The Anthony Arnold Research Project Compiled by Hazel Arnold MacIvor February 5, 1981 And Accompanying documents published in the AFAS Newsletters 1981-1983 INTRODUCTION “Some years ago the officers had decided that since we had obtained all extant records, both printed and original, that pertained to Anthony Arnold, without discovering either his origin or ancestry, we should authorize some overseas search. We undertook this project in January of 1981 and your editor compiled a notebook of known facts about Anthony Arnold and other contemporary Arnolds (Samuel, Benjamin I and II, Francis, several Williams, Anthony Arnold II, and Henry) that ran to 203 pages. To this, Marian Ledgerwood added nine pages of Thomas and Grace data, which was indexed by your editor. The main thrust of our endeavor at this time is to find Anthony Arnold’s forebears as he is the earliest Arnold in southern records who has known descendants. The data on the other Arnolds was added because it was felt since they were all from the same area in Virginia there might possibly be ties of kinship between them.” Hazel Arnold MacIvor. Ref: “Arnold Family Association of the South” Vol. XI, no. 2, Mid- Summer Newsletter, 15 June 1981. The following materials are prepared from the copy Hazel forwarded to Marian Ledgerwood who donated them to Ann Hennings in 2007. A special thanks to Marian for preparing a workable all-name index to this document. Table of Contents Hazel Arnold MacIvor to Peter Wilson Coldham Letter 6 February 1981 2 Anthony Arnold - Family Group Sheet 3 Anthony Arnold – College of Arms Report 3 Anthony Arnold – Documents (including Samuel Arnold) 4 Governor Sir William Berkeley Pardon 11 Yarbrough’s or Arnold/Arnell’s Ferry 12 “Hillsborough” - Home of Anthony Arnold 13 The Struggle Against Tyranny 1676 – 1691 “Nathaniel Bacon’s Rebellion” 14 Our Late Troubles - Mrs. Ann Cotton’s Account of the Rebellion 15 Benjamin Arnold - Family Group Sheet 16 Benjamin Arnold - Reconstructed Will 16 Benjamin and Ann Arnold – Documents 17 Charges Against Captain Jacob Lumpkin 18 Abstracts of Extant King William County, Virginia, Records in Regard to ARNOLDs and Associated Families 24 Partial King William County, Virginia, Quit Rent Rolls, 1704 25 King William County, Virginia, from old Newspapers and Files 25 Letter to Hazel A. MacIvor from Elizabeth L. Burke – 6 January 1975 26 George Woodruff - Family Group Sheet 26 George Woodruff - Will Abstract 27 Francis Arnold - Family Group Sheet 27 Francis Arnold – Documents 28 John Gatewood and Joseph and Amy Baker - Will Abstracts 28 Benjamin Arnold II - Family Group Sheet 29 Joseph Temple - Family Group Sheet 30 Anthony Arnold II - Family Group Sheet 31 Anthony Arnold II - Will Abstract 31 Anthony Arnold II – Documents 32 Abraham Arnold – Document 32 Edward Arnold – Documents 33 Henry Arnold – Documents 33 William Arnold – Will Abstract and Documents 34 Lucy and William Short of England – Will Abstracts 35 Names Associated with the Anthony Arnold Line 36 George Yeo, England and George Yeo, Virginia – Will Abstracts 56 Thomas Arnold – Will Abstract and Documents 57 Names Associated with Thomas and Grace Arnold 60 Correspondence and Documents from England as Published in the Arnold Family Association of the South Newsletters - Vol. XII, 15 December 1981 (pp. 5-32) 64 12 November 1980 – MacIvor to Coldham 64 1 December 1980 – Colham to MacIvor 64 11 December 1980 – MacIvor to Coldham 65 6 February 1981 – MacIvor to Coldham 2 19 February 1981 – Coldham to MacIvor 65 Exchequer Court Depositions (E134) 66 London Depositions in Chancery Causes (C24) 66 Chancery Causes 1649-1714 – Bridges Division (C5) 66 27 February 1981 – Coldham to MacIvor 66 Chancery Causes – Six Clerks Series (C5/C6/C7/C8/C10) 67 Lawsuits temp. Elizabeth I(C2/Eliz.) 69 Records of London Citizens 69 London Archdeaconry Court Wills to 1649” 70 Boyd’s Marriage Indexes 70 Country Depositions (Chancery) 70 Prerogative Court of Canterbury Wills 70 Gloucester Wills 70 Haberdashers’ Company Apprentices 1583-1630 70 Visitation of Gloucestershire (1623-1684) 71 High Court of Admiralty Indexes 71 Inquisitions Post Mortem 71 Indexes to Prerogative Court of Canterbury Causes 71 Alumni Oxoniensis 71 Coldham Indexes to Personal Estates in Chancery 71 Residence Certificates (E115) 71 13 March 1981 – MacIvor to Coldham 72 The will of Anthony Arnold – City of Gloucester - 1680 73 25 March 1981 – Coldham to MacIvor 74 (Date?) – Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints to MacIvor 75 Committee for Compounding Cases 76 Chancery Causes – Six Clerks Series (cont’d) 76 Gloucestershire Parish Register Entries from CFI 78 Prerogative Court of Canterbury Wills (cont’d) 79 Court of Requests (temp. Eliz. 1) 79 Six Clerks in Chancery: Cases (C6) (C9) 79 Arnold Defendant in following C9 Cases 80 Country Depositions Elizabeth-Charles I (C21) 81 Country Depositions Before 1714 (C22) 81 Update 15 July 1981 from Hazel Arnold MacIvor (entire CFI/IGI index for all counties in England) 82 Gloucester County – Westbury on Severn Parish – Abstracts 83 Kent County – Shipbourne Parish – Abstract 83 Leicester County – Billesdon Parish – Abstract 83 Lincoln County – Haydor Parish – Abstract 83 London – Stepney Parish, St. Dunstan’s – Abstracts 83 London – Bermondsey Parish – Abstract 83 Stafford County – Hanstall Ridware Parish – Abstract 83 Surrey County – Richmond Parish – Abstract 83 Sussex County – Eastbourne Parish – Abstract 83 York County – Crofton Parish – Abstract 83 Vol. XIII, No. 1, 15 December 1982 (pp. 8-21) 84 11 January 1982 – MacIvor to Coldham 84 26 January 1982 – Coldham to MacIvor 84 4 February 1982 – MacIvor to Coldham 85 7 February 1982 – MacIvor to Robins 86 10 March 1982 – Coldham to MacIvor 87 Gloucestershire Marriage Allegations 88 Registers of Wragby, Yorkshire 88 Chancery Proceedings 88 Gloucestershire Wills - Abstract Anthony Yearnold – 1578 89 Francis Yearnold – 1633 89 William Yarnall – 1633 89 William Yarnall – 1636 89 Anthony Arnold – 1677 89 Thomas Arnold – 1679 89 PCC Wills (Prob 11) - Abstract Richard Arnold – 1642 90 Jane Arnold – 1652 90 Robert Arnold – 1652 90 Neast Arnold – ca 1643 90 Chancery Proceedings 90 17 March 1982 – MacIvor to Coldham 91 2 May 1982 – MacIvor to Coldham 92 6 June 1982 – Coldham to MacIvor 92 21 July 1982 – Coldham to MacIvor 93 Chancery Causes: Charles 1 (C2/Chas.1) 93 Trial Pedigree Chart of ARNOLD of Minsterworth, Westbury and Gloucester 94 Volume XIV, 15 December 1983 (pp. 4-15) 95 9 August 1982 – Coldham to MacIvor 95 Chancery Decrees and Orders 96 23 August 1982 – MacIvor to Coldham 99 13 October 1982 – MacIvor – Coldham 99 21 October 1982 – Coldham – MacIvor 100 Chancery Proceedings 101 Chancery Causes temp. Charles 1: List 2 (C2/Chas1) – P.R.O. 102 8 February 1983 – Coldham – MacIvor 103 27 January 1983 – Bristol Record Office – Coldham 104 Chancery Proceedings 105 Gloucester City Freemen’s Roll 106 Gloucester City Apprentices 106 Richard Arnold, Parliamentary Soldier 107 -2- February 6, 1981 565 South River Street Marshfield, Mass. 02050 Mr. Peter Wilson Coldham 16 Foxley Hill Road Surrey, CR 2 2HB England Dear Peter: I am sorry to be so late getting this data to you, but we have had so many problems with illness (both mine and my husband’s) that this project took up more than I had planned it would. I do hope you and yours had a happy holiday season and that 1981 will be your best year ever. The main thrust of your research should be to find the direct ancestors of ANTHONY ARNOLD, and where he came from in England, as well as something about his background. In this respect, I have sent you, I believe, all extant records to be found regarding him in Virginia. I have combed the records of pertinent Virginia counties for twelve years. Unfortunately New Kent, King and Queen, King William, Hanover, Caroline and Buckingham Counties’ records, where this line of ARNOLDs lived, are destroyed, for the most part. In addition, I have searched the colonial records of Virginia on deposit at the Virginia State Archives. While there, I also searched their index to colonial wills in the Canterbury Court of Prerogative, where, as I understand it, wills of Virginians who had properly in both Virginia and England, will be found. The results were negative. Several years back, I paid the College of Arms in London to do a preliminary search for ANTHONY ARNOLD. The results, in letter form, are enclosed. They were negative. We are asked, when hiring an English searcher to find our ancestors, to send as much data as possible about the ancestor in question, others of the same name who lived around him, his associates, etc. This, I have tried to do. I feel some of the ARNOLDs in these records, such as THOMAS ARNOLD, with wife GRACE, SAMUEL ARNOLD (died 1674, New Kent Co.), EDWARD ARNOLD (emigrated 1705, in Colonial Land Patents) and JOHN ARNOLD (died in old Rappahannock Co.) were close relatives. From ANTHONY ARNOLD’s fiery speech at his “Trial of Life and Death,” 9 March 1677 (N.S.), one gets the notion he was a Protestant – and a Cromwellian to the core. In this respect, I carried on a lengthy correspondence with the British Public Record Office, over a period of several years, trying to ascertain if ANTHONY ARNOLD had been listed in any of the rosters of Cromwell’s troops. It was to no avail. It seemed I received replies from a different person each time and replies were confused and unenlightening. In the notebook of data I have sent you, I have included a Table of Contents in the front of the data and have included an index at the rear. The index to the THOMAS and GRACE ARNOLD data is separate and follows their data. I enclosed $100.00 (One hundred dollars) retainer fee. When that is used up and if more funds are necessary, please advise me. I wish you much success in your undertaking. If I can do anything here on this side of the water to facilitate your research, please do let me know. I can procure most things either from my own library, the NEHG Society or the Virginia State Archives. Sincerely, (Signed) Hazel Arnold MacIvor (Mrs. Angus Stewart MacIvor, Jr., B. S., C. G.) P.S. You will note the works I used in compiling my book. Since 1974, I have accumulated others, some of which I list here: Coldham, “English Estates of American Colonists,” Vols. I-II (1610-1699; 1700-1799) Crozier, “Virginia Heraldica” Currer-Briggs, “Virginia Settlers and English Adventurers” Greer, “Early Virginia Emigrants, 1623-1666” Hotten, “Lists of Emigrants to America, 1600-1700” Standard, “Some Emigrants to Virginia” Withington, “Virginia Gleanings in England” Waters, “Genealogical Gleanings in England” P.P.S. I have just received notice from the Genealogical Publishing Co. that it is coming out with “Genealogies of Virginia Families” which includes within its 5 Volumes an article on “C. H. of Yardley, Northamptonshire.” I will send this data when my set I’ve ordered arrives. -3- ANTHONY ARNOLD’s Family Group Sheet Husband – ARNOLD, ANTHONY Occupation – Planter and Merchant Church – (Blank) Lived at – New Kent Co. Va. Military Service – Indian Wars, 1676-1677 Born – ca 1635; Place (Blank) Married – ca 1660-1662; Place (Blank) Died – 15 Mar 1676/1677; Place – New Kent Co., Va. Buried at – Prob. New Kent Co., Va. Father – (Blank) Mother – (Blank) Other wives – (Blank) Wife (nee) (blank) All other categories (blank) Children: (in order of Birth) 1. BENJAMIN (b ca 1663 Prob. New Kent Co. Va. – d ca 1723 King William Co. Va.) Marriage – ANNE (no further information given) 2. ANTHONY (b ca 1665 Prob. New Kent Co. Va. – d ca 1747 Caroline Co. Va.) Marriage – ISABELLE (no further information given) ANTHONY ARNOLD – College of Arms Report The College of Arms Queen Victoria Street London, E. C. 4. 21st November 1974 Mrs. Hazel ARNOLD MacIvor, C. G., 2481 Eaton Gate Road Lake Orion, Michigan 48035 U.S.A. Dear Mrs. MacIvor, I write to inform you of the results of the investigations I have made of the records of the College of Arms in an endeavour to establish whether the family of and Armorial Bearings are traceable for your ancestor ANTHONY ARNOLD who was in Lancaster County, Virginia, 3 Oct 1645, died 15 March 1676/1677, and who is believed to have been born about 1630 in England and who may have been connected with RICHARD ARNOLD of London, a grantee of Arms in 1611. On 31 December 1612 a confirmation of Arms and grant of a Crest was made by William Segar Garter King of Arms to RICHARD ARNOLD of London. The Arms may be blazoned: Gules three pheons Argent on a chief of the last bar nebule Azure and for the Crest, a demi tiger Sable seme of bezants holding in his paws a broad arrow Gules feathered and headed Argent. The interesting feature of this Patent of Arms is that it grants a Crest, and purports to make a confirmation of the ARNOLD Arms which, however, from their design are not ancient, rather is it the case that they were devised by Garter Segar in recognition of RICHARD ARNOLD, of the Haberdasher’s Company, the grantee being in my opinion the same man as he who had been made a Freeman of the Haberdashers’ Company in 1556. I say this because to a basic ARNOLD Coat incorporating pheons, or arrow heads, there is added by Garter King of Arms a chief of Argent, silver, with a bar nebuly Azure, blue, thereon, this being derived from the background pattern of the Arms of the Haberdashers’ Company barry undy (or nebuly) Argent and Azure. It is plain therefore that ANTHONY ARNOLD (sic) was a “new man” that is to say, he did not come from an arms-bearing family but was himself the first holder of Armorial Bearings, on the authority of Garter Segar’s Patent, which on its proper interpretation is one of grant of both Arms and Crest. The above Arms were also entered in an official funeral certificate of 28 July 1621 for the above RICHARD ARNOLD “gentlemen and free of the Haberdashers” who died 22 July 1621 and was buried at St. Martins within Ludgate, London. The Certificate, which accords with details of the family cited by you in fuller form from the parish registers of St. Martin Ludgate, recites his marriage and children. FRANCIS, the eldest son, HENRY, the second, SAMUEL, the third, and ELIZABETH, a daughter. FRANCIS was married to URSULA, the daughter of Thomas NELSON, and had issue, THOMAS then aged 27. HENRY was married and lived in Ireland and SAMUEL was married to MARY the daughter of John THORNTON and had issue, RICHARD, aged 14, SAMUEL 10, and GEORGE 4. No further pedigree of this family later than that of the Heralds Visitation of London in 1633/34, has been recorded here although from the Calendar of Wills proved in the Prerogative Court of Canterbury, wherein the name occurs frequently, other members of the family might be traced. It not being possible within the scope of a preliminary examination and study such as this to incur the costs of obtaining copies of wills which might be relevant I have not been able to examine the history of the family descending from ANTHONY ARNOLD (sic) with that particularity which would enable me to express an opinion whether your ANTHONY ARNOLD rather later in the century, was a member of the same family; and it is disappointing that later Heraldic Visitations in the 17th century do not contain any one of the name of ANTHONY ARNOLD who could be linked with the ARNOLDs of the 1633/34 London Visitation. In this state of the matter, I am not able to advise you that your ANTHONY ARNOLD can be said to be a descendant of RICHARD ARNOLD, Citizen and Haberdasher of London, although this is not impossible; but from the further searches I have come to another conclusion which is equally possible as regards the origins of ANTHONY ARNOLD who died in 1676/1677. First let me mention another arms-bearing family of ARNOLD, a good way away from London, in the West Country, Herefordshire, and I do this not because I think ANTHONY ARNOLD, your ancestor, came from that county, but because it seems to me not beyond likelihood that he may have had his origins outside London in a county adjoining Hereford, namely Gloucestershire. Arms of: Gules a chevron ermine between three pheons Or, were recorded for a family of ARNOLD at the Heralds’ Visitation of Hereford in 1683; but no mention of any ANTHONY ARNOLD is made in the long pedigree which is there headed by Ynir King of Gwent, who lived in pre-heraldic times. At the Visitation of Gloucester made by the Heralds in 1623 on 15 August at Teuxbury (Tewkesbury), it was recorded that one ANTHONY ARNOLD of Minsterworth was not entitled to Arms. In 1649 administration of the estate of one NEASTE ARNOLD, spinster, of Minsterworth, Gloucestershire was granted to her brother, John Wintle and ANTHONY ARNOLD, the elder, her mother Elizabeth Wintle having died, and the administration tanquam ab intestato granted on 20 February 1645 to her nephew ANTHONY ARNOLD was revoked. Further, the will proved at Gloucester on 4 February 1678 of one ANTHONY ARNOLD of Westbury in the county of Gloucester gentleman, refers to his sons ANTHONY and THOMAS and grandsons RICHARD, ANTHONY, and ROBERT ARNOLD, the sons of ANTHONY. In view of the fact that the Christian name ANTHONY occurs in several instances in Gloucestershire in the 17th century, I consider that this is the area rather than London which should be searched in an endeavor to trace the family from which ANTHONY ARNOLD, your ancestor, sprang. I should be pleased to work out and put in hand a programme of research in such respect should you so wish and would suggest a sum of $500 would enable a reasonable start to be made if you would care to remit, say, $300 on account thereof. Yours sincerely, A. Colin Cole Windsor Herald of Arms (N.B.- In the third paragraph of this letter, p. 1, Mr. Cole refers to “ANTHONY ARNOLD” as being a “new man” – I am sure he meant “RICHARD” ARNOLD. Again, in the first paragraph, p. 2, he speaks of examining “the history of the family descending from ANTHONY ARNOLD” – here he surely meant to say RICHARD ARNOLD. This work was so carelessly done, I never paid him to go any further. -4- ANTHONY ARNOLD – Documents (Including SAMUEL ARNOLD) 10 February 1653/1654 - Nicholas Meriwether. Patents 400 acres on South side of Rappahannock about 6 miles up. Adj. land of Dale, of James Bonner. He sells it to Humphrey Haggett. Wit: Anthoine Armell, Thomas Humphrey. 30 Oct. 1654. Ref: Beverly Fleet, “Virginia Colonial Abstracts,” Vol. 22, “Lancaster County Court Orders, 1652-1655,” pp. 178-179. 25 October 1657 - ANTHONY ARNELL (sic), 500 acres, New Kent Co, Pat. Bk. 4, p 105. Beg. on N. E. side of a branch of Chickahominy Swamp, running North by Mary Cosbye. Trans. of 10 persons: John Roberts, Mary Evans, Tho. Kirby, John Dibbin, Wm. Tucker, Mary Rassey, John Holme, Tho. Daniell, Rich. Budworth, Wm. Addriggin(?). Ref: Nugent, “Cavaliers and Pioneers” Vol. 1, p 348. 2 March 1658 - Thomas Harris, 1000 acres, Isle of Wight Co. Pat. Bk. 4, p 256. Upon a swamp running into the W. branch of Nansamond Riv., including 2 Indian fields. Trans. of 20 persons: John Hardy, Alexander Vaughn, Ann Lees, William Todd, Eliz. Jones, Mary Wood, John Davis, John Griffin, Fran. Anderson, Jno. Pew, Ann Greene, Eliza. Ensome (or Eusome), Weltin Harris, ANTH. ARNOLD, Sam Trobury, Alexander Cahill. Ref: Nugent, “Cavaliers and Pioneers” Vol. 1, p 386. 6 May 1659 - In a list of bills left by Mrs. Elizabeth Vaulx in the hands of Mr. Richard Browne and belonging to Mr. Robert Vaulx was found one of ANTHONY ARNOLD’s. Ref: “York Co. Wills, Deeds and Orders” Book III, p 56. 12 October 1662 - Capt. George Lydall, 3306 acres, New Kent Co., Pat. Bk. 4, p 324. On both sides of Black Creek, running by land of ANTHONY ARNOLD, etc., to Wanieoake (or Warrieoake) Swamp and over Maddicon Path to the mountains and along Col. John West’s back line, etc. Ref: Nugent, “Cavaliers and Pioneers” Vol. 1, p 403. 12 October 1662 - Capt. Geo. Lydall Patent Pat. Bk. 4, p 324 (444) 3306 acres, New Kent Co. on both sides of Black Creek adj. ANTHONY ARNOLD, Capt. John West, Wamcock Swamp, Madicum Pass. Ref: “Valentine Papers” Vol. II, p 782. (N.B – Geo. Lydall died 19 Jan 1705) -5- 19 July 1663 - George Morris, 1350 acres, New Kent Co., Pat. Bk. 5, p 459. North side of Mattapony River, part thereof in branches of Horecock and part upon Aquintencoe Swamp, beg. by an Indian path called Cheskaack Path, running east by and nere so. path and thence N. dividing this from the land of ANTHONY ARNOLD to corner by a branch, thence along certain branches of a swamp, and cutting a path, SSE, etc., to John Exoll’s Path, along same same (sic), South by West, etc. down Chescaack Path to Mr. Richard Tunstall’s line, over Mr. Thomas Holmes Cart Path, etc., adj. land of Mr. Robert Abrahall, formerly Mr. Haines land, etc., to Tattapaixsack Spring, etc. to trees of land belonging to land formerly Jonathan Parsons, along that line to land of John Maddison, and along his line of marked trees to beginning. 600 acres granted to Col. Robt. Abrahall, being the moiety of a joint patent to said Abrahall and John Pigg, dated 10 July 165- and 750 acres for trans. of 15 persons, named, among them, George Bryar, Peter Short, Timothy Smart, Jane Swan. Ref: Nugent, “Cavaliers and Pioneers” Vol. I, pp.541-542. 19 July 1663 - George Morris, 933 acres, New Kent Co. Pat. Bk. 5, p 460. South side of Narrows of York River upon branches of Black Creek, beginning at a corner tree by Westover Path belonging to land of Mr. Jones and Jonathan Higby, formerly William Pullams, along land of Mr. Brereton and ANTHONY ARNOLD, NW etc., down a branch of Stone’s Swamp to John Mores and Wm. Peasley’s land and to Mr. Nappire’s corner by the branch, etc., to Capt. George Lydall’s corner tree and over the Ridge Path to land of Mr. Jones and Jonathan Higlie’s, thence to beg. trans. of 19 negroes. Ref: Nugent “Cavaliers and Pioneers” Vol I, p 542. 23 October 1664 - Susan Austin, 50 acres, New Kent Co., Pat. Bk. 5, p 195. Beg. at a branch below an Indian field called Rockahockaw, formerly belonging to ANTHONY ARNOLD and by him sold to Edward Price. Down sd. Branch Sly, etc., Trans. of John Browne. Ref: Nugent, “Cavaliers and Pioneers” Vol. I, p 457. 3 May 1665 - ANTHONY ARNOLD, 500 acres, Westmoreland Co., Pat. Bk. 5, p 159. Upon the head of CosCos Creek, lying at the head of Robert Yeo’s land. Granted to Thomas Brereton 20 Sept. 1661 and by him deserted. Granted sd. ARNOLD by order of the Council 25 Nov. 1663. The following names appear under this record: Nicholas Browninge, Mary Page, Mary Anderson, Henry Browne, Tho. Eggerly, Wm. Lane, 3 Negroes, Marke Dawson. Ref: Nugent, “Cavaliers and Pioneers” Vol. I, p 446 3 May 1665 - Patent of Sir William Berkeley unto ANTHONY ARNOLD of 500 acres in Westmoreland County upon the head of Coss Coss Creek lying on the head of Robert Yeoe’s land… into the woods…formerly granted unto Mr. Thomas Brereton by patent 20 7br (Sept.) 1661 and by him deserted…Now granted by order 25 9br (Nov.) 1663 William Berkeley 28 June 1665. Wit. Philip Ludwell 24 Feb 1668 (1669). Recorded. Ref: Dorman, “Westmoreland County, Virginia, Deeds, Patents, etc. 1665-1677,” Part One, pp 42-43. 23 November 1665 - ANTHONY ARNOLD of New Kent County unto Mr. William Brereton of Northumberland County, Gent. All my interest in this patent. ANTHONY ARNOLD Wit. John (x) Page, 24 Feb. 1668 (1669). Recorded. Ref: Dorman, “Westmoreland County, Virginia, Deeds, Patents, etc. 1665-1677,” Part One, p 43. (N.B. – I am wondering if Mr. Dorman made a mistake in naming William Brereton, as I do not find a Wm. Brereton cited a single time in Vol. I of “Cavaliers and Pioneers” or in early Northumberland County records, only a Thomas Brereton.) 19 October 1666 – John Maddison, 350 acres, New Kent Co., Pat. Bk. 5, p 534. Upon N. side of Mattapony and upon branches of Whorecock Swamp, beg. at Richard Morlyes corner tree next the land of Mr. Lockey, running up his line N. 160 poles, E with the head line of Morlye and ARNOLL (sic) 320 poles, So. 160 poles to land of ANTHONY ARNOLL, W by his head line and the head of Morley to beg. trans. of 7 persons, named. Ref: Nugent, “Cavaliers and Pioneers”, Vol. I, p 565. 29 April 1688 – Mr. George Morris, 860 acres, New Kent Co., Stratton Major Parish, on North side Mattapony River, Pat. Bk, 6, p 274. By an Indian path to John Maddison’s house, adj. ANTHONY ARNELL, (sic) etc. along John Exoll’s path, now the road to Chiscake Path, Nigh head of Wolfe Pitt branch, to the Cart Path and King’s Road, to Anthony Haines, over the head of the Green Br. and Manta Pike Path, dividing this from land of John Hill, etc. 640 acres granted to Col. Robt. Abrahall and Jno. Pigg, 10 July 1658; Residue within said bounds purchased of said Abrahall, who purchased of said Haines, who purchased of Capt. Wm. Clayborne, the first proprietor thereof. Ref: Nugent, “Cavaliers and Pioneers” Vol. II, pp 69-70. 2 October 1668 – Thomas Brereton and ANTHONY ARNELL (ARNOLD), 1700 acres, New Kent Co. S. side Pamonkey River and part upon branches of Chickahominy Swamp and upon Westover Path behind Rice Hughes and land formerly Capt. Anthony Langstone’s; Pat. Bk. 6, p 191. Adj. John Jackson. 500 acres granted said ARNELL 25 Oct. 1657; 1200 acres entered in the office 25 Sept. 1661 and due for transport of 24 persons, named. Ref: Nugent, “Cavaliers and Pioneers” Vol. II, p 49. 23 August 1669 – John Cape, 830 acres New Kent Co., Pat. Bk. 6, p 229. On North West side of Westopher (sic) Path adj. Mr. Math. Hill, to dividing line between this and James City Co., crossing a branch of Musciminae (?) along Mr. Thomas Marston, Mr. Booth, Lt. Col. Henry Gooch, the Rumney Marsh, Mr. Thomas Brereton and ANTHONY ARNOLD; 30 acres on East side of sd. Marsh adj. sd. Brereton and Wm. Griffin. Transport of 17 persons, named. Ref: Nugent, “Cavaliers and Pioneers” Vol. II, pp 59-60. -6- 31 August 1669 – Power of Attorney of Arthur Hodges to Edward Hudson of Rappahannock Co. Wits: ANTHONY ARNOLD, Timothy Davis. Ref: “Rappahannock Co. Deed Bk 4,” p 181. 31 August 1669 – Power of Attorney of Katherine Hubbert to Mr. John Forth to acknowledge her right and title to 375 acres “sold by my husband Thomas Williamson to Jas. Fassett.” Katherine (x) Hubbert. Wits: Timothy Davis, ANTHONY ARNOLD. Ref: “Rappahannock Co. Deed Bk. 4,” p 191. 1 September 1669 – Richard Bridgate and James Fossett. 750 acres in Rappahannock Co. James Fossett formerly sold one half of this land, now the said Thomas Williamson being the predecessor of the Estate of Richard Hubbert hath sold 375 acres to James Fassett and “full consent of Kate Hubbert now my lawful wife.” Wit: ANTHONY ARNOLD, John (x) Forth. Ref: “Rappahannock Co. Deed Bk. 4,” p 191. 14 October 1670 – Whereas Willm Richardson in his life tyme delivered unto Capt. George Lydall a list of bills as under his hand appears amounting to 12,000 pounds of tobacco and caske wch he was to retorne or be accomptable for it and it appearing that there was a bill of 3,000 pounds Tobo in the said list due from Mr. ARNOLD wch belonged to the orphans of Wm. Edwards decd. It is therefore ordered that the said Lydall redeliver the said bill to the said Edwards’ orphts. and as to the remainder of the said bills an execution being laid in the sd. Lydall’s hands for 3,449 pounds of Tobo and Caske due to Mr. Drummond assignee of Mr. Barber and Ousteene. It is the judgement of this Court and she accordingly further ordered that the execution be paid in the first place and the sd. Lydall to be accomptable to the admx. of the sd. Richardson for the remainder according to receipt for the said bills she allowing salary for what is received. Ref: McIlwaine, “Minutes of the Council and General Court of Colonial Virginia,” p 230. 28 May 1673 – Whereas Major Wm. Wyatt had a warrant directed to the sheriffe of New Kent County for the arresting of ANTHONY ARNOLD to this court who was accordingly arrested and he not appearing and Mr. Henry Crowell returned Security. It is ordered the said Security pay unto Major Wyatt what he shall make appear justly due the 3rd day next Genrall Court in case he then cause the said ARNOLD not to appeare. Ref: McIlwaine, “Minutes of the Council and General Court of Colonial Virginia,” pp 344-345. (N. B. – H. A. M. – Just above and below the name of ANTHONY ARNOLD were precise entries for Ambrose Clare (security, Mr. Richard Thompson) and Thomas Meredith (security, Mr. Samuell Oustin). I feel these men, all being ordered into General Court on the 3rd day of the next session were involved with each other in some infraction of the law or what was felt by the Councillors to be an infraction.) 8 November 1673 – It is ordered that Mr. ANTHONY ARNOLD forthwith deliver unto the Monguy (Drammacho Mongy, a chief ruler of the Chickahominy Indians) of the Chickahominy (Indians) all such Roanoak (Indian money), skins, bills and other things which he the said ARNOLD hath received from the said Monguy and at the next General Court further Enquirey to be made of the death of the Englishman and Indian lately killed and Coll. Abrahall is hereby required to make such Diligent Enquirey into the prmisses as he cann, and to make report to the next Generall Court, where all prsons conserned are to be present. Ref: McIlwaine, “Minutes of the Council and General Court of Colonial Virginia,” p 361 3 April 1674 – Whereas it Appears to this Court by oth (sic) that Mr. ANTHONY ARNOLD hath most presumptuously disobeyed an order of this Court and a Warrant of Coll. Robt. Abrahall’s sent to the said ARNOLD by the Governor’s order, it is ordered that Mr. ANTHONY ARNOLD be fined 2000 pounds of Tobacco and Caske with costs Sute Als ex which said Tobo is to be for the use of the fort at Yorke. Ref: McIlwaine, “Minutes of the Council and General Court of Colonial Virginia, ” pp 362-363. 9 April 1674 – Whereas Mr. SAMULL.ARNALL did in his lifetime convey to Lt. Coll. West a certain plantacon with the Appertenances in New Kent County for Ten Thousand pounds of tobacco and caske and one Jno. Willson who married the relict of said ARNALL being in possession of the same and pretending that the said land was made over in Trust only to the said Lt. Coll. John West and the matter being fully heard by this court it is the opinion of this court that the conveyance is good, it is therefore ordered that the Sheriff of New Kent County Doe forthwith put the said Lt. Coll. John West in possession of the said Land but that upon payment to the Lt. Coll. John West of the said Ten Thousand pound of tobacco and caske the same shall returne and be rendered by the said John West to such persons of whom of right it belongs, and the said Lt. Coll. John West hath judgement against the personal estate of the said ARNALL In the hands of the said Wilson for payment of Two Thousand One hundred and Sixty six pound of tobacco and caske nine hundred pounds of Muscavado Sugar and one able Negro man with costs. Ref: McIlwaine, “Minutes of the Council and General Court of Colonial Virginia, ” p 372. -7- 9 April 1674 – Whereas the Last General Court Lt. Coll. John West had an order against the Estate of Mr. SAMLL. ARNOLD in the hands of John Wilson for payment of Two Thousand one hundred and sixty six pounds of tobacco and caske nine hundred pounds of Muscavado Sugar and one able Negroe with costs Sute upon which said order Execucon Issued and the Sheriffe of New Kent County having seized three Negroes claimed by the said Wilson to be his, this Court doth adjudge the seizure to be good. Uppon the offer of the said Lt. Coll. John West in Court that the said Negroes be returned to the said Wilson uppon payment of what they are appraised at costs. From which judgment the said Wilson Appeals to the Assembly. It is Ordered he give security according to Act. Mr. David Anderson and Mr. John Pigge Security. Ref: McIlwaine, “Minutes of the Council and General Court of Colonial Virginia,” p 382. 1 October 1674 – Major Wm. Wyatt hath ordered Against the sheriffe of New Kent County for the non-appearance of Mr. Ambro: Clare and Mr. ANTHONY ARNOLD, for what he shall make appeare justly due the next Generall Court, in case he Doe not cause them to then appeare. Ref: McIlwaine, “Minutes of the Council and General Court of Colonial Virginia,” p 386. 2 October 1674 – Whereas Josias Pickis Attorney for Elizabeth Pickis Administratrix of Capt. Josias Pickis Dec’d. Did commence Sute to this Court against Mr. ANTHONY ARNOLD for Recovery of certain bonds, bills and accounts for tobacco Due from severall persons to the said Capt. Pickis in the hands of the said ARNOLD as by a List of the same appeareth and the said ANTHONY ARNOLD producing to this Court a release from under the Capt. Pickis his hand which has some what a later date then the said ARNOLD’s receipt as aforesaid which is Discharge of all debts and accounts between him the said ARNOLD and the said Pickis, which the said wold have made use to Discharge his Receipt for the bonds, bills and accounts left in his hands as aforesaid, Butt for as much as it appeares to this Court by the very Discharge and allsoe by the Testimony of Coll. Danll. Parke that the said ARNOLD had lately acknowledged to him that the Release was only made as to particular Accounts between Capt. Pickis and the said ARNOLD and had noe Relacon to the said Receipt of the said bonds, bills and Accounts left in his hands by the said Capt. Pickis, which at least was alsoe acknowledged by the said ARNOLD, This Court thereupon and Uppon heareing what was Insisted Uppon by Either side Doe think fitt and Soe Order that the said ANTHONY ARNOLD shall on the Third Day of the Next Generall Court deliver unto the said Josias Pickis Attorney of the said Administratrix of the said Capt. Pickis, all the said bonds, bills and Accounts Soe left in his hands According to the said List, and alsoe thereupon Declare whether he or any person for him hath Received any of the Tobacco Due uppon any of Them, and if he hath then to be accountable for the same to the said Attorney and pay him what be due thereuppon. Ref: McIlwaine, “Minutes of the Council and General Court of Colonial Virginia,” p. 389. 21 November 1674 – The Order that Major Wm. Wyatt Obtained Against the Sheriffe of New Kent County the Last Generall Court, for the non appearance of Mr. Ambrose Clare and Mr. ANTHO: ARNOLD is now confirmed. Ref: McIllwaine, “Minutes of the Council and General Court of Colonial Virginia,” p. 400. 19 June 1675 – ANTHONY ARNOLD having peticoned to this Court for an attachment Against the Estate of Capt. Pickis for a debt of 160 pounds sterling which he claims, it is ordered to be referred to the second day of the next General Court. Ref: McIlwaine, “Minutes of the Council and General Court of Colonial Virginia,” p. 416. 5 October 1675 – The Refference that was the Last court betweene Mr. ANTHONY ARNOLD and Capt. Pickis is still continued by Reason there is noe shipps come in. Ref: McIlwaine, “Minutes of the Council and General Court of Colonial Virginia,” p. 419. -8- 3-6 August 1676 – Whereas certain information is now made that the Amunition from the Fort at Tindal’s Point is commanded away and put on board a Ketch and that the great quantity of Arms are removed and carried away out of Glouc. County and from Mr. Secretaries House at the Rich Neck That certaine persons in contempt of the authority of Nathaniel Bacon, Esqr Generall appointed over “the forces for the Indian Wars are in open hostility in ye county of Westmoreland” and the Fort on the head of the Rappahannock River not surrendered to the said Generalls Comand And Whereas it is much doubted that several psons lately fled and also such as they can stir up to arms with the Amunition aforesd will fall in among some of the Northern counties or the Defensible Places to ye diverting of the forces aforesaid from the defence of ye country and engaging ye country in ye Civill Warrs which threatens the utter ruine of the country if the same be not timely prevented – And whereas the said Generall hath demanded the Councills and advice of us the subscribers what is felt in this exigence to be done to prevent the universall ruine impending this distracted country - - - Wee first advise and request the said Generall as soon as may be an Assembly be convened by some precept or other warrant or writt directed unto the counties from some Gentlemen of ye Council That in ye Meantime this Civill Admistracon of Justice may remaine constant and run in the same course and Channel as formerly That the Subscription yesterday made by the Gentlemen then convened and met together there at the Middle Plantation to consult of settling the present distraction’s of ye country be sent to all ye counties in ye country And that the said Generall Authorize fitting persons in these counties to take the said subscription and administer the same oath. And Lastly that the Generall forthwith effectually prosecute as well the Indian Wars as alsoe by all means and waies and meanes he can, oppose suppresor and with open hostility prosecute all and all manner of persons whatsoever their Confederates and Councillors Ayders and abettors and that do or shall combine and conspire or attempt against the said Generall the Forts under his Comand or that shall oppose disturb raise tumults or otherwise impeach the said domestic peace and safety of ye country. Given at the Middle Plantation aforesaid this fourth of August 1676 Thomas Swan, Thomas Hansford, Thomas Ballard, Andrew Cholwell, Wm. Drumond, Anthony Smith, Jns. Page, James Minge, Jno. Starbrook, Wm. Whiteroe, Richard Lawrence, Roger Daunell, John Langhorne, Samuel Bond, Thomas Milner, Tho. Worldby, Thomas Blayton, Dan Craford, John Little, Ben Smith, Daniel Morse, Martin Garner, Robert Shore, Thomas Milton, Thomas Powell, Thomas Williams, ANTHONY ARNOLED (sic), William Hunt, Edward Ramsey, James Vaulx (Endorsed) 3th, 4th, 5th, 6th August 1676. Ref: Public Record Office, London, “Colonial Office” Series I, Vol. 37, No. 42, folio 131; also “Henry Coventry Papers, Longleat, Estate of the Marquis of Bath” LXXVII, Folio 165. 20 January 1676/1677 – Letter of Thomas Notley, Governor of Maryland to Sir William Berkeley, Governor of Virginia: Wiccomonico in Maryland. Rt. Honorable Sir: My last to you of the 18 past. The most considerable affair that I am at present to acquaint you is about the Sennico and Susquehannock Indians who have had the beginning of December last a small encounter at Jacob Young’s house, the Intelligence came out to me on tuesday last, upon which I have taken ye most effectual care I could at present for the security of Baltimore and Cecill County, and since the whole circumstances would cause my letter to swell to too greate a bulk, I have therefore herewith sent you the originalle letters I received from the head of the Bay relating to it, and likewise copies of my orders and commissions to Hamby and Wells, for their regulation in their jurisdiction, all which these days since I sent open to the Chancelor for his view and approbation, and so ordered him to send them into Anne Arundell County for conveyance upon all which I sent the Chancelor my reflections upon the said Intelligence, my opinion how to proceed, treat with or against all manner of Indians as soon as the Spring approaches, for if wee be not timely in adjudging all matters with them at Spring, we shall be suspicioned by them, and Yr. Ld Shps Province will receive much damage, before we are …. from whence our Mischief proceeds, therefore I shall take all imaginable care to be at peace both with the Sennica and Susquahannock, especially with the Sennica if more repleat with malignancy and Irony than our people were about August last, and they wanted but a Monstrous head to their Monstrous body. But God be thanked wee now enjoy peace, and have greater reason to hope for its continuance than wee have had this twelve months past. For about 20 or 25 days there hath occurred the greatest Revolution in the Virginia Affairs that can possibly be imagined for at the beginning of their Rebellion was grounded on madness and folly and so continued in its whole progress, so the whole has turned again as wonderfully and as swiftly in and submission of all the Chief Rebells to Sir. William Berkeley, to say, Ingram the Titular Generall, who succeeded Bacon and his Lieutenant Generall Watlett (sic) and our Noble Captaine Coll: Bromington, and all their men, and but three Rebells of Note stand out and they but with four men, but they have been during the whole Rebellion, the Bellweathers of unrest, to say, Lawrence, Drummond and ARNOLD, and they suddainely expected to be taken either dead or alive, so that now Sir. Wm. Berkeley is once more established in his government but for how long I know not … I fear the warm weather when it comes may produce another swarm and may have as venomous stings as the late fracas had, especially if nothing from the King is done with some persons to settle affaires in Virginia in better order than I imagine those that are more in power there can doe. There must be an alteration though not of government yet in the government. New men must be put in power, the old ones will never agree with ye common people, and if that not be done, His Majestie, in my opinion, will never find a well settled government in that colony. I shall forbear to particularize any further as to Virginia affairs. The Mast of this shipp will give a more particular account than I can now make. Wee are all in a mase that no Kings shipp nor other shipps are arrived from London since Bunch (?) and 2 or 3 Londoners, which came into Virginia about the same time with him; and I cannot imagine the reason of the long stay of the shipps expected. I have been the more copious that yr Ldsp may be able to inform his Mastie of the State of Affairs, for I suppose this ship is the first for London this year, and I do believe she will carry no letters from Sir W. Berkeley Gov. Thos: Norley Gov. of Maryland. Ref: “British Public Records Office, London, “America and West Indies Original Correspondence, Colonial Office,” Series One, Vol. 39, 3211, pp. 20. -9- 21 January 1676/1677 – Letter of Sir William Berkeley to Major Robert Beverley: Wrote that Drummond had been hanged and that James Crewes “Bacon’s Parasite” had been captured. In a few days he hoped to take Richard Lawrence, Thomas Whaley, and ANTHONY ARNOLD, “the chiefe remaining villains.” Ref: Hening, “Statutes” Vol. III, p 569. 29 February 1676/1677 – ANTHONY ARNOLD “caught in open rebellion.” Ref: Hening, “Statutes” Vol. II, p 370. (N.B. – I have not seen this reference. It was sent to me by a correspondent. It seems to disagree with Gov. Berkeley’s proclamation where he states ANTHONY ARNOLD is “now in prison” on 8 February 1677 (N.S.)) 9 March 1676/1677 – A Court at Green Spring the 9th day of March 1676/7. Present: Sir William Berkeley Knt. Governor, etc., Herbert Jeffries, Esq., Sir Jno. Berry Knt., ffra (sic) Morryson, Esq., His Majesties Commissioners, Coll. Nathaniel Bacon, Coll. Phell Ludwell, depty Secr Coll Wm. Cole. ANTHONY ARNOLD being convicted for divers Rebellions Treasons and other misdemeanors by him committed against his Majestie The Grand Jury brought in their Virdict Billa Vera and the Jury of Life and death brought in their Virdict Guilty According to the indictment. Sentence of death therefore paste upon him According to Forme 15th Instant. Ref: McIlwaine, “Minutes of the Council and General Court of Colonial Virginia,” pp. 457, 530. When ANTHONY ARNOLD, who was one of the sturdiest supporters of the rebellion, was brought into Court, he boldly defended the right of the people to resist oppression. “It is well known that I have no kindness for Kings,” he told the Court. “They have no rights but what they got by conquest and the sword, and he that can by force of the sword deprive them of it has as good and just a title to it as the King himself. If the King should deny to do me right I would make no more to sheathe my sword in this heart or bowels than of my mortal enemies.” The Court was sorry that the country was not “capable of executing the sentence peculiar to traitors according to the laws and customs of England.” This was to hang the victim for several minutes, cut him down while still alive, rip him open, cut off his head, and then quarter him. So they contended themselves with hanging him in chains, “to be a more remarkable example than the rest.” Ref: Wertenbaker, “Bacon’s Rebellion 1676,” pp. 51-52. British Public Record Office, London, “Colonial Office,” Series Five, 1371, p 152. Berkeley seems to have “overawed or intimidated the Commissioners for it was they had advised ARNOLD be hanged in his own country.” Ref: Morton, “Colonial Virginia,” Vol. 1, pp 279, 291. 