This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Nash, Hardwick, Long Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/0AC.2ACE/909 Message Board Post: Re: William Nash, I, II, of III of Colonial Virginia... Research by Mr. Ron Jones, Mr. McPhearson and COL Al Metts suggests that Wm Nash who arrived in Virginia on the ship Globe in 1635 and who eventually settled in Northumberland County, Va, in the southern part of the county that eventually became part of Lancaster County, VA.... As I understand the theory, this William "I" married an Ann Hopkins and had children Thomas, William and John.... and then sometime after William I's death, his son William "II" chose William Edmonds as his guardian (and his mother Ann Nash remarried to a Mr. John Meridith). William Nash II was later closely associated with Elias Edmonds' son William Edmonds who in turn was given responsibility for seeing to the education of William Nash II's only son William Nash III's educatation (per Wm Nash's 1697 LW&T, probated in 1700).... Now if William Nash "III" was of educatable age in 1697, when his father william made out the will, then William III was probably born sometime between 1680 and 1697.... Now if William Nash "III" was born in the earlier range of this 17 year span, then he could be the William Nash (married to an Anne ----) who sold Nash Mill an Carrotomen Branch, Lancaster county in 1709... However if not, then this William Nash owner of Nash Mill is yet another William Nash (not either William "II" or "III") that may or not be part of the direct line discussed here.... and then there is an Amey Nash whose 1708 LW & T (recorded in 1710 in Lancaster County) is witnessed by Elias Edmonds and Xxxx Kirk, and names children Mary, Rebecca, Elizabeth, and William Nash.... I know that some researcher's theorize that this is Amey Edmonds who married William Nash "II", and to my mind this could be Amey Nash wife of William Nash "II" who died sometime during the years 1697-1700 but there is no proof. However, my main question involves proving the link between the above mentioned William III of Lancaster County and and the William Nash who was married to Elizabeth "Betty" Hardwick and who apparently is the William Nash who in the late 1730s sold land in Lancaster County and aquired land on the forks of the Rappahonak River (Spelling?) in Orange County, VA in the ... an area that later became part of Cullpepper County..... The question is whether William Nash III is the same as the William Nash who later settled in Orange/ Cullpepper County, VA or perhaps his father..... or another William Nash not in direct line of the Orange County/Culpepper County Nash (and there are documents that might suggest this).... I'm interested in comparing / discussing the identified primary documentation with other Nash researchers of this family to possibly sort this out. Note that the the Culpepper county, VA, William Nash's children married into the Long, Hardwick, Saunders, Thornhill, Robertson families.... Colonial American William Nash and Betty Hardwick Nash family (their estate records available from VA Archives naming all their children: James Nash, John Nash, William Nash (Who married a Miss Morgan and was father of Ira Nash of Nashville, Missouri), Elijah, Ann Nash-Saunders, Elizabeth Nash-Thornhill, Leanna Nash Thornhill, and Mary Nash-Robertson).... Please post responce to this Nash message board at Rootsweb.com -- Len (I'm descended from the Colonial Culppepper County Wm and Betty Nash thru their son John Nash who moved to SC after the American Revolution , thru John's son Ezekiel Nash who moved to Mississippi in 1810s... and Ezekiel's son Ira Norris Nash who was my g.g.g.grandfather) Note: I'll will be changing E-mail to Lenrein@aol.com Post Reply | Mark Unread Report Abuse Print