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XXXi. CAVALIERS AND PIONEERS: ANCIENT PLANTERS: INTRODUCTION
The following list includes those who are known to have come to Virginia before the close of the year 1616, survived the massacre, appear in the Muster of 1624/5 as then living in Virginia, and to most of whom the term "Ancient Planter" may with justification be applied.
Thomas Willoby (Willoughby). Came to Virginia in 1610, aged 9. Lt. and Capt. Commissioner for Elizabeth City. and in 1639 presiding justice of Lower Norfolk. Burgess, 1627/8; Upper Part of Elizabeth Ctiy, 1629/30; 1631/2. Appointed to the Council in 1639. A number of patents issued in his name. In Lower Norfolk Co., Aug. 16, 1658, a commission of administration was granted to Mr. Tho. Willoughby on the estate of his father Capt. Tho. Willoughby, deceased in England.
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Captain Thomas Willoughby (1601 - 1664) was elected to the House of Burgesses from Elizabeth City in 1632 and from Lower Norfolk County in 1639; helped Henry Sewell establish a church at Sewell's Point in 1640; Thomas2 Willoughby born in 1632, educated in London and was Lieutenant Colonel in Virginia, and Thomas3, of Elizabeth River in County Lower Norfolk, VA, "gentleman, sole son and heir of the Hon. Lieut. Colonel Thomas Willoughby" of the same Parish. The first Thomas Willoughby owned land prior to 1626 and built a manor house in 1635 just north of Mason Creek Road; Willoughby's Point wasn't known as a "Spit" (peninsula) as yet, deemed to be formed in a 1749 hurricane. The estate (360 acres) was sold by heirs in 1826. Willoughby was largely undeveloped until the 1900's, when the Jamestown Exposition of 1907 led to more cottages, the Hampton Roads Yacht Club and a small marina. Willoughby, like Ocean View was annexed by Norfolk in 1923.
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Willoughby takes its name from Captain Thomas Willoughby, who arrived in Virginia in 1610 at the age of nine as a passenger on the ship Prosperous
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The Old Dominion in the Seventeenth Century By Warren M. Billings
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1624 -- Thomas Willoughby granted 500 acres by King James I (present-day Ocean View).
1636 - William Willoughby granted 200 acres by King Charles I (present-day downtown Norfolk).
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His wife was named Alice (last name unknown) and his son, Thomas, was born in 1632 and his daughter, Elizabeth, in 1635. (3) His wife may have been Alice Layton, daughter of John Layton and Ann Burras who were the first English marriage on American soil in 1608 in Virginia. Elizabeth married before her brother, thus she may have been the eldest. This could mean that her father, Thomas married about 1628-1630. Out of an 18 year period, he spent 12 years old of colony. Much time was spent in England and probably Barbados.
on a deposition dated 26 November 1650, he signed it Captain Thomas Willoughby, gentleman, aged 52. He died April 15, 1657 (age 57 or 59) in Al Halowes, Barking, England. (3) (7) He left an estate in Barbados. (7)
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Sainsbury's "Calendar of Colonial State Papers" (vol. i.) a certificate, dated 1627, by Thomas Willoughby, of Rochester, aged twenty-seven years, in regard to a ship in which he was about to go to Virginia.
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Betty S. Cravens http://genforum.genealogy.com/willoughby/messages/69.html
b. ca 1601, listed as age 23 in muster of 1624/25.
1610 came to VA on the "Prosperous"
1626 -patent granted for 200 acres near mouth Pomunkey River (York)
1627-returned to Eng. on "Peter&John" to acquire goods to bring to VA settlers
1627 return to VA. commanded an attack on Chesapeake Indians. Commander of Maries Mount.
1628 Commissioner of Elizabeth City
1629/30 viewer of Fort at Old Point after being built by Samuel Matthews.
1628-30 member House of Burgesses, Elizabeth City Co.
1642-52. Member of council
1635, 19 Nov. patented 300 acres of land adjoing land "where"his "dwelling house stood"
1644-47 returned to Eng. described as merchant of Red Lyon Alley St. Botolph, London. Son Thomas admitted to Merchant Taylor's school.
1654 brought wife Alice and children Thomas and Elizabeth with him. patented 1500 acres. wife and children among headrights.
1650. home called "Willoughby's Hope" (from deposition)
by Apr 15 1657. Thomas had died (will proved). Adm.granted to Thomas Middleton, Esq. nephew, late of VA but deceased in All Hallows Barking, London. died in Eng. age 56/57.
