Re: Richard W. Royston , born 1794 (m) Sara
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Re: Richard W. Royston , born 1794 (m) Sara
Dave Dougherty 3/06/03
You have a lot of good info, Dave. Thanks for sharing. It helped me with some gaps ... but there is one error I see with the parents of William Cammack (grandfather to Susanna who married Thomas Royston). William's father was not John Cammack, but rather John's sister Mary's son (out of wedlock).
Margaret Cammack (wife to Warwick, mother to John and Mary) states in her will:
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(Richmond County, Virginia) March 24, 1709
Will of Margaret Cammack
In the Name of God Amen. I Margaret Cammack being very ancient and Weak in Body, but of good and perfect Memory thanks be to God - and calling to mind the uncertainty of this transitory life, and that all flesh must yield unto Death, Do make this my last Will and Testament in manner and form following revoking and annulling all will or wills heretofore by me made and this to be taken only for my last Will.
First I bequeath my Soul to God and my Body to the Ground to be decently buried at the discretion of my Executors hereafter named, and my Estate which it hath pleased God to lend me, it is my Will and desire that it be divided into three equal parts, the one of which parts I give to my Daughter Margaret Micou, the Second I give to my Daughter Susan Foster, and the third it is my Will that it shall be divided between my Daughter Mary Sterne, her Son William and her Son David Sterne, and if either of these should die without Heirs his or her said Estate to fall to the Survivor to have the Whole.
Secondly And forasmuch that my two Sons Sylvester Thatcher and John Cammock and my two Daughters Mary Richardson and Elizabeth Deane hath an Estate from their father, I give to each one of them one Shilling, the said Shilling to be the Conclusion of their position.
Thirdly I do Constitute and Appoint Mr. Paul Micou and Mr. John Foster to be Executors of this my last Will and Testament. In Witness whereof I have thereunto set my hand and Seal this Twenty- fourth day of March, One thousand Seven hundred and Nine.
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Note that Mary's son William doesn't have a surname listed, but David Sterne does.
And from Mary Gregg on the Cammack forum (msg 264):
"William was the illegitimate son of Mary Cammack, daughter of Warwick Cammack and his wife, Margaret, whose maiden name is unknown. She (Margaret) was the widow of Sylvester Thatcher when she married Warwick Cammack.
Mary Cammack, mother of William, married in the late 1690s or early 1700s, Francis Stern, 1st, a man about the age of her own father. By him, she had two more sons, Francis Stern, Jr., and David Stern, 2nd. (Francis Stern, 1st, had a brother who was David Stern, 1st.) After the death of her husband, Francis Stern, in 1713, Mary (Cammack) (Stern) married as her second husband, Isaac Trocq or Truck. Both of them died in Caroline County, Isaac in 1739, and Mary in 1743. They had no children."