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This will be my final posting for a while. I know- I keep saying that.Its a big one and they will probable kick me off this forum, but I couldn't sleep, so I worked myself to sleep.
In the following bit of information I have finally convinced myself of the following: John Wheate of Prince George Co.,Maryland is somehow directly related too William Wheate of Glymton,Coventry,Stratfford, and of London. The family know William Shakespear and were related indirectly to him. William Wheate of London had shares in the "Virginia Company" of London. William Barker(Capt.), Richard Quiney, John Sadler, and their Associates& Company played a big part in transporting, colonizing, and development of Prince George Co.,Maryland. The in-law names of the Wheate's of Glympton,Martin, Quiney,Kempe, and Barnaby were also in the big picture. Weather these individuals are the same family remains to be seem, but the last names are definite.
Capt Martin's original land grants became know, even to this day, as "Brandon Plantation". The historical 1600's church "Merchants Hope" was names after the ship "Merchants Hope" which was only one of the ships of Capt. William Barker that brought passengers to Maryland. I think you can see were this leads so I'll end with one final but interesting note. For those who missed my old note about Mosses Wheat of Mass:
Mosses Wheate signed the original charter for the founding of then Cambridge, now Harvard College in 163?. Look at one of the details I have listed below:
John SADLER was brother-in-law of John HARVARD (founder of Harvard College), and his sister married Richard QUINEY, whose brother was married to William SHAKESPEARE's daughter, Judith.
SO, LET ME ASK THE QUESTION AND THAN I'LL REST: DO YOU THINK MOSSES WHEATE OF MASS AT LEAST KNOW, IF NOT WAS RELATED SOMEHOW, TOO THIS PRINCE GEORGECO.,MARYLAND CLAN ABOVE?????
GOOD NIGHT,
HERB
1635 Nov 16 1250 acres formerly granted to William BARKER & Associates [I don't know when or how it was granted] was patented by William BARKER, John SADLER, Richard QUEYNING (Quiney), Merchants, & to their Associates & Company. The land was in Charles City County and was called Merchants Hope. The 1250 acres was for transporting 25 persons. A note says the patent was renewed and 600 acres added. [See the 12 Feb 1638 patent] (p 35) 2
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1638 Feb 12 William and his Associates & Co. patented 1850 acres in Chas. City Co. 600 acres formerly called Powelbrooke, now Merchants Hope, had previously been owned by Nathaniell POWELL and was later sold by his brother and heir, Thomas POWELL to John TAYLOR of London. [This was a renewal of the Nov. 1635 patent.] (p 100) 2
2 CAVALIERS AND PIONEERS, Abstracts of Virginia Land Patents
and Grants, by Nell M. Nugent, Vol. I, 1623-1666
Captain John Martin the son of Sir Richard Martin, goldsmith, of London. Anthony Bonall was probably a Frenchman, as the Virginia Company gave him two shares for his pains in securing certain vine-dressers from Languedoc to go to Virginia.
Charles Harmer was a brother of Dr. John Harmer, Greek professor at Oxford, and John Barnabe, a brother of Richard Barnabe, merchant, of London. English connections of a number of others are known.
Of those of whose origin we know nothing the following are termed "gentleman," in contemporary public records: Thomas Hothersall, Raleigh Crashaw, John Barnham, Edward Waters, Pharoah (or Farrar) Flinton, Giles Allington, John Boush, Albino Lupo, Peter and John Arundel, John Chisman, Robert Poole, John Southern, Clement Dilke, Giles Jones, Thomas Willoughby, William Perry, Robert Sweete, John Howe, Thomas Harwood, Elmer Phillips, James Davis, William Spence, Richard Brewster, William Kempe (of Hawes, Leicestershire), William Julian, John Burrows, Edward Grindon, Nathaniel Causey, William Harwood, Peter Strafferton, Richard Kingsmill (whose arms appear on his widow's tomb), Thomas Marloe or Marlott, Thomas Crispe, (of Kent), Hugh Crowder, Killibett Hitchcock, John Wilcox, John Utie, John Baynum, Anthony Burrows, William English, and Samuel Sharpe. There may, of course, have been others entitled to the designation "gentleman," whose names do not happen to appear in the scanty records of the time.
This William Kemp may be the same that, June 19,1622,London, at a Va. court brought charges against Governor Yeardley for taking land settled by the early colonist, which lay within tracts of land designed as "company lands". This same William Kemp may be the famous William Kemp of William Shakespears group of actors. He was known to be an actor,was a famous Morris dancer, comic or clown of Royal court, and wrote "Nine Daies Wonder,in 1600. Part of the reason I believe tis to be the one and the same is as follows. A William Kemp is memtioned in Richard Quiney will,posted on thre"Wheate Forum". Richard Quiney was related to William Shakespear and William Wheat. William Wheate and Richard Quiney are known "Merchant Adventures" and had shares in the "Virgina Company of London". To add a William Kemp of england came to Va. and is listed on Hotten's List. On this list are several cousins of the Wheate and Quiney family. Mush strong indirect evidence here.
