Just a reminder to all, There are a lot of useful links to Virginia records at the How to Find Your Family page at the Surry VAGenWeb site, URL below. Have a great 4th of July! Eve S. Gregory, Web Mistress Surry County, Virginia, Historical Society and Museums, Inc. http://www.rootsweb.com/~vaschsm/ Surry County VaGenWeb http://www.rootsweb.com/~vasurry/ >From: VASURRY-D-request@rootsweb.com >Reply-To: VASURRY-L@rootsweb.com >To: VASURRY-D@rootsweb.com >Subject: VASURRY-D Digest V03 #44 >Date: Wed, 2 Jul 2003 13:03:00 -0600 > ><< message2.txt >> ><< message4.txt >> ><< message6.txt >> _________________________________________________________________ Protect your PC - get McAfee.com VirusScan Online http://clinic.mcafee.com/clinic/ibuy/campaign.asp?cid=3963

Newspaper article from the Virginia Gazette, describing the celebration of July 4, 1777: http://www.geocities.com/twincousin2334/July_4th.html Happy and safe 4th. (Please forgive crossposts!) Nancy Website: http://www.geocities.com/twincousin2334 List Admin.: USCW-Seven-Pines; Carmichael; Godbold; Fairley Message Board Admin.: Missouri-Civil-War; Fairley; Godbold; Richmond County, NC

I thank all of you that have sent me the links to Va. Records... now I have to ask for another one... sorry.... it is Va. Records, but the link shows a list of names...and I "think" it has a card system...you go thur the cards.... or this could be two different links... help! Diane ----- Original Message ----- From: Diane To: VACHARLO-L@rootsweb.com ; VAISLEOF-L@rootsweb.com ; VAPITTSY-L@rootsweb.com ; VA-SOUTHSIDE-L@rootsweb.com ; VAMECKLE-L@rootsweb.com ; VASURRY-L@rootsweb.com Sent: Tuesday, July 01, 2003 8:18 PM Subject: Need link to Va. Records Hi, I need the link to Va. Records that are online... can't remember the name of it ): but you can read and scan the records on land deeds.. can anyone out there help? Diane

Hi, I need the link to Va. Records that are online... can't remember the name of it ): but you can read and scan the records on land deeds.. can anyone out there help? Diane

I ,too, am interested. And ,Yes---Where can I access the Bristol parish Register Books ? Fred On Wed, 11 Jun 2003 10:21:43 EDT Sbowers1@aol.com writes: > I, too, am interested to know if any vestry records on Southwark > Parish are > available. > The Bristol Parish Vestry Book and Register as transcribed by > Churchill G. > Chamberlayne is a wealth of genealogical information. This was a > nearby parish > in Prince George County (formerly part of Charles City County). > Surely > someone kept Southwark Parish records. > Can anyone help? > Shirley Hall Bowers > > > ==== VASURRY Mailing List ==== > Don't forget to check out the Surry County, Virginia, Historical > Society > http://www.rootsweb.com/~vaschsm/ > List Mistress is Eve Gregory schsva2@hotmail.com > > ============================== > To join Ancestry.com and access our 1.2 billion online genealogy > records, go to: > http://www.ancestry.com/rd/redir.asp?targetid=571&sourceid=1237 > > >

