Lt Colonel Henry Meese, Sr.

Not the father of Grace Arrowsmith

Col. Henry Meese

• Born 1628 in Overwarton, Oxfordshire, England
• Died 5 Apr 1682 in St. Katherine Creechurch, London, England
• Son of Robert Meese and Mercy Brent
• Husband of Ann (Pert) Meese — married 1675 in Mountnessing, Essex, England

Children:

1. Anne Meese. Died 1719 in St. Pauls, Covenant Garden, London, England. Unmarried.
2. Henry Meese. Born 10 May 1678 in St. Katherine Creechurch, London, Middlesex, England. Died before 20 Jan 1721 in London, Middlesex, England. unmarried.
3. Francis Meese (daughter) Born before 14 Aug 1679 in St. Katherine Creechurch, London, Middlesex, England. No further information.
4. John Meese. born before 1681. (Possibly the second husband of Mary Grigsby, widow of Benjamin Newton.)

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Lieutenant Colonel Henry Meese, one time Merchant of London, resided in Maryland and Virginia where he served in the Virginia House of Burgesses. Lord Baltimore 1658 conferred seignorial honours on him by the grant of Worton Manor. He returned to Great Britain where he died, believing that he left issue in Virginia.

Henry Meese was a rich London Merchant who first came to Maryland in about 1654.[2] He formed a partnership and close friendship with Philip Calvert, one time Governor of Maryland (1660-1661) and youngest son of Lord Baltimore, proprietor of Maryland.[3] Henry began acquiring land in Virginia in 1665.[4] He left the Colony in 1669-1670, returning to live in England. In 1675 he married Anne Pert, who came with a healthy dowry. Together they lived in London.[5] Henry imported tobacco from Virginia and exported items of daily living to Virginia. Anne and Henry had four children: Henry, John, Anne and Frances. Henry died in London in 1682. He bequeathed his land in Virginia to his children. [6] Henry's daughter, Ann Meese lived in London, unmarried, until her death in 1719. She requested to be buried next to her mother at Mountnessing and made bequest to her mother's sisters; Dorothy Pert, Mary Pert, Elizabeth Pert and Alice Pert. [7]

'Col B Henry Meese, Col. of Overwharton Parish, originally from Oxfordshire, England d. 1681-1682 London, England M. Notes: Burgess of Stafford, VA -- Hening's Statutes, Virginia Assembly, Vol II (of XIII) New York, 1823 PP. 249-250, Journal of the Grand Assembly, Held at James City, the 23d day of October, 1666 ,by adjournment from the fifth of June 1666. Also, 05 Apr 1665 (Stafford OB, 1664-1668) ARRIVED IN VA about 1650---Virginia Biography, Volume I-II--page 136 'LT. COLONEL HENRY MEESE - 2000 acs. Stafford Co., 7 June 1666, p. 514, (630 ) S. side of Potomack Cr. 1000 acs.beg. on E. side of a Sw. and small gutt deviding this and land now in possession of sd. Meese, extending S. &c. to a great E. br. of Whiptewasin Cr. & 1000 acs. bounded N. by sd. 1000 acs., E. by land of Thomas Griggs, W. by land now in possession of Mr. Wm. Horton and Mr. Wm. Heaberd. 1000 acs. by pattent dated 20 Oct. 1665 and 1000 acs. due for transport of 20 persons: Jno. Hale, Neale O dannell, Wm. Rushton, Andrew Lewis, Richd. Cole, Andrew Dollert, Charles Elliott, Abraham Bechington, Peter Codring, Robert May, Roger Collingwood, Richd. Plimridg, Jno. Plasin, Jno. Barrett, Ri. Thorpe, An Hayes, Jno. Mader, Gabriell Thorpe, Wm. Wmson, Jno. Scolcroft.

• Not the same as Henry Mace/Mosse who left a will in 1675 of St Katherine Cree Church as there is no proof that the Col from Stafford ever was on a ship manifest going back to England brought forth. The Col in Stafford was associated with his James River plantation named Overwarton named after his place in England from when he hailed in Overwarton Parish (Source: _____put here). The death date of Col Henry Meese of Stafford is not listed anywhere that anyone can find, yet. Source: American Wills Proved in London.
  

