Individual Details
Richard Sanders
(Bef 1660 - 10 Oct 1725)
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The Howard family of Nansemond Co., Bertie Co, and Onslow Co.
The 1729 Bertie Co will of James Howard proves not only his wife at the time of his death and his children, but also his brothers Stephen, Edward, Joseph, and John. A transcript of the will may be found by going to http://searches.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/listsearch.pl
and entering Howard for the list to search, and then entering the phrase
james and howard and bertie and 1729
as the search terms. Select the year 1999.
The following exerpts from the will reflect land and families of Nansemond Co. This is NOT the entire will.
To my son James Howard - a plantation & improvements lying in Nansemond County Virginia, near the plantation of John Speight, which plantation I had with my beloved wife Sarah.....
To my daughter Sarah Howard - a tract of land lying on Ahorsky Swamp between Thomas Davis' land a& the land I bought of my brother Edward Howard containing some 350 acres.....
To my son Edward Howard - one half of my Mannor Plantation & the (torn) of the land I bought of Ricd Williams to be laid out & divided as before directed.....
To my son Samuell Howard - a tract of land which I bought of my brother Stephen lying on Cooneriskratt Swamp containing 320 acres.....
To my son John Howard - a certain tract of land & plantation lying on Cooneriskratt Swamp where John Spears formerly lived.....
I give and bequeath a tract of land lying at Alligator Creek near New River containing 540 acres which I bought of my brother Joseph in manner following.....
To Francis Speight of Chuckatuck Parrish in Nansemond Co. Virginia for 100 lbs. of good feathers, five pounds silver money & two small Bibles - 400 acres of land on Cooneriskratt Swamp, which land is of my own taking up.....
Codicil dated 9th Cct 1729 appoints his Brothers Edward & John Howard to oversee Executors in performance of will. No probate date shown. Wit: Mary W. Burkett, Geo. Otway
Note: New River is located in Onslow Co where John Sanders and Stephen Howard were living. John Speight was the father of William Speight who moved to Wake Co where he left his will. William Speight's grandson, Needham Green, married Christopher Woodward's granddaughter, China Woodward. Since China Woodward was the daughter of Pleasants Woodward and Winifred Utley, she was also the granddaughter of Jacob Utley and Phoebe (Sanders?). The Spier family was also from Nansemond. James Sanders' wife Ann Holmes had two sisters who married into the Spier family. Dorothy Holmes m. William Spier and Beatrix Holmes m. ???? Spier as proven by John Holmes' will. James Howard's will did not name his sisters, but one was the wife of Richard Sanders and the mother of James Sanders.
One of the brothers, Stephen Howard, moved to Onslow Co from Bertie Co. In 1733, John Sanders left his will in Onslow Co referring to James Sanders as his brother and Stephen Howard as his uncle. Since John Sanders was the son of Richard Sanders, this indicates that Richard Sanders' wife and John Sanders' mother was a sister to Stephen Howard, James Howard, and the other Howard brothers. She must have also been the mother of James Sanders since he was a son of Richard Sanders and left many records in Bertie Co which involved the Howard family. We have no way of knowing when Miss Howard died or how many of the Sanders children were hers, but certainly John Sanders and James Sanders were her children.
Stephen Howard's son Nehemiah Howard married Edith Smith, daughter of Samuel Smith and Edith Whitmell of Johnston Co. Another daughter, Jane Smith, widow of Joel Williams, married Theophilus Hunter d 1799 Wake Co. Samuel Smith and James Sanders owned adjoining land in Johnston Co. James Sanders' son, Brittain Sanders, married Edith Hunter, daugher of Theophilus Hunter.
(Note: Howard researchers have interpreted the John Sanders will to mean that Stephen Howard's wife Sarah was a Sanders by birth. That would mean that Stephen's brothers who were so closely associated with James Sanders in Bertie would have been only James's aunt's husband's brothers - not a very close kinship. Certainly not close enough to explain such a close connection between James Sanders and the brothers of Stephen Howard who remained in Bertie. To me, it looks more likely that Sarah, the wife of Stephen Howard, might have come from the Melton/Molton family who also moved from Bertie to Onslow. In addition, Stephen Howard's wife Sarah was a full generation younger than John Sanders Jr and Richard Sanders that the Howard researchers claim were Sarah's brothers.)
