BINFORD Peter

Other Events and Attributes:

• Residence: 1731, Prince George County, VA
• Land: 1735, New Kent County, VA
• Land: 1752, Prince George County, VA

Notes:

The earliest civil record we have of the presence of Friends in Surry County, Virginia, is from a Militia list of 1687, which names the following as being Quakers and available as "horse soldiers" and "foot soldiers". The first group is: William Seward, Thomas Partridge, William Bartlett and John Barnes. The second group is: Thomas Wolves, George Morrell and Robert Lacy. We can thus prove there were Quakers in Surry before 1687 and had organized a Monthly meeting by 1702. Little Surry was the center of Quaker activity during most the time they were in Surry.
From 1752 until the Meeting closed in the 1807 we have the minutes of the Blackwater [Surry] Meeting. Many names are very familiar as their descendants are still in Surry today.
During the Revolutionary War period, houses and property of Quakers were plundered, "chiefly for military requisitions". Twenty Quakers recorded as having "suffered for refusing the test or to contribute for the support of the war". The Blackwater Monthly meeting was more persistent on the tax and test issue than others and consequently suffered more. The monthly meeting books describe this as a " time of calamity and close trial". Examples are:
     April 4,1806, Exum Bailey reported taken from him by William Harrison, one hat and a gun under the militia law.
     April 4, 1780, Chappell and Peter Binford reported taken from them, 1 mare, 3 barrels of corn, 1 bed and some furniture for refusal to take "the test" and contribute to the support of the war.

Residence:
per marriage records

Land:
BINFORD FAMILY GENEALOGY
some of the county records. And the Quaker records at Baltimore on which we depend for much of the family history do not go back quite that far. We have from the Land Patent Office that Peter Binford was granted 400 acres of land in 1735. "William Gooch George II in Eleventh year of his reign deeded to Peter Binford 400 acres of land in New Kent Co. The deed was made at Williamsburg, the seat of the Dominion of
Va., not the County seat, 400 acres for 40 shillings of good and lawful money. The deed says he shall pay a fee rent of one shilling for every 50 acres or proportionate part thereof, every year upon the feast of St. Michael, the archangel. Also he shall cultivate 3 acres out of every 50 within the next three years after the
land is granted or the land reverts back to King George." Grant was signed over Jan. 2,1737.
This, we think, was our Peter and Rebecca, the ancestors of a large branch of us. We believe Peter, John and Thomas were brothers every reason justifies the belief although we have not the positive statement. Our grandfather belonged to John's family, our stepgrandmother to Peter's. We remember them well. They always said they were cousins, this ...

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Died:
SUPPLEMENT TO BINFORD FAMILY GENEALOGY
6. Peter Binford, d. Jan. 24, 1782, age 81 yrs. Rebecca d. same yr., age 70 yrs.

Peter married CHAPPELL Rebecca on 3 Jul 1731. Rebecca (daughter of CHAPPELL Thomas and HUNNICUTT Hannah) was born in 1712 in Prince George County, VA; died in 1782. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

1. BINFORD Aquila was born on 3 Nov 1735 in Charles City County, VA; died on 1 Dec 1816.
2. BINFORD Mary was born on 3 Feb 1741 in Prince George County, VA; and died.
3. BINFORD Sarah was born on 2 Jul 1743 in Prince George County, VA; died on 4 Nov 1794.
4. BINFORD Pricella was born in 1746; and died.
5. BINFORD Chappell was born on 12 Jun 1749 in Charles City County, VA; died on 29 Jan 1835.
6. BINFORD James was born on 12 Jun 1749 in Prince George County, VA; died on 11 Nov 1785 in Prince Edward County, Va.

Other Events and Attributes:

• Land: 4 Mar 1703, Charles City County, VA

Notes:

BINFOED FAMILY GENEALOGY
On -March 4, 1703, Queen Ann and William Kandolph granted a patent to James Binford for 261 acres of land south of James River in Prince George County at the price of 2 Ibs. of tobacco per acre. This patent was made at the
court house in Charles City County on the above date and was signed over by Alexander Spotswoodj Lieutenant-Governor of the Dominion of Virginia, at Williamsburg 6th mo. 16th, 1714. Later James Binford is granted 150 acres. This James Binford fits in nicely to be the son of Anthony, the brother of Huldah and he father of John, Thomas and Peter. Charles City County included all of Prince George County before 1703 and their records were burned during the Civil War, so we lose out on some of the county records. Charles City now has a lot of Quaker records at their Genealogy Center at the Courthouse (sic Gene Harris)

Land:
James Binford [Bruner's #2] was granted 261 acres of land on 4 Mar 1703 by Queen Anne and William Randolph. This land was 'at 2 lbs. of tobacco per acres'. It was located south of the James River in what was known as Charles City Co. (but in 1703 it was changed to Prince George Co.). This deed was made in the court house of Charles City Co., but on 16 Jun 1714 was 'signed over by' Alexander Spotswood at Williamsburgh. James had three children, John, Thomas [Bruner's #5], and Peter.

[Adapted from Bruner, Mary L., Binford Family Genealogy. Wm. Mitchell Printing Co.: Greenfield IN (nd). pp.17f.].

James married BINFORD Elizabeth --LNU-- about 1695 in Charles City County, VA. Elizabeth was born about 1670; died after 1705. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

BINFORD HISTORY
James Binford of Biehmond, Virginia, found in the English Blue Book, one Joe Binford came to America on a certain vessel from England in 1635. This is the first Binford we find mentioned in the records in the United States. All the Binfords came from England. They lived in Kent County. Some have come over long since the first ones came.

In the Land Patent Office of the State House in Richmond, Virginia, I find one Anthony Binford received 320 acres of land in Lower Norfolk County, Virginia, from Governor Berkeley on Nov. 5, 1665. The same books show that John Ladd received 7,524 acres in Lower Norfolk County Sept 24, 1667. Thus early in history do we find the Binfords and Ladds living side by side and becoming warm friends. The marriages between the two families are so numerous that it is almost as one blood. On 4th mo. 7th, 1700, at a Monthly Meeting held at William Porter's, William Ladd\emdash a son of John, who entered the 7,524
acres\emdash and Huldah Binford proposed their intentions of marriage with each other for the ...
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Anthony married DYE Elizabeth on 9 Jul 1676 in Middlesex, England. Elizabeth was born in 1658; and died. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]