The Line of Adam Ivey of Charles City County

 

Robert W. Baird

(Revised Sept. 2006)

 

 

 

Adam Ivey

(c1640s – by1710?)

 

Adam Ivey appears to have immigrated into Charles City County, Virginia in the early or mid 1670s.  Whether he is related in any way to the earlier Ivey immigrants to Lower Norfolk County is uncertain, but there is certainly no evidence of any connection.  It appears that Adam Ivey immigrated independently of other Iveys.  I could find no mention of any Adam Ivey in English records, nor are there any Adam Iveys mentioned in the Virginia patent books as a headright.

Excursus:  At least two publications have suggested that Adam Ivey was related in some way to a John Ivey who supposedly appears in the records of neighboring Surry County in the mid-1650s and who died there by 1663.  A close inspection of Surry records discloses that this “John Ivey” was a misidentification in a secondary source, and that this person’s name was actually “John Troy”, who appears several times in Surry records.[1] 

 

Practically all colonial records of Charles City County were destroyed, with only a few court orders and a handful other records surviving.  There exists an order book covering the period 1655-1658, and a deed book covering 1655-1665, neither of which mentions anyone named Ivey.  The next available records are a fragmentary order book for 1672-3, in which no Ivey appears, followed by an order book for 1677-79 in which we find the first mention of Adam Ivey.  

 

By the time Adam Ivey first appears in the records, he was married and most of his children had been born.  If he immigrated as an indentured servant it must have been many years prior, as he would have had to serve out his term before marrying, and women were scarce enough that men typically married relatively late in life, if at all.  The first record of him is as a plaintiff against Richard Warthen for the theft of a hog on 21 November 1677.[2]  A suit against him by William Wilkins was dismissed on 16 April 1678.[3]  He was apparently farming on leased land at the time.  On October 15, 1679, when Adam Ivey was sued for trespass by Robert Netherland, the court found "that 50 acres rented by Ivey from John Ludwell belonged to the plaintiff Robert Netherland, having been bought by Netherland's father from Thomas Maddox.” Adam Ivey was ordered removed from the land.  He evidently relocated nearby, for within a few weeks he is mentioned as a tenant on the land of Robert Maddox.[4]

 

These citations tell us that Adam Ivey was a small-scale tenant farmer, almost certainly growing tobacco.  Fifty acres was a small landholding, but a single field worker was capable of managing only three or four acres of tobacco in those days.  Fifty acres was a typical holding for a planter with only himself to work the fields.[5]  His location can be approximated, since nearly all the persons mentioned in these records lived south of the James River in the neck of land bounded by Upper Chippoakes Creek and Wards Creek.  This neck included what was later the parish of Martins Brandon, in which Adam Ivey apparently lived at his death, in what would later become Prince George County.  It was quite close to Surry County, Upper Chippoakes Creek being the later boundary between Prince George and Surry.

 

There is a loose file in the Virginia Archives containing six unnumbered pages from the court order book for 1681.[6]  On one of these pages, Adam Ivey appears as a defendant in a suit by Henry Harman, who sued for 840 pounds of tobacco.  This very brief entry concludes “…to which the wife and atty for the def. conf judgment for 800 lb which is allowed.”  From context, this entry seems to have been dated in early 1681.  800 pounds of tobacco was a considerable fine in those days – the average annual production per field hand was barely 1,600 pounds.

 

The next available records for Charles City County are a book of court orders covering 1687-95, in which Adam Ivey appears in 1691 being paid for court attendance as a witness.[7]   Around this time he somehow acquired 200 acres of land in what would later be Prince George County.  There are no patents recorded for him, so it must have been acquired by deed, none of which are preserved in the county records.  If this 200 acres is the same land later sold by George Ivey, then Adam Ivey was living on part of a patent originally granted to Benjamin Foster in 1686.[8] 

 

Excursus:  Every effort has been made to locate patents and deeds as precisely as possible.  In the case of Prince George County, its loss of records makes this quite difficult.  The 1683 patent to Benjamin Foster, part of which George Ivey sold in 1720, was for 883 acres in Weyanoke parish.[9]  By plotting this patent and several patents to surrounding landowners, we can locate it roughly on the southern reaches of Ward’s Creek just north of the Blackwater, perhaps three miles or so from the border with Surry County.  At the time of the patent, it was in Charles City County, but fell into eastern Prince George County when it was formed in 1703.  Adam Ivey appears on the 1704 quit roll in Prince George with 200 acres.  His son Henry Ivey appears on the same roll with 450 acres. 

 

Unfortunately, there are no records of any kind for the first several years of Prince George’s existence.  The early county records include only an order book for 1713-20 and a book of wills and deeds covering the period 1710-28.  (No further records survive until 1787, except for less than two years of deeds and wills recorded in 1759-60.)  Adam Ivey does not appear in any of these records, though his son Adam Ivey does.  Since all will and estate records are destroyed for the years 1703-1710, it appears that Adam Ivey died sometime during that period. 

 

Excursus:  Among the few available records, Adam Ivey is never referred to as “Sr.” or “Jr.”, thus we cannot be absolutely certain which man appeared among the Prince George quit rents of 1704.  Surely it was the father referred to in the 1691 court record.  The next record of an Adam Ivey is the 1704 quit rents, which might refer to either the father or the son.  The next available record of an Adam Ivey is a 1715 court record in Prince George County, which surely applies to the son.   Although I have assumed that it was the father who held land in 1704, it is possible that it was actually the son, and that Adam Ivey Sr. had died sometime in the period 1691-1704.

 

Although his wife was unnamed in the 1681 court record, she was clearly the Elizabeth Ivey of Prince George County and Weyanoke Parish whose will was dated 26 April 1718, and  proved on 8 March 1720 by her son Adam Ivey.[10]  The will makes the following bequests: “…I give and bequeath unto my son George Ivie, twenty shillings, or the worth of twenty in some commodity, as my executor shall see fitt… I give and bequeath unto my son Henry Ivie, a gold ring…I give and bequeath unto my son John Ivie, my bed & what belongs to it…I give and bequeath unto my son Gilbert Ivie, twenty shillings, or the worth of twenty… I give and bequeath unto my daughter Susan Hays, a gold ring…I give and bequeath unto my son Adam Ivie and his daughter Elizabeth Ivie, all the remaining part of my household goods, to be equally divided between them as he shall see fitt, and I do hereby appoint my son Adam Ivie my sole executor.”  The will was signed by Elizabeth Ivey with her mark and witnessed by Eliza. Foster and Mary Poythress. (See [11] for a discussion of the Poythress connection.)  Adam Ivey qualified as executor with Edward Prince his security.[12]  The household goods distributed by the will didn’t amount to much, as the inventory returned by Adam Ivey a year later on 14 February 1721 valued the estate at five pounds.[13] 

 

Excursus:  This Elizabeth Ivey was mistakenly identified in a 1927 journal article as the widow of George Ivey Jr. of Lower Norfolk County.[14]  Although both women were named Elizabeth Ivey, they can easily be proven to be different people.  Lower Norfolk probate and guardianship records show that George Ivey Jr. was survived by four minor children named William, James, Joseph, and Margaret, and that his widow Elizabeth remained in Lower Norfolk.  [See paper on descendants of Thomas Ivey and Ann Argent for more detail.]  The Elizabeth Ivey of Prince George County was a generation older, with a completely different set of children, and surely the widow of Adam Ivey Sr. 

