| Name |
John (2) West [1] |
| Prefix |
Lt. Col. |
| Suffix |
(Burgess) |
| Birth |
7 Apr 1638 |
Stepney, Tower Hamlets, Middlesex, Greater London, England  [2] |
| Baptism |
13 Apr 1638 |
St. Dunstan and All Saints Church, Stepney, Middlesex, Greater London, England [2, 3] |
- He was shown as John West, son of Anthony West and his wife Anne West, at St. Dunstan and All Saints, Stepney, Tower Hamlets, Middlesex, England. Another record shows John West was Baptized on this same date, son of Anthony West & wife Anne, at Saint Dunstan, Stepney, London, England.
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| Gender |
Male |
| Headright |
1649 |
Northampton Co, Virginia [4] |
- In 1649 Capt. Randall Herle, mariner, was granted a patent for 600 acres of land in Northampton County for the transportation of Anthony West, Ann West his wife, John West and Katherine West. Katherine West married 1st Ralph Barlow and left issue Ralph Benoni Barlow; and married 2nd Charles Scarburgh and left issue Henry Scarburgh. John West, born 1638 married Matilda Scarburgh, daughter of Col. Edmund. He was Lt. Col. John West. Anthony West died in Northampton in 1652 and left bequests to his son John West, daughter Katherine Barlow and wife Ann. The widow Ann West then married Capt. Stephen Charlton.
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| Will - Fathers |
12 Oct 1651 |
Northampton Co, Virginia [5] |
- In his will Anthony West named son John West extr. and my wife (no name) and dau. Barloe to have their thirds out of my estate, and my son John to have the rest. And his mother to have the managing of it during her widowhood, but if she marries then my son John to enjoy his estate (if it be before he comes to age). No administrator nor overseer to have anything to do with my estate.
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| Was Living |
Abt 1676 |
Accomack Co, Virginia [6] |
- He was named as uncle John West and was to be the executor of Henry Scarborough's undated will, which was recorded 26 May 1676.
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| Anecdote |
1677 [7] |
- John West of Accomack County, Virginia, had written Wiltbank about getting a quantity of land for himself and "sum partners," "which Land being Just to the Northward of the supposed Cabo Hinlopen seperating itself from itself from the sd Cape with one Inlett & a Creeke Comly called by the Indians Assawarnon, &c." (NOTE: Could this have been another John West?)
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| Fornication pd fine |
16 Dec 1680 |
Accomack Co, Virginia [8, 9] |
- She was shown as Frances Chambers at Col. West's. on 18 Jan 1680/81 Lt. Col. John West agreed to pay Frances Chambers' fine for fornication; ordered that he pay 500 lbs tobacco to the church wardens and court charges.
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| Deed of Gift - Gave |
16 Jul 1682 |
Accomack Co, Virginia [10] |
- Know all persons to whom those persons may concern that I John West of the County of Accomack in Virginia do for diverse laws and consideration ensuing me thereunto and more expressly for the love and affection I bear unto Filorclare, Arobellow, John & Johnathan the sons & daughters to Mrs Frances Chambers I say for the consideration aforesaid I do give freely unto John, Johnathan, Filoclare and Arobella aforesaid three Negroes to say Lowsea and her two children named ------------ which Negroes I give unto the said John, Johnnathan, Filoclare & Arobellow with their increase(?) male and female forever to them & their Ayres: I also give unto John, Johnathan, Filorclare and Arobellow aforesaid nine cows and one Bull the markes & colors followth with their increase(?) male & female to them and their Ayres forever which Cattle was sent in November(?) to John Maruillb(?) land for them(?) only your and profit to say her heifers on blake & on black pidd(?) booth two years old two others on blak pide and on Reade pido both two years old two heifers on brown ye other black with a white polley two years of old other two heifers now all foure and black on Read and one cow Read ---- on ye left ear and over values on right all ye not marked with my proper mark and branded with the O together with one branded bull in all …. hood with them & …. I now … male & female for ever I also give confirm John, Johnathan, Filocleare and Arobellow aforesaid ton yeows & one Ram to go -obuered on ddmand to run in a joint stock with their ---- male & female to them & their heirs forever. I also give unto Filoclare, Arobellow, John & Johnathan two feather beads & --- furniture with two iron pots & one brass kettle & one small table each of them two pewter dishes & one dozen of pewter plates amongst them with pewter I will make good in six months after this date I also give unto Mrs Frances Chambers and her four children aforesaid to run in a joint stock amongst them to say one small mare colored white called Molley with her to young mares ra ---------------------- and one black mare now running on ye south side of Onancock Creek the hand my a white cafe or white fare branded HS with all the increase (?) male & female that have proceeded from her sire the used ye peare ---- or shall hereafter male or female where so ever to be found and also give them one male colored not known --- now running at or near Mrs Marshalls on ye Sea Side all with said mares, horses & colts with their increase male & female I give to them & their heirs forever to run in a joint stock & shall be divided as each child shall come to ye age of fifteen years and I do nominate and appoint my friend John Drummond at all times & times in my absence to take fair and April all ---- one of them --- that they may not have and --- or determined in their stock and --- after to wit I subscribe my hand and seal I attest ye 16th of July 1682. Signed: John West On February ye 20th 1682 Acknowledged in open court by the said John West as his Roall act and deed according to these purport and true meaning thereof Test: Jno Washbourne Clerk Recorded February ye 24th 1682 Jno Washbourne Clerk, County of Accomack.