The 1733 John Sanders will named sister Ann Williams and the children of John Williams, one of whom was named Richard Williams. (The will did not state that Ann Williams' husband was John Williams - or that she was the mother of the Williams children named, but since John Sanders was unmarried and providing for his siblings and their children, this would be the logical assumption.) The will of James Howard referred to land bought of Richard Williams. Although it is possible that John Sanders' sister Ann might have had a grown son by 1729, I have not been able to determine whether or not Richard Williams mentioned in the James Howard will is the same Richard Williams mentioned in the John Sanders will.
Richard Sanders was closely associated with James Howard in Nansemond as early as 1684.
Patent to Richard Sanders. July 10, 1680. County not given. 300a in the upper parish of Nansemond at the head of Captn John Masone in the western branch... pine standing in Michael Hill now Francis Sanders line. Patents 7, p 39
Patent to James Hayward 24 Apr 1682. In right of Elizabeth his wife grandchild of James Foster decd 242a at ye head of ye Southern Branch of Nanzemond ... corner tree belonging to Mr --helly .... divides this parcel from Jonathan Robinson his wife's part ... joining with Henry Plumpton's corner ... granted to ye aforesaid James Foster and ??? (Andrew) Bonny dated ye 27th of September 1661(?) Patents 7, p 170 (The name Howard was sometimes spelled Hayward in early records.)
Jonathan Robinson's wife at this time can be proven as Ann, daughter of James Foster dec'd by another patent to Jonathan Robinson bearing the same date. This means one of two things - either Elizabeth ??? (Howard) was the niece of Jonathan Robinson and Ann Foster - or she was their daughter.
Patent to Jonathan Robinson 24 Apr 1682 242a on the head of the Southern Branch of the Nansemond in right of Ann his wife ye daughter of James Foster dec'd. Patents 7, p 169
Two years prior to this patent, Jonathan Robinson, Richard Thomas, and John Sanders patented land together in both Isle of Wight and Nansemond Co near Kingsale Swamp. During this same period, John Sanders' son Richard Sanders married a sister of James Howard.
In 1703, Jonathan Robinson patented land in Nansemond on the Cabbin Branch - claiming Samuel Woodward as a headright.
John Robinson/Roberson/Robertson, apparently a son of Jonathan Robinson, later owned land at Rockahock in Chowan Co adjoining Samuel Woodward's 1719 patent. (probably Samuel Woodward III) John Robinson left records in several NC and VA counties before settling in Johnston Co where he left his will. Michael Rogers, probably the son of Joseph Rogers of Northampton, was the guardian for John Robertson's minor son. One source states that Michael Rogers' sister was the wife of Theophilus Hunter d 1778 Wake Co. An earlier Michael Rogers left his will in Isle of Wight which proved that his daughter had married John Thomas, son of Richard Thomas of the 1681 patent. A son of Theophilus Hunter d 1778, Theophilus Hunter d 1799 Wake Co, married Jane Smith, daughter of Samuel Smith and Edith Whitmell and sister to Edith Smith who married Nehemiah Howard, son of Stephen Howard. Samuel Smith and James Sanders owned adjoining lands in Johnston Co.
Patent to James Howard. Oct 21, 1684. 300a in the Upper Parish of Nansemond at the head of Capt. John Mason's in the Western Branch... John Mason and other land of Richard Sanders ... standing in Michaell(?) Hill now Francis Sanders land ... pine by John Wattis(?) ... red oak by Thomas Jernigan ... formerly granted to Richard Sanders by patent bearing date of ?? July 1680. Patents 7, p 412
Patent to James Howard. Oct 20, 1691. 500 acres in a place called King Sayle in the Upper Parish of Nansemond. Beg.g etc on King Sayle Swamp... by the dividing line of this land and the land of Thomas Davis ... land being the one half of a patent for one thousand acres granted to Thomas Titus and Nicho Dixon dated the first day of October 1672 which five hundred acres after severall surrenders(?) and decents is now of Right and in possession of the said James Howard & after marrying one of the daughters of the said Titus ... Patents 8, p 178.
