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Reference Information

This page contains reference information from various sources that are presented as found with no attempt to correct errors or omissions.

Click on the links below to open the respective files.

"Descendants of John Williams of Isle of Wight County, Virginia, by William M. Mann, Jr., Christmas, 1961"  is an Adobe Acrobat file of the book.  It is a standard for reference about John Williams.

The following three Word documents were provided by Dr. Bary Bascomb.  They contain inter-relating information about the descendants of John Williams and their relatives:
 
 
 

Lewis Williams - This Adobe Acrobat document contains several pages from Historical Southern Families, Volume VI, by John Bennett Broddie, concerning Lewis Williams who may have been a brother or other relative of the John Williams who died in 1691-92 as he left a bequest in his will to a grandson of this , namely John Williams, son of William Williams.  His will dated Oct. 1, 1716 and proved April 16, 1717 appears in Vol. 34, p. 68 of the N.C. Dept. of Hist. and Archives, NC Wills 1663 - 1789 and names John Williams son of William Willaims.

John Whitley - A one page Adobe Acrobat document from Historical Southern Families, Volume VI, by John Bennett Broddie concerning John Whitley who was Anne Whitley's father.

John Browne - A five page Adobe Acrobat document from Historical Southern Families, Volume VI, by John Bennett Broddie.  His son married Bridgett, a daughter of John Williams who died in 1691-92.

Moore and Penny Families - This document comes from
"Deborah  Byrd" <dwbyrd@usa.net>  October 10, 2009 and contains information on certain members of the Williams family who married into these two families.   I pointed out some errors in these documents.

 
On-line View of Land Office Grants  Click on the Images and Indexes tab. Select Virginia Land Office Patents and Grants.

 
 
Archives Deeds, Land Records & Patents
Processing - 1752-1760 ("Processioning" was the process of land owners and witnesses reconfirming the boundary lines between adjacent properties -- generally every four years).

 
 

 
 
 
 

I photographed the following document which contains information about the Williams, Philips, and Battle famillies, all ancestors of mine, while visiting my aunt Jean Holthouse Smith in July of 2009.
 
The document is displayed in a flash player that is easy to operate.  The opening view mode is "List" which means you can scroll through the pages with your scroll wheel or up and down arrows.  Click the + or - signs to enlarge or shrink the pages.  Click the square box on the top right to toggle to full screen mode for ease of reading.  Click the X on the top right to go back to the small window.

Family History From Jean 2009