Person:Charles Smith (266)

Acquisition of Land in Orange County, Virginia

• Indenture 23 Sept. 1743 between Phillimon Hawkins and Sarah, his wife, County of Spotsylvania, St. George's Parish, and Charles Smith, alias Noblet, of Louisa County, Parish of St. Martin's.. for sum of £50.. 500 acres.. bing the North upper part of the Patent granted to Samuel Smith, and given by him to Charles, his son, by his last will & testament, which will being given into the care of one Stephen I. K. Smith, from whom it was stolen and destroyed.. which occasioned Phillimon Hawkins and Sarah his wife, to have right to all the estate of Samuel, he being dec'd, and Sarah, the only child that survived him born in wedlock.. one third part of Samuel Smith's estate.. now in the possession of Charles Smith, alias Loblet. . . . (signed) Phillimon Hawkins (Seal), Sarah Hawkins (Seal).

Peaceable possession delivered by the within named Phillmon Hawkins and Sarah, his wife, to Charles Smith 20th day of Sept 1743. Phillimon and Sarah Hawkins acknowledged this deed to Charles Smith, alias Noblet.

On Margin: "Hawkins & wf to C. Smith, deld to James Gaine Octo 20, 1747". [Orange County Virginia Deed Book 9, Dorman, pg. 2].

Records in Virginia

• Phebe Hawkins, and infant, by Mary Hawkins her next friend, complains July 1735, of Stephen Noblit (otherwise called Stephen Smith). Charles Noblit alias Smith, brother of the defendant, being possessed of divers goods and chattels to the value of 200 pounds intended to marry Phebe. On the last day of March, 1733-4 the defendant scandalously and maliciously did say “Phebe Hawkins is a whore and I have lay’n with her”. She has thus fallen into great infamy and Charles has refused to marry her. She asks damages of 250 pounds current money. .....Dismissed. [Source: Orange County, Virginia Judgements, 1736, Dorman]. (Note: Charles Smith apparently later did marry Phoebe Hawkins, based upon other records in Virginia).

• Dorman's Book Orange County, Judgements and Vine's Orange County, Order Book, Part one, lists "Phebe Hawkins, an infant, by Mary Hawkins her next friend." Meaning Phebe was under the age of 21 at the time.

• 9 June 1736, "Charles Smith" no residence given, was granted a patent 400 acres in Hanover County, on sides of the south fork of the Contrary River adjoining Ambrose Joshua Smith.

• Louisa County, Virginia Deed Book A, Page: 151, Grantor: Maupin, Daniel, Grantee: Tisdale, John, Date: 13-Aug-1744 Daniel Maupin, Mathew Mullins ? to John Tisdale £18 for 50 acres on Little River, Charles Smith line, swamp, Abraham Lewis line, up Little River, ...

• Louisa County, Virginia Deed Book: A, Page: 151, Grantor: Daniel Maupin, Grantee: John Tisdale, Date: 13-Aug-1744 Daniel Maupin of St. Martins Par., Louisa Co. and Matthew Mullins of same to John Tisdale of same £18 for 50 acres on north side of Little River in St. Martins Par, Louisa co. adj. Little River along Charles Smith, to Pore Swamp, Abraham Lewis. Sig. Daniel Maupin and Matthew Mullens.

• Sept. 4, 1826 in Culpeper County, Virginia, Alexander Parker stated that he was a resident of said county aged 76 years; that he enlisted in the army in January 1776 for two years in the state of Virginia in the Company commanded by Capt. Oliver Towles in the 6th Virginia Regiment. He also stated the he had raised 14 children, 13 of whom he supposes to be living. Most of them have large families and are in indigent circumstances; he has a wife upwards of 70 years of age and a single daughter, a weak and delicate woman, and none of his children are living with him. Since November, last, he has lived with a friend Mr. William Robertson of Culpeper County, etc.

W. Jones stated Sept. 24, 1826:

I have examined the will of Charles Smith of the Parish of St. Martin, County of Louisa, Virginia, in reference to the effect of the device of the residue of his estate, real and personal, to John Hawkins, in trust for his son William, and his daughters, Ann and Sarah, the last of whom intermarried with the within named Alexander Parker, and as it is said, became entitled, in virtue of the said device, to certain slaves. This clears that the device devested in Mrs. Parker, only a use for life in these slaves; remainder at her death to her children.

• If Phebe Hawkins married Charles Smith she had to have died before 1751. Charles Smith married Ann Wiatt/Wyatt widow of John Thruston which died about 1750/51. He became the guardian of William Plummer Thurston before 1752. William Plummer Thurston,

daughters, Mary Thurston Netherland and Ann Thurston where heirs of John Hawkins which will was recorded in 4 February 1779 in Hanover County. Other children of John and Ann Thurston were Jane that married Rowland Thomas, and Mary that married Edward Thomas. ( William Plummer Thurston vs the executors of Charles Smith 1769, Executors where John Hawkins (d.1779) and William Smith son of Charles Smith.)

• 6 May 1754 Charles Smith of St Martin Parish, Louisa Co. and Ann his wife to Thomas Wiatt of St Marks Par. Spts., Co. 446 a. in St. Marks Par. Spts. Co.. Joesph Smith, John Gordon, Edward Wiatt. 7 May 1754. (Wm Armstrong Crozier)