Miscellaneous VA Lilly Families

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The page has records for various Lillys who originated in Virginia who may or may not be connected to our Edmund Lilly. I am researching all of these to find out if there is or is not a connection. Meanwhile, these records may help someone else who is researching.
I have them here just for my convenience to try to keep the lines separate.

By now, 2022, many of the websites are down or the link has changed. I left them here because maybe it will help you find the information. I suggest google.

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Sites which may help you.

If you have not used Linkpendium.com sites before, it is a collection of links to surnames and to places.

Sites which have Lilley information.

http://www.linkpendium.com /genealogy/USA/sur/surc-L/surc-Lil/sur-Lilley/

Sites which have Lilly information.

http://www.linkpendium.com/genealogy/USA/sur/surc-L/surc-Lil/sur-Lilly/

Sites for research in Virginia.

http://www.linkpendium.com/genealogy/USA/VA/

See also Lilly names in the tax lists and Censuses of Virginia

War of 1812
Soldiers from Virginia

Name	Unit	Rank	Ending Rank
Armager Lilly	COCKE'S DETACHMENT, VIRGINIA MILITIA	PRIVATE	PRIVATE
Daniel Lilly	1 REG'T (ALLEN'S) VIRGINIA MILITIA.	PRIVATE	PRIVATE
Daniel Lilly	4 REG'T (BEATTY'S) VIRGINIA MILITIA.	PRIVATE	PRIVATE
Edmund Lilly	8 REG'T (WALL'S) VIRGINIA MILITIA.	PRIVATE	PRIVATE
Elijah Lilly	4 REGIMENT VIRGINIA MILITIA.	PRIVATE	PRIVATE
Frederick Lilly	HUNTON'S COMMAND, CAV., VIRGINIA MIL.	PRIVATE	PRIVATE
Frederick Lilly	6 REGIMENT VIRGINIA MILITIA	PRIVATE	PRIVATE
James Lilly	6 REG'T (COLEMAN'S, AUG.-DEC., 1814,) VIRGINIA MILITIA	DRUMMER	DRUMMER
John Lilly	4 REG'T (BEATTY'S) VIRGINIA MILITIA.	SERGEANT	SERGEANT
Joseph Lilly	4 REG'T (BEATTY'S) VIRGINIA MILITIA	PRIVATE	PRIVATE
Joseph Lilly	9 REG'T (SHARP'S) VIRGINIA MILITIA	CORPORAL	CORPORAL
Joseph Lilly	7 REG'T (SAUNDER'S) VIRGINIA MILITIA.	CORPORAL	SERGEANT
Linsey Lilly	MAJOR WOODFORD'S SQUADRON, CAVALRY, VIRGINIA MILITIA	PRIVATE	PRIVATE
Samuel Lilly	7 REG'T (GRAY'S) VIRGINIA MILITIA	PRIVATE	PRIVATE
Samuel Lilly	9 REG'T (SHARP'S) VIRGINIA MILITIA	PRIVATE	PRIVATE
William Lilly	FLYING CAMP (MCDOWELL'S), VIRGINIA MIL.	PRIVATE	PRIVATE
William Lilly	1 REG'T (YANCEY'S) VIRGINIA MILITIA.	PRIVATE	PRIVATE
William Lilly	2 REG'T (EVANS') VIRGINIA MILITIA.	PRIVATE	PRIVATE

Virginia Parish Registers and Vestry and Church Records searched.

Vestry Book of Kingston Parish, Mathews County, 1679-1791 [Includes Gloucester Co, has index. Now online familysearch.org]
Book includes Flippen beginning in 1742. No Lilly any spelling. Book is indexed at the end. Search engine OCR is not very satisfactory and is not as good as the index in the book. .

Emma Robertson Matheny and Helen K. Yates, Kingston Parish Register, Gloucester and Mathews Counties, 1749-1827, (Richmond, Virginia: E.R. Matheny and H.K. Yates, 1963) Lilly and Wade entries. No Flippen.

St. James Northern Parish records, The Douglas Register, William Douglas, Baltimore Gen Pub Co, 1966 Library of Congress # F232.G65 D7 1966
William Douglas was the minister of Dover Church in Goochland, Virginia. The records published are from his "day book".
If he did not preform the marriage, he used the birth date of their oldest child that he baptised as the marriage date. This has caused a lot of confusion. All of his entries for this family have been abstracted and are on the appropriate pages. According to the book, William Douglas stated that no records were kept for the parish until he arrived.

Tax Lists and early censuses:
Ann Lilley Sussex Co VA p 44 03 02 1782 tax
KY 1800 Tax lists. Note that 1800 Census of Kentucky did not survive.

