Mabe Genealogy
1st Edition
By Charles Randall Hines
(Son of Betty Louise Mabe Hines)
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Table of Contents
Table of Contents . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2
Origins . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3
The Role of the Church in Record Keeping . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7
America as a Religious Refuge: The Seventeenth Century . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9
Early Religion in England . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12
Early Religion in Virginia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18
Unproven Lines – 12th (& 13th) Richard Mabe . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26
Unproven Lines – 11th Nicholas Mabe . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27
Ten Generations of Mabe Genealogy - 10th Robert Mabe . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30
9th William M Mabe . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36
8th William John Mabe . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42
7th John “Long John” N. Mabe . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 46
6th Taylor Mabe . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 65
5th Columbus David Mabe . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 72
4th John David Mabe . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 78
3rd Isaac Emanuel “Manuel” Mabe . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 86
2nd Betty Louise (Mabe) Hines . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 90
1st Charles Randall Hines . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 92
1st Kenneth Alan Hines (Brother) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 94
Notes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 97
The following genealogy record has been compiled from many sources on the internet, the Mabe family
history, photos and documents. I have attempted to cite sources from as many places as possible, while
researching and compiling this information. It is not intended to be a complete, nor 100% accurate account
of information. This was created to give what is believed to be an accurate list of my genealogy from the
present time, back to the 1600’s (or before – currently at my 10th generation). I am not responsible for
errors or omissions. This will always be considered a “work in progress”. -- Charles Randall Hines
1st Edition - Copyright © November 5, 2012 - All Rights Reserved
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Source: www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/17/107.shtml
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By Charles Randall Hines
(Son of Betty Louise Mabe Hines)
Mabe Coat of Arms / Mabe Family Crest
Origins
The surname of MABE was an English medieval given name MABBE,
originally derived from the Latin AMABILIS meaning lovable. Surnames
having a derivation from nicknames form the broadest and most
miscellaneous class of surnames, encompassing many different types of
origin. The most typical classes refer adjectivally to the general physical
aspect of the person concerned, or to his character. Many nicknames refer to
a man's size or height, while others make reference to a favoured article of
clothing or style of dress. Many surnames derived from the names of
animals and birds. In the Middle Ages ideas were held about the characters
of other living creatures, based on observation, and these associations were
reflected and reinforced by large bodies of folk tales featuring animals
behaving as humans.
The name has also survived into the 20th century as Mabel. Early records of
the name mention MABBE (without surname) who was recorded in 1293 in
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County Chester, and Ralph John Mabbe was documented in London in the
year 1278. John Mabbys appears in Bedfordshire in 1309.
During the Middle Ages, when people were unable to read or write signs
were needed for all visual identification. For several centuries city streets in
Britain were filled with signs of all kinds, public houses, tradesmen and even
private householders found them necessary. This was an age when there
were no numbered houses, and an address was a descriptive phrase that
made use of a convenient landmark.
At this time, coats of arms came into being, for the practical reason that men
went into battle heavily armed and were difficult to recognize. It became the
custom for them to adorn their helmets with distinctive crests, and to paint
their shields with animals and the like. Coats of arms accompanied the
development of surnames, becoming hereditary in the same way.
Later instances of the name mention Mabota Ryder of Yorkshire who was
listed in the Yorkshire Poll Tax of 1379. A certain William Mabbett was
listed in the Wills of Lancashire in 1644. Most of the European surnames in
countries such as England, Scotland and France were formed in the
thirteenth and fourteenth centuries. The process had started somewhat earlier
and had continued in some places into the 19th century, but the norm is that
in the tenth and eleventh centuries people did not have surnames, whereas by
the fifteenth century most of the population had acquired a second name.
English: spelling variations include; Mabe, Mabes, Mabbe, Mabbys,
Maib, Maibs, Maibe, Mayab, Mayabb, and others.
Dutch: from the medieval female personal name Mabe, a short form of
Mabelie, derived from a Latin personal name and saint’s name (A) mabilia.
Compare Mabbitt.
Mabe, Cornwall, England
The parish of Mabe, {pop. 1276 [2001] (Cornish: Lannvab)}, anciently
called La Vabe or Lavapper, was situated in the Deanery and Hundred of
Kerrier; it is now in the Deanery of Carnmarth South. It is bounded on the
north by St Gluvias, on the east by St Gluvias and Budock, on the south by
Constantine, and on the west by Stithians and St Gluvias. It is immediately
south-west of the town of Penryn. The Church, which is separate from the
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village, was originally dedicated to St. Mabon (or Mabe), who is believed
to have been one of the 24 children of King Broccan. Local quarries were
once a chief source of granite for building projects such as Waterloo Bridge
in London.
The chief villages are Burnthouse, Long Downs, and Rocky Town. A
portion of the Falmouth reservoirs was in this parish.
Mabe, Cornwall, England
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Mabe Parrish Church
The following genealogy record has been compiled from many sources on the internet,
the Mabe family history, photos and documents. I have attempted to cite sources from as
many places as possible, while researching and compiling this information. It is not
intended to be a complete, nor 100% accurate account of information. This was created
to give what is believed to be an accurate list of my genealogy from the present time,
back to the 1600’s (or before – currently at my 10th generation). I am not responsible for
errors or omissions. This will always be considered a “work in progress”.
-- Charles Randall Hines
COPYRIGHT NOTICE In accordance with Title 17 U.S.C. §107, any copyrighted
material used within this document, including but not limited to documents, entries,
photos or graphics, is distributed under Fair Use without profit or payment to those who
have expressed a prior interest in receiving the included information for nonprofit
research and/or educational purposes only. Source: www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/17/107.shtml
Source: http://www.genuki.org.uk/big/eng/Cornwall/Mabe/index.html
http://www.cornwallfhs.com/locations_index2.php
http://goo.gl/maps/qd4c0
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The Role of the Church in Record Keeping
St. Bridget's Church, Bridstow, Herefordshire, England
There are records from *“Review of Church Parish Records for St. Bridget's
Church, Bridstow, Herefordshire, England” that locate some of the Mabe
genealogy line there in the 1600’s. Churches required ministers to keep
accurate records of all baptisms, deaths, and marriages, thus giving the
church responsibility for maintaining these vital records.
Source: *(http://familytreemaker.genealogy.com/users/f/r/y/Dennis-M-Frye/GENE4-0015.html)
1538 – A mandate is issued requiring that every parish was to keep a
register. Many parishes ignored this order. Only about 800 registers exist
from this time period.
1643-1659 – Registers were poorly kept during the English Civil War and
the Commonwealth period which followed, or abandoned altogether.
1711 – An order was made to the effect that all register pages were to be
ruled and numbered. This was widely ignored.
1733 – The use of Latin in registers is prohibited.
1751 – Calendar reform. Prior to this the year commenced on 25th March, so
any register entry for December 1750 would have been followed by January
1750.
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1754 – Lord Hardwicke’s Marriage Act. A separate marriage register is
enforced, which records witnesses, signatures of all parties, occupation of
groom and the residences of the couple marrying. It also enforced Banns and
made clandestine marriages illegal.
1763 – Minimum age for marriage set at 16 (previously the Church accepted
marriage of girls of 12 and boys of 14). Those under 21 still needed the
consent of parents. On marriage records of individuals that are over 21, they
often have their age listed as “full age” rather than an exact year.
1812 – George Rose’s Act. New pre-printed registers were to be used for
separate baptism, marriage and burial registers as a way of standardizing
records.
About Marriages:
Couples were usually married in the bride’s parish. Until the early 20th
century couples could marry at a very young age. Legally, the couple was
required to be married either by banns or by license.
If married by banns, the couple was required to announce or publish their
intention to marry for three consecutive Sundays. If no one objected to the
intended marriage, then the couple was allowed to marry. Just because banns
were published does not guarantee the marriage actually took place.
Therefore, it is possible to find a couple among the marriage banns, but not
be able to find an actual marriage record for them.
Couples usually married by license if they didn’t want to wait the required
three weeks for the publication of banns, or if the bride and groom lived in
different dioceses. Marriage by license was also common with the upper
class.
Source: http://search.ancestry.com/search/db.aspx?dbid=1623
Note: Throughout the older documents contained in this research, the English language is very
hard for 21st century readers to comprehend. This was due to the use of the “long s” and other
variations in spelling, in use at the time.
Source: http://oxforddictionaries.com/definition/english/long+s - Definition of long s [noun] an
obsolete form of lower-case s, written or printed as ſ. It was used in initial and medial but not
final position in a word, and was generally abandoned in English-language printing shortly before
1800.
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America as a Religious Refuge: The Seventeenth Century
Many of the British North American colonies that eventually formed the
United States of America were settled in the seventeenth century by men and
women, who, in the face of European persecution, refused to compromise
passionately held religious convictions and fled Europe. The New England
colonies, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, and Maryland were conceived and
established "as plantations of religion." Some settlers who arrived in these
areas came for secular motives -- "to catch fish" as one New Englander put it
-- but the great majority left Europe to worship God in the way they
believed to be correct. They enthusiastically supported the efforts of their
leaders to create "a city on a hill" or a "holy experiment," whose success
would prove that God's plan for his churches could be successfully realized
in the American wilderness. Even colonies like Virginia, which were
planned as commercial ventures, were led by entrepreneurs who considered
themselves "militant Protestants" and who worked diligently to promote the
prosperity of the church.
