Mary Phelps (abt. 1720 - abt. 1793)

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Descendants

Died about 1793 at about age 73 in Buckingham, Virginia

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Biography

Mary was born about 1720. She passed away in Buckingham County, Virginia in 1793.

Research Notes

Father's will:

• 14 may 1751 (recorded): Thomas Phelps of Albemarle County, Will:

loving wife Elizabeth: whole estate, real and personal during her life: plantation wheron I dwell

loving son Thomas Phelps: 300 acres both sides of Bridle Creek joining own lines

loving son John Phelps: plantation whereon I now live, the island I now tend, 300 acres both sides of Hunt's Creek joining Nicholas' lines

loving daughter Mary Patteson: £0/1 sterling

granddaughter Joyce Patteson and grandson Peter Patteson: between both, one child's part

my will and desire that my personal estate be divided among all my children, except my daughter Mary Patteson, and appraised during my wife's lifetime

son Thomas Phelps and son-in-law Robert Gwin executors

witnesses: John Fearn, Theodoric Webb, Chicely Crisp

14 May 1751 Court: three witnesses proved, two executors made oath, Theodoric Webb and Joseph Thomas securities

John Nicholas C. C. ^[1]

Mary Patteson was listed in the Buckingham County Land Tax Lists from 1782 until 1793 charged for 597 acres. Thereafter her estate appears until 1804, when the tract passed to John Patteson.^[2]

Deeds

• 3 Dec 1763, David & Mary Patteson of Tillotson Parish, Buckingham to James London, £20, 400 acres north side of Fluvanna, granted to David Patteson

witnesses: James Dillard, Jesse Evans, Moses London, Charles Perrow

Order from George Seaton, clerk of Amherst to justices from Buckingham: John Staples, Jeremiah Whitney, and Charles Patteson.

witnesses: John Staples, Jeremiah ^[3]

• 6 Sep 1768, David & Mary Patteson of Buckingham to Nelson & James Patteson, orphans of James Patteson, late of Chesterfield; James in his lifetime bought 400 acres on the North Side of the Fluvanna River, surveyed lately by William Cabell, surveyor for Amherst County, no deed had been made. James Patteson left a will recorded in Chesterfield and gave Nelson the 400 acres, but with the reservation that if wife thought herself with child and brought forth a son, then this son should have equal part with Nelson. After James' death, his wife delivered James Anderson Patteson, and deed made in compliance with their father's wishes.

Witnesses: Charles Patteson, William Phelps, David Via

Commission to Joseph Cabell, Benjamin Howell, and Charles Patteson, JP's of Buckingham to examine Mary Patteson, 15 Feb; done 3 Apr 1769^[4]

Sources

1. ↑ Deeds, 1748-1917 ; general indexes 1748-1917, Albemarle County (Virginia). County Clerk, Genealogical Society of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT, 1949 (DB1:20-21) film 30223 https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3QS7-89PH-Z9W2
2. ↑ Land tax lists, 1782-1863, Virginia. Commissioner of the Revenue (Buckingham County), Genealogical Society of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT, 1954, film 29901 (1794) https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3Q9M-CS46-YB9L?i=208&cat=408775
3. ↑ The Deeds of Amherst County Virginia 1761-1807 and Albemarle County, Virginia 1748-1763, Bailey F. Davis, Southern Historical Press, Greenville, SC, 1979, p. 279, (Amherst DB A:394)
4. ↑ The Deeds of Amherst County Virginia 1761-1807 and Albemarle County, Virginia 1748-1763, Bailey F. Davis, Southern Historical Press, Greenville, SC, 1979, p. 112, (Amherst DB B:394)

Acknowledgments

This person was created through the import of LaBach Family TreeApril28_2011.ged on 05 May 2011.