BINFORD Elizabeth --LNU--

Elizabeth married BINFORD James about 1695 in Charles City County, VA. James (son of BINFORD Anthony and DYE Elizabeth) was born in 1671 in Charles City County, VA; died in 1705 in Prince George County, VA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

John married MOSBY Agnes on 12 Sep 1719. Agnes and died. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

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

Notes:

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

Residence:
per marriage records

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

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

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

Pricella married WATKINS Benjamin in 1754. Benjamin and died. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

SUPPLEMENT TO BINFORD FAMILY GENEALOGY
7. James, John, Thomas and Peter in 1781 gave cattle, corn, oats, furniture, bedding, etc., for supplying
the army in the Revolutionary War. This gives most Binfords a right to the order of D.A.K