Thomas Vicesimus Ivey

(c1625? - 1684)

He may be related to the elder Thomas Ivey of Lower Norfolk County, but they were clearly not father and son.  That is, Thomas Vicesimus Ivey was not the same person as Thomas Ivey II, the son of Thomas Ivey.  Nearly all Ivey researchers, despite overwhelming evidence to the contrary, have assumed they were the same person.  To the contrary, we have a plausible separate genealogy for Thomas Vicesimus Ivey, of which more later.  In addition, the records appear to describe two different persons.  Thomas Ivey II was in Virginia in June 1658, still under the age of 21, and troubled by a crippled leg.  Yet in December 1660 Thomas Vicesimus Ivey first appears in Norfolk records as a surgeon, is appointed under-sheriff in 1662 and later claimed importation of himself, his wife, and a child.   It is difficult to credit that he returned to England, became a surgeon, married, and had at least one child before returning to Virginia hardly more than two years later.  Further, Thomas Ivey II was “for many years since… troubled with a sore upon his legg and conceived immoveable and not fit for travel” eight years later in 1664, the same year Thomas Vicesimus Ivey was ambulatory enough to be appointed the county surveyor, and two years after he was appointed under-sheriff.  The only plausible explanation is that these were two different people, one of whom used his middle name to distinguish himself from the other.  Finally, we know Thomas Vicesimus Ivey was John Sidney’s brother-in-law, a relationship that is exceedingly difficult to explain unless Thomas Vicesimus Ivey is a different person than Thomas Ivey II.

A significant clue to his origin lies in his name “Vicesimus”, which is Latin for “twentieth”.  There is a Thomas Vicesimus Ivey in English records who seems quite likely to have been the surgeon of Lower Norfolk County.  His father Thomas Ivey left a will in Gloucester, England on 5 January 1631 naming his sons Thomas and George.  This Thomas Ivey had married Maria Aileffe (a name that appears in later generations of the Thomas Vicesimus Ivey family), and had twenty children, according to the will of his son George Ivey.  The twentieth child was named Thomas Vicesimus Ivey (“Vicesimus” is Latin for “twentieth”, the ordinal of twenty), and was named in the will of his elder brother, also named Thomas Ivey, as a “my brother Thomas Vicesimus Ivie.”[1] [2]   The “Vicesimus” name is both so rare and specific that it is almost impossible not to conclude that this was the same person who emigrated to Virginia.   

He probably arrived in Virginia before or during 1660, as he is mentioned as a surgeon in a court record dated 17 December 1660.[3]  On 15 April 1662 John Sidney, the high sheriff, appointed him under-sheriff.[4]  He is again called a surgeon in a court record dated 17 November 1663[5], and was appointed Surveyor for the Eastern Branch in late 1664.[6]  He is probably the “Mr. Ivey” named in the 1667 will of George Bordas, for whom John Porter, a son-in-law of John Sidney, was executor. [7]  He received a certificate from the  Lower Norfolk court on 15 February 1665 for 350 acres for the transportation of seven persons:  Thomas V. Ivey, Alice Ivey, Mary Ivey, Mary Edon, John Payne, Wm. Edwards, and a negro boy.[8]  Mary Ivey was probably the daughter later married to the Rev. James Porter. 

The resulting patent for these headrights was recorded eight years later on 23 October 1673, by “Thomas Vicesimus Ivey” for 620 acres in Lower Norfolk County “at the head of Easterne Branch of Elizabeth River” and Bennett’s Creek, several miles southeast of the original Thomas Ivey’s location and in what would later become Princess Anne County.[9]  170 acres were a renewal of part of a 200 acre patent originally issued to Colonel John Sidney in 1644 “and by him sold to Geo. Kemp and thence by several assignments belongs unto ye said Ivey.”  The other 450 acres was for the transportation of nine persons:  “Tho. Vicesimus Ivey, Alice Ivey, Mary Ivey, Mary Eden, Jno. Paine, Wm. Edwards, Grace Dunn, a Negroe and an Indian.”  (Note that seven of these are the same names used to obtain the 1665 certificate.)  Both parcels described in the patent were contiguous, and bordered George Fowler, another son-in-law of John Sidney.

