"Virginia Colonial Abstracts, Volume III, 1651-1654"
p.33. Lower Norfolk. A Court 17 January 1652/3. Present: Collo Francis Yardley, Mr. Lemuell Mason, Lift: Coll: Cornelius Loyd, Mr. Francis Emperor, Major Thomas Lambert, Mr. Thomas Bridge, Leift: Coll: John Sidney, Mr. Thomas Goodrich, Com'rs.
pg. 34. Certif for 100 acres to Jno Bigge for transporting Johan Bigge and Joseph Hutt into this colony.
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Cavaliers and Pioneers, Vol 1, p 446
JOhn Biggs, of Low. Norf. Co. 450 acs, April 28, 1665, p 161 (39). E side of the S br. of Eliz RIv. running WNW &c, bounding on a draught of Tristrum Nosworthy &c. 100 acres granted to Lt. Col. Tristrum Nasworth June 10, 1654 & by Thomas, his son, assigned to sd Biggs January 4, 1661 & 350 acres for trans. of 7 pers: Peter Malbone, Margerett Wade, ELiz. Tompson, Jno. WHite, Jr., Solomon WHite, Hanah WHite, THomas Browne.
From Land Grants on the Electronic Index Cards section of the Library of VA Web Site:
Bigge, John, senr., 21 April 1690
Lower Norfolk County
1200a. Swamp and marsh on the eastward side of the southern branch of the Elizabeth River. Beg.g. & c. on the Comorant point.
Patents 8, page 34.
From Genealogy Library.com (Family Tree Maker)
"Some Emigrants to Virginia" Author: W. G. Stanard Call Number: 929.1 S78.1
This book lists emigrants to Virginia
Bibliographic Information: Stanard, W. G. Some Emigrants to Virginia. The Bell Book and Stationary
Company. Richmond Virginia: 1911.
BIGGE, HENRY (in Virginia 1635, &c.); brother of John Bigge, of St. Mary's, White Chapel,
London, citizen and tallow chandler.
Waters' Gleanings.
White Chapel is in Middlesex, not London.
There are not any marriage or birth/baptism records for St. Mary's, White Chapel on the Middlesex page. Only the 1500's and 1700's.
Hinshaw, William Wade. Encyclopedia of American Quaker Genealogy, Volume 6, Ann Arbor: Edwards
Bros., 1938-.
MEETINGS IN LOWER NORFOLK COUNTY
"For some years previous [to 1771] the only dissenters, or non-conformists, in the colony were the Quakers. The Puritan preachers, who came to Virginia about 1612, had been driven out by severe laws … A congregation of Quakers lived in Norfolk County, and the names of about forty of them are preserved in the county records … They were: Frank Baton, John Biggs, Bitters Barnaby, William Chichester, Mrs.
Chichester, Ann Godby, Mrs. Mary Emperor, Mrs. Nicholas Emerson, John Eider, Nicholas Freeman,
Benjamin Forby, Mrs. Forby, Joseph Gilbert, William Goldsmith, Mrs. Goldsmith, Mary Goldsmith, Thomas Holloway, Mrs. Holloway, James Johnson, Mrs. Johnson, John Johnson, Mrs. Ann Jones, Mirhartt Mason, Mrs. Mary Nicholls, Thomas Owens, John Porter, Jr., Mrs. Porter, Mrs. Richard Pinner, William Robinson, Mrs. Robinson, John Robinson, Richard Russell, Mrs. Russell, Robert Spring, Jsseph Sammonds, Nicholas Seaborne, William Whitehurst, Richard Whitehurst, Richard Yates, Mrs. Yates and Mrs. Robert Spring.
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Records of Norfolk Co, Virginia (Book E Part 2, Orders 1665-75, p 89) shows Edward Hassell as one of the men ordered to clear up the highways under John Biggs (his father-in-law), on February 18, 1672/3.
Encyclopedia of American Quaker Genealogy: Virginia
MEETINGS IN LOWER NORFOLK COUNTY
"… No further record of persecutions of the Quakers [is found] until 1675, when John Edwards informed
against John Biggs for not having his children baptized. Biggs was sent on to the General Court at James City, and fined 1,000 pounds of tobacco for the use of the parish - 1,000 pounds for the use of John Edwards, the informer, and 1,225 pounds for the costs of prosecution".
