Richard WOOTEN, III

Male Abt 1708 - Bef 1772  (~ 64 years)


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Generation: 1

  1. 1.  Richard WOOTEN, III was born Abt 1708, Isle of Wight Co., VA (son of Richard WOTTON/WOOTEN, II and Lucy COUNCIL); died Bef 13 Feb 1772, Southampton Co., VA.

    Other Events:

    • _UID: 9024DA3075A442B6BEFF050A55E0FD703D91


Generation: 2

  1. 2.  Richard WOTTON/WOOTEN, II was born Abt 1675, Beaver Dam Swamp, Isle of Wight, VA (son of Richard WOTTON/WOOTEN, I and Joyce ALBRIGHTON); died Bef Nov 1738, Isle of Wight, VA.

    Other Events:

    • _UID: EE881802E0AE4FB7A8D44CB3B91A78E5CF1B

    Richard married Lucy COUNCIL 1703, Isle of Wight Co., VA. Lucy (daughter of Hodges COUNCIL and Lucy HARDY) was born 1676, Isle of Wight Co., VA; died 1735, Isle of Wight Co., VA. [Group Sheet]


  2. 3.  Lucy COUNCIL was born 1676, Isle of Wight Co., VA (daughter of Hodges COUNCIL and Lucy HARDY); died 1735, Isle of Wight Co., VA.

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    • _UID: 8CBB25B3C1DE4F2FB869AAB168415BD89426
    • Birth: Abt 1676

    Notes:

    Married:
    Name: Richard Wooten
    Gender: Male
    Birth Year: 1673
    Spouse Name: Lucy Council
    Spouse Birth Place: VI
    Spouse Birth Year: 1674
    Marriage Year: 1703
    Marriage State: VI

    Yates Publishing. U.S. and International Marriage Records, 1560-1900 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations Inc, 2004.

    Original data: This unique collection of records was extracted from a variety of sources including family group sheets and electronic databases. Originally, the information was derived from an array of materials including pedigree charts, family history articles, queri.

    Children:
    1. 1. Richard WOOTEN, III was born Abt 1708, Isle of Wight Co., VA; died Bef 13 Feb 1772, Southampton Co., VA.
    2. William WOOTEN was born Abt 1710, Isle of Wight Co., VA; died 27 Apr 1792, Edgecombe Co., NC; was buried , Edgecombe Co., NC.
    3. James WOOTEN was born 1715, Isle of Wight Co., VA; died Bef 1781, GA.
    4. John WOOTEN, , Sr. was born Abt 1724, Isle of Wight Co., VA; died 1799, Pitt Co., NC.


Generation: 3

  1. 4.  Richard WOTTON/WOOTEN, I was born Between 1647 and 1652, Isle of Wight Co. VA (son of Thomas WATTON/WOOTEN and Sarah JENNINGS); died Bef Mar 1686/87, Isle of Wight Co. VA.

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    • _UID: F49E1608F52846DA9F3397443E4F76943158

    Notes:

    Know all men by these presents that I Nocholas Cobb __?__ liveing in the Upper Prsh of the Isle of Wight County, in Virga planter for a valluable consideration, found in hand pd att and before the sealing of delivery hereof. For wth I do acknowledge my self to be fully sattisffied, by Richard Watton of the same County planter, doo for me & my heirs make over bargain sell alienate & confirm to the sd Richard Watton, his heirs exts adms & assigns for ever a certain parcell of Land bounded as followeth beginning att a small pine standing by the Cartpath side toward James Mannings, to a Redd Oak __?__?___ which is a corner tree standing by Cartpath side thereof Cross __?__ by a lyne of Trees to a Red Oak standing upon a Branch side which funneth down between James Mannings & Peter Greaves and from the sd Red Oak up the Branch to a Red Oak standing near the head of the Branch from there along a line of marked trees to the southwest lyne in the pocoson & soe along the South West Line to the first station. This parcell of Land being part of a patten, of three hundred acres of Land, with all proffitts rights priviledges & Comodities whatsoever, thereunto belonging, to have and to hold the premises (?) to him the said Richd Watton...(etc.)... in Confirmation hereof I sett my hand & seal this 20 of Octob 1681. signed Nicholas Cobb (by hand), wit. John Bond (by hand) & one other. Recorded 9 Nov 1681. (IOW WDB 1, pp.474-5)