Boddie in Seventeenth Century Isle of Wight p 449 refers to this patent and says that the patent stated that this land was "formerly in the possession of Thomas Davis". This is in error. The patent itself is worded as above and only refers to the land of Thomas Davis as adjoining this land. It further states that the land had been previously granted to Thomas Titus and Nicholas Dixon in 1672. The 1672 Titus/Dixon patent makes no reference to the land having been patented at an earlier date by Thomas Davis either. The Thomas Titus and Nicholas Dixon/Dickson land was mentioned as adjoining the 1681 patent to John Sanders, Jonathan Robinson, and Richard Thomas.
However, the patent two patents before the James Howard patent of 1691 (Patents 8, p 177) was a patent dated the same day to Thomas Davis for the other 500 acres. It again refers to the previous Titus/Dixon patent and states "which five hundred acres is now in the possession of the said Thomas Davis". It does not state that the land was previously in the possession of Davis, nor does it refer to any inheritance or headrights. Certainly this part would have been Nicholas Dixon's half of the land. The last lines are very difficult to read, but they state "to Have and to Hold -?- to be Hold etc -?- and paying etc". Perhaps someone more adept at deciphering the old script can figure this out. Does this mean Davis had purchased the land? The patent describes the land as opposite the land of William Collings and refers to "a pine the place of division between this land and the land of James Haward & James Moore." The reference to James Moore is of importance too. Some of the patents referred to James Foster as "alias James More", so James Moore here was certainly the same as James Foster.
The patent between James Howard's patent and Thomas Davis's patent - also dated 20 Oct 1691 (Patents 8, p 177-178) - was for 500 acres to William Collins, obviously the same William Collins mentioned in the Thomas Davis patent as the Collins patent refers to a corner tree of Thomas Davis. The land was granted to Collins for the transportation of two persons - John Robinson and Robert Redman. All three patents referred to Kingsale Swamp.
This patent proves that James Howard's first wife Elizabeth ??? (we cannot be sure her maiden name was Foster or Robinson) probably died some time between 1682 and 1691. "Lag time" makes these dates uncertain as some patents weren't granted until years after the events they refer to. Later records prove James Howard's wife as Sarah (daugher of Thomas Titus) who survived him and later remarried Thomas Crews. I have not attempted to determine which of James Howard's children were born to Elizabeth or Sarah.
Thomas Davis mentioned in this 1691 patent and again in James Howard's 1729 will was either the brother or father of Sarah Davis who married John Sanders Jr. Thomas Davis had somehow acquired the Dixon part of the 1672 Titus/Dixon patent, so his half of the patent adjoined James Howard's half. Both Sarah and her brother Thomas Jr were the children of Thomas Davis Sr whose father Capt. James Davis left records in Jamestown and Henrico. It's interesting to note that Nicholas Dixon's earlier land can be placed in Henrico near the land of Christopher Robinson (apparently the grandfather of Jonathan Robinson) and Christopher Woodward (grandfather of Samuel Woodward Jr. of Charles City Co, Boston, Chowan, and possibly Nansemond). A Thomas Davis (related?) of Perquimans patented land with Nicholas Hunter on 9th March 1718(?).
John White Sr of Chowan in NC with ye free and voluntary consent of Sarah my wife to Francis Cambridge of VA 8 Jan 1704/5 5 L 16 shillings and 8 pence 150a, a sertain parsell of land on ye south west side of Hoping (?) Creek, joining Widow Absilison (?) Wit John Harrad, James Flemans. Reg. 3 Apr ---- (I believe the witnesses names were probably misspellings for John Howard and James Fleming.)
Will of Francis Cambridge in Upper Parish of Nansemond County, Virginia, 2 February 1710. Wife and Executrix Elizabeth. Witnessed by Andrew Ross, James Howard and John Sumner (Grimes, p. 60 This is another case of a Nansemond will that was copied into the NC records after the NC/VA line was redrawn in 1728.)
Nov 13, 1713 James Howard patented 200 acres on Deadman's Branch in the upper Parish of Nansemond next to Thomas Howard. (Patents 10, p 120)
According to unverified information found at Genforum/Howard, James Howard was the son of Thomas Howard of York Co. If this is correct, Thomas Howard in the above patent could be another brother.
