Elizabeth CHAVIS

  Noted events in her life were:

• Court, 1664, Surry County, VA. In the papers filed at various times relating to Elizabeth and her brother William, it is stated that the guardian, Robert Cartwright, owed her money to buy a horse, "when she comes of age," as if that were imminent. "Of age" could have been 16, 18 or 21.


SURRY COUNTY RECORDS, BOOK I, 1652-1672; f. 234, 13 April 1664

http://www.geocities.com/ourmelungeons/gibsontl.html
13 April 1664 Robt Cartwright Carp, owes Capt Flood and Mr. Benj Harrison for ye Elizabeth Chivers dau of Thomas, dec'd 5000 lbs good tob

• Tax List: Tythables in South Warke, 1668, Surry County, VA. A list of ye Tythables in South Warke p'ish Anno 1668 ffrom Coll. Jordans upwards as they have been given to him & he Informed June ye 10 1668.
[...]
Mr Tho. Busby, 03
Tho. Bentley, 01
Jerremy Ellis, 01
Henry ffrancis, 03
Richard Rogers, 02

Page 163.

John King, 01
John Legrand, 01
Wm. Scarbrough, 01
Robt Dennis, 01
Robt House, 02

Mr Wm Simmons, 06
Robrt Carthrage, 04

http://ftp.rootsweb.com/pub/usgenweb/va/surry/census/1668.txt

• Legal: petition, 1672, VA. On 28 March 1672 she made a successful petition to the General Court of Virginia to release her son Gibson Gibson who had been unlawfully bound by Berr. Mercer to Thomas Barber, who had gone to England leaving the boy with Samuel Austin

[Minutes of the Council 1670-76, 106, Virginia Historical Society Mss 4V81935a2; McIlwaine, Minutes of the Council, 302-3

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"released from his unlawful apprenticeship to Thomas Barber on 28 March 1672" [http://www.freeafricanamericans.com/Gibson_Gowen.htm]

Berr. = Barrister?
possibly
Ben. = Benjamin
Mercer = person or textile dealer?

http://ftp.rootsweb.com/pub/usgenweb/va/misc/1704va.txt
Mercer James Isle Wighte County, 1704
Mercer Thomas Norfolk County, 1704 (http://whittenfamily.homestead.com/thomasmercer.html)

• Note: Gibson & Chivas: Surry County, VA. Peter Gibson was with the Chivas in Surry shortly after Gibbys birth and thats were Gibby was.

http://genforum.genealogy.com/melungeon/messages/20126.html

• Note: possible variations on surname. SHIVERS, SHAVERS, CHAVEZ, CHAVES, CHAVUSE, CHAVIS, CHIVAS, CHEEVERS ... Graves??? Cheffers


There's a Thomas CHAVIS b.1630 England, d. 14 Apr 1664 who's son William b. abt 1659 in Surry County, VA

http://www.geocities.com/BourbonStreet/Delta/7003/pgmarriages.html
Joel CHEAVES to Sarah STURDIVANT---10 Feb 1785

http://seibelfamily.net/BoothResearchVA.htm
Thomas Cheaves

• Note: Surry County, VA. SURRY COUNTY RECORDS BOOK 1, 1652-1672, f. 127 and f 377. from ireland enngland to america virginia
SURRY COUNTY [VA] DEEDS, WILLS Liber 4 1687-1694; f. 254; William and Elizabeth Chivers to Benjamin Harrison

Elizabeth Shivers was born no later than 1650 in Ireland, since she chose her own guardian at the death of her father.
SHIVERS GENEALOGY; Marcus O. Shivers;

Elizabeth was deceased by October 1681
SURRY COUNTY DEEDS AND WILLS, BOOK 1; f. 234

William Chevers/Shivers is the first known child to have been born in Virginia,SURRY COUNTY TITHEABLES 1679.
http://genforum.genealogy.com/melungeon/messages/20246.html

