Dukes of Virginia, a Reassessment by Lynn Teague
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Margaret Hazelwood, daughter of Abraham Hazelwood, was the first wife of Joseph Duke of Orangeburg County SC.
In Southampton Co VA Richard Hazlewood's estate was inventoried and appraised by John Clayton, Mathew Harris, and William Boykin.1 Matthew Harris was son of Robert Harris and grandson of Thomas Harris Sr. of Isle of Wight Co Va. Thomas Harris was originally granted land on Pagan Point in 1633.2 In 1748 Robert Harris lived near Meadow Branch on the south side of the main Blackwater swamp near William Kinchen (William Kinchen I's daughter Patience married Ethelred Taylor II, son of E. Taylor I and Elizabeth Duke Taylor) and John Jackson (VPB 26 p579-581).
The John Clayton who participated in the Richard Hazelwood inventory is known as John Clayton of Isle of Wight Co, to distinguish him from several Virginia contemporaries of the same name. In 1756 John Clayton purchased land on Meadow Branch:
Southampton Co Deed Book 2, Pages 86-88: John and William Jackson to John Clayton, joiner, dated 8 Jan 1756, 145 acres on the north side of the main Blackwater Swamp adj. The east side of Meadow Branch and William Kinchen (land taken up by John Jackson), S: John (I) Jackson and William (I) Jackson, W: Richard (signed) Kello, Thomas (signed) Williamson, and Richard (signed) Baker
The names of Richard Hazelwood's sons suggest the Middlesex Co. Hazelwood family. Elizabeth Warwick was the stepmother of the children of Thomas Hazelwood, who died in 1727. His wife Jane May remarried to George Goodwin. Upon her death, Goodwin married Elizabeth Warwick.
Also, George Fearn married Mary Hazelwood, daughter of Thomas Hazelwood, in 1747. By 1753 George had remarried to a Segar, and in 1770 his last marriage was to Catherine Drew. At some point after 1757 he moved to Isle of Wight Co. VA (see early discussion of Thomas Hazelwood). However, his family had long had land there. In Isle of Wight county George Fern was associated with Matthew, Thomas, and John Fearn, who may have been sons, some of them presumably with Mary Hazelwood, although the Christ Church Parish records do not show children born to George Fearn.
In 1763 George Fearn witnessed the will of Josiah John Holliman of Isle of Wight Co., accompanied by his son Matthew, William Urquhart, and Herbert Hanes.3 The will indicates that Holliman's daughter Mary had married John Clayton, who was one of those who inventoried the estate of Richard Hazelwood in 1760. Thomas Williamson was another son-in-law of Holliman. In 1792 Hartwell Cocke left "bottles" to William Urquhart, to Thomas Fearn and John Fearn, among others. Executors were brother Robert Cocke, Col. Richard Cocke, Sr., Col. Samuel Kello, and friend William Urquhart. Thomas Fearn and John Fearn were witnesses.4
George Fearn's will showed the following:
George Fearn found in:
Genealogical Records: Virginia Land, Marriage, and Probate Records, 1639-1850
Date: Feb 10, 1781
Location: Isle Of Wight., VA
Record ID: 24191
Description: Testator
Prove Date: Jul 5, 1781
Book Page: 9-76
Remarks: George Fearn. Leg.-wife Catherine; daughter Nancy Wills; granddaughter Catherine Willis; granddaughter Sally Wills; daughter Catherine Fearn. Ex., son John Fearn.
John Fearn, son of George, was involved in an estate with the Harris and Boykin families, also among those assessing the estate of Richard Hazelwood:
John Fearn found in:
Genealogical Records: Virginia Land, Marriage, and Probate Records, 1639-1850
Location: Isle Of Wight., VA
Record ID: 24497
Description: Mentioned
Prove Date: Jul 3, 1788
Book Page: 10-109
Remarks: John Harris. Account estate, examined by Daniel Herring, Drury Andrews, John Fearn, James Johnson. Signed, Lewis Harris.
