CLAIBORNE

in of a tract of Land called ye fforest bordering uppon the cheife residence of ye Pamunkey King the most dangerous head of More About Deborah Barbara Fox:

the Indian enemy…” John West received one of the first grants issued for this purpose, 600 acres “on the east side of Felgates”.

Date born 2: 1715, King William, Virginia, USA.

“Felgates” refers to Robert Felgate’s 1632 grant of “350 acres lying at Kiskeyacke upon Pamunkey”. West sold the 600

acres, along with adjoining land, to in 1650;. It became known as the “E.D.” plantation, renamed by later owners as “Belfield”.

Died 2: 1763, Davidson, Tennessee, USA.

West subsequently patented 3300 acres at the fork of York River, at the site which eventually developed into the present-day More About Deborah Barbara Fox and Collingsworth:

town of West Point. After his death the land passed to his son and then to his grandson and to his great-grandson Charles West.

Charles West had no issue. His will (dated 28 September 1734) left the West Point estate to his mother, and after her death to Marriage 1: 1757

his first cousin Thomas West (son of his father’s brother Thomas) “and the heirs male of his body lawfully begotten, for ever…”

Marriage 2: Virginia, USA.

The entail was broken in November 1761, when a trust was established to enable 1000 acres of the land to be sold in order to purchase slaves.West patented a further 1550 acres in 1651, and 1000 acres in Gloucester County in 1654.In 1635, after the Children of Deborah Barbara Fox and Collingsworth are:

“thrusting out” of , John West was chosen as temporary replacement., and served until 1637 when Harvey was restored to his i.

, b. 19 Dec 1757, Richmond, Henrico, Virginia, USA, d. 11 Apr 1837, Nashville, Davidson, Tennessee, USA.

position. In 1640 West was ordered to England, along with three other “thrusters”, to answer charges in the . All four were eventually cleared, and returned to Virginia.John West married Anne Claiborne. The couple had one son, , who married .According ii.

Edmond Fox Collinsworth (Jr.)

to information gleaned from – John West married - Anne PERCY who was born in 1608 at Jamestown, Virginia. Her father was iii.

b. 1750, Culpepper, VA*

George PERCY -and he was married to Anne FLOYD 1607, Virginia Who was born: 4 Sep 1580, England and died in Mar 1632, England. other than this, little is known of Anne FLOYD.West’s 3000-acre land grant on the York River became the location of iv.

m. Elizabeth ? in 1779 in Culpepper, VA. Lived in KY and TN.

the present town of .He died by March 1659/1660, when the Virginia Assembly passed the following act in recognition of his v.

Served with Washington at Valley Forge and with Jackson at Battle of New Orleans. Appears in DAR records. Sold

family’s services to the colonial enterprise:

bounty land from three years’ service in Daniel Trigg’s Militia (1781). Captured during Revolution. Private. From

WHEREAS the many important favours and services rendred to the countrey of Virginia by the noble family of the West,

Culpepper, VA

predecessors to Mr. John West, their now only survivor, claim at least that a gratefull remembrance of their former merrits be

still continued to their survivor, It is ordered, That the levies of the said master West and his ffamily be remitted, and that he

vi.

*Please not that this makes no sense, if father David Edward immigrated to America in 1760. Also, why is he called

be exempted from payment thereof during life.

“Junior” if his father’s name was David?

John West

vii. William

Collinsworth

John West. He married on 1642 in West Point, Gloucester, VA, daughter of .

viii.

b. 1793, VA

More About John West and Ursula Croshaw:

ix.

m. Rachel Suthards

Marriage: 1642, West Point, Gloucester, VA.

x,

Edward Edmund Luther Collinsworth

Children of John West and Ursula Croshaw are:

xi.

b. 1832, TN

i.

, b. 1650, VA, d. 1714, VA.

xii.

m. Franky Southwood, b. 1834, d. 1873

m. Henry Fox

xiii. Sampson

Collinsworth

Henry Fox (b. 1650, d. 1714)

xiv.

b. 1869

xv.

m. Diancey Combs, daughter of William Benton Combs and Susannah Campbell

Henry Fox , was born 1650 in London, Middlesex, England, and died 1714 in King William, Virginia, USA. He married , xvi.