Individual Details
Charity Courts
(Abt 1714 - Bef 22 Nov 1768)
Notes:
How is she related to Francis Harrison, son of Joseph and Catherine Harrison? Edmund Berry Godfrey Payne is NOK, too.
COURTS CHARITY, dau. of John & Charity of Pyckyawaxon, b. 4 Oct. 1680.
MOORE: Samuel, m. by 18 Nov 1748, Charity, extx. of Samuel Adams of CH Co. (MINV 45:99). Samuel, m. Sarah (sic), widow of 1st, Samuel Adams, and 2nd, Zachariah Wade (Judg. 47:27, 118).
ADAMS: Samuel, m. by 21 Sep 1737, Charity, admins. of Zachariah Wade (CHPR 1737-1752:73; MINV 24:96 gives 8 May 1739 as the date). On 7 Nov 1739 Charity Adams signed the inventory of Francis Harrison as kin (CHPR 1737-1752:113; MINV 24:316). When he died by 17 Nov 1748 his execs. Samuel Moore and Charity Moore filed the inventory which was signed by Francis Adams, Jr, and Francis Adams, Jr, as kin (CHPR 1737-1752:474; MINV 45:99).
Page 207. Recorded Jun 9, 1737. May 3, 1737 from Charity Wade of CC, to Joseph Harrison of CC, for the rents and services to be performed by Harrison, and for divers other good causes, the lease of part of a tract of land called Limm, lying in CC on the east side of Potomack River on the west side of Wades Marsh, bounded by the line of Capt. Sam Hanson's land. This is an 11 year lease, and the yearly rent is 500 # of leaf tobacco with a good cask. Harrison shall plant 100 apple trees and keep them fenced. Harrison will not sell or dispose of any timber. Signed-Charity Wade. Wit-Thomas Stone, Bayne Smallwood.
CHARITY COURTS (d/o John Courts III) Born: Charles Co, MD
married: (1) Zachariah Wade 1731 (2) Samuel Adams 1737 [Will Proved 10 Sep 1748] (3) Samuel Moore [Before 19 Feb 1750]
Children by First Marriage:
[Zachariah Wade was first married to Henrietta Barnes and had two children: Richard b.1725 and Zachariah b.1727]
1. John Courts 1733
Children by Second Marriage:
1. Tabitha Adams B:1738 D:1776 M: Gen. William Russell of Culpeper Co, VA
2. Celia Adams 1740 M: Joseph Stephens
3. Athaleah Adams 1740 (twin) M: Joseph Hopewell
4. Chloe Adams 1742
5. Henley Adams 1744
Children by Third Marriage:
1. William Moore B:3 Mar 1753 Louisa Co, VA M: 1.Hannah Ransdell Fauquier Co, VA 2. Margaret Browning 24 Aug 1812 Fayette Co, KY D: 10 May 1816 Fayette Co, KY
Note 1. Another source says that Samuel and Charity's son was Henley Moore who married Jane Russell.
Note 2. Another source says that William Moore was the son of Daniel Moore and another Charity Courts.
Note 3. William Moore and Hannah Ransdell named children Henley, Samuel and Coates. He did not name a child Daniel.
Note 4. Samuel Moore may have been born in New Hampshire in 1723 and he may have been the son of a William Moore.
a. VIRGINIA HISTORICAL MAGAZINE Vol. 6?, "Warren of Virgina and Maryland".. The third daughter of the Rev. Mr. Stone, Mary Ann Harrison Stone, Mar., 1821 Captain Charles Chilton Moore of "Forest Retreat", Fayette county, Ky, who served with distinction in the War of 1812. He was a son of William Moore, of Culpeper county, VA, 1753-1818, a Lieutenant in 3d Regiment, Virginia Line, a son of Samuel Moore, planter, of Charles county, MD, And his wife, Charity (widow of Samuel Adams, planter, of Charles county, died 1748), daughter of Colonel John Courts, of the manor of "Clean Drinking", in Charles (now in Montgomery) county, MD, died 1747.
Colonel Courts was of the family of Courts or Courte, of Stoke-Gregory in Somerset. The founder of the Maryland branch was "the Honorable Captain John Courte, gent," who was Burgess and member of the Maryland Assembly, and member of the Governor's Council till his death in 1697. His son, Colonel John Courts, gent, was, in 1699, granted the manor of Clean Drinking (now owned by his descendant, Colonel Jones, and, after serving in many public Charles county offices died 1792, having issue the aforesaid Colonel John Courts, who died 1747. Some of his descendants in the Sourth write their surname as it is pronounced, Coates.
How is she related to Francis Harrison, son of Joseph and Catherine Harrison? Edmund Berry Godfrey Payne is NOK, too.
COURTS CHARITY, dau. of John & Charity of Pyckyawaxon, b. 4 Oct. 1680.
