John Ayres, Sr.

1632 - Aft 1702  (> 70 years)

• Name	John Ayres  [1]
  Suffix	Sr.
  Birth	1632	Ware, County Hertford, England   [2, 3]
  	He was born 30 miles from London in the parish of Munden Freville, otherwise known as Munden Parva (Little Munden), in the county of Hertford, England.
  Gender	Male
  Will - Fathers	13 Oct 1645	Ware, County Hertford, England   [4]
  	He was shown as a son John (under age 21) in the will of Henry Ayre of Ware, Co Herford, England.
  Anecdote	1651  [5]
  	John Ayres, Mr. William Ayres, Mr. Edmond Ayres, Richard Ayres and Mr. Francis Ayres came from England between 1651 and 1657 to that part of Virginia along or between the Rappahannock and Potomac Rivers. The exact dates when each first set foot upon Virginia soil are not known, but the dates on which the headrights of these adventurers from England were converted by others, to whom those rights had been sold between 1651 and 16 Jul 1657, into grants of land at times of varying lengths between those years are known. Mr. Edmond Ayres and Richard Ayres both appear as having arrived at about the same time, and Mr. Francis Ayres first appears of record in the same region in the same year. The headrights of these three gentlemen were each converted into land on the same day, those of Edmond and Richard being so converted by the same purchaser, while that of Francis was acquired by another buyer, which same buyer converted into land the headright on a John Ayres on the same day that he received land for the headright of the same Francis. Thus the headrights of these four close kinsmen were all converted into land on the 15 Jul 1675. John Ayres was the first to be mentioned in the public records. He was the only one of the five who in March 1651/2 was found to be present ashore in Virginia when he was called on by county officers to take the oath of allegiance to the government of England.
  Oath to England	25 Mar 1651	Northampton Co, Virginia   [6]
  	He took the oath of allegiance to hereby engage and promise to be true and faithful to the Commonwealth of England as it is now established without King or House of Lords.
  Anecdote	25 Mar 1652	Northampton Co, Virginia   [7]
  	John Ayres first appeared in America records on 25 Mar 1652 in Northampton County when he took the oath of allegiance to the then new government of their old home country and its colonies. Everyone of the age of 18 years or more was required to take the oath promising to be true and faithfull to the Commonwealth of England as it is now established without King or House of Lords. Among those signing in N'hamp County on 25 Mar 1652 (the first day of the year 1652) were Jno. Ayres, Nathan'll Littleton, Edm. Scarburgh, Tho. Johnson, Georgius Hacke and Stephen Charlton. Among those signing 5 days later were Jno. Custis, Jno. Johnson Jr., Jno. Johnson Sr., Rich Hill, Charles Scarburgh, James Atkinson, Wm. Gower, Wm. Jorden & Rich. Kellam.
  Tithable list	6 Feb 1655	Lancaster Co, Virginia   [8]
  	He was taxed for having 3 adult persons in his abode either ashore or on board his vessel. They were evidently himself, his newly-married wife and probably Henry Peters, who seems to have been in the employ of John Ayres for this same Henry Peters had previously arrieved in Virginia before 10 Mary 1652 and then was a headright for Capt. Richard Hill of Northampton & Westmoreland Counties.
  Land patented	24 Oct 1655	Rappahannock River, Virginia   [8, 9]
  	It was on this date that John Ayres was granted 250 acres on the North side of the Rappahannock River above the plantation of Mr. Wm. Smart for transportation of 5 persons: Barbaby Johnson, James Pearson, Thomas Hart and Elnor Hart. On 6 Oct 1658 James Brenett was granted 200 acres upon South side of the Rappahannock River begining upon a branch near land of William Clapham, which had been granted to John Ayres on 24 Oct 1655, assigned unto said Brennett & Peter Johnson & now renewed for transportation of 4 persons. According to a certificate of land granted to Jo: Eyers on 6 Aug 1655 in Lancaster County, the 4 persons were John Tayler, Elnor Gill, Joan Eyers and Hen: Peeters.