Bourbon County, Thomas Lilly and Thomas Lilly, jr
Nicholas County, Armiger and Pleasant Lilly
Nelson County, Thomas Lilly

Xu Lilly is in the 1764 rent roll for Culpepper County. Xu perhaps is Xr, an abbreviation for Christopher?

Lilly and Lilley in 1810 Virginia Census.
Notation was: //males under 10/males 10-16/ males 16-26/ males 26-45/ males over 45// females same five categories//all other free persons//slaves//.

Edward Lilley	Giles Co, VA	page 389	53110-20010-00
Hardy Lilley	Washington Co, VA	page 232	00101-00010-00
John Lilley	Augusta Co, VA	page 362	40120-11010-03
Lindsey Lilley	Augusta Co, VA	page 361	00100-00101-01
Patty Lilley	Prince Edward Co, VA	page 251	00000-00000-20
Richard Lilley	Mathews Co, VA	page 388	30010-00010-03
Thomas Lilley	Mathews Co, VA	page 388	00001-00000-02
William Lilley	Nelson Co, VA	page 79	12001-00201-00
William A. Lilley	Prince Edward Co, VA	page 251	00010-21010-00
David Lilly	Kanawha Co, VA	page 205	000110-20101-00
Elizabeth Lilly	Cumberland Co, VA	page 140	01000-00010-00
Frederick Lilly	Sussex Co, VA	page 650	22101-00201-03
John Lilly	Sussex Co, VA	page 645	20060-10110-02
Nathaniel Lilly	Brunswick Co, VA	page 754	00010-40010-0.16
Robert Lilly	Giles Co, VA	page 389	00101-10001-00
Robert Lilly	Kanawha Co, VA	page 203	20110-30100-00
Thomas Lilly	Giles Co, VA	page 289	50010-22101-00
William Lilly	Giles Co, VA	page 289	20010-10100-00
Joseph Lilly	Westmoreland Co, VA	page 777	00001-00010-00

1820 Census of Virginia
Daniel Lilley Prince George Co, VA page 50
John D. Lilley Henrico Co, VA page 103a
Robert Lilley Fluvanna Co, VA xpage 69
Sally Lilley Nelson Co, VA xpage 196a

See also Tax Lists

Query
Thomas Nathaniel b. 5 Sep 1819 in Virginia d. 1888 in Hunt Co. Texas.
A descendant is searching for origins of this man. If anyone has more information, please contact Terri Kirkman <[email protected]>
We are looking for family or DNA information about anyone connected.

The Virginia Gazette Newspaper

published in Richmond, Virginia

This newspaper covers the entire country for the years 1736 to 1780. Photocopies of the newspapers are available free on the Colonial Williamsburg Site. The newspapers are browsable, and fully searchable. http://research.history.org/DigitalLibrary/BrowseVG.cfm

Just one of the entries: Published 24 July 1779.
Norfolk County, 12 July 1779
All persons that has any clims or demand against the estate of John Lille, deceased, are desired for to bring them in by the first day of September, that there may be an equal divident of the estate according to each man's debt, and those that do not bring their accounts in before the above mentioned time, will not have their equal share; likewise all persons that are indebted to the said estate, are desired to make immediate payment as no longer indulgence can by given by: Richard Blake, Administrator.

These may all be for Amherst County individuals. .

Abstracts of Wills, Inventories, and Administrations Accounts of Albemarle County, Virginia, 1748-1800 and Amherst County, Virginia, 1761-1800.
page 3: Benjamin Franklin of St. Anne Parish, dated 17 August 1751, proven 12 November 1751: Names Wife Patience Franklin. Daughters: Elizabeth, Anne, Mary, Dorcas. Exrs: Wife, Reuben Franklin, and Ambrose Porter, Witnesses Thomas Lillie, and Philip Davis.

This was a book at the National Society DAR Library in Washington, DC. The copier was down and I failed to mark which county this was from, but I think it is Albemarle. It seems early to be Thomas Lilly of Fluvanna County.

Another in the same areas. I belive that we can assume that this entry in the tax list was for Monticello, the plantation where Thomas Jefferson made his home. It was, in fact, in Albemarle County. It is possible that the G. Lilly is Gabriel Lilly, son of William Lilly of Amherst County.
The Virginia Genealogist, Volume 3 page 119:
Albemarle County 1800 tax list:
Jefferson, Thos., Jas. Dinamon, R. Richardson, & G. Lilly 1 phaeton 4-23-452-12.