The John Sidney who originally patented this land was apparently a brother-in-law of Thomas Vicesimus Ivey.  John Sidney was a Burgess, high sheriff and justice for Norfolk, who deposed he was aged 46 in 1659.   He was in Lower Norfolk by 1644 when a patent mentions his land.[10]  John Sidney’s own nuncupative will of June 1663 left legacies to “Mr. Vicesimus Ivey” and to “cousin Agnes Ivey, his daughter” and to “my goddaughter Kate Ivey”.[11]  “Cousin” normally would have meant “niece” in this context, suggesting that Sidney married one of Thomas Vicesimus Ivey’s sisters (or vice-versa).   The name of Sidney’s wife, who did not survive him, is unknown.  Thomas Vicesimus Ivey sued George Fowler, son-in-law of John Sidney, in August 1663 for part of John Sidney’s estate, probably on behalf of his daughter Agnes.[12]  Whether Kate Ivey was a daughter of Thomas Vicesimus Ivey or of one of his siblings in unclear, but his own will does name a daughter Katherine.

On 15 May 1677, Thomas Vicesimus Ivey and his wife Alice Ivey deeded all their personal and real property to their son Thomas Ivey with possession when he reached the age of 21.[13]  This was probably the usual arrangement designed to keep a son at home to maintain his parents.  It also suggests that the son Thomas was close to the age of 21 at the time, and is perhaps our best indication of Thomas V. Ivey’s age.  If he had a son nearing 21 in 1677, he himself must surely have been nearing 50.  The next mention is the will of John Sallmon, dated 22 March 1679 and proved 15 October 1679, which appointed “Capt. Thomas Ivy” and Francis Shipp overseers of the executrix.[14] 

His will was dated 21 September 1684 and proved 17 October 1684.[15]  As “Thomas Viz^t Ivy of Eliz. River in Lower Norfolk County” he left “to my loving son Thomas Ivy all my land excepting this hereafter given to my other two sons Ludford and Anthony Ivy.”  He gave “unto my second son Ludford Ivy and to my son Anthony Ivy” 400 acres, 100 acres purchased from Benoni Burroughs and the remaining 300 acres “to be made up out of the grand patent whereon I now dwell.”  Anthony Ivey was to have the part of the land that contained a house.  Anthony and Ludford were under 18 at this time, as he provided that if either were to die before reaching 18 the land was to go to his son Lemuel Ivy.  The will also left legacies to his wife Alice, daughters Agnes, Katherine Taylor, “my two youngest daughters Frances and Elizabeth”, and friends John Porter Sr. and John Porter Jr. [16], Col. Anthony Lawson, and Capt. Plummer Bray.[17]  Witnesses were Edward Moseley (who married Frances, daughter of Anthony Lawson), James Kemp, and Anthony Lawson. 

There was also a ninth, perhaps posthumous, child named Aliffe, apparently named after Thomas Ivey’s mother.  His widow, Alice Ivey, remarried to William Cornick, whose father Simon Cornick had received a patent in Norfolk County in 1653 for importation of 13 persons, among them his son William Cornick.[18]  On 9 January 1691/2, William Cornick made deeds of gift to his wife Alice’s children Lemuel Ivy and Aliffe Ivy and his sons-in-law (meaning stepsons) Ludford Ivy and Anthony Ivy.[19]  A few months later, on 7 September 1692, William Cornick and his wife Alice “widow and extrx of Capt. Thomas Viz. Ivy” gave a power of attorney to Capt. Hugh Campbell for collecting debts due to Thomas V. Ivey in Maryland.[20]  William Cornick’s will dated 7 September 1700 and proved on 6 November that year, made bequests to his wife Alice and her son Lemuel Ivy.[21]  Alice herself made a deed of gift to her son Lemuel Ivey and to her grandson Thomas Ivey, son of Thomas Ivey, on 5 November 1701.[22]  Alice Cornick’s own will was dated 17 September 1708 and proved 6 July 1709.[23]  It left legacies to sons Anthony and Thomas, daughter Aliff Cornick, and two grandchildren named Morris Fitzgerald and Elizabeth Aguish [Angus].[24]  Her son Thomas Ivey was executor.

