Originall Wroe

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Name: Original WROE Sex: M Birth: 29 AUG 1697 in Westmoreland Co VA 1 Death: 30 MAY 1774 in Westmoreland Co. VA 1

Note:

   Original Wroe had 2 wives and 13 children - 5 by his first wife Elenor, including our ancestor William; and 8 by his second wife, including our ancestor Benjamin. Had considerable land and a number of slaves; the family was connected by marriage to the Monroes and the Washingtons. Entitled to call himself Gentleman. Four of his sons married four Chancellor daughters, including both

   of our ancestors.

   Original Wroe's will (written December 28, 1771) has been preserved and provides an intriguing glimpse of his material possessions and gives some sense of how he felt about his family. The ten surviving children were bequeathed shares of his property as follows:

   John, the eldest, received "one shilling and no more." [Why he was cut off the record does not say.]

   William and Richard were to share his plantation plus additional land, including 100 acres each in Culpepper County. Richard got his coopers tools, and William the "rest of my working tools." Together they received "my books of every kind" and his grist mill. William got the slaves Sam and Sarah and Dinah, and Richard was given Harry and Davie and Aaron, plus a cow, a calf and a mare.

   Reginald, who was actually the third eldest son after John and William, received "the reversion of four hundred acres of land" and his two sons Taylor and John were loaned a Negro girl named Rose.

   Thomas got one hundred acres in Culpepper County, a Negro girl named Moll or Mary, a feather bed and its furnishings, a cow and a calf, and a slave named Judy.

   Benjamin, his youngest son, just 21 when the will was written in 1771, received 100 acres of the Culpepper land, getting third choice; he also was given two Negro girls, Pegg (or Margaret) and Winney, a feather bed and its furnishings, and a young horse.

   The four daughters received much more modest bequests. Judith (Briggs) was "loaned" a Negro woman named Grace, "but if she can [make] a lawful complaint that [Mr.] Briggs should use her ill it shall be in the power of my executors to take her from him and ceep [sic] her in their [care] til David Briggs shall come of age...." Elizabeth (Scott) received a cow and a calf and the loan of a Negro named Great Sue. Susanna (Edwards) was loaned a Negro named Jemima. Lucetta (18 when the will was written) got Little Sue and a feather bed with furnishings plus a cow and a calf and a young mare.

   The residue of Original Wroe's estate, after everything was apportioned, was to be divided equally between William, Richard, Thomas and Benjamin; John and Reginald were omitted from that division, as were the four daughters.

   One curious provision in the will shows that Original wanted to do everything in his power to keep his property in the family. It is written as follows: "If any of [my heirs] should offer to sell any part or parcell of the above-mentioned premises [the plantation] to any but the next heir, John Wroe excepted, it is my will that he shall be the last of my six sons that shall inherit any part of the said lands or premises and it is my will that if any of my sons or lawfull heirs should offer to sell any part or parcell of the above said land to but whom I have ordained to inherit the said land it shall fall to the King & his successors and if King or successors should offer to sell any part or parcell of the same shall fall to the next of kin to me in like manner."

   On file in the Virginia State Library and Archives, and at the Virginia Historical Society are copies of the Wroe family Bible, printed in London in 1749 and apparently purchased by Original Wroe. the actual bible itself is in the possession of Philip Chancellor Wroe, Jr. but is in very poor condition. The Bible has entries relating to 33 members of the Wroe family, and also records nine slaves born on the Wroe plantation between 1758 and 1776. The slaves are: ____, born Nov 27, 1758; Sue, born Dec 31, 1760; Moll, born Jan 17, 1764; Sarah, born Sep 16, 1766; Aron, born April 20 1767; Winny, born Aug 25, 1768; Judella, born Jul 30, 1769; Corin, born May 30, 1771; Rose, born Mar 11, 1773; Anna, born April 3, 1776.

Father: William , 1st WROE b: Abt 1670 in Lancashire,England Mother: Judith BROWNE b: 1672 in Westmoreland Co. VA

Marriage 1 Elenor

   Married: 27 SEP 1719 in Westmoreland Co. VA 1

Children

   Has No Children John WROE b: 21 APR 1721

   Has No Children Jane WROE b: 19 DEC 1723

   Has No Children Eleanor WROE b: 8 DEC 1726

   Has Children William WROE b: 15 SEP 1729 in Westmoreland Co. VA

   Has No Children Reginald WROE b: 19 AUG 1732

Marriage 2 Jane LYNE b: 25 JUL 1710

   Married: Abt 1735 in Westmoreland Co. VA 1

Children

   Has No Children Ellen WROE b: 12 MAR 1735/1736

   Has No Children Richard WROE b: 3 APR 1738

   Has No Children Judith WROE b: 18 NOV 1740

   Has No Children Elizabeth WROE b: 4 AUG 1743

   Has No Children Thomas WROE b: 10 JAN 1745/1746

   Has No Children Suzannah WROE b: 5 MAY 1748

   Has Children Benjamin , 1st WROE b: 2 JAN 1749/1750 in Westmoreland Co. VA

   Has No Children Lucetta WROE b: 4 JUL 1753

Sources:

   Title: Wroe, William Clarke; The Wroe and Chancellor Families; Edgewater MD, 1992

   Abbrev: Wroe, William Clarke; The Wroe and Chancellor Families; Edgewater MD, 1992

   Text: Date of Import: Mar 31, 1999 

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