Capt. William Spiller

Male - 1784


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  • Name William Spiller 
    Title Capt. 
    Gender Male 
    Died ca 1784  King William Co. VA Find all individuals with events at this location 
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    • MISCELLANEOUS RECORDS

      Compiled Census and Census Substitutes Index, 1607-1890
      Name: William Spiller
      State: VA
      County: Northumberland County
      Township: Michaelmass
      Year: 1738
      Record Type: Rent Role
      Database: VA Early Census Index
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      Feb 1742 Louisa Co Deed Books A & B, P 18-22 13-14
      John Kembrow of Louisa Co. to William Spiller of King Wm Co. Lease and release; for L25. Two patents for 800 acres in Frederecksville Par. John Kembrow Wit: George Berry, Wm Kembrow, Thomas Wash Junr. 14 Feb 1742 (1743) ack. By John Kembrow.
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      Virginia Genealogical Society Quarterly, Volume 35, Number 3, p. 220
      A Merchant's Account Book: Hanover County, 1743-1744
      1743 Mr William Spiller in King William
      Decr 1 To 1 Damaged hempen rolls -/19/1
      1744 Contra Novr 10 carried.
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      Old New Kent County [Virginia] Some Account of the Planters, Plantations, and Places, MH Harris, Vol. I p. 896, 897: The Denbigh Plantation

      "The early history of this tract is not known, by from its location it fell within the extensive grants of land to Col. Edmund Jenning whose land extended form Moncuen Swamp to Herring Creek.

      This points to the fact that Col. Wm Aylett devised land along the ridge to his daughters and it seems likely that one of them fell heir to a part of the Denbigh tract. Among the early settlers in this area was William Spiller who appeared here before 1745 when he was known to be operating an ordinary near the Moncuen and Crenshaw's Mill.

      April 21, 1745

      To be sold by Public Outcry on Monday the 2nd of December next . . . on Moncuen Swamp near Spiller's Ordinary . . . in King William County."
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      Virginia Genealogical Society Quarterly, Volume 27, Number 1, p. 62, Virginia Land Patent Book 22, Pages 332-end (1743-1745)

      William Spiller: 1600 acres Louisa Co., between Contrary & Christopher Run, bound by Mr. Chiswells c, Colonel Merriweathers c., Robert Hester's line, Taits c., Adams c., John Kendricks c., 400 a. formerly granted Samuel White 22 Sept. 1739, 800 a. formerly g. John Kimbrow by 2 Ps. 2 Jun 1740, the right and title vested in sd. William Spiller, and the 400 a. the Residue never before granted. (p. 484) 20 Sept 1745.
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      Mar 1748/9 Louisa County Survey Book, p.60
      13 Mar 1748/9

      Survey: John Kendrick, 335 acres on the branches of Contrary River and Christopher's Run in Louisa County. Adjoining William Spiller, Warner Lewis & Ralph Wormleys, John Kembrow, and Robert Hester.
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      Feb 1759 Virginia County Records Spotsylvania County, 1721-1800, Volume I, edited by William Armstrong Crozier.
      Book: E Bond of George Woodroof of Spts. Co. to Wm. Waller of same Co, Gent. 200 curr. As the sd. Waller has become security to Wm. Spiller of King William Co. for the sd. Woodroof and Wm. Woodroof, etc. Recd. 7 Feb 1759.
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      Chronicles of the Scotch-Irish settlement in Virginia, Lyman Chalkey, p. 325

      MAY, 1760 (A) Abraham Farrow, of King William, to William Spiller, of said County. Bond 1756. Test: James and Ann Russell. James Graves.
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      1764, 1766 Justices of the Peace of Colonial Virginia: 1757-1775, Virginia State Library p. 56

      King William [Co.] April 11th 1764.
      William Spiller Gent.

      p. 71 King William November 6th 1766.
      William Spiller
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      Oct. 1766 Old New Kent County [Virginia] Some Account of the Planters, Plantations, and Places, MH Harris, Vol. I p. 896, 897: The Denbigh Plantation

      ". . . It is from these bits of information that we have been able to locate the area in which William Spiller was living in King William County. It seems that he developed a good size plantation and if he had not been in need of money, we would have had no record of his habitation."

      Oct. 24, 1766
      "To be sold for ready money, the tract of land whereon the Subscriber lives in King William County containing 700 acres." It is within 8 miles of Page's warehouse where tobacco is sold for the best price, convenient to Churches, Schools, and the Buildings thereon are two dwelling houses, kitchen, storehouse, dairy, meat house, two negro quarters, barn, tobacco house, cornhouse, etc. Also another tract containing 100 acres of good high land lying on the Dorrell Swamp in King William.

      William Spiller

      There is no record of this property being sold at this time . . ."
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      June, 1769 Chronicles of the Scotch-Irish settlement in Virginia: extracted, Volume 1, p. 358

      JUNE, 1769 (A). William Spiller vs. Joseph Colven, alias Corbin. Petition, 1768. Memo: The above Joseph Colven, at the time he contracted the debt, lived with one Wm. Loggins in King William County, and enlisted himself in the Regiment in 1760-61, but am informed is since married to widow, by whom he has several children, about 6 miles below Staunton, in Augusta, about 1/2 mile from Stone Meeting House. (Signed) Wm. Spiller. Spiller was from King William, 1760.
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      The Edward Pleasant Valentine Papers, Vol. I, p. 402
      Caroline County Records

      June, 1774: George Dabney (Caroline Co.) and Benjamin Cluverias Spiller, administrators of William Spiller, Gent vs. Lazarus Yarbrough. June 1774 Order Bk. 1774-76, p. 44, 48.
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      Old New Kent County [Virginia] Some Account of the Planters, Plantations, and Places, MH Harris, Vol. I p. 896, 897: The Denbigh Plantation

      ". . . and in 1782, William Spiller was charged with 265 acres [this would be William Spiller the son] and Benjamin C. Spiller was charged with 615 acres in King William on land tax records."


    Person ID I36182  Master File
    Last Modified 29 Sep 2016 

    Family Elizabeth Cluverius 
    Children 
    +1. William Spiller, II,   b. ca 1740, King William Co. VA Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. Bef 6 Jun 1800, King William Co. VA Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age ~ 60 years)
    +2. Benjamin Cluverius SPILLER,   b. Abt 1750, King William Co. VA Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. Bef 26 Mar 1801, Lancaster Co. VA Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age ~ 51 years)
    Last Modified 28 Sep 2016 
    Family ID F14924  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart