The JENIFER listing contains the best summary I have of (Mrs.) Ann Toft. Those pages (2-3) of the WELBOURNE listing of possible interest are ones dealing with North Carolina records of Daniel WELBOURNE and his brother-in-law William PARADIS. Best pages of PARADIS listing probably 3-4, 6-12. The few records appended to the body of the letter, help to tell a little more about the MARSHALL line. In case you are curious, I am a descendent of William Marshall Richardson and his son Skinner, i.e., I am descended from John Martial and his 2nd wife Mary Richardson (I think).

I am most curious as to the data and reference to Christopher Paradis's (died by 1733) distribution. I'll be shocked if it's an Accomack record, but not so surprised if it's of Somerset (or Worcester). Please let me know what Mary Frances Carey says. Such a record should substantially clarify my PARADIS confusion.

With regard to certificates and transportation of first DUBBERLY, Nottingham may have missed the Accomack liber entitled Deeds, Orders, & Wills of Upper Northampton, 1671-1673 (reel 2). He definitely missed a certificate granted to William Marshall in that liber (sorry, no Dubberly!). Be advised that the only names which I paid close attention to during my systematic readings of Accomack records were MARSHALL, WELBOURNE, WALLOP, PARADIS, OSBOURNE, GORE, JENIFER, TOFT. That is to say I probably ignored many DUBBERLY records.

With regard to both DUBBERLYs and PARADISes, it appears they never owned their own land until quite late? Beginning in about 1740, voters (proof of land ownership?) are listed in several local elections. PARADISes did not vote until about 1789. DUBBERLYs I never checked for. Elections are found in:
Deeds 1737-1746, final pages, Nov. 17, 1738
Ibid., final pages, June 6, 1740
Ibid., pp. 533-535, June 2, 1742
Ibid., pp. 536-538, Nov. 13, 1744
Deeds 1746-1757, pp. 130-158, July 1, 1748
Ibid., pp. 367-370, Jan. 23, 1752
Ibid., pp. 473-476, Nov. 21, 1753
Ibid., pp. 623-629, Nov. 16, 1755
Deeds 1757-1770, pp. 52-56, June, 1758
Ibid., pp. 593-598, April, 1768
Deeds 1788-1793, pp. 118-120, Jan. 7, 1789

Would appreciate the following info:
(1) Liber references to the will(s) of John and Annabella Dubberly, and the year of their deaths, and the names of their children.
(2) Other than the coincidence of names, reference to a Court record in N.C. stating their previous residence.
(3) Any Accomack surnames assosciated with them in Craven County such as MARSHALL, WELBOURNE, WALLOP, PARADIS? Or any surname with them you know to have been from the Eastern Shore.