This list of known epidemics makes a helpful reference when researching individuals who disappear from local records suddenly, with no record of death. During major epidemics, people were often buried hurriedly and sometimes in mass graves. Taken from: www.genealogy-quest.com Nancy, researching: Baldridge, Cain, Courtney, Curtis, Carmichael, Dawkins, Doty, Garmon, Garrett, Jackson, McCormick, Matthews, Osborne, Robertson, Stampley, Stringer, Warren........and more! http://www.geocities.com/twincousin2334 1657 Boston Measles 1687 Boston Measles 1690 New York Yellow Fever 1713 Boston Measles 1729 Boston Measles 1732-3 Worldwide Influenza 1738 South Carolina Smallpox 1739-40 Boston Measles 1747 CT, NY, PA, SC Measles 1759 N. America Measles: areas inhabited by white people 1761 N. America and West Indies Influenza 1772 N. America Measles 1775 N. America Unknown epidemic: especially hard in NE 1775-6 Worldwide Influenza: one of the worst epidemics 1783 Dover, DE "Extremely fatal" bilious disorder 1788 Philadelphia and New York Measles 1793 Vermont A "putrid" fever and Influenza 1793 Virginia Influenza: killed 500 in 5 counties in 4 weeks 1793 Philadelphia Yellow Fever: over 4,000 deaths 1793 Harrisburg, PA Many unexplained deaths 1793 Middletown, PA Many unexplained deaths 1794 Philadelphia, PA Yellow Fever 1796-7 Philadelphia, PA Yellow Fever 1798 Philadelphia, PA Yellow Fever: one of the worst 1803 New York Yellow Fever 1820-3 Nationwide"Fever" - started Schuylkill River and spread 1822 New York and New Orleans Yellow Fever 1831-2 Nationwide Asiatic Cholera: brought by English emigrants 1832 NY City and other major cities Cholera 1832 New Orleans Asiatic Cholera: over 1,000 deaths 1832 Ayrshire towns of Stevenston, Dalry and Kilbride Cholera 1833 Columbus, OH Cholera 1834 New York City Cholera 1837 Philadelphia Typhus 1841 Nationwide Yellow Fever: especially severe in the south 1847 New Orleans Yellow Fever 1847-8 Worldwide Influenza 1848-9 North America Cholera 1849 New York Cholera 1849-50 New Orleans Cholera: 3,000 deaths 1850 Nationwide Yellow Fever 1850 Alabama, New York Cholera 1850-1 North America Influenza 1851 Coles Co., IL, The Great Plains and Missouri Cholera 1852 Nationwide Yellow Fever 1853 New Orleans Yellow Fever: 8,000 die 1855 Nationwide Yellow Fever 1857-9 Worldwide Influenza: one of the greatest epidemics 1860-1 Pennsylvania Smallpox 1865-73 Philadelphia, NY, Boston, New Orleans, Baltimore, Memphis, Washington DC Smallpox, a series of recurring epidemics of Cholera, Typhus, Typhoid, Scarlet Fever, Yellow Fever 1873-5 N. America and Europe Influenza 1878 New Orleans Yellow Fever: last great epidemic 1878 Memphis, TN Yellow Fever 1885 Chicago, IL water-borne disease 1885 Plymouth, PA Typhoid 1886 Jacksonville, FL Yellow Fever 1900 Galveston, TX Cholera 1902 Alaska measles 1905 New Orleans Yellow Fever: last US outbreak 1918 Worldwide[high point yr.] Influenza: more people were hospitalized in WWI from this epidemic than wounds. US Army training camps became death camps, with 80% death rate in some camps.

Would anyone happen to have a copy of "Cavalier & Pioneers" that could do a look-up for me. Looking for ancient planter with date of arrival. Thank you for any assistance. Cindy

I, too, am interested to know if any vestry records on Southwark Parish are available. The Bristol Parish Vestry Book and Register as transcribed by Churchill G. Chamberlayne is a wealth of genealogical information. This was a nearby parish in Prince George County (formerly part of Charles City County). Surely someone kept Southwark Parish records. Can anyone help? Shirley Hall Bowers

