I descend from the Wynne and Woodliff families. My mother was a Woodliff. sheryl -----Original Message----- I think that we have the same information on the Woodlief family. I show John Woodlief II born about 1614 and died in 1676. George Woodlief seems to have been his oldest grandson as he mentions him in the 1675 Will.......Mike ----- Original Message ----- > Deloris & Michael, > I have a book by Elizabeth Ann Taylor Kerman, "The Woodliff Family and > their > Royal Connections 1239 - 1987". In it she has John Woodliffe, II married > to > Mary Wynne d/o Captain Robert Wynne. Their children are John Woodliffe > III, > George Woodlief, & Edward Woodliffe. John III m. Mary Poythress, George > m. > Elizabeth Wallace & Edward m. Sarah Pollard. > sheryl > > > > -----Original Message----- > Deloris, > I have George born about 1646 (husband of Elizabeth Wallace whose > daughter, > Mary, married a Carter), Edward about 1644 [husband of Sarah (Pollard)] > and > John about 1643 (husband of Mary Poythress), all sons of John Woodlief > born > about 1614. > Nugent, Cavaliers and Pioneers, 1:68, August 24, 1637. A patent for 550 > acres of land in Charles City County, is granted to John Woodlife, due in > right of descent from his father, Capt. John Woodlife, Esq., of Charles > City > County, to whom it was granted by Sir George Yeardley, in 1620. John > Woodlief (1614-1676) was the son of John Woodlief (1584-bef. 1655) and > Mary > Archard. > > (Woodlief Family Genealogy: Colonial Virginia): John Woodlief (1614-1676) > went with John Lanier to ask Governor Berkeley for permission to go > against > Indians. Being refused and called fools and loggerheads, they took > Nathaniel > Bacon as their leader and went without commission. He died during Bacon's > Rebellion. See Virginia Rec. Bk. p. 284-288, Charles City Mil 1655-1665. > Was > in Capt. Francis Gray's Co....As far as I know, no one has ever determined > who the wife of this Captain John Woodlief was. > > As to when Francis Poythress died, I have to say that any person that held > a > highly significant office, that enjoyed a very good income, that had a > desire to succeed in the upper echelons of the Virginia colonial society > would not have given up the Northumberland tax collector position, the > elected burgess position, and the position of a senior militia officer > (Major) unless something very significant happened. There is no record of > malfeasance in office and his colleague, Mr. Trussell continued in his > capacity. The last record referring to Francis was in 1651. The lucrative > positions that he held were not taken lightly in those days and senior > positions in our government are not given up lightly these days > either....I > can see no other reason than that of death to keep Francis from enjoying > his > just deserts.....Mike > > > > > ----- Original Message ----- >> Michael, I would not think that if Mary Wynne was born after 1655 (and >> how do we know that was the time of her birth?) she would not have >> married John Woodlief, born in 1614. This John Woodlief did exist but >> he would have been 18 years older than Mary's father, Colonel Robert >> Wynne. I believe that Mary married a George Woodlief. George gave a >> deposition in 1665 saying that he was 19 years old and this would have >> made his birth date about 1646 which was probably about the date of >> Mary's birth. I still am not thoroughly convinced that she was the >> daughter of Mary Poythress, although it is possible-- if we only knew >> when Francis Poythress died. I do think Mary was the oldest of Colonel >> Robert Wynne's children since she had a child, also named George, named >> in Colonel Wynne's will. > > >> -----Original Message----- >>> First Generation: Colonel Robert Wynne, second husband of Mrs. Mary >> Poythress >> R. Bolling Batte on Robert Wynne >> [8. Mary Wynne (Mary ______1) was born AFT 1655. She