1850 Census, Louisa County, VA:
Bushrod W. Baker 31 M Farmer 2376 VA
Caroline Baker 18 F VA
Caroline W. Baker 11/12 F VA
Henry Alexander 70 M None VA
Marcus L. Young 12 M VA
Lawrence Young 14 M VA1860 Census, Fredericks Hall PO, Louisa County, VA:
Bushrod W. Baker 32 M Farmer 2980 2810 Louisa Co VA
Martha A. Baker 22 F Landlady Louisa Co VA
Caroline W. Baker 9 F Louisa Co VA
Georgeana Baker 8 F Louisa Co VA
Clucus? Baker 5 M Louisa Co VALiving 4 houses down from Alfred M. Baker & family.
1870 Census, Fredericks Hall PO, Louisa County, VA:
Baker, Bushrod W. 46 M W Farmer 300 150 VA
Baker, Martha A. 35 F W Keeping House VA
Baker, Caroline W. 18 F W At Home VA
Baker, George A. 17 M W Farm Laborer VA
Baker, Bolelia 8 F W VA
Baker, William J. 6 M W VA
Baker, Mariah 5 F W VA
Baker, Joseph T. 4 M W BA1880 Census, District 2, Louisa Court House, Louisa, Virginia:
Bushrod BAKER Self M Male W 54 VA Farmer VA VA
Martha A. BAKER Wife M Female W 44 VA Keeping House VA VA
Bolelia BAKER Dau S Female W 17 VA VA VA
William J. BAKER Son S Male W 16 VA Farming VA VA
Maud Lou BAKER Dau S Female W 14 VA VA VA
Elizabeth V. BAKER Dau S Female W 9 VA VA VA
1850 Census, Louisa County, VA:
Bushrod W. Baker 31 M Farmer 2376 VA
Caroline Baker 18 F VA
Caroline W. Baker 11/12 F VA
Henry Alexander 70 M None VA
Marcus L. Young 12 M VA
Lawrence Young 14 M VA1860 Census, Fredericks Hall PO, Louisa County, VA:
Bushrod W. Baker 32 M Farmer 2980 2810 Louisa Co VA
Martha A. Baker 22 F Landlady Louisa Co VA
Caroline W. Baker 9 F Louisa Co VA
Georgeana Baker 8 F Louisa Co VA
Clucus? Baker 5 M Louisa Co VALiving 4 houses down from Alfred M. Baker & family.
1870 Census, Fredericks Hall PO, Louisa County, VA:
Baker, Bushrod W. 46 M W Farmer 300 150 VA
Baker, Martha A. 35 F W Keeping House VA
Baker, Caroline W. 18 F W At Home VA
Baker, George A. 17 M W Farm Laborer VA
Baker, Bolelia 8 F W VA
Baker, William J. 6 M W VA
Baker, Mariah 5 F W VA
Baker, Joseph T. 4 M W BA1880 Census, District 2, Louisa Court House, Louisa, Virginia:
Bushrod BAKER Self M Male W 54 VA Farmer VA VA
Martha A. BAKER Wife M Female W 44 VA Keeping House VA VA
Bolelia BAKER Dau S Female W 17 VA VA VA
William J. BAKER Son S Male W 16 VA Farming VA VA
Maud Lou BAKER Dau S Female W 14 VA VA VA
Elizabeth V. BAKER Dau S Female W 9 VA VA VA
From Louisa County, VA death records - Died at age 15 of heart disease in 1879 in Louisa County. Father was informant.
1880 Census, Madison, Caroline, Virginia:
Jeter CORR Self S Male W 28 VA Farmer VA VA
Charles CORR Brother S Male W 25 VA Works On Farm VA VA
ROBERT BEVERLEY, JR., Historian, of "Beverley Park", the eldest son of
Maj. Robert Beverley, was a "Knight of the Golden Horseshoe" which was
an expedition mounted under Gov. Spottswood. This expedition was the
first white men to see the Shenandoah Valley. There is a monument with
their names on it at Swift Run Gap. (RE: letter from Stu Vogt of
Westfield, MA.)
Until about 1970's, the Beverley ancestors still resided at the ancestral
estate "Blandfield" in Essex County. However, they had to sell it to pay
the taxes.
