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About Toby West
Not the same person as Totopotomoi, Weroance of the Pamunkey
Parents First Govenor of Virginia Thomas Richard West, 3rd Lord De La Warr & “Rachel” Croshaw, of the Patawomeck unconfirmed. No known wife or children.
What we know
- In 1653, Toby West was transported to the Virginia Colony and claimed as a head right by Capt. John Barrow, ship master for the William and Anne.
- In 1654, Toby West patented 500 acres on the Pamunkey River
- in 1655, Toby West signed, as a witness, an agreement with an Indian leader
- Between 1655 and 1659, Toby West assigned his land patent to Joseph Croshaw, who claimed head rights for transporting 10 persons
No further record.
What has been claimed
From https://www.ancestry.com/boards/thread.aspx?mv=flat&m=39&p=surnames...
"I cannot give all of supporting evidence, but the story goies that Pocahontas took a number of her relatives to England, with her, including her first cousin, daughter of Powhatan's sister, name unknown (but Leonard-reacher)called her Rachel as a possibility, since that name came down in the Crowshaw family. The Indians all took Christian names upon baptism. Pocahontas' name was Rebecca. Anyway, Pocahontas and her relatives stayed at the esate of Lord Delaware, Thomas West, in England, were Rachel supposedly bore an illegitimat son by Thomas West called Toby West or his Indian name, Totopotomoi. Rachel ended up marrying Joseph Croshaw and moved back to Virginia. Her daughter, Unity Croshaw, married Col. John West, nephew of Lord Delaware. Before marriage to Unity. John West has a known illegitimate son, John West by Cockacoeske, Queen of the Pamunkeys. Cockacoeske was also married at one time to Totopotomoi,
"Pocahontas' son, Thomas Rolfe, moved back to Va. where he had a daughter, Jane, who was ofen cared for by Unity (Croshaw) West. The connections seem to be endless.Rachel would have been in line for the ruling position of the Pamumkeys.
"When Totopotomoi took over, it would mean tht his mother had to be dead. Checked the Croshaw's family and sure enough, at the time Totopotomoe took over, Joseph Crowshaw's first wife had recently died.
"Also, you willsee in Cavalier's and Pioneers by Nugent that Toby West has a paptent for 500 acres of land that was later taken up by Col. Joseph Crowshaw. One of the early writings states that Totopotomoi's land was overtaken by an English Colonel.
"Somehow, that 500 acres to have gotten back to Cockacoeske's son, John West, By Col. John West, as Indian John West left a will in Stafford Co. in which he left 500 acres "at Pamunkey" to his son.
"Also, Col. Joseph Crosshaw's father, Raleigh Croshaw, appears to have had an Indian wife (not Joseph's mother, howver) fromhis long residence with the Patawoneck Tribe in Va. William Crowshaw, the Indian, was probably a son by the Indian marriage of Raleigh Crowshaw.
"This information was supplied to me by William L. Deyo.". Tribal historian, his works here: http://worldcat.org/identities/lccn-n2002037745/
supporting evidence
(also see media)
From http://www.gravesfa.org/gen270-Atteberry.htm citing Cavaliers and Pioneers, Patent Book 4, pp. 358 and 359, Nell Marion Nugent.
6.. On 8 Nov 1653 Joseph Croshaw received patent of 1750 acres in York County on south side of York River behind land of Captain John West called Cheemockin for transport of 25 persons (on 25 Nov 1654 Joseph Croshaw assigned this tract to George Leddall [Lydall]).
Based on the description of the tract patented by Major William Lewis described in Item No. 9, hereinafter, as including 775 acres (moiety) of the 1550 acres Colonel John West patented on 6 May 1650 and being known as Chymahocans [Cheemockin?], it is very likely that this 1750 acre tract patented to Joseph Croshaw also abutted Captain John West’s land on the Mattadequin to the north and west.
7. On 27 May 1654 Captain John West received patent for 1000 acres in Gloucester County on northeast side of Mattapony River, beginning at upper westermost corner of Ralph Greens, bounded by Thomas Bell and Captain Robert Abrahall [Abrall] due for transport of 20 persons, including George Lydall, Susan Barlow, etal. On 2 Jun 1657 Colonel John West received patent for 1000 acres in Goucester County on northeast side of Mattaponi River beginning at westernmost corner of Ralph Greene, bounded by Thomas Bell and Captain Robert Abrall, renewal of patent dated 27 May 1654 (assigned by Captain John West Jr. to Thomas Ramsey on 10 Mar 1662).
This 1000 acre tract was situated on the northeast side of the Mattapony River in Gloucester County, probably across the river and upstream from Mattadequin Creek. This land would fall within New Kent County when it was partitioned from Gloucester County later that year (1654).
8. That same date and in same area on Mattaponi River Toby West received a patent of 500 acres for the transport of 10 persons.
This tract was also patented on 27 May 1654 and in the same area on the northeast side of the Mattapony. The identity of Toby West is unknown, but given the matching dates and locations, it is likely that Toby West was a kinsman of Colonel John West Sr. On 8 Jun 1659 Major Joseph Croshaw filed a patent for this same 500 acres, abutting Thomas Saunders. However, in the Croshaw patent the land was described as being on the southeast side of the Mettapony [sic]. Sometime between 27 Mayn1654 and 8 Jun 1659 Toby West assigned this tract to Joseph Croshaw, who filed a patent due for the transport of ten persons, incluing Cuthbert Chroshaw [sic] and Noy Chroshaw. Presumably, these Chroshaws were kinsmen of Joseph Croshaw. There is record of an intermarriage between members of the Croshaw and Noy families in England, from whom Noy Croshaw presumably descended.
