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I feel a great connection to my Hawley>Halley family.  They were my first family to settle in this country in 1641 in Virginia. It is hard to imagine this was only 30 years after Jamestown and only 20 years after the pilgrims. I have been back to Virginia a couple of times doing research on them and have gone to some of the places they originally settled.  It is still pretty rural. I think what they had to endure in 1641, first crossing the ocean and then settling a land of Indians and hardships.  What adventurers they must have been.  I wonder why they left England. What made them want to leave family and friends for a land unknown.   When they arrived at Isle of Wight County in Virginia there were approximately five hundred plus people in the County.  In the 1632 census there were five hundred and twenty-two persons in Isle of Wight County.  By 1658 the tithables amounted to six hundred and seventy-three, which indicated a population of two thousand and nineteen.  The county grew fast in twenty years.   Maybe that is why James and his family moved on to Northumberland County in the mid 1650's.  Northumberland County was beginning to be settled in the 1650's so maybe he was able to sell his land in Isle of Wight County and leverage it into more land in Northumberland County. Or, maybe it was just the pioneer spirit. 

 

It is documented that Sarah Hawley>Halley married William Wilkison>Wilkerson in 1754 probably in Fairfax or Stafford County, Virginia and that they were the parents of James H. Wilkerson and his four brothers:  William, John, Moses and Presley. I descend through James H. Wilkerson.  He is my 4th Great Grandfather. Shortly after William died in 1767 and after the birth of their youngest son Presley, Sarah remarried William Haynie in August 1767 in St. Stephens, Northumberland County, Virginia.  She and William went on to have nine more children and eventually they moved to Clark or Madison County, Kentucky in the late 1780's to follow her brothers and Wilkerson sons. But more about that later.  Sarah was named in both her parents wills:  her father James Hawley>Halley in died 1792 and her mother Elizabeth Simpson died in 1785.  Both died in Fairfax County, Virginia.  So I know she was James Hawley>Halley's daughter.  To go back further in the Hawley>Halley history his has taken some digging and some reliance on other Hawley>Halley researchers.

 

 

All of my Hawley/Halley family owes a debt of gratitude to Ann Mack.  I wish she were still alive so I could thank her personally.  She had done magnificent research on the early Hawley family. I am so grateful to her. I am going to include her research and supplement it with my research. She did a series of articles for The Virginia Genealogist - Volume 28, 1984, Numbers 1,2,3,4 and Volume 29, 1985, Number 1 that I will intersperse with my research.

 

 

HAWLEY/HALLEY IN SEVENTEENTH CENTURY VIRGINIA

The Virginia Genealogist Volume 28, Number 1 pages 3-7

By Ann H. Mack
La Canada, California

 

             A new study of existing land records, Court orders and County records has revealed a pioneer Hawley/Halley family unit in the Northumberland-Westmoreland-Stafford ­Prince William County area of Virginia. Virginia land patents have been quite thoroughly abstracted by Nell Nugent in the Cavaliers and Pioneers series and it is fairly easy to follow the Hawley/Halley family that claims James Hawley as the immigrant ancestor in them. Additional data were found in microfilms of the original records, in John Frederick Dorman's series of abstracts of the existing Westmoreland County records1 and the late Beverley Fleet's works on colonial records.2

            One James Hawley was granted 300 acres on the head of Lower Baye Creek in Isle of Wight Co., Va., in 1641.3 His wife Ann and two daughters were included in the headrights for this patent, which was renewed in 1643 and 1647/8.4 His land adjoined that of Arthur Smith, founder of Smithfield, on the John Ross Nocks [sic] and adjacent to that of John Rowe (Row).5 A present day creek near Smithfield bears the name "Mount Holly Creek"; whether or not this is a reference to James Hawley is not known.

            After the 1647 renewal of his patent no further in­formation has been found in the Isle of Wight records on Hawley's activities nor was the sale of this land found in the existing books.6 In 1654, however, a James Hawley was impaneled as a juror and named a commissioner in Northumberland Co., Va.  The evidence
suggests that he is quite possibly the same man that immigrated to Isle of Wight County. A patent to merchant Peter Knight includes headrights for the transportation of one James Hawley, his wife Ann and three children to the Petowmack [sic] River area in 1656.8 Knight also claimed headrights for Jno. Foster who originally appeared on James' 1641 patent application. Knight, an early settler in Isle of Wight County, settled in Northumberland after this patent and was involved with James Hawley several more times.

                  During the 1650s increasing numbers of settlers were moving into the Northern Neck area of Virginia in order to obtain larger estates. Advantageous land grants were available to an adventurous settler. Charles II, without parliamentary authority, granted all of Virginia between the Rappahannock and Potomac rivers to seven proprietors in Sept. 1649 and the land rush was on. James Hawley was probably one of these adventurers, since he received a patent for 1000 acres in Northumberland/Westmoreland County, dated 1655 and recorded 13 March 1657/8, for the transportation of twenty persons.9 A 700 acre grant to James Hawley, re-recorded in a Westmoreland County deed book in 1707, is dated 12 Sept. 1662 and was described as near the head of Nominy River on the Herring Point branch." In 1666 a tract of 700 acres was pat­ented to James lying on the headwaters of the Machoatic next to George Watts, but a marginal note states "the preceding patent is in error."11 Twenty days later a new patent was issued for a new 700 acres on the head of Nominy River by Herring Point, by the lands of Hawkins in Cople Parish.12

 

            It would appear that the original 1000 acre parcel of James was reduced by 300 acres which he sold to John Paine in 1664.13  Then he took out a new patent for 700 acres for which he was still eligible in a different county. Certainly by 1662 James had moved into Westmoreland County and this was to be his final move.14

                In the Northumberland Order Books, James Hawley was named a commissioner in 165515 and served in that capacity at least two years. He was also named a vestryman in Wococomoco [sic] Congregation in 1655 and served as a justice in 1657.16  These were positions of importance in the colonial structure Virginia and we find James styled "Mr" several timcs.17 He was guardian to Elizabeth Perry in 165818      and administrator to Ralph Horsley's estate in 1658.19

             The earliest date we find him on record Westmoreland is March 1662 when he served on a jury.20  Later that same year he deposed to Peter Knight for the Northumberland County Court that he was "... longer of this county".21

                 After moving to Westmoreland County James in 1667/8 sold to Jacob Lucas 200 acres which was a part of his original 700 acre patent.22 Lucas in turn sold these lands to Lewis Markham.23 James sold to Lucas an additional 100 acres24 and "a parcel of land" to Henry Hawley for 6000 pounds of tobacco in 1671/2.25 No further land transactions for James have been found.

                 This James is obviously an immigrant ancestor and if he is the original 1641 settler, he had a wife, Ann, and two daughters, Alice and Francis [sic] Ann.26  The James who settled in Northumberland had a wife, Ann, and three children claimed in the 1656 patent of Peter Knight. These children were not named but from the Northumberland and Westmoreland records a family unit seems to emerge.

                 Ann Hawley,  Mrs. Hawley, "aged 40 or thereabouts", gave a deposition in Northumberland in Nov. 1655 for the trial of Jane Owens' abuse.27 When James sold his land to Jacob Lucas and Henry Hawley in 1671/2, Ann did not sign any dower rights away, implying that she was probably dead. Thus we can place Ann as being born around 1615 and deceased prior to 1671/2.

                 James definitely had a daughter named Mary who had married Jacob Lucas by 1670,28 and another, elder, daughter who married a Knight in Northumberland County prior to Feb. 1660/1. This fact is proved by James' gift to his granddaughter, Elizabeth Knight, on that date.29

                 Edward Hawley, by deposition given in 1662, was named a son of James."30   By another deposition taken in 1671, Edward stated he was about 26 years old31 placing his birth around 1645/6. Both Jacob Lucas and Henry Hawley were named administrators of Edward's estate in 1680.32   They were also said to be "next of kindred" to the deceased Edward. Jacob Lucas as mentioned above was a brother-in-law of Edward and I believe Henry Hawley to be a brother of Edward. Henry, in a deposition in Westmoreland in 1677, gives his age as about 34,33  thus making Henry the eldest son of James and born in 1643/4.

                 Another implication was made in the statement "next of kindred": that James, the immigrant, is dead. No references have been found involving his active participation in the records after witnessing a business agreement in Nov. 1677.34 It seems likely that James died between 1677 and 1680. No will has been found for James. 

            There is one problem with these data: James gives a deposition in 1674 in Westmoreland County which states his age as "46 years or thereabouts".35 This age would place his birth in 1628, making it virtually impossible for him to be the immigrant with a wife and two children in 1641 in Isle of Wight County. It would be unlikely for the 46 year old to have a son, Edward, born in 1645/6 when James was 17 and a grandchild in 1661 at the age of 33. It is hoped that the clerk may have transcribed the numbers or made an error in some way and that fur­ther investigation will solve this problem.

Children of James Hawley and Ann --- Hawley:

Henry Hawley, born 1643/4

Edward Hawley, born 1645/6

Alice Hawley, born before 1641

Francis Ann Hawley, born before 1641

Mary Hawley, born ca.1650?

 

 

1 The record books covered are Records 1658-61, 1661­64; Deeds, Patents, Etc., 1665-77 (4 parts, including Deeds f, Wills 4); Deeds , Wills 2 and 3; Order Books 1675/6-1688/9 (1 part published thus far), 1690-98 (3 parts), 1698-1705 (4 parts).

2 Beverley Fleet, Virginia Colonial Abstracts (Richmond, 1938-49), v. 1, 2, 19, 22, 23.

3 Virginia Patent Bk. 1, pt. 2, p. 748.

4 Ibid., p. 913; Patent Bk. 2, p. 93.

5  Isle of Wight Co., Va., Wills 2, pp. 330-32.

6 Ibid., deeds.

7 Northumberland Co., Va., Order Book 12, p. 12; Record Book 14, p. 48.

8 Virginia Patent Bk. 4, p. 71 (104).

9 Ibid., p. 160 (236), renewed 24 May 1664. Colonists would often let their early patents lapse, move on to other areas and be able to take up new patents. Reasons for the northward move may have been that southern Virginia had more Puritan sympathies, while the Northern Neck re­mained more loyal to Charles II. Whatever the cause, many early names were repeated on the headrights in the North­ern Neck.

