Born: unknown
Died: by 1768, see deed below
Buried: unknown
Married: John Morehead in Virginia
There is speculation that she was an Armistead or a Norman. It is also possible that she was a Presley.
There was a William Presly living in Northumberland County, Virginia between 1652 and 1655. He was a member of the county court and appeared in many lawsuits, served on juries and was the church warden for Chinekahan quarter, aka Chickacoan.
She may have been a Saunders:
Gen. 1. Ebenezer Saunders md. Elizabeth Presley / Philips
Mary fits into generation 2. This marriage to Charles Nelms could mean that the Charles Nelms below is her brother-in-law or nephew, if the couple had a son named Charles.
Norman family connections:
A John Norman witnessed a deed from Mary's son William Morehead to Charles Nelms.
Norman family connections:
A John Norman witnessed a deed from Mary's son William Morehead to Charles Nelms.
Mary's sons Charles & Joseph married sisters Mary & Elizabeth Turner, daughters of James & Keren-happuch (Norman) Turner of Spotsylvania County, just below and across the Rappahannock River. Mrs. Keren-happuch Turner, born in 1733, was the daughter of a Spotsylvania planter. Isaac & Frances (Courtney) Norman, who gave her the ancient and unusual Biblical name, meaning "Hornof beauty." Mr. Norman was in that county before January 30, 1733, at which date he transferred some land and cash to his son-in-law and Keren-happuch.
The Normans came from Orchard, Somersetshire, England. There is a will of George Norman of January 13, 1675, in Anne Arundel County, Maryland. His son, George, married Anne Tolson, Cecil County, February 27, 1628; the latter owned a plantation on the James River called Norman's Pride. Isaac, son of the second George, married Frances Courtney, and was the father of Keren-happuch and of Isabel. Keren-happuch was born in 1690, and in 1710 married James Turner, son of Thomas Turner of Prince William County, clerk there in 1723, whose wife was Martha, daughter of Richard Taliaferro of Richmond County, Virginia. Isaac Norman was granted five miles of land on the Potomac River "for services to the English Government."
The marriage of Keren-happuch (Norman) Turner's two daughters to Charles and Joseph Morehead makes the connection with the Norman family.
The first record of Isaac Norman is as grantee of this tract in the original Spotsylvania County (1720) on June 30, 1726, by patent. It was a very large grant in the Great Fork of Rappahannock River, from which on April 7, four years later, namely, 1730, then in St. George parish, he sold 100 acres. The following year, on February 2, 1731, he joined his doubtless future son-in-law James Turner, of the same parish, in selling 634 acres; and two years later, January 30, 1733, he deeded a part of his homestead to the extent of 100 acres "to James Turner, my son-in-law, planter, and Keren-happuch Turner, my daughter of the said county," as a deed of gift. The first mention of Isaac's wife, Frances, and other children is on September 25, 1740, when they conveyed a part of the old homestead to "Joseph Norman, our son, of Orange County (created out of Spotsylvania in 1734), for love and affection, 100 acres, being a part of the tract which I live on." This is witnessed by other children: Courtney, Frances and Rose Norman. This Rose Norman later married William Duncan, son of William Duncan, Sr. From this naming it would seem Courtney was given his mother's maiden family name and Frances her given name. It is also known that on May 26, 1748 a John Norman lived near Isaac Norman; and on June 6 of that year, James Turner was a resident of Prince William County, Hamilton parish, when he deeded some of the land Isaac Norman had given him and his wife to Joseph Norman, and that Isaac and his wife were still living at Norman's Ford, the two homes being in what is now Culpeper and Fauquier counties, Turner in the latter.
Before turning to data on earlier Normans, it may be well to note that the will of Courtney Norman, dated March 14, 1770, and probated by his widow, Mary Norman, August 20 of the same year, mentions his children as John Courtney, Ruben, Benjamin, Amy (Murphy), and Elizabeth S. Williams, while the settlement also names Mary, Milley and Elizabeth as daughters. Joseph Norman's will, also of Culpeper County, names his wife Sarah, and children: Thomas, John, William, James and Isaac and his wife Sarah, and his grandson, Isaac. This was dated November 20, 1783, and proved February 16, 1784. In Green, Vol. II, p. 52 on Culpeper records, Mary (Dillard) is inserted after Isaac (and wife), also Winifred (Bywaters), Peggy (Calvert), Fanny and Keziah, which is no doubt more accurate.
