Col. John Flood 1 (-1685)

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1 Ancestral Fam ily Topic 4700 Col. John Flood 1 (-1685) P P P Col. John Flood, in his own words If he could speak to us today, Col. John Flood might describe his life as follows. I came to Virginia in the Swan in 1610 and was employed for some time by Rev. Alexander Whitaker at Charles City. Fortunately, I survived the vicious morning slaughter of 347 colonists by Powhatan chieftain Opechancanough 22 March 1622/3. To speed the settlement of estates, the Virginia Company ordered an accounting of the living and dead. When they surveyed my home at Jordan s Journey in January 1624/5, I was living with my wife, Margaret, who came in the Supply in 1620, with her husband William Finch, and their daughter, Frances Finch. Our son, William Flood, was just three weeks old. 1 Our provisions included 30 bushels of corn and two bushels of peas and beans. In the yard was a pig and 20 chickens and ducks. I was armed with 3 guns, 10 pounds of shot, a half-pound of gun powder, and a coat of male. Jordan s Journey was on the south bank of the James across Bailey Creek from presentday Hopew ell, Virginia. Margaret and I had three children before her death. My second wife, Fortune Jordan, a sister of Col. George Jordan, and I had one child, Walter Flood. Though I knew the Powhatan well and could speak their language, I was shocked when a second uprising of 17 April 1644 left 500 of our colonists dead. By 1646 we reduced the Powhatan to small tribes dependent on our support and the burgesses restricted their chieftain, Necotowance, and his messengers to commu nicate with the English at only Fort Henry or at my home. 2 In 1646 the House of Burgesses made me the official Indian interpreter for the Colony with an annual salary was 4,000 pounds of tobacco. 3 For many years I served in the House of Burgesses at Jamestown, and was also a county justice. I died in John Flood represented Westover, Flowerdew Hundred, Weyanoke (1631/2), and James City (1643, , 1652, 1656) in the Virginia House of Burgesses, 4 and was a justice of Charles City County 25 Feb. 1639/40. 5 Fam ily of Col. John Flood The following table recaps the family of Col. John Flood, my paternal great-great-great-great-great-great-greatgreat-great-great-grandfather (12 generations). Only the wife from whom I descend is shown. His parents Unidentified His wife Margaret His children William Flood (c.1624-) 4700:2 Thomas Flood (-1670) 2350:1 Jane (Flood) Cary 4700:4 Walter Flood (c ) 4700:6 2620

2 4700: Col. John Flood 2621 John married 2nd Fortune Jordan 4682:4, sister of Col. George Jordan 4682:2 who left a will in Sussex County naming cousins [nephews] Thomas Flood and Walter Flood. 6 See Family Topic 4682 for their family. Land grants John got a patent for 2,100 acres next to Capt. Henry Browne in that part of James City County that became Surry County in 1638 in consideration of having transported 42 individuals to the Colony. 7 Among his headrights were Margaret, Frances Finch, and John Flood Jr. John would re patent 1,100 acres of this tract in On 20 March 1638/9 John Bradston assigned his 350-acre patent to John Fludd of Westover plantation, 9 and a lease granted John Flood 1 March 1652/3 added an unspecified number of acres to his holdings. 10 Thomas Pawlett of Westover sold Flood 50 acres in Charles City County next to John Clay 3696:1 2 Oct His death John was living in June 1658 but was dead by 14 Nov when his son Thomas sold William Jennings, all land in his occupation which he formerly held by lease from his father, Col. John Flood. 