1611 King James Bible Virginia Church Laws, 1618
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The King James Bible
The first edition of the King James Bible, also called the "Authorized
Version," was composed by a committee of English scholars between 1607
and 1611. The first copy of the King James Bible known to have been
brought into the colonies was carried by John Winthrop to Massachusetts
in 1630. Gradually the King James Bible supplanted the Geneva Bible and
achieved such a monopoly of the affections of the English-speaking peoples
that a scholar in 1936 complained that many "seemed to think that the King
James Version is the original Bible which God handed down out of heaven,
all done up in English by the Lord himself."
The Holy Bible, conteyning the Old Teftament and the New London: Robert Baker, 1611
Rare Book and Special Collections Division, Library of Congress
Official Instructions on Religion
Virginia Church Laws, 1618 - This manuscript is an eighteenth-century
copy of the original Virginia Company records, owned by Thomas
Jefferson and sold to the Library of Congress as part of Jefferson's library in
1815. The document illustrates the Virginia Company's concern for the
health of the church. It orders the settlers to offer generous financial
assistance "to the intent that godly learned & painful Ministers may be
placed there for the service of Almighty God & for the spiritual benefit and
comfort of the people."
Virginia Church Laws, 1618 Manuscript volume, Eighteenth-century copy Virginia
Miscellaneous Records, 1606-1692 (the Bland Manuscript), Rare Book and Special Collections,
Library of Congress
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Intolerance in Virginia
In his Notes on the State of Virginia, Thomas Jefferson reflected on the
religious intolerance in seventeenth-century Virginia, specifically on the
anti-Quaker laws passed by the Virginia Assembly from 1659 onward.
Jefferson apparently believed that it was no more than an historical accident
that Quakers had not been physically punished or even executed in Virginia
as they had been in Massachusetts.
Notes on the State of Virginia [left page] [right page] Thomas Jefferson, New York: M. L. and
W. A. Davis, 1801 Rare Book and Special Collections, Library of Congress
Source: Library of Congress, http://www.loc.gov/exhibits/religion/rel01.html
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Early Religion in England
The Church of England
Contributed by the Church of England
An Ancient Church
The roots of the Church of England go back to the time of the Roman
Empire when a Christian church came into existence in what was then the
Roman province of Britain. The early Christian writers Tertullian and
Origen mention the existence of a British church in the third century AD
and in the fourth century British bishops attended a number of the great
councils of the Church such as the Council of Arles in 314 and the Council
of Rimini in 359. The first member of the British church whom we know by
name is St Alban, who, tradition tells us, was martyred for his faith on the
spot where St Albans Abbey now stands.
The British church was a missionary church with figures such as St Illtud,
St Ninian and St Patrick evangelising in Wales, Scotland and Ireland, but
the invasions by the pagan Angles, Saxons and Jutes in the fifth century
seem to have destroyed the organisation of the church in much of what is
now England. In 597 a mission sent by Pope Gregory the Great and led by
St Augustine of Canterbury landed in Kent to begin the work of
converting these pagan peoples. What eventually became known as the
Church of England (the Ecclesia Anglicana- or the English Church) was the
result of a combination of three streams of Christianity, the Roman tradition
of St Augustine and his successors, the remnants of the old Romano-British
church and the Celtic tradition coming down from Scotland and associated
with people like St Aidan and St Cuthbert.
An English Church
These three streams came together as a result of increasing mutual contact
and a number of local synods, of which the Synod of Whitby in 664 has
traditionally been seen as the most important. The result was an English
Church, led by the two Archbishops of Canterbury, and York that was
fully assimilated into the mainstream of the Christian Church of the west.
This meant that it was influenced by the wider development of the Western
Christian tradition in matters such as theology, liturgy, church architecture,
and the development of monasticism. It also meant that until the
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Reformation in the 16th century the Church of England acknowledged the
authority of the Pope.
A Reformed Church
At the Reformation the Western Church became divided between those who
continued to accept Papal authority and the various Protestant churches that
repudiated it. The Church of England was among the churches that broke
with Rome. The catalyst for this decision was the refusal of the Pope to
annul the marriage of Henry VIII and Catherine of Aragon, but underlying
this was a Tudor nationalist belief that authority over the English Church
properly belonged to the English monarchy. In the reign of Henry's son
Edward VI the Church of England underwent further reformation, driven by
the conviction that the theology being developed by the theologians of the
Protestant Reformation was more faithful to the teaching of the Bible and
the Early Church than the teaching of those who continued to support the
Pope.
In the reign of Mary Tudor, The Church of England once again submitted
to Papal authority. However, this policy was reversed when Elizabeth I
came to the throne in 1558.
The religious settlement that eventually emerged in the reign of Elizabeth
gave the Church of England the distinctive identity that it has retained to this
day. It resulted in a Church that consciously retained a large amount of
continuity with the Church of the Patristic and Medieval periods in terms of
its use of the catholic creeds, its pattern of ministry, its buildings and aspects
of its liturgy, but which also embodied Protestant insights in its theology and
in the overall shape of its liturgical practice. The way that this is often
expressed is by saying that the Church of England is both 'catholic and
reformed.'
At the end of the 16th century Richard Hooker produced the classic
defence of the Elizabethan settlement in his Of the Laws of Ecclesiastical
Polity, a work which sought to defend the Church of England against its
Puritan critics who wanted further changes to make the Church of England
more like the churches of Geneva or Scotland.
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An Established Church
In the 17th century continuing tensions within the Church of England over
theological and liturgical issues were among the factors that led to the
English Civil War. The Church was associated with the losing Royalist side
and during the period of the Commonwealth from 1649-1660 its bishops
were abolished and its prayer book, the *Book of Common Prayer, was
banned. With the restoration of the monarchy in 1660 this situation was
reversed and in 1662 those clergy who could not accept this decision were
forced to leave their posts. These dissenting clergy and their congregations
were then persecuted until 1689 when the Toleration Act gave legal
existence to those Protestant groups outside the Church of England who
accepted the doctrine of the Trinity.
The settlement of 1689 has remained the basis of the constitutional position
of the Church of England ever since, a constitutional position in which the
Church of England has remained the established Church with a range of
particular legal privileges and responsibilities, but with ever increasing
religious and civil rights being granted to other Christians, those of other
faiths and those professing no faith at all.
As well as being the established Church in England, the Church of England
has also become the mother church of the Anglican Communion, a group of
separate churches that are in communion with the Archbishop of
Canterbury and for whom he is the focus of unity.
A Comprehensive Church
The history of the Church of England from the 18th century onwards has
been enriched by the co-existence within it of three broad traditions, the
Evangelical, the Catholic and the Liberal.
• The Evangelical tradition has emphasized the significance of the
Protestant aspects of the Church of England's identity, stressing the
importance of the authority of Scripture, preaching, justification by
faith and personal conversion.
• The Catholic tradition, strengthened and reshaped from the 1830s
by the Oxford movement, has emphasized the significance of the
continuity between the Church of England and the Church of the
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Early and Medieval periods. It has stressed the importance of the
visible Church and its sacraments and the belief that the ministry of
bishops, priests and deacons is a sign and instrument of the Church of
England's Catholic and apostolic identity.
• The Liberal tradition has emphasized the importance of the use of
reason in theological exploration. It has stressed the need to develop
Christian belief and practice in order to respond creatively to wider
advances in human knowledge and understanding and the importance
of social and political action in forwarding God's kingdom.
It should be noted that these three traditions have not existed in strict
isolation. Both in the case of individuals and in the case of the Church as
a whole, influences from all three traditions have overlapped in a whole
variety of different ways. It also needs to be noted that since the 1960's a
fourth influence, the Charismatic movement, has become increasingly
important. This has emphasized the importance of the Church being open
to renewal through the work of the Holy Spirit. Its roots lie in
Evangelicalism but it has influenced people from a variety of different
traditions.
A Church Committed To Mission And Unity
From the 18th century onwards the Church of England has also been
faced with a number of challenges that it continues to face today.
• There has been the challenge of responding to social changes in
England such as population growth, urbanization and the development
of an increasingly multi-cultural and multi-faith society.
• There has been the challenge of engaging in mission in a society
that has become increasingly materialist in outlook and in which
belief in God or interest in 'spiritual' matters is not seen as being
linked to involvement with the life of the Church.
• There has been the challenge of providing sufficient and
sufficiently trained clergy and lay ministers to enable the Church of
England to carry out its responsibility to provide ministry and pastoral
care for every parish in the country.
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• There has been the challenge of trying to overcome the divisions of
the past by developing closer relationships between the Church of
England and other churches and trying to move with them towards the
goal of full visible unity.
As this brief account has shown, the changes that have taken place in the
Church of England over the centuries have been many and various. What
has remained constant, however, has been the Church's commitment to
the faith 'uniquely revealed in the Holy Scriptures and set forth in the
catholic creeds,' its maintenance of the traditional three fold order of
ministry, and its determination to bring the grace of God to the whole
nation through word and sacrament in the power of the Holy Spirit.
