• General Notes

  "There has been some confusion about these two brothers, but it is now known that there were two sons named Moore. This is proved by the will of Nicholas Moore who adopted Phoebe Wilkinson, and in 1617 left all his property to her during her life, and after her death to 'Moore Fauntleroy, eldest son of John and Phoebe Fauntleroy, and in default to Moore Fauntleroy, the younger son of the said John and Phoebe Fauntleroy'. The two Moores may have been twins, but all we can be certain of is that they were born between 1610 and 1617, they not being listed in the parish register with the other children."
  
  "Col. Moore Fauntleroy was probably actuated by a spirit of adventure and a desire to amass a forture when he either followed or accompanied Col. Toby Smith to Virginia in 1643. He brought his brother George Fauntleroy with him, but nothing further is known of him. He also brought with him a confirmation of his coat of arms which had been issued to him in England in 1633, a copy of which is given elsewhere in this book. On Feb. 20, 1643-4, Col. Moore Fauntleroy patented 250 acres of land in Upper Norfolk County (now Nansemond Co.) on Chuckatuck Sound, and this, his first home in Virginia, was called "Royes Rest". On the same day he patented 1400 acres on Mt. Lawson Bay, near Beverley Creek in the western part of Nansemond County adjoining Haye's plantation in Isle of Wight County."
  
  Campbell's History of Virginia,1859, page 210: Quote:
  During the year 1648 Beauchamp Plantagenet, a Royalist with a high flown name, flying from the fury of the grand rebellion, visited America in behalf of a company of adventurers in quest of a place of settlement, and in the course of his explorations came to Virginia. At Newport News he was hospitably entertained by Capt. Matthews, Mr. Fauntleroy, and others, finding free quarter everywhere.
  
  In 1650 Col. Moore Fauntleroy patented 350 acres on the south side of the Rappahannock River in what was then Lancaster County. He later assigned this land to Col. Toby Smith. In the same year he patented, 5350 acres on the north side of the Rappahannock in Lancaster County (now Richmond Co.) on both sides of Farnham Creek. This was called the "Farnham Grant". He later patented 450 acres on the north side of Swann Bay, which he subsequently relinquished. He also patented 1800 acres on the north side of the Rappahannock and west side of Bushwood Creek, next to the land of William Underwood. This tract was called "Mangorite", and was adjacent to the modern bridge which crosses the river here to the town of Tappathannock. In addition he patented 700 acres on the north side of the Rappahannock west of New Haven Creek, which he later relinquished.
  
  In the early days of the Virginia Colony a grant of 50 acres was allowed for each person transported, and this was called a "headright". It is a on record that Col. Moore Fauntleroy transported 179 persons. Their names are listed in his patents, many of them were people of prominence. Most of the patents are signed by Sir William Berkeley, who was then the Royal Governor of Virginia. Col. Fauntleroy was an owner or part owner of ships, as in 1653 we have it recorded that he lost a sloop.
  
  We do not know the exact spot in the Northern Neck where Col. Fauntleroy made his home. However, we can be pretty sure that he lived near Farnham Creek on a portion of his Farnham Grant, later moving to a spot on Mangorite Creek, known as the "stone house field", now, a part of the Sabine Hall plantation. He was constantly engaged in acquiring and selling lands, and probably moved on up the river as the English settlement advanced.
  
  
  The first court ever held in Lancaster County was at his house, and is recorded in Book 1, page 1 of the county records:  "At a court holden for Lancaster at ye house of Capt. More ffantleroy on ye first of Jany 1651-2. Present: Mr. Toby Smith, Mr. James Bagnall, also;- Mr. David ffox, Mr. James Williamson, Mr Geo. Tayloe, Mr. Geo. Gilson, Mr. William, Mr. William Underwood."
  
  In the records of Old Rappahannock County, which was formed out of Lancaster, we read in Vol. I, page 12 that Col. More Fantleroy is appointed on a committee of six to sign a treaty with the Indians in September 1657.
  
