Nash Ancestry

(Includes Burwell, Etheridge, Gilbert, Harwood, Herbert, Needler, Pendleton, Phesant, Portlock, Reade and Robinson)

Sources:

Much appreciation to Clyde Ratcliffe for providing information to complete the Nash part of the tree accurately.

According to Three hundred colonial ancestors and war service: their part in making American history from 495 to 1934 by their lineal descendant Mrs. (Oscar Herbert) Elizabeth M. Leach Rixford, p. 220, "NASH ANCESTRY Crest: Six Arms: Nash, 2: Nashe: Escutcheon, meeting under the head. The name Nash is of Saxon origin." And though this book deals with a different Nash family than the one below, it offers some related insight.

George Harwood
from England
m.
Catherine Phesant
of Dublin, Ireland
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   Thomas Nash I
b. ca. 1638
Monmouthshire, Wales
d. 1673
Norfolk Co., VA

m. Eleanor
(maiden name unknown)
in Wales

Thomas and Eleanor Nash came to Virginia in 1661 with "three children and four white servants. He settled in Norfolk County prior to 1665. Jointly with Richard Taylor, he received a Land Grant for 446 Acres in Lower Norfolk County on the 6th of November 1665, near the head of Julian's Creek. ... He was a planter and shipbuilder" (source: Some Old Norfolk Families and others by H. Clarkson Meredith, BA, p. 268). This is supported by Whichard, p. 273.

Early Norfolk County, VA, (now Chesapeake City) showing the southern branch of the Elizabeth River

Julian Creek Patents

The name Etheridge

"Somewhere in the late 18th or early 19th century, the spelling of the family name was abbreviated from Etheridge to Ethridge. Tradition (probably apocryphal) has it that this occurred during the Revolutionary War, when those loyal to England retained the older spelling, and those who joined in the Revolution against the mother country changed it to the shorter spelling of Ethridge"
(Ethridge, p. 4).

William E. Etheridge
"William E. Etheridge came to Virginia from England in the latter part of the 17th century. He had accumulated a substantial estate, including approximately 1,000 acres of land in Norfolk County, Virginia, in the late 1600s. He died in 1716. His will ... divided his plantation lands in Norfolk County into different tracts among his children, William, Amos, Thomas, and Adam, and his two grandsons, Willis and Charles." (Ethridge, p. 3)
Thomas E. Etheridge
b. ca. 1605-1610
will dated and probated 1671
d. December 1671

m.

Christiana
(maiden name unknown though WikiTree suggests Marrington)
b. ?
d. 9-17 Nov. 1671
Thomas' death date is mentioned in Whichard, p. 273.
Nicholas Robinson

m.

Anne
(maiden name unknown)
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William E. Etheridge
b. ca. 1637, England
d. 1716
(Whichard, p. 319)

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Will of William E. Etheredge, the Elder dated October 30, 1715, probated February 15, 1716:

THE WILL OF WILLIAM E. ETHEREDGE, THE ELDER OF NORFOLK COUNTY, VIRGINIA

Deed Book 9, 1710-1717
IN THE NAME OF GOD, AMEN, I William Etheredge, the Elder, of the South branch of Elizabeth River Parish in the County of Norfolk, in Virginia, being over grown with age and weak in body by reason of age, but of sound and perfect mind and memory, for which mercy I give the Lord most humble and harty thanks, but looking and preparing for every day to be my l a s t day on earth and that my soul is ready to leave her earthly tabernacle of frail flesh, do make and ordain this my last Will and Testament in manner and form following:

FIRST, I do (declare) as void and renounce all and every former and other will or wills and testaments whatsoever before by me made either by word or writing and do make and ordain this to be my very last and only Will & Testament in manner and form following.

FIRST, I commend my poor yet precious and immortal soul into the hands of Almighty God, my Great Creator & possessor and to Jesus Christ my loving Savior and redeemer, and to the Holy Ghost Sanctifier butt three persons butt one only true and wise God most humbly beseeching the most Holy Blessed Trinity to have mercy upon my poor yet prescious and immortal soul and to pardon and forgive all my sins and wickedness both originall and actual that I may be washed and cleansed from them all in the blood of Jesus Christ as of an Lamb Slain from the foundation of the to was and purify a poor repentant sinner & to make clean and whole in thy sight Blessed Lord God that thereby my soul when separated from my body may be received into everlasting habitation eternall in the heavens Even into the joy of my Lord, and next i will that my body be decently buried by the ... of my ... nothing doubting that my good Lord will at the resurrection at the great and last day raise this worn body immortal and reunite it to my soul that soul and body may be blessed and glorified together, and as for my temporal estate both it ..... sale and personal which it hath pleased God to bestow upon me I give and bequeath the same after my just debts paid in manner and form following:

FIRST, I make and ordain my loving wife Annie Etheredge Exvgd and my loving friend Thomas Nash Tes t Exd of this my last Will and Testament requiring and commanding all my children to be satisfied and contented with this my last Will and Testament. ... as they ... the contrary at the judgment seat of Almighty God at the great and last day when He ... of all ... shall be open and vengance taken on disobedient children that will Judeavious to break and violate their parents will be ....

