William Roane opens his law practice in Essex County
1756, July 9: William Roane compiles his list of law books necessary to open his practice. “There were two distinct …
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Col. Francis Waring marries Lucy Cocke
May 12th 1744: Waring Bible Page Posted by: Renee Waring Date: September 09, 2000 at 21:09:58 I have an original …
William Aylett born – colleague to William Roane and George Washington
1743: William Aylett born at Fairfield Plantation, King William County – now known by its offshoot name Montville, just west …
Bannerman: Scottish Rebel, Poet, Cavalier
One of Scotland’s original “Virginia Cavalier” rebels owned Mahockney Plantation in 1726-27: Dr. Mark Bannerman.
Bannerman Gets a Hoe from Parson Latane
In the University of Virginia Rare Books Library, the Latane Family Papers collection contains a priceless treasure: the Parson’s Journal …
Francis Gouldman conveys 300 acres of Mehockney to William Winston, widower of Martha Tomlin Gouldman who owned it
May 19, 1725: William Winston II, the second husband of Martha (Tomlin) Gouldman of Essex, married her sometime after January 1710 but …
Mahockney plantation tied up in lawsuits
August 1718: The legal situation of Edward Gouldman’s and Robert Tomlin’s inheritances was rather messy, in part perhaps due to …
Francis Waring, son of Thomas Waring & Elizabeth Gouldman Waring, born
July 23, 1717: Waring Bible Page Posted by: Renee Waring Date: September 09, 2000 at 21:09:58 I have an original …
Martha Tomlin Gouldman and her late husband’s 21 slaves
1709 03 10 Gouldman, Edward’s estate inventory and 21 slaves From records of Essex County, found in Library of Virginia …
Bishop Meade on early Essex gentlemen: “Intelligence and a high state of morals for the time”
Writing in 1861 and looking back to the earliest seventeenth-century settlers of the Rappahannock valley, Bishop Meade in his “Old Churches …
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