Edward Coleman

Birth date also reported as 1684.

EDWARD COLEMAN       

b. ca. 1688 Essex Co. VA
d. after 1725
m. between 4 May 1709 & 14 Feb 1711 Ann Reeves
Ann Reeves was a daughter of James & Elizabeth Reeves. Ann was unmarried at the time her mother wrote her will on 4 May 1709. The will, probated 14 Feb 1711, names Ann as "my whole and sole executor". She was married to Edward Coleman by the time Mrs. Reeves’ will was proved. "Know all men by these presents that we, Edward Coleman and Ann, his wife, Robert Coleman and Thomas Munday are holden and firmly bound unto Samuel Thacker of the county of Essex, Gent., in behalf of the Court of the aforesaid county of Essex in the sum of L200 sterling this 14th day of Feb 1711 the above bound Edward Coleman and Ann his wife, late Ann Reeves, etc." \(Essex Co. Wills & Deeds 1711-1714)

From Captain Thomas Graves & Some of His Descendants by William Montgomery Sweeney, 1935: "James Reeves (d. 1707, D & WB 13, p. 153) and his wife Elizabeth (d. 1712, D & WB 14, p. 17) had among other children, a daughter Ann who married Edward, a son of Robert Coleman \(D & WB 13, p. 439)."

By deed of 5 May 1717, Edward as son and devisee of Robert Coleman, conveyed to William Fogg a tract of land, 244 acres, devised to him by his father \(D & WB 15, p. 39, Essex Co. Records\). No wife was joined in this deed.

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