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- Early Virginia Immigrants 1623-1666 by George Cabel Greer
Mentions of any Walter Chiles........
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Chiles, Walter, Jr., 1638, by Walter Chiles, Charles Citie Co.
Early Virginia Immigrants; 1623-1666
C
Chiles, Eliza, 1638, by Walter Chiles, Charles Citie Co.
Early Virginia Immigrants; 1623-1666
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Chiles, Wm., 1638, by Walter Chiles, Charles Citie Co.
Early Virginia Immigrants; 1623-1666
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Chiles, Walter, Sr., 1638, by Walter Chiles, Charles Citie Co.
Early Virginia Immigrants; 1623-1666
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Cole, Sarah, 1638, by Walter Chiles, Charles City Co.
Early Virginia Immigrants; 1623-1666
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Cole, Sarah, 1638, by Walter Chiles, Charles Citie Co.
Early Virginia Immigrants; 1623-1666
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Fulton, Henry, 1638, by Walter Chiles, Charles City Co.
Early Virginia Immigrants; 1623-1666
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Gerris, Stephen, 1642, by Walter Chiles, Charles Co.
Early Virginia Immigrants; 1623-1666
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Gerry, John, 1638, by Walter Chiles, Charles Citie Co.
Early Virginia Immigrants; 1623-1666
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Gerry, John, 1638, by Walter Chiles, Charles City Co.
Early Virginia Immigrants; 1623-1666
K
page 193
[p.193] Kimberlin, Jon., 1642, by Walter Chiles, Charles Co.
Early Virginia Immigrants; 1623-1666
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Potery, Ann, 1642, by Walter Chiles, Charles Co.
Early Virginia Immigrants; 1623-1666
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Shaw, Walter, 1638, by Walter Chiles, Charles City Co.
Early Virginia Immigrants; 1623-1666
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Straw, John, 1638, by Walter Chiles, Charles Citie Co.
Early Virginia Immigrants; 1623-1666
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Tutton, Hen., 1638, by Walter Chiles, Charles Citie Co.
Early Virginia Immigrants; 1623-1666
W
Webb, William, 1642, by Walter Chiles, Charles Co.
Source Information:
Ancestry.com. Virginia Immigrants, 1623-66 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations Inc, 1997.
Original data: Greer, George Cabel. Early Virginia Immigrants 1623-1666. Richmond, VA, USA: W. C. Hill Printing Co., 1912.
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Passenger and Immigration Lists Index, 1500s-1900s about Walter Chiles
Name: Walter Chiles
Year: 1637-1638
Place: Virginia
Source Publication Code: 9448
Primary Immigrant: Chiles, Walter
Annotation: In the years from 1925 to 1942, Frederick A. Virkus edited seven volumes with the title, The Abridged Compendium of American Genealogy, published in Chicago by the Institute of American Genealogy. Each volume has a section in the main body of the work, co
Source Bibliography: VIRKUS, FREDERICK A., editor. Immigrant Ancestors: A List of 2,500 Immigrants to America before 1750. Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Co., 1964. 75p. Repr. 1986.
Page: 20
Source Citation: Place: Virginia; Year: 1637-1638; Page Number: 20.
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Name: Walter Chiles
Year: 1638
Place: Virginia
Source Publication Code: 6219
Primary Immigrant: Chiles, Walter
Annotation: Date and place where land was patented and record was created listing those transported/imported. Only the names of those to be transported were indexed. Abstracted from Land Office records located at the Virginia State Library. See also source numbers 62
Source Bibliography: NUGENT, NELL M. Cavaliers and Pioneers: A Calendar of Virginia Land Grants, 1623-1800. Vol. 1:1-6. Richmond, VA: Dietz Printing Co., [1929-1931. Although vol. 6 ends with the year 1695, no other volumes were published.]
Page: 118
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Name: Walter Chiles
Year: 1638
Place: Virginia
Source Publication Code: 6220
Primary Immigrant: Chiles, Walter
Annotation: Record of 20,000 very early immigrants, with much relevant information. Taken from Patent Books 1 through 5. Title page states, "In 5 volumes," but up to 1979 only three had appeared. See nos. 6221 and 6223 for second and third volumes, published in 1977
Source Bibliography: NUGENT, NELL MARION. Cavaliers and Pioneers: Abstracts of Virginia Land Patents and Grants, 1623-1666. Vol. 1. Richmond [VA]: Dietz Printing Co., 1934. 767p. Reprinted by Genealogical Publishing Co., Baltimore, 1983.
