A revision of previous notices.

The first traces of this family of White in Virginia were connected to a kinship circle, comprising of a nucleus of families of Bennett, Brantley, England, Fulgham, Harris, and Jordan, which, within this framework, continued to intermarry, forming a densely interwoven structure of families, which provided for security and economiC advancement. The White family of South Petherton and the Harris family of nearby Wiveliscombe were integral components of this structure. The harsh and often cruel conditions they faced in England forged within them with the necessary hardness with which they overcame the challenges of their New World.

To start with the conclusion:
1. Thomas White, bought lands in Martock, 2 miles W. of South Petherton.
1.1. Richard White, witnessed the Will of John Dyer* in Hillfarrance (6 miles from Wiveliscombe), on April 2, 1559. Wall v Weste. Plaintiffs: Johanne Wall, widow, daughter of Moryce Dyer, and of Johanne, his wife. Defendants: John Weste and John Dyer the elder and the younger. Subject: A messuage, cottage, and land in Lyncombe and Holloway (by Bath), late of Alice Goodman, mother of the said Johanne Dyer and grandmother of the said Weste and *John Dyer the younger. 1518-1529. (C 1/591/53). Dyer v Pulman. Plaintiffs: Margery Dyer. Defendants: John Pulman and John Cooke. Subject: claim to a share of tithes by agreement; the moiety of the parsonage of Martock, Somerset, and the tithes thereof, which defendant Pulman held for a long term and agreed with plaintiff’s late father, John Dyer, to sell part thereof to him; viz the tithes arising within the tithing of Longloade in the parish of Martock. 1558 – 1603. (C 2/Eliz/D5/3).
1.1.1. Robert White, “the younger”.
1.1.1.1. John White, “son of Robert”, bapt. March 7, 1601, m. Grace Smith, on Oct. 20, 1623. His patent of July 4, 1649 was assigned to Francis England.
1.1.1.1.1. Lucy White, m. William Corker, as his 2nd wife.
1.1.1.1.1.1. Judith Corker, m. William Clay (d. 1675), brother of John Clay, father of Elizabeth Clay, who m. John Brantley Sr.* (son of Edward Brantley Sr., estate security for Thomas Harris, d. 1672), and great-grandfather of Ann Barrow, who m. Thomas White, born Feb. 25, 1730/1, as follows.
1.1.1.1.1.2. Lucy Corker, m. Thomas Jordan Sr.
1.1.1.1.1.2.1. Thomas Jordan Jr., m. Margaret Brasseur.
1.1.1.1.1.2.1.1. Robert Jordan, born Sept. 11, 1668, m. Christian, dau. of Thomas Taberer (and sister of Ruth Taberer, who m.John Newman, br. of the second wife of Thomas Harris, d. 1672).
1.1.1.1.1.2.1.2. Mathew Jordan, born “ye i day of the eleventh month in ye yeare 1676”, witnessed the Will of John Harris, d. 1713, son of Thomas Harris, d. 1672..
1.1.1.1.1.2.1.3. Joshua Jordan, born “ye last day of the 6th month in ye yeare 1681”.
1.1.1.1.1.2.1.3.1. Rachel Jordan, m. Thomas White, as follows.

1.1.1.2. Robert White, bapt. March 25, 1604.
1.1.1.2.1. Robert White, b. ca. 1637/8 (cousin of Lucy White, who m. William Corker, supra), m. Susannah Weare, Feb. 6, 1663/4, in South Petherton.
1.1.2.2.1.1. John White, bapt. May 10, 1674, d. 1729. He was granted 285 ac. in IOW Co. on the N. side of Flatt Swamp, on June 16, 1727. His Will was proved on March 23, 1729. His estate inventory was given by Thomas Cook, Henry Harris,* and William Lee, on March 22, 1730/1. *Brother of Thomas Harris, d. 1729/30, almost certainly a grandson of Thomas Harris, d. 1688.
1.1.2.2.1.1.1. Jonathon White, b. ca. 1705, named in father’s Will, moved to Carolina, and bought 308 ac. on Roanoke River in Bertie Co., N.C., from John Mackinne, on Feb. 8, 1730/31. (Bertie Co. C, 339).
1.1.2.2.1.1.1.1. Mary White, m. Frederick Homes, whose Will, dated Jan. 29, 1749/50, named wife Mary, son John Homes, and dau. Priscilla.
1.1.2.2.1.1.1.1.1. Priscilla Homes, m. Richard Harris. Richard Harris of Granville Co, NC to John Harris son of the abovesaid Richard Harris, Nov. 23, 1766, “in consideration of the natural love & affection which he beareth unto his said son John Harris”,all that seat tract or parcel of land lying in the county aforesaid, beg. at a Hickory in Jonathan White’s line. Wit: Daniel Standard, John Kittrell. Granville Co., Feb. Court, 1767. The 1785 Will of Richard Harris names his children with Priscilla, inc. George Harris, John Harris,* Tyree Harris, Charles Harris, et al. Richard Harris was amost certainly the son of Robert Harris Jr., grandson of Thomas Harris, d. 1688. (See subsequent post).
1.1.2.2.1.1.1.1.1.1. John Harris, b. ca. 1735, m. Rachel Milly Kittrell, b. ca. 1750.

1.1.1.3. Thomas White, bapt. Sept. 18, 1608, m. Anna Symes, Nov. 16, 1642.
1.1.1.3.1. Thomas White, b. ca. 1645, d. 1694, m. Phyllis Prime.
1.1.1.3.1.1. Thomas Harris, b. ca. 1675, being not aged 18 in 1694.
1.1.1.3.2. John White, b. ca. 1644.
1.1.1.3.2.1. John White, b. ca. 1665, d. 1719.
1.1.1.3.2.1.1. John White, b. ca. 1690, d. 1730, m. Sarah Clare, in Perquimans, b . 24d of 10m. (Dec.) 1693. Sarah Clare was the sister of Jane, who m. William Newby as her 4th husband, on Sept. 3, 1701, in Perquimans, who, by a 1st wife, was father to William Newbye* and Dorothy Newbye. She m. (1) Levin Buskin, AprIL 17, 1688, (2) Mathew Jordan, who, as given, witnessed the Will of John Harris, d. 1713, son of Thomas Harris, d. 1672, and was the uncle of Rachel Jordan, who m. Thomas White. The first wife of the said John Harris is not known: there may have been a familial connection to the Jordans.
.1.1.3.2.1.1.1. Thomas White, b. ca. 1696, d. Nov. 30, 1761. (Clayton Colman Hall, Baltimore: Biography, p. 41, 1912). Thomas White m. Rachel Jordan, great-granddau. of Thomas Jordan and Lucy Corker, on Sept. 13, 1719, in Chuckatuck, niece of Robert Jordan, who m. Christian, dau. of Thomas Taberer, whose dau., Ruth, m. John Newman, br-in-law of Thomas Harris, d. 1672, etc.
1.1.1.3.2.1.1.1.1. Joseph White, born March 6, 1728, m. Gulielma, dau. of *William Newbye.
1.1.1.3.2.1.1.1.1. Thomas White, born Feb. 25, 1730/1, m. Anne Barrow*. (Adventurers of Purse and Person, vol. 2, p. 414, 2005).

1. Thomas Barrow, m. (in 1695) Elizabeth, dau. of *John Brantley (son of Edward Sr.; estate security for Thomas Harris, d. 1672.
1.1. Thomas Barrow, b. 1698.
1.2. John Barrow, born Jan. 9, 1699/1700, m. Mary Holliday, d. July 29, 1776, in Brunswick Co.
1.2.1. *Ann Barrow, m. Thomas White, born Feb. 25, 1730/1.

1.1.4. Richard White, born ca. 1609.
1.1.4.1. Thomas White, bapt. June, 24, 1632.
1.1.4.1.1. Thomas White, born ca. 1655, m. Ann, dau. of George Moore. (B. 2, p. 586). She witnessed the Will of Edward Brantley Sr. in 1688/9 (B. 2, p. 289). Her Will of 1742 was witnessed by Edward Brantley (grandson of Edward Brantley Sr.) who witnessed the Will of his neighbour, Thomas Harris,* d. 1729/30, and whose son, John Brantley m. the relict of the said Thomas Harris.
1.1.4.1.1.1. Ann Moore, born ca. 1660 (there is no reason to suppose she was born 20 years after her sisters), m. Thomas White. (The following text provided more detail of the chronologies involving the Barcroft/Moore families). Neither Ann (Moore) White’s Will or that of her father name a Avis.
1.1.4.1.1.1.1. Thomas White, born ca, 1677.
1.1.4.1.1.1.1.1. Thomas White, born ca, 1700, whose Will was proved on Jan. 26, 1773, naming; daus. Martha Little, Ann Holleman; Avis Harris, William White, James White, Olive Clifton, Sarah Presson; son Benjamin White.
1.1.4.1.1.1.1.1.1. Avis White, born ca. 1722, m. John Harris, born ca. 1710, son of Robert Harris, born 1674, son of Thomas Harris, d. 1688.

1.1.5. Henry White, d. 1670 (W.B. 3, p. 98). July 4, 1649: White, Henry. grantee, James City Co.. 200 ac. lying at Blackwater, upon the eastermost branch pointing up to Upper Chipoakes; adjoining the land of *Francis England. (B. 2, p. 176). Francis England was the first husband of Joyce, niece of George Moore, father of Ann Moore, who m. Thomas White, as above given.; their dau., Avis White, m. John Harris, grandson of Thomas Harris, d. 1688.
Henry White was granted 1,000 ac. in Charles City Co. in 1663 (B. 5, p. 333); transportees included John and Thomas White; which Thomas? In 1669, Edward Brantley Sr. patented 675 ac. in IOW Co., “neer Henry White’s old cart path to the mill”. (B.6, p. 261). Edward Brantley Sr. is first recorded in Virginia in 1667, when he bought 675 ac. in IOW Co., from Francis Hobbs, father-in-law of John Harris, son of Thomas Harris, d. 1672, witnessed by Thomas Moore.
1.5.1. Henry White, b. 1635, d. 1712. He was living along the W. side of Little River in Perquimans Co. in 1679. He m. (1) Mary … At the Pasquatank monthly meeting, on July 10 1681, he declared his intention to m. a 2nd wife, Damaris (dau. of Isaac Page), who deceased Sept. 13, 1722, aged 63.
1.5.1.1. Elizabeth White (by Mary), m. (1) (April 26, 1690) James Davis, who deceased Dec. 14, 1716. (2) (May 18, 1719), James Newby.
1.5.1.2. John White* (by Mary), b. July 20, 1676 in IOW; d. bef. March 25, 1717, in Pasquotank, NC., m. Elizabeth Newby, on Jan. 14, 1696, at the house of James Davis. John Jordan (son of Thomas Jordan Sr., and brother of Thomas Jordan Jr., grandfather of Rachel Jordan, who m. Thomas White, as above given), and Margaret Burgh were m. on the twelft day of ye eleventh month in ye year 1688. Among those present: William Newbye and his daus: Elizabeth and Dorothy Newbye. Robert Jordan, son of Thomas Jordan Sr. and Christian, dau. of Thomas Taberer, were married on ye 9th dayof ye twelft month in ye year 1687, William Newbye, and Dorothy Newbye present. Levin Bufkin and Dorothy Newbye dau. of William Newby were married on the tenth day of ye second month in ye year 1688, Elizabeth Newby present.
1.5.1.3. Robert White, of Little River, Pasquotank Precinct, Albemarle Co. NC., planter (eldest son of Henry, 2nd, and Mary), born at Little River, 2d 11th mo. (January) 1674.In 1713, he and his brothers, John and Arnold, obtained a grant of 360 ac. in Pasquotank Precinct. In 1719, he obtained 70 ac. in the same locality. He m. (1) 6th mo. (August), 1702, Tabitha Alford, (2) 5th mo. (July), 1717, Rebecca, widow of Jacob Overman, and dau. of John Newby. Issue of Robert White and Tabitha Alford:
1.5.1.3.1. Jonathon White, m. (April 10, 1729), Ann, dau. of Samuel Pike, and d. 10d 11th mo. (January) 1746.
1.5.1.3.1.1. *Joseph White, m., 4th mo. (June), 1736, Sarah Newby.

KINSHIP

The following notes concern a group of English families that had intermarried over many successive generations, to a degree that the thread that ran through them was based on an intricate, and vast, network of various degrees of cousin. Put simply, this was the English kinship system, through which families arranged marriages to further mutual support and enhance their social and economic wellbeing. Most genealogical enquiry into the English origins of Virginia settlers is ignorant of the social structures of the past, and, as a result, little progress is made in genealogical enquiry. It remains a static enterprise, based on the (Hollywood) notion that people of long ago married after meetings of chance. Life was too precarious for such flimsy choice. Marriages were arranged with all the forethought of master chess players, playing for high stakes in a game of life. Marriages were strictly within the confines of social class.

Claims of ancestry are sometimes based on attaching an ancestor to a well-heeled family noted in various English genealogical tomes, which are then given as a reference, and countless websites are littered with spurious genealogical references. Yet, in that references are the corner-pin of a modern mode of academia, they are not questioned. It is the quality of references, not their number, which matters. Are articles without references without worth? Another mode of academia, the “naturalistic” method, would suggest not. If the data suggests that a conclusion is overwhelmingly likely to be the case, and this is agreed by a number of people (termed “triangulation”), then this becomes a valid hypothesis. Of course, the aim would be to further enhance it by discovering an original document, such as a Will. Unfortunately, original and genuine documents are in short supply, and what is recorded on many websites is “unknown”. Yet, there are “known unknowns” Consider what follows, concerning the families of White and Harris, through the prism of the English kinship system, and its central tenet of “continuation of associations”, and relationships become “known unknowns”.

What gives support to a suggestion that the ancestry of some English families in early Virginia, which settled in close proximity, came from Wiveliscombe in Somerset, and from villages of close proximity, is the sheer number involved. If only a few families of Wiveliscombe and surrounds had the same surname as neighbours in Virginia, then this might be considered coincidental. The fact that a dozen families shared the same surname, and close geographical association, in both England and Virginia, makes it certain that they were synonomous. Moreso, in that they continued to intermarry. The “Wiveliscombe/South Petherton cake” had the same ingredients as one in Virginia. It is apparent that a number of families of the Wiveliscombe area had the same surname as ones which settled on lands which were the patent of Governor Richard Bennett – Kittrell, Edwards, etc.

