... John Willis appears quite early in the Virginia records in the Northern Neck. He and Anne Willis were claimed as headrights in 1653 by John Gillett in Lancaster Co. (Nugent: "Cavaliers and Pioneers," p. 282), and John Willis was claimed as an importee for several grants in Northumberland Co. in 1656 and 1663 (Ibid. ,pp. 336, 339, and 433). Anne Willis was probably his first wife. ...