And,
Location: Isle Of Wight., VA
Record ID: 24434
Description: Appraiser
Prove Date: Dec 7, 1786
Book Page: 10-36
Remarks: Isaac Moody. Appraised by John Fearn, Francis Boykin, William Downing.
It seems very likely that Richard Hazelwood of Southampton Co was the son of Thomas Hazelwood of Middlesex Co VA. Richard Hazelwood was living with, or very near, John Fearn, son of George Fearn and Mary Hazelwood, at the time of his death.
As early as 1753 George Hazelwood was in Granville Co, NC, on the tax list of Robert Harris. Hazelwood was adjacent Daniel Harris. Daniel Harris was the son of Edward Harris and Mary Turner, and grandson of Thomas Harris Sr. of Isle of Wight Co VA. He was therefore first cousin of the Matthew Harris who in 1760 was to inventory the estate of George Hazelwood's father, Richard Hazelwood, in Southampton Co VA. Robert Harris, who took the list, was Daniel's uncle, and the brother of Matthew Harris.
George, Randolph, and Thomas Hazelwood were listed as taxpayers in Bute County, NC, in 1771.5 All have been identified as sons of Richard Hazelwood. The children of Richard Hazelwood included Thomas (born 1740), Warwick (born 1742), Randolph (born 1744), and George (born 1746). (These dates are obviously wrong, given that George was on the tax list in 1753.)
Warwick and Randolph Hazelwood are listed in the 1790 federal census of Warren County, NC, on page 77. Brother George Hazelwood had died. His will was signed 20 Mar 1788 and probated May 1788. It identifies his principal property as a plantation on Fishing Creek.6 He names his wife Mary Haselwood and children Nancy Moss, Elizabeth Moss, Hally Felts, Mary Felts, Rebecca Haselwood, David Haselwood, and Joshua Haselwood. He names brothers Warwick and and Randolph Haselwood executors. Witnesses were Starling Harwell, Isaac James, and Frederick Cyrus. Wills were probated in North Carolina for George Hazelwood of Warren County (1820, WB-5/15), Randolph Hazelwood of Warren County and Worwick Hazelwood of Franklin (Bute) County (1879, WB-U/188).7 Note that the names David and Joshua Hazelwood are the names of the Haselwoods on the contemporaneous tax lists of Hanover County, VA.
Joseph Duke and John Duke were security for Randolph Hasellwood's 25 August 1760 grant of 640 acres on Fishing Creek, Granville County, NC.8 This Joseph Duke was a son of William Duke. William Duke and his sons moved to NC from Brunswick County, VA, about 1744.9 William's son Samuel Duke petitioned for land in Craven County, NC, on behalf of four persons on 10 Nov. 1743.10 William Duke and William Duke Jr. petitioned for land in Edgecombe County, NC, on 8 Apr 1745.11 Their grants were in the portion of Edgecombe that ultimately became Granville (later Warren) County. Joseph Duke, presumed to be William's son Joseph, petitioned for land in New Hanover County on 18 June 1746.12 He too was eventually in Granville (later Warren) County, NC.
The John Duke who was a sponsor for the Hasellwood grant is less clear. John Duke, son of William Duke and brother of Joseph, has been said to have been dead by 1755 and his son was too young to be a legal participant in a grant. John Duke of the Isle of Wight County, VA, family is said to have moved to North Carolina somewhat later, after 1762. This may be the John Duke of Dobbs Co NC.
William Byrd, whose sister Mary married Capt. Henry Duke's brother James, surveyed the VA-NC boundary in 1728, mentioning Miles Riley (found with Joseph Dukes and Freeman Snellgrove in Orangeburg, above) as the overseer of a plantation of Robert Munford. Riley joined the Byrd survey party for a time.13 The plantation visited by Byrd during his survey was one of Munford's plantations, described as immediately beyond their ford on the Roanoke, where the Trading Path passed through the Roanoke River. This places the location in southernmost Greensville Co VA:
Munford principally lived there on Sapponi Creek, not far from Capt. Henry Duke and his wife Elizabeth Taylor Duke, who lived near the Prince George-Surry County boundary.
