John Prosser (abt. 1650 - bef. 1717)

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Biography

Mentioned in father's will no other source yet found

Sources

• Virginia County Records, VI

Rappahannock County Wills.

Order Book, 1664-1673.

Name: John Prosser

Date: 28 Aug., 1673

Date: 30 June, 1677

Comment: Golden Valley, Rap. Co

To be buried near my first wife Martha ; my present wife Margaret to be executrix; eldest son John ; second son Samuel ; sons Roger and Anthony ; sons-in-law Robert Goffe and Thomas Goffe ; witnesses John Waight , Hugh Palmer

• Cocke, William Ronald III. 1940. Genealogical Notes from 'Virginia Colonial Decisions,' William and Mary Quarterly 2nd Ser. 20:545–559 (R30):546 Quote:

  R30 Thornton vs Buckner.

  Prosser, John, and Thomas Pannel surveyed and patented 2500 acres of land on the branches of Mattapony on 4 November 1673. Prosser died [made his will] 28 August 1673, before patent was granted, with a will. Issue:

  1. John Prosser, eldest son, deceased, leaving issue:
     1. Samuel Prosser, alive in 1717.
  2. Roger Prosser, alive 10 January 1709. Died without issue.
  3. Samuel Prosser, died without issues.
  4. Anthony Prosser, died in the lifetime of Roger Prosser, leaving issue a son, who was his heir:
     1. Anthony Prosser, alive in 1717.

  Pannel, Thomas, died with a will, survived by a son and two daughters and his widow "ensient of a son who was born and named Thomas."

  1. William Pannel.
  2. Mary, married Francis Stone.
  3. Isabell, married Richard Phillips, who is deceased, leaving issue an only child:
     1. Catherine, married John Knight, and both are alive on 24 March 1715[/16].
  4. Thomas Pannel, born after his father's death.

  Others mentioned in land transactions: Francis and Anthony Thornton [Samuel and Anthony Prosser sold and conveyed to them in Jan 1717], John Buckner [purchased William Pannels part in 1707] who devised to Thomas Buckner [a defendant], Richard Buckner [other defendant in 1707 purchased Thomas Pannels part and then Mary Stones part], Larkin Chew [conveyed to in 1709 from Roger Posser]. [John Buckner purchased William Pannels part Anno. 1707 and devised it to Thomas Buckner one of the Defend'ts. (per Virginia colonial decisions: the reports by Sir John Randolph and by Edward Barradall, of decisions of the general court of Virginia, 1728-1741; Page R32)]

  • Virginia Will Records; Notes from Barton's Colonial Decisions • Vol. I. Sir John Randolph's Reports. Cases decided between 1728 and 1743. Image; Quote from Page 517: Page 30. Thornton vs. Buckner. In Chancery: ¶ Thomas Pannell and John Prosser received from Sir William Berkeley, November 4, 1673, a patent for 2500 acres of land. John Prosser died leaving 1 John, eldest son and heir, who left surviving a son Samuel Prosser; 2 Roger, who died s. p. and 3 Anthony, who left son Anthony. These sons Samuel and Anthony sold their interest Jany 21, 1717 to Francis and Anthony Thornton the plaintiffs. Thomas Pannell died leaving issue a son and two daughters: 1 William, 2 Mary, who married Francis Stone, 3 Isabella, who married Richard Phillips, and died after her father and left a daughter Catherine who married John Knight. John Knight and Catherine, his wife, made a deed 24 March, 1705[/06] to Francis and Anthony Thornton. ¶ John Buckner devised land to Thomas Buckner, one of the defendants, and Richard Buckner was the other defendant. (Note: Since marriage is 1715, this source appears to have transcribed the wrong year and it probably should read 1715, not 1705.)