16 Apr. Lower Norfolk petition of Thomas Jr. commission of adm. granted on him by father's estate.
Elizabeth b. ca 1635 d. 1659 m. (1) Simon Overzee, Dutch merchant, St.John's and St. Marys co. second wife. first Sarah Thorougood.
Feb or Mar. 1660 Overzee dies. 18 Dec 1660 Eliz. adm of estate.
by Feb 61 m. Maj. George Colclough
8 Sept. 1662, Colclough dies
1662/63 m. 3rd Isaac Allerton, Jr.
Thomas,Jr. m. Sarah Thompson, dau. Richard Thompson and Ursula Bish
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http://lvaimage.lib.va.us/cgi-bin/GetLONN.pl?first=410&last=&g_p=P1&collec tion=LO Patent
Title Willoughby, Thomas.
Publication 13 February 1636.
Other Format Available on microfilm. Virginia State Land Office. Patents 1-42, reels 1-41.
Note Location: County location not given.
Description: 100 acres lying at a point called Musketo Point, east upon the second easterne branch of Elizabeth River.
Source: Land Office Patents No. 1, 1623-1643 (v.1 & 2), p. 410 (Reel 1).
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http://lvaimage.lib.va.us/cgi-bin/GetLONN.pl?first=411&last=&g_p=P1&collec tion=LO Patent
Title Willoughby, Thomas.
Publication 13 February 1636.
Other Format Available on microfilm. Virginia State Land Office. Patents 1-42, reels 1-41.
Note Location: County location not given.
Description: 200 acres lying upon the maine of Elizabeth River, north upon James River.
Source: Land Office Patents No. 1, 1623-1643 (v.1 & 2), p. 411 (Reel 1).
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http://lvaimage.lib.va.us/cgi-bin/GetLONN.pl?first=696&last=&g_p=P1&collec tion=LO Patent
Title Willoughby, Thomas.
Publication 20 February 1636.
Other Format Available on microfilm. Virginia State Land Office. Patents 1-42, reels 1-41.
Note Location: County location not given.
Description: 300 acres lying on the southerne branch of Elizabeth River, beg.g with a neck of land called Ware Neck.
Source: Land Office Patents No. 1, 1623-1643 (v.1 & 2), p. 696 (Reel 1).
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http://lvaimage.lib.va.us/cgi-bin/GetLONN.pl?first=577&last=&g_p=P1&collec tion=LO Patent
Title Todd, Thomas.
Publication 12 May 1638.
Other Format Available on microfilm. Virginia State Land Office. Patents 1-42, reels 1-41.
Note Location: Lower Norfolk County.
Description: 250 acres being a neck of land, lying up the back creek called the littlecreek between the plantations of Captn. Adam Thorgood and Captn. Thomas Willoughby about a mile up the creek.
Source: Land Office Patents No. 1, 1623-1643 (v.1 & 2), p. 577 (Reel 1).
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http://lvaimage.lib.va.us/VTLS/CR/04014/index.html Survey Report Image
Author Public Record Office Class: H.C.A. 13/63.
Title High Court of Admiralty: Instance and Prize Courts: Examinations
Publication March - November 1650
Gen. note Records of the High Court of Admiralty (Search Department 1960)
Note 713
Willoughby, Thomas, Captain -- 1650, SR 04014, p. 5.
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http://lvaimage.lib.va.us/cgi-bin/GetLONN.pl?first=321&last=&g_p=P3&collec tion=LO Patent
Title Willoughby, Thomas.
Publication 7 October 1654.
Other Format Available on microfilm. Virginia State Land Office. Patents 1-42, reels 1-41.
Note Location: Lower Norfolk County.
Description: 2900 acres in Lynhavin Parish - 1500 acres being included for which he hath a patent, the fourteen hundred beg.g at the dwelling house, run.g &c. along the Sandy Bay to a mark’t pine on a point over against Hogg Island.
Source: Land Office Patents No. 3, 1652-1655, p. 321 (Reel 2).
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1623-1637 Cavaliers and Pioneers, Patent Book No. 1, Part 1; [Nell Marion Nugent]; Page 9
ENSIGNE THOMAS WILLOUGHBY, Gent., of Eliz. City, 50 acs., 17 Nov. 1628, p. 61. Wly. upon Salfords Cr., E. unto land formerly graunted to Miles Prickett, now in the tenure of sd. Willoughby. Due for trans. of Strenght Shere whoe came at the charge of Capt. William Tucker in the Ellins 1621 & made over to sd. Willoughby by Act of Court 17 Odt. 1628.
