Some Emigrants to Virginia
- continued -
CABELL, DR. WILLIAM (1700-1744),
Goochland and Amherst counties; son of
Nicholas Cabell, of Frome, Somerset.
Cabells and Their Kin, 19-21, 63, &c. |
CADE, HENRY (in Virginia 1662, &c.);
son of Walter Cade, who was nephew of
Andrew Cade, Esq., of East Bechworth, Surrey
(who died in 1662).
V. M., XII, 71 |
CAIRON, REV. JEAN (d. 1716), Henrico
county; formerly minister of Carjarc, France.
Huguenot Emigration, 74. |
CALTHORPE, CHRISTOPHER (d. 1662),
York county; son of Christopher Calthorppe,
Esq., of Blakeney, and brother of James
Calthorpe, Esq., of East Barsham, Suffolk.
W. M., II, 106-112-166-164. |
CALVERT, WILLIAM (d. 1666), York county;
had a brother, George Calvert, living
near Newark, Nottinghamshire, and another
brother, Fulke.
York County Records. |
CAMM, REV. JOHN (1718-1779),
York count; son of Thomas Camm, of
Hornsea, Yorkshire.
W. M., IV, 61 |
CAMPBELL, REV. ARCHIBALD (in Virginia
1754, &c), Westmoreland county; son of
Archibald Campbell, of Kirnan, Argyleshire,
Scotland, and his wife Anna Stewart, of
Ascog.
Rd. Standard, April 12, and May 3, 1879. |
CAMPBELL, ALEXANDER (1710-1801),
Falmouth; brother of Rev. Archibald Campbell,
preceding. He returned to Scotland, and
was father of Thomas Campbell, the post.
Rd. Standard, April 12, and May 3, 1879. |
CAMPFIELD, FRANCIS (in Virginia 1662,
&c.), Gloucester county; citizen and grocer, of
London.
V. M., VI, 307 |
CARPENTER, NATHANIEL, King and Queen
county, 1766, &c.; "A Devonshire gentleman,"
brother of Coryndon Carpenter, Esq., of
Launceston, Cornwall.
Wallace's Virginia Historical Magazine - note to
"Fauntleroy Family." |
CARTER, EDWARD (d. 1682), of
Nansemond county, Va.; returned to England, and
at time of death was "of Edmonton county,
Middlesex, Esq."; bequeathed lands in Edmonton
and in Chalfont St. Peter's county Bucks; to be
buried in St. Dunston's in the East, London,
near his former wife, Amie Carter.
Waters' Gleanings. |
CARY, JOHN (b. 1644, living in Surry
county, Va., 1669, &c., but of London in 1700);
son of Thomas Cary, of Bristol.
N. E. H. & G. Reg. |
CARY, MILES (1620-1667), Warwick
county; son of John and Alice (Hobson) Cary,
of Bristol.
Goode's "Virginia Cousins," 281-282 |
CARY, OSWALD (in Virginia 1690, &c.),
Middlesex county; son of James Cary,
merchant, of London.
W. M., IX, 45. |
CARY, WARREN, (in Virginia 1711, &c),
Richmond county; brother of Richard Cary,
of Bristol.
Richmond County Records. |
CATLETT, JOHN (d. 1670),
Sittingbourne Parish, Rappahannock county.
His son, John Catlett, gave power of
attorney to sell lands at Sittingbourne and
Radwlesham (?), Kent, which had been left him by
his father.
V. M., III, 62, 63. |
CAWSON, JONAS (in Norfolk county,
Va., about 1702, &c.); went to school in the
town of Lancaster in 1692. His father
lived a short distance from that town.
Norfolk County Records.
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CAWTHORNE, RICHARD (in Virginia 1681,
&c.), Rappahannock county; son of Richard
Cawthorne, citizen and merchant-tailor, of
London, whose wife, in 1681, was Anne,
formerly widow of Thomas Abrahall,
citizen and skinner, of London.