married John >> Woodlief. >> He was born 1614. >> Child of Mary Wynne and John Woodlief is: >> 31 i. George Woodlief. He married Elizabeth Wallace.] >> >> Family >> Robert Wynne, the son of Peter Wynne and Martha Coppin, was born about >> 1622, >> in Canterbury, Kent, England. He married Mrs. Mary Poythress, the widow >> of >> Captain Francis Poythress. Their children were (1) Mary Wynne (c. >> 1655-aft. >> 1707), the wife of John Woodlief, the son of John Woodlief; (2) Thomas >> Wynne >> (1657-1717), who married Agnes Stith, the daughter of John Stith and >> Jane >> Mosbey; (3) Robert Wynne (1660-1675); and, (4) Joshua Wynne >> (3/20/1661-3/29/1715), who married Mary Jones, the daughter of Peter >> Jones >> and Margaret Cruse. Robert Wynne died on October 8, 1675. >> Colonel Robert Wynne was mentioned as grandson in the Will of William >> Coppin, his maternal grandfather. Proof that he was the son of Peter >> Wynne >> comes from his father's Will. Proof that he was the son of Peter Wynne >> and >> Martha Coppin is also from the Will of William Coppin, of St. George's >> Canterbury, dated January 15, 1632 and proved March 22, 1633. The Will >> is in >> the Archdeaconry Court of Canterbury, Kent, 1633-1636. The Wynnes came >> to >> America about 1651. Robert Wynne was a Burgess for Charles City County, >> by >> 1658. He was Speaker of the House of Burgesses during Virginia's Long >> Parliament, 1661-1675. He was in charge of surveying, planning, and >> improving all public roads in the colony. He was sent to England to >> escort >> back the official set of weights and measures which would measure the >> business dealings of the New World. He was captain, then colonel, in the >> >> Militia of Charles City County. He owned two houses and a farm in >> England, >> which he left to his son, Thomas. His 600 acre plantation, south of the >> James River, was named "Georges." >> Captain John Woodlief's oldest son, John Woodlief (1643-c. 1716), >> married >> Mary Wynne, daughter of Robert Wynne and Mary (Sloman?) Poythress, his >> neighbor. Captain John Woodlief's youngest son, George Woodlief >> (1646-bef. >> 1701), married Elizabeth Wallace, daughter of James and Joan Wallace of >> Merchant's Hope, in Westover parish. George and Elizabeth Woodlief had >> one >> child, a daughter, Mary, who married a Carter. >> According to Bruce Howard: Captain Woodlief's son, John Woodlief >> (1643-c. >> 1716), probably lived at Jordans. He married Mary Poythress, daughter of >> >> John Poythress (c. 1639-1712), his neighbor. Mary was an older child of >> the >> first marriage of John Poythress. John and Mary Woodlief had one son, >> George >> Woodlief (bef. 1675-c. 1743), who married Norah Epes. Capt. Woodlief's >> son, >> Edward Woodlief (1644-1717), married Sarah (Pollard) and lived in Prince >> >> George County between Bailey's Creek and the Blackwater River in >> Westover >> Parish. Edward and Sarah Woodlief had: John, Edward, Sarah, Joseph, >> James, >> Thomas, Ann, Mary and Susannah. Sarah Woodlief married Richard Pace, son >> of >> James Pace(4). Capt. Woodlief's son, George Woodlief (1646-bef. 1701), >> married Elizabeth Wallace, daughter of James and Joan Wallace, of >> Merchants >> Hope in Westover Parish. George and Elizabeth Woodlief had one child, a >> daughter, Mary, who married a Carter. >> >> Professional Life >> On October 27, 1656, at a court held in Westover, in Charles City >> County, >> present were Mr. Thomas Drewe, Captain Richard Tye, Mr. Anthony Wyatt, >> Captain David Peebles, Captain John Epes, Captain Thomas Stegge, Mr. >> Charles >> Sparrow and Captain Robert Wynne. It was ordered that 26 pounds tobacco >> per >> poll be forthwith levied and collected by the present sheriff on every >> tithable person in this community being 516 and paid as follows, viz: >> (in a >> list:) John Stith, 1 wolf, 200 pounds tobacco. Edward Hill (1610-1663) >> married Hannah Jordan. Henry Perry (c. 1625-c. 1684) was the half >> brother or >> step-brother of George Pace (1609-1652). He married Elizabeth Menefie >> (-bef. >> 1657). Richard Tye (-1658) married Mrs. Joyce Boyce about 1649. David >> Peebles (c. 1610-1657) married Elizabeth Bishop, daughter of John and >> Elizabeth Bishop. John Epes (1626-1679) married Mary Kent. Robert Wynne >> (1622-1678) married Mrs. Mary Poythress (c. 1618-aft. 1675). >> Assembled March 13, 1658, the Burgesses from Charles City: War'm >> Horsmenden >> and Captain Robert Wynne; Northumberland: Peter Knight and John Haney; >> Henrico: Major William Harris; James City: Henry Soane, Major Richard >> Webster, Thomas Loveinge and William Corker; Surry: Lt. Colonel Thomas >> Swann, William Edwards, Major William Butler and Captain William >> Cawfield. >> Assembled, March 13, 1660, the Burgesses from: Charles City: Theodorick >> Bland, Captain Robert Wynne and Charles Sparrow; Northumberland: Captain >> >> Peter Ashton. Theodoric Bland (1629/30-1671) married Anne Bennett (c. >> 1642-1687). >> In April, 1661, at a court held at Westover, in Charles City County, >> present >> were Colonel Edward Hill, Esquire, Mr. Thomas Drewe, Mr. John Holmwood, >> Captain Robert Wynne, Mr. Stephen Hamlin. Edward Hill (1610-1663) >> married >> Hannah Jordan. Thomas Drew married Mrs. Frances Ward Barker Netherland >> (1599-). Robert Wynne (1622-1678) married Mrs. Mary Poythress (c. >> 1618-aft. >> 1675). >> In April, 1661, in Charles City County, abstract, memo that Colonel >> Edward >> Hill, Esquire, at this court, did give to John Poythress, the son of >> Captain >> Francis Poythress, deceased, 50 acres at Jordans, adjoining the land now >> >> occupied by Captain Robert Wynne. Captain Robert Wynne was married to >> John >> Poythress' mother, Mary Frances Poythress, after the death of her first >> husband, Captain Francis Poythress. Colonel Edward Hill, Esq., >> (1610-1663) >> married Hannah Jordan. >> The General Assembly which met March 23, 1662, ordered Captain Robert >> Wynne >> and Captain John Epes to summon some of the neighbors with them to >> settle >> the boundary between Westover and Martin's Brandon Parish. >> The Assembly of 1661-1676, which convened for the first time on March >> 23, >> 1661, lasted by various prorogations and adjournments for fifteen years, >> the >> last session beginning March 7, 1676. Though there was not a general >> election during this long period, the membership of the House of >> Burgesses >> must have been during this period considerably changed by deaths and >> seats >> made vacant by the acceptance of office. There are only two complete >> lists, >> 1663 and 1666, but the county records supply the names of various >> persons >> who were certainly members during other years. In the Session of >> December >> 23, 1662: from Charles City: Captain Robert Wynne, Speaker, Stephen >> Hamelyn >> and Captain Francis Gray. Stephen Hamlin was the father of John Hamlin, >> who >> married Elizabeth Taylor, daughter of Richard Taylor (1625-aft 1678) and >> >> Sarah Barker (1623-1694). Captain John Epes (1626-1679) was the son of >> Francis Epes (1597-1656) and Marie Pawlett, and was married to Mary >> Kent. >> In the Session of October 23, 1666, the Burgesses from Charles City: >> Captain >> Robert Wynne, Speaker, and Captain Thomas Southcoat. >> On April 3, 1673, at a court at Westover, in Charles City County, >> present >> were Mr. Anthony Wyatt, Colonel Robert Wynne, Major Edward Hill, Mr. >> John >> Drayton, Mr. Thomas Epes, Mr. James Bisse and Captain Francis Poythress. >> >> James Bisse was the third husband of Sarah Barker Taylor Lucy Bisse >> (1623-1694). Thomas (1630-1679) and Elizabeth Epes' son, Thomas Epes >> (bef. >> 1654-), married a daughter of Anthony Wyatt. Robert Wynne (1622-1678) >> was >> the step-father of Francis Poythress (c. 