Re: Daux of VA and England 1600's
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Re: Daux of VA and England 1600's
Jacqueline Davis 9/21/00
Beverley Fleet's "Virginia Colonial Abstracts", Volume III, contains abstracts of most of the few existing 17th century Charles City County records.There are several court records in the period 1658-1660 which clearly establish that Mary Daux was first the widow of Robert Plaine, by whom she had one child, John Plaine, and was then the widow of Walter Daux, by whom she had two children, Ann and "Susan".She married thirdly, John Flower, by 24 May 1658 when Flower was appointed administrator of Walter Daux and had "married the relict".The same source has several references to tobacco that Walter Daux had shipped to his father Richard Daux in London.Finally, there is a record dated 3 October 1673 of a petition by Richard Rawlins and John Witt.The subject is unknown, but is made clear by later citations.
McIlwaine's "Minutes of the Council and General Court of Colonial Virginia, 1622-1632, 1670-1676" has three references in 1674 and 1675 to a suit by“Jno. Witt and Richard Rawlins who marryed the two orpts. of Walter Daux, dec’d”.In the third mention, the plaintiffs are John Witt and "Susannah" Rawlins, Richard Rawlins evidently having died between October 1673 and March 1674.There is no record of the disposition of the suit.
Margaret Mitchel Ayres' "Charles City County Order Book 1676-1679" contains one last reference, to a 1678 suit by John Witt and John Turberfield (or Turberville, it's shown both ways) in which they identify themselves as the husbands of the heirs of Walter Daux, and claim John Flower wasted their legacies.John Flower was apparently dead, as they sued the men who had been justices back in 1658 for failing to require a bond of Flower's administration of the Daux estate.
Fleet's abstracts contain several additional references to Rawlins and Turberville of a relatively minor nature.
That is the sum total of our knowledge, due to the large gaps in the surviving records of Charles CIty County.Clearly, one of the daughters was either "Susan" or Susannah" - the name appears only once each in the records.Richard Rawlins was her first husband and John Turberville the second.We also know from Fleet's abstracts that Turberville deposed himself to be aged 24 years in 1673.From that, we might propose that Ann and Susan(nah) Daux were born around 1655, and were perhaps still minors in 1673-- it seems plausible that their husbands could file suit, but as single women they were not yet old enough to do so prior to their marriages.
Virginia patents contain one patent for land in Charles City County in which "Robt. Plaine" is claimed as a headright, and two patents in which Walter Daux is claimed as a headright.As you know, there was a William Dawkes patent in 1732 on behalf of his deceased father Henry Dawkes for land only a few miles from these three patentees.Walter and William may have been cousins.
Whether Susan(nah) and Turberville had a child is unknown to me.
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