Mildred Rootes

Mildred Reade

• AKA Read
• Gender: Female
• Birth: 1704 - Gloucester County, Virginia, British Colonial America
• Death: January 04, 1794 (89-90) - Rosewell, King and Queen County, Virginia, United States
• Daughter of Thomas Reade and Lucy Gwynn
• Wife of Maj. Philip Rootes (d. 1756)

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Children of Philip Rootes and Mildred Reade:

From T. R. Rootes. “The Rootes Family.” The Virginia Magazine of History and Biography, vol. 4, no. 2, 1896, pp. 204–11. JSTOR, http://www.jstor.org/stable/4241953. Accessed 14 Apr. 2024.

• 2. Col. Philip2 Rootes, of " Rosewall," King and Queen, eldest soni; was sheriff of that county in 1765. In June, I787, was advertised for sale the land " where Col. Philip Rootes, deceased, lived," in King and Queen Co., opposite West Point. He married, Dec. 2 1756, Fratnces Wilcox, (Mliddlesex Records), and was probably father or grandfather of Edmund Wilcox Rootes, a prominent lawyer and recorder of Rich- mond city, who died Feb. ii, I836;
• 3. THOMAS READE2 ROOTES, married on Feb. 8th, 1768 (Middlesex Records) Maria daughter of John Smith of " Shooter's Hill," Middlesex, and had issue at least one son.
• 4. Johns was a Captain in Byrd's (2d Va.) regiment, in the French and Indian War, and died before 1798, leaving an only son Philip, then alive (Journal House of deligates). John Rootes lived in Gloucester ill 1774, and it is probable that his son was the Philip Rootes of Gloucester, appointed lieutenant U. S. A. in i8oo. John Rootes married, March 26, 1760, Sarah Reade, (Middlesex Records) daughter of his uncle Rev. John Reade, Rec - tor of Stratton Major Parish;
• 4. Col. George,2 renioved to Northwestern Va., and appears to have been quite a prominent man in that section. He was a member of the House of Burgesses 1774, anid member, from West Augusta, of the Convention of July, 1775;
• 6. Mildred,2 married Feb. 4, 1762, Augustine Smith, of " Shooter's Hill," Middlesex;
• 7. Eliz- abeth,2 married Rev. John Thompson, Rector of St. Mark's Parish, Cul- peper;
• 8. Priscilla2 married Benj. Grymes, of Spotslyvania;
• 9. Mary,' married, in 1772, Colonel Anthony Thornton, of " Ormsbey," Caroline; couinty-lieutennant during the Revolution,
• and, probably, Lucy, who married Roger Dixon.

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Notes

1743-1759 Orange County, Virginia Deed Book 10; [Antient Press}: Page 318-319

Indenture 7 Nov 1745 between PHILIP ROOTES of county of King and Queen, Gent., and MILDRED, his wife, and ANTHONY STROTHER of County of King George of other .. for amount of five pounds .. sells 50 acres on branch of the Robinson River . .
Witnesses: Philip Rootes
Robt. Jackson Mildred Rootes
James Hunter, John Gordon
Recorded Orange County 7th November 1745

References

1. Pecquet du Bellet, Louise, 1853-,Jaquelin, Edward, 1668-1730,Jaquelin, Martha (Cary) 1686-1733. Some Prominent Virginia Families Archive.Org
2. https://www.colonial-settlers-md-va.us/getperson.php?personID=I4656...
3. T. R. Rootes. “The Rootes Family.” The Virginia Magazine of History and Biography, vol. 4, no. 2, 1896, pp. 204–11. JSTOR, http://www.jstor.org/stable/4241953. Accessed 14 Apr. 2024. “… Besides his estate in King and Queen, he owned lands in New Kent and Orange, and lots in Fredricksburg. He married Mildred daughter of Thomas Reade, and died in 1756. His will was dated Aug. 3d, 1756 and was proved in King and Queen, with John Robinson, President of the Council, Humphrey Hill and his sons Philip and Thos. Reade, executors. (See cases reported in 6 Call., 21; and 6 Mumford 87, and also will of Susanna Livingston of Spotsylvania, who names several of his children. ….
4. Virginia Colonial Abstracts, Vol. II. King and Queen County, Records Concerning 18th Century Persons page 168, 1756 will of Philip Rootes starts botton of first page. < PDF >
5. GEDCOM Note Sister of Lucy Reade, RIN 143
6. https://www.colonial-settlers-md-va.us/getperson.php?personID=I4656...