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In 1676 he was elected and appointed Colonel of Militia for Gloucester Co. John Smith of Purton was Lieutenant Colonel. John Lewis was Major and Philip Lightfoot, Captain. (Hening's Statutes, Palmer's State Papers, Mills' Carotoman. )
LEWIS.
It has been stated that Chancellor and Colonel John Lewis married Elizabeth Warner, sister of Mildred Warner. who married Laurence Washington, and of Mary Warner, who married John Smith, of Purton.
The Lewises of Eastern Virginia are of Welsh origin. Their ancestor, General Robert Lewis, of Beacon, Wales, came to Gloucester in 1650 with a grant from the King of 33,3331/3 acres of land. Robert Lewis had sons, John and Charles. John Lewis and his wife, Lydia, had a son John, who married Elizabeth, daughter of Col. Augustine Warner of Gloucester Co., and built Warner Hall. They had a son, John Lewis, who, with his wife Frances, were parents of Col. Fielding Lewis, who married twice: first. Catherine Washington (aunt of Gen'l George Washington ). They were married in 1746. Issue :
I. John Lewis, b. June 22, 1947.
II. Francis Lewis, b. Nov. 26. 1748. and died s. p.
III. Warner Lewis, b. Nov. 22, 1749, and d. Dec. 3. 1:65.
John Lewis married, second, Elizabeth Washington (sister of Gen'l George Washington). They were married May :. 1750. and had issue :
I. Fielding Lewis, b. Feb. 14, 151.
II. Augustine Lewis, b. Jan. 22. 1752.
III. Thomas Lewis, b. June 24, 1:55: d. in infancy.
IV. George Lewis, b. March 14. 1152. Capt. Third Cavalry Dragoons, Jan. 1, 1121. He married Miss Catherine Daingerfield of "Coventry." Spottsylvania Co .. Va.
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V. Mary Lewis, b. April 22, 1759; d. Dec. 25, 1759.
VI. Charles Lewis, b. Oct. 3, 1760.
VII. Samuel Lewis, b. May 14, 1763; d. Sept. 3, 1764.
VIII. Elizabeth Lewis, b. Feb. 23, 1765. Married Charles Carter, of Culpeper Co., Va.
IX. Lawrence Lewis, b. April 4, 1767. Married Mollie Carter, Gen'l Washington's adopted daughter. He was the grandfather of Andley Lewis, of Clarke Co., Va., also of Edward Parke Custis Lewis, who, in 1886, was Minister of Portugal.
X. Robert Lewis, b. June 25, 1769. Married Miss Brown.
XI. Howell Lewis, b. Dec. 12, 1771. Married the beautiful Miss Pollard.
John, son of "Col. Fielding" Lewis, by his first marriage, b. June 22, 1747, married five times. The first two wives were the Misses Thornton, granddaughters of his great-aunt, Mildred Washington, by her first husband, Roger Gregory; and his fifth and last marriage was to her great-granddaughter, by her second husband, Col. Henry Willis.
As said. the first two wives were the Misses Thornton ; the third wife was a daughter of Gabriel Jones, the celebrated valley lawyer; the fourth wife was a Mrs. Armistead, b. Fontaine (of a Huguenot family) ; the fifth wife was the widow Mercer, b. Mildred Carter, daughter of Landon Carter. Her first husband, Robert Mercer, was the son of the Princeton hero; her mother was a daughter of Col. Lewis Willis.
George Lewis, of the second marriage of Col. Fielding Lewis with Elizabeth Washington, was Captain in Baylor's Regiment, Washington's Life Guard. He was promoted major, d. 1821. Married (October 15, 1779) Catherine Daingerfield, daughter. of William and Mary Daingerfield, of Coventry. She was born June 25. 1764.
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CHAPTER II
THE WARNER-SMITHS OF PURTON.
('apt. John Smith, of "Purton," b. 1662. d. 1698, married ( Feb. 12. 1680) Mary, daughter of Col. Augustine Warner, of "Warner Hall," Gloucester County, Va.
This is the only one of the children of the first John Smith. of Purton (i. e., Col. John Smith who married Anne Bernard), who attained historical prominence in the Colonial Records of Virginia.
