John Meese

Parents uncertain. No known children.

John Grigsby willed his daughter "Mary Ameese" four Negroes. She had married John Ameese or Meese. November 11, 1730, by giving her four Negroes, Jenny, Will, Jonay, and Bess. Three of the Negroes are mentioned in her will dated April 20, 1747. She gave "Jenny" to grandson, William Travis; "will" to grandson, William Rogers, and "Bess" to grandson, Grigsby Rogers. (Will Book M, page 813.)

Possible Origins

After Henry returned to England he married a woman named Ann Pert in 1675. They had four children Ann, Francis, John and Henry Jr. Henry wrote his last will and testament in which document he describes himself as "Henry Meese of London," This document was offered for probate on April 5, 1682 at the Prerogative Court of Canterbury in London and he bequeathed all his "plantations, lands, stock and appurtenances wheresoever scituate being in Virginia, Maryland or elsewhere, equally to be divided between my four children, Henry, John, Anne and Frances Meese, " and further vested his wife and executrix Anne Meese with the authority to sell and dispose of the said properties for the benefit of his four infant children. His his son Henry Jr. died unmarried in London. Henry's daughter, Ann Meese lived in London, unmarried, until her death in 1719. She requested to be buried next to her mother at Mountnessing and made bequest to her mother's sisters; Dorothy Pert, Mary Pert, Elizabeth Pert and Alice Pert.

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References

• Virginia Historical Genealogies By John Bennett Boddie Page 70 GoogleBooks
• https://www.colonial-settlers-md-va.us/getperson.php?personID=I2527...
• https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Meese-9
• https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Meese-131
• Gloucestershire County Council, "Pert Settlements and Wills, 1646-1671," digital images Gloucestershire Archives Online Catalog (ww3.gloucestershire.gov.uk : accessed 15 March 2016) reference D678/2/F8/1-4, Marriage Settlement of Henry Pert and Francis Herrys and Will and Probate of Henry Pert.
• Henry Meese, Merchant, Will, London, England, 1700;PROB 11; Piece: 459, Prerogative Court of Canterbury and Related Probate Jurisdictions: Will Registers; The National Archives; Kew, England; digital images, Ancestry (http://www.ancestry.com : accessed 18 March 2016).
• Anne Meese, Will, St. Paul's Covenant Garden, London, 1719; PROB 11; Piece: 459, Records of the Prerogative Court of Canterbury and Related Probate Jurisdictions, The National Archives, Kew, England; digital images, Ancestry (http://www.ancestry.com : accessed 18 March 2016).
• Ancestry.com. England, Select Births and Christenings, 1538-1975 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2014.
• The National Archives; Kew, England; Prerogative Court of Canterbury and Related Probate Jurisdictions: Will Registers; Class: PROB 11; Piece: 459, will and probate of Henry Meese
• http://www.indianreservations.net/2016/03/colonel-henry-meese-and-h...

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