George Franks Ivey claimed that Thomas V. Ivey’s wife was Alice Joyce, but cited no evidence (nor has any been found).  It seems fairly clear that Thomas V. Ivey and Alice married in England, and there have been no Virginia records uncovered that suggest her identity.  There is also a theory that his wife was Alice Mason, which seems equally unlikely – the Mason family in Norfolk had been in Virginia since 1613, long before Thomas V. Ivey’s birth, much less his marriage. 

It appears that there are no male descendants of this line who carry the Ivey name.

1.      Thomas Ivey   (c1659 – 1712)  He was certainly the eldest son.  He was not claimed as a headright  of his father in 1665, suggesting the possibility that he was born in Virginia after his parents’ arrival in 1659 or 1660.  On 27 May 1673, Benoni Burroughs and John Taylor filed consecutive patents which each claimed a headright for Thomas Ivy; Taylor’s was for transportation of “Tho. Ivy the second time.”[25]  Since Thomas Vicesimus Ivey lived next to Benoni Burroughs, these headrights undoubtedly either refer to him or to his son Thomas, or both.   Whichever, this Thomas Ivey ws living on his father’s land in 1691, for the act dividing Lower Norfolk County into Norfolk and Princess Anne mentions his land at the head of the Eastern Branch in Princess Anne.[26]  Thomas Ivey and Benoni Burroughs both witnessed a receipt of Thomas Lovett in 1691[27] and a deed for land on Bennett’s Creek in 1693.[28]  Thomas seems to have carried out the wishes of his father with regard to land distribution.  He was issued a patent of 450 acres, for importation of nine persons, on the eastern branch of the Elizabeth River and Bennett’s Creek in Princess Anne County on 25 October 1695.  This was described as “part of a patent of 620 acres granted to Thomas Visesimus Ivey father of the aforesaid Thomas Ivey as by patent dated 23 October 1673… and since granted to the said Thomas Ivey by order of the Honble Generall Court dated 15 April 1695”.[29]  On 6 May 1696, Thomas Ivy of the Eastern Branch of Elizabeth River, “son of Thomas V. Ivy”, and his wife Ursula, deeded 200 acres to his brother Anthony Ivy (including the 100 acres his father had purchased of Benoni Burroughs), and 150 acres to his brother Lemuel Ivy, as directed by his father’s will.[30]  He was later executor for his mother in 1709.[31] 

A 1699 court record tells us that a Presbyterian church was established in 1692 “at a house in the eastern branch of Elizabeth River on the land belongs to Mr. Thomas Ivy.”[32]  He also applied for a tavern license on this land in 1699.[33]  Thomas Ivey is the only Ivey to appear in the 1704 quit rents for Princess Anne County, with 600 acres.  On 28 April 1711, he patented an additional 374 acres east of Cary’s Creek in Princess Anne for importation of eight people.[34]  Thomas Ivey evidently died sometime after 6 May 1712 when he and Ursula appear in a court record,  but before 6 January 1712/3 when the first record of  heirs appears.[35]  His inventory was presented on 2 February 1712/3.[36]  The inventory mentions that he left a will leaving land to his wife Ursula and his four youngest children Sarah, George, Anthony and Lemuel Ivy.[37]   Additional children are identified by their own wills and later records.  The land distribution was made on 29 May 1713.[38]  Thomas Ivey’s wife Ursula, who lived at least another 15 years, was possibly the daughter of William Chichester.  She was dead by 1 February 1727 when her son John Ivey was granted administration of her estate.[39]