7 April 1677 - Petition of the four poor distressed orphans of ANTHONY ARNOLD: To the Commissioners for Virginia – For restitution of their father’s small estate, who was executed for being concerned in Bacon’s Rebellion. To the Right Honourable Herbert Jeffries, Esq. Governor and Capt. Generall of Virginia and His Majestie’s Honourable Commissioners The humble petition of the four poore distressed orphans of ANTHONY ARNOLD Most Humbly Showeth, That your poore petitioners ffather (having been by the spurious though false pretensions of Nathaniel Bacon Junior) seduced into this late Rebellion being arraigned and found guilty was executed for same and his estate (falling by Order of law) Unto our Sovereign Lord the King, hath left your poore distressed petitioners destitute of maintenance and Relief, but such as the charity of some persons moved with the distressedness of our sad and deplorable conditions hath bestowed upon us. However it may please your honor (your petitioners tender and miserable condition considered) toe nothing doubt but that his Most sacred Majestie, out of his grace and accustomed pitty will favourably allow your honours to charitably act in bestowing on your poor petitioners that small estate for their maintainence and education , doth it please God Almighty of his mercy and goodness to Lend unto their ffather soe therefore most humbly inplore your honours clemency and goodness for their Relief in the Premesis. And your poore petitioners shall as in our bond ever pray for your Honours. Ref: “Sainsbury Abstracts,” Vol. XVI, 1676-1677, p. 237. (“Colonial Papers,” 1 page) -10- 17 April 1677 – Inventory of the Estate of ANTHONY ARNOLD. (NOTE reference to a sister.) According to the Order of the Rt. Honorable Sir. Wm. Berkeley. His Reall Estate: A plantation of 1200 acres of Indifferent good land with ordinary Virginia housing upon it together with an under shott mill upon the sd. land: Valued at (blank in original document); 300 acres of Land now laying upon hoarcock Swamp: good land an indifferent good orchard but very bad housing – it was purchased by ARNOLD of John Pigg; 400 acres of Land upon Timber bounded: being good land and very much good timber upon it; 500 acres of Land bought by ARNOLD of Elias Downs being at the head of Pamunkey Neck: bad land: and no buildings; 600 acres of land on north side of Mattapony River joyning upon meadows and purchased of Coll: Clayborn. His Personall Estate: 8 bus. of corn in the grist mill, 8 barrows and spotted sows of 3 years and upwards, 17 swine of one years old and upwards, 3 breeding sows, 20 large pigs or young shoats in all – 48 head. Horses: good saddle horse in the hands of Coll: Clayborn, good breeding mare to house, old cart horse in the hands of John Inge – 3. Cattle: Cows, yearling, 1 young calves – 12 head. 1 old cart with Iron banded wheels, 1 harness for horse: with Capt. Clayborn; 1 gunn, 2 Iron potts – this was in hands of Tho. Miller; old fether bed, very good feth: bed, good worsted rugg – these was in the hands of Mr. John Clayborn; 6 Redd Cushion Chairs. 1 Iron pott of 6 gall., 1 great (?) (?) about 40 gall., 1 mayd for about 3 year of serve - these things was caryed away by Dunbar; 1 Taylor: 1 yr to serve, 1 gold ring worth 30 lb. sterling which by the memory of severall bought persons belongs to Arnold’s sister – these was in the hands of Capt. Jacob Lumpkin; The half of a sloop with John Babb: who bought the sd. halfe of ARNOLD: and hath not paid for it yet. There is divers Papers, bills, bonds and pattents with other writings belonging to ANTH: ARNOLD in the hands of Capt. Jacob Lumpkin. Ref: “Colonial Papers General Series America and West Indies” - An Accot. of the Estate of ANTHONY ARNOLD: who was tryed and condemned for Rebellion and Treason and hung in chains. Transcribed from the Original Document on deposit at the British Public Record Office. CO (Colonial Office) 5/1371 (Part 2) 3211 pp. 475- 476. 17 October 1677 – Inventories of Delinquint Estates of Va. prefixed by a list of debts claimed by divers persons out of the estates contained in this book with mem. signed by Sir John Barry and Fran. Moryson that on his Maj. determination concerning the disposal of said estates herein set down Lieut. Col. George Jordon and Major Theophillis Hone, employed by H. M. Commiss: to report what estates have been seized as forfeited to his Majesty they may be considered out of the said Estate for their great trouble. The following are the names of the persons whose estates are involved. Will Hunt, Giles Bland, Robt. Joanes, Col. Jas. Crewes, Nath. Bacon, Wm. Cookson, Wm. Cromaer (?), John Greene, John. Hes., Capt. Wm. Carver, Wm. Rooking, Tho. Hall, Tho. Willforde, ANTHO. ARNOLD, Henry Page, Tho. Hunsford, Tho. Whaley, Edmund Cheesman. Ref: “Virginia Magazine of History,” Vol. 22, p 366, Colonial Entry Blank No. 81, pp 429-495. 5 March 1683/84 – Rappahannock Co. Court held. Col. John Stone, Capt. Geo. Taylor, Mr. Jas. Harrison, Mr. Wm. Slaughter – Justices. Prelude: To his Excellency Francis Lord Howard, Baron of Effinghim, his Maties Liet. etc etc; Edmd. Jennings his Matyes Attorney Genll, Humbly Sheweth… 1685 Ed. Jennings, Atty Genl brings suit vs. one Coventon indebted to one ARNOLD, who had been executed for high treason. “That Wm. Coventon became indebted unto ANTHONY ARNOLD, the Sum of 700 lbs Tob. and Cask, as by his bill, bearing date the 12th day of Nov. 1672, may appeare and also the sum of 2,000 lbs of tobacco and Cask as by another bill, bearing date ye 14th day of Nov. 1672, may also appeare and whereas the sd ARNOLD was attainted, and executed for high treason, by wc (sic) his Estate, both reall and p’sonall, became forfeited to his most sacred matye, and ye said Coventon having never satisyed or payd the sd sume to the sd ARNOLD before his attainder, or att any time since, and still refusing foe to doe, tho often required.” Ref: Swem, “Virginia Historical Index” 1 C 14, 18-19. 17 November 1683 – ANTHONY ARNOLD executed for high treason. One ANTHONY ARNOLD executed for high treason and one Covington being indebted to him in a certain amount of Tobacco and Cask, judgment prayed against the latter for this debt as confiscated to the Crown etc; also case of one Howerton, in like circumstances. By Edmd Jenning, Atty. General. Ref: Swem, “Virginia Historical Index,” 1C14. 22 May 1684 – Whereas we humbly conceiue the Clerk of the Genll Assembly, hath little more (as Clerk of the Genll Assembly than ye Journal of Yor Exlncy and the Councill Proceedings) and is at no more charge than his attendance here, on his other profitable imployment requires. And the Clerke of the Genll Assembly, hath been known distinct from the Clerke of the Assembly, but since the Genll Assembly 1680. When that most unfortunate vote (for this country of separating the Honble Councill, from ye Comtees of this House past since which Ten thousand pounds of Tobacco, at most wch this house hath continued, was by the Assembly judged a sufficient recompense for such imployment, and as to the Attorney Genll the House doe humbly concieue he is undoubtedly one of those officers mentioned in the Act of June, 1680, for raiseing That reuenue and so provided for by the Act, besides that there are many forfeitures, confiscations, and other things accrueing to his Matie in wch his imployment lyes and particularly ye late obtaining a judgment agst the Estate of Samuel Oustin, deceased, for a debt due from that to the Estate of ANTHONY ARNOLD, forfeited to his Matie and others of like nature, out of wch we did humbly conceiue might properly be Refunded the Reward of such performances. Ref: McIlwaine, “Journal of the House of Burgesses of Virginia,” Vol. II, p 246. -11- Governor Sir William Berkeley Pardon 10 February 1676/1677 – Proclamation of Pardon by Gov. Sir William Berkeley to participants in the late rebellion, certain persons excepted: Whereas Nathaniell Bacon Junior late of this colonie wth divers others his aides abettors adherents and complices being almost all of them persons of mean and desperate fortunes and lately in a most traitorous and rebellious maner did maintaine and prosecute a horrid and most wicked warre within this his Magestie Colonie against his most sacred Majesty and me his Majests Governor which Rebellion was by the said Bacon and his companies violently carried on and prosecuted to the Murther and death of many of his Majesties Leige people, the plunder and utter ruin of severall considerable estates, burning the Church, Statehouse and all other houses in James City and several houses in other parts of the country and by imposing divers unlawful oaths upon the people by which traitorous and rebellious practices the said Nathaniell Bacon and all persons who have born arms under him or willingly joined with or assisted him in his said Wicked rebellion are guilty of high treason and are liable to such paines penalties and forfeitures as the lawes have appointed and ordained for persons guilty of high treason – yet neverthelesse considering that upon my former proclamations severall persons did within the times thereby limited came in and returned to their allegiance and that by the great blessing of Almightly God upon the worthy Gentlemen and others who willingly and faithfully served under me many of the remaining rebells were suppressed scared and quieted and some of the most notorious Rebells justly condemned and executed which so discouraged the rest that upon the death of that grand rebel Nath. Bacon Junior Joseph Ingram who by the Rabble was made their Generall haveing a sense of their former defection and a certainty of their utter ruine if they persisted in their rebellious practices did together with persons then in arms with them sue for accept of pardon Surrender their arms and take his Majesties countrey, that the proclamacon of pardon shall not extend to discharge the lands, Tenements, Goods, Chattles, rights, or other herediments of the said Nathan Bacon, Junior, Will Hunt Senior, and Edmund Chessman who all died in the actuall prosecution of the said Rebellion any of them Nor of the Estates reall or personall of Tho. Hansford, Wm. Drummond, Tho. Wilsford, Wm. Carver, John Farloe, John Johnson, Tho. Young, James Wilson, Henry Sage, Tho. Hall, John Baptista a Frenchman, James Crews, Will Cookson and John Digbie who are condemned and executed for their Rebellion and treason – Provided alsoe that this proclamation shall not extend to the pardon of Richard Lawrence, Tho. Whaley, Robt. Jones, John Sturdivant, Thomas Blayton, John Jenings, Robert Holden, Jno. Phelps, Thomas Matthews, Robert Spring, Stephen Tarleton and Peter Adams being the most active prosecutors ayders and abettors of ye said Rebellion – Nor of any of their estates real or personall but that they and every of them be brought to Legall Tryall and reserved to such paines penalties and forfeitures as shall be justly brought upon every or any of them – Neither shall this proclamation extend to the pardon of Gyles Bland, Thomas Goodrich, ANTH: ARNOLD, John Rutherford, Notorious Rebells being now in prison nor to any other person or persons in prison for the said Rebellion or under bond for their appearance upon Sumons who are also reserved to such paines penalties and forfeitures as shall be agreeable to law and justice nor to John West or John Turner who being legally condemned for Rebellion and Treason made their escapes by breaking prison whom all his Majestys good subjects are required to secure and bring before me Alsoe excepted from this proclamation of pardon Coll. Thomas Swanne, Coll. Thomas Beall and Thomas Bowler three of the Councill of Virginia Coll. Wm. Kendall, Major John West, Capt. Charles Scarburgh, James Turner and those persons who administered and soliticitously advised the taking of Bacon’s unlawfull pernitious and Rebellious Oathes who have been encouragers of and connivers at the said unparalel’d Rebellion and have used most scandalous and affrontive language tending to the dishonor of his most Sacred Majesty and me his governor published declared uttered and done by them to the great and apparent support and heightening of the said Rebellion. But that they and every of them and also Sara the wife and Attorney of Thomas Grendon who by her lying and scandalous reports was the first great encourager and setter on of the ignorant vulgar and hath ever since been an active aider assistor and abettor of ye Rebels be left and refer’d to the Tryall examination and determination of the Rt. Honourable the Commissioners sent into Virginia by his Most sacred Majesty And I doe hereby further publish and declare that all and every person and persons except as is before excepted shall have his and their full free and absolute pardon and indempity in maner and form before mentioned and expresl. But be it further provided that the benefit of his Majesties Most gratious declaration nor of this my proclamation thereupon grounded neither doth nor shall extend to acquitt or discharge any person or persons from making restitution of and for all such rents, debts, Horses, Mares, Cattle, Sheep or other goods or also for any burnings and other devastations which by themselves or any pretended power from the said rebells or any of them have been taken or done but that the owners or proprietors may bring his and their overall and respective actions and suites at law or in equitie for recovery therein – And so God grant that his most sacred Majesties Royall and Gratious Proclamacons upon which this pardon is especially grounded may have the desired effect in continuing this whole country in their allegiance to his Majesty and duety to me his Governor And let every good subject pray for the long health and continued prosperity of our most gracious and mercifull Soveraigne and laying hold upon his great clemencie soe use the same as not to make it any encouragement to future Rebellion – that soe this country may return to its former happiness and tranquillitie. Amen. Given under my hand at Green Spring this Eighth day of February 1676 And in the 29th year of the Raigne of King Charles the Second. William Berkeley Febb. ye tenth 1676/7. God Save the King. Ref: “State Papers, Colonial Virginia” Vol. 60, p 19. -12- Yarbrough’s or ARNOLD/ARNALL’s Ferry One of the most fertile farms between Walkerton (King and Queen Co. VA) and Aylett (King William Co. VA) was one called “Presqu’Isle.” It was given the name by the formation of and “almost island” at the point where the river and a small stream known by the name of Spirit Run nearly surround the tract of land. “Presqu’Isle” is most often referred to as belonging to JOSEPH TEMPLE, acquired by his marriage with ANN ARNOLD daughter of BENJAMIN ARNOLD. Here was ARNOLD’s Ferry sometimes called Yarbrough’s or ARNALL’s. The prologue to its operation adds a zest to its story unique from all other ferry histories, for the 17th century planter on whose land the ferry was ultimately set up, had an aura about him that would excite the imagination of any student of Virginia’s colonial history. Today’s youth would love him! One of the earliest patentees of land along the York and its tributaries (the Mattapony and Pamunkey were thought for a long time to be only branches of the York) was a man named ANTHONY ARNOLD. Where he came from and what was his old- world background, is not known. He was certainly an individualist and a law unto himself. His ideas of a man’s right to his own personal freedom were one hundred years ahead of his time. Had he lived in 1776 instead of 1676 he would now be counted among our great patriots. As it is, few people have heard of him. His persistent cantankerousness was a headache to the Honourable Council. The bold way in which he spoke of Kings and Majesties; his utter disregard for Court Orders and Fines made him a “natural recruit” for Nathaniel Bacon’s Rebellion, and he became one of its more ardent supporters. Upon the failure of that movement he was one of the first to feel the vengeful wrath of Governor Berkeley. On March 9, 1677, twenty-five men were tried and on the 15th all twenty-five were executed. ARNOLD was one of these and the story is that he was hanged in chains from a mulberry tree near today’s Second and Main Streets in West Point (King William Co. VA). There are ample grounds for believing that this protester and rebel was the father of BENJAMIN ARNOLD of “Presqu’Isle.” Beyond doubt certain lands which had been patented by ANTHONY ARNOLD and upon his execution confiscated, were later restored to BENJAMIN ARNOLD, though nowhere is he actually stated to have been the son of the condemned man. For many years ARNOLD’s Ferry was the only crossing place in this part of our county over to King William. No termination date for its operation was discovered but it must have ceased to run sometime before 1786, when Philip Aylett petitioned for a ferry on his land because of the inconvenience people in that section “must suffer for want of a ferry.” A 1727 map proves that ARNOLD’s Ferry was operating then and may well have continued past the middle of the century, going by the name of Temple’s Ferry, after 1748. (Notes from the collection of the late Elizabeth Hawes Ryland revealed much of this information) Ref: “The Bulletin of the King and Queen County Historical Society of Virginia,” No. 31, July 1971. -13- Hillsborough, Home of ANTHONY ARNOLD On a high bank overlooking two curves in the picturesque Mattaponi River stands “Hillsborough,” (King and Queen Co. VA) said to have been built by Col. Humphrey Hill. Succeeding generations of his descendents have lived in this house and are still living there. The place stands as a symbol of the continuity in American life and the deep roots of Virginia families. As there were no good roads inland, the Mattaponi River was the highway in the early years of “Hillsborough,” the house must have looked upon a busy scene when the traffic from four large estates was in full view. “Ricahock,” the home of Col. Larkin Smith, was in the bend down the river; and on the next point was “Mantua,” which can been seen in a mile-wide view across the water and marshes. On the opposite side of the river were Horse Landing and Woodberry in King William County. In addition, there passed on the river the trade from the warehouses at Walkerton, Aylett and Todd’s Landing; the pig-iron from “The Forge,” and loadings from landings as far up as the present number one Highway in Caroline County. Vessels were heavily loaded at these places with tobacco and grain, and they returned lightly loaded with manufactured articles, but weighted with the ballast rocks which can be found on the shores of all the rivers of Tidewater Virginia. There were enough of these rocks at “Hillsborough” to build the foundation of a large tobacco barn, and a rock wharf that can still be seen on low tide. The house, fifty-two by thirty feet, is two stories high, and has weather boarding front and back, and brick ends. There is a cornice with square modillions and delicate dentils. Four tall chimneys rise, two on each side, above the hipped roof, unbroken by dormers. There are nine windows and a doorway front and back. A basement is under the entire house, whose doors are wide enough for a tobacco hogshead to roll through. There are four arched fireplaces, but only one has a flue passing upward from the arch. The entrance from the land side is now used as the main entrance, and in the summer one can look through the hall, across the lawn, and over the crepe myrtle bushes that frame a view of the river. A beautiful black walnut stairway rises from the river entrance, and the hall has a pine dado five feet high, with the original paint still on it. Four rooms open from this center hall. With minor changes, the house stands today as it was built. The earliest recorded history of this place is found in a patent issued to Edward Digges, April 18, 1653. From a study made by Dr. M. C. Harris of the records of this period, it is evident that ANTHONY ARNOLD who was one of the followers of Nathaniel Bacon, lived here before 1665. He was captured by the forces under Gov. Berkeley, and hung (sic) in chains from a mulberry tree in West Point, Virginia. In the public records office in Washington there is a copy of a petition from the four distressed orphans of ANTHONY ARNOLD to the Commissioners, in 1677; asking for restitution of their deceased father’s estate, who was executed for being concerned in Bacon’s Rebellion. The inventory of the estate of ANTHONY ARNOLD includes this: A plantation of 2,000 acres of indifferent good land with ordinary Virginia housing upon it, together with an undershott mill upon sd land. 300 acres of land on creek, indifferent good orchard, but very bad housing, it was purchased by ARNOLD of John Pigge. 600 acres of land upon north side of Mattaponi River, joining Mode’s purchase of Col. William Claybourne. On April 23, 1688, ANTHONY ARNOLD’s son, BENJAMIN ARNOLD, was issued a patent 1754 acres of land in New Kent County, upon the north side of Mattaponi River: formerly granted to Capt. Taylor, and sold to ANTHONY ARNOLD, decd. originally 1050 acres – a resident of 704 acres taken up for transportation of 15 persons named --. From the description of the boundaries in this patent, it is evident that this is the area that is now “Mantua,” “Ricahook,” “Hillsborough,” “Claymount,” and “Loudon” farms. The “undershott mill” stood where the road crosses Garnett’s Mill Swamp at “Mantua.” The landing at “Hillsborough,” which is just up the river from the house site, is evidence that this is the original site of this plantation. It is near the center of this area; up the river there is marsh land, and down the river, the banks are very high, and there is no suitable approach to the river for a landing. There is a deep, wide passage through the islands in the middle of the river to Horse Landing on the King William side. BENJAMIN ARNOLD lived at this place and it was here that the disturbance arose over the toast to the King and Queen which Jacob Lumpkin refused to drink in 1691. There are several petitions to the General Assembly from the Chickahominy Indians in connection with this land, and it was called “Rickahock Land.” The history of this area is in various fragments for the next thity years, but circumstances indicate that it belonged to the Baylors after 1700. They had an extensive shipping business in this neighborhood at that time. When the Knights of the Golden Horseshoe returned with the Governor from the mountains in 1716, they stopped at Baylor’s on the Mattaponi and spent the night. The next day, they crossed the river and went to church in King William County. On the Jefferson- Frye map of 1751 we see “Mantua,” “Ricahock” and “Hillsborough” located as they are today. Since historical material is being circulated more freely, it is hoped that some day these fragments can be put with additional material to complete the story. “Hillsborough,” of course, gets its name from Humphrey Hill, and it is with this name that the house has always been closely associated. About two hundred and fifty years ago he came to Virginia as an agent for Humphrey Bell and Co. of London. The son of Thomas Hill and Edith (Bell) Hill, of London, England, he was born in 1706 and was “a blue coat boy of Christ Church Hospital School, where the record of his matriculation is still preserved.” He lived first at Hobbe’s Hole, which is now Tappahannock; then in King and Queen County and in King William County, before settling permanently at “Hillsborough.” He married Frances Baylor, daughter of Col. Robert Baylor, and it is probable that through his connection he acquired this property. The brick store house which still stands at “Hillsborough” is doubtless the one used by Humphrey Hill in storing the cargoes of his own incoming vessels. Ref: “The Bulletin of the King and Queen County Historical Society,” No. 2, Jan. 1957. -14- The Struggle Against Tyranny 1676 to 1691 Nathaniel Bacon, kinsman of the councilor of that name, had been in the colony only two years. He owned lands along the James River at the Curles. In April 1676 he was haled (sic) as a leader by the angered colonists along the Appomattox and they enlisted to serve under him in a campaign against the Indians. When the colonists had signed a circular enlistment so that no one could be singled out as a ring leader, Bacon “crossed to New Kent to list the people thereabout as it was a section ripe for rebellion.” This section of New Kent was Saint Stephen’s Parish. Colonel Thomas Goodrich, Thomas Hall, clerk of the county, and ANTHONY ARNOLD, associate of Colonel Brewerton, were among the leaders who joined Bacon. The evidence is that most of the colonists of Saint Stephen’s also joined with these leaders although many of the large absentee landlords frowned on Bacon’s methods. The Pamunkey, Mattaponi, and Chickahominy Indians assembled from their scattered villages and took refuse (sic) in the Mattaponi town. Bacon and Goodrich judged this position too strong to be taken. Bacon returned to the James, and successfully led his expedition against the Susquehannocks and the Occoneechee Indians. He then found that he had been declared a rebel by Berkeley but also that the Governor had ordered an election of a new House of Burgesses. Bacon was elected Burgess in spite of the proclamation against him. He went to Jamestown and was pardoned. Suspicious of Berkeley’s sincerity, Bacon returned to the James and collected his followers and moved on Jamestown. Bacon now controlled the Assembly and by June 26 the Burgesses passed laws liberalizing elections and correcting some conditions and commissioned Bacon the commander of the Forces. During May and June events had moved rapidly in Saint Stephen’s Parish. Berkeley sent the elderly Colonel Claiborne to treat with the Indians at the Mattaponi town. The Indian Queen refused to leave the “fort” saying that Berkeley could not care for himself let alone protect her people. At this conference the incident occurred noted by Robert Beverly as illustrating the stern discipline among the Indian tribes. As one of the chiefs was speaking , “One of his attendants presumed to interrupt him, which he resented as the most unpardonable affront that could be offered him, and therefore he instantly took his tomahawk from his girdle and split the fellow’s head for his presumption. The poor fellow dying immediately upon the spot, he commanded some of his men to carry him out and went on again with his speech where he left off as unconcern’d as if nothing had happened.” This parley with the Indians gained nothing and between June 20-25 “eight colonists were killed on the York,” apparently in upper Saint Stephen’s. This brought on the actual fighting among the colonists of “Bacon’s Rebellion.” Bacon ordered a mobilization of the colonists on June 26 and sent his officers into Gloucester to raise the militia and gather supplies. He himself immediately left Jamestown and moved into New Kent, probably with his headquarters at Fort Mattaponi or Mantapike, to await troops and supplies. Berkeley then left Jamestown and moved into Gloucester where the large landowners had resisted Bacon’s impressments of their servants and horses. Here Berkeley stated that Bacon had no commission and that he was a rebel; and Berkeley took command of the militia. Two colonial forces were arrayed against each other, Bacon on the upper Mattaponi and Berkeley in Gloucester. Bacon moved against Berkeley, moving down the old Indian trail. In Gloucester the body of the people refused to serve with Berkeley and he fled across the Bay, many of the large landowners with him. This occurred in July. At about this time there was a skirmish between some of Bacon’s people and some of Berkeley’s at the present site of Miller’s Tavern. With Berkeley in flight, Bacon now called for a convention to be held in the Middle Plantation (Williamsburg) on August 3 in order that he should have some authority for his actions. A “Declaration of the People” was prepared and the colonists agreed to oppose any British troops until Bacon’s case was heard. Bacon organized the peninsulars between the James and York and York and Rappahannock. John Hansford, son of a patentee near Mantapike and step-son of Edward Lockey of “Tower Hill,” was commissioned a Colonel and placed in command at Jamestown. Bacon sent his single large ship with 250 of his men against Berkeley on the Eastern shore. This was a serious mistake as by a ruse Berkeley’s forces captured the ship and the troops of Bacon, and thus deprived the Baconites of any sea power. Berkeley immediately sent advices to England of the rebellion. In late August there was another raid by the King and Queen Indians and two colonists were reported killed. Bacon moved in force against the Indian town which was described as “On a piece of champion ground, surrounded on three sides with swamps and with a dense growth of small oke saplings, chinkapin bushes and grape vines.” This attack was successful and forty-five Indian warriors were captured. The Pamunkey queen made her escape. Her “old nurse” was killed somewhere between Chapel Hill Creek and the head of the Dragon by a colonist striking her on the head. The Queen and a young boy “wandered” for fourteen days in the swamps of the upper Dragon. While Bacon was reducing this Indian fort in King and Queen, Berkeley had assembled 200 men on the Eastern Shore and embarked them on the guardship and the ship captured from Bacon’s officers and in small sloops. At Elizabeth City he was joined by 100 men and with this force sailed up the James River and on September 8 retook Jamestown. Bacon’s force in Saint Stephen’s Parish had been reduced to 136 men. He had commissioned Goodrich a General and given to him the task of bringing the Northern Neck and the northern part of the Colony under control of the Bacon faction. When Bacon learned of the loss of Jamestown he marched south with his small force and took with them the 45 captured Indians. It is probably that he crossed the Mattaponi at Mantapike. On his march south, many planters joined him and on September 10 or 11 his small force was in front of Berkeley at Jamestown. Here Bacon entrenched his soldiers, the first recorded use of such defenses by the English in the New World. While his men were “digging in,” Bacon protected them from fire by placing in front of his position Mistresses John Page, Thomas Ballard, James Bray, Nathan Bacon (wife of his cousin), and Otho Thorpe. Two of these ladies were wives of landowners of Stratton Major Parish who had remained with Berkeley. On September 15 Berkeley attempted to attack Bacon but his troops would not advance and on September 17 Berkeley withdrew to his ships and that night Bacon burned Jamestown. After his victory at Jamestown, the people south of the James proclaimed Bacon in “great multitudes.” However news from the north of the colony was less favorable and Bacon learned that Colonel Giles Brent, of Stafford County, was moving southward with the militia from north of the Rappahannock. Bacon crossed into Gloucester to get men from that county to meet this threat. At first they declined to take the oath to support him if British troops came to the colony but then acceeded and Bacon moved north again through King and Queen to meet Brent. As Brent’s forces drew near to battle, the colonists under Brent deserted their leader for Bacon. With this threat overcome, Bacon marched back down the Indian trail. Here at Major Thomas Pate’s house on the Poropotank he was taken ill. In his fever he was “inquiring ever and anon after the arrival of frigates and soldiers from England.” He died on October 26, 1676. Joseph Ingram succeeded Bacon as commander of the military forces while Drummond and Lawrence continued as the civil leaders of the revolutionists. Ingram faced the problem of defending the Tidewater against invasion from the Eastern Shore and from England. His headquarters were at Brick House, seat of the court of New Kent, and his main force of some 400, including 80 negroes, were at Captain West’s house at West Point. His center of resistance was along the York River with Captain Read’s at Yorktown a fort commanded by Colonel Hansford, and at Nathaniel Bacon’s (the councillor) a fort commanded by Major Whaley. His field force of “horse and foot” was under the command of Lt. General Gregory Wakelett and was in Stratton Major Parish. Along the James River two houses, including Governor Berkeley’s “Green Springs,” were fortified. General Goodrich was in charge of all operations along the Rappahannock and the Northern Neck. In November, Berkeley, knowing that British troops were on the way, took the offensive. His first blow was at Read house fort commanded by young Hansford. Major Robert Beverley commanded Berkeley’s forces and captured this outpost. Berkeley then moved up the James River and occupied Jamestown. The men of Gloucester were now raised by Major Lawrence Smith and those of Middlesex by Sir Henry Chicheley and these two forces advanced into lower King and Queen. In two battles, the first in King and Queen, General Wakelett defeated both the force of Major Smith and the troops of Chicheley. King and Queen, New Kent, and lower King William were the lands that were now furnishing the supplies for the Bacon forces. Captain Grantham, a British sea captain, was commissioned by Governor Berkeley to treat with the revolutionists and to tell them of the expected arrival of the British troops. Amnesty was promised to all save Drummond and Lawrence. Ingram accepted these terms first and was then followed by Wakelett who disbanded his forces in Stratton Major. Drummond was captured in the swamps of the Chickahominy. (One page of text missing from MacIvor report) …Pigg’s and by Peck Hill’ and a few years later added 1770 acres in King William, the present “Presque Isle” and established ARNOLD’s Ferry. Robert Jones recovered his patent for 250 acres near the Brewerton lands. Three other events influenced King and Queen history. Troops of the British regiment that arrived were quartered at Fort Mattaponi on the site of present Walkerton; in 1678 a new Fort Mattaponi was built at the head of the river by the Councillor Nathaniel Bacon and the troops moved there under the command of the King and Queen planter, George Lyddal; a treaty was made with the Pamunkey Indians on May 29, 1677, at Middle Plantation. By this treaty the Pamunkey and Mattaponi tribes were given lands on Pamunkey Neck and moved from the upper Mattaponi. This treaty remains in effect until this day. The Chickahominies and some of the Mattaponis chose to remain on their former fields and their descendants are the Indians in the northwestern part of the County. Ref: “A True Relation of the History of King and Queen County in Virginia 1607- 1790.” Published by the County Committee in connection with the celebration of Virginia’s 350th Anniversary. 1957. -15- Our Late Troubles 1676 To Mr. C. H. at Yardley in Northamptonshire. Sir. I haveing seene yours directed to (text missing) and considering that you cannot have your desires satisfied that way, for the forementioned reasons, I have by his permition, adventured to send you this briefe acount, of those affaires, so far as I have bin informed. The Susquehanians and Marylanders of friendes being ingaged enimyes (as hath by former letter bin hinted to you) and that the Indians being ressalutely bent not to forsake there forte; it came to this pointe, yt the Marylanders were obliged (findeing themselves too weake to do the worke themselves) to suplycate (too some granted) aide of the Verginians, put under the conduct of one Collonel Washington (him whom you have sometimes seene at your howse) who being joyned with the Marylanders, invests the Indians in there forte, with a neglegent siege; upon which the enimye made severall salleys, with as many losses to the beseegers; and at last gave them the opertunity to disart the Fort, after that the English had (contrary to ye law of arms) beate out the Braines of 6 grate men sent out to treate a peace: an action of ill consequence, as it proved after. For the Indians having in the darke, slipt through the Legure, and in there passage knock’d 10 of the beseigers on the head, which they found fast a-sleep, leaving the rest to prosecute the Seige, (as Scoging’s Wife brooding the Eggs which the Fox had suck’d) they resolved to imploy there liberty in avenging there Commissionres blood, which they speedily effected in the death of sixty inosscent soules, and then send in there Remonstrance to the Governour, in justification of the fact, with this expostulation annext: Demanding what it was moved him to take up arms against them, his professed friends, in the behalfe of the Marylanders, there avowed enimyes. Declaring there sorow to see the Verginians, of friends to becom such violent enimies as to persue the Chase … (One page of text missing from MacIvor report) … 30 or 40 miles to find Bakon out, but not knowing which way he was gon, he dismisseth his army, retireing himself and councell, to James Towne, there to be redy for the assembly, which was now upon the point of meeting: Whither Bacon some few days after his return hom from his Indian march, repared to render an account of his servis; for which himself and most of those with him in the expedition, were imprissoned; from whence they were freed by judgment in court upon Bacon’s tryall, himself readmitted into the councell and promised a commission the Monday following (this was on the Saturday) against the Indians; with which deluded, he smothers his resentments, and beggs leave to visit his Lady (now sick, as he pretended) which granted, hee returnes to Towne at the head of 4 or 5 hundred men, well Arm’d: reassumes his demands for a commission. Which, after som howers strugling with the Governour, being obtained, according to his desire, hee takes order for the countreyes security, against the attemps of sculking Indians; fills up his numbers and provissiones, according to the gage of his commission; and so once more advanceth against the Indians, who heareing of his approaches, calls in their Runers and scouts, be taking themselves to there subterfuges and lurking holes. The General (for so he was now denominated) had not reach’d the head of York River, but that a Post overtakes him, and informes, that Sr. W. B. was a raiseing the Traine-bands in Glocester, with an intent, eather to fall into his reare, or otherways to cutt him off when he should return wery and spent from his Indians servis. This strange newes put him, and those with him, shrodly to there Trumps, beleiveing that a few such Deales or shufles (call them which you will) might quickly ring both cards and game out of his hands. He saw that there was an abselute necessety of destroying the Indians, and that there was som care to be taken for his owne and Armys safety, other-ways the worke might happen to be rechedly don, where the laberours were made criples, and be compeld (insteade of a sword) to make use of a cruch. It vext him to the heart (as he said) to thinke, that while he was a hunting Wolves, tigers and bears, which daly destroyed our harmless and innosscent Lambs, that hee, and those with him, should be persewed in the reare with a full cry, as more savage beasts. He perceved like the corne, he was light between those stones which might grinde him to pouder; if he did not looke the better about him. For the preventing of which, after a short consult with his officers, he countermarcheth his Army (about 500 in all) downe to the midle Plantation: of which the Governour being informed, ships himself and adhearers, for Accomack (for the Gloster men refused to owne his quarill against the Generall) after he had caused Bacon, in these parts to be proclaimed a Rebell once more, July 29. Bacon being sate down with his Army at the midle Plantation, sends out an invitation unto all the prime Gent: men in these parts, to give him a meeting in his quarters, there to consult how the Indians were to be proceeded against, and himself and Army protected against the desines of Sr. W. B. against whose Papers, of the 29 of May, and his Proclameation since, he puts forth his Replication and those papers upon these Dellama’s. First, whether persons wholy devoted to the King and countrey, haters of sinester and by-respects, adventering there lives and fortunes, to kill and destroy all in Arms, against King and countrey; that never ploted, contrived, or indevioured the destruction, detryement or wrong of any of his Majesties subjects, there lives, fortunes, or estates can desurve the names of Rebells and Traters: secondly he cites his owne and soulders peaceable behaviour, calling the wholl countrey to witness against him if they can; hee upbrades som in authorety with the meaneness of there parts, others now rich with the meaneness of there estates, when they came into the countrey, and questions by what just ways they have obtained there welth; whether they have not bin the spunges that hath suck’d up the public tresury: Questions what arts, sciences, schools of Learning, or manufactorys, have bin promoted in authorety: Justefyes his adverssion, in generall against the Indians; upbrades the Governour for manetaneing there quarill, though never so unjust, against the Christians rights; his refuseing to admit an English mans oath against an Indian, when that Indians bare word should be accepted of against an Englishman: sath sumthing against ye Governour concerning the Beaver trade, as not in his power to dispose of to his owne profit, it being a Monopeley of the crowne; Questions whether the Traders at the heads of the Rivers being his Facters, do not buy and sell the blood of there breatheren and country men, by furnishing the Indians with Pouder, shott and Fire Arms, contrary to the Laws of the Collony: He araignes one colonel Cowells asscertion, for saying that the English are bound to protect the Indians, to the hassard of there blood. And so concludes with an Appeale to the King and Parliament, where he doubts not but that his and the Peoples cause will be impartially heard. To comply with the Generalls Invetation, hinted in my former letter, there was a grate convention of the people met him in his quarters; the result of whose meeting was an Ingagement, for the people (of what qullety soever, excepting servants) to subscribe to consisting of 3 heads. First to be aideing, with there lives and estates, the Generall, in the Indian war; secondly, to opose Sr. Williams designes, if hee had any, to hinder the same; and lastly, to protect the Generall, Army and all that should subscribe this Ingagement, against any power that should be sent out of England, till it should be granted that the countreys complaint might be heard, against Sr. William before the King and Parliament. These 3 heads being methodized, and put in to form, by the Clarke of ye Assembly, who happened to be at this meeting, and redd unto the people, held a despute, from allmost noone, till midnight, pro and con, whether the same might, in the last Article especially, be with out danger taken. The Generall, and som others of the cheife men was Resalute in the affirmative, inserting its innosscency, and protesting, without it, he would surrender up his commission to the Assembly, and lett them finde other servants, to do the countreys worke: this, and the newse, that the Indians were fallen downe in to Gloster county, and had kill’d som people, a bout Carters Creeke; made the people willing to take the Ingagement. The chiefe men that subscribed it at this meeting, were coll. Swan, coll. Beale, coll. Ballard, Esq. Bray, (all foure of the councell) coll. Jordan, coll. Smith, of Purton, coll. Scarsbrook, coll. Miller, coll. Lawrance, and Mr. Drommond, late Governour of Carolina; all persons, with whom you have bin formerly acquainted. This worke being over, and orders taken for an Assemblye to sitt downe the 4 of September (the writs being issued out