10 Westmoreland Co., Va., Deed Book 4, pp. 252-53.

11 Virginia Patent Bk. 6, p. 138.

12  Ibid., p. 152.

13 Ibid., Patent Bk. 4, p. 110 (68).

14 The reader can follow James Hawley's neighbors and land by referring to Virginia Patent Books 3, p. 350; 4, pp. 11 (17), 160 (236), 293 (400), 110 (608)., 5, pp. 206 (104), 325 (318), 439 (525), 442 (529), 533 (653).

15 Northumberland Co., Va., Order Book 2, pp. 28, 75.

16 Ibid., pp. 30-33.

17 Ibid.

18 Ibid., p. 92.

19  Ibid., p. 94.

20 Westmoreland Co., Va., Records 1661-64, p. 8a.

21 Northumberland Co., Va., Orders 2, p. 164.

22 Westmoreland Co., Va., Deeds , Wills 1, pp. 384-85.

23 Ibid.

24 Ibid. p. 402.

25 Ibid., pp. 405-06.

26 Virginia Patent Bk. 1, pt. 2, p. 125. Both of these daughters would be of marriageable age in the late 1650s.

 

27 Northumberland Co., Va. Order Book 2, p. 36; Records 14, p. 62.

28 Westmoreland Co., Va., Deeds 6 Wills 1, pp. 384-85.

29 Northumberland Co., Va., Records 15, p. 56.

30 Ibid., Order Book 2, p. 164.

31 Westmoreland Co., Va., Deeds, Patents, Etc., 1665­-1677, p. 113a.

32 Ibid., Order Book 1675/6-1688/9, p. 184.

33 Ibid., Deeds, Patents, Etc., 1665-77, pp. 364-64a.

34 Ibid., p. 353-53a. 35 Ibid., p. 189.


 

James Hawley by Lucy DeYoung

 

From depositions and other legal documents we know that James was born between 1605 and 1618 in England or Wales. There are some inconsistencies as to when he was born.  There is one deposition in which his age would put him as being born in 1628.  I am going to discount this as an error.  If he was born in 1628, he would have been 14 in 1641 when he came to this country with a wife and two children.   I just don't think so.  We also know from a deposition that Ann Hawley was born in 1615 in England.  Since James and Ann were married in 1641 with two children: Alice and Francis Anne when they came to this Isle of Wight County, I am going to assume James also came from England and that they were married there.  They lived in Isle of Wight County for about 9 years and then they moved to Northumberland County.  By that time Alice was probably married or dead and Francis Ann was married to Peter Knight.

 

Isle of Wight County

In 1641 James Hawley was awarded 300 acres in Isle of Wight County on the headwater of Baye Creek for transporting himself, his wife Ann, his children Francis Ann and Alice, John Foster and Richard Darling. Although Baye Creek is long gone, it is located somewhere across the James River from Fort Eustis and Newport News. See the map below.

 

Transcribed from image: Virginia Land Patents Book 1, pages 748-749.
"To all to whome these presents shall come I Sir Francis Wyatt Knight Governor &c. send greeting &c. Whereas &c. Now Know yee that I the said Sir Francis Wyatt doe with the consent of the Councell of State accordingly give grant and confirme unto James Hawley three hundred acres of Land situate lying and being in the County of the Isle of Wight lying upon the head of the Lower bay Creeke and beginning at a marked pokecory standing on the maine Swampe side and runing for Length North West by West three hundred and twenty pole unto a marked white oake by and adjoyning on the land of John Rowe and soe runing East North East one hundred eighty two poles unto a marked white oake by and on? the Miles end of the Land of the said Rowe and soe North Eighty fower poles unto a marked pine and soe West South West one hundred eighty twoe poles to a marked white oake and soe West by North one hundred and three poles unto a marked poplar standing on the maine Swampe side and soe runing downe by the North East side of the maine branch unto the first menconed marked tree including the said three hundred acres of Land which said land is to bee augmented and doubled when he or his assignes shall have sufficiently peopled and planted the same The said three hundred acres of Land being due unto him the said Hawley by and for his owne personall Adventure and Ann his wife and the transportacon of fower persons into the Colony All whose names are in the records menconed under this pattent To have and to hold &c. Yeilding and paying unto our said Soveraigne Lord the King his heires and Successors for ever or to his or their Treasurer for every fifty acres of Land herein by these presents given and granted yearly at the feast of St. Michael the Archangel the fee rent of one shilling to his Majesties use which payment is to bee made seven years after the date of this pattent and not before according to the said Charter of Orders from the Treasurer and Company and Confirmed by his Majesties said Instructions As alsoe by Act of Assembly bearing date the sixth day of January 1639 Provided &c. dated the twoe and twentieth day of April 1641 ut in aliis."
 

He renewed this patent in 1643 and 1647.

Same Source, Page 148

JAMES HAWLEY, 300 acs. Isle of Wight Co., Sept 28, 1643, Page 913. Upon the head of the lower bay cr., adm. John Row. By virtue of patent dated 22 Apr. 1641.

Page 167

JAMES HAWLEY, 300 acs. Isle of Wight Co., April 10, 1647, Page 93. Upon the head of the lower bay creek, adj. land of John Rowe. By virtue of a former patent.


From the map below you can see that the Isle of Wight County is to the south of the James River.  These are the Virginia Counties in 1641. The Bay on the lower left of the current map on he right hand side is Burwell Bay where the Warrascoack Indians had their village.   Just to the north of the Bay is Holly Point.  Maybe there is a connection to John Hawley.

The first occupants of Isle of Wight county known to history were the Warrascoyack Indians.  Their village was seated somewhere on Burwell's Bay, on James river, and their territory extended some five miles along the shore and twenty miles inland.  Their fighting strength amounted to forty warriors.  They were visited by John Smith in the summer of 1608, and fourteen bushels of corn were supplied by them to the famishing colonists at Jamestown.  When Smith and his party set out in December, 1608, to visit Powhatan at Werewocomoco, on the York, they spent their first night at Warrascoyack.  Here they left Michael Sicklemore, a valiant soldier, whom the Indian king promised to furnish with guides to search the country about Roanoke Island for the lost colony of Sir Walter Raleigh, and Samuel Collier, a boy, who was to learn the Indian language.

 

In 1634, the plantations in Virginia were divided into eight counties, and "Warrascoyack" was one of these.  There are records of James Hawley in Isle of Wight County until the mid 1750's when he begins to appear in Northumberland County records.

 

Northumberland County was named for a County in England and originally called Chickcoun, an Indian district on the Northern Neck, lying between the Rappahannock and Potomac rivers, tributaries of the Chesapeake Bay.  The history of the county dates back to 1648 when it was officially established, although the area began to be settled earlier in the 17th Century. The county was split in the early 1650's with Lancaster County being formed from the southern part in 1652, and Westmoreland County being formed out of the western part of Northumberland County in 1653.



In 1648, this  “Mother County of the Northern Neck” was organized and named after County Northumberland, England. The first white settler to make a permanent home in the county was Col. John Mottrom, sometime between 1635-1640.  It was later divided into three additional counties: Lancaster, Richmond and Westmoreland.

 

James must have migrated to Northumberland County as early as June1650 when he received a 550 acre land grant.

 

Virginia Northern Neck Land Grants 1694 - 1742
P. 68 5-202: Dennis Fallin of Northumberland Co. 659 A. (109 A. surplus in 550 A granted James Halley 2 June 1650). Surv. by Mr. John Coppedge. In Northumberland Co. in St. Stephens Par. on Great Wicommoco R., on Whays cr., Reason's Cr., Reason's plantation, corner of Cockril & Wilkey, Cole's line, Thomas Smith. 16 June 1719.

 

According to Ann Mack's research, "One of the early leases [for the County]  must have been held by James Hawley as he was impaneled as a juror and named a commissioner in Northumberland Co., Virginia in 1654. The evidence strongly suggests that he is the same man that immigrated to Isle of Wight County in 1641 and now resided in Northern Neck. In addition, John Hawley had to have owned property in Northumberland County by the Wicocomoco River before June 1655 when John Johnson bought property between Mr. James Haley and William Betts. 

 

Cavaliers and Pioneers

Abstracts of Virginia Land Patents

Nell Marion Nugent

Volume I

Patent Book No. 1 - Part II

 

Page 309

"JOHN JOHNSON, 85 acs. Northumberland Co., on N. side of great Wicocomoco Riv., bet. Mr. James Haley & William Betts & Sly. upon land called Peter Ashtons Neck. 4 June 1655, p. 350. Trans. of 2 pers."

and

Page 324-325

"THOMAS GERRARD, 300 acs. Northumberland Co., 24 Oct. 1655, p. 11 (17). 200 acs. abutting Sly. upon land of Tho. Kedby, Wly. upon a creek issuing out of great Wicocomoco Riv. & c. 100 acs. Sly. upon land sd. Kedby sold to John Johnson, Wly. upon land sd. Garrat bought of Thomas Watts, Ely. upon land of Mr. James Hawly. 200 acs. granted unto Thomas Watts, Junr., 1 Apr. 1650 & assigned to sd. Gerrard & 100 acs. for trans. of 2 pers. Mary Wesson, Xpr. Peirce."

In 1655 he was also a witness to several court proceedings. 

 

The Haynie family is important in that in 1767 William Haynie married the widow Sarah Hawley Wilkerson shortly after her husband William Wilkerson died leaving her with five small boys.  The family's relationship went back a long ways and both were "old" families.

