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Family: MERIWETHER Nicholas, Sr. / MERIWETHER Mrs. --FNU-- --LNU-- (F725)

• Male MERIWETHER Nicholas, Sr.

  
  

  Birth	Abt 1631	Kent County, Great Britain
  Death	19 Dec 1678	Jamestown, James City Cty, Virginia
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  Marriage	1661	Greenville, Augusta, Virginia, USA
  Other Spouse	WOODHOUSE Elizabeth | F724
  Marriage	Abt 1664	Greenville, Augusta, Virginia, USA
  Father	MERIWETHER Francis | F4256 Group Sheet
  Mother	CRAWFORD Alice | F4256 Group Sheet

  
  

  Female MERIWETHER Mrs. --FNU-- --LNU--

  
  

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• Notes

  Married: Marriage 1 Spouse Unknown      Married: ABT 1661 in Virginia      Note: This marriage is speculative, based on several factors.      Note: There is speculation, but no direct evidence, that Nicholas married twice and that his oldest child, Elizabeth, was the daughter of the first wife. This speculation is based on several indirect lines of evidence. First, we know that Nicholas, at the time of his death, was indeed married to an Elizabeth. She later remarried Col. William Browne and had a child, also named Elizabeth. This child was named by Henry Hartwell as "a niece of my wife...", along with all the other children of Nicholas except the first child, Elizabeth (Meriwether) Clough Clements. Henry Hartwell's wife was Jane (?) White Hartwell, who many early genealogies state was Jane Meriwether, sister to Nicholas. However, if she was sister to Nicholas, Elizabeth Browne, daughter of William Browne and Elizabeth (?) Meriwether Browne, would not be a niece! This strongly suggests that Elizabeth (?) Meriwether Browne and Jane (?) White Hartwell are sisters. It is assumed that Henry Hartwell would not mention Elizabeth (Meriwether) Clough Clements as a niece only because Elizabeth was the daughter of a previous marriage by Nicholas. Additional reasoning can be found in Meriwether Society publications.