Thomas Andrews Land Grant, 20 October 1704, Henrico County Patent Book 9, page 625:
To all Whereas Now know ye that I the said Fra Nicholson, Esq, Gov. Do with the advice and Consent of the Council of State accordingly Give and Grant unto Thomas Andrews a Tract of Land Containing three hund & ninety four acres lying and being in the County of Henrico on the North side of the Appomattoahs River Vis Beginning at a forked Hiccory belonging to the land of Wm. Taylor thence up the river West eighty two poles to a Corner Hiccory thence leaving the River and running North two hund thirty six poles to a Corner black Oak. Thence North East by East fifty poles to a black oak, thence North East by North thirty eight poles to a Corner white oak, thence East half South sixty poles to a Corner black Oak , Thence South by East Three fourths East two hund. Thirty six poles to a Corner pine, thence North East by East one fourth East fifty one poles to a Corner black Oak, Thence East eighty two poles to as Corner white oak, thence East by South fifty one poles to a corner Spanish Oak, thence along this line of timothy Harris South East by East seventy six poles to a corner black Oak, thence leaving his line & runneth South South East fifty six poles to a Corner black Oak and pine, thence on the Line of William Taylor North West half West thirty two poles to a Corner white Oak, thence West by North one fourth North five hund. & fourteen poles & South two hundred thirty six poles to the place it began, including the aforesaid three hund. Ninety four acres of Land, the said Land being gave unto the said Thomas Andrews by and for the importation of eight persons into this Colony whose names are to be in the record mentioned and or this patent To have & to hold and to be Yielding and paying as provided. Given under my hand & Seal of this Colony this 20th dau of October Anno Domingo 1704.
Fra. Nicholson
Examined
Thos. Andrews his patent for 394 acres of Land in Henrico County.
P. C. Thacker, Depty
John Graffen, Judith Baker, Sarah Collins, ? Collins
Eliz. Young, Eliz. Holdall?, Sarah Rawlingson, Mary Hopkins?
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Could one of the eight Thomas brought over have been his future wife? Could it have been Eliz. Young?
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October 13, 2008 Mecklenburg/Lunenburg County Tour given to William Xavier Andrews and John Early Andrews of Williamson County Tennessee by Willard Hazlewood:
Thomas' son William Sr.'s land and graveyard in Mecklenburg County - There are about 12 to 14 people out there but these are the only two with marked stones. That's William Oliver, nephew to Jones. His wife was Mary Binford. Multitudes of people from here went to Tennessee and Multitudes went to Kentucky.
The first grant for this land was 1770 to Thomas' son William Andrews. He was still here in 1767 because one of those deeds I sent you, it said of Mecklenburg County. We know he was still living in October of 1771 because [he wrote his will in 1770 but we don't know when it was filed because if it was filed it was destroyed when the courthouse burned.] Frances Clark found copies of the will somewhere or another. William Oliver is her great great granddaddy.
William Andrews applied for a grant for the 1400 acres from the colonial government. They were trying to get people to settle in here so it wasn't for any service or as an award for service. Apparently no one else had claimed it. 1755. He had to have it surveyed and then have someone take the survey to Williamsburg to have the claim filed. He had to clear 3 of each 50 acres within 3 years to be able to keep the land. By the time he came up here Henrico where they lived was Chesterfield County, because there are some Andrewses, and I worked for one at Hercules in the 1960s… Thomas' land grant actually became Chesterfield when Chesterfield was cut off from Henrico. It's called Chesterfield now. It's across the river from Petersburg, on the north side of the Appotomox River. Thomas Andrews landed in America at about the time they moved the capital from Jamestown to Williamsburg, Middle Plantation is what they called it. Williamsburg was established during the reign of William and Mary, William of Orange who was German. My Walker ancestor had a grant in __________ county in 1611 and Mary was queen at that time.
There were several areas that belonged to Andrewses around here. And my brother-in-law married a descendent (Mary Alice) from William Oliver. That house right there was built around 1900 [on Willard's property] and lightening hit it and went in on the phone lines and burnt it down. My daddy always said it was built with logs standing upright and when the weatherboarding came off you could find the hugned logs. It burned in the spring a year ago.
William Andrews' Sr's house was probably not a log house because by then they had built a few clabboard houses. That house was not painted for a long, long time and the siding is probably not the original.
There's a dam right there. The mill stood right down there and most of this part right here they'd put logs in it and braced them up. It was a grist mill. This was torn down after about 1918 because a man came down here… [pictures taken]. I know this mill was built after 1821 because there is a deed in 1821 that does not mention the mill. A deed in 1860 does. Now that's Little Beaver Pond Creek. An 1871 map of Lunenburg, the guy has got some creeks…
… there was an Elijah Andrews who I think was their son but I can't prove it. In Williamson County, I'd like you to find a Will from Benjamin Andrews and see if he mentions a son Elijah.
George Andrews is right up here. George was Ephraim's son. They didn't have middle names until about the 1840s. It was unusual for anyone to have a middle name. This went around and came back to my great granddad Hazlewood later. The Harris' who were descendants of the Andrewses. This once belonged to a John Harris whose grandmom was Drury Andrews' daughter. Of course the house has been abandoned. There's my Hazlewood cemetery right there and over there is the Harris Cemetery and somewhere in here was George's [Andrews] cemetery but it's been farmed over. I think it was over there where those trees are. George Andrews who was Ephraim's son. This house was built at the same time as William A. Andrews, Sr.'s home except they used fieldstone rather than brick for the chimney. It was built around 1750. I think a Warren probably built this house because George Andrews bought land right here from a Warren. William Sterling Andrews married John Harris' daughter. He is buried there. She's buried there with no tombstone. He's got a confederate tombstone. There were two William Sterling Andrewses and they were second cousins. One of them married into the Nash family which my mother's family comes from. He was the one who owned the mill down there.
The line runs down about half way across that field – the 400 acres. The 1400 acres is in Mecklenburg county and we are now in Lunenburg. They came together at the river [Meherrin] Now this was the mill site [on the Lunenburg side across from where John Brooks' mill was on the Mecklenburg side on one acre of the 1400 acres. In mater of fact the 1871 shows the Andrews Mill a descendent of William Sterling Andrews and the descendant's father-in law, John Harris, purchased it from …
I had never thought of that. John Brooks being next door to the Andrewses. That Ann who married William Jr. might be his daughter. [Willard to Frances Clark] I was just thinking that William the second married Ann Brooks and John Brooks lived right on the other side of the river. So there's a good chance that that's his daughter who married William the second. John Brooks purchased land from William Allen and he received it as a gift from his father-in-law Francis Ray. Brooks applied for a permit to build a mill which I've got a copy of and I'll mail it to you. Brooks built a mill on the north side of the river first and then he sold it to Pines Ingram and Pines Ingram sold the mill to Thomas Bedford. Thomas Bedford purchased 200 acres on the south side of the river from John Andrews, whose father had sold him the 200 acres prior to that. John Andrews' father was William Sr. In 1754 I believe a jury was appointed by the sheriff and they came and surveyed the site. They had to see if there was going to be any damage to the adjacent land by the dam. William Andrews' son Ibram [maybe he said Ephraim] was one member of that group so they valued the one acre of land that was going to be sold to John Brooks at 40 shillings. This was in 1754. I have a sheet of paper that is basically an environmental impact statement, it's a land condemnation and it's a permit to build a dam. This was about a third of the way from William Andrews, Sr. west boundary. But then he sold the land around that dam site to his son John up to the west boundary. He willed a third of the 400 acres on the north side of the river to his daughter who married a Granger, a third to Lucy Anna Andrews who married Peter Andrews, who was her first cousin and Abraham Andrews got the piece in the middle.
Ephraim was William Andrews' son who moved to Williamson County in 1790. I'd like to look up a will of Benjamin and you can also look up Ephraims will. He died around 1808, because they sent the Gee man and the Drumright man out there to protect George and his brothers and sisters who were still here rights there. Nevil Gee and a Drumright they were sent out there to make sure George got his money is basically what it was. Benjamin I believe he died after 1850 but his wife was still living in 1860. She was Elizabeth or Betsy Ann Hazlewood.
George Andrews whose house we just went by on the Lunenburg side was the son of Ephraim. The same Ephraim who went down to Williamson County Tennessee. George lived right there until he died. He gave the land to his son George Washington Andrews [who lived right there where George did] who gave it to his son. My great grandfather bought it in 1897, he bought that piece back. He apparently had money because when he died in 1920 some he had a lot of stock in a lot of companies, RCA, Marconi Wireless, all sorts of stuff.
I think Thomas' son Richard had a land grant in Brunswick County. I think I've got that. And that William Jr. I think that was his grandson William Jr. who was a sergeant in the Revolutionary War and got land in Brunswick County for him. Richard's grandson. But the locations is what I'm going by because Varney wound up right back there and that's where his mother because his brother William gave him his 80 acres.
Frances Clark – I go through Varney's daughter Elizabeth who married Jeremiah Gee. I then go through Permilia Lucas. Then to Henry Green Hardy. I've only proven that Varney married anybody but a Threatt and this is proven through the DAR and the Colonial Dames. We have looked for years for her first name. I've never found that he was married to a Green. You've got to remember that there was more than one Varney and you've got to watch your dates real carefully. Back in those days you named your first son after the father's father and the second son after the wife's father.
Willard - Richard's land grant was in Brunswick County and Varney ended up where William A Sr. and William A . Jr.'s land was in Mecklenburg County so that indicates that these where his father and grandfather. He died before William the first wrote his will in 1770. We know that William Andrews the second had a son named Varney because William Andrews the first named Varney in his will. And then in 1773 Varney and his brother Ephraim were bound out by the church in Mecklenburg County.