For further reading
I Bunting (ed) Celebrating the Anglican Way
S C Neill Anglicanism
S Platten (ed) Anglicanism and the Western Christian Tradition
Source:
The Church of England, detailed history, http://www.churchofengland.org/about-
us/history/detailed-history.aspx
*Book of Common Prayer 1662, Library of Congress, http://www.loc.gov/exhibits/religion/rel01-
2.html & http://www.loc.gov/exhibits/religion/vc006478.jpg
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*Book of Common Prayer 1662
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Early Religion in Virginia
Church of England in Virginia
Contributed by Edward L. Bond, a professor of history at Alabama A&M University.
The Church of England was the established church of the Virginia colony. It
came to Virginia as early as 1607, when the first English
colonists settled Jamestown, but was not formally established by the House
of Burgesses until 1619. Religious life in Virginia reflected the economic,
geographic, and political circumstances of the colony. People from all
segments of society attended Anglican services (although slaves often
worshipped in segregated galleries or attended a separate service). Because
Virginians tended to settle in plantations scattered throughout the
countryside rather than in towns, parishes were typically larger than those in
England. This made it difficult for those who lived in outlying areas to make
the weekly trip to their parish's main church. Instead, most parishes
maintained multiple "chapels of ease" to accommodate far-flung
parishioners. The Church of England in Virginia was subject to laws passed
by the General Assembly and, unlike in England, was supervised at the
parish level by vestries (boards of local parishioners). In Virginia a vestry
had the authority to choose—or refuse to induct—a minister for its parish.
This led to a tense relationship between the congregation and the clergy. The
status of the Church of England in Virginia improved late in the seventeenth
century, after the bishop of London appointed Minister James Blair to
represent his interests in the colony, and on the eve of the American
Revolution (1775–1783), the church was as powerful as it had ever been.
Background
When English men and women of the late sixteenth and early seventeenth
centuries began to establish colonies in North America, they, like other
Europeans, took their national churches with them to the New World. For
English settlers this meant the Church of England, a peculiar form of
Protestantism that had emerged out of the English Reformation. This hybrid
church blended elements of both Protestantism and Roman Catholicism,
retaining an episcopal form of church government (a church governed by
bishops) and combining reformed Protestant theology with the
Christological cycle of the Roman Catholic liturgical calendar—purged of
some of its Marian festivals and celebrations of saints days. (While
historians used to claim that the church's theology borrowed heavily from
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Calvinism, modern scholars have begun to debate whether the church's
theology tended more toward Calvinism or Lutheranism.)
Unlike many other Protestant groups, the Church of England developed no
particular creed to define its beliefs and was united more by shared forms of
worship set down in the *Book of Common Prayer than by a common
theology. By the time of Virginia's founding in 1607, a number of religious
parties coexisted in the Church of England: Anglicans were generally
content with the extent of reform in their national church,
while Puritans believed that the reformation of the church should continue
and remove all vestiges of Roman Catholicism from the Church of England,
including the prayer book's set liturgies, the use of the sign of the cross at
baptism, the use of vestments, and kneeling to receive communion.
Arrival in Virginia
The Church of England came to Virginia with the first colonists who settled
Jamestown. They soon set aside a makeshift worship space described
by John Smith: "Wee did hang an awning (which is an old saile) to three or
foure trees to shadow us from the Sunne, our walls were rales made of
wood, our seats unhewed trees, till we cut plankes, our Pulpit a bar of wood
nailed to two neighbouring trees, in foule weather we shifted into an old
rotten tent, for we had few better … this was our Church." Most of the
colony's early settlers likely sympathized with the Anglican wing of the
church—Smith did, as did John Rolfe and Thomas West, baron De La
Warr. A Spanish spy in 1609 claimed that a majority of the settlers refused
to attend services led by a minister whom they suspected was "somewhat a
puritan." That is not to say that the colony enjoyed a religious homogeneity.
It did not. Brownists, Separatist Puritans, and at least a few Roman Catholics
lived in Virginia during the 1610s. In fact, the Pilgrims (a group of
Separatist Puritans) who eventually settled in Plymouth had intended to
settle in the James River Valley of Virginia.
Although the Church of England was not formally established by the House
of Burgesses until 1619, earlier charters assumed that it would be Virginia's
church and directed settlers to follow its practices "in all fundamentall
pointes." Leaders of the Virginia Company of London, in fact, took seriously
their obligation to provide for the religious instruction and solace of the
colony's settlers, and from the time of the colony's founding in 1607 until the
company's dissolution in 1624, company leaders tried to maintain a religious
presence in Virginia. Ministers who wished to serve in Virginia under the
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company had to pass a rigorous selection process that included preaching a
trial sermon before the company; only the most qualified ministers were
accepted. In 1619, under the company's auspices, the burgesses passed
statutes that urged clergy to catechize individuals who were not yet ready to
receive the Eucharist, prescribed penalties for violating the moral laws of
scripture, and required ministers to keep accurate records of all baptisms,
deaths, and marriages, thus giving the church responsibility for maintaining
these vital records.
The Development of the Church in Virginia
With the dissolution of the Virginia Company in 1624, the Church of
England in Virginia began to suffer. For much of the seventeenth century,
neither the English Church nor the English Crown took much interest in the
colony's religious life. The supply of ministers declined and the colony
entered what one historian has called a "religious starving time." The
Church of England that developed in Virginia during the seventeenth
century evolved out of the adaptation of the colony's mother church to the
peculiar circumstances of the colony. This leads to a larger point:
governmental disinterest in the religious life of England's overseas colonies,
combined with the fact that several colonies were established by religious
minorities, meant that the status of the Church of England varied from
colony to colony. It was not so much a single institution in North America as
a series of institutions born out of the church's traditional practices and the
particular economic, political, geographic, and religious circumstances of
each of England's seaboard colonies.
In Virginia, that meant accommodating the church to the colony's tobacco
culture. Planting tobacco required the colonists to abandon England's
traditional settlement pattern, and instead of settling in towns, Virginians
established themselves on plantations scattered throughout the countryside,
often along the banks of one of the many rivers that still divide the
Tidewater and Piedmont regions into a series of peninsulas. This, in turn, led
to the formation of parishes much larger than those typical in England,
which, in turn, meant that it was often difficult for settlers to meet weekly
for public church services because so many people lived far away from the
church building. Clergy, all of whom were immigrants during the
seventeenth century and unfamiliar with the colony's peculiar circumstances,
found the settlement pattern vexing as well. Virginians lived like
"Hermites … dispersedly and scatteringly seated upon the sides of Rivers,"
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one minister complained, "as might make their due and constant attendance
upon the publick worship and Service of God impossible to them."
To address the problem of large parishes and to take the church to the
people, most parishes constructed a number of chapels of ease at convenient
spots in outlying areas in order to facilitate church attendance for
parishioners who lived at great distances from the main, or "mother,"
church. Colonial ministers served the mother church and any chapels of ease
on a rotating basis, officiating and preaching first at one church and then the
others in their turn, often on successive Sundays, although sometimes
ministers held mid-week or Saturday services at their chapels. Ministers, in
fact, often preached the same sermon several weeks in a row to the different
congregations in their parishes. As a result, many colonists only saw the
rector of the parish once every three or four weeks. In order to provide
church services in the minister's absence, vestries often hired clerks to read
prayers from the Book of Common Prayer and a sermon either from The
Book of Homilies or from the published works of popular English preachers
(particularly, in the eighteenth century, from the discourses of Archbishop of
Canterbury John Tillotson).
The men and women who worshipped in the Church of England in Virginia
came from all segments of society, because, technically, the established
church was the church of all colonists, rich or poor, white or black, slave
or free — although slaves often worshipped in segregated galleries or
attended a separate service. Church edifices varied considerably in
appearance, from the stately buildings in Jamestown, Williamsburg (Bruton
Parish), and Lancaster County (Christ Church) to backcountry churches that
resembled tobacco warehouses. The buildings were usually rectangular or
cruciform (cross-shaped) and, by the eighteenth century, were often
constructed in the Georgian style. Churches rarely had steeples. On the
interior, Anglican churches in Virginia by the mid-1700s would typically
have been dominated by a two- or three-decker pulpit, usually off to the side
that would have been the center of attention in the church (the pulpit
emphasizing the Protestant emphasis on preaching). The parish clerk used
the lowest level as a reading desk and led the congregational responses from
there. The minister led the service and read the day's scriptural lessons from
the second level. He would have preached from the highest level of the
pulpit. While sermons were of great interest to colonial Virginians (they
sometimes did not attend church on days when the minister was not present
and they would not hear an original discourse), some parishioners' attention
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wavered. The Reverend Charles Clay complained of parishioners who “are
hanging first on one hipp then on the other; leaning with their Elbows on the
pews or on the windows … or are Running in & out to the great anoiance &
disturbance of those whose minds are piously inclined. … And while the
Psalms for ye Day are Reading, instead of having a book & answering in
turn; are playing with their Snuff box; dancing their foot with one leg across
the other for amusement; or twirling their Hat about; making their
observations on ye Congregation, whispering to the person that Sits next to
them; or Smiling & grinning at others yt sits at a distance from them.”
