IMMIGRANT Abraham Brown

Abraham married Mary Potter 1692, Shrewsbury, Monmouth, New Jersey. Mary was born 1648, Portsmouth, Newport, Rhode Island Colony; died 1714, Shrewsbury, Monmouth, New Jersey Colony. [Group Sheet]

Martha married Capt. John Hampton, Sr.. John was born 1652, Albermarle Co., Virginia Colony; died 1718, New Kent Co., Virginia. [Group Sheet]

Elizabeth married Robert Wade, Sr. 1720, Prob. Halifax Co., Virginia. Robert (son of Andrew Wade and Susannah, Mrs. Andrew Wade) was born 20 Nov 1700, James City Co., Virginia; died Aft 17 Jun 1772, Halifax County, Virginia. [Group Sheet]

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:

Robert Wade Jr. is associated with John Frederick Miller and purchased the appurtenances on his land on 11 Apr 1759.

Halifax County, which extends to the North Carolina border, was a tobacco growing region, as it still is today. It is in the middle of Southside Virginia, in the Piedmont
Pleateau of rolling hills leading to the Blue Ridge Mountains, and today it appears that this land, in the southwest corner of the county, is in the area that forms something of a
triangle between secondary state Highways #691 and #659 (the River Road), very near the present community of Paces and possibly nine or so miles southwest of the county seat, also called Halifax. On a larger scale this area is south of U. S. #360 and north of U. S. #58. The tiny town of Turbeville, once called Bloomsburg, is about four miles southeast from where Tobys Creek flows into the Dan River. Danville, in adjacent Pittsylvania County is about 25 miles southwest from this point. [This is also the location of the Carters, Powells, Magbys and others who intermarry and create a web of kinships that extend to current time.

Robert married Sarah Ann Stokes 1749, Almond Grove, Halifax Co., Virginia. Sarah was born 11 Oct 1737, Lunenberg Co., Virginia; died Bef 1772, Halifax County, Virginia. [Group Sheet]

Notes:

Executor for Edward Wade's will is Memucam Hunt who is his Sister's husband. Edward was only 27 years old. All of his children were minors.

Notes:

Name:
Mary Wade, s/o Robert Wade, Sr. married Memican Hunt with Robert Hunt as Security. Memican Hunt is the Executor of the Will of Mary's Brother, Edward.

Mary married Memucan/Memican Hunt 9 Mar 1754, Halifax Co., Virginia. Memucan/Memican (son of Ralph Hunt and Dianna Charity 'Dina' Anderson) was born 23 Aug 1729, Halifax County, Virginia Colony; died 1808, Granville County, North Carolina. [Group Sheet]