12 Col. Jordan was trustee of the [now-lost] Will of Coll. John Flood, deceased 29 Oct. 1670, 13 and by then his widow was the wife of James Mills. Walter Flood, the carpenter Some connection likely exists to Walter Flood, a London carpenter, who left a will mentioning an estate in Virginia (will dated 16 Jan. 1635/6 and proved 22 Jan. 1635/6). 14 Children of Col. John Flood Arranged below is the information we have regarding the 4 children of Col. John Flood and their descendants. 2. William Flood 2 (c.1624-) William Flood, son of William and Margaret ( ) Finch Flood, was born about 1 Jan. 1624/5 and probably died young. 3. Thomas Flood 2 (-1670) Thomas Flood was a son of William and Margaret ( ) Finch Flood. See Family Topic 2350 on page 2052 for his family. 4. Jane (Flood) Cary 2 Jane Flood, daughter of William and Margaret Finch Flood, married John Cary 15 June The groom was a son of Thomas Cary and Susanna Limberry. Cary was in Accomack County 23 Feb. 1663/4 when he got 400 acres on Hunting Creek, 15 and was a tithable in Surry County in In 1669 John Cary secured a patent to 230 acres next to Capt. Thomas Flood that he had purchased from the estate of Col. John Flood. 17 Jane and John Cary returned to England and although they are traditionally the parents of Mary Cary who married Nathaniel Harrison HA:103 of Wakefield, this appears not to be the case. 18 Only child of John and Jane (Flood) Cary 5. Thomas Cary 3 (22 Feb. 1677/8-1716). 6. Walter Flood 2 (c ) Walter Flood, a son of John Flood and Fortune Jordan, lost his father when he was only about 2 years of age and he became the ward of his brother-in-law John Cary who married Walter s sister Jane Flood 4700:4. Walter Flood appeared in Surry County tithable lists first in 1678 in the househo ld of Christopher Foster. 19

3 2622 Southside Virginia Genealogies Although his father s will is now missing, a 1669 deed reveals that John Flood ordained that his home and orchard be sold, and 2 mares and certain livestock be given to his son Walter Flood at age 16. The home and orchard had since been sold to John Cary who gave two good heavy mares to Walter at age 16 and promised to give him a parcel of land on the west side of Ware Swamp at age Cary, who planned to take Walter to England with him to see to his education, gave bond to George Jordan and Thomas Flood to care for his estate in Dec This transcription of the bond reveals the arrangement. 21 John Cary of Surry County, Virginia, being by God s mission bound for England and yere to continue with my wife and children for as far as I yet doe know and whereas I am now guardian unto Walter Flood, orphant brother unto my wife, and Walter Flood being intended to go to England with me and because of the great distance now asks that Lt. Coll. Geo. Jordan and Capt. Thomas Flood jointly to take over the estate of Walter Flood att sea, pay his passage and see after him in England, school, food, and take loving care of him, and give him two mares at sixteen years old and 50 pounds sterling when 21 years old, etc. out of the estate in Virginia. Walter returned to Surry County by 1 Jan. 1677/8 when he discharged his attorneys. 22 He appeared in the househo ld of Christopher Foster in , 23 but was on his own from when surviving tithable lists end. 24 Walter was a churchwarden of Southwark Parish, 25 a cavalryman in Surry County in 1687, 26 and paid quit rents on 820 acres in Surry County in His wife was Ann Browne BH:72, a daughter of Maj. William Browne of Four Mile Tree, Surry County. More than 60 years of age, Walter Flood prepared his will 14 Oct as abstracted below. 