On the other hand, William Byrd II noted that not all colonial ministers
were the best preachers, commenting that he had attended at least one
service at which the minister had preached the "Congregation into a
Lethargy."
In the small sanctuary, tablets containing the Lord's Prayer, the Ten
Commandments, the Apostles' Creed, and sometimes the Royal Arms would
have hung to the side of and behind the holy table. (The holy table would not
have been decorated with flowers or candles; until at least the late
nineteenth century, bishops of Virginia denounced the use of floral
decorations on the holy table during worship services as a novelty
introduced by Roman Catholicism. They did, however, allow the floral
decoration of churches at Christmas, because that practice was grounded in
Virginia tradition.)
Church Governance
The shortage of clergy in Virginia led to what historians have called the
church's "laicization," or submission to lay control. Laicization functioned
on at least two levels: Virginia's General Assembly passed laws governing
the church, and local vestries oversaw the day-to-day operation of the
individual parishes. County courts often heard cases involving moral laws
that would have fallen under the jurisdiction of ecclesiastical courts in
England. The assembly routinely set clergy salaries, established new
parishes as the colony's population grew and moved west, defined parish
boundaries, set requirements for church attendance, defined how often
ministers should preach and celebrate the Eucharist, instructed clergy to
catechize children in their parishes, and delegated local authority over
church matters to vestries and county courts. Sometimes these powers were
extraordinary. In 1624, for instance, the assembly modified the traditional
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liturgical calendar of the Church of England, declaring that when two holy
days followed each other on subsequent days "betwixt the feast of the
annunciation of the blessed virgin [25 March] and St. Michael the
archangel [29 September], then only the first to be observed." This was an
obvious accommodation to the colony's tobacco culture.
Vestries gained powers much greater than their counterparts in England,
most importantly the authority to "elect and make choyce of their ministers,"
a right legislated by the General Assembly as early as 1643. In England, that
power lay with the parish patron. There, the bishop then inducted the
minister into his appointed parish, or cure, which he generally held for life
unless he committed serious moral offenses. Virginia's church government
did not function that way. Vestries frequently refused to induct their
ministers (the colonial governor would have performed the induction) and
hired their clergy on annual contracts. This practice may have originated in
the seventeenth century to help vestries protect themselves from continuing
the services of a poor minister. Certainly there were some clergy who were
not the best of men, but the number of those ministers has been routinely
overestimated.
Nonetheless, clergy from England resented the power of Virginia's vestries
and their refusal to induct ministers into their cures. The Reverend Morgan
Godwyn denounced colonial vestries as "Plebian Juntos" and "hungry
Patrons" who often preferred to hire lay readers rather than ministers
because the costs were lower. Another minister complained that clergy in
Virginia "have 12 Lay patrons [vestrymen] whom we must humour or run
the risque of Deprivation." Because elections for vestrymen only occurred
with the establishment of a new parish or the modification of an old one—
and deceased members were replaced through recommendations of the
sitting members—the powers of any particular vestry could rarely be
challenged. The conflict between vestries and clergy was not simply
between different conceptions of church government; it actually represented
the construction in Virginia of a new form of church government in which
local vestries shared authority with bishops in England. By the end of the
seventeenth century, one could argue that the church in Virginia was English
in theology and colonial in form.
In 1675, when Henry Compton became bishop of London, the see (or
office) traditionally charged with overseeing the church in the colonies, the
fortunes of Virginia's Church of England began to improve. He recruited
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more and better men to serve the colonial church and required all who
wished to serve a colonial cure to present a certificate from an English
bishop testifying to the individual's orthodoxy and good moral character. He
also introduced the commissary system to Virginia and several other
colonies. Commissaries acted as representatives of the bishop of London,
held some authority over the clergy, and, at least in Virginia, often served on
the governor's Council. They could not, however, ordain men to the
priesthood or the rank of deacon and did not have the authority to confirm
individuals. Colonial men who wished to become ministers in the Church of
England still had to make a dangerous journey to England to be ordained and
then travel back to North America. During the eighteenth century, about one
in six North American postulants died before completing a return journey to
the colonies.
James Blair, the colony's most important commissary, served in the position
from his appointment in 1689 until his death in 1743. He was instrumental in
founding the College of William and Mary, which began educating
growing numbers of ministers for Virginia's church, and he managed to
convince the General Assembly to raise clergy salaries to 16,000 pounds of
tobacco a year and to pass an act requiring all parishes to purchase glebe
lands and a "convenient dwelling house for the reception and aboad of the
minister of such parish." He was less successful at convincing the assembly
to require the induction of clergy. Blair, in fact, was never inducted into his
position at Bruton Parish and eventually came to side with the vestries on the
induction issue.
As a result of Blair and Compton's work, nearly 80 percent of Virginia
parishes were being served by clergy by 1703. This progress continued
throughout the remainder of the colonial period, although a series of clergy
deaths coupled with the expansion of the colony in the 1720s briefly slowed
the progress. Only when the American Revolution broke out—when
parishioners refused to support Loyalist clergy and the bishop of London,
Richard Terrick, refused to ordain rebels—did the established Church of
England in Virginia face a crisis that weakened it substantially. In fact,
despite the inroads made by dissenters such as the Baptists and the
Presbyterians, on the eve of revolution, Virginia's established church was
likely stronger than it ever had been.
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Further Reading
Bond, Edward L. - Damned Souls in a Tobacco Colony: Religion in Seventeenth-Century
Virginia. Macon, Georgia: Mercer University Press, 2001.
Nelson, John K. - A Blessed Company: Parishes, Parsons, and Parishioners in Anglican Virginia,
1690–1776. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2001.
Rasor, Paul and Richard E. Bond, eds. From Jamestown to Jefferson: The Evolution of Religious
Freedom in Virginia. Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 2011.
Contributed by Edward L. Bond, a professor of history at Alabama A&M University.
APA Citation:
Bond, E. L. (2012, May 4). Church of England in Virginia. Retrieved August 2012, from
Encyclopedia Virginia: http://www.EncyclopediaVirginia.org/Church_of_England_in_Virginia.
MLA Citation:
Bond, Edward L. "Church of England in Virginia." Encyclopedia Virginia. Ed. Caitlin
Newman. Aug. 2012. Virginia Foundation for the Humanities. 4 May. 2012
< http://www.EncyclopediaVirginia.org/Church_of_England_in_Virginia >.
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Unproven Lines - 12th & 13th Generations
12th – 9th Great Grandfather - *Richard Mabe (AKA ‘Maib’) (unproven
son of {13th - 10th Great Grandfather?} *Richard Mabe [Sr] & Johan
Yong, marriage June 8, 1585) was born Abt. 15?? in Bridstow,
Herefordshire, England, and died November 6, 1624 in Bridstow,
Herefordshire, England. He married Mabel Morisee (Morris) on November
22, 1602.
More about *Richard Mabe and Mabel Morisee (Morris):
Marriage: November 22, 1602 in Bridstow, Herefordshire, England to
Mabel Morisee, daughter of Unknown and Unknown.
Mabel Morisee was born Abt. 15?? in Bridstow, Herefordshire, England,
and died December 7, 1613 in Bridstow, Herefordshire, England.
Children of Richard Mabe and Mabel Morisee (Morris) are:
1. Nicholas Mabe, b. November 7, 1613, Bridstow, Herefordshire,
England, d. May 25, 1668 in Bridstow, Herefordshire, England.
*Information is currently being researched for (10th) Robert Mabe - (11th) father and mother
(Nicholas Mabe - unproven), his siblings, (12th) grand parents (??? Richard Mabe & Mabell
Morisee - unproven), (13th) great grand parents (??? Richard Mabe [Sr] & Johan Yong –
unproven). This page will be updated when new information is available.
Source:
"England, Marriages, 1538–1973," index, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.1.1/NL3X-86F
: accessed Aug 2012), Richard Mabe and Mabell Morisee, 22 Nov 1602; citing reference, FHL
microfilm 992638.
"England, Births and Christenings, 1538-1975,"
index, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.1.1/JW2G-XX1 : accessed 01 Nov 2012),
Nicholas Mabe, 07 Nov 1613; citing reference, FHL microfilm 992638.
"England, Dorset, Parish Registers, 1538-1910,"
index, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.1.1/KZMW-NJ2 : accessed 05 Nov 2012),
Richard Mabe, 1668. ( Burial – 18 Jun 1668 – Bridport, Bridport, Dorset, England)
"England, Marriages, 1538–1973," index, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.1.1/N6BJ-FPD
: accessed 05 Nov 2012), Richard Mabe...Th and Johan Yong, 08 Jun 1585; citing reference item 5 p49,
FHL microfilm 1278912. (Possible father & mother of Richard Mabe married Nov. 22, 1602)
"England, Births and Christenings, 1538-1975,"
index, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.1.1/N1SZ-8PK : accessed 05 Nov 2012), Johan
Yong, 1563; citing reference - 2:2R0NCBC, FHL microfilm 1542053.