Page: 87
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Name: Walter Chiles
Year: 1638
Place: Virginia
Family Members: Wife Elizabeth; Son William; Son Walter
Source Publication Code: 6220
Primary Immigrant: Chiles, Walter
Annotation: Record of 20,000 very early immigrants, with much relevant information. Taken from Patent Books 1 through 5. Title page states, "In 5 volumes," but up to 1979 only three had appeared. See nos. 6221 and 6223 for second and third volumes, published in 1977
Source Bibliography: NUGENT, NELL MARION. Cavaliers and Pioneers: Abstracts of Virginia Land Patents and Grants, 1623-1666. Vol. 1. Richmond [VA]: Dietz Printing Co., 1934. 767p. Reprinted by Genealogical Publishing Co., Baltimore, 1983.
Page: 103
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Name: Walter Chiles
Year: 1638
Place: Virginia
Source Publication Code: 2772
Primary Immigrant: Chiles, Walter, Jr
Annotation: Includes 25,000 names from records of the Virginia State Land Office. Excerpts of the Irish names from the Greer list were published in no. 6258, O'Brien, Early Immigrants to Virginia....
Source Bibliography: GREER, GEORGE CABELL. Early Virginia Immigrants, 1623-1666. Richmond [Va.]: W.C. Hill Printing Co., 1912, 376p. Reprinted by Genealogical Publishing Co., Baltimore, 1978. Repr. 1982.
Page: 66
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Name: Walter Chiles
Year: 1638
Place: Virginia
Source Publication Code: 2772
Primary Immigrant: Chiles, Walter, Sr
Annotation: Includes 25,000 names from records of the Virginia State Land Office. Excerpts of the Irish names from the Greer list were published in no. 6258, O'Brien, Early Immigrants to Virginia....
Source Bibliography: GREER, GEORGE CABELL. Early Virginia Immigrants, 1623-1666. Richmond [Va.]: W.C. Hill Printing Co., 1912, 376p. Reprinted by Genealogical Publishing Co., Baltimore, 1978. Repr. 1982.
Page: 66
Source Information:
Gale Research. Passenger and Immigration Lists Index, 1500s-1900s [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc, 2010.
Original data: Filby, P. William, ed. Passenger and Immigration Lists Index, 1500s-1900s. Farmington Hills, MI, USA: Gale Research, 2010.
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New World Immigrants, Vol. I, page 100
A Booke of Accompts for the Shippe called the "Tristram and Jeane" of London which came from Virginia Anno Domini 1637
"Thomas Sully, according to the "Accompts," purchased Sarah Cole, but sold her to Walter Chiles, merchant, for on May 2, 1638, she is one of the headrights listed in a patent issued to Walter Chiles for 250 acres on the Appomattox River, Charles City County." (16)
Reference:
(16) Nugent, Cavaliers and Pioneers, p. 87.
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Cavaliers and Pioneers. Abstracts of Virginia Land Patents and Grants, 1623-1666
Abstracted and Indexed by Nell Marion Nugent, 1934
Virginia Land Office
Richmond, Virginia
02 May 1638
Vol. I
Patent Book 1, Part II
page 87
Walter Chiles, Merchant, 250 acs. in Apamattuck Riv. in Chas. Citty Co., 2 May 1638, p. 551. Nly. & Sly. upon the river, Wly. into the woods from a Sw. on this side a Cr. above land of Edward Tonstall. Due for his own per. adv. & trans. of 4 pers: Henry Tutton, Jon. Gerry, Jon. Shaw, Sarah Cole. Note: Renewed & 150 acs. added.
01 March 1638
page 103-104
Walter Chiles, 400 acs. Chas. Citty Co., 1 Mar. 1638, p. 625. W. upon Apamattuck Riv., N. upon land of Edward Tunstall & S. towards the falls. 200acs. for the per. advs. of himself, his wife Elizabeth Chiles, his sons: William & Walter, & 200 acs. for trans. of 4 pers: Hen. Tutton, Jon Gerry, Jon. Shaw, Sarah Cole.
