Hestor “Hetty” Mauzey

Not the same as Elizabeth “Hester” Grant

Will of John MAUZEY. Wife, Hetty, 7 slaves and land where I now live, during widowhood. Dau, Peggy, to have slaves. Should above heirs die then estate to go to daughter, Margaret.* To dau, Molly, 226 acs of land in Culpeper Co 300 A of land 15 mi from Winchester, slaves, my property for which I have sued Jonathan PERKINS for in chancery, at my death suit is to be renewed. To daughter, Betty,163 A of land which I purchased of Robert JACKSON in Frederick Co, and 198 A in Hampshire Co. Mentions nephews John, Henry and William ROUSAN. Exrs: wife, Henry MAUZY (brother), Peter MAUZY and William ROUSAN. Wit: Thomas CONWAY, John EDGE, John LUTTRELL (Fauquier Wills & Admins, King)

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Henry Mauzy fled from France in 1685, emigrated to Virginia and settled in Fauquier county. He married, probably in England, a daughter of a Dr. Conyers. Their son, John Mauzy, married Hester Foote, grand-aunt of Hon. Henry S. Foote, of the United States and Confederate States Congresses and Governor of Mississippi.

References

• https://www.werelate.org/wiki/Person:Frances_Gaines_%282%29
• Armand Jean Mauzey. “The Mauzey-Mauzy Family.” The Virginia Magazine of History and Biography 58, no. 1 (1950): 112–19. http://www.jstor.org/stable/4245678.