I give and bequeath unto my son, William Etheredge to him and his heirs forever one shilling to be paid by my Extr after the probate of my will when demanded having given unto him before in my life time by Deed of Gift recorded in the record of Norfolk County his full part and portion of land to him and his heirs forever, as also other things to the full of his filiale portion of my estate and he to have and receive no more but one said shilling neither he nor his heirs forever.

ITEM, I give and bequeath unto my grandson Willis Etheredge, son of my son Charle Etheredge seventy-five acres of land it being the same where his deceased father Charles Etheredge lived he my grandson Willis Etheredge to have and enjoy the same after the decease of his mother Ann Widow of Charle Etheredge but she to have and enjoy the said land during her natural life doing no waste thereon and after her decease to her son Willis Etheredge to him and his heirs forever he building and living on the said plantation when he come to the age of twenty-one years.

ITEM. I give and bequeath to my grandson Charle Etheredge son of Charle Etheredge seventy-five acres of land to him and his heirs forever, the said seventy-five acres being lieing between his brother Willis his land and my son Amos Etheredge his land he my said grandson Charle Etheredge to have and enjoy his land at the age of twenty-one years to him and his heirs forever butt and if either of my said grandsons will have aimed to dispose of their part and portion of land that is to say Willis or Charle Etheredge to let his brother have the land and no other person or persons whatsoever, but to be entailed to the buyer of the two brothers to him or them and their heirs lawfully begotten of their body forever.

ITEM, I give and bequeath unto my son Amos Etheredge after the decease of Amos' loving wife one hundred acres of land it being the plantation with the wood land ground thereunto belonging whereon I now live according as it is laid out by lines of marked trees but my loving wife Ann's to have & enjoy the said land and plantation during her natural life withall and singular the priveleges thereunto belonging and then to fall to my son Amos Etheredge and to the heirs lawfully begotten of his body forever.

I give and bequeath to my son, Thomas Etheredge seventy-five acres of land be it more or less the same being one moisty or half part of my divident of land of one hundred and fifty acres of land I bought of Joseph L. Miller lying and being on a creek called by the name of Little Creek his my son Thomas his part being/that which he now lives on and is possessed with said seventy-five acres of land with the appurtenances I give unto my son Thomas Etheredge and to his heirs lawfully begotten by his body forever.

ITEM, I give and bequeath unto my son Adam Etheredge seventy-five acres of land as it is laid out and bounded by a line of marked trees it being the other moisty of half part of the one hundred and fifty acres of land that I bought and purchased of Josepth L. Miller lying on the North Tide the said Little Creek his my son Adam Etheredge his land adjoining to my son Thomas Etheredge his land on the North side thereof which said land is already by a line of marked trees from my son Thomas his land which seventy-five acres of land with the appurtenances thereof I give unto my son Adam Etheredge & the heirs lawfully begotten of his body forever butt if either of my two sons Thomas and Adam them their heirs should chance to die without issue either male or female then the surviving heir of the said brothers Thomas & Adam to have and enjoy the other's land both them and their heirs lawfully begotten of their bodies forever always excluding my son William him his heirs from having any part or parts of the said land forever but if my two sons Thomas and Adam Etheredge them and their heirs should happen to die without heirs then in such case the lands to fall and descend to my daughter Grace Etheredge and to the heirs lawfully begotten of her or their bodys as well as her two brothers then this land to fall and descend to my son Amos Etheredge and my grandsons Willia and Charle Etheredge to them and their heirs lawfully begotten of their bodys forever, butt and if it should also please God that my three sons Thomas Amos and Adam and two grandsons Willis and Charle Etheredge and my daughter Grace and their heirs should all die without heirs lawfully begotten on their bodys then is such case their lands to fall and descend as follows Amos, Willis and Charle Etheredge them and their land to fall & descend unto my granddaughter Judeth wife of Richard Walker and to the heirs lawfully begotten on her body forever and my sons Thomas and Adam Etheredge their land to fall and descend unto my granddaughter Darius Nash & to the heirs lawfully begotten on her body forever: always excluding and baring my son William Etheredge him and his heirs from having any title to any of the aforesaid landsor to any of my personal estate forever having already received his full part and filliale portion thereof.

