Humphrey Pope (abt. 1649 - 1684)

Born about 1649 in Bristol, Gloucestershire, England [uncertain]

Husband of Elizabeth (Hawkins) Muckleroy — married 1670 in Westmoreland, Virginia

Descendants

Died 30 Oct 1684 at about age 35 in Popes Creek, Westmoreland, Colony of Virginia [uncertain]

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Biography

Humphrey Pope was a Virginia colonist.

Research Notes

Humphrey Pope Sr. of Westmoreland County, Virginia September 1999 -- New Information Uncovered

A team of genealogists, conducting a new research project based on the ORIGINAL records of Westmoreland County as transcribed by John Frederick Dorman, from Westmoreland Deeds, Wills & Order Books, has proved that ALL 3 OF THE MAJOR PRINTED SOURCES CONTAIN SERIOUS ERRORS that have misled researchers for many years. Articles containing the results of the research project are in the process of being written for publication. In the interim, these facts are being made available so that all databases can be corrected to squelch the further spread of the errors. More information can be obtained from Lou Andrews Murphy, a member of the research team, who presented this material.

Humphrey Pope Sr. was born circa 1648-50 and died between Sep 1683 and Jun 1684. He married Elizabeth Hawkins, daughter of Richard Hawkins and Katherine (--?--) of Northumberland County, Virginia, and had 5 children: Elizabeth, Humphrey Jr., Lawrence, John and Mary. (They did NOT have a daughter named Jemima.)

It is now proven that Humphrey Pope Sr. was NOT the son of either Lt. Col. Nathaniel Pope and wife Lucy, OR of Col. Nathaniel's son Thomas who married Joanna. No record connects Humphrey Sr. with this other Pope family. If some degree of kinship existed, it has not yet been discovered.^[1]

The children of Nathaniel and Lucy Pope are well documented and no son named Humphrey is a part of this family.

Humphrey Pope was born some time between 1648 and 1650 according to his own statement. On November 19th 1673, he was "age 24 or thereabouts".

Reference : W'moreland Deeds, Patents, 1665-1677.

Humphrey Pope was transported to America by Major John Washington and Thomas Pope, along with 23 other persons some time after September 4th 1661.

Reference : Cavaliers and pioneers; Patent Book No. 5; Page 449. Humphrey Pope and Elizabeth Hawkins had five children, Humphrey Jr., Lawrence, John, Elizabeth and Mary.

Elizabeth Hawkins remarried twice after Humphrey's death. First to Richard Youell and then to Patrick Muckleroy.

Humphrey Pope received 150 acres in W'moreland Co by deed from Thomas Pope on February 2nd 1669. Reference : W'moreland Deeds & Wills #1, 1653-71. Humphrey Pope was security for John Quisenberry on May 12th 1683 in old Rappahannock County, Virginia. Reference : Deeds & Wills of Old Rappahannock County Virginia

Humphrey Pope died between September of 1683, when he was security for John Butler, and June 30th of 1684, when his widow, Elizabeth, proved his will in W'moreland Court. Reference : W'moreland Order Book 1675-1688/9.

Richard Hawkins' wife was Katherine, not "Elizabeth", proven by a deed dated 18 Nov 1658 signed by Richard & Katherine Hawkins.

Family links:

Spouse: Elizabeth Hawkins Pope (____ - 1717)

Children: Elizabeth Sarah Pope Payne (1677 - 1716)*

Burial: Non-Cemetery Burial Specifically: Location of burial unknown.

Created by: Ancestor Hunter Record added: Mar 14, 2015 Find A Grave Memorial# 1437255

JOURNAL ARTICLE

Humphrey Pope and His Descendants The William and Mary Quarterly Vol. 13, No. 4 (Apr., 1905), pp. 280-284 Published by: Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture DOI: 10.2307/1916163 Stable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/1916163 Page Count: 5 Topics: Sons, Children, Daughters, Estate administration, Muses, Descendants

Notes

LINK: url (Click on link) http://lvaimage.lib.va.us/cgi-bin/GetLONN.pl?first=171&last=&g_p=P5&collec tion=LO Patent

Title Brookes, Henry. Publication 18 November 1662.

