Individual Details

Marriage

After the death of Ann (Waugh) Travers, Giles Travers, Gentleman, (16 -1717) married a second wife whose name is unknown to e; she predeceased him leaving two daughters, viz:
Ann Travers who married as her first husband William Cave; he died testate in Stafford County in 1742 and she married secondly in 1747 Thomas Dent. Her only child to survive infancy was Elizabeth Cave's successively the wife of Keene Wither (1728-1756), ... Giles Travers, Gentleman, by will bequeathed to his daughter Anne Traver his dwelling plantation on The Landing Run which flows into Potomac Creek a short distance upstream from Belle Plain. Upon this property William Cave erected a tobacco warehouse and Cave's Warehouse became a very well known shipping point. By virtue of his arriage to Cave's only heir, Andrew Edwards held this property at the time of the Revolutionary War. On November 5, 1776 he petitioned the Virginia Legislature in regard to his warehouse on Potomac Creek, "called Cave's Warehouse being appointed a Navel Depot".