Ann Inglis

Ann Bray Ingles (daughter of James Bray I)

Ann, the daughter of James Bray I and his wife, Angelica, married Robert Booth, who died in 1693. Two years later she wed Peter Temple of Vaulx Hall, in York County. In 1695 Peter Temple, acting on his wife's behalf, sold her legal interest in James Bray I's estate to her brother Thomas Bray I for 150 pounds sterling. After Peter's death in 1698, Ann Bray Booth Temple married Mongo (Mungo) Ingles (Stephenson 1963:8).

In 1717, when Ann's brother, David Bray I, made his will, he specified that if his son, David II, failed to produce legal heirs, his land was to be divided between her and his brother, James II. Thanks to these bequests, Ann Bray Ingles' daughter and sole heir, Judith Ingles Armistead, inherited a legal interest in the property of her late uncle, David Bray I (Winfree 1971:381-383; Hening 1809-1823:VI:412-413). At the time of David Bray I's death, the trustees for the city of Williamsburg still owed him money for that portion of his land which had been acquired in 1699 when the city was laid out (McIlwaine 1918:751). In November 1755, when the assembly partitioned the late David Bray I's property and distributed it between his legal heirs (Judith Ingles Armistead and Elizabeth Bray Johnson), it was noted that David Bray I, at the time of his death, owned four lots in the city of Williamsburg; 950 acres of land in James City County; and an 1,850 acre tract in Charles City County. A 1769 description of the property assigned to Elizabeth Bray Johnson reveals that the 950 acres she had received as a result of the 1755 partition suit included a 312 acre tract and a dwellinghouse adjoining the city of Williamsburg and 600 acres called Tutty's Neck (Hening 1809-1823:VI:412-415; McIlwaine 1905-1915:1766-1769:279). Thus, the dwelling owned by the late David Bray I, which descended through Thomas Bray II to Elizabeth Bray Johnson, was on acreage adjoining Williamsburg but not within the city limits.

LAND OWNERSHIP PATTERNS AND EARLY DEVELOPMENT IN MIDDLE PLANTATION: REPORT OF ARCHIVAL RESEARCH, Martha W. McCartney, Historian, 2000

Colonial Williamsburg Foundation Library Research Report Series - 1724

Colonial Williamsburg Foundation Library, Williamsburg, Virginia, 2010

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