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The Family Garden
Notes
Thomas HANSFORD
Wife Elizabeth granted probate of his will.
Sources include "Adventures of Purse and Person, "pages
199-202 and "Hansford ans Kinsmen, 1645 - 1957," by Thelma
Ironmongere Hansford, Seaford, VA, 1958.An estimated birth date.
T. I. Hansford attributes this date to his trial, conviction
and hanging.She further cites Hening's Statutes,
Vol. II, page 550 and also William & Mary College Quarterly,
Vol 13, Series 2, page 154 as the sources of her information.
Thomas and brother Charles granted land in York Co., VA by
terms of their father's will.
*Source: Research of Bill Adams
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Thomas Hansford
The First Native Martyr to American Liberty
a paper read before the Virginia Historical Society Tuesday, December 22, 1891 By Mrs. Annie Tucker Tyler, Williamsburg Virginia
In a list prepared by Sir William Berkely, and preserved among the Hareleian MSS, in the British Museum, commerating the persons who were executed by him in the seventeenth century for participating in Bacon's Rebellion, occurs the name of one Thomas Hansford, who is described by Sir William as "a valiant, stout man," and "a most resolved rebel." The few other references to Hansford in the current accounts of the times are in harmony with this description, and justify a natural desire to be still further acquainted with him.
Thus we are told that he commanded at Jamestown, under a commission as Major from Nathaniel Bacon Jr., and was there when Berkeley returned from his exile to the Eastern Shore at the head of six hundred, or, as another account has it, one thousand followers. It is said that he took a conspicuous part in the insurrection, brilliant as it was brief, and when he was captured after Bacon's death, he supplicated no other favor than that "he might be shot like a soldier, and not hanged like a dog." We are also told that during the short respite allowed him after his sentence, "he professed repentance and contrition for all the sins of his past life, but refused to acknowledge what was charged against him as rebellion to be one of those sins, desiring the people present to take notice that he died a loyal subject and lover of his country, and that he had never taken up arms but for the destruction of the Indians, who had murdered so many Christians."
St. George Tucker, my revered father, trusting to the statement found in one of the quaint old tracts rescued from oblivion bye the indefatigable antiquarian, Peter Force, which ascribes his arrest to the fact that "although a son of Mars, he did some times worship at the shrine of Venus," made Thomas Hansford the hero of a romance in which the gentle Virginia Temple was the innocent cause of his undoing.
When I recite the personal history of Hansford, and disclose the fact that he was a married man, it will probably occasion some suprise that he should have been represented as an ardent suitor at the time of his execution, but the truth is, that until a recent date there was very little reality surrounding Hansford's career. Nor was he an exception among the characters of the period in which he figured. How few and scant are the published facts concerning another of Bacon's officers, Major Edmund Chisman, and his noble wife, who took upon herself the entire blame of his sedition; or of Major Thomas Whaley and "thoughtful Mr. Lawerence," who when the cause was abandoned plunged into the snows of the unknown backwoods and were lost to the knowledge of their fellow men. The old published chroniclers tell us very little of Bacon himself, and yet, thanks to recent investigations in the county records and the British archives the material is now abundunt for a full account.
In the same manner careful research has added many new facts to the current account of Thomas Hansford, and the only merit of this paper is that it will attempt to present these facts in a connective narrative.
In 1651, Richard Hansford was granted a patent for lands at West's creek, in York county, and among the head rights were John and Elizabeth Hansford. In 1658, Mr. John Hansford entered land in the same locality; and in 1662, Thomas Hansford obtained a re-grant for the same. In 1653, John Hansford obtained a grant for 950 acres in Gloucester county, north of the narrows of Mattaponi, and among the head rights were John and Elizabeth Hansford. The probability is that Richard Hansford was a brother of John Hansford, who was the father of Thomas, mentioned as taking out the patent in 1662 for John Hansford's land on West's Creek.
