Person:William Chamberlayne (1)

Obituary

From "The New England Weekly Journal", Boston, Massachusetts, 28 September 1736:

Williamsburg, in Virginia, Aug. 6.

Last Monday, died, at his house in New Kent County, Mr. William Chamberlain, a very considerable merchant, and one of the Burgesses elected to represent that County.

Land Records in Virginia

p. 183 23 Mar 1729 William MAY of Goochland Co., planter, to William CHAMBERLAYNE of New Kent Co., merchant, for 400 acres of land on Henson’s Creek in Hanover Co, joining to land of said CHAMBERLAYNE and William WEATHERFORD, 400 acres on [photocopy illegible]ver Dam Creek, granted to said MAY 17 Aug. 1725.

Wit: J. THORNTON, David PATTESON, Tho. EDWARDS, Wm COWHIRD, John LITTLEPAGE

Recorded 19 May 1729

Anne, wife of William MAY, relinquished her dower right

Notes

From "Early Settlers of Alabama", part 1:

Dudley Family notes (of Virginia and the South)

Mr. Ambrose Dudley (1736-1757 - in place of William Chamberlain) was of the Vestry of St. Peter's parish, New Kent County, Va., with Col. Macon, Mr. William Hopkins, Mr. John Parke, Mr. Walter Clopton and others, with Rev. David Mossom, minister, who was installed by Robert Carter, Governor, 1727.

From "Genealogy of the descendants of John Walker of Wigton, Scotland, with records of a few Allied Families : also war records and some fragmentary notes pertaining to the history of Virginia, 1600-1902", by Emma Siggins White:

William Gray* (William^, William^, Thomas^) ; Burgess in Surry, 1744. Colonel Joseph Gray, Burgess for Southampton County, 1744-61, was his son, and he was believed to be father of Colonel Edwin Gray, Burgess, 1769-74, Member of the Convention, 1774, State Senate and Congress, 1799-1813. Virginia Magazine, III. Jf02.

This William Gray and others, in 1747, had a grant of 5000 acres in Lunenburg County, and by 1748, 30,000 acres in Augusta County. Ibid., V. 176.

This William Gray married, 1738, Mrs. Elizabeth Chamberlain of New Kent County, widow of William Chamberlain. Virginia Gazette.

The above information relating to the Gray family was found in Early Settlers of Alabama, by J. E. Saunders.

1. ↑ ^1.0 1.1 International Genealogical Index. ( The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saint, 1999-2008).