Re: John Tye of Whitley County, Kentucky/Lambeth Tye
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Re: John Tye of Whitley County, Kentucky/Lambeth Tye
Lois Eggers 1/06/04
Dear Lois:Great work.You are right, Lambeth is the right age to be one of the orphans of Richard Tye.What was I thinking?This is why people need to share!Yikes.
Thank you for your compliment on my research, but I think in you, I have met someone much better!
Anyway, I haven't pursued this much at all, but I'm still interested.I did find a reference that said that Richard Tye's orphans were daughters only, but this reference had no good source at all, so I'm not sure.
On p. 268 of Virginia Colonial Abstracts (p. 355 1662) there is a long description of a dispute about the land of Cheney Boys and how Captain Richard Tye repatented this land and left it "by will to his owne children and dyed."
Where in the world is this will?
I believe that the ref. that said he only had daughters was a fairly recent book on the Cogan family.
To support this theory, but not completely, I have a ref. from the Charles City Court Orders in which Charles Sparrow delivered a patent for 1000 acres to Elizabeth Tye, the eldest daughter of Rich'd.This was in 1659, and she was still in her minority.Sparrowe and Tye had patented 2900 acres together for the transport of a long list of persons to the colony, and were awarded a patent for that.What happened to the other 1900 acres, I don't know.I am not working on this line right now, and actually I'm trying to work backwards from my own Tyes, who may or may not be descended from this Richard.However, if you're a descendant of Lambeth, Lambert -- I'd look at land records and find out who ended up with all this land.
My hazy memory tells me I went to the Virginia land patents database and put in Sparrow and Sparrowe, but never found out if Sparrowe ended up with any of that land or if the Tyes did.
One definite conclusion I've made about Richard Tye is that the orphans mentioned all had to be the children of Joyce, widow Boyce (not Ursula, whoever she was), because they were all minors and I worked out the dates, etc., from their marriage.I don't even think there was an Ursula and I have no idea where that came from.
I recently came across a query about a Susannah Tye or Trye or Tiry, who married ca. 1740 to Thomas Pinell aka Thomas Pinion in North Carolina or Virginia -- daughter of John and Francis Tye.No references or sources, but I intend to write to this researcher.If you have anything on this, I'd love to hear it.
Regarding information on the internet regarding the children of Richard Tye.I have seen them listed as Margaret, Susan, William and Jonathan.These names all match names of persons transported to Virginia in the 1660s, according to the Cavaliers and Pioneers series.I believe someone just made up this list from Cavaliers and Pioneers and implied a relationship, which is completely fabricated.
I hope this helps.When I get the time, I intend to get to those Charles City County records.I also hope at some time to look at the ones that are in the archives and haven't been disseminated to the public.Follow the money!