ITEM. I give unto my son Amos Etheredge one gun which he hath in his possesion also to him and his heirs forever.

ITEM. I give unto my son Adam a gun and s w o r d which he hath in his possession to him and his heirs forever.

And as for the rest of my personal estate goods and chattles as well within ... without after my just debts and funerale paid I give and bequeath to my loving wife Annie Etheredge to have the use of during her natural life she making no wilful waste thereof as also the .... acres plantation before named and after her death to be equally divided betwixt my three daughters Elizabeth Portlock, Ann Nash & Grace Etheredge to them & their heirs forever butt and i f my daughter Grace die without heirs then her part to be divided between her two sisters them and their heirs in within reason of this my last Will and Testament.

I have set to my hand & fixed my seal this 30th day of October 1715 and my son and my all Interlined before the signing and sealing of the paper.

William E. Etheredge

John Portlock
Wm. Portlock
Paul Portlock
James Mohune

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Mark

 Proved by the oaths of Wm Portlock, Paul Portlock and John Phillips
in open court this 15th day of February 1716 and is upon the motion
of the Extx herein nominated admitted to record.

Test Thos Butt DC Cler

(Source: The Ethridge Family And Allied Kin (1966) by William Nathaniel Ethridge II, pp. 164-167)


Will
(source: Ethridge, pp. 164-167)
Source for this couple and their parents: Walter

Use judiciously:
WikiTree:
William Etheridge
(1635-1717)

Annie Robinson

Also seen with the name Annis or Agnes, but is "Annie" in her husband's will.
m.
At one time, I had William's wife as Ann Nash, daughter of Dorcas Nash, but this is unfounded.
Captain Thomas Harwood

Born ca. 1600 in Thurby, Lincolnshire, England, he immigrated to Jamestown in the Virginia Colony from England aboard the Margaret and John in 1623, shortly after the Native American massacre of 1622. His wife Grace arrived on the George later that year, but died in 1625. He then married Anne who was mother of his known children. On July 4, 1627, William Peirce named Harwood as his second-in-command for a military expedition upstream on the James River against the Chickahominy. He became 5th Speaker of the House of Burgesses. He died in 1652, Virginia Colony (WikiPedia: Thomas Harwood and sources thereof). Thomas Harwood is one of my Jamestowne Society Seventeenth Century Qualifying Ancestors.

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Humphrey Harwood is one of my Jamestowne Society Seventeenth Century Qualifying Ancestors.
John Needler
d. 1687
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b. 18 March 1667
England (though Stewart's book indicates Wales; see note to the right)
d. ca. 1735
Norfolk Co., VA

"[I]t seems probable that the second Thomas Nash was clerk of the Southern Branch Chapel in 1728" when it was called Great Bridge Chapel (Whichard, p. 319).

 m. ca. 1688
in Norfolk Co., VA

"It was a Thomas Nash [my Thomas Nash II], a native of Wales, who was the first of this family in Virginia; with his wife, Anne, he settled in Lower Norfolk County, in 1665. The name was transmitted with filial respect, and his grandson, Thomas Nash, was for many years a vestryman of St. Bride's Parish, Norfolk County, a position in the Colony of Virginia held by gentlemen only, and, including as it did, the functions of a magistrate, it was one of responsibility" (Stewart, p. 523).

b. ca. 1670
d. ca. 1730
Norfolk Co., VA		   b. btwn. 1675-1680
will dated: 31 December 1750
will probated: 16 April 1752 "well struck in age"
m. Ann (maiden name unknown)
Humphrey Harwood
(Burgess of Warwick Co., VA)

b. ca. 1649
d. 1700
m. Ann Needler 

Excerpts from The Elizabeth River by Amy Waters Yarsinske detailing some of the Nash history: pp. 204-205

"[I]t is to be noted that Thomas Nash 'Senr.' [11] was one of the executors for William Etheridge (d. 1716), and the latter named a daughter Ann Nash and a granddaughter Dorcas Nash; this establishes the marriage between Thomas Nash and Ann Etheridge" (Whichard, p. 319).        
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William Harwood
(Burgess of Warwick Co., VA)

m. Elizabeth (nee unknown)

William served in the House of Burgesses 3 times, representing Warwick County, Virginia.
d. 2 June 1737 after falling from a horse (WikiPedia: William Harwood (burgess))
 

Thomas Nash III was clerk of the Southern Branch Chapel in 1749 when it was called Great Bridge Chapel (Whichard, p. 319).