James Howard was living in Chowan Co by 1722:
DB 1 p 287 Mary Howard wife of Edward Howard to John Rasberry. 16 Apr 1722. Letter of attorney to acknowledge my Right of Dower of land sold by my husband Edward Howard to James Howard the sd land being upon Ahottskey Marsh. Wit John Rasberry, Step. Howard. Reg. 24 Aug 1722
DB 1 p 286 Edward Howard of Chowan Prect, Planter to James Howard of Chowan Prect, Planter. 19 Apr 1722. 30L sterling money of Great Brittain. 300 acres, joining Northerly on Ahottskey Marsh and Black Wallnut Branch. All Houses, Out houses, etc. and is the land surveyed by George Gladstain now pattented by the sd Edward and is the Plantation whereon the sd James Howard now dwells. Wit Thomas Spires (Spiers), John Rasberry, John Welch. Ack Att a Ct Continued and held for Chowan Prect 19 Apr 1722 and John Rasberry ack Right of Dower by Vertue of a Power of Attorney from Mary Howard wife of the sd Edward. Test: W Badham, D.C.C. Reg 24 Aug 1722
The Howard family of Nansemond Co., Bertie Co, and Onslow Co.
The 1729 Bertie Co will of James Howard proves not only his wife at the time of his death and his children, but also his brothers Stephen, Edward, Joseph, and John. A transcript of the will may be found by going to http://searches.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/listsearch.pl
and entering Howard for the list to search, and then entering the phrase
james and howard and bertie and 1729
as the search terms. Select the year 1999.
The following exerpts from the will reflect land and families of Nansemond Co. This is NOT the entire will.
To my son James Howard - a plantation & improvements lying in Nansemond County Virginia, near the plantation of John Speight, which plantation I had with my beloved wife Sarah.....
To my daughter Sarah Howard - a tract of land lying on Ahorsky Swamp between Thomas Davis' land a& the land I bought of my brother Edward Howard containing some 350 acres.....
To my son Edward Howard - one half of my Mannor Plantation & the (torn) of the land I bought of Ricd Williams to be laid out & divided as before directed.....
To my son Samuell Howard - a tract of land which I bought of my brother Stephen lying on Cooneriskratt Swamp containing 320 acres.....
To my son John Howard - a certain tract of land & plantation lying on Cooneriskratt Swamp where John Spears formerly lived.....
I give and bequeath a tract of land lying at Alligator Creek near New River containing 540 acres which I bought of my brother Joseph in manner following.....
To Francis Speight of Chuckatuck Parrish in Nansemond Co. Virginia for 100 lbs. of good feathers, five pounds silver money & two small Bibles - 400 acres of land on Cooneriskratt Swamp, which land is of my own taking up.....
Codicil dated 9th Cct 1729 appoints his Brothers Edward & John Howard to oversee Executors in performance of will. No probate date shown. Wit: Mary W. Burkett, Geo. Otway
Note: New River is located in Onslow Co where John Sanders and Stephen Howard were living. John Speight was the father of William Speight who moved to Wake Co where he left his will. William Speight's grandson, Needham Green, married Christopher Woodward's granddaughter, China Woodward. Since China Woodward was the daughter of Pleasants Woodward and Winifred Utley, she was also the granddaughter of Jacob Utley and Phoebe (Sanders?). The Spier family was also from Nansemond. James Sanders' wife Ann Holmes had two sisters who married into the Spier family. Dorothy Holmes m. William Spier and Beatrix Holmes m. ???? Spier as proven by John Holmes' will. James Howard's will did not name his sisters, but one was the wife of Richard Sanders and the mother of James Sanders.
One of the brothers, Stephen Howard, moved to Onslow Co from Bertie Co. In 1733, John Sanders left his will in Onslow Co referring to James Sanders as his brother and Stephen Howard as his uncle. Since John Sanders was the son of Richard Sanders, this indicates that Richard Sanders' wife and John Sanders' mother was a sister to Stephen Howard, James Howard, and the other Howard brothers. She must have also been the mother of James Sanders since he was a son of Richard Sanders and left many records in Bertie Co which involved the Howard family. We have no way of knowing when Miss Howard died or how many of the Sanders children were hers, but certainly John Sanders and James Sanders were her children.
