Chesterfield County wasn't created until 1749, Thomas died at what in his time was known as Osborne, Henrico County, Virginia (see maps).
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Thomas Jefferson (d. 1697) married Martha Branch, daughter of William & Jane Branch and sister of John Branch, former husband of Thomas Osborne's second wife. They had son Thomas Jefferson (d. 1731) who married Mary Field, daughter of Peter and Judith Field. They in turn had son Peter Jefferson (d. 1757) who married Jane Randolph and had son Thomas Jefferson, author of the Declaration of Independence and president of the United States (The Osbornes and Related Families, Chapter 3, p. 17).
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Capt Thomas Jefferson was Justice of the peace for Henrico County, Virginia in 1706.
Source for information regarding the children of Capt. Thomas Jefferson was derived from Collections of Virginia Historical Society, Vol 7, p. 118
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The name Jefferson appears occasionally in Virginia records from a very early date; but the first certain ancestor of the President was Thomas Jefferson who was living in Henrico County at the time the extant records began in 1677. The family while resident in Henrico was not of the wealthy planter class: but every reference to them in the records show that they were people of respectable standing and comfortable estate. One of the earliest mentions of the name is in the will of Christopher Branch, of Kingsland, dated June 20, 1678 and proved February 26, 1681-2, who makes a bequest to his granddaughter Martha, wife of Thomas Jefferson, and appoints Jefferson one of his executors. Other records on Henrico show that Martha Jefferson was a daughter or William Branch and wife Jane, who married secondly Abel Gower. Thomas Jefferson the first died in 1697 and on December 7th of that year his will was probated on petition of his widow Mary (an error of the clerk for Martha). On Oct. 1st 1698, an inventory and appraisement of the personal estate (amounting to 97.16.6 1/2 pounds). This is expressly stated not to include the negroes. By order of the court the personal estate was divided between the widow and the two children, Thomas and Martha. The inventory has been printed in this Magazine I, 208-212. p. 173
Thomas Jefferson, the second, appears frequently in records of his county in connection with various business transactions and once as winner, with his mare Bony, of a race at The Ware. The defeated contestant brought the matter unsuccessfully into Court on April 1st, 1698 (see this Magazine II, 296-298). Thomas Jefferson married in 1698, Mary daughter of Major Peter Feild or Field, and his wife Judith, widow of Henry Randolph and daughter of Henry Soane, who was speaker of the House of Burgesses in 1660-61. The following is a copy of the entry in regard to their marriage license: An Accot: of Probats Adm con: & returned to Mr. Secty's office April April ye 13th, 1698. Marriage Lycenses Granted Thomas Jefferson with Mary Field, October ye 20th 1697. A copy. Teste. Samuel Waddill, Clk.
A deed from Thomas Jefferson and Mary his wife proves that she was the daughter of Peter Field. A copy of this deed follows:
This INDENTURE made the first day of March in ye seventh year of the Reign of our Sovereign Lady Queen Anne by ye Grace of God of Great Brittaine, France & Ireland Defender of the faith and in ye year of our Lord God 1708, between THOMAS JEFFERSON and Mary his wife of ye County & parish of Henrico, the Daughter of Major Peter Field (late) of the County of New Kent and Parish of Saint Peters, deceased of ye one part, and ABRA: BURTON of ye county of Henrico & Parish of Bristoll of ye other part.
WITNESSETH, That the said Thomas & Mary his wife for and in consideration of Ten thousand pounds of Good Merchantable Tobacco in cask to them in hand paid for by ye aforesaid Abra: Burton the Receipt whereof They ye said Thomas & Mary do hereby acknowledge and Do acquit & Discharge ye said Abra: Burton his Heirs, Executors & Administrators.
