 Abt 1638 - Abt 1695 (~ 57 years)
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| Name |
WOODHOUSE Elizabeth |
| Birth |
Abt 1638 |
| Gender |
Female |
| Death |
Abt 21 Apr 1695 |
Dendron, Surry, Virginia, United States  |
| Burial |
Surry County, VA ("Four Mile Tree") |
| Notes |
- In Surry County Court on 4 March 1678/9, Elizabeth Meriwether was listed as the executrix of Mr. Nicholas Meriwether, deceased. On 13 Jun 1680 in James City, Coll. Browne represented Ni. Meriwether and on 6 July 1680 there is a judgement to Lt. Col. William Browne as marrying the executrix of Mr. Ni. Meriwether which would be Elizabeth Meriwether. In Aug, 1679, she is granted a Commission of Administration for the estate and orphan of Lewis Williams. She is apparently dead by 21 Apr 1695, when Nicholas II and his sister Elizabeth (Meriwether) Clements are appointed administrators of the estate of their brother, William. She is certainly dead by Jan 1695/6, when her son Thomas is assigned a guardian.
In 1899, William Ridgely Griffith stated in his book that he thought Elizabeth's maiden name was Woodhouse(?), daughter of Thomas Woodhouse (a resident of Jamestown and a client of Nicholas Meriwether) but had found no evidence to support this. Most Meriwether genealogies since that time have simply stated she was Elizabeth Woodhouse, daughter of Henry or Thomas Woodhouse. There is no evidence that Thomas Woodhouse ever married, much less had a daughter named Elizabeth. Although Henry did have a daughter named Elizabeth, she is believed to have married Giles Collins. According to annecdotal information collected by the Society, Collins & Woodhouse married abt 1653 and had at least four children. Collins supposedly died about June 1674. This was well after a number of children had been born to Nicholas and his Elizabeth. In addition, no Collins descendants were mentioned in Henry Hartwell's will, though all known Meriwether and Browne descendants of Elizabeth were. These facts strongly indicate that Elizabeth was not the daughter of Henry Woodhouse.
It is likely that Elizabeth was the sister of Jane (?) White Hartwell, wife of William Hartwell. There is some support for their maiden names being May (a partner of Nicholas) or Williams (see above association of Elizabeth with the estate of Lewis Williams).
Marriage 1 Nicholas MERIWETHER b: ABT 1631 in Great Britain
Married: ABT 1664 in Virginia
Note:
The children shown are all proven to have existed by various primary sources. There is a possibility that the mother of the first child, Elizabeth, was not the Elizabeth who was the mother of the remainder of the children.
Many people also claim descent from a David Meriwether, whose daughter Susannah married a Nicholas Catlett about 1669. There is no record that NM1 had a son David and in any event a son of NM1 could not have been old enough to have a daughter of marital age in 1669 (at which time NM1 himself was only 38).See:
150 VIRGINIA HISTORICAL MAGAZINE:
William Browne, Henry Browne, and eleven servants and negroes. It is probable that Colonel William Browne married Mary, daughter and heiress of Colonel Henry Browne, as there is in Surry a deed.
December 3rd, 1695, from William Browne, Jr., son and heir of Mrs. Mary Browne, the only heir of Colonel Henry Browne, deceased.
And yet there is a record in Surry, November 7th, 1682, which states that Lieutenant-Colonel William Browne married the administratrix of Lewis Williams, deceased. On June 9th, 1679, Elizabeth Merriwether was granted administration on the estate of Lewis Williams ( whose wife was named Lucy). Mrs. Merriwether was the wife of Nicholas Merriwether, who, the records show, lived a number of years after 1682.
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| Person ID |
I2146 |
Booth Family |
| Last Modified |
22 Aug 2013 |
| Family 1 |
MERIWETHER Nicholas, Sr., b. Abt 1631, Kent County, Great Britain d. 19 Dec 1678, Jamestown, James City Cty, Virginia (Age ~ 47 years) |
| Marriage |
Abt 1664 |
Greenville, Augusta, Virginia, USA |
| Children |
| | 1. Col MERIWETHER Nicholas, Jr., b. 26 Oct 1667, Dendron, Surry, Virginia, United States d. 12 Dec 1743, North Garden, Albemarle, Virginia, USA (Age 76 years) |
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| Family ID |
F724 |
Group Sheet | Family Chart |
| Last Modified |
6 Apr 2008 |
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 | Marriage - Abt 1664 - Greenville, Augusta, Virginia, USA |
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| Sources |
- [S1044] The Virginia Magazine of History and Biography (Reliability: 3).
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