Maj. William Marriott, of Surry

Evidence needed to support as child of Robert Marriott and Sense Marriott

"Major William Marriott made a contract of marriage with Susannah Swan on 7 March 1659/60, promising to bequeath her £100 sterling in the event of his death (Surry County Records, Book 1, p. 159).

SUSANNAH SWAN(N), born 26 October 1640. She died on 25 November 1660 without issue "Having been married to Major William Marriott eight months and twenty two days - and was buried at Swann's Point". Major William Marriott made a contract of marriage with Susannah Swan on 7 March 1659/60, promising to bequeath to her £100 sterling in the event of his death (Surry County Records, Book 1, p. 159).

Estate

From https://www.houseofproctor.org/genealogy/getperson.php?personID=I26...

Marriot was alive on 5 March 1672 but dead by 7 May 1672 when appraisers were appointed. A settlement was ordered on 2 September 1673 and an accounting was presented on 21 November 1673 by Nicholas Merrywether as "trustee of ye sd Marriots will". Because the accounting was complicated by numerous small debts and there was "more than ordinary trouble in it", George Proctor (who married the widow) was ordered to finish the accounting. The same court appointed Proctor and Merrywether as joint guardians of William Marriott, the orphan of William Marriott (implying that William was under 16)

Bottom line, it sounds to me like he had two children, William and Mary. William died before 1682 and the daughter married Samuel Thompson.

Genealogy Genforum Posting December 15, 2002 Bob Baird

Notes

From https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Marriott-43

The below is a repatent of a 1641 patent:

25 Mar 1658: JOHN BISHOPP, son & heir of John Bishop, dec'd., 300 acs. James City Co., 25 Mar. 1658, p. 176, (263). Wly. upon land of Thomas Crouch, Nly. upon land of George Powell. Granted to his father 4 July 1641, deserted & now renewed for trans. of 6 pers: Wm. Marriott, Georg Duell, Wm. Roberts, Joane Hill, Thomas Jarrell, Abigall Adcockes, Martin Johnson, Margery Longnan.

7 Oct 1682. Est. of Wm. Marriott, deceased, Dr. to Jno. Moring, Admr. of Mr. Geo. Proctor, Est. Amt, due Mr. Samuel Thompson as marrying ye surviving of ye two orphans, out of which 1500 is to be paid and deducted from funeral charges of the dec'd orphan by order of Ct. Rec.: of Mr. Thompson in right of his wife 9ber 1681, ex. and settled Maj Marriott's estate. Witnesses Wm. Browne, Wm. Edwards.

3 July 1683. Indenture between Sam Thompson who married Mary, only daughter of Maj William Marriott, deceased, and Thomas Mathas of the other part, land adjoining Nicholas Sessums, 150 acres at Sessums Swamp, etc. Signed: Thos. Flood, Wm. Thompson (Samuel Thompson, born Abt. 1656 in Connecticut; died Abt. 1720 in Surry Co., VA. He married Mary Marriott before 03 July 1683 in Surry Co., VA; born 1663; died before1721. So marriage probably 1676-1682)

From https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/162904425/elizabeth-bishop_marr...

Elizabeth Burgess W/O John Bishop, Major William Marriott, and George Proctor of Bacon's Rebellion (m 1642)

From https://www.houseofproctor.org/genealogy/getperson.php?personID=I26...

Will and Order Book

July 2, 1672. Petition of George Proctor, who married the relict of Major William Marriott.

Sept. 4, 1672 Cout proceedings show that the wife of George Proctor was formerly the wife of Major William Marriott, and before that the wife of John Bishop. Francis Mason was guardian of John Bishop, orphan

https://www.ancestry.com/boards/thread.aspx?o=10&m=147.108.228.364....

You might find it interesting to know that an Alice Mariott - I believe the Alice that you refer to in you post - gave a deposition against Thomas Swann in the hearings held on people who participated in Bacon's Rebellion (she said that Swann was involved - which may have been true, since Matthew Swann admitted to it).

She gave the deposition on September15th, 1677. She was said to be 32 years old at the time of the deposition.

Another interesting coincidence is that William Mariott held my ancestor Thomas Jarrell as an indentured servant. Thomas Jarrell had to go to before the Governing Council to request that he be set free because his time was up and Mariott would not let him go. This appeared in a Surry Co, Court record May 3, 1658.

