James Williamson (abt. 1621 - bef. 1656)

Born about 1621 in England

Ancestors

Husband of Anne (Underwood) Williamson — married 16 Dec 1652 in ,Isle Of Wight, Virginia

Descendants

Died before 5 Nov 1656 before about age 35 in Rappahannock, Colony of Virginia

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Biography

James Williamson was a Virginia colonist.

James Williamson was born abt. 1621 of Richard Williamson and Margaret Sherwood in England.^{[citation needed]}

Williamson was probably brother of Richard Williamson of Isle of Wight County. He served as Justice of the Isle of Wight Court from 1646 until his death. John Hammond dedicated his tract Leah & Rachel to Dr. James Williamson and Governor William Stone of Maryland. ^[1]

Event-Misc 18 AUG 1654. Rappahannock, Virginia. Note: He appears on a list of names of those to depart the colony this year. Land sale.

Marriage & Children

James Williamson married Ann Underwood, daughter of William Underwood of Isle of Wight County, on 16 December 1652.^[2] Known children:

1. Margaret Williamson, md William Ball, Jr.
2. Mary Williamson, md John Rosier, Jr.^[3]

Land Transactions

• 22 MAY 1650. Land grant. Lancaster (later Old Rappahannock), Virginia. Note: He was granted 1,150 acres, transport of 23 persons.^[4]
• 22 May 1650. Lancaster (later Rappahannock), Virginia. Note: He was granted 1800 acres of land, transport of 36 persons.^{[4] [5]}
• 9 MAY 1651. Lancaster (later Rappahannock), Virginia. Note: He was granted 720 acres of land.
• 3 SEP 1656. Rappahannock, Virginia. Note: He sells 1000 acres of land to Ambrose Meather.

James paid taxes in Lancaster County, Virginia Colony, based on his labor force. The county assessed him for nine tithables (the county's tenth largest labor force), 24 Oct 1653,^[6] for seven tithables, 6 Feb 1655,^[7] for four tithables, 7 Dec 1655,^[8] and in an astonishing increase his labor force, for seventeen tithables (making his the county's third largest), 5 Nov 1656.^[9]

Death & Legacy

James Williams died intestate in 1656. On 5 November 1656 Mr. Willm. Underwood, brother of wife Ann Underwood, was appointed guardian "on behalfe of the Orphans of the said Williamson deceased, he being Uncle to ye sd Orphans by the Mother," ... he was ordered to take an inventory of the estate and present it to the Court. ^[10]

Sources

1. ↑ Source Citation : Section: Williamson Family of Isle of Wight County, VA. Source Information: Historical Southern Families. Volume III [database on-line]. Ancestry Image, Page 158, Ancestry Image, Page 159
2. ↑ Edmund West Family Collection at Ancestry.com
3. ↑ Tyler, Lyon Gardiner. Encyclopedia of Virginia Biography. Volume I. New York: Lewis Historical Publishing Company 1915. Digitized by the Internet Archive in 2008. Page 360
4. ↑ ^{4.0 4.1} Nugent, Nell Marion, Abstracted and Indexed by. Cavaliers and Pioneers: Abstracts of Virginia Land Patents and Grants, 1623-1800. In Five Volumes. Richmond, VA.: Press of the Dietz Printing Co., 1935. Pages 190, 191
5. ↑ Lancaster County, Virginia Deed & Wills [Antient Press]; Page 279-280; as cited on James Williamson, abt 1621-bef 1656
6. ↑ 1653 Tax Assessment. Tax Assessment Record, 24 Oct 1653. Lancaster County, Virginia Colony, Deed & Will Book 1, 1652-1657, pp. 90-94. Available online without restriction courtesy of FamilySearch here. Accessed 4 Feb 2024. To see what others appear on this tax assessment, in alphabetical order, and for a list of the colonists with the largest labor forces, visit Lancaster County Tax Records.
7. ↑ 1655 Tax Assessment. Tax Assessment Record, 6 Feb 1655. Lancaster County, Virginia Colony, Deed & Will Book 1, 1652-1657, pp. 174-178. Available online without restriction courtesy of FamilySearch here. Accessed 8 Feb 2024. To see what others appear on this tax assessment, in alphabetical order, and for a list of the colonists with the largest labor forces, visit Lancaster County Tax Records.
8. ↑ 1655 Tax Assessment. Tax Assessment Record, 7 Dec 1655. Lancaster County, Virginia Colony, Deed & Will Book 1, 1652-1657, pp. 234-239. Available online without restriction courtesy of FamilySearch here, as transcribed in 1961 Transcription. Fleet, Beverley. 1961. Virginia Colonial Abstracts: Vol. XXII, Lancaster County 1652-1655. Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Co. Pages 106-109. Available online without restriction courtesy of HathiTrust here. Accessed 29 Jan 2024. To see what others appear on this tax assessment, in alphabetical order, and for a list of the colonists with the largest labor forces, visit Lancaster County Tax Records.
9. ↑ 1656 Tax Assessment. Tax Assessment Record, 5 Nov 1656. Lancaster County, Virginia Colony, Deed & Will Book 1, 1652-1657, pp. 302-307. Available online without restriction courtesy of FamilySearch here. Accessed 23 Mar 2024. To see what others appear on this tax assessment, in alphabetical order, and for a list of the colonists with the largest labor forces, visit Lancaster County Tax Records.
10. ↑ 1652-1657 Lancaster County, Virginia Deed & Wills [Antient Press]; Page 308, Lancaster County Court 5th of November 1656 as cited on James Williamson, abt 1621-bef 1656

• Ancestry.com. Married Well and Often: Marriages of the Northern Neck of Virginia, 1649-1800 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations Inc, 2006. Original data: Headley, Robert K. Married Well and Often: Marriages of the Northern Neck of Virginia, 1649-1800. Baltimore, MD, USA: Genealogical Publishing Co., 2003.

See also: *Ancestry Family Trees. Online files submitted by Ancestry members. http://trees.ancestry.com/pt/AMTCitationRedir.aspx?tid=5527978&pid=488 (broken link)

Acknowledgements

• WikiTree profile Williamson-1587 created through the import of The Gatewoods _ Lovings of Vir.ged on Apr 10, 2012 by Richard Gatewood.
• WikiTree profile Williamson-2001 created through the import of T1.ged on Dec 4, 2012 by Tammy Johnson.
• Williamson-3773 was created by Lenny Darnell through the import of Essie Peace 2014 07 28_2014-07-29.ged on Jul 29, 2014. http://trees.ancestry.com/pt/AMTCitationRedir.aspx?tid=64993570&pid=3311 (broken link)