John Garner, Senior

1634 - 1702  (67 years)

• Name	John Garner  [1, 2, 3]
  Suffix	Senior
  Alt. Birth	Abt 1633  [3]
  Born	2 Sep 1634	Shrewsbury, , Shropshire, England   [1]
  Gender	Male
  Residence	Bef 1650	Northumberland County, Virginia   [2, 3]
  	"John Garner ... came to the County of Northumberland in the Colony of virginia about 1650, at the age of 17; "for in that year Lewis Burwell was granted a trac of land in NOrthumberland for bringing 32 new colonists to the county, among the John Garner, Thomas Broughton, Samuel Moseley, Elizabeth Moseley and their daughter, Jane." - Garner-Keene
  Residence	1660	Lewisetta, Northumberland, Virginia   [3]
  	"According to H. Ragland Eubank, John Garner settled west of Garner's Creek near the site of the present village of Lewisetta in 1660.  This was near the mouth of the Coan River on a neck of land then called Cherry Point but today known as Cowart's Point.  Across Garner's Creek on the east Cypress Farm, still extant today, was established in 1662 by Captain John Rogers and his wife, Ellen."
  Legal	1663  [3]
  	made a deposition that he was 30 years old
  Died	1702	Westmoreland County, Virginia   [1]
  Will	22 Jan 1701/02	Westmoreland County, Virginia   [1]
  	In the name of God, Amen! I, John Garner being sick and weak of body, but of perfect memory and understanding do give and bequeath my Soul unto God that gave it, and my body to be decently interred. As to my worldly Estate, I give and bequeath as followeth; Item-I do give and bequeath unto my well beloved son John Garner and to his heirs forever one moiety of eight hundred and odd acres of land, also I give unto my well beloved son Henry Garner and to his heirs forever the moiety of the aforesaid eight hundred and odd acres of land to be equally divided between my said sons John and Henry Garner the said eight hundred and odd acres of land being the sand my said sons John and Henry Garner are now seated upon. Item- I give and bequeath unto my well beloved son Henry Garner my chest together with my wearing apparel. Item-I give and bequeath unto my well beloved son Vincent Garner and heirs forever the whole plantation and land I now live on together with the lands adjoining. Also I give unto my said son Vincent and to his heirs a parcel of land lying in Horn Point. Item- I give and bequeath unto my said son Vincent Garner my long gun and my hanger and a yoke of oxen. Also my will is that my said son Vincent Garner hath the one half of what is got of the money of the sloop which is called the Outcry. Item-I do will and appoint and order my said son Vincent Garner, his heirs, Exors and Amrs to pay unto my son Thomas Garner his heirs or assigns the sum of two thousand pounds of good tobacco in cask. I do will and appoint my said son Vincent Garner his heirs or assigns to pay unto my son Parish Garner his heirs or assigns the sum of two thousand pounds of good tobacco in cask. Item-I do will and appoint my said son Vincent Garner his heirs or assigns to pay unto my son Benjamin Garner his heirs or assigns the sum of two thousand pounds of good tobacco in cask, to be paid unto my said son Benjamin Garner when he shall be one and twenty years old. Item-I will and appoint my said son Vincent Garner his heirs or assigns to pay unto my son James Garner his heirs of assigns the sum of two thousand pounds of good tobacco in cask to be paid unto my son James Garner when he shall come to the age of one and twenty. Item-I give and bequeath unto my well beloved daughters Mary Susan and Martha each of them a thomb ring and also my will is that my well beloved wife to see them paid. Item-I give and bequeath unto my well beloved wife Susan all the rest of my Estate as Goods and Chattels moveables and unmoveables and do make my said loving wife Susan the sole Executor of this my last will and testament, willing all my due debts to be paid, revoking all other wills and testimonies, this my last will and testament, also my will is that my well beloved wife Susan her heirs of Executors pay the one half of the tobacco which is given to my said sons being four thousand, the 22nd day of Jan: 1702. John Garner (Seal) Signed, sealed in the presence of us: Wlliam Gardner Jno. Williams Wm. Moore Westmoreland Co. At a Court held for the said county the 26th day of May. The last will and testament of John Garner dec'd, the within subscriber was proved by the oath of Wm. Gardner, and a probate thereof granted to Susan Gardner, Executrix, therein named.Testl I. A. Westcomb C.C. Com. Rd. Recordity. Prime Die Jany. 1703
  Person ID	I4153	If the Legends Are True...
  Last Modified	12 Jan 2015