  Biography	1656
  	The names in the Ayres-Eyres family in Colonial Virginia were submitted to the genealogist, Mr. Bower Marsh of London, by Henrietta Ayres Dawson, asking if, in his opinion, they were the same family as that of Wiltshire in the Visitation of London. He promptly replied that "they were the same people, no such accident could ever have happened that two families would follow the same given names," and by his definite opinion if was so formed. He provided the wills of Henry Ayres dated 20 Jan 1656, pewterer of London; the will of Henry Ayres dated 13 Oct 1645 of Ware, County Hertford; and the will of Henry Ayres dated 19 Jul 1661 of London. This surname was written in the early public records of the Colony of Virginia the same as in records in England, as Ayres, Aires, Airs, Ayre, Ayers, Eyre, Eyers, Eires and Eyres. Many Ayres (Eyres), also Trueloves, came to Virginia, and were listed in the Virginia Council as early as 1621. Some returned to England, as found in "Abstract of the Proceedings of the Virginia Company of London 1619-1624," by Conway Robinson, edited by R.A. Brock, Volume I.
  Will - Grand Fathers	20 Jan 1656	Greater London, England   [4]
  	He was shown as a grandchild John Ayres in the will of Henry Ayres, pewterer of London.
  Land bought	16 Jun 1657	Westmoreland Co, Virginia   [10]
  	It was on this date that John Aires bought from Rice Jones all my right title & interest of plantation and the patent that doth belong to me with all houses and orchards. This was the Patent of 88 acres in Lancaster County that was recorded on 2 Sep 1652 upon the north side of the Rappahannock River, north & west upon the land of Edward Harris, dec'd, & south by east upon a creek dividing this and land of Richard Coleman for the transporation of 2 persons: George Slight & Robert Parry.
  Headright	15 Jul 1657	Potomac River, Virginia   [11]
  	It was on this date that both John Ayres and Francis Ayres were listed among 10 persons who were transported into the colony by Peeter Smith when he was granted 500 acres in Petomeck freshes, Northerly upon a creek above Col. Speakes land & Southerly upon land called Gosnells land.
  Land sold	21 Dec 1657	Westmoreland Co, Virginia   [12]
  	It was on this date that John Ayres sold the land he bought from Rice Jones on 16 Jun 1657 to Francis Jordan.
  Land surveyed	28 Jan 1662	Rappahannock River, Virginia   [13]
  	It was on this date that Robert Smith & Nich. Smith were granted 225 acres in the forset between the Rappahannock Patomeck Rivers, beging on a point between two branches of Nominy River. The said land being surveyed for John Ayres, by him assigned to said patentees & due for the transportation of 5 persons.
  Land sold	16 Feb 1662	Tappahannock, Essex Co, Virginia   [14]
  	It was on this date that John Aiers and his wife Joane sold Henrick Lucas 326 acres for 3,000 lbs tobacco. On 20 Oct 1663 John and Joan Aier named Mr. Allex Fleming our true and lawfull attorney to acknowledge for and in our behalf all our right & title in a parcell of land sold to Henrick Lucas. This was the last transaction signed by Joan Ayres, who evidently died soon thereafter. This Alexander Fleming died a few years later and his widow, Joyce, married Capt. Lawrence Washington, who was buried in 1677 at Wakefield beside his elder brother Col. John Washington.
  Land patented	13 Nov 1662	Rappahannock Co, Virginia   [15, 16]
  	On 12 Oct 1665 Martin Johnson of Rappahannock County & Sittingborne Parish was granted 326 acres & 40 poles on south side of Rappahannock River, begining at devident of land of Jno. Ayer, S.S.W. to W. side of a creek dividing this from land of Valentine Allen &c. This had been granted to Jno. Ayres on 13 Nov 1662 & by him sold to Henry Lucas of the same county & by him sold to said Johnson. (NOTE: John Ayres had established his quarters ashore on 1655 in Sittenbourne Parish, Rappahannock County, on the south side of the Rappahannock River and his land on the north side of the river was in the parish of North Farnham.)