Prof. Lyon G. Tyler, President of William and Mary College, and Editor of the Quarterly, in various numbers of the magazine has given particulars concerning the history of his ancestral home, "Purton," and of the connection of this John Smith with the origin and earliest history of William and Mary College. From these articles, and various other sources, this statement is written.
A view of the house at "Purton." was taken when the property was neglected and very much out of repair. Its appearance and surroundings were very different when it was the residence of Capt. John Smith.
The bay, also, has shoaled up since that period, and navigable waters have become reed- and grass-grown shallows. But still the bluff and water shows that it was once a beautiful location for a residence.
(These pictures are reproduced from the William and Mary Quarterly, Vol. X. No. 1.)
Capt. John Smith held his title from his position in the Provin- cial Militia. He was vestryman of Petsworth Parish, in October, 1691. An order was entered in the vestry book concerning £10 left by him for the poor. Under date October 1, 1701, it is stated "Madam Mary Smith" left a legacy of £5 to be distributed among the poor.
"Purton" occupied the site of the romantie incident connected with the rescue of the great explorer, Capt. John Smith, by Poca- hontas; but afterwards the Indians deserted the place and in 1614, when Strachey wrote. the Indian head war-chief Powhatan
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had retired to a location called Orapaks, at the head of the Chicka- hominy River.
The strenuous life of the Colonists of that period left little room for idealism, and with no great ruins left to preserve the location of their "Meeting Place," there was nothing else to make the first historians of the colony very exact in defining its location.
Robert Tyndall drew a chart in 1608. On this chart "Poetan." situated on "Portan Bay," about eleven miles from West Point, appears as the capital town. It is marked on the chart by four wigwams, whereas the other Indian towns are represented by one only. No other location is shown as "Werowocomoco." This last is merely a descriptive name, meaning "the town of the Wero- wance" or "Capital." The terminal means "council," "conference," "meeting," "assembly," as used as "Matcha-comoco,"-a grand council.
"Poetan" is merely another spelling of "Powhatan," and this was, doubtless, the real name of Powhatan's residence, the princi- pal meeting place of the tribe or nation of Indians of which Pow- hatan was the chief or king.
There have been various spellings of the word Poetan; Porton, Portan, Purtan, Purton : the place still goes by the name to this day. In 1608, Tyndall called it "Poetan." In 1673, Hermann called it "Porton." In 1751, Fry and Jefferson called it "Portan." In 1807, Dr. Madison used the same spelling. The present Coast and Geodetic Survey uses "Purtan." In 1661, York County re- cords "Purton," and in Hening's Statutes, 1663, when the resi- dence of Col. John Smith, Speaker, it had the same spelling.
It was at Poplar Spring on this estate, that in 1663, a conspiracy was concocted by ex-soldiers of Oliver Cromwell's army, to destroy the Royalists and take possession of the country; but the plot was disclosed by one of their number, "Birkenhead," a servant of John Smith of "Purton," and nipped in the bud by the Royal Governor, Sir William Berkeley.
The explorer, Capt. John Smith, "Admiral of New England," says in one place that Werowocomoco was twelve miles from Chis- kiack. In this statement William Strachey, the secretary to Lord de la Warre, agrees. Chiskiack was a region above Yorktown, the locality of which is definitely fixed. It was an Indian town, and the parish established on its site was first called Chiskiack
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Parish, and afterwards Hampton Parish, extending, as the record shows, from Yorktown Creek to Queen Creek. The Indian town of Chiskiack was nearly opposite to Carter's Creek, and was about twelve miles from Purton.
Purton estate contained 1665 acres and was bounded by Broad C'reek, York River and Poropotank or Adam's Creek.
Another chart given by Dr. Brown in his "Genesis of the United States," was found in the Spanish archives, and is supposed to have been the one sent to England in 1608, with Explorer Smith's "News from Virginia." This chart shows about eleven miles from West Point, and twelve miles from Chiskiack, a bay "Werowoco- moco." Below Werowocomoco on the same side of the river are two Indian towns "Cappahowsack" and "Cautaunteck." There is to this day a wharf on the north side of York River called "Cappahosick" (Cappahowsack). evidently marking the old Indian district of that name which lay between Werowocomoco and Timberneck Creek.