  
  

  Father	Richard Garner,   d. 1643, Virginia
  Mother	Katharn,   d. 1636, Shropshire, England
  Family ID	F1468	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	Susanna Keene,   b. 1644, Kent Island, Potomac River, Maryland ,   d. 28 Mar 1716, Westmoreland County, Virginia  (Age 72 years)
  Married	Feb 1659/60	Cherry Point Neck, Northumberland, Virginia   [4, 5]
  Children	+ 1. John Garner,   b. 20 Jan 1662/63, Lewisetta, Northumberland, Virginia ,   d. 25 Mar 1713, Westmoreland County, Virginia  (Age 50 years) + 2. Henry Garner,   b. 1664, Westmoreland County, Virginia ,   d. 25 Jun 1745, Cople Parish, Westmoreland County, Virginia  (Age 81 years) + 3. Martha Garner,   b. Abt 1665, Westmoreland County, Virginia ,   d. 1729, Westmoreland County, Virginia  (Age ~ 64 years) + 4. Vincent Garner,   b. 1666, Westmoreland County, Virginia ,   d. Dec 1710, St. Stephens Parish, Northumberland, Virginia  (Age 44 years) + 5. Thomas Garner,   b. 1668, Cherry Point Neck, Northumberland, Virginia ,   d. 13 Jul 1726, Stafford County, Virginia  (Age 58 years) + 6. Parish Garner,   b. 1672-1674,   d. 1718-1719  (Age 45 years)   7. Benjamin Garner,   b. Abt 1681,   d. Yes, date unknown + 8. Susan Garner,   b. 1678,   d. Yes, date unknown + 9. Mary Garner,   b. 1680,   d. 20 Apr 1726, Northumberland, Virginia  (Age 46 years) + 10. James Garner,   b. 1681,   d. Bef 18 Jan 1726/27, Northumberland, Virginia  (Age 46 years)
  Last Modified	12 Jan 2015
  Family ID	F1465	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

• Event Map

  Born - 2 Sep 1634 - Shrewsbury, , Shropshire, England Married - Feb 1659/60 - Cherry Point Neck, Northumberland, Virginia  = Link to Google Earth

  
  

• Documents		Virginia → Northern Neck Map
  		Virginia → Chesapeake Bay Map

  
  