1637-1688). Francis >> Poythress(2) >> would have been approximately 35 years old in this year. John Drayton >> married Mrs. Elizabeth Bishop Peebles about 1657. Edward Hill >> (1637-1700) >> was the son of Edward Hill and Hannah Jordan. >> On June 4, 1673, at a Westover court, in Charles City County, present >> were >> Mr. Anthony Wyatt, Lt. Colonel Epes, Colonel Wynne, Major Hill, Captain >> Southcott, Mr. Bisse, Mr. Clarke and Captain Poythress. >> On June 4, 1673, at a Westover court, in Charles City County, Abstract. >> Long >> entry regarding ordinary at Westover. Captain Edward Hill proposes to >> lease >> new building there for 21 years, the court not to be removed from >> Westover >> for that term and no other to have license to keep an ordinary on the >> north >> side of the river during this time. This proposition accepted November >> 28, >> 1672. Signed as follows: Robert Wynne, Anthony Wyatt, John Drayton, Sr., >> >> John Epes, Thomas Mallory, Francis Poythress, Nicholas Wyatt, Daniel >> Clarke, >> James Bisse and Thomas Epes. John Epes (1626-1679) married Mary Kent. >> Thomas >> Mallory (1635-1678) married Mary. >> On August 4, 1673, at a Westover court, in Charles City County, present >> were >> Mr. Anthony Wyatt, Lt. Colonel John Epes, Colonel Robert Wynne, Major >> Edward >> Hill, Captain Otho Southcott, Mr. John Drayton, Captain Nicholas Wyatt, >> Mr. >> Thomas Epes and Captain Francis Poythress. >> On August 5, 1673, in Charles City County, Com Civitat Carol, present >> were >> Mr Anthony Wyatt, Lt. Colonel John Epes, Colonel Wynne, Captain >> Southcott, >> Mr. Drayton and Captain Francis Poythress. >> In March, 1676, war was declared against the Indians and it was ordered >> that >> the forts be garrisoned and that Sir Henry Chicheley be placed in >> command of >> five hundred enlisted men to disarm neighboring Indians. Chicheley was >> recalled by Sir William Berkeley before the march on the Indians began. >> In >> May, 1676, an overseer and a servant of young Nathaniel Bacon were slain >> by >> Indians with the result that Bacon sent word to Berkeley requesting a >> commission. In the interim, Bacon took command of five hundred men and >> marched to the falls on the James. Despite losing all but sixty of his >> men >> to Berkeley's recall, Bacon and his remaining followers routed a party >> of >> Indians at an old fort. Upon Bacon's return home, he was elected to the >> Burgess from Henrico County. Soon thereafter, Berkeley had Bacon >> arrested >> but released him upon an oath by Bacon that he would be a gentleman. >> However, Bacon set out again and defeated Indians at every encounter, >> the >> largest fight being against the Appomattox Indians at the present >> location >> of Petersburg, Virginia. By September, 1676, plantations seemed to be >> safe >> from Indian attack. Returning to Jamestown, Bacon and his men set fire >> to >> the town while Sir William Berkeley watched the event from his ship on >> the >> James River. Leaving Jamestown, Bacon marched his men to Gloucester >> Point >> where he crossed the York River into Gloucester County. He planned to >> fight >> Colonel Brent and his twelve hundred men but Brent's men deserted upon >> the >> approach of Bacon. After twenty weeks of fighting and living in the open >> >> country, Bacon died on October 1, 1676. No one else could provide the >> leadership that young Bacon had provided, and Berkeley, with newly >> arrived >> support from England, began to capture the leaders of the rebellion and >> hanged many of them. >> On June 12, 1677, the court, at Westover, was composed of Colonel Edward >> >> Hill, Colonel John Epes, Major John Stith, Captain Thomas Mallory, >> Captain >> Daniel Lewellin and Captain Francis Poythress. During the 12th, 13th and >> >> 14th of this month, Francis, acting as a Commissioner with others, >> examined >> various persons in regard to a