 

There were five sons named in Elizabeth Ivey’s 1718 will.  A later record allows us to estimate the birth of one, John Ivey, as about 1675.   It seems likely that all the sons were middle-aged by the time their mother died.  Four of the five sons, Gilbert, George, Adam and Henry, all patented land adjoining one another in what is now northeastern Greensville County, just southeast of the present town of Emporia, in the years 1718-1724.   None of them appear to have lived on those lands for more than a few years.  They later drifted in different directions, at least one of them apparently remaining in Prince George County.  The fifth son, John, remained in Surry, later Sussex County, living a few miles from the Prince George border. 

 

Although just a theory, it is possible that Adam Ivey’s father’s name was “Henry”.[15]  It is also likely that Adam and Elizabeth Ivey had more children than the six named in the will, though probably those six represent all those still living in 1718.  Mortality rates were quite high in those days.  Nearly one-third of all babies died in infancy and barely half survived to reach the age of majority.  The point is that caution should be exercised in drawing conclusions from the names of the children who did survive.  However, I can’t resist noting that “Gilbert” was a relatively unusual name in 17^th century Virginia and therefore might be a clue to Elizabeth Ivey’s own father.

 

Adam Ivey’s six children named in Elizabeth’s will, were the following.  These children are listed here in no particular order, though it seems a plausible theory that Henry and Adam were the eldest and John the youngest.

 

 

1.      Adam Ivey II  (c1670? – c1737?)  Based on the prevalent naming patterns of the time [see footnote] the probability is fairly high that he was either the first or second son.  I note (see above) that it is quite possible that it was he who was listed among the quit rents in 1704.  Adam Ivey is mentioned several times in the surviving order book covering the period 1713-1720, the first of which is on 12 July 1715.[16]  He was a defendant in several suits from 1716 through 1718, only one of which is of interest.  He was accused of slander by John Wilkins[on], and at the court of 11 February 1717 a jury found him guilty of  “false, feigned, scandalous words and lies”.[17]  He is not mentioned in the few remaining Prince George records after 1718, other than as executor of his mother’s will, which bequeathed the bulk of her small estate to Adam and his daughter Elizabeth. 

Whether it was the father or the son who held 200 acres in the 1704 quit rents is not clear, though we suppose it was the father.  Adam Ivey the younger had somehow acquired a 180 acre tract in Prince George County before 1710, for no deed appears in the first extant deed book.  Later descriptions of this land tell us it was in the part of Prince George which is now northern Sussex County.   He was evidently living on this land when, as a resident of Prince George County, he received two patents of 150 acres and 100 acres on 21 February 1720/1, the same day his brother Henry received his own patent for nearby land.[18]   He had entered these claims at least two years earlier, as an adjoining patent by William Batte, issued two years earlier, refers to the land as Adam Ivey’s.[19]  Both patents were for land on the south bank of the Meherrin River in what was then Isle of Wight County.  [In 1734 the area was added to Brunswick.  Today the land lies in eastern Greensville County, nearly on the Southampton County line.]  The 100 acre tract adjoined patents by his brothers Henry and Gilbert Ivey, while the 150 acre tract was almost a mile away. 

Seven months later, on 11 September 1721, Adam Ivey, of Martins Brandon parish, sold 50 acres in Prince George County to Peter Poythress.[20]  [The part of Weyanoke parish lying in Prince George had been merged into Martins Brandon in early 1721.]   He evidently moved onto one of this patents shortly thereafter.  Two years later, on 16 December 1723,  Adam Ivey, now of Isle of Wight, sold the adjoining 130 acres to Edward Prince, thus disposing of his land in Prince George County.[21]  The latter deed was witnessed by Gilbert Hay, possibly his brother-in-law, and Hugh Ivey, his nephew.  Neither deed mentions a wife.  On 6 April 1725 he mortgaged the 100 acre patent in Isle of Wight, described as “whereon said Adam Ivy now dwelleth”, and a slave named Phillis to Nicholas Hatch for ₤30 with the note due the following Christmas.[22]  He apparently made good on the note because he later sold the land.     

Adam Ivey evidently moved to North Carolina about this time, for he made appearance at a General Court held at New Bern on 25 October 1726.[23]   His whereabouts for the next few years are unknown, largely due to the loss of early North Carolina records, but he was a landowner in Onslow Precinct, North Carolina by 2 April 1734 when he was assigned to a road jury.[24]  Nearly three years later, on 10 December 1736, as Adam Ivey of Onslow Precinct, he sold both of his 1721 grants, which were by now in Brunswick County, to Thomas Williams.[25]   Adam Ivey appears only once more in the records of Onslow Precinct, when he failed to appear to answer a suit a month later on 8 January 1736/7.[26]  There is no further record of him, although a mulatto Adam Ivey is mentioned in the court records a few years later in 1741.[27]  Unfortunately, essentially all early records of Onslow Precinct (later Onslow County) other than some court minutes are destroyed.  Neither deed nor estate records survive.  Although he surely owned land there, any record of it is now lost.

He was perhaps the Adam Ivey who filed a land entry in what is now Pitt County, North Carolina on 8 September 1737, though no patent was subsequently issued.[28]  By the time he disappears from the records he was surely in his 60s, if not older, so he may have died at about this time.  I would note that the loss of records means there is no identification of his land in North Carolina, and thus no possibility of tracing land succession to potential heirs.  All later references to an Adam Ivey are in or near Edgecombe County, and refer to a different person entirely, an apparent mixed-race Adam Ivey who died in Edgecombe County in 1762.[29]  [See separate paper on this person, who was surely related to Adam Ivey in some manner.]

Whether Adam Ivey had children other than his daughter Elizabeth is uncertain.  No wife is mentioned in any record.  It is possible that he left married daughters behind in Virginia, but it seems unlikely that he left sons behind.   Since Adam had left Virginia by 1726 we would expect that any minor children would have accompanied him to North Carolina.  If he had male children of age by 1726 who remained in Virginia, we would expect to find some sign of them in the records.   But only a few third-generation Iveys appear to have reached majority that early – all of whom can be definitely or plausibly attributed to Adam’s brothers.   However, Adam Ivey is a candidate to have been the ancestor of some of the mixed-race Iveys of southeastern North Carolina, who are treated in a separate paper.

