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Family of Thomas TIMMONS and Mary --?--

Husband: Thomas TIMMONS (1650?-1707?)
Wife: Mary --?-- ( - )
Children: Samuel TIMMONS (1690?-aft1761)
Thomas TIMMONS (1684-1734)
Mary TIMMONS ( - )

Husband: Thomas TIMMONS

Name: Thomas TIMMONS
Sex: Male
Father: -
Mother: -
Birth 1650 (app)
Death 1707 (app) (age 56-57) Stafford County, VA

Wife: Mary --?--

Name: Mary --?--
Sex: Female
Father: -
Mother: -

Child 1: Samuel TIMMONS

Name: Samuel TIMMONS
Sex: Male
Birth 1690 (app) Northumberland Co, VA
Death aft 1761 (age 70-71) Frederick Co, VA

Child 2: Thomas TIMMONS

Name: Thomas TIMMONS
Sex: Male
Birth 29 Sep 1684 Northumberland Co., VA
Death 14 Aug 1734 (age 49) Stafford Co., VA

Child 3: Mary TIMMONS

Name: Mary TIMMONS
Sex: Female

Note on Marriage

Thomas Timmons must have been fairly wealthy as he took 3 servants 1674. (Gor. Johnson on 30 Mar. for 4 Years, Baldiwine Thomas for 4 Years and Charles Digby in Apr. for 5 years.)

 

From Northern Neck Grants No. 2, 1694-1700, p. 160-161 (Reel 288). 22 May 1695, Location Northumberland County Virginia, 350 acres adjoining John Adams, Thomas Timmons and near the Trickshoe Swamp. And Northern Neck Grants No. 4, 1710-1712, p. 44 (Reel 289). 28 August 1711 Location: Stafford County. Grantee(s): Timmons, Thomas and Allen, William. Description: 164 acres.

8 April 1724. Location: Stafford County. Description: 100 acres on the north side of Acquia (Being escheat land of John Skiel). Source: Northern Neck Grants A, 1722-1726, p. 34, folio (Reel 290).

Note on Husband: Thomas TIMMONS

Source: David Mason

According to Virginia Colonial Abstracts Thomas Timmons owned land in in Northumbria in 9 Oct 1674. The land adjoins Wm. Addams, Bates branch, Thomas Addams and Rd. Rice.

 

From "Northumberland County VA Church Record of Birth and Deaths 1650-1810" by Gail M. Walczyk, Peters Row Publishing: Timins, Ann, Daughter to Thomas born Oct. 29, 1681; Timins, Thomas, Son to Thomas born Sept. 29, 1684. These are the sister and brother of the Samuel above. 4 Virginia Northern Neck Land Grants, 1694-1742 by Gertrude E. Gray, 28 Nov 1739. (Stafford NN Pat Bk ) lists a Charles HARDING of Stafford County 269 acs. Adjacent to Samuel TIMMONS now PEYTON'S and Joseph COMBES, near South Run of Chappawamsick, Brent Town Road. This Joseph Combes is the son, or Grandson of the John Combs that arrived with Thomas Timmons in 1669. Joseph Combs is also listed along with Samuel and John Timmons in the Shenandoah Store Day Book, Town of Winchester, Frederick Co, VA (present-day Clark Co).

 

Thomas Timmons inventory is listed in Stafford County VA Will Book M 1729-1748. "An inventory of all the goods and chattels that was the Estate of Thomas Timmons of Stafford County deced take and appraised by us the Subscribers being the persons appointed for that purpose… items listed and valued… (including William Egleton a servant man, Ann Hall a servant woman, a servant man named Charles Harding, a servant man named Thomas Brown…) Total 104.14.9 pounds. Appraisers Thos. Ashby, Tho Harrison, Edwd. Graham, Elex. Beach, Exer. Samuel Timmons. At Court held for Stafford County 14th August 1734. (Note that John Timmons enlisted in Captain Stephen Ashby's Company in 1777. The The Timmons & Ashby's are also together in Hopkins County, Kentucky as documented in a 1852 deposition by a John Timmons, supporting the Revolutionary War pension claim for the wife of Peter Ashby, Winnifred Timmons - Record Group 15, Records of the Veterans Administration, Revolutionary War Pension and Land Warrant Application Files, R285, M804, pages 29 & 30.)

