256. Alexander RICHEY
Alexander Richey and his wife, Jane Caldwell, Sister of Captain John Caldwell, entered through the port of New Castle, Deleware on Dec. 10 1727 and went to Lancaster Co. PA. About 1742 they all moved to Virginia near the Roanoke River. Alexander Richey secured land and settled in Amelia Co. VA.
He was a Blacksmith.
They Came from Antrim Ireland (though of Scotch birth).
Major in the French and Indian War.
259. Rebecca PARKS
Daughter of Jacques Parque (James Park), Heugenot refugee. She married first, at age 16, John Walkup, a marriage arranged by her father and the groom, who was thirty-six years her senior. He died four months after the marriage.
From Al Simms Genealogy Pages: "Generation 7 - Thomas Sims, Sr. William's son Thomas Sims, Sr. was born in 1702 and was 14 years old when his father died. He was guided through the next six years by Captain Nicholas Smith in whose trust his father had left him. At age 20 he attained full control of the 112 acres of land left to him by his father and soon there after married Rebecca Petty. They also inherited land from Rebecca's parents.
"In 1733 they sold all of their land in the by-then civilized Richmond County, and moved westward to Madison Co., VA What a trip that must have been. Today it takes a little over 3 hours to make that trip, but when they made it there were not even trails, much less roads. This land that they were moving to was wild country, still populated by Indians, bears, and mountain lions. ..It must have taken days or even weeks to make the trip. Their initial land holdings were part of the "Spotswood Tract" - 40,000 acres
granted to Gov. Spotswood by the King. They were part and party to many land transactions during their lives, and appear to have prospered working the land. Thomas died in 1785."Library of congress Source:
Title: The Sims Family of the Virginians
Author: Sims, James L. (main)
Published: Charleston, W.VA (3719 Virginia Ave., Charleston 25304): J.L. Sims, 1993 Description: 23 leaves; ill, maps; 22 cm Notes: Cover title: The Sims family of the Virginias Subject: Simms family, LC Call No: CS71.S58641993
Dewey Class No.: 929/.2/0973 ED: 20
Format: Book
LCCN: 94-160048
Library of Congress:
Title: "Ancestors & Descendants of Thomas Sims of Culpeper Co., VA, Edmund Butler of VA & KY with Allied
Families & other Culpeper Data
Author: Prewitt, Lela (Wolfe) 1901 (Main)
Published: Fairfield, Iowa 1972
LC Call No. CS71.S6141973
Dewey: 929/.1/0973
Format: Book LCCN: 72-97818//r84
306. Andrew SEAWRIGHT
Killed by the Tories when his house was burned -- an old man, too old to fight. A Whig Patriot.
Source: "Saga of the Seawrights"
356. Edward BROADUS
Source: "A History of the Broaddus Family, From the Time of the Settlement of the Progenitou of the family in the United States down to the year 1888" by A. Broaddus, DD.
406. Thomas MERCER
In the will of Thomas Mercer, the executors are listed as son Jesse Mercer and
son in law, Gillis Wright. Witnessed by Jermiah Jones.