1.1.          Elizabeth Ivey (c1700? – by1758?)   The 1718 will of her grandmother bequeaths to “my son Adam Ivie and his daughter Elizabeth Ivie all the remaining part of my household goods, to be equally divided between them as he shall see fitt.”  It is intriguing that she is the only grandchild mentioned, since we know Adam’s mother was a grandmother several times over by 1718.  The will implies that Elizabeth was unmarried but old enough to have a use for the household goods, although neither is absolutely certain.  Some Prince family researchers think she married Edward Prince, and that she was probably already married by the time her grandmother wrote her will.[30]  Indeed, Prince’s wife was named Elizabeth in a 1720 record.[31]  And Edward and Elizabeth Prince witnessed the will of Martha Sledge in 1727.[32]   Whether his wife was Elizabeth Ivey, however, is uncertain.  In part, this theory was originally based on the erroneous assumption that the 1723 deed from Adam Ivey to Edward Prince was a gift, it having been misreported by an early Prince researcher.[33]   Absent that erroneous evidence, there is no record that suggests he married Elizabeth Ivey.   It should be noted that Edward Prince was a close neighbor at the time and that both Edward Prince and his descendants seem to have been associated with members of the Ivey family for the next fifty years.  Of course, the proximity of their respective lands is sufficient explain this association, so that a familial relationship is not necessarily implied.   If Elizabeth Ivey were Prince’s wife, she was either considerably older than we would otherwise surmise or was his second wife, for Edward Prince was about 38 in 1718 and had children of his own by the time Elizabeth Ivey’s will was written.[34]  Prince had bought land in 1720 with George Ivey as a witness [35] which seems to be land that George Ivey himself owned in 1737 (see below) though I can find no record of a sale to him by Prince.  Edward Prince lived in the Plowman’s Swamp area of Sussex County, where he deeded land to his son Edward Jr. in 1755.[36]   Though Prince researchers give his death about 1758, his son was still styled “Jr.” when he sold that land in 1761.[37]  And Edward Prince the Elder was mentioned as an adjoining landowner to the same land in a deed of 19 November 1767 by his son Joseph Prince.[38]  There seem to be no estate records for him in Sussex County.

2.      George Ivey (c1670? – aft1737)  He received 20 shillings in his mother’s will.  Like his brother Adam, George apparently acquired a tract of land in Prince George County prior to 1710, for no deed appears in the first extant deed book.  He was living in Prince George County 1716-1719, when he was a defendant in several suits, several for significant amounts.[39]   In fact, a suit against him was mentioned at the same court at which his mother’s will was proved, showing that he was still living in Weyanoke parish of Price George at the time.  He soon moved eastward across the county line into Surry County.  As a resident of Surry County, he sold a single parcel of 200 acres in Weyanoke Parish of Prince George County in two transactions, to William Hobbs on 8 January 1719/20 and John Smith on 8 February 1719/20.[40]   Coincidently, his father Adam Ivey was charged quit rent in 1704 on 200 acres, though whether this was the same land is unknowable.  The 1720 deeds described the land as part of a larger 1683 patent to Benjamin Foster a few miles west of the Surry County line, placing it just southwest of the neck of land in which we first find Adam Ivey (see earlier note).  Gilbert Hay and Sarah Hay witnessed the first of the two deeds.  George Ivey’s wife Ruth, whose identity is unknown, released dower in both of the 1720 sales.[41]   

On 9 July 1724, George Ivey patented 100 acres in southern Isle of Wight County, just southeast of the present city of Emporia, abutting an earlier patent by his brother Adam Ivey.[42]  [The patent is very close to the part of Isle of Wight which was added into Brunswick in 1734, though it actually appears to have been barely located in what was Brunswick County.  Whether the surveyor misunderstood the boundary line or whether it was not part of Brunswick until 1734 is unclear. Today it is in Greensville County, practically on the Isle of Wight County line.]  The patent refers to him as George Ivey of Prince George County.  Whether he had moved back to Prince George or whether he entered his claim for the land prior to his move to Surry is unclear.[43]   Possibly the former, as both he and his brother John Ivey witnessed the deed by Gilbert Ivey on 2 March 1726 in Prince George County.[44]  Somehow he also acquired 145 acres on Pigeon Swamp in Surry County (now northern Sussex) near his brother John Ivey, which he gifted to his son Henry Ivey on 14 November 1737.[45]  This 145 acres may have been the same land Edward Prince had purchased in 1720 (see above) but there is no record of a transfer from Prince, or anyone else, to George Ivey in Surry records.

It is unknown what happened to George Ivey and his wife Ruth after 1737.  Ruth may have been deceased by the 1737 deed of gift to Henry Ivey, for she did not release dower.  Apart from that deed, there is no further certain record of George Ivey.   All subsequent citations for a George Ivey seemingly refer to one of a later generation.[46]   If so, we have no record of his owning any land in Surry or Isle of Wight subsequent to the 1737 deed of gift.  The final record for him is indirect; a16 August 1738 deed from George Wyche to “Henry Ivy, son of George Ivy” which was apparently intended to differentiate Henry from his first cousin of the same name and thus does not prove George was still alive.[47]  There are no estate records for George Ivey in either Surry or Isle of Wight, or in their successor counties, and a quick search of Brunswick records turned up no mention of him.  This absence of records suggests that he may have died in Prince George County, whose records for the period are missing.  While it is possible that some of the citations for his presumed grandson (see below) actually apply to this George Ivey, the absence of any estate records would be neatly explained if he died in Prince George County. 

Note also that there is no record of a sale of his 1724 patent in either Isle of Wight or in Brunswick.  That patent was described as “Stroud’s” in adjoining patents of 1748 and 1756.[48] [49]  If the patent was actually in Brunswick County (as it appears to have been) then a plausible explanation is that he sold his patent sometime in the period 1728-1732, a period for which no deeds survive.  (Brunswick was not actually organized until 1732, with its earliest deeds being recorded in Prince George County.  Since Prince George deeds are lost after 1728, it may bee that a sale of the patent was recorded between 1728 and 1732.)   If the patent was located in Isle of Wight (as the surveyor indicated) it would not have been in Brunswick until 1734.   Whichever was the case, there is no record of its sale.  It is perhaps significant that he apparently did not transfer this patent to a son.  Owing to the absence of records, his children are uncertain beyond the provable son Henry Ivey.[50]   Two apparent third-generation Iveys, Peter and Benjamin, are listed below as his sons, but this is purely speculative.

2.1.          Henry Ivey (c1695? – 1774) There were two first cousins named Henry Ivey, who can differentiated fairly simply.  One of them was the son of George Ivey, identified as such in two records.  On 14 November 1737, George Ivey made a deed of gift of 145 acres (see above) to his son Henry.[51]   This land was near Pigeon Swamp in the northern part of present Sussex County, less than a mile from both John Ivey and Charles Sledge.  Only two months later, on 10 January 1737/8, Henry Ivey and his wife Rebecca sold the same 145 acres “being the land Henry Ivy lately lived on” to Joseph Prince, the son of Edward Prince.[52]  A few months later, on 16 August 1738, George Wyche sold 400 acres in Isle of Wight County to “Henry Ivy, son of George Ivy” of Surry County.[53]  (This designation was presumably meant to differentiate Henry from his cousin of the same name.)  This parcel consisted of two adjacent tracts, one of 150 acres and the other of 250 acres, separately patented by George Wyche, and both located on the upper reaches of Flat Swamp in present Southampton County near the modern border of Sussex and Greensville.[54]  These tracts, in combination with Henry Ivey’s own adjacent patent of 1747, comprised a 550 acre parcel which spanned nearly two miles from Three Creeks to Herbert’s Swamp (now called Bellyache Swamp).  Henry Ivey would live on this land until his death.  That he actually occupied the land is shown by several appearances as a witness to deeds by neighbors in Isle of Wight, and later Southampton, over the next few decades.

