Thomas Jeffries - How many wives?

Started by Cynthia Curtis, A183502, US7875087 on Monday, June 26, 2023
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Thomas Jeffries MP
Gender: Male
Birth: 1681
Richmond County, Virginia Colony, British Colonial America
Death: April 11, 1733 (51-52)
North Farnham Parish, Richmond County , Virginia, British Colonial America
Place of Burial: Richmond, Virginia, United States
Immediate Family:
Son of Edward Jeffries and Elizabeth Jeffries (Wilson)
Husband of Mary Jeffries (Miskell); Elizabeth Jeffryes (Jerome); Silent Jeffries (Johnson) and Elizabeth Jeffery

To make it even more fun, https://www.colonial-settlers-md-va.us/getperson.php?personID=I7846... has 2 different wives.

1) Elizabeth Hill
2) Mary Travers

[Thomas GEFFERYS mar. twice;

by his first wife, Elizabeth, he had Betty (b.1710), Winnifred (b.1712), Hester (b.1714), and William (h.1716).

By his second wife, Mary, he had Margaret,(b.1722), Anne (b.1724), Thomas (b. ? ), Mary (b. ? ), Priscilla (b.1732), and Travers (b.1735). NFPR, p.67, AB 1, p.166.]

https://www.familysearch.org/tree/person/details/LDBY-N2M Shows similar to Colonial settlers

https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Jeffries-94 Has wife https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Bryant-815

Silent was named in her father's will dated 1703, she was not yet 16 years old at the time, thus her birth could not have been before 1687.[1] Silent married two men, Thomas Jeffries and Thomas Simpson. A 1711 deed named "Thomas Jeffereys and Silent Jeffereys his wife, " [2] Thomas Jeffreys was dead by 1736 and the men tasked with dividing his estate between his widow and orphans listed children as Ann, Catherine, Silent, Elizabeth, and Thomas. [3] When her second husband, Thomas Simpson died in 1756 he appointed his "beloved wife Silent" as his executrix. [4]

Thomas Jeffries, of Overwharton Parish Is the same as Thomas Jeffries, of North Farnham Parish with different parents

Silent Simpson Does not match the Silent Bryant above

This is not going to be easy.

Let’s note parents in child profiles, and colonial settlers is usually a reliable source.

Thomas Jeffries (d. 1733), son of Thomas Jeffries & Anne Covington, m. Silent Bryan(t), daughter of Richard Bryant & Anne. Some show her as a Johnson. She m/ 2nd John Simpson. Ch: Nathaniel, James, Ann, Katherine, Silent, Thomas, and Elizabeth Jeffries.

Thomas Jeffries, of Overwharton Parish son of Thomas Jeffries, Jr & Anne Jeffries married Silent Simpson daughter of Dr. Richard Bryant, of Stafford County & Anne Bryant

Thomas Jeffries, (d. 1740) son of Edward Jeffries & Elizabeth Wilson, married 1) Elizabeth Hill 2) Mary.
daus. Elizabeth, Winifred, Easter, Margaret, Anne, Mary, and Priscilla.
sons William and Thomas.

Thomas Jeffries, of North Farnham Parish son of Edward Jeffries & Elizabeth Jeffries Married Elizabeth Jeffries & Mary Jeffries

I’m not sure of the parents for Elizabeth Kelley

Resolved for now.

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