28 Will of Walter Flood 14 October 1722 (Abstract) To daughter Ann Flood Plantation where I now live and all the land thereto belonging, beg. at mouth of Ware Swamp Run to Tussuch s to George Norwo od s to Sunken Marsh to James River to bounds between Coll. Harrison and me, to river side to Ware Swamp. If daughter Ann have no heirs then land to go to my grandson, John Flood, if he have none, to be equally divided between my two granddaughters, Fortune and Elizabeth Flood, if either die, to survivor. Wife to have Plantation for her life. Rest of land to my grandson, John Flood, only from Tussuch s Strait across to Jarrod s line up to Jordan s land, including Plantation called Chareeby s and all my land therein to head line. I give to my son, Walter s widow for her life, if she do not marry, if so then to grandson at 21 years old. To granddaughter Jane Flood 20 shillings to buy a ring. To granddaughter Fortune Flood, a Negro. To grandson John Flood one Negro. To granddaughter Eliza Flood one Negro. To daughter Ann Flood 4 Negroes. To wife Negroes and to maintain daughter, Mary, if wife die slaves to Mary. Walter appointed Nathaniel Harrison HA:103 and William Browne BH:4 executors giving each a mourning ring, and was dead by 25 Nov when they recorded his will. Children of Walter and Ann (Browne) Flood 7. John Flood 3 (c ), who appeared in his father s househo ld first in 1697, 29 married Mary Blunt 2346:98, daughter of Thomas Blunt, and left his property to 2 daughters and his wife (will dated 6 March 1709/10 30 and proved 20 June 1715)..))8. Jane Flood Mary Flood 4 had yet to reach her eighteenth birthday in 1710 when her father made his will. 10. Walter Flood 3 (-1721), a justice of Surry County, 31 married Sarah and they were the parents of 3 children his

4 4700: Col. John Flood 2623 father named in his will. Walter died before 19 April 1721 when the court appointed Sarah administratrix. 32 John Simmons was guardian to both John and Elizabeth Flood in Nov ))11. John Flood 4 (-1739) was lying sick at the house of Thomas Hamlin when he made a nuncupative will leaving a sufficient maintenance to his sister Fortune Flood and the remainder to Nicholas Edmunds, presumably a brother-in-law (will dated 4 Oct and proved 21 Nov. 1739). 12. Fortune Flood 4 was under the guardianship of William Blackburn 20 Jan. 1730/ Elizabeth Flood 4 married probably Nicholas Edmunds 2346:41. See Family Topic 2346 for their family. 14. Fortune Flood Mary Flood 3 (-1725) died unmarried by 20 Feb. 1724/5 naming legatees brother and sister, William and Ann Cocke Ann Flood 3 married William Cocke, baptized 30 Oct. 1678, a son of William Cocke who left a plantation to his son of the same name in his 1720 will in Surry County. 37 After William died intestate, the court appointed his widow, Ann, administratrix, and she reported on his estate 26 Sept Ann married 2nd Thomas Hamlin who held 145 acres on the south side of Blackwater Swamp in Prince George County in 1723, 39 and they were the parents of 2 children. In 1747 Thomas and Ann Hamlin gave 250 acres that had belonged to John Flood to their son William Hamlin. 40 Ann died by 19 April 1748, 41 and William Clinch delivered the estate of Thomas Hamlin 19 Feb. 1750/1. 