It was this district of "Cappahosick" that Powhatan offered to sell to Smith for "two great guns and a grindstone." Werowoco- moco was above it.
The connection of Capt. John Smith, of Purton, with the origin and establishment of William and Mary College, is shown by the manuscript of the Bristol Record Office (W. & M. Quar., Vol. VII, No. 3.)
The initiative was taken in a petition of the clergy "humbly presented to the consideration of the next General Assembly, for the founding a College, 1690."
Commissioners were appointed to solicit subscriptions, and among them we find Capt. John Smith.
The names of these solicitors supposed to include those most actively interested in the advancement of education in 1690. were:
Mr. James Blair, Commissary ; Captain William Randolph. Colo- nel Edward Hill, Mr. Francis Eppes. Captain Joseph Foster. Mr. Patrick Smith, Minister of Southwark; Mr. Benjamin Harrison. Mr. Henry Baker, Colonel Thomas Milner, Colonel Joshna Lawson. Colonel Lemuel Mason. Mr. Samnel Ebon, Minister of Bruton : Edmund Jennings, Esq. Captain Francis Page. Mr. Henry Hart- well, Mr. William Sherwood. Captain Henry Duke, Mr. Dewel Pead. Minister of Middlesex: Mr. Christopher Robinson, Mr.
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John Buckner, Major Lewis Burrell, Colonel Philip Lightfoot, Major Henry Whiting, Captain John Smith, Mr. Thomas Foster, Colonel Richard Johnson, Mr. William Leigh, Mr. John Farne- fold, Minister of Bowtracy; Captain George Cooper, Mr. Christo- pher Neale, Captain William Hardwick, Captain Lawrence Wash- ington, Colonel William Fitzhugh, Captain William Ball, Captain John Pinkard, Mr. Robert Carter, Captain William Lee, Mr. Teagle, Minister of Accomac;' Colonel Daniel Jenifer, Colonel Charles Scarborough, Colonel John West, and Captain John Carter.
Jointly and severally to procure as many subscriptions, gratui- ties, and benevolences as you can, within this Colony of Virginia, towards the defraying the charge (cost) of the said buildings, hoping if it shall appear by the largeness and the number of the said subscriptions, that the people of the country intend seriously and sincerely to advance so good a work, that then it will meet with no obstruction, neither from their Majesties, nor from the General Assembly, but will be duly carried on and receive all legal approbation and encouragement.
Given under my hand and seal, this 25th day of July (in ye 2d year of their gracious Majesties' reign), A. D. 1690.
FRANCIS NICHOLSON.
Governor Nicholson was very enthusiastic in the scheme for a college, and imparted his enthusiasm to the General Assembly and Council. So Mr. James Blair, Commissary, was sent to England, duly appointed by the Governor, Assembly, Council, and Clergy of Virginia, to solicit the influence of the clergy and merchants and through them to their Majesties and Ministers, and if possible secure a favorable charter.
Commissary Blair seems to have been well qualified for the task given him. He first secured the approval and powerful influence of the Lord Bishop of London, the Archbishop of Canterbury, and the higher clergy and leading merchants of London, so that there was no unnecessary delay in the negotiations, and the favorable action of the privy council of Queen Mary, and at her request even that of King William was obtained, and the charter of "Their Majesties' Royal College of William and Mary" was issued under the seal. of the privy council on the 2d of February, 1693.
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This college was the first corporation in America to be recog- nized by the royal will. It was the first English college to receive from the College of Heralds, in 1694, a coat of arms.
Among the clauses which Commissary Blair was instructed to have incorporated in the Charter of the College, the following are interesting in connection with this chapter:
5. Pray that the free school and college be erected and founded on the south side of York River upon the land late of Col. Townsend, deceased, now in the possession of JJohn Smith, and near to the port appointed in York County.