These records are vital to differentiating this Henry Ivey from his cousin of the same name.  First, they establish that it was Henry Ivey, the son of George Ivey, who lived in Southampton County and died there in 1774.   Second, they tell us that this Henry Ivey, son of George, consistently signed his name to documents, in contrast to his first cousin who signed with a mark.  That, and the Sledge connection, means he is virtually certain to be the same Henry Ivey who signed his name as a witness to the will of Samuel Clark on 12 June 1736 in what was then Brunswick County.[55]  This Samuel Clark was the brother of Mary Clark Sledge, wife of Charles Sledge, and therefore the uncle of Henry Ivey’s wife. 

It seems clear that Henry Ivey was married to Rebecca Sledge, son of Charles and Mary Sledge.  The long-accepted theory is that his uncle, also named Henry Ivey, was the husband of Rebecca Sledge.  However, we know that Rebecca Sledge’s brother John was not born until about 1700, thus she was likely much too young to have been the wife of a second-generation Ivey and mother of third-generation Iveys .  Further, we know this Henry Ivey was married to a wife named Rebecca in 1737, when he lived quite close to Rebecca Sledge’s parents, while the name of his uncle’s wife appears in no records.  Charles Sledge, a contemporary of the second generation of Iveys, was a neighbor in Surry, having received 100 acres in a deed of gift in 1704 from Mary’s father Robert Clark on behalf of their son John Sledge, and who later had two patents within a mile of the land George Ivy gifted to his son Henry in 1737.  The 1725 will of Charles Sledge leaves a yearling heifer to “my daughter Rebecca Ivy”.[56]  (Charles Sledge was by then living on his patents on Pigeon Swamp near John Ivey in what would later be Sussex County.) Charles Sledge’s widow, Mary Sledge, made her own will on 8 January 1727, bequeathing a breeding cow to her daughter “Rebecca Ivie”.[57]  Her will was witnessed by Edward and Elizabeth Prince, possibly the daughter and son-in-law of Adam Ivey, and her son-in-law Peter Hay was executor.   

Excursus:  It also seems to be an accepted theory among Sledge researchers that the son of Charles and Mary Sledge, John Sledge, married “Mary Rebecca Ivey”, the daughter of Hugh Ivey.[58]   There appears to be no evidence whatsoever for this theory.  Any daughter of Hugh Ivey would have been barely in her teens by the time John Sledge himself died, and Hugh had a distinctly different daughter named Rebecca.  It is true, though, that both Hugh and Thomas Ivey witnessed their neighbor John Sledge’s will in 1750.  This can be explained adequately by the fact that John Sledge was living about a half-mile from both John and Hugh Ivey when he wrote his will, having inherited and otherwise acquired most of his father’s land near Pigeon Swamp.  Since his will would logically have been witnessed by neighbors, there seems to be no reason to assume a familial relationship between John Sledge and Hugh Ivey.

On 12 January 1747 Henry Ivey patented 150 acres adjoining to the southwest the land he acquired from George Wyche nearly ten years earlier.[59]  By 1749 these lands had fallen into Southampton County.  On 6 March 1749/50 he bought 100 acres from Peter Hay on the north bank of Three Creeks opposite his own land, and barely a mile from Ploughman’s Swamp.[60]  Two years later he deeded that land to his son Henry Ivey Jr. (see below).  He continued to appear in Southampton records until his death

Henry Ivey’s wife Rebecca [probably Rebecca Sledge] is not mentioned in any record after 1738, but when she died is unknown.  She is likely the mother of all the children, since we know from the date of her father’s will that they had been married at least thirteen years by 1738, thus covering the period when the majority of the children were born.  Sometime between late 1765 and mid 1767, Henry Ivey married again to Phyllis Sammons, the widow of longtime neighbor James Sammons.  James Sammons had left a will dated 31 January 1765 and proved on 19 September 1765 which bequeathed his residual estate to his wife Phillis Sammons.[61]   On 20 August 1767 David Mason, executor of James Sammons, deeded land to James Sammons Jr. in which “Phillis Ivey mother of the sd James Sammons hath dower”.[62]   Obviously, Henry Ivey had no children by Phyllis Sammons.  Henry Ivey’s will indicates that he and Phyllis had a marriage contract, though I made no attempt to find it in the records.

Excursus:  It is possible that Henry Ivey had another wife between Rebecca and Phyllis.  A Henry Ivey and wife Lucretia appear in the Albemarle Parish register as parents of Rebecca Ivey (born 1749).  Henry Ivey and “Lucy” Ivey were also godparents of a son of Adam and Mary Ivey in 1753.  While it is possible that Lucretia was a second wife, between Rebecca and Phyllis, this may have been a different Henry Ivey.   First, I note that no daughter named Rebecca is mentioned in Henry Ivey’s will.  Second, Henry Ivey was living in Nottoway Parish after 1738, not in Albemarle Parish, thus it seems unlikely that we would find him in its register. Finally, Henry Ivey’s other children seem to have been born two or more decades  earlier than 1749, which suggests the possibility that the father of Rebecca was a Henry Ivey of the next generation.  It is quite possible, for instance, that these two register entries refer to Henry Ivey’s son.

 Henry Ivey’s will was dated 15 February 1774 and recorded 13 October 1774 in Southampton County.[63]  He was apparently still living on his old land, which was by now in St. Luke’s Parish.  The will notes that his wife Phyllis had a marriage contract.  It left land to son George Ivey, and legacies to sons John, Robert, Charles and Henry, and mentions a deceased son named Joseph.   The will also mentions daughter Ruth Dortch (whose husband John Dortch had already received a legacy), daughter Sarah Ivy and her own daughter Phoebe Ivy, and daughter Mary Adams.[64]  Henry Ivey Jr. and Robert Ivey were executors, and filed both an inventory and accounting later that year.[65]  There may have been a deceased son named Gathwaite, for in 1761 Henry Ivey Sr. added four tithables (Henry, George, Robert and Gathwaite Ivey).   

2.1.1.           Henry Ivey  (c1720? - 1791)  His signature mark clearly differentiates him from his father.  He thus appears to be the Henry Ivey who bought 100 acres on 16 December 1746 opposite his father’s land on Three Creeks.[66]  He sold this land in 1752, with no wife releasing dower, using his distinct signature mark.[67]  On 8 August 1754, Henry Ivey Sr. sold to Henry Ivey Jr. the 100 acres he had bought two years earlier in the same vicinity.[68]  He bought another 100 acres in 1760.[69]   He thereafter appears frequently in Southampton County records.  Henry Ivey Jr. was a “friend” in the 1762 will of neighbor William Morgan, which directed him to sell Morgan’s land for his wife and children, which he later did in two transactions with the widow Anne Morgan.[70]  In 1774 he and his brother Robert were co-executors of his father’s will (see above).  Henry Ivey continues to appear in Southampton records through the 1790 tax list, and seems to be the same Henry Ivey who died in Southampton County in 1791.  His will was dated 26 January 1791 and probated 14 April 1791, and names his wife Winney and children Adam, Peterson, Wyke [Wyche?], Charlotte Knight, Elizabeth Newsom, Sally Ivey, and Rhoda Ivey.  

