Jesse Vick

From Joseph Vick of Lower Parish, Isle of Wight County, Virginia and His Descendants, vol. I:

pp 106-107

28. JESSE4 VICK (Jacob3, Richart!, Josephl) was born a bout 1747 in Isle of Wight , subsequently Southampton County, Virginia. He died there before 1801.

Jesse, like his father and brother, was a Quaker. With them, on 25, 7th month 1767, he obtained a certificate o f exemption from military service. On 25, 2nd month 1769, he was granted clearance from the Western Branch Monthly Meeting to join the Rich Square Monthly Meeting in North Carolina.!

On 20, 4th month 1769, Jesse appeared before that meeting, producing a certificate allowing him to marry. On21,5th month1769,hewasreported to have married CHRISTIAN KNOX, sister of Mary Knox who had earlier married his brother Jacob.2 Soon after, he returned with his bride to Virginia, and, on 22, 7th month 1769, he requested that the meeting held at Widow West's be moved to his home. This was a month before his brother Jacob made a similar request.3

Southampton County was Jesse's home for life. In 1778 he was appointed surveyor ofthe highway, taking over from his brother Jacob. He was discharged the following year when Robert Newsom took over.40n 11 April 1781, he witnessed the will of Anne Crenshaw and on 20 October 1784 he became co-executor of his father's will.s The following year he joined his cousin John Whitehead and Samuel Maget in auditing the estate of Edmund Spencer.On 26 September 1788, described as a "friend", he was named executor of the will of his cousin Matthew Vick. However, he declined the appointment.6

Jesse appears on Southampton County tax lists between 1782 and 1787, but not later.7 Although there is no probate record, he was certainly dead by 18 May 1801, when his widow, Christian, bought land from his brother Jacob and sold land to John Rawls.8

Christian made her will on 8 December 1805. She left $100 each to her brother John Knox and her sister-in-law Mourning Jordan. Mary Copeland received her wearing apparel. The remainder of the estate was to be divided evenly between Lemuel Vick, Richard Jordan, Patience Vick, Christian Jordan, Elizabeth Vick and Nancy Knox. Richard and Christian Jordan were the children of Benjamin and Mourning (Vick) Jordan. Nancy Knox was probably a daughter of John Knox. From other records we know that Lemuel and Patience were the children of Pilgrim Vick. Elizabeth Vick may, too, have been a daughter of Pilgrim, although this cannot be proven. Brother-in-law Benjamin Jordan and Willliams Vick, were named co- executors.9

Jesse and Christian had no children.

Notes

• 1 William Wade Hinshaw, Encyclopedia ofAmerican Quaker Genealogy [Ann Arbor, MI:
• Edwards Bros., 1936] 6:88.
• 2 Ibid.1:259.
• 3 Ibid. 6:88.
• 4 Southampton Co. Order Book 7:10,87, County Clerk's Office, Courtland, VA.
• S Anne Crenshaw will (1781), Southampton Co. Will Book 4: 12; Jacob Vick will (1784), Ibid., 329, County Clerk's Office, Courtland, VA.
• 6 Edmund Spencer estate audit (1785), Ibid. 4: 139; Matthew Vick will (1788), Ibid. , 284. 7 Augusta B. Fothergill and John Mack Naugle, Virginia Tax Lists, 1782-1787 [Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Co., 1978], 130.
• 8 Southampton Co. Deed Book 9:395, 404, County Clerk's Office, Courtland, VA.
• 9 Christian Vick will (1805), Southampton Co. Will Book 6:386.
• Reference: FamilySearch Genealogy - SmartCopy: Feb 12 2022, 12:50:31 UTC