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1623-1637 Cavaliers and Pioneers, Patent Book No. 1, Part 1; [Nell Marion Nugent]; Page 34
CAPT. THOMAS WILLOWBYE, 300 acs. adj. land now in his possession, 19 Nov. 1635, p. 311. N. upon the maine river, Sly. into the woods, & E. upon his now dwelling howse. Trans. of 6 pers: John Draper, Giles Collins, Theod. Loyd, Jon. Scot, Wm. Palmer, Walter Howell. Note: Renewed in his name 19 Mar. 1643. Test: Sam. Abbott, Clr.
SAME. 300 acs. Eliz. Citty Co., 19 Nov. 1635, p. 312. Upon the "hither" Cr. between Francis Mason & his own land, S. upon the woods, W. upon the Cr., N. upon land formerly taken up by him. Trans. of 6 pers: Jon. Pinches, Howell Hayward, Jon. David, Weymouth Vensey, Jon. Wood, Rich. Jackson. Note: Renewed 19 Mar. 1643 in his name. Samll. Abbot, Cl.
SAME. 300 acs. in Eliz. Riv., being 2 or 3 small necks of land, W. upon a
br. of Eliz. Riv., S. E. upon the maine land & N. upon the Sly. br. of Eliz. Riv. Same date & page. Trans. of 6 pers: Tymothy Barloe, Nich. Fortescue, Jon. Farrow, Mary Wormewell, Robt. Barkwith, Demis (or Dennis) Reeve.
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1623-1637 Cavaliers and Pioneers, Patent Book No. 1, Part 1; [Nell Marion Nugent]; Page 52
CAPT. THOMAS WILLOUGHBY, 100 acs. at Musketo point, E. upon the second Easterne br. of Eliz. Riv., W. upon Warwicksquike, S. upon the Southern br. & N. upon James Riv. 13 Feb. 1636, p. 410. Trans. of 2 pers: Thomas Price, William Kelridge.
SAME. 200 acs. upon the maine of Eliz. Riv., N. upon James Riv., S. upon the first Easterne br. of Eliz. Riv. & E. N. E. into the woods. 13 Feb. 1636,
p. 411. Trans. of 4 pers: Jon. Arroe (?), Phillipp Stephens, Jon. Beadle, Ann Dawson. Note: Renewed by Sir William Berkeley 1 Apr. 1644 in the name of John Watkins. Test: Samll. Abbott, Cl.
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1637-1643 Cavaliers and Pioneers, Patent Book No. 1, Part 2; [Nell Marion Nugent]; Page 92
THOMAS TODD, 250 acs. Low. Co. of New Norf., 12 May 1638, p. 577. Being a neck of land lying up the back creek called the Little Cr., between the plantations of Capt. Adam Thorogood & Capt. Thomas Willoughby, about a mile up the Cr. on the W. side, N. Ely. above an Indian feild about the space of a mile, sd. feild haveing a fresh water pond joyning unto it. Due for trans. of 5 pers: John Williams, Richard Wootton, John Withers, John Johnsons, John Fells.
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1637-1643 Cavaliers and Pioneers, Patent Book No. 1, Part 2; [Nell Marion Nugent]; Page 119
CAPT. THOMAS WILLOUGHBY, 300 acs., Feb. 28, 1636, page 696. Upon the S. branch of Eliz. River beg. with the Ware neck, etc. Due for trans. of 6 pers.*
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1653-1656 Cavaliers and Pioneers, Patent Book No. 3; [Nell Marion Nugent]; Page 302
CAPT. THOMAS WILLOUGHBY, 2,900 acs. Low. Norf. Co., 7 Oct. 1654, p. 321. In Lyn Haven Parish. Including 1500 acs. for which he has a patent. (19 Mar. 1643). 1400 acs. beg. at the dwelling house &c. against Hogg Island, to head of Mr. Mason Cr. Trans. of 28 pers: Mary Bennett, Alexand. Bell, John Bell, John Gore, Joseph Toogood, Peter Bandon, James Wichard, Richard Drap, Jno. Michallen, William Fell, Paul Trigg, John Sarrigg, Dan. Snoddy, Mat Hancock, George Hill, Mabell a woman, Tho. Puckerell, Willm. Griffen, Alice Willoughby, Tho. Willoughby, Eliz. Willoughby, Edward Pitcher, Edmund Dowland, Thomas Gee, Wm. Griffen, Jno. Mickey, Wm. Stanly, Geo. Armstrong.
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Early Colonial Settlers of Southern Maryland and Virginia's Northern Neck Counties
1601 - 1657 (56 years)