Sincerely yours,
James H. Marshall
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Deeds, Orders, Wills of Upper Northampton Co., 1671-1676, pp. 186-193, March 4, 1672.
A series of deeds from Daniel Jenifer and Ann, his wife: Land formerly the property of Ann, lately Ann Toft. A great deal of information about the property of Ann Toft mentioning Galway, Ireland, England, and Island of Jamaica. Refers to the ship St. Nicholas of Gullaway, Ireland which was part of Ann's estate.
Orders 1753-1763, p. 180, Feb. 29, 1757. Daniel Marshall, Jr. and Sophia, his wife, vs. John Dubberly and Annabella, his wife. Land partition is agreed to.
Orders 1753-1763, p. 192-193, June 28, 1757. Daniel Marshall, Jr. and Sophia, his wife, vs. John Dubberly and Annabella, his wife. Detailed meets and bounds of their land partiton mentioning Marshall's Narrows.
Orders 1767-1768, p. 357, Nov. 27, 1767. Edward Parish vs. William Davis, Skinner Wallop and John Dubberly
JOHN MARTIAL (b. 1666, dt. 1734) mar. (1) ANNABELLA (TOFT) LEE (d. 1721), the widow of FRANCIS LEE (d. c1692) of London, in 1692, and (2) MARY RICHARDSON (dt. 1757) in 1721. FRANCIS and ANNABELLA had one child named REBECCA [See 'Speculative']. FRANCIS LEE was an agent or representative of JOHN JEFFRIES, Esq. & Co. of London [Wills & Orders 1682-1697, p. 81 (Feb. 3, 1685)]. JOHN and ANNABELLA were accused of adultery [Orders 1690-1697, pp. 173, 177 (Dec. 18, 1695)], but court records reveal no prosecution.
A pre-marital agreement between JOHN and MARY is dated April 2, 1721 [Deeds 1715-1729(I), p. 508], and they had been accused of having a child (almost certainly WILLIAM MARSHALL RICHARDSON) the previous year [Orders 1719-1724, p. 18a (May 4, 1720)], the record calling MARY a 'single woman.' JOHN's birthdate is inferred from the fact that he knew how to sign his name, and by two depositions given in Accomack by a certain JOHN MARTIAL who also knew how to sign his name in which his age was "proven." Lastly, the date of his first marriage appears consistent with the 1666 birthdate [Wills and Orders 1682-1697, pp. 73, 189]. In his deposition (p. 73) JOHN says, "- - by my father's fence - -", indicating that his father is (or was) present. On another occasion he was accused of taking pilfered goods to the house of WILLIAM MARSHALL [Orders 1690-1697, p. 2a (Nov. 18, 1690)].
JOHN was very likely the son of WILLIAM MARSHALL (b. 1640, d. c1707) and MARY his wife the widow of PHILIP PARKER
Son: CHARLES MARSHALL (di. 1740) mar. BETTY _______ . BETTY (ELIZABETH) was probably the dau. of SKINNER WALLOP (di. 1718) [Orders 1731-1736, p. 21, (April 4, 1732); Orders 1737-1744, p. 275; Orders 1744-1753, p. 494 (May 28, 1751)]. She mar. (2) JOHN SMITH, Jr. (di. 1750) [Orders 1737-1744, p. 552 (1743); Orders 1744-1753, pp. 292 (1748), 430 (1750)], and (3) WILLIAM DAVIS [Whitelaw, p. 1356].
Their children [Land Causes 1727-1773, p. 209 (May 27, 1760)]:
Dau: ANNABELLA MARSHALL mar. JOHN DUBBERLY. They moved to Craven County, N.C. [Heritage of Craven County, N.C., by Barbara Thorne, 1984].
Dau: SOPHIA MARSHALL (b. c1740) mar. DANIEL MARSHALL, son of DANIEL _______ (dt. 1775). She chose PETER MARSHALL for her guardian in 1754 [Orders 1753-1763, p. 64].