John Hansford might have been a son of the merchant tailor of London of the same name mentioned by Mr. Alexander Brown in his "Genesis," as entered in a list of the Virginia Company in 1620, and who was probably brother of Sir Humphrey Hanford, Handforth, or Hanforth, as the name is variously written.
There is no question, however, that the John Hansford of the patents and the John Hansford who was father of the Hansford of history were one and the same person. He lived on the same creek and in the same county, and was for many years active in the affairs of York county, and in 1655 occupied a seat on the Justice's Bench. His will was proved November 24, 1661, and judging from the number of servants and the amount of silver plate, and other property mentioned in his inventory, recorded June 24, 1668, he was a man of both wealth and position. According to his will he left four sons - John and William, to whom he devised a plantation in Gloucester county, upon the "Clay Bank" on the north side of York River, and Thomas and Charles, to whom he left 650 acres at the head of Felgate's creek, in York County. He also had three daughters - Elizabeth, who married first Mr. Christian Wilson and afterwards Mr. Randolf Holt, of Surray county; Mary who married Dr. Thomas Robbins, of Robins Neck, in Gloucester county and whose family history is given by Mr. Stanard in the "Richmond Critic" for August, 1889; and Margaret, who is supposed to have been dead before October, 1667.
By the will of Mr. Hansford we are shown another important fact, which is that one Robert Jones was the instructor of his children; and it is not a little remarkable that a man of that name is mentioned by Hening as among those executed with Thomas Hansford for rebellious procedings.
Thomas Hansford, the third son of Mr. John Hansford, was born about 1646, as I infer from his deposition, dated January 9, 1667, which states that he was then twenty five years old. He came into possession of his property, both real and personal, November 12, 1667, and the order states that "he was then of age."
After his fathers death he was under the guardianship of Mr. Edward Lockey, a rich merchant of Virginia, largely interested in the tobacco trade, who had married Mrs. Hansford, the mother of Thomas on October 10, 1661. Both were dead before the disturbance under Bacon arose. Mr. Lockey died before February 24, 1667, and Mrs. Lockey before January 24, 1675-6, these being the respective dates of the recording of their wills.
Notwithstanding the testimony of Romance, which represents Thomas Hansford as a single man at the time of his execution we find the court, on April 10. 1667, entering an order against Mr. John Roberts, guardian of Mistress Elizabeth Jones, daughter of Richard Jones, deceased, to deliver his ward's estate in kind to Thomas Hansford as intermarrying with the said Elizabeth." This Elizabeth had two brothers, Gabriel and Richard, but they soon died without issue and she became sole heiress of her father's property, thus bringing a considerable fortune to her husband.
Hansford's marriage occured nine years before Bacon's Rebellion, and his family at that time was of considerable figure, consisting of a wife and five children.
During these nine years we catch an occasional glimpse of him in the courts. A deposition, in June, 1668, declares that passing by his cow pen he tauntingly bid "Ann Huddelstone's Dame" to go and rob the onion patch again. "Can you prove your words?" she indignantly said. "Yes," was the reply. He was sued for defamation of character. After the same manner, he accused Dr William Townsend of purloining from Squire Digges's old field a foal which he himself had branded for Digges. In another suit he won 200 pounds of tobacco from Abraham Ray for damages done his (Hansford's) horse. And Thomas Reade, his servant, who ran away, was required by the court to make equivalent service for the cost and trouble of his capture.
The uprising of the people at the call of Nathaniel Bacon, Jr., summoned Hansford to more serious controversies; but here I regret to say, we cannot add much to what is already familiarly known. We are aware that many of the leading gentry adhered to Governor Berkely, but not all, as in York county both Thomas Hansford and Major Edmund Chisman were trusted officers of Bacon, who was himself of the ancient house of Francis Bacon, Lord Verulam. Certain, it is, that both sides plundered and pillaged private estates, and a guerrilla warfare prevailed through all the colony. Hansford according to Robert Beverly was commander-in-chief of four counties and president of the Court of Seqestrations. Probably it was while engaged one day in looking up the sequestered estate of a Royalist that he met up with the gallant Captain William Digges, eldest son of Colonel Edward Digges, of Bellfield, in York county, and in single handed fight with him was so unfortunate as to lose one of his fingers. Digges forced him to fly, but the tables were turned shortly after, and Digges had himself to flee to Maryland for safety. The writer of the MS, from which this fact is gleaned adds that "for his son's loyalty his mother (Mrs. Elizabeth Digges) suffered considerably in her estate."
