John Colclough was the first of this family in Stafford. He patented 200 acres in Stafford November 10, 1665, "on S.W. side of Quantico Creek with back line of Richard Heabard." (C.P. 544). He is said to be a brother of Major George Colclough of Northumberland County, Va. (38 V 234). George Colclough, son of Sir Caesar Colclough of Staffordshire, Eng., died in Virginia according to the visitations of Staffordshire 1664-1700. (Tyler II, eleven, p. 40). In 1654 John Colclough was the master or owner of a vessel which traded regularly with Virginia. (18 V. 47-48). In Jan. 1654/55, Thomas Colclough, one of the owners of a ship "Charles", petitioned the Council to grant a commission to the master of that vessel, which for divers years past had traded in Virginia to surprise such vessels as he found trading there contrary to the Act of Parliament 1650. (do. p. 49-50).
Mrs. Martha W. Hiden says (58 V 234), "Before the county court of Northumberland in 1657, Ursula, then the wife of Major George Colclough and widow of (2) Colonel John Mottrom and of (1) Mr. Richard Thompson, deposed as follows: 'all the money I had when I married was 158L-2S-8d which my brother John paid my brother Thomas Colclough's man for my husband's use.' (Va. Col. Abstracts 19, p. 25) From the fact Major George Colclough had a brother Thomas, it is likely that he is the same person who was part owner of the ship 'Charles.' It is also likely that John Colclough, part owner of other vessels in the Virginia Trade, was a third brother."
John Colclough and Jasper Bennett of Stafford, on January 1677, deeded land in Stafford to Samuel Hayward. (Rec. 1680, folio 26, no. 25).
The date of John Colclough's death is not known. Owing to loss of records it is difficult to obtain correct data on this family.
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Children were:
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John COLCLOUGH II(167). From Boddie:
John II, whose inventory was filed in Stafford in 1702. (This, however, could be the inventory of John I.) Hannah Colclough, evidently a widow, made her will November 10, 1700; same probated 1701. (W.B. 1699-1709-56). She was possibly the widow of the above John II. She mentions her son (1) Charles Colclough and her daughter (2) Ann Colclough. (No other children named.) She bequeathed legacies to her brother Arthur Chapman, to her cousins (nephews) Arthur and Thomas Walker, and her brother, Benjamin Colclough. David Barrick of Richmond County sold land to Thomas Walker, son of Thomas Walker, in 1715. (D.B. 7 - 74,76).
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3054 ii.
Benjamin COLCLOUGH.
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