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Subject: 1600s/VA/Old Rappahannock County/BAKER/NORTON/KELLY/SWELLIVANT/SULLIVAN
Date: Sun, 10 Oct 2004 19:46:25 EDT

Re: 1600s in Old Rappahannock County, Virginia
Cornelius SWELLIVANT/SWILLIVANT/SULLIVAN
Patrick NORTON & wife, Margaret ?/SWELLIVANT?/SWILLIVANT?/SULLIVAN?
Lawrence BAKER, (2nd husband of Mrs. Margaret SWELLIVANT? NORTON)
Penelope "Nelly" NORTON & husband, Matthew KELLY
(Captain) John KELLY & Amy DONIPHAN
Ann KELLY & William JENNINGS, Jr.
(s/o Mary WILLOUGHBY & William JENNINGS, Sr.,
s/o Margaret PAYNE & 1st husband, John JENNINGS, Sr., immigrant,
(d/o Margaret ROBINSON & John PAYNE, immigrant)

Hello,

My name is Bellinda MYRICK-BARNETT and I am writing to many of the lists that
I have belonged to for sometime now as well as some new ones that I have just
added. I do not know that I have the right name yet for the SWELLIVANT/poss.
SULLIVAN family group out of 1600s Virginia so if anyone can identify the
correct spelling and if there is a Rootsweb list for that spelling...thank you.
As well as, if you should see any areas for correction or if you have any
additions, please let me know via the list and/or directly. Thanks. Will send
this on now as is below....and will keep checking and get back with you if I
find more to add to this at this time.

Regarding possible English or Irish NORTON lineage arriving in early 1600s to
Old Rappahannock County, Virginia, (later becoming Richmond County)

Regarding the family of Patrick NORTON, wife, Margaret
?/SWELLIVANT?/SULLIVAN?, son, Thomas NORTON, and daughter, Penelope "Nelly" NORTON, who married
Matthew KELLY, parents of (Capt.) John KELLY who married Amy DONIPHAN, (d/o Amie
PARTRIDGE, (1st wife,) and (Capt.) Alexander DONIPHAN, Sr., and the
JENNINGS-PAYNE-ROBINSON that their daughter, Ann KELLY married into in Richmond County,
Virginia, to husband, William JENNINGS, Jr., son of Mary WILLOUGHBY and William
JENNINGS, Sr., son of Margaret PAYNE, (d/o Margaret ROBINSON and John PAYNE,)
and 1st husband, John JENNINGS, Sr., (immigrant from England to Old
Rappahannock Co., VA as were Margaret ROBINSON and John PAYNE,) and Mrs. Margaret PAYNE
JENNINGS later married 2nd husband, Christopher EDRINGTON, Sr..)

Some of these different surnames are not mentioned more than once in this
information; however, the value may be in the various connections that swirl
between these different families.

Please read the earlier post, immediately below, which is then followed
immediately below by my response to his and, also, regarding, more specifically, my
descent from Patrick NORTON of 1600's Old Rappahannock County, Virginia.

In a message dated 10/8/2004 1:08:20 PM Central Daylight Time,
writes:
This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list.

Surnames: Norton
Classification: Query

Message Board URL:

http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/Qi3.2ACIB/1848.2.1.1.1

Message Board Post:

I want to connect with Barry Norton or Scott Norton or anyone doing research
on Edward I. Norton of Co. Armagh, Ireland. Grimes-Rose. Down through Edward
Norton, a Quaker in Pennsylvania and Mercer Norton in Virginia/S.C.,Kentucky.
These are my 5th-6th GGrfa.


