Abigail married John "Jehu" Brown on 24 Apr 1778 in Loudoun County, Virginia. John was born on 11 Jun 1753 in Chester County, Pennsylvania. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

From "The Descendents of John Rhodes (of Stafford County, Virginia) Website)"

Moses Rhodes received a Negro called Mallow from his fathers estate. He married the daughter of William Mead, a Quaker, in Loudon County, Virginia. The Fairfax Monthly Meeting records that Rhodes - Mary, formerly Mead, reported married out of un ity 30-3-1747; she wanted to make satisfaction but her husband objected, so she was dismissed 30-5-1748 and restored 29-4-1758 and her children received on her request. Women's Meeting notes: Mary Rhodes several years past went out in marriage a nd suffered herself to be dismissed, for which she now confesses her great fault and asks to be received with her children. Moses Rhodes was living on William Meads' lands in 1764, when a land grant to Mr. Joseph Hough of Loudon Co, 125 A on Kit toctan Mt on Secolon was described as "Adj Moses Rhodes formerly William Meads, Col John Carlyles, Francis Hagues now Charles Burns."

His will is dated July 1769, I Moses Rhodas of the county of Loudon and colony of Virginia being very sick and weak in body. As the real estate in land which I now posess is will'd to Mary my dearly beloved wife by her father during the course o f her natural life and after her decease to the heirs of her body I do and with her consent give and bequesth the said estate to my two sons William and John after my wifes decease. My son William shall pay my son Thomas 30 pounds and my son Joh n shall pay my son Joseph 30 pounds as soon as they posses their share of the above land. My five daughters Hannah, Mary, Abigail, Elizabeth, Ann shall have paid to them 5 pounds current money when of age. Wife Mary sole executrix. Proved by aff irmation at the Court for Loudon county 13 Nov 1769. William Mead served as security.

Moses married Mary Mead on 30 Aug 1747 in Loudoun County, Virginia. Mary was born in 1732 in Bucks County, Pennsylvania; died before 1787 in Loudoun County, Virginia; was buried in Goose Creek Cemetery, Lincoln, Loudoun County, Virginia. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

MARY MEAD, m. (1) Moses Rhodes, who died in 1769; m. (2) on the 8 Feb. 1775, John Brown at Fairfax Monthly Meeting of Quakers as shown on list of marriages copied from their records and filed in Loudoun County Clerk's Office. The will of Moses R hodes, dated July, 1769, probated the 13 Nov. 1769, and recorded in Loudoun County, Va., is as follows:

"IN THE NAME OF GOD AMEN. The ? Day of July One Thousand Seven hundred and Sixty nine I Moses Rhodes of the County of Loudoun and Colony of Virginia being very sick and weak in Body but of perfect Mind and Memory thanks be given to God : Therefo re calling unto Mind the Mortality of my Body and knowing that it is appointed for all Men once to Die Do make and ordain this my last Will and Testament viz

Principally and first of all I give and recommend my Soul into the Hands of Almighty God that gave it and my Body I recommend to the Earth to be decently buried not doubting but at the general Resurrection I shall Receive the same again by the m ighty power of God.

1st. As the Real Estate in Land which I now Possess is Will'd to Mary my dearly Beloved Wife by her Father during the Term of her Natural Life and after her Decease to the Heirs of her Body Lawful), Begotten, I do therefore by and with her conse nt give and Bequeath the said Estate in Land to my two Sons William and John after my Wife's Decease to be equally Divided between them And if either of them Die with-out Lawful Heirs then the share of Land belonging to the Deceased to fall to o r belong to the Survivor.

2d. My two Sons William and John aforementioned shall each of them pay Thirty Pound Currant Money of this Colony viz My Son William shall pay to my son Thomas Thirty pound and my son John shall pay to my Son Joseph Thirty pound of like Currant M oney as aforesaid as soon as they shall Possess their aforesaid Shares of Land.

3d. My five Daughters viz: Hannah, Mary, Abigail, Elizabeth and Ann shall have paid to each of them when of age out of my Whole Estate five Pound Currant Money of this Colony.

4th. I constitute make and Ordain Mary my Beloved Wife Sole Executrix of this my last Will and Testament and I do hereby utterly disallow revoke and disannull all and every other former Testaments, Wills, Legacies, Bequests, and Executors, by m e in any ways beforenamed Will'd and Bequeathed, Ratifying and Confirming this and no other to be my last Will and Testament.

IN WITNESS whereof I have hereunto set my Hand and Seal the Day and Year above Written.

MOSES RHODES (Seal)

Signed Sealed Published pronounced and declared by the said Moses Rhodes as his last Will and Testament in the presence of us the sub-scribers

WM. BAKER."

The foregoing will was proved by the "Affirmation of William Baker (a Quaker)"; and Mary Rhodes qualified as executrix with William Mead as her surety.

From the foregoing will it appears that William Mead, the father of Mary Rhodes, had a will in 1769 by which he had bequeathed certain land to his daughter, Mary Rhodes, for her life with remainder to the heirs of her body lawfully begotten ; bu t he revoked this bequest by a later will, which is copied in his sketch, and changed it so as to read as follows: "I give and bequeath unto my daughter, Mary Brown, that tract of land whereon Moses Rhodes died, which was surveyed for him by Joh n Hough, containing two hundred acres, adjoining the Kittocton mountains?to hold to her the said Mary during her natural life, & after her decease?unto her two sons, William & Thomas Rhodes?they paying their brother Joseph ten pounds each." Th e occasion of this change may have been the subsequent marriage of Mary Rhodes and John Brown ; and John Rhodes, her son, had probably died intestate and with-out issue before the last will was made in 1780.

