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Josias Fugate

Robert Davis Cl. Cur.

b. approx. 1700. d. 1757. Age 57.

A true copy THOS. New Dep. Cl.

m. Mary Martin b. 1692, d. 1755

Truly recorded according to an order of Essex Court dated ye. 11th: March, 1664

Resided in the (Peninsula of Virginia) land lying between the (Rappanhannock and Potomac Rivers) extending from

Test Francis Meriwherther Cl. Cur. Page 33.

the (Chesapeake Bay) back to the sources of the rivers in the mountains of Western Virginia. The land was called the Not in Torrence’s “Virginia Wills and Administrations.”

NORTHERN NECK OF VIRGINIA. Josias’ Will, dated March 18, 1757 and proved June 2, 1757, divided one shilling

**Married (1) 1675, James Fugett; (2) Godfrey Stanton , the son, born after the death of his father, was not entitled to any each to his sons, John, Josias, Randolph, Martin, and daughter Ann Swillavant, and the remainder of his estate to his wife legacy by his father’s will. Major George Morris, his maternal grandfather, was an early surveyor and is prominently mentioned Mary and on her death to his son Francis Fugate (King George Will Book 1:62)

in the ancient records. He patented thousands of acres of land in Rappahannock and New Kent counties. Major George Morris 6 children.

and Mr. John Long received a land patent for 1600 acres on July 29, 1667 (Land Patent Book #6, page 158). On April 1, 1685

George Morris of New Kent county conveyed his half interest in this 1600 acres to “Thomas Pettit and unto his sister Mrs.

Martin Fugate

Catherine Longe” (Rappahannock County Record Book #7, page 179).

b. 1728/1730 in Virginia,

Major George Morris was anxious to provide for Thomas Pettit, Jr. , and his half-sister Catherine Longe (born about 1668), m. ? Martin

who was a young maiden lady and styled “Mrs.” according to the custom of the day. Shortly thereafter she married Edmund died in 1803 at Russell Co.,Va.

Tunstall (1691), and secondly Captain Richard Wyatt (1698).

* Note the first name”Martin,” which would be a typical use of surname as first name, from his mother. I believe this is a Children of Catherine (Longe) and Edmund Tunstall:

mistake, and that Inez’s ancestor is John, below.

Mary Tunstall circa 1692 - married Thomas Fox

Catherine Tunstall circa 1694 married Samuel Mathews

Children:

Barbara Tunstall before 1698.

3 Francis2 FUGATE b. 1752 d. Sep 13 1781

Children of Catherine (Longe – Tunstall) and Richard Wyatt:

4 Nancy Ann FUGATE b. 1754

Thomas Wyatt

5 Benjamin FUGATE b. 1755 d. 1838

Henry Wyatt

6 Henley FUGATE b. 1761 d.bAug 1838

Susannah Wyatt married (1) Solomon Day and (2) Thomas Davis

7 Zachariah FUGATE b. 1763 d. 1838

Richard Wyatt married Sarah Overstreet and they moved to Charlotte County, VA

8 William FUGATE b. 1765 d.bMar 1808

Dorothy Pettit who married first in 1675 to James Fugett (recorded in Book D - 5; page 489 of Index to Marriages of Old 9 Colbert FUGATE b. 1766 d. Aug 1819

Rappahnnock and Essex Counties, Virginia - 1655 to 1900 by Eva Eubank Wilkerson). She married secondly Godfrey Stanton in 1711 (recorded in Land Trials book; page 489 of Index to Marriages of Old Rappahnnock and Essex Counties, Virginia - 1655

* Note the use of the name “Frances,” which would harken back to Peter’s wife’s first name. “William” will be repeated to 1900 by Eva Eubank Wilkerson). By deed dated September 1714 Godfrey Stanton and Dorothy his wife deeded 280 acres in later, as will most of the other first names.

Essex county to Thomas Wyatt “our nephew and godson, the son of Richard Wyatt and Catherine his wife of King and Queen

* John Fugate “Jr.”

county and the Parish of St. Stephens”. This instrument recites that this land is a portion of a legacy left the said Dorothy by the b. approx. 1730. d.1833. Age 103.

last will and testament of her father Thomas Pettit dated September 20, 1663.

m. Sarah Henley

Ann Games (Gaines) was given a cow by her sister Dorothy (Pettit) Fugett on December 18, 1679.

Deserted from ‘His Majestie’s Service,’ 1757

“Castlewood John.” Settled in “Moccasin Valley,” 1774. Clinch River

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