The vital importance of kinship support in England and colonial America is well documented. Neel stated: ‘Marriage is not simply the union of two persons; rather, it binds together two kin groups. It reunites human society, which time and the divergence of family lines relentlessly pull asunder’. (Carol Neel, Medieval Families, Perspectives on Marriage, Household, and Children, p. 200, 204). This point was elucidated by Pounds: ‘Even the state in medieval England required people to be linked in small groups or tithings, so that each could vouch for the others’ good behaviour. Almost everyone is, by the accident of birth, a member of a family, of a more extended kinship group’. (J. G. Pounds, The Culture of the English People, p. 255, 1994). Such social-dependency arrangements were repeated by American settler families. Majewski pointed ou their evolvement into ever larger entities: ‘Constant intermingling of the same families in the same neighborhoods produced increasingly large kinship groups’. (John Majewski, A House Dividing: Economic Development in Pennsylvania and Virginia, p. 17, 2000). Hendricks studied the importance of kinship groups in a specific area of settlement: ‘Family connections and kinship groups were very important to the settlement of land south of the James River’. (Christopher E. Hendricks, The Backcountry Towns of Colonial Virginia, p. 52, 2006).

SOUTH PETHERON

A background to the White family of South Petherton is now given, so as to make them stand out from the usual accounts of English/Virginia ancestries, which are often as dry as old bones, and which solely concentrate on who begat who. The political impetus which forced many Quaker families from Somerset is also accounted for. Their oft horrendous experiences cannot be exagerated, and the bravery they displayed in facing them must be a source of pride to descendants.

“A family named Brome lived in this neighbourhood until the commencement of the eighteenth century. Our old friend Whiting makes much mention of them in his “Persecution Expos’d,” as great aids and allies of Henry Walrond in hunting down the poor Somersetshire Quakers in his time (1676-96). These Bromes (one of whom, Laurance, married Walrond’s daughter Christabella) lived at Ile Abbots, where a house called “Brome’s Farm”. (Hugh Norris, South Petherton in the Olden Time: A Lecture, p. 130, 1879).
A précis:

Hence we read in the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle, under the date A. D. 658 (Dr. Giles’ edition), “This year Kenwalk, King of Wessex, fought against the Welsh (British) at Feonna (Pen), and he drove them as far as Pedrida (Petherton ?). Pen is supposed by some authorities to be Penselwood, near Bruton; by others, Pendomer, near Yeovil. Dr. Giles surmises that Pedrida means Petherton itself, and not simply the river Parret. p. 6.

It is generally admitted that the occurrence of a “Silver Street” in a town, and a site called “Cold Harbour” in a parish, are indicative of a Roman occupation of the locality. (Vide an article by Dr. Pring in the “Proceedings of the Somersetshire Archaeological Society,” vol. xxiv., pt. ii., pp. 89 -116). “Silver Street” is held to mean the road towards the woods-via Sylvia, “The woody path.” “Cold Harbour” has been surmised to be derived from the Latin words Colonia Arborea; literally, the “Colony amongst the trees,” or the dwellings in the woods. In further confirmation of South Petherton having been a Roman station, it may be added that it possesses both a “Silver Street” and “” a Cold Harbour.” p. 18.

Collinson (“History of Somerset “) says, “When the Romans relinquished this country, South Petherton became the possession and the seat of the Saxon kings. Ina had a palace here. King Athelstan is reported to have kept his feast at Pedridan, and the possession of this place was thought an object of importance by all his successors till after the Norman Conquest. Moreover, as appears by Domesday Book, South Petherton was one of the manors reserved especially by the King himself, who doubtless was too good a judge to allow the choicest lands in his dominions to be squabbled over by his subjects. The manor of Wigborough was allotted to John, the King’s Chamberlain, p. 27

The first Daubeney seized of this manor was the grandson of Ralph De Albini. This was in the reign of King Edward I., and it subsequently passed through several generations until we come to his great grandson, Sir Giles Daubeney, who was buried in the year 1444 or 1445, by the side of his two wives, in what is now the south transept. Lord Daubeney’s daughter Cecily was married to John. Bourchier, Lord Fitzwarine, afterwards Earl of Bath (a descendant of “John the King’s porter “), who then owned the manor of Wigborough. Her brother Henry, second Lord Daubeney, was created Earl of Bridgwater in 1539; and Collinson states, but erroneously, that it is his monument that exists in the south transept of our Church, at the present day. Camden in his notice of Bridgwater says,”the greatest honour it ever had, was its being made a county by King Henry VIII, upon his creating Henry Daubeney, Earl of Bridgwater.” p. 43. When his misfortunes came upon him, the Earl of Bridgwater conveyed the manors of South Petherton and Barrington to his relative, Sir Thomas Arundel, an ancestor of the present Lord Arundel of Wardour. Sir Thomas Arundel married Margaret, sister of Katherine Howard, Queen of Henry VIII., and being charged, together with the Protector Somerset, with conspiring against John Dudley, Duke of Northumberland, was beheaded with several other men of distinction* on July 26, in the year 1552 p. 43. *Sir Michael Stanhope, included.
I cannot learn much about this Petherton family of Mohun. I am informed by my kind genealogical friend, the Rev. F. Brown, of Beckenham, that they possessed tobacco plantations in Virginia, where they probably amassed a fortune. Coming to England to enjoy it, they seem to have settled here in the seventeenth century, p. 47

In the Heralds’ “Visitation of Devon,” 1620, published by the Harleian Society, we find it noted “This Prowse (of Tiverton) saith that he descended out of the house of Prowse of Chagford; and as this note is allowed to be recorded without comment, it is to be presumed the Heralds were satisfied of the validity of the claim. They appear to have spread over the western counties, like so many families two or three centuries ago, by marrying heiresses. Thus we see that one John Prowze marrying the daughter and heiress of White of Tiverton, becomes “Prowse of Tiverton; his son George marrying Thomazine daughter of James Goddard of Wellington, became ” Prowse of Wellington; his third son Robert wedding Bridget, daughter of John Harbin of Newton, is “Prowse of Yeovil;” whilst his son Samuel allying himself with Elizabeth the daughter of Nicholas Saunders of South Petherton, is described as Prowse of South Petherton. p. 53.

Of old Bridge House we do not know so much. It was probably built by Mr. Brome Jonson, a grandson of John Brome, or by his son Emorb; the style would perhaps favour the claim of the latter to be regarded as its founder. Brome Jonson was churchwarden here in 1579, and his Will was proved on October 8th, 1586; by which it appears that he owned the third part of the manor of Wigborough p. 57.

(In September, 1644, Essex’s* retreating forces harried the town of Petherton, desecrated the church, broke the beautiful and historical stained glass in its windows, mutilated the monuments, and destroyed the organ – all, be it remembered, under the pretext of religious zeal, p. 66.

(Robert Devereux, 3rd Earl Essex, Chief Commander of the Parliamentarian army (Roundheads). In 1685, Charles II’s illegitimate son, James Scott, Duke of Monmouth, sailed into Lyme Regis harbour, with the aim of taking the British crown from his uncle, the Catholic, James II. Within days, 6000 West Countrymen had joined his cause, but they were poorly armed (many with pitchforks), and badly disciplined. Notwithstanding, the rebels took over Somerset and Monmouth was declared ‘King’ in Taunton market place. James II responded, and on the night of July 5th, at the Battle of Sedgemoor, the rebels were routed, and James Scott was beheaded on Tower Hill on July 15th 1685. The infamous Judge Jefffreys was sent to Taunton to deliver justice to the rebels. (A contemporary account described him as always enraged or drunk, usually both – ms).

A precis continued:
Jeffreys now proceeded to Salisbury, where there were no political offenders, but at Dorchester he sentenced two hundred and ninety-two persons to death at one and the same time. At Exeter he sentenced twenty-one victims. Journeying thence to Taunton, he found five hundred and twenty-six persons in custody awaiting his arrival. The sight of such a number seemed to infuriate the judge, who declared “it should not be his fault if he did not depopulate the place.” One hundred and forty-four of these actually suffered death at the gallows-the total number of executions following this event being, according to Macaulay.

The word “suffered” conveys but a faint idea of the sentence as passed and carried out. The words uttered by the judge were: “You must every one of you be had back to the place from whence you came, from thence you must be drawn to the place of execution, and there you must severally be hanged by the neck till you are almost dead, and then you must be cut down, your entrails must be taken out and burnt before your faces, your several heads to be cut off, and your bodies to be divided into four parts, and those to be disposed of at the pleasure of the King-and may the Lord have mercy upon your souls”.

Whiting, the Quaker, then a prisoner in Ilchester Gaol, has left us a graphic account of the execution of eight fellow prisoners in the market-place of that town.—“Persecution Expos’d,” pa. 153.

Poles for suspending when thus prepared, and waggons to convey them, succinctly adding as a sort of postscript: “You are also to provide an axe and a cleaver for quartering the said rebels”. Amongst those condemned, three were hanged in this place, just inside the gateway leading into the courtyard behind the late Captain Anstice’s house in St. James’s Street, opposite Stuckey’s Bank. This was the home of the Anstices (see as follows – ms), and possibly the place was chosen for the purpose of striking terror into a family, one member of whom had taken so conspicuous a position among the rebels. Their names – Cornelius Hurford, John Parsons, and Thomas Davis – do not, of course, appear in the parish register of burials, for their bodies doubtless suffered mutilation in accordance with the barbarous sentence above recorded. Another mode of punishment which met the approbation of James II. and his favourite judge, was the giving of victims of property, or who possessed moneyed relatives, to the judge himself, or some other influential person, to “squeeze,” but not to kill, as the patriarch Job was given to the devil”. p. 104.

It was through such times that families lived, suffered, and emigrated. England had never been as portrayed by Hollywood – a happy band of yokels rallying to “Good King Richard” against “Bad King John”, or to “Good Queen Bess” against the Spanish invasion Armada, which the dispossessed Catholic half of England prayed would succeed. England had been ruled by a succession of monarchial tyrants, surrounded by courtiers, as a modern-day mafia, which enacted gruesome punishments to any who dared dissent.

A REVISED GENEALOGY OF THE FAMILY OF WHITE OF SOUTH PETHERTON, SOMERSET

Parishes of the Manor of Taunton Deane: Withiel, Tolland, Leigh-Flory, Ninehead-Flory, Combe-Flory, Heathfield, Lydeard. Saint-Lawrence, Bagborough, Cotheleston, Lydeard-Puncherton, Pixton, Holcombe, Oake, Bradford, Holford Coursley, NineheadMonkton, Knights-Leigh (now Anger’s-Leigh,) Hill-Farrance, Heale, Cheddon, Prior’s-Blagdon, Feichampton, Norton, Orchard, Obridge, Fons George (Wilton,) Extra Portam, and Langford.
White v Wode. Plaintiffs: John White, the elder, husbandman, son and heir of Richard White. Defendants: Thomas Wode, of Taunton. Subject: Detention of deeds relating to lands in East Luccombe. Somerset. 1493-1500. (C 1/234/40).

THE DESCENDANTS OF THOMAS WHITE

1. Thomas White, assessed in Merriot in 1524; bought land in Whitcombe, in the parish of Martock, in 1537-8. (Martock is ca. 2 miles W. of South Petherton). He deceased in 1549, when his wife, Agnes,* made her will as a widow. Final Concord made in the King’s Court at Westminster from the day of Holy Trinity in fifteen days, 29 Henry VIII., (1538). Between Thomas White and Agnes his wife, and John, Richard, and Thomas White, Junior, Plaintiffs, and William Whitdecombe and Elizabeth his wife, Deforciants, of one messuage, one garden, 70 acres of land, 20 acres of meadow, 40 acres of pasture and common of pasture for 30 bullocks, in a certain meadow called Shaldownemede, also common of pasture for 8 cows in a certain pasture called Cowles in Whitdecombe within the parish of Martock. The said Thomas and Agnes, John and Thomas (Jr.), acknowledge the said premises to be the right of the said William and for this acknowledgment the said William and Elizabeth grant the said premises unto the said Thomas and Agnes, John and Thomas (Jr.) to have and to hold unto them for the term of their lives and for the life of the longer liver of them, paying therefor yearly £7 stg.
Thomas White married a dau. of John Richards of Angersleigh – a parish in Pitminster – neighbour of the Fuljames/Fulgham family, and Thamasyn, who, by a ist marriage had issue: Joan, and, by Thomas White, had issue: Agnes, wife of (1) … Frye, (2) Thomas White.
July 22, 1538. John Richards. My body to the holy grave of St. Mighell of Angerslegh.To the mother church of Wells 4d. To the sepulcre of Angerslegh a kowe to maynteyn the light therewith, the increse to have the order thereof. To each of my, three brothers a shepe. To Emmot my suster a valowe heyffer. To Joane Ware my wife’s daughter a kowe and a calfe and a mowe of Rye being in theparish of St. Mary Ottery. To Agnes, my daughter, £6 13s. d. To the parish church of Neton 120s. To my goostly fader. To John Cocks my grene cote. To Robert Luscombe a cote. Residue: Thomasyn my wife, executrix. Witnesses: Sir Nicolas Choldas, my gostly father, William Brewer, John Cocks and Robert Horwode. Overseers: Thomas Knyght, William Richard, Robert Mate, and Andrewe Holwell. Proved Au. 30, 1538.

