David Lindsay / Lindsey

'Lindsay, David, son of Sir Hierome Linday, knight of the mount, Lord Lyon-kingat-arms of Scotland, was born at South Leith, Scotland, January 2, 1603, and was rector of Yeocomico parish, Northumberland county, Virginia. He died April 3, 1667, leaving an only daughter Helen, who married Captain Thomas Opie, who has descendants in Virginia.

Source: Encyclopedia of Virginia Biography, Under the Editorial Supervision of Lyon Gardiner Tyler, Volume 1, Lewis Historical Publishing Company, 1915 - Virginia, page 278.

Baptised Jan. 3, 1603, Scotland

(1) The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, International Genealogical Index ®, Copyright © 1980, 2002, data as of September 13, 2004:

DAVID LYNDESAY Male Event(s): Christening: 02 JAN 1603 South Leith, Midlothian, Scotland Parents: Father: JEREMIE LYNDESAY Mother: MARGARET COLVILL Batch No.: C195031 Dates: 1599-1620 Source Call No.: 1067770 Type: Film Printout Call No: 6901040 Type: Film

(2) Lindsay, Margaret Isabella, The Lindsays of America, Albany, NY: Joel Munsell's Sons, 1889, pp. 26-35, 39-40:

It is probable that our earliest forefather in this country, the Reverend David Lindsay, left the mother country during the reign of Charles the First, that is, between 1645-55. The earliest evidence I have found of his vicinity and occupation is the following, from an old book of court orders:

"Judgment is granted Mr. David Lindsay, (spelled Lyndsay) Minister, whereby he recovers 50 pounds Tobacco from Edward Coles." Northumberland County Court March 20, 1655.

From this evidence we can infer, I think, that he must have been located for some years in the colony. On the death of James, Charles the First's father, in 1625, the Reverend David was in his twenty-third year; he may then have been married or he may not, but, judging of the early marriages of his time, the former is extremely likely. We can give him a few years in Scotland, with the troubled and revolutionary period he lived in, and come to the conclusion he emigrated to Virginia about 1645, and thus entered upon his pastorate in the prime of life.

As appertaining to this pastorate I set down these other three items, also taken from old books of court orders of that time:

"21st of September 1657, Mr David Lindsay recovers of Thomas Lamkin 3775 pounds of Tobacco.

October 1657, Mr David Lindsay, Minister, being behind 700 pounds of Tobacco of his last years salary in Wicomico parish, the Court orders that the said sum of 700 pounds Tobacco be levied out of the said parish (from every Titheable) by the Sheriff, &. &c.

October 1662, Mr. David Lindsay was relieved of a fine imposed for performing marriage between two servants contrary to law. Northumberland County Court House.

The tumultuous times in Scotland and England during the reign of Charles the First, beginning with the religious wars, the Presbyterians in the former country and the Round-heads or Puritans in the latter country, the final execution of the king with many of his followers, including the banishment of others of note who had served him, among whom were not a few Lindsays, and the rising power of the Cromwellites, must have made great changes in many families and caused hundreds to seek peace, safety and comfort in expatriation, as history shows as they did.

The death in Scotland in 1642 of his father, Sir Jerome or Hierome Lindsay of The Mount, Lord Lion King at Arms, and this troubled state of his native country must have led our early forefather to seek a home in the new world. In 1642, as history says, "England fairly begins to get on fire with her great civil war. The dispute between arbitrary power and the rights of freeborn men grew so fierce and high that pike and bullet alone could settle it." Husbandry, industries, and all peace was at an end. To worship God in that form most suited to each man's conscience was denied. Our forefather not being a warrior, but a minister of the gospel, gladly turned his course westward, as that small band upon the Mayflower did about 1620, and sought to preach the gospel and to keep the gospel before the young colonists.

It may be interesting at this point to mention a few things concerning the ministers in the colony. The salary of a minister in the colonies, as fixed by law, was sixteen thousand pounds of tobacco per annum, that is eighty pounds current money; besides this, he is given, if he desires it, a dwelling-house and glebe, together with certain perquisites, as marriages, and funeral sermons. The fee for the first was twenty shillings, or two hundred pounds tobacco, for the second, forty shillings, or four hundred pounds tobacco.

