at
hoggpon point", on the last of August 1642; and 200 ad-
ditional acres, 29 September 1643, renewing the latter
patent 22 March 1645. He quahfied as high-sheriff 5
March 1646. He was dead by 7 November 1648, the date of
an agreement between Mrs. Alice IMason, reUct of Mr.
Francis Mason, deceased, and Mr. Lemuel Mason, on the
first part, and Mr. James Thelaball, on the second part,
conveying certain lands to the last-named. On 15 November
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1648 his widow and his son, Lemuel Mason petitioned to
administer his estate; and on 22 November 16-48 the court
gave an order stating that Francis Mason had died intestate.
He had married, first, Mary , by whom he had
issue: Anne Mason, bom before 1613; and Francis Mason,
bom circa 1623. Both of these children seem to have died
before their father. Lieutenant Francis Mason married,
second, circa 1625, Ahce , who survived him, and
by her had issue: Lemuel Mason, bom in 1628; and Eliza-
beth Mason, who married James Thelaball of Lower Norfolk.
Lemuel ^L^son, the second son of Lieutenant Francis
Mason, was bom in 1628, according to a deposition made
by him in 1653, wherein he gives his age as "twenty-five or
thereabouts". He was a justice of the peace for Lower
Norfolk from 1650 until his death in 1702; was presiding
justice after 1669, and major of the mihtia in 1658, and
colonel from 1665 onward. He represented Lower Norfolk
in the Virginia House of Burgesses for the sessons beginning
20 November 1654, 10 March 16.54-5, 1 December 1656,
13 March 1657-8, 1 March 1658-9, 13 March 1659-60, 10
September 1663, 9 June 1680, 10 November 1683, 2 Novem-
ber 1685, and 20 October 1686, and Norfolk county for the
sessions beginning 2 Alarch 1692-3 and 10 October 1693.
His will, dated 17 June 1695, was recorded in Norfolk 15
September 1702.
Colonel Lemuel !Mason married Ann, daughter of Henry
Seawell of Ehzabeth City and Lower Norfolk counties.
They had issue:
I. Elizabeth M\son, who, as already recorded, married,
first, William Major, and, second. Captain Thomas Cocke.
She was almost certainly the oldest child of Colonel Lemuel
Mason.
II. Lemitel Ma.son, h\'ing in 1705. There seems to be no
record of his descendants.
III. George Mason, whose will, dated 13 January 1710,
was recorded 16 March 1710. He married Phillis ,
and had issue: Thomas Mason, who married Mary Newton;
George Mason; Abigail Mason; and Frances Mason.
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IV. Thomas ;Mason, a justice for Lower Norfolk, and
burgess in October 1696. His ^vill, dated 9 Januar>' 1710-11,
was recorded 15 June 1711. He married Elizabeth ,
(who sur\'ived him, and married, second, Captain Richard
Sanderson), and had issue: Lemuel ^Mason, who died without
issue in 1712; Ann Mason, who married Captain Thomas
Willoughby; Mary Mason, who married William Ellison;
and Margaret Mason.
V. Frances Mason, who married, first, George Newton,
and, second, Saj^er.
VI. Alice IVL^son, who married, first, Robert Hodge, and,
second, Samuel Boush.
VII. ;^L\RY Mason, who married, first, Walton,
and, second, Cocke.
VIII. Dinah Mason, who married Thoroughgood.
IX. Margaret Mason.
X. Anne ^L^.son. The last-named two daughters are
known to have married, but their husbands' names have
not been preserved.
Colonel Lemuel Mason, as recorded, married Ann Seawell,
who survived him. Her will, dated 30 October 1705, was
recorded in Norfolk 13 March 1705-6, and shows that,
besides her three sons, her daughters, Frances Sayer, Alice
Boush, Mary Cocke, and Dinah Thoroughgood were then
surviving.
Henry Seawell, bom circa 1610, was living in Elizabeth
City county in 1630. He represented "the Upper Parish
of Ehzabeth-City" in the Virginia House of Burgesses for
the session begiiming 4 September 1632, and Lower Norfolk
for the session beginning 6 Januarj' 1639. He died circa
1644, as is shown by the settlement of his estate at an
Orphans Court, hereinafter quoted, held 25 February 1649.
He had married Alice , (who survived him, and
married, second, Matthew Phillips; Phillips after her death
marrying, second, Anne , who survived him, and
dying before 1649), and had issue: Henry Seawell, bom
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1639, died 1672; and Ann Seawell, bom circa 1634, who
married Colonel Lemuel Mason. This son Henry was
bom 1 May 1639, according to a deposition; and another
deposition, made 16 August 1672, mentions Henry Seawell
the younger as "lately deceased", and states that his sister
and heir, "now the vnie of Colonel Lemuel Mason", was
bora about thirty-seven or thirty-eight years before.
Seawell's Point, at the mouth of the Elizabeth river, was
named in honor of Henrj^ Seawell. It is not knowTi that he
was in any way connected with the Thomas Seawell who in
1635 patented 400 acres on Pocoson river in York, and
from whom the Seawells of Virginia trace their descent.
The entry, before referred to, of 25 Febmary 1649, reads
in part:
<<T TAVING METT Concerning the Estate of Hen:
I 1 Sel\well, deceased, by the opinion of the Cort and
Consent of Jno Holmes, Overseer, and Mr. Lemuel
Mason, who hath Intermarried with Anne, the daughter of
the said seawell. It was agreed as follows: The estate of Mr.
Matthew phillipps, late dec'd, to be responsible for estate
of said Hen: Seawell as it was left at the decease of Ahce,
ye wife of ye said Henry Seawell, by Inventory, &c, and
differences to be decided by 4 indifferent men, chosen on ye
behalfe of ye Orphants of ye said Seawoll, & Mrs. Anne
Philhps afsd, Administratrix of said Mr. Mathew Phillips".
The arbitrators selected were "Mr Jno Hill, Mr Theo:
Lambard, Jno Holmes, & Tho: Ivy." It was proposed to
send the young Henry Seawell to Holland, where he would
be put in the charge of "his kinsman, Mr Tho: Lee"; but he
was eventually turned over to Wilham Scapes of Yarmouth,
England, a merchant to whom, 22 March 1654, Henry
Seawell was bound apprentice for four years and seven
years service.
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NOTE ON MACON OF NEW KENT: AND CHRISTIAN
OF CHARLES CITY
GIDEON MACON and subsequently his descendants
were so closely identified ^\dth the Major family as
to merit a word of special mention, and a brief
notice of them is in consequence appended.
Gideon Macon bom circa 1650, was living in York
county, an attorney at law, prior to 1672. He was by
tradition at one time an Indian interpreter and secretary to
Sir William Berkeley. He was named under-sheriff of
York, under Daniel Wild, his brother-in-law, 3 April 1672,
Richard James being his security. His name thereafter
frequently figures in the York records for the next decade;
he lived for a while in James City county, and was a vestr>'-
man of Bruton parish in 167S; but about 1682 he removed
to New Kent, where he made his permanent home. St.
Peter's parish records show that Gideon Macon was vestry-
man and churchwarden before 1684 and until his death.
The vestrj-, be it said in passing, was then a prodigiously
important body. Its duties, roughly speaking, were triform:
first, to appoint the clerg^Tnan of the parish; secondly, to
investigate cases of suspected moral delinquency, such as
are hereafter described, and to present them, if the suspicion
proved well founded, to the county court; and thirdly, to
lay and collect the parish le\'y, wherewith to cover current
parochial expenses. For this last purpose the vestr}- met es-
pecially in October, when the tobacco crop was safely cured
and housed, tobacco being, as has been said, the usual form
of Virginian currency. The expenses for the year were
calculated, with an added percentage to defray the cost of
collection, and the total divided by the number of tithables
residing in the parish; and the tax due from each person was
thus fixed.
Two churchwardens were selected aimually, the members
of the vestry holding this office in rotation in order to share
equally the burden of it. For these churchwardens were
the active representatives of the vestry, the men who did
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the actual work, and few persons went about more onerous
or varied tasks. It was their duty, apart from seeing the
church was retained in proper repair and equipment, and
keeping all the church accounts, personally to collect and
pay the minister's dues. It was their part, also, to look to
it that illegitimate children were provided for, (and in
deahng with such cases they were vested with ver>' great
and absolute powers) ; that indigent orphans were indentured,
and not too harshly treated; and that the aged and infirm
poor were lodged and boarded at the parish's expense. And
finally, they were required, as representative of the vestrj'
in its judicial capacity, twice every year "to deliver a true
presentment in writing of such misdemeanors as to their
knowledge, or by comon fame, have beene comitted whilst
they have beene churchwardens; namely, swearing, pro-
faneing God's holy name, or sabbath abuseing, or con-
temning his holy word or sacraments, or absenting them-
selves from the exercises thereof. As alsoe of those foule
and abominable sins of drunkennesse, fornication and
adultery, and of all malitious and envious slandering and
backbiting; for the better manifestation whereof the said
churchwardens are impowered to cause all such persons
upon whose reports they ground their presentments, to
appeare at the next county courts to which the present-
ments are made, to give their evadences concerning the
same."
This much in passing, as to the former powers of vestrj'-
men. For the rest, Gideon ^Iacon occupied other positions
of at least equal responsibility, since he was chosen to
represent New Kent in the Virginia House of Burgesses for
the sessions beginning 10 October 1693 and 24 September
1696. Land-patents by Gideon Macon include grants of
148 acres in Henrico County, 15 October 1698, due for the
transportation of three persons; 545 acres in New Kent,
7 November 1700, for the transportation of eleven; and
two grants in King and Queen, 25 April 1701, of 172 and 425
acres respectively, for the transportation of thirteen persons.
St. Peter's records show that he was living 8 December
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52 MACON OF NEW KENT
1701, a vestr>' meeting being held on that date at his home,
and was "lately decest" 4 ]\Iarch 1702, when his successor
as vestn'man was elected.
Gideon Macon and his vdfe, Martha Wild, had issue:
I. Gideon Macon, bom 20 June 1682.
II. Anne Macon, bom 15 December 1685, living in 1728,
w^ho married James Christian of Charles City county.
III. Martha Macon, bom 1687, who married Orlando
Jones of King William county.
IV. William ^Macon, bom 12 November 1693, who
married ]\Iar\', daughter of William Hartwell.
V. John Macon, bom 17 December 1695, Uving 1729 in
Goochland county, who had with other issue a son Henry
Macon.
VI. James Macon, bom 28 October 1701, who married
Elizabeth, daughter of Augustine Moore, and had, with
other issue, a daughter, ^Nlary Macon, who married WilUam
Aylett.
Gideon Macon's 'v\'idow had re-married by 24 June 1703,
on which date there was a suit in York between Nathan
West and ^lartha, his wife, the relict and executrix of Gideon
Macon, and Richard Packe of London. By this second
marriage with Nathaniel West, she had issue: Unity West,
who mnrried William Dandridge, and had: Nathaniel West
Dandridge, who married and left issue by Dorothea Spots-
wood. The wife of Gideon Macon married, third,
Bigger.
The descendants of Gideon Macon through his sons are
elsewhere recorded: for valuable data concerning them,
compare the William and Mary College Quarterly, Volumes
VI, X, XII, and XIV. Of his daughters, Martha Macon,
bom in 1687, died 4 May 1716, married Orlando Jones (who
survived her, and married, second, Marj', daughter of James
WilHams), and had issue: Lane Jones; and Frances Jones,
who married Colonel John Dandridge, and was the mother of
Martha Dandridge, who married, first, John Custis, and,
second, George Washington.
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The elder daughter of Gideon Macon, as has been said,
married James Christian. He was a son of the Thom.vs
Christian, bom circa 1635, Hvnng in 1695, who, on 15 Janu-
ary 1657, patented 100 acres on the north side of the James
river and the east side of the Chickahominy ; took out another
patent, 9 December 1662; patented 1,080 acres in Charies
City county, 21 October 1687; and, as "Thomas Christian,
Sen", patented 193 acres south of Chickahominy swamp,
26 October 1694. Thomas Christian had issue: Thomas
Christian, ^-ill proved in Goochland in 1736, who married
Rebecca , {and had issue, Thomas, Robert, William,
James, Constant, Ann, and Mourning); Charles Christian,
living as late as 1768, who married Susanna , (and
had issue, Edmund, Turner Hunt, Susanna, Elizabeth, and
William Brown Christian); John Christian, dead in 1768,
(who had, ivith probably other issue, John and Mary Christian);
and James Christian.
James Christian was bom in Charies City county circa
1680. He patented 382 acres in the present Goochland,
then included in Henrico, county, 26 June 1714: on the north
side of James river, on the west branch of Beaver Dam
creek, and bordering the line of land pre^-iously patented
by his brother Thomas Christian. He patented 368 acres
in the same part of Henrico, 20 Febmary 1719, due for the
transportation of five persons, the tract being described as
lying on the west branch of Beaver Dam creek, and bordering
the land of Joseph Pleasants and Thomas Christian: and a
third tract, of 100 acres, on the same date, due for trans-
porting seven persons (as the patent reads, oddly), in
Henrico county, north of James river, and bordering the
lands of Edward Baze and Tariton Wood. He seems to
have made his home in Charies City county after 1727, but
took out one more patent, 1 December 1740, in Goochland,
for 200 acres, lying on Beaver Dam creek, and bordering the
land of Peter Baze, deceased. He was certainly hving m
Charies City August 1739, (when he brought suit against
Ann Lamport, administratrix of Benjamin Harrison), and
for eleven years thereafter. On the first Wednesday in
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February' 1750 the will of James Christian was presented
for probate in Charles City, by James Christian, Richard
Christian and Joel Christian, the executors named therein,
who, with Charles Christian and Turner Hunt Christian,
gave bond for £1,000.
James Christian, as previously recorded, had married
Anne iMacon, who was h\'ing in 1728, but died before her
husband. They had issue:
I. Richard Christian, bom circa 1700, died in 1769,
who married Eliza Eppes, and had issue: Samuel Christian,
who married ]Mar>^ ; Richard Christian; Benjamin
Christian; Isham Christian; Elizabeth Christian, who
married Jonathan Patteson (compare page 160); Lucy Chris-
tian, who married, first, Samuel Waddill, and, second, Gideon
Bradley (compare page 146); and Sarah Christian, who
married Philip Charles.
II. James Christian, who settled in New Kent, and had,
with probably other issue: Joseph Christian.
III. JuDiTHCHRiSTiAN,boml711, who married James Ladd
of Charles City county, and had issue: Jesse Ladd; James
Ladd; WiUiam Ladd; Lydia Ladd, who married Thomas
Charles; Elizabeth Ladd; Anna Ladd; and Alargrett Ladd.
IV. WiLLL\M Christian, died in Charles City in 1771, who
married, first, Collier, and, second, Susan Browne,
and left issue by both wives.
V. Joel Christian, liv-ing in 1772, dead in 1786, who had
issue: Sarah Christian; and Elizabeth Christian.
Yl. Gideon Christian, bom 1728, died 1796, who married
Susan Bro"wne, and had issue: Eaton Christian; Francis
Christian; Patrick Christian; William Allen Christian, who
married Lucy ; Anne Christian, who married Isaac
Hill; Alice Christian, who married Samuel Tower; and
Susanna Christian, who married John Timberlake.
Sarah Christian, daughter of James Christian's oldest
son, Richard, as recorded, married Philip Charles of Charles
City county. They had issue, according to his will, dated
29 January- 1792, and recorded 25 June 1792: William
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Charles; Edmond Charles; Elizabeth Charles, who married
Hyllard; Lucy Charles; ]\Iar}' Charles; and Sarah
Charles, bom 176S, died 1S33. Of these children, Sarah
married Richard ^Yaddill of Charles City county, and had
issue: Susan Waddill, who married Littlebury Eppes (com-
pare page 146) ; and George Christian Waddill, who married
Rebecca Priscilla Major. The children of this last marriage
are hereinafter enumerated, on page 135.
For information concerning other descendants of Thomas
Christian the emigrant, compare the William and Mary
College Quarterly, Volumes I, V, VII, VIII, IX, X, and XV.
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)OHX MAJOR, the third son of William
]Maior of York, was bom about 1677,
shortly before his father's death. He and
his two brothers were ver\' probably
reared in Norfolk county; their mother,
as has been said, married in 1682-4
Captain Thomas Cocke, who patented
land in Lower Norfolk in 1687, and resided there until his
death ten years afterward.
John Major, some few years after coming of age, as has
been prevnously recorded, patented 376 acres in Old Rappa-
haimock, 24 October 1701 ; the land being due for his personal
adventure and the transportation into Virginia of ''Joseph
Young, William Mack-daniell, Joseph ffox, George Reding
& Susannah Netherway." He never, however, seated this
land: and, as also has been said, it was subsequently taken
up by his elder brother William ^Vlajor of New Kent, by a
patent dated 15 August 1715; the land then being claimed
by Wilham jNIajor by right of the importation of "Thomas
Perre, Eliza Alebee, John Thome, George Madby, Chas
Hallett, James Johns, John Spring & Ehza Harv^e." These
patents are hereinafter quoted in full.
After relinquishing the land in Old Rappahannock, John
Major, as well as his brother Lemuel, made his home for
some seven or eight years in York, where the two were bom;
and in York, circa 1705, John Major married Anna, the
daughter of Colonel Thomas Ballard of that county. The
last-named worthy was a person of sufficient importance to
warrant the introduction here of some brief dissertation
concerning his career.
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Thomas Ballard was the second son of Colonel Thomas
Ballard of James City county, as to whom a note is given on
page 90. The younger Thomas Ballard was, therefore,
probably bora in York county circa 165.5, and reared at his
father's home at Middle Plantation, which more lately
became WiUiamsburg. That he eventually returned to
York county was due to his parents' wise choice of his
godfather in ]Major Robert Baldrey. Baldrey had come to
Virginia in 1635, being then aged eighteen, had married,
and had acquired a considerable plantation in York, where
he was for years a justice of the peace. He married, as
has been said, but had no children: and in his vtlW, (dated
1 May 1668, recorded in York 30 December 1676), he
bequeathed, ^vith the exception of 130 acres left outright to
Thomas Greene, a Ufe interest in all the testator's property
to his wife, Elizabeth, vnih reversion at her death to Baldrey's
godson, Thomas Ballard. Baldrey's widow seems to have
died before 1684, at latest, as in that year Thomas Ballard,
Junior, removed to York and took possession of his god-
father's estate. He was certainly still hving in James
City 28 March 1683-4, vrhen he witnessed a power of at-
torney from John Suckell to Joseph Topping; but he was a
member of the grand jury in York in November 1684.
He married about this time Katherine, daughter of John
Hubard of York (then deceased); the marriage must have
taken place at all events before 9 ]May 1685, as Ballard and
his wife were witnesses on that date to a deed given by
Thomas and Sarah Aylett to Thomas Wade. Ballard's
succint power of attorney to represent IVIrs. Aylett on this
occasion is likewise preserv^ed in ths York records.
"CouzEN Ballard — After my service to yo'rself and
Lady, this is to request the favo'r of you in my behalfe
to acknowledge the land to Mr Wade w'ch he hath bought
of my husband, and this shall discharge me from any Right
or tytle any more. I am yo'r Servant & Kinswoman —
Sarah Aylett."
Among the York records for these years is also to be found
an entrj' which, omitted here as without genealogical
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significance, affords a sufficiently vivid glimpse of the young
couple's menage and the immemorial liability to have trouble
with servants, common to all young couples, even then, to
warrant its citation on page 67.
The death of Thomas Ballard's older brother, John
Ballard of Nansemond, without is<;ue, and the death in
1689 of his father, Colonel Thomas Ballard of James City,
had presently made Thomas Ballard the head of his promi-
nent and wealthy family. He was appointed a justice of the
peace for York, and retained that honorable position until
his death: and figures extensively in the contemporaneous
York records as the Foeffee in trust, with Joseph Ring, under
the Act for Ports, passed by the Assembly in April 1691 —
through which important law Thomas Ballard became, with
Ring, the founder of historic Yorktown.
The statement demands a word of explanation. In Vir-
ginia at this period there was nothing anj^-here resembling
a city, with the solitary exception of Jamesto"VNTi ; and it
required some stretch of the conscience to describe James-
to'^Ti as anything more than a village. The exigencies of
their life, and in particular the fact that the colonists were
for the most part dependent upon tobacco raising for their
sustenance, tended inevitably toward the estabhshment
inst »ad of innumerable "widely scattered plantations. There
was no need of harbor towns, since each plantation adjoined
a navigable stream; the planter shipped his tobacco and
unloaded his foreign supplies at his own wharf; and such
articles as were not imported from abroad were manu-
factured by his own servants on his own land. The authori-
ties in England could not, however, \'iew wdth equanimity
the spectacle of a vast colony wherein, after nearh' a century
of existence, there was nowhere to be found a town; it was
so un-English; and they had made numerous efforts, all
unsuccessful, to remedy the defect.
By this Act for Ports — which nominally, and with a deal
of beclouding verbiage, aimed merely to increase the facili-
ties for storing and shipping tobacco — fifty acres were set
aside in each county as a site for the county port. In York
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the Read plantation was selected, and laid off into eighty-
five lots. By the Feoffees (Ballard and Ring) these lots
were granted to such persons as requested it, in fee simple,
but "under such consideration, that such grantee, his heires
and assignes shall within the space of four months next
ensueing such grant, begin and MN-ithout delay proceed to
Build and finish on each halfe acre granted to him one good
house, to containe twenty foot square at the least." The
experiment, while it failed in most of the counties, proved in
York a success, very largely through the number of mechanics
who chanced to acquire lots there, whereon they set up
shops; the Feoffees reserved for themselves two of the most
desirable plots in numbers 16 and 10, fronting on the river;
several persons had presently opened inns for the entertain-
ment of \isitors to the new to"^!!; and in the outcome York-
town was in 1705 formally incorporated. Of its former
glories there sur\'ivcs to-day only its admirable \'iew of the
river; but Thomas Ballard is entitled, none the less, to the
credit of ha\'ing had the chief part in the town's establish-
ment.
Ballard meanwhile had been chosen to represent York
county in the Virginia House of Burgesses for the sessions
beginning 1 April 1692 and 2 March 1692-3. -\nd in the
last-mentioned year he had a hand in founding yet another
famous and enduring institution, when Thomas Ballard sold
to the trustees of the proposed College of William and Mar>'
a tract of land, inherited from his father, whereon the
college buildings were afterward erected, and stand to-day.
The original deed from Ballard was long presen'ed, but
mysteriously disappeared from the college archives some
twenty years ago. The first expense accounts of the college,
from its opening in 1693 to April 1697, sent by Governor
Andros to England and still to be seen there, contain under
the heading The College of William & Mary is D'r, 1694
the item: "To C.\pt Thom.vs B.\llard, for 330 acres of land,
whereon ye CoUedge is built £170." The
college has since sold, at various times, all save some thirty
acres of this land, which, purchased for £110 by Colonel
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Thomas Ballard of James City in 1674-5, and sold for £170
by Captain Thomas Ballard of York in 1693, was thus
owned by the Ballards not quite twenty years.
In 1694 Captain Thomas Ballard was chosen High Sheriff
of York. His commission, given in full in the York records,
was dated 27 April 1694, and granted by Edmund Andros,
who as has just been said, was then Governor of Virginia.
In consequence, as is duly narrat-ed hkewise in the York
records for the edification of posterity, "C.apt Tho:
Ballard, aduceing his Ex'lly ye Govemour's Comision
to this Court appojmting him High Sherr: of this Countie
this present year, which being accordingly swome, entered
mto bond, wdth seecurity, for ye due p'formance of his
Office therein accorcUng to Law." He selected his brother,
probably his only sur\'i\'ing brother, as sub-sheriff; and
"Mr Frauxcis Ballard, p. appojmtm't of ye High Sherr:
was accordingly swome sub. sherr: as afores'd."
The Governor by ordinary chose the sheriff, even,' year,
from among the justices of each county, who filled the of&ce
in turn, as it was not found equitable to impose its burdens
on any one magistrate for more than a twelvemonth. Yet
it was a ver>' remunerative position. In consequence, the
justice whose proper year it was to be sheriff would not
infrequently cede his right to a fellow magistrate who
chanced at the time to be financially embarrassed, — as
when in 1665 the York justices unanimously requested that
Colonel Ralph Langley be nominated sheriff of that county,
out of his turn, on the grounds that he had recently lost his
house by fire. Some of the sheriff's fees, as fixed by a law
enacted in 1661-2, amounted to five pounds of tobacco for
dehvering a summons to court or for issuing a bond to
keep the peace; ten pounds for ever>' arrest he made, for
every subpoena served, and for even-' commitment to
prison or release therefrom; twelve pounds for impanelling
a jury; and twenty for placing a culprit in the pillor\' or for
whipping him. In ser\'ing an execution the sheriff worked
on a commission basis, according to the amount of the
judgment: if the lattt^r was less than a hundred pounds of
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tobacco, his fee was ten pounds; if between one hundred and
five hundred, twenty pounds; if between five hundred and a
thousand, forty pounds; and if more than a thousand, sixty
pounds; and so on. These fees in a locahty hke seventeenth
century Virginia, where everj'one appears to have been more
or less htigiously incHned, added up at the year's end to a
tidy sum; and Captain Thomas Ballard, as will be seen,
was ready enough to resume the office when his turn came
about once more.
Ballard returned to the House of Burgesses for the session
of 1696-7, and again for the sessions of 28 September 1698,
of 27 April 1699, and of 5 December 1700, which last was
proroged to 30 May-14 August 1702. He was again High
Sheriff of York in 1699; was for years one of the leading
lawyers of Virginia, and was long an officer of the York
mihtia, ranking as captain in 1693, and being commissioned
Heutenant-colonel on 3 June 1699, — Edmimd Jennings being
then made colonel and commander-in-chief, and WiUiam
Buckner, afterward Ballard's son-in-law, major.
John Major, thus, married circa 1705 the daughter of
one of the Colony's most prominent men. John Major and
his wife appear to have hved near her father's big plantation
for some five years after their marriage, and then to have
removed from York to Charles City county, just as Colonel
Thomas Ballard was preparing, after seven years retirement,
to return to the House of Burgesses. It is noticeable that
Ballard's will, hereinafter given, drawTi up in 1706, states
that he was then "weak of body"; and he probably never
recovered robust health, as for the ensuing four years,
beyond occasionally sitting as justice of the peace, he seems
to have held no pubhc office. Now, however, he was elected
to represent York county once more as burgess, for the
session beginning 25 October 1710, but died in the pre-
ceding September, A note as to his death, will and de-
scendants is given on page 71,
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John Major's name, meanwhile, had figured off and on in
the York county records, in divers entries of no particular
importance beyond the fact that they establish his residence
during these years. On reaching the records for 1709,
however, he of a sudden begins to be concerned in a sur-
prising number of small law suits. It is also noteworthy
that these petty litigations end after the November court of
1709, at which John Major brought suit against the estate
of Thomas Stare, deceased, for £1, 16s, 2d, which was
adjudged due him; a suit against Joseph Lemon, which was
dismissed; and a suit against Thomas Hix, administrator
of Thomas Hix, deceased, over an acknowledgment of in-
debtedness to the amount of £2, 16s, 2d, signed by the
last-named 26 May 1707, upon which John Major asserted
£1, 16s, 2d was still unpaid, and was awarded a favorable
verdict.
John Major's name thereafter abruptly and finally dis-
appears from the York records. There can be little doubt,
therefore, that these legal transactions mark the winding-up
of his affairs in York, and that 1710 was the date of his
settling in Charles City county, where he had pre\'iously
acquired lands and other financial interests.
His brother Lemuel Major, as has been said, continued to
reside in York until at least as late as 1714, when his name
also disappears from the records. Nothing definite seems
ascertainable as to what afterward became of Lemuel Major;
there is a tradition existent that he went west — "to Ken-
tucky," the legend says, which was in 1714 a manifest
impossibility. That he emigrated from York and made
his home elsewhere appears at all events to be certain; and
his descendants, if he left any, have not been traced.
The remainder of John Major's life — after his removal to
Charles City — is wrapped in wellnigh equal obscurity.
'The records of that county covering the eighteenth century-
were for the most part destroyed during the War between
the States. Many stray odds and ends of documents have,
however, been preserved, which with two Books of Orders,
from 1736 to 1750, and from 1751 to 1757, and Books of
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AND OF CHARLES CITY 63
Wills dating from 1767 to 1774, and from 1790 onward,
with Deed Books from 1789, illuminate the period with a
sort of fitful twilight.
It is apparent thereby that Jolm Major died in Charles
City prior to 1737, leaving issue at least four sons, herein-
after named, with it may be a daughter or two, of whom no
record is obtainable. His wife, Anna Major, survived him,
acting as his administratrix until as late as 1743.
John Major and Anna Ballard had, with possibly other
issue :
I. John Major, who in Charles City county was reported
"for not frequenting the church" and acquitted, in January-
1741; he was convicted on the same charge, however, in
1752 and fijied five shillings, or fifty pounds of tobacco.
This w^as under the quaint Act for the Effectual Suppression
of Vice, &c (enacted in 1706, and directed against dissenters
from the Church of England), of which Section VII reads:
"Be it enacted, and it is hereby enacted, by the authority
aforesaid, That if any person, being of the age of twenty-one
years, or upwards, shall willfully absent him or herself from
divine service at his or her parish church or chapel, the
space of one month, he or she, being lawfully
convicted, by confession, or otherwise, before one or more
justice or justices of the peace of the county wherein the
offence shall be committed, .... shall forfeit and pay,
for every such offence, the sum of five shillings, or fifty pounds
of tobacco." There was also offered the delinquent an
alternative penalty of receiving "on his or her bare back,
ten lashes, well laid on." All this points strongly toward a
survival among Colonel Edward Major's descendants of his
non-conformist opinions; yet divers circumstances indicate
that both WilHam Major of York and John Major of York
and Charles City were members of the Church of England;
and it is probable that this John Major evolved, rather than
inherited, his rehgious behefs. His brothers nowhere figure
in such a pickle. John Alajor died without issue in 1768.
His will — wherein he describes himself as "John Major,
Senior, of Westover" — dated 5 April 1768, was recorded in
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64 JOHN MAJOR OF YORK
Charles City 4 May 176S, and is hereinafter given in full,
on page 82. An inventory of his estate was taken, 4 June
1768, by Thomas Ballard, Freeman Walker and William
Finch, the total valuation being £36, Is, 3d.
II. Edward Major, who with his first wife Sarah ac-
knowledged a deed to William Acrill in Charles City county
in June 1737. Edward Major received six day's pay as a
witness in April 1740; and was living as late as 1756 — by
which time he had married, second, Elizabeth . In
1756 he brought an action for assault and batter>' against
William Beadles, as well as a suit against Ann Johnson, the
latter ending rather disastrously; for the jury dismissed the
case and recommended that the plaintiff be prosecuted for
hbel. Edward Major, as has been said, was twice married,
and left, with possibly other issue, a son: WilHam Major, of
age in 1756, w'ho made his home near Williamsburg. The
latter married Garland, and had William G. Major,
who married Martha, daughter of John Emery, and was
living in Charles City as late as 1816.
III. Bernard Major, who was a juror in Charles City in
November 1737; and was appointed, with Walter Vernon
and John IMinge, in September 1739, to appraise the estate
of James Middleton, deceased. Bernard Major petitioned
for a new road in April 1740, that which he had been using
having been stopped by Mr John iMinge; and, with his son
Bernard ^lajor. Junior, appraised the estate of Temperance
Harwood in Januarj^ 1757; and witnessed the will of George
Minge, dated 4 December 1781, and proved 2 January 1781.
