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Surnames: Cave, Echols, Travers, Marchbanks
Classification: Query
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I also descend from Anne Echols and George Marchbanks, through their daughter Lucy who
married Joseph Collins.
I think there's ample evidence that Elizabeth Travers married John Cave. even though
he was older and had started out, at least, in a different socio-economic class than she.
John owned land next to Giles Travers and in his will Giles says "And my will is that
if John Cave, should bring any of the Estate to Appraisement that he shall forfeit all his
Estate that belongs to his Wife and the part to be equally divided between my Daughter,
Ann, and my Daughter, Million ...
And I make and ordain my loving Brother, Rawleigh Traverse & my son in law, John Cave,
my full and whole executors..."
John Cave and John Echols had several land patents:
23 October 1703 - Samuel Cradock, John Cave, John Eckholls & John Glover King and
Queen County, 1620 acres, on the branches of the Tuckahoe Swamp in the freshes of the
Mattapony RIver. Beg.g & c. by the East side of Potobago path. The land lies in the
Counties of King & Queen & Essex.
23 Oct. 1703 - Cave, John & Eckholls John, 600a, King & Queen County, in St.
Stephen's Par; in the freshes of Mattapony River; beg. at Richards' &
Cave's land; to E. side of Potabago Path; For the transportation of 12 persons.
This still doesn't defintely answer the question of whether this John Cave was the
father of Mary Cave who married John Echols, but it does provide some circumstantial
evidence.