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| Anecdote |
Between 1689 and 1702 |
tract A77, Merry Branch, Accomack Co, Virginia [11, 12] |
- In 1689 Colonel John West leased an unspecified acreage for 99 years to Mrs. Frances Chambers and her children John, Jonathan, Annabella (who later married Thomas Bonnewell) and Fillechar. In later records it was called the Leased Lands and this was what John West had left in reversion to his two sons, John the Elder and Benony. (NOTE: Grantee Index to Deeds shows a lease from John West to Frances, John, Arrobella, Jonathan and Filocleare Chambers in 1702. Between 1747 and 1751 Jonathan Chambers, the only surviving child of Frances, leased over 700 acres of this land to 7 different persons and he was still living on the land in 1752.)
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| Biography |
- John West deposed 10 Nov 1663 that he was aged 25 years or thereabouts. On 23 Dec 1650 he had been put in possession of 1600 acres in Northampton County which included the Herle tract. He was a carpenter and shipbuilder by trade and served Accomack County as commissioner, 1662-63, justice, 1663-1703, sheriff, 1667, and as captain, major and lieutenant colonel of militia, 1655-1703. He held 5250 acres in Accomack County, 1683. A patent issued to John West, 20 Oct 1661, for 250 acres in Northampton County recites that the land was granted to Matilda Scarburgh, 31 Mar 1655, and due said West as marrying with the said Scarburgh. His widow held 3600 acres in Accomack County, 1704 (Adventurers of Purse and Person, p. 663). For more on the descendants of Lt. Col. John West and Matilda Scarburgh see "Ames, Mears and Allied Lines of Accomack County Virginia," by Lucy Ames Edwards, pp. 171-176. He was a boatright.
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| Land leased |
20 Sep 1689 |
tract A78, Merry Branch Plantation, Accomack Co, Virginia [12, 13] |
- Know all persons to whom these presents my concern that I the subscriber do hereby set to lease and farm let my plantation called Marry Branch and laying on the northwest side thereof and bounded by a line of marked trees running into the said branch, running through the middle of my Neck between Deep Creek and Chesconnessex: and from thence including all the land between that and the mill dam & branch running to the dam to a line of marked trees drawn from the said dam to my outermost line running to the head of Chesconnessex together with all the land therein contained between the said line & my ditch and the branch of Chesconnessex to Peter Prichetts bridge including 50 acres of land on the south side of the head of Chesconnessex out of the land belonging to the folly all which land aforesaid I do farm and lease to the children of Frances Chambers to say John, Johnathan, Arobelleo & Filocleare and to the lawful Ayres of the bodies for the full space & term of 99 years to commence from the day of the date thereof they yielding & paying yearly four ears of Indian corn to be paid carried and left at my now mill at Deep Creek or near the place where it now stands to pay to any there or leave the same shall be sufficient acknowledgment and paying the Kings Rents or ought due for the same and to make yours enjoy and occupy all houses, orchards, fences, fields, woods or ought else standing or erected thereon without trouble, molestation or let from any person or persons whatever that may proceed from, by or under my heirs, Executors or Administers: and farther I the mother Mrs. Frances Chambers is full power & authority to live, dwell and make use of the above said land during her natural life for her better support to say so much as she may have occasion for not abridging her children or any of them as they shall attain to age to make use of their proportionable parts thereof and for the better security & quiet and peaceful possession thereof I bind my heirs, Executors or Administers in the full sum of 40,000 pounds of tobacco & cask to be paid unto all or any of the above named persons by any of my heirs, Executors or Administers that shall dare or presume to molest or trouble the quiet and peaceable possession of the above named Frances Chambers and her children John, Johnanthan, Arobelo & Fileocleare or either of them during the time and space aforesaid. In witness of the premises & confirmation thereof I here unto set my hand & seal the 20th of September 1689. Signed, Sealed & Acknowledged by John West as ye act & deed of the subscriber before us Jos. Robinson, Aert Donis & John Drumond. The within lease delivered unto Court February 3rd 1702 by Mr. Robt. Norton according to an order of Court upon a Bill in Chancery Exhibited against him the said Norton by Jonathan Chambers, Thomas Bonewell & Arrobella his wife and at the request of the plaintiffs ordered to be recorded. Teste: Jno. Washburne, Clerk of Court. Recorded February 13th 1702 by me Jno. Washburne Clerk of Court, Accomack. (NOTE: The first mention of Frances Chambers was omitted from the typed version.)
