Person:Timothy Redding (1)

Timothy Redding, 1693

1693: In Charles City County, William Harryson as attorney for Capt. Thomas Busby defended against Timothy Redding. This is probably Timothy, Senior, father of Timothy and William below. Researchers claim Timothy was from Wales, but no proof has been found. Note also that Thomas Busby was on 1668 list of tithables in Southwarke Parish, Surry County, Virginia, where Timothy and other Reddings are later found.

Timothy Reading, Senior, appeared on the tax list for Prince George County, Virginia, in 1704.

In 1729, Timothy Reading was in land records in Prince George County. Timothy and William Redding, Brothers

Timothy and William Redding, brothers, 1728: The line of a Timothy Redding, born about 1690 and died in Fauquier County, Virginia, in 1760, has been well documented in Billie Redding Lewis’s book on the Redding family and in “Ancestry and Descendants of the Nassau-Siegen Immigrants to Virginia: 1714-1750� by B. C. Holtzclaw. Timothy Redding is said to have been of Welsh extraction (probably the son of Timothy, Senior, who appears in Charles City County and Prince George County records from 1693 to 1729 ), but he married a woman, Mary Spillman, whose family was of the German Nassau-Siegen emigration. Timothy owned land in Fauquier County, Virginia in 1728 and in Michaelmass, Prince William County, Virginia, in 1751. William, the brother of Timothy, married a woman named Mary, moved to Frederick County, Virginia, and later to Kentucky, where they raised their own children and the children of brother Timothy, who had died. The children of William were: William (b. ca. 1745, will settled in Shelby County, Kentucky in 1807, married Amy Jacobs in 1787, and had children Joseph, John and Juriah/Uriah); Benjamin; Susannah (married 1797 to her cousin John Drum in Frederick County, Virginia); Eleanor; Millie; Catherine. The children of Timothy and Mary Spillman Redding were: William (called Junior because he was raised in the home of his uncle William, had children Reuben born 1767, Timothy); Sarah (b. ca. 1743, married Peter Martin, removed to Woodland County, Kentucky); Joseph (b. ca. 1750, became a Baptist minister—baptized in Shenandoah River in 1771 by his uncle William, married Anna Weakley in 1768, lived briefly in South Carolina, then in Virginia, then to Kentucky after 1789 with wife Martha Ann, children Elijah, Elizabeth, Sarah, Lettice, Joseph, John T., Taylor, Reuben, Susannah, Anna; , died in Scott County, Kentucky in 1815); Elizabeth (married Thomas Weakly in Fauquier County, removed to Woodland County, Kentucky); Isaac (born in Fauquier County, Virginia, removed to Kentucky, married Mildred Armstead, children Abijah, Armstead, Elizabeth who married a Jesse Ballard in Shelby County in 1809, Felix, Cynthia, Tabitha, Mildred, Eli who was born in 1778 and was later in Morgan County, Illinois, and had children Isaac Newton, Peter Conover, James, Samuel, and Henry. Nansemond County, Virginia (and North Carolina)

Cavaliers and Pioneers lists a William Redding and Johnson Redding who were imported to Nansemond County in 1695. This may be the William below who received a land grant for the importation of two persons.

The Ballard, Lee, and Hooks families, later connected with Reddings in Halifax County, North Carolina, had roots in Nansemond County, Virginia. Joseph, Elisha, and Elias Ballard, sons of Joseph, were in land records there in 1694 and 1711. In 1694, John Lee patented land on Sumerton Creek in Upper Parish of Nansemond County. Sumerton Creek meanders back and forth across what is now the state line between Virginia and North Carolina, but was then considered part of Virginia until the survey of 1729 proved otherwise, and empties into the Chowan River in current Gates County. In 1711, a patent in Nansemond to Elias Ballard on Sumerton Creek was near John Lee and the Hookses, and was to be settled by 14 headright settlers—Jane Burk, Thomas Ross, Mary Taylor, Eliza. Reed, Anne Reed, James Fleming, Francis Cambridge, Eliza. Rod(?), Richard Rod(?), John Knowles, Saml. Woodward, William Williams, Eliza Goodwin, & Margaret Thompson.

