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About John Trammell
Notes for JOHN TRAMMELL, SR.:
John Trammell appears in the records of Stafford County, Virginia, in the late 1690's.
He was a constable and sub-sheriff in Westmoreland, Stafford County, Virginia
Since he appears in the records about 23 years after his father Thomas obtained his freedom, we suppose that Thomas married about the time he was liberated or before and had a son John born about 1676, possibly earlier.
In 1694, he was Constable and sub-Sheriff in Westmoreland, Stafford County, Virginia.
He married a French woman named Mary Gerrard Hutt..
John was of legal age and married in 1698, as indicated by this entry in Westmoreland County, Virginia, Book 2, Page 177, dated Oct. 26, 1698: "John Trammell of lower Mackotick, Cople Parish, Westmoreland County, and Mary his wife, sell to John Gardner land in Stafford and Westmoreland County . . . a part of a tract of land devised to said John Trammell by John Williams, deceased."
This record suggests that John's mother was (might have been) a daughter of this John Williams, or else the wife of John may have been the daughter of John Williams. there is no proof that either possibility is true, but both appear to be reasonable assumptions. (Boddie, in Historical Southern Families, Vol. 1, p227, mentions a land sale by John Trammell in 1691.)
There are several records of land transactions by John Trammell during the next several years, to 1705. The records for the period 1709 to 1729 were destroyed by fire during the Civil War, and we lose sight of the Trammells for a time.
He inherited land from his grandfather John Williams and lived in Westmoreland County, Virginia
Four brothers - John, Sampson, Gerrard, and William owned large tracts of land in and around Falls Church, Fairfax County, Virginia.
On 20 March, 1746, by deed of record in Fairfax Courthouse, John Trammell transferred by deed to the Vestry of Truro Parish in Fairfax County a certain parcel of land containing "two acres where the upper church is to be laid off in such a manner as the Vestry shall think proper, to include said church, church yard, spring, and all appurtenances to the said premises."
John Trammell received fifty shillings sterling for the land.
The contract awarded on 9 June, 1753, is the earliest record concerning the building at Falls Church. By order of the Vestry dated 13 October, 1754, John Trammell was paid 320 pounds of tobacco "for grubbing a place for the church."
Biography Of John Trammel (b 1675)
From Betty Brown Johnson's "COME CLIMB MY TREE"
Copyright © Betty Brown Johnson
HISTORICAL NOTE: It was no light matter in the Virginia Colony to sign bonds and to fulfill the attendant obligations to some of these duties. To sign as a witness meant a journey to the court to swear to the papers when presented there. To sign a bond on administration of an estate carried obligations some times quite serious as many a court order recites. KCG
"Tobacco was the medium of exchange in the Colony of VA. Everything, taxes, tithes, wages, land deals and purchases were figured on the currrent rate of exchange/sale of tobacco as fixed by the London market. One year it might bring a good price, then a flood of tobacco to market would bring a lower price. London was the dictator of the colonies economic life, as the colonies were forbidden to trade independently with other contries every thing had to flow through London, both what they sold and what they bought. Discontent with London's rule of their market was constantly a sore spot with the colonies, all of them, and its just a wonder the Revolution was so long in coming." Quote: Norma Trammell
John married Mary GERRARD, daughter of Hutt? GERRARD and Unknown, on 10 Sep 1698 in Westmoreland Co., VA. Mary GERRARD was born about 1675 in VA.
Thomas is known to have had a son, John, born within a year of his arrival in America. A clue to his wife's identify is found in a deed dated 26 Oct. 1698 in which John, son of Thomas, sells the last of a 500 acre tract of land left to John by a John Williams. Since land was rarely willed outside the family, it is probable that John Williams was his grandfather. The will has not been found, but researching John Williams has not been too hard, as he was forever in court battling his neighbors. The 500 acres he left John Trammell has been carefully traced back and bound to be adjoining another 600 acres John Williams owned and which passed by law to John Williams, Jr., an only son.
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John Trammell's Timeline
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February 15, 1675
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Stafford County, Virginia
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1698
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1700
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Stafford County, Virginia
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1702
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Stafford County, Virginia
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1704
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Stafford County, Virginia
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August 9, 1707
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Stafford County, Virginia, United States
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1710
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Stafford County, Virginia
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1712
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Fairfax County, Virginia
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1755
Age 79
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Falls Church, Fairfax County, Virginia
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