Thomas Jefferson

Other Events and Attributes:

• Will: 13 Mar 1724/25, Chesterfield County, VA
• Probate: Apr 1731, Chesterfield County, VA

Notes:

1. COLONIAL WILLS OF HENRICO COUNTY, VIRGINIA, PART ONE 1654-1737
Abstracted and complied by Benjamin B. Weisiger III (1976)

Will of THOMAS JEFFERSON
To son FIELD, mourning ring worth 20 shillings
To son PETER, my land on Fine Creek and Manekin Creek
If he dies before 21, to my three daughters, JUDITH, MARY and MARTHA.
Also, to son PETER, negroes and items, some of which were bought of
TURPIN, JOSEPH WILKINSON and THOMAS EDWARDS.
To daughters MARY and MARTHA, the land I lately bought of GEORGE CARTER,
the land mortgaged by GRILLS, and all the rest of estate to be sold by
MAJOR WILLIAM KENNON and HENRY WOOD and then L 10 to be given to my
daughter JUDITH FARRAR and the rest divided between my daughters MARY and
MARTHA.
My sister MARTHA WINN to take care of my daughter MARTHA and CAPT. HENRY RANDOLPH to take care of my daughter MARY.
If daughters die before 21, survivor to get their share and if both die, to daughter JUDITH FARRAR.

Son PETER to be executor

Dated 15 March 1725
Witnesses: Benjamin Branch, Henry Moody
Recorded April 1731

This will proves that Martha Jefferson, daughter of Thomas Jefferson 1st and sister of Thomas Jefferson 2nd. married Winn (Wynne).

Mrs. Winn also states that it was Thomas Wynne (Robert's brother) that married Ann Bolling, daughter of Robert and Ann Stith Bolling. Thomas married (2) Martha_____? who she thinks was a Llewellyn....but has no
proof.

Thomas married Mary Field on 20 Oct 1697 in Henrico Par., VA. Mary (daughter of Peter Field and Judith Soane) was born on 3 Feb 1679/80 in Henrico County, Virginia, USA; died on 13 Aug 1715 in Henrico County, Virginia, USA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Mary FIELD was born between 1659 and 1686. She died on 13 Aug 1715. She was married to Thomas JEFFERSON II on 20 Oct 1697. Children were: Peter JEFFERSON. As entered: February 3 or 8, 1679/80.

Other Events and Attributes:

• Birth: 1649, St. Christopher Island, British West Indies
• Birth: Abt 1653, James River, Henrico, Virginia, USA
• Residence: 1677; "Osborne's", Henrico Co., VA
• Probate: 7 Dec 1697, Henrico County, Virginia, USA

Notes:

President Thomas Jefferson, 3rd United States President, indicated that his family originated possibly from Wales. President Jefferson commissioned an agent to trace his lineage which was found to trace to the Jeaffresons of Dullingham House, Cambridge, England. Further research has led us back to Pettistree, Suffolk County, England where the Jeaffreson family of Dullingham had earlier originated. Possibly they may have originated still earlier in Wales, but for purposes of this article we must begin at Pettistree.

A Thomas Jefferson went to Jamaica in 1656, but the 1670 Census 14 years later shows none. It is not improbable that he left the Leeward Islands for Jamaica before finally settling in Virginia. - "Annual Report" of the Monticello Association. 1907.

Thomas Jefferson, the first to settle in Henrico Southside, lived at Osborne's across the James River from Farrar's Island and near Kingsland, home of the Branch family. His plantation was located in the Curles Section of the James River, south of the present city of Richmond, Virginia. This is in the vicinity of where the river begins it's snake-like path past Flower du Hundred (which was represented in the first Virginia Assembly of 1619 at Jamestown by his believed great uncle, John Jeaffreson).

Died:
Age: 47

Thomas married Mary Branch about 1679 in James River, Henrico, Virginia, USA. Mary (daughter of Jr. Christopher Branch and Sarah Almond) was born in 1660 in Henrico County, Virginia, USA; died in 1697 in Henrico County, Virginia, USA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Birth: 1660, Charles City, Charles, Virginia, USA

Peter married Judith Soane on 21 Oct 1678. Judith (daughter of Henry Soane and Judith Fuller) was born about 1646 in Litlington, Sussex, England; died about 1703 in Henrico County, Virginia, USA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Married:
"Chickahominy", Henrico Co., VA

Samuel married Elizabeth Carr Broom in 1628 in Pettistree, Suffolk, England. Elizabeth was born in 1610 in St Kitts; died in 1655 in Henrico County, Virginia, USA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Christopher married Sarah Almond about 1656. Sarah (daughter of Samuel Almond) was born in 1629 in Henrico County, Virginia, USA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Family tradition says that the two children of Samuel Almond were William and Sarah who survived the Massacre of 1644 by hiding in the woodbox. It also says she married Christopher Branch Jr. who lived just down the other side of the James River at "Kingsland." Also see page 18 of Marriages of Some Va. Residents 1607-1800, by Dorothy Ford Wulfeck.

Henry married Judith Fuller about 1662 in James City County, VA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]