??? I have a correction for you as to Elizabeth's birth and death- She was born as you say 1621 in Jamestown Colony,VA, and she died on Jan 9, 1672; Southwark Parish, Surrey, Virginia. Also, there is a discrepancy about her parents. The Matthius Marriott and Alice Warren listed are actually her son and daughter-in-law by William Marriot (m.1642) That she married in 1642, before George. Three or four sites say her father is Thomas Burgess and she was the spouse of Ezra Perry. ???

From https://laura-knight-jadczyk.com/genealogy/knight-surry-tithables-1...

Surry Tithables

1668 - Jun 10 – VA Surry – Admin - Tithables list - Selected: Lawnes Creek: Capt. Lawrence Baker, William Hare, William Butler, Peter Greene, John Clarke, Matthew Swann, Robert Reynolds, Thomas Taylor, Francis Reynolds, Robert Giles, John Gregory, Thomas Clay, David Williams, John Kindred, William Hancock, John phillips, George Watkins, Nicholas Crawford, William Clarke, Henry Clarke, Thomas Greene, Nathaniel Knight, Arthur Jordan, Thomas Flood, George Jordan, Nicholas Merriwether, Thomas Swann, Thomas Gray, Francis Gray, William Rose, Thomas Andrews, Maj. William Marriott, Thomas Ironmonger, Luke Mizell & Mate, Christopher Vaughan, Capt. Corker, Daniel Regan, Timothy Walker, Anthony Evans, Jonas Bennett, Matthew Marriott, Thomas Hart, John Clements. (VA Gen. Soc. Qrtly. Vol. 22 No. 1)

1669 - Jun 10 – VA Surry – Admin - Tithables list - Selected: Robert Cartwright, William Knight (2), Arthur Jordan, Capt. Flood, Thomas Clarke, Jeremiah Ellis, Thomas Green, Doctor Nathaniel Knight, Lt. Col. George Jordan, Charles Gregory, William Marriott, Timothy Walker, Mr. Meriwether & Bro., Capt Corker, Luke Mizell & Son, Col. Thomas Swann, Thomas Gray, John Gray, Francis Gray, William Rose, Widdow Phillips, Daniel Regan, Thomas Andrews, John Clements, Matthew Marriott, Widow Hart, Henry Baker, Matthew Swann, John Phillips, Anthony Evans, John Clarke, John Gregory, John Greene, Robert Reynolds, Henry Gray, George Watkins, William Butler, Robert Giles, Thomas Clay, William Newsome, John Kindred, William Jordan, William Hare, Thomas Taylor, Lawrence Baker, Henry Clarke, Nicholas Crawford, James Murrey, Henry Hollingsworth. (VA Gen. Soc. Qrtly. Vol. 22 No. 1)

1670 - Jun 10 – VA Surry – Admin - Tithables list - Selected: Mathew Swann, John Phillips, Henry Baker, William Hare, William Newsome, William Jordan, John Kindred, Lawrence Baker, George Watkins, Henry Clarke, Robert Giles, Anthony Evans, John Clarke, Henry Gray, Thomas Taylor, Robert Reynolds, Thomas Clay, William Hancock, John Gregory, Richard Morris, William Butler, James Murray (Murrey), David Williams, Robert Lancaster, Matthew Marriott, John Clements, Maj. Marriott, Mr. Merriwether, Capt. Corker, Thomas Gray, Francis Gray, Thomas Ironmonger, Widow Mizell, Daniel Regan, Roger Williams, Thomas Swann, Thomas Andrews, Lt. Col. George Jordan, James Watkins, George Lee, Arthur Jordan, Mrs. Faith Flood, Nathaniel Knight, Thomas Clarke. (VA Gen. Soc. Qrtly. Vol. 24, No. 1)

References

• Encyclopedia of Virginia Biography, Under the Editorial ..., Volume 1 edited by Lyon Gardiner Tyler. Page 340, 352. GoogleBooks
• “Virginia Gleanings in England (Continued).” The Virginia Magazine of History and Biography, vol. 13, no. 2, 1905, pp. 191–205. JSTOR, www.jstor.org/stable/4242737.
• From Virginia Marriage Records: From the Virginia Magazine of History and ...By Elizabeth Petty Bentley. Page 180. “Marriage licenses in Essex County.” GoogleBooks “William Marriott gets license to marry Elizabeth Norton January 22, 1694. (So - a different William Marriott)