Jarvis Wingfield

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During the long search for the ancestry of Jarvis Wingfield of Prince George and Sussex Counties, Virginia, and the quest for the relationship of the former, if any, to Robert Wingfield and Jarvis Dix, both also of Prince George, I discovered the following information which should be of interest.)

We recall that the first known reference to Jarvis Wingfield, formerly, was in Charles City Court order book, P. , which read, "Petition of Jarvis Wingfield, dismissed." Since we know from the Arbemarle Parish Register that Jarvis was born 1669, this would make him about 21 years old: we also note that Prince George was then part of Charles City.

Very unfortunately, almost all of the Charles City records have been destroyed by fire, and only a few court order books remain. Apparently, however, one of these court order books does not have the circulation that the other transcripts do, and recently on an excursion to an out of the way library in Alexandria, Virginia, I found the Charles City Court Order Book for 1676-1679, and inside found these salient references:

"Ordered that Dr. John Coggan and John Howell appear at next court to prove the will of Wm. Winkfield, dec'd and that Wm. Dobson be summoned to give security for the estate of the orphans, 7 November 1677." (CCCOB 1676-1679, p. 229).

"Wm. Dobson, with consent of his wife, gives his two step sons, Jarvis and Robert Winkfield to their grandfather, Jarvis Dix, for as long as the law provides, and at the expiration of their time, to give them whatever the court considers, "convenient", 16 November, 1677.

"The above deed was exhibited in court and registered 4 February, 1678, WM. Archer, Clerk.: (ibid, p 262).

This is conclusive proof that Jarvis and Robert Wingfield were the two surviving sons of William Wingfield and ______ Dix , the daughter of Jarvis Dix, immigrated by 1635. It also shows that Jarvis and Robert, and any sisters, they may have had, were born in Virginia, since clearly their mother was. Jarvis Dix was born 1616, and thus was only 19 or younger when he immigrated, marrying, assumably, soon afterward in Virginia.

A few notes on these references may be in order. William Dobson, the stepfather of Jarvis and Robert Wingfield, was imported by none other than Capt. John Sturdivant, who not only had land extremely close to Jarvis and Robert in Prince George, but was also the grandfather of Jesse Studivant, whose sister Mary may have married Dr. Lawrence Wingfield, as may be remembered, the guardian of William and John Wingfield. Dr. Lawrence Wingfield's sons, signed William Wingfield's Deed 1780 in Halifax, North Carolina, and whose son, Silas immigrated from Halifax and bought lands adjoining those of William and his sons in Warren County, Kentucky.

Dr. John Coggan, a witness and prover of William Wingfield's will 1677, was a large landowner of Charles City county and one of the few doctors in Virginia at that time. His relationship with Prince George/Sussex Wingfields may very well have been a factor in Dr. Lawrence Wingfield's choice of profession.

John Howell, the other prover of William Wingfield's 1677 will, first patented land in Henrico County in 1639. (lpb I. p. 112 ) . In 1663, as Lieutenant John Howell, he patented 212 acres on S. Side Appamatodes (Appomatox) river, in Bristoll Parish, bounding E and S on Capt. Epps land call Casons, W and N on Nathaniel Tatum's land, and N and E on the river." (lpb ii, 466). It should be remembered that Jarvis Wingfield's land also bordered that of Capt. (Frances) Epps and Nathanield Tatum, and that all three families frequently intermarried.

It should also be noted that finding that Jarvis Dix was definitely the grandfather of Robert and Jarvis Wingfield makes it all the more certain that the plantation Robert Wingfield was living on in 1704 was originally Jarvis Dix's land, as per my earlier assumption. This would suggest that Robert was the eldest son since he apparently inherited the land.

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Martha who married Thomas Wynne ll was the daughter of Jarvis Wingfield and Hannah (Wynne? Stith? Llewellyn? not certain but probably a relative to the Wynnes). Jarvis (1669-1756) was the son of William Wingfield who died 1676 in Charles City (today's Prince George County) and his wife a Miss Dix, daughter of Jarvis Dix (b. 1616, immigrated by 1636).