BIOGRAPHY: listed in 1790 Charlotte Virginia census (Charlotte was formed fr. Lunenburg,Va.1n 1764)
Will signed 3/26/1806;recorded 4/8/1806 in Charlotte Co. Va.also recorded on 4/23/1807 Green Co. Ky Will Book 1796-1824 #1 page 25.Executors-wife Catherine,son William Cook ,son-in-law Stephen
bought land fr. James Lynn in Green Co. but died before he could move there. His widow & children(except Patsey married to Stephen Cooke) moved fr. Charlotte Va to Green Ky after his death.
BIOGRAPHY: listed 1810 Green Co. Ky census page 15
listed 1813 Green Co. Ky Tax List page 8
listed 1820 Green Co. Ky census
Henry Embry,et al Vs. Catherine Cook,Kentucky Circuit Court Case #5391 2/19/1815 ref Green Co.Review Vol. IX #1 Oct 1985.listed wife Catherine & children:Keziah married to William Embry;Wm.,eldest;Patsey married to Stephen Cook;Benjamin Jr;John;Samuel,under 21;Eliza married to Silas Creel;Hannah Cheadle,under 21.
BIOGRAPHY: signed William Embry & Keziah Cook marriage bond
BIOGRAPHY: Ref "Sunlight in the Southside" by Landon C. Bell listed in 1773 Virginia Lunenburg tithe page 26 under Thomas Edward's name(executor of his father's will);paid 7 tithes;1774 page 333 appeared as Head of Household,paid I tithe;1783 page 403,paid 16 tithes
Lunenburg County Court Virginia Publick Claims 1780-1784("for property taken for public use")page #4 Henry Embry 25#beef;page 8 Henry Embry 305#beef & a horse 5 years
ref.fo Henry and Ann--James Branch Cabell,The Majors & Their Marriages W.C. Hill Printing Co. Richmond Va 1915
The first Census in the United States was taken in 1790(Virginia Census destroyed by the British during the War of 1812)
In 1797 moved to Green County Kentucky with wife Ann Patteson,her brother Charles Patteson(with his wife Regina Allen Degraffenreidt,a half sister of Henry Allen Embry)
listed with wife & children in 1810 Census Green County Kentucky pages 10,16 Microfilm Reel #M252-6;33 free persons(also listed William ,his son as a separate head of his own household.)
listed on 4/19/1813 Green County Kentucky Tax list page 10;also in the list were sons William(married to Keziah Cook in 1810)& Samuel(married to Mary Towler in 1810)
listed in Census 1820 Campbellsville Township Green Co. Ky M33-20 p.67 ref Ancestry.com
Henry Embry built the Ist jail in Greensburg
ref Kentucky Court Case #5391 2/19/85 Henry Embry,et.al v. Catherine Cooke
listed as heir in Jonah(Jr) Patterson(Patteson)'s will (dated 2/9//1813;proven 2/10/1813 Green Co. Ky Wills pages 14-17(other heirs were siblings of Jonah Patteson Charles,David,Martha(Christian), Frances(Booker),Sarah(Hobsons)
mentioned in his stepfather,Tscharner Degraffenreidt's will abt. a land he sold to Henry
Ref.Will Records of Green Co. Kentucky 1796-1824 Book#2 page 28 author Elizabeth Ellsberry Ancestry.com will of Henry Embry written 2/10/1818 probated 11/21/1823 mentioned wife Ann; daughters Ann & Nancy;other heirs sons-William,Samuel P,Henry,grdson Henry Embry Creel(Ermine's son),sons-in-law Richard Munford(Elizabeth),William Ball(Martha)
BIOGRAPHY: will in Lunenburg County,Virginia Will Book #1 page 290,1746-1762 Parish of Cumberland signed 6 May 1759;codicil signed 7 May 1759;probated 5 Feb 1760;recorded 12/16/1763;mentioned wife Elizabeth,pregnant(a daughter named Elizabeth was born after William's death);sons William & Henry;daughters Ermine,Martha;executors:David Ragland,John Ragsdale & Thomas Edwards;also in Early Wills 1746-1765 Cumberland Parish Lunenburg County,Virginia;Lunenburg County Virginia Wills 1746-1825 by Landon Covington Bell(L.C.Bell died on Aug 8,1960)
died before Col Henry Embry,his father.
Member House of Burgesses1754,replaced Clememt Read(after Clement accepted a surveyor's position);also served in 1755-1758
William was vestryman of Cumberland Parish,ref.Vestry Book 1746-1816 by Landon C. Bell
mentioned :in the probate of Nicholas Hobson's will;ref.Virginia Lunenburg Will Book 1,1746-1762 page 216.
in 1744-1749 Virginia Brunswick Co. Deeds Book#3 pages37,39.
Ref. "Sunlight on the Southside"by Landon C. Bell listed William in Cumberland Parish Lunenburg tithe list 6/20/1748 96 tithes page 64);6/10/1749(4 tithes page 102);1750(4 tithes page 159)1751 (6 tithes page 164)1752(4 tithes page 180);6/10/1764(after his death)John Ragsdale,his estate executor,& Jno Beavers listed 18 tithes & 1317 acres,page 229;6/10/1764 1 tithe 1200 acres,page 272.
