Jane "Joane" Butler

Jane was born in England.

family

1. David WICKLIFFE d 1642
2. She married Henry BROOKS Abt 1645 in St. Mary'sCo. MD (?). He was born 1610, and died Aft 21 JUN 1662 in Westmoreland Co. VA.
3. William Butler d 1705 [uncertain]

Children of Jane and David WICKLIFFE are:

1. David WICKLIFFE was born Abt 1637.
2. Alice WICKLIFFE.
3. Robert WICKLIFFE.

Children of Jane and Henry BROOKS are:

1. Jane BROOKS was born Abt 1650 in St. Mary's Co. MD, and died Aft 1700 in Westmoreland Co. VA.
2. Dorothy was born after 1651 in Westmoreland Co. VA. Alias Butler.

Seen as daughter of Rokely Saxton with no supporting data.

notes

From https://www.ancestry.co.uk/boards/thread.aspx?m=1&p=surnames.wickli...

David Wickliffe and Jane Evers (or Eure), were married in Richmond, England in 1634. They sailed with the Evelin Expedition on a ship called "The Plain Joan." The ship landed in Maryland in 1635. I recall that the land they lived on was a community called "St George's Hundred."
David and Jane had the first Protestant child born in Maryland. They named him David also. I found corroborating history of this on a Maryland Historical site. Their line moved to Virginia, and then to Kentucky.

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From http://www.combs-families.org/combs/records/md/stmarys/1633.htm

2 Dec 1642 Jane Cockshott widd complaineth agst Jane the wife of david whitcliff for vnlawfull dealing wth her the plaintifs maidservt & taking & keeping from her one red base wastcoat lined wth silk galon, wch she received of the said manservt & deteineth from her to the damage of the plaintiff To the value of 100 1 tob.

(MD SA, CTB, v4:154)

NOTES: First record found for Jane UNKNOWN Wickliffe. It documents that Jane COCKSHOTT was a widow by 1642 and was named administratrix of the estate of her husband John COCKSHOTT on 14 Oct 1642 and Nathan POPE and Thomas GREEN ordered to appraise his estate.

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From http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~bodine/n35487.html

2 Jun 1643 Jane Wickliffe is recorded as his widow. There are several records referring to "Jane" as the wife, or widow, of David Wickliffe, but they do not disclose her maiden name. In 1650 Jane (Wickliffe) is mentioned as the wife of Henry Brooks in a petition for 200 acres of land promised her former husband, David Wickliffe, by Capt Cornewallia.

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From http://https://www.ancestry.co.uk/boards/thread.aspx?m=1&p=surnames...

I have a great deal of information on the Wickliffe family following their arrival in Maryland, but not before. I would be very interested in the information you have from England. As to after, David Wickliffe is my 10th ggrandfather, and I lived in St. Mary's County for a total of six years (with two years in Maine in the middle). I have been to the site of David Wickliffe's land patent in St. Mary's County - it was in an unusual settlement (for the time and place) in St. George's Hundred, which was called the Wickliff Creek settlement. The creek which is now known as Carthagena Creek was named Wickliff's Creek after David. David died about 1642 (I'm at work, and so can't give the exact span - its in my notes at home) evidenced by when he is last mentioned in the colony court records, and when his wife is mentioned as Widow Wickliff. If I recall correctly, it was around March. His wife, Jane, married Henry Brooks, and they migrated to Virginia, to Westmoreland County. Henry received a land patent (probably after he actually settled there - that was the usual case) of over 1000 acres. That land now forms the nucleus of the George Washington Birthplace National Monument, also known as Wakefield. Henry sold 100 acres to a Richard Cole, then sold 100 acres to Col John Washington, which formed the nucleus of the Washington holdings. Henry died in 1662 - they excavated the foundations of his house in the '70s, and it is still marked by some metal rebar stakes. Interestingly, one of his descendants by Jane is the Elizabeth Cullen who married Isaac Wickliffe (she was his 2nd half-cousin), so I am descended by Jane through both lines. The "accepted" genealogy of David's family in the early years, which was in the "Kincheloe, McPherson and Related Families" book is in error. Because of circumstances which would take too long to relate, L. D. McPherson missed a generation of Wickliffes in early VA. David 2 (son of the David in Maryland) actually married twice - his first wife's name was Elizabeth, and almost all of his children were by her. Also, two generations of David/Robert Wickliffe children were conflated into one. I spent a great deal of time researching this family in St. Mary's and Westmoreland Counties, and can send you my info, if you would like. There is a lot. If you ever get to Wakefield, you will see a gravestone to one of the Wickliffes in the Washington family graveyard - Ann Wickliffe married Col John Washington's son.

