Person:Edwin Conway (6)

Col. Edwin Conway, III
  1. Francis Conway
  2. Col. Edwin Conway, III1681 - 1763
  3. Mary Conway1685/86 - 1730
  • HCol. Edwin Conway, III1681 - 1763
  • WAnn Hack
  • HCol. Edwin Conway, III1681 - 1763
  • WAnne Ball1686 - 1720
m. 1704
  1. Elizabeth Conway
  2. Anne ConwayAbt 1710 - 1761
  3. Agatha Conway
  4. Peter Conway - 1753
  5. George Conway - 1753
  6. Hannah Conway - 1754
  7. Mary Conway
  8. Millicent Conway1727 - 1747/48
Facts and Events
Name Col. Edwin Conway, III
Gender Male
Birth[3] 1681 Lancaster County, Virginia
Marriage to Ann Hack
Marriage 1704 Lancaster Co., VAto Anne Ball
Will[4] 27 Jul 1762 Lancaster County, Virginia
Death[1] 3 Oct 1763 Lancaster County, Virginia
Probate[4] 7 Oct 1763 Lancaster County, Virginia[Date of Inventory that is later recorded 20 Jan 1764]
References
  1. Family Recorded, in Tyler, Lyon Gardiner. Encyclopedia of Virginia Biography. (New York, New York: Lewis Historical Pub. Co., c1915)
    1:216.

    Conway, Edwin, son of Edwin Conway and Sarah Walker, was born in 1682, was lieutenant-colonel of the militia of Lancaster county and a burgess from 1710 to 1758; vestryman of Christ Church and St. Mary's White Chapel. He died October 3, 1763, leaving issue, Peter and other children.

  2.   Family Recorded, in Hayden, Horace Edwin. Virginia genealogies : a genealogy of the Glassell family of Scotland and Virginia: also of the families of Ball, Brown, Bryan, Conway, Daniel, Ewell, Holladay, Lewis, Littlepage, Moncure, Peyton, Robinson, Scott, Taylor, Wallace, and others, of Virginia and Maryland. (Wilkes-Barre, Pa.: E.B. Yordy, printer, 1891)
    p. 238 ff.
  3. Family Recorded, in Hardy, Stella Pickett. Colonial families of the Southern States of America: a history and genealogy of colonial families who settled in the colonies prior to the Revolution. (Baltimore [Maryland]: Genealogical Pub. Co., 1965)
    39.

    9—4. Anne, b. 1686; m. 1704, Col. Edwin Conway, of Lancaster Co., Va., b. 1681; d. 1763; served as a Burgess, 1710-42, and as a Vestryman of Christ Church, 1739-43; and St. Mary's, 1743-63; son of Edwin and Sarah (Fleete) Conway, and had issue.

  4. 4.0 4.1 Probate Records, in Lancaster, Virginia, United States. Will Book 17.

    [His will is dated 27 July 1762 "in the Eightieth year of my Age," codicil dated 1 March 1763, proved 20 January 1764. Witnessed by James Kirk, Harry Carter, Samuel Wornam, Lazarus Copedge. (Lancaster County, VA Will Book 17, p. 30 (59-60))

    Inventory follows, dated 7 October 1763, appraisers names not given, also recorded 20 January 1764. (Will Book 17, p. 31-32 (61-63))]