Dr. Patrick NAPIER

  Noted events in his life were:

• Biography: DR. PATRICK NAPIER of Virginia and related families: Virginia. http://www.jcsisle.com/napier.html

Virginia genealogist and historians are especially familiar with the family of Napier. It is a well-recognized name. Dr. Patrick Napier, the immigrant progenitor, was among the first physicians in the colony. Several of his numerous descendants followed medicine. Though he apparently lived in Virginia a little more than fifteen years, he made an impression on his neighbors, the records, and, through his only son, Capt. Robert Napier, left a large descendancy.

Having done considerable time-consuming research on the later generations, we have not, as a consequence, devoted as much time to origin of Dr. Patrick Napier in the British Isles. There are, to say the least, some conflicting stories about his background and direct lineage. It is believed that we have uncovered facts never before presented in print, which should answer some of the questions of long standing, and which should lead to the final proof of this right lineage. We will discuss our findings here and reinforce them in the special sketch of Dr. Patrick Napier, to follow. Our discoveries seem to show the immediate ancestors of the settler, and something about them. They do not prove his connection with any particular Napier family in Scotland or England. All we have succeeded in accomplishing is to push the line back one generation.
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Ivan Napier (p. 35) states that Patrick was born in 1610. This statement is adhered to in every case where the theory of lineage to John of Logs applies. We have never found a statement of Patrick's age. He could have been born that early. But this assertion must take second place to a younger age for the American immigrant. Patrick did not marry until after his arrival in Virginia. We have no evidence of a previous marriage for him. Before November 1658, he had wed Elizabeth Booth <http://familykinship.com/boothpedigree.htm> (or Bouth), daughter of Mr. Robert Booth, Clerk of the Court, member of the Virginia House of Burgesses, etc. by his wife Frances. Their names, apparently, furnished the given names of Napier's two children, Robert and Frances, not Robert Napier of Culcreuch, and a supposed wife Frances.
Elizabeth Booth Napier was born about 1637-1640. This age we establish from a deposition of 1668 by her mother Frances Bouth, then aged 49, giving 1619 as a year of birth for her, and estimating that Elizabeth was born when Frances was between 18 and 20. Elizabeth was living by 15, November 1641 when 50 acres were given to her as "daughter of Robert Bouth" (Tyler's Quarterly, XIV (1933) p. 181). Elizabeth might have married a man 27 years her senior, but this is unlikely. It would mean that he first fathered children at the age of fifty.
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• Biography: Descendants of Donald Le Nae-Peer NAPIER. http://www.southern-style.com/napier.htm
Generation No. 13
13. PATRICK "THE EMIGRANT"¹³ NAPIER (PATRICK12, ROBERT MUNGO11, PATRICK NAPIER OF BLACKYARDS10, JOHN OF KILMAHEW9, ROBERT OF KILMAHEW8, DUNCAN OF KILMAHEW7, JOHN6, JOHN5, DUNCAN4, JOHN3, JOHN LE NAE PEER2, DONALD LE NAE-PEER1) was born in London, ENG, and died February 28, 1667/68 in York Co., VA. He married ELIZABETH BOOTH, daughter of ROBERT BOOTH and FRANCES BURGESS. She was born in York Co., VA, and died 1672 in York Co., VA.
Notes for PATRICK "THE EMIGRANT" NAPIER:
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Patricks son, also called Patrick, was an apprentice to Dr Alexander Pennycuik, surgeon-gene ral to the Scottish Army crushed by Cromwell at the Battle of Dunbar in 1650.
9 May 1649 in Edinburgh was apprenticed to Alexander Pennycuik, chirurgeon. 25 Mar 1655 was u sed as headright by Peter Ford. Settled in Queen's Creek, Hampton Parish, York County, Virgin ia, as Planter and Surgeon. Owned 1500 acre plantation in Blisland Parish, New Kent County, V irginia.
26 Feb 1668/9 will date, probated 12 Apr, names wife and children.
BIOGRAPHY: DR PATRICK NAPIER, by John Napier
Notes
Apprentice surgeon to Sir Alexander Leslie's troops, Battle of Dunbar. After 1650, emigrate d to VA with other Scottish Royalists. Among earliest VA doctors. The Napier lineage is trace d through the book by John Hawkins Napier III, "Doctor Patrick Napier: His Ancestors and Som e Descendants".
Children of Dr. Napier and Elizabeth Napier are:
. i. CAPTAIN ROBERT17 NAPIER
ii. FRANCES NAPIER, b. 1662.
Although it is not known how Dr Patrick Napier got to America, he was there probably about 16 51, but certainly before 1658, practising medicine, together with his brother Valentine. Howe ver it is from Dr Patrick that most of the American Napiers are descended. Patrick was not th e first Napier to go to the "Colonies". The first was probably George Napier, of Oxford, Engl and, who was from a branch of the Merchiston Napiers who had gone down to England in Tudor ti mes.
Child of PATRICK NAPIER and ELIZABETH BOOTH is:
14. i. "CAPTAIN" ROBERT¹⁴ NAPIER, b. New Kent, Henrico Co., VA; d. Abt. 1625, New Kent, Henrico Co., VA.