His widow was Winifred Ivey, apparently the same person who was identified in Adam Ivey’s 1789 will as the wife of a Henry Ivey.  See Winifred Ivey [4.3.10] for more.  Assuming this is the same Winifred Ivey, she could not have been the mother of most of Henry’s children, for she was surely about the same age as the older children.  Thus she must have been a second wife.  Henry Ivey’s daughter Rhoda, who seems considerably younger than the other children, was perhaps the only child whose mother might have been Winifred.  Indeed, Winifred’s own 1808 will distributes her estate among her own brothers and sisters but does not mention any of Henry’s children.[71]  

Henry Ivey’s first wife may have been a Peterson or a Wyche if he bestowed her surname on one of his sons.  Unfortunately, no wife’s name was recorded in any record prior to his will.  I note the possibility that her name may have been Lucretia, for a Henry Ivey and wife Lucretia appear in the Albemarle Parish register as parents of Rebecca Ivey in 1749 (perhaps named after his mother?) and Henry and “Lucy” Ivey were godparents of a son of Adam and Mary Ivey in 1753.  However, I also note that the children named in his will seem to have been born a decade or more later.   Henry appears in the 1779 and 1782 tax lists as a single poll, suggesting that his sons were all born 1761 or later.

2.1.1.1.          Peterson Ivey  (c1761? – by1807)  He remained in Southampton County, appearing in the 1790 tax list (paying tax for John Pate) and in the 1798 tax list with one unnamed male 16-21.  He died there by 1807 leaving a widow named Sally and several minor children.  A chancery case in late 1807 lists the children as Peterson, Henry, Benjamin, Sterling, Thomas, Lucy, Sally, Elizabeth, and Polly.[72]   Joseph Prince was guardian of all but Lucy, who was of age (the 1850 census shows her born circa 1784).  It was apparently his widow Sally Ivey who appears in the 1810 Southampton census, heading a household of four males and four females.[73]  She may have remarried or died, for she does not appear in 1820.  The daughter Lucy was out of the household by 1810, having married George Ivey Jr. in 1808.  One of the sons had apparently also left the household by 1810.   In December 1810 Joseph Prince made bond as guardian of Elizabeth, and George Ivey Jr. made bond as guardian of Sally.[74]  Peterson’s wife was perhaps the Sally Ivey named as a daughter in the 1794 will of Benjamin Adams – Benjamin Adams’ granddaughter Sarah Adams would later marry a son of Peterson’s brother Adam Ivey in Georgia.[75]     

Of the sons, Sterling Ivey married Nancy Thomas in 1827, with Peterson Ivey his security and is enumerated in Sussex County in 1830, in Halifax County, North Carolina in 1840-50, and Warren County, North Carolina in 1860 (all of which suggest a birth circa 1790).  Peterson Ivey remained in Southampton through at least the 1830 census, when he was age 20-30, but was not located thereafter.  Thomas Ivey was perhaps the same Thomas Ivey whose 1826 will in Sussex County left $1000 each to Charles Ivey, son of George Ivey (and presumably his sister Lucy Ivey) and Norfleet Ivey, son of Henry.[76]  Henry Ivey may have moved to Autauga County, Alabama by the late 1820s, for Norfleet Ivey appears in the 1840 census of Montgomery County, Alabama and the 1850-60 census of Autauga County, Alabama (where he is listed as age 39 and 50 respectively, born in Virginia).  Benjamin Ivey apparently remained in Virginia, buying land in Southampton in 1818 and appearing in the 1820 census (apparently with a younger brother in his household).[77]  The 1860 census of Southampton enumerates a Benjamin Ivey, age 73, born in Southampton County.    

2.1.1.2.          Wike Ivey (20 February 1764 – 22 September 1826)   His given name seems likely to have been “Wyche” (after the family of that surname), but was “Wyke” in his father’s will and is usually recorded as Wike (and sometimes mis-transcribed as “Mike”).   He first appears in Southampton as a witness to a will on 1 December 1786.[78]  He was still in Southampton County as late as the 1787 tax list, but in January 1790 bought land in Lancaster County, South Carolina where he appears in the 1790 census with a household of one male and two females.[79]  (This explains why his brothers were co-executors of his father’s will, written after Wike Ivey had left the state.)  As noted elsewhere, he lived adjacent Robert Ivey (probably his uncle) and Edward Ivey (his cousin) in northern Lancaster County, and is associated with Robert Ivey in several transactions which show they lived on adjacent parcels.  He appears in the Lancaster censuses of 1800 and 1820, but was not found in 1810.  His widow appears in the 1830 census.   His birth and death dates are from a family Bible, which lists his wife as “Anne” (thought to have been Anne Clark, daughter of Daniel Clark) and his children as Daniel, Henry, Adam, Nancy, Wylie, and Millie.[80]   The Bible also lists the children of his son Adam, and the deaths of most of the children.

2.1.1.3.          Adam Ivey  (c1771? - 1829) He was a minor when his father’s will was written in early 1791, but must have been over 18 for he was named co-executor with his brother Peterson Ivey.  A year later, on 22 January 1792, he witnessed the will of his father’s neighbor Joshua Thorpe.[81]  He married Mary Adams by bond dated 9 August 1799 in Southampton County and appears in the 1800 Southampton tax list.  Adam Ivey and his wife “Molly” sold the land he inherited from his father to John Reese on 17 October 1802.[82]   Adam thereafter is missing from the area.  By 1805 it was apparently the same Adam Ivey who appears on a tax list in Warren County, Georgia along with Eldridge Ivey (also from Sussex County).   He is in the 1820 census of Columbia County with a household of four sons and four daughters.[83]  His will in Columbia County, dated 26 September 1827 and proved on 7 September 1829, names his wife Molly, daughters Sally, Eliza, and Lucy Adams, and sons Henry, Seaborn, Samuel, and Wike.  A history of Randolph County, gives the full name of the son Wike Ivey as Benjamin Wike Ivey and identifies his parents as Adam Ivey and Molly Adams.[84]  Interestingly, the daughter Lucy married Rowell Adams and the son Benjamin Wike Ivey married Sarah Adams.  In 1826 in Columbia County, Wike Ivey (husband of Sarah Adams) identified himself as an heir of Arthur Adams, who was the son of Benjamin Adams of Southampton County and brother of  the Sally Ivey who was likely Peterson Ivey’s wife.[85]

2.1.1.4.          Charlotte Ivey  She was Charlotte Knight in the will.

2.1.1.5.          Elizabeth Ivey  She was Elizabeth Newsom in the will.

2.1.1.6.          Sally Ivey  She was Sally Ivey in her father’s will but married within a few months.  She was apparently the Sally Ivey who married John Finch in Southampton County on 14 April 1791. 

2.1.1.7.          Rhoda Ivey (c1780s - ?)   She may have been the only child whose mother was Winifred Ivey.  She was under age at the time of her father’s will, for on 13 June 1793 Winifred’s brother Ephraim Ivey posted bond in Southampton as guardian of Rhoda Ivey, orphan of Henry Ivey.[86]   Rhoda was not mentioned in Winifred Ivey’s own will, thus may have died unmarried prior to 1808.

