HUSBAND

link these early VA and NC Sizemore groups, and further have found no evidence that William and Martha of 1619-1626 Charles City, VA left any children. Most of this document will deal with descendants of the Sizemores who are found in Lunenburg Co, Name:

VA by 1741.

Born: 20 Jan 1700 at Cobbs Henrico Co, VA

Some researchers have theorized (and unfortunately published information on the Internet) that a William Sismore, the son of Michael and Martha Sismore, who was christened in London in 1670 and apprenticed to Francis and Elizabeth Weeks in 1685, Married: 1 Aug 1728 at Chesterfield Co, VA

came to Virginia and is the progenitor of the Virginia Sizemores. That is a theory which I certainly cannot disprove, but neither Died: 6 Sep 1757 at Cobbs Henrico Co, VA

can I find any documentation to prove it. That theory is apparently based on the following: William Sizemore was apprenticed to Francis and Elizabeth Weeks of London in 1685 Francis Weeks’, unmarried, will probated in London in 1714 mentions land on Father:

the Rappahannock River in VA The 1704/1705 Virginia Rent Roll includes Francis Weeks in Middlesex Co, VA which is on the Mother:

Rappahannock River. The 1704/1705 Virginia Rent Roll also includes a William Seamour with 236 acres in King & Queen Co, VA which borders Middlesex County. In 1708 in Middlesex Co, VA, Thomas Seamour, son of William and Joannah Seamour was m. Name:

baptized.

Born: 20 Jan 1709 at Williamsburg, James City Co, VA

To base such theory on this limited information is a “stretch”, but it is currently the best theory that we have. However, the fact that the given name Michael was non existent in the early Virginia Sizemore families has to raise a “red flag” that seriously Died: 22 Apr 1775 at Cobbs , Chesterfield Co, From Henrico , VA

questions the theory of William, son of Michael, as the progenitor of the Virginia Sizemore families.

Father:

…“Mr. Miller, the Sizemores of old man Ned was the people that was actually entitled to that money tho we all got our blanks wrong. We claimed through his descent and we ought to a claimed through her descent. We all failed to give her Indian name and Mother:

it was Aruna Hart. I suppose I had heard my grandfather G.J. Sizemore claimed the Indian Blood by his mother. He claimed her William Blackwater Bill Bolling

to be the Cherokee Indian. We are the people no doubts, but our applications was wrong I suppose. Yours Truly, Frank Sizemore”

In another letter Frank writes “Mr. Guion Miller: My kind friend, will inform you that my great grandfather sometime in the b. 1750

19th century, he married this Cherokee squaw woman. Ed Sizemore was his name and Elizabeth Hart, if mistaken not, was her m. Sarah Fugate

name….”

From: I N T R O D U C T I O N

Louannah Bolling (RED BOLLING)

b. 1780