Note on Wife: Mary --?--

From Va. Colonial Abstracts -Northumbria Collectanea 1647-1720 M-Z; p.599, Roberts, Mary. Deed 16 Dec. 1707. Mary Roberts, Widow of Westmoreland Co. and Thomas Timmonds of the Middle Parish in Stafford Co. son and heir apparent of Tho Timmonds late deceased, sell George Dawking of St. S. par, N Co. for 6000 lbs. Tobo, land near Bebe's Neck. Adjs. land of Rd Rice and Tho Addams, Chicacone Branch, part of a track of land which Wm. Garner bought of sd Richd Rice and by him sold to Thomas Timonds, father of Tho Timonds part of these present by deed date 9 Oct. 1674 and ack 18 Nov. 1674. The land adjoins Wm. Addams, Bates Branch, Tho Addams and Rd. Rice. Signed by Mary x Roberts and Thomas Timmons. Wit: Wm x Warwick, Wm Worwick, junr and Wm. Dawkins. Rerecorded 20 June 1711 by Geo Dawking.

Note on Child 1: Samuel TIMMONS

Source: Includes David Mason

Samuel and John lived in the town of Winchester in the time period of 1760-61.

 

From "Northumberland Co., VA Apprenticeships 1650-1750" by W. Preston Haynie - Page 31, entry #151: 17 May 1704-Samuell Timons ten years old the 11th day of June next with his mother Mary Roberts her consent is bound in Court to serve George Dawkins till nineteen years of age the said George to give him nineteen months schooling, endeavor to teach him the Trade of a Carpenter 7 at the end of said terme to give him a new suit of serge cloaths. OB 1699-1713, part 1, 288. Apparently, this means that Samuel's father, Thomas died in Frederick Co, VA. between 1694 and 1704 with his wife Mary marrying a Roberts.

 

From Va. Colonial Abstracts -Northumbria Collectanea 1647-1720 M-Z; p.599, Roberts, Mary. Deed 16 Dec. 1707. Mary Roberts, Widow of Westmoreland Co. and Thomas Timmonds of the Middle Parish in Stafford Co. son and heir apparent of Tho Timmonds late deceased, sell George Dawking of St. S. par, N Co. for 6000 lbs. Tobo, land near Bebe's Neck. Adjs. land of Rd Rice and Tho Addams, Chicacone Branch, part of a track of land which Wm. Garner bought of sd Richd Rice and by him sold to Thomas Timonds, father of Tho Timonds part of these present by deed date 9 Oct. 1674 and ack 18 Nov. 1674. The land adjoins Wm. Addams, Bates Branch, Tho Addams and Rd. Rice. Signed by Mary x Roberts and Thomas Timmons. Wit: Wm x Warwick, Wm Worwick, junr and Wm. Dawkins. Rerecorded 20 June 1711 by Geo Dawking.

 

From "Northumberland County VA Church Record of Birth and Deaths 1650-1810" by Gail M. Walczyk, Peters Row Publishing: Timins, Ann, Daughter to Thomas born Oct. 29, 1681; Timins, Thomas, Son to Thomas born Sept. 29, 1684. These are the sister and brother of the Samuel above. 4 Virginia Northern Neck Land Grants, 1694-1742 by Gertrude E. Gray, 28 Nov 1739. (Stafford NN Pat Bk ) lists a Charles HARDING of Stafford County 269 acs. Adjacent to Samuel TIMMONS now PEYTON'S and Joseph COMBES, near South Run of Chappawamsick, Brent Town Road. This Joseph Combes is the son, or Grandson of the John Combs that arrived with Thomas Timmons in 1669. Joseph Combs is also listed along with Samuel and John Timmons in the Shenandoah Store Day Book, Town of Winchester, Frederick Co, VA (present-day Clark Co).

