Elizabeth 'Betsy' Wade

Notes:

Google Books has listing for Lineage of Elizabeth Wade:

http://books.google.com/books?id=gV0MAgAAQBAJ&pg=RA4-PA11&lpg=RA4-PA11&dq=James+LeGrand+%2B+Elizabeth+Wade&source=bl&ots=MF9qRRjr3n&sig=KWn86oipp_qhLFPj6spC4l3HBPE&hl=en&sa=X&ei=tqCPUs3vL6jlsATN-YGgBg&ved=0CGEQ6AEwCQ#v=onepage&q=James%20LeGrand%20%2B%20Elizabeth%20Wade&f=false

Died:
Various conflicting dates for the date of death for Betsy Wade, wife of James LeGrand lead this researcher to believe she may have died in childbirth. Some records show her death before the birth of her daughter Nancy. -Mary Frances Eggleston

Elizabeth married Capt. James LeGrand 30 Nov 1763. James (son of Jean Pierre 'Peter' LeGrand and Jane Magdalene 'Jean' Michaux) was born 23 Mar 1733, Goochland, Virginia; died 15 Jul 1800, Montgomery County, North Carolina. [Group Sheet]

1. Mary Nancy LeGrand was born 9 Oct 1778, Lunenburg Co., Virginia (Halifax today); died 6 Oct 1864, Forsyth, GA.
2. Sarah 'Sally' LeGrand was born Abt 1767, Halifax County, Virginia; died Yes, date unknown.
3. Lucy LeGrand was born Est 1765, Halifax County, Virginia; died Aft 1826, Halifax Co., Virginia.
4. William Oliver LeGrand was born 6 Aug 1766, Charllotte Co., Virginia ; died 25 Dec 1821, Richmond County, North Carolina; was buried , Legrand Cemetery, Richmond County, NC.
5. Elizabeth 'Betsy' LeGrand was born 1768, Henry Co., Virginia; died 1804, Henry Co., Virginia.

Notes:

"At a Meeting of the Justices appointed for Halifax County at Hampton Wade?s House, the XIXth, day of May, in the XXVth. Year of the Reign of our Sovereign Lord King George II, and in the year of our Lord Christ, One Thousand Seven Hundred and Fifty Two, a Commission of Peace was produced from the Honorable Robert Dinwiddie, His Majesty?s Lieutenant Governor and Commander in Chief of the Colony and Dominion of Virginia, bearing date at Williamsburg, Virginia, the twenty-eighth day of April in the year of Our Lord, One Thousand Seven Hundred and Fifty Two, and direct to William Byrd,* William Wynne, Peter Fontaine, Jr., James Terry, William Irby, Nathaniel Terry, Robert Wade, Hampton Wade, Andrew Wade, and Sherwood Walton, Gentlemen: - "At this meeting the usual oaths were administered. Nathaniel Terry was sworn sheriff; George Currie was made clerk of the court; Thomas Nash, surveyor; Clement Read (of Lunenburg, and later of Charlotte county), King?s attorney. John Light, Joseph Faris and Abel Lee were appointed constables. Nicholas Hayle, Robert Jones and James Irwin were recommended as justices.

*Son of William Byrd of Westover, who ran the dividing line between Virginia and North Carolina in 1727.

Died:
Although Hampton Wade was not described as dead in his father's Will in 1770, he apparently was, since only his son Robert, and not he, was named as an heir. He must have died before 24 Dec 1764, when his widow Jean (Jane) Ellis Wade married 2nd, Samuel Perrin, by a Halifax Co. bond bearing that date, which was secured by Thomas Covington and Witnessed by Thomas Tunstall. In her Will, dated 4 Nov 1785 and proved 19 Jan 1786, Jean (Jane ) Ellis Wade Perrin made bequests, among others, to her daughter Betsy LeGrand and her son Richard Wade (Halifax Co., VA WB2/177, THE WADE QUARTERLY, Volume 5, Issue 1.) Richard Wade, son of Hampton Wade and Jean Ellis, was born in Amelia Co., VA in 1751, Married Mary 'Polly' Boyd and died in Halifax Co., in 1812. Polly Boyd Wade was born in Halifax County in 1758 and died there in 1815. ....

