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COBBS, PINKETHMAN, ALLEN, RICHARDSON, WELDON.--A chancery suit recorded in York county, 1764, shows: Robert Cobbs (will dated December 10, 1725), married, first, Rebecca, daughter of William Pinkethman (will dated December 1, 1712). She died 1715, leaving Elizabeth, born 1704, who, in 1719, married James Shields, of York county, and Rebecca. Robert Cobbs married, second, Elizabeth, daughter of Daniel Allen, and had Sarah, who married Robert Jones, Jr., and Martha, who married Dudley Richardson. His wife Elizbeth survived him and married, second, Samuel Weldon. She died about 1745. WELDON. Peter Efford, of Middle Plantation, York county, died about 1666, leaving a son Nicholas, and a daughter Sarah, to the care of Rev. John Weldon, minister of the parish of St. Mary Newington, in County Surry, England. Sarah, who alone survived, married Samuel Weldon, of London, who came to Virginia in 1675 as factor of Capt. Philip Foster, a merchant of London. (York county records.) He located in James City county, where resided Poynes Weldon, a lawyer. In 1692-'93 Mrs. Sarah Weldon, as "widow of Major Samuel Weldon," brought an action in York by Poynes Weldon, her attorney. We learn, in the same records, of a Benjamin Weldon, who was a grand juryman in 1719, mentioned as dead by Richard Hickman in his will in 1732. Mrs. Sarah Weldon was grand- mother of William Blaikley, whose father died in May, 1739. The will of Samuel Weldon, of Dale parish, Henrico county, evidently he who married Elizabeth Allen (widow of Robert Cobbs) in the note next above, was proved in July, 1748, and names children (who were under age), Daniel, Benjamin, who received lands in Goochland, Samuel, Elizabeth and Priscilla; son-in-law Roderick Easley, wife's daughters Sarah Jones and Martha Richardson, and her grandson, Allen Jones, and Willie and Charlotte Jones. Benjamin Weldon made his will in Southampton county August 5, 1755, proved February 9, 1756; names sisters Elizabeth and Priscilla, brother Daniel, cousins Allen, Willie and Martha Jones, brother Samuel Weldon, and friends Robert Jones and Gray Briggs. In 1749 Daniel Weldon was one of the commissioners of North Carolina about the boundary line; and Samuel Weldon and Allen Jones were members of the North Carolina Convention of 1776. The city of Weldon was doubtless named for this family of Weldons. Page 122. BATES--John(1) Bates* was born about 1600 (Hotten), and was in 1624 one of the company of Abraham Peirsey at Peirsey's Hundred. His will was proved in York county in 1666, and names a wife Elizabeth and sons George(2) and John, who died March 30, 1701, and daughters Ann Belbie and Alice Deane. Goerge(2) married Mary -----, who married, second, Edmund Brewer. His will was proved April 24, 1677, and names sons James(2) and John(2) Bates and daughter Mary. they lived near Skimeno, in York county, and were prominent Quakers.+ JAMES(3) BATES, of Skimeno, married Sarah -----, and in his will, proved in York county February 7, 1723, names son James, to whom he leaves land in York and New Kent and his mill at Skimeno; and daughters Mary (dead before 1738) and Hannah,++ who married Samuel Jordan. JOHN(3) BATES, brother of James(3) Bates, made his will, which was proved in York county, December 25, 1719; names sons John and Isaac, and daughters Hannah and Ann, and grandsons Fleming, John, and Charles Bates. JOHN(4) BATES, son of John(3) Bates, married Susannah, && and in his will, proved in 1723, names Uncle James Bates and sons Fleming, John, Charles, James, and daugher Hannah Easley, wife of Robert Easley. FLEMING(5) BATES' || will was ______________________________________________________________________ *In the York county records, under date of May 24, 1660, there is this entry: "John Bates, of Middletown Parish, in this county, an ancient Inhabitant of this collony, being sixty-two years of age, and thereby disabled to worke as formerly, is discharged from ye countrey and county Leavyes by this court for the future." +The preacher, Thomas Story, held meetings at their houses in 1705. (See Friends' Library). There was afterwards a Quaker meeting-house erected in the locality before 1774, and the road that passes in that quarter is still known as the "Quaker Meeting Road." ++From Cedar Creek Quaker Minutes, in possession of