 b. ca. 1705
Norfolk Co., VA
d. ca. 1783
Norfolk Co., VA
will probated
February 1783,
Norfolk Co., VA
Burial and Estate Info
(Thanks to Clyde Radcliffe) 		m. ca. 1725
Norfolk Co., VA

Their marriage is mentioned in Whichard, p. 273.

 b. ca. 1700-1705
d. 1791
Norfolk Co., VA
will probated
19 September 1791,
Norfolk Co., VA		 The Encyclopedia of Virginia Biography, volume 4, by Dr. Lyon Gardiner Tyler lists (on p. 430) her maiden name as Diana Bouchet. However, this source should be approached with some healthy skepticism as "there are many significant 'errors in fact' to be found in the biographies included in these volumes. The reader should not take as gospel, the information in the bigraphical sketches, herein. Apparently, Tyler did none of the research into the facts, but merely supervised the preparation of the final results" (quote source).
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Col. William Harwood, Jr.

Will written 13 March 1780
d. September 1780, Warwick Co., Virginia 		m.

Mary Pendleton was William's second wife. He had been married to Mary Cheesman/Chisman and later married Mary the mother of Edward Harwood below (according to descendants of Capt. Thomas Harwood of Warwick Co. VA), shown to be Mary Pendleton according to WikiPedia: Edward Harwood (Virginia Politician).

Mary Pendleton

d. by 1787

William Harwood, Jr., "was a militia colonel, landowner and politician in the Colony of Virginia. He represented Warwick County in the House of Burgesses for more than three decades" (WikiPedia: William Harwood, Jr.).

Col. William Harwood "was one of the wealthiest and most influential men in Warwick County during the Revolutionary Era. He was county Burgess from 1742 to 1776 and delegate to all five conventions, including that of 1776. He also served as a Colonel of the Warwick County militia. ... William Harwood of Warwick Co. will written 13 March 1780 (died Sept. 1780 - Virginia Gazette (Dickson & Nicolson), 4 Oct 1780). Will proved at Co. Court of Warwick 8 March 1781. "His son Edward, his wife Mary, and Richard Cary, and Robert Lucas his Executors". Only Edward Harwood qualified as executor and was granted a certificate of administration." (Col. William Harwood's Will).

Thomas Nash (to the right) "was for many years a vestryman of St. Bride's Parish, Norfolk County, a position in the Colony of Virginia held by gentlemen only, and, including as it did, the functions of a magistrate, it was one of responsibility" (Stewart, p. 523).

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Timeline for Thomas Nash IV (Lt. Col. Thomas Nash) a.k.a. Thomas Nash, Jr., in Stewart's book

(with additional information from other sources)