in his majestyes name, and signed by 4 of the Councell, before named) the Generall once more sitts out to finde the Indians: of which Sr. William have gained intelligence, to prevent Bacons designes by the Assembley, returns from Accomack, with a bout 1000 soulders, and others, in 5 shipps and 10 sloops to James towne; in which was som 900 Baconians (for soe now they began to be called, for a marke of destinction) under the command of coll. Hansford, who was commissionated by Bacon, to raise Forces (if need were) in his absence, for the safety of the countrey. Unto these Sr. William sends in a summons for a Rendition of ye place, with a pardon to all that would decline Bacons and entertaine his cause. What was returned to his sommons I know not; but in the night the Baconians forsake the Towne, by the advice of Drummond and Lawrence (who were both excepted, in the Governours sommons, out of mercy) every one returning to their owne aboades, excepting Drommond, Hansford, Lawrence, and some few others, who goes to finde out the Generall, now returned to the head of York River, haveing spent his provisions in following the Indians on whom he did sum execution, and sent them packing a grate way from the Borders. Before that Drommond and those with him had reached the Generall, he had dismist his Army, to there respective habitations, to gather strength against the next intended expedition; eccepting som frew resarved for his Gard, and persons liveing in these parts; unto whom, those that came with Hansford being joyned, made about 150 in all: With these Bacon, by a swift march, before any newes was heard of his return from the Indians, in these parts, came to Towne, to ye consternation of all in it, and there blocks the Governour up; which he easily effected by this unheard of project. He was no sooner arrived at Towne, but by several small parties of Horse (2 or 3 in a party, for more he could not spare) he fetcheth into his little Leagure, all the prime mens wives, whose Husbands were with the Governour, (as coll. Bacons Lady, Madm. Bray, Madm. Page, Madm. Ballard, and others) which the next morning he presents to the view of there husbands and friends in towne, upon the top of the smalle worke hee had cast up in the night; where he caused them to tarey till hee had finished his defence against his enemies shott, it being the onely place (as you do know well enough) for those in towne to make a salley at. Which when completed, and the Governour understanding that the Gentle women were withdrawne in to a place of safety, he sends out some 6 or 700 hundred of his soulders, to beate Bacon out of his Trench: But it seems that those works, which were protected by such charms (when a raiseing) that plug’d up the enimys shot in there gains, could not now be storm’d by a vertue less powerfull (when finished) then the sight of a few white Aprons; otherways the servis had bin more honourable and the damage less, several of those who made the salley being slaine and wounded, without one drop of Blood drawne from the enemy. With in too or three days after this disaster, the Governour reships himself, soulders, and all the inhabitants of the towne, and there goods: and so to Accomack a gane; leaving Bacon to enter the place at his pleasure, which he did the next morning before day, and the night following burns it downe to the ground to prevent a futer seege, as hee saide. Which Flagrant, and Flagitious Act performed, he draws his men out of town and marcheth them over York River, at Tindells point, to fine out collnell Brent, who was advancing fast upon him, from Potomack, at the head of 1200 men, (as he was informed) with a designe to raise Bacons seige, from before the towne, or other ways to fight him, as he saw cause. But, Brents soulders no sooner heard that Bacon was got to the north-side Yorke River, with an intent to fight them, and that he had beate the Governour out of the towne, and fearing, if he met with them; that he might beate them out of there lives they basely forsake there colours, the greater part adheareing to Bacons cause; resolveing with the Perssians to go and worship the rising sun, now approaching nere there Horisson: of which Bacon being informed, he stops his proceedings that way, and begins to provide for a nother expedition a gainst the Indian, of whom he had heard no news since his last March, a gainst them: which while he was a contrieving, Death summons him to more urgent affairs in to whose hands (after a short seige) he surrenders his life, leaving his commition in the custody of his Leif’t Generall, one Ingram, newly comin to the countrey. Sr. William no sooner had news that Bacon was Dead but he sends over a party, in a sloop to Yorke who snap’d collonell Hansford, and others with him, that kep a negilegent Gard at coll. Reades howse under his command: When Hansford came to Acomack, he had the honour to be the first Verginian born that ever was hang’d; the soulders (about 20 in all) that were taken with him, were commited to Prisson. Capt. Carver, Capt. Wilford, Capt. Farloe, with 5 or 6 others of less note, taken at other places, ending there days as Hansford did; Major Chessman bein appointed (but is seems not destinated to the like end,) which he prevented by dying in prison through ill usage, as it is said. This execution being over (which the Baconians termed crewilty in the abstract) Sr. William ships himself and soulder for York River, casting Anchor at Tindells point; from whence he sends up a hundred and 20 men to surprise a Gard, of about, 80 men and boys, kept at coll. Bacons howse, under the command of Major Whaly; who being fore-warn’d by Hansford fate, prevented the designed conflict with the death of the commander in cheife, and the taking som prisoners: Major Lawrence Smith, with 600 men, meeting with the like fate at coll. Pates Howse, in Gloster, a gainst Ingram, (the Baconian Generall) onely Smith saved himself, by leaving his men in the lurtch, being all made prisoners; whom Ingram dismist to their own homes; Ingram himself, and all under his command, with in a few days after, being reduced to his duty, by the well contrivance of Capt. Grantham, who was now lately arrived in York River: which put a period to the war, and brought the Governour a shoare at coll. Bacons, where he was presented with Mr. Drumond; taken the day before in Cheekanonimy swomp, half famished, as him self related to my Husband. From coll. Bacons, the next day, he was convayed, in Irons to Mr. Brays (whither the Governour was removed) to his Tryall, where he was condemn’d with in halfe an hower after his coming to Esqr. Brays, to be handed at the midle Plantation, within 4 howers after condemnation; where he was accordingly, executed, with a pittiful French man. Which don, the Governour removes to his owne howse, to settle his and the countryes repose, after his many troubles; which he effected by the advice of his councel and an Assembly convein’d at the Greene Spring; where severall were condemned to be executed, prime actors in ye Rebellion; as Esqr. Bland, coll. Cruse, and som other hanged at Bacons Trench; Capt. Yong, of Cheekahominy, Mr. Hall, clarke of New-Kent court, James Wilson (once your servant) and one Leift. Collonell Page, (one that my Husband bought of Mr. Lee, when he kep store at your howse) all four executed at coll. Reads, over against Tindells point; and ANTHONY ARNELL (the same that did live at your howse) hanged in chanes at West point, beside severall others executed on the other side James River: enough (they say in all) to out number those slane in the wholl war; on both sides: it being observable that the sword was more favourable than the Halter, as there was a grater liberty taken to run from the sharpness of the one, then would be alowed to shun the dull imbraces of the other: the Hangman being more dredfull to the Baconians, then there Generall was to the Indians; as it is counted more honourable, and less terable, to dye like a soulder, then to be hang’d like a dogg. Thus Sr. have I rendered you an account of our late troubles in Verginia, which I have performed too wordishly; but I did not know how to help it; Ignorance in som cases is a prevalent ovatour in pleading for pardon, I hope mine may have the fortune to prove soe in the behalfe of Sr. Yor. ffriend and servant, An. Cotton. From Q. Creeke. Ref: Ann Cotton, “An Account of Our Late Troubles in Virginia, 1676,” Published from the Original Manuscript in the “Richmond, VA, Enquirer” 12 Sept. 1804; Printed by Peter Force, Washington, DC 1835. (N. B – Mrs. Cotton was of Queen’s Creek.) -16- BENJAMIN ARNOLD’s Family Group Sheet Husband – ARNOLD, BENJAMIN Occupation – Planter, Surveyor Church – (Blank) Lived at – New Kent, King and Queen, King William Cos. Va. Military Service – None Born – ca 1666; Place – Prob. New Kent Co. Married – ca 1690; Place (Blank) Died – ca 1723; Place – King William Co. Va. Buried at – Prob. King William Co. Va. Father – ANTHONY ARNOLD Mother – (Blank) Other wives – None Wife (nee) – ANNE All other categories (blank) (N. B. – A. A. H.: Per case BEN ARNOLD vs Capt. Jacob Lumpkin of 29 September 1690 New Kent Co. VA, ANN gives testimony and states she is “Aged 18 years or thereabout.”) Children: 1. JANE (d after 1 Aug 1760. Seen, Spotsylvania Co. Va.) Marriage – GEORGE WOODROOF and RICHARD WOODROOF. 2. RACHEL (d after 19 Nov 1778. Seen, Spotsylvania Co. Va) Marriage – FRANCIS ARNOLD. 3. BENJAMIN (b ca 1712 King William Co. Va. – d after 30 Jan 1796 Greenville Co. SC) Marriage – ANNE HENDRICKS 4. ANNE (b ca 1714 – d after 11 Dec 1781, King William Co., Va) – Marriage – JOSEPH TEMPLE. Abstract of a Will or Administration Name – ARNOLD State – Virginia County – King William County Seat – King William 23086 (zip) Testator or Deceased – BENJAMIN ARNOLD (N. B.: This is a reconstructed will based on other documents.) Occupation: Planter, Surveyor, Speculator Date of death: ca 1723 Date will signed: Unknown Date estate entered into probate: Unknown Date will was recorded: Unknown Date of division and settlement: (Blank) Date of final settlement: (Blank) Executors or Administrators: Unknown Petitioners: (Blank) Witnesses: (Blank) Bondsmen: (Blank) Heirs: Wife, Mrs. ANNE ARNOLD, Son, BENJAMIN ARNOLD, Daus. JANE ARNOLD md GEORGE WOODRUFF; RACHEL ARNOLD md. FRANCIS ARNOLD; ANNE ARNOLD md. JOSEPH TEMPLE. -17- BENJAMIN and ANN ARNOLD – Documents 1683 – St. Stephen’s Parish, Petition. To the Rt. Honno’ll S’r Henry Chicheley Kt: his Ma’ties Deputy Governo’r and Cap’t Gener’ll of Virginia And to the Honno’ll Councill of State. We the subscribers inhabitants and housekeepers of St. Stephens parish in the County of New Kent most humbly sheweth: That yo’r Petition’rs have been for severall years past burthened w’th an illegal Vestry Elected and made up for the major part without the knowledge or consent of the parish as the Law Injoynes: and of such Illitterate and Ignorant ment as are and have been, Ever Ruled and Owed by one or two particular persons, who are soe insulting, and of such ill disposed and turbulent spirits and dispositions, That noe Minister Cann or will stay w’th us or teach amongst us: by w’ch meenes, the Service of God is wholly neglected, Our Church gon to Ruine, and Church Discipline and Government: Almost nearly laid aside: And forasmuch as our said Parish is not destitute of such Able, discreet, and honest men as may fittly supply the places of severall week and Ignorant persons of the present vestry according to the good lawes of this Country: Yo’r Petition’rs in all humility supplicateth y’or honn’rs that wee may have Liberty to Elect and Make Cleare by the Gener’ll vote of the Inhabitants of our said Parish of Persons (for a new vestry) as in our Judgem’t may seeme meet and convenient which will Indubiately tend much to the Glory of God, And the Peace and Welfare of the whole parish and yo’r Pet’rs as in all Humility and Duty bound for yo’r Honn’rs shall Ever pray etc. Willia’ Wyatt, Jacob Lumpkin, John x Davis, William x Burch, BENJ. ARNOLD, James Taylor, William Parker, William Hanes, Abraham Estes, Alexandr Smith, George x Breedings, Robert Spencer, Anthony Richardson, Richard Harmon, John Wood, John Richards, John Middleton, Jos. Cockerham, Richard Owen, John Madison, Jonathan Grilles, Edward x Pigge, Nath x Vies, Jame’s Cammell, William x D (torn), Matthw Yorke, Thomas Hopkins, Henry x Philips, Henry x Pigg, Robert Coleman, Timothy x Lovey, John Lylly his mark, John x Cooke, Dennis x Scandon, Daniell x Scandons marke, Thomas White x his marke, Edward x Shurly, George Weston, David Cave, Edward Ey(?), Robert Pollard, James x Gray, Willia x Symore, Joseph x Haile, Robert x Newis, Jerimiah x Claiton, Wilkinsons x (?), (?) (?), William x Nichols, William Holcomb, James Didlock, Timothy Carter, John x Derham, John x Major, Simon x Ramsey, Samuell x Connaway, Alexander x Camwell, Willia’ x Finny his mark, Ringing x Gardner, William x Blake, Thom x Plunkett, Nicholas x Abbott, John x Brae, John x Dobbs, Willia’ x Harper, Rich: x Williams. Endorsed: “St. Stephens Parish Petition 1683. Inhabitants of St. Stephens Parish, New Kent. Complain of Vestry No. 41.” Also marked: “A Council Paper 1682: 1683 and 1684.” Archives Division, Virginia State Library, Richmond, Colonial Papers. 1657-1687. 23 April 1688 – Frances, Lord Howard, grants unto Mr. BENJAMIN ARNOLD 1754 acres of land in New Kent County on North side of Mattapony River, 1050 acres formerly granted to Captain James Taylor and by him sold to ANTHONY ARNOLD, deceased. 704 acres beginning below the Mill Creek as near the River as could be … in sight of Daniel Coleman’s plantation, to Pick’s hill, by William and Thomas Camper; over the Mill Creek … etc. For transportation of 15 persons (named – all negroes.) Pat. Bk, 7, p 635 Ref: Nugent, “Cavaliers and Pioneers,” Vol. II, p 320. (N. B. – H. A. M. – The name James Taylor is used in error here. See my index of names associated with ANTHONY ARNOLD under James Taylor) -18- Charges against Captain Jacob Lumpkin 29 September 1690 – New Kent – At a court held Septemr 29th, 1690 at Mr. Tunstall’s. Gents – Coll. John West, Capt. Roger Malory, Mr. Thom. ffoster, Capt. Jos. ffoster, Mr. Robert Bird, Capt. John Lane, Mr. Jos. Story – Justices. It is ordered upon returne of an Information BENJAMIN ARNOLD made before Capt. John Lane and Mr. Robert Bird, Justices, against Capt. John Lumpkin for Seditious, unlawful and dangerous words expressed against their Majestyes and their present Governour, that ye Sheriff Sumon the said Capt. Lumpkin and all the Evidense to Appeare at the house of Mr. Edmond Tunstall on ye 9 day of Octobr next, when the Court have Appointed to meet and examine the Evidence therein and alsoe that ye Sheriff give all the Norhside Gentlemen Notice hereof for Speedy Tryall of ye matter. Test: Job. Howes, Cl. Cur. New Kent – At a Court held for examination of Evidence upon BEN ARNOLD’s Information against Capt. Jacob Lumpkin in their Majties behalf at ye House of Mr. Edmond Tunstall, October ye 9, 1690. Gent. – Capt. John West, Major Wm. Wyatt, Capt. Roger Malory, Capt. John Lane, Mr. Thom. ffoster, Mr. Robt. Bird, Mr. Joshua Story – Justices. It is ordered upon due examination of the Evidences Sumoned to Appeare at this Court upon ye said BEN ARNOLD’s Information against Capt. Jacob Lumpkin for expressing and Publickly declareing divers Seditious turbulent and unlawful words in contempt of their Majties and their prest. Governour, that ye Clark forthwith deliver Coppys of all this Court’s proceedings to Coll. Richd Johnson, high Sheriff, to be by him carefully Conveyed to ye Honble Governor and Councells by ye ffirst day of ye next Genl Court, ye Sheriff hauving duly Sumoned the Said Capt. Lumpkin to this Court he fail’d to Appeare and make his defence. Test: Job. Howes, Cl. Cur. Septembr ye 30, 1690. Then Sumoned ye abovesaid Capt. Lumpkin, Richard Yarbrough and his wiff, Ann Browne, Ellinor Thomasson and Ann Arnold. Sumoned by James Taylor, Sub. Sher. A true Coppy. Job. Howes, Cl. Cur. I, the Subscriber, doe informe their Maties Justices of New Kent County against Capt. Jacob Lumpkin of ye Same County for yt he ye Said Capt. Jacob Lumpkin on or about ye first of September, 1690, att ye house of me, ye Subscriber, in company with and before Divers Evidences, did utter, express and declare diverse Seditious unlawfull and dangerous words and expressions agt their maties and their pr’sent Governr, ye Honorble ffrancis Nicholson, Esq., in manner and forme following, that being in Company att ye Said Compl’ts house at ye time aforesaid with Joseph Clarke, Richard Yarbrough, myself and wife and several other p’sons, and drinking their Maties health to ye Said Capt. Jacob Lumpkin, ye said Capt. Jacob Lumpkin Sleighted itt and refused to put of his hat. Afterwards ye informer, with ye aforesaid Complt; according to usuall Custome to trye ye temper of ye Said Capt. Jacob Lumpkin, Dranke ye Honble their Maties Governors health when ye Said Capt. Lumpkin alsoe Sleighted, and mounting his horse Swore he was as good a man as ye Governor and Swore God dam him if he were there he would fight him, to which information I sett my hands this 10th of Septembr, Anno, 1690. BEN ARNOLD. This information was exhibited unto us ye day and year above-said. John Lane, Robert Bird. Sworne to in Cort, New Kent, October the 9th, 1690. A true Coppy from ye originall. Test: Job. Howes, Cl. Cur. Ann Browne, Aged 31 years or thereabouts, sworne, sayd: That your Depont being att ye house of BEN: ARNOLDs about ye beginning of September last, in Company with severall p’sons of ye neighbourhood which were drinking ye King’s and Queen’s health, And Joseph Clarke naming King William and Queen Mary, and Capt. Jacob Lumpkin being there was willing to drink ye King and Queen’s health but refused to name King William and Queen Mary. And ye said Joseph hath said there was a great many Kings and Queens and urged him to name them, but he refused or to pull of his hat, and when ye said Capt. Lumpkin went to gett upon his horse he said if any man came to oppose him he would fight him if itt was ye Governr, and after he was upon his horse he swore a great Oath which to ye best of yor Depont knowledge was (God dam him) if ye Governr were there he would fight him, and further sayth not. Ann Browne. Sworne to in Court, New Kent, Octob. ye 9, 1690. Test: Job Howes, Cl. Cur. Ellinor Thompson, Aged 22 years or thereabouts. Sworne Sayth: That yor Depont being alsoe in ye company att ye house of BEN ARNOLD att ye same time, did hear ye same words as Ann Browne hath declared in ye above Deposition, excepting only that yt he ye said Capt. Lumpkin should say when he got upon his horse (if any man came to oppose him he would fight him itt were ye Governor), which your Depon’t did not hear. And further yor Depont did severall times hear ye said Capt. Lumpkin say he would fight ye Governor. And Joseph Clarke cut and Stick and bid Capt. Lumpkin measure itt with his cane and he would fight him in ye Governrs behalf. And further yor Depont Saith not. Ellinor Thompson, her mark. Sworne to in Court, New Kent, Octobr 9, 1690. True Coppy p. Job. Howes, Cl. Cur. Ann Arnold, Aged 18 years or thereabouts, Sworne, saith: That yot Depon’t well knoweth yt ye within Deposition of Ann Browne is ye truth in every p’ticular and further yor Depon’t saith yt ye said Capt. Lumpkin mounting his horse said he was as good a man as ye Governor and Swore (God dam him) if he were there he would fight him. And Joseph Clarke went and cutt a Stick and bid him ye Said Capt. Lumpkin mesure itt with his cane and he would fight him in ye Governors behalfe. And further yor Depont Saith not. ANN ARNOLD. All sworne in Co’rt, New Kent, Octor ye 9th, 1690. A true Coppy p. Job Howes, Cl. Cur. Richard Yarbrough, Aged 38 years or thereabouts, Sworne Saith: That your Depont being att ye house of BENJAMIN ARNOLDs about ye beginning of September last, in company with Severall p’sons of ye neighbourhood and drinking their Maties health, King William and Queen Mary, ye said Capt. Lumpkin refused to name them but said he would drink ye King and Queen’s health, which did disturb Severall of ye company and words ariseing Capt. Lumpkin was for going, and severall of ye Company followed him towards his horse and amongst ye rest Joseph Clarke importuned him to stay and be comfortable, but he refused and in like manner refused to name the Governrs health being named by severall of ye Company Governr Nicholson’s health, or move his hat, but he mounted his horse and yor Depont being att some distance heard ye said Capt. Lumpkin say with a loud voice he would fight ye Governr, Whereupon he said Joseph Clarke tooke him up and threatened to beat him and alsoe pulled him off his horse. And I heard noe more from him afterwards, and further Saith not. Richard Yarbrough, his mark. Sworne to in Court, New Kent, Octor 9, 1690. Test: Job. Howes, Cl. Cur. Elizabeth Yarbrough, wife of Richard Yarbrough, aged 34 years or thereabouts, Sworne, Saith that your Depon’t being att ye house of ye said BENJAMIN ARNOLD in ye Company aforementioned, did hear Capt. Jacob Lumpkin say with a loud voyce as he satt upon his horse yt he would fight ye Governr. And further Saith not. Eliz. Yarbrough, her mark. Hath Sworne to in court, New Kent, October ye 9th, 1690. True Coppy. Job. Howes, Cl. Cur. Ref: “Virginia Magazine of History,” Vol. 6, pp 389-396; Original on deposit at Virginia State Archives, Richmond, Virginia. -19- 27 April 1691 – Monday, Post Meridiem. The house mett. The petition of the Chickahominy Indians referred to this house by the Lt. Governor and Councell, that they may continue on the land of Mr. BEN. ARNOLD read and referred to the committee of Propositions. Ref: McIlwaine, “Journal of the House of Burgesses of Virginia,” Vol. II, p 343. June 1699 – Committee for Examining Claims to Land in Pamunkey Neck. BENJAMIN ARNOLD about 1800 acres leased to him by the Chickahominy Indians for which he assigned to the sd. Indians in fee 600 acres of Patented Land and gave several other valuable considerations. Drammaocho Mongy, a chief Ruler of the Chickahominy Indians – Petition – Leases null and void except such lands as they have by exchange from any of his Majesty’s subjects, such as ARNOLD and Mallery. Ref: Louis des Cognets, Jr., “English Duplicates of Lost Virginia Records,” pp. 60, 66. 15 August 1701 – Friday. A petition of Edmund Jennings, Esqr. referred by his Excelly and Councill to the consideration of his House was read Setting forth that by Patent dated the Sixth of June 1699 he had a grant for five hundd Seventy Acres of Land adjoyning to the Lower Herring Creek in Pamunkey Neck in King and Queen County and by Patent of the same date for two hundred acres more adjacent thereunto – And that BENJN ARNOLD and John Hurt having obtained ordrs from the Commissioners appointed to Examine and Settle Claimes to Land in Pamunkey Neck to Survey two Severall Tracts of Land had caused the Surveyor of King and Queen County to include in the said surveys the greatest part if not the whole of the lands so granted him which surveys are returned for confirmacons and Pattents to issue thereupon and praying the Same may not be confirmed nor Pattents Issue accordingly – Ordered That the Consideration of the Said Petition be referred to the committee appointed to examine the Subject Matter of the said Jennings his petition presented the last session in behalfe of himselfe and others claiming the Land between the two herring Creeks in Mattapony in Pamunkey Neck and they are to report their opinions therein. Ref: McIlwaine, “Journals of the House of Burgesses of Virginia,” Vol. VII, p. 256. 4 September 1701 – Thursday. (Patents issued to many, among which was ) To BENJAMIN ARNOLD for two thousand one hundred acres of land. Same day. Resolved That itt is the opinion of this house That Edmund Jennings Esqr by vertue of a patent dated the 6th of June 1699 for five hundred and Seventy acres of Land adjoyning on the Lower Herring Creek in Pamunkey Neck and by vertue of a patent of the Same date for two hundred acres of land adjacent thereunto hath a good right to both the said tracts of land and that therefore no patents be issued upon the surveys made by BENJN ARNOLD and John Hurt for any Lands contained within the bounds of the aforesaid Pattents. Ref: McIlwaine, “Journal of the House of Burgesses of Virginia,” Vol. VII, p 283. 23 October 1703 – BENJAMIN ARNOLD granted 1770 acres in King William County between the Herring Creeks. Beginning and by the side of the Mattapony River at the Mouth of the Lower Herring Creek to the Mouth of Myery Branch, by Hill’s Branch … etc. For the transport of 36 persons named (named), Jacob Wolsey, Eliz. his wife, Thos. Right, Eliz. Right, Saml. Roughton, John Thomas, John Ward, John Bourne, Robert Chichester, Wm. Nicholas, John Smith, James Smith, John Lawson, Elizabeth Arrington, Anne Troutes, Robt. Wells, Henry Wilkes, John Taylor, Wm. Owen, James Howard, Edwd. Clerk, John Jones, Wm. Ratford, John Dennis, Susanna Cox, Fra. Finsham, John Armisbey, Edward Miles, Sarah Essington, Marjory Gibson, Tho. Motley, Mary Smith, Joseph Rose, Sarah Whitworth. Ref: Nugent, “Cavaliers and Pioneers,” Vol. II, pp. 76-77. 23 October 1703 – Thomas Thomasson granted 150 acres in King William County on the Branches of the Governor’s Swamp. Beginning and to the corner of Col. Johnson’s Pattent and in sight of the said Johnson’s Plantacon … The said land is part of the land granted to BENJAMIN ARNOLD, John Hurt and Ambrose Smith by order of the Generall Court dated 24th April 1703, and by them assigned to the said Thomas Thomason. Pat. Bk. 9, p. 548 Ref: Nugent, “Cavaliers and Pioneers,” Vol. III, p 74 23 October 1703 – Jacob Wolsey granted 130 acres in King William County on the branches of Lower Herring Creek and beginning a little below said Wolsey’s house in the forks of his Spring Branch … the said land is part of the land granted to BENJAMIN ARNOLD by order of the Generall Court dated 24 April 1703 and by him assigned to the said Wolsey. Pat. Bk. 9, p 546 Ref: Nugent, “Cavaliers and Pioneers,” Vol. III, p 74 -20- 20 May 1704. Deed. John Yarbrough of the par. of St. John in King William Co., Planter, sells to Wm. Aylett, Gent., of the same par. and Co. for 20 pounds Sterl, and 5000 lb. tobo., 200 acres in St. John’s par. King William Co., on the bank of Mattapony River, adj. Herrin Creek, etc., “the said Land being part of a greater Quantity of Land formerly … sold … by the Chickahomany Indians with ARNOLD for other Lands and by the said ARNOLD then of King and Queen County in St. Stephens Parish sold and conveyed to John Hurt then of the said parish of St. Stephen and County of King and Queen (as by deed acknowledged in King and Queen County Court the 12th day of November 1692 may appear) and by the said Hurt of the said County of King and Queen and parish of St. John (sic) sold and Conveyed unto Rich’d Yarbrough (father of the aforesd John Yarbrough as by Deed acknowledged in Court held for the said County of King and Queen the 12th day of ffebruary 1695/6 may appeare) and is now in the Possession of the said John Yarbrough one halfe by virtue of a deed from his brother Rich’d Yarbrough and the other halfe as heire to his the said John John (sic) Yarbroughs Dec’ed ffather.” Abigail Yarbrough to relinquish her right of Dower in King William Court. Witnesses Names destroyed. Signed John Yarbrough Ref: Fleet, “Virginia Colonial Abstracts, King and Queen County,” Vol. VIII, p 48. 1 November 1705 – Thursday. The Councill haveing read and perused a paper presented to them as a grieviance from King William County find it to contain matter of a very dangerous consequence but as it has a more particular relation to the House of Burgesses they have thought fit to send it to the house as more proper for their censure. The said Message and the Grievance Therein Being Read Resolved That the house do forthwith Resolve itself into a committee of The Whole House to Take into consideration The Said message and Grievance – and the house accordingly Resolved itself into a committee of the whole house to take the said message and Grievance into consideration; after some time spent therein Mr. Speaker resumed the Chair and Mr. Miles Cary Reported from the said committee That they have come to a resolution, which he read in his place and then delivered in at the Table where being again read the house agreed to the same as follows Resolved that Roger Mallory, George Dabne, Thomas Spencer, John Downer, Jure Barber, Francis Hill, BENJAMIN ARNOLD, Morris Floyd, John Whitehead, John Gree and Jacob Sellers who have signed a paper as a Grievance from King William County be sent for in custody of the Messinger of the house to answer the Subject Matter of the Said Paper, and That Coll. John West be likewise sent for in custody it being alledged That he is the Writer of the said Paper. Order that Mr. Speaker issue his Warrant Accordingly Resolved That his house will tomorrow Resolve itself into a committee of the whole house upon The Bill Instituted a Bill concerning The Church Clergy and other Parochial Affairs. Ref: “McIlwaine, “The Journal of the House of Burgesses of Virginia,” Vol. IX, pp.140-141. -21- 9 November 1705. Fryday. Mr. Hollyday Acqvainted The house That Mr. Bridger is verry much Indisposed and Therefore Desires Leave to go into The Country for Recovery of his health. Leave is Accordingly given him The house being Informed That The Messinger had pursuant to Mr. Speakers Warrant Taken into his Custody Roger Mallory, George Dabne, Thomas Spencer, John Downer, Jure Barker (sic), Francis Hill, BENJAMIN ARNOLD, Morris Floyd, John Whitehead and Jacob Sellers to answer The Subject Matter of a paper of Grievances from King William County by Them Signed; as also That he had in his Custody Colo John West who was Supposed to be The Writer of The Said paper. The said Roger Mallory, George Dabne, Thomas Spencer, John Downer, Jure Barker (sic), Francis Hill, and BENJAMIN ARNOLD Were Severally Brought to The Barr of The house and Examined Concerning The Said paper and then were ordered to withdraw and Being withdrawn. A Motion was made That Morris Floyd, John Whitehead, and Jacob Sellers in Custody of The Messinger be Discharged in order to Their being Examined before The house as Wittnesses Concening The Said paper - and after a Debate The Question being put. That Morris Floyd, John Whitehead, and Jacob Sellers in Custody of The Messinger attending This house be Discharged before Their Examination. Resolved in The Affirmative ninteen Yeas and Eighteen Nays And They being Accordingly Discharged An other Motion was made and after a Debate the Question put That a Justice of The peace be Appointed to Administer an Oath to Morris Floyd, John Whitehead, and Jacob Sellers in order to Their Examination before This house It past in The Negative Then Colo West was Brought to The Barr of The house and being Examined Concerning The Said Paper of Grievances was ordered to withdraw and Being withdrawn Morris Floyd, John Whitehead and Jacob Sellers were likewise brought to The Barr of the house and being Examined Concerning the Said paper were ordered to withdraw and being withdrawn Ordered that Colo West be Discharged out of Custody Then a Motion was made and after a Debate The Question Put That The house do Resolve into a Committee of The Whole house to Consider further of The Message from The Council Relateing to a paper presented to Them as a Grievance from King William County Resolved in The Affirmative Then The house Resolved it Self into The Said Committee and after Some Time Spent Therein Mr. Speaker Resumed The Chair and Mr. Miles Cary Reported from The Said Committee That They had Come to Several Resolutions Which he Read in his place and Then Delivered in at The Table where being again Read The house agreed to The Same with an Amendment and are as follows Resolved That The Grievance of King William County be publickly Burnt as a Scandalous and Seditious paper. Resolved that Roger Mallory, George Dabne, Thomas Spencer, John Downer, Jure Barker, Francis Hill and BENJAMIN ARNOLD be brought to The Barr of The house and make Their Acknowledgment for Signing The Said paper in These words. I - - of King William County do with Sorrow Acknowledge my Offence in Signing So Scandalous and Seditious a paper and do humbly Beg pardon for The Same Resolved That The Said Acknowledgement be Made before The house This Evening and That They Remain in Custody Till Munday Noon and be Then Discharged paying Fees. Upon The Several Motions of Mr. Bird, Mr. Carte, Mr. Wm. Robinson, Mr. Christopher Robinson, Mr. Bland, Mr. Francis Merriwether, Mr. Robert Beverley and Mr. Sullyvan for Leave to go into The Country upon Extraordinary Occasions. Leave is Accordingly given Them Ordered That They attend The Service of The house again on Tuesday Morning next Ordered That The house be Called over on Tuesday next at Twelve a Clocke Then Roger Mallory, George Dabne, Thomas Spencer, John Downer, Jure Barker, Francis Hill and BENJAMIN ARNOLD were again brought to The Barr and Acqvainted with The Resolution of The House and They having accordingly to The Same Made Their Acknowledgment were ordered to withdraw Resolved That The house will upon Tuesday next Resolve it Self into a Committee of The Whole house upon The Bill Intituled an Act for Establishing the Gener Court and for Regulateing and Setling The proceedings Therein Ordered That The Bill Intitulated an Act Concerning The Church Clergy and other parochial Affairs be Read a Second Time on Tuesday next Ref: McIlwaine, “Journal of the House of Burgesses of Virginia,” Vol. IX, pp 150- 151. -22- 3 November 1716 – On the Petn of Christopher Smith and BENJAMIN ARNOLD Leave is granted them to take up 2400 Acres of Land in ye County of King Wm. This Board being Satisfyd of their ability to Cultivate the same according to Law. On the Petition of Christopher Smith, Augustine Moore, James Taylor Junr, BENJAMIN ARNOLD and Rowland Thomas Leave is granted them to take up 5000 Acres of Land in the County of King William this Board being Satisfyd of their Ability to cultivate the same according to Law. Ref: McIlwaine, “Executive Journals of the Council of Colonial Virginia,” Vol. III, p 433. 2 May 1719 – On the Petition of James Taylor, Edmond Taylor, BENJAMIN ARNOLD and George Woodroff Leave is granted them to take up in one tract of Six Thousand acres of Land in the County of New Kent. This Board being Satisfyed of their ability to cultivate the same according to Law. Ref: McIlwaine, “Executive Journals of the Council of Colonial Virginia,” Vol. III, p 504. 2 November to 23 December 1720 – An Act of dividing St. John’s Parish in the County of King William. (Signed 23 Dec. 1720) Whereas many Inconveniences attend the Parishioners of Saint John’s Parish in the County of King William by reason of the great length thereof, Be it Enacted - - - (After 1 May 1721 Parish to be divided into two parishes by) the main road which runs from ARNOLD’s Ferry on Mattapony River towards Crenshaw’s Ferry to Munkerwing Swamp … to Pamunkey River. (Part below to remain St. John’s; part above to be called St. Margaret’s.) Ref: Waverly K. Winfree, “The Laws of Virginia – 1700-1750” p 191. 18 February 1722 – William Waddill, 13 acres, New Land, New Kent Co., between lines of ARNOLD and Hughs. Pat. Bk. 11, p 177. 5 shillings. Ref: Nugent, “Cavaliers and Pioneers,” Vol. III, p 242 11 June 1724 – On the petition of Thomas Carr Junr, Wm. Smith, Tho Dickason, Ambrose Joshua Smith, Wm. Mackgee and ANN ARNOLD of King William County and Thomas Marten of Bristol Mercht setting forth that James Tayler, Edmund Tayler, BENJN ARNOLD, Rowland Thomas and the sd Ambrose Joshua Smith having obtained a Grant to take up five thousand Acres of Land in the County of New Kent and five thousand Acres more in the said County at Elk Creek, the said James Taylor has made over to the aforenamed Thos Dickason his part of the said two Tracts, and the said Rowland Thomas hath made over to the said Thomas Marten and Thos Carr his fifth part of the said two Tracts, and Sarah the Widdow of Edmund Tayler hath made over her part to the said Willm Smith and Wm Mackgee, and the petrs therefore pray agreed to divide the said Land amongst them by Lott, and pray that the Surveyor of Hanover County in wch the sd Land now lyes, may be impowered to lay off, and divide the said two tracts of Land in distinct Surveys of one thousand Acres each and that Patents may be granted to the respective persons who shall have Right thereto; It is accordingly Order’d that the Surveyor of the County of Hanover do divide the said Land according to the prayer of the above Petition, and that separate patents be granted to the petrs for the same. Ref: McIlwaine, “Executive Journals of the Councils of Colonial Virginia,” Vol. IX, p 74. 17 August 1725 – Ambrose Joshua Smith, 1000 acres, New Land, on both sides of Overton’s fork of Elk Creek; beg. at corner of Mr. Dickason and Mrs. ARNOLD’s land. Pat. Bk 12, p 241. 5 pounds. Ref: Nugent, “Cavaliers and Pioneers,” Vol. III, p 286. -23- 24 March 1725/26 – William Harris, Junr., 1500 acres, New Land, Hanover Co., adj. Mrs. ARNOLD and George Woodroof’s lines; on Overton’s fork of Elk Creek. Pat Bk. 12, p 419. Ref: Nugent, “Cavaliers and Pioneers,” Vol. III, p 303. 24 March 1725/26 – Capt. Thomas Carr, Gent. of King William Co., 400 acres, New Land, Hanover Co., on both sides of Great Rockey Creek; adj. Mrs. ARNOLD’s line. Pat Bk. 12, p 538 Ref: Nugent, “Cavaliers and Pioneers,” Vol. III, p. 316. 24 March 1725/1726 – ANN ARNOLD, Junior, daughter of MRS. ANN ARNOLD of King William County 400 acres in Hanover County on both sides of Great Rocky Creek on Capt. Carr’s line. 40 shillings. Pat. Bk. 12, p 335. Ref: Nugent, “Cavaliers and Pioneers,” Vol. III, p 296. 6 February 1727 – On hearing this day at the Board the several pretensions of George Woodrooff and ANNE ARNOLD widow in behalf of herself and of RACHEL her daughter now the wife of FRANCIS ARNOLD to 380 acres of land lying on East No East River in the County of Spotsylvania survey’d in the year 1715 for BENJAMIN ARNOLD deceased, but no patent ever since sued out; it is the opinion of this Board and accordingly ordered that the said George Woodrooff have a patent for the said land upon his giving Bond to convey the same to ANNE the daughter of the said RACHEL ARNOLD when she shall come of age or marry, according to his intention this day signified to this Board. Ref: McIlwaine, “Executive Journals of the Council of Colonial Virginia,” Vol. IV, p 162. 14 December 1727 – At a council held at the Capitoll George Woodrooff having petitioned for a Grant of Three Hundred and Eighty acres of land in the County of King William (sic) surveyed for BENJAMIN ARNOLD deceased in the year 1715 which said BENJAMIN did devise the said land to his daughter RACHEL now the wife of FRANCIS ARNOLD, but no patent ever sued out for the same, and it appearing to this Board that ANNE ARNOLD the widow of the said BENJAMIN hath surreptitiously obtained a Copy of the aforesaid Survey and returned the same into the Secretary’s Office with intent to take out a Patent thereon; It is Ordered that no patent issue to the said ANNE, but that as well the said ANNE as the said FRANCIS ARNOLD and the petitioner do attend this Board on the 6th day of February next to make out their several pretensions to the said Lands. Ref: McIlwaine, “Executive Journals of the Council of Colonial Virginia,” Vol. IV, p 157. 11 April 1732 – John Harris, 400 acres New Land, Hanover County; adj. Ambrose Joshua Smith, Capt. Thomas Carr and ANN ARNOLD; on low side of Great Rockey Creek. Pat. Bk. 14, p 405. 40 shillings. Ref: Nugent, “Cavaliers and Pioneers,” Vol. III, p 414. -24- Abstracts of King William County Record Books (N.B. – Photostat Copies from Virginia State Archives, Nos. 1 and 2 and part of No. 3. comprising the Years 1702 through 1795 No records for the County exist between 1706 and 1721; or between 1722 and 1788. All others have been destroyed in the several fires which consumed the records of the clerk’s offices.) Book 1 Page 33 Surveyed August ye 21th 1702 by Order of King William County Court two Acres of Land for a Court house Beginning at a marked Hiccory by the side of Thoms Comer’s plantation running thence South 20 poles to a stake thence West 16 poles to a large hickory in the edge of the woods thence along the edge of the woods East 16 poles to ye beginning hickory. Harry Beverley, Surveyor. At a Court held for King William County the 20 h (sic) day of August 1702 the within survey was ordered to be recorded. William Aylett Cl. Cur. Page 34 21 September 1702. John Pettiver to Hugh Owen 310 acres in St. John’s psh bet. Mastico Cr. and Middle Cr. “beg. at the mouth of Mastico Cr. and running thence up it on the West side thereof to an Indian path at the going over ye said creek called also Wood’s path, etc.” “Said land being part of ye land laid out according to ye articles of peace for ye Pamunkey Indians the which land was formerly granted to Robert Napier and by the said Napier assigned to the said Pettiver by patent bearing date 1 April 1702 etc.” Wit: BENJAMIN ARNOLD, Nathan: Pynes, William Davis. Page 37 1 March 1698/9. Thomas Bray of St. Peter’s psh, New Kent Co. to Lewis Davis of King and Queen Co. 200 acs in St. John’s psh, King and Queen Co., it being the plantation whereon John Saxton formerly dwelt above ye great Meadow on Pamunkey Riv. which land was part of a devident of 3000 acs. granted by patent bearing date 7 April 1674 to Charles Edmonds, Tho. Hancock and Richard Taylor and since assigned to Davvid Bray and Michael Sherman by Robert Hancock, son and heir of Thomas Hancock, dec’d, and by the said David Bray and Michael Sherman assigned to me, bounding on the land of Peter White etc. Recorded 21 Sept. 1702. Wits: John Foster, George Chapman, BENJAMIN ARNOLD. Page 40 20 September 1697. Hannah Hewlett of King and Queen Co. to Thomas Carr of same binds her son William Hewlett to the said Carr. Recorded 21 September 1702. Page 43 (Date ?) Richard Littlepage of New Kent one of the heirs of Samuel Oustin, dec’d to Ambrose Lipscomb of King Wm. all my right and title in 200 acs of land formerly sold by the said Oustin to the said Ambrose Lipscomb. Land desc. as lying on the South side of Cohoke Sw. Wits: James Taylor, Joseph Brown, Nathaniel West. Page 101 20 April 1703. Thomas Hancock to Henry Gravet (Gravett) 150 acs in Pamunkey Neck “amongst the branches of Acquinton,” Beg. etc. at a Spanish oak near the Chappell and running by marked trees etc … “Which said premises was formerly made sale of by me to Cyprian Burwell which now lies on record in New Kent and the said Cyprian Burwell made thereof to Elias Downs and the said D(owns) to (illeg.) Gravett which lies on the Records of King and Queen Co. all which sales were made before (illeg.)” Wits: Henry Webber, John Marr, BENJA. ARNOLD. Pages 104-105 “Whereas John York, Gent of the county of New Kent Dec’d Dying Intestate was possessed with a parcel of Land Containing about Three hundred Acres lying in Pamunkey Neck in …. Formerly purchased of Mr. George Chapman as by a deed … from the Chapman to the said York bearing date ye 9th of Jan’y 1682 Doth more fully and at large appeare upon Record wich land for want of Lawfull heires did Escheat to his Majesty as by a Certain … under the hand of the Honble Nathl Bacon, Esqr President of State (?) of Virginia doth more fully and at large appeare under the Seale of the Colony Granted unto Mr. Job Howes by his Ex’cy ffrancis Lord Howard Governor being bounded as followeth: Beg. at a branch of the said Chapman’s old field bounding on the land of Mr. Thomas Baker and so along the said branch up to John Hollins line and bounding upon the … of Coll. John West and soe down from the said head … along the line of Mr. Jos. Norment to a branch etc.” Which land the said Job Howes for the consideration etc. did assign and Convey to the said Coll. West all his right and title etc. by a writing bearing date 1 July 1689 etc. Recorded 20 Feb’y 1703. Wits: John Quarles, Tho. Mallory, BENJ. ARNOLD. Page 116 20 May 1703. Attachment against the estate of Robert Napier by BENJAMIN ARNOLD. Page 142 James Henderson’s patent for 155 acs in Pam. Neck, 1701. James Henderson deeds this land to William Chadwick. Wits: Tho: Pearce, Philip Whitehead, BENJAMIN ARNOLD. Christian, wife of James Henderson, appoints Thomas Henderson her attorney for relinquishment of dower. Wits: Tho: Spencer, Philip Whitehead, BENJ. ARNOLD. Page 149 20 Nov. 1703. BENJAMIN ARNOLD gives bond as under sheriff. Page 160 17 Jan. 1702/3. FRANCIS ARNOLD sells to Francis Fenton a brown cow with a star in her forehead, “marked of James Johnson’s mark,” one servant girl called Anne Bagwell, furniture, stock etc. (Signed) FRANCIS (x) ARNOLD. Wits: Joseph (?), Charles Burrus, John Burrus. Page 217 Bond bet. Arnold Marr of King and Queen Co. and Robert Buttress, dated 4 March 1696/7, recorded in King Wm. court with Robert Buttress’ assignment to Vincent Inge, dated Feb. 17, 1700/1 and witnessed by William Noyes, John Higgason and Josiah (?) with Vincent Inge’s bond to Thomas Garrett recorded in King Wm. court 20 June 1704. Wits: John (x) Williams, ANTHONY ARNOLD. Page 228 21 Aug. 1704. FRANCIS ARNOLD with the consent of his wife FRANCES ARNOLD acknowledges a deed conveying to Michael Waldrop “a certain parcel of land” (no acreage shown) formerly purchased of the said Waldrop. (The greater part of this transaction missing or illegible.) Page 231 8 Nov. 1704. Richard Yarborough to Robert Abbott. 