That the South Carolina individual named Miles Riley was from this Virginia group is supported by the family associations in old Orangeburgh District SC: the Barker, Kirkland, Jackson and Myrick families.
From the Allendale Co SC genealogical site:
Miles Riley b c1729 married Elizabeth b c1729. (Andrea record #196) Elizabeth Riley wife of Miles Riley was one of sponsors at baptism of Elizabeth dau. of Thomas & Elizabeth Barker on 10 May 1750 together with John Russell & Mary Campbell. Miles Jackson Riley & Miles Riley Calhoun & just plain Miles Jackson are all found in Barnwell after 1800, also a Miles Riley Faust.
Miles Riley born c1784 married Winifred Kirkland.
George Owen Riley 8 May 1808 - 16 August 1841, born at "Fiddle Pond Plantation." Married first Amanda Hogg, second Mary A____ Sheriff 1837-1841, died in office.
Owen Riley estate probated by Miles A. Riley 6/9/1830 Barnwell Probate Package 12 Case 53. 22 Nov. 1830, 3 heirs, nothing useful in this one.
James Wilson Riley born c<1822 married Emily Cleveland Myrick
George Owen Riley 3 March 1843 - 5 June 1902, married Martha Melinda Roberts 1865, farmer at Sycamore. (The County Offices and Officers of Barnwell County, SC 1775-1975, Reynolds & Fuant, The Reprint Company, 1976 p24).
Thomas Riley married a sister of Mary Jenkins Connell.
On 4 Apr 1743 a Miles Railey was christened, the son of Peter and Anne Railey, in Albemarle Parish, Sussex County, VA. This may be a relative of Miles Riley, overseer for Robert Mumford and father of the friend of Joseph Duke of South Carolina.
The Myricks originated at Lawnes Creek, in the Surry and Isle of Wight Co VA dividing line area. ON 6 Jan 1786 Owen Myrick's will wa witnessed by Arthur Applewhite and William Newsum (Southampton Bk. IV: 176).
They were early settlers in Brunswick Co, having land grants from 1717 there. The Myricks were in Brunswick Co VA by 1733 (Order Book No. 1, p. 42. Brunswick Co. VA.) Mary Myrick, daughter of Francis Myrick Sr. and Rebecca Raines (daughter of William Raines, who was associated with James Duke in Surry Co VA) married first John Duke son of William Duke of Bute Co NC, and second Matthew Edwards (EDB 1979: 431). Owen Myrick, son of John Myrick Sr., married Fanny Nicholson, daughter of Joshua Nicholson of Southampton Co VA. Moses Duke of Richland married Mary Faust and his brother, Aaron, married Mary's sister, Peggy (Richland County, SC Probate, Box 9, Package 224, John Faust). That Moses Duke was the son of Robert Duke of Fairfield Co SC. (James D. Evans. 1932. Nicholson Family of Virginia . William and Mary College Quarterly Historical Magazine, 2nd. Ser., Vol. 12, No. 1. (Jan., 1932), pp. 49-66.
Freeman Snellgrove was one
of many Virginians who left that increasingly crowded colony for land grants
in the Carolinas in the early 1730's. On June 10, 1736, a plat for 200 acres
of land and a town lot in Amelia (modem St. Matthews) were recorded for Freeman
Snellgrove.14 The grant is dated September 16,
1738. The property is described as follows: "200 acres, adjoining Miles Jackson
and vacant land on three sides; also Town Lot # 99 adjoining lots of William
Loe, Isaac Winningham, a vacant lot, and fronting on "A" street."15
On 26 Apr 1740 Rev. Giessendanner baptized Edward Freeman Snellgrove, son
of Freeman Snellgrove and his wife. Sponsors were Peter Horger, Johannes
Wettstein and Anna Wettstein.16 Rev. Giessendanner
does not name the mother of Edward Freeman Snellgrove, and there is no record
of an early Orangeburgh District marriage for Freeman Snellgrove.
