Early Colonial Settlers of Southern Maryland and Virginia's Northern Neck Counties
Tabitha Gray
Abt 1648 - Aft 1679 (~ 32 years)-
Name Tabitha Gray Birth Abt 1648 Gender Female Death Aft 1679 Old Rappahannock [now Essex] County, Virginia Person ID I27253 Tree1 Last Modified 29 Apr 2024
Father William Gray, b. Bef 1628 d. 3 Sep 1673, Sittingbourne Parish, Essex County, Virginia - probate (Age > 45 years) Relationship natural Mother Elizabeth MNU Gray, b. Bef 1630 d. Between 1663 and 1670, Sittingbourne Parish, Essex County, Virginia (Age > 33 years) Relationship natural Marriage Bef 1646 Old Rappahannock County, Virginia Family ID F18057 Group Sheet | Family Chart
Family Thomas Bowler, b. Bef 1642, England d. 2 Jul 1679, Bowler's Wharf, Old Rappahannock [now Essex] County, Virginia - Probate (Age > 37 years) Marriage Abt 1664 Old Rappahannock [now Essex] County, Virginia Children 1. Elizabeth Bowler, b. Abt 1666, Old Rappahannock [now Essex] County, Virginia d. Aft 1679, Old Rappahannock [now Essex] County, Virginia (Age ~ 14 years) [Father: natural] 2. James Bowler, b. 1673, Old Rappahannock [now Essex] County, Virginia d. Aft 1699, Essex County, Virginia (Age > 27 years) [Father: natural] 3. Anne Bowler, b. 23 Jan 1675, South Farnham Parish, Old Rappahannock County, Virginia d. 24 Apr 1705, Bremo, Henrico County, Virginia (Age 30 years) [Father: natural] Family ID F17320 Group Sheet | Family Chart Last Modified 29 Apr 2024
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1656-1692 Old Rappahannock County, Virginia Will Book; [William Montgomery Sweeny]
BOWLER, THOMAS, Esqr., 17 March, 1678/9; 2 July, 1679.
All my just debts both here and in England to be satisfied within a year after my decease. It is my will that my Tobacco which is shipt for England be consigned to Major Robert Bristow.
To son James Bowler all that parcell of land more or less where the Manor House Standeth and all other houses belonging to the said quantity of Land being about 940 acres. Also to son James Bowler 500 acres of land called by the name of Mary Gold. I desire that all the said houses at the Manor House and the Quarter be kept in good repaire till the said Orphan James Bowler come to the age of twenty one.
To daughter Elizabeth Bowler 500 acres of land part of it being in the plantation that was John Webbs and the rest of it to be laid out for the quiet possession and enjoying of her and her heirs forever.
Also to daughter Elizabeth six cows with calves or with calf one bull two young mares and a young horse which my deare wife shall think convenient for her and six sows and one bore her mother's gold wedding ring and her embroidered looking glass.
To my deare child Anne 500 acres of land Joyning upon my son James Bowler's land called by the name of Mary Gold.
All the rest of my personal estate I give equally to be divided after my debts are paid to my deare and most excellent wife Tabitha Bowler and to my two good children James and Anne Bowler to them and their heirs forever. But if my said deare wife should please to marry it is my Will that then the personall Estate may be equally divided either by out cry or otherwise as my overseers shall think it most convenient for the securing of it into Tobacco or money against they shall come to age. Requests that his two most Honored and worthy friends Coll Nicholas Spencer and Capt Thomas Gouldman to be overseers of his Will and be assistant to his wife. Wit.
ROBERT BARRETT, aged 29 years or thereabouts,
NICH° FRANKLIN, aged 31 years or thereabouts. Page 133.
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