THE WRIGHT/JAMES links of LOUDON AND FAUQUIER COUNTIES. John JAMES and Elizabeth WRIGHT . George JAMES. notes and some descendants. The notations of the will on page 276 seem to put George JAMES as a contemporary in age bracket with Nathaniel POPE. ************************** Excerpts from volume title The Washington Ancestry and Records of The McClain, Johnson, and Forty Other Colonial American Families. Prepared for EDWARD LEE McCLAIN by Charles Archer Hoppin IN THREE VOLUMES. Greenfield, Ohio: Privately Printed 1932. Volume I, page 276: gives notation of George James, his Will (Notes: Nathaniel POPE. the genealogy link to the Washington Family is such: Lieut. Col. Nathaniel POPE and wife Lucy [unkn] were parents of Ann POPE. Anne POPE married Col. John WASHINGTON. Col. John and Ann WASHINGTON had a son Capt. John WASHINGTON. Capt. John WASHINGTON married Ann WICKLIFFE. They had a son Major Lawrence WASHINGTON and a daughter Ann WASHINGTON. Major Lawrence WASHINGTON married Mildred WARNER and Ann WASHINGTON married Major Francis WRIGHT.......from this marriage came the link to the WASHINGTON family via a marriage from the WRIGHT family into the JAMES family). "[Ibid., page 65, dorso.] George JAMES, his Will. the Nuncupative Will of George James who being at Lieuten't Colonel Pope's house in or about Aprill last spoke these words following: That if he dyed in this Country that w'ch he had he would Leave to Richard Browne & his wife & children amongst them. Signum Wm BUFFETT Signum Johis BROWNE (Proved 20 Octo. 1656). notes Re: Mr. Pope: likely area of reference would be Westmoreland county as this seems to be the most mentioned location of activity. Mr. Pope had lands granted 1656 in a patent of 1050 acres "upon A maine branch of ye head of Stokes his Creeke at Apamatockes in Westmoreland county"; "Lieutenant Colonel Pope's lands, home, and warehouse on Hallowes Creek out of Mattox Creek became the center of activity in upper Westmoreland. " Other persons and surnames: Roger ISHAM age 27 yrs deposes in a will. John WOOD, ELSTON; MR. SPEKE & Mr. BRODHURST. SHARPE. Thomas BACON age 40 .........".all year date given ano Novem: 1655 Jurat in Cur.". Volume I, page 404: references to support the Elizabeth JAMES, born of the WRIGHT family . gives notations from Fauquier county Original Wills, bundle for 1792. and Deed Book number 48, page 258 same county. references to the "Old Major Wright Tract" Deed Book 63, Fauquier Co, VA.......Cap't. John WRIGHT, son of Major James WRIGHT", the Major being James WRIGHT. Descendants of the WRIGHT family includes a marriage to a JAMES . The original WRIGHT Tract was that of Major Francis WRIGHT (1) who married Ann WASHINGTON. "The original tract lies close to the west side of Midland P.O., and between it and the hamlet of Liberty; it is intersected by Marsh Run. This estate was owned by the Wright descendants until sold to Samuel Robinson on November 8, 1847, by the great-great-grandchildren of Captain John (4) Wright, namely Granville J. Kelly and wife Harriet E., Elizabeth Taliaferro, John P. Kelly (in the right of Margaret J. Blackwell and Jane P. Kelly), who then sold as the deed recites, all that Tract or parcel of land in Fauquier Known as the Wright tract being the same land bequeathed to the parties of the second party by their deceased Grandmother James--[Elizabeth (Wright) James daughter of the aforesaid Major James(5) Wright and wife of John James[. This deed, recorded on page 258 of Fauquier Deed Book, number 48, also refers to a reservation in the Wright estate by the Wright heirs of "one quarter acre released to Mr. Kelly, the Wright tract, a family Graveyard." * (*footnote: the Wright family burial ground could not legally be sold by any Wright family member or heir according to Virginia law. The place of the last living descendants of the Wright family estate is called Pine View and still was in their possession at the time of this publication.) Volume I, page 423 thru 423: gives references to the wife of John JAMES being Elizabeth WRIGHT, daughter of James WRIGHT. {Will of John JAMES Fauquier Will Book 3, page 381; proved April 26, 1802] "Rosamond (5) WRIGHT, unmarried; her will dated February 19, 1804, was proved September 23, 1811, and filed