| 1. | Mary Nash was born Abt 1787; died Yes, date unknown. 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.
Mary married Moses Terry. Moses (son of Barton Terry and Mrs. Barton, Susannah Terry) was born Est 1787, Lunenburg County, Virginia; died Yes, date unknown, Pittsylvania County, Virginia. [Group Sheet]
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Abt 1787 - Yes, date unknown