I do not propose to give a history of the Rebellion. Just at the time when Virginia acknowledged no other authority than Bacon's, he was taken ill and died, and thus the cause which he represented received a fatal blow. Berkely re-established his authority as rapidly as he had lost it. Some of the lieutenants of Bacon were hanged, others died in prison, and others left the colony. Hansford was one of those who suffered the first mentioned fate, and is said to have been the first native Virginian that perished in that ignominious form, and the first martyr that fell in defending the rights of the people. His execution took place in Accomac.
From June, 1676, the begining of the conflict, to March, 1677, when the end had came, there appears to have been no court held in York county, as far as the records testify. Bacon had compelled the justices, in the celebrated meeting at the Middle Plantation, to administer to the people the oath of allegiance to his cause; and in a letter dated February 17, 1667, they now besought the Governor to "indemnify" them by name for obeying the mandate, and to indicate "who should be justices for York county."
The Governor, on March 23rd, immediately re-appointed all except John Scarsbrooke, whose case was reserved for the decision of the Council on account of suspicians, connecting him with the rebellion. And on March 31st, he further ordered that the sessions of the county court should be held "in the house lately belonging to Thomas Hansford, whose estate for his rebelion and treason is forfeited to his sacred Majesty." So said Governor Berkeley, but it appears, however, that the property of Thomas Hansford was not confiscated. In spite of the formal petition (addressed to the commissioners sent over from England to inquire into the late distrubances) by the justices of York county, John Page, John Scarsbrooke (lately restored), James Vaulx, Otho Thorpe and Isaac Clopton, that the property of Hansford should be seized for a court house, the want of which in the county had annually imposed a heavy burden in the way of rent upon the people, the commissioners, with a humanity which did them credit, reported to the king in favor of bestowing the property of Hansford and "those other wretched" men lately associated with him upon "thier poor wives and children." And this was doubtless the explanation why, on November 13, 1678, "a commission of administration on the estate of Mr. Thomas Hansford was granted to Mr. Charles Hansford and Mr. David Condon in behalf of ye decedent's children, &c."
Previous to this the same parties had qualified on the estate of Mrs. Thomas Hansford, who within a year had followed her martyred husband to the grave.
An agreement, dated February 26, 1677-78, was made between the administrators and the justices representing the county, by which the house "lately belonging to Mrs. Hansford" was leased to the county for one thousand pounds of tobacco per annum-an arrangment which continued until January 20, 1679-80, when the place of adjournment was changed to the "French Ordinary," not far distant on the York road, half way between Williamsburg and Yorktown.
Of the children of Thomas Hansford, John was afflicted and died in 1681. Elizabeth married Richard Burt, Mary married William Hewitt, and Thomas and William married and died in York county leaving descendents.
The will of Thomas Hansford's son, William Hansford, was recorded July 24, 1709, and mentions a wife, Mary, who seems to have been a sister of David Morce, called in the will "brother-in-law" and three sons, William, Thomas, and David, and one daughter Elizabeth, all under age.
The will of the other son, Thomas was recorded June 20, 1720, and his children were Thomas and William, Elizabeth, Sara, Mary, and Martha Hansford. William died in 1733, and left a wife.
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Mary, and son, Lewis who had four sones living in 1765. Mary Steele, in her will proved in York county court, July 20, 1767, calls Lewis Hansford her son-in-law. Thomas was living in 1736.