R. A. Brock; Married Samule, son of Robert Jordan, on Nansemond county, and Hannah, daughter of James Bates, of York county, deceased November 3, 1738, at the house of Sarah Bates, mother of Hannah. &&Susannah Bates married, second, John Woodson, of Henrico county, father of Tarleton and Robert Woodson. She was Susannah Fleming, daughter of Charles and Susannah Fleming, of New Kent. (Brown's Cabells and Their Kin; Goochland county records.) In. St. Peter's Parish register are the following entries: John Fleming, died August 30, 1686. Elizabeth, daughter of Charles and susannah Fleming, born October 23 (or 28), 168-. Charles, son of Tarleton and Hannah Fleming, born December 10, 1725. In Goochland there is the marriage bond of William Bernard and Mary Fleming, 1748. ||Married Fleming, son of John Bates, deceased, of York county, and Sarah, daugher of Benjamin Jordan, deceased, of Nansemond county, at the house of John Pleasants, in Henrico county, May 1, 1737. (Cedar Creek Minutes). Page 123. proved in York county in 1784. It names wife Sarah, sons Benjamin(6) and Thomas, and grandchildren Edward, Mary, and Sarah -- all three under age. BENJAMIN(6) BATES' will was proved in York, January 16, 1804, and names sons Edward, Benjamin, Elisha, and Fleming, and daughters Mary Ratcliffe, Sarah Ratcliffe, Susannah Hockaday, and Martha Bates. In 1769 Fleming Bates, of York county, made a deed to Thomas, of Henrico county, his son. ISAAC(4) BATES' will was proved in Albemarle county, December 14, 1752, and in it he divides his land in York county among his five children -- John (of Buckingham county), Isaac, Ann, Lucy, and Elizabeth. THOMAS FLEMING BATES was one of the trustees in 1788 to lay out the town of Columbia, in Fluvanna county. (Hening Stats., XII., p. 682). Alexander Brown says he was grandson of John Bates, of York county, and Susannah Fleming, his wife. (Cabells and Their Kin, p. 499). He married Caroline Matilda Woodson, and had issue: 1, Frederick Bates, who went to Missouri and was Secretary of the Treasury, and afterwards governor of the State; 2, James Bates, who went to Arkansas, and was delegate in Congress; 3, Edward, who went to Missouri, was congressman, judge, Attorney-General in Lincoln's ad- ministration, father of Onward Bates, Esq., of Chicago; 4, Fleming Bates, who has Sepnce, born October 14, 1804, Margaret, Deborah, Daniel, Unity, Hannah, Edward, Flementine; 5, Richard Bates, father of Charles W. Bates, of St. Louis; 6, Julian, M.D.; 7, John Coalter; 8, C. W. Bates; 9, Matilda, now deceased; 10, Mrs. E. B. Eno, of St. Louis. THE FRESH OF 1771. In a collection of laws in the State library, printed by W. Rind and A. Purdie and J. Dixon, 1769, on the flyleaf is written: "The greatest fresh that ever was known in the memory of those now Liveing was on Monday Twenty Seventh May 1771 being in James River. The water rose into many of the Dwelling houses to the tope floor so that many Houses were carried away by the Rapidness of the stream. Thos. Wortham's hand." NIMMO. On th flyleaf of another collection of the laws, printed at London in 1728, and which cost the library $50, is written: "James Nimmo and William Nimmo his son"; "William Nimmo, attorney at law, his Book given him b his Cousin William Nimmo, attorney at law"; "William Nimmo, is Book, July 24, 1753." DAWSON-BASSETT. The Virginia Gazette for April 16, 1779, announces the death at "Eltham" in New Kent county, of Mrs. Elizabeth Dawson, relict of Hon. William Dawson, in her seven- Page 124. tieth year. This confirms the tradition that William Dawson married Elizabeth Churchill, widow of William Bassett, who owned "Eltham." Rev. Thomas Dawson, younger brother of William Dawson, married Priscilla, daughter of the above Elizabeth Churchill-Bassett-Dawson, which is shown by many little notes taken together. Priscilla Dawson and Burwell Bassett were administrators of Thomas Dawson, clerk, deceased. (York county records, 1761). She (Priscilla) got an order, the same day (October 18, 1883) as Elizabeth Dawson, for an account against William Rind's estate. (Ibid.) In the list of contributors to Mr. Bacon's school in Maryland, "the Hon. and Rev. William Dawson, D.D., President of the college", gave 5L sterling, and "the Rev. Mr. Thomas Dawson, rector of Williamsburg," gave 3L 12s sterling. The said rector was also credited with