Frances (unknown) Genealogy

Record modified: 2023-01-13
This is my ancestor 7 generations back.

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Born: about 1740-00-00
Died: 1806-09-03 Charlotte Co, Virginia USA
Marriages:
1. 1760-00-00 Thomas Williams
Children of Frances (unknown) and Thomas Williams:
Matthew J Williams
Robert Williams
Jeremiah Williams
Nancy Williams b. 1764-10-04
Molly Williams b. about 1766-00-00
*Mastin Williams b. 1767-00-00
Elizabeth Williams b. about 1776-00-00
Margaret "Peggy" Williams b. about 1782-00-00
Sally Williams b. about 1785-00-00

Notes:

born 1750?

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Her will is in Will Book #3 page 41, Charlotte County VA 1806
Another researcher has sent me a copy.

I give my son Matthew Williams two cows.
I give my son Robert Williams two cows.
I give my son Jeremiah Williams five shillings no more.
I give my son Mastin Williams five shillings no more.
I wish all the rest of my estate be sold as my executor shall think proper. The money arising, together
with the money arising from the sale of my crops & collection of my debts I wish & desire to be laid out
in negroes. Such negroes when purchased I lend to my five daughters during their natural lives and
after their deaths to be equally divided among their children. To wit Polly Shelton, Nancy Collings,
Patsy Coller, Sally Hutcherson, Peggy Johnston.
I appoint my son Robert Williams and my son-in-law Collier Hutcherson executors.

[recorded 1806-11-03]

inventory

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another Ancestry.com mail-list entry:
Was she d/o Edward NUGENT said to have been born 1726 in Ireland; d. 1790 Fauquier Co Va. and his wife Elizabeth CONWAY (c1725-aft 1795 in Va)? Have been unable to prove nor disprove the NUGENT theory.

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Abstracts of Fauquier Co VA Wills, Inventories, and Accounts 1759-1800

p211
Edward Newgent (division of estate)
date: 19 October 1791
Divided by: John Blackwell, John Bronaugh, Hancock Lee
Details: Thomas Newgent -- Negroes, cash; Frances Williams (dau) -- Negroes, cash Which sums the younger children of Edward Newgent deceased are indebted to the above mentioned persons.
Ret: 26 December 1791

p400/401
Edward Nugent (Dower)
date: 4 February 1796
Comm'rs: Hancock, Lee, Charles Duncan, Aug't Jennings
Details: "to allott and lay off to James Robbin and Elizabeth his Wife late Elizabeth Nugent, the widow and relict of Edward Nugent, deceased"... land on Great Run.
Other distributees: Thomas Williams in right of his wife Francis; Thomas Nugent and Edward Nugent - John Bronaugh had purchased the several proportions of the said Land to which they were legally entitled, ... fifty acres we reserved for Charles Nugent, Polly Nugent, and Jale Nugent.
Survey: page 401, by John Mauzy, S F C, dated 4 February 1796
Ret: 22 February 1796

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So Edward Nugent did indeed have a daughter Frances who married a Thomas Williams, but was that this Frances? Edward lived in Fauquier Co, but my Thomas Williams lived in Charlotte Co. They are a long way apart.

Note that Edward left Negroes to his daughter Frances Williams in 1791. When this Frances died in 1806 she instructed that her estate be sold, and the money be used to buy Negroes. That would not make sense if she already owned Negroes.
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