On Thursday 31 Dec 1741 Freeman Snellgrove was a sponsor, with W. Cammel and Mrs. Cammel, at the baptism of William Weekly, child of Thomas Weekly and his wife.17
On Sunday, 8 Apr 1749/50, Freeman Snellgrove was a baptismal sponsor for William, son of William and Martha Evans. Giessendanner in his record makes the remark that the other sponsors were the parents "as no others could be got."18
Snellgrove remarried while in Orangeburgh, to a local widow: 19 "[1751] On Thursday September 26th In Orangb. Church By Banns, Freeman Snellgrove of Amelia Township to Ann Jenkins, widow, being present: Miles Riley, John Fairy, Joseph Duke."
Other children of Freeman Snellgrove,
besides Edward Freeman Snellgrove, include Nancy Snellgrove.
W. Henry Snellgrove, and John Snellgrove.
Freeman Snellgrove was the son of Henry Snellgrove and a Miss Freeman from Surry County, VA. Colonial records provide more information on these origins, showing that Henry Snellgrove, son of John Snellgrove of Everett, Dorset, England, was apprenticed to John Bright on 28 June 1684.20 Henry Snellgrove was among twenty-five indentured servants to come over on the ship Booth, commanded by Capt. Peter Pagan (who gave his name to the Pagan River in Virginia) in 1684. Henry's Indenture number was "D, 615." Henry was 21; he signed his name with an "x". Abraham Harrison witnessed the indenture, and Abraham Bayly notarized it.
In 1701 John Poythress Sr. of Deep Bottom was credited with transporting Henry Snellgrove to Virginia: "Grant to John Poythress Sr. of Deep Bottom, 350 acres lying on the north side of the Nottoway River, for the transportation of seven persons; John Lee; Robt. Boreman, Humphry Hix, Henry Snelgrove, Mary Drin, U. Standback, Wm. Lambud. 24, Oct 1701."21 In the 1600's it was common for several merchants or planters to claim land from the crown for transportation to Virginia of a single individual. In those pre-computer days, it was apparently difficult to verify that no previous grant had been given for the same immigrant. It is even possible that Poythress obtained Snellgrove's indenture legitimately, buying it from John Bright.
It is said that Henry Snellgrove was married to Miss Freeman by 1693.22 Given the time period, the Miss Freeman who married Henry Snellgrove must have been a daughter of John Freeman, who established the Freeman family in Surry Co VA.23 This John Freeman is believed to be the son of James and Mary Freeman, and the grandson of Lt. Col. Bridges Freeman and Bridget Fowler of New Kent Co VA. John Freeman obtained many early land grants along both sides of the Nottoway River in Surry Co (later Sussex Co), beginning in 1701.24
We know essentially nothing
of Henry Snellgrove's life in Surry Co VA. His name does not appear in land
grants, and it is likely that he lived on some of the extensive Freeman family
lands. He does not seem to have been active in public affairs. There is one
interesting appearance of the Snellgrove name in public records, however.
The Bristol Parish Vestry Book shows the following reference to a William
Snellgrove:25"It is ordrd That William Snelgrove
Son of Jane Matts wife of Wm. Matts Indian the s'd Snelgrove be bound unto
Robt Lyon to serve sixteen years from the date of the Indenture which is
Nov. 7th, 1722." From this reference, it seems likely that Henry Snellgrove
had an illegitimate son, and that Freeman had an illegitimate half-brother.
William Snellgrove remained in Virginia. In 1748, 1749, and 1741 he was listed
as a titheable individual in what is now Prince Edward County, VA.
Henry Snellgrove died by early 1720. The inventory of the goods and chattels of Henry Snelgrove was taken and appraised by Christopher Tatum, Peter Tatum and Frances Maybury [Mabrey]. John Doby was Administrator. The inventory was recorded on Feb 24, 1720 in Surrey County Virginia, Deeds and Wills, 1715-1730, Book 7, p 328: 26
Some old iron and wedges 6.00
Three cows and three yearlings 4.00.00
One old gun 10.00
2 Pair of wool cards 2.6
Two old iron pots with hooks,
frying pan and bell. 3.6
Some old wooden ware 9.6
Two old beds with ragged rugs,
one bedstead 10.