From: c. w. hazlewod
Sent: Wednesday, October 15, 2008 8:27 AM
The mill that Andrews and Harris owned was sold to them by Joseph Warren in 1860. It is located about 1/2 mile northwest of John Brook's Mill. It was sold in the late 1870's to Henderson L Lee, who sold it to Robert R. Hazlewood (my great grandfather) in 1897. He sold it to A. W. Hankley in 1914-15. There was only a ford in the river near Brooks' Mill, so someone built the one on the northside of the river. It was not on a Deed to Benjamin Gee in 1821, so it must have been built after that time. I am still looking for more information on it. Wiliam S. Andrews married Virginia E. Harris, She was the daughter of John and Ann C. Harris, who was the son of Wilson Harris and Elizabeth Andrews. Her father was Drury Andrews and his father was John Harriss.
Larry Wells is the man who lives in Lewisburg at 2091 Spring Place Rd. 351-359-7510. His 2x GGF moved from Mecklenburg to Maury ca 1818. They lived about 10 miles upriver from the Andrews. His and my 3X GGF moved first to Lunenburg from Dinwiddie, by the early 1760's and I believe he may have been a miller or a milwright, as he always lived within 1/2 mile of a mill.
Elisha Andrews is the man who I think stayed here when his family moved to Wiliamson after 1816, as when he was married Daniel Hazlewood Jr. was his marriage bond. His parents were Benjamin Andrews and Elizabeth(Betsy) Ann Hazlewood Andrews. She was my 3X GGF's sister. She is listed in the 1860 Williamson County Census as 81 years old. According to my figues, Elisha was born in 1897, so he would have been about 20 years old when his parents left. I would like to see if anyone could find a Will from either Benjamin or Betsy Ann that would name their children. If that were correct it would tie in another whole hedge row.
Gotta go, Y'all have a good day.
Willard
From: c. w. hazlewod
Sent: Thursday, October 16, 2008 7:48 AM
The land Thomas had in Henrico which became Chesterfield was located on the north side of the Appomattox River just to the west of Colonial Heights, was still in the Andrews family as late as the 1970's.
I also worked with an Andrews at Hercules Powder Co in 1950-62. don't remember what his name was though.
On the Mecklenburg land, William had sold or given at least half of the 1400 acres before his death He also willed to Ann Brooks 280 acres. Benjamin was the son of Abraham, who married the Hazlewood and sold the land to Varney before he went to TN. The land Wm sold to his son John was later sold to Thomas Bedford. The land sold to Rowland Andrews was later sold to Silvanus Walker, my 5X GGF, and some of the grant land was sold to John Smith, another 4X GGF. Some of those deeds I sent you would have this info on them. I am not positive that Varney owned the land near the graveyard, but will to find out when I go to Mecklenburg CH.
Willard
From: c. w. hazlewod
Sent: Friday, September 26, 2008 8:04 PM
Subject: Re: Andrews Connections
The will I have is William, son of Thomas, dated May 22, 1770, which is the same as on page 3 of the info you sent me. My 5X great grandfather is the Abraham or Abram who inherited the 133 acres between Winifred Grainger and Lucy Andrews, who married an Andrews, supposedly the son of William's, who also came into this area about the time William did. I may have a land grant for him. I will have to check later.
I have copies of a lot of the land transactions in both Mecklenburg & Lunenburg Counties from William and his children.
I believe that Benjamin Andrews may have been the son of Abraham 1,and before he moved to TN he sold land in Mecklenburg to Varney Andrews in 1816. This Benjamin married my 3X greatgrandfathers sister Elizabeth (Betsey) Ann Hazlewood.
Willard
From Ruth Vreeland, July 17, 2007:
A member of the Andrews family in Tennessee just recently sent my parents the following, out of the blue. It must relate to my family or this distant cousin wouldn't have sent it to my parents! My father, Joseph E. Andrews, is the great-great-grandson of one Dr. Franklin (Francis) Andrews, born in Kentucky in 1830, and dying in Arkansas in 1922. He was a surgeon in the Civil War. We have no other information about him, other than that he married Mary Young and they had the following children in or near Dover, Tenn: James Henry, Annie, Samuel, Belle, Molly and Johnny (later Mayor of Hope, Arkansas during the 1940's.) I have posted here before regarding this family and have never received any information.
Anyway, here is the writing sent to my parents, authored by James David Andrews in 1928 [James David Andrews is the father of General Frank Maxwell Andrews after whom Andrews Air Force Base near Washington, D.C. is named].
The Andrews Family
In the year of 1690, William Andrews, who was related to Lancelot Andrews, Bishop of London, England, was a merchant in London. William and Thomas were twins and died at the age of two years. His other two sons were given the same name as their two deceased brothers. When they became twenty-three years of age, and twenty-five years respectively, they came to America and located in the state of Virginia, then a Colony.
It is the Thomas Andrews (of Virginia) branch of the family that is the subject of this sketch. He had two sons, William and John.
William was twice married, and was the father of eight children, William, John, Thomas, Winifred, Abram, Lucy, Ephram and Richard.
William Andrews, Jr. served in the American Revolution as Sergeant in the Continental Army, and was awarded a grant of land of two hundred acres of land for his services as shown by Book No. 2 at page 57 in the Office of the Secretary of State of Commonwealth of Virginia, which are in the records of Brunswick County, Virginia. He was married to Ann Brooks, and their children were: Ephraim, David, William and Henry.
David Andrews, son of William Andrews, Jr., was born about 1765 and married Elizabeth King, October 29, 1787, Brunswick County, Virginia, and then removed to North Carolina and in 1815 removed to Tennessee, first locating in Sumner County and later settling in Stewart County. his children were David, William, Drewry, James, Ben, Polly (Mary), and Henry.
David Andrews, Jr. was born in Virginia in 1793, when he removed to Tennessee with his father. He did not go to Stewart County but went to Giles County to reside. There in 1820 he married Eliza Brown, daughter of Davis Brown. She was born in Brunswick County, Virginia in 1798, and removed to Giles in 1813 with her father, where she died in 1857. David Andrews, her husband, died in Birmingham, Alabama and was buried there.
Children of David Andrews and Eliza Brown Andrews were George W., James David, David Brown, Henry, Beverly Green, William Thomas, Amanda, Ellen, Martha and Sara.
William Thomas Andrews was born in Alabama Sept. 28, 1838, married Eliza Catherine Stevenson, Giles County, Tennessee, Nove. 30th, 1856. Their children were James David, John Beverly, Charles Fletcher, William Brown, Milton, and Ola. W.T. Andrews and wife both died in Birmingham, Alabama and are buried there.
James David Andrews, born Sept. 8, 1857, married Lula Maxwell October 17, 1882. Their children: Frank Maxwell, James David, William Valery, Lea Craighead, and Josephine.
Ben Andrews, son of David Andrews, Sr. was married in Stewart County, Tennessee and resided there until his death. His children were Jane, Sara and William.
Henry Andrews, son of David Andrews, Sr. married Rebecca Sexton in Stewart County and settled on a farm near Dover; their children were Emma, Mary, Pinkney, Eliza, Joiner, Missouri, and Marion R.
Marion R. Andrews married Emma McGee. He and his sister Eliza Cole now reside on the farm which their father settled and died.
C. Pinkney (Pink) Andrews, born in Stewart County, Oct. 8, 1836, married Maria Elizabeth Laurie, Jan. 2, 1873, at Paducah, Ky. Lived in Bells, Tennessee.
The authority for the compilation of the above data was derived from sundry sources, with satisfactory warrant for its correctness.
James David Andrews -- Nashville, Tennessee, Sept. 8, 1928
Thomas ANDREWS was b. 1663 in Bristol, England and came to America on the ship RICHARD and ELZABETH when he was 22 yrs. of age. He arrived "within the capes of Virginia," on 27 Jan. 1685, under Captain Williams. No name for his wife has been found, but he left 5 sons and 3 daughters whose names appear in the Vestry Book on Bristol's Register for the years 1720-1736 (pgs. 276-277.) His will is recorded April 21, 1731 in Vol. 3 Deeds, Wills of Henrico Co. VA. 1727-1737.
The will I have for Thomas (our lst ancestor in America,) as follows:
In the name of God, Amen, the 21st April 1731, I, Thomas ANDREWS, living in Bristol Parish, Henrico County, being weak of body but of sound mind and perfect memory, thanks be given to God, do make and authorize my last will and testament in manner and form following. I bequeath my soul into the hands of God who gave it, and my body to be decently buried at the discretion of my executrix. I give and bequeath to my son Thomas ANDREWS 100 acres of land more or less where he now lives, beginning at a corner pine from there to a black oak corner, below the road. To him the said Thomas ANDREWS, his heirs and assigns forever. Item: I give to my son Richard ANDREWS 100 acres of land more or less where he now lives beginning at a corner oak and to the corner back by the road. To him the said Richard, his heirs and assigns forever. Item: I give to my son Benjamin ANDREWS one cow and calf to be paid by my executrix. Item: I give to my daughter Donna one shilling. Item: I give to my daughter Ann GRANGER one shilling. Item: I give to daughter Amey one shilling. I give to my son John ANDREWS one ( ?illegible?) and I give and bequeath to John the plantation where I now live, with the horses and mules belonging to him the said John ANDREWS, his heirs and assigns forever. And I do hereby will, make, ordain and appoint my said (son) John ANDREWS my full and sole executrix. I have hereunto set my hand and seal this the day and year written above.