Charles Hansford, youngest brother of Major Thomas Hansford, married Elizabeth Moody, daughter of Rev. Edward Foliott of Hampton Parish, and relict of Josias Moody, son of Dr. Giles Mode', a Frenchman, whose name was corrupted into Moody, and who is the founder of that family in Virginia. He left in 1702, three sons, Charles, William and John, and four daughters, Elizabeth and Mary Hansford, Lydia Duke, wife of "Mr, Henry Duke", and Martha, who married Samuel Hill. Of these John long kept an ordinary at the half-way house between Williamsburg and Yorktown. Charles Hansford, the second of that name, has issue a daughter Lucy, who married John Hyde, and a son also named Charles, The third Charles lived till 1778, and on the 21st December 1778, his will was proved in York county court. He left two sons, Richard and Bejaminem and three daughters-Elizabeth or Betsy, who in 1769 married John Camm, treasure of the college of William and Mary, and afterwards president of the same, Mary, who in July, 1775, married Rev Samuel Shield, minister of Drysdale parish, in Caroline county, and Martha, who married Edward Harwood, and subsequently Robert Shield, of York County, brother of said Samuel, and great-granfather of William H. Sheild, M.D,, assistant physician at the Eastern Lunatic Asylum.
As to the Gloucester branch of the Hansford Family, William, elder brother of Major Thomas Hansford had a son William living there in 1706.
The Hansford blood mingles with that of the Pattesons, Camms, Hydes, Hills, Custises and many other well known families in Virginia today.
This ends my paper. Genealogical investigations, though necessrily personal, are nevertheless valuable. A people without pride in thier past are no people at all. And I cordially echo the sentiment expressed by Proffesor Garnett in his excellent paper read last night; "Perish the day when the son forgets His father."
Annie Tucker Tyler
Copied from: http://www.gendex.com/
May 25, 1997 (generously shared with me by Lee Crocket)
Elizabeth JONES
Her will was dated 8 Feb 1677/78 and filed for probate 24 Ap 1678. Estimated birth date based on an estimated marriage date. She inherited land from her father which she subsequently willed to her daughter, Elizabeth Hansford, named after her.
*Source: Research of Bill Adams
WILL OF ELIZABETH HANSFORD
York County Records # 6, 1677-1684, p 39
8 Feb 1677/8
In the name of God Amen I Elizabeth Hansford of Hampton Parish in York County being visited with sickness by the hand of Almighty God & weak in body but of sound & perefect sinse & memory calling to mind the uncertainty of this transitory life & being willing & desirous to settle things in order doe constitute ordaine appoint confirme & make this my last will & testament in manner & form following hereby revoking & annulling all former will or wills whatsoever whether writen or nuncupative.
Imps I commend my soule unto hands of almighty God my Create Jesus ?? My Redeemer, hoping and assuredly believing in and through his bitter death & passion to have full pardon & free remission of all my sins and to rise with the righteous at the resurrection. And my body I Bequeath to the ground from whence it was extracted to be decently interred to the discetion of my Executrix hereafter named and as to that worldly estate wherewith it has pleased God to bless me I dispose as followeth
Item I give & bequeath unto my sonne William Hansford & his heirs forever that seat of land now in the possession of William Coman scituate & lying & being in Bruton Parish being my right & due as being the surviving child of Mr. Richard Jones my father deced
Item I give & bequeath unto my daughter Elizabeth Hansford and her heirs forever that seat of land now in the tenure occupation & possession of John Buce Scituate lying and being in Hampton Parish and adjoining on the land of Mr. Thomas Barber and due to me as the surviving child of my above named father, Mr. Richard Jones deced
Item I give & bequesth unto my sonne Thomas & daughter Mary Hansford this seat of land whereon I now live part whereof is in the possession of William Hutton my now tenant to them & their hyers and in case of the death of either in minority and without legitimate hyers then to the survivor.
