Colonial Meriwether Families Tree - Person Sheet
Colonial Meriwether Families Tree - Person Sheet
NameHenry Hartwell , M
Birthca 1628, England
Immigrationbef 1675, Virginia
ImmigrationJun 1695, London, England
Death26 Jul 1699, Mile End, London Borough of Tower Hamlets, England
Burial26 Jul 1699, Saint Dunstan and All Saints Churchyard, Stepney, London Borough of Tower Hamlets, Greater London, England273
OccupationMerchant
FatherJohn Hartwell , M (1610-1649)
MotherMrs. Hartwell , F
Spouses
1Jane 30,9, F
Birthca 1639268
Death6 Jul 1698, Mile End, London Borough of Tower Hamlets, England269,270
Burial6 Jul 1698, Saint Dunstan and All Saints Churchyard, Stepney, London Borough of Tower Hamlets, Greater London, England269,271,272
FatherMr. [Unknown] , M
Marriageaft 1686, Surry County, Virginia
No Children
Biography notes for Henry Hartwell
Henry Hartwell
Lyman Willard Densmore, The Hartwells of America, Little Rock: Hartwell-Lorenzen, Inc, 1958

Henry Hartwell was a merchant and founding Trustee of the College of William & Mary. From 1675-1695 he was a Burgess from James City County and at times Clerk of the Council. They lived on the southern shore of Jamestown Island. In 1695 he returned with his wife to England. They had no children.
Deed notes for Henry Hartwell
Henry Hartwell received the following grants of land in Virginia:
730 acres in James City county, May 13, 1679. (Virginia Land Registry, Book No. 6, p. 690);
900 acres in Charles City county, March 30, 1682–3;
1,960 acres in Surry county, April 20, 1687;
2 ½ acres in James City April 20, 1689. (Book No. 7, pp. 234, 595, 901.)

He was clerk of the Council of Virginia 1677–1679, and married in or before 1685, ______, relect of Colo. William White. In the same year Henry Randolph of Henrico county, is recorded as his attorney.
Will notes for Henry Hartwell
Will of Henry Hartwell

Parish: Stepney als Stebonheath
Signed: 3 July 1699, with codicil dated 4 July 1699
Proved 2 August 1699.

Witnesses: Priscilla Jones, Anna Haddock, Elizabeth Crawley.
Codicil witnesses: Thomas Lane, Isabella Lee.

Persons named or bequeathed estate property:

Nephews:
Nicholas, Francis & Thomas Merryweather, nephews of my wife.
William, Henry & John Hartwell, sons of brother William.

Nieces:
Jane Browne , wife of William Browne and niece to my late wife
Elizabeth Browne, daughter to Coll. Williams Browne and niece to my late wife
Mary Hartwell, daughter of late brother William Hartwell

Others:
John Spratly (kinsman), Mary Sanders (kinswoman), Elianor and Anne Say, daughters of Capt. Edward and Mrs. Susan Say, the poor of Maidenhead, College of William & Mary, coachman Wiliam Anderson, maid servant, Isabella Leigh, Thomas Lane and wife Mary, Mrs. Saray Perry, Micajah and Richard Perry, Robert Wise.

Transcript printed in Meriwether Connections, Vol. 3, no. 3, p. 2, July 1984.
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