To all Whereas Now know ye that I the said Fra Nicholson, Esq, Gov. Do with the advice and Consent of the Council of State accordingly Give and Grant unto Thomas Andrews a Tract of Land Containing three hund & ninety four acres lying and being in the County of Henrico on the North side of the Appomattoahs River Vis Beginning at a forked Hiccory belonging to the land of Wm. Taylor thence up the river West eighty two poles to a Corner Hiccory thence leaving the River and running North two hund thirty six poles to a Corner black Oak. Thence North East by East fifty poles to a black oak, thence North East by North thirty eight poles to a Corner white oak, thence East half South sixty poles to a Corner black Oak , Thence South by East Three fourths East two hund. Thirty six poles to a Corner pine, thence North East by East one fourth East fifty one poles to a Corner black Oak, Thence East eighty two poles to as Corner white oak, thence East by South fifty one poles to a corner Spanish Oak, thence along this line of timothy Harris South East by East seventy six poles to a corner black Oak, thence leaving his line & runneth South South East fifty six poles to a Corner black Oak and pine, thence on the Line of William Taylor North West half West thirty two poles to a Corner white Oak, thence West by North one fourth North five hund. & fourteen poles & South two hundred thirty six poles to the place it began, including the aforesaid three hund. Ninety four acres of Land, the said Land being gave unto the said Thomas Andrews by and for the importation of eight persons into this Colony whose names are to be in the record mentioned and or this patent To have & to hold and to be Yielding and paying as provided. Given under my hand & Seal of this Colony this 20th dau of October Anno Domingo 1704.
Fra. Nicholson
Examined
Thos. Andrews his patent for 394 acres of Land in Henrico County.
P. C. Thacker, Depty
John Graffen, Judith Baker, Sarah Collins, ? Collins
Eliz. Young, Eliz. Holdall?, Sarah Rawlingson, Mary Hopkins?
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Could one of the eight Thomas brought over have been his future wife? Could it have been Eliz. Young?
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October 13, 2008 Mecklenburg/Lunenburg County Tour given to William Xavier Andrews and John Early Andrews of Williamson County Tennessee by Willard Hazlewood:
Thomas' son William Sr.'s land and graveyard in Mecklenburg County - There are about 12 to 14 people out there but these are the only two with marked stones. That's William Oliver, nephew to Jones. His wife was Mary Binford. Multitudes of people from here went to Tennessee and Multitudes went to Kentucky.
The first grant for this land was 1770 to Thomas' son William Andrews. He was still here in 1767 because one of those deeds I sent you, it said of Mecklenburg County. We know he was still living in October of 1771 because [he wrote his will in 1770 but we don't know when it was filed because if it was filed it was destroyed when the courthouse burned.] Frances Clark found copies of the will somewhere or another. William Oliver is her great great granddaddy.
William Andrews applied for a grant for the 1400 acres from the colonial government. They were trying to get people to settle in here so it wasn't for any service or as an award for service. Apparently no one else had claimed it. 1755. He had to have it surveyed and then have someone take the survey to Williamsburg to have the claim filed. He had to clear 3 of each 50 acres within 3 years to be able to keep the land. By the time he came up here Henrico where they lived was Chesterfield County, because there are some Andrewses, and I worked for one at Hercules in the 1960s… Thomas' land grant actually became Chesterfield when Chesterfield was cut off from Henrico. It's called Chesterfield now. It's across the river from Petersburg, on the north side of the Appotomox River. Thomas Andrews landed in America at about the time they moved the capital from Jamestown to Williamsburg, Middle Plantation is what they called it. Williamsburg was established during the reign of William and Mary, William of Orange who was German. My Walker ancestor had a grant in __________ county in 1611 and Mary was queen at that time.
There were several areas that belonged to Andrewses around here. And my brother-in-law married a descendent (Mary Alice) from William Oliver. That house right there was built around 1900 [on Willard's property] and lightening hit it and went in on the phone lines and burnt it down. My daddy always said it was built with logs standing upright and when the weatherboarding came off you could find the hugned logs. It burned in the spring a year ago.
William Andrews' Sr's house was probably not a log house because by then they had built a few clabboard houses. That house was not painted for a long, long time and the siding is probably not the original.
There's a dam right there. The mill stood right down there and most of this part right here they'd put logs in it and braced them up. It was a grist mill. This was torn down after about 1918 because a man came down here… [pictures taken]. I know this mill was built after 1821 because there is a deed in 1821 that does not mention the mill. A deed in 1860 does. Now that's Little Beaver Pond Creek. An 1871 map of Lunenburg, the guy has got some creeks…
… there was an Elijah Andrews who I think was their son but I can't prove it. In Williamson County, I'd like you to find a Will from Benjamin Andrews and see if he mentions a son Elijah.
George Andrews is right up here. George was Ephraim's son. They didn't have middle names until about the 1840s. It was unusual for anyone to have a middle name. This went around and came back to my great granddad Hazlewood later. The Harris' who were descendants of the Andrewses. This once belonged to a John Harris whose grandmom was Drury Andrews' daughter. Of course the house has been abandoned. There's my Hazlewood cemetery right there and over there is the Harris Cemetery and somewhere in here was George's [Andrews] cemetery but it's been farmed over. I think it was over there where those trees are. George Andrews who was Ephraim's son. This house was built at the same time as William A. Andrews, Sr.'s home except they used fieldstone rather than brick for the chimney. It was built around 1750. I think a Warren probably built this house because George Andrews bought land right here from a Warren. William Sterling Andrews married John Harris' daughter. He is buried there. She's buried there with no tombstone. He's got a confederate tombstone. There were two William Sterling Andrewses and they were second cousins. One of them married into the Nash family which my mother's family comes from. He was the one who owned the mill down there.
The line runs down about half way across that field – the 400 acres. The 1400 acres is in Mecklenburg county and we are now in Lunenburg. They came together at the river [Meherrin] Now this was the mill site [on the Lunenburg side across from where John Brooks' mill was on the Mecklenburg side on one acre of the 1400 acres. In mater of fact the 1871 shows the Andrews Mill a descendent of William Sterling Andrews and the descendant's father-in law, John Harris, purchased it from …
I had never thought of that. John Brooks being next door to the Andrewses. That Ann who married William Jr. might be his daughter. [Willard to Frances Clark] I was just thinking that William the second married Ann Brooks and John Brooks lived right on the other side of the river. So there's a good chance that that's his daughter who married William the second. John Brooks purchased land from William Allen and he received it as a gift from his father-in-law Francis Ray. Brooks applied for a permit to build a mill which I've got a copy of and I'll mail it to you. Brooks built a mill on the north side of the river first and then he sold it to Pines Ingram and Pines Ingram sold the mill to Thomas Bedford. Thomas Bedford purchased 200 acres on the south side of the river from John Andrews, whose father had sold him the 200 acres prior to that. John Andrews' father was William Sr. In 1754 I believe a jury was appointed by the sheriff and they came and surveyed the site. They had to see if there was going to be any damage to the adjacent land by the dam. William Andrews' son Ibram [maybe he said Ephraim] was one member of that group so they valued the one acre of land that was going to be sold to John Brooks at 40 shillings. This was in 1754. I have a sheet of paper that is basically an environmental impact statement, it's a land condemnation and it's a permit to build a dam. This was about a third of the way from William Andrews, Sr. west boundary. But then he sold the land around that dam site to his son John up to the west boundary. He willed a third of the 400 acres on the north side of the river to his daughter who married a Granger, a third to Lucy Anna Andrews who married Peter Andrews, who was her first cousin and Abraham Andrews got the piece in the middle.
Ephraim was William Andrews' son who moved to Williamson County in 1790. I'd like to look up a will of Benjamin and you can also look up Ephraims will. He died around 1808, because they sent the Gee man and the Drumright man out there to protect George and his brothers and sisters who were still here rights there. Nevil Gee and a Drumright they were sent out there to make sure George got his money is basically what it was. Benjamin I believe he died after 1850 but his wife was still living in 1860. She was Elizabeth or Betsy Ann Hazlewood.
George Andrews whose house we just went by on the Lunenburg side was the son of Ephraim. The same Ephraim who went down to Williamson County Tennessee. George lived right there until he died. He gave the land to his son George Washington Andrews [who lived right there where George did] who gave it to his son. My great grandfather bought it in 1897, he bought that piece back. He apparently had money because when he died in 1920 some he had a lot of stock in a lot of companies, RCA, Marconi Wireless, all sorts of stuff.
I think Thomas' son Richard had a land grant in Brunswick County. I think I've got that. And that William Jr. I think that was his grandson William Jr. who was a sergeant in the Revolutionary War and got land in Brunswick County for him. Richard's grandson. But the locations is what I'm going by because Varney wound up right back there and that's where his mother because his brother William gave him his 80 acres.
Frances Clark – I go through Varney's daughter Elizabeth who married Jeremiah Gee. I then go through Permilia Lucas. Then to Henry Green Hardy. I've only proven that Varney married anybody but a Threatt and this is proven through the DAR and the Colonial Dames. We have looked for years for her first name. I've never found that he was married to a Green. You've got to remember that there was more than one Varney and you've got to watch your dates real carefully. Back in those days you named your first son after the father's father and the second son after the wife's father.
Willard - Richard's land grant was in Brunswick County and Varney ended up where William A Sr. and William A . Jr.'s land was in Mecklenburg County so that indicates that these where his father and grandfather. He died before William the first wrote his will in 1770. We know that William Andrews the second had a son named Varney because William Andrews the first named Varney in his will. And then in 1773 Varney and his brother Ephraim were bound out by the church in Mecklenburg County.