Frequent acts were passed for the payment of ministers until the sessions of 1657-58, when church and state seem to have been radically divorced, and all matters relating to the church left to the control of the people. Prior to 1633 all dealing was paid for in tobacco. A curious style of currency? What a difference from those early days to these - then money as a mode of mutual interchange of barter was nothing; to-day, the breast of all America, young and old, throbs with a keen ambition to have and to make it.

In some parishes there were donations of flocks and negroes, which the minister returned when he died, or gave the value to the donators. By examination of the ancient records of St. Andrew's (Scotland's famous university) I believe that our early ancestor, the Reverend David Lindsay, was a student there. There is a signature thereon of a David Lindsay as being a student of St. Salvatore College of this University, January, 1618, and again, as having graduated M. A., July, 1621, which would make him at that time in his nineteenth year. Combined with the fact that his uncle-in-law, Archbishop Spotswood, was at the head of the university about this period, one can have but little doubt that the above record points to him, and that the influence of this talented uncle, historian of Scotland, as well as the king's primate, induced him finally to settle in Virginia, or at any rate, directed his attention to Virginia.

The London ministry, and, in particular, the Bishop of London, at one time instituted a movement to procure suitable clergymen to settle in the colony, as they were scarce. In 1620, history tells as there were but eleven parishes and five ministers in the whole colony, but this was, no doubt, some years previous to our forefather's arrival. The church in which the Reverend David Lindsay preached was the early Yeocomico or Wicomico church (spelled in both ways), situated near the Wicomico river, in Northumberland county, one of the earliest churches in the Virginian colony.

It was twice destroyed; first during the Revolution, and later again, through neglect, war, and age; but to show the reverence and love the people of this vicinity have for their ancient places of worship, peace once more reigning in our land, a subscription was raised not over five or six years since and a little wooden chapel near the site of the old Wicomico church built, and to-day people gather here to attend divine service.

Bishop Meade, in his history of "Old Churches and Old Families of Virginia," makes no mention whatever of our early forefather's services in Northumberland county; in fact there are several of the oldest families of this county and other counties omitted in this work, but doubtless the omissions were chiefly for lack of the proper source to gain the necessary information from.

For several years the old parish registry of Wicomico church was lost, but it finally turned up in another parish in Lancaster county, in Christ Church of that county, of which the Reverend Edmond Withers was pastor, who called the bishop's attention to it, and who copied some names from it for this book, but whether or not the Reverend David Lindsay was spoken of there as the early minister of Wicomico church, remains hidden to us, for I have made repeated inquiries and search for the ancient register, but can get no trace of it; certainly it was not restored, as it should have been, to the church to which it belonged, for naught is known about it by the present minister of this vicinity in Northumberland county.

Two names copied by Bishop Meade from the ancient register point conclusively to the Reverend David Lindsay's posterity. They were copied because the holders of the names were cited as vestrymen of St. Stephen's parish of this (Wicomico) church. The first was John Opie, date 1754; the second, Lindsay Opie, 1781; both descendants, through his daughter, of the Reverend David Lindsay. As Northumberland county was not incorporated or formed until 1648, our early forefather was among its first inhabitants.

As can be easily understood, the ministers at this early period of the colony were the better learned and polished men belonging to it. Our early forefather's father, Sir Hierome Lindsay, was also possessed of besides "The Mount" of "Annatland," a seat in Scotland, where he resided ere his second union to his cousin, Agnes Lindsay of "The Mount" This former estate was by law, on the death of his father, the property of the Reverend David Lindsay, as the eldest son, but whether he came into possession of it or sold it ere coming to the colony, is a matter of doubt. Here probably he was born. "Duninno" is the name of another place occupied by Sir Jerome or Hierome Lindsay.

