Introduction.  With ANN we come to the last of our RICHARD BRACEWELL's siblings. Her brief three decades of life will be chronicled below.  Like her sister, REBECCA WEST, ANN remained in the tidewater area of Isle of Wight County while  our RICHARD and his sister JANE's families moved first to Nansemond and then back to the Blackwater Swamp Community on the Nottoway River in the southwestern end of the county.  The extant documents {including the Will of RICHARD BRACEWELL, 1725}  pertaining to this latter topic ("The Blackwater Swamp Community, 1695‑1725:) will be the subject of Doc 10. The two remaining topics are JOHN BRACEWELL, b.c. 1688 (Doc11) and the Grandsons of  RICHARD BRACEWELL, c. 1652‑1725 (Doc12. Except where noted, the following summation was drawn from John B. Boddie's Seventeenth Century Isle of Wight County. Virginia:

  

ROGER BAGNALL, father of JAMES BAGNALL, ANN's husband, was one of 33 persons transported from England by Capt. JOHN UPTON by July 7, 1635.  Capt. UPTON received a patent for 1650 acres on Pagan Point Creek, Isle of Wight County, for this service. Far from being an indentured servant, BAGNALL showed his social rank by himself receiving 700 acres in two patents on Pagan Point Creek  from the Crown that same year (1635).  Conclusive proof of his "Gentlemen" status may be seen in the fact that ROGER BAGNALL represented Isle of Wight County in the Virginia House of Burgesses for 1646.  The following year, on October 19, 1647, ROGER made his will naming wife REBECCA BAGNALL:  'To wife all goods and household stuff, corn, tobacco, hoggs, land, and plantation until my son JAMES BAGNALL shall be a lawful heir; to JAMES BAGNALL, when of age, the plantation I live on." BAGNALL also left to each of his children ôa yearling heifer to run for their own use which shall be in the year 1649...ö His other children were "REBECCA, MARTHA (who married WALTER RUTTER, and then THOMAS ALLEN, Sr., and  probably the SAMUEL BAGNALL who appears in the records in 1673. . ." (Bodie., Ibid.)

 

    Rev. ROBERT BRACEWELL's will of February 15, 1667/8 mentions ANN last among his children and further shows her to be the youngest of three daughters and a "newliwed by his legacy of  one cow and calfe to her first child if it please God she have any...: Thus she was about 15 at the time of her marriage to JAMES BAGNALL. By this time REBECCA BAGNALL, JAMES's mother and widow of ROGER BAGNALL, had remairred to RICHARD IZARD.  As was saw earlier, the IZARDs did not move into Rev. ROBERT BRACEWELL's neighborhood near the Church until the Summer of 1664, only a couple of  years before the Reverend's will. Yet our Immigrant Ancestor trusted the IZARDs enough to entrust his minor children and all his estate to them.  This strongly suggests a prior relationship between these three, probably one that went back to London days, according to Eunice Young.  Some have suggested that

REBECCA BAGNALL IZARD was the Reverend's sister. Were that true it would present two problems: One, that REBECCA would have had to have immigrated a decade or so before her "brother", an unlikely event; and Two, there was no mention of a daughter, REBECCA, in the 1641 London will of RICHARD BRACEWELL. We might throw in a third objection, namely that this would have ANN marrying her first cousin, although this was a  not uncommon occurrence among the landed gentry of Virginia.

 

   Recall from previous Document the swap of home places that happened in 1674 between JAMES and ANN BAGNALL and ROBERT BRACEWELL, Jr.,{ just before the latter moved out into the  oblivion of recordless colonial Nansemond.}  From this same period it is interesting to note that JAMES BAGNALL was among the signers of the October, 1677, petition by the inhabitants of Isle of Wight County for the pardon of WILLIAM WEST.  BAGNALL's  mother, REBECCA IZARD, made her will in Isle of Wight County October 15, 1675:

 

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     WILL OF REBECCA IZZARD

 

IN THE NAME OF GOD, AMEN, I REBECCAH IZARD, being sicke in body, but of sound & prfectt memorie, I doe make this my last will and Testam:  Imprimis  I bequeath my soule, unto the Almightie God, trusting through  the Meirritts of my Savio:r Jesus Christ: to inheritt eternall life, my body I bequeath onto the Earth to be buried in a Decent manner, & for  my Worldly estate, I bequeath as followeth/

