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

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 ----- From: "Cliff and Sheryl Townsend" <c.s.townsend@sbcglobal.net> To: <POYTHRESS-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Saturday, December 17, 2005 11:26 AM Subject: RE: Mrs. Mary Poythress Wynne and Colonel Robert Wynne > 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 > >