Grace Kay

Disputed Origins

Chronology issues to have her as a child of Lt Colonel Henry Meese, Sr.

From https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Frizer-1

Her father, Dr. William [Alexander] Frizer, named her children in his will. Westmoreland County Deeds, Patents, etc. 1665-1677. , pp. 346-346a:

9 Sep 1677 - 24 Oct 1677 names Grace's children, his grandchildren Priscilla Ashton, Charles Ashton, Sarah Ashton, Henry, Grace Jr., and Mary.

Colonial Familes of Northern Neck of Virginia; Wright & Wright William Frizer, WC, chirurgeon, d. leaving a will dated 9 Sep 1677, proved 21 Nov 1677. To Mrs. Grace Ashton, widdow, extx. my gold watch, all my debts. Unto Prissilla Ashton, horse and mare. Prissilla shall give Henry Ashton the first mare colt. Unto Henry Ashton, son and orphant of Capt. John Ashton 2000 a. of my tract of 5500 a. purchased by me of John Mathews. If he die before age 21, to his brother Charles Ashton. Unto Grace Ashton Junr. 500 a. of 5500 a. tract. Unto Mary Ashton, 500 a. Unto Sarah Ashton, 500 a. - daughters and orphans of Capt. John Ashton each 500 a. Unto Thomas Beard son of John Beard my Godsonne, 2000 a. being the remainder of the 5500 a. If he die to Prissilla Ashton. {WC DWP, 1065-77:346-346a}” https://www.colonial-settlers-md-va.us/getperson.php?personID=I0718...

Family

From "Ashton Family" article from The William and Mary Quarterly, Volume 7. link

3. John Ashton (Charles ') married Grace Meese (?) She married, secondly, James Kay (note 2). He died in 1677.

Issue, named in the will (dated September 9, 1677) of Alexander Frizer,, surgeon with Lieutenant-Colonel John Washington in the attack on the Susquehanna Fort;

• 4, Priscilla;
• 5, Mary, who, in received the gift of a mare from Henry Meese, Esq., of the council; &,
• Henry*;
• 7, Charles';
• 8, Grace;
• 9, Sarah' (note 3), married, first, Col. Philip Alexander, and had issue : Jane, Elizabeth, Sarah, Philip, born July 22, 1704, who married, Nov. 11 1726, Sarah Hooe, daughter of Rice Hooe (note 4); married,, secondly, Thomas Clifton, and had Ann Clifton and Burdett Clifton (born June 29, 1708, will proved 1762); married, thirdly, McGill. Jane, daughter of Philip and Sarah (Hooe) Alexander (bom January 12, 1730), married 15, Henry* Ashton. (CJ below.)

comments

From http://www.genealogy.com/forum/surnames/topics/ashton/1742/

Suggest you search this forum for postings by Lou Poole. She has found records of Captain John Ashton and Grace in Warwick County, Virginia, as early as 1650, which cast doubt on her identity as a daughter of Col. Henry Meese. It seems that she was previously married to William Best of Warwick County; and that she married Captain John Ashton, in 1651, after the death of William Best, in 1650. Captain John Ashton was an attorney and was closely involved with the Dade Family, who muved to the Northern Neck of Virginia about the same time (1662-1664) as the Ashtons. It may be possible to trace Captain John Ashton further through some of these connections.

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References

• Pippenger, Wesley E.. John Alexander, A Northern Neck Proprietor. Baltimore, MD: Gateway Press, 1990.
• https://www.werelate.org/wiki/Person:Grace_Meese_(1)
• From http://www.genealogy.com/forum/surnames/topics/ashton/1742/“Suggest you search this forum for postings by Lou Poole. She has found records of Captain John Ashton and Grace in Warwick County, Virginia, as early as 1650, which cast doubt on her identity as a daughter of Col. Henry Meese. It seems that she was previously married to William Best of Warwick County; and that she married Captain John Ashton, in 1651, after the death of William Best, in 1650. Captain John Ashton was an attorney and was closely involved with the Dade Family, who muved to the Northern Neck of Virginia about the same time (1662-1664) as the Ashtons. It may be possible to trace Captain John Ashton further through some of these connections.”
• Date of death https://ancestors.familysearch.org/en/L1QQ-VBR/mary-frances-ashton-...
• Fitzhugh, Norman S. “Captain John Ashton of Westmoreland County, Virginia, and Some of His Descendants.” The William and Mary Quarterly, vol. 14, no. 2, 1934, pp. 151–155. JSTOR, http://www.jstor.org/stable/1915677
• The Kay-Pendleton-Neel families Page 23 AncestryImage

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• Reference: FamilySearch Family Tree - SmartCopy: Oct 22 2019, 6:16:38 UTC