80 acs beg. etc John Hurt’s line, William Hurt, Maurice Floyd, etc. Wits: William Pollard, Joseph Cockram, BENJAMIN ARNOLD, Sarah Yarborough, wife of Richard relinquishes dower rights. Book 2, Page 30 Will of William Rawlings, “sicke and weake in body etc.” 27 May 1704; 20 June 1704. To ANTHONY ARNOLD, Maurice ffloyd, Thomas Thomason and Caleb Saunders a cow each; read-made “cloathes” which have not been worn to ANTHONY ARNOLD and Maurice ffloyd equally; to Mary Ashcock, dau. of John Ashcock, dec’d, one pair of bodices; to Eliza Whitehead, wife of John Whitehead, a remnant of broadcloth etc. “I give and bequeath all the land whereon I now live together with sixty-three (63) pounds bills of Exchange to my executors hereafter named by them to be Imployed to the Sole use of bringing up poor Children to School such as are or shall bee born or Inhabitt within five miles of the said Land and Plantation and at the death of my said Executors my desire is that the worshipfull Court of King William County put (illeg.) Trustees to see that all the Land and Plantation be forever Imployed to the purposes aforesaid that is to maintain soe many poor Children at School as the annual profits of the premises will amount to allowinge miderate (illeg.) to the Trustees at the Discretion of the said Court allwaies Provided that the said Children soe kept to School bee of the poorest that are or shall be within the Limits before mentioned.” Pages 93-94 25 Jan. 1722. ANTHONY ARNOLD to William Aylett. (Nothing further) -25- Quit Rent Rolls King William County, Virginia 1704 (not complete) John Ornsby 200 acres Robert Alves 400 ANTHONY ARNOLD 100 BENJAMIN ARNOLD 1000 Joseph Browne 270 Abraham Browne 250 Thomas Carr 500 Wm. Claiborne 3000 Thos. Claibourne 1000 Hans Hendrick 700 John Hurt 250 Wm. Hurt, Sen’r 250 Wm. Hurt, Jun. 90 Wm. Isbell 150 Vincent Inge 100 Rogert (sic) Mallory 100 Ambrose Lipscomb 600 Daniel Miles 300 Thomas McGehee 250 Roger Mallory 200 John Marr 200 Robert Napier 100 Thomas Terry 300 Stephen Terry 330 Thomas Wright 150 Richard Yarborough 300 King William County, Virginia from old Newspapers and Files Compiled and Annotated by Elizabeth Hawes Ryland The Dietz Press, Inc., Richmond, Virginia 1955 Page 102 “Richmond Enquirer,” Friday, June 14, 1837 In this issue “Presqu’Isle” on the Mattapony is advertised for sale by John S. Barrett, who married Nancy, daughter of Benjamin Temple. He thus accurately describes the location: “On the west I am bounded by the lands of General Aylett whose beautiful and excellent mill is situated at the entrance to the plantation; on the north by the town of Ayletts, from which it is distant only a little more than a mile.” “Presqu’Isle” was the former home of JOSEPH TEMPLE and his wife, ANN ARNOLD. ARNOLD’s Ferry was operated from this farm to the King and Queen side of the river. This was before the establishment of the ferry at Ayletts Warehouse. In the King William Petitions among original papers in the Virginia State Archives, there is one from Philip Aylett praying “that a ferry be established at Aylett’s Warehouse on Mattapony River,” contending that in order to get there, “passengers from the opposite side of the river are obliged to travel several miles for want of a ferry.” This ferry was to lead to the “lands of Fauntleroy and Anderson in the County of King and Queen.” The petition is dated November 27, 1786. Page 3 Joseph Temple lived at “Presqu’Isle” about two miles below Aylett’s Warehouse. This tract of land is formed into an “almost island” by the Mattapony River and a small streat known by the name of “Spirit Run” - - a name suggestive either of the supernatural or of some individual who in times past may have indulged too freely in something stronger than its crystal waters. After feeding Aylett’s mill pond Spirit Run flows into the river just above Pointer’s Landing, thus cutting off a deep bend in the Mattapony and enclosing one of the most fertile farms on the north side of the county. “Presqu’Isle” was ARNOLD property and it is likely that JOSEPH TEMPLE acquired it by his marriage with ANN ARNOLD, daughter of BENJAMIN ARNOLD. Here was ARNOLD’s Ferry, sometimes called Yarborough’s Ferry, for many years the only crossing-place in this part of the county over the river to King and Queen. It is of the ARNOLD’s, rather than the Temples, that I wish to write in this place. One of the earliest patentees of land along the York and its tributaries was a man named ANTHONY ARNOLD. Where he came from, and what his old-world background, is not known. He was certainly an individualist and a law unto himself. His ideas of man’s right to his own personal freedom were one hundred years ahead of his time. Had he lived in 1776 instead of 1676, he would today be counted among our great patriots. As it is, few people have ever heard of him. His persistent cantankerousness was a headache to the Honourable Council. “Whereas,” they would pompously enunciate, “it appeareth to this Court that Mr. ANTHONY ARNALL (sic) hath most presumtiously disobeyed an Order of this Court etc. etc.” and then they would proceed to lay upon him a fine of several thousand pounds of tobacco which the “presumptious” Mr. ARNOLD never seemed to bother himself to pay. They would send men out to apprehend him, but Mr. ARNOLD was always somewhere else. Professor Wertenbaker (on page 204-205 in “Virginia Under the Stuarts”) quotes him as saying: “Kings have no rights but what they gott by Conquest and the Sword and he that could by force deprive them thereof had as good and just a Title to it as the King hinself and if the King should deny to do him right he would make noe more to sheathe his sword in his heart or Bowells than of his morall enemyes.” Bold words indeed for the seventeenth century. Naturally ANTHONY ARNOLD fell in with Bacon’s Rebellion, and became one of its most ardent supporters. Upon the failure of that movement he was one of the first to feel the vengeful wrath of Governor Berkeley. On March 9, 1677, twenty-five men were tried and on the 15th all twenty-five were executed. ARNOLD was one of these and the story is that he was hanged in chains on the present site of the town of West Point. In Peter Force’s tracts there is quoted a quaint letter from a Mrs. An Cotton to some person unknown, in which she makes al allusion to “ANTHONY ARNALL the same that did live at your house hanged in chaines at West Point.” Whether or not there is any truth in the legend that he was hanged on a Mulberry tree, and that descendants of that tree still survive near Second and Main Streets in West Point, I am unable to say, but it makes a pretty story. The point of all this, and the reason for its insertion here, is that there are ample grounds for believing that this man, one of our first patriots, was father of BENJAMIN ARNOLD of “Presqu’Isle.” Beyond doubt certain lands which have been patented by ANTHONY ARNOLD and upon his execution confiscated, were later restored to BENJAMIN ARNOLD, though nowhere is he actually stated to have been a son of the condemned man. In all of the family histories of the Temple, ARNOLD, and Gwathmey families, (among whom there was a close family connection) which I have seen, BENJAMIN ARNOLD is spoken of as “BEN ARNOLD, a German.” Certainly this name does not at all sound like a German name, and I know of no authority for the statement, but in the Gwathmey family there is an old Bible record which states that the first Gwathmey in this country married a widow Cluverius who was born an ARNOLD. Now, the name Cluverius (which has always been locally pronounced “Kliv-Veers”) is a most unusual one and may have been German. I wonder! The name Gwathmey is Welsh, as can be easily imagined. Who was the widow Cluverius who was “born an ARNOLD?” -26- Letter from Elizabeth L. Burke Richmond, Virginia January 6, 1975 Dear Mrs. MacIvor, This fall when I received your letter I had just returned from a sabbatical year and found myself swamped with duties. I put your letter carefully away and discovered it during the Christmas holiday. I am most apologetic. I have no material on John Camm and his wife. Many years ago I found a copy of his will in the attic at “North Bank.” It was written in March 1766 and is quite difficult to read. In it he left the “North Bank” property and grist mill to his daughter, Ann Booker and at her death to Benjamin Cluverius. Later he mentions Ann Booker’s five children namely Benjamin Cluverius, Mary Madison, Richard, Robert and Elizabeth Pollard. From this I assume she married 4 times. The book (Harris, “History of Old New Kent Co.”) is wrong in listing Butler. It should have been Booker. John Camm’s King William county property was left to his daughter, Mary Garlick and his Caroline county property to his daughter, Elizabeth White. He names his sons-in-law as James Booker, Samuel Garlick and The Rev. Alex. White. Later he added a codicil and cut out James Booker. I would be interested to learn about Richard and Alice Bullock, Ann Camm’s godparents. You read in the write up of “North Bank” that a Richard Bullock was buried at “North Bank” in 1727. I regret I do not know anything about the Cluverius family. If you are in Virginia at anytime, I shall be very happy to have you read John Camm’s will. As the book on “Old Homes in King and Queen County” said, I go to North Bank as often as I can. However part of the house is rented and I keep part for myself. Sincerely, Elizabeth L. Burke George Woodruff’s Family Group Sheet Husband – George Woodruff Occupation – Planter, Innkeeper Church – (Blank) Lived at – (Blank) Military Service – (Blank) Born and Place – (Blank) Married and Place – (Blank) Died – Bet. 5 Oct. 1769 – 19 Sept 1771; Place - Spotsylvania Co. Va. Buried at – (Blank) Father – Richard Woodruff Mother (nee) – (Blank) Other wives – (Blank) Wife (nee) – JANE ARNOLD Occupation, Church – (Blank) Born and Place – (Blank) Died – Bet. 1 Aug 1760 – 5 Oct 1769; Place – Spotsylvania Co. Va. Buried at – (Blank) Father – BENJAMIN ARNOLD Mother (nee) – ANNE Other husbands – (Blank) Children 1. GEORGE, Jr. – Marriage – ANN 2. BENJAMIN – Marriage – MARY 3. RICHARD 4. SARAH 5. JANE 6. MARY -27- Abstract of a Will or Administration Name – Woodruff State – Virginia County – Spotsylvania County Seat – Spotsylvania 22553 (zip) Testator or Deceased – George Woodruff Liber No. Will Book D, 1761-1762, page 494 Occupation: Planter, Innkeeper Date of death: Unknown Date will signed: 5 Oct. 1769 Date estate entered into probate: Executors Bond dated 19 Sept. 1771 Date will was recorded; Date of division and settlement; Date of final Settlement: (Blank) Executors or Administrators: Son, Richard Woodruff, Joel Parrish, Thomas Minor Petitioners: (Blank) Witnesses: George Carpenter, William Clift, Nathaniel and Sarah Parrish Bondsmen: (Blank) Heirs: Son, Richard; Gr. Son, Benoni, Son of Dau., Sarah; Daus., Jane, Mary FRANCIS ARNOLD’s Family Group Sheet Husband – ARNOLD, FRANCIS Occupation – Planter Church – (Blank) Lived at – King William, Spotsylvania Military Service – (Blank) Born and Place - (Blank) Married and Place - (Blank) Died and Place – (Blank). Buried at – (Blank). Father – (Blank) Mother – (Blank) Other wives – (1) FRANCES Wife (nee) – (2) RACHAEL ARNOLD Occupation, Church – (Blank) Born and Place – (Blank) Died – Aft. 19 Nov. 1778; Place – Spotsylvania Co. Va. Buried at – (Blank) Father – BENJAMIN ARNOLD Mother (nee) – ANNE Other husbands – (Blank) Children: 1. FRANCIS 2. AMBROSE 3. ANNE – Marriage - WILLIAM DAVENPORT (son of Martin and Dorothy Davenport) -28- FRANCIS ARNOLD – Documents 21 August 1704 – “FRANCIS ARNOLD, with the consent of his wife, FRANCES ARNOLD, acknowledges deed conveying a certain parcel of land (no acreage given) formerly purchased of said Waldrop.” Ref: “Abstract of King William County Records,” Nos. 1 and 2 and part of No. 3, p 228. (N. B.- The greater part of this transaction is missing or illegible.) 20 February 1719 – Reuben Welch, Essex Co., 3273 acres, New Land, New Kent Co., in forks of Pamunkey River. Pat. Bk. 11, p 9. Imp. of 66 persons among them, FRANCIS ARNOLD and William Davenport. Ref: Nubent, “Cavaliers and Pioneers,: Vol. III, p 220. Abstract of a Will or Administration Name – Gatewood State – Virginia County – Essex County Seat – (Blank) Testator or Deceased – John Gatewood, South Farnham Parish Essex Co. Deeds and Wills, No. 12, page 328 Occupation: Planter Date of death: (Blank) Date will signed: 14 Nov. 1706 Date estate entered into probate: 10 Jan. 1707 (N.S.) Date will was recorded: (Blank) Date of division and settlement: (Blank) Date of final settlement: (Blank) Executors or Administrators: Beloved Wife, Anne Gatewood; Son, Richard Gatewood Petitioners: (Blank) Witnesses: Joseph Baker, Thomas Wheeler Bondsmen: Anne Gatewood, Richard Gatewood Heirs: Eldest son, John Gatewood; Eldest Dau., Frances Shackleford; Son, Richard Gatewood, Son, Thomas Gatewood, Son, Henry Gatewood, Dau., Anne Burnett; My three younger children, Sarah Gatewood, William Gatewood, and Francis Gatewood. Abstract of a Will or Administration Name – Baker State – Virginia County – Essex County Seat – Tappahannock 22560 (zip) Testator or Deceased – Joseph Baker of South Farnham Parish Essex Co. Wills, Inventories, etc. No. 3, Page 220-223 Occupation: Merchant Date of death: (Blank) Date will signed: 20 Sept. 1720 Date estate entered into probate: 15 Nov. 1720 Date will was recorded: 15 Nov. 1720 Date of division and settlement: (Blank) Date of final settlement: (Blank) Executors or Administrators: Beloved Wife, Amy Baker; John Gatewood; Mr. William Johnson (Alternate Executor in Event of Wife’s Death) Petitioners: (Blank) Witnesses: Pr. Godfrey, Anthony North, John Alt Bondsmen: (Blank) Heirs: George Treble – Debt of Tobo. forgiven; Thomas Boarn – one-half debt of Tobo. forgiven; Thomas Dix; Widow Olive – one-half of Tobo. forgiven; Widow Aires; Peter and Elizabeth Godfrey – Best saddle and 12 pounds after death of wife, Amy; Elizabeth Bradbourne 200 pounds Tobo. in goods; Sister Ann White and Husband Richard White – 20,000 pounds Tobo and all my goods in their hands (live in Cow Lane, west Smithfield, London); God son, Joseph Gatewood – Negro man, Tom; William Gatewood (son of John Gatewood, Dec’d) – 2 cows, 2 calves; John Farguson – 1 gold ring, value 20 shillings; Henry Gatewood – 1 new suit drugt cloaths; James Gatewood (son-in-law) – Plantation bought of Thomas Wheeler; Unto the rest of my wife’s children not before mentioned – a gold ring, value 20 shillings; Thomas Bell – one-half debt of tobo. forgiven; Anthony North – My best suit of clothes; My Beloved Wife – All the rest of estate; William Allen – Receive and mark all tobo. shipped home for use of my sisters. Inventory: 28 Dec. 1720. Total valuation 452.2.7 including 3 Negroes valued at 70.0.0 and one servant man, Charles Shackleford valued at 5.0.0. Amey (x) Baker See will of John Gatewood, Essex Co., Deeds and Wills, No. 12, p 328. Ref: Essex Co. Wills, Inventories, etc. , No. 3, pp 230-234 Abstract of a Will or Administration Name – Baker State – Virginia County – Essex County Seat – Tappahannock 22560 (zip) Testator or Deceased – Amy Baker, South Farnham Parish Essex Co. Will Book No. 7, Page 335 Occupation: (Blank) Date of death: (Blank) Date will signed: 4 Apr 1744 Date estate entered into probate: 18 June 1745 Date will was recorded: (Blank) Date of division and settlement: (Blank) Date of final settlement: (Blank) Executors or Administrators: Sons, Thomas Gatewood, James Gatewood Petitioners: (Blank) Witnesses: Thomas Barker, Mary (x) Anderson Bondsmen: (Blank) Heirs: My seven children – John Gatewood, Thomas Gatewood, Henry Gatewood, James Gatewood, Frances Arnold (N. B. - I believe Amy Gatewood Baker’s son, Francis Gatewood (sic) died young as there are no contemporary or further records of him; this must be dau, Frances Shackleford now married to an ARNOLD.), Amy Scott, Sarah Ferguson. Grandchildren – Ann and Amy Gatewood, Benjamin and James Gatewood (Son, James’ children); Amy Gatewood (Son, John’s dau.), Katherine Gatewood (son, William’s widow) (N.B. - These Gatewood and Baker wills are given here in conjunction with FRANCIS ARNOLD’s famly record for the following reason: Because of the printed abstract of Amy Baker’s will in Beverly Fleet’s “Virginia Colonial Abstracts,” Vol. 14, “King and Queen Co.,” p 23, wherein Mrs. Baker names as one of her children, FRANCIS ARNOLD, some searchers have concluded Mrs. Baker had an earlier marriage (before her marriage to John Gatewood) to an ARNOLD. But, as one can see, Francis Gatewood was a younger son of John Gatewood’s. The only logical explanation is that John Gatewood’s daughter, Frances, who had been married to a Shackleford at the time of his death, was married to an ARNOLD by the time of Amy Baker’s death, and Fleet misread and “e” for an “i.” Note also the interchange of Ann and Amy for Mrs. Ann (Amy) Gatewood Baker’s given name. ) -29- BENJAMIN ARNOLD II Family Group Sheet Husband – ARNOLD, BENJAMIN II Occupation – Planter Church – (Blank) Lived at – King William, Hanover, Louisa, Albemarle, Buckingham, Henry Cos, VA; Laurens, Greenville Cos. SC Military Service – Patriotic Service, American Revolution Born – ca 1712; Place – King William Co. VA Married – ca 1739; Place (Blank) Died – Aft. 30 Jan 1796; Place – Greenville Co. SC Buried at – Greenville Co., SC on his Horse Creek Plantation Father – BENJAMIN ARNOLD I Mother – ANNE Other wives – None Wife (nee) – ANNE HENDRICKS Occupation, Church – (Blank) Born – ca 1719-1720; Place – King William Co. VA Died – ca 1806; Place – Greenville Co. SC Buried at – Greenville Co. SC on the Horse Creek Plantation Father – William Hendricks Mother (nee) – (Blank) Other husbands – None Children: 1. WILLIAM (b ca 1740-1742, Hanover Co VA – d bef Sept. 1776, Buckingham Co. VA) – Marriage (1) MARY TIERCE; (2) SARAH ANDERSON 2. EDWARD (b ca 1743-1744, Louisa Co. VA – d ca 1819, Buckatony Dist., Wayne Co. MS) – Marriage: Laurens Co. SC to CATHERINE WELLS 3. HENDRICK (b ca 1745-1746, Albermarle Co. VA – d bet 15 July 1795- 30 Jan 1796, Laurens Co. SC) – Marriage: RUTH HOWARD CASH (dau. of Robert Howard and Tamsey) 4. CHARITY (b ca 1761, Buckingham Co. VA – d Greenville Co. SC) – Marriage: GEORGE MARTIN 5. TEMPERANCE (b ca 1762 Buckingham Co VA – d 22 July 1849 Lowndes Co. AL) – Marriage: THOMAS HAMILTON 6. THOMAS (b 5 Oct 1763 Buckingham Co. VA – d 23 Mar 1844 Selma, Dallas Co. AL) – Marriage: 26 Oct 1786 Laurens Co SC to MARY BOYDSTON 7. JOHN (b 1755 Albemarle Co. VA – d July 1806 Muscle Shoals, Franklin Co. AL) – Marriage: (1) RACHEL; (2) ANNIE BRYANT 8. BENJAMIN (b 13 July 1769 Laurens Co SC – d Greenville Co. SC) – Marriage 9 Feb 1795 Greenville Co. SC to KEZZIAH CAMP (daughter of John and Nancy Tarpley Camp) -30- Joseph Temple Family Group Sheet Husband – Temple, Joseph Occupation – Planter and Merchant Church – (Blank) Lived at – (Blank) Military Service – (Blank) Born and Place – (Blank) Married – ca 1725; Place (Blank) Died – Bef. 1760; Place (Blank) Buried at – (Blank) Father – (?) Temple Mother – (Blank) Other wives – (Blank) Wife (nee) – ANNE ARNOLD Occupation, Church – (Blank) Born and Place – (Blank) Died – Aft. 11 Dec 1781; Place – Presque Isle, King William Co. Va. Buried at – (Blank) Father – BENJAMIN ARNOLD Mother (nee) – ANNE Other husbands – (Blank) Children: 1. Joseph (b ca 1730); Marriage – Mary (Mollie) Hill (dau. of Col. Humphrey and Frances Baylor Hill) 2. Benjamin (b ca 1734); Marriage – Mary (Molly) Brooke Baylor \ (dau. of Robert and Mary (Molly) (Brooke) Baylor) 3. Samuel Francis – Marriage – Francis (Fannie) Redd 4. Liston – Marriage – Agness Elliott 5. William – Marriage – Susannah Hill (dau. of Thomas and Elizabeth Grayson Hill) 6. Hannah – Marriage – Owen Gwathmey (dau. of Richard and Dianna Moore Gwathmey) 7. Sarah (Sally) – Marriage – John Tunstall (son of Richard and Mrs. Ann Hill Walker Tunstall) 8. Mary (Molly) – Marriage – Col. Thomas Elliott 9. Martha – Marriage – Benjamin Elliott 10. Ann (Nancy) – Marriage – William Fleet (son of William and Ann Jones Fleet) -31- ANTHONY ARNOLD II Family Group Sheet Husband – ARNOLD, ANTHONY II Occupation – Planter Church – (Blank) Lived at – New Kent, King and Queen, King William, Caroline Cos. Va. Military Service – (Blank) Born – ca 1663; Place – New Kent Co. Va. Married – ca 1688; Place (Blank) Died – 1747; Place – Caroline Co. Va. Buried at – Prob. Caroline Co. Va. Father – ANTHONY ARNOLD Mother – (Blank) Other wives – (Blank) Wife (nee) – ISABELLE Occupation, Church – (Blank) Born and Place – (Blank) Died and Place – (Blank) Buried at – (Blank) Father – (Blank) Mother (nee) – (Blank) Other husbands – (Blank) Children: 1. GEORGE 2. WILLIAM 3. ANTHONY – Marriage – MARY RICE Abstract of a Will or Administration Name – ARNOLD State – Virginia County – Caroline County Seat – Bowling Green 22427 (zip) Testator or Deceased – ANTHONY ARNOLD Court Order Book 1746-1748, p 96 (N. B.- This is a reconstructed will based on other documents) Occupation: Planter Date of death: Bef 8 July 1748 Date will signed: Unknown Date estate entered into probate: 8 July 1748 Date will was recorded: 8 July 1748 Date of division and settlement: (Blank) Date of final settlement: (Blank) Executors or Administrators: Wife, ISABELL ARNOLD, GEORGE ARNOLD Petitioners: (Blank) Witnesses: William Conner, Others – Not Named Bondsmen: (Blank) Heirs: Wife, ISABELL ARNOLD (perhaps nee Mastin), GEORGE ARNOLD, ANTHONY ARNOLD, WILLIAM ARNOLD (perhaps others, not named) -32- ANTHONY ARNOLD II – Documents 23 October 1703 – ANTHONY ARNOLD granted 150 acres in King William County on the head of the Middle Herring Creek. Beginning near the said ANTHONY ARNOLD’s house. The said land is part of the land granted to BENJAMIN ARNOLD by order of the Generall Court dated 24 April 1703 and by him assigned to the said ANTHONY ARNOLD. For transporting three persons (Named). Pat. Bk. 9, p 545 Ref: Nugent, “Cavaliers and Pioneers,” Vol. III, p 73 11 May 1732 – After 12 Aug 1743 – ANTHONY ARNOLD II appears in the pages of Caroline County, Virginia, Court Order Books from 11 May 1732 (serving on a jury) and 8 July 1748 (when his widow, ISABELLE ARNOLD, and GEORGE ARNOLD, his executors, presented his will in court) fifty one (51) times. He last appeared in life on 12 Aug. 1743 when John Harvie brought an action of debt against him. They being agreed, the case was dismissed. (N. B. – H. A. M: No deeds or wills survive in Caroline County, but “Caroline County Court Order Book, 1746-1754,” p. 208 (9 Mar 1749/1750), states “ANTHONY ARNOLD died in 1747.”) ABR(AHAM) ARNOLD – Document 18 February 1723 – On the Petition of ABR ARNOLD, setting forth, that he had Surveyed for him 400 Acres of Land in King Wm. County, and returned a Survey thereof into the Secrys Office in Order to obtain a patent; but some time after he was inform’d by the Surveyor, that the said Survey was lost, and thereupon he obtained a new Survey to be made out, and returned into the Secretarys Office; by which means there are two patents made out for the same Land; And praying that the Letter of the said patents be Cancelled, and his Rights returned. It is accordingly Ordered, That the said patent be cancelled, and his Rights returned, according to the prayer of the Petition . Ref: McIlwaine, “Executive Journals of the Council of Colonial Virginia,” Vol. IX, p 62 -33- EDWARD ARNOLD – Documents 23 October 1703 – John Maddison, 300 acres, King William Co., on branches of upper Herring Creek; on East side of Perry’s Swamp; Pat. Bk. 9, p 553. Transport of 6 persons: John Smith, Rowland Blackbourne, EDWARD ARNOLD, Timothy Fogarty, Robert Frank, Eliz. Martin. Ref: Nugent, “Cavaliers and Pioneers,” Vol. III, p 75. 14 July 1718 – Edmund Jennings, Esqr., of York Co.; 1150 acres, new land, King William Co.; between Upper Herring Creek and the Reedy Swamp, on South side of Mattapony River, beg. at mouth of a branch on the North Fork of Herring Creek; adj. EDWARD ARNOLD; Mr. William Grill; John Hampton; Whitehead’s line; Samuel Jacques; Michael Mixon; Caleb Sanders; Hance Hendricks, Junior; his own land. Pat. Bk. 10, p 393. Ref: Nugent, “Cavaliers and Pioneers,” Vol. III, p 206. 1 February 1723 – EDWARD ARNOLD, 400 acres, New Land, King William Co., on south side of North fork of Reedy Swamp, on Claybrook’s line. Pat Bk. 11, p. 306. 40 shillings. Ref: Nugent, “Cavaliers and Pioneers,” Vol. III, p 258. 5 September 1723 – EDWARD ARNOLD, 400 acres, New Land, King William County, in St. John’s Parish, on south side of North fork of Reedy Swamp; at a mouth of a branch of said swamp just above a bridge on the south side; along Claybrook’s line. Pat. Bk. 11, p 248. 40 shillings. Ref: Nugent, “Cavaliers and Pioneers,” Vol. III, p 248. 16 June 1727 – Thomas Hamm, 400 acres, New Land, King William Co., in St. Margaret’s Parish; on south side of Reedy Swamp; Adj. EDWARD ARNOLD; Robert Axton’s line. Pat. Bk. 13, p 110. 40 shillings. Ref: Nugent, “Cavaliers and Pioneers,” Vol. III, p. 327. 28 September 1728 – John Brunskill, Clerk, 900 acres, Old and New Land , King William Co., in St. Margaret’s Parish; on both sides of the Main Road; on North side of the North Anna River; adj. EDWARD ARNOLD, on South side the Main Reedy Swamp; the Gleab line; John Holloday; Robert Axton’s line. Pat. Bk. 13, p 350. 200 acres part formerly granted to Robert Axton; and 400 acres part granted to Robert Hamm, both of whom sold to sd. Brunskill. 30 shillings. Ref: Nugent, “Cavaliers and Pioneers,” Vol. III, p 350. 15 December 1732 – Att a Councill Held at the Capitall the 15th December 1732 On the Petition of Martha Taylor, Widow and Executrix of James Taylor, late Surveyor of King William County setting forth that her said Husband about the year 1723 did survey for one EDWARD ARNOLD four hundred Acres of Land and for one Thomas Allen two hundred forty three acres both in the sd County of King William and did return the severall platts thereof to the Secretary’s Office together with a sufficient number of Treasury Rights for obtaining Patents thereon That sometime thereafter Enquiry being made for sd patents it hapned the sd plts could not be found, whereupon the Petrs Husband was oblidg to purchase new Rights and then obtained patents for the sd Two tracts and sometime after the first platts and Rights being found by the Clerk of the Secretary’s Office New Patents were by them made out for the same lands as will appear by the records of the sd Office and praying she may be reimbursed the purchase money which her husband paid for the rights of the said six hundred forty three Acres of land. It is ordered that Mr. Auditor Blair do examine the allegations of the sd petitioners and make Report to this Board. Ref: McIlwaine, “Executive Journals of the Council and General Court,” Vol. IV, pp 296-297. HENRY ARNOLD – Documents 10 April 1741 – HENRY ARNOLD sued out a scire facias to renew a judgment against Christopher Eccoff 13 Aug 1736 for 800 lbs of tobo. and 66 lbs of tobo. for costs. Defendant failed to appear. Judgment renewed for 866 lbs. tobo. Ref: “Caroline County Court Order Book – 1740-1742/1743,” p. 30. 10 June 1747 – “Goochland County, South Farnham Parish, List of Tithables” WILLIAM ARNOLD HENRY ARNOLD WILLIAM ARNOLD, Jr. Ref: Archibald Carey, “Goochland County, South Farnham Parish, List of Tithables,” p. 10. -34- WILLIAM ARNOLD - Documents Abstract of a Will or Administration Name – ARNOLD State – Virginia County – Caroline County Seat – Bowling Green 22427 (zip) Testator or Deceased – WILLIAM ARNOLD Court Order Book 1748-1750, p. 168 Occupation: Planter Date of death: Unknown Date will signed: Unknown Date estate entered into probate: 11 Aug. 1749 Date will was recorded: (Blank) Date of division and settlement: (Blank) Date of final settlement: (Blank) Executors or Administrators: John Mitchell, Others (not named) Petitioners: (Blank) Witnesses: John Sneed, John Barbee Bondsmen: John Sneed, John Barbee, Thomas Johnson, Gent. Heirs: Unknown Inventory: 11 Aug. 1749 Ordered that Wm. Daniel, Jr., Elias Blackbourn, Charles Beasley, Jr., James Jennison appraise the estate in money. 10 July 1712 – Thomas Short, Planter, of St. Ann’s Parish, Essex Co., sells WILLIAM AYRNOLD “of the Parish of - - - in King William County, Planter” for 20 pounds sterling 197 acres, being part of a patent granted to Nathaniel Bentley 24 Sept. 1658. Wit: John Boughan, John Martin, James Boughan. Ref: Fleet, “Virginia Colonial Abstracts,” Vol. 29, “Essex County Records, 1703- 1706,” p. 25. 21 February 1720 – John Martin, 120 acres of New Land, King and Queen Co., in St. Stephen’s Parish, on branches of Beverly Run, nigh WILLIAM ARNOLD, on South West side of a Great Branch; adj. Henry Gatewood and Elias Blackburn’s line. Pat. Bk. 11, p 51. 15 shillings Ref: Nugent, “Cavalier and Pioneers,” Vol. III, p. 226 (N. B. – H. A. M. – See Gatewood-Baker wills. Was WILLIAM ARNOLD married to Mrs. Frances Shackleford, nee Gatewood?) 14 March 1734 – Before 11 August 1749 – WILLIAM ARNOLD appears in the pages of the Caroline County Court Order Books from 14 March 1734 (ordered to help clear the road) to 11 Aug. 1749 (when his last will and testament was presented in Court by John Mitchell one of the Executors), eight (8) times. There was another WILLIAM ARNOLD in Caroline County simultaneously with the elder WILLIAM ARNOLD. “WILLIAM ARNOLD Jun. acknowledged his deeds of lease and release of land indented to WILLIAM ARNOLD .” Ref: “Caroline County Court Order Book 1740-1746,” p. 8, dated 10 Oct. 1740. A third WILLIAM ARNOLD (or possibly the WILLIAM ARNOLD, Jr., above) appeared in Court on 9 Mar. 1749/1750, in the case of Thos. Scott vs ISABELLE ARNOLD, GEORGE ARNOLD and WILLIAM ARNOLD in a case of Trespass (a dispute over land). ANTHONY ARNOLD II had in his lifetime leased some land from William Waller and Ann, his wife. After three years ANTHONY ARNOLD subleased it to Thos. Scott. Plaintiff claimed he has since paid the rent. GEORGE and WILLIAM ARNOLD committed the trespass on the land. The Plaintiff lost the case. Ref: “Caroline County Court Order Book, 1746-1754,” p. 208. -35- Abstract of a Will or Administration Name – Short State – England County – Kent County Seat – (Blank) Testator or Deceased – Lucy Short of Gillingham Bolein, 105 Occupation: (Blank) Date of death: (Blank) Date will signed: 4 Oct. 1603 Date estate entered into probate: 2 Dec 1603 Date will was recorded: (Blank) Date of division and settlement: (Blank) Date of final settlement: (Blank) Executors or Administrators: Son, William Short Petitioners: (Blank) Witnesses: Henry Shorte, James Thurston Bondsmen: (Blank) Heirs: Bro., Henry Short; Sis., Alice Murgin (and her children, Alice Gooding, Thomas Gooding, Simon Gooding, Elizabeth Gooding and Murgin Davye.) Dau., Elizabeth Short; Sons, Thomas Short and William Short, Daus., Margaret Berry, Dorothy Kent, Joane Edwards. No relationship given on the following: JAMES and RICHARD ARNOLD at 21; Elizabeth, Richard and John Berry. Abstract of a Will or Administration Name – Short State – England County – Kent County Seat – (Blank) Testator or Deceased – William Short of Gillingham Evelyn, 128 Occupation: (Blank) Date of death: (Blank) Date will signed: 16 Nov 1641 Date estate entered into probate: 21 Dec 1641 Date will was recorded: (Blank) Date of division and settlement: (Blank) Date of final settlement: (Blank) Executors or Administrators: (Blank) Petitioners: (Blank) Witnesses: (Blank) Bondsmen: (Blank) Heirs: Gr. Child, William Short, Elizabeth Manser; Sis. Joane Edwards and her dau., Mary Lofty; Sisters’ Sons, RICHARD ARNOLD, William Berry and Thomas Berry; Sisters’ Daus., Susan Gravesden and Joane Wilson. No relationship given on the following: Henry, Richard, William and Thomas Lawrence; Mary Duke, dec’d and Dau. Joane Duke -36- Names Associated with the ANTHONY ARNOLD Line Abrahall, Robert Variously referred to as Capt. and Col. Robert Abrahall. He patented 1010 acres of land on the North side of the Mattapony River, New Kent Co., beg. at the mouth of Apostique Creek on West side Quintenocke Creek, 23 Nov. 1653. This same land later patented by Richard Tunstall, 25 Apr. 1667. In 1688, Edmund Tunstall was seated on this land and the County Court was held at his house. He received a grant in conjunction with John Pigge and he and Pigge were near neighbors of ANTHONY ARNOLD in July 1663. Alves, George An adjoining land owner to BENJAMIN ARNOLD I, son of ANTHONY ARNOLD. Lived in St. Peter’s Parish, New Kent Co, 29 Apr. 1692. By 16 Dec. 1714, he had land on the Pamunkey River in St. Paul’s Parish, New Kent Co., which “beg. at Col. James Taylor at the head of Meadow Branch, to south branch Pamunkey River called South River.” This last was a 4843 acre tract. Rich Hugh (Hooes) was an adjoining neighbor. Mr. Rees Hughes (sic) had 500 acres on SW side of York River running to a branch near Rickahock path to Chickahominy Fort. One of the plantations of ANTHONY ARNOLD was called Rickahock and is occupied by Douglas Atkins, Walkerton, Va. One William Waddill received acreage on 18 Feb. 1722 between lines of ARNOLD and Hughes. Anderson, David There is a David Anderson in Va. as early as 1655 when he and Richard Coale (sic) received land in Westmoreland Co. ANTHONY ARNOLD had imported Mary Anderson as one of his headrights for his patent on Coss Coss Creek in Westmoreland Co., 3 May 1665. David Anderson had 90 acres in King William Co. in 1714 on a branch of Pamunkey River. His near neighbors were: Thomas Davenport, Col. Edward Hill, and Mr. Thomas Jones. On 13 Nov. 1721, he received 400 acres in Hanover Co. on lower side of Taylor’s Creek. A David Anderson had gone security for John Wilson’s bond in 1674 (see John Wilson). Arndall, Katherine Had been imported by 20 July 1639 by John Pawley, Surgeon. Is this the same Katherine Hubbert Williamson for whom ANTHONY ARNOLD witnessed and, if so, what is their relationship? See Williamson and Fossett. ARNOLD, JOHN A JOHN ARNOLD was in Essex and Old Rappahannock Co. as early as 4 Sept. 1665, when he served as a witness. By 18 May 1666 he had land on a branch of the Corotoman River in Lancaster Co. His land adjoined Robert Friston (Fristoe, variously). On 29 Sept. 1671 he witnessed a deed involving Ambrose Clare. On 29 July 1676, he received a warrant to raise horses and supplies “to aid Gen. Nat. Bacon in the Indian War.” A JOHN ARNOLD lived in North Farnham Parish, Richmond Co., where a son, JOHN, was born to him on 25 Dec.1677. A daughter, ANNE, was born 17 Dec. 168(?). His wife’s name was ANNE. A JOHN ARNOLD died before 21 Dec. 1683 (Will Probated) in Lancaster Co., leaving wife, GRACE, and daughters, RUTH, SUSAN, ANN, and MARGARET. -37- ARNOLD, ROBERT Age 30, to Va., from the Port of London, in the “Globe” 7 Aug. 1635. Brought over by William Spencer. A ROBERT ARNOLD grants to Robert Fristoe, 2 Nov. 1675, a heifer. Deed recites John is father of Robert (ARNOLD or Fristoe?). Austin, Susan Susan received 50 acres, New Kent Co., 23 Oct. 1664, at a branch below an Indian field called Rockahockaw, formerly belonging to ANTHONY ARNOLD and by him sold to Edmund Price. Samuel Austin had land, prior to 23 Oct. 1690, in New Kent Co., St. Peter’s Parish, above the main fork of the Pamunkey River. This land was later in the tenure of Jonathan Newell and Ambrose Clare, and then to William Overton and John Lydall. Aylett, William Had 1000 acres in Essex Co., South side of the Rappahannock River … Adj. Col. Goodrich and Mr. Bretherton’s (sic) line and horsepath, 20 Oct. 1704. Was a Church warden in 1722, King William Co. Ayletts, a small village, is located about one and a half miles north of “Presque Isle,” plantation of BENJAMIN ARNOLD I, and ruins of Ayletts’ Mill lies today to the right of the dam one crosses to enter “Presque Isle.” He had land dealings with John Yarborough, son of Richard Yarborough, who had made deposition in case of BENJAMIN ARNOLD I vs Capt. Jacob Lumpkin. Barber, Jere He was one of the petitioners in Nov. 1705, along with BENJAMIN ARNOLD I, from King William Co. A Barber, first name unknown, figured in the case of William Richardson vs George Lydall. Richardson had bills of ANTHONY ARNOLD for tobacco due orphans of William Edwards. Berry, William John Maddison had imported him on 19 Oct. 1666, receiving land on north side of the Mattapony on a branch of Whorecock Swamp, which land adj. ANTHONY ARNOLD. See William Berry connection to THOMAS ARNOLD. Berry’s will dated 1720 in King George Co. Bird, Robert An early planter, receiving 1400 acres on North side of the Rappahannock River, 29 July 1650. Bird assigned the above land to John Smart the same day. By 20 Apr. 1682 he, or someone by that name, had located in New Kent Co. near Holmes’ plantation. On 16 Apr. 1683, he lived in St. Stephen’s Parish, New Kent Co., adj. land of Mr. Thomas Holmes, dec’d. and Tymothy Carter. In 1691 he held 134 acres in King and Queen Co. “formerly New Kent Co. at a fork of Exoll’s branch.” In 1693 he held 225 acres in King and Queen Co. beg. at Timothy Carter, on Holmes’ line, etc. BENJAMIN ARNOLD I later had land adj. this Robert Bird. Bird died 1720. -38- Bland, Giles A comrade in arms to ANTHONY ARNOLD in the Indian Wars, 1676. He was son of John Bland of the old Navy Office. John Bland was a Spanish merchant and was buried at St. Olaves, Hart St., London; his wife was Sarah Green, daughter of Giles Green. Giles Bland married Frances Povey, natural daughter of Thomas Povey. Note the will of John Bland, grandfather to Giles Bland when he speaks of Laurance Lownes and see will of old RICHARD ARNOLD [Haberdasher of London] where La. Lownes witnessed this will. Note also the Yardley connection. Both Giles Bland and ANTHONY ARNOLD were executed for their role in the Rebellion. Bonner, James Had 650 acres, Lancaster Co., South side of the Rappahannock River, 19 Oct. 1653. Adj. neighbor, Thomas Dale, son of Nicholas Dale, who had deceased by 23 Oct. 1649. His widow married Richard Parrott. Patrick Miller received 400 acres, Lancaster Co., 18 Mar 1663 on South side of Rappahannock River about 6 miles up the same. Adj. lands of Nicholas Dale and James Bonner. Land first assigned to Nicholas Merriwether, 10 Feb 1653, who assigned it to Humphrey Haggett, who assigned it to Cuthbert Potter, etc. ANTHONY ARNOLD was first of record in deed of Merriwether to Haggett. See Merriwether, Potter and Haggett entries. Brereton, Thomas Associate of ANTHONY ARNOLD’s. His wife was Jane Claiborne, daughter of Capt. William Claiborne and Elizabeth Butler. Claiborne had confiscated some of ANTHONY ARNOLD’s property as ARNOLD’s inventory shows. Brereton received 1000 acres on Potomac River, 8 Oct. 1657. He received another 500 acres on South side of the Potomac at the mouth of Machotic River on 8 June 1658. He later assigned this land to Richard Wright. On 25 May 1661, he received 1500 acres in New Kent Co. on North side of the Mattapony and East side of Hoarcock Swamp. This land adj. ANTHONY ARNOLD’s. On 3 May 1665, ANTHONY ARNOLD was granted land at head of Coss Coss Creek, upon head of Robert Yeo’s land, which had been Thomas Brereton’s but had been deserted. On 28 Nov. 1662 he received 1500 acres in New Kent Co. on North side of Mattapony River, on a branch of Whore Cocke Cr., land which formerly belonging to Anthony Haines. George Morris of New Kent Co., received 933 acres on 19 July 1663 on branches of Black Creek adj. his own lands and those of ANTHONY ARNOLD, Jonathan Higly, Nappires’ and Capt. George Lydall. He and ANTHONY ARNOLD took up 1700 acres in New Kent Co. on South side of the Pamunkey River on branches of Chickahominy Swamp upon Westover Path behind Rice Hughes, 2 Oct. 1668. Brereton acquired 3000 more acres, New Kent Co., 3 Nov. 1668, adj. John Pigge. Thus, he and ANTHONY ARNOLD had lands near each other in at least 3 areas. He survived Bacon’s Rebellion but it is not known which side he was on. He seems to have been a clerk at the Patent Office. Bridgate, Richard Made deed to James Fossett, which was witnessed by ANTHONY ARNOLD 1 Sept. 1669. -39- Broadhurst, Thomas Imported by Mr. Richard Webley, Rob’t Davis and Thomas Freshwater, 24 Aug 1664, along with 144 other persons, for 7221 acres in Rappahannock and Northumberland Cos. He appears again as a transporter of John Maddison on 19 Oct. 1666, who received 350 acres, New Kent Co., on North side Mattapony and upon a branch of Whorecock Swamp and which land adj. ANTHONY ARNOLD. Browne, Ann Gave a deposition in the case of BENJAMIN ARNOLD I vs Capt. Jacob Lumpkin. 