Correction...Mary Chillingsworth's leaves the land her GRANDFATHER gave her parents...brain slip...sorry, MCH -------------------------------------------------- From: "Maryellen Horrigan" <mellenpatch5@cinci.rr.com> Sent: Thursday, July 22, 2010 4:08 PM To: <ragan-roots@rootsweb.com> Subject: [RAGAN-ROOTS] Can she bake a cherry pie Billie Boy > 5th child of James and Joan Rgn of Charles Co MD: > > Charles County Circuit Court, Birth, Deaths & Marriage Records, Liber Q > Regon, William s/o James Regon and Joan Regon of Nanjemy, bricklayer, b. > 31 Jan 1690 > > and we have: > St. Paul's Parish, Stafford County, Virginia > REGAN, William, d November 21, 1744. > > Are they the same man? What records have we in between. > > I am going to begin with Grace Powell. > > To do that, let's peek at the Powells. There are Powells in Jamestown. I > don't know if they are these Powells. Richard Powell Sr arrived sometime > in the mid 1600's and settled in Lancaster VA later called Old > Rappahannock VA. Then it becomes, or they move to Stafford VA., > Westmorland VA, Fairfax VA, Washington VA. I am "told" he died in 1702. I > have not seen a will. 3 sons...Joseph disappears. Then we have William and > Richard Jr. Both are central to out tale. Richard daughters out. (Grace > XXX was Richard's wife.) But the daughters become ours. William weaves in > and out of the Rgns. They were people of property. They relate to the > Washingtons, the Lees, and the Gales ( a Washington daughter.) They > interweave with the Colcloughs and the Buckners. > > William Powell married Amey Raleigh and has 3 children of note ( there are > others.) William's son William Powell Jr married Elizabeth Rgn, daughter > of Charles, granddaughter of James and Joan. on 2 APR 1747 in St Paul's > Parish, Stafford County, Virginia > Amey Powell, daughter of William Sr married Anthony Buckner, son of Peyton > Buckner. I mention this because there is a Rev War Vet sitting in early GA > with a Rev War land grant named Buckner Rgn. Hmmm. > Elizabeth Powell dau by an earlier marriage marries William Rgn, son of > James and Joan .I question this. I think William Rgn's first wife was a > daughter of Richard Jr's. Has anyone seen proof of this marriage? > > I have seen an Gloria Dei,Old Trinity, Christiana Church, records for the > birth of various children to William and Elizabeth Bridget Rgn, the last > posthumous...anyone have that? I just spent the last hour trolling through > the Gloria Dei records and came up empty. Anyone? Sigh. > > Back to Grace Powell widow of Richard. > > > > STAFFORD COUNTY VA WILL BOOK M; 1729-1748; THE ANTIENT PRESS > pp. 145-147 May 23d 1734 We the Subscribers in Obedience to order of Court > dated the 8th of May instant being first sworn by vertue of said order > mett at the house of ELIJAH WOOD Deceased and appraised his Estate as > follows .. Items listed and valued .. Total 69..4..6 > Grace + Powell Admx James Seaton > Edwd. Lawyer Wm. Powell > At Court held for Stafford county 10th July 1734 inventory and > appraisement Estate of Elijah Wood admitted to record. > > > Elijah Wood is a son of John Wood Sr. and Possibly a son of Joan XXX Regan > Wood. Grace Powell is his mother in law. Evidently she is all that is left > to admin his estate. Her daughter, Jane, is dead. Grace herself will be > dead in a few months. Elijah is without a will. Grace's brother in law > William Powell helps with the task. John Wood's granddaughter Mary > Chillingsworth/Killingsworth leaves the land her father gave her parents > Elizabeth Wood and Edward Killingsworth to Jemima and Edward Derrick, > daughter and her hubby of Grace Powell, also in 1734, as she was also > dying. Why to Grace's kid? she still has other family.... > > > STAFFORD COUNTY VA WILL BOOK M; 1729-1748; THE ANTIENT PRESS > Pp. 165-166 In Name of God Amen the 10th day of October 1734 I MARY > CHILLINGWORTH being very Sick .. but of perfect memory .. do make this my > Last Will and Testament .. first of all & give my Sole to God & my body I > recomend to the Earth .. Item I give unto EDWARD DERRICK & JEMIMA his wife > and heirs .. fore hundred acres of land _Lying in Prince William County > between Powells run and Neighapscoe being