I believe both these estates were in Forforshire [sic; should be Forfarshire, now Angus]; Duninno, however, 'tis recorded, passed out of his hands when he possessed Annatland. He was evidently knighted by his king, for he is styled Sir Hierome or Jerome Lindsay of Annatland, before his marriage to his second wife, when he came into possession of The Mount.

Therefore, it can be seen that the Reverend David Lindsay, by the Scottish law of knighthood, on the death of his father, became Sir David Lindsay, and all heirs male of his body in the direct line forever afterward could be styled knights-baronet.

Northumberland must have been one of the best counties in colonial days, for James Waddell, the blind preacher of Virginia, remarked that "he found so much hospitality, intelligence, and polish, amongst the old Virginia gentry here, that he would cheerfully have passed his life among them." History asserts that about 1762, there was a brisk trade with Great Britain from the mouths of the rivers, and much generous piety amongst the merchants and planters of this region.

Westmoreland county, which was the native county of our illustrious Washington, adjoined Northumberland, in fact it was formed from the elder county, Northumberland, in consequence of which the latter is now one of the smallest counties in Virginia. This part of Virginia was called, in the past, the "Athens" of Virginia; for, in Westmoreland, some of the most renowned men of this country have been born, not only Washington, but some of the distinguished Lees, James Monroe, and others of note.

Colonial life is a subject very often written upon now by our best magazine writers, and forms most interesting matter to many, especially the genealogist and modern antiquarian. The habits, the manners and pastimes of our forefathers in early America were, of course, the prevailing habits, manners and pastimes of the mother country. The Cavaliers and the Puritans brought these things with them, as they did their love for freedom and liberty.

The minister of a parish was quite a small potentate. He not only preached the gospel on the Sabbath and other fixed days, married, christened, and read the burial service, but he heard the grievances of his different parishioners, and in some instances even administered the laws, which were those fixed by the London Company for Virginia. He might be given the position of what was then termed ecclesiastical commissioner, who was one appointed by the authority of the English Crown, through the Bishop of London. He kept an account of the clergy and all ministerial movements, as well as watched over the moral conduct of his flock. The old histories of Virginia give a curious account to us of the strict laws in force among the early colonists; it is here worthy of comment that although the desire for religious freedom and liberty was the elementary feeling that brought them to America, yet they were not slow in exacting and keeping up very stiff religious laws, and, to our modern eyes, unreasonable and unjust fines, sometimes the forfeiture of life.

For instance, here is an extract from Hawk's History of the Protestant Episcopal Church in Virginia:

"Rule 6. Religious services by the inhabitants of Virginia during 1611. Sir Thos. Dale, Governor. "Every man and woman duly twice a day upon the first tolling of the bell shall upon working days repair unto the Church to hear divine service, upon pain of losing his or her days allowance for the first omission; for the second omission to be whipt; and for the third to he condemned to the galleys for six months; likewise no man or woman shall dare to violate or break the Sabbath by any gaming publique or private, abroad or at home, but duly sanctifie and observe the same both himself and his family, preparing themselves at home by private prayer, that they may be the better fitted for the publique according to the commandments of God and the orders of our Church; as also every man and woman shall repair in the morning to divine service and sermons preached upon the Sabbath day, and in the afternoon to divine service and catechising; upon pain of the first fault to lose their provision and allowance for the whole week following, for the second to lose said allowance and also to be whipt, and for the third to suffer death."

God be praised that we live in this nineteenth century. Such strict and appalling laws seemed almost the quintessence to our eyes, of intolerant tyranny, yet they may have been necessary at that day, and for the control of rougher and hardier natures than existed as our country grew in intelligence and power. How the charming transparency of our climate must have delighted the colonist, after the denser, gloomier air of his native land; almost every object in nature must have been a source of delight, such abundant, picturesque and grand scenes as met his eye, must, indeed, have made him feel fully compensated for that tedious sea voyage.