  In Bishop Mead's Old Churches and Virginia, in Vol 2 pages 478 to 481 is a sketch of the Fauntleroy family in Virginia, and in this sketch Bishop Meade gives a copy of a deed from the king and great men of the Rappahannock Indians to Moore 1 Fauntleroy. The date of this deed is the 4th of April 1651. By it the Indians convey to Moore Fauntleroy a vast tract of land stretching from the Rappahannock to the Potomac River and from Rappahannock Creek Morattico Creek.
  
  This deed from the Indians, although confirmed by the Assembly, gave Col. Fauntleroy trouble, as he became involved in disputes with both the Indians and the Assembly over the ownership of the land, and finally most of it was taken from him.
  
  From Henings Statutes of Virginia, Vol. 2, page 14, "Assembly of 1660; Whereas the committee hath reported that Col. Fantlaroy hath from the Indians a conveyance of his land, and an acknowledgment made by them, but not according to act, and that this conveyance hath reference to a former deede whereby it is pretended by Coll. Fantleroy that it evidently appeared hee had made the Indians satisfaction but neither the deede nor the evidence appearing, and Coll. Fantleroy petitioning for a referrence upon pretence of further evidence, it is ordered that a referrence be granted him till the next assembly, that in the meane time Coll. Carter acquaint the Indians what care the Assembley takes to preserve their rights, and that the said Coll. Carter bee impowered in the said Indians behalfe to prosecute their cause the next assembly."
  
  In 1661 Col. Fauntleroy was in trouble with the Assembly "for Seizing and binding the King and chief man of the Indians", and was declared incapable of holding any office in the Colony, and required to give security for his future good behavior toward the Indians and the Assembly. At the same session other early settlers were fined for offenses against the Indians, and it appears that the Royal Governor and the Assembly were very zealous in protecting the Indians in all their rights, often to the detriment of the colonists. This policy resulted in raids by the Indians upon some of the settlers on the outer fringe of the Colony, and was later the cause of Bacon's Rebellion in 1676."
  
  
  
  "Col. Moore Fauntleroy was evidently a man of high and fearless temper. On March 7, 1658-9, the House of Burgesses, of which he was a member, suspended him for a contempt of the House, he being absent when the speaker was chosen, having 'moved against him as if clandestinely elected and taxed the House with unwarrantable proceedings therein.' But the next day he acknowledged his error and was readmitted to his seat."
  
  In the Lancaster county records Vol. 1, pages 11 & 97, appear two contracts made in 1658 by Col. Fauntleroy with John Remuse and Nicholas Wadilloc, millwrights for the construction of mills on his plantations. These mills were for the grinding of Indian corn, and were operated by oxen.
  
  Col. Moore Fauntleroy was elected to the House of Burgesses and served for years, as follows: In 1644, 45, and 47 from Upper Norfolk County; in 1652, 53, 54 and 56 from Lancaster County; in 1659 and 60 from Old Rappahannock County. He was a captain in the Virginia Militia, and was promoted to major, lt. colonel, and in 1656 to colonel.
  
  In the records of Old Rappahannock County, Vol. 1, page 33, we find this item in the will of Francis Slaughter circa 1656. "to my brother-in-law, Coll. Moore Fauntleroy, my book entitled Hooker 's Ecclesiastical Policy. In Vol. 1, page 89, from the will of Augustine Withey, 1659. "Visited with sickness. To be buried at the will and pleasure of my Loveing friend More Fantleroy. My debts to be paid .... appoint my friend More Fantleroy, Gent. my sole Executor, bequeathing to him all my estate."."
  
  "It seems certain that Col. Moore Fauntleroy married first a daughter of Mrs. Margaret Underwood, and that she died leaving no issue.
  
  As we have no records of the first marriage it is important we should give the indirect proof. Mrs. Margaret. Underwood married 2nd John Upton, and 3rd Capt. Thomas Lucas. Upon the occasion of her third marriage there was a marriage settlement, dated April 10, 1657, in which Col. M. F. is named as a trustee, even before her son, seems significant, and M. F. was then married to Mary Hill.
  
