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The Herndon Family of Virgsnsa

VOLUME OliE: The First Three Generations

by

JOHN GOODWIN H^ERMpON^ Ph. 0.,

Fellow, American Society of Genealogists

Privately Prin ted

1947

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Copyright 1947

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JOHN GOODWIN HERNDON

An Edition Limited to 500 Copies

of which this is copy

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THE ENGINEERS PUBLISHING COMPANY.

Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

Ttjis little volunje

is affectionately dedicated

to the inspiring njenjory

of njy beloved parents,

John Goodwin Herndon (1856-1938)

and

Florence Linton Herndon (1860 - 1940)

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TABLE OF COMTENTS

introduction;

CHAPTER ONE;

CHAPTER Tk'3:

CHAPTER THREE;

The First Gejieration: William Herndon the Inroigrant

ilic CcctAid Ceiier&lic-n.

Edward Herndon (1678-1758).

James Herndon (c 1683- p 1744).

William Herndon (c 1685-1759).

The Third Generation.

John Herndon (c 1700-1786).

Edward Herndon (c 1702-1759).

William heindon (1706-1783).

Richard Herndon (c 1703- p 1754).

Martha Hemdon Watkins (cl718-1766/7).

David Herndon (c 1712-1795).

James Hemdon (c 1716- c 1764).

Esther Hemdon Elley (c 1723- c 1768).

William Hemdon (c 1706-1773).

Edward Hemdon (c 1709- p 1743).

Joseph Hemdai (c 1716- c 1757).

John Hemdon (c 1718-1769)...

Fhilip Hemdon (c 1715- p 1760).

James Hemdon (c 1720-1767).

Edward Hemdon (c 1722-1306).

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INTRODUCTION

In attempting to prepare a correct genealogy

of the carlv generations of the Henidon familv of Virginia, I was confronted by two quite different

problems. Orie arises from the loss of all the

early official record books of certain counties

and the partial destruction of those of other counties where it is known that the family set¬

tled. TTie other comes from the duplication of

names in counties where the records are either

complete or nearly so. In other words, in one case there seems to be too little material; in

the other, too much.

G'incerniag the first of these points the fol¬

lowing informaticn may be valuable. Although the

Virginia land patent records are still exteint,

the deeds, wills, and marriage bonds of New

Kent, King and Ouee.n, and Caroline Counties no

longer exist. Fortunately the Order Books for Caroline from 1732 on, rich in references to the

Herndons, are still available.

Now as to the abundance of material and the resultant duplication of names, the following

facts are important. In the early records of

Spotsylvania there ere references to three Edward

Herndons whose wives were named Mary: Mary Waller, Mery Brock, and Mary Duerson; while in

adjacent Orange, Culpeper, and Stafford Counties

some of these same Edwards appear and, in addi¬ tion, Edward Herndon who married Mary Gaines and

another Edward Herndon who married another Mary

Waller. In Spotsylvania there are references to Joseph Herndon who married Mary Boswell and

Joseph Heradon who married Mary Minor, as well as other Joseph Herndons who married and had fami¬

lies. There we also find John Herndon who mar¬

ried Mary Foster whose son John married another

Mary. As to the William Herndons of Caroline, Spotsylvania, Orange, Culpeper, and Madison the

confusion is less, for the wives of only two of

the early ones were named Mary: Mary Bohannon and Mary Bucker; but two Williams in Caroline County

married Sarahs: Sarah Leftwich and Sarah Poe. And

there were three John Herndons who married

Sarahs: Sarah Wingfield, Sarah Pomfrett, and Sarah (Chapman) Mountjoy, all in the fourth generation.

Another difficulty relates to the use of the

word "junior" , which in the eighteenth century

was not limited to a son having the same name as

his father. Instead its use seems to have im¬ plied merely that another and older person of the

same name lived in the same community. One Edward Herndon had a son Joseph, Jr., and one Will iam Herndon had a son John, Jr. Indeed in

the settlement of die estate of one John Herndon

I found that he had a son George, Jr. , and another named John, Sr! Since there was then,

even as now, a tendency often to omit the "junior" after the name of a person who fre¬

quently used it, it follows that I have not been

able, in every case, positively to identify which

of the numerous Edwards, Johns, Josephs, and Williams performed each act associated with his

name in the existing records. Yet, on the whole, uncertainty as to the person meant has been re¬

duced, I believe, to a minimum. None exists as

to those who served in the Colonial Militia and

almost none as to those who served in the forces of the American Pevolution.

In Volume Two T propose to include a study of the Herndons of the fourth and fifth generations

of the family in America, as well as a record of

the service of all members of the family who are known to have rendered aid to the Patriot Cause

during the American Revolution. The method of

treatment will be substantially the same in that

volume as in this one, that is, with, adeauace citations to authorities.

Whether to continue the study of the Herndons

in volumes based on generations or on all the known descendants of sixth generation ancestors

will depend, in large measure, upon the advice

given me by those who read Volumes One and Two. If the decision is in favor of treatment by

family units, the story will be taken up family

by family in accordance with the order in which they appear in the numerical arrangement already

begun in this volume and to be continued in Volume Two. Tliere is much to be said in favor of each system.

Another volume will concern itself solely with the English Herndons. Already I have a tremen¬

dous collection of well arranged data pertaining

to them, or rather to some of them, in more or

less unbroken lines from the middle of the fif¬

teenth century until the end of the seventeenth,

in addition to miscellaneous records of their

ancestors named Herndon from 1170 to 1450, as

well as the charters granted to the conmunity in Kent named HERNDON (various spellings, the pre¬

ferred being Heronden) by King Ethel red in 833

and renewed in 968. [Spelling in the original

charter was Hyringdenne and in the renewal,

Hyringdaenn. ]

In the volumes dealing with the A.merican

family there will be made no serious attejnpt to carry out female lines of descent. Whan, how¬

ever, information has been furnished as to per¬

sons whose mother or grandmother was named

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Herndon, that record will be included.

It is important also to state what Herntlons

are not traced. Ihere settled early in Rhode

Island one Benjamin Hearnden who died there in

1687. He and his wife Elizabeth White had sons Joseph, William, John, Thomas, and Isaac, as well

as daughters Sarah, Alice, and Mary. That New

England family (doubtless related in Elngland to

the ancestors of WiHian Herndon of Virginia) has

been well traced in Austin’s Genealogical Dic¬

tionary of Rhode Island, and is not considered in

this or the subsequent volumes of this work. In

addition, in the 1050’s, another meml'er of the English family, spelling his name Hernden, set¬

tled in Canada whence his two sons moved to Ohio.

Their descendants who now live in Florida are likewise not included in these volumes. So far

as I know, there are no other white Herndon fam¬

ilies in the United .States except these three: the Virginia, the New England, and the Canada-

Ohio-Florida families.

In a work such as I have here started, my

sense of gratitude to the many who have helped me

is such that T should like to pay my respects to each one, but as they run into the hundreds I

must content myself by singling out those who

have contributed of their time and skill the most

toward making the present and the contemplated volumes an accurate record of the family of the

Herndons of Virginia. They are Mr. John W.

Herndon, of Charlottesville, Va., who searched

for Herndon data in old courthouses nearly fifty

years ago and who, in more recent years, went

with me on many a genealogical pilgrimage into all parts of Virginia and many parts of North

Carolina, Tennessee, Mississippi, and Kentucky;

Thomas Hall Herndon, now deceased, for many years

the distinguished president of the American Cross of Honor, who began collecting Herndon records

for just such a work as this in the 1880’s; Ruth

Hernden (Mrs. C. W. ) Shields, of CTiapel Hill,

N. C. , whose ability as a genealogical detective is extraordinary and who has personally inter¬

viewed more Herndon relatives, I believe, than

anyone else I know; Martha Gilrrore (Mrs. R. G. )

Robinson, of New Orleans, La., v/hose studies of the Herndon-Frazer lines of Virginia-Kentucky

have been painstakingly done; Nellie Burnett

(Mrs. W. D. ) Dickinson, of Glasgow, Ky. , and

Frances Beale (Mrs. Luke) Hodges, of V/ichita

Falls, Texas, who have studied with great care

the records of the descendants of Capt. James Herndon and his wife Isabella Thompson; Mr. Harry

H. Martindale, of Indianapolis, Ind., who fur¬

nished an abundance of valuable material ccncern- ing the Hemdon-Howard families of North Carolina,

Virginia, and Indiana; and Reverend Clayton

Torrence, of Richmond, Va., without whose advice

on many aspects of Virginia laws this volutr.e

would have contained far too many errors.

I shall be happy to receive Herndon family

data from any who read this book.

Haverford, Penna. , JOHN GOODWIN HERNDON

21 January 1947

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THE FIRST GSWERATfON

i WILLIAM KEPNOOH was the first Herndon in Virginia of whor.) there is official record. His

dates are said to have been 1649-1722.^ WicUher

these are correct cannot now be established, bit they are consistent with all that is known of

him.

From tlie patents issued to William Herndon we

learn that he was active in pronoting the devel-

o()incnt of new settlements upon the upper waters of the Mattapoai, having individually assisted

ten persons, and in company with Robert Bagby fifth-six persons, to locate in that part of New Kent Coauty which was then on the outposts of

the Colony. The lands patented to him were lo¬ cated on the northeast side of the Mattaponi, and after 1691 when King end Queen County was

created, they were found to be within the limits

of the new county. The two patents to William Herndon and Robert Bagby jointly were for 1,800

and 1,000 acres, respectively, while the two

patents issued to William Herndcaa individually

were for 430 and 64 acres, respectively. The

persons named at the end of each patent are

those on account of whose transportation the

patent was issued. The wording of the patents

goes thus:^

"To ell etc. Whereas etc. Now Know Yee that I the said Sr. Win. Berkeley Knit. Gov- ertsor cte. Give ^nd vnto Robt Eagbv and ^’a. Hernden Eighteene Hundred Acres of Land lying uppon the N. E. Sice of Mattopony River in New Kent Gjunty beginaing at two hicorys Standing about forty paces above an Indian Weire being the Lower Gjmer tree of Mr. Hall and Mr. Piggs Land then running

Downe the said River 306 pole to a pine standing on a peece of Low lend by the River at the Lower Elnd of A high banke then by mrked trees N.E. by N. 960 poles of two red okes then N.W. 306 poles to two red okes be¬ ing the Comer trees of Mr. Halls and Piggs land, then Joyneing to their Land S. W. by S.

960 poles to the hicory ?there it began. The said Land is Due by and for Transportation of thirty Six psons etc. To have and to hold etc. To be held etc. Yeilding and paying to Our Sov. Lord the King etc. Provided etc. Dated 18th Feby 1673/4

Nicks. Ediaonds Margarett Plumton WiB. Carter George Randell Marg Wmson Wn. Sieeres Tim. Wittinghan Gso. -Barker Cnthbert Tunstall Fra. Barnett Tho. Butlesby

^tbo. Thoapson James Jones Theo. Whitney Xper. Morline Nicb. South

Jno. Throgmorton Geo. Landeli John French Wm. Kirby fka. Cutler Nick. Fre^an

Wji. Netberby Tiio>thy Key Wm. Monroe N i ch. Po t te r

Nich. Peiceson Geo. Turner Bsnj. Sieerea

Ifci. Dawson Xpefer. Mickleton Marg. Nichoil.s Randall Morecroft

Geo. Ridley Geo. Drummond Wb. Sunders "

"To all etc. Whereas etc. Now Know yee that I the said Sr. Wm. Berkeley Knt. Gover¬ nor etc. Give and Grant unto Wm. Herndon Sixty four Acres of Land in St. Stephens pish in New Kent County Joyneing to the Cevident he now lives upon, beginning at the S.W. Cor¬ ner of the said Devident runing E.S.E. i/4 So. 69 jKjle along W,i. Hurts Line to a red oke E.N.E. 63 pole to c red oke ufxjn the side of A hill, then S. 128 pole to .A hicory N.E. 161 pole to A hicory No. W. 3/4W. 30 pole to an old mrked hicory of the aforesaid deviJent of

Hemdens and along that line West 210 poles to the place where it Began. The said is Dae for Transportation of one pson into this Colony etc. To have and to hold etc. To be held etc. Yeilding and paying etc. Provided etc. Dated 18th Febry. 1673/4

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"To all etc. Whereas etc. Now Know Yee that I the said Sr. Wb. Berkeley Knt. Gov-ei'- nor etc. give and grant unto Wra. Henidon .tour hundred end thirty acres of Land Lying upon

the N. side of Mattopony riv. in New Kent County Joyning to Mr. Morrice’s Land Bichd. Davis and Robt. Jones begining at a marle.i hicory that divides this Land from Mr. Morrice and Ftichd. Davis’s land standing by the roade to Dennis's plaritacon then runing along the said Davis’s land No. E. 260 poles to A poplar in Tomocoricon Swanip then do-Tin the Swamp E. 40 poles to A white oke Corner of Davis's old devident then N.W. 150 p.-c-Iss then S.W. 580 poles to a red oke neere Robt. Jones’s Land then S.E. by E. 123 to Mr. Morrice’s red oke Comer then by mrked trees N.E. 275 poles to the hicory where it Began. The said Land is Due for Tr anspc rt aeon of nine psons into this Colony. To h.ive and to hold etc. To be held etc. Yeilding and pay¬

ing etc. Provided etc. Dated the 18th February 1673/4.

Tbo. Warr Jno. Ashington Alice Lameham Tho. Cooke Mathew Thomas

Bridgett Cross Wb. Hawley Hen. Benskxn

Richd. Owen"

"To all etc. Whereas etc. Now Know yee that I the said Sr. Wm. Berkeley Knt. Gover¬ nor etc. Give and Grant unto Wb. Hemden and Robt. Bagby one thousand Acres of Land lying in New Kent County on the No. Side of Matto¬

pony Riv. Joyning a.nd Begining at Mr. Tho. Halls and Jno. Piggs two white Oke Corner trees of their 3831 Acres runing by marked trees No. Ea. by No. 320 poles to A red Oke then S.E. by E. 500 poles to A white oke that devides this land from 920 Acres of Jno Pigg

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line r«.W. by Ji. S03 polea t-D the place *lierc it began.* Tiie said Land is Due for traris-

portacou of 20 paons ir.to this Gslony, etc. To hare and to hold etc. To be held etc. Yeilding and paying etc. Prorided etc. Dated the 18th day of Feby. 167 3/4.

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P{>bt. Chickeater Jao. Ware Ann Trowel1 Alice Coffee Anth. Jefferson Wra. Conway Jno. SyiEons

Qja. Price Ja. Smith Edit. Crowder"

The expression used in the second of these patents "Sixty four Acres of Land in St. Stephens p[ar]ish in New Kent County Joyneing to

the Devident he now lives upon" clearly implies

that William Herndon had already established his

residence there. How much sooner he had come to

Virginia is not known, but the transportation of

ten persons by himself alone and fifty-six per¬

sons by Eagby and himself in cooperation proba¬

bly required more than a year. It seems safe,

therefore, to assume that William Herndon had

arrived in Virginia as early as 1672. Since, moreover, the names of the persons he trans¬

ported, both men and women, are recorded, but

that of hir 'vife is not, it Tould appear that he

was a bachelor or widower, and if the latter,

then that his wife had died in England.

A grant of land 13 October 1686 to Mr.

Stephen Btirbridge, of [Old] Rappahannock County,

and Mr. Richard lunstall, of New Kent County, located on "the freshes of the Mattapony" and "back in the woods", states that it adjoined

"the lands of Robert Bagby and William Herendon,"

the joint patentees above named. Captain Josiah

Story, and William Morris, and that a tree near

the Porto-bacco path was one of the boundary

marks.®

In 167? William Herndon is said to have mar¬

ried Catherine, youngest daughter of Edward

Digges, of "Belfield", who had been Governor of

Virginia in 1655. Let us examine all the evi¬

dence concerning this assertion.

In 1943 the compiler of this genealogy request¬ ed his friend, Mr. John Waterhouse Herndon, of

Charlottesville, Va., to give him a statement

about the early Herndon marriages in Virginia.

In compliance therewith he prepared a statement

2 June 1943 later acknowledged before a notary

public. Its first paragraph reads, as follows:

■"The ieforaHtion with respect to William Herodon aad his wife, Catherine Diggea;

, Edwsrd Herndon, hi# boh, and Mary Waller, hire vife; and Willii;^ Herndon and kia wife, Axui

Drysdale, given by me in the fifth paragraph on page 319 of the January, 1902, issue of the Virginia Wegarine of History and Biogra¬ phy [Vol. IX, No. 3] and the marriage of Edward Herndon and Mary Brock, in tha follow¬ ing paragraph, was furnished *e by my father's first cousin, Lucy Taylor Herndon, who informed me thst it had been given to her by Mr. Moncure D. Conway, many years ago-- probably in the late 1880’s or early 1690’3; that he had secured the date from original court records and aone old letters, and thet

at the time he thought of writing an account of the Herndon fanply, which, by the wey, he never did. She [Lucy Taylor HerndonJ in¬ formed me also that when Mr. Conway was in Frederickeburg, Va. , in 1898, she caked him egain alout the matter aad he replied that he could tell nothing further except that he remembered looking it up at the time....

"Early in 1898 1 wrote to Mr. Conway, then living in New York, to see if he could give me this information direct, or any additional data. To this he replied on April 16, 1898,

in part as follows:

’...I am eo overarhelncd by the death of my wife, which occurred ou Qiristmas Ehy,

that my affairs and correspondence have

been neglected. My hone is broken up, my library gone, end mo.'st of iiy papers stored in a warehouse....

* But my delay has been in pert due to my hope that I might be able to diacortr one or two letters that I received from members of the Herndon faraily eievei-; or twelve years ago [that is 1837 or 18Sb] when I was writing sn article on Freder- i ck sburg. . . .

*I have not been able to lay my hands on any more relating to the Herndons. I will keep your letter and if I come across a.nything I will send it to ycu.*

"The data which f.!r. Conway submitted ere as follows:

'William Herndon married in 1677 Catherine Digges, youngest daughter of Edward Digges, governor of Virginia in 1655.

'Edward Herndon, eldest son of William and Catherine (Digges) Herndon, was boro in 1678 and married in 1698 Mary Waller.

'Edward Herndon, eldest son of Edward and Mary (Waller) Herndon, married Mary Bro ck.

'William Herndon, son of Edward and Mary (Waller) Herndon bom in 1706, mar¬ ried Ann Drysdale, daughter of Ueutenmat Governor Hugh Drysdale.*

Mr. Conway does not, in any statement per- taijiing to the Herndons t.Hat has conxj down to us

from him, give a single reference to any source

-- official record, conteraporanecus record, or printed book -- for the statements he meJees. He refers vaguely to remembering ^looking it up at

the time" and to certain "letters that I re¬ ceived frora fnernbers of the Herndon family eleven

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or twlve years af^o [i.e., 1887 or 1886]." Hie

date when he catlicred the material is not

stated. If 4t was as early as 1860 (and that is

not at all unreasonable, for he was bom in 1832

and had graduated from the Harvard Divinity

School in 1854), then many records in Virginia

were available to him that were destroyed by

1888. Let us mention a few. Some of the King

and Queen Clounty records were destroyed in 1820

and others in 1864. The fragments of the records of King William County that survived the

fire of 1886 throw no light on a Herndon-Digges

relationship, but even the small bits that es¬ caped destruction contain one reference to

Edward Herndon. If Mr. Conway examined the records before 1886, as he very well may have

done, there is no reason to suppose that he may not have found there certain reference.^ to the

marriages which he states he found in the records. On the other hand, the York County

records have been preserved from. 1632 to the

present. They have been carefully studied in

the hope of finding some item to support Mr.

Ckinway’s statement that William Herndon married

Catherine Digges, for York County was the home

of the Digges family.

Those records afford evidence that Governor

Edward EHgges died in 1675 and tliat at a meeting

of the General Court 15 June 1675 a probate of

his will was granted to Mrs. Elizabeth Digges,

his relict and executrix.^ The will of Edvard

Digges, however, is missing from the Virginia

records, for the will records of the General

Court were destroyed i.n 1865 when the General

Court House in Richmond was burned in the con¬ flagration that swept the city at that time. A

copy of the will of Edward Digges, however, was

proved and recorded in the Prerogative Court of Canterbury'. 8 An abstract of it follows:

"eDWARD DIGGS Will 28 August 1669; proved • June 30, 1686 L?J . Now bound upon a Voyage for Virginia do irake my wife Eliiabetl' Diggs my sole executrix and doe give her £12j0, and all the rest of my estate except the follow¬ ing legacies. To all my children being four boys and four girls £250 each, the profits of

2/3 of my plantation till my eldest son is 24. Guardians and executors, in case of my wife’s death. Sir William Houell, Coll William Willis, Mr. John Jefferies, and my cozen IXidley Diggs. Witnesses; Jo: Diggs, Will Diggs The 16th of June, 1675. This will was proved in Court by the oath of Will Diggs and a probate granted the Executrix and ordered to be recorded. This is a true copv of the abovesaid will, from the Records in the Secretary’s office. Test Edw. Harrison, per E: Chilton official clerk. 15 May 1685. The above writing is a true co{w of the will of Edward Diggs Esqr. takei of fsic] from the Records, as appe.^re's by the Certiff of the

Clerke of the Office, William Cole, John Page. "

• Vlien Edward Digges made bis wili 28 .August

1669, he had four sons and four daughters liv¬

ing. Their Qiristian names are not menticned in the will. They all seem to have been minors

when it was written. The inscription on his tomb at "Pelfield", York County, states:*

"lie had issue 6 sonnes and 7 daughters by the body of Elizabeth, his wife, who of her Conjugal affection hath dedicated to him this

Memorial.

Therefore two sons and three daughters died in

infancy prior to the date of their father’s

will.

In the standard Digges family pedigree pub¬

lished in January 1893,’ it was stated that ox

Governor Edward Digges’ children, "only four are

known;" viz: (1) William Digges (who died 1698); settled in Charles County, Maryland;

(2) Mary Digges, bom about 1655, died 10 May

1690, married Captain Francis Page; (3/ Ann

Digges born 1660, died 22 November 1688,^ mar¬ ried Colonel William Cole; (4) Dudley Digges,

born about 1665, died 1710, married Susannah

Cole.

Another son, one named Edward, was dis¬

covered to be living in 1692 at the time of the

settlement of the estate of his mother, Mrs.

Elizabeth (Page) Digges.® A.t the end of the

above-mentioned Digges genealogy a note reads;

"in Matthews Co. have lived for many years numerous representatives of the Digges. name who are not placed in the above pedigree. They may be descendants of the unknown sons of Gov. Exlward Digges...

A statement follows that shows the predominance of the name Thomas Digges in the family of the

contributor of that note.

Catherine may have been another. One vevy

strong piece of circumstantial evidence, how¬

ever, in support of Catherine Digges as the wife

of William Herndon, came unexpectedly to the

compiler of this record from Mr. Trist Wood, of

New Orleans, with whom he had had correspondence

from time to time on various genealogical mat¬

ters. It reads:

"2521 Gen. Taylor St., New Orleans,

March 19/39 "Dear Dr. Herndon:

I do not know whether the eiiclosed will be of any interest or service to you.

"You need not return it.

Very sincerely yours,

Trist Wood"

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Thp enclosure, initialed T. W. , was headed

"Copy of Fnclosure in a letter to me from Mrs. G. G. l\ickcr, dated V/itch Pond Farm, Flberton,

Ga. , June 16, 1922." An exact copy of it

follows:

"Edward I!erndon Jr. married Nancy Ann Buclier in Va Aug 18, 1791 Gilpeper Gj. (died in Elbert G> Geo Sept. 22, 1827)

"Q»ildien: Mary Gainea, b in Orange Co. Va June 2,

1792 married Dbzier Brown Elizabeth Rucker b. 5 1793

(William Gainea moved to Ala) Dillard b Orange Co. Va Apr 22, 1795

(died Elbert Co Geo July 24, 1873) Catherine Digges b Orange Co. Va. F'eb 28,

ITJr cu Lppe h'liice (uieii in CiLei't

1884 my great grandparents) Sarah b Orange Co. Sept. 29, 1798 married

Adams died October 1853 Frances b Orange Co Va Nov 2 1800 married

Adams died Jasper Co. Ga. 1841 Nancy b Orange Co Va June 18 1802 died

Elbert Co Geo March 2 1820 Rachel b Elbert Co Geo Feb 9 1804 married

Burrus died 1837

Lucy b Elbert Co Geo apr 22 1805 died Oct 27, 1820

Thomas Rucker b Elbert Co Geo .March 29,

1807 died Oct 16. 1821

W’illiam and Edword h 1799 [undoubtedly in error for 1309j died within 24 hours --dates not copied

"Their graves Levidently referring to the graves of Edward and Nancy Ann (Rucker) Herndon] are within five miles of here and the two old Bibles are within a few hours motor [probably referring to Bibles belonging to Edward Herndon, Jr., and his brother Benjamin who settled nearby].

I copied names and dates of birth mar¬ riage and death from a transcript in my prayer book which is always with me--hence I could do this much now. [She means copied for me. T. Wood. ]

Tnis county is full of Gaineses from Va all k in to me and at one time a branch of the Pendletons lived here.

Now let us consider the given names of these Herndon children:

(1) Mary Gaines, named for her grandmother Herndon;

(2) Elizabeth Rucker, named for her grand¬ mother Rucker;

(3) Dillard, named for Judge Dillard, a family friend;

(4) Catherine Di]gges, according to tradition now but what may well have been family knowledge then, the name of the first of the Herndon women in Virginia, Catherine, daughter of

Governor Edward Digges, and wife of William Herndon;

(5) Sarah, caned for a sister of her mother’s;

(6) Fre’ces, named for anotiier sister of her mo ther's;

, (7) N.wicy, named for her mother; (8) Rachel, named for a .si.ster of her

father’s; (9) Lucy, for whom named we uo cot know; (10) Thomas Rucker, named for his grandfather

Ricker; (11) and (12) Willia-m and Edward, named for

their uncle and father, respectively, or for their great-grandfather and grandfather Herndon, re.spectively.