Dear JNorton, (also sending this to the NORTON list and others that may
somehow connect including the KELLY and DONIPHAN lists,)

Hello. I can't remember whether or not we have communicated before or
not....and don't know that ours connect or that mine, with total certainty, is of
Irish descent though the name of Patrick NORTON would certainly suggest it is
so. My paternal 8th great grandmother was Penelope "Nelly" NORTON, born: Abt.
1653 prob. in Old Rappahannock County, Virginia, who married Matthew KELLY,
born: abt. 1653 prob. in Old Rappahannock County, Virginia. Penelope "Nelly"
NORTON, (who md: 2nd husband, Lawrence BAKER,) is believed to have had a
brother named Thomas NORTON and they were the children of Margaret ? and Patrick
NORTON, born: Aft. 1620 in some info. but a will puts his birth date apprx.
1641, poss. in England/Ireland or Old Rappahannock County, Virginia, died: Bef.
November 07, 1688 in Old Rappahannock County, Virginia. I cannot, so far, find
out anything on the names of the parents of this Patrick NORTON but shown as
witnesses to his will which was proved November 07, 1688 in Old Rappahannock
County, Virginia, were Ed./Edward?/Edmund? GEOFFRIES/JEFFRIES/JEFFREYS, William
BELL, and Elizabeth CARMELL.

In his will, family that were mentioned were his wife Margaret ?, son Thomas,
(not yet of age,) and Nelly KELLY, (aka Penelope "Nelly" NORTON who married
Matthew KELLY.) There is also a will of a man named Cornelius SWELLIVANT,
(have seen various spellings for this family group including later being spelled
SULLIVAN,) himself of Old Rappahannock County, Virginia in Will and Deed Book
1, proved 19 November 1673, in which is mentioned, "to John BURRAGE all land,
tools, boat, bed, & trunk, to Thomas NORTON, (the son of Patrick NORTON,) 350
acres of land, and after the demise of Thomas NORTON and John BURRAGE that the
land go to Patrick NORTON, to John KELLY, (aka (Capt.) John KELLY, (son of
Matthew KELLY,) 175 acres of land the said Matthew KELLY lives on, in the
meantime may put it to what use he pleasures & after the demise of John KELLY, (aka
(Capt.) John KELLY, son of Matthew KELLY,) the land fall to Matthew KELLY, his
father, (I presume distinguishing between the Matthew KELLY that was the
brother of (Capt.) John KELLY and their father, Matthew KELLY, as well as the
Matthew KELLY who was the son of (Capt.) John KELLY and Amy DONIPHAN, (the daughter
of Amie PARTRIDGE, (1st wife,) and (Capt.) Alexander DONIPHAN, Sr., (with
another son of Amy DONIPHAN and (Capt.) John KELLY being named Alexander Doniphan
KELLY.)) (The will continuing say, " What cattle John BURRAGE shall receive
Cornel. SWELLIVANT, (Cornelius,) he is to leave so many in kind to Thos.
NORTON, (Thomas,) to John DOWTY I leave 1 Dowlas shirt, 1 pair Kersey breeches, 1
coate and 3 pewter dishes. To Pat. NORTON, (Patrick,) my hangar."

The will that puts the birthdate of Patrick NORTON at approximately 1641 is
that of Henry CREIGHTON dated January 26, 1676, proved September 06, 1677 in a
deposition where Patrick NORTON gives his age as 35 or thereabouts.....and a
brother of his is shown as Edmond NORTON, age 30 yrs. or thereabouts, born
approximately 1652.

The aforementioned Cornelius SWELLIVANT must be, it would appear to me, the
father, (most likely,) of Margaret ?, wife of Patrick NORTON, since he leaves a
considerable amount of land to Thomas NORTON in 350 acres that would then go
to Thomas's father, Patrick NORTON, and husband of the aforementioned Margaret
?, (poss. Margaret SWELLIVANT, daughter? of Cornelius SWELLIVANT,) and in
case of his death to the husband of his daughter, Penelope, who was (Capt.) John
KELLY, and so on....and it would appear most logical that the aforementioned
John BURRAGE was probably the husband of another daughter of Margaret
?/SWELLIVANT? and Patrick NORTON who was the sister of Penelope "Nelly" NORTON.

This is still speculation but I would greatly imagine that this is the case
or, at least, that there is some very close family relationship.

Let me know if you think that this information might connect with your NORTON
family group. Looking for anything I can find as there is not much out
there, so far, regarding this family....but a variant spelling of any of these
names might yield something more.

Sincerely,

Bellinda Myrick-Barnett

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