I'm sorry Fred, I'm just not enough of a historian to remember off the top of my head. There are plenty of passenger lists out there. I seem to recall some coming from Liverpool as well, but that may have been later. A lot of indentured servants & military went to the plantations & forts in Barbados first before coming up to Virginia in the mid & late 1600s. I recall that when Cromwell decimated Ireland, there were a lot of children & refugees escaping & sold into New World white slavery, my ancester probably one of them. Mark Frederick Baird wrote: > Hi Mark: > I have again accessed the Jamestown Site----Thank you--- > Now ----Another question----In your opinion----Did most or all of the > early Jamestown immigrants and James City.Come from London to bristol and > then to Va.?Engishmen> Or or there Scots mixed up in there.? > Thank you--Anyone is free to answer. > Fred > On Tue, 10 Jun 2003 13:43:38 -0500 Mark Murphy > <murphy@tiaer.tarleton.edu> writes: > >>http://www.rootsweb.com/~vasurry/surhist.html >> The part of James City County that became Surry County was >>inhabited by >>the Quiyoughcohanocks, allies of the Algonquian Powhatan >>Confederacy, >>when Jamestown settlers visited in1607. By 1640 James City County's >> >>population south of James River was sufficient to support a new >>parish, >>and Lawne's Creek Parish was established. Southwark Parish was >>separated >>from James City Parish in 1647, and Surry County was separated from >> >>James City County five years later. Soon afterward Arthur Allen >>built >>his Jacobean brick house, now known as Bacon's Castle because it was >> >>occupied as a fort or "castle" during Bacon's Rebellion in 1676. >> Reports to the Bishop of London by the ministers of Lawne's >>Creek and >>Southwark parishes in the year 1724 were recorded by Bishop Meade. >>They >>were not prosperous parishes. In 1738 Albemarle Parish was created >>from >>those parts of Lawne's Creek and Southwark parishes that lay >>southwest >>of Blackwater River. The remaining parts of Lawne's Creek and >>Southwark >>were united into Southwark Parish. The entire area of Albemarle >>Parish >>was incorporated into Sussex County when it was formed from the >>southwestern end of Surry County in 1754. >> >>-Mark >> >>Harvey L. Bottoms wrote: >> >>>Southwarke Parish and Surry County shared the same boundary. In >> >>1738 the >> >>>boundaries of Southwarke Parish was changed to the current Surry >> >>County >> >>>boundary and Albemarle Parish was established which had the same >> >>boundary as >> >>>Sussex County. >>> >>>Harvey >>> >>>Researching the following families: Bottoms/Bottom/Longbottom, >> >>Keas, >> >>>Stribling/Stripling, Chambers, Hodges, Golden, Sweeney, Lovelace, >> >>Welch, >> >>>Pettit, Cagle and others. >>> >>> >>>-----Original Message----- >>>From: Liser, Yvonne [mailto:YLISER@usatoday.com] >>>Sent: Tuesday, June 10, 2003 1:01 PM >>>To: VASURRY-L@rootsweb.com >>>Subject: Southwark Parish >>> >>>I am researching the FRANCIS family in Surry County. According to >> >>census >> >>>records, the FRANCIS family lived in Southwark Parish. I've >> >>recently >> >>>purchased a book, Images of America: Surry County, which has >> >>photos of the >> >>>various townships and people of Surry County. Southwark Parish is >> >>not >> >>>mentioned here. Does anyone happen to know which township >> >>Southwark was in >> >>>during the 1830s - 1880s? >>> >>>Yvonne Liser, USA TODAY >>>Systems Analyst, Circulation Systems >>>703-854-6496 >>>yliser@usatoday.com >>> >>> >>> >>>==== VASURRY Mailing List ==== >>>Don't forget to check out the Surry County VAGenWeb site at >>>http://www.rootsweb.com/~vasurry/ >>>List Mistress is Eve Gregory schsva2@hotmail.com >>> >>>============================== >>>To join Ancestry.com and access our 1.2 billion online genealogy >> >>records, go >> >>>to: >>>http://www.ancestry.com/rd/redir.asp?targetid=571&sourceid=1237 >>> >>> >>> >>> >>>==== VASURRY Mailing List ==== >>>Don't forget to check out the Surry County, Virginia, Historical >> >>Society >> >>>http://www.rootsweb.com/~vaschsm/ >>>List Mistress is Eve Gregory schsva2@hotmail.com >>> >>>============================== >>>To join Ancestry.com and access our 1.2 billion online genealogy >> >>records, go to: >> >>>http://www.ancestry.com/rd/redir.asp?targetid=571&sourceid=1237 >>> >> >> >>-- >>Mark Murphy >>TIAER Laboratory Manager >>Tarleton State University >>Box T-0410 >>Stephenville, TX 76402 >>254-968-9570, cell 254-592-9132 >> >> >>==== VASURRY Mailing List ==== >>Don't forget to check out the Surry County VAGenWeb site at >>http://www.rootsweb.com/~vasurry/ >>List Mistress is Eve Gregory schsva2@hotmail.com >> >>============================== >>To join Ancestry.com and access our 1.2 billion online genealogy >>records, go to: >>http://www.ancestry.com/rd/redir.asp?targetid=571&sourceid=1237 >> >> >> > > > > ==== VASURRY Mailing List ==== > Don't forget to check out the Surry County VAGenWeb site at > http://www.rootsweb.com/~vasurry/ > List Mistress is Eve Gregory schsva2@hotmail.com > > ============================== > To join Ancestry.com and access our 1.2 billion online genealogy records, go to: > http://www.ancestry.com/rd/redir.asp?targetid=571&sourceid=1237 > -- Mark Murphy TIAER Laboratory Manager Tarleton State University Box T-0410 Stephenville, TX 76402 254-968-9570, cell 254-592-9132

