Lockey Langhorne^{[1, 2]}

Est 1723 - 1792  (~ 69 years)

• Name	Lockey Langhorne
  Born	Est 1723	York Co., Colonial Virginia
  Gender	Female
  Died	Apr 1792	Prob. Cumberland Co., Virginia
  Person ID	I16210	My Reynolds Line
  Last Modified	11 Apr 2018

  
  

  Father	John Langhorne,   b. Abt 1695, Warwick, Chesterfield County, Virginia Colony ,   d. Abt 1767, Warwick County, Colonial Virginia  (Age ~ 72 years)
  Mother	Mary Beverly/Beverley,   b. 28 Jun 1678, Jamestown, Middlesex, Virginia Colony ,   d. Bef 1796, King and Queen Co., Virginia Colony  (Age 117 years)
  Family ID	F6129	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	Thomas Tabb,   b. 5 Sep 1719, Charles, York Co., Virginia ,   d. 22 Apr 1782, Cumberland Co., Virginia  (Age 62 years)
  Married	Children of Thomas and Lockey Tabb (nee Langhorne): Mary Tabb b. 19 Dec 1740, d. b 1782 Edward Mallory Tabb+ b. 9 Sep 1742, d. c 1806 Margaret Tabb+ b. 4 Apr 1744 Anne Tabb+ b. 6 Mar 1745 John Tabb b. 31 Dec 1747, d. 1748 Daughter Tabb b. c 1751 Martha Tabb+ b. c 1753 Elizabeth Tabb+ b. 1755, d. 1783 Lockey Tabb b. 1757 Langhorne Tabb (1749 - 1830)
  Children	+ 1. Elizabeth Tabb,   b. 1755, Cumberland County, Virginia ,   d. 1830, Sumner County, Tennessee.  (Age 75 years)   2. Margaret Tabb,   b. 4 Apr 1744, York County, Virginia ,   d. 1844  (Age 99 years)
  Last Modified	9 Apr 2018
  Family ID	F5705	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

• Notes

  Mary was the 12th child in the Beverley home. Her mother died soon after her birth. To understand her marriage at age 41 to John Langhorne (who was 17 years younger), we need to know the three rules for marriage in colonial Virginia. 1: The elite families were very much into class structure so that intermarriage among the elites was a requirement. 2: Marriages to the widowed were no problem. 3: Money and real estate holdings counted hugely. As for elite status, John Langhorne?s grandfather, Capt. John Langhorne, and Mary?s father, Maj. Robert Beverley, had been close friends and colleagues, both owning vast tobacco plantations with fine homes in early Virginia. Together with William Byrd they had been responsible for fortifying the major rivers of the colony from attack. As for wealth and real estate, Mary had married William Jones III in 1694 when she was only 16. He had inherited large landholdings from his father, Capt. William Jones, who was a member of the House of Burgess. All this made her a desirable catch as a widow. Despite her age, Mary became the mother of three children: two successful sons, Maj. Maurice Langhorne II and Maj. William Langhorne, and one daughter, Lockey Langhorne, who was a sought after heiress with the highest social status and wealth to boot.- Sandra Powell44 ________________ Lockey Langhorne s the sole heir of John Langhorne, Maurice Langhorne (1670-1698) inherited a huge estate. Around 1690 he married Anne Cary of "The Forest". Anne Cary was the daughter of Capt. Henry Cary, a planter who was well known as the master builder of Williamsburg. The marriage of Maurice Langhorne to Anne Cary was a good one, for the Carys were one of the wealthiest and most influential families in the Virginia Colony. In 1695, Maurice and Anne Langhorne had their only child, whom they named John Langhorne. Within three short years Maurice Langhorne died, and young John was sent to "The Forest" to be raised by his maternal grandparents Henry and Judith Cary. Anne Cary Langhorne soon remarried, a member of another prominent Tidewater family, Benjamin Harrison III of Charles City County. Until John Langhorne III (1695-1767) reached his majority, the Harrison family operated Gambell plantation. For the next twenty years, John Langhorne would spend his days in the polite atmosphere of the Cary plantation. When in his early twenties however, John Langhorne III had become anxious for his own personal success. Thus in 1719, he took over Gambell and married Mary Beverley of Middlesex County. Mary Beverley was a granddaughter of Capt. John Langhorne's old friend and contemporary Maj. Robert Beverley. Throughout his long career, Hon. John Langhorne served as a Justice of the Peace, a member of the House of Burgesses, Sheriff of Warwick County, and Presiding Justice of Warwick County from 1749-1762. In addition to his numerous political duties, John Langhorne III continued to expand his land holdings by purchasing new plantations in Chesterfield County, and was also a highly successful merchant, continuing the tradition laid out by his fortune-founding grandfather some fifty years before. John Langhorne and Mary Beverley had three children who left issue. Their only daughter Lockey (named after Judith Lockey, the wife of Capt. Henry Cary and mother of Anne Cary) was successfully courted by Thomas Tabb. Lockey's considerable dowry helped to establish the Tabb family as members of the Tidewater elite. The elder son, Maj. Maurice Langhorne II (1719-1790) removed to Cumberland County to live near his cousin Col. Archibald Cary of "Ampthill" and his lovely wife, the former Mary Randolph of "Curles". This Maurice Langhorne bought thousands of acres in Cumberland and established himself as a great success in his own right. Sandra Powell44 http://www.raken.com/american_wealth/planter_aristocrats/langhorne2.asp

