Thomas Shippey

Notes

From link to A book of Strattons: being a collection of Stratton records from ..., Volume 1

At just what date Edward Stratton l came to Henrico County the writer has not been able to learn, but he was living in Bermuda Hundred in that part of Henrico which later became Chesterfield County, as early as 1674. He was then a man of at least thirty-eight years of age, hence born as early as 1633. The probabilities are that he was a much older man.*
Of his first wife, the mother of his children, we know nothing, t He married her before 1655, and she died before 1776 [SIC: 1676]. Some time before 1679 he married Martha Shippy, widow of Thomas Shippy of Bermuda Hundred. J She died about 1695, leaving a will dated July 24, 1692 §
2. Edward Stratton 2 (Edward ') was executor of his father's will in 1688. He was born in 1655, as shown by depositions taken at various times in Henrico County. He lived in Bermuda Hundred. At the age of twenty-two years he had married Martha Shippey, as shown by a deed of gift from Thomas Shippey to "Edward Stratton, junior, and his wife, Martha, my daughter." The deed is for a "tract of land and an island " in Henrico County. This "tract of land" was probably the 46 acres in Bermuda Hundred, containing the dwelling house where he lived and died. The same is mentioned in his will.

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GEDCOM Note

In January 1620 Thomas Sheppey came to Virginia in the Supply (Bissell Cliborn-Claiborne Reports) and Adventures of Purse and Person page 560.

He was living in the Neck of land in the Corporation of Charles City, Virginia at the time of the census 1623/24. He was there at the time of the muster, 1624/25 aged 22. On 14 Nov. 1635 he patented" 250 acres west upon the River over against the neck of land, north upon Four Mile Creek and east upon the maine land."

On 711 July 1637 he was assigned another 50 acres for a total of 300 acres in Henrico County. On 13 Aug 1639 he added to his land in Henrico" 250 acres adjacent to land of William Sharp, Thomas Rowse, Arthur Anthony, and four score acres east upon Godspeed Fort Creek." This was in the Bermuda Hundred as is shown by patents of 24 July 1645, 20 Nov. 1652 and 7 Oct. 1655. An Act of Assembley, 6 Jan. 1639/40, named him one of the tobacco viewers for Henrico in the area that lay to the north side of Appomattox River.

Thomas married Elizabeth named as a headright in his 1635 patent
. He entered into agreement with Edward Hatcher and John Davis to go on a trading expedition with the Indians, 1672. He described himself as of Bermuda Hundred, 1 Aug 1678, in a deed to Edward Stratton, Jr, who had married his daughter Martha.

He had three tithables in April 1679. His land in Varina Parish was mentioned in a patent of 23 April 1681.

Cavaliers and Pioneers #1 p.. 262-20 Nov., 1652 Robert Elam, 503 acres Henrico County, south side of James River above Bermuda Hundred, between Thomas Shippy and Thomas Johnson, for transportation of ten persons--lists Ann Elam and 9 others. Source Link: https://www.geni.com/documents/view?doc_id=6000000175882890829label=@S77@