Bernard Major hved to a considerable age, dying intestate
in 1793. An inventory of his estate was taken 28 January
1794, but not recorded until 15 December 1796. He left
issue: Joyce Major, who married Harwood; Bernard
Major, living in 1794; and Samuel Major, died 1784. Of
the two sons, Bernard Major, Junior, of age in 1757, hving
in 1794, perhaps left no descendants; but Samuel Major,
who died before his father, in February 1784, left issue
another Samuel Major, (bom 1754, died 1785), who married
Anne, daughter of Samuel Timson of York, and had : Samuel
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AND OF CHARLES CITY 65
Major, who died without issue; Mary Major, who also died
unmarried; and Anne Major, who married Richard Garrett.
IV. James Major, of whom an account will be given
hereafter.
V. A daughter, who married Harman Wilcox.
ILLUSTRATIVE DOCUMENTS
TO ALL &c, WTiereas &c, Now Know yee that I, the
said Ffrancis Nicholson, Esqr, Govem'r, &c, do,
with the advice & Consent of the Councill of State,
accordingly give and grant unto John Major three hundred
Seventy Six acres of Land, lying in Rappahanock County
upon the branches of Gelson's runn and Hoskin's: begin-
ing at a great white Oake by an Indian path, some three
quarters of a mile from John Roberts'; King from thence
Southerly, and Extending South South West one hundred
& Eight poles to a small white Oake in a small valley;
thence South twenty five poles; thence South west two
hundred forty & six poles, crossing a main branch of Hoskin's,
to a white Oake some three outs Distant from the said Ruim,
on the South west side thereof; thence South East one
hundred Sixty two poles to a white Oake at ye head of a
small valley; thence North East, Crossing the said run againe,
three hund'd Sixty one poles to a small white Oake upon a
hill on the North side of a branch of Gilson's run; thence
North west by West one hund'd & one pole to a white Oake
upon a hill by an other branch; thence North west by North
ninety two poles to a white Oake on a Levell; thence North
forty two deg's westerly thirty eight poles to the first white
Oake. The said Land was formerly granted unto Philhp
May and Thomas Bells, by patent dated ye 21st day of
October 1687, and by them deserted; and since granted to
ye said John Major by order of the Gener'll Court, bearing
Date ye 24th day of Aprill 1701: and is, further, due unto
the said John Major by and for the Transportation of
Eight persons into this Colony, whose names are to be in
ye records mentioned under this patent: To have & to
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hold etc, to be held etc, Yeilding & paj-ing etc, pro\'ided
etc. Given under my hand & ye Seale of ye Colony this
24th day of October Anno Dom 1701.
FFR: NICHOLSON
John Major his patent for 376 acres of Land in Rapp'a
County — E: Jennings.
Joseph Young, William Mack-daniell, Joseph ffox, George
Reding & Susannah Netherway. (Headrights.)
— ^Virginia Land Patents
GEORGE &c, To all &c, Whereas, by one Patent under
the great Seal of this our Colony and Dominion of
Virginia, bearing date the 24th day of October
Anno Dom: 1701, there was grante to John Major one
certain tract or parcel of Land, containing three hundred
and seventy six acres, lying and being in the County of
Essex, formerly part of Rappahannock, upon the branches of
Gelson's run and Hoskin's, and bounded as followeth: to
wit, begining at a great white Oake by an Indian path, some
three quarters of a mile from John Roberts'; lying from
thence Southerly, and Extending South South West one
hundred & Eight poles to a small white Oake in a small
valley; thence South twenty five poles; thence South west
two hundred forty & six poles, crossing a main branch of
Hoskin's, to a white Oake some three outs Distant from
the said Runn, on the South west side thereof; thence South
East one hundred Sixty two poles to a white Oake at ye head
of a small valley; thence North East, Crossing the said run
againe, three hund'd Sixty one poles to a small white Oake
upon a hill on the North side of a branch of Gilson's run;
thence North west by West one hund'd & one pole to a white
Oake upon a hill by an other branch ; thence North west by
North ninety two poles to a white Oake on a Levell; thence
North forty two deg's westerly thirty eight poles to the
first white Oake: which sd Tract or parcel of Land was
granted on Condicon of seating or planting, as in the sd
Patent expressed: And Whereas the sd John ^Iajor hath
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failed to make such seating or planting; and William
Major of the County of King & Queen hath made humble
suit to our Lt Govem'r of our sd Colony and Dominion,
and hath obtained a grant of the same Lands: Therefore
know ye that, for divers good Causes and Consideracons,
but more especially for and in Consideracon of the Im-
port aeon of eight persons to dwell within this our Colonj'' of
Virginia, whose names are Thomas Perre, Eliza Alebee,
John Thome, George Madby, Chas Hallett, James Johns,
John Spring, & Eliza Harve, We have Given, Granted and
Confinned, and by these p'sents for us, our heirs and Suc-
cess'rs do Give, Grant and Confirme, unto the sd Willla.m
Major and to his heirs and assigns forever, all and every
part and parcel of the sd Tract or parcel of Land: With all
&c. To have, hold &c, To be held &c, Yeilding and pajdng
&c, Pro^^ded &c. In Witness &c. Witness our Trusty and
Wellbeloved Alexander Spotswood, our Lt Govem'r &c, at
Williamsburgh, under the seal of our sd Colony, the six-
teenth day of August, one thousand, seven hundred &
fifteen, in the second year of our Reign.
A: SPOTSWOOD
Wm Major — 376 — Lapsed Land — form in Aih page.
— Virginia Land Patents
WHEREAS Mr Thomas Ballard, Jun'r, brought
before us a woman serv't, named Katherine
Phillips; and by his peticon declareinge that She
ran away from her Service, and chd take Severall peeces of
her Mistr's Linnen alonge with her; And yt he was
att twenty shiUings charge att ye least, besides loose of time
in Lookeing after and bringing her whome Againe; and ji;
not long after the s'*d Katherine Phillips did most wilfully
and Mallishously Conveye some fire into her IM'r's Trunck
Amongst her Cloaths, (which did appear to be tme
by her owne Confession), & did there burne and Consume
Soe much Silke and other fine Linnen, (to the value of
fourteene pounds Ster.) — Itt is therefore ordered that the
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s'd Phillips serve her s'd Mast'r three years after her time
by Indenture-to be expired, for the great loss and Damages
her s'd Mast'r hath Sustained by her Evill and Mallishious
Contriveances.
— ^YoRK County Records 24 January 1686-7
YORK COUNTY, February ye 9th 1690— Received
then of Capt James Archer the sum of one hundred,
eighty and two pounds and sixteen shillings sterl.
and Nine thousand and three hundred and eighteene
pounds of tobacco and cask; being the full portion of my
Wife Katherine, the Daughter of Mr John Hubbard,
Dec'ed; & received pr me THO: BALLARD
Teste: (Signed) E. Jennings, Peter Temple. Recorded
25 May 1691.
— York County Records
These two domestic items must be permitted to suffice,
concerning Colonel Thomas Ballard of York, since the
records of that count}' show that during the quarter-centurj""
between 1685 and 1710 hardly a court was held whereat he
did not figure in a dozen cases, either on his o^vn behalf, or
in one of his multifarious official capacities, or as attorney
for someone else. There is no beginning to pick from such
a wealth of material; and besides, the curious \sill find fair
copies of these records, as far as 1702, readily accessible at
the Virginia State Library.
HUBARD OF YORK
JOHN MAJOR of York and Charles City counties married
Anna, daughter of Colonel Thomas Ballard of York
and Katherine Hubard. An account of Colonel Thomas
Ballard has been given previously; and it seems well here to
speak briefly of his %\-ife's family, the Hubards.
The Hubard arms, as borne by them during the seven-
teenth centur>', still exist in a bookplate then used by a
member of the family. They are: sable an estoile of six
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HUBARD OF YORK 69
points, in chief a crescent argent, between two flaunches
ermine. Crest, a Sagittarius. The arms are in the book-
plate impaled with an unknown coat, blazoned as: argent
on a chevron between three pheons gules, three mullets of
the field.
Matthew Hubard and Jolm Hubard were brothers living
in York by 1650. Matthew Hubard patented 595 acres in
York county, IS August 1655: due for the importation of
twelve persons, namely ''\Vm Parke, Sen'r, Wm Parke,
Jun'r, et uxor, Sarah Park, Wm Swinburne, Edward Harris,
Wm Beamont, Rice a Welchman, ffra Taylor, & Ann
fflower." He was justice of the peace for York for several
years, and died in 1667, his will being proved 4 April 1667.
His inventory shows a hbrarj- remarkable for size and
quality. Matthew Hubard left issue: John Hubard, who
died unmarried; Rebecca Hubard, who married John Edloe;
and Matthew Hubard of James City county, who married
Ellen . Matthew Hubard's -wife, Sibella, sur\dved
him, and married, second, Jerome Ham (a burgess for
York 1657-8), and, third, Wilham Aylett.
John Hubard the younger brother, probably died in the
January of 1667-8, as his inventor^' was ordered to be taken
24 February 1667-8. His estate was valued, 8 ^lay 1668,
at £784, Is, 9d, which was notable wealth for the time and
neighborhood. His widow, Katherine Hubard, was not
long in finding consolation, inasmuch as James Besouth
gave security for £500 on marrying her by a deed dated 14
July 1668, recorded in York 12 April 1669.
John Hubard left issue:
I. Eliz.\beth Hubard, who in 1677 married Captain
James Archer, and died 13 December 1727, leaving issue.
II. ^La.tthew Hubard, mariner, dead in 1694, who left
issue: James Hubard. The \vill of this James Hubard, dated
12 January' 1719, recorded in York 15 Februars' 1719, shows
that he married Elizabeth , and left issue: James
Hubard; and Matthew Hubard.
III. Katherine Hubard, bom circa 1660, who in 1684
married Colonel Thomas Ballard of York.
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70 HUBARD OF YORK
Colonel Thomas Ballard of James City, father to Colonel
Thomas Ballard of York, was appointed guardian to Mat-
thew Hubard, the two girls being entrusted to their
mother, now remarried. Colonel John Page was adminis-
trator of John Hubard's estate, as is shown by an acknowledg-
ment from Matthew Hubard, recorded in York 8 May 1682,
of having received his share therein — 9,318 pounds of to-
bacco and £182, 15s. Ehzabeth Hubard had received her
portion when she married in 1677: and Page relinquished
his responsibility as to Katherine Hubard's inheritance by a
deed dated 5 j\Iay 1679, recorded 26 June 1682, to James
Archer (her brother-in-law) and Mrs. Katherine Besouth
(her mother), who became thereby joint trustees. As has
been seen, Katherine Hubard's portion was not deHvered
her husband until 1691; she must, however, have been of
age in 1682, as she witnessed a power of attorney from
John Taton to James Archer, dated 15 August 1682. She
married Colonel Thomas Ballard, as has been said, in 1684.
James Besouth, her mother's second husband, died in
1681. His will, dated 10 November 1677, was recorded in
York 24 October 1681 : his whole estate is left to his wife for
life, with reversion at her death to Elizabeth, -^^dfe of Bridges
Freeman. Freeman and his wife sold their interest in 176
acres, a part of the land involved, to ^Matthew Hubard the
elder (the son of John Hubard, as distinguished from John
Hubard's nephew, also named Matthew), by a deed dated
4 October 1683, recorded 14 October 1683. Katherine
Besouth survived her second husband by more than twelve
years, dying 19 March 1693-4: her will, dated 28 February
1693-4, was recorded in York 26 March 1694.
Much material as to descendants of the two Hubard emi-
grants will be found in the William and Mary College Quarterly
Volumes I, III, IV, V, and VI.
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THOMAS BALLARD OF YORK 71
SUPPLEMENTARY NOTE AS TO BALLARD OF YORK
COLONEL THO:VL\S BALLARD of York, Jolin
Major's father-in-law, was among the magistrates
who sat at a court held in York 24 June 1710: he
did not sit at the July court, nor after: but at a court held
5 October 1710, "Matthew Ballard, as executor of the last
will and testament of Lt: Coll: Thos Ballard, deceased,
presenting a Certificate under the hand of Wm Barbar,
Gent, for the said Ballard's takeing up a runaway Indian
Woman, & it appeareing by the sd Certificate that the sd
Lidian Woman was apprehended twenty miles distant from
her Master's dwelhng, it is ordered to be transmitted to the
Assembly for allowance." This entry shows that Colonel
Thomas Ballard was dead by October 1710; yet, rather
curiously, his will, dated 26 September 1706, was not re-
corded until 18 June 1711.
On the same date Edward Powers, WilHam Lee and
Bassett Wagstaff were named to appraise the estate. Their
inventorj', returned and recorded 16 July 1711, amounts in
all to £603, 12s, Sd. It includes eighteen negroes, ^ix
horses, fifty-one head of cattle, seventy ounces of plate,
and "a parcell of Bookes, val'd at £2, 10s." The inventor}^
is not unlike, in the general nature of its contents, the
inventor^' of William Major, pre^•iously given, although of
course Colonel Ballard was by far the wealthier of the two.
Indeed, it should be borne in mind that Colonel Ballard
was one of the wealthiest men of his time and neighborhood.
For that reason his will is especially worthy of careful con-
sideration, and a copy is in consequence appended.
IN THE NA:ME OF GOD, .\men: I, Thomas Ballard
of the parish of in the county of York, Gentle-
men, being weak of body, but of Perfect mind & memor>',
thanks be to almighty God, do hereby Revoke all former
wills & Testaments by me hitherto made, and make &
ordain this my last will & Testament, in manner & form
ollowing, my Just debts being first paid —
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Imp's, I freely resign up mj' pretious Soul into the hands
of my most gratious redeemer & mercifull Saviour, on whom
alwaj's I trust for Justification & Salvation, and my body
for Xtian buriall according to the discretion of of (sic) my
Executors hereafter named, in hope of a glorious Resurec-
tion: and as for my worldly Estate which God hath lent me,
I dispose of as followeth:
Imp's, I give & devise the plantacon or tract of Land I
now live on, — begining its bounds on York River, runing
up the North west side of the Creek that parts it from the
Land late of one Walner to a Spring called Oxespring, and
from thence North west to the great Road, down to the
marked white oake near the Road that devides it from the
Land of Colo: Diggs, so from thence along the line of the
said Diggs doT\'n to a pasetur on the River Side, & so along
by the said River to the Comer where it begun, — unto my
son Matthew & to the heirs of his body Lawfully begotten;
and in case my said son IVIatthew dye without issue, I give
it to my son Thomas & to the heirs of his body lawfully
begotten; and if my son Thomas dye \\ithout issue, then I
give it to my son Robert & to the heirs of his body lawfully
begotten; and if Robert dj-e without issue, I give it to my
son John & the heirs of his body lawfully begotten; and if
he leave no issue, then to remain to my son William & his
heirs forever.
Item, I give & devise my tract of Land whereon one John
Brookes now Lives, — begining its bounds at the deviding
line of one John Potter from the Land once of Major Robert
Baldrey, & now mine, so dowTi the main Road toward the
said Colo: Diggs' to the aforemenconed white oake, so from
thence up into the woods along the said Diggs' line near
South west, & so along mj^ line bounding the land of Charles
Colleir untill it come to the land of Thomas Jefferson, and
along the said Jefferson's line to the main Road where it
begun, — unto my son Thomas & to the heirs of his body;
and if he, my son Thomas, dye without issue, then I give it
to my son Robert & the heirs of his body; and if Robert -
dye without issue, then to my son John & the heirs of his
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THOMAS BALLARD OF YORK 73
body; and if John dye without issue, then to my son William
& his heirs forever: and my will & meaning further is, if
my tract of land above dexnsed to my son Matthew shall
descend or come to my son Thomas or his heirs, that then &
from thenceforth the tract of Land herein-menconed to be
devised to my son Thomas shall be & remain unto my son
WiUiam & the heirs of his body Lawfully begotten, anything
above s'd to the Contrary notwithstanding.
Item, I give & devise the tract of Land on w'h I formerly
dwelt, — and begining its bounds at the main Road & runing
along the line of the abovenamed Potter to the head of a
Swamp called "White ]\Iarsh, so along the Swamp to the line
of the Land late belonging to one Walners, and along the
said Line to a Creek, and up the Same to the Spring called
Oxespring, and thence Northwest to the great road that
leads from Colo: Diggs's to Williamsburgh, and thence up
to Potter's Comer where it begun, — to my son Robert &
the heirs of his body La^\'fully begotten; and if Robert dye
■without issue, then I give it to my son William & to his
heirs forever.
Item, I give & devise unto my son John all my Land on the
South side of the Swamp called Whitemarsh. to him & to
his heirs forever.
Item, I give to my daughter Ehzabeth, the wife of WilUam
Smith, twenty shillings to buy her a Ring, I haveing given
her her portion already in marrj'age.
Item, I give unto my daughter Anna, the v^-ife of John
M.vjoR, my negro Sue and the boy Larence, or fifteen pounds
Sterling in Lieu of the said Larence, at the Choice of my
Executors, to be delivered or paid within six months after
my decease.
Item, I give unto my daughter Katherine Molotto Susanna
& her Increase, twenty pounds Sterhng, the negro boy Tom
Puding, my Second best featherbed. Bedstead, bolster,
" Pillows, blankets, Sheets, Covering, Curtams, Vallens
thereto appertaining, & the young horse now breaking called
Ring.
Item, I give to my son Thomas Negro frank, four young
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cows & a Steer of four or five years old, a featherbed, bolster,
Pillows, Blanketts, Sheets, Covering, & bedstead, three
pewter dishes worth eighteen shillings, six plates, & four
Cain Chairs, to be paid & dehvered to him when he comes of
age.
Item, I give to my son Robert negro Jane T\*ith her in-
crease, ten pounds Sterling, three young Cows & a Steer
of four years old, to be paid & delivered to him when he
comes of age.
Item, I give unto my son John negro Madge & her In-
crease, ten pounds Sterling, & three young Cows, to be
delivered him when he comes of age.
Item, I give unto my son Wilham negro Giles, Molatto
Kate wath her Increase, & ten pounds Sterling, to be de-
livered & paid when he comes of age.
Item, I give unto my daughter Mar>' my two Molattoes
called Betty & Anne & their Increase, & a good featherbed
performed as the beds above-menconed ; and my vnll further
is, that if any of my said five Children dye before they come
to the age of one & twenty years, & not marr\'ed, that
this & their portions be Equally divided amongst the
sur\nvors of them.
Item, I give to my three sons Robert, John & Wilham, to
every of them, a young horse, to be delivered when they
come of age.
Item, my mind & will is, that my Exec'r shall have the
Benefitt of the Labour of all the negroes & Molattos given
to my last named five Children, (Vizt:) To Thomas, Robert,
John, William & Mary: he therefore to give & allow
them a Sufficien & proper Maintenance & Educacon, the
s'd Mary till She come to age or be marry ed, and the boys
till they come of age or be by him putt to Lawfull Callings,
as apprentices, w'ch I hereby Impower him to doe.
Item, all the rest of my goods & Chatties not before given
nor disposed of I give unto my son Matthew, whom I make
& appoint whole & sole Exec'r of this my last will & Testa-
ment ; and I hereby request my trusty & well beloved friends
Mr Lawrence Smith & Major Wilham Buckner to direct,
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assist & advise my said Exec'r in the Execution of this my
will. In Witness & Confirmacon of all which I have here-
imto set my hand & seal, this 26th day of Septem'r 1706.
THOS: BALLARD (Seal)
Attested in the presence of the Testator: (Signed) Jer:
Ham, John Brooke, Solomon Harmon (the mark of), Sam'l
Seldon.
This will & Testam't was presented in Court by Matthew
Ballard, the Exec'r therein named, who made Oath to it,
and the same being proved by the Oaths of John Brook &
Sam'l Selden, is admitted to Record; and on the mocon of
the said Matthew, & his performing what is usuall in such
Cases, Certificate is granted him for obtaining Probate
thereof in due form. Test, Phi: Lightfoot, C: Cur. Truely
Recorded.
Colonel Thomas B.axlard had married, as previously
recorded, Katherine Hubard, who died before her husband's
will was drawn up in 1706. They had issue:
I. Matthew B.allard, bom 1685, who married Jane ,
and died in 1720 without issue. His widow married, second,
in 1726, Matthew Hubard, for years clerk of York county,
who died in 1745.
II. Elizabeth Ballard, bom 1687, who married and
left issue by William Smith of York.
III. Anna B.\llard, bom 1689, who married John Major
of York and Charles City counties.
IV. Katherine B.u,lard, who married and left issue by
William Buckner of York.
V. Thomas Ballard, who settled in Charles City county,
and of whom an account is more conveniently deferred to
page 86.
VI. Robert Ballard, who married Jane . Robert
Ballard, Carpenter, and his wife Jane Ballard conveyed
Plot 24 in Yorkto-s^Ti to Vincent Pearse of the Kingdom of
Great Britain, Gentleman, by a deed dated 15 October 1725,
recorded in York county 15 November 1725. Robert
Ballard died intestate, accordmg to the petition to adminis-
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ter his estate, presented by his w-idow 19 May 1735: and
records of the Orphans Courts in York show he left issue:
Henrietta Ballard; and Charlotte Ballard.
VIL John B.^llard, who died in Yorktown in 1745. He
had married Elizabeth , and left issue: Thomas
Ballard; John Ballard; Robert Ballard; William Ballard;
Catherine Ballard; Elizabeth Ballard; and Anne Ballard.
VIII. WiLLi.oi Ballard, who seems to have died un-
married.
IX. Mary Ballard, of whose marriage or descendants no
record has been preserved. It is probable that she, as well
as her brother William, died before reaching maturity.
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^AAIES MAJOR, the youngest son of John
Major of York and Charles City, was
bom circa 1720, or possibly even later.
Living as he did from first to last in
Charles City county, the paucity of con-
temporaneous records there renders it
difficult to obtain accurate information
as to the facts of his earlier hfe.
It is apparent, however, that he married, circa 1745, his
first cousin jMary, daughter of Thomas Ballard of Charles
City; his oldest son another John Major, was bom not later
than 1748.
It is also certain that, in spite of his comparatively ad-
vanced age, James Major served as a soldier in the Revolu-
tion. A family tradition, to the effect that he was wounded
in a battle fought in the North, returned to Charles City,
and died there of his injuries before the conclusion of hostiU-
ties, is strikingly supported by recent investigation of
Revolutionary records. These disclose that a James Major
served in Captain Stephen Ashby's company in the Twelfth
Virginia Regiment from March 1777 to June 1778; was
transferred in July 1778 to Captain John Neville's company
in the Fourth Virginia, and was one of the fifteen men
honorably discharged therefrom 10 October 1778. It was
at this time the Virginia troops were being reorganized,
among other changes the Eight Regiment being combined
with the Fourth. James Major's former regiment, the
Twelfth, was now designated the Eighth; and he re-entered
it in November 1778, as a member of Captain Wood's com-
pany. He was transferred to Captain Robert Gamble's
company in the same regiment, in May 1779, and remained
in service until July 1779, after which month his name
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disappears from the payrolls. There can be little doubt
this was James Major of Charles City.
Major was one of the men draughted in the early spring
of 1777, and presumably joined the Twelfth Virginia at
MorristowTi, New Jersey, where Washington was then
reorganizing the Continental arm}'. Alajor must have
taken part in the defeats at Brand^-^-ine, 11 September 1777,
and Gemianto'^Ti, 4 October 1777, and have passed thence
to the terrible winter of 1777-8, at Valley Forge. The
Twelfth Virginia was likewise present at the battle of
Monmouth, 28 June 1778; and it was evidently through
the readjustments following this battle that James IMajor
was transferred for a while to the Fourth Virginia. There
appears to be no record as to the movements of the Fourth
Virginia during the summer of 1778; but these troops were
probably with Washington at White Plains, where they took
part at most in unimportant skirmishing. But, as has been
said, in September 1778 the Virginia regiments were
thoroughly reorganized; and through these changes James
Major became a member of the Eighth Virginia (formerly
the Twelfth, his original regiment), and by May 1779 was a
member of Captain Robert Gamble's company therein.
This circumstance would seem to identify the battle
wherein James Major received the injuries from which he
eventually died. It must have been the night attack on
Stony Point, 16 July 1779, where the especial company to
which James Major belonged — Captain Gamble's — is known
to have played an eminent, and indeed the leading, part.
As has been seen, James Major's name disappears from the
payrolls immediately after the date of this engagement,
when he had served httle over two years, out of the three
for which he must have enlisted.
Stony Point, overlooking the Hudson, and then held by
the British, was considered almost impregnable. General
Anthony Wa\Tie was, none the less, empowered by Wash-
ington to take the fortress, if possible; and retorted with
"Mad Anthony's" tolerably famous remark — "General, I
will storm hell if you will only plan it."
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An interesting account of how WajTie carried out the less
ambitious undertaking will be found in the Virginia His-
torical Collections, Volume XL It suffices for the present
that the Americans attacked the fort simultaneously from
the nori;h and south; and in the face of a terrible storm of
grape-shot forced their way, at the point of the bayonet,
through every obstacle, without firing a musket, until the
van of each colunm met in the centre of the fortress. It
was perhaps the most brilhant exhibition of courage that
even the Revolution produced; though it may reasonably be
questioned whether the whole affair was not a useless waste
of hfe and ammunition, inasmuch as the British retook the
fort within two days.
Waddell, in his Annals of Augusta County, relates how
Captain Gamble led one of the assaihng parties, as well as
how "Captain Gamble with his men mounted the wall in
immediate vicinity of a cannon, and seeing the match
about to be applied, barely had time to lower his head and
order his men to fall flat before the gun was discharged.
He was, however, permanently deafened by the concussion.
His company immediately moved on, and were the first
to enter the fort. Being busily engaged in securing prisoners,
the British flag was overlooked imtil Lieutenant-Colonel
Fleury observed it and pulled it down." There was thus
afterward a dispute between Fleur\' and Gamble as to who
was entitled to the leading honors: and Washington, after
frankly conceding the pre-eminence of Gamble's claim,
induced him to withdraw it, for fear of antagonising the
French auxiliaries.
James Major, then, it may safely be assumed was wounded
in this assault; and returning to Charles City, died there
at latest before the Januarj^ of 1780. It will be observ^ed,
by the settlement of his estate, hereinafter quoted, that his
coffin was paid for in the month just mentioned: tradition
apart, this would indicate that he was not killed at Stony
Point, since in that event he would have been buried there,
at the public expense. The item in itself would tend to show
that James Major died in Charles City; the circumstance
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of his coffin's having been paid for in the January of 1780
would not of course be incongruous with his death's having
taken place some while earher: so that, all in all, as far as
the existent e\'idence goes, James Major may have died any
time between the August and December of 1779.
It is likewise apparent that he left a will, which was duly
proved in Charles City, and named Fumea Southall as his
executor; but the text of this will has perished, with the
other county records. The final settlement of James Major's
estate, aforetime mentioned, was not made, however, until
20 April 1793, and recorded 16 May 1793; so that this sur-
vives to make clear, at worst, the names of his children and
the approximate date of his quitting this hfe.
His children eleven years after his death attempted to
secure some substantial recognition of their father's services
to his country', as happens to be sho^\^^ by a stray item in the
Journal of the Virginia House of Delegates. Among other
petitions considered by the House, 20 November 1790, is
enumerated :
"Also, a petition of Ballard Major, in behalf of himself
and others, representatives of J.uies Major, deceased, who
served as a soldier during the late war, praying that certifi-
cates may be granted to them for the arrears of the pay and
depreciation due to the said James Major."
No record seems to exist as to whether or no this petition
was granted. The State of Virginia, at all events, was, then
as afterward, sadly strapped for want of ready money; and
any remuneration collected by the heirs of James Major
was of necessity a pitiable affair of shilhngs.
James Major, as has been said, had married circa 1745
his first cousin Marj', daughter of Thomas Ballard of
Charles City; and he appears to have survived her, as in the
settlement of his estate there is no mention of her share.
In conclusion, this settlement contains a peculiarly
characteristic item in: "To paid John Edloe for Rum and
sugar to Bury dec'd, £26, 10s." Virginian funerals of the
day were in effect social festivities. People in the sparsely
settled neighborhood were compelled to come considerable
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distances in order to attend; and hospitality demanded
these people should not go away either hungry- or thirsty.
To prevent this, as is amply shown by surviving records, the
relatives of the deceased verj' often went to rather excessive
lengths: it is estimated that for a moderately attended
interment "it required, for the assuagement of the mourners'
*■ grief, twenty-two gallons of cider, twenty-four of beer, and
' five of brandy; and to sweeten the drinks, twelve pounds of
sugar." There is no doubting that this sort of consolation
sometimes led to indecorous results; and many wills of the
I period contain the strange sounding request that there be
"no drinking immoderately nor shooting sutTered" at the
t burial of the testator. The "shooting," it is fair to specify,
referred to the custom of firing volleys over the grave. There
•• is thus no reason to suppose that James ISIajor's funeral
^ was in any way an extraordinary' affair.
James Major and Mary Ballard had issue:
J I. John ]Major, apparently the oldest son, of whom an
account will be given hereafter.
II. Sarah Major, who married Wilcox. She seems
^ to have been the second child.
III. Ballard Major, who in 1797 married Ann Hilliard,
but left no issue. He sold his lands in Charles City to
William Graves, in 1797-8, by three deeds hereinafter
described, and appears then to have qi.itted the county.
IV. James ]M.uor, li\dng in 1793, of whose issue likewise
there is no record. He, as well as his father, served in the
Revolution, and concerning his military career a word follows.
V. Elizabeth Major, who married Gill.
VI. Mary Dancy Major, immarried in 1780.
VII. Martha M.uor, unmarried in 1792, when she gave
Fumea Southall a receipt, hereinafter quoted, for her share
in her father's estate.
VIII. Another daughter. Christian name unknown, who
married Stephen West, and died in or before 1779, leaving
issue: John West; Sarah West; and Ehzabeth West.
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was a Revolutionarj"" soldier, and it is a thought difficult to
disentangle the two records. The younger James Major,
however,, some five years after his . father's death, was
granted a Bounty Warrant, as follows:
"Council Chamber, April 29th, 1785.
"No. 3833 — James Major is entitled to the proportion
of Land allowed a Private of the Continental hne, who
inlisted for the War and served to the end thereof.
THOMAS MERIWEATHER
"A Warrant for 200 Acres Issued to James IVL^jor, April
29th, 1785."
And in the Virginia State Library'-, among the Bounty
Warrant manuscripts, is still preserved a certificate that
James Major enhsted pre-vious to January- 1777 in the Eighth
Virginia, for three years; and aftens-ard re-enUsted for the
war — e\'idently in the First Virginia, as there is an ac-
companj-ing certificate that James Major was furloughed
from that regiment, at Charles Town, 2 July 1783, and never
again called on. The Eighth Virginia, it should again be
said, was in September 1778 absorbed by the Fourth, as
was the Ninth by the First. These two certificates were
copied by Philip Southall, a justice of the peace for Charles
City, and with them is filed the following note:
"Gentlem'n Auditors — I request Capt. Nath'l Ashby to
settle my acc't with you: please to send my Land Warrant
and Depreciation by him, as I served a Land time for it,
and have a just right to it. I am yours &c,
JAMES MAJOR— A copy, Ph'p Southali:'
A manuscript volume among the archives — known as
War 4 — shows that on 28 April 1785 Nathaniel Ashby was
paid, for James Major, £57, 7s.
ILLUSTRATIVE DOCUMENTS
IN THE NAME OF GOD, Amen: I, John Major, Senior,
of Westover Parrish in the County of Charles City,
being sick and weak, but of perfect Sence & Memory,
do make this my last will and Testament, as followeth:
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Imprimus, I give to my brother James's son John Major
one feather Bed, one Read and white heifer, and sow, and
three shoats.
Item, I give to ray brother James's daughter Sarah
Major Ten pound Cash.
