IMMIGRANT John Wayles

Notes:

http://www.geni.com/people/John-Wayles-of-The-Forest/6000000006582307070
About John Wayles
Attorney, slave trader, business agent for the Bristol-based tobacco exporting firm of Tarell & Jones, wealthy plantation owners in Charles City County, Virginia.

Her father was born in Lancaster, England and emigrated alone to Virginia in 1734, at the age of nineteen, leaving family in England. He became a lawyer. Martha's mother was a daughter of Francis Eppes of Bermuda Hundred and was a widow when Wayles married her. As part of her dowry, Martha's mother brought with her a personal slave, Susanna, who had an eleven-year-old daughter by the name of Elizabeth Hemings (Betty). John and Martha's marriage contract provided that Susanna and Betty were to remain the property of Martha Eppes and her heirs forever or be returned to the Eppes family should there be no heirs. This is how the Hemings' came into the custody of Martha Wayles. Martha's mother died when Martha was three weeks old.

A genealogy of the wives of the American presidents and their first two ... By Craig Hart

http://books.google.com/books?id=TOae78XVP0kC&pg=PA137&lpg=PA137&dq=Susannah+Isham&source=bl&ots=CCXU44eoLG&sig=n3K1owaDwAyuI72NvTqCnrPjw7A&hl=en&ei=tOXQTPRyj8SwA9DdjMgL&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=8&ved=0CCUQ6AEwBzgU#v=onepage&q=Susannah%20Isham&f=false

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Martha Wayles, b. October 19, 1748, Chesterfield Co., Va.; d. September 6, 1782, Monticello, Charlottesville, Va., m.(1) Bathurst Skelton, m(2) January 1, 1772, Thomas Jefferson, b. April 13, 1743, Virginia; d. Monticello
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John WAYLES, b. January 31, 1715, Lancaster, England; d. May 23, 1773, Charles City Co., Va., m. May 3, 1746, MARTHA EPPES, b. April 10, 1712, Chesterfield Co., Va. November 5, 1748, Va.
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Francis Eppes, b. 1685, Henrico Co., Va.; d. November 7, 1733 or 1734, Nottoway Co., Va., m. Sarah Kennon, b. 1689, Chesterfield Co., Va.; d. 1746, Charles City Co., Va.
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Francis Eppes, b. 1659, Shirley Hundred, Va.; d. 1718 or 1719, Henrico Co., Va., m. Anne Isham, b. Henrico Co., Va; d. Va.
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About John Wayles
attorney, slave trader, business agent for the Bristol-based tobacco exporting firm of Tarell & Jones, wealthy plantation owners in Charles City County, Virginia.
Her father was born in Lancaster, England and emigrated alone to Virginia in 1734, at the age of nineteen, leaving family in England. He became a lawyer. Martha's mother was a daughter of Francis Eppes of Bermuda Hundred and was a widow when Wayles married her. As part of her dowry, Martha's mother brought with her a personal slave, Susanna, who had an eleven-year-old daughter by the name of Elizabeth Hemings (Betty). John and Martha's marriage contract provided that Susanna and Betty were to remain the property of Martha Eppes and her heirs forever or be returned to the Eppes family should there be no heirs. This is how the Hemingses came into the custody of Martha Wayles. Martha's mother died when Martha was three weeks old.

A genealogy of the wives of the American presidents and their first two ... By Craig Hart
http://books.google.com/books?id=TOae78XVP0kC&pg=PA137&lpg=PA137&dq=Susannah+Isham&source=bl&ots=CCXU44eoLG&sig=n3K1owaDwAyuI72NvTqCnrPjw7A&hl=en&ei=tOXQTPRyj8SwA9DdjMgL&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=8&ved=0CCUQ6AEwBzgU#v=onepage&q=Susannah%20Isham&f=false
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Martha Wayles, b. October 19, 1748, Chesterfield Co., Va.; d. September 6, 1782, Monticello, Charlottesville, Va., m.(1) Bathurst Skelton, m(2) January 1, 1772, Thomas Jefferson, b. April 13, 1743, Virginia; d. Monticello
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John WAYLES, b. January 31, 1715, Lancaster, England; d. May 23, 1773, Charles City Co., Va., m. May 3, 1746, MARTHA EPPES, b. April 10, 1712, Chesterfield Co., Va. November 5, 1748, Va.
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Francis Eppes, b. 1685, Henrico Co., Va.; d. November 7, 1733 or 1734, Nottoway Co., Va., m. Sarah Kennon, b. 1689, Chesterfield Co., Va.; d. 1746, Charles City Co., Va.
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Francis Eppes, b. 1659, Shirley Hundred, Va.; d. 1718 or 1719, Henrico Co., Va., m. Anne Isham, b. Henrico Co., Va; d. Va.

John married Martha [Kennon] Eppes/Epps 3 May 1746, Chesterfield Co., Virginia. Martha (daughter of Francis [Isham] Eppes/Epps, IV and 'Sallie' Sarah Kennon) was born 10 Apr 1721, Bermuda Hundred, Chresterfield Co., Virginia; died 5 Nov 1748, Prob. Charles City Co., Virginia. [Group Sheet]

John married Mary Cocke. Mary was born Est 1730, Malvern Hills, Henrico Co., Virginia Colony; died Bef 1760. [Group Sheet]

John married Elizabeth Lomax 26 Jan 1760, Goochland County, Virginia. Elizabeth (daughter of Lundsford Lomax and Mrs. Lunsford Lomax) was born Est 1731, Goochland, Virginia Colony; died Yes, date unknown. [Group Sheet]

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MARTHA WAYLES SKELTON JEFFERSON
First husband:
18 years old, to Bathurst Skelton (June 1744 - 30 September 1768) planter, on 20, November 1766 likely at "The Forest" plantation; they lived at his Charles City County plantation for one year and ten months, the endurance of their marriage as Bathurst died in 1768.