Middlesex Records. |
CHAMBERLAYNE, THOMAS (in Virginia
1675 &c.), Henrico and Charles City counties;
son of Col. Edmund Chamberlayne, of
Maugersbury, Gloucestershire.
Visitation of Gloucestershire, 1682-3. |
CHAMBERLAYNE, WILLIAM (1699 or
1700-1736), New Kent county; "Descended of an
Ancient and Worthy Family in the County of
Hereford" (epitaph).
Beau Monde, March 31, 1894. |
CHANDLER, DANIEL (in Virginia 1650,
&c.); son of Edward Chandler, of Ware,
Hertfordshire, draper.
V. M., XIII, 309 |
CHAPMAN, RICHARD (in Virginia 1740,
&c.), King William county; from Lincolnshire.
W. M., VI, 60 |
CHEESMAN, JOHN (d. 1665), Elizabeth
City and York counties; at the time of his death
"of St. Mary Magdalen, Bermondsey, Surrey,
gent." ; left property at Braban (Brabourne?),
Kent, and at Southall, Eling, Old Bradford and
New Bradford.
V. M., XIV, 86 |
CHESLEY, PHILIP (d. 1674), York
county; a native of Welford, Gloucestershire.
W. M., I, 86
V. M., XIII, 63 |
CHEYNEY, HENRY (in Virginia 1623),
"of York, merchant."
V. M., XIX, 133. |
CHICHESTER, RICHARD (1657-1734),
Lancaster county; born at Silverton, Devon,
March 5, 1647; came to Virginia 1702; son of
John Chichester of Widworthy (will 1661),
whose great-great-grandfather, John
Chichester of Widworthy, was a son of
John Chichester of Raleigh.
Copies of wills, parish registers, &c., in possession
of Mr. A. M. Chichester.
Hayden's Virginia Genealogies, 93, &c. |
CHICHLEY, SIR HENRY (1615-1683),
Middlesex county; son of Sir Thomas Chichley,
of Wimpole, Cambridgeshire.
V. M., April, 1909 |
CHURCHILL, WILLIAM (1650-1711),
Middlesex county; born at North Aston,
Oxfordshire.
Keith's Ancestry of Benj. Harrison
W. M., VII, 186. |
CLAIBORNE, WILLIAM (1587-1677), New
Kent county, &c.: son of Edmund and Grace
(Bellingham) Claiborne, of Kellerby,
Yorkshire, and Cleborne Hall, Westmoreland.
V. M., I, 313 |
CLACK, REV. JAMES (d. 1723),
Gloucester county; born in the parish of Marden,
Wiltshire; son of William and Mary Clack.
W. M., III, 32. |
CLARKE, CHARLES, (d. 1785),
Cumberland and Powhatan counties; in Virginia
1745. Stated to have been a native of
Surrey. In his will, dated 1763, he makes
provision in case "the estate in England in the
hands of my mother's sister, Mrs. Charity
Kent, widow of Daniel Kent merchant,
formerly of Bell Court, Common Street, London,"
should be recovered.
Powhatan Records. |
CLARKE, JOHN (d. shortly before
1644), York county; son of Sir John Clarke,
of Wrotham, Kent.
W. M., I, 84, 85; XII, 36-37 |
CLARKE THOMAS (d. 1670), York county;
son of Edward Clarke, of Thriploe, near
Foulsmere, Cambridgeshire.
V. M., XII, 178 |
CLAY, FRANCIS. In the "prerogative
Court of Mansfield" (a probate court now
extinct, with the records at Nottingham), is the
bond, dated March 3, 1691, of Daniel Clay,
"late of Chickahomene in Virginia." The
inventory is filed with the bond and states that
Francis Clay was the son of Richard
Clay, deceased. The bond was given
before William Clay, steward of the manor
of Mansfield, who seals with his arms. A
Francis Clay, gentleman, lived in
Northumberland county, Va.; was a J. P. for that
county 1659, &c., and in a desposition made in
1661, when he was aged thirty-four, says he came
to Virginia in 1649.