And lastly, I give to my Brother James Major, after all
my Legacies Abovementioned, all the residue of my "Estate,
whom I constitute and apoint whole & Sole Executor of
this my last "Will and Testament ; Revoking all other Wills
by me heretofore made; as Witness my hand and Seal, this
5th Day of April, In the Year of our Lord one thousand,
Seven hundred and Sixty eight.
JOHN MAJOR, his + mark
Sign'd, Seal'd, Publish'd and Deliver'd in the Presence of:
{Signed) William Parrish, Jun; Thomas Ballard; Elizabeth
Ballard, her 7nark.
At A Court held in Charles City County, the ith day of May
1768, — This last will & Testament of John ^L\jor, deceas'd,
was Presented in Court by James IMajor, the Executor
therein named. Sworn to by the said Executor; & being
proved by the Oath of Wm Parish & Thomas Ballard, two
of the Witnesses thereto, & ordered to be recorded, Certifi-
cate is granted the said Executor for Obtaining a Probate
thereof in due form; he having made Oath, *fc Entering into
bond according to Law. Teste, Mord: Debnam, C. C. C.
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AMES MAJOR'S ESTATE SETTLED:
Dr, the estate o/ J.^mes ]M.\jor, dec'ed, in account with
Furnea Southall, executor:
1780 Jan'y 7 To paid for a Coffin for the deceased.... £54 00 00
To paid John Edloe for Rum and
sugar to Bury dec'd — 26
To Crying the deceased's estate..- .— 50
To levies, taxes &c for the year 1779- 3S
To ditto for the year 17S0 „ 36
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To John Major's Legacy left him by
the dec'ed's Will 10 00 00
To Sarah Willcox ditto 10 00 00
To Mary D. Major ditto _ 10 00 00
£334 18 03
To paid James Major 14 05 00
£349 03 03
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1780 March By amo't of sales of the dec'ed's es-
tate, due Jan'y 1781 £2905 10 00
Oct'r 20th '81 By interest Rec'ed on Henry Duke's
& Cowles' bonds for their purchase
at the sale 76 15 00
£2982 05 00
Amount Debt 349 03 03
Divided amongst the Legatees as follows — £2633 02 09
£383, 2s, 9d — Between the Legatees liquidated by the scale
of 50 for one, {With interest from Jan'y 1781) :
Sarah Willcox £76, 12s, 6H, at fifty for one, as above
Mary D. Major the same sum, at ditto
Martha Major the same, at ditto
Elizabeth Gill— Do
Ballard Major— Do
Elizabeth Gill, also £452, 15s, in a Certificate for Money funded
at 1000 for 1
Ballard Major, also £1797, 5s in the said Certificate at the said
fate — which said sums amount to the Ballance above, £2633,
2s, 9d.
Charles City County — In obedience to an order of the
worshipful Court of the said County to us directed, we
have examined, Stated, Settled and divided the estate of
James Major, deceased, as above. Given under our hands,
this 20th day of April 1793: (Signed) Wm Southall, Henry
Duke, Wm Graves.
At a Court held for Charles City County, on Thursday, the
IQth day of May 1793— The within written settlement and
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division of the estate of J.\mes M.\jor, deceased, was this
day returned and ordered to be recorded. Teste, Otway
Byrd, C. C.
— Charles Cfty County Records
MAJOR TO SOUTHALL, REC'T
October 1st, 1792— Rec'd of Furn'ea South.axl
the sum of one Hundred and eighty-two pounds,
in full of my part of the personal estate due me from my
deceased Father James Major's estate that he had in his
hands, as guardian to me.
MARTHA her + mark MAJOR
Witness: (Signed) John Southall.
At a Monthly Court, held for the County of Charles City,
on Thursday the 18th day of October 1792.—
The aforewritten Receipt from Martha Major, of the
one part, to Furxea Southall, of the other part, was
presented to the Court, and ordered to be recorded. Teste,
Otway Byrd, C. C.
— Charles Cnv County Records
Considerations of space prevent the giving in full of the
three deeds, pre\aoush' mentioned, whereby Ballard Major
c isposed of his share in his father's estate, to William Graves.
Ballard Major and Ann Hilliard deeded their interest in
twelve and three-quarters acres, for £15, 6s, on 23 February
1797; he and his wife, Ann Major, deeded fifteen adjoining
acres, for £18, on 14 December 1797; and Ballard Major
alone (being now a widower) deeded forty more acres, for
£22, 10s, on 21 Febmarj- 1798. The land transferred by the
last deed is described as "a tract or parcel of land situate in
the said County of Charles City, and bounded as follows:
by the land of Ingraham Gill on the East, and by the land of
the said Graves on the North, West and South: containing
forty acres of land, be the same more or less: it being all
that balance of the tract of land that the said Major lately
lived on, and devised to him by his Father James Major,
deceased."
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BALLARD OF CHARLES CITY: WITH DANCY OF
CHARLES CITY
JAMES MAJOR of Charles City, as has been said, married
his first cousin Man.', daughter of Thomas Ballard of
Charles City. This Thomas Ballard, as also has been
recorded, on page 75, was the second son of Colonel Thomas
Ballard of York.
The younger Thomas Ballard was bom circa 1695, and
was in consequence fifteen or sixteen years old at the time
of his father's death. He seems to have been bound appren-
tice, under the terms of Colonel Ballard's will, to his brother-
in-law John Alajor, and to have been reared in the latter's
household in Charles City. He was at all events married
and living in Charles City in 1737, prior to which year, as
has been said, there are no coherent records pertaining to
that county.
A deed from John Side and his wife Sarah to Thomas
Ballard was acknowledged at the August court 1739.
Thomas Ballard and his ^-ife Mary had a suit against
Francis Dancy in April 1742, which was prolonged until
December 1742. The verdict in this case, (hereinafter
given), shows that Ballard's wife was the elder daughter of
Francis Dancy and his wife Amy, who had left issue: Francis
Dancy, the eldest son, defendant in the suit; Man,' Dancy,
the elder daughter, married to Thomas Ballard, and, with
her husband, one of the complainants; Samuel Dancy, dead
without issue in 1742; Aim Dancy, dead without issue in
1742; and Edward Dancy. William Dancy, and Benjamin
Dancy, these last-named three being plaintiffs with Mary
Ballard. The older Francis Dancy had by his will left
certain slaves to his wife, to be divided at her death among
his children equally, excluding his eldest son, Francis, and
his elder daughter, Mar}*: and the main question at issue
was. Amy Dancy being dead, what disposition was to be
made of these slaves, now that two of the younger children
had died intestate. It was ruled that the limitation held,
excluding Marj' Ballard and Francis Dancy from any
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interest in the slaves; but that, none the less, Francis Dancy,
as the heir at law, inherited after Samuel and Ann, and so
was entitled to their two shares in the di\'ision.
Thomas Ballard was appointed inspector at Kennon's
Warehouse in August 1742. At the IMay court 1743, "On
the petition of Thomas Ballard, he is permitted to keep an
ordinary' at his house, he having given bond as the law
directs." The license was renewed 14 March 1743-4, and
several times aftenvard; and Thomas Ballard appears to
have maintained this inn until the close of his Ufe.
At a court held the first Wednesday in September 1750
he brought suit "on behalfe of himself & our Lord the King"
against Daniel Boyce, for retailing liquor illegally — an
infringement of the law which touched Ballard professionally.
The outcome is not recorded. Thomas Ballard died not ver>'
long aften^-ard, as in March 1756, and again in June 1756,
his administratrix, Elizabeth Ballard, was bringing a
Chancery suit against Richard Weir.
He had married, first, Mary, daughter of Francis Dancy,
and, second, Elizabeth , by whom he had no children.
By his first marriage Thomas Ballard of Charles City had
issue:
L Eliz.abeth B.\llard, who married Henr\' Talman,
n. Mary B.allard, who, as previously recorded, circa
1740 married James Major of Charles City.
IIL Thomas Ballard, died in Charles City November
1790, who married Sarah , and had issue: William
Talbot Ballard, \vi\\ dated 6 August 179S, recorded in
Charles City 21 February' 1799, who died unmarried;
John Ballard, u-ill dated 18 May 1809, recorded in Charies
City 21 April 1814, who likewise died unmarried; Francis
Dancy Ballard, li\'ing in 1804, mentioned in the 'will of liis
brother Thomas; Thomas Ballard, will dated 13 August
1804, recorded in Charles City 20 September 1804; Lucy
Ballard, who married Peter Eppes; Ehzabeth Ballard, who
married Moses Fontaine; and Sarah Ballard, who married
Abraham Fontaine.
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The first wife of Thomas Ballard of Charles City, as has
been said, was Mary Daney, whom he married before 1725.
Little data is available concerning the Dancy family, but
she was a descendant of the John Da.vsey who patented 100
acres near Checkroes Neck, 4 June 1636, described as
adjoining land granted him by an earlier patent; and on the
same date patented 350 acres in James City county — "A
mile up Chickahomon}- river, on the north side, and bounded
by a creek called Tanks Pasby haves creek. Due, 50 acres
for the personal adventure of his wife Alice Dansey, and 300
for the Transportacon of six p'sons," whose names are
given. He patented another 100 acres in James City county,
25 May 1637— ''on Tanks Pasbye hayes Creeke"
The second grant comprised what was then kno"WTi as
Dansey's Point, to-day called Dancing Point, on the Chicka-
hominy river. On Fry and Jefferson's map of Virginia the
place is called Dance's Point, which was readily corrupted
into Dancing Point, and the well-known storj- invented to
explain its name, of how the de\'il and Mr Lightfoot of
Sandy Point once held a dancing contest there, with a
quantity of marsh land as the stake. Mr Lightfoot, as is
notorious, is reputed to have outdanced the de\'il, and thus
to have won the Lightfoot plantation,
Francis Dancey, or Dancy, son to the preceding, patented
282 acres in James City county, 30 October 16S6, and left,
with other issue, a son Francis Dancy. The latter, as has
been seen, married Amy , and died in Charles City
ante 1742, having had issue:
I. Francis Dancy, sheriff of Charles City County, 1741,
living in 1771, who had issue: William Dancy; Benjamin
Dancy; John Dancy; Francis Dancy; Edward Dancy;
Hardyman Dancy; and Mary Dancy, who married
Davidson.
IL Samuel Dancy, who died without issue before 1742.
IIL William Dancy, who likewise seems to have died
unmarried.
IV. Edward Dancy, will dated 11 February 1771, recorded
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in Charles City 3 April 1771, who married Rebecca
but had no issue.
V. Benjamin Dancy, will dated 1 Februar\' 1771, recorded
in Charles City 6 March 1771, who died unmarried.
VI. Mary Dancy, who as previously recorded, was the
first wife of Thomas Ballard of Charles City.
VII. Ann Dancy, who died unmarried before 17-42.
The verdict in Chancery in the Ballard-Dancy suit '
aforetime mentioned, is appended verbatim:
THOMAS BALLARD and Mary, his wife, et als,
complainant ag't Fr.\ncis Dancy, Respondent,
in Chancery: on hearing the bill, answer, & other
pleading &tc. It is Decreed by the Court, that the remainder
of the Slaves, in the will of Fran: Dancy (Namely, Jone,
Betty & Bristow) De\ased to Amey Dancy for life, & after
her death to be equally divided amongst his Children, his
eldest Son & Daughter excepted, is a good hmitation to those
in remainder, & that Mar>-, the wife of Tho>l^s Ballard,
the complain't, hath not any right to any part of the dis-
tribution of Such Slaves; & it is also further decreed, that
the complain'ts have not any right to any of the Slaves
of Sam'l or Ann Dancy, dec'ed, & that the property of Such
Slaves were absolutely Vested in the respondent, Francis
Dancy, as heir at law to the s'd Sam'l & Aim. Therefore
it is ordered, that Capt Sam'l Harwood, Capt Edward
Brodnax, Mr Richard Kennon & ]Mr John Williams, or any
three of them, doe audit & Settle the Several personal es-
tates of Amey Dancy, Sam'l Dancy & Ann Dancy, & doe
ascertain & adjust what part of the said personal estates
is due unto the Complainants (Vizt, Thomas Ball.\rd
and Mar}', his wife, Edward, "William & Benjamin Dancy),
& make their report to the Next Court."
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SUPPLEMENTARY NOTE AS TO BALLARD OF
JAMES CITY
IT HAS SEEMED expedient to defer until this the giving
of an account of the founder of the Ballard family in
Virginia. As is the case with most families of distinction,
the founder was by no means the least notable member
thereof.
Thomas Ball.\rd of James City county, bom in 1630,
was in all hkelihood a son of the Henry Ballard who is
named as a headright in Captain Christopher Calthropp's
land-patent of 1,000 acres in Charies River county, dated
6 May 1636, and who himself patented fifty acres in War-
wick county, 31 October 1642. There are divers other
circumstances, here irrelevant, which indicate that Thomas
Ballard had interests in WanWck, and was presumably
bom there.
It is certain, at all events, that he was in 1652 clerk of
York county, and retained this office for eleven years after-
ward. Ballard was thus already upon the road to prefer-
ment. To quote once more from Mr. Bruce's Institutional
History of Virginia: "There are numerous indications that
the clerks of the county courts were frequently men be-
longing to families of conspicuous influence. ... As it
was permissible to combine the office with other positions
perhaps more lucrative, it was not considered even by men
of good estates and of great pohtical importance to be
unworthy of their acceptance. It shows how far this com-
bination of other offices with a clerkship was carried during
the years preceding the Insurrection of 1676 that one man
was allowed to perform, in addition to its duties, the duties
of county surveyor, escheat master, and public notarj', all
places of decided profit. The office of clerk by itself must
have been the source of a large income to the incumbents."
At this time they were authorized to practise as attomeys
in their respective courts — "and independently of these
services, the fees which they were permitted by Act of
Assembly to charge for their ordinary duties as clerks
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assured them an ample return for their labor." For the
clerk's fees at this time compare Hening, I, 266; and, as
altered during Ballard's tenure of the office, I, 464.
On 16 July 1655 Thomas Ballard patented 1,000 acres in
"Gloucester county, now called Kent", his tract lying east
of the jSIattapony river, bordering William Wyatt's land,
and being due for the importation of twenty persons. He
seems, however, never to have seated this land; and indeed,
a marginal note is appended to the land-grant, "This Patient
is relenqueshed for ye right to make good a pattent of 1,300
Acres of the said Ballard's Dated ye Qth: October 1658."
He a Uttle later, on 15 October 1657, patented 600 acres
"on South Peanketanke", assigned to Ballard by Abraham
Moon (who had patented the land 1 November 1634), but
this tract Ballard sold shortly aftenvard to Major Da\-id
Cant. He then patented. 6 October 1658, some 1,300
acres "on ^^'horecock swamp" in New Kent county, due for
the importation of twenty-six persons, and 290 acres in
York, 13 January 1661; but these lands Ballard also sold,
and, apparently m 1663, removed to James City county,
where for the remainder of his Hfe he made his home.
While a resident of York Ballard had married .\nna,
daughter of William Thomas of that county, this event
taking place probably circa 1650, and at least as early as
1658, as is shown by a deed of gift by William Thomas,
conveying to "Jane Hillier, wife of John Hillier" — daughter
to Thomas's wife by an earUer marriage — a heifer, "named
Tittymouse," wherein Thomas mentions his "son-in-law
Thomas Ballard": the deed being dated 20 March 1658-9,
and recorded in York 24 June 1659. There is also recorded
in York a deed from Thomas Ballard and Anna Ballard,
his wife, convening to :Matthew Hubard the land Ballard
patented in 1661; which deed Anna Ballard signed on 28
March 1662, her witnesses being John HiUier and Jane
Hillier.
Thoma^ Ballard, then, removed to James City circa 1663,
and was chosen to represent that county in the Virginia
House of Burgesses for the session begirming 5 June 1666
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and proroged to 23 October 1666. He seems from the outset
to have played no inconspicuous part in the Assembly.
He was appointed, 31 October 1666, one of the "Committee
to regulate the price of Ordinary- Keepers", for in those days
the rates charged by innkeepers was not a matter beyond
the dehberation of the lower house. On 2 November Ballard
was named one of the committee "to attend the Governor
about a treaty with Maryland and the Incident Instruc-
tions", and, 6 November 1666, to "attend the Honourable
Governor for drawing the Instruments for Wm Drum
{Drwnviond), Governor of Carolina, and the Instructions for
the Commissioners for Marj-land, and to treat also with his
Honour concerning his Satisfaction for the Silk presented to
this Country by his Sacred Majesty." This marks almost
the last gasp of the long-continued effort to make silk in
Virginia profitably. On the same date Ballard was also one
of the committee to attend the Governor "to request his
Honour to consider some Hon'ble persons that might be
fit and would please to accept the Managing the Affairs of
the Country in England."
In the same year Ballard was named a member of the
Council by Sir William Berkeley, then Governor of Virginia,
with whose turbulent fortunes all Ballard's future was
henceforward linked. Ballard seems to have served only
one term in the House of Burgesses, just now; but he re-
mained a member of the Governor's Council for thirteen
years.
It is difficult to overestimate the dignity of this position,
and its importance justifies another (abridged) citation from
Mr. Bruce.
"Members of the Governor's Council were invariably
chosen from the wealthiest, most capable and most in-
fluential citizens of Virginia. This discrimination as to
wealth did not have its origin in such a purely sentimental
cause as the desire to maintain the extraordinary dignity of
the ofl&ce by choosing to fill it only men enjoying the highest
consideration in the community; the care in selecting mem-
bers of the Board among persons of property was attributable
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to the verj' practical fact that the Councillor served both as
naval officer and as collector of customs for the district in
which he resided; that as such he had the custody of very
large sums of money; and that unless he o\\'ned a competent
estate, any default on his part would entail a permanent loss
to the Colony. Should he, however, possess a large property,
any deficit in his accounts could soon be covered by its sale.
"Wealthy and prominent both socially and pohtically as
the citizen must be to become a member of the Council,
his nomination to that office at once greatly enhanced his
importance. Appointment to the Board was one of the
surest means of trebling and quadrupling a fortune, owing
to the large salaries of the numerous very lucrative offices
that went wath it. The Councillors constituted the Upper
House of the General Assembly, and in the various powers
exercised by them in that character closely resembled the
Enghsh House of Lords; in association with the Governor,
they formed the General Court, which concentrated in
itself the several jurisdictions of the Chancer}', King's
Bench, Common Pleas, Exchequer, Admiralty and Ecclesi-
atical Courts of England; they served as commanders-in-
chief or colonels of their respective groups of counties, and
as such possessed privileges closely analogous to those of the
EngUsh Lords-Lieutenants; they acted as naval officers,
ard in that capacity were called on to enforce all laws
passed by Parliament and the General Assembly for the
advancement of trade and navigation, and as naval officers,
they also entered and cleared all vessels; they were the
collectors of the export duty of two shillings a hogshead and
of all other duties of the like nature, such, for instance, as
the one penny a pound imposed on tobacco shipped from
Virginia to another Enghsh Colony in America; they were
the farmers of the quitrents, which they obtained from the
Auditor on verj- low bids; and they acted as escheators, an
office very lucrative in itself and offering unusual oppor-
tunities for profitable investment.
"It is not going too far to say that the members of the
Council appropriated to themselves all those higher offices
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of the Colony which were attended with the largest salaries,
or presented the most numerous chances for money-getting.
They deliberately disregarded the fact that the concentra-
tion of these offices in so few hands brought about serious
damage to the public interests whenever the Councillor was
required by his incumbency of two separate positions to
perform two sets of duties really in conflict vnth. each other:
a Councillor, for instance, was called upon to pass upon the cor-
rectness of his o^vn accounts as collector; as collector, he was
obliged, for his own enlightenment as a judge of the General
Court, to inform himself of all violations of the Navigation
Acts; as farmer of the quitrents, he practically owed the
success of his bid to himself as Councillor; as escheator, who
was a ministerial officer, he took and returned the inquisi-
tions of escheats to himself as a judicial officer, and as such,
passed upon points of law coming up in his own inquisitions.
It is no cause for surprise that Bacon denoimced the Council-
lors as 'sponges to suck up the public treasury', as a 'powerful
cabal' full of wiles for their own enrichment, and as traitors
to the people in their greedy determination to appropriate
to themselves all the official fat of the unhappy Colony."
So much for Thomas Ballard's new responsibilities and
opportunities. Meanwhile, he was named as one of the
Virginia Commissioners appointed by Berkeley to treat
with the Commissioners of Maryland and Carolina on 8
November 1666, about the proposed scheme to force up the
price of tobacco by refraining from planting any during the
year 1667. The articles of agreement, binding all three
colonies to raise no tobacco whatever during this twelve-
month, had been signed at James City, 12 July 1666, by all
the commissioners save Ballard alone, who evidently had
no faith in the makeshift. His scepticism was shared by
the more powerful Lord Baltimore, then Governor of
Marj'land, who eventually persuaded the Privy Council to
declare the agreement of no effect.
As a member of the Council, Ballard now made his home
at Middle Plantation, afterward Williamsburg, where he
was living certainly as early as 1668; and where on 28
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January' 1674-5 he purchased from Thomas Ludwell a
considerable tract of land, including, as has been said, all
the ground whereon stands the present College of William
and IMarj'. Ballard's home seems to have been just east of
the College, at the western end of Francis Street.
In York, 24 April 1673, Thomas Ballard was appointed
guardian of Aime Broomfield, the daughter of Mrs. Mary-
Marsh, deceased; and it is possible that this ]Mary Marsh
was his sister. She had married, first, Thomas Broomfield,
and, second, Joseph Croshaw (being his fifth wife), and,
third, Clement jNIarsh.
The outbreak of Bacon's Rebellion, in 1676, found Ballard
high in Governor Berkeley's grace and counsel. In 1673
he had been among the nine signers of the remarkable
letter "on behalfe of Sr Wilham Berkeley", sent by members
of the Council to Iving Charles II, defending the Governor
against responsibility for the recent captures of many-
merchantmen off the Virginia coasts by the Dutch; and
Berkeley, in a letter to Thomas Ludwell, dated 1 April 1676,
when trouble wdth Bacon was plainly imminent, writes of
"Coll: Bacon (cousin to the rebel), Mr Ballard, your brother
(Phihp Ludwell), and Mr Bray" as "al I have left to assist
me.
It is impossible to give any intelligible account of Thomas
Ballard without mtroducing therein some account of Bacon's
Rebellion. This miniature civil war was brought on, pri-
marily, by troubles with the Indians, some of whom uncivilly
objected to making a present of their native land to English-
men, and committed many murders on the frontiers of the
settlements. Nathaniel Bacon, Junior, of Curies, in Henrico
comity, petitioned the Governor for a commission to fight
against them, and, not recei\dng it, marched with a company
of other malcontents up Roanoke river, attacked a camp of
unprepared and hitherto friendly Indians, killed a hundred
and fifty of them, and returned home. The inhabitants of
Henrico, at least, were so well pleased by this rather dubious
exploit that they elected Bacon to represent them in the
next Assembly, which convened at Jamestown 5 June 1676.
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Bacon came to take his seat, and was arrested for high
treason; but his friends were powerful, and a concihation
was patched up, whereby Bacon professed repentance for
his late violations of the law and implored forgiveness of the
Governor, which formally was granted. In this arrange-
ment Thomas Ballard was one of the prime movers; and he
was among the members of the Council who endorsed
Bacon's application for a pardon, dated 9 June 1676. Yet,
in passing, Ballard had been explicitly denounced by Bacon
in his proclamations, as the Governor's "wicked and pemi-
tious Counsellor."
Ver>' shortly, however. Bacon declared his life to be in
danger if he remained in Jamestown, and fled by night to
his home ui Henrico. Here he gathered together five hund-
red adherents and at their head marched back into James-
town, unresisted. The Governor was for defying him even
then, for all that Berkeley had scarcely a hundred men to
back him against Bacon's half-thousand; but the Governor
was overruled by the Council — Ballard being a leader in this
also, — and, yielding to force, gave Bacon his long-sought
commission to fight IncUans. Ballard, for one, e\adently
thought they were well rid of Bacon on almost any terms.
The English Commissioners, who afterward investigated
this rebellion, record: "The Assembly also did passe orders
to raise or presse 1,000 men, and to raise Provisions &c,
for this intended service ag't the Indians, wherein severell of
the councell and assembly members were conceme'd and
acted in the promoting this designe, encouraging others to
list themselves into Bacon's service, and particularly one
Ballard, who endeavoured to perswade some (who scrupled
the Legahty of Bacon's commission) that it was fairly and
freely granted by the Governor, Councill and Burgesses,
this B.^XLARD being one of the councill, and of those that
both tooke and administered Bacon's Oath." Of the later
clause an explanation x^ill be made later.
Bacon now returned to Henrico, and was on the eve of
going out a second time against the Indians, when news
arrived that Berkeley was in Gloucester county endeavoring
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to raise forces wherewith to uphold his authority as Gover-
nor. This caused Bacon to give up his expedition, and to
direct his march into Gloucester, where he found the harried
Governor had fled to Accomac. Bacon, thus left supreme,
summoned the leading men of the Colony to Middle Planta-
tion, and there, 1 August 1676, made them swear to stand
by him, even against soldiers sent from England. His next
move was really to lead his troops against an unfriendly
tribe of Indians — some Pamunkeys, whom he discovered
and seems to have had little difficulty in killing off, in the
recesses of the Dragon Swamp, in King and Queen county.
He returned to the settlement, and found the Governor once
more estabhshed at Jamesto^Ti.
Now the charge of ha^^ng been among those who at
Middle Plantation swore to support Bacon against the
Governor or, if need be, against troops sent from England,
is elsewhere laid against Thomas Ballard. In "A List of
the names of those worthy persons, whose services and sufferings
by the late Rebell Nathaniel Bacon, Junior, & his party, have
been Reported to us most signal and Eminent, during the late
unhappy troubles in Virginia^' — this hst being dra"v\'n up by
the aforementioned Commissioners — are enumerated "Col.
Thomas B.\llard & Lt-Col Edward Hill, both which fas wee
have heard) lost considerable by the Rebell party. The
first of whom, both took and gave Bacon's unlawful! Oath."
It is, in fact, indisputable that, when Berkeley fled to
Accomac; Ballard was captured by Bacon's men, when they
assembled at ]\Iiddle Plantation — where Ballard's home was,
— and cheerfully took the oath required of him, without
any ver>' earnest intention of keeping it. At all events,
the moment Berkeley returned to Jamestown, Ballard
rejoined him.
Bacon made straight for Jamestown also, and, having
arrived in "Paspahegh Old Fields," across from the Island,
found that Berkeley had fortified the isthmus on the
Island side. Bacon caused his men to throw up some earth-
works, and fortified them, as is well known, under shelter of
a pre-eminently unchivalrous trick, that pecuHarly touched
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Ballard. For Bacon had somehow managed to capture the
wives of the leading Councillors — "Madam Elizabeth Bacon,
wife of (his cousin) Colonel Nathaniel Bacon, Senior;
Madam Anna Ballard, wife of Colonel Thomas Ballard;
Madam AngeUca Bray, wife of Colonel James Bray; &
Madam EUzabeth Page, wife of Colonel John Page" —
dressed them in white aprons, and stationed them under
guard on his breastworks, so that he might not be molested
by shots from the opposing forces, commanded by these
ladies' husbands, while Bacon was getting his cannon
mounted to attack Jamesto"UTi.
After a brief engagement, wherein Berkeley's forces were
worsted and Wilham Hartwell, the captain of his personal
bodyguard, was wounded, the Governor took ship and
abandoned Jamestown; and Bacon, as is notorious, then
entered and burned the city. He had matters his own way
for a few weeks. But by October he was dead, smitten
by a mysterious and horrible disease, wherein his opponents
did not hesitate to find the judgment of heaven. The
RebelUon collapsed Tvdth its leader's death; and the followers
of Berkeley exacted a prodigal retaliation from Bacon's
former adherents.
It does not appear that Ballard showed any especial
leniency; and, his con\'ictions apart, Colonel Ballard had the
purely personal grievance that, beside the discomfort able
treatment of Ballard's vnie already recorded, Bacon had
just previous to the Rebellion bought lands and cattle from
Colonel Ballard, for which Bacon had not paid anything
save a proniissor}- note for £500; and for which, now
Bacon was dead and Bacon's estate was confiscated by the
Crown, Ballard was not likely ever to get reparation. Ballard
had thus been hurt both in pride and in pocket, when he sat
as judge at the courts martial held 11 and 12 January 1676-7
"on board Captain John ^Martin's shipp, in York River"
and "att the house of James Bray, Esq" 20 January 1676-7 —
where they con-victed and hanged out of hand Ballard's
former fellow-commissioner, William Drummond, — and at
Green Spring, the Governor's residence, 24 January' 1676-7:
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and Ballard, -^nth the other judges, voted death to all the
adherents of Bacon they could lay hands on. He sat too
at the courts held at Green Spring, 1, 3 and 15 March
1676-7, at which many other victims were either sent to the
scaffold or heavily assessed. Curiously enough, he absented
himself from the trial of Giles Bland on 8 March 1676-7.
This can hardly have been by accident: and as Ballard sat
at all the other trials, before and after, the conclusion is
irresistible he had some personal reason for wishing to take
no part in Bland's formal condemnation. It does not
appear, on the other hand, that Ballard hfted a finger to
save him.
Hard upon these "bloody assizes" followed the removal
of Governor Berkeley from office, 27 April 1677, Ballard, in
passing, was one of the witnesses to Berkeley's will, dated
2 May 1676, but witnessed 20 ^larch 1676-7, less than a
month before the old knight's downfall. Berkeley left for
England 5 'Sla.y 1677, Colonel Herbert Jeffreys succeeding
him as Governor: and now the three Commissioners —
Jeffreys, with Colonel Francis ]Mor>'son and Sir John Bern.%
— set about investigating the causes of the recent disturb-
ances. The counties sent in their several "grievances";
and there was no lack therein of lurid verbal dehneation of
the tyraimous conduct of Captain William Hartwell, who as
has been said commanded Berkeley's bodyguard, and of the
misdoings of the deposed Governor's chief adherents,
Thomas Ballard, Philip Ludwell, Robert Beverley and
Edward Hill. These men were presently, in consequence, at
daggers drawn with the Commissioners: but in the mean-
while, hardly had the "grievances" been handed in, before
the Commissioners were generally considered to have
exceeded reasonable limits in meddling at all with Virginian
affairs, so touchy had the settlers grown in matters affecting
their independence; and popular opinion, suddenly veering,
now looked to Ballard and Ludwell and the others whom only
yesterday popular opinion had stigmatized as Virginia's
oppressors, to defend outraged colonial rights against un-
warrantable EngUsh aggression.
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100 BALLARD OF JAMES CITY
Thus, as a result of the Commissioners' reports, the Lords
of Trade and Plantation, on 10 February 167S-9, ordered
Philip Ludwell and Thomas Ballard to be excluded from
the Council, and this was done: but public dissatisfaction
in Virginia speedily forced Lord Culpeper (who followed
Jeffreys' successor Chicheley as Governor, in 1680) to
re-instate Ludwell; and the people had meanwhile given
Ballard the highest office in their power, by electing him
burgess for James City county, for the session beginning 6
June 1680, and making him Speaker of the House. Ballard
was re-elected burgess for the sessions of November 1682,
10 November 1683, 16 April 1684, 2 November 1685, and 20
October 1686; and was Speaker in 1680, 1682, 1683 and
1684.
He thus retired from pubhc Ufe, rather irrationally con-
verted into a popular hero, at what was then considered the
ripe age of fifty-six; and of the remaining two years of his
life appears no record. Colonel Thomas Ballard was buried
in James City county, where he had long been a vestr>-man
of Bruton parish, 24 March 1689.