"Pedigree Resource File," database, FamilySearch (http://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.2.1/SYFM-
F6Y : accessed 5 November 2012), entry for Richard /Mabe/.
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Unproven Lines – 11th Generation
11th – 8th Great Grandfather - *Nicholas Mabe (AKA ‘Maib’) (son
of Richard Mabe & Mabell Morisee (Morris), marriage November 22, 1602
in Bridstow, Herefordshire, England.) was born November 7, 1613 in
Bridstow, Herefordshire, England, and died May 25, 1668 in Bridstow,
Herefordshire, England. He married Unknown on date unknown.
More about *Nicholas Mabe and Unknown:
Marriage: unknown in Bridstow, Herefordshire, England to Unknown,
daughter of Unknown and Unknown.
Unknown was born Abt. 16?? in Bridstow, Herefordshire, England, and
died Abt. date unknown in Bridstow, Herefordshire, England.
(*Unproven) Children of *Nicholas Mabe and Unknown are:
2. Robert Mabe, b. Abt. 1667, Bridstow, Herefordshire, England, d.
July 30, 1718 in Bridstow, Herefordshire, England.
*Information is currently being researched for (10th) Robert Mabe - (11th) father and mother
(Nicholas Mabe - unproven), his siblings, (12th) grand parents (??? Richard Mabe & Mabell
Morisee - unproven), (13th) great grand parents (??? Richard Mabe [Sr] & Johan Yong –
unproven). This page will be updated when new information is available
Source:
"England, Marriages, 1538–1973 ," index, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.1.1/NL3X-
86F : accessed Aug 2012), Richard Mabe and Mabell Morisee, 22 Nov 1602; citing reference , FHL
microfilm 992638.
https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.1.1/NL3X-86N "England, Marriages, 1538–1973 ," Richard Mabe,
1602
https://www.familysearch.org/search/records#count=25&query=%2Bsurname%3Amabe%7E%20%2Bbatc
h_number%3AC138621&birth_year0=1600
"Pedigree Resource File," database, FamilySearch (http://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.2.1/SGTK-3Z8 :
accessed August 2012), entry for Robert /Mabe/.
"England, Births and Christenings, 1538-1975,"
index, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.1.1/JW2G-XX1 : accessed 01 Nov 2012),
Nicholas Mabe, 07 Nov 1613; citing reference , FHL microfilm 992638.
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*http://www.crossedbrushstudio.com/windowsintoourpast/Vol5/mabe.htm
"Windows Into Our Past - A Genealogy of the Garton, Smith & Associated Families,
Volume 2", compiled by Judy Parsons Smith © 2003
Families and individuals identified in the
Notations of St. Bridget’s Church, Bridstow, Herefordshire, England:
Richard Mabe
Richard Mabe had a son:
§ Nicholas Mabe, bapt. 7 Nov 1613; bur. 25 May 1668
§ Possible son: John Mabe, m. Mary (Unknown ) .
John Mabe
John Mabe , possible son of Richard Mabe , m. Mary (Unknown ) . John & Mary
(Unknown) Mabe had possibly two (2) children:
§ Philip Mabe , son of John & Mary Mabe , bapt 12 Feb 1643; bur. 20 Mar 1731
§ John Mabe , m 1st Elizabeth Powell ; m 2nd Lucy (Unknown )
John Mabe
John Mabe, possible son of John & Mary (Unknown ) Mabe , m. 19 Jun 1723, by banns
to Elizabeth Powell , daughter of William & Elizabeth (Unknown) Powel , bapt. 28 Mar
1703, bur. 3 May 1729. John Mabe m 2nd to Lucy Unknown .
John & Elizabeth (Powell) Mabe had three (3) children:
· Margaret Mabe , bapt. 24 Nov 1723; bur. 14 Jun 1729
· John Mabe , bapt. 1 May 1725; bur. 12 Jan 1730.
· Elizabeth Mabe , bapt 1 Mar 1726; bur 22 Jun 1729.
John & Lucy (Unknown) Mabe had a son:
· Robert Mabe , bapt. 23 Nov 1731.
Robert Mabe
Robert Mabe, parentage unknown at this time 2/03, b. ca. 1667, Bridstow, Herefordshire,
England; bur. 30 Jul 1718, a pauper, Bridstow, Herefordshire, England; m 1st to Mary
(Unknown ) , b. ca. 1667; d. 8 Nov 1691, Bridstow, Herefordshire, England; m. 2nd to
Elizabeth Unknown , b. bef. 1671, Bridstow, Herefordshire, England.
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Robert & Mary (Unknown) Mabe had five (5) children:
1. Robert Mabe , bapt. 2 Jul 1676, Bridstow, Herefordshire, England
2. Phillip Mabe , b. 1678; bapt. 13 Oct 1678, Bridstow, Herefordshire, England
3. Mary Mabe , b. 1689, bapt. 6 Mar 1680, Bridstow, Herefordshire, England
4. Sarah Mabe , b. 1685, bapt. 6 Oct 1685, Bridstow, Herefordshire, England
5. William Mabe , b. 1688, Bridstow, Herefordshire, England; bapt. 16 Sept 1688,
Bridstow, Herefordshire, England; d. 1762, Hanover Co., VA.
Robert & Elizabeth (Unknown) Mabe had four (4) children:
1. Elizabeth Mabe , bapt 24 Sept 1693, Bridstow, Herefordshire, England.
2. Thomas Mabe , bapt. 27 Mar 1698, Bridstow, Herefordshire, England.
3. John Mabe , bapt. 23 Jun 1700, Bridstow, Herefordshire, England.
4. Ann Mabe , bapt. 21 May 1704, Bridstow, Herefordshire, England; m. 15 Jan
1727, Bridstow, Herefordshire, England to Howell Powell
*"Ancestral File v4.19," database,
FamilySearch (http://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.2.1/MWGP-7GM : accessed 5 November
2012), entry for Robert MABE. ( Lists four (4) children to each marriage )
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Ten Generations of Mabe Genealogy
10th Generation – 7th Great Grandfather - Robert Mabe (AKA ‘Maib’)
(unproven son of Nicholas Mabe & Unknown) was born Abt. 1667 in
Bridstow, Herefordshire, England, and died July 30, 1718 in Bridstow,
Herefordshire, England. He married Mary “Polly” Warf on date unknown.
More about Robert Mabe and Mary “Polly” Warf:
Marriage: (by banns?) date unknown in Bridstow, Herefordshire, England to
Mary “Polly” Warf, daughter of James Coleman Warf and Elizabeth
Freeman.
Mary “Polly” Warf – ( daughter of James Coleman Warf and Elizabeth
Freeman, grand-daughter of Berryman C Warf, [[ great-grand-daughter of
Fannie Warf ]] & Nancy Moore; and Clemens Freeman & Sally Ennis, [[
great-grand-daughter of Dillard Ennis ]] ) was born Bef. 1667 in Bridstow,
Herefordshire, England, and died November 8, 1691 in Bridstow,
Herefordshire, England.
Children of Robert Mabe and Mary “Polly” Warf are:
1. Phillip Mabe, b. Abt. 1678, Bridstow, Herefordshire, England,
Christening; October 13, 1678, Bridstow, Herefordshire, England,
d. date unknown.
2. Mary Mabe, b. Abt. 1680, Bridstow, Herefordshire, England,
Christening; March 6, 1680, Bridstow, Herefordshire, England, d.
date unknown.
3. Sarah Mabe, b. Abt. 1685, Bridstow, Herefordshire, England,
Christening; October 11, 1685, Bridstow, Herefordshire, England,
d. date unknown.
4. William M Mabe, b. Abt. 1688, Bridstow, Herefordshire,
England, Christening; September 16, 1688, Bridstow,
Herefordshire, England, d. Abt. 1762, Albemarle /Hanover County,
Virginia.
Source: "England, Births and Christenings, 1538-1975," index, FamilySearch (
https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.1.1/JW2G-6JW : accessed 05 Nov 2012), William Mabe, 16
Sep 1688; citing reference , FHL microfilm 992638.
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It appears that the same Robert Mabe, remarried after the death of Mary
“Polly” Warf on November 8, 1691. There are records from “Review of
Church Parish Records for St. Bridget's Church, Bridstow, Herefordshire,
England” that Robert Mabe and Elizabeth Unknown were married (by
banns?) and had children after 1691.
Children of Robert Mabe and Elizabeth Unknown are:
1. Elizabeth Mabe, b. Abt. 1693, Bridstow, Herefordshire, England,
Christening; September 24, 1693, Bridstow, Herefordshire,
England, d. May 3, 1729, Bridstow, Herefordshire, England.
2. Thomas Mabe, b. Abt. 1698, Bridstow, Herefordshire, England,
Christening; March 27, 1698, Bridstow, Herefordshire, England, d.
June 20, 1699, Bridstow, Herefordshire, England.
3. John Mabe, b. Abt. 1700, Bridstow, Herefordshire, England,
Christening; June 23, 1700, Bridstow, Herefordshire, England, , d.
January 12, 1730, Bridstow, Herefordshire, England.
4. Anne Mabe, b. Abt. 1704, Bridstow, Herefordshire, England,
Christening; May 21, 1704, Bridstow, Herefordshire, England, d.
date unknown.
