The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1908-03-29
Coleman.
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Editor CT the Genealogical Column:
Sir,-Noting in your columns lately
articles on the Colemans, Of Spotsyl-
vania and neighboring counties. L send
the following. in the hope that 1T may
induce some one who has the informa-
tion to give the records OF the early
generations of the family The fol-
lowing may be found in spotsylvania
county records:
In 1ISS we find mention OF William
Coleman. Of St John Parish, King Will
liam county, son and heir of Darbey
Coleman, deceased, OF King and Queen
county. In 1872 James Coleman is
legatee In the will OF Ambrose Madison
In 1744. there is a deed Of Edward
Coleman and Lucrea, his wife. In 1875.
we have the will OF Edward Coleman,
mentioning wife. Sarah; sons. James
and Thomas; grandson. James (son OF
Robert Edward coleman): other child
rem. Caty Waggoner. Pheba Hutcher-
son, Henry, James and William Cole
man.
It appears from the will OF spilsbe
Coleman. 1857, that Robert Coleman,
gentleman. OF Drysdale Parish, King
and Queen" Qater caroline). had five
sons. Thomas. Robert, John Richard
and the said spilsbe, and daughter.
the wife of Williams Daniel In 1T45
LILO ISOockI SoleIlldHp Ol hiuS anu
Queen, deeds land to his. son. John
Coleman, OF spotsylvania county. ana
the deed is witnessed by Edward Watt.
Samuel Halves. Thomas and Watt Cole
man. In the same year. the said Rob
ert deeds land to his son. Robert. OF
Spotsylvania county. In 174s Robert
Coleman and Sarah his wife, are liv-
Ing in Srotsylvania county on land
given him by his father. Robert Cole
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Elizabeth, his wife, deed land given
them BY his father, Robert Coleman.
deceased. Of King and Queen. This sec
ond Robert Coleman had son Robert
Coleman. Of Orange county, later Gull.
pepper. as appears from deeds of 1I4S
and 1851 in one OF which he (Robert
Coleman, the third)mentionsl land he pat
ented in SpotsSlvania county In 17Al.
Besides Robert. OF Culpeper, Robert
Coleman. of spotsylvania. had sons,
James, OF Orange; Reuben, Lindsay,
ters, Sally and Molly. who married, re-
Ispectivoly, their first cousins, Samuel
Coleman and John Coleman. sons Of
John Coleman mentioned above.
This John Coleman's wife's name
| was Nice -. ms we learn from
hls will, 1853; and he had four other
children, Halves, of Amherst county
11796, Spencer. Frankly (who married
before 1 To5, Joseph Graves, and Mary
Ann Coleman.
Reuben Coleman son OF Robert Cole
man the second. died In Georgia, 1901,
and in that year issrecorded power of
attorney To John Waller, OF Georgia.
and John Coleman. OF Amherst county.
to secure their rights In Reuben's es-
tate to the following. who were his
heirs ana heiresses (ll Robert, sam
nel. Clayton, Rebecca, Nancy, Frankly
and Nice Coleman. children of Samuel
Coleman. OF Caroline county, who's.
Hate wife, Sally, was sister OF Reuben
say, John and Halves Coleman. child
rem OF John Coleman, of Caroline coun-
lty whose late wife. Molly. was also
lslsterof said Reuben: ca Thomas (then
OF agel3 Wilson, James Elizabeth. Sal
ly, Nancy. Polly and Catherine Cote
man, children of James Coleman, de-
ceased, Brof Orange county, brother
| of said Reuben elizabeth Coleman
was guardian of the seven young
]deceased), and (D Lindsay, Caleb.
1 Joseph and clayton Coleman, brothers
OF said Reuben Coleman, deceased Wit
nesses 20 this paper Were Robert Cole
man, Parish Coleman and Parish Cole
man, III. This Robert Coleman was
perhaps the son of Robert Coleman. of
4 Culpeper. who Is mentioned I'm this
paper as the deceased brother of James
Coleman, deceased Of Orange, pr,
|Slaughtsr's 'St Marks Parish, says
Robert Coleman, first of the name Ii,
4 Culpeper married Sarah Ann Saund-
|ers (the deed of las hove mentioned
HIS FROM Robert Coleman and Sarah. his
Y wife"), and had one son, Robert. and