BOOTH Agnes

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BIRTH: This mornings column by Virginia Rollings in Daily Press mentions these names which are of interest to us: Agnes Booth born in 1821, daughter of David Booth and his wife, Ann Holloway. Also mentions Beverly Booth living on Queens Creek before 1638. Although some of the names are familiar to me, I could not match the names and dates with your web site. You might want to check these out at www.dailypress.com click Life Today, then click "Cousins are Overlapping and intertwined in settlements south of Jamestown" for the article. Having lived on the Spratley Farm as a child, Shirley remembers the Spratley cemetery in Dendron. ToDo: Check for her grave NOTE: She and Edward are buried at Blandford Cemetery in Petersburg, VA. (Verified)

Cousins are overlapping and intertwined in settlements south of Jamestown December 3, 2005 How many cousins are there in the area south of Jamestown, where families settled soon after the first colonists arrived in 1607? The settlers owned adjacent farms and attended church together, and - during the passage of eight or 10 generations - their families intertwined as sons and daughters married. Cousins are plentiful.

The pedigrees of James Tredway Spratley of Newport News and his wife, Lois Millard Sessions Spratley, include scores of Colonial names, some of them identical. Lois descends from the Sessions family, which resided in New England by 1630 and moved south in 1692, building the Sessions House at Yorktown. Marriages in subsequent generations connected the Sessions to Virginia names found in both Lois' and James' lineages.

Spratleys were at Archers Hope and were connected to prominent early Puritans in Nansemond and to several Quaker families who found a refuge in Nansemond in the 17th century. They soon founded towns near the Blackwater with the biblical names of Corinth, Jerusalem and Antioch and the more profane Sedley.

Spratley's father, Garnett Leigh Spratley, born in 1883, married Almeda Tredway of Chatham. Garnett's father, Robert J.J. Spratley, son of Edward Evans Spratley and Agnes Booth, compounded cousins when around 1880 he married Grie Land Spratley, a daughter of Stith Spratley and Urania Clarke. They are buried in the Spratley Cemetery in Dendron near the Spratley homeplace. Urania's parents were Col. James Clarke and Virginia Maynard, who lived at ancient Oakhill near the Rolfe House in Surry.

The Hart ancestry in Dendron added many branches to the tree when Stith's father, John "Jack" Spratley, born in 1797, married Sally Hart. Surry Courthouse records of about 1650 show litigation between Henry Hart and Thomas Rolfe, son of Pocahontas, who returned from England at about age 30 to find buildings on land in Surry that he had inherited.

Agnes Booth, born in 1821, mother of Edward Evans Spratley, was the daughter of David Booth and his wife, Ann Holloway. Beverly Booth was living on Queens Creek before 1638. Holloways received land grants in Isle of Wight, York, the Eastern Shore and Surry. John Holloway received an addition, in 1642, to his lands in Northampton County. York County land attracted hundreds of Eastern Shore fishermen and farmers after the Revolution, when some Tories moved away. Spratley Quaker ancestors with birth, marriage, and death dates are in Vol. VI of William Wade Hinshaw's Quaker records.

The Spratley embrace of Southside families includes the long lines of Hargrave, Bray and Hartwell. James Tredwell Spratley's maternal grandfather, James Lewis Tredway, married Almeda Hargrave, daughter of Jesse Hamlin Hargrave, son of George Hargrave and Susan Hamlin. Born in 1822 in Sussex County, Jesse Hamlin Hargrave added untold cousins when he married Ruth Thomas Hunt, daughter of Capt. John Hunt and his wife, Sallie Tate.

Richard Hargrave Sr. came from London to Lower Norfolk in 1634 and claimed 150 acres near the Nansemond River. His son, Richard Hargrave Jr., married Pembroke Pead and the couple moved to Surry about 1683. In his will, dated 1704, Richard named three children, Judith, wife of James Lowery, and sons, Bray and Lemuel Hargrave.

Lemuel's will, probated in Surry in 1742, named sons Jesse, Benjamin (deceased), Joseph, grandson Samuel Hargrave and son-in law Anslem Bailey Jr. Joseph, "a wealthy Quaker" in Surry, named sons and daughters in his will, including Jesse Hargrave, who inherited 440 acres in Sussex and fathered nine children. His son George was born in 1776. Revolutionary War and Civil War records include information about several Hargraves.

The Seward/Spratley/Evans Bible names the great-great grandfather of James Tredway Spratley, William Hartwell Spratley who married Dollie Evans. His son, Edward Evans Spratley, born in 1820, was the father of Robert James Joseph Spratley, born in 1853. His son, Garnett Leigh Spratley, who died in 1976, was the father of James Tredway Spratley. One Spratley Bible filmed in 1994 in the Isle of Wight Library and additional Spratley records may be researched in the Isle of Wight County Library.

Agnes married SPRATLEY Edward Evans, Sr. on 19 Feb 1849 in Dendron, Surry, Virginia, United States. Edward (son of SPRATLEY William H.) was born on 5 May 1820; died on 29 Jul 1893; was buried in Petersburg, VA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

William married SPRATLEY Virginia C on 17 Nov 1875 in Surry County, VA. Virginia (daughter of SPRATLEY Bickerstith E. and CLARKE Urania Mary) was born on 20 Aug 1848 in Surry County, VA; died on 25 Nov 1944 in Surry County, VA; was buried in Petersburg, VA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]