Individual Details
John Echols
(1650 - 1712)
All the children except for Richard are from an email on the CAVE mail list at Rootsweb. Posted by
Information from WorldConnect Files:
John Eckholls first patents in Virginia are in New Kent Co. in the 1680's. Milner Echols wrote a history of this family about 1850 - if quotes from this work are correct it is still quite confusing and poorly documented. This is apparently the source of the statement "John Echols an Englishman came to America about the end of the 16th or the beginning of the 17th Century and settled in Caroline Co Virginia and married a tall Redheaded woman named Mary Cave - & by her had 5 sons & 3 daughters."
One thing wrong with Milner Echols' comments is that Caroline Co was not even a county until 1728 and John Echols was deceased before then. However, he did apparently have land patents in the area that did become Caroline Co.
There have been attempts to connect this man with a John Eccles of Charles City County but that John was being paid for wolves heads in Charles City County at the same time that this John Echols was documented in New Kent County.
Listed in the 1704 King & Queen Co quit rent rolls:
220 acres - John Eachols
Virginia Land Patents that are likely his follow. John Cave, believed to have been his father-in-law was a partner with John Echols in two of these patents.
Eckholls, John.
20 April 1685.
Location: New Kent County.
Grantee(s): Eckholls, John and Morris, William.
Description: 350 acres behind the land formerly Giles Moodies. Beg.g &c. by Barrows old house.
Source: Land Office Patents No. 7, 1679-1689 (v.1 & 2 p.1-719), p. 436 (Reel 7).
Eckholls, John.
23 April 1688.
Location: New Kent County.
Description: 321 acres on the north side Mattapony River beg.g &c. at the head of a branch by Captn. William Smyths landing path.
Source: Land Office Patents No. 7, 1679-1689 (v.1 & 2 p.1-719), p. 635 (Reel 7).
Eckholls, John.
23 October 1703.
Location: King and Queen County.
Grantee(s): Cave, John and Eckholls, John.
Description: 600 acres.
Source: Land Office Patents No. 9, 1697-1706 (v.1 & 2 p.1-742), p. 554 (Reel 9).
Cradock, Samuel.
23 October 1703.
Location: King and Queen County.
Grantee(s): Cradock, Samuel; Cave, John; Eckholls, John and Glover, Wm.
Description: 1620 acres on the branches of Tuckahoe Swamp in the freshes of Mattapony River. Beg.g &c. by the east side of Potobago Path. The land lies in the Counties of King and Queen and Essex.
Source: Land Office Patents No. 9, 1697-1706 (v.1 & 2 p.1-742), p. 552 (Reel 9).
Patents to William Glover, 1721, and William Craddock, 1724, both in St. Stephen's Parish, King & Queen Co, and between Tuckahoe Swamp and the Portobacco Road mention the lines of each other as well as Echol's Branch.
Four of John’s sons, William, Joseph, Abraham, and Richard, were permitted to patent 6,000 acres about a half mile below Stock’s Creek or Bent Creek in Spotsylvania County in 1728, although no patent was issued. Partners in the venture were Pierce Butler and brothers Richard Anderson, Roger Anderson, and Paulin Anderson.
The Echols sons were dependable Amelia County citizens and served on juries when called. Of twelve good men on the jury of Robert Vaughan vs. Richard Ward, 9 December 1737, three were Richard, William, and Abraham Echols.
The Gillintine, Marchbanks, Collins, Hendrick, and Hubbard families, who intermarried with the Echols, moved from Amelia County to Halifax around the same time as the Echols.
Events
| Birth | 1650 | Grovesend, England |  | ||
| Death | 1712 | prob King & Queen County, Virginia | | ||
| Marriage | Mary Cave | |
Families
| Spouse | Mary Cave (1670 - 1712) |
| Child | Ann Echols ( - 1746) |
| Child | Eleanor Echols ( - ) |
| Child | Mary Echols (1696 - ) |
| Child | John Echols (1698 - 1750) |
| Child | Abraham Echols (1700 - 1749) |
| Child | William Echols (1702 - 1771) |
| Child | Joseph Echols (1704 - 1766) |
| Child | Richard Echols (1706 - 1786) |
Endnotes
1. WorldConnect database at Rootsweb.
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3. WorldConnect database at Rootsweb.