1.1.   John Ivey  (by1691 – c1739)  He must have been the eldest.  He sold a house lot in Norfolk to Samuel Smith in 1712 as “son and heir of Thomas Ivy”.[40]  On 5 March 1717/8 he petitioned the court to have his mother Ursula Ivey deliver his share of the estate of his father Thomas Ivey.[41]   He was married to “Bridget” by 1721 when both of them opposed the administration of the estate of Mrs. Hannah Angus.[42]  [Bridget may have been a sister or daughter of Hannah Angus, for Bridget Ivey was “next of kin” to her a month later.[43]]  On 25 September 1727, John Ivey and Lemuel Ivey, by then the only two surviving sons, sold 100 acres that had been patented by William Chichester, possibly land they inherited from their mother.  His wife Bridget signed this deed as well as another the prior year.  By 3 March 1730/1, John and Bridget Ivey were “of North Carolina” when they sold land in Princess Anne, but living close enough that John Ivey “of North Carolina” came into court to prove the deed.[44]  He might be the same John Ivey of Pasquotank County, North Carolina who four months later sold land to Thomas Grandy  in Pasquotank County that had been owned by “Thos. Ivey father of the said John.”[45], since his father may have inherited the land left to his brother Ludford Ivey in Pasquotank.[46] [However, another John Ivey appears to have lived in that vicinity until 1771, and is more likely to have been the person identified as 2.4 in the Thomas Ivey line.]  In April 1736 he sued a niece of Morris Fitzgerald, identifying himself as son and heir of Thomas Ivey, the uncle of Morris Fitzgerald thus clarifying his identity.[47]  Despite the earlier reference to North Carolina, his children’s names very strongly suggest that he was the same John Ivey who died in Princess Anne county in 1739.  He was alive on 8 February 1739 when he appeared as a witness[48] but was dead by 7 November 1739 when Thomas Ivey “son of Mr. John Ivy decd” chose his guardians.[49]   He evidently left a will (though it is unrecorded) for his land was distributed equally among his heirs, a circumstance that could not occur without a will. [50] A dispute arose over division of his slaves which confirms that there were four heirs (see below).  In addition, several deeds distributing a 600a tract and a 100a tract identify four heirs. [51]

1.1.1.    Thomas Ivey (c1725 – 1743)  He was at least 14, but still underage, in late 1739 when “Thomas Ivy son of Mr. John Ivy decd” chose his guardians and was bound to Capt. John Hutchings to learn the trade of “merchants accounts.”[52]  He died intestate and without issue less than four years later.  His appraisal is dated 4 May 1743[53] and an estate sale was held later that month.[54].  An audit of his estate on 1 October 1744 refers to his father’s “Capt. John Ivey’s estate.”[55]  A later deed by his sister Ursilla confirms that Thomas Ivey died without heirs, and that he was dead at least a month prior to the appraisal date above.[56]

1.1.2.    Aliff Ivey  (c1720? – c1744)  She was the wife of Mathias Miller, alive in 1743 but dead by late 1745.  She was “one of three sisters” of Thomas Ivey on 7 March 1743 and a purchaser at the estate sale of Thomas Ivey in 1743.[57]  She had a daughter named Mary who died after Aliff but before 3 December 1745 when her sister Ursula claimed her share of the land of her sister Aliff Miller “late wife of Matthias Miller” and noted that “said Aliph (sic) died… leaving issue one daughter named Mary that soon after also died.”[58]  [Mathias Miller was the brother of Alice Miller Ivey, wife of James Ivey, being one of the few connections between this family and the descendants of Thomas Ivey and Ann Argent.]