    Died:
    Name: Richard Wooten
    Date: 28 Sep 1686
    Location: Isle of Wight
    Notes: This probate record was extracted from microfilmed copies of the original Will Book.
    Remarks: Richard Wooten. Leg.-son Richard; son Thomas the plantation on which Francis Floid lives; wife and three children. Overseer, Henry Baker.
    Description: Son
    Book_Date: 2-265
    Prove Date: 9 Mar 1686

    Ancestry.com. Virginia Land, Marriage, and Probate Records, 1639-1850 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations Inc, 2004.
    Original data:

    Chalkley, Lyman. Chronicles of the Scotch-Irish Settlement in Virginia, 1745-1800. Extracted from the Original Court Records of Augusta County. Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Co., 1965. Originally published in 1912.

    Crozier, William Armstrong, ed. Virginia County Records - Spotsylvania County Records, 1721-1800. Being transcriptions from the original files at the County Court House of wills, deeds, administrators' and guardians' bonds, marriage licenses, and lists of revolutionary pensioners. New York, NY: Fox, Duffield & Co., 1905.

    The will abstracts for Isle of Wight and Norfolk counties were taken from microfilmed copies of the original Will Books. Some of these records may be found at the Family History Library as well as other libraries and archives. The originals may be found at the appropriate county courthouses.

    Richard married Joyce ALBRIGHTON Aft 1670. Joyce (daughter of Joseph Albrighton and Unknown) was born Abt 1654, York Co. VA; died Aft 1687, Isle of Wight Co. VA. [Group Sheet]


  2. 5.  Joyce ALBRIGHTON was born Abt 1654, York Co. VA (daughter of Joseph Albrighton and Unknown); died Aft 1687, Isle of Wight Co. VA.

    Other Events:

    • _UID: 6B2D4FB127D94E978F7F94D1D927832497A5

    Children:
    1. Thomas WOTTON/WOOTEN was born Aft 1670.
    2. Female WOOTEN was born Abt 1674.
    3. 2. Richard WOTTON/WOOTEN, II was born Abt 1675, Beaver Dam Swamp, Isle of Wight, VA; died Bef Nov 1738, Isle of Wight, VA.

  3. 6.  Hodges COUNCIL was born 1 Jun 1645, Devonshire, England (son of John Hodges COUNCIL and Elizabeth DRAKE); died 20 Apr 1699, Isle of Wight county, Virginia.

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    • _UID: 1785288129384FADB46BAF54358EF1DC54FE
    • Birth: 1 Jun 1645, England

    Notes:

    "Hodges Council made his will in Isle of Wight 1699. He married Lucy daughter of John Hardy, Justice of the County Court, about 1675..Hodges Council, in his will of 1699, mentions daughter Christian wife of Edward Bryan." [Boddie, Seventeenth Century Isle of Wight, page 216]

    Hodges married Lucy HARDY 1666, Isle of Wight County, Virginia. Lucy (daughter of John HARDY and Olive COUNCIL) was born 1641, Isle of Wight, VA; died 1 Jun 1708, Isle of Wight, VA. [Group Sheet]


  4. 7.  Lucy HARDY was born 1641, Isle of Wight, VA (daughter of John HARDY and Olive COUNCIL); died 1 Jun 1708, Isle of Wight, VA.

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    • _UID: 71875BD6B26F4B4DB6AE0B0F6AF56BAED89B
    • Birth: 1635

    Notes:

    Lucy Hardy was born in Isle of Wight County, VA, d. bef 1699, m. in 1670 Hodges Council, born in England, d. in Isle of Wight Co 1699, He received grants of 1200 acres from the VA Governors and purchased 300 acres. He left two Wills on file in Isle of Wight Co, each recorded the same day in 1699, with the same people mentioned in both, but with a different division of land between heirs. He was possibly the s/o John Council who m. second in 1666 Alice, widow of Richard Jeffries. (Magna Charta, Part VII by John S Wurts of Germantown, Philadelphia, PA, 1954, Brookfield Publishing Co, p2137).