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| Will |
6 Feb 1703 |
Accomack Co, Virginia [14] |
- To son Anthony land at Nandua - Elizabeth is wife of Anthony. Grandson John, son of Anthony. To grandduaghters Matilda, Mary Scarburgh and Jean West, daughters of my son Anthony, the Ridge land without the Neck where Anthony now lives. To son Alexander plantation at Mossongo formerly known by the name of old Brookes land. To 4 youngest daughters Catherine, Mary, Ann and Scarburgh West (all under age 16). To eldest son John and son Benony land at Deep Creek; should both die without issue Benony's part to go to Alexander's eldest son and John's part to my son Jonathan. To son Jonathan land at Chicconessick Creek. To son John land at Pungoteague. To 5 daughters Catherine, Mary, Ann, Scarburgh and Matilda land at Deep Creek. To daughter Sarah Robinson, wife of Capt. Tully Robinson, plantation at Onancock called ye Folly, containing 600 acres for life and then to her 5 children, West, Elizabeth, Scarburgh, Sarah and Susanna. To daughter Frances Kellam land given her by deed. To Sarum, son of my daughter Frances, cattle, personalty. To John, the son of Sarah Glanning, dec'd, 100 acres at Gingoteague. To youngest son John West. To sons John West the younger and John West the elder. Wife Matilda Exec. and after her dec'd I appoint my son Jonathan Exr. Son-in-law Capt. Tully Robinson to assist my wife. To grandson Anthony, son of John West. To grandson John, the eldest son of my daughter Matilda Wise 100 acres. Witt: William Wise, John Wise Jr., Tabitha Hill, Geo: Nich: Hack, Patrick Morgan and Robert Hutchinson.
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| Death |
27 May 1703 |
Nandua, Accomack Co, Virginia [15, 16, 17] |
- The Catherine (West) Snead Bible shows he died about noon time of said day.
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| Probate |
4 Aug 1703 |
Accomack Co, Virginia [14] |
| Land cause |
28 Jan 1752 |
Accomack Co, Virginia [18] |
- Harry Holdfast (place holder) vs Thomas Custis. That Thomas Custis was seized in fee of the lands in the declaration mentioned, and was also seized in tail of 1750 acres adjoining the said lands, and being so seized made his last will and testament dated 3 Oct. 1719, & bequeathed to his wife Ann Custis all the lands that he had with her, lying near Oak Hall, to his son John Custis the plantation whereon he then lived containing 1750 acres, being on Deep Creek. To his son Edmund Custis 1000 acres adjoining the land where he then dwelt, whereon Joseph Walker now dwells "I give all my and interest in the lands on Jengoteague & Morry's Island which was given by the last will of the Hon. John Custis of Arlington to me & my wife Elizabeth Custis, to my son Edmund Custis"; To his son Thomas Whittington Custis 300 acres on Old Plantation Creek in Northampton County; should Edmund die before coming to full age & without issue, I give the land given him to my son Thomas, & should Thomas die before full age & without issue, then my son Edmund to have the land given him. To daughter Tabitha; to daughter Sarah; to daughter Elizabeth; son John Custis (under age); To sister Tabitha Scarburgh Custis; wife Ann and friends Capt. John Bradhurst & Mr. Charles Snead & Mr. Henry Custis Executors. Sons to receive their estates at 18 and daughters at 18 or marriage. I give the first child born after this date of my wife Ann Custis 700 acres in the said county adjoining the lands of William Parker, near to Burton's Branch, which land descended to me from my Hon. grandmother, Mrs. Tabitha Hill. That the 1000 acres therein mentioned is the lands devised to his son Edmund, and the 1750 acres of land therein mentioned is the land devised to his son John by the said will; That the said Edmund Custis made his last will dated 27 Mar. 1747, in these words: "I Edmund Custis of Northampton County" &c. To his son Edmund Custis the plantation where I now live; to wife Catherine; to daughter Ann Custis. I give 800 acres of land that I have in Deep Creek to my Ex'rs. to be sold, and after the payment of my debts the residue to be divided between my wife, son and daughter; son to have 1/2 and wife and daughter the other half between them. To kinsman Hancock Custis; Should my son Edmund die without issue I give my plantation where I now live to my daughter, Ann Custis, reversion to my kinsman Hancock Custis, son of my brother John. Wife Exec. & guardian of children till they come to lawful age or marry. By