N. E. H. & G. Reg., Vol. 37, p. 202.
Northumberland County Records. |
CLAYTON, JOHN (1665-1737), Gloucester
county; son of Sir John Clayton, of
London, and of Parsons Green, Fulham.
Wallace's Virginia Historical Magazine. |
CLIFT, WOMBWELL (d. 1737), Hanover
county; "of a good family in Yorkshire."
Virginia Gazette, January 10, 1737. |
CLIFTON, JAMES (in Virginia 1669,
&c.), Stafford county; son of Thomas Clifton,
Esq., of Westby and Clifton, Lancashire.
Burke's Commoners (1835), II, 57, Md. Archives.
Stafford County Records.
V. M., XXII, 424, &c.; XXIII, 316, &c. |
COCKE, MRS. ELIZABETH (in Virginia
1713, &c.), Williamsburg; wife of Dr. William
Cocke, and sister of Mark Catesby,
the English naturalist.
V. M., V, 189, 190; ix, 128 |
COCKE, DR. WILLIAM (1672-1720),
Williamsburg; "born of respectable parents at
Sudbury in Suffolk." (Epitaph.)
Va. Hist. Col., VI, 84, 85. |
CODD, ST. LEGER (d. 1708),
Northumberland county; bequeathed lands at
Wateringbury, Lenham, and Wetchlin (?), Kent.
He was son of William Codd, Esq., of
Pelicans, Kent, who married, in 1632, Mary,
daughter of Sir Warham St. Leger, of
Ulcombe, Kent.
V. M., X, 374; XXIII, 382. |
COGGAN, MRS. FRANCIS (d. 1677),
Charles City county; wife of John
Coggan, and daughter of Gregory Bland
(B. 1587), of St. Gregories, London.
familiae Minorum Gentium.
N. E. H. & G. Reg., Vol. 47, p. 365 |
COKE, JOHN (1704-1767), Williamsburg;
son of Richard Coke (d. 1790), and
grandson of Richard Cole, of Trusley,
Derbyshire.
Coke's "Coke of Trusley."
W. M., VII, 127, 128 |
COLCLOUGH, GEORGE (in Virginia 1658,
&c.), Northumberland county; brother of
Thomas Colclough, merchant, of London.
W. M., XVII, 60 |
COLLIER, WILLIAM (in Virginia 1670,
&c.), York and New Kent counties; formerly
"citizen and weaver, of London."
W. M., VIII, 256 |
COLE, WILLIAM (b. 1597, in Virginia
1618-29, &c.), Nutmeg Quarter; son of Humfrie
Cole, of Tilllingham, Essex, clerk.
V. M., XIX, 189, 190. |
COLTMAN, HENRY (in Virginia 1622,
&c.); son of Ann Coltman, of London,
widow.
W. G., 141. |
COLVILLE, JOHN (d. 1756),
Fairfax county; late of Newcastle on Tyne; made
bequests to his brother Thomas Colville,
with reversion to the Earl of Tankerville, and
states that the Earl was the son of his (J.
C.'s) father's brother's daughter.
Fairfax County Records. |
COLLINS, ROBERT (in Virginia 1623);
"of London, haberdasher."
V. M., XIX, 133. |
COMRIE, MRS. MARGARET (d. January 9,
1739); wife of Dr. William Comrie, of
Hanover county; niece of Mr. Thomas Parratt,
one of the Masters in Chancery (in
England), and sister to Mr. Josias Baintone,
on e of the Six Clerks of that office.
Virginia Gazette, January 15, 1739. |
CONWAY, EDWIN (d. 1675), Northampton
and Lancaster counties; "of Worcestershire."
Hayden's Virginia Genealogies, 225-229 |
CONSTANBLE, ROBERT (in Virginia
1623), James City; "of North Allerton in
Yorkshire, gent."