So early as 1636 Henry Gookins received fifty acres of land for securing as settlers Peter & Mary Norman; and Daniel Gookins, the following year, brought over Austice, Peter and Henry Norman. In 1638 Dickery Norman, in 1651 Edward Norman, in 1652 Stephen Norman, in 1654 Thomas Norman and John Norman, and in 1655 Elizabeth Norman were brought in as new settlers. Some of these were men of means, probably "younger sons," for in 1657 Stephen Norman sold 1200 acres in Westmoreland. On May 29, 1678, in Middlesex County, was born to Henry and Anne Norman a daughter, Elizabeth, and on December 16, 1683, Thomas and Mary Norman had a son, Moses, born to them: and this son, Moses, and Alice Norman had a son Moses baptized on June 27, 1714; while Robert and Elizabeth Norman had a son, Thomas, born on January 9, 1723, in the same county. John Norman settled in Northumberland, where there is a record of him on August 17, 1715 as presenting a petition to the court and his will was probated May 19, 1736 and Catherine his wife, made executrix. The Normans were numerous in the county; a Mary Norman, with two daughters made a will November 21, 1766; and births of other Normans there were given as follows:
Armistead Family:
The progenitor of the family in Virginia was William Armistead, of Deighton Kirk, in the west riding of Yorkshire, England. He was the son of Anthony Armistead and Frances Thompson, and was baptized August 3, 1610, in All Saints', the only church in the parish. his name, William, suggests that she, Frances may have been the daughter of William Thompson (sometimes spelled Thomson), a lawyer living at that time in Yorkshire, one of whose sons, Stevens Thomson, emigrated to Virginia and was attorney-general. Another son, Sir William Thomson, born 1658 remained in England. . . .
Assuming that William, the emigrant, was born the year he was baptized, he was twenty-five when he emigrated to Virginia in 1635, and obtained large grants of land in Elizabeth City County and subsequently in Gloucester, which was formed from York in 1642. He died before 1660, as in that year in York County, Virginia Records, his second son, John, was heir of his elder brother, William, who died childless. He, William, the emigrant, married Anne, and had issue:
Generation 2
1. William, who in a deed recorded in Elizabeth City County, November 20, 1695, is named as his "sonne and heire," and who died without issue before 1660, when John Armistead "as heyre and one of the Executors of Mr. Wm. Armistead, made a power of attorney in York Co."
2. John, the Councillor d. before 1703, built his home Hesse, Mathews County, Virginia in 1674. In Sept. 1659 Hesse patented, 500 acres on Piankestank River. By 1797 the holding included 3,879 acres. Married Judith probably Robinson or Beverly.
Christopher Robinson's will Jan. 27, 1692-3 calls Col. John Armistead his loving brother-in-law and Judith my loving sister, Mrs. Judith Armistead.
Robert Beverly referred to John Armistead as his brother.
3. Anthony
4. Frances
Were these children born in Virginia? In 1680, forty-five years after the emigrant came to Virginia., John, his second son, is recorded as being a lieutenant-colonel of horse in Gloucester; in 1688, was in the council: Anthony, in 1680, was captain of horse in Elizabeth City County, burgess in 1696-1699. It is uncertain where to place Ralph Armistead, who, in 1678, patented forty-eight acres of land in Kingston Parish, Gloucester, for transporting one person. It would appear from the latter clause that he was an emigrant. Might he not have been a nephew of the emigrant? It is stated that the emigrant's father had other children who remained in England. . . .
Generation 3
2a. Judith, d. 1699 md. 1688 Robert Carter
2b. Elizabeth md. 1) 1687 Ralph Womeley of Rosegill & 2) William Churchill
2c. William b. ca. 1665, d. 1711 md. Anna Lee daughter of Hancock & Martha (Burwell) Lee
2d. Henry md. ca. 1701 md. Martha Burwell
3a. William md. Anne (--?--)
3b. Anthony d. 1728 md. Hannah Ellison
3c. Robert
Generation 4
2c1. John md. 1) Elizabeth Burwell & 2) Susanna Meriwether
2c2. Mary md. 1) Burwell & 2) Lightfoot
2c3. Judith md. Dudley
2c4. Anna md. Walke [not Walker]
2c5. Joyce md. Booth
2c6. Frances
2d1. William d. 1755 md. Mary Bowles, she married 2) Rev. Thomas Price
2d2. Lucy
2d3. Martha
2d4. Robert md. Elizabeth (Burgess) Ball
3a1. William
3a2. John
3a3. Anthony
3a4. Francis
3b1. William A. (82)
3b2. Anthony A. (83) md. 1) Anne (--?--) & 2) Elizabeth Westwood
3b3. Robert A. (84)
3b4. Judith A. (85)
3b5. Hannah A. (86)
Generation 5
2c1a. John md. Mary Churchill
2c1b. William
2c1c. Susanna md. Fauntleroy
2d1a. William md. 1765 Maria Carter
2d1b. John
2d1c. Bowles d. 1785 md. Mary Fontaine Winston
2d1d. Henry d. 1773
2d1e. Judith md. (--?--) Thomas
2d4a. Henry
2d4b. Thomas
2d4c. Robert
2d4d. Martha md. Dabney
3a2a. William b. 1671, d. 1711 md. Anna Lee d/o Hancock & Mary (Kendall) Lee
3b2a. Elizabeth A.
