Nicholas Casey
- Born: Cir 1641, Warrosquyoake Shire, Virgnia
- Marriage (1): Serena Evans about 1661
- Marriage (2): Jane Elderidge
- Died: 17 Apr 1713, Isle of Wight, VA about age 72
General Notes:
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.
Nicholas married Serena Evans, daughter of Clement Evans and Margarett Treaton, about 1661. (Serena Evans was born after 1636 in Virginia and died in Warrosquyoake, Virignia.)
Nicholas next married Jane Elderidge, daughter of Samuel Elderidge and Unknown. (Jane Elderidge was born circa 1660 in Lowne's Creek, Isle of Wight County, Virginia and died circa 1729 in Isle of Wight County, Virginia.)
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