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Will.: 15 Feb 1666/1667 Probated in Isle of Wight,VA,1 May 1668;
deed book 2,p. 52.
CONFLICT: spouse also shown as Sarah Upton and mother of the
children.
Children:
Rebecca Braswell + Roger Bagnall (Husband) b. Before 1615 Isle
of Wight),Virginia,
Jone Braswell
Thomas Braswell b. About 8 Jul 1610 in England
Robert Braswell b. 1612 in ,England
Isle of Wight County Records:
Appraisal: 11 May 1668; recorded: 9 Jun 1668, p. 55.
Acct. of Estate: recorded 10 Jun 1669, p. 80
Braswell Book: At 14, sent to Oxford College to be educated for
the ministry. Entered Hart Hall there (according to colonial VA
records) on 22 Feb 1627,graduated with an A.B. Degreee Nov.
1631. As an Anglican minister,Bracewell may have fled during the
Cromwell rebellion.
First record in VA: witness to an agreement for use of a mill,
29 Apr 1650 (Deed Book I, pl 426). Plantation located on
Blackwater River, a fewmiles south of Jamestown. His church,
Lawn's Creek Parish, later becameSouthwark Parish in 1737. OLD
BRICK CHURCH
1653 -- elected to VA House of Burgesses. Suspended because of
separation of church and state "It is ordered that Mr. Robert
Bracewell (cleric) be suspended since it is unpresedential and
may produce bad consequences."
"He was referred to in the William and Mary Quarterly, Volume 7,
as a "notable minister." (The Braswell Family, by Elizabeth B.
Pearsall). Robert Bracewell's will was made February 15, 1667
and is one of the earliest recorded wills in this country. It is
to be found in Deed and Will Book 1, p. 9, of the Isle of Wight
records of Virginia. In his will, Robert Bracewell directed that
his two underage sons, Robert, Jr. and Richard, were to receive
the bulk of his estate and were to share the 700 acre home
plantation and 600 acres on the Nansemond River. They were to
share also in his new mill when it was finished. He named his
two friends and neighbors, Mr. George Gwillen(Welsh for
Williams) and Mr. Richard Izard, to act as guardians for the
children, each to receive forty shillings with which to buy
himself a ring. He further directed that his two sons be put to
school to learn to read and write. His three married daughters
were to receive three cows each, and an indentured servant,
Elizabeth Hall, was to receive a heifer when she became free.
Seven of his friends were to receive one cow each and his
son-in-law, William West, a cow and a yearling. Included in the
inventory of his property were sixty-three head of livestock, a
servant boy, a library worth 500 pounds of tobacco, a sloop,
silverware and numerous articles of clothing and household
furnishings. The total value of his estate was given a 35,000
pounds of tobacco.(Will and Deed Book 1, p.55). An accounting of
his estate rendered on January 10, 1669-70, and signed by
Richard and Rebecca Izard.(Will and Deed Book 1, p. 28)"
Children:
Richard BRACEWELL b. in Isle of Wight County, VA +Sarah
Valentine SAMPSON (Wife) b. About 1653
Rebecca BRACEWELL b. About 1645 in Isle of Wight County, VA +
William WEST (Husband)
Ann BRACEWELL b. in Isle of Wight County, VA + James BAGNALL
(Husband) b. 1626
Robert Eley BRACEWELL b. 1650 in Isle of Wight County, VA
Jane BRASWELL b. About 1653 in Isle of Wight County, VA + Robert
ELEY (Husband) b. About 1645 in Nansemond, VA
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Mother: Martha SLAUGHTER |
_Edmund BURRUS (BURRIS) _+
| (1704 - ....)
_Thomas BURRUS (BURRIS) _|
| (1722 - 1789) m 1744 |
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_William Tandy BURRUS _|
| (1776 - 1831) m 1792 |
| | _Roger TANDY Sr._________+
| | | (1690 - 1778)
| |_Frances TANDY __________|
| (1732 - 1816) m 1744 |
| |_Sarah Ann QUARLES ______+
| (1722 - 1781)
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|--Jane Slaughter BURRUS
| (1807 - ....)
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|_Martha SLAUGHTER _____|
(1775 - 1830) m 1792 |
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Mother: Jane PASCHAL |
_Thomas E. EARLY ________+
| (1683 - 1716) m 1704
_Jeremiah E. M. EARLY _|
| (1705 - 1787) m 1728 |
| |_Elizabeth JOHNSON ______
| (1685 - 1716) m 1704
_Joseph EARLY _______|
| (1740 - 1783) |
| | _Thomas BUFORD __________+
| | | (1682 - 1718) m 1704
| |_Elizabeth BUFORD _____|
| (1709 - 1786) m 1728 |
| |_Elizabeth Metstand LEE _+
| (1688 - 1765) m 1704
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|--Whitfield EARLY
| (1777 - 1865)
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|_Jane PASCHAL _______|
(1745 - 1793) |
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_Ralph GRAVES II_____+
| (1653 - 1694) m 1676
_Ralph GRAVES III____|
| (1679 - 1748) |
| |_Unity WHITE ________+
| (1660 - 1695) m 1676
_William GRAVES _____|
| (1700 - 1758) |
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| |_Elizabeth___________|
| (1680 - ....) |
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|--John GRAVES
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Mother: Frances Ann (Nancy) MINITREE |
_James HEREFORD _____+
| (1665 - 1721)
_John HEREFORD I_____|
| (1698 - 1743) m 1720|
| |_ MASON? ____________
| (1670 - ....)
_Henry HEREFORD _______________|
| (1740 - 1813) m 1760 |
| | _Mathew BARNES ______+
| | | (1670 - 1746)
| |_Jane (Jean) BARNES _|
| (1694 - 1754) m 1720|
| |_Elizabeth JONES ____+
| (1666 - 1694)
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|--Rosmond HEREFORD
| (1770 - ....)
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|_Frances Ann (Nancy) MINITREE _|
(1740 - 1833) m 1760 |
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Father: Lewis NEILL |
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_Lewis NEILL ________|
| (1780 - ....) |
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|--Lucinda NEILL
| (1800 - ....)
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