From: c. w. hazlewod
Sent: Wednesday, October 15, 2008 8:27 AM
The mill that Andrews and Harris owned was sold to them by Joseph Warren in 1860. It is located about 1/2 mile northwest of John Brook's Mill. It was sold in the late 1870's to Henderson L Lee, who sold it to Robert R. Hazlewood (my great grandfather) in 1897. He sold it to A. W. Hankley in 1914-15. There was only a ford in the river near Brooks' Mill, so someone built the one on the northside of the river. It was not on a Deed to Benjamin Gee in 1821, so it must have been built after that time. I am still looking for more information on it. Wiliam S. Andrews married Virginia E. Harris, She was the daughter of John and Ann C. Harris, who was the son of Wilson Harris and Elizabeth Andrews. Her father was Drury Andrews and his father was John Harriss.
Larry Wells is the man who lives in Lewisburg at 2091 Spring Place Rd. 351-359-7510. His 2x GGF moved from Mecklenburg to Maury ca 1818. They lived about 10 miles upriver from the Andrews. His and my 3X GGF moved first to Lunenburg from Dinwiddie, by the early 1760's and I believe he may have been a miller or a milwright, as he always lived within 1/2 mile of a mill.
Elisha Andrews is the man who I think stayed here when his family moved to Wiliamson after 1816, as when he was married Daniel Hazlewood Jr. was his marriage bond. His parents were Benjamin Andrews and Elizabeth(Betsy) Ann Hazlewood Andrews. She was my 3X GGF's sister. She is listed in the 1860 Williamson County Census as 81 years old. According to my figues, Elisha was born in 1897, so he would have been about 20 years old when his parents left. I would like to see if anyone could find a Will from either Benjamin or Betsy Ann that would name their children. If that were correct it would tie in another whole hedge row.
Gotta go, Y'all have a good day.
Willard
From: c. w. hazlewod
Sent: Thursday, October 16, 2008 7:48 AM
The land Thomas had in Henrico which became Chesterfield was located on the north side of the Appomattox River just to the west of Colonial Heights, was still in the Andrews family as late as the 1970's.
I also worked with an Andrews at Hercules Powder Co in 1950-62. don't remember what his name was though.
On the Mecklenburg land, William had sold or given at least half of the 1400 acres before his death He also willed to Ann Brooks 280 acres. Benjamin was the son of Abraham, who married the Hazlewood and sold the land to Varney before he went to TN. The land Wm sold to his son John was later sold to Thomas Bedford. The land sold to Rowland Andrews was later sold to Silvanus Walker, my 5X GGF, and some of the grant land was sold to John Smith, another 4X GGF. Some of those deeds I sent you would have this info on them. I am not positive that Varney owned the land near the graveyard, but will to find out when I go to Mecklenburg CH.
Willard
From: c. w. hazlewod
Sent: Friday, September 26, 2008 8:04 PM
Subject: Re: Andrews Connections
The will I have is William, son of Thomas, dated May 22, 1770, which is the same as on page 3 of the info you sent me. My 5X great grandfather is the Abraham or Abram who inherited the 133 acres between Winifred Grainger and Lucy Andrews, who married an Andrews, supposedly the son of William's, who also came into this area about the time William did. I may have a land grant for him. I will have to check later.
I have copies of a lot of the land transactions in both Mecklenburg & Lunenburg Counties from William and his children.
I believe that Benjamin Andrews may have been the son of Abraham 1,and before he moved to TN he sold land in Mecklenburg to Varney Andrews in 1816. This Benjamin married my 3X greatgrandfathers sister Elizabeth (Betsey) Ann Hazlewood.
Willard
From Ruth Vreeland, July 17, 2007:
A member of the Andrews family in Tennessee just recently sent my parents the following, out of the blue. It must relate to my family or this distant cousin wouldn't have sent it to my parents! My father, Joseph E. Andrews, is the great-great-grandson of one Dr. Franklin (Francis) Andrews, born in Kentucky in 1830, and dying in Arkansas in 1922. He was a surgeon in the Civil War. We have no other information about him, other than that he married Mary Young and they had the following children in or near Dover, Tenn: James Henry, Annie, Samuel, Belle, Molly and Johnny (later Mayor of Hope, Arkansas during the 1940's.) I have posted here before regarding this family and have never received any information.
Anyway, here is the writing sent to my parents, authored by James David Andrews in 1928 [James David Andrews is the father of General Frank Maxwell Andrews after whom Andrews Air Force Base near Washington, D.C. is named].
The Andrews Family
In the year of 1690, William Andrews, who was related to Lancelot Andrews, Bishop of London, England, was a merchant in London. William and Thomas were twins and died at the age of two years. His other two sons were given the same name as their two deceased brothers. When they became twenty-three years of age, and twenty-five years respectively, they came to America and located in the state of Virginia, then a Colony.
It is the Thomas Andrews (of Virginia) branch of the family that is the subject of this sketch. He had two sons, William and John.
William was twice married, and was the father of eight children, William, John, Thomas, Winifred, Abram, Lucy, Ephram and Richard.
William Andrews, Jr. served in the American Revolution as Sergeant in the Continental Army, and was awarded a grant of land of two hundred acres of land for his services as shown by Book No. 2 at page 57 in the Office of the Secretary of State of Commonwealth of Virginia, which are in the records of Brunswick County, Virginia. He was married to Ann Brooks, and their children were: Ephraim, David, William and Henry.
David Andrews, son of William Andrews, Jr., was born about 1765 and married Elizabeth King, October 29, 1787, Brunswick County, Virginia, and then removed to North Carolina and in 1815 removed to Tennessee, first locating in Sumner County and later settling in Stewart County. his children were David, William, Drewry, James, Ben, Polly (Mary), and Henry.
David Andrews, Jr. was born in Virginia in 1793, when he removed to Tennessee with his father. He did not go to Stewart County but went to Giles County to reside. There in 1820 he married Eliza Brown, daughter of Davis Brown. She was born in Brunswick County, Virginia in 1798, and removed to Giles in 1813 with her father, where she died in 1857. David Andrews, her husband, died in Birmingham, Alabama and was buried there.
Children of David Andrews and Eliza Brown Andrews were George W., James David, David Brown, Henry, Beverly Green, William Thomas, Amanda, Ellen, Martha and Sara.
William Thomas Andrews was born in Alabama Sept. 28, 1838, married Eliza Catherine Stevenson, Giles County, Tennessee, Nove. 30th, 1856. Their children were James David, John Beverly, Charles Fletcher, William Brown, Milton, and Ola. W.T. Andrews and wife both died in Birmingham, Alabama and are buried there.
James David Andrews, born Sept. 8, 1857, married Lula Maxwell October 17, 1882. Their children: Frank Maxwell, James David, William Valery, Lea Craighead, and Josephine.
Ben Andrews, son of David Andrews, Sr. was married in Stewart County, Tennessee and resided there until his death. His children were Jane, Sara and William.
Henry Andrews, son of David Andrews, Sr. married Rebecca Sexton in Stewart County and settled on a farm near Dover; their children were Emma, Mary, Pinkney, Eliza, Joiner, Missouri, and Marion R.
Marion R. Andrews married Emma McGee. He and his sister Eliza Cole now reside on the farm which their father settled and died.
C. Pinkney (Pink) Andrews, born in Stewart County, Oct. 8, 1836, married Maria Elizabeth Laurie, Jan. 2, 1873, at Paducah, Ky. Lived in Bells, Tennessee.
The authority for the compilation of the above data was derived from sundry sources, with satisfactory warrant for its correctness.
James David Andrews -- Nashville, Tennessee, Sept. 8, 1928
Thomas ANDREWS was b. 1663 in Bristol, England and came to America on the ship RICHARD and ELZABETH when he was 22 yrs. of age. He arrived "within the capes of Virginia," on 27 Jan. 1685, under Captain Williams. No name for his wife has been found, but he left 5 sons and 3 daughters whose names appear in the Vestry Book on Bristol's Register for the years 1720-1736 (pgs. 276-277.) His will is recorded April 21, 1731 in Vol. 3 Deeds, Wills of Henrico Co. VA. 1727-1737.
The will I have for Thomas (our lst ancestor in America,) as follows:
In the name of God, Amen, the 21st April 1731, I, Thomas ANDREWS, living in Bristol Parish, Henrico County, being weak of body but of sound mind and perfect memory, thanks be given to God, do make and authorize my last will and testament in manner and form following. I bequeath my soul into the hands of God who gave it, and my body to be decently buried at the discretion of my executrix. I give and bequeath to my son Thomas ANDREWS 100 acres of land more or less where he now lives, beginning at a corner pine from there to a black oak corner, below the road. To him the said Thomas ANDREWS, his heirs and assigns forever. Item: I give to my son Richard ANDREWS 100 acres of land more or less where he now lives beginning at a corner oak and to the corner back by the road. To him the said Richard, his heirs and assigns forever. Item: I give to my son Benjamin ANDREWS one cow and calf to be paid by my executrix. Item: I give to my daughter Donna one shilling. Item: I give to my daughter Ann GRANGER one shilling. Item: I give to daughter Amey one shilling. I give to my son John ANDREWS one ( ?illegible?) and I give and bequeath to John the plantation where I now live, with the horses and mules belonging to him the said John ANDREWS, his heirs and assigns forever. And I do hereby will, make, ordain and appoint my said (son) John ANDREWS my full and sole executrix. I have hereunto set my hand and seal this the day and year written above.