42.))Children of William and Ann (Flood) Cocke: 17. Ann Cocke 4 was unmarried in 1752 when she, her sister, Mary Spratley, and John Spratley sold 200 acres in Brunswick County to Col. Nathaniel Edwards Mary Cocke 4 (-1773) married a cousin John Spratley, a son of another Mary Cocke and John Spratley, mentioned in her grandfather s will. The will of the elder John Spratley mentioned John Spratley, daughter-in-law Mary Spratley, and grandchildren Elizabeth, John, and William Spratley. 44 William George 7248:207 sold Spratley 100 acres on Cypress Swamp in 1750 and John Cocke sold him a half-acre lot in the Town of Guilford in Spratley left a will in Surry County (will dated 3 May and proved 19 July 1758), as did Mary (will dated 19 March and proved 23 Nov. 1773). The court recorded the inventory of Mary Spratley 26 April 1774, 48 and her estate was distributed to William, John, Benjamin Spratley, Jacob Falcon, and the 6 heirs of Walter Spratley 2 Oct ))19. John Spratley 5, head of a househo ld of one white and 8 blacks in Surry County in 1782 and 1784, 50 he married Ann Pettway, a daughter of John Pettway, in Surry County 26 Sept. 1793, 51 who married 2nd John Judkins 25 April (bond) 1795, 52 and third James Jones 1 May (bond) Walter Spratley 5 ( ) left a will in Surry County (will dated 10 April and proved 23 Dec. 1777). 21. William Spratley 5 married 1st Ann Faulcon in Surry County 5 April (bond) The bride was a daughter of Nicholas Faulcon whose 1781 will in Surry County named daughter Ann Spratley. 55 He married 2nd Mary White Dec. (bond) Spratley was sheriff of Surry County, 1781, 57 and loaned a gun during the Revolutionary War, for which he was reimbursed. 58 He was head of a househo ld of 6 whites and 19 blacks in Surry County in Six whites were in his househo ld in ))22. John Spratley 6 married Sally Hart 5 Nov. 1799, 60 and 2nd, Martha Gray Hart 24 Jan They were the parents of Walter Spratley 6 (-1824) married Susan Blow (28 Nov. 1788) 29 Oct. 1807, and they were the parents of 6, 62 before he left a will in Sussex County (will dated 13 Jan and proved 5 Feb. 1824). 24. William Hartwell Spratley 6 first married Margaret Warren 21 Nov. 1796, 64 and 2nd, Dolly (Evans) Hamlin 24 July He had 5 children Benjamin Spratley 5 (-1792) married Susanna Sebrell, a daughter of Nathaniel Sebrell, by 1783 when they sold part of the land he inherited from his father to William Spratley and freed 11 slaves. 66 He was head of a househo ld of 4 whites and 10 blacks in Surry County in 1782, and 6 whites were in his family in The will of Benjamin Spratley named wife, Susanna, and children Polly, Walter, Henry, Benjamin, and child in esse (will dated 30 Jan and proved 28 Feb. 1792). Estate accounts for , which list also Elizabeth and Nathaniel, mention coffins for Benjamin and Susanna. 69.))26. Mary Spratley Walter Spratley 6 married 1st Elizabeth Shackleton, a daughter of Richard Shackleton, 26 May 1808, 70 and they had 4 children Henry Spratley Benjamin Spratley Elizabeth Spratley Nathaniel Spratley 6 married Lucy Cocks or Cox in Surry County 12 Nov Thomas Spratley 5 married Ann Holdsw orth 6 May (bond) 1783, 73 and they had 4 children. 74 Thomas was head of a househo ld of 4 whites in Surry County in ))33. Rebecca Young Spratley 6 married Edwin Delk 15 Feb Peter Thomas Spratley 6 married 1st Margaret S. Wilson in Surry County 28 Jan. 1813, 77 and 2nd, Mary Wheadon Gilbert 23 Oct. (bond) Spratley, who represented Surry County in the Virginia House of Delegates (1835-6), 79 had 3

