The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1911-06-11

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ment of Thomas Hanstord By ieav.1S
Ing him in command OF Jamestown1II
Hc also ordered him to "raisc foroe& I
for the safety OF the country it anyf /
should be needed %;A
Bacons voice Is audible now. wt
can almost hear it ringing as ho crledJs
Come on. my hearts of gold. He THAI
dies in tho field, lies in tho bed oG !.
honor" 3f5 5S35tgA:
Ills cause, however, apparently
failed Its leader died and hlu fold
lowers missed the aid Of his conissd
handing tongue" anu tho intrepid
liansford. with about twenty soldiers{
was taken over to Accomac; and id !;
Accomac poor Hansford had the honorl
of being "the first Virglnlan that eyerAA!
was banged" Sake ~
In death he was hero, and begged
that he be shot like a soldier, and notss
hanged like n dog. -
SIR William Berkeley had no ideal
of granting such a privilege, and on
the scaffold Thomas Hansford protese-i
cd that he died Il loyal subject and al
lover OF his country. and that he hads
never taken up arms but Tor the de -;
struction of the Indians who had mur-,
dercd so many of the English" TheN
Justices of the county of York. repre-;
scented by men of high character like
John Page. John Scarbrooke. JameS
Naulx, Ohio Thorpe and Isaac Clop-3
ton petitiored that the commissioners
sent over from England to look into9
the late rebellion, confscate the prop-a
erty of Thomas IIansford and seize It'd
for courthouse. but the commissioner
crs reported to the King in favor OFF
cestowinE the property Of Hansford1
and those other wretched men latelyt
associated with them upon their poora
wives and children
Thomas (2) Hansford and Ellzabet7f3
Jones had an afflicted child. John (3),d
who died in 1851; Elizabeth (3), who3
married Richard Burt: Mary cay, mari
ried William Hewitt. Thomas (s) anda
William CD. s8@f IL
Thomas e., died about 1920. leavins3
sons Thomas 90. William 90 aneI
daughters Elizabeth t4). Sarah (4)1
Mary 90 and Martha ID
Thomas Hansford was living In 1859
william CD died in 1888, and left aA
wife. Mary, and n son. Lewis as, who'd
had sons. and died in Norfolk In 1905. 4
Charles CD IIansford. son of JohrSi
OF the Gloucester patent, married E1iza-a
beth Moody, daughter of Rev. Edward
foliett of Hampton Parish. and widowl
OF ,Josias Moody. son of DR.. GneA
Mode. FrenchmaH. whose name wash
AnKiicized. Charles t3) Hansford.ss
children were Charles (3), WillianT
(S). John (s). Elizabeth ta), Marya
Hansford 90. Lydia Duke, wife of MrA
Henry Duke. Martha (S) who married.
Samuel Hill. 10y
John (3) kent tavern at the welH
known Halfway House." betweer3
York and williamsburg
Charles ca married. and had aA
daughter Lucy (l>. who married johns
Hyde. and son Charles (4). IA
Charles t4) died In 1878, n nd lefH3
two sons, Richard (5) and Ben1anin;1,
CD, and three daughters-EHzab bet h { s y
who married John Camm tho treasS
urcr and president OF william ami
Mary College; Mary (5), who married.
Rev. Samuel Shield. and Martha (5)GA
who married. first. Edward Harwoody
and secondly. Robert Shield, of York;
samuers brother Richard (6) Hans-}
FORD married Lucy Dudley Hayness]
and had BENJAMIN (6) who marriedy
sarah Wynne. and was the father Cd
the late Charles Hansford, OF Williams
burg, who. with his sisters. once llved3
IN the beautiful old house between thej
late Mrs Coleman and tho late Mon 4
ta9n THOMPSON, facing the Courthouse
green Charles Hansford, Esq, mar-l
ried Miss Margaret GUSTS, and left
descendants. Across tho courthouse
green In williamsburg ran a hard :
Irregular path. much used by the litt,s
girls who wentto Miss Lucy Hans
ford's school ma
William CD IIansford, elder brother
OF Major Thomas, the first martyr.
STAYED In Gloucester, and had a SOM
william, who lived IN Gloucester In
lto6, Did he leave descendants?