Anthony Arnold Sr. (abt. 1635 - 1677)

Descendants

Died 15 Mar 1677 at about age 42 in New Kent, New Kent County, Virginia

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Biography

Anthony Arnold Sr. was a Virginia colonist.

Anthony Arnold was born about 1635 and was possibly the son of Samuel Arnold (d: by 09 Apr 1674 in New Kent County, Virginia). His widowed mother remarried to John Wilson. ^[1]

He may have been a Puritan.

About 1658 he emigrated to the Virginia Colony. ^[2]

For his participation in Bacon's Rebellion, he was executed by hanging on 15 March 1677 in New Kent, New Kent County, Virginia.

Research Notes

The Arnold Family Association of the South amassed and published a great body of abstracts and transcriptions from primary resources over the years it was in existence. Those newsletters are available online and should be consulted to avoid confusing individuals with the same names. There was a lot of very well done Arnold research that was completed 30-40 years ago that is being undone as people copy trees without verifying sources. Check your information against their body of work by searching your ancestors here: http://www.usgwarchives.net/special/afas/

Hazel Arnold MacIvor, former editor of the "Arnold Family Association of the South", was a descendant of this Anthony Arnold line in the American Colonies. She had an excellent understanding of the line.

Once attached as a son, Edward Arnold (abt.1800-aft.1821) has been removed as an impossible fit for this family.

Sources

1. ↑ Our Research for father, Samuel Arnold
2. ↑ Passenger and Immigration Lists Index 1500s-1900s compiled by Gale Research of Farmington Hills, Michigan; on ancestry.com citing P. William Filby

• Westmoreland County, Virginia Deed Book#1 p340

• York County, Virginia Wills, Deeds & Orders v3 p56

• Rappahannock County, Virginia Deed Book#1 p11; IV: p130, 181, 191, 485, 487-488; V: p93

• "King William County, Virginia from Old Newspapers and Files" by Elizabeth Howes Ryland p4-5

• "Old New Kenty County - Some Account of the Planters, Plantations, and Places in New Kent County" v1 by Malcolm Hart Harris, M.D. in 1977; p422, 818-819; citing (a) Minutes of the Council and General Court p457; (b) Calendar of State Papers, Colonial Series, Americas and West Indies, 1677-1780 p8, entries#143, 196; (c) C.O. 5, Vol. 1371 p475-476

• Arnold Family Association of the South, Documents - abstracts containing Anthony Arnold beginning in 1653

• Bibiography v13 Dec 1982 shows descent from Anthony Arnold for members of the organization; also lists prior issues with published records relating to Anthony Arnold line; useful for understanding how this line works

• "Virginia Under the Stuarts" by Thomas Jefferson Wertenbaker & Princeton University Press of Princeton, NJ in 1914; p202

• "Tidewater Virginia Families" v5 #1 May/Jun 1996; "Saint Stephen's Parish, King and Queen County, James Madison and the Bill of Rights," by Lt-Col. James W. Doyle, Jr., p9-17; citing "Cavaliers and Pioneers" by Nell Marion Nugent & Genealogical Publishing Company of Baltimore, MD in 1983; 1:276,366; II:338

• "Some ancestors and descendants of Benjamin Arnold, King William County, Virginia, and Greenville, South Carolina" by Hazel Arnold MacIvor & Arnold Family Association of the South in 1974 Lake Orion, Michigan; p15, 33-34; citing (a) VMHB XXXIV p113-119, 252-258; (b) McIlwaine, "Minutes of the Council and General Court" p372, 381; Text: 29 Feb 1676/1677 Anthony ARNOLD "caught in open rebellion"

• "The Governor and the Rebel, A History of Bacon's Rebellion in Virginia" by Wilcomb E. Washburn & Chapel Hill, University of North Carolina Press in 1957; p11,14,30,90; citing BPRO, American and West Indies Correspondece, CO 1/39; 20 Jan 1676 letter of Thomas Notley, Governor of Maryland

• BPRO, CO 5-1371-152

• "Statutes at Large" edited by William Waller Hening; v2 p370 (NY, R.W. & W.G. Bartow 1823); Text: A Court at Green Spring the 9th day of March 1676/7; Anthony ARNOLD being convicted for divers Rebellions Treasons and other misdemeanors by him committed against his Majestie The Grand Jury brought in their Virdict Billa Vera and the Jury of Life and death brought in their Virdict, Guilty According to the indictment. Sentence of death therefore paste upon him According to Forme 15th Instant. [N.B. - I have not seen this reference. It was sent to me by a correspondent. It seems to disagree with Gov. Berkeley’s proclamation where he states Anthony ARNOLD is "now in prison" on 08 February 1677 (N.S.)]

• "Bacon's Rebellion 1676" by Thomas Jefferson Wertenbaker; British Public Record Office in London England, "Colonial Office" series#5, 1371; p51-52, 152; Berkeley seems to have "overawed or intimidated the Commissioners for it was they had advised ARNOLD be hanged in his own country."

• "Minutes of the Council and General Court of Colonial Virginia" by McIlwaine; p457, 530; Text: When Anthony ARNOLD, who was one of the sturdiest supporters of the rebellion, was brought into Court, he boldly defended the right of the people to resist oppression. "It is well known that I have no kindness for Kings", he told the Court. "They have no rights but what they got by conquest and the sword, and he that can by force of the sword deprive them of it has as good and just a title to it as the King himself. If the King should deny to do me right I would make no more to sheathe my sword in this heart or bowels than of my mortal enemies." The Court was sorry that the country was not “capable of executing the sentence peculiar to traitors according to the laws and customs of England." This was to hang the victim for several minutes, cut him down while still alive, rip him open, cut off his head, and then quarter him. So they contended themselves with hanging him in chains, "to be a more remarkable example than the rest".

• "English Duplicates of Lost Virginia Records" by Louis des Cognets & privately printed in 1958 Princeton, NJ; p66

• "Colonial Virginia" by Morton v1 p279, 291; 07 April 1677 Petition of the four poor distressed orphans of Anthony ARNOLD: To the Commissioners for Virginia - For restitution of their father’s small estate, who was executed for being concerned in Bacon’s Rebellion; Text: To the Right Honourable Herbert Jeffries, Esq. Governor and Capt. Generall of Virginia and His Majestie’s Honourable Commissioners; The humble petition of the four poore distressed orphans of Anthony ARNOLD Most Humbly Showeth, That your poore petitioners ffather (having been by the spurious though false pretensions of Nathaniel Bacon, Junior) seduced into this late Rebellion being arraigned and found guilty was executed for same and his estate (falling by Order of law) Unto our Sovereign Lord the King, hath left your poore distressed petitioners destitute of maintenance and Relief, but such as the charity of some persons moved with the distressedness of our sad and deplorable conditions hath bestowed upon us. However it may please your honor (your petitioners tender and miserable condition considered) toe nothing doubt but that his Most sacred Majestie, out of his grace and accustomed pitty will favourably allow your honours to charitably act in bestowing on your poor petitioners that small estate for their maintainence and education, doth it please God Almighty of his mercy and goodness to Lend unto their ffather soe therefore most humbly inplore your honours clemency and goodness for their Relief in the Premesis. And your poore petitioners shall as in our bond ever pray for your Honours. ref: "Sainsbury Abstracts v16 (1676-1677) p237 "Colonial Papers"

• "A True Relation of the History of King and Queen County in Virginia 1607-1790" (County Committee in connection with the Celebration of Virginia's 350th anniversary in 1957

• Our Research & Notes for Anthony Arnold

• http://www.usgwarchives.net/special/tafq/tafq1.htm