Stephen Howard's son Nehemiah Howard married Edith Smith, daughter of Samuel Smith and Edith Whitmell of Johnston Co. Another daughter, Jane Smith, widow of Joel Williams, married Theophilus Hunter d 1799 Wake Co. Samuel Smith and James Sanders owned adjoining land in Johnston Co. James Sanders' son, Brittain Sanders, married Edith Hunter, daugher of Theophilus Hunter.
(Note: Howard researchers have interpreted the John Sanders will to mean that Stephen Howard's wife Sarah was a Sanders by birth. That would mean that Stephen's brothers who were so closely associated with James Sanders in Bertie would have been only James's aunt's husband's brothers - not a very close kinship. Certainly not close enough to explain such a close connection between James Sanders and the brothers of Stephen Howard who remained in Bertie. To me, it looks more likely that Sarah, the wife of Stephen Howard, might have come from the Melton/Molton family who also moved from Bertie to Onslow. In addition, Stephen Howard's wife Sarah was a full generation younger than John Sanders Jr and Richard Sanders that the Howard researchers claim were Sarah's brothers.)
The 1733 John Sanders will named sister Ann Williams and the children of John Williams, one of whom was named Richard Williams. (The will did not state that Ann Williams' husband was John Williams - or that she was the mother of the Williams children named, but since John Sanders was unmarried and providing for his siblings and their children, this would be the logical assumption.) The will of James Howard referred to land bought of Richard Williams. Although it is possible that John Sanders' sister Ann might have had a grown son by 1729, I have not been able to determine whether or not Richard Williams mentioned in the James Howard will is the same Richard Williams mentioned in the John Sanders will.
Richard Sanders was closely associated with James Howard in Nansemond as early as 1684.
Patent to Richard Sanders. July 10, 1680. County not given. 300a in the upper parish of Nansemond at the head of Captn John Masone in the western branch... pine standing in Michael Hill now Francis Sanders line. Patents 7, p 39
Patent to James Hayward 24 Apr 1682. In right of Elizabeth his wife grandchild of James Foster decd 242a at ye head of ye Southern Branch of Nanzemond ... corner tree belonging to Mr --helly .... divides this parcel from Jonathan Robinson his wife's part ... joining with Henry Plumpton's corner ... granted to ye aforesaid James Foster and ??? (Andrew) Bonny dated ye 27th of September 1661(?) Patents 7, p 170 (The name Howard was sometimes spelled Hayward in early records.)
Jonathan Robinson's wife at this time can be proven as Ann, daughter of James Foster dec'd by another patent to Jonathan Robinson bearing the same date. This means one of two things - either Elizabeth ??? (Howard) was the niece of Jonathan Robinson and Ann Foster - or she was their daughter.
Patent to Jonathan Robinson 24 Apr 1682 242a on the head of the Southern Branch of the Nansemond in right of Ann his wife ye daughter of James Foster dec'd. Patents 7, p 169
Two years prior to this patent, Jonathan Robinson, Richard Thomas, and John Sanders patented land together in both Isle of Wight and Nansemond Co near Kingsale Swamp. During this same period, John Sanders' son Richard Sanders married a sister of James Howard.
In 1703, Jonathan Robinson patented land in Nansemond on the Cabbin Branch - claiming Samuel Woodward as a headright.
John Robinson/Roberson/Robertson, apparently a son of Jonathan Robinson, later owned land at Rockahock in Chowan Co adjoining Samuel Woodward's 1719 patent. (probably Samuel Woodward III) John Robinson left records in several NC and VA counties before settling in Johnston Co where he left his will. Michael Rogers, probably the son of Joseph Rogers of Northampton, was the guardian for John Robertson's minor son. One source states that Michael Rogers' sister was the wife of Theophilus Hunter d 1778 Wake Co. An earlier Michael Rogers left his will in Isle of Wight which proved that his daughter had married John Thomas, son of Richard Thomas of the 1681 patent. A son of Theophilus Hunter d 1778, Theophilus Hunter d 1799 Wake Co, married Jane Smith, daughter of Samuel Smith and Edith Whitmell and sister to Edith Smith who married Nehemiah Howard, son of Stephen Howard. Samuel Smith and James Sanders owned adjoining lands in Johnston Co.
