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Matthew Howell[1, 2, 3]
  - 1720

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  • Gender  Male 
    Died  Bef 25 Apr 1720  Isle of Wight Co., VA Find all individuals with events at this location  [4, 5, 6, 7] 
    Person ID  I7274  Main
    Last Modified  30 Sep 2009 08:19:00 
     
    Family  Mary Lane 
    Married  Y  [9] 
    • Lane Genalogy notes:

      "Issue: Thomas, Joseph and one other child."

      I [8]
    Children 
    >1. Thomas Howell, b. 1703
    >2. Joseph Howell
    Last Modified  30 Sep 2009 08:19:00 
    Family ID  F2755  Group Sheet
     
  • Histories Layne - Lain - Lane Genealogy
    Excerpts from of the genealogy compiled by Floyd Benjamin Lane. From Chapter K - The descendants of Thomas Lane of Surry Co., Virgina. Re: Mary Lane married Matthew Howell (8mb pdf)
    Lundie W Barlow's Howell File
    Letter from Lundie W. Barlow describing the Howell line starting with Matthew Howell of Isle of Wight County, Virginia who died 1720, to McKinne Howell of Halifax County, North Carolina. Total includes 19 pages of transcribed letters, deeds and will abstracts and notes. From Sidney Howell's collection provided by Jim Brittain, Jr. Sections for surnames: Cavanah, Johnson, Howell,
     
  • Notes 
    • Elizabeth Howell Traver notes:

      "Matthew Howell came to Virginia in the 1600's as an indentured servant, married well, left much property as a tobacco farmer."

      "Helen C. Richardson and Elizabeth H. Traver visited Isle of Wight Co., Virginia in the 1950's while Betty lived in Williamsburg, Virginia. (Also saw grave of Wm. Clopton in Kent Co., VA")

      LBSH tree notes:

      "Isle of Wight County, Virginia, Great Book p. 26"

      From "Deeds, Wills, Great Book, Volume 2, Part I, 1715-1726, Pages 26-27":

      [1720-11 Jan] Will of Matthew Howell

      In the Name of God Amen ye Eleventh day of January . . . . I MATTHEW HOWELL . . . . do own this to be my Last Will & Testament . . . . In the first place I do give ye use of my Negro man Harry & my Negro Girl Moll to my Wife During her Widow hood & at ye Day of her Marriage I do give ye Negro man to my Son . . . . HOWELL & my Negro Girle to my Son JOSEPH HOWELL & ye first child yt ye Negro Girle brings yt lives to ye Child yt my Wife is now with Child with & I do give to my Wife Two Thousand pounds of pork yt is Due to me from JOHN GENT (27) and one Thousand pound of pork yt is due to me from RICHd BRASWELL & give pound in Cash yt is Due to me from JNo EDWARDS & Three pounds yt is Due to me in Cash from HENRY FLOWERS Junr & I do desire this pork & money be put to ye Use to purchase a plantation for my Wife During her life & after her Decease to my Son THO: HOWELL and if he Die without heirs to fall to ye next heir & this bed I do Now ly upon and furniture belonging to it I do give to my Wife & ye Rest of my Whole Estate to be Equally Divided between my Wife & my Children & if my Wife Does Marry & Should Get a husband that Should be harsh & Unkind to my Children I do desire yt my father JOSH LANE Shall tak them in his Care to Look aftr & I do make my father JOSEPH LANE Sener & JOSEPH LANE Junr and my Wife MARY HOWELL Exec of my Whole Estate where unto I do Sett my hand ye Day & Year above Written

      Testis
      THOMAS JARRELL (mark)
      MATHEW HOWELL (mark)
      ARNALE PEW (mark)
      MATTHEW HOWELL's estate was inventoried by order of Isle of Wight Court dated April 25, 1720. The appraisers were THOMAS JARRELL, JOHN EDWARDS, and ROBERT NORSWORTHY. The estate was evaluated at L 121-16-4. The first page - -103 - - mentions 1000 pounds of pork. The inventory was returned and recorded September 25, 1721, at pages 103-105 of same reference. [10, 11]
     
  • Sources 
    1. [SAuth] John Spencer Howell, Jr., John Spencer Howell, Jr., (http://www.jhowell.com/ jhowell@jhowell.com).