3b2b. Mary A. md. Thomas Tabb
3b2c. Westwood (172) md. Mary Jenkins
3b2d. Elizabeth md. Thomas Smith
2b2e. Mary
A possible pedigree:
Generation 1 - Roger Armistead of Armistead, Giggleswick, York, Enlgand
Generation 2
1. William A. living 1650
Generation 3
1a. Laurence A. b. 1658, d. 1742 md. 1682 Agnes d/o John Armistead
A plantation book from 1760 to 1780. It contains interesting entries in reference to: John & Henry Armistead, Nathaniel Burwell, William Byrd, John Buckner, Carter Braxton, John Carter, William Churchill, John Clayton, Hannah Churchill, John Robinson, Nath. Littleton Savage, Capt. Thomas Smith, William Shackleford, Edward Tab, Thomas Todd, Charles Tomkies, Warner Washington, Ralph Wormeley, William Nelson, Sir. John Peyton, Mann Page, William Plummer.
Records:
before 1726 - the family moved from Northumberland Co., VA to King George Co.
1742 - Sep. 10 - Hamilton Parish, Prince William Co., VA - Family living there after Lord Fairfax granted to the family.
1768 - June 22 - Mary is mentioned in her husband's will:
Hannah
Joseph
Alexander
William
Mary
Elizabeth
Samuel
Presley
Charles
John
The Normans came from Orchard, Somersetshire, England. There is a will of George Norman of January 13, 1675, in Anne Arundel County, Maryland. His son, George, married Anne Tolson, Cecil County, February 27, 1628; the latter owned a plantation on the James River called Norman's Pride. Isaac, son of the second George, married Frances Courtney, and was the father of Keren-happuch and of Isabel. Keren-happuch was born in 1690, and in 1710 married James Turner, son of Thomas Turner of Prince William County, clerk there in 1723, whose wife was Martha, daughter of Richard Taliaferro of Richmond County, Virginia. Isaac Norman was granted five miles of land on the Potomac River "for services to the English Government."
The marriage of Keren-happuch (Norman) Turner's two daughters to Charles and Joseph Morehead makes the connection with the Norman family.
The first record of Isaac Norman is as grantee of this tract in the original Spotsylvania County (1720) on June 30, 1726, by patent. It was a very large grant in the Great Fork of Rappahannock River, from which on April 7, four years later, namely, 1730, then in St. George parish, he sold 100 acres. The following year, on February 2, 1731, he joined his doubtless future son-in-law James Turner, of the same parish, in selling 634 acres; and two years later, January 30, 1733, he deeded a part of his homestead to the extent of 100 acres "to James Turner, my son-in-law, planter, and Keren-happuch Turner, my daughter of the said county," as a deed of gift. The first mention of Isaac's wife, Frances, and other children is on September 25, 1740, when they conveyed a part of the old homestead to "Joseph Norman, our son, of Orange County (created out of Spotsylvania in 1734), for love and affection, 100 acres, being a part of the tract which I live on." This is witnessed by other children: Courtney, Frances and Rose Norman. This Rose Norman later married William Duncan, son of William Duncan, Sr. From this naming it would seem Courtney was given his mother's maiden family name and Frances her given name. It is also known that on May 26, 1748 a John Norman lived near Isaac Norman; and on June 6 of that year, James Turner was a resident of Prince William County, Hamilton parish, when he deeded some of the land Isaac Norman had given him and his wife to Joseph Norman, and that Isaac and his wife were still living at Norman's Ford, the two homes being in what is now Culpeper and Fauquier counties, Turner in the latter.