20 October 1642
page 140
Walter Chiles, 613 acs. Charles City Co., Oct. 20, 1642, Page 859. At Appamattocke River, beg. at the upward bound of Mr. Tunstalls land & adj. William Sanders. Due by virtue of a former patent & trans. of 4 pers: William Webb, Stephen Gerris, Jon Kimberlin, Ann Potery.
05 Nov. 1649
Patent Book 2
page 186-187
Walter Chiles, Gent., 813 acs. Chas. City Co., 5 Nov. 1649, p. 193. Lyeing upon the Sly. side of Appomattuck Riv., 200 acs. thereof bounded N. W. upon the river. E. N. E. upon the other devidend of 600 acs., a deep bottom parting it W. S. W. unto a run of water that parteth this from land of Nath. Tatum; the other 613 acs. beg. at the upward bounds of Mr. Tonstalls land, & W. N. W. upon the river. 200 acs. granted to William Sanders, 10 Oct. 1640 & by him assigned unto Walter Brooke, & by Brooke to William Thomas alias Fluellin, & purchased by Chiles of sd. Thomas. The other 613 acs. granted to sd. Chiles 20 Oct. 1642.
page 189
Walter Chiles, Gent., 813 acs. Chas. City Co., 5 Nov. 1648, p. 203. Confirmation of pattent dated 20 Oct. 1642.
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Virginia Land Records
Charles City County Patents Issued During the Regal Government
pages 29, 30 & 33
These records show some of the same from Cavaliers and Pioneers. Abstracts of Virginia Land Patents and Grants, 1623-1666
Source Information: Ancestry.com
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Surry County Records
Book 1, 1652-1672
page 5
Page 28. 9 April 1653 Wm. Edwards...makes over to Mr. Walter Chiles, merchant, two men servants, one name Lewys Delonbatt, ye other Francis Ware, and cows and hogs ye Corker bought of Wm. Turner, and Wm. Edwards makes over on behalf of William Corker unto the aforesaid Mr. Chiles for the security of a certain sum of tobacco, bed, and furniture, being at Mr. Corker's house. Wit.: Jeames Jolly, Sarah Edwards.
page 15
Page 84. Thomas Peeters authorizes Mr. Thos. Pittman atty. Peeters left a boat in Jno. Bishopp's Creek and the sail at his house to be sent to Mr. Walter Chiles at Jamestown, but Mr. Wm. Edwards came and received sd. boat and made us of it for himself and sold the boat to Mr. Wood & More, of Pagan's Creek, etc.
page 30
Page 127. Dec. 1652. Sir Wm. Berkeley discharged Wm. Edwards of a bond of 16,000 lbs of tob. Mr. Edwards security for Nathaniel Silvester, Apr. 1644, and by order of Court free from bond, Assigned to sd Shears April 1659.
Wit.: Walter Chiles
Source Information:
Ancestry.com. Surry County Records [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations Inc, 2006.
Original data: Davis, Eliza Timberlake. Surry County Records. Baltimore, MD, USA: Genealogical Publishing Co., 1995.
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CAMPBELL COUNTY, VA - HISTORY - Campbell Chronicles and Family Sketches
Family Sketches - Chiles
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CAMPBELL CHRONICLES and FAMILY SKETCHES
Embracing the History of CAMPBELL COUNTY, VIRGINIA
1782-1926
By R. H. EARLY
With Illustrations
J. P. BELL COMPANY
LYNCHBURG, VIRGINIA 1927
Chiles
The name Chiles, originally Child, became Childs and, after coming to
Virginia, was commonly written Chiles. The family was of Irish extraction.
Colonel Walter Chiles was a member of the Council.
John Chiles patented 9OO acres of land in Hanover county in 1661; he settled
in Caroline county where he entered 3OO acres of land. In 1693 he was a
Messenger of the Virginia Council, was a member of the Assembly in 1723 and died
that year-He married Margaret . . . .and was the father of Henry Chiles, who
bought 4OO acres of land on the north side of the Pamunkey river, Hanover
county, in 17O2; was a justice of the peace in New Kent in 1714; bore the title
of captain; was a vestryman in the Episcopal church; died in 172O.
