Cynthia

Have you ever run across a Roger Bell in the 1600s. You seem to know something about the area and I have looked for 12+ years for this family who was in K & Q and Orange Co. I have been told that originally came from Accomack.
Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Janice Friel


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Sent: Mon, Dec 5, 2011 1:39 pm
Subject: Re: [VA-ROOTS] Puritans in Early Virginia


If they were on the Eastern Shore (Accomack and Northampton), your ancestors
ould have been forced out in part by Col. Edmund Scarborough.  He was a
orceful and colorful character.  He patented land in Accomack upon the
eath of his father in November 1635.  He was Speaker of the House of
urgesses in 1653 and a Member, 1642-1671; the Sheriff in 1666, Justice of
orthampton Co., and held a number of offices in the Church over the years.
ol. Scarborough was an able lawyer, a power in the Courts, an ardent
oyalist and ran his affairs as in the feudal system.  
He was a prominent businessman.  He owned a fleet of ships which traded up
nd down the eastern seaboard (read Massachusetts to GA) and held interests
n salt (I believe he was the only salt producer at the time) and other
usinesses (he had a shoe factory, malt plants in addition to shipping and
rading in tobacco and other things)  which he conducted in part with Mrs.
nn Toft on property he had granted to her in 1660 when she is said to have
een 17 and again in 1664 and in 1669.  There was a deed between them that
e would conduct business on her plantation in "a manner that he sees fit."
here is circumstantial evidence that she was his mistress: the name of the
lace (Gargaphie comes from Ovid's Metamorphoses, iii, 180, which refers to
he bower where Diana and her nymphs disported);  his relationships with a
oung woman living in a remote part of the county alone; that he improved
he land yet renounced all claim for himself and his natural heirs after his
atural life;  the statements of a servant (who was punished, of course)
hat he would  "work no more for Scarburg's whores and bastards" (Virginia's
astern Shore A History of Northhampton and Accomack County by Ralph
hitelaw, Vol II, page 1151). She bore 3 girls to him following the
eginning of their association.  Once he died, she quickly married Daniel
enifer and arranged for the property to be deeded to the girls.  
In addition, the Indians called him "The Conjuror" and the governors of both
A and MD had disagreements with him.  During his dispute with the governor
f VA, he had to flee to New England before they made up.  His dispute with
D involved surveying the line between VA and MD.  As the Surveyor, he moved
he line north so that his property fell within VA.  It was only after the
igorous protest of Governor Calvert, that the line was re-surveyed and
oved back to the south and referred to as the Calvert-Scarborough Line when
t was ratified by the Legislatures of the two states.  
According to Southern Kith and Kin (by Jewel Davis Scarborough, 1957)  a
ook about the Scarboroughs and their relations, he "was anathema to the
uritans and Quakers whom he considered his special enemies." As you can see
rom the above, that they were kicked out of the area may have had much to
o with his attitudes and authority and not quite so much to do with the
aw.  Checking the records in the House of Burgess will probably give you
ore info about his role in evicting them. 
Cynthia McDaniel 

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ubject: [VA-ROOTS] Puritans in Early Virginia
One of my ancestors, Richard Cheyney, supposedly came from a wealthy, noble,
oyalist family in England.  In the early 1600s, as the Puritans began to
ttain power, Richard and his family began to lose some of their influence
nd wealth.  He supposedly came to Virginia about 1635, paying his own
assage.  A group of English Puritans in Virginia were forced out by the
arly Virginia government because of their religion.  These Puritans and
ichard Cheyney the Immigrant then moved over to Providence near present-day
nnapolis, Maryland.  I assume "a wealthy, noble, royalist" would not be a
uritan.  His son was a member of the Episcopal All Hallows Church near
nnapolis.  So I'm not clear about these early Puritans and Cheyney's
onnection (or lack thereof) to them.

oes anyone know about these Puritans in early Virginia?  Were they a
ohesive group?  Did they settle in one place?  How were they forced out?
Did they all go to Maryland?  Maryland was supposed to be Catholic; why
ould Puritans choose to go there?
Clearly my knowledge of religious history needs work!  Thanks in advance.
--Sally Phillips
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