Before turning to data on earlier Normans, it may be well to note that the will of Courtney Norman, dated March 14, 1770, and probated by his widow, Mary Norman, August 20 of the same year, mentions his children as John Courtney, Ruben, Benjamin, Amy (Murphy), and Elizabeth S. Williams, while the settlement also names Mary, Milley and Elizabeth as daughters. Joseph Norman's will, also of Culpeper County, names his wife Sarah, and children: Thomas, John, William, James and Isaac and his wife Sarah, and his grandson, Isaac. This was dated November 20, 1783, and proved February 16, 1784. In Green, Vol. II, p. 52 on Culpeper records, Mary (Dillard) is inserted after Isaac (and wife), also Winifred (Bywaters), Peggy (Calvert), Fanny and Keziah, which is no doubt more accurate.
So early as 1636 Henry Gookins received fifty acres of land for securing as settlers Peter & Mary Norman; and Daniel Gookins, the following year, brought over Austice, Peter and Henry Norman. In 1638 Dickery Norman, in 1651 Edward Norman, in 1652 Stephen Norman, in 1654 Thomas Norman and John Norman, and in 1655 Elizabeth Norman were brought in as new settlers. Some of these were men of means, probably "younger sons," for in 1657 Stephen Norman sold 1200 acres in Westmoreland. On May 29, 1678, in Middlesex County, was born to Henry and Anne Norman a daughter, Elizabeth, and on December 16, 1683, Thomas and Mary Norman had a son, Moses, born to them: and this son, Moses, and Alice Norman had a son Moses baptized on June 27, 1714; while Robert and Elizabeth Norman had a son, Thomas, born on January 9, 1723, in the same county. John Norman settled in Northumberland, where there is a record of him on August 17, 1715 as presenting a petition to the court and his will was probated May 19, 1736 and Catherine his wife, made executrix. The Normans were numerous in the county; a Mary Norman, with two daughters made a will November 21, 1766; and births of other Normans there were given as follows:
- John b. Nov. 7, 1708
- Elizabeth b. Jan. 10, 1718
- Thomas b. Mar. 20, 1721
- Jane b. Feb. 6, 1724
- William b. Feb. 10, 1726
- Catherine b. Jan. 1, 1729
- John b. Mar. 11, 1731
Thomas of Middlesex, in 1687, and Clement in 1756 in Prince William County, were in the militia. Among lands granted a William in 1777, received nearly 1800 acres. A William Norman, in Northumberland, seems to have died in 1738, for his estate was appraised on October 9 of that year.
[Morehead, Joseph. The Morehead Family of North Carolina & Virginia, New York: Morehead, 1921]Armistead Family:
The progenitor of the family in Virginia was William Armistead, of Deighton Kirk, in the west riding of Yorkshire, England. He was the son of Anthony Armistead and Frances Thompson, and was baptized August 3, 1610, in All Saints', the only church in the parish. his name, William, suggests that she, Frances may have been the daughter of William Thompson (sometimes spelled Thomson), a lawyer living at that time in Yorkshire, one of whose sons, Stevens Thomson, emigrated to Virginia and was attorney-general. Another son, Sir William Thomson, born 1658 remained in England. . . .
Assuming that William, the emigrant, was born the year he was baptized, he was twenty-five when he emigrated to Virginia in 1635, and obtained large grants of land in Elizabeth City County and subsequently in Gloucester, which was formed from York in 1642. He died before 1660, as in that year in York County, Virginia Records, his second son, John, was heir of his elder brother, William, who died childless. He, William, the emigrant, married Anne, and had issue:
Generation 2
1. William, who in a deed recorded in Elizabeth City County, November 20, 1695, is named as his "sonne and heire," and who died without issue before 1660, when John Armistead "as heyre and one of the Executors of Mr. Wm. Armistead, made a power of attorney in York Co."
2. John, the Councillor d. before 1703, built his home Hesse, Mathews County, Virginia in 1674. In Sept. 1659 Hesse patented, 500 acres on Piankestank River. By 1797 the holding included 3,879 acres. Married Judith probably Robinson or Beverly.
Christopher Robinson's will Jan. 27, 1692-3 calls Col. John Armistead his loving brother-in-law and Judith my loving sister, Mrs. Judith Armistead.
Robert Beverly referred to John Armistead as his brother.
