Dorothy (Lewis) Smith (abt. 1737 - 1781)

Born about 3 Sep 1737 in Spotsylvania County, Colony of Virginia

Ancestors

Wife of Charles Smith — married 13 Apr 1762 in Colony of Virginia [uncertain]

Descendants

Died 23 Mar 1781 at about age 43 in Berkeley Parish, Spotsylvania County, Colony of Virginia

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Biography

alt birth date is sep 5, 1728 but it appears to be wrong and 1737 is correct

1749-1759 Spotsylvania County, Virginia Will Book B; [William Armstrong Crozier]; WALLER, JOHN, Gentl. Spotsylvania Co., d. Aug. 2, 1753, p. Oct. 1, 1754. Wit. John Semple, Thomas Collins, Larkin Chew, Harry Beverley. Ex. wife; sons, John, Thomas, William, and my son Benjamin Waller to be executor in trust. Leg. son John, five hundred acres of land in the Parish of St. John, in the Co. of King William, also 400 acres of land in Spotsylvania Co., surveyed by Nathaniel Claybourn, Surveyor, and patented in my own name Sept. 28, 1730; grandson, Pomfrett Waller; son, Thomas Waller, the land bought of Majr. William Todd, in Spotsylvania Co. adjoining the lands of Zachary Lewis, Majr. Rice Curtis, Mr. Vass, William Bradburn and Mr. Stubblefield; grandson John Waller, son of Thomas Waller; granddaughter Dorothy Quarles, daughter of my son Thomas Waller; son, William Waller, 400 acres patented in my name Feb. 21, 1726, now in Spotsylvania Co., formerly in King William Co. adjoining the lands of Zachary Lewis, and after my wife's death, all that tract of land I bought of Majr. William Todd in Spotsylvania Co., whereon I now live, and obtained a patent for Apr. 25, 1726, also my tract of land I bought of Capt. Philip Todd, in Spotsylvania, Co., patented in my own name June 3, 1726, adjoining the land I live on, and Mr. Coleman's and Mr. Shackleford's; grandson, William Waller, son of William Waller; grandson, John Waller, son of William Waller; son, Benjamin Waller; son, Edmund Waller; grandson, John Waller, son of Edmund Waller; grandson, Benjamin, son of Edmund Waller; grandson, William Edmund Waller, son of Edmund Waller; granddaughter, Mary Waller daughter of Edmund Waller; daughter, Mary Waller, now the wife of Zachary Lewis; granddaughter, Betty Lewis; granddaughter, Lucy Lewis; granddaughter, Dorothy Lewis; grandson, Waller Lewis; great-grandson, John Zachary Lewis; grandson, John Lewis, my secretare that i left at Mrs. Margaret Gordon's, in the room I used to lie in when there. Unto all the rest of my grandchildren, except my granddaughter, Mary Meriwether, and except those above mentioned, as I have given young negroes apiece in this my will, twenty shillings, to be paid six months after my decease. Wife, Dorothy. To son, William Waller, and grandson, John Waller, son of Edmund Waller, all the residue of my tract of 1,000 acres of land that I took up in my son John's name Sept. 28, 1728, and by him conveyed to me. Codicil to the foregoing will, dated Aug. 15, 1754, with John Minor and John Sams as witnesses, revokes the clause devising to his son, William Waller, and his grandson, John, son of Edmund Waller, the residue of land patented Sept. 28, 1728, in the name of his son, John, and devises the said land to Leonard James Mourning Waller, son of Edmund Waller. (Page 216)

LEWIS, Zachary, Spotsylvania County, d. July 7, 1764, p. Feb 4, 1765. Wit. Lewis Shackleford, Mary Shackleford, John Waller. Ex. sons, John, Zachary, Waller, Benjamin, and my wife's brother, Mr. John Waller. Leg. son, John, land in Spotsylvania County, adjoining where I now live; son, Zachary, lands purchased of Joseph Thomas, Robert Turner and Anthony Golson; son, Waller; son, Benjamin; to sons John, Zachary, Waller and Benjamin, 900 acres of land and grist mill lying in Orange County, which I purchased of Graves and J. Sneed, also my lands and tenements lying in Culpeper County, at the Great Mountains; wife, Mary; daughters, Meriwether; Betty Littlepage; Lucy Ford; Dorothea Smith; son-in-law, James Littlepage. (page 163)

Sources

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