a pistole a piece in behalf of "a lady desiring to be unknown" and "Miss Priscilla Bassett." (Virginia Gazette, October 24, 1751). How he came to represent Miss Bassett is indicated by John Blair's diary, which was, under date September 12, 1751, "Mr. Dawson married." Among the Bassett papers at "Eltham" was a paper which assuredly contained the signature of Thomas Dawson (now mutilated). I made the following copy from the original, kindly loaned me by Mrs. Ella Bassett Washington. SIR: April 15, 1752. Gentlemen, I have writ to Lady Gooch by this opportunity and desired the Facour of her to buy a few Articles for Mrs. Dawson, the amount of which I imagine may be about L30. But whatever it is, I desire the Favr of you to honour her Order. The Osgood is arrived, & we are preparing her her or your other ships all the Tobaccoe we possibly can. &c., [Name torn out.] Mrssrs. J. Hanbury & Co. INVOICE FOR MRS. PR DAWSON,(1) A fashionable Laced Cap, Handkerchief, Ruffles & Tuckers L 7. 0.0 A fashionable Brocade Suit, 16. 0.0 A Pair of Stays, 2. 0.0. A blue Sattin Petticoat, 1L, Scarlet cloth under Petticoat, 2L, [3, 0.0.] A Pair of Blue Sattin Shoes . . full trimmed, 1.16.0 A Hoop L1 - a pr Blue Silk Stockings l0.12, 1.12.0 A fashionable Silver Girdle L1-A Fan L1, 2. 0.0 ______ L33. 8.0 April 15, 1752. From Virginia Gazette we have "Priscilla, relict of the late ____________________________________________________________________ (1) [Priscilla Dawson?] Page 125. Commissary, died March, 1775." "William, eldest son of Commissary Dawson, died Nov. 17, 1789." BASSETT-STITH.--Anderson Stith(4) (John(3), John(2), John(1) was a lawyer in Charles City county in 1755. His executrix, Joanna Stith, advertised for sale his late dwelling-place on the Pamunky. (Virginia Gazette, March 3, 1768). His father, John(3), married Elizabeth Anderson, daughter of Rev. Chas. Anderson. (Charles City county records). Joanna Stith was Joanna Bassett. (Keith, page 30.) KINGSMILL.--Mr. Keith, in his excellent work, Ancestry of Benjamin Harrison, says (page 22): "I know not what proof there is that his [Col. Nathaniel Bacon's] wife was a Kingsmill, as Bishop Meade says." Now, there is a patent for 600 acres in James City county to "John Jackson and Elizabeth Kingsmill, now the wife of William Tayloe," dated September 26, 1638. (Land Register, Vol. I, p. 600). Moreover, her tombstone, now at Norfolk, bears Tayloe impaling Kingsmill. In 1624 Richard Kingsmill, with his wife, Jane, his son, Nathaniel, five years old, and daughter Susan, one year old, was living at "Neck of Land," near James City. (Hotten's Immigrants). Elizabeth Kingsmill was, according to her tombstone, born in 1625, and was surely the daughter of Richard Kingsmill, and doubtless the only surviving child. The neck of land in another part of James City county, known as early as 1637, and still known, as "Kingsmill," was long in the Burwell family to whom it came from Nathaniel Bacon. BROOKE-PRENTIS-WATERS.--The will of John Brooke, proved in York county March 3, 1726, names his wife, Ann Brooke; sister Custis, widow of Col. Wm. Custis, and her daughter Bridget; his daughter Mary Prentis, and his grandson, John Prentis. Will of William Prentis, proved August 19, 1765, names sons, John, Daniel, Joseph, William; daughter Elizabeth, daughter Sarah Waters; mentions Mr. William Waters, and that for a number of years he was a "co-partner in trade with Hon. John Blair." Will of William Waters names wife Sarah and daughter Sarah. Proved July 15, 1769. Will of Mary Prentis, "of the city of Williamsburg," names sons John, William, Daniel, and Joseph; daughters, Sara Waters and Elizabeth Prentis; leaves legacy to Anne Waters and Robert Prentis. The inventory of William Waters shows that he had a large estate in York, Northampton, and Halifax counties. Joseph Prentis was a ward of Robert Carter Nicholas in 1771. He was made a judge of admiralty in 1776; was subsequently a promi- Page 126. nent member of the Legislature, and judge of the General Court. Will of (Col.) John Prentis, of the city of Williamsburg, mentions brother Joseph Prentis, sister Waters, brother Daniel and cousin Robert Prentis. Proved November 20, 1775. HYDE.