CHAPPELL James

Other Events and Attributes:

• Military: Rev War
• Political Office: Justice of Surry County
• Reference Number: 595
• Residence: 1722, Dendron, Surry, Virginia, United States; Moved to Surry county, Virginia about 1722
• Political Office: 1754, Sussex County, VA; Sheriff of Sussex County
• Will: 31 Oct 1768, Sussex County, VA; Will made
• Religion: 1743-1769, Albemarle Parish, Surry County, VA; Vestryman of Albemarle Parish
• Will: 16 Mar 1769, Sussex County, VA; Will Probated

Notes:

Lived in Surry and Sussex Counties Will proved in Sussex County 16 Mar 1769, Sussex County Will Book B, Page 193 75 yoa at death

"The Chappell Family in Early South Carolina" p.10, 5

He lived in Prince County on May 10, 1715, as he acknowledged receipt of his father's estate from James Jones (Prince George D. & W., 1713-28, Pg. 52

James was a vestryman of Albermarle Parrish from 1743 until his death.

Justice of Surry County (later Sussex County) from 1738, and was sheriff of Sussex County in 1754 (Wm and Masry Quarterly, new series, Vol. II, pg. 52; Susex O.B., 1754/6, pg. 1,; Executive Journal of Council of Virginia, volume 4, pg. 417.

"Southside Virginia Families by Brodie"

Family Data Collection - Births
about James Chappell
ntblName:James Chappellntbl Father:Thomas Chappellntbl Mother:Elizabeth Jonesntbl Birth Date:1694ntbl City:Charles City ntbl State:VA ntbl Country:USA
Last Will and Testament
Added by PhyllisElizabethSheridan on 28 Dec 2008
Will of James Chappell - 1778
(Will Book C, page 307, Sussex Co.VA.)

IN THE NAME OF GOD AMEN I James Chappell of the County of Sussex &
Parish of Albermarle being now of sound mind and disposing memory do
make & declare my last Will & Testament to be as follows.
IMPRIMIS I give and devise to my Son James Chappell and to his heirs
forever two hundred and thirty five acres of land being a new survey
joining his own land, one Negro man named Robin one black walnut desk
also my cider still allowing my Son Henry to have half the profit.
ITEM. I give & devise to my Son Henry Chappel and to his heirs forever
one Negro man named Ben also one chist painted blue also one corner
cubbard.
ITEM. I give and devise to my Son William Chappell & to his heirs
forever three hundred acres of land lying on the Racoon Swamp also one
Negro boy named Dick, one Negro man named Mingo, one Negro woman named
Sandra one feather bed and furniture, my young bay colt one saddle &
bridle seven head of cattle fifteen hogs and four sheep six middle
sized pewter dishes six pewter plates one iron pott midling sized.
ITEM. I give and devise to my Son Benjamin Chappell and to his heirs
forever five hundred & thirty acres of land lying near Freemans Bridge
one Negro man named old Simon & his wife named Tab also one Negro boy
named Hannabald also my iron grey horse one bridle & saddle one feather
bed and furniture seven head of cattle fifteen hogs four sheep six
pewter dishes six pewter plates also one iron pott midling sized.
ITEM. I give and devise to my Daughter Amy Chappell & to her heirs
forever one Negro man named Ned also girl named Cate & her increase one
side saddle called her own six pewter plates four midling sized pewter
dishes one feather bed & furniture one iron pott of a midling size.
ITEM. I give and devise to my Daughter Rebeccah Chappell and to her
heirs forever one negro girl called great Sal also one negro girl named
Winnia & their increase one feather bed and furniture and side saddle
called hern six pewter plates four midling sized dishes one midling
sized iron pot.
ITEM. I give and devise to my Daughter Martha Chappell & to her heirs
forever one negro girl named Jean one negro girl named Selah and their
increase also one negro boy named Dave one side saddle one feather bed
& firniture six pewter plates four midling sized dishes one midling
iron pot I will to my Wife Mary Chappell during stay on it three
hundred & six acres of land lying the Plantation whereon I now live
also the use of the following Negros & their increase during her
natural life, to witt, Lucy, Frank, Grace, Tab, Sal, Liddie, Randol, &
Titt I will that the above negros & their increase be equally at the
death of my wife amongst my children hereafter mentioned to wit James,
Henry, William, Benjamin, Elizabeth, Mary, Amy, Rebecca & Martha.
ITEM. I give & devise to my Wife Mary Chappell & to her heirs forever
one negro woman named Edah & her increase also my bay horse also all
the household furniture that I had by her also seven head of cattle ten
hogs thirty barrels of corn & eight pounds cash.
LASTLY I constitute & appoint my Sons James & Henry Chappell Executors
of this my last Will and Testament In Testamony that this is my last &
only authentick Will and Testament I have hereunto set my hand & seal
this eighth day of December one thousand seven hundred & seventy six.

Jas. Chappell (Seal)

Signed Sealed published &
Declared in presence of us-
David Jones
Abram Jones
Holmes Jones


At a Court held for Sussex County the 16th day of July 1778.
The last Will and Testament of James Chappel deced. was presented into
Court by James & Henry Chappel Executors therein named who made oath
thereto as the law directs and the same was proved by the oaths of
Abraham Jones & Holmes Jones witnesses thereto and by the Court ordered
to be recorded and on the motion of the said Executors (they having
entered into bond with John Mason Junr. & Nathaniel Dobie their
securities in twenty thousand pounds penalty conditioned as the law
directs) Certificate is granted them for obtaining a probat thereof in
due form.

Teste Will. Claiborne Junr. CSC.

Military:
Private 2nd Virginia Regiment, commanded by Col. Alexander Spotswood

Will:
Will lists children

Will:
Will mentions sons; James, John, Howell, Thomas, Daughters; Elizabeth Mason, Mary Gee, Sarah Mason, Rebecca Northington (Grandsons Thomas and Howell Tatum), Amy Smith, Lucretia Carter and son Howell and grandchildren James and Henry Chappell, sons of James, Howell Chappell, son of John and Mary Chappell, daughter of Thomas.

Family/Spouse: HOWELL Elizabeth. Elizabeth (daughter of HOWELL Thomas) was born about 1699; died on 20 Sep 1744 in Dendron, Surry, Virginia, United States. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

1. CHAPPELL Mary died in Sep 1788.
2. CHAPPELL James, Jr. was born in 1720 in Dendron, Surry, Virginia, United States; died on 12 Feb 1769 in Sussex County, VA.
3. CHAPPELL Thomas was born in 1719; died in 1790 in Lunenburg County, Va.
4. CHAPPELL Sarah was born in 1724 in Dendron, Surry, Virginia, United States; and died.
5. CHAPPELL John was born in 1727; died about 1798 in Dendron, Surry, Virginia, United States.
6. CHAPPELL Amy was born in 1732 in Sussex County, VA; died in Northampton County, North Carolina.
7. CHAPPELL Henry was born in 1732 in Sussex County, VA; died in 1799 in Camden District, SC.
8. CHAPPELL Ann was born on 22 Dec 1739; and died.
9. CHAPPELL Lucretia was born on 10 Feb 1741; and died.
10. CHAPPELL Howell, Sr. was born on 26 Aug 1744; died in 1806 in Sussex County, VA.
11. CHAPPELL Elizabeth was born on 6 Jul 1745 in Sussex County, VA; died in 1799.

James married BRIGGS Elizabeth in 1720-1721. Elizabeth (daughter of BRIGGS Henry and LUCAS Elizabeth) was born about 1697; died on 26 Sep 1744 in Dendron, Surry, Virginia, United States. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

1. CHAPPELL Elizabeth was born in 1723 in Surry/Sussex Co. VA; died in 1799 in Dendron, Surry, Virginia, United States.

Other Events and Attributes:

• Christening: Charles City (later Pr.George Co) Grant Book 8, p.77
• Reference Number: 600
• Alt. Birth: 1642
• Land: 21 Apr 1690, Charles City County, VA; granted 904 acres
• Land: 3 Jun 1702, Dendron, Surry, Virginia, United States; Deeded some of the Surry Land
• Alt. Death: Aft 1702
• Alt. Death: Abt 1703, Charles City County, VA
• Alt. Death: 1704, Prince George County, VA

Notes:

Thomas was the son of Thomas the immigrant

Burial: Surry Co. Deeds 1715-30, p.295 (from Boddie's Book)

If he could speak to us today, Thomas Chappell III might describe his life as follows.
I was born about 1660 in that part of Charles City County south of the James that became Prince George County in 1702. I can relate little of my own life because records for both counties are mostly missing. In 1688 my servant Thomas Hughes ran off costing me 391 pounds of tobacco. After the court made him reimburse me and extended the term of his employment by twice the length of his absence, the sheriff gave him 21 lashes on his bare back.
Although Elizabeth Jones and I brought up 4 sons in the Anglican Church, Thomas became a Quaker. He, James, and Samuel settled in present-day Sussex County, while Robert stayed in Prince George. James had some land also in Isle of Wight County next to a reservation for the Nottoway-Iroquois Indians that was a circle 6 miles in diameter containing about 18,000 acres. To encourage settlement of the Colony, the governor gave 50 acres for each new arrival. In 1694 I got 423 acres for paying the passage of "Negroes" Buck, Doe, Santall, Mungo, Gerald, Moreton, Sarah, Abell, and Sue. Of course, these were not their given names. I was living in June 1702 when I deeded land to my brother-in-law, but was dead by 22 June 1704 when Elizabeth agreed to marry Thomas Taylor. I made a will, but it burned with the others. I know of 5 members of Congress and about 20 state legislators among my descendants.
Notes We know Thomas had a will because on 13 Feb. 1721/2, his nephew-in-law, Charles Williams sold 200 acres to James Gee for £9. The indenture called the land "part of a patent granted Thomas Chappell and by him devised to his grandson Charles Williams, in fee simple."

Land sales The few remaining records of Prince George County reveal that Thomas Chappell deeded 100 acres each to brothers John Scott and Drew Scott 12 Nov. 1693. John Scott mentioned this land when he gave half to his daughter 20 Jan. 1710/11. & This was evidently the portion that had belonged to Drew Scott, which fell to John Scott after his brother's death. Chappell's son of the son of the same name quitclaimed the 100 acres that went to John Scott and the 100 acres now belonging to Scott's daughter in July 1712.