a part of the 2960 acres of land > formerly be-longing to JOHN WOOD > Presence Edward Derrick, Mary Chillingworth > James Berry, Richd. Vinson, > Grace Vinson, Suuzan Bates her mark > At Court held for Stafford County 17th Feby. 1734 Will of Mary > Cillingsworth Deced presented by Edward Derrick .. who made oath .. being > proved .. admitted to record .. Certificate granted him for obtaining > Probate > > > > STAFFORD COUNTY VA WILL BOOK M; 1729-1748; THE ANTIENT PRESS > pp. 164-165 In the Name of God Amen This 1st day Of October 1734 I GRACE > POWELL being viry sick but of perfect mind .. do make this my Lest Will > and Testament. First I recommend my Soul to God and my Body to the Earth. > Such worldly Estate .. I give in following manner .. Item I give to my > Daughter MARY WILFORD my old negro than named comme - to her and heirs > also nmy bed that I lie on with one old rug, 2 sheets and 2 blankets one > bay horse called Grateers one cow and steer one pott 1 small chest. Item I > give to my Daughter GRACE BERRY a young negro named Will as also one > feather bed and rug and blanket a pair of new sheets one cow and steer 1 > gray horse called Pumpy 1 chest one pot. Item I give unto my Daughter > JEMIMA DERRICK 1 new feather bed 1 green rugg 1 blanket a pair of new > sheets 1 cow and steer one trunk 1 black horse and 1 gun to her and her > heirs for ever one putt. Item I give to WILLIAM RIGGIN {Regon} I cow and > calf and 2 good hoggs to him and to his son POWELL a case of Pistols Sword > Cain Item I give to JANE RIGGIN {Regon} 12 geese and 15 pounds of feathers > and chest of Drors, 1 iron kettle. Item I give to CORNELIUS CHEESMAN my > young unbroke hors to his son THOMAS I give a heff! > er but two years old. Item I give to MICKEL HALL heffer 2 years old. Item > I give to RICHARD FOOT JUNIOR my Vialend. item I give 12 Barrels of Indian > corn to ELIJAH WOOD'S children for thear years provs. Item 1 give to GRACE > VINSON 1 old bed one blanket and one old quilt. Item I give my young negro > named Ruff for the maintance of Elijah Woods children till the youngest > comes to age of 14 then to return to my heirs again. item I give the > remainder part of my Estate to be Equally divided between my three > daughters with my corn and Tobacco Mary Wilford and Grace Berry and Jemlma > Derrick, I appoint Capt. JOHN WASHINGTON', JAMES BERRY. my ExErs: > > Presence Edward Lawyer, Grace + Powel > George Hucheson, Mary Delander > > At Court held for Stafford County 11th February 1734 Last Will .. > presented by James: Berry who make oath .. and John Washington Gent the > other Exr, therein also named came into Court and expressly refused to > take upon him the burthen of the Execution of said Will .. being proved > admitted to record Certificate granted James Berry for obttaining Probate > .. > === > STAFFORD COUNTY VA WILL BOOK M; 1729-1748; THE ANTIENT PRESS > pp. 166-168 In Obedience to Order of Worshipfull Court of Stafford County > dated 18th ffehruary 1734 We the Subscribers being first sworn have > inventoried and appraised all the Estate of GRACE POWEL decest which was > offered to our view as folioweth Vizt. .. items listed and valued .. no > total. ffeby. 27; 1734 The within appraisers sworn before me Henri > At Court held for Stafford County Wm Powell John Buckner > 11th March 1734 Inventory admitted to record. > > > Okay, let's take this will apart. Richard Powell's death is estimated to > be in 1725/6. Grace Powell has never remarried. > Rare...property...status....period. > > The will states: > Daughter Mary Wilford, slave, linen, livestock > Daughter Grace Berry, slave, linen, livestock > daughter Jemima Derrick, linen livestock, gun > William Riggin/Regon livestock > so Powell Regon Riggin guns sword ( he could be William Powell and called > Powell to be separate from dad, or Powell to Grace because that was what > mattered to her, or actually be just Powell) > Jane Regon/Riggin fowl, household items > Cornelius Cheeseman livestock > son Thomas Cheeseman livestock > Michael Hall livestock > Richard Foote Jr violin > Elijah Wood's kids corn and slave ( till youngest 14) > Grace Vinson linen > > Powells, Buckners, Washingtons are all over the records