Other Format Available on microfilm. Virginia State Land Office. Patents 1-42, reels 1-41. Related See also the following surname(s): Brook, Brooks.

Note Location: Westmoreland County.

Description: 1020 acres on the south side of Potomack River adjoining land of Danl. Liston and Henry Pope.

Source: Land Office Patents No. 5, 1661-1666 (v.1 & 2 p.1-369), p. 171 (Reel 5).

p. 426 "Col. Humphrey Pope, Gentleman, Immigrant, was born probably at Bristol, England, married Elizabeth Hawkins, dau. of Richard Hawkins; inventory made 1696 in Westmoreland County, Virginia. "Will Bk. 2, p. 61 - Debts due to Tobacco Bat & Field ordred into hand of William Payne, Gent. for use of Humphrey Pope's 5 orphans, 1696

He made a will in Westmoreland County, Virginia, 20 MAR 1696. "Debts due to Tobacco Bat & Field ordered into hand of William Payne, Gent. for use of Humprhrey Pope's 5 orphans." Sent by Kathleen - A more complete record of Humphrey Pope and his descendants is in William & Mary College Quarterly, Series I, Vol. XIII:280-281 - also Westmoreland Will Books are filled with their wills. Another source, McCartys of the Northen Neck_, Chapter 8, by W. M. McCarty.

CAVALIERS AND PIONEERS; PATENT BOOK NO. 5; pg 449 MAJOR JOHN WASHINGTON & THOMAS POPE, 1200 acs. W'moreland Co., 4 Sept. 1661, p. 171, (54). S. side of Potomack Riv. upon branches of Appamattox, at N.W. cor. of land belonging to Mr. Nathaniell Pope &c. to E.most side of a run that falls into Rappa. Riv. &c. to poynt on the W.most side of a swamp, crossing branches of Appamattox Cr. to the beg. Trans. of 24 pers: Humphry Pope, Isaack Berkly, Rich Higsden, Wm. Buffett, Samll. Green, Eliz. Norton, Ann Clerke, Thomas Browne, Richard Taylor, Charles Colkett, Joseph Bennett, John Coffer, John Butler, Robert Owen, Edward Pickery, John Walker, Thomas Rose, Margt. Clerke, Darcus Rose, Ann Bigney, Ann Shakelton, Mary Haggell (or Haggett), Elizabeth Powell, Joseph Tea (?

Prince George's County, Maryland - Land Owners at Time PGCo Was Formed - 1696: Tract Name: POPLETON (ASSIGNEE OF J DAVIS); Owner: Pope, Henry: Orig County = V Charles = C, Calvert = V; Patent Date: Jan 12, 1658: Ref: Liber Q f 282 : Map Location: X-22

contributed by Marianne Dillow To: MDSTMARY@rootsweb.com Sent: Sun, October 3, 2010 10:24:27 PM Subject: [MDSTMARY] Humphrey and Col. Nathaniel Pope

Source: "Genealogical Memoranda of the Quisenberry Family In Virginia" by Anderson Chenault Quisenberry

By DNA testing my Moses Cushenberry matches with the male testers that can prove their lineage back to John Quisenberry, the immigrant, that married Anne Pope , dau of Humphrey Pope and Elizabeth Hawkins. Many have my Humphrey as the son of Col. Nathaniel Pope which is not true but there are connections it seems.

I have been receiving emails off the mailing list and there is no data that backs up the claim Humphrey Pope that married Elizabeth Hawkins is the son of Col. Nathaniel Pope.

John Quisenberry (my line) seemed to be around them and he married Anne Pope who many say is the daughter of Humphrey Pope.