  Mrs. Margaret Underwood had four other, daughters all probably by her first husband. They were: Elizabeth, who married Francis Slaughter, 2nd, Capt. John Catlett. Francis Slaughter, in his will, made about 1656, bequeathed a book to "my brother-in-law, Capt. Moore Fauntleroy".
  
  Margaret, married Capt. Humphrey Booth, gave a P. of A., August 24, 1660, to "my well beloved Brother, Coll. More Fantleroy".
  Sarah, married Col. Wk. Peirce of Westmoreland County, who took out in his own name a patent for 5054 acres of lands and afterwards transferred it, in 1680, to M.F.'s son, William.
  Anne, married James Williamson. We do not know the relationship, but William Williamson of Lancaster, in his will in 1670, left a legacy to M. F.'s three children, William, Elizabeth & Moore, which was afterwards given to them by Col. Wm. Lloyd, their step-father.
  Capt. Wm. Underwood, son of Mrs. Margaret Underwood, in 1652 gave a cow to M.F.'s daughter Elizabeth, stating that he and his wife were witnesses as to his baptism.
  These gentlemen, Wm. Underwood, Francis Slaughter, Humphrey Booth, Wm. Peirce, and James Williamson, were all Justices, and some of them Burgesses. Voting together they exercised a great deal of authority in both county and state. They all patented land on the same day, May 22, 1650, on the north bank of the Rappahannock, extending for 25 miles, counting in the smaller tracts in between taken up by others. Moore Fauntleroy also patented a tract of land for his "mother-in-law" making use of his own headrights. This is believed to refer to Mrs. Margaret Underwood.
  
  BIOGRAPHY: Family History Records; ; compiled by Ann Johnston, Pine Bluff, AR 71601; ; copy dated 20 May 1992 sent to T Mason; NOTES: source included pedigree chart RESEARCHER: Katherine Birnbaum Creason, 110 Kenwood Pl, Hot Springs, AR, dated Feb 1967 in application for DAR. Suggests ACTION for more research in two-volume typescript titled, "Col. Moore Fauntleroy, His Ancestors and Descendants" (call number CS:71.F:264) in the Virginia State Library, Richmond, VA, written by Miss Juliet Fauntleroy. A "confirmation of arms" was issued by Sir John Borough, Garter, on Eighth Day of December, 1633 to Moore Fauntleroy, who came to Virginia about 1611. (Full text quoted.)
  
  In 1665 there is a grant of land in Rappahannock to Mary Fauntleroy, Widow. There is at Essex Court house, a deed, dated Jan 1666 from William Lloid and his wife Mary, late the relict of Colonel Moore Fauntleroy.
  