If, therefore, Edward Herndon, Jr., who seems

to have had a great sense of family ties, named

his daughter, born in 1797, Catherine Digges

Herndon, is it reasonable to suppose that she

was given this name by mere coincidence?

Mr. Conway's assertions, therefore, while not

proved, ought not to be lightly brushed aside.

He says that F.dward Herndon was William's son. We find plenty of references to Edward Herndon,

as will appear later on in the next chapter.

Wliile a court record of the marriage in 1698 of

Edward Herndon and Mary Waller has not been found, there is strong reason to believe that

Mary Waller was his wife, as will be .shovai in

the next chapter. If Edward was the eldest son

of William Herndon and Catherine Digges as has

been assumed, then his being so named follows a

practice long prevailing in Virginia of naming

the oldest son for one of his two grandl’atliers,

in this case, Edward for his mother’s father.

The name Waller occurs as a given name in one

branch of the Herndon family even to this day.

The name Pomfrett, which occurs quite fre¬

quently as a distinctive given name in the

Waller family, is also found in the Herndon family and several times in connection with

Waller. The Spotsylvania records reveal that the Wallers and Brocks were intimate friends of

the Herndons. They witnessed eacli other’s wills

and were overseers of each other’s estates, and inventoried them, and served each other in other

capacities; spoke of each other as "dear

friends", which in old record.s was often

synonymous with "relatives"; they were neighbors

as well; their estates adjoined or were in close

proximity. It would seem reasonably likely,

therefore, that there was a family tie between

them.

For a long time the Herndon family had been

seated in and around Tenterden, county Kent.

Edward Digges was a son of Sir Dudley Digges, of Chilham (Tastle, in Kent, not far from the vil¬

lage of Tenterden. In 16 53 Edward Digges was

granted a Virginia patent to 2,350 acres on the

north side of the Mattaponi River.He returned to England first late in 1655, and made

other voyages thereto later on, one ending in 1669. Is it not piossible, even likely, that on

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other land patented to him was described as

■upon the north side of the Mattapony Fiver",

which is the same phrase as used in the patent

issued to Edward Digpes in 1653.

Another piece of circumstantial evidence sup¬

porting the Catherine Digges tradition came in a

letter dated 18 July 1946 to the compiler of

this genealogy from Mrs. Robert G. (Martha

Gilmore) Robinson, 26 Audubon Place, New

Orleans, La., from which the following are

quoted:

"in 1939 when I was in Yorktown, Mrs.

G[eorge] DLudlcy] Chenowcth, hostess at the

Digges House there, showed me a patchwork

'star* with the names 'Catherine Digges -

Fauquier Va. - March 1848' worked in it.

Mrs. Chenoweth’s husband* s father was a

minister living in Winchester in 1848. Miss

Eliiabeth Sloan of Winchester, granddaughter

of the minister, had found this 'star' among

his effects and had sent it to her aunt

Mrs. Chenoweth.

"Also, in the Warren Frarer Bible is the

entry 'Catherine D. Fraier died 5-Feb-]838.*

I know this family knew of the two governor

tradition [referring to Edward Digges and

Hugh DrysdaleJ. They were quite capable of

naming their eldest daughter-after their most

illustrious ancestress.”

The compiler of this genealogy considers that

although the marriages of William Herndon and

Catherine Digges and of Edward Herndai and Mary Waller have not been formally proved, the cir¬

cumstantial evidence submitted supports Mr.

Moncure D. Conway’s statements published in the

Virginia Magazine of History and Biography in

January 1902. In what follows, the fact of

those marriages will be assumed.

In a separate publication now scheduled for 1949 an attempt will l>e made to identify William

Herndon among his Kentish relatives.

Catherine (Digges) Herndon’s dates have been

given as 1654-1729.^* Her death probably

occurred in Caroline County and her husband's in

St. Stephen’s Parish, King and (^een County, of

which it is known that their son Edward was a

resident in 1722. As the essential records of

these counties for the years concerned have been

lost, we can not prove either the dates of their

deaths or the details of their property inter¬

ests.

Putting together the available data, we con-

c^lude that William and Catherine Herndon were

‘the parents of at least the three son.s named

below.No documentary evidence in support of

this assumption has been found, but they seori to

be of about the same age and to have lived near

one another. Unless one or more of them migrated directly to Virginia, of which there is

no evidence whatever, they were probably

brothers. Whether William and Catherine had any

daughters can not be established from the

extant records. All that we know is that arnong

the saved Order Books, beginning in 1732, cf

(Caroline County (which was created in 1723 frori

parts of Essex, King and Queen, and King William

Counties) are numerous references to the

Herndons.

Children of WILLIAM HERNDON and CATHERINE

DIGGES:

2 i. Edward (1678-1758) m 1st Mary Waller, 2nd -- Leftv/ich

3 ii. James (cl683-p 1744) m Mary George

4 iii . William (c 1685-1759) m 1st -- 2nd Mrs. Sarah (—-) Leftwich

FOOTNOTES ON WILLIAM HERNDON [I]

1 These dates first appear, so far as we know, in the sketch of WILLIAM HEPNDON as an Immigrant

Ancestor, on page 666 of Volume III of The Abridged Compendium, of American Genealogy, edited

by F. A. Virkus and published December 1928. They are first cited in the lineage of Dallas

Tabor Herndon, Secretary of the Arkansas Historical Commission, Little Bock, .Ark., on page 238

thereof. References to these volumes, when hereinafter made, will be in the following form:

III Virkus 238, 666. These dates are also found in James Clark. . .Mansfield...Christopher

Clark and Allied Families [p.l20], compiled by Virginia Eliza (Hodge) MoN'aught who died in

1934, and published by her daughter Helen Fairfax (McNaught) Geary, Oakland, Calif., in 1935.

2 6 Virginia Land Patents 502, 503, preserved in the Land Office, Richmond, Va. These patents

were read and transcribed by two careful persons one about the year 1900, the other about

1935. They disagreed as to the names of a few of the persons trauisported, as ioliows: Nichs (Mich) Edmonds, Wh:. .Mercer (Monroe), Geo. Landell (Laudill), Bridget Cross (Croft). Moreover,

no attempt ha.s been made to reproduce in this list of names all the minor variatioris of orthography noted on the originals, such as %r., Wm. , W’m, W'*’, etc.

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Villian and Mary College Qiarterly Historical Magazine First Series, original printing, 84,

reprint edition, 141. This magazine is hereinafter cited as Hsi. and Mary (1), for the first

series, and Itin. and Mary (2), for the second series.

In the main body of the text of the Digges article the date of the death of Ann Digges is given as "21 Nov. 1688" both in the original and the reprint. In the reprint edition, however, the

year of her death on her tombstone is given incorrectly as 1685, but correctly in the original

printing, thus: "Slie departed this Life the 22nd day of November,, 1688, in the 29th year of

her Age."

1 Hr. and Mary (1), original, 85, reprint 142.

Ibid, original 176, reprint 208

Ibid, original 100, reprint 154

25 Hb. and Mary (1) 72

III Virkus 666

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SECOND GENERATION THE

2 k'OWARD HERNCOH [1 William] was bom in 1678^

in .New Kent-GDunty, Va., but as a result of the

creation of new counties, his home in St.

Stephen's Parish was, from 1691 to 1728, in King

and Queen, and thereafter in Caroline County.

The records of King William County, of which

only a few fragr.ients have been preserved, show

that in 1722 Robert Parish, of St. Stephen’s Parish [King and Queen], conveyed to^

"Edward Herndon, of the same County and par¬

ish... a certain parcell of Land containing

fourty six acres Scituate lying and being in

King Wm County and upon the South... Baylor and

Francis Michael Lands being part of a Patent

oftl'elSth rViy of April 1. . .wi th all nessuapes,

houses, Stables...standing or belonging to¬

gether with all orchards gardens ways waters

Profits priviledges Commodities advantages

w t soever to the same belonging...

In this particular fragment there are also the

interesting words, "a Patent for Land in the

fork of Mattapony", reminiscent of the words in

the grants to Edward Digges in 1653 and William

Herndon in 1673/4.

RESIDENCE Edward Herndon was referred to, in a patent which was granted to him 16 June 1727 for 400 acres in Spotsylvania County, as "Edward

Hernton, of King and Queen County." In the

Caroline County records he is mentioned us of Drysdale Parish.Robert Parish was a neighbor.

There is no reason to believe that Edward

Herndon's residence was changed when Caroline County was erected, but merely that once more

his old home was in a new county. His plantation

was located at the intersection of the Main Road,

down fran Douge Town Bridge, and the Courthouse

Road, as the latter turned up to the Maricosie

Bridge.® His home was also mentioned as on the

road leading to the Spotsylvania Boad. It was

probably, therefore, near the dividing line be¬

tween Caroline and Spotsylvania Counties.

ROAD MATTERS On 14 June 1733 Edward Herndon petitioned the court to have the road by his

house turned. Thomas Buckner, Gent., was directed to view the same and report on the proposal at

the next court.’ Edward Herndon seems to have

had a great deal of trouble in keeping his road in good condition. Ch 15 January 1736/7 and 11

March 1737/8 he was presented by the Grand Jury

for not keeping his road in repair, and on each

occasion he was fined 15 shillings which he was

directed to pay to the churchwardens of Drysdale

Parish for the benefit of the poor of the parish.®

Two days after this second fine was imposed, Robert Lowery (wlvo was overseer of the road from

Douge Town into the Main Road by George Hoomes's

house, thence along the same road to the bottom

against Edward Herndon's, and so along the Courthouse f^oad to Maricosie Bridge) directed Edward Herndon to keep the same in repair.

On 9 November 1739 he was paid, out of the

county levy, 60 pounds of tobacco "for erecting

posts with inscriptions along the roadside."

This is one of the early references in American records to the erection of signposts for the

guidance of travelers.

Edward Herndon's road troubles were by no

means over, for 8 February 1739/40 the Grand

Jury again presented him for not keeping his

road in repair and for not setting up posts as

directed. Failing to appear in court, he was

ordered to pay a fine of 15 shillings for each

offense, and the sheriff was ordered to collect

the money from him and pay it over "for uses of

the King."“

Qi 14 February 1745/6 he petitioned the court to consider the inconvenience occasioned to him

by the way the road ran by his plantation.

Thomas Buckner, George Hoomes, and Bobert Parish

were ordered to view the said road and report thereon at the next court.Five years later

the tables were turned when the Grand .Jury pre¬ sented the overseers of the road between Edward

Herndon’s place and the Spotsylvai'.ia Road for

not having set up posts with directions inscribed

thereon.

HIS FIRST WIFE Edward Herndon married Mary

Waller in 1698, according to Moncure D. Conway.

She was bom 23 May 1674 at Newport Pagneil,

county Bucks, England, daughter of Dr. .John

Waller and Mary Pomfrett who were married 13

January 1669 at Walton, county Bucks. The

date of her death is not of record, but it was

before 11 August 1732^® and probably as early

as 1720.

Two strong items of circu-mstantial evidence

support Mr. Conway’s statement of this marriage.

The first has been found in the language used in the deed of gift of the 400-acre tract in Spot¬

sylvania that Edward Herndon "of Caroline" gave

"for love and affection" to his son Edward

Herndon, Jr. [no place of residence stated] , i.n

1739, the bounds of which were as follows:^®

"Beginning at a Comer of Mrs. Marv Waller’s

(Now Mr. Zachery Lewis’s) and Capt. Larkin

Chew’s (Now Hawkins) standing on a hill Side

by a Branch thence South 72 degrees west, 292

poles to four small black Oaks on a Know!

thence north-west 220 poles to a stake cn a

Ridge in the poyson Field thence .North 72

degrees east 292 poles to two white Oaks and

a Small black Oak, Corner of Capt. Larkin

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thence South 222 poles to the beginning Place.

The Mary Waller mentioned above wa.s the mother

of Edward Herndon’s wife. The land is further

identified by Edward Herndon, Sr., in the deed

of gift, as follows:

and 13 December 1745 as foreman of the jury which heard the ca.se of Anne Eubank, v. William Carter.In addition, he performed jury service in cases heard on the following dates, but the

names of the litigants were not copied: 13 .June 17 34, 14 March 1739/40, 14 .August 1747, and 11

November 1749.

"...said tract of four hundred acres of

Land was Granted by patent to ye Sd. Edward

Herndon bearing Date the XVIth day of June

MDCCXXVII..."

The second item of circumstantial evidence in

support of the Hemdon-Waller marriage is found

in the following excerpt from a letter written by

Joseph Herndon, a grandson of this Edward, being

a son of the Edward who was the grantee-donee in the deed of gift above rfuoted, in which he

speaks of his cousin Jack Waller:

"To Rev Mr Stevenson

Rector of St Mark’s

(iilpper

Dear Sir;

This being Easter day and a rainy

Morning I thought that I could not employ my

time better than in Giving [tom] you a Letter

by [torn] way of Remembrance....! will now

tell you a passage relating to my Cousin Jack

Waller. He Poldly applied to Seven VestryTnen

the other day to Join him in a petition for

the Sale of our Glebe.... ... if it should be in your Power to

help him [his son John Minor HemdonJ to a Jobb

at any time, the favour will be Gratefully

Acknowledged by him who is at all times and

in all places your Friend and

Sincere well wisher

(Signed) Jos. Herndon

April 8’th 1787"

HIS SECOND WIFE The record in the suit involving Edward Herndon and others against William Herndon

[4], described in the sketch of the said William, indicates that Edward’s second wife was probably

a daughter of the Thomas Leftwich, deceased,

whose estate was in the process of settlement.

Her Christian name is not of record. They seem

to have had only one child, Esther, from whose

marriage date, 23 December 1742, we have esti¬

mated that she was probably born about 1722 or

1723 and that Edward Herndon's second marriage took place about 1721.

JURYMAN Edward Herndon served 14 June 1733 as a

juryman in the cases of Richard Clutterback v.

William Skelton, and Edward Morgan v. Eliza

Lomax, executrix of John Lomax, deceased;*^® on

10 January 1733/4 in the cases of Henry Ober v.

Henry White, and Sutten et al. v. T. Carr, Jr.;^®

and on 13 June 1740 in the case of John Latham

v. Joseph Holmes.^” He served 14 November 1740

and 13 .May 1743 as a member of the Grand Jury®^

APPRAISER Edward Herndon was appointed by the

Caroline Court on 12 March 1735 to appraise the

estate of Evan Thomas, deceased.

RUNAWAY SLAVE CERTIFICATE On 11 .August 17^4

Edward Herndon produced a certificate from George

Hoomes, Gent., for taking up a runaway slave

named (juiney, belonging to James Taylor, Gent.,

of Caroline, which was ordered to be recorded.^®

GUARDIAN BONOS On 8 March 1744/5 William Herndon [4] and Robert Wright went on the bond

of Edward Herndon when he was appointed guardian

to Thomas, Anna, and John, orphans of Joh.n

Riddle.^®

SUITS On 11 August 1744 Edward Herndon and James Terrell entered suit against C^orge Trible

and Ann his wife, petitioning the Court to order

Ann Trible to give them good security for the

faithful administration of a certain estate the name of which was not given. They stated thac

they were her bondsmen before her marriage to

George Trible, and they feared that she was

liable to embezzle the estate. *'’ On 9 October

1744 the case was dismissed.®® (]h 10 February

1749/50 Jacob Kendrick w-as qrdered to pay Edward

Herndon £4 and costs of the suit brought by

Herndon.®® His last suit was heard 16 December

1752. It was Edward Herndon v. John Wither¬

spoon. Judgment was entered in favor of the

plaintiff for 452 pounds of tobacco and costs.

The sheriff attached one horse belonging to that

estate, which he was ordered to sell, in order

to satisfy the judgment.

LAST YEARS AND DEATH No reference to Edward Herndon during the last five years of his life

is found in the preserved Caroline County Order

Books. It is presumed that his death occurred

shortly before the probating of his will 9 March

1758, at which time he was either 80 years of

age or in his eightieth year. The Court Minute 1 31

reads:

"At a Court for Caroline County on Tliurs-

day the 9th day of March 17 58....

"The Last Will and Testament of Edwar-d

Herndon, deed was presented by Wiilia:n and

James Herndon Ex^® therein named who made

oath thereto According to I.aw and being further

proved by the Oaths of James Herndon, Elisha

Dismukes, and John Herndon witnesses ther.2to

& adm^ [admitted] to record &c. "

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LUSS OF CAROLINE WILLS AND DEEDS Concerning the contents of that will we are in the dark, for unfortunately the Caroline Will Flooks and Deed

Books were transferred frooi the courthouse at

Bowling Green to the courthouse at Bichmond, during the Vi/ar between the States, in the belief that they would be safer there. The Court Oi'der

Books were left undisturbed in the Clerk’s office

in Bowling Green. It was a singularly ironic fate that the most valuable of the records,

removed to a place of siqiposed safety, should have been destroyed by a fire originating from the action taken by the Confederates in setting

fire to their own stores in order to prevent the

Lhion forces from obtaining them, while the less

valuable records, left virtually on the battle¬

field and in the hands of the enemy, should have

escaped destruction.

INVENTORY OF HIS ESTATE The closing item in the

record of the subject of this sketch is the Court Minute of 13 July 1758 which reads:

"inventory of the estate of Edward Herndon

returned & adaitted to Record.

Who the appraisers were is not stated, nor is there any order of the Court entered which directs

the filing of the inventory. No details of the

contents of the inventory are given.

HIS CHILDREN In the absence of any detailed

account of the settlement of his estate, it is

impossible to be sure who all his children were. It is not probable, however, that he had other

sons who lived to manliood than those named below.

There well may have been other daughters than

Martha and Esther, but no record of them has come down to us. The gaps betv/een the birth

years, which have been carefully estimated, suggest that.

We list John as the eldest sen and Edward as

the seccaid son for two reasons. In the first place, there was a recognized custom of naming

the first son for his mother’s father. Thus

William Herndon the Immigrant [l] had named his

first son Edward in honor of Edward Digges, the

child’s mother’s father. So this Edward seems

to have named his first son John for that child’s

maternal grandfather Dr. John Waller, and his

second son for himself as Edward, Jr. In the

second place, John’s children were older than the

children of any of John’s brothers. As John

left his father’s home probably before Caroline

Coun.ty was created, his name i.s not foiuai in the

records of that county until he witnessed liis father’s will in 1758. Tliat explains why Mr.

Conway did not mention John, and instead called

Edward, Jr., the eldest son, and William the

next one. It seems likely that 1706 was the

year of the birth of William, as Mr. Conway

stated.

We place Richard as the fourth son. Nothirig is known about him except the one citation to

his service as a witness in Caroline in 1732,

but he seems to have been the ancestor of the Orange County, N.C., Herndons, except those who descend from the above-mentioned John.

David received a Spotsylvania patent in 1732 because of the generous act of Edward, Jr. [his

brother] , who asked the Lieutenant, Governor to

assign the land to David. V'e place David, v/ho

later on lived close to John l5] in Charlotte

County, as the fifth san. Next among the sons

comes James with whom Edward, Jr. [6], had

dealings in Orange County, Va.

Martha, who married V/illianr. Vvatkin.^ and lived

all the latter part of her married life in

Charlotte County where her brothers John and

David also lived for certain years, was the oldest

daughter of wljom we have knowledge. Esther who

married Henry El ley in Sfeotsyi vaiiia in 1742 was

the youngest child, so far as wc l^now.

Children of EDWARD HERNDON and MARY WALLER:

5 i. John (c 1700 - 1786) m twice 6 ii. Edward (c 1702-1759) m 1st Elizahe.th,

probably Stubblefield; rr. 2nd

Mary Brock 6- a iii. possibly a daughter (c 1704 - ---),

no information 7 iv. William (1706 - 1783) m Arai Drysdale

8 y. Richard (c 1708 - p 1754) m twice 9 vi. Martha (c 1710 - c 1766/7) m Willia.m

Watkins

10 vii. David (c 1712 - 1795) m Mary, prob¬

ably Lewis

10-a viii. possibly a daughter (c 1714 - —),

no inforiration

11 ix. James (c 1716 - c 1764) m Valentine

Haley

Child of EDWARD HERNDON and -- LEFfWICH:

12 X. Esther (c 1723 - p 1767) m Henry

Elley

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footnotes on EDWARD HERNDON [2]

1 Vide supra 5

2 2 King Kinifun County Records 91.

3 13 Virginia Land Patents 91

4 The Caroline County Court Order Books are hereinafter cited os OOB. For this reference, Vide 1

COB 395, 472.

5 Ibid, 415

6 3 OOB 255

7 1 COB 78

8 Ibid, 395, 472

9 Ibid, 415

10 Ibid, 565

11 Ibid, 583

12 3 OOB 16

13 Ibid 255

14 Parish Register of Newport Pagnell, co. Bucks, quoted in 22 Ifei. and Mary (2) 312, 313

15 By this date he seems to have married a daughter of Thomas Leftwich, deceased, as mentioned infra 14

16 C Spotsyl vania Deeds 147

17 Original owned by Mrs. James Robertson Blackie (nee Ellen Arthur Ejotts) of Ferndean, Cove, CVirnbartonshire, Scotland, formerly of Fredericksburg, Va.; copy furnished by Mr. John V<aterhouse Herndon of Charlottesville, Va.

18 1 OOB 79, 80

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20 Ibid, 616

21 2 OOB 16, 179

22 Ibid, 547

23 1 OOB 143, 586, 587, 3 OOB 56, 182

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25 2 OOB 313

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3 JAiMES HERNDON [1 V\'illiam] was bom probably

abojjt 1683 in New Kent County, Va. In 1692, as has l^een previously mentioned. King and Queen

County was created out of New Kent, In the Qjit

Rent Boll for King and Queen County, 1704, James Herndon was charged with ownership of 100 acres

of land.* In all prol«bility these acres were a

part of the original grant made in 1673/4 to his father William Hemdcn.

Since there is a steady stream of references

to James Herndon in the Order Books of Caroline

County until March 1743/4, when it suddenly ends,

it would appear reasonable to assume that he

died shortly thereafter or removed to another

county whose records have not been preserved.

Refercr.ceo to perst/u v.^r.cd J—T.cr. nemdon reap¬

pear in the Caroline Order Books after seven

years but they seem definitely to relate to other persons than the subject of this sketch,

and vrill be mentioned in their appropriate

pi aces.

On 13 July 1732 James Herndon’s suit against

John Hurt for debt was dismissed. Cki 10 August 1732, however, he again brought suit against

Hurt who failed to appear, and an alias capias

was issued against him. The case was continued 14 September 1732. At the October term of court,

the defendant having failed to appear, jud^ent

was awarded to the plaintiff and on 12 April

1733 the case was oiuered closed.

On 11 April 1734 there was ordered to be

recorded a deed of lease and release of land

indented from Robert Taliaferro to James

Herndon.*’ Qi 8 November 1734 the latter in open

court confessed his indebtedness to Robert

Taliaferro in the sum of £11 8s. which James Herndon was ordered to pay.* That same day James

Herndon served as a member of the grand jury.®

There was ordered paid to James Herndon 13

Dtcember 1734 out of the county levy 210 pounds

oi tobacco, as per his account, but for wliat

service is not stated.®

On 11 June 1736 a deed of lease and release from him to one William Herndon [relationship

not stated but probably his son] was ordered to

be recorded.^

Oh 12 November 1736 he served as a juryman

and again 8 July 1737, 14 April 1738, 9 June

1738 , 9 March 17^, and 8 June 1739.® On 14 May

1740 he again served on the grand jury, and

later on petit juries 12 December 1741, 9 April

1742, and 10 March 1743/4.®

On 9 June 1738 James Herndon was designated

to work upon the road of which Thomas Buckner,

gent., was surveyor. Oi 14 November 1740 he and James True petitioned that lliomas liuckner and

James Ware view and lay off the most convenient way frcKTi the Rolling Hoad into the Main Road by

John Robinson’s house for them, to be returned at the next court.He was appointed 1C March

1743/4 surveyor of the roads from Capt. liickner’s

mill to the road by Mary Powell’s laid off by Thomas Buckner, gent., and James Ware. The

court ordered Richard Buckner, James True, James

Ware, Edward Crowley, James Atkins, and Joseph

Jeter’s hands were to assist him.^^

On 11 May 1739 James Herndon was summoned to

appear at the next court to answer an information.

As he failed to appear 9 June 1739, an attach¬

ment v,as issued against his property returnable

at the next court. Ch 13 June the case was con¬ tinued. On 10 August 1739 he pleaded not guilty;

a jury was impanelled; he was accpjitted, and the

case discontinued.**

He was defendant in .two other suits b-oth of

which were decided against him; the first for

assault and battery in which the plaintiff was named Joshua Longest, and the second in which

William Lawson was awarded a judgment of £2 12s.

2d. current money and costs.*®

KIS WIFE According to two of the descendants of

this James,** his wife was Mary Gecrge, a

descendaiit "of the royal house of Wales". Tliey

have offered no proof and have given no infoma-

tion that would positively identify hci*. Ihey

believe her to be the oldest daughter of

Robert George (1666-1734) and his wife Sarah Elliott (----1734) who were married 6 July 1687

in Middlesex County, Va. .As the first of the

children of that couple mentioned in The Parish Register of Christ Church, Middlesex County, Va.

was Catherine George, bom 1689/90, Mary would

have to be assumed to have been bom rJbout April

or May 1688. As we have no information to the

contrary, we mention her below as the mother of

the children of James Herndon.

HIS CHILDREN As there is in existence no record

of the settlement of his estate, we cannot say with certainty who his children were. Since it

was from certain of the descendants of the

Herndons who had moved from Chatham County, N.C.

to Logan County, Ky., that information came that

their ancestor had married Mary George, and

since it was William Herndon, whose family

settled in Chatham County, N.C. (certain of whorr

removed to Ixjgan County, Ky.. as will at length

later appear), it follows that the aforesaid

William was of the family of this James Herndon.

