The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1910-05-01

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I top witnessed tndcnture between wit.
liam sedgowick. clerk OF York county.
( and James Cosby, 200 acres at Beaver
| Dam, on tTtoys Cteek"--E4c This was
the third Thomas Baytop, now twenty-
| four vears of age. April ~. t7o7.
| Thomas Baytop was the owner of LOT.
No. . IN Miles cary's survey OF
| Gloucestertown CHOW Gloucester point).
Richard Lee. Benjamin Reade, Edmund
Berkeley, Major Burwell Edward
Portens. John Mann. Potter Beverley,
DR.. David Alexander John Todd, John
Gwyn, Lawrence and John smith.
Thomas scott, John Perrin, Ralph
Normlcy. Mordecai Cooke. William
Thornton. John Stubs. DR.. William
Ramp. John Buckner. Robert Carter,
! Robert Thurstou. Colonel Whiting
and others also owned lots in this
town, which was regularly laid off
| with streets with the names OF
Gloucester. Broad. Tyndal1, Queens.
Kings. Read. Marlborough, Fleet and
Fish John Fleet had patented Glouces-
ter town (then Tyndall's Point In
| 1852 and WAS living there in 1857.
John Pratt bought lots 10 and so In
1Ile, and william Pratt. merchant.
'o' aiN'tlS tHeEe 4 ~. VSleIl ne married.
Elizabeth tborn t7oD, daughter OF
| William % Cooke (secretarv OF the
Colony, and his wife. Elizabeth
| Catesby
Pratt. married John Graham (anccs-
| tors of the Jones family. in Glouces-
ter county, inter1narrIed with the Bay
tons) Gloucester Point was OF con-
siderable Importance during the Revo-
luton. when troops OF the opposing
n rfl M ,1I
Its citizens We're proud witnesses.
across the narrow York, OF Corn-
wallis's surrender.
Thomas Baytop married before
lI1O the daughter of DR.. David Alex
ander. OF Gloucester county, and WAS
living in Gloucester fn 1928, where. on
9Th of February. his signature may be
found in the extant Petsworth vestry
book as witness with Alexander
with Lawrence Smith. to whom they
bound a poor child OF the parish.
Lawrence Smith affixed his seal in
red wax In 1897 he witnessed the
will OF DR.. Charles Tomlsies, an "emi-
nent physician and Justice in
Gloucester county" This VIII is pre-
served in the chancery papers at WILL
llamsburg. David Alexander and John
Edwards were also witnesses to this
will. Dr. Tomkies and Thomas Baytop
had married the sisters of David
Alexander. daughters OF DIR. David
Alexander (whose wife, Ann, was ono OF
| the two heresscs of Francis Morgan.
| the other. Sarah. having married Majon
| Thomas Buckner. of Gloucester. church
warden of Petsworth Parish, 1895. son
l-of the immigrant. John Buckner)
! Francis Morgan owned large body
of land on the Poropotanll from it's
mouth up, called "Morsan's Neck
/ running from Violet Bank to "AIarI-
fold" which was heired by Thomas
i Buckner's wife. and descended to her
/ daughter, Ann Buckner who married
| FIRST wife) Thomas Booth born
1855, died 1855: church war;
/ den Petsworth Parish. liza, SON
! of the immigrant, Thomas. Their
| son, George Booth, of "Poropotank''
| finally heired all that neck of land,
married Mary Taiiaferro. and had a
! daughter, Sarah Booth, who married
| Thomas Baytop tborn 1850 of the
Revolution.
Thomas (3> onytop and his wife,
Miss Alexander. had at least two chil-
dren--Anne 90, who married (befors
1I2D Colonel Thomas scott tthe inn
migrant). ancestors of a large and
prominent family throughout the
South, and James ca Baytop. OF
| Springfield" Gloucester county. Va. !:
| died, 1856. The settlement of his es-
tate. 1857, with its many accompanv-
ing papers, Is yet preserved in the
family of Mrs. Jefferson ID. Stubs. oc
| valley Front" Gloucester county. Va.
1t mentions his children. and even the
neighbors who We're present at the
! estate SALE" and every article they
| purchased. He married Sarah Smith.
| said to be OF the Parton" Gloucester
county. family of that name, and a.
| sister OF Captain Tohn Smith" She
died It'll, and the settlement OF her
estate Gas complete as that of her
husband) is also preserved at Valley
Front" with the names of their chil-
dren and list OF those OF the neigh-
bors present at her estate SALE etc.
Ihe executor OF James Baytop's Will
was his cousin. Colonel Francis Tom
k!es, son OF DR.. Charles and Mary
lAlexander) Tonkie above noted.
Colonel Tomkies had married before
las Elizabeth. daughter of Mordecai
Cooke. and was Justice In 1865. and a
man OF affairs; and his sister, Cath
crime lborn 1880 married Thomas
Scott (born. 17a7). son OF Thomas and
ANNE tBaytop) Scott, above Hence
all were related.
"springfield,
Gloucester land books contain a.
deed. 23rd January. 1745, from Robert
Pryor and wife tancestors of tha
Roger and Luke Pryor family to
James Baytop. of 1909 acres on
Craney Creek. Ware Parish. next Ia
CHRISTOPHER Greenaway. Mr.. Rigault
and Thomas Wisdom's land" Ninety
two acres of it had first been granted
to Thomas Jefferson April l. 1868. and
by him deserted, and then granted to
Robert Coils, who increased 1t to
400 acres at the head of Craney
Creek. In Ware Parrish" and then as
signed IT. April 81, 1859. to Robert
Pryor.+
This became the family home,
"Sprngfield." called in its early history
by the Indian name "NIundunsas
James Baytop's assessment to Pets
worth Parish In l7T6 (thc year of his
DEATH was Is. 5. O. In 1T5S he was
executor to tho estate of James Car
ter, OF Petsworth Parish Many OF
these papers are preserved. containing
the accounts OF his three sons, Thomas,