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Subject: Pledge of Henrico and Goochland Counties
Date: Sun, 9 Apr 2006 15:07:36 EDT

In response to query dated 5 March 2006, I do not know the name, Nicholas
Pledge, or if he is ancestor of William and John Pledge. I descend from Dorothy
or Dorothea Pledge who married John Woodall c. 1755. There is recorded three
children born to them in Goochland County (DOUGLAS REGISTER) 1757, 1759, 1761.
Deed is recorded in 1763, whereby their land is sold, and they are next
found in Wilkes County, GA, where John's will is signed in 1796, and probated in
1799. Their daughter, Mary Woodall, who married Zachariah Bays is my ancestor.
THE VALENTINE PAPERS contain early abstracted records of both Pledge and
Woodall generations. I believe that my Dorothy or Dorothea was named for her
grandmother, Dorothy wife of John Pledge, Jr. son of John, Sr. John, Jr. and
Dorothy had a number of children but only two sons, John and William. John,
Jr.,'s will was probated in 1720. Wife Dorothy refused to be executrix. I
believe that my ancestor, Dorothy/Dorothea Pledge, was the daughter of their son,
William Pledge. In reading John, Jr.'s will, I get the impression that John
III was somehow handicapped (see Weisiger's abstracts in several books) as in
John Jr.'s will, he gave son-in-law, John Johnson, 100 acres of land "in
consideration of taking care of my son, John Pledge [III] for life."

I should appreciate if you would kindly advise me source of the Nicholas
Pledge in Henrico and/or if he is the progenitor of the Pledges about which I
write.

Thank you,
Janelle Via McKown

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