This Will iam was probably, moreover, the one to whom James Herndon deeded land in 1736, as men¬

tioned above. As there were three Edv.'ard

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in tile Girolinc records, it follows that each of

the sons of \\illiani the immigrant had a son

named Edward, and since the identity of Edward’s son Edward and William’s son Edward is estab¬

lished, it follows that the remaining Edward,

the one whose wife seems to have been named Ann Collins, was necessarily a son of this James

Herndon. Eurthermore as there were two John Herndons in the third generation, one being

established as a sen of Edward, it follows that the other John, the one who married Jane -,

was a son of this James Herndon, because the

pames of the children of William, brother of this James, are of record and do not include a

John. Joseph who married Mary Boswell is

assamed to another son of this James Herndon

because of the known close relations between

Joseph’s children and John’s children.

Children of JAMES HERNDON and MARY GEORGE

13 i. William (c 1706 - 1773) m Saroh Poe

14 ii. Edward (c 1709 -p 1743) m Ann Collins

15 iii. Joseph (c 1716 - c 1757) m Mary Boswell 16 iv. Johji (c 1718 - 1769) m Jane-

FOOTNOTES ON JAMES HERNDON [3]

1 32 Va. Mag. 144: Wertenbaker, The Planters of Virginia, 227.

2 1 COB 34, 45, 66

3 Ibid 134

4 Ibid 166

5 Ibid 166

6 Ibid 168

7 Ibid 346

8 Ibid 386, ♦ O * 487, 525, «w

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9 Ibid 611, 2 COB 87, 88, 100, 109,

10 1 OOB 486, 2 COB 14

11 2 OOB 262

12 1 COB 533, 539, 547, 556

13 2 OOB 79, 90, 114

14 These are Mrs. William Day Dick’jison, J13 Cleveland Ave., Glasgow, Ky., and Mrs. Luke Hodges, 2002 Speedway, Wichita Falls, Texas.

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about 1685, in New Kent County, Va. All that we l<now of him, however, is obtained fiT>m the Order

Books of Caroline County for the period from 1732 to his death in 1759.

JURYMAN He served on the grand jury 11 November 1735 and on juries hearing the following cases

betweert 11 May 17 32 to 9 May 1740; James WTiite V John Pickett, Richard Williams v John Downes,

George Hoomes v James Fleming, James ^k^ntair v

William Liliey, John Taliaferro v Robert fXidley

et al., Head Lynch v Nicholas Lankford, Elizabeth Stanard v Ann lAiwning, John Garratt v

John Yarbrough, John Hoid:iii v Joshua Rycroft,

John Martin v William Powell, Robert Dudley v

Thomas White, Hance Hendrick vHenry Rirk, Tnoft;as

Morris v George Senior, John Natts v .Anthony

Arnold, and John Cook v Joel Terrell.^

CONSTABLE On 14 July 1738 William Henidon was

"appointed constable of the precinct where William Harrison was then serving."^ On the

10th of the following November the Court ordered that he be "paid 166 lbs. tobacco out of County

Levy for his Services as constable. On 9 February 1738 /9 as constable he "gave information against several persons as tenders of seconds"^

a technical legal phrase meaning that he accused them of cultivating second growths from tobacco,

a practice forbidden by statute.

On 13 April 1739 the Court adopted the

following minute:^

"Robert Parish, ge.nt. sheriff and Benjamin

Rennolds and John Wiley undersheriffs; Win.

Allcock, John Garrett, John Miller, Jr., and

Francis Stern Inspectors; and Wm. Herndon,

John Sanders, Richard Billops, and Timothy

Ellis, constables appeared and took the oath

prescribed by the Act for the further Con¬

tinuing and Amending the Act for amending the

Staple of Tobacco, and for preventing frauds

in his Ma’tys Customs...William Herndon, John

Sanders, Richard Bilieps and Timothy Ellis

Constables took 2m oath well and truly to

present all offences which they shall know to

be made against the Act for better preser¬

vation of the breed of deer, and for prevent¬

ing unlawful hunting.

Qi 8 August 1740 the Court, taking cognizance of

a charge against William Herndon, ordered®

"Zachary Lewis Gent, deputy Attorriey for

this county [to] draw an information against

William Herndon Constable (to whom .John

Brooks a soldier taken up and listed pursuant

to the late Act of Assembly was delivered to

be conveyed to Williamsburgh) for letting the

said Brooks escape out of his custody.

What report was made in this matter and what

action taken cannot be ascertained, because

pages 1 to 6, inclusive, cf Order Book ^2,

covering the period immediately following this date, are missing. It seems likelv, however, that William Herndon was removed from office,

for references to him as constable then cease.

THE TWO IMPORTANT SUITS William Herndon was

defendant in two suits of especial interest to

us. The first of these was entitled "Richard

Straughn, Edward Herndon ao.d John Nichols, plaintiffs, against William Herndon, and Sarah

his wife, defendants." The second was that of

"Thomas Leftwich, plaintiff, against William Herndon and Sarah, his wife, late Sarah Leftwich,

ex^^ SiC of Thomas Leftwich, deed., defendants."

On 10 August 1732 the first of these cases

was first mentioned in the extant records. The Court minute of that date reads:^

"it is ordered William Herndon be sumifoned

to next court to answer the petition of

Richard Straughn and others.

At the session of the court held 14 SepterrHir

1732 the petition was ccxitinued, but on 12 April

1733 the order adopted read:®

"On the petition of Richard Straughn,

Edward Herndon,'and John .Nichols agt.

William Herndon Its ordered the said V.illiam

Herndon either give other security or deliver

to the petitioners the estate of Thomas

Leftwich, deceased, by next court.

As he failed to do this, the court on 9 August

1733 ordered an attachment returnable at the

next court. No further reference is made to this case again until 10 January 1733/4 when the court ordered®

"John Martin, gent., settle the account cf

the Estate of Thomas Leftwich, deed., in the

hands of William Herndon and .Sarah his wife,

and deliver the ballance to the petitioners

or give Count^ security before next court.

On 14 February 1733/4 the court fixed "next

Munday"as the date on which the settlement was

to be effected by William Herndon "before Jo'iiu

Martin, Gent." Nearly final action then seemed

to be taken -- but it was apparently a delaying

action which caused the second suit to be begun

-- for on 14 March 1733/4 the court approved the following order:

"Upon the petition brought by Richard

Straughn and others ag William Herndon and

Sarah his wife, John Martin, gent, was

appointed to settle the estate of Thomas

Leftwich, deceased, and having made his report

that William Herndon, Sarah his wife, and

John Randall have paid four thousand eight

hundred and three pounds of tobacco and

fourteen pounds five shillings and six pence,

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Its thereupon ordered that the said William

He rn don and Sarah hi s wi fe deliver the ballance

of the estate to the petitioner.-..

At the court held 11 April 1735 there is the first mention of the other suit, llierein Sarah

Herndon, wife of William, is called "late Sarah

Leftwicli". She and her husband are called "Fxtx &c", implying probably that William Herndon

became responsible as an administrator of the

estate of Thomas Leftwich by virtue of his mar¬

riage to Sarah Leftwich, the executrix. The

respondents not appearing, an attachment for

their personal appearance at the next court was

ordered to answer the complainant’s bill. On

13 June 1735 the case was continued, and on 8 .Au'pist 1735 again cmtinried, at the defendants’

cost. Ihe respondents not appearing at the 10

October 1735 court, an attachment was issued for their appearance at the next court to answ’er the

bill against them or to be fined five shillings.

The court, however, on 13 February 1735/6 per¬ mitted the defendants to have until the next

court to file their reply to the bill against

them. By consent of both parties to this suit,

the court on 14 May 1736 ordered John Martin, George Hoomes, and Robert Wool folk, or any two

of them, to examine the estate and settle the

accounts and differences, and to report to the

next court. In September, October, November,

January, and February following, the case was

regularly concinued ^lor audit. ihe auditors

reported to the court 8 July 1737 that £6 5s. lOd. current money was due the corriplainant. The

respondents were ordered to pay that sum, to¬

gether with attorneys’ fees, and the money

expended since November 1736.^^

During the progress of this latter suit Sarah Herndon had appeared for three days as a witness

for Richard Straughn (presumably her brother-in-

law) in the suit of Lantor v Straughn, settled 12 March 1735/6.^2

From the study of the Leftwich family rela¬

tionships by Walter Lee Hopkins^® we know that

Thomas Leftwich was bom between 1660 and 1670,

that he was three times married, that he died

about 1730; that his first wife was Elizabeth

Rosier (d.s.p.ca.1701); that his second wife was named Mary, dau^ter of Augustine and Dorothy

North; and that they had at least two sons,

Thomas, plaintiff in the chancery suits above

mentioned, and Mgustine, bom about 1712, and a

daughter named Mary; and that he married as his

third wife Sarah who was named in his will

as executrix; that she soon married William Herndon, and in accordance with a court order

William and Sarah Herndon were made, what we

should now call administrator and administra¬

trix, c.t.c., of the estate of William l.eftwich,

deceased.

From the facts in the foregoing suits we

conclude that Tiomas l.eftwich had other daugh¬

ters, probably children of his second wife, and that one of them married Richard Straughn, that

another married Edward Herndon, and that another

was the wife of John Nicholls.

OTHER SUITS AT LAW Wi 1 li am Herndon was the

plaintiff in suits against William Prumley,

Richard Rooker, and Richard Watkins at dates between 14 June 1733 and 12 December 1741, and

defendant in suits brought against him by

William Eckolls, George Tilly, and John Gi’oson

at dates between 10 August 1732 and 13 November 1735. Tlie judgments involved sums of tobacco

between 50 and 1,433 pounds. The cases are

without genealogical significance.^

ADMINISTRATOR OF ESTATE William Herndon was appointed adn'inistrator of the estate of Evan

Thomas, deceased, withSamuel Colanan as security,

12 March 1735/6.^^ At the same time his brother,

Edward Herndon, was appointed appraiser, as

previously mentioned.

ROAD MATTERS No record of the appointment of

William Herndon as overseer of the road in his

neighborhood having been found, but a record of

his resignation being noted 13 May 1737, we must

conclude that he had served in that capacity

from a date earlier than the beginning of the

earliest extant order book, in other words,

before 1732. On the date mentioned the Court

adopted the following order:

"its Ordered George Hoomes gent be Over¬ seer of the Road from the Church road below Durrum (sic) to the Douge Town road above the sd Hoome’s house and in the room of William Herndon and to have Coll Grymes’s people and his own to clear the same and that he keep the same road in repair Acerdg to Law.

On 15 January 1736/7 Thomas Bruckner and Robert &nith were fin?d 15 shillings each, while

William Herndon and Samuel Coleman were jointly

fined 1.5 shillings, for not keeping their road

in repair. The court directed thesn to pay those

fines to the churchwardens of Drysdale parish,

to be expended by them "for use of ye poor of the

said parish.

SERVICE AS WITNESS On 13 June 1740 Jacob Johns

was ordered to pay William Herndm fifty pounds

of tobacco for two days’ attendance "as an

evidence for him against John Hunt.

RUNAWAY SLAVE CERTIFICATE William Herndon produced a certificate 24 .August 1744 from

(jeorge Hoomes, gent., for taking up two runaway

slaves: one belonging to Wm. Walker, of Stafford

County; the other, named Jenney, belonging to

William Thorpe, of King and Queen County.^®

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SURETY William Hemdon and Boh«rt Wriplit were

accepted 8 Mr*rch 174-1^5 as securities for Edward Hemdon who was appointed, as has been already

noted, guardian to three of John Biddle’s

orphans.

DEEDS The only deeds of record to which William

Hemdon was a party were those referred to in the following court minute, dated 14 February

1745/6:

"Wm. Herndon’s Deeds of Lease and Release

Indented to Edward Herndon [presumably his

son] was proved by the oaths of John Pickett,

Jr.. Wm. Megec, and John Coiner, witnesses

thereto and ordered to be recorded.

EXECUTOJ? OF MIS BROTHER'S WILL It will be recalled that when Edward Herndon's will was

presented in 1758 for probate, the executors were William and James Herndon. William was

probably his brother. James was doubtless

Edward’s sen James. A witness thereto was John,

presumably Edward’s eldest son.

; HIS DEATH, WILL, ETC. The next reference to

Will iara Hemdcn in the Caroline records is dated

13 September 1759 and reads as follows:^"

"Sarah, relicv. of William Herndon, came

into court and declared that she would not

take or respect the legacies given her by the

I last will oi niliiaoi tieiuoon.

It would therefore seem likely that he died a

short time before that date. Since most wills

were offered for probate within two weeks after

the maker’s death, late August or early Septem¬ ber 1759 was probably the time of the decease of

William Hemdon.

Two months later Robert, Richard, and John

Wool folk, together with John Herndon [5] were

appointed appraisers of this estate, and 13

December 1759 the inventory was returned and

admitted to record.^® The final entry tells us

that James Herndon was the executor, but why he was summoned to court, or what the result of

that summons was, or what action was taken on

the petition of -Sarah (Leftwich) Hemdon, i.s not

revealed in the existing order books. All we

know is that on 10 January 1760:

"On the motion of Wm. Johnston Thomas

Jones security for James Herndon on acet of

the executorship of William Herndon 1^®

ordered the sd James be summoned to Court.

HIS CHILDREN Because Philip Herndon, of

Caroline, filed a certificate in Ess-ix Co'onty in

1759 transferring to his brother James certain slaves which had come to him from the estate of their father William, and Benjamin Atkins, of

Lunenburg, did the same with regard to the

slaves which his father-in-law, William Herndon,

had left to him, we know who three of the

children of William were, although the given

name of the wife of Benjamin Atkins is not known

to us.

In addition, there was the third Edward of

the third generation, another son of this

William. In fact, when Philip left Caroline

County, his possessions were left with Edward.

From the ages of these children it is certain

that they were children of William Harndon’s

first wife whose name we do not know. Tnere is

nothing to indicate that William Herndon’s

second wife bore him any children.

Children of WILLIAM HERNDO'I and his first wife:

17 i. Philip (c 1715 - p 1760) m -----

18 ii. daughter, m Benjamin Atkins, who in 1760 was of Lunenburg County when he

sold "to his brother-in-law James

Hemdcn of Essex County negroes fcrmerly

belonging to his father WilliamHemdco,

being the remainder of his father-in-

law’s estate due him."^®

19 iii. James (c 1710 - 1767) m Hannah ----- 20 iv. Edward (c 1722 - 1806) m -----

FOOTNOTES ON WILLIAM HERNDON [HI

1 1 COB 6, 27, 50. 120, 164, 290, 302, 303, 311, 316, 352, 354, 367, 369, 409, 605, 606

2 Ibid, 489

3 Ibid, 507

4 Ibid, 527

5 Ibid, 531

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THE THIRD GENERATION 5 JOHM HESNOON [2 Edward] was bom about 1700, probably in King and Queen County, Va. It is

likely that.he was named for his mother’s father.

Dr. Jolm \^'aller. As there is no mention of him

in the early Caroline records, which begin in

1732, we do not know in which of the counties

whose records have lieen destroyed he lived prior

to 1757 when we find him mentioned as a resident

of Cumberland Parish, Lunenburg County, in a

bill of sale dated 30 May of that year, when he

purchased from \\illiam Moore for £50 a negro woman named Sue, which was recorded 1 November

1757. *

FAMILY VISITS Shortly before his father died,

John went to Caroline County, apparently to be

with him in his final days, for he was a witness

to his will which was offered for probate 9 March

1758. ^ Soon thereafter he seems to have gone to

visit his brother Edward in Spotsylvania. There

he witnessed Edward’s will 4 February 1759, hit

did not remain to testify as a witness thereto

whenitwas offered for probate 5 November 1759,^

but instead he returned to Caroline County where

8 November 1759 the Caroline court appointed him

an appraiser of the estate of his uncle William.^

HIS RESIDEHCE--CHARLOTTE COUNTY Charlotte County was erected from I^unenbiirg in 1765. The

rest of his life he was a residerit of Charlotte.

On 11 January 1770 he purchased from Thomas

Morris, of Drunswick County, for £410 current

money 740 acres on the north side of the Stanton

River. The following year he executed a deed of

trust for t’nis property to Richard Jones, of

Halifax County.

GIFT TO HIS SON JOSEPH By a deed of gift dated

30 March 1782 he conveyed to Joseph Herndon the

land on which he lived (actually it was the land

on which they lived), containing 374 acres, and

certain other property. The consideration was

"love and affection to [my] son." The real

estate adjoined the lands of Colonel Lewis

Burwell, Adam Finch, and Thomas .lord. The

personal property consisted of six slaves, and

all the cattle, hogs, sheep, household and

kitchen furniture which John Herndon owned,

together with a mare named "Aga", a three-year old gelding, and a one-year old colt. The deed

of gift was recorded 2 September 1782. ®

HIS TAXABLE PROPERTY In 1782 John Herndon was

taxed £1 2s. 6d. on his 374 acres which were assessed at £112 4s. His personality consisted

of 13 slaves named Humphrey, Peter, Caesar,

Braddock, Prince, Grace, Phyllis, Phill, Breck,

Suckey, Ned, Tom, and Rachel. The following year

that list included Amey. The assessment was then

entered against Joseph and John Herndon. They

owned 7 horses and 50 head of cattle. Only six

taxpayers in the county had more extensive

personal property; Edward Moseley, Sr., Thomas Hord, Mary Read, Thomas Bedford, Sr., Edwin Ruffin,

and Wood Jones. Paul Carrington owned the

greatest number of cattle--70. Three years later

at the time of John Herndon’s death, he a;id his

son Joseph were jointly taxed on 13 slaves, ni.ne

horses, and 55 cattle.

HIS MARRIAGES That he was twice married is judged from the dates of birth of his children,

as well as the fact that his will contained no real bequest to the two oldest. He may well

have long before given them their share of his

estate w+ien they married and left home. Tnere

is no record of the name of either of his wives.

HIS KILL Three years later the old gentleman

made his last will and testament in the following 1 8 language:

In the name of God Amen; I, John Herndon, of the County of Charlotte, being in perfect health and sound in mind and Memory, do make this my last will and testament, vii.: I leave my soul with God that gave it, my body to be buried at the discretion of ray executors, in a full assurance of its re.surrection at the last day; end as it has pleased Almighty God to bestow on me a small share of this world’s wealth, I mean to dispose of it in the manner end form following: Item, I give and bequeath unto my son John

Herndon one shilling sterling and no more. Item, I give and bequeath unto my daughter

Priscilla Langford one shilling sterling and no more.

Item, I give and bequeath unto my son James Herndon two negroes, namely Caesar and Prince, and no more.

"item, I give and bequeath unto my daughter Mary Clayton, the wife of Tnomas Clayton, three negroes, namely Peter, Braddock, and Breck, and their increase, to her and her heirs and assigns forever.

Item, I give and bequeath unto my daughter Ann Turemen, the wife of Martin Tureman, four negroes namely, Lott, Edmund, Tom and Amey and their increase, to her and her heirs and assigns forever.

For which I appoint and ordain my son Jacob Herndon and James Watkins whole and sole executors of this my last will and testament, making void all other writings, wills and testaments heretofore made except the deed of gift I made viy son Joseoh Herndon. "in witness whereof I have set my hand and

fixed my seal this 16th day of November, one thousand seven hundred and eighty five."

PROBATE John Herndon signed this will in the presence of Thomas Finch, John Finch, and Matthias

Meaier. The will was offered for probate at a court held for Qiarlotte County, 5 June 1786,

and Jacob Herndon appointed executor, Ja.mes

17

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and execution oi the said will."

Qiildren of JOHN HERNDON and his first wife:

21 i. John (c 1724 - p 1785) m Sarah Pomfrett

I 22 ii. Priscilla (c 17 27 - p 1785) m-- I Langford; lived in Granville County,

, N.C , in 1767, where she writnessed a deed of gift from her brother John to his son Pomfrett:’ nfi.

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Children of JOHN HERNDON and his second wife: 23 iii. James (c 1734 - p 1785); was not living

in Qiarlotte County, Va., at the time of his father's death; nfi.

24 iv. Jacob (c 1736 - 1796) m —

25 V. Mary (c 1738 - p 1785) m Thomas Clayton 26 vi. Ann (c 1740 - p 1785) m Martin Tureman

27 vii. Joseph (c 1743 - 1805) m 1st-Nether- land; 2nd Mrs. Mary Magdalene (---)

Rawlings

FOOTNOTES ON JOHN HERNDON [5]

1 5 Lunenburg Deeds 57 2 4 OOB 339

3 b Spo tsylvania Hlls 435

4 5 COS 85

5 2 Charlotte Deeds 317,414

6 5 Charlotte Deeds 10

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6 EDWARD HERNDON [2 KfUard] was born atiout 1702, presumably in King and Queen County. We have no

court references to him until 6 .lutie 1732 when

the Spotsylvania court ordered Catherine Holding

to pay Edward Herndon, Jr., for one day’s

attendance at court, as a witness for her in her suit against Patrick Bolding. * Ihis Fxlward was

regularly called "junior" in the Spotsylvania

records whenever there was any possibility of

confusion as to whether he or his father was

meant. Such was not likely, however, after he had established himself on the land which his father "for natural love and affection" gave him

on 2 September 1735 consisting of the 400-acre

tract which had been patented to him 16 June 1727.

Whenever the name Edward Herndon, Jr., appears

in the Spotsylvania records after about 1750,

except in reference to this particular piece of

prop>erty, the son of the subject of this sketch

is probably intended, until, after the lapse of

many years, that son’s son, another Edward, Jr.,

is meant.

WITNESS IN COURT The Spotsylvania Court on 2

May 1733 ordered Gerard Vanupsall to pay Edward

Herndon, .Jr., for two days’ attendance as a wit¬

ness for him in his suit against Adcock Hobson,

together with costs, alias execution. At a court held 7 March 1737 Joseph Thomas was ordered

to pay Edward Herndon, Jr., 25 pounds of tobacco

for one day’s attendance as a witness, as the

law directed, in hi.s suit C. O'rtis. On 3 May 1737 the court ordered David Kinkead to

pay Edward Herndon, Jr., for two days’ attendance

as his witness in the suit of James Atkins.

Edward Herndon, Jr., was a witness for George Musick, Daniel Musick, Ephraim Musick, William

Wood, and Jeremiah Dean in their suit against

John Bush, and the court on 6 September 1737

ordered them to pay him 50 pounds of tobacco for

two days' attendance, as the law directed. On

3 August 1743 the court ordered WilliaBn Henslee

to pay Edward Herndon (without the Jr.) 75 pounds

of tobacco for three days’ attendance as a witness

in the suit brought against Henslee by Joseph

Roberts. • .

WITNESS TO DEEDS Edward Herndon, Jr., witnessed the following deeds for friends and neighbors: William Johnston, 4 September 1733; John Foster, 7 May 1734; Richard Phillips and Thomas Ballard Smith, 23 September 1734; William Bradburn, 6 October 1735; John Waller, Jr., 30 November 1738; John Holloday, 16 January 1740, the other witnesses to these deeds being: Daniel Gwynn, Robert Johnson, Josh Asken, R. Eastham, William Waller, William Henderson, John Waller, Robert Huddleston, Philip Vincent Vass, and Benjamin Holloday.

He also witnessed with William Waller, G. Home, Antho. Strother, Z. Lewis, Robert Turner,

Jos. Neavell, and Joshua Tliomas the following deeds: Edward Franklyn, of St. Mark's Parish,

Change County, to George Carter, of Spotsylvania

County, 1 July 1735; Anthony Thornton, of

Stafford County, Gent., to Sharshali Grasty, of

King and Queen County, 4 November 1735; Mary

Abney, of St. Paul’s Parish, Hanover County, to

Edwin Hickman, of Spotsylvania County, 4 November

1735; William and Christian Tapp, of St. Mark’s

Parish, Orange County, to William McWilliams, of Spotsylvania County, 7 June 1737. On 7 April

1741 Edward Herndon and Thomas Stubblefield witnessed two deeds fro(n Henry El ley, of Spot¬

sylvania, to Robert Spilshe Coleman, of Essex.

(Later that year Henry Elley married Edward

Herndon’s sister Esther.) On 2 October 1744

Edward Herndon, A. Foster, and Edmund Foster

wi tnessed a deed from Anthony and Jane CJiculston,

of St. George’s Parish, Spotsylvania Co., to

William Pollard of St. Tliomas Parish, OrangeCo.,

and on 1 October 1745 William Kenly, Edward

Herndon, and William Huglies witnessed a deed from

Richard Todd, of King and Queen Co., to William

Lynn, of Fredericksburg, "Dr. of Physic."

GUARDIAN BONOS On 6 October 1741 Edward Herndon

and Thomas Ship were on the }x>nd of Richard Ship,

guardian of Mary Roy, and on 3 November 1741

Edward Herndon and J. Farish were bondsmen for

John Gordon, Jr., guardian of Saray Roy, both

orphans of James Roy, deceased.

CONTRACTOR On 6 April 1742 Edward Ilerndori and

William Waller let the contract for building a

bridge over the Lewis River, in Spotsylvaitia

County, to George Stubblefield, for 1,400 pounds

of tobacco.

APPRAISER Tlie Spotsylvania Court on 14 August

1742 appointed Moseley Battaley and Edward

Herndon appraisers of the estate of Thomas Nkirris.

They submitted their report to the court 6

September 1742, the bill for their services

being £5 17s. On 3 July 1744 John Thornton,

Ifcnry W’illis, and Edw rd Herndon were appointed

sppraisers of the estate of 'William Purbridge.

LEASE AND SALE The 400-acre tract given by

Fxlward Herndon, Sr. , [2] to his son Edward, Jr. ,

[6] was leased by the latter (his wife Elizabeth

Herndon joining in the lease) on 3 October 1743,

to George Stubblefield for one year, the con¬

sideration being 5 shillings. (3n 4 October

1743 Edward Hemdm, Jr., and Elizabeth his wife sold the above-mentioned property to George

Stubblefield for 4,000 pounds of tobacco and £41

Is 6d in currency.