certain petition that had been presented >> to >> the Governor and Council from Charles City County. John Eppes, James >> Bisse, >> Nicholas Wyatt, John Stith, acting as Commissioners examined various >> persons >> in regard to a certain petition that had been presented to the Governor >> and >> Council from Charles City County. Among others were Captain Francis >> Poythress, Mr. Henry Batte and others. This at Westover. This petition >> may >> have pertained to the aftermath of Nathaniel Bacon's rebellion. Frances >> was >> also nominated to prepare a list of tithables for Jordan's parish, in >> Charles City County. On September 14, 1677, action was taken against a >> number of men for trespassing at Captain Arthur Allen's plantation, as >> Allen >> had been removed from his home by the rebels during Bacon's rebellion. >> Among >> the jury, was Francis' brother, Mr. John Poythress, and Mr. Richard >> Pace. >> The action was withdrawn. Henry Batte (1642-1699) was the father of Mary >> >> Batte (c. 1664-1760) who married John Poythress(3) (c. 1724-> 1726), son >> of >> John Poythress and Christian Peebles. James Bisse was the third husband >> of >> Sarah Barker (1623-1694), daughter of William Barker and Frances Ward. >> John >> Stith (1620-1694) was the father of Agnes Stith (1658-1718) who married >> Thomas W. Wynne (1657-1717), son of Robert Wynne and Mary Poythress >> Wynne. >> >> Civic Activities >> On December 3, 1658, at a court held at Merchant's Hope, Captain John >> Woodlief and Mr. George Potter were appointed to examine the difference >> between Captain Robert Wynne, for the estate of Mr. John Sloeman, >> deceased, >> and Mr. Francis Epes and Mr. Thomas Epes, and report to the next court. >> Dorman doesn't make Francis Epes' wife, Marie, a Pawlett. Dorman says >> "The >> maiden name is unknown and her given name, Marie (Mary), is known only >> from >> the baptismal record of their son. Mrs. Epes was still alive in January, >> >> 1644, when Captain Thomas Pawlett, of Charles City, a brother of Sir >> John >> Pawlett, wrote in his will, naming Francis Epes as one of the overseers >> of >> the Will and leaving him his drum, giving to Mrs. Epes his Bible and 20 >> shillings to buy a mourning ring in his memory." Dorman footnotes from >> William and Mary Quarterly, series I, IV, p. 152, "Capt. Pawlett was >> evidently close to the Epes family." John Woodlief (1614-1676) was >> father of >> John Woodlief (1643-c. 1716) who married Mary Wynne (1655-aft. 1707), >> daughter of Robert Wynne and Mrs. Mary Poythress. John Sloman (-c. 1658) >> >> married Katherine Epes (c. 1588) and may have been father of Mrs. Mary >> Poythress. Francis Epes (1627-1678) married Elizabeth Littlebury >> (1623-1678). Thomas Epes (1630-1679) married Elizabeth. Francis Epes and >> >> Thomas Epes were sons of Francis Epes and Marie Pawlett. >> >> As Witness >> On February 3, 1659, at a Charles City Court, John Burton...Lt. John >> Banister one plantation at Bonaccord which I hold by lease for thirteen >> years or upwards to come. The witnesses were Robert Wynne, Thomas Crane >> and >> Howell Pryce, Clerk of Court. >> On October 10, 1659, in Charles City County, John Cogan of Merchant's >> Hope, >> in Charles City County, surgeon, sold Anthony Wyatt, of Chaplins' >> Choice, in >> the same County, Gentleman, for bond of £240 Sterling, dated September >> 1, >> 1659, "the plantation whereon he now dwells, 5 negro servants, crops, >> etc." >> The witnesses were Howell Pryce and Robert Wynne. One of Anthony Wyatt's >> >> daughters married Thomas Epes (bef. 1654-). Robert Wynne (1622-1678) >> married >> Mrs. Mary Poythress (c. 1618-aft. 1675). Richard Tye (-1658) married >> Mrs. >> Joyce Boyce Tye (c, 1618-) in 1659. >> On April 3, 1666, at a court at Westover, in Charles City County, >> Captain >> John Woodlief, aged 51 years or thereabouts, examined and sworn, said >> that >> going aboard of a small Ship riding before James City with Mr. Anthony >> Wyatt >> and some others, there lay some hammocks - cabin where they were with >> one of >> the Seamen belonging to the Ship. Mr. Wyatt demanded of him if they were >> to >> be sold who told him yes, and upon that Mr. Wyatt bought two hammocks of >> him >> and the man desired Ferdinand Aston who was then aboard to receive the >> pay >> for them, afterwards the said Mr. Wyatt went to James City - the >> hammocks >> aboard and in his return from there he - [went] Ship side and called >> very >> often, and hearing no man to [answer] requested Mr. Thomas Mallory [to >> go >> aboard and search for the hammocks] and reached them according to Mr. >> Wyatt's >> directions, and withal handed over a jug of wine beverage and further >> saith >> not. John Woodlief. Jurat coram. Robert Wynne. Thomas Mallory >> (1635-1678) >> was the son of Thomas Mallory (1605-1671) and father of Francis Mallory >> (-1719). >> >> Family Estates >> On September 1, 1659, Captain Robert Wynne and Anthony Wyatt appraised >> the >> perishable estate of the orphans of Captain David Peebles. David >> Peebles' >> daughter, Christian Peebles, married John Poythress, son of Captain >> Francis >> Poythress. >> On June 3, 1665, at a court at Westover, in Charles City County, Francis >> >> Poythress proved his right by the testimony of Captain Robert Wynne to >> 450 >> acres of land for the adventure and importation of Francis Poythress, >> Thomas >> Mallory, William Hind, John Barlow, Jonn Ward, James Cobcock, Ellinor >> Towle >> and Sampson Ellis, twice. Thomas Mallory (1635-1678) was the son of >> Thomas >> Mallory (1605-1671) and father of Francis Mallory (-1719). >> >> Robert Wynne's Will >> Robert Wynne, of Jordan's parish, of Charles City County, in Virginia, >> Gentleman. >> My body to be decently buried in Jordan's Church as near as conveniently >> it >> may be to my son, Robert, and for my worldly goods I thus dispose of for >> >> those that God has blessed me withal in England. >> I give my eldest son, Thomas Wynne, one farm in Whitestaple parish, in >> Kent, >> near Canterbury, and normally called by the name Linebett Banckes, with >> all >> barns, stables, outhouses, lands, orchards and all things old and they >> were >> left me or have been improved since to him and the heirs of his body >> lawfully begotten forever but my will and pleasure is that he enjoy no >> part >> or parcel of this until he be 21 years old. In the interim, what profits >> >> shall amount annually out of this to be disposed of by my administrator >> hereinafter nominated. And if it shall please God, my said son, Thomas, >> die >> either before he come to age or have lawful issue my will and pleasure >> is my >> son, Joshua, enjoy it on the said terms above expressed. And if it >> please >> God he die before he comes to age or have lawful issue, that then it >> shall >> come to my daughter, Woodlief, and her heirs. But if it shall please God >> >> that all die without heirs then to be disposed of as it shall think fit >> by >> my administratrix. >> I further give my son, Thomas, one house being in Canterbury, in St. >> Mildred's >> parish, with all them thereunto belonging to enjoy and to be held at the >> age >> of 21 and in the said form as my farm at Whitestaple and in default of >> heirs >> to descend as that doth. >> I give youngest son, Joshua Wynne, one house and oatmeale mill with >> orchards, backfield and garden lying in Dover Lane, without St. Georges >> in >> Canterbury, and commonly called by the name of the Lilly Pott, and >> further I >> will and bequeath to my said son, Joshua, two houses in the same lane >> over >> against the Lilly Pott where a ropemaker and one Rawlins hath been >> formerly >> tenants to enjoy every part and parcel of these at the age of 21 years >> and >> not before. I give and