Westmoreland-Stafford Counties, Virginia

In case I was getting complacent with this, Lou Poole sent me a new Lilly family to worry about: This one is also very early but in a different area.
Stafford County was formed from Westmoreland County in 1664. I am not sure of its boundaries then but now it can be found on a map by searching for Fredericksburg. It is now part of the giant Northen Virginia Metropolitan area around Washington, DC.

“John Lilley of Westmoreland Co. Wrnt. 16 Feb. Last for 124 A. in Stafford Co. Surv. by Mr. Thomas Gregg. Adj. John Brown, Lilley’s land, Mr. William Bumberry, corner to Hawkins. 26 July 1706.[1]”[i]

“Joseph King of Stafford Co. 100 A. on Rd. to Jordans Bridge in Stafford Co. adj. John Lilley, Col. Wm. ffitzhugh. Wrnt. 10 May Last. Surv. by Thomas Gregg. 24 Sep 1710.”[ii]

“Tho’s Paise & Mary his wife of Richmond Co. set forth that Jno. Lilley of Stafford Co. had 180 A. in said Co. part of a devise of R’t King to his sons Joseph & Benj. King. Jos: King conveyed to Jno. Lilley 6 Aug 1711 who died Escheat Grant to Paise & wife late wid. of Lilley. On Horse road to Col. Fitzhugh’s Mill sold him by Joseph King, adj. Joseph King, Wm. Sowell, Br. of Machotick dam. 29 Jan 1714/5.”[iii]

“Mr. James Ireland of Stafford Co. 155 A. on Rd. to Jordan’s Bridge in Stafford Co. including 100 A. he bought of Joseph King, granted King 24 Sep 1710. Adj. John Lilley. Surv. Mr. Thomas Hooper. 11 August 1718.”[iv]

Comments from Lou Poole:
The fact that he obtained a patent for land adjacent to land he already owned indicates that this John Lilly was in the area even earlier than 1706. In the following deed, John Lilly is stated to be adjacent Col. William Fitzhugh. This, then, indicates that he lived in what is now King George County, because that is where Col. William Fitzhugh lived.

[i] “Northern Neck Grants Book 3, 1703-1710, p. 133” — Gray, Gertrude E., Virginia Northern Neck Land Grants, 1694-1742, p. 34; Smith, Annie Laurie Wright, The Quit Rents of Virginia, 1704, p. 109.

[ii] “Northern Neck Grants Book 4, 1710-1712, p. 1” — Gray, Gertrude E., Virginia Northern Neck Land Grants, 1694-1742, p. 45.

[iii] “Northern Neck Grants Book 5, 1713-1719, p. 53” — Gray, Gertrude E., Virginia Northern Neck Land Grants, 1694-1742.

[iv] “Northern Neck Grants Book 5, 1713-1719, p. 174” — Gray, Gertrude E., Virginia Northern Neck Land Grants, 1694-1742, p. 66

Before I could start worrying about this John Lilly, Lou sent me news which relieved me a lot. Lou reports that this appears to be somewhat of a dead end. He could not have been the father of Edmund Lilly because he died without an heir. It would however, be nice to know whose son he was. He may have come from Middlesex County.

http://wc.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=GET&db=mrmarsha&id=I36166

Notice that Thomas Paise's sister had married Frances Hobbs, which probably connects back to this record in my file:
October 1698. Dr. Thomas Hobbs of St. Clement Danes, Middlesex, whose sister, Elizabeth, was wife of Francis Weekes in Middlesex County, Virginia. Probate to Sir John Hawles, John Lilly, and the relict. Catherine Hobbs, with similar powers reserved to Sir John Somers. NGSQ 62/38.”[i]But the most significant record on that link is this one:
Stafford County, Virginia Deed Book 1722-1728: pp 476-480

This Indenture made 2nd and 3rd October 1727 between THOMAS VIVION Gent. and MARY his wife of Sittenbourne Parish King George County and WILLIAM ROBISON Gent. of aforesaid .. by deeds of lease & release for sum Sixty pounds of Lawful mony of England have sold 134 acres in Parish of St. Pauls county of Stafford bounded beginning at a chestnut oak standing in the bottom of a valley by the side of a branch running down to Machotique dam and to Jordan's BRIDGE & so according to several Courses as they are mentioned in certain deed granted by THOMAS LEE Agent for the proprietors of the northern neck to THOMAS PAISE & MARY his wife dated 31st January 1714 said 134 acres was Patented by ANDREW CHAMBERS the 5th October 1695 and devised by the said Chambers Last Will unto JOHN HEAD & by the said Head conveyed to JOHN LILLEY by deed dated 9th April 1706 and the said Lilly dyeing without heir or making any disposition whereof the same land escheated to the Proprietors who by their deed the 31st day of January 1714 granted the same to Thomas Paise & Mary his wife now MARY VIVION party to these presents ..
Presence Max Robinson, Thos. Vivion
Charles Deane, Hugh Roberts Mary x Vivion
At Court held for Stafford County 11th October 1727 Thomas Vivion & Mary
his wife acknowledged their deeds of lease & release (the said Mary being first privately examined) .. admitted to record.