In 1686 his ten-year-old claim against the forfeited estate
of Nathaniel Bacon was taken up, and Ballard's case as
creditor was represented to the King by the Council. No
record exists as to whether or no Ballard was ever paid:
but in the Virginia State Archives is still preserved Ballard's
unreceipted bill and Bacon's uncancelled promissory' note.
Ballard's first wife, Anna Thomas, had died some years
before him, on 26 September 1678. He had e\ddently re-
married, as in York was recorded, 24 July 1691, "An order
ag't Mr Thomas Barbar, High Sheriff, is granted Mr Tho:
Ballard, Assigne Ahce Ballard, Ex'c'r'x of Coll: Tho: Ballard,
Assigne Henry Waring, being for ye non-appearance of Jno
Eaton." This suit was dismissed 24 September 1691, the
case being dropped. The entry, in connection with the
hereinafter mentioned suit brought by William Ballard at
the last-named court, would indicate that Colonel Ballard
married, second, Alice , who survived him and
acted as his executrix. By this second marriage there were
no children.
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BALLARD OF JAMES CITY 101
Colonel Thomas Ballard and his first ^ife, Anna Thomas,
had issue:
I. John Ballard, who settled in Nansemond county,
where he patented 300 acres, 2 June 1673. It is stated on
excellent authority that he died uathout issue before 1694:
yet it would be interesting to know who were the Joseph,
Elisha and Elias Ballard who patented 250 acres in Nanse-
mond, 20 April 1694, and took out other land-grants in that
county later.
II. Colonel Thomas Ballard of York, of whom an account
has been given elsewhere, on page 57.
III. Lydl^ Ballard, who married Thomas Harwood. He
survived her, and married, second, Elizabeth, daughter of
Thomas Read, and died in 1700, without issue by either
marriage.
IV. Eliz.\beth B.allard, who married Ladd, and
had, with other issue: James Ladd of Charles City county,
who married Judith Christian. Compare page 54.
V. Martha Ballard, who married John Collier, but left
no issue.
VI. WiLLLvM Ballard, of whom very little is known. He
figured in the York records, shortly after his father's death,
in a suit he brought against James Harrison, William
Ballard being then described as "assignee of Benj : Good-
rich, Attorney of Alice Ballard, Exorx Coll: Tho. Ballard,
dec'ed": this suit, begun at a court held 24 September 1691,
was dismissed at a court held 24 November 1691, the
defendant making oath the debt had been paid through
Jerome Ham.
VII. Francis B.allard, sub-sheriff of York in 1694, and
sheriff of Elizabeth City county in 1705. He married Mary,
daughter of Bertrand Servant, and died 12 March 1719,
leaving issue: Francis Ballard; Servant Ballard; Frances
Ballard; Mary Ballard; Lucy Ballard; and Anne Ballard.
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John Major of Charles City
)OHN MAJOR, the eldest son as far as
ascertainable of James Major of Charles
City, was bom before 1748, as he wit-
nessed a deed by Francis Tyree dated 30
Januarys 1769, and recorded in Charles
City. Upon the other side, John Major
could scarcely have been bom before 1745.
He was thus in the neighborhood of thirty at the out-
break of the Revolution, and was one of the first to enlist —
or to speak to the foot of the letter, one of the first to be
enlisted, — in Charles City. John Major's name is therefore
to be found in the unique manuscript list, discovered in the
Capitol in 1852, and now to be seen in the Virginia State
Library, of ''Militia draughted from Charles City on 25
Nov'b'r, & put under the command of Benj. Harrismi Ju'r."
John Major's autograph likewise is preserved in this docu-
ment, signed to two receipts.
"We the Subscribers have received of Capt Benj Harrison
Ju'r the several sums mentioned next to our names, & dated
on the day Received, in WiUiamsburg. . . . Received
2 Dec'r, Ten Shillings— JOHN MAJOR."
"John Major, Cr.
1776 Dec 19 By 19 days Service in the Militia 16d
pr & 5 Rations at 7^d £1 8
"John Major, Dr.
1776 Dec'r 2d To Cash p. Rec't — - 0 10 0
ToBal.due. 0 18 5\
Rec'd Jan'ry 5th of Capt Harrison the above Acc't in full
—JOHN MAJOR."
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The roster of this company is hereinafter given, on page
106. As \\ill be seen, the company consisted of forty-four
men and nine officers, and embraced among its membership
representatives of practically all the oldest and best-known
families of Charles City. The fifty-three men, to all ap-
pearances, were equipped with twelve muskets and six
borrowed guns, which scarcely constituted a formidable
armament : but it does not seem they saw anything of actual
warfare for a year or two. The movements of the Charles
City militia, however, between 1776 and 1780 have not
been preserved on record.
There is a family tradition that John Major took part in
the battle of Monmouth, ser\'ing in one of the Virginia
regiments; but research, unluckily, affords no proof of this.
There was verj' certainly a John ^lajor who enlisted 15
Februar}' 1777 in Captain James Quarles' company in the
Second Virginia State Regiment, for three years, and was a
member of Captain "William Long's company therein as late
as November 1779; and as such, he must have been present
at Monmouth and under fire of General Washington's
historical profanity. But for the services of this John
Major, Bounty Warrant No. 3830 (for 100 acres) and £57,
7s, was granted, in April 1785, to William Bigger, as assignee
of WiUiam ]\Iajor, then the heir and legal representative of
John Major, deceased. So that this was e\idently one of
the King William county Majors, several of whom were in
the Revolution, and of whom at least two (compare the
Journal of the Virginia House of Delegates, for 11 December
1779) died in service: and could not possibly have been John
Major of Charles City, since the latter had no son named
William, and survived, as will be seen, until 1810.
John Major of Charles City, however, took the field again
when the Charles City militia was ordered south, on 25
June 1780. They were among the troops put under the
command of General Gates in South Carolina, whose forces
for the most part consisted of mihtia. Gates risked in this
campaign only one battle — on 16 August 1780, at Camden;
and it cannot be asserted that the Virginia miUtia won there
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104 JOHN MAJOR OF CHARLES CITY
much glory, however undoubtedly they at first showed
bravery. But in the end, as one historian has left recorded,
"after holding their ground stubbornly and successfully, the
untrained undisciplined mihtia, outnumbered and out-
flanked, gallantly rallying twice in the midst of their enemies,
finally threw away their arms and fled, panic-stricken and
pursued by the British, who cut down eight hundred of them
on the field. . . . Never had an American army suffered
such a disastrous defeat; it was utterly broken and dis-
persed."
It does not appear that John Major was either wounded
or captured in the debacle, in which the British took about a
thousand prisoners. He seems to have escaped unhurt,
made his way home, and thereafter to have eschewed
mihtary hfe; there is no record thai he took part in La-
fayette's Virginian manoeuvres in 1681 or in the siege of
Yorktown, as did so many of the mihtia. But John ]Major
was later remunerated for his part in Gates' southern
expedition, on the moderate scale of sixteen pence a day,
as may be seen by the Auditor's Accounts for Virginia,
under date of 17 April 17S4, when was issued a "Warrant
to John Major, for his ser\'ices in the mihtia of this State.
£3, 9s, 4d."
John Major thereafter made his home in Charles City,
where for the next thirty years his life seems to have been
unmarked by any stirring incidents. The county records
afiford nothing of any interest concerning him, with the
possible exception of his meticulous accounts as guardian to
his nephew and nieces, the children of his dead sister, who
had married Stephen West, also deceased. Manifold pages
are devoted to these accounts, presented to the court by
John Major at irregular intervals between 1790 and the
estate's final settlement in the August of 1803: and those
for 1790 are hereinafter given, wdth a word of explanation,
as sufiiciently curious to merit preservation.
John Major died in 1810; and his will, dated 28 ]March
1807, was recorded in Charles City county 21 June 1810.
This document, hereafter given in full, on page 109, throws
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JOHN MAJOR OF CHARLES CITY 105
little light upon the extent of his worldly possessions; but
the fact that he devised some fifteen slaves or more to his
various children would indicate a comfortable estate. The
opening bequest, to h's son Edward, would seem to indicate
some family compHcation, to which the key is lost. The
will of John Marable is not on record in Charles City, among
the survi\'ing records, so the mysterj' is likely never to be
unraveled; but it seems undeniable that John Major, who
had kept such painstaking accounts as guardian to his
nephew and nieces, had somehow muddled those he kept
as guardian of his son.
He had married in or before 1776, before the outbreak of
the Revolution, and his departure from Charles City to take
a hand therein, Martha, daughter of George Marable; she
survived him, and as is shown by the will of his son Edward,
hereinafter given, was living in 1818. Martha Marable
must have been by much the junior of her husband, as her
last child, George Bernard Major, was bom in 1804, when
John Major was at best nearing sixty.
John Major and Martha Marable had issue:
I. Edward Major, whose descendants for conveniency's
sake are grouped hereafter.
II. Katherine M.ajor, who married and left issue by
Drewrj' Birchett. Her descendants have not been traced.
III. Anne Finch M.\jor, who married George Moody,
and had issue: John S. Moody, who married Lowt\-;
George Moody, who married and left issue; Eliza Moody,
died unmarried; and Laura Moody, who likewise died
unmarried.
IV. Eliz.abeth ^LAJOR,who married her first cousin Edward
Marable, and had issue: John Marable; and Maria Marable,
who married and had issue by her first cousin John E. S.
Major, son of George Bernard Major.
V. Maria Major, who shortly after her father's death in
1810, married William Allen, and had issue: William Allen;
James Allen; Marj- Alleti, who died unmarried; Katherine
Allen; Maria Allen; and Margaret Allen, who married Dr.
Palmer.
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VI. George Bernard \Luor. whose descendants for
conveniency's sake are grouped hereafter.
The exact locality of John Major's home in Charles City,
it should be said in conclusion, appears indeterminate, but
it probably adjoined the "Burlington" estate of some 294
acres o\Mied by his son Edward Major, within two miles of
the Courthouse. The house now standing at "Burlington"
was in process of construction at the time of Edward Major's
death in 1818. The residence was completed by his executor
John Tyler (afterward President), and, at the request of
Edward Major's %v-idow, upon a considerably more modest
scale than Edward Major had planned. The place, passing
to Edward Major's son Edward Glarster Major, was sold
to John M. Gregory (aften\^ard Governor of Virginia), who
made considerable alterations and additions, and left the
house much as it stands to-day — apart, that is, from many
sorrj' dilapidations of time. The house has, moreover, of
late years been tenantless, the estate ha\ing passed into the
hands of a lumber company.
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ILLUSTRATIVE D0CU:MENTS
ILITIA draughted from Charles City on 25
Nov'b'r, & PUT under the command of Benj. Har-
rison, Ju'r:
Benj. Harrison, Capt.: Will'm Edloe, Ju'r, Lieut.: John
Harwood, Ensign: Henry Vaughn, Fumea Southall, John
Nibb, Serjeants: Tom Morecocke, John Redwood, Edmond
Christian, Coup's.
Lewis Crutchfield, 1 Country's Musketl; Thomas Gill;
Benjamin Hughes, 1 Parish gun £4, Blankett 12; Charles
Carter; John Major; John Atkinson; WiUiam Burton;
John Wilcox; Henry Finch; Samuel Butler, T. Stagg's Gun,
Val'd £4; William Harrison; John New; John Stubblefield;
Henry Roach; David Wilkinson; Thomas Butler, D. Roper's
Gun, Val'd £4; John Colgin, 1 Country's Muskett; Benja
Apperson, J. Knibbs' gun, Val'd £3; Charles Holdsworth,
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Blankett 12; Edward Clark; William Wilson; Richard Cole,
1 Muskett (Country's); Allen McBrown; Harrison Pearmon;
William Phillips, 1 musket (Country's); John Smith, 1
muskett (Country's); Samuel Christian, F. Durfey's gun,
Val'd £2, 10s; Gideon Bradley, 1 muskett (Country's);
Henry Wills, 1 muskett (Country's) ; William Walker; Richard
Gill; William Terril; Alexander McBrown; Benjamin Buck;
John Royster, TT'. Folk's gun, Val'd £3; Henry Harvey;
Richard Barnes, 1 tyiuskett (Country's); William Hardiman,
1 muskett (Country's); Thomas Warburton, 1 muskett
(Country's); John Warburton, 1 muskett (Country's); Robert
Maj-nard; John Nance; George Baker; Wilham Floyd, 1
muskett (Country's).
— Manuscript in Virginl\ State Library
OHN MAJOR'S ACCOUNT as Guardla.n to West's
Orphans
^ John West, Orphan of Stephen West, deceased,
in Account with John Major. Guardian — Dr.
17S2 To paid Ed Marrable for Board and Schooling £6 00 00
17S3Tofour months board, at £8 p. year 2 03 04
To seven yards of Cotton Cloth, at 3 1 01 00
1784 To one pair of Shoes 5 1 G yards sheeting 1519 ._. 1 00 09
1785 To 1 Hatt 4| 2-^ yards of Broad Cloth 2716 But-
tons 1|8J 1 13 02i
To Twist |8d Silk 1 1 shaloon3| buckram ll..._. 0 05 08
1787 To two pair of Stockings 51 7 yards Oznabrigs 71
3Jydsditto3|6 _ „ „ 15 06 01
£12 19 05i
Sally West, Orphan of Stephen West, in account as afore-
said:
1784 May, To paid William Wright for Board £01 09 00
1785 To your Board till Christmas 4 00 00
1786 To 31 yards of Linen 101 3i yds Shalon 1113
4 yds Oznab's4| _ 1 05 03
To 3 yds Sheeting 1019 4yds Durants 131
sheeting 117^ silk If __ 1 06 (Mi
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To 1 pair of Shoes 7|8 Board for one year,
Vizt. 17S6, £S _ 8 07 08
To Board for this year „ _ 8 00 00
To 1 Yard of linen. __ _ 0 02 06
£27 10 09^
Elizabeth West, Orphan of Stephen West, in account as
aforesaid, Dr:
May 1784 To 1 pair of Shoes o\ 4 lbs Cotton 6|
2Bar; Com30|._ £2 01 00
Nov. 1785 To 7 yards of Linen 21 1 Thread 116
Tammy 9ill 1 12 05
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silk 1 1 1 04 08
January 1787 To 20 lbs Cotton, at 4di p. pound,
7|6: 1789, to 6 yds linen 15| 1 02 06
£6 00 07
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1787 To keeping two small Negroes _ 3 12 00
1788 To keeping two small Negroes 3 12 00
1789 To keeping two small Negroes „ 3 12 00
£10 16 00
Their estate — Cr:
By a bond for _.. £12 00 00
By a bond for _„ 2 01 00
By a bond for _ 6 00 00
By a bond for 15 03 00
1787 By hire of Nanny..._ „ 1 02 00
By hire of Mille.._ 1 00 00
1788 By hire of Nanny. „ „ 1 15 00
By ditto of Mille 1 00 00
1789 By hire of Nanny. _.... 1 03 00
By ditto of Mille 1 00 00
£42 14 00
Ballance due Jonx Major £14 12 09
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These accounts, for their entire comprehension, require
a sUght glossary. A "twnst" was a skein of cotton yam for
stockings. "Shalloon", derived from Chalons in France,
was a hght loosely-woven woolen stuff used for women's
dresses and coat-linings. "Osnaburg", first manufactured
in the city of Osnaburg in Germany, was a coarse linen
made of flax and tow. "Durant" was a generic term for any
very durable material for garments, such as buff-leather or
an imitation thereof. "Tammy", or properly "tamin,"
was a thin highly glazed worsted or woolen fabric.
IN THE NAME OF GOD, Amen: I, John Major of
the County of Charles City, being weak in body, but of
usual mind and memory, do make this my last Will
and testament, in manner and form following, to wit:
My Soul to God, who gave it me; and my worldly goods
which it has pleased him to bless me with, I chspose of as
follows:
V'zt, I give and bequeath to my Son Edward Major, and
his heirs forever, George and Ceha (and her increase), which
Negroes are now in possession of the said Edward; and I
also give unto my said Son Edward all my lands after the
death of my much loved Wife, to him and his heirs forever,
provided the said Edward \\ill fully discharge and release
me from a claim which he has against me as his Guardian
for a sim[i of money received by me of the representatives
of his late Uncle John Marable; but in case of his refusal,
I then subject the said lands, or a necessary part thereof,
to discharge the said claim, with the interest that may be
due thereon.
2nd, I lend my dear and much loved wife Martha all my
lands during her natural life, and ever}' article of property
I may die possessed of, except that which may be necessary
to pay my just debts, and which I may give to my respective
Children by this instrument of writing.
3rd, To my Daughter Caty Burchett I give Cloe and her
increase, which Negroes are now in possession of her Husband
Drewry Burchett, to her and her heirs forever; and I also
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110 JOHN MAJOR OF CHARLES CITY
give her the bed and furniture which I lent her at her
marriage.
4th, To my Daughter Nancy Finch Moody I lend Hannah
and her Children and their increase, and after her death I
give and bequeath the same to her child or Children, and
their heirs forever; and I also give and bequeath to her the
Bed and furniture lent her at her marriage.
5th, To my Daughter Betsey Marrable I lend Anaka,
Sylvia and La\'inia and their increase; and after her death
I then give and bequeath the same to her Child or Children
and their heirs forever.
6th, To my Daughter Maria Major I give Nanny and her
three Children and their increase, when she shall reach the
age of twenty-one years or marry, to her and her heirs for-
ever.
7th, To my Son George Bernard, after the death of my
dear Wife, I give all the property (my lands excepted) of
every kind lent to my said wife Martha during her natural
Life, to him and his heirs forever.
8th, My just debts, it is my will and desire, may be paid
by my executrix and Executor hereafter named, out of that
Portion of my personal estate lent my Wife during her life;
and it is my hope that they -^ill consult, and agree as to the
property which can be best spared for that purpose.
9th, To my Daughter Betsey IMarrable mentioned in the
5th Item, I give the feather bed and furniture lent her at her
marriage; and it is also my \snll that my Wife give to my
Daughter ^laria, mentioned in the 6th Item, a feather Bed
and furniture out of that which I may have before assigned
my Son George at her death.
And lastly, I constitute and appoint as Executrix and
Executor of this my last will and testament, my dear Wife
Martha and my Son Edward Major. In testimony whereof
I have here set my hand, and had my seal affixed, this
twenty-eighth day of March one thousand, eight himdred
and seven.
JOHN MAJOR
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JOHN MAJOR OF CHARLES CITY 111
Signed and acknowledged, and the seal affixed thereto, in
presence of (Signed) C. Harrison, M. Willcox. G. Drinkard.
At a Monthly Court held for Charles City County at the
Courthouse, on thursday the twenty-first day of June 1810:
The aforewTitten last -will and testament of John Major,
dec'ed, was this day presented in Court, and being proved
by the Oaths of the subscribing Witnesses thereto, is ordered
to be recorded, and is truly recorded. Teste, Wyatt Walker
C.C.
— Charles City County Records
I, EDWARD MAJOR, of the County of Charles City, do
make and ordain this writing as and for my last Will
and Testament, hereby revoking all other wills hereto-
fore made by me.
Imprimis, It is my will and desire that all my just debts
be paid, to accompHsh which I subject such part of my
estate as will be sufficient for that purpose.
Item, It is my will and desire that at the end of the present
year, or as soon thereafter as practicable or convenient,
my executors make sale of the perishable part of my estate,
together ^nth the crops of all kind; and the proceeds of said
sale, or the balance thereof remaining in the hands of my
executors after the pajment of my debts, to be applied to the
support of my wife and children and the education of my
children.
Item, It is mj' will and desire that my wdfe be supported
out of the profits of my estate as long as she remains my
widow or stands to the provision made her by this will; but
on her marrj-ing again or renouncing the pro\asions made
her hereby, that she have such part of my estate as the laws
of the Countrj' entitle her to.
Item, I give and bequeath to my son Edward G. Major
all the lands I am entitled to under the ^nll of my father at
the death of my mother, and my tract of land called Burling-
ton, to him my said son Edward G. and his heirs forever:
and direct that the said tract called Burlington be leased or
rented out till the death of my mother, and the money arising
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from said lease or rent to be the benefit of my said son
Edward G., to him and his heirs forever.
Item, It is my will and desire that as soon after decease
as practicable my executors carry into effect the Trust deed
executed to Henry Finch by Jolm M. Gregory- to secure the
pajTn't of a sum of money due me from the said Gregory-;
and the money arising from the sale of said land I direct
may be placed at interest for the benefit of all my daughters;
and should the profits of the other part of my estate not be
sufficient for the support of my vaie and children and the
education of my children, I direct the interest of said money
to be applied for that purpose. I also direct that the land
I purchased from Richmond Finch in this county be sold at
the discretion of my executors, and the money arising from
said sale to be applied as directed in the case of the money
due from John M. Gregory.
Item, It is my will and desire that my negroes be not
devided till my said son Edward G. arrives to the age of
twenty-one years, at which time I direct a di\'ision may
take place amongst all my children, to them and their heirs
forever.
Item, In case either of my daughters should die under age
unmarried and without issue, I direct the whole of the estate
hereby given them, to be equally divided between the
survivors, to them and their heirs forever.
Item, I direct my executors to pay to Miss Agnes Perry
out of the money arising from the sales of my estate Two
hundred dollars.
Item, I give and bequeath to my wife Sarah her choice
bedstead and cord, to her and her heirs forever.
Lastly, I nominate, constitute and appoint Mr Fielding
Lewis, Mr John Minge, sen'r, Jno Minge, Jr, Jno Tyler and
Samuel M. Harwood executors of this my la^t will and
testament. In Witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand
and affixed my seal, this 14th day of May one thousand,
eight hundred and eighteen.
EDWARD MAJOR (Seal)
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Signed, sealed, published and declared by the said Edw'd
AIajor as and for his last Will and testament. In the presence
of (Signed) Ro. W. Christian, Wat H. Tyler, Wm G. Major.
A Codicil to the foregoing Will — I give to my son Edw'd
G. Major my Gun and case, to him and his heirs forever.
EDWARD MAJOR (Seal)
Ro. W. Christian, Wat H. Tyler, Wm G. Major. (Wit-
nesses.)
At a Court held for Charles City County, at the Courthouse,
the ISih day of June 1818 — The aforewritten last Will and
Testament of Edward IMajor, dec'd, and the codicil there-
after written, was produced in Court, and proved by the
Oaths of all the witnesses to the same, and ordered to be
recorded. And on the motion of John Tyler, one of the
executors therein named, who made oath thereto according
to law, and together with William Tyler, William Douglass
and Wyatt Walker, his securities, entered into and acknow-
ledged a bond in the penalty of Twenty thousand dollars,
conditioned as the law directs, certificate is granted the
said Tyler for obtaining a probate of the said Will in due
form: Liberty being reserved other executors named therein
to join in the probate when they may think fit. Teste^
Ro. W. Christian, CI. Cur.
— Charles City County Records
MARABLE OF JAMES CITY
JOHN MAJOR of Charles City, as has been said, married
Martha Marable, who died before her husband.
Captain George Mar.\ble, the founder of this family
in Virginia, patented a half-acre of land on Jamestown
.Island, by purchase from Ann Talbott, 25 February 1663.
The tract — "beg'g at a comer stake, at high water mark^
near the mulberry, & formerly belong'g to Thomas Wood-
house, by a patent dated Oct'r 17, 1655" — is furthermore
described as adjoining a dwelling-house already owned by
"George Marble", as he is here called. This was a brick
house on the shore near the present ruins of the Ambler
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house, and seems to have remained the city residence of the
Marables until 1G96, when the lot was sold by INIajor George
Marable, son to the immigrant.
Destruction of the James City county records makes it
necessarj' to rely on the records of other counties for such
stray items concerning Captain George Marable as have
been preserved. These are, unfortunately, not numerous;
but they are sufficient, all in all, to show hira a person of
position and some wealth. And in passing, it was by the
narrowest margin he escaped being identified wdth one of
Virginia's most famous relics of colonial days: for in June
1679 George ]Marable was given the contract to build the
original Bruton Parish Church, in Williamsburg. But a
dispute arose, which ended in a law-suit between him and
the vestrj-; and the contract was transferred, in 1681, to
Captain Francis Page.
Earher, George Marable made William Edwards his at-
torney in Surry by a deed dated 26 October 1675, and
recorded 8 July 1676. York records show a suit by George
Marable versus Charles Hansford, executor of John Rowan,
for 2C0 pounds of tobacco, 27 January 1679-80; and Marable's
power of attorney to Matthew Jacobs, to represent him in
this action, was recorded 26 January 1679-80. George
Marable was appointed, with three other gentleman, in
York, 18 June 1681, to view the house and lands of Mr
Robert Spring, which were to be valued and sold to dis-
charge their owTier's debts. The will of William Shenvood,
dated 18 August 1687, proved in James City 7 February
1687-8, mentions Captain George Marable, and appoints
him overseer, with William Edwards and Mr John Wright.
Transactions of the Council (in the Randolph Manuscript)
record, under 6 May 1691, "A Master of a Ship Sum.mon'd
up from Norfolk to give his Deposition concerning persons
being carried out of the Country who was indebted to
Geo Marable." In York is recorded a deed to John Doswell
by George Marable and his wife, Marj' Marable, dated 4
November 1691, disposing of a tract in York "called the
Ridge", comprising some fifty acres, and described as "last
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MARABLE OF JAMES CITY 115
owned by Gozen Dclony" by virtue of a patent dated 19
October 1G64; and previously owned by Edward Wright, by
a patent dated 3 July 1652. This Gatien de Loney was
living in York 167S. with his wife ^lary. And furthermore,
York records show that in 16S6 and after George Marable
was captain of the James City militia, and in 1G94 and
presumably in other years, a justice of the peace for that
county, and in 1695 High Sheriff. He died, apparently,
in the latter part of 1696, having married Mary ,
and lea\'ing, with possibly other issue, a son who was like-
wise named George ^Marable.
Major George ]Mar\ble was bom circa 1675, and had
recently come of age at the time of his father's death. He
sold, as already recorded, his half-acre of city property in
Jamesto%\Ti in 169G, and 26 October 1699 patented 135 acres
in James City county, this tract being described as escheat
from John Wright. There was evidently, in passing, some
close cormection at this time between the families of Wright
and Marable. George Marable was a justice of the peace
for James City in 1700 and after, at least as late as 1709,
when he was associated with Philip Ludwell in taking the
examination of slaves suspected of being concerned in an
apprehended negro uprising. He was also captain of the
James City militia before 1703, and major by 1709 and after:
thus, the ^-ill of William Broadribb of James City county,
dated 3 May 1703, proved 7 June 1703, appoints "my three
Lovcing friends, Mr'Wm Dniraond, Capt'n George Marable
& Mr Benj Eggleston, or either two of them, with my
Loveing wife, trustees to sell & dispose of my land & Planta-
con," and in 1709 his executors, "Major George Marable,
Mr Benjamin Eggleston and Mrs Lydia Smith" (Broad-
ribb's widow, remarried to Christopher Smith, clerk of
Jamesto^Ti church) sold a portion of the lands to William
Brodnax. In the Virginia House of Burgesses George
Marable represented James City county for the sessions of
1700 (beginning 5 December 1700, and proroged to 30 May
1702, then to 14 August 1702) and 1714, 1718 and 1720.
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The Journal of the House records, under 30 November 1714,
"Mr George ]Mar-\ble, the member from James City comity,
questioned for abusing members. Excused on his declaring
no ill intent."
Major George jNIarable had married, apparently in the
latter part of 1699, Marj', daughter of Captain WiUiam
Hartwell of James City county. They had issue:
I. George jMar.\ble of Charles City county, whose
descendants for conveniency's sake are grouped hereafter.
II. Henry Hartwell Mar.\ble of Sussex county, who
apparently had no issue. His wife ^Nlary died 23 December
1770, and he on 17 September 1774. His will, dated 1764,
was recorded in Surry in 1774, and mentions only his ^vife
(who had predeceased him), his brothers George and Ben-
jamin, and his nephews, Hartwell, son of George IMarable,
and Hartwell, son of Benjamin Marable.
III. William j\Iar.vble, who represented James City
county in the Virginia House of Burgesses 1736-40. He
was hving at least as late as 1749, as in the April of that year
he brought suit in York against John Taylor. He had,
with probably other issue: John jNIarable, Hving in 1786;
and Matthew IMarable of ^Mecklenburg, also in his day a
burgess, who ched in 1786, lea\ang issue, Matthew Marable,
Richard ]Marable, Champion ]\Iarable, John Marable, and
one daughter, Ehzabeth Marable, who married Da\'id
Stokes.
IV. Benjajiin AL\rable, who, with his brother George,
settled in Charles City county, and died there in 1773,
leaving issue: Hartwell Marable. The estate of Benjamin
Marable was appraised in Charles City 22 April 1773, by
Bernard Major, Jr, John Major and James Bullivant, and
their inventory- recorded 2 June 1773.
George AL^rable, the eldest son of Major George Marable,
had settled in Charles City county prior to Februar>' 1739,
when Benjamin Harris brought suit against him for, £6,
lis, lOd. Thereafter the Charles City records show a number
of unimportant mentions of George Marable, up to the
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MARABLE OF CHARLES CITY 117
June court of 1773, when George Marable, James Bullivant
and Francis Austin presented their inventory of the estate
of Philemon Da\ndson, deceased, taken 22 May 1773.
The \\nll of George Marable "of AVestover parish" was drawn
up on the momentous 4 July 1776, and recorded in Charles
City 4 November 1778. It appoints as his executors his
wife and his friends William Edloe and Henry- Southall;
and is witnessed by William Holdcroft, James Bulhvant and
Littlebury Perr>'.
George Marable of Charles City had issue:
I. George ]Mar.\ble, who married a daughter of William
Griffeth, and died in Charles City 1795. His inventory was
taken 17 October 1795, and valued at £145, 4s, 6d. He left
issue a daughter, Ehiora Catherine Griffeth Marable, who
married George Bernard Major.
II. Benjamin Mar.\ble, who died before 1828, leaving
issue: Benjamin Marable; and ]Martha Marable, who
died unmarried. Her will, dated 4 February 1828, was
recorded in Charles City IS October 1828.
III. William Mailable, who in 1772 married Susannah,
daughter of Joseph Weaver of Charles City, but sur\aved
her and died A\-ithout issue. His -R-ill, dated 24 July 1790,
was recorded in Charles City 19 August 1790.
IV. H.\RTWELL Marable, who was living in Sussex, xs-ith a
son Edward, in 1772.
V. John Mar.able, who died without issue before 1776.
VI. Edward Mar.\ble, who served as lieutenant in the
Charles City militia in the Revolution. The Virginia
Gazette, of 16 September 1775, records that "Mr Fumea
Southall is Captain of one of the companies to be raised in
Charles City; Mr Edward Marable, Lieutenant; and Mr
John Bell, Ensign." Accounts of the Committee of Public
Safety, under 16 May 1776, contain the item: "To amount
paid Lieutenants Marable and Perry, for pay & pro\isions
for Sandy point Guard of MiHtia £11, 7s, lis."
The will of Lieutenant Edward Marable, dated 9 June 1805,
was recorded in Charles City 19 December 1805. He left
issue: George Marable; Edward Marable, who married
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Elizabeth jNIajor; ^lajov Marable; Benjamin IVLarable; and
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VIL Abraham Marable, hving in 1776. He appears to
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City county.
VIIL Amy ]\L\r.\ble, who before 1776 married George
Drinkard.
IX. Agnes Marable, who, also before 1776, married
CoUier.
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NOTE ON PIERSEY, STEPHENS AND HARTWELL
OF JAMES CITY
AS HAS BEEN said, page 116,:vIajor George Marable
of James City married, apparently in 1699, Mar>%
daughter of Captain William Hartwell. She was a
descendant of at least two of the most prominent of Vir-
ginia's original settlers. Captain Abraham Piersey and
Captain Richard Stephens, concerning whom an account
is appended.