 

Northumberland County Record Book 1652 - 1658
P. 4 - p. 55
Know all men by these presents that I Nicholas Morris doe make my loving Friend Mr. Jno: Haynie, my true & lawfull Attorney for to sue & impleade &c. for to doe all business in Court for me & to proceed in Law and shall stand in as full form & virtue as if I were there present: Witness my hand this 29th of August 1655
Teste James Hawley, Peter Knight
/s/ Nicholas Morris

Same Source, P. 7 - 56
Know all Men that I Sarah Kingwell doe freely bestowe my Son, Thomas Kingwell, unto John Essex or his heirs until he be 21 years of age in consideration of his bringing up, this 15th day of September 1655
Test James Hawley, Jno. Bardon
ye mark of Sarah Kingwell
20th November 1655. This Writing was recorded.
 

Same Source, p. 9
The appraisers [of Tho: Kingwell’s Estate] were sworn before me
James Hawley, John Haynie, Hen: Hurst sign
20th November 1655. This inventory was recorded.
 

Same Source, p. 13
I John Earle doth give power to my loving Friend, Richard Flynt....
Teste John Hawley
20th November 1655
 

Same source, p. 14 - p. 60
Robert Bradshaw aged 32 years or thereabouts...Jurate Coram nobis James Hawley 20th November 1655.  Thomas Hayle averrs the above sd. Oath to be true... Jurate Coram nobis John T Grussell, James Hawley

 

[More details about this  incident]

Robert Bradshaw, 6 November 1654

Robert Bradshaw aged 32 yeares or thereabouts sworne and examined ye 6th day of November 1654 sayth as followeth: That this Depont. & Tho. Hayle felled some trees & planted four certaine Peach trees upon ye Land of Robt Hinman (& assigned to Jno. Haynie) before ye 25th day of March last att ye request of ye sd. Jno Haynie & further this Deponent sayth not. Robert Bradshawe
Jurat Coram nobis   Joh Trussell                        
20th November 1655 This Depo. was recorded

Thomas Hayle averrs the abovesd Oath to be true upon his Oath & that hee assisted ye sd Bradshawe in planting the sd trees.
Jurat Coram nobis  John Trussell                         Tho. Hayle                                        James Hawley
20th November 1655 This Depo. was recorded

 

Same Source, p. 14 - p.60
20th November 1655
I John Waddy doe acknowledge to have sold to Andrew Bowyer....Witness James Hawley, Ger: Donson
20th November 1655

 

Very few people in the colonies owned property and James Hawley owned a lot of property. James Hawley could always sign his name, so he knew how to read and write a skill he must have acquired in England. So he was educated.  It is also interesting to note that James Hawley is often referred to as Mr.  In the 1650's to be referred to as Mr. meant he had wealth and standing in the community.  By 1657 he is referred to as  "Gent."  So he could not have come over from England a nobody and gained wealth and standing so quickly in the New World.  These were people who came from England and brought their standards and morays with them.  The settlers regarded themselves as the outermost extension of a political empire seated in London and ruled through a well established set of institutions. James Hawley had to have come from an upper-class British family to have been referred to as Mr. or Gent and to have been elected an early Justice of Northumberland County in 1655.  He also acquired a substantial amount of land over the years and must have been a wealthy landowner.

 

This was also a family that was a friend and neighbor to George Washington and other signers of the Constitution.  They were an integral part of the founding of this country.

 

In 1655 James Hawley was also an early Justice in Northumberland County.

EARLY JUSTICES OF NORTHUMBERLAND COUNTY, VIRGINIA.
The following list is derived from the county records: Colonel John Mottrom, Lieutenant-Colonel George Fletcher, Mr. Thomas Speke, Mr. John Trussell, Mr. Wm. Presley, Mr. John Holloway, Mr. Walter Brodhurst, Mr. Samuel Smith, Mr. Nicholas Morris, and Mr. Thomas Baldridge,

1652; Colonel Wm. Claiborne, Esq.,

1653; Mr. William Nash, 1653; Major Samuel Smith [probably same as preceding],

1655; Mr. James Hawley, Captain Richard Budd, Mr. Hugh Lee, Captain John Rogers, Mr. Matthew Rhedom [Rhodam], and Mr. Thomas Hopkins, 1655 : Mr. George Colclough, Mr. William Thomas, Mr. Wm. Presley, and Mr. Wm. Nutt,

1656; Mr. Peter Ashton (sheriff),

1658; Mr. Francis Clay, and Mr. Charles Ashton,

1659; Mr. Robert ]ones,

1662; Mr. Peter Presley, Mr. Isaac Allerton, and Colonel Richard Lee, Esq.,

1663; Mr. Thomas Brereton,

1665 ; Mr. Lewis Howson,

1666; Mr. Edward Sanders, Mr. Ambrose Fielding, Mr. Nicholsas Owen, and Captain John Mottrom,

1670; Colonel St. Leger Codd,

1671; Mr. Thomas Mathew,
1672 ; Mr. Francis Lee,

1673; Mr. Nicholas Green [?],

1675 ; Mr. Philip Shapleigh, and

1676 Mr. Edward Porteus

The Virginia Magazine of History and Biography, By Virginia Historical Society, p. 456, 1893

 

This was a very important time in the history of Virginia and the County and as a Commissioner James Hawley was right in the middle of it as a negotiator between the whites and the Indians. 

 

"In the early 1640s a new stage in the relations between the English and the Indians of lower Northern Neck began, as white men began to settle in what is now Northumberland County. The first arrival was John Mottrom, a trader who had lived in St. Mary's City, Maryland, and York County Virginia. With Machywap, the werowance of the Chicacoans, Mottrom bartered for land on the Coan River and built Coan Hall. The Indian chief and the English trader had a good personal relationship that increased the chance that the cultural gulf between the two very different peoples might be bridged in friendly fashion. An example of Mottrom's cooperative approach would occur in May 1650 when the Northumberland Court heard a case in which six men took two Indian women, 90 deer skins and 3 beaver skins from the King of the Patuxents. John Mottrom undertook to compensate the king with "six Tradinge Cloath match Coats," with each man ordered to provide one coat.[22]

In the Chesapeake area generally, however, the early 1640s were a time of conflict. To the north across the Potomac, the Susquehannocks were drawn into a conflict between William Claiborne and the Calverts, and they continued to fight the Maryland English for a decade. To the south, Opechancanough launched another Powhatan attack on the English. Apparently, the Northern Neck Indians remained neutral, for Claiborne would argue before the governor and council of Virginia that the war should not be prosecuted against them. The English residents of the Chicacoan-Wiccocomico area said the same thing: they were not involved in this latest Indian war and so should not have to contribute funds to underwrite it.

The latest fight in Virginia was over land, and the Virginia authorities.[23] actually sympathized with the Indians situation. In the peace treaty of 1646, Governor William Berekeley sought to regulate English access to unsettled land to ensure that the natives would be able to provide for themselves undisturbed. And on paper it appeared that the Indians of the lower Northern Neck would be among the protected. In the treaty, Necotowance, the new head of the Powhatan confederation, ceded claims to lands between the York and the James below the falls in return for an English pledge that the Indians received exlusive right to the land and hunting north of the York and that unauthorized colonists in those areas would be criminally liable.[24]

This was a pledge, however, that the colonial government did not have the capacity -- or perhaps the will -- to enforce. Settlers were kept out of the Rappahannock area initially, but that only diverted them onto the shores of the Potomac. Englishmen who desired a new seat on virgin lands would sail along the coast of lower Northern Neck, looking for an ideal spot. The presence of "three or foure Indian Cabbins" was no deterrent to their ambition. Sometimes, settlers would "pay" for the land they wanted: for example, in 1650/1, six whites bought a neck of land from the Onawmanient in the Yeocomico River area. Yet they offered only a modest price (three match coats in this case), and no doubt made payment in order to solidify their legal claim.[25]

Payment or no, waves of white settlement were spreading over the Northumberland landscape and beyond, gradually constraining the Indians and their way of life. The General Assembly established Northumberland County as early as 1648. By 1653, the county already had 450 tithables, or a white population of around 900, a rapid rate of increase. An enlarged version of Lancaster County was created in 1652, and Westmoreland was formed in 1653. In Northumberland itself, the potential for friction between settlers and natives was compounded by the migration of the Yaocomacos from southern Maryland. They had come under pressures from both the Susqueahannocks and the English, and, having crossed the Potomac, occupied land between the Chicacoans and the Onawmanients and received protection from the latter. Clearly, new steps were required to regulate the relations between the two groups.[26]

Those steps came in 1652. Early in the year, at the same time that Virginia came to terms with the new Commonwealth government in London, of the General Assembly ordered that fifty acres be set aside for each bowman among the tributary Indians (the same amount of land allocated to each headright) before any other land was patented for Englishmen. It was also stipulated that the "the proportion [of land] of each perticular towne [is] to lye together." In November, the Assembly sought to prohibit Englishmen from duping the Indians into selling their land for prices that were below market value. It mandated that Indians may "hold and keepe those seates of Land that they now have," and that there could be no acquisition of the land without consent of the governor, council, or local commissioners. These steps were done in part to prevent Indians from undertaking "some Desperate Course for themselves." Also it sought to take account of the fact that the natives had no concept of permanent land purchase. Instead, they thought that according to their custom land that had been transferred but was not being used reverted to the control of the original group.[27]

The Northumberland leadership did not take action on the Assembly's mandate until late in 1655. When it did act concerning the Chicacoan and Wiccocomico, it did so in a creative manner that probably exceeded the spirit and the letter of the law. For the commissioners did not simply survey the requisite number of acres in areas of the two chiefdoms near Chicacoan Creek and the Great Wicomico and then vest them with title to the land. They in fact proposed to relocate and consolidate the two groups--each of which had its separate identity--in a completely different location south of Dividing Creek. Regarding the Onawmanient in the Yeocomico River area, it is unclear whether the Assembly's order was ever carried out. As that situation unfolded, it would be fateful for the natives.

