Celia "Sellah" Casey

Family/Spouse: Thomas Jordan. Thomas was born on 28 Sep 1768 in Isle of Wight County, Virginia; died on 12 Jun 1818 in Isle of Wight County, Virginia. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

1. John Jordan was born on 16 Sep 1809 in Pocahontas, VA; died in in Macon County, MO.

William married Celia Fulgham. Celia was born about 1749 in Isle of Wight County, Virginia; died in in Isle of Wight County, Virginia. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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Parents Anthony Fulgham b. 1718 - ? and Rebecca Johnson b. 1720 - ?

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Son William, inherited the plantation Nicholas father left him. Executors; wife Constant and son William. Overseer was his friend Henry Harrison. WIll recorded May 5th 1763. Wit: John Bidgood, William Webb. P. 244 Cavaliers and Pioneers, Isle of Wight City, VA.
Children mentioned:
Leg.-son William
son Henry
daughter Jane Chapman
daughter Constant Barlow
daughter Harty Womble
son Thomas
daughter Selah

Nicholas married Constant Harrison in 1732 in Isle of Wight, VA. Constant was born about 1712 in Isle of Wight, VA; died about 1772 in Isle of Wight, VA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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Daughter of John Harrison.
Her son Henry signes an account estate examination for Constant Casey on May 7, 1772.

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Will dated Apr 17th 1713, recorded June 27th 1713 and appraised Aug 21, 1713. Executors were wife Jane and son Richard.

Nicholas of the Lower Parish. Legatees: son Nicholas, son Thomas, threee youngest daughters by my last wife;. son Richard, daugthers Ann, Mary, Sarah; wife Jane; five youngest children, Marta, Jane, Ruth, Nicholas and Thomas. Wit; John Wheal?, Stephen Smith, Daniel Degan, Joshua Jordan. Source: Wills and Administrations of Isle of Wight County, Virginia, 1647-1800, p. 566 and 569.

English colonists drove the Warraskoyak from their villages in 1622 and 1627, as part of their reprisals for the Great Massacre of 1622, in which the Native Americans had decimated English settlements, hoping to drive them out of their territory.

The first English plantations along the south shore within present-day Isle of Wight county were established by Puritan colonists, beginning with that of Christopher Lawne in May 1618. Several members of the Puritan Bennett family also settled there, including Richard Bennett. He led the Puritans to neighboring Nansemond in 1635, and later was appointed as governor of the Virginia Colony.

By 1634, by order of the King of England, Charles I, eight shires of Virginia were formed with a total population of 4,914 settlers. Warrosquoake Shire included 522 persons at this time. It and Accomac Shire were the only shires given Native American names for the friendly tribes nearby. It was renamed Isle of Wight County in 1637, after the Isle of Wight, an island in the English channel. The river bearing this name was renamed Pagan River.

The original name had come derived from the Native Americans of the area; it went through transliteration and Anglicisation, eventually becoming known as "Warwicke Squeake".

On Feb 9, 1696 Nicholas Casey bought 200 acres of land from Jane, widow of Richard Gross, for 5000 lbs. tbc, according to a deed mentioned in the book "Seventeenth Century Isle of Wight County, Virginia: A History of the County"
The same book shows Nicholas Casey buying 180 acres N.E. sid of Cypress Swamp on May 1, 1693 from William Boddie and his wife Elizabeth.
He also bought the adjacent Henry Dawson's plantation of William Boddie on June 9th, 1703 with woodland of 100 acres where Martha Dawson, widow, and her three sons Henry, John and Martin Dawson lived and were to keep their rights to live.

Said to be an ancestor of Mark Twain.

Nicholas married Jane Elderidge. Jane (daughter of Samuel Elderidge) was born about 1660 in Lowne's Creek, Isle of Wight County, Virginia; died about 1729 in Isle of Wight County, Virginia. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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Her father Samuel Elderidge came over on the Truelove with Richard Casey.