• Notes

  John Garner, after growing up in the care of William Farrar, had moved into the Northern Neck of Virginia by 1650. When our first Garners arrived, the Colony of Virginia was settled and administered by representatives of the Virginia Company of London. But in 1624 Charles I claimed most of Virginia as a Royal colony. The Northern Neck, the stretch of land between the Potomac and the Rappahannock Rivers extending toward the Chesapeake from the Blue Ridge Mountains, remained a proprietary of Lord Fairfax until much later. John Garner's quit-rent or outright payment for land would have been to this proprietor or his land agents in Virginia. When John Garner arrived in Northumberland County, Virginia, it was still a densely forested landscape, cut through by waterways, ranging in importance from the Chesapeake Bay to the brackish streams in the Tidelands. Settlers had not penetrated to higher ground yet, though John Garner himself, and certainly his descendants, played a part in pushing the frontier of the English Colony westward. The settlements consisted of a few plantations, small in size when compared to twentieth century farms in the Midwest or California. The plantations were established along the waterways, the more prosperous having their own wharf with loading facilities and tobacco warehouse. These water routes were the colonists' safest method of transportation. Between plantations, there were no roads cleared and the forest rider faced the strong possibility of being ambushed by Indians. Along the main rivers, up from the Bay, at or near the most westerly English residence, the colonists would build and man a fort, and every male was expected to do his part in protecting the settlement from marauding Indians. The English settlements expanded through the encouragement of the Crown and the Lord Proprietor. A planter who imported another person into the Colony was entitled to fifty acres. Anyone who came to the Colony on his own was also entitled to fifty acres. And of course, relatively large tracts of land were owned by former shareholders in the Virginia Company and by businessmen in England. Many of your own ancestors came to Virginia, Maryland, and the Carolinas as "headrights," i. e., some business man (usually a Virginia tobacco planter, a boat captain, or a London merchant) had brought them into the Colony, paid their transportation and settled them onto land that the business man was entitled to as a result of this enterprise of importing labor for clearing land, planting and curing tobacco. Within a few years of the Garners' arrival, Richard died and left young John Garner in the care of William Farrar, an "ancient planter of Virginia" for whom Farrar's Island was named, and the man who had transported them from England to Virginia. For their first few years in the Colony, all your Virginia ancestors probably worked on the plantations of other people. But as the Colony grew and their terms of indenture ended, more westerly lands were offered for settlement and your people located their own plots on the frontier of that time. Within John Garner's own lifetime, this frontier region was pushed from a line only slightly west of Williamsburg, Virginia to a line about even with present-day Richmond, Virginia... ...Before the marriage, in 1658, John Garner had been named the assignee of Francis Roberts who in 1657 had bought 500 acres in the area that later became Stafford County. The assignment was shared by Joseph Fielding. In 1663 these two men transferred their rights, titles and interest in this same land to John Garner, Jr. who would have been the infant son of John Garner I and to John Bailes, Jr., the soon-to-be step-son of Joseph Fielding. In 1663 John Garner was sworn as Constable for Cherry Point Neck. The Colony was building a fort on the Yeocomico River in 1667, and the Association of Northumberland, Westmoreland and Stafford Counties ordered that a house be built for the workmen "by John Garner and other assistants whom he shall select." Around 1672 John and his family moved farther north and west on the Northern Neck to Westmoreland County near the present village of Kinsale. In October, 1672, John and Susanna bought 100 acres on the Yeocomico River from Nicholas Jenkins. John Garner's business associates and friends in Northumberland and Westmoreland Counties included Robert Francis, Joseph Fielding, Thomas Watson, Henry and Elizabeth Moseley and Robert Middleton. January 15, 1694/95 John Jenkins of Cople Parish sold to John and Vincent Garner 100 acres in Horne Point on Yeocomico River. It may be upon this very tract of land (between Kinsale and Hague) that a descendant of Vincent Garner built "China Hall" in the 1700's, still standing today. Its modern name is "Kirnan." ...At his death, John Garner owned more than 800 acres in one tract of land, a second plantation and more lands adjoining it, a separate parcel of land in Horn Point, at least 4000 pounds of good tobacco in cask, at least half interest in a sloop named "Outcry", a valuable chest, a yoke of oxen, jewelry and other personal property. Susanna's estate was inventoried March 28, 1716 by James Carr, James, Thomas and William Garner. J. H. Garner – 2007

  
  

• Sources

  [S32] Garner Family History, Ann Garner, Part 1 | https://web.archive.org/web/20050126095707/www.earlyfamilies.com/Pages/garner-family-history-1.html (Reliability: 3). [S592] Chappelear, George Warren Chappelear, (Dayton, Virginia: The Shenandoah Press, 1932), page 98 (Reliability: 3). [S752] Garner-Keene Families of Northern Neck Virginia, Ruth Ritchie & Sudie Rucker Wood, (Charlottesville, Virginia: Jarman Printing Company, 1952), http://hdl.handle.net/2027/wu.89058583568., Chapter 1, page 1 (Reliability: 3). [S31] Wingfield Family Society, (20 Mar 2003), Generation 18 | https://web.archive.org/web/20051108145757/www.wingfield.org/charts/dewin018.htm (Reliability: 3). [S752] Garner-Keene Families of Northern Neck Virginia, Ruth Ritchie & Sudie Rucker Wood, (Charlottesville, Virginia: Jarman Printing Company, 1952), http://hdl.handle.net/2027/wu.89058583568., Chapter 1, page 2 (Reliability: 3).