Vincent Vass

Vincent Vass (1720 - 1783), son of John Vass and Rachel Pendleton.

Married 1) Anne Rust 2) Judith Payne, widow of George Ball 3) Jane Price, widow of William Mountague, 4) Winifred Gatewood 5) Elizabeth, widow of Andrew Manning.

Named in the 1726 will of his grandfather:

1722-1730 Essex County, Virginia Wills, Bonds & Inventories, No. 4; [John Frederick Dorman]; Page 235.

Will of Vincent Vass of Southfarnham Parish in Essex County, planter, dated 18 Dec. 1726.

... Unto my grandson Vincent Vass the son of John Vass my Negro Bess.

The Virginia Genealogist Volume 31, 1987 [John Frederick Dorman] Page 52 BRITISH MERCANTILE CLAIMS 1775 - 1803 [P. 23 ]

Vincent Vass, Spotsylania. £23.15.8, due Robt. Jardine. He has experienced a greater variety of fortune than any other man in Virginia. From some short time before the debt was contracted until his death he has survived nine wives. No sooner was he ever married than he spent his wife's estate and become insolvent. He died lately in the Penitentiary House, to which place he was sentenced to several years confinement for killing his ninth and last wife. He resided in Spotsylvania County about 1789, then for some years in Caroline County and lately in Halifax County. He has been solvent and insolvent so often that I find it impossible to fix any particular dates to his various circumstances.

References

• https://www.colonial-settlers-md-va.us/getperson.php?personID=I1162...
• https://archive.org/details/rustofvirginiage00rust/page/48/mode/2up