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Edwin Conway

Birthdate:
Birthplace: England
Death: November 30, 1675 (60-69)
Lancaster County, Virginia Colony
Place of Burial: Lancaster, Lancaster County, Virginia, British Colonial America
Immediate Family:

Son of Unknown father of Edwin Conway and Unknown mother of Edwin Conway
Husband of Martha Conway
Father of Gentleman Edwin Conway II, of Lancaster; Millicent Conway; Joseph Conway; Anne Conway; Martha Conway and 1 other

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About Edwin Conway

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Magna Carta Ancestry: A Study in Colonial and Medieval Families, 2nd Edition, p. 122:

Children of Anne Sutton, by Richard Eltonhead, Gent.:
iv. 'MARTHA ELTONHEAD, born after 1613, living 28 Jan. 1653/4. She married EDWIN CONWAY, Gent. He was born in Worcestershire, England. They had one son, Edwin, and one daughter, Eltonhead (wife of Henry Thacker). He immigrated to Virginia, where he settled in Northampton County, Virginia. He was third clerk of Northampton County in 1642. He was granted land in 1644 and 1652/3 on Hungars Creek in Northampton County, Virginia. he was granted 1,250 acres of land on Corotoman River in Lancaster County, Virginia in 1652, to which county re removed. In 1657 he was granted 2,500 acres adjacent to John Maredith, of which 1,200 acres were due for an earlier patent and 1,200 acres for the transport of 25 persons. In 1660 he sold 200 acres of this land to William Gordon. EDWIN CONWAY, Gent., died in Lancaster County, Virginia shortly before 14 March 1660/1.

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Edwin Conway's Timeline

1610
1610
England
1644
May 11, 1644
Rappahannock County, Virginia, USA
1645
1645
York, Lancashire, England
1649
May 24, 1649
Northampton Co., Virginia, USA
1650
1650
Northhampton, Virginia
1663
December 5, 1663
Middlesex, Virginia, United States
1675
November 30, 1675
Age 65
Lancaster County, Virginia Colony
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England, United Kingdom
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Lancaster, Lancaster County, Virginia, British Colonial America