Thomasyn Richards. August 3rd, 1538. Thomasyn Richardes, widowe. To be buried in the churchyard of St. Mighel in Angerslegh. To the church of Wells 4d. To Isabell White my violett capp -and my best petycote. To Joane Symmys my violet kirtell. To Joane Legh my crymsyn kirtell. To Thomas Taillor a sarge doublet and a blak capp. To the parish church of Angerslegh my paire of bedes of corall gawded with amber and a ryng in the same. Residue: Joane and Agnes, my daughters, executors. Overseers: Sir Nicolas Chowldish, Sir Peter Holwell and Andrew Holwell. Witnesses: Sir Nicholas Chowldish, my goostly father, Robert Mate, John Cookes, and William Brewer. Proved August 30, 1538. (Somerset Medieval Wills).
*Agnes White. November 21, 1549. Agnes Whyte (alias. Frye). My body to the earth. To the church of Wells, 5d. To the parish church of Martoke, 6s, Sd, To the poor men’s box, 2d, To Thomas White, 4 oxen and steres, neither the best neither the worst, my best wayne with all the apparel for to yooke 4 oxen and a baye ambling mare with her colte. To Thomas Howchyn, 20 sheep whereof shalbe tenne wethers and tenne yewes. To Thomas Trootte, towker, my best crocke,etc.,and to each of his children, a lambe shepe. To the same Thomas, a cow and her calf whose name is Colver. To Henry Trotte, a bande of Hron for a payre of wheles with the doweltes belonging to the same with a shere and a culter. To Thomas Trotte, a stere of two years and ten sheep the whiche have gone all this year at home. To John Trotte, a cow whose name is Rodye and to his son a Wenlyn calfe, a crocke that stondith in the seller, a panne of two gallons, a porynger, etc. To Thomas, son of Robert Cribbe, a stere ; to Margaret, his sister, an heyffer ; to William, his brother, lo sheep the whiche do goo in Kinges more. To John Squyer of Langport, my young rone mare. To John Hoskyn, a cowe whose name ys Lylly. To Johane Eglonde, my best bedd, my panne whiche ys called the heavy panne, the bright crocke half a dosyn of pewter vessel and the fynest pece of blewe clothe. To the poor people of the almhouse at Westover, 8 busshels of wheat, and of the almose house of Ilchester, the same. To Thomas, son of Thomas Trotte of Aysshe, one yewe shepe. To Johan Pill, half a weight of woit and an olde petycote. To Elizabeth Elyde, her daughter, a weight of wott. To John Rychards of Norton, 10 sheep; to Richard Richards, gs, 4d. in his brother’s hands, John Richards of Aller. To Thomas Adam, an heifer; to Sir Robert Lowgh a blacke horse colte; to my lady Rogers, my great mare’s colt; to Mr. Wytcombe, my great mare ; to Mastres Wytcombe, a heifer whose name is Berye ; to John Richards, 4 oxen and steres, my olde rone mare, a wayne, a payr of wheeles, a put, a dragge, a neythe, a cowe whose name is Markell and all my debts except Henry Androwe’s, Johane Jurdayn’s and Mr. Wytcombe’s debts, which I forgive. To the same John, a dust bedde. To Johan Salweyes wife of Sonicrton, my best kyrtell, a kerchief, a necke kerchief, a smocke and a napron. To Richard Pallin, 20s.of Mr. Siddeames debt. To Alice, daughter of William Cribbe, an heifer ; to the children of Thomas Spacklyn, a sheep each ; to William Crybbe, son of Tomson Spacklyn, a shepe ; to Laurence Baleche a young bay mare. To lame poor Johane Illarye, a russet cootc slyves and all. To Johane Illary, wife of Illary the clarkc, a pair of sheets of canvas. To John Stegge, my servant, two chilver sheep. To Agnes Richards, a cowe one of the twenty. To Agnes and Isabel, my servants a kyrtell clothe of bright vyolet, to each. To Sir Stephen Nurse for his paynes, 6s. Sd, To John Hyllarde, my lytell boye, 2 silver spones. To John Jurdayne, my godson, a young mare. To Margery Jurdayne, daughter of Johan Jurdayne, a heifer. The residue to John Richards and to Margaret Hillarde, Thomas Hillarde, John Hillarde, Robert Hillarde, Isabel Hillarde, Alice Hillarde and John Hillarde (executors). Overseer: Henry Androwe. If the said John Richards or the children of John Hillard ymbesell or take aweye anything other than is delivered by my overseer then they shall have nothing of my goodes. Witnesses: Sir Stephen Nurse, John Genys, Richard Pope, Elizabeth Elyde, John Stegge and Henry Trott. Proved May 6th, 1552. Agnes White may have been of the Hillarde family.

John Jurdayne m. Joan Frye, June 3, 1562 (Martock Marriages).

1.1. Thomas White Jr., mentioned in the Will of his mother in 1549, m. Tamsen. His Will was written in North Petherton in 1551. To be buried in the churchyard of Petherton aforesaid. To my daughter Ann a “wenlnyg calfe.” To John White, a pair of hoses”. To Richard White, “a pair of hoses”. To Stephen Nowell, “a pair of hoses”. To John Rydon, a pair of looms.

1.2. Richard White, witnessed the Will of John Dyer in Hillfarrance (6 miles from Wiveliscombe), on April 2, 1559. His will was proved on May 6, 1578. Will of Richard Whitt, of the parish of Hillfarrence. To be buried in the parish church or churchyard of Hillfarrence. St. Andrews of Wells, 4d. Robert Yowens, 6d. John Yowens, 6d. Agnes Richards, 6d. Joane Woode, 6d. George Dee, 6d. Willmott Clevall, 6d. Godchildren 5d. each. My son, Robert Whitt the younger 20 marks at his day of marriage. Emie my daughter £10 at day of marriage. Grace my daughter £10 at day of marriage. Anstice my daughter 1 mark. Alice my daughter 1 mark. Alice Coles. William Whitt the elder. Robert Whitt my eldest son 1 mark. I have sold him an estate of my free land after my decease, part of Bishopp’s wood lying in Bishopp’s lyderd. William Whitt the younger my inheritance of free land after my decease in default to Robert Whitt the younger. My son Robert to pay £20 for his own estate and his wife’s. Edward my son my table board, etc., after decease of mother in law. John Chicke the younger. Richard Whitt the younger, son of Robert Whitt the elder a “yowe” lamb after his grandfather’s decease. Proved May 6, 1578 by George Harrison for the executrix. Residuary legatee and executrix: Ellen my wife. Overseers: William Bickley and John Jenings.

1.2.1. Henry White.
1.2.2. William White, Will proved April 13, 1586, of Hill Farrance (HuleFerons). To be buried in the churchyard of the parish aforesaid. To my brother Robert White the elder 6s. 8d. To my sister Emmett. To John Chicke my sister’s son, 6s. 8d. To Grace White my sister 6s. 8d. To my Aunt Coles 5s. To every of my uncle William God’s daughters 4d. To John Broome my brother in law 20s. for the use of his children. To John Appledore my godson 6s. 8d.To the rest of my godchildren 12d. each. I give and devise all my lands in Bishop’s Lidiard to Robert White the younger, my brother, for life with remainder to my brother Henry White and heirs. Residuary legatee, Helen White my mother, whom executrix. Witnesses: Peter Stone, William God, John Jenings alias Apledore and William Quicke. Proved April 13, 1586.

(Hockmore v England. Plaintiffs: Gregory Hockmore. Defendants: John England*. Subject: property in Hill Farrance, Somerset. 1647. (C 10/28/112). Pykering v Hockmore. Plaintiffs: Susannah Pykering alias Susannah Reynell, widow. Defendants: Gregory Hockmore, Alexander Popham, … England, and Thomas Tucker. Subject: property in Hill Farrance, Somerset. 1650. (C 8/94/66).

It is very doubtful (to be polite) that the “ffrancis England of the age twenty or there abouts (who) testified in a case concerning one Thomas Hall, March 25, 1629”, at a court held in Jamestown (Boddie, 2, 43), was he who m. a niece of George Moore, born in 1632. Mr. Boddie’s supposition is in the name-is-the-same category. Neither Thomas Hall nor his immediate circle had any geographical or familial connection to the families of the Bristol Basin associated with Francis England, and the identity of the English origins of Virginia settlers is based on such connections being replicated in Virginia. To repeat: what is missing in many reconstructions of English/Virginia genealogies is a knowledge of the subject matter – the interconnectios of the English kinship system.

ENGLAND, BENNETT, MOORE, AND WHITE

1. … 1.1. Francis England, m. Anstice Barber, May 5, 1614, Taunton, ca. 9 miles E. of Wiveliscombe, and 3 miles E. of Hill Farrance.1.1.1. Francis England,* born ca. 1615. John White, bapt. March 7, 1601, m. Grace Smith, on Oct. 20, 1623. July 26, 1642. Francis England: 746 ac. along a swamp running to Blackwater along Capt. Pierce’s marked trees; 200 ac. on E. branch of Blackwater pointing to Upper Chippoakes in James City … by a former patent (June 20, 1642), and 200 ac. by assignment of a pat. from John White, dated July 4, 1649. (Mr. Boddie, 676). Captain William Pierce of Mullberry Island. Francis England patented 1,066 ac. on July 26, 1652, same vicinity, 120 ac. adjacent Richard Jackson. “Francis England will be found in subsequent transactions with Thomas Bennett’s wife, Alice, his son, Richard, an his grandson, James Bennett”. (Mr. Boddie, p. 292).

1. … 1.1. Eleanor Bennett, m. Richard Harris, grandparents of Thomas Harris, d, 1672. 1.2. Thomas Bennett, bapt. April 2, 1570. 1.2.1. Thomas Bennett, bapt. Nov. 5, 1603; listed in the 1624 census on the S. of the James River, near Lawne’s Creek, m. Alice, relict of William Pierce, having issue: a dau. who m. Richard Jackson. Their dau., Mary Jackson, m. George Hardy, who patented 500 ac. on July 17, 1648, Lying on the E. side of Lawne’s Creek … to a creek dividing the same from the land of Alice Bennett. A dau. of George Hardy m. Edward Harris, d. 1677, whose land adjoined that of Nicholas Hill, husband of Syvestra Bennett, 2nd cousin of the said thomas Harris. ”

1.1.2. William England, m. Joane Shattock, Jan. 22, 1638/9. 1.1.2.1. William England, bapt.Feb. 2, 1639/40. The Will of Joyce Cripps (April 18, 1679), Unto my loving husband George Cripps the land and plantation on which we do now live… left to me by my former husband Francis England to the son of Francis England’s brother, if he comes to Virginia and makes claim to the land within seven years, my sister Skinner, Nicholas Davis the plantation on which he lives, Sarah Lupo, Mr. George Branch’s three children orphan boy that liveth with me named Anthony Lewis, Margaret the wife of Peter Vasser, Susan Brasswell, my sister’s daughter; my three Goddaughters Elizabeth Hayes, Joyce Butler, and Joyce Womble, my three Godsons James Bennett, Nicholas Davis, and William Phillips, my Mother Flake (Katherine Moore). My husband to be executor. Witness: John Gutridge, Rebecca Davis, Will. Evans. Rec. June 9, 1679. (B. 2, p. 202). See as follows: By his 1st wife, Susannah Blackmore, born June 11, 1630 Delft, Netherlands, dau. Arthur Blackmore, Jr. and Susannah Moseley, William Corker had issue: Susannah, who m. George Branch Jr, son of George Branch and Ann, dau. of Francis England and a niece of George Moore. By his 1st wife, Lucy White, William Corker had issue: Lucy Corker, who m. Thomas Jordan Sr., grandparents of Joshua Jordan, father of Rachel Jordan, who m. Thomas White, as follows 1.1.3. Roger England, m. Agnes Percy, Aug. 22, 1639. 1.1.3.1. Francis England, bapt. May 31, 1640

MOORE
1 …1.1. George Moore, of Bristol, b. 1632, m. Jane Barcroft, dau. of Charles Barcroft. 1.2. Katherine Moore, born ca. 1628, m. (1) … 1.2.1. Joyce, born ca. 1645, m. (1) *Francis England, d. 1677, (2) in 1678, George Cripps, Will probated Oct 10, 1687. 1.2.1.1. Ann Cripps, m. Captain John Goodrich, whose Will probated June 9, 1696, wit. Martha Thorpe. 1.2. Katherine Moore, m. (2) Robert Flake, born ca. 1622. Under the guidance of her stepfather, Robert Flake, Joyce entered a prenuptial agreement with her second husband George Cripps in 1678 to keep her property separate from his. (B. 1, p. 371). 1.3. Thomas Moore. Francis England, George Cripps. William Jennings of Bristol, surgeon, appts. Thomas Moore of Pagan Creek his atty. to collect from Arthur Skynner, Gyles Driver (headright of Thomas Harris, d. 1672), and Joseph Whitson, and by virtue of a letter of atty. from John Hardiman of Bristol, taylor, to collect from William Hudson in Nansemond. June 29, 1667. (Bodie, vol. 2, p. 550).

1.2.3. Robert White, mentioned in the will of his father and brother, as Robert the younger,* joint churchwarden of South Petherton in 1578, bur. Sept. 7, 1600. His wife Alice was buried there on August 22, 1596. 1.2.3.1. John White, churchwarden, Will proved Aug. 23, 1623, father of John White, bapt. Sept. 26, 1602; “son of John”. For the purpose of distinction, this line is not documented here. 1.2.3.2. Robert White.

To recommence:

1. Thomas White, assessed in Merriot in 1524; bought land in Whitcombe, in the parish of Martock, in 1537-8. (Martock is ca. 2 miles W. of South Petherton).
1.1. Richard White, witnessed the Will of John Dyer in Hillfarrance (6 miles from Wiveliscombe), on April 2, 1559. His Will was proved on May 6, 1578.
1.1.1. Robert White, “the younger”.
1.1.1. John White, “son of Robert”, bapt. March 7, 1601, m. Grace Smith, on Oct. 20, 1623. July 26, 1642. Francis England, granted 746 ac. along a swamp running to Blackwater along Capt. Pierce’s marked trees; and 200 ac. on E. branch of Blackwater pointing to Upper Chippoakes in James City, by assignment of a pat. from John White, dated July 4, 1649. (Mr. Boddie, 676). Captain Pierce: as above given, Thomas Bennett m. Alice, relict of William Pierce, having issue: a dau. who m. Richard Jackson. Their dau., Mary Jackson, m. George Hardy, who patented 500 ac. leadingto a creek dividing the same from the land of Alice Bennett. A dau. of George Hardy m. Edward Harris, d. 1677,
1.1.1.1. Lucy White, m. William Corker, as his 2nd wife.
1.1.1.1.1. Judith Corker, m. William Clay (d. 1675), brother of John Clay, father of Elizabeth Clay, who m. John Brantley Sr.*.
1.1.1.1.2. Lucy Corker, m. Thomas Jordan Sr. (whose ist wife was Jane Brown, widow of Robert Spencer), whose grandchildren (by Lucy Corker) included (1) James Jordan, who m. Margaret Brasseur, having issue: James Jordan, who Elizabeth Ratliff, sister of Mary Ratliff, who m. Thomas Newman, son of Ruth Taberer and John Newman, br. of the second wife of Thomas Harris, d. 1672. (2) Robert Jordan, born September 11, 1668, who m. Christian, dau. of Thomas Taberer, whose dau., Ruth, m. John Newman, br-in-law of Thomas Harris, d. 1672, having issue: Christian Jordan, who m. William Scott Sr., having issue: (1) John Scott, who witnessed a deed of March 26, 1711 (with William Bridger, son of Joseph Bridger Sr.), whereby John and Thomas Harris of the Upper Parish, sons of Thomas, d. 1672, divided the land they held in jointure, that being 250 ac. inherited from their father, and 115 ac. they had acquired from Joseph Bridger (3) Mathew Jordan, who witnessed the Will of John Harris, d. 1713, son of Thomas Harris, d. 1672. (4) Joshua Jordan, father of Rachel Jordan, who m. Thomas White, as follows. John Scott’s Will was witnessed by Thomas Harris, d. 1729/30. William Corker’s spoken Will made gifts to his daughters, and to Elizabeth (wife of Robert Spencer, “friend” of Thomas Harris, d. 1672), and Mary White, daus. of John White, Lucy White’s brother.

By his 1st wife, Susannah Blackmore, born June 11, 1630 Delft, Netherlands, dau. Arthur Blackmore, Jr. and Susannah Moseley, William Corker had issue: Susannah, who m. George Branch Jr, son of George Branch and Ann, dau. of Francis England and a niece of George Moore.

1.1.1.1.3. John White, bapt. Jan. 6, 1645, in South Petherton, d, 1679 John White of Surry Co.: Bequests to Francis Mason, John, the son of John Price, a mare formerly my sister Mary White’s. To John Price, son., one-half of what is due from him to me. To Robert Caufield fifty shillings. To my sisters, Lucy Corker and Mary White, my whole estate to be equally divided. Makes them Exors. Proved May 6,, 1679. Wit: Francis Taylor, Phillip Shelby. (B. 2, p. 203). John White was the 4th son of that name, three brothers, bapt. 1638, 1640, and 1642, died in infancy.