Patent to James Howard. Oct 21, 1684. 300a in the Upper Parish of Nansemond at the head of Capt. John Mason's in the Western Branch... John Mason and other land of Richard Sanders ... standing in Michaell(?) Hill now Francis Sanders land ... pine by John Wattis(?) ... red oak by Thomas Jernigan ... formerly granted to Richard Sanders by patent bearing date of ?? July 1680. Patents 7, p 412
Patent to James Howard. Oct 20, 1691. 500 acres in a place called King Sayle in the Upper Parish of Nansemond. Beg.g etc on King Sayle Swamp... by the dividing line of this land and the land of Thomas Davis ... land being the one half of a patent for one thousand acres granted to Thomas Titus and Nicho Dixon dated the first day of October 1672 which five hundred acres after severall surrenders(?) and decents is now of Right and in possession of the said James Howard & after marrying one of the daughters of the said Titus ... Patents 8, p 178.
Boddie in Seventeenth Century Isle of Wight p 449 refers to this patent and says that the patent stated that this land was "formerly in the possession of Thomas Davis". This is in error. The patent itself is worded as above and only refers to the land of Thomas Davis as adjoining this land. It further states that the land had been previously granted to Thomas Titus and Nicholas Dixon in 1672. The 1672 Titus/Dixon patent makes no reference to the land having been patented at an earlier date by Thomas Davis either. The Thomas Titus and Nicholas Dixon/Dickson land was mentioned as adjoining the 1681 patent to John Sanders, Jonathan Robinson, and Richard Thomas.
However, the patent two patents before the James Howard patent of 1691 (Patents 8, p 177) was a patent dated the same day to Thomas Davis for the other 500 acres. It again refers to the previous Titus/Dixon patent and states "which five hundred acres is now in the possession of the said Thomas Davis". It does not state that the land was previously in the possession of Davis, nor does it refer to any inheritance or headrights. Certainly this part would have been Nicholas Dixon's half of the land. The last lines are very difficult to read, but they state "to Have and to Hold -?- to be Hold etc -?- and paying etc". Perhaps someone more adept at deciphering the old script can figure this out. Does this mean Davis had purchased the land? The patent describes the land as opposite the land of William Collings and refers to "a pine the place of division between this land and the land of James Haward & James Moore." The reference to James Moore is of importance too. Some of the patents referred to James Foster as "alias James More", so James Moore here was certainly the same as James Foster.
The patent between James Howard's patent and Thomas Davis's patent - also dated 20 Oct 1691 (Patents 8, p 177-178) - was for 500 acres to William Collins, obviously the same William Collins mentioned in the Thomas Davis patent as the Collins patent refers to a corner tree of Thomas Davis. The land was granted to Collins for the transportation of two persons - John Robinson and Robert Redman. All three patents referred to Kingsale Swamp.
This patent proves that James Howard's first wife Elizabeth ??? (we cannot be sure her maiden name was Foster or Robinson) probably died some time between 1682 and 1691. "Lag time" makes these dates uncertain as some patents weren't granted until years after the events they refer to. Later records prove James Howard's wife as Sarah (daugher of Thomas Titus) who survived him and later remarried Thomas Crews. I have not attempted to determine which of James Howard's children were born to Elizabeth or Sarah.
Thomas Davis mentioned in this 1691 patent and again in James Howard's 1729 will was either the brother or father of Sarah Davis who married John Sanders Jr. Thomas Davis had somehow acquired the Dixon part of the 1672 Titus/Dixon patent, so his half of the patent adjoined James Howard's half. Both Sarah and her brother Thomas Jr were the children of Thomas Davis Sr whose father Capt. James Davis left records in Jamestown and Henrico. It's interesting to note that Nicholas Dixon's earlier land can be placed in Henrico near the land of Christopher Robinson (apparently the grandfather of Jonathan Robinson) and Christopher Woodward (grandfather of Samuel Woodward Jr. of Charles City Co, Boston, Chowan, and possibly Nansemond). A Thomas Davis (related?) of Perquimans patented land with Nicholas Hunter on 9th March 1718(?).
John White Sr of Chowan in NC with ye free and voluntary consent of Sarah my wife to Francis Cambridge of VA 8 Jan 1704/5 5 L 16 shillings and 8 pence 150a, a sertain parsell of land on ye south west side of Hoping (?) Creek, joining Widow Absilison (?) Wit John Harrad, James Flemans. Reg. 3 Apr ---- (I believe the witnesses names were probably misspellings for John Howard and James Fleming.)
