Katherine Jennings/Jenings^[1]

Est 1620 - Yes, date unknown

• Name	Katherine Jennings/Jenings  [2]
  	Katherine first married Dednam
  Born	Est 1620
  Gender	Female
  Died	Yes, date unknown
  Person ID	I18090	My Reynolds Line
  Last Modified	13 Feb 2020

  
  

  Family 1	William Debnam,   b. Est 1610,   d. Yes, date unknown
  Children	+ 1. Katherine Debnam,   b. Est 1638, Rappahannock River in Old Rappahannock /Essex/Caroline, Co., Colonial Virginia ,   d. Yes, date unknown
  Last Modified	18 Apr 2017
  Family ID	F6592	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family 2	Reverend Charles Grymes,   b. Est 1612, Ightham, Kent England (living in Glouchester and York Co., Virginia Colony) ,   d. 18 Mar 1663, Grimseby, Gloucester Co., Virginia Colony  (Age ~ 51 years)
  Children	+ 1. John 'of Brandon' Grymes,   b. 1660, Middlesex Co., Virginia Colony ,   d. 1709, Grymesby, Piankatank River, Ware Parish, Glouchester Co., Virginia Colony  (Age 49 years)
  Last Modified	26 Feb 2020
  Family ID	F6591	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

• Histories

  Virginia Heraldica - A Registry of Virginia Gentry Entitled to Coat Armor with Genealogical Notes of the Families Edited by William Armstrong Crozier, F.R.S., F.G.S.A. Virginia County Record Series Volume V. 1908 virginiaheraldic00croz.pdf

  
  

• Notes

  It is noteworthy, in regard to the following list of descendants of Katherine (Unknown) Debnam Grymes through her marriage to the Reverend Charles Grymes, that by her prior marriage to William Debnam she was the ancestor of Taliaferro and Smith descendants who married into the Virginia families of Armistead, Ball, Bankhead, Byrd, Carter, Catlett, Fitzhugh, Grymes, Lee, Lewis, Lightfoot, Mann, Marshall, Monroe, Nelson, Peyton, Randolph, Smith, Taylor, Townley, Warner, Washington, and Wormeley, among others --- names often repeated in the following Grymes lineage.

  
  

