Mary (Anderson) Haley (1714 - aft. 1811)

Born 1714 in King and Queen, Virginia

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Died after 1811 after age 97 in Charlotte, Virginia, United States

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Biography

From the book: "Haley and Related Families" by Edward Franklyn Haley:

John Haley was the son of Edward and Catherine Haley of Orange County, Virginia. He was probably born in the County of King and Queen in Virginia, circa 1700, and married Mary (probably Mary Anderson) about 1730, perhaps in the County of King William.

The first mention of his name in court records now in existence appears to have been in Spottsylvania on the 3rd of March, 1736, when he signed as a witness to the sale of a tract of land by John Anderson of King William to Robert Williamson of Caroline County. The land lay in Spottsylvania County, Virginia. Perhaps the first land owned by John and Mary Haley was a tract of 400 acres lying on the south side of Robinson Run in Spottsylvania, which they purchased for £50 from Robert Williamson and his wife Elizabeth on the 2nd of October, 1744. Here John and Mary apparently lived for about five years, and here some of their children were born. On the 2nd of May, 1749, John and Mary Haley of Spottsylvania sold 200 acres for £50 to John Faulconer of Orange. On the 6th of June, 1749, John and Mary Haley of the Parish of St. George and County of Spottsylvania sold for £30 200 acres to his brother Ambrose Haley of the Parish of St. Thomas in Orange County. This may have been the remainder of the 400 acre tract he had purchased from Williamson, though in the transaction it is mentioned as a part of a patent to him of September 10, 1735. At any rate, John and Mary Haley apparently remained in Spottsylvania for some years after disposing of these two tracts, for he was a witness on September 4, 1753, when his brother Ambrose and wife Temperance, still living in the Parish of St. Thomas in Orange, sold the tract for £15 to David Cave, Senior, of the same Parish and County. His younger brother, David Haley, had left Orange previous to this date for Southside Virginia, settling in Halifax County, though his brother Ambrose did not remove to Halifax until 1757. John and Mary Haley probably left Spottsylvania about 1760 and settled in the Southside County of Lunenburg. How long he was in the County prior to the purchasing of land we do not know, but on June 8, 1765, John Haley purchased a 400 acre tract:

"This Indenture made this eighth day of June in the Year of our LORD MDCCLXV between Thomas Nance of the County of Charlotte of the one part and John Haley of the County of Lunenburg and Parish of Cumberland of the other part, Witnesseth: that the said Thomas Nance for and in consideration of the sum of Twenty Pounds Current Money of Virginia to him in hand paid by the said John Haley the receipt whereof he the said Thomas Nance doth hereby acknowledge, hath given granted bargained and sold and by these presents doth give grant bargain sell enfeeof and confirm unto him the said John Haley his heirs Executors Administrators and assigns forever one certain Tract or Parcel of land situate lying and being in the County of Charlotte aforesaid and on the Juniper Creek containing 400 Acres and bounded as followeth, Viz - - - -." Charlotte County Virginia Deed Book #1, Page 60.

"Mary Haley, the widow of John Haley, survived her husband by many years. She appears in the Charlotte County tax list with 250 acres of land as late as 1811 and probably died not long afterwards."

Mary was born about 1715. She passed away in 1781.

Sources

• Haley, Edward Franklyn Haley and related families, 1979, pg295

• Will Book 1, page 290, Vol. II, Charlotte County Clerk of Courts Office

• Sons of the American Revolution Membership Applications, 1889-1970. Louisville, Kentucky: National Society of the Sons of the American Revolution

Acknowledgements

Anderson-12691 was created by Tim Philips through the import of Phillips Family Tree_2014-01-11_2014-01-11.ged on Jan 11, 2014.

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