Abr-aham Piersey, was bom in England circa 1585, and
married circa 1608 Elizabeth, daughter of Vincent Draper
of London, by whom he had issue two daughters, bom in
1609 and 1613. It appears probable that his wife died
before 1616, in which year Piersey came to Virginia in the
Susan. His commercial transactions seem to have been
extensive, and proved so successful that contemporary'
records state him to have amassed "the best estate that
was ever yet known in Virginia." He was by 1618, and as
late as 1622, Cape-Merchant or Treasurer of the Colony;
and was, on 15 November 1619, presented ^nth 200 acres
of land by the London Company. He was a member of
the House of Burgesses in 1622, and in 1624 was named a
member of the Council, which cUgnity he retained until his
death.
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Piersey's land-holdings, in all, were enormous. Thus, on
5 October 1624, he purchased from Sir George Yeardley the
largest two plantations on James river, Flowerdieu Hundred
(1,000 acres) and Vreyanoke (2,200 acres), and b\' lG2u had
acquired in addition 1,150 acres "uppon Apmatucke."
These two well known plantations, as once o';\-ned by
Abraham Piersey, would seem to merit a word of description.
In IGIS Sir George Yeardley obtained a grant of 1,CC0 acres
on the west side of a creek opposite YVeyanoke, and called
both creek and plantation "Flov.'er dew Hundred". In
1619 the plantation was represented in the first General
Assembly by Yeardlej^'s nephew Edward Rossingham and
by John Jefferson, the ancestor of Thom.as Jefferson. In
1624, when Piersey purchased this land, which included
Windmill Point, there stood thereon tvv'elve dwellings, three
storehouses, four tobacco houses, and one windmill. Wind-
mill Point, known in earlier records as Tobacco Point,
received its present name from this win'^^hnill, the first in the
United States, and established before 1621, by Sir George
Y'eardley. The Indians called the place "Weyanoke Point.
Weyanoke, on the opposite side of the river, vras termed
by the Indians "Tanks Vreyanoke", that is, "Little Wey-
anoke", to distinguish it from the territory from Appomattox
river down to Povrell's creek on the south side of James
river, which was "Great Weyanoke." In 1G17 Opechan-
canough presented to Yeardley a large tract of land at "Tanks
Weyanoke", and in 1619 the London Company confirmed
the gift. In this deed of confirmation the tract is described
as containing "twenty-two hundred acres, all that piece of
marsh ground called Weyanoke, and also one other piece and
parcell of land, adjoining to the said marsh, called by the
natives Kenican; one parcell thereof abutteth upon a creek
called Mapsock, to the east, and the other parcell thereof
toward a creek, there called Queen's creek, on the west;
and extendeth in breadth to landward from the head of said
creek called Mapsock up to the head of said creek called
Queen's Creek (which creek, called Queen's Creek, is oppo-
site to the point which is nov/ called Tobacco Point), and
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120 PIERSEY OF JAMES CITY
abutteth south upon the river, and north to the landward."
Piersey kept mounted ten pieces of ordnance to defend
these plantations from any possible invasion by way of
James nver. The colonists were always expecting some such
molestation from the Dutch.
Abraham Piersey, as has been said, was Cape Merchant
of the Colony, and as such, returning to England, came
back to Mrginia in charge of the goods brought over on the
Susan, the first magazine ship. These goods were exchanged
by him, as factor for the English owners, for sassafras and
tobacco, the only commodities then produced in the Colony
which could be sold in England profitably. Piersey again
returned to England in the Susan, and made his third
-"•oyage to Virginia the following year, in the George, the
second magazine ship sent over. The vessel was delayed
no less than five months in the outward voyage, by un-
favorable weather, so that most of the cargo arrived in bad
condition. Landing, Piersey was presently embroiled in
trouble with Governor ArgoU, the two having been given
equal authority in the matter of disposing of the goods: but
that is here irrelevant. Piersey seems to have made no more
voyages thereafter, save one trip to Newfoundland to ex-
change tobacco for fish; and, for the rest, devoted his talents
to cultivating tobacco on his vast land-holdings, as well as
to conducting a store at Jamestown.
As has been said, Abraham Piersey was a widower, prob-
ably by the time he first went to Virginia. His daughters,
Elizabeth and Mar\', came to to the Colony in the South-
ampton, in 1623, being then about thirteen and nine years
old respectively. Piersey remarried in 1625, his second ■u-ife
being Frances, daughter to Sir Thomas Hinton, and widow
of Nathaniel West, Lord Delaware's brother.
His mother-in-law died in the same year. The will of
EUzabeth Draper of London, Widow, dated 17 August 1625,
proved 3 September 1625, (P. P. C: Clarke, 93), bequeaths:
"To my grandchildren Elizabeth and Mary Piersey, daught-
ers of my sonne-in-law Abraham Piersey, merchaunte,
resident in Virginia, £100 apiece when 18 or married." —
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**To my daughter Elizabeth Piersey one dyamond Ringe." —
*'To Mary Piersoy one Dyamond Ringe set after the Duch
fashion." It is apparent the testator had a son Vincent
Draper, with issue Dorcas, and a daughter Sarah, married
to Thurston SjTnons — the "\'ile and lewd courses" of this
son-in-law being feelingly deprecated. To Abraham Piersey,
on the contrary, is left "a ring of value of 30s."
Abraham Piersey himself died in the October of 1628.
His '^-ill, dated 1 :^Iarch 1626-7, proved 10 May 1633,
(P. P. C: Russell, 41) is given in full in Xeill's Virginia
Carolorum. The testator directs that his body "be buried
in the garden plot where my new frame doth stand." He
appends a schedule of his just debts in full as well as of the
persons imported by him into Virginia since March 1620,
with directions that the land due thereby be patented. He
appoints his wife executrix: and names as overseers of his
estates in Virginia and assistants to his wife, his well-
beloved friends 'Sir Gre\al Pooly, Minister, and Mr Richard
Kingsmill of James City Island, Gentleman; and for business
in England, his well-beloved friend ^Ir Delionell Russell of
London, Merchant. He chrects that all his estate, of every
kind, be disposed of "to the profitt it can be sould for."
Legacies are bequeathed to Pooly, Kingsmill and Russell, as
well as to Piersey's brother and sister, John Piersey and
Judith Smithson of London, and to Piersey's stepson,
Nathaniel West: and the distribution of his remaining
property is suflBciently curious to be quoted in full.
FURTHER, I bequeath unto my dearhe beloved wife
(being my sole executrix), my debts and legacies paid,
one-third part and one-twelfth part out of my estate
aforesaid: the other one-third part, one-sixth part and one-
twelfth part of my estate rema\Tiinge, I bequeath it to
EUzabeth Piersey and Mary Piersey, my daughters, equally
to be devised betwixt them, within one year and a halfe
after my decease to be consigned to Mr. Russell, merchant,
as aforesaid, or else my executrix to make the same some
good, as aforesaid, in the best tobacco, out of her owne
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estate: and that my two daughters aforesaid shall have
sufficient diett, lodgeinge, washinge and apparell unto theire
portcons aforesaide be paid over unto :Mr Russell and they
shipped carefully for England, and to Mr Russell, the charges
to goe out of their porcons: and if either of my foresaid
daughters doth marry without the consent of their Mother-
in-lawe and the consent of Mr Delionell Russell, (both had
together, if it be possible to be had then), for such account
the other sister shall enjoy halfe the porcon soe not ofitending,
for better preferement: but and if they both shall soe offend
in that kinde, then my \\ill is that they shall have but halfe
of the porcons before resited, and the other to goe to my
brother John Piersey: if any of my daughters should die
before they atta^ne to be married, m.y will is that the one
should be heire to the other. My ^\-iil is that my children
shall rema\Tie in the custody of my deare friend Mr Russell
till they be married, and that theire porcons to be put forth
to good men for their maytenaunce."
There was endless trouble over the estate later. Mean-
while a copy of the will was sent to England bv the Council,
in 1633.
Piersey 's second wife sur\-ived him, and in 1629 married
Captain Samuel ^Matthews, aftenvard Governor of Virginia
from 16oS until his death in 1660. By her marriage '«\'ith
Piersey Frances Hinton had no children.
Abraham Piersey and Elizabeth Draper had issue:
I. Eliz.\beth Piersey, born 1609, who married, first,
Captain Richard Stephens, and. second, Sir John Har\-ey.
II. Mary Piersey, bom 1613, who married, first, Captain
Thomas Hill, and, second, Thomas Bushrod.
The elder daughter of Abraham Piersey, as has been said,
married Captain Richard Stephens, who was born in England
circa 1600. He came to Virginia in the George, accompanied
by two servants, in thesam^e year that EHzabeth Piersey joined
her father there — 1623 — and promptly signalized his arrival
by taking part in the first duel fought in the Enghsh Colonies.
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His opponent was George Harrison, whom Stephens wounded
so severely, in the knee, that Harrison died within a fort-
night, though it was contended death did not result from
the wound.
Captain Richard Stephens also received the first land-grant
preserved on record at the Virginia Land Patent Office.
It was made in 1623, and comprised sixty roods at James-
to\\T)., adjoining a dwelling-house already o\Mied by him;
the land being donated "that others may he encouraged by
his example to enclose some ground for gardens." He was a
burgess for the session beginning 5 2^Iarch 1623-4; and in a
letter dated 29 May 1630, the newly arrived Governor, Sir
John Harvey, includes "Captaine Rich'd Stephens"' among
"the underwritten, whom I have swome to be of the Counsell
since my cominge."
Stephens had meanwhile married Elizabeth Piersey, a
great heiress as the times went, apparently by 1629 at
latest. He had patented 500 acres on V\'ater's Creek in
Warwick county, by right of ten persons transported into
Virginia by his father-in-law, Piersey, who died as has been
said, in 1628; but Stephens seem.s never to have seated this
land, and 22 November 1631, he exchanged it with Richard
James (who was acting as attorney for Captain William
Claiboume in the transaction) for another tract of 500
acres in Warwick county, described as lying "toward the
head of Blunt Point river, abutting .southerly on the land of
John Bainham, and running 250 poles toward the head of
said river." He like^\^se patented, 27 April 1030, some 2,000
acres in Elizabeth City county, "being a neck of land,
bounded on the east by the main bay of Chesapeian, on
south by Harris' creek, and north by Back river, adjoining
the land in the tenure of Vv'alter Hodgskins."
Stephens, as has been said, was made a member of the
Council by Sir John Harvey, who became Governor of
Virginia in 1630. The latter, for divers reasons here irrele-
vant, was before long cordially detested by the colonists;
with Captain Stephens in particular he had a personal
altercation, wherein the Governor beat the Councillor with a
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124 STEPHENS OF JAMES CITY
cudgel and knocked out several of Stephens' teeth. The
two men could hardly have been on very cordial terms
thereafter, but Stephens remained a member of the Council.
The general discontent reached its height in April 1G35,
when the Governor came to fisticuffs with his Council at
large; who forth^nth deposed him as Governor, irrespective
of their legal inability to do so, and shipped him to England
in the custody of Francis Pott and Thomas Hanvood.
Captain Richard Stephens had perhaps no part in this.
At all events, he died about this time, apparently, in the
summer of 1636; the last meeting of the Council which he is
positively known to have attended vras held in September
1632. Shortly before his death, he had paid for the importa-
tion of forty persons into the Colony, but did not live long
enough to make application for the 2,000 acres due him
thereby, so that this land was subsequently patented in the
name of his elder son. Captain Richard Stephens' two
land-patents, previously described, were reaffirmed in the
name of this boy, Samuel Stephens, on 20 September 1636,
conditionally that Captain Stephens' widow retain a third
interest in the land; but, on 23 September 1637, the tract in
Wanvick county was confirmed to her alone, by right of
descent from her father, Abraham Piersey.
Meanwhile Captain Stephens' former patron. Sir John
Harvey, had told his side of the story to King Charles II,
and in consequence had been sent back to govern the Vir-
ginians whether they would or no. He resumed office in the
January of 1637. Captain Stephens' widow, besides being
an heiress in her own right, was still in her twenties, and one
of Harvey's most characteristic acts after his return was
circa 1638 to marry her. There is existent e\'idence that this
second marriage of Elizabeth Piersey led to no little family
dissension. Har\^ey, it should be premised, remained
Governor until November 1639. Wliile Captain Samuel
Matthews, who had married Piersey's widow, was in England
in 1638-9, Matthew's estate in Virginia was seized by order
of the Virginia authorities, under pretence that Matthews
was largely indebted to Piersey's children. Matthews
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appealed to the Pri\y Council, and after an investigation,
obtained judgment in his favor, the Council directing that
all his estate of every kind be returned to him. Now Harvey,
as has been said, was at this time Governor of Virginia and
the husband of Piersey's daughter; and, though his claim
nowhere appears, it has been charitably suggested that the
whole proceeding was a job of his, and another evidence of
his infinite capacity for rascality.
Then, too, a marginal note to Samuel Stephens' patent of
the land in Warsvick, 20 September 1636, states that this
grant was confirmed and 750 acres added thereto, 24 Novem-
ber 1644, by Richard Kemp (acting Governor for a year
during Sir WiUiam Berkeley's absence in Europe): but
there is no such grant recorded in 1644 or afterward: and,
as has been seen, this land had meanwhile been granted, 23
September 1637 — by Har\'ey — to Ehzabeth Stephens
unconditionally. The whole aft'air is rather incomprehensi-
ble. But Kemp was always hand in glove with Harvey,
and almost the one person in Virginia not likely to act
against Harvey's interests. Ehzabeth Harvey quite cer-
tainly retained the land in Warwick, and willed it to her
younger son; that much is certain. And that there was in
the upshot no bad blood between Kemp and the Harveys
seems to be shown by the fact that in the General Court,
20 Ja^iuary 1644-5, Dame Ehzabeth Harvey petitioned to
have, of all persons, Richard Kemp and Captain Wilham
Pierce substituted in place of Captain Samuel ^Matthews,
Captain Daniel Gookin, George Ludlow and Captain
Thomas Bernard, "former trustees under a feofment by her
for use of Saml. Stephens." Thus, in one way or another,
Harvey and Kemp in 1645 controlled all the Stephens
estate, which of course included about a third of Piersey's
fortune.
Captain Richard Stephens and Ehzabeth Piersey had
issue:
I. Captain Samuel Stephens, bom circa 1629, in whose
name, as previously recorded, was patented, 20 September
1636, some 500 acres in Warwick, and 2,000 in Ehzabeth
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City county; and to whom, 20 July 1639, a third grant was
made, of 2,000 acres "in the upper part of Xew Norfolk,
in Nansamund, on both sides of a Creeke called dumpling
Island Creeke, bounding easterly into the woods into a
great Arrow^vood," due for the previously mentioned im-
portation of forty persons by his father. Samuel Stephens
in 1652 married Frances Culpeper, and in 1667 was com-
missioned Governor of Albemarle — that is, North Carolina —
which office he retained until his death in 1670. In the
General Court, 20 April 1670, was presented the petition of
Mrs Frances Stephens, ^^•idow of Captain Samuel Stephens,
for lands and personal estate at Baldrux, in Warwick county,
where John Hill, her husband's cousin, then lived. Samuel
Stephens' "w'TII^w^as recorded the following day. Captain
Samuel Stephens had left no children; and his widow in the
ensuing June married Sir William Berkeley, then Governor
of Virginia. She survived her second husband likewise, and
married, third, Colonel Philip Ludwell.
II. WILLLA.M Stephens.
William Stephens, the younger son, was bom circa 1631.
He inherited from his mother land in Wan%ick county,
certainly 470 of, and probably all, the 500 acres previously in
dispute between Elizabeth Harvey and her elder son,
Samuel. On reaching manhood, William Stephens entered
what was possibly the most profitable trade followed in
Virginia, by becoming a cooper. To the tobacco planter —
and the Colony was mainly important as a tobacco planta-
tion— no other article manufactured was as indispensable
as the hogsheads in which the cured tobacco was stored and
exported. It was the cooper's business to make these
hogsheads; and in \new of the huge demand therefor, it is
not surprising that coopers rapidly accumulated a deal of
money, and that recorded wills show many of them to have
left large estates. William Stephens, however, did not live
long enough to prosper unreasonably, as he died before
reaching twenty-seven; his will was dra-wn up 6 April 1656,
and, living in November 1656, he was dead by April 1657.
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Shortly before his death "William Stephens had made
application for a land-patent, for 570 additional acres in
Warwick, which was eventually granted, 1 Ma}- 1657, to
his only son, another William Stephens — "as son & heire to
WiLLLAJki Stephens, Cooper, deceased." This tract, although
in Warw'ick, does not seem to have adjoined the lands
pre\'iously o^\'ned by the elder William Stephens, which
latter, as has been said, faced on Blunt Point river, now
Warwick river. The land patented in 1657 is described as
being in three tracts: two of these tracts being due by
purchase from John Walker, assignee of William Bullock;
of these one '"begining on the north side of Black Swamp,
and so between York path and the pond till one hundred
Acres be measured", and the other, consisting of 150 acres,
"lying upon the pond against Captain Brown's land."
The remaining 320 acres, first patented 18 November 1650,
w^ere "on the north side of Black Swamp, bordering land
formerly Mr Bullocks, the bounds rmming southerly 125
poles, west of Humphrey Gibbs' land, to the Bushy ponds,
by York path, and touching Colonel Ludlow's line."
William Stephens had married circa 1650 Margaret
Vaulx, by whom he had two children; and shortly after his
death his -uidow married Daniel Wild of York county.
Thus, at an Orj^hans Court held in York, 10 September
1658, "Uppon ye motine of Daniel Wyld, Guardyan of
Wnxi.^i Stephens, sonne & heyre of William Stephens, late
of Wonvncke County, Dece'd, (whose ReHct the said Wild
married), that he may be accomptable to ye said orphan
when hee comes of age for the Cattle, horses ct mares (ac-
cording to his Accompt to ye Court this Day on Oath),
according to numbers & ages — Itt is soe ordered accordingly,
he putting in good security to p'forme ye same. But that
att ye said orphan's age hee deliver him the negroes with
their whole Increase, male & female, belonging to him;
for which he is also to be put in security." Philip Chesley,
Wild's brother-in-law, gave the required security, of 30,000
pounds of tobacco. But the follo^\'ing year, at an Orphans
Court held 10 September 1659, Thomas Ballard of James
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City, one of the executors of William Stephens' will, pro-
duced that document in court, to be entered among the
York records, "to show the cattle & negroes were given to
said hey re", and Wild was ordered to render his accounts to
the court yearly.
Now by this will Stephens had bequeathed to his son
Stephens' inherited portion of the land patented by his
mother in Warwick county in 1637; but the younger William
Stephens died a minor in 1668, the land thus passing out-
right to his mother, now the wife of Daniel Wild: and mean-
while, the widow of the elder William Stephens had borne
Daniel Wild a daughter, to whom ^Margaret Wild at her
death, on 12 February 1675-6, in turn left this land. The
daughter, another Margaret Wild, married Captain John
Martin, the master of a ship in the Virginia trade, and
died in England circa 1680, leaving one child, ^^largaret
Martin. Martin inherited after his wife, and remarried;
but the will of "John Martin of Stepney, County ]Middlesex^
Marriner" (P. P. C: Hare, 128), dated 20 October 1684,
and proved 23 October 1684, bequeathed to his daughter by
his first marriage the estate in Virginia, upon her reaching
eighteen or marrjnng. This daughter, as yet unmarried —
described as "Margaret ]\Iartin, spinster, of Cheshunt
Parish, Herts, England" — in 1703 sold this much-disputed
plot of ground, also fully described in her deed of sale, which
thus passed finally from the possession of anyone even
remotely connected with Abraham Piersey.
Wilham Stephens of Warwick and Margaret Vaulx had
issue:
I. Mary Stephens, bom circa 1650.
II. W^iLLL^^i Stephens, bom circa 1652, to whom, as
already recorded Daniel Wild was appointed guardian in
1658. This WiUiam Stephens died a minor, 6 Febmary 1668.
Mary Stephens, the daughter, married, first, Gerard, or
as the name was more frequently written Jarrett, Haw-
thorne of York county, being possibly his second wife.
Hawthorne, at all events, was by many years her senior.
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since he came to Virginia in 1647, as an indentured servant
to her uncle Thomas Vaulx, under an agreement whereby
Hawthorne agreed to serve for three years as carpenter and
joiner, on condition that all necessary tools and expenses be
furnished him for one year after the conclusion of his service,
and fifty acres of land be then given him outright. The
will of Jarrett Hawthorne of ^Marston Parish, in York
county, dated 30 January 1670-1, and recorded 25 February
1671-2, shows that he and Mary Stephens had issue, certain-
ly, Anne, Jerome and Elizabeth Hawthorne, and, possibly,
Robert and Mary Hawthorne, although the last-named two
children were perhaps Jarrett Hawthorne's offspring by an
earher marriage. Hawthorne's inventory was recorded 2
April 1675, by which time his daughter Ehzabeth was dead.
The widow of Jarrett Hawthorne had meanwhile married
and buried Richard Barnes of York, by whom she had no
issue, and was now on the point of marrying, as her third
husband, Captain William Hartwell of James City county.
An acknowledgment from Mary, wife of Richard Barnes,
deceased, of property in her possession belonging to her
children, Mary, Anne, Robert and Jerome Hawthorne when
they shall come of age, and mentioning her dead daughter
Ehzabeth Hawthorne, dated 20 April 1675, was recorded in
York 26 April 1675. On the latter date also, "]Mr Willl^m
Hartwtell, as intermarrying with the Relict of ]Mr Richard
Barnes, dece'd, late Guardyan to Wm Graves, orphan,
promising to produce to the next Court for the said Graves
his Estate, is ord'ed to continue his possession of the same
until that time, & then Captain Thomas Whalley, former
security, is discharged."
Hawthorne's children, it should be explained, had already
their respective guardians, named by their father's will,
in Mrs Ann Hurd, Mr James Bray, Mrs Margaret Wild,
Mr Humphrey Vaulx and 'Mr James Vaulx. William
Graves was one of the pathetic orphans "inherited by
marriage", such as were common enough in those days of
short lives and brief bereavements. Prior to 1656 Ralph
Graves, Senior, of York county, had married Rachel Cros-
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haw, by whom he had issue, Anne, Ralph, "William and Mary
Graves. Ralph Graves, Senior, died in 1667, and his widow
married Richard Banies, who was duly named guardian to
WiUiam Graves. The boy's mother died in 1669, and his
stepfather Richard Barnes married, second, as previously
recorded, the widow of Jarrett Hawthorne. After the death
of Richard Barnes his widow married, as likewise has been
recorded, Captain William Hartwell; so that Hartwell
naturally succeeded to the guardianship; and William Graves
was duly entrusted to the keeping of the third husband of
the second vriie of his mother's second husband.
Captain Willlvm Hartwell, the third husband of Mar>'
Stephens, was in his day a person of considerable note.
He was seemingly a sen to the Johx Hartwell who patented
650 acres in Charles River county, 18 February 1638, was
one of the viewers of tobacco for York county in 1639, and
was hving in York in 1644 and after. This John Hartwell
appears to have left issue:
I. Henry Hartwell, best known nowadays as the co-author,
■with Blair and Chilton, of that once famous production The
Present State of Virginia. He patented 736 acres in James
City, 30 May 1679, and afterward by purchase and other
patents acquired in Virginia a considerable estate. His
material fortunes, in passing, were decidedly aided by his
marriage circa 1683 with Jane White, the widow of Colonel
William AVhite, and a sister of Nicholas Meriwether. It
is a pity the scheme of this book does not accord with gi\nng
a detailed account of Henry Hartwell's hfe and personahty,
for no Virginian of the day offers a more tempting target to
the biographer. Henrj' Hartwell represented Jamesto^\^l in
the Virginia House of Burgesses for the session beginning
16 April 1684, and was for years a member and clerk of the
Council. He died without issue, in England, in 1699. The
will of Henr>' Hartwell, late of Virginia, Esquire, now of
the parish of Stepney, dated 3 and 4 July 1699, was proved 2
August 1699 in the Prerogative Court of Canterbury- (Pett,
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II. William Hartwell.
Captain Willlam Hartwell of James City county, was
bom circa 1645, and in April 1675, as already recorded,
married ^Nlary Stephens, then the widow of Richard Barnes,
and pre\aously the widow of Jarrett Hawthorne. It was
during the following year that William Hartwell rose to
notoriety as the captain of Governor Berkeley's body-guard
during Bacon's Rebellion, and played in particular a con-
spicuous part at the siege of JamestowTi, where "'Hartwell
was wounded in the Legg", as Bacon himself recorded, with
evident satisfaction.
This injur}', however, was no disabling matter if one
judges by the energetic measures and oppressive conduct
in quieting this brief civil war subsequently attributed to
Captain Hartwell in the several ''grievances" sent to the
Enghsh Commissioners deputed to investigate the causes of
disturbance. Exaggeration apart, it seems unquestionable
that, the fighting over, Hartwell was guilty of more or less
high-handed if petty blackmail. It is recorded he said,
light-heartedly, that when others were plundering he must
plunder too; but that it was by order of his Colonel, —
Thomas Ballard of James City.
Thus James Barrow and Jolin Johnson of James City
recite that Hartwell imprisoned them, and received a bribe
of 10,000 shingles to let them go. Andrew Goldeon of
James City asserts that Hartwell imprisoned him ten days,
until Goldeon passed an obligation for five months work.
Thomas Lushington tells how Hartwell took papers from him
and even stripped the clothes from his back. -And Nicholas
Toope of York, Tanner, according to his deposition, was
imprisoned by Hartwell for five weeks, and forced to pur-
chase his liberty with twenty pairs of shoes.
Such are a few among the many charges lodged against
Captain Hartwell by those he disciplined; but it does not
appear the Commissioners found Hartwell's conduct to have
been in reality especially outrageous. At all events, as has
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been said, the Commissioners were soon at loggerheads with
Virgmians at large, and it was toward Berkeley's adherents
—the Ballards, Ludwells, Beverleys, Hills and Hartwells—
that Virginians looked to support colonial rights: so that
Hartwell retained his rank as captain of the James City
miUtia in 16S0 and after, and as justice of the peace for that
county from 1680 until at least as late as 1687.
He was dead in 1699, ha\'ing survived his first wife, and
having married shortly before his death Elizabeth ,
by whom he had no children. This second v,iie outlived
Hartwell, and married, second, before 1713, Benjamin
Eggleston. It would be interesting to know if this was the
same Benjamin Eggleston who m 1673, in James City, was
by Hartwcll's order fined and whipped for vilifjdng Governor
Berkeley.
By his first marriage, with Mary- Stephens, Captain
WiUiam Hartwell had issue:
I. WiLLL\.M Hartutll, who married and had issue: Mary
Hartwell, who married "William Macon, as recorded on
page 52, and left numerous descendants.
XL Hexry Hartwell, who died -^-ithout issue. It was to
this son that Henrj^ Hartwell, of the Council, left the
greater portion of his estates in Surn,-.
III. JoHx Hartwtll, whose will, dated 9 Februarj- 1713,
was recorded in Surrj^ 19 May 1714. He had married
Ehzabeth Rogers, (who su^^^ved him, and married, second,
Stith Boiling of Surr>0, and had issue: Elizabeth Hartwell,
who married Richard Cocke, and left many descendants.
IV. M.KRY Harttn-ell, bom circa 1682, who in 1699, or
very shortly aften\'ard, married Major George Marable of
James City county.
It will be noticed that these three distinguished famihes
of Piersey, Stephens and Hartwell thus became extinct in
the male line: and all representatives of the last-named two
families trace their descent through Macon, Cocke or
Marable. It is possible the Hawthorne intermarriage also
is represented by li\'ing progeny, but of this there seems
to have survived no proof.
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)OHN :MAJ0R of Charles City, as pre\n-
Jfe^ ously recorded, had two sons: Edward
"^ Major of "Burlington", in Charles City;
W^ and George Bernard Major.
^^'' Edward Major of ''Burlington'', the elder
son, bom circa 1780, died in 1818, mar-
ried Sarah Glarster, daughter of Glar-
ster Hunnicutt of Sussex. The will of Edward Major
has been given pre\'iously, on page 111. Exigencies of space
prevent a recording of the Hunnicutt genealogy; but the
wife of Edward Major was a descendant of Augustine
Hunnicutt, who was hving in Surry as early as 1653, and
whose will, dated 30 May 1682, was recorded in that county
16 April 1683. Edward :Major of "Burlington" and Sarah
Glarster Hunnicutt had issue:
I. Martha Ann Catherine Major, bom 18 October
1805, who died unmarried in 1867.
II. Edward Glarster Major, born 13 December 1807,
died in 1849, who married Eliza Ann Eppes, and had issue.
III. Rebecca Priscilla Major, bom 20 September 1814,
died in 1881, who married George Christian Waddill, and
had issue.
EDWARD GLARSTER :MAJ0R, the second child of
Edward :Major of "Buriington", bom 13 December
1807, died in 1849, married Eliza Ann Eppes, and
had issue :
1. Anna Martha Major, born 17 October 1840, died 9
January 1908, who jnarried Littlebury A. Marston, and had
issue:
(1) Edward Marston, who married Ehzabeth Parkin-
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son, and has issue: Edward Marston; Hannah Marston; and
Randolph Marston.
(2) George Marston, who married Mollie Parkinson,
and has issue: Park Marston; Buxton Marston; and Joseph
Marston.
(3) Leonard Marston, who married Belle Lynne, and
has issue: Dorothy Marston.
(4) Allen Marston, unmarried.
(5) Robert Lee Marston, unmarried.
(6) Waverley ^Marston, who died unmarried.
(7) Irene Marston, who married Stoddard.
(8) Rebecca Marston.
(9) Sarah Marston.
(10) Martha Marston.
IL Sarah Glarsier Major, horn 15 March 1845, who
married, first, Benjamin Nance, and had issue:
(1) Major Nance, who married Margaret Bagby, and
has issue: Margaret Nance; Grace Nance; and Benjamin
Nance.
(2) Electra Nance, who married Allen P. Walker, and
has issue: Frances Walker.
(3) Susan Nance, who married her first cousin George
Major, and has issue: Benjamin Major.
(4) Gertrude Nance, who married her first cousin
William Major, and has issue: Elizabeth Major; William
Major; and Charles Major.
Sarah Glarster Major married, second, Edward Nance,
brother of her first husband, and had issue :
(1) Charles Ed-^in Nance, who married Alice Letitia
Stagg.
HI. Edward Major, born 14 February 1847, who married
Julia Nance, and had issue:
(1) Glarster Major, who died unmarried.
(2) Virgil Major, who likewise died without issue.
(3) Bernard Major, who married Lillie Roberts, and
has issue: Josephine Major; and Gladys Major.
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DESCENDANTS OF JOHN MAJOR 135
(4) George Major, who married his first cousin Susan
Nance, and has issue: Benjamin Major.
(5) Edward Major, who married Jane Warren Walker,
(compare page 149), and has issue: JuUa Ann Major.
(6) JuHan Major, umnarried.
(7) Walter Major, unmarried.
(8) William Major, who married his first cousin Gertrude
Nance, and has issue: Elizabeth iMajor; William Major;
and Charles Major.
(9) Susan Major, who married Gordon Christian, and
has issue: Julia Christian; Thomas Cunningham Christian;
Gordon Christian; and Grace Christian.
REBECCA PRISCILLA MAJOR, the third child of
Edward Major of "Burlington", (compare page 133),
as has been said, was bom 20 September 1814, and
died in 1881. She married George Christian Waddill, 8
December 1835, and had issue:
/. Richard Edward Waddill, born 18 October 1836, died
7 July 1897, who married Margaret Gregory, and had issue:
(1) Gregory Waddill, who married Annie Wilson, and
had issue: Margaret Wilson Waddill.
