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Subject: AdeUstone/ROGERS Pt 3 of 5
Date: Tue, 16 Jul 1996 01:13:41 -0400
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Part 3 - The Adeustone-Rogers Families of Virginia:
Tracing a Colonial Lineage through Entailment and Naming Patterns"
NGSQ, Vol. 77, June 1989, No. 2
(Spellings are exactly as found in the documents.)
GENERATION THREE:
3. Adduston Rogers [Agnes Adeustone(2), John Adeustone(1)] apparently was
born ca 1670 and first appears on record as an adult in 1691--witnessing and
proving the power of attorney given to his father by Philip Lynes. He died
between 19 December 1726 and 20 January 1727/28. No record yet has yielded
the name of his wife.
It was this Adduston Rogers who was named the first beneficiary of the
entailment established by his grandfather, Adeustone. By the time he was old
enough to assume possession of the property, his father had settled the
series of lengthy suits over the boundary between that land and holdings of
Colonel Thomas Beale; but Adduston still was called upon to defend the title
in a subsequent trespass suit brought by Thomas Chisman (Cheeseman), the
younger, who had inherited land owned by John Adeustone's partner, Lt. Col.
John Cheeseman--a suit so emotionally charged as to involve force and arms,
breaking and entering, and trial by jury. But Adduston did retain the land
and apparently lived thereon for the balance of his life. Just a month
before his death, he conveyed to his son, John Adduston Rogers, a nearby
tract of fifty acres. However, there was no need for such a conveyance of
the entailed land on Chisman's Creek, as John Adduston would automatically
acquire the property when Adduston died.
On 20 January 1728 the county court recorded the inventory and appraisement
of the estate of Adduston Rogers. The page has been destroyed almost totally
by water and age; only a few words are still legible. One can read "negro
slave named L_____..._____eather beds & bolsters...warming pan and
_____puter," but little else. The signatures of those presenting the
inventory and appraisal are gone, as is the preamble which would normally
give the name of the adminstrator. The name of his widow (if such there was)
does not appear on the extant fragments. That he had at least three children
has been shown already by the deed of gift made to those children in 1703 by
Adduston's father John.
Known children of Adduston Rogers by his unidentified wife--all less than
sixteen years of age in 1703---were as follows:
+ 4 i. John Adduston Rogers, born between 1687 and 1698 (but probably
after 1690, since it would have been uncommon in this society for his
father to have married before reaching his majority).
ii. Elizabeth Rogers, born between 1687 and ca. 1700 (but probably in the
mid- 1690s); died after 1703. No further information.
iii. Adduston Rogers, born between 1687 and ca. 1702 (but probably in the
mid- to-late 1690s.) This appears to be the Adduston Rogers whose wife
Kathrine bore him a son Adeustone (born 16 April and baptized 23 May
1731) and a second son John Adeuston (born 27 March and baptized 22 April
1733) in York Hampton Parish. Since the entailed property that is the
focus of this paper did not descend through this Adduston, his line will
not be pursued here.
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