Col. Edward Moseley, of Princess Anne County

Not the same as Edward Moseley, of Essex County

From Virginia Encyclopedia of Biography:

Moseley, Edward, son of William Moseley and Mary Gookin, his wife, daughter of Captain John and Sarah Gookin, was born in 1661, and was county lieutenant of Princess Anne county, justice of the peace and high sheriff, and burgess in 1700-1702, 1703-1705, 1706. He died in 1736.

He married several times, his first wife being Frances, daughter of Colonel John Stringer, of Northampton county.

His father, William Moseley, was second son of William Moseley, merchant of Rotterdam.

Family

Married 1) Frances Stringer 2) Rose Thorowgood ... more wives?

Married Bef 1671 - Frances Stringer

Children

• 1. Hillary Moseley, d. Bef 5 Aug 1730

Notes

COL EDWARD MOSELEY (1661-1736) COLONIAL WAR. He was a Colonel in the County Militia, Justice of Princess Anne County, High Sheriff, and as Lynnhaven Parish Church vestryman a member of the court that tried Grace Sherwood. In 1697 he had the land around his estate established as the town of Newtown.

He married the widow Mrs. Bartho(lemew?) Taylor, daughter of Col. John Stringer of the eastern shore of Virginia. Their son was Hillary Moseley. About 1703, Edward gave his son "my seale ring wch. was my father's with his coat of arms on it," his "mother's wedding ring when marryed to Mr. Bartho. Taylor, with a posey in it and m'kt B. I F.," " four silver spoones m'kt H. M. w'ch was his Grandfather Stringer'ss," "a silver tankard m'kt Wm. M. which was my father's."

His will was written on the 6th of March, 1735-6, and ordered to be recorded the 7th of April, 1736. In it, after disposing of various portions of his property, he leaves the remainder to his grandson, Edward Hack Moseley, and requests that it be delivered to him when he reaches the age of twenty-one years. Edward Moseley stated in a deposition made in 1734 that he was about 73 years old.[1].

Siblings reported by http://familytreemaker.genealogy.com/users/a/l/e/Ray-C-Alexander-VA...

References

• https://www.colonial-settlers-md-va.us/getperson.php?personID=I1081...
• https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/192226117/_
• https://www.familysearch.org/tree/person/sources/M77B-99J
• https://www.genealogy.com/ftm/a/l/e/Ray-C-Alexander-VA/WEBSITE-0001... (has errors)
• https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Moseley-2010 cites
• Families of Lower Norfolk and Princess Anne Counties, The Virginia Magazine of History and Biography, Vol. 5, No. 3 (Jan., 1898), Virginia Historical Society, page 330 "Families of Lower Norfolk and Princess Anne Counties." The Virginia Magazine of History and Biography 5, no. 3 (1898): 327-34. Accessed September 18, 2020. http://www.jstor.org/stable/4242061.