Hello; Could you please take me off the mailing list. Thank You Steve A. Blizzard CSSCS EER SYSTEMS/L3COM PH: 0621-487-3719/DSN:375-3719 Friedrichfeld, Germany "ALL THE WAY" "When the world is at peace, a gentleman keeps his sword by his side."

Hi Mark: I have again accessed the Jamestown Site----Thank you--- Now ----Another question----In your opinion----Did most or all of the early Jamestown immigrants and James City.Come from London to bristol and then to Va.?Engishmen> Or or there Scots mixed up in there.? Thank you--Anyone is free to answer. Fred On Tue, 10 Jun 2003 13:43:38 -0500 Mark Murphy <murphy@tiaer.tarleton.edu> writes: > http://www.rootsweb.com/~vasurry/surhist.html > The part of James City County that became Surry County was > inhabited by > the Quiyoughcohanocks, allies of the Algonquian Powhatan > Confederacy, > when Jamestown settlers visited in1607. By 1640 James City County's > > population south of James River was sufficient to support a new > parish, > and Lawne's Creek Parish was established. Southwark Parish was > separated > from James City Parish in 1647, and Surry County was separated from > > James City County five years later. Soon afterward Arthur Allen > built > his Jacobean brick house, now known as Bacon's Castle because it was > > occupied as a fort or "castle" during Bacon's Rebellion in 1676. > Reports to the Bishop of London by the ministers of Lawne's > Creek and > Southwark parishes in the year 1724 were recorded by Bishop Meade. > They > were not prosperous parishes. In 1738 Albemarle Parish was created > from > those parts of Lawne's Creek and Southwark parishes that lay > southwest > of Blackwater River. The remaining parts of Lawne's Creek and > Southwark > were united into Southwark Parish. The entire area of Albemarle > Parish > was incorporated into Sussex County when it was formed from the > southwestern end of Surry County in 1754. > > -Mark > > Harvey L. Bottoms wrote: > > Southwarke Parish and Surry County shared the same boundary. In > 1738 the > > boundaries of Southwarke Parish was changed to the current Surry > County > > boundary and Albemarle Parish was established which had the same > boundary as > > Sussex County. > > > > Harvey > > > > Researching the following families: Bottoms/Bottom/Longbottom, > Keas, > > Stribling/Stripling, Chambers, Hodges, Golden, Sweeney, Lovelace, > Welch, > > Pettit, Cagle and others. > > > > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: Liser, Yvonne [mailto:YLISER@usatoday.com] > > Sent: Tuesday, June 10, 2003 1:01 PM > > To: VASURRY-L@rootsweb.com > > Subject: Southwark Parish > > > > I am researching the FRANCIS family in Surry County. According to > census > > records, the FRANCIS family lived in Southwark Parish. I've > recently > > purchased a book, Images of America: Surry County, which has > photos of the > > various townships and people of Surry County. Southwark Parish is > not > > mentioned here. Does anyone happen to know which township > Southwark was in > > during the 1830s - 1880s? > > > > Yvonne Liser, USA TODAY > > Systems Analyst, Circulation Systems > > 703-854-6496 > > yliser@usatoday.com > > > > > > > > ==== VASURRY Mailing List ==== > > Don't forget to check out the Surry County VAGenWeb site at > > http://www.rootsweb.com/~vasurry/ > > List Mistress is Eve Gregory schsva2@hotmail.com > > > > ============================== > > To join Ancestry.com and access our 1.2 billion online genealogy > records, go > > to: > > http://www.ancestry.com/rd/redir.asp?targetid=571&sourceid=1237 > > > > > > > > > > ==== VASURRY Mailing List ==== > > Don't forget to check out the Surry County, Virginia, Historical > Society > > http://www.rootsweb.com/~vaschsm/ > > List Mistress is Eve Gregory schsva2@hotmail.com > > > > ============================== > > To join Ancestry.com and access our 1.2 billion online genealogy > records, go to: > > http://www.ancestry.com/rd/redir.asp?targetid=571&sourceid=1237 > > > > > -- > Mark Murphy > TIAER Laboratory Manager > Tarleton State University > Box T-0410 > Stephenville, TX 76402 > 254-968-9570, cell 254-592-9132 > > > ==== VASURRY Mailing List ==== > Don't forget to check out the Surry County VAGenWeb site at > http://www.rootsweb.com/~vasurry/ > List Mistress is Eve Gregory schsva2@hotmail.com > > ============================== > To join Ancestry.com and access our 1.2 billion online genealogy > records, go to: > http://www.ancestry.com/rd/redir.asp?targetid=571&sourceid=1237 > > >