One small parcel Tobacco in a barrel 5.
Four sows and ten pigs ?.?
One old mare, one old saddle,
horse collar and harness ?.?
John Doby Admin. 8:9:0
Sworn and attested before
Howell Edmundson and signed
The individuals who administered and inventoried his estate indicate that Snellgrove, like the John Freeman family, lived between the Blackwater and Nottoway rivers in the portion of Surry Co that became Sussex Co, VA. John Doby, administrator of the Henry Snellgrove estate, gave his name to a stream that lies near the boundary between Prince George and Sussex counties, near Pigeon Swamp in Sussex Co. In 1709 he obtained from Benjamin Harrison 100 acres on Jones Hole Swamp on the Nottoway River (Surry Co Deeds, Wills, etc. Book 5, page 77).27
Residents of Albemarle Parish included Christopher Tatum, 40 years clerk of Nottoway Church, who died in 1750 of small-pox, and John Stokes, who also died of smallpox in 1750.28 John and William Mason, husband of Elizabeth Duke, were witnesses to the will of Christopher Tatum (Sussex Co. VA Will Book B, p. 218). Edward Tatum purchased land on Josephs Swamp in 1709 (Surry County Deeds, Wills, etc., #6, p. 2).
Freeman Snellgrove would have been a minor at his father's 1720 death. It is likely that he thereafter stayed with his Surry Co Freeman relatives. John Freeman Sr., is estimated to have died in about 1725. His sons who survived him, and with whom Freeman Snellgrove might have lived for a time, include the following:
Henry Freeman (will filed 17 Dec 1753 in both Lunenburg and Sussex counties) lived on the north side of the Nottoway River in Sussex with his wife Prudence Jones, daughter of Arthur Jones.
Arthur Freeman (1706-1753) also lived on the north side of the Nottoway River, and had sons Hamlin (m. Lucy Hancock), Elizabeth, Thomas, James, and Joel (d. 1758, m. Martha (Patty) Richardson, daughter of William Richardson). His Sussex Co VA will was dated 16 Apr 1753.
John Freeman Jr. later owned land in Greensville Co VA, acquiring it in grants the same day that John Duke and John Taylor Duke, sons of Capt. Henry Duke of Prince George County, VA, obtained adjacent land.
The Freeman family of Surry County were well-acquainted with the family of Capt. Henry Duke, who lived along the Prince George-Surry County line. Capt. Henry Duke died in about 1720, and his second wife, Elizabeth Taylor Duke, joined with her sisters to sell land on Pigeon Swamp left to them by their father, Capt. John Taylor. John Freeman served as witness to these transactions:29
p. 123 (p.493) 17 Dec 1723...John Hardyman and wife Henrietta Maria Hardyman, Francis Hardyman and wife Sarah Hardyman, Elizabeth Duke and Frances Greenhill to Nicholas Partridge . . . 262 acres on east side of Pidgeon Swamp and bounded by the Underground Branch and Richard Bland, decd. Wit: John Mason, John (X) Freeman and William (X) Raynes Per "Surry County, Virginia Records 1652-1684" by Eliza Timberlake Davis.
p. 125-126 (p.529) 17 Dec 1723...John Hardyman and wife Henritta Maria Hardyman, Francis Hardyman and wife Sarah Hardyman, Elizabeth Duke and Frances Greenhill to John Mason...223 acres on east side of Pidgeon Swamp and bounded by Cattail Branch and Richard Bland, decd. Wit: Nicholas Partridge, John (X) Freeman, Jr. and William (X) Rayne Rec: 18 Dec 1723 and 15 Apr 1724 Per "Surry County, Virginia Records 1652-1684" by Eliza Timberlake Davis
p. 126 (p.532) 17 Dec 1723...John Hardyman and wife Henrietta Maria Hardyman, Francis Hardyman and wife Sarah Hardyman, Elizabeth Duke and Frances Greenhill to Nicholas Partridge...262 acres on east side of Pigeon Swamp and bounded by Underground Branch and Richard Bland, decd. Wit: John Mason, John (X) Freeman, Jr. and William (X) Rayne Rec: 18 Dec 1723 and 15 Apr 1724 Per "Surry County, Virginia Records 1652-1684" by Eliza Timberlake Davis
The location of the Capt. John Taylor and Capt. Henry Duke family property on Pigeon Swamp is very near Doby Creek, named for John Doby, administrator of Henry Snellgrove's estate. These connections make it virtually certain that Henry Snellgrove was well acquainted with the family of Capt. Henry Duke.