Item I give & bequeath unto my sonne John Hansford & his heyrs that seat of land in New Kent County ???which?? is pattented by my Mother Elizabeth Jones in right of my brother Richard Jones deced and doth now descend to me as his only sister
Item I doe give & bequeath unto my ??kinsman?? Mr. William Coman the benefit and profitt of that plantation whereon he liveth for this term of seaven yeares hee plantting one hundred apple tree at thirtie foote distance & keeping the same securely fenced & leaving the housing & orchard securely fenced & tenantable
Item my will is that out the estate be purchased one woman servant to attend & waite on my sonne John Hansford whom it hath pleased God to ?disable & that five hundred pounds of tobacco caske be paid annually to Mr. William Coman for his care in looking after him and after his deceased to be void
Item as to my personall estate I desire & my will is that the same be equally divided among my children at the discretion of my Executrix
Item as to my children considering their age & not knowing where better to place them have no other or better confidence than in the persons under written (VIZ) To Mr. William Coman my sonne John to my beloved Mr. Charles Hansford Thomas & Mary & to Mr. David Condon my daughter Elizabeth & my sonne William whom I desire carefully to look after them and to uppbring them in the nurture and fear of the Lord
Lastly I doe appoint my loving brother Mr. Charles Hansford & my loving neighbor Mr. David Condon Executors of this my last will & testament and doe desire my loving friend Mr. John Baskervyle to be overseer of this my will desiring him to see the same ??promised?? according to the intent and purpose thereof.
In Witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand and seale this eight day of February Ano Dom 1677/8 I do also out of my estate give unto my overseer twenty shillings to buy him a ring.
Elizabeth {her mark} Hansford
Signed sealed and published
as the last will & testament of
Mrs. Elizabeth Hansford
Ed . Mundy Thomas Mountfort
Probate in ?Cur? ?Cour?? E??? 24 April 1678 ?psacrament?? Ed. Mundy et
Tho. Mountfort et recordat ?????? die et-an predict-
P John Baskervyle ????
Richard SQUYRE
His father may have been Thomas Squyre.
Source of latter Squyre names:
http://www.bcooper.aaahosting.net/index2.html
Richard BURT II
"The name Richard Burt has been prominent in both York Co. and
Gloucester Co. branches of the Burt Family (one Richard Burt (the elder,
was born ca 1665 in York Co.,) and it is quite possible that both
families have a commn ancestor in this early Richard Burt. It is our
hope that further research will uncover the relationship between our
families and the early Burts of the Jamestown area."
*Source: Rootsweb.com/~burtsou/beginning.html
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Will1ndx.htm@ COPYRIGHT 1998 - Sue Ashby
CHATHAM COUNTY RECORDS OF ESTATES 1782-1799, 2 VOL.
Microfilm # 022.50001 NC State Archives Film
VOL. 1 [ 1782-1794]
Richard Burt Will - November 1791 - no day or probate date
In the Name of God amen November in the year 1791 this being myLast
Will and Testament___ I do hearby Lend to my beloved wife Mereing
(Mourning?) Burt all I possess In during her life or widowhood but my
Negore Jack and him to be sold by my Exetr's Mr. Petter Quals & my
Brother Young Burt and the money put to Intrest
Wit
John Dillard
Benjamin ( his X mark) Drummon
Signed Richard Burt
A Copy Test John Ramsey, C.C>
Hamilton ALLEN
1880 Census, Dutch Bottom, Cocke County, Tennessee, p. 400A, call #T9-1248
Hamilton M. Allen, age 38, born in Tennessee, Occupation: Farmer, both parents born in Tennesee
Lennoria M., wife, age 36, born in Tennesee, Occupation: Keeping House, Father born in Virginia, Mother born in South Carolina
George A. D., son, age 12, born in Tennessee, Occupation: Works on a Farm
Mary E., daughter, age 10
Roenar M., daughter, age 9
Idela M., daughter, age 7
John D, son, age 3
Joseph D., son, age 1
NOTE: All children born in Tennesee
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1900 Census, Precinct No. 6, Collin County, Texas, enumeration district: 19, Sheet number 4, Family Number: 58
Allen, Hamilton, head, b. Feb 1846, age 54, married 31 years, b. in TN, parents born in TN, occupation: farmer