There was no need of a scramble for any thing, the woods and the rivers and morasses yielded enough for all: for all, with strong and willing hands, to hunt for what they wished. As the red man gave way to his smarter brother with the pale face, and moved to other hunting grounds far away in the west, Virginia became, in truth, a garden of luxury and abundance to all who came from afar. But plenty encouraged indolence; there were no domestic manufactories beyond that which necessity required; every thing called comfort was imported from England. Tobacco planting was the only pursuit, and this, unfortunately, enfeebled the spirit of invention to a great extent.

Yet we know, when the occasion demanded it later on, this apparent indolence vanished as if by magic; when the hand of tyranny rose to destroy this peaceful method of living, and tried to intimate to this colony of self-exiled English, Scotch and Irish men, because they had exiled themselves they had no longer the rights of men, and must he treated as slaves, and were slaves, then the same spirit that rebelled against such action in the mother country rose with a redoubled fervor in this beautiful wild western home beyond the sea.

But all this was not in the life-time of our reverend forefather, he lived and passed away peacefully amongst the little settlement he had come to, in the capacity of their pastor and divine instructor, and was laid to rest by them on his plantation, "The Mount," and above his ashes was erected a tombstone, which, curious to relate, is to-day in existence.

In 1849 my father commissioned a relative to visit the old homestead and burying-place on it, and he took from the stone the following inscription, although it even then was difficult to decipher; it was surmounted by the engraved coat of arms of the family:

"Here lyeth interred ye body of That Holy and Reverant Devine Mr David Lindsay, late Minister of Yeocomico, born in ye Kingdom of Scotland, ye first and lawful sonne of ye Rt Honerable Sir Hierome Lindsay. Knt of ye Mount. Lord-Lyon-King at-Arms. who departed this life in ye 64th year of his age ye 3d April. anno Dom 1667."

The most glowing eulogy that might have been written by man could not transmit to the Reverend David's posterity a better panegyric than those simple straightforward words engraved above his ashes. Holy and good, and an accomplished divine, he doubtless was, and we may accept this tribute to his memory, as from the vox populi of his day. It may be that his character closely resembled his noted grandfather, David Lindsay, Bishop of Ross; that he was also a man of peaceful nature, wise and moderate, and esteemed by all wise men, and that he did much to cast a refining influence around the rude homes of the colonists, sowing the simple words of the gospel in his vocation, and acting not only as a teacher and exponent of Christ, but as a teacher of all things good, and noble, and elevating in life.

Such an accomplished, learned, and wise grandsire, not to speak of his advantages of birth, education, and superior associates in Scotland, must have made him no ordinary man; and could we draw away the veil hiding the past from us, and look upon the people of his vicinity and parish, with himself moving in their midst, I venture to take upon me to say that I have not overestimated him in my suppositions. Some authorities of the past tell us that the oldest existing tombstone and inscription in this country was on the banks of the Neabsco creek, in Fairfax county, Virginia, the date upon it going back to 1668, but present authorities of the locality assert that the date, although much obliterated by age, can only be traced to 1678. If this is truly the correct date, then the tombstone of the Reverend David Lindsay can carry off the honors of antiquity.

The Lindsay burying ground, a picture of which I have given my readers, is on the original homestead of the family, on Cherry Point Neck, Yiocomico or Wicomico river, Northumberland county, now owned by Mr. William Harding of Northumberland. I am sorry to say that the burying ground is sadly out of repair, overgrown with weeds and brushwood, and an altogether wild and desolate looking little spot, the tombstone of our first forefather sunken in its masonry and fast beginning to tumble into mother earth. It seems a pity that its honorable antiquity is not tended with more care and veneration, but the long absence of those of the blood and name in the old locality has doubtless much to speak for this. . . .

The first evidence I had that our early ancestor, the Reverend Sir David Lindsay, left a will, was the following court item:

"A probate of will was granted on petition of Mistress Helen Lindsay daughter to Mr. David Lindsay in April 1667."

Records of Northumberland County Court House 1667.

I was naturally anxious to obtain, if possible, a copy of such an ancient document, but my hopes seemed destined to disappointment, for examination of the ancient fragments of record revealed nothing more for me, until after several months went by, and a short time since a letter came from Mr. Crallé telling me another search had made him successful, the will was found! It is needless to say how pleased and gratified I felt. The following is a copy of it, also the legal attestation by the clerk of the court as to its discovery.

