Laurence Riley and Tabitha White, Accomack, Va. and Somerset, Md. < 1700

 

© 2023 E.S. Mills Stages Events Records Found Potential Records for Laurence [var.] Riley

Birth registration

Accomack, Va. 1 August 1696 Virginia, Accomack County, p273 [Source]

Will of Thomas Rily names Mary Truitt and grandson James.

Wife. Sarah. Children: Thomas, Lawrence, Elizabeth, Sarah and Margaret.



Marriage

 

Somerset Rent Rolls show Laurence Riley held tracts Newport Pagnell and Winter Range on behalf of his wife Tabitha White.

Registrations of children

Daughters Sarah and Mary not traced or located.

Migration/immigration

In Somerset, Md ca. 1709

Land transactions

Accomack, Va and Somerset, Md

Taxation (poll & property)

TO DO -  Accomack, Va

  • Somerset, Maryland
  • Tax debt index/rent rolls Riley, Laurence
  • 1733 (85) and 1748 (93); Newport Pagnell; Winter Range.

Registration of cattle marks

 

Reporting of stray animals

 

Jury, road & militia duty

Check sources: Virginia Colonial Militia, 1651-1776 [1]

https://www.lva.virginia.gov/public/guides/va16_colonial.htm


 

News items & commentaries

Did frontier lands have newspapers in the 1600s?



Making of will

1709 in Somerset, Maryland.

Donations to children

26 December 1720, Tabitha & Robert Hill to sons Thomas Rayley & Johnson Hill one-half moiety each of Newport Panell on the Seaboard side mentions division made between John Watts & Priscilla his wife and Tabitha and Robert Hill 12 June 1719. Record does not state she is the widow of Laurence Riley. Source: Somerset County Court (Land Records) IK, p. 0189, MSA_CE102_17. Gift Robert Hill and Tabitha of Somerset, in good health, to sons Thomas Rayley and Johnson Hill.


Death registration

Will proved 10 November 1709 Tabitha Ryley and Capt. John Franklyn paid an administration bond of Five Hundred Pounds Sterling CM England. Tabitha signed by her mark. Witnesses Peter Dent Elizabeth Baggels.

Burial unknown

 

Probate settlement

 

 

Holes to fill in Laurence Riley and his wife Tabitha’s life

Marriage / death.

 Elizabeth Baggels - sister of Laurence ?

 

ANCESTRAL ASSOCIATES & THEIR ROLES

1709 Surety estate Laurence Riley

Capt. John Franklyn.

 

1733 Tax debt index Riley Laurence

 

1733 85 and 1748 93; Newport Pagnell; Winter Range.

 

1734 RAYLEY Thomas

50a. Newport Pannell, Winter Range

 

1734 WATTS William (Va.)

1734 39; 1735 149; Newport Pagnell also Wolves Denn

 

1735 Ryley Thomas

1735 155 Newport Pannell, Winter Range

 

1739 WATTS John (Va.)

1733 59; 1748 66; Newport Bagnell, Newport Pagnell; Partners Choice

 

[1] “As early as 1630, the governor's Council offered grants of land to persons who settled on the frontier. In 1646, the Council issued patents to the fort captains and men for the lands on which outlying forts were built along with the lands surrounding the forts. And, in 1701, in an unsuccessful attempt to garrison the frontier, patents equal to four times the headright were offered to groups of men who would undertake the defense of the frontier. None of these offers met with a great deal of success.”

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