Levinia, wife, b. Oct 1843, age 56, married 31 years, 8 children born to this mother, 7 living, b. in TN, father b. Virginia, mother b. South Carolina
Children:
John, son, b. Jun 1876, age 23, b. Tennessee, farmer
Joseph, son, b. Aug 1878, age 21, b. Tennessee, farm labor
Charles, son, b. May 1881, age 19, b. Texas, farm labor
William, son, b. Apr 1884, age 15, b. Texas, farm labor
NOTE: William may have been born in a different month, writing is very hard to read for his birth month
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1910 Federal Census, 1 Precinct, Collin County, TX:
#155
GRAVES, Rufus E., head, w, m, 50, m. 12 yrs, TN TN TN, farmer, renting, can read/write English
---Roena, M., wife, w, f, 36, m. 12 yrs, six children/five living, TN TN TN, can read/write English
---Lorenzo J., son, w, m, 11, TX TN TN, can read/write English
---Hugh A., son, w, m, 10, TX TN TN, can read/write English
---Henry R., son, w, m, 9, TX TN TN
---John W., son, w, m, 5, TX TN TN
---Charles L., son, w, m, 1 7/12, TX TN TN
Allen, Hamilton, father-in-law, w, m, 64, m. 44 yrs., TN TN TN, can read/write English
---Luvena M., mother-in-law, w, f, 66, m. 44 yrs, eight children/seven living, TN VA NC, can read/write English
*Source: Linda Talkington via email
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IN my father's notes:
My great-grandfather was Hamilton Allen. He was born in Feb of 1846 in Tennessee. He served in the Civil War from Mar. 24 1862 to Mar 24, 1865. He was a pvt. in the 61st Illinois Infantry. He was married circa 1869 in Tenn. He raised horses in Tennessee. He came to Texas prior to 1881 as they are on the 1900 census of Texas. They came by covered wagon. They were scared by a meteor shower on their trip to Texas. They thought the sky was falling and hid under the covered wagons until it was over. He liked to sing English Ballads. They originally settled in Lebanon, which was the original county seat of Collin County. By 1910, they lived with their daughter and son-in-law, Rufus and Rowena Allen Graves. They were probably buried in the same farm plot that Lorenzo and Polly were orignally buried in. (Lorenzo James Graves and Mary "Polly" Thompson Merritt were the parents of Rufus Everett Graves - they were originally buried in O'Brian Cemetery in Buckner, TX (now extinct). The cemetery was in very poor condition, with no fence, pasture land with many goats, rooting hogs and cattle and the headstones had been knocked over. The headstones that could be saved and the remains that could be found were moved to Melissa Cemetery in Feb of 1985, where there is perpetual care. It is located about 5 miles north of McKinney and 1 mile west of Melissa, Texas).
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Research Note: Have not been able to find a Hamilton Allen in the 61st Illinois Infantry. If he was in Tennessee, why would he enlist in Illinois??? Checked Tenn 61st Infantry. Occurred to me that the Tennessee Units were Confederate, the Illinois Units were Union. Maybe that is why he enlisted in Illinois? If he did enlist anywhere. Research Note:
Son Joseph Daniel Allen, b. 23 Apr 1878, probably Cocke Co, TN., m. 14 Aug 1901, d. 18 Dec 1954, probably in Denton, buried Trinity Cemetery, 8 miles out of Denton
m. Harriet J. Roberts, b. 1 or 7 Sep 188, Buncombe Co, NC, died 24 Feb 1963 probably in Denton, buried Trinity Cemetery, 8 miles out of Denton
http://www.eller.org/feb92/feb92p3.htm
"The Eller Chronicles", The Eller Family Association, Feb 1992, Vol. VI, NO. 1, work of Lucile S. Herrington
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Louvienia MOSELEY
The Daily Courier-Gazette
McKinney, Collin County, Texas
Monday Evening, Feb. 6, 1911
MRS. LOUVIENIA ALLEN DIES
Mrs. Louvienia Allen, 66 years old, and an old citizen of the county, died at her home northwest of town at 4 o'clock Sunday morning. Funeral services were held at Horn Cemetery at 4 o'clock Sunday afternoon, Rev. R. C. Horn officiating and the body was laid to rest in that graveyard. Mrs. Louvienia Allen was born in North Carolina, but has lived in Collin Couty for more than a quarter of a century. NOTE: This article says she is born in North Carolina, the 1880 Cocke County, TN census says she was born in Tennessee (see notes for her husband).