    2. [S1338] LBSH Chart, Lundie Barlow - Sidney Howell - Havila Howell Chart, (A photocopy of a handwritten document given to John S. Howell, Jr. by Elizabeth Howell Traver.), "Matthew Howell - Residence: Isle of Wight County, VA Born ___ Died 1720 Married Mary Lane, daughter of Joseph Lane who m. ___ He lived in Isle of Wight Co., VA".

    3. [S1394] LWB1944Letters, Lundie Weathers Barlow, (Letters dated Aug 8 and 14 Dec 1944 with research attached, 19 pages transcribed by Alfred Sidney Howell, provided to JSH by Jim Brittain. Scanned to LWBsHowellNotes.PDF Feb 2007.), Letter 17 Dec 1944.

    4. [S1338] LBSH Chart, Lundie Barlow - Sidney Howell - Havila Howell Chart, (A photocopy of a handwritten document given to John S. Howell, Jr. by Elizabeth Howell Traver.).

    5. [S1394] LWB1944Letters, Lundie Weathers Barlow, (Letters dated Aug 8 and 14 Dec 1944 with research attached, 19 pages transcribed by Alfred Sidney Howell, provided to JSH by Jim Brittain. Scanned to LWBsHowellNotes.PDF Feb 2007.), Letter 17 Dec 1944 - "died 1720".

    6. [S1365] Will of Matthew Howell d. 1720 - extract from Chapman, Blanche Adams Chapman, (Extract from page 4, Volume 2. (1 of W Great Book, p. 26)), Extract from page 4 of volume 2 of Blanche Adams Chapman's will and Administration of the Isle of Wight County, VA (1 of W Great Book, p. 26).
      Will of Mathew Howell - dated 11 January 1719/20 proved 25 April 1720 - son Thomas - son Joseph - unborn child ----------to wife, money due from John Gent, Richard Braswell, John Edwards and Henry Flowers - my father, Joseph Lane, Sr., Joseph Lane, Jr., and wife, Mary to be Executors. Witness: Thomas Jarrett, Arnale Pew.

    7. [S1419] Matthew Howell's Estate Appraisal - extract from Chapman, Blanche Adams Chapman, (Page 14, Volume 2 (1 of W Great Book, P. 103)).

    8. [S1368] Lane ( Layne-Lain) Genealogy, Floyd Benjamin Layne, (Compiled and Published by Floyd Benjamin Layne, Los Angeles, California. Printed 1962 by The Bookman Press, Los Angeles, California U.S.A. Available online: http://content.ancestry.com/Browse/BookList.aspx?dbid=11937), p. 249.

    9. [S1394] LWB1944Letters, Lundie Weathers Barlow, (Letters dated Aug 8 and 14 Dec 1944 with research attached, 19 pages transcribed by Alfred Sidney Howell, provided to JSH by Jim Brittain. Scanned to LWBsHowellNotes.PDF Feb 2007.), "1. Matthew Howell of Isle of Wight County, Virginia; married Mary, daughter of Joseph Lane; died 1720; issue an unborn child, son Joseph, and son Thomas Howell.".

    10. [S1338] LBSH Chart, Lundie Barlow - Sidney Howell - Havila Howell Chart, (A photocopy of a handwritten document given to John S. Howell, Jr. by Elizabeth Howell Traver.), "See Wills and Administrations of the Isle of Wight County, Virginia, Great Book p. 26".

    11. [S1364] Braswell Genealogy, Foy Braswell, (http://www.braswell-genealogy.com/. Foy Braswell, Librarian foybrasw@aol.com), http://www.braswell-genealogy.com/Wills and Probate/VA-Wills/1720-11 Jan.htm.

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