Anna Chiles married Henry Terrell.
Henry Chiles, married Ann Harrelson, and lived in Amelia county where he held
the position of commissioner of the peace. He entered large tracts of land in
Pittsylvania county and its vicinity; in 17-45, patented 1O4 acres on the south
side of Staunton river; in 1746, patented land on Staunton river opposite the
mouth of Otter river, four tracts on Falling river, also 25O acres and 30O acres
on the north side of the Staunton. Children of Henry and Ann H. Chiles:
-Paul, married Anne in 1748 he patented 4OO acres adjoining Henry, Susanna
and Elizabeth Chiles.
-Henry, Jr.,
-John
-Ann, married John Ward, in 1751 she patented 245 acres on Staunton river,
including the mouth of Hills creek.
-Susanna, married Micajah Moorman;
-Elizabeth:
The Woodson family-book gives the following Chiles' connections: Captain
Chiles, married Lucy Woodson; son, Henry Chiles, married Sarah Cheadle. John
Cheadle, m. 1st, Mary Ellen Winston, m. 2nd, Lucy Coleman. Children of Henry and
Sarah Cheadle-Chiles: Tarleton W., m. Nancy, dau. Of John Chiles,-Fleming, m.
Miss Winn,-Judith W., m. Meriwether Smith,-Nancy, m. George Coleman,-Lucy W., m.
Wm. McLaughlin,?UCtab?UDElizabeth, m. William Wawes-Blaydes, -Edna F., m. Dr. Daniel
McFall. Children of John Chiles and Mary E. Winston,-Samuel, was a member of
Virginia Legislature from Caroline,-Lucy, m. John Coleman of Winchester,
Kentucky,-Nancy, m. Tarleton W. Chiles, the son of Henry and Sarah Cheadle-Chiles.
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Act of the Virginia General Assembly concerning a land patent to Walter Austin
et al. for land in Virginia
Virginia. General Assembly.
March 02, 1643
Volume 01, Page 17
[Hening's Virginia Statutes at Large-March, 1643-Vol. 1, P. 262.]
FOR as much as Walter Austin, Rice Hoe, Joseph Johnson and Walter Chiles for
themselves and such others as they shall think fitt to joyn with them, did
petition in the Assembly in June 1641 for leave and encouragement to undertake
the discovery of a new river or unknown land bearing west southerly from
Appomattake river.
Be it enacted and confirmed that they and every of them and whom they admitt
shall enjoy and possess to them their heires, executors or administrators or
assigns all profitt whatsoever they in their particular adventure can make
unto themselves by such discovery aforesaid, for fourteen years after the date
of the said month January 1641,
Provided there be reserved and paid unto his majests use by them that shall be
appointed to receive the same, the fifth part Royall Mines whatsoever,
Provided also, that if they shall think fitt to employ more than two or three
men in the said discovery that they shall then do it by commission from the
Governour and Counsell
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Lieut. Col. Walter Chiles
Lyon G. Tyler
William and Mary College Quarterly Historical Papers, Vol, 1,
No. 2 (Oct., 1892), pp. 75-78.
Page 75.
LIEUT. COL. WALTER CHILES.
BY THE EDITOR.
He was perhaps the "Walter Chiles, merchant," who was granted
1st of March, 1638, 400 acres in Charles City county (in that
portion known afterwards as Prince George), near the falls of
the Appomattox River, "50 acres being due to him for his own
personal adventure; 50 acres for his wife, Elizabeth; 50 acres
for his son William, and 50 acres for his son Walter, and 200
acres for the transportation" to the colony of four other persons.
A second grant was made to him of 250 acres, due "for his own
personal adventure" and the transportation of four persons, 2d
May, 1638.(1)
Walter Chiles, the merchant, was perhaps the burgess from
Charles City in 1642-43, and at the session he was appointed
with Walter Austin, Rice Hooe, and Joseph Johnson and "such
others as they shall think fit to joyn them" to undertake the dis-
covery of "a new river or unknowne land, bearing west southerly
from Appomattocke River." (2)
In November, 1645, Walter Chiles represented James City
county in the House of Burgesses. (3) He was a representative
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(1) Land Office.
