Dorothy Langford, alias Butler

Wills of Westmoreland County, Virginia , Page 6

BROOKS, HENRY, shipwright, 21 June 1662; 3 February 1662/3. My wife Joane to be exx.; dau. Dorothy Brooks; grandchild Lidia dau. of Lawrence Abbington; Henry Saxton my godson and his father Nicholas Saxton; dau. Jane Higden; dau. Lidia Abbington; Richard Cole to be overseer.

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Born after 1650? Not mentioned here:

!31 May 1650: Henry Brooke, 658 acres Northumberland Co. 31 May, 1650; p. 225; N. E. upon Potomack River; S. E. upon Cr. dividing this from land of Nathaniel Pope Grant; N. W. upon Cr. dividing this from land of Hercules Bridges. Trans. of 13 persons. Henry Brooke, David Whitliff, Emanuel Brooke, Jane Brooke, Jane Brooke, Robert Whitliffe, Lydia Brooke, Alice Whitliffe (also spelled Wickliffe in same patent). Nugent, Nell Marion,-"Cavaliers and Pioneers", consisting of Abstracts of Virginia Land Patents and Grants, 1625-1680. Dietz Printing Co, Richmond 1934

Will of Henry BROOKES, shipwright, dwelling in the Parish of Appomattic in the County of Westmoreland, dated 21 June 1662:

• My well beloved wife Joane BROOKES be my executor.
• Joane my wife have this seat of land whereon I now live bounding upon David ANDERSON and soe running to a place called the Arrow head dureing her life and after her decease to be my daughter Dorothy BROOKES.
• My grandchild Lidia ABBINGTON have 50 acres joining to the land on which Lawrence ABBINGTON father to Lidia now dwelleth on.
• Henry SAXTON my Godson have 50 acres on which Nicholas SAXTON father of Henry now liveth.
• The heir of David WHITLIFF have 50 acres joining to the land whereon the aforesaid WHITLIFF is now seated, WHITLIFF to enjoy the fifty acres until it please Gode he had one (sic).
• My daughter Jane HIGDEN 59 acres besides the hundred already acknowledged in Court, joyning to the same.
• The Arrow head be Richard COLE's dureing his life but after his decease to return to my daughter Dorothy.
• All my goods, cattle, moveable and immoveables be Jone my wife's dureing her life excepting half the stock of hogs which belongs to Richard COLE, after her decease to return in kind to my daughter Dorothy.
• If my daughter Dorothy doe before she comes to be married, what doth or shall belong unto her be equally divided between my daughters Liddia ABBINGTON and Jane HIGDEN.

Laurence ABINGTON and Richard COLE overseers.

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!23 Mar 1664: DOROTHY BROOKES alias Butler, 650 acs. W'moreland Co., 23 Mar. 1664, p. 172, (55). Upon S.W. side of Appamattox Cr. & Potomack Riv. running &c. to small gutt dividing this & part of pattent layd out for Major Washington, thence to Bigwood Sw., extend. to head of same thence with trees which divides this & land now in possession of Higden & Lawrence Abington, & N. Wly. to land taken up by Richard Griffin & Major. Washington. Said land given by will from Henry Brookes to sd. Dorothy; 329 acs. of which is held by patent dated 14 Oct. 1657, 321 acs. found more due for trans. of 7 pers: Jno. Smith, Jno. Wells, Jno. Evans Tho. Coles, Jno. Devenith, Jno. Jenkins, Robt. Parker. CAVALIERS AND PIONEERS PATENT BOOK No. 5; Pg 449

--- On 10 Jan.1682/3 WESTM Co. (RF Note: William KIMBER, sometimes seen as KEMBER and KIMBALL, was the second husband of Lydia (BROOKS) Abbington). Westmoreland County, Virginia Order Book 1675-6-1688/9, Part Three 1682-1684, Abstracted and Compiled by John Frederick Dorman. (Westmoreland Co., VA Order Bk. 1675/6-1688/9, pp. 275-276) ORIGINALL BROWNE AND WM. KIMBER complaine that DAVID WHITLIFFE keeps and detains from them one messuage containinge 650 acres, formerly in the possession of JANE BROOKS, demised to Jane Brooks for her natural life by HER HUSBAND HENRY BOOKS his last will and testament bearinge date 25 June 1662 and now decendinge and COMINGE TO THE PETITIONERS IN RIGHT OF THEIR WIVES, BEING THE DAUGHTERS AND COHEIRS OF HENRY BROOKS, which David Whitliffe well knows, to the petitioners€™ damage in the profits of the land, house and especially a conciderable good orchard 16,000 pounds of tobacco, wherefore the petitioners humbly pray order to the Sheriffe to putt the petitioners in quiett possession and that a jury of the vicinage may enquire into and asses the damages. The defendant pleadinge by Jno: Lord his attorney that the plaintiffs have noe right to the same, neither HENRY BROOKS THEIR ANCESTOR by virtue of anny extant patent (the Court refer to the jury) who died seezed of the lands in controversye. The verdict: Wee find by the patent that DOROTHY BROOKS died seez’d of the 650 acres claimed by plaintiffs and it [is] the judgement of this Court that 329 acres in the patent specified devolve on the heirs of Henry Brooks because Dorothy Brooks had not estate in the same until the death of JANE BROOKS, WHO DIED BUT LATELY, BUT DOROTHY LONGE SINCE, and the 321 acres taken up by DOROTHY BROOKS ALIAS BUTLER for the transportation of seaven persons devolve on the heires of Dorothy, from which judgement DAVID WHITLIFF appeals to the 4th day of the next Generall Court and Capt. John Lord assumes as security with him for prosecution of his appeale, and Mr. Lawrence Washington with ORIGINAL BROWNE and WM. KIMBER. (Westmoreland Co., VA Order Bk. 1675/6-1688/9, p. 287) [10 May 1683] It appeared to this Court that ORIGINALL BROWNE did by force expel DAVID WHITLIFF from his land. The Court order the Sheriffe to pay DAVID WHITLIFFE into possession of his lands until hee shal legally be ejected. JOHN BUTLER VS. DAVID WHITLIFFE. Davie Whitliffe did suppena John Browne [sic] as an evidence in the above cause. The Court order Whitliffe to pay to the said John Butler 80 pounds of tobacco (record submitted by Rhoda Fone).

Step daughter Butler?

From http://archiver.rootsweb.ancestry.com/th/read/MDCHARLE/2011-08/1314...

I show Joane Cole? Married 1) David Whitcliff c 1632, 2) Henry Brooks c 1638 3) Mr Butler c 1665.

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