2.1.2.           George Ivey ? (c1718? – c1818)   His placement in this line is plausible but not proven.  The records we have suggest he was the eldest child, but they also suggest that he lived an exceedingly long life and did not marry until he was well into middle age.  Though not impossible, this is improbably enough to force us to consider that two generations of George Iveys are represented by these records, though separating them seems nearly impossible.   A George Ivey of Isle of Wight County bought 100 acres on the south bank of Ploughman’s Swamp on 3 September 1740 from Thomas Adams.[87]   This suggests the possibility that he was related to Henry Ivey, who was the only other Ivey who appears in Isle of Wight records after 1725 and who was living at the time within a couple of miles of  Ploughman’s Swamp.   Five years later, in 1745, John Morgan sold to Thomas Adams Jr. land adjoining this George Ivey, with Henry Ivey of Isle of Wight witnessing the deed.[88]   George Ivey sold this land, which was by then in Southampton County, to Robert Kinnebrew on 13 March 1754, fourteen years after buying it.[89]   [Note the possibility that these citations might apply to the second-generation George Ivey.  If so, then George was probably born several years later than the estimate above.] 

As George Ivey of Southampton County, he bought 50 acres from Charles Bass on 3 March 1758 just a mile or so away, but just barely over the county line in Sussex County, with Henry Ivey Jr. (by his mark) and James Sammons among the witnesses.[90]  George, Joseph, and Henry Ivey Jr. all witnessed a deed by James and Elizabeth Bass a few months later.[91]  George also witnessed a deed in 1761 in Southampton County for land adjoining his own, but which fell on the other side of the county line, using his same distinctive mark.[92]  As mentioned elsewhere, Henry Ivey Sr. caused four persons to be added to the tithables in 1761, one of whom was George Ivey.  George had apparently moved back across the county line, perhaps to live on the land his father eventually devised him.  Indeed, on 19 November 1761 George Ivey sold 540 acres in Sussex County (apparently including his own 50 acres) jointly with Joseph and Mary Prince and John and Mary Dillard.[93]  [See footnote for an explanation.[94]]    George Ivey made bond in Southampton County as guardian of his brother Joseph’s son Edward Ivey in 1767.[95]  He was security for Henry Ivey’s guardianship of the same child nine years later.[96]    The land devised him by his father’s will in 1774 was mentioned in the 1782 John Adams deed as belonging to George Ivey (see below).

The above citations may be for two generations of George Iveys.  Even if the earliest citations are for an earlier-generation George Ivey, he appears to have lived an unusually long life and to have married quite late in life.  No wife is mentioned in any of his early land sales.  Only one George Ivey appears in Southampton (or Sussex) records, and only one George Ivey appears in the 1779, 1790, and 1798 tax lists (appearing in 1798 with two males 16-21).   The 1810 census enumerates him as over 45, with a male 16-26 and a wife over 45.   George Ivey left a will in Southampton dated 1814 and proved in 1818, giving the bulk of his estate to his sons George and John, and making bequests to daughter Sarah Sledge and two grandchildren, William and Henry, the sons of his deceased son Henry.[97]   

2.1.2.1.          Henry Ivey  (c1776 – c1800)  Henry married Charlotte Gray in Southampton by bond dated 19 January 1796, with his father George Ivey giving permission to the underage Henry.   Henry is listed in the 1798 tax list as a single poll.  Henry died a few years later, writing a will 2 February 1800 which named his wife Charlotte, son William, and his unborn child.  On 21 February 1803 Charlotte Ivey made bond as guardian of William Ivey and Henry Ivey, orphans of Henry Ivey.[98]  Both sons were later given bequests in the will of their grandfather.  The younger son was named Henry W. Ivey in the will of his uncle John Ivey.  The widow Charlotte Ivey does not appear in the 1810 census, but was alive in 1813 when an accounting of the estates of the children was filed by John Harris.  She was perhaps the Charlotte Ivey who married Ephraim Joyner in Southampton by bond of 15 August 1815.  Henry W. Ivey is enumerated in Northampton County, North Carolina 1830-60, his age given as 50 in 1850 and 60 in 1860.  In 1847 Henry W. Ivey of Northampton County sold land in Southampton County to Elizabeth Ivey.[99]  The fate of the son William Ivey is unknown, though he was still alive in 184 when his grandfather’s will was written.

2.1.2.2.          George Ivey (c1782 - 1862)  He was apparently the second male 16 or over in his father’s 1798 tax household.  As “George Ivey Jr”., he married Lucy Ivey, daughter of Peterson Ivey [2.1.1.1], by bond dated 27 February 1808 with his brother Henry his security.  In December 1810 he made bond as guardian of Sally Ivey, his wife’s younger sister.   George is in the 1810-1860 censuses of Southampton County, evidently with his brother John in the household in 1820.[100]   His age was given as 68 in 1850 and 78 in 1860, consistent with the prior censuses.   The 1826 will of Thomas Ivey, apparently Lucy’s brother, left $1000 to Charles Ivey, son of George Ivey, surely meaning his sister’s child. [101]   

Though the census records suggest several daughters, Charles Ivey appears to have been the only son in the family and was apparently the male in the household through 1830, born between 1810 and 1815 according to the 1810-30 censuses.  He married Emma Hail(es) on 14 December 1835 in Sussex County.[102]  She was perhaps the daughter of Luraney Ivey and Hartwell Hailes, for Charles Ivey was enumerated adjacent Luraney’s brother Thomas S. Ivey in 1840 and 1850, and in 1860 adjacent to Hartwell Hailes.  His children included two named George and Lucy, but also included children named Hartwell and Luraney, as well as Aaron and  Thomas S.   Charles Ivey witnessed a will in Southampton in 1836, but was in the Sussex County census in 1840, and is shown in the 1850 census as 36, his wife’s name given as Eveline.  (The 1860 census gives his age as 42, clearly less accurate.)  See also the note regarding Charles Ivey at [4.3.6.3].

The daughters of George Ivey apparently included Elizabeth Brantley (who had married Ethelred Brantly as Elizabeth Ivey in 1840} and Luticia Ivey, who were in George Ivey’s household in 1850, and both of whom were named in the will of his brother John Ivey.  Sarah Ivey, another Eliza Ivey, and Letitia Ivey were also in his 1850 household, and Polly Ivey was in his 1860 household, some of whom were perhaps other daughters.  

2.1.2.3.          John Ivey  (c1794? – 1846)  John appears to be the male 16-26 in his father’s 1810 household.  He was perhaps the male 16-26 in his brother George’s 1820 household, though that may have been one of Henry Ivey’s sons.  He married a widow named Lucy Westbrook in Southampton by bond dated 31 July 1826, and is enumerated as a head of household in 1830.  He and Lucy seem to have been childless, though she evidently had children by her earlier marriage.  His 1830 and 1840 households suggest that at least one other family was living with him.[103]  He left a will dated in 1845 mentioning his wife Lucy, brother George Ivey, two children of his sister Sarah Sledge (Benjamin Sledge and Rebecca Hepinstall), his nephew Henry W. Ivey, and two apparent nieces who were in his brother George’s household in 1850 (Luticia Ivey and Elizabeth Brantley).[104]  

2.1.2.4.          Sarah Ivey  (? - ?)  She married Henry Sledge in Southampton by bond dated 27 December 1806.  She received several slaves in her father’s will.  They are in the 1810 Southampton census but, according to descendants, moved to Halifax County, North Carolina where Henry Sledge appears in the 1820-40 censuses  They are reported by George Franks Ivey to have had ten children, two of whom were named in the will of her brother John Ivey.  An amusing Henry Sledge anecdote can be found in a Halifax history. [105]

2.1.3.           Joseph Ivey  (c1725? –1764)  The first  record of him seems to be the mention in the Albemarle Parish register as godparent of one of Francis Eldridge’s children in 1755.  He bought 105 acres on Plowman’s Swamp near his father, and nearly adjoining his cousin John Ivey, on 11 October 1759.[106]   He and his wife Anne sold this land four years later on 29 October 1763 with his father (by his mark) and brother Robert Ivey as witnesses.[107]   He had bought another 50 acres in the same location on 10 February 1762 which apparently descended to his son.[108]  He was deceased by 13 September 1764 when his inventory was filed.[109]  The identity of his wife Anne is unknown, though it is possible that she was the daughter Ann Ivey bequeathed five shillings in the Sussex County will of Nathaniel Felts, dated 31 May 1769 and proved on 19 September 1771.[110]   If she were Joseph Ivey’s wife then she must have survived him by several years, but she was dead by 1784 when no widow released dower in the sale by Edward Ivey of his inherited land.

