I70415: Nancy (ABT 1796

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Spouse: Barbara Brown Disc #82 Pin #189209

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"Charles County Circuit Court, Birth, Deaths & Marriage Records, Liber Q Dutton, Notley, s/o Thomas and Elizabeth Dutton of Wicomico, b. 19 Dec 1694 Dutton, Matthew, s/o Thomas and Elizabeth Dutton of Wicomico, b. 28 Sep 1692 {mm;note} Both of these birth records indicate a Thomas Dutton as father. I believe this a transcription error and should read "Notley". There are no Court, land, wills, admin or Inventory records for a "Thomas" either."

Nottley Dutton 39C.80 I CH £12.17.0 Oct 11 1717
Appraisers: John Courts (also John Courts), Charles Yeats (also Charles Yates).

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Anne Estes b: 30 MAR 1751 in Caroline Co., Va.
Marriage 1 James Butler Married: cir 1773
Children: Mary Butler b: 13 JAN 1774

Marriage 2 Michael Yates b: 20 JUN 1753 in Caroline Co., Va.

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2 Lucy ESTES b: 1742

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Peyton Randolph House

The original structure of the Peyton Randolph House was built in 1715. Colonial Williamsburg's primary restoration of the home began in October 1938 and was completed in April 1940. More restoration of the main section was undertaken in June 1967 and was finished 12 months later. The center and west portions of the house opened for exhibition on July 1, 1968.
Original structure located at the corner of Nicholson and North England Streets
Built in 1715 by William Robertson
Sir John Randolph purchased the west wing in 1721
House willed to son Peyton Randolph
First restoration 1938-1940
Further restoration began in 1967
Center and west portions opened in 1968
Construction of outbuildings began in 1997
Rochambeau, Lafayette, and Washington among notable guests at the home

The deep red Peyton Randolph House is one of the oldest, most historic, and without doubt most beautiful of Colonial Williamsburg's original 18th-century homes.

The west wing of the impressive house has stood at the corner of Nicholson and North England Streets since about 1715. Among the historic figures that took shelter in the house were General Rochambeau and the Marquis de Lafayette.

Three structures became one

William Robertson built the house that eventually became the west wing of the Peyton Randolph house. Sir John Randolph purchased the west wing in 1721. He bought the east lot for £50 on July 20, 1724 and had a home constructed there as well.

Sir John's son, Peyton Randolph, built a spacious and well-appointed two-story central section between the two houses. A hall with a large roundheaded window and a grand staircase connect single rooms on each floor. The first-floor parlor measures 19 feet square, and the bed chamber above has the same dimensions.

Lines of roof vary

The southern face of the center section matches the appearance of the 29-foot-square clapboard house that makes up the west wing. The low-pitched hip roof of the west wing was extended across the addition but ends abruptly when it reaches the high gable of the dormered roof on the east wing.

East wing not connected to the rest of the house

Although the west and center sections of the house were connected by doors on both floors, there was no opening through the brick wall to the east wing. The east wing may have served as an office or a service building, or it could have been rented out. Demolished in the 19th century, the east wing was reconstructed by Colonial Williamsburg after the property was purchased in 1938.

The roof of the west wing was designed to funnel rain to two concealed two-log gutters, which apparently carried the water to a cistern. Only traces remain of this contrivance that may have leaked and was later covered by the roof. A chimney rises through the center of the wing, venting corner fireplaces in three rooms on each floor. The stairway passage is located in the southwest corner of each floor.

The center section contains some of the best surviving paneling in the city — some of it walnut — while unusually fine brass hinges and locks trim the parlor doors. The floor is mostly made of original edge-cut pine

Outbuildings supported household activity

A full complement of outbuildings stood to the north (in back), including a two-story brick kitchen, a stable for 12 horses, a coach house, and a dairy.

Peyton Randolph inherited home

Sir John Randolph, the only colonial born in Virginia to be knighted, died in 1737. He left the house to his wife, Susannah Beverley Randolph, until their second son, Peyton, reached the age of 24. Their first son, Beverley, inherited property in Gloucester County; their third son, John, inherited acreage on the city's southern edge; and their daughter, Mary, received a dowry of £1,000. Susannah Beverley Randolph remained in the home until her death sometime after 1754.

Peyton Randolph, Speaker of Virginia's House of Burgesses in the years leading to the Revolution, brought his wife, Betty Harrison Randolph, to the home by 1751. It became a hub of political activity, and its owner Peyton Randolph was elected the presiding officer of the First Continental Congress at Philadelphia in 1774. An inventory taken at Peyton Randolph's death in 1775 indicates how the house was furnished and equipped.

Widow Betty Randolph opened her home to French general Jean-Baptiste-Donatien de Vimeur, comte de Rochambeau, when he arrived in Williamsburg with General George Washington to prepare for the siege of Yorktown in 1781. The house served as the French headquarters until they moved to the field.

Home auctioned to highest bidder

Peyton and Betty Randolph had no children and, after her death and according to directions in Betty Randolph’s will, the house was sold at auction on February 19, 1783. A newspaper advertisement described it as "pleasantly situated on the great square." It was conveyed to the highest bidder, Joseph Hornsby, on February 21, and the proceeds were divided among Betty Randolph's legatees.

By 1824, the house was in the possession of Mary Monroe Peachy. She had the honor that year of lodging Marie-Joseph-Paul-Yves-Roch-Gilbert du Motier, marquis de Lafayette, when he visited the city on October 20 and 21 during a tour of America.

The Peyton Randolph House restored

Colonial Williamsburg's primary restoration of the home began in October 1939 and was completed in April 1940. More restoration of the main section was undertaken in June 1967 and was finished 12 months later. The center and west portions of the house opened for exhibition on July 1, 1968.
http://www.history.org/Almanack/places/hb/hbran.cfm.

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Encyclopedia of Virginia Biography, Volume I IV--Burgesses and Other Prominent Persons:

Name: Robert Throckmorton immigrant, was the eldest son of Gabriel Throckmorton and his wife, Alice, daughter and heir of William Bedles, and was born at Ellington, Huntingdonshire, England, about 1608. He came to Virginia about 1637, when he patented 300 acres in York county. He returned to England and died there in September, 1657, leaving sons, Albion, Robert and John--the last of whom left descendants in Virginia.

Received a grand for 300 acres in Charles River County, Virginia on 24 Aug 1637.

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or returned to England and died there.

My Southern Family

Nancy

ABT 1796 - ____

ID Number: I70415

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Jessie L. BOATWRIGHT

1861 - 1920

ID Number: I104659

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CALHOUN ?

ABT 1890 - ____

ID Number: I22436

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Notley DUTTON

ABT 1671 - 11 Oct 1717

ID Number: I85389

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Anne ESTES

30 Mar 1751 - ____

ID Number: I47581

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Lucy ESTES

1742 - ____

ID Number: I95560

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John GARRETT

1754 - 22 Sep 1795

ID Number: I68869

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Gertude IVEY

ABT 1900 - 1978

ID Number: I7905

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Sarah E. LACKLAND

____ - ____

ID Number: I83019

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Lemuel LAPRADE

1801 - 1825

ID Number: I31719

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Sir John RANDOLPH Knt.

20 Jul 1693 - 15 Mar 1737

ID Number: I45211

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Lord Robert THROCKMORTON "the Immigrant"

1608 - 1 Sep 1657

ID Number: I72785

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