William mentioned in The Encyclopedia of Virginia Biography Vol I-IV Burgesses of Lunenburg Assemblies of 1754,1755,1756-58 with sons William & Henry
William's property lines(119 acres;Lunenburg Co. Va in Reedy Creek)adjoining Blackston's property lines ref LVA,LOP#29,1749-1751(v.1&2 p.1-532)p.488(Reel 27)
William's property lines(400 acres;Lunenburg Co. Va in Wynn's Creek)adjoining Mary Sizemore's property lines ref LVA LOP#31,1751-1756(v.1&2 p.1-751)p.549(Reel 29).this property also recorded in Halifax Co.Virginia Deed Book #1 p.18,20 dated 1755/54 Nov p.198" William Embry,Gent of Lunenburg Co. to Robert Wooding of Halifaz Co. 400 acres on the fork of Wynnes Creek beginning @ Mary Y.Sizemoore lines crossing Wynnes Creek.witness Peter Fontaine Jr,Matthew Marable.Robert Wade Jr recorded 17 June 1756"
BIOGRAPHY: older son;inherited father's plantation
BIOGRAPHY: Will dated 3/19/1767;proved 5/12/1774 ref Lunenburg Co. Virginia Wills 1746-1825 W.B.2/410 Landon Bell part 2 #387;mentioned wife:Elizabeth children:David,Jonathan,Charles,Richard,Samuel,Ann,Frances,Martha,Patsey.executors:Elizabeth,David & Jonathan.witnesses:James New,David,Henry Christian.
New Kent Virginia was formed fr. York Co. Va in 1654.St. Peter's Parish Church in New Kent.
listed in the tithes taken in Cumberland Parish Lunenburg 6/10/1769 by Edward Dowsing with son Charles Patteson;tithes-2.
tithables Lunenburg Co. 1776-the estate of Jona Patteson decd-5 tithes
list of tithes taken by Capt Jonathan Patteson 1772 for Lunenburg Co.Jonathan Patteson,Richard Patteson;tithes-11
Nov.court 1757 page 493 Will of Thomas Evans,Jonathan Patteson as security;Gideon Christian & Joseph Roper to appraise
ref. for Jonathan Patteson:
1)James Branch Cabell,The Majors & Their Marriages,W.C. Hill Printing Co. Richmond Va.,1915 page 156.
2)Parish Register of St. PetersNew Kent Co. Va 1680-1787 National Society of the Colonial Dames Of America in the State of Virginia,Richmond Virginia,Clearfield Co. 1904.
BIOGRAPHY: references for Elizabeth Christian;
James Branch Cabell,The Majors & Their Marriages W.C.Hill Printing Co. Richmond,Va. 1915 page 159
Carolyn Brooks Desc. of John Edwards(privately published)
Jonathan Christian Jr PATTESON
BIOGRAPHY: signed 1788 Ratifications
went to Green Co. in 1796 with nephew Edward(son of Sarah Patteson & William Hobson) ref Kentucky:A History of the State,Battle,Perrin & Kniffin 4th Ed 1887 Green Co.
Will Green County Kentucky written 9 Feb 1813;submitted & proven 10 Feb 1813; recorded April 1813 pages14-17 partition of Jonathan Jr's estate among his heirs:Charles,David,Martha,Frances,Sarah(his siblings)& Henry Embry.submitted by Commissioners:James Bland,Bartlett Hilliard & John Moss;proven by Joseph Akin.
BIOGRAPHY: listed 1813 Green Co. Kentucky tax list page 28
moved to Charlotte County Virginia abt.1770
lived in Patrick Co. Virginia
BIOGRAPHY: Ref. for David Patteson :
James Branch Cabell,The Majors & Their Marriages W.C. Hill Printing Co. Richmond Va 1915,pages 154-155
Parish Register of St Peters New Kent Co. Va 1680-1787 National Society of the Colonial Dames of america in the state of Virginia Richmond Va Clearfield Co., 1904
Rent Rolls of Virginia 1704 Parish of St. Peter & St. Paul
Voted as Vestryman of St. Peters Parish New Kent 29 Sep 1729;step down fr. this position on 24 Sep 1743,succeeded by (Capt?) William Massie
Deed fr. David Patteson to James Saunders Goochland Co. Va 19 Jun 1744
Rec. land grants in Henrico Co.(later Goochland Co.)Va fr. 1714-8/30/1743 total of 3,729 acres
146VPBII 22Jun 1722 337 acres Henrico Co. N side of James River
16 GD BkI page 171 15 Jan 1729/30 fr David Patteson of St Peters Parish to Thomas Michell N side of James River
(lots of New Kent Records were destroyed during 1864 (courthouse)& 1787 fires
BIOGRAPHY: ref. for Thomas Jr:
James Branch Cabell The Majors & Their Marriages W.C. Hill Printing Co. Richmond Va. 1915 page 154
emigrated fr. Wales to New Kent Va plantation called Roxboro or Roxbury(a town in the border line of Charles City & New Kent Counties was named after this plantation).His children on the parish records of St.Peters.Roxbury was inherited by David>Jonathan(married to E.Christian)& sold in 1782 to Francis Jerdone
BIOGRAPHY: Came to America in a Spanish frigate in 1629 as an indentured servant of Capt Francis Eppes.During that period fifty acres was given for transporting an individual to the colonies;Capt Eppes rec 1,700 acres grant for self,3 sons & 30 servants.
Thomas acquired a 200 acres Lancaster Co. Va. land on 6/2/1657;580 acres Rappahanook Co. Va land (later Middlesex Co. Va)on 4/4/1658 with Robert Chowning
Thomas appeared in land disputes of 11/4/1668 & 4/24/1668
John Mayo had an adjacent property to Thomas' property