Lieut.-Col. Henry Meese, one-time Merchant of London, resided in Maryland and Virginia where he served in the Virginia House of Burgesses. Lord Baltimore 1658 conferred seignorial honors on him by the grant of Worton Manor. He returned to Great Britain where he died, believing that he left issue in Virginia. (Source: _______+_/
Compare the will of the Katherine Cree Church Henry Meese and note that they can not be the same, time-wise. The dates don't work. The WILL:1675 Henry MEESE, [MACE, MOSSE], citizen and draper of London, [of St. Katherine Cree-church], merchant, dated 1681 Jan 12. By articles of 1675 Apr 16 between me, Frances PERT of Mountnessing, Essex, widow and exex. Of Henry PERT Esq. Of Mountnessing, I contracted to marry my now wife, the eldest daughter of the said Henry PERT, and to settle estate on her to the value of L200. I therefore leave to my wife my entire estate save for the following legacy. To my four minor children Henry, John, Anne and Frances MEESE [MACE] all my plantatins and lands in Virginia. My said wife to be exex. Witness: Benjamin MOSSE, [MACE] scrivener, Thomas BIRCHALL and Thomas JOHNSON. Proved 1682 Apr 5 by the exex. Named. (PROB 11/369/47).

Spouse: Wife of the Assemblyman of Stafford as he is listed in the Virginia Assemblyman List named as Mary Ann along with her husband, by name, in the their grandson, John Crafford/)(sic -Stafford) in 1733 and so his grandmother, whom he will the land BACK to, had to be alive and not dead for the probated will to have been proven as it was by Justice Grigsby in 1733 and is found in the Will Book of Accomack Co.

Col Henry Stafford - John (1st) Ann (1st) - these children were all grown at the time of the Henry Mosse will in England, another reason the two men are not the same.

Col Henry Meese of Stafford was married to one wife who is mentioned in the will of his grandson, John Crafford/Stafford as being married to his grandmother Mary Meese. in one sentence and Mary Amees, in the next sentence, in his deed of land back to his grandmother from whence the land came to her from seized land of the Patawomecks and returned to them, which said land was Acquan 824 A Land. This will was probated by Justice Grigsby in 1733 and it mentions both grandparents, Col Henry Meese and wife Mary. There is not a slight chance that this Col Meese is the same who married Ann Pert in England. Asking for a removal of Ann Pert as wife of the Col Meese of Stafford land 824 A Acquan Land.

• Not the wife of Col Henry Meese of Stafford - - Anne Pert b. 1675 and disputed as being married to the person for this profile...- the children named in Henry Meese’s will were all very young infants of his supposed last wife Ann Pert. Henry, John (2nd), Anne (2nd) and Francis. Ann is disputed as being a wife of this particular Col Henry Meese. Reasons are 1. Greater than 50 years age difference; 2. Anne (Pert) Meese of England is close to same age as John Meese; 3. .John Meese, 2nd born after the death of his father Colonel Henry Meese, Sr

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Me~Fitzwater~Dad~Arlie Fitzwater~Grandpa William Fitzwater~his mother~Mary Bailes~her father~Robert Bailes~his father~Solomon Bailes~his mother~Mary Foster~her father George Foster~his mother Sarah Hughes~ her mother ELIZABETH GRIGSBY~her mother(1st Indian blood)~SUSANNAH REDMOND b 1703 b 1752 Stafford VA ~her parents~WILLIAM REDMOND b abt 1681 Safford VA d? married ELIZABETH (possibly Catherine) ELKINS b abt 1685 d ?. WILLIAM REDMOND's parents~ JOHN (Wm) REDMOND b abt 1650 d ? Stafford VA married ANNE MEESE b abt 1660 d ? dau of Col. HENRY MEESE b abt 1630 married MARY WAHANGANOCHE b abt 1645 d ? she was the dau of CHIEF WAHANGANOCHE and also sister to KEZIAH ARROYAH.

There is another tie to this tribe thru MARY WILLIAMS b? d? 1st wife of RICHARD ELKINS b 1669 d 1746 Stafford VA~Her parents~EVAN WILLIAMS and CHRISTIAN MARTIN (don't have b & d on them yet) ~ Christian Martin's parents~JOHN MARTIN and CHRISTIAN PETTIS/Pettus/Pettit/Petty who was believed to have descended from possibly POCAHONTAS and KOCOUM (younger bro of Chief JAPASAW (her uncle) from a child born before she m John Rolfe and went to England~a girl named KA OKEE who was traditionally known as the mother of Christian Pettis/Pettus/Pettit/Petty Martin ~don't know who her father was. . . . ANNE MEESE after being widowed from JOHN REDMOND married RICHARD BRYANT~she was also his 1st cousin . . . the child supposedly born to Pocahantas and Kocoum~KA OKEE~was traditionally said to have been raised by the Patawomeck Tribe.