John Quisenberry, so far as is known, had but three children, all sons-John, William, and Humphrey. John Quisenberry's old homestead is still standing. It is a small, unpretentious house, built more with a view to durability than for show, and it has weathered the storms of more than two centuries. It adjoins the lands taken up in 1651 by Thomas Pope, and afterwards sold to Hon. Thomas Lee, who erected upon them about 1730 the historic Stratford Hall," still standing, the birthplace of Richard Henry Lee and Francis Lightfoot Lee, two signers of the Declaration of Independence, and of Robert E. Lee, the great Confederate General; and it is only a few miles away from the site of "Wakefield", the first home of the Washingtons in America, where George Washington was born. It is not known what, if anything, John Quisenberry called his home; but it is now known as the "Old Quisenberry Place", and is owned by a man named Jenkins, who has made it the model farm of Westmoreland county." John Quisenberry, the pioneer, is described in old legal documents as a planter", and his own depositions show that he sometimes acted as a surveyor's assistant. The deeds still in existence show that he owned three hundred acres of land; and he almost certainly owned other lands, the records of which were destroyed by fire at Northumberland Courthouse and at Richmond. He and his family were communicants of the Anglican or Episcopalian Church, and were members of the famous old Pope's Creek Church, one of the two original churches in the Washington Parish of Westmoreland county." John Quisenberry, as has been shown, had three sons-John, William, and Humphrey, and it is from Humphrey, the youngest of the three, that the Kentucky branch of the family are descended. Under the laws of primogeniture that then prevailed in Virginia, as well as under his father's will, William, the eldest son (John having died in 1695), inherited practically the whole of his father's estate; but Humphrey had been making his own way. We find from the records that on July 6, 1695, he bought of Christopher Pritchett one hundred acres of land. This land, lying on the north side of the great road that goeth from Pope's Creek to the head of Perpeto Creek", it transpires, was in old Rappahannock county, which comprised portions of the present counties of King George, Richmond and Essex-and was formed about 1660, and was swallowed up by the formation of those counties some years afterwards, disappearing entirely. The present Rappahannock county, Virginia, in an entirely different locality, was not formed until 1820.

John Quisenberry, Sr. the Pioneer" died in Westmoreland County, VA. He married Anne Pope, sister of Humphrey Pope. He was a planter and sometimes acted as a surveyor's assistant. John settled in Virginia at some time prior to 1651, for the most part, in the "Northern Neck" of Northumberland and Westmoreland Counties. In 1651, he assisted in surveying the "Stratford" or Thomas Lee estate in Northumberland County, VA (now Westmoreland County), and in 1666, he bought one hundred acres of land adjoining that estate when it was still the property of Thomas Pope, of whose heirs Thomas Lee bought it. Thomas Lee erected the historic Stratford Hall about 1730 on the land. John also bought one hundred acres of land from John Butler in 1656 in Westmoreland County, VA, and in 1691, bought from Malachi Peale his remaining interest of two hundred acres in a patent. John's will is dated 23 Nov 1714 was probated 27 Nov 1717. John and Ann's children were John, William, and Humphrey. These are the only two records found that connect Humphrey Pope with Nathaniel's family but they almost certainly indicate family connection of some sort.

Also.... from my cousin....

Some years back I explored the connection between Col. Humphrey Pope and Col. Nathaniel using Pope wills from Bristol, England and here are my notes with a few additions of what I found: I think that our best chance of connecting the two will be found in "Old" England. I have every reason to believe that Col. Humphrey Pope and Col. Nathaniel Pope belonged to the Bristol, Gloucestershire family who had members involved in the Whitsun Court Sugar House and had members that were merchants in the importation of sugar from the West Indies and tobacco from the colonies.

According to Wm. & Mary College Quarterly, Vol. 1, No. 4, April 1893, page 177, we have: Power of Attorney from Thomas Pope of Bristol, England, merchant, to Wm. Hardidge, merchant, dated June 19th 1677, and recorded in Westmoreland.