There is a long article about the Pace Family above on: https://lists.rootsweb.com/hyperkitty/th/read/PACE/2003-06/1056843973
Thomas Pace married (3) Mary Lilley, widow of John Lillley, and stepdaughter of John Pratt, Gentleman, 1677-1714) of Westmoreland county.

Coldham, Peter Wilson, American Wills & Administrations in the Prerogative Court of Canterbury, 1610-1857, pp. 152-153.
In 1698, John Lilly is mentioned as an heir in the will of a Dr. Thomas Hobbs, filed in England:
“October 1698. Dr. Thomas Hobbs of St. Clement Danes, Middlesex, whose sister, Elizabeth, was wife of Francis Weekes in Middlesex County, Virginia. Probate to Sir John Hawles, John Lilly, and the relict.Catherine Hobbs, with similar powers reserved to Sir John Somers. NGSQ 62/38.”

Early Virginia families along the James River : their deep roots and tangled branches
Volume I, page 24: Jno Lilley, a headright for Capt. Wm Bird who recieved 7351 acres for importing persons. Land in Henrico County, Virginia, patent dated 15 March 1675.
Volume II, page 10, Henry Lilly, a headright for Wm. Hatcher, 150 acres on Appomattuck[sic] River, patent dated 29 May 1638.
Volume II, page 91 1705 Mary Lilly as a headright.

The library of Virginia has a statement about the headright system. Basically if you imported a person or paid for the importation of a person into the colony of Virginia in the early years, you were entitled to 50 acres per person.

Augusta County, Virginia
Augusta County, Virginia, deed book 19 page 94
20 November 1772, Indenture in which Christopher Vickrey and Hannah, his wife, of Guildford County, North Carolina sell to Andrew Bird of Augusta County, Virginia for L 155, a tract of land in Augusta County, being part of a tract of 210 acres originally granted out of his majesties office to a certain Samuel Newman by patent dated 29 August 1757, and which the said Samuel Newman sold to Jacob Hodgh 21 June 1763, and the aforesaid Hannah, wife of the aforesaid Jacob Hough, containing 105 acres on Smith's Creek, etc.: Witnesses: John Lilly, John Benson, Jances West. Recorded same date.

This set of records represents some some library searches of an area.

The following appear to be from books by Sparacio published by Antient Press.
Middlesex County, VA Books no Lilly or soundalike found.

Old Rappahannock was divided into Essex and Richmond Counties in 1692. Looking at the map shows that the counties are basically parallel, and
are east and west of one another, not north or south. However, North Farnham Parish was on the Richmond County side of the river, so presumably Richmond County, not Essex, was "north."
Essex County records reveal some Lilly names.
19 Feb 1733 Elizabeth Lillly's estate was appraised (Will Bk 5).
Also two entries in court orders in 1718 of a suit brought by Moses Lilly against Augustine Smith. [Note from researcher: From previous research of other families in
that area, Augustine Smith was in St. Ann's Parish, which is the northern half of Essex, and the significance of that follows.]
On 19 May 1722 there was a suit brought by Richard Edwards as to whether Thomas Lilly was a servant (two entries later was a entry for Richard Billups of St. Ann's Parish). On 20 Sep 1727 Thomas Lilly acknowledged bond. And on 10 and 11 Dec 1740 Thomas Lilly of St. Ann's Parish executed a deed for land bought in 1722 from Richard Edwards.

(Old) Rappahannock County Orders, 1683-1685, p. 104; 2 July 1685: "The Reference between John Lile Plt. & Mr. Francis Taliaferro Deft.
is continued till next North side Court."
(Old) Rappahannock County Orders, 1685-1687, p. 110; 2 Sept 1685: "This day Mr. Hugh French confest Judgment to Jno. Lile for Two
thousand pounds of tobb & cask according to specialty bearing date the 15th day of May 1685 wch this Court has ordered to be pd wth cost of
suit als exe."
In two entries dated 5th of August 1685 (and on the same page of the cited source):
"Francis James this day confest Judgment to Capt. John Washington as Attorney of Walter Lile, Administr: of James Brownsford, for Three
hundred pounds of tob & cask in ball. of a sealed Bill this Court have ordered to be pd wth cost of suit als exe."
And finally, same source, p. 122; 4 Sept 1685:
"Ordered that Mr. Francis Taliaferro do make his appearance att the next North side Court held for this County to answer the suit of Mr.
John Lile and if it shall appeare by the Oath of Mr. Joshua Davis that the sd Taliaferro had timely notice given him of this, Ordered that
then upon his non appearance Judgmt. pass against the sd Taliaferro for Foure hundred pounds of tobb & cask damage susteyned by the sd Lile."

