256. Francis AWBREY
mentioned in Uncle Henry Awbrey's will 1694 Essex Co VA
272. Philip DEDMAN
Dedman - Deadmon Family History by Anna Laura Griffith
will proved 20 Aug 1770 Yorkhampton Parish, York Co, VA
273. Margaret LANGSTON
will proved 15 Feb 1773, York Co, VA
288. James WALLACE
will, Abbeville,SC, will box 110, pack 3248
came to South Carolina on the ship "The Lord Dungannon" in 1767
289. Eleanor MCCULLOUGH
Eleanor's last name may also be Brownlee. There was a Brownlee family that came on the Lord Dunagannon and their son George handled James Wallace's estate.
336. Johann Melchior WINDMILLER
The Windmiller Family of Wurtemburg Germany by Wayne T Gurthrie
The Windmiller Family of Wurtemburg Germany by Wayne T Guthrie
339. Anna Catharina CRONMULLER
The Windmiller Family of Wurtemburg Germany by Wayne T Guthrie
344. Thomas APPLEGATE
. The name of Thomas' wife is not known. Thomas is supposed to have fought in the French and Indian War (family tradition). He may be the Thomas Applegate who served 10 days with an Maryland Unit during the French and Indian War. He is listed on the taxpayers list for 1773 in Rosstraver Twp. which was then in Bedford Co., Pa. He also appears on the list of members of the Peters Creek Baptist Church on Nov. 10, 1773 but not on the list for 1789. His name appears on a number of transactions in Yohogania Co., Va. during the years, 1777-80. (Yohogania Co., Va. became part of Washington Co., Pa. in the 1780's). An example of one of these transactions(deeds) is one given on Sept. 24, 1778 by Andrew McMeans to Thomas Applegate of Yohogania Co. which was witnessed by John Rubicum and Henry Westley. In deed book "C", of Washington Co., Pa. shows a tract of 224 acres in the name of Thomas Applegate. A warrent was issued on Jan. 10, 1786, and the tract was surveyed on May 28, 1787; but the patent was issued to Richard Johnston on Nov. 14, 1806. In 1786, Thomas Applegate was listed as owning
352. Ensign John HILLS
330 Years of Hills in America by Zola Colvin-Salven
356. Jonah FOX
4 Generation charts/LDS
358. Ichabod STRATTON Jr
"Ichabod Stratton (Ichabod, Richard, Samuel, Samuel) was born, Jan. 11, 1722, in Chelmsford, Mass. He married, first Abigail Church of Hadley, Oct. 8, 1743, second, Hannah Goodman (or Goodnough), July 1, 1755. His name appears on a folio at Bennington dated 1754, but he returned to Hardwick and probably lived there until after 1777 and then settled in Vermont. He was living at Rutland, Vt., in 1790. Children born in Hardwick, Mass."
388. Charles LEWIS Col
will recorded 20 Dec 1779
Owned Plantation named The Byrd
In the name of God Amen. I Charles Lewis of Albemarle County and parish of St. Anns do constitute this my last will and testament in manner and form following Viz: It is my will and desire that my debts be first paid and to enable my executors the better to do so. It is my will and desire that they should sell my land upon Ivy Creek. Item. I lend to my beloved wife Mary Lewis during her natural life five hundred acres of land including the houses and plantation. Also the fourth part of my negroes and all my house hold furniture and the fourth part of my stock of all kinds. Item. I give and bequeath the residue of my negroes and other personal estate to be equally dived among my children to them and their heirs forever and in case of the death of either of my said children their part of the estate to be equally divided among the survivors - and that at the death of my said wife her part of the negroes and other personal estate be equally divided among my said children as above mentioned. Item. I give and bequeath to my two sons Howell and Charles Warner and their heirs forever my tract of land in the North Garden to be equally divided between them in quantity and quality. I do hereby appoint my beloved wife Mary Lewis Executrix, Col Charles Lewis of B Island, Charles L. Lewis, Bennette Henderson, Charles Handson and my brother Nicholas Lewis executors this my last will and testament. Given under my hand and seal this 11th day of June 1776. Charles Lewis (seal) Signed sealed & published in presence of John Thomas, Bennitte Henderson, Charles L. Lewis
Since writing the above will I find it necessary from the pregnancy of my said wife to make some provision issue Viz: if it should be as son he is to share my lands equally with my other sons in the manner mentioned in the above will and likewise my personal estate. If it be a daughter she is to be provided for in the same manner as my other daughters mentioned in the above will. This is a codicil to the above will given and seal under my hand this 7 day of September 1776. Charles Lewis (seal) Signed sealed & published in presence of Nicholas Lewis, Charles Hudson.
