William Newby

• General Notes
  • William second marriage to  Jane BYER.
    
    Note:
    William Newby and his wife, Isabell, are found in Nansemond County, Virginia and in Perquimans County, North Carolina, the 13th day of the 10th month of 1687 when they signed the marriage certificate of their son, Nathan, and Elizabeth Hollowell.
    
    They were members of the Society of Friends. Isabell died before 1701.
    
    On July 3, 1701 William Newby married Jane Byer, born in the 1640's, a widow, who had come to North Carolina in 1696 according to the following court record.
    
    "At a Court Hould For ye Pcinct of Perquimans At ye House of Thomas Nichols ye Recent Monday In Aprill 1696. Present ye Justices of ye Court.
    
    Jane Byer proved Rites for nine persons transported into this county whose name ar underwreten and Asigned to timothy Cleare vis his selfe, Richard Byer, Lawrence Nogell, Jane Ber, Robert Boge, Wm Boge, Margaret Boge, William Moore, James Loadman. Timothy Clare proves one Write for his wife Elizabeth. Charles Mackdaniel proved two tirs for ye transportation of two persons into this county whose names are underwritten vis hisselfe, Elizabeth, his wife.
    "Vera Copa p John Stepney, Clk."
    
    Another court record (Deed Book ANo. 173, p. 56, Perquimans County) states that Jeane Bier, widow, "Do give to my son, William Moore, a patent of land from me and my now husband, William Newby, after the death of both of us, 12 August 1701."
    
    In 1704 William Newby purchased an acre of land from William Bogue for use of the Quakers (Wells Meeting House). We do not know the date of William Newby's death.
    
    Source for above: "One Ladd's Family"; Ruth Kline Ladd, 1974
    

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