Why did the Northumberland commissioners take the innovative approach that they did? A desire for land in the right location was no doubt the main one. Samuel Matthews and Henry Fleet would benefit from the departure of the Wiccoccomico from their area (Mattews got the main settlement and Fleet the satellite village in Cinquack). Isaac Allerton coveted the territory of the Onawmanient. But we can speculate that two other factors were at work. First was the death in 1655 of John Mottrom. He had a benevolent outlook towards the original inhabitants of Northumberland and appears to have tried to accommodate their concerns and interests. The coincidence of his death and the court's policy of relocation and consolidation suggests that he may have been an obstacle to the English impulse to encroach on good Indian lands. Finally, Northumberlanders' brief involvement a conflict with the Rappahannock Indians may have contributed to their approach to managing their own Indian population. In November 1654, the militias of Northumberland, Westmoreland, and Lancaster (which included the Rappahannock chiefdom's area), were called out to deal with the Indians' reactions to English penetrations. There was a fight and the Rappahannock chieftan was killed.[28]

During the winter of 1655-56 Gervais Dodson surveyed 4400 acres near Dividing Creek for the Chickacoan and the Wiccocomico. This was done, the court said "at ye request of Machawapk of Chickacone & the Indians living at Wicocomico." Based on the 50 acres per bowman mandate, the two chiefdoms thus had 88 bowmen at the time and a total population of around 352 people. (That represents a decline of almost 50 percent since the initial contact with the English, when the two groups had about 160 bowmen combined.) The Northumberland commissioners also took it upon themselves to name Machywap, the Chicacoans' werowance, "so ancient and known a friend to our English Nation," as head of the combined group. Then in May 1656, the court ordered Dodson to survey land for the Onawmanient (Machoatick), at that time on Nomini Bay. (There is no evidence of any thought of moving them).[29]

In less than a year, however, the county leadership faced serious problems in implementing its plans -- and had to face those problems at around the same time. To the south, the Wiccocomico Indians did not wish to submit to the leadership of the Chicacoan werorance, Machywap, and had issued threats against him. To the west, the Onawmanient were complaining that Isaac Allerton was intruding on what they regarded as their land, and wanted him and his servants removed.

The account of the court session of January 20, 1657 describes the commissioners' reaction to the first problem:

"Whereas . . . the Comrs: of the sd. County being authorized to order the affaires of the [new Indian] Towne & to settly Mackywap to be Werorance there; the Cort: conceiveing him to be in great danger of his life by the sd. Wicocomoco Indians as he hath given informacon to this Cort: & ____ for some assistance from us, . . . It is therefore ordered that six able men be forthwith: pressed to guard & p:serve the p:son of the said Mackywap at ye sd. Towne untill the last day of Novem: next, the charge thereof to be defrayed by the County, and the siad Machywap is hereby required (in case hee findes himselfe in want of further assistance from us) that hee repaire to Capt. Richard Budd, whoe is hereby authorized & impowered to goe wth: a p:rty of soe many men as hee shall thinke fitt & convenient to assist the saide Machywap against his enemies. And further Mr. William Cooke is requested to give notice to all such Indians as belong to the Towne of Wicocomoco (wheresoever he shall see them) that they (within one month hereafter) shall acknowledge themselves obedient to the said Amachywap's Government And what Indians ___ (belonging to the said towne) do refuse their obedience as afresaid shall be Reputed as Enemies to our English Nation and to the said Machywap And all their Land, Corne and what else of theirs to be Confiscate to him their Weroance.
In short, the court threatened to put the use weight of its power to enforce its arrangement.[30]

One month later, the court addressed the conflict between the Onawmanient and Isaac Allertaon. The commissioners received a report from a delegation (made up of George Colclough, John Rogers, James Hawley, William Presley, and William Nutt) that it had commissioned to negotiate with between the two parties. On February 6, the delegation had concluded an agreement with Peckatoan, the werowance. The Onawmanient accepted Allerton's presence "so long as the Land (whereon he liveth already cleared) be useful, Provided that no more Housing be there built than what is now uppon it and to keep his cattle and Hoggs on the other side of the Machoatick River." The Indians had dropped their initial demands and sought to contain Allerton's expansion.[

Within a couple of years, in a process that is fairly opaque, the balance of power at the Dividing Creek settlement shifted in a way contrary to what the court mandated in January 1656/7. We do know that during 1656 and 1657 Cuttatawomens were moving gradually north and eventually became part of Wiccocomico-Chicacoan town. With only thirty bowmen in the early 1600s they soon lost their identity and disappeared from the historical record. More consequentially, the Wiccocomicos to depose Machywap and replace him with one of their own, Pekwem. How was Machywap removed? Was it the Wiccocomicos' greater numbers? Was violence involved? Unfortunately, the records are silent. All we know is that from that time on, all the Indians living south of Dividing Creek were known as Wiccocomicos and that the arrangement that the Englishmen has proposed to Machywap did not prevent his undoing.[32]

 

The Hawley name was often misspelled Haley or and quickly morphed into Halley.  In Virginia Hawley/Halley sounds like Holly.  It is interesting that they consciously changed the spelling of their name because in a deposition in 1748 James Halley states he is the grandson of Henry Hawley and his daughter Sarah Halley gives two of her five sons the middle name Hawley and the spelling Hawley was carried on as a first or middle name in the family for generations.

 

Peter Knight and James Hawley were very close in friendship and business.  In addition to Peter Knight being a successful merchant and landowner from transporting people to the New World, he was also James Hawley's son-in-law.   He married Francis Anne Hawley who went by the name of Anne.  She signed several documents as his wife and appointed her Father James Hawley as her attorney.

 

Northumberland County Record Book 1662 - 1666
p. 12 - p. 98
Bee it knowne unto all men by these presents that I Anne Knight foe consent to the Sale of Land that my Husband, Peter Knight, sold unto Richard Feilding & doe renounce all my right & title of the said Land & doe make my loving Friend, Thomas Laine, my true & lawfull Attorney to acknowledge the sd: land in Court & what my sd: Attorney shall doe therein shall stand in as full force & virtue as if I were then present; As Witness my hand the 20th of April 1663
/s/ An Knight
Teste James Hawley
Richard Robards
20th April 1663. This Writing was acknowledged in Northumberland County Court by Thomas Laine, Attorney: of Anne Knight & recorded.

 

In 1660 James Hawley gave his granddaughter Elizabeth Knight a Calf.

 

Northumberland County Record Book 1652 - 1658 , p. 80

Knowe all men by these presents that I James Hawley for & in consideration of my love & affection I doe give unto my Grand Child Elizabeth Knight one Cow Calf cropped on both ears a staple underneath the left ear & over keeled under the right ear & a slit, the sd. Elizabeth Knight to enjoy the sd. Cow Calf with her increase to her & Her heirs for ever; Witness my hand this 15th day of February 1660

Test Edward Hawley, his mark   /s/ James Hawley

 

The land transactions of James Hawley and Peter Knight are intertwined for many years. 

 

In October 1656 Peter Knight received 925 acres for transporting 19 persons to Northumberland County.  Included are James Hawly, Ann his wife and 3 children.  I am assuming by 1656 Alice and Francis Anne are married and the three children are Henry, Edward and Mary.  It is very interesting to note that in 1641 when James Hawley came to Isle of Wight he also transported  John Foster and Richard Darling with him.  When Peter Knight transported James and his family from Isle of Wight to Northumberland County in the mid 1750's included were Jno Foster and Rugh Darling.  I am assuming they are the same people who were with James when he came to Isle of Wight County in 1641.  Who were they?  Were they related to James Hawley?  Were they servants?  I can find no information on either of them.  I am assuming Peter Knight got the property several years after transporting James and his family.

 

Same source, Page 340

MR. PETER KNIGHT, 925 acs., in Petowamack Riv. adj. Chappawansicke Cr. 9 Oct. 1656, p. 71, (104). Moiety of patent for 1850 acs. (As above) Renewal. Retaken up by new rights & trans. of 19 pers: John Waddington, Edwd. Meeres, Wm. Mundy, Rich. Wall & 1 Servt. named Thomas, James Hawly, Ann his wife , 3 children, Jno Foster, Rugh Darlinge, James Hill, James Loyd, Jno. Seaman, Wm. Seaman, Gilbert Seaman.

 

Northumberland County was created by the Virginia General Assembly in 1648 during a period of rapid population growth and geographic expansion. Settlement began in this area of the Northern Neck around 1635. Originally known as the Indian district Chickacoan, the first appearance of the name Northumberland in the colonial records was in 1644. There is an excellent article on the history and culture of early Northumberland County at  http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~bush22031/Indians.html. 

 

The following year, John Mottrom served as the first burgess for the territory in the House of Burgesses which met at the capital of the Virginia Colony at Jamestown.  Northumberland

County is located between the Rappahannock River and Potomac River.  The dividing line for Northumberland County and Westmorland County is the Great Wicommoco River. Six months after arriving in Northumberland County James Hawley received a patent for 10,000 acres at the headwaters of the Matchotick River (Machodoc) which flows into the Potomack River.  The Machodoc River is on the south side of the Potomac just to the south of Nomini Bay and Mt. Holly.    It is just around the point from the Great Wicomico River. Below is a map of the area which is at the entrance of the Potomac River off the the Chesapeake Bay and just south of George Washington's birthplace.  Again, it could be coincidence that there is a Mt. Holly or more than likely it is the headwaters of the Machodoc River and this where James Hawley settled.  This area is in Westmoreland County, today.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Wicocomoco Parrish. From the South East side of Chickacoan River inclusively to the utmost extent of the County downwards. (c. 1657)
Chickacoan Parrish. From the Northwest side of Chickacoan River inclusively to the utmost extent of the County upwards. (c. 1657)
Cople Parish (Westmoreland, ca. 1664) embraced the eastern portion of Westmoreland County and extended westward to unmarked eastern line of Washington Parish. In 1923 [sic] the Council of the Diocese [C of E] established the boundary between Cople and Montrose Parish (est. 1850) as: "… beginning on the Maryland line [nb: water line] at the mouth of Nomini Creek, thence up the said Creek to a headwater thereof approximately one half mile southeast of Nomini Grove, on main County road, thence by a line between Cople and Montross Magisterial districts to the line of Richmond County, All that portions of Westmoreland County lying east of this line to be and remain Cople Parish…" (D V, 1923, 24)
 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

James shows up in the land records of Northumberland County records for many years as a purchaser, seller, or witness.

