On May 16, 12:01=A0pm, "CWatters"
<colin.watt...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
> "cl.uk" <carolynleeds...@[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=3Den&q=3D%22Thomas+Howerton%22+born+abo.=
...
>
> Example...
>
> http://www.covingtonhistory.co.uk/Generations/WILLIAM%20COVINGTON%20(...
>
> 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.
T=
he
> Motts were awarded a Patent for 15,564 =A0acres of land on waters
draining=
> into the Rappahannock River as compensation for the indentured people
whom=
> they had trans****ted to =A0the colony. William Covington, who became a
par=
tner
> 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/s=
earch_indentures.html
> but then
..http://www.folger.edu/html/folger_institute/jamestown/c_****ffle=
t.htm
> says
> =A0"...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
lis=
t
> place of origin though.
Thank you, so much. Has anyone found Thomas Howerton in Shrop****re
records?
http://wc.rootsweb.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=3DGET&db=3Dmysouthernroot=
s&id=3DI876
ID: I876
Name: Thomas Howerton
Surname: Howerton
Given Name: Thomas
***: M
Birth: 1640 in Shrop****re, England
Death: 1699 in Es*** County, Virginia
cl.uk
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