Daniel Meadows (abt. 1691 - bef. 1755)

Born about 1691 in Colony of Virginia [uncertain]

Ancestors

Husband of Jane Elizabeth (Woodlief) Meadows — married about 1730 in Virginia

Descendants

Died before 16 Apr 1755 before about age 64 in Granville County, Province of North Carolina

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Biography

Daniel Meadows was born, say, 1685, and died 7 April 1755 in Granville County, North Carolina.

Daniel Meadows was a tailor when be bought 50 acres in Prince George County, Virginia in 1712. He bought 100 acres, adjoining the 50 acres in 1717.

Daniel Medow owned an indenture against James Lundy , Sep. 10,1717, Prince George, Virginia, court.(See page 77.)^[1]

court.14 According to James Wilburn Richardson, Daniel Meadows and wifOn 7 June 1717 in Prince George County, Virginia, Robert Burchet of Westopher Parish, Prince George County, sold to Duglas Irby, of same, for £20, 200 acres in the same parish next to Daniel Meadows, Mathew Smart, Senr., William Mattock, and Littlebury Epes. Mathew Smart, John Young, and Daniel Meadows witnessed this deed. Daniel Meadows of Prince George County, bought from James Lundy of Isle of Wight County, Virginia, 7 October 1717, for £5, 100 acres next to Meadows’s land, purchased of Peter Fairfax. This deed was witnessed by Douglas Irby, Mathew Smart, and William Mattox. Elizabeth, wife of James Lundy, relinquished dower rights in this land. The land where Daniel lived was originally patented to Henry Batt and James Thweatt in Charles City County, 20 April 1682, for 673 acres, south side James River.10 3 June 1693, Henry Batt and James Thweatt of Bristol Parish, Charles City County, sold to Robert Birchett of Westover Parish, same county, for £20, 303 acres now in occupation of Birchett in Westover Parish on Bland’s Swamp and crossing Blackwater Road, as by patent to Batt and Thweatt.11 Daniel Meadows owed a debt of £3/6 to Edward Woodlief in Prince George County, Virginia, in 1718. Woodlief left this debt to his wife Sarah in his will.12 Daniel Meadows had a suit against Burrell Green at the 10 February 1718 court in Prince George. It was dismissed.13 Daniel Meadows was on the grand jury in Prince George at the 10 November 1719 e, Elizabeth Jan e Jennings, have no record than can identify them. There are no records of t heir entry into the colonies and no records at all after they had their son, Isham, christened. It is believed that they were fro the James River area. The records of this area have been destroyed three times by the British and b y the Union Army in the Civil War.This individual was found on GenCircles at: http://www.gencircles.com/users/lawrencek-2/1/data/100 According to research by Michal Farmer: A Coroner's Inquest into the death of Daniel Meadows was done 16 April 1755 in Granville County, North Carolina, before James Paine, coroner - Daniel Meadows was found dead about sixty or seventy yards from his house lying on his back and died by the act of God a natural death.

Daniel Meadows of Prince George County, bought from James Lundy of Isle of Wight County, Virginia, 7 October 1717, for £5, 100 acres next to Meadows’s land, purchased of Peter Fairfax. This deed was witnessed by Douglas Irby, Mathew Smart, and William Mattox. Elizabeth Lundy, wife of,James Lundy relinquished dower rights in this land.^[2]

He married Jane Elizabeth Woodleif 1730 Virginia

Inquest of the death of Daniel Meadows was done 16 April 1755 in Granville County, North Carolina, before James Paine, coroner. Daniel Medows was found dead about sixty or seventy yards from his house lying on his back and died by the act of God a natural death.3 The verso of the Inquest includes the names Silvanus Stanton,4 Mary Medows, and Thos. Morris. Their connection to Daniel isn’t known. Daniel Meadows was a tailor when he bought 50 acres in Prince George County, Virginia, in 1712. He bought 100 acres, adjoining the 50 acres in 1717. This land was near Blackwater Swamp, probably about seven miles southeast of Petersburg, Virginia. Prince George County was formed in 1703 from the part of Charles City County lying south of James River. 1 Churchill Gibson Chamberlayne, Births from the Bristol Parish Register of Henrico, Prince George, and Dinwiddie Counties, Virginia 1720–1798 (Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Co., 1980), p. 67. Isham, son of Daniel and Jane Meadows, was born Feb. 16th 1740/1, baptized Jan. 3d 1741/2. 2 She was not Jane Woodliffe as several people have stated. There is no evidence of a Jane Woodliffe. See Virginia M. Meyer & John Frederick Dorman, Adventurers of Purse and Person, Virginia (Richmond, Virginia: The Dietz Press, Inc., 1987), p. 705–707. Also see published abstracts of records of Charles City and Prince George Counties by Fleet and Weisiger. 3 Granville Co., N.C., Coroner’s Inquest of Daniel Medows, 16 April 1755, N.C. State Archives in Box C.R. 044.928.6. 4 Silvanus Stanton lived in Prince George Co., Va., in 1750. See Southampton Co., Va., Deed Book 1, p. 179–181. Stanton later lived in Northampton Co., N.C.