2.1.3.1.          Edward Ivey (c1760 – 1790s?)  George Ivey made bond as guardian of Edward Ivey, orphan of Joseph Ivey, in 1767 with Henry Ivey his security.[111]  Nine years later, in 1778, Henry was guardian, with George as security. [112]   On 11 March 1784 Edward Ivey sold what was apparently his inherited land in Southampton to Joel Reese, with Henry Ivey a witness.[113]  He evidently moved to Lancaster County, South Carolina, apparently with his cousin Wike Ivey and uncle Robert Ivey.[114]  An Edward Ivey appears there in the 1790 census (actually taken in 1792) with a household of one male over 16, one under 16, and one female).  A survey made on 9 March 1791 for Moses White for land on the north side of the Catawba River mentions Edward Ivey as an adjoining landowner.[115]  A deed of 27 July 1792 from Nathaniel Tomlinson to Isaac Anderson also apparently mentions Edward Ivey.[116]  He does not appear in the 1800 census and may have been dead.  According to Robert Allison Ivey, “a widow Ivey's line was mentioned in the land transaction between Wike Ivey and Isaac and Nancy Anderson on December 24, 1808.”  An examination of the land involved may determine whether it was the widow of Edward Ivey referred to.   The apparent son in his 1790 household is unknown.

2.1.4.           John Ivey  (c1725? – 1789)  Although there was another John Ivey in the area, land records can be used to differentiate them.  On 13 November 1760 Henry Ivey deeded 110 acres to his son John Ivey in Southampton County, described as part of George Wyche’s patents sold to Henry Ivey.[117]   In 1764, John Ivey patented 161 acres just south of Ploughman’s Creek, described in the patent as including part of two patents to George Wyche, obviously including the 110 acres given to him by his father four years earlier.[118]  This land can be matched to the land devised in the 1787 will of John Ivey Sr.  A 1755 Southampton County court record perhaps establishes that his wife Mary was the daughter of David Adams.[119]  On 13 August 1761 he made bond as guardian of Lucy Adams, orphan of David Adams, with Joseph Prince his security.[120]  (A David Adams had patented land near Henry Ivey in 1746 and was apparently the David Adams whose inventory was ordered in what was then Isle of Wight in 1748.  Whether Lucy was the child of the same David Adams is unclear, but he is the only David Adams mentioned in Southampton probate records.)   

John Ivey apparently had lived in Sussex County prior to 1760, although there is no record of him in the deed books, for the births of six children to John and Mary Ivey are recorded in the Albemarle parish register between 1746 and 1760.  Benjamin and Elizabeth Adams served as sponsors of two of the children, Joseph Prince as sponsor of one, and the other listed godparents lived in Sussex .[121]   Presumably this is the same John and Mary Ivey, though only one of these children was later named in his will.  By 1760 he was apparently living on the land given to him by his father just over the line in Southampton County, and was no longer in Albemarle parish. 

That land proves that he was the same John Ivey “Senior” whose will is dated 16 January 1787 and was proved 10 December 1789 in Southampton County.[122]  The will leaves half his land to wife Mary with reversion son Benjamin Ivey, and the other half to son Phillips Ivey.  When Benjamin Ivey later sold his share to Phillips Ivey, describing it as where his mother then lived, the description (though of 175 acres) appears to match the 1764 patent.[123]  The will divides personal property among “my three children” Benjamin Ivey, Phillips Ivey, and Becky Bass. “My two sons” Benjamin and Phillips were named executors.   [Note that Wyatt Ivey, thought by some researchers to be another son, was more likely the son of his younger cousin, also named John Ivey.]  Note that this John Ivey and his older cousin John Ivey both lived in Southampton County until the older John Ivey died in 1781.  After 1781 this John Ivey was apparently referred to as “Senior” and the son of the other John Ivey was referred to as “Junior.”

Although we cannot be certain that the Albemarle parish register entries apply to this particular John and Mary Ivey, the children listed therein are given below.

2.1.4.1.          William Ivey  There are two entries in the Albemarle parish register for sons named William, one dated 11 May 1746 and the other dated 28 October 1752.  Both children appear to have died, for there is no further mention of a William Ivey in Southampton.

2.1.4.2.          John Ivey (19 September 1749 - ?)  It isn’t clear if this son is mentioned in any Southampton County records, and he is not mentioned in the will.

2.1.4.3.          Edmund Ivey (29 January 1755 - ?)  There is no further mention of an Edmund Ivey.

2.1.4.4.          Benjamin Ivey (c1760 – 1802)  There are two entries in the parish register for a son of John and Mary Ivey named Benjamin, both carrying the same date (24 May) but one in 1760 and the other in 1761.   His godparents were Benjamin and Elizabeth Adams and Joseph Prince.  He is apparently the Benjamin Ivey who married Sally Reese by bond dated 17 October 1782 in Southampton County.  On 19 January 1790, barely a month after his father’s will was proved, he and his wife Sally sold his interest in the inherited plantation to his brother Phillips Ivey.[124]  He must have left the area almost immediately, for Benjamin does not appear in the 1790 tax list, compiled mainly in March and April that year.  He and his wife are, however, named in the will of his father in law, John Reese, dated 1 December 1792 and proved on 9 October 1794.[125]   The will distributed the estate equally among ten of the Reese children, and gave five shillings each to three other daughters: “my beloved daughter Sally Ivy, wife of Benjamin Ivy”, Sucky Ivy wife of Philip (sic) Ivy, and Lucy Johnson.

