Re: Thomas Howerton, born about 1640, England

"cl.uk" <carolynleeds.uk@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote in message 
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> Seeking information on Thomas Howerton, born about 1640, England,
> died before 1700, Es*** County, Virginia.
>
> cl.uk

Looks like quite a few people would like to find out about him. Google can

find some info out there but perhaps you know this already... ..

http://www.google.co.uk/search?hl=en&q=%22Thomas+Howerton%22+born+about+1640+&meta=

Example...

http://www.covingtonhistory.co.uk/Generations/WILLIAM%20COVINGTON%20(2642),%20born%20at%20Harrold%201593Page2.html

Thomas Howerton was born about 1640 in England, exact location not yet 
discovered. He came to the Virginia colony about 1663 as he was one of 313

people claimed as "headrights" by the brothers Mott on 17 October, 1670.
The 
Motts were awarded a Patent for 15,564  acres of land on waters draining 
into the Rappahannock River as compensation for the indentured people whom

they had trans****ted to  the colony. William Covington, who became a
partner 
of Thomas Howerton, was included in the group of people for whose
trans****t 
the Motts received the land patent. So, in or around 1663, the Covington 
ancestor and the Howerton ancestor arrived together, as indentured men. We

don't know the name of the wife of Thomas Howerton, but we know the first 
name of the wife of William Covington- it was Dorothy, but she and Wiliam 
were contem****aries of Thomas Howerton, not younger!

There is a bit more on that page but not much.

A search here can't find him..
http://www.virtualjamestown.org/indentures/search_indentures.html
but then ..
http://www.folger.edu/html/folger_institute/jamestown/c_****fflet.htm
says
 "...the record is thin-we have evidence on about 15,000 of the roughly 
120,000 indentured servants who came to Virginia"
so only a 1 in 10 chance.

I believe ancestry are transcribing what records exist. They don't all
list 
place of origin though.