  • 1750s: "The following appear as vestrymen at different periods between 1749 and 1761. ... Thomas Nash was clerk of Great Bridge Chapel , and the Southern Branch Chapel..." (Stewart, p. 198, and Whichard, p. 319).
  • 1760: "Some of the colonial military officers: ... Lieut. Thomas Nash, Jr., qualified March 20, 1760" (Stewart, p. 34, and Whichard, pp. 299-300, 319).
  • 1761: "St. Bride's Parish ... Thomas Nash, Jr.....249 [votes] ... As provided in the Act of General Assembly dividing Elizabeth River Parish into three, division thereof between the three, Henry Herbert, William Smith, John Portlock, Thomas Nash, Jr., James Wilson, Joshua Corprew and John Wilson, vestrymen of St. Bride's Parish, sold the glebe land at public auction to John Tucker for three pounds and six pence per acre, 172 acres, amounting to 520 pounds and six shillings, --their deed is dated October 20, 1761 (Stewart, p. 191; supported by Whichard, pp. 295-296).
  • 1764: "In 1764, Thomas Nash and Samuel Happer were churchwardens for St. Bride's Parish..." (Stewart, p. 192).
  • 1773: Thomas Nash, Jr., is listed on the "Committee of Safety for Norfolk County, July 20, 1773" (Stewart, p. 35).
  • 1775: Lt. Col. Thomas Nash and his son Private Thomas Nash were at the Battle of Great Bridge. "...the fourth Thomas in descent, took part in the battle of Great Bridge (10 miles from Norfolk) December 9, 1775, and was severely wounded. This battle, in which the troops of North Carolina and Virginia, under Colonel Woodford, repulsed the British troops of Lord Dunmore, slaying the commander of the attacking force, Captain Fordyce, and killing and wounding between 100 and 200 men, was the first decisive battle of the war, compared to which the affairs at Concord and Lexington were insignificant" (Stewart, p. 523). According to Encyclopedia Virginia: The Battle of Great Bridge, "The Patriots suffered only one casualty, a man wounded in the finger, possibly Thomas Nash, a young militia officer from Norfolk County." According to Revolutionary War Journal: Battle of Great Bridge, "The Virginia militia reported but one casualty; Lt. Thomas Nash of Norfolk County Militia who received a slight wound to his hand." However, Norfolk resident J.J. shared an October 2014 article "Billy Flora at the Battle of Great Bridge" from the Journal of the American Revolution where eyewitness testimony from Billy Flora, who was at the battle and knew Nash, indicates the wounded Thomas Nash was an 18-year-old private in 1775 (who became a Captain in the War of 1812). So, the wounded/captured Thomas Nash was the son of Lt. Col. Thomas Nash, and both were at the Battle of Great Bridge.
  • 1777: Thomas Nash, Jr., is listed as "a Justice of the Peace in 1777" (Stewart, p. 282). Lt. Col. Thomas Nash is mentioned for military service in 1777 as part of the Norfolk Militia in "United States Rosters of Revolutionary War Soldiers and Sailors, 1775-1783," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:QG2M-7S28 : 1 March 2021), Thomas Nash, 1777; citing Military Service, , Citing various published state rosters, United States; FHL microfilm 101711079.
  • 1781: Lt. Col. Thomas Nash's son Thomas Nash, who was injured at Great Bridge, was recaptured and was indeed transferred from where he was imprisoned in Norfolk/Portsmouth in the summer of 1781 and was then transferred to a British ship when the troops stationed there moved up to join Cornwallis. He was held in the hold on the ship in the York River until the Franco-American victory at Yorktown freed him (Norfolk resident J.J. sharing from Cornwallis Papers and their confirmation of the story in Historical and Descriptive Sketches of Norfolk and Vicinity Including Portsmouth and Adjacent Counties, During a Period of Two Hundred Years; Also Sketches of Williamsburg, Hampton, Suffolk, Smithfield, and Other Places, with Descriptions of Some of the Principal Objects of Interest in Eastern Virginia by Willliam S. Forrest). Yet, Norfolk resident J.J. also shared the following: "Nash was captured but Cornwallis gave an order when the rest of the British moved up that militia prisoners should be paroled or just released except for the incorrigible ones. There were two more on the list a few weeks earlier but after the governor pleads that they are old and infirm, Cornwallis releases them. The governor writes again later about these eight. The index at the British archives listed Anthony Lawson and others. Norfolk resident J.J. shared from the The Cornwallis Papers: The Campaigns of 1780 and 1781 in The Southern Theatre of the American Revolutionary War, Volume VI, p. 91, which shows correspondence between Cornwallis and Gov. Nelson, where Cornwallis doesn't object to prisoners "going out with their families and effects" or "sending for their wives and families, who will likewise be permitted to take their effects...." Gov. Nelson wrote to Cornwallis 14 October 1781 pleading for the release of the "many citizens of the State confined on board your prison ships, where they are suffering extreme distress." On p. 93, the text lists Thomas Nash of Norfolk County among the prisoners confined on British prison ships. On pp. 189-190 of The Cornwallis papers; abstracts of Americana by George Henkle Reese, the text summarizes the correspondence between Cornwallis and Nelson. The imprisoned Thomas Nash was the son of Lt. Col. Thomas Nash.
Thomas Nash IV
(Lt. Col. Thomas Nash)


French and Indian War Veteran


Revolutionary War Patriot:
Lt. Col. in militia in 1775 and 1777.
Fought in battle of Great Bridge in 1775.
Member of the Committee of Safety for Norfolk county in 1775.
Commissioner of Princess Anne County in 1776.
He is referred to as Thomas Nash, Jr., in some parts of Stewart's book 		Don't get confused. This Thomas Nash IV's wife was Mary Portlock (Herbert in England & Virginia, 1399-1900s, p. 40 and Whichard, p. 319) and Mary Herbert was the wife of Thomas Nash V, brother to William below, both brothers mentioned in the 1808 will of their father-in-law John Herbert V, which is noteworthy since this is well after Thomas Nash IV had died. Mary Portlock  
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       Nathaniel Bacon Burwell
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According to Barbara McMahon, descendant of Thomas Nash IV through his son Caleb Nash who married Betsy Boushell, Thomas (IV) and Mary Nash had two other sons, Richard and William. William then had 3 sons, William, James, John. James had a son Charles. Charles had a son Clifford who in turn had a son Charles, the father of Barbara. Stewart's book makes it clear that Lt. Col. Thomas Nash (Thomas Nash IV) had a son named Thomas who was Capt. Thomas Nash (b. 1758). "Captain Thomas Nash was captured in a hazardous enterprise toward the end of the war and was confined in a prison-ship until the surrender of Cornwallis at Yorktown, when he was released. During the last war with Great Britain, 1812-1814, he [Capt. Thomas Nash, son of Lt. Col. Thomas Nash] constructed the gunboats that, with the U.S.S. 'Constellation' and the State troops on Craney Island, near the mouth of the Elizabeth River, signally defeated Admiral Cockburn's combined land and water attack upon that post, June 22, 1813. One of his sons, Abner Nash, served with the artillery in that action" (Stewart, p. 523; also see Whichard, p. 304).