On June 16, 1714, William Redding, for the importation of two persons (probably himself and his wife) received in Nansemond County (VPB 10:143) “81 acres in Nansemond County at a place called Orapeake beginning at a corner tree of Col. Sears and a line tree of Henry Plumptons.� Neighbors were Colonel Lear and Henry Plumpton. Orapeake is what is now called Corapeak Swamp in Gates County, North Carolina, formerly Chowan County. Surry and Sussex County, Virginia

Surry County, Virginia separated from James City County in 1652 and became a huge county extending to the North Carolina border. Gradually other counties formed and great plantations and small family farms flourished as the colony prospered. In 1738 Albemarle Parish was created from those parts of Lawne's Creek and Southwark parishes that lay southwest of Blackwater River. The remaining parts of Lawne's Creek and Southwark were united into Southwark Parish. The entire area of Albemarle Parish was incorporated into Sussex County when it was formed from the southwestern end of Surry County in 1754. Sussex County was formed in 1753 from the part of Surry County that was south of the Blackwater River.

March 1709: Timothy Reading appeared in court in Surry County to acknowledge sale of land to Edward Tatham.

September 1719: Timothy Redding mentioned in land transfer in Surry County. Thomas Vinson of North Carolina to John Vinson of Surry County, Virginia for 500 pounds tobacco...any claim to 79 acres in Sourthwarke Parish bounded by Thomas Minge's branch called the Parting Branch, the Miry Branch and Timothy Redding. Wit: Thomas Eldridge Thomas Vinson. Peter Vinson. David (X) Vinson. Recorded: 16 Sep 1719.

1736: William Redding, born in 1736, married Martha "Pattie" Parham. They had three known sons, Charles, Anderson and Arthur. They moved to Georgia after the Revolutionary War. William and Martha sold their Sussex County plantation in 1789 to Elizabeth Green.

November 15, 1747: Francis Redding was named godparent for Amy, daughter of John and Eliza Williams, in the Register of Albemarle Parish of Surry and Sussex Counties. Mary Eppes and Sarah Williams were also named godparents.

December 1, 1748: Francis Reading listed as owning land adjacent to John Goodwin in Surry County, Virginia. [Cavaliers and Pioneers: Abstracts of Virginia Land Patents and Grants] The Goodwin property of 1,190 acres in Surry County “on both sides of the main Road, on both sides of Warwick Swamp, down the Drain of the Black Swamp, in the Drain of the Tarkiln Branch, up the Run of Pidgeon Swamp, down the Run of Cottens Branch; adjacent James Jones, David Jones, Richard Tomlinson, Francis Reading, Thomas Peeples, William Saunders, Colo. Benjamin Harrison, William Shands, his old Patent Lines, John Mason, James Gee & Robert Hunnycut; 1 December 1748, p. 81. 4 pounds. 425 acres part formerly granted unto Thomas Goodwin by Patent 22 January 1717/18.

July 22, 1751: Francis Redding listed in land transfer from John Goodwin to James Gee for property bounded by the Blackwater Swamp, Francis Redding, Thomas Peoples, the Tarkiln Branch, Pidgeon Swamp, Col. Benjamin Harrison and William Shands.

January 15, 1753: Mary Redding was Christened in Albemarle Parish, Surry County, Virginia, Father: John Redding, Mother: Sarah. Surry County was formed in 1652 from James City County. Albemarle Parish, a district parish of the Church of England, now the Episcopal Church, was the whole section of Surry County lying south by southwest of the Blackwater River. In 1754, all the land of Surry County in Albemarle Parish became Sussex County.

1.   Cavaleers and Pioneers.

   Source: Cavaliers and Pioneers: Abstract of Virginia Land Patents and Grants—abstracted by Nell Marion Nugent, 1979 Vol. 1, 1623-1665; Vol. 2, 1666-1695; Vol. 3, 1695-1732]