 

Virginia Northern Neck Land Grants 1694 - 1742
P. 68 5-202: Dennis Fallin of Northumberland Co. 659 A. (109 A. surplus in 550 A granted James Halley 2 June 1650). Surv. by Mr. John Coppedge. In Northumberland Co. in St. Stephens Par. on Great Wicommoco R., on Whays cr., Reason's Cr., Reason's plantation, corner of Cockril & Wilkey, Cole's line, Thomas Smith. 16 June 1719.
and
P. 51 - 4-87:Thomas Sorrell of Westmoreland Co. 21 A. surplus in 100 A. 2 Ro. 37 Per. of 700 A. granted Mr. James Hawley dec'd 26 June 1666. Surv. by Thomas Thompson. Deed for 121 A. 2 Ro. 37 Per. at Herring Cr. of Nominy in Westmoreland Co. adj. Col Willoughby Allertons Mill Pond, Thomas Hawkins, Henry Dunkan dec'd. 26 May 1712
 

James was very involved in the politics of Northumberland County being elected or appointed as a Commissioner for many years starting in 1655 shortly after he arrived in Northumberland County. Peter Knight was also a Commissioner.

 

Virginia County Court Records Deed & Will Abstracts of Northumberland County, Virginia 1650-1655
Record Book 1652-1658


Know all men by these presents that I James Hawley for a valuable consideration have sold unto Martin Cole four Cows marked with a Staple in both ears, one a piece taken out under the left ear, I the said Hawley doe warrant the sd. Cows unto the sd. Cole his heirs & assignees with their increase from all men.
Witness my hand 8 February 1654 /s/ James Hawley Wit: Peter Knight Mr. James Hawley unto Martin Cole and is recorded.

 

P. 123 - p. 54 - 8 Feb 1654
Know all men by these presents that I Martin Cole for a valuable consideration received have sold unto James Hawley his heirs Executors Admrs. and assigns for ever Four hundred acres of Land lying on the North side of Wicommoco River as by Patent will make to appear for Three hundred acres of the sd. Land and the other hundred acres for to join unto the sd. Three hundred acres; All wch: sd. lands of the sd. Cole doe bind me my heirs and assignees to warrant the sd. Fower hundred acres of land unto the sd. James Hawley his heirs Executors and assignees from all men; Witness my hand the 9th of February 1654; Further the sd. Cole doe engage my self that my Wife, Alice Cole, shall deliver up her right and title of the sd. Land.
/s/ Martin Cole
Teste Robert Lambdin, Peter Knight

 

Same Source, P. 123 - p. 54 20 July 1654
Know all men by these presents that I Martin Cole doe assign all my rights title and interest of the land within specified unto James Hawley his heirs and assigns for ever as Witness my hand the 20th day of July 1654
/s/ the mark of Martin Cole
Teste: Tho: Kedby; Dan'l. Little
20 August 1655. This Assignment was acknowledged in Court unto Mr. James Hawley by Martin Cole and the Assignt. and Patent are recorded.

 

Same source

Wm. Spicers Letter of attorney to John Hulett.
Know all men by these presents that I William Spicer do constitute and ordain John Hulett my true and lawfull attorney for me and in my name to sue Martin Cole or Mr. Hawley for a bill due to me with as much power as if I myself were present, witness my hand this 6th day of January 1655.
/s/ The mark of Wm. Spicer.
Witness - John Bennett, John Rafie his mark
20th January 1655 this letter of attorney was recorded.

Same Source, P. 123 - P. 54
20th August 1655 This Sale of Land to Mr. James Hawley was acknowledged in Court by the sd. Martin Cole and is recorded.

 

Northumberland County Record Book 1652-1658, p. 48
Col. Mottrom, Mr. Samuel Smith hath [---] to have some more [---] for court for the better deposeth of business wherefore you [---] authorized to swear for commissioners Mr. Richard [---] Mr. James Hawley and Mr. Wm. Reynolds [---]
Dated the 20th of July 1654. Richard Bennett, Wm. Claiborne

The Bulletin of the Northumberland County Historical Society
Vol. XII - 1975
p. 18 - 19
Commissioners that year [1655] were Matthew Rhedom (sic), James Hawley, Capt. Richard Budd, Capt. John Rogers, Thomas Hopkins, George Colclough, William Thomas, William Presley and William Nutt.
and
At a court held in Northumberland on ....21 July 1656... Mr. James Hawley....
and
Vol. XVIII - 1981
p. 56
22 August 1655
For Wicocomoco Congregation:
Major Samuel Smith, Mr. James Hawley, Jno Haynie; Edw. Coales, Richd Spann (Church Wardens).

 

 Same source, P. 57
Know all men by these presents that I Nicholas Morris do make my trusting friend Mr. John Haynie my true and lawful attorney for to sue and implead and for to do all business in court for me and to proceed in law as he shall think fitting and whatsoever my said attorney shall do therein shall stand in full form and virtue as if I was there present.
Witness my hand the 19th day of August 1655 /s/ Nicholas Morris
Teste. James Hawley, Peter Knight
20th August 1655, This letter of attorney was recorded.

Same source, P. 59
Sarah Kingwell her gift of her son Thomas Kingwell unto John Essex.....
Teste - James Hawley, John Bardon.
and
Same source, P. 60 - Page 58L
An appraisement of the estate of Thomas Coggin deceased taken and appraised the 25th day of August 1655, by John Haynie, Henry Hurst ....
This appraisers sworn before me James Hawley

Same source, P. 64 - Page 61-K
Robert Bradshaw his deposition.
Robert Bradshaw aged or thereabouts....
Jurate coram nobis John Trussell, James Hawley
20th November 1655, This deposition was recorded
 

Same source, P. 61--L
I John Waddy do acknowledge to have sold to Andrew Boyer....October the 29th 1652
Witness - James Hawley, George Dodson
and
Same source, P. 75 - Page 68Q
Abraham Byram his deposition.
The deposition of Abraham Byram aged 28 years or there about sayth upon oath that at the house of Thomas Prichett this despondent heard a dispute between Wm. Spicer and Mr. James Hawley concerning a bill due from Mr. Hawley and Martin Cole likewise of a condition for cask this bill being by Spicer demanded of Mr. Hawley.  Mr. Hawley's answer was that he would not pay the debt until that his cask were set up, the said Mr. Hawley then said that his bargain was not performed and he further said that Martin Coles casks were set up and further this despondent sayth not.
/s/ the mark of Abraham Byram.
20th January 1655, Jurate in court

Ann Hawley

 

We know that Ann Hawley was born about 1615.  On November 20, 1655 she gave a deposition in the abuse case of Martha Morris in Northumberland County where she says she is about 40 years or age.

 

Northumberland County Record Book, 1652-1658
P. 67 - Page 62R
Mrs. Morris her deposition.
Martha Morris aged 46 years of there abouts sworn and examined sayth whereas this despondent was appointed by the [---] peruse the body of Jane Owen of her complaint of [---] and beating of her the said Jane, I do find the said Jane [---] about twelve places on her body beaten black and blue and [---] this despondent sayth no.
Martha Morris her mark
4th [---] 1655
Mrs. Hawley her deposition.
I Ann Hawley aged 40 years or there abouts sworn and examined do testify the same as Mrs. Morris hath done above specified,
/s/ Ann Hawley
Coram me Samuel Smyth, Nicholas Morris, James Hawley
20th November 1655, these depositions were recorded.
and

P. 49 - P. 71 20th of November 1655
Whereas Jane Owen being ye Servt. of Capt. Richard Budd, made a complaint unto this Court of abuse rec'd., by her Mrs. & whereas it doeth appear by the Oaths of Mrs. Morris & Mrs. Hawley, that ye sd. Jane Owen had bout twelve marks black & blew about her, the Court doth therefore order yt: the sd. Capt. Budd shall forthwith: pay all ye charges of Court.

We also know that Ann died shortly after she made this deposition in November 1655.

 

Jane Unknown Horsley Hawley

 

This is a big addition to Ann Mack's research.  I found in the records of Northumberland County that James married Jane Horsley confirming that Anne had died by 1656 because by September of 1656 James had married Jane Unknown Horsley the widow of Ralph Horsley.  James was also appointed administrator of Ralph Horsley's estate.  We can only surmise that they each lost their spouse about the same time and James who had three small children quickly married the widow.  Jane Horsley had an older son Joseph who approved of his Mother's marriage to James Hawley.

 

Northumberland County Orders 1652-1665
Northumberland County Court 20th of September 1656
The court: doth order: that Mr. James Hawley, who marryed with: the Widow & Relict of Ralph Horsley, deceased (with the consent of Joseph Horsley, Son of the sd. Ralph Horsley) have a Commission of Administration of the Estate of the said Ralph Horsley, provided the sd. Mr. Hawley ( ) of ( ) of the sd. Josephs Mother, ( ) upon ( ) appears, & also to give an Inventory & security of the Court: accord: to custom.

 

and

 

Records of Indentured Servants and Certificates for Land Northumberland County, Virginia 1650-1795, p. 38

101 20 Nov 1656 - These are to certify yet according to sufficient proof made before the Court, there is due to Mr. James Hawley, Administrator of the estate of Ralph Horsely decd, 300 Acres of Land for the transportation of these persons following into this Colony (Vizt) Andrew Cockerill, Wm Mundy, Wm Ballingall, Rich: Wall Edward Meers, and one servant called Thomas

 

James Hawley

 

After Anne died and he married Jane he continued to be a Commissioner in Northumberland County and continued to buy and sell land and be involved in the community as can be seen from his land land transactions and commissioner actions.  He continued to be very involved with Peter Knight, his son-in-law and his sons.
 