Their mother had probably died before 1787 for, in that year, Thomas Rhodes conveyed his interest in the Mead farm to his brother, William Rhodes, the deed reciting that the two brothers then lived in Ohio?Thomas in Hamilton County, and Willia m in Columbiana County. William doubtless re-turned to Virginia, and settled in Bedford County, where both he and his brother Joseph, on the 3 Nov. 1806, witnessed the will of their uncle, William Mead No. 7.

The third item of the will of Moses Rhodes would seem to indicate that none of his five daughters were of age in 1769. As Hannah heads the list she must have been the oldest daughter, and she may have been the oldest of the nine children mention ed in the will, but there is nothing to indicate that her brothers were younger than she. Assuming that the youngest of the nine children was two years old in 1769 ,and allowing two years between each child, it may be assumed approximately tha t Mary Mead and Moses Rhodes were married at a date between 1740 and 1750. If, therefore, their daughter Hannah were the oldest of the five daughters, she was probably older than some of her four brothers, and was likely eighteen years of age wh en her father died in 1769, so that her birth would have occurred not far from 1750. For reasons stated in the sketch of Robert Mead, No. 6, who was born between 1744 and 1754, it is firmly believed that he married Hannah Rhodes about the year 1 770.

Source: Mead Relations, pp. 28-31.

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Will of John Rhodes
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(Research):Ruth & Sam Sparacio, Stafford County Virginia Will Book Liber O 1748-1767 (McLean, VA. 1987. Privately published.), Family History Library, 35 N West Temple Street, Salt Lake City, Utah 84150 USA, US/CAN 975.526 P2s v.O. "LIVING: (original page 163-64) Pg 33. Yearly rents due to the estate of Capt. William Brent. John Rhodes paid 830 pounds of tobacco in 1746,47,48 and 49."

The Overwharton parish birth records help provide a reference point in working backward to determine John's age.

John d. 1748 was a tenant on William Brent's land in Stafford and his wife Anne was paying rent in 1750. By 1753 Anne had remarried Robert Fristoe
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Rhodes, Ann Married Robert Fristoe, February 23, 1752
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1748-1767 Stafford County, Virginia Will Book O; [Antient Press]; pp. 163-164
A List of the Rents Belonging to the Estate of Capt. WILLIAM BRENT Deced,Virginia
Yearly Rent?tab?1746 pd ?tab?1747 pd ?tab?1748pd?tab?1749 pd
John Rhodes ?tab?830 ?tab??tab?830 ?tab?830 ?tab?830 ?tab?830
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1748-1767 Stafford County, Virginia Will Book O; [Antient Press]; pp. 208-210
Rents received for William Brent fo r the year 1750, CHARLES BRENT, CHARLES
CARIER, Revd. WILLIAM STUART, JOHN MERCER, JAMES BATTOE, Transfer, GEORGE BUSH,
JOHN PURNEL , MASON COMBS, BENJAMIN DERRICK, THOMAS EAVES, GRIFFIN JONES, MARY
KNI GHT, WILLIAM KIRK, Mrs . MARY BRENT, JONATHAN MOORE, ALEXANDER NELSON, JOHN
WATERS, Mrs. Rhodes, ADAM ADKISON, DUNCAN SIMPSON, JOHN MURPHY, PETER CASH,
Mrs . . Massey, JAMES BURN , GEORGE JOHNSON, SILVESTER MOSS, WILLIAM LORD, PETER
HEDGMAN, ROBT. EDWARDS not paid. Memorandum for the Satisfaction of the Court
of the Several sums of Toho paid out of the rents yr Vizt - Mr. Rosse, Jackson,
Cunningham, the miller , JOHN HAnlOOD, THOMAS EAVES for Taylors work, Mr. Burgess,
Capt. Strother, Clks fee 10802 540/00

1748-1767 Stafford County, Virginia Will Book O; [Antient Press];
pp. 29-30 In name of God Amen I JOHN RHODES being in perfect mind .. do bequeath 29- my Estate in manner followeth vizt .. First I lend my loving Wife ANN RHODES during her natural life all my personal Estate .. and after her decease I do give .. unto my son MOSES RHODES my Negro Mallow also my son JOHN RHODES I do give one Desk and cow & calf .. and also to my Daughter MARY RHODES one feather bed & furniture and one cow & calf for ever .. and to my Daughter ABIGAIL ALLEN I do give one feather bed & furniture and one Cow & Calf and to my Daughter SARAH NETHATON 6 head of sheep .. and also to my Daughter HANNAH WATERS three head of sheep .. also to my Daughter KATHERINE I do give one Feather bed & furniture and a Cow & Calf .. my Estate to be equally divided among my five daughters and two sons and I appoint JOHN CARTER my whole and sole Executor of this my Last Will & Testament.
Test - Calvert Porter, John Rodes
Saml. Porter
At Court held for Stafford County 13th Decr 1748 This Will was produced into Court by John Carter the Executor therein named .. performing what is usual Certificate is granted him for a probate in due form .

John married Ann MNU Rhodes before 1716 in Virginia. Ann was born about 1695 in Virginia; died in 1759 in Overwharton Parish, Stafford County, Virginia. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]