MARY ___________ (b. 1631) mar. (1) PHILIP PARKER and (2) WILLIAM MARSHALL (b. 1640, d. c1707) on May 12, 1660 [Hungars Parish Records: North. Wills & Deeds 1657-1666, p. 92]. Mary's birthdate taken from Wills & Deeds 1676-1690, p. 434.
Among three studies of Eastern Shore Parker families the line of this particular Parker family is omitted [Virginia Magazine of History & Biogr. 6, pp. 412-418 (1899); ibid. 61, pp. 68-79 (1953); The Mark B. Lewis Files, Parker and Allied Families," (1958), Eastern Shore Library, Accomac, Va.]. At this writing only Some Descendents of GILES COPES by A.B.P. Barnes (1988) discusses this particular PHILIP PARKER family. The name 'Philip' is taken from Northampton Wills & Deeds 1657-1666, p. 75 which also suggests that Mary's maiden name was FLETCHER. There is a fair chance that William was the father of JOHN MARTIAL (b. 1666, dt. 1733/4), but so far the closest association is their sequential listing as Accomack County titheables [Accomack Titheables, 1663-1695, by S. Nottingham (1931).]. In 1690 William is listed with 2 titheables. John's name first appears in 1691, and he is listed immediately after William, both of them with one titheable and resident in Col. Jenifer's precinct. When Col. DANIEL JENIFER was sworn in as High Sheriff of Accomack, he presented his son DANIEL of St. THOMAS JENIFER as undersheriff and Mr. WILLIAM MARSHALL as his deputy undersheriff [Wills & Orders 1682-1697, p. 161 (June 4, 1689)]. By April 7, 1698 he had married ELIZABETH _______ who may have been the widow of PETER MORGAN [Orders 1697-1703, pp. 24a, 31; Orders 1690-1697, p. 250a (Aug. 4, 1697)]. An ELIZABETH MORGANE (and a SARAH HARROD) witnessed the will of Benjamin Eyre (dt. 1687).
The earliest reference to a WILLIAM MARSHALL in Accomack/Northampton is his transportation by JOHN CUSTIS, Jr. on or before Oct. 5, 1657 [Cavaliers and Pioneers, Abstracts of Virginia Land Patents and Grants, 1623-1666, Vol. I (1963), by N. Marion Nugent, p. 353.].
In Vol. II (p. 128) of the same reference dated May 28, 1673 in an 800 acre Northampton Co. patent granted to CHRISTOPHER THOMPSON, William is referred to as the owner of land near the head of "Nuswatox" Creek. If the completeness of Virginia Tax Records (1983) can be trusted, a WILLIAM MARSHALL was the only Marshall titheable in Northampton in 1666. He was also listed among Northampton titheables in 1662 and 1677. Whitelaw, p. 1061, states that in 1668 William was the renter of a 1000 acre tract in Accomack bounded on the north by Nuswatocks Creek, which is today called Parkers Creek (This tract appears to be directly east of Accomac on Metamkin Inlet.). By the time of his marriage to Elizabeth __________ , he was residing on 333 A. of this tract, the 333 A. belonging to MARY (PARKER) SELBY wife of DANIEL SELBY [Orders 1690-1697, pp. 118, 224a]. William's birthdate is taken from two depositions given in Accomack [Wills and Orders (1675), p. 293; Wills and Orders 1682-1697, p. 130.]. His deathdate is presumed to be the last year in which his name appears in court records [Orders 1703-1709, p. 34 (Oct. 13, 1704) or Deeds 1692-1715(II), p. 291 (May 5, 1708)]. However, a WILLIAM MARSHALL, Gent. is referred to as one of her majesty's attornies in the Court of Common Pleas in the City of Dublin, Ireland [North. Wills & Deeds 1725-1733, p. 81 (Aug. 17, 1730]. Some land dealings of WILLIAM, PETER, and MARY PARKER are detailed in Deeds, 1715-1729(I), p. 182. WILLIAM MARSHALL registered his cattle mark and he is listed next to WILLIAM PARKER [North. Deeds & Wills 1651-1654, p. 230 (Jan. 22, 1665)]. A MARY [X] PARKER, perhaps the dau. of Peter (dt. 1686), is a witness to one of the deeds of JOHN MARTIAL (dt. 1733) [Deeds 1692-1715(I), p. 117 (Feb. 27, 1693)]. ------------------------------------------------------------

27 E. Madison Avenue
Florham Park, N.J. 07932
October 5, 1991
Mr. Frank Perry
3606 Starwood Trail, SW
Lilburn, GA. 30247-2448
Dear Frank:

Thanks kindly for your ample and expertly done returns. And enjoyable reading besides!

Amazing! I use two different size flag stickers. The larger is available from Artistic Greetings (not shown on enclosed flyer). The smaller from Miles Kimball Co.

The name I think is PARADIS and French with the 2nd "A" nearly "silent". The branch of this family which originated at an early date in Quebec, has issued a newsletter at unpredictable times, and appears to be well documented and prolific. But I have communicated with them on several occasions, and satisfied myself that they are not related to the Eastern Shore branch, or if so they are related long before either branch settled in North America. One item of possible note is that the French had (have?) a most peculiar way of switching surnames, which is quite disruptive to systematic research. I do not fully understand it, but you might discuss this with a French acquaintance.

Based on your name of SACKER DUBBERLY, I presume you are aware that you should be taking a keen interest in the surname SACKER. There were also SACKER PARKERs in Accomack, perhaps others. I would be surprized if SACKER is not one of your 'female' lines.

I suspect that George Douglas was 'next friend' to John Parradice as a result of George's known profession as an attorney, rather than any family relationship to Parradice.

Have you made queries or visited the Maryland Genealogical Society in Baltimore? Without question they have by far the best collection of Maryland family records, and a very extensive collection of printed books. And lots about Virginia as well. All that Annapolis has is the original libers and reels, essentially devoid of printed books.

No archivist, just that my Marshall line in Accomack was very difficult to find, and by accident it did not reveal itself until I had scanned/read every liber up to about 1820!#$* By the way I had a relation named BOND PARDEE MARSHALL, and it's pretty clear PARDEE is really PARADIS.

Thanks again for your notes and records.
Sincerely,