You will note that our early forefather mentions therein no wife and no son, which leads me to suppose that both were dead when he executed it; the said execution was made on the day before his demise. See date of death upon his tombstone in preceding chapter. If his wife were not dead he could not deprive her of dower, and something must have been bequeathed to his son by the law of inheritance, in those days the son usually coming in first for his father's real and personal estate, or he may have provided for him during his life-time.

The will of the Reverend David Lyndsay (copied exact):

"In the name of God amen. I, David Lyndsay, Minister of God now in Virginia, being now deseased in body, but of perfect memory doe now make my last will and testamt. Imps I bequeath my soule to the almighty, my Savior and redeemer, by whose passion I have assured hope to - Eternally wth him in happiness.

Item. I give and bequeath my body to the earth to be buried by my Exectx in decent and Xtian buriall. Item. I bequeath all my goods, lands, chattels, debts, servts, moveables, or whot else is mine unto my loving daughter Helen Lyndsay whom I constitute, appoint, and ordain my lawfull executx to this my last will and Testamt to be fulfilled. and I do hereby give and bequeath my whole estate to my loving daughter Helen Lyndsay, to her, her heirs, execr & admr, and I do grant and acknowledge this to be my last will and Testament by my subscription and seale in the 2d day of Aprill in the year of the reigne of or Soveraigne Lord Charles, King of England Scotland France and Ireland, and in the year of or Lord 1667.

DAVID LYNDSAY.

Signed sealed & ad in the presence of James Claugton (or Clayton) The mark of Clem Arlidge. GEORGE DEASON.

The __ of Aprill 1667 this was proved to be the last will and testament of Mr David Lyndsay decd by the oaths of James Claughton and Clem Arlidge & is recorded.

Letter certifying to the finding of the above will by the clerk of the Northumberland Court House.

State of Virginia Northumberland County, to wit,

I Wm S. Crallé, Clerk of the County Court of said county, do certify that the writing on the opposite side of this paper (meaning his letter) is a copy of the Will of David Lyndsay as found in an old mutilated record book in Clerks Office, of said county, copied accurately as I could considering the style and legibility of the writing in said book, with the omission of one word which immediately precedes the word "eternally" as found at the beginning of 6th line, which omitted word I was unable to make out. Given under my hand this 4th day of April 1888.

Wm S. CRALLÉ Clerk of the County Court of Northumberland Va.

(3) Genealogical Records: Virginia Colonial Records, 1600s-1700s [database online], Genealogy.com:

Some Emigrants to Virginia, Surnames, K-L, p. 52:

LINDSAY, REV. DAVID (1603-1667), Northumberland county; eldest son of Sir Hierome Lindsay, of The Mount, Lord Lyon King at Arms, Scotland. V. M., XVIII, 90-92.

LINDSAY, JOHN (in Virginia about 1675), in 1682 was of Bradwinch, Devon. Middlesex Records.

(4) Dobson, David, Directory of Scottish Settlers in North America, 1625-1825, Baltimore, MD.: Genealogical Publishing Company, 1984, reprinted 1988, vol. v., p. 87:

LINDSAY REV. DAVID

Born in Scotland in 1603, son of Sir Hierome Lindsay and Jane Ramsay [?]. Emigrated from Scotland to America. Settled in Northumberland County, Virginia c1645. Died in 1667. (VG)

(5) Dobson, David, Scots on the Chesapeake - 1607-1830, Baltimore, MD: Genealogical Publishing Company, 1992, p. 84:

LINDSAY, DAVID, b. 2 Jan. 1603, s. of Sir Jeremy Lindsay and Jane Ramsay [?], res. Leith, Midlothian, clergyman, sett. Wicomico ph, Northumberland Co, Va, 1655, m. Susanna ?, fa. of Robert, d. 3 Apr. 1677. (CCVC32) (Northumberland g/s) . . .