ROBERT married URSULA BYRD, the daughter of Col. William Byrd of
Westover. Their son William
married Elizabeth Bland. ( It is their daughter SUSANNA BEVERLEY who
married BENJAMIN WINSLOW, SR., and are 5th great grandparents to Barbara
Ballard of this record.)
He wrote "History of Virginia" and it was published in London in 1705,
and a second edition in 1722. Robert Beverley Jr, known as historian of
Virginia was the second son of Maj. Robert Beverley and his wife Mary
(Keeble) Beverley, He was born on his fathers plantation in Middlesex
Co., went to England for his education and was there at the time of
father's death.
Quoting from Vol II. Tappahannock, Virginia, May 1977 article on Major
Robert Beverley and His Three Sons: Peter, Robert and Harry, by Charles
W. H. Warner: "Upon returning to Virginia, he enrolled himself as a
volunteer scrivener in the office of the Secretary of the Colony. Soon
he became clerk of a legislative committee. By 1696, he had achieved the
important posts of Clerk of the General Court, Clerk of the Council and
Clerk of the General Assembly. As a freeholder of Jamestown he served in
the House of Burgesses, in the Assemblies of 1699, 1700-2 and 1705-06.
"He inherited the "Poropotank" plantation in Gloucester Co. and "Beverley
Park" in King and Queen Co. He served also as Clerk of this County.
Robert Beverley, Jr. owned considerable other property.
"In June of 1703, Robert Beverley went to England to protect his interest
in a litigation there pending before the Privy Council, and was detained
for eighteen months in this matter. He was invited by a bookseller to
criticize the manuscript of Oldmixon's British Empire in America.
Stimulated by his litigation and resenting Oldmixon's account of Virginia
in his book, he wrote his own book--History of Present State of
Virginia. This was published in London in 1705, bearing in the front the
Arms of Virginia and "by R. B. gent." The book was divided into four
sections: The History of the First Settlement of Virginia and the
Government thereof, to the present time; The Natural Productions and
Conveniences of the country, suited to Trade and Improvement; The Native
Indians, their Religion, Laws and Customs in War and Peace; The present
State of the Country as to the Polity of the Government and the
Improvements of the Land."
Robert Beverley, Jr. is the ancestor of all the "Blandfield" Beverleys,
the Wellfords of "Sabine Hall" and of "Kendale," in Essex County. The
mother of Senator Harry Flood Byrd, Jr. was of the "Blandfield" Beverley
family.
Tombstone of URSULA BYRD BEVERLEY, once in old church yard at Jamestown,
is now missing. The inscription read: "Here lyeth inter'd the body of
Ursula Beverley, late wife of Robert Beverley, and daughter of ye very
Honorable William Bird, who departed this life the 11th day of October
1698, being much lamented by all that knew her, 16 yrs. 11 mos., and 2
days." (Source: "English at Jamestown in The Cradle of the Republic"
by Lyon G. Tryler, Clayton Library, Houston, TX.)
Burial: 19 Mar 1687 Jamestown, Middlesex, VA
Emigration: 1663 Jamestown, VA from Yorkshire, Eng.
Occupation: 1670 Clerk of the House of Burgesses, Middlesex Co., VA
Occupation: 1673 JUSTICE of Middlesex Co., VA
Note:
ROBERT BEVERLEY, the Immigrant, (of Middlesex) became known in Virginia
history as "Major" , and was probably the son of Peter Beverley, of the
City of Hull and his wife Susannah Hollis. He came to Virginia in 1663
and settled in Middlesex County. It is obvious that he had acquired a
good education for he was a lawyer and a surveyor. (Source: ESSEX
COUNTY HISTORICAL, ESSEX COUNTY BICENTENNIAL, Tappahannock, Virginia,
article from Vol II, dated May 1977, titled "Major Robert Beverley and
His Three Sons: Peter, Robert and Harry." (Death date varies re files
of Richard Peltway Winslow stated 1687.) At the time of his death,
through patents and purchase, he had become the largest landowner to that
date in Virginia, over 38,000 acres of land. (Ref: Above mentioned
article.)