THOMAS CHAPPELL THE SECOND
Thomas Chappell, who was, as far as we have any knowledge, the only son of Thomas the immigrant, was born in Charles City County, Virginia, about 1650. He grew to manhood and married Elizabeth, the daughter of James Jones, by whom he had four sons and a daughter. The sons, each of whom will be referred to hereafter, were named Samuel, Thomas, James, and Robert; the daughter, whose given name is unknown, married John Williams. Thomas Chappell² lived out his days in that part of the county lying south of the James, and died between 1694 and 1700; only a year or two before the organization of Prince George (1702). Hence whatever record was left of him in the counties must have been in Charles City, and as the records in that county, during the period in which he lived, have been lost, we have no information of him from that source.
The following has been found in the Land Office in Richmond, and is a patent granted to a tract of land, which was doubtless the plantation on which he lived and died.
Patent Granted to Thomas- Chappell, Jr. "To all &c, Whereas &c. Now Know ye that I the said S^r Edmond Andros, Knt. Governo¹' &c. doe with the Advice and Consent of the Council of the State, accordingly give and grant unto Thomas Chappell four hundred and twenty three acres of Land lying and being in the County of Charles Citty on the South side of James river, on the Otterdam Swamp. Viz. beginning at a corner pine on the said swamp, being the corner of the land of Thomas Smith, and runneth on his line. North North East Three fourths East, Eighty five poles to a corner White Oak. Thence North West two hundred and two poles. Crossing a great branch to a corner White oak on the North side of the Said Branch. Thence up that Branch, as it wendeth its way, to a corner Black Oak. Thence North West forty poles and South West one hundred and forty six poles, crossing Otterdam Swamp to a certain Live Oak, thence up the Otterdam Swamp, as it wendeth its way, to a corner Pine by a small meddow, thence South West by South seventy eight poles to a corner pine. Thence East South East two hundred and thirty two poles to a Corner Pine &c." (The description is too lengthy to be copied entire.)
"The said land being dew unto him the said Thomas Chappell by and for the transportation of nine head rights, all of whose names are in the records Mentioned under this Patent. To have and to hold &c. Yielding and Paying &c. Provided &c. Dated ye 20th. day of Aprile, A. D. 1694.
"E. Andros, "GoV. &c.
"Head-rights*-Buck, Doe ; Santall, Mungo, Gerald, Mor-ton, Sarah, Abell and Sue. All being African Slaves." (Patent Book VIII., p. 371.)
These negroes had' evidently been bought by Thomas Chappell from some slaveship which came up the James direct from Africa with her cargo of living freight. Having bought them, he was entitled to the head-rights-fifty acres of land for each person-which he located as above described, and for which he received this patent. At this time-the last decade of the seventeenth century-"a. likely negro fellow" was worth about 4,000 lbs. of tobacco, or in sterling money £30, a sum equal to $150 in the present currency. So that the nine negroes and 423 acres of land cost about |1,350. It must be continually borne in mind, however, that money, at this time, owing to its great scarcity, was much more val-uable than it is now, and had a far greater purchasing power.
The number of African head-rights during this period shows a notable increase. It had become the custom to raise more tobacco to buy more negroes, and to buy more negroes to raise more tobacco. The white servants were gradually giving way to the African slaves, and their numbers had so increased, under the irresistible economic law, that nothing could check it until the whole svstem vanished in the conflagration of a civil war. In numerous cases at this time pat-ents were granted for as many as eighty head-rights, all of whom were imported slaves. Generally, however, as in the patent granted to Thomas Chappell, the number was re-stricted to nine or ten. At first all vessels engaged in the slave trade sailed under the English, Spanish, or Dutch flag; but after 1660, and from that time to the close of the sev-enteenth century, New England ships became engaged in the traffic, and by far the greater number of slaves brought to Virginia came in New England bottoms.
It will be observed that among the negroes included in this list of head-rights were some who bore unique names. They, of course, had no names when brought to this country, except those they bore in their native land, and as these could not be pronounced by the English tongue, it became necessary to rename them. Hence we find the names "Buck" and "Doe," and the plain, old-fashioned English names of "Sue" and "Sarah." While the two former were no doubt appropriate, for the poor creatures were little less wild than the animal after which they were called, it does seem that more human names should have been bestowed on them than "Buck" and "Doe."
In this age the negro was thought to occupy a place in the human family but little removed from that of the ordinary brute. He was a wild animal, and it is interesting to observe the social status assigned him when the question of Christian-izing him came to be considered. If he belonged to the brute creation, then it were better that he should not be Christian-ized, for as long as he remained un-baptized he was not re-sponsible to God for his acts. If, on the contrary, he was a human being and had a soul, then it was the duty of hi& Christian master to have him baptized and taught the Chris-tian religion. It was a puzzling question, indeed, and one which was difficult at first to solve.*
The genealogist is again balked through the almost entire loss of the records of Prince George County, for, as was the case in Charles City, these priceless volumes have been destroyed by the ravages of war. Only one book of any value has been preserved-a large volume of more than a thousand pages-in which were recorded wills, deeds, settlement of estates, and orders of the court for a period extending from* 1714 to 1728. (No record is found from the organization of the county (1702) down to 1714, nor after 1728 to the close of the century.) This old relic, however, contains much valu-able data, and throws light on a period in the history of our ancestors which except for it would have remained en-shrouded in darkness; the information obtained from it has been invaluable, and has enabled us to trace the history of our people a hundred years farther back than we would other-wise have been able to trace it. ; The first document found is the will of James Jones- the father-in-law of Thomas Chappell²-which, owing to its interest to his descendants, as the first will found of their . ancestors, and its value on account of its antiquity, will be transcribed verbatim.
*Bruce's "Economic History of Virginia."


Will of James Jones.
"In the name of God. Amen. I James Jones being weake and sick but of sound and perfect mind and memory, praise be therefor given to Almighty God, doe make and ordain this my present Last Will and Testament in manner and form fol-lowing, that is to say. First and principally I commend my soul into the hands of Almighty God, hoping through the merritts; Death and passion of my savior Jesus Christ to have full and free pardon and forgiveness of all my sins and to inherit everlasting Life; and my body I commit to the earth to be decently buried at the discretion of my Executor, here-after named, and as touching the Disposition of all such Tem-poral estate as it hath pleased Almighty God to bestow upon me I give and dispose thereof as fallows:
"First. I will that my debts and funeral expenses shall be paid and discharged.
"Item. I will that my loving wife have the Labour of four negroes during her natural life, they are named Will, Robin, Maria and Betty. Provided they are not removed off from the plantation I now live upon, if they are, then Imediately to return to my executor, which plantation I will my wife shall live Upon during her life.
"Item. I give my wifes two sons* two negro children, one named James, the other unborn, the first child that either Betty or Maria shall bring to be the other, which two negro children to be Disposed of to my wifes two sons as she shall think fitt, the unborn and the born child James to be and remain with their mothers till they come to the age of two years and a half year.
"My will is Likewise that my wife have during her life what household stuff my executor shall see fitt and that she have a reasonable maintaiiiance yearly out of my stock.
"Item. I give to my daughter Mary Dardin my negro man Jo-during her life.
"Item. I give to my daughter Elizabeth a negro named Hanna to be at her disposal to do as she sees fitt. * "Item. I give to nvy daughter Hanna one negro named Jack to be at her disposal at her death or before as she sees fitt.
"Item. I give to my daughter Rebecca two hundred acres of land, lying in Surry county, beginning from the Swamp up by the Spring, South, to the outline, that to be the head line, to her and her heirs forever.
"Item. I give to my Granddaughter Eliza Glover one hundred acres of land on the south side of Pond Runn, to her and her heirs forever.
"Item. I give to my grandson James Jones, this my plan-tation I live upon- after my wifes Decease and all my_ land in Prince George county, after his father and mothers De-cease, to him and his heirs forever.
"Item. I give to my Grandson Thomas Chappell one hun-dred acres of land lying in Surry county from the Swamp South, joining upon William Cocke above the outline, to him and his heirs forever.
"Item. I give to my Granddaughter Jane Cock , daugh-ter of John Cocke, one negro named Amy to her and her heirs forever as also one feather bed and bolster, one rug and one blanket, and if the ticke be bad Lett a new tick? be bought, as also two young cows, one young mair t One Iron Pot, two Pewter Dishes and one Doz. of Spoons.
"All the rest and Residue of My personal Estate, goods and chattels whatsoever, I do give and bequeth to my Loving son James Jones, full and sole Executor of this my last Will and testament and I do hereby revoke, disanull and make void all former wills and Testaments by me heretofore made.
"In Witness whereof I the said James Jones to this my last will and testament do set my hand and seal this the 6th. day of April A. D. 1719.
"James Jones. [Seal] (Sealed with wafer.)
"Signed and sealed in presence of
"Gilbert Hay "Edward Prince "Thomas Temple.
"At a Court held at Merchant's Hope for Prince George County on the second Tuesday, in May, being the twelfth day of saicf month, A, D. 1719, the above written last will of James Jones, deceased, was exhibited in Court by James Jones, his Executor, who made oath thereto and it being proven by the oaths of the witnesses thereto a certificate was granted the . said James Jones for obtaining a Probate in due form.
"Teste-Wm. Hamlin "Clerk/¹
The following letter was presented to the court and or-dered to be recorded.
"Worthy Sirs. Having seen and heard read the Last Will of my late husband, James Jones, deceased, I therefore think fitt to acquaint your W. p. T. that I think myself justly dealt by therein and to prevent further disputes I desire the will probated, I being willing to rely on the Legacy left me in
said will.
"Given under my hand and seal this 20th. Aprile 1719.
Her
"Sarah X Jones. [Seal]
Mark.
^Teste. . (Sealed with red wafer.)
"E. Goodrich To the Worshipfull: His Majesty's
"Mary Loyd. Justice of the Peace for Prince
George County."
*Probably sons by a former husband.

(56 A GENEALOGICAL HISTORY OF THE
s *"
James Jones was doubtless an old man when he died; probably 80 years of age; and if so was born about 1640. He belonged to a numerous family in Prince George, one of whom, Major Peter Jones, founded the city of Petersburg in 1733, which was named for him. Descendants of the same family afterwards (about 1740) removed to Amelia County, where one of them, another Peter Jones, married Katy, the youngest daughter of James Chappell. Governor James C. Jones, of Tennessee, was a son of this couple. (See Chapter X.)
The land devised in the will of James Jones was acquired by him under a patent dated October 28, 1702, from Sir Francis Nicholson, Governor. It contained 640 acres. It was for thirteen head-rights, and from the names the persons imported seem to have been redemptioners, and not slaves. The land, it seems from the description in the patent, laid partly in Prince George and partly in Surry counties.
Elizabeth Chappell did not long remain a widow, for among the records has been found a unique and peculiar document, the meaning of which was for a time difficult to understand. It proved, however, to be a bond given to James Jones, in the nature of an ante-nuptial contract, by one Thomas Taylor, the prospective husband of his widowed daughter, Elizabeth Chappell. I transcribe this
Marriage Contract.
"Know all men by these presents that I, Thomas Taylor, am held and firmly bound unto James Jones, Indr., his heirs and Executors, in the sum of four hundred and forty two pounds and eight shillings, of lawfull money of England, to which payment well and truly to be made, I bind myself, my heirs, executors and administrators. Sealed with my seal and dated this 22nd. day of June 1704. The condition of this obligation, is such that if the above bonded Thomas Taylor, shall from time to time, and at all times, forever hereafter, suffer and give liberty to Elizabeth Chappell, the widow and Relic of Thomas Chappell, deceased, to give and dispose to her children, how, when and as she thinks fitt, any and all sums of money, or its value in country commoditys, or personal property of which she may be possessed, then the above written obligation to be void, null and of no effect; otherwise
to stand in full force and virtue.
"Thomas Taylor. [Seal]
(Sealed with red wax.) "Signed sealed and delivered in presence of "William Harris on "Rebecca Harrison.
"At a court held at Merchant's Hope for Prince George county on the second Tuesday in February, being the eighth day of said month, A. D. 1725-6 The above written bond (sealed) was proven by the oath of Rebecca Harrison and ordered to be duly recorded.
"Teste. William Hamlin "Clerk."
It will be observed that while this bond was given in June, 1704, it was not recorded or presented to the court until February, 1725 - twenty-one years after it was executed, and probably as long after the marriage was entered into. It is also probable that it was not presented until the death of Thomas Taylor, who must have died about this time, for in the same record book is found a power of attorney executed by Elizabeth Taylor, who was evidently then again a widow, and an old woman, to Charles Fisher, master of the ship Mary Gailye, dated November 2, 1725, empowering him to sell her tobacco and transact other business for her in London. The amount of the bond given by Thomas Taylor, at a time of great scarcity of money in the colony, would indicate that Thomas Chappell had left a good estate to his widow and children. The amount would be equal to $2,150 in the currency of to-day and in present value to about $12,000.
The following deed, found in Prince George County, while too long to be transcribed in full, is of sufficient im-portance to be mentioned:
"This indenture made the 13th. day of February A. D. 1721 between Charles Williams, son of John Williams, Deceased, and Annie, his wife, of the county of Prince George, of the one part, and James Gee, of the county of Surry of the other part. Witnesseth: That in consideration of the sum of Nine Pounds, current money, to them in hand paid by James Gee, do grant, bargain and sell to him the said James Gee, the following parcel of land containing two hundred Acres, part of which is situated lying and being in the county of Surry and the other part in the county of Prince George (a description of the land follows). It being a part of a patent granted unto Thomas Chappell and by him devised "by will to his; grandson Charles Williams, in fee simple. * * * * *
(Signed) "Charles Williams. "Annie Williams" (Sealed with wafers.)
This deed establishes the fact that Thomas Chappell² died testate, his will no doubt having been destroyed with the records of Charles City County. It also establishes the fact that he had a daughter who married John Williams, and that his plantation, as has been heretofore stated, was in the east-ern part of Prince George County, not far from Merchant's Hope-the same neighborhood in which his father had settled when he came to the colony in 1635, and where many of his descendants lived for three or four generations. In fact, there are many Chappells living in this section of Virginia to-day, especially in Prince George and in the adjoining counties of Surry and Sussex. Several members of the Virginian branches descendants of Thomas Chappell² were among those in attendance at the Chappell family reunion which was held in Richmond r Va., July 3, 1896. They have never left the "old stamping-ground."

Land:
Later this was Prince George County
Grant Book 8, pg. 77

Land:
Deeded some of his Sury lands to his Brother-in-Law James, Jones, Jr, who later conveyed it to his son, Robert Jones (Surry D. & Wills, 1715-30, pg. 295)

Thomas married JONES Elizabeth about 1670 in Charles City County, VA. Elizabeth (daughter of JONES James, Sr. and LEWIS Sarah) was born about 1649 in Prince George, VA; died after 1725. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Reference Number: 601
• Alt. Death: 19 Oct 1736, Dendron, Surry, Virginia, United States; Still Living
• Alt. Death: 19 Nov 1736

Notes:

Father's Will: Item. I give to my daughter Elizabeth a negro named Hanna to be at her disposal to do as she sees fitt.

