Ann Sturman

Not the same as Ann Chandler and not the daughter of Rev. Robert Porter

The Sturman family came to America in 1640 on the ship "Sarah Elizabeth."

Ann Porter

• Birth: seen as 1585 / May 03, 1596 - Haddenham Parish, Buckinghamshire, England without supporting evidence
• Death: Aug 21 1654 - Westmoreland Co., Virginia
• Husband: Thomas Sturman
• Children: Richard Sturman, Rosanna Tucker (born Sturman), Ann Morris (born Sturman), Katherine Elizabeth Hardwick (born Sturman), John Struman, Thomas Hall Sturman, Richard Sturman

will

Ann Sturman, Wife of Thomas., did not long survive her husband.

Records of Westmoreland Co., Virginia. Deeds, Wills &c. from 1653 to 1659 p. 20. Will of Ann Sturman proved 21 th Aug. 1654

• First I bequeath my soul to Almighty God ye maker of manhoode & my body to dust from whence I came
• Secondly I give my sone John Two Cowes called old Browne and Smot & one Bull & all ye hoggs that be at Maryland except one Sow that I give my Grandchilde Thomas Youlle & likewise to my sone John one brass kettle a warming pan a Carpett & his fathers great Coat & also to my sone John Sturman half ye right of Land that is due at Maryland & ye other half of ye Said Right of Land to my sone Richard Sturman And further I give to my Grandchilde John Sturman ye yearling that was Smotty
• Thirdly I bequeath to Ann Youle ye Cow that is called long Leggs & a red heifer that is two years olde & my hatt my bodies & my red coate my best stockings & my new pare of shooes
• Fourthly I give to my Daughter Elizabeth Hardich a Cow called Little & a black heifer & my best petticoate & two wastecoates belonging to it & as for my Linnen that is wearing Linnen
• I give & behod my daughter Ann Youle & Elizabeth Hardich excepting a white petticoate & white Wastcoate wch 1 give to my grandchilde Ann Youle & further I give to her a yearling wch valued by Long Leggs.
• I give to my grandchilde Winnifried a yearling called Anne Cale.
• I give to my grandchilde Little Betty Hardich one yearling great Brownings calfe
• Lastly I bequeath to my sone Richard Sturman one Cow called Starr two yearlings one valued by Little Browning & another red yearling & all my hoggs & their increase that are at Nominy & fower Calves that were weaned this yeare & further I give him two Bills one from John 'Wood & ye other from olde goodman Tasker more
• I give him my servant man for his full time to serve & ye Croppe of Tobco & Corne upon ye ground that is now growing more
• I give my sone Richard all ye goods that is in ye house mouvables and unmouvables except one bed bolster & pillow that he now lyes upon wch I give to my sone John & for ye debt that I owe I leave ye Tobco that is due for ye Land my husband solde in Maryland to pay ye said debt & likewise I leave one hhead of Tobco that was recovered in Maryland Court towards paying of those debts One thousand pounds of Tobco that will be overplus of paying my debts
• I give to my daughter Rosamund wch lives in England & that Tobco is left in my sone Richards hands to pay her & what Tobco may be over & above according as I have disposed of I leave to my sone Richard
• Further I give towards ye charges of my buriall In witness whereof I have sett my hand ye 22th day of June Ano Dm 1654. Noate that (of Tobco & Corne) was interlined before this will was witnessed.

The will of Ann Sturman. Witnes Waltr BroadhurSt. John Wood. 21th Aug. 1654. This will was proved by ye oathes of Mr. Broadhurst & John Wood And ye naming of Executors by word of mouth after ye will was made by ye oathes of ye said Wood & George Day.

Sources

• Colonial Virginians and Their Maryland Relatives: A Genealogy of the Tucker Family and Also the Families of Allen, Blackistone, Chandler, Ford, Gerard, Harmor, Hume, Monroe, Skaggs, Smith, Stevesson, Stone, Sturman, Thompson, Ward, Yowell, and Others (Google eBook) Norma Tucker Genealogical Publishing Com, 1994. Page 35. page 179
• Ancestry of John D Newport has errors.
• https://www.werelate.org/wiki/Person:Anne_Sturman_%281%29
• https://www.familysearch.org/tree/person/family/LZL4-RMB