Hampton married Jane/Jean Ellis 19 Sep 1750, Amelia Co., VA . Jane/Jean (daughter of John Ellis and Lucy Mays) was born 1729, Henrico County, Virginia; died Nov 1785. [Group Sheet]

Notes:

http://genforum.genealogy.com/legrand/messages/373.html
1 Zaccarisas Wade b: Bet. 1560 - 1636 in England d: in Maryland
2 Edward Wade I b: Bet. 1606 - 1611 in London England d: 22 Aug 1673 in York County Hampton Parish Virginia
.... +Jane ?
.. 3 Edward Wade II b: Abt. 1640 in York County Hampton Parish Virginia d: Bef. 1682 in York County Hampton Parish Virginia
...... +Mary Hampton,Duke b: Bet. 1660 - 1670
.... 4 Andrew Wade b: 1670 in Virginia d: 1740 in Hanover County Virginia
........ +Mrs. ?
....... 5 Robert Wade,Sr,Capt b: 20 Nov 1700 in Lunenburg County or James City Virginia d: Bef. 19 Apr 1770 in Halifax County Anheim Parish Virginia
........... +Elizabeth Hampton b: Bet. 1687 - 1690 in Halifax County Virginia d: Aft. 01 May 1767 in Halifax County Anheim Parish Virginia
......... 6 Hampton Wade b: 1726 in Halifax County Virginia d: May 1779 in Lumdenburg County Virginia
............. +Jane Ellis b: Abt. 1730 in Amelia County Virginia d: Jan 1786 in Halifax County Virginia
........... 7 Elizabeth "Betsy" "Petty" Wade b: Aft. 1742 in Lunenburg County Virginia d: 04 Nov 1785 in Halifax County Virginia

Jane Ellis Wade Perrin's will---
Will dated 4 Nov 1785, recorded 19 Jan 1786 Halifax Co., VA Will Book 2, pg 177

Name:
Prepared by William G. Scroggins 23 Sep 1999:

Jean or Jane Ellis, who married Hampton Wade, was a d/o John Ellis and Lucy Mays, of Nottoway Parish, Amelia County, Virginia, who made a deed of gift of some slaves to his daughter, Jean, wife of Hampton Wade, for distribution to her children, William, Robert, Richard and Betsy Wade, on 19 Sep 1753. (Amelia Co., VA, DB5/57, abstract, Shirley Wilcox, THE WADE QUARTERLY, Volume 5, Issue 1))

Notes:

Plea Book 1, Halifax County, Virginia, 1752-1755, Marian Dodson Chiarito, The Clarkton Press, Nathalie, Virginia

Halifax County was formed in 1752 from Lunenburg County, and included the present Virginia counties of Pittsylvania, Henry, Franklin, and Patrick

Halifax County, Virginia, Plea Book 1 consists of abstracts of Plea Book 1. It includes court orders for administration and inventory of estates, deed and dower acknowledgements, bills of sale, deeds of gift, leases, powers of attorney, appointments of militia officers, Constitutional officers of the county, lists of the establishment of roads, mills, ferries, ordinaries, etc., as well as petitions for debts due.

p 122 - At a Court held for Halifax County 20 June 1753
Present: William Wynne, Andrew Wade, Robert Wade and Hugh Moore, Gent. Justices
p 229 - At a Court held for Halifax County 16 October 1753
Present: James Terry, William Irby, Robert Wade and Hugh Moore, Gent. Justices


Antrim Parish, Halifax Co., VA
"At a Meeting of the Justices appointed for Halifax County at Hampton Wade?s House, the XIXth, day of May, in the XXVth. Year of the Reign of our Sovereign Lord King George II, and in the year of our Lord Christ, One Thousand Seven Hundred and Fifty Two, a Commission of Peace was produced from the Honorable Robert Dinwiddie, His Majesty?s Lieutenant Governor and Commander in Chief of the Colony and Dominion of Virginia, bearing date at Williamsburg, Virginia, the twenty-eighth day of April in the year of Our Lord, One Thousand Seven Hundred and Fifty Two, and direct to William Byrd,* William Wynne, Peter Fontaine, Jr., James Terry, William Irby, Nathaniel Terry, Robert Wade, Hampton Wade, Andrew Wade, and Sherwood Walton, Gentlemen: - "At this meeting the usual oaths were administered. Nathaniel Terry was sworn sheriff; George Currie was made clerk of the court; Thomas Nash, surveyor; Clement Read (of Lunenburg, and later of Charlotte county), King?s attorney. John Light, Joseph Faris and Abel Lee were appointed constables. Nicholas Hayle, Robert Jones and James Irwin were recommended as justices.

*Son of William Byrd of Westover, who ran the dividing line between Virginia and North Carolina in 1727.