 b. ca. 1728-1733
Norfolk Co., VA
d. 1794
(Whichard, p. 319)
Norfolk Co., VA
will 		m. 25 March 1754
(Bentley, p. 336) 		b. ca. 1731
Norfolk Co., VA
d. ca. 1776
Norfolk Co., VA		  
FamilySearch Col. Edward Harwood of Warwick

b. ca. 1740
d. 1807


Revolutionary War Veteran 		m.


Elizabeth Burwell

b. after 1736, King's Creek, York Co. VA
(source: descendants of Lewis Burwell of Gloucester Co. VA by Dwight Hogge)
d.

She is sometimes listed as Elizabeth Burwell Hewitt as she was the widow of Richard Hewitt.

"Col. Edward Harwood, had squandered the immense family fortune of his father, leaving his children to make their own way, by marriage or business, in an urban professional middle class" (Col. William Harwood's Will, courtesy of Skinner Family Papers: Eliza Fisk Harwood). Col. Edward Harwood's marriage to Elizabeth Reade is from the source "Reade Family" The William and Mary College Quarterly Historical Magazine, Vol. 14, No. 2 (Oct., 1905), pp. 117-125, published by Omohundro Institute of Early American History & Culture, where it mentions Col. Edward Harwood's "first wife, Elizabeth Reade (p. 120). Elizabeth Reade died in 1777. So, she wouldn't have been the mother of John Robbins Harwood below. Edward later married Elizabeth Burwell according to descendants of Capt. Thomas Harwood of Warwick Co. VA as well as WikiTree: Jemima Cocke, which references Adventurers of Purse & Person, 4th Ed., Vol. 1, 2004, Dorman, pp. 449-450, which says, "Nathaniel Bacon Burwell, landowner of Wight County, married Jemima Cocke. Children: ... Elizabeth, 1st m. Rev Richard Hewitt minister of Hungars Parrish, Northhampton Co., Hewitt d. bef 12 Apr 1774, 2nd m. Col Edward Harwood." This is also supported by Archer. Skinner Family Papers: Eliza Fisk Harwood mentions a Burwell grandmother of Eliza Fisk Harwood, daughter of John R. and Susan (Gilbert) Harwood, meaning she is part of this Burwell Family, also seen in the Burwell Family of Virginia. So, Elizabeth Burwell Harwood was the mother of John Robbins Harwood. "Lightfoot Family". The William and Mary College Quarterly Historical Magazine, Vol. 3, No. 2 (Oct., 1894), pp. 107-108 by Lyon G. Tyler says, "Elizabeth married, 1st, Rev. Richard Hewitt; 2d, Col. Edward Harwood. ... Col. Edward Harwood (Capt. Thomas1, Esq., Humphrey2, Col. William3, William4) married 1st Elizabeth Reade .... He married 2dly, as above, Elizabeth, widow of Richard Hewitt."
       