LINDSAY, JAMES, s. of Sir Jeremy Lindsay of Annatland, sett. Gloucester Co, Va, 1635, fa. of Caleb. (WMQ.2.6.348)

(6) Dobson, David, The Original Scots Colonists of Early America: Supplement 1607-1707, Baltimore, MD: Genealogical Publishing Company, 1997, p. 56:

LINDSAY, Reverend DAVID, born 1603 in Leith son of Sir Jeremy Lindsay and Jane Ramsay [?], settled in Northumberland County, Virginia, ca.1645, died 1667. [VG][OD#8]

LINDSAY, JAMES, son of Sir Jeremy Lindsay of Annatland, settled in Gloucester County, Virginia, 1635. [WMQ.2.6.348]

(7) Genealogical Records: Virginia Colonial Records, 1600s-1700s [database online], Genealogy.com:

Cavaliers and Pioneers, Patent Book 4, p. 351:

MR. HUGH LEE, 1100 acs, in Petomeck freshes above Puscatoway, on the Wwd. side of the river, bounding Sly. upon Mr. Claies land, Nly, along the river & parallel to Mr. Cley. 15 July 1657, p. 114, (170). Trans. of 22 persons: Jonathan Marrow, Mary Marrow, Dorithy Marrow, Wm. Browne, Wm. Hanniver, Geo. Wilson, Hannah Lee, Mr. David Linsey, Anne Murrall, Joshua Esto, Anne Moore, Junr., Anne Moore, Senr., Dan Lile, Jno. Carr, Eliz. Parry, Mary Harris, Eliz. Hardinge, Mary Barkinton, Anne Murrall, Joshua Estoe, Wm. May, Rob. Smart.

[Note by compiler: Thousands of Virginia's early settlers arrived in the colony as a result of the headright system. Under this system, anyone who paid for his transportation (or someone else's transportation) to Virginia was entitled to receive 50 acres of land for each immigrant transported to Virginia at his expense. In order to receive a land patent under the headright system, an individual would petition the county court for certification of these rights. The certificate was then recorded in the county court minute books. The petition for a certificate was usually filed soon after the arrival of the immigrants, while proofs of the claim where fresh. The documents certifying these rights, formally termed "transportation rights," but commonly called "headrights," were used as paper currency and freely sold, bartered or assigned to others at or near the time of certification. For that reason they could have remained in circulation for a considerable time before ultimately being "tendered" for land. Before 1705, these rights could have been claimed for multiple arrivals of the same person. Assuming that Mr. David LINSEY, who was transported to VA by Mr. Hugh LEE, was the same person as Rev. David LINDSAY, he arrived in VA no later than July 15, 1657, when Mr. Hugh LEE was granted a patent for transporting 22 persons, including David LINSEY, to Virginia. However, as shown elsewhere in these notes, the Rev. David LINDSAY was in VA before July 15, 1657.]

Cavaliers and Pioneers, Patent Book 4, pp. 374-375:

MR. DAVID LINDSEY, 236 acs. Northumberland Co. upon Perries Cr, 23 Mar. 1657, p. 207, (302). Beg. on sd. Cr., running to head of the branch parting this from land in possession of Richard White, Carpenter. 210 acs. granted unto Thomas Willford 10 Nov. 1651, assigned to Edward Henly, reassigned to sd. Wilsford, who assigned to sd. Lindsey; 26 acs. granted Thomas Wilsford 1 Aug. 1653 & assigned as above noted. Trans. of 1 pers. Renewed 18 Mar. 1662.

(8) David LINDSEY was the grantee in a land patent dated 23 March 1657 covering 236 acres of land in Northumberland County, VA. See the following information in Virginia Land Office Patents and Grants/Northern Neck Grants and Surveys <http://ajax.lva.lib.va.us/F/?func=file&file_name=find-b-clas30&local_ base=CLAS30>:

URL: http://lvaimage.lib.va.us/cgi-bin/GetLONN.pl?first=302&last=&g_p=P4&co llection=LO Patent

Title: Lindsey, David.

Publication: 23 March 1657.