 

Imprmis  my will is:  that After, my Daughter REBECAH BAGNALLS estate, be  taken out of the whole estate, of mine, And my Daughter MARTHA IZARD, and the Debts paid, then the estate, to be equallie, Divided, betwixt me, &  my aforesaid Daughter MARTHA IZARD, then out of my proportion,I give and  bequeath as followeth/

 

I Give, unto REBECAH BAGNALL, & MARY BENNETT, and MARTHA IZARD, & JAMES BAGNALL, NEAMIAH HUNTT, the Sonne of GODFREY HUNTT, & ELZABETH REEVES, the daughter of HENRY REEVES, all my proportion of Estate before exprssd, to be equally devided, betwixt them,  And my Will is, that my Sonne JAMES BAGNALL, HENRY REEVES and AMBROSE BENNETT to be my overseeors , to see my Will performed,  To wch Will and Testam:t  I have hereunto sett my hand this  Fiveteenth day of October 1675/

The mark (x) of REBECAH IZARD

 

Teste  JOHN BURNELL

          WILLIAM WESTRA

 

           This will was proved by oathe of John Burnell and William Westra in open court held for Isle of Whight County the 20th day of October 1675 and then recorded

Teste

                         Jno: Jennings: Cl Ct.

 

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REBECCA's will proves a close tie to AMBROSE BENNETT, close neighbor of our Immigrant Reverend BRACEWELL (Cf. Doc1.doc), i.e. that her daughter, MARY, was his wife‑‑yet another clue to the close‑knit relationships among these Virginia gentry.  An interesting document (#A17A141, Daniel Family) in the Temple Records in Salt Lake City {author not named} entitled "Daniel Family of York County, Virginia, and Allied Lines", contains the following assertions about RICHARD IZARD and REBECCA BAGNALL IZARD: " RICHARD IZZARD married REBECCA BAGNALL, widow sister of Rev. BRASWELL after 1647. RICHARD IZZARD died in Isle of Wight County in 1669.  From his will and that of his wife, his children were:

 

(1)  MARY, who married AMBROSE BENNETT

 

(2) REBECCA, who married JAMES BAGNALL (Jr.)

 

(3) A daughter who married GODFREY HUNT

 

(4) MARTHA, who married, first, WALTER RUTTER, and second, THOMAS ALLEN

 

(5)  ELIZABETH, who married HENRY REEVES, who died in Old Rappahannock County  in 1686, leaving a will.

 

No sons are mentioned in the IZZARD wills, but there is little doubt that  JOHN and RALPH IZZARD, the latter prominent with GOVERNOR ROBERT DANIEL in South Carolina, were  his {RICHARD IZARD's} sons."

 

{At last we come to the source of the misinformation that Rev. ROBERT BRACEWELL's wife's name was Rebecca.  CB}

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The following interesting documents were originally reposited with the Secretary of the Colony, London, now in "Virginia Miscellany, Manuscript Division, Library of Congress: Foreign Business and Inquisitions, 1665‑1676ö and reproduced in "he Virginia Genealogist, Vol. 20, No. 3 (July‑Sept, 1976), pp. 174‑175:  {p.208}   Isle of Wight Co., Va. 21 Nov. 1672.  John Jennings, deputy escheator. Writ 20 Nov. 1672.  To enquire whether CAPT. JOHN UPTON at the time of his death was seized of 800 acres of land or thereabouts lying at a place called the White Marsh in this county and by him held by pattent which had  been formerly in the possession of MR. JAMES BAGNALL, MR. FRANCIS SLAUGHTER, and one MORRIS, and since a parte of the land hath beene purchased by COLL. JOSEPH BRIDGER, and whether  CAPT. JOHN UPTON disposed of the land by will, legall conveyance or otherwise.  Jury find that the 800 acres held by CAPT. JOHN UPTON by pattent doth escheate and that Mr. JAMES BAGNALL, MR. FRANCIS SLAUGHTER and one MORRIS lived one parte of the land.