June 4, 1755 Isham Meadows, 15 years old on Feb. 16, 1755 , orphan of Dan. Meadows. Bound to Col. Wm. Person to learn Cooper’s trade, to be given years schooling.^[3]

There were no Meadows included in the 1704 Prince George County, Rent Roll, so Daniel probably moved to Prince George between 1704 and 1712. Daniel was the only Meadows in Prince George County.5 Daniel didn’t patent any land in Virginia and no surviving state level patent lists him as a transportee. Although there were a few Meadows in other Virginia counties at this time, Daniel appears to have no connection with them. Daniel’s parents and origins aren’t known. Daniel was a yeoman, a small farmer who cultivated his own land, and belonged to a class of freeholders below the gentry. He was in the small middle class. This group was always a minority of Virginia’s population from 1680 to 1760. Overall, it ranged from about twenty to thirty percent of the population. The elite planters made up about ten percent of the population. The bottom sixty to seventy percent of Virginia’s male population owned no land at all. They were tenants or laborers.6 In the eighteenth century, few men in Virginia rose above the social order in which they were born. Daniel’s father was probably a small farmer too. The surviving records of Prince George County, Virginia, don’t reveal how Daniel Meadows might have been related to any of his neighbors. His wife Jane was probably a daughter of a yeoman too. In Prince George County, Virginia, 11 August 1712, Peter Fairfax of Prince George County, sold to Daniel Meadows of same, taylor, 50 acres at present in possession of said Fairfax, being land due to said Fairfax by bill of sale from Robert Birchett and bounded by head of Bland’s Swamp and the Quaker Path. James Thweatt and E. Goodrich witnessed the deed.7 5 Prince George Co., Va., is a “burned county.” Some early records do survive, but most have been lost. Daniel is the only Meadows in the surviving records. 6 David Hackett Fischer, Albion’s Seed (Oxford University Press, 1989), p. 374. 7 Benjamin B. Weisiger, III, “Prince George Co., Va. Wills & Deeds 1710–1713,” Magazine of Virginia Genealogy, Vol. 29, #3 (Aug. 1991), p. 210. DB1710–1713, p. 155 (signed) Pr. Fairfax. 12 Aug. 1712, Fairfax and wife came into court and acknowledged the deed.

There was a suit in Prince George County, Virginia, in 1739. Suit of William and Francis Poythress, executors of the estate of John Fitzgerrald, deceased vs. Daniel Meadows. The court found for the plaintiff.

Daniel and Jane have a son , Isham born Feb. 16,1740,Bristol Parish , Prince George ,Virginia.^[4][5]

According to James Wilburn Richardson, Daniel Meadows and wife, Elizabeth Jan e Jennings, have no record than can identify them. There are no records of t heir entry into the colonies and no records at all after they had their son, Isham, christened. It is believed that they were fro the James River area. The records of this area have been destroyed three times by the British and b y the Union Army in the Civil War.This individual was found on GenCircles at: http://www.gencircles.com/users/lawrencek-2/1/data/100

May, 1779 Acctg of Est by Daniel Meadows.^[6]

Research Notes

Unsourced Relationship

Daniel was reported as the son of John Meador and his first wife, Elizabeth White, of Essex County, Virginia. There are no sources, except for trees without documentation, to support such a claim. All of John's children by his first wife Elizabeth who were living at the time of John's second marriage were named in a deed of gift by John at that time. In addition, John and Elizabeth lived in Essex County, Virginia, not Prince George County. Some of there children did move to Anson County, North Carolina, but not to Granville County, North Carolina. And the family name, at that time, was Meador, not Meadows.

There was a Meadows family that lived in Granville County, North Carolina in the 1770s and 1780s, and research on their families might provide more information on Daniel. Knott-279 17:34, 12 December 2015 (EST)

Possible Relationship

Henry Meddows may have been a relative of this man. They lived in the same area . Needs research. See Meddows_Meadows-1. Blackwater,Surry County ,Virginia being the family homestead in common.

Sources

1. ↑ https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3Q9M-CS4X-W1FN?i=76&cat=395852
2. ↑ Ibid, p. 24. Part II, p. 188. (signed) James (I) Lundy. Reg. 8 Oct. 1717.
3. ↑ [InternetShortcut] URL=https://www.ncgenweb.us/ncgranville/other/orph-bnd.htm
4. ↑ "Virginia Births and Christenings, 1584-1917", database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:VR51-MBG : 28 January 2020), Daniel Meadows in entry for Isham Meadows, 1741.
5. ↑ https://www.familysearch.org/library/books/records/item/118117-births-1720-1792-from-the-bristol-parish-register-of-henrico-prince-george-and-dinwiddie?offset=2&viewer=1&medianame=FL5104057_346615_000001&q=bristol%20parish%20birth%20records#page=68&viewer=picture&o=search&n=0&q=bristol%20parish%20birth%20records
6. ↑ http://www.sadiesparks.com/jmangum.htm

See also:

• Source: Michal Farmer's home page contains much more information on this family. [1]
• fiftygenerations Web Site, Cathy Ann Abernathy (fiftygenerations), Daniel Meadows (Reliability: 3), 11 Feb 2012. Added by confirming a Smart Match