"John Beverley, of England, adhered to Charles I, and at the Restoration
his name appears in the list of those on whom it was intended to confer
the Order of the Royal Oak. Maj. Robert Beverley (d. 1686),
Lawyer; settled in Lancaster Co., VA; Justice, 1673; clerk House of
Burgesses, 1670; married first, Mary
Koeble (Keeble), widow (d. 1678). Capt. Harry Beverley (1669-1731), his
son was justice, Middlesex Co. 1700, surveyor King and Queen and King
William counties, 1702-14; burgess, 1705-06; commanded the "Virgin",
1716, which was captured by the Spanish man-of-war; he escaped and came
to VA 1717; was presiding Justice Spotsylvania Co., ca 1720; married ca
1700, Elizabeth Smith." (Family Group Records of Mary Ruth C. Spencer,
Carmel, CA.)
"Robert Beverley, who subsequently became known as MAJOR BEVERLEY, came
to Virginia in 1663. There is no doubt about the date because he wrote
in the plea he hoped to make in court in 1683, "My abode in this country
hath now been twenty years", (See Henings Statutes, Vol. II, p. 559.) He
settled in Middlesex County about twenty miles from Jamestown and soon
became prominent in the colony. He must have had a good education
because in addition to growing tobacco, he was a lawyer and a surveyor.
He further said in his plea, "From the year 1668 to the year 1676, I
served his Majesty in military and civil offices of trust with fidelity
and approbation". He was elected Clerk of the House of Burgesses in 1670
and 1673, he was a Justice of Middlesex County. (See VIRGINIA HISTORICAL
MAGAZINE, Vol. II, p. 405.)
The following chapter on MAJOR ROBERT BEVERLEY is taken from THE BEVERLEY
FAMILY OF VIRGINIA, by John McGill, Dec. 1951):
"Whether or not he had done any military service against the Indians or
in colony prior to the Bacon Rebellion is not known but he acquired the
title of Major in that controversy and showed marked qualities of
leadership and decision.
"This not the place to argue the rights or wrongs of the Bacon
Rebellion. As in most such matters, there was probably some right on
both sides. From the outset, Robert Beverley was a hearty supporter of
Governor Berkeley and Bacon named him in his proclamations as one of the
"wicked and pernicious councellors aiders and assistors (of Berkeley)
against the Commonality in these our Cruell Commotions". (See VIRGINIA
HISTORICAL MAGAZINE, Vol. II, p. 405.)
"It will be recalled that Nathaniel Bacon was a young man of
unquestionably great qualities as a leader and orator who after only
about a year of residence in the colony, led an expedition against the
Indians, defeated them, and then quarreled with Governor Berkeley and
defeated him and burned Jamestown, and died of fever a few days
thereafter. When Jamestown was burned, Governor Berkeley with such
forces as he had, fled to the Eastern Shore, Accomack and Northampton
Counties.
"Whether or not Robert Beverley had any part as a leader while Bacon was
alive is not known. If so, neither he nor any other of the Berkeley men
were able to make head against him.
Alias: Mrs. Mary /Keeble/
"MIDDLESEX CO., VA in the 17th Century: On a sandy peninsula between
tidewater Virginia's Rappahannock and Piankatank river lies Middlesex
County, carved in 1668 out of sprawling Lancaster County. In the late
1640's, families had begun appropriating land here. Settlement was well
under way by February 1651, when little Richard Perrott became 'the first
Man Child that was gott and born in Rappahannock River of English
parents'. Richard's parents, like all the 83 families residing in
Middlesex by 1668, lived on isolated 'plantations' that raised corn and
live-stock for food and tobacco for sale.
"These 83 families comprised 513 free people. They accounted for roughly
half the county's residents and owned the other half of the population:
334 English indentured servants (mostly males aged 15-25) and 65 blacks
brought from the West Indies. Servants and slaves were as much the head
of household's responsibility as children. Blacks' conditions of
servitude were still fluid, although a trend toward lifetime bondage had
begun. Servants typically owed between four and twelve years' service,
and half of those with four or more years to go would not live to enjoy
freedom. Their lot was hard, but their labor essential. Each
hoe-wielding laborer could cultivate two to three acres of tobacco
plants, and owners could increase input only by adding to their labor
force. Because planters such as Peter Montague faced "the whole lost of
the...Cropp" when a servant ran away at the height of the season, unfree
workers had some bargaining leverage.