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↓		 I speculate that the below Susan (Gilbert) Harwood's father was Robert Gilbert, shoemaker in Williamsburg, VA, given that Susan's youngest daughter, Eliza Fisk Harwood, was raised by Susan's niece Mary Galt in Williamsburg according to Skinner Family Papers, which indicates Eliza considered herself a Williamsurg resident (so connection to Williamsburg), and given that Susan had a son named Robert per her death register (Virginia, U.S., Death Registers, 1853-1911, courtesy of Ancestry.com; local copy), and given that Robert Gilbert appears in Humphrey Harwood's account book (1776-1794). Further, Robert Gilbert appears in the following: Leather Workers in Colonial Virginia by Harold B. Gill, Jr., August, 1966 (which mentions a Skinner), The Virginia Gazette, 7 January 1775, MS33.01: Humphrey Harwood Account Book, Folio 16-Folio 20, Charlton House Historical Report, Block 9 Building 30 Lot 22 by Mary E. McWilliams, 1940 and 1943 (both mentioning a Galt), Wigmaker's Shop Historical Report, Block 9 Building 29B, Wigmaking in Colonial America by Thomas K. Bullock & Maurice B. Tonkin, Jr., April, 1957, and Lots 41 and 42 Historical Report, Block 14 Lot 41-42 by Mary A. Stephenson, 1959. Robert Gilbert is mentioned along with some Galts in James Anderson and Son account books (1778-1805), Anderson being a blacksmith in Williamsburg and Richmond, VA. So, there is a network tying Harwood, Gilbert, Galt and Skinner to Williamsburg and Robert Gilbert is in the midst of it. |
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Norfolk Co.VA
Source: Abstracts from Norfolk City Marriage Bonds (1797-1850) and Other Genealogical Data by Genealogical Publishing Com, 2001. On page 45, it has the following: 
February 1, 1811--John R. Harwood and Miss Susanna H. Gilbert.
                                                Martin Fisk, security. 
    Note: The above couple were married the same day by Thomas T. Jones, a
    local Methodist elder.

This is also sourced in Hustings and Corporation Court Marriage Bonds 2, 1809-1817, Norfolk (Independent City), Virginia: Norfolk. Marriage Bonds 1809-1817 (excerpt).

According to The Belles of Williamsburg: The Courtship Correspondence of Eliza Fisk Harwood and Tristrim Lowther Skinner 1839-1849 (Mary Mallard, editor), Susan Hollands (Gilbert) Harwood (1791>1862) and John Robbins Harwood (ca. 1785>1831) had the following children: Christopher "Kit" Harwood (1830>1861), James Dabney Harwood (1825-1895), Evelina Harwood Nash (1822-1858), Susan Gilbert Harwood Woodhouse (ca. 1820-1845), Henry Harwood (1816-1901), Virginia Harwood Addington (1813-1888), John Dabney Harwood (ca. 1813), Reynier Harwood (ca. 1813) and William Bacon Harwood (1811>1850). Yet, this lists only 9 children and per Skinner Family Papers, Eliza Fisk Harwood was the youngest of 11 children. Virginia, U.S., Death Registers, 1853-1911, courtesy of Ancestry.com (local copy) mentions not only Susan H. (Gilbert) Harwood's death date/place, but also mentions details reported by her son Robert Harwood (where "do" in the column is for "ditto" and comes subsequently after "son"). So, Robert Harwood is another child of John and Susan/Susanna (Gilbert) Harwood.

Susanna Hollands Gilbert
(Susan Hollands Gilbert)		   William Nash


Revolutionary War Veteran

They are seen in the will of her father John Herbert V: "I give ... unto my daughter ABIGALE NASH, one negro woman Nan and her children, James, Tom, Barbara and Rose being already in the possession of my said daughter, one negro man named Peter [which is in my possession] said Peter being the son of my negro woman Tab; with the increase forever, one bed and furniture with the curtains, five silver Tea spoons, three silver Table spoons and one silver soup spoon. Also I give unto my said ABIGALE the piece of land on the Point ... whereon my son-in-law WM: NASH now lives" (William Nash being one of the executors) (Herbert ... by Walter, p. 40).

Abigail Herbert

    b. 1786
Norfolk Co.VA
d. 1831
Norfolk Co.VA

It is also worth noting that Martin Fisk who secured the marriage, was married to Susanna's sister Eliza Gilbert (see Virginia Marriages 1700-1799, p.46/119), who was the namesake for John and Susanna (Gilbert) Harwood's daughter Eliza Fisk Harwood who is discussed in Skinner Family Papers. In the papers, it mentions Eliza Fisk Harwood as "A younger daughter of the eleven children of John and Susan Harwood, Eliza Fisk Harwood (1827-1888) did not grow up with the rest of her family in the naval port of Norfolk, Virginia. Her mother had 'given' Eliza as a baby to her niece, Mary Ann Galt, as part of a southern tradition in which a childless aunt, sister, or other female relative would raise girls, lavishing them with their full attention and affection" and Mary Ann Galt's maiden name was Mary Ann Fisk, a daughter of Martin Fisk and Elizabeth (Gilbert) Fisk mentioned above. Further, she is mentioned in the Hustings and Corporation Court Marriage Bonds 3, 1817-1822, Norfolk, Virginia Record of W. Richard "Dickie" Galt (Mary Ann Fisk's Husband) in "Virginia, Marriages, 1785-1940" where John R. Harwood is a surety for the marriage and a signer of the record.