(2) Hening Stats., 1, 239.262.
(3) Hen. Stats., 1, p. 299.
Page 76.
again in 1645-46, and in 1649. (1) In the Northampton records
15th June, 1652, it is stated that Walter Chiles sailed from
Rotterdam in his own ship, "The Fame of Virginia." After being
for a time in Accomac waters the ship sailed for James City,
and was pursued and captured by Capt. Robert Henfield, who
held a commission from the "Protectors of the Liberties of Eng-
land;" three hours after which in Hungar's Road, Eastern shore,
the ship "Hopeful Adventure," Capt. Richard Husband, came
up and made seizure under pretext that Chiles had no license.
The Court of Northampton ordered a release. Thereupon, Richard
Husband and his prize sailed away, to the great indignation of
the commissioners thereof. It being rumored that the County
would be called upon by the commissioners to pay a large sum of
money to Walter Chiles, some of the inhabitants met in Dr. Hacke's
"old field," where Stephen Horsey called the commissioners a
company of "asses and villyans."
At the Assembly which convened July 5,1652, Gov. Bennet sent a
note to the House of Burgesses in which, after protesting that he
did not intend 'to intrench upon the right of Assemblies in the
free choice of a Speaker, nor to undervalue Lefft. Col. Chiles,"
advised(2) "that it was not so proper nor so convenient at this
time to make choice of him, for that there is something to be
agitated in this Assembly concerning a shipp lately arrived, in
which Lefft. Coll. Chiles hath some interest.
The Burgesses, however, did not seem inclined to take the advice
of their Governor, for the record states that "Left. Col. Walter
Chiles" was chosen, next day, by a plurality of votes, Speaker of
the Assembly, It is, however, to the honor of Col. Chiles, that he
at once declined the election, having represented(3) "to the house
his extraordinarie occasions in regarding to the dispatch of some
shipping now in the country in which he is
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(1) Ibid, 322, 358.
(2) Ibid, 377.
(3) Ibid, 378.
Page 77.
much interested." At the same session, Chiles was allowed to have
the ship "Leopoldus" for L400 sterling, said ship having been
confiscated for violation of the navigation laws.
On July 26, 1653, the Court of Northampton, according to an order
of the late Assembly, (determined upon despite a petition of part
of the inhabitants of the county, representing that the rumors of
their disloyalty to parliament was false, and their complaint was
against the taxes laid, on account of Capt. Chiles' ship) declared
"all the subscribers of that writing called a protest incapable
of holding office."
In 1671, under date of April 4th, Walter Chiles appeared in
behalf of his sons, John and Henry, relative to 1,500 acres of
land in Westmoreland county. According to the notes of Dr. E.
D. Neill, Walter Chiles was the son-in-law of Col. John Page(1)
and probably, had married his daughter Mary.(2) The Ludwell
MSS. (in Va. Historical Society) show that he was dead before
May 15, 1672, when his widow, Susannah, received a grant for
200 acres in James City County, in Passbehayes for 99 years on
account of buildings and improvements on the Main there, according
to an order of the General Court of June 7, 1638, for strengthening
the Main on this side Powhatan Swamp by leasing it out in parcels.
In Sept., 1693, the same year, John Chiles was appointed messenger
to the Council (Council Journal MS).
On June the 25th, 1683, judgment was entered in York Court in
favor of "Mr. Henry Tyler as marrying Elizabeth Chiles against
Maj. Otho Thorpe for the payment of twenty-one pounds sterling,
with costs of suit als execucon."
Col. Page in his will dated March 5, 1686-87, and recorded
February 24, 1691-92, speaks(3) of his grandson. John
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(1) Neill's "Va. Carolorum," p. 232.
(2) See note on John Page to "the Digges family," next issue of
Quarterly.
(3) Letters and Times of the Tylers, 1, p. 49.
Page 78.
Chiles, and his "grandsonne John Tyler." sonne of my grand-daughter,
Elizabeth Tyler" At a county court held for York County, June 24,
1707, John Tyler, who describes himself "as son of Mr. Henry Tyler
of York County and grandson of Col. John Page, formerly of ye sd
county dec'd," came into court and acknowledged a receipt(1) from
John Page, of ye county of Gloucester, of L50 sterling "for a
legacie left me (the said Henry Tyler) by the last will and testament
of ye said Coll. John Page, dec'd." Under the will of Col. Page,
John Tyler(2) received land in the forks of the swamp Powhatan, in
James City county where, until a few years ago, there stood a modest
brick building, which was built by him.
