Yes I have had my maternal line testing from Family Tree DNA. Some of my family surnames are Lewis, Randolph, Monroe, Stith, Cox, Evans, Bowden, Hilliard, Monroe, Washington, Warner, Jackson, Pinn, and Tapscotts. My maternal ancestors are the Lewis which include Elizabeth Lewis Warner, whose daughter Mildred married Lawrence Washington, George Washington's Grandfather. 

The last time I was in Virginia a meeting was arranged with the Monroe Foundation, but I had to cancel. I have been in touch with many of the descendants, and am a member of the DAR through my ancestor, Charles Lewis. 


Anita Wills 

 
 
 
 
 




















 
"If you believe people have no history worth mentioning, it's easy to believe they have no humanity worth defending."
— William Loren Katz
June 18, 2009



On Monday, January 13, 2014 12:28 PM, Linda Threadgill <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
 
Anita...I was just wondering if you have done DNA testing? Normally, I 
>wouldn't have read this query, but yesterday I found that one of my family 
>members is a DNA match to a Hilliard. If you haven't tested, you may want to 
>do so. It may make your search a little easier. I also have the Monro 
>surname in my family and I know that the European Stith family intermarried 
>with the Jeffersons, Washingtons, Randolphs, Lee, Bollings, etc. It has to 
>do with location and the earliest VA families regardless of ethnicity. 
>Making connections thru DNA makes genealogy research a little easier 
>especially if you trace your family to colonial VA or to one of Virginia's 
>first families.
>Linda Stith Threadgill
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>Subject: Re: [VA-ROOTS] Henrico County Court Minute Book September Court 
>1740 page 124 or 24 ?
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>The following information is a continuation of the research into my 
>ancestral lines in Colonial Virginia. It was sent to me recently and there 
>is a lot of information pertinent to my research. One of my distant 
>ancestors, Lydia Hilliard, a white woman, was a servant of St. John 
>Shropshire. She was accused of having a child with a negro man and received 
>punishment for her indiscretion.
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>My first book, Notes and Documents of Free Persons of Color, was recently 
>revised and included Lydia Hilliard. She was actually the Grandmother of my 
>ancestor, Mary Bowden, through Lydia, "Mulatto" Child Mary Monroe. After 
>leaving the household of Shropshire, Lydia moved into the household of 
>William Monroe Senior (Grandfather of President James Monroe); in a cruel 
>twist of fate, Lydia's daughter Mary and William Monroe Seniors son, William 
>Junior, entered into a marriage. They were the parents of my ancestor, Mary 
>Bowden. Like her mother, Mary was taken to court and accused of bastardy, 
>but the charges were dropped. The Courts decided that Mary was basically in 
>a catch-22 situation. The judge found that Mary had not known the law and 
>believed she was in a legal marriage. The courts made no mention of William 
>Monroe Senior, but the child, Mary Bowden was sent to live with the Chiltons 
>(who were relatives of the Monroes). When Mary Bowden was 7 her
>indenture was assigned to Augustine Washington Senior, and she went to live 
>at George Washington Birthplace. So there is more to this story then the 
>following, but I thought this would be something the list could discuss.
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>Anita Wills
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>St. John Shropshire, born May 13, 1663 in Marlborough, Wiltshire, Eng;
>died November 16, 1718 in Westmoreland Co., VA. He was the son of 352.
>Oliver Shropshire and 353. Elizabeth Ring. He married 177. Elizabeth
>Winkfield. St. John Shropshire graduated from Oxford University. St.
>John was ordained at the Anglican Church at Winchester Cathedral in
>1692.  A few years after his graduation he was sent to Virginia by the
>Church of England, and is the only clergyman by that name who is
>mentioned in Goodwin's "Colonial Church in America." He, his wife, and
>their two sons immigrated during or before 1694 to Gloucester Co, VA and
>later moved to Westmoreland Co VA.  Notes: Elizabeth Winkfield:
>Elizabeth wrote a will dated 14 Apr 1738 and proved 1 Dec 1742:
>"...sound of mind but very weak of body ... whole estate to be divided
>equally between my two sons St.  John Shropshire and Winkfield
>Shropshire." Wits: Roderick McCullock, Robert Sanford (Westmoreland Co
>VA). At the time of her death her name was Elizabeth Stonehouse.
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>Daniel Field asked to pay out of William Bennett's estate 30 September
>1703, Westmoreland County, Virginia. "Judgment is granted Lydia Hilliard
>against Danll. Field as trustee to the estate of Wm. Bennett for 480
>pounds of tobacco, balance of an account."
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>28 March 1705
>It is ordered that the Sheriff doe summon St. John Shripshire, Clerk,
>that he appear at the next court to answer the complaint of Lydia
>Hilliard his servant relating to her bad usage.
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>On April 25, 1705 Lydia Hilliard, a white woman servant to the Rev. St.
>John Shropshire, Clerk, Minister of Washington Parish, "being convicted
>of fornication with a Negro man, ordered she receive corporal
>punishment according to law for her offense unless her master or some
>other person on her behalf doe pay the fine of five hundred pounds of
>tobacco, in compensation whereof it is ordered that she serve her master
>or other person paying her fine half a year of her tyme by indenture or
>custom expired. And for that a bastard child happened to be begot in the
>fornication, tis also ordered Lydia Hilliard doe serve her master one
>year after her indenture, custom or otherwise expired, in regard of the
>loss and trouble sustained by her having such bastard child.
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>And it is further ordered, in regard to Lydia’s being a servant and the
>bastard child happening to be a mulatto begot of her body in the
>fornication being a Negro man, that after her tyme expires which she
>ought to serve her master by law, that the churchwardens of the parish
>of Washington doe take Lydia into their possession and sell her for five
>years and that the money for which she shall be sold bee by them
>disposed to the uses by law appointed." [3] "Lydia Hilliard, a single
>woman servant to St. John Shropshire, Clerk, Minister if Washington
>Parish, being with child, upon her corporal oath did swear one Albin, an
>Englishman, to be the father of the child, which said child at the time
>of her delivery appeared to be a mulatto, as upon complaint was fully
>shown to this court, wherefore it is ordered that Lydia doe for rashly
>foreswearing herself receive on her bare back ten lashes well layd on
>and the sheriff if his deputy perform the execution of this order."
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>"If you believe people have no history worth mentioning, it's easy to 
>believe they have no humanity worth defending."
>— William Loren Katz
>June 18, 2009
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>On Thursday, April 18, 2013 5:38 AM, Margie Barton <[log in to unmask]> 
>wrote:
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>Henrico County Minute Book September Court 1740; Need help with trying to 
>read wording on page 124 or 24 first three lines on page Deed to William 
>Pride.  Microfilm was so light and not familiar with hand writing, I could 
>figure out the words.
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>>Any help would be greatly appreciated.
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