Northumberland County Record Book 1652-1658,P. 116 - Page 102K
....make no late complaint to Capt. Fleete or any other against the said Mr. Allerton, only excepting their complaint to the Honorable Governor in confirmation of the premises the said Perkatoan which his Great Men have likewise hereunto subscribed at Machoatick Indian Town the 6th day of February 1656
/s/ George Colclough Peckatoan signum
John Rogers Wonussacomen signum
James Hawley Terossamoh signum
Wm Presley Tahorks signum
William Nutt
6th February 1656, this writing was recorded.
and
P. 154 - Page 138K
Mr. Hawleys letter of attorney to Mr. Knight.
Mr. Peter Knight I give you as much power to answer anything concerning Mr. Rice Maddocke as I have myself 20th January 1657
/s/ James Hawley
20th January 1657, this letter of attorney was recorded.
and
p. 161 - Page 143L
John Woods acquit to Alexander Cammell
May the 20th anno 1658
Teste - James Hawley
 

WILLIAM AND MARY COLLEGE
QUARTERLY HISTORICAL MAGAZINE
VOL. IV. OCTOBER, 1895 NO. 2
WASHINGTON AND HIS NEIGHBORS, BY THE EDITOR.
January 25th 1652 - Northumberland County(1)
Mr. Walter Brodhurst The Court doth order that Mr. Nathaniel Pope Attorney of agt. Mr. Nicholas Hayward of London Mercht shall out of the Mr. Pope said Mr. Hayward's estate make present payment of Two thousand pounds of Tobacco & charges unto Mr. Walter Brodhurst for being general Attorney unto the said Mr. Hayward in the year 1651 also Executor.
At a Court held for y County of Northumberland the 21st of July 1656
Present Col. John Trussell Mr. James Hawley
Mr. Hugh Lee Mr. Wm Thomas Comrs
Mr. Matth: Rhodon

p. 35 - P. 55 Northumberland County Court 20th of July 1654
We whose names are underwritten being impaneled to try a difference between John Radford, Chyrurgion, Pltffe, and John Hull, Defendt....
John Haynie, John Hawley....
and
P. 38 - P. 60 Northumberland County Court 20th November 1654
Mr. Knight agt. Col: Mottrom....
/s/ Nich: Morris, James Hawley, Richd: Budd, Matth: Rhoden, Comrs.
and
P. 39 - p. 61 At a Court held for the County of Northumberland the 20th day of August 1655
Present Major Samuel Smyth...James Hawley...Mr. Math: Rhodon, Comrs.
and
P. 43 - P - 65 Northumberland County Court 20th August 1655
August ye 22nd 1655. A list of the Vestry for Chickacoan Congregacon: Leift. Coll. John Trussell, Mr. Hugh Lee, Capt. John Rogers, Mr. Matth: Rhodon.
For Cherry Point Congregacon: Ralph Horsley, Church Warden; Anthony Lenton, George Nott,
For Yeococomoco Congregacon: Mr. Nicholas Jurnew, Jno: Powell, Church Wardens; Richard Holden
For Wicocomoco Congregacon. Major Samuel Smyth. Mr. James Hawley, Jno: Haynie, Edw: Cole, Richd: Spann Churchwardens
For Chinckahan Quarter. Mr. WM Presly, Church Warden, Robert Neuman, John Hull
and
P. 49 - P. 71
Whereas Jane Owen being ye Servt. of Capt. Richard Budd, made a complaint unto this Court of abuse received., by her Mrs. & whereas it doeth appear by the Oaths of Mrs. Morris & Mrs. Hawley, that ye sd. Jane Owen had bout twelve marks black & blew about her, the Court doth therefore order yet: the sd. Capt. Budd shall forthwith: pay all ye charges of Court.
and
P. 52 - P. 113 Northumberland County Court 21st of February 1656/57
Whereas it doth appear unto the Court: that Seth Foster & Mr. Francis Clay are jointly & severally by Bill indebted unto Jane Horsley, the sum of One thousand eighty and five pounds of tobacco: and cask. It is ordered that the sd. Mr. Clay shall forthwith: make payment. of the sd. debt unto Mr. James Hawley, who marryed with ye said Jane Horsley & Court: charges.
P. 55 - P. 78 Northumberland County Court 20th January 1655/56
Whereas it doth appear unto the court yt: Mr. James Hawley and Martin Cole stand bound in a Bill of four hundred and eighty pounds of tobacco & cask unto Symon Cox & by him assigned unto Wm: Spicer, and Whereas it doth appear that the sd. Cox at the same time was bound to set up eight tunn of cask for the sd. Mr. Hawley & Martin Cole, the Court: doth order yt: upon the performance of the cask setting up, that then the sd. Mr. Hawley & Martin Cole shall forthwith: make payment. of the sd. debt of 480 lb of tobacco & cask unto the sd. Wm: Spicer, Assignee of the sd. Cox, else execution.
and
P. 57 - p. 81At a Court held at ye House of Thomas Brewer in ye County of Northumberland the 14th day of February 1655
Present: Mr. Hugh Lee....Mr. James Hawley Comrs.
From ye Petition of Jane Horsley, Widow, the Court doth order yt: the said Widow shall had Administration of all & singular the Estate of her dec’d., Husband, Ralph Horsley, the sd. Widow giving in such security to the next Court as to Law doth belong.
and
p. 62 - P. 86 The 21st of March 1655
Whereas it doth appear unto ye Court yt: Mr. James Hawley doth owe unto Mr. Richard Wright the sum of Two thousand four hundred ninety & eight pounds of tobacco and cask by Bill & Accompt., The Court: doth therefore order yt: the sd. Mr. Hawley shall within ten days make payment. of ye sd. debt unto ye said Mr. Wright or his assignees with Court: charges else execution.
and
P. 70 - p. 96 At a Court: held for ye County of Northumberland the 20th of July 1656
Present Coll. John Trussell....Mr. James Hawley, Comrs.
The Court: doth order that John Larrett in future shall be exempted from paying Country & County Levies, he being very much lame and unable to work & by his Oath taken before Mr. James Hawley, 21st of June last, was (to the best of his knowledge) fifty nine years of age or thereabouts.
and
P. 73 - p. 101
Northumberland County Court 20th of September 1656
The court doth order: that Mr. James Hawley, who marryed with: the Widow & Relict of Ralph Horsley, deceased (with the consent of Joseph Horsley, Son of the sd. Ralph Horsley) have a Commission of Administration of the Estate of the said Ralph Horsley, provided the sd. Mr. Hawley ( ) of () of the sd. Josephs Mother, ( ) upon ( ) appears, & also to give an Inventory & security of the Court: accord: to custom.
and
P. 77 - P. 107 At a Court; held for ye County of Northumberland the 20th of February 1656
Whereas by Order: from ye Governor & Council the Comrs: for this County were strictly commanded to make inquiry of the Complaint of the Machoatick Indians concerning Mr. Isaac Allertons seating upon their Land; And to give a strict account thereof at the next Quarter Court. It is therefor ordered that Mr. Geo: Colclough, Mr. Nicho: Morris, Capt. Rich: Budd, Capt. John Rogers, Mr. James Hawley, Mr. Wm: Presley and Mr. Wm. Nutt, doe (upon the 3d day of February next) meet at the sd. Machoatick Indian Towne and there make inquiry of the premises & according as they find ye matter, to give an account of the same to the Governor & Council at the next Quarter Court:
and
P. 83 - P. 115 Northumberland County Court 21st February 1656/57
Whereas it was ordered at a Court: held the 20th of 7br: last that Mr. Wm: Presly, Administr: of the Estate of Coll. John Mottrom, dec’d., should pay two thousand one hundred seventy & nine pounds of tobacco: and cask out of the proceeds. Estate unto Mr. James Hawley, Administr: of Ralph Horsley, dec’d., And whereas it was further ordered that what Coll. Thomas Speke could make appear due from the sd. Horsley to the sd. Coll. Mottrom, should be abated. Notwithstanding that order, it appearing by the oaths of Coll. Thomas Speke and Mr. Wm: Presly, that the debt ordered to be paid for Wm: Cocke being seven hundred and ten pounds of tobacco: & cask is satisfied, It is therefore ordered that the sd. 710 lb. of tobacco: & with: make payment. of one thousand four hundred sixty and nine pounds of tobacco: & cask (being all that appears due); unto Mr. James Hawley, Administr: as aforesaid., out of the proceeds. Estate according to order:
and
P. 83 - P. 115 Northumberland County Court 21st February 1656/57
Mr. James Hawley agt. Elizabeth Little. this Cause is referred till the next Court: at Mr. Hawley's ( ).
and
P. 99 - P. 140 Northumberland County Court 21st of September 1657
Mr. Geo: Colclough, Guardian of Jos: Horsley, agt. Mr. James Hawley. This Cause is referred till the next Court: in Mr. Hawleys absence.

 In the following deposition James Hawley state that he is 52 years old or thereabouts in 1657.  This would put his birth date as 1605.

Northumberland County Court 1652-1665
p. 3 - p. 148 Northumberland County Court 24th day of November 1657
James Hawley, Gent., aged 52 years or thereabouts, sworn & examined. sayth the very same (verbatim) with the Despondent., Mr. Wm: Nutt, & further sayth not.
Jurate in Cur /s/ James Hawley
and
p. 4 - Page 149 Northumberland County Court 24th day of November 1657
Whereas Walter Weeke, Administrator of ye Estate of Mr. Jno: Rodford, dec'd., commenced a suite agt. Mr. James Hawley & petitioned to this Court: for the payment. of nine hundred pounds of tobacco: and cask & a Cowe & Calf due by Bill from ye sd. Hawley to ye sd. Rodford., And whereas it doth (by sufficient evidence) appear to the Court: that ye sd. debt was in consideration of a parcel of Land sold by the sd. Rodford to the sd. Hawley & the Land not being confirmed in the life time of the said Rodford, It is ordered that ye sd. Sale & Land be returned to ye sd. Administr: to the use of the deceased. Estate & the sd. Bill returned to the sd. Mr. Hawley.
24th day. Present ... Mr. Geo: Colclough, Mr. James Hawley, Capt. Richd: Bud, Mr. Wm: Nutt Comrs.
and
p. 5 - P. 150

Northumberland County Court 24th day of November 1657
Mr. James Hawley being summoned to this Court: at the suite of Simon Cox & no cause of action being found, It is therefore ordered that the sd. Cox be nonsuited & that he forthwith: pay fifty pounds of tobacco: for a nonsuited unto the sd. Mr. Hawley with: Court: charges.
and

Same source, Page 362

JAMES HAWLY, 1000 Acs., Northumberland Co., 13 Mar. 1657, p. 160, head branches of Matchotick Riv., beg. at corner of George Watts. Trans. of 20 pers: Susan & Rebecca Orly, Jno. Hill, Dan. Ryly, Jno. Benton, Sarah Rasee, Mr. Geo. Coltclough, Mrs. Ursula Coltclough, Sarah Tompson, Phillip Nut, Ral. Stevenson, Wm. Osborne, Jno. Highland (Highlander?), Geo. Cuny, Amy Stevens, Amy Yeomans, Elizabeth Esex. Renewed 24 May 1664.

