John Casey

Notes:

Will of John Casey, p. 189 Lincoln City Wills and Adm. written? Apr. 1790. Legatees Margaret, wife, children Charles, James, Agnes, Matthew. Hugh Logan ezcecutor. Witnesses: John McGill, Hanna Barry, Esther Dougherty.

But: "A transcription of John's will at the Casey genforum #4335 does not mention a son Charles and says daughter Martha (not Matthew)."

Will Book A, pages 189 and 190 Lincoln County Courthouse, Stanford, Kentucky:
"In the name of God amen I John Casey of Lincoln County and District of Kentucky being weak in body but perfect in memory thanks be to God therefor calling to mind the mortality of my body and believing it is appointed for all men once to die do make and ordain this my last will and testament that is to say principally and first I give and recommend my soul into the hands of God that gave it and for my body I recommend it to the earth to be buried in a Christian manner at the direction of my Executor nothing doubting at the General Resurrection I shall receive the same again by the mighty power of God and as touching such worldly goods wherewith it hath pleased God to bless me with in this life I give devise and dispose of the same in manner following in the first place I do order all my just debts and funeral charges to be paid and satisfied and I give and bequeath unto my beloved son WILLIAM CASEY one cow and I do give unto my best beloved wife MARGARET this plantation I now live on with all the movables I now possess and one negro boy called Dave and I do order that she shall have the full power of them while she lives and then to belong to my son JAMES and to his heirs forever and I do order that my daughters AGNESS and MARTHA shall have one cow each. I likewise constitute make and ordain my trusty friend Hugh Logan to be my whole and sole Executor of this my last will and testament and I do hereby utterly disavow and revoke all and every other wills and testaments in any way before named. In witness whereof I have set my hand this 28th day of April 1790.
Witnesses Present
John Magill
Hannah Barry
Ester Dougherty

Signed John Casey "his mark"

At a court held for Lincoln County the 20th day of July 1790 This will was proved by the oaths of John Magill, Hannah Barry and Ester Dougherty witnesses thereto and ordered to be recorded."

John married Margaret Blackburn in 1734-1740. Margaret was born in 1715 in Virginia, USA; died after 1790 in Kentucky. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

1. Charles John Casey was born about 1736 in Lincoln City, VA, USA; died in 1797 in Maryland, USA.
2. William Casey was born before 1738 in Kentucky; and died.
3. James Casey was born about 1738 in Lincoln City, VA, USA; and died.
4. Agnes Casey was born about 1740 in Lincoln City, VA, USA; and died.
5. Captain John Casey was born about 1740 in Virginia, USA; died in 1794 in Portsmouth, Norfolk, Virginia, USA.
6. Martha Casey was born about 1742 in Lincoln City, VA, USA; died in in Lincoln City, VA, USA.

Charles married Prudence Bannister in 1694-1696 in Warrosquyoake, Virignia. Prudence (daughter of William Bannister) was born about 1670 in Virginia, USA; died in in British American Colonies. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

James married Elisabeth Wylie on 21 Jul 1666. Elisabeth was born in 1645 in Virginia, USA; died in 1710 in Virginia, USA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

First Casey-ancestor in America.

The busiest years of the Great Migration were those of "The Eleven Year Tyranny" (1629-1640) during which Charles I tried to rule without calling the Puritan-dominated parliament.

For the purpose of stimulating immigration and the settlement of the Colony, the London Company ordained that any person who paid his own way to Virginia should be assigned 50 acres of land 'for his owne personal adventure,' and if he transported 'at his owne cost' one or more persons he should, for each person whose passage he paid, be awarded fifty acres of land.

Richard Casey was transported by Justinian Cooper on the ship Truelove out of London, Robert Dennis, Master, to Virginia City Sept. 16th 1636.

Justinian Cooper was granted 1050 acs. Warrisquick Co., 13 Sept. 1636, p. 380. N. "W. upon the head of Lawnes Creek, S.E. upon the Back Creek, N.E. upon his dwelling howse & S.W. into the woods. 50 acs. for his personal adventure & 1000 acs. for transportation of 20 pers: Richard Casey, Nicolas Man, John Curtis, John Corker, Henry Ranciful, Clement Evans, Henry Bonny, James Smith, George Stacy, William Redman, George Archer, William Bannister, William Cooke, Samuel Eldridge, William Nosse, Mary Clinton, Jno Davis, Robert Radge, Richard Smith, William Underwood and Mary Quarterly, 7 (W) (1) 286.

Richard Casey is one of the headrights in the grant of land to Justinian Cooper for the transportation.
Source: "Cavaliers and Pioneers, Abstracts of Virginia Land Patents
and Grants" 1623-1666, Abstracted and Indexed by Nell Marion Nugent.
Volume One, Baltimore, Genealogical Publishing Company, 1969, p. 47.

Justinian Cooper, a prominent immigrant, who married Anne Harrison, the widow of James Harrison. Her maidenname was Oliffe. She and Justnian Cooper had no children, but there appears to have been children of Cooper by a first marriage. In taking out several patents to land from 1635/6 on for several years, Justinian Cooper repeatedly used the headright of Richard Casey, when he took out patents.

Transcribed as "Nicholas Richard Coursie" in one transcription from 1642.

Col. Donald E. Casey, compliant of the Casey family genealogy, believes that Richard would be classed as a representative figure, rather than a prominent one. Like so many Irishmen of this time, he came to Virginia during the colony's crucial half century, and in the new world found a home and founded a family. The headright method of making land grants was adopted soon after the colony was getting started. It was probably in this manner that Richard Casey obtained his land, it being thoroughly characteristic of those times. (Col. Casey found no evidence that Richard was indentured.) It was this system that enabled Richard Casey and many men like him to acquire property they probably could never have possessed otherwise.

Many of those brought over were poor Irishmen and women (some of them of good families, but with meager fortunes and prospects) who were unable to pay the six punds Sterling, the average fare then charged for the transatlantic voyage.

Richard Casey and Nancy Jane Rickets are thought to have had nine children, but only four survived to maturity: Nicholas, James, Mary Ann and Peter.

Seventeenth Century Isle of Wight County, Virginia: A History of the County shows Justinian Cooper in his will of March 26th 1650 giving his godchildren each a calf. "To my brother Richard Cossey 200 acres where he and John Snellock lives by the river side after my wife's decease." To Edward Pyland, son James Pyland 500 lbs. tbco. Wife Anne extrx. Friend Cap. Wm. Barnard to be overseer. Gives him a piece of plate worth 10 pounds. Teste (witnesses), James Pyland, Jno Britt.

Surry County Records, Surry County, Virginia, 1652-1684 has records of a Richard Case and wife Isabella, on 100 acres on the west side of Gray's Creek, called Hollowing Pont and ye middle neck adjoining to it at the head of Spring Swamp to the end of Sandy Valley on Nov 3, 1667.
On July 2 1672 this Richard Case, aged 53, depositions between Thos. Gray and Thos. Cruse, and Isabell Case, aged about 56, deposeths same as husband.
A John Case lived in Surry County as well, mentioned in 1639 (purchasing 500 acres) and again in 1669.

Richard married Nancy Jane Ricketts about 1640 in Virginia City, VA, USA. Nancy was born about 1615 in Shandon, Cork, Ireland; died on 17 Apr 1713 in Warrosquyoake, Virignia. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Her father may have been the Edward Ricketts who came to Isle of Wight County in 1642, transported by Wm. Barnard, Esq.