As Albemarle May Court 1779:
This last will and testament of Charles Lewis deceased was proved by the oaths of John Thomas, Bennette Henderson and Charles L. Lewis ____ thereto and the codical proven by the oaths of Nicholas Lewis and Charles Hudson which together with the will ordered to be recorded. The executors forwarded a letter from the ______ to his wife ______ that the said codical should be annexed which is ordered to be lodged in the office with the will codicil. And on the motion of Charles Lilbone Lewis, Bennette Henderson, Nicholas Lewis and Charles Hudson executors therein named who made oaths according to law-certificate is granted them for obtaining a probate in due form whereupon they gave bond with Charles Wingfield, Christopher Hudson, John Key and John Word their securities and they acknowledged the said accordingly.
Major John Lewis,
was born August 10, 1720, Chemokin, New Kent County, Virginia and died July 21, 1794, Pittsylvania County, Virginia.
ii.
Colonel Charles Lilburne Jr.,
was born March 14, 1721/22, Buck Island, Gloucester County, Virginia and died May 14, 1782, Buck Island Estate, Goochland County, Virginia.
iii.
Elizabeth Lewis,
was born April 23, 1724
iv.
Captain James B. Lewis,
was born June 10, 1726, The Byrd, Goochland County, Virginia and died May 1764, Luneburg County, Virginia.
v.
Captain Howell Lewis
was born September 13, 1731, Goochland County, Virginia and died between 1763 and 1822, Granville County, North Carolina.
vi.
Anne Lewis,
was born February 3, 1732/33, The Byrd, Goochland County, Virginia and died between 1772 and 1828, Granville County, North Carolina.
vii.
Colonel Robert Lewis,
was born May 29, 1739, The Byrd, Goochland County, Virginia and died February 21, 1803, Goochland County, Virginia.
viii.
Frances Lewis,
was born January 8, 1743/44, The Byrd, Goochland County, Virginia and died between 1771 and 1838, Goochland County, Virginia.
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391. Mildred Warner WASHINGTON
owned Union Farm Plantation from 1698-1726,. She and her two brothers, when they married, lived in houses that stood west of Bridge's Creek. Though she owned Hunting Creek (now Mt. Vernon) she lived in one of these houses and in it were born her 3 daughters by her 2nd husband, Roger Gregory. Mildred and Roger sold Hunting Creek to her borther, Augustine Washington on 17 May 1726.
was Aunt and Godmother to George Washington, first president of the United States.
Traditional stories of long standing in the Washington family have related that Mildred Washington [1697-1747], a daughter of Major Lawrence Washington [1659-1698] and Mildred Warner, his wife, who was the daughter of Colonel Augustine Warner of "Warner Hall", married as her first husband a "Mr. Lewis" who succumbed shortly afterwards leaving Mildred a childless widow [Clayton Torrence, "A Virginia Lady of Quality and Her Possessions: Mrs. Mildred Willis, of Fredericksburg," VMHB, LVI, pp 45-46.] This story having come down through several generations/branches of the family, has received credence from some and the reverse from others, as they pointed out that no "Mr. Lewis" could be located who could possibly have been an eligible husband for Mildred Washington and further more no documentary evidence had been located which would confirm this strong family tradition.
With the discovery of the tombstone of John Lewis who died April 7, 1718 in King and Queen County and also of a deed dated July 10, 1718, signed by Mildred Lewis of King and Queen County, it is now proven beyond a doubt that Mildred Washington [1697-1747], the aunt and godmother of General George Washington, was first married when but a teenager to John Lewis [169?-1718] son of Captain Edward Lewis and Susanna, his wife.
