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Behetheland /Taliaferro/
From Pat M Stevens http://familytreemaker.genealogy.com/users/s/t/e/Pat-M-Stevens-iv/BOOK-0001/0005-0005.html#CHILD21
Notes for BEHETHELAND TALIAFERRO:
In other notes, she is called Behetheland Griffin, possibly a marriage before James.
Mark says: My mother's notes also point to another possible tie between bits of your tree and ours. (ed.: see notes under Samuel R. Daniel) She believed that the parents of Behetheland Spencer Stewart were Samuel Spencer and Ann[e] Stevens (daughter of James Stevens and Behetheland Taliaferro). I don't see parentage for Behetheland Spencer Stewart or children of Behetheland Taliaferro on your web pages. --Mark Ryan Williamson <markwmsn@@markwmsn.com> April 2001
Later I encountered that this is so, at least in the "Pamunkey Neighbors...." work. But it cites James' wife as Behetheland Griffin, not Taliaferro. She might have had another husband. In fact she might be Griffin who married Taliaferro then Stevens.... note their son John Griffin Stevens....
Joyce Turel, a Stevens cousin, kindly sends this: "The 'Beheathland' name is in honor of Robert Beheathland, gentleman, who accompanied Captain John Smith to Virginia in 1607. Robert, unfortunately, had no male heirs, so his name has been kept alive by his female descendants for almost 400 years in America."
I (the editor) am related to her through both my mother's Marshalls and Berrymans and through the Stevens and the Stewart connections... Her children are named in her husband's will.
This interesting note by Mary E. Stewart, <mstewart485@gmail.com>, in the TALIAFERRO TIMES, Volume I, December 18, 1996, on the web:
"I have struggled for a long time trying to discover the identity of 'my' Taliaferro to no avail. I hope the group will be able to shed some light on this mystery.
"My mystery person is Beheathland Taliaferro, wife of James Stevens, Sr. of Caroline and Amherst/Nelson counties. I do not have documented evidence of her identity; however, I believe that she is the Beheathland born 20 Aug 1738, daughter of Richard Taliaferro and Rose Berryman (this daughter is not followed in any of the published Taliaferro stuff that I've seen).
"James Stevens, Sr. was born (probably) in Caroline Co. about 1735. In 1769 he bought land in Amherst Co. (the part that later became Nelson Co.). James and his wife Behethland sold the same land in 1774. James also names his wife Beheathland in his will probated 22 Nov 1813, Nelson Co. I find no official record which names her as "Beheathland Taliaferro." There is a collection of family group sheets and notes on this family at the Jones Library in Lynchburg. In them is a letter saying that she was "Miss Taliaferro" and "we all know that, of course" (thanks a lot!). Taliaferro does appear frequently as a middle name in her descendants and her great-granddaughter (my 2g grandmother) was Behetherland Taliaferro Stevens.
"By working back from the marriage dates of their children, I estimate that James and Beheathland were married about 1755-60 in Caroline Co. I think she was the daughter of Richard and Rose Berryman Taliaferro because of the apparently close relationship that James had with her brother, Zachariah (who m. 1 Mary Boutwell). They appear as witnesses on one another's deeds several times. It seems at least plausible that a man would marry his friend's sister. I'm glad to share what I have."
Beheathland was born in 1738. She passed away in 1828.
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NOTE: Catherine Howard was the 1st cousin to Anne Boleyn (Queen of England, the second wife of Henry VIII). On 19 May 1536, Anne Boleyn was beheaded at the Tower of London.
Beheathland Taliaferro Stevens and Queen Anne Boleyn are 2nd cousins 7 times removed.
Virginia, USA, did not exist.
Bethland Taliaferro 17651842 Birth 1765 , Surry, North Carolina, USA Death 28 FEB 1842 , , Georgia, USA ............and............. daughter of Richard Taliaferro and Rose Berryman Beheathland Taliaferro 17381828 Birth 20 AUG 1738 Caroline County, Virginia Death 4 APR 1828 Nelson County, Virginia, USA