Simon Overzee

Simon Overzee

• Birth: 1627 in England
• Death: before 18 DEC 1660 in Charles County, Maryland - Admin

Marriage

1. Sarah Thoroughgood b: 1631 in Lower Norfolk County, Virginia Married: ABT 1647 in Lower Norfolk County, Virginia
2. Elizabeth Willoughby b: 27 SEP 1635 in Parnham, Suffolk, England Married: ABT 1659 in Charles County, Maryland

known for

From St John's Freehold - The Home Where Maryland Began

"Dutch merchant Simon Overzee, a notoriously disagreeable man, lived here with his family in the middle of the century. In one infamous incident, an African named Antonio died as a result of the punishment received from Overzee. Other servants in the household brought the case to court, but Overzee's peers acquited him because technically he had not broken the law."

Refs

1. St. John's site "In 1647, Lewger returned to England. Along came Simon Overzee, a Dutch merchant, who lived at St. John's for eight years and added a storehouse."
2. The European Settlement of North America 1492-1763 George Edward Stanley. Gareth Stevens, Jan 1, 2005 - Juvenile Nonfiction - 48 pages. Page 27
3. Ghost Walls: The Story of a 17th-Century Colonial Homestead Sally M. Walker Lerner Publishing Group, Oct 1, 2014 - Juvenile Nonfiction - 136 pages. Page 4. "prologue."
4. Blacks in Colonial America Oscar Reiss McFarland, Aug 1, 1997 - Social Science - 301 pages. Page 106
5. Crime and Punishment in Early Maryland Raphael Semmes. JHU Press, Jul 24, 1996 - History - 334 pages. Page 121

notes

From: VA-NORTHERN-NECK Allerton Mayflower Date: Mon, 21 Sep 2009 from Kathleen The Book Doctor

On Mon, Sep 21, 2009 Charlene wrote:

Washington and his Neighbors

Lyon G. Tyler

William and Mary College Quarterly Historical Magazine, Vol. 4, No. 1.
(Jul., 1895), pp. 28-43.

Isaac Allerton was the only son of Isaac Allerton, "merchant
tailor", by his second wife, Fear, daughter of William Brewster, founder
of the Plymouth Colony. in New England. He graduated at Harvard in
1650, and came to Virginia shortly after. He married Elizabeth, the
sister of Thomas Willoughby, who married Sarah, daughter of Mr. Richard
Thompson. Ursula, the widow of Thompson, who died after 1651, married
secondly, Col. John Mottrom, and when he died, abut 1655, she married
thirdly, Major George Colclough, who died about 1662 - Northumberland
County Records. In the Norfolk County Records there is a reference in
1661 to Mr. George Colclough, who married the relict of Mr. Simon Overzee.
She was Elizabeth, and a daughter of Capt. Adam Thorowgood, as Anne,
the wife of Job Chandler, calls her "sister".

Tyler is partly right. But Elizabeth Overzee was nee Willoughby. Anne (Thorowgood) Chandler called her "sister" because she thought of Simon Overzee as her "brother"--he was the widower of her blood sister Sarah Thorowgood.

In _Virginia Magazine of History and Biography_, Vol. 3, p. 323, Dr. Christopher Johnson says:

Simon Overzee, whom Job Chandler calls his brother -in-law, was a merchant, and probably of Dutch descent. He resided, at various times, both in Virginia and Maryland. (Maryland Archives, Vol. 3, folio 298, William and Mary Quarterly, Vol 2, p. 268.) January 20, 1658, he entered rights for himself, Sarah his wife, and one child. (Land Office, Lib. Q. Folio 323.)

In 1658, his wife, Mrs. Sarah Overzee, died in child bed, and was buried 9 October 1658. (Rec. Prov. Court, Lib. S, Folio 164, 166.)

"In a petition of Thomas Cornwaley's, dated 11 December 1658, Mrs. Yardley, widow of Col. Francis Yardley, is called mother-in-law of Job Chandler and Simon Overzee (Lib. S, Folio 144). The evidence here presented, compared with the Thoroughgood Genealogy, (in Vol. 2, p. 414, Va. Hist. Magazine) show beyond a doubt that Mrs. Ann Chandler and Mrs. Sarah Overzee, were the daughters of Capt. Adam Thoroughgood, and Sarah his wife.

"Simon Overzee married a second time, and died at the end of February, or the beginning of March, 1659, without issue (Chancery Lib. CD, Fol. 9, 56, 103) and 18 December 1660, his widow Mrs. Elizabeth Overzee, was granted administration of his estate, giving bond, 7 January 1660-1, for 100,000 pounds of tobacco (Test. Prox. Lib. IC, Fol. 7)."

"Soon after this sale she married Col. George Colclough, for one Hugh Broin, demands 7 February 1660-1, a scire facias against Col. George Colclough and Elizabeth his wife, widow and administratrix of Simon Overzee, deceased (Lib S, Fol. 403)."

John Bailey Calvert Nicklin, WMCQ ser. 2, vol. 18, no. 4, p. 433:

"1659. Simon Overzee was called 'brother' (i.e., brother-in-law) by Anne, wife of Job Chandler of Charles Co., Mc. He was then, according to his deposition, aged 31 years. Simon Oversea (sic) was in Northumberland County in 1652. He died in Maryland, but an inventory of his estate in Virginia was filed in Northumberland Co., in 1662. He married Elizabeth Willoughby and d.s.p. She was his second wife. His first wife was Sarah Thoroughgood, sister of Anne Chandler. The Charles County records refer to his death as having taken place on Feb. 2, 1659/60."

From http://wc.rootsweb.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=GET&db=mrmarsha&...

Proceedings of the County Courts of Charles County 1666-1674 Volume 60, Preface 41 Introduction. xli

Twelve leases, some of considerable interest, are recorded. Three, feudal in terms and phrase, are for manor lands (pp. 29, 51-52, 265).

On February 23, 1668/9, Edmund Lindsay, planter, innkeeper, and gentleman, as he was variously called, assigned to Benjamin Rozer a lease of 1,000 acres of manor land lying in Charles County, which Cecilius Calvert, the second Lord Proprietary, had first leased in January, 1663/4, for twenty-one years to "Isaac Allerton Gent and Dame Elizabeth his Wife relict and Admintrix of Simon Overzee late of St John in the County of St Maries”, in consideration of Dame Elizabeth relinquishing certain of her dower rights in other Overzee lands. The annual rent, payable semi-annually at the Annunciation of the Virgin and at the feast of St. Michael the Archangel, was to be one pound sterling or its equivalent, in addition to Allerton's planting orchards of a specified number of apple and pear trees, and building and keeping in repair certain houses, barns, and stables (pp. 265-6). Allerton, now described as of Northumberland County, Virginia, three years later on March 18, 1666/7, assigned his lease to Edmund Lindsay on condition that the latter carry out all the terms of the lease (pp. 266-7).

Sources

1. Adventurers of Purse and Person Virginia 1607-1624/5. Fourth Edition. Volume III, Families R-Z
2. Colonial Virginians and Their Maryland Relatives: A Genealogy of the Tucker Family and Also the Families of Allen, Blackistone, Chandler, Ford, Gerard, Harmor, Hume, Monroe, Skaggs, Smith, Stevesson, Stone, Sturman, Thompson, Ward, Yowell, and Others (Google eBook) Norma Tucker. Genealogical Publishing Com, 1994 - Reference - 274 pages. Page 197

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