Unto ye aforesaid Abra: Burton his heirs & assignees forever all Land scituate Lying & being in Appomattox in county aforesaid and descended to her the said Mary as she is one of the Daughters and Co-heires of said Major Peter Field, the said Land being Granted to him in year of October: A Do 1687 and ye nineteenth day of Aprill 1690 and is bounded according to lease let to John Burton ye tenth of Janurary 1701 beginning at a Cor: holly belonging to ye Land of Captain Soane, which said Cor: holly stands on Swift Creek at ye mouth of a Deep bottome thence Down the said Jeffersons and James Frankling , so along Dividing Line into ye woods to ye Out line & then along ye Out lines to ye lines of Captain Soane aforementioned thence along his Lines to ye place began, which said Lines shall include ye aforesaid two hundred Acres of Land be it more or less.
IN WITNESS WHEREOF we have hereunto set our hands & seals the day and year above written.
Thomas Jefferson (sealed with red wax)
Mary Jefferson (sealed with red wax)
Signed, sealed and delivered in the presence of Francis Epes, Junior, Henry Randolph, Junior.
Henrico County Court March ye first A Do: 1708. The subscribed Captain Thomas Jefferson & Mary his wife (she being first privately Examined According to Law) this day personally appeared in open Court and Voluntarily acknowledged the above-mentioned Deed of Sale or Conveyance unto the before named Abraham Burton his heirs & assignees according to the form & effect of ye same Deed. Tests: James Cocke, Cl. Cur.
MEMORANDUM. That Wee Thomas Jefferson and & Mary my wife deliver you Abra: Burton possession and Seizin of this house and a parcell of Land in the Name of all the Rest contained in this Deed of Indenture, To Hold To You and your heires and assignees forever .....rding to the Tennor form and Effect of this present writing or Indenture.
Thomas Jefferson (sealed with red wax)
Mary Jefferson (sealed with red wax)
Witnesses: Francis Epes, Jr., Henry Randolph, Jr. Test. James Cocke, Cl. Cur.
The will of Thomas Jefferson the younger, was dated March 15, 1725 and proved in Henrico April 1731. His legatees were son Field, son Peter, underage, daughters Mary and Martha Jefferson, and Judith Farrar .......... sister Judith Winn.
Field Jefferson, the eldest son, removed to the part of Lunenburg County, which is now Mecklenburg. His will was dated in Lunenburg June 8, ???? and proved in Mecklenburg June 10, 1765. He gave his wife Mary, a gold ring of one guinea value; to son Thomas 10 pounds current annually to ?????id out to his other sons by buying Thomas clothes, etc., and 15 pounds current to pay for the rights to land taken up in Albemarle; to son Peter Field the plantation testator lived on; to son George the remainder of testators back land, etc., etc.; to son John 250 pounds current in case a suit ?????nd by Field Farrar [his nephew] is lost; friend John Speed 150 acres; grandchild [godchild] Mary Deloney; Susannah & E'r Nicholls goddaughter Mary Burton gold rings of one guinea value.
Peter Jefferson removed to Goochland County, and was appointed one of the justices m 1731. When Albemarle was formed he was a member of the first county court Jan. 24, 1744. On May 8, 1745 he qualified as Colonel of the militia of the county and in 1755 was appointed County ???tenant. He was a Burgess for Albemarle at the sessions of August, 1754, ???, 1754, May 1755, and October 1755. He married in Goochland Co., marriage bond dated 3 Oct 1739, Jane, daughter of Isham Randolph of "Dungeness" in that county. His will was dated 13 Jul 1757 and proved in Albemarle 13 Oct 1757, legatees: wife Jane, sons sons Thomas and Randolph, daughters Jane, Mary, Elizabeth, Martha, Lucy and Ann ???t Jefferson. A list of his books and maps from his inventory was ???ed in this Magazine, X, 391. The will of Mrs. Jane Jefferson was ???ed in Albemarle Oct 1778. She makes a bequest to her daughters ??? Scott and Elizabeth, and to all her children without naming them.