Herb
Looking for information on:
William Kemp (Kempe), who is listed in "Hotten's List",settlers at "West and Sherlow hundred", in Va.,Feb. 16,1623/24. I believe this William Kempe to be the one in Richard Quiney's will. Richard Quiney and William Wheate of London were "Merchant Adventures" and related.
William Wheat esq. 02 shares entry- Nov.14,1621
"Virginia Company of London Records", by Eidlet Kingsbury,1933
Titled-"Shareholders in the Va.Co. from 1615-1623
Genealogy Gleaming in England vol. 41 pg. 53
Will of Richard Quiney of London, Aug. 16, 1655, provied Jan. 3,1656,states,"...his cousin Master William Wheat is to receive 40 shillings." he also states he is to buried at Stratford upon Avon, Warwick, England.
John SADLER was brother-in-law of John HARVARD (founder of Harvard College), and his sister married Richard QUINEY, whose brother was married to William SHAKESPEARE's daughter, Judith. John and Richard were both grocers in London, and they patented great tracts of land at Merchant's Hope and Brandon. (Intro. xxv) 2 There's much more about John SADLER & Richard QUINEY (pp 146-149) 4
4 VIRGINIA HISTORICAL GENEALOGIES, by John Bennett Boddie,
Pub. 1954, Pacific Coast Publishers, Redwood City, CA
MARTIN'S BRANDON, POWELBROOKE & MERCHANTS HOPEIn 1617 Capt. John Martin settled on the tract called Martin's Brandon. His grandson, Capt. BARGRAVE, sold it to SADLER, QUINEY, and STURGES in 1634-36.
POWELBROOKE was the land of Capt Nathaniel POWELL, who was killed (along with his wife Joyce, daughter of William TRACY) in the 1622 Indian massacre. When William BARKER and his associates acquired the property, they changed the name to Merchants Hope for Barker's ship.
William Barker, Mariner, John Sadler, & Richard Queyning [Quiney]
11/26/1635 1250 acres Charles City County
Virginia Land Patent Book 1 Page 320
Merchants & to their Associates & Company, extending into the woods from a seat or tract of land called Merchants Hope, formerly granted to said Barker, his Associates & Company Due for the transport of 25 persons:
William Barker and his Associates & Company patented 1850 acres in Charles City Co., VA 600 acres formerly called Powelbrooke, now Merchants Hope, had previously been owned by Nathaniell Powell (Powell, killed at Powellbrooke in the 1622 massacre at Jamestown) and was later sold by his brother and heir Thomas Powell to John Taylor of London (This was a renewal of the 11/1635 patent).
John Taylor, citizen and girdler of London sold in 1638, to William Barker, his interest in "Powellbrooke", which he had bought from Thomas Powell, heir and brother of Nathaniel Powell, killed at Powellbrooke in the 1622 massacre. This land was later renamed "Merchant's Hope".
In 1645, William Barker represented Charles City County to House of Burgesses in James City, Governor William Berkley in attendence. Barker was part of a group to found the parish which built Merchants Hope Church (now in Prince George Co.)
In 1616, John Martin, one of the men who arrived in 1607, was among the first to receive a permanent land grant in the Prince George area. He was granted Brandon, a vast tract of land along the James River. Martin's Brandon was later sold to three men, one of whom was Richard Quiney whose son Thomas married Judith Shakespeare, daughter of William Shakespeare. The property later passed to Nathaniel Harrison in 1720. It was at this time that Thomas Jefferson, a good friend of Harrison's son, designed the main part of the house as it stands today. Brandon remained in the Harrison family until 1926 when it passed to Robert Williams Daniel. Brandon's Palladian-style mansion and renowned gardens are home to the Daniel family today, making this state and national landmark which is still an active farming operation the longest continuous agricultural enterprise in the U.S.
Prince George is also the home of the oldest Episcopalian church still standing and still being used as a house of worship in America. Merchants Hope Church was completed in 1657 and was named after the Merchants Hope Plantation which was located west of Martin's Brandon. Even though the church has undergone renovation and restoration, it is virtually the same structure today as it was when it was built 50 years after Jamestown was settled.
Merchants Hope Church also played a part in Bacon's Rebellion. In 1676 at Jordan Point, Bacon and many outraged settlers protested against edicts of the royal governors and demanded home rule. They met at Merchants Hope Church where they signed petitions to Governor Berkeley demanding help against Indian attacks. Berkeley dismissed their petitions leaving Bacon and 211 volunteers to take matters into their own hands.
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