PATENT On 30 March 1743 in consideration of the

payment of 35 shillings Governor William Gooch issued

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for a certain tract or parcel of land contain-

inc three hundred nnd thirty-seTen acres,

lyinjr and hein^ in the County of Spotsylvania

on the branches of the Mattapony Hiver and

bounded as followeth, to wit: Beginning at a

stake in a meadow in the line of M'r Joseph

Brock's and M’r Bowker’.s Line six poles

distant from M’r Brock's corner white oak and

Spanish oak standing on a point on the upper

side of Achilles branch; Thence keeping the

line of said Bowker’s Patent mentioned to be

north 12 degrees East, but now bears North 11

degrees East, one hundred and ninety-eight

poles to a double white Oak and another white

oak and red Oak all saplins the s’d Bowker’s

and Rob’t Coleman’s Corner Standing at the

head of a small valley; Thence keeping the

said Coleman's line mentioned to be north

sixty-five detrreos West, but now bears North

66 degrees west three hundred and two poles

to a stake between a white oak and Spanish

oak bushes on a hillside on the South West

side of a Glade and corner of the s’d Coleman’s

and Hugh Sanders; Thence South seven degrees

and a half West one hundred and ninety-two

poles to two red Oaks saplins by a white Oak

and Bed Oak saplin standing on a level in

side of a point and corner of the s’d M’r

Brock’s and Ignatius Tureman, and Thence

keeping the said Brock’s line south 65 degrees

East two hundred and ninety poles to the beginning.

"This land, with all houses, outhouses,

orchards, woods, etc.’," TO BE HELD of us

(George II) our heirs, successors as of our

Manor of port Greenwich in the Cotmty of Kent

in fee and common soccsge and not in capite

by Knights service,"

For this grant he was to pay on the Feast of

Saint Michael the Archangel fee rent of one

shilling for every fifty acres, and to cultivate at least three acres out of every fifty granted.

If this was not done witliin three years he was

to forfeit the land.

LEASE AND SALE OF PATENT On 4 September 1744 he

and his wife Elizabeth leased the above land,

containing 337 acres, to Dr. Thomas Foster for

one year for "5 shillings and one ear of Indian

com", and this, together with a deed of sale

and release was recorded, the consideration for

the latter being £26 6s, the witnesses to the

deed being William Lynn, Wm. Smith, and Charles

Boreman.

LAMSUITS The Order Books of the Spotsylvania (jourt, beginning with the court held Tuesday 1

June 1736 refer to a great many cases between*

that date and 6 June 1749 in which Edward Herndon,

Jr., figures as plainti f f--on petition or by

attachment. These are evidently cases in connection wdth his duties as Deputy Sheriff or

Sheriff of the county. In one suit, however, he

appears as defendant, William Beverley, Gent. , being the plaintiff. In the record of that case

in the session of the court held 6 May 1740, he is described as "F.dward Herndon, otherwise

called Edward Herndon of the County of Spot¬ sylvania". The amount involved was £52 ojrrent

money and 40 shillings damages. Beverley moved

for a new jury, but this re<quest was rejected

and, in accordance with the jury’s verdict,

Edward Herndon moved for a non-suit.

PROPRIETOR OF AN ORDINARY The Spotsylvania

(bounty Cx)urt on 8 November 1738 granted "the

petition of Edward Herndon, Jun'r to keep an

ordinary at his dwelling at the forks of the

roads about ei^t miles above Fredericksburg,"

he having givcji bond in the sum of 10,000 pounds

of tobacco, George Stubblefield being his

security, and paying the Governor’s dues, as the law directed, they being £1 15s. This license,

issued by John Waller, Clerk of the Court, and

witnessed by Edward Waller [both cousins], pro¬

vided that "good wholesome and cleanly lodging er.d

Dish for traveller and Stables fodder and

Provender etc. for horses" be furnished, and

that he was "not to pennitt perscais to tipple or

drink more than necessary". This license was

renewed 6 November 1739. Before the year was

out, 7 October 1740 to be exact, Edward Heradon gave his consent to have Benjamin Powell meintain

the ordinary instead of himself, and went

security for him. Within a month, 4 November

1740, however, the license was renewed in the

name of Edward Herndon, with Edward Waller as

his security. TTie license was renewed 4 Novemher

1741 with John Waller as security, and 3 November

1742, and 3 November 1743 with Edmund Waller as

security. Renewals are also noted in the records

for 1744, 1746, and 1747. These probably con¬

tinued till his death, for on 1 October 1759

Mary Herndon, his widow, was "granted permission

to keep €ui ordinary at her house, having given

bond etc. as the law directs." which license was

renewed 2 March 1761.

SLAVE OiJNER Oi 5 Augiist 1740 Peter, a negro boy

belonging to Edward Herndon, Jr., was adjudged

to be twelve years of age.

JURYMAN Cb 3 November 1741 Edward Herndon was

foreman of the Grand Jury whose other members

were Thomas Duerson, Joseph Collins, John Durrett, William Miller, John Wigglesworth, Henry Lewis,

George Carter, Robert Coleman, Sara Hensley, Patterson Pulliam, Benjamin Martin, Peter

Montague, Hugh Saunders, George Woodroof, James

Brown, Frances Tumley, Henry Rogers, James Lea,

Ignatius Tureman, and Thomas (Cartwright.

ROAD OVERSEER Edward Herndon and John Martin

having been appointed by a previous court "to

view the way from the Pamunkey Road through

Benjamin Boucher’s plantation" reported to the 3

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Novanber 1741 court that the way petitioned for

was much more convenient than the existing Boucher’s colling road; nnd the court thereupon

ordered Antiiony Foster, the overseer of said road,

to clear tlie same through the said plantation. That same day Fdward Herndon was appointed as

overseer of the road from the Wilderness Bridge

to Col. Spc'tswod’s Wagon Poad in the place of Thomas Witherby, who had removed from the county,

and it was ordered that all of the tithables who

served under the said Witherby should serve under the said Herndon, and to help him clear

and keep in good repair the said road.

MILITARY COMMISSIONS On 1 Novetiber 1737 Richard

Phillips, Gent., Lieutenant, and Fdward Herndon,

Jr., Gent., Cornet, produced their commissions

and took the oaths etc., as officers of a troop

of horse under Capt. William Waller. Ch 5 March 1744, Fdward Herndon, Jr., Gent., presented the

Governor’s commission to be Lieutenant of a

troop of Horse under the conmand of Capt. Richard

Tutt, and took the oaths and subscribed to the Test as the law directed.

Guardian bonds On 5 April 17 58 Edward Herndon

and John Holloday were security for Joseph

Steward, guardian of Elizabeth Wallace, orphan,

in the sum of £2,000. On 3 May 17 50 Edward

Herndon was on the £100 bond of Rice Curtis,

administrator of the estate of David Payn, deceased, and on 1 October 17 59 Charles Gordon

gave bond for £2,000 as guardian of Joseph,

Stephen, Philadelphia, Boij amin, Mary Ann, and

Sarah Herndon, orphans of Joseph Herndon, deceased, with Edward Herndon and John Holloday

as his sureties.

MISCELLANEOUS Oh 4 December 1744 Edward Herndon became security on a £1000 bond for John MdDaiiel,

administrator of John Webster, deceased.

On 6 June 1749 he is mentioned as Collector for the estate of Henry Fitzhugh, Esq., deceased.

VARIOUS PARISH SERVICES Edward Herndon per¬ formed services of various types for the Vestry of St. George’s Parish. Tbese included being a processioner of lands, deputy sheriff and possibly sheriff, supporter of a poor man, surety, possibly collector of parish levy, and possibly vestryman. We shall consider these seriatim..^

PROCESSIONER OF LANDS The demarcation of

boundaries of lands owned by differait persons was a task assigned to Virginia vestries. It

was repeated usually each three years but

occasionally at other periods. Each vestry

ordinarily tii%'ided the area under itsjurisdiction into precincts and appointed master processioners

to view the lands of each precinct. The owiers were expected to be present when the procession¬

ing took place, and to permit the peaceable

procedure of the survey. If they were not

present, some other land owners frequently substituted for the absent ones. If objection

was made by any land owner or a friend acting

for him, full note of the complaint was entered

in the processioners’ reports.

Bobert Stubblefield and Bobert GDodloe, the

processioners appointed by the Vestry of St.

George’s Barish, reported that on 20 March 1732/3,

they went in order to procession the lands of Joseph Brock, Edward Hemdon and others but none

of them was present. On 12 November 1739 the

Vestry ordered Fdward Hemdon, Jr., John Venton,

John West and William Burbridge, or any two of

them, to procession before 31 March 1740 the

lands between the Rappahannock and Ny rivers

from the Falls of the Rappahannock to the upper

line of the County. On 3 October 1743 and again

on 13 October 1747 Edward Hemdon, Jr., Charles

Stewart, Henry Hall and John Prockter, or any two

of them, were ordered to procession all the lands

between the Rappahannock and the Ny, frotn the

Fall Hill on the Rappahannock to the upper line

of the County, and to make a return by the last

of March next ensuing.

DEPUTY SHERIFF Edward Hemdon is first mentioned as Deputy Sheriff of the County of Spotsylvania

5 September 1733 \dien he was allowed to alter

and amend his return in Moseley Battaley’ s execution vs. the estate of Goodrich Lightfoot,

Gent. At the court held Tuesday 1 April 1735

Joseph Thomas, Gent., Sheriff of Spotsylvania

County, presented Edward Herndon, Jun’r, and

requested that he be made his deputy. This

request being granted, Edward Hemdcm, Jun’ r,

took the oaths of Allegiance and Supremacy as

the law directed, and was sworn Deputy Sheriff

accordingly. Whai Join Qiew, Gent. , was Sheriff

of Spotsylvania he.presen ted Edward Herndon,

Jun’r, to that courc on Tuesday, 2 March 1738

and desired that he be sworn as one of his

deputies which was done after he had taken the

oaths aid si^ed the Test.

The following itms, quoted from the original

First Vestry Book of St. George’s Parish, Spot¬

sylvania, certainly imply that Edward Herndon

was Sheriff at the dates mentioned, but the fact

that no bond for him as sheriff was recorded causes us to believe that the payments referred to were really made to Edward Hemdon as Deputy

Sheri ff.

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October the 14, 1734

"To E. Herndon, Sheriff fees - 34 [lbs.

tobncoo]

"At a aiaeting of the Vestry in Fredericksburg

November 8, 1738:

"To M'r Edward Herndon for fees as Sheriff

- [l29 lbs. tobacco]

SUPPORT OF A POOR MAN At a meeting of the Vestry

in Fredericksburg 12 November 17 39 it was: "Ordered that Edward Herndon be allowed

next year 800 pounds of tobacco for maintain¬

ing and sufficiently cloathing Thomas \ioor a

poor man the Ensuing Year"

Ch 8 October 1740, 20 November 1741, and 3 October

1743, the same a 1lowance was made per annim, which on 13 October 1747 was increased to 1,000 pounds.

SURETY In April 17 50 John Eattaley and Edward

Herndon, Jr., [23] were appointed to collect the

parish levy, their bondsmen being Richard Tutt,

Joseph Stewart, and Edward Herndon, Gent. On 5

November 1750 and again on 7 December 17 51 the

Vestry of St. George’s Parish appointed John

Eattaley and Edward Herndon, Jr. , Collectors

of the Parish Levy, their sureties being their respective fathers, Moseley Eattaley and Edward

Herndon, Gent.

VESTRYMAN OR COLLECTOR OF PARISH LEVY OR NEITHER Under tlie heading "Succession of Vestrymen of St.

George’s Parish, fiom 17 26 to 1347," on page 64 of History of St. George’s Parish... By Rev. Phi lip Slaughter.. .Edited byR. A. Brock (1890),

there appears this item: "1746, Edward Herndon

(collector)." This would clearly impl/ that

Edward Herndon was at that time collector of the

parish levy and was then elected to the Vestry.

There is, however, in the original vestry records,

now in the Alderman Library of the University of

Virginia, no mention of Edward Herndon in 17 46

either as collector of the levy or as being

elected to serve on the Vestry. Eishop Willi an

Meade, in his Old Churches and Families of Virginia,^ states that there were four Edward Herndons who served as Vestrymoi of St. George’s

P>rish. If this is a correct statement, they

were the father of this Edward, then this Edward, then his son Edward, and then Edward, son of

Joseph, son of the aibj ect of this sketdi. There

is nothing that we have been able to discover in

the vestiy records to support this claim, except

so far as it relates to the son and grandson of this Edward.

MISCELUNEOUS On 23Dec0nber 1757 Edward Hemcbn was authorized by the vestry to be paid 2,035

pounds of tobacco for expenses in a matter con¬ cerning Elizabeth Burbridge, but for what reason

is not stated.

CULPEPER PROPERTY On 11 June 1749 Lord Fairfax

granted "tc Edward Herndon of Spotsylvania" 400

apres in Orange County "on the little fork of the

R appall anno ck River" situated on the Hedgman

River at the foot of Jobbers Mountain, adjoining

the lands of Capt. John Grant, Capt. Compton, and George Fairfax, Esq. ^ In the fol lowing March, when this tract was in the newly established

county of Culpeper, Edward Herndon sold it for

£50 to his son Edward, Jr. [28], also of Spot¬

sylvania. This deed, witnessed by Joseph Wood,

John Rattaley, Samuel Simpson, and Abraham Simpson, was recorded 21 March 1750, in Culpeper

County.^ This tract was sold bs’ Edward Herndon,

Jr., [28] and Mary [Duerson] Herndon, his wife,

on 18 August 17 58 to Janes Grimsley, of Prince

William County, for £37 10s., the witnesses

being Henry Brock and James Gatewood. Although dated 18 August it was recorded 17 August 1758,

but Joseph Brock and Thomas Dherson did not take

Mary [iXierson] Herndon’s acknowledgmait until 23

March 1759. ®

IN ORANGE COUNTY, VA. On numerous occasions

between 1737 and 1753Edward Herndon was mentioned

in the Order Books of Orange County, being frequently called therein "Edward Herndon, Jr.,

of Spotsylvania”. He brou^t suit 27 April 1737

against Goodrich Lightfoot for trespass.^ Later

he was a witness for Joseph Brock in the latter’s

suit against the adniriistrator of the estate of

Goodrich Lightfoot, deceased, it being noted that he had traveled 35 miles in order to

testify.® He was a wiQiess for David Kinkead 22

September 17 37 in the latter’s suit against Joseph Eve for trespass, and the following year

for Benjamin Walker in the latter’s suit against

David Kinkead.® He was plaintiff in numerous

actions -- against John Cook, Thomas Byrne,

William Power, the estate o f Sarniiel Pound, Thomas

Rutherford, Richard Cross, Stokeley Towles,

Matthew Kni^t, William Spicer, Samuel Kirdiwile, and Joseph Philips -- and in each, judgment was

entered for him. In five cases an agreemait

was reached hy the parties, the defendants

being Willi an Crain, William Hust (?),Willian

Nash, William Minor, and Richard Ship. A chancery proceeding against Andrew Harrison was

abated because of the death of the defendant in

1753. This case had dragged through the court

since 24 June 1748.*^

IN AUGUSTA COUNTY, VA. The Fee ftjoks of Augusta

County, Va., for 1745/6 mention Edward Hemdm, of Spotsylvaiia County.

HIS FIRST WIFE Edward Herndon’s first wife was

Elizabeth. While her surname is not of record,

we believe that she was Elizabeth, daughter of Robert and Ann Stubblefield. Edward and she were married probably about 1727 in King and Queen. She was the mother of his four children mentioned in his will. She died after 4 October 1743, for on

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mentioned, in a deed to George Stubblefield, probably hvr brother. She seems to have died

before March 17 50, for at that time her husband

conveyed land to their son without the waiver of

her dower ri^ts therein.

HIS SECOND WIFE Edward Herndon married secondly (according to Moncure D. Oanway) Mary Brock,

daughter of Joseph Brock, but if the>' had any children, their names are not known. The expression vdiich Edward Herndon used in his will

"to her aid her heirs" following the name of his

wife is a legal one, and does not imply that she

had children.

HIS WILL His will dated "Feb'ry the 4’th 1759"

reads as follows:

"in the name of God Amen: I Edw'd Herndon

of the County of Spotsylvania being in perfect

mind and memory do constitute and appoint

this my last Will and Testament as follows:

that after ray funeral expenses and just Debts

be paid and fully satisfied, the rest of my

Estate be disposed of as following:

Item. I give and bequeath all my Estate

both real and personal to my Loving wife Mary

Herndon, to her and her heirs and to be at

her disposal for ever.

"item. My Will is and would be hereby under¬

stood thct what I have already given to my

Children Edward, John and Joseph and Elizabeth

Battaley is all I intend for them of my

e state etc.

"item. I do appoint Djy Loving Wife Mary

Herndon; my Hon’d Friend George Weller and my

Loving Son Edw’d Herndon Jun’r and my Loving

Friend Geo. Waller, Junr whole and sole Elx’rs

and Executors cf this my last Will and Testa¬

ment, revolting all other wills by me made,

and do acknowledge this only my last Will

and Testament; In witness whereof I here seal

--publish and pronounce the same."

He signed and sealed his will in the presence

f William Fidclin, James Williams, and John

emdon [5] and added a note to his will reading

as follows:

"I also give and bequeath the Legacy left

ne by my Father to my loving Wife Mary Herndon

also."

SETTLEMENT OF HIS ESTATE Edward Herndon died at

his plantation in Spotsylvania County, betweei

1 October 17 59 (the last time his name is

moitioned in the court records) and 5 Nove^nber 17 59 (the date on which his will was proved in

court by the oaths of Willian Ficklin and James Williams, two of the witnesses thereto. His brother John Herndon, the third witness to the

will, did not appear in court to prove the will.

Mary Herndon and George Waller, Jr., qualified as executrix and executor, Edward Herndon having

refused to take upon himself the executorship.

Ab the same time Moses Bledsoe, Thomas Hayden, Robert Pichards, and John Moore, or any two of

thou, were appointed to appradse the said estate.

Edward Herndon and William Ficklin went on the

bond of Mary Henidon and George Waller, Jr., for

£500., as executors of the estate of Edward Herndon, deceased.

On 7 May 1760 the court ordered the appraisers

of the estate of Edward Herndon to make their

report, and on 4 August 1760 the said inventory was returned by Bobert Richards, John Moore, and

Moses Bledsoe, and ordered to be recorded.

PICTURE DRAWN FROM THE INVENTORY OF HIS ESTATE From the above it is clear that Edward Herndon was one of the leading citizens of Spo t.syl vani a

County. Of his personal appearance we know-

nothing, no portrait being known to exist.

Unlike many of the early settlers he had no

legal quarrels with his neighbors over boundary

lines. That he was a reader, a musician, and

fond of games we know from the inventory of his

estate which shows that he owned books, aficdl.e,

and a backganmion board.

His home was larger than those of his

neighbors, for we are told that he conAicted an ordinary for the entertainment of travelers who

passed by. There was probably a large living

room or hall for the use of guests, probably a

family parlor, and three or four bedrooms.

These rooms were doubtless simply furnished in

accordance with the custem of the time.

We can, in fancy, picture tlie living room

where he greeted his friends and guests, with it.s

great fireplace at one end or in the center of

the side wall. In the center of the room was the mahogany oval table valued at £2. About the

room and around the table were the seven leather-

bottomed chairs valued at £1. The old desk and

chest of drawers containing his books probably

completed the furnishings of the roan. Over the

fireplace hung his gun, the wanning pan, and

lantern. The fiddle was handy for a stray minstrel or for a dance by the young people; the

backgammon board, no doubt, was constantly in

u se.

In the dining room adjoining there was probably the other oval table, valued at 19 shillings, and the cupboard containing glassware,

jugs (pitchers), and the pewter. That he was

able to an ter tain a large number of guests is known, for he owned nineteen pewter plates,

basins, and spoons.

Across the hall was the parlor or family

sitting room, aid back of that the master's bed-

roan with its great maliogany bed, valued at £3,

and at one time probably a trundle bed for the

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and 11 children. A chair or two, a press, and the

looking glass were the priricipal furnishings of

thi s room. •

The four upstairs bedrooms were probably used by the children and guests whenever they happoied

to be present. At the time of his deatli Eldward Herndon owned, in addition to the mahogany bed

already mentioned, valued at £8, four others. Two were appraised at £2 each, one at £5 5s.,

and the other at £7 10s.

The kitchen, like all in Virginia, was out=

side. In the grate fireplace hung the large

iron pot and the three small ones; the skillet,

griddle, spit, and gridiron stood on feet or

hung about the chimney.

Over the spring there was probably built a

house or shed, which served as the dairy. There

the butter tubs were probably kept.

Defore the front door, and where it could be

seen from both roads, probably hung a sign in¬

forming the traveler that here was an inn, while

close by there was the bell, mounted on the top of a pole or swung between tv»o trees, which was

used for calling the family and hands to meals

and for signal purposes.

Tnere were three horses and one mare on the

place, but strange to say no carriage was

menti<Xied in the inventory. The sleighs listed

were of the type used for hauling the tobacco crop to the barn. There were two of these.

In ashed were kept his stock: sever hogs, one

sow and shoats, four geese, 15 sheep,

cat tie.

As the inventory on file fails to list any

slaves, we must conclude that he had given his

slaves to his children during his lifetime. In

1740, it will be recalled, he had owned one

named Peter, then determined, for purposes of

the parish levy, to be twelve years of age.

The gun and two pistols may have bear used by

him while he was a member of the Troop of Spot¬

sylvania Grun ty Horse. Such weapons had, of course, a three-fold purpose -- for defense, for

providing game for the table, and for sport.

Children of EDWARD HERNDON and ELIZABEIH,

probably STUBBLEFIELD:

28 i. Edward (c 17 29 - 1799) ra Mary Duerson 29 ii. John (c 1732 - 1783) m Mary Foster

30 iii. Elizabeth(c 1732- 1788) ra John Battaley, who died in Septenber 1770. At the

time of her husband’s death their

home was in St. George's Parish. At

the time of her death she was of Berkley Parish. B>' her will she left

bequests to her nephews Edward, son of

her brother Edward, Peter and Edward,

sons of her brother Joseph, and to

her niece Sarah, daughterof her brother

John. Witnesses to her will were Zachery Siackleford, John M. Herndon

(son of Joseph [31]), and John Herndon,

Jr. (son of John [29]), while the

executor named was her brother Edward

[28]. She died without issue.

31 iv. Joseph (1737-1810) m 1st Philadelphia

Foster; ra 2nd Mary Minor

FOOTNOTES ON EDWARD HERNDON [6]

1 Because this iten and all subsequtsit ones in this sketch, which relate to Spotsylvania County deeds,

wills, a<ininistrations, and guardianships, are recorded in W. A. Crozier: Virginia Ccunty Records,

Vol. 1, Spotsylvania 17 21- 1800, which is thoroughly indexed, no forther references to that volume,

hereinafter cited as "Crozier", need be made. Whsi the details furnished herein exceed "Crozier*

information, they are obtained from the Order Books, if the court is mentioned, or the Vestry Book.

As to the latter, see footnote 2.

2 The original records of the Vestry of St. G«>rge’s Parish, Spotsylvania, have never beai completely

published, though parts or selections appear in Philip Slaughter: History of St, George’s Parish,

edited by R. A. Brock (1890). The originals are preserved in the Alderman Library, University of

Virginia. The services of Edward Herndon, maitioned in what irmediately follows, are recorded in

The Parish Registers, which are chronologically arranged. Page referaices are therefore un¬

necessary here.

3 Opus Cit., Vol. II, p. 72

4 G Mecklenburg Grants 178, Virginia State Land Office

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7 WILLIAM HERKDON [2 Edward] was born in 1706, accordinp to Mr. Qjnway, and doubtless in King and Queen. County, Va. (Xu knowledge of him is

very limited. The sante authority states that he

married Ann, daughter of C.ol. Hugh Drysdale, who

had been lieutenant governor of Virginia from

1722 to 1726. l^e do know that his family home,

as already pointed out,' was in Drysdale parish, Caroline (bounty, after that county was created.

(3ol. Drysdale’s term of office followed that of

Col. Alexander Spotswood and immediately pre¬

ceded that of Ccl. Robert ("King") Carter.

Our only information about this William

Herndon concerns certain relationships he had

witli members of the White family, described in

what follows. On 10 Jaiiuary 1733/4 he and Thomas White were "securities" for I>enjamin

Rennolds who was licensed to keep an ordinary at the courthouse in Bowling Green by the (Caroline

County court. ^ Thomas White was probably a

relative of William Wliite who appeared in a queer

guise in a suit in 1741 entitled Tho.nas Try-

Title V John Pay-for-it, described as a suit in "ejectment for one messuage, one hundred acres

of Woodland and one hundred acres of tendable

cleared land, lying nnd being in the parish of

St,. Mary in this county of the demise (sic) of

William White." William Herndon carre into court

and admitted that he was the real defendant,

John pay-for-it. Thereupon William White ac¬

knowledged himself to he ihomas iry-'litie, the plaintiff. Judgment was e.itered rgainst Williar”.

Herndon in the sum of one shilling and the Court

directed a writ of habere facias possessionem to

issue to the Sheriff of Caroline. Herndon’s

attorney was Zachery Lewis.®

This suit hjid repercussions in Orange County,

Va., where in 1746 William Herndon sued William

White for debt. In that suit he was successful, being awarded in 1747 a judgment of 328 pounds

of tobacco and £3 5s., or in lieu thereof 650 pounds of tobacco, and in addition he received

an award of one penny in damages! “*

So far as tie compiler of this genealogy has been able to ascertain, William Herndon was not

the recorded owner of real estate in Orange

County where app^arently he lived the rest of his

life. He may well have owned land there without

the deed’s being recorded. What we do know is

that there lived there a substantial Herndon

family whom Mr. Dallas Tabor Herndon, a de¬

scendant of William’s and himself a recognized historical scholar, has identified as William’s

family. So far as we kjiow, there is no reason

to doubt the correctness of this identification,

for every son and son-in-law is mentioned in

the Orange records. Mr. Dallas T. Herndon gives

the date of the death of William Herndon as

1783.®

Children of WILLI.Xl^ HEKiDON and ANN DRYSDAl.E:

32 i

33 ii

34 iii

35 iv

36 v

37 vi

38 vii

39 viii.

