The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1911-02-12

Aerc sleeps tho BoiS
| Of Isabella Clayton willie
| her soul is gone in triumph to
| meet the best or Husbands
and never more to be Divorced.
| by Him 70 be taught 10 sing
! Eternal Praises of God d re Lamb:
lIor Ever
Here is faith for YOU.
| William Clayton was riork OF New
| Kent county and member Commit
| tee Of Safety in l174. He was proba.
| hly son Of John. tho botaniet John
| certainly had u son. Jasper. and VIII
liam, Of New Kent. was Jasper's
| executor.
| III Williams will are named sons
| William Beverley Clayton. SON law
| Philip Davis, granddaughter Cath.
eriro Clayton, son -inlaw Arnistead
| Russell daughter Eivira Russell and
| granddaughter Elizabeth Arinistcao
Russell.
Armistcad Russell married Elvira
| Clayton. There was a William 3.
| Clayton, also clerk OF New l<ent, IIe
! married Locke Waller. ana had Eliza
| beth, who married Bartholomew Dand-
| ridge, and Mary A., who married Rob-
crt c. Walker.
| The part OF Gloucester. nearest 70
A1tddlcseX and tho Piankctani5 was GER
| ta!nly the court end long ago and It
would please us immensely to get from
| the memory of man a description OF
! Windsor Wareham and other estates,
when are now only names.
We creep now around the Porotank
| Creek, a limpid stream. Vine decked
ana mcandering by localities only now
| remembered from the land books. In
1Bi: Captain Francis Morgan built
lines upon 1000 acres. which he called
Morsan's Neck and MorGaus Creek
after the immcmorial custom OF trying
ito preserve ones name when this NOR
J tai shall have put on Immortality. Ills
wife was Frances, and he hal Anne
who married DR. David Alexander. and
/ Sarah, who married Thomas 2uckner
| but nothing except the land is left to
! carry on his name. and does that even
bear II to-day: 0. Temporal. etc, etc.
| Gloucester Land Grants.
| 1858. Richard Lee 800 acres York
River, Joining land OF I.ichard Jones.
| deceased. This he sold to Rice Beadlc,
and he. in 1862 TO John Fleet. tThc
emigcant ancestor; see him on pianka-
tank Rivera
1863. John Fleet. 500 acres on York
| River, joining land of II chard Jones,
deceased; repeated in 1862. and adds
that said land was southeast upon tho
! lands of Robert Todd, and was for
merly granted to Colonel Richard Lee,
ESD In 1853 and by him sold to Rice
Beadlc, and by Beadle to said John
Fleet. He then was living at Lyn-
da IFS Point. and was set alive in 1867.
Sarah. widow OF Colonel Henry Fleet,
married before 1861. Councillor John
Walker Oiled 167D. who moved to
Gloucester from Warwick county.
where he was Burgess l644-49. She
married. third, Dr.. stone. William
Fleet was godfather. 1863, to Thomas.
son of Baylor Walker, OF King ana
Queen, and William Fleet was com
missioner OF revenue l794
| 1867 Captain John Smith, 500 acres
of high land and marsh, westerly down
Poropotanll to the river. and in 1865,
Major John Smith, 500 acres OF marsh
land joining the dividend he now lives
on ana 900 acres beginning at a pine
| tree at head Of Tanks Poropotanls
vestry Of Petsworth 1891: died l7l2.
Augustine smith in vcstry I'LL in
place Of Major Richard Bagley, de-
ceased. in upper parish. and died 1865.
ihilip Smith IN vcstry l7l4. and lived
IN Second Precinct, Petsworth Parish.
ie was listed IN Ware Parish 1922,
and John Throckmorton took his place
in vcstry for Second Precinct. John
Smith sheriff, IToS.
| JOSS. Robert Todd. of Thomas Bcalc.
200 acres Tyndall's Neck formerly
| 'wned by George Ludlow. and in 1862
| ais land joined the tract sold BY R.ch-
trd Lee, above, to Rice Beadie. He was
81 the Toddsbury family.
! ll6l. William Roberts 200 acrcs
FORK River at mouth of Ioncss Creek.
bounded south up .Toncs'S Creek cast
Upon marsh. north upon land OF Ed
ward Portcus. and west upon York
River,
1862. Nj. Robert Lee, $40 acres next
10 William Thornton and Colonel Rich
ard Lees horse path: vcstry OF Pets
worth 1877. Ills widow. Margaret, mar
rled, second, 1851 Mr.. Edward portc,ts
WI" hrst lived in Lancaster county
before coming to Gloucester, and was
OF the Council. 1853 and father OF
kohcrt Iorteus, who was father OF
BISHOP Bcilbv Portcns, OF London fSec
MIN farther on) The vcstry in 1851 called
F.! upon Mr.. Edward Portions, also in tho
[ Vcstry. for tl0 legacy left tho poor az
the parish by AR Robert Lee In 17lo
MI Francis Lee and Mr.. Robert Car
| tcr procos6ioned the Fifth Precinct
or pe ,.s,V, besinnins at Mr.. Rich
ard Hubbard's and Pate's Mill swamp
etc. and both ditto in t13S In l799
no began at James Hubard's, Fifth
Precinct
i655. William Thornton S.. l6i
s .c" i.etso. Parish. Joining land he
ltH, ana earlier. and William Thorn
on. IT.. in 1870. Francis Thornl on,
ia, md Seth Thornton, 1919. william
thornion, .Irp liza, William, ST.. ana
John and Seth Thornton, 1881 in Sec.
md Precinct near Clay Bank Seth
Tied 1889, and his brother William,
:hurch warden in his place. and died
l.to Thomas Thornton I14S. Captain
+ Wilitam Thornton. las, in vestry with
lohn Thornton, ana church warden
t7i2. StcrlinG Thornton, 1915. in vcstry
! IN room Of James HUBBARD, gent de.
ceased. and nnt!l less. Presley Thorn
/ ton IN 1881 Ia Third Precinct AieuX
THORNTON in vcstrT 1881 In room of
his father- III law 1r. Richard Io,ies