Thank you, Bill...I found the following the other evening (please forgive
my rough transcription...it was late when I typed this out for my records!):
"Transcription of Lower Norfolk County, Virginia Records Volume One, Wills
and Deeds, Book D 1656-1666" by John A. Brayton
page 190 {190}: "Upon ye peticon of Mr. Wm. MOSELEY A Certificate is
granted Unto him / for two hundred & fifty acres of Land proved dew by his
oath / for ye transportacon of five persons into ye Collony Vizt
RICE JONES ANDREW FRISBE JOSEPH {--}
Wm COXCRAFT ANN COMFORT
__________
page 237 {234}
Lower Norff: ad y: 15th Novemb 1659
Mr JOHN PORTER Senr. high Sherr. is apointed Collector for this yeares
levies / of 442: persons as by ye severall Lists appeare, at 381 lb tob, ?
pole amounts unto ye some of 16796
Payments to bee made out of it as followeth
(many on the list) ..................
To RICE JONES for rowing 5 burgesses to town & his atendance 33 dayes at 10
lb 300
______________
page 369 {342a}
To Mr. NICHOLAS ALLEXANDER at the
Hare m pater noster Rowe
Recordatr: 16
die junij 1662
Know all men by these presents yt I REECE JOANES abovesd doe assigne & sell
over all my right title & intest / of thaforesd bill of sale unto THOMAS
VICESIMUS IVY
Test: BENJAMIN TRENNIMAN REECE R JONES
WILL: ROBINSON
Acknowledged in Cort: 16th day of Decemb4 Md: this bill of sale
was recorded ye 16th
1661 ? me Wm: JERMY Clicum of/
Septr Ad: 1659
Cur
On Fri, Jan 6, 2012 at 4:14 PM, Bill Davidson <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> I see that some files on RootsWeb WorldConnect show that the Rice Jones
> who married Frances Bowman was a son of the older Rice Jones who married
> Jane Cock/Cocke. Jane Cock (died 1694) was a daughter of Nicholas Cock and
> Nicholas' wife, the widow Mrs. Jane (Unknown) Curtis (the widow of
> Bartholomew Curtis). After the older Rice Jones died, the widow Mrs. Jane
> (Cock) Jones married second to Lt. John Smith (a son of Alexander Smith,
> who was in the Lancaster Co., VA area by at least the 1650s). Alexander
> Smith and his son Lt. John Smith (and hence, Lt. John Smith's wife Jane
> Cock) are my ancestors on my "mother's side." Nicholas Cock had a son who
> was named Maurice Cock....and the given name of "Maurice" was also used
> several times in the Lt. John Smith/Jane Cock family. When Maurice Cock
> wrote his will in 1696, he mentioned his nephews....orphans of the older
> Rice Jones....who were named John Jones, Rice Jones (the one who married
> Frances Bowman, I presume) and Nicholas Jones.
>
> Bill Davidson
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