Elizabeth (c 1731 - -) m Joseph

Rennolds (Reynolds)

Lucy (c 1733 --) m Jame.s Nel s on

Owen (c 1735 - p 1807) in Mary ----

Edward ( 1737 - 1831) in Mary Gaines

Joseph (c 1739 - 1811) ni 1st-; 2rid

Susannah Haislip

Sarah (c 1741 - 1763) m Joseph Grasty

Mansfield

Reuben (c 1743 - p 1760), who with *!arr

Alexander was apprenticed in 1760;

nfi

William (17 45 - 1828) m Mary Poh&nr.on

FOOTNOTES ON WILLIAM HERNDON [7]

1 Supra 7, citing 1 COB 395,472

2 1 COB 112

3 Ibid, 80,89; 2 COS 94,110

4 Orange County, Va., Order Book DB9: 71,94,115,133,171

5 111 Virkus 238

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only item ro far discovered about him in offi¬

cial or otlier records is the order of the Caro¬

line Court 10 August 1732 to Bichard Green to

pay Richard Herndon 61 pounds of tobacco for

testifying two days as a witness for Green.^

What follows is therefore pure conjecture

insofar as Richard Herndon is concerned. We

believe that he married about 1730 and had a son George who settled in Orange County, N.C. , and

married secondly about 1742 and had sons named

Larkin, David, and Benjamin, and a daughter named Frances or Farujy who married Thoinas Marcom,

all of whom also made their homes in Orange

County, N'.C. The sole rtasoii for thus honoring

Richard Herndon is that a diligent search for

some other person who might have been their

father has failed. We recognize two other pos¬

sibilities but have rejected them, as being less

likely than Richard. Those are that Edward [2]

or William [4], each by his second marriage,

might hove been the father of these five. Since

Fanny Marcom, by her own affidavit, was born

1754, Edward [2], if her father, would have been

76 at her birth. Not iirpossible, but not likely.

On the other hand, if Mrs. Sarah (Leftwich)

Herndon were her mother, then we should find

that Thomas Leftwich who was between 60 and 70

at his death about 1730 had married as his third

wife, a v.oma.n so young that 24 years later she was givin.g birth to a child by her second husband

William Heinden, himself then about 69 years of

age. Certainly not a reasonable assurrption.

. That David and Larkin were brothers is all but proved. Larkin witnessed a deed of David’s.^

David nanx^d his second son larkin, ^ a nanie that

was given to boys among David's descendants un¬

til the third quarter of the nineteenth century.

David had other sons named George and Edmund.

George, who is assumed to be a half-brother of

David’s, also had sons named George and Edm.und.'*

Another of George’s sons, James, served in a

company in the American Fievolution commanded not

by his father George (who was a captain) but l>y Captain Benjamin Herndon, whose second lieutenant

was Zachariah, Jan>es’s older brother. Benjamin

Herndon sold a part of his Orange County land

grant to Thomas Marcom, his brother-in-law.^

Marcom served in the Revolution under Mark

Patterson v/hose son Wiley rriarried Annie Herndon,

a daughter of Banjamin's. There were other interrelationships, but these will indicate the

probability of a correct size-up of that group

of Herndons, assumed to be Richard’s children.

Children of RICHARD HERNDON and his first wife:

40 i. George (c 1731 - 1796) m Sarah-

Children of RICH.ARD HEPNDCN and his second wife:

41 ii. Larkin (c 1743 - p 1771), no record

other than his serving as a witness

in 1771 to a deed of land to his brother David in Caswell (bounty, .N.C.

42 iii. David (c 1746 - 1811) m Frances Pierce

43 iv. Benjamin (c 1748 - 1825) m Lydia Massey

44 v. Fanny (1754 - p 1839) m Thomas Marcom

FOOTNOTES ON RICHARD HERNDON [83

1 1 CDJB 35

2 K Caswell County, N.C. Deeds 143

3 Efevid Herndon’s will dated 9 March 1811 is recorded in Orange County, N.C.

4 George Herndon’s will dated 8 May 1796 was probated at the August 1796 term of the Orange County,

N.C. Court

5 As stated in pension claims, cited in Daughters of The American Revolution Magazine for August

1946, pp. 427-429

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about 1710 in King and Queen County, V'a. The compiler oX this genealogy first learned of her

from a letter to him dated 6 March 1946 from

Mrs. Rarton George Lane, of Gainesville, Florida,

from which the following paragraphs are quoted:

"William Watkins, of Charlotte, in his

will, 1784, left a widow Martha, and spoke of

his grandson 'Richard Worsham if he comes

back from the war.’

"Lt. Richard Worsham in application for

pension stated that he had joined as an en¬

sign at Charlotte Court House.

"Capt. John Worsham, in Georgia family

records as submitted to DAP, wa.s born 1731,

died 1779, married 1754 Sophia Watkins, born

1735, died 1760.

"Because Lt. Richard Worsham named a

daughter Sophia Shorter Worsham, another

daughter Martha Herndon Worsham, and another

Emily Archer Worsham, we believe that the

Martha mentioned by William Watkins as his

widow may have been Martha Herndon....

"The family records of the Barnett family

have this --

‘My grandmother Elizabeth Wingfield

Worsham had several sisters. My grand¬

mother’s next sister aas Sophia Shorter

W’orsham, first wife of Osborne Stone.

The other ristero t, “re '•■‘rth? Merndon

Worsham, married Dr. John Hunter Pope;

Emily Archer Woisham, married Dr. John

Hunter Pope. (The Pope Bible gives dates

for these last two.)...

"The book of records of Mrs. Comer Be.rnett

of Washington, Georgia, states;

"John Worsham married Mary Their

son married Emily Archer. Their son

John Worsham, born 1731, died 1779, mar.

1754 Sophia, born 1735, died 1780, daugh¬

ter ofWilliam Watkins and Klartha Herndon.

Their children were Richard Worsham, born

1755, died 1826, mar. 1790 Mary Wingfield,

and John Worsham, born 1757, killed in

the Revolution.'"

The second item in support of the Martha Herndon claim among descendants of Lt. Richard

Worsham came unexpectedly from the Notes and

Genealogies which constitute the second part of

Early Settlers of Alabama by Col. James Edmonds Saunders. There we find the work of his grand¬

daughter, Mrs. Elizabeth Saunders Blair Stubbs,

a skilled genealogist. One of the families carefully traced is that of James Watkins (1728-

1800), eldest son of William Watkins above re¬

ferred to. It is deeply significant that that

James named his oldest daughter Sarah Herndon Watkins, and that his second son, another James,

named one of his daughters, Sophia Herndon Watkins, and another, .Sarah Herndon Watkins.

• Tlie third, and perhaps the strongest, link

is found in the fact tliat John Herndon, of

Ciharlotte, named James Watkins [eldest son of William and Martha Watkins] an executor of his will.' What more natural thing could he do than

designate a son and a nephew to carry out his will? TTe other named executor was Jacob Herndon.

Dr. Joseph D. Eggleston, the distinguished former president of both Hampden-Sydney College

and the Virginia Historical Society, who has

made a close study of Charlotte County families,

considers that there is not the slightest ques¬

tion about the correctness of the identification

of the wife of William Watkins as Martha Herndon.^

TTie foregoing statements are therefore but

prologue to the record of William Watkins and

his wife Martha which follows, much of it as abstracts of court records of the counties,

Henrico, Chesterfield, liUnenburg, and Charlotte,

where they successively lived.

Between 29 April 1745 and 25 July 1745 we note the first change in the residence of William Watkins. The significant deeds are;^

"Indenture 29 April 1745 between Francis

Worsham and Thomas Tanner of Dale Parish in

the County of Henrico, of the one part, and

William Watkins of the Parish of St. Stephen

in the County of King and C^jeen, of the other

part; for £24, a tract of land in Henrico (it

being a part of a parcel of land granted by

Patent to the aforesaid Francis Worsham and

Thomas Tanner), containing by estimation 160

acres, beginning at a corner pine standing on

the north side of John Elam’s path...in Philip

Jones’ line, thence on Jones’ line south 25

degrees...in Picket’s line...etc.

Indenture 25July 1745 between Samuel Goode

of Brunswick County, of the one part, and

William Watkins of Henrico County, of the

other part, for £45 5s., 300 acres in Amelia

County on both sires of Talley’s Creek...on

Talley’s Horsepen Branch... land which Goode

had bought 1 April 1742, while a resident of

Henrico, from Thomas Jones of Amelia.

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In 1748 Chesterfield was cut off from Henrico. There William Watkins continued to live until

sometime between 3 July 1752 and 1 July 1753, by

which date he was "of Lunenburg. " He beceune the

first deputy clerk of the newly created county.

Chesterfield, on 1 July 1748. The clerk of the

court was Benjamin Watkins, son of Thomas, son

of Henry Watkins (born 1637/8) of Henrico; but

Benjamin is not known to have been related to

William, and there persists, a tradition that the

families were distinct. But, at any rate, on

the date mentioned there was entered in the

Chesterfield Order Book the following minute:*

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"At the request of the Clerk of the Court njamin WatkinsJ, the Court doth recommend

to the Hon'hie the Secretory, William Watkins ■ a a f'itting peraon to be l^puty Clerk of the aaid Court. *

It u-as followd by the sentence quoted imnediate- ly below, but it seems that an error in trans¬

cription [or in the reading of what was written],

for it is apparent that "Jr." should be "Sr.",

as the court would certainly not appoint an

eighteen-year-old lad its deputy clerk:

•Wi lliam Watkins, Jr., Gent., took the uaual oaths to his Majesty's person and GoTernsent...took and subscribed to the Ab¬ juration Octh and subscribed the Test."

He was referred to in 1750 as deputy clerk, and finally on 5 April 1751:*

"William Watkins produced a commission from Mr. Secretary Nelson to be Deputy Clerk, and he thereupon took the usual oaths, and was sworn Deputy Clerk accordingly."

In an indenture between John Elam of Giester-

field Gjunty and William Watkins of Dale Parish

in the Giunty of Chesterfield, dated 26 February

1749, the latter acquired for £45 a tract (area

not stated) adjoining the lands of John Elam,

Jr., and Lodowick Elam,® Three years later he

sold this land as well as that which he had purchased in April 1745 while still a resident

of Kir^ and Queen. The records show in this

connection:^

Indenture this -- day of July 1752 between William Watkins of Chesterfield, of the one part, and Matthew Gibbs of the said County, of the other part: for £75, the 160 acres of land whereon the said Watkins now lives, bounded by the lines of Francis Worsham ... and John Elam, Jr.

Indenture 3rd day of July 1752 between William Watkins of Chesterfield, of the one part, and John Gibbs of said County, of the other part: for £50, 140 acres bounded by the lines of Lodowick Elam and John Elam, Jr. The wife of William Watkins acknowledged, etc., but her name was not entered on the record.

In the latter of these transactions, Martha

almost appears. In the second of the next pair

she does sign as a witness. By that date William

and Martha were in Lunenburg:®

Indenture 1 June 1753 between William Watkins the Elder of the County of Lunenburg, of the one part, and William Watkins the younger of the County of Chesterfield, of the other part: for £l50, the 300 acres conveyed to the said William Watkins the Elder by Saemel Goode bydeed recorded in Amelia County Court; adjoining the lands of Peter Jones et al...

Indenture made 8 January 1753 between Franci.s Worsham and Hichard Day: etc. . . . Witnessed by William Watkins and Martha Watkins and John Elam, Jr. At a Court held for Chesterfield County 6 April 1753 'this Deed and Memorandum was proved by the oath.s of the witnesses and ordered to be recorded. Test. B. Watkins, Clk.’

When Charlotte County was erected out of

Lunenburg in 1764/5, the land mentioned in the following transaction® was found to be within

the limits of the new county, Qmrlotte. William

Watkins participated in several land purchases

and sales, apparently at good profit to himself,

but they, having no family significance, are

passed over here.

Indenture 4 October 1756 between Hichard Womack of Lunenburg County, of the one part, and William Watkins, of the said County, of the other pert: for £300, 1,652 acres of land on the Branches of Middle Fork of Little Boanoke; beginning in Philip Jones’ line... thence on Joseph Morton’s line...

William Watkins, of Lunenburg, on 1 April 1764

deeded to ids son John, relationship stated in

the deed, for five shillings 147 acres out of the above-mentioned tract, which John sold seven

years later to his brother Benjamin.^®

We find in the Amelia records the only cita¬

tion, .so far discovered in an official docun^jnt,

of Martha as the wife of William Watkins. There

we read:

Indenture 24 October 1765 between William Watkins and Martha his wife of the County of Charlotte, of the one part, and Benjamin Ward, of the other part: for £260, 300 acres of land granted by patent to Thomss Jones which, by several conveyances since, has been vested unto William Watkins and Martha his wife... adjoining lands of the above-said Benjamin Ward, etc. [There is nothing to show that William Watkins the younger who received this land in 1753 from his father had reconveyed it to him.]

On 2 July 1768 William Watkins conveyed to Benjamin Breedlove [his son-in-law] for £24 220

acres of the home tract of William Watkins.

In a letter from Dr. Eggleston, dated 21

October 1946,^® he says, among other things:

"William Watkins ’the Elder’ and his wife were of the Established Church, and soon after

he moved to Lunenburg LCountyJ--1755, I think-- he was elected a vestryman, but evidently did not accept, as it is stated a few weeks later that someone else was elected to take his place. I can not place my hands on the exact item. In the Samuel Davies-- Joseph Morton episode he "went Presbyterian." He trans-

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Fdward ar\^d then l.unenbutg (now Charlotte)

LCountiesJ. I find no others of his fatrily

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married Benjamin Breedlove. William, Jr.

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"William Sr. never sought office, but

lived the life of a planter, and prospered...

"Socially, the family evidently stood

well..."

There are to be noted two omissions from what

might be expected in the will of William Watkins.

There is no uir.itio;. of his v.ife, ihc’Jgli in the opening paragraph of Mrs. Lane's letter already

quoted she says that William Watkins in his will

left a widow Martha. The other is the failure

to refer in any way to Sally who, in the un¬

signed inquiry in the Virginia Magazine of History~and Biography, * is said to have been a

daughter of William Watkins, Sr., and to have

married James Bouldin, a view shared by Mrs.

StubbSj Dr. Eggleston, emd numerous others,

while still another, Mrs. David C. Wilson, of

Hampden-Sydney, Va., lists her as a daughter of

Will iam Watkins "the younger" and his wife Mary

Osborne, and so a granddaughter of William and

Martha (Herndon) Watkins. The compiler of this

genealogy accepts her as a ciaugnter of tViiliain

and Martha (Herndon) Watkins, because it is extremely unlikely that William, Jr., could have

had a daughter old enough to marry in 1762.

The date of the death of Martha (Herndon) Watkins is not known. She probably predeceased

her husband, and so was not mentioned in his

will. As she witnessed a deed in 1752 and an¬

other in 1753 and joined with her husband in a

conveyance of property in 1765, but did not

waive her dower rights in the land he sold to

Benjamin Breedlove in 1768, we may safely desig¬

nate her death year as "about 1766/7."

The following is an exact copy of the will of

William Watkins and the record of its probate,

as certified by the Clerk of the Charlotte County

Court, H. B. Chermside, 27 July 1943:^®

IN nfE NAME OF GOD. AMEN. I, William

Watkins of the Parish of Cornwall and County

of Charlotte, being of sound and perfect

memory and calling to mind the uncertainty of

this life, do make and ordain this my last

will and testament.

Inprimis. I desire that all my just debts

and funeral expenses be paid. Item. I give

and bequeath to my son Richard all that part

of my tract of land and plantation lying to

the Northward of the Ridge, lying between the

two branches, also four negroes to wit. Jack,

• Nancy, Aaron, and Tuck, fifteen head of

cattle, fifteen sheep, three beds and furni¬

ture, all my stock of hogs, all my pewter and

kitchen furniture, to him and his heirs for¬

ever.

Item: I give and bequeath to my grandson

William, son of my son Richard, one negro

girl named Lett, tohim and his heirs forever.

Item: I give and bequeath to my son

Benjamin all the other part of my tract of

land lying Southward of the Ridge, between

the branches aforesaid, to him and his heirs

forever.

Item: I give and bequeath all the residue

of my stock of cattle and sheep to be equally

divided between my sons-in-law Benjamin

Breedlove, John Breedlove, and my son Benja-tiin

Watkins.


Richard Worsham (if he lives to return from

the Army) one Negro boy named Cuff to him and

his heirs forever; but in case he should not

return to receive him, I direct the said Negro

may be divided in the same manner as the

residue of my Negroes are directed to be

divided.


James Jones (if he lives to return from the

Army) one Negro boy named Isaac, to him and

his heirs forever, but in case he should not

return to receive him, I direct the said negro

to be equally divided in the manner the

residue of my negroes are dijrected to be

divided.

Item: All the residue of my negroes and

other estate, not before given, I bequeath to

be equally divided between my sons James,

William, Joseph, John and Benjamin and my

son-in-law John Breedlove to hold to them

respectively and their heirs forever.

I direct that my estate shall not be ap¬

praised. Lastly I constitute and appoint tny

sons James, William, and John to be whole and

sole executors of this my last Will and Testa¬

ment; hereby revoking all other wills by me

heretofore made.

In witness whereof I have hereunto set my

hand and affixed my seal this 2nd day of

April 1781.

Sealed, signed, published, and

declared by the said William Watkins

to be his last will and testament (signed) William Watkins L.S.

In the presence of

Thomas Spencer, Jr.

Gideon Spencer

Lucy Watkins

At a Court held for Charlotte County the

6th day of December 1784. The last will and

testament of William Watkins, deceased, was

exhibited in Court by James and John Watkins,

two of the executors therein named, and the

same was proved in Court by the oath of

Thomas Spe ncer Jr. and Gideon Spencer, and

ordered to be recorded.

And on motion of the said Executors who

made oath according to law, certificate is

granted them for obtaining a probate of the

said will in due form, they giving security.

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whereupon they with Thomas Read their secur¬ ity entered into and acknowledged their bond for thatpurpose, reserving liberty to William Watkinj, the other executor to join in the probate when he shall think fit.

Teate Thomas Read Clk. Truly Recorded Thomas Read Clk.

"nie order of birth aiid the dates of birldi of

the children of William and Martha (Herndon)

Watkins accord with data furnished by various persons. The exact day of birth is known only

in the case of James Watkins, the oldest son 16.

Children of MARTHA HERNDON and WILLIAM WATKINS:

45 i. James Watkins ( 1728-1800) m 1755 [.laruiCi ilicAiipsoii

46 ii. Willifjn Watkins (c 1730 - p 1795)ra

Maiy Osborne

46-a iii. daughter (cl732 - --) m Philip (?) Jones, and had a son James Jones,

mentioned in the will of his grand¬

father William Watkins.

47 iv. Sophia Watkins ( 1735-1780) Opt. John Worsham

m 17 54

48 v. Joseph Watkins (cl7 37 - --) m Mary --

49 vi. John Watkins (c 17 39-1821) m Mary Moore

c 1763

50 vii. Mary Watkins (c 17 41- --) Benjamin Breedlove

m 17 59

51 viii. Sally Watkins (c 17 43-1813)

James Bouldin

m 1762

52 ix. Elizabeth Watkins ( c 1746-1821) .John Breedlove

m 1765

53 X. Benjamin Watkins (c 17 48-18 0 8) m Mildred Whitlock

54 xi. Bichard Watkins (cl7 51- --) Elizabeth Parish

m 177 3

FOOTNOTES ON MARTHA HERNDON [9]

1 I Charlotte frills 382, quoted in full on page 17, supra. It is interesting also to note that one

of the witnesses to Jolin Herndon's purchase of a slave in Lunenburg County in 1757 was Janes

Bouldin who subsequently married Sarah or Sally Watkins, John HernckMi’s niece.

2 Dr.Eggleston and John G. Herndon, compiler of this genealogy, exchanged letters and telephoned

each other on this subject in October and November 1946.

3 Henrico Deed Book, and 2 Amelia Deeds 194, reject!vely

4 Chesterfield Order Bock, No. 1, page 48

5 Ibid, 103

6 1 Chesterfield Deeds 131

7 Ibid, 347, 348

8 5 Amelia Deeds 26 and 1 Chesterfield Deeds 536, part 2, respectively

9 4 Lunenburg Deeds 324

lu 1 Charlotte Deeds 18 and 2 Charlotte Deeds 443

11 8 Amelia Deeds 635

12 2 Charlotte Deeds 271

13 Addressed to John G. Herndon

14 9 Va. Mag. 327

15 1 Charlotte Wills 365

16 James E. Saunders: Early Settlers of Alabama, ^5 ff. Information concerning the other children of William and Martha Watkins was furnished by Dr. Eggleston.

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10 DAVID HERNDON [2 Edward] was bom probably about 1712 in King and (^jeen Gninty, Va. After

the erectioi> of Caroline County in 1728 his home

was there until alx)Ut 1777. From 1777 to 1780

he resided in Charlotte, from 1781 to 1789 again in Caroline, and from 1790 until his death in

1795 in Campbell County. In addition, he was granted land in that part of Spotsylvania which

later became Gilpeper County. Elecause of these

changes in property interests, his story can

best be told chronologically.

THE ORANGE COUNTY [VA.] GRANT The only David

Herndon reference in the official records of

Spotsylvania and Orange Counties of which we

have knowledge is contained in the following

patent.^ (.Note that it was because of a suit instituted by David's brother Edward, Jr., that the McMurrin grant was reassigned to David

Herndon.)

"George II, on June 23, 1732, granted to

David McMurrin 300 acres of land in Spotsyl¬

vania County, now in Orange, in the little

Fork of the Rappahannock, bounded as follows:

Beginning at a red oak corner to Frances

Thornton and running thence with the said

Thornton’s lines North 65 degrees East one

hundred and twenty poles to three white oaks

thence North 15 degrees West seventy poles to

two hickories and a white oak, thence North

50 degrees East one hundred and twenty poles

to 8 white, .Spanish and red oak, thence South

30 degrees East two hundred and ten poles to

white oaks and a hickory, thence South 48

degrees West ninety poles to three hickories,

thence North 76 degrees West one hundred and

ninety poles to a white oak and pwplar, thence

North 83 degrees West to the beginning.

"McMu rrin failed to make improvement so

Edward Herndon Jun’r hath made suit to Lt.

Gov. for grant of same and which he obtained.

He now relinquished it to David Herndon for

the sum of thirty shillings to Receiver

General; grant confirmed to David Herndon,

June 16, 1738. "

CAROLINE RECORDS, 1739-1750 On 9 November 1739

the Caroline Court approved the payment of David

Herndon's account for 450 pounds of tobacco out

of the county levy. What the services were

which he had rendered were not stated.*

Oil 8 February 1739/40 James Powell acknow¬

ledged his deed of feoffment indented to David

Hemdon which, on his motion, was ordered to be

recorded.*

On 9 May 1746 David Hemdon was appointed

overseer of the road as successor to Robert

Lowery and was ordered to keep it in repair

according to law. * His record in this ccainectidn is rather remarkable, for he served 13 years without there being recorded on the records a

single complaint against him.

SALE OF CULPEPER PROPERTY Oi 18 July 1751 David

Hemdon went over to Culpeper to sign a deed to

the land granted him in 1738 which he and his

wife Mary were conveying to Pobert Covington, of

Culpeper County. The deed named the grantors as

“David Herndon and Mary his wife of the county

of Caroline." The land was described as being

"in Culpeper late in Orange." The consideration

was £30. Mary, David’s wife, however, did not

accompany her husband. Instead John Taylor,

John ^ylor, and Richard Buckner, of Caroline,

certified that they had taken the acknowledgment of consent by Mary Herndon to the sale of the

property, and it was so recorded 12 September

1751.®

CAROLINE RECORDS, 1752-J769 On 9 July 1752 a negro slave girl belraiging to David Hemdon was

adjudged to be 14 years of age.®

On 14 February 1754 the court ordered Joseph

Woolfork, Issac Dyer, David Herndon, and Thomas

Cheadle to have their gangs join to build a

bridge "over Polecat Swaoip at the Old Place

above Hornes Mill."^

Ch 10 May 1759 David Hemdon was succeeded by

Jacob Burrus as overseer of the road.

On 10 November 1757 the court rejected a

petition from David Herndon, but there was no

statement as to the subject of the petition.

On 12 November 1761 he and three others were

appointed to appraise the estate of James Lewis

[believed to be David Herndon's father-in-law].

Oh 10 March 1768 David Hemdon sued Thomas

Pickett. The defendant failed to appear. Judgment was entered in favor of the plaintiff

who was to recover £12 18s. with costs, or to

receive instead £6 4s., with interest from 1

November 1765 until paid, plus costs." On 9

November 1769 he brought suit against Thomas

Pickett again and this time also against William

Reynolds. A verdict was brou^t in that David

Hemdm was to recover £25 5s. lid., penalty of

the bond, to be discharged upon payment of 2s.

11/id., with interest from 13 July 1769 until

paid.

IN CHARLOHE COUNTY, VA. Between 1777 and 1780

David Hemdon lived in Charlotte County, Va. Cb

1 September 1777 he purchased a 200-acre tract

on both sides of Buffalo Creek in Charlotte

County, paying James Burton, Jr., of Pittsyl¬ vania County, £125 therefor.® This property was

separated from that of his brother John Herndon's

lands only by the lands of Edward Moseley, Sr. On 26 November 1782 David Herndon sold the

above-mentioned land to Giles Newton, of Char¬

lotte, for £200. This property adjoined Hudson's

comer, Moseley’s line, and Robertson’s line.®

By 1781 David Herndon had returned to (Caroline County and remained there until 1789.

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HIS SUPPORT OF THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION David

Herndon was, of course, too old for military

service during the American Revolution, but he

supported the Patriot Cause, as the following records show, by supplying the Revolutionary

Forces in Virginia with beef on at least the two occasions mentioned in the certificates

cited below®* which are preserved among the

Public Claim Papers (in manuscript) in the

Virginia State Archives at Richmond. The first

warrant reads thus:

CAROLINE COUNTY V,. Warrant No. 88

1 hereby certify that I have received of

DAVID HERNDON one grass fed beef adjudged to

weigh 275 lbs. taken for publick use pursuant

to uii Act of Lc p.^id foi at 2

pence per lb. in specie LorJ in paper money

at such rate of depreciation as shall be

settled by the Governor & Council at the

time of payment, the present rate being 600

to one. Oct. 15, 1781.

