Dr. James Williamson

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James Williamson

• Birth: Circa 1621 - Perhaps at London
• Death: Dec 8, 1656 intestate; inventory of estate on January 23, 1657, Old Rappahannock County, Virginia Colony
• Parents: Richard Williamson and Margaret Sherwood
• Wife: Anne Underwood

3rd Great-Grandfather of James Madison, 8th Great-Grandfather of Theodore Roosevelt (needs double check)

Family

Married Ann UNDERWOOD MARRIAGE: 15 Dec 1652, Isle of Wight, Virginia, daughter of William Underwood & Margaret

Known Issue:

• Margaret WILLIAMSON (w/o William BALL, Jr.);
• Mary WILLIAMSON (w/o John ROSIER);
• William WILLIAMSON, born before 1656, died young."
• Henry

Biography

From http://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Williamson-3773

James Williamson was born abt. 1621 of Richard Williamson and Margaret Sherwood in Isle of Wight, Virginia. [Location might be wrong] He married Ann Underwood on 16 December 1652, He died in 1656

Occupation: He served as Justice of the Isle of Wight court this year. 1646 Isle of Wight, Virginia. He served as a Justice of the court, and served as such until his death in 1656. JAN 1652. Lancaster, Virginia.

Events

• Land grant. 22 MAY 1650. Lancaster (later Rappahannock), Virginia. Note: He was granted 1,150 acres.
• Land grant. 9 MAY 1651. Lancaster (later Rappahannock), Virginia. Note: He was granted 720 acres of land.
• Land grant. 22 MAY 1651. Lancaster (later Rappahannock), Virginia. Note: He was granted 1800 acres of land, and settled on this land.
• Event-Misc 18 AUG 1654. Rappahannock, Virginia. Note: He appears on a list of names of those to depart the colony this year.
• Land sale. 3 SEP 1656. Rappahannock, Virginia. Note: He sells 1000 acres of land to Ambrose Meather.

Citations

• Underwood Family of Virginia (Continued) Augusta B. Fothergill The Virginia Magazine of History and Biography Vol. 39, No. 3 (Jul., 1931), pp. 272-276 Published by: Virginia Historical Society https://www.jstor.org/stable/4244421 Page Count: 5
• http://www.colonial-settlers-md-va.us/getperson.php?personID=I02253...
  • Capt Thomas Carter. "The Descendants of Capt Thomas Carter of Barford, Lancaster County, Virginia" by Joseph Lyon Miller, W Thomas published in 1988
  • Old Rappahannock Co Va Deed Book 1, Part I - 1656-1662; Antient Press; pg 56-62
• http://freepages.rootsweb.com/~mysouthernfamily/genealogy/myff/d004...
  • "1 Ancestral File at www.familysearch.com ID#: C-2247, C-2395.
  • Chapman, Blanche Adams, Marriages of Isle of Wight County, Virginia, 1628-1800 ID#: C-2402.
  • Boddie, John Bennett, Isle of Wight Co., VA, (Chicago: Chicago Law Printing Co.) ID#: C-2403."
• https://wc.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=GET&db=flager&id=I72606
• https://www.familysearch.org/tree/person/sources/L2KT-NJR