St. Bridget's Church, Bridstow, Herefordshire, England
GPS: 51.92037,-2.605501 (Source: http://goo.gl/maps/4Bt2J )
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“Review of Church Parish Records for St. Bridget's Church, Bridstow,
Herefordshire, England”
The following is a list of the dates and actions noted in the parish records for St. Bridget's
Church as they pertain to the Mabe and Powell family names. These records were
reviewed in October 1999 by Mrs. Donnie Mabe Rupp, descendant of William Mabe, in
the Public Record Office in Hereford, England.
Date Notation
1643 Feb 12 Philip son of John and Mary Mabe was baptized
1668 May 25 Nicholas Mabe was buried (IGI indicates he was baptized 7 Nov 1613,
father Richard Mabe)
(No record of the marriage of Robert Mabe and his wife Mary was found in St. Bridget's
records)
1676 July 2 Robert, son of Robert Mabe and Mary his wife was baptized
1678 Oct 13 Phillip son of Robert Mabe and Mary was baptized
1680 Mar 6 Mary daughter of Robert Mabe and Mary was baptized
1685 Oct 11 Sarah dau of Robert Mabe and Mary was baptized
1688 Sep 16 William son of Robert Mabe and Mary was baptized (page copied)
1691 Nov 8 Mary wife of Robert Mabe was buried (page copied)
(No record of the marriage of Robert Mabe and his wife Elizabeth was found in St.
Bridget's records)
1693 Sep 24 Elizabeth Dau of Robert Mabe and Elizabeth was baptized
1698 Mar 27 Thomas son of Robert Mabe and Elizabeth was baptized
1699 Jun 20 Thomas son of Robert Mabe by Elizabeth his wife was buried
(There was no record of the birth of a William Mabe in Bridstow in 1699.)
1700 Jun 23 John, son of Robert Mabe by Elizabeth his wife was baptized
1703 Mar 28 Elizabeth daughter of William Powell by Elizabeth his wife was baptized
(page copied)
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1704 May 21 Anne daughter of Robert Mabe by Elizabeth his wife was baptized
1718 Jul 30 Robert Mabe, a pauper, was buried (page copied)
1723 Jun 19 William Mabe & Elizabeth Powel both of this parish were married by
banns (page copied)
1723 Nov 24 Margaret dau of John Mabe & Elizabeth his wife was baptized
1725 May 1 John son of John Mabe by Elizabeth his wife was baptized
1726 Jan 15 Howel Powel of the parish of Tollake (?) & Ann Mabe of this parish were
married by banns (page copied)
1726 Mar 8 Elizabeth daughter of John Mabe by Elizabeth his wife was baptized (same
page as above)
1729 May 3 Elizabeth Mabe was buried (page copied)
1729 Jun 14 Margaret Mabe was buried (same page as above)
1729 Jun 22 Elizabeth Mabe was buried (same page as above)
1730 Jan 12 John son of John Mabe was buried
1731 Mar 20 Phillip Mabe was buried
1731 Nov 23 Robert son of John Mabe & Lucy his wife was baptized
A Child of Robert Mabe and Mary Polly:
William M Mabe, born Sep 1688 in Bridstow, Herefordshire, England; died 1762 in
Albemarle, Co., Va; married Elizabeth Powell 19 Jun 1723 in Bridstow, Herefordshire,
England.
Source: “England, Births and Christenings, 1538-1975," index, FamilySearch
(https://familysearch.org/search/records/index)
http://familytreemaker.genealogy.com/users/j/o/n/Lewis-C-Jones/WEBSITE-0001/UHP-
0153.html
http://familytreemaker.genealogy.com/users/f/r/y/Dennis-M-Frye/GENE4-0015.html
http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~hartbeat/html/dat6.html#7
http://wc.rootsweb.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=GET&db=:3166869&id=I373
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Banns_of_marriage
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9th Generation – 6th Great Grandfather - William M. Mabe (AKA
‘Maib’) (son of Robert Mabe & Mary “Polly” Warf) was born Abt. 1688 in
Bridstow, Herefordshire, England, Christening; September 16, 1688,
Bridstow, Herefordshire, England and died Abt. 1762 in Albemarle
(Hanover) County, Virginia. He married Elizabeth Powell on June 17,
1723, both of this parish, were married by banns.
More about William M. Mabe and Elizabeth Powell:
Marriage: June 17, 1723 in Bridstow, Herefordshire, England to Elizabeth
Powell, daughter of: (either; 1. William Powell and Comfort Croker, or;
2. Crouse Powell and Elizabeth Unknown.)
Elizabeth Powell was born Abt. 1703-1705 in Bridstow, Herefordshire,
England, and died Abt. 1772 in Albemarle (Hanover) County, Virginia.
Christening; March 28, 1703, Bridstow, Herefordshire, England.
William M. Mabe’s occupation was a tobacco farmer. He received a land
grant from King George II of Great Britain on February 1, 1738. The grant
was for 204 acres and was located in Hanover County, Virginia. To keep the
land William had to improve five acres per year. The grant cost him 20
shillings. By rough estimate, that would be about *$208.25 in dollars.
Children of William M. Mabe and or Elizabeth Powell are:
1. Charles M. Mabe, b. Abt. 1735, d. 1803, Virginia.
2. William John Mabe, b. Bef. 1738, Fredericksburg, Albemarle,
Virginia, d. September 20, 1808, Danbury, Stokes County, North
Carolina.
3. Robert Mabe, Sr., b. Abt. 1740, Albemarle County, Virginia, d.
Bet. 1820 - 1830, Stokes County, North Carolina.
4. William Mabe Jr., b. Abt. 1743, d. Abt. April 1760, Virginia.****
5. Phillip R. Mabe, b. Bef. 1756, d. date unknown.
Source: "Pedigree Resource File," database, FamilySearch (http://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.2.1/SGTK-
342 : accessed August 2012), entry for William /Mabe/.
Descendants of William Mabe, compiled by James Edward Mabe, 2309 Parkside Drive, Grand Prairie, TX
75052 - Phone: (972) 641 4240 Email: BIO126@home.com Website:
http://familytreemaker.genealogy.com/users/m/a/b/James-E-Mabe/BOOK-0001/0002-0001.html
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Banns_of_marriage
http://gumbley.net/mact1.htm
http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Catholic_Encyclopedia_(1913)/Banns_of_Marriage
*Also see 30 Shillings GBP in 1738 had the purchasing power of about £201.00 GBP today, and
http://www.dollars2pounds.com/ for further reference to calculations.
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GRANT OF 204 ACRES IN HANOVER COUNTY
TO WILLIAM MABE , FEBRUARY 1, 1738
(Patents no. 18, 1738-1739, Reel 16, P. 155, 156)
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(Text of “GRANT OF 204 ACRES IN HANOVER COUNTY
TO WILLIAM MABE , FEBRUARY 1, 1738”)
Wm. Mabe
204 Acres: George Second by the God of Great Britain, France, and Ireland,
King Defender of the Faith or to all to whom these presence shall come,
Know ye that for divers go causes and considerations but more especially
for, and inconsideration of the sum of twenty shillings of good and careful
money for our use paid to our receiver General of our Revenues in this our
Colony and Dominion of Virginia, We have given, granted, and confirmed
and by these Presents for us our Heirs and successors do give grant by (or)
land confirm unto William Mabe one certain tract or parcel of land
containing two hundred and four acres lying and being in the County of
Hanover on both sides of the *Wolf Trap branch and bounded as follows
with, to wit, beginning at Can's corner with white oak running along his line
South five degrees, West one hundred and fifty six poles to three hundred
Oaks in the said line (his line at twenty-four poles crosses the said branch),
Thence south Seventy-one degrees East two hundred sixty poles to a hickory
on the side of the mountain, thence north sixty four degrees east eighty poles
to a red oak and hickory.
(This line at fifty-five poles crosses the aforesaid branch), and thence north
fifty nine degrees west three hundred and sixty eight poles to the beginning.
With all woods, underwood, swamps, marshes, longrounds, meadows,
treedings, and his due share of all veins, mines, and quarries as well
discovered and not discovered within the bounds of foresaid and being part
of the said quantity of two hundred and four acres of land, and the rivers,
watercourses therein contained together with the privileges of hunting,
hawking, fishing, fowling, and all other profits commodities and
heredftament whatsoever to the same, or any part thereof belonging, in all
wise assertaining to have, hold, possess, and enjoy the said Tract or parcel of
land, and all others before granted premises, and every part thereof with this
and every of their assurts unto the said William Mabe his heirs and assigns
forever to be held of us our heirs of successions as of our Mannor of East
Greenwich in the County of Kent in free and common Soccage and not in
capile or by Knights service yielding and paying unto us our Heirs and
Successors for every fifty acres the free rent of one shilling yearly to be paid
upon the **Feast of Saint Micel The Arch Angel and also cultivating and
improving three acres part of every fifty of the tract above mentioned within
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three years after the date of these Presence, Provided always that if three
years next coming after the date these presence cultivate and improve three
acres part of every fifty of the tract above mentioned then the Estate hereby
granted shall cease and be utterely determined and thereafter it shall be
lawful to and for us our heirs and successors to grant and use the same lands
and premises with the assured unto such persons as we our heirs and
successors shall think fit. In Witness whereof we have caused these letters
patents to be made witness our trusty and well beloved William
Gooch Esquire our Lieutenant Governor and Commander in Chief of our
said Colony and Dominion at Willamsburg under the Seal of our Colony the
First Day of February 1738. In the twelfth year of our
Rein. William Gooch***
Source: *Wolf Trap Branch runs into Ballenger's Creek, near Dawson Mill, close to Esmont, VA (22937),
located in Albemarle County, Virginia. The Wildlife Foundation of Virginia, Fulfillment Farms currently
owns this property. http://vawildlife.org/fulfillment-farms.html - GPS: 37.806164,-78.597438
( Source: http://goo.gl/maps/QqAL3 )
http://archiver.rootsweb.ancestry.com/th/read/VAALBEMA/1999-11/0942966511 This location is one of
two, which needs to be verified as of August 2012.