which will the said Edmund devised 800 acres, part of the 1000 acres devised by his father, the testator Thomas, to be sold for the payment of debts; That the lessor of the plaintiff purchased the same of the testator's executrix as by deed dated 23 June, 1750, to-wit: This deed between John Wilkins of Northampton County, Gent., and Catherine, his wife, executrix of the last will and testament of Edmund Custis, late of the said County, Gent., her late husband, dec., to Littleton Eyre - Sale of 800 acres, being part of the aforesaid 1000 acres. The said Edmund Custis a short time before his death granted and sold unto Joshua James late of Accomack County, dec., 200 acres, part of the aforesaid 1000 acres. That the said testator Thomas' dwelling plantation whereon there stood a negro quarter, extended into the said 1000 acres as far as the defendant now claims of the said 1000 acres; That the aforesaid John Custis is eldest son & heir at law of the testator Thomas, and that the defendant is his eldest son and heir at law; That the defendant Thomas agreed with the lessor of the plaintiff that the plaintiff and a certain John Wilkins, who intermarried with the widow & Exec. of the said Edmund Custis, on the 30 day of November, 1749, to run the division between the said 1750 acres and the 1000 acres of land agreeable to a deed from John Custis and Tabitha his wife to the aforesaid Thomas Custis, for the said 1750 acres, which deed is in these words ------ John Custis, Sr., of the County of Northampton, Esq., & Tabitha, his wife, to "our well beloved nephew & grandson Edmund Custis, of the county of Accomack, Gent. & Tabitha, his now wife, our grandaughter, & their children after them" - Deed of Gift - All that tract of land where the said Edmund and Tabitha now live, situate at Deep Creek containing 1750 acres on the North East side of Deep Creek, & bounded on the Southern parts therewith, on the North West by a point of marsh facing the bay; on the North Eastward by a part of a little creek called Drummond's Creek and a line of marked trees drawn from the said Drummond's Creek South; South East half a point, Easterly 342 poles unto a corner tree marked at the western corner of the land formerly belonging to William Gower, and from thence on the South Eastern side by a line of marked trees drawn S. W. by West 508 poles unto Deep Creek, including in the said 1750 acres all the marshes, necks & branches within the aforesaid bounds, being 1/2 of 3500 acres more or less granted by patent to the said Tabitha, now the wife of the said John Custis, Sr., & her sister, Matilda Scarburgh, now the wife of Col. John West, both the daughters of Col. Edmund Scarburgh, dec., patent dated 29 March, 1656, to the said Edmund & Tabitha for and during their natural lives, and after their decease to their son Thomas Custis and the heirs of his body, and in default of such heirs to the next heir or heirs of their bodies, and if all such as are before mentioned are extinct, then to the next heir or heirs of the said Tabitha, now the wife of the said Edmund, male or female, and in failure of them to our grandson Smart Whittington, son of William Whittington, Gent. & brother of the said Tabitha Custis, wife of the said Edmund Custis, during his natural life, and then to his heirs male, and for want of such heirs to our grandson John Custis, the son of John Custis, Jr., of the County of Northampton aforesaid, Gent., & his heirs, and for want of such issue to the heirs of the said John Custis, Sr. That the defendant, together with the plaintiff's lessor, and the said Wilkins employed Edmund Scarburgh, Surveyor of the County of Accomack, to run the said line the next day, and for which the said defendant agreed and hath since paid the surveyor 2/3 of the fees, but on meeting the next day to complete the agreement the defendant told the plaintiff's lessor & the said Wilkins that the Surveyor might run the line, but that it would not be binding upon him. That Edmund, son of the testator Thomas, at the time of making his last will was of lawful age, and left issue; that the testator Thomas' son, Thomas Whittington Custis, to whom the remainder of the aforesaid 1000 acres was given in case of Edmund's death under age or without issue, was brother and died an infant.
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| Reference Identifer |
Burgess |
| Record ID |
20103 |
| Person ID |
I20103 |
MilesFiles23 |
| Last Modified |
15 Mar 2023 |
1638 - 1703 (65 years)