(2) Richard W^addill, who married Kate Antes, and
had issue: Richard Waddill; and John Marius Waddill,
(3) Christie Waddill, who married Hugh Jenkins, but
had no issue.
//. George Major Waddill, born 3 May 1838, died 14
March 1885, who married Margaret E. Cabell, and had issue:
(1) George Cabell Waddill, who died without issue.
(2) Ehzabeth Avery Waddill, who married Edmund
Thomas Waddill; for their issue, compare page 148.
(3) Isabella Goggin Waddill, who married Samuel E.
Atkinson, and had issue: Robert Thomhill Atkinson: and
Isabelle Atkinson.
(4) Sarah Syme Waddill, who married William P.
Lawton, and had issue: Ellen Courthope Lawton; and
George Cabell Lawton, who married Mary Ruth Wells.
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(5) Thompson Burroughs Waddill, who married Bemiett
Echols, and has issue: Heland Waddill; Burroughs Waddill;
Page Waddill; and Robert V.'addill.
(6) Eninia Csbell Waddill, who married Joseph Floyd
Huxtcr, and had issue: Joseph Floyd Huxter; Man,- Huxter;
Ludwell Huxter; George ^lajor Huxter; Margaret Huxter;
and Pierce Huxter.
(7) IMargaret Heath Waddill, who married John W^estly
Yoiuig, but has no issue.
(8) Martha Redwood Waddill.
///. Sarah Jorden Waddill, born 31 March 1840, died
24 February 1908, who married Captain Frank Guy, and
had issue :
(1) Benjamin Harrison Guy, who married Caroline
Moore, and had issue: Leonard Harrison Guy, who died
without issue; Walter Guy; and Harrison Guy.
(2) Martha Guy, who married Allen Sutherland, and
had issue: Guy Sutherland; Allen Sutherland; Hugh Suther-
land; Grace Sutherland; Mary Sutherland; Leonard Suther-
land; and Eva Sutherland.
(3) Frank Guy, who married Palmer, and has
issue.
(4) Edv.-ard Guy, who married Blanche Terry, and had
issue: Sarah Guy, who died unmarried; and a son, who
likewise died without issue.
IV. Littlebury Allen Waddill, born 29 April 1842, died
15 January 1912, who married Mary Louise Apperson,
and had issue:
(1) Rebecca Waddill, who died unmarried.
(2) Allen A. Waddill, who married Gladys Tuttle, and
has issue: Allen Waddill.
(3) Amanda Waddill, who married WiUiam M. Wagner,
and had issue: Mary Wagner.
(4) Henry C. Waddill, unmarried.
(5) Lily Waddill, who married Frank W. Lewis, and
had issue: Elizabeth Lewis.
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DESCENDANTS OF JOHN MAJOR 137
(6) ^Minnie Waddill, who married Frank W. McKinney,
but had no issue.
(7) Littleton Waddill, who died unmarried.
(8) Martha Waddill, who likev.ise died unmarried.
V. Thom-pson Fletcher Waddill, born 6 April 1844, who
died unmarried 18 November 1862.
VI. Martha Ann Catherine Waddill, born 28 January
1846, icho married John Redwood Waddill; for their issue,
compare page 149.
VII. Henry Sherman Waddill, born 3 November 1849,
uho married Sarah Atkinson, and had issue:
(1) Conway Waddill, who married Ashton C. Gray, and
had issue: Sarah Gray, who died in infancy; and Conway
Gray.
(2) George Waddill, unmarried.
VIII. Mary Susan Waddill, born 25 September 1852,
who married William Joseph Bradley, and had issue:
(1) Edgar Bradley, who died unmarried.
(2) George Allen Bradley, who married Mary Harris,
and has issue: George Bradley; Eva Bradley; and William
Bradley.
(3) Priscilla Bradley, who married, first, Emmett A.
Shepherd, and had issue: Isabelle Mary Shepherd; Priscilla
Macon Shepherd; Grace Guerrant Shepherd; Virginia
Waddill Shepherd; and Emmett Albin Shepherd. Priscilla
Bradley married, second, James Branch Cabell, and has
issue: Ballard Hartwell Cabell.
(4) Grace Christian Bradley, who married Edgar B.
Walters, but has no issue.
(5) Richard Coleman Bradley, who married and has
issue: Richard Coleman Bradley.
IX. William Lamb Waddill, born 1 February 1855, died
1901, who married Lena Bowers, but had no issue.
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138 DESCENDANTS OF JOHN :MAJ0R
GEORGE BERNARD AIAJOR, the younger son of
John Major of Charles City (compare page 106),
was bom 1 March 1S04, and died 11 February 1S72
— "at the age of G7 years, 11 months and 11 days", as it is
recorded. He married, in 1828, Ehiora Catherine Griffeth,
daughter of George Marable of Charles City (as is stated
on page 117), whose ancestr>' has previously been given.
George Bernard Major and Elnora Catherine Griffeth
Marable had issue:
I. Amanda M. Major, bom 13 June 1829, died 18 July
1907, who married William H. Manley, but had no issue.
II. GE0RGLA.XA C. AIajor, who in 1855 married Captain
Robert R. Ferguson, and had issue: Ernest S. Ferguson.
III. James Major, bom 30 November 1842, died in
December 1842.
IV. John E. S. Major, of whose descendants an account
follows .
JOHN E. S. MAJOR, the fourth child of George Bernard
Major, was bom 30 November 1842, and died 25
Febmarj' 1907. He married his first cousin Maria L.
Marable, (for whose ancestrj', compare page 105), and had-
issue :
7. Edward Hartwell Major, horn 15 February 1867, who
married Ode Martin, and has issue:
(1) Eugene Hartwell Major.
II. George Bernard Major, born 26 September 1869,
unmarried.
III. Reginald Stanley Major, horn 13 June 1873, who
married Etta Grove Ladd, and has issue:
(1) John Reginald Major.
IV. Elnora Beatres Major, born 8 May 1875, died 28
October 1880.
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DESCENDANTS OF JOHN MAJOR 139
V. William B. Major, horn 30 October 187G, died 18
July 1877.
VI. John Major, born March 1881, died 8 November
1882.
VII. Malcolm Griffeth Major, born 25 July 1882, who
married Nina Carr, and has issue:
(1) Louise N. ]Major.
(2) Dorice Major.
NOTE ON WADDILL OF NEW KENT AND CHARLES
CITY
IT IS proposed herewith to give some brief account,
necessarily imperfect, of the Waddill family, members
of which so frequently intermarried with the Majors
and their descendants.
The survi\'ing records of St Peter's parish show that
John Waddill was hving in New Kent county as early as
1689. He died 20 December 1709, ha\-ing married Agnes
, (who died 8 February 171G), and left issue:
I. W1LLLA.M Waddill, an account of "whom is more con-
veniently deferred.
II. John Waddill, who married Mary , and had
issue: John Waddill, bom 27 October 1697, who removed
from New Kent to Ameha, patenting 188 acres in the latter
county, 20 August 1747; Frances Waddill, bom 8 Fobmar>'
1696; Thomas Waddill, baptized 27 July 1701, who seems
to have settled in Augusta; James Waddill, baptized 25
June 1710, died 3 September 1720; and Mary Waddill,
baptized 27 September 1713.
III. Charles Waddill, who died 9 April 1720, having
had issue: Anne Waddill, baptized 22 September 1700;
Sarah Waddill, baptized 5 April 1702; Charles Waddill,
baptized 14 May 1704, died 3 April 1720; Joseph Waddill,
baptized 16 Febmary 1706-7, who married Judith ,
{and had issue, Charles, born 9 May 1737, and Turner Thomas
and Judith, twins, born 1 March 1755); Frances Waddill,
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baptized 18 April 1712; and Elizabeth Waddill, bom 31
March 1715.
IV. James Waddill, died 28 December 1721, who
married Rebecca , (she dying 3 March 1721-2), and
had issue: George Waddill, baptized 20 July 1707, who
married Susanna , {and had issue, Anne, born 25
February 1735, James, born 12 September 1737, George, born
8 February 1738-9, and Noel, born 29 September 1753);
John Waddill, baptized 1 July 1711, died 13 July 1720; and
Charles Waddill bom IS July 1720, patented 400 acres
in Lunenburg, 15 July 1760, v.ho married Mar}' ,
{and had issue, Benjamin, born 13 August 1756, Martha,
born 2 October 1758, and William Dennis, born 9 June 1771).
James Waddill, the son of George, married T^Iary ,
and had issue, George, bom 2 December 1758.
WILLLA.M Waddill, the oldest son, was elected vestryman
of St. Peter's, 1 June 1704, and served for no less a period
than thirty-five years, being churchwarden from 9 ^March
1708-9 to 22 April 1711: for some account of the former
responsibilities of these offices, compare page 50. There is
a wealth of scattered material conceming William Waddill
to be found in the vestr\--books and registers of St. Peter's
parish: but these items need not be herein cited, inasmuch
as the records of St. Peter's have been printed and are
readily accessible in book form. Wilham Waddill patented
thirteen acres in New Kent county, 18 Febmary 1722 —
"between the lines of Amold and Hughes", and furthermore
described as adjoining land already owned by the patentee.
He was dead by 6 October 1739, according to the vestry
books, his successor as vestrv^nan being elected on that
date. William Waddill had married Susanna ■, who
died 7 March 1720-1, and had issue:
I. Ann*e Waddill, bom 9 June 1691.
II. Elizabeth Waddill, bom 24 Febmary 1692-3, w^ho
married John Saunders, on 7 August 1709.
III. Willlam Waddill, an account of whom is post-
poned.
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IV. John Waddill, bom 24 August 1G97, who married
Mary , and had issue: John Waddill, bom 20 Novem-
ber 1722, who married Hannah , (and had Noel,
born 6 August 1754); Agnes Waddill, bom 1 February
1724-5; Dennis Waddill, bom 11 May 1727; Mary Waddill,
born 27 November 1729; Elizabeth Waddill, bom 22 Janu-
ary 1734; and Martha Waddill, bom April 1736.
V. Hann.\h Waddill, bom 16 August 1699.
VI. Pridgen Waddill, bom 4 July 1704, living in
Charles City county 1737 and after, as is shoAXTi by various
suits wherein he figured, begiiming with that year. He
married, before 1737, ]Martha , but left no descendants
in Charles City.
VII. Frances Waddill, bom 2 May 1706.
VIII. Noel Waddill, bom 1 June 1709, li\'ing in St.
Peter's parish in 1757, seemingly unmarried. He patented
thirty acres in New Kent county, 13 June 1755.
IX. Jacob Waddill, baptized 7 November 1711, living
in Charles City county IVIarch 1745, at which date he took
out a license to keep an ordinary there; renewing this
license in April 1747 and February- 1748. He left no descend-
ants in Charles City.
Willl^m Waddill, the third child and oldest son, was
baptized 28 April 1694, and spent the earlier years of his
life in New Kent. He served as churchwarden of St. Peter's
from 10 May 1721 to 30 July 1722. He would seem to have
removed to Charles City county about the time of his
father's death, patenting 413 acres there, 12 March 1739-40.
His brother Pridgen, as has been said, was already hving
in Charles City: and their brother Jacob joined them within
five years. The legend of the Waddills' descent from "three
brothers who came from the south to Charles City, in the
eighteenth centurj'" has always been preserv-ed in the
family; and there can be no doubt these were the three
brothers of tradition. The idea that they came from the
south, is an easily e.xplainable error, hereinafter accounted
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142 WADDILL OF CHARLES CITY
for. It is here necessary merely to point out that of these
brothers Wilham alone left issue in Charles City.
Exigencies of space prevent the citation of other Waddill
documents, but William Waddill's land-patent, fixing as
it does the establishment of the family in Charles City,
cannot well be omitted, despite its rather inordinate length.
" X*^ EORGE the second, by the Grace of God of Great
I m Britain, France and Ireland King, Defender of
^"^^ the Faith, <kc, To all to whom these Presents
shall come Greeting: Know ye that for divers good
Causes and Considerations, but more Especially for and in
Consideration of the Sum of Twenty Shillings of good and
lawiul :Money for our Use paid to our Receiver General
of our Revenue in this our Colony and Dominion of Vir-
ginia, We have Given, Granted and Confirmed, and by
these Presents for us, our Heirs and Successors do Give,
Grant and Confirm, unto WiLLL\ir Waddill one cer-
tain Tract or Parcel of Land containing Four hundred
and thirteen Acres, lying and being in the Parish of Westover
in the County of Charles City, and bounded as followeth:
to wit, Beginning at a corner white Oak upon Chicka-
hominy Swamp belonging to John Cocke, Thence along
the said Cocke's Line South twenty-eight Degrees West
three hundred and thirty-four poles to a comer Shrub Oak
of Edward Dayes', Thence along the said Dayes' line
East twenty and an half Degrees South two hundred and
seventy-six Poles to a comer Gum upon Stoney branch in
Colonel Carter's line, Thence along the said Carter's line
North twenty-seven Degrees East one hundred and ninety-
six Poles to a comer Cypress tree upon Chickahominy Swamp,
& Thence up the said Swamp as it ^Meanders to the begin-
ning: Two hundred and fifty Acres part of the said Tract
being part of a larger Tract Formerly Granted unto Thomas
Spencer, Thomas Brookes and William Hickman, ^^'hich
by divers Mesne Conveyances is become Vested in the
said WiLLLvM Waddill, and one hundred and sixty-three
Acres, the Residue, being surplus Land found within the
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WADDILL OF CHARLES CITY 143
bounds aforesaid: With all "Woods, Underwoods, Swamps,
Marslies, Lowgrounds, ^Vleadows, Feedings, and his due
Share of all Veins, Mines and Quarries, as well discovered
as not discovered, within the bounds aforesaid and being
part of the said Quantity of four hundred and thirteen
Acres of Land, and the Rivers, Waters and Water Courses
therein contained, together with the Privileges of Hunting,
Hawking, Fishing, Fowling and all other Profits, Commodi-
ties and Hereditaments whatsoever to the same or any part
thereof belonging or in any wise Appertaining: To have,
HOLD, Possess and Enjoy the said Tract or Parcel of
Land and all other the before Granted Premises and every
part thereof, with all their and everj'- of their Appurts,
unto the said WrLLL\M Waddill and to his Heirs and
Assigns forever. To the only Use and behoof of him
the said Willl\m Waddill, his Heirs and Assigns for-
ever; To BE HELD of US, our Hcirs and Successors as of
our jNIannor of East Greenwich in the County of Kent,
in free and common Soccage, and not in Capite or by
Ejiight's Service, Yielding axd paying unto us, our Heirs
and Successors for every fifty Acres of Land, and so pro-
portionably for a lesser or greater Quantity than fifty
Acres, the Fee Rent of one Shilling Yearly, to be paid upon
the Feast of Saint Michael the Arch Angel: And also Culti-
vating and Improving three Acres part of ever\' fifty of
the Tract abovementioned within three 3'ears after the date
of these Presents (Excepting for so much of the said Land
as hath been Already Cultivated and Improved according
to the Condition of the said former Patent) : Provided
always that if three Years of the said Fee Rent shall at
any time be in Arrear and Upward, or if the said William
Waddill, his Heirs or Assigns do not within the Space
of three Years next coming the date of these Presents
Cultivate and Improve three Acres part of ever}' fifty of
the Tract abovementioned (Except as before is Excepted),
Then the Estate hereby Granted shall Cease and be Utterly
Determined, and thereafter it shall and may be lawful to
and for us, our Hell's and Successors to Grant the same
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144 WADDILL OF CHARLES CITY
Lands and Premises with the Appurts unto such other
Person or Persons as we, our Heirs and Successors shall
think fit. In Witness whereof we have Caused these our
Letters Patent to be made. Witness our Trusty and Wel-
beloved Willl\m Gooch, Esq, our Lieutenant Governor
and Comander in Chief of our said Colony and Dominion,
at Williamsburgh, L'nder the Seal of our said Colony, the
Twelfth Day of March, one thousand, seven hundred and
thirty-nine, In the Thirteenth Year of our Reign.
WILLIA^I GOOCH"
WiLLLAM Waddill married Sarah , and pre\'ious
to his settlement in Charles City had issue:
I. Anne Waddill, baptized 24 January- 1713.
II. Sar.ah Waddill, bom 13 September 1718.
III. AVilll\m Waddill, bom 2 August 1720. An.
account of him and his descendants is given hereinafter:
compare page 146.
IV. Elizabeth Waddill, bom 4 January' 1722-3.
V. Richard Waddill, bora 29 March 1727. An account
of his descendants follows hereinafter.
VI. Martha Waddill, bom 28 Febmar>- 1728-9.
VII. Noel Waddill, bom 17 August 1730, who removed
to Albemarle county, where he patented 400 acres, 23
May 1763, and died before 1773, Iea\-ing issue: John Waddill;.
Abel Waddill; Pridgen Waddill; William Waddill; and a
daughter, married to Richard Adams.
VIII. Pridgen Waddill, bom 173- {date torn), who-
seems to have died in infancy.
IX. Shadr.\ch Waddill, bom 6 September 1738, wha
likewise appears to have died in infancy.
Richard Waddill, second son of the foregoing, bom 2^
March 1727, is more conveniently dealt with by affording
him precedence to his older brother. Richard Waddill,
on reaching manhood, settled in South Carolina, and spent
the remainder of his life in that colony. His three sons,
after their father's death, just prior to or during the Revolu-
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tion, returned to Virginia, making their home at first in
New Kent, whei^ce two of them at all events removed to
Charles City. This affords, of course, a close parallel to
the three Waddill brothers of a preceding generation; and
confusion of the two events may have led, naturally enough,
to the previously mentioned tradition of all the Charles
City Waddills' descent from "three brothers who came from
the south to Charles City, early in the eighteenth century."
The parallel holds also in that in each case only one of the
three brothers left descendants in Charles City.
Richard Waddill had issue:
I. Noel Waddill, who, accorcUng to a rather inexplicable
legend, was an officer of the Dinwiddle militia during the
Revolution. He afterward returned to South Carolina,
where he became a school-teacher; and where, it is said, he
was yet later connected uith the Yv'illington School, founded
in 1S04 by Dr. Moses Waddell. This of course re-opens
the vexed question as to whether the Waddills of Charles
City and the Waddells of North Carolina are of the same
stock; but as the progenitors of the latter immigrated as
late as 1750, from Ireland, the relationship at best could be
but slight.
II. Nathaniel Waddill, who served as a dragoon in the
Fourteenth Virginia during the Revolution. He aftenvard
lived for a-while in Charles City county, at least as late as
1794, when he was tutor in the family of Gideon Christian.
The manuscript Arithmetic he in that year prepared for
the use of young William Allen Christian (compare page 54)
is still in existence. Nathaniel Waddill eventually settled
in Nottoway. He was placed on the pension rolls in Februarj'
1829, being allotted SlOO annually; and was hving in 1835.
He seems to have left no issue.
III. Richard Waddill, bom in 1760, who ■v\ath his
brother Nathaniel went to Charles City circa 1790. He
was the only one of the brothers to remain in that county
permanently. The eariiest preserved mention of him in
the county records seems to have been made 18 January
1798, when he presented his accounts as guardian of another
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146 WADDILL OF CHARLES CITY
Richard Waddill, the son of his first cousin, Samuel Waddill;
but thereafter his name occurs with frequency. He married
Sarah, daughter of PhiUp Charles, as recorded on page 55,
his vriie being born in 1768, and dying 1 November 1833.
Richard Waddill himself died 1 February 1836, leaving
issue :
(1) George Christian Waddill, born 5 September 1804,
died 1 March 1889, who, as pre\aously recorded, married
Rebecca Priscilla Major: their issue has been given on
page 135.
(2) Susan Waddill, who married Littlebury Eppes, and
had issue: Susan Carter Eppes, who died unmarried: and
Sarah Eppes, who married James Flaines, and had James
Haines (who married Nellie Rathburn), and Sarah Haines
(who married George Guy, and has issue Nellie Lawton Guy).
'ILLIAM WADDUX, bom 2 August 1720, (com-
pare page 144), was reared in Charles City, and was
hving in that county as late as 1757. His name
is often found in the records, but in no entry of sufficient
import to warrant its quotation. He married, before 1744,
Ann , (as is sho^-n by a deed from them to Edward
Miller given in the May of that year), and seems to have
had only one son who reached maturity, — Samuel Waddill.
• Saaiuel Waddill, bom circa 1745, married, as has been
said earlier, upon page 54, Lucy Christian; and was executor
to his brother-in-law, Samuel Christian, in 1780. The
name of Samuel Waddill does not occur verj- frequently in
the surviving county records, but it is apparent that he
died before 1785: his funeral expenses were paid 10 October
1785, according to the settlement of his estate, recorded 18
June 1795. His wife married, second, Gideon Bradley:
her "widow's third" was assigned her in 1796, but she had
married Bradley some while before this, being possibly his
second wife. The will of Gideon Bradley, dated 11 Febmary
1801, recorded 20 August 1801, shows that she died before
1801.
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Samuel Waddill and Lucy Christian had issue:
L Edmund Waddill, Senior — as he is preferably called
for the sake of clearness, — who seemingly was bom circa
1775. His will, dated 19 October 1833. recorded 29 Febru-
ary' 1834, names his "relation and friend, George C. Waddill"
as guardian of his children. Edmund Waddill, Senior,
married, first, Christian, who died in or before 1809,
and by whom he had issue: Christian Waddill, bom circa
1808, who seems to have left one or more daughters, of
whom no record is available. Edmund Waddill, Senior,
married, second, Mary Ma^nard, by whom he had issue:
Samuel Waddill, who married, first, Sarah Irby Stagg, and,
second, Henrietta Bradley Clay; Edmund Waddill, who
married, first, Mary Louisa Redwood, and, second, Annie L.
Wight; Richard Waddill, who married Isabella Jordon,
and removed to Amherst county; William Waddill, who
never married; ]Mary Waddill, who married James Allen
Ladd; Elizabeth Waddill, who married, first, Bowr>',
and, second, James H. Christian, but left no issue by either
husband; and Lucy Waddill, who married Robert Maddox,
but had no children.
II. Richard Waddill, who, as has been said, was
entmsted to the guardianship of his cousin, Richard Waddill.
He was a, minor in 1798, and of age in 1801, which fixes
his birth-year as 1778 or 1779. Richard Waddill died before
1819, as is shown by the accounts of his orphans' guardian,
Edward Roper, as recorded 20 April 1825. He had issue:
Rebecca Waddill; Lucy Waddill; and William H. Wadchll.
This son William left Charles City, and made his home near
Danville: his descendants (if, as is believed, he left issue),
have not been traced.
SAMUEL WADDILL, the second son of Edmund Wad-
dill, Senior, died 16 June 1886. He married, first,
on 9 March 1843, Sarah Irby Stagg, (who died 1
July 1864), and had issue:
/. Edmund Thomas Waddill, horn 19 September 1844,
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and according to the laws of primogeniture the present head of
the Waddill family, being the lineal male representative in the
eighth generation of John Waddill, the immigrant. Edmund
Thomas Waddill, as previously recorded on page 135, married
Elizabeth Avery Waddill, on 19 January 1881, and had issue:
(1) Samuel Cabell Waddill, bom 29 November 1882,
who married Elizabeth Staples, on 11 November 1909, and
has issue: Virginia Cabell Waddill; and Samuel Cary
Waddill.
(2) John Lamb Waddill, bom 12 November 1884, who
married Rhoda Brennan, on 9 August 1912, and has issue:
L Virginia Louise Waddill.
(3) Ehna Leigh Waddill, bom 21 September 1887, who
married Lewis B. Adams, on 18 November 1909, and has
issue: Martha Elizabeth Adams; Elma Louise Adams; and
Lewis B. Adams.
(4) George jMajor Waddill, unmarried, bom 25 -March
/- 1890.
(5) Edmund Thomas Waddill, unmarried, bom 22
December 1892.
(6) Julien Aver>' Waddill, bom 26 June 1895.
(7) Patrick Henr>' Waddill, bom 17 March 1898.
(8) Irby Stagg Waddill, bom 17 May 1901, who died 18
August 1902.
(9) Sarah Ahce Waddill, bom 31 October 1902.
II. Mary Alice Waddill, born 22 March 1849, died 28
June 1875, uho married George H. Ladd, on 23 July 1874,
hut had no issue.
III. Sarah Waddill, born 21 October 1855, who married
George T. Hubbard, on 15 Jidy 1874, and has issue:
(1) Marj' Waddill Hubbard, who married Thomas N.
Hubbard, on 7 October 1903, but has no issue.
(2) Martha Ann Hubbard, bom 22 May 1878.
(3) Ethel Bradley Hubbard, bom 27 November 1880,
who married R. A. Ladd, on 23 June 1915.
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IV. Samuel Waddill, born 15 May 1851, who died in
November 1852.
V. William Waddill, born 28 February 1854, died 7 June
1910, u-ho married, on 12 April 1893, Jaiie Warren Walker,
(who survived him, and married, second, as recorded on page
135, Edward Major), and had issue:
(1) William Freeman Waddill, born 9 January 1894,
who married iMjTtha Apperson, on 9 August 1915.
(2) Samuel Edmund Waddill, born 12 November 1895.
(3) Louise Hanvood Waddill, born 5 January 1899.
(4) Graham Walker Waddill, born 19 August 1900.
Samuel Waddill married, second, in 1865, Henrietta
Bradley Clay, widow of Henry M. Clay, (and daughter of
Colonel John Bradley), and had issue:
/. Aimie Virginia Waddill, unmarried, born 23 April
1871.
EDMUND WADDILL, the third son of Edmund
Waddill, Senior, was bom 23 May 1814, and died
10 September 1890. He married, first, Mary Louisa
Redwood (who died 8 April 1860), and had issue:
/. Elizabeth Redwood Waddill, who died unmarried in
1852.
//. John Redwood Waddill, born 25 June 1850, who, as
previously recorded, page 137, married Martha Ann Catherine
Waddill, on 21 July 1875, and had issue:
(1} George Edmund Waddill, born 6 December 1877,
who married Ella Ditman, on 21 November 1903, but has
no issue.
(2) Elizabeth Christian Waddill, bom 23 November
1884, who married Louis Christian, on 20 December 1905,
and has issue: John Coleman Christian, born 6 October 1906;
Catherine Waddill Christian, bom 2 October 1908; Clara
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Christian, bom 16 June 1910; Nannie Gordon Christian,
bom 6 January 1912; Louis Coleman Christian, born 12
August 1913; and Elizabeth Waddill Christian, bom 24
April 1914.
(3) Alary Rebecca Waddill, bom 10 October 1879, who
died 23 May 1883.
///. Sajnuel Pearman Waddill, horn 15 December 1852,
who married Frafices E. Henley, on 16 May 1882, and had
iss^iie:
(1) Emily Wight Waddill, unmarried, bom 4 March
1883.
(2) J. Temple Waddill, unmarried, bom 17 Febmary
1884.
(3) Samuel Pearman Waddill, unmarried, bom 23 May
1885.
(4) John Young Waddill, mmiarried, bom 6 December
1886.
(5) Fanny Peachey Waddill, bom 4 September 1888,
who died 4 May 1892.
IV. Edmund Waddill, horn 22 May 1855, who married
Alma Conuoy Mitchell, on 19 December 1878, and had issue:
(1) Juliet Winder Waddill, bom 21 September 1879,
who married Arthur M. Cannon, on 31 July 1902, and has
'issue: Alma "\^'addill Caimon, bom 16 July 1903; Margaret
Blair Cannon, bom 8 June 1906; and Henry Gibbon Cannon,
bom 23 Alarch 1909.
(2) Mar>' Lamb Waddill, bom 7 May 1881, who married
Richard Fumival, on 2 December 1913.
(3) Edmund Clivious Waddill, unmarried, bom 11 July
1883.
(4) Nancy Garland Waddill, bom 19 June 1886, who
married Menalcus Lankford, on 14 April 1909, but has no
issue.
(5) Mitchell Waddill, bom 27 September 1889, who
married Gladys Cease, on 26 August 1910, but has no issue.
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V. Lucy Tabitha Waddill, born 5 May 1858, died 10
January 1894, who married Reverend Louis B. Betty, and
had issue:
(1) A child, bom 19 August 1881, who died 20 August
1881.
(2) Catherine Irby Betty, bom 29 September 1882,
who married Henry Lee Ames, on 28 June 1911, and has
issue: John Lewis Ames, bom 15 July 1912.
(3) Blanche Redwood Betty, bom 14 June 1884, who
died 5 January 1901.
(4) LeTvis Christian Betty, bom 7 August 1885, who
died 8 August 1889.
(5) Leha Gilmer Betty, unmarried, bom 27 August 1888.
(6) George IMarvdn Betty, unmarried, born 12 Septem-
ber 1889.
(7) Edmund Christian Betty, bom 15 September 1893,
who died 30 June 1894.
• VI. Mary Louisa Waddill, born 28 March 1860, who
married James Henry Christian, on 9 November 1881, and
had iss^ie:
(1) Grace Sherman Christian, bom 13 October 1882,
who married Henrj^ E. Tumer, on 28 March 1905, and has
issue: Edmund Christian Tumer, bom 18 January- 1906;
Ann Harrison Turner; and Louisa Waddill Tumer, bom 29
March 1915.
(2) Annie Louisa Christian, bom 10 Januar>^ 1884, who
married William Walter Eames, on 21 June 1905, and has
issue: Wilham Walter Eames, bom Febmarj^ 1911; and
Elnora Christian Eames, bom October 1909.
(3) Isaac Hill Christian, bom 1 May 1886, who married
Emily Christian Huxter. on 7 January' 1915.
(4) Edmund Waddill Christian, bom 31 May 1887, who
married Ellen Carter Gregory', on 9 April 1914.
(5) Marshall Christian, bom 12 January 1889, who died
8 July 1889.
(6) Sherman Christian, bom 12 January 1889, who died
18 May 1889.
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(7) Sarah Vaughan Christian, bom 12 June 1890, who
married Richard Edloe ISIountcastle, on 14 November 1912,
and has issue: Richard Edloe Mountcastle, bom 12 January
1914.
(8) James Henr\- Christian, bom 18 ^lay 1892, who
married Phoebe L. Potts, on 12 October 1915.
(9) Mar>' Susan Christian, bom 2 August 1894, who
died 2 September 1894.
(10) Warren Christian, bom 2 September 1895.
(11) John Redwood Christian, bom 13 August 1898.
(12) Mary' Kemp Christian, born 9 September 1900.
VII. Nannie Waddill, horn 28 March 1860, who married
James Walter Barnes, on 29 April 1890, and had issue:
(1) Edmund Walter Barnes, bom IS Febmarj' 1891, who
married Josephine Barthel, on 11 October 1911.
Edmund Waddill, Senior, married, second, on 18 June
1862, Annie L. Wight, (who died 14 Febmary 1890), and had
issue:
/. William M. Waddill, born 5 April 1863, who married
Ellen Meeker Compton, bid has no issue.
II. Margaret V. Waddill, unmarried, horn 16 June 1865.
III. Charles C. Waddill, horn 27 February 1868, who
married Margaret Franklin, on 30 November 1898, and has
issue:
(1) Franklin Waddill, bom 8 August 1905.
IV. Emily W. Waddill, born 6 April 1871, who married
Dr. Harry M. Bennett, on 8 October 1901, and has issue:
(1) Mary Bennett, bom 18 November 1904.
V. Julia Leeds Waddill, unmarried, horn 5 July 1876.
VI. Leonora Wight Waddill, born 11 January 1879, who
married Robert H. Talley, on 15 October 1903, and has issue:
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WADDILL OF CHARLES CITY 153
(1) William Graves Talley, bom 13 June 1907.