V. M., XIX, 133. |
COOKE, TRAVERS (d. 1769), Stafford
county; states in his will that there is a large
balance due him from his uncle, Thomas Cooke,
of Youghall, of the Kingdom of Ireland, on
account of the rents and profits of his estate
there.
Stafford Records.
(The will of Thomas Cooke, of Youghall, County
Cort, gent., was proved in Dublin in 1750; that
of John Cooke, of Youghal, Esq., proved
in Dublin in 1713, and also a copy of the will
of John Cooke, of Overwharton parish,
Stafford county, Va., the father of Travers
Cooke, was proved in December, 1735.) |
COOPER, SAMPSON (d. 1659),
Northumberland county; Alderman of Rippon,
Yorkshire.
W. M., XIII, 28. |
CORBIN, HENRY (1629-1675), Middlesex
county; third son of Thomas Corbin, Esq.,
of Hall End, Warwickshire.
"Lee of Virginia," 83.
Corbin Pedigree.
V. M., XVII, 401. |
COSENS, JOHN (d. 1674),
Northumberland county; came to Virginia from
Cudredge (Goodrich?) in the parish of Bishops
Walton, Southampton, where he owned land.
Lancaster Records. |
COTTON, WILLIAM, mariner, (in
Virginia 1659, &c.); son of William Cotton,
who owned a house at Bedminster near Bristol.
W. M., V, 124. |
COTTON, REV. WILLIAM (d. 1646),
Northampton county. His mother Joane
lived at Bunbury, Cheshire.
V. M., IV, 406.
W. M., V., 124. |
CRABBE, JOHN (in Virginia 1623), "of
Bolton in the Moore, Lancashire."
V. M., XIX, 132 |
CRAWLEY, THOMAS (in Virginia 1659),
&c.), old Rappahannock county; son of Robert
and Margaret Crawley, and baptized in the
parish of St. Margaret's, Bristol, August 27,
1637.
Rappahannock Records. |
CRISPE, THOMAS (in Virginia 1621-25),
Elizabeth City; "of the countie of Kent in
England, gent."
V. M, XXIII, 1. |
CROMPTON, THOMAS (in Virginia 1623),
"of Bolton in the Moore, Lankashire."
V. M., XIX, 132 |
CRAIK, DR. JAMES (1730-1784),
Alexandria; son of William Craik, of
Arbigland, near Dumfries, Scotland. (The
father of John Paul Jones was a gardener
at Arbigland.)
Hayden, 341. |
CREFFIELD, EDWARD, JR. (d. 1694).
Gloucester county; son of Edward Creffield,
of Chapel, Essex.
V. M., XIX, 289 |
CREYK, HENRY (1637-1684), Middlesex
county; son of Gregory Creyk, of Marton,
Yorkshire, and his wife Ursula, daughter
of Sir John Legard.
familiae Minorum Gentium, III, 950-952.
Genealogist (N. S., XXIII, 42).
Middlesex Records. |
CROUGH, RICHARD (b. about 1586, in
Virginia 1623), James City county, "of Howton
(Houghton) Bedfordshire, carpenter."
V. M., XIX, 133, 134 |
CULPEPER, ALEXANDER (in Virginia
1672, &c.) In 1672 Governor Berkeley
applied to the English Government for the
appointment of his wife's brother, Alexander
Culpeper, to the office of surveyor general
of Virginia. He stated that Captin
Culpeper was a person who had lived a number
of years in Virginia, and whose father had lost
his estate, liberty, and life in the King's
service.
V. M., I, 83. |
CURLE, THOMAS (1640-1700), Elizabeth
City county; born in the parish of St. Michael,
Lewis, Sussex.
W. M., IX, 125 |
CUSTIS, EDMOND (in Virginia 1690,
&c.), Northampton county; son of Francis
Custis, of Baltimore, Ireland.
Northampton Records. |
CUSTIS, JOHN (in Virginia 1640, &c.),
Northampton county; son of John Custis,
of Rotterdam, Holland, formerly of
Gloucestershire, England.