Would any answer about Southwark Parish please be posted to the list for the benefit of all Surry/Sussex Co. researchers? Thank you, Sarah ----- Original Message ----- From: "Liser, Yvonne" <YLISER@usatoday.com> To: <VASURRY-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Tuesday, June 10, 2003 2:01 PM Subject: Southwark Parish > I am researching the FRANCIS family in Surry County. According to census records, the FRANCIS family lived in Southwark Parish. I've recently purchased a book, Images of America: Surry County, which has photos of the various townships and people of Surry County. Southwark Parish is not mentioned here. Does anyone happen to know which township Southwark was in during the 1830s - 1880s? > > Yvonne Liser, USA TODAY > Systems Analyst, Circulation Systems > 703-854-6496 > yliser@usatoday.com > > > > ==== VASURRY Mailing List ==== > Don't forget to check out the Surry County VAGenWeb site at > http://www.rootsweb.com/~vasurry/ > List Mistress is Eve Gregory schsva2@hotmail.com > > ============================== > To join Ancestry.com and access our 1.2 billion online genealogy records, go to: > http://www.ancestry.com/rd/redir.asp?targetid=571&sourceid=1237 > > --- > [This E-mail scanned for viruses by Internet Of Salisbury, Inc.] > > --- [This E-mail scanned for viruses by Internet Of Salisbury, Inc.]