Since he was apparently gone from Virginia by early 1790, he seems likely to be the same Benjamin Ivey who appears in the 1790 census of Randolph County, North Carolina.  The 1800 census shows him with a household of eight.[126]  This Benjamin Ivey left a will dated 17 October 1810 and proved in August 1802, naming his wife Sally, daughters Rebecca Kearns, Betsy Nance, “Prisey”, Sally, and Sukey (under 18), and sons Kinchen, Isaac, and Benjamin (under 21).[127]  Kinchen was left 200 acres, and the home plantation of 190 acres was given to Sally until her death or remarriage, when it was to fall to Isaac.  Further indication that he may have been the same Benjamin Ivey from Southampton is that his son Benjamin Ivey named his own eldest son John Reese Ivey.  Mention of the son Benjamin Ivey Jr. is made in Men of the Burning Heart.[128]

I would note that this is the line from which George Franks Ivey descended.  Mr. Ivey’s book identifies him as the son of Adam Ivey of Edgecombe County, a supposition we can prove to be false.[129]  It also gives Benjamin a first wife named Celia Forrest and a second wife named Sallie Kincheon, neither of which is proven.[130]  Mr. Ivey and other sources give us birth dates of some of the children which are consistent with a marriage to Sally Reese in late 1782, and implies the following birth order:  Kincheon (26 September 1784), Rebecca (1 January 1786), who married Thomas Kearns, Elizabeth (8 March 1787) who married Marshall Nance by bond of 10 February 1801, Priscilla (c1790) who married Thomas Nance, Sallie (c1794), Sukey(c1796)  Isaac, and Benjamin (3 May 1800 -1858) who married Mary Shankle.   The widow Sally remarried to Zedekiah Ledbetter, and evidently bound out her five youngest children in 1804:  Benjamin, Priscilla, Isaac, Sally, and Susannah (evidently “Sukey”), all five years old or younger.[131]  The son Benjamin Ivey Jr. left a family Bible which is available at the N. C. Archives, giving his date of birth, marriage to Mary Shankle, and a list of children.  It also gives the death of his brother Isaac in 1840.  Kinchen Ivey is in the 1810 census of Randolph County, aged 26-45, and in 1830, aged 40-50.. 

2.1.4.5.          Elizabeth Ivey (16 September 1761 - ?)  The Albemarle parish register contains an entry for a daughter of John and Mary Ivey, though this John Ivey should have been living outside the parish by this time.  She was not mentioned in the will, and may have been a daughter of the “other” John and Mary Ivey (see below).

2.1.4.6.          Phillips Ivey (c1762? – c1801)  His is not listed among the children in the parish register unless his name at birth was other than Phillips.  He married Sucky Reese (sister of Sarah Reese who married his brother) by bond dated 9 January 1786 in Southampton County.  Three years earlier, he had been charged in St. Luke’s Parish for “begetting a bastard child on the body of Roscommon Ivey” with John Ivey, presumably his father, as his security.[132] He appears in the 1790 and 1800 tax lists of Southampton County.   His wife was left five shillings in the 1792 will of her father John Reese (see above).   Phillips Ivey died about 1801, for Lewis Fort was guardian of his children Phoebe, Rebecca, Polly (Mary), and Nathan on 10 May 1801.[133]  Robert Mabry later posted bond on 22 December 1807 as guardian of Nathan Ivey, “about 7 or 8 years of age”.[134]   (One record, which may be a misreading, suggests that the son Nathan may have been known as Kinchen.[135] )  Nathan evidently remained in the area, for in 1823 (having reached maturity) Nathan Ivey sold his share of his father’s land to Arthur Williamson.[136]  He was apparently the Nathan Ivey who married Susan Ezell in Sussex County in 1824, and perhaps the Nathan Ivey whose inventory and appraisal was filed 20 January 1825 in Sussex County.[137]  Two of the daughters were evidently much older than Nathan.  The daughter Rebecca Ivey married Kinchen Williams in 1804, and Polly Ivey married William Jarrat in 1806; both are listed among the heirs in 1807.

2.1.4.7.          Rebecca Ivey (? - ?)  She was “Becky Bass” in her father’s will.  She was presumably born after the move into Southampton County, sometime in the early 1760s, since her birth is not recorded in Albemarle parish.

2.1.5.           Robert Ivey  (c1740? - ?)   He  appears in the 1761 Southampton tithables, when he was added by Henry Ivey.  On 29 October 1763 he and Henry Ivey witnessed the deed by his brother Joseph Ivey.[138]    Robert Ivey  served as co-executor of his father, filing an inventory in 1774 and an accounting in 1776.[139]   He and his brother John Ivey witnessed the will of Joseph Reese on 14 November 1775.[140]  He appears in the 1782 tax list of Southampton County.   

On 16 October 1784, Robert Ivey and his wife Amy Ivey sold 215 acres adjacent to his brother John Ivey, and thereafter disappear from Virginia records.[141]   He seems virtually certain to be the same Robert Ivey who was in Lancaster district, South Carolina by 1784 claiming land in the northern part of present Lancaster County.[142]  (However, note that he was apparently not the same Robert Ivey who served in the Revolution from South Carolina, for that person was serving in 1775-78 when this Robert Ivey is found in Southampton records.  That Robert Ivey evidently lived in Beaufort District, where several grants to him are recorded while this Robert Ivey was still in Virginia.  It is quite possible, though, that he was the Robert Ivey who served as a militia Lieutenant under Francis Marion in 1782.) 

Robert Ivey, evidently the same person from Southampton, appears in the 1790 census of Lancaster County (part of Camden District) adjacent Wyke Ivey and Edward Ivey, who were evidently his nephews, also recently removed from Southampton County.    His household consisted of two males over 16, three males under 16, and five females, a composition consistent with a man in the neighborhood of middle age.  Also immediately adjacent is Henry Ivey, heading a household of one male and one female, who may have been a son or other relative.  Robert Ivey witnessed a 1790 deed to Wyke Ivey and Wyke Ivey witnessed a deed to Robert Ivey in 1792.[143]   His lands lay in the northern tip of Lancaster County, just south of Charlotte, North Carolina, and just on the opposite side of the Catawba River from York and Chester counties, so it is possible that further research into records of those locations might uncover some mention of him.  He does not seem to be in the 1800 Lancaster census, but in 1808 a Robert Ivey and Henry Ivey witnessed a deed to Wyke Ivey, and the following year Robert and Zachariah Ivey witnessed a deed by Amey Ivey.[144]  The only Ivey in the 1810 census was a Robert Ivey, aged over 45, with two children under ten in the household.  Whether that person was the same Robert Ivey or a son or nephew is unclear.[145]   However, it seems likely that Robert Ivey was dead by 1800, for it was apparently his widow Amy who was purchased nearby land in 1801.

The “Amey” Ivey who in 1801 purchased land in northern Lancaster adjacent Robert and Wyke Ivey, then sold it in 1809, was said by Robert Allison Ivey to have been the wife of William W. Ivey (a son of Hardy Ivey), from a distantly related Ivey line, who died in 1816.   The obvious association with the other Lancaster district Iveys, the fact that no William Ivey appears in Lancaster records, and the fact that Robert Ivey’s wife in Southampton was named Amy, suggests that she was actually Robert Ivey’s widow.   (It should also be noted that, at this time, a wife could not execute deeds independently of her husband, meaning that the 1801 and 1809 Amey Ivey was either a widow or single woman.)    The evidence overwhelmingly suggests that she was the widow of Robert Ivey, and that the William Ivey who died in 1816 was not her husband. 

Although Robert Ivey apparently had four sons in his 1790 household, they are unknown.   I have done no research into Lancaster or Union County records, and Robert Allison Ivey’s book gives no hints as to who these four sons may have been (though they would seem to be the children of Amey Ivey).  A fifth son seems likely to have been the Henry Ivey enumerated adjacent Robert Ivey in 1790, apparently named for his own father.

2.1.5.1.          Henry Ivey ?