 

Seven years later he sold off 300 acres of his land to John Paine.

 

Same source, Page 432

JOHN PAINE, 406 acs. N'umberland Co., 1 June 1664, p. 110 (608). Beg. on the head of a small Cr. of Machotick Riv., bounding on E. with land of Coll. Lee, Esqr., S. S. W &c. to land of Walter English. 300 acs. purchased of James Hawley & 100 acs. for trans. of 2 pers:  Wm. Young, Jno. Forby.

 In 1657 although Joseph Horsley, James' stepson had approved his Mother's marriage to James Hawley, shortly after the marriage he had petitioned the Court to have George Colclough appointed his Guardian.


p. 6 - p. 152 Northumberland County Court 24th November 1657
Upon the Petition of Mr. Geo: Colclough, Guardian to Joseph Horsley, Son & heir of Ralph Horsley, dec’d., It is ordered that the right of all Lands & Houses (vizt.) two thirds belonging to the sd. Joseph (after division thereof made by four sufficient men to be made choice of by Mr. James Hawley, who married the Relict of the sd. Ralph Horsley, & the sd. Mr. Colclough be forthwith: delivered unto the possession of the said Joseph. This Division to be made by the 15th of Xbr: next, but in case agreement. between the sd. Guardian & Mr. Hawley otherwise then this order:, to be void. And it is further ordered that in the mean time the sd. Mr. Hawley may make use of any Houses belonging to the Estate of the sd. Horsley, dec’d.
and
P. 11 - p. 159 Northumberland County Court 22nd of March 1657/58
At a Court: held for the County of Northumberland the 20th of May 1658 Present Coll. Jno: Trussell, Lt. Coll. Saml: Smyth, Mr. George Colclough, Mr. Nicho: Morris, Mr. James Hawley, Capt. Richard Budd, Mr. Tho: Hopkins Comrs.
and
p. 12 - P. 161 Northumberland County Court 20th of May 1658
Mr. James Hawley having acknowledged himself indebted unto Mr. George Abbott the sum of eight hundred forty and eight pounds of tobacco: and cask; It is therefore ordered that the sd. Mr. Hawley shall forthwith: make payment of the sd. debt unto Mr. Abraham Byram, Attorney of the sd. Mr. Abbott, with: one years forbearance and costs of suite
and
Whereas Mr. James Hawley acknowledged himself indebted unto Jno: Walker, the Assignee of Wm: Colman, the Assignee of John Warren, the sum of six hundred seventy and four pounds of bright and large tobacco: with: cask, It is therefore ordered that the sd. Mr. Hawley shall forthwith: made payment of the sd. Debt unto the said John Walker with: Court: charges.
and
P. 15 - P. 166 At a Court, held for ye County of Northumberland at ye House of Mr. Richard Wright the 26th of May 1658
Present Coll. Jno: Trussell, Mr. Geo: Colclough, Lt. Col. Saml. Smyth, Mr. Peter Knight, Capt. Jno: Rogers, Mr. James Hawley, Mr. Wm. Presly, Comrs.
and
P. 16 - P. 167 Northumberland County Court 20th of May 1658
At an Orphans Court: held for ye County of Northumberland the 3rd of June 1658
Present: Mr. Peter Knight, Capt. Richd: Budd, Mr. Geo: Colclough, Mr. James Hawley, Mr. Thomas Hopkins, Comrs.
and
p. 16 - p. 168 Northumberland County Court 20th of May 1658
We whose names are here under written, being impaneled to debate a difference between Abraham Joyce, Plaintiff, & Mr. James Hawley, Defendant We find nothing due to the Plaintiff, Mrs. Horsley in her Widowhood having a ??? from the sd. Jane Bashawes Estate. Costs of suite were award to the sd. Joyce to pay.
and
p. 17 - p. 168 Northumberland County Court 20th of May 1658
At a Court: held for the County of Northumberland the 20th of July 1658
Present Col. Nno Trussell, Capt. Jno: Rogers, Mr. Peter Knight, Mr. James Hawley, Capt. Richard Budd, Mr. Wm. Presley, Comrs.
and
p. 20 - p. 173 Northumberland County Court 20th of July 1658
Gervase Dodson agt. John Wood, This Cause is referred till the next Court: by request of Mr. James Hawley, Attorney of the sd. Wood
It is ordered by this Court: that Mr. James Hawley bring forth Wm. Bashawes to the next Court: otherwise the sd. Bashawe to be free from the sd. Mr. Hawley & also that he bring forth Elizabeth Perry to the next Court.
and
p. 25 - p. 180 Northumberland County Court 20th of September 1658
Whereas Mr. James Hawley, Administr: of the Estate of Ralph Horsley, dec’d., impleaded Cornelius Robinson for a debt of 600 lb. of tobacco: & cask (with: Interest). as due to the Estate of the sd. Horsley: It appearing to this Court: by Acct. from under the hand of Jno: Malham as also by the Oath of the sd. Cornelius Robinson, that he sd. debt is satisfied. It is therefore ordered that the sd. Robinson be hereby acquitted from the same & the Bill forthwith: delivered up to the sd. Robinson.
and
Whereas Wm: Bashawe, an Orphan, was bound an Apprentice to Ralph Horsley, who (by Indenture) was to teach the sd. Bashawe his trade, being a Taylor. And whereas the sd. Horsley is now dec’d., & the sd. Horsley, his trade altogether being neglected to be taught him, the Court: doth therefore order that the said Mr. Hawley shall forthwith: putt in security for performance of the premises according to Indenture. And that the sd. Orphan shall continue at his said Trade till the expiration of his time of Indenture, & if the said Mr. Hawley shall refuse or neglect to put in security as aforesaid., or to teach the said Orphan his trade, then he to be free from the sd. Mr. Hawley, & likewise the sd. Mr. Hawley to pay Court: charges
It is ordered that Mrs. Hannah Lee, the Attorney of Mr. Hugh Lee, bring forth Margaret Bashawe, an Orphan, together with: her Indenture to the next Court: she being under the Guardianship of the sd. Mr. Lee.
and
P. 27 - Page 183 Northumberland County Court 20th September 1655
It is ordered (with the consent of Mr. James Hawley) that Elizabeth Perry, an Orphan now being under his guardianship shall forthwith: be committed to the care & tuition of Abraham Joyce, who married with the Sister of the sd. Orphan, And it is also ordered (by the voluntary proffer of the sd. Joyce), that he shall use his best endeavors to cause the sd. Elizabeth Perry to be taught to read distinctly in the Bible, and to sew so as she may be capable to make her wearing linen and also to record a Heyder of two years old with all her increase for the use of the sd. Elizabeth & her heirs for ever at or before this next Court., And further that he put in sufficient security for performance of the premises & for all such other her Estate wch: the sd. Mr. Hawley is forthwith: to deliver to the sd. Abraham Joyce: And it is further ordered that the sd. Elizabeth Perry shall remain with: the sd. Joyce the time & space of three years next coming & no longer. And then she to beat her own disposes.
and
p. 29 - p. 186 Northumberland County Court 20th of 9br 1658
Present Mr. Peter Knight, Mr. James Hawley, Capt. Richard Budd, and Capt. Richd: Budd, Mr. Nicholas Morris, Mr. Tho: Hopkins, Mr. Wm: Nutt, Comrs.
and
p. 34 - P. 192 Northumberland County Court 2nd of October 1658
Joseph Horsley agt. James Hawley. This Cause is referred till the next Court: by Mr. Hawleys request
and
p. 34 - P. 193 Northumberland County Court 22nd of October 1658
The difference depending between Mr. Charles Ashton, Plt., and Mr. James Hawley & Jno: Knight, Defendants, being tried by a Jury whose names are subscribed, vizt.
Mr. Wm.: Thomas, Thomas Brewer, Henry Toppin, Richard Spann, Mr. Nicho: Jernow, Simon Richardson, Antho: Linton, Justinian Tennis, John Motley, Abraham Joyce, Wm: Colman, Jno: Bailes
We of the Jury being empannelled to try the Cause between Mr. Charles Ashton, Plant: & Mr. James Hawley & John Knight, Defendants, do award as followeth: vizt., That the Plaintiff shall forthwith: have a sufficient able Servant delivered him by the Defendants,: Mr. Hawley to allow for two thirds thereof & John Knight the other third: And each party to beare his own charges, the sd. Servant to have one complete year to serve Wm: Thomas
and
P. 37 - P. 197 Northumberland County Court 21st of January 1658/59
The Court: humbly presenteth & recommend Coll. Jno: Trussell, Mr. George Coilclough and Mr. James Hawley to the Honorable: Governor & Council to elect & appoint a Sheriff for this County according as they, the Honorable: Governor and Council. in their Judgments. shall think most meet and fit
and
Major George: Colclough against James Hawley. This Cause is referred till the next Court by the request of Mr. Peter Knight, on the behalf of the sd. Mr. Hawley.
and
P. 63 - p. 232 - Northumberland County Court 22nd of November 1659
Whereas Mr. James Hawley was warned by ye Sherriff (according to an Order of the last Orphans. Court) to appear this Court; & produce an Account. of all such Estate as in the hands belonging to any Orphans:, he having disobeyed & not observed ye same; It is therefore ordered that Mr. Hawley be fined 300 lb. of tobacco; & cask & shall forthwith make payment. thereof, to be employed for the use of ye County.
and
P. 63 - p. 233 Northumberland County Court 22nd of November 1659
The Court doth hereby empower and authorize Abraham Joyce forthwith to take William Bashawe out of ye possession and guardianship of Mr. James Hawley together with all such Estate as belongeth to him, And if any of the sd. Estate hath suffered damage through ye neglect of the sd. Hawley, It is hereby ordered that he shall make repairs on thereof (and that the sd. Wm: Bashawe shall be & remain with: the sd. Abraham Joyce) together with is Estate until further order.
and
P. 83 - P. 276 Northumberland County Court 5th of September 1660
And that Wm: Bashawe, one of the sd. Orphans, bee brought to the sd. Court by Abraham Joyce, who is his Guardian. And it is also ordered that Mr. James Hawley make his personal appearance at the sd. Orphans Court & shall then give an Account. of the Estate of the sd. Wm: Bashawe, he the sd. Hawley having formerly had the Guardianship of the sd. Wm Bashawe, And that the Sherriff give notice hereof to the sd. Mr. Hawley
and
P. 98 - P. 260 Northumberland County Court October 1660
Whereas it doth appear unto ye Court that Gershon Cromwell standeth indebted unto Mr. James Hawley as Administrator of the Estate of Ralph Horsley, dec’d., the sum of one thousand pounds of tobacco and cask & four barrels of Indian Corn by Bill & is departed: this Colony without making satisfaction; It is therefore ordered upon the Petition of the sd. Mr. Hawley that an Attachment shall bee awarded agt. the Estate of the sd. Cromwell for the sd. tobacco and Corn with charges &c.