VA Books Checked
Index to printed Virginia genealogies, including key and bibliography Everything Lilly-Lilly is on this website. [Available also online at familysearch.org ]

References found to the Lilly family in:
William and Mary College Historical Quarterly, Volume I, Series I, page 91 [Does anyone have this.]
Times Dispatch Newspaper Richmond, 26 March 1911 books published?

Early Virginia Marriages, part 1, by Paul Crozier no Lilly or Lilley

KY Books Checked: Any Lilly-Lilley entries found are on this website.

Abstract of early Kentucky wills and inventories, copied from original and recorded wills and inventories, by J. Estelle King.
Old Kentucky entries and deeds : a complete index to all of the earliest land entries, military warrants, deeds and wills of the Commonwealth of Kentucky, with a new preface by Williard Jillson
Kentucky records, volume I and II, by Julia Hoge Spencer Ardery.

Kathryn Owen, Compiler and Editor, Old Graveyards of Clark County, Kentucky, (New Orleans: Polyanthose, 1975), 121
Cemetery Records

William Lilly b. 1824 died 1905
Sarah Lilly b. 1841 d. 1876
W.M Lilly Co A. 14 KY Cavalry

[Note: This set of Lilly's may be connected to the 1850 household of James Lilly of Estill County, Kentucky.] James Lilly 51 KY; Louisa Lilly 30 KY; Henry Lilly 20 KY; Nancy Lilly 19 KY

Bible Record for the Campbell-Lilley Family
The earliest Lilley in this bible record is Mitchell Campbell Lilley born 18 July 1819, near Greenville, Augusta County, Virginia. I have copies of this bible record and will give them to anyone who will transcribe them. There are four pages and I don't have time. I don't know who these people are. Some are marked born near Columbus, Ohio. Some are marked in Edgar County, Illinois.

Edward Lilly of Lower Norfolk County

Because Edmund was sometimes used for the sons of an Edward, we felt it was important to eliminate this Edward Lilly from the list of possible ancestors of Edmund Lilly.
Edward Lilly left London in 1635, and died in Lower Norfolk County in 1645. He is supposed to have been born ca. 1616. I doubt that he was connected to John but in honesty, the two areas were pretty close together if you were using a boat for transportation.

Biographical Dictionary of Early Virginia, 1607-1660.
This has about 25 references to Edward, mostly in Lower Norfolk County. I think the following two are most likely to be of interest. I have not seen them yet.

Hotten, Original Lists of Persons of Quality: Edward Lilly page 125 Born about 1616. Call no. 325.2 Hot 86

Lower Norfolk County Wills and Deeds, 1637-1646 Edward Lilly page 261 and 268, dead by 1645. 1655, there is a Mrs. Lilly, wife of George Winks. [I have found no record of such a printed book yet. but the records did start in 1637.]

:Lou Poole did a survey of the Lower Norfolk County records in his library. His report was as follows.

Peter Wilson Coldham, The Complete Book of Emigrants: A Comprehensive Listing Compiled from English Public Records of Those Who Took Ship to the Americas for Political, Religious, and Economic Reasons; of Those Who Were Deported for Vagrancy, Roguery, or Non-Conformity; and of Those Who Were Sold to Labour in the New Colonies. Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Co. 1607-1660. 1988. 600p.
            Edward Lillie, Aged 19, in 1635. In Virginia.

NUGENT, NELL M. Cavaliers and Pioneers: A Calendar of Virginia Land Grants, 1623-1800. Vol. 1 Richmond, VA: Dietz Printing Co., [1929-1931.
Page 77. 1637

       Edward Lilly was on a list of persons transported in 1637. It is his only appearance in the patent books. He appears fairly regularly in court records from about 1640 until he died in 1645, and there are a few records that mention him or his estate after his death. From the records I saw he seemed to be most closely associated with a Robert and Owen Hayes, but whether because they were close neighbors or of some family connection, I can't say.
        Anyway I have copies of every page that mentioned his name, and will get around to transcribing them some day. But I see nothing to connect our Edmund Lilly or the Gloucester County Lilly Family to this person. If anyone asks, tell them to forget about it.

This webpage is dedicated to Arthur Carlton Lilly as a thank you for his contributions

to the research into the ancestry of Edmund Lilly.

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