V. M., VIII, 394. |
CUSTIS, WILLIAM (in Virginia 1640,
&c.), Northampton; brother of John Custis,
preceding.
V. M., VIII, 394. |
DADE, FRANCIS (d. 1663), Stafford
county, 1654, &c.; sixth son of William Dade,
Esq., of Tannington, Suffolk, and his wife
Mary, daughter of Henry Wingfield,
Esq., of Crofield, Suffolk. When
Francis Dade came to Virginia he called
himself for several years Major John Smith.
The reason is unknown; but it was evidently
nothing which prevented him from visiting
England later, as he was returning from a visit
to England when he died at sea in 1663.
Genealogical Memoranda Relating to the Family of
Dade of Suffolk.
Pedigrees from the Visitation of Kent, 1663-68, pp. 97,
98.
Hayden's Virginia Genealogies, 731, &c.
W. M., VIII, 205;
V. M., XX, 210, &c., 323, &c. |
DANIEL, THOMAS (in Virginia 1676,
&c.); son of Ann Jones, widow, of St.
Clements Danes, Middlesex.
W. G., 27 |
DAVISON, CHRISTOPHER (d. before
1624), James City county; son of William
Davison, of Middlesex, Secretary of State to
Queen Elizabeth.
W. M., X, 169 |
DAWSON, OWEN (in Virginia
1623), "of St. Martins in the Fields, joiner."
V. M., XIX, 132 |
DAWSON, MRS. ANNE (in Virginia 1744,
&c.); wife of Benjamin Dawson, of
Virginia, and sister of Francis Brooks,
of Plaistow, Essex, gent.
V. M., XVI, 65. |
DAWSON, REV. THOMAS (d. 1761),
Williamsburg; son of William Dawson, "pleb."
of Aspatria, Cumberland.
W. M., II, 209.
Foster's Oxford Matriculations. |
DAWSON, REV. MUSGRAVE (1723 -
_, Caroline county; brother of Thomas Dawson,
preceding.
W. M., II, 52. |
DAWSON, REV. WILLIAM (d. 1752),
Williamsburg; brother of Thomas Dawson,
preceding.
W. M., II, 51 |
DAVIS, JOHN (d. 1686), Middlesex
county; of Bristol.
Ch. Ch., Middlesex, Parish Register |
DAVY, JOHN (in Virginia 1648, &c.);
son of Simon Davy, and nephew of John
Davy, gent., of Maidstone, Kent.
W. G., 1299. |
DAY, JAMES (d. 1700), Isle of Wight
county; owned two freehold tenements in
Broadstreet in or near Augustine Fryers in the
parish of St. Peter the Poor, London.
W. M., VII, 251 |
DAYNES, WILLIAM (1617-
), in Virginia (Lower Norfolk county) 1655; in
1679-80, of Bristol, merchant. In 1709
Sir William Daynes, of Bristol, made deeds
of Norfolk county - though later than this a
William Daynes, who died in Norfolk county.
Lower Norfolk and Norfolk Records. |
DEANS, JAMES (d. 1762), Chesterfield
county; left £200
to the Infirmary of Aberdeen.
Chestesrfield Records. |
DE GRAFFENREIDT, CHRISTOPHER, JR.
(in Virginia 1722, &c.), Williamsburg and Prince
George County; son of Baron Christopher De.
Graffenreidt, and Regina (Tscharner)
his wife, of Berne, Switzerland.
W. M., XV, 61 |
DELALUA, SOLOMON (d. 1703), Henrico
county; late of Rochelle, France. |
DENNETT, WILLIAM (in Virginia
1641, &c.); fishmonger, of London.
N. E. H. & G. Reg., Vol. 61, p. 199 |
DERICK, HENRY (d. 1677), late of the
parish of St. Stephen's, Bristol.
