Person:Elizabeth Netherton (1)

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Richard Netherton was a native of the same small town in England as George Brent himself, where both their fathers had been residents. Richard Netherton (chr. 23 Nov. 1645 Defford) can be found in Maryland during the 1670s with 50 acres called "Nethertons Beginning" (in St. Mary's Hundred), St. Mary's County. By 1677 though, he had come with the Brent and Fitzherbert clan to Stafford County, Virginia. His granddaughter Elizabeth Netherton (d. 16 Aug. 1737) was even buried in St. Paul's churchyard in Stafford County with her husband, architect William Walker (d. 15 Feb. 1748/9), whom she had married in the same parish on 23 Nov. 1731.

Elizabeth's father, Henry Netherton, Gent., was married by 1708 to Sarah Tucker, sole daughter and heiress of [Mr] John Tucker of Cople Parish, Westmoreland County. Before that time he appears to have been more active in Maryland [at least as late as 1704], but afterwards he settled in Cople Parish [where he died intestate between 30 Jul. and 28 Nov. 1716] and was given the preferment of Surveyor of Westmoreland County.

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