• Biography: SOUTHERN HISTORICAL FAMILIES By John Boddie Vol XV. http://familytreemaker.genealogy.com/users/b/a/k/Jeffrey-T-Baker/GENE3-0001.html
"NAPIER OF VIRGINIA, TENN, MISS" p. 221-5
PATRICK, JR. was born between 1634 and 1639. He was apprenticed to Dr. Alexander Pennycuik on May 6, 1649. Dr. Pennycuik was surgeon to Sir Alexander Leslie's Scottish Troops, defeated at the Battle of Dunbar by the army of Oliver Cormwell. Subsequently PATRICK NAPIER emigrated to Virginia with other Scottish Royalists after the year 1650.
The immigrant DR. PATRICK NAPIER, progenitor of this family in America, came to Gloucester Co. in 1654 or 1655. One Peter Ford received 500 acres at Cacamount, Gloucester Co., Virginia, March 25, 1655, for transporting ten persons to the colony, among whom PATRICK NAPIER is listed.
PATRICK NAPIER married in 1658 ELIZABETH BOOTH, who was born 1645 and died 1672. She was the daughter of Dr. Robert Booth, an early Virginia colonist and his wife Frances. Dr. Booth and his wife first lived at Belleville, Gloucester County; he later became clerk of York Co. in 1639, Justice in 1652, and a member of the Virginia House of Burgesses, 1653-54. Dr. Booth died in 1657, leaving a thousand-acre plantation and a large library.
DR. PATRICK NAPIER and his father-in-law were among the few physicians in early Virginia. PATRICK lived first in Hampton Parish, York County, where he signed an estate settlement Dec. 10, 1664. His daughter Frances "of York County" married Benjamin Woodson, son of John Woodson and his wife Mary (daughter of Samuel and Jane Tucker) (Jester and Hiden, ADVENTURERS OF PURSE & PERSON, p. 370). DR. PATRICK NAPIER also had a plantation of 1500 acres in Bisland Parish, New Kent Co., which he left to his son Robert and daughter Frances. (Will dated Feb 20, 1668, files April 12, 1669 in York County, Virginia.) This plantation adjoined that of Major-General Mainwaring Hammond, one of the leading Cavalier officers in Virginia.
PATRICK NAPIER Will York Co., Va 1668
In the name of God Amen. I PATRICK NAPIER of the prsh of Hampton in the County of Yorke physician being sick and sane in body but thanks be to God in pfect mind and memory do make and declare this my last will & testament. I commend my Soule into the hands of my most merciful creator and preserveror in full assurance to have all my sins pardoned in and through the meritts of my only savour Jesus XX-& my body to be decently buried at the discretion of my dear wife ELIZABETH NAPIER. And for that portion of earthly goods wherewith it hath pleased God to endure mee I doe by these presents dispose and bequeath of them as followeth. I doe by these presents give and bequeath unto my dear wife ELIZABETH NAPIER all that pcell of land lying in the prsh of Blessland in the county of New Kent in Virg containing by estimation fifteen hundred acres be it more or less as the same is situate and being in the prsh aforesd adjoining to the plantation of Major Hammond on the one side and Capt. George Lyddall on the other side To Have & to hold the said piece of land to my said deare wife ELIZABETH NAPIER for the home of her natural life alsoe my will and pleasure is that my two deare children Robert Napier, Francis Napier shall have and enjoy the said piece of land or plantation in manner aforesaid as I doe hereby express that is to say I doe my these presents give and bequeath unto my dears sone Robert Napier the majority on one half of the said piece of land containing fifteen hundred acres as aforesaid to be divided equally at the discretion of my said deare