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Lower Norfolk County, VA, WB 6, p 77 John's will dated September 4, 1694 and Recorded March 15, 1696
Last Will and Testament of John Bigg
19th March 1697 - I John Bigg of Elizabeth River in the County of Norfolk in Virginia being often sick & Weak in body, but now of good and P[er]fect Memory... minding to putt in Order al and singuler my Estate both reall & p[er]sonall to the intent there should by Noe Stryfe for the same after my Decease...Desire & pray my Children & all Others to bee Contented with my last Will & Testam' without any trouble, buissines, or vexation of any of them against the Other, for any of my Said Estate; as
they will answare for the same before the Judgmt Seat of God
...I... bequeath to my Son John Bigg (Whom I doe hereby...apoynt to bee my Sole Only and absolute & lawfull heire..all my estate both reall & p[er]sonall Except Such leagacyes hereafter Mensoned...I Give him my said Son John Bigg; all my land I am Now pesessed off (vizt) my Manner plantacon, and all the land belonging to the Same...Including a Small p[ar]cell of land that George Whidbey lives upon by my p[er]mission dureing My life; allsoe the Land wch my Son Jabez held in his lifetime by Pattent bareing Date the 23d Day of Aprill 1688 Wth Said Land is allsoe my p[ro]per Right; all which with the land I hold Now by my Owne Patent baring date the 21th Day of Aprill Ano Dom[ini] 1690; I give to my Said son Jno Bigg...as is Expressied in the Pattent aforesaid, To have & to hold the
said Plantacon...unot the Said John Bigg my Son, and the heires of his body... The heires Male first to take place & soe in Order,
but if my Said Son John Shall Dye Without Issue... then my land with the Apurtenances, to my Grand son John Whidbey...and for lack of Such Issue to my Grand Son George Whidby...then to descend to the rest of my Duaghter Elizabeth's children...& for lack of Such Issue, thento my Duaghter katherin Mercer's Children, and theire heires, the Male first alwayes to take place, and for want thereof the ffemale & theire heires And for lack of Such Issue, to the Next right heires of mee the Said John Bigg, the ffather forever; Butt if my Son John Bigg have Children...or in defect thereof, My Grand Son John Whiteby or for lack therof the Said Geroge Whitebey in defect therof any of the heire Afore Menconed...are at their owne
liberty to give the Said land to which they like best of theire Children Either Male of female; Butt if my Son John Bigg have lawfull Issue & Dye intestate, then my land aforesaide to fall & Descend to his Children whether male of female, the Male first...the Meaning is that if the Male Die the female to take place [Note: a dozen words heavily corssed out here.]
I Give & bequeath to my Son Thomas Bigg, My Daughters Ann Faux, Katherin Mercer, Elizabeth Whitby, Joane Sykes, Pheebe Bigg, Dorothy Bigg to Each of them I give twelve pence or One Shilling lawfull Money of England or the vallue ther of..
Item I doe allsoe Give unto my son in law Mathew Caswell & My Grand Children John Hassold & Martha, Ffrancis, William, Jabez, Jean & Mathew Caswell to Each of them One twelve pence of One shilling Sterl[ing]..
.all the aforesaid legacyes to bee paid in Six Monthes after my Decesase...And this to bee the full Share...for Each of those p[er]sons, above Names...And the reason why I give them...Noe More,is for theire Disobendience [sic], and Other material matters best Knowne to my Self [the line was
Raced before Signing]
Item I doe hereby...Appoynt my Son John Bigg to bee my...Onley Executor...And to take
full...posession after my Decease of all my Estate...to the use of himself and his lawfull Issue hee paying those Legacys afore bequeathed, and if my Son John Should die before proof of this Will, his wife to Act as Executorix but On the behalf of his Lawfull Issue in Wittness Where of I the Said John Bigg have Subscribed this my last Will & Testamt wth my Own hand...
this 4th Day of Sept ano Dom[ini] 1694 John Bigg & Seale...
in the p[re]sence of us John Portlock Tho. Nash Tho; Etheridge Joseph Hodgis Wm Maund Wm (his mark) Etheridg, Rebecka (her mark) Hodgis 'and many Others' Proved in Court 15h March 1696/7 by the Oathes of Joseph Hodgis Jno Portlock Tho: Nash & Thomas Etheridge & is Ordered to bee recorded
Mala[chi] Thruston Cl Cur" (Norfolk co., Va. Will Book 6: p.77 [Transcription by David L. Kent])
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