(2) Robert H. Talley, born 30 July 1910.
THE PRECEDING enumeration, while of necessity
incomplete, includes all the descendants of Edmund
Waddill, Senior, doTNTi to the present day, as far as
any list thereof appears procurable, — with the sole excep-
tion of the descendants of his son Richard Waddill (com-
pare page 147), Information as to these last was received
too late for insertion here, and is in consequence deferred
to page 185.
William Waddill, the youngest son of Edmund Waddill,
Senior, (again compare page 147), as has been said, died
unmarried, in June 1909.
For the rest, it was believed that the oldest daughter,
Mar>' Waddill, bom 1817, who married James Allen Ladd,
and died 20 February' 1849 (according to the Waddill family
Bible) had left descendants; but inquirv' among latter-day
representatives of the Ladd family has brought forth only a
denial of ability to furnish any information on this point.
Of the other daughters, Elizabeth Waddill, bom 1826, who
married, first, Dowry, and, second, James H. Chris-
tian, died -v^nthout any issue, 18 July 188G. Lucy Waddill,
who in Febmary 1848 married Robert Maddox, died June
1850; and she too left no children.
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Appendix
Patteson of New Kent and
Chesterfield
)HE PATTESON family, whose connection
with the Majors through the Christian
and Macon Hnes has previously been
exi^lained (compare page 54), is by tra-
dition of Scotch origin. It is said, more-
over, that the first Patteson settling in
America had formerly lived in Wales;
that he made his home in New Kent county, where his
plantation was kno-wn as "Roxbury", or "Roxboro", in
honor of which the present towTi of that name, on the border
line of Charles City and New Kent counties, was christened;
and that his Christian name was Thomas. He seems to have
had, with possibly other issue: Thomas Patteson, died 1725;
Edward Patteson, died 1719; David Patteson, of whom
hereafter; Alexander Patteson, died 1726; smd George
Patteson. All these were living in New Kent county in 1700
and after, and left descendants there.
David Patteson, the progenitor of the Pattesons of
Chesterfield, as has been said, was living in New Kent in
1700, and must have been bom circa 1680. His first land-
grant, however, was taken out, in 1714, in Henrico county,
in that part of Henrico from which Goochland was sub-
sequently formed. A copy is appended:
" A NNE etc, to all etc. Know ye, that for diverse good
/-\ causes and Consideracons, but more especially for
& in consideracon of the sum of two pounds of good
& la-^v'ful money, for our use paid to our Receiver General of
our Revenues in this our s'd Colony and Dominion of
Virginia, We have given, granted and Confirmed, & by
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these presents for us, our heirs & successors, do Give, Grant
and Confirm, unto David Pattesox one certain Tract
or parcel of land, containing four hundred acres, lying and
being on the north side of James River, in the County of
Henrico, and bounded as followeth: to wit, beginning at a
small Comer pine standing on the east side of licking hole
Creek; thence crossing the s'd Creek west twenty-five
degrees north two hundred and seventy poles to a small
Comer elm standing by a small branch; thence south twenty-
five degrees west two hundred and forty poles to a small
corner white oak & black walnutt standing on the west
side of a small branch; thence East twenty-five degrees
south, crossing licking hole Creek, two hundred and fifty-
four poles to a Comer butter^'ood white oak, hickorj' &
black oak stancUng on Capt. John Boiling's hne; thence
north twenty-nine and a half degrees East two hundred and
fifty-six poles to the place begun at: with all etc: To have,
hold etc: To be held etc: Provided etc: in Witness etc:
Witness our trusty & wellbeloved Alexander Spotswood,
our. Lieut. Govern, etc, at Wilhamsburgh, under the seal of
our s'd Colony, the sixteenth day of June, one thousand
seven hundred & fourteen, in the thirteenth year of our
Reign,
A. SPOTSWOOD"
David Patteson subsequently took out six other land
patents in the same neighborhood. These were, severally:
337 acres, on 2 June 1722, adjoining the land previously
patented; 342 acres, on 8 September 1730, also on Licking
Hole Creek, and at the date of this patent in Goochland
county, which was formed in 1727; 350 acres in Goochland,
1 June 1741, on Rock Fish River; 350 acres in Goochland,
on Rock Fish River, 6 July 1741; 350 additional acres on
Rock Fish River, on the same date, 6 July 1741; and 1600
acres in Goochland, on Rock Fish River, 30 August 1743.
This constituted a tidy estate in Goochland; but Da\'id
Patteson continued, none the less, to make his home in
New Kent. Owing to the loss of the county records, one
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finds few mentions of him save in the registers and vestrj'
books of St Peter's parish, where he served as vestryman
for fourteen years: from 29 September 1729 — under which
date is recorded ''Mr David Pattesox hath this day taken
the Oath of a vestr}-man and alibscribed to the test" — to 24
September 1743 — "Ordered the presenting of Mr David
Patteson's Resignation of the office of a Vestryman by
the Rev'd Da\id Mossom to the Vestry; & Mr Mossom
informing the Vestry- that when Mr Patteson Resign'd,
he desired him to acquaint the Vestr}' that it was his Request
Capt. WJlHam Massie might Succeed him, it is the unanimous
vote of the Vestrv- that Capt. ^Massie be a Vestryman, &
he is accordingly chosen." For some account as to the
powers and responsibihties of vestrj'men at this period,
compare page 50.
The parish registers of St Peter's also show that Da\ad
Patteson had issue:
I. Sar.\h Pattesox, baptized 24 March 1700.
II. AxNE Pattesox, baptized 2 November 1701.
III. David Pattesox, bom 14 October 1705.
IV. Thomas Pattesox, bom 13 December 1708.
V. Cpl\rles Pattesox, bom 6 May 1711.
VI. Jonathan Patteson, bom 6 June 1713.
VII. Fr.\xces Pattesox, bom 19 December 1715.
VIII. Obedlah Patteson, bom 30 Uic) Febmarj' 1717.
IX. Gideon Patteson, bom 7 July 1720.
X. jAifES Pattesox, bom 10 February' 1722-3,
XI. AxxE Pattesox, bom 15 March 1724-5.
Jonathan Patteson, the sixth child of the foregoing,
bom 1713, also made his home in New Kent; and he Uke-
wise was a vestryman of St Peter's. Thus, under date of
20 November 1752, it was "Ordered that Mr Edmund
Bacon, Capt. Jesse Scott and Mr Jonathan Pattesox, be
appointed Vestrj-men in the Room of Colo. Joseph Forster
& Mr Joseph Marston, Dec'd, and Maj'r William Gray,
who is Removed out of this Colony; And that the Clerk
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for this Parish." Jonathan Patteson was later advanced to
the dignity of churchwarden: thus, an entry, dated 29
September 1755, reads: "Ordered that the Vestr}-, with the
consent of the Minister, proceed to the Choice of Church
Wardens in the Place of Colo. 'William Macon and Mr
William Hopkins, whose ofhce Expires at this Vestr}-; And
accordingly Mr Edmmid Bacon and Mr Jonathan Patteson
Chosen Church Wardens, and have Qualified themselves
by taking the Oaths Requir'd by Law, before Colo. Daniel
Parke Custis, in the presence of the ]Minister and Vestry."
Although he made his home in New Kent, Jonathan
Patteson o^sTied lands in Charles City, so that his name
is occasionally to be found in the survi\'ing records of the
latter county. Thus, he brought suit there, for £4, against
Samuel Crutchfield at the March court 1756; against Jef-
frey Murrell for £3, 175, 6d, at the June court 1756; and
against William Shields Vaughan for £8, 12s, at the Nov-
ember court 1755.
Somewhat later, by a deed dated 10 Febniar\' 1768, he
sold to Joel Christian, for £225, a tract of 225 acres in
Charles City, on the Chickahominy river: the deed is wt-
nessed by William Christian, David Oshng, David Quigin
and John Crew. He sold to James Quigin, by a deed dated
7 June 1769, a tract of seventy-five acres in Charles City,
at £5 an acre; and had, it develops, previously sold to
Quigin an adjoining tract of ninety acres, by a deed dated
5 November 1766.
His \N'ife's endorsement of these three deeds shows that
she and her husband were in 1768, and after, h\ing in
Lunenburg, probably -ss-ith their eldest son, Jonathan
Patteson, who was in 1771 a justice of the peace for that
county, and as such took his mother's acknowledgments
of these deeds of sale. It is probable that the elder Jonathan
Patteson spent the last eight years of his hfe for the most
part in Lunenburg, where his -^ill is recorded.
Jonathan Patteson died in 1774. A copy of his will,
recorded 12 May 1774 in Lunenburg, is appended:
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158 PATTESON OF NEW KENT
IN THE NAME OF GOD, amen. I, Jonathan Patteson,
of the County of New Kent and Parish of N. Peters-
burg, being in perfect mind and memory, but knowmg
it is appointed For all man once to die, do institute and or--
dain this to be my last will and testament:
"First, I bequeath my soul to God, who gave it, and my
body to 'be buried at the discretion of my executors; and
after my just debts and funeral charges are paid, I give and .
dispose of my estate in manner and form as followeth:
"1st, Item: I give and bequeath to my son, Richard
Pattesin, that part of my land which I shall mention, with
the place called Merchoes: begiiming at the Comer Oaks ■
of my land, Wm Rangerfields', and Absolun 's;
from thence to mn across southerly, along a branch, to the
place called the ^leadow, till it comes opposite to May
Patteson's plantation, so to join her hne; and thence up the
line to Joel Christian's; thence to Bahss Howel's, and so to
the beginning; and one bed and furniture.
"I give and bequeath to my son Jonathan five shillings.
"Item: I give and bequeath to my son DaN-id two hundred
pounds in mv son Jonathan's hands; but if my son: Jonathan,
had rather make David a right to the land and plantation
where he now lives, containing four hundred acres, then my-
desire is that he shall discharge my son Jonathan from pave-
ments of the money: also one negro man, George.
"Item: I give and bequeath to my son, Charles Patteson,
two hundred pounds in my son Jonathan's hands;- but if in
case my son Jonathan had rather make my son Ctiarles a
good right to my tracts of land Ipng in Lunenburg, conta'mg.
four hundred acres, each one lying to the of the
Courthouse Road (one purchased of John Colvm, and
another purchased of .\nthony Street), and the hundred,
acres of his own adjoining, then my desire is my son Jonathan
may be discharged from the payment of the money. Also
I give and bequeath to my son Charles one negro man,
Robin, one bed and furniture, and a young horse.
"I give and bequeath to my son Samuel all the remainder:
of the tract of land I now hve on, after the death of his
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mother, to him and his heirs forever; also one young horse,
saddle and bridle; and one feather bed and furniture; and
fifty pounds current money, -with interest from this date.
"Item: I give and bequeath to my daughter Frances five
shillings.
"Item: I give and bequeath to my daughter Martha
Christian one negro woman named Beck and her two child-
ren (Nan and Moses), and one feather bed and furniture.
"Item: I give and bequeath to my daughter Sarah one
negro boy named Peter and one negro girl named Rachel;
one horse, saddle and bridle; and one feather bed and furni-
ture: to her and her heirs.
"Item: I give and bequeath to my daughter Ann one negro
girl named Nairn and negro girl Hanah ; and one horse, saddle
and bridle; one feather bed and furniture: to her and her
heirs.
"Also my wish and desire is that m}' loving wife Elizabeth
may have free and peaceful possession of the land and
plantation I now live on, with all the remainder of my estate
not mentioned, during her hfe, to bargain, sell and rent out
any part for the payments of debts; and if the selling of my
estate should not hold out to discharge the debts by the half,
my personal estate and negro man Jim may be sold. My
desire is that an equal part, of each child's legacy may be
taken for that purpose.
"Also I constitute and appoint my lo\ing wife my exe-
cutrix, with my two sons Jonathan and Da\id executors, of
this my last will and testament; and I revoke all other
former wills made by me. As witness my hand and seal
this nineteenth day of March, one thousand seven hundred
and sixty-seven.
JONATHAN PATTESON. Seal.
"Signed and sealed in the presence of: (Signed) James
New, David Squerin, his 7)iark, Henrj' Christian."
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addition either a be-^ilderingly muddled estate or else a
lack of any talent for business affairs, by the testator's
e\'ident innocence of even an approximate idea as to how his
liabiUties and assets balanced.
Jonathan Patteson, as recorded on page 54, had married
Elizabeth, the daughter of Richard Christian, and as his
will shows, she survived him. They had issue:
I. Fr.\n'Ces Pattesox, bom 19 October 1736.
II. Richard Patteson, bom 2S January- 1737-8, who died
without issue.
III. Jonathan Patteson, a justice of the peace for Lunen-
burg, who represented Lunenburg in the Convention of 1788,
and died ■without issue.
IV. AIartha Patteson, who married Henry Christian of
Amherst. They had issue: Henr\^ Asburj' Christian, who
married, first, Lucy Wood Dunscombe, and, second, Susan
Palmer; Jonathan Christian, who married Sarah Nowlin;
Samuel Patteson Christian, who married Nancy Patteson;
John Christian, who died without issue; Martha Christian,
who married Reuben Palmer; Mary Christian, who married
Rucker; Susan Christian, who married William
Duval; Elizabeth Christian, who married Philip Duval; and
Frances Christian, who died unmarried.
V. David Patteson, an account of whom is for the present
postponed.
VI. Charles Patteson, who represented Buckingham
county in the Convention of 1788. He married Regina,
daughter of Tschamer de Graff enreid, and had issue: Eliza-
beth Patteson; Samuel Patteson; Richard Patteson; Lewis
Tschamer Patteson; Jonathan Patteson; and Allen de
Graffenreid Patteson. All this branch of the family re-
moved to Kentucky.
VII. Saml-el Patteson, who died without issue.
VIII. Sar.ah Patteson, bom June 1754.
IX. Anne Patteson, living in 1767.
.David Patteson, the fifth child of the foregoing, was
.bom circa 1745. He at some, period prior to 1767 removed
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to Chesterfield county, where his uncle James Patteson had
already settled, and for the rest of his life made his home
there.
David Patteson was an officer of the Chesterfield miUtia,
and served against the British during the War of the Revo-
lution. He was appointed, and took the oath as, first
lieutenant in Captain Robert Goode's company, at the
October Court 1777. He was made captain at the October
Court 1778 — "John Fowler to be his first lieutenant, James
Branch his second lieutenant, and Thomas Howlett his
ensign." He took the oath as captain at the March Court
1779, and held this office until the conclusion of the war.
The Chesterfield militia does not appear to have seen any
fighting during the earlier years of the Revolution. These
troops, however, were ordered south in the June of 1780,
and remained in South Carolina in actual service until the
disastrous battle of Camden (16 August 1780), where, as has
been narrated, on page 104, they were badly beaten.
The Chesterfield militia was again called to the field
in the February- of 1781, to join General Greene's army in
North Carolina, but was halted at Dinwiddie Courthouse,
and did not reach Guilford in time for the battle fought there
on 15 March 1781. Thereafter Captain Patteson's company,
at all events, and probably all the Chesterfield troops, were
put under Lafayette's command in Virginia, this transfer
being made in April 1781. Captain's Patteson's company
was in the retreat from Petersburg in the following May,
took part in the skirmishing about Richmond during June
and July, and in August followed Lafayette to Malvern Hill
in pursuit of Comwallis: and remained as an active parti-
cipant in the siege of Yorktown until the town's surrender
in the October of 1781. Just four years aftenvard, in passing,
David Patteson was called upon, as a recognized authority
in the matter, to testify before the Virginia House of Dele-
gates concerning divers operations of the Virginia militia
during this siege, as may be seen by comparing the Journal
of the House for 17 November 1785.
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the Chesterfield militia after the Revolution, so that at the
July Court 17S5 David Patteson again took the oath as cap-
tain. He was yet again named as captain at the June Court
1787, there then being evidently another readjustment of the
Chesterfield militia, as all the Chesterfield officers are enum- .
erated in the county records, for ever}' company; and Dav-id
Patteson took the oath at the September Court 1787. He
continued an officer of these troops for the remainder of his
life; and in the October of 1793 was commissioned lieutenant-
colonel and made commandant, succeeding Archibald
Walthall, who had resigned.
David Patteson was a member of the Virginia House of
Delegates for the years 1785-86-92-93-94; and with Stephen
Pankey, Jr, represented Chesterfield in the Virginia Federal
Convention of 1788, which met in Richmond in the June
of that year, and ratified in the name and behalf of the people
of Virginia, the present Federal Constitution. In passing,
two of his brothers were members of the same convention:
Jonathan Patteson represented Lunenburg county; and
Charles Patteson, Buckingham: and David Patteson was
one of the narrow majority of ten which decided that the
State accept the Constitution, both of his brothers voting
against it.
David Patteson died in the April of 1821. His will, dated
30 December 1819, but containing codicils added 2 April
1821, was recorded at Chesterfield Courthouse 14 ]May 1821:
and a list of baptisms by the Reverend William H. Hart,
then rector of St. Jolm's Church, shows that David Patteson
was dead 4 !May 1821, on which date several of his grand-
children were baptized. A copy of this will, v\ith the re-
corded inventor}' of his personal estate, is appended.
"TN THE NAME OF GOD, Amen: I, David Pattesox,
I of Chesterfield County, being of perfect sence and
sound mind, but knowing the uncertainty of this fife,
and that it is appointed for all men to die, do make this
writing, to be my last Will and Testament, in manner and
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"My soul I give to God my Maker, hoping and trusting
to receive remission and pardon of all my offences, and to
inherit life everlasting; my body, to be decently buried at the
discretion of my Executors, whom I shall hereafter appoint.
"I give and bequeath to my beloved wife Eliza Ann and
to her heirs and assigns forever, a negro Girl named Grace
and her increase; also my riding Carriage and harness,
together with a pair of Horses now used with it; also the
Crop of Com, Fodder and Oats which may be on hand at the
time of my Death. I also lend her during her natural Hfe
the use of six hundred acres of land and plantation whereon
I now live (except about six acres on which my son Samuel
hath built and resides, inclucUng his new enclosures, and
so on to his spring); also the following slaves: Vizt, George,
Sue, Orson, Rachel, Joe, Abbey, Yellow Aron, Dianah and
her children, Harrey, Aaron, Elce, and Judey and her three
children (Vizt, Randolph, Charles and Nancey); together
with two mules or work Horses, Twenty head of Sheep, ten
head of good Cattle, a pair of the best oxen, and the Stock
of Hogs, the plantation utencils of everj' description what-
soever, and all the Household and Kitchen furniture.
"I give and bequeath to my son Samuel (after the death
of his mother) the six hundred acres of land before mentioned,
being the whole of the tract I now o^vn, to him and his heirs
forever, condition ex-pressly, that half an acie including the
burial ground is reserved for that purpose, to all my Family
at all times forever. I also give him my library' of Books.
I also give to my said son all the interest which I now hold
in lands in Kentucky, with my brother Charles, which has
fallen to me as a Joint Heir of my Brothers Richard, John-
athan (sic) and Samuel: to him and his heirs forever.
"I give and bequeath to my Daughter Ehza S. Austin
two hundred dollars, to her and her heirs forever.
"I give and bequeath to my daughter Francis Gilliam
the negro Girl named Pattey, expressl}^ for the purpose of
taking care of my poor little Grandaughter Eliza Ann: to
her and her heirs forever.
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Branch a Negro Girl named Hanah; and to my Grandson
Estopher Branch two hundred dollars, which shall be paid
to him when he comes of Age or is Married ; but the interest
is to be ammally paid toward his schooling; but in case of his
death before he comes of Age, then the said Legacy is to pass
to his Sisters, to them and their heirs forever.
"I give to my Grandaughter Martha ^L Friend a negro
girl named Lucy (daughter of MarjO, to her and her heirs
forever; but in case of her death before she comes of Age
or is married, then the said Girl is to return to my estate.
"I give and bequeath to my Grandaughter Lucy F.
Branch one hundred dollars, w'ch is to be taken out of such
portion of my estate which shall be allotted to her mother:
to her and her heirs forever.
"My Will and desire is that my three lots in the To-smi of
Manchester be sold to the best advantage: out of which sale
I do direct seventy-five dollars to be paid to each of my
daughters Lucy Winfree and Francis Gilliam; the balance
to be applied to the payment of my Debts and Legacys;
and further, that my two men Emanuel and John be hired
out for two years, or longer if necessary, in aid as aforesaid
provided, that they keep the Houses on my plantation in
comfortable repair so long.
"My Will and Desire is that all the residue of my estate
not already disposed of, consisting of slaves or any description
whatever, be equally divided between my son Samuel and my
Daughters !Mary Branch, Martha Patteson. Lucey Winfree
and Francis Gilliam, to them and their heirs forever: but in
making a di\ision it is my wish that my old people be kept
together as Husband and Wife: and that my estate be not
appraised.
"Lastily, I appoint my son Samuel, and My Friends Jas.
W. Winfree and Richard Gilliam, ex'rs of this my last Will.
In Witness whereof I have set my hand and seal December
30th 1819.
DAVID PATTESON (Seal)
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named, I do hereby appoint my respected Grandson William
A. Patteson with them.
"Having determined to make sale of the woman Hanah,
heretofore given to my Grandaughter Betsy Ann Branch,
I now bequeath to her two hundred dollars in lieu thereof:
Aug'st 22, 1820.
"My will and desire is, I give to my grandaughter Martha
M. Friend the sum of two hundred dollars, and not the negro
Girl Lucy as before directed; conditioned as aforesaid:
Novem'r 15.
"My Will and desire is that my Executors before named
may not give security for their administration to this my Will.
DAVID PATTESON Ap'l 2, 1821.
"/n Chesterfield county court, May the 14th 1821: This last
Will and Testament of Da\id Patteson, dec'd, together with
the memorandum thereon endorsed, was proven by the oath
of A. S. Wooldridge and Allan McRae to be written wholly
by the said Patteson ; whereupon the same was ordered to be
recorded to be recorded (sic) ; and on the motion of Samuel
Patteson and Richard C. Gilliam, the executors therein
named, who entered into bond without security (none being
required), and took the oath required, a certificate is granted
them for having obtained probat thereof in due form. Teste,
Parke Poindexter, C."
Although no security was required, James W. Winfree
gave bond for S50,000, as executor, 11 June 1821; as Samuel
Patteson and Richard C. GilHam had done for S20,000, on
14 May 1821. An inventory- was recorded in October:
A MEMORANDUM of the perishable property of
which the late Colo: David Patteson died pos-
sessed:— To Wit, Slaves: George, Sue, Peter, Molly,
Joe, Abby, Aaron, Eke, Phoebe, Sam — being Old men and
Women; Marj- and her four children, Letty, Randolph,
Charles and Nanny; Dianna and her two Children, Elijah
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aiid Isaac; Elce and her child Peter; Blind Betty and her
Child Milton; Grace and her two children, Mercy and Albert;
Harry, Orson, Yellow Aaron, Elliok, Comehus, and Jacob;
Emanuel and Jolm, Cari^enters; Rachel, Wager, Patty and
Fanny; 3 Horses and two Mules; 23 Head of Sheep, 3 Work
Steers, 10 Head of Cattle and 3 Calves; 38 Head of Hogs,
including all sizes.
"A variety of Plantation Utensils, consisting of Ploughs,
One Richng Carriage, One Waggon, One Ox, and one house
cart.
"About 5 Barrels Com, and from 1,000 to 1,500 lbs Fodder;
One Tan Mill, 5 beds. Bedsteads and furniture; a variety
of Table Cloths, Towels, &c; One Desk and Bookcase; Two
Dining and one tea table; Two pine Tables, One Side Board,
15 Chairs, One Chest of Drawers, Two Looking Glasses, One
Set of Table China. A variety of Kitchen furniture, together
with Butter pots. Jugs, &c ; M Table and 1 1 Silver tea Spoons,
and one Ladle; a few knives and forks. One man and one
Ladies' Riding Saddle.
"Chesterfield county, August 29th 1821: {Signed) Saml
Patteson, R. C. GiUiam.
"In Chesterfield county court, October Sth 1821: This
Inventory- and appraisement of the personal estate of Da\'id
Patteson, dec'd, was returned and ordered to be recorded.
Teste, Parke Poindexter."
David Patteson had married, in 1769, Ehza Ann .
One family tradition gives her maiden name as Anderson;
another, and seemingly the more Hkely, states that she was
a Miss Bro^^'ne of James City county. She survived her
husband, d\-ing in 1824, and her will also is on record in
Chesterfield. A copy is appended:
IN THE NAME OF GOD, .\men: I, Elizabeth Axn
Patteson of the county of Chesterfield, being of sound
mind and memors-, but kno-\nng the uncertainty of
life and the certainty of death, do make, constitute and
publish this my last will and testament, in manner following:
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"To wit, my soul I recommend to God, the bountiful giver
thereof, and mj' body to be decently intered in a Christian
like manner.
"Item, I Give unto my beloved daughter EUzabeth S.
Austin at my death my negro woman Grace and her daughter
Mercy, them and their increase, to the said Elizabeth and
her heirs forever.
"Item, I Give unto my Grandson Richard H. Gilliam one
small negro boy named Albert, to him and his heirs forever,
"It is my -vvnll and desire that my executors hereinafter
named, sell my carriage and horses, and di\'ide the money
equally between Sarah Ann Patteson, Sarah Patteson Branch
and Susan Elizabeth Patteson.
"It is my further will and desire that my grandaughter
Ehzabeth Ann Branch have a mourning suit, not to exceed
in costs twenty dollars, and to be paid for by Elizabeth S.
Austin; and also my little granddaughter Elizabeth ]M.
Winfree to have a mourning ring, not to exceed in costs seven
dollars, to be paid for by EUzabeth S. Austin.
"I hereby give all the residue of my estate that I may die
possessed of, after the pa>inent of my just debts, to my
daughter Ehzabeth S. Austin.
"I do hereby appoint my friends Richard C. Gilliam and
James Johnson my executors, to carry into effect this my
last will and testament.
"In Witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand and
aflSxed my seal, the tenth day of February eighteen hundred
and twenty-two.
ELIZA ANN PATTESON (Seal)
"Signed, sealed and dehvered in the presence of us:
{Signed) Elliott Chiles, Charles Latham.
"My will and desire is that my Executors to this my will
shall not be compelled to give security, and that my estate
may not be appraised.
ELIZABETH ANN PATTESON
"Tcsf: Sam' Patteson.
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ydW and testament of Elizabetli Ann Patteson, dec'd, was
presented in court and proven by the oath of Elliott Chiles
and Charles Latham, witnesses thereto, and ordered to be
recorded. On the motion of James i\L Johnson, one of the
Q Executors therein named, who entered into bond -uithout
security (none being required), and took the oath prescribed
-, by law, a certificate is granted him for obtaining probate
•ji thereof in due form. Teste P. Poindexter.
Colonel David Patteson had issue:
L Mary Patteson, the oldest child, bom 28 September
" 1770, who in 1787 married Thomas Branch of "Willow Hill",
in Chesterfield county, and died 20 August 1825, ha\ang had
issue: Elizabeth Branch, who died in infancy; Mary Branch,
who married William Lithgow; Benjamin Branch, who died
*; in infancy; David Henry Branch, who married Mary Branch,
his first cousin; ]Martha Branch, who married John R. Walke;
Obedience Branch, who married Edward W. Anderson;
Thomas Turpin Branch, who died in infancy ; Thomas Branch
who married, first Sarah Pride Read, and, second, Anne
Adams Wheelwright; John Wilkinson Branch, who died in
infancy; Lucy Frances Branch, who died unmarried;
Jordan Branch, who married, first, Lucy Winfree
(his first cousin), and, second, Caroline Davidson; Juhus
Caesar Branch, who married ^laria Hinton; Sarah Branch,
who died in infancy; and Sarah Patteson Branch, who died
immarried. For the descendants of this marriage, compare
Branchiana.
XL David Patteson, who died without issue in 1806. The
will of David Patteson, Junior, dated 1 June 1803, recorded
in Chesterfield 13 January- 1806, mentions his sister Frances
Gilham, his brother Samuel Patteson, the testator's friend
Reverend Needier Robinson, the testator's wife Elizabeth
Patteson, and the testator's father Dav-id Patteson.
HI. Martha Patteson, who married James A. Patteson,
and whose descendants will be spoken of hereafter.
IV. Lucy Patteson, who married James Wiley Winfree,
and had issue: Lucy Aim Winfree, who married Jordan
Branch; David C. Winfree; and Martha Elizabeth Winfree.
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V. Samuel Patteson, who married Elizabeth Darracott.
His will, dated 30 June 1S30, recorded at Chesterfield Court-
house 13 September 1830, mentions his son David Jordan
Patteson and his daughter Susan Elizabeth Patteson, neither
of whom left issue.
VI. Frances Patteson, who married Richard C. Gilliam,
and had issue: Richard H. GiUiam; Eliza Ann Gilliam; and
Mary Gilliam, who married her first cousin Da\nd Nelson
Patteson.
VII. Sarah PATTESON,who married Major Edward Branch,
and had issue: David Benjamin Estopher Branch; Mary
Branch, who married her first cousin Da\'id Henry Branch;
and Elizabeth Ami Branch.
VIII. Nancy Patteson, who married William Friend,
and had issue: Martha M. Friend, who married, first, J. M.
Johnston, and, second, T. U. Dudley.
IX. Eliza Patteson, who married Samuel Austin, but
left no issue.
COLONEL DAVID PATTESON thus left no des-
cendants in the male line. The family name was,
however, perpetuated among his descendants by the
marriage of his daughter Martha with James A. Patteson,
her first cousin once removed.
He was the younger son of James Patteson, the son of
David — compare page 156. This James Patteson, as has
been said, was bom in New Kent county 10 February 1722-3.
He eventually settled in Chesterfield county, where he
resided until his death in 1707. As his will shows, he also
owned lands in Amherst and Cumberland counties.
The will of James Patteson, dated 23 Februan,- 1767, was
recorded in Chesterfield in the May of the same year. It
will be noted that David Patteson, Jr — afterward Colonel
David Patteson — is a witness to the document, showing
that he had by this settled in Chesterfield, and was in all
probabiUty living with his uncle, the testator. A copy of the
will is appended :
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IN TPIE NAME OF GOD, .Ajnen: I, James Patteson
of the County of Chesterfield, being in perfect sence
and memory, but knowing the uncertainty of this
life, do make this my last Will and Testament, in manner
and form following:
"I give my Soul into the Arms of Jesus Christ my Redeem-
er, and my Body to the Earth, to be buried at the direction
of my Ex'rs, whom I shall herein after mention; and as for
what worldly Estate God hath been pleased to bless me with,
I give in maimer and form f ollo\\'ing :
"I lend unto my well belov'd -wife Marj', during her hfe,
all that Tract of Land on James River that I purchased of
Wm BjTd, Esq; and after her decease I give and bequeath
unto mj-- son Nelson Patteson the said Tract of Land, con-
ta'ing seven hundred and thirty-five acres, more or less, to
him and his heirs forever.
"Item, I give and bequeath unto my son Nelson Patteson
all that Tract of Land on Appamatox River, containing
four hundred Acres more or less, which I purchased of
Hutchens Burton, (known by the name of let alone), to
him and his heirs and Assigns forever.
"Item, I give and bequeath unto my son Nelson Patteson
all that Tract of Land on James River, containing four
hundred acres more or less, in Cumberland County, that I
purchased of Da\id Patteson, to him and his heirs forever.
"Item, I give and bequeath to my son Nelson Patteson all
that Tract of Land on James River, containing four hundred
acres more or less, in Amherst County, that I purchased
of Hutchens Burton and Robert WiUiamson, to him and his
heirs forever.
"Item, I give to my daughter Sarah Patteson one negro
Girl named Judey and her Increase, to her and her heirs
forever.
