Anne CLAIBORNE

Anne married Richard GREGORY in 1766 in Mechlenburg, Virginia. Richard (son of Richard GREGORY and Agnes WEST) was born in 1731 in Mount Pleasant Plantation, Spring Grove, Surry, Virginia; died before 12 May 1817. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

1. West GREGORY was born in 1782 in Mecklenburg, Virginia; died before 27 Aug 1827 in Caswell, North Carolina.

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• Fact: Son of Capt. Thomas Claiborne and Ann Fox

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He was Justice of the Peace and Sheriff of King William County and a member of the Virginia House of Burgesses for King William County in 1768 and 1769. Colonel Claiborne was the owner of Sweet Hall Plantation during his lifetime.

Nathaniel married Jane COLE in 1735 in Boldrup Plantation, Wawick, Virginia. Jane was born in 1719 in Boldrup Plantation, Warwick, Virginia. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Fact: Daughter of Colonel William Cole and Mary Roscow

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She was the sister of Martha Cole, whose husband, Thomas West, was the brother of Jane's third husband. Jane's first and third husbands were fist cousins once removed. Her father was a member of the House of Burgesses in 1718 and 1726. Jane operated the Ferry after Nathaniel Claiborne's death in 1756. There were not children of colonel Francis West and Jane Cole.

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• Fact: So of Lt. Colonel Thomas Claiborne and Sarah Fenn

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He was captain of dragoons in the King William County militia in 1702. He held 1,000 acres in the county in 1704 and received a patent for the 1,800 acres included in his plantation as "Sweet Hall" on 5 Sep 1723. Thomas was the grandson of Governor William Claiborne of Crayford Parish, co. Kent, who arrived in Jamestown on the ship "George" in Oct 1621. Elizabeth Butler, wife of Governor Claiborne, was of royal and noble ancestry. Governor William Clayborne/Claiborne was an English pioneer, surveyor and an early settler in Virginia and Maryland, who became a wealthy planter, trader and a major figure in the politics of the colony. "William Claiborne may have been the most consistently influential politician in Virginia throughout the whole of the pre-Restoration period," wrote historian Robert Brenner.

Thomas married Ann FOX in 1701 in King William, Virginia. Ann (daughter of Henry FOX, Gent and Ann WEST) was born on 20 May 1684 in King William, Virginia; died on 4 May 1733 in Puddlecoke Manse, Virginia. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Fact: Son of John Fox

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He was a vestryman and warden of st. John's Episcopal Church and justice of King and Queen County (1698-99). John was first sheriff of King William County in 1702 and senior presiding justice, who owned 2,000 acres there in 1704. He was a member of the House of Burgesses from 1710-12 and resided in Huntington (on the Mattaponi river), King William County. The Fox family kept in close touch with England for several generations. Henry Fox went there and his grandson was educated there. Henry arrived in London in May 1655 in the "Thomas and Mary", John fox commander. Henry's father John arrived at Jamestown in the fall of 1625 (at age 19). John Fox commanded several trading vessels that sailed the Atlantic between Virginia and London. he was ordered to command "The White Horse and Curry Comb" on a voyage to Virginia in 1650 and was master of the "Resurrection" in 1662 when his brother, Stephen Fox, a passenger on John's vessel, made his will remembering his four other brothers and sister.

Henry was the grandson of Thomas Fox, who was a member of the Virginia Company of London in 1609. Thomas died in England while his son John Fox was at sea on his way to Jamestown. John bought 200 acres of land in Gloucester County, Virginia about 1682. His son and heir, Henry, granted a patent for the land which his father had purchased from Thomas Hanks, and also for an additional 100 acres.

Henry married Ann WEST in 1673 in West Point Plantation, King William, Virginia. Ann (daughter of Col. John WEST and Unity CROSHAW) was born in 1655 in West Point Plantation, King William, Virginia; died in 1708 in Jamestown, Jamestown City, Virginia. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]