William Barbee

Family descended from French Hugeonots, name originally spelled Barbey.

William Barbee of Essex and Middlesex Counties, Virginia (1660 - 1720). Descendants moved to the Wake, Chatham, Orange Counties area of North Carolina . From North Carolina many branches went to Tennessee and a few branches went to Kentucky, Georgia and Texas.

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William Barbee of Middlesex County, Virginia, was born ca 1655 and died between Jan 5 and Feb 5, 1720. The Parish Register of Christ Church, Middlesex Co., VA has listings of births, baptisms, and marriages of William and his children.

His will was written 05 Jan 1720 and proved in court 05 Feb 1720. A copy of this is found in K. Stone's works on the Barbee families. He names his three first born children and only states his estate is to go to the children by his last wife, thereby confirming his two marriages.

William Barbee was granted 200 acres of land on 06 Jun 1699 from William Beaumont, which was from the first grant of 100 acres to Perrigrine Bland. Perrigrine had daughter, Hope (married to a Beaumont) who inherited his estate in 1650. A Patrick Miller was also granted land from William Beaumont. Was Patrick father to Ann Miller who married William's son, John Barbee? Patrick Miller then gave this land to William Barbee on 04 Jan 1689. (Source: Sharon Ware, 5735 Genevieve Place; Fairfield, OH 45014)

Essex and Middlesex Counties, Virginia (1660 - 1720). Descendants moved to the Wake, Chatham, Orange County area of North Carolina and then many branches went to Tennessee. A very few branches went to Kentucky, Georgia and Texas. This is one of the best documented Barbee lines. For extensive information on this line look for "A Study of the Barbee Families of Chatham, Orange and Wake Counties in North Carolina" by Ruth Herndon Shields, Belle Lewter West and Kathryn Crossley Stone, 1971 in many genealogical libraries. There is a thick supplement also.

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THE BARBEES of Wake County are descendants of William Barbee of Middlesex, Virginia. Positive heritage has been traced back to William Barbee's will dated 1720. The Barbees in Virginia go back as far as 1660 when William Barby was listed in an investment grant at York River, Virginia. In the will of our William Barbee, his name was spelled Barby. Since the Barbys came to America, the Y has been dropped and EE added to spell Barbee. William Barbee referred to himself as a "free planter." In the inventory of his estate it is stated, Money in the hands of William Dawkins, Merchant in London." At that time planters shipped tobacco to England to merchants, who held, sold, and exchanged for goods to be shipped back to Virginia. There are Barbys in Northamptonshire and Devonshire, England, today. There is a Barby Village, called "Barby on the Hill Village", located in Whants, England. The Barby Arms (Burke, encyclopedia of Heraldry") from the 1620 visitation of DEVON, ARMS: Argent - A chevron between three garbs sable. CREST: A heraldic Tiger's head erased argent attired hx rams horns, or. (From England.) T

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