5 2624 Southside Virginia Genealogies children Lewis Meredith Spratley 6 married a Wilson. 36. William Hamlin Spratley 6 married 2nd Sally B. Pierce 15 June (bond) 1825, 81 and was the father of Ann Spratley 5 married Jacob Faulcon 17 June (bond) 1773, 83 and they were the parents of In 1787 he bought 50 acres in Surry County from James Bryant and 320 acres between Pigeon and Green swamps from Charles Judkins. 85 Virginia reimbursed Jacob for his contributions during the Revolutionary War. 86 Jacob was head of a househo ld of 8 whites and 16 blacks in Surry County in 1782; 11 were in his househo ld in Jacob was the name partner in the firm of Jacob Faulcon & Co. 88 An accounting of goods shipped through Mount Airy 15 Dec through Nov has been published. 89.))38. John Faulcon 6 married 1st Jane Faulcon 31 May (bond) 1802, 90 2nd, Mary Kennon Cocke 6868:97 27 July (bond) and 3rd, Martha (Ruffin) Edwards RU:20, the widow of Thomas Edwards 2346:14, 27 April (bond) Ann Faulcon 6 married Rowland Holt in Surry County 15 May (bond) Walter Faulcon 6, who never married, left a will in Surry County in Mary Ann Faulcon 6 married John Faulcon Jr. 14 May (bond) Jacob Faulcon 6 (-1829) died a lunatic. 43. Elizabeth Spratley 5, named in the will of her paternal grandfather, must have died young..))children of Thomas and Ann (Flood) Cocke Hamlin: 44. William Hamlin 4, under the guardianship of John Spratley in 1757, chose Thomas Harris his guardian in child Hamlin 4. P P P Notables Ancestral Family Topic 4700 includes the following notable individuals. Legislators - colonial and state John Flood, Virginia Peter Thomas Spratley, Virginia Primary sources for Ancestral Fam ily Topic 4700 Boddie, John Bennett. Flood. Virginia Historical Genealogies. Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Co., Inc., 1965: Family of John Flood 4700:1. Dorman, John Frederick. Adventurers of Purse and Person Virginia /5, Fourth Edition. Genealogical Publishing Co., Inc Volume One, pages Family of John Flood 4700:1. Some Old Surry Families - Flood Family. Genealogies of Virginia Families from the William and Mary College Quarterly Historical Magazine. Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Co., Inc., 1982(5): Family of John Flood 4700:1. Endnotes for Ancestral Fam ily Topic The Original List of Persons of Quality (Hotten), p Hening s Statutes at Large, (Hening) vol. 1, p Ibid., p The General Assembly of Virginia (Leonard). 5 Charles City County, Virginia, Miscellaneous Records, The Virginia Genealogist, vol. 14, p Encyclopedia of Virginia Biography, vol. 1, p Patent Bk. 1, p Patent Bk. 2, p Patent Bk. 1, p Patent Bk. 3, p Charles City Co. Court Order Bk. Fragment, Surry Co. Wills, Deeds, Etc. 1, , pp Ibid., p Virginia Gleanings in England (Withington), p Patent Bk. 5, p Surry County Tithables 1668, 1669, 1670, Magazine of Virginia Genealogy, vol. 22:1, p Patent Bk. 6, p Encyclopedia of Virginia Biography, vol. 1, p Surry County Tithables 1677, 1678, 1679, Magazine of Virginia Genealogy, vol. 22:3, p Surry Co. Wills, Deeds, Etc. 1, , p Ibid., p Surry Co. Wills, Deeds, Etc. 2, , p Surry County Tithables 1677, 1678, 1679, Magazine of Virginia Genealogy, vol. 22:3, p. 58; Surry County Tithables 1677, 1678, 1679, Magazine of Virginia Genealogy, vol. 22:3, pp. 61, Surry County Tithables 1680, 1681, 1682, Magazine of Virginia Genealogy, vol. 22:4, pp. 49, 51, 55; Surry County Tithables 1683, 1684, 1685, Magazine of Virginia Genealogy, vol. 23:1, pp. 41, 45, 48; Surry County Tithables 1686, 1687, 1688, Magazine of Virginia Genealogy, vol. 23:2, pp. 58, 61, 67; Surry County Tithables 1689, 1690, 1691, Magazine of Virginia Genealogy, vol. 23:3, pp. 55, 60, 64; Surry County Tithables 1692, 1693, 1694, Magazine of Virginia Genealogy, vol. 23:4, pp. 63, 67, 70; Surry County Tithables 1695, 1696, 1697, Magazine of Virginia Genealogy, vol. 24:1, pp. 68, 73;