29 Sept. 1690. Brown, Henry A Capt. Henry Brown was one of the Council of State, 14 July 1637. He received 2250 acres, James City Co. for transport of a number of persons, among them, William Berry, Amey Humphrey, Edward Lownes, Richard Christmas. His wife as named Ann. He apparently was of Surrey Co. Another Henry Browne was among those transported by ANTHONY ARNOLD who received 500 acres in Westmoreland Co., 3 May 1665. Browne, Richard George Bryer and Richard Lawrence received 1000 acres, Rappahannock Co., for transport of 20 persons among them, Richard Browne, 26 Sept. 1664. In Mar. 1664, William Benum’s land in Westmoreland Co. on Appomattox Cr., adj. Richard Browne’s land. Bullock, Richard and Alice Man and wife who attended the baptism of Ann Camm, 5 Jan. 1723, at North Bank. Mary Bullock, dau. of the above Richard and Alice, had married John Camm, 22 May 1722. The Camms lived at North Bank, just across the Mattapony River from BENJAMIN ARNOLD I’s plantation, “Presque Isle.” ANN ARNOLD, wife of BENJAMIN ARNOLD I, was one of the godparents. An earlier Richard Bullock had lived at North Bank for his tombstone is found there: Richard Bullock (born 25 Oct 1701 – died 31 July 1727). An even earlier Richard Bullock had been imported by John Gookin (Va. county Kent, Eng. family from whom I am descended. – H.A.M.) 12 Oct. 1641. A Richard Bullock used as a headright again on 24 July 1654, by Thomas Pencherman who received 80 acres on Skemeno Cr., York Co. A Richard Bullock used again as a headright by Edward Machen, 20 July 1662, when he received 1000 acres in New Kent Co. on narrows of Pamunkey River in New Kent Co. On 8 Apr. 1668, Richard Bullock received 100 acres, on South side York River on a branch called Muschimino (Skimino). On 28 Apr. 1691, Richard Bullock received 160 acres, Upper Parish of Surrey Co. right on the Charles City Co. line. There is an account of the Bullock family in Ray, “Colonial Granville and Its People,” pp. 278-279. He states that Capt. Hugh Bullock, Burgess, planter and merchant, was father of Richard Bullock. Ray is replete with errors, however. There is a will from Richard Bullock in Surry Co. Va. dated 6 July 1703, Probated 6 July 1703, Bk. 5, p 287, mentions wife Mary, son Richard Bullock, under 18. Wm. Short is one of the wits. Wm. Short dies in same Co. bef. 16 Sept. 1741, and Richard Bullock is a witness. Alice Shockey, died bef. 12 Mar. 1738 in Surry Co., names granddaughter, Alice Bullock, and daughter Elizabeth Bullock. Susannah Short, died before 21 Mar. 1743, Surry Co., names Short sons, Thomas and William; Harris grandsons, William and Thomas; Richard Bullock witnesses. -40- Camm, John John Camm was a brother to Thomas Camm of Hornsea, Yorkshire, Eng., whose son Rev. Mr. John Camm was named as Nephew in John Camm’s will in 1766. (“Colonial Clergy of Virginia”) They were an armigerous family. ANN ARNOLD, wife of BENJAMIN ARNOLD I, was godparent to Ann Camm, John Camm’s and Mary (Bullock) Camm’s daughter. Ann Camm married as one of her husbands a Cluverius. She had a son, Benjamin Cluverius. See article regarding Gwathmeys and Cluverius. Though he is not mentioned in the first volume of Nugent, the Rev. John Cluverius was in York Co. as early as 24 July 1646. A record of 20 Oct. 1646 shows Rev. John Cluverius was seated at Cheesskiacke (ANTHONY ARNOLD had land on Cheeskaak Path) in York Co. He was arrested in Nov. of 1646 but was not prosecuted. He does not appear in further records of the county abstracted by Fleet. Campe (Kemp), Thomas and William John Walker received 560 acres, New Kent Co., 21 Oct. 1687, North side of the Mattapony River … close to William and Thomas Camp’s land. Mr. BENJAMIN ARNOLD I received 1754 acres on North side of Mattapony River 23 April 1688, which land had been granted to Taylor and sold to ANTHONY ARNOLD, deceased. Adj. neighbors were John Pigg, Daniel Coleman’s plantation, “Peck’s Hill” and William and Thomas Campe. Carr, Alexander An adj. neighbor of BENJAMIN ARNOLD I in King William Co. Relationship with Thomas Carr, if any, not known. Carr, Thomas A headright of one Moses Davis of New Kent Co. who received lands on North side York River in sight of Anthony Langstones plantation and which ran to Robert Anderson’s land. He had land dealings with BENJAMIN ARNOLD I. He received his first land of record, 546 acres in King and Queen Co. in Pamunkey Neck, St. John’s Parish, on 25 Apr. 1701. Clare, Ambrose Imported by Samuel Griffin, Merchant, who received 2200 acres in Rappahannock Co. Thomas Bell was one of the 44 persons transported, also, 6 Aug. 1662. He received land, 300 acres, in James City Co., 15 Oct. 1664. Patent states he married the widow of Jonathan Townsend. He and Jonathan Newell took up 2500 acres, New Kent Co., in freshes of York River, 3 Jan. 1667. His deed, 29 Sept. 1671 in Essex and Old Rappahannock Co. was witnessed by JOHN ARNOLD. He and ANTHONY ARNOLD did not appear in court as ordered in case of Wyatt vs ANTHONY ARNOLD, 1 Oct. 1674. -41- Clarke, Joseph Gave a deposition in the case of BENJAMIN ARNOLD I vs Capt. Jacob Lumpkin 29 Sept. 1690. Cole, Richard A near neighbor of ANTHONY ARNOLD. A Headright of Capt. John West, 27 May 1654 along with George Lydall. Coleman, Daniel Had a grant of 2000 acres of land with John Maddison in King William Co. in a fork of the Mattapony River, undated but ca. 16 June 1714. In 1719 John Hubard, Jr. had land on south side of the Mattapony River and North side of the South River adj. Daniel Coleman and John Maddison, Jr. In 1724 he had land in St. Margaret’s Parish, King William Co. adj. Thomas Walker and James Taylor. He had deceased by 25 Aug. 1731. Cosbye, Mary Had land that adjoined ANTHONY ARNOLD, 25 Oct. 1657 on Chickahominy River. Covington, William Had land in Rappahannock Co., 16 Apr. 1683 on the King’s Road. Neighbors were Col. Wm. Claybourne, dec’d. His land ran to Pianketank River, a branch of Dragon River. He was indebted to ANTHONY ARNOLD 12 Nov. 1672. Debt not settled at time of ARNOLD’s death. Crowell, Henry Not listed in any of Nugent’s three volumes. He gave his bond for ANTHONY ARNOLD’s appearance in court in the case of Wyatt vs ARNOLD. 28 May 1673. Dabney, George Had 293 acres in Pamunkey Neck, King and Queen Co. in St. John Parish, 25 April 1701. 20 Feb. 1731 he held lands in Hanover Co. on Taylor’s Creek adj. George Alves and Wm. Morris. Dale, Edward An Edward Dale a headright of Timothy Fenn 10 Oct. 1642. An adj. land owner of ANTHONY ARNOLD. Davis, Timothy A headright of George Morris who received 3000 acres of land in New Kent Co., 16 Nov. 1673. John Maddison also among group of headrights. He and ANTHONY ARNOLD witnessed power of attorney of Katherine Hubbert to John Forth 31 Aug. 1669. -42- Dawson, Mark Imported by ANTHONY ARNOLD 3 May 1665. Dickason, Thomas A Thos. Dickason imported by Mr. John Edwards who received 530 acres on North side of Rappahannock River, South side easternmost branch of the Corotoman River, 22 Mar. 1664 (N.S.) Thomas Dickason had 390 acres, King William Co. on South side Mattapony River, 22 Jan. 1717. Augustine Moore held 1088 acres in King William Co. on North side of the North Anna River, 15 Nov. 1723. Living nearby were Griffith Dickason and Wm. Dickason. By 17 Aug. 1725 he held 1000 acres in King William Co. on Overton’s fork of Elk Creek, adj. by Mr. Overton, William Winston, Ambrose Joshua Smith and Capt. Carr. Downer, John A headright of John and Peter Rogers, Edward Pigg, John York and Thomas Gresham who received 1525 acres on South side, Northernmost branch of Mattapony River about 2 miles above Doeg Town, 16 June 1714. Rice Williams and John Downer received 740 acres in fork of the Mattapony River “about 12 miles above inhabitants of King and Queen Co.” beg. at Madison’s and Pigg’s corner, etc., 16 Dec. 1714. On 28 Oct. 1723, Henry Webber received lands in Spotsylvania Co. on both sides East North East Run, adj. James Taylor and John Downer, etc. Drummond, William A compatriot of ANTHONY ARNOLD’s in Bacon’s Rebellion. A Scottish Merchant, he had served as Governor of North Carolina as an appointee of Gov. Berkeley. He was described by Matthew as “a sober Scotch gentleman of good repute,” who had suffered a loss at Wm. Berkeley’s hands prior to the Rebellion of 1676. Edwards, William A resident of Surry Co. whose orphans had bills of credit with ANTHONY ARNOLD 14 Oct. 1670. There were Edwards early in Westmoreland Co – whether they were connected to the Surry Co. Edwards, I have not researched. One Wm. Edwards died bet. 18 Jan 1755 and 27 May 1755 and left as heirs: sons, 1) George, 2) Anthony, 3) ARNOLD, 4) Joseph, 5) his wife, Elizabeth; daus. 6) Mary Burras Settle, 7) Grace Edwards, 8) Martha Naylor. Exoll, John (Axoll, Axtoll) A land owner (mentioned in ANTHONY ARNOLD’s land patent) who was seated on branches of the Pianketanke on the North side of the Mattapony, in New Kent Co., by 10 July 1658, adj. lands of John Pigg. Had a small creek named for him, Exoll’s Swamp. Floyd, Morris Received 100 acres, King and Queen Co. in Pamunkey Neck, beg. at Hance Hendrick, by Mattapony River … and Richard Yarborough’s New ground, 28 Oct. 1702. -43- Fassett, James Imp. by Rice Jones and Anthony Jackman who received 1000 acres in Rappahannock Co on South side of the Rappahannock River. Land was “nigh unto Mattapony path.” No record in Nugent of land in his own right. Thomas Williamson sold 375 acres to James Fassett, 31 Aug. 1669. Williamson was the former husband of Katherine Hubbert. ANTHONY ARNOLD witnessed this deed. Forth, John Not cited in any of Nugent’s 3 Volumes. Katherine Hubbert gave her power of attorney to him to acknowledge her right to 375 acres sold by her husband, Thomas Williamson, to James Fassett, which deed was witnessed by ANTHONY ARNOLD, 31 Aug. 1669. Fristoe, Robert He and David Mansell received 654 acres on North side of the Rappahannock River 7 Nov. 1664, in Rappahannock Co. which land adj. JOHN ARNOLD of Essex and Old Rappahannoc Co. Fristoe had land dealings with JOHN ARNOLD of Old Rappahannock and ARNOLD named a son, ROBERT ARNOLD. George, Nicholas Along with John Grymsditch, he received 300 acres, Isle of Wight Co., on Pagan Creek 20 Feb. 1638. On 15 Feb 1652 he received 700 acres on North side of the Rappahannock River and East side of Corotoman River. In this patent his wife is named, “Marg.” His will is recorded in “Lancaster Co. Will Book Loose Wills” 1 June 1661. Heirs: son, Nicholas, dau., Grace George (land adjoining John Edwards). His other dau. was Sarah Marshall. This man witnessed JOHN ARNOLD’s will. An earlier Nicholas George died before 1 June 1661, Lancaster Co. Va. He had wife, Margaret. The Nicho. George who died before 19 Apr 1693 had as witness to his will, ANN ARNOLD (prob. JOHN ARNOLD’s dau, ANN). Gree, John Not cited in any volume of Nugent. He was one of the petitioners from St. Peter’s Parish 1 Nov. 1705 along with BENJAMIN ARNOLD I. Haggett, Humphrey It is in the deed of Merriwether to Haggett that we first find the name of ANTHONY ARNOLD of record in Virginia. He purchased 400 acres which he later sold to Cuthbert Potter. His land lay on South side of the Rappahannock River. He was accused by Thomas Bacon of “living with” Bacon’s wife, who was a servant to Haggett. His debt was among those owing to the estate of Abraham Moone, 23 Feb. 1655/1656. He received 450 acres on South Side, Rappahannock River, in Rappahannock Co., 30 May 1654. This land adj. by lands of Thomas Dale and Bonner’s Creek. He was used as a headright ot Thomas Deynes, 6 June 1654. -44- Harlow, Ann An Ann Harloe was a headright of John Alexander, 25 Oct. 1669, among others. He received 1285 acres in Stafford Co. Another Ann Harlow, wife of John Harlow witnessed deed of BENJAMIN ARNOLD II in Louisa Co., 1 Feb. 1743. Harlow, John Received 300 acres, Accomac Co., 9 Sept. 1636 for his own and 5 other persons transported: Ann Harlow, his wife, Agnes Harlow, his sister, Stephen Harlow, his son and Matthew Peake and William Cole. Received 200 more acres in Accomac 26 Aug. 1642 for transport of Ann and Stephen Harlow, Matthew Pett (Peake?) and William Car (Cole?). A John Harlow received 400 acres in Hanover Co. on both sides of the North fork of Chickahominy River, adj. Robert Allen, 9 July 1724. Witnessed BENJAMIN ARNOLD II’s deed in Louisa Co., 1 Feb 1743. Harlow, Thomas A headright of Richard Axom and Thomas Godwin, among others, 22 May 1650, who received 1000 acres on South side of the Rappahannock River. A Thomas Harlow received 400 acres, Hanover Co., 9 July 1724. Land adj. Robert Allen, Robert and Charles Anderson and John Harlow. A Thomas, Ann and John Harlow witnessed deed of John Michie to BENJAMIN ARNOLD II, 12 Mar. 1742. Thomas Harlow’s wife was Louisa, dau. of John Price and Sarah Munday (dau. of Abraham Munday). John Price’s father, Richard Price, was the grandson of Edmund Price, to whom ANTHONY ARNOLD sold Rockahow field. See Edmund Price. Harris, Thomas A Thomas Harris a headright of Thomas Flint, 20 Sept. 1628. Another Thomas Harris (or perhaps the same one) a headright of Cheney Boyce, 24 Aug 1637. Another Thomas Harris, a headright of Oliver Segar, 31 Jan. 1653. Segar received 200 acres in Lancaster Co. on 23 Aug. 1656. Thomas Harris received 650 acres in Lancaster Co. on Puscaticon Creek, adj. Oliver Segar. (N.B.- Most of the references in Nugent refer to the Thomas Harris of Henrico Co. through whom descendants claim royal lineage back to Edward III. Most of the remaining citations refer to Thomas Harris of Isle of Wight Co. who transported ANTHONY ARNOLD. I cannot identify the Thomas Harris who was headright of Oliver Segar. I have wondered if Thomas Harris who transported ANTHONY ARNOLD was related to Christopher Harris who received 450 acres, James City Co., near Rickahock Path, 21 Apr. 1658 among whose headrights were Clement Harris and Jane Fowke. This land later sold to Capt. Daniel Parke. On 7 Oct. 1658, Christopher Harris received 2000 acres in Westmoreland Co. on South side of the Potomac River. He later deserted this land. There is no further mention of him in Nugent’s Volumes. I have also wondered if Christopher Harris is the C. H. to whom Mrs. An Cotton addressed her letter and with whom ANTHONY ARNOLD lived for a time. Standard, “Some Emigrants to Virginia,” p. 41, states John Harris died 1719 Northumberland Co., VA., was son of Joseph Harris and nephew of William Harris. John Harris mentioned in his will a legacy of his, from his Uncle Wm., then in the hands of Christopher Harris, Esqr. of Padstow, Devon.) -45- Henderson, Thomas Had 400 acres land in Hanover Co., 25 Aug. 1731, adj. George Alves, John Michie, Col. Thomas Jones, etc. Thomas Henderson had sold land which had been patented by James Henderson (155 acres, King and Queen Co. 25 Apr. 1701). Higley, Jonathan (Various Spellings) A headright of John Hansford, who received 950 acres in Gloucester Co. on narrows of the Mattapony River for his transport and 18 others, 16 Dec. 1653. He and Richard Jones received 640 acres, New Kent Co., along Westover Path, 25 Jan. 1662. In July 1663, George Morris received 933 acres in New Kent Co. upon branches of Black Creek … by Westover Path … adj. neighbors were Richard Jones, Jonathan Higly, Mr. Brereton and ANTHONY ARNOLD. Hill, Francis A headright to Capt. Moore Fantleroy, 22 May 1650, who received land on South side of the Rappahannock River. Another, perhaps the same, Francis Hill a headright of Thomas Hill who received land in freshes of the Potomac River. Other headrights were: John Hill, George Hill, Thomas Hill, Mary Hill and Francis Hill, 28 Sept. 1657. On 23 Oct. 1703 a Francis Hill received 300 acres in King William Co on lower Herring Creek near his plantation. Transport of 6 persons, among them Francis Hill, Elizabeth Hill, James Martin, Elizabeth Martin, Wm. Marshall and Wm. West. Hodges, Arthur No mention of Arthur Hodges in Vol. I of Nugent. Vol. II: Arthur Hodges, orphan, 253 acres in Rappa. Co. on Rappa. River in South Farnham Parish, 20 Oct. 1689. Holmes, John ANTHONY ARNOLD received 500 acres in New Kent Co., 25 Oct. 1657 for import of 10 persons, among them John Holme (sic). Holmes family later connected to THOMAS ARNOLD’s descends. Holmes, Thomas A neighbor of ANTHONY ARNOLD’s in New Kent Co., 12 Oct 1662, on the Black Creek. Hooes, Rice Received 1200 acres Charles City Co., 2 May 1636. Got 700 acres James City Co., 9 May 1638; 1200 more acres, same date and place. Richard Tisdall’s grant in 1635 on Merchant’s Hope Creek was two and a half miles from the dwelling house of Rice Hoe (sic). By 18 Oct. 1643 he is being referred to as “Gentleman.” On 8 Mar. 1642 he has 200 acres of land on North side of the York River, adj. George Smith. On 2 Dec. 1656 he has land on the SW side of the Yorke River adj. George Smith and Mr. Langstone. By 20 Mar. 1661 he has land in New Kent Co. on South side Yorke River adj. John Fleming and Edmond Price. (N.B. I believe the Rice Hoe of Charles City Co. and Rice Hooes (Hughes) of New Kent are different men.) -46- Hubbert, Katherine A headright of Gawen Gawin, New Kent Co., 20 April 1682. One Katherine Hubbert was widow of Thos. Williamson. Hudson, Edward ANTHONY ARNOLD a witness to Arthur Hodges Power of Attorney to Edward Hudson, 31 Aug. 1669. (N. B. Note connection of Hudson family to THOMAS ARNOLD family.) Humphrey, Thomas Received land 600 acres in Northumberland Co. on Haddaways Creek and Fleet’s Bay. Land originally patented to Abraham Moone, 1 Sept. 1654. Humphrey assigned it to Tobias Horton. Wm. Humphries received 200 acres in Charles City Co., 18 Mar 1662 for transport of Thomas, William and Francis Humphries and Edward Ward. Hurt, John On 12 Nov. 1692 BENJAMIN ARNOLD I sold his lands to Hurt that he obtained from trade with the Indians. Jackson, John Had land that adj. ANTHONY ARNOLD’s in New Kent Co on South side of the Pamunkey River on branches of Chickahominy Swamp and upon Westover Path, 26 Sept. 1661. Capt. Will Brocas said his sister’s son was John Jackson and was heir to Brocas’ lands in Lancaster. Jones, Robert Had 500 acres in New Kent Co. on North side of the Mattapony River adj. land of John Exoll on North side of a branch of the Pianketanke River. Lane, John One of the Justices that heard the case of BENJAMIN ARNOLD I vs. Capt. Jacob Lumpkin, 29 Sept. 1690. Langstone, Anthony He had land on Westover Path in New Kent Co. on South side of the Pamunkey River on branches of the Chickahominy River – land that had been Rice Hooes. Was an adj. neighbor of ANTHONY ARNOLD’s, 26 Sept 1661. Lawrence, Richard A compatriot of ANTHONY ARNOLD’s during the Rebellion. He had attended Oxford University “and for wit, learning, and sobriety was equaled there by few, and who some years before … had been partially treated at law (by Gov. Berkeley) for a considerable estate on behalf of a corrupt favorite.” -47- Lockey, Edward Had 1600 acres in New Kent Co on North side of the Mattapony River adj. Ahorecock (sic) branch and Lt. Col. Abrall, 25 Jan. 1658. A near neighbor of ANTHONY ARNOLD. Lumpkin, Jacob Had confiscated an indentured servant, a tailor, and a gold ring (which had been given to ANTHONY ARNOLD’s sister for safekeeping) of ANTHONY ARNOLD’s sometime during or shortly after the Rebellion. On 1 Sept. 1690 BENJAMIN ARNOLD I brought charges against Capt. Lumpkin. The case was heard on 29 Sept. 1690. Lydall, George A headright, among others, of Capt. John West who received 1000 acres in Gloucester Co. on the North East side of the Mattapony River. An adj. neighbor was Capt. Robert Abrahall, 27 May 1654. By 27 Dec. 1657 he had 2390 acres in New Kent Co. behind Capt. John West on the South side of Black Creek. ANTHONY ARNOLD had a plantation on Black Creek adj. George Lydall on 12 Oct. 1662. Sir Robert Peake, Knight (Waters, “Gleanings” II 1-2) citizen and goldsmith of London, will proved 26 July 1667, mentioned his cousin and sometime servant, George Lydall in Virginia. A Robert Peake received 1600 acres James City Co. at head of the Chickahominy River, 20 May 1663. Among the headrights were Thomas Carter, Samuel Waller, Edward Harlow, Robert Yeoe, Martin Moone, Mary Fowke and Ferdinand Floyd. Maddison, John A headright of Capt. Daniel Gookin (a County Kent, England, family from who I descend – H.A.M.), 6 April 1648. 4 Jan. 1653 he received 600 acres, Gloucester Co., on North side of the Mattapony River, beg. at Col. Taylor’s Creek. By 28 Aug. 1657, he had 800 acres on North side of Mattapony River, in New Kent Co., beg. at his own 600 acres. On 28 Aug. 1658, he received 300 acres in New Kent Co. on North East side of the Mattapony River on the North East side of Whorecock Creek. On 5 Mar. 1658 he had 300 acres in Westmoreland Co. on the South side of the Potomac River. Martha Goffe received 650 acres in New Kent Co., 18 Feb 1663 assigned to her by John Maddison. This land had been assigned to William Goffe on 22 July 1659; who had assigned it to John Maddison. On 18 Feb. 1663 he received 280 acres in Rappahannock Co. upon the North side of the Peanketanke River two and a half miles from Capt. Clayborne’s Quarter. Thus, we see that Maddison was an adj. neighbor of ANTHONY ARNOLD’s in various areas of Eastern Virginia. Mallory, Roger One of the Justices who heard the case of BENJAMIN ARNOLD I vs. Capt. Jacob Lumpkin, 29 Sept. 1690. Roger Mallory was the son of Dr. Thomas Mallory, a Royalist, and descended from a Yorkshire family. He was named as a headright of Thomas and Henry Batts, his relatives, 29 Apr. 1668. Marr, John A headright of Reynold Bocus, 2 Nov 1705. Bocus received 146 acres in King and Queen Co. on the South side of the Dragon River. He figured in deeds BENJAMIN ARNOLD I witnessed 20 Apr. 1703. An ARNOLD Marr of King and Queen made bond with Robert Buttress on 4 Mar. 1697. -48- Martin, Thomas Was a merchant of Bristol, England, who had land dealings with BENJAMIN ARNOLD I’s widow, 11 June 1724. McGee, William Had land dealings with BENJAMIN ARNOLD I’s widow, 11 June 1724. A William Macgehee had land in King William Co. in St. Margaret’s Parish, 9 July 1724. He had 1000 more acres in Hanover Co. on the Great Rocky Creek and South side of the South Anna River, 17 Aug. 1725. Merriwether, Nicholas His name often seen in records concerning ANTHONY ARNOLD. He had lands near those of ANTHONY ARNOLD in several instances, one upon Skiminoe Creek. On 16 Nov. 1653 he received 600 acres in Northumberland Co. for import of 12 persons, among them, Thomas Hurt, Joane Wright and John How. He is thought to have been born in Wales. He died in 1678. The “William and Mary Quarterly” (2) Vol. I, p 156, says he was the son of Thomas Merriwether and Elizabeth Thornton. Miller, Thomas Confiscated the gun and two iron pots of ANTHONY ARNOLD’s either during or shortly after the Rebellion. He was a headright of Peter Knight who received 700 acres in Gloucester Co. In the records of Northumberland Co., Va., Peter Knight gave deed of gift to Thomas Waddy, 17 Nov. 1654. Robert Yeo was a witness. Moore, Augustine Was associated in land deals with BENJAMIN ARNOLD I in King William Co., 3 Nov. 1716. He, or another Augustine Moore, held lands in Rappahannock Co on the Pianketanke River, 16 Jan. 1658. Morris, George A headright of William Pullam, among 19 others, on 27 Dec. 1657. On 4 July 1658 he received 208 acres in New Kent Co. on the South side of the York River. Thomas Holmes assigned him 100 acres of this land. He and John Pigge received 1000 acres in New Kent Co., 14 Dec. 1660. PETER ARUNDELL and Ed. Tunstall were among their headrights. He had land on North side the Mattapony River on branches of Whore Cock Creek near Cheeskaak Path adj. ANTHONY ARNOLD. Napier, Robert (Napper, Nappire) An adj. neighbor of George Morris and ANTHONY ARNOLD in New Kent Co. on the Mattapony River near Whore Cock Creek. -49- Pawley, John Brought KATHERINE ARNDALL to Virginia. He, or another John Pawley, was a headright to Capt. Wm. Pierce, 22 June 1635. A John Pawley, surgeon, received 600 acres in James City Co., 18 June 1639. Peasely, William A neighbor of ANTHONY ARNOLD in New Kent Co. on branches of Black Creek. Parsons, Jonathan Had land on North side of the Mattapony River adj. Col. Robert Abrahall and Richard Tunstall, 26 Apr. 1664. On 19 July 1663, George Morris received land on the North side of the Mattapony River, on Whore Cock Creek (the patent stated an adj. tract of land formerly belonged to Jonathan Parsons). Pickis, Josias and Elizabeth Elizabeth Pickis, Administratrix of Capt. Josias Pickis sued ANTHONY ARNOLD for Pickis’ 100,000 lbs. tobacco for which ARNOLD held bills before Pickis’ death. ARNOLD presented a release from Josias Pickis but lost his case and was ordered to surrender the bills, 28 Sept. 1674. Capt. Josias Pickus held 420 acres in Rappahannock Co. on the South side of the Rappahannock River, 28 Mar. 1667. Pigge, John An adj. land owner of ANTHONY ARNOLD. He first appears in Vol. I of Nugent as a co-patentee with Robert Abrahall. They received 1280 acres, New Kent Co., on branches of Whorecock Creek, 10 July 1658. He also had 300 acres on the Peaketanke River near John Axoll’s land in New Kent Co., 10 July 1658. He is named as a near neighbor of John Madison on the North side of the Mattapony River, 18 Mar. 1662. He also held lands in Rappahannock Co., 11 Mar. 1662. Potter, Cuthbert A headright of Sir Henry Chickly, 9 June 1654. He had 1200 acres in Lancaster Co 14 Dec 1655 on the South side of the Rappahannock River. A near neighbor of ANTHONY ARNOLD. Price, Edward (Edmund) A headright of John Lewis and Robert Jones, 28 June 1658. He had lands in New Kent Co. on the South side of the York River, 20 Mar. 1661. Adj. neighbors were Lt. Col. Gooch and Rice Hughes. By 20 Oct. 1662, he and George Smith had 800 acres part in James City Co., part in New Kent Co., in freshes of York River between branches of the Chickahominy River and Black Creek. ANTHONY ARNOLD sold him an Indian field called Rockahockaw before 23 Oct 1664. (See Thomas Harlow) Pullam(s), William By 1 Jan. 1656, William Pullam had 334 acres in New Kent Co. on a branch of Skennow (Sciminoe) Creek. On 20 Jan. 1657 Pullam received 1000 acres in New Kent Co. on the South side of the Yorke River on North West Black Creek. He and Charles Edmonds and William Pullam received 2520 acres in New Kent Co. on the Chickahominy River 4 May 1658. He sold 640 acres along Westover Path, New Kent Co., to Elizabeth Jones and Jonathan Higly. -50- Richardson, William He had given, before his death, to George Lydall a list of bills among which was one for 3000 lbs. of tobacco due from Mr. (ANTHONY) ARNOLD, which belonged to the orphans of William Edwards, 14 Oct. 1670. Richardson received 700 acres, Isle of Wight Co., 29 Sept. 1664. Sellers, Jacob One of the petitioners from King William Co., 1 Nov. 1705, along with BENJAMIN ARNOLD I. He received 353 acres, King William Co., in Pamunkey Neck, adj. Yarborough’s line, 24 Apr. 1703. Short, Peter A headright of George Morris, 19 July 1663. Morris’ adj. neighbor was ANTHONY ARNOLD, among others. (See Short wills) Smart, Timothy A headright (under spelling of Swart) of George Morris, 19 July 1663 who was an adjoining neighbor of ANTHONY ARNOLD. Smith, Ambrose Joshua Had various land dealings with BENJAMIN ARNOLD I in King William Co. between 24 Apr. 1703 and 11 June 1724. He was listed as a headright of John Maddison and Daniel Coleman of King and Queen Co., 16 June 1714. He received 400 acres on Great Rocky Creek in Hanover Co., 9 July 1724; 1000 acres more on 17 Aug. 1725 on North fork of Elk Creek. On 21 Nov. 1727 he was a near neighbor of George Woodroof in Hanover Co. On 22 Feb. 1727 he was a near neighbor of Thomas Carr’s on South side of the North Anna River on lower side of Great Rockey Creek and both sides of Little Rockey Creek. FRANCIS ARNOLD and RACHEL ARNOLD (dau. of BENJAMIN ARNOLD I), his wife, had a son, AMBROSE ARNOLD. This name carried down in AMBROSE ARNOLD’s family for some generations. Smith, Christopher Listed as a headright of Joseph Cockrum, 23 Oct. 1703, for which Cockrum received land in King William Co. between the Herring Creeks beg. at the Mattapony River. He held land in his own right on 1 Apr. 1717 in King William Co., between the Mattapony River and Reedy Creek. Had land in Spotsylvania Co. in St. George’s Parish on ARNOLD’s Run below East North East, on North side of the North Anna River. Smith, Edmund Had 150 acres in St. John’s Parish, King William Co., in Pamunkey Neck, 26. Apr. 1704. A near neighbor of BENJAMIN ARNOLD II. -51- Smith, William Capt. William Smith had land on the North side of the Mattapony River next to Richard Tunstall, Jr. in 1686. Was a near neighbor of BENJAMIN ARNOLD I. Taylor, James, Jr. Had land dealings with BENJAMIN ARNOLD I in Hanover Co. (land formerly lay in King William Co.), 3 Nov. 1716. The relationship between the Taylors and the ARNOLDS was long standing. There is a much repeated error in many printed sources, e.g., “History of Caroline Co.” by T. E. Campbell et al, that ANTHONY ARNOLD purchased 1050 acres of James Taylor. Actually, he purchased this land from Col. William Taylor, Councillor of State as the following shows: Nugent, “Cavaliers and Pioneers,” Vol. I, p 276, shows a patent of “1050 acres, called Rocahock (sic), Gloucester Co., on North side of Mattapony River, 18 Apr. 1653, to Col. William Taylor, one of the Council of State.” Then, on the 23 Apr. 1688, ANTHONY’s son, BENJAMIN I, was re-granted this land which had been attainted on his father’s death. “Mr. BENJAMIN ARNOLD, 1754 acres, New Kent Co., North side of the Mattapony River, 23 April 1688, Pat. Bk. 7, p 635. 1050 acres granted to Capt. (Blank) Taylor, and sold to ANTHONY ARNOLD, dec’d. 704 acres beg. below the Mill Creek (then Worecock, today Garnett’s Mill Creek) as near the River as could be.” His adjoining neighbors were listed as John Pigg, Daniel Coleman, “Peck’s Hill,” William and Thomas Campe. Today this property is the site of “Hillsborough.” Taylor, James James Taylor and James Taylor, Jr., had land dealings with BENJAMIN ARNOLD in King William Co. A headright of William Morgan, among others, 22 Oct. 1643, for which he received 600 acres of land on the Chickahominy River. Mr. Leonard Clayborne claimed two James Taylors as headrights, 1 Apr. 1671; Clayborne received land on the Mattapony River in New Kent Co. A Mr. James Taylor received 950 acres of land in New Kent Co. in freshes of Mattapony River on 30 Oct. 1681. Those whose lands adj. were described as land, formerly John Pigg’s, William Smith, among others. It is described as land “which he lives upon.” The James Taylor of New Kent Co. is identified as the one who married Mary Gregory, sister of John Gregory, in “Colonial Land Patents,” Book 7, p 625. There was, however, another James Taylor who witnessed a deed, 3 April 1694, from William Brown, Jr., to John Settle for 165 acres of land on the North side of Chingqteaque Swamp (River) in St. Mary’s Parish, Richmond Co. (now King George Co.), along with Adam Woffendall, Richmond Co. Va., Deed Book 2, p 37. Strother Settle (son of John Settle and Mary Strother) married Mary Brown (daughter of Maxfield and Sarah (Newman) Brown. Mary (Brown) Settle married as her second husband, Evan Morgan (will dated 24 Aug. 1683) and as her third husband, James Taylor. What the relationship was between these various Taylors is unkown. The parish register of Barwick-in-Elmet, Yorkshire, England, is replete with Taylor entries as well as Browns and Settles. Later, the Browns, Settles, Taylors and ARNOLDS moved into Prince William Co. ANTHONY ARNOLD’s inventory showed he had an indentured servant, a tailor. -52- Taylor, William A William Taylor was a headright of John Dunstan who received land in James City Co., 1 June 1636. Also, a William Taylor, servant to Henry Snaile who received 50 acres, Isle of Wight Co., 23 Nov. 1637. John Jackson and Elizabeth Kingsmill, “now wife of William Taylor” received 600 acres in James City Co. being a parcel of small islands in the Chickahominy River, 26 Sept. 1638. A William Taylor received 1200 acres on the Chickahominy River, James City Co., 9 Nov. 1638. John Utye and wife, Mary, and William Tayloe, Gent. made assignment to John Utye, Jr., 8 Apr. 1640, of certain lands, Co. not named. William Taylor, Gent. of Chikiake (Cheeskiak) and Elizabeth, his wife (was Kingsmill, now Taylor) to John Jackson, 600 acres, in James City Co., a parcel of small islands, 26 Sept. 1638. Col. William Taylor, Esqr., “one of the Council of State, 1050 acres called Rockahock, Gloucester Co. on North side Mattapony River 18 Apr 1653.” This was the land (1050 acres) sold by Taylor to ANTHONY ARNOLD and the same land re-granted to BENJAMIN ARNOLD I. Thomas, Rowland A headright of Lt. Col. Anthony Elliott, 14 July 1655. Charles Morman had land in Hanover Co. adj. Rowland Thomas, 9 July 1724. He had a grant of 400 acres in Hanover Co. on both sides Ash Cake Rd., 28 Sept. 1728. Thomason, Ellinor Gave a deposition 29 Sept. 1690 in the case of BENJAMIN ARNOLD I vs Capt. Jacob Lumpkin. Tunstall, Richard Had land at the mouth of Aquentenocko Creek in King and Queen Co., 25 Apr 1667. Was a near neighbor of ANTHONY ARNOLD’s. Tucker, William One William Tucker was Captain at Kiccoughtan and had land in Elizabeth City Co., 20 Sept. 1624. He was married to (Blank) Thompson, and George, Paul, and William Thompson were his wife’s brothers. He was a royal Councillor of Virginia. ANTHONY ARNOLD had as headright one William Tucker, 25 Oct. 1657. Relationship, if any, between these two William Tuckers is not known. Vaulx, (Vaus) Robert and Elizabeth Robert Vaulx was a merchant who had 1200 acres on the Poropotancke Creek, 10 Aug. 1642. By 17 Sept. 1647 he had 400 acres in York Co. on Queen’s Creek. By 10 July 1651 he held 150 acres in York Co. on South side Queen’s Creek, adj. Capt. Taylor, Richard Jones. By 30 Sept. 1654 he held lands in Gloucester Co. and his wife, Elizabeth, was acting as attorney for him. A Humphrey Vaulx is mentioned in this record. On 1 Nov. 1654, Francis Hamon used as headright, for land received on the Mattapony River in York Co., Robert Vaus (sic), Elizabeth Vaus, Susan Vaus, Humphrey Vaus, among others. Wm. Gooch, royal Councillor and Robert Vaulx, Merchant, patented 6000 acres in Westmoreland Co. on South side of the Potomac River, 9 June 1655. When Gooch deceased, Vaulx repatented the 6000 acres as his own. He heired from Thomas Vaulx, 2300 acres in New Kent Co., 6 June 1657 and sold same to Francis Burnell, 1 Apr 1661. Mrs. Elizabeth Vaulx left in the hands of one Richard Browne a list of bills belonging to Mr. Robert Vaulx, among these was one from ANTHONY ARNOLD. -53- West, John John West, third son of Sir Thomas West, second Lord de la Warr, was born 14 Dec. 1590 and married Ann (Blank). He died in 1659. He had a son, John West, born 1642. John II had a large tract of land in the fork of the York River, between the Pamunkey and Mattapony Rivers, known as the “West Point” plantation. His wife was Ursula (or Unity) Croshaw of York Co. The rebels in Bacon’s Rebellion of 1676 made camp at this “West Point” plantation and John West sat as Justice in the court martial that tried the rebels. His daughter, Ann, married Henry Fox, a Sheriff of King William Co. A possible descendant of another John West wrote the St. Stephen’s petition which was presented to the Generall Court, 1 Nov. 1705, to which BENJAMIN ARNOLD I signed his name. Whitehead, John On 21 Oct 1673 Richard Whitehead, Tobias Handsford and Phillip Ludwell were granted 20,000 acres in the forks of Pamunkey Neck, on the South side of the Mattapony River in New Kent Co. Richard and John Whitehead were headrights of Richard Longest for which Longest received land in Gloucester Co. in Kingston Parish, 29 Sept. 1678. A John Whitehead received 184 acres in St. John’s Parish, King William Co. on South side of the Mattapony River, on Seller’s Old Run, etc., 5 Sept. 1723. The relationship between the above-named Whiteheads and the John Whitehead who signed the St. Stephen’s Petition from King William Co., along with BENJAMIN ARNOLD I, 1 Nov. 1705 is not known. Williamson, Thomas A previous husband of Katherine Hubbert’s. ANTHONY ARNOLD had witnessed Katherine’s Power of Attorney, 31 Aug. 1669. Wilson, John He married SAMUEL ARNOLD’s widow, before 9 Apr. 1674. On that date, the General Court heard the case of Lt. Col. John West vs John Wilson over title to a tract of land sold to West while SAMUEL ARNOLD was in life. Wolsey, Jacob Received 130 acres in King William Co. on branches of Lower Herring Creek, “below his house,” 23 Oct. 1703. He was assigned this land by BENJAMIN ARNOLD I. He was the first headright listed, with Elizabeth, his wife, among 36 others, of BENJAMIN ARNOLD I who received 1770 acres of land in King William Co. on Mattapony River at mouth of Lower Herring Creek, 23 Oct. 1703. Wyatt, William Was Sheriff of New Kent Co. and on 28 May 1673 had a warrant to arrest Ambrose Clare and ANTHONY ARNOLD. -54- Yarborough, Richard and Elizabeth Gave depositions in the case of BENJAMIN ARNOLD I vs Capt. Jacob Lumpkin, 29 Sept. 1690. The Yarboroughs operated a ferry on the Mattapony River, which was later known as ARNOLD’s Ferry and still later as Temple’s Ferry. This ferry was operated from the “Presque Isle” Plantation of BENJAMIN ARNOLD I over to the tract later known as “Chatham” plantation. “Chatham Hill” was another ARNOLD plantation. Yeo, Robert Nugent, “Cavaliers and Pioneers,” Vol. I, p 201 – George Read, Gent., 500 acres, Northumberland Co., 18 Oct 1650, Pat. Bk, 2, p 260. Upon South side Potomeck Riv. and South side Herrin Cr. next and adj. land of Mr. Robert Yeo. p. 237 – Maj. George Read, 500 acres, Northumberland Co., 9 June 1653, Pat. Bk. 3, p 19. South side Potomac Riv., South side Herrin Creek, next and adj. land of Mr. Robert Yeo. Renewal of 18 Oct. 1650 grant. p. 292 – Robert Yeo, 650 acres, Westmoreland Co., 6 Sept. 1654, Pat. Bk. 3, p 280. N. W. upon land of Gabriel Odgar, N.E. and S. E. upon Herring Creek which divides this from land of Major George Read. Transp. of 13 persons, among them, Wm. Claybourn. p. 351 – John Wood, 500 acres, Westmoreland Co., 15 July 1657, Pat. Bk. 4, p. 116. Upon head of Robert Yeo’s land, etc. p. 446 – ANTHONY ARNOLD’s land grant of 500 acres in Westmoreland Co., 3 May 1665, upon head of Coss Coss Creek, lying at the head of Robert Yeo’s land. Pat. Bk. 5, p 159. p. 500 – Daniell Hutt, 850 acres Northumberland Co., 9 Dec. 1662, Pat. Bk. 5, p. 329. South side Potomac River, south side Herring Creek adj. land of Mr. Robert Yeo … nigh the head of Coss Coss Creek. p. 481 – Wm. Heaberd and Wm. Horton, 1600 acres, Westmoreland Co., 9 Feb. 1663, Pat. Bk, 5, p 269. South side of Potomac Creek … North to land of Coll. Yeo … etc. p. 510 – Robert Peake, 1600 acres, James City Co., 26 May 1663, Pat. Bk. 5, p. 358. At head of Chickahominy River … etc. For transp. of 32 persons, among them Samuell Waller, Robert Yeoe, Martin Moone, Mary Fowke. p. 531 – Edward Rogers, 600 acres Westmoreland Co., 14 Oct. 1665, Pat. Bk. 5, p 421. South side Potomac River, North side Potomac Creek, towards the head thereof, beg. against land of Mr. Robt. Yeo. Being part of a patent for 700 acres granted to Wm. Beach and sold to Coll. Gerrard Fowke, who sold to Nicholas Russell who assigned to said Fowke who assigned to said Rogers. Fleet’s “Virginia Colonial Records, Northumberland Co.” Vol. II, p. 126: “I Peter Knight in consideration of my love unto Thomas Waddy” gives a calf. Signed, Peter Knight. Dated: 20 Nov. 1654. Wits: Robert Yeo, Daniel Foxcroft. -55- Yeo, Leonard Nugent, “Cavaliers and Pioneers,” Vol. I p. 62 – Leonard Yeo, 850 acres, Elizabeth City Co., 9 Aug 1637, Pat. Bk. 1, Part 1, p 444. Upon head branch of the old Paquoson Cr., S. E. upon land of George Hull and John Layden … 50 acres for his own personal adventure and 800 acres for transp. of 16 persons, named. p. 224 – Capt. Leonard Yeo, 350 acres, Elizabeth City Co. dated 1644, Pat. Bk. 2, p. 363. At head of Southampton River, abutting on a creek parting the same from land of Capt. (Blank) Thorowgood, dec’d … Part of this patent was formerly granted to Maurice Thompson. pp. 257-258 – Mr. John Sheppard, 1000 acres, Northumberland Co., 6 May 1652, Pat. Bk. 3, p 91 … For transp. of 20 pers., among them Capt. Leonard Yeo, Mrs. Clare Yeo. p. 506 – Frances Prichard, 700 acres on N. side of Lancaster Co., 29 Oct 1663, Pat. Bk. 5, p 506 … Transp. of 14 pers. among them Lea. Yeo. Nugent, “Cavaliers and Pioneers,” Vol. II p. 373 – John Lear, Esqr. and Rebecca, his wife, 180 acres, Eliz. City Co. between Hampton River and Back River; on Deep Creek, 20 Oct. 1691. Pat. Bk. 8, p 214. Being the bounds of 350 acres late of Col. Leonard Yeo, now in the tenure of sd. Lear in right of his wife; adj. land of Henry Royall, formerly John Robin’s; and line of Bright and John Naylor. Nugent, “Cavaliers and Pioneers,” Vol. III p. 28 – Mr. Charles Jennings, 143 acres, Elizabeth City Co., 6 June 1699, Pat. Bk. 9, p 202. Beg. at a gutt parting this land and land of Thomas Batts; down Herring Creek to the mouth where it falls into the Hampton River. 64 acres part of a patent granted Capt. Leonard Yeo in 1644; adj. Richard Ursley, Thomas Necham, and sd. Batts. Withington, “Virginia Gleanings in England,” pp. 574-575; 634-635. Leonard Yeo died June 1670, was a man of prominence in Elizabeth City Co., Va., serving in the Va. House of Burgesses and as Commander in Chief of the county’s militia forces. His first wife was named Claire (Blank) and his second wife was named Rebecca, who married 2ndly Charles Morrison and 3rdly Col. John Lear. In 1690 a Leonard Yeo (possibly a son) of Elizabeth City Co., died and left all his estate to his wife, Mary. Leonard Yeo I was brother to and Administrator of Robert Yeo, died bef. 11 Oct. 1656, Westmoreland Co. Leonard Yeo I was assigned his brother’s (Robert Yeo) 650 acres in Westmoreland Co. A George Yeo (possibly a son of the second Leonard Yeo) died in 1743, Elizabeth City Co. and left certain lands in the borough of Hatherly, Devon “Commonly called Wadlands and Finch Park” to his cousin, GEORGE ARNOLD, Merchant, of London. George Yeo, of Fyesleighe, in the county of Devon, died between 26 June 1605 – 16 June 1607, left money to the poor in Hatherleighe. The Yeos of Elizabeth City Co. and the Yeos of Accomac and Northampton seem to be related as both families came from places hearby in Devon. -56- Abstract of a Will or Administration Name – Yeo State – England County – Devon County Seat – Exeter Testator or Deceased – George Yeo of Fyeshleighe, Esqr. 60 Huddlestone Occupation: (Blank) Date of death: (Blank) Date will signed: 26 June 1605 Date estate entered into probate: 16 June 1607 Date will was recorded: (Blank) Date of division and settlement: (Blank) Date of final settlement: (Blank) Executors or Administrators: Son, Leonard Yeo; Overseers: Brother, Gyfford, Son-in- law, Mark Cottle Petitioners: (Blank) Witnesses: William Hele, Roger Selly, Leonard Northleigh Bondsmen: (Blank) Heirs: Son, Leonard Yeo, Residuary legatee, My great silver salt seller and cover and after his death, to George Yeo, his son, to his Dau., Elizabeth, 10.0.0 2nd son, John Yeo, 200.0.0 3rd son, Jerome Yeo, 200.0.0 4th son, Nicholas Yeo, 100.0.0 5th son, George Yeo, 100.0.0 Dau., Armilnell Yeo, to any child who will keep her, 50.0.0 Dau., Margaret’s children, George Neele, 3.6.8; Marie Neele, 10.0.0 Dau., Marie Cottle, my gilt salt which was given to my Wife by her Grandmother, Mrs. Katherine Mouncke. Dau., Margaret Robins, my black standing nut cup Sister, Millicent Waller, a mourninge gown Servants, Ann Hooper, 40 shillings; Joan Gorford, 40 shills., Gilbert Moore, 20 shills., Anthony Nenow, 10 shills. Abstract of a Will or Administration Name – Yeo State – Virginia County – Elizabeth City County Seat – Hampton 23369 (zip) Testator or Deceased – George Yeo Will Bk. 1737-1749, p 182 Occupation: (Blank) Date of death: (Blank) Date will signed: 15 March 1742 Date estate entered into probate: 20 Apr. 1743 Date will was recorded: (Blank) Date of division and settlement: (Blank) Date of final settlement: (Blank) Executors or Administrators: Cousins: GEORGE ARNOLD of London, England; John Selden of Virginia Petitioners: (Blank) Witnesses: Charles Jennings, John Webb, George Cooper Bondsmen: (Blank) Heirs: Cousin, GEORGE ARNOLD, Merchant in London, England, All my estate in England. Cousins, John and Elizabeth Selden (N. B. – H. A. M. - Children of Capt. Joseph Selden and Mary Cary, Dau. of Miles Cary); Joseph, son of cousin, John Selden. No relationship given – Robert Brough, son of Wm. Brough, dec’d. Wife’s granddaus., Agnes Howard, Mary Douglas; Wife’s dau., Grace Selden. -57- THOMAS ARNOLD - Documents Abstract of a Will or Administration Name – ARNOLD State – Virginia County – King George County Seat – King George 22485(zip) Testator or Deceased – THOMAS ARNOLD (In the 77th year of his age.) Will Bk. A-1, pp. 39-40 Occupation: (Blank) Date of death: (Blank) Date will signed: 27 Dec 1725 Date estate entered into probate: 6 May 1726 Date will was recorded: 6 May 1726 Date of division and settlement: (Blank) Date of final settlement: (Blank) Executors or Administrators: Wife: GRACE ARNOLD Petitioners: (Blank) Witnesses: ISAAC ARNOLD, James White Bondsmen: (Blank) Heirs: Loving wife, GRACE ARNOLD – Part of plantation, so far as to ye place where William Harrison’s Path (touches) my cleared ground during her natural life. Son, James, to have Wife’s part of Plantation after her death. Youngest Son, John, to have whole remaining part of my land. Ca 1677 – Henry Berry, 550 acs. Staff. Co. bet. Rappa. and Potomack Rivers; beg. at William Lippitt’s cor; to Symons’ oake; to ARNOLD’s; and adj. Mr. James Key; and his own land. (Note: Record unfinished), p. 616 Ref: Nugent, “Cavaliers and Pioneers,” Vol. II, p 178 3 April 1678 – James Keyes, 2000 acs. Rappa. Co. on N. side and in the freshes of the river. (Bk?) p. 630. Beg. neare the mouth of the Doegs Cr. on the N. side to head of Machowateg bever dam; and adj. Mr. Hales’ line, etc. 1680 acs. Granted to Col. Gerrard Fowke and Richard Heybeard, 28 Mar 1664 and by the latter, the survivor, sould (sic) to sd. Keys; 320 acs. For trans. of 7 pers: Jon Palmer, Jane Norwey, Anne Fielding, THOMAS ARNOLD, Tho. Richards, Willi. Delfe, Jon. Cross. Ref: Nugent, “Cavaliers and Pioneers,” Vol. II, p 181. 18 April 1679 – Adam Wofendale to THOMAS ARNOLD 40 acres. Adam Wofendale of County of Rapp … unto THOMAS ARNOLD of said county … about forty acres lying on the south side of Gingoteak branch, binding on the line of Simon Miller. Wit: James Orchard, Andrew (A) Ffoy. Rec. 4 Mar. 1679/80. 