  
  

• Sources

  [S40] Will, Thomas Tabb. ABSTRACTS OF CUMBERLAND COUNTY, VIRGINIA Will Books 1 and 2; 1749-1782 Page 291 WILL OF THOMAS TABB, DATED 8 JAN 1782, PRO 22 APR 1782. SON, EDWARD TABB; SON-IN-LAW, ROBERT BROWN'S CHILDREN; MY DAUGHTER, WALTON, MY DAUGHTER, BEATRITE; DAUGHTER, DOUGLAS; DAUGHTER, SCRUGGS; DAUGHTER LOCKY COBB. EXRS.: JESSE COBBS AND MY DAUGHTER LOCKEY. WIT.: ADAM COUZENS SIGNED THOMAS TABB [S84] Rootsweb, http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~tqpeiffer/Documents/Surnames/MMPS/Scruggs/SCRUGGS%20-%20N-Z%20%28source%20docs%29/ScruggsSevenGenerationsfromRichardc.1650.pdf. Pittsylvania Co. DB 16, p. 265 2/9/1809 Rec: 2/11/1809 Drury Scruggs Sr. and wife Elizabeth, County of Pittsylvania to Samuel Nowlin - 550 pounds - 505 acres by survey on both sides Camp Branch of Straightstone. Lines: Patrick, Long, John's, Andrew McHaney, George, pointers, branch. s/Drury Scruggs/Elizabeth (x) Scruggs Wit: N. Tucker, Langhorn Scruggs, Warfield Scruggs, William Doss [S32] Find-A-Grave.com, http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GSln=tabb&GSfn=thomas&GSbyrel=all&GSdyrel=all&GSob=n&GRid=121791440&df=all&. Thomas Tabb Birth: Sep. 5, 1719 Death: Apr. 22, 1782 Cumberland County, Virginia The following information taken from our family book, "The Tabb Family" Thomas Tabb was baptized Episcopal. Thomas's occupation: Gentleman. Thomas Tabb married Lockey Langhorne at Charles Parish, Warwick County, Virginia, circa 1739 WILL OF THOMAS TABB CUMBERLAND COUNTY, VA. WILL BOOK 2, PG. 291 I, THOMAS TABB of Cumberland County, being sick and weak but in sound memory to appoint this to be my will and testament as followeth: Iten 1. I give and bequeath to my son EDWARD TABB five pounds current money of Virginia. I likewise give unto my son LANGHORNE five pounds current money of Virginia. I likewise give to my son in law ROBERT BROWNS children five pounds current money of Virginia. I give unto my daughter MERRYMAN five pounds current money of Virginia. I give unto my daughter WALTON five pounds current money of Virginia. I give unto my daughter BOATWRITE five pounds current money of Virginia. I give unto my daughter DOUGLASS five pounds current money of Virginia. I give unto my granddaughter SMTHE MERRYMAN my black blaze face horse with my saddle and bridle but JESSE COBB is to sell the saddle for the most it will fetch towards as good a hunting saddle as can be got made and what the price the saddle fails short of the hunting saddle JESSE COBBS is to pay up. I like to give my granddaughter what hard money I have. I give unto my dau. SCRUGGS five pounds current money. Last of all a give the whole residue of what I possess real and personal to my daughter LOCKEY COBB and I do appoint JESSE COBB and my dau. LOCKEY my sole executor of my will and desire that estate be not appraised in no shape whatever the above writing contains my last will and testament as witness my hand and seal this 8th day of January 1782. THOMAS TABB (L.S.)