--Robert Hyde was a lawyer in York county. He married Jane, daughter of Capt. John Underhill, of Fellgate's Creek. In 1696 they sued Lewis Delony and his wife for slander. Mrs. Hyde got a verdict for 500 pounds of tobacco, damages. In 1696 Robert Hyde deserted his wife, who was thereby left without support; but soon after, he appeared in court, and promised to take care of his wife and to allow her the society of her children. In 1718 the court adjudged "the will of Robert Hyde, deced, father of Samuel Hyde, null and void, because the testator was non compos mentis at the time of making his will." He had issue, probably a daugher, who married John Saunders, son of John Saunders (whose will was proved in York county in 1700), and a son, Samuel, who was married three times. By his first wife he had Anne (died sine prole, 1743) and Rebecca, who married Robert Sheild. His second wife was the widow of James Cosby, who died in 1731. By his third wife, Sarah, he had John, Mary, and Judith. John Hyde married (before 1761) Lucy, daughter of Charles Hansford. His will was proved August 15, 1774; and John Ferguson, Charles Hansford, and Samuel Sheild were made trustees of his estate in behalf of his six youngest children: Elizabeth, Mary, Lucy, Charles, Robert, and Rebecca. Captain Robert Hyde died in Richmond, December 11, 1835, in his seventy-third year. He served in the Revolutionary army as an artificer, and came to Richmond in 1788. (Richmond Enquirer.) Dr. John Hansford Hyde, of Lexington, was educated at Washington College, and died April 1, 1851. Mary, daughter of Colonel Charles Hansford Hyde, and Thomas J. Wertenbaker, all of Richmond, were married in 1842. STITH.--President William Stith, the historian, was the son of Capt. John Stith, of Charles City county, and Mary Randolph, his wife. (Foster's Matriculation Entries at Oxford). His father died before 1724, when, Rev. Hugh Jones states, his mother was matron at the college. He was educated at William and Mary College (Meade), and at Queen's College, Oxford, where he took B.A. and M.A. (See QUARTERLY, I., p. 136). He married Judith Randolph, of Tuckahoe, in 1739. (See Ibid., V., p. 244). He had issue-- three daughters: 1, Judith, died in 1773 (Virginia Gazette); 2, Elizabeth, who married Dr. William Pasteur, of Williamsburg, Page 127. before 1762 (Vol. III., p. 275), and died in 1792 without surviving issue. In Pasteur's will legacies are left to his sister, Ann Craig, wife of Thomas Craig, and to niece Ann Smith [wife of Granville Smith?]. (See 3 Leigh's Reports, p. 348.) 3, Mary, who died unmarried in 1816. Her will frees her slaves and leaves a watch to Mrs Tucker, widow of Judge St. George Tucker, etc. JAMES.--(See QUARTERLY, VO. V., P. 276). Major Thruston James died in James City County, in February, 1780, in his sixty-fifth year. (Virginia Gazette.) He was evidently a son of John James and Justina Thruston. The will of John James, a son of Major Thruston James, dated February 3, 1818 names Thurston, John, Georbe W., Elizabeth, and Susan. (See will, clerk's office in Williamsburg). MINOR.-- Quite a number of useful and enterprising Dutchmen came to Virginia about 1650, and founded families. Among them was a merchant who signs his name indifferently Doodes Minor, Minor Doodes, and Minderd Doodes. As Minor Doodes, of Nansemond, he received a deed in 1655 from James Gates. Later, as hailing from Lancaster county in 1665, he and his wife, Mary, unite in a deed to Peter Montague. His will, dated and proved in 1677, mentions his wife Mary, ans son Doodes Minor's children. His wife Mary's will, dated 1678, and proved about 1686, names daughter, Marie Mantague, and her daughter Marie, sons Doodes Mindert and Peter Montague, who are to have an equal division of the residue of his estate. The will of Doodes Minor (Mindert) was dated November 13, 1694, and names wife Elizabeth, and four sons--Minor Minor, William Minor, Garrett Minor, and Peter Minor. Minor Minor was to have his seal gold ring, and his granddaughter, Elizabeth Mickleburrough, a silver mug. The Middlesex register shows that of these, Garrett Minor was born April 13, 1669, and died February 2, 1720. The inventory of Minor Minor was recorded in 1716-'17. (Middlesex county records). The Louisa county books show that Garrett Minor and Mary Terrell were married in 1769. It is believed that the highly distinguished John B. Minor was descended from this family. MUNFORD.