William Sydnor, Sr.

William Sydnor was born 26 Feb 1699, Lancaster County, Virginia, the son of Fortunatus Sydnor ll & Ruth Glasscock. He died 19 Jul 1751, Lancaster County, Virginia (probate).

He married

• 1) Rachel Wood (William Davenport’s widow) on 16 Dec 1717
• 2) Catherine (John Taylor’s widow) on 1 Mar 1724

His son with Catherine was William Sydnor, under 21 in 1751.

• Abstracts of Lancaster County, Virginia Wills [Ida J. Lee
• SYDNOR, William, of St. Mary's White Chappell. 22 Jan. 1750. Rec. 19 July 1751.
• Wife: Catharine.
• Son: William (not 21).
• To: Fortunatus, son of Anthony Sydnor and Eliza his wife;
• John Sydnor, son of Anthony and Eliza his wife;
• Joseph Sydnor, son of Anthony and Elizabeth his wife.
• Exors: Wife, Mr. George Payne and Mr. Richard Mitchell.
• Wits: Susanna Mitchell, M. Shearman. W.B. 15, p. 48.

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• Lancaster County Virginia Marriages: December 16, 1717, Wm. Sydnor and Rachael Davenport-
• https://www.colonial-settlers-md-va.us/getperson.php?personID=I7320...
• http://www.ssvmall.com/sydstuff/family/sydnor.htm

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GEDCOM Note

http://worldconnect.genealogy.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=GET&a...
William lived on land in Lancaster City located on a branch of Deep Creek "that runneth up to Deep Bottom." His wife Catherine Taylor Sydnor inherited this land from her first husband John Taylor and purchased an adjacent tract from her former husband's kinsman George Chowning. William also purchased fifty acres of land in the same parish from Peter Ross which property fornly belonged to Samuel Matthews, 100 acres from william Sammon who had purchased the 100 acres from the same Samuel Matthews and 106 acres from James Tapscott.Catherine Marshall, orphan of John Marshall of Lancaster City, deceased, age 10 years, was bound to William Sydnor and Catherine, his wife, "til she attains the age of eighteen years." the conditions were as usual for servants by indenture.The tobacco warehouses on the land of William Sydnor, on Deep Creek, were burned sometime prior to 8 Aug. 1731. James, Gent., contracted with the Court to rebuild them for the sum of 12,440 pounds of tobacco, which the county was to include in the next levy, requiring one of the warehouses and the wharf to be completed before 11 Nov. and the other to be completed before 5 dec.A claim was presented in court by some whose tobacco was in the warehouses at the time of burning. In 1727-1740 a petition was presented in the House of Burgesses on behalf of William Sydnor that it had been very expensive to have had to build tobacco houses as ordered by the Court. The petition asked for an allowance for expenses and additional Rent for the said houses.In the Virginia House of Burgesses, Friday, 30 May 1740, it was resolved, "That an additionat Rent of Five Pounds Ten Shillings per Annum, from the Tenth Day of November last, be allowed William Sydnor, Proprietor of the Public Warehouse at Deep Creek, in Lancaster County, for building a nnew Warehouse, with a Plank Floor, as was required by the Court.William Sydnor was presented in Court on 14 June 1732 by Joseph Heale ans Joseph Ball, churchwardens of St. Mary's White Chapel Parish " for going out of the Parish Church in time of Divine Services. The case was dismissed."In August 1740, 1741, 1742 and 1743, Martin Sherman, Robert Mitchell, Jr., William Sydnor and Issac White were recommended for inspectors at Deep Creek Warehouse.William Bailey, orphan of John Bailey, deceased, was bound to William Sydnor and Catherine, his wife, until 21 years of age, to be taught to read,etc. and the trade of a carpenter. The Sydnors who inhabited frederick City and that vivinity in the late eighteenth century and throughout the nineteenth centery were decended from William and Catherine Sydnor through their only son William (# 17), to of whose children migrated to Frederick City.