Samuel
Peachey
Sr. Family
England &
Virginia
Samuel
Peachey
Sr.
b. ? England
d. after 1671 Richmond Co., Virginia
m. Mary (unknown)
b.
d.
her father: unknown mother: unknown
| known children | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Samuel Peachey Jr. | b. | d. | 1m. unknown 2m. Mary Tarpley (widow of James Tarpley, dau. of James Biddlecomb) |
| William Peachey ("youngest son") |
b. | d. | m. Phoebe Smith Hodgkin Slaughter (will proved in Essex,VA , April 10, 1710), dau of Toby and Phoebe Faultleroy Smith, previous widow of William Hodgkin and later William Slaughter |
1659- Samuel
Peachey, the immigrant, was son of Robert Peachey, of Milden Hall in
Suffolk County, England, and Anne Hodgskin, his wife. As a youth he
accompanied his uncle, William Hodgskin, to Virginia in 1659. The
following letter is from the records of Richmond County, Virginia:
1671 - Old
Rappahannock/Essex Co, VA:
There are many questions
that this will brings up. Is this the same Samuel Peachey that married
for the second marriage to Mary Tarpley or was it his son, Samuel
Peachey Jr.? What is the relationship of the Greaydon and Peachey
family to William Hodgkin? If they are kin is Samuel Peachey his half
brother, uncle on his mother;s side or what?
If William Hodgkins is leaving for England why does his wife, Poebe,
seem to be staying here to inherit the property? If his brother-in-law
is Henry Smith does this mean that Poebe is a Smith?
One researcher, Janice McAlpine, provided some of the answers,
DEATH: Phoebe Smith's Will, 22 Mar 1708/9, Apr 1710, names a duaghter, Phoebe Latane, son-in-law Lewis Latane, and grandchildren Samuel Peachey, Phebe Latane, Charlotte Latane, and Henry Latane. Source: Adventurers of Purse and Person, p. 564.
Her sister, Elizabeth Smith married Edward Adcock and had children Henry and Phoebe. They are named in the following:
Essex co., Virginia, 6 September 1681. Deed of William Slaughter, for love and affection, to Henry Adcock and Phebe Adcock, son and daughter of Edward Adcock, and unto Elizabeth their mother, Sept. 6, 1681. Records of Isle of Wight, Essex, Prince Edward, Middlesex, Westmoreland, and King George Counties, Virginia (from photocopy, exact source unknown).
17 Jul 1733, Essex Co., VA. 17 Jul 1733 - John Haile Jr witnessed bond of John and Elinor Adcock unto Samuel Peachy. (John was the grandson of Elizabeth Smith, Phoebe's sister.)
PEACHEY. - Vol. III., p. 111, 209, 132. The will of Phebe Slaughter (daughter of Col. Toby Smith, of Rappahanock, and widow, first of William Hodgskin (died 1673), and second of William Slaughter) names daughter Phebe Lantane, and grandson Samuel Peachey. So that it seems William Peachey (p. 113) married Phebe Slaughter, who married subsequently Rev. Lewis Latane. (See Phebe Slaughter's will, proved in Essex, April 10, 1710; Lewis Latane's proved April 17, 1733). [Historical and Genealogical Notes, William and Mary Quarterly Historical Magazine, Vol. 5, No. 4, (Apr., 1897), pp. 275-282.]
By Mrs. Phebe
Slaughter's deposition, made July 7, 1703, Mr. William Hodgskin was her
first husband, her brother being Mr. Henry Smith [and she a daughter of
Col. Toby Smith, of Rappahannock.] That on a visit to England she saw
Mrs. Anne Peachy, mother of Mr. Sam. Peachey, and heard Mr. Hodgskin
call her "sister". That Martin Hodgskin was brother of Mr. William
Hodgskin, and Mrs. Anne Peachey was their eldest sister, and Samuel
Peachey her eldest son.
[Richmond County Miscellaneous Records 1699-1704, page 19.