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Source: ** Feast of Saint Micel The Arch Angel - September 29th,
“[In 1624, for instance, the assembly modified the traditional liturgical calendar of the Church of England,
declaring that when two holy days followed each other on subsequent days "betwixt the feast of the
annunciation of the blessed virgin [25 March] and St. Michael the archangel [29 September], then only
the first to be observed." This was an obvious accommodation to the colony's tobacco culture.]”
http://www.encyclopediavirginia.org/Church_of_England_in_Virginia
Source: ***An interesting note:
In the “FIRST CENSUS OF THE UNITED STATES - Albemarle County, VA – 1785” a “William
Gooch” is listed (47 years after the above document was signed; …maybe his son?) as follows;
Name of Head of Family - White Souls - Dwellings - Other buildings
Gooch, William 12 1 3
Source: ***http://files.usgwarchives.net/va/albemarle/census/1785cens.txt
Lieutenant Governor Sir William Gooch, 1st Baronet (1727–1740), (b. October 21, 1681 – d. December 17,
1751) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sir_William_Gooch,_1st_Baronet
http://www.wikitree.com/genealogy/Gooch-Descendants-255
William John Mabe or Maib was not listed in the 1785 census in Albemarle County,
Virginia. It is believed that they moved to Stokes County, North Carolina sometime
around 1771–1781. His last land transaction in Virginia, was on August 13, 1771.
The last child of William John Mabe and Nancy Nannie – Ann Mabe was born in 1770 in
Albemarle County, Virginia. The marriage of John “Long John” N. Mabe and Lucinda
Hylton was on December 25, 1781, at Beaver Island Creek, now Rockingham County,
North Carolina. Their first child Alexander Mabe, was born about 1785 in Stokes County,
North Carolina.
Source:
**** http://familytreemaker.genealogy.com/users/m/a/b/James-E-Mabe/BOOK-0001/0002-0001.html
Notes for William Mabe, Jr. , brother of William John Mabe:
There's an entry in the "Records You Probably Never Saw, 18th Century Virginia, by
Rosalie Edith Davis and John C. Bell" regarding the death of William M. Mabe, Sr.’s
son -- William Maib, Jr dies with Aaron McKinzie administrator of estate. It is listed as
McKinzie’s Bond for Administration of Maib’s (Mait’s) estate in April 1760. pg 62-64
/// £100 pounds for bond.
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The will of William Mabe was probated in 1762. The will was dated
December 13, 1756. The will gave 40 acres to each son.
Will of William Mabe
Albermarle County, Virginia
Will Book No. 2-1752-1785 P 123, 124)
In ye name of God and on December 13th, 1756, I, William Maib , of ye
County of Louise, being very sick and weak in body, but of perfect mind and
memory, Thanks be given to God, therefore calling unto mind ye mortality
of my body and knowing it is appointed for all men to die, do make and
ordain this my last Will and Testament. That is to say, principally and first
of all, I give and commend my soul unto the hands of Almighty God that
first gave it to me, and my body I commend to the earth to be buried in a
decent Christian burial at the discretion of my Executors nothing doubting,
but at the general resurrection I shall receive ye same again by the Mightly
Power and or Touching such Worldly Estate-where with it has pleased God
o bless me in this life, I give, demise, and dispose of the same in the
following manner and for, First I give and bequeath to Elizabeth, My dearly
beloved Wife, a bay horse and bay mare, and all my personal Estate during
life of widowhood and after death to be equally divided amongst my
children. Also I give unto my son John forty acres of Land at the upper and
joining *David Meriwether's Line, also I give my Son William forty acres
of Land joining to his, Also I give my Son Robert forty acres of Land
joining to his. Also, my son Phillip forty acres of Land joining to Him. Also,
my son Charles forty acres where my dwelling plantation is. If any of these
my Sons should die without heirs then my part of the Land to be equally
divided amongst the other surviving ones. I also constitute, make, and
ordain Elizabeth, my Dearly Beloved wife, and *Samuel Mundy Executors
of this my last will and testament.
I witness whereof I have set my hand and Seal the Day and Year written.
Mark
William Mabe
Mark
Source: *David Meriwether (Sheriff of Hanover County, Virginia from 1725-26),
http://www.hanoverhistorical.org/history.php, Samuel Mundy, Will Book: Alblemarle Co., VA, bk 3, page
250, http://familytreemaker.genealogy.com/users/l/a/s/Quinton-Lashbrook/WEBSITE-0001/UHP-
1175.html
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The Mabe genealogy line, from England (1600’s) to the United States (1700’s), Virginia and North Carolina.
8th Generation – 5th Great Grandfather - William John Mabe (AKA
‘Maib’) (son of William M. Mabe and Elizabeth Shelton Powell) was born
Bef. 1738 in Fredericksburg, Albemarle, Virginia, and died September 20,
1808 in Danbury, Stokes County, North Carolina. He married Nancy
Nannie in 1757 in Virginia. Nancy Nannie was born Abt. 1740 in Louisa,
Goochland, Virginia, and died Bet. 1800 - 1808 in Stokes County, North
Carolina.
More about William John Mabe and Nancy Nannie:
Marriage: 1757, Virginia.
Children of William John Mabe and Nancy Nannie are:
1. John “Long John” N. Mabe, (Pvt. N.C. Militia, Revolutionary
War 1780-1781) b. Abt. 1758, Albemarle County, Virginia, d. July
21, 1843, Stokes County, North Carolina.
2. Robert Mabe, b. Abt. 1760, Albemarle County, Virginia, d. Bef.
1800, Stokes County, North Carolina.
3. Phillip Mabe, b. Abt. 1762, Albemarle County, Virginia, d. 1830.
4. Rachel Mabe, b. June 1765, Albemarle County, Virginia, d.
October 12, 1855, Stokes County, North Carolina.
5. Reuben Mabe, b. Abt. 1766, Albemarle County, Virginia, d.
December 17, 1855, Stokes County, North Carolina.
6. Rhoda Mabe b. Abt. 1766, Fredericksville, Albemarle, Virginia,
d. Abt. 1856.
7. Elizabeth Mabe, b. Abt. 1768, d. date unknown.
8. Ann Mabe, b. Abt. 1770, Albemarle County, Virginia, d. date
unknown.
William John Mabe is listed as the seller in three separate land transactions
between 1763 and 1771. These transactions totaled 172 acres of the original
204 acres land grant belonging to his father (William M. Mabe). In the last
transaction the acreage included the plantation home, and this land may have
belonged to Charles M. Mabe, because it also required his signature.
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Land Transactions 1763 – 1771
1763
THIS INDENTURE made this 4th day of June in the year one thousand seven
hundred & sixty three Between JOHN MABE of the County of Albermarle of
the one part & CHARLES FARGERSON 312 of the same county
Witnesseth that the said JOHN MABE for the sum of nine pounds sixteen
shillings & nine pence, half penny current money to him paid doth sell unto
Charles Fargerson his heirs one tract of land containing Eighty two acres
lying on both sides of *Wolf Trap branch in County aforesaid it being part
of a greater tract granted by Patent to WILLIAM MABE & is bound
beginning at pointers in the old line on the side of the side of the Mountain.
Thence North and East one hundred and fifteen poles to Pointers in the old
line. Thence along the old line South & East to pointers and the old line
thence a new line South and West to a Wite in the old line Thence along the
old line South & West on hundred and thirty eight poles to the first station.
Signed, Sealed, and Delivered in presence of
JAMES COLEMAN JR., JOHN MABE (his mark)
JOSEPH GRESHAM, REBUIN LINDSAY
1768
THIS INDENTURE made the Twenty Seventh day of October in the year of
our lord One thousand seven hundred and sixty eight Between JOHN
MABE of the County of Albermarle of the one part and CHARLES
FERGUSON of the same County of the other part, Witnesseth that said
JOHN MABE for the sum of fourteen pounds current money to him in hand
by said CHARLES FERGUSON hath bargained and sold unto CHARLES
FERGUSON and his heirs one tract of land in the aforesaid county on the
West side of the SOUTHWEST MOUNTAINS being part of the patent
granted to WILLIAM MABE and the same on which JOHN MABE now
lives containing by estimation Fifty acres be the same more or less together
with all the appurtenances thereto belonging To have and to hold the said
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tract of land unto CHARLES FERGUSON and his heirs and JOHN
MABE his heirs will forever warrant and defend in Witness whereof said
JOHN MABE haft hereunto subscribed his name and affixed his Seal the
day and year above written.
