Deloris, there are too many John Woodliefs. I show: (I) John Woodlief (c. 1584-c. 1637) m. Mary Archard (II) John Woodlief (c. 1614-1676) (III) John Woodlief (c. 1643-c. 1716) m. Mary Wynne (c. 1655-aft. 1707) brothers: Edward Woodlief m. Sarah Pollard; and, George Woodlief m. Elizabeth Wallace (IV) John Woodlief (c. 1673-aft. 1741) m. Mary Poythress (c. 1678-) brothers: Joshua Woodlief; and, George Woodlief m. Norah Epes I think what you are referring to is where I said Mary Poythress vice Mary Wynne. Is that it?......Mike ----- Original Message ----- From: "Deloris Riley" <delorisriley@satx.rr.com> To: <POYTHRESS-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Sunday, December 18, 2005 1:43 PM Subject: RE: Mrs. Mary Poythress Wynne and Colonel Robert Wynne >I am confused; please help. Are you saying these were the children of > Mary Wynne Woodlief (from your e-mail:) > "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." > I am having a hard time with all of the new (to me) information on the > Woodliefs. Deloris Wynne-Riley > > -----Original Message----- > From: Michael Tutor [mailto:badbichon@earthlink.net] > Sent: Saturday, December 17, 2005 11:23 PM > To: POYTHRESS-L@rootsweb.com > Subject: Re: Mrs. Mary Poythress Wynne and Colonel Robert Wynne > > 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, >> >> 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 > > > > > ==== POYTHRESS Mailing List ==== > The Poythress Genealogy List is hosted by RootsWeb. 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