MOORE: Samuel, m. by 18 Nov 1748, Charity, extx. of Samuel Adams of CH Co. (MINV 45:99). Samuel, m. Sarah (sic), widow of 1st, Samuel Adams, and 2nd, Zachariah Wade (Judg. 47:27, 118).
ADAMS: Samuel, m. by 21 Sep 1737, Charity, admins. of Zachariah Wade (CHPR 1737-1752:73; MINV 24:96 gives 8 May 1739 as the date). On 7 Nov 1739 Charity Adams signed the inventory of Francis Harrison as kin (CHPR 1737-1752:113; MINV 24:316). When he died by 17 Nov 1748 his execs. Samuel Moore and Charity Moore filed the inventory which was signed by Francis Adams, Jr, and Francis Adams, Jr, as kin (CHPR 1737-1752:474; MINV 45:99).
Page 207. Recorded Jun 9, 1737. May 3, 1737 from Charity Wade of CC, to Joseph Harrison of CC, for the rents and services to be performed by Harrison, and for divers other good causes, the lease of part of a tract of land called Limm, lying in CC on the east side of Potomack River on the west side of Wades Marsh, bounded by the line of Capt. Sam Hanson's land. This is an 11 year lease, and the yearly rent is 500 # of leaf tobacco with a good cask. Harrison shall plant 100 apple trees and keep them fenced. Harrison will not sell or dispose of any timber. Signed-Charity Wade. Wit-Thomas Stone, Bayne Smallwood.
CHARITY COURTS (d/o John Courts III) Born: Charles Co, MD
married: (1) Zachariah Wade 1731 (2) Samuel Adams 1737 [Will Proved 10 Sep 1748] (3) Samuel Moore [Before 19 Feb 1750]
Children by First Marriage:
[Zachariah Wade was first married to Henrietta Barnes and had two children: Richard b.1725 and Zachariah b.1727]
1. John Courts 1733
Children by Second Marriage:
1. Tabitha Adams B:1738 D:1776 M: Gen. William Russell of Culpeper Co, VA
2. Celia Adams 1740 M: Joseph Stephens
3. Athaleah Adams 1740 (twin) M: Joseph Hopewell
4. Chloe Adams 1742
5. Henley Adams 1744
Children by Third Marriage:
1. William Moore B:3 Mar 1753 Louisa Co, VA M: 1.Hannah Ransdell Fauquier Co, VA 2. Margaret Browning 24 Aug 1812 Fayette Co, KY D: 10 May 1816 Fayette Co, KY
Note 1. Another source says that Samuel and Charity's son was Henley Moore who married Jane Russell.
Note 2. Another source says that William Moore was the son of Daniel Moore and another Charity Courts.
Note 3. William Moore and Hannah Ransdell named children Henley, Samuel and Coates. He did not name a child Daniel.
Note 4. Samuel Moore may have been born in New Hampshire in 1723 and he may have been the son of a William Moore.
a. VIRGINIA HISTORICAL MAGAZINE Vol. 6?, "Warren of Virgina and Maryland".. The third daughter of the Rev. Mr. Stone, Mary Ann Harrison Stone, Mar., 1821 Captain Charles Chilton Moore of "Forest Retreat", Fayette county, Ky, who served with distinction in the War of 1812. He was a son of William Moore, of Culpeper county, VA, 1753-1818, a Lieutenant in 3d Regiment, Virginia Line, a son of Samuel Moore, planter, of Charles county, MD, And his wife, Charity (widow of Samuel Adams, planter, of Charles county, died 1748), daughter of Colonel John Courts, of the manor of "Clean Drinking", in Charles (now in Montgomery) county, MD, died 1747.
Colonel Courts was of the family of Courts or Courte, of Stoke-Gregory in Somerset. The founder of the Maryland branch was "the Honorable Captain John Courte, gent," who was Burgess and member of the Maryland Assembly, and member of the Governor's Council till his death in 1697. His son, Colonel John Courts, gent, was, in 1699, granted the manor of Clean Drinking (now owned by his descendant, Colonel Jones, and, after serving in many public Charles county offices died 1792, having issue the aforesaid Colonel John Courts, who died 1747. Some of his descendants in the Sourth write their surname as it is pronounced, Coates.
Events
| Birth | Abt 1714 | Charles County, Maryland, United States | |||
| Birth | Abt 1714 | Charles County, MD | |||
| Marriage | Abt 1732 | Charles County, MD - Zachariah Wade | |||
| Marriage | Bef 21 Sep 1737 | Charles County, Maryland, United States - Samuel Adams | |||
| Marriage | Bef 19 Feb 1749 | Charles County, Maryland, United States - | |||
| Death | Bef 22 Nov 1768 | Fauquier County, Va |
Families
| Spouse | Zachariah Wade (1703 - 1737) |
| Spouse | Samuel Adams ( - ) |
| Father | John Courts (1690 - 1747) |
| Mother | Tabitha Harrison (1693 - 1720) |
| Sibling | Mary Anne Courts (1714 - ) |
| Sibling | John Courts (1716 - 1802) |