In 1662 Peter Knight is ordered to take James Hawley and his son Edward's depositions because they live out of the County.  Are they living in the part of Northumberland County that became Westmoreland County?  James continues to buy land in Northumberland County.  I didn't find land records for him in any other County.

Order Book Abstracts of Northumberland County, Virginia 1661 - 1665
P. 36 - p. 325 Northumberland County Court 20th November 1662
Whereas Mr. James Hawly & his son, Edward, are witnesses to the Last Will and Testament. of Robert Boggis, dec'd., in regard the sd. witnesses live out of the County. It is therefore ordered that Mr. Peter Knight take the depositions of the sd. witnesses for the proof of the sd. Will ...
 

Northumberland County, Virginia Record Book 1658-1662
P. 1 - P. 256. July 20, 1658
Mr. Wm. Presly his Accompt upon the Estate of Col Jno: Mottrom dec’d. The Estate of Coll. Jno: Mottrom dec’d. Paid Mr. Maddock by order: To Mr. Francis Clay by order., To Mr. Hawley in pt. of his Order: ....To Mr. Peter Knight pt. of Order.....
/s/ WM. Presly
and
P. 2 - P. 3 3d June 1658
Accompt of Wm. Bashawes Cattle. Vizt ( ) years increase 2 calves - 5; ( ) Cattle vizt. ) _ Heyfer - 2; ( ) increase p me James Hawley
3d June 1658 Jurate in Cur et Recorder.
and
P. 14 - P. 11 20th 7br: 1658
William Bedlam aged 35 years or thereabouts....
Sworn before us Peter Knight, James Hawley /s/ William Bedlam
20th 7br: 1658 This Dept was recorded.
and
P. 80 - p. 56 5 February 1600
Knower all men by these presents that I James Hawley for & in consideration of my love & affection I do give unto my Grand Child Elizabeth Knight one Cow Calf cropped on both ears a staple underneath the left ear & over keeled under the right ear & a slit, the sd. Elizabeth Knight to enjoy the sd. Cowe Calf with her increase to her & Her heirs for ever; Witness my hand this 15th day of February 1660
Test Edward Hawley, his market /s/ James Hawley
26th February 1660. This Deed of Gift was acknowledged in Court by Abraham Bryam. Attorney of the sd. James Hawley and is recorded.
Know all men by these presents that I James Hawley do make my loving Friend, Abraham Byram, my true & lawfull Attorney to acknowledge this Bill of Sale in Court;
Witness my hand this 5th of February 1660
Witness Richard Robards /s/ James Hawley
20th Febry: 1660. This Letter of Attorney: was recorded.
and
P. 81 - P. 56 Know all men by these presents that I Peter Knight for a valuable consideration have sold unto John Nicholls his heirs & assignees Eight hundred ( ) side of Wicocomoco River ( ) bounding Northerly ( ) woods, a double length ( ) Mr. Robert King now ( ) that Mr. James Hawley ( ) Swamp called by the name ( ) above sd., Land the ( ) & assignees for ever ( ) to the sd. Nicholls his heirs & assignees for ever; Witness my hand & seal the 28th day of ( )
Witness Tho: Williams.
Edward Hawley, his mark
/s/ Peter Knight
If this Bill of Sale be not from another to be made & I will sign it.
/s/ Peter Knight
I give my consent to this above sd. Sale of Land /s/ Anne Knight her mark:
6th June 1661 This Sale of Land was acknowledged in Northumberland County Court by the above named Peter Knight & the sd. Sale is recorded.
 

Northumberland County Record Book 1662 - 1666
P. 6 - P. 94 10 Feb 1662
In the Name of God Amen. Be it knowne unto all men that presents that I Robert Boggus of Great Wicocomoco being in perfect health & strength of memory doe here make this my last Will & Testament.....
/s/ Robert Boggis
/s/ James Hawley
/s/ Edward Hawley
26th 1662 Mr. James Hawley & Edward Hawley testify upon Oath before me that this Will Robert Boggis did acknowledge & deliver it as his act and deed.
/s/ Peter Knight
According to an Order of Northumberland County Curt giving Commission to Mr. Peter Knight to swear the witnesses; this Will was proved & recorded the Tenth of February
1662Northumberland County Orders 1652 - 1665


Order Book Abstracts of Northumberland County, Virginia 1661 - 1665
P. 5
P. 284 Northumberland County Court 22nd of July 1661
Mr. James Hawley confessing himself indebted unto James Mackgreger in the sum of 122 lb. of tobacco. a cask, It is therefore ordered that the sd. Mr. Hawley shall forthwith make payment. of the sd. Debt unto the sd. James Mackgreger with costs.
and
p. 10, p. 291 Northumberland County Court 21st of October 1661
Whereas it doth appear unto the Court that Jno: Clarke standeth indebted unto Mr. James Hawley in the sum of 680 lbs. of tobacco: and cask upon the balance of Accounts being the remainder of a Bill. It is therefore ordered that the sd. Jno: Clarke shall forthwith make payment. of the sd. sum according to Act of Assembly (being old Debt) unto the s. Mr. Hawley with costs.
and
P. 17 p. 300 Northumberland County Court 20th of January 1661/62
It is ordered that those causes bee referred till the next Court (vizt.) Richard Spann agt. James Hawley:....
and
P. 36 - p. 325 Northumberland County Court 20th November 1662
Whereas Mr. James Hawley & his son, Edward, are witnesses to the Last Will and Testament. of Robert Boggis, dec’d., in regard the sd. witnesses live out of the County. It is therefore ordered that Mr. Peter Knight take the depositions of the sd. witnesses for the proof of the sd. Will ...


Northumberland County Record Book 1662-1666
P. 36 - P. 115
To all & c., Whereas & c., Now Know yee that I the sd: Samll: Mathewes Esqr. & c., give & grant unto Mr. James Hawley Five hundred & fifty acres of Land in the County of Northumberland & on the North side of Great Wicocomoco River bounding South upon the sd: River, Westerly upon a Creek which divides this land from the land of John Johnson, Easterly upon Mr. Ashtons Creek & upon the land of sd. Ashton, & ( ) the line of marked trees which divides this land from the land of W: Betts, Northerly running ( ) also it bounds Westerly upon a line ( ) from the main woods above the ( ) Creek towards the land of the ( ) three hundred parte thereof ( ) Patent unto Martin Cole herein ( ) 1650 & by the sd: Cole assigned ( ) acknowledged & recorded in the County Court of Northumberland as ( ) two hundred & fifty acres ( ) the transportation of Five persons whose names are in the Records under this Patent, To have & to hold &c. Dated ( ).
/s/ Samll: Mathewes W. Claiborne, Secr.
Know all men by these presents that I James Hawley for me and my heirs doe assign all my right & title to the within mentioned Patent unto Wm: Leech his heirs & assigns ( ) from all person or persons; Witness my hand this ( ) Octbr: 1662
/s/ James Hawley
Teste Leod: Howson, Peter Knight
10th Decembr: 1663. This Assignment was acknowledged in Northumberland County Court by Mr. Peter Knight, Attorney of the sd: Mr. James Hawley & recorded with the Patent
Know all men by these presents that I James Hawley doe make my loving Friend, Peter Knight, my true & lawfull Attorney for me for to acknowledge in Court a Patent of Five hundred & fifty acres of land that I sold unto Mr. William Leech & what my said Attorney shall doe therein shall stand in as full force & virtue; Witness my hand the 17th of August 1663.
/s/ James Hawley
Teste John Paine his mark
10th December 1663. This Letter. of Attorney was recorded.
and
p. 70 - P. 143
To all & c., whereas & c., Know ye yt: I ye sd: Francis Moryson Esqr., & c. give & grant unto Wm: Thomas... Southerly upon the Land of James Hawley....
/s/ Fran: Moryson Thos: Ludwell, Secr.


Northern Neck of Virginia Historical Magazine - December, 1972
P. 2350
As does this: 20th August 1655
I, John Earle, do give power to my loving friend, Richard Flynt, by acknowledging in court the sale of land to Wm. Thomas as I myself were present, witness my hand, etc. John. Earle. Test., James Hawley


Virginia Patent Book No. 4
John Paine 406 acs. N'umberland Co., 1 June 1664, p. 110 (608). Beg. On the head of a small Cr. of Machotick Riv. [Machodoc], bounding on E. with land of Coll. Lee, Esqr., S. S. W. &c. to land of Walter English. 300 acs. purchased of JAMES HAWLEY & 100 acs. for trans. of 2 pers: Wm. Young, Jno. Forby

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