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- !28 Jan 1728: Record from the Parish Register of Powerstock, Dorsetshire, ENG. Quote: "Buryals, 1728, Jan. 28, Eliza Chichester, daughter of Thomas and Mary Syms." Hayden-Virginia Genealogies, pg. 94.
!7 Jun 1736: Mentioned in mother's will as daughter Elizabeth Chichester decd.
!8 Jul 1743: Stephen Hansford. Rec. 8 Jul 1743. Deposition of Stephen Hansford, of town of Abbotsbury in Co. of Dorset now of the Co. of King George in the Colony of VA, 44 Yrs of age. States that he was well acquainted with Mr. John Chichester of the Co. of Devon, son of Richard Chichester of Rappahannock River in Va., and the sd. John Chichester imtermarried with one Mrs. Elizabeth Sims, dau of Mr. Thomas Sims and Mary his wife of Goresol in the Co. of Dorset and sister of Chiliot Sims, Esq., of Exeter in the Co., of Devon. Sd. John Chichester a few yrs. after his marriage shipt himself to Va. leaving his wife & two sons behind and that sometime after his departure Mrs. Chichester and her youngest son Richard Chichester took thier passage to Va. from Weymouth in the ship Brimston, Capt. Giles Russell, Commander. She arrived safely in Va. and lived there several years with her sd. husband John Chichester and about the year 1736 (sic) the sd. Elizabeth & her son Richard went back to England where in the year 1728 the sd. Elizabeth apparently died and Richard Chichester, her son, returned to Va. the summer after the death of his mother and found on his arrival that his father, John Chichester, was also dead. W. B. 13, p. 320. Ida J. Lee, Abstracts Lancaster County, Virginia, Wills 1653-1800, The Dietz Press, Inc., Richmond, VA, 1959.
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