 

Thomas Timmons inventory is listed in Stafford County VA Will Book M 1729-1748. "An inventory of all the goods and chattels that was the Estate of Thomas Timmons of Stafford County deced take and appraised by us the Subscribers being the persons appointed for that purpose… items listed and valued… (including William Egleton a servant man, Ann Hall a servant woman, a servant man named Charles Harding, a servant man named Thomas Brown…) Total 104.14.9 pounds. Appraisers Thos. Ashby, Tho Harrison, Edwd. Graham, Elex. Beach, Exer. Samuel Timmons. At Court held for Stafford County 14th August 1734. (Note that John Timmons enlisted in Captain Stephen Ashby's Company in 1777. The The Timmons & Ashby's are also together in Hopkins County, Kentucky as documented in a 1852 deposition by a John Timmons, supporting the Revolutionary War pension claim for the wife of Peter Ashby, Winnifred Timmons - Record Group 15, Records of the Veterans Administration, Revolutionary War Pension and Land Warrant Application Files, R285, M804, pages 29 & 30.)

 

Samuel Timmons was willed 1500 acres "on the North side of the Beaver Dams [creek]" near the Potomac River by John Cook on 26 December 1732, proved 11 April 1733 ("The Virginia Magazine of History and Biography, " p. 356). The land was in payment for 1,261 pounds of tobacco due to Samuel.

 

"In 1736, when Lord Fairfax first visited the Shenandoah Valley, he stopped at the home of Samuel Timmons located on the east side of the Shenandoah River." Annals of Clarke County, Virginia: Old Homes, Families, Etcetera of the Southern by Stuart Ellett Brown, Lorraine F. Myers, Eileen M. Chappel - Clarke County (Va.) - 1983, Page 25. Also - Virginia Baron: The Story of Thomas, 6th Lord Fairfax, By Stuart E. Brown p.76 "Thus, Fairfax descended Ashby's Gap via an old buffalo trail which turned south "under the side of the mountain" and passed "behind" or to the east of the Blue Ball, an 1,122 foot conical-shaped mountain bordering the Shenandoah River, thence proceeding to the home of Samuel Timmons which was located on the east side of the Shenandoah a short distance below the present Clarke-Warren County line on land which, in 1731 had been pre-empted by one of the "Kings" sons, Col. Landon Carter of "Sabine Hall". "

 

From VIRGINIA NORTHERN NECK LAND GRANTS 1694-1742; Comp. by Gertrude E. Gray; Genealogical Publishing Co., Inc.; Baltimore, MD; 1987: p. 133: Book E page 242-243: Mr. Joseph Combs of Stafford County, 1343 acres in said county, on branches of Acquia [creek] adj his land, John Warner, James Butler, Jno. Green nor John Rall's, George English now Mr. Blackburn's, Robert Ashby, Thomas Barber, on Beaver Dam Br. Surveyed by Mr. John Warner 8 April 1741. Joseph Combs of Stafford Co 413 acres in Stafford Co on Chappawomsick S. Run adj. Capt. John Lee, Richard Fristow, Samuel Timmons formerly Mr. John Cook's, Brenttown Road, Combs's land. Surv by Mr. John Warner. 9 Apr. 1741. (This land is on the East side of the Shenandoah River near Blue Ball mountain. Blue Ball mountain is near Millwood, VA, but Samuel's land was on the East side of the river. )

 

Frederick County Order Book 3 (1748-1751) - 16 November 1749 O. S., FOB 3, p. 172 Leonard Helms, Samuel Timmons & Henry Hardin is hereby Appointed to View Mark & lay of a Road from the Hollow near Kerseys to the River the most convenient & best way to the Ferry commonly called Kerseys & make report thereof to the next Court.

 

There are several records for Samuel in the Order Books, the last is 16 February 1749.