Her daughter's death certificate has her name as Lavinia (see notes for Rowena Melissa Allen).
Research notes: My father's notes have an A. R. L. Mosely as her father.
I found this written on the back of an envelope in my father's notes. I have no idea where he got this from:
Rowena's mother killed three yankees with an axe when they tried to steal the last 3 Tennessee horses.
Marriage Notes for Hamilton Allen and Louvienia MOSELEY-3948
Date and location are estimated based on:
Their first child was born in 1868, so a marriage date circa 1867 is suggested. From Census records, we know they were born in Tennesee and their first 6 children were born in Tennesse, so it is assumed they married in Tennesee.
John STRATTON
Deed dated 17 Oct 1771 by Mary Shannon Stratton, Amherst Co, VA, Deed Bk C, Page 233, Amherst Co, VA
1 Jul 1776, John Stratton buys land on Raven Creek, 150 acres, in Amherst Co, VA.
Deed Bk G pages 619-620 deeds land to John James Stratton Jr, signed by John and Mary Stratton on 19 Oct, 1795. 1792 Amherst Co, VA, John Stratton bought a wagon.
10 Jun 1800, VA Deed Bk 1, page 216. John Stratton, Sr, sold a lot of his personal stock.
*Source: Swanee@amaonline.com
There is either an error in the marriage date, or John was married to another woman prior to Mary Shannon as 5 of the children were born before they were married.
HEAD OF FAMILIES - VIRGINIA, 1783, AMHERST COUNTY, VA
Name of head of Family # White # Black
Stratton, John 11 1
HEAD OF FAMILIES, VIRGINIA 1785, AMHERST CO, VA
Strutton, John
# of white Souls: 12
# of dwellings: 1
Stratton, Henry
# of white souls: 4
# of dwellings: 1
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Alexander Brown's Early Settler List - From the Alexander Brown papers in the Special Collections Dept, Swem Library, College of William and Mary, Williamsburg, VA
Stratton, John a.sf.
the letters after the name were for special notations Alexander Brown made in his lists. The following interpretations are provided:
a. = Those who had interests in Old Albermale (now Amerhest Co, VA) prior to 1761
a.sf. = Those who were in the the French and Indian War from Albermarle (now Amherst Co, VA).
There is also a listing of another John (don't know if it's a different person or not) as:
Stratton, John b.sr
b.sr=Those who were in the Revolutionary War from Old Amherst (Amherst Co, VA)
Henry STRATTON
Alexander Brown's Early Settler List - From the Alexander Brown papers in the Special Collections Dept, Swem Library, College of William and Mary, Williamsburg, VA
Stratton, Henry b. au.
the letters after the name were for special notations Alexander Brown made in his lists. The following interpretations are provided:
b. = Those who came to Old Amherst or became of age between 1761 and 1776.
au. = Indicates Brown had their autograph (prior to 1800).
Sarah STRATTON
Children:
William b. 1789
Mary, b. 1785
Lucy, b. 1791
Allen, b. 1787 in Amherst Co, VA
Matilda, b. 1806 in Amherst Co, VA
George, b. 1808 in Amherst Co, VA
Nelson, b. 1786 in Amherst Co, VA
Sarah, b. 1804
Winston
*Source of Children and Marriage: Lavender genforum.
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