MySource:Ila123/John Trammell I and Mary Gerrard

Date: 7/28/2009

CREA: Date: 06 Apr 2013 Time: 11:18:08

John Trammell I, born 2/15/1674 or 1675 in England. alternate birth 2/17/1674/75 in Stafford County, Virginia. Died 1755 in Falls Church, Fairfax, Virginia. Buried in Falls Church Episcopal Church Cemetery, Falls Church Co., Va. His parents are Thomas Trammell, born about 1650 in Devonshire, England and Mary Alice Williams, born 1650 in Devonshire, England He married Mary Gerrard born, 1675 in Va. they were married 9/10/1698 in Westmoreland County, VA. there children were: John Trammell II, born about 1700 in Trudo Parish, Prince William, VA Gerrard Trammell, born 1702 in Truco Parish, Stafford, VA William T. Trammell, born about 1704 in Stafford County, VA Daniel Trammell I, born about 1709 in Stafford County, VA Thomas Trammell I, born about 1710 in Stafford County, VA Sampson Trammell, Born aout 1712 in Fairfax County, VA David Trammell, born about 1717 in Fairfax County, VA.

Donated the land the original 'Falls Church' was built in 1734. Thomas is mown to have had a son, John, born within a year of his arrival in America.

A clue to his wife's identity is found in a deed dated 10/26/1698 in which John, son of Thomas, sells the last of a 500 acre tract of land left to John by a John Williams. Since land was rarely willed outside the family, it is probable that John Williamswas his grandfather. the will has not been found, but researching John Williams has not been too hard, as he was forever in court battling his neighbors.

The 500 acres he left John Trammell has been carefully traced back and found to be adjoining another 600 acres John Williams owned and which passed by law to John Williams, II., an only son. John Trammell appears in the records of Stafford Co. VA, ion thelate 1690's. Since he appears in the records about 23 years after his father Thomas, obtained his freedom, we suppose that Thomas married about the time he was liberated or before and had a son John born about 1676, possibly earlier.

In 1694, he was Constable and sub-Sheriff in Westmoreland, Stafford, Virginia.

He married a French woman named Mary Gerrard Hutt.

John was of legal age and married in 1698, as indicated by this entry in Westmoreland co., Virginia, Book 2, Page 177, dated 10/26/1698: "John Trammell of lower Mackotick, Cople Parish, Westmoreland Co., and Mary his wife, sell to John Gardener land in Stafford and Westmoreland County … a part of a track of land devised to said John Trammell by John Williams, deceased." This records suggests that John's mother was (might have been) a daughter of this John Williams, or else the wife of John may have been the daughter of John Williams.

There is no proof that wither possibility is true, but both appear to be reasonable Assumptions (Boddie, in Historical Southern Families, Vol. 1, p227, mentions a land sale by John Trammell in 1691.)

There are several records of land transactions by John Trammell during the next several years, to 1705. the records for the period 1709 to 1729 were destroyed by fire during the Civil War, and we lose sight of the Trammells for a time.

He inherited land from his grandfather John Williams and lived in Westmoreland Co., VA. Four brothers - John, Sampson, Gerrrard, and William owned large tracts of land in and around Falls Church, Fairfax Co., Virginia. On 20 March, 1746, by deed of record in Fairfax courthouse, John Trammell transferred by deed to the Vestry off Truro Parish in Fairfax County a certain parcel of land containing "two acres where the upper church is to be laid off in such a manner as the Vestry shall think proper, to include said church, church yard, spring, and all appurtenances to the said premises."

John Trammell received fifty shillings sterling for the land. the contract swarmed on 9 June, 1753, is the earliest record conceding the building at Falls church. By order of the Vestry dated 13 October, 1754, John Trammell was plaid 320 pound of tobacco"for grubbing a place for the church."