13 January 1679 - Symond Miller to THOMAS ARNOLD 20 acres. Symon Miller of Sittingborne Parish in Rapp. Co. … unto THOMAS ARNOLD of same parish and county twenty acres of land … for a valuable consideration already received by me … beginning upon a white oak butting upon Robt. Paines corner tree … across the ridge to Mr. Savage’s line. Wit: Nathaniell Tomlins, Adam Wofendale. Rec. 4 Mar. 1679/80. 24 January 1679/80 - Simon Miller to Adam Wofendale, power of attorney. Simon Miller of Rapp. Co … appoint my true and loveing friend, Adam Wofendale, to be my true and lawfull attorney … to acknowledge a small parcel of land unto THOMAS ARNOLD of same county. Wit: Nathaniell Tomlin, Tho(?) (T. G.) Grimsley. Rec. 4 Mar 1679/80. Ref: “(Old) Rappahannock County, Virginia, Records 1677-1687. Reel 5, p 263 (Virginia State Library); Deed Book 6, p 100. -58- 1681 – Henry Arkell assigned rights to Adam Woffendall. THOMAS ARNOLD, witness 28 February1681 - Henry Arkell assign all my right (etc.) of this within mentioned Conveyance from me … to Adam Woffendall. Wit: THO. ARNOLD. (No signature on this record). Rec. 2 Mar. 1681. 28 February 1681 – Honoria Woffendall, wife of Adam Woffendall … appoint Mr. Arthur Spicer to be my lawfull Attorney … as may appear by conveyances to Henry Arkill. Wit: THO: ARNOLD, Inhelmus Johanes. Honoria (H) Woffendall (Seal). 2 November (1681?) – John Homes (Holmes) of Stafford Co … to Henry Arkill. Wit: William Jones, John Wodson, John (H) Holmes (Seal). Honoria (H) Woffendall. 1681 – Adam Woffendall of the Co. of Rappa. … do assign the within mentioned deed to Henry Arkill .. do warrant said land …Witness my hand this 1681. William Jones, Frederick S. Grimshaw, Adam Woffendall. Honoria (H) Woffendall. Rec. 2 Mar 1681. Ref: “(Old) Rappahannock Co. Va. Records 1677-1787” Reel 5, p 341 (Virginia State Library) 7 May 1684 – At court THOMAS ARNOLD and others to appraise estate of Evan Morgan. At a Court held for Rappahannock Co. on the North Side of the River the 7th day of May Anno Dom. 1684. It is ordered that Mr. Francis Thorne, Wm. Stodder, THOMAS ARNOLD and Adam Woffendall or any three of them meet together at the house late of Mr. Evan Morgan sometime between this and the next Court … appraise the Estate of the said Evan Morgan upon Oath and Mr. Anthony Savage is hereby desired to meet there at the same time to administer an oath to the Relict and Executrix of the said Morgan … Ref: “Old) Rappahannock Co. Orders 1683-1686” Reel 13, pp. 18-19 (Virginia State Library) 25 September 1684 – Inventory of Evan Morgan’s estate and appraisal recorded. Signed by Francis Thornton, William Strothers, THOMAS ARNOLD, Adam Woffendall on 14 June 1684. These appraisers and the widow of Evan Morgan sworn before Anthony Savage. Ref: “(Old) Rappahannock Co. Va. Records 1677-1687” Reel 5, pp 45-46 (Virginia State Library) Pp 153, 199 - 5 March 1689 – Court held for Rapp. Co. THOMAS ARNOLD to be involved in a survey. p. 201 – In the difference between Mr. Xpher (Christopher) Robinson Plt. and Mr. Fran. Taliaferro Deft …dated 4th December last past, a Jury was impannelled and sworn … who not agreeing in their verdict the court have further ordered that Cap. Wm. Moseley … on the third Tuesday in May … jury to be impannelled (16 names, including THOS. ARNOLD). Ref: “(Old) Rappahannock Co. Va. Orders 1686-1692” Reel 13, p 150 (Virginia State Library) -59- 19 July 1689 – Deed of THOMAS and GRACE ARNOLD to Henry Going. Recorded. THOMAS ARNOLD (wife GRACE) to Henry Going Deed Inst. June 3, 1689. Description – both of Rappahannock Co. … land in said county, approximately 50 acres beg. at oak on West side of main branch of Ginateque Creek and run West to line of Prosser. 3 September 1689 - GRACE ARNOLD to Joseph Beckley, Power of Attorney. GRACE ARNOLD, wife of THOMAS ARNOLD of St. Mary’s Parish in Rappahannock Co. appointed friend Joseph Beckley as Power of Attorney regarding “my thirds of trace of land sold unto Henry Going according to deed of sale made by my husband and myself.” Ref: “(Old) Rappahannock Co. Va. Deed Book 8, 1688-1692” Reel 8, pp. 61-62 (Virginia State Library) 6 November 1689 – Henry Going to pay THOMAS ARNOLD for being witness in Court. At a Court held for Rappa. County. Ordered that Peter Butler be Payed for five dayes attendance according to act by Henry Goring being by him subpenaed an Evidence in his suit vs. Adam Woffendall. THOS: ARNOLD ditto. Ref: “(Old) Rappahannock Co. Va. Orders 1686-1692” Reel 13, pp. 140-141. 1 Mar 1694/95 – Adam Woffendall of Richmond Co., Planter, of the one partie and THOMAS ARNOLD of the same county, Planter, of the other partie … two thousand pounds of good Tobacco and cask … paid by the said THOMAS ARNOLD … 100 acres of land … in Co. of Richmond on North side of Rappahannock River … bounded … beg. at a white oak standing on the West side of a Western branch of Jengateqgue Swamp thence West to the line of Mr. Anthony Savage. Wit: Xpher Edrington, James Woffendall. Adam Woffendall (seal). Honoria (H) Woffendall. Rec. 20 Nov 1695. Ref: “Richmond Co. Va. Deed Book 2” pp. 142-144. 27 December 1725 – Will of THOMAS ARNOLD of Hanover Parish in King George Co. in the 77th year of my age … GRACE my wife whom I appoint Executrix …unto my Loving wife GRACE ARNOLD my plantation and land so far as to ye place where William Harrison’s path makes into the side or edge of my plantation or cleared ground … after her decease … said land …to my son JAMES ARNOLD … After that part of land hereby given to my wife and my son JAMES is be a straight course and from said Harrison’s path westerly to Capt. Joseph Stother’s line … that the whole remaining part of my land immediately belong to my youngest son JOHN ARNOLD and his heirs forever… Testes: ISAAC ARNOLD, James S. White. THOMAS ARNOLD (Seal) At a court held for King George Co. on Friday 6 May 1726, last will and testament of THOMAS ARNOLD deceased was presented into court by GRACE ARNOLD his widow and Executrix … proved by oath of ISAAC ARNOLD one of the witnesses thereto… Ref: “King George Co. Va. Will Book A-1,” pp. 39-40 -60- Names Associated with THOMAS and GRACE ARNOLD Arkill, Henry Died ca. 1698, Essex Co., Inventory of record there. No land grants listed for him in any volumes of Nugent. Had land dealings with Adam and Honoria Woffendale which THOMAS ARNOLD witnessed, 28 Feb. 1681. ARNOLD, ISAAC Researchers have generally credited him with being the eldest son of THOMAS and GRACE ARNOLD though no where is any kind of relationship stated. He witnessed THOMAS ARNOLD’s will on 27 Dec. 1725 and accompanied GRACE ARNOLD into Court to prove THOMAS ARNOLD’s will on his oath. On 2 Mar. 1733 (N.S.) he was granted administration on GRACE ARNOLD’s estate (wife of THOMAS ARNOLD). He lived on land next to THOMAS ARNOLD. Beckley, Joseph Called “friend” by GRACE ARNOLD who gave him Power of Attorney on 3 Sept. 1689. Imported by Richard Jones and George Turner who received land 8 Oct. 1672 on South side of Rappahannock River in Rappahannock Co. adj. Lt. Col. Goodrich and Mr. Brereton. See his records in Richmond Co. Va. Berry, Henry and Rev. Francis Doughty Had lands in Stafford Co. near ARNOLD’s undated grant. On 8 Apr. 1664 he received 600 acres on the South side and in the freshes of the Rappahannock River – his land adj. Clement Herbert et al. Henry Berry made his will 16 May 1748, King George Co. In this will he speaks of his “cousins” Joseph and Enoch Berry. Joseph and Enoch Berry were the sons of William Berry (will dated 5 February 1720, King George Co.). William Berry had married a granddaughter of the Rev. Francis Doughty, whose life in quite interesting. He was born in England in 1602 (son of Francis Doughty, Gent., of Hampstead, Oldsbury Parish, Gloucestershire). He was a Puritan divine of Sodbury, Gloucestershire, but was in Taunton, Mass. in 1637. He was in Dorchester, Mass. in 1639. He received a grant at “Maspeth” near Newton, Long Island, NY in 1642. He was said to be the first Puritan preacher in the English language in New York City, 1642. He departed for Maryland in 1648. He married (Blank) in either old or New England, for when he departed for Maryland he left a daughter in New York who had married Adrian Van DerDouck. In Maryland he preached and married a sister of Gov. Stone of Maryland. He left Maryland and came to Virginia to Hungar’s Parish in 1662. There he met and married Annie Eaton, dau. (or widow) of Nathaniel Eaton and Ann Graves (daughter of Thomas Graves who had, before his emigration to Virginia, been a member of the Dorchester, Mass. congregation where Doughty preached). Nathaniel Eaton, Annie’s father (or husband) (N. B. – the record is not clear) was another Puritan divine who had been the first Principal at Harvard College before his emigration to Virginia. In 1665 he (Doughty) became minister of Sittingbourne Parish, King George Co. He left for New York City in 1669 where he died soon after. When Henry Berry (Sr. or Jr.?) received the 600 acres, supra, in April 1664 for the import of 12 persons, there was among them, John Berry. What the relationship between this early Henry Berry (1664) and the Henry Berry who made his will in 1748 is not known. But Henry Berry of the 1748 will was either the brother to William Berry of the 1720 will, if the term for William Berry’s children “cousin” was meant in the colonial sense of “nephews,” or he was a nephew of William Berry and his father and William Berry were brothers if the term “cousins” really did imply cousins. (See Short wills above). Doughty, Francis (Rev.) – see Berry, Henry -61- Edrington, Christopher No entries in any volume of Nugent for him. Fowke, Gerrard (Col.) Mr. Thomas Fowke, Merchant, received 3350 acres in Westmoreland Co. on 10 June 1654, partly for transp. of 27 persons, among them Gerrard and Thomas Fowkes. Wm. and John Heabeard received 300 acres in Westmoreland Co. on two branches of Paspetanzey Creek, one of which ran to Gerrard Fowkes. On 14 Oct. 1665 Edward Rogers of Westmoreland Co. received 600 acres on South side of the Potomac River against land of Mr. Robert Yeo. Fowke had assigned the land to Rogers. Col. Gerrard Fowke said to be an ex-Royalist officer who came to Va. in 1651 and settled in Westmoreland Co. He was the 6th son of Roger Fowke of Breward and Gunston Hall, Staffordshire. He moved to Maryland by 1664. Foy, Andrew Not mentioned in any of the volumes by Nugent. Going, Henry THOMAS and GRACE ARNOLD sold on 3 June 1689 a tract of 50 acres to Henry Going and on 6 Nov. 1689 Going paid THOMAS ARNOLD for witnessing for him in Going’s suit against Adam Woffendall. He is not listed in any of Nugent’s 3 volumes of Colonial Land Patents. Grimshaw, Frederick No entries listed for him in Nugent’s 3 volumes. Harrison, William He was an adjoining property owner of THOMAS and GRACE ARNOLD. He gave his bond as security when JAMES ARNOLD’s widow, SARAH, was granted administration on his estate. He was also security for MARY ARNOLD, admr. of THOMAS ARNOLD’s estate (d before 6 May 1743). I cannot locate a land patent for him in the Northern Neck. There is no estate for him in King George before 1752. Heyberd, Richard (various spellings) Mr. Heabeard had 1539 acres in Stafford Co. on Pasbetan (Paspetanzey) Creek near Rappahannock branches, adj. John and William Heabeard. They had 530 acres on Pasbetanzy Cr. opposite Mr. Richard Heabeard and Mr. David Anderson. Was a sometime associate with Col. Gerrard Fowke. (N.B. – Was this Heabeard, Heyberd, etc, the Richard Hubbard who had been the husband of Katherine who had been married to Thomas Williamson?) Hudson, Rush He went security for ISAAC ARNOLD’s Administration of GRACE ARNOLD’s estate. He died, intestate, 1735. Edward Turberville and Sarah Hudson, the widow, administered his estate. ISAAC ARNOLD was one of their securities. (N.B. – Were these Hudsons related?) Jones, William Too many entries in Nugent’s 3 Vols. to try and make an identification. Key(es), James Was an adjoining land owner of William Berry and a near neighbor of THOMAS ARNOLD. He was married to Charles Holdsworth’s sister, Elizabeth. He had land on Henry Berry’s and ARNOLD’s lines. On 3 Apr. 1678 he was granted 2000 acres (1680 of which had been granted to Col. Gerrard Fowke and Richard Heybeard and when Fowke died, Heybeard sold to Keyes), in freshes of the Rappahannock River. For the residue of land, he imported 7 persons, among them, THOMAS ARNOLD. Miller, Simon Imported by Andrew Monrowe who received 920 acres in Westmoreland Co. 26 Oct. 1666. Miller received 817 acres in Rappahannock Co. on the South side of the River, on head of Pewmanesee (Peurmansend) Creek adj. among others, Prosser and Cadwaller Jones. He later sold 625 acres of this land to Cadw. Jones. His will proved 5 July 1683 by Francis Thornton and James Taylor. Simon Miller’s wife was Mrs. Margaret Prosser, widow of John Prosser. She had earlier been married to William Goffe. Wm. Goffe and Margaret, his second wife, were the parents of Thomas Goffe, who was the father of MARGARET GOFFE, wife of THOMAS ARNOLD. -62- Morgan, Evan His estate appraised 25 Sept. 1684 by Francis Thornton, William Strothers, THOMAS ARNOLD and Adam Woffendall. A later Evan Morgan was imported by Nicholas William and David Merriwether on 16 June 1714. Orchard, James Not mentioned in any volume of Nugent, but many entries in Richmond Co. records. Payne, Robert Received land on South side of the Rappahannock River, in the freshes, adj. land of Jno. Meader, formerly Robert Thomlyn, 27 Apr. 1668. His land site more clearly stated in Nugent, “Cavaliers and Pioneers, “ Vol. I, p. 87: About two and a half miles from the Rappahannock River on South side, near a path to Portobacco (sic) from Mattapony Indian Town or Chickahominy. Prosser, John Was married twice – first to Martha (?) and secondly to Margaret (?). His land was on Pewmansend Creek, today wholly within Caroline Co. He named a son, Samuel and his eldest son, John, had sons Roger and Anthony Prosser. Appointed Mr. James Kay to assist his wife as Executrix of his estate. Will signed 28 Aug. 1673, probated 30 June 1677. The Prosser in the 1689 deed (ARNOLD to Going) was one of his sons. Savage, Anthony His land adj. land Simon Miller sold to THOMAS ARNOLD in 1679. Lay on Prosser’s Creek in Sittingbourne Parish (Old Rappahannock Co.). Strothers, William Lived in the near vicinity of the THOMAS ARNOLD family. The ARNOLD home, as recited in a deed, was on the road leading to Strothers Church. William Strothers said to be William Strothers IV, the immigrant, son of William III, who was the eldest son of Lancelot Strothers of Trowberry Towers, eldest son of William II, of Kirknewton, eldest son of William Strothers I of Kirknewton, Northumberland Co., England. William Strothers IV married Margaret Thornton, daughter of Francis Thornton. Thornton, Francis Son of the emigrant, William Thornton, who settled in Gloucester Co. Francis Thornton of Stafford Co. was born 5 Nov 1651 and died 1726. His 1st wife was Alice, daughter of Capt. Anthony Savage of Gloucester and by her had seven issue. Family thought to be of Yorkshire. Thomlin, Nathaniel Not listed in any of the 3 land grant books by Nugent but see item on Robert Payne where Robert Thomlyn is mentioned. -63- White, James Too many entries on this name to make an identification but one James White had land with Elizabeth Bubboe, late Elizabeth White, on the Herring Cr. in King William Co. on 23 Oct. 1703. Woffendall, Adam (various spellings) Nugent, “Cavaliers and Pioneers,” Vol. II, p. 197 – 783 acres Westmoreland Co., 8 May 1679, Pat. Bk. 6, p 681. Granted to Capt. John Ashton, 16 Nov. 1664, deserted, etc. North upon the Beaver Dams of Atopian Cr,; South upon Nansatico Path. Transp. of 16 persons, named. “Richmond Co. Deed Book 1,” p. 72 – John Brown to brother, William Brown, sells 30 acres his father, William Brown purchased of Adam Woffendall and John Phillips. Land lay on the main branch of Chingateaque and adj. line of “my father Brown.” Dated 10 Feb. 1693 (N.S.) “Richmond Co. Deed Book 2,” p. 8 – John Kenyon to John John (sic) a tract of land in Richmond Co. (no water courses given). Witnessed by Adam and James Woffendall and Richard (x) Berry. Dated 7 Mar. 1694 (N.S.) “Richmond Co. Deed Book 2,” p 12 – Adam Woffendall of Richmond Co. to Wm. Powell of same, 50 acres on Main branch of Chingateaque; adj. John Easter, William Marshall, Francis Slaughter, William Brown. “Richmond Co. Deed Book 2,” p 32 – Relinquishment of Henry Berry to his title of land taken up by his father and brother, Richard Berry. Dated 12 Mar. 1694 (N.S.). Wit: John Berry and Adam Woffendall. “Richmond Co. Deed Book 2,” p 37 – James Taylor and Adam Woffendall witness deed of William Brown to John Suttle (sic) both of Richmond Co. Land in St. Mary’s Parish, Richmond Co. Dated 3 Apr. 1694. Adam Woffendall’s wife was Honoria (?) who as Woffendall’s widow married Meredith Payne. Upon his (Payne’s) death she married George Strother. James was perhaps his (Woffendall’s) son. Another possible son, William, was married to Tabitha (?) -64- Correspondence and Documents from England as Published in the Arnold Family Association of the South Newsletters Volume XII – 15 December 1981 – pp. 5-32 Our English records will take the form, this issue, of a report on the present status of our Anthony Arnold research project which is being conducted in England by Peter Wilson Coldham and directed here by Hazel Arnold MacIvor. Below are given the letters and documents which have transpired to this point. 12 November 1980 565 South River St. Marshfield, Mass. 02050 Mr. Peter Wilson Coldham 16 Foxley Hill Road Surrey, CR2 2HB, England Dear Mr. Coldham: Your name and address were given to me by Mr. Gary Roberts at the N E G H Society as one he highly recommends for doing the type of research I require. I am attempting to locate Anthony Arnold’s place of origin, his parents and siblings. He was in Virginia records as early as 1654, and other Arnolds in his vicinity may or may not be connected to him. I am writing to enquire as to your fees, expenses, etc. and if you have time available at present to undertake this work for me. My intention, should you take my commission, is to send you the data I have amassed in the form of a time line, with each entry documented. Please tell me when you reply, if this is an acceptable form. If not, please state which form you prefer. Thank you so much. Sincerely, Mrs. Hazel Arnold MacIvor Enclsoure: $1.00 check for your postage in replying. 1 December 1980 16 Foxley Hill Road, Purley, Surrey CR2 2HB, England Mrs. Hazel Arnold MacIvor, BSCG 565 South River Street Marshfield, Mass. 02050 Dear Mrs. MacIvor, Thank you for your letter of 12 November about Anthony Arnold. I should be glad to try to identify his English origins though, as I am sure you already appreciate, research of this kind is never assured of final success! Much is likely to depend on the data already obtained and I should be grateful to have the fullest information you can give me. Preliminary searches should probably be concentrated on probate and legal records which might make mention on Anthony Arnold and it should be possible to complete these for an estimated sum of $50.00. My charges are currently $20.00 an hour for work carried out in the London area and, this it is acceptable to you, I shall be glad to receive your instructions. Yours sincerely, Peter Wilson Coldham -65- 11 December 1980 565 South River St. Marshfield, Mass. 02050 Peter Wilson Coldham 16 Foxley Hill Road Purley, Surrey CR2 2HB England Dear Peter (if I may): I was gratified to receive your letter and to learn of your willingness to tackle my problem. Since the holiday season is just about upon us, I shall delay sending you the data I have compiled on Anthony Arnold until after the New Year. I will send you everything I have been able to find in the extant records, but since the county he lived and died in has suffered a complete loss of records, my data is of necessity limited. Your fee of $20.00 per hour is entirely satisfactory to me. I shall enclose a retainer fee of $100.00 when I send the data on Anthony Arnold after the holidays, to be applied toward the first five hours’ work. Have a happy Holiday! Sincerely, Mrs. Hazel Arnold MacIvor February 6, 1981 See letter above (page 2) from Hazel Arnold MacIvor to Mr. Peter Wilson Coldman 19 February 1981 16 Foxley Hill Road, Purley, Surrey CR2 2HB England Mrs. Hazel A. MacIvor 565 South River Street Marshfield, Mass. 02050 Dear Hazel, This will be just a short note to acknowledge your letter and check of 6 February and to tell you how delighted I was to receive yesterday such a wealth of well- researched and presented evidence on the Arnold family, especially given the large scale destruction of so much local history. Much of it I have read just for pleasure (!) but I have also taken extensive notes of my own as a guide to future research here. Before your letter arrived I had already made a survey of three major sources: “Bernau’s Index” to Chancery Cases, Family Archives, and “The Great Card Index” all at the Society of Genealogists. Since so many of the references to Chancery cases appear as, e.g., Smith v Arnold, we shall need to await more detail from investigation of other Chancery material before being able to make proper use of them. However, from the appended list of references, you will see that we can at least begin to examine some Chancery papers to give us a lead, especially those cases before 1670 which mention an Anthony Arnold. I am intrigued by the Arnold/Anthony connexion your research has uncovered and agree that the London area should be the area to concentrate upon; but followed closely by Gloucester and its environs. Because, as you are quite right to emphasise, your Arnolds all bore the distinguishing prefix of “Mr.” I propose to concentrate more heavily than otherwise I might have done on Chancery records since few of the merchant gentry of 17th century England managed to live their lives without becoming embroiled in one or more lawsuits – possibly because this was the safest way to establish title to property! I propose, therefore, to examine all of the calendars of cases between 1649 and 1714 in which an Arnold was the plaintiff: this will knock a fair sized hole in the budget but I hope the results will justify us. I will also examine more closely the collections of material on “London Citizens” available at the Society of Genealogists. As soon as these further enquiries are completed, hopefully in about two weeks, I will send you further news. With kind regards – and congratulations. Sincerely yours, Peter Wilson Coldham -66- References to ANTHONY ARNOLD in Public Records “Exchequer Court Depositions (E134)” ANTHONY ARNOLD listed as a deponent under the following references: 19 Chas 2/Mich 12 – re rents in Gloucester 22 Chas 2/East 38 – re an outlawry in Gloucester 26 Geo 2/East 4 – re vicarage of Folkestone, Kent “London Depositions in Chancery Causes (C24)” ANTHONY ARNOLD listed as a deponent under following references: 795(S) – 1655 886(W) – 1663 957(A) – 1670 1796(K) – 1771 “Chancery Causes 1649-1714 – Bridges Division (C5)” 459/111 - 1669 Richard Castell and Eleanor his wife v. ANTHONY ARNOLD re Blockley Manor and Bourton on the Hill, Worcester and Gloucester. 581/66 - 1666 Richard Wintle v. ANTHONY ARNOLD re personal estate of John Wintle deceased, London. 587/79 - 1676 ANTHONY ARNOLD v. John Marston re money, Gloucestershire 27 February 1981 Foxley Hill Road, Purley, Surrey CR2 2HB England Mrs. Hazel MacIvor 565 South River Street Marshfield, Mass. 02050 Dear Hazel, Since writing to you on 19 February, I have had rather better opportunities than I had then expected to examine the major sources and source references toward the Arnold genealogy, and the list attached, while by no means comprehensive, represents a substantial indication of the principal materials available to us. I am afraid that, in order to include as many as possible of the major source references, my enthusiasm took me rather over the time limit I should have set myself in relation to the retainer you sent me – but we will let that rest! I should also explain, perhaps, that it has never been my practice to list all the sources examined, otherwise one ends with page upon page of references which become (at least to me) totally confusing. I have, for example, examined all the principal Gloucestershire printed collections at the Society of Genealogists which alone would have represented about ten foolscap pages as a listing. I have, as I promised, concentrated upon the London area to begin with and included in those searches a detailed examination of the Computer File Index (Mormon) print-outs of London and Middlesex Arnold baptisms. In none of these many hundreds of references did the name of Anthony Arnold once appear and I am now inclined to the view that your Anthony Arnold was descended from the Arnolds of Gloucestershire where the Christian name of Anthony was transmitted over many generations. I will need to write you in more detail later about the Anthony Arnold who was a deponent in London in the latter part of the 17th century but perhaps it will suffice for the moment to say that, on checking, I find he described himself as of Gloucester City though he evidently worked in London as a lawyer. In addition I have examined every Arnold pedigree, printed and manuscript, (including a recent book-sized genealogy of the Arnold family), listed in the sources but all seem to pass over the branches in which we are at present interested! I strongly recommend that further research should be concentrated upon wills and Chancery cases, particularly those which mention or are likely to mention an Anthony Arnold, and perhaps you would direct me as to what further financial limit you wish to place on this continued activity as well as indicating your own recommendations as to sources you would like to have explored further. Anyway I very much hope that progress so far will give you encouragement! Sincerely yours, Peter Wilson Coldham -67- Chancery Causes – Six Clerks Series (* see extracts below) C5 6/2 MICHAEL ARNOLD v. Sarah Clough re money, Middlesex. 1649. 7/4 MICHAEL ARNOLD v. Joan Allye re money, Middlesex. 1650. 26/4 RICHARD ARNOLD and ELIZABETH his wife v. Sir William Rowe re (?) Walthamstow, Essex. 1653. 380/14 * JOHN ARNOLD and MARGARET his wife v. Elizabeth Haynes, widow, re personal estate of Edward Price, Gloucester. 1653. 392/4 MICHAEL ARNOLD v. Mary Cooke, widow, re personal estate of Robert Simpson, Middlesex. 1648. 398/2 RICHARD ARNOLD v. John Foxe re money, Surrey. 1652. 417/47 NATHANIEL ARNOLD v. Thomas Goodwin re marriage contract, Gloucester. 1667. 421/3 NATHANIEL ARNOLD v. Thomas and Anthony Goodwin re Sapperton, Glos. 1667. 436/1 RICHARD ARNOLD and MARY his wife v. Hugh Walter re St. Mary Magdalene, Old Fish Street, London. (Ans). 1663. 441/88 JOHN ARNOLD v. Samuel Neve re money, Middlesex. 1681. 587/79 * ANTHONY ARNOLD v. John Marston re money, Gloucester. 1676. 587/80 * ELIZABETH ARNOLD, widow, v. Richard Jewell and Jane his wife re Bletchworth, Surrey, and charitable bequest of Andrew Cade. 1698. 587/82 MARY ARNOLD, widow, v. Bulstrode Barry re money, Middlesex. 1656. 587/85 THOMAS ARNOLD and MARTHA his wife v. Thomas Stibbs re money. Middlesex, 1700. C6 120/11 RICHARD ARNOLD and MARY his wife v. John Fox re Southwark, Surrey. 1653. 130/1 RICHARD ARNOLD v. Robert Gammon and Barbara his wife (Ans.) 1648. 147/2 RICHARD ARNOLD and SARAH his wife v. Francis Towke and John Rolfe re St. Michael, Paternoster Royal, London. 1661. 192/4 BENJAMIN ARNOLD v. Grace Austen re land unspecified (Ans.) ca 1670. 269/3 ANN ARNOLD, widow, v. JOHN ARNOLD re personal estate of LANCELOT ARNOLD, Middlesex. 1689. C7 3/9 THOMAS ARNOLD v. William Gore re money, Middlesex. 1686. 3/31 JOHN ARNOLD v. Sir Jeremy Sainbreck re Coleman Street, London; Islington, Stepney, Hendon, etc., Middlesex. 1696. 6/31 THOMAS ARNOLD v. Charles Jones re money, Middlesex. 1688. 8/16 JOHN ARNOLD v. Leonard Bennett re money, Middlesex. 1691 9/18 REBECCA ARNOLD, widow, v. REBECCA ARNOLD re Betchworth, Croydon, etc., Surrey. 1714. 11/63 JOHN ARNOLD v. Jane Dunn re Finsbury, Middlesex. 1683. 13/31 MICHAEL ARNOLD v. Richard Martin re personal estate of John Allen, Middlesex. 1667. 14/15 Richard Anthony (sic) v. Thomas Cotton re money. (Ans.). 1638. 14/121 JOHN ARNOLD v. William Dey re money, Middlesex. 1682. 14/124 RICHARD ARNOLD v. MARY ARNOLD, widow, re money, Middlesex. 1682. 15/46 EDMUND ARNOLD v. John Wythers re marriage contract, Middlesex. 1667. 15/104 RICHARD ARNOLD v. Isaac Gould re money. (Ans.) 1648. 15/133 RICHARD ARNOLD v. Henry Wrigley re St. Botolph Aldgate, London. 1645. 16/96 GEORGE ARNOLD v. Ann Beachinall re Bermondsey, Surrey. 1698. 16/110 * ANTHONY ARNOLD v. Peter Denham re Plumpstead, Bexley, etc. Kent and Essex. 1672. 17/8 WILLIAM ARNOLD v. Edmund Doe re money, Middlesex. 1671. 17/11 MARY ARNOLD, widow, v. WILLIAM ARNOLD re Kensington, Middlesex. 1667 462/4 RICHARD ARNOLD v. William Dyke re money, Middlesex. 1664. 486/6 WILLIAM ARNOLD v. Joseph Battaillier re money, Middlesex. 1667. 515/4 GEORGE ARNOLD v. Samuel Thompson re Stepney, Middlesex. 1669. -68- C8 42/28 RICHARD ARNOLD and MARY his wife v. Luke Lee re Southwark, Surrey. 1635. 49/14 RICHARD ARNOLD and MARY his wife v. Abraham and Richard Haynes re St. Mary Magdalen, Fish Street, London. 1643. 76/24 ANDREW ARNOLD v. George Price re Esher, Surrey. 1636. 99/2 RICHARD ARNOLD v. Thomas Jones and Bridget his wife re St. Botolph Aldgate, London. 1653. 149/3 FRANCES ARNOLD v. THOMAS, JOSEPH, CHARLES and HENRY ARNOLD re Esher, Surrey and Blackfriars, Middlesex. 1663. 326/22 MARTHA ARNOLD, widow, v. Thomas Dennis re personal estate of Sarah Kempe, widow. 1669. 346/11 GEORGE ARNOLD v. John Cholmly and Sarah Kempe, widow, re money, Middlesex. 1692. 350/4 DOROTHY ARNOLD alias Gould, widow, v. THOMAS ARNOLD alias Grove re money, Middlesex. 1689. 352/13 JOHN ARNOLD v. John and William Tayleur and others including Delcia Nelson re St. Mary Abchurch, London. 1693. 414/18 JOHN ARNOLD v. Thomas Freeman re St. Sepulchre, London. 1690. 432/6 ANDREW ARNOLD v. Samuel Hunter re Lambeth, Surrey. 1692. 466/14 THOMAS ARNOLD v. Calvert Bristow re money, Surrey. 501/1 JOSIAH, BENJAMIN, NATHANIEL and JOHN ARNOLD v. Richard Williamson re personal estate of JOSIAH ARNOLD, London. 1713. 531/63 JOHN ARNOLD v. Robert Kent re money, Middlesex. 1693. 531/64 JOHN ARNOLD v. Thomas Staples re money, Middlesex. 1693. 588/3 WILLIAM ARNOLD v. Thomas Collins re money, Middlesex. 1700. C10 32/2 RICHARD ARNOLD v. Gilbert and James Loder re Southwark, Surrey. 1654. 86/1 THOMAS ARNOLD v. William Burrough re money, Middlesex. 1668. 87/1 MICHAEL ARNOLD v. Richard Tufton re Westminster, Middlesex. 1668. 138/9 THOMAS ARNOLD, clerk, v. Bridget Haynes re St. Alphage without Cripplegate, London. 1680. 141/15 JOHN ARNOLD v. William Scarlett re money, Middlesex. 1681. 141/16 JOHN ARNOLD v. John Holdsworth re money, Middlesex. 1681. 158/1 MICHAEL ARNOLD v. Thomas Flint re money, Middlesex. 1669. 209/1 GEORGE ARNOLD v. Jane Tregonwell re money, Middlesex. 1682 315/6 MARY ARNOLD, widow, v. Bulstrode Barry re money, Middlesex. 1709. 468/2 RICHARD ARNOLD and MARY his wife v. John Vordam re Old Fish Street, London. 1662. 474/10 WILLIAM and WILLIAM ARNOLD v. John Greene re Kensington, Middlesex. 1673. 498/2 MARY ARNOLD, widow, v. Edmund Luckeridge re St. Gregory, London. 1685. 499/12 WILLIAM ARNOLD v. Richard Love re money, Middlesex 1689. -69- “Lawsuits temp. Elizabeth I (C2/Eliz.)” – calendars only cursorily examined. C10/30 Thomas Cranmer v. RICHARD ARNOLD re lease in Blackfriars held by the defendant on the demise of RICHARD ARNOLD and BARBARA his wife. F10/18 Thomas Gee v. RICHARD and BARBARA ARNOLD re lease in Blackfriars, inheritance of Francis Pilcher (sic), former husband of defendant BARBARA. “Records of London Citizens” 1522 RICHARD ARNOLD of St. Ann, Blackfriars, haberdasher, born 1529. Married second wife BARBARA, widow of Francis Pitcher (sic). Died 22 July 1621, aged 92 and buried St. Martin Ludgate. IPM London Vol. III/56. (Will of Francis Pitcher PCC 1575.) Had children FRANCIS who married in 1589 Ursula Nelson (4038); HENRY in Ireland; SAMUEL who married in 1602 MARY THORNTON (1523); ELIZABETH who married in 1592 CHARLES ANTHONY (13199). 1523 SAMUEL ARNOLD married MARY THORNTON 1602, PCC will 1618. Had children RICHARD botn 1607, SAMUEL born 1611, GEORGE born 1617 who married 1641 SARAH BRETT (15697). 6520 THOMAS ARNOLD of St. Dunstan in the East, haberdasher and Alderman, son(?) of FRANCIS ARNOLD and URSULA NELSON. Paid poll tax 1641 Ludgate Hill, paid rent 1638 St. Martin Ludgate. Will PCC 1669, buried at Hendon, Middlesex. Children JOHN buried 1625, ARTHUR buried 1617, ROGER born 1614 buried 1615, EDMUND born 1617, WILLIAM born and buried 1620, MARY born 1622 buried 1625, CATHERINE born 1624 buried 1626. 9038 FRANCIS ARNOLD, haberdasher, son of RICHARD ARNOLD of Blackfriars. Married 1589 at St. Pancras, Soper Lane, URSULA NELSON, dau. of THOMAS NELSON. Son THOMAS buried 1669 (6520). 13213 JOHN ARNOLD of All Hallows the Great, grocer, married 1586 at St. Bartholomew by Exchange ALICE SHERBROOK, dau. of John Sherbrook. 13214 ROBERT ARNOLD of St. Mary Aldermary born 1633, married at All Hallows Staining in 1661 MARY, dau. of Samuel Vassall of St. George, Southwark. 13215 THOMAS ARNOLD of London, blacksmith, married by license in 1597 to ELIZABETH, dau. of Robert Holman of Berkshire. 15697 GEORGE ARNOLD, haberdasher, son (?) of SAMUEL ARNOLD and MARY THOMSON, born 1617, married by license 1641 to SARAH BRETT (15697). Alderman 1657. Died 1669. 16279 JOHN ARNOLD of St. Botolph, Aldersgate, draper, freed 1608 by Robert Garrett. Paid poll tax Aldersgate 1641. Will PCC 1652. Children MARGARET who married OLIVER BALDWIN, and ANNE. 19175 ROGER ARNOLD, haberdasher. Mentioned in London Letter Book 1487. Daughter ELIZABETH. 19271 RICHARD ARNOLD, goldsmith, of St. Augustine. Will PCC 1405 mentioning no wife or children. Born ca 1380. Sister JULIANA. 27722 JOHN ARNOLD of St. Saviour, Southwark, dyer, married (?) ALICE POULTON. PCC will 1620 mentions sister JOYCE, brother THOMAS and wife ALICE. 27827 RICHARD ARNOLD, carpenter, son of JOHN ARNOLD. Married PRISCILLA. Will PCC 1658 when of St. Botolph Aldgate, mentions sister ALICE wife of ROGER TINHAM, brothers WILLIAM, NICHOLAS, JOHN, VALENTINE, ALEXANDER and cousin EDWARD ARNOLD. 30375 THOMAS ARNOLD, painter stainer of St. Botolph Aldersgate. Children THOMAS born 1642 and ELIZABETH who married to EDWARD ALSOP in 1663. 35295 RICHARD ARNOLD, goldsmith, born Gillingham, Kent, son of (?) ARNOLD and LUCY SHORT. Will PCC 1644 (See Water’s Gleanings). 43134 SIMON ARNOLD, barber surgeon, married 1640 HANNAH CATLAND, died 1660. Son SIMON ARNOLD apprenticed to a barber surgeon in 1660. 44702 THOMAS ARNOLD, fishmonger, freed by redemption 1626. Paid poll tax 1641. Grocer in Essex. 55084 MICHAEL ARNOLD of St. Katherine by the Tower married in 1634 to AGNES (ANNE) WILLIAMSON and had children ZACHARIAH 1637, PETER 1638, CATHERINE 1640, DINAH 1642, ALEXANDER 1644, JANE 1645, EDWARD 1635 (?), ELIZABETH 1647, MICHAEL 1650. 55303 ROBERT ARNOLD of St. Katherine by the Tower married in 1613 ANNE NICHOLS and had children ALICE born 1616 who married JOHN PAGE in 1640, and ROBERT born 1620. -70- “London Archdeaconry Court Wills to 1649” JEREMY ARNOLD of St. John Zachary. Administration 1647 to Philip Lilly and kinsman WILLIAM ARNOLD. ELIZABETH, relict of JEREMY ARNOLD of St. John Zachary. Administration with will to WILLIAM ARNOLD, guardian of ELIZABETH, MARY, JOAN, SARAH, WILLIAM and (?) ARNOLD, the children. WILLIAM ARNELL alias ARNOLD, haberdasher, of St. Michael Bassishaw. Renunciation 1557. “Boyd’s Marriage Indexes” ANTHONY ARNOLD and MARY IZOD at Stanton, Gloucestershire, 1624. ANTHONY ARNOLD and ANNE GRACE 1628. (Paver’s Licenses). “Country Depositions (Chancery)” C21/A12/15, A5/14 ARNOLD v. ARNOLD C22/566/5, 569/1 ARNOLD v ARNOLD “Prerogative Court of Canterbury Wills” 159/1680 ANTHONY ARNOLD, gent. of Gloucester City. 85/1695 GEORGE ARNOLD, gent., of St. James, Clerkenwell, Middlesex. “Gloucester Wills” ANTHONY YARNOLD (sic), Minsterworth, 1575 ANTHONY ARNOLD, Westbury, 1678 AGNES ARNOLD, Nether Stowe, Berkeley, 1662 ALICE ARNOLD, Lower Quinton, 1696 RICHARD ARNOLD, Thornbury, 1668 RICHARD ARNOLD, Huntley, 1682 THOMAS ARNOLD, Westbury, 1679 HENRY ARNOLD, Berkeley, 1617 ISABELL ARNOLL (sic), Cromhall, 1635 JASPER ARNOLD, South Cerney, 1647 JOHN ARNOLD, Tarleton in Coates, 1616 JOHN ARNOLD, Stone in Berkeley, 1624 RICHARD ARNOLD, Kempsford, 1618 ROBERT ARNOLD, Cromhall, 1627 “Haberdashers’ Company Apprentices 1583-1630” 1583 EDWARD ARNOLD (183v) JOHN ARNOLD (232v) WILLIAM ARNOLD (296v) ZACHARY ARNOLD (145v) 1584 THOMAS ARNOLD (45v) 1612 THOMAS, son of THOMAS ARNOLD, of Coventry, Warwickshire, fellmonger. 1619 WALTER, son of JOHN ARNOLD, of Portsmouth, Hampshire, smith, deceased. 1620 WALTER, son of JOHN ARNOLD, of Portsmouth, Hampshire, smith, deceased. 1627 JOHN, son of JOHN ARNOLD of Totteridge, Hertfordshire, yeoman. -71- “Visitation of Gloucestershire (1623 and 1684)” 15 August 1623 ANTHONY ARNOLD of Minsterworth declared “no gent.” 6 January 1684 ROBERT, son of Mr. ANTHONY ARNOLD, buried St. Michael’s Gloucester. “High Court of Admiralty Indexes” Several references to FRANCIS ARNOLD. (nothing further given) “Inquisitions Post Mortem” 492/79 8 Charles 1. RICHARD ARNOLD, London. 495/71 8 Charles 1. RICHARD ARNOLD, Middlesex. 575/140 14 Charles I. WILLIAM ARNOLD, Middlesex. “Indexes to Prerogative Court of Canterbury Causes” 11/23 - 2 Paul 1694/5 ANTHONY v. ARNOLD re personal estate of GEORGE ARNOLD: commission to inspect testamentary papers. “Alumni Oxoniensis” JOHN, son of ANTHONY ARNOLD of Gloucester City, gent. Wadham College. Matriculated 16 May 1689 aged 16. NICHOLAS, son of JOHN ARNOLD of Highnam, Gloucestershire, armiger. Jesus College. Matriculated 27 April 1683 aged 15. (Listed in Foster’s Inns of Court). RICHARD, son of ANTHONY ARNOLD of Gloucestershire, gent. Balliol College. Matriculated 12 September 1640 aged 14. RICHARD, son of ANTHONY ARNOLD of Gloucester City, gent. Brasenose College. Matriculated 1 March 1677/8 aged 16. Barrister at law of Inner Temple 1687. (Mentioned in Foster’s “Judges”). JOHN, son of THOMAS ARNOLD of Gloucester City. Pembroke College. Matriculated 29 October 1780 aged 19. “Coldham Indexes to Personal Estates in Chancery” C/10/451/20 – 1711 Samuel Hall, clerk, and Elizabeth his wife, William Smith, William Wooding and ELIZABETH ARNOLD v. THOMAS ARNOLD re Personal estate of JOHN ARNOLD deceased, Gloucester. “Residence Certificates (E115)” 11/87 ANTHONY ARNOLD of Gloucester. -72- March 13, 1981 565 South River Street Marshfield, Mass 02050 Mr. Peter Wilson Coldham 16 Foxley Hill Road Purley, Surrey, CR2 2HB England Dear Peter: I have at hand your letters of 19 and 27 February with enclosures. I should like to have some information about data enclosed in the 19th February letter. I am sure you have a copy of the enclosure of that date. At the top of the page, you state the three types of records listed below are “in Public Records.” Are these records in the London Public Record Office, Greater London Public Record Office or the British Public Record Office? It would be very helpful if in the future you would specify exactly where records you cite are located and even more helpful if you would furnish current address and zip code of these institutions. I am not at all familiar with the great record collection of each repository in the London area. How I wish I were! I should say, at this point, that I could never afford on my own to pay an overseas genealogist to search out my Anthony Arnold’s forebears. I am aided in this respect by the “Arnold Family Association of the South”, an organization I founded in January 1970, because I had come to a standstill in my search for my Arnold ancestors. We never have more than 100-125 members and our income is not at all great. Never-the-less, we do have a certain small amount left over after the publication of our Mid-Summer and Annual Newsletters (in which we publish records of Arnolds in southern states) which we spend on research. Since we have gone as far as we could here on Anthony Arnold, we decided to engage your services. Ted O. Brooke, our treasurer, will be sending you any further monies. Enclosed you will find a check in the amount of $100.00 to pay for a continuation of our search. I would be very pleased if you would get Xerox copies of the following and send to me: 1. “Exchequer Court Depositions” (E134) – 3 depositions re: Anthony Arnold. 2. “London Depositions in Chancery Causes” (C24) – 4 depositions re: Anthony Arnold. 