£1375:

275 lb. £3: 8: 9 (signed) John Broaddus

15 October 1781, to 30 shillings or £l 10s.,

when the second certificate was issued in 1783,

is indicative of the growing confidence of the

people in their Government and its currency,

as the prospects for a treaty of peace with

Great Britain increased.

AGAIN IN CAROLINE COUNTY Hi.s home was located

in St. Margaret’s Parish, Caroline. The pre¬

served tax lists show that in 1783 he was taxed

on account of the ownership of four slaves

between 16 and 21 years of age, and four others

under 16 years of age, three horses, and 19 head

of cattle.^” In 1785 his property included ten

slaves, four horses, and 20 head of cattle.

In November 1786 Ambrose'Bullard was ordered

by the Caroline Court to pay David Herndon 75

pounds of tobacco for his three days’ attendance at court as a witness for Bullard in his suit

against Thomas Cx)llins, executor.

On the reverse side of this warrant were entered

three items: (1) the date of payment, "Dec 3d

1782"; (2) name of the payee, "David Herndon";

and (3) the amount paid him, "£3: 8: 9", with

the significant letters "U. S." added.

The term "publick use", employed above, sig¬

nified UG€ by the Revolutionary Forces in

Virginia.

It will be noted that £1,375 is equivalent

to 600 times 2 pence for each of the 275 poimds

which his grass-fed beef was adjudged to weigh;

but that when payment was made in specie more

than two years later, the redemptive rate of

exchange had risen from two to three pence per

pound of beef. So it was that David Herndon

received on 3 December 1783 £3 8s. 9d., instead

of £2 5s. lOd., which would have been due him

15 October 1781.

The second warrant was similar to the first

one, except that it was undated, but it is

known to have been issued in 1782. It reads

as follows:

IbCidem]. Warrant No. 119

I hereby certify that I have received for

publick use of DAVID HERNDON one beef to

stall adjudged to weigh 175 lb. for which

payment at the rate of 30 shillings per lb.

shall be made according to Act of Assembly

passed June 1781.

£262:10: (signed) John Broaddus

175 lb at 3 pence £2; 3: 9

The c’nange in the exchange rate from 1,200

pence or £5, as payment for a pound of beef on

In 1787 David was the sole Herndon taxpayer

in Caroline Cx)unty where, thirty years before,

Herndons had flourished as the green bay tree. In 1788 David Herndon sold to Matthew P. Terrell

two pieces of real estate, one containing 242

acres at 7/1 per acre or £65 3s. 4d., and the

other containing 242 acres at 2/2 per acre or

£26 4s. 4d. The tax thereon was £1 7s. 5d. Tlie

same year he sold to Achilles Moorman, his son-

in-law, his remaining Caroline realty. He was

assessed for the last time in Caroline the fol¬ lowing year, 1789.^^

IN CAMPBELL COUNTY At about this date David Herndon, "of Caroline County", and Achilles

Moorman bought adjoining farms in Campbell

County.On 12 July 1790 David Herndon was taxed in Campbell County on four slaves and five

horses; on 23 March 1791 on four slaves and

three horses; and for the last time, in 1794, likewise on four sieves and three horses.^*

HIS DEATH AND HILL, ETC. Since his widow Mary was assessed on his property, when it was listed

for taxation in the summer of 1795, his death

probably occurred a short time before. If it

had occurred much earlier, the probating of his will would probably have taken place sooner.

The following is an exact copy of David

Herndon’s will and of the record of its probate, except for modernization of spelling, punctua¬

tion, and capitalization;^®

"in the name of god amen September 8th,

1794 I, David Herndon, of Campbell County,

being in proper senses:

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FinST I lend to my beloTed wife Mary

Herndon all my estate, both real and personal,

during her natural life, except the land that

my son F.dimnd now lives on.

"VlY >I!.L ia that, at my wife’s death, I

leave my grandson David Herndon Moorman one

hundred and fifty acres of land, part of the

tract that I now live on, to be taken off on

the south side so as not to interfere with

the plantation.

*THE RFMAJNDER of the tracts I leave to my

son Edmond Herndon.

"also 1 leave to my son Edmond the land

whereon he lives with all other parts of my

estate that he has in his possession.

"AL.SO I leave to [my] daughter E'rances

Moorman all the estate that she is now

possest with.

"also my will and desire is that all the

rest of uy estate shall Le e^utilly d^VAued

between my son and daughter at my wife’s

death, for them and their heirs, exceptmy

wearing apparel which I leave to my son Edmond

Herndon.

"finally I nominate and appoint my son

dmond Herndon and Achilles Moorman, together

with] my wife to be my executors of this my

last will and testament, hereby revoking all

wills heretofore by me made.

"in witness whereof I have hereunto put my hand and seal the day and year above written.

Published and declared

in [the] presence of (Signed)

Grfn. Lewis, Senr. David Herndon (SS)

David Talley

Bcnoni C, Talley

"At a Court held for Campbell County

September 3d, 1795:

The within Last Will and Testan-.ent of

David Herndon, deceased, was proved by the

oath of David Tallej, one of the witnesses

thereto subscribed.

"And at a Court held for the said County

the first day of October following, the same

was further proved by Griffin Lewis, Senior,

another of the witnesses thereto subscribed,

and ordered to be recorded. And on the

motion of Achilles Moorman, one of the

executors in the said Will named, who made

oath thereto according to law, Certificate ia

granted him for attaining probate thereof in

due form. Giving security he together with

John Cock, his security, entered into and

acknowledged their bond in the penalty of one

thousand dollars, conditioned according to law

for the executor’s due and faithful adminis¬

tration of the s ai d. deceden t’s estate and

performance of his will, liberty being

reserved the other executor and executrix in

the said will named to join in the probate

thereof when they shall think fit.

Tests. Ro. Alexander, CCC"

In addition to slaves and farming equipment, other items in the inventory of his estate in¬ cluded five beds and furniture valued at £.50, a desk and safe, a chest and tables, 12 "sitting" chairs, two candlesticks, snuffers, a looking glass, a "parcel" of books, and miscellaneous items of dining-room and kitchen equipment.

HIS WIFE All that is known concerning his wife is that her given name was Mary, and that, as his widov.’, she continued to be taxed, in (2ampbell County until her death there in 1806. She v>as probably a daughter of James Lewis who died in 1761.

Children of DAVID HERNDON and MARY, probably Lewis. 55 i. Frances (c 1751 - p 1809) m Achilles Mooriran 56 ii. Ed.mund (c 1760 - 1841) m Letitia Moseley

FOOTNOTES ON DAV

1 18 Virginia L<md Patents 21 2 1 COB 565 3 Ibid 583 4 2 OCe 313 5 A Culpeper Deeds 313-315 6 3 OQB 317

11 According to the Personal Property Tax Records (Archives Division), Richmond.

I D HERNDON [ 10]

7 Ibid 450 8 4 Charlotte Deeds 27 9 5 Charlotte Deeds 55 9a As furnished by N!iss Aim Waller Reddy,

1005 East Marshall St., Richmond, Va. 10 27 Wm. and Mary (1) 155

of Qiarlotte Co., in The Virginia State Library

12 According to the Personal Property and Real Estate Tax Records of Qiarlotte Co,, in the Virginia State Library (Archives Division), Richnxxid.

13 54 Va. Mag. 267

14 According to Personal Property Tax Records of Campbell Co., in The Virginia State Library (Archives Division), Richmond.

15 1 Campbell Wills 281

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11 JAMES HERNDON [2 Edward] was horn probably about 1716 in that part of King and Queen County, Va., which after 1728 vns included in

Caroline County. As a young man he settled in St. Thomas parish, Orange County, where he con¬ tinued to live until about 1755, when he removed

to Brumfield parish in Culpeper. There he

remained until at least 2 June 1758. Some time between that date and 1762 he returned to Caroline County where he died in 1764. About

1737 he married Valentine Haley, daughter of

Edward Haley, of Orange.

WITNESS IN COURT The first mention of him which

we have found in the recoids of Orange County

was dated 22 March 1738 when he and .Samuel Earle srkMo\Tled?-?d thrmac^ves indebted to the King in

the sum of £400, to be levied on their lands,

tenements, goods, and chattels, if they failed

to appear as witnesses against a criminal named

Richard Cross alias Breader.^

HIS FIRST REAL ESTATE On 27 May 1741 John

Yarbrough, of Brunswick County, for a consider¬

ation of 5 shillings leased to James Herndcfi, of Orange, 180 acres which Yarbrough had purchased

of Edward Haley, being part of a tract of 980

acres adjacent to the lands of Philip Waters and - Fleet. This lease was recorded the next

day. The anjiual rental was the usual "one pepper

corn given upon the Feast of St. Michael."

Vii.Li>csses wiLie iiciiiuuii L'.iOuDtj.eos his father], Henry Isbell, and William Nash. The

following day John Yarbrough released, i.e.,

sold, the above-mentioned property to James Herndon for £22.^

MARRIAGE SETTLEMENT On 27 August 1741 there was

recorded a deed of gift from Edward Haley, of the parish of St. Thomas, in Orange, to James

Herndon "for love and paternal affection which I

have to my daughter Valentine Haley and now the wife of James Herndon of Orange County." It

consisted of 120 acres adjoining the lands of

Charles Oakes, Benjamin Haley (son oJ Edward),

and Thomas Hal«y (son of Edward). Mention was

also made therein of another son of Edward the

donor, named David Haley.^ This was not a mar¬ riage settlement, as that terra is usually em¬ ployed, since it was made about four years after

the marriage between Valentine Haley and James

Herndon had taken place, as we know from the dates of birth of their children.

WITNESS IN COURT The next day after the record¬

ing of the deed of gift, 28 August 1741, the Orange County court directed Richard Bradford,

plaintiff in a suit against Daniel Singleton, Jr.,

to pay .lames Herndon 50 pounds of tobacco for

his services as a witness two days on his

behalf.*

another HALEY-HERSDON transaction No refer¬

ences to James Herndon have been found for the years from 1742 through 1748. But in 1749 there

are at least the two that follow. On 24 Ajgust

1749 Edward Haley and Catherine his wife sold another tract to James Herndon. All the parties were designated as "of the parish of St. Thomas."

The consideration was £22. Witnesses were

Edward Herndon, G. Hume, and Goodrich Lightfoot. It is of interest to note that Edward Herndon is

mentioned as "coming 30 miles from Spotsylvariia County" in another matter in an Orange Court

minute adopted 29 October 1749.®

PATENT ISSUED TO JAMES HERNDON Oi 15 December

1749 there was issued to James Herndon a land

patent reading as follows:^

"George II, by Thomas Lee, for the trans¬

portation of four persons: Alexander Rosse,

Edward Rowland, Thos. Gahagan and W,n. Vorris;

for the sum of twenty shillings granted to

JAMES HERNDON 400 acres in Orange County,

December 15, 1749, described as follows:

"Beginning at a red oak saplin corner to

Alexander Waugh and running thence South 22

degrees West four hundred and forty-six poles

to the line of the land of Nathaniel Qayhoum

thence with his line North 74 degrees East

two hundred and fifty poles to four pines on

a Stoney Knowl by the Mt. Road thence North

12 degrees East two hundred and seventy poles

to two red oak saplins thence North West

fifty-two poles to a Ring oak corner to the

said Alexander Waugh's by a path and nigh a

branch of the Mt. Run thence with the said

Waugh’s line crossing the said branch North

70 degrees West one hundred poles to the

beginning.

"To be held of the Manor of Greenwich in

K en t Co... "

1C342;2S SALE OF THE PATEHTED TRACT Oh 28 November 1751

James Herndon and Valentine his wife "of St.

Marks parish in Orange Ciounty" deeded to Just

Stephen and J.K. Smith, for a consideration of

£16, "400 acres in St. Marks, being the same

land granted to James Herndon by patent dated

December 15, 1749."* The odd feature of this deed and also of the patent lies in the fact

that the land is mentioned as being in Orange

County, despite the provision of ai Act of Assem¬ bly dated 23 March 1748/9 which had erected a

new county to be called Culpeper out of the

entire area of the parish of St. ^ark in Orange

Ck)unty.

LEASE OF TWO MORE TRACTS On 27 November 1751

James Herndon and Valentine his wife leased to

John Haley the two tracts, one of 180 acres and

the other of 120 acres, which they had acquired

in 1741 from John Yarbrough and Edward Haley,

respectively. The consideration was £17 10s.

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The term of the lease was one year, the usual

pepper com rental being mentioned. The adjoin¬

ing lands were then owned by Philip Waters, James Mitchel, Philip Singletai, Thomas Browiiing,

William Haley, and - Fleet. The amount of

the consideration would imply a re-lease or

sale, but the entry is of lease only. The tract

is called one of 300 acres in the lease. Wit¬

nesses were Benjamin Porter, Benjamin Davis, and

John Grigsby.®

COURT ASSIGNMENT Oi 27 February 1752 the Orange County court ordered "James Herndon, John Finney,

Daniel Singleton, and Philip Singleton, or any

three of than, to view the most convenient and

best way for...passing from the Rackoon (sic)

foi'd to the old court licuso to Fredericksburg

and Major Spence's mill, and report to next

court."

DEFENDANT IN LAW SUIT On 27 June 1755 in a suit

brought by one John Simpson a verdict was ren¬

dered against James Herndon and five other de¬

fendants in the sum of £5.^^ This is the last

time he was mentioned as an Orange countian.

PURCHASE OF LAND IN CULPEPER On 19 September

1751 James Herndon "of St. Thomas Parish, in

Orange County, Planter" was granted by Charles

Neal and Hester his wife and Martin Duett and

Mary his wife, "of St. Thomas Parish, Culpeper"

for £53 iSs. a tract of iUU acres in St. dhomas Parish, Culpeper County, on both sides of the Stanton River.It will be noted that James

Herndon was at the time of this deed a resident of St. Thomas Parish,, in Orange County.

LAST SALE OF LAND IN ORANGE COUNTY In a deed

dated 2 June 1758 and recorded 24 August 1758

James Herndon and Valentine his wife "of the

Parish of Brumfield in the county of Culpeper"

conveyed to Robert Lancaster,"of St. Thomas

Parish in the county of Orange" 120 acres in St.

Thomas parish.^® (This was the property con¬

veyed to James Herndon by Edward Haley and

Catherine his wife in 1749.)

LAST SALE OF LAND IN CULPEPER COUNTY The deed

just mentioned shows that James and Valentine were of the parish of Brumfield by at least as

early as 2 June 1758. On 15 July 1762 Lewis

Herndon [eldest son of James and Valentine] and

Frances his wife, "of Drisdale parish in the county of Caroline" sold for £40 to "James

Ricker, of Brumfield parish, Culpeper" the iden¬ tical 100 acres which had been purchased by James

Herndon in 1751 from the Neals and Dbetts, which

in this later conveyance are described as being

in Brumfield parish, Culpeper County, on both sides of Stanton River.As the sale was not

made by Lewis Herndon as executor or adminis-

.trator of his father'.s estate, his father not

having died so far as is known until 1764, it

would seem that Janies and Valentine had given

tliis tract to their eldest son (deed unrecorded),

and that he in his own right sold it. James

Jameson and John Taylor of Caroline were autho¬

rized by the Culpeper court to take the depo¬

sition of Frances, wife of Lewis Herndon, to the

above deed, which was done 9 September 1763.*^®

CHANCERY SUIT IN CAROLINE COUNTY Under the cap¬

tion "Edward Herndon an Infant Complt agt Lewis Herndon and others Def in Chancery" a suit was

heard by the Caroline court on 16 February 1765,

concerning which the court adopted the following

minute:

"This suit being heard on the Bill and

Answer and the will of James Herndon, deced,

This Gjurt are opinion that the Complainant

is entitled to one eighth part of the land in

the bill mentioned and it is decreed that

James Taylor, Richard Woolfolk, Francis

Coleman, andWilliam Buckner, Jr. or any three

of them do moke partitions of the land between

the Complainant and Defendants according to

the will of James Herndon and make a report

to the Court, and Wm. Parker, gent. , is

appointed guardian for the Complainant to act

at such division.

On the 8th of August following the Order EJook

entry reads;

"a report and partition between Valentine

Herndon, widow of James Herndon, deceased,

and her seven children. Costs to be paid out

of testator’s estate.

Ch 7 December 1766 an administration account

of the estate of James Herndon was returned and

ordered to be recorded.^

If the will of James Herndon were still ex¬

tant, it would probably clarify why an eight-way

distribution of certain lands belonging to the

estate of James Herndon was ordered, since it is

known that he and ^'alentine Herndon had eleven,

not eight, children. Doubtless it had provided

for certain outright gifts to the three who were

not to share in the division of land.

On the same day that the court announced its decree in the chancery suit above mentioned its Order Book reports:^®

"a deed from Valentine Herndon, widow of

James Herndon, and Lewis Herndon to Edmund

Pendleton, gent., guardian of John Hoomes, an

infant, was recorded.

VALENTINE HERNDON'S LATER RESIDENCES Valentine Herndon is mentioned once more in the Caroline

records when on 12 April 1771 the Court ordered

Joan Herringham to pay her 75 pounds of tobacco

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for her three-day attendance in court "as an evidence for her apainst John SfTiitl\."^° From

the death of lier husband unti 1 th is time she

seems to have made her home in Caroline County,

first with her son Lewis and next with her son

Benjamin.

Next we find her in Goochland living with

Benjamin until his death in 1778 or only until

she gave her son John the land Benjamin had

given her. Abstracts of the approfiriate deeds illustrating this fact follow;

"Benjamin Herndon of the Parish of St.

Janes No r than and Goo clil and Gjunty to Valen¬

tine Herndon of Caroline County; considera-

tion £50; 97 acres on the west side of Kicking

Hole Creek, end adjoining the lends of William

Wade and James Herndon [60]; among the wit¬

nesses was John Herndon L61j; dated 19 July

1770; recorded 19 July 1773.

"Valentine Herndon of the Parish of St.

James Northam and Goochland County to John

Herndon of the same; consideration £70; 97

acres on the branches of Licking Hole Creek,

being part of a tract purchased by Benjamin

Herndon of William and Archer Michell, which

Benjamin Herndon [sb] gare to Valentine

Herndon; adjoining the lands of Benjamin

Herndon, Edward Scruggs, and Ann Wade; wit¬

nesses Edward Herndon |,64j , George Herndon

[59J and Lewis Herndon l57J; dated 15 Decem¬

ber 1773 recorded 20 December 1773.

The rest of her life she lived with her son John

and his wife Mary to whom she referred in her

will as "my well beloved son John" and "my daughter-in-law Mary Herndon."

VALENTINE HERNDON'S HILL The following is an exact copy of Valentine (Haley) Herndon's will

and the record of its probate, except for modernization of spelling, punctuation, and capitalization:

"in THE NAME OF GOD AMEIi I, Valentine

Herndon, of Goochland County, knowing it is

appointed for all once to die, do make and

ordain this my last will and testament, being

in perfect mind and memory. First I recom-

meid my soul to the Almighty who gave it and

ay body to be buried in a dristianlike man-

ner^by my executors hereafter named.

FIR^, I desire all my just debts shall

well and truly be paid by my executors.

ITBI: I give and bequeath unto my sons

Lewis Herndon, Reuben Herndon, James Herndon,

and Edward Herndon five shillings sterling to

be equally divided among the four ai«itioned.

ITEN): I give and bequeath unto my daugh¬

ters Sarah Samuel, Mary Herndon, Elizabeth

Baker, and Catey Herndon and my daughter-in-

law Mary Herndon all my wearing clothes to be

divided among the five equally or as they can

agree.

• "ITEM; I give to my daughter Kctey

Herndon n.y bed and furniture.

"iTFM: I give and bequeath unto my son

John Herndon and my daughter Catey Herndon

all the money due unto me, and my negro

fellow Moses, to be equally divided or es

they can agree between them two.

"l DO HEREBY revoke all other will or

wills heretofore made by me.

"lastly, I appoint my well beloved son

John Herndon executor of this my last will

and testament. In witness I have hereunto

set my hand and seal this tenth day of Sep¬

tember one thousand seven hundred and eighty

three.

her

Test: Valentine X Herndon (Seal)

Dabney Wade mark

David Mull ins

"At a Court held for Goochland County on

the 21st day of October 1799:

"Ibis wr iting was presented in Court ancL.

proved by the oath of Dabney Wade to be the

last will and testament of Valentine Herndon,

deceased, and ordered to be recorded.

At the time of her death in 1799 her son

Lewis had been dead three years. Not mentioned

in her will were her sons Benjamin and (Seorge.

Benjamin had died in 1778, and George during his

service in the Revolutionary Cause in 1779,

dates prior to the making of her will. Benjamin’s

widow, Rosanna ('iVade) Herndon, married secondly

David Mullins who witnessed Valentine’s will,

while the other witness was Dabney Wade, Rosanna’s

brother.

FURTHER FAMILY DATA For purposes of the com¬

plete tie-up of the members of this extraordinary

family, menticn must be made of the will of the

youngest son, Edward, which was dated 12 April

1843 and probated 11 March 1845.®^ In it he named all his brothers and sisters, except his

brother George whom he knew to be dead as he had

reared George’s only child, Daniel G. Merridon,

to whom he left nearly all his property. He

lists his brothers as Lewis, Benjamin, James,

John, and Reuben, and his sisters as Sarah

Samuel, Elizabeth Baker, Catherine Durham (the

Catey of Valentine’s will), and Mary Herndon. Ha

had the old family Bible, for the record of the

settlement of his estate states that his nephew,

Daniel G. Herndon, bought it from the executor

for $1.

Each of the sons of James and Valentine

Herndon served in some capacity in the Goochland

forces during the American Revolution, except Benjamin who died during the war. His widow,

Rosanna (Wade) Herndon, however, contributed

supplies.

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57 i. • Lewis (c 1738-1796)m Frances Thompson 63 vi i. Sarah (c 1751 - --) in -- Samuel; nfi

58 ii. Benjamin (c 1740 - 1778) m Rosanna 64 viii. Edward (c 1752 - 1845) m Bettie Minor

Wade 65 ix. Elizabeth (c 1755-) m 11 July 1773

59 iii. George ic 1742 - 1779) m -- -- Joseph Baker in Goochland County; nfi

60 iv. James (c 1743 - 1810) m 1st -- 66 X. Catherine (c 1757 -) m -- Durham,

2nd Nancy Rice as mentioned in the will of her

61 V. John (c 1746 - 1821) m Mary Ann brother Edward; nfi

Clarkson 67 xi. Mary (c 1759 - p 1783) unm.

FOOTNOTES ON JAMES HERNDON [IIJ

1 1 Orange County (yo-) Order Book 440

2 4 Orange Deeds 390-391

3 12 Orange Deeds 61

4 2 Orange County (Va.) Order Book 476


6 5 Orange County (Va. ) Order Book 229

7 2a Virginia Land Patents 67

8 5 Orange County (Va.) Order Book 334; 12 Orange Deeds 62




12 A Culpeper Deeds 478


14 D Culpeper Deeds 56

15 Ibid 735

16 6 OOB 389

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18 Ibid 403

19 Ibid 108

20 9 CDB 174

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22 17 Goochland Wills 500

23 3 Campbell Wills 386

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12 ESTHER HERHOOH [2 Edward] was bom probably about 1723 in King and Queen Gjunty, Va. She

married Henry Filey in Spotsylvania Gjunty, 23

December 1742 being the date of their marriage

license. His first wife whose Christian name

was Mary had died after 7 April 1741 when she

acknowledged the surrender of her dower rights

in certain lealty, es will appear in the follow¬

ing record.

HENRY ELLEY’S SPOTSYLVANIA REAL ESTATE TRANS¬ ACTIONS On 3 October 1732 George Musick, of St.

George’s Parish, Spotsylvania, "planter", and

Ann his wife conveyed to Henry Elley, of Hanover Parish, King George County, "founder",

for £14 a 500-acre tract in St. George’s Parish,

origiiially patcnlsd to George "usick and Thomas

Allen.* To this property Henry Ellley promptly moved, for he was regularly thereafter, until

1742, referred to as of St. George’s Parish,

Spotsylvania County.

On 4 February 1732/3 Wm. Taylor, of St.

George’s Parish, "mason", sold to Henry Elley,

of the same parish and county, "founder", 200

acres in Spotsylvania, being a part of the lands

patented to George Musick and Thomas Allen 28

September 1728.®

On 1 September 1733 Thomas Jarman, of St.

George’s Parish, Spotsylvania, "planter", auid

Mary his wife sold to Henry Eiley, ‘'founder",

for £4 currency 57 acres in Spotsylvania origin¬

ally granted to Jarman 20 June 1733.'*

On 7 April 1741 Henry Elley entered into two

contracts with Robert Spilsbe Coleman, of Essex

County, in one of which Elley was called "planter" and in the other, "founder." He con¬

veyed to Coleman the 200 acres and the 87 acres

above mentioned. Mary, wife of Henry Elley,

acknowledged her relinquishment of her dower

ri^ts in those two tracts. Witnesses to these

tr insactions were Edward Herndon and Thomas

Stubblefield. ®

On 2 November 1742 Henry Elley deeded to

Edward Ware 300 acres and to Edward Coleman 200

acres of the 500-acre tract he had purchased 3

October 1732. At the date of these sales Henry Elley was of Hambleton Parish, King William County. The three witnesses to these Spotsyl¬

vania deeds were Edward Herndon, Robert Huddle¬

ston, and Edbund Foster.®

By 14 August 1767 Henry Elley and his wife

Esther were living in Culpeper County, for on

that date they entered into a deed of gift to their son-in-law John Foster, transferring to

him title to seven negro slaves, stocks of

horses, cattle, etc., which was recorded in

Spotsylvania 8 December 1767. Sometime between

then and 1 December 1768 Esther (Herndon) Elley

probably died in Gilpeper County, for on the

latter date Henry Elley, of Culpeper, conveyed

to his son Henry, Jr., by a deed of gift, negroes and an interest in a tenement of land in

Spotsylvania whereon Henry, Jr., then lived suid

which Henry Elley, Sr. , had purchased frevn the

executors of Col. John Spotswood, deceased;® but

no wife joined in this deed of gift. Since the

transfer of realty was involved, which required a wife to waive her dower rights, we must con¬

clude that Esther had died.