REF/AFN/Custom: 00246 / /
Name: *Elizabeth /JONES/
Sex: Female
Modify Date:
Death: "The Chappell Family in Early South Carolina"p9, 4
Father: Abt 1640, *James /JONES/ [05594], (b. Abt 1640, founder of Petersburg, VA), (d. 6 Apr 1719, will - "The Chappell Family in Early South Carolina"p9, 4)
Mother: Abt 1642, *Sarah /LEWIS/ [15830], (b. Abt 1642, ), (d. , )
Birth: 1660, Charles City, VA (Prince George Co?)
Marriage: 1677, *Thomas (3rd gen.) /CHAPPELL/ II, m. 1677, Charles City County, VA
Son: 1678, Thomas (4th gen) /CHAPPELL/ III, Quaker [11349], (b. 1678, Charles City Co., VA), (d. 1726, Prince George Co., VA)
Son: Abt 1680, Robert /CHAPPELL/ I [00243], (b. Abt 1680, Charles City County, VA), (d. Bef 12 Feb 1723, Prince George Co., VA - "The Chappell Family in Early South Carolina"p5)
Daughter: 1682, Mary Ann /CHAPPELL/ [15831], (b. 1682, Charles City Co., VA - Zimmerman record), (d. , )
Son: 10 May 1694, James (4th gen) /CHAPPELL/ [11363], (b. 10 May 1694, Charles City Co., VA . "The Chappell Family in Early South Carolina"p10, 5), (d. 12 Feb 1769, Sussex Co., VA - age 74)
Son: 1696, Samuel /CHAPPELL/ , Sr. [11350], (b. 1696, Prince George Co., VA > Surry Co. 1722), (d. 1748, will - "The Chappell Family in Early South Carolina"p9, 4, 81)
Marriage: Bef 22 Jun 1704, Thomas /TAYLOR/, m. Bef 22 Jun 1704, Merchant's Hope, Prince George Co., VA
Son: Abt 1705, John /TAYLOR/ [20583], (b. Abt 1705, ), (d. , )
Son: Abt 1707, Thomas /TAYLOR/ [20584], (b. Abt 1707, ), (d. , )
Daughter: Abt 1709, Elizabeth /TAYLOR/ [20585], (b. Abt 1709, ), (d. , )
Daughter: Abt 1711, Katherine /TAYLOR/ [20586], (b. Abt 1711, ), (d. , )

Will of Elizabeth Chappell, Sussex Co., WBA 1754-1764, p. 196, 10 March
1761 - 20 March 1761
In the name of God Amen, March the Tenth one Thousand seven Hundred and sixty
one, I Elizabeth Chappell of the Parish of Albemarle of County of Sufsex
being sick in Body but of perfect mind and memory thanks be to almighty God
for the same I do make and ordain this my last Will and Testament that is to
say First I give my Soul into the hands of Almighty God that gave it and my
Body to the Earth to be buried in a Christian like manner at the discretion
of my Executor whom I shall hereafter mention, and as for such Worldly Estate
as it hath pleased God of his goodness to bless me with in this life I give
and bequeath in manner and form as followeth.
Item I give to my son Drury Ten pounds cash & one feather bed and furniture.
Item I give to my daughter Anne eight pounds cash one feather bed &
furniture & one chest.
Item I give to my son Robert after all my Lawful debts and funeral charges
are paid all the residue of my Estate be it of what kind or quality soever &
Finally I do appoint my son John whole and sole Executor of this my last Will
and Testament. In Testimony whereof I have hereunto put my hand and seal the
day and Year first above written. her
Signed Sealed & Declared Elizabeth
////Chappell
in presence of Jas. Chappell Junr., James mark
Chappell minor, Mary (her mark) Chappell
At a Court held for Sussex County the 20th Day of March 1761, The afore
written last Will and Testament of Elizabeth Chappell dec'd was presented in
Court by John Chappell the Executor therein named who made oath hereto
according to Law and the same was proved by the oaths of James Chappell
junior and James Chappell, minor two of the witnesses hereto and by the Court
ordered to be recorded and on the motion of the said Executor Certificate is
granted him for obtaining a probate thereof in due form.
Teste

Elizabeth Chappell did not long remain a widow, for among the records has been found a unique and peculiar document, the meaning of which was for a time difficult to understand. It proved, however, to be a bond given to James Jones, in the nature of an ante-nuptial contract, by one Thomas Taylor, the prospective husband of his widowed daughter, Elizabeth Chappell. I transcribe this Marriage Contract:

"Know all men by these presents that I, Thomas Taylor, am held and firmly bound unto James Jones, Indr., his heirs and Executors, in the sum of four hundred and forty two pounds and eight shillings, of lawfull money of England, to which payment well and truly to be made, I bind myself, my heirs, executors and administrators. Sealed with my seal and dated this 22nd. day of June 1704. The condition of this obligation, is such that if the above bonded Thomas Taylor, shall from time to time, and at all times, forever hereafter, suffer and give liberty to Elizabeth Chappell, the widow and Relic of Thomas Chappell, deceased, to give and dispose to her children, how, when and as she thinks fitt, any and all sums of money, or its value in country commoditys, or personal property of which she may be possessed, then the above written obligation to be void, null and of no effect; otherwise
to stand in full force and virtue.
"Thomas Taylor. [Seal]

She and Thomas Taylor were still living in Surry County on Oct 19, 1736 (Surry Deed & Wills, 1730-38, Pg. 628)

Father's Will: Item. I give to my daughter Elizabeth a negro named Hanna to be at her disposal to do as she sees fitt.

Notes:

Married:
Family Source

Other Events and Attributes:

• Reference Number: 603
• Residence: Settled in the Merchant Hope/Westover area
• Land: 20 Oct 1665, Charles City County, VA; Granted 80 acres

Notes:

Settled in the Merchant Hope/Westover area which was part of Charles City County until 1702 when Prince George County was cut off and organized with Merchant Hope as County Seat

My father was just 23 when he left Gravesend, England, 23 June 1635 on America. I do not know much about him because most records of Charles City County where we lived are lost. I do remember my father dying in 1658. Having written no will, he invited Mr. Edward Fitzgerald and Mr. Ferdinando Austin to our home to tell them that he wanted each of my brothers and sisters to have two breeding cattle, and that I, the eldest son, should receive his land. Of course the remainder of what my father owned went to Mother who was married to Walter Darnham by 13 September 1658, the day the Charles City County court at Merchant's Hope ordered Darnham to give me my inheritance and for Mr. Aston to see that my brothers and sisters were educated. I never heard what happened to any of them.I obtained a patent for 80 acres next to lands of John Tate in Charles City County 20 October 1665. My plantation was in Weyanoke Parish, near Kittewan Creek, north of where the town of Weyanoke is today. I once served on a coroner's jury-about a dozen upright citizens whom our county coroner would summon when someone died of unusual causes. We concluded on 7 May 1665 that when infant Katherine Lanier fell from her bed, the rail caught her head and she smothered in the bed clothes. I was dead by October 1689 when my widow, Huldah, sold 100 acres that I had given her.
We have been unable to identify more about Huldah whose 1689 deed was acknowledged by Thomas Chappell and his wife, Elizabeth.


A GENEALOGICAL HISTORY OF THE CHAPPELL FAMILIES
CHAPTER III.
THOMAS CHAPPELL THE IMMIGRANT (1635).-CHARLES CITY COUNTY.-WESTOVER.-MERCHANT'S HOPE.-LOST RECORDS. -THOMAS CHAPPELL THE SECOND.-JAMES JONES.-JONES* WILL.-THE SONS OF THOMAS AND ELIZABETH CHAPPELL.- THE NEGRO SLAVE.
Thomas Chappell, the youth who sailed from Gravesend, England, June 23, 1635, on the ship America, William Barker, master, for the colony in Virginia, became the progenitor of the family of Chappells whose history and genealogy will appear on these pages. He was 23 years old when he sailed from England, as appears from the clearance papers of the ship, and hence was born in 1612. That he was the son of Captain John Chappell, master of the Speedwell, there are good reasons to assume, although there is no positive proof to establish the. correctness of this conclusion. The name "John" has been from the beginning the favorite Christian name in the Virginia branch through every succeeding generation, and when we remember that it has been an invariable custom among the Chappells always to perpetuate their family names, we must conclude that the evidence is at least persuasive that voung Thomas was a son of the old mariner.
The conditions "which prevailed, both in England and in Virginia, in 1635, were such as to invite the enterprising young man who desired to better his condition to embark for the New World. England was overcrowded with a dense population. In the colony there was plenty of room. The "starving time" was only remembered as a horrible dream of the past; the terrible massacre of 1622 had driven the Bedman far into the interior, and had left an open space on the frontier ready for the plow of the English immigrant. All along the James, from the mouth to Dutch Gap, might be seen the thrifty little settlements, called "hundreds," in which the tobacco-fields shone beautiful and green in all their primeval luxuriant growth. All was peace and prosperity, and there was not, perhaps, on the face of the globe a more inviting field for. an energetic, enterprising young man than Virginia was at that time.
The population of the colony had increased in the last two decades, until it now numbered, according to a census taken that year, 4,914 souls. In the previous year (1634) it had been divided into eight shires or counties, viz.: James City, Henrico, Charles City, Warwick, Warrasquoake, Charles Eiver, Elizabeth City, and Accornac. All of these counties were located along the James of the sea coast, although the territory of some of them extended far into the interior without limit, as England claimed at that time all the country as far west as the Mississippi Kiver.
The America probably reached the mouth of the James about the 1st of August, 1635, and as the law then forbade the breaking of bulk before arriving at Jamestown, she doubtless came directly up the river and first cast anchor at that place. Thomas Chappell could have remained at Jamestown but a few days, for, as will appear, he proceeded shortly about thirty miles up the river and located on the south side, in Charles City County, opposite Westover, at the mouth of a creek named for him- "Chappell's Creek."
The first record found which throws any light on Thomas Chappell after his advent into Virginia is a land patent granted to William Barker, the captain of the ship America, on which he came over. This patent was issued November 26, 1635-four months after the landing of the America-and was for eight head-rights imported by Captain Barker on a previous voyage, made in July, 1634. The following is a verbatim copy of The Land Patent to William Barker.
"To all to whom these presents shall come. I Capt. John West (note: kin to the West side of the Horne Family), Esqr. Governor &c. Send Greeting in Our Lord God Everlasting. Whereas by letters bearing date thee two and twentieth day of July 1634, A. D. Now Know ye that I the said Capt. John West, Esq. Governor, doe w^th y^e consent of y^e Council of State give and grant unto William Barker, Mariner, four Hundred acres of Land scituated, lying and being in Charles Cittie County and bounded upon a creek called Chappell's Creek, south into the woods. East along the River (James) adjoining upon Merchant's Hope. The said fower Hundred acres of land being due unto him the said William Barker, Mariner, as followeth. Viz: fiftie acres of the said fower hundred acres for his own personell adventure into the Colony and three hundred and fiftie acres by and for the transportation into this Colony at his own proper charges and Costs of seven persons whose names are in the records mentioned under this Patent. To have and to hold the said fower hundred acres of Land with his due share of all Mines and Minerals therein contaigned &c. To be held of our Sovereign Lord the King his heirs and Successors as of his Man- now &c, yielding and paying unto our said Sovereign Lord the King his Heirs and Successors for ever unto his or their Eent gatherers.
"Provided alwaise that if the said William Barker, his heirs or assigns shall not seate or plant, or cause to be planted &c. Given at James Cittie under my hand and sealed wth ye seale of j^e. Colony y^e 26th. day of November 1635 and in y^e XI yeare of y^e Reigne of y^e Sovereign the King &c.
"John West, Govn.
"Head-rirflits:-William Barker, Richard Hitchcox, Wil-liam Low, William Wall, Tho. Bridges, Jon. Field, Tho. Hooper and Auther Browne." (See Gen. Land Books, Vol. I., p. 321.)
This description fixes definitely the location of the spot where Thomas Chappell settled on his arrival in the colony, for the land-marks designated in the patent can still be found. James River is still there and flows on just as it did 265 year; ago. Old Merchant's Hope Church is there and Chappell's Creek is there, although, of course, all else is changed.
What relationship existed between Captain Barker and "Thomas Chappell can never be known. It is certainly a strange coincidence that within four months from the time of their landing we find the young man located at one of the most favored spots in Virginia; the stream on the banks of which he had settled named for him, and the older man patenting large tracts of land in the same locality. As will be seen, Capt. Barker had made previous voyages, one at least in 1634, and the most plausible theory is that he then owned land in that locality, which he sold to Thomas Chappell. That Thomas acquired land in the vicinity by purchase from the patentee will hereafter be shown.
On the same day-November 20, 1035 - that Capt. Barker received the foregoing patent, there was also issued to him and his associates, Richard Quiney and John Saddler (merchants), another patent for 1,200 acres of land, being twenty-five head-rights, in the same locality. This was not unusual,, for many of the masters of ships, instead of selling the head-rights of persons whom they .had brought into the colony, located them themselves, and very often settled j>ermanently in Virginia and became wealthy planters.
In an old record book of Charles City County, the only one preserved containing any record previous to 1790, have-been found two records referring to Thomas Chappell. The first is an order of the county court, made at Westover, then the county-seat, April 9, 1601, in which he is ordered to give a bond as guardian for his daughter for some cattle¹ be queathed to her by Lieut. John Banister. This order is as follows (verbatim):
"Att a Cor't liolden at Westover April 9, 1661, Thomas Chappell acknowledged in Cor't to have received of Jaims Wallis who married y^e relict of Lt. John Banister, dec'd, one Legacy given by y^e said Banister to y^e said Chappell's child by will and discharged by y^e said Wallis fully from y^e bond, Being three cows and one heyfor. It is ordered by y^e Cor't, that Thomas Chappell give bond to y^e Cor't for y^e Cattle bequeathed to his child by y^e last Will and Testament of Lt. John Banister and by him received for her use; being three Cows and one Heyfor." (Charles City Co. Order Book, p. 271.)<
Lieut. John Banister was no doubt related to Thomas Chappell's wife - probably her father. Such bequests of cattle were* common in Virginia during this period. They required no feeding or attention, and generally by the time the child arrived at maturity the number had increased, especially if the little herd at the beginning were females, as was the case in this legacy, until the bequest was not an insignificant one. The old wills in Virginia are full of such bequests, for they had little else to give.
There are no means of determining who this Lieutenant Banister was. The family was a prominent one in Charles City and Prince George counties for several generations, and there was a John Banister in each generation.* John Banister of Charles City County bought African slaves from a Spanish ship which came up the James in 1638. He was probably the father-in-law of Thomas Chappell and the testator of the will in which this bequest was made. (Brace's "History of Virginia.") Another John Banister, of a later generation, owned land adjoining Robert Chappell in Prince George County. (Deed from Abram Cocke to Robert Chappell, December 13, 1725, Chap. VIII.) Banister River, which flows through the northern part of Halifax County, Virginia, was named for a member of the same family.
The only other record found of Thomas Chappell is in a list of the names composing a "Jury of Enquest," what would now be called a grand jury, which served at Westover on May 8, 1665. Thomas Chappell was a member of this Jury. (Charles City Order Book.)
While no patent has been found in the land books issued to Thomas Chappell previous to 1665, the fact that he was a land-owner, and owned a plantation near Merchant's Hope, which he bought from the patentee, is fully established by the following patent granted to him October 20, 1665, in which it is stated that the tract of land patented at that time adjoined a tract which he then owned. The following is a verbatim copy of this
Patent Issued to Thomas Cliappcll.
"To all &c. Whereas &c, now Know ye that I the said Sir William Berkeley, Knight, Governor &c., give and grant unto Thomas Chappell Eighty acres of Land scituated in the county of Charles Citty on the South side of James River and on the north side of Kittawan creek. Beginning at a line that parts John Tate and the said Thomas Chappell's present land, and extending into the Woods. North half West four hundred Poles, West half South thirty two poles, South Tialf East four hundred Poles and East half North thirty two Poles to the place aforementioned. The said Land being due and confirmed unto the said Chappell by order of y^e General Court dated y^e Sixteenth of September one thousand six hundred and sixty three.
*Bristol Parish Register and Bishop Meade. CHAPPELL, DICKIE AND OTHER KINDRED FAMILIES. 55