3. “Chancery Causes 1649-1711 – Bridges Division (C5) – 3 references to Anthony Arnold. I would appreciate a transcription of each plus your evaluation, if necessary. Now, to the 27 February letter and enclosures. You say you examined the Mormon CFI for London and county Middlesex without finding a single reference to Anthony Arnold in the baptism. I agree that your search proves one of two things: either that Anthony Arnold was not born in that area or that none of his descendants has ever become a Mormon and submitted records to the Temple on him. It is my understanding that these CFI cards are submitted by Mormon members. Perhaps I am incorrect in my assumption. While on the subject of CFI, I have made arrangements with Ted. O. Brooke to have one of our members in Salt Lake City get every reference cited in the CFI for all of England for Arnold (under various spellings). We also intend to have this member get us all Archives Records (family group sheets) from Salt Lake City for all Arnolds in England from earliest date of record to 1800. These are the types of things we like to have in our AFAS archives, though we recognize and accept they are not always reliable. Regarding the “Chancery Causes – Six Clerk Series” you have listed – where are these deposited? Are the listings you have cited all the references there are to Arnold in the Chancery Causes? If not, Ted O. Brooke would like a copy of the Arnold index in its entirety for our records. Is this possible? Please examine these cases you have indicated with an asterisk. Send us abstracts, plus your evaluation, if necessary. Under your “Records of London Citizens,” I was terribly disappointed in not seeing a mention of George Arnold whom George Yeo, will probated 20 April 1743, Elizabeth City County, Virginia, called “cousin.” (See page 56 above.). I am almost certain there is a close connection between these Yeos and my Anthony Arnold. By the way where are these Citizens of London lists deposited – at the Society of Genealogists? Is it possible to get abstracts or complete records of the two Anthony Arnold marriages listed under “Boyd’s Index?” Please send us transcripts, Xerox copies, or abstracts of the “County Depositions” (Chancery): C21/A12/15, A5/14 – Arnold vs Arnold and C22/566/5, 569/1 Arnold vs. Arnold. Re: the two Arnold entries under “Prerogative Court of Canterbury Wills” Anthony Arnold – I believe he is the Anthony Arnold who made a prenuptial agreement with Ann Guise and then about ten years after their marriage died. I have an abstract of this will, Xerox copy of which I enclose. Interestingly, he made Sir John Guise of Rencombe, Gloucester, Bart., William Guise of Winterborne, same county, and Christopher Guise, Citizen and Grocer of London, his executors. In the Washington pedigree, Waters I, 395-396, I note that Lawrence Washington (not in our first president’s direct line) of Garsden, Wilts., married as her first husband (sic), Eleanor Gyse and his sister, Anne Washington, married Christopher Gyse. In the An Cotton recitation of the Bacon Rebellion, she states that “one Collonel Washington (him whom you have sometimes seen at your house)” (see my Anthony Arnold Research Project, (page 15 above) frequented C. H.’s home and Anthony Arnold “(the same that did live at your house)” (page 15 above) apparently lived there for an unknown length of time. Since these Washingtons and C. H. (Christopher Harris) all hailed from Northamptonshire, I have felt there was some connection with my Anthony Arnold before they crossed the water. Perhaps I am merely grasping at straws but sometimes a slimmer lead than that has led me to solutions on a line that I had long considered insoluble. The George Arnold, Gent. of St. James, Clerkinwell, Co. Middlesex, 85/1695 died too soon to be the “cousin” George Arnold of London referred to in George Yeo’s will (see page 56 above). However, I should like to have an abstract of this will. It might contain some clues. Regarding the “Gloucester Wills,” I believe we can get our Salt Lake City member to get Xerox copies for us, and we will study them here, forwarding anything that looks interesting or promising to you. Likewise, our member can send us Xerox copies of “Visitation of Gloucester” for 1623 and 1684. We would like to have abstracts of the High Court of Admiralty cases that refer to Francis Arnold. Where are these records kept? After I have received and evaluated the above requested items from you and the items I mentioned above from our member in Salt Lake City, we can determine where we should go from there. With every good wish for a successful hunt, Sincerely, Mrs. Angus Stewart MacIvor Encs: Check for $100.00, Anthony Arnold Will, CH of Yardley Article -73- “The Will of Anthony Arnold” – 1680/159 Prob. 11/364, p 159. This is the last Will and Testament of mee (sic) ANTHONY ARNOLD of the City of Gloucester, gent. made the fourteenth day of November in the thirty second year of the Reign of our Sovereign Lord King Charles the Second, anno domini 1680. Whereas upon the Treaty of Marriage which after happened between mee and ANNE my now deare and loving wife, it was agreed amongst other things that I should within twelve months after my marriage with the said ANNE settle and assure so much freehold Lands of good title situate within ten miles of the City of Gloucester as should be of yearly value of one hundred pounds to the use of mee for my life and after my decease to the use of the said ANNE for her life for her Joynture; the remainder to the heirs of my body to be begotten on the body of the said ANNE and for default of such issue to the use and behoof of the said ANNE and her heirs and assigns for ever. … And whereas within some few days after my Marriage with the said ANNE, the said agreements together with other agreements on my part were reduced into writing by Articles indented bearing date the twenty third day of November anno domini 1670 made between mee and the said ANNE of the one part and Sir John Guise of Rencombe in the County of Gloucester, Bart. William Guise of Winterborne in the same County, gent. and Christopher Guise, citizen and grocer of London of the other part. And Whereas for better corroboration of the said agreement I did in or about the Term of St. Michael in the one and thirtieth year of his now Majesty’s reign acknowledge a Judgement in the Court of King’s Bench at Westminster of the sum of five thousand and two hundred pounds or some other great sum to the said Sr. John Guise, William Guise and Christopher Guise, Now I, the said ANTHONY ARNOLD, do nominate constitute and make the said (Sir J. G., W. G., and C. G.) Executors of this my last Will and Testament … ANTHONY ARNOLD sealed and published … to be his last Will and Testament and his name subscribed thereunto by Edmond Janes by his direction and desire and in his presence and in the presence of E. Farnham, Wm. Stampe, Anne Guise, Edmond Janes. The 8th and 9th dayes of December anno Domini 1680. Together at ANTHONY ARNOLD’s Lodgings in Fullers Rent near Grays Inn on a Sunday being the fourteenth of November last past. … Probatum – London 10th December 1680. -74- 25 March 1981 16 Foxley Hill Road Purley, Surrey CR2 2HB England Mrs. A. S. MacIvor 565 South River Street Marshfield, Mass. 02050 Dear Hazel, Many thanks for your letter of 13 March and check for continuation of the Arnold research. The addresses you need are as follows: Public Record Office Chancery Lane London WC2 Guildhall Library Guildhall London EC2 Society of Genealogists 37 Harrington Gardens London SW7 Greater London Council Record Office County Hall Westminster Bridge Road London SE1 I will indicate in future the location of records cited. I must also respond rather discouragingly to your request for Xerox copies of Chancery and Exchequer documents. The fact is that most of these are on large sheets of parchment, often folded and stained, which the P.R.O. will not have Xeroxed: they are prepared sometimes to produce copies by photographic means but the costs and delays are quite enormous and I would seriously recommend that you avoid copying unless the document concerned is of major importance to justify it. Also an explanation about the Mormon (CFI) records. The Mormon Church has embarked upon computerization of English parish registers irrespective of the religious background of the persons concerned: the results therefore owe nothing to whether or not names have been submitted by Mormon church members. (see N. B by H. A. M. below). I am delighted to hear that you have made your own arrangements to have copied full abstracts from these CFI records yourself. Another word of explanation about Chancery Causes. It is never possible to claim that one has cited all references to a particular name. For the most part the suits are arranged only by initial letter of plaintiff’s surname and proper indexes are few and far between. This means that nearly all suits in which a particular person was a defendant must escape notice short of a detailed examination of the complete collection of calendars which might take several weeks to complete. I am forwarding the results of some further research done since my last letter: this further strengthens my hope that your Anthony Arnold will be found in Gloucestershire and I hope also that you will be able to obtain copies of the Gloucester Wills fairly quickly so that we can pursue any further clues they give. We should, I feel, have searches made particularly of the Minsterworth parish registers. I will refrain from further comment until you have had a chance yourself to examine and assess the latest collection of material, though I would particularly draw your attention to the Arnold v. Sambrook case which seems effectively to dispose of the possibility of descent from Richard Arnold of London. Yours sincerely, Peter Wilson Coldham (N. B.- H.A.M. - I was certain that the CFI (now the IGI) lists contained only those names of Mormon Church members’ ancestral entries, not every person in every parish for whom there are extant records. In this respect, I called Stephen K. Kendall, Group Manager, Records Extraction, in Salt Lake City, Utah, and asked him about this. He confirmed what I already knew. See his letter below, which I requested in order that we might have this information in writing for our members and to send to Peter Wilson Coldham. In our phone conversation, Mr. Kendall pointed out that the Church is in the process of going back through the counties, parishes, and so forth, and extracting every name and vital statistic. This is known as the Extraction Program. But, this program will not be completed for many years. Meanwhile, these lists are limited to Mormon members’ entries on their direct ancestors. It should also be pointed out that these ancestral entries were copied by Church members, many of whom were not trained in genealogy, and are subject to errors. As in all genealogical research, the original document should be obtained if one seeks proof on his/her ancestral lines. In this regard, the LDS CFI index presented in our Vol. XI, 15 December, 1980, pp. 17-39, is an index to names Mormon Church members have submitted to the Church as entries on their ancestral lines and does not represent all births, deaths, marriages, wills, administrations, and census records for every person surnamed Arnold in the southern states for the time period covered. It is thought best to mention this so that members will not be discouraged at not finding the persons they seek. If you do find the name you seek, it is as Mr. Kendall pointed out, “a lucky dip.”) -75- Date(?) The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints Genealogical Department 50 East North Temple Street Salt Lake City, Utah 84150 Mrs. Hazel MacIvor 565 South River Street Marshfield, Mass. 02050 Dear Mrs. MacIvor: This letter is to confirm today’s phone conversation. The International Genealogical Index (IGI, formerly the CFI) does not contain entries for a locality unless Church members have submitted the names to us or we have extracted all of the names from a particular record. Therefore, a search in the IGI is a lucky dip. Upon checking it, one may find what they desire. If not, then they must carefully search the original recoreds. Upon investigation, I have found that the following records of Minsterworth, Gloucestershire, England, have been included in the extraction program. These are: Parish Register Christenings – 1739-1858 Bishop’s Transcript Christenings – 1575-1738 Bishop’s transcripts are often very incomplete and perhaps this is the reason your ancestral names could not be found in the IGI. Sincerely yours, Genealogical Department Stephen K. Kendall, Group Manager Records Extractoin -76- “Committee for Compounding: Cases” Vol. 3, p. 2077 – ANTHONY ARNOLD of Westbury, Gloucestershire, compounds on 8 June 1649 after being four years on appeal to the Barons of the Exchequer who judged him to continue sequestration for delinquency. Fined 228 (Pounds).15s on 17 July 1649; compounded for under-valuation on 19 November 1650; fined 186.10s on 21 November 1650; paid and discharged 22 November 1650. Vol. 4, p. 2644 – RICHARD ARNOLD, son of above. Compounds on his own discovery and paid fine 11 December 1650. Vol. 1, p 85. List of Gloucestershire delinquents includes ANTHONY ARNOLD of Westbury: previous value of estate 100 pounds, present value 40 pounds. “Chancery Causes – Six Clerks Series” (cont’d) C5/587/79 – 19 June 1676 Plaintiff ANTHONY ARNOLD of the City of Gloucester, gent., says that John Clent of Minsterworth, Gloucestershire, owned a quarter share in the ship “Cherubim” of Elmore and sold half of his interest to the plaintiff. The ship was sent from Bristol to Dublin, Ireland, with a cargo of apples, etc., in February 1670/1. The cargo was sold by William Langford of Elmore, mariner, as agent for Clent and Joseph Nash of Elmore, mariner, but without the plaintiff’s consent. They and Nicholas Phelps of Minsterworth, yeoman, combine to defraud the plaintiff of just payment. John Clent has since died testate and his executors are John Marstone of the City of Gloucester, gent., and John Browne of Norton, Gloucestershire, gent. C7/16/110 – 12 November 1672 Plaintiff ANTHONY ARNOLD of the City of Gloucester, gent., executor of the will of Elianor Wintle of the City of London, widow, says that William Smith of East Wickham, Kent, gent., mortgaged his lands in Bexley, Kent, Rottenden and Great Easton, Essex, as bond for a loan of 50 pounds. C5/587/80 – 6 March 1698/9 Plaintiffs ELIZABETH ARNOLD, relict and executrix of WILLIAM ARNOLD of Betchworth, Surrey, butcher, John Laker and other churchwardens of Betchworth, say that Andrew Cade of Betchworth, gent., left 100 pounds for the poor of the parish to be managed by WILLIAM ARNOLD. John Instead intends to defeat the purposes of the bequest. C5/581/66 – 11 July 1679 Plaintiff Richard Wintle of the University of Oxford, youngest son of John Wintle of the Inner Temple, London, and Eleanor his wife, both deceased, says that his father made his will in September 1662 and shortly afterwards died. The will was proved by his relict who herself made a will in July 1663 by which she forgave ANTHONY ARNOLD of the City of Gloucester a debt of 100 pounds on condition that he gave 20 pounds to her kinswoman ELIZABETH ARNOLD, then wife of the said ANTHONY, for a ring. The residue of her estate she also bequeathed to ANTHONY ARNOLD whom she appointed her executor. The testatrix had three children: the plaintiff, John Wintle and Eleanor Wintle. She instructed Richard Blanchard, goldsmith, then without Temple Bar, to sell her jewels. ANTHONY ARNOLD and the plaintiff’s brother John Wintle now combine to defraud the plaintiff of her inheritance by not publishing an appraisal of Eleanor Wintle’s estate. C10/451/20 – 25 June 1696 Answer of Cuthbert Routh, an infant aged 2 and one half (!), by his guardian Cuthbert Garth, gent., to Sir Jeremy Sambrook. GEORGE ARNOLD who died in 1694 without issue left this defendant as his nearest heir and the defendant traces his descent as follows: he is son and heir of Anthony Routh of Richmond, Yorkshire, grocer, who was son and heir of Elinor Routh, wife of Anthony Routh deceased, which said Elinor was daughter and heir of Charles Anthony, late of Ketterick, Yorkshire, clerk, who was son and heir of Elizabeth Anthony, wife of Charles Anthony, late of Foster Lane, London, goldsmith, which said ELIZABETH was the only daughter of RICHARD ARNOLD, late of Ludgate Hill, London, haberdasher, father of SAMUAL (sic) ARNOLD who was father of the said GEORGE ARNOLD deceased. At the time of his death the said GEORGE ARNOLD was the only surviving heir of the said SAMUAL ARNOLD, and grandson and heir of the said RICHARD ARNOLD. GEORGE ARNOLD was very rich, never married, and left no other nearer relation than Edward Anthony of London, draper, his cousin-german. Answer of Cuthbert Garth. GEORGE ARNOLD of St. James, Clerkenwell, Middlesex, was the great great grandson and heir of ELIZABETH ARNOLD, afterwards wife of Charles Anthony. The defendant Cuthbert Routh is the only son of Anthony Routh and Elizabeth his wife, this defendant’s daughter. The said Elizabeth Routh in Richmond, Yorkshire. The plaintiff Sir Jeremy has no right or title in the estate of GEORGE ARNOLD. Sir Jeremy claims as the son of Mary Anthony, afterwards wife of Samual (sic) Sambrook of London, merchant, one of the daughters of the said Elizabeth, wife of the said Charles Anthony, goldsmith. C5/459/111 – 14 June 1669 Plaintiffs Richard Castell of Blockley, Worcestershire, and Ellinor his wife, William Arkhill of Upper Slaughter, Gloucestershire, yeoman, and Henry Arkill his son say that Castell borrowed money from ANTHONY ARNOLD of the City of Gloucester on a mortgage of the Manor of Blockley and of premises in the parish of Bourton upon the Hill, Gloucestershire. ARNOLD confederates with Thomas Walgrave of Blockley, gent., John Charles, the younger of the City of Gloucester, Thomas Brandish and others to defraud the plaintiffs. ANTHONY ARNOLD answers that on 24 November 16 Charles 2 (1665) Robert Humphreye then of Bourton upon the Hill, yeoman, came to him as the attorney of the plaintiff Castell and agreed on the purchase of the lands in question. (See C24/957/1 for reference to above Henry Arkell/Arkhill). -77- C5/380/14 – ca. October 1654 Plaintiffs JOHN ARNOLD of Bristol, house carpenter, and MARGARET his wife, daughter of Edward Price of Bristol, deceased, house carpenter, who say that Edward Price died 9 years ago having an estate worth 200 pounds a year in leases and leaving issue by his first wife Margaret: the plaintiff Margaret; Mary now wife of John Browning; Martha wife of George Ball; and Sarah wife of James Beacon, all of Bristol. On the death of his first wife Edward Price married Elizabeth Branch of Bristol, since the wife and then the relict of Anthony Haynes of Hanbury, Gloucestershire, husbandman, deceased, who brought him almost no portion and by whom her had no issue. Elizabeth Haynes now combines with John and Mary Browning and George and Sarah Ball (sic) to deprive the plaintiffs of their rights in Price’s estate. Elizabeth Haynes, widow, answers as late wife and administratrix to Edward Price that she married him 22 years ago when he was an aged widow (sic) and she a young maiden. By his first wife Edward Price had five children of whom one named Edith died in his lifetime. The defendant brought at least 20 (pounds?) to the marriage, and lived with her late husband 13 years before he died in June 1645. In December 1645 she took out letters of administration and had received a payment to the estate from a Christopher Tayler. Her late husband’s carpentry tools were given to the plaintiffs. Attached to the Answer, taken at Bristol 3 November 1654, is an inventory of Edward Price’s estate including notes of payments made to Edward Price’s children, one being a sum of 2 pounds.10s.0 paid to Martha Dedmesley. C24/795/199 – (no date given) Depositions taken in the case of Lydia Crew and Sarah Crewe v. John Serjeant re estate of John Crewe deceased, late husband of the plaintiff Lydia. During his lifetime John Crewe came to London to recover the Manor of Westonburt (ie Weston Birt, Gloucestershire) and was employed as a Clerk of Common Pleas. He much disliked his wife Lydia and called her a whore, and her daughter Sarah a bastard who should never have his lands. When the defendant Serjeant came to London to prove Crewe’s will, he brought with him William Hellier whom Lydia Crewe had arrested and thrown into the Poultry Counter. ANTHONY ARNOLD of Chancery Lane, gent. aged 27, deposed on 1 February 1655/6 that John Crewe came to London in Michaelmas Term 1654 and employed the deponent to recover the Manor so that he might convey his lands away from his daughter Sarah Crewe. Crewe had commanded his servant Serjeant “to suffer none of those rogues.” Lydia Crewe was “reported to be of a very lewd conversation, to witt both a drunkard and a whore.” John Bullock of Hullavington, Wiltshire, tailor aged 36, deposed that when John Crewe came to London he stayed at the White Inn, St. Giles, Middlesex. C24/886/121 – (no date given) Depositions taken in the case of Angellett Willoughby, widow, v. Rebecca Willoughby, widow, and George Hudson re estate of Edward Willoughby, husband of plaintiff Angellett, who dwelt at Naylesworth, Gloucestershire. At the time of her marriage the plaintiff had lands in Hadley, Hertforshire and in Middlesex. ANTHONY ARNOLD of the City of Gloucester, gent. aged 36, deposed on 28 June 1664 that he had known George Hudson for 7 years and also knew Edward Willoughby who died four and one half years ago. Not long after his marriage Willoughby had told the deponent that the value of his real estate was 2500 pounds and the deponent had nine years previously arranged the purchase of lands in Hadley and Middlesex which were then mortgaged to George Hudson in order to raise 350 pounds to purchase Rebecca Willoughby’s life interest in lands at Naylesworth; but Rebecca had refused the arrangement. -78- C24/957/1 – (no date given) Deposition in the case of Henry Arkell, Richard (?) and others v. ANTHONY ARNOLD re contempt committed by ARNOLD by breach of an injunction made by the court. ANTHONY ARNOLD examined says that an attachment was issued against him for not giving his Answer to a Bill submitted by plaintiffs. In October 1669 John Rushall came (?? some damage here) to (his?) house in Gloucester City and delivered a copy of the injunction. The examinant issued an attachment for debt against Henry Arkell who was committed to the Westminster Gatehouse. All the above depositions are signed as follows: (Antho: Arnold) “Gloucestershire Parish Register Entries From Computer File Index (Mormon)” St. Nicholas, Gloucester 30 Dec 1593 CHRISTOPHER, son of FRANCIS ARNOLD bap. 26 Aug 1639 MARGARET ARNOLD married RALPH SARE 18 Nov 1649 CHRISTOPHER, son of THOMAS ARNOLD bap. 17 Apr 1658 ANTHONY ARNOLD married ELIZABETH ROBINSON 3 June 1659 MARY, dau. of ANTHONY ARNOLD bap. 19 Jun 1661 RICHARD ARNOLD bap. 25 Jan 1662 ANTHONY, son of ANTHONY ARNOLD bap. 23 May 1664 ROBERT, son of ANTHONY ARNOLD bap. 13 Feb 1671 JOHN, son of ANTHONY ARNOLD bap. 9 Apr 1677 MARTHA, dau. of ROBERT ARNOLD bap. 30 Mar 1679 SARAH, dau. of ROBERT ARNOLD bap. 5 Jun 1681 JAMES, son of ROBERT ARNOLD bap. 9 July 1682 HESTER, dau. of ROBERT ARNOLD bap. 20 Nov 1684 ANN, dau. of ROBERT ARNOLD bap. 25 Nov 1688 MARY ARNOLD married THOMAS BROMLIE 22 Jun 1690 SARAH, dau. of THOMAS and MARY ARNOLD bap. 22 Oct 1709 ANTHONY ARNOLD married HANNAH MARSHALL Westbury on Severn 25 Aug 1545 WILLIAM ARNOLD married ELEN CALYS. 1 Apr 1627 ANTHONY, son of ANTHONY ARNOLD bap. 2 Jan 1630 THOMAS ARNOLD bap. 22 May 1632 ELIZABETH, dau. of ANTHONY ARNOLD bap. 16 Feb 1633 ELIZABETH, dau. of THOMAS ARNOLD bap. 3 Mar 1638 THOMAS, son of ANTHONY and MARY ARNOLD bap. St. Mary, Gloucester 11 Aug 1710 MARY, dau. of ANTHONY and HANNAH ARNOLD bap. (see marr. at St. Nich.) St. John, Gloucester 24 May 1681 HESTER, dau. of THOMAS and HANNAH ARNOLD bap. 11 Apr 1696 HANNAH, dau. of THOMAS and ELIZABETH ARNOLD bap. St. John Baptist, Gloucester 20 May 1698 SETH, son of THOMAS ARNOLD bap. St. Mary Crypt, Gloucester 18 Mar 1609 WILLIAM, son of THOMAS ARNOLD bap. Stanton 24 Nov. 1624 ANTHONY ARNOLD married MARY IZOD. Lechlade 16 Sept 1722 WILLIAM, son of ANTHONY ARNELL (sic) bap. -79- “Prerogative Court of Canterbury Wills” (Cont’d) 85/1642 RICHARD ARNOLD of Titherington, Gloucestershire. Proved by relict ELIZABETH ARNOLD. 259/1649 NEAST ARNOLD of Minsterworth, Gloucestershire, spinster. Administration with will to brothers John Wintle and ANTHONY ARNOLD the elder; mother Elizabeth Wintle having died. Administration as of intestate of 1646 to nephew ANTHONY ARNOLD revoked. 19/1652 JANE ARNOLD of Titherington, Gloucestershire, spinster. Probate to mother ELIZABETH ARNOLD. 124/1652 ROBERT ARNOLD of Cromhall, Gloucestershire. Probate to relict SARAH ARNOLD. “Court of Requests (temp. Eliz. 1)” 2/408/44 RICHARD ARNOLD or YARNOLL of Minsterworth, Gloucestershire and Shropshire, litigant “Six Clerks in Chancery: Cases (C6)” (Cont’d) 280/5 ARNOLD v Knight 297/1 ARNOLD v. Clynton – 1688 269/3 ARNOLD v ARNOLD – 1691 269/5 ARNOLD v. Castledine – 1691 329/5 ARNOLD v. Hurding – 1702 333/4 ARNOLD v. Fuller – 1702 333/7 ARNOLD v. Martin – 1702 339/6 ARNOLD v. Cartlitch – 1704 363/7 ARNOLD v. Dottin 363/57 and 364/15 ARNOLD v. Smith 366/26 ARNOLD v. Rogers 366/28 ARNOLD v. Gilbert 366/31 ARNOLD v. Smith 366/47 ARNOLD v. Miller 366/47 ARNOLD v. Paillard 368/7 ARNOLD v. Fuller 368/24 ARNOLD v. Dotting 368/33 ARNOLD v. Hodges 369/2 ARNOLD v. Weston 369/29 ARNOLD v. Creswell 369/30 ARNOLD v. Knight 369/32 ARNOLD v. Cook – 1674 369/42 ARNOLD v. Clinton 369/55 ARNOLD v. Cook 369/96 ARNOLD v. Tregonwell – 1683 573/3 ARNOLD v. Swayne 573/14 ARNOLD v. Harman 576/12 ARNOLD v. Child 588/20 ARNOLD v. Jones 606/4 ARNOLD v. Sexton 608/-(sic) ARNOLD v. Dutton -80- “Six Clerks in Chancery: Cases (C9)” 115/3 ARNOLD v. Austin – 1686 61/2 ARNOLD v. Awdley – 1672 253/21 ARNOLD v. Bagley – 1693 99/1 ARNOLD v. Bechinall – 1686 403/132 ARNOLD v. Butler – 1674 472/13 ARNOLD v. Carter – 1687 429/5 ARNOLD v. Chambers – 1654 125/1 ARNOLD v. Clinton – 1690 85/6 ARNOLD v. Crome – 1685 243/5 ARNOLD v. Eccleston – 1661 403/85 ARNOLD v. Ferrier – 1669 46/1 ARNOLD v. Firbank – 1668 85/10 ARNOLD v. Graves & Scudamore – 1683 92/14 ARNOLD v. Heath and Austin – 1685 92/17 ARNOLD v. Heath – 1686 403/5 and 50/5 ARNOLD v. Hobb – 1667 236/2 ARNOLD v. Horlock – 1668 126/2 ARNOLD v. Humades 417/4 ARNOLD v. Hussey – 1680 54/2 ARNOLD v. Kenrich – 1672 433/1 ARNOLD v. Langley – 1694 82/13 “Alias Smith” v. Marshall – 1679 161/3 ARNOLD v. Marshall and Wheatley – 1700 403/16 ARNOLD v. Peniston – 1658 82/1 ARNOLD v. Prince – 1684 118/1 ARNOLD v. Reeve – 1689 348/16 and 432/1 ARNOLD v. Richardson – 1693 92/18 ARNOLD v. Sabine – 1671 403/20 ARNOLD v. Sandys – 1653 273/4 ARNOLD v. Say – 1686 238/1 ARNOLD v. Seagrave – 1648 244/14 ARNOLD v. Snow and Jeffryes – 1688 100/4 ARNOLD v. Smith – 1686 108/10 and 413/6 ARNOLD v. Stredwick and Child – 1681 273/36 ARNOLD v. Wall and Terry – 1693 60/5 ARNOLD v. Withers – 1667. “ARNOLD Defendant in following C9 Cases” Barry – 1706 Barton – 1698 Brych – 1658 Carde – 1663 Carey – 1675 Carrent – (Blank) Clinton – 1692 Cooke – 1689 Creasy – 1694 Cross – 1709 Henly – 1675 Looke – 1681 Lucy – 1694 Lusher – 1668 Mootham – 1706 Northey – 1703 Puckle – 1666 Renisford – 1658 Rennell – 1695 Shales – 1695 Smith – 1682 Squibb – 1672 Stonard – 1653 Tufton – 1685 Underhill – 1695 Verney – 1660 Verney – 1664 Wright – 1682 Yarmouth Town – 1669 -81- “Country Depositions Elizabeth-Charles I (C21)” A63/9 ARNOLD v. Hussey A5/14 ARNOLD v. ARNOLD A12/15 ARNOLD v. ARNOLD A17/12 Arrowe v. ARNOLD B11/16 Barrenger v. ARNOLD C29/12 Cocke v. ARNOLD G5/20 George v. ARNOLD H5/2 Hardress v. ARNOLD S9/12 Swayne v. ARNOLD “Country Depositions Before 1714 (C22)” - ARNOLD plaintiff or defendant) 315/14 Lord ARNOLD (Wilts) 566/5 ARNOLD 569/1 ARNOLD 222/12 Ambrose (Monmouth 1679) 222/66 Arrow (Surrey 1641) 762/40 Benckes (1649) 600/14 Bayse 602/52 Bulkeley 774/21 Castle (1674) 338/38 Castle 336a/5 Castle 336a/1 Crane 335/34 Coventry City 237/16 Clarke 900/7 George 900/33 George 636/8 George 636/1 George 638/44 George 7/6 Gilbert 251/35 Guise 941/17 Hastings 370/52 Hastings 2/31 Hungerford 95/24 Haltoff 2/22 Kenerick 548/22 Mann 469/22 Morgan 678/12 Morgan 677/40 Morgan 819/21 Ramsden (1654) 1001/39 Ryves 218/6 Sheriff (1684) 2/49 Smith 587/24 Taylor 467/25 Taylor -82- “Update 15 July 1981 from Hazel Arnold MacIvor” Elsie Updegrove and her sister, Lira, have sent us the entire CFI (now IGI) index to all counties in England. This index covers all entries through August 1978. I have searched these for an ANTHONY ARNOLD, born ca. 1630, or thereabouts, with the following results. I have also searched every county for a THOMAS ARNOLD born ca. 1649, for the benefit of those members who descend from THOMAS and GRACE ARNOLD of King George County, Virginia. All spellings of ARNOLD were checked. County Results Bedford nil Berkshire nil Buckingham nil Cambridge nil Cheshire nil Cornwall nil Cumberland nil Derby nil Devon nil Dorset nil Essex nil Gloucester See Abstract #1 Hampshire nil Hereford nil Hertford nil Huntingdon nil Isle of Man nil Kent See Abstract #2 Lancashire nil Leicester See Abstract #3 Lincoln See Abstract #4 London See Abstract #5 Monmouth nil Northampton nil Northumberland nil Nottingham nil Oxford nil Rutland nil Shropshire nil Somerset nil Stafford See Abstract #6 Surrey See Abstract #7 Sussex See Abstract #8 Warwick nil Westmoreland nil Wiltshire nil Worcester nil York See Abstract #9 -83- “Gloucester County – Westbury on Severn Parish” – Abstract #1 ANTHONY ARNOLD, son of ANTHONY ARNOLD (FNote 1) christened 1 April 1627. MARY ARNOLD, daughter of ANTHONY ARNOLD, christened 26 June 1628. ELIZABETH ARNOLD, daughter of ANTHONY ARNOLD, christened 3 March. 1638. THOMAS ARNOLD, son of ANTHONY and MARY ARNOLD, christened 3 March 1638. (N. B.- A letter to me from A. Colin Cole, Windsor Herald of Arms, The College of Arms, Queen Victoria Street, London, dated 21 November 1974, (See page 3) stated that one ANTHONY ARNOLD of Westbury, Gloucestershire, made his will, proved 4 February 1678, in which he refers to his sons ANTHONY and THOMAS and to his grandsons RICHARD, ANTHONY and ROBERT ARNOLD, the sons of ANTHONY. This offers a possibility for being ANTHONY ARNOLD’s family, if: 1) this will refers to a deceased son, ANTHONY (ANTHONY ARNOLD died 15 March 1677, New Kent County, Virginia); 2) this will was written before ANTHONY ARNOLD was executed in Virginia. But, for the probate date, it would seem strange that the elder ANTHONY ARNOLD would not have heard of his son’s execution in almost a year. This will should be obtained and studied. As the members will note, Mr. Coldham seems to feel that Minsterworth Parish, Gloucestershire, offers a good possibility for ANTHONY ARNOLD’s orphans. However, in the index for that county there was not a single entry from Minsterworth, which further supports the incompleteness of the CFI (not IGI)). “Kent County – Shipbourne Parish” – Abstract #2 THOMAS, son of ROBERT ARNOLD, christened 9 April 1647. “Leicester County – Billesdon Parish” – Abstract #3 THOMAS, son of WILLIAM and ANNE ARNOLD, christened 21 April 1649. “Lincoln County – Haydor Parish” – Abstract #4 THOMAS, son of RICHARD ARNALL (sic), christened 9 March 1650. “London – All christenings in Stepney Parish, St. Dunstan’s” – Abstract #5 (FNote 2) THOMAS, son of FRAUNCIS (sic) and SARA ARNOLD, christened 5 October 1645. THOMAS, son of THOMAS and ANNE ARNOLD, christened 28 July 1646. THOMAS, son of JOHN and MARTHA ARNOLD, christened 20 July 1647. THOMAS, son of THOMAS and MARY ARNOLD, christened 20 May 1651. “London – Bermondsey Parish” THOMAS, son of THOMAS ARNOLD, christened 25 November 1649. “Stafford County – Hanstall Ridware Parish” – Abstract #6 THOMAS, son of THOMAS and DOROTHIE ARNOLD, christened 21 July 1650. “Surrey County – Richmond Parish” – Abstract #7 ANTHONY ARNOLD, christened 25 October 1630 (no parents given) “Sussex County – Eastbourne Parish” – Abstract #8 THOMAS, son of THOMAS ARNOLD, christened 6 November 1651. “York County – Crofton Parish” – Abstract #9 THOMAS, son of THOMAS ARNOLD, christened 15 August 1647. FNote 1 – In some cases only one or no parents were entered. FNote 2 – St. Dunstan’s was the Parish where all children who were British subjects and were born while at sea were registered, as well as those who lived in Stepney Parish. We await the Archives Records and the Gloucestershire Wills from member, Elsie Updegrove, and her sister, Lira. When these arrive, they will be examined for leads or clues and a letter will then be written to Peter Wilson Coldham apprising him of our findings on this side of the water. An update report will be presented to the members when we have more data. -84- Arnold Family Association of the South – Vol. XIII, #1 – 15 December 1982 (pp. 8-21) Our English records this issue take the form of an update on the work of Mr. Peter Wilson Coldham for AFAS. Following is the correspondence between the Editor, Mrs. Hazel Arnold MacIvor, and our English researcher, Mr. Coldham. 11 January 1982 565 South River Street Marshfield, Mass. 02050 Peter Wilson Coldham 16 Foxley Hill Road Purley, Surrey CR2 2HB England Dear Peter, I am sure you were beginning to think you would never hear from me again. It has taken me more time than we thought to assemble, read and analyze the data we told you we would compile over here. At last, it is finished. Are you still interested in undertaking further Anthony Arnold research for us? If so, notify me at your earliest convenience. Hoping to hear from you soon in the affirmative, I remain, Sincerely yours, Hazel Arnold MacIvor. Encl. $1.00 for postage to reply. P. S. Are your fess still $20.00/hr? 26 January 1982 16 Foxley Hill Road Purley, Surrey CR2 2HB England Mrs. Hazel Arnold MacIvor 565 South River Street Marshfield, Mass. 02050 Dear Mrs. MacIvor, It was good to receive your letter of 11 January for I had begun to sense that you might have lost interest in the English research at the point where a good deal of additional material had been assembled. I am very glad to know that I was mistaken! I am happy to continue work on the project though it is only fair to tell you that pressure of work has meant that the current rate of progress has been considerably slowed. My fees remain at $20.00 an hour, thanks to our ever weakening currency! I shall be most interested to receive the additional data you have assembled and analysed: perhaps it will elucidate some of the notes which I have been able to collect since we last corresponded. Sincerely yours, Peter Wilson Coldham -85- February 4, 1982 565 South River Street Marshfield, Mass. 02050 Peter Wilson Coldham 16 Foxley Hill Road Purley Surrey CR2 2HB England Dear Peter: Thank you for your letter of 26 January 1982. I was gratified to hear that you are willing and able to continue our Anthony Arnold research. Also, very happy to hear your fees have not risen, as $20.00 per hour is about the limit that we can afford. However, as a certified genealogist myself, what any of us get by way of compensation is hardly commensurate with the effort we put forth, i.e., ruining our eyes reading old, scribbled court-hand and “dog Latin,” running around in all kinds of weather, waiting endlessly for books to be brought to us at various repositories, etc. Mrs. Elsie Updegrove and her sister, Lira, finished the LDS Computer File Index which is now known as IGI. When I went through it and found nothing that applied to my Arnolds in Minsterworth, my heart sank. I called Mr. Stephen K. Kendall, in charge of Recoreds Extraction in Salt Lake City to inquire why records of Minsterworth were not included. He stated that only those names which members have submitted or which the Church has extracted from a particular record are included in the IGI file. Someday they hope to have a computer file index to all records everywhere but he said that will not materialize for years to come. I enclosed copy of letter from him, confirming our conversation. Elsie and Lira also sent us all family group sheets (Mormon Archives Records) submitted by members to date. I enclose results of these two sets of records. Elsie tried to read the Gloucestershire Wills for us but was prevented by the poor condition of the film and the fact that they were for the most part in Latin. She did send an Index which she said was complete. I enclosed this report. What about this spelling YARNOLD? Are we missing something here? As to any further direction from me, I must “beg off’ and leave the chase to you, as you have so much more competence and knowledge about your records and repositories there. Henceforth, the only role I can play would be to supply you with any item you might wish from this side of the water. This I shall be delighted to do. I enclose a check for $200.00 (two hundred dollars) which will give us ten more hours of your time. We shall just have to see if any promising leads are uncovered at the end of that before we can make a decision to go on. Members have been generous and we do have a modest sum in reserve if the search appears to be hopeful. I trust and pray you will have some happy news for us when next you write. Sincerely, Hazel Arnold MacIvor Encs.: $200.00; Stephen K. Kendall letter; CFI to all counties in England; LDS English Archives Records; Minsterworth Parish Records (Incomplete); Gloucester County Will Index; Thomas and Grace Arnold Family Group Sheet. P. S. Enclosed please find letter written to Robert W. Robins. I thought that by sending it to you, it might shed some small light on our problem. -86- February 7, 1982 565 South River Street Marshfield, Mass. 02050 Mr. Robert W. Robins Honford House Box 7029 Arlington, Virginia Dear Mr. Robins: Your book, “The Register of Abingdon Parish,” came today and I am delighted with it. Your scholarship is apparent on every page. The wait for its arrival was well worthwhile. I was sorry to hear of the illness in your family. I hope and pray that by now all is well. As you can see by the letter-head, I am a member of the Arnold Family Association of the South, an organization founded by me in 1970. I trace back to Anthony Arnold, one of the leaders of Nathaniel Bacon’s Rebellion, 1676. He was hanged at West Point, Virginia, on 15 March 1676/77 for his role in that thrust for democracy. The Cluverius entries in your book were of great interest to me. Dorothy Kelly who lives at Presque Isle, Virginia (home of the Arnolds and Temples for several generations) wrote me a letter dated 20 June 1974, in which it was stated that in all family histories of the Temple-Arnold-Gwathmey families among whom where many intermarriages, there is a reference to an old Gwathmey Bible which says that the first Gwathmey in this country married a widow Cluverius who “was born an Arnold.” On page 41 of your book is an entry that a daughter was born to John and Catherine Cluverius 11 February 1679/1680. Then, the entry just below shows a son, Benjamin, born to John and Catherine Cluverius 26 December 1686. On page 42, an entry states Mary was born to John and Catherine Cluverius 3 October 1681. There the Cluverius entries for John and Catherine end. On pages 77-78, entires for Owen and Catherine Gwathmey begin showing issue born to them as follows: Catherine, baptized 27 January 1688/1689 John, baptized 8 January 1698/1699 Owen, baptized 27 April 1701 Grizell, baptized 26 January 1703/04 In Nugent’s “Cavaliers and Pioneers,” II, page 303, Capt. Richard Booker received patent to 740 acres in Gloucester County, 1 February 1686/1687 which had been granted to “John Sigismund Cleverous, dec’d and found to excheate.” Thus, it appears Cluverious had died in that two-month period between 26 December 1686 when his son, Benjamin, was born and 1 February 1686 (O.S.) when he is shown to be deceased. The story handed down for generations in my family is that our Arnolds were German Arnolds. When I began to research my Arnolds in Virginia, I learned that Benjamin Arnold, son of Anthony Arnold, was referred to as a “German.” This reference was found in 16V103. I also noted the fact that John Sigismund Cluverious and Anthony Arnold each named one of their sons, Benjamin . Anthony Arnold, born ca. 1630, made his first appearance in the records of Virginia in Lancaster County when on 5 October 1654 he witnessed a Humphrey Haggett-Nicholas Merriwether deed. There is an entry in Weis, “Colonial Clergy of Virginia,” etc. p. 11 regarding a “Mr. Cluverius” who settled in Hampton Parish, York County, ca. 1644. This Mr. Cluverius is shown to be the Rev. John Cluverius who appeared in York County records at the June court, 1646 (Fleet’s “Abstracts,” Vol. 24, p. 93). In Fleet’, Vol. 25 (1646-1648) there are six references to Rev. John Cluverius. Thereafter he disappears from the records and I have always assumed he lived in that part of York County which was cut off into Gloucester County in 1651, or died. The Cluverius-Arnold-Booker-Bullack-Gwathmey-Camm, etc. families continued to be related in various ways throughout the 17th-20th centuries. John Camm of “North Bank” (directly opposite “Presquie Isle” across the river) had a daughter, Ann, whose baptism saw Benjamin Arnold’s widow, Ann, as gossip along with Richard and Alice Bullock, 22 May 1723. Ann Camm md. (1) Benjamin Cluverius, (2) (?) Booker, (3) Robert Pollard. All of the above is by way of enquiring if you know of any Cluverius, Temple, Gwathmey, or Arnold genealogies that would make their relationships to each other clear. I have often thought Catherine Arnold md. (1) John Cluverius, (2) Owen Gwathmey, might be the daughter of Anthony Arnold. She was of an age to be his daughter. And, I have thought that there might have been an earlier Cluverius whom Anthony Arnold married, perhaps the daughter of the Reverend John Sigismund Cluverius, as he was certainly of a generation earlier than Anthony Arnold. We have limited amount of funds to spend on research. If you feel you can help us and you have time to work on our problem, would you please let us know your fees? Thank you so much. Sincerely, Mrs. Angus Stewart MacIvor Cc: Peter Wilson Coldham P.S. I should say that I have the Cluverius entries, pp.393-396, in “Genealogies of Virginia Families,” (taken from Tyler’s Quarterlies, Baltimore, MD. 1981) -87- 10 March 1982 16 Foxley Hill Road Purley, Surrey CR2 2HB, England Mrs. Hazel Arnold MacIvor, BSCG 565 South River Street Marshfield, Massachusetts 02050 Dear Hazel , Further to my letter of 17 February, I have now been able to obtain copies of Arnold wills proved in Gloucestershire and attach abstracts of these as well as notes on some further research done in the Society of Genealogists and at the Public Record Office. Despite considerable efforts to locate the original Bill and Answers relating to the now disintegrated depositions in Arnold v. Smith (C22/2/49), no trace has been found: since we lack even a date for the action and all the obvious avenues have been exhausted I fear we shall have to give up. From all the evidence amassed, however, it now seems reasonably established (though by no means conclusively) that your Anthony Arnold was not directly descended from the patrician Arnolds of Minsterworth since none of the birth/baptismal dates discovered would fit our requirements. In order not to leave you without any hope, I have recently come across some pieces of evidence which suggest that the Arnold family settled in Kingston, Surrey, traditionally used the Christian name of Anthony. This was a heavily populated parish whose registers were transcribed some years ago. The copy in the Society of Genealogists’ library will be consulted in the course of the next week or so and I will, of course, let you know whether it contains anything more hopeful. Sincerely yours, Peter Wilson Coldham -88- “Gloucestershire Marriage Allegations” 19 April 1679 WILLIAM ARNOLD of St. John the Baptist, Gloucester, carpenter, aged 20 or over, and Rebecca COUCHER of the same, aged 22. Bondsman William (x) Fisher of St. John the Baptist. At St. John’s or Brockworth. “Registers of Wragby, Yorkshire” 20 April 1628 ANTHONY ARNOLD and Anne Grace married 24 January 1668 JOSIAS ARNALL buried. 12 November 1684 ANTHONY ARNALL buried. “Chancery Proceedings” C2/Chas.1/A15/4 – 1647 Plaintiff WILLIAM ARNOLD of Mitcham, Surrey, v. WALTER ARNOLD C2/Chas.1/A30/9 – January 1625/6 Plaintiff DOROTHY ARNOLD, widow and executrix of STEPHEN ARNOLD of East Peckham, Kent, v. ROBERT ARNOLD of Lye, Kent, her brother. C2/Chas.1/A34/31 – (Date?) Plaintiff ROBERT ARNOLD of Aymeswell, Dorset, Esq. v.ALICE ARNOLD and ROBERT ARNOLD. C2/Chas.1/A43/12- (Date?) Plaintiff MICHAEL ARNOLD of Westminster, brewer, Re lease of 1639. C2/Chas.1/A26/37 – (Date?) Plaintiff MICHAEL ARNOLD of Westminster, brewer, v. Ann Smith, Oliver Pencock, Richard Lynsey and Lyonel Smith. C2/Chas.1/A42/7 and A15/38 – (Date?) Same plaintiff as above. C2/Chas.1/A50/43 – (Date?) Replication of RICHARD ARNOLD to Anne Savage, plaintiff. C22/2/49 – (See 9 August 1982 letter of Coldham to MacIvor below for further details) Depositions re descent of property in Minsterworth, clearly of central importance to the ARNOLD pedigree but now almost disintegrated and no date ascertainable. The case is listed as ARNOLD v. Smith and a concentrated search needs to be made for the original Bill and Answer(s). The following fragments from the depositions are all that are now legible: ….Minsterworth … grandson Dicke … Court Rolls … during her widowhood. ANNE ARNOLD, one of the plaintiffs …. Said ANTHONY ARNOLD. RICHARD ARNOLD, a plaintiff … Frances, the wife of ….Sir Edward(?) Smith and Frances his wife and RICHARD ARNOLD. Deposition by James Elly of the City of Gloucester, gent. …Arlingham … -89- “Gloucestershire Wills” Will of ANTHONY YEARNOLD 1578 ANTHONY YEARNOLD of Minsterworth, Gloucestershire. To my son RICHARD 6 oxen, 20 sheep, my best silver salt cellar, my best smock, a plough, etc. when he is 21. To my daughter ELIZABETH 20 pounds, my daughter MARGARET 40 pounds, my daughter JOAN 40 pounds when they marry. Reside to my wife who is to be my executrix. Noncupative postscript bequeathing 5 years’ rent of my leasehold called Constalles in Minsterworth to the poor of Minsterworth. Witnessed by Edward (?), Anthony Barnet and (?) Gyles. Rec. Will of FRANCIS YEARNOLD 1633 FRANCIS YEARNOLD of the City of Gloucester, glover. To WILLIAM YEARNOLD of Minsterworth, my natural brother, 20 shillings. To MARY DAVID, my natural sister, 20 shillings. To John Bayly 10 shillings. To maintenance of the glovers’ stock 10 shillings. To 4 of my godchildren Richard Davis, WILLIAM the son of THOMAS YEARNOLD, Leonard the son of John Bromley, and Jane the daughter of John Howell 2 shillings and 6 pence each. To Edward Mill, my wife’s brother, two shillings and six pence. To Margaret Adams, my wife’s sister, 2 shillings and six pence. To Anne Marshall wife of John Marshall, butcher, 2 shillings and 6 pence. To Susan Addames, my servant, pewter etc., to be given her on her marriage or on the death of my wife. Bread to the poor of the parishes of St. Nicholas, St. Mary’s, St. Catherine’s and St. Truiden’s, Gloucester. 3 shillings and 4 pence to the poor of St. Bartholomew’s Hospital. Remainder to my wife JOANE who is to be my executrix. Overseers and witnesses: James Phelps, Richard Roberts and John Wood. Testator makes his mark. Proved 25 May 1633. Will of WILLIAM YARNALL of Warren, Minsterworth, yeoman, 1633. To my youngest daughter cows called Primrose, Cherry, Ganto, Garle, lambs, sheep, etc. To my loving wife and my daughter JOANE the rest of my cattle, pigs and a mare. To my wife and my two daughters pewter, brass, linen, etc. To my sister- in-law Joane Paine the 5 pounds she gave my daughter JOANE and 5 pounds more. To my kinswoman Anne Paine the 40 shillings she entrusted to me and 20 shillings more. To my wife half of my living and profits during her widowhood. My daughter ELIZABETH to be sole executrix. My friends Sargent (?) and (?) Wick to be overseers. (This part damaged and remainder disappeared). 