here and > everywhere of this family. > > Okay, I have comments...are you surprised? > The three living daughters are easy... their gifts are equal. What is > surprising is that William Riggin, Cornelius Cheeseman and Michael Hall > also get livestock...okay, no used sheets... that's a woman to woman gift > due to the work involved and the female responsibility for the creation of > the linens...not a guy thing. Elijah Wood's children get the use of a > slave, then back to the estate...probably Jemima as she didn't get a > slave. > > Stafford records were hit badly twice... by the British and by the > Yankees. I cannot find a probate for Richard Powell Jr.. There are spotty > land records. Perhaps some land is traceable. Clearly, Grace had means, > but the disposal of the land is not in her hands...it's allocated. She > does have " things" to distribute. Why are William Riggin, Cornelius > Cheeseman and Michael Hall ( lesser value here) put on a par with Grace's > daughters getting valuable livestock? I believe they all married now dead > Powell daughters and Grace is ensuring against estate claims by any of > them. If they married Powell girls, they have to be mentioned or they go > after the $$, claiming they were forgotten in her final illness. Powell > Riggin, Jane Riggin and Thomas Cheeseman, I believe, are grandchildren of > Grace and Richard Powell's by their dead daughters. The items that the > Riggin children get are personal. Jane may have been named for Grace's > deceased daughter who was married to Elijah Wood. There ! > is a double connection here for William Riggin...he and Elijah both > married Powell women, and Elijah is at least his step brother, if not his > half brother. This will, in my opinion, makes clear that this William Rgn > is the same as the William Regon that Joan XXX Regon, widow of James, > carried into her second marriage with John Wood. It doesn't tell us that > this is the man dead in 1744. But looky looky at the names! > > Stafford Co VA Will Book 1729-1748: p 138 (p. 529) > 1746 The Estate of WILL. REGAN deced To WM. POWELL REGAN. 1746 - To cash > paid Colo, THOS. TURNER, Mr. RICHARD BERNARD, Capt. THOS. VIVIAN, WILL > BRUTON, RICH'D THOMAS, BENJA, SEBASTIAN, To Mr. WILL. FITZHUGH for Rent, > levy paid Mr. RICHARD FOOTE, paid KESIAH REGAN, paid ELIZA. REGAN .. > E E p Will Powell Regan > At Court held for Stafford County March 9. 1747 Account .. admItted to > record. > Please note that this is not a will but an estate settlement. We don't > know who Kesiah, Elizabeth, or William Powell are...just that they > received value from the estate. But there's Richard Foote again. > > > > Richard Foote...ahhhh the Foote folk.... they marry people named > Washington, Pope, Colclough, Berryman, Newton etc in Stafford VA and their > kids end up in Guilford NC. yeesh! There is a lot of paper on the Foote > folk...was Grace a Foote maybe ? we will return to the Foote family... I > just can't say Footes. Or was Grace a Harmon? I have connections to this > Harman guy that make me salivate. > We do have the following: > > STAFFORD COUNTY VA DEED & WILL BOOK 1699 - 1709; THE ANTIENT PRESS pp. > 359- 360 > Will of CHRISTOPHER HARMAN. I Christopher Harman of county Stafford being > very sick S weak in body .. give & bequeath to THOMAS MARSHALL a cow > called bull neck & her yearling & to his wife my horse & my Negro woman .. > to RALPH WALKER 700 pounds of sweet scented Tobo of my crop & 10 barrl of > corn .. to WILLIAM BUCKNER all the rest of my crop of Tobo 6 one cow and > her yearling down in the neck & all my money in England .. To RICHARD > HINSUM 7 barrels of corn ,, to JOHN SMITH 4 barrels of Corn .. to JOHN > DAVIS my mare & colt .. to JOHN ELLIT one hhd of Tobo he oweth me .. to > JOHN CANARD my saddle ,. to RICHARD POWELL all the rest of my cattle and > my negro man .. I make and ordain Wm. Buckner Junr. & Richd. Powell my > lawful execrs. .. this 30th day Novr. 1706. Presence Eliza x Dark her > mark, > Christ. x Harman > Fran: x Balthrop her mark > Margt, x King her mark > At a Court held for said county 8th day Janry 1706 This Will was proved to > be the Last Will & Testament of Christopher Harman .. & is ordered to be > re-corded & is recorded. > > As a footenote, Grace Vinson pops up again in the paper of this family. > ( see Mary Chillingsworth will above) She's maybe be a niece of Grace > Powell's...we'll chew on her later. Frances Balthrop also keeps popping > up. We'll look at her later. > > Okay, there is a William in Charles Co MD that is a year off the estimated > birth of a William who dies in Stafford VA...right where other kids of > James and Joan have gone to live and die. What else? > > Let's talk about the Thompsons. > I'm going to do the short version...William Thompson was the assumed son > of a New England minister...documented....he took up the parsonage at > Surry Co VA...the son, that is. This is documented. lots of court > stuff...etc. Very successful... no poor minister here. > > Rev. William Thompson preached at both Southwark Parish and Lawne's Creek > Parish in Surry County. He was born circa 1620 so he came to Virginia as a > young man. He later married Katherine Hale, a daughter of Edward Hale. > Edward Hale's dated 1675 left William Thompson sole executor and gave him > all his estate. The Will was probated May 2, 1676 on the oaths of Mrs. > Jane Plow, "the other witness being gone to New England." (Bk. 2, p. 114) > His first land grant in Surry was for 230 acres in 1666. > > The following is quoted from a dear friend, Nola Duffy, a researcher of > William Powell Riggins, and a former head of qualification for the DAR of > NC: > > Judging from the tithables in Surry, 1675, the wealthiest men in Southwark > Parish appear to have been Lieut. Col. George Jordan, Attorney General of > Virginia, with 7 tithable servants. Second was Rev. William Thompson with > 6 white servants. > > About 1679 or 1680 Rev. William's Thompson removed to Westmoreland County, > Virginia, where he became minister of Washington Parish, Westmoreland Co., > where he eventually died. It is not known why he moved to Westmoreland > unless it was due to a family friendship with the Washington family there. > His family all moved with him except his son John who had married > Elizabeth, widow of John Salway. On August 4, 1690, "William Thompson of > the County of Westmorland, in the Colony of Virginia, appoint my dear > loving son, John Thompson, of the County of Surry, my lawful attorney. > (Surry, Deeds etc. No. 5, p. 245). When William's eldest son, John > Thompson, made his will in Surry Co. on Aug. 2, 1698, he said in will > "Brother Samuel not living in Surry County." William's two sons, Samuel > and William, lived in Westmoreland County for about 20 years but moved > back to Surry before 1704 when Samuel Thompson was executor of Richard > Hargrave's will and William Thompson was a witness to it. (Bk.! > 5, p.313) > > When Lawrence Washington (grandfather to George) made his will in > Washington Parish, Westmoreland County, Virginia, on March 11, 1697-8, he > bequeathed "to friend, Mr. William Thompson, Clerk, and Mr. Samuel > Thompson, each a mourning ring of thirty shillings price each ring." He > left "my cousin, John Washington, of Stafford County, and "my friend, Mr. > Samuel Thompson, to be my executors, and my loving wife, Mildred, my > executrix." The will was proved 10 December 1700 by the oath of Mildred > Gale, als. Washington (wife of George Gale), one of the executors, power > being reserved for John Washington and Samuel Thompson, the other > executor, to act." (Vol. I, p. 299) It appears from this will that Samuel > Thompson was in Westmoreland in 1700 and that Samuel and his youngest > brother, William Thompson, moved back to Surry between 1700 and 1704. > > ...... > William's brother, Samuel Thompson, must have left him a very well to do > man for he and his son, Samuel, were left most of his brother's property. > He was the only one of the sons of Rev. William Thompson who left > children. He made his will December 20, 1731, probated October 18, 1732. > The will is badly torn and partly destroyed. He names son, Samuel > Thompson; daughter Katherine; daughter Hannah Thompson (devised 100 acres > on land on Deep Branch); son John (10 acres after the decease of his > mother and the gun and pistols given him by William Moseley) and > grandchildren, Samuel