I am researching the FRANCIS family in Surry County. According to census records, the FRANCIS family lived in Southwark Parish. I've recently purchased a book, Images of America: Surry County, which has photos of the various townships and people of Surry County. Southwark Parish is not mentioned here. Does anyone happen to know which township Southwark was in during the 1830s - 1880s? Yvonne Liser, USA TODAY Systems Analyst, Circulation Systems 703-854-6496 yliser@usatoday.com

http://www.rootsweb.com/~vasurry/surhist.html The part of James City County that became Surry County was inhabited by the Quiyoughcohanocks, allies of the Algonquian Powhatan Confederacy, when Jamestown settlers visited in1607. By 1640 James City County's population south of James River was sufficient to support a new parish, and Lawne's Creek Parish was established. Southwark Parish was separated from James City Parish in 1647, and Surry County was separated from James City County five years later. Soon afterward Arthur Allen built his Jacobean brick house, now known as Bacon's Castle because it was occupied as a fort or "castle" during Bacon's Rebellion in 1676. Reports to the Bishop of London by the ministers of Lawne's Creek and Southwark parishes in the year 1724 were recorded by Bishop Meade. They were not prosperous parishes. In 1738 Albemarle Parish was created from those parts of Lawne's Creek and Southwark parishes that lay southwest of Blackwater River. The remaining parts of Lawne's Creek and Southwark were united into Southwark Parish. The entire area of Albemarle Parish was incorporated into Sussex County when it was formed from the southwestern end of Surry County in 1754. -Mark Harvey L. Bottoms wrote: > Southwarke Parish and Surry County shared the same boundary. In 1738 the > boundaries of Southwarke Parish was changed to the current Surry County > boundary and Albemarle Parish was established which had the same boundary as > Sussex County. > > Harvey > > Researching the following families: Bottoms/Bottom/Longbottom, Keas, > Stribling/Stripling, Chambers, Hodges, Golden, Sweeney, Lovelace, Welch, > Pettit, Cagle and others. > > > -----Original Message----- > From: Liser, Yvonne [mailto:YLISER@usatoday.com] > Sent: Tuesday, June 10, 2003 1:01 PM > To: VASURRY-L@rootsweb.com > Subject: Southwark Parish > > I am researching the FRANCIS family in Surry County. According to census > records, the FRANCIS family lived in Southwark Parish. I've recently > purchased a book, Images of America: Surry County, which has photos of the > various townships and people of Surry County. Southwark Parish is not > mentioned here. Does anyone happen to know which township Southwark was in > during the 1830s - 1880s? > > Yvonne Liser, USA TODAY > Systems Analyst, Circulation Systems > 703-854-6496 > yliser@usatoday.com > > > > ==== VASURRY Mailing List ==== > Don't forget to check out the Surry County VAGenWeb site at > http://www.rootsweb.com/~vasurry/ > List Mistress is Eve Gregory schsva2@hotmail.com > > ============================== > To join Ancestry.com and access our 1.2 billion online genealogy records, go > to: > http://www.ancestry.com/rd/redir.asp?targetid=571&sourceid=1237 > > > > > ==== VASURRY Mailing List ==== > Don't forget to check out the Surry County, Virginia, Historical Society > http://www.rootsweb.com/~vaschsm/ > List Mistress is Eve Gregory schsva2@hotmail.com > > ============================== > To join Ancestry.com and access our 1.2 billion online genealogy records, go to: > http://www.ancestry.com/rd/redir.asp?targetid=571&sourceid=1237 > -- Mark Murphy TIAER Laboratory Manager Tarleton State University Box T-0410 Stephenville, TX 76402 254-968-9570, cell 254-592-9132