Virginia Colonial Abstracts, Vol. XVI, Richmond County Records,
1692-1704 (1961), Beverly Fleet]"
Mr Edw'd Adcock
Whether or no you M'r Edward Adcock and M'r Wm Hodgkins dec'ed marrying
two sisters have not often heard the said Hodgkin owns the demandant
M'r Sam'll Peachey to be his kinsman
Answer Yes to the best of my Rememberance I did
2'dly whether or no you did not Remember that you have heard the said Hodgkins your Brother in Law declare in your heareing that the said M'r Sam'll Peachey was his owne Sisters Son
Answer I do not remember itt
3'dly whether or no you have not heard M'rs Elizabeth Dobbins say that her mother and the demandant M'r Sam'll Peacheys mother was owne sisters and that M'r Wm Hodgkins was theire Brother
Answer Yes I have [...]
The above
Interrogatories was Sworne to before us this 16th of August 1703
John Tarpley
Charles Barber
James Sherlock C1 Cur
1711, 24 June - 4 June,
1712.-
Samuel Peachey((1)), the immigrant, was justice of
Richmond Co., and in 1704 lieutenant colonel; d. about 1712 [Bellet
1157]
Peachey, Samuel. 24
June, 1711 - 4 June, 1712.
Nephews and nieces viz: the sons and
daughters of Nathaniel Peachey and
Sarah, his wife, and the sons and daughters of William
Delamore and Ann, his wife, being William and Anne named and
also the sons and daughters of
John Williams and Jane, his wife - 3 silver spoons apiece they
all
being in England, the said
spoons to have my name engraved upon them; grandson Samuel Peachy my
great silver tankard and
my sealed gold ring having both my coat of arms and the
horse I lately bought, with the Saddle and Furniture, as holsters and
Pistolls,"; and negro to Katherine
Dobbins; James
Biddlecomb, Robin Hood, Sen., William Dobbins and Charles Dobbins,
Thomas Thorne; the eldest
daughter of James Tarpley and Mary, his wife; to said grandson
all my
books; sister Jane
Wildman; gold rings to his friends
Col. Willoughby Allerton; Capt.
Daniel McCarty, and Mr.
Daniel Dobbins and Capt. Thomas Beale and their wives; to grandson
Samuel Peachy the
plantation I now live on and the plant-
Page 178.
ation that joynes upon the same which I bought of Mrs. Slaughter; to grandson Samuel all my lands and tenements; to "be sent to school and to the College of William and Mary to be improved as much as he is capable of attaining unto;". [Abstracts from Records of Richmond County, VA: Will Book No. 3; Wm. and Mary Qrtly., Vol.17-3 Transcribed by Kathy Merrill for the USGenWeb Archives Special Collections Project]
Page 179.
sented by Mrs. Mary Tarpley, and proved by John Tarpley, gent., who wrote the will by Mrs. Peachey's direction." [Abstracts from Records of Richmond County, VA: Will Book No. 3; Wm. and Mary Qrtly., Vol.17-3 Transcribed by Kathy Merrill for the USGenWeb Archives Special Collections Project / also Headley. Wills of Richmond County, Virginia, 1699-1800. page 26]
The previous will also
possess many questions. William Peachey does seem the correct age to be
Samuel Sr.'s son. In the almost thirty years after William Hopkins died
in 1671 this William Peachey could have had a daughter about that
married a Tarpley. I believe that William was of legal age at the death
of his father making him born about 1650. He doesn't seem to have had
children of his own or Mary, the daughter listed, married a Tarpley.
Mary Tarpley mentioned, may be the daughter of James.
The Lee family records
Samuel
Peachy, the father of Thos. Griffin Peachy, was son of William Peachy,
who was the son of Samuel Peachy, who was the son of Robert Peachy, of
Milden Hall, the county of Suffolk, in England, from which place the
last-named Samuel Peachy immigrated with his family to Virginia about
the latter part of the seventeenth century, and purchased lands and
settled himself on the banks of Rappahannock, in the county of
Richmond.
Winifred, the mother of Thomas Griffin,
was the eldest daughter of Thomas Griffin and Elizabeth (Lee), his wife.
(See Chapter VIII, Lee Family.)
(The
above is copied from an old bible leaf, and is the handwriting of
Thomas Griffin Peachy, the first-named, save the parts included in
brackets which are in another hand.) [Bellet 1157]
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