--Anne, widow of Augustine Munford, grocer, of London, and John Munford, grocer of the same place, appointed in 1669 William Munford, of York River, in Virginia, to demand certain debts from Capt. John Grove, of James River, and Elizabeth, his wife, late the wife of Col. Thomas Pettus, of the same place. (Deed in York records). The latter (William Munford) describing Page 128. himself as "citizen and mercer of London," entered into an agreement in 1671 with Robert Baxter, Robert Booth, Samuel Powell, and John Munford, "citizens and grocers of London," to manage very considerable adventures in Virginia. It is believed that this William Munford was father of Robert Munford, who, in 1706, patented lands in Prince George. Robert married Anne, daughter of Richard Bland of Berkeley. (See Munford Pedigree, Slaughter's Bristol Parish, p. 194). COATS-OF-ARMS.--A handsome silver castor, owned by Rev. William Munford, of Maryland, bears a coat, representing Miller impaling Bolling, the former being "three wolves' heads erased gu." In 1728 Hugh Miller, of Prince George county, Va. married Jane Bolling. Mrs. S. P. Mitchell, of Petersburg, has a book-plate representing the arms of Holladay. At Shirley is a hatchment representing Hill, impaling a saltire between four garbs. The only English family who bore these arms is that of Reade. The family of Col. George Reade is well known, but the arms are different. There is, however, the family of Clement Read, who came originally from King and Queen, whose records are destroyed. BACON.--The suggestion made in QUARTERLY, V., p. 279, that Bacon died at "New Bottle", is disproved by Sir Thomas Grantham (Historical Account of some Memorable Actions, etc.), who locates Mr. Pate's house where the rebels were assembled at Portopotank Creek. At the mouth of the creek is a place called Violet Banks, anciently Portopotank, or Poropotank, where Edward Portens, father of Robert, lived. (See QUARTERLY, III., pp. 28, 38). There is in the neighborhood a place where it is said Pate lived. POWELL.--Capt. Nathaniel Powell was among the first colonists at Jamestown in 1607. In 1619 he was Deputy Governor of Virginia, and member of the council from 1619-1622, and was in the latter year killed, with all his family, at "Powell Brooke," by the Indians. He married a daughter of Master William Tracy. There is a grant in 1638 to Wm. Barker, mariner, and his associates for 1850 acres in Charles City county, of which 600 acres were heretofore called Polwe-brooke and now known as Merchant's Hope;, situated upon the south side of James River, due by sale from John Taylor, "citizen and girdler of London, and purchased by him from Thomas Powell, of Howellton, in the County of Suffolk, yeoman, brother and lawful heir of Capt. Nathaniel Powell, late of Virginia, deceased." In Prince George county, formerly a part of Charles City county, there is still standing a very old church near Page 129. Brandon known as Merchant's Hope Church, which preserves the old land- marks. Capt. William Powell came to Virginia with Gates in 1611, was a member of the first House of Burgesses, July 30, 1619. Pace first told him of the plot revealed by Chanco to massacre the settlers; he was aftewards employed in taking revenge on the Weyanoke and Chichahominy Indians. In 1626 it was reported that there were granted to and settled by him one plantation of 200 acres and another of 550 acres in the "territory of Tapahanna"-- a term applied to all the country below Merchant's Hope, in "Greater Weyanoke," down to Lower Chippoakes Creek. (Hotten, p. 270). The Surry records show that on February 18, 1642, George Powell, of the lower Chippoakes, leased to Stephen Webb, of same place, 300 acres -- 150 acres on James River, east upon lower Chippoakes Creek, called by the natives, Pettitake Creek, and west upon Mr. George Powell's land, and 150 acres upon James River, west upon Sunken Marsh and east upon Mr. George Powell's aforesaid, and south into the woods a mile, to hold for the lives of said Stephen Webb, Dame Clare, his wife, and Robert Webb, his eldest son, and the surivor or survivors of them, the said Webb, to build upon the said land a frame house 45 x 20 feet, with two chimneys and glass windows, and a cellar 15 feet square, the house to be ground-silled and underpinned with brick, and to plant one acre of said land with "all kinds of fruit trees that this country usually affordeth, that