The Virginia Magazine of History and Biography, Volume XXIII, January, 1915, Number 1, Leters and Papers, Order from Col. Peter Jefferson, pp. 173-175
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Thomas Jefferson (d. 1697) married Martha Branch, daughter of William & Jane Branch and sister of John Branch, former husband of Thomas Osborne's second wife. They had son Thomas Jefferson (d. 1731) who married Mary Field, daughter of Peter and Judith Field. They in turn had son Peter Jefferson (d. 1757) who married Jane Randolph and had son Thomas Jefferson, author of the Declaration of Independence and president of the United States (The Osbornes and Related Families, Chapter 3, p. 17).
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Capt Thomas Jefferson was Justice of the peace for Henrico County, Virginia in 1706.
Source for information regarding the children of Capt. Thomas Jefferson was derived from Collections of Virginia Historical Society, Vol 7, p. 118
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The name Jefferson appears occasionally in Virginia records from a very early date; but the first certain ancestor of the President was Thomas Jefferson who was living in Henrico County at the time the extant records began in 1677. The family while resident in Henrico was not of the wealthy planter class: but every reference to them in the records show that they were people of respectable standing and comfortable estate. One of the earliest mentions of the name is in the will of Christopher Branch, of Kingsland, dated June 20, 1678 and proved February 26, 1681-2, who makes a bequest to his granddaughter Martha, wife of Thomas Jefferson, and appoints Jefferson one of his executors. Other records on Henrico show that Martha Jefferson was a daughter or William Branch and wife Jane, who married secondly Abel Gower. Thomas Jefferson the first died in 1697 and on December 7th of that year his will was probated on petition of his widow Mary (an error of the clerk for Martha). On Oct. 1st 1698, an inventory and appraisement of the personal estate (amounting to 97.16.6 1/2 pounds). This is expressly stated not to include the negroes. By order of the court the personal estate was divided between the widow and the two children, Thomas and Martha. The inventory has been printed in this Magazine I, 208-212. p. 173
Thomas Jefferson, the second, appears frequently in records of his county in connection with various business transactions and once as winner, with his mare Bony, of a race at The Ware. The defeated contestant brought the matter unsuccessfully into Court on April 1st, 1698 (see this Magazine II, 296-298). Thomas Jefferson married in 1698, Mary daughter of Major Peter Feild or Field, and his wife Judith, widow of Henry Randolph and daughter of Henry Soane, who was speaker of the House of Burgesses in 1660-61. The following is a copy of the entry in regard to their marriage license: An Accot: of Probats Adm con: & returned to Mr. Secty's office April April ye 13th, 1698. Marriage Lycenses Granted Thomas Jefferson with Mary Field, October ye 20th 1697. A copy. Teste. Samuel Waddill, Clk.
A deed from Thomas Jefferson and Mary his wife proves that she was the daughter of Peter Field. A copy of this deed follows:
This INDENTURE made the first day of March in ye seventh year of the Reign of our Sovereign Lady Queen Anne by ye Grace of God of Great Brittaine, France & Ireland Defender of the faith and in ye year of our Lord God 1708, between THOMAS JEFFERSON and Mary his wife of ye County & parish of Henrico, the Daughter of Major Peter Field (late) of the County of New Kent and Parish of Saint Peters, deceased of ye one part, and ABRA: BURTON of ye county of Henrico & Parish of Bristoll of ye other part.
WITNESSETH, That the said Thomas & Mary his wife for and in consideration of Ten thousand pounds of Good Merchantable Tobacco in cask to them in hand paid for by ye aforesaid Abra: Burton the Receipt whereof They ye said Thomas & Mary do hereby acknowledge and Do acquit & Discharge ye said Abra: Burton his Heirs, Executors & Administrators.