IN ORANGE COUNTY, YA. On 29 October 1749 the Orange County Court directed Tliomas Harrison,

plabitiff in a suit against Henry Elley, to pay

Edward Herndon 280 pounds of tobacco for his services four days as a witness for Harrison,

Edward Herndon having come 30 miles twice from

Spotsylvania to Orange on his behalf.®

HER FAMILY The four children mentioned below

are listed in the Spotsylvania records. If she

and Henry Elley had others, we have no knowledge of them. In a legal sense, proof is lacking

that the four named are her children. They

might be the children of Henry El ley’s wife

Mary. As we lack their birth dates, a positive

statement cannot be made. We are assuming them

to be Esther’s not Mary’s sons and daugiters.

Children of ESTHER HERNDON and HENRY ELLEY:

68 i. Henry Elley m Sarah Burbridge. On 5 June 1771 Wm. Fitzhugh of Stafford

County, Esquire, aid Ann his wife sold

to Henry Elley 128 acres in St.

George’s Parish. Henry and his wife

Sarah sold this tract 21 March 1776 to

Thomas Burbridge, of Spotsylvania. The

Elleys were then of Culpeper. In 1792

Henry Elley and his wife Sarah; his

wife's brother Thomas Djrbridge and

his wife Sarah; his wife's sister

Mildred (Burbridge) Robinson and her

husband Benjamin Robinson; and his

wife’s sister Elizabeth and her hus¬

band Tavener Branham were living in

Kentucky. The parents of Sarah (Bur¬

bridge) Elley were Tliomas Burbridge and his wife Nancy, daughter of Joel

Parish; while her other known grand¬

parents were Thomas and Mary Burbridge.

We have no information as to whether Henry Elley had any descendants.

69 ii. Isabella Elley m John Foster, soi of

Anthony and Isabella Foster; nfi. 70 iii. Ann Elley m James Cunnin^.ara. She was

appointed administratrix of her hus¬

band’s estate, furnishing £1000 bond

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17 January 1782. Her will was dated

23 April 1789 and probated in Spotsyl¬

vania 6 August 1709. She named her 'brother Edward El ley, her friend Jaunes

Lewis, and her son James Cunningham

executors. Her will directed that that tract of land in Fayette County,

Kentucky, patented 17 August 1786,

should be divided equally among her

children: Elizabeth, Ann, Jame.s, Henry,

George, Nelly and William. James

Cunningham, her husband, was commis¬

sioned Ensign 2 September 1755, pro¬

moted to First Lieutenant 4 May 1756,

Co.mpany of Foot, and Lieutenant of

Fredericksburg. James Cunningham was

active for many years as a vestryman of St. George’s Parish. Following his death the Vestry niet at Mrs. Cunning¬

ham’s 1 December 1783 and 16 April

1785. It had met at the same home, then Mr. James Ginningham’s, frequently

from 11 November 1771 to 24 November

1780. After her death--the members of

the Protestant Episcopal Church met 5

April 1790 at the same home, then

Mr. Robert Cunningham's, and elected a

Vestry of twelve, including John

Herndon, Capt. Edward Herndon, Edward

Herndon, Jr. end Jolin Welch.

Conpany of Militia 27 July 1763. They 71 iv. Edward Elley m Mary Ann Foster,

daughter of John Foster; nfi.

FOOTNOTES ON ESTHER HERNDON [12]

1 Crazier 65

2 Ibid 124

3 Ibid 124

4 Ibid 127

5 Ibid 154

6 Ibid 161

7 Ibid 259-260

8 Ibid 265


10 The following references concern either the children or grandchildren named below:

Crozier 45, 47, 146, 148, 265, 324, 431, 450, 459, 502, and Second Vestry Book of Si. Georges Parish for the dates mentioned.

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13 WILLIAM HERNDON [3 James] ^asboni probably about 1706 in King and Q.ieen C-onnty, Va. About

1730 he married Sarah I'oe, daughter of Simon

Poe. labile it is impossible to be certain about

which references to William Herndon in the

Caroline Order Books apply to each of the persons of diat name, it is believed that tlie following

pertain to the subject of this sketch. Tliere is

no doubt alMsut the date of his death, the nanie

of his wife, the names of their children, where

they lived, etc.

SERVICE AS CONSTABLE From 1749 to 1753 he was constable of Caroline County. On 10 November

1749 he gave information "concerning Simon Poe

for tending seconds", and Zachery Lewis was

directed to prosecute the case against Poe. ^

Certification was later made that William

Herndon had discharged his duties as constable

for 1751, 1752, and 1753.^ It is interesting to note that again at court 9 November 1752 Simon

Poe had not mended his ways, for then a minute

was adopted, reading:*

"On the information of William Herndon

constable Ordered theKinga Attorney prosecute

Simon Poe, John Smith, Thomas Pitman, Mordecai

Abraham, William Deshaza, James Masters and

Titus Stevens for tending seconds.

It is not known whether the Simon Poe men- . • 1 -» > t

tzuiieu was i>xia1.cu.i iicinuun o

his brother-in-law. LiiC a' * xii * .A. o r

LAW SUITS One James Turner was a witness for

William Herndon who was plaintiff in a suit

against Thomas [name blurred] . He had testified for him three days in court and had traveled 40

miles to do so. On 16 November 1751 William

Herndon was ordered to pay him 195 pounds of tobacco.*

William Copeland who filed a petition against

William Herndon was awarded £1 13s. 2]4d. , and

costs on 15 July 1757.° The Coui.t likewise

found for Edmiind Taylor, plaintiff, against

Will iam Herndon when on 10 March 1758 it heard

the case. The judgment was for £2 5s. 9d.°

12 March 1761 the following entry appears:^

James Herndon as its executors. They qualified as such with Josiah Samuel on their bond. The appraisers appointed were John Armistead, Gent.,

John Jones, Robert Parish, and John Pickett.

They filed their inventory and appraisement of

the estate 12 May 1774.®

No more appears on this topic in the Caroline records until the Court in August 1781 adopted

the following minute:

"it appearing to the Court that Sarah

Herndon, having held sundry slaves and other

estate of her deceased husband William

Herndon and moving out of this State and

carrying the seme hath thereby forfeited all

her right and title thereto by the laws of

the Commonwealth.

REMOVAL OF THE FAMILY TO CHATHAM COUNTY, N. C. The facts are that Sarah Herndon had ra.ovcd to

Chatiiam County, N. C., at least as early as 12 October 1779. Her son Step.hen Herndon had gcffie

there by July 1777; her sons George and Ja.me3

were there by 1779. Her son Jolm lived just

north of the Chatham border, in Orange County,

N. C. Her daughters were nearby with their husbands and children.

SIFTS OF SLAVES Some of the slaves mentioned in

the Caroline County Court minute above quoted

had, as a matter of fact, been given away by

Sarah in October 1779 to her son George and to

her grandchildren "Joseph Herndon and Martlia,

children of John Herndon [who is] still living,

whose other children are Lewis, Mary, Sarah,

Patience and Pihoady. Four years later she

gave a slave to her grandson "George Herndon,

common laborer" [son of her son Captain James],

in a deed witnessed by two of the sons of the

said Captain James, Elisha and Cornelius Herndon.

WILL OF SIMON POE Of particular interest is the will of S imon Poe, father-in-law of William

Herndon. He was about 100 years of age at his death in 1793. Che of his descendants gives his age as 105.^^ It is no wonder that he signed

the will that follows by making his mark.**

"Ob the petition brought by William

Herndon against Hugh Sampson judgment is

granted against the said defendant for £l2

11s. 7d. current money which he is ordered to

pay to the plaintiff with interest from the

10th day of July, 1760, till paid, and the

coats of this suit.

HIS WILL AND SETTLD^ENT OF HIS ESTATE His will,

now lost, was proved 9 December 1773 by the

oaths of Robert Parish and Edmund West, two of

the witnesses th ereto. It named Willism and

"in the name of god, AVEN. I, Simon Poe, of Chatham County and State of North Carolina, bei ng of sound and perfect mind and memory, blessed be God, do this ninth day of April in the year of our Lord 1793 make and publish this my last will and testament in manner following, that is to say:

FIRST: I give and bequeath to my well beloved wife Rhoda Poe one negro girl naitied Wency, one feather bed and furniture, one bay mare seven years old, also other stock, and ten barrels of corn to be paid the first day of next December, together with one hundred acres of land on Pig Branch, whereon the said

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Children of WILLIAM HERNDON and SARAH POE:

Rhoda Poe li»ed during her widowhood. All the rest of my estate to be dirided

between these my children: Sary Herndon, Mary Barry, Jane Massey.

One child's part to be dirided between Mary George and Lucy Straughn, daughters of [my daughter] Lucy Straughn deceased; and

Stephen Poe, son of Simon Poe, one other child's part; also

William Poe, the son of Stephen Poe, one other child's part;

My son William Poe and my son James Poe and daughter Frances Thomson, haring had their part of my estate already; and

I HEREBY MAKE and ordain my worthy friends, Richard Straughn, Robert Thomson, and Jaoies Manly, executors of this my last will and testament.

IN WITNE-SS WHEREOF, I the said Simon Poe have, to this my last will end testament, set my hand and seal the day and year above written.

Witnesses present: his

Elijah Foushee (Signed) Simon (X) Poe B. Manly mark

Date of probate not sho»-n; inventory filed 9 August 1793.

FIKAL CA.ROLIKE COUNTY REFERENCE On 14 April 1785 a suit by William and James Herndon, executors under the will of William Herndon, [their father] against the executors of George Yates, deceased, was heard by the (^roline Court, and a judgment in favor of the plaintiffs was awarded, with costs. The plaintiffs were represented in Court by their attorneys.^®

72 i.

73 ii.

74 iii.

75 iv.

76 V.

77 vi.

78 vii.

79 viii.

80 ix.

Mary (c 1731 - --) m Elisha Dismukes; said to have settled in Chatham or Orange County, N. C. ; nfi. Joseph (c 1733/1763) unmarried. His brother James was given administration of Joseph’s estate by the Caroline court 14 August 1763. Reverberations of this estate settlement were felt in the Court of Chatham County, N. C., as will appear in the write-up of John Hemdcsi [78] at a later date, daughter (c 1735 - --) m Jolin Booker, of Chatham and Orange Counties, N. C. ; nfi. James (c 1737 - 1811) m Isabella Thompson William (c 1738 - ), of whom nothing is known after he brouglit the suit in 1785 against the Yates estate above- mentioned George (c 1740 - ) m Frances Merramon John (c 1742-1827) m 1st Sarah Wingfield; 2nd Catherine Nelscxi daughter (c 1744 - -) m Brig. Gen'l Ambrose Ramsey, of Chatham County, N. C.; had issue; nfi Stephen (cl746- -)m So|^ia Poe

FOOTNOTES ON WILLIAM HERNDON [13]

1 3 COB 181

2 Ibid 252, 354, 483

3 Ibid 354

4 Ibid 285

5 4 COB 291

6 Ibid 344

I 5 COB 146

8 10 COB 456

9 Ibid 555

10 12 COB 19

II B Chatham Deeds 211, 212

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13 Mrs. Lillie B. Nesbitt, of Cba[>el Hill, N. C., in conversation with John G. Herndon, Haverford,

Penn a., in June 1939

14 Chatham County Deeds, Bills of Sale, Inventories of Estates, and Viills, 1782-1794, p. 47

(Volume 22.018, North Carolina Historical Commission, Ralei^)

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14 EDWARD HERNDON [3 James] was bom probably about 1709 in King and Queen Gjunty, Va., where he lived all his life. It is imj)ossible now to

differentiate with certainty the Caroline County

references to this Edward, if any, from those applicable to his first cousin, Edward [20] son

of William [4] . We have assumed that the other

Edward was always called Edward and that the one reference to this subject was in the suit of

Edward Herndon, Jr., plaintiff, against James

Pickett, defendant, charged with trespass, which

the Court dismissed 10 May 1745.'

POSSIBLE IDENTIFICATION Details of his life are lacking. It is possible, but not likely, that

he was the Edward Herndon, Jr., who with George

Taylor and Wm. McDonaugh witnessed a deed

dated 26 July 1738 from Morgan Bryan, then

of Orange [later Frederick] County, Va., to

Daniel Chancey for 264 acres, a tract called

Flat Springs, near the head of the Tuscarora, a

branch of the Opeckon.

HIS WIFE That his wife was Ann, a daughter of

Thomas Collins, is an assumption based on the fact that both William and Johri Herndon, believed

to be his sons, named daugliters Ann Collins, and that the said William Herndon [82] named a son

ThoDias Collins.®

HIS CHILDREN His sons, Edward and John, had strong Baptist interests: the fora.er, imprisoned

for preaching without license from tlie Colony;^

the latter, grandfather of four Baptist ministers,

two of whom were of considerable distinction.®

Reuben lived and married in King and Qieen.®

Children of EDWARD HERNDON and ANN COLLINS:

81 i. Edward (c 1733- p 1771) m 1753 Mary Waller, in Over-Wharton Parish, Staf¬ ford County.’ A tablet was erected at

Bowling Green, Caroline County, Va.,

to his memory and that of five col¬

leagues of his: Lewis Craig, John Burruss, Johp Young, James Goodrich,

and Bartholomew Chowning. Concerning

them Dr. Garnett Ryland said, in part,

on the occasion of the unveiling of

the tablet just mentioned:"What manner

of men were these? Of what crime were

they guilty? Why do we a century and

a half later meet to do th em this

honor? Of Herndon and Goodrich and

Chewning we know almost nothing. If

it were not for their imprisonment,

their names would long ago have been forgotten. They were laymen whose

hearts had been touched by the spirit

of God, whose lives had been changed,

whose souls had been kindled and could

not but speak the things that they had

seen and heard." They were arrested

and imprisoned by order of the Caroline

Court in 1771. ["Swearing Jack"

Waller, called also "Devil’s Adjutant",

foreman of the Grand Jury that in¬

dicted these six, became Ctaig’s "sen

in the Gosi>el, an eloquent herald of

redeeming grace. "] No known descendants.

82 ii. William (c 1737 - 1796) m Frances Whi te

83 iii. Reuben (c 1739-1777) m Margaret --

84 iv. John (c 17 41 - 1805) m Mrs. Sarah

(Chapman) Mountjoy

FOOTNOTES ON EDWARD HERNDON [IN]

1 2 COB 474

2 Hopewell Friends' History, p. 21

3 H Prince William Wills 469

4 "Forerunners of Freedom", address delivered by Dr. Garnett Ryland, of University of Richmond,

quoted in Free Lance of Fredericksburg, Virginia, Thursday, October 5, 1922

5 James B. Taylor, Virginia Baptist Ministers, Second Series, 223-226 and 451-461; Mumford,

Virginia's Attitude toward Slavery and Secession, 71

6 Virginia Gazette, No. 130, dated 25 July 1777, advertising the sale of property belonging to the perscHial estate of Reuben Herndon, deceased, on his plantation five miles above King and Queai

Court House 12 August 1777; Real Estate Tax Record, King and Queen County, dated 1 June 1782,

Virginia State Library (Archives Division), Richmond

7 In the printed copy of the Register of Over-Wharton Parish, 1720-1760, the entry gives the hus¬

band’s name as Edward Kendon, but an examination of the original shows the name clearly to be Edward Herndon.

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15 JOSEPH HERKDON [3 James] was born about

1716 probably in that part of King and Queen

County, Va., which after 1728 wi’s within Drys-

dale Parish, Caroline County, of which he

remained a resident until his death in 1757.

Our first reference to him was on 9 November

1739 when he was summoned to court to answer an

indictment against him by the Grand Jury. The case was continue<l at its next session; then on

8 February 1739/40 he pleaded guilty to the

charge of trespass, assault, and breach of the

peace. He was fined one shilling and costs.*

PROPERTY OhT^ER On 9 May 1740 a deed of feoffinent

with livery of seisin endorsed thereon from John

Paylor, Gent., to .Joseph Herndon was proved by

the oaths of Robert Parish, Robert Wool folk, and

Philip Herndon.^

APPRAISER On 10 April 1741 Joseph Herndon was

appointed an appraiser of the estate of Thomas CVirham. ^

SURVEYOR On 14 May 1742 he was appointed

surveyor of the roads in place of Thomas Bullard, and was ordered to keep the roads in repair with

the assistance of John Baylor’s gang as well as

his own.*

JURYMAN AND WITNESS On 12 November 1742 he

served as a mcuibci of lIaC Uia-'id Juiy, ^ aiid on several petit juries in the succeeding three

years.® In one such case which extended from

10 November 1744 to 15 September 1745, the

defendant was Philip Hemdcxi [17] . On 9 Septem¬ ber 1743 he was awarded 50 pounds of tobacco for

being a witness in court.

PROPERTY IN SPOTSYLVANIA On 2 June 1747 there

was recorded in Spotsylvania a deed, bearing the

same date, from William Wiat, mariner, to Joseph

Herndon, of Caroline, for 667 acres in Spotsyl¬

vania, devised to William Wiat (Wyatt) by the

will of his father Francis Wyatt. Witnesses were

James Taylor, Joseph Russel, and Richard Todd.

The consideration was £133 8s. This deed of sale

followed a lease between the same parties

entered into the previous day.®

SLAVE OWNER On 13 October 1749 a negro slave

girl named Daphney belonging to Joseph Herndon

was adjudged by the Caroline Court to be 13 years of age.® This is the last reference to

him during his lifetime in the extant Caroline records.

PROPERTY IN ORANGE Goodrich Lightfoot and

Susannah his wife and Thomas Slau^ter, all of

Culpeper, sold to Joseph Herndon, of Caroline, 25 July 1754 300 acres in Orange.*® Witnesses

we,re Rowland Thomas, John Pendleton, and Aiidrew

Shepherd.

MORE PROPERTY IN SPOTSYLVANIA For £30 John Crittenden Webb, of Spotsylvania, conveyed to

Joseph Herndon, of Caroline, 2 July 1754, a

100-acre tract in Spotsylvania adjoining the property which Joseph Herndon had previously

bought from Capt. Wm. Wyatt. It was located on Lick Branch. Witnesses were Z. Lewis, Roger

Dixon, and Richard Woolfolk.**

HIS DEATH At the time of his death which ap¬ pears to have occurred about 1757 he owned all

the lands above mentioned. His will which was

doubtless probated in Caroline County is lost, but references thereto appear in the Spotsyl¬

vania deed books in connection with the sale of

property which he had purchased from Vi'yatt and

Webb. On 8 June 17 58 the inventory of his estate was filed with the Caroline Court. *2 ^

little over a year later Mary Herndon, his

widow, returned an account against the estate of

Joseph Herndcxi which was ordered to be filed.*®

Sometime between that date and 1 October 1759

she married Qiarles Gordon, of Spotsylvania.

HIS WIFE Joseph Herndon had married about 1740

Mary Boswell. There is no known record of the

marriage, but no doubt exists about her name, furnished by several of her descendants.

GUARDIANSHIP OF HIS CHILDREN Charles Gordon, with Edward Herndon and John Holloday as his securities, gave a £2,000 bond to the Spotsyl¬

vania Court at the time of his appointment as

guardian of Joseph Herndon’s orphans: Joseph,

Stephen, Philadelphia, Benjamin, Mary Ann, and

Sarah.*® Since from various sources the year of

Riiladelp^ia’s birth has been ascertained to be

1745, Benjamin’s 1748, and Sarah’s 1754, it

seans reasonable to assume that the orphans were

all named in the order of their birth in the guardian bond.

SALE OF SPOTSYLVANIA PROPERTY Oiaries and Mary

[Boswell] Gordon, of Spotsylvania, conveyed 13

August 1774 for £400 to Robert Hart, merchant,

of Hanover County, "600 acres in Berkeley

Parish, Spotsylvania, whereon the said Gordon

lived, devised by the will of Joseph Herndon to

his son Benjamin of whom sd. Gordon purchased

the same....also 300 acres in Berkeley Parish,

Spts. Co., purchased of one William Garrett, etc."*® Witnesses were Robert Grayham, Geo.

Stubblefield, Will iam Smith, Franky Smith, and

Walter Qiiles. This deed was recorded 18 August 1774 as was also a similar conveyance jointly

from Joseph Herndon (son of the Joseph of this

sketch) and his wife Betty, and (Tiarles and Mary

Gordon, to Aaron Fontaine, of 260 acres for

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£200. To that deed the witnesses were William

Smith, Edward Herndon, and Peter Stubblefield.*^

REMOVAL 'from SPOTSYLVANIA By 1775 Charles

Gordon was living in Louisa County, Va.Soon

the family moved to that part of Surry County,

N.C., which later became Wilkes County.*® There

Charles and Mary Gordon spent the remainder of

their lives.

CHARLES GORDON Charles Gordon, second husband

of Mary (Boswell) Herndon was a senator from

Wilkes in the North Caroline Legislature in 1781. ®® He and Mary were the parents of three

sons, Qiapman, Nathaniel, and Charles (xjrdon.**

Children of JOSEPH HERNDON and MARY BOSWELL:

85 i. Joseph (1741-1798) m Elizabeth White

86 ii. Stephen (1743-1765) leftanon-cupative will^* which was proved 5 October 1765

by the deposition of Sarah Gordon,

aged 57 years or thereabouts, and Elizabeth Gordon, aged 26 years or

thereabouts, who stated under oath

before Thomas Wiatt tliat Stephen

Herndon on 26 September last, then in

his perfect senses but a lew/ state of health had a great desire to make a

will, but no one was present whom he thou^t proper to write the will, and

so he declared before them that he left

a negro man named Daniel to his mother

Mary Gordon, and a negro woman named

Winney to his sister Sarah Herndon; that he wanted a negro woman named

Rose to be sold and from the proceeds

to pay his debts and the overplus to be givoi to his brother Joseph Herndcn,

and that on the first day of October

he departed this life.

87 iii. Philadelphia (1745-1816) m Thomas Fox

88 iv. Benjamin ( 1748-1819) m Ist Sarah

Fines; 2nd Mrs. Patience (Terry) Gleim

89 V. Mary Ann (1752- ) m Peter Stubble¬ field

90 vi. Sarah (1754-1842) m George (k>rdon

FOOTNOTES ON JOSEPH HERNDON [15]

1 1 COB 568, 575, 579

2 Ibid 603

3 2 COB 12

4 Ibid 109

5 Ibid 135

6 Ibid 189, 192, 292, 293, 525

7 Ibid 223

8 Crazier 175

9 3 COB 175

10 12 Orange (Va.) Deeds 236

11 Crazier 196

12 4 COB 356

13 5 CO B 74

14 Letter dated 2 July 1934 from Mrs. Luke Hodges, W'ichita Falls, Texas, to John G. Herndon, Haver-

ford, Penna., and orally by Miss Louise B. Magruder, Annapolis, Md. 12 June 1939 in conversation with John G. Herndon; XXI Tyler’s Quarterly Historical and Genealogical Magazine 251; Benjamin

Herndon named his eldest daughter Mary Boswell; and Charles Gordon Jr., named his eldest daughter

Polly Boswell, each, of ccwrse, for their mother Mary (Boswell) [Herndon] Gordon.

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with special reference to Philadelphia (Herndon) Fox

20 Wheeler: History of Horth Carolina 465

21 His will dated 7 May 1808, Wilkes Co., N. C. names these sons

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1769 in King George County. We have no detailed

knowledge of him. Fortunately, however, his will

has been preserved (1 King George Wills 272).

It reads as follows:

friends Joseph Herndon and Gerard Banks ex¬ ecutors of this my last will and testament hereby revoking all other wills by me hereto¬ fore made.

In Witness whereof I have hereunto set my

hand and seal this thirty-first day of July one thousand seven hundred and sixty eight.

In the Name of God Anen, I John Herndon of the GjuntyofKing George, being sick and weak in body, but of sound mind, sense and memory, thanks be to Almighty God for the same, do a\ake and ordain this my last will and testa¬ ment in manner following,

First and principally I recommend my soul to God and my body to the earth to be interred at the discretion of my executors hereafter named, and as to what worldly estate it hath ples-sed God to bestow on me, I do give, devise and bequeath as follows:

Imprimis. I confirm tomy son David Herndon one bay mare cal led Bonny now in his possession. I desire that my executors may take charge and care of my children during their infancy and to bind ou t such of them and to such trades as they think proper, in case that it may be thought necessary by my executors and not very inconvenient to my wife, I desire that in that case that they give to either or any of my children as they come of age or are married, such a small proportion of my estate as can be conveniently spared and such things so given by my executors to be by them valued in current meuey and such child or children

deducted with the same, and shall be deemed and taken as so much of their proportionable

of D,y £st..l_ to h; '1 lotted to them by my wife, end such child or children not be liable for interest on the same, tho this is a matter I leave entirely in the breast and at the discretion of ray executors.

Item. I leave to my loving wife Jane Herndon during her widowhood the entire use of my whole estate exclusive of the specific legacies hereinbefore mentioned, for the sup¬ port of her and my children, and should she marry again it is my will and desire that she then enjoy to her own use during her natural . life a one-third part of my estate only, and the other two-thirds to immediately descend to my children in equal proportion, and it is my further will raid desire that the whole of ■ y estate that may be in the hands of my wife at her death be divided amongst my children

and their representatives as she may think proper.

Whereas I am doubtful that it will not be in the power of my wife to manage two of my

negroes named Nann and Nell it is my desire that should the said negroes Nann and Nell or either of them should become mean then it shall and may be lawful for my executors, and they are hereby desired to sell or otherwise dispose of them in such manner as they may think best for the benefit of my estate.

Lastly I do constitute and appoint my wife Jane Herndon, David Herndon my son, and my

Jno Herndon (Seal)

Sealed and acknowledged and declared by the said John Herndon as and for his last will and testament in the presence of John Harwood, Frances Banks, Gerard Banks.