1.1.3.    Ursula Ivey (c1720? - ?)  William Purdy and “Ursula his wife daughter of Mr. John Ivey decd” sued Thomas Ivey’s guardians for the division of John Ivey’s slaves on 5 December 1739.[59]  The guardians responded that the slaves would be split into four equal parts for the heirs, thus confirming that there were a total of four heirs.  She was still the wife of William Purdy when she later sold her interest in her father’s land.[60]  Her father John Ivey had been an executor of George Purdy’s will and guardian of his minor son George Purdy, brother of William Purdy.[61]

1.1.4.    Hannah Ivey (c1725 - ?)  Hannah Ivey “daughter of Mr. John Ivy decd.” chose her brother-in-law William Purdy as her guardian on 3 January 1739/40.[62]   She was still “Hannah Ivy” in 1745 but was the wife of Solomon Edey by 20 December 1748 when she sold her interest in her father’s land.[63]

1.2.   Thomas Ivey (? – c1718)  Alice Cornick’s deed of gift on 5 November 1701 identifies Thomas Ivey as her grandson, son of Thomas Ivey.[64]  On 3 December 1718, John Ivey “brother to Thomas Ivy deceased” and son of Ursula Ivey testified that Thomas Ivy had died intestate, and was granted administration of the estate.[65]  There were apparently no heirs other than his brother.

1.3.   Lemuel Ivey   (c1675 – 1734)  He was deeded 150 acres by his brother John Ivey in 1696 (see above).  He remained in Princess Anne through at least 1726, since it is certainly this Lemuel Ivey who purchased his brother’s inheritance of 200 acres from Anthony Ivey’s son Robert Smith Ivey in 1726 and who was sued in 1731.[66]  He was named in his brother George Ivey’s will the same year.  He was surely the Lemuel Ivey “mariner being bound out of country” who left a will in Princess Anne County dated 12 March 1731 and proved 4 September 1734 by “his eldest brother” John Ivy[67], leaving all his estate to his brother John.[68]  John Ivey is thereafter mentioned at least once as executor of his brother Lemuel’s estate.[69]

1.4.   Anthony Ivey  (? – 1725)  He was unmarried.  His will was dated 28 February 1720 and proved 3 November 1725 in Princess Anne County.  The will left his entire estate to his mother Ursula for her lifetime, with an equal division at her death to his brothers Lemuel and George and his sister Sarah.[70]   His mother was executor.

1.5.   George Ivey (? – 1726) George also appears to have died unmarried.  His nuncupative will, dated 26 February 1726, and probated on 5 October 1726, left his entire estate to his brother Lemuel.[71]  Robert Smith Ivey was the deponent.

1.6.   Alice Ivey   She married Samuel Granberry.  On 5 January 1725 Ursula Ivy deeded 100 acres to “my daughter Alice Granberry” the wife of Samuel Granberry, and their children Ursula, Aliffe, Elinor, Ann and Sarah “daughters of Alice and Samuel.”[72]  This land was part of a patent to Willliam Chichester dated 26 April 1684, and was described as part of the land on which Ursula Ivy lived.[73] 

1.7.   Elizabeth Ivey  She married Baron Morse, who claimed her share of Thomas Ivey’s estate in 1713 “in right of his wife Eliz. daughter & legatee of Mr. Thos. Ivy.”[74]  Baron Morse left a will dated 18 August 1735 leaving his estate to sons Thomas and Jonathan, but not mentioning a wife.[75]

1.8.   (Daughter) Ivey  Another daughter was the wife of William West, who on 6 January 1713 claimed a share of the estate “in right of his wife, daughter of Thomas Ivy.”[76]

2.      Mary Ivey  (bef 1660 – aft1683) The Mary Ivey mentioned as a headright in 1665 was apparently a daughter of Thomas Ivey.  The will of James Porter, minister of Lynhaven Parish, dated 8 June 1683 and proved 17 December 1683, mentions his wife Mary, father-in-law Thomas Ivey, and several children.[77]  She is not mentioned in her father’s will the following year. 