Unto ye aforesaid Abra: Burton his heirs & assignees forever all Land scituate Lying & being in Appomattox in county aforesaid and descended to her the said Mary as she is one of the Daughters and Co-heires of said Major Peter Field, the said Land being Granted to him in year of October: A Do 1687 and ye nineteenth day of Aprill 1690 and is bounded according to lease let to John Burton ye tenth of Janurary 1701 beginning at a Cor: holly belonging to ye Land of Captain Soane, which said Cor: holly stands on Swift Creek at ye mouth of a Deep bottome thence Down the said Jeffersons and James Frankling , so along Dividing Line into ye woods to ye Out line & then along ye Out lines to ye lines of Captain Soane aforementioned thence along his Lines to ye place began, which said Lines shall include ye aforesaid two hundred Acres of Land be it more or less.
IN WITNESS WHEREOF we have hereunto set our hands & seals the day and year above written.
Thomas Jefferson (sealed with red wax)
Mary Jefferson (sealed with red wax)
Signed, sealed and delivered in the presence of Francis Epes, Junior, Henry Randolph, Junior.
Henrico County Court March ye first A Do: 1708. The subscribed Captain Thomas Jefferson & Mary his wife (she being first privately Examined According to Law) this day personally appeared in open Court and Voluntarily acknowledged the above-mentioned Deed of Sale or Conveyance unto the before named Abraham Burton his heirs & assignees according to the form & effect of ye same Deed. Tests: James Cocke, Cl. Cur.
MEMORANDUM. That Wee Thomas Jefferson and & Mary my wife deliver you Abra: Burton possession and Seizin of this house and a parcell of Land in the Name of all the Rest contained in this Deed of Indenture, To Hold To You and your heires and assignees forever .....rding to the Tennor form and Effect of this present writing or Indenture.
Thomas Jefferson (sealed with red wax)
Mary Jefferson (sealed with red wax)
Witnesses: Francis Epes, Jr., Henry Randolph, Jr. Test. James Cocke, Cl. Cur.
The will of Thomas Jefferson the younger, was dated March 15, 1725 and proved in Henrico April 1731. His legatees were son Field, son Peter, underage, daughters Mary and Martha Jefferson, and Judith Farrar .......... sister Judith Winn.
Field Jefferson, the eldest son, removed to the part of Lunenburg County, which is now Mecklenburg. His will was dated in Lunenburg June 8, ???? and proved in Mecklenburg June 10, 1765. He gave his wife Mary, a gold ring of one guinea value; to son Thomas 10 pounds current annually to ?????id out to his other sons by buying Thomas clothes, etc., and 15 pounds current to pay for the rights to land taken up in Albemarle; to son Peter Field the plantation testator lived on; to son George the remainder of testators back land, etc., etc.; to son John 250 pounds current in case a suit ?????nd by Field Farrar [his nephew] is lost; friend John Speed 150 acres; grandchild [godchild] Mary Deloney; Susannah & E'r Nicholls goddaughter Mary Burton gold rings of one guinea value.
Peter Jefferson removed to Goochland County, and was appointed one of the justices m 1731. When Albemarle was formed he was a member of the first county court Jan. 24, 1744. On May 8, 1745 he qualified as Colonel of the militia of the county and in 1755 was appointed County ???tenant. He was a Burgess for Albemarle at the sessions of August, 1754, ???, 1754, May 1755, and October 1755. He married in Goochland Co., marriage bond dated 3 Oct 1739, Jane, daughter of Isham Randolph of "Dungeness" in that county. His will was dated 13 Jul 1757 and proved in Albemarle 13 Oct 1757, legatees: wife Jane, sons sons Thomas and Randolph, daughters Jane, Mary, Elizabeth, Martha, Lucy and Ann ???t Jefferson. A list of his books and maps from his inventory was ???ed in this Magazine, X, 391. The will of Mrs. Jane Jefferson was ???ed in Albemarle Oct 1778. She makes a bequest to her daughters ??? Scott and Elizabeth, and to all her children without naming them.
The Virginia Magazine of History and Biography, Volume XXIII, January, 1915, Number 1, Leters and Papers, Order from Col. Peter Jefferson, pp. 173-175
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Chesterfield County wasn't created until 1749, Thomas died at what in his time was known as Osborne, Henrico County, Virginia (see maps).
