Ephraim Wessells

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• Will: 20 Aug 1806, Accomack County, Virginia; Will names wife Elizabethsons Arthur (under 21) and Richard; daughters Nancy, Sally E., Betsey, and Catherine Wessels; and executors wife and friend Charles Bagwell. Witnesses were
• Will: 20 August 1806; Charles Bagwell, Geo. Bell & Wm Young. Securities for probate were Thom. M. & Rich. D. Bayly (Acc Wills 1812-1814, p. 333). Evidently Arthur had several other child bet the time he wrote his will & his death as there are add'l child named in his wifes will

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Died:
Will probated 30 November 1813

Arthur married Elizabeth "Betsy" Bundick on 11 Jan 1794 in Accomack County, Virginia. Elizabeth (daughter of Richard Bundick and Rachel Sanders) was born in 1770 in Accomack County, Virginia; died on 26 August 1839 in Accomack County, Virginia. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Orphan's Bond: 26 September 1814, Accomack County, Virginia; Elizabeth Wessells, William Grinalds & Southy Grinalds posted a $10,000 Orphan's Bond for Arthur, Catharine, Richard, John, Samuel, Ephraim & Betsy Wessells orphans of Arthur Wessells Junr

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Died:
Her will names son Arthur, richard, John, Sam, Ephraim. Daus. Nancy, Eliz Somers, Cally YoungFather Richard Bundick, son Arthur, Exe.

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• Will: 21 December 1773, Accomack County, Virginia; He was given 16 acres adjacent where he lives
• (Census) 1930: 1800, Accomack County, Virginia; head of household over 45 (b. before 1755) with one white female 16-26 (bc 1775-85) and 2 slaves.
• Will: 10 Aug 1808, Accomack County, Virginia; Named wife Margareta daughter Nancy Wessels (under 21); an unborn child; a grandson Arthur West; & executor Charles Bagwell. Witnesses were Charles Bagwell, William Ewell, and Nancy Prewet

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Birth:
Arthur's half sister, Mary is also your 5th g grandmother (another line)

Died:
Will probated 25 Jun 1810. Estate was administered to Margaret Wessels on 25 Jun 1810 with William Ewell and George Mears securities

Arthur married Unknown in 1770 in Accomack County, Virginia. Unknown was born in 1750; died in ?. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Will: 14 April 1751, Accomack County, Virginia; I give and bequeath to my son Richard Bundick one young horse that was ?? his and one feather bed and furniture that the ?? belongs to and one oval table with ?? and one ?? that he hath in his possession ....
• Deed: 1755, Accomack County, Virginia; Grandparents George and Elizabeth Bundick, deeded the 100 acres called Robins Hole Swamp near Guilford to him and his uncle, John Abbott Bundick, for 20 pounds (Acc Co Deeds, 1746-57, p. 543)
• Will: February 1764, Accomack County, Virginia; to grandson Richard 200 acres "Were he now lives provided he let his mother Tabitha have a ?". A survey of this land after his death shows the 200 acres were actually 221 acres It was later to become the eastern part of the present-day Parksley
• Will: 15 December 1768, Accomack County, Virginia; Justice (unknown relation) named Richard Bundick and Rachel Sandrews(sic) (Saunders) in his will.
• Land: 7 August 1805, Accomack County, Virginia; Two tracts of land and marsh containing 300 acres in Accomack Parish dying intestate leaving children Nancy Grinnalds (wife of Wm) Betsy Wessels (wife of Arthur) Richard Bundick & Grandchi. Arthur Wessells & wife Betsy received 60 1/2 acres of the land.

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Died:
Died intestate. 27 Feb 1805 Wm. Grinals named adm of his estate. Personal estate was divided bet. his 4 children each of whom received 76 pounds 9 shillings 4 pence

Richard married Rachel Sanders in 1758 in Accomack County, Virginia. Rachel (daughter of Solomon Sanders and Unknown) was born in 1740 in Accomack County, Virginia; died between 1770-1805 in Accomack County, Virginia. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Witness: 29 March 1759, Accomack County, Virginia; William Young, Rachel Bundick and Robert Jones witnessed the will of Richard Sanders, wife Rachel

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Birth:
I've seen the name spelled Saunders too, but in most records it Sanders.

Other Events:

• Tax List: 1731-1733, Annamessex, Somerset County, Maryland; On the tax lists in 1731, 1732, 1733 Ephriam Wessells is shown as a dependent in the home of James Wessells. (The assumption is that he had become age 16 in order to be listed as a dependent.)
• Land Purchase: 28 August 1744, Cedar Island, Accomack Co, VA; Henry Hickman sells a tract of 50 aces called Cedar Island "lying at the northermost end of Jobs Island running toward Roger Hickman's Parcel, to Ephraim
• Land Purchase: 3 July 1746, Accomack County, Virginia; 50 acres on Silverthorne Ridge in Accomack from Richard Evans (Accomack Deeds, 1744-1753: 512). Land lying and being in the Swamp near the head of Back Creek known by the name of Silverthorne's Ridge
• Land Purchase: 1749, Accomack County, Virginia; 50 acres of tract A109 (west of Parksley) from Mark and Sarah Ewell. He also bought another 2 acres of A109 from Richard Justice.
• Will: 7 April 1751, Fisher's Island, Accomack County, Virginia; He was given 1 shilling
• Estate: 10 October 1760, Accomack County, Virginia; Ephraim (along w/Marks wife, Tabitha) was named by Mark Ewell to handle his estate on 10 October 1760 in Accomack Co., VA. The will was probated 30 December 1860 (this Mark is the son of your 8th ggrandfather Mark Ewell)
• Land Purchase: 1767, Accomack County, Virginia; 15 acres of A111 (near Guilford) from Benjamin and Susannah Royal
• Will: 21 December 1773, Accomack County, Virginia; Wife Ann. Son Arthur 16a where he now livesson Ephraim, plant. & all land not before given. Dau. Creshe Parks, Rebecca...Son Ephraim 16a & 20 a & march. to son John land when he comes of age Bal. Estate to wife & daughters.

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Birth:
Occupation: Planter

Died:
Will proved 25 Jan 1774

Ephraim married Unknown in 1739 in Accomack County, Virginia. Unknown was born in 1717; died in 1765. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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Died:
Will was probated 30 July 1751 (Will in notes)

George married Tabitha in 1732 in Accomack County, Virginia. Tabitha was born in 1710 in Accomack County, Virginia; died after 1764 in Accomack County, Virginia. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events:

• Death Con't: (father of the) aforesaid John Brotherton Saunders, & which said Southy Rew and Mary, his wife, have conveyed their moiety of the said premises to the said Arthur Emmerson. Richard Saunders appointed guardian to John Brotherton Saunders to defend this suit
• Death Con't: his daughter, who intermarried with Southy Rew, Gent., of the aforesaid County, & (to Solomon Saunders) the son of Rachel Saunders, wife of the said Richard Saunders, of the county aforesaid, planter, who is
• Will: 3 September 1721, Accomack County, Virginia; Solomon Sanders, son of Richard & Rachell Sanders, in the will of Edward Brotherton, wife Mary. He was given 1/2 "my land where I now live, that is the part where Richard Sanders now lives."

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Died:
That the said Arthur Emmerson, Clerk & John Brotherton Saunders hold together undivided 500 a of land & marsh, being at Guilford, otherwise called Muddy Creek, which was by the last will & testament of Ed Brotherton, dec., devised to Mary Brotherton

Solomon married Unknown in 1739 in Accomack County, Virginia. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]