  Tithable list	1663	Accomack Co, Virginia   [17]
  	John Ayres was first shown on the Tithables in Accomack County in 1663 with 3 tithables. In 1665 he was show as Jno. Eyre with 4; in 1666 as Jno Eyres with 2; in 1669 as John Ayres with 2; in 1670 as Jno. Ayres with 3; in 1671 as John Ayres with 2; in 1674 as John Ayres with 3; in 1675 as Jno Ayres with 3; in 1676 as Jno Ares with 3; in 1678 as Jno Ares with 2; in 1679 as Jno Ayres with 2; in 1680 as Jno Aires with 3; in 1680 in Capt. Hill's precinct as Jno Ayres with 2; in 1685 in Capt. Hill's precinct as Jno Ayres with 3; in 1687 in Capt. Hill's precinct as Jno Ayres Senr. with 3 (implying that his son John Ayres Junior was recognized as of legal age); in 1688 Capt. Hill's precinct list did not show a John Ayres, perhaps he and his son John were away at sea.
  Headright	23 Feb 1663	Accomack Co, Virginia   [18]
  	It was on this date that Jno. Ayres was on a list of 20 persons transported into the colony by Richard Hill Senior who was granted 1,000 acres at Hunting Creek bounded on the North by said Creek, running Westerly down the same & Southerly towards Deep Creek.
  Land sold	6 Apr 1664	Rappahannock Co, Virginia   [19]
  	It was on this date that John Ayres made his first sale of land without his wife Joan providing her release of dower rights, as she was then dec'd. This land was granted to John Ayres on 24 Oct 1655 when Joan was his wife. So John alone conveyed the grant of 250 acres on the north side of the Rappahannock river to Capt. Alexander Fleming, who on 3 Mar 1664 had the land confirmed or patented direct to himself.
  Anecdote	28 Sep 1664	Rappahannock Co, Virginia   [20]
  	On 28 Sep 1664 James Browne, of Rappahannock County, was granted 346 acres on the south side of the Rappahannock River, begining at lower side of land of Wm. Grey by a branch sied, running West &c. S.S.E. parallel to land of Jno. Ayres &c. 200 due by former grant & the residue adjoining dure for transportation of 3 persons.
  Land patented	25 Sep 1665	Rappahannock River, Virginia   [21]
  	It was on this date that John Ayres was granted 378 acres on south side of Rappahannock River in the freshes, begining at S.W. corner of land belonging to Jno. Meder, running S.S.W. &c. to trees dividing this and land of Robt. Davies, thence N. 42 perches, W. 80 perches to a branch of Potobaco Creek, thence N.N.E. to land of Jno. Medar &c. for transportation of 8 persons into the colony.
  Land sold	11 Jul 1666	Sittenbourne Parish, Rappahannock Co, Virginia   [22]
  	It was on this date that John Ayres sold out his home and 561 acres on the Rappahannock River. The distance from the head of Pope's Creek in Westmoreland County where his father-in-law Richard Hill lived southward to the Rappahannock River nearly opposite the Ayres' land, is between five and six miles. That is the narrow part of the peninsula and where the Rappahannock is narrower than a half-mile. John Ayres' headquarters was near Tappahannock in the present county of Essex. He had acquired 6 separate tracts of land in Rappahannock County comprising 1,318 acres altogether. Evidently sometime before leaving Rappahannock County John Ayres acquired some wharfage, storage for tobacco, etc. in Accomack County as he was assessed on having besides himself, 2 persons in this service in 1663 in Accomack County. Both Richard Hill and John Ayres removed to Accomack County, as one outcome of this marriage, and there they remained close together on adjoining estates throughout the remainder of their lives.
  Heir - named as	31 Jul 1668	Accomack Co, Virginia   [23]
  	It was on this date that William Gowers named Francis, John & Patience Ayres, children of John Ayres, in his will.