SCOTT

1. William Scott, business partner of Thomas Harris, d. 1672, and Joseph Bridger in Bristol. Rowland Searchfield released Col. Joseph Bridger of Virginia from all claims of three-eighths of a cargo of wines etc. shipped on the Success of London (master William Goodland) in 1654, to Virginia, in the presence of William Scott, Thomas Harris, Christopher Pitt, James Bridger. William Reaper. (Bristol Record Office, Depositions). Thus, the witnesses, as partners, accounted for the remaining five eighths. Joseph Bridger and William Scott were noted as being engaged in the Virginia trade here: Shippers by the Unicorn bound from Bristol for Virginia: Richard Finch, Roger Nevill, David Parry, James Millard, Richard Harris, Richard Bickham, John Boucher, William Scott, Joseph Bridger. (PRO E190/829/9).

1.1. “William Scott (b. ca. 1650, d. 1717), and Elizabeth his wife, their Childrens Nativities Recorded:
1.1.1. William Scott, born on “the 27 of Decembr in year 1678″, m. Christian, dau. of Christian Taberer and Robert Jordan. Christian Taberer was the dau. of Thomas Taberer, and sister of Ruth Taberer, who m. John Newman, whose sister, Alice, was the second wife of Thomas Harris, d. 1672, whose sons John and Thomas were members of the Chuckatuck Quaker congregation.
1.1.2. John Scott,* born “on the 3 day of the 2 mo in the year 1682”; d. May 3, 1728 in IOW; m. Joan, dau. of James Tooke, son of Thomas Tooke. Their son, James Tooke Scott, m. Christian Norsworthy, dau. of Col. George Norsworthy, son of Tristram Norsworthy, of Newport Parish, and Sarah Pitt, dau. of Lt. Colonel John Pitt, and Olive Hardy, dau. of John Hardy, and relict of Giles Driver, headright of Thomas Harris, d. 1672.
1.1.3. Robert Scott born on the 19 day of the 4 month called June in the year 1685.
1.2. John Scott (b. ca. 1655), m. Elizabeth Belson*, p. 64.; bapt. Aug. 31, 1666, in Chuckatuck; dau. of Edmund Belson, and sister of Mary Belson, who m. Robert Jordan, May 10, 1690 in Chuckatuck. He was the son of Thomas Jordan Jr. and Margaret Brasseur, and brother of Mathew Jordan, who witnessed the Will of John Harris, son of Thomas Harris, d. 1672, of Wiveliscombe, and his 2nd wife, Elizabeth Church, were married at “Isaac Reekesis howse on ye eleventh of this second month last, 1689”. The said John Harris witnessed the marriage of Joseph Meredith and Sarah Denson, on the 11th day of ye 4th month, 1696, with William Cooke, Thomas, James, John, and Joseph Jordan. “Abraham Rickesis the sonn of Isaac Rickesis of the western Branch of the Nanszemond River and Mary Bellson the daughter of Edmond Bellson were married at our Publick meetin House on the 16 day of the 3 mo. in the year 1703. Wit: father Isaac Rickesis; brother John Rickesis; brother Robert Rickesis; brother Jacob Rickesis; uncell William Scott Senior; uncell Benmin. Small … John Simons … *Elizabeth Scot Senior … Elizabeth Scot Junior.
1.2.1. William Scott, m. Elizabeth White, sister of Thomas White, who m. Rachel Jordan, on Sept. 13, 1719, at the Chuckatuck Meeting House.

JORDAN AND KITTRELL

1. Thomas Jordan , m. Lucy Corker, who m. (2) William Rose Jr., brother of (1) Jane Rose, who m. (1) Richard Avery; who departed from Bristol, in 1665. Passenger and Immigration Lists Index, vol. 1, p. 56: Capt. Anthony Fulgham, 1600 ac. IOW, July 12, 1665, for transportation of 30 people, inc. Richd. Avery.
1.1. Thomas Jordan , m. Margaret Brasseur, on March 23, 1659. Their children’s nativities recorded as follows in Chuckatuck:
1.1.1. Thomas Jordan, born Jan. 6, 1660, in Chuckatuck, m. Elizabeth, dau. of William Burgh, on Oct. 6, 1679.
1.1.1.1. William Jordan, born July 25, 1688, in Chuckatuck, m. Prudence …
1.1.1.1.1. William Jordan, born 1709, d. 1788, in Bertie Co. William Jordan Sr., gent., and his wife, Mary, of Bertie Co., to George Kittrell, planter, of same. 70 lbs. proc. 80 ac. where Saml. Leget lately lived, on S. side of Rocquist Creek, joining Gully Branch, James Castellow. Wit: John Kittrell, Mourning Hill. Feb. 19, 1770.
1.1.1.1.2. Joseph Jordan. Will proved May Court, 1776, naming sons: Isaac, William, and Joseph.
1.1.1.1.2.1..Isaac Jordan.
1.1.1.1.2.1.1. Prudence Jordan, m. Standly Kittrell, on Jan. 13 , 1799 . (They owned property at Speller’s Ferry).
1.1.1.1.2.1.1.1. Isaac Jordan Kittrell.

As given in previous notes, the Kittrells probably stemmed from John Cotterill, bapt. July 21, 1650, Wiveliscombe, abode of the intermarried Bennett/Harris family. As below given, the Bryan(t)s probably stemmed from John Bryan, bapt. June 23, 1636, in Carhampton, Somersey, ca. 10 miles from Wiveliscombe. Local association in England were transplanted in Virginia.

1. Nicholas Cotterill.
1.1. John Cotterill, bapt. July 21, 1650, Wiveliscombe.
1.1.1. Johnathon Kittrell, b. ca. 1675, Will rec. in Chowan Co., N.C., in 1748. Jonathon Kittrell and wife Ann, to James Farlow, 100 ac. on Bennett’s Creek, Feb. 11, 1718/9. Wit. Robert Hicks,* Samuel Guillams. Same to Samuel Guillams, “south end of my land mentioned in my patent”, 50 a., same date. Wit. John Williamson, Robert Hicks, clerk of Court. (James Robert Bent Hathaway, The North Carolina Historical and Genealogical Register, p. 630). James Meglohon m. Jonathan Kittrell’s widow. His Will, probated in Bertie Court July 1, 1750, named sons-in- law: William Roads, Samuel Holleman,* Christopher Holleman. Witness: J. Early, William Rasberry, Wm. Wilford.

Jonathon Kittrell to Richard Parker of Nansemond Co., 50 a. part of a patent dated July 4, 1723 to said Kittrell. Wit. George and James Spivey, ibid. p. 283. Deed of release, William Wright to Jacob Spivey. Sept. 11, 1731. Wit. George Williams, William Wright Jr., James Spivey. p. 450. Deed of release, William Wright to Joseph Spivey, Oct. 12, 1731, same witnesses. William Roads and Thomas Norfleet witnessed a deed of “William Bryan, “late of Edgecombe, now of Bertie Precinct”, to James Barnes of Bertie.

RHODES OF WIVELISCOMBE

1. John Rodes, m. Johan Bowring, on May 9, 1588, in Wiveliscombe. (The Bowrings were peripheral kin of the Harris, see previous posts). 1.1. Richard Rodes, bapt. Sept. 1591 d. inf. 1.2. Christopher Rodes, bapt. June 22, 1600. 1.3. Robert Rodes, m. Agnes Bennett, on June 26, 1633. She was bapt. Nov. 20, 1606, dau. of William Bennett, brother of Elianor Bennett, who m. Richard Harris, Edward Harris, the Virginia coloniser, and Thomas Harris, ancestor of Susannah Bennett, who m. Sion Kimball, as follows. in asubsequent post. 1.3.1. John Roades, bapt. Feb. 10, 1637; perhaps a son, the William Roads who m. Elizabeth Jennings on Aug. 4, 1663, in Drayton (20 miles E. of Wiveliscombe on the main road passing through Taunton), was the father of William of William Rhodes of Virginia: 1. William Rhodes. 1.1. John Rhodes, Sr., b. Jan. 15, 1698, d. Dec. 26, 1769, Bertie Co., m. Elizabeth. 1.1.1. Elizabeth Rhodes. 1.1.2. John Rhodes, d. Sept. 28, 1791, Bertie Co. 1.1.2.1. John William Rhodes (1748 – 1808). 1.1.3. Thomas Rhodes, d. 1796 Bertie Co., m. Elizabeth, d. 1795, dau. of Jonathon Standley. 1.2. Elizabeth Rhodes, m. Marmaduke Norfleet, uncle of Elizabeth Norfleet, wife of James Harris, great-grandson of Thomas Harris, d. 1688. Thus, a link in common is established betwee, is establish between a descendant of Thomas Harris, d. 1688, and the Bennett/Harris/Rhodes families of Wiveliscombe.

NORFLEET

1. Thomas Norfleet. 1.1. Marnaduke Norfleet, d. June 28, 1774, in Northampton Co., m. Judith Rhodes. On Feb. 13, 1788: James Smith of Halifax Co. deeded to Thomas Blount Whitmal and Jacob Barrow, 50 pounds proclamation money 10 ac. on S. side of Roanoke River, joining Drew Smith, Arthur Smith, Elisha Williams. James Smith. Wit: Marmaduke Norfleet, Elisha Williams. Aug. Ct. 1788. (Abstracts of Deeds, Halifax Co., NC, 1786-1796). The Will of Henry Turner, probated Feb. Court, 1748, named sons: Joseph and Thomas Turner. Executor: Matthew Joyner. Witnesses: Matthew Joyner, James Harris, Marmaduke Norfleet. (ibid. p. 382).
1.2. *Thomas Norfleet, d. Jan. 23, 1745, Edgecombe Co., m. Ruth Blunt, 1727. 1.2.1. Elizabeth Norfleet, m. James Harris. 1.2.1.1. James Harris m. (1) Temperance Williams, whose Will was probated in Halifax Co. in 1783. Temperance Harris names daus: Pharaby Harris, Mary Harris, Sally Harris, Elizabeth Harris; son James Harris. Witnesses: Elisha Dixon, Martha Joyner. Pheraby Harris. Martha Joyner was the wife of John Joyner, and likely sister of Temperance Williams, and Elisha Williams, children of Joshua Williams. Elisha Williams witnessed the Wills of both Martha Joyner and Temperance (Williams) Harris.
1.1.3.1.1. James Harris. Halifax Co. D.B. 19, p. 18, July 27, 1801: James Harris to Richard Jones, £100 for 208 acs. adj. Bookers Ferry road below the place called the old Church on the plumb tree branch of Buffalo Creek, and on both sids of Hicks road. Bounded by William Dew’s line.
1.2.2. Marmaduke Norfleet Jr. Division of the lands of Marmaduke Norfleet Jr., dec’d, son of Mr. Thomas Norfleet, dec’d. To James Harris and Elizabeth his wife her part of the estate, being part of a tract where James Hogun now lives (graves mentioned in the bounds), and 38 ac. which was part of 114 ac. joining Beaverdam Swamp, … Blount, Joshua Bell. To Joshua Bell and Pheriby (Harris) his wife her part of the estate. Signed by William Williams, Moses Horne, Xpher Haynes, James Smith, Michl. Smalley, Oct. Ct. 1765.

HOLLEMAN in context:

(1. … 1.1. John Holleman. John Proctor of IOW to Roger Delk of Surry Co., 140 ac. on the S. side of the main Blackwater Swamp (being land taken up by said Proctor on Feb. 12, 1742); adj. John Holleman, Thomas Holleman, Benjamin Pitman, Joseph Griffin, and Robert Mercer. Wit: Lawrence Lancaster, Solomon Delk, and Joseph Griffin. (Rec: Jan. 28, 1744. 1.1.1. Jesse Holleman, m. Charity, dau. of Thomas Cofer and Olive Ward. 1.1.2. Christopher Holleman. 1.1.2.1. Christopher Holleman, m. Mourning Pope (on Feb. 14, 1791, in in IOW Co.), dau. of William Pope and Prudence Harris, granddau. of George Harris, brother of Robert Harris, d. 1740. 1.2. William Holleman, m. Mary Chambers. 1.2.1. Thomas Holleman.* 1.2.2. *Josiah Holleman, m. Ann, dau. of Thomas White. 1.1.3. Samuel Hollyman, Arthur Bryant on Aug 1741 wit sale by James Bynum to Robert Surjoyner of Edge Co. 100 ac. on S. side of Marratock River, p. 416. Samuel Holliman and Elizabeth, his wife of Edge. Co. to Mathew Joyner of Isle of Wight Co., May 19, 1747, 210 ac. on Cypress swamp, joining Whitmill, Daniel McDaniel, Thomas Turner and the swamp. Wit: Joseph Sumner, Joseph Boykin. Reg. Edge Co. Aug Ct. 1747, p. 156. (Hofmann, Margaret M. Abstracts of Deeds, Edgecombe Precinct, Edgecombe Co., NC, 1732 – 1758). Thomas Bryant of Edge Co to William Bryant of Northampton Co., Aug. 22, 1750, 200 ac. on the south side of Tar River, joining Captain Thomas Bryant, Indian old field, a reedy slash, Ozboon Jeffreys and the river as by patent. Wit: John Murphree, Samuel Holliman. Aug. Ct., 1750, p. 524. Samuel Holliman and Robert Hatcher wit. Benjamin Blunt of Isle of Wight, to Daniel Harris on Dec. 8, 1744, 290 ac. on N. side of Fishing Creek, p. 335).

KITTRELL cont.

1.1.1.1. John Kittrell, b. ca. 1700. William Wood, to John Kittrell; Jany 5th, 1739. 50 ac. on Forty Island. Test: Richard Tayloe. Same, to Samuel Parker; Jany 5th, 1739. 150 a. on Forty Island adj. land of John Webb. Test, William Luten, William Lewis.
1.1.1.1.1. Jonathon Kittrell Jr., b. ca. 1725, Will probated in Granville Co., 1812, mentioning: “My son-in-law, Jno. Harris”. He m. (ca. 1750), Elizabeth Bryant.