7. Pray that the school and college be founded in the names of the Hon. Francis Nicholson, Esq., William Cole, Esq., Ralph Wormeley, Esq .. William Byrd, Esq., John Lear, Esq., Mr. James Blair, Mr. John Banister, Mr. John Farnifold, Mr. Stephen Fonace, Nathaniel Bacon, Esq .. John Page, Esq .; Thomas Milner, Gent., Christopher Robinson, Gent., Charles Scarbrough, Gent., John Smith, Gent., Benjamin Harrison. Gent., Miles Cary, Gent., Henry Hartwell, Gent.
8. Pray that the said Founders may be also made Governors of the lands possessions, revenues and goods of the school and college.
11. Pray that the Governors and their successors may have the power from time to time to nominate and appoint to all places and preferment within the said school and college and to supply (fill) the said places in case of vacancy by death, resignation, deprivation. or otherwise.
These instructions were signed, Francis Nicholson, by Wm. Cole, Secy., by order of the Burgesses, Thomas Milner, Speaker: and endorsed, General Assembly of Virginia, Instructions to Mr. James Blair, May, 1691.
The Council of the King and Queen of England assembled at the Court, Whitehall, September 1st, 1692. Present : The Queen's most Excellent Majesty.
It was ordered by her Majesty, in Council, that the memorial for the free school and college in Virginia be approved, except the last clause thereof concerning escheats.
And that the sum of £1985, 14, 10, mentioned in the first clause be applied towards the building of a free school and college, and to no other purpose.
The following report made to the Governor in reply to his letter of 24th March, 1695, certifies that the Trustees and Governors of the College had completed the walls of two sides of the designed square of the college to the roof. and that the work and furnishing
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of the college was almost stopped through lack of money. Con- sequently the Governor had thought it best to send Mr. Blair to England to procure what assistance he could to finish it.
This report is signed: Stephen Fonace, Rector; Francis Nichol- son. William Byrd, James Blair, Charles Scarburg, John Smith, Benjamin Harrison, Miles Cary. William Randolph, Matthew Page.
The last time Capt. John Smith of Purton appears is on a docu- ment dated in pencil, June, 1696.
It is an address from the Governor of the College to "The King's most excellent Majesty.". congratulating him upon the suppression of the rebellion and renewing protestations of their loyalty and obligations as the royal founder and bountiful benefactor of the rising college.
This address is signed by : John Smith, Rector; Philip Ludwell, Daniel Parke, Francis Nicholson, Mathew Page, W. Edwards, Lewis Burwell, William Fitzhugh, R. Womeley, William Byrd. James Blair, Benjamin Harrison, Miles Cary.
There was another John Smith associated with the college matters in signing affidavits, etc., in 1705, but it was not Capt. John Smith of Purton, who died in 1698.
General John Smith, of "Hackwood Park," Frederick Co., Va., copied into the family Bible of one of his nieces from the original Purton family Bible of Capt. John Smith and Mary Warner, the following list of the births and marriages of the children of that family. The original was written in quaint language, with con- tracted words which have been changed to the present form in copying :
Capt. John Smith, of "Purton," born at "Purton," Gloucester County, 1662, son of Colonel John Smith, Speaker House of Bur- gesses, and Anne Bernard, his wife, both of "Purton"; died at "Purton," 14th April, 1698. He was trustee and governor of William and Mary College from the date of its charter until his death. He married, 17th February, 1680, Mary, daughter of Col. Augustine Warner, of Warner Hall, Gloucester County, Va., Speaker House of Burgesses, and his wife Mildred Reade. Mrs. Mary Smith died Nov. 12, 1700. They had issue :
I. Mildred Smith, b. 20th February, 1681 or '82, it being Monday, about a quarter before nine in the morning, and was married to Robert Porteous, 17th August, 1700.
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11. Mary Smith, b. 29th April, 1684, about one o'clock in the morning, it being Tuesday, and died 16th June, 1684.
III. John Smith, of "Purton," b. 18th July, 1685, about a quarter after one in the morning, it being Saturday, and married Ann Alexander, Oct. 8, 1711. John Smith died 1712.
IV. Augustine Warner Smith, of "Shooter's Hill." b. 16th June, 1689, about 12 o'clock in the night, it being Thursday, and married Sarah Carver, 9th Sept., 1711. V. Elizabeth Smith, b. 25th May, 1690, about 8 o'clock in the evening, it being Sunday. She was married, first, April, 1708, to Henry Harrison.