William Hardidge was no other than Colonel Nathaniel Pope's son-in-law mentioned in his will dated May 16, 1659, probated April 20, 1660, found on page 188 of same article. Here we have a solid connection of Nathaniel Pope's son-in-law to the Bristol family and by inference also Nathaniel Pope. In addition we have "Power of Attorney, 1709, from Joanna Pope, Bristol, England, widow, to her son Nathaniel Pope of Pope's Creek." found on page 188, another clue showing a Bristol connection. Joanna Pope, I believe, was the wife of Thomas Pope who transported and sold land to Col. Humphrey Pope.

I now have the will of John Pope, Merchant of Bristol, dated 1658, probated April 15, 1668. He mentions his daughters Abigail and Sarah Pope, sons Richard Pope, Michael Pope, and John Pope. According to a posting by a Charles Johnson to the Bristol Rootsweb list, this John Pope had two other children and this John Pope made a trip to Virginia in 1653 to make a contract with John Washington, the same person who transported Col. Humphrey Pope. And now here's the interesting part, he also mentions that John Pope's son Michael had a son named Humphrey.

I also have the will of Thomas Pope, Merchant of Bristol, probated August 8, 1681, who may very well be the one who gave power of attorney to William Hardidge, Nathaniel's son-in-law. He mentions his brothers Richard Pope and James Pope. He mentions his children ??? Pope, Thomas Pope, Richard Pope, Suzanna Pope, and Anne Pope.

This was sent to me by my cousin who has researched the Pope's both in Virginia and in England.

WESTMORELAND COUNTY, VIRGINIA ORDER BOOK 1679-1682; John Frederick Dorman; Page 164 [ 8 Oct 1679]

Upon the petition of Jno Taylor he is ordered guardian to Wm Knight and to take into his posssession Knights cattle, giveing security and bringing inventory. Jno Quessinborough and Richard Steele security in 500 pounds of tobacco Hump Pope, Allex Galland and Jno Quessinborough appraisers

Humphrey Pope and His Descendants

Source: The William and Mary Quarterly, Vol. 13, No. 4 (Apr., 1905), pp. 280-284 Published by: Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture

Humphrey Pope appears as surety on a bond of John Quisenberry in Rappahannock (now Richmond) county, dated May 12, 1656. He obtained deed from Thomas Pope for 150 acres near the Clifts in Westmoreland county, February 2, 1659. He married Elizabeth, daughter and heir-at-law of Richard Hawkins, as shown by the Westmoreland records. He died about 1695, leaving a will which, however, is not to be found, the book containing it having been lost.

His children, were,1 Lawrence, 2 Humphrey, 3 John, 4 a daughter who married (a)William Payne, of Ye'ocomico, and (b) Daniel McCarty; 5 Jemima, who married Nicholas Minor, and had four sons and a daughter, viz., William Stewart, John, Stewart, Nicholas and Elizabeth Wherret.

Lawrence, eldest son of Humphrey and Elizabeth Pope, married Jemima , relict of John Spence, and daughter of Thomas Waddy, of Northumberland. He lived in Washington Parish, in Westmoreland, and died there. His will was recorded March 2, 1723.

His wife was made his executrix, and his estate was large.

His children were, 1 Humphrey, 2 Thomas, 3 John, 4 Jemima, 5 Anne, 6 Mary, 7 Penelope, 8 Catherine. Humphrey, second son of Humphrey and Elizabeth Pope,

names his mother in a deed to Spencer for land in 1719; makes deed to his brother John in 1704 jointly with his wife "Amey."

His will is dated January 10, 1733; probated October 29, 1731.

This will names wife "Mary," apparently implying a second marriage.

He married, first, Amey, "eldest daughter of Morris Yeale."

His children were 1 Anne, who married Conditt; 2 Sophia, married Muse; 3 Humphrey, 4 John, 5 Sarah, 6 Mary, married William Muse.

John Pope, third son of Humphrey and Elizabeth (Hawkins), died in 1722 without a will. His widow Elizabeth married, secondly,Christopher Mothershead. An inventory of his estate was rendered in 1722.