Will of Francis Cambridge in Upper Parish of Nansemond County, Virginia, 2 February 1710. Wife and Executrix Elizabeth. Witnessed by Andrew Ross, James Howard and John Sumner (Grimes, p. 60 This is another case of a Nansemond will that was copied into the NC records after the NC/VA line was redrawn in 1728.)
Nov 13, 1713 James Howard patented 200 acres on Deadman's Branch in the upper Parish of Nansemond next to Thomas Howard. (Patents 10, p 120)
According to unverified information found at Genforum/Howard, James Howard was the son of Thomas Howard of York Co. If this is correct, Thomas Howard in the above patent could be another brother.
James Howard was living in Chowan Co by 1722:
DB 1 p 287 Mary Howard wife of Edward Howard to John Rasberry. 16 Apr 1722. Letter of attorney to acknowledge my Right of Dower of land sold by my husband Edward Howard to James Howard the sd land being upon Ahottskey Marsh. Wit John Rasberry, Step. Howard. Reg. 24 Aug 1722
DB 1 p 286 Edward Howard of Chowan Prect, Planter to James Howard of Chowan Prect, Planter. 19 Apr 1722. 30L sterling money of Great Brittain. 300 acres, joining Northerly on Ahottskey Marsh and Black Wallnut Branch. All Houses, Out houses, etc. and is the land surveyed by George Gladstain now pattented by the sd Edward and is the Plantation whereon the sd James Howard now dwells. Wit Thomas Spires (Spiers), John Rasberry, John Welch. Ack Att a Ct Continued and held for Chowan Prect 19 Apr 1722 and John Rasberry ack Right of Dower by Vertue of a Power of Attorney from Mary Howard wife of the sd Edward. Test: W Badham, D.C.C. Reg 24 Aug 1722
Events
| Birth | Bef 1660 |  | |||
| Marriage | Abt 1699 | Living | | ||
| Death | 10 Oct 1725 | Isle of Wight County, Virginia, USA | | ||
| Burial | Suffolk, Suffolk City, Virginia, USA | |
Families
| Spouse | Living |
| Child | John Sanders (1706 - 1732) |
| Child | James Sanders (1713 - 1764) |
| Child | Robert Sanders (1715 - ) |
| Child | Ann Sanders (1717 - 1761) |
| Child | Richard Sanders Jr (1718 - ) |
| Father | John Sanders Sr ( - 1681) |
| Mother | Living |
| Sibling | John Sanders Jr (1645 - 1704) |
| Sibling | William Sanders (1645 - ) |
| Sibling | Living |
Endnotes
1. Ancestry.com, U.S., Find A Grave Index, 1600s-Current (Ancestry.com Operations, Inc.), Created by: RFB Jenkins Record added: Jan 25, 2014 Find A Grave Memorial# 124107971.
2. Descendants of John Sanders Sr and wife Phoebe of Nansemond Co., http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~fcharper/theory.html#Descendants of John Sanders Sr and wife Phoebe of.
3. GenForum presented by Genealogy.com, http://genforum.genealogy.com/howard/messages/3976.html.
4. The Howard family of Nansemond Co., Bertie Co, and Onslow Co., http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~fcharper/theory.html#The Howard family of Nansemond Co., Bertie Co, and.
5. Family Trees-Rootsweb.com-Saunders/Sanders/Epperson.
6. SandersWeb.net, Ancestors of Jesse Sanders.
7. GenForum presented by Genealogy.com, http://genforum.genealogy.com/howard/messages/3976.html.
8. The Howard family of Nansemond Co., Bertie Co, and Onslow Co., http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~fcharper/theory.html#The Howard family of Nansemond Co., Bertie Co, and.
9. Ancestry.com, U.S., Find A Grave Index, 1600s-Current (Ancestry.com Operations, Inc.), Created by: RFB Jenkins Record added: Jan 25, 2014 Find A Grave Memorial# 124107971.
10. Ancestry.com, U.S., Find A Grave Index, 1600s-Current (Ancestry.com Operations, Inc.), Created by: RFB Jenkins Record added: Jan 25, 2014 Find A Grave Memorial# 124107971.