Toby “Chief Totopotomoy” West
Known as Thomas West or Toby West to the English, and Totopotomoy (also Totopomoi) to the Powhatan and Pamunkey Indians, pronounced "To-Pot-omy." He was half English and half Native American Powhatan, born of an English father and Native American mother.
The Chief of the Pamunkey tribe, he gave his life in the Battle of Bloody Run, helping the English Colonists.
He was the son of Thomas West, third Baron de la Warr, and "Rachel" Powhatan. Some researchers refer to Toby West as a nephew of Pocahontas while other family trees show his mother as a first cousin of Pocahontas. Some say Rachel's father was the brother of Chief Powhatan while others show Rachel's mother as a sister of Powhatan. It is possible, however, perhaps even likely, that she was a double first cousin of Pocahontas. Toby West married his cousin Cockacoeske, the granddaughter of Pocahontas' sister Cleopatra Powhatan. After his death, Col. John West, the son of Toby's first cousin Gov. John West II, took Cockacoeske as his "Indian wife" or mistress.
Rachel Powhatan accompanied Pocahontas to England where Toby West was conceived and, by some accounts, born. Pocahontas and her entourage resided at Lord de la Warr's country estate, Blackhurst Park, in Sussex while in England. Rachel married or took up with Col. Joseph Croshaw from Virginia either while in England or after her return to Virginia. He was the son of Capt. Raleigh Croshaw, one of the founders of Jamestown, but was in Bermuda and also England (ref., Shawnee Heritage by Don Greene; also Monteith Family and the Potomac Indians by William Deyo).
Two infant baptisms recorded in England for Thomas West, son of Thomas West, one Catholic, one Protestant:
Christening Date: 16 Feb 1616
Christening Place: Rodmell, Sussex, England
Baptism Date: 20 Apr 1616 Baptism Place: Bath, St Michael, Somerset, England
Toby West patented 500 acres in Gloucester County on 27 May 1654, the same day that Capt. John West, Esqr, patented 1000 acres in Gloucester Co. (Cavaliers and Pioneers, Abstracts of Virginia Land Patents and Grants, by Nell Nugent, p. 232). Tototomoi became Chief of the Pamunkey and married his cousin Cockacoeske, grand-niece of Pocahontas. He supported the English Colonists, serving with Colonel Edward Hill in the bloodiest battle known to have been fought between Native Americans on Virginia soil, the war between the Siouan and Algonquian tribes, and was slain at the first Battle of Bloody Run on January 1, 1656. After his death, Toby West's property passed to Cockacoeske's son, Maj. John West. Cockacoeske later became the wife of Toby West's first cousin Col. John West II (son of Governor John West). Col. John West II was married to Ursula or Unity Crowshaw, daughter of Toby West's stepfather Joseph Crowshaw and Rachel Powhatan. So not only was John West the first cousin of Toby West, but Cockacoeske took her sister-in-law's husband. Unity Crowshaw sued her husband for divorce citing his abandonment of her and his adultery with the "Queen of the Pamunkey."
The burial site of Toby West is not proven to be on the Pamunkey reservation which was officially established as the permanent home of the Pamunkey tribe as early as 1648. But the remains of earlier leaders Opchanacanough and Powhatan were said to have been brought to the burial mound on this site for interment, according to legend, so likely Totopotomoy would be moved here as well, although he probably was buried originally on the battlefield at Bloody Run where he died. The bones or mummified remains of earlier leaders were entombed at the sacred Uttamussak temple.
Posted online by Paul Brockman, Dec. 6, 1998: "Looking for confirmation or refutation of Leonard West's thesis that Joseph West, of "The Joseph", Frederick (now Montgomery) County, MD, may have been a son of Totopotomoi of the Pamunkey Nation (Powhatan Confederacy), and that Totopotomoi may be the Thomas or Toby West who patented land above John West of West Point and the same Thomas West who was sent to school at St. George's, Bermuda."
William Deyo, an official Tribal historian of the Pamunkey, wrote: There is overwhelming evidence that Maj. John West was the son of Cockacoeske and her second husband John West II.
Among the descendants of Toby West and Cockacoeske were: Patrick Henry, the orator and Governor of Virginia; Dolly Madison, wife of President James Madison; Dabney Carr (1743-1773), Virginia burgess and brother-in-law of President Thomas Jefferson; Lady Nancy Astor, the first woman to sit in the British House of Commons; President Zachary Taylor and his daughter Sarah Knox Taylor, the first wife of President Jefferson Davis of the Confederacy; Confederate Gen. J.E.B. Stuart; Gen. Edmund Pendleton Gaines; Col. George Strother Gaines; and numerous other notable Southern families.
Became Chief of the Pamunkey and was slain at the first Battle of of Bloody Run on January 1, 1656.
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Toby West's Timeline
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1616
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probably, England
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January 1, 1656
Age 40
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perhaps, Virginia Colony
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Pamunkey Indian Reservation, King William, King William County,, Virginia
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