Col. John Page left a ring of twenty shillings to his "grandson,
John Chiles." In St. Peters Parish Register, New Kent county, are
the entries of the baptism between 1699 and 1706 of Henry, Walter
and James, children of Henry Chiles, Gent. Hanover county ws taken
from New Kent in ------; and 6 Sept. 1735, Henry Chiles sold lands
on Southern Branch, Hanover county. Louisa county was taken from
Hanover and in 1772 James Chiles and Elizabeth, his wife, were
living there. By his will proved 10 Oct., 1774, John Chiles left
his estate to his neices Olive Edwards, daughter of Joseph Martin
and Susannah his wife and to Mary, daughter of John Wright and
Jane, his wife.
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(1) Ibid. Note 1, p. 49.
(2) This John Tyler was great-grandfather of President John
Tyler. -- See "Letters and Times of the Tylers."
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The
Statutes at Large
Being
a Collection
of All the
Laws of Virginia
from the
First Session of the Legislature,
in the Year 1619.
By William Waller Hening
Volume II.
New York, 1823
pp. 196-197, At an Assembly, Held at James City by Prorogation from
the __ of December [1662] to this 10th of September 1663, ...
The Honourable Sir William Berkeley Knt. Governor and Capt. General
of Virginia.
Captain Robert Wynne Speaker.
Burgesses present.
James County.
Capt. Robt. Ellyson,
Mr. Walter Chiles,
Capt. Edward Rainsey.
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Extensive records for the Chiles Family of America by Janice Kinsler Smith found at http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~janiceksmith/chiles/ index.html
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Descendants of Walter Chiles
First Generation
1. Walter CHILES Lt. Col. was born about 1600 in England 1 and died in 1653 in Virginia 2 about age 53.
General Notes: "Lt. Col. Walter Chiles emigrated from England to Virginia before 1638 bringing with him, evidently in his own ship, his wife Elizabeth, sons William and Walter and four other persons. For these emigrants he was awarded 400 acres in Charles City (now Prince George) County near the falls of Appomattox River. On May 2, 1638 he received a further grant of 250 acres on the Appomattox River; in March 1638, 613 acres in Charles City. He also bought 813 acres from William Thomas in the same county. (Sevier and Madden, Sevier Family History , p.512)
Patent Book I, Part 2, 1 Mar 1639: "To all to whome these presents shall come I Sr John Harvey... Governr.... graunt unto Walter Chiles fower hundred acres of land Scituate lying and bein in the Countie of Charles Cittie upon Apamattuck river Westerly upon the river Easterly into the woods Northerly upon the land of Edward Tunstall and Southerly towards the falls. The Said fower hundred acres of Land being due unto him the Said Walter Chiles as followeth.. fiftie acres for his owne psonall adventure fiftie acres for his wife Elizabeth fiftie acres for his son William and fiftie acres for his son Walter and twoe hundred acres by and for the transportacon of fower psons into this Colony whose names are in the records menconed Under this pattent To have and to hold & dated the first of March 1638."
"The first mention of the original Chiles emigrant to Virginia is found in the records of the High Court of Admiralty Examinations in England. In the record of Examination No. 301 dated 24 July 1637 the Witness was Walter Chiles of Bristol, a clothworker aged 29 who signed his own name to the document. He states that he was a passenger on the ship Blessing, of Falmouth and was employed to assist Henry Tutton, the ship's purser. The ship was at James Town, Virginia for fourteen weeks. The date of Walter Chiles' first arrival in Virginia was probably 1636."