BRYANT

1. John Bryan(t), of Nansemond Co.; probably he bapt. June 23, 1636, in Carhampton (ca. 10 miles from Wiveliscombe), son of Robert
1.1. William Bryant Sr. July 16, 1722: William Bennett and wife Grace to John Bass Jr. of Perquimmons Precinct, 200 ac. for 37 pounds, between Urharra Swamp and . . . , adj. Richard Washington, Esq., Pollock, Valentine Braswell, William Bryant, Benjamin Thomas. (Bertie Co., A, 105
1.1.1. John Bryant (1692-1734). Sept. 14, 1734: John Bryant’s Will: Wife Elizabeth, sons William Bryant (tract of land known by the name of Ballards), Arthur Bryant, and David Hopper. Friend: James Turner. Exec. Wm. Bryant. (May Court 1735). John Bryant m. Elizabeth , dau. of Bridgeman Joyner. “Bridgeman Joyner and wife, Ann Joyner, to his son-in-law John Bryan(t) and my daughter Elizabeth his wife for love and affection, 200 ac. bounded by Maple Branch, being part of a patent for 800 a. granted said Joyner on Nov. 16, 1714. Rec. Nov. 26, 1716. (B. 2, p. 39). Bridgeman Joyner – guardian of an orphan of Thomas Harris, d. 1688.
1.1.1.1. William Bryant, m. Sarah Smith. Aug, 15, 1743, William Bryan, late of Edgecombe, now of Bertie Precinct, to James Barnes of Bertie, 315 ac. for 25 pounds, S. side of Marattock, adj. John Gray, Cypress Swamp. Wit.: John Flowers, W. Roads, Thomas Norfleet. (Edgecombe Co., 5, 169).
1.1.1.1.1. Lt. Col. William Bryan(t), b. July 8, 1747, Springfield Plantation, Bertie Co., NC.; d. Sept. 14, 1800, in Snowfield Plantaion, Lewiston Woodville, Bertie Co.
1.1.1.1.2. Tabitha Bryant, m. Jonathon Kittrell, on Nov. 17, 1772. Brother, William Bryant, b.m.; Reuben Searcy, wit. (Marriages of Granville Co., NC, 1753-1868, p. 197, 2009). Jonathon Kittrell was the brother of Rachel Milly Kittrell, wife of John Harris, as follows.
1.1.1.2. Arthur Bryant, m. Mary Smith, sister of the said Sarah Smith, and Lucy Smith, who m. (2) Reuben Norfleet, son of Marmaduke Norfleet Sr., father-in-law of James Harris, grandson of Edward Harris Sr. Sept. 9, 1735, John Benbow of NC. to Arthur Bryant son of John Bryant of NC, 100 ac. for 100 pounds of pork on S. side of Moratock River adj. Kehukee swamp, near the bridge. Wit.: Benjamin Rawlings, William Bryant. (Edgecombe Co. 1, 104).
1.2. James Bryan, d. March 11, 1731, IOW; b. ca. 1660. On April 16, 1683, James Bryant received a land patent in IOW Co., for 315 ac. between Kingsale swamp and the main Blackwater, adj. William Mayo, Richard Booth, Hodges Council, and Bridgeman Joyner,* for transporting 7 persons. (Library of Virginia). Will, Bertie Precinct, NC, proved: August 9, 1732: I give and bequeath to my son William Bryant* my land and plantation on ye north side of Maherrin River. Bequests to sons, James (exec.), and Thomas Bryant*; Richard Braswell, John Dewe (exec.).
1.2.1. *Capt. Thomas Bryant, d. April 13, 1749, in Bertie Co.
1.2.1.1. Robert Bryant, d. 1760, in Johnston Co., NC. He m. Charity, dau. Col. John Hinton, of Chowan Co. and Mary, dau. of John Hardy, who d. Jan. 15, 1719, New Bern, Chowan Co., NC.
1.2.1.1. Elizabeth Bryant, m. James Holleman, b. May 25, 1750, Johnston, NC; d. May 7, 1836, in Mecklenburg, son of *Samuel Holleman.
1.2.1.1. Cornelius Holleman, b. Sept. 25, 1792, Anson Co., NC. d. Oct. 26, 1862, in Fayette Co., Alabama.

1.2.2. *William Bryant*.
1.2.3. Eleanor Bryant, m. Richard Braswell III, per Wills of James Bryant Sr. (1731), and Richard Braswell III. (1767).
1.2.4. Elizabeth Bryant, m. John Dew Jr. June 22, 1715: Sarah Bryant to John Dew, power of attorney to relinquish dowery, 640 ac. to William Braswell and 150 ac. to Valentine Braswell. Wit.: Thomas Kirby Sr, Henry Wheeler. (Chowan Co. 1, 125).
1.2.4.1. Patience Dew, m. *William Bryan(t), extr. of William Bridger’s, Will, proved Bertie Co., Nov. Court, 1729.
1.2.4.1.1. Elizabeth Bryan(t), m. Jonathon Kittrell ii. William Bryant’s Will was probated in Granville Co., 1812, mentioning: “My son-in-law, Jno. Harris”.
1.2.1.1.1.1. Rachel Milly Kittrell, m. John Harris
1.2.1.1.1.2. Jonathon Kittrell iii, m. Tabitha Bryant, above given.
Craven Co., NC, Deed Abstracts, 1742-1786:
1.3. Edward Bryant, m. Christina Council. June 22, 1748: Hardy Bryan, Lewis Bryan, Ann Bryan, Executors of Edward Bryan, deceased, sells land on E. side of Swift Creek, patented to Edward Bryan, deceased, May 8, 1742. (B .4., p. 171).
1.3.1. John Bryan, of New Bern, born June 2, 1686, in IOW; d. June 1, 1762, in Craven Co. On Dec. 26, 1723, John Bryan of “Bertie County, North Carolina” deeded to James Bryan the 200 ac. “willed by Hodges Council to his daughter Christian, wife of Edward Bryan”. IOW, Great Book, p. 618.
1.4. James Bryant, d. March 11, 1731, IOW; b. ca. 1660. On April 16, 1683, James Bryant received a land patent in IOW Co., for 315 ac. between Kingsale swamp and the main Blackwater, adjacent William Mayo, Richard Booth, Hodges Council, and Bridgeman Joyner,* for transporting 7 persons. (Library of Virginia). Will, Bertie Precinct, NC, proved: August 9, 1732: I give and bequeath to my son William Bryant my land and plantation on ye north side of Maherrin River. Bequests to sons, James (exec.), and Thomas; Richard Braswell, John Dewe (exec.), Mathew Taylor). “Bridgeman Joyner and wife, Ann Joyner, to his son-in-law John Bryan(t) and my daughter Elizabeth his wife for love and affection, 200 a. bounded by Maple Branch, being part of a patent for 800 a. granted said Joyner on Nov. 16, 1714. Rec. Nov. 26, 1716. (B. 2, p. 39).

KITTRELL cont.

1.2.2.1.1.1. Rachel Milly Kittrell, m. John Harris.
1.1.1.1.1.2. Jonathon Kittrell, m. Tabbie Bryant, Nov. 17, 1772. Brother, William Bryant, b.m.; Reuben Searcy, wit. (Marriages of Granville Co., NC, 1753-1868, p. 197, 2009).
1.1.1.1.2. John Kittrell, b. ca. 1730, m. Jemima Standley, relict of Moses Spivey, and dau. of Jonathon Standley, of Bertie Co., whose Will was proved April 3, 1773: naming sons: David and Edmund; daus. Elizabeth Rhodes, son-in-law, Thomas Rhodes, exec. p. 486. Jonathon Standley, Will probated on Berie Co., April 3, 1773: sons: David, Edmund, daus.: Elizabeth Roades, Jemima Kittrell; her youngest son, Joshua Spivey, dau., Esther Spivey, Martha Spivey,* son-in-law, Thomas Roades (see subsequent article for Roades of Wiveliscombe). Wit. Solomon Cader, Martha Creecy. (North Car. Hist and Gen. Record, p. 86, 1900). Wm. Glover of perq. Precinct Esq. sold to Jonathon Stanley for £28, 316 ac. S.W. side of Little River betw. lands of John Arnold and Thomas Holloway. Rec. April 15, 1707. (Ellen Goode Rawlings Winslow, History of Perquimans Co., p. 59, 1974).
Cousins of Rachel Milly Kittrell. (James Robert Bent Hathaway, The North Carolina Historical and Genealogical Register, p. 344, 1970).

(1.1.1.1.2.1. Demsey Kittrell, m. *Martha Spivey, dau. of Moses Spivey and Jemima Standly, aunt, by marriage, of Rachel Milly Kittrell. 1.1.1.1.2.2. *Standley Kittrell, b. ca. 1765, m. Prudence Jordan, on Jan. 13, 1799., great-granddau. of William Jordan, born July 25, 1688, in Chuckatuck, who m. Prudence …; he the nephew of Joshua Jordan, who m. Elizabeth Sanbourne (parents of Rachel Jordan, who m. Thomas White), who m. (2) Cornelius Ratliff, who bought land from Jonathon Stanley, as follows, and was the brother of Sarah Ratliff, who m. Benjamin Jordan, and Mary Ratliff, who m. Thomas Newman (nephew of Thomas Harris, d. 1672). Benjamin Jordan was the brother of Mathew Jordan (associated with the family of Thomas Harris, d. 1672), and Joshua Jordan, grandfather of Rachel Jordan, who m. Thomas White. 1.1.1.1.2.3. Jemima Kittrell, m. Benjamin Folks, witness of his br.-in-law’s marriage. 1.1.1. 1.2.4. Sarah Kittrell. 1.1.1.1.2.5. John Kittrell. 1.1.1.1.2.5.1. Frederick Kittrell. (James Robert Bent Hathaway, The North Carolina Historical and Genealogical Register, p. 344, 1970).

1.1.1.1.3. . George Kittrell.

JORDAN cont.

1.1.2. James Jordan, born “ye 23d day of of the Eleventh month in ye yeare 1665”, deceased Oct. 13, 1732. He m. Elizabeth Ratliff, sister of Mary Ratliff, who m. Thomas Newman, son of Ruth Taberer and John Newman, br. of the 2nd wife of Thomas Harris, d. 1672.
1.1.3. Robert Jordan, born Sept. 11, 1668, m. Christian, dau. of Thomas Taberer (and sister of Ruth Taberer, who m. John Newman, br. of the second wife of Thomas Harris, d. 1672), having issue: Christian Jordan, who m. William Scott.
1.1.4. Richard Jordan, born “ye 6 day of thr sixt month in ye yeare 1670”, deceased Oct. 29, 1723, m. Rebecca Ratliff
1.1.5. Elizabeth Jordan, m. John Fort, the uncle of Mary Fort, who m. John Foster Sr., grandparents of Sarah Foster, who m. Walter Gilliam. Their dau, Lydia, was the mother of Millie Watkins, who m. Solomon Harris, grandson of Thomas Harris, d. 1729/30.
1.1.6. Benjamin Jordan, born Sept. 18, 1674, deceased Dec. 8, 1715, m. Sarah Ratliff.
1.1.7. Mathew Jordan, “ye i day of the eleventh month in ye yeare 1676”, witnessed the Will of John Harris, d. 1713, son of Thomas Harris, d. 1672..
1.1.8. Joshua Jordan, “ye last day of the 6th month in ye yeare 1681”, m. Elizabeth Sanbourne, born June 30, 1681, deceased Dec. 1, 1733.
1.1.8.1. Rachel Jordan, m. Thomas White. She m. (2) Cornelius Ratliffe. Oct 1, 1715. Richard Ratcliffe, Planter, of Perq Pre’ct, to Wm Hall, Blacksmith – by order of my brother Cornelius Ratcliffe, carpenter, late of Perq Pre’ct for £40 by said Hall assigns Plan’ which my brother Cornelius bought of *Jonathan Stanley, & Elizabeth his wife — 313 ac on Westside of Little River, between Lands of John Arnold, and Thomas Holloway. Wit.: Daniel Guthrie, Christopher Dudley. (Perquiman Co., D. B. 4).

RATLIFF

1. Richard Ratliff, d. bef. Sept. 6, 1686, in Terasco Neck, IOW.
1.1. Elizabeth Ratliff, born July 21, 1668, deceased June 30, 1695, m. James Jordan.
1.2. Sarah Ratliff, born Sept. 19, 1670, m. Benjamin Jordan.
1.3. Mary Ratliff, born Feb. 5, 1679, deceased April 18, 1739, m. Thomas Newman, nephew of Thomas Harris, d. 1672.
1.4. Rebecca Ratliff, born May 3, 1684, deceased April 18, 1739, m.
1.5. Cornelius Ratliff, born March 15, 1674, m. “widow of Joshua Jordan”, “Elizabeth Sandbourne”.
1.6. Richard Ratliff, born July 13, 1672, in Terasco Neck.

ROBERT WHITE

1.1.2. Robert White, bapt. March 25, 1604.
1.1.2.1. George White, bapt. Nov. 1, 1636.
1.1.2.2. Robert White, b. ca. 1637/8 (cousin of Lucy White,who m. William Corker, supra), m. Susannah Weare, Feb. 6, 1663/4. She was bapt. May 27 1627, and this was probably a second or third marriage; a dau. of Robert Weare and Johanna Parker, who m. Aug. 4, 1618. He was certainly closely related to Edith Weare, who m. John Simes, on May 20, 1611. For White and Simes, see Thomas White, as follows, anon.

These Weares were a substantial family, as witnessed here: Greneway v Weare. Plaintiffs: Roger Greneway. Defendants: Robert Weare and Richard Tuchenor. Subject of decree: Customary holding of the manor of Chillington and South Harp in South Petherton. June 29, 1574, 16 Eliz. 1574. They were almost certainly of the same family as the Weares Silverton, 30 miles S.W. of South Petherton, over the Devon border. The family of Prowse, for which see introduction, supra, associated with South Petherton, were also connected to the Weares of Silverton: Feoffment by John Were the elder of Silverton, Devon, Esq. to John Prowse of Cullompton, Devon, and George Blinman of Williton, St Decumans, yeoman and Sir William Wyndham of Orchard, bart, of two fifths of a fourth part of lands known as Woolferlongs, being in the parish of Halberton, Devon. Consideration: £16., 23 Jan. 23 1664/5. (Somerset Heritage Centre, DD/WY/3/15/31).

1. Anthony Fuljames, of Pitminster, m. (2) Martha Greene. 1.1. John Fulgham, b. 1639, at Pitminster. 1.2.Michael Fulgham, m. Anne Izzard. 1.2.1.. Nicholas Fulgham; his grandson and namesake m. a granddau. of Thomas Harris, d. 1672. 1.2.2. Elizabeth Fuljames, bapt. June 11, 1622, in Pitminster. 1.2.3. Sarah Fuljames, bapt. December 21, 1624, in Pitminster, m. (in 1642, in Pitminster) John Cotton of Silverton, Devon. The Reverend William Cotton, Sarah Fuljames’s father-in-law, was Rector of the Weare Family’s church in Silverton. The estates of Counselor John Weare, the head of the Weare family in Silverton, and his eldest son, John, Jr., were sequestered in 1648 by Parliament. By 1650, Counselor John Weare, his wife Margaret (Dart). Weare, John, Jr., Francis, and Katherine, had emigrated to the south side of the eastern branch of the Corotoman River, in Virginia, next to Anthony Fulgham. John Weare Sr. was the son of Humphrey Weare*.

