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1Robert H. Fauntleroy, Fauntleroy Family, The, Microfilm published: Washington, 1952, P 24 & 87, Family History Library, 35 N West Temple Street, Salt Lake City, Utah 84150 USA, FHL 1318331 Item 3.
From Deed Book 8, page 513, Jan. 30, 1729: Jobn Foushee, of the Parish of St. Stephens in the county of Northumberland, conveys to Newman Brockenbrough, of the Parish of North Farnham, for one hundred Pounds current money of Virginia all the two tracts or parcels of land situate, lying, and being in the Parish of North Farnham, the first containing by estimation two hundred and fifty acres, which said land was purchased by the said John Foushee the 22'd day 0of July, 1717; the second containing by estimation one hundred acres, be the same more or less, beginning at the road that leads from Totuskeys Creek's mouth to Totuskev Mill in the line of John Kennedy, etc. Recorded Feb. 4, 1729-30."
"He lived most of his life on Coen River in Northumberland County. He moved in 1766 to Halifax County, where he died. He was sheriff of Northumberland County in 1755, Justice from 1750 to 1766, and captain of Virginia Militia in 1749.
1Robert H. Fauntleroy, Fauntleroy Family, The, Microfilm published: Washington, 1952, P 24 & 87, Family History Library, 35 N West Temple Street, Salt Lake City, Utah 84150 USA, FHL 1318331 Item 3.
From Deed Book 8, page 513, Jan. 30, 1729: Jobn Foushee, of the Parish of St. Stephens in the county of Northumberland, conveys to Newman Brockenbrough, of the Parish of North Farnham, for one hundred Pounds current money of Virginia all the two tracts or parcels of land situate, lying, and being in the Parish of North Farnham, the first containing by estimation two hundred and fifty acres, which said land was purchased by the said John Foushee the 22'd day 0of July, 1717; the second containing by estimation one hundred acres, be the same more or less, beginning at the road that leads from Totuskeys Creek's mouth to Totuskev Mill in the line of John Kennedy, etc. Recorded Feb. 4, 1729-30."
"He lived most of his life on Coen River in Northumberland County. He moved in 1766 to Halifax County, where he died. He was sheriff of Northumberland County in 1755, Justice from 1750 to 1766, and captain of Virginia Militia in 1749.
1Robert H. Fauntleroy, Fauntleroy Family, The, Microfilm published: Washington, 1952, P 87, Family History Library, 35 N West Temple Street, Salt Lake City, Utah 84150 USA, FHL 1318331 Item 3.
"In Richmond County, Virginia, there is a deed dated June 1699, from James Foushee, then living at a place known by the name of "Long Neck", near Totuskey Creek.
On February 6, 1711, Governor Alexander Spottswood granted letters of naturalization to James Foushee in these words: "James Foushee, a natural born subject of the French King, having settled and inhabited several years in the county of Richmond of this colony, and now having made application to me for the benefit of naturalization and before me taken the oaths prescribed by law and subscribed the test, I do therefor pursuant to the said authority declare the said James Foushee to be to all intents and purposes fully and completely naturalized. (See Fleet's Colonial Abstracts, Vol. 17, page 37.)
At a court held for Richmond County, ye 8th day of March, 1711, at the motion of James Foushee, this, his patent for naturalization, is admitted to record. Test, John Taylor, D. C. (See Order Book 6, Page
2, Richmond County, Va.)
It is not known whether James Foushee married before coming to Virginia or whether he found his wife in the colony. But his first wife was Mary (surname not ascertained), who died Oct. 8, 1724, Their children were: Charlotte, born June 5, 1692, married Daniel Tebbs of Westmoreland County. Susannah, born Dec. 12, 1695, married William Bertrand in November 1713. John, born in September 1697 died before November 1769 in Halifax County, Va., James Foushee married the second time Ruth - who survived him. The records show that by 1719 he was living in Lancaster Co. and paid tithables on three. His will is of record in Lancaster Co. in 1729. The will of his widow Ruth is dated Jan. 14, 1732, and was proved in February of the same year. There were no children by this marriage. (A copy of the two wills follows, but is omitted here. Note by R. H. F.)."
1Robert H. Fauntleroy, Fauntleroy Family, The, Microfilm published: Washington, 1952, P 24, Family History Library, 35 N West Temple Street, Salt Lake City, Utah 84150 USA, FHL 1318331 Item 3.
"he was a surgeon in the Revolution, mayor and postmaster of the city Richmond."
1Robert H. Fauntleroy, Fauntleroy Family, The, Microfilm published: Washington, 1952, P 88, Family History Library, 35 N West Temple Street, Salt Lake City, Utah 84150 USA, FHL 1318331 Item 3.
List 7 children.
1Robert H. Fauntleroy, Fauntleroy Family, The, Microfilm published: Washington, 1952, P 87, Family History Library, 35 N West Temple Street, Salt Lake City, Utah 84150 USA, FHL 1318331 Item 3.
"In Richmond County, Virginia, there is a deed dated June 1699, from James Foushee, then living at a place known by the name of "Long Neck", near Totuskey Creek.
On February 6, 1711, Governor Alexander Spottswood granted letters of naturalization to James Foushee in these words: "James Foushee, a natural born subject of the French King, having settled and inhabited several years in the county of Richmond of this colony, and now having made application to me for the benefit of naturalization and before me taken the oaths prescribed by law and subscribed the test, I do therefor pursuant to the said authority declare the said James Foushee to be to all intents and purposes fully and completely naturalized. (See Fleet's Colonial Abstracts, Vol. 17, page 37.)
At a court held for Richmond County, ye 8th day of March, 1711, at the motion of James Foushee, this, his patent for naturalization, is admitted to record. Test, John Taylor, D. C. (See Order Book 6, Page
2, Richmond County, Va.)
It is not known whether James Foushee married before coming to Virginia or whether he found his wife in the colony. But his first wife was Mary (surname not ascertained), who died Oct. 8, 1724, Their children were: Charlotte, born June 5, 1692, married Daniel Tebbs of Westmoreland County. Susannah, born Dec. 12, 1695, married William Bertrand in November 1713. John, born in September 1697 died before November 1769 in Halifax County, Va., James Foushee married the second time Ruth - who survived him. The records show that by 1719 he was living in Lancaster Co. and paid tithables on three. His will is of record in Lancaster Co. in 1729. The will of his widow Ruth is dated Jan. 14, 1732, and was proved in February of the same year. There were no children by this marriage. (A copy of the two wills follows, but is omitted here. Note by R. H. F.)."
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