"To have and to hold &c. To be held &c. Yielding and paying &c. Provided &c. Dated y^e 20 day of October 1665.
"Sir William Berkeley
(Land Book, V., p. 520.) "Governor."
The description of the land conveyed in this patent is peculiar, and the shape of the tract is also.unusual. It will be observed, by those familiar with surveying, that the courses, instead of being described by degrees, are described J)j the points of the compass, indicating that the surveyor had been a sailor, and was more familiar with boxing a compass than with his table of logarithms, perhaps. The tract was in the shape of a parallelogram, the courses running at an angle of forty-five degrees from a meridian line-a very peculiar - shape in a country where land was as abundant and cheap as it was in Virginia at that time.
Thomas Chappell made no mistake in selecting the location for his future home, for the country around Westover and Merchant's Hope was the garden of the lower James. Besides, there are but few localities in the United States around which cluster so many events of historic interest. Charles City County, which embraced this locality, extended to both sides of the river and included the territory far to the southward and westward, out of which were subsequently carved the counties of Prince George, Dinwiddie, Amelia, Nottaway, Prince Edward, Brunswick, and others. Westover was the county seat. In 1702, that part of the county lying south of the river was cut off and organized into Prince George, and Merchant's Hope became the county seat of the county of Charles Citty on the South side of James River and on the north side of Kittawan creek. Beginning at a line that parts John Tate and the said Thomas Chappells present land, and extending into the Woods. North half West four hundred Poles, West half South thirty two poles, South half East four hundred Poles and East half North thirty two Poles to the place aforementioned. The said Land being due and confirmed unto the said Chappell by order of y^e General Court dated y^e Sixteenth of September one thousand six hundred and sixty three.
"To have and to hold &c. To be held &c. Yielding and paying &c. Provided &c. Dated y^e 20 day of October 1665.
"Sir William Berkeley
(Land Book, V., p. 520.) "Governor."

So that it will be understood that while Thomas Chappell lived on the south bank of the river-which is here two miles wide-his counly town was Westover, he having died before the new county was formed. Hence all records of him would have been left in Charles City County. Neither Westover nor Merchant's Hope were towns, as might be inferred, but were simply landings on the river. In fact, there was no town in Virginia in the seventeenth cen-tury, excepting Old Jamestown, and even that place was never more than a small village, although for a century it was the capital of the colony.
I have twice visited this famous locality, so rich in historic associations. It is not only a grand old country today, but is doubly interesting to me from the fact that it was the home of my first American ancestor. Westover is simply an* old Virginia mansion on what was once a magnificent plantation. It is built in the colonial style of architecture, of brick imported from England, and stands on the north bank of the James, about a hundred yards from the water's edge. It is still in a fair state of preservation, although a relic of a bygone age. It was probably settled by Theodorick Bland, of London; at least, he is buried there, and a great slab, in-scribed with his name and coat-of-arms, rests over his grave. Westover was afterward owned by the Byrd family-father and son - the elder of whom was always supposed to have been a son of George I. of England. It was one of these same Byrds who, when on a visit to Edenton, North Carolina, wrote the very uncomplimentary description of the people of that town which will be found in Chapter XIII.
The present house was built by Col. Wm. Byrd in 1737. It is rich in historic reminiscence, for here in days gone by have occurred some of the most important events in the annals of this country. In the Indian massacre of 1622,. thirty-three persons perished on this plantation. During the American Revolution the traitor Arnold had his headquar-ters in this house on his route to Richmond with his British troops. Cornwallis crossed here-swimming his horses - on his march to Yorktown, and stabled his cavalry in the parlors of the mansion. During the War of 1812 it was frequently the scene of contests between the contending armies. Coming down to the Civil War, General Pope and other Federal generals occupied the mansion, and their soldiers almost destroyed the magnificent oak carved wainscoting which adorned the parlors.
The story of the beautiful Evelyn Byrd, whose tomb is near the house, is one of the most pathetic in the history of colonial Virginia. The fair lady died of a broken heart, because she was not permitted to marry the lover, of her choice. One of the most interesting features about the old place is a subterranean tunnel which extends from the house to the river, and which was built, it is supposed, to enable the inmates to escape in case of a sudden attack by the Indians. '
The land patented to William Barker and his associates, Kichard Quiney and John Saddler, November 26, 1635, under patent No. 2£5, embraced the identical spot on which Mer-chant's Hope now stands. Quiney and Saddler were merchants in London, and were doubtless part owners of the ship America with Capt. Barker. Besides the tracts mentioned, they patented, in 1638, 600 acres adjoining the 1,200 acre tract near Merchant's Hope, and as early as 1684 were lessees of a tract of 500 acres in the same vicinity. Richard Quiney was a brother of Thomas Quiney, of London, who, on February 10, 1616, married Judith, the youngest daughter of William Shakespeare.
In 1656, the London and Virginia Company built the church on this tract of land that stands there today. It is still called "Merchant's Hope Church," and has been faithfully kept in repair. During the Civil War the Northern troops were quartered in the building and removed the stone paving from the aisles, with which they constructed a stable. The church silver-communion service - which was given to it by Queen Anne shortly after her accession to the throne, in 1702, bears on it an inscription stating that "Her Majesty the Head of the Church gives this service to Merchant's Hope Church." During the Civil War this silver was buried and it escaped the grasping fingers of the vandal.
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The old church is located about a mile from the James and near the bank of Chappell's Creek. It stands there solitary and alone, surrounded by the old pines whose branches have sheltered it for two and a half centuries. The old building is of brick with an arched roof and unusually thick, heavy walls. No other building now remains, but Major F. P. Leavenworth, of Petersburg, who for many years has been the county surveyor of Prince George County, recently, at the request of the compiler, made an examination of the old locality, and discovered the spot on which the old court-house (built in 1702) once stood, from the ruins of the brick walls and foundation. No gravestone or monument now remains in the little churchyard, except a few broken fragments, even these having been sacrilegiously appropriated in the construction of the stable, when the old church was used as a picket station in 1864, by "our friends, the enemy."

Chappell's Creek flows dnto the James between the old church and the ruins of the former court-house, and nearly opposite Berkeley's. It is an insignificant stream, but it marks a spot sacred to the memory of an ancestor whose descendants, now numbered by the thousands, are scattered over every State in the South and West.* Just across the river and almost in sight is Malvern Hill, where in July, 1862, was fought one of the most desperate engagements of the Civil War. Among the brave Confederates who fell there were many descendants of Thomas Chappell, who had come from their distant Southern homes to meet death at the very spot where their first ancestor settled 227 years before.
The genealogist who attempts to trace the history of an old Virginia family during the early colonial period is continually confronted with almost insurmountable obstacles. There are no traditions extending back to so early a period, and the few remaining records have become so mutilated and effaced, through the ravages of time, that but little information can be gleaned from them. Tidewater Virginia has been three times devastated by war, and invading- armies have overrun every part of the country along the James. First in 1776, again in 1812, and the last time in the Civil War, have the waters of this noble stream been lighted up by the lurid gleam of burning mansions along its banks. Many of the old courthouses, also, have been burned, and with them every record. In other cases, while the buildings themselves have escaped the red torch of the invader, the records, now valuable for their antiquity, if for nothing else, have been pur-loined and taken away by the human hienas who always accompany an invading army.
These fragments of court records, a few old vestry books and parish registers, and the land books in the General Land Office in Richmond-which fortunately have escaped and are preserved intact for the entire colonial period-furnish the only sources of information from which the antiquarian can trace the footsteps of these early settlers or glean any knowledge of their history.
In Charles City County all records, prior to 1790, were destroyed or stolen during the Civil War. Only one - the order book to which I have referred, and from which were copied the two records referring to Thomas Chappell - has been recovered. Doubtless had these records been preserved, there would have been found there the wills of Thomas Chappell the immigrant, and/also that of Thomas his son, who will be referred to hereafter; the latter of whom, at least, having died testate, as is shown by other records. These two wills are the only missing links in the entire genealogical chain from 1635 to the present time, and could they be found, the genealogy of the many branches descended from Thomas Chappell the immigrant could be established by indisputable recorded evidence down through eleven generations, a most remarkable instance of the successful prosecution of genealogical research, when it is remembered that no authentic written history of the family has ever been preserved.
Thomas Chappell had only two children of whom any trace can now be found - the little daughter to whom the legacy was bequeathed by Lieut. Banister, and a son named Thomas. Thomas, Sr., was 53 years old in 1665, and probably lived but a few years longer. His ashes, no doubt, rest in the little cemetery at the old despoiled church of Merchant's Hope, and there fill an unmarked grave.