Humphrey Pope, son of Lawrence and Jemima, married Anne, who signed deed with him to Samuel Damonville, June 29, 1736. His estate was divided 1744. His children were, 1 Sarah (chose William Muse as guardian), 2 Humphrey (chose Thomas Clayter as guardian), 3 Mary (chose Nicholas Minor as guardian), 4 John (chose William Muse as guardian).

Thomas Pope, son of Lawrence and Jemima, died in Westmoreland in 1741. (Will dated February 23, 1741; probated March 8, 1741.) HIe married Mary, one of the four daughters of Samuel Heath, of Northumberland, and had issue one daughter, Elizabeth. His relict, Mary (Heath) Pope, married, second, William Tebbs, of Prince William county.

John Pope, son of Lawrence and Jemima, gave deed October 27, 1738, to Thomas Shaw for land devised to him by his "father Lawrence Pope." He married cousin Sarah, daughter of Christopher Mothershead, who names her in his will of June 1 1, 1745. His children were, 1 John., 2 Lawrence, 3 Anne ("Nancy"), who married Tiffey, and had sons Pope, John and William.

Humphrey Pope, son of Humphrey and Anne (Veale) Pope, lived in Washington Parish. His will was dated August 9, 1759; probated May 27, 1760. He appointed his "loving wife Sarah whole and sole executrix." She was daughter-in-law to Daniel Higdon, and it seems probable, daughter of Nathaniel Pope, whose relict, Margaret, married the said Higdon.

This Nathaniel Pope, of whom records are sadly lacking, was most likely a son of Nathaniel and Jane (Brown) Pope, whose name has not hitherto appeared in the list of their children. ("An inventory of the sundry goods and chattels paid to Margare!t Higdon, the relict of Nathaniel Pope, deceased, by the executors of Daniel Higdon, deceased, pursuant to an order of court, bearing date 28th November, 1739, in lieu of ?32, 16, 4, dupe from the said Higdon's estate to the child of the said Nathaniel Pope, deceased."-Extract fronm Westmoreland Records.) His children were, 1 John (granted administration on his father's estate in 1760, his mother having declined to act as executrix), 2 Humphrey, 3 Benjamin, 4 Mary, 5 Nathaniel.

John Pope, son of John and Sarah Mothershead, lived in Washington Parish; will probated November 19, 1785; William Wroe guardian of his three sons, William, John and Thomas. His wife was a daughter of Humphrey Quisenberry, who names in his will (January 30, 1733) "my son-in-law John Pope." His children were, 1 Elliot, 2 William, 3 Ransdall, 4 John, 5 Thomas. Who can furnish any information as to these sons? Lawrence, son of John and Sarah Mothershead ( ?) Pope, was born 1740; died July 31, 1810; will probated in. Westmoreland August 27, 1810. He married, first, Jane, daughter of Humphrey Quisenberry. Query: Was she at the time of this marriage a young widow Payne?) By this union he had 1 Austin, 2 Fanny, who married December 3, 1790, Rev. William Edwards. Lawrence Pope married, secondly, Frances Carter, and had 3 Jane Carter (born September 25, 1791.)

His third wife was Mrs. Penelope Vigar, relict of Jacob Vigar, and daughter of Nicholas Quisenberry, by whom he had 4 Sukey, 5 Caty, 6 Lawrence Berry, 7 Elliot, 8 Johnl; went to New York in 1834, and was never heard from afterwards; 9 Sarah. Austin Pope, son of Lawrence and Jane, married (August 7, 1803) Fanny Yeatman, and had Henry Lewis Yeatman, who died, August, 1862, at Booneville, Mo. Sukey, daughter of Lawrence and Penelope (Quisenberry) Pope, married Richard Bayne, of Westmoreland county, anmhdad 1 Lawrence, married Delia S. Rust; 2 William, married (a) Delia Kerfoot, (b) Amanda Kerfoot; 3 George, married Eliza Speiden, and. had Marion, of Hollins Institute, Va. (Mrs. Eliza Bayne married, secondly, Childs); 4 Charles married Mary Ellen Ashby, and had Nannie T. (married D. B. Clark); Howard R., attorney-at-law, New York City, married Lizzie S. Moore: Estelle married Fletcher P. Jones; Frances (died unmarried);

Hunter Ashby (died unmarried). 5 Washington lived at the old seat of the family in Westmoreland; died there about 1870; married Emily Hill and had Telula, married Ro. B. Spillman; Calvin; Ruth married William C. Marmaduke; Julia, Robert, Sue.