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Thomas Jefferson (d. 1697) married Martha Branch, daughter of William & Jane Branch and sister of John Branch, former husband of Thomas Osborne's second wife. They had son Thomas Jefferson (d. 1731) who married Mary Field, daughter of Peter and Judith Field. They in turn had son Peter Jefferson (d. 1757) who married Jane Randolph and had son Thomas Jefferson, author of the Declaration of Independence and president of the United States (The Osbornes and Related Families, Chapter 3, p. 17).
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Capt Thomas Jefferson was Justice of the peace for Henrico County, Virginia in 1706.
Source for information regarding the children of Capt. Thomas Jefferson was derived from Collections of Virginia Historical Society, Vol 7, p. 118
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The name Jefferson appears occasionally in Virginia records from a very early date; but the first certain ancestor of the President was Thomas Jefferson who was living in Henrico County at the time the extant records began in 1677. The family while resident in Henrico was not of the wealthy planter class: but every reference to them in the records show that they were people of respectable standing and comfortable estate. One of the earliest mentions of the name is in the will of Christopher Branch, of Kingsland, dated June 20, 1678 and proved February 26, 1681-2, who makes a bequest to his granddaughter Martha, wife of Thomas Jefferson, and appoints Jefferson one of his executors. Other records on Henrico show that Martha Jefferson was a daughter or William Branch and wife Jane, who married secondly Abel Gower. Thomas Jefferson the first died in 1697 and on December 7th of that year his will was probated on petition of his widow Mary (an error of the clerk for Martha). On Oct. 1st 1698, an inventory and appraisement of the personal estate (amounting to 97.16.6 1/2 pounds). This is expressly stated not to include the negroes. By order of the court the personal estate was divided between the widow and the two children, Thomas and Martha. The inventory has been printed in this Magazine I, 208-212. p. 173
Thomas Jefferson, the second, appears frequently in records of his county in connection with various business transactions and once as winner, with his mare Bony, of a race at The Ware. The defeated contestant brought the matter unsuccessfully into Court on April 1st, 1698 (see this Magazine II, 296-298). Thomas Jefferson married in 1698, Mary daughter of Major Peter Feild or Field, and his wife Judith, widow of Henry Randolph and daughter of Henry Soane, who was speaker of the House of Burgesses in 1660-61. The following is a copy of the entry in regard to their marriage license: An Accot: of Probats Adm con: & returned to Mr. Secty's office April April ye 13th, 1698. Marriage Lycenses Granted Thomas Jefferson with Mary Field, October ye 20th 1697. A copy. Teste. Samuel Waddill, Clk.
A deed from Thomas Jefferson and Mary his wife proves that she was the daughter of Peter Field. A copy of this deed follows:
This INDENTURE made the first day of March in ye seventh year of the Reign of our Sovereign Lady Queen Anne by ye Grace of God of Great Brittaine, France & Ireland Defender of the faith and in ye year of our Lord God 1708, between THOMAS JEFFERSON and Mary his wife of ye County & parish of Henrico, the Daughter of Major Peter Field (late) of the County of New Kent and Parish of Saint Peters, deceased of ye one part, and ABRA: BURTON of ye county of Henrico & Parish of Bristoll of ye other part.
WITNESSETH, That the said Thomas & Mary his wife for and in consideration of Ten thousand pounds of Good Merchantable Tobacco in cask to them in hand paid for by ye aforesaid Abra: Burton the Receipt whereof They ye said Thomas & Mary do hereby acknowledge and Do acquit & Discharge ye said Abra: Burton his Heirs, Executors & Administrators.
