Person:Lettice Smith (6)

Records in Augusta County, VA

From Chalkley's:

• Vol. 2 - Smith vs. Ross, &c.--O. S. 48; N. S. 16--Bill, 16th June, 1804. Oratrix is Sally Smith, wife of Edwine Bathurst Smith and daughter of John Monroe. They married in 1796. Her maternal grandfather was Thomas Jones. Some time afterwards she was requested to relinquish dower in a place called Paradice, situate on the Rappahannock in Essex County, which Edwin had sold to Henry Quarles. Answer of John Monroe (who practiced law at Staunton and Lexington). He married the daughter of Col. Thomas Jones, of Northumberland County. John lived in Westmoreland. Sally was niece of Catesby Jones. Sally's mother died in 1795. Deposition of Mrs. Catharine Vance at Warm Spring 1st October, 1804. She was sister of Sally Smith and daughter of John Monroe (?). Mrs. Jane I. Lewis was sister of Sally Smith. Lucy Monroe, daughter of John deposes. Copy of deed 27th June, 1795, between Lettice Lee Rust and Francis West Quarles and Lucy Daingerfield, his wife, of King William County, and Edwin Bathurst Smith and Sally, his wife, of Richmond County, to Henry Quarles, of Henry County, tract formerly belonging to Lilly Ann Webb, deceased, and by her sold to Meriwether Smith, deceased, who mortgaged it to Lilly Ann Webb and conveyed by John Webb, deceased, by deed 7th September, 1787; recorded in Essex, 15th October, 1787, to Meriwether Smith, deceased, from whom it descended to Lettice Lee Rust, Lucy Daingerfield, wife of Francis West Quarles and Edwin Bathurst Smith, children of Meriwether Smith, deceased. This deed recorded 18th December, 1797, in Essex County.