in the original bundle for that year at WARRENTON. It bequeaths to her brother and sister James and Mary 'one negro man Robert and woman named Liddy, and as they have been good servants and now getting old, my wish is they may always be well and have a comfortable maintenance when they are not able to labour'; it also names "Bettsy" JAMES, daughter of the said James WRIGHT, and her (Betsey's) children, Aldridge JAMES and Margaret JAMES, by her husband John JAMES. James(5) Wright and Aldridge JAMES, the executors, gave an executor's bond of $10,000, which amount shows that Rosamond's father had been able to provide nicely for her." links and issues in the WRIGHT family of Loudon, Virginia: children of John(4) WRIGHT: Elizabeth(5), married (---------------) PARLOW and left Fauquier County. Marry(5) , unmarried; her will proved March 25, 1822 [filed in the 1822 bundle at Warrenton], names two more children of her niece Betsy (6)WRIGHT) JAMES, namely: Mary JAMES who married (-----) SMITH and David JAMES William(5) (senior) had a rather stormy career as a litigant, usually unsuccessful, in the county court. He married twice (Mary (-----------), and Elizabeth (----------), who survived him. Military services: page 25, Volume 1 of Fauquier court minute books for Sept 27, 1759 where his father (John4) also sat as a justice. Mentioned in his father's will of August 26, 1751 as being given land in the parish of Hamilton which joined the lands of Jonas WILLIAMS and Simon MORGAN, lands which "being part of a greater Dividant taken up by Waugh DARNALL, Dec'd, by patent Dated the 17th day of February 1725." James(5) principal heir of John(4) married Mary DUNCAN license Dec. 8, 1763. app't to Fauquier Co Court June 1773 (minute book p 31), was also innkeeper and vestryman of Hamilton Parish. Father of Bettsey (6) WRIGHT- JAMES. "Fauquier County land grants: Land Office, Richmond, Virginia, page 143, Book W, the grant of 166 acres in 1792 to James(5) WRIGHT, son of John (4) WRIGHT. This James(5) WRIGHT is in the U.S. census of 1810 as living on his estate in Fauquier County with three adult females (wife or daughter and sisters Rosamond and Mary), one female under sixteen, two males between sixteen and twenty-six, and thirty-seven slaves. His daughter Elizabeth (6) called Betsy) was then a widow, the will of her husband, John JAMES (marriage license June 27, 1783) , having been proved April 26, 1802. Her own will, dated January 3, 1828, was proved at Warrenton October 27, 1834 [ibid., 13, p. 394], she dying then on her estate which her father James (5)WRIGHT had inherited from his father John(4). She left (1) a daughter, Mary JAMES, who married (---) SMITH; (2) a son, Dr. Aldridge JAMES, whose will was proved February 23, 1846; (3) a son, David JAMES, (who died in testate in 1837 leaving a son, Dean JAMES, and a ferry and town lots at Burlington, Iowa, [Fauquier Wills No. 17, p. 183], and lastly, (4) a daughter Margaret JAMES, who married January 11, 1820 [see p. 63, Fauquier marriage records], John P. Kelly, deputy sheriff of Fauquier County in 1829; but she died before October 13, 1832, he marrying then (secondly) Ann(----). The will of Elizabeth (WRIGHT) JAMES also names " her granddaughter, Delia JAMES, and bequeaths "to my daughter Margaret Kelly's children four negroes, also the land that belonged to my grandfather upon which I live; my son Aldridge [residuary legatee] to have possession of it for five years after my death free of rent." Granville J. Kelly, Harriet E. Kelly, Elizabeth Taliaferro, John P. Kelly, Margaret J. Balckwell, and Jane P. Kelly sold to Samuel Robinson "all that Tract or parcel of land in Fauquier known as the Wright Tract being the same land bequeathed to the parties of the second part by their deceased Grandmother JAMES....206 acres: excepting "one quarter of an acre released to Mr. Kelly, the Wright tract, a Family Graveyard." The KELLY family of John P. later moved to Culpeper Co. D. Wright Kelly, attorney at law in 1918 wrote that he had a cousin named Wright JAMES, an Aunt named Elizabeth KELLY, a Grandmother who was a JAMES whose mother was a WRIGHT. and that his father was Granville J. KELLY. The End. __________________ Linda M. Thank lthank@turboisp.com __________________