Southwarke Parish and Surry County shared the same boundary. In 1738 the boundaries of Southwarke Parish was changed to the current Surry County boundary and Albemarle Parish was established which had the same boundary as Sussex County. Harvey Researching the following families: Bottoms/Bottom/Longbottom, Keas, Stribling/Stripling, Chambers, Hodges, Golden, Sweeney, Lovelace, Welch, Pettit, Cagle and others. -----Original Message----- From: Liser, Yvonne [mailto:YLISER@usatoday.com] Sent: Tuesday, June 10, 2003 1:01 PM To: VASURRY-L@rootsweb.com Subject: Southwark Parish I am researching the FRANCIS family in Surry County. According to census records, the FRANCIS family lived in Southwark Parish. I've recently purchased a book, Images of America: Surry County, which has photos of the various townships and people of Surry County. Southwark Parish is not mentioned here. Does anyone happen to know which township Southwark was in during the 1830s - 1880s? Yvonne Liser, USA TODAY Systems Analyst, Circulation Systems 703-854-6496 yliser@usatoday.com ==== VASURRY Mailing List ==== Don't forget to check out the Surry County VAGenWeb site at http://www.rootsweb.com/~vasurry/ List Mistress is Eve Gregory schsva2@hotmail.com ============================== To join Ancestry.com and access our 1.2 billion online genealogy records, go to: http://www.ancestry.com/rd/redir.asp?targetid=571&sourceid=1237

Looking for info on Thomas WIGGINS b: 1652 Surry, VA; his son Thomas b: 1680 Surry; grandson Thomas b: 1710 Surry; and great-grandson Archibald b: 1735 Hampshire, VA. Thank you for any assistance. Cindy Turner Sparta, Michigan

This was on one of my GA lists. I wish I knew who the author was. Nancy We Are the Chosen My feelings are, in each family, one is called to find the ancestors. To put flesh on their bones and make them live again, To tell the family story and to feel that somehow they know and approve. To me, doing genealogy is not a cold gathering of facts but, instead, Breathing life into all who have gone before. We are the story tellers of the tribe. We have been called, as it were, by our genes. Those who have gone before cry out to us: Tell our story. So, we do. And in finding them, we somehow find ourselves. How many graves have I stood before and cried? I have lost count. How many times have I walked up to a grave and felt somehow there was love there for me? I cannot say. It goes beyond just documenting facts. It goes to who I am and why I do the things I do. It goes to seeing a cemetery about to be lost forever to weeds and indifference and saying I can't let this happen. It goes to pride in what our ancestors were able to accomplish, How they contributed to what we are today. It goes to respecting their hardships and losses, their never giving in or giving up, Their resoluteness to go on and build lives for their families. It goes to deep pride that they fought to make and keep us a Nation. It goes to an understanding that they were doing it for us.....for the future, That we might be born who we are, That we might remember them. So we do..... With love and caring and scribing each fact of their existence, Because we are them and they are us. So, as a scribe called, we tell the story of our families. It will be up to the ones called in the next generation To answer the call and take their places in the long line of family storytellers. That is why I do family genealogy, And that is what calls those young and old to step up and put flesh on the bones. [Author Unknown] Nancy Website: http://www.geocities.com/twincousin2334 List Admin.: USCW-SEVEN_PINES; CARMICHAEL; GODBOLD; FAIRLEY Message Board Admin.: MISSOURI CIVIL WAR; FAIRLEY; GODBOLD; RICHMOND COUNTY, NC

