Col. Laurence Wills, of Warwick

Laurence Wills of Warwick

• Son of Matthew Wills of Warwick and Mary Johnson Armestead by her 2nd husband

Lawrence Wills, married first Mary Tabb, his half sister, and had a son named Thomas Tabb Wills. She may have died at Thomas Tabb's birth. He married 2nd Anne Nancy Pryor and had many children. Colonel Lawrence Wills b. 1723, Amelia, Virginia and Mary Tabb's son, Thomas Tabb Wills, married Elizabeth Ridley Morgan and they had three known children; Mary Johnson Wills, John Wills, and Lawrence Wills. Wills & Administrations of Elizabeth City Co, VA 1688-1800; by Blanche Adams Chapman (reprinted by Gen Pub Co, Baltimore, MD, 1980) has abstracts of all the will plus additional info. djbaggs

Thomas Tabb married Mary Armistead, daughter of Anothony Armistead (son of Anthony Armistead and grandson of William Armistead, the emigrant. He left six children, according to his will (proved in 1736), who according to the Bible and the will of the widow, Mary Armistead- Tabb- Wills - Armistead (She was married three times), were Elizabeth, born 1726; married Henry King; John born November 15 1728; Thomas born December 18, 1730; emigrated to Lunenburg county, where he was living in 1767, when he made a deed to to John Tabb, of Elizabeth City County for land left by his mother Mary Wills; member of the Convention in July, 1775. His daughter Anne Married James Nash Jr., Mary born December 24, 1732; Rachel, born February 1.1734 Married ______ Fivash; Martha born April 27, 1738, married William Latimer of Elizabeth City county. The widow Mary Tabb, married secondly , Matthew Wills, of Warwick by whom she had Laurence Wills (who had Thomas Tabb Wills, which last in 1774 married in Amelia Elizabeth Ridgely Morgan,daughter of Samuel Morgan); and Genealogies of Virginia Families from the William and Mary College Quarterly. Vol. IV. Neville-Terrill

Sources

• Genealogies of Virginia Families from the William and Mary College Quarterly. Vol. IV. Neville-Terrill -https://www.myheritage.com/research/record-90100-349103006/the-tabb... Page 46
• William and Mary College Quarterly Historical Magazine, By College of William and Mary, page 124 - https://books.google.com/books?id=WtURAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA124&lpg=PA124&d...