*In Vol. II., p. 217, "Surveys of Prince George County," are the field-notes of a survey made February 19, 1813, of a tract of land on Burchee's Swamp and Seven Spring Branch, called Chappell's. It is still known by that name to-day. (Major Leavenworth.)

Thomas Chappell II, in his own words If he could speak to us today, Thomas Chappell II might describe his life as follows.
My father was just 23 when he left Gravesend, England, 23 June 1635 on America. I do not know much about him because most records of Charles City County where we lived are lost. I do remember my father dying in 1658. Having written no will, he invited Mr. Edward Fitzgerald and Mr. Ferdinando Austin to our home to tell them that he wanted each of my brothers and sisters to have two breeding cattle, and that I, the eldest son, should receive his land. Of course the remainder of what my father owned went to Mother who was married to Walter Darnham by 13 September 1658, the day the Charles City County court at Merchant's Hope ordered Darnham to give me my inheritance and for Mr. Aston to see that my brothers and sisters were educated. I never heard what happened to any of them. I obtained a patent for 80 acres next to lands of John Tate in Charles City County 20 October 1665. My plantation was in Weyanoke Parish, near Kittewan Creek, north of where the town of Weyanoke is today. I once served on a coroner's jury-about a dozen upright citizens whom our county coroner would summon when someone died of unusual causes. We concluded on 7 May 1665 that when infant Katherine Lanier fell from her bed, the rail caught her head and she smothered in the bed clothes. I was dead by October 1689 when my widow, Huldah, sold 100 acres that I had given her.

We have been unable to identify more about Huldah whose 1689 deed was acknowledged by Thomas Chappell and his wife, Elizabeth.
John Chappell of Petherton and Capt. John Chappell Also arriving in America within a month of Thomas was John Chappell, of Petherton, Somersetshire, England. At age 38 he set sail on the Assurance 24 July 1635. If John and Thomas were closely related, we doubt they would have traveled separately to America. Although some have suggested Thomas was the son of John Chappell, the captain of the Speedwell that made one trip to America in 1635, there is no proof.
Another Thomas Chappell? Thomas Chappell was a headright for Richard Tye and Charles Sparrow for 2,500 acres in Charles City County 12 Aug. 1659. Further, Anthony Wyatt paid passage for a Thomas Chappell for which he received a certificate 6 June 1664. This suggests another Thomas Chappell in the community. Indeed one Thomas Chappell had been a servant to John Richards. When Richards died, the court of 4 Feb. 1665/6 ordered that corn and clothing customarily paid to indentured servants be given Chappell. We have yet to identify Samuel Chappell who left a now-lost will in Prince George County that Ann Bolling, executrix, presented 9 Feb. 1713/14. &
Lt. John Banister (-1661) Lt. John Banister left 3 cows and one heifer to a daughter of Thomas Chappell in April 1661. Although many have presumed that Thomas Chappell married a daughter of John Banister, later patent records show Banister died without heirs. Banister's wife, Jane, was a midwife who, with Jane Thomas and Dr. John Jacob, testified in 1658 that Fortune Bayley had not been raped. Jane married 2nd James Wallace. For more on James Wallace, see John Butler. Some have incorrectly reported that Lt. John Banister was the ancestor of Rev. John Banister, the naturalist, who married Martha Batte .