bequeath them to him and the heirs of his body >> lawfully begotten forever. But if it please God he shall die before he >> come >> to age or without lawful issue, that then they shall come to his >> brother, >> Thomas, and his failing then to his sister, Woodlief, and if she failed >> then >> to my administratrix as aforesaid. >> I give my daughter, Woodlief, one messauge or tenement being in the >> parish >> of Hernehill, to sell align or dispose as to her shall seam requisite it >> >> being for the bettering her portion and she to enjoy it as soon as it >> shall >> please God to call me to his mercy. >> I give my son, Thomas, all of the cattle of his own mark being formerly >> given him except one cow, called Moll, which is to be killed for >> provision >> and likewise one mare and filly foal he is already possessed of and one >> good >> featherbed with bolster pillow, rug and two blankets and likewise two >> guns >> he is to take his choice of all mine for them. >> I give my son, Joshua, my plantation called Georges with all the tobacco >> >> house and other houses with all the whole grant of that dividend to him >> and >> the heirs of his body lawfully begotten and in default of such heirs to >> his >> brother, Thomas, and in default of Thomas, to my daughter, Woodlief, and >> >> also the cattle known to be his and a filly now in his possession with a >> >> feather bed, bolster pillow, rug and two blankets and two well fixed >> guns. >> I give my daughter, Woodlief, one servant of four years to serve the >> next >> shipping after my decease or else two thousand pounds of tobacco and >> oats to >> buy one. >> I give my grandchild and godson, young George Woodlief, one filly foal >> of >> about a year old and for all my other estate as well this in Virginia as >> >> what shall be sent of England now and until my children come to age I >> give >> and bequeath after my just debts are paid unto my beloved wife, Mary >> Wynne, >> whom I make my whole and sole administratrix of this my last Will and >> testament and my desire and request is that my loving friends, Thomas >> Grendon, merchant, and my son-in-law, Captain Francis Poythress, be >> overseers to this my last Will and testament to either of whom I give >> twenty >> shillings to buy them a small ring in remembrance of me. In witness to >> every >> part and parcel of this my last Will and testament I have left my hand >> and >> annexed my seal July 1, 1675. Robert Wynne. The witnesses were Thomas >> Brome, >> John Burge; endorsed at a court held at Westover, August 3, 1675. This >> Will >> was proved in court by the oaths of Thomas Brome and John Burge the >> witnesses therein named and a probate granted the administratrix therein >> >> also named and entered amongst the records of the said court. James >> Minge, >> Clerk of Court. Examined May Court, 1677. J. Minge, John Rudde and John >> Sherman. Mary Wynne (1655-aft. 1707) married John Woodlief (1643-c. >> 1716). >> Thomas Wynne (1657-1717) married Agnes Stith (1656-1718), daughter of >> John >> Stith and Jane Mosbey. Robert Wynne (1660-1675) died young. Joshua Wynne >> >> (1660/1-1715) married Mary Jones (1658-1718), daughter of Peter Jones >> and >> Margaret Cruse. >> >> Mary Wynne was referred to in a suit in the General Court as Robert >> Wynne's >> executrix on Oct. 8, 1675. >> >> >> >> ==== POYTHRESS Mailing List ==== >> The Poythress Genealogy List is hosted by RootsWeb. To learn more about >> Rootsweb please visit http://www.rootsweb.com/ >> >> >> >> >> ==== POYTHRESS Mailing List ==== >> Poythress Genealogy Research Web >> www.poythress.net >> >> > > > > ==== POYTHRESS Mailing List ==== > Poythress Genealogy Research Web > www.poythress.net > > > > > ==== POYTHRESS Mailing List ==== > Poythress Genealogy Research Web > www.poythress.net > > ==== POYTHRESS Mailing List ==== Poythress Genealogy Research Web www.poythress.net