is to say, with apple trees, peach trees, cherry trees, apricockes, ffigs and pear trees, with a garden thereto adjoining." On July 1, 1656, Wm. Powell*, of Southwarke, in the county of Surry, in England, baker, administrator of Capt. Wm. Powell, "late of Chippoakes in the Collony of Virginia, his natural+ brother deceased, and heire unto George Powell, the natural sonne of the sd Capt. Wm Powell, late whilst he lived on Chippoakes afforesd, since also deceased, and William Parker of Leadenhall Street, in London, cheesemonger, and Ann his wife, grand- child of the said William Powell, acting by Ralph Dunston and Sam Henbye their attorneys, "sold to William Batt 800 acres of land, more or less, 600 acres lying in Lower Chippoakes on James River between Chippoakes Creek and Sunken Meadow (now College run), etc., and the other 200 acres on the eastward side of a little ________________________________________________________________________ *At this period it was not unusual to give the same name to two brothers, especially if their ages were far apart. +The term "natural brother" was used in contradistinction to brother- in-law. It often occurs in combination with the word "lawful," viz., "natural and lawful brother or son." Page 130. creek called Crouches Creek, over against James City, etc.* It would seem that Surry county received its name from Capt. William Powell's family. In 1647 Southwark parish was formed of the district from College Creek to Upper Chippoaks (the creek at Claremont, sometimes called Cabin Point Creek); so it contained the plantation of Capt. William Powell on Crouch's Creek. John Powell, tailor, came to Virginia in 1608 (Arber's Smith). Another John Powell came to Virginia in the Swallow in 1609, and in 1624 his muster at Elizabeth City contained Katherine Powell, aged twenty-two, who came in the Flying Hart in 1622, and John Powell, born in Virginia. In 1624 John Powell, of Newport's News, yeoman, "an antient planter," received a patent for 150 acres. In September, 1632, he was a burgess for the district from "Waters' Creek to Marie's Mount." John Powell, probably his son, was a burgess from Elizabeth City county in 1657-1658, 1659-1660, 1663, 1666-1676. In 1646 Rev. Thomas Hampton was the guardian of the orphans of John Powell, of York county, deceased (William Powell being one). Now in 1651 Benjamin Powell sold a plantation in York county, patented in 1635 by his father, John Powell, deceased. In 1653 Benjamin Powell mentions his brother William. There has been long a family of Powells in York county, in which the name Benjamin was a favorite name. In 1624 there was a Thomas Powell living at Hog Island, and a Thomas Powell living on the Eastern Shore of Virginia. ALLEN.--(See QUARTERLY, -- p. 69). Arthur Allen, the emigrant, was, in 1667, stated by himself to be sixty-five years. He died in 1670. He calls Daniel Tucker (aged fifty-five in 1667) "brother". As Tucker was the younger of the two, Allen's wife Alice was probably Alice Tucker. This view is confirmed by a grant dated March 13, 1849, to Arthur Allen, of 200 acres, between Lawnes Creek and Chippoakes Creek, for importing into the colony four persons, viz.: Alice Tucker, Wm. Eyres, Wm. Moss, and Thomas Rastell. (Land Register). Daniel Tucker, of York county died before 1664, leaving a daughter Dorothy, who married, first, Capt. Brian Smith; secondly, Hugh Owen. His widow, Margaret, married Major Joseph Croshaw, of York county, whose daughter, Unity, married John West, of West Point, Va. LIGHTFOOT.--(See Vol. II, p. 205). The will of John Lightfoot, referred to in the note, names his father, Goodrich, who died in ______________________________________________________________________ *These extracts from records in Surry were kindly furnished by A. S. Edwards, Clerk. Page 131 1738; brothers, Goodrich Lightfoot, Jr., and William; and sisters, Elizabeth and Mary; and bequeaths to Martha Chew a horse colt. Wit- nesses: Thos. Chew, John Howard, and Isaac Smith. Proved June 17, 1735. On April 27, 1738, Col. Goodrich Lightfoot, the father, executor of John Lightfoot, deceased, and Mary, his wife, sold land formerly belonging to John Lightfoot. Col. Goodrich Lightfoot died in 1738. The will of his son Goodrich, Jr., was proved in Culpeper county June 15, 1778; dated April 24, 1778. It names daughters Elizabeth James, Ann Grasty(?), Mary Hubbard, Fanny Hackly, Susanna Brooks, Priscilla, and Martha; sons John, Philip, and Goodrich -- the last two under age; wife, Susanna. Witnesses: Daniel Grinna, John Grinnan, and Jane Grinnan. YEAMANS.