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http://plato.mdarchives.state.md.us/msa/stagser/s1500/s1529/cfm/dsp... alifier=S&series=1594&unit=2783Kent County Circuit Court Land Survey, Subdivision, and Condominium Plats MSA S1594: (Patents, KE, Tract Index) Index by Reference Reference: Patent Record Q, p. 456 Date: 1661 Description: Worton Manor, 2300 Acres; Certificate Developer/Owner: Meese, Henry

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"When the English settlers arrived at Jamestown in 1607, the Tidewater area of Virginia had been inhabited for thousands of years by Native Americans. There were many tribes with very specialized religions, life styles, customs and political structures. The tribes were not nomadic but were very settled with large areas of land cleared for agriculture. The Powhatan tribes were located along the waterways and had observed European ships entering the Chesapeake Bay to capture Indians for the slave trade since the mid-1500s. They had witnessed and experienced the deadly effects of cannons, muskets and hangings. T h e Indians provided the early settlers with food and taught them how to plant corn, to hunt and fish. The need for land and food supplies increased as more ships and many people continued to arrive and the settlement expanded rapidly. The foreign invaders forced the Indians off their ancestral homeland, confiscated their cleared fields, destroyed their longhouses and canoes, stole their corn and desecrated their temples."

— Oliver "Fish Hawk" Perry Nansemond Chief Emeritus September 16, 1989

FOR SOME 330 YEARS, worship services have been held on a modest hill in North Stafford County. Official parish and county records have been lost to fires and war and the earliest history of this special place is long forgotten. This year, Overwharton Parish is celebrating the 250th anniversary of the unique building standing sentinel upon that hill--Aquia Episcopal Church.

Though it was conceived in the fires of controversy and political influence, Aquia has been lovingly protected by generations of Staffordians and remains unequaled in Colonial architectural design.

In 1664, Stafford was divided from Westmoreland County and included all that land above upper Machotic Creek (now King George County). The new county of Stafford was divided into two parishes, initially referred to simply as the "upper" and "lower" parishes. These eventually assumed the names of Overwharton and Chotank.

The unusual name "Overwharton" is thought to have originated with an early settler, Col. Henry Meese, who named his plantation after his native parish, Over Worton, in North Oxfordshire, England. This plantation, presently in King George County, is now known as Waugh Point.

The first major church within the present bounds of Stafford was Potomac Church, located a few miles southeast of the present Stafford Courthouse. Constructed in the 1660s, Potomac was one of the largest churches in Colonial Virginia, measuring 60 by 80 feet. Arched windows allowed light into the building and, like later Aquia Church, the texts of the Law, Lord's Prayer, and Creed were painted above the altar (despite the fact that most people were unable to read).

Potomac Church was in regular use from the time of its erection until it was abandoned around 1804. During the War of 1812, marauding British soldiers caused considerable damage to this venerable old building, but it remained standing until being completely dismantled by Federal troops who used the brick and stone to construct a railroad bridge across nearby Potomac Creek.

In 1667, it was ordered that three churches be built in the new county of Stafford, one "at the southwest side of Aquia." This was the first of three known churches to be built on the present site of Aquia Church. Around 1700, this early structure burned and was replaced with a small wooden chapel.

The Colonial parish was a civil as well as an ecclesiastical jurisdiction that impacted the lives of every county resident. The parish vestry assumed certain governmental duties, such as the presentation of moral misdemeanors; the administration of relief to the indigent, aged and incapacitated; the education and apprenticing of orphans; as well as the maintenance of the churches and grounds; the hiring of rectors; and the management of the church-owned glebes.

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References

• Name: Ann Meas Gender: Female Record Type: Baptism Baptism Date: 2 May 1676 Baptism Place: St Katherine Cree, City of London, London, England Father: Henry Meas Mother: Ann Meas Register Type: Parish Register AncestryImage
• Henry Meese, Merchant Draper, Will, London England, 1682. Prerogative Court of Canterbury and related probate jurisdictions. Will Registers (English) National Archives, Kew, England. Images at Ancestry.com will https://www.ancestry.com/sharing/19161110?h=c7b7a7&utm_campaign=ban...