Gen. note: "Patt. renewed in sd. Lindseys name, Mar 18th, 1662."

Other Format: Available on microfilm. Virginia State Land Office. Patents 1-42, reels 1-41.

Note: Location: Northumberland County. Description: 236 acres on a creek now known and called Perries Creek. Source: Land Office Patents No. 4, 1655-1664, p. 302 (Reel 4). Part of the index to the recorded copies of patents for land issued by the Secretary of the Colony serving as the colonial Land Office. The collection is housed in the Archives at the Library of Virginia.

Subject - Personal: Lindsey, David, grantee.

Subject - Topical: Land titles - Registration and transfer - Virginia - Northumberland County.

Subject - Geographic: Northumberland (Va.) - History - 17th century.

Genre/Form: Land grants - Virginia - Northumberland County.

Added Entry: Virginia. Colonial Land Office. Patents, 1623-1774. Library of Virginia. Archives.

System Number: 000785551.

(9) Following is a transcription of David LINDSEY's land patent dated 23 March 1657 covering 236 acres of land in Northumberland County, VA:

To all &c. Whereas &c. Now Know ye That I the said Samuel Mathews Esq. &c. give and grant unto Mr. David Lindsey Two hundred & thirty six Acres of Land, lying situate, and being in The County of Northumberland upon a Creek now known & called Perries Creek bounded as followeth Viz. Two hundred and ten Acres part thereof Beginning on a point on Perries Creek so running Northeast ½ east to a Quarter marked tree at the head of a branch parting this Land from the Land now in possession of Richard White Carpenter from the said marked tree by marked trees Southeast?150 poles to Another Quarter tree on the branch from the said Tree SouthWest 210 poles by marked trees to another quarter marked tree by Marked Trees down to the head of a small branch coming Out of perries Creek aforesaid 160 poles north West & Twenty Six Acres the Other part thereof Beginning at a quarter marked Tree upon a small swamp where the aforesaid Tract Of Land ends and running East by South along the said Swamp past the head thereof 96 poles to a quarter marked Tree upon the plain from thence South ½ a point Easterly 21 [?] poles to Another quarter marked Tree being Another Corner of the aforesaid Land, thence North West 150 poles by marked Trees to the place first mentioned including in a Triangular Figure the said quantity of Land. The said Land being due unto him the said David Lindsey as followeth viz.: 210 Ten Acres the first part thereof being formerly granted unto Thomas Willford by patent dated the 10th of November 1651 and by him Assigned unto Edward Henly, and by the said Henley reassigned to the said Willford and by the said Willford Assigned unto the said David Lindsey and 26 Acres the Residue being likewise granted unto the said Thomas Willford by patent dated the first of August 1653 and assigned to the said Henley & by the said Henley reassigned unto the Said Willford and by him Assigned to the said David Lindsey & renewed by order of the Governor and Council bearing date with these presents & due by and for the Transportation of one person &c. To Have &c. yielding &c. which payment &c. provided &c. dated the 23rd of March 1657.

(10) Genealogical Records: Virginia Colonial Records, 1600s-1700s [database online], Genealogy.com:

Virginia Colonial Abstracts, Volume I, Northumberland County Records, 1652-1655, p. 365:

Wm Harding his Censure and Banishmt "Whereas articles were Exhibited agt Wm Herding by mr David Lindsaye upon suspicion of Witchcraft Sorcery &c And an able Jury of Twenty fower men were impannelled to try the matter by verdict of wch Jury they found part of the Articles proved by severall depositions The Court doth therefore order that the said Wm Harding shall forthwith receive ten stripes upon his bare back and forever to be Banished this County and that hee depart within the space of two moneths And alsoe to paye all the charges of Court". [Note: The Rev. David hailed from a country where witchcraft and sorcery were not unknown in song, story and whispered family tradition. He doubtless knew it when he saw it. However his name appears in the record which is more than can be said for the brave twenty-four. It is a matter of great regret that I am unable to find any trace of these interesting depositions. Weighing every word in this entry, as well as those omitted, the thought occurs that had I been a first class, proven sorcerer, I would have called upon my friend the Devil, and with his help made it quite hot for this and that person in Northumberland before I departed the county within two months. And also, although I sedulously avoid murder trials in the press, passing furnerals and other such heathenish manifestations, still I would just love to be able to step back to 1655, have been there, and been a part and parcel of this unholy adventure in the fourth dimension at the Northumberland Court. B. F.]