    Lucy Hardy was "daughter of John & alice Hardy. John Hardy was the son of John and Olive (Council) Hardy who were married between 1620 and 1630." [Worth S. Ray "The Bryan Family" as quoted in "Bryant Backtrails" Kemma Publ Co., Evansville, Ind. vol. 2 #1&2 (Jan-June 1970), page 21.]

    "Colonial Families of the Southern States of America", Hardy Family
    "Johnsons and Johnstons of Corrowauch in Isle of Wight Co., Virginia"

    Children:
    1. Robert COUNCIL was born 1670, Isle of Wight, VA.
    2. Christianna COUNCIL was born 1672, Isle of Wight, VA; died 1743.
    3. 3. Lucy COUNCIL was born 1676, Isle of Wight Co., VA; died 1735, Isle of Wight Co., VA.
    4. Hardy COUNCIL was born 1678, Isle of Wight, VA; died 1750, Isle of Wight Co, VA.
    5. John COUNCIL was born 1680, Isle of Wight, VA; died Bef 1747, Isle of Wight, VA.
    6. Hodges COUNCIL, II was born 1683; died 23 Jan 1725/26, Isle of Wight Co, VA.


Generation: 4

  1. 8.  Thomas WATTON/WOOTEN was born 27 Sep 1612, St. Kyneburgha, Castor, Northamptonshire, England (son of Thomas WATTON/WOOTEN and Jane UNKNOWN); died Bef 9 Dec 1670, Isle of Wight Co. VA; was buried , Isle of Wight Co. VA.

    Other Events:

    • _UID: A4F022DDA8F9408B90C1C1CD8CD27368179D

    Notes:

    n the Name of God Amen, I Thomas Wotton being sick & weak in Body, but of good & perfect memorie praised be the almightie God for it, I ordain this my last will & Testament, that is to say I give my soul to God my maker & Christ my redeemer, hoping in his mercies to have pardon for my sinns, my body I Comitt to the ground, to be buried as my executors deem good, I ordain my well loved wife Sara Wotton Richard Wotton my only & true begotten sonne, my Executors of this my last will and Testament That is to Say, after my debts being first paid: I give my wife's sonn Thomas Wood the worth of twohund pence, and no more. And all the rest of my goods, that is to say, land houses cattell & hoggs & household goods I give to my wife Sara Wotton & Richard Wotton my only sonne. And I leave my estate to my wife & sonne wholly & fully. And after my decease, I ordain my sonn: Richard Wotton, wholly executor to look after the estate. And after my wife's decease my sonn Richard to be possessed of the estate wholly, and after my sonn Richard's decease, he having no issue, I give it to my next kinn of Name in Northampton Shire att a town called Castor neere unto Peterborough: And I desire my loveing friends James Sampson and Richard Briggs to be overseers of this my last will & testament. Amen, written in one sheete of paper in the year of our lord God march the 15th day 1669.
    Signed (by hand) Thomas Wotton.
    Wit. Elizabeth Sampson.
    This will is proved by the oath of Mrs. Elizabeth Sampson in open Corte held for the Isle of Wight County this Ninth Day of December 1670 And then Recorded. y m: JnO Jennings Cl Cur

    Died:
    Possible DOD: 16 Mar 1669

    Thomas married Sarah JENNINGS Abt 1646. Sarah (daughter of Matthew JENNINGS) was born Abt 1620, Isle of Wight Co. VA; died Aft Nov 1699, Isle of Wight Co. VA. [Group Sheet]


  2. 9.  Sarah JENNINGS was born Abt 1620, Isle of Wight Co. VA (daughter of Matthew JENNINGS); died Aft Nov 1699, Isle of Wight Co. VA.

