Martha Wynne

Martha married Matthew Parham about 1740 in Surry County, VA. Matthew was born about 1697 in Surry County, VA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

1. Angelica Parham was born on 7 Jun 1745 in Surry County, VA.
2. Robert Parham was born in Jan 1747/48 in Surry County, VA.
3. Elizabeth Parham was born about 1749 in Surry County, VA.
4. Jr. Matthew Parham was born on 27 Feb 1750/51 in Surry County, VA.

Other Events and Attributes:

• Probate: 12 Aug 1754, Sussex County, VA

Notes:

Robert: His wife was Mary ? and they ha d several children, one being Lucretia, who married Joseph Tucker. Robert was Justice, Coroner, and Sheriff in 1716, and a Major in the Militia in Surry. He died in Sussex on July 23, 1754, and his will was probated on August 12, 1754.

His will names wife, Mary; brother, Thomas Wynne; daughters: Lucretia, wife of Joseph Tucker; Martha, wife of Matthew Parham; Angelica, wife of William Ranes; grandchildren, Martha Bell, Mary Butler, Joel Tucker, Jefferson Raines, Robert Wynne Raines, Robert Parham, Lucretia Tucker, Elizabeth Parham. A copy of his will is online in the VAGenWeb archives.(Sussex County Virginia Wills Bk A pg 14)

Robert married Martha Jefferson in 1708 in Surry County, VA. Martha (daughter of Thomas Jefferson and Mary Branch) was born on 23 Feb 1681/82 in Henrico County, Virginia, USA; died before 23 Jul 1754 in Henrico County, Virginia, USA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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

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.