For posterity...... Surry Co, VA Will Book 8- page 91 In the name of God amen. I Hezekiah Savedge of the County of Surry and State of Virginia being in my usual health knowing the uncertainty of life do make and declare the following as and for my last Will and Testament. Item 1st  I give and bequeath unto my children now living and their nearest of kindred my family Grave Yard to embrace one acre of land with the priviledge of passing through the plantation to and from the same. After the payment of my just debts, I loan unto my beloved wife Kizia, during her natural life, the land and plantation whereon I now live together with all the property thereon as it may be left at my death, hoping and desiring that she will keep with her Grandson Crawley Hezekiah Tenum Maynoard and do all that may be in her power for him. But in case my said wife should be unwilling to keep house and prefer boarding out in some respectable family, I desire she may do so and I hereby charge my estate with a sufficient sum annually to pay her board and clothing during her life.   I give and bequeath unto my son Accril Savedge one Bed and furniture and one gun, the gun being already in his possession.   I give and bequeath unto my daughter Salley Evans Davis one bed and furniture already in her possession. I give and bequeath unto my son Talbert Henry Savedge, one bed and furniture, one gun and my yound mare and at the death of his step mother or refusual to keep house, I give to my said son Talbert Henry the land and plantation and the property thereon as loaned her; provided he should be living , but in case of his death before that time, I give the said land and plantation and the property that may remian at my said wife's death or refusal to keep house to my Grandson Crawley Hezekiah Tenum Maynard provided also he should live to the age of twenty one years. And in case he should die under that age, I give the same to be equally divided between my son Accril and my daughter Sally Evans Davis and their heirs.   I give and bequeath unto my Grandson Crawley Hezekiah Tenum Maynard, one bed and furniture one mahogany table, one D??, one large Bible and one gun. My little plantation on Green Swamp which I have leased out, I desire may be sold after the termination of the lease, and the money arising therefrom together with the Lease money, I desire may be equally divided between my three children above named. I also give and bequeath unto my three children above named, Accrill Savedge, Sally Evans Davis, and Talbert Henry Savedge and my Grandson Crawley Hezekiah Tenum Maynard all my interest in and to the estate of my deceased son Willie T. Savedge to them and to their heirs forever.   And lastly I nominate and appoint my son son Accrill Savedge and my son in law John L. Davis Executors to this my Last Will and Testament and desire that my sister Nancy Seward may have the priviledge of my house as a home as long as she may live. In witness whereof I have here unto set my hand and seal this  __ day of July 1837 Signed in the presence of                  his P.T. Spratley                   Hezekiah     Savedge Wm. A Seward                       mark   (his mark was a cross not an X) (note: Hezekiah's son by Kezziah, Richard Rush Savedge, was not born until 1840) In Surry County Court 26th October 1840 This Last Will and Testament was this day presented in Court proved according to Law by the oath of Peter T. Spratley and William A. Seward the witnesses thereto and ordered to be recorded. And on the motion of Acril Savedge one of the Executors therein named, who made oath thereto and together with Edwin White and Henry Hart his securities entered into and acknowledged a bond in the penalty of four thousand Dollars, conditioned as the Law directs. Certificate is granted to the said Acril Savedge for obtaining a probate of said Will in due form. Liberty being reserved to the other executor named in the said Will to join in the probate when he shall think fit. Teste Wm  P. Underwood C.C. examined Hezekiah was the son Of William Savedge and Sarah (possible maiden name George) "Surry Co., VA, Wills, Estate Accounts and Inventories 1730-1800." By Lyndon H. Hart, III. Page 473. book 11 On page 104. William Savidge of Southwark Parish, Surry. Will. Date: 16 Jan 1777. Rec.: 26 Aug. 1777. Sarah Savidge, Executrix. Sons: William, James, Willis, Hezekiah and Edwin. Daughter: Rebecca Savidge. Wife: Sarah. Friend: William Smith, Sr. Witnesses: Henry Moring and Hartwell Savidge. · 1750*Surry Co., VA Deed Book 6, pg. 111 (1749-1753) August 11th 1750... Joseph Lancaster and wife, Mary Lancaster to John Savage for 3-pounds current money sold 50-acres on east side of Cypress Swamp and bounded Loveless Savage, John Phillips, William George, Benjamin Savage and the said John Savage. Signed, Joseph Lancaster, Mary Lancaster. Witnesses: Henry Smith, James Smith, and William Savage. Recorded September 18th 1750. · 1750*Surry Co. VA, Deed Book 6, pg. 113 (1749-1753) August 11th 1750... Joseph Lancaster and wife, Mary Lancaster, to William George for 6-pounds current money sold 100-acres on the east side of Cypress Swamp and bounded by William Savage, Benjamin Savage, John Savage, and John Phillips. Signed, Joseph Lancaster, Mary Lancaster. Witnesses: Henry Smith, James Smith, and William Average. Recorded September 18th 1750. Would sure love to know who the parents of William Savedge/Savidge were..... Audrey Orlando, FL

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