• Sources

  [S122] Genealogy. com, http://www.genealogy.com/forum/surnames/topics/debnam/137/. KATHERINE (UNKNOWN) DEBNAM GRYMES, AND HER CHILDREN BY HER MARRIAGE TO WILLIAM DEBNAM, INCLUDING HER TALIAFERRO, HOYLE AND SMITH GRANDCHILDREN 1. KATHERINE (UNKNOWN), born probably by 1620, may have been born in Virginia or may have come to Virginia as a member of her parents? family, whose surname is unknown, or with a first husband, whose name is now lost. The circumstances of her presence in the colony before 1637/8 are not established. Her first known husband, William Debnam, is documented. (Variations of his family name include Dedman, Deadman, Debman, Debenham, and others; the present writer believes the name was likely Debingham and that it was contracted by English usage into "Debnam." William Debnam first appears in extant Virginia records on 6 May 1636 as a headright for Captain (later Colonel) Christopher Calthorpe of ?Thropland,? one of the wealthy and influential men of Charles River/York County, proving Debnam?s arrival from England by that date. William Debnam?s own land in Charles River/York County lay in New Poquoson Parish and he held title to land there at the time of his death. By 1642 he was in possession of land on the Ware River, Mobjack Bay, Gloucester County, and received a Mobjack Bay patent in 1652, totaling 2,100 acres, this perhaps being merely a confirmation of his earlier holdings there. William Debnam died in 1657 in Gloucester County. He and Katherine Debnam had four known children: Katherine, William, Ann, and Mary, as follows. They became the ancestors of many distinguished families in Virginia and other states, families often characterized by habitual intermarriage among their established connections. 2. KATHERINE DEBNAM, ca.1638-post 1686, married by 1658, Robert Taliaferro, Sr.,1626-1670/1, then of Gloucester County, but soon to be of ?Taliaferro?s Mount,? St. Mary?s Parish, Essex/Caroline County, son of Francis and Bennett (Haie) Taliaferro and grandson of Bartholomew and Joane (Lane) Taliaferro, all of London. Robert Taliaferro came to Virginia by 1747, and lived twenty years in Gloucester County, his lands lying along Poropotank Creek and at the head of Ware River, until, in 1666/7, he moved to the place that came to be called ?Taliaferro?s Mount? on the Rappahannock River in Old Rappahannock/Essex/Caroline County, near the site of the present town of Port Royal. With his wife Katherine Debnam, he became the founder of a significant Virginia family. Descendant Henry G. Taliaferro has made a convincing case that by 6 January 1672/3, Katherine (Debnam) Taliaferro had married as her (2) husband, Colonel Cadwallader Jones, c.1652-post 1699, son of Richard Jones and his wife Frances (Baldwin) Townsend, she being of Chotank Creek in Upper Sittingbourne Parish, Old Rappahannock/King George/Stafford County, and the widow of Richard Townsend, a member of the Royal Governor?s Council. Colonel Cadwallader Jones was an Indian trader, an explorer into the western regions of Virginia, a sheriff of Old Rappahannock County, and in 1689, while in London, was commissioned Governor of the Bahaman Islands, taking office in 1690 and holding it, amid some controversy, until 1694, after which he returned to Virginia. His whereabouts after 1699 remain unknown. (See Henry G. Taliaferro under Sources.) The children of Robert and Katherine (Debnam) Taliaferro were: (1) Robert Taliaferro, Jr., died 1688, married Sarah Catlett, daughter of Colonel John Catlett, Sr., and his wife Elizabeth (Underwood) Taylor Slaughter, later Butler (see later, Catlett Excursus), and lived at ?Church Neck,? Essex County; (2) Francis Taliaferro, died 1710, married Elizabeth Catlett, sister of Sarah Catlett (see Catlett Excursus), and lived first at the head of Ware River in Gloucester County, and later at ?Taliaferro?s Mount,? Essex County; (3) Colonel John Taliaferro, known as ?The Ranger? for his military service to Virginia, died 1719, member of the House of Burgesses for Essex County in 1699, married his first cousin Sarah Smith, daughter of Colonel Lawrence and Mary (Debnam) Smith (see under 5, below; two of Colonel John Taliaferro?s great-grand-daughters, both named Mildred Thornton and first cousins to one another, married Colonel Samuel Washington and Charles Washington, both full brothers of President George Washington); (4) Richard Taliaferro, died 1715, married Sarah Wingfield and died in Richmond County (he lived out of Virginia from 1688 to 1704, during which time he was a ship captain and owner and was Chief Judge and member of the Royal Council of the Bahaman Islands, 1699-1703, during the Bahamian governorship of his step-father Colonel Cadwallader Jones; Richard was in Newport, Rhode Island, in 1704, and returned late that year to Virginia, King George County [Henry G. Taliaferro, ?John Taliaferro of the Mount,? under Sources]); (5) Katherine Taliaferro, died c.1699, married as his first wife, Colonel John Battaile I, from whom all the Virginia Battailes descend (member of the House of Burgesses, 1693 and 1696-97), a native of Essex, England, who lived in Essex County, Virginia, and who married second, Katherine Taliaferro?s first cousin Elizabeth Smith (see under 5, below); (6) Charles Taliaferro, died 1735, married Mary Carter, and lived in Essex/Caroline County (the writer has been unable to identify this Mary Carter, but others have assumed that she was related to the ?Corotoman? Carters of the Northern Neck). Katherine (Debnam) Taliaferro and her second husband, Colonel Cadwallader Jones, evidently had only one child, a daughter, Frances Jones, who married Robert Slaughter (died 1726) of Essex County. 