3.      Anthony Ivey  (aft1668 - c1714)  This Anthony Ivey was named a godson in the 1681 will of Robert Hodge, a neighbor of his father and husband of Alice Mason.[78]  He was still under 16 in 1684, and may not have reached 21 until 1696 when his brother deeded him his inheritance.  Sometime after 1696, he removed to Queen Anne County, Maryland, where he married Ann Smith, daughter and only heir of Robert Smith of Talbot County, a prominent planter, justice and Burgess.[79]  He was named an executor in the will of Robert Smith, dated 18 March 1706.[80]  This will left some of Smith’s land to his daughter, and Anthony and Ann Ivey sold several of his tracts in Queen Anne County to settle debts of the estate.  The executorship and these sales resulted in a number of court cases in Maryland, which identify Anne Ivey as the daughter and only heir of Robert Smith.[81]   Anthony Ivey was alive in 1713 when he patented land in Queen Anne County[82] and in August 1713 when he was summoned to answer a debt to an apothecary for medicine for “a great and grievous malady.”[83]  He and his wife were deceased by 9 May 1715, when Renatus Smith (Robert’s brother and the other executor) was mentioned as the guardian of their heir, Robert Smith Ivey.[84]  In 1716, Renatus Smith confirmed three deeds originally made by Anthony and Anne Ivey, in each case as guardian for “Robert Smith Ivey the son and heir of said Anthony Ivey (who) is under age”.[85]  In one of these records, Renatus Smith, brother of Robert Smith, petitioned to sell the remaining lands on the grounds that “Robert Smith Esq. dyed possessed of great quantities of land…which can in no wise be serviceable to his heir…they not being anywayes improved or tenable but lye wholly uncultivated and no benefit arising therefrom to discharge the yearly rent…so that before the heir who is very young arrives to full age to possess them the yearly rent will surmount the real value of the lands.”  Renatus Smith himself died by 1720 and Robert Smith Ivey evidently returned to Princess Anne County, Virginia.  On 16 October 1726, Robert Smith Ivey “late of Princess Anne” sold 200 acres in Princess Anne County to Lemuel Ivey.  The land was described as having been left to his father Anthony Ivey by the will of Thomas Vicesimus Ivey.[86] 

3.1.   Robert Smith Ivey (c1702 – c1747)  He must have been born shortly after 5 November 1701 when Alice Cornick made her deed of gift, mentioning that Anthony Ivey had no heirs at the time.[87]  Although he was described as “very young” in the 1716 deeds (see above), he must have been 14 in March 1716 when he chose Renatus Smith as his guardian.[88]  On 24 March 1724/5 Robert Ivy of  Kent County, Maryland, blacksmith, “only son and heir of Anthony Ivy” released a mortgage previously made by Anthony Ivey.[89]  He was still in Kent County on 26 September 1726 when the birth of his daughter Ann was recorded in the St. Paul’s parish register, but four months later on 22 February 1727 he was listed as a “runaway” debtor in Kent County, Maryland, apparently having returned to Virginia.  He apparently witnessed the nuncupative will of his first cousin George Ivey in Princess Anne County early in 1726, for on  5 October 1726 Robert Smith Ivey appeared in the Princess Anne court to prove the will.[90]  He was “late of Princess Anne” on 16 October 1726 when he sold the land his father, Anthony Ivey, had inherited from his grandfather Thomas V. Ivey.  It is possible that he was the same  Robert Ivey who was in North Carolina in present-day Bertie County witnessing a deed in 1729[91] and selling land in 1734.[92]  Whether that was him or not, he returned to Maryland at some point, since on 26 October 1747 Mary , widow of Robert Smith Ivey “son and heir of Anthony Ivy”, now Mary Powell, and her daughter Ann Ivy, “daughter and heiress” of Robert Smith Ivey, sold land in Queen Anne County that had belonged to Robert Smith Ivey.[93] A similar deed by both women three days earlier in Kent County states Robert Ivey was “late of Kent County”.[94]  His wife was described in a 1762 deed as Mary Mackey (see below).