  CHILDREN-BIOGRAPHY: Wallace's VIRGINIA HISTORICAL MAGAZINE; July 1891; xerox copy in poss of T.Mason (file - M. Fauntleroy); Containing a Fauntleroy genealogy compiled from the records of Lancaster, Rappahannock & Richmond Counties by W.G. Stanard Henings Statutes at Large, I, 283, 289, 339, 379, 506, 527. Virginia Historical Register IV, 135. Burk's History of Virginia III, 1333. Colonial Virginia Register 63, 64, 66, 68, 70, 72, 74, 75, 109, 111, 112, 115, 117, 118, 120, 121, 123, 125. Certificates filed herewith. EXTRACT: Colonel Moore Fauntleroy who was a member of an old family in the counties of Dorset & Southampton, England, came to Virginia about 1641 and settled in the county of Upper Norfolk. He represented Upper Norfolk in the Houlse of Burgeses at the sessions of October 1644, February 1644-5, January 1647. Not long after this date he removed to the count of Lancaster for which he was burgess at the sessions of March 1651, July 1653, March 1654-5, March 1655-6, December 1656. After the county of Rappahannock was formed from Lancaster he represented the former county of the sessions of March 1658-9, March 1659-60. He had a son William Fauntleroy of Rappahannock County who married in 1680 Katherine, daughter of Colonel Samuel Griffin, of Northumberland County. William and Katherine (Griffin) Fauntleroy had a son Colonel William Fauntleroy of Naylor's Hole, Richmond County, who was born in 1684 and died in 1757. He was a member of the House of Burgesses from Richmond County at the sessions of August 1736 - April 1749. He married Apphia, daughter of John Bushrod and had a daughter Sarah who married James Gray. James and Sarah Gray had a daughter Sallie who married in 1782, David Jameson and they in turn had a daughter Sallie Fauntleroy Jameson who married John Samuels. John and Sallie Samuel had a daughter Catharine Samuel who in 1820, married Daniel Seider who was the grandmother of the applicant.
      REF: Notable Southern Families: Moore, son of John and Phoebe (Wilkinson) Fauntleroy, married, first in England 26 Dec. 1639, Dorothy, daughter of Thomas Colle, of Liss, Hampshire and had issue two daughters, who resided in England. Leaving his daughters in England and probably after the death of his first wife, Moore, better known as Col. Moore Fauntleroy, came to Virginia 1643, and settled in what is now the County of Richmond. He was Burgess for Upper Norfold 1644 to 1647, for Lancaster 1651-6, and after Rappanannock was formed from Lancaster he represented that county in 1658, 1659; was a Justice of Rappanannock as early as 1656. He patented a very large amount of land and purchased other tracts from the indians. Col. Fauntleroy married second Mary Hill about 1648, there being a marriage contract bearing that date. Moore and Mary (Hill) had one son, William, Justice of Rappahannock 1680 to 1695, and he married Katherine, daughter of Col. Sam. Griffin of Northumberland.
      In 1608, the Essex - Rappahannock area of Virginia was first visited by Captain John Smith. The area was inhabited by Native Americans and when Captain Smith attempted to land here he was fiercely driven back to his ship. It was a Native American village and so he gave both the river and the village Native American names. The river became the Rappahannock, which meant "rise and fall" of water, and the village became Tappahannock, which means town on the "rise and fall of water". In the mid-1600s, a trading post was established by Jacob Hobbs. For a few years the area was known as Hobbs His Hole, Hobbs' Hole and later as New Plymouth. Eventually, the original name was returned in 1705.
      RESEARCHER: Sherry Kaseberg <sherryk@gorge.net> sent to T.Mason on 7Apr2001. NOTES: describing Moore Fauntleroy's participation in the affairs ofthe Virginia colony:
  ---Some believe he arrived in Virginia in the late 1630s, probably with his future brother-in-law Tobias Smith.
  ---Moore Fauntleroy arrived in Virginia a childless widower. In 1648 he married his second wife, Mary [Piersey] Hill and, about the same time, moved to the Northern Neck on the Rappahannock River, his seat at Naylor's Hole, about 15 miles from Wakefield, then in Lancaster County, now Richmond County, VA.