Skinner Family Papers share that among John and Susan Harwood's children, "Their second son, Reynier [Reynear] Gilbert Harwood, died when eight months old from exposure while in a boat fleeing Norfolk during the British bombardment in June 1813. Eliza Fisk Harwood's daughter, Marian Fisk Skinner (1853-1941) maintained that the second, third, and fourth children - Reynier, John Dabney (who was later lost at sea), and sister, Virginia - were triplets." The papers further share John "had owned a warehouse in the Navy Yard and Harwood's Wharf in Norfolk [VA] where he had organized freight and passage, sold wholesale goods, and worked as government appraiser" (John C. Emmerson, Jr., comp., The Steamboat Comes to Norfolk Harbor: And the Log of the First Ten Years 1815-1825 (Portsmouth, VA: n.p., 1947), 377; Congressional Serial Set (Washington, D.C.: U.S. Government Printing Office, 1831), 231).

 b. 1793
Norfolk Co., VA
d. 31 May 1858
Charles City Co., VA
Source: Virginia, U.S., Death Registers, 1853-1911, courtesy of Ancestry.com (local copy)

WikiTree: Susan Hollands (Gilbert) Harwood

According to U.S., Newspaper Extractions from the Northeast, 1704-1930 for William Nash, William Nash achieved the rank of Colonel and was a Revolutionary War veteran. Since he was only 22 when the war ended, my guess is that he achieved the rank of Colonel either early or after war.

b. 1 October 1761
Norfolk Co., VA
d. 20 July 1820
Norfolk Co., VA
will (mentioning wife Abigail and son Joseph) probated
21 August 1820
(Source: Ancestry)
Birth and death years are per U.S., Newspaper Extractions from the Northeast, 1704-1930 for William Nash and Ancestry Profile		 m. 17 December 1795
Norfolk Co., VA
(Bentley, p. 365, and Herbert in England & Virginia, 1399-1900s, Chart #2a)

One FamilySearch tree lists her as Elizabeth Abigail Herbert, but has William's mother as Ann Portlock. Actually, Elizabeth was a sister of Abigail and William's mother was Mary Portlock (Herbert in England & Virginia, 1399-1900s, Chart #2a and p. 40).

I have a DNA match with whom I share William and Abigail as common ancestors. On 23andMe, there is my match Patrick Nash to whom I am 4th cousin, once removed.

b. ?
d. ca. 1834
Norfolk Co., VA
will probated
20 May 1834
Norfolk Co., VA

               
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  Evelina Harwood The Nash family can be found in Norfolk, VA, in the 1850 and 1860 census.* Joseph Nash
  b. 1821/22
d. 9 June 1859
Norfolk Co., VA		 m. 17 Oct. 1842
Norfolk Co., VA
Evelina Harwood & Joseph Nash in the Virginia, U.S., Select Marriages, 1785-1940 - marriage date in 17 October 1842 (Sources: 1: Virginia, U.S., Select Marriages, 1785-1940, p. 117; 2: "Norfolk, Virginia, United States records," image 822 of 999; Norfolk (Virginia). Clerk of the Corporation Court).

Marriage bond: image 46/319 (transcription); image 47/319
(bond source: "Virginia, Vital Records, 1715-1912").

A Note of Interest: In Abstracts from Norfolk City Marriage Bonds (1797-1850) and Other Genealogical Data, p. 157, Joseph Nash is listed as security for the May 7, 1840, marriage of James Woodhouse (of Petersburg) and Miss Susan Gilbert "daughter of Susan H. Harwood", which connects Joseph Nash to the Gilbert and Harwood families as one would expect based on what is depicted in this tree. This also occurs in referring to the Skinner Family Papers and doing some further research.

 b. 1817
Norfolk Co., VA
d. 21 Oct. 1879
though he isn't
in the 1870 census.
Buried at Elmwood, Norfolk, VA Source: Find-A-Grave
       
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          descendants through son Wadsworth "Wads" H. Nash via his marriage to
Mary Frances Miller		       
      Thomas   
        Nash + 
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           Thomas   Dinah
             Nash + (unknown maiden name)
         d. 1783? |	d. 1791?
         Norfolk  |	Norfolk Co., VA
         Co., VA  |	
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                Thomas   
                  Nash + 
              d. 1794? |							
              Norfolk  |							
              Co., VA  |							
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                    William   Abigail
                       Nash + Herbert 
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                  +---------+----------+
                  |m. 17 December 1795 |
                  | Norfolk Co., VA    |
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                  |d. 1820? | d. 1834? |
                  | Norfolk Co., VA    |
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                          Joseph + Evelina
                           Nash    Harwood