From page 382 of Part II "The Baker Family of England and of Central Virginia" written by William Thomson Baker, Sr.: From Mackenzie's Colonial Families (Vol. 1, page 423) and from Anderson Chenault Quisenberry's "Memorials of the Quisenberry Family" on file in the Library of Congress Washington, D. C. we learn that a Thomas Questenbury born in Bromley county Kent, England March 16, 1600 emigrated to Virginia in 1624 where he married and lived until about 1650 when he returned to England pg. 383 and died in Canterbury County Kent in 1672. He left children born in Virginia between 1624 and 1650 (a period of more than 25 years) before he returned to England. Judge Quessenbury, his son, born in Westmoreland Co., Va. in 1627 (while Thomas Questenbury, his father, was in Virginia married about 1658 Anne Pope in Westmoreland County.) John Quessenbury assisted in laying off the plantation "Strafford" which Thomas Lee bought of Nathaniel Pope, very probably we think John Quesenbury's father-in-law. The home of the ancestors of George Washington was on Pope's Creek or between Popes and Bridges Creeks in Westmoreland County. Pope's Creek no doubt got its name from the ancestor of Anne (Pope) Quesenbury who were there before the Washingtons. This John Quessenbury, in a court action in Westmoreland County in 1707 testified that he was 80 years of age, therefore born in 1627. John Washington the "Immigrant," George's great grandfather bought his first land, 150 acres between Popes and Bridges Creeks in Westmoreland County in 1664, 37 years before. We know John and Anne (Pope) Quisenbury had two sons William and Humphrey (name still spelled Quesenbury.) Humphrey Quesenbury born in Westmoreland County about 1670, married Elizabeth Mothershead, {aka Mottrom, et al-vt} (a prominent family in early Colonial Virginia.) Their son Thomas Quesenbury, born 1695 in King George County (probably that part cut off from Westmoreland) died in Caroline County. The county records for Caroline are mostly lost. We could learn little about this Thomas Quesenbury's family. Aaron Quisenbury byond (sic) much doubt the son of Thomas Quissenbury born in Caroline County about 1720 moved to Spotsylvania where he bought December 7, 1756, 275 acres from Joseph and Susanna Collins (D. B. "E" 1751-1761.) The deed says "Aaron Quissenburey of Caroline County." On August 28, 1769, he sells this same 275 acres to one John Mitchell of Spotsylvania county. This time he is said in the deed to be "Of Spotsylvania County" pg. 384 and his wife Joyce joins him in the deed. We learn from other sources that she was Joyce Dudley, daughter of Robert and Joyce (Gayle) Dudley of Spotsylvania County. (The Dudley and Gayle families of Middlesex and of Spotsylvania were of the better and well noted families of each county.) We think that Aaron and Joyce (Dudley) Quesenberry sold the 275 acres of land on August 28, 1769 to John Mitchell in order to buy a larger farm and home for they soon afterwards bought 614 acres and home in St. Thomas Parish Orange County on north side of the north fork of North Anna River (Little Pamunkey") adjoining the Spotsylvania line. It is here in what has become known as the "North Pamunkey Neighborhood tha Aaron Quisenberry and his wife Joyce (Dudley) Quisenberry reared their nine children, six boys and three girls. *********************** He gives as issue of the above: 1. Aaron, Jr. "said to have married as his second wife" Sarah (Sallie) Ellis; 2. Moses, 3. William, 4. John, 5. George and 6. James ****************** Happy hunting.... ~Virginia marchado@pacbell.net wrote: << CONSTABLE, Jos., born Eng. resided in Richmond CO - 1880 CONSTABLE, Clifford, born Eng. resided in Richmond CO 1880 - 1920 DRAKE, Henry, born Eng. resided in Richmond CO 1807, King Geo. CO - 1823 John Dodd, King - George CO - 1823 - 1860 CLOUD, Henry Frederick CO 1700's CARTER, Freeman, Henry, William not sure which county 1700s QUISENBERRY / QUISENBURY / CUSHIONBURY etc. King Geo. CO 1700s Barb Marshall <marchado@pacbell.net> >>