Another Pigeon Creek landowner is of interest. Thomas Goodman Duke was one of the earliest Duke family members in South Carolina, and possibly (although by no means certainly) the father or brother of Joseph Dukes of Orangeburgh. A Thomas Goodman, possible source of the name Thomas Goodman Duke in South Carolina, is found in the records of Surry Co. VA. The estate of Thomas Goodman's wife Elizabeth was inventoried 20 Dec 1748 by Peter Warren, John Watkins, and John Colleck (Surry Co VA Wills and Administrations Book 9, p. 596).30 Land records place the home of the Goodman family near Pigeon Creek, where Elizabeth Taylor Duke inherited land from her father John Taylor.31
John Poythress, who had claimed land rights for importing Henry Snellgrove to Virginia, also provides evidence of connections between the Snellgroves and the family of Capt. Henry Duke. John Poythress was among the three individuals who appraised and inventoried the estate of Capt. Henry Duke in Prince George Co. VA, along with John Hatch and Gilbert Hay, on 22 Jan 1718/19 (Prince George Co VA Wills, Deeds, etc. 1713-1728, pgs. 336-337).32 John Poythress was both attorney and social acquaintance to Elizabeth Taylor Duke. On 19 Sep 1720 Col. William Byrd recorded in his diary that he dined at his home, Westover, with Mrs. Duke and her attorney, Mr. Poythress, along with his "brother and sister Duke,"James Duke and his wife, Mary Byrd Duke.33
Christopher Tatum, who assisted in the inventory of the Henry Snellgrove estate, remained in Surry Co until his death in about 1751. However his grandson, also Christopher Tatum, was in Orangeburgh County SC. by the time of the 1790 federal census. The family acquired land near Branchville.
John Freeman's grandson Josiah (1715-1774), son of Henry Freeman, married Phoebe Stokes, daughter of Silvanus Stokes and Cecilia Walker. Members of this same Stokes family later established the Stokes family below Branchville, SC.34
The list could go on at considerable length, as the net is thrown wider. The records of Virginia south of the James River are fertile ground for research by many Orangeburgh families.
Footnotes
1Southampton County VA Will Book I. Page 356.
2Isle of Wight Co VA Records. William and Mary Historical Quarterly Magazine Vol. 7:4 (Apr 1899). Page 282.
3Southampton County VA Will Book II. Page 136.
4Southampton County VA Will Book IV, Page 551.
5Ratcliff, Clarence E. 1984. North Carolina Taxpayers, 1701-1786. Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Company.
6Book 5, page 15. Warren Count, NC, Wills.; Item 31. Hazelwood File. Leonard Andrea Collection. South Caroliniana Library, University of South Carolina, Columbia.
7Mitchell, Thornton W. North Carolina Wills: A Testator Index, 1665-1900. Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Company.
8Hofmann, Margaret M. 1987. The Granville District of North Carolina 1748-1763 Abstracts of Land Grants. Vol. Two. Page 35.
Granville County, NC, Patent Book 11, page 375.
9Brandenberger, Evelyn Duke. 1979. The Duke Family. Houston: EBD. Page 155.
10Cain, Robert J. ed. 1988. Records of the Executive Council 1735-1754. The Colonial Records of North Carolina [Second Series]. Vol. VIII. Raleigh: Department of Cultural Resources. Pages 145-146.