Thomas Andrews Land Grant, 20 October 1704, Henrico County Patent Book 9, page 625:
To all Whereas Now know ye that I the said Fra Nicholson, Esq, Gov. Do with the advice and Consent of the Council of State accordingly Give and Grant unto Thomas Andrews a Tract of Land Containing three hund & ninety four acres lying and being in the County of Henrico on the North side of the Appomattoahs River Vis Beginning at a forked Hiccory belonging to the land of Wm. Taylor thence up the river West eighty two poles to a Corner Hiccory thence leaving the River and running North two hund thirty six poles to a Corner black Oak. Thence North East by East fifty poles to a black oak, thence North East by North thirty eight poles to a Corner white oak, thence East half South sixty poles to a Corner black Oak , Thence South by East Three fourths East two hund. Thirty six poles to a Corner pine, thence North East by East one fourth East fifty one poles to a Corner black Oak, Thence East eighty two poles to as Corner white oak, thence East by South fifty one poles to a corner Spanish Oak, thence along this line of timothy Harris South East by East seventy six poles to a corner black Oak, thence leaving his line & runneth South South East fifty six poles to a Corner black Oak and pine, thence on the Line of William Taylor North West half West thirty two poles to a Corner white Oak, thence West by North one fourth North five hund. & fourteen poles & South two hundred thirty six poles to the place it began, including the aforesaid three hund. Ninety four acres of Land, the said Land being gave unto the said Thomas Andrews by and for the importation of eight persons into this Colony whose names are to be in the record mentioned and or this patent To have & to hold and to be Yielding and paying as provided. Given under my hand & Seal of this Colony this 20th dau of October Anno Domingo 1704.
Fra. Nicholson
Examined
Thos. Andrews his patent for 394 acres of Land in Henrico County.
P. C. Thacker, Depty
John Graffen, Judith Baker, Sarah Collins, ? Collins
Eliz. Young, Eliz. Holdall?, Sarah Rawlingson, Mary Hopkins?
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Could one of the eight Thomas brought over have been his future wife? Could it have been Eliz. Young?
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October 13, 2008 Mecklenburg/Lunenburg County Tour given to William Xavier Andrews and John Early Andrews of Williamson County Tennessee by Willard Hazlewood:
Thomas' son William Sr.'s land and graveyard in Mecklenburg County - There are about 12 to 14 people out there but these are the only two with marked stones. That's William Oliver, nephew to Jones. His wife was Mary Binford. Multitudes of people from here went to Tennessee and Multitudes went to Kentucky.
The first grant for this land was 1770 to Thomas' son William Andrews. He was still here in 1767 because one of those deeds I sent you, it said of Mecklenburg County. We know he was still living in October of 1771 because [he wrote his will in 1770 but we don't know when it was filed because if it was filed it was destroyed when the courthouse burned.] Frances Clark found copies of the will somewhere or another. William Oliver is her great great granddaddy.
William Andrews applied for a grant for the 1400 acres from the colonial government. They were trying to get people to settle in here so it wasn't for any service or as an award for service. Apparently no one else had claimed it. 1755. He had to have it surveyed and then have someone take the survey to Williamsburg to have the claim filed. He had to clear 3 of each 50 acres within 3 years to be able to keep the land. By the time he came up here Henrico where they lived was Chesterfield County, because there are some Andrewses, and I worked for one at Hercules in the 1960s… Thomas' land grant actually became Chesterfield when Chesterfield was cut off from Henrico. It's called Chesterfield now. It's across the river from Petersburg, on the north side of the Appotomox River. Thomas Andrews landed in America at about the time they moved the capital from Jamestown to Williamsburg, Middle Plantation is what they called it. Williamsburg was established during the reign of William and Mary, William of Orange who was German. My Walker ancestor had a grant in __________ county in 1611 and Mary was queen at that time.
There were several areas that belonged to Andrewses around here. And my brother-in-law married a descendent (Mary Alice) from William Oliver. That house right there was built around 1900 [on Willard's property] and lightening hit it and went in on the phone lines and burnt it down. My daddy always said it was built with logs standing upright and when the weatherboarding came off you could find the hugned logs. It burned in the spring a year ago.
William Andrews' Sr's house was probably not a log house because by then they had built a few clabboard houses. That house was not painted for a long, long time and the siding is probably not the original.
There's a dam right there. The mill stood right down there and most of this part right here they'd put logs in it and braced them up. It was a grist mill. This was torn down after about 1918 because a man came down here… [pictures taken]. I know this mill was built after 1821 because there is a deed in 1821 that does not mention the mill. A deed in 1860 does. Now that's Little Beaver Pond Creek. An 1871 map of Lunenburg, the guy has got some creeks…
… there was an Elijah Andrews who I think was their son but I can't prove it. In Williamson County, I'd like you to find a Will from Benjamin Andrews and see if he mentions a son Elijah.
George Andrews is right up here. George was Ephraim's son. They didn't have middle names until about the 1840s. It was unusual for anyone to have a middle name. This went around and came back to my great granddad Hazlewood later. The Harris' who were descendants of the Andrewses. This once belonged to a John Harris whose grandmom was Drury Andrews' daughter. Of course the house has been abandoned. There's my Hazlewood cemetery right there and over there is the Harris Cemetery and somewhere in here was George's [Andrews] cemetery but it's been farmed over. I think it was over there where those trees are. George Andrews who was Ephraim's son. This house was built at the same time as William A. Andrews, Sr.'s home except they used fieldstone rather than brick for the chimney. It was built around 1750. I think a Warren probably built this house because George Andrews bought land right here from a Warren. William Sterling Andrews married John Harris' daughter. He is buried there. She's buried there with no tombstone. He's got a confederate tombstone. There were two William Sterling Andrewses and they were second cousins. One of them married into the Nash family which my mother's family comes from. He was the one who owned the mill down there.
The line runs down about half way across that field – the 400 acres. The 1400 acres is in Mecklenburg county and we are now in Lunenburg. They came together at the river [Meherrin] Now this was the mill site [on the Lunenburg side across from where John Brooks' mill was on the Mecklenburg side on one acre of the 1400 acres. In mater of fact the 1871 shows the Andrews Mill a descendent of William Sterling Andrews and the descendant's father-in law, John Harris, purchased it from …
I had never thought of that. John Brooks being next door to the Andrewses. That Ann who married William Jr. might be his daughter. [Willard to Frances Clark] I was just thinking that William the second married Ann Brooks and John Brooks lived right on the other side of the river. So there's a good chance that that's his daughter who married William the second. John Brooks purchased land from William Allen and he received it as a gift from his father-in-law Francis Ray. Brooks applied for a permit to build a mill which I've got a copy of and I'll mail it to you. Brooks built a mill on the north side of the river first and then he sold it to Pines Ingram and Pines Ingram sold the mill to Thomas Bedford. Thomas Bedford purchased 200 acres on the south side of the river from John Andrews, whose father had sold him the 200 acres prior to that. John Andrews' father was William Sr. In 1754 I believe a jury was appointed by the sheriff and they came and surveyed the site. They had to see if there was going to be any damage to the adjacent land by the dam. William Andrews' son Ibram [maybe he said Ephraim] was one member of that group so they valued the one acre of land that was going to be sold to John Brooks at 40 shillings. This was in 1754. I have a sheet of paper that is basically an environmental impact statement, it's a land condemnation and it's a permit to build a dam. This was about a third of the way from William Andrews, Sr. west boundary. But then he sold the land around that dam site to his son John up to the west boundary. He willed a third of the 400 acres on the north side of the river to his daughter who married a Granger, a third to Lucy Anna Andrews who married Peter Andrews, who was her first cousin and Abraham Andrews got the piece in the middle.
Ephraim was William Andrews' son who moved to Williamson County in 1790. I'd like to look up a will of Benjamin and you can also look up Ephraims will. He died around 1808, because they sent the Gee man and the Drumright man out there to protect George and his brothers and sisters who were still here rights there. Nevil Gee and a Drumright they were sent out there to make sure George got his money is basically what it was. Benjamin I believe he died after 1850 but his wife was still living in 1860. She was Elizabeth or Betsy Ann Hazlewood.
George Andrews whose house we just went by on the Lunenburg side was the son of Ephraim. The same Ephraim who went down to Williamson County Tennessee. George lived right there until he died. He gave the land to his son George Washington Andrews [who lived right there where George did] who gave it to his son. My great grandfather bought it in 1897, he bought that piece back. He apparently had money because when he died in 1920 some he had a lot of stock in a lot of companies, RCA, Marconi Wireless, all sorts of stuff.
I think Thomas' son Richard had a land grant in Brunswick County. I think I've got that. And that William Jr. I think that was his grandson William Jr. who was a sergeant in the Revolutionary War and got land in Brunswick County for him. Richard's grandson. But the locations is what I'm going by because Varney wound up right back there and that's where his mother because his brother William gave him his 80 acres.
Frances Clark – I go through Varney's daughter Elizabeth who married Jeremiah Gee. I then go through Permilia Lucas. Then to Henry Green Hardy. I've only proven that Varney married anybody but a Threatt and this is proven through the DAR and the Colonial Dames. We have looked for years for her first name. I've never found that he was married to a Green. You've got to remember that there was more than one Varney and you've got to watch your dates real carefully. Back in those days you named your first son after the father's father and the second son after the wife's father.
Willard - Richard's land grant was in Brunswick County and Varney ended up where William A Sr. and William A . Jr.'s land was in Mecklenburg County so that indicates that these where his father and grandfather. He died before William the first wrote his will in 1770. We know that William Andrews the second had a son named Varney because William Andrews the first named Varney in his will. And then in 1773 Varney and his brother Ephraim were bound out by the church in Mecklenburg County.
