Person:Abraham Childress (6)

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Abraham Childress
m. Abt 1643
  1. Abraham Childress1655 - 1693
  • HAbraham Childress1655 - 1693
  • WAnne PewEst 1655 - 1698
m. Est 1675
  1. Abraham III Childress1677 - 1729
Facts and Events
Name Abraham Childress
Gender Male
Birth[1] 1 Apr 1655 Henrico, Virginia, United States
Marriage Est 1675 to Anne Pew
Death[1][2] 6 Dec 1693 Henrico, Virginia, United States
References
  1. 1.0 1.1 Abraham Childers, in Find A Grave.

    No sources are cited.

    These birth and death dates for Abraham Childers/Childress have been around for some time, with no better citations than various derivatives of unpublished research and family traditions (such as Ancestry's Family Data Collections). However, it is known that he was living in Nov 1680.

  2. Torrence, Clayton, ed; Edward Pleasants Valentine; and Mary Lightfoot, index Garland. The Edward Pleasants Valentine Papers: Abstracts of Records in the Local and General Archives of Virginia Relating to the Families of Allen, Bacon, Ballard, Batchelder, Blouet, Brassieur (Brashear), Cary, Crenshaw, Dabney, Exum, Ferris, Fontaine, Gray, Hardy, Isham (Henrico County), Jordan, Langston, Lyddall, Mann, Mosby, Palmer, Pasteur, Pleasants, Povall, Randolph, Satterwhite, Scott, Smith (the Family of Francis Smith of Hanover County), Valentine, Waddy, Watts, Winston, Womack, Woodson. (Richmond, Virginia: Valentine Museum, 1927)
    2:1067.

    "20 Nov. 1680 Abraham Childers Henrico Co., in consideration of ... conveys to said Pleasants, 140 acres, N. side James River, Henrico Co. ... it being the whole dividend purchased by my father Abram Childers, deceased, of Maj. William Harris and given us by his will" citing "Henrico Co. Records Nov. 1677-Dec.1692" p. 150