15 September 1633. Will of WILLIAM YARNALL of Minsterworth, yeoman, 1636. To be buried in the churchyard at Minsterworth. To Elnore Whiby all the household stuff that was her mother’s. To my son THOMAS YARNALL cattle etc. To THOMAS YARNALL son of my son THOMAS YARNALL, a brass pot etc. To my son RICHARD YARNALL the residue and he is to be my executor. 13 May 1636. Testator makes his mark. Witnesses Thomas Mayo, Robert (x) Lewes, John (x) Drewit, Humfrey Bodname. Will of ANTHONY ARNOLD of the Grange, Westbury, gent. 1677 To my son ANTHONY and his son RICHARD my biggest brass pot and old silver salt cellar. To my said son ANTHONY the leases of the Grange and lands belonging for his lifetime and after his decease to his son RICHARD my grandson. To my daughter, MARY, the wife of HUGH RUSSELL, 50 pounds. To my daughter ELIZABETH PERKE 5 pounds. TO my son THOMAS 100 pounds. To my grandsons ANTHONY and ROBERT ARNOLD, the 2nd and 3rd sons of my said son ANTHONY ARNOLD, 100 pounds each when they reach the age of 17. To my said grandson ANTHONY ARNOLD all my silver plate. The residue to my son ANTHONY ARNOLD and to his son RICHARD ARNOLD whom I constitute my executors. Witnessed by William Tompson, John Mayo, George Man. 6 September 1677. Will of THOMAS ARNOLD of Westbury, gent. 1679 To my wife ELIZABETH a messuage called Cowles Croft in Taynton, Gloucestershire, a messuage I purchased from John Reade and Alice his wife in Taynton, other grounds called Burgas Hill, Burgas Land, The Innidge, Gale Furlonge Field, Hillmores Croft, West Leaze, Headlesse Crosse alias Breaken Cross, all in the parish of Westbury. Witnessed by George Man, Richard Young, John Young and William Lysons. Dated 22 December 1679. -90- “PCC Wills (Prob 11)” 189/85 - 1642 Will of RICHARD ARNOLD the elder of Titherington, clothier. To be buried at Cromhall with my ancestors. To my son ROBERT ARNOLD the land in Cromhall which was my father’s ROBERT ARNOLD’s. Son RICHARD ARNOLD, daughters MARGERIE and JANE, wife ELIZABETH. 220/19 - 1652 Will of JANE ARNOLD of Titherington, spinster. My brother RICHARD ARNOLD and his son RICHARD. My brother ROBERT ARNOLD and his son ROBERT. 222/124 – 1652 Will of ROBERT ARNOLD of Cromhall, yeoman. My son ROBERT, my brother RICHARD, my sister ELIZABETH. 202/259 – (Date?) Will of NEAST ARNOLD of Minsterworth, spinster, dated 27 October 1643. My whole estate to my mother ELIZABETH Wintle who is to be executrix. Witnessed by William Hulett, minister, MARY (x) ARNOLD and Joan (x) Hyet. “Chancery Proceedings” C22/251/35 - 1685 Chancery Depositions taken at the “Three Cocks” in the City of Gloucester on 20 April 1685 on behalf of RICHARD ARNOLD, gent., and others, defendants to Sir John Guise, ANNE ARNOLD, widow, and other plaintiffs. Toby Taynton of the City of Gloucester, gent. aged 50, deposes that he know that plaintiffs and knew the defendant’s father ANTHONY ARNOLD of the City of Gloucester deceased, and his grandfather ANTHONY ARNOLD of the Grainge, Gloucestershire, deceased. The grandfather died in 1677 and the father 3 or 4 years later. The deponent was opposite neighbour in the City of Gloucester to the father before his marriage to the plaintiff ANNE and was for many years employed by him as an engrossing clerk. The father was often troubled with apoplectic fits before his marriage and, being an attorney, was much troubled by an impaired memory. This condition continued until his death. The original will of the grandfather ANTHONY ARNOLD was in the Registry of the Bishop of Gloucester and the deponent had taken an inventory of his estate which amounted to 3031 pounds. John Bicknell of the City of Gloucester, gent. aged 26, deposes that he had heard the father ANTHONY ARNOLD to be impaired. The deponent was formerly clerk in the Registry of the Bishop of Gloucester. C9/414/134 - 28 November 1682. Plaintiff Thomas Smith of Thornbury, Gloucestershire, yeoman, says that he was approached by RICHARD ARNOLD who wished to lease from him a house in Thornbury. The plaintiff, esteeming him to be an indigent person, required him to engage with some other party who would engage to pay the rent. RICHARD ARNOLD prevailed upon his mother URSULA ARNOLD to enter with him into a seven year lease which was signed with the plaintiff on 26 February 1674. The rents were frequently behindhand and the plaintiff had frequently to importune URSULA ARNOLD. Now RICHARD ARNOLD owed 14 pounds for two years’ rent and the said URSULA pleads the Statute of Limitations, saying that RICHARD ARNOLD had become insolvent. -91- C9/100/4 - 686. Plaintiff ADAM ARNOLD of March, Cambridgeshire, glover, and MARY his wife v. Edward Smith re personal estate of Priscilla Upchurch. C10/451/20- 696. Answer to the Bill of JOHN ARNOLD re personal estate of GEORGE ARNOLD of Clerkenwell, Middlesex. C6/364/15 - ca. 1700. Answer of Sarah Smith, widow and executrix of Benjamin Smith, to ROBERT ARNOLD and ANN his wife, re personal estate of Benjamin Smith of Leeds, Yorkshire. C8/371/25 - 23 November 1711. Plaintiffs Samuel Hall of Titherington, Gloucestershire, clerk, and ELIZABETH his wife who was relict and executrix of JOHN ARNOLD of the City of Gloucester, gent; and William Smith of the City of Gloucester, gent; and William Wooding of the same, buttonmaker, trustees of the will of the said JOHN ARNOLD; and ELIZABETH ARNOLD, infant daughter of the said JOHN ARNOLD, represented by her mother, the said ELIZABETH. They say that JOHN ARNOLD made his will on 8 October 1710 requiring his trustees to sell his property in the City and County of Gloucester for the benefit of his wife and children. The will was proved in the Consistory Court of the Bishop of Gloucester but now THOMAS ARNOLD, infant son and heir of JOHN ARNOLD, seeks to frustrate the purposes of the will. C9/433/97 - 694. Plaintiff Martha Lucy of Bucken, Hants, relict and executrix of John Lucy of the same who, at the age of 14, was placed under the guardianship of THOMAS ARNOLD of Ampthill, Bedfordshire. 17 March 1982 565 South River Street Marshfield, Mass. 02050 Dear Peter: Your letter of 10 March is at hand. I was again bitterly disappointed that we have no solid lead or clues to this point. I once researched a few county Kent records in the Burton Historical Collection when I lived in suburban Detroit. I found a family of Arnolds living in and around the Isle of Thanet. They were connected somehow to the London Arnolds. If your Surrey research does not pan out, what about a closer look at those Kent Arnolds? Many men of old Kent settled in New Kent County, Virginia. That is about it until I hear from you. Sincerely yours, Hazel Arnold MacIvor -92- 2 May 1982 565 South River Street Marshfield, Mass. 02050 Mr. Peter Wilson Coldham 16 Foxley Hill Road Purley, Surrey CR2 2HB England Dear Peter: It has now been two months since I heard from you, your letter of 10 March 1982, in which you state I would hear from you “in the course of the next week or so.” I am wondering if your letter to me went astray in our very unreliable mails. Could I hear from you as to the state of our Anthony Arnold research at your earliest convenience? I will appreciate it so much. Thank you. Sincerely, Hazel Arnold MacIvor 6 June 1982 16 Foxley Hill Road Purley, Surrey CR2 2HB England Mrs. Hazel Arnold MacIvor 565 South River Street Marshfield, Mass. 02050 Dear Hazel, You are right to reproach me for my long silence for which I am duly penitent. I have had rather too much on my plate latterly and the Falklands crisis, which has involved me very much in another capacity, has just stopped me dead in my genealogical tracks for a time. However I was able to check the Parish Register transcripts for the parish of Kingston upon Thames in Surrey but clearly this was another false scent for, despite the notes I had previously read, they contained no evidence of any consistent Arnold residence. I now propose to go back to the so far unexamined causes in Chancery to see if we can pick up a new lead from there. I hesitate to make again any promises which I cannot fulfil but at least I shall hope to write to you before the end of this month! Sincerely yours, Peter Wilson Coldham -93- (N.B. The following was received 27 July just before the Annual Manuscript went to the typist.) 21 July 1982 16 Foxley Hill Road Purley, Surrey CR2 2HB England Mrs. Hazel Arnold MacIvor 565 South River Street Marshfield, Mass. 02050 Dear Hazel, Promises, promises! My hope of writing to you before the end of last month were completely dashed by the paralysis of our London transport systems resulting from the rail strike and I have been effectively prevented from getting any research work done. My efforts since then have not borne much fruit so far but I attach summary notes on the selection of litigation papers recently examined. I am still putting most effort into locating the Arnold v. Smith case which has so far proved most elusive: if the pursuit succeeds I will disclose the convoluted method by which it has proved necessary to proceed. Meanwhile you may care to have the attached trial pedigree of the Arnolds of Minsterworth etc., though, as you will be the first to realize, it is a highly provisional document. With kind regards, Sincerely, Peter Wilson Coldham “Chancery Causes: Charles 1 (C2/Chas.1)” A16/49 - 1640. Plaintiff RICHARD ARNOLD, administrator of JOHN ARNOLD, barber surgeon, his brother, deceased. Re estate in Wareham, Dorset. A16/52 - 1640. Plaintiff MICHAEL ARNOLD of Westminster, brewer. A17/2 - 1641. Plaintiff MICHAEL ARNOLD of Westminster, brewer re property of Millbank, London. A18/31 - 1639. Plaintiff WILLIAM ARNOLD of Kensington, Middlesex, yeoman, re property there. A25/61 - 1626. Plaintiff WILLIAM ARNOLD of Chiswick, Middlesex, yeoman, re his apprenticeship to William Cox of New Brantford, cheesemonger. A31/27 - 1627. Plaintiff MICHAEL ARNOLD of Westminster, brewer, re Lambeth Ferry. A33/28 - 1636. Plaintiff WILLIAM ARNOLD the younger of Kensington, Mddx., re lands held by Ralph Massie. A49/163 - 1669. Plaintiff THOMAS ARNOLD of St. Andrew, Holborn, grocer, re his dealings in 1657 with his brother WILLIAM ARNOLD of St. Paul, Covent Garden, grocer. A1/55- 1645. Plaintiff THOMAS ARNOLD, administrator of John Cranfield of Rotherhithe, Surrey, mariner, re sale of ship “George” of London. A20/2 - 1640. Plaintiff JOHN ARNOLD of St. Mary Overie, Surrey, pinmaker, re apprenticeship. A49/121 - 1627. Further Answer of THOMASINE CROSSE, widow, to THOMAS ARNOLD re bonds payable and parsonage (place not stated). -94- “Trial Pedigree Chart of ARNOLD of Minsterworth, Westbury and Gloucester” ANTHONY ARNOLD Of Minsterworth. Will 1578 Married – (?) Issue: 1. RICHARD ARNOLD, under 21 in 1578 2. ELIZABETH ARNOLD (see C22/600/14 below) 3. MARGARET ARNOLD 4. JOAN ARNOLD (Note: From the layout on page 21 of the AFAS Newsletter of Vol XIII, #1, it is not clear who the parents are for the following however it does show them as brothers): 5. (?) THOMAS ARNOLD, married (?). Issue: ELIZABETH b. Westbury 1633 6. (?) ANTHONY ARNOLD (continued) ANTHONY ARNOLD Of the Grange, Wesbury Will 1677 (6 December – see C6/369/2 below) Married (1st ) 1624 Stanton – MARY IZOD Married (2nd?) – SUSAN (?) Issue: (see C22/600/14 below) 1. RICHARD ARNOLD, b ca 1626, student of Balliol. Delinquent 1650. 2. ANTHONY ARNOLD (continued) (“eldest son” see C6/369/2 below) 3. THOMAS ARNOLD, b. 1638 Westbury 4. ELIZ. ARNOLD, b. 1632 Westbury. Married (?) PERKE. 5. MARY ARNOLD, b 1628. Married HUGH RUSSELL 6. NEAST ARNOLD, of Minsterworth. Will pr. 1649. (Buried 3 November 1643 – see C22/600/14 below) 7. ELEANOR ARNOLD, Married RICHARD WINTLE of Inner Temple 2. ANTHONY ARNOLD Of Westbury and Gloucester Occupation: Attorney (see C6/369/2 below) Delinquent 1650. Will 1680 (died 17 November 1680 see C6/369/2 below) Married (1st) 1658 St. Nicholas, Gloucester - ELIZABETH ROBINSON (see C5/492/55 below) and died prior 1678 (see C5/492/55 below) Married (2nd) 1670 - ANNE GUISE (see below – SUSANNA married 2nd - - Bower – C5/492/55 and C6/369/2 below) Issue: 1. RICHARD ARNOLD, b. 1661 2. ANTHONY ARNOLD, b. 1662 3. ROBERT ARNOLD. b. 1664. Buried St. Michael, Gloucester 4. JOHN ARNOLD (continued) 5. MARY ARNOLD, b. 1659 St. Nicholas, Gloucester 4. JOHN ARNOLD, b. 1671. Student of Wadham. Will 1710, Gloucester Married ELIZABETH (?) (who married 2nd Rev. Samuel Hall of Titherington) Issue: 1. THOMAS ARNOLD 2. ELIZABETH ARNOLD -95- Arnold Family Association of the South – Volume XIV – 15 December 1983 (pp. 4-15) ENGLISH RECORDS (Paid for by AFAS members) Our search for Anthony Arnold’s forbears has spanned several years now and has been well supported by the membership. Following is the correspondence between the editor and Peter Wilson Colham since our last publication. 9 August 1982 16 Foxley Hill Road Purley, Surrey CR2 2HB England Mrs. Hazel Arnold MacIvor 565 South River Street Marshfield, Mass. 02050 Dear Hazel, I promised in my last to let you know how, if the search was successful, the papers relating to the fragmentary remnants of the depositions about Minsterworth (C22/2/49) were tracked down. Having tried several approaches, all unsuccessfully, I finally put each fragment of the depositions under ultra-violet light which brought out several words previously invisible to the naked eye, but crucially a date of --- May 1683 inscribed on the dorse (back) of the roll. From here I pursued our quarry through the Chancery Decrees and Orders (C33) for the years 1681-1686 which produced the names of the other defendents in the case, including Weston. This then led straight to the case of Arnold v. Weston (C6/369/2) which is evidently the same case as Arnold v. Smith. Once past that hurdle it has been possible to identify several other cases, many already listed in the calendar abstracts previously sent to you, to do with the Arnolds of Gloucestershire, and I have begun work on these now. Relying on the fact that the only Anthony Arnolds in England to have had any claim to gentility were from Gloucestershire, it seems to me right to follow through all evidences of them even though the search has not yet yielded up any clues to your Anthony. We must, I suppose, anticipate that the family would not have wished to publicise the fact that a close relative had been condemned as a traitor in the colonies so any references to him will be likely to have been confiened (sic) to ‘priviledged’ papers such as litigation documents. I hope you will find much in the attached abstracts to stimulate your interest. I have spent a total of 12 and a half hours in additional work since received your check for $200.00 in February. I should therefore be grateful to receive the outstanding amount of $50.00 and your confirmation that you wish me to continue abstracting data on the Arnolds of Minsterworth which I estimate may require another 5-6 hours’ work. Sincerely, Peter Wilson Coldham -96- “Chancery Proceedings” C5/492/58 - 2 May 1681. Plaintiffs Sir John Guise of Rencomb, Gloucestershire, William Guise of Winterborn, Gloucestershire Esq. and Christopher Guise, citizen and druggist of London, executors of ANTHONY ARNOLD of the City of Gloucester, gent., and SUSANNA BOWER of the same City, widow. They say that the Mayor and Burgesses of Gloucester by deed of 30 August 1650 demised to Robert Robinson for 41 years a messuage in Westgate Street, Gloucester and land called Bride Lane in the suburbs, and by deed of 21 February 1655/6 demised for 41 years to Elizabeth Robinson the Gatehouse and ground in Westgate Street in the parish of St. Nicholas adjoining the parish church and a cottage in Castle Lane. Elizabeth Robinson became entitled to all these tenements as executrix of Robert Robinson as well as of two houses called Studleys Hall in Westgate Street near the parish church of St. Nicholas. ANTHONY ARNOLD married one of the daughters of Elizabeth Robinson 22 years ago on the understanding that he should pay debts owed by Elizabeth Robinson amounting to 200 pounds and allow her an annuity of 20 pounds a year in return for the assignment to him of all her leaseholds. ANTHONY ARNOLD maintained Elizabeth Robinson for 10 years until she died. On 16 February 1679/80 he leased Studley Hall to the oratrix Susanna Bower for 15 years. ANTHONY ARNOLD made a will which was proved in the Prerogative Court of Canterbury by which the plaintiffs (f)ought to possess his tenements but Richard Wintle of the City of Gloucester, gent., and Hester his wife, another daughter of Elizabeth Robinson, have obtained the deeds of the tenements and have brought an action of ejectment in the Court of Common Pleas to evict Susanna Bower. Richard and Hester Wintle answer that Hester’s parents were Robert and Elizabeth Robinson whose only other child, ELIZABETH, married ANTHONY ARNOLD. At the time of ANTHONY ARNOLD’s marriage to ELIZABETH, the defendant Hester was aged 4 years and the defendant Richard Wintle also very young and living remote from ANTHONY ARNOLD. Some time before Richard Wintle married his now wife and before the death of ANTHONY ARNOLD, a Mr. Benjamin Hyett, an attorney at law, advised these defendants to take out letters of administration to Elizabeth Robinson in order to lay claim to her leaseholds since ANTHONY ARNOLD was also an attorney at law and a subtle person. Hester Wintle had always had a good opinion of ANTHONY ARNOLD but her mother Elizabeth Robinson did not, and nothing troubled her mother more during her last illness than that her poor girl Hester would be cheated after her death by ANTHONY ARNOLD. -97- C6/369/2 - 6 May 1682. Plaintiff RICHARD ARNOLD of the Inner Temple, London, gent., claims that his grandfather ANTHONY ARNOLD of the Grange in the parish of Westbury, Glos., held lands in Minsterworth and Arlingham and elsewhere in Gloucestershire to the annual value of 80 pounds as well as several long leases. He made his will on 6 December 1677 bequeathing to his eldest son and heir, ANTHONY ARNOLD (plaintiff’s father) his lease of the Grange and the remainder of his goods. On 21 April 1679 the plaintiff’s father, ANTHONY ARNOLD, mortgaged his property to Henry Nourse Esq. of the City of Gloucester, including: lands in Minsterworth called Constables Hay, Mundays Land, Whites, Dinny Marsh and Morcott in the occupation of John Clent now deceased: freeholds called New Lands in Minsterworth and the Glebe Lands in Arlingham; ridges and fields (several) bounded by the lands of Richard Fryer of Slow, John Longney, Robert and Richard Yate, Nathaniel Kittermister, William Wellingford gent., John Chynne, Richard Webb, William Bick, Anne Driver, widow, Joseph Caswell, Walter Carter, Thomas Bicke, John Driver gent., Gyles Hodges, Robert Oldisworth, John Bound, Thomas Yate Esq, and John King. Nourse resided at Eastergate Street, Gloucester. ANTHONY ARNOLD the father was subject to apoplectic fits and while he was almost deprived of his senses and reason was received into the house of Anne Guise, widow, who then lived in the City of Gloucester, and was so kindly entertained that a marriage was arranged between them. On 17 November 1680 ANTHONY ARNOLD died and the plaintiff became entitled to his and his grandfather’s estate. But ANNE ARNOLD, Dame Frances Weston (widow and executrix of Sir Richard Weston) and Henry Nourse confederate to deprive the plaintiff of his inheritance. Dame Frances Weston answers on 20 May 1682 that ANTHONY ARNOLD the father by indentures of lease and release of 16/17 July 1680 conveyed his entire estate, including the reversion of his mortgaged property, to Sir Richard Weston. The witnesses to this were ANNE GUISE, Edmond Jones and Thomas Pepys (Timothy Bancks delted), of whom Pepys died a year ago. Sir Richard paid ANTHONY ARNOLD 100 pounds by the hand of Mr. George Marwood, a merchant of London. Sir Richard Weston died on 22 March 1680/1 testate, leaving this defendant as principal devisee. ANN ARNOLD, widow, answers on 27 May 1682, submitting a list of household goods she had from ANTHONY ARNOLD the father and grandfather. Though her late husband was subject to fits, he was able after his marriage to pursue his profession as an attorney. She has made a thorough search for deeds in the possession of her late husband and has found the following: 19 April 1659 – Conveyance of a 4 acre pasture in Westbury from George Taylor and Robert Crump to Richard Brook. 5/8 September 1665 of the above pasture and other lands from Alice Brook, daughter of the said Richard Brook (or Robert Brook) to William Wintle, haberdasher of the City of Gloucester. 23/24 August 1668. Conveyance of the above from Elizabeth Wintle, widow, executrix and devisee of the said William Wintle, to ANTHONY ARNOLD. 28/30 November 1665. Conveyance of a meadow called Walmore and one called Braunsden lying in Bolley, Westbury, from Thomas Malson and Joan his wife to Sir Thomas Hanbury, which lands ANTHONY ARNOLD had in his possession when he died. 28 June 1579. Deed of feoffment whereby a tenement in Westbury was limited to John Bayse for his life with remainder to several of his sons in tail: and an exemplification of a fine levied on the same in 1635 between Thomas Hartland, John Callow and Thomas Watts as plaintiffs and John Bayse and Anne his wife, and John Webb and Alise his wife as deforciants. 6 January 1679/80. Deed whereby ANTHONY ARNOLD limited the inheritance of houses and land near the City of Gloucester to his sons ROBERT and JOHN ARNOLD, which deed the defendant has in her custody for their benefit. The answer of Henry Nourse adds nothing to the above. -98- C22/251/26 - 1690 Depositions taken in Monmouth in 1690 in William Jones and others v. William Guise Esq., plaintiff, re estate of David Price of Payhembury, Mon. No mention of ARNOLDS. C22/478/41 - 1679 Depositions taken in Yorkshire in the case of Dame Frances Weston v. Isaac Saunderson, clerk, Elizabeth his wife, and Edward Haulsey, infant, by Margaret Haulsey, widow, his mother to establish the terms of the will of Sir Richard Weston made at Little Cattall, Yorkshire on 24 August 1679. C22/2/49 - Date on dorse – May 1683 Interrogatories. Did you, after the death of ANTHONY ARNOLD, the plaintiff’s (father) and ANNE ARNOLD, one of the defendants and widow of the said ANTHONY --- that he might --- her --- Frackbanks (sic) one of the plaintiff’s (custo?) mary lands? Have you been a customary tenant of the Manor of Minsterworth, Gloucestershire? Are you acquainted with the customs of the Manor? Depositions. --- Minsterworth --- the grandfather of the complainant, ANTHONY ARNOLD, often told this deponent that his grandson, DICKE, meaning the complainant, should have his lands in Stonecott ---, let at 70 pounds ---, --- of Minsterworth --- of the Lord of the Manor but before any such grant ---. Deposition of John Harris of Arlingham(?). --- to one Mr. Isaac Will (iams?) --- Arlingham for half a year. Deposition by James Elly of the City of Gloucester, gent. aged about 70(?), identifying a paper book produced in court as belonging to the Manor of Minsterworth from the time of Queen Elizabeth (and in the custody of) the Duchy Office of Lancaster in Grays Inn. C33/259/328 - 23 January 1682/3. RICHARD ARNOLD v. Sir Edward Smith and Dame Frances his wife, Henry Nourse and ANNE ARNOLD. The matter was opened. After the death of her husband Sir Richard Weston, the defendant Frances, now wife of Sir Edward Smith, brought a Bill in Chancery against Isaac Sanderson and Elizabeth his wife, and Edward Haulsey as heirs at law for proving the will of Sir Richard Weston. Sir Edward Smith and Frances his wife claim the premises in the right of the said will. Prayed that the depositions in that cause and in Smith v. Nourse may be made use of in this case. Granted. C33/265/252 - 10 February 1685/6. ARNOLD v. Smith. On a motion made for Sir Edward Smith and ANNE ARNOLD, widow, it was pleaded that the Bill exhibited be relieved since the plaintiff fins his Bill to be mistaken in the most material points, and prayed that the same might be dismissed. Ordered accordingly with costs to be paid by the plaintiff to the defendants. C5/492/55 - 12 November 1683. Plaintiffs Sir John Guise of Rendcombe, Gloucestershire, William Guise of Winterbourn, Gloucestershire, Esq., surviving executors of the will of ANTHONY ARNOLD of the City of Gloucester, gent., and ANNE ARNOLD, relict of the said ANTHONY. At the beginning of 1678 (sic) when the oratrix was the relict of John Guise of the Inner Temple, London, and possessed a good estate, ANTHONY ARNOLD being then a widower, made suit for her hand. Their marriage was agreed by Sir John Guise, the said William Guise and Christopher Guise, citizen and druggist of London, since deceased, on condition that ANTHONY ARNOLD should settle on the oratrix lands within 10 miles of the City of Gloucester worth 100 pounds a year and make provision in his will for her to be worth 2000 pounds. The oratrix’s dowry was set at 1000 pounds. Because ANTHONY ARNOLD did not then have freehold lands to the value requied he took out a bond in a penalty of 6000 pounds to the Guises to observe the articles agreed within one year of his marriage. About 10 days after the marriage the agreement was sealed and is now in the possession of the oratrix. In order to pay his debts after the marriage ANTHONY ARNOLD on 21 April 1679 mortgaged his freeholds in Gloucestershire and customary lands in the Manor of Minsterworth to Henry Nourse Esq. and settled in London. He did not settle lands on the oratrix. In order to bring his affairs into order ANTHONY ARNOLD then agreed with Sir Richard Weston, a Baron of the Exchequer, to convey his freeholds to him and this was done by deeds of lease and release of 16/17 July 1680. On 22 March 1680/1 Sir Richard Weston made his will naming his wife Frances as his devisee and executrix and died in the same month. Frances Weston then brought a Bill against Henry Nourse for redemption of the mortgage and, when she subsequently married Sir Edward Smith, a Bill of Revivor was brought against Mr. RICHARD ARNOLD, son and heir of the said ANTHONY ARNOLD. The said RICHARD ARNOLD brought a cross-suit against Sir Edward Smith, Dame Frances his wife, Henry Nourse and others in order to compel Nourse to surrender the mortgage. Henry Nourse answers on 8 February 1683/4. (Nothing further.) RICHARD ARNOLD answer on 22 April 1684 but adds little to the information contained in the Bill. His father ANTHONY ARNOLD was much involved in lawsuits and debts. George Marwood, merchant, Richard Bayley and Edmund Jones, gent. acted as witnesses on behalf of Sir Edward Smith and Jones “was content to run the adventure of the title.” -99- 23 August 1982 565 South River Street Marshfield, Mass 02050 Peter Wilson Coldham 16 Foxley Hill Road Purley, Surrey CR2 2HB England Dear Peter: Your letter with enclosures came last week. I was prevented from answering promptly by the amount of company we had coming and going in our home here. I am enclosing a check for $250.00, $50.00 of which we owe you, and $200.00 of which is an advance for further Anthony Arnold research. I was terribly disappointed that the data you sent had not a single clue to Anthony Arnold’s parentage. I am beginning to wonder how apropos the designation “Mr.” before Anthony Arnold’s name was. Is it possible (in your experience in these matters) that Arnold acquired the use of that designation in written records because he did not work with his hands here in the colonies? He was the owner of a sloop (for West India trade one presumes), had a mill, and several widely scattered plantations of 3000 acres, probably had a store, and we know from the records, was engaged in the Indian fur trade. Is it possible he “became a gentleman” here but was not of gentle birth? You say you need five to six hours to finish Gloucestershire records. To what area will you then turn? Any ideas? Sincerely, Mrs. Hazel Arnold MacIvor P. S. Could you use some of the money to obtain xerox copies of the following document for me: P. R. O, CO5/1371/152. Thank you. Supposedly contains Anthony Arnold’s speech at his trial of Life and Death. 13 October 1982 565 South River Street Marshfield, Mass. 02050 Peter Wilson Coldham 16 Foxley Hill Road Purley, Surrey CR2 2HB England Dear Peter: I am wondering if you are ill or if my letter, with check for $250.00 enclosed, of 23 August 1982 did not reach you. I note that our check, number 156, has not been returned, cancelled, to us. I feel something is wrong as you usually acknowledge our checks promptly. If you are unable to write, will you please have someone there write to us and apprise us of the situation as regards our research. Thank you very much. Sincerely, Mrs. Hazel Arnold MacIvor -100- 21 October 1982 16 Foxley Hill Road Purley, Surrey CR2 2HB England Hazel Arnold MacIvor 565 South River Street Marshfield, Mass. 02050 Dear Hazel, Thank you for your letter of 13 October. I have been away almost continuously since the end of August and I am sorry that this has prevented me from acknowledging properly your letter and check of 24 August, for which many thanks. I hope now to resume work in order to make up for lost time! Enclosed with this letter are abstracts from an interesting series of depositions in Bayse v. Arnold as well as a complete list of Chancery cases 1621-1649 in which an Arnold was the defendant: despite the effort put into obtaining these further details, there does not appear to be any direct indication of the clues we still seek. You express disappointment at the lack of direct evidence of Anthony Arnold’s parentage and ask for further ideas. Alas, as is always the case, I can work only from the records as they are and can offer you no promise of a quick or final solution to the problem. All the searches made so far – and they have been as comprehensive in their coverage as it is possible to be – indicate that your Anthony Arnold is likely to have come from the Gloucestershire area and I feel we should now commission a search of those Gloucester City parish registers of which no transcript has yet been made, and there are many such. I will arrange this on your behalf. At the same time, I propose to continue selective examination of cases in the Chancery records. I hope this will be agreeable to you. On a balance of probabilities it seems to me that Anthony Arnold came to the colonies as a “Mr.” if only because he would presumably have needed some capital to furnish himself with property there – but as in so many aspects of this project, there can be only small certainty. I will also see if I can obtain for you a copy of CO5/1371/152. Sincerely, Peter Wilson Coldham -101- “Chancery Proceedings” C22/600/14 – 11 August 1648 and 11 January 1649/50 Depositions taken at the house of Thomas Evans in Westbury, Gloucestershire, in the case of William Bayse, Elizabeth and Jane Bayse represented by William Bayse the elder, their tutor and guardian, v. ANTHONY ARNOLD the elder, gent. and MARY his wife, John Wintle gent. ANTHONY ARNOLD the younger, and RICHARD YARNOLL. Edmund Crips of Chophill, Westbury, yeoman aged 42, deposes that he has examined the parish registers of Minsterworth and Westbury according to which NEAST ARNOLD was buried on 3 November 1643 and Elizabeth Wintle on 9 November 1643. Elizabeth Bayse lived for over a year after the death of the longest liver of them and NEAST ARNOLD devised her estate by will. The following all depose that money they owed to NEAST ARNOLD was claimed after her death by ANTHONY ARNOLD the elder, sometimes by threats of legal action: Richard Wintle of Minsterworth, “sayler,” aged 83, who owed money for himself and for his son-in-law Anthony Leighton. Henry Wintle of Netherley, Westbury, yeoman, aged 47 Thomas Wintle the elder of Rodley, Westbury, aged 60. Robert Crumpe of Chaphill, yeoman, aged 53, who also went surety to NEAST ARNOLD for Alice Merryck, widow of Weston under Pennyard, Herefordshire. John Wintle of Rodley, Westbury, yeoman, aged 60. John Hooper of Bleysdon, Gloucestershire, yeoman. (Age?) William Callow of Rodley, Westbury, aged 40 Richard Hill of Newnham, Gloucestershire, gent., aged 35. Thomas Reak of Shaffield, Gloucestershire, gent., aged 43. Peregrine Purrock of Huntley, Gloucestershire, yeoman, aged 31, deposes that his father William Purrock owed 10 pounds to NEAST ARNOLD. Thomas Wintle of Minsterworth, “sayler,” aged 60. John Rhoan of Minsterworth, flaxdresser, aged 44. Ann Morse, wife of Tanner Morse of Wesbury, yeoman, aged 60 says that Elizabeth Wintle of Minsterworth made a will many years before her death but she does not know what became of it. MARY ARNOLD of the Grange, Westbury, spinster, daughter of ANTHONY ARNOLD the elder, deposes as to the deaths of NEAST ARNOLD and Elizabeth Wintle. Depositions taken at same place 11 January 1649/50: William Ayleberton of Elton, Westbury, gent. aged 59 says that NEAST ARNOLD died before both Elizabeth Wintle and Elizabeth Bayse, and that the said Elizabeth Bayse died after her mother the said Elizabeth Wintle. The deponent was present during the last illness of Elizabeth Bayse with the plaintiff William Bayse the elder and ANTHONY ARNOLD the elder when the said William Bayse promised that the goods of Elizabeth Bayse should be shared with her brother ANTHONY ARNOLD. Ann Morse (again) says she was the natural sister of Elizabeth Wintle whom she saw dig out money from the garden of her dwelling but does not know how much. Jeremy Hiett of Westbury, aged 46, says that in Michaelmas 1647 he and the defendant John Wintle often talked of the title which William Bayse the younger, Elizabeth and Jane Bayse had in the estates of their grandmother Elizabeth Wintle and their aunt NEAST ARNOLD. John Wintle said that he intended them, his nephew and nieces, to have a good share. Four years ago this deponent was retained by ANTHONY ARNOLD to take out letters of administration in the PCC to NEAST ARNOLD. Interrogatories for ANTHONY ARNOLD the elder gent and MARY his now wife and other defendants claim that Elizabeth Wintle deceased, mother of the said ANTHONY ARNOLD the elder, and NEAST ARNOLD deceased, sister of the said ANTHONY ARNOLD, had borrowed from the said ANTHONY ARNOLD 50 pounds for which they gave bond to him. The only deposition appearing in response appears to be from RICHARD ARNOLD (the defendant RICHARD YARNOLL?) which is defaced. It reads in part that Elizabeth (Bayse?) and NEAST ARNOLD were bound to ANTHONY ARNOLD the elder and that Joseph Morwent deceased was witness to their bond. -102- “Chancery Causes temp. Charles 1: List 2 (C2/Chas.1) – P. R. O.” ARNOLD Plaintiffs 28/12 v. Arrowe 49/36 v. Allen 47/5 v. Axford 9/29 v. Basket 4/20 v. Colby 9/6 v. Massey 9/1 v. Morgan Kt. 20/29 v. Poore ARNOLD Defendants 92/25 v. Barnes 46/64, 68/8 v. Barrenger 159/86 v. Baynard 47/34 v. Bencks 15/38, 18/45 v. Bond 170/74 v. Bornman 43/46 v. Burbeck 38/43 v. Chenery 102/32, 126/122, and 129/29 v. Combridge 106/55 v. Comyoy (tenant) 18/17, 54/65 v. Corderoy 47/55, 100/24 v. Crane 51/36 v. Debden 13/36 v. Dent 15/13 v. Fleetwood Kt. 13/17 v. Gymney 28/66, 41/3 v. Hill 39/16 v. Lawman 3/26 v. Leaver 13/35, 29/46 v. Lee 45/68 v. Longe 23/42 v. Malyn 37/2 v. Masey 17/39 v. Messenger 62/20 v. Moore, Visc. 12/11 v. Morgan Kt. 49/20 v. Motham 43/36 v. Mounson, Visc. 29/79 v. Needler 5/29 v. Page 34/24 v. Pole 58/58 v. Prior als Heate 15/64, 61/88, 62/64, 63/35 v. Reeve 37/8 v. Rogers als Davis 16/53 v. Salisbury, Earl 5/74 v. Sheldon 15/64, 46/65, and 53/26 v. Smith 129/10 v. Stallings 88/13 v. Stoughton 38/22 v. Stowell 114/19 v. Wallop, Kt. 70/27 v. Wymonsold Y4/36 YARNALL v. YARNALL -103- 8 February 1983 16 Foxley Hill Road Purley, Surrey CR2 2HB England Hazel Arnold MacIvor 565 South River Street Marshfield, Mass. 02050 Dear Hazel, Since writing my letter on 21 October I have been active on several fronts in pursuit of that most elusive character Anthony Arnold – but he continues to elude. I thought it advisable to consult someone with specialized knowledge of Gloucester sources and families and accordingly corresponded with B. C. Frith, FSG. He, after a closer and more detailed examination both of the evidence already accumulated and of sources not available here in London, has also arrived at the same inconclusive result. I have also been in touch with a specialist contact at the Public Record Office in Kew, particularly as you were anxious to locate and have copied the trial record of Anthony Arnold, allegedly in CO 5/1371/152 but, after consulting what I am told is a very bulky file, the document in question has not come to light. I am reasonably sure that a more painstaking search would find something and am prepared to undertake the visit myself – but because this would take at least half a day of my time I should like you to confirm that you would wish me to. Other sources led to the discovery that an Anthony, John and Mary ARNELL were indentured for Virginia from Bristol in 1666 and I approached the Bristol City Archivist for further information. Now enclosed is a copy of her somewhat disappointing reply. The connexion, if any between this family and your own which was, according to your researches in Virginia at a rather earlier date, seems destined to remain unknown, though it may deserve further investigation at your end. Though I will continue to be alert for any new evidence on the Arnolds does rather seem as though once more we have run into a dead end. Sincerely, Peter Wilson Coldham -104- 27 January 1983 City of Bristol City Clerk’s Department Miss Mary E. Williams BA City Archivist Bristol Record Office The Council House College Green, Bristol BS1 5TR Telephone (0272) 26031 Ext. 442 Our ref: AC/NRH Peter Coldham, Esq. 16 Foxley Hill Road Purley, Surrey CR2 2HB Dear Mr. Coldham, “Anthony Arnold” Thank you for your letter of the 6th January. I do apologise for the delay in replying. Although the early entries in the registers of Servants to Foreign Plantations often give the place of origin of those indenting, by 1666 they no longer include this information. All I can tell you is that all three indented to serve Henry Lambert of Virginia on the 22nd November 1666. I have checked the 1696 list of Bristol inhabitants for Arnold entries and found several families including at least one spelled Arnell, so it is possible that they came from Bristol and not Gloucestershire. A detailed search in the relevant parish registers might have confirmed a connection with Minsterworth, but the Arnell references occurs in the parish of St. Mary le Port, whose registers were destroyed in the blitz, and whose bishops’ transcripts do not survive prior to 1669. I am so sorry not to have been more help. Yours sincerely, Judith A. Close Senior Assistant Archivist -105- “Chancery Proceedings” C8/247/60 - 18 February 1678/9. Plaintiff Elianor Wintle of Worcester, spinster, daughter of John Wintle late of the Inner Temple, London, Esq. and Elianor his wife, both deceased, says that her father was worth 3000 pounds and had two sons John and Richard Wintle and one daughter, the plaintiff Elianor. Her father made a will nuncupative in 1662 whereby he left 600 pounds to his daughter, 800 pounds to his son John and 600 pounds to his son Richard, bequeathing a considerable estate also to his wife. The plaintiff Elianor executed the will and added a considerable amount to her estate in jewelry. Her mother died testate in July 1663 and forgave ANTHONY ARNOLD a debt of which 20 pounds was to go to the said ARNOLD’s wife. The remainder of her estate was to be divided between her children when they reached the age of 21. The mother Elianor possessed the moiety of the Manor of Poultons in Gloucestershire which she devised to her son John Wintle on condition that his brother Richard should receive an annuity of 33 pounds. She also bequeathed 10 pounds to Richard Blanchard, a goldsmith without Temple Bar, on trust for him to sell all her jewelry for the benefit of the plaintiff. ANTHONY ARNOLD proved the will of the mother Elianor but “minding his own particular gain and profit” failed to exhibit an inventory and caused a Mr. Francis Stephens to give the plaintiff a bond for 300 pounds but has not paid any part of it. ANTHONY ARNOLD conspires with John and Richard Wintle to deprive the plaintiff of her inheritance. ANTHONY ARNOLD, gent., answers that John Wintle by his will of 4 September 1662 entailed estate upon his wife during her widowhood intending that she should bring up his children. Elianor Wintle made her will on 7 July 1663. The Manor of Poultons occupied by Charles Bridgeman Esq. was mortgaged to John Wintle the father, John Wintle the son and Robert Ensam deceased but Elianor Wintle conveyed her moiety in trust to John Hohnden and William Smith. On 20 May 1658 Blanchard made a valuation of Elianor Wintle’s jewelry which the plaintiff Elianor later sold. Enclosed is a schedule of payments made by the defendant to Elianor, John and Richard Wintle 1663-1679 including the cost of a suit against Greene and another listed as John Wintle v. ANTHONY ARNOLD. C8/252/23 - 19 February 1680/1. Plaintiff Richard Naylor of Worcester, doctor of physick and Elianor his wife, late Elianor Wintle, daughter of John Wintle of the Inner Temple, Esq. (case much as before). ANTHONY ARNOLD bearing a wicked grudge against the plaintiffs and fully bent to deceive them entered into a combination with Sir John Guise, RICHARD ARNOLD his eldest son, ROBERT ARNOLD his second son, William Guise of Walterborne, Gloucestershire, gent., Christopher Guise of Bucklersbury, London, druggist, Christopher Guise, an attorney-at-law, and others. Answer of Christopher Guise and ANNE ARNOLD sworn 24 June 1681 says that ANTHONY ARNOLD held lands in Minsterworth, Arlingham and Murcott in Gloucestershire mortgaged to Henry Mourse Esq. and leases in Westbury and in the City of Gloucester. On her marriage to ANTHONY ARNOLD, ANNE brought some leases from Brasenose College. -106- “Gloucester City Freemen’s Roll” 23 July 1662 ANTHONY ARNOLD of the said City, gent. enrolled. “Gloucester City Apprentices” 17 November 1654 THOMAS ARNOLD, son of JOHN ARNOLD of Longhope, hoopmaker, apprentices for 9 years to Thomas Eldridge of the City of Gloucester, joiner, and Mary his wife. 22 January 1654/5 THOMAS ARNOLD, son of THOMAS ARNOLD of Bartonstreet, Gloucester, husbandman, deceased, apprenticed for 7 years to Robert Councher of the City of Gloucester, pinmaker, and Margaret his wife. (NOTE: No further correspondence or documents between Hazel Arnold MacIvor and Peter Wilson Coldham were published in the AFAS Newsletters nor have they been found for publication at this time (2007) – Ann A. Hennings) -107- RICHARD ARNOLD, Parliamentary Soldier One of the results of the English Civil War, 1642-1647, fought between the Royalists with King Charles I as their head and the Parliamentarians led by Oliver Cromwell, was the emergence of a group in the Cromwellian forces of libertarians whom Cromwell dubbed “Levellers.” These radical democrats believed in “the natural and inalienable rights of all Englishmen.” They believed that the franchise should not be based on income and property, as Cromwell advocated, but “the poorest Hee that is in England hath a life to live as the greatest Hee.” The soldiers stuck a pamphlet proclaiming these rights in their helmets with the words plainly visible, “England’s Freedom-Soldiers’ Rights,” and marched upon the grounds at Corkbush Field. “At the sight of these pamphlets Cromwell bluntly ordered the soldiers to take them from their hats. When the men of one regiment refused to obey, Cromwell rode angrily among them snatching the pamphlets … By Cromwell’s orders several leaders among the soldiers were immediately tried for mutiny, and three were sentenced to death. ONE OF THE BOLDEST, RICHARD ARNOLD, WAS EXECUTED BY A FIRING SQUAD BEFORE THE ASSEMBLED REGIMENTS.” (N. B. – This man has a personality much like that of ANTHONY ARNOLD.) “RICHARD ARNOLD … ‘died a very martyr for the Liberties of England.’” From the book by James Ayars, “We Hold These Truths, from Magna Carta to the Bill of Rights,” The Viking Press, New York, 1977, pp. 80, 87.