3 CAPTAIN WILLIAM DEBNAM, born after 1637, was listed in the Quit Rent Roll for 1704/5 with 1,250 acres of land in Ware Parish, Gloucester County. William Debnam, only son and no doubt heir of William and Katherine (Unknown) Debnam, through the representation of his step-father and guardian, the Reverend Charles Grymes of Gloucester County, was the plaintiff in a legal action against Colonel Christopher Calthorpe in 1657, regarding the land owned at the time of his death by William Debnam, Sr., in New Poquoson Parish, York County. The suit was ultimately settled to the satisfaction of the Debnam-Grymes interest. The name of Captain William Debnam?s wife is presently unknown. Debnam descendants evidently continued to live for several generations in Gloucester County. In the mid-1700s, William Debnam of Gloucester married Frances Throckmorton, daughter of Robert and Mary (Lewis) Throckmorton of Ware Parish, Gloucester. (It is due mention that one Henry Dedman came early to Virginia and may account for some of the people who bore that form of the name.) 4. ANN DEBNAM, married Edward Hoyle (cousin of Colonel Lawrence Smith, below), and settled in Hanover Parish, King George County, where she inherited land from her stepfather, the Reverend Charles Grymes (see below). Edward Hoyle had come to Virginia by 1666 and was a son of Samuel and Anne (Townley) Hoyle of York, England. Only one child is proven for Edward and Ann (Debnam) Hoyle, a son, Samuel Hoyle, who in 1726 was of Hanover Parish, King George County. The writer has no further information on the Hoyle family in Virginia. 5. MARY DEBNAM, married c.1664, Colonel Lawrence Smith, 1629-1700, of ?Severn Hall,? Abingdon Parish, Gloucester County, son of Christopher and Elizabeth (Townley) Halstead Smith of Lancashire, England. Lawrence Smith, most often designated as Major Lawrence Smith, although in later years he was Colonel Smith, was transported to Virginia in 1652 by his uncle, Colonel Augustine Warner I of ?Warner Hall? on the Ware River, Gloucester County, and was active in Virginia land acquisitions with Robert Taliaferro, Sr., involving thousands of acres in the Rappahannock River region. Lawrence Smith?s home plantation, ?Severn Hall,? was located on the north bank of Severn River off Mobjack Bay. His land interests were among the largest in Virginia in his day. The children of Colonel Lawrence and Mary (Debnam) Smith were: (1) Colonel John Smith, died 1719/20, of Gloucester County, married Elizabeth Cox, daughter of Henry and Arabella (Strachey) Cox, and was a member of the Royal Governor?s Council in 1704; (2) Colonel Lawrence Smith, Jr., died 1736, of ?Temple Farm,? York County, married first, Mildred Chisman, daughter of Captain Thomas and Elizabeth (Reade) Chisman of York and Gloucester Counties, and married second, his first wife?s cousin Mildred (Reade) Goodwin, daughter of Robert and Mary (Lilly) Reade of York County, and widow of James Goodwin (Colonel Lawrence Smith, Jr., was captain of militia, justice and sheriff of York County, member of the House of Burgesses for York, 1718-34, and for Gloucester County, 1736-38; his ?Temple Farm? estate is now known as the Augustine Moore house at Yorktown, site of General Cornwallis?s surrender to General Washington in 1781; Mrs. Augustine Moore was Lucy Smith, daughter of Colonel Lawrence Smith, Jr.; the Moore House is now a part of the Yorktown Battlefield Park; (3) Captain William Smith, died 1734 in Spotsylvania County, married Elizabeth Ballard, daughter of Colonel Thomas and Katherine (Hubbard) Ballard of James City and York Counties, he a member of the House of Burgesses, 1692-3 and 1696-1702, and sheriff of York County, 1694 and 1699, and son of Colonel Thomas Ballard, Sr., member of the House of Burgesses, 1666, 1680, 1682-1686, Speaker of the House 1680-84, and member of the Royal Governor?s Council, 1666-1678/9; (4) Colonel Augustine Smith, died 1736 in St. Mark?s Parish, Orange County, lived in Essex and Spotsylvania Counties, where he was a Justice, and in Orange County, with his wife Susannah (maiden name unknown); (5) Captain Charles Smith, died c.1710, Essex County, married Dorothy (said to be Dorothy Buckner, daughter of William Buckner), who married second, John Roy, tobacco inspector for William Buckner at Port Royal, Essex/Caroline County, and later owner of the Buckner tobacco warehouses and related businesses at that place; (6) Elizabeth Smith, married as his second wife, Colonel John Battaile I, widower of her first cousin Katherine Taliaferro (see under 2, above; both of Colonel Battaile?s wives were grand-daughters of Katherine [Unknown] Debnam Grymes, thus all the Virginia Battailes are her