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Note: NOTE: THIS INDIVIDUAL REPRESENTS THE GENESIS FOR FAMILY GROUP 01 IN THE CHILDERS/CHILDRESS JAMES RIVER VIKING Y-DNA PROJECT...GO TO www.jrdna.com FOR CURRENT STATUS OF TESTS.
MODIFYING NOTE (2013.10.07): The James River Genealogy Research Team reviewed data from a family tree file from a Childers Family Association committee, chaired by Mrs. Virginia Zeboski (widow of Walt Zeboski, of Sacramento, California) which in 1980 engaged the services of Ms. Gail Brisco, a professional researcher in Doncaster, Yorkshire, England to scour the records in England for proof of the earliest known Childers/Childress ancestral lines. In the fall of 1985 a "Research Team" brought back duplicate records of those found and cited by Ms. Brisco in an effort to double-check the accuracy and validity of said documents. Generally speaking, the dates of life events and the individuals themselves closely matched those of the Dennstedt Thesis. Where new individuals have been added to this Dennstedt tree, we have attempted to identify the source as this new data. In the event life event dates are changed and/or relationships have changed, we try to note the data change in this note section.
Zeboski birth date change from about 1622 to 1613.
Abraham Chelders was baptized at the Leeds Parish Church on November 30, 1613 as recorded in the transcriptions of Leeds Baptisms from 1612 to 1616. His father was shown as Richard Chelders.
MODIFYING NOTE (2013.12.05): From an unvalidated source, this little tidbit of information: "A soldier of the Royal Army, Abraham fled England when Cromwell defeated the Royal forces and seized the English throne. Abraham came to the English colony of Virginia in 1648 from Yorkshire. According to Alice Geneve Childress Stephenson, he sailed in his own ship. On February 28, 1656 he purchased a plantation at Curles, Bermuda Hundred on the north side of the James River in Henrico County from a William Harris. He became a tobacco planter..."
DENNSTEDT THESIS:
The Childers family in Henrico Co., Va., traces its roots to Abram Childers and his unnamed widow. Abram does not appear on any list of headlights nor did he take out a patent in his own name. The date and place of his arrival in the New World is unknown. A deed re-recorded at a later date in Henrico County, however, establishes his residence there by 1656. On 28 Feb. 1656/7 William Harris of Curles sold for "one bill" to Abrah Childers "the parcel of land he now lives on." No acreage was mentioned but the land and his house was by the river on the lower side of Morgan's landing and was bounded by the river, Morgan's, a meadow, a swamp and Clarke's path. The witnesses were John Epes and Thomas Liggon. Ab Childres made a "T" mark when he signed the memorandum dated 2 March 1656/7 agreeing that Ja. Robison could "enjoy his part of the lease."
No doubt the re-recording of this deed was necessary to make the following transaction legal. On 20 Nov. 1680 Abraham Childres (Jr.) exchanged land with John Pleasants. He was to receive 548 acres on Four Mile Creek and 900 pounds of tobacco from Pleasants and in turn conveyed to him 140 acres "being the whole dividend which was purchased by my father Abrah Childers of Major William Harris" and "given unto me as of his will." Abraham's part of this plantation, located on the north side of James River, was "to be surrendered to him now and the remainder after my Mother's decease."
The witnesses were Robert Sharpe and Robert Evans and the' deed was recorded 10 Feb. 1680/1. Abraham Childers signed his name, as he did on all records. On 20 Sept. 1680 John Pleasants and John Huddlesoe assigned to Abrah Childres their title and interest in a patent for "548 acres 3 roades and twenty poles of land" on the north side of James River, on the main brook of Four Mile Creek, bounded by Capt. Mathew, which had been granted them by Governor Sir Henry Chicheley on 1 Oct. 1679. Robert Sharpe and Robert Evans also witnessed this deed. On 15 Oct. 1681 Abraham Chi1dres acknowledged receiving the land from Pleasants and Huddlesoe and for 3000 pounds of tobacco he assigned the land over to John Pleasants; Will Ballow and Richard Ward witnessed the assignment.
On 1 Dec. 1681 Anne Childres relinquished her right of dower. And on 1 Feb. 1681/2 Abraham Childres, "sonne and heire of Abraham Childres deceased," being indebted to John Pleasants 10,000 pounds of tobacco, sold 90 acres of the land his father purchased from Major William Harris, the witnesses being John and Thomas Huddlesoe. He signed as Abraham Childres. His mother must have been still alive since this was two-thirds of the 140 acres.
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1656 - DEED FROM WILLIAM HARRIS DATED 28 FEB 1656
Be it known to all men by these presents that I WILLIAM HARRIS of Curles in the County of Henrico doe for divers good causes and considerations me therereunto moving, as alsoe for & in consideration of one bill to be truly and honestly payed according to the tenons thereof freely and clearly and absolutely, bargan sell & have by these presents clearly freely and absolutely bargained & sold unto ABRA CHILDRES of Curles in the County aforesaid the parcell of land he now lives on beginning at a pine tree a little above the houses of the said CHILDRES and standing by the river on the lower side of Morgans landing, and soe running downe the River to the swamp at the old garden and thence into Morgans along the maine side to the nutt trees & from thence along the side of the swampe & meadow side to an oake tree as one goes into the meadow close by the carte path from thence on a straight line into the pastuure to a parcell of oakes and standing in the Ridge above the place called the 18 lengths of bords & from thence to the former on a straight line; To have & to hold the aforsaid land to him the aforesaid CHILDRES his heirs & assignes forever without any lett hinderance trouble or molestation of the said HARRIS by heirs & assignes forever of any of us, either by mine or thers assent consent or procurement, And I doe bind me & my assignes to make a surrender hereof in Courte as Wittness by my hand and seale this 28th,of February 1656.
Signed Sealed & delivered WILLIAM HARRIS (red wax)
in presence of
JOHN EPES
THO. LIGGON
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