Reverend J. Heald Ward: “The Weres of Silverton were a branch of the Weres or Weares of Halberton. This family was connected with that of Bishop Gilbert Bourne, sometime Queen Mary’s favourite chaplain, who died at Silverton in 1569, a grandson of Richard, brother of the Bishop, having married a Weare of Halberton (Eliz., b. 1600 at Halberton, dau of Humphrey Weare, m. Gilbert Bourne, ca. 1619).

1. John Weare, “listed in the lower ranks of the 1581 Halberton subsidy assessment”. 1.1. Humphrey Weare, “b. c.1569, s. of John Were of Bradworthy and Halberton; educ. Exeter Coll. Oxf. 1585 aged 16; Lyon’s Inn; I. Temple 1589, called 1597 m. June 6, 1597, Margery Whytinge; suc. fa. 1621. (Andrew Thrush and John P. Ferris, eds., Hist. Parl., 2010). 1.1.1.. Elizabeth Weare, m. Gilbert Bourne*, cousin of Mary Bourne, wife of Edward Bennett, great-uncle of Thomas Harris, d. 1672. 1.1.2. John Weare, emigrated to the south side of the eastern branch of the Corotoman River, in Virginia, next to Anthony Fulgham.

1. … 1.1. Philip Bourne, of Worcestershire. 1.1.1. Bishop Gilbert Bourne, the last Catholic bishop of Bath and Wells, d. Silverton, Devon, Sept. 10, 1569. 1.1.2. Richard Bourne, of Wiveliscommbe, d. 1594, m. Sylvestra Tybolde, who d. bef. Feb. 9, 1593, in Wells, Somerset. Richard Bourne, Will pr. March, 1594. (23 Dixy). To be buried near my wife in the Cathedral of Wells. Gilbert Bourne (eldest son) to be Exr. To him the Demesnes of Wrodiscombe (Wiveliscombe), with the custody of the great house demised to me by my Reverend brother, Bishop Bourne. 1.1.2.1. Gilbert Bourne. Will proved Feb. 3, 1596: To be buried in Wells Cathedral near is wife. Son John Bourne; daus. Mary, Jane, Philippa; brothers John Bourne (Treasurer of Wells Cathedral) and Roger Bourne. He m. Eleanor Smith. 1.1.2.1.1. John Bourne, born in Wiveliscombe. Will proved Oct. 21, 1656. To be buried in Wells Cathedral near his ancestors. Eldest s. Roger, s. Henry, s. *Gilbert, s. Thomas, younger sons under 16 years of age; daus. Mary, Phillippa, Silvestre, Jane, and Frances; sons in law Mr. Stanhope and Mr. Fleming. He m. Elizabeth Weare, d. bef. Aug. 16, 1660, in Halberton, Devon. Elisabeth Bourne, of Gothelney, Som., widow. Will proved by Jane Bourne, Aug. 16, 1660. (163 Nabbs). To be buried at Charlinch. To my eldest son Roger Bourne, my salt that was my cousin Bourne’s, the ring that was my Uncle Jasper’s … My estates in Huish & Langport, to be sould by my son-in-law, Mr Robert Fleming, & my brother-in-law, Mr John Stephens. My son-in-law, John Stanope. 1.1.2.2. Jasper Bourne Sr., m. Joan, relict (not daughter) of James Norwood. Jasper Bourne, of Stanmore Magna, Midd., gent. Will Proved by John Benitt, May 4, 1636. [67 Pile.] My wife Joan. My son (in-law) John Benett, of London, merchant, standeth bound to my nephew John Bourne, of Lincoln’s Inn, in £100. My grandchildren, children of my daughter Elizabeth Benitt … My da. Mary, wife of Edward Benett, merchant … My wife’s grandson, John Norwood, of London. My wife’s da. Elisabeth Ireland, alias Norwood. Overseers. My son John Benitt, Residuary Legatee & Exr.

1. William Norwood. 1.1. Henry Norwood, bur. April 10, 1618, Dunster, Somerset; 12 fr. Wiveliscombe. 1.1.1. Charles Norwood, Clerk of Virginia Assembly. 1.1.2. Henry Norwood, Treasurer of Virginia, who held an estate in Bishampton, Worcestershire, 7 miles fr. Bengeworth, the ancestral home of the Brantleys, who had been tenants of the Norwoods of the Manor of Cheltenham. 1.2. Richard Norwood. 1.2.1. William Norwood, bapt. Sept. 6, 1619, Dunster, d. 1702, Virginia. “Item: I give and bequeath unto my daughter Elizabeth Branch one large pewter dish”. Elizabeth Branch, her Will was probated on March 7, 1703, was the dau. of George Branch, son-in-law of Francis England, who m. a niece of George Moore, father of Ann, wife of Thomas White. 1.2.1.1. Richard Norwood (4th son) – appraisal by Edward Brantley, Oct. 25, 1731, grandson of his namesake, security for the estate of Thomas Harris, d. 1672.

1.1.2.2.1. John White, bapt. May 10, 1674, d. 1729. John White was granted 285 ac. in IOW Co. on the N. side of Flatt Swamp, on June 16, 1727. His Will was proved on March 23, 1729. His estate inventory was given by Thomas Cook, Henry Harris, and William Lee, on March 22, 1730/1. His Will: In the name of God Amen the 23 day of January in the year of our Lord 1726 I John White of Isle of Wight County do make this my last will and testament. I give my plantation and the land of the same sides of branch that the plantation is of to my son Valentine and my wife Elizabeth during her life excepting the fifty acres John Carpenter lives upon which I give to John Carpenter and his wife during their natural life and after their decease unto their son William Carpenter. I give unto my daughter Millicent a bed . I give unto my daughter Jane 25 shillings and also to my daughter Mary 25 shillings. I give unto my son William that part of my land over the branch and if his will there live but not sell it to any person but his brothers Valentine or Jonathan.Witnesses: James Ramsay, John Carpenter, Elizabeth Redish. (IOW Co., Will B. 3, p. 251).

KITTRELL connection to the family of Thomas Harris, d. 1688.

1. Thomas Harris, d. 1688.
1.1. Edward Harris Sr. (He deeded land to his brother, Robert Harris, on he Meherrin River, 1n 1715).
1.1.1. Jacob Harris of Southampton Co. Edward Harris Sr., Will proved March 25, 1734, which bequested 190 ac. to his son, Jacob Harris, on the Flatt Swamp of the Meherrin River. Jacob’s Will was poved in Southampton Co. on March 10, 1763, p. 29/30. Jacob was a neighbour of Joshua Perry: March 5, 1747: Perry, Joshua. grantee. IOW Co. 115 a. on the N. side of Meherrin River. Beg. by the side of a small branch in Henry Harris’s line, p. 237. This Henry Harris was the son of Edward Harris Jr., who was probably the brother of Thomas Harris, d. 1729/30, who deceased d.v.p.

1. *Joshua Perry Sr., m. Elizabeth, relict of James Lundy Sr., Will probated March 23, 1723, p. 153, naming sons: James Lundy Jr., Edward Lundy,* Robert Lundy, and Thomas Lundy; daus. Burchel and Elizabeth Lundy. Presented in Court by Elizabeth Perry, formerly Elizabeth Lundy. First witness: Thomas Harris (d. 1729/30). Joshua Perry and wife, Elizabeth Perry, to John Windham, 82 1/2 acres , being 1/2 of the 165 ac. sold by *Edward Lundy to said Joshua Perry, on Feb. 3, 1727, on the N. side of the Meherrin River. Edward Lundy’s dau., Elizabeth, m. Edward Harris iii, son of Edward Harris Jr., above given.
1.1. Joshua Perry Jr., m. Elizabeth, dau. of William Rush and Mary Hudson. He was the uncle of Benjamin Rush Jr., who m. (2) the relict of Jonathon White, the father of Mary White, who m. Frederick Homes (Holmes). Their dau., Priscilla, m. Richard Harris; their son, John Harris, m. Rachel Milly Kittrell.

1.1.2.2.1.1 Jonathon White, b. ca. 1705, named in father’s Will, moved to Carolina, and bought 308 ac. on Roanoke River in Bertie Co., N.C., from John Mackinne, on Feb. 8, 1730/31. (Bertie Co. C, 339). He was a commissioners for Granville Co. IN 1748. (Walter Clark, The State Records of North Carolina, p. 297). His Will was proved in Granville Co. court in Aug. 1772. (Granville Co., Loose Wills). Jonathon White’s widow m. Benjamin Rush Jr., per marriage bond in Bute Co., N.C., dated March 26, 1773. Her Will, dated Dec, 2, 1790, in Franklin County, NC., made bequests to brothers, John, Moses, and Jacob Bledsoe.

1. Jonathon White, to repeat:
1.1. Priscilla White, m. Frederick Homes, whose Will, dated Jan. 29, 1749/50, named wife Mary, son John Homes, and dau. Priscilla.
1.1.1. Priscilla Homes, m. Richard Harris.
1.1.1.1. Capt. John Harris,* b. ca. 1735, m. Rachel Milly Kittrell, b. ca. 1750.
1.1.1.2. George Harris. 1.1.1.3 Tyree Harris*. 1.1.1.4. Charles Harris.
1.2. Mary White, m. Thomas Bradford, who is recorded as a lietenant (of *Captain John Harris) in the Edgecombe County Regiment, 1780-1781, with Sergeant Henry Lancaster. Captain *Tyree Harris, Edgecombe Co. Regiment, April 25, 1781.
1.3. John White, m. Mary Bradford, sister of Thomas.
1.3.1. .John White, m. Esther Brantley, born May 8, 1774 in Chatham, NC, d. Feb. 14, 1859, dau. of William Brantley, born April 19, 1742, in IOW, d. Oct. 16, 1823, in Chatham, son of John Brantley; son of Edward Brantley (son of Phillip Brantley and Joyce Lewis), and brother of Jane Brantley who m. John Spivey. (The strong indication is that this John Spivey was in some way connected to Moses Spivey, who m. Jemima Standley, relict of John Kittrell, above given). The said Phillip Brantley was the brother of John Brantley Sr., great-grandfather of Ann Barrow, who m. Thomas White, born Feb. 25, 1730/1, of this account.

RUSH

1. William Rush, m. Elizabeth. Will of Elizabeth Rush: Item: I give and bequeath to my grandson, Benjamin Rush (Jr.), son of Benjamin Rush (Sr.), all the remainder part of my estate and what profits shall arise therefrom from the date of this Will only that he pay his father and sisters the above mentioned money. (King George Co. W.B, p. 234). 1.1. Benjamin Rush Sr., m. Amy, relict of James Elkins, of King George Co. 1.1.1. Jane Rush, m. George Bledsoe Sr. 1.1.2. Benjamin Rush Jr. (b. Feb. 14, 1718 in Westmoreland Co.), m. (1) Alice Grigsby, on April 1, 1744, in Overwharton Parish, Stafford Co, VA. 1.1.2.1. William Rush, m. Abigail Terrell. 1.1.2.1.1. Benjamin Rush, m. Lucretia Harris, dau. of John Harris (May 27, 1741 -June 16 1806), and Patience, dau. of James Taylor, son of Thomas Taylor and Mary Harris, dau. of William Harris, d. 1721.* James Taylor: Probate 1772, the Court Order showed Priscilla as guardian of sons James, William and Samuel; appraisal of the estate of James Taylor by John Harris and Patience his wife, pp. 428, 430. 1.1.2.1.2. Alice Rush, m. Arthur Harris, Lucretia’s brother. 1.1.2. Benjamin Rush Jr. m. (2) the relict of Jonathon White, the father of Mary White, who m. Frederick Homes, their dau., Priscilla, m. Richard Harris; their son, John Harris, m. Rachel Milly Kittrell. *See subsequent article.

1.1.2.2.1.1 Jonathon White, b. ca. 1705.
1. Jonathon White, named in father’s Will, moved to Carolina, and bought 308 ac. on Roanoke River in Bertie Co., N.C., from John Mackinne, on Feb. 8, 1730/31. (Bertie Co. C, 339). He was a commissioners for Granville Co. IN 1748. (Walter Clark, The State Records of North Carolina, p. 297). His Will was proved in Granville Co. court in Aug. 1772. (Granville Co., Loose Wills). Jonathon White’s widow m. Benjamin Rush Jr., per marriage bond in Bute Co., N.C., dated March 26, 1773. Her Will, dated Dec, 2, 1790, in Franklin County, NC., made bequests to brothers, John, Moses, and Jacob Bledsoe.
As above given, Jonathon White was the grandfather of Priscilla Homes, wife of Richard Harris, having issue: John Harris, who m. Rachel Milly Kittrell.

THOMAS WHITE
1.1.3. Thomas White, bapt. Sept. 18, 1608, m. Anna Symes, Nov. 16, 1642.
(1. …There is little for certain known of the early ancestry of the Symes of Chard, which is given to much repeated conjecture.
1.1. William Symes born ca. 1535, his will mentions ” his manor house in Chard”. Had manors of Barwick, Bowne, Stofored, Somerset, Franklin & Dorset. proved 27 July 1597 This gentleman married Elizabeth, daughter of Robert Hill, of Poundisford, near Taunton (and his first wife, Alice Clark , who lived in Yard, near Taunton – m.s.), a representative of a very old Somersetshire family, and he was succeeded at his death by his son and heir, John Symes, who at the close of his life left Poundisford (in Pitminster – m.s.) for the residence of his son, at Winterbourne, in the parish of Frampton Cotterell, Gloucestershire, where he died and was buried.
1.2. Thomas Symes. Symes v Baylye. Plaintiffs: Thomas Symes of Chard, Somerset, merchant. Defendant: John Baylye of Chard. Subject of decree: Lease of land belonging to manor of Chard, held of bishop of Bath and Wells. 1579 Feb 7 C 78/50/1. This is John Baylie or Bayly, Gentleman of Chard, probate Oct. 14, 1579; son of John Bayly, Merchant of Chard, probate Dec. 27, 1562 . 1.2.1. William Symes, bur. June 11, 1602. 1.2.1.1. John Symes, bapt. Nov. 24, 1583. 1.2.1.1.1. Mary Symes, bapt. Dec. 17, 1609, m. John Clarke, July 18, 1631. 1.2.1.2. William Symes, bapt. Feb. 12, 1579, m. Frances Anstice, Jan. 10, 1617. 1.2.1.2.1. Anna Symes, probably she bapt. June 13, 1624, m. Thomas White, Nov. 16, 1642. 1.2.2. Thomas Symes. 1.2.2.1. John Symes, bapt. Jan. 19, 1581/2., m. Edith Weare, May 20, 1611).
1.1.3.1. Thomas White, b. ca. 1645, d. 1694, m. Phyllis Prime.

