Joyce Yates

Joyce Jones

• AKA Hoskins, Fleming, Washington, Yates
• Born about 1630
• Died before 1685
• Daughter of William Jones and [mother unknown]
• Wife of Anthony Hoskins — married about 1650
• Wife of Alexander Fleming — married 1667
• Wife of Lawrence Washington III — married 6 Feb 1671
• Wife of James Yates — married 7 Apr 1677

Biography

"The descendants of Capt. Lawrence Washington on the Rappahannock River lost the ancestral estate, Westfalia, because of the multiple marriages of Joyce Jones Hoskins Fleming Washington Yates. Her last husband, James Yates, survived her, dying in 1685. He overturned their prenuptial agreement, giving the Washington birthright to his descendants. They changed the name to Pewmondsend." [1]

Children with Anthony Hoskins

1. Elizabeth Hoskins b March 17, 1643 married William Jett.

Children with Alexander FLEMMING

1. Alexia b Bef Married Thomas Pace Children with Captain Lawrence WASHINGTON
2. John b 1667 married Mary TOWNSEND, daughter of Richard TOWNSEND and Unknown.
3. Daughter b aft 1667
4. Ann b aft 1667

Notes

• Alexander Fleming married thirdly Joyce (Jones) HOSKINS (b. 1613), the rich and attractive widow of Anthony HOSKINS of Accomac Co. and the daughter of Capt. William JONES
• "Laurence Washington, of Rappahannock, and his wife, Joyce," conveyed "200 acres of land, Feb. 6. 1671-2, formerly the property of Alexander Fleming, and by Fleming, assigned to John Thomazine, and by the latter to Laurence Washington." Capt. Alexander Fleming was married twice. Records in Ellis Co. show that Alexander Fleming and wife. Ursula, made a deed August 19. 1660. His other wife, Joyce, by whom he had daughter Alexia, married Thomas Pace, and their daughter, Elizabeth, married Rowland Thornton." Source: Some Prominent Virginia Families By Louise Pecquet du Bellet, Edward Jaquelin, Martha Cary Jaquelin - Page 56
• "Joyce (Fleming) Washington, married, third, a man who squandered her patrimony, so that her son, John Washington, had not the value of £20 therefrom." Source: Some Prominent Virginia Families By Louise Pecquet du Bellet, Edward Jaquelin, Martha Cary Jaquelin - Page 57
• Lawrence Washington was the third of Joyce Washington’s four husbands. When they married, she was the widow of Alexander Fleming (c.1612–1668), and after his death she married James Yates (d. 1685). The three daughters were Elizabeth and Anne Hoskins, by her first marriage to Anthony Hoskins (c.1613–1665), and Elizabeth Fleming (see Lenora Higginbotham Sweeny, “Captain Alexander Fleming and Joyce, His Wife, of ‘Westfalia,’ Rappahannock County, Virginia,” Americana, 33 [1939]: 326–48).
• 4. John Washington’s father, Lawrence Washington (c.1635–c.1675), and mother, Joyce Washington (d. 1685), had a daughter, Ann Washington (c.1669–c.1675).

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Joyce Jones aka Hoskins Fleming Washington Yates

• Born about 1607 [location unknown]
• Daughter of William Jones and [mother unknown]
• [sibling%28s%29 unknown]
• Wife of Anthony Hoskins — married 1650 [location unknown]
• Wife of Alexander Fleming — married about 1667 [location unknown]
• Wife of Lawrence Washington — married before February 6, 1671 [location unknown]
• Wife of James Yates — married about April 7, 1677 [location unknown]
• Mother of Elizabeth Hoskins, Anne Hoskins and Elizabeth Fleming
• Died before 1685 [location unknown]

1652. That year Joyce Jones, daughter of Capt. William Jones, married Anthony Hoskins. She was widowed and married Capt. Alexander Fleming, but was widowed a second time. In 1660, she then married Capt. Lawrence Washington, an ancestor of George Washington, who owned the original Washington birthright plantation, Westfalia. He died in Rappahannock County in 1677. Joyce Jones Hoskins Fleming Washington married James Yates on 7 Apr 1677, and as a multiple dowager concluded a prenuptial agreement reserving her dowry, which included the Westfalia estate. Joyce died in 1685 before James, and the plantation ended up with the children of his earlier marriage, and the name of the plantation was changed to Pewmondsend. Genealogies of Virginia Families, vol. III, p. 574.

Links

• https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Washington/05-14-02-0386
• http://familytreemaker.genealogy.com/users/b/r/i/Russell-Briggs/WEB...
• http://www.florida-crackers.net/camillia/Southern%20Roots/1416.html
• http://www.samsawadee.com/sams-place/fleming.html
• https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Washington/05-14-02-0386
• Sweeny, Lenora Higginbotham. “The Ancestry of Joyce, the Second Wife of Captain Lawrence Washington, of Rappahannock County, Virginia.” The Virginia Magazine of History and Biography, vol. 49, no. 2, 1941, pp. 191–193. JSTOR, http://www.jstor.org/stable/4245090. Accessed 31 Mar. 2021.