3.1.1.    Ann Ivey (26 September 1726 – aft1762) Her birth to Robert and Mary Ivey is recorded in the St. Paul’s Parish register of Kent County, Maryland.[95]  She married Daniel Hamer of Kent County, Maryland sometime before 1752 when Hamer’s wife Ann was described as the daughter and heir of Robert Ivey, and great-grandaughter and heir of Robert Smith.  On 19 November 1762, Ann Hamer (then a widow) sold land in Kent County in a deed stating that Robert Smith had one child, Ann the wife of Anthony Ivey, and that Anthony Ivey had one child, Robert Smith Ivy who married Mary Mackey, who in turn had only one child, the said Ann the widow of Daniel Hamer.[96]  

4.      Ludford Ivey  (c1665? – aft 1692)   His name may have come from Thomas Vicesimus Ivey’s brother-in-law’s surname.  Thomas Vicesimus Ivey’s will left some land “being Chinkapine Ridge” to his son Ludford.   Chinkapin Ridge was actually located in North Carolina in the Pasquotank Precinct of  Old Albemarle County just south of Princess Anne County.  [The Virginia – North Carolina border was poorly defined at the time, and would not be surveyed for nearly fifty more years.]  Ludford Ivey probably occupied this land, as he witnessed the will of Joseph Alford dated 8 December 1689 in Old Albemarle County.[97]  It seems likely he was located at the time in the Currituck Precinct of Albemarle, because the other two witnesses to the will are found in its records; Joseph Alford himself seems to have been from Princess Anne.  As mentioned above, William Cornick’s January 1691/2 deed of gift of a ring to Ludford Ivy, shows he was still alive at that time.   There is no further record of him.  He may have died shortly after 1692 because he is not mentioned in the wills of his mother, siblings, or stepfather. Nor are there any later Iveys who seem to be children of Ludford.  If he died intestate and without issue, his land would have fallen to his eldest brother Thomas Ivey, which perhaps explains the later sale of land in Pasquotank by John Ivey (see above).

5.      Lemuel Ivey  (c1675? – 1703)  Lemuel was probably the youngest of the sons.  William Cornick, his mother’s husband, made him a deed of gift in 1692[98]  and mentioned him his will dated 7 September 1700.[99]  He may not have reached 21 until 1696 when his brother deeded him his inheritance (see above).  Following her second husband’s death, Alice Cornick made a deed of gift to her son Lemuel Ivey on 5 November 1701.[100]  He died without wife or children, as he left a nuncupative will dated 13 December 1703 in Princess Anne County and proved 3 February 1703/4 by John Cornick and William Capps, who deposed that Lemuel left his entire estate to his mother.[101] 

6.      Agnes Ivey  (by 1663 – bef1694?)  She is apparently one of the elder daughters, as she was mentioned in John Sidney’s will of 1663.  [I’m curious as to why John Sidney singled her out in his will.  Did she have the same name as Sidney’s wife?]  She isn’t likely to have been the eldest child because she wasn’t mentioned as a headright, thus was probably born in Virginia.  Her father’s will of 1684 does not indicate that she was married, but it seems likely that she married Patrick Angus not long thereafter, as she is the only daughter who seems to be old enough to have been the mother of the grandchild Elizabeth Angus mentioned in Alice Cornick’s will.  [It is certainly possible, however, that Elizabeth Angus was the child’s married name.]  Patrick Angus, who was clerk of court in Princess Anne, seems to have been the only Angus in the area, and witnessed a variety of Ivey transactions.  Whichever Ivey daughter (if any) was his wife, she evidently died before 1694 when Patrick and Mary Angus witnessed the first of several deeds together.[102]  The 1698 will of John Sullivan identified Patrick Angus as his son-in-law, husband of Mary Sullivan.[103]  Patrick Angus himself was dead by 20 November 1700 when an inventory was filed by his widow Mary.[104]  By May 1702 Thomas Ivey, as guardian of his son Patrick Angus Jr., petitioned to have Cason Moore, who had married Angus’ widow, deliver to him the estate belonging to the boy.[105]  The boy Patrick Angus is shown in the 1704 quit rents with 200 acres in Princess Anne, and he was one of the witnesses to Alice Cornick’s will in 1708.  Perhaps the granddaughter Elizabeth Angus was his younger sister.  She could, however, have been his wife, whose maiden name is unknown. [Note, however, the possibility that the wife of Patrick Angus Jr. was Hannah Angus, mentioned above.]