Signed, Sealed, and Delivered in presence of
GEORGE MARTIN, JOHN MABE (his mark)
SAMUEL SIMPSON, DANL SMITH
1771
THIS INDENTURE made on the thirteen day of August in year of our Lord
One thousand seven hundred and Seventy one Between JOHN MABE of
County of Albermarle of one part and JOHN WHITE of same County of
the other part Witnesseth that JOHN MABE for the sum of Five pounds
current money of him paid in hand by JOHN WHITE hath bargained and
sold JOHN WHITE and his heirs one tract of land lying in the aforesaid
County on the West side of the SOUTHWEST MOUTAINS being part of a
Patent granted to WILLIAM MABE and the same on which ELIZABETH
MABE now lives containing by estimation forty acres more or less together
with the appurtenances therein belonging To have and to hold the same tract
of land with its appurtenances unto JOHN WHITE and his heirs and JOHN
MABE and his heirs to JOHN WHITE and his heirs against all persons
whatsoever will for ever warrant & defend in Witness whereof JOHN
MABE haft hereunto subscribed his name and affixed his Seal the day and
year written.
Signed, Sealed, and Delivered in presence of
EDWARD BABER, JOHN MCCLAREY, JOHN MABE (his mark)
JOHN BABER, NANNY MABE (her mark)
WILLIAM BOSWELL (his mark)
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CHARLES MABE (his mark)
Shortly after 1771, Robert and William John Mabe moved to North
Carolina. Charles may have gone with them. Except for the will, there is no
other mention of William, or Phillip. Robert and William John Mabe bought
land in the current Stokes County.
Source: http://www.crossedbrushstudio.com/windowsintoourpast/Vol5/mabe-john.htm
The majority of the immigrants entered America through Philadelphia,
Pennsylvania and made their way west through the Cumberland Valley and
into Maryland and Virginia. Eventually, they began to move south to the
Carolinas in search of rich farmland. Their common route south became one
of the most impressive highways of colonial times, The Great Wagon Road,
which covered a distance of 435 miles from the Yadkin River through
Virginia to Philadelphia.
Purchase by William Mabe of (307) Acres in the State of North
Carolina, Stokes County, April 2, 17?? (Between 1771 – 1808)
Known all men for their presence a bargain and sell to William Mabe the
following property my one steed colt, and my stock of hogs and cattle my
household furniture consisting of beds bed clothes ------ -----
and all my cooking utensils together with my cupboard and its contents
consisting of plates, knives and forks and also wheat meal and some corn I
have on hand and all my farming utensils also my sheep, together with all
the personal property I know possess account being foreclosed by the
said William Mabe Sen. . The term of one hundred and fifty to me.
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The Mabe genealogy line, from England (1600’s) to the United States (1700’s), Virginia and North Carolina.
7th Generation – 4th Great Grandfather - John “Long John” N. Mabe
(AKA ‘Maib’) (son of William John Mabe and Nancy Nannie) was born
Abt. 1758 in Albemarle County, Virginia, and died July 21, 1843 in Stokes
County, North Carolina. He married Lucinda Bettie Creebeck
Hylton (AKA ‘Helton’) on December 25, 1781 in Beaver Island, North
Carolina, b. December 21, 1761, *Patrick (Halifax) County, Virginia, d.
January 10, 1861, Stokes County, North Carolina. Burial: Mabe Family
Cemetery, Stokes County, North Carolina.
*In 1761 Patrick county did not exist, it was formed in 1791 from Henry, Henry from
Pittsylvania 1777; Pittsylvania from Halifax 1767; Halifax from Lunenburg 1752;
Lunenburg from Brunswick 1746; Brunswick from Prince George 1703.
More about John “Long John” N. Mabe and Lucinda Bettie Creebeck
Hylton: Marriage: December 25, 1781, Beaver Island Creek, now
Rockingham County, North Carolina, by the Reverend John Newman.
Lucinda Bettie Creebeck Hylton was a Cherokee Indian maiden, daughter
of 9-10 children of Lithfuss Orlefus Creebeck Hylton (AKA ‘Thomas
Helton SR.’ Note**), a Cherokee Indian b. Abt. 1730 in Terrible Creek,
Halifax County, Virginia, and Bettie Helton (AKA ‘Hylton’) b: Abt. 1705,
daughter of Beecham Helton and Unknown.
Lucinda (Lucy) Mabe (Maib) applied and received a pension as widow of
John Mabe, Senr., Revolutionary War soldier (Designation File Number
W04726) and also received a bounty Land Warrant of 160 acres of land in
Stokes County, North Carolina on February 21, 1857.
Children of John “Long John” N. Mabe and Lucinda Hylton are:
1. Alexander Mabe, b. Abt. 1785 in Stokes County, North Carolina, d.
1870, Alleghany, North Carolina. m. Frances Lawson (daughter of
Thomas Lawson and Celia Hall).
2. Lewis “Mayab” Mabe, Sr. b. Abt. 1792 in Stokes County, North
Carolina, died October 1874 in Stokes County, North Carolina. m.
Levinia Lawson Abt. 1815. Burial: Mabe Family Cemetery.
3. John “Stumpy” Redmond Mabe, b. Abt. 1793 in Stokes County,
North Carolina, died 1 May 1889 in Stokes County, North Carolina.
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4. Taylor Mabe, b. Abt. 1796, Stokes County, North Carolina, d. June
15, 1866, Hillsville, Carroll County, Virginia. m. Juda (Judia)
George, September 16, 1817, Stokes County, North Carolina.
5. Pamellia “Patsy” Mabe, b. Abt. 1804 in North Carolina, d. 1893.
6. Phillip(s) Mabe, b. Abt. 1809 in Stokes County, North Carolina, d.
September 4, 1862 in Richmond, Virginia.
7. Brison/ Bryson Mabe, b. Abt. 1810 in Stokes County, North
Carolina, d. 22 February 1881 in Dubuque, Iowa. m. Mourning Lisk
Abt. 1830 in Stokes County, North Carolina.
8. Susan Mabe, b. Abt. 1810 in Stokes County, North Carolina, m.
Joseph Hall Abt. 1829 in Stokes County, North Carolina, d. date
unknown in Stokes County, North Carolina.
9. Reuben Mabe, b. Abt. 1812 in Stokes County, North Carolina, d.
before 1850 in Stokes County, North Carolina.
10.Lucinda Mabe, b. Abt. 1814 in Stokes County, North Carolina, d.
around 1880—1900 in Peters Creek, Stokes County, North Carolina.
11.Mary Ann Mabe, b. Abt. 1814 in Stokes County, North Carolina, d.
between 1880—1893.
12.Eleanor Nellie Mabe, b. Abt. 1814 in Stokes County, North Carolina,
d. date unknown.
13.Edmond Mabe, b. Abt. 1815 in Stokes County, North Carolina, d.
date unknown.
14.Agnes “Aggy” Mabe, b. Abt. 1816 in Stokes County, North Carolina,
d. date unknown.
15.Nancy Jane Mabe, b. Abt. 1817, d. Abt. 1900.
Note** Lucinda Orlefus Creebeck Hylton Mabe’s brother, Eliphas Helton was hanged
for the murder of Elisha Rogers. It was custom in those days to get together and husk
corn. On Nov. 6, 1834 or 1835, Elisha was at such a husking party. After a large evening
meal, the men were pitching Quoits (a game similar to horseshoes except rope rings were
used instead of horseshoes) by the light of a pine torch. While the game was going on, a
disagreement arose between Elisha Rogers and a “half breed Indian” named Eliphas
Helton. They finished the game apparently in good humor, but Helton slipped away,
returned with a gun, and shot Elisha in cold blood. He was tried in Morganton, North
Carolina found guilty, and hanged.
Source: http://www.crossedbrushstudio.com/windowsintoourpast/Vol5/mabe-john_william.htm
http://wc.rootsweb.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=GET&db=draper1&id=I72947
http://wc.rootsweb.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=GET&db=kslagle512&id=I32223
http://familytreemaker.genealogy.com/users/j/o/n/Lewis-C-Jones/WEBSITE-0001/UHP-0176.html
http://familytreemaker.genealogy.com/users/j/o/n/Lewis-C-Jones/WEBSITE-0001/UHP-0758.html
http://wc.rootsweb.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=GET&db=draper1&id=I72940
http://wc.rootsweb.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=GET&db=draper1&id=I72941
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The Mabe genealogy line, from England (1600’s) to the United States (1700’s), Virginia and North Carolina.
Lucinda Maib - “Widows Pension Declaration” dated October 16th, 1848
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The Mabe genealogy line, from England (1600’s) to the United States (1700’s), Virginia and North Carolina.
Lucinda Mabe - “Bounty Land Claim” dated April 13th, 1855
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