Timson Family; Wm. and Mary Qrtly., Vol. 5, No. 1 Transcribed by Kathy Merrill for the USGenWeb Archives Special Collections Project ************************************************************************ USGENWEB ARCHIVES NOTICE: These electronic pages may NOT be reproduced in any format for profit or presentation by any other organization or persons. Persons or organizations desiring to use this material, must obtain the written consent of the contributor, or the legal representative of the submitter, and contact the listed USGenWeb archivist with proof of this consent. The submitter has given permission to the USGenWeb Archives to store the file permanently for free access. http://www.usgwarchives.net *********************************************************************** Timson Family William and Mary College Quarterly Historical Magazine, Vol. 5, No. 1 (Jul., 1896), pp. 3-5. WILLIAM AND MARY COLLEGE QUARTERLY HISTORICAL MAGAZINE VOL. V. JULY, 1896. NO. 1. TIMSON FAMILY [Concluded from pages 204 and 273, of Vol. III.] 9. SAMUEL TIMSON, captain, Justice of the Peace, was at the time of his death, in 1740, sole heir of the family. (Barradall's Reports, MS.) His inventory amounted in value to L70 5. 2. 6. His will, dated October 23, 1739, proved May 19, 1740, mentions issue (changing their order from last number) - 18. John, to whom "he gave the land in Blissland parish, New Kent county, given him by his grandfather". 19. William, to whom he gave the land on which he now lived; 20, Nathaniel, other land in Blissland parish; 21, Anne; 22, Elizabeth. Mary Buckner, to whom he refers as "daughter", was probably a step- daughter, and Samuel Timson who is mentioned as his son in the will of William Timson (1726), was perhaps dead in 1740, since his father does not mention him. In 1748 his personalty was divided between William Timson, Nathaniel Timson, Anne Timson (who subsequently married 1st, Robert Crawley, 2d, about 1761, William Sanders), and Elizabeth who married Nathaniel Crawley. 18. JOHN TIMSON, eldes son (Samuel, Samuel), (will Feb. 3, 1741-2 - June 21, 1742), m. Sarah ------. As John Coke was guardian of John Timson's son, Samuel, in 1760, and his wife was Sarah Hoge, and the Timson name appears in the Coke pedigree, Sarah, the wife of John Timson, may have been a daughter of John Coke. Issue of John Timson and Sarah his wife: 23, Samuel, to whom he gives the "furniture for mustering", mentioned in the will of his father, 9, Samuel; 24, Elizabeth; 25, a posthumous child called John. Son Samuel was given the tract of land recovered of Edmund Scarburg. This refers to a suit in Barradall's Reports. Edmund Scarburg married Anna Maria Jones, dau. of Rev. Roland Jones, and she mar- Page 4. ried 1st Capt. William Timson, 2d Major William Barber, 3rd Edmund Scarburgh, 4th John Thornton, and died aged 76, in 1760 (will in York county, epitaph in Vol. XI., Va. Hist. Soc. Coll). 19. William Timson (Sanuel, Samuel), (will, November 30, 1756- January 17, 1757), married Elizabeth, who m'd. 2dly John Ferguson. Issue 26, Anne, born September 10, 1752 (Bruton Register). 20. NATHANIEL was dead before his brother 19, William. 23. SAMUEL TIMSON, born in 1740, was under age, when a suit started in York county about the land, sued for in the General Court, and on which Anna Maria Thornton lived. He is stated in a special verdict to have been the son of William Timson, but this is clearly a mistake, as William left only one daughter, Anne, and it is easy to follow Samuel from guardian to guardian till he comes of age. Besides, William Timson had no interest in the land in dispute. In 1771 Samuel Timson, of the county of York, and his cousins, John Jones, Frances Barber Jones, Roland Jones and Mary, his wife, Ann Hudson, widow, and relict of John Hudson, and Orlando Jones, and Mary, his wife, of the county of Hanover, sold to Edward Champion Travis of James City county, gent., the tract known as Timson's Neck (now Travis' Neck). The will of Samuel Timson was dated September 13, 1781, and was proved June 17, 1782. He mentions his daus. 25, Sarah and 26, Elizabeth and wife Mary. Wit- nesses, Ambrose Jackson, Sarah Valentine, and Sarah Timson. Mary Timson qualified on the will with Sarah Major and Ralph Graves as securities. Samuel Timson, so deceased, had a first wife Ann Thornton, daughter of Thomas and Ann Thornton, of Gloucester (Family Bible). The copy published of the inscription on the tombsteon in Gloucester county has the name Sarah instead of Ann, which must be a mistake. (See Quarterly, Vol. III., p. 220). Anne Thornton was born September 11, 1739 (Bible), and died February 28, 1763 (tombstone and Bible). (The in- scription published says she died in her twenty-first year, which is clearly another error of the copy for twenty-fifth year). Her daughter 27, Ann Thornton Timson, married March 2, 1777, Samuel Major, who was born April 26, 1754. (Bible). Samuel Major died January 2, 1785, and his will mentions son Samuel and Mary (who both died without issue). A third child was Anne, born September 10, 1785 (Bible), after her father's death. She married Richard Garrett, April 8, 1807. She left issue, among other, the late Dr. Robert Garrett, father of Prof. Page 5. Van F. Garrett, of William and Mary College. Richard Garrett, Sr.'s Will (June 22, 1802 - February 20, 1804) mentions children, Richard, Polly, William, John, Edmund, and Robert. (York Records). 25. JOHN TIMSON, brother of 23, Samuel, married Sarah (Jackson?) and had 29, Elizabeth Jackson, born October 9, 1767 (Bruton Register); 30, probably Mary, who married Thomas Sherlock; 31, probably Priscilla, who married William Henley (Marriage bond, 1800).