VI. Philip Smith, b. 1st June, 1695, at a quarter past two in the morning, it being Saturday. He married, 9th Feb., 1711, Mary Mathews. He inherited "Fleet's Bay," Northumberland County.
VII. Ann Smith, b. 2d Nov., 1697, about half past five in the evening, it being Saturday. There is no further entry in regard to this child. The father dying in April, 1698, and the mother in Nov., 1700, it is probable the child died young and unmarried, as, if living, she would have been adopted into the family of Shootre's Hill or Fleet's Bay.
Mildred Smith married Robert Porteous, 17th August, 1700.
Robert Porteous was vestryman in Petsworth Parish, in 1704, and a member of the Council. Mildred Smith died shortly after their marriage and bore no children. Robert Porteous married. second, Elizabeth, daughter of Col. Edmund Jenings, of Gloucester County. She bore him nineteen children, and died Jan. 20, 1754, aged 60 years. Robert Porteous returned to England with his second wife. His youngest son, Beilby Porteous (born in York. England, May, 1731), on May 14, 1808, became Bishop of Chester (see Chambers' Biographical Dictionary). Elizabeth (Jenings) Porteous was buried at St. Martin's, Cony St., York, England (Jening's pedigree, N. Y. Curio) .
In the Cathedral, Ripon, there is an inscription on the wall to the memory of Col. Robert Porteous.
Frances Jenings, another daughter of Col. and Gov. Edmund Jenings, married Col. Charles Grymes, of Richmond County.
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John Smith, of "Purton." third of the name and estate, and Ann Alexander, were married October 8, 1711. John Smith, b. July 18, 1685; d. 1712. Ann Alexander, b. about 1690; d. about 1726. They had one child :
John Smith, b. December 17, 1712. He made his will May 10, 1735, and shortly afterwards died, unmarried. He was affianced to Mary Willis, daughter of Col. Francis, and he willed to her his estate, "Purton." In 1736, Mary Willis was married to Col. Lewis Burwell, "President of His Majesty's Council in the Colony of Virginia." Lewis Burwell was prominent as a scholar and literateur. He was a member of the House of Burgesses, and was appointed to the King's Council in 1743, and was President of that body and acting Governor of the Province when he died in 1750. He was the son of Major Lewis Burwell, who also was a member of the King's Council for a number of years, and who married Abigail Smith, a niece of Nathaniel Bacon.
The wife of Nathaniel Bacon was Elizabeth, daughter of Edward Kingswell, of King's Mill, which name is preserved as the name of a wharf on the site of the original plantation which descended to Bacon, and, he being childless, to his niece. Abigail Smith.
ANN ALEXANDER.
In the London Register of the Harleian Society we find the following entries :
I. "John Buckner, of St. Sepulchre's, citizen and Salter, of London, Bachelor, about 31. Married (July 10, 1661) Deborah Ferrers, or West Wickham, Buckinghamshire, spinster, about 19, with consent of her mother, widow, now wife of Andrew Hunt, of the same, at West Wick- ham.
I. "Philip Buckner. Married Elizabeth Sadler, July 15, 1667, at St. James, Clerkenwell."
These were probably the emigrants to Virginia. These pioneers of the Buckner family lived first in Gloucester and afterwards in Stafford County.
John Buckner, the immigrant, was the first man to use a print- ing press in Virginia. He employed William Nuthead to print the laws of the General Assembly, which was begun June 8, 1680.
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On February 21, 1682-3, he was called before Lord Culpepper and the Council for not getting His Excellency's license. There- upon he and his printer were ordered to give bond in £100 not to print anything thereafter until His Majesty's pleasure should be known.
The order was read in the Committee of Trade, in England, on September 29, 1683, and thereupon it was decided that "Lord Howard should have all necessary orders that no person be per- mitted to use any printing press in Virginia upon any occasion whatever."
In 1690 Lord Howard was granted instructions that "noe persons should use any press for printing without the government's special lincense." (Sainsbury Manuscripts; William and Mary Quarterly, Vol. VII, No. 1.)