and Mary Thompson (rest and remainder of his > estate). The Witnesses were Jane Regan, Mary Regan and Mary Mastin. (Will > Bk. 8, p. 240). His son, William, must have been included in part of the > will that is missing for it is proven by his brother, Samuel Thompson's > will that he had a son, William. In nameing his brother William's children > he named William as the thrid child. John Thompson also mentioned br! > other William in his will. > > Samuel Thompson (William, William, John), born circa 1686 married Sarah > Edwards. He was a witness to Michael Harris' will Jan. 1739 (Bk. 9, p. > 464); to John Bamers will on Oct 2, 1731; and to his brother-in-law > William Edwards' will on Feb. 10, 1744. There is a deed Oct. 24, 1748 from > Samuel and Sarah Thompson to John Thompson, both of Surry for 23 acres, > part of 150 acres Samuel purchased of Joseph King and Catherine, his wife, > land on east side of Cypress Swamp. Witnesses were John Riggan, Sen., Wm. > George, John Riggan, Jun. and Joseph Riggan (Bk. 5, p. 371). On August 31, > 1751 Samuel deeded to his brother, John Thompson, 250 acres on east side > of Cypress Swamp (Bk. 6, p. 439). It would appear these deed represent the > sale of property in anticipation of moving to North Carolina. (Note the > references to members of the Riggan family. ) > > Sarah Edwards was the daughter of William Edwards whose will was dated > January 9, 1721/22, probated Feb. 21, 1724. William Edwards' will names > daughters Mary, Elizabeth, Ann and Sarah; sons, Benjamin, William and > Micajah. He also devised to Francis Regan "one dividend of land lying at > the mouth of Susquehannah branch, lower end of his line and the great > swamp below his house not exceeding 10 acres, formerly promised to Samuel > Kindred." (Bk. 7, p. 389). > > Children of Samuel Thompson (WILLIAM, WILLIAM, JOHN) and Sarah Edwards: > > 1. Samuel Thompson > 2. Sarah Thompson married Jacob Williams > 3. Mary Thompson married Thomas Bell. * > 4. Anne Thompson married John Myrick > > Anne, the daughter of Thomas and Mary Thompson Bell married John Riggan of > Warren/Bute NC. > > > > The wills of Samuel and William Thompson demonstrate the presence of 2 > Johns, a Joseph, a Francis, a Jane, and a Mary Riggan...close enough to > these Thompsons to be part of their wills. My, My. > > > > In general, the Thompsons marry all the big names in the group who travel > together from VA to NC. They are the first I can place both in the > Westmorland area of the Powells, Washingtons, Newtons and a handful for > Rgns etc. livde and where at least William Riggin died in 1744. The > daughter of Thomas and Mary Thompson Bell, Anne, married John Bell of > Warren Co NC. They had issue. > > This is about one tenth of the material I have of Colcloughs, Durhams, > Shearins, Thompsons, Powells, Woods, Footes and Rgns etc that we can trace > in one big solid lump moving across VA...many beginning in MD, to early > Guilford Co NC. > > Okay, we know a William of Surry VA buys in Bute/Warren NC near men with > names that match this bunch, such as John and Joseph, but stays in VA. > There is a William Powell that dies in Warren in 1770 leaving a pack of > sons, but physically might be a generation off from MD. We know there is > a Powell in SC in 1800 with a brief appearance of a William. There is a > Powell in NC, son of William Powell who is often confused with the one in > SC but is distinct. There is a William son of William Powell, whom > everyone seems to insist is William David, though I have yet to figure > why. There are a whole galloping bunch of Williams and William Powells who > go galloping through TN, KY, TX and heavens knows where else. > > I have Mary Hinton Kerr's abstracts of Warren/Bute NC... another letter. > > So, what William, William Powell, Powell Rgn do you have in MD, VA, NC up > until 1800. Paper anyone???? Fondly, Maryellen > > > -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > > for Ragan-Roots archives go to > > http://archiver.rootsweb.com/th/index?list=ragan-roots > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > RAGAN-ROOTS-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the > quotes in the subject and the body of the message >