The record then concludes:

"AtaCxjurt held forking George County the sixth day of April, 1769,

"The 1 astwill and testament of John Herndon, deceased, was presented to court by Jane Herndon his widow, and Gerard Banks, executrix

and executor thereunder mentioned who made oath thereto according to law, and the same being proved by the oaths of the witnesses thereto subscribed is adnitted to record, and on the motion of the same Jane Herndon and (Jerard Banks, they performing what the law in such cases require, certificate is granted them for obtaining a probate thereof in due form.

Test: Joseph Robinson."

The entire family of John Herndon except

Zachariah left Virginia after his death end

settled in the nei^borhood of Bryant’s Statioa, Scott County, Kentucky, and Zachariah visited

his brothers and sisters there.

The family name of John Herndon’s wife Jane is not known.

Children of JOHN HERNDON and JANE---

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92 ii. Samuel (c 1744- C 1790) m Catherine Bohannon

93 iii. Elizabeth (C1746- p 1821) m Thomas

Branham

94 iv. Zachariah (c 1748-1796) m Mary Scott

95 V, Thomas (c 1750-1821) m Mary Ship

96 vi. Mary (c 1752- p 1782) m Thomas Ficklin

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Va., which later bec;une Caroline; lived there until 1745; went to North Carolina before 1750; and returned to Caroline County before 1760.

Where he died we do not know.

JURYMAN On 12 February 1736/7 he served on the

jury in the cases of John Champe v Robert Ikidley

and Joseph Hoanes v Richard Harrison.* CXi 14 July

1738 he and William Herndon were jurors in Thomas Morris v George Senior.^ On 10 November 1738 he

was on the Grand Jury.® He served also on petit juries 8 Jime 1739, 9 May 1740, and 10 May 1745.*

THE SIMON POE SUIT On 9 September 1737 Simon Poe .sued Phi]ip Hemd-vi for trespass. Continued

in August 1738, it was finrilly settled 9 March

1738/9 when the jury brought in a verdict for

the plaintiff for 20 shillings sterling, and .. 8 costs.

SLAVE OWNER In our reading of the Caroline re¬ cords we have found only one reference to testi¬

mony by a slave. That one stated that Philip

Herndon’s man Harry had been a witness in court

24 August 1744.®

THE WILLIAM RIDDLE SUIT On 9 November 1744 the

suit filed by William Riddle against Philip Herndon for slander got under way; was continued

the verdict of the jury for the award of the

heavy sum of £8, damages, was approved by the

court. ^

above and of Edward Herndon and Richard Walden as garnishees. In court they said that what they

had of his property consisted of two iron wedges, a pair of sheepshears, a ball of shoemaker's thread, a candlestick, a pair of cotton cards, a

pair of knitting needles, and a whirl.A month later a similar suit against the estate of Philip Herndon by William McKay was ordered, but no sub¬

sequent reference thereto was found.

NORTH CAROLINA LAND GRANT Doubtless Philip

Herndon had gone to North Carolina, for that

F’rovince granted to him on 27 September 1750 100

acres in Anson County on the left bank of the

Pee Dee River.** He thus became the first of

many persons named Herndon to whom North Carolina

granted lends.

HIS RETURN TO VIRGINIA How long he lived there

is not known, for our final reference to him thus far found is in the Essex County courthouse at Tappahannock, Va. It is dated 8 March 1759

and reads as follows:*®

"l, Philip Heamdon, of Caroline have bar¬ gained and sold to my brother James Hearndon all my rite end title to two negros formiiy belonging to my father William Hearndon named Jack and Milley and ail the remaining part of

my father’s estate due me.

The si^aturewas "Philip Herndon." Joseph FHTand

was a witness. The reason for recording this

deed in an Elssex County deed book was that James Herndon, Philip’s brother, was a resident there,

in fact had beai for many years.

THE SAMUEL COLEMAN SUIT Ch 10 May 1745 there was scheduled against Philip Hemdcn a second

suit for trespass. The plaintiff was Samuel

Coleman. The case was dismissed, however, when

the court was told that tlie parties had reached an agreement.®

THE LANKFORD AND McKAY SUITS Sometime between

the dismissal of the Coleman suit in May 1745 and December of that year Philip Herndon left

Caroline County. Two suits were instituted

against his estate, that is, against his property,

one by Benjamin Lankford, the other by William

McKay. On 14 December 1745 the Caroline court

awarded 740 poxmds of tobacco to the plaintiff;

directed the sheriff to attach "a parcel of tob°

hanging a parcel of com and a parcel of ffoder-

land" in the hands of Richard Walden and Edward

Herndon and to sell the same to satisfy the said

judgment; and ordered Richard Walden and Edward

Herndon to "come into the next court and declare on oath what part of Philip Herndon’s property

they have in their hands."® When the case was

heard the following February, the writ of attach¬

ment spoke of the agricultural products named

HIS FAMILY Philip as a given name for Herndon

descendants appears time and time again in the

South Carolina records and almost nowhere else.

For that reason we have assumed that their ances¬

tor was this Philip. The F*ee Dee is one of the

important rivers of that State. It seems likely

that Philip Herndon who was granted land on the

Pee Dee was the fat) er of Philip who settled in

South Carolina, and that William Herndon who

settled near him was probably another son. We

have assumed that the other Herndons mentioned

laelow, concerning whom there is some information

in the early records of North Carolina, were

other sons. No mention has been found of the

name of the wife of this Philip.

Children of PHILIP HERNDON:

97 i. Peter, to whom The Province of North

Carolina granted 100 acres in Duplin County 7 March 1759; nfi.

98 ii. Matthew, served as a private in 1755 in

Capt. Joseph Nash’s Company in Pasquotank County, N.C.;*“ nfi.

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99 iii. JoFvn: on 8 June 1768 he entered 150 acres

in Granville Gauntv, S.C. They were

on Chevise’s Creek bounded on the

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Carolina. He entered on 13 March

1773, 50 more acres next to the pre¬ ceding Province which were granted

to him 17 May 1774. On 25 August

FOOTNOTES ON PHI

1 1 COB 402. 403

2 Tbid 490

3 Ibid 506

4 Ibid 538, 603, 604; 2 COB 470, 473

5 1 COB 526

6 2 COB 315

7 Ibid 354, 472, 525

8 Ibid 478

9 2 COB 561-2

10 Ibid 573-4

11 Ibid 581

12 13 North Carolina Land Office Records 114

13 29 Essex Deeds 30

14 He may also be the person to whom 100 acres in Dbplin County were granted 29 October 1782. It

seems likely, however, that that Peter Herrendine was his scm.

15 22 State and Colonial Records of North Carolina 347.

16 Land Memorials of South Carolina Vol. 13, pp. 71, 481 and Vol. 18, p 498.

17 There is considerable doubt that all these "brothers" were in fact such. It may well be that

this James was a son of Peter [97] instead of his brother. That is a reasonable assvimption if

the grants mentioned in footnote 14 were made to father and son, for a grant made to this James adjoined that of Peter’s in Duplin County.

, 1774 he entered a claim to a planta¬

tion of 50 acres in Colleton District

on the waters of Little Saludy which

was granted to him 9 November 1774;

nfi. 100 iv. William (c 1743 - p 1782) ra -- -- 101 V. James, to whom grants were made by the

State of North Carolina in Bladen and Duplin Counties; nfi.

102 vi. Philip (c 1760 - p 1785) m -- --

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about 1720 in Kinp and Queen County, Va. By

1746 he waa established in Essex County where he

spent the rest of his life, but there arc several

references to him in the Caroline Order Books.

PURCHASE OF ESSEX REALTY On 16 August 1746 he

purchased for £50 fran John Pickett and Mary his

wife, of Caroline, 180 acres in South Famham

Parish, Essex, adjoining the lands of Aylett,

Robert Marsh, Colonel George Braxton, and George Wri^t. The witnesses were John Holder and Thomas Gatewood.^ Today it is called Wayland, and in

1938 it was owned by the heirs of Warner Lewis.

It is located on the Piscataway near Aylett. Latane’s Mill, formerly called Pickett's Bridge, is included in the above tract. ^

SLAVE OWNER Oh 23 June 1748 the Caroline Court directed that a certificate be issued to Thomas

Baylor for taking up a runaway negro man slave

named Harry "belonging to James Herndon, of

Essex Co.

BONO POSTED Why the bond referred to in the

following court minute was required is not stated: *

"a bond from Ann Powell and James Herndon to the Worshipful G:.urt of Essex County was this day acknowledged by the said Ann and James and is herenpon admitted to record, 15 May 1750."

KEEPING THE PEACE Nor do we know what tlie parti¬

cular trouble was which caused issuance of the

following court order 21 August 1750: **

"William Cox and William Cox Jr came into court and required Sureties of the Peace of James Herndon and made oath that they do not require the peace of him out of any hatred or malice but for real fear that they are in danger of being hurt or injured in their Persons or Estates by the said James Herndon. It is therefore ordered that he give security for his good behavior for one year a..d a day from this date in the sum of twenty pounds current money. Whereupon the said James Herndon together with James Smith Jr and Waters Dunn his securities came into Court and acknowledged themselyes indebted to our Sovereign Lord the King his Heirs and Success¬ ors in the Sum of twenty pounds current money npon Consideration that if the said James shall be of Good Behavior to all his Majesties

Liege People That then this recognizance is to be void and of none effect otherwise to be and remain in full force Power and Virtue."

SALE OF CERTAIN ESSEX PROPERTY On 14 January

1752 James Herndon and his wife Hannah leased to

Joseph Ryland, of Gloucester Gaunty, 204 acres

in South Farnham Parish, Essex County, "being

the land whereon James Herndon now lives, adjoin¬

ing John Wright s." George Wright and Richard

Hodges were witnesses. The next day James and

Hannah Herndon signed a release of this property to Joseph Flyland, tlie consideration for the sale

being £127 10s. A notation was made that 17 March

1753 the original deed was delivered to Richard Hodges.® The record of the acquisition of these

lands by James Herndon has, however, not been

found by the compiler of this genealogy.

THE HAILE AND DILLARD SUITS When James Herndon

failed to appear 22 June 1753 in court as a de¬

fendant in a suit against him begun by Jaaes

Haile, a judgment in the sum of £3 10s. was en¬

tered.^

The next year Joseph Dillard brought suit

against James Herndon for £2 6s. 3d. for 305)-^

pounds of tobacco. After many postponements the

matters at issue were referred to Richard Tunstall,

gent., as arbitrator who recommended that the

suit be dismissed. The court concurred "after

mature deliberation. "®

WITNESS IN COURT On 16 July 1754 the court order¬

ed Ambrose Gatewood to pay James Herndon 50

pounds of tobacco for attending the Essex court two days as a witness for him in his suit against

James Emerson.®

PLAINTIFF AGAINST JAMES EMERSON The following

year a suit was begun by James Herndon against

James Emerson. A verdict for the plaintiff in

the sum of £5 was entered 18 February 1756.^®

THE BENJAMIN 9-11 TH SUIT On 18 July 1759 Penjamin

Smi th was ordered to pay Daniel Stodgill 75 pounds

of tobacco for attending court three days as a

witness for him in the suit which James Herndon

had brought against him, and to make similar pay¬ ments to Thomas Haile, Susannah Snith, and Waters

Dunn. The suit itself was disndssed, the court

ordering James Herndon to pay Benjamin Smith the

costs involved and to pay William Cox and Thomas

Barker for tlieir attendance as witnesses on his behalf.

INHERITANCE After the death of his father William

in Caroline in 17 59, his brother Philip, of Caroline, and his brother-in-law Benjamin Atkins,

of Lunenburg, sold to him the slaves which they

had received out of the estate of Willian Herndon,

as has been already noted.

LATAHE SUIT Mary Latane, widow, brought an

action of trespass against James Herndon, but

that suit was dismissed when the parties thereto

agreed upon terras of settlement 17 August 1763.

COURT TROUBLES OF 1764 The next year James

Herndon had plenty of court trouble. We leam

first that he was security for William Cox, who

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failed to appear in a suit brouf^t against him,

€md that subsequently James Herndon himself was

made defendant in an action brought by Henry

Allen. The court held that as William Gjx had

failed to appear, James Herndon was liable for

the £8 sued for.In Caroline County, howerer,

things went better for him. In his suit against

James Johnston the latter was ordered to pay the plaintiff £4 16s. current money, attorney’s fee,

and costs.

THE PICKETT CASE In the following spring there started a suit which with variations in title

continued until after the death of James Herndon

in 1767. On 12 April 1765 he started action against James Boulware and Nicholas Milean. The

judgment of the court [it was the Caroline CourtJ

was that James Herndon wos to recover from the defendants and John Pickett, oneof the Boulware's

securities, £7 2s current mcmey and costs; which

sum, however, might be discharged by them upon

payment to James Herndon of £2 with interest

frem 25 September 1761 until the debt should be

paid. Payment not having been made by 9 July

1767 Hannah Herndon, widow of Jeunes, brought suit

against Mary Pickett, executrix of John Pickett.

This case was settled 12 November 1767 in favor

of Hannah Herndon who was, however, directed to

pay \arious sums of tobacco to Thomas Pickett, William Penolds, John Britt, Sarah T. Janney,

Ann Pickett, Bich-'rd Hodges, a^d Philip May,

witnesses in her behalf at the trial.

James Herndon died between 21 December 1766,

the date of his will, and 19 January 1767 when

it was presented to court by Hannah Hemdcai, his widow. A short time before the making of his

will Mary Pickett had brought suit against him

for trespass.*® The court minutes note that when he did not appear (probably because of his

final illness), an extension was ordered 26

August 1766, but by time of the meeting of the

March court the action of trespass was abated be-

cai se of the defendant’s death.

SERVICES TO ESSEX COUNTY The Essex County court

on 18 November 1765 directed that the county pay

James Herndon 100 pounds of tobacco on account

of timber which he had furnished for a bridge.^*

HIS HILL The following is a copy of the will of

James Herndon:

Iq the Name of God Anea I, James Herndoa, of Essex Q>unty, being in perfect mind and Bemory do Eiske this my last will and teatMc&t follow (to wit):

• I lend to my loving wife Hannah during her natural life all my estate both real and per¬ sonal; and after her decease I give and devise the aaa>e to my children hereafter named, to wit: John, Mary, Milley, William, Elizabeth, Nancy, and Lucy St. John; to them, and each of then, their heirs, executors, administrators,

forever; but my desire is that my daughter Lucy St. John's part of my said estate at the death of my said wife, if her [Lucy's] husband be then alive, be vested in my son John Herndon, as trustee of my said daughter Lucy's part of my estate so that she, or her children, may receive the sole use and benefit thereof with¬ out the claim or interruption of her said husbar:d Thomas St. John, and lastly I appoint ■y loving wife and my son John whole and sole executrix and executor of this ay last will, hereby revoking all former wills. In witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand and seal this 2l8t day of December 1766.

Signed, sealed, published and declared by the testator as his last will and testament in presence of witnesses:

Joseplx (x) Collins (Signed) James Herndon Thomas Barker Jaioes Wilson

Oi 19 January 1767 Hannah Herndon presented the

will of James Herndon in court. Ihe record says,

"witnessed by Wm Boane and James Vl^ilson. ([h

18 May 1767 the inventory of the estate was order¬

ed to be recorded.

HANNAH HERNDON We do not know the family name of Hannah before her marriage to James Herndon.

She was last mentioned in the Essex records

27 June 1785 when there was dismissed her suit against William Roane which had commenced 16

August 1773.

On 16 February 1773 she had brought suit against Thomas Hyland, surviving obligor of Joseph

Ryland, deceased. In that matter the court on

20 July 1773 awarded her £10 10s 8d with interest

from 15 May 1768.^*

Children of JAMES HERNDON and HANTiAH.:

103 i. John; nfi.

104 ii. Lucy ra Thomas St. John;

105 iii. Mary; nfi.

106 iv. Milley; nfi. 107 T. William; nfi.

108 vi. Elizabeth; nfi.

109 vii. Nancy; nfi. no viii. Sarah; nfi.

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1 2\ Essex Deeds C77

2 According to information from Mr. Thomas Warner, of Essex Co., furnished to John G, Herndon in

1938 when they met in the courthouse at Tappahannock

3 3 COB 95

4 16 Essex Order Book 76

5 Ibid 154

6 17 Essex Order Book 171; 26 King and Queen Deeds 35


8 20 Essex Order Book 15,25,121,176,201,243,270; while 21 Essex Order Book 67 mentions Joseph

Dillard’s other suit against James Herndon which after reference to "Richard Tunstall, gent., as

arbitrator was dismist.*


10 Ibid 183


12 29 Essex Deeds 29, 30


14 Ibid 280-1, 356

15 6 COB


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18 Ibid 331-

19 11 Essex Wills 258


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22 21 Essex Order Book 411, 29 Essex Order Book 98, 30 Essex Order 113


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We do not know when he left Caroline County, finally to settle in St. Bartholomew's Parish, Colleton District, South Carolina, nor where he stopped on his way there. It is likely that he went with his brother Philip to Anson County, N.C., and from there to South Carolina. What we do know about him is that in a deed of gift, as if a testamentary distribution in contemplation

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The name of his wife has not been ascertained.

Children of EDWARD HERNDON:

111 i. James (c 1755- ) m 112 ii. Edward (c 1758- ) m 113 iii. Rachel; nfi. 114 iv. Mary; nfi. 115 T. Matilda; nfi. 116 vi. Elizabeth; nfi.

FOOTNOTES Oil EDUARD HERNDON [20]

1 Vide supra 15, 49

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INDEX TO PERSONS .NAMED HERNDON either by birth or marriage

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text from persons of the same name having no such designation.)

ANN .'.. 17,18,27 ANN ((Hollins) . 12,44 ANN (Drysdale) . 2,9,26

BENJAMIN . BETTIE (Minor) .

CATEY . CATHERINE (Bohajinon)

CATHERINE (Digges) . CATHERIJJE DIGGES ... CATHERINE (Nelson).. CHARITY (Sinclair) . CORNELIUS .

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DALLAS TABOR DANIEL 6. .. DAVID . DILLARD ....

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EDMOND (EDMUND) ..'.27,34 EDWARD . iii,2-5,7-10

12,15,17,19-24,26,27,32,35-39,40,44,46,49,54 ELISHA. 41 ELIZABETH . 23,24,26,37,38,48,52,54

ELIZABETH RUCKER . 4 ELIZABETH (StubbleHeld) . 9,19,22,23 ELIZABETH (Vyhitc) . 45,46 ESTHER . 8,9,19,39-40

FRANCES (FANNY) . 4,27,33,34 FRANCES (Merraraon) .. 42

FRANCES (Pierce) . 27 FRANCES (Thompson) . 36,38 FRANCES (l^hite . 44

6E0R6E .. iii,27,37,38,41,42

HANNAH (—) ... 15,51,52

MARTHA . MARY . MARY (—-) . MARY ANN . MARY ANN (Qarkson) MARY (EJohannon) ....

MARY (Boswell) . MARY BOSWELL . MARY (Brock) . MARY (Duerson) . MARY (Foster) . MARY (Gaines) . MARY GAINES . MARY (George) . MARY (Lewis). MARY MAGDALENE (- —) MARY (Minor) . MARY (Rucker) . MARY (Scott) . MARY (Slip) .. MARY (Waller) . MATILDA . MATTHEW... MILLEY ...

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NANCY . 4,52 NANCY ANN (Rucker) . 4 NANCY (Pdee) . 38

OWEN . 26

PATIENCE .. 41 PATIENCE (Terry) . 46 PETER . 24,49.50 PHILADELPHIA .. 21,45-47 PHILADELPHIA (Foster) . 24 PHILIP ............6,15,45,49-51,54 POMFRETT . IB PRISCILLA........... 17,18

ISABELLA (Thompson) .. iv,42

JACOB .. 17,18,28 JAMES . iv,5

8,9,11,12,15,17,18,27,35-38,41,42,49-54 JANE (—*——) ............................... liZ,4^1 JOHN . iii,8,9,12,15

17,18,23,24,28,31,32,36-38,40-42.44,48,50,52 JOHN GOODWIN ................ i,ii,iv,3,31,43,46 JOHN MINOR . 8,24 JOHN WATERHOUSE . iii,2,10

JOSEPH ..... iii,8 12,17,18,21,23,24,26,41,42,45-47,48

LARKIN... 27 LETITIA (Moseley) . 33 LEWIS . 36-38,41 LUCY .. 4,26,52 LUCY TAYLOR . 2 LYDIA (Massey) .. 27

RACHEL.. REUBAN .. RHOADY .. RICHARD .. ROSANNA (Wade) ... RUTH ..

SAMUEL.. SARAH (-—) ...... SARAH..... SARAH (Qiapoian) .. SARAH (Leftwich) . SARAH (Pines) ..,. SARAH (Poe) ...... SARAH (Pomfrett).. SARAH (Wingfield) SOPHIA (Poe) . STEPHEN ... SUSANNAH (Haislio) SUSANNAH (Walker)

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INDEX TO PERSONS NOT NAMED HERNDON, but including the married name of Herndon women

ABNEY, Mary. 19 ABRAHAM, Mordecai . 41 ADAMS, Frances (Herndon) 4, Sarah (Herndon) . 4 ALEXANDER, Rjbert . 33 ALLCOCK, William. 13 ALLEN, Henry 52, 39 AMBREY, William . 2 ARCHER, Emily . 28 ARM I STEAD, Jolin . 41 ARNOLD, Anthony. 13 ARSON, Christopher . 1 ASHINGTON, John. 1 ASKEN, Josh . 19 ATKINS, Benjamin 15,51; James. 11,19 AYLETT, -- . 51

BAGBY, Robert . 1,2 BAKER, Elizabeth (Herndon) 37,38; Joseph .... 38 BALLARD, Thomas . 19 BANKS, Frances 48, Gerard . 48 BARKER, George 1, Thomas . 51,52 BAKNEl r, Erancis . 1 BARRY, Mary (Poe) . 41 BATTALEY, Elizabeth (Herndon) . 23,24

John 22; Moseley 19,21,22 BAYLOR, -- 7; John 32,45; Thomas. 51 BEARE, Elizabeth. 2 BEDFORD, Thomas . 17 BENSKIN, Henry . 1 BERKELEY, Sir William. 1 BEVERLEY, William. 20 BILKINSON, W'illian. 2 BILLOPS, Richard. 13 BLACK IE, Ellen Arthur (Botts) . 10

Mrs. James Fiobertson 10 BLAIR, Elizabeth Saunders . 28 BLEDSOE, Moses . 23 BOHANNON, Catherine 48, Mary iii . 26 BOLDING, Catherine 19, Patrick. 19 BOOKER, John 42, Richard. 14 BO REMAN, Oiarles. 20 BOSWELL, Mary . iii,12,45 BOTTS, Ellen Arthur. 10 BOUCHER, Benjamin . 20 BOULDIN, James 30,31; Sally (Watkins) .... 30,31 BOULWARE, James . 52 BOWKER, Mr. 20 BRADBURN, William. 19 BRADFORD, FlLchard. 35 BRANHAM, Elizabeth (Burbridge) . 39

Elizabeth (Herndon) 48, Tavener 39, Thomas 48 BRAXTON, Col. George . 51

' BREEDLOVE, Benjamin; 29.30,31; Elizabeth (Watkins) 30,31; Jol^; 30,31; Mary (Watkins); 30,31

BRITT, Johii. 52 j BROAODUS, John . ”.33

BROCK, Henry 22, Joseph . 20-23 Mary iii, 2,9,23; R. A. 22,24

BROOKS, John . 13 BROWN, Dbzier 4, James . 20

Mary Gaines (Herndon) 4 BROWNING, Thomas . 36 BRUCKNER, Thomas . 14 BRUMLEY, William. 14 BRYAN, Morgan . 44 BUCKNER, Richard. 11,32

Thomas 7,11; William 36 BULLARD, Ambrose 33, Thomas . 45 BURBRIDGE, Elizabeth 39, Mary. 39

Mildred 39, Nancy (Parish) 39, Sarah 39, Stephen 2, Thomas 39, William 19, 21

BURK, Henry. 13 BURRUS, Jacob 32, Rachel (Herndon) . 4 BURRUSS, John. 44 BURTON, James . 32 BURWELL, Col. Uwis . 17 BUSH, John .. 19 BUTLESBY, Thomas . 1 BYRNE, Thomas. 22

CARR, T. CARRINGTON, Paul . CARTER, George 19,20; Robert 26, William CARTWRIGHT . CHAMPE, John. CHANCEY, Daniel .. CHAPMAN, Sarah.. CHEADLE, Thomas . CHENOWITH, Mrs. George Dudley . CHERMSIDE, H. B. CHEW, John 21, Larkin .

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Robert %)ilsbe 19,39; Samuel 14,49 COLLINS, Aon 12,44; Joseph 20,52; Thomas . 33,44 COMPTON, Capt. 22 CONWAY, Vbncure D. 2-5,7,9,23.26; Willian ... 2 COOK, John . 13,22 COOKE, Thomas . i COPELAND, William. 41 C0R.NER, John ..-. 15

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Mary 42, Phoda 41,42; Sarali iii, 12,42; Simon 41,42,49; Sophia 42, Stephen 42, William 42

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Martin 17,18 TURNER, George 1, James 41, Robert. 19 TURNLEY, Francis . 20 TUTT, Richard. 21,22

VANUPSALL, Gerard. 19 VASS, Philip Vincent . 19 VEHTON, John .. 21 VIRKUS, Frederick Adams . iv,5

WADE, Ann 37, Dabney 37, Rosanna. 37,38 William 37

WALDEN, Richard. 49 WALKER, 22, Susannah 38, WilHa.m ... 14 WAILACE, Elizabeth. 21 WALLER, Ednund 20, Edward 20, George. 23

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WARD, Benjamin. 29 WARE, Edward 39, James 11, John. 2 WARNER, Thomas . 53 WARR, Thomas. 1 WATERS, Philip . 35,36 WATKINS, Benjamin 28-31; Elizabeth.30,31

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WAUGH, Alexander. 35

WEBB, John Crittenden . 45 WEBSTER, John. 21 WELCH, John. 40 WELLS, Robert . 2 WEST, Ednund 41, John . 21 WHITE, Catherine Digges (Herndon) . 4

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