"My will and desire is that, after all my just debts are
paid, that the remainder part of my Estate be kept
together by my Ex'rs, to be made the most of during my
"wife's widowhood; that then in case my wife should marry,
my will and desire is that all my slaves. Stock and Household
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furniture, with the profits and increase of my estate, after
maintaining my wife and Children to that time, shall be
equally divided among my wife and two children, Sarah
and Nelson, and their heirs forever; except my wife's part,
which she shall only Inherit during her life; and after her
decease I give her part of my Estate to be equally divided
among my two children Sarah and Nelson.
"My will and desire is that, in Case either of my Children
shou'd come of Age or married, and my ^vife remaining a
Widow or being deceas'd, that then my Estate as before
mentioned shall be equally divided between my Wife and
two Children, or an^ong my said two Children Sarah and
Nelson (as the Case shall so happen) and their Heirs forever.
"My Wife ]Mar>' now behe\'ing herself to be with Child,
my will and desire is: that if she brings forth a Boy, he shall
have an equal part of all my Estate; but if a Girl, she share
an equal part of ever\'thing except my Land.
"My will and desire is that my Estate shall not be ap-
prais'd. "^
"And Lastly, I do declare this to be my last will and
Testament, revoking all other wills by me made; and do
appoint and ordain my well belov'd wife Mar)- Executrix,
and my friend Thomas Prosser and Charles Patteson (son
of David Patteson) Executors, of this my last Will and
Testament. In Witness whereof I have affixed my hand
and seal, the twenty-third day of February One thousand
seven hundred and sixty-seven.
JAMES PATTESON (Seal)
"Signed, Seal'd and Acknowledged to be the last Will
and Testament of James Patteson in presence off: (Signed)
James Ball, Da\'id Patteson, Jun'r, George Rowland."
James Patteson and his wdfe, Marj' Nelson, had issue:
I. Sarah Pattesox, of whose marriage and issue no record
has been preserved.
II. Nelson Patteson, bom 8 January 17G2, died 4 March
1824, who married Rebecca, daughter of Colonel Bernard
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Markhara, and removed to Tennessee, li\'ing near the present
Pulaski, and left issue there. His children subsequently went
west, and record of them has been lost.
III. Ja.mes a. Patteson, bom just after his father's death,
10 August 17G7.
James A. Patteson, as has been previously said, married
his cousin Martha Patteson — on 13 -March 1794. His
will, dated 28 September 1815, was recorded in Chester-
field 14 April 1817. A copy is appended:
IN THE NAME OF GOD, Amen: I, James A. Patteson
of Chesterfield County, being sick and weak of body,
but of perfect sence and sound memory, and knowing
that this life is verj' uncertain, and that all men are bom
to die, do make and ordain this writing to be my last will
and testament, in manner and form following:
"My soul I give to God my maker, hoping and tmsting
to receive remission of my offences and to inherit life ever-
lasting; my body to be decently buried at the discretion of
my executrix, whom I shall hereafter appoint.
"I give unto my beloved wife Martha two negroes, viz't,
Nancy and her son Minor; three horses, which she may
choose; the riding carriage and harness; one half the stock
of cattle, hoggs and sheep, as also one half the household and
kitchen furniture of every description whatever: to her and
her heirs forever; conditions however, that she do give to
some one or more of our children the slaves aforenamed.
"I also lend unto my said wife, during her natural life, the
tract of land whereon I now Uve, together -uith five negroes,
which she may choose; however, five acres of land are to be
reserved out of said tract adjoining the same quantity
convey'd to me by the late Wm Bro^\^le, deceased; which
same ten ac's is to remain as a seat for mills or other works:
one half the interest in the same I do hereby direct my
executrix and executors shall convey to the heirs and repre-
sentatives of the late Joseph Browne, dec'd ; the afore mention-
ed five acres of land it is meant should be laid off by running
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a paralel line with the five acres laid out by BrowTie for me.
"It is my will and desire that all the remaining part of my
estate of ever}- description, both real and personal shall be
sold on such terms as my Executrix and Ex't's shall deem
most advantageous: out of such sales I give to each of my
five young Children (Vizt, Henr>-, Da\'id, Samuel, John and
o= Sary Ann) the sum of one thousand dollars: after these
legacies the remaining part of my estate I do will and direct
to be di\'ided between my six Children, Vizt., Wilham,
Henr>', David, Samuel, John and Saiy Ann.
"My -will and desire is that the legacy of one thousand
dollars each, and all other moneys which may fall to my five
young children, shall be, as soon as may be, laid out in bank
stock for their use: that said Legacies be paid them when
they shall arrive at lawful age or be married; but in case
}, of the death of either of my said five children before they
are entitled to their di\adends, that such shares shall be
equally di\'ided between the survivors.
"It now is my particular injunction that particular at-
tention be paid to the education of my children.
"Lastly, I leave my beloved wife ^Martha executrix, and
my son WilUam and friend David Patteson executors, of
this my last will and testament, revoking all others. In
witness whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and seal, this
28th of September, one thousand eight hundred and fifteen,
JAMES A. PATTESON (Seal)
"Witness: {No Signature)
"In Chesterfield county court 1817, A-pril the 14th: This
writing, purpo'ting to be the last will and testament of James
A. Patteson, deceased, was presented; and it being proved
by the testimonj- of James W. Winfree and Samuel Patteson
that the signature to the same is in the hand writing of the
said James A. Patteson, deceased, — It was thereupon ordered
that the same be recorded as the last will and testament of
the said decedent. Martha Patteson, executrix named, by
writing under her hand duly attested, and William A. Pat-
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teson and Da\'id Patteson, executors named therein, per-
sonally, relinquished their right to qualify as such; which is
ordered to be entered of record; and on the motion of the
said William A. Patteson and David Patteson, who entered
into bond with security conditioned as the law directs, and
took the oath required, a certificate is granted them for
obtaining letters of administration, in due form with the
said wall annexed, to the said decedent. Teste Parke Poin-
dexter, C."
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AY 7th 1817: In pursuance to the annexed order
we the undersigned do hereby certify that we
have inventoried and appraised the estate of
James A. Patteson, dec'd, to the amount of ten thousand
five hundred and eighty-six dollars and thirty-five cents,
as shown by the "UTthin inventory" and statement. Given
under our hands, this day and date above WTitten. {Signed)
William Fisher, Jordon Smith, James Martin.
"In Chesterfield cminty court, 1817, Maij 12th: This In-
ventory and appraisement of the personal estate of James
A. Patteson, dec'd was returned, and ordered to be re-
corded. Teste Parke Poindexter, C."
Meanwhile, on 14 April 1817, William A. Patteson, Da\'id
Patteson, Colonel Thomas Branch, James W. Winfree and
Samuel Patteson had entered into bond for S20,000, as
securities for Wilham A. Patteson and David Patteson. the
executors.
jAifES A. Patteson, as has been said, married his cousin
Martha Patteson. She survived him by more than twenty
years: and her will, dated 2G January 1839, with codicil
added 3 February' 1839, and recorded in Chesterfield 11
March 1839, orders simply that her estate be di\'ided equally
among her children.
James A. Patteson and his wife, Martha Patteson, had
issue :
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I. William Anderson Patteson, bom 1795 of whom an
account is deferred.
II. David J. Patteson, boni 17 February 179S, died 1
October ISOl.
III. James Henry Patteson, bom 2G July 1800, who died
unmarried in 1832.
IV. Agnes :\I. Patteson, bom 1802, died in 1805.
V. Mary E. Patteson, bom 1804, died 1815.
VI. David Nelson Patteson, bom 180G, who married
his first cousin ^Nlar^^ Gilliam, and had issue: Gilliam Patteson;
Sarah Frances Patteson, who never married; Mar>' Pat-
teson, who married Beale; and Ptobert Patteson,
who died umnarried.
VII. Sa-Ml-el Austin Patteson, bom 1810, of whom an
account is deferred: compare page 182.
VIII. John J. Patteson, bom 1812, who died unmarried.
IX. Sarah Ann Patteson, bom 1814, who married Cap-
tain WilHam Weisiger; for their issue, compare page 185.
Willlam Anderson Patteson, the oldest child of James
A. Patteson, was bom 10 January 1795, and died 11 'May
1870 — although, curiously enough, his tombstone, at Holly-
wood Cemeterv', m Hichmond, Virginia, gives the date as 13
May 1871. The following appeared in the Richmond
Daily Enquirer, of 12 May 1870:
"^ I ^HIS CITY loses one of its most venerable as well as
I best citizens in the death of Dr. William A.
Patteson, who died yesterday morning. He was
a native of Chesterfield county, and was in his seventy-fifth
year at the time of his death, being bom 10 January' 1795.
He was a graduate of medicine of the celebrated College
of Philadelphia, of the class of 1815, and a pupil of Rush and
Physic and their distinguished colleagues. He took up the
practise of his profession in Manchester in 1817. Being
very popular in his county, he was elected a member of
the House of Delegates for several sessions, two of them being
the famous sessions of 18-31-2 and 1832-3, when such men
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as Gholsox, Drumgoole, Brodxax, John Thompson
Brown, Shell, Chapman Johnson and others figured in the
Legislature of Virginia. In this body he was universally
respected for his discretion and sound judgment.
-* "Dr. Patteson married, on 8 April 1819, Aliss Anne
. Obedience Tlrpin Harris, but lost his wife many years
ago. Mrs. Patteson was a daughter of the late Major John
Harris of "Norwood", in Powhatan county.
"Dr. Patteson came to reside in Richmond, in 1836, and
continued the active pursuit of his profession until within a
year or two, when his advanced age compelled him to with-
draw from practise, save for a limited extent.
"He held at one time the very high dignity of 'Grand
""■• Master of Masons of Virginia' and at his death was one of the
most esteemed of the ancient and honorable order to which
^*' he belonged.
"Professionally Dr. Patteson gave the highest proof of
skill and fidelity, in the trust and affection with which his
patients ever regarded him. He was a gentleman of the
old school, graceful in manner, uniformly polite and digni-
fied; observing the demeanor which never failed him to elicit
that politeness and deference toward himself which he
extended to others. The noble 'old school', so often referred
to, had no truer disciple; and there can be no fitter social
example for the young of these days than the virtues and
dignified courtesies of the men that belonged to it.
"But there were other traits of this venerable gentleman
which won for him the respect and love of the circle in which
he moved. He was one of the justest of men, as well as one
of the most ardent in his friendships and family affections.
"The manly, courteous and sage representatives of the
post-revolutionary era are rapidly passing away. It is
painful to behold how their numbers are reduced, and their
value increases as their ranks are thinned. Dr. Patteson
vacates his chair in the narrovving circle, and departs with the
regrets and benedictions of society. May he rest in peace!"
In the next issue of the same journal is recorded a meeting
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PATTESOX OF CHESTERFIELD 177
of the physicians of Richmond, at the City Hall, their elec-
tion of Dr. Dove as chairman, and Dr. Upshur as secretarj^
and their passage of the following resolutions of regret, as
drawTi up by Dr. Haxall:
"' I ^HE ]MEDICAL profession of Richmond is again
I called upon to record the death of one of its most
valued members, Dr. Wm. A. Pattesox, who for
more than fifty years added dignity and lustre to our calling,
and who now in the fullness of time has gone down to the
tomb. "We who survive him, and who vividly remember
his many \artues, desire now to pay our final tribute of re-
spect to his memor\^
"During his long professional career Dr. Pattesox gave
to this community, for whose welfare he faithfully labored, a
noble example of the truly useful and skillful Physician.
Patient in observation, bold in action, and lofty in integrity,
his character, rich in all the attributes which adorn humanity,
will be regarded -^ith pride by his associates, whose grief
at his loss is alleviated by the fact that he died an exemplar^'
Christian in full fellowship with the Church of which he has
been a member for two years. Therefore, —
"Resolved 1st, That we desire to testify our appreciation
of our departed friend, by attending his funeral in a body,
and by wearing the usual badge of mourning for thirty days.
"Resolved 2d, That the newspapers of the city be re-
quested to publish these proceedings in their respective
issues, and that the secretary of this meeting send a copy
of the same to the family of the deceased.
JNO. N. UPSHUR. :SL D., Secretary:'
WILLIAM ANDERSON PATTESON, as has
been recorded, married, on 8 April 1819, Aime
Obedience Turpin Harris, who died 30 August
1837. Various considerations combine to prevent a discus-
sion here of the Harris lineage; but, as has been said, she
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was a daughter of Major John Harris of "Norwood." Tlie
latter took part in the Revohition, being appointed ensign
of the First Virginia Regiment, 11 Fei^ruary 1781, and
second lieutenant in September 17S1: and was transferred,
9 November 1782, to Baylor's Consohdated Regiment of
Dragoons, wlierein he served till the close of the war.
Wilham Anderson Patteson and Anne Obedience Turpin
Harris had issue:
7. James Anderson Pattcso7i, horn 8 January 1820, ditd
2 April 1G05, u-ho married on 25 January 1846, Eliza
'^[ Randolph McCaio, born IG April 182.5, died 21 September
1 , 1909, aiid hod issue:
(1) WiUiam ]\IcCaw Patteson, bora 3 December 1S46,
.1 who died unmarried, 3 February' 1894.
(2) Anne Flarris Patteson, unmarried, born 12 ]\Iarch
1849.
. (3) James Anderson Patteson, bom 30 April 1851, died
26 February 1915, who married Ada Smith Beall, in 1851,
but had no issue.
(4) Henry Burr Patteson, bom 17 October 1853, died
24 October 1907, who married Adele Hognet, but had no
issue.
(5) Ehzabeth Leigh Patteson, bom 6 April 1855, who
died 24 January- 1857.
(6) Randolph Patteson, bom 21 December 1857, who
died 25 June 1866.
(7) Virginia Patteson, bom 8 Febman,' 1860, who
married Henr\' Clay x\dams, on 27 November 1901, but
has no issue.
(8) Marj- INIcCaw Patteson, bom 2 July 1862, who
married Andrew Jackson Fox, on 18 December 1890, and
had issue: Dorothy Fox, bom 20 April 1892; Wilham Patte-
son Fox, born 4 April 1894, ched 24 January- 1896; Andrew
Jackson Fox, bom 26 June 1898; Seymour Nelson Fox,
bom 15 December 1900; and Virginia ]Mar\' Fox, bom 1
May 1903.
(9) Francis Lister Hawkes Patteson, unmarried, bom
13 August 1808.
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(10) Eliza Randolph Patteson, born 25 August 1872,
who married Herbert Noble, on 5 Deecmber 1895, and has
issue: Herbert Xoble, born 5 February 1904; and Leston
Noble, born 22 December 1905.
II. Mary Louisa Patteson, born 1822, icho died in 1823.
III. Delia Ann Patteson, born 1824, died 1 June 1891,
loho mairied Dr. James Brown McCaw, (born 12 July 1823,
died 12 August 1906), and had issue:
(1) Anne Patteson McCaw, bom 22 February 184G,
died 17 ]\Iay 1882, who married Dr. James Dmilop Moncure,
and had issue: Gabrielle Brooke Moncure; James Dunlop
Moncure; and AVilliam Anderson Patteson Moncure.
(2) William Reid INIcCaw, bom 14 December 1847,
died 11 November 1888, who married Lavinia Ragland,
and had issue: James Brown ]McCaw, who married Alice
Moore, {and has issue: James Brown McCaw; and Alice
McCaw); Alarj- McCaw, who married Horace S. Hawes,
{and has issue: Mary McCaw Hawes; and Anne Sterling
Hawes); and Aime McCaw, who married Tazewell Taylor,
{and has issue: Tazewell Taylor; and Vt^illiam McCaw
Taylor).
(3) James Flenr}'^ IMcCaw, bom 2 August 1849, who died
unmarried in April 1887.
(4) Elizabeth McCaw, bom 9 October 1851, who
married Dr. Christopher Tompkins, and has issue: Delia
Patteson Tompkins; Ellen Wilkins Tompkins; James
McCaw Tompkins; Elizabeth Tompkins, who married
John B. Parrish, {and has issue: John B. Parrish); WilUam
Frazer Tompkins; and Alarj' Bedford Tompkins.
(5) Ellen TaHaferro ]McCaw, who married Charles
Davenport, and has issue: Isaac Davenport; Ellen McCaw
Davenport, who married Henrv' "Wiremond Cooke, {and
has issue: Eleanor Cooke; Henry Wiremond Cooke; and
Virginia Fennimore Cooke); and Delia Patteson Davenport,
who married Richard Carrington.
(6) Thomas Wilcox IMcCaw, bom 27 November 1855,
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who married Nina Pizzini, and had issue: Ethel McCaw,
who married Philip Tillinghast Post; :Mary McCaw; and
Dorothy jNIcCaw.
(7) David McCaw, bom 24 December 1857, who died
unmarried 6 Februarj- 1915.
(8) Walter Drew McCaw, umnarried, bom 10 February
1863.
(9) IMarj' McCaw, bom 18 August 1865, who married
Dabney Hemdon Maurj-, and has issue: Dabney Hemdon
Maury.
IV. John Harris Patteson, horn 1826, who died in 1830.
V. William Anderson Patteson, horn 1828, who likewise
died in hoyhood.
VL Martha Louise Patteson, horn 19 June 1831, died
23 April 1908, who married, on 3 December 1856, James
Read Branch, {born 28 July 1828, died 2 July 1869), and
had issue:
(1) Sarah Read Branch, bom 9 October 1857, who married
George Brockenb rough Ale Adams, on 6 November 1878, and
had issue: Thomas Branch McAdams, bom 12 November
1879, who m.arried Edna Karris :\IcLure, on 9 October
1906, {and had issue: Sarah Reade Mc Adams, born 20 July
1907, died 23 Jwie 1908; Edna Wiley Mc Adams, born 15
June 1909; and Louise Brockenbrough Mc Adams, born 27
September 1912); and Louise Brockenbrough McAdams,
bom 25 October 1885, who married, first, Robert Walter
Withers, on 19 January- 1909, {and had issue: Louise Withers,
horn 31 December 1909), and married, second, PhiUip St.
George Cooke, on 4 November 1914.
(2) Anne Harris Branch, bom 31 December 1859, ched
14 Febmarj- 1915, who married Dr. Robert Gamble Cabell,
on 14 November 1877, and had issue: James Branch Cabell,
bom 14 April 1879, who, as recorded on page 137, married
Priscilla Bradley, on 8 November 1913, {and has issue:
Ballard Hartwell Cabell, born 25 August 1915); Robert
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Gamble Cabell, bom 27 April ISSl, who married Maude
Campbell Morgan, on 2-4 Februar>' 1910; and John Lottier
Cabell, born 27 February 1883, who married Aima Elizabeth
Bell, on 23 April 1913.
(3) Ehzabeth Halsted Branch, bom 4 July 1861, who
married AValter Russell Bowie, on 16 November 1881, and
had issue: Walter Russell Bowie, born 8 October 1882, who
married Jean Laverack, on 29 September 1909, (and has
issue: Jean Laverack Bowie, born 22 November 1910; and
Beverley Munford Boirie, born 5 December 191-4); and Martha
Louise Patteson Bowie, bom 29 July 1884, who married
Melville Campbell Branch, on 29 March 1910, {and has
issue: Mary Bobbott Branch, born 3 January 1911; Melville
Campbell Branch, born 16 February 1913; and Thomas
Branch, born 26 July 1915).
(4) James Ransom Branch, bom 14 December 1863,
who married ]\Iar\' Lilian Hubball, on 28 October 1885,
and had issue: James Robinson Branch, bom 23 July 1886,
died 7 November 1905; 'Ma.T}- Cooke Branch, bom 21
December 1887, who married Thomas Burton Snead, on
19 April 1911; and Allen Talbot Branch, bom 20 Febmary
1890, died 1 July 1890.
(5) ]Mar>' Cooke Branch, bom 10 September 1806, who
married Beverley Bland ]Munford, on 22 November 1893,
uid had issue: Mary Safford Munford, bom 22 November
1895; and Beverley Bland Munford, bom 26 February 1899.
VII. Thomas Adkins Patteson, born 25 February 1834,
died 26 July 1903, who married, on 23 February 1800, Georgina
McCaw, {born 31 July 1837, died 6 October 1909), and had
issue:
(1) Edward Rollins Patteson, bom 19 April 1862, who
died 2 November 1907.
(2) Thomas Adkins Patteson, uimiarried, bom 11 Octo-
ber 1863.
(3) Carohne Cecilia Patteson, bom 9 July 1866, who died
26 July 1871.
(4) Herbert Logan Patteson.
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(5) Malcolm Douglas Pattrson, who married Clara
M. Judson.
(6) Georgina McCaw Patteson.
(7) A son, who died in infancy.
(8) Robert Rickarby Patteson, who died unmarried,
13 April 1908.
(9) Ethel Patteson, who married, on 5 February' 1910,
Gustave Quintard Schaumami.
(10) William Anderson Patteson, who died in boyhood.
SAMUEL AUSTIN PATTESON, the fifth son and
seventh child of James A. Patteson, (compare page
175), was bom 1-4 April ISIO, and died 20 September
1860. The Richmond Daily Enquirer, for 22 September
1860, contained the following:
IT IS our sad duty to record the death of Dr. Samuel
A. Patteson of Chesterfield. He died at his residence
in Manchester on Thursday evening at 7:10 o'clock.
The deceased bore, through a long professional career, a
most en\aable reputation as a physician, wliile, as a man, no
one enjoyed to a higher degree the confidence of the com-
munity in which he lived. Dr. Patteson was possessed of
very fine talents, highly cultivated, most courteous maimers,
the nicest sense of honor, and a warm heart ever ready to
reheve the wants or palliate the sufferings of all who ap-
pealed to his aid. He was devoted to his family, a fast
friend, and a most useful citizen. His profession has lost an
ornament, his community a liberal contributor to its general
weal, and his family a member whose exalted domestic
virtues were conspicuous among many noble qualities
belonging to a character illustrated by extraordinary- features
of rigor, excellence and worth. Peace to his ashes!"
Samuel Austin Patteson married, first, Mary Harris,
another daughter of Major John Harris of '"Nonvood"
(compare page 178); but by this marriage there were no
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children. He married, second, in Juno IS-iG, HxT^atia Harris
McE.ae, daughter of Cohn McRae, and had issue:
/. Mary Patteson, horn 1 May 1S47, who married Benjamin
Boisseau Weisigcr, on 22 December 1SG9, and had issue:
(1) Ernest Patteson Weisiger, born 21 October 1870, who
married Annie Belle Parker, on 9 April 1895, and has issue:
Benjamin Boisseau Weisiger, bom 11 Februarj" 1896; John
Parker Weisiger, born 9 September 1897; and Ernest Patte-
son Weisiger, born 8 July 1900.
(2) Gertrude Weisiger, bom 7 November 1872, who
married Everett Eugene Early, on 3 October 1907, and has
issue: Benjamin Weisiger Early, bom 25 ]March 1909; and
Marj' Patteson Early, born 5 May 1913.
(3) Ellen Boisseau Weisiger, bom 17 August 1875.
(4) Florence Page Weisiger, born 21 January- 1878, who
died 22 Febmar\' 1885.
(5) MclV}' Patteson Weisigcr, born 21 April 1880.
(6) Wilbur Kent Vv'eisiger, bom 13 November 1882.
(7) Marguerite Weisiger, bom 14 March 1887.
(8) Louisa Page Weisiger, born 22 October 1892.
II. James Henry Patteson, born 2 May 1849, ivho married
Mary Franklin Williamson, on 22 February 1876, and had
issue :
(1) Samuel Austin Patteson, unmarried, bom 17 January
1877.
(2) Matilda :^IcCaw Patteson, born 10 July 1878, who
married Herbert Spencer, on 4 September 1907, and has
issue: Flerbert Spencer, bom 4 AugTist 1910.
(3) Wilson Pickrell Patteson, bom 4 December 1879,
who married Cornelia Owen, on 3 January' 1907, and has
issue: Moncure Perkins Patteson, bom 3 December 1907;
Lucia Broadnax Patteson, bom 20 Febmarj' 1910; Wilson
Pickrell Patteson, bom 22 July 1912; and Harr>- Owen
Patteson, bom 4 ^Larch 1915.
(4) James Henrj- Patteson, born 13 November 1881, who
married Marj- Richmond Wiley, on 19 January' 1910, and
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had issue: a son, bom 22 Februan^ 1911, who died 1 jNIarch
1911; James Henr>- Pattcson, born 2S October 1912; John
Garrett Pattcson, bom 17 February 1914; and Garland "Wiley
Patteson, bom 5 ^March 1915.
(5) John Garrett Patteson, bom 28 November 1883,
who died 25 August 1899.
(6) ^Iar>' Williamson Patteson, bom 9 August 1887, who
married H. Watkins EUerson, on 16 April 1912, and has
issue: ]Mar>' Patteson Ellerson, bom 11 February- 1914; and
Ida Roy Ellerson, bom 11 September 1915.
(7) George Pickrell Patteson, uimiarried, bom 23
March 1894.
III. Ruth Patteson, horn 24 June 1851, who married
William Hallett Ahorn, on 12 October 1878, and has issue:
(1) Samuel Patteson Abom, bom 4 July 1883, who
married Laura Marshall, on 8 November 1910.
(2) Katherine Page Abom, bom 31 January- 1886.
(3) William Henr>- Abom, bom 29 November 1887.
(4) Ruth Hallett Abom, bom 24 Febmar>' 1892.
IV. Martha Rebecca Patteson, horn in 1853, who died in
infancy.
V. Martha Rebecca Patteson, unmarried, horn 30 May
1855.
VI. Anne Harris Patteson, born 11 September 1857, who
married Thomas Maurice Miller, on 21 Se'ptember 1887, and
has issue:
(1) Gay Langhome Miller, bom 15 August 1888, who
married Richard Fox Reid, on 21 May 1912.
(2) John IMaurice Miller, unmarried, bora 1 May 1891.
(3) WiUis Dance Miller, unmarried, bom 31 January
1893.
(4) Thomas Royall Miller, bom 5 July 1897.
VII. Sarah Gay Patteson, unmarried, born 14 January
1860.
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SARAH ANN PATTESON, born 1814, the youngest
daughter if James A. Patteson, (compare page 175),
married Captain William Weisiger. It has proven
impossible to trace her descendants satisfactorily, but she
had issue:
I. James Henry Weisiger, who married Pauhna Hatcher,
and died in INIemphis, Tennessee, in 1871, ha\'ing had, ^\'ith
other issue: Benjamin Weisiger; and Peter Hatcher Weisiger.
II. WiLLUM Weiseger, whose descendants, if any exist,
are unascertained.
III. Samuel Patteson Weisiger, who married Mary
Belle Hatcher, and died in Augusta, Georgia, in 1894, having
had issue: Bernard Weisiger; Stanley Weisiger, Clare
Weisiger; and Helen Weisiger.
IV. Martha W^eisiger, who died in infancy.
V. Agnes Weisiger, who died in infancy.
VI. David Jordan Weisiger, who married Elizabeth
Owen, and had issue: Graham Patteson Weisiger; and
EUzabeth W^eisiger, who married Lair.
VII. Irvin Weisiger, who married Kate Wyatt, and
had issue: Garrett Weisiger; and Margaret Weisiger.
VIII. Addison Weisiger, who married Anne Pencil,
and had issue: Sarah Patteson Weisiger, who married Dr.
Merritt W. Healy; Anne Wilde Weisiger; John Weisiger; and
Addison Weisiger.
IX. Bernard Weisiger, who died unmarried, 20 Decem-
ber 1869.
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NOTE AS TO THE DESCENDANTS OF RICHARD
WADDILL OF AMHERST
RICHARD WADDILL, the third son of Edmund
Waddill, Senior, as has been said, (compare pages
147 and 153) removed from Charles City to Amherst
county, where he died 24 September 1864. Richard Waddill
married, on 1 'May 1849, Martha Isabella Jordon (bom 2
January- 1830, died 20 November 1914), and had issue:
/. Rebecca Roads Waddill, horn 9 March 1851, who
married Cuhus Whitehead, on 2 August 1871, and had issue:
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Virginia Isabella Whitehead, born 9 ^vlay 1872.
Henr}' Amie Whitehead, born 11 March 1874.
Laura Estelle Whitehead, born 30 April 1876.
Wade Hampton Whitehead, bom 23 January' 1879.
Fleming Bartholomew Whitehead, bom 30 August
Julia O'Neill AMiitehead, bom 3 IVIay 1884.
Seth Landon Whitehead, born 22 October 1886.
Littleberr}' Waddill Whitehead, bom 31 May 1889.
Littie :May Whitehead, bom 12 May 1893, died 16
October 1905.
(10) John Cary WTiitehead, bora 22 June 1896.
//. Margaret Virginia Waddill, born 21 September 1852,
who married Sefus Whitehead, on 5 March 1874, and has
issue:
(1) Thomas Hilton WTiitehead, bom 28 November 1878.
(2) Robert Whitehead, born 28 Febraar>- 1885.
(3) Ford ^Tiitehead, bom 8 May 1888.
(4) Jennie Wren Whitehead, bom 23 June 1893.
III. Thomas Jordon Waddill, born 12 July 1854, who
married Sallie Belle Tucker, on IS February 1880, and had
issue:
(1) Ethel Louise Waddill, bom 31 December 1880, who
married Rudolph Hatley Wright, on 20 September 1905.
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(2) Richard William Waddill, born 3 July 1882, who died
3 September 1907.
(3) Carrie Isabella Waddill, bom 27 November 1883,
who married Raymond Dillard, on 22 October 1907, and
has issue: Richard Waddill Dillard, bom 17 July 1909;
Frances Isabella Dillard, born 1 September 1912; and Mixry
Louise Dillard, born 20 March 1915.
(4) ISIary Lillian Waddill, born 24 December 1885, who
married Woodford Beverly Henley, on 16 March 1910.
(5) Charles Thomas Waddill, bom 6 May 18SS.
77. Charles Cundiff Waddill, born 24 April 1856, who
viarried Willie Anne Harvey, on 4 January 1SS2, and has
issue :
(1) Vera Otelia Waddill, bora 5 March 1887, who
married William Nelson Hill, on 6 May 1908, and has
issue: Frank Cecil Hill, bom 10 February 1909.
(2) Wilham Tribble Waddill, bom 20 November 1888.
(3) Claudie Pearl Waddill, born 24 June 1892, who
married Benjamin Hill, on 23 July 1914.
(4) Murrell Goldman Waddill, born 31 May 1898.
V. Mary Susan Waddill, born 19 September 1859, who
died unmarried 21 October 1895.
VI. William Edmund Waddill, born 14 December 1861,
who married Ora Harvey, on 11 November 1891, and has
is^ue:
(1) Leshe Hopewell Waddill, bom 4 ]May 1893.
(2) ^liorton Enzell Waddill, bom 28 August 1895.
(3) Ora Isabel Waddill, bom 20 October 1900.
VII. Agnes Hatcher Waddill, born 1 January 1863, who
married John Hyram Quinn, on 31 August 1886, and has
issue :
(1) Sarah Isabella Quinn, bom 21 June 1887, who
married James Mundy Dillard, on 22 October 1912, and
has issue: John Hyram Quinn, bom 17 August 1914.
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(2) Margaret Virginia Quinn, bom 28 October 1SS9,
who married Thomas Edward Marshall, on 21 October 1914,
and has issue: Thomas Edward Marshall, bora 7 September
1915.
(3) Samuel Waddill Quinn, bom 18 May 1891.
(4) Gordon Worthington Quinn, bom 15 March 1894.
(5) Frank Stringfellow Quinn, bom 12 May 1896.
(6) Agnes Louise Quinn, bom 2 August 1S9S.
(7) James Hyram Quirm, bom 31 March 1903.
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