Name:
Bet. 1758 - 1764, Burgess of Halifax County, VA

Died:
Lunenburg Deed 1752, shows James Terry, Robert Wade, Hampton and Andrew Wade of Halifax Co. [This Lunenburg Co. deed shows these men live in Halifax Co., VA [Halifax was split from Lunenburg in 1752]

Will of Robert Wade is found in Halifax County, VA

Robert married Elizabeth Hampton 1720, Prob. Halifax Co., Virginia. Elizabeth (daughter of Capt. John Hampton, Sr. and Martha Brown) was born Abt 1720, Virginia Colony; died Yes, date unknown, Antrim Parish, Halifax Co., Virginia. [Group Sheet]

Notes:

https://www.facebook.com/DailyDoseofHistory/photos/a.115664163197823/636269517803949

THE TRAVELING CHURCH 1781
In search of Religious freedon, the Rev. Lewis Craig led his entire congregation of 200 Baptists and 400 other settlers from Spotsylvania County Virginia and established them here on Gilbert's Creek.
This expedition, guided through the wilderness by Captain William Ellis, was the largest group of pioneers ever to enter the District of Kentucky in a single body.

Erected by the National Society of the Colonial Dames of America in the Commonwealth of Kentucky. 1947

This William Ellis is likely the descendant of Immigrant, John Ellis. Note also his association with the Lewis' who descend from Andrew 'Indian Fighter' Lewis. -mfe


Birth:
John Ellis listed in Early Virginia Immigrants (three of them)

John Ellis of Henrico Co. Dec 1717 shown on deed of Robert Napier land sale to Nicholas Cox of Charles City Co., for 25 pounds, a tract bounded by Peters branch of Tuckahoe Creek, Ellises line, Hardings branch and land Francis Chumley bought of Thomas Harding; being land said Napier brought of John Ellis of Henrico Co. Wit: Jones Gillum, Michall Thomas, Sam'l (S) Hix, John Spear, James (I) Spear Recorded 7 Apr 1718

Is he the Immigrant for this line?

Name:
dna matches to Neeley

John married Lucy Mays. Lucy was born Est 1710, Henrico Co., Virginia Colony; died Yes, date unknown. [Group Sheet]

Notes:

James Terry was an early settler and patented large bodies of land in this section. In 1757 he moved to Orange County, North Carolina. In 1764 (Halifax Deed Book) he sold to Nathaniel Terry, Hugh Innes, Robert Wooding, Thomas Dillard, Sr., Thomas Dillard, Jr., Ed. Booker, John Bates, James Dillard, Archibald Gordon, George Watkins, John Donelson, Thomas Tunstall, vestryman of Antrim Parish, for £350, 794 acres on Sandy Creek, where the said Terry formerly lived, for a Glebe for Antrim Parish. THE HISTORY of PITTSYLVANIA COUNTY VIRGINIA
CHAPTER V A PART OF HALIFAX COUNTY, 1752-1767
page 5859 The domain that later was to be Pittsylvania now lay within the bounds of the great new county of Halifax, and the courthouse, after several changes, was located in the eastern part of the county. As generally happens, the place of holding court drew settlers and tradesmen, and in 1759 100 acres belonging to James Roberts, the younger, and adjoining the courthouse were laid off into a town and named Peytonsburg. The trustees appointed for the town were James Roberts, Theophelus Lacy, Robert Wade, Jr., and Nathaniel Terry. With the establishment of the courthouse and a duly constituted town in this (Pittsylvania) section, the inhabitants ceased to be so isolated and remote from the world of affairs. For the monthly court drew lawyers and men of property from other sections, bringing a touch of the outside world; while the ubiquitous trader was present at any gathering of people. The military organization of the county was effected at the courthouse, with its attendant musters to the music of fife and drum. All this added interest and color to the life of the inhabitants. [p.58] The justices of the peace appointed for the new county were William Byrd, William Wynne, Peter Fontaine, Jr., William Irby, James Terry, Nathaniel Terry, Robert Hampton, Andrew Wade, and Sherwood Walton. In the following year Thomas Dillard Thomas Calloway, Samuel Harris,Benjamin Clement,Peter Wilson and Robert Pusey were recommended to the Governor as fit and able persons to be added to the Commission of Peace, all of whom lived in that part of the county that later became Pittsylvania. Of these first gentlemen justices of [p.59] Halifax, William Byrd and Peter Fontaine, Jr., were of Charles City County; William Irby, William Wynne, and Sherwood Walton were of southside Virginia; Nathaniel and James Terry and Benjamin Clement from King William County; Samuel Harris from Hanover County; Robert Hampton, Andrew Wade, Robert Pusey, Peter Wilson and Thomas Calloway were probably from Pennsylvania.