wife ELIZABETH NAPIER. To have & to hold the said majority on half of the said piece of land unto my said deare sonne Robert Napier and his heirs forever. Also I dow by these presents give and bequeath unto my deare daughter Frances Napier the other majority or other half parte of the said plantation or piece of land containing as aforesaid and situate and being as aforeds to be layed out and separated from the other peace of land at the discretion of my said deare wife to have and to hold the said other parte or parcell of land to my sd deare daughter Frances Napier and her heirs forever. also my will and pleasure is that if it should happen that my said Sonne Robert Napier should dye or depart this mortall life and leave no issue of his body lawfully begotten that then my will & pleasure is that my daughter Frances Napier shall have and enjoy the said halfe parte or piece of land that is hereby bequeathed to my sonne Robert. Also if it should happen that my said daughter Frances Napier should hapen to dye or depart this mortall life and leave noe issue lawfully begotten and that my said sonne Robert survive or any of heir issues, That then my will and pleasure is that my said sonne shall have and enjoy the same plan pcell of land bequeathed to my said daughter in as longe and ample manner and
forme as my said daughter did could or might enjoy the same provided always notwithstanding that if it should happen that my said two children Robert and Frances should dye or depart this mortall life and leave noe issue behind then or either of them that then my will and pleasure is that the heirs of my sd deare wife ELIZABETH NAPIER shall & have & enjoy the same in as longe and ample manner as the heirs of my said sonne and daughter or either of them might have enjoyed the same. Also I doe by these presents bequeath all my moveable goods and coffills? specified in a certain Inventory hereunto annexed unto my deare wife & my two children equally to be divided amongst them share and share like and not otherwise Alsoe I doe by these presents make and appoint my deare wife ELIZABETH NAPIER sole Executrix of this my last will and Testament. Also my desire is that my two very loving friends Mr. Thomas Ballard and Mr. James Vaulx will be overseers that this my will be performed according to the reale intents and purposes hereof and that they would give my said deare wife and children such assistance as they shall think fitt in the managing of this Estate alsoe I doe hereby further declare that the reall intent and meaning of this my will is that neither of my said children Robert or Frances shall be in possession of the said land or plantation or any pte or pcell thereof nor receive any profitts that shall accrue out of the same soo (234)
long as my said deare wife whall happen to live lastly I doe by these presents revoke all other wills herebefore made by me and declared this to be my last will and Testament I witnessd whereof I have hereunto sett my hand and seale this six and twentieth day of February one thousand six hundred sixty & Eight signed sealed and delivered in presence of
Frances Haddin PAT NAPIER SEALE
John Hungerford
Mathew Culler
Probate in Cur Com Ebon 12 Anno 1669 & Testaments Frances Hadden John Hungerford & Mathew Culler it Recorded at due
& John Baskery to Clr Cur

Patrick married Elizabeth (not wife) BOOTH, daughter of Dr. Robert BOOTH and Frances GIDEONS, before 10 Nov 1658 in Jamestown, VA. (Elizabeth (not wife) BOOTH was born 1645 (Abt 1630-1641) in New Kent County, VA and died in 1672 in York County, VA.)