Born:
1748, October 19 "The Forest" plantation, Charles City County, Virginia
Father: John Wayles, barrister and landowner, born 31 January, 1715 in Lancaster, England; died 23 May, 1773 in Charles City County, Virginia
Mother: Martha Eppes Wayles, born 10 April, 1712 in Bermuda Hundred, Chesterfield County, Virginia; married John Wayles on 3 May, 1746; died 5 November, 1748 When Martha Eppes married John Wayles, she brought with her, as part of her dowry, an African slave woman and the woman's half-black, half-white daughter. The woman, enslaved in Africa, sailed to Virginia on a slave ship commanded by an English sea captain with the last name Hemings. Captain Hemings impregnated the slave who gave birth to a daughter she named Betty. The slave and her daughter were sold to Francis and Frances Eppes, and they gave the young enslaved "Betty Hemings" to their daughter Martha Eppes family. When Captain Hemings learned that the newly married Wayles had inherited his concubine and their daughter Betty, he offered to buy the pair. Wayles refused to sell them. He would eventually have six children by her.
Martha Wayles Jefferson never knew her mother Martha Eppes Wayles since she had died two weeks and three days after giving birth to her.
After the death of his first wife, Martha Eppes (the mother of Mrs. Jefferson), John Wayles married two more times; he married secondly to Mary Cocke by whom he had one [name unknown] daughter who died young; John Wayles married a third time, on 3, January 1760 to Elizabeth Lomax, with whom he had three daughters. After the death of Elizabeth Lomax (28 May 1763), Wayles took the half-black half-white slave Betty Hemings as his concubine and had six children by her. Betty Hemings was mentioned in the will of John Wayles, thus providing evidence that she really was his mistress and not merely his slave. The first husband of Elizabeth Lomax was Reuben Skelton - he was the brother of Martha Jefferson's first husband, Bathurst Skelton; thus Martha Wayles Skelton's brother-in-law was her stepmother's first husband:

http://www.firstladies.org/biographies/firstladies.aspx?biog
raphy=3

Martha married Bathurst Skelton 20 Nov 1766. Bathurst was born Jun 1744, Williamsburg, Virginia; died 30 Sep 1768, Charles Co., Maryland. [Group Sheet]

Martha married Thomas Jefferson 1 Jan 1772, near Williamsburg, Virginia. Thomas (son of Peter Jefferson and Jane Randolph) was born 2 Apr 1743, Shadwell Estate Goochland, Virginia; died 4 Jul 1826, Monticello, Albemarle County, Virginia. [Group Sheet]

Notes:

http://www.geni.com/people/John-Wayles-of-The-Forest/6000000006582307070
1. John Wayles and Tabitha Cocke had the following children:
Elizabeth Wayles. She married Francis Eppes. Francis is the son of Richard Eppes.
2. Tabitha Wayles.

3. Anne Wayles. She married Henry Skipwith in Charles City Co., Virginia, 7 Jul 1773.

Elizabeth married Francis Bowling Eppes/Epps. Francis (son of Richard [Kennon] Eppes/Epps and Martha Cocke Bowling) was born Abt 1747, Henrico Co., Virginia; died 4 Jul 1808, Henrico Co., Virginia. [Group Sheet]

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Died:
Died of fever

Martha married Thomas Mann Randolph, Jr.. Thomas (son of Thomas Mann Randolph and Anne Cary) was born 1 Oct 1768; died 20 Jun 1828. [Group Sheet]

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Died:
Mary Jefferson at her childhood home.

Mary married Deacon John Wayles Eppes 13 Oct 1797, at Monticello, Virginia. John (son of Francis Bowling Eppes/Epps and Elizabeth Wayles) was born 19 Apr 1773, Chester County, Virginia; died 13 Sep 1823, His estate Millbrook, Buckingham County, Virginia; was buried , Eppes Cemetery, Curdsville, Virginia. [Group Sheet]

Notes:

Biographical Directory of the United States Congress
(John Wayles Eppes was a Senator from Virginia

Name:
In 1635, August 26 Captain Francis Epes transported Robert Fossett to the Virginia Colony.

John married Mary "Maria" Jefferson 13 Oct 1797, at Monticello, Virginia. Mary (daughter of Thomas Jefferson and Martha Wayles) was born 1778, Monticello, Virginia; died 27 Apr 1804, at her childhood home; was buried , Monticello, Virginia. [Group Sheet]

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Children:
Nicholas Ware Eppes (1843 - 1904)*
Martha Virginia Eppes Shine Greetham (1847 - 1920)*
Robert Francis Eppes (1851 - 1894)*

Name:
Francis Wayles Eppes is the Grandson of President Thomas Jefferson.

Francis5 married Mary Elizabeth Cleland Randolph 18 Nov 1822, Virginia. Mary (daughter of Thomas Eston Randolph and Jane Cary Randolph) was born 16 Jan 1801, Goochland, Virginia Colony; died 15 Apr 1835, Tallahassee, Leon Co., Florida. [Group Sheet]

Francis5 married Susan Margaret Ware. Susan was born 14 Feb 1815, Georgia; died 1 Sep 1887, Orlando, Orange Co., FL. [Group Sheet]