Thomas Waddy, Jr.

"The Waddy Family of Northumberland County, Virginia" By Mrs. O. A. Keach, of Wichita, Kansas. Publication date 1917-04-01. Publisher The William and Mary Quarterly, Volume 25. Page 261. < Archive.Org >

refer to this article. others have this Jane as Jane Spence

The writer has been greatly interested in trying to solve the problem of the identity of Jane Waddy. The available records do not afford a definite answer to this problem, but the following is tentatively offered, that Thomas 3 Waddy (Thomas 2 , John 1 ) was probably reared in the family of his uncle, James 2 Waddy. Thomas 3 Waddy married a Lee, a daughter of either Captain William Lee or Charles Lee.* Thomas 3 Waddy's daughter Jane 4 married her cousin Benjamin 3 Waddy, son of Mr. James 2 Waddy.

In February, 1744, there was a further division of the estate of Benjamin 3 Waddy. In the following July, Joseph Mott and Jane, his wife, administratrix of Benjamin 3 Waddy, deed., petitioned that Robert Jones, Colin Campbell and Christopher Garlington should settle the accounts of the estate of Thomas Waddy, deed., father, it is thought, of Jane (Waddy) Mott, in the hands of John Waddy, his son, also to settle the accounts of Benjamin Waddy's estate. Mr. Thomas Waddy had died in 1737 and Robert Osborne had in 1738 petitioned for his wife's part of Thomas Waddy's estate in the hands of Benjamin Waddy. It is probable that Jane and Benjamin had lived with Jane's father, Thomas Waddy, and that Robert Osborne was asking for his wife's part of Thomas Waddy's personal estate. Now Jane in her turn petitions for a part of Thomas Waddy's estate in the hands of his son, John.

The next record is of much interest, as it establishes Jane Waddy's relationship with the Lee family. On February 6, 1745, Thomas Lee, of Westmoreland County made a deed to Jane Mott, wife of Joseph Mott of Northumberland County, schoolmaster, and to Benjamin Waddy, second son of said Jane, for 150 acres in Wicomico parish, on the west side of the branches of the Dividing Creek, which said land belonged to one Knight and was by him devised to Linefield Sharp of whom said Lee purchased the land, etc. . . . (This land deeded to Jane Waddy in exchange) for 400 acres in Westmoreland County, the inheritance of the said Jane. Recorded also in Westmoreland County Courts.

References

1. https://www.colonial-settlers-md-va.us/getperson.php?personID=I1177...
2. "The Waddy Family of Northumberland County, Virginia" By Mrs. O. A. Keach, of Wichita, Kansas. Publication date 1917-04-01. Publisher The William and Mary Quarterly, Volume 25. Page 261. < Archive.Org > (https://archive.org/stream/jstor-1922712/1922712_djvu.txt)
3. William and Mary College Quarterly Historical Magazine, Volume 25. edited by Richard Lee Morton. Page 258. < GoogleBooks >