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Ann (Leatherbury) Plaskett (1693 - 1762)

Ann Plaskett formerly Leatherbury aka Burton
Born in Sussex County, Delaware Colonymap
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Daughter of and
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Wife of — married 1710 (to 1730) in Sussex County, Delaware Colonymap
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Mother of , , , , , and
Died at age 69 in Sussex County, Delaware Colonymap
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Biography

Name: Ann /Leatherbury/[1][2][3][4]
Birth Date: 30 Oct 1693 in Accomack County, Virginia Colony [5][6][7][8]
Death Date: 23 Dec 1762 in Indian River Hundred, Sussex County, Delaware Colony[9][10][11][12]
Burial: White House Cemetery, Sussex, Delaware, USA. Gravestone Inscription: [13]
Here lies the body of Ann Plaskett, who departed this life December 23, 1762, age 69 yrs. 1 mo. 23 days
1st Marriage Date: About 1710 in Indian River Hundred, Sussex County, Delaware. [14][15]
Husband: Woolsey Burton
Wife: Ann Leatherbury
Child: Woolsey Burton
Child: Comfort Burton
Child: John Burton
Child: Anne Burton
Child: Benjamin Burton
Child: Agnes Burton
Child: Patience Burton
Child: William Burton
2nd Marriage Date: About 1735 in Sussex County, Delaware
Husband: John Plaskett
No Children

Will of Woolsey Burton

Ann was made the executor of her first husband's will, which was written in 1728 and proved in July of 1730.

She received this bequest from her husband "My best feather bed and furniture, best riding horse and two breeding mares. Also the use of all my negro slaves and their issue to be divided amongst my children that shall be then living viz. my youngest child to have the first choice and so – obscured--"

This will also refers to an inheritance from Ann's father: "Also.. my part in the right of my wife of? -- in eleven hundred acres of land which was first –blank—the last will and testament of my father-in-law Robt. Burton, decd. "

Sources

  1. ↑ Source: #S00003 Page: Database online. Data: Text: Record for Woolsey Burton
  2. ↑ Source: #S00003 Page: Database online. Data: Text: Record for Woolsey Burton
  3. ↑ Source: #S00003 Page: Database online. Data: Text: Record for Woolsey Burton
  4. ↑ Source: #S00003 Page: Database online. Data: Text: Record for Ann Leatherbury
  5. ↑ Source: #S00003 Database online. Record for Woolsey Burton
  6. ↑ Source: #S00003 Database online. Record for Woolsey Burton
  7. ↑ Source: #S00003 Database online. Record for Woolsey Burton
  8. ↑ Source: #S00003 Database online. Record for Ann Leatherbury
  9. ↑ Source: #S00003 Database online. Record for Woolsey Burton
  10. ↑ Source: #S00003 Database online. Record for Woolsey Burton
  11. ↑ Source: #S00003 Database online. Record for Woolsey Burton
  12. ↑ Source: #S00003 Database online. Record for Ann Leatherbury
  13. ↑ Find A Grave: Memorial #103193220 retrieved 14 Nov 2018 Ann Burton Plaskett
  14. ↑ Source: #S00003 Database online. Record for Woolsey Burton
  15. ↑ Source: #S00003 Database online. Record for Woolsey Burton
  • Delaware, Wills and Probate Records, , 1676-1971: Sussex: General index 1682-1948 Wills, book A 1682-1781. Image 419-420. FamilySearch.org [1] accessed 17 Oct 2019.
Will of WOOLSEY BURTON
Signed: 9 Apr 1728; Proved 18 July 1730
Heirs: wife, Ann Burton ; children: John Burton, Woolsey Burton, Benjamin Burton, Ann Burton, Agnes Burton, Comfort Burton, Patience Burton
Executors: wife Ann Burton
Witnesses: [blank] Cummings, Thomas Gear, Phil. Russell
  • Sussex, Delaware Orphan’s Court dockets and minute dockets, 1728-1802. Image: 67. Images available at FamilySearch.org : [2]
4 Mar 1739/40
”Benjamin Burton, a minor son of Wollsey Burton of the County of Sussex Esq. dec’d qppeared in court & prayed a citation may be issued for John Plasket and Ann his wife executors of sd Woolsey Burton, that they be & appear at a Court of Orphans to be held on the first day of April -?- in order that they then & there make up ye account of ye afs. dec. Estate.”
  • Sussex, Delaware Orphan’s Court dockets and minute dockets, 1728-1802. Image: 136. Images available at FamilySearch.orghttps://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3Q9M-C956-H99N-V?i=135&cat=43210]
8 July 1748
Sarah Leatherbery, daughter of Sarah Leatherbery, aged two years the first day of January 1748 was this day bound out unto Ann Plaskett of sd. County, widow & hereafter with them to dwell & serve until she arrives to ye age of sixteen years.”
  • Sussex, Delaware Orphan’s Court dockets and minute dockets, 1728-1802. Image: 222. Images available at FamilySearch.org [3]
1 Mar 1763
The account of John, Benjamin & William Burton, Execu’r of Ann Plaskett late of Sussex on Delaware
Heirs of residuary estate: John, Benjamin, Agnes, Burton Waples, Patience and William Burton £32.6.9 each.
  • Source: S00003 Ancestry.com. Public Member Trees. Publication: The Generations Network, Inc.; Provo, UT, USA; Date: 2006; Repository: #R00001 Repository: R00001 www.ancestry.com .




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Snow-2128 Chet Snow
The paternity of the children of Comfort (Bagwell) Leatherbury, Burton, has been a genealogical controversy for over half a century. The best evidence so far is that her 1st husband died ca. 1709 as his Will was proven then; so any children born before 1706 were most-likely his. She married recent-widower Robert Burton ca. 1712/13 and children after that were his. It was not uncommon for a 2nd husband to "adopt" orphan children of his new wife and add them as "his" children to his Will. Until "non-will" evidence is found clearly stating that this Ann, born in 1693, was Robert Burton's daughter by his 1st wife, Catherine, her parentage should remain as is.
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AM Hayes
Is William Burton a posthumous son of Woolsey? He is not in Woolsey's will.
posted by AM Hayes
AM Hayes
I suggest that Ann the wife of Woolsey Burton was not a Leatherbury but a Burton, the daughter of Robert Burton
  1. Her husband's will refers to "my part in the right of my wife of? -- in eleven hundred acres of land which was first –blank—the last will and testament of my father-in-law Robt. Burton, decd."
  2. Also, the bio of Robert Burton has this as a child: Ann Burton, b. 01 Nov 1693, Accomac Co. Va., d. 23 Dec 1762. Burial as Ann Plaskett, age 69 yrs. 1 mo. 23 days at Millsboro-White House Point of Long Neck, Sussex Co. Delaware -- although a profile for a daughter Ann has not been set up. The bio here suggests that her final surname was Plaskett.
posted by AM Hayes

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