William Symes

6. WILLIAM SIMS, b. c. 1660-1670 76 at Somerset,77 Eng. He m. c. 1665 78 (where?) Amy Clark.79 [Petty, in referring to the wife of this William Sims, calls her "Amy (or Anne) Sims."] He had land in old Rappahannock 80 Co., VA, (now Essex Co., VA) on 14 May 1686.81 He was constable in 1686.82 He was living in Sittenbourn Parish, Richmond Co., VA, by 83 1707.84 He d. between 28 Apr. and 1 Aug. 1716 85 apparently at Richmond Co., VA.86 Petty (p. 2) says about this William,

William Simms first appears in the records of Richmond County, Virginia, in 1705, when he sold land that had previously been granted to John Weire.87 William was the son of William and Mary Sims of New Kent County.88 This is the weak link in the chain, and is support[ed] largely by circumstantial evidence. In 1711 William Jr. filed a deed89 in Richmond County, granting a large piece of land to Mathew Beane, his son in law. Mathew was married to Mary Simms in 1710.90 This deed indicates then that William had children born about 1690. He mentioned another Son in Law Thomas Scott in the same deed. Thomas Sims was evidently the baby in the family. In that same deed Thomas Paty was a witness, fully 10 years prior to his daughter being married to Thomas Simms. William Jr. was then born about 1668. William Sims Sr. by all accounts was married about 1665 and had sons Thomas, William, Richard, and a daughter Amy or Anne whose christening was entered in the minutes of St. Peter's Church in New Kent County.91 William Sr.'s sister Elizabeth Langdon, referred to Amy, daughter of her brother William in her will, and Richard Sims, of Lewisham in Kent, referred 92 to the sons of his brother William as Thomas, William, and Richard. Richard of Lewisham was mistaken in his will in 1723, and referred to his brother William as deceased, and to William's son William as living, when it was just the other way around. But then in those days when communications were so bad, and long apart, it wouldn't be [surprising] in an old man thinking that it was William Sr. who died in 1716 instead of William Jr.

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• THE PURPORTED DESCENT OF THOMAS SIM(M)S OF CULPEPER CO., VIRGINIA, FROM JOHN SYMES OF BARWICK, SOMERSET, ENGLAND 1. Draft 1998.

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