I49133: Martha AYLESWORTH (ABT 1698

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". MARTHA (2)Arthur (1) married John Davis before December 1, 1727, and dwelt in East Greenwich, where he died, before Feb. 25, 1737-8, when letters of administration issued to Martha Davis, late wife and now widow of John Davis of said East Greenwich, yeoman, deceased. Inventory, consisting mostly of household goods, farming implements, and smith tools, amounted to the sum of £194-15s.-6d. Arthur Aylworth, of East Greenwich, and Peleg Card, of North Kingstown, were bondsmen. Nothing further has been discovered respecting their history".

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2 John BASS b: 4 DEC 1673 d: 1732 + Love HARRIS; Bass Families of the South By Albert Bell Will of John Bass dated 1732.

Children:
3 Edward BASS b: ABT. 1697 d: 1761
3 William BASS b: ABT. 1700 d: 1761 sold his land to bro. John went to SC, unmarried.
3 Judith BASS b: ABT. 1702 settled in Guilford Co. NC
3 Sarah BASS b: ABT. 1704 settled in Grandville Co. NC
3 John Jr BASS b: ABT. 1706 d: 1777 + ? d: BEF. 1777
3 Lovey BASS b: ABT. 1707
3 Mary BASS b: ABT. 1709
3 Aaron BASS b: ABT. 1710
3 Patience BASS b: ABT. 1712
3 Moses BASS b: ABT. 1715 Died without issue in South Carolina
3 Keziah BASS b: ABT. 1719

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Rolfe Bolling (Twin) b. 16 Jul 1744 in Cobbs, Henrico Co, VA

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descended from the Turbevilles of Bere Regis Dorset, England.

"John was described by Miss Lucy Brown Beale, a prominent Northern Neck historian, in 1929, as follows:, "As unto the bow the cord is so unto a Turberville was a Lee."

John was in Northumberland County by 18 Mar 1685, when he proved the will of Thomas Brewer [Order Bk 4:255]. On 20 May 1685, we find him appointed deputy sheriff to Capt. William Lee. He became an extensive land owner in Northumberland and Lancaster Counties and after the death of William Lee he became sheriff. On 15 Jun 1692, he took the oath as Justice of the Peace [4:592]. On 15 Apr 1696, he was sworn as high sheriff [4:723]. He was still a justice in 1699 and a member of the House of Burgesses in 1702-1704.

He also served Lancaster County as Clerk. He was a man of education and culture, his manuscript copy of the Acts of the Assembly still exists, when the law read: - Whereas many Babling and Slanderous Women Slander and scandalize their Neighbors, for which the poor Husbands are often involved....be it enacted that Babling and Slanderous Women be punished by Ducking - then again we find in this primitive volume: Whereas the dispatch of Business in this Country is made obstructed for want of Bridle Wayes to the several houses and Plantations; it is enacted that every Person having a Plantation make a passage for Man and Horse to his house.

John Turberville loved his God and the laws of his country and these virtues he passed on to his only son. The long and close association of Johns family with the Lee family, beginning with his marriage to Elizabeth (Lee) Howson, suggests a possible common origin with that family in the counties of Gloucester and Worcester, England. (The Parents of Colonel Richard Lee of Virginia, by William Thorndale, National Genealogical Society Quarterly, Dec 1988, Vol. 76, No.4, pp. 253-260).

The arms used by John Turberville, (Ermine, a lion rampant gules, ducally crowned or), corresponds with those used by those Turbervilles of Bere Regis, Dorset, and thus, the Virginia Turbervilles are said to be descended from the English family of Bere Regis, Dorset. ( On the "Battle-Abbey Roll" appears the name of a Sir Payne Turberville, who was a companion of the conqueror, and is supposed to have been the progenitor of this family in England. The manor of Bere Regis was sold to Robert Turberville in 38 Henry VIII, and was for years the seat and sepulcher of generations of this family). The earliest recorded use of the arms of Dorset line in Virginia was on the 1720 gravestone of Frances Ashton, first wife of Johns son, George, at Booth Plantation. (Lee of Virginia, by Edmund Jenings Lee, MD, 1895; p.65).

The inventory of the Lancaster County estate of John Turberville can be found in Will Book 12: 85-98. This is included in the Appendix of this book as well as a copy of the 1725 deed from John Turberville of Christ Church Parish, Lancaster County, to George Turberville, of Cople Parish, Westmoreland County. (Deed Bk 11: 285-286). John was taxed in Lancaster County from 8 Oct 1697 (Orders 4, 1696-1702: 33) to 12 Jan 1720 (Orders 7:336). In 1697 he paid two tithes; in 1720, six (Lancaster County, Virginia, Individual Tithables, manuscript, NBWM & L)."

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My Southern Family

Martha AYLESWORTH

ABT 1698 - ____

ID Number: I49133

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John BASS

4 Dec 1673 - 1732

ID Number: I99482

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Rolfe BOLLING

16 Jul 1744 - ____

ID Number: I97112

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Hester DODSON

ABT 1812 - ____

ID Number: I45812

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Alice EUBANK

ABT 1790 - ____

ID Number: I74337

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EUSTACE II de FIENNES

ABT 1112 - ABT 1187

ID Number: I58416

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John TURBERVILLE "the Immigrant"

ABT 1650 - 1728

ID Number: I30274

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