  Land patented	9 Oct 1672	Accomack Co, Virginia   [24]
  	It was on this date that Jno. Ayres & Xpofer (Christopher) Thompson were granted 600 acres in N'hamp Co (now Acccomack Co) adjacent to Capt. Richard Hill's land in forker neck at head of Hunting Dreek for transporting 12 persons: John Eyres 8 times, Robert Davis, Edward Broadway, Richard Lewis and George Youngman. A certificate had been granted in the upper part of N'hamp Co on 16 Oct 1671 to John Eyres for 650 acres for transporting 13 persons: John Eyres himself 8 times; Robert Davis, Edw'd Broadway, Richard Lewis, George Youngman & Robert Youngman. Christopher Thompson and John Ayres became partners in maritime enterprises, John Ayres being the Master Mariner and Thompson the partner ashore. The friendship between the two lasted for 30 years and after the death of John Ayres, Thompson married John Ayres' widow.
  Anecdote	20 Feb 1677  [25]
  	According to the Journals of the House of Burgesses of Virginia, 1659/60-1693, p. 81, At a Grand Assembly began at Green Spring on 20 Feb 1676/7 the following orders of public charge were made and allowed ... to John Ayres - 700 lbs tobacco. This was evidently for his roll in transporting men and the necessities arising because of a temporary change in the seat of government back and forth between the mainland and the Eastern Shore. There was some delay in payment and on 16 May 1678 in Accomack Court "upon the petition of John Aires setting forth that he was in the countries service himself and boat over the Bay at Jamestown 30 days & having made oath to the same and also that hath rec'd no satisfaction certificate is accordingly granted him to the next assembly."
  Anecdote	1679	Barbados   [26]
  	In 1679 John Ayres had sailed to the island of Barbados in the West Indies. Evidently Joseph Holt, an indentured servant on Barbados had completed his term of service and obtained a license to leave that island. An original manuscript in the Archives Division of the London Guildhall has this entry: "Barbardos-Tickets. A list of what tickets have been granted out of the secretary office of the island aforsaid for the departure off this island of the several persons hereafter mentioned, beginning in Jan 1678/9 & ending in December following, viz: 29 Oct 1679, Joseph Holt in the sloop Hopewell for Antegoa, John Ayres Commander." Antegoa, 480 miles north of Barbados, via the route inside of the Leeward Islands, was about 1/4 of John Ayres' journey back to Cape Charles, Virginia.
  Anecdote	16 Dec 1680	Accomack Co, Virginia   [27]
  	On 16 Dec 1680 in Accomack County Mr. Samuel Taylor came to court and voluntarily confest judgement to John Ayres for 312 lbs of good ffatt nett porke to be paid on demand according to an obligation under the said Taylor's hand bearing the date of 13 Oct 1680.
  Will - Witnessed	25 Mar 1687	Accomack Co, Virginia   [28]
  	It was on this date that John Ayres, Thomas Rila, & John Cary witnesssed the will of Finla MackWilliam.
  Anecdote	2 Jul 1692	Accomack Co, Virginia   [29]
  	On 2 Jul 1692 in Accomack County, John Aires registered his cattle mark.
  Will - Witnessed	1 Aug 1696	Accomack Co, Virginia   [30]
  	It was on this date that John Ayres & Nicholas Hill witnessed the will of Thomas Riley Sr.
  Reference Identifier	#@Acc
  Record ID	24553
  Death	Aft 14 Jan 1702	Accomack Co, Virginia   [2, 31]
  	It was on this date that John Ayres and his eldest son, John, Junior, put aboard a vessel, probably their sloop Hopewell, 11 or 12 head of cattle and sailed for Jones County in Pennsylvania (now Kent County, DE). As the destination could not be reached by way of Chesapeake Bay, the voyage must have been outward around Cape Charles, up the Atlantic coast, and into the Delaware Bay. Upon embarking John Ayres had two of his sons, who remained at home, and two independent witnesses sidned and filed for recordation in the Clerk's Office of Accomack a manifest of their cargo and their destiniation, doubtless as a precaution in view of the hazards of the sea in winter. It was recorded in Acc Co Deeds & Wills, 1692-1715, page 272: "Account of cattle for John Ayres which are to be transported from this county to Jones County, in Province of Pennsylvania, 4 Cows and calves and one cow with calf; 3 two year old heifers; 2 yearlings; all marked with one mark; crop on ye left ear two slitts, tow slitts under and overbit on ye right and underbit." Signed Francis Ayres, Edmun Ayres, William Willett & Wm. Chance. What happened on this voyage is unkown, other then neither John Ayres or his son John returned alive.
