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Anne Massey (Dade)

Birthdate:
Birthplace: Warwick River Co, Virginia
Death: after 1692
Immediate Family:

Daughter of Francis Dade, AKA John Smith and Beheathland Gilson
Wife of William Lane and Sigismund Massey
Sister of Francis Dade, II; Mary Hooe; Elizabeth Griffith and William Bernard Dade
Half sister of Capt. Thomas Gilson and Behethland Storke

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About Anne Massey

Married Sigismund Massey.

Married William Lane.

From https://www.colonial-settlers-md-va.us/getperson.php?personID=I0323...

Married Sigismund Massey

From the will of Robert Hewitt, 1689, Stafford County

“ ... then I give my said lande to my Daughter SARAH & her heires and assignes for ever payinge two yeares rent to Mr. ROBERT SANDERSON Also it is my will intent & meaninge that if ye said Lande fail to my Daughter SARAH that then MARY HOWSON, ANNE BEHETHLAND & SARAH HOWSON shall have ye next foure tents after MR. SANDERSON everyone haveinge accordingle to their age begininge wth MARY first, ...”
...Item I give unto ROBERT MASSEY one younge Bay horse branded on ye near buttock wch came of ye Mare called Beare€oohs mare And it is my will and desire that my loveinge Wife SARAH HEWITT have ye use of my Estate here in Virginia dureinge her life and I doe hereby nominate make & appoint my said Loveinge Wife to be ye whole & sole Executrix of this my last Will and Testament Wittness my hande &Seale ye day and yeare abovesaid
In presence of SAMUELL. HAYWARD, ROBT. HEWITT SIGISS. MASSEY, ABRA; CULLY 1689

From https://www.colonial-settlers-md-va.us/getperson.php?personID=I0260...

Old Rappahannock Co Va Deed Book 3 - 1663-1668; Antient Press: pg 312-313

KNOW ALL MEN by these presents that I BEHETHLAND GILSON doe hereby constitute and appoynt my welbeloved Sonn in Law Mr. WM. LANE my True and Lawful Attorney for me and in my name to accknowledge unto Majr. JOHN WEIR of the County of Rappa. my right title & Interrest of a Devidt: of land sold and made over by my Husband Mr. ANDREW GILSON unto the said Majr. Weir bearing date the 20th of Aprill in the year of our Lord 1667 and this my Act and Deed I doe Rattify and confirme by setting hereunto my hand and seale this 9th of May 1667. In presents of us WM, MOSELEY Behethland Gilson STE. MANRING Recordat 14th 9bris 1667

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From https://www.genealogy.com/forum/surnames/topics/dade/103/

Adventurers of Purse and Person, Meyer & Dorman, 1987, takes Anne Dade back to Robert Beheathland, a founder of James Towne, and progenitor of the oldest (1607) family in Virginia from whom descent can be proven today.

References

  • William Lane in the Virginia, Marriages of the Northern Neck of Virginia, 1649-1800 Name: William Lane Marriage Date: Abt 1667 Spouse Name: Ann Dade Marriage Location: Virginia, United States Source Information Ancestry.com. Virginia, Marriages of the Northern Neck of Virginia, 1649-1800 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2012. AncestryImage Bride was a daughter of Maj. Francis & Beheathland Dade.
  • John Bailey Calvert Nicklin. “Descendants of Captain Robert Behethland of Jamestown.” The William and Mary Quarterly, vol. 9, no. 1, 1929, pp. 60–63. JSTOR, http://www.jstor.org/stable/1920378
  • John Bailey Calvert Nicklin. “Descendants of Capt. Robert Behethland of Jamestown.” The William and Mary Quarterly, vol. 9, no. 3, 1929, pp. 175–185. JSTOR, http://www.jstor.org/stable/1921299
  • John Bailey Calvert Nicklin. “Major Andrew Gilson: And Some of His Descendants (1630-1930).” The Virginia Magazine of History and Biography, vol. 38, no. 2, 1930, pp. 181–190. JSTOR, http://www.jstor.org/stable/4244325
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Anne Massey's Timeline

1654
1654
Warwick River Co, Virginia
1692
1692
Age 38