6 4700: Col. John Flood 2625 Surry County Tithables 1698, 1699, 1700, Magazine of Virginia Genealogy, vol. 24:2, pp. 70, 74, 83; Surry County Tithables 1701, 1702, 1703, Magazine of Virginia Genealogy, vol. 24:3, pp. 69, 73, Surry Co. Wills, Deeds, Etc. 7, , p Virginia Colonial Militia, (Crozier), p English Duplicates of Lost Virginia Records (des Cognets), p Surry Co. Wills, Deeds, Etc. 7, , p Surry County Tithables 1695, 1696, 1697, Magazine of Virginia Genealogy, vol. 24:1, p Surry Co. Wills, Deeds, Etc. 6, , p English Duplicates of Lost Virginia Records (des Cognets), p Surry Co. Wills, Deeds, Etc. 7, , p Surry Co. Wills, Deeds, Etc. 8, , p Surry Co. Wills, Deeds, Etc. 9, , pp. 99, Surry Co. Wills, Deeds, Etc. 8, , p Ibid., p Cocke of Princess Anne and Surry Counties, Formerly of Constantine, County Cornwall, (Hart) The Virginia Genealogist, vol. 40, p. 247; Surry Co. Wills, Deeds, Etc. 7, , p Surry Co. Wills, Deeds, Etc. 8, , p Patent Bk. 11, p Surry Co. Deed Bk. 5, p Surry Co. Order Bk , p Surry Co. Wills, Deeds, Etc. 9, , p Brunswick Co. Deed Bk. 5, , p Surry Co. Wills, Deeds, Etc. 7, , p Surry Co. Deed Bk. 6, p. 122; Surry Co. Deed Bk. 7, p Surry Co. Wills, Deeds, Etc. 10, , p Surry Co. Wills, Deeds, Etc. 10A, , p Ibid., p Surry Co. Will Bk. 1, p Heads of Families at the First Census 1790, Virginia, pp. and col. 43D, 78C. 51 Surry Co. ministers returns. 52 Surry Co. marriage bond. 53 Surry Co. Wills, Deeds, Etc. 10A, , p Surry Co. marriage bond. 55 Surry Co. Wills, Deeds, Etc. 12, , p Surry Co. marriage bond. 57 Surry Co. Wills, Deeds, Etc. 11, , p Surry Co. Publick Claims, p Heads of Families at the First Census 1790, Virginia, pp. and col. 43D, 78B. 60 Surry Co. ministers returns. 61 The Cocke Family in Virginia, (Hart) The Virginia Genealogist, vol. 45, pp Ibid., pp Sussex Co. Will Bk. K, p Surry Co. ministers returns. 65 The Cocke Family in Virginia, (Hart) The Virginia Genealogist, vol. 45, pp Surry Co. Deed Bk. 12, pp. 17, Heads of Families at the First Census 1790, Virginia, pp. and col. 43D, 78C. 68 Surry Co. Wills, Deeds, Etc. 12, , p Surry Co. Will Bk. 1, p Surry Co. ministers returns. 71 The Cocke Family in Virginia, (Hart) The Virginia Genealogist, vol. 45, p Surry Co. ministers returns. 73 Surry Co. marriage bond. 74 The Cocke Family in Virginia, (Hart) The Virginia Genealogist, vol. 45, p Heads of Families at the First Census 1790, Virginia, p. and col. 78B. 76 Surry Co. ministers returns. 77 Ibid. 78 Surry Co. marriage bond. 79 The General Assembly of Virginia (Leonard). 80 The Cocke Family in Virginia, (Hart) The Virginia Genealogist, vol. 45, p Surry Co. marriage bond. 82 The Cocke Family in Virginia, (Hart) The Virginia Genealogist, vol. 45, p Surry Co. marriage bond. 84 The Cocke Family in Virginia, (Hart) The Virginia Genealogist, vol. 45, p Surry Co. Deed Bk. 12, pp. 258, Surry Co. Publick Claims, p Heads of Families at the First Census 1790, Virginia, pp. and col. 43B, 78C. 88 Surry Co. Deed Bk. 12, p Faulcon & Company, Account of Goods Shipped Through Mount Airy, 15 December November 1779, Magazine of Virginia Genealogy, vol. 41, pp ; Faulcon & Company, Account of Goods Shipped Through Mount Airy, 15 December November 1779, Magazine of Virginia Genealogy, vol. 42, pp , Surry Co. marriage bond. 91 Ibid. 92 Surry Co. Will Bk. 3, p Surry Co. marriage bond. 94 Surry Co. Order Bk , pp. 36,