Name:

The Wades, who were early settlers in the area around Philadelphia, were Quakers, Edward Wade and his wife Prudence, of Buttolph Aldgate in London, came to America from England in the ship Griffin which was commanded by Robert Griffin, Master. They brought Nathaniel Champneys, Nathaniel Champneys, Jr., Joseph Ware, John Burton and Francis Smithey with them as servants. The Griffin arrived in the Delaware River on the 23rd of the fifth month [July] 1676. Edward and Prudence Wade were with the group on the Griffin that accompanied John Fenwick to New Jersey to claim the part of that colony which had been conveyed to Fenwick by John, Lord Berkeley. Robert Wade, John Wade and Samuel Wade also came with Fenwick. Jane Wade, wife of Samuel, came to America in the ship Henry and Anne. Samuel Wade who was the son of John Wade, was born in Northhampton England, in 1645 and married Jane Smith, d/o Thomas Smith, in West Chester, Pennsylvania, between his arrival on the 23rd of 9th month [November] 1675 and the birth of their son Samuel Wade, Jr. on the 1st of the 6th month [August] 1685. (THE WADE QUARTERLY, Volume 2, Issue 2; HISTORY OF CHESTER COUNTY, PENNSYLVANIA, J. Smith Futhey and Gilbert Cope, Louis H. Everts, Philadelphia, 1881, reprinted Unigraphic, Inc., Evansville, IN

Andrew married Susannah, Mrs. Andrew Wade. Susannah, was born Est 1675, Goochland, Virginia Colony; died Yes, date unknown. [Group Sheet]

Notes:

Andrew Wade is the s/o Edward Wade and Prudence, of Buttolph Aldgate in London.
The Wades, who were early settlers in the area around Philadelphia, were Quakers, Edward Wade and his wife Prudence, of Buttolph Aldgate in London, came to America from England in the ship Griffin which was commanded by Robert Griffin, Master. They brought Nathaniel Champneys, Nathaniel Champneys, Jr., Joseph Ware, John Burton and Francis Smithey with them as servants. The Griffin arrived in the Delaware River on the 23rd of the fifth month [July] 1676. Edward and Prudence Wade were with the group on the Griffin that accompanied John Fenwick to New Jersey to claim the part of that colony which had been conveyed to Fenwick by John, Lord Berkeley. Robert Wade, John Wade and Samuel Wade also came with Fenwick. Jane Wade, wife of Samuel, came to America in the ship Henry and Anne. Samuel Wade who was the son of John Wade, was born in Northhampton England, in 1645 and married Jane Smith, d/o Thomas Smith, in West Chester, Pennsylvania, between his arrival on the 23rd of 9th month [November] 1675 and the birth of their son Samuel Wade, Jr. on the 1st of the 6th month [August] 1685. (THE WADE QUARTERLY, Volume 2, Issue 2; HISTORY OF CHESTER COUNTY, PENNSYLVANIA, J. Smith Futhey and Gilbert Cope, Louis H. Everts, Philadelphia, 1881, reprinted Unigraphic, Inc., Evansville, IN

Notes:

http://nyvagenealogy.homestead.com/virginia1750.html
MISCELLANEOUS MARRIAGE RECORDS; VIRGINIA; HALIFAX COUNTY


MAY 15 1753 Nathaniel Hunt + Elizabeth Wade , Halifax surety andrew wade

Notes:

The chronology and the Halifax County connection suggest that the father of Margaret Wade Hampton, was James Wade, Sr. who died in Hanover County in 1740. King William County was established in 1702 from part of King and Queen County which was split from New Kent County in 1691. Hanover County came from New Kent County in 1721. (Virginia Highway maps.)

Birth:
John Hampton Sr. lived in King William County, VA, was the s/o Reverend Thomas Hampton, Jr. who was the s/o the Reverend Thomas Hampton Sr. and is the Immigrant of this line. Most female wives names are not listed. Thomas Hampton Sr. came to Virginia from England about 1629 and was a minister at Jamestown in 1630; he died in 1648.

John married Martha Brown. Martha (daughter of Abraham Brown and Mary Potter) was born 1666, Shrewsbury, Monmouth, New Jersey Colony; died 1697, Freehold, Monmouth, New Jersey Colony. [Group Sheet]