From: c. w. hazlewod
Sent: Wednesday, October 15, 2008 8:27 AM
The mill that Andrews and Harris owned was sold to them by Joseph Warren in 1860. It is located about 1/2 mile northwest of John Brook's Mill. It was sold in the late 1870's to Henderson L Lee, who sold it to Robert R. Hazlewood (my great grandfather) in 1897. He sold it to A. W. Hankley in 1914-15. There was only a ford in the river near Brooks' Mill, so someone built the one on the northside of the river. It was not on a Deed to Benjamin Gee in 1821, so it must have been built after that time. I am still looking for more information on it. Wiliam S. Andrews married Virginia E. Harris, She was the daughter of John and Ann C. Harris, who was the son of Wilson Harris and Elizabeth Andrews. Her father was Drury Andrews and his father was John Harriss.
Larry Wells is the man who lives in Lewisburg at 2091 Spring Place Rd. 351-359-7510. His 2x GGF moved from Mecklenburg to Maury ca 1818. They lived about 10 miles upriver from the Andrews. His and my 3X GGF moved first to Lunenburg from Dinwiddie, by the early 1760's and I believe he may have been a miller or a milwright, as he always lived within 1/2 mile of a mill.
Elisha Andrews is the man who I think stayed here when his family moved to Wiliamson after 1816, as when he was married Daniel Hazlewood Jr. was his marriage bond. His parents were Benjamin Andrews and Elizabeth(Betsy) Ann Hazlewood Andrews. She was my 3X GGF's sister. She is listed in the 1860 Williamson County Census as 81 years old. According to my figues, Elisha was born in 1897, so he would have been about 20 years old when his parents left. I would like to see if anyone could find a Will from either Benjamin or Betsy Ann that would name their children. If that were correct it would tie in another whole hedge row.
Gotta go, Y'all have a good day.
Willard
From: c. w. hazlewod
Sent: Thursday, October 16, 2008 7:48 AM
The land Thomas had in Henrico which became Chesterfield was located on the north side of the Appomattox River just to the west of Colonial Heights, was still in the Andrews family as late as the 1970's.
I also worked with an Andrews at Hercules Powder Co in 1950-62. don't remember what his name was though.
On the Mecklenburg land, William had sold or given at least half of the 1400 acres before his death He also willed to Ann Brooks 280 acres. Benjamin was the son of Abraham, who married the Hazlewood and sold the land to Varney before he went to TN. The land Wm sold to his son John was later sold to Thomas Bedford. The land sold to Rowland Andrews was later sold to Silvanus Walker, my 5X GGF, and some of the grant land was sold to John Smith, another 4X GGF. Some of those deeds I sent you would have this info on them. I am not positive that Varney owned the land near the graveyard, but will to find out when I go to Mecklenburg CH.
Willard
From: c. w. hazlewod
Sent: Friday, September 26, 2008 8:04 PM
Subject: Re: Andrews Connections
The will I have is William, son of Thomas, dated May 22, 1770, which is the same as on page 3 of the info you sent me. My 5X great grandfather is the Abraham or Abram who inherited the 133 acres between Winifred Grainger and Lucy Andrews, who married an Andrews, supposedly the son of William's, who also came into this area about the time William did. I may have a land grant for him. I will have to check later.
I have copies of a lot of the land transactions in both Mecklenburg & Lunenburg Counties from William and his children.
I believe that Benjamin Andrews may have been the son of Abraham 1,and before he moved to TN he sold land in Mecklenburg to Varney Andrews in 1816. This Benjamin married my 3X greatgrandfathers sister Elizabeth (Betsey) Ann Hazlewood.
Willard
From Ruth Vreeland, July 17, 2007:
A member of the Andrews family in Tennessee just recently sent my parents the following, out of the blue. It must relate to my family or this distant cousin wouldn't have sent it to my parents! My father, Joseph E. Andrews, is the great-great-grandson of one Dr. Franklin (Francis) Andrews, born in Kentucky in 1830, and dying in Arkansas in 1922. He was a surgeon in the Civil War. We have no other information about him, other than that he married Mary Young and they had the following children in or near Dover, Tenn: James Henry, Annie, Samuel, Belle, Molly and Johnny (later Mayor of Hope, Arkansas during the 1940's.) I have posted here before regarding this family and have never received any information.
Anyway, here is the writing sent to my parents, authored by James David Andrews in 1928 [James David Andrews is the father of General Frank Maxwell Andrews after whom Andrews Air Force Base near Washington, D.C. is named].
The Andrews Family
In the year of 1690, William Andrews, who was related to Lancelot Andrews, Bishop of London, England, was a merchant in London. William and Thomas were twins and died at the age of two years. His other two sons were given the same name as their two deceased brothers. When they became twenty-three years of age, and twenty-five years respectively, they came to America and located in the state of Virginia, then a Colony.
It is the Thomas Andrews (of Virginia) branch of the family that is the subject of this sketch. He had two sons, William and John.
William was twice married, and was the father of eight children, William, John, Thomas, Winifred, Abram, Lucy, Ephram and Richard.
William Andrews, Jr. served in the American Revolution as Sergeant in the Continental Army, and was awarded a grant of land of two hundred acres of land for his services as shown by Book No. 2 at page 57 in the Office of the Secretary of State of Commonwealth of Virginia, which are in the records of Brunswick County, Virginia. He was married to Ann Brooks, and their children were: Ephraim, David, William and Henry.
David Andrews, son of William Andrews, Jr., was born about 1765 and married Elizabeth King, October 29, 1787, Brunswick County, Virginia, and then removed to North Carolina and in 1815 removed to Tennessee, first locating in Sumner County and later settling in Stewart County. his children were David, William, Drewry, James, Ben, Polly (Mary), and Henry.
David Andrews, Jr. was born in Virginia in 1793, when he removed to Tennessee with his father. He did not go to Stewart County but went to Giles County to reside. There in 1820 he married Eliza Brown, daughter of Davis Brown. She was born in Brunswick County, Virginia in 1798, and removed to Giles in 1813 with her father, where she died in 1857. David Andrews, her husband, died in Birmingham, Alabama and was buried there.
Children of David Andrews and Eliza Brown Andrews were George W., James David, David Brown, Henry, Beverly Green, William Thomas, Amanda, Ellen, Martha and Sara.
William Thomas Andrews was born in Alabama Sept. 28, 1838, married Eliza Catherine Stevenson, Giles County, Tennessee, Nove. 30th, 1856. Their children were James David, John Beverly, Charles Fletcher, William Brown, Milton, and Ola. W.T. Andrews and wife both died in Birmingham, Alabama and are buried there.
James David Andrews, born Sept. 8, 1857, married Lula Maxwell October 17, 1882. Their children: Frank Maxwell, James David, William Valery, Lea Craighead, and Josephine.
Ben Andrews, son of David Andrews, Sr. was married in Stewart County, Tennessee and resided there until his death. His children were Jane, Sara and William.
Henry Andrews, son of David Andrews, Sr. married Rebecca Sexton in Stewart County and settled on a farm near Dover; their children were Emma, Mary, Pinkney, Eliza, Joiner, Missouri, and Marion R.
Marion R. Andrews married Emma McGee. He and his sister Eliza Cole now reside on the farm which their father settled and died.
C. Pinkney (Pink) Andrews, born in Stewart County, Oct. 8, 1836, married Maria Elizabeth Laurie, Jan. 2, 1873, at Paducah, Ky. Lived in Bells, Tennessee.
The authority for the compilation of the above data was derived from sundry sources, with satisfactory warrant for its correctness.
James David Andrews -- Nashville, Tennessee, Sept. 8, 1928
Thomas ANDREWS was b. 1663 in Bristol, England and came to America on the ship RICHARD and ELZABETH when he was 22 yrs. of age. He arrived "within the capes of Virginia," on 27 Jan. 1685, under Captain Williams. No name for his wife has been found, but he left 5 sons and 3 daughters whose names appear in the Vestry Book on Bristol's Register for the years 1720-1736 (pgs. 276-277.) His will is recorded April 21, 1731 in Vol. 3 Deeds, Wills of Henrico Co. VA. 1727-1737.
The will I have for Thomas (our lst ancestor in America,) as follows:
In the name of God, Amen, the 21st April 1731, I, Thomas ANDREWS, living in Bristol Parish, Henrico County, being weak of body but of sound mind and perfect memory, thanks be given to God, do make and authorize my last will and testament in manner and form following. I bequeath my soul into the hands of God who gave it, and my body to be decently buried at the discretion of my executrix. I give and bequeath to my son Thomas ANDREWS 100 acres of land more or less where he now lives, beginning at a corner pine from there to a black oak corner, below the road. To him the said Thomas ANDREWS, his heirs and assigns forever. Item: I give to my son Richard ANDREWS 100 acres of land more or less where he now lives beginning at a corner oak and to the corner back by the road. To him the said Richard, his heirs and assigns forever. Item: I give to my son Benjamin ANDREWS one cow and calf to be paid by my executrix. Item: I give to my daughter Donna one shilling. Item: I give to my daughter Ann GRANGER one shilling. Item: I give to daughter Amey one shilling. I give to my son John ANDREWS one ( ?illegible?) and I give and bequeath to John the plantation where I now live, with the horses and mules belonging to him the said John ANDREWS, his heirs and assigns forever. And I do hereby will, make, ordain and appoint my said (son) John ANDREWS my full and sole executrix. I have hereunto set my hand and seal this the day and year written above.