Chappell Creek Chappell Creek, named in a patent for William Barker, the captain of the America, in Nov. 1635, is said to have been named for Thomas Chappell, who was in the Colony no earlier than Aug. 1635. Considering the lengthy process for securing a patent, the creek is likely named for Merchant's Hope chapel located nearby.
Thomas Chappell II, in his own words If he could speak to us today, Thomas Chappell II might describe his life as follows.
My father was just 23 when he left Gravesend, England, 23 June 1635 on America. I do not know much about him because most records of Charles City County where we lived are lost. I do remember my father dying in 1658. Having written no will, he invited Mr. Edward Fitzgerald and Mr. Ferdinando Austin to our home to tell them that he wanted each of my brothers and sisters to have two breeding cattle, and that I, the eldest son, should receive his land. Of course the remainder of what my father owned went to Mother who was married to Walter Darnham by 13 September 1658, the day the Charles City County court at Merchant's Hope ordered Darnham to give me my inheritance and for Mr. Aston to see that my brothers and sisters were educated. I never heard what happened to any of them. I obtained a patent for 80 acres next to lands of John Tate in Charles City County 20 October 1665. My plantation was in Weyanoke Parish, near Kittewan Creek, north of where the town of Weyanoke is today. I once served on a coroner's jury- about a dozen upright citizens whom our county coroner would summon when someone died of unusual causes. We concluded on 7 May 1665 that when infant Katherine Lanier fell from her bed, the rail caught her head and she smothered in the bed clothes. I was dead by October 1689 when my widow, Huldah, sold 100 acres that I had given her. &
We have been unable to identify more about Huldah whose 1689 deed was acknowledged by Thomas Chappell and his wife, Elizabeth.
John Chappell of Petherton and Capt. John Chappell Also arriving in America within a month of Thomas was John Chappell, of Petherton, Somersetshire, England. At age 38 he set sail on the Assurance 24 July 1635. If John and Thomas were closely related, we doubt they would have traveled separately to America. Although some have suggested Thomas was the son of John Chappell, the captain of the Speedwell that made one trip to America in 1635, there is no proof.
Another Thomas Chappell? Thomas Chappell was a headright for Richard Tye and Charles Sparrow for 2,500 acres in Charles City County 12 Aug. 1659. Further, Anthony Wyatt paid passage for a Thomas Chappell for which he received a certificate 6 June 1664. This suggests another Thomas Chappell in the community. Indeed one Thomas Chappell had been a servant to John Richards. When Richards died, the court of 4 Feb. 1665/6 ordered that corn and clothing customarily paid to indentured servants be given Chappell. We have yet to identify Samuel Chappell who left a now-lost will in Prince George County that Ann Bolling, executrix, presented 9 Feb. 1713/14. &
Lt. John Banister (-1661) Lt. John Banister left 3 cows and one heifer to a daughter of Thomas Chappell in April 1661. Although many have presumed that Thomas Chappell married a daughter of John Banister, later patent records show Banister died without heirs. Banister's wife, Jane, was a midwife who, with Jane Thomas and Dr. John Jacob, testified in 1658 that Fortune Bayley had not been raped. Jane married 2nd James Wallace. For more on James Wallace, see John Butler . Some have incorrectly reported that Lt. John Banister was the ancestor of Rev. John Banister, the naturalist, who married Martha Batte .
Chappell Creek Chappell Creek, named in a patent for William Barker, the captain of the America, in Nov. 1635, is said to have been named for Thomas Chappell, who was in the Colony no earlier than Aug. 1635. Considering the lengthy process for securing a patent, the creek is likely named for Merchant's Hope chapel located nearby.
Descendants of Thomas Chappell II Information about the children of Thomas Chappell II, their descendants, and allied families previously found at Virginians.com is now available as Southside Virginia Genealogies. Learn more Names found in this topic include the following. Thomas Chappell III (c.1660-c.1703), Sarah (Chappell) Binford, James Binford, William Randolph , Robert Bolling , Huldah Binford, William Ladd, Elizabeth Hamlin, Thomas Murrell Sr., Thomas Murrell Jr., John Pleasants, William Grice, John Crew, Pugh Price , Amos Ladd, John Leed, James Ladd, Judith Ellyson, Gerard Robert Ellyson, William Torborn, Mary Ladd, Aquilla Binford , Agnes Ladd, Shadrach Stanley, Lydia Ladd, Thomas Charles, Elizabeth Charles, Samuel Hargrave, Thomas Hargrave, Sarah H. Hubbard , Elizabeth Ann Hargrave, Anna Hargrave, Lemuel Crew , Margaret E. Crew, Samuel H. Crew, Walter Crew, Tarleton Crew, Deborah D. Crew, Henrietta Crew, Anna Crew, Micajah Crew, Charles Hargrave, Lucy Ladd , Joseph Hargrave, Deborah Bates , Margaret J. Lewis, Lemuel Hargrave, Mary Ann Hubbard , Elizabeth O. Johnson, Thomas Exum Hargrave, Sarah Elizabeth Hargrave, Deborah Ann Hargrave, Mary Hargrave, Micajah Bates , Martha Hargrave, Jane Hargrave, Henry Charles, Mary Charles, Martha Charles, Jeremiah Hubbard, Joseph Hubbard, Ann - , Margaret Ladd, Micajah Crew , Tace Crew, Benjamin Bates Jr., Benjamin Bates, Hannah - , Henrietta Maria Pleasants, Thomas Pleasants , Elizabeth Brooke, Lucy Bates, Micajah Bates, Mary Hargrave , Martha Ann Balderson, Hugh Balderston, Charles Frederick Bates, Elisha Henry Bates, Tace Bates, Edward S. Pleasants, Tarleton Woodson Pleasants, Margaret - , Elizabeth Bates, Martha Ann Bates, Catherine Bates, William Savoy Bates, Benjamin Bates, Samuel Bates, Mary Bates, Micajah Bates, Hugh B. Bates, Martha J. Bates, Joseph Jordan Pleasants, William Henry Pleasants, Mary Ladd, Tace Crew Bates, William Savoy Bates, Fleming Bates, Lemuel Crew, Anna Hargrave , Unity Crew, Fleming Bates, Benjamin Bates, Hannah - , Benjamin Spence Bates, Margaret Bates, Deborah Bates, Joseph Hargrave , Lemuel Bates, Unity Bates, Hannah Bates, Fleming Bates, Edward Bates, Mary F. Bates, Sally I. Bates, Dugan Clark Jr., Dugan Clark Sr., Asenath - , Susan F. Bates, John R. Hubbard, Joseph Hubbard, Walter Crew, Sarah B. - , Talitha Crew, Tarleton Woodson Pleasants , Margaret Crew, Susanna Crew, Barlow, Deborah Crew, Elizabeth Ladd, John Butler , Lydia Butler, John Stanton, Elizabeth Stanton, Elizabeth Butler, Jonathon Butler, Henrietta Maria Bates , Catherine J. Lewis, William Ladd, Mary Hunnicutt , Robert Ladd, Mary (Terrell) Terrell, Pleasants Terrell, Timothy Terrell, Catherine Terrell, Lucy Ladd, Charles Hargrave , Edna Ladd, Micajah Terrell Johnson, Jonathon Johnson, Judith Douglas, Anna Ladd, William Ladd, Robert Pleasants Ladd, Mary Ladd, Armelia Ladd, Ann Ladd, Martha Ladd, Elizabeth Ladd, George Hubbard , William Hubbard, James Hubbard, Unity Ladd , Joseph Hubbard, Maria Hubbard, Martha Ann Hubbard, Mary Ladd, James Ladd Binford , Sarah Ladd, Benjamin B. Hockaday, John Hockaday, Susanna - , John Ladd Hockaday, James Ladd, Sarah Binford , Samuel Fuqua, Peter Ladd, Sarah - , Henry Ladd, Delila Ladd, Levi Ladd, Elizabeth Ladd, Deborah Ladd, Daniel Crew , Peter Ladd, Catherine Crew, Robert Crew, Nancy Terrell, Ledbetter Ladd, Mary Ladd, Benjamin Crew , Rebecca Ladd, James Binford Ladd, Margaret Ladd, Rebecca Ladd, Waddy Stanley, Samuel Stanley, Priscilla Stanley, Lucy Stanley, Anne Stanley, Joel Stanley, Nancy Stanley, Thomas Crew Stanley, Deborah Stanley, Waddy Stanley, Rebecca Stanley, Ann Ladd, James Bates, James Bates, Joseph Denson Bates, James Bates, Henrietta Maria Bates, Jonathon Butler , Joshua Bates, Elizabeth Bates, Jesse Ladd, Margaret Whitfield, Mourning Ladd, Abidan Bailey, Benjamin Bailey, Elizabeth Briggs , Margaret Whitfield Bailey, Elizabeth Bailey, Sarah Ladd, John Crew, James Crew, Ann Crew , Judith Crew, John Crew , Jacob Crew, Elizabeth Leadbetter, Sally Leadbetter Crew, Henry Crew, James Crew, Elizabeth Maule, Thomas Maule, Margaret - , Micajah Crew, Susannah Crew, Jacob Crew, Cornelius Crew, Mary Ann - , Joel Crew, Elizabeth Ann Crew, John Crew, Judith - , Charles Crew, Martha Crew, Caleb Crew, Joshua Crew, Sarah Ladd Crew, Anna Crew, Joshua Crew, John Ellison Crew, Joseph Crew, John Ladd, Unity Harris, Benjamin Harris, Gulielma Ladd, James L. New, Rachel Ladd, Elizabeth Ladd, Charles Anthony, Christopher Anthony, Benjamin Harris Ladd, Sarah Binford , Margaret Ladd, Benjamin Vaughan, William Shields Vaughan, Unity Smith Ladd, Thomas Harris Sr., Benjamin Harris, Mary T. Harris, William S. Figg, Benjamin Figg, Sarah - , Thomas Harris, Lucy Ann Harris, Mary Ladd, James Vaughan, William Shields Vaughan, John Bell, Nathan Bell, Sarah Ladd, Warner, John Ladd, Anna Ladd, Judith Ladd, Thomas Binford , William Ladd, Ursula Ellyson, Gerard Robert Ellyson, Joseph Ladd , Agatha Ladd , Thomas Ladd, Ann Ellyson, Thomas Ellyson, Elizabeth Crew, David Holt , Gerard Ladd, William Taylor, Sarah (- ) Ladd, Agatha Ladd, William Ellzey, Keziah Ellzey, Easter Ellzey, Elizabeth Ladd, William Patterson, Priscilla Ladd, Huldah Ladd, Anderson Simmons, Tabitha Butler, Huldah Hunnicutt , Paul Sears , Deborah Simmons, Mordecai Peebles , Jacob Ladd, Miriam Marimoon, Elizabeth Reames, Tabitha Ladd, Jeremiah Ladd, Sarah Ladd, Joseph Patterson, Ursula Ladd, Samuel Butler, Mourning Butler, Nathan Butler, Lucy Butler, Lydia Butler, Tabitha Butler, Gerard Ladd, Priscilla Ladd, Lydia Ladd, Esther Ladd, Ursula Ladd, William Ladd, Howell Collier , Jacob Ladd, Sylvia - , John Lloyd, Elizabeth (- ) Ladd, Huldah Ladd, Starling Moore, James Ladd, Elizabeth Ladd, Millicent Ladd, Mary Ladd, Samuel McGehee, David Crew, John Crew, Mary Stanley, Huldah McGehee, Maddox Stanley, Thomas Stanley, John Stanley, Milley Stanley, John Stanley, Huldah Stanley, Littleberry Crew, James Crew, Sarah Harris, James Crew, Benjamin Crew, John Crew, Milley Crew, Elizabeth Stanley, William Stanley, Obediah Stanley, Mary Stanley, Rachel Stanley, Huldah Stanley, Maddox Stanley, Elizabeth McGehee, Gatley Crew, John Crew, Elizabeth Crew, John Crew, Gatley Crew, Andrew Crew, Sarah McGehee, Pleasants Stanley, Thomas Stanley, Elizabeth - , Pleasants Stanley, Delphia Hunter, Susanna Stanley, Jesse Bradley, Priscilla Stanley, John Goff, Samuel Stanley, Sarah Stanley, William Holloway, Betsy Stanley, Abner Holloway, George Stanley, Mary Crew, Martha McGehee, Thomas Hogg, John Hogg, Samuel Hogg, Lydia McGehee, Ann McGehee, Samuel McGehee, John McGehee, Rebecca McGehee, John Ladd, Mary Crew, John Crew, Sarah - , Elizabeth Ladd, Archelaus Stanley, Joseph Stanley, Mary - , Amos Ladd, Sarah Binford , Mary Ladd, Jesse Terrell, Pleasants Terrell, Catherine - , Mary Bailey Johnson, John Kinsey Ladd, Thomas Ladd, Ann Bell, Nathan Bell, Priscilla Ladd, George Hubbard , John K. Hubbard, Exum S. Hubbard, Amos Ladd Hubbard, Sarah H. Hubbard, Thomas Hargrave , Robert Hubbard, Elizabeth D. Hubbard, Matthew P. Terrell, Mary Ann Hubbard, Lemuel Hargrave , George Hubbard, Sarah Ladd, Ebenezer Maule, Amos Ladd, Mary Bell, Nathan Bell, Elizabeth Ladd, Samuel Pleasants Parsons, Samuel Parsons, Sarah Pleasants, Elizabeth M. Crew, Thomas Crew, Margaret - , Susanna Ladd, Deborah Ladd, Joseph Ladd, Mary Binford , William Ladd , Sarah Ladd, Betty Kinsey Ladd, William Ladd, Creed Haskins, John Ladd, Hannah (- ) Ladd, Thomas Ladd, Mary Crowder, Judith Ladd, John Ladd, Jane Cleaton, Amos Ladd, Elizabeth Crowder, Joseph Ladd, Noble Ladd, Mary Rottenberry, Sarah Ladd, Nicholas Hutchins , Huldah Ladd, Peter Peebles, William Peebles, Susanna Butler , Huldah Peebles, Butler Peebles, Huldah Ladd Peebles, Anna Peebles, Susanna Peebles, William Hollowell, Peter Peebles, Mourning Hargrave, William Hargrave, Sarah - , Mordecai Peebles, Abigail Brock, James Brock, Sarah Bailey, Deborah Simmons , Josiah Peebles, Mary Hargrave , Elizabeth Hunnicutt , William Ladd Peebles, Sarah Peebles, Burwell Rawles, Peter Peebles, Sarah Peebles, John Sears, James Hunnicutt, Barnaby Nixon , Paul Sears, Huldah (Ladd) Simmons , Miriam Sears, Crafton, Elizabeth Sears, John Maddox, Huldah Sears, John Sears, Sarah Sears, Francis Walthall , Martha Sears, James Brock, Samuel Sears, Peter Sears, Anna Doudna, Ann Sears, Exum Bailey, Sarah Ladd, Robert Hunnicutt Jr. , Miriam Hunnicutt, Joseph Butler , Sarah Butler, John Andrews, Jane Hunnicutt, Joseph Wilson, Joseph Andrews, Mary Hunnicutt, Ann Maria Binford , Robert Andrews, Martha Andrews, Robert Binford , Elizabeth Andrews, Robert Hunnicutt , John Andrews, Edna Crew , Daniel Andrews, Sarah Crew , William Butler, Margaret Butler, Jeremiah Hubbard, Robert Hunnicutt Butler, Micajah Butler, Ann Chappell, Samuel Butler, Edward Butler, Martha Butler, Joseph Butler, Charlotte Ann Binford, James Binford , John Hunnicutt, Margaret Hunnicutt, Benjamin Crew, Andrew Crew, Robert Hunnicutt Crew, Sarah Crew, Margaret Crew, Isaac Ratcliff, William Ratcliff, Martha Ratcliff, Elwood Ratcliff, Mary Ratcliff, Miriam Crew, John Crew, Eleazer Crew, Edna Crew, John Andrews Jr. , John Hunnicutt Crew, Miriam H. Crew, Aquilla Binford , Sarah Crew, Daniel Andrews , Elizabeth Crew, Samuel Ladd, Jesse Ladd, Samuel Whitfield Ladd, Margaret Ladd, Joseph Binford , Michal Ladd, Snelling, Jesse Ladd, Elizabeth Ladd, Joshua Ladd, Joseph Ladd, Benjamin Crew, Hannah Crew, Hunnicutt, Joshua Crew, Benjamin Crew, Sarah Wright, Thomas Wright, Sarah - , Narcissa Crew, Sarah Crew, Hannah Crew, Eliza Jane Crew, Sarah Hunnicutt, Barnaby Nixon, Mary Copeland, Aquilla Binford , Samuel Nixon, David Nixon, Huldah Hunnicutt, William Simmons, Edmund Bailey, William Hunnicutt, Mary Binford, Jesse Hunnicutt, Susanna Hunnicutt, Benjamin Hunnicutt, Robert Wyke Hunnicutt, Priscilla Binford , Elizabeth Ladd, Matthew Ellyson, Robert Ellyson, Andrew Crew Jr., Andrew Crew, Joseph Crew, Mary McMannus, Clary Crew, Andrew Crew, Mary Crew, Raney Crew, Elizabeth Crew, Nance, Joseph Crew, Ezra Crew, Benjamin Crew, Mary Ladd , Chappell Crew, Rebecca Crew, Ladd, Exum Crew, Daniel Crew, Deborah Ladd , Isaac Crew, Andrew Crew, Mary Binford , Hannah Crew, James Binford , Elizabeth Crew, John Binford , Lydia Ladd, Ellyson Crew, John Crew, Agatha Ellyson, Ruth Crew, Thomas Binford , Ann Crew, James Crew , Elisha Crew, Jacob Crew, Isaac Crew, Henry Crew, John Crew, Judith Crew , Charles Crew, Martha Crew, Caleb Crew, Joshua Crew, Ellyson Crew, Mary Crew, Joseph Patterson, William Ladd, Ursula Ellyson, Thomas Binford, Benjamin Foster, Elizabeth (- ) Binford, John Binford, Susanna Ellyson, Robert Ellyson, Robert Binford, Thomas Binford, Margaret - , Mary Binford, Andrew Crew , John Binford, Martha Binford, Sarah Binford, Amos Ladd , Mary Binford, Joseph Ladd , Thomas Binford, Judith Ladd , Thomas Binford, Jesse Binford, Sarah Harrison, Robert Harrison, James Binford, Hannah Crew , Joshua Binford, Micajah Binford, Angelina Binford, James Ladd Binford, Mary Ladd , Benajah Binford, John Binford, Elizabeth Crew , Martha (- ) Binford, Elizabeth Binford, Keziah Binford, Judah Binford, James Binford, Priscilla Binford, Benjamin Watkins, Benjamin Watkins, Jane Watkins, Robert Watkins, Mary Osborne, Edward Osborne, Edward Osborne Watkins, Harriet Tabb Trevillian , Benjamin Watkins, Anna Riddle, Thomas Riddle, Thomas Binford Watkins, Nancy Ragland, Elizabeth Watkins, Elijah Johnson, Ashley Johnson, Martha Woodey, Sarah Watkins, Mary Watkins, William Johnson, Jesse Johnson, Elizabeth Watkins, Elizabeth Kinsey Binford, William Binford, Martha (- ) Binford, William Binford, William Hulme, John Binford, Agnes Mosby, Edward Mosby, Joseph Mosby, Mary Binford, Joseph Ellyson, Robert Ellyson, Mary Ellyson, Robert Jordan, Benjamin Jordan , Lydia Pleasants , Agnes Ellyson, Moore Bell, George Bell, Rebecca - , Martha Bell, Rebecca Bell, Clark, Susanna Ellyson, Thomas Jordan, Agnes Binford, Benjamin Chappell , James Binford, Martha Chappell , John Binford, Sarah - , William Gunn, Ambrose Day, James Binford, Agnes Binford, Mary Binford, Peter Binford, Rebecca Chappell , John Hamlin, Charles Irby, William Binford, Mary (Barker) Peebles, Joseph Peebles, Robert Hunnicutt, John Hunnicutt, Sarah Binford, James Ladd , Priscilla Binford, Robert Wyke Hunnicutt , Robert Hunnicutt , Samuel Hunnicutt, Pharaby Brock, James Brock, Sarah Bailey, James Hunnicutt, Rachel Wright, Thomas Wright, Sarah - , James Binford, Elizabeth Simmons, Anderson Simmons, Ann Pretlow, Samuel Pretlow, Gulielma Binford, Mary Binford, Daniel Hunnicutt, Jane Walthall , Sarah Binford, Benjamin Harris Ladd , James Harris Ladd, Samuel Ladd, Elizabeth Binford Ladd, Nancy H. Ladd, Matthew Jones Hargrave , Unity Ladd, James Hubbard , Benjamin Franklin Ladd, John Milton Ladd, Thomas Elwood Ladd, Isaac Newton Ladd, Rebecca Binford, Gulielma Maria Binford, Staunton Butler , Jonathon Binford, Chappell Binford, Martha Hunnicutt , John Chappell, Samuel Binford, Mary Hunnicutt, Lemuel Binford, Robert Binford, Martha Andrews , Elizabeth Cook, Josiah Cook, Peter Binford, Chappell Binford, Jane Binford, Martha Binford, Ann Maria Binford, Joseph Andrews , Elizabeth Binford, Staunton Butler , Gulielma Maria Binford , Peter Binford, Martha Fowler, Simmons Fowler, Elizabeth Sears, Martha Brock, James Brock, Sarah Bailey, Aquilla Binford, Penelope Hare, Penelope Watkins, John Hare, Miriam H. Crew , Mary Binford, Micajah Peebles, John Peebles, Mary - , Peter Binford, Martha Binford, Robert Hunnicutt , Mary Hunnicutt, James Binford, Peninah Peebles, John Binford, Michal Binford, Timothy D. Johnson, Samuel Binford, David Binford, Joseph Binford, Margaret Ladd , Samuel Alfred Binford, Aquilla Binford, Mary Ladd , Thomas Binford, Ruth Crew , Robert Hunnicutt (c.1675-), John Hunnicutt, Margaret Wyke, Peter Wyke, John Lanier, William Peebles, Thomas Chappell , James Jones , Elizabeth Duke, Cornelius Cargill, John Holloway, Robert Bolling , Peter Peebles , Thomas Chappell , Thomas Chappell IV , Thomas Chappell V , Margaret Hunnicutt , Huldah Ladd, Huldah Hunnicutt, Francis Newby, William Hunnicutt, Miriam Murdaugh, John Pleasants, Margaret Jordan , Mary Woodson, Jesse Hunnicutt, Robert Hunnicutt, Thomas Hunnicutt, Miriam - , Elizabeth Peebles, John Peebles, Mary - , Sarah Hunnicutt, Mary Hunnicutt, Micajah Bailey, Edmund Bailey, Elizabeth Womble, Deborah Hunnicutt, Thomas Hunnicutt, Mary Linn Hunnicutt, Miriam Hunnicutt, Margaret Hunnicutt, Jonathon Terrell, Elizabeth Terrell, Chiles Terrell, Nanny Terrell, John Terrell, Miriam Terrell, Matilda Terrell, Caleb Terrell, Thomas Terrell, Ann Hunnicutt, Joseph Hunnicutt, John Hunnicutt, Peter Hunnicutt, Sarah Haig, Robert Hunnicutt, Ann Simmons, William Simmons, Huldah Hunnicutt , Mary Hunnicutt, William Ladd , Martha Hunnicutt, Chappell Binford , Jane Hunnicutt, Jane Hunnicutt, Hatch, Peter Hunnicutt, Elizabeth Hunnicutt, Sarah Hunnicutt, Thomas Hunnicutt, Mary - , James Hunnicutt, William Hunnicutt, Mary Butler , Wyke Hunnicutt, Sarah Glaister, James Gee , Sarah Hunnicutt, Samuel Bailey, Anselm Bailey, Glaister Hunnicutt, Jane Pleasants , Mary Hunnicutt, Robert Hunnicutt, Ruth Hunnicutt, Anselm Bailey Jr., Robert Hunnicutt, Priscilla Binford , Wyke Hunnicutt, Ann Bailey, Anselm Bailey, Margaret Hunnicutt, Thomas Chappell , Robert Hunnicutt, Sarah Ladd , John Hunnicutt, Elizabeth (- ) Hunnicutt, John Hunnicutt, Mary Butler, Elizabeth Hunnicutt, Edward Hunnicutt, Ephraim Hunnicutt, Ruth Hunnicutt, Daniel Hunnicutt, Mark Hunnicutt, Robert Hunnicutt, Sarah Hunnicutt, Robert Hunnicutt, Martha Hunnicutt, Mary Hunnicutt, James Hunnicutt, Rebecca Pretlow , Elizabeth Hunnicutt, James Bates, Mary Hunnicutt, Jesse Newby,