    Other Events:

    • _UID: 05DD7D9984844DFDB0B62846A04CD85B3DD8

    Notes:

    This Indenture made the 14th day of January Anno Domini 1668 Between Thomas Wood Sonne of Arthur Wood and Sarah Wooton, his mother & Relict of Arthur Wood decsd of the one part and Richard Bennett of Blackwater of the other part... by these presents for ever pass over unto him the said Richard Bennett his Heirs Extrs Adms and Assigns for ever, A certain parcel of Land containing One Hundred Acres...Beginning upon the Mouth of the South Branch and soe runing along the Branch to a marked pine, and from the said marked pine to __?__ into Tho. Woods and his broadth (?) to runn also northerly by the Main Swamp, this aforesaid Land lying att Blackwater in the County of Isle of Wight, this said land being included & contained in a pattent of Seaven hundred & forty six acres taken up by Francis (?) England in the year of our Lord 1645..." signed (by hand) Tho. Wood, Sarah Wooton (her mark). Wit: Thomas Wooton (by hand), Richard Wooton (by mark)
    Proved in Open Court for the Isle of Wight County this 16th day of Nov 1669. Signed by John Jennings, clerk. The deed was proved by Thomas Wood and Sarah Wooton in open court. (IOW WDB I, pp 199-200)

    Children:
    1. 4. Richard WOTTON/WOOTEN, I was born Between 1647 and 1652, Isle of Wight Co. VA; died Bef Mar 1686/87, Isle of Wight Co. VA.

  3. 10.  Joseph Albrighton was born 1633, Staffordshire, England; died 1670, York Co. VA.

    Joseph married Unknown. [Group Sheet]


  4. 11.  Unknown
    Children:
    1. 5. Joyce ALBRIGHTON was born Abt 1654, York Co. VA; died Aft 1687, Isle of Wight Co. VA.

  5. 12.  John Hodges COUNCIL was born Abt 1621, Devonshire, England; died 10 Apr 1699, Isle of Wight county, Virginia.

    Other Events:

    • _UID: B8DC6916BADB4D43BFD6795B8D3A92060039

    John married Elizabeth DRAKE Abt 1638, Devonshire, England. Elizabeth was born Abt 1623, Springfield, Devonshire England; died 1658, England. [Group Sheet]


  6. 13.  Elizabeth DRAKE was born Abt 1623, Springfield, Devonshire England; died 1658, England.

    Other Events:

    • _UID: 29163DE2DBEA4B92874D85632B9744DFA144

    Children:
    1. Robert COUNCIL
    2. John COUNCIL
    3. Christian COUNCIL
    4. Lucy COUNCIL
    5. Hardy COUNCIL
    6. 6. Hodges COUNCIL was born 1 Jun 1645, Devonshire, England; died 20 Apr 1699, Isle of Wight county, Virginia.
    7. Willis COUNCIL was born Abt 1649.

  7. 14.  John HARDY was born 1613, England (son of Richard HARDY and Alice WILSON); died 7 Oct 1676, Isle of Wight, VA; was buried , Isle of Wight Co., VA.

    Other Events:

    • _UID: BDCC470127A241D787C1F1F7D3318C8AFC0F

    Notes:

    John Hardy (1613-70), from England to Va; said to have been burgess, 1641-52; granted 1150 acres in Isle of Wight Co 1666; m. 1632, Olive Council (d post 1670) (The Compendium of American Genealogy, Immigrant Ancestors, edited by Frederick Adams Virkus, Genealogical Publishing Co, Inc, Baltimore, 1980, p36)

    John Hardy of Bedfordshire, Eng, born 1613, died 1670 [incorect], came from England to Virginia about 1666, and was granted land in Isle of Wight County. (Wurt's Magna Charta, John S. Wurts, Germantown, PA, 1947, p.2133)

    John Hardy, will probated 1677, came before 1654 to Virginia with his brother, George Hardy. He was a member of the House of Burgesses in 1668, and a Justice of the County Court about 1675. (Wurt's Magna Charta, John S. Wurts, Germantown, PA, 1947, p.2133)

    John married Olive COUNCIL. Olive was born 2 Jun 1615. [Group Sheet]


  8. 15.  Olive COUNCIL was born 2 Jun 1615.

    Other Events:

    • _UID: 9624B85E2FA54A46ACFAE039036360D68F55

    Children:
    1. Olive HARDY was born 1 Jun 1633.
    2. Debora HARDY was born 1 Jun 1638.
    3. 7. Lucy HARDY was born 1641, Isle of Wight, VA; died 1 Jun 1708, Isle of Wight, VA.