Maj. George Colclough

• Marriage 1 Ursula Bysshe b: 1621 in Worth, England widow Motrom Married: BEF 30 JAN 1656/57 in Northumberland County, Virginia

Children

1. John Colclough b: BEF 1640 in Northumberland County, Virginia
2. George Colclough b: 1654 in Northumberland County, Virginia

• Marriage 2 Elizabeth Willoughby b: 27 SEP 1635 in Parnham, Suffolk, England widow Overzee Married: 1661 in Northumberland County, Virginia

Notes

• Upon the hearing of the cause concerning the will of Col John Mottrom and the estates of his children in whose possession soever either in Virginia or else where. It is with the consents of CoI. Speck and Mr. Colclough Overseers of the said will, ordered that the estates of the orphans shall wholly be delivered into the possession of Mr. Wm. Presly one of the Overseers of the said will and Mr. Colclough in right of his wife the relict of the said Col. Mottrom to have such of the household staff or shall be convenient for her according to the appraisement, and to give the said Presly a just account of all things which he have in his custody belonging to that estate and for the better enableing the said Presly to manage their estate and pay the debts, a Commission of administration to issue to the said Presly there upon he giving caution to the court to save them harmless and also to give security to deal justly therein and such allowence to be given to the said Presly for hispaines and the clothing and diet of the said children wheresoever they shall be kept as the Overseers can agree on not exceeding the annual benefit and produce of their estates due by the will and that what estate remains in being shall not be effected nor alienated to any other use then to the orphans, under the ordering of the said Presly provided always that the debts be duely paid and that the widow shall have her due thirds of land and personal estate and Col. Speke to deliver all the writings which belongeth thereunto unto the said Presly, further in case the said Presly refuse the administration then another administrator to be chosen by the three Overseers or the main part of them who is to give the like caution and to proceed as before specified. Vera copia teste - Thomas Brereton Cl. Con. 21st July 1656, this order was recorded.
• - Whereas EDWARD WILKINGTON was employed by Maior GEORGE COLCLOUGH the last yeare as Overseer of certaine Servants to make a Crop of tobacco at one of the sd. Major COLCLOUGHs Plantacons called STREET's NECK, It is therefore ordered that Mr. ISAAC ALLERTON, whoe married with the Relict and Admrx. of the sd. Major GEORGE COLCLOUGH, shall forthwith make payment of one full share & halfe of tobacco unto the sd. EDWARD WILKINGTON made by him & the sd. Servts

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The following information was taken from "Major Francis Wright and Anne Washington with Allied Families", compiled and published by Anne Reed Ritchie, source is in the Missouri State Archives, Jefferson City, Missouri. AncestryImage

John Mottrom's second wife was Ursula Bishe or Bish, widow of Richard Thomson (d. 1649) whom she had married in England prior to 1641. Their children were 1. Elizabeth Thompson, married Peter Presley, Sarah Thompson, married thomas Willoughby (Willoby), and Bish Thompson who may have been a son. (REF: NORTHUMBERLAND HISTORICAL MAGAZINE 1969, p. 22.) The third husband of Ursula Bish Thompson Mottrom was married to the eldest daughter of John Mottrom and contested the will and claims of the widow.

References

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