Re: John Hardy of Dinwiddie-son is Henry
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Re: John Hardy of Dinwiddie-son is Henry
david Schatzan 1/13/07
I really cannot find anything for your Williams, but I pasted in some stuff anyway.
http://www.usgennet.org/usa/mo/county/stlouis/williams/http://www.usgennet.org/usa/mo/county/stlouis/williams/
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1769 (Lunenburg Co, VA) Lunenburg County
"A list of Tithes, &c, taken by Joseph WILLIAMS"
William COMAS (?) ..... 1 tithe ..... 0 land
(Sunlight on the Southside (Lunenburg Co, VA), Bell)
12 Nov 1778 (Lunenburg Co VA DB 13:174) Nov. 12, 1778. Jos. WILLIAMS, executor of the est. of Thos. WILLIAMSON, dec'd., of Lunenburg to David ELLINGTON of Amelia Co. for 5 shillings, 214 acs. on Pledgers fork of Meherrin River in Lunenburg, it being part of a larger tract granted to the sd. Jos. WILLIAMS as executor of Thos. WILLIAMSON decd. and b/b the lines of John TABB, George Combs, John WILLIAMS & vacant lands. No witnesses. /s/ Jos WILLIAMS.
(LUNENBURG COUNTY, VIRGINIA, DEED BOOKS, 1777-1784. T. L. C. Genealogy (Book 13))
Notes: Since George Combs appears to have sold all his land (the 303 acres) in 1767 and removed to Halifax Co VA, who is the above George Combs? Where was his land? (Interested researchers need to pull and transcribe patents from VSLA for these and other Lunenburg Co VA lands). Could it have been on the Lunenburg-Charlotte Co line? See the 1768 Williams/Williamson deeds re land in Charlotte adj. Combs, and other land shown as on Pledgers fork, but in Charlotte, not Lunenburg, a fact of possible particular interest given the RW William Combs of Charlotte Co VA. (See that county and also below re Combs-Nance)
ALSO, note the name of John TABB. In 1772, one John TABB, executor of Thomas TABB deceased, brought suit against George Combs in Charlotte Co for a debt that may have been incurred was early as 1762. We know one George Combs of Charlotte Co (age 60 in 1765) deposed for George Combs son of John Combs I of Amelia in Eastes et al vs Combs (see Amelia Chancery Records). In Charlotte in 1779, George and Ester Combs sold land to John WHITE per court records but no deed has been found at this time. It is not known if this is Old George or a younger George. Thomas TABB, a merchant, married secondly Rebecca BOOKER, died in 1769 in Amelia Co (WB 2X:309) and son John TABB was the executor. In 1745, John Combs I of Amelia, age 40, deposed for Frederick BLAKE in his suit against Thomas TABB
Order Book 4,P 86-February Court, 1756
George Walton agnst James Breedlove, Lazarus Williams, Henry Isbell, Wm Goode,Edwd. Elam, Wm Harris,Richard Swepston, Mackerness Goode, defendants in debt; JURY: Philip Poindexter, Wm Jones, Thos Jones, Amos Timms, Danl. Johnson, Wm Read, Thos, Stevens, John McDaniel, Thomas Willingham, John Hyde, George Elliott, John Ragsdale - Plaintiff to recover debt
Will of Richard Williams of Lunenburg, Planter to: Daughter, Ann - "I have given to my daughter, Ann on her marriage with JOHN HARDY, as much of my estate as I shall give to either of my daughters. I land her 1 Negro girl named Judith until my youngest daughter is 18 years old or marries." Wife, Agnes.
Executors were his son Nicholas Williams and son-in-law JOHN HARDY. The will was signed 1 Oct 1769 by Richard Williams (Lunenburg Co, VA Will Book 2, p61)
Peter Hardy b. 1/24/1786 made first iron mould and bored plow in New England. The original plow is on exhibition at Smithsonian Institute, Washington, DC (info from Lila of VA)
13 Dec 1790 an indenture was made between John Day of Edgefield Co and JOHN HARDY of Edgefield Co for a parcel of 163 acres on Sweetwater Creek, Witnesses were: Joseph Cunningham [son-in-law of John Hardy and husband of Sarah], J Pulliam [witness for Day] and ANN HARDY. (from Carol Hardy Bryan) 14 Dec 1790 an indenture was made between John Day of Edgefield Co, SC and JOHN HARDY of [Edgefield] for 70 acres on Sweetwater Creek. Witnesses were: Joseph Cunningham, J Pulliam, and ANN HARDY. (from Carol Hardy Bryan) Part of the bequests of Richard Williams going to the children of his daughter ANN HARDY: Sarah Cunningham [husband was Joseph], Richard Hardy, Mary Anderson [husband was Allen Anderson], Daniel Hardy, Robert Hardy, Covington Hardy, John Hardy, William Hardy. (In Lunenburg Co, VA Will Book 6, 1802-1809)
Estate of Daniel Williams, Lunenburg County, Virginia recorded 12 Jan 1804
Agnes Williams [his mother]; Lucy Walker [his sister]; Martha Smithson [his sister]; Chas Love & wife Susannah [Susannah, his sister]; Orphans of Nicholas Williams now Elizabeth Wyatt; William Williams; John L Williams and children of ANN HARDY, DECD.: Joseph Cunningham & wife Sarah; Richard Hardy; Allen Anderson & wife Mary; Daniel Hardy; Robert Hardy; Covington Hardy; John Hardy; William Hardy; Eldred Williams; John Ragsdale & wife Patience; Rennison Tisdale and wife Mary. (from Carol Hardy Bryan)
1815 land tax for Lunenburg County:
Charles HARDY on Hounds Creek 8 mls E of courthouse
Henry HARDY on Hounds Creek, 7NE and 8NE
John C HARDY on Hounds Creek, 8NE
Stith HARDY estate, in possession of Catherine HARDY, on Hounds Creek, 9NE
Vincent HARDY on Hounds Creek, 8NE
Henry Thomas Stainback Hardy's farm was called Wattsboro. His wife, Mary Campell Wilson Hardy ran the Wattsboro post office for 47 years out of her livingroom of her house after the Wattsboro Country store owned by Dr. Boswell burned down in 1890. The Wilson farm that Mary Campell came from is right across the road from Reedy chapel. This area of Lunenburg County was known as Loves Mill. A mile down Reedy Creek towards Wattsboro and on way back in the woods is the family plot of Charles Madison Hardy and his decendents both Hardy and Hawthorne.
The first family home in Lunenburg of all the Hardys is White Hall located 1 mile west of Kenbridge off Rt 652 on Big Hounds Creek. William (15th Virginia Regiment Revolutionary War) son of Richard II Hardy is buried in the family plot behind the house. His son Covington is also buried here and so is William Hardy's wife Mary Elizabeth Wynne. Covinton Hardy son of William added to the house and his son Vincent Hardy built directly across the Big Hounds Creek from Whitehall and named his plantation Breezy Valley. Covington Hardy's son Henry Hardy Inherited White Hall. (Craig W Hardy, great grandson of Henry Thomas Stainback Hardy)