Person:John Willis (69)

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Estate Records

Willis, John, dec. Appraisal of estate October 1818.

["A Brief of Wills and Marriages in Montgomery and Fincastle Counties, Virginia, 1733-1831”, compiled by Anne Lowry Worrell, pg. 56]

Records in Virginia

16 May 1800: Montgomery County, VA Deeds: Deed made between the Jotham Brown heirs and Benjamin Craig.

For the sum of two hundred dollars, the Jotham Brown heirs sell to Benjamin Craig a parcel of land containing one hundred four acres being part of a greater tract containing two hundred acres granted by patton [patent] issued by Robert Brooks, Esquire, Governor of the Commonwealth of Virginia on the twelfth of July one thousand seven hundred ninety six unto Jotham Brown, lying and being in the County of Montgomery on the head of Terry’s Creek a branch of Little River. Witnessed by William Terry, David Craig, David Brown, John Peden

Signed by: Phebe Brown, Christopher Cooper. Salvanes Brown, John Willis, David Brown, John Brown, Lydia Brown, Elizabeth Brown, Mary Brown

Deed ordered to be recorded in Montgomery December Court 1800. [Note: Jotham Brown was the father-in-law of John Willis]

Sources

Transcript:David Willis in Kegley, 1982

Transcript:Will of Sarah Stapleton, wife of Charles, Montgomery,VA, 1819

Transcript:Willis entries in Kegley, 1980

Notes

1.   GenForum.

   (2) John Willis (d. Oct. 1818, Montgomery County, VA). John married Esther Brown on January 1, 1793 in Montgomery County, Virginia. Surety was Isaac Rentfro, who married John's brothers David Willis and James Willis. (Worrell, "Marriages in Montgomery County, VA, 1733 - 1831," p. 43 and p. 56 ) Jotham Brown served as the Surety. The Browns, Stapletons, and WIllises had several intermarriages, of which this is one.
   
   Montgomery County Deeds, 1800: "Benjamin Craig from Phebe Brown, Christopher Cooper, Salvanas Brown, JOHN WILLIS, David Brown, John Brown, Lydia Brown, Elizabeth Brown, Mary Brown, Jotham Brown, Mirey Brown, and William Brown, heirs of Jotham Brown, deceased, 104 acres, part of 200 acres granted Robert Brooks in 1796, at head of Terry Creek, branch of Little River."
   
   John is listed in the 1810 Montgomery County census with 3 males under 10, 2 males 10 - 16, 1 male 26 - 45, 1 female under 10, 1 female 10 - 16, 1 female 16 - 26, one female 26 - 45.
   
   On June 25, 1813, John received a patent for 120 acres in Montgomery County "on the waters of Elliotts Creek waters of the south fork of Roanoke adjoining Samuel Langdon" (VA Grants 63, page 447). The family of the wife of David Willis, John's brother, were the Elliotts for whom the Creek was named, and who also lived on this creek.
   
   John's estate was appraised in 1818.
   
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