  ---He first settled in 1643 on the S bank of the James River, opposite Newport News, where he was living in 1648, within the limits of Upper Norfolk County, a district later called Nansemond. He patented 250 acres in 1644 and eventually had 1,400 acres on Mt. Lawson Bay near Beverly Creek, in Upper Norfolk County, later W Nansemond County, on Chuckatuck Sound, and called his home Royes Nest. He allowed his headrights to accumulate, and in 1650 he took out patents on large tracts then in York, Lancaster 1651, and Old Rappahannock 1656 Counties, and finally Richmond County in 1692, including 350 acres on the S side of the Rappahannock River in then Lancaster County, land later assigned to Captain Toby Smith, his brother-in-law, and 5,350 acres on the N side of the Rappahannock River in Lancaster, now Richmond, County on both sides of Farnham Creek, known as the Farnham Grant. His patent on the N side of the Rappahannock River was on the W side of Bushrod Creek next to the land of William Underwood, a tract called Mangorite, adjacent to the modern bridge which crosses the river to the town of Tappahannock. Later in life, Col. Fauntleroy moved to a spot on Mangorite Creek known as the Stone House Field, now part of the Sabine Hall Plantation, according to Virginia Drewy McG. Pearson's work, probably his last home.
  ---In 1644 he was elected to the House of Burgesses from Upper Norfolk and took his seat in the Assembly of 1644 [Journals of the House of Burgesses1619-1659], and represented Upper Norfolk in two succeeding assemblies. He obtained a land grant in Upper Norfolk in 1643, according to Mary Emily Fauntleroy, New Harmony, IN in 1929.
  ------In 1650 Moore Fauntleroy obtained six patents for 8,850 acres along the Rappahannock River in the area which was first in Lancaster County, and seated his plantation at Naylor's Hole. He transported 179 persons to Virginia and their names are listed in his patents. It is fairly certain that he lived above the mouth of Farnham Creek on a portion of the Farnham land grant patented in 1650, according to the work of Miss Juliet Fauntleroy, and a deed recorded in 1667 where William Lloyd and his wife, Mary, relict of Col. Moore Fauntleroy, sold 840 acres to Edward Williams, and the description says the tract ran down along Pipemaker's Creek [Husseys], then down Farnham Creek, the several courses on the face of the old plantation on Smiths Creek.
  ---In Rappahannock County in 1651 he purchased a large quantity of land from the Indians [Old Churches, Ministers and Families of Virginia, Meade, vol. 2], leading to a series of arguments and litigation with the Indians and the colonial government. In 1651 he was elected as Burgess from Lancaster County to the Assembly of 1651-1652 [Colonial Virginia Register, Stanard] and in 1652 was granted land in the same county by Governor Berkeley [Lancaster Records]. He was again Burgess for Lancaster in 1653, and 1655.
  ---His military title comes from his service in the Virginia militia, referred to as Captain and then Major, later Lt. Colonel and in 1656, he was Colonel of the militia of Rappahannock County [Virginia County Record Series, Crozier, vol. 2].
  ---In the 1655 assembly Moore Fauntleroy presented the Lancaster citizens' petition which resulted in the northern portion of Lancaster being created Rappahannock County [Journals of the House of Burgesses 1658-1693]. Thereafter he served as Burgess for Rappahannock County, in 1658 and 1659. Because of his difficulties with the Indians, he was prohibited from holding further civil or military offices [Hening, vol.2] and died not later than 1665. That year a grant of 2,600 acres was made to Mary Fauntleroy, widow [Deed Book 5, page 504, Rappahannock County,VA].
  ---The Naylor's Hole estate was inherited by the eldest son of Moore and Mary Fauntleroy, William Fauntleroy, born in 1650. Bishop Meade stated that this Col. William Fauntleroy was a justice for Rappahannock County sometime between 1693 and 1695, and that Naylor's Hole was situated in the old North Farnham Parish of Richmond County. William married Katherine Griffin in 1678 and died about 1685 when he was only 35 year sold, leaving three children who were named in the will of Col. Samuel Griffin, Katherine's father: Griffin Fauntleroy, William Fauntleroy and Moore Fauntleroy. Katherine [Griffin] Fauntleroy was born on 16 March 1664 and was a young bride of Col. William Fauntleroy, and only 21 when left a widow with three small sons. She married 2nd Thomas Ridley, briefly and probably without children. She married 3rd David Gwyn by whom she had one child, Elizabeth. Katherine died in Richmond County at age 64, her will written on 20 October 1728 and proved on 6 November 1728.
      The Glas(s)cocks of England and America by Lawrence A. Glasscock, 1984,includes a description of the land around the mouth of Farnham Creek once owned by Col. Moore Fauntleroy. Thomas Glascock and Moore Fauntleroy appeared in Virginia records in 1643. A connection between Glascock and Fauntleroy occurred in the marriage of Arthur Glascock [born 1565] of Odiham, Hampshire, England, and Mary, daughter of Fauntleroy of Hampshire. An unidentified account notes that Thomas Glascock was the son of Gregory and Mary, who administered the estate of her husband, "Mr. Gregory Glascock" in old Rappahannock, now Richmond County, in 1689, and may have been Mary, daughter of Col. Moore, who came to VA in 1641.
  
  

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