V. M., XVI, 197, 198 |
DEWALL, EDWARD (d. 1640),
Warwicksqueake county; son of George Dewall,
gent, of Reading, BErkshire. E. D.,
in his will, styles himself servant of Symon
Cornocke, of Warwicksqueake, Va., and leaves his
master an inn, called the Rose, in Reading,
which had been left him by his father.
V. M., XIII, 204 |
DEWS, RICHARD, (d. 1686), Middlesex
county; of Yorkshire.
Ch. Ch., Middlesex, Parish Register. |
DIGGES, EDWARD (1621-1676), York
county; son of Sir Dudley Digges, of
Chilham Castle, Kent; M. P. and Master of the
Rolls, and his wife Mary, daughter and
co-heiress of Sir Thomas Kempe of
Olantigh, Kent.
W. M., I, 87, 140, 141.
Meade, I, 244.
V. M., X, 378; XIV, 305. |
DINWIDDIE, JOHN (d. 1726), King
George county; son of Robert Dinwiddie,
merchant of Glasgow, and brother of Robert
Dinwiddie, Governor of Virginia.
Dinwiddie Papers, I, XXI-XXIII.
King George Records. |
DIXON, JOHN (in Virginia 1729-51, d.
1758), King and Queen county; at time of death
was "of Bristol, Esquire," owned houses and land
at Lateridge in the parish of Iron Acton,
Glaucestershire.
V. M., July, 1911. |
DOGGETT, REV. BENJAMIN (d. 1682),
Lancaster county; had a brother Richard
Doggett, of Ipswich, merchant.
Lancaster Records. |
DONNALLY, JAMES (came to Virginia
1761, alive 1768), Greenbrier county; refers in
a deposition to persons he had known at Belligay,
Donigal, Ireland.
Abstracts of Records of Augusta County, II, 12, 13. |
DONNE, GEORGE (in Virginia 1637,
&c.); baptized May 9, 1605, at Camberwell,
Surrey; son of Dr. John Donne.
Neill's Virginia Carolorum. |
DORMER, SIR FLEETWOOD (in Virginia
1649, &c.); formerly of Arle Court,
Gloucestershire; son of Sir Fleetwood Dormer,
of Lee Grange and Purton, Bucks (who d. 1639)
Burke's Extinct and Dormant Baronetage.
V. M., XIII, 406. |
DOUGLAS, JAMES (1724-
), Prince William county; son of James
Campbell Douglas, of Mains, Scotland, and
brother of Margaret (d. 1774), who
married Archibald, Duke of Douglas.
Hayden, 691.
V. M., XXII, 273, &c., 418 |
DOUGLASS, WILLIAM (d. 1783), Loudoun
county; son of Hugh Douglass, of
Garalland or Garallan, parish of Old Cumnock,
Scotland.
V. M., 336 |
DOWNE, JANE (in Virginia 1653, &c.);
niece of Nicholas Downe, of London, Esq.
(She was probably a daughter of George Downe,
or Downes, of Elizabeth City county,
1632, &c.)
V. M., XXII, 26 |
DOWNES, JOHN (in Virginia 1623), "of
London, grocer."
V. M., XIX, 133 |
DOWTHWAITE, WILLIAM (d. 1659), York
county; brother of Nicholas Dowthwaite,
of Cliffords Inn, gent.
York County Records. |
DOYLEY, REV. COPE (d. 1713),
Williamsburg; son of Charles Doyley,
gent, of Southrup, Gloucestershire.`
V. M., XII, 300,
301. |
DUNCANSON, ROBERT (d. _____),
Fredericksburg; brother of Thos. Duncanson,
surgeon, of Forres, county of Murray, North
Britain (alive 1764).
"Spotsylvania Records," p. 266. |
DUNLOP, WILLIAM (1707-1739), Prince
William county; son of Alexander Dunlop,
Greek Professor in the University of Glasgow.
W. M., XV, 279 |
DYER, JOHN (in Virginia 1623), "of
London, carpenter."
V. M., XIX, 134. |
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