(11) Genealogical Records: Virginia Colonial Records, 1600s-1700s [database online], Genealogy.com:

Virginia Colonial Abstracts, Volume I, Northumbria Collectanea, 1645-1720, A-L, p. 566:

Lyndsay, David, minister. Fined 10000 lb tobo for marrying Richard Peirce, carpenter, servant to Col Richd Lee, to a woman servant belonging to Tho Brewer, without permission from Col Lee. Rev Lyndsay appeals to next Quarter Court at James City. 20 Jan 1661/2. 2.150.

Rev. David. Acquitted of 10000 lb tobo fine. 8 Oct 1662. 2.167.

Rev. David and Susanna his wife. In dif with Charles and Isabel Ashton. Very scandalous. 4 Aug 1665. 15.158-66.

David. "minister of God's word in Virginia". Will. d 2 April 1667. p 8 April 1667. All estate to daughter Helen Lyndsey, she exor. Wit: Jas Clayton, Clemt Arlidge, George Reason. 16.12.

Mr Dav. decd. Prov of will to his dau Mrs Helens Lyndsay. 8 April 1667. 3.11.

Mr David. Capt Tho Brereton atty of Wm Wathen [this name may well be Walker] Exor of Mr David Lyndsey petitions for 1178 lb tobo from Charles Ashton. 21st Jan 1668/9. 3.55.

Mr David. Joane Willioughby widow assigns her thirds in land belonging to Mr Tho Opie formerly in possession of Mr David Lyndsay. 17 Mar 1674/5. 3.224.

David. Wit deed Hobbs to Crawford. 6 Dec 1683. 17.212.

Lyndsey, Helen. P of A to Anthony Bridges of Westmorland Co. Refers to her deceased father Mr David Lyndsey. Wit: Richd Haskins, Wm Wathen. 6 Apl 1667. 16.13.

Robt. Age 24 yrs or th-abts. 4 Aug 1665. 15.162 also p 165.

Wm. His wife Diane, dau of Nath Hickman, enticed to runaway with Tho Barrett to Rappahnnock. Sam Perry says he was Informed she married him there. [She did.] - Jan 1666/7. 16. pp 10.11.

(12) Worrall, The Friendly Virginians: America's First Quakers (1994), p. 16: Seven little circles of Virginians began meeting to worship in the manner of Friends after 1655.

One group, at Corotoman near the mouth of the Rappahannock River in Lancaster County, met from 1656 until 1659. It disrupted after the members refused court orders to pay the Reverend Mr. David Linsey of the established church "in satisfaction for his ministry among them." Most of the Corotoman Friends, including the Dickinson, Powell, Gorsuch and Clapham families, moved up Chesapeake Bay to the Patapsco River, where they were the first settlers on the site of present day Baltimore.

(13) www.findagrave.com:

Sir David Lindsay Birth: Jan. 3, 1603, Scotland Death: Apr. 3, 1667, Wicomico Church, Northumberland County, Virginia, USA

Lindsay was the pastor of the Wicomico Church established 1635.

Tombstone Epitaph

Lindsay "Her lyeth interred ye body of that holy and reverant devine Mr David Lindsay, late minister of Yeocomico, born in ye kingdom of Scotland, ye first and lawful sonne of yr R'Honorable Sir Hierome Lindsay, K of the Mount. Lord Lyon King at Arms who departed this life in ye 64th year of his age ye 3rd April anno Dom 1667. . . .

Burial: The Mount, Wicomico Church, Northumberland County, Virginia, USA

Created by: Don Giddens Record added: Jan 07, 2010 Find A Grave Memorial# 46431000

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