--(Quarterly, Vol IV., p 27). Sir John Yeamans (son of Robert Yeamans, alderman of Bristol, executed by the Parliamentary authorities for attempting, in 1643, to betray Bristol to Charles I) settled in the Barbadoes, whence he led a colony into South Carolina, of which he became governor. His nephew, Joseph Woory, resided in Isle of Wight county, Va.; and both Sir John and his brother, Sir Robert, of Bristol. were interested in the Virginia trade.* The title of baronet descended from Sir John to his great-great-great-grandson, Rev. Sir Robert Yeamans, of Barbadoes, who died without issue in 1788 "when the baronetcy became extinct." (Burke's Extinct and Dormant Baronetage). It is, however, by no means certain that Sir John is without male descendants. In York county, Va., records, "John Yeamans, born in Barbadoes, and now an inhabitant in Hanover county, Virginia," gives, on September 8, 1729, a receipt to Mr. Henry Palmer, merchant in London, for L300 sterling, left him by "Mr. John Yeamans, late of the Island of Barbadoes," and which sum was to be paid at his majority. DIGGS, OR DEGGE.--(See page 64). Mr. W. F. Gill, of Paris, Tex., writes that recent investigation in the records of Richmond county show that Rev. William McKay wa rector of Farnham parish, in that county; that William Degge came to Richmond county from Gloucester county ante 1722; that his will is on record in Richmond county; that John Lawson's will is recorded there; that Robert Degge, son of William, married Elizbeth (or __________________________________________________________________________ *Under date "Bristoll, the 16 Oct. 1665", Sir Robert Yeamans writes to "Mr. John Scott," commander of a trading vessel bound for Virginia, to inquire for his sloop in Elizabeth River, "last in the hands of Mr. Richard Jones, resident there." (Norfolk county, Va., records). Page 132. Betty) Lawson, daughter of John, in Richmond county; that John Degge, brother of Robert, moved to Amherst county in 1777; that Mary Degge, a sister, married Isaac Degge, of Westmoreland county; that Ann Degge married Jesse Garland in 1773; that Robert Degge moved to Edgecomb county, N.C., as shown by a deed executed there by him to lands in Richmond county, Va. This latter agrees with the Fort family record, which shows that Sugg Fort married Elizabeth Degges in Edgecomb county, N.C.; moved thence to Tennessee, and a branch to Texas. In the Fort record the name is spelt sometimes "Degges," but more usually "Digges". It seems, from the records at Warsaw, Richmond county, that "Degge" is the correct way. To this may be added that John Digges made his will in Amherst county in 1803, and in it names his children Elizabeth Darneille, Dorothy Durrett, Kitty Harris, Wm. H. Digges, Nancy Digges, Lucy Digges, Charlotte Digges, and John Digges. Mr. W. W. Degge, of Norfolk, Va., has an old family Bible and an old Degge emblazoning of a coat-of-arms. SWANN.--Col. Thomas Swann, of the Virginia Council, was son of William Swann (Land Register). In the pedigree of the Swanns, in Berry's "Kentish Pedigrees," William Swann was fourth son of Sir Francis Swann, of Denton Court, in Kent, who married, February 21, 1598-'99, Dorothy, daughter of Sir Edward Boys. The arms on Col. Swann's tomb at Swann's Point, Surry county, are the same as in Berry. UPTON.--Capt. John Upton came to Virginia in 1622, aged 26 (Hotten). He served in an expedition against the Potomac Indians (Arber's Smith, ii., 596). In 1624 he lived at Flower de Hundred, but for many years he was the representative and burgess for Warrosquoiack or Isle of Wight county; made mint master General in 1645, and his will was proved in Isle of Wight county January 16, 1651-'52. He names son John, Upton, and William, Elizabeth, Sarah and Margaret Underwood, children of his wife Margaret Upton. His son John died s. p., as there is mention in 1672 that certain lands of Capt. John Upton, deceased, had escheated for want of an heir. The Underwoods moved to Lancaster county. The Virginia Mag. of Hist. and Biog., Vol. III, errs in representing the Underwoods as Uptons. I have seen Capt. Upton's will.