11Cain, Robert J. ed. 1988. Records of the Executive Council 1735-1754. The Colonial Records of North Carolina [Second Series]. Vol. VIII. Raleigh: Department of Cultural Resources. Page 189.
12Cain, Robert J. ed. 1988. Records of the Executive Council 1735-1754. The Colonial Records of North Carolina [Second Series]. Vol. VIII. Raleigh: Department of Cultural Resources. Page 200.
13Boyd, William K. and Percy G. Adams eds. 1967. William Byrd's Histories of the Dividing Line Betwixt Virginia and North Carolina. New York: Dover. Page 306.
14South Carolina Department of History and Archives. Colonial Plats Book 21, page 30.
15South Carolina Department of History and Archives. Colonial Grants Book 41, page 372.
16Salley, A.S., Jr. 1898. The History of Orangeburg County, South Carolina, from Its First Settlement to the Close of the Revolutionary War, Orangeburg, S.C.; reprinted Genealogical Publishing Co., Inc., Baltimore, Maryland, 1994. Page 99.
17Salley, A.S., Jr. 1898. The History of Orangeburg County, South Carolina, from Its First Settlement to the Close of the Revolutionary War, Orangeburg, S.C.; reprinted Genealogical Publishing Co., Inc., Baltimore, Maryland, 1994. Page 100.
18Salley, A.S., Jr. 1898. The History of Orangeburg County, South Carolina, from Its First Settlement to the Close of the Revolutionary War, Orangeburg, S.C.; reprinted Genealogical Publishing Co., Inc., Baltimore, Maryland, 1994. Page 122.
19Salley, A.S., Jr. 1898. The History of Orangeburg County, South Carolina, from Its First Settlement to the Close of the Revolutionary War, Orangeburg, S.C.; reprinted Genealogical Publishing Co., Inc., Baltimore, Maryland, 1994. Page 114.
20Greater London Record Office, Middlesex Section Middlesex County Record Office. Class P.I. 343-742. Title Quarter Sessions Records. Plantation Indentures 1682/83-1684. Box II. Original numbers 601-1000. Indentures for service in Virginia. Dates 1684.
21Virginia Patent Book 9, 1696-1706. P.396.
22The Genealogists' Magazine, Vol. XII (1957), p. 342.
23Hopkins, Garland Evans. Virginia Lee Freeman Taylor and Robert Brant Taylor, eds.. 1995. Freeman Forebears.
24Virginia Patent Book 9, page 397.
25Chamberlayne, Churchill Gibson, ed. 1898 (1999). The Vestry Book and Register of Bristol Parish, Virginia, 1720-1789. Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Company. P.10.
26Davis, Eliza Timberlake, ed. Wills and Administrations of Surry County, Virginia, 1671-1750. Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Company. Page 122-123.
27Hopkins, William Lindsay. 1991. Surry County Virginia Deeds, 1684-1733 and Other Court Papers. Athens: Iberian Publishing Company. Page 77.
28"Notes from Albemarle Parish Register, Sussex County, VA" William and Mary College Historical Quarterly Magazine 14 (1): 1-6. July 1905.
29Davis, Eliza Timberlake. 1980. Surry County records: Surry County, Virginia, 1652-1684. Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Co.
30Davis, Eliza Timberlake, ed. 1980. Wills and Administrations of Surry County, Virginia 1671-1750. Baltimore: Clearfield. P. 58.
31Surry Co VA Deed Book 4, page 193. Surry Co VA Deed Book 4 page 191.
32Weisiger, Benjamin B. 1994 Prince George County Virginia Wills and Deeds 1713-1728. Athens GA: Iberian Publishing Co. Page 52.
33Wright, Louis B. and Marion Tinling, eds. William Byrd of Virginia. The London Diary (1717-1721) and Other Writings. New York: Oxford University Press. Page 452.
34Stokes, Joseph Jackson. 1996. Henry Stokes of Colleton County, South Carolina; His Ancestry and Descendants: The Stokes, Risher, Byrd, Hunter and Allied Families of the South Carolina Lowcountry. Atlanta: Joseph Jackson Stokes, M.D.