3. Anthony
4. Frances
Were these children born in Virginia? In 1680, forty-five years after the emigrant came to Virginia., John, his second son, is recorded as being a lieutenant-colonel of horse in Gloucester; in 1688, was in the council: Anthony, in 1680, was captain of horse in Elizabeth City County, burgess in 1696-1699. It is uncertain where to place Ralph Armistead, who, in 1678, patented forty-eight acres of land in Kingston Parish, Gloucester, for transporting one person. It would appear from the latter clause that he was an emigrant. Might he not have been a nephew of the emigrant? It is stated that the emigrant's father had other children who remained in England. . . .
Generation 3
2a. Judith, d. 1699 md. 1688 Robert Carter
2b. Elizabeth md. 1) 1687 Ralph Womeley of Rosegill & 2) William Churchill
2c. William b. ca. 1665, d. 1711 md. Anna Lee daughter of Hancock & Martha (Burwell) Lee
2d. Henry md. ca. 1701 md. Martha Burwell
3a. William md. Anne (--?--)
3b. Anthony d. 1728 md. Hannah Ellison
3c. Robert
Generation 4
2c1. John md. 1) Elizabeth Burwell & 2) Susanna Meriwether
2c2. Mary md. 1) Burwell & 2) Lightfoot
2c3. Judith md. Dudley
2c4. Anna md. Walke [not Walker]
2c5. Joyce md. Booth
2c6. Frances
2d1. William d. 1755 md. Mary Bowles, she married 2) Rev. Thomas Price
2d2. Lucy
2d3. Martha
2d4. Robert md. Elizabeth (Burgess) Ball
3a1. William
3a2. John
3a3. Anthony
3a4. Francis
3b1. William A. (82)
3b2. Anthony A. (83) md. 1) Anne (--?--) & 2) Elizabeth Westwood
3b3. Robert A. (84)
3b4. Judith A. (85)
3b5. Hannah A. (86)
Generation 5
2c1a. John md. Mary Churchill
2c1b. William
2c1c. Susanna md. Fauntleroy
2d1a. William md. 1765 Maria Carter
2d1b. John
2d1c. Bowles d. 1785 md. Mary Fontaine Winston
2d1d. Henry d. 1773
2d1e. Judith md. (--?--) Thomas
2d4a. Henry
2d4b. Thomas
2d4c. Robert
2d4d. Martha md. Dabney
3a2a. William b. 1671, d. 1711 md. Anna Lee d/o Hancock & Mary (Kendall) Lee
3b2a. Elizabeth A.
3b2b. Mary A. md. Thomas Tabb
3b2c. Westwood (172) md. Mary Jenkins
3b2d. Elizabeth md. Thomas Smith
2b2e. Mary
A possible pedigree:
Generation 1 - Roger Armistead of Armistead, Giggleswick, York, Enlgand
Generation 2
1. William A. living 1650
Generation 3
1a. Laurence A. b. 1658, d. 1742 md. 1682 Agnes d/o John Armistead
A plantation book from 1760 to 1780. It contains interesting entries in reference to: John & Henry Armistead, Nathaniel Burwell, William Byrd, John Buckner, Carter Braxton, John Carter, William Churchill, John Clayton, Hannah Churchill, John Robinson, Nath. Littleton Savage, Capt. Thomas Smith, William Shackleford, Edward Tab, Thomas Todd, Charles Tomkies, Warner Washington, Ralph Wormeley, William Nelson, Sir. John Peyton, Mann Page, William Plummer.
Records:
before 1726 - the family moved from Northumberland Co., VA to King George Co.
1742 - Sep. 10 - Hamilton Parish, Prince William Co., VA - Family living there after Lord Fairfax granted to the family.
1768 - June 22 - Mary is mentioned in her husband's will:
Item I leave all the rest of my estate to be equally divided between my loving wife, my son Samuel and Presley Morehead and it is my desire that in case either of my sons Samuel or Presley die without heir lawfully begotten that then it be equally divided between my surviving children.1768 - Aug. 8 - Fauquier Co., VA - Mary had died before the deed of a slave was made to her son Samuel.
Conveyance from John Morehead Snr. after his decease and that of his wife, a negro girl to his son Samuel Morehead.
8 Aug. 1768 Assignment John Morehead Sr. after my death and my wife's ditto give the within named girl and increase to my loving son Samuel . . . Signed John Morehead. Wit: John Jett, William Primm, William Morehead, Rec. 24 Oct. 1768. Proved by oath of William Primm and John Jett, wits.Children:
Hannah
Joseph
Alexander
William
Mary
Elizabeth
Samuel
Presley
Charles
John
Revised 1/4/2023
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