7.      Katherine Ivey  (by1663 – aft1684)  She was probably the goddaughter Kate Ivy mentioned in John Sidney’s 1663 will.  She was “Katherine Taylor” in her father’s 1684 will.  I don’t know which Taylor she married.  It is possible that she was previously married to Morris Fitzgerald Sr. [see note below].

8.      Frances Ivey  (c1680? - ?)  She was one of the two youngest daughters in her father’s will.  There is no further record of her.

9.      Elizabeth Ivey  (c1680? - ?)  She was one of the two youngest daughters in her father’s will.  She was not the same person who married Baron Morse (see 1.7 above).  There is no further record of her.
 

10.  Aliffe Ivey  (c1685 - ?)  She was apparently born after her father made his will, for she was not mentioned in it.  William Cornick’s deed of January 1692 (see above) identifies her as Aliff Ivy, daughter of his wife Alice.  By the time of her mother’s will of 1708 she had become her daughter “Aliff Cornick.”  She is thought to have married John Cornick, youngest son of William Cornick and his first wife Elizabeth, who had deposed his age to be 25 when he witnessed Lemuel Ivey’s will in 1703.[106]  John Cornick’s will dated 21 March 1726/7 and proved 3 May 1727 mentions her and children Lemuel, Aliff White, Elizabeth Cannon, Frances Woodhouse, Mary White, and Sarah.[107]  [This Aliff Ivey has been confused with her grandniece Aliff Ivey, the wife of Mathias Miller, in some printed genealogies.]

Note on Morris  Fitzgerald:  One of the daughters was apparently the wife of a Fitzgerald, and the mother of the grandchild Morris Fitzgerald mentioned in Alice Ivey’s 1708 will.  A Morris “Fegarrell" had patented 200 acres in Lower Norfolk on 26 April 1670 in right of his wife Katherine the relict of Roger Howard.[108]  The will of "Morris Fitsgarrall" was proved 16 January 1678/9, leaving his property to his wife Katherine.[109]  "Katheren Fitsgarrall" on the same date left her plantation and dwelling to her "sonne in law Henry Fitsgarrall" apparently meaning her stepson, Morris Fitzgerald’s son by a prior wife.[110]  She may have had a child of her own, for a second Morris Fitzgerald died in Princess Anne County by 1 June 1715 when his inventory was recorded.[111]  The 1736 court case referenced above tells us that Morris Fitzgerald the younger died without issue and his half-brother Henry Fitzgerald seized his land, which by 1736 had descended to Henry’s daughter.  The plaintiff, evidently John Ivey, identified his father Thomas Ivey as the maternal uncle of Morris Fitzgerald.  Although it would make her older than we might otherwise think, it could be that Katherine Ivey married Roger Howard, was widowed, married Morris Fitzgerald Sr., then had remarried to a Taylor in time to be called Katherine Taylor when her father’s will was written in 1684.  That would suggest that her son Morris Fitzgerald was born sometime in the 1670s and was certainly of age by the time he was mentioned in Alice Ivey’s 1708 will.  There are, of course, alternative explanations.