Unto ye aforesaid Abra: Burton his heirs & assignees forever all Land scituate Lying & being in Appomattox in county aforesaid and descended to her the said Mary as she is one of the Daughters and Co-heires of said Major Peter Field, the said Land being Granted to him in year of October: A Do 1687 and ye nineteenth day of Aprill 1690 and is bounded according to lease let to John Burton ye tenth of Janurary 1701 beginning at a Cor: holly belonging to ye Land of Captain Soane, which said Cor: holly stands on Swift Creek at ye mouth of a Deep bottome thence Down the said Jeffersons and James Frankling , so along Dividing Line into ye woods to ye Out line & then along ye Out lines to ye lines of Captain Soane aforementioned thence along his Lines to ye place began, which said Lines shall include ye aforesaid two hundred Acres of Land be it more or less.
IN WITNESS WHEREOF we have hereunto set our hands & seals the day and year above written.
Thomas Jefferson (sealed with red wax)
Mary Jefferson (sealed with red wax)
Signed, sealed and delivered in the presence of Francis Epes, Junior, Henry Randolph, Junior.
Henrico County Court March ye first A Do: 1708. The subscribed Captain Thomas Jefferson & Mary his wife (she being first privately Examined According to Law) this day personally appeared in open Court and Voluntarily acknowledged the above-mentioned Deed of Sale or Conveyance unto the before named Abraham Burton his heirs & assignees according to the form & effect of ye same Deed. Tests: James Cocke, Cl. Cur.
MEMORANDUM. That Wee Thomas Jefferson and & Mary my wife deliver you Abra: Burton possession and Seizin of this house and a parcell of Land in the Name of all the Rest contained in this Deed of Indenture, To Hold To You and your heires and assignees forever .....rding to the Tennor form and Effect of this present writing or Indenture.
Thomas Jefferson (sealed with red wax)
Mary Jefferson (sealed with red wax)
Witnesses: Francis Epes, Jr., Henry Randolph, Jr. Test. James Cocke, Cl. Cur.
The will of Thomas Jefferson the younger, was dated March 15, 1725 and proved in Henrico April 1731. His legatees were son Field, son Peter, underage, daughters Mary and Martha Jefferson, and Judith Farrar .......... sister Judith Winn.
Field Jefferson, the eldest son, removed to the part of Lunenburg County, which is now Mecklenburg. His will was dated in Lunenburg June 8, ???? and proved in Mecklenburg June 10, 1765. He gave his wife Mary, a gold ring of one guinea value; to son Thomas 10 pounds current annually to ?????id out to his other sons by buying Thomas clothes, etc., and 15 pounds current to pay for the rights to land taken up in Albemarle; to son Peter Field the plantation testator lived on; to son George the remainder of testators back land, etc., etc.; to son John 250 pounds current in case a suit ?????nd by Field Farrar [his nephew] is lost; friend John Speed 150 acres; grandchild [godchild] Mary Deloney; Susannah & E'r Nicholls goddaughter Mary Burton gold rings of one guinea value.
Peter Jefferson removed to Goochland County, and was appointed one of the justices m 1731. When Albemarle was formed he was a member of the first county court Jan. 24, 1744. On May 8, 1745 he qualified as Colonel of the militia of the county and in 1755 was appointed County ???tenant. He was a Burgess for Albemarle at the sessions of August, 1754, ???, 1754, May 1755, and October 1755. He married in Goochland Co., marriage bond dated 3 Oct 1739, Jane, daughter of Isham Randolph of "Dungeness" in that county. His will was dated 13 Jul 1757 and proved in Albemarle 13 Oct 1757, legatees: wife Jane, sons sons Thomas and Randolph, daughters Jane, Mary, Elizabeth, Martha, Lucy and Ann ???t Jefferson. A list of his books and maps from his inventory was ???ed in this Magazine, X, 391. The will of Mrs. Jane Jefferson was ???ed in Albemarle Oct 1778. She makes a bequest to her daughters ??? Scott and Elizabeth, and to all her children without naming them.