John Buckner died before February 10, 1695, because on that date an inventory of his property and effects was filed. John Buckner by his wife, Deborah Ferrers, had issue four sons :
I. William Buckner.
II. Thomas Buckner.
III. John Buckner.
IV. Richard Buckner.
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Philip Buckner patented lands south of the Rappahannock in 1672 and names in his will (dated November 21, 1699, and proved in Stafford County April 10, 1700) sons Robert and Andrew.
William Buckner, magistrate, Burgess of York County, Deputy Surveyor General for the College, died at Yorktown. Married Catherine Ballard, and had issue William and John, both under age at the date of their father's will, which was proved May 21, 1716.
Thomas Buckner.
John Buckner. There is a deed recorded in Essex County of Ann Buckner, of Gloucester, dated July 17, 1727, which names sons John and William, and their father John. Concerning this last-named John Buckner, son of John and Ann, there is a deed : dated November 5, 1773, recorded in Stafford County, from Buckner Stith, Sr., of Brunswick County, to his eldest son Robert Stith. This deed recites that John Buckner, Gent., late of York County, willed land in St. Paul's Parish, Stafford County, to his
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nephew, John Stith (who died May 28, 1773), which land came by a devise in said will to said Buckner Stith as his heir.
Richard Buckner, Clerk of Essex County 1703, Clerk House of Burgesses 1713, father of William Buckner, of Caroline County (Critic).
Thomas Buckner married Sarah, daughter of Francis Morgan, of Gloucester, who was the son of Francis Morgan of York County. They had issue :
I. Thomas Buckner.
II. Col. Samuel Buckner.
Anne, another daughter of Francis Morgan, of Gloucester County, married Dr. David Alexander, and they had issue :
I. Anne Alexander. Married, first (Oct. 8, 1711), John Smith, of "Purton"; married, second (Nov. 2, 1714), Col. Henry Willis, of Fredericksburg.
Thomas Buckner married Mary Timison, daughter of Samuel Timison, and granddaughter of Baldwin Mathews, who was the grandson of Gov. Samuel Mathews. They had issue:
I. Baldwin Mathews Buckner. Married Dorothy (d. 1757), daughter of Col. Samuel Buckner and Anne, his wife. Col. Samuel Buckner and Anne, his wife, had three children :
I. Dorothy Buckner. Married Baldwin Mathews Buckner.
II. Mary Buekner. Married Charles Minn Thruston.
III. Elizabeth Buckner. Married Col. William Finnie.
Ann Alexander, by her first marriage to John Smith, of "Pur- ton" (Hen .. Stat., V, 397; VIII, 663), born December 17, 1712, died shortly after the making of his will, May 10, 1735. By a deed (October 7, 1767) from William Daingerfield, Jr., of Spottsyl- vania County, Gent., and his wife Mary, daughter and heir of John Willis, Gent., deceased, and niece and heir of Henry Willis, late of Spottsylvania County, deceased, to Larkin Chew, recites : That John Smith, Gent., of Gloucester County, being in his life- time and at his death seized of 3,333 acres of land in Spottsylvania, where the said William Daingerfield now lives, did by his will, dated May 10, 1735, make a residuary elause, item : "I give to my grandmother, Anne Alexander [Anne Morgan, wife of David Alexander], all my other lands not bequeathed, negroes, money, stock, ete., during her life, and after her death to my brother, Henry Willis [son of Anne ( Alexander) Smith, his mother and
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Henry Willis, her second husband], and his heirs, but in case he dies without issue, to my brother, John Willis" [brother of Henry, last named]. "and soon after making said will the said John Smith died, and the aforesaid tract passed to Anne Alexander. his grand- mother, and was enjoyed by her during the remainder of her life. and after her death the said Henry" [son of Anne Alexander and her second husband. Col. Henry Willis] "inherited it and was seized as a tenant entail, and the said Henry Willis dying without heir or heirs of his body, the estate entail came to his brother. Jolin Willis, who also died, and the estate descended to Mary Willis. now Mary Daingerfield, daughter and heiress of the said John Willis."
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