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In 1655, Henry Brooks, made a gift to her two sons from her first marriage, David and Robert Wickliffe. David Wickliffe/Whitcliff/Wycliffe was the first child of Protestant parents born in Maryland, and, as the records of that province show that David Wickliffe (who must have been his father) died in 1642, the son was probably thirty-five (35) years of age instead of twenty-five (25) in 1671.

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.

notes

!David Wickliffe's mother, it seems, married secondly, Henry Brookes in Westmoreland County. Henry Brookes in 1655 made a gift to David and Robert Wickliffe. In 1662 he made his will, naming his widow Jane, and daughters, Jane Higdon and Lydia Abington. Jane Higdon married secondly Original Brown, father of William Brown, born in 1685, living in 1755 (Quart. X, 176).

!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.

Jane father Henry BROOKE and his friend and associate Richard COLE previously lived in St. Marys Co, Maryland, where Henry married Jane UNKNOWN Wickliffe, the widow of David WICKLIFFE sometime between 1644 (her last record as the widow WHITCLIFF in St. Mary's) and the 31 May 1650 patent record for Henry's land in then Northumberland Co, Virginia. That she was the widow of David WICKLIFFE aka WHITCLIFF is proven by her 11 Oct 1650 statement to wit: Jane wife of Henry BROOKES at the request of Willm LEWIS saith upon oath that in a bargain with her former husband david WICKLIFFE made with Cpt. Cornwallis there was due to her said husband 200 acres of land within the said Capt divident the right of which said 200 acres this depont saith was given by her said former husband the Lt. Willm LEWIS And further she saith not. Jane BROOKE. 11 Oct. 1650, Richard COLE stated the above agreement with Willm LEWIS was 12 years since and the land was in St. Inegoes Creek MD Historical Magazine, 1913, Land Notes 1634-1655, p. 265). Jane could possibly be the mother of Henry's daughter Jane BROOKE Higden if she were born 1643 or later now that we know Jane WICKLIFFE was widowed between 1643-43. Note that Henry's transportation list for his patent includes David, Alice, and Robert Whitliffe. David was Jane's son by her previous husband. The others could possibly be her children alsoo since she had evidently been married to David by 1638.

!11 Oct 1650: Jane Brooks, wife of Henry Brooks, says that a bargain with her former husband, David Wickliffe, was made with Capt. Cornwallis, there was due her 200 acres of land.

!3 Feb 1662/63: Brooks, Henry, shipwright. Will, Westmoreland Co., VA, 21 June 1662, 3 Feb 1662, My wife Joane to be extx; my daughter Dorothy Brooks; my grandchild Lidia Abbington daughter of Lawrence Abbington; to Henry Saxton my godson and his father Nicholas Saxton; my daughter Jane Higden; my daughter Lidia Abbington; Richard Cole to be overseer. From Virginia County Records, Westmoreland Co, edited by Crozier, Genealogical Publishing Co, Baltimore, 1971, page 3.

!28 Oct 1663:. Jane Brooke, widow of Henry Brooke, dec'd. Westmoreland Co., VA, Order Book 1662-64, p. 17.

1663: Mrs. Jane Brookes, patent of 450 acres of land, for the transportation of these persons following: Lawrence Tompkins, Robert Corknell, Thomas Webb, Thomas Wilkerson, Joyce Axell, Daniel Liss [on], William Butler, Thomas Moore. Westmoreland Co., VA, Order Book 1662-64, p. 35.

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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