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Nicholas Casey

Nicholas Casey

Male Abt 1641 - 1713  (~ 72 years)

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  • Name Nicholas Casey 
    Born Abt 1641  Warrosquyoake Shire, Virginia Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Gender Male 
    Died 1713  Warrisquick City, Isle of Wight, Virginia Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Person ID I20628  Tofterå Slettemoen
    Last Modified 15 Nov 2021 

    Father Richard Casey,   b. 1613-1616, St. Mary, Shandon, Co. Cork, Ireland Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 14 Aug 1702, Warrosquyoake, Virignia Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 86 years) 
    Mother Nancy Jane Ricketts,   b. Abt 1615, Shandon, Cork, Ireland Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 17 Apr 1713, Warrosquyoake, Virignia Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age ~ 98 years) 
    Married Abt 1640  Virginia City, VA, USA Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Family ID F6670  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

    Family 1 Serena Evans,   b. 1643, Virginia, USA Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. Abt 1680, Warrosquyoake, Virignia Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 37 years) 
    Married Abt 1661 
    Children 
     1. Richard Casey,   b. Abt 1662-1663, Warrosquyoake, Virignia Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 8 Mar 1746, Warrosquyoake, Virignia Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age ~ 83 years)
     2. Ann Casey,   b. Abt 1664, Isle of Wight County, Virginia, USA Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. Yes, date unknown
     3. Mary Casey,   b. Abt 1666, Isle of Wight County, Virginia, USA Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. Yes, date unknown
     4. Sarah Casey,   b. Abt 1668, Isle of Wight County, Virginia, USA Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. Yes, date unknown
    Last Modified 13 Jan 2008 
    Family ID F6671  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

    Family 2 Jane Elderidge,   b. Abt 1660, Lowne's Creek, Isle of Wight County, Virginia Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. Abt 1729, Isle of Wight County, Virginia Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age ~ 69 years) 
    Children 
     1. Martha Casey,   b. Abt 1680, Isle of Wight County, Virginia, USA Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. Yes, date unknown
     2. Jane Casey,   b. Abt 1682, Isle of Wight County, Virginia, USA Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. Yes, date unknown
     3. Ruth Casey,   b. Abt 1684, Isle of Wight County, Virginia, USA Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. Yes, date unknown
     4. Nicholas Casey,   b. 1686-1690, Isle of Wight County, Virginia, USA Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 14 Mar 1763, Isle of Wight County, Virginia, USA Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 73 years)
     5. Thomas Casey,   b. Abt 1690, Isle of Wight County, Virginia, USA Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. Isle of Wight County, Virginia, USA Find all individuals with events at this location
    Last Modified 13 Jan 2008 
    Family ID F6672  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  • 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.

      Said to be an ancestor of Mark Twain.