The Virginia Magazine of History and Biography, Volume XXIII, January, 1915, Number 1, Leters and Papers, Order from Col. Peter Jefferson, pp. 173-175
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Thomas Jefferson (d. 1697) married Martha Branch, daughter of William & Jane Branch and sister of John Branch, former husband of Thomas Osborne's second wife. They had son Thomas Jefferson (d. 1731) who married Mary Field, daughter of Peter and Judith Field. They in turn had son Peter Jefferson (d. 1757) who married Jane Randolph and had son Thomas Jefferson, author of the Declaration of Independence and president of the United States (The Osbornes and Related Families, Chapter 3, p. 17).
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Capt Thomas Jefferson was Justice of the peace for Henrico County, Virginia in 1706.
Source for information regarding the children of Capt. Thomas Jefferson was derived from Collections of Virginia Historical Society, Vol 7, p. 118
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The name Jefferson appears occasionally in Virginia records from a very early date; but the first certain ancestor of the President was Thomas Jefferson who was living in Henrico County at the time the extant records began in 1677. The family while resident in Henrico was not of the wealthy planter class: but every reference to them in the records show that they were people of respectable standing and comfortable estate. One of the earliest mentions of the name is in the will of Christopher Branch, of Kingsland, dated June 20, 1678 and proved February 26, 1681-2, who makes a bequest to his granddaughter Martha, wife of Thomas Jefferson, and appoints Jefferson one of his executors. Other records on Henrico show that Martha Jefferson was a daughter or William Branch and wife Jane, who married secondly Abel Gower. Thomas Jefferson the first died in 1697 and on December 7th of that year his will was probated on petition of his widow Mary (an error of the clerk for Martha). On Oct. 1st 1698, an inventory and appraisement of the personal estate (amounting to 97.16.6 1/2 pounds). This is expressly stated not to include the negroes. By order of the court the personal estate was divided between the widow and the two children, Thomas and Martha. The inventory has been printed in this Magazine I, 208-212. p. 173
Thomas Jefferson, the second, appears frequently in records of his county in connection with various business transactions and once as winner, with his mare Bony, of a race at The Ware. The defeated contestant brought the matter unsuccessfully into Court on April 1st, 1698 (see this Magazine II, 296-298). Thomas Jefferson married in 1698, Mary daughter of Major Peter Feild or Field, and his wife Judith, widow of Henry Randolph and daughter of Henry Soane, who was speaker of the House of Burgesses in 1660-61. The following is a copy of the entry in regard to their marriage license: An Accot: of Probats Adm con: & returned to Mr. Secty's office April April ye 13th, 1698. Marriage Lycenses Granted Thomas Jefferson with Mary Field, October ye 20th 1697. A copy. Teste. Samuel Waddill, Clk.
A deed from Thomas Jefferson and Mary his wife proves that she was the daughter of Peter Field. A copy of this deed follows:
This INDENTURE made the first day of March in ye seventh year of the Reign of our Sovereign Lady Queen Anne by ye Grace of God of Great Brittaine, France & Ireland Defender of the faith and in ye year of our Lord God 1708, between THOMAS JEFFERSON and Mary his wife of ye County & parish of Henrico, the Daughter of Major Peter Field (late) of the County of New Kent and Parish of Saint Peters, deceased of ye one part, and ABRA: BURTON of ye county of Henrico & Parish of Bristoll of ye other part.
WITNESSETH, That the said Thomas & Mary his wife for and in consideration of Ten thousand pounds of Good Merchantable Tobacco in cask to them in hand paid for by ye aforesaid Abra: Burton the Receipt whereof They ye said Thomas & Mary do hereby acknowledge and Do acquit & Discharge ye said Abra: Burton his Heirs, Executors & Administrators.