To all Whereas Now know ye that I the said Fra Nicholson, Esq, Gov. Do with the advice and Consent of the Council of State accordingly Give and Grant unto Thomas Andrews a Tract of Land Containing three hund & ninety four acres lying and being in the County of Henrico on the North side of the Appomattoahs River Vis Beginning at a forked Hiccory belonging to the land of Wm. Taylor thence up the river West eighty two poles to a Corner Hiccory thence leaving the River and running North two hund thirty six poles to a Corner black Oak. Thence North East by East fifty poles to a black oak, thence North East by North thirty eight poles to a Corner white oak, thence East half South sixty poles to a Corner black Oak , Thence South by East Three fourths East two hund. Thirty six poles to a Corner pine, thence North East by East one fourth East fifty one poles to a Corner black Oak, Thence East eighty two poles to as Corner white oak, thence East by South fifty one poles to a corner Spanish Oak, thence along this line of timothy Harris South East by East seventy six poles to a corner black Oak, thence leaving his line & runneth South South East fifty six poles to a Corner black Oak and pine, thence on the Line of William Taylor North West half West thirty two poles to a Corner white Oak, thence West by North one fourth North five hund. & fourteen poles & South two hundred thirty six poles to the place it began, including the aforesaid three hund. Ninety four acres of Land, the said Land being gave unto the said Thomas Andrews by and for the importation of eight persons into this Colony whose names are to be in the record mentioned and or this patent To have & to hold and to be Yielding and paying as provided. Given under my hand & Seal of this Colony this 20th dau of October Anno Domingo 1704.
Fra. Nicholson
Examined
Thos. Andrews his patent for 394 acres of Land in Henrico County.
P. C. Thacker, Depty
John Graffen, Judith Baker, Sarah Collins, ? Collins
Eliz. Young, Eliz. Holdall?, Sarah Rawlingson, Mary Hopkins?
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Could one of the eight Thomas brought over have been his future wife? Could it have been Eliz. Young?
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October 13, 2008 Mecklenburg/Lunenburg County Tour given to William Xavier Andrews and John Early Andrews of Williamson County Tennessee by Willard Hazlewood:
Thomas' son William Sr.'s land and graveyard in Mecklenburg County - There are about 12 to 14 people out there but these are the only two with marked stones. That's William Oliver, nephew to Jones. His wife was Mary Binford. Multitudes of people from here went to Tennessee and Multitudes went to Kentucky.
The first grant for this land was 1770 to Thomas' son William Andrews. He was still here in 1767 because one of those deeds I sent you, it said of Mecklenburg County. We know he was still living in October of 1771 because [he wrote his will in 1770 but we don't know when it was filed because if it was filed it was destroyed when the courthouse burned.] Frances Clark found copies of the will somewhere or another. William Oliver is her great great granddaddy.
William Andrews applied for a grant for the 1400 acres from the colonial government. They were trying to get people to settle in here so it wasn't for any service or as an award for service. Apparently no one else had claimed it. 1755. He had to have it surveyed and then have someone take the survey to Williamsburg to have the claim filed. He had to clear 3 of each 50 acres within 3 years to be able to keep the land. By the time he came up here Henrico where they lived was Chesterfield County, because there are some Andrewses, and I worked for one at Hercules in the 1960s… Thomas' land grant actually became Chesterfield when Chesterfield was cut off from Henrico. It's called Chesterfield now. It's across the river from Petersburg, on the north side of the Appotomox River. Thomas Andrews landed in America at about the time they moved the capital from Jamestown to Williamsburg, Middle Plantation is what they called it. Williamsburg was established during the reign of William and Mary, William of Orange who was German. My Walker ancestor had a grant in __________ county in 1611 and Mary was queen at that time.
There were several areas that belonged to Andrewses around here. And my brother-in-law married a descendent (Mary Alice) from William Oliver. That house right there was built around 1900 [on Willard's property] and lightening hit it and went in on the phone lines and burnt it down. My daddy always said it was built with logs standing upright and when the weatherboarding came off you could find the hugned logs. It burned in the spring a year ago.
William Andrews' Sr's house was probably not a log house because by then they had built a few clabboard houses. That house was not painted for a long, long time and the siding is probably not the original.
There's a dam right there. The mill stood right down there and most of this part right here they'd put logs in it and braced them up. It was a grist mill. This was torn down after about 1918 because a man came down here… [pictures taken]. I know this mill was built after 1821 because there is a deed in 1821 that does not mention the mill. A deed in 1860 does. Now that's Little Beaver Pond Creek. An 1871 map of Lunenburg, the guy has got some creeks…
… there was an Elijah Andrews who I think was their son but I can't prove it. In Williamson County, I'd like you to find a Will from Benjamin Andrews and see if he mentions a son Elijah.
George Andrews is right up here. George was Ephraim's son. They didn't have middle names until about the 1840s. It was unusual for anyone to have a middle name. This went around and came back to my great granddad Hazlewood later. The Harris' who were descendants of the Andrewses. This once belonged to a John Harris whose grandmom was Drury Andrews' daughter. Of course the house has been abandoned. There's my Hazlewood cemetery right there and over there is the Harris Cemetery and somewhere in here was George's [Andrews] cemetery but it's been farmed over. I think it was over there where those trees are. George Andrews who was Ephraim's son. This house was built at the same time as William A. Andrews, Sr.'s home except they used fieldstone rather than brick for the chimney. It was built around 1750. I think a Warren probably built this house because George Andrews bought land right here from a Warren. William Sterling Andrews married John Harris' daughter. He is buried there. She's buried there with no tombstone. He's got a confederate tombstone. There were two William Sterling Andrewses and they were second cousins. One of them married into the Nash family which my mother's family comes from. He was the one who owned the mill down there.
The line runs down about half way across that field – the 400 acres. The 1400 acres is in Mecklenburg county and we are now in Lunenburg. They came together at the river [Meherrin] Now this was the mill site [on the Lunenburg side across from where John Brooks' mill was on the Mecklenburg side on one acre of the 1400 acres. In mater of fact the 1871 shows the Andrews Mill a descendent of William Sterling Andrews and the descendant's father-in law, John Harris, purchased it from …
I had never thought of that. John Brooks being next door to the Andrewses. That Ann who married William Jr. might be his daughter. [Willard to Frances Clark] I was just thinking that William the second married Ann Brooks and John Brooks lived right on the other side of the river. So there's a good chance that that's his daughter who married William the second. John Brooks purchased land from William Allen and he received it as a gift from his father-in-law Francis Ray. Brooks applied for a permit to build a mill which I've got a copy of and I'll mail it to you. Brooks built a mill on the north side of the river first and then he sold it to Pines Ingram and Pines Ingram sold the mill to Thomas Bedford. Thomas Bedford purchased 200 acres on the south side of the river from John Andrews, whose father had sold him the 200 acres prior to that. John Andrews' father was William Sr. In 1754 I believe a jury was appointed by the sheriff and they came and surveyed the site. They had to see if there was going to be any damage to the adjacent land by the dam. William Andrews' son Ibram [maybe he said Ephraim] was one member of that group so they valued the one acre of land that was going to be sold to John Brooks at 40 shillings. This was in 1754. I have a sheet of paper that is basically an environmental impact statement, it's a land condemnation and it's a permit to build a dam. This was about a third of the way from William Andrews, Sr. west boundary. But then he sold the land around that dam site to his son John up to the west boundary. He willed a third of the 400 acres on the north side of the river to his daughter who married a Granger, a third to Lucy Anna Andrews who married Peter Andrews, who was her first cousin and Abraham Andrews got the piece in the middle.
Ephraim was William Andrews' son who moved to Williamson County in 1790. I'd like to look up a will of Benjamin and you can also look up Ephraims will. He died around 1808, because they sent the Gee man and the Drumright man out there to protect George and his brothers and sisters who were still here rights there. Nevil Gee and a Drumright they were sent out there to make sure George got his money is basically what it was. Benjamin I believe he died after 1850 but his wife was still living in 1860. She was Elizabeth or Betsy Ann Hazlewood.
George Andrews whose house we just went by on the Lunenburg side was the son of Ephraim. The same Ephraim who went down to Williamson County Tennessee. George lived right there until he died. He gave the land to his son George Washington Andrews [who lived right there where George did] who gave it to his son. My great grandfather bought it in 1897, he bought that piece back. He apparently had money because when he died in 1920 some he had a lot of stock in a lot of companies, RCA, Marconi Wireless, all sorts of stuff.
I think Thomas' son Richard had a land grant in Brunswick County. I think I've got that. And that William Jr. I think that was his grandson William Jr. who was a sergeant in the Revolutionary War and got land in Brunswick County for him. Richard's grandson. But the locations is what I'm going by because Varney wound up right back there and that's where his mother because his brother William gave him his 80 acres.
Frances Clark – I go through Varney's daughter Elizabeth who married Jeremiah Gee. I then go through Permilia Lucas. Then to Henry Green Hardy. I've only proven that Varney married anybody but a Threatt and this is proven through the DAR and the Colonial Dames. We have looked for years for her first name. I've never found that he was married to a Green. You've got to remember that there was more than one Varney and you've got to watch your dates real carefully. Back in those days you named your first son after the father's father and the second son after the wife's father.
Willard - Richard's land grant was in Brunswick County and Varney ended up where William A Sr. and William A . Jr.'s land was in Mecklenburg County so that indicates that these where his father and grandfather. He died before William the first wrote his will in 1770. We know that William Andrews the second had a son named Varney because William Andrews the first named Varney in his will. And then in 1773 Varney and his brother Ephraim were bound out by the church in Mecklenburg County.