Colonel Byrd Charles Willis, of Fredericksburg, in a family paper written circa 1834 states: "My father, Lewis Willis, the first of that name, was by his [Colonel Henry Willis'] last wife. Her maiden name was Washington, full sister to old Gus, the father of Gen. George Washington, the first President of the United States. She had been married twice before; the first time to a Mr. Lewis, by whom she had no children; the second time to a Mr. Gregory, and by him she had three daughters married to as many Thorntons. My father was her only son and she named him Lewis in honor of her first husband." [Manuscript, heretofore unpublished, of Col. Byrd C. Willis, in Byrd C. Willis, A Sketch of the Willis Family,m Fredericksburg Branch (Richmond, 1909), p. 100]
Mildred Washington was an orphan by the time that she was four, both of her parents had died--her father in 1697 and her mother in 1701. In 1704 her "step-father", George Gale, left Mildred and her two brothers with their kinsman John Washington in Stafford County, Virginia, and it was here that the three siblings grew to maturity.
At "Warner Hall" in Gloucester County lived Mildred's only living maternal Aunt, Elizabeth Warner [1672-1720], wife of Colonel John Lewis [1669-1725]. There is every reason to beleive that Elizabeth Warner Lewis invited her deceased sister's children to her home for long visits, and it was unquestionably here that Mildred Washington met John Lewis, who was the nephew of her uncle [by marriage] Colonel John Lewis, and the son of Captain Edward Lewis. This is even more likely when we know that Major John Washington [1692-1746], the brother of Mildred, married on the 9th day of July 1716, in Gloucester County, Virginia to Catherine Whiting [1694-1743] and seated himself at "High Gate" in Gloucester County. So....the Washingtons of Westmoreland County, by their Warner relatives in Gloucester County, became acquainted there and married persons at a distance from the place of their birth.
Major Lawrence Washington [1659-1698] father of Mildred Warner Washington, by his will proven at Westmoreland County Court left to his only daughter Mildred "all my land in Stafford County, lying upon Hunting Creek...by estimation 2,500 acres to her and her heirs forever." [Charles Arthur Hoppin, "The Washington Ancestry" (Greenfield, Ohio, 1932), I, pp 163, 240]. Mildred Lewis of King and Queen County made a lease to william Sparks of Stafford County for 150 acres on Little Hunting Creek on the Potomac River on the 10th day of July, 1718. This deed was once part of the records in Stafford County, but is now lost, however it is preserved in the Pierpont Morgan Library [photostat in Virginia State Library], and is the only comntemporary documentary evidence that Mildred Washington was indeed married to John Lewis [169?-1718].
Colonial customs were that young widows did not remain unmarried for long, and as was the custom, Mildred Warner Washington Lewis did not remain a widow long. Soon she was receiving the attentions of one Colonel Roger Gregory, a resident of Stratton Major Parish in King and Queen County. He had inherited a valuable plantation from his father, Colonel Richard Gregory, on the Mattaponi River near its junction with the Pamunkey River [where the York River is formed] opposite the present day town of West Point. This estate is now called "Chain Ferry" or "Shepherd's Warehouse". the old cellar wall and foundations of the early Gregory residence have been incorporated into the basement walls of a modern home. To the rear of the house, just a short distance, is an old cemetery, however no tombstones have been discovered.
Colonel Roger Gregory died in 1731, leaving Mildred a widow for the second time, when she was not yet thirty-five years of age. By him she had three daughters, who as Col. Byrd C. Willis says, married three Mr. Thorntons, who were brothers. [Col. Byrd C. Willis, "A Sketch of the Willis Family", p. 100]. In 1733 Mildred [Washington][ Lewis] Gregory was married the third and final time to Colonel Henry Willis [1691-1740] of Fredericksburg, but formerly of King and Queen County, and to them was born Colonel Lewis Willis [1734-1813] the boyhood playmate of General George Washington, and Mary Issabella Willis[1733-1813], who married Howell Lewis.
On the 5th of April 1732, Mrs. Mildred Gregory, then the widow of Colonel Roger Gregory, stood as Godmother at the christening of George Eskridge Washington, the eldest child of her brother Captain Augustine Washington and his second wife Mary Ball [Washington Family Bible now at "Mount Vernon".] It was to Captain Augustine Washington that Roger Gregory and Mildred, his wife, by a deed dated May 17, 1726, sold all her holdings on Hunting Creek, then in the county of Stafford [now Fairfax] which had been bequeathed to her by the will of her father Major Lawrence Washington. A part of this acreage embraces the present "Mount Vernon" estate [Torrence, "A Virginia Lady of Quality and Her Possessions", VMHB, LVI, 46-47]