Nicholas Casey

Abt 1641 - 1713  (72 years)

• Name	Nicholas Casey
  Birth	Abt 1641	Warrosquyoake Shire, Virginia
  Gender	Male
  Death	1713	Warrisquick City, Isle of Wight, Virginia
  Person ID	I20628	Tofterå Slettemoen
  Last Modified	15 Nov 2021

  
  

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

  
  

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

  
  

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

  
  

• 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.