  Burial	Ayres Monument, Greenbush, Accomack Co, Virginia   [31, 32]
  	A memorial stone was observed in the autumn of 1937 on the farm of Mr. Fletcher Scott, near Drummond's Mill, west of Greenbush, which read "In memory of John Ayres, Mariner, of Rappahannock County, Virginia, who settled in Accomack, was born 1666, died 1702." In turn Henrietta Ayres Sheppard erected a family memorial which is shown on Whitelaw's tract A87A, which shows him as John Eyres (Ayres), mariner of Rappahannock County, Virginia, who settled in Accomac before 1666 and died circa 1702.
  Person ID	I24553	MilesFiles23
  Last Modified	22 Oct 2023

  
  

  Father	Henry Ayres,   b. Abt 1590, Greater London, England d. Bef 3 Dec 1645, Ware, County Hertford, England (Age < 55 years)
  Mother	Isabell Newton,   b. Abt 1595, Little Munden, County Hertford, England d. Bef 15 Oct 1649 (Age < 54 years)
  Marriage	Abt 1620  [1]
  Family ID	F21075	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family 1	Joan Gowers,   b. Abt 1635, England d. Aft 20 Nov 1663, Rappahannock Co, Virginia (Age > 28 years)
  Marriage	Abt 1655  [33]
  	According to Ayres, Dawson & Allied Families the Gowers records of Lancaster and Rappahannock Counties indicate the reason William Gowers bequeathed the principal part of his estate in 1668 to the children of John Ayres, the Master Mariner, was that John's first wife Joan, was a sister of William Gowers, and born in England.
  Last Modified	14 Jun 2023
  Family ID	F45796	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family 2	Mary Hill,   b. 1646, England d. Aft 9 Dec 1703, Accomack Co, Virginia (Age > 57 years)
  Marriage	Aft 6 Apr 1664	Westmoreland Co, Virginia   [31, 34, 35]
  	They were likely married at the home of the bride's parents at Wakefield, Washington Parish, Westmoreland Co, VA where Capt. Richard Hill and his wife Mary lived until Nov 1665 when Richard Hill and wife Mary agreed to sell to Robert Porter and Peter Gramer the 250 aces where we now live on Fishing Dreek (later Pope's Creek) between the land of Richard Griffin and Lawrence Abbington (the site where George Washington was born in 1731/2).
  Children	1. Patience Ayres,   b. 1665, Rappahannock Co, Virginia d. Yes, date unknown + 2. John Ayres, Jr.,   b. 1666, Rappahannock Co, Virginia d. Aft 14 Jan 1702 (Age > 36 years) + 3. Francis Ayres,   b. 1668, Accomack Co, Virginia d. Bef 6 Jun 1721, Accomack Co, Virginia (Age < 53 years) + 4. Henry Ayres,   b. 1669, Accomack Co, Virginia d. Yes, date unknown + 5. Richard Hill Ayres,   b. Abt 1672, Accomack Co, Virginia d. Bef 3 Jun 1718, Accomack Co, Virginia (Age < 46 years) + 6. Edmund Ayres,   b. Abt 1674, Accomack Co, Virginia d. Bef 4 Aug 1719, Accomack Co, Virginia (Age < 45 years)   7. Ann Mary Ayres,   b. Abt 1676, Accomack Co, Virginia d. Yes, date unknown
  Last Modified	13 Mar 2023
  Family ID	F7832	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

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