Hello! I am twice from Old Benj Cave (Sr) of Orange County, Va. His place
of birth, siblings and parentage have not been defined. He was born about
1700. Also which John Cave owned a warehouse on an island in the Potomac
in 1600s? Do you have any info? Thanks, Ed Troutman, Fort Worth, TX.
My oldest (earliest known) Cave ancestor was Mary Cave, who married John
Echols (Eccles/Eckholls/Axol)
Mary Cave was probably born ca 1665, as her children were born from the
1680's to the early 1700's. John Echols was a Quaker and large land
owner in King and Queen County, Virginia.
According to John and Mary's great grandson, Milner Echols, who wrote a
history of the family in 1850, "John Echols married a tall redheaded
woman named Mary Cave and by her had five sons and three daughters."
Although there are a few small errors, Milner Echols' account of John
and Mary's descendants is largely correct, as proven by wills, deeds,
and other primary records.
In fact, John Echols lived adjoining John Cave, and the two patented
land together in several deeds in 1703, a fact not known by Milner
Echols but which suggests a very close relationship between John Cave
and John Echols.
This John Cave was the same "carpenter" (i.e. architect in today's
terminology) who married a Miss Andrews as well as late in life
Elizabeth Travers, and whose will was proven 1721 in Stafford County,
Virginia. This John Cave is the ancestor of many people on this list,
and I believe all of the Caves in this area of Virginia were most
likely related.
I would think that Mary Cave who married John Echols was the sister of
John Cave who died ca. 1721 in Stafford, however it is possible she
was this John's
daughter. (As has been noted elsewhere there is no way that Mary
Cave
could have been John Cave's daughter by his much younger wife Elizabeth
Travers).
There was a John Cave claimed as a headright by John Foxhall for land in
Stafford County in 1667. This indicates a John Cave was probably of
age, in the Virginia colony by 1665, old enough to start parenting
children such as Mary Cave.
There was also a David Cave claimed as a headright in 1669, indicating
that David Cave was in the Virginia Colony by 1667. David Cave
signed a petition as one of the "Inhabitants and Housekeepers" of St.
Stephen's Parish in 1683. St. Stephen's Parish was part of what
became King and Queen County, where John Cave and John Echols held
land twenty years later in 1703.
David Cave would therefore be a possible father of John Cave and Mary
Cave as well.
The children of John Echols and Mary Cave were:
1. MARY ELEANOR ECHOLS, b. about 1690 King William County,
Virginia; d.
Bef. 02 November 1771, Halifax County, Virginia; m. NICHOLAS
GILLENTINE, about 1714, Virginia; b. about 1676, Thurland Castle,
England.
2. JOHN ECHOLS, b. about 1695, Virginia; d. 20 December 1750,
Beaufort
County, North Carolina.
3. ABRAHAM ECHOLS, b. 1700, Comfort, Lee County, Virginia; d. 03
October 1749, Halifax County, Virginia m. SARAH HUBBARD, great
grandfather of the Hon. Allen Taylor Caperton, Confederate States
Senator and United States Senator from West Virginia, and of the Hon.
Gen. John Echols, CSA, member of the Virginia Legislature and
Confederate General, whose son, the Hon. Edward Echols, served as
Lieutenant Governor of Virginia, and President of the Virginia Senate,
4. WILLIAM ECHOLS, b. 1702, Virginia; d. Bet. 08 April - 16 May
1771,
Halifax County, Virginia; m. SARAH TURNER; d. February 1778, Halifax
County, Virginia. William Echols was the father in law of the Hon.
Daniel Williams, a founder of Nashville, Tennessee who served as its
first Sheriff, and of Capt. Vardee McBee, Officer in the Revolution,
and grandfather of Hon. Capt. Sampson Williams, who like his father
served as Sheriff of Davidson County, Tennessee, member of the
Tennessee House of Representatives and namesake of Williamsburg,
Tennessee, and Lt. Col. Wright Williams, another early Sheriff,
5. ANNE ECHOLS, b. 1703, Virginia; d. 1746, Amelia County,
Virginia; m.
GEORGE MARCHBANKS of the landed family of Marjoribanks of Ratho,
Scotland, captured at the battle of Preston who fled Scotland during
the Jacobite Rebellion, had plantations in Manakin Town, New Kent
County, Virginia, and Amelia, Virginia, d. 1740. One of their sons
was Lt. William Marchbanks, an Officer in the French and Indian War,
Surveyor of Halifax County, Virginia, and my direct ancestor.
6. ELIZABETH ECHOLS, b. about 1704; d. Unknown; m. (1) WILLIAM
MURPHY;
b. about 1704; d. Unknown; m. (2) GIDEON SMITH; one of the first
landowners in
today's Bedford County, Virginia for whom the well known Smith
Mountain,
Smith Mountain Lake, and Smith River, Virginia are all named.
7. JOSEPH ECHOLS, b. 1704, Virginia; d. Bef. 1794, Halifax County,
North Carolina.
8. RICHARD ECHOLS, m. CATHERINE EVANS. Richard was one of the
founders
of Amelia County, Virginia and its first Sheriff, great grandfather of
the Hon. Maj. Gen. Richard Milner Echols, hero of the Mexican-American
War who served as President of the Georgia Senate and for whom Echols
County, Georgia is named, and grandfather of the Hon. David Bates,
longtime member of the Virginia Legislature who also served as
President of the Georgia Senate, Hon. Col. Joseph Hubbard Echols,
member of the Confederate Congress.
Michael Wingfield Walker
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