"The position he held as an employee of the owner of the ship, Blessing was one of great importance. His duties included not only the selling of the goods brought from England, but also the purchase of products from the new world. It enabled him to see first hand the future of this fertile country. The prospects for an adventure, the wealth that was untapped and probably foremost, the sight of vast acres of unclaimed land must have impressed him at this time. Why, in the Examinations, he was listed as cloth-worker, we do not know... Some six months after the 24 Jul 1637 Examinations, Walter Chiles had outfitted his own ship and by 1 Mar 1638 was again in Virginia," at which time he was awarded his acres in Charles City County. (Eakin, Walter Chiles of Jamestown, p.1)
"In June 1641 Walter Chiles, Walker Austin, Rice Hall and Joseph Johnson petitioned the Virginia Assembly for permission to explore territory west southerly from Appomattake River, according to p.34 of L.P. Summers, History of Southwest Virginia.
"Chiles represented Charles City County in the House of Burgesses in 1642 and 1643; represented James City 1645, 1646, 1649. He was a member of the Council, or upper house, in 1651; was elected speaker in 1652, but declined because of his pending application for reimbursement for the seizure of his ship, 'Fame of Virginia'
by Cromwell forces.
" The Fame of Virginia was returning from Rotterdam in 1652, whence she had sailed from Virginia on Jan. 24, 1651. Upon reaching Chesapeake Bay, she put into port in Accomack County. After being there a short time, the ship sailed for James City, but was pursued and captured by Capt. Robert Henfield, who held a commission from the Protectors of the Liberties of England, Cromwell's government. Three hours after which, in Hungar's Roads, Eastern Shore, the ship named 'Hopeful Adventure' under Capt. Richard Husbands came up and made seizure, under the pretext that Chiles had no license from Parliament and was bound with cargo for Brazil.
"Chiles immediately applied to the Northampton authorities for assistance, maintaining that the seizure was 'contrarie to ye peace of this country and also cont'y to ye agreem't made by ye Com'rs that were appointed by ye Keepers of Ye Libertyes of England and ye damage of ye pet'r towe thousand pounds sterling.' according to Northumberland County records. The ship was ordered released, but Capt. Richard Husbands sailed away with the vessel 'to ye great indignation of ye commissioners thereof.' (See William and Mary Quarterly, Series One, Vol. I, p. 75.) It was rumored that the country would be called upon by the commissioners to pay large sums of money to Walter Chiles. Some of the inhabitants met in Hacke's Old Field where Stephen Horsey called the commissioners a company of 'Asses and Villyans.'
"The House of Burgesses granted Chiles the ship, 'Leopoldas' , as a forfeit, with all its equipment, guns, etc., for the sum of 400 pounds. The Lepoldas had previously been confiscated for violation of the Navigation Laws." (Sevier and Madden, Sevier Family History , p. 512)
According to research done by Charles Leonard DeMott, at this time Chiles was a candidate for speaker of this house. Governor Bennett made it known that he felt it inappropriate that Chiles be appointed when his own case was to be tried before the Assembly. The Assembly prompted elected Chiles. He declined the position.
Governor William Berkeley, in 1646, sold the home known as the 'Kemp House' to Walter Chiles for the sum of 26,000 pounds of tobacco. It was the first brick house in America and was located at Jamestown." (Eakin, Walter Chiles of Jamestown, p.3)
Noted events in his life were:
?UW Immigration: 1638. 3
Walter married Elizabeth (CHILES). Another name for Elizabeth is Elizabeth CHILES.
General Notes:
"The wife of Walter Chiles, Sr. was Elizabeth.... In a letter written 7 Feb 1978 Mrs. Virginia W. Austin (State Chairman, Genealogical Records Committee, Virginia D.A.R.) states, 'All the records I have indicate he married Elizabeth Maury but there is in The Colonial Dames of the 17th Century file folder for Chiles a notation where someone had found the marriage of a Walter Chiles to an Elizabeth Sanders June 1630 in Bristol Cathedral.' The William and Mary Quarterly mentions there was a second marriage to an Alice Luckin. I find no reference to an Alice Luckin Chiles in the U.S. records." (Eakin, Walter Chiles of Jamestown, p.4)
Children from this marriage were:
+ 2 M i. Walter CHILES was born in England and died about 1672 in Virginia.
3 M ii. William CHILES was born in England.
References:
3. Virginia Magazine of History and Biography (Richmond, Va.
Comments: Last edited in ROOTS III on 10/07/1998.), Vol. XIX, p.104.
Source:
http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~janiceksmith/chiles/ walter%20chiles%20family/d1.htm#c442
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