Selected sources Boddie, John Bennett. "Chappell of Surry" Southside Virginia Families. Redwood City, Cal.: Pacific Coast Publishers, 1955(2):66-72. Family of Thomas Chappell . Cabell, James Branch. "The Hunnicutts of Prince George." Genealogies of Virginia Families from the William and Mary College Quarterly Historical Magazine. Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Co., Inc., 1982(3):92-112. Includes the family of Robert Hunnicutt . Chappell, Joseph M. A Genealogical Outline of the Chappell and Kindred Families. Salem, Or.: The Joseph M. Chappell Family, 1995. Corrects and extends the work of Phil Chappell, beginning with Thomas Chappell . Chappell, Phil E. A Genealogical History of the Chappell, Dickie, and Other Kindred Families of Virginia, 1635-1900. Kansas City, Missouri: Hudson-Kimberly Publishing Company, 1900. A very early work on the family of Thomas Chappell including his son, Thomas Chappell , and grandson Robert Chappell . Although it errs in the early generations, it contains some very useful information on subsequent generations of the Chappell family. Childs, James Rives. Reliques of the Rives (Ryves). Lynchburg, Va.: J.P. Bell Company, Inc., 1929:454-455. Excursus devoted to family of Thomas Chappell .
Notes This topic, which represents .82% of all the family history material at Virginians.com, includes 664 citations and the names of 1,004 individuals.

Pg. 418 VIRGINIA HISTORICAL MAGAZINE: (From Phil E. Chappell)

Robert Chappell patented 100 acres of land January 26th. 1663, book 5, page 24·
Samuel Chappell patented 78 acres July 4th, 1664. book 5, page 24-
Thomas Chappell patented 80 acres October 20th, 1665, book 5, page 120.
Zachariah Chappell patented 175 acres April 6th, 1684.
Thomas Chappell, probably of the next generation, patented 423 acres April 20th, 1694. Thomas Chappell patented 994 acres (20 headrights) April 25th, 1701.
Samuel Chappell patented 218 acres October 29th. 1696.
There were found in the eighteenth century, between 1720 and 1750, many additional entries, some of large tracts. Many of these were issued to John Chappell and James Chappell, who seem to have become large land owners. The latter was called in his patento; .. gentleman ...

There may be other records of land patents of which I have no account.

Among the partially preserved records of Charles City county, the following fragment was found: "Att a Cor'tt holden in Westover April 9, 1661, Thomas Chappell acknowledgeth in Cor'tt to have received of
James Wallis, who married ye relict of Lieut. John Banister dec'd, one legacy given by 'ye said Banister to ye said Chappell's child by will and discharged by ye said Wallis fully from ye bond, being three cows and one heyfer. It is ordered by ye Cor'tt that Thomas Chappell give bond to ye Cor'tt for ye cattle bequeathed to his child by ye said last will and testament of John Banister and by him received for her use." Order book, page 271.

This is the only record found among the partially preserved records of Charles City county, I am informed, referring to anyone named Chappell. The records have been almost entirely lost in that county.

Besides the above, the parish registers furnish some light as to the Chappell family in the Colony during' that period.

The original register of Albemarle parish, Surry and Sussex counties, which I believe is on file in the Virginia Historical Society, at Richmond, refer to a family of Chappells, doubtless descendant.; of
one of the immigrants of 1635, who lived in that parish between 1739, 1772. Among the names mentioned are James, Howell, Henry, John. Robert, Thomas, and Samuel. In the register of Bristol parish, Prince George and Dinwiddie counties, are found the following entries: "Ann, d. of Rohert and Mary Chappell, b. Feb. 18, 1721; Absalom, son of Robert and Elizabeth (probably his second wife), b. May 6, 1729; Robert, son of Robert and Elizabeth, b. April 2, 1732." This Robert was probably
hrother of my great-great-grandfather, who certainly lived in the same parish at the time these children were bom. My branch of the family, while evidently closely related to the Surry and Sussex branch. cannot from the dates have sprung from them. The above is the only record I have been able to find in Virginia previous to 1746, referring to my ancestors, and they, while furnishing almost positive proof of our descent from John or Thomas Chappell, the immigrants of 1635, do not determine from which one we sprang nor the connection of the subsequent generations, previous to 1746.

The Chappells were numerously represented in England between 1500 and 1600. The name is often found in Northamptonshire, Rutland and Nottinghamshire, and several members of the family attained great eminence, among whom was one William Chappell, who was at one time Bishop of Cork and a professor of Cambridge. He was born in 1582, and died May 13, 1649. He had a younger brother named John who died before him. was buried at Mansfield, and left a family. He may have been the same John Chappell who was captain of the ship Speedwell in 1635. The father of these sons was named Robert. You will observe these family names John. Robert, Samuel and Thomas. Names which have come down in the different branches of the family for three centuries and a half. and which are yet connected with the name .. Chappell," as the favorite names, wherever it is found.

My theory is that the Chappells of the colony of Virginia. now a numerous family in the Southern States. all sprung from Thos. Chappell, the young immigrant of 1635. who came over in the America. and that
he settled in Charles City county, which was organized the year previous. I also think he was the same individual referred to in the records of that county in connection with the legacy given his child by John
Banister. It was probably his sons. Robert. Thos. and Samuel. who patented land from 1663 to 1665. and his grandsons. of the next generation, who patented lands at the close of the century (1694-1701) whose names also were Thomas and Samuel. I believe that among their sons was the Robert referred to in the register of Bristol parish, and the old merchant of Petersburg, who was my great-great-grandfather. the first husband of Sarah Crawley, whose will I found in Amelia county, I think, including Thomas. the immigrant, and the merchant of Petersburg, there must have been five generations from 1635 to 1744, a period of a century or more, There is no entry of land by anyone named .. John Chappell" in the seventeenth century, and for this reason it is prohable that John Chappell. who came O'er in the Assurance,' in 1635, died without issue. It is not probable that the mariner. John Chappell,
ever settled in the colony. He prohably returned to England on his ship and died there; nor is there any evidence, so far as I can learn, that he ever made any other voyage to the colony than the one made in
1635.

This theory. as to the descent from Thomas Chappell. and that he <420 VIRGINIA HISTORICAL MAGAZINE.> settled in Charles City county, are more than ever impressed on me from two statements I find in Bruce's /:Economic History 0f Virginia in the Seventeenth Century. On page 75, Vol. II, there is a reference to John Banister, who obtained head rights about 1643. This was probably
the same Lieutenant John Banister, perhaps a kinsman, who left the legacy to Thomas Chappell's child.

Again, on page 521, Vol. II, it is stated that Wm. Barker, a mariner. obtained a patent in 1635 for 400 acres of land (eight head-rights) in Charles City county. It will be observed that Thos. Chappell came
over in the same year on the same vessel, the America, of which Wm. Barker was captain, and it would seem located in the same county in which he (Barker) patented land. While Captain John Chappell, Thos. Chappell, and John, who came in the Assurance, were doubtless all of the same family in England, they may not have been closely related, or else they would not have come over, so near at the same time, in different vessels. I have given as briefly as possible all I know of the history of my people in the colony from 1635 to 1746. It is incomplete and not satisfactory, from the fact that owing to the absence of their wills and settlements of their estates no connection or descent from one generation
to another can be traced, as it can be subsequent to 1746.


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John Banister, Thomas Foote and John Boarham had a patent, dated November 25, 1653, for 350 acres on Horn Harbor creek (Gloucester county), adjoining the lands of Mrs. Morrison, Mr. Armistead, Mr. Hall, Henry Singleton, John Trage, and Edward Morgan. Mrs. Elizabeth Banister had a grant of land in Gloucester in 1679. In the grant reference is made to her son John Banister and her deceased husband John Banister. It might have been supposed that the son was John Banister the naturalist, who lived in Charles City county, were it not for the fact that a fragment of the records of that county has an entry showing that on April 9, 1661, Thomas Chappell appeared in the court of Charles City and acknowledged that he had received from James Wallis, who had married the relict of Lieutenant John Banister, deceased, a legacy which had been bequeathed in Banister's will to a child of Chappell's.]