Unto ye aforesaid Abra: Burton his heirs & assignees forever all Land scituate Lying & being in Appomattox in county aforesaid and descended to her the said Mary as she is one of the Daughters and Co-heires of said Major Peter Field, the said Land being Granted to him in year of October: A Do 1687 and ye nineteenth day of Aprill 1690 and is bounded according to lease let to John Burton ye tenth of Janurary 1701 beginning at a Cor: holly belonging to ye Land of Captain Soane, which said Cor: holly stands on Swift Creek at ye mouth of a Deep bottome thence Down the said Jeffersons and James Frankling , so along Dividing Line into ye woods to ye Out line & then along ye Out lines to ye lines of Captain Soane aforementioned thence along his Lines to ye place began, which said Lines shall include ye aforesaid two hundred Acres of Land be it more or less.
IN WITNESS WHEREOF we have hereunto set our hands & seals the day and year above written.
Thomas Jefferson (sealed with red wax)
Mary Jefferson (sealed with red wax)
Signed, sealed and delivered in the presence of Francis Epes, Junior, Henry Randolph, Junior.
Henrico County Court March ye first A Do: 1708. The subscribed Captain Thomas Jefferson & Mary his wife (she being first privately Examined According to Law) this day personally appeared in open Court and Voluntarily acknowledged the above-mentioned Deed of Sale or Conveyance unto the before named Abraham Burton his heirs & assignees according to the form & effect of ye same Deed. Tests: James Cocke, Cl. Cur.
MEMORANDUM. That Wee Thomas Jefferson and & Mary my wife deliver you Abra: Burton possession and Seizin of this house and a parcell of Land in the Name of all the Rest contained in this Deed of Indenture, To Hold To You and your heires and assignees forever .....rding to the Tennor form and Effect of this present writing or Indenture.
Thomas Jefferson (sealed with red wax)
Mary Jefferson (sealed with red wax)
Witnesses: Francis Epes, Jr., Henry Randolph, Jr. Test. James Cocke, Cl. Cur.
The will of Thomas Jefferson the younger, was dated March 15, 1725 and proved in Henrico April 1731. His legatees were son Field, son Peter, underage, daughters Mary and Martha Jefferson, and Judith Farrar .......... sister Judith Winn.
Field Jefferson, the eldest son, removed to the part of Lunenburg County, which is now Mecklenburg. His will was dated in Lunenburg June 8, ???? and proved in Mecklenburg June 10, 1765. He gave his wife Mary, a gold ring of one guinea value; to son Thomas 10 pounds current annually to ?????id out to his other sons by buying Thomas clothes, etc., and 15 pounds current to pay for the rights to land taken up in Albemarle; to son Peter Field the plantation testator lived on; to son George the remainder of testators back land, etc., etc.; to son John 250 pounds current in case a suit ?????nd by Field Farrar [his nephew] is lost; friend John Speed 150 acres; grandchild [godchild] Mary Deloney; Susannah & E'r Nicholls goddaughter Mary Burton gold rings of one guinea value.
Peter Jefferson removed to Goochland County, and was appointed one of the justices m 1731. When Albemarle was formed he was a member of the first county court Jan. 24, 1744. On May 8, 1745 he qualified as Colonel of the militia of the county and in 1755 was appointed County ???tenant. He was a Burgess for Albemarle at the sessions of August, 1754, ???, 1754, May 1755, and October 1755. He married in Goochland Co., marriage bond dated 3 Oct 1739, Jane, daughter of Isham Randolph of "Dungeness" in that county. His will was dated 13 Jul 1757 and proved in Albemarle 13 Oct 1757, legatees: wife Jane, sons sons Thomas and Randolph, daughters Jane, Mary, Elizabeth, Martha, Lucy and Ann ???t Jefferson. A list of his books and maps from his inventory was ???ed in this Magazine, X, 391. The will of Mrs. Jane Jefferson was ???ed in Albemarle Oct 1778. She makes a bequest to her daughters ??? Scott and Elizabeth, and to all her children without naming them.
The Virginia Magazine of History and Biography, Volume XXIII, January, 1915, Number 1, Leters and Papers, Order from Col. Peter Jefferson, pp. 173-175
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