"Death lurked everywhere. On average, adult men and women died at ages
48 and 39 respectively--a life expectancy of fifteen years less than that
of New Englanders. Thirty percent of all children under 18 lost both
parents. The appearance of a highly lethal strain of malaria (which
coincided with increasing imports of African-born slaves after 1680) kept
death rates high.
"The prevalence of early death produced complex households in which
stepparents might raise children with two or three different surnames.
MARY KEEBLE (George Keeble's wife) bore seven children before being
widowed at age 29, whereupon she immediately became ROBERT BEVERLEY's
wife. MARY died in 1678 at age 41, after having five children by
BEVERLEY, who then married Katherine Hone, a widow with one child. Upon
Beverley's death in 1687, Katherine quickly wed Christopher Robinson, who
had just lost his wife and needed a mother for his four children.
CHRISTOPHER and KATHERINE's household included children named Keeble,
Beverley, Hone, and Robinson. This tangled chain of six marriages among
seven people eventually produced twenty-five children who lived at least
part of their lives with one or more stepparents.
"For a sense of belonging, residents relied primarily on kin networks.
Twice monthly, however, they could gather in the parish church for a
short sermon, communion, and a chance to gossip, trade news, and sell
livestock--always using tobacco as the medium of exchange. Monthly court
sessions, likewise, brought people together to resolve disputes and see
the county's prominent men installed in the petty local offices that
helped define their status. (The Enduring Vision, A History of the
American People, p. 75a (1990)
"p. 75b: CHRISTOPHER ROBINSON arrived in Virginia from England about
1666, and built this stately brick home in 1678. Robinson, who served
two terms in the Virginia House of Burgesses, was named England's
secretary of foreign plantations in 1692, but he died the following
year." (Source: View Hewick at: http://www.hewick.com/ A PLACE IN
TIME; Middlesex Co., VA in the 17th Century.)
Mary Keeble appears to have born a CARTER
WILLIAM BYRD, Sr., was the son of John Byrd, a London goldsmith and a
descendant of an old Cheshire family. The date of his coming to Virginia
is not known, but it must have been as a very young man, as it is
recorded that on October 27, 1673, he was granted 1200 acres of land
lying on the James river and Shokoe creed. He quickly assumed a
prominent place in colonial affairs and was implicated in the matter of
Bacon's rebellion. He was a near neighbor and adherent of Bacon in the
early stages of his opposition, but it seems that he took no part in the
actual rebellion and all probability, made his peace with Berkeley. He
was accused by Co. Augustine Warner, after the rebellion, of having
entered his house at the head of some of Bacon's men and plundered his
estate to the value of 1,000 lire sterling, and Warner actually obtained
judgement against him for the amount, but the end of the dispute is
unknown and Byrd claimed that, at the time of the plundering, he was
himself a prisoner in Bacon's hands. In a letter from his wife, written
sometime before the rebellion to a friend in England, she speaks of the
country as being well pleased with all that Bacon had done and remarks
that she believed the council was, too, "so far as they durst show it."
In the year 1695, Col. Byrd was alluded to as having been a member of the
council for fifteen years, but the earliest record of him in this
position, appearing in the official records is in 1681, when he was
appointed by Lord Culpepper. In 1683 he was council in the House of
Burgess.
WILLIAM & MARY/MARIE resided in "Westover", Charles City Co., VA.
William was nephew and heir of Thomas Stegge, Jr.
Alias: or /Maria/
Maria (orMary) was a widow at age 21 years of age. She was reportedly
related to all of the Royal Families of Europe through her grandmother
URSULA SAINT LEGER. G/M Ursula had a brother by the name of John Saint
Leger.
JOHN BYRD was a London goldsmith and a descendant of an old Cheshire
family.
Col. Warsham Horsemanden residen in "Parleigh", Essex Co., VA. (Ref.
Colonial Families of theSouthern States of America, The Byrds of
Westover,p-104.)