Thomas married BANNISTER Mary in 1638 in Merchants Hope, Prince George, Virginia, USA. Mary (daughter of Lt. BANNISTER John L. and BOLLING Elizabeth) was born in 1615 in South Hampton, England; died in 1700. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Alt. Death: Early, Georgia
• Alt. Birth: 1622
• Alt. Death: 1661, Merchants Hope, Prince George, Virginia, USA

Notes:

Alt. Death:
Unconfirmed since husband died in Virginia

Notes:

Married:
Married at the Merchant's Hope Plantation

Other Events and Attributes:

• Reference Number: 602
• Land: 1663, Charles City County, VA; Powell Creek - 250 acres
• Land: 1683, Charles City County, VA; 734 acres in Weyanoke Parish
• Land: 1685, Charles City County, VA; 364 acres in Westover Parish
• Court: 1694, Prince George County, VA
• Land: Jun 1699, Dendron, Surry, Virginia, United States; 634 acres on Blackwater Swamp
• Alt. Death: 12 May 1719, Prince George County, VA
• Will: 12 May 1719, Prince George County, VA

Notes:

FAMILY GROUP

HUSBAND
Name: *James /JONES/ [05594]
Birth: Abt 1640, founder of Petersburg, VA
Chr:
Death: 6 Apr 1719, will - "The Chappell Family in Early South Carolina"p9, 4
Burial:
Father:
Mother:

WIFE
Name: *Sarah /LEWIS/ [15830]
Birth: Abt 1642,
Chr:
Death:
Burial:
Father:
Mother:

Child 1
Name: *Elizabeth /JONES/ [00246]
Sex: F
Birth: 1660, Charles City, VA (Prince George Co?)
Chr:
Death: , "The Chappell Family in Early South Carolina"p9, 4
Burial:


James Jones, in his own words If he could speak to us today, James Jones might describe his life as follows.
I was born about 1640 and lived in the part of Charles City County that became Prince George in 1703. Because records of both counties are missing, I can reveal little about my life. Not only was I a "cooper," a maker of wooden barrels, I also owned many slaves to work the 1,100-acre plantation upon which I was taxed in 1704. Since I could not write, Gilbert Hay reduced my desires to a proper will. For example, I identified several slaves by name and told Hay to give the rest to my son James. I was "weak and sick" when Hay, Edward Prince, and Thomas Semple watched me put my proper mark on the paper 6 April 1719. My wife was then Sarah Wallis Mumford, the widow of John Wallis and briefly the wife of James Mumford. I left, "my wife's two sons, two Negro children."Because a Colonial widow had a right to a life-estate in a third of her husband's property, she could choose to accept the terms of the will or take her "thirds," as they called it. I died before 12 May 1719 when Sarah stated she had been justly dealt with and requested my will be probated. Not 2 months later, the court argued that the phrase Hay used, "All the rest and Residue of My personal Estate, goods and chattels whatsoever, I do give and bequeath to my Loving son James Jones, full and sole Executor…," excluded my slaves because they were then real estate. Hay, who knew my intentions, convinced the court to give the rest of the slaves to James anyway. My family includes several congressmen and 4 North Carolina governors.
James and his son of the same name owned Indian slaves. In Aug. 1693 the court Judged Sue, an Indian Girl of James Jones, to be 7, and Sarah, an Indian girl of James Jones Jr. to be 4. The county rewarded him 400 pounds of tobacco for killing two wolves in 1664.
Jones land patents James Jones secured patents to 3 tracts in Charles City County: 250 acres on Powell Creek in 1663, 734 acres in Weyanoke Parish in 1683, and 364 acres in Westover Parish in 1685. His 1683 acquisition was "att a place known as the Devil's Woodyard." He entered and surveyed 634 acres on Blackwater Swamp by June 1699 that he secured with a patent 28 Oct. 1702. It was for 13 headrights including Edward Jones and William Jones. The land appeared to have been partly in Prince George and partly in Surry County.

Who was James' first wife? We do not know the name of James' 1st wife, the mother of his children. She may have been related to the Christopher Lewis of Surry County who named James Jones, "cooper," the executor of his will and left a legacy to James' daughter Mary Jones (will dated 1 Sept. 1673 and proved 20 Oct. 1673). Yet neither the name Christopher nor Lewis appeared in the Jones family.

Will of James Jones 6 April 1719 In the name of God. Amen. I James Jones being weake and sick but of sound and perfect mind and memory, praise be therefor given to Almighty God, doe make and ordain this my present Last Will and Testament in manner and form following, that is to say. First and principally I commend my soul into the hands of Almighty God, hoping through the merritts, Death and passion of my savior Jesus Christ to have full and free pardon and forgiveness of all my sins and to inherit everlasting Life; and my body I commit to the earth to be decently buried at the discretion of my Executor, hereafter named, and as touching the Disposition of all such Temporal estate as it hath pleased Almighty God to bestow upon me I give and dispose thereof as follows: First. I will that my debts and funeral expenses shall be paid and discharged.I will that my loving wife have the Labour of four negroes during her natural life, they are named Will, Robin, Maria and Betty. Provided they are not removed off from the plantation I now live upon, if they are then Immediately to return to my executor, which plantation I will my wife shall live Upon during her life. I give to my wives two sons two negro children, one named James, the other unborn, the first child that either Betty or Maria shall bring to be the other, which two negro children to be Disposed of to my wives two sons as she shall think fitt, the unborn and the born child James to be and remain with their mothers till they come of age of two years and a half year.ntbl My will is Likewise that my wife have during her life what household stuff my executor shall see fitt and that she shall have reasonable maintenance yearly out of my stock. I give to my daughter Mary Dardin my negro man Jo - during her life. I give to my daughter Elizabeth a negro named Hanna to be at her disposal to do as she sees fitt. I give to my daughter Hanna one negro named Jack to be at her disposal at her death or before as she sees fitt. I give to my daughter Rebecca two hundred acres of land, lying in Surry county, beginning from the Swamp up by the Spring, South, to the outline, that to be the head line, to her and her heirs forever. I give to my Granddaughter Eliza Glover one hundred acres of land on the south side of Pond Runn, to her and her heirs forever. I give to my grandson James Jones, this my plantation I live upon after my wifes Decease and all my land in Prince George county, after his father and mothers Decease, to him and his heirs forever. I give to my Grandson Thomas Chappell one hundred acres of land lying in Surry County from the Swamp South, joining upon William Cocke [Cooke] above the outline, to him and his heirs forever. I give to my Granddaughter Jane Cocke [Cooke], daughter of John Cocke [Cooke], on negro named Amy to her and her heirs forever as also one feather bed and bolster, one rug and on blanket, and if the ticke be bad Lett a new ticke be bought, as also two young cows, and young mair, One Iron Pot, two Pewter Dishes and one Doz. Of Spoons. All the rest and Residue of My personal Estate, goods and chattels whatsoever, I do give and bequeath to my Loving son James Jones, full and sole Executor of this my last Will and testament and I do hereby revoke, disanull and make void all former wills and Testaments by me heretofore made. In Witness whereof I the said James Jones to this my last will and testament do set my hand and seal this 6th day of April A.D. 1719. James (X) Jones
James Jones, executor, presented the will a Merchant's Hope 12 May 1719 and Edward Goodrich proved Sarah's letter to the court. & Sarah sued her stepson, James Jones, 8 March 1719/20. &

Land:
250 acres on Powell Creek in 1663
Patent Book 5, page 346

Land:
734 acres in Weyanoke Parish in 1683.
His 1683 acquisition was "att a place known as the Devil's Woodyard."
Patent Book 7, page 329

Land:
364 acres in Westover Parish in 1685
Patent Book 7, page 488

Court:
1694: IN Charles City County, William Harrison attorney for James Jones and Sarah his wife, executrix of James Mumford, dec'd awarded judgment against Capt. Charles Goodrich.

Land:
He entered and surveyed 634 acres on Blackwater Swamp by June 1699 that he secured with a patent 28 Oct. 1702. It was for 13 headrights including Edward Jones and William Jones. The land appeared to have been partly in Prince George and partly in Surry County.
(English Duplicates of lost Virginia Records, (des Cognets) page 64, Patent Book 9, page 497

Will:
Will was filed in Prince George County, Merchant Hope Court on May 12th, 1719

Will of James Jones
6 April 1719 In the name of God. Amen. I James Jones being weake and sick but of sound and perfect mind and memory, praise be therefor given to Almighty God, doe make and ordain this my present Last Will and Testament in manner and form following, that is to say. First and principally I commend my soul into the hands of Almighty God, hoping through the merritts, Death and passion of my savior Jesus Christ to have full and free pardon and forgiveness of all my sins and to inherit everlasting Life; and my body I commit to the earth to be decently buried at the discretion of my Executor, hereafter named, and as touching the Disposition of all such Temporal estate as it hath pleased Almighty God to bestow upon me I give and dispose thereof as follows: First. I will that my debts and funeral expenses shall be paid and discharged. Item. I will that my loving wife have the Labour of four negroes during her natural life, they are named Will, Robin, Maria and Betty. Provided they are not removed off from the plantation I now live upon, if they are then Immediately to return to my executor, which plantation I will my wife shall live Upon during her life. Item. I give to my wives two sons two negro children, one named James, the other unborn, the first child that either Betty or Maria shall bring to be the other, which two negro children to be Disposed of to my wives two sons as she shall think fitt, the unborn and the born child James to be and remain with their mothers till they come of age of two years and a half year. My will is Likewise that my wife have during her life what household stuff my executor shall see fitt and that she shall have reasonable maintenance yearly out of my stock. Item. I give to my daughter Mary Dardin my negro man Jo - during her life. Item. I give to my daughter Elizabeth a negro named Hanna to be at her disposal to do as she sees fitt. Item. I give to my daughter Hanna one negro named Jack to be at her disposal at her death or before as she sees fitt. Item. I give to my daughter Rebecca two hundred acres of land, lying in Surry county, beginning from the Swamp up by the Spring, South, to the outline, that to be the head line, to her and her heirs forever. Item. I give to my Granddaughter Eliza Glover one hundred acres of land on the south side of Pond Runn, to her and her heirs forever. Item. I give to my grandson James Jones, this my plantation I live upon after my wifes Decease and all my land in Prince George county, after his father and mothers Decease, to him and his heirs forever. Item. I give to my Grandson Thomas Chappell one hundred acres of land lying in Surry County from the Swamp South, joining upon William Cocke [Cooke] above the outline, to him and his heirs forever. Item. I give to my Granddaughter Jane Cocke [Cooke], daughter of John Cocke [Cooke], on negro named Amy to her and her heirs forever as also one feather bed and bolster, one rug and on blanket, and if the ticke be bad Lett a new ticke be bought, as also two young cows, and young mair, One Iron Pot, two Pewter Dishes and one Doz. Of Spoons. All the rest and Residue of My personal Estate, goods and chattels whatsoever, I do give and bequeath to my Loving son James Jones, full and sole Executor of this my last Will and testament and I do hereby revoke, disanull and make void all former wills and Testaments by me heretofore made. In Witness whereof I the said James Jones to this my last will and testament do set my hand and seal this 6th day of April A.D. 1719. James (X) Jones

James Jones, executor, presented the will a Merchant's Hope 12 May 1719 and Edward Goodrich proved Sarah's letter to the court. & Sarah sued her stepson, James Jones, 8 March 1719/20.

James married LEWIS Sarah in 1665 in Prince George County, VA. Sarah (daughter of LEWIS Christopher and EXTON Anne) was born about 1642 in Prince George County, VA; died in 1725 in Charles City County, VA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Alt. Name: Rebecca
• Alt. Birth: 1650, Prince George County, VA

Notes:

We do not know the name of James' 1st wife, the mother of his children. She may have been related to the Christopher Lewis of Surry County who named James Jones, "cooper," the executor of his will and left a legacy to James' daughter Mary Jones (will dated 1 Sept. 1673 and proved 20 Oct. 1673). Yet neither the name Christopher nor Lewis appeared in the Jones family.

Other Events and Attributes:

• Alt. Death: Hopewell, VA
• Reference Number: 604
• Alt. Death: 1655, Charles City County, VA
• Alt. Death: 1658, Charles City County, VA
• Court: 3 Jun 1673, Charles City County, VA; Relict's next husband to pay bill
• Alt. Death: Bef 1689, Charles City County, VA

Notes:

He is the 1st immigrant. Age 23 sailed June 23rd, 1635, for Virginia, on the ship AMERICA, William Barker, master. The AMERICA sailed from Gravesend, England. He took the oath of Allegiance"

Left his lands to his oldest son, 2 breeding cattle to each of his other children, and the rest of his estate to his wife. No names are mentioned. (Charles City Order Book, 1655-1665, pg. 159.

The widow Chappel then married Walter Vernham (Id. pg. 158).

"Southside Virginia Famlies" by John Bennett Brodie

Alt. Death:
Walter Tyler Lott Jr Web Site

Thomas married CHAPPELL -- Unknown Wife -- about 1645. -- and died. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Alt. Birth: Fletching, Sussex, England
• Alt. Death: 3 Jun 1678

John married BOLLING Elizabeth. Elizabeth was born in 1595; died in 1678 in Charles City County, VA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

David married JONES Hannah in 1639 in Dendron, Surry, Virginia, United States. Hannah was born in 1595 in , , , England; and died. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Baptism: 14 May 1581, Stephney, St. Mary, Whitechappel, London, England

Christopher married EXTON Anne on 9 Nov 1618 in London, England. Anne (daughter of EXTON William and ROWE Alice) was born on 15 Jul 1596 in St Mary, Woolnoth, London, England; died in Greenville, Augusta, Virginia, USA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Baptism: 18 Jul 1596, St. Mary, Woolnoth, London, England