Jane Carter Pope married Geo. Quisenberry, of King George county, and had Nicholas, who married, first, Mary L. Grimes (children, George and Mary); married, second, Rosa Green, of Georgetown Heights, and had Lucy, Nicholas, Alice and Rousby. George and Jane (Pope) Quisenberry had also Austin, who removed to Missouri; lived at La Grange, Mo., and had three childrexn, Martha, Catherine and Augustine; William Augustine (never married), Catherine, married William B. Marmaduke, and had William C. and Joseph; Pope, who never married. Lawrence Berry Pope, son of Lawrence, married Rosy Goinham, and had 1 Caty, born December 2, 1821; 2 Austin, born March 7, 1823; 3 Edwin Patterson, born October 23, 1824; 4 Gabrielle, born December 3, 1826; 5 John B., born October 20, 1829; 6 Lawrence B., born December 26, 1831; 7 William Bayne, born February 1, 1834. Elliot, son of Lawrence, died in 1858 in Westmoreland county. He was married twice. His first wife was Myra Neale, the second Elizabeth M. Nealy. His children were Jane Henrietta, Ann Augusta (Mrs. Henry M. Snyder), Nathan M., who occupies the ancient seat in Westmoreland; and James S., whose home is in Baltimore.

Sarah Pope, daughter of Lawrence, who married James Jones, of Middlesex county, had one son, named Pope, who was a Confederate soldier. The harrowing account of his brutal murder by a Federal sentinel whilst a prisoner of war is related in the work entitled United States Bonds Father: Family Pope

Humphrey was born in 1630. Humphrey Pope ... He passed away in 1695.

Name

Humphrey Pope

Arrival Year 1656

Arrival Place Virginia

Source Publication Code 1262

Primary Immigrant Pope, Humphrey

Annotation Date and place of settlement or date and place of arrival.

Names not restricted to the Order of Founders and Patriots of America.

Source Bibliography

COLKET, MEREDITH B., JR. Founders of Early American Families: Emigrants from

Europe, 1607-1657. Cleveland: General Court of the Order of Founders and

Patriots of America, 1975. 366p. Page 227/Ancestry.com

Name Humphrey Pope Description Decedent Date 10 Jan 1732 Notes Pope, Humphrey, 10 Jan. 1732; 29 Oct. 1734. Dau. Ann Conditt ½ of my land in Prince William Co.; dau. Sophia Muse ½ of land in Prince William Co.; sons Humphrey and John; daus. Sarah Pope, Mary Muse and Mary Pope; my wife's dau. Elizabeth Morrison; my wife Mary and 4 youngest children; wife, coz. Daniel McCarty and Peter Jett exrs. Prove date 29 Oct 1734/Ancestry.com

Name Humphrey Pope

Birth Date 1648

Birth Place Bristol, England

Death Date 30 Jun 1684

Death Place Westmoreland County, Virginia, United States of America

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Sources

1. ↑ http://wc.rootsweb.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?db=mercer_jopson&id=I13139&op=GET
2. ↑ http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=143725524&ref=acom

Acknowledgement

• Jeff Kenner, firsthand knowledge. Click the Changes tab for the details of edits by Jeff and others.

Thank you to Michael Lively for creating WikiTree profile Pope-1582 through the import of lbd423_699485ef10f1a530d4hb2d_2013-11-13_01.ged on Nov 13, 2013. Click to the Changes page for the details of edits by Michael and others.