From: c. w. hazlewod
Sent: Wednesday, October 15, 2008 8:27 AM
The mill that Andrews and Harris owned was sold to them by Joseph Warren in 1860. It is located about 1/2 mile northwest of John Brook's Mill. It was sold in the late 1870's to Henderson L Lee, who sold it to Robert R. Hazlewood (my great grandfather) in 1897. He sold it to A. W. Hankley in 1914-15. There was only a ford in the river near Brooks' Mill, so someone built the one on the northside of the river. It was not on a Deed to Benjamin Gee in 1821, so it must have been built after that time. I am still looking for more information on it. Wiliam S. Andrews married Virginia E. Harris, She was the daughter of John and Ann C. Harris, who was the son of Wilson Harris and Elizabeth Andrews. Her father was Drury Andrews and his father was John Harriss.
Larry Wells is the man who lives in Lewisburg at 2091 Spring Place Rd. 351-359-7510. His 2x GGF moved from Mecklenburg to Maury ca 1818. They lived about 10 miles upriver from the Andrews. His and my 3X GGF moved first to Lunenburg from Dinwiddie, by the early 1760's and I believe he may have been a miller or a milwright, as he always lived within 1/2 mile of a mill.
Elisha Andrews is the man who I think stayed here when his family moved to Wiliamson after 1816, as when he was married Daniel Hazlewood Jr. was his marriage bond. His parents were Benjamin Andrews and Elizabeth(Betsy) Ann Hazlewood Andrews. She was my 3X GGF's sister. She is listed in the 1860 Williamson County Census as 81 years old. According to my figues, Elisha was born in 1897, so he would have been about 20 years old when his parents left. I would like to see if anyone could find a Will from either Benjamin or Betsy Ann that would name their children. If that were correct it would tie in another whole hedge row.
Gotta go, Y'all have a good day.
Willard
From: c. w. hazlewod
Sent: Thursday, October 16, 2008 7:48 AM
The land Thomas had in Henrico which became Chesterfield was located on the north side of the Appomattox River just to the west of Colonial Heights, was still in the Andrews family as late as the 1970's.
I also worked with an Andrews at Hercules Powder Co in 1950-62. don't remember what his name was though.
On the Mecklenburg land, William had sold or given at least half of the 1400 acres before his death He also willed to Ann Brooks 280 acres. Benjamin was the son of Abraham, who married the Hazlewood and sold the land to Varney before he went to TN. The land Wm sold to his son John was later sold to Thomas Bedford. The land sold to Rowland Andrews was later sold to Silvanus Walker, my 5X GGF, and some of the grant land was sold to John Smith, another 4X GGF. Some of those deeds I sent you would have this info on them. I am not positive that Varney owned the land near the graveyard, but will to find out when I go to Mecklenburg CH.
Willard
From: c. w. hazlewod
Sent: Friday, September 26, 2008 8:04 PM
Subject: Re: Andrews Connections
The will I have is William, son of Thomas, dated May 22, 1770, which is the same as on page 3 of the info you sent me. My 5X great grandfather is the Abraham or Abram who inherited the 133 acres between Winifred Grainger and Lucy Andrews, who married an Andrews, supposedly the son of William's, who also came into this area about the time William did. I may have a land grant for him. I will have to check later.
I have copies of a lot of the land transactions in both Mecklenburg & Lunenburg Counties from William and his children.
I believe that Benjamin Andrews may have been the son of Abraham 1,and before he moved to TN he sold land in Mecklenburg to Varney Andrews in 1816. This Benjamin married my 3X greatgrandfathers sister Elizabeth (Betsey) Ann Hazlewood.
Willard
From Ruth Vreeland, July 17, 2007:
A member of the Andrews family in Tennessee just recently sent my parents the following, out of the blue. It must relate to my family or this distant cousin wouldn't have sent it to my parents! My father, Joseph E. Andrews, is the great-great-grandson of one Dr. Franklin (Francis) Andrews, born in Kentucky in 1830, and dying in Arkansas in 1922. He was a surgeon in the Civil War. We have no other information about him, other than that he married Mary Young and they had the following children in or near Dover, Tenn: James Henry, Annie, Samuel, Belle, Molly and Johnny (later Mayor of Hope, Arkansas during the 1940's.) I have posted here before regarding this family and have never received any information.
Anyway, here is the writing sent to my parents, authored by James David Andrews in 1928 [James David Andrews is the father of General Frank Maxwell Andrews after whom Andrews Air Force Base near Washington, D.C. is named].
The Andrews Family
In the year of 1690, William Andrews, who was related to Lancelot Andrews, Bishop of London, England, was a merchant in London. William and Thomas were twins and died at the age of two years. His other two sons were given the same name as their two deceased brothers. When they became twenty-three years of age, and twenty-five years respectively, they came to America and located in the state of Virginia, then a Colony.
It is the Thomas Andrews (of Virginia) branch of the family that is the subject of this sketch. He had two sons, William and John.
William was twice married, and was the father of eight children, William, John, Thomas, Winifred, Abram, Lucy, Ephram and Richard.
William Andrews, Jr. served in the American Revolution as Sergeant in the Continental Army, and was awarded a grant of land of two hundred acres of land for his services as shown by Book No. 2 at page 57 in the Office of the Secretary of State of Commonwealth of Virginia, which are in the records of Brunswick County, Virginia. He was married to Ann Brooks, and their children were: Ephraim, David, William and Henry.
David Andrews, son of William Andrews, Jr., was born about 1765 and married Elizabeth King, October 29, 1787, Brunswick County, Virginia, and then removed to North Carolina and in 1815 removed to Tennessee, first locating in Sumner County and later settling in Stewart County. his children were David, William, Drewry, James, Ben, Polly (Mary), and Henry.
David Andrews, Jr. was born in Virginia in 1793, when he removed to Tennessee with his father. He did not go to Stewart County but went to Giles County to reside. There in 1820 he married Eliza Brown, daughter of Davis Brown. She was born in Brunswick County, Virginia in 1798, and removed to Giles in 1813 with her father, where she died in 1857. David Andrews, her husband, died in Birmingham, Alabama and was buried there.
Children of David Andrews and Eliza Brown Andrews were George W., James David, David Brown, Henry, Beverly Green, William Thomas, Amanda, Ellen, Martha and Sara.
William Thomas Andrews was born in Alabama Sept. 28, 1838, married Eliza Catherine Stevenson, Giles County, Tennessee, Nove. 30th, 1856. Their children were James David, John Beverly, Charles Fletcher, William Brown, Milton, and Ola. W.T. Andrews and wife both died in Birmingham, Alabama and are buried there.
James David Andrews, born Sept. 8, 1857, married Lula Maxwell October 17, 1882. Their children: Frank Maxwell, James David, William Valery, Lea Craighead, and Josephine.
Ben Andrews, son of David Andrews, Sr. was married in Stewart County, Tennessee and resided there until his death. His children were Jane, Sara and William.
Henry Andrews, son of David Andrews, Sr. married Rebecca Sexton in Stewart County and settled on a farm near Dover; their children were Emma, Mary, Pinkney, Eliza, Joiner, Missouri, and Marion R.
Marion R. Andrews married Emma McGee. He and his sister Eliza Cole now reside on the farm which their father settled and died.
C. Pinkney (Pink) Andrews, born in Stewart County, Oct. 8, 1836, married Maria Elizabeth Laurie, Jan. 2, 1873, at Paducah, Ky. Lived in Bells, Tennessee.
The authority for the compilation of the above data was derived from sundry sources, with satisfactory warrant for its correctness.
James David Andrews -- Nashville, Tennessee, Sept. 8, 1928
Thomas ANDREWS was b. 1663 in Bristol, England and came to America on the ship RICHARD and ELZABETH when he was 22 yrs. of age. He arrived "within the capes of Virginia," on 27 Jan. 1685, under Captain Williams. No name for his wife has been found, but he left 5 sons and 3 daughters whose names appear in the Vestry Book on Bristol's Register for the years 1720-1736 (pgs. 276-277.) His will is recorded April 21, 1731 in Vol. 3 Deeds, Wills of Henrico Co. VA. 1727-1737.
The will I have for Thomas (our lst ancestor in America,) as follows:
In the name of God, Amen, the 21st April 1731, I, Thomas ANDREWS, living in Bristol Parish, Henrico County, being weak of body but of sound mind and perfect memory, thanks be given to God, do make and authorize my last will and testament in manner and form following. I bequeath my soul into the hands of God who gave it, and my body to be decently buried at the discretion of my executrix. I give and bequeath to my son Thomas ANDREWS 100 acres of land more or less where he now lives, beginning at a corner pine from there to a black oak corner, below the road. To him the said Thomas ANDREWS, his heirs and assigns forever. Item: I give to my son Richard ANDREWS 100 acres of land more or less where he now lives beginning at a corner oak and to the corner back by the road. To him the said Richard, his heirs and assigns forever. Item: I give to my son Benjamin ANDREWS one cow and calf to be paid by my executrix. Item: I give to my daughter Donna one shilling. Item: I give to my daughter Ann GRANGER one shilling. Item: I give to daughter Amey one shilling. I give to my son John ANDREWS one ( ?illegible?) and I give and bequeath to John the plantation where I now live, with the horses and mules belonging to him the said John ANDREWS, his heirs and assigns forever. And I do hereby will, make, ordain and appoint my said (son) John ANDREWS my full and sole executrix. I have hereunto set my hand and seal this the day and year written above.
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