(1. Peter Ridley.
1.1. Ann Ridley, m. Edmund Prime.
1.1.1. John Prime, “was left William Ridley’s plantation at the expiration of Captain Barham’s lease. John Prime died in Isle of Wight County in 1726 and left a legacy to his nephew, Robert Ruffin”. (The Virginia Magazine of History and Biography, vols. 48-49, 1940).
1.1.2. Elizabeth (Prime) Ruffin, m. Robert Ruffin. “Elizabeth Prime, a daughter of Edmund Prime, was a legatee of the 1671 Will of William Ridley in IOW Co. Robert held 850 ac. on the Blackwater Swamp with William Newsom in 1678, ibid.
1.1.3. Jane Prime; “married a Wright and was the mother of Thomas Wright, mentioned as “nephew ” in John Prime’s Will”, ibid.
1.1.4. Phylis (Prime) White, seems to have married Thomas White of Surry Co., ibid, p. 279.
Thomas White. His estate to be divided between his wife, Phillis and children: Thomas (b. ca. 1675, being not aged 18 in 1694), Mary, Rebecca, and Elizabeth. Sister-in-law, Elizabeth Ruffin, have the land, and management of daughter, Rebecca, and her estate, and place dau. Elizabeth, and her estate with whom she please. Mr. Robert Lancaster to have the care of son, Thomas, and daughter Mary, and their estates. Makes wife, Phillis, Exerx. Elizabeth Ruffin and Robert Lancaster, overseers of the Will, probated, Sept. 4, 1694. Wit: Thos. Bage, widow. Edwards, John Thompson. (B. 5, p. 20).

1.1.1.3.2. John White, b. ca. 1644.
1.1.1.3.2.1. John White, b. ca. 1665, d. 1719.
1.1.1.3.2.1.1. John White, b. ca. 1690, d. 1730, m. Sarah Clare in Perquimans, b . 24th of 10th mo. (Dec.) 1693. Sarah Clare was the sister of Jane, who m. William Newby as her 4th husband, on Sept. 3, 1701, in Perquimans, who, by a 1st wife, was father to William Newbye* and Dorothy Newbye. She m. (1) Leavin Buskin, AprIL 17, 1688, (2) Mathew Jordan, who, as given, witnessed the Will of John Harris, d. 1713, son of Thomas Harris, d. 1672.
1.1.1.3.2.1.1.1. Thomas White, b. ca. 1696, d. Nov. 30, 1761. (Clayton Colman Hall, Baltimore: Biography, p. 41, 1912). Thomas White m. Rachel Jordan, great-granddau. of Thomas Jordan and Lucy Corker, on Sept. 13, 1719, in Chuckatuck, niece of Robert Jordan, who m. Christian, dau. of Thomas Taberer, whose dau., Ruth, m. John Newman, br-in-law of Thomas Harris, d. 1672, etc.
1.1.1.3.2.1.1.1.1. Joseph White, born March 6, 1728, m. Gulielma, dau. of *William Newbye.
1.1.1.3.2.1.1.1.1. Thomas White, born Feb. 25, 1730/1, m. Anne Barrow*. (Adventurers of Purse and Person, vol. 2, p. 414, 2005).
1. Thomas Barrow, m. (in 1695), Elizabeth, dau. of John Brantley (son of Edward Sr.; estate security for Thomas Harris, d. 1672).
1.1. Thomas Barrow, b. 1698.
1.2. John Barrow, born Jan. 9, 1699/1700, m. Mary Holliday, d. July 29, 1776, in Brunswick Co.
1.2.1. *Ann Barrow, m. Thomas White, born Feb. 25, 1730/1.

RICHARD WHITE

1.1.4. Richard White, born ca. 1609.
1.1.4.1. Thomas White, bapt. June, 24, 1632.
1.1.4.1.1. Thomas White, born ca. 1655, m. Ann, dau. of George Moore. (B. 2, p. 586). She witnessed the Will of Edward Brantley Sr. in 1688/9 (B. 2, p. 289). Her Will of 1742 was witnessed by Edward Brantley (grandson of Edward Brantley Sr.) who witnessed the Will of his neighbour, Thomas Harris,* d. 1729/30, and whose son, John Brantley m. the relict of the said Thomas Harris.

(1. George Moore, of Bristol, m. a dau. of the vintner, Charles Barcroft, who emigrated to Virginia in 1636, after the death of his brother and partner, John Barcroft (of Chard). In February 1637, he patented 350 acs. in IOW Co., p. 517, lying behind the Pagan shore, bordering upon land of Christopher Reynolds, runing S. into the woods toward the Cypress Swamp. Charles Barcroft, of St. Olave, Southwark, Surrey, merchant tailor, bachelor, 23, and Dorothy Crosby, 15, spinster, daughter of John Crosbye, late of St. Albans, Herts, gent, deceased, with the consent of her mother, Mary Crosby, at parish church of St Albans, Feb. 20, 1632/3. He m. (2) to Elizabeth Wood on Sept. 4, 1634. (England Births and Christenings, 1538-1975), having issue: “Elizabeth Bearcroft”,* bapt. Aug. 27, 1635, ibid.. He m. (3) Magdalin, bef. 1640, in IOW Co. Charles Barcroft deeded land to his wife Magdalin and so, William Barcroft, on April 10, 1654. (W&M Quarterly, vol. 7, no. 4, 1899). His Will was probated on Oct. 24, 1661, when his son-in-law, George Moore (husband of dau. Jane) requested administration off his estate on behalf of Magdalin Barcroft, relict, and William Barcroft, son. Jane (Barcroft) Moore was living in November 1710, the date of her husband’s Will. Her eldest dau., Magdalen Moore, was born ca. 1657, and it is highly probable that Jane named her for her mother, with Jane being born ca. 1638-1642.

1.*Elizabeth Barcroft, m. James Sampson, on August 13, 1654, in Stepney, Middlesex. 1.1. Elizabeth Sampson, m. …Clarke. 1.2. Ellinor Sampson, m. Edward Browne d. 1669. 1.3. James Sampson. 1.3.1. Margaret Sampson, m. Nicholas Wilson (B. 2, p. 291), br. of John Wilson, whose relict m. John Brantley (as his 3rd wife), son of Edward Brantley Sr. On Jun 9, 1694, Katherine Wilson was granted admin. of the estate of her late husband, John Wilson, with John Brantley and William Thomas being named valuers of the estate. “Mr George Moore to swear them“, he probably being John Brantley’s uncle. 1.3.1.1. James Wilson, m. Honor Goodrich, she m. (2) Thomas Pierce. 1.3.1.1.1. Samuel Wison. Francis Brantley’s estate was appraised by Francis Young, Samuel Wilson, and John Fones, Aug. 5, 1779. (B. 9, p. 14). 1.3.1.1.1.1. Sampson Wilson. James Browne’s estate was appraised by Sampson Wilson, Wilson Brantley, and James Piland, Feb. 4, 1793. (B. 10, p. 248). Sampson Wilson, Will pr. June 4, 1804 (B. 12, p. 21). 1.3.1.1.1.1.1. Mary Wilson, m. Josiah Barcroft.

1. Jane Barcroft, born 1638-1642, m. George Moore, born 1632 (78 years old in 1710).

1.1. Magdalin Moore, b. ca. 1657, m. Thomas Carter in 1675. 1.1.1. Martha Carter, m. John Jones. 1.1.1.1. Ann Jones, m. John Cotton. She was the sister of James Jones, who m. Sarah, dau. of William Bridger (and Sarah, dau. of John Dew and Elizabeth Sherrer/Sherwood); son of William Bridger and Elizabeth Goodwin. Sarah Dew/Bridgers m. (2) William Cotton, John Cotton’s brother. Elizabeth Sherrer was the dau. of John Sherrer’Sherwood, who witnessed the Will of Thomas Harris, d. 1688. John Dew was the br.-in-law of William Bryant, husband of Patience Dew. On Aug. 11, 1730 Sarah Bridger, extr. of her father, sold to Abraham Bagget 150 ac. N. of Meherrian River. Wit: William Bryant. This William Bryant was the father of Elizabeth Bryant, wife of Jonathon Kittrell Jr., who had issue: Rachel Milly Kittrell, who m. John Harris, d. 1831, Abbeville, SC. His Will mentions his wife Milly, his sons William, Robert, John, and Thomas S., and his daughters Elizabeth, Polly, Sarah, Caroline, Peggy, Milly, and Louisa Catherine.

1.2. Eleanor Moore, m. Richard Pyland. 1.2.1. James Piland, appraised the estate of John Brantley Sr., on April 26, 1725. 1.2.1.1. James Piland, m. Elizabeth Brantley, dau. of Phillip Brantley, son of Edward Brantley Sr.; security for the estate of Thomas Harris, d. 1672. John Brantley Sr., as given, was the great-grandfather of Ann Barrow, who m. Thomas White, born Feb. 25, 1730/1.

1.3. Ann Moore, born ca. 1660 (there is no reason to suppose she was born much later than her sisters), m. Thomas White. As given, she witnessed the Will of Edward Brantley Sr. in 1688. Her Will of 1742 was witnessed by Edward Brantley (grandson of Edward Brantley Sr.) who witnessed the Will of his neighbour, Thomas Harris, d. 1729/30, and whose son, John Brantley m. the relict of the said Thomas Harris. Neither Ann (Moore) White’s Will or that of her father name a Avis. Grandchildren listed in George Moore’s Will of 1710: 1. Jane White; 2. John White; 3. George Thomas White (sic: Moore Thomas); 4. William White; 5. Henry White. Ann Moore White’s Will, proved May 24, 1742, named sons, John White, and Thomas White (born ca. 1677), and his son, Thomas White, born ca. 1700, whose Will was proved on Jan. 26, 1773, naming; daus. Martha Little, Ann Holleman; Avis Harris, William White, James White, Olive Clifton, Sarah Presson; son Benjamin White.
1.3.1. Thomas White, born ca, 1677.
1.3.1.1. Thomas White, born ca, 1700.
1.3.1.1.1. Avis White, born ca. 1722, m. John Harris, born ca. 1710, son of Robert Harris, born 1674.

That Avis, the wife of a John Harris, was alive in 1771 is evident: “In the name of God, Amen, I John Harris of Southampton County being in perfect health now and memory thanks be to the almighty God do make and ordain this my last Will and Testament in manner and form as followeth, viz: “I give and bequeath to my loving wife Avis Harris the use of four Neg. during her life … I give the said slaves and their increase to be equally divided between my six children namely Harmon Harris, Howel Harris, Lucy Harris, Elizab. Harris, Joel Harris, and Benjamin Harris or the Survivors of them to them and their heirs forever. My will and desire is that the said slaves shall not be sold out of the family. I give and bequeath to my loving wife Avis Harris the use of my land and plantation whereon I now live during her life and after her decease I give my said land to my son Benjamin Harris forever but in case my son Benja depart this life in his non-age or without lawful Issue of his body then I give this said Land to my son Joel Harris and his heirs forever … I give to my Loving wife Avis Harris all the remainder of my estate not heretofore mentioned to her and her heirs forever … I constitute and appoint my son Howel Harris my whole executor of this my last Will and Testament revoking and making void all former wills by me made. In Witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand and Seal this 11 day of May Anno Dom. 1771. Signed, sealed and delivered in presence of Arthur Holleman, Micajah Holleman, William Holleman

HENRY WHITE

1.1.5. Henry White, d. 1670 (W.B. 3, p. 98). July 4, 1649. White, Henry. grantee. James City Co. 200 ac. lying at Blackwater, upon the eastermost branch pointing up to Upper Chipoakes; adjoining the land of *Francis England. (B. 2, p. 176). Francis England was the first husband of Joyce,* niece of George Moore, father of Ann Moore, who m. Thomas White, as above given.; their dau., Avis White, m. John Harris, grandson of Thomas Harris, d. 1688. August 20, 1650. Grantee(s): Flake, Robert and Elridge, Samuel. 560 ac. upon the third swamp S.W. by W. from Henry White’s plantation. (p. 240). Robert Flake, m., as her 2nd husband, Katherine Moore (mother of *Joyce); sister (on chronological grounds), of George Moore, who stated to be “age 78 years” when he made his Will in 1710 (Chapman, IOW Wills, p. 54). Thomas Moore m. a sister of Samuel Elridge, security given by George Moore (brother), and Edward Brantley Sr.; who was security, with Nicholas Hill, for the estate of Thomas Harris, d. 1672. Francis England’s land abutted that of Edward Brantley Sr.

Henry White was granted 1,000 ac. in Charles City Co. in 1663 (B. 5, p. 333); transportees included John and Thomas White. In 1669, Edward Brantley Sr. patented 675 ac. in IOW Co., “neer Henry White’s old cart path to the mill”. (B.6, p. 261). Edward Brantley Sr. is first recorded in Virginia in 1667, when he bought 675 ac. in IOW Co., from Francis Hobbs, the father-in-law of John Harris, son of Thomas Harris, d. 1672, witnessed by Thomas Moore. Edward Brantley’s land in Virginia was also bordered to the W. by that of Thomas Blake, kinsman of the said Thomas Harris. Thomas Harris, Will recorded Nov. 13, 1672. Security John Newman* and Edward Brantley. (AP: 29). *Brother of Alice, second wife of Thomas Harris. Edward Brantley Sr. had issue: Phillip Brantley Sr., who m. Joyce Lewis, dau. of Thomas Lewis and Rebecca George (d. June 6, 1677), cousin of Eleanor George, first wife of Thomas Harris, d. 1672. Phillip Brantley’s son, Edward Brantley,* was the father of John Brantley, who m. the relict of Thomas Harris, d. 1629/30. Thomas Harris, 290 acs., IOW Co; N. side of Maherin Riv., & on both sides of Herbert’s Br; adj. *Edward Brantley and William Simmons’ line. March 24, 1725, p. 440. Thus, both the Harris and White families were associated with the Brantleys.

A precis of the Ancestry of Samuel Stockton White. With accounts of the families of White, Newby, et al, 1888:

Henry White, 1st, of James City County, Virginia, planter. His name first appears July 4, 1649, when he received a grant of 200 acres of land “lying in Black “Water, upon the easternmost branch, poynting up to Upper “Chipoakes, in the County of James Cittie, bounded east upon “the s’d swamp, north upon the land of ffrancis England, “south towards the land of Peter Wall, and west into the woods.” September 25, 1663, when styled “Senior,” the grant to his son, who was styled “Junior,” which is afterwards referred to, bearing the same date and being recorded on the same page, he obtained a patent for 200 acres on the south side of the Carolina River. In February (12th mo., O. S.) of that year he, together with Peter Gill, obtained a grant of 1000 acres in Charles City County, and May 9, 1666, one for himself alone of 1800 acres in Accomac County.* It is probable that Henry White did not long survive this purchase, but the absence of any county records for that period renders it impossible to ascertain the exact year of his decease. (B. 2, p. 176; B. 4, p. 595; B. 5, p. 333; B. 6, p. 21).

1.1.5.1. Arnold White, of Pasquotank Precinct, Albemarle Co., NC; m. Mary, who d. in March, 1678-9. He d. 3d mo. (May) 23, 1690, leaving issue an only son, Arnold. In his will, he mentions his brothers, Henry White and Thomas Symons.