descendants); and (7) Sarah Smith, married her first cousin, Colonel John Taliaferro ?The Ranger? (see under 2, above). Katherine (Unknown) Debnam next married, in 1657 (late in the year of her first husband William Debnam?s death), the Reverend Charles Grymes, who was born in 1612 at Rainham, Kent, England, and died in 1661/2 in Petsworth Parish, Gloucester County, Virginia. He owned large tracts of land on the Rappahannock River in Lancaster County. He was a son of the Reverend John Grymes, 1579/80-1644/5, who was for many years rector of St. Peter?s Church at Ightham, Kent, England, and his wife Elizabeth. The Reverend Charles Grymes came to Virginia by 1644, when he was rector of New Poquoson Parish (later named Charles Parish) in York County. He was afterward rector of Purton/Poplar Spring Church, Petsworth Parish, Gloucester. Charles and Katherine (Unknown) Debnam Grymes had one son, Colonel John Grymes I (6 below). [S100] Internet Source, https://www.colonial-settlers-md-va.us/getperson.php?personID=I032803&tree=tree1. Charles Rev Grymes [1, 2] Born 1612 Ightham, Kent, England Died Bef 18 Mar 1662/63 "Grimseby" Gloucester County, Virginia Father John Grymes, b. Bef 1580, England d. 22 Mar 1644/45 (Age > 65 years) Wife: Katherine Jennings, b. 1605, Igtham, Kent, England d. Aft 26 Aug 1678, "Grimseby" Gloucester County, Virginia (Age > 73 years) Married Abt 1657 England Children 1. William Grymes, b. 1648, England d. Aft 1686, Old Rappahannock County, Virgina (Age > 39 years) 2. Sarah Grymes, b. 1652, James City County, Virginia d. North Farnham Parish, Richmond County, Virginia 3. John Grymes, b. 1641, James City County, Virginia d. 28 Aug 1709, Grymesby, Middlesex County, Virginia (Age 68 years) [S122] Genealogy. com, http://www.genealogy.com/forum/surnames/topics/debnam/137/. William Debnam first appears in extant Virginia records on 6 May 1636 as a headright for Captain (later Colonel) Christopher Calthorpe of ?Thropland,? one of the wealthy and influential men of Charles River/York County, proving Debnam?s arrival from England by that date. William Debnam?s own land in Charles River/York County lay in New Poquoson Parish and he held title to land there at the time of his death. By 1642 he was in possession of land on the Ware River, Mobjack Bay, Gloucester County, and received a Mobjack Bay patent in 1652, totaling 2,100 acres, this perhaps being merely a confirmation of his earlier holdings there. William Debnam died in 1657 in Gloucester County. He and Katherine Debnam had four known children: Katherine, William, Ann, and Mary, as follows. They became the ancestors of many distinguished families in Virginia and other states, families often characterized by habitual intermarriage among their established connections. [S122] Genealogy. com, http://www.genealogy.com/forum/surnames/topics/debnam/137/. COLONEL JOHN2 GRYMES I (Katherine1), 1660-1709, of 'Grymesby' on the Piankatank River, Ware Parish, Gloucester County, married Alice Townley, daughter of Lawrence and Sarah (Warner) Townley, the latter a daughter of Colonel Augustine Warner I of ?Warner Hall? and his wife Mary Townley, who was the aunt of Colonel Lawrence Smith, above. (Augustine and Mary [Townley] Warner were ancestors of President George Washington and Queen Elizabeth II, the latter through her late mother Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon, wife of the Duke of York who became King George VI.) Colonel John Grymes I was a Justice of Middlesex County, colonel of the county militia, and a vestryman of Christ Church Parish. He owned lands in Gloucester County (1,400 acres according to the Quit Rent Rolls of 1704/5), Middlesex County, King and Queen County, and some 2,000 acres in Richmond County on the north side of the Rappahannock River. The three known children of Colonel John and Alice (Townley) Grymes were: Anne Grymes, born 1689 or by c.1700, died 1735, buried in the family plot at ?Grymesby.? Colonel John Grymes II, born 1691, see later under Grymes Addenda. Colonel Charles Grymes, born 1693 [S222] Heritage Books of Virginia, http://reynoldspatova.org/histories/virginiaheraldic00croz.pdf. Virginia Heraldica GRYMES. Middlesex County Arms: Or, a bordure engralled azure on a chief sable three escallops argent. Crest: A pair of wings addorsed or. The Rev. Charles Grymes of Gloucester and York counties, had a son, John, who married Alice, d/o Lawrence and Sarah Townley. The latter was a d/o Col. Augustine Warner, Sr. of 'Warner Hall.' John Grymes died 28 Aug 1709, aged 69 years. His eldest son, Hon. John Grymes of 'Brandon,' Middlesex, was born in 1693, died 2 Nov 1749. He was Burgess for Middlesex 1718, Auditor-General 1716, and member of the Council in 1725. He married Lucy, d/o Phillip Ludwell of Greensprings. Frequent mention of the Grymes family is contained in the Parish Register of Christ Church, Middlesex. The will of John Grymes, 2nd dated 1747, bears a wax seal with the above arms. According to Burke, these are the arms of Grimes of Bonchurch, Isle of Wight, England. Charles Grymes, the Immigrant, patented land in Lancaster county in 1653 and 1654, and in 1657; there are three patents to Charles Grimes, Clerk. Page 46