 

JAMES BAGNALL   WILLIAM OLDIS

RICHARD REYNOLDS   GILES DRIVER

RICHARD JORDEN    WILL. BODY

ANTH. FULGHAM   TRISTRAM KNOWLES

MICH.  FULGHAM    ROBT. KING

WILLLIAM RUFFIN   ARTHUR SMITH

 

Oct. 1674.   This is a true copy taken from the original which Mr. WILLIAM OLDIS, foreman of this jury, hath in his custody. John Jennings, Deputy Escheator

 

(p.209)  Isle of Wight Co., Va. 13 May 1674.  John Jennings, deputy escheator, Writ 11 Oct. 1670.  Jury finde that MRS. MARGARET LUCAS the relict of CAPT. JOHN UPTON had noe lawfull right to sell unto  THOMAS WRIGT 100 acres of land or thereabouts.  Our verdict is that  the land soe sould by her doth escheate.

 

MICHAELL FULGHAM    ARTHUR SMITH

NICH. FULGHAM    RICH. JORDAN

JOHN GARNER    AMBROSE BENNETT

THO:  POOLE   ANTHONY FULGHAM

DANIELL LONG   JOHN VICCARS

‑ ‑ ‑RICHARD REYNOLDS

 

(P. 210)  Isle of Wight Co., Va. 13 May 1674,  John  Jennnings, deputy escheator. Writ 12 April 1674.

To enquire whether Capt. JOHN UPTON dyed seized of 300 acres which he assigned to MR. ROBERT BREESEWELL, Minister, deceased, and by BREESEWELL given to his sonne ROBERT BREESEWELL and from him purchased by MR. JAMES BAGNALL.  Jury finde that MR. ROBERT BREESEWELL hath noe lawfull conveyance from Capt. JOHN UPTON for the 300 acres.  Wee find the land doth escheate.ö (Same jury as foregoing except CORNELIUS SKOLLY in place of THOMAS GROSS.)

 

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JAMES BAGNALL's new patent to Rev. ROBERT BRACEWELL's original 300‑acre plantation was issued March 22, 1676, by Governor Berkeley.  It is possible that  UPTON had intended Rev. ROBERT's 300 acres to be glebe land. This escheat patent is found at Virginia Land Grants, Vol. 6, page 606, (Virginia State Library, Richmond).

   In 1681 JAMES sold the Braswell Mill property to WILLIAM WEST:

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KNOW all men by these prsnts that I JAMES BAGNALL of the Isle of Wight County planter has escheated a parcell of Land being three hundred acres which did formerly belong to Mr ROBt BRACEWELL, Parson of the Lower Parish of the Foresd County & by him given to his Eldest Sonne ROBt BRACEWELL, Excepting two Acres of  Land adjoineing to the Mill, which Mill pool dam & two Acres of  Land the  Foresd Mr ROBt BRACEWELL gave unto his Sonne RICHARD BRACEWELL & now in the possession of WILLIAM WEST   Now know yee, that I the Foresd JAMES BAGNALL doo confirme the forementioned two Acres of Land adjoining to the sd Mill to the sd Wm WEST his heires Exrs Admrs & Asns as is now laid out by marked trees beginning att A Chincopin standing near a Branch that Runns Southward from the mill from thence to A marked Red oak & thence to a pare tree  & thence to a . . .pare tree   & from thence to the third pare tree; and from thence to a Saplin in a Bottom & from thence  to a Cypress by the Runn. .. . below the Mill all which trees are marked   To have & to hold & quietly Enjoy forever without any molestation (458)  Or trouble of me the said JAMES BAGNALL my heirs Exrs Asns & doo freely disown my Tytle or Interest of any Part or Parcell of the aforesd Two Acres  of Land & doe . . .to acknowledge  in the next Cort held in the Isle of Wight County as Witness my hand  & seal the 9th of March in the year of Ld 1680

 

JAMES BAGNALL    (seal)

 Signed  Sealed & delivÆd in the  presence of us    Acknowledged in open Cort held for the Isle of Wight County      the 9th March 1680 by JAMES BAGNALL to be his free Act      & Deed and ordered to be Recorded

WILL BRADSHAWTest John Pitt  Cl Cour

WALTER RUFFIN

 

Record of Wills, Deeds, Etc., Vol. 1, 1662‑1715, pp. 457‑458

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The document that proves that ANN BRACEWELL BAGNALL had died before May, 1683, is shown by a grant of that date showing that JAMES BAGNALL had lately married SARAH MONTAGUE:

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