1.1.5.2. A dau. m. Thomas Symons, of Symons Creek, Pasquotank Precinct.

1.1.5.3. Henry White, b. 1635, d. 1712. He was living along the W. side of Little River in Perquimans Co. in 1679. At the Pasquatank monthly meeting, on July 10 1681, he declared his intention to m. a 2nd wife, Damaris, dau. of Isaac Page.

Henry White, 2d, of Little River, Pasquotank Precinct, Albemarle County, North Carolina, planter, (son of Henry, 1st, and,) born in 1635, and, September 25, 1663, obtained from the Governor of Virginia, Sir William Berkeley, Knt., who at that time claimed the right of granting land in North Carolina, a patent of 700 acres in that province, which is described as being “on a small creek called Corawtucks, that falls into the Kec”oughtauk River.” In the patent the watercourses are described by their Indian names, but this land was situate in what was afterwards Pasquotank Precinct, the river referred to being the Little River, as appears by a deed dated April 16, 1717, when his eldest son, Robert White, in consideration of £100, conveyed to Robert Lowry “all that land lying “and being within the patent of the s’d Robert Lowry, which “belonged to the s’d Robert White as eldest son of Henry White, “dec’d, & which was granted to his father in a King’s patent, “bearing date ye 25: 7br (September), 1663. B. 4, p. 595; B. A, Pasquotank Co. Deeds, p. 150). In 1696 the authorities of North Carolina granted to “Mr. Henry White” a tract of land in Pasquotank Precinct, containing 100 acres. North Carolina Patent Records, Book I, p. 71. Mr. White was one of the most prominent members of the Society of Friends, being a minister and recorder of the Little River Quarterly Meeting. The quarterly and monthly meetings were usually held at his house at Little River, and the following record of his death shows in what estimation he was held by his neighbors: “Our Dear and Well ” beloved friend Henry White, Departed This Lyfe ye 3rd of ye 8 “mo: 1712, having been aged about 77: A True and faithful “man to God’s Everlasting Truth.”

1.1.5.3.1. Henry White, 2d, married, first, about 1660, Mary … , who died 3d mo. (May) 3, 1679, when he married, secondly, in 1680, Damaris Morrison, who died 9th mo. (November) 7, 1722. Issue of Henry White, 2d, and Mary, his first wife:

1.1.5.3.1.1. Margaret White, b. 1662; m., 4th mo. (June) 24, 1679, Solomon, son of Richard Pool, of London, from whom descend Dr. Pool and Hon. Walter Pool, of Elizabeth City, North Ca.

1.1.5.3.1.2. Elizabeth White, b. at Little River, 10th mo. (December) 29, 1673; m., first, 4th mo. (June) 24, 1690, Amos Davis, and secondly, James Newby.

1.1.5.3.1.3. James White, b. at Little River, 5th mo. (July) 20, 1676.

1.1.5.3.1.4. John White (twin), b. at Little River, 5th mo. (July) 20, 1676; m. Elizabeth, dau. of John Newby. John White, b. July 20, 1676, in IOW; d. bef. March 25, 1717, in Pasquotank, NC.; m. Elizabeth Newbye, on Jan. 14, 1696, at the house of James Davis. John Jordan (son of Thomas Jordan Sr., and brother of Thomas Jordan Jr., grandfather of Rachel Jordan, who m. Thomas White, as above given), and Margaret Burgh were m. on the twelft day of ye eleventh month in ye year 1688. Among those present: William Newbye and his daus: Elizabeth and Dorothy Newbye. Robert Jordan, son of Thomas Jordan Sr. and Christian, dau. of Thomas Taberer, were married on ye 9th dayof ye twelft month in ye year 1687, William Newbye, and Dorothy Newbye present. Leaven Bufkin and Dorothy Newbye daughter of William Newbye were married on the tenth day of ye second month in ye year 1688, Elizabeth Newbye present. Henry Hollowell and Elizabeth Scott were married on ye 20th day of the 2 month 1693. Elizabeth Newbye, Dorothy Bufkin, and William Scott present. William Scott’s dau., Elizabeth, m. John Hollowell, son of Henry Hollowell, born the 18th of the 8th month 1652 (October 18, 1652), son of Thomas Hollowell, who was granted: “three hundred acres of land, being a neck of land lying on the West Branch of Elizabeth River”, by Richard Bennett, second-cousin of Thomas Harris, d. 1672; estate security: Edward Brantley Sr. Governor Richard Bennett, bapt. Aug. 6, 1609, d. 1675, in Virginia; his Will bequested two thousand pounds of tobacco to the wife of “Mr. Thomas Taberer”, whose dau., Ruth, m. John Newman, br-in-law of Thomas Harris, d. 1672. William Scott’s son, John, m. Elizabeth Belson, the dau. of Elizabeth Belson, the 19 day of 8 month 1682. (Early Quaker Records in Virginia, White, p. 6).

(It would not be improbable that the Holliwells were of Wiveliscombe (home of the Bennett and Harris families), where William Hollwell m. Mary Lovell, on June 8, 1624, having issue: William Holliwell, bapt. Feb. 11, 1625, John Holliwell, bapt. March 13, 1631. It can be summised that Thomas Holliwell, the grantee of Richard Bennett, was born between 1626 and 1630; the registers not being fully inclusive. The Lovells of Wiveliscomb intermarried with the Fortes and Clowters of that place. Agnis Lovell m. John Clowter, Feb. 7, 1568. He had m. (1) Johan Westbrooke, Sept. 23, 1559, the sister of Dorothy Westbrooke, who m. William Harris, Aug. 31, 1562; the ancestors of the Harris family of Virginia, of this account).

1.1.5.3.1.4.1. John White, b. 11th mo., 1719.

1.1.5.3.2. Robert White, 1st, of Little River, Pasquotank Precinct, Albemarle County, North Carolina, planter, (eldest son of IIenry, 2d, and Mary,) born at Little River, 2d .11mo. (January) 1674.* In 1713 he, together with his brothers, John and Arnold, obtained a grant of 360 ac. in Pasquotank Precinct, and in 1719, for himself alone, one of 70 ac. in the same locality. In 1727, he divided his slaves and some other personal property among his six children, and died some time prior to March 31, 1750, when his widow, Rebecca, conveyed to her grandson, John, son of John Overman, a plantation on Symons Creek which had been bequeathed to her by her stepfather, Mathew Calley. Robert White, married (1) 6th mo. (August), 1702, Tabitha Alford, (2), 5th mo. (July) 1717, Rebecca, widow of Jacob Overman, and dau. of John Newby. Issue of Robert White and Tabitha Alford, his first wife:

1.1.4.3.1.1. Jonathon White, m. 10d. 2d. mo. (April) 1729, Ann, dau. of Samuel Pike, and d. 10d. 11th mo. (January) 1746. Issue: i. Samuel White, b. 17d 11mo. 1734. ii. Joseph white, b. 17d. 11mo. 1734. iii. John White, b. 3d 2mo 1737. 1.1.4.3.1.2. Joseph White, m., 4 mo. (June) 1736, Sarah Newby.

Issue of Henry White, 2d, and Damaris Morrison: Damaris White, b. at Little River, 12th mo. (February) 1684; m. 8d. 6th mo. (August) 1700, John, son of Thomas Symons. Henry White, b. at Little River, 25d. 4th mo. (June) 1690; m. 3mo. (May) 1727, Ruth Keaton; removed to New River, and d. 2d mo. (April) 1739. Arnold White., b. at Little River, 7th mo. (September) 1693; m. and settled in Perquimans Co., N. C. Naomi White, b. at Little River, 7th mo. (September) 1704; m., 5th mo. (July) 1732, James, son of James Newby. Henry White, of New River, Pasquotank Co., b. 25d. 4mo. 1690; m. 3d mo. 1727, Ruth Keaton, who died 19d. 10mo. 1734. They had issue: i. Thomas White, b. 2d. 1mo., 1728. ii. Jack White, b. 28d. 10mo., 1729.

NEWBY

London Quakers provided an important link to “Friends” in Virginia: “London Quakers communicated political and governmental news to distant Friends through various methods, often creating relationships between London and individual colonies, continuing the practice of protecting Quakers through political action while adapting to meet the needs of a transatlantic community”. .J. Landes, London Quakers in the Trans-Atlantic World, p. 65, 2015. They became numerous in London: “Meanwhile the numbers of the London Friends continued greatly to increase … This rapid growth continued till, in 1678, Friends numbered 10,000 in London alone”. (Thomas Frederick Ball, The London Friends’ Meetings, 1869).
They had encountered much persecution: Quakers at Westminster: The Sad Effects of Cruelty Detected; Being an Impartial Account of the poor woman, near Temple-Barr, lately tempted in her Distraction to Make away her self. Whose Temptation and Distraction proceeded not from her Owning the Quakers, their Meetings or Principles (as hath been most Maliciously suggested) but from the Devil, & a Wicked Husband (prevailing upon her own Infirmity) as is hereby briefly (yet apparently) evinced. In Pursuance of a late Malicious Pamphlet and Fallacious Account, entituled, The Sad and Dreadful End of One of the Quakers, &c”. Note. At the end of this pamphlet it says, “This is written and given forth by several of us who are called Quakers, belonging to Westminster End, who were in a great measure Eye and Ear witnesses of this poor woman’s Grievous Sufferings and Barbarous usage, and further ready to attest the same, if Occasion require”. (Joseph Smith, A Descriptive Catalogue of Friends’ Books, p. 450, 1867).

BARBARIC PUNISHMENTS

They had witnessed barbaric punishments: James Naylor was set in the pillory, in the Palace Yard, Westminster, for two hours, then whipped by the hangman through the streets from Westminster to the old Exchange, placed in the pillory two hours more two days after, then taken to the old Exchange, where his tongue was bored through with an hot iron, and his forehead marked with the letter B; then he was sent to Bristol, through the said city on horseback with his face backward, bareridged, and publicly whipped; then sent to labour hard in prison, till released by Parliament, to be debarred the use of pen, ink, and paper, and to have no relief but what he earned by his daily labours. An eye-witness remarks, “He put out his tongue very willingly, but shrinked a little when the iron came upon his forehead. He was pale when he came out of the pillory, but high-coloured after tongue boring”. (George Venables, How Did They Get There, p. 14, 1886). B for blasphemer.

The English pedigree postulated for the Newby family of Virginia gives them as (1) originating in Durham, N. England, and appearing in Dublin, Ireland, as Quakers in the 1650’s, perhaps having been granted a Cromwellian land grant; (2) coming from London to New England in the 1630’s. Such speculations, of the name-is-the-same variety, have little to recommend them, and a feasible alternative would suggest them to be of Westminster, London, neighbours of a family of Jordan.
1. John Newbee , bur. Nov. 21, 1576, in Westminster.
1.1. Alexander Newbie, m. Agnes Goode, July 29, 1577.
1.2. James Newbie.
1.2.1 James Newbie, bapt. March 9, 1579/80.
1.2.1.1. John Newbie, bur. March 8, 1648/9.
1.2.1.1.1. William Newbie, bapt. June 28, 1626. (William “the Quaker” Newby).
1.2.1.1.1.1. John Newby, born ca. 1652, d. 1723. He m. the relict of Matthew Calley, a “Friend”, who in his Will, dated April 16, 1699, bequeathed to his step-daughter, Rebecca Newby, a plantation containing 100 ac. on Symons Creek, which after the decease of her second husband, Robert White, she conveyed to her grandson, John Overman. In 1696, her sister, Elizabeth Newby, is in her marriage certificate styled “daughter of John Newby and daughter-in-law (step-daughter) of Matthew Calley”. (Book B, Pasquotank Co. Deeds, p. 83). John Newby assigns “Right to within Bill of Sale”—333 ac. purchased by me of John Parish,” unto Barneba Nixon, 9d. 2mo. 1707. Wit.: Christopher Nicholson, John Flower.
1.2.1.1.1.1. Elizabeth Newby, born Nov. 14, 1676 in Chuckatuck, IOW, d. Jan. 23, 1717, in Pasquotank NC, m. John White, on Nov. 14, 1696, in Pasquotank.
1.2.1.1.1.1.1. Thomas White, born ca. 1697, d. Oct. 30, 1761, in Perquimans Co., NC.; m. Rachel (dau. of Joshua Jordan and Elizabeth Sanbourne), on Sept. 13, 1719, in Chuckatuck. She m. (2) Cornelius Ratliffe:
1.2.1.1.1.2. Rebecca Newbye, born Oct. 20, 1678 in Pasquotank Co., NC., deceased in 1750, in Perquimans, m.. (1) in Oct. 1699, Jacob Overman, who d. 8d 7th mo. (September) 1715. She m. (2) Robert White.
1.2.1.1.2. John Newbie, bapt. Sept. 5, 1627, m. Sarah …
1.2.1.1.2.1. Thomas Newby, bapt. Feb 1654/5. (Perhaps he who m. Mary Pretlow in Virginia, ca. 1672).
1.2.1.1.2.2. William Newby, born ca. 1660.
1.2.1.1.2.3. Dorothy Newby, born June 18, 1664 in Chuckatuck, m. (1) Levin Buskin, April 17, 1688, (2) Mathew Jordan, July 5, 1699, who witnessed the Will of a son of Thomas Harris, d. 1672, above given.
1.2.1.1.2.3.1. Joshua Jordan.
1.2.1.1.2.3.1.1. Rachel Jordan, m. Thomas White.
1.2.1.1.2.3.1.1.1. Thomas White, m. Ann Barrow, May 11, 1755, in Perquimans Co., great granddau. of John Brantley Sr., son of Edward Bantley Sr., security for the estate of the said Thomas Harris.
1.2.1.1.2.4. James Newbye Sr., m. (1) Sarah, who d. 13d 3d mo. (May) 1718. James Newby of Pasq, sold within Patent unto James Foster of Perq. March 9, 1702-3. Sarah Newby Ack’ her Dower right”. Wit.: Wm Barclift, Peter Godfrey.
1.2.1.1.2.4.1. James Newby Jr., b. 1710; m. 5th mo. (July) 1732, Naomi, dau. of Henry and Damaris White.

Jordans of St. Martin in the Fields, Westminster.
1. John Jordan, m. (1) Elizabeth …
1.1. Thomas Jordan, bapt. May 12, 1633.
1.2. William Jordan, bapt. dec. 16, 1638.
1. John Jordan, m. (2) Ann …
1.2. John Jordan, bapt. Nov. 24, 1639.
No further records of the Jordans in this parish after 1640.

It is not claimed that all relationships heretofore given are accurate in all respects, as much genealogical reconstruction, when devoid of authentic source material, can only fall within a category of ‘what seems likely to have been the case’ – based on a knowledge of English social constructs carried forward to Virginia – the ‘known unknown’ hypothesis.

by m stanhope

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