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Facts and Events
About Elinor Wyche
- Francis2 Maybury
- Various dates have been given for the birth of Francis Maybury Jr. All that is known for certain is that he could not have been born earlier than 1686 and that be was likely born before 1692. The latter date is based on the assumption that he would have to have been twenty-one years of age when he received a patent of land in 1713.
- Likewise it as not possible to know exactly when he was married. While the actual record of has marriage has not been found, his wife is identified an a deed drawn on 10 August 1724 as Elinor Wyche, the daughter of Henry Wyche." The deed involves the transfer of 2,680 acres of land Iron George Hunt of Charles City County to Charles Allen of Sorry County. the deed describes the land as:
- being what was due to said George [Hunt] by last will and testament of his father William Hunt and 100 acres purchased by George Bunt from Francis Maybury and his wife, dau. of Henry Wyche...
- There was an earlier transfer of land from Francis and Elinor Maybury to George Hunt on 10 August 1719. In that instance the parcel was described as land "William Hunt formerly bought from Henry Wyche" and the location given as "on the North side of the Nottoway River." In his will written August 1. 1713. and proved on March 11. 1714/15, Henry Wyche leaves the "land and plantation 2 live on" to his daughter Elinor."
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