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From: "Jim Crouch" <>
Subject: Re: [LDR] Re: WATSON, TRUITT, HICKMAN
Date: Sun, 8 Jul 2001 07:58:50 -0400
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The following gives significant clarification concerning the discussion of
Frances Graves/Peddington, and is from the Truitt Family History page of Dr.
Bill Groves at:

http://freepages.history.rootsweb.com/~wegroves/truitt-family-history.htm


1640

George (I) Truitt immigrated to Accomack County, Virginia, from England. He
was sponsored Christopher Kirke, who may also have been the captain of the
ship on which he sailed. Current thinking is that in the early 1640s George
married Frances Graves, orphan of Thomas Graves, deceased, whose guardian
may have been Henry Pennington (spelled Pedenden) of Nuswattocks Creek [Dale
and Ammons].

Information from [Ammons] concerning Frances Trewett follows:

Over the years there has been much discussion concerning the life of "ffras
Graves, Orphant of Captain Thos: Graves, deceased". After as thorough a
search as possible of original documents and numerous articles about the
family of Captain Thomas Graves, ancient planter, this is what I have found
to make sense to me. Frances Graves was a daughter of Captain Thomas Graves
and his wife Katherine born late in the year of 1621, after her sister Ann
who from her own deposition was born about 1620 [Charles County Court
Proceedings: 1662-1666, p281].

Frances' sisters, Katherine and Verlinda, were perhaps born in 1616 and
1618, respectively. Her brothers - John, born 1603-1604, and Thomas - are
thought to have arrived in 1616 with their mother. Captain Thomas Graves is
reported to have died in 1636 or 1637 [Susie M. Ames, County Court Records
of Accomack-Northampton, VA: 1632-1640, xxxviii]. The first reference to
Frances Graves I found was "At a Corte held in Accomacke the sixth day of
May Anno 1639". Henry Pennington, as the attorney, guardian or perhaps even
stepfather, reported "Received by me Henry Pennington the sum of one hundred
pounds of tobacco and a cowe calf for the use of ffrancis Graves that is in
full satisfaction for a parcel of land that Henry Wilson bought that did
belong unto ffrancis Graves, the cowe calf and tobacco being paid by Alice
Wilson, and received the twenty eighth day of December 1638". "I say
received by me, Henry Pennington" [Northampton County Virginia, Book 1,
p182]. This is followed several years later by the fairly well known
reference: "Att a Monthly cott held in Northampton the 28th Day of November
Ano 1642" Argoll Yardley, Esquire, Captain William Stone, et al ... "A
certificate granted unto ffras Graves, Orphant of Captain Thomas Graves,
deceased" [Northampton County, Virginia, Book 2:113-116]. By this date
Frances Graves would be 21 years of age, as I understand she would need to
be, to receive property in hew own name as an unmarried woman. Captain
William Stone, one of those present at the Court was the brother-in-law of
Frances Graves, he having been married to her sister Verlinda some years
earlier. In his book, Virginia's Eastern Shore, Whitelaw calls this tract of
land N30. It is also under discussion in 1645 in "The deposition of Henry
Peddenden (Pennington) taken in open Cot. This deponent said that ffrancis
Trewett being sick at this deponent's house desired this deponent that her
husband, George Trewett, might sell her land at the old Plantation,
whereupon this deponent answered saying: Do you know what you desire? And
she replied saying: Yes, father, the land is myne and he is my husband and I
desire that he might do with it as he pleaseth for there is not any man hath
to do with it but himselfe" [Northampton County, Virginia, Book 3:p3]. On
the following page of Book 3, but several items later, we find "A
certificate granted unto Geo Trewett in right of his wife ffrancis Trewett,
deceased, for 200 acres of land" [Northampton County, Virginia, Book 3, p4].
I do not believe that Frances Trewett was deceased at this time, but that
the clerk in copying the certificate granted to Frances Graves in 1642 meant
to say 'Orphant of Captain Thomas Graves, deceased'. In future descriptions
of this land Captain Graves is mentioned, just as in repeating the
headrights, it would be a means of identification. George Trewett did not
patent this land until the 24th day of July 1651 and there we find the same
description, same names in the same order [Northampton County, Virginia,
Patents No.2, 1645-1651, p237]. Next, the same 200 acres of land is in a
patent dated 1st September 1663 to William Melling and described as formerly
granted to ffrances Trewett and lately found to escheat to his Majesty, etc
[Northampton County, Virginia, Patents No.5, 1661-1665, p448]. George
Trewett was a Quaker and I wonder if he could have sold the land to Melling.
The deed just never has been recorded. In 1660 the Virginia Assembly passed
a strict law against Quakers [Whitelaw]. It was certainly perilous to have
much of a relationship with them. In a deed dated the 27th of June 1665
William Melling conveys 120 acres of this same land to William Sterling for
the sum of 4000 pounds of tobacco and cash in hand, describing the land as
formerly belonging to Captain Graves [Northampton County, Virginia, IX Wills
and Deeds, No.7, 1657-1666, p219]. In 1654 John Watson and John Bagwell
transport 78 persons including Alice Watson [Nugent, p291]. On the 24th of
March 1655 George Trewett is granted 300 acres for the transport of 6
persons into the colony; Alice Watson is the first one named and I believe
became part of his household [Northampton County, Virginia, Patents -
Grants, No.4, 1655-1664, p32]. In 1660 John Elsey again transports Alice
Watson [Nugent, p405]. In a deed dated April 28, 1662, George Trewett
assigns to Michael Ricketts a patent of land and Alice Trewett relinquishes
[Recorded June 4, 1662 in Northampton County, Virginia, Wills and Deeds,
1657-1660, Book IX, p69]. This was the 300 acres at Nandua that George
Trewett received for transporting Alice Watson and 5 others in 1655. Of
George Trewett's children, I believe Alice to be the mother of: (1) John,
named for her father, born in 1662 (age 14 in 1676 when Robert Burton was
named his guardian); (2) Elizabeth, named for Alice's mother; and (3) Job;
with Frances the mother of all the earlier children. I believe Frances
Trewett died in 1654. [Ammons]


----- Original Message -----
From: "Lorine Taylor" <>
To: <>
Sent: Sunday, July 08, 2001 1:04 AM
Subject: [LDR] Re: WATSON, TRUITT, HICKMAN


Linda,
I have George Truitt's first wife as Frances Pennington/Peddington
b-abotu 1627, d-16 Nov 1645; dau/of Henry Pennington/Peddington & Mary
Wilson.

Lorine Taylor





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