• Note: "free mulatto." http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~palsgaard/shivers/THOMAS%20CHEVERS%20.htm
Studies by one Kenny Shavers indicate further activities, and an interesting speculation:
have not found any solid evidence that Bartholomew Chavis was the son of William Shivers (son of Thomas Chevers of Monkstown Ireland and Surry Co. Virginia) but I have found some evidence that suggests that my Chavis and your Chivers (Chevers) may have been related. My Chavis (Chavers) ancestors were listed in records as "free mulatto". I think they were tri-racial (black, Indian, & white). I know the Chivers(Chevers) were Irish and English but they may have had some mulatto descendants that went by the names Chavis and Chavers. If the two families are connected it's possible that the Chivers did not want to be associated with mulatto relatives.(maybe?).This is what I have found:
1. There was a William Chavis "free mulatto" listed in the 1728 sale of the Surry co. estate of Nathaniel Harrison. Thomas Shivers (son of William Shivers, grandson of Thomas Chevers/Chivers)⁹⁶ was a neighbor of Nathaniel Harrison in the list of titheables for the upper precincts of Surry co. in 1701.
2. On the website The Shivers: A Work In Progress, there is a Bartholomew Chivers in 1770 Cravin Co. South Carolina court records and a Bartholomew Chivers/Shivers in the Revolution Troops Petition For Pay # 3767. Perhaps he was a Chivers named after Bartholomew Chavis(Chavers).
3. This is the best evidence that I have found. Elizabeth Chivers (daughter of Thomas Chevers/Chivers) had two sons named Gibson (Gibby) Gibson and Hubbard Gibson. Some Gibson researchers think that Gibby Gibson was the father of Gideon Gibson. Gideon Gibson was said to be of mixed race and lived in what was then (1720s) Chowan Co. North Carolina. In the same part of Chowan Co.(north of the Roanoke River) lived my Chavis ancestors. There was a Hubbard Gibson (Gideon Gibsons uncle?) that lived in the same area of Chowan Co. NC in 1721. I think this was Elizabeth Chivers other son. This area later became part of Bertie Co. and then Northampton Co. NC. This Gibson family and some of my Chavis ancestors moved to the Pee Dee River area of South Carolina.
4. Thomas Chevers purchased 1,100 acres of land at the head of Sunken Marsh near Chippoakes in Surry Co. Virginia. In 1682, there was a William Sweat who was taxable in Thomas Binn's household in lower Chippoakes in Surry Co. Virginia. He was an ancestor of the tri-racial Sweats that married into my Chavis and Evans. Again, this is nothing solid but it is worth looking into and I will continue to do so. It is possible that my ancestors were Indians or mulattos that took the name of a white family.

• Note: whippings. There are recorded fines and whipping for women who bore "Mulatto" bastards...

Charles County Court Records
14 August 1705
p.146, Elizabeth Procter .... for haveing a Mollatto bastard child ... confesses the fact ... twenty lashes ... serve two years after the expiration of her term ... said William Boreman offers 2000 pounds of tobacco for the said Elizabeth Procter and Mollatto Bastards service
p.566, Present Susanah Scarlett for Bearing 2 Mullatto Bastards born of her the said Susanah body at one Birth
2. Elizabeth Reed, born say 1713, was fined 6 pounds on 3 May 1735 by the vestry of Chowan County, North Carolina, for having two "Molatto bastards" [Fouts, Vestry Minutes of St. Paul's Parish, 51]. Perhaps her descendants were

• Note: other Chavis, 1754, Granville County, NC. William Chavis, a "Negro" listed in the 8 October 1754 muster roll of Colonel William Eaton's Granville County Regiment, owned over a thousand acres of land, a lodging house frequented by whites, and 8 taxable slaves. His son, Philip Chavis, also owned over a thousand acres of land, travelled between Granville, Northampton, and Robeson Counties, and lived for a while in Craven County, South Carolina.

http://www.rootsweb.com/~ncjones/familyinfoslavemulattocolored.htm

DB-l, page 266. 3 December 1766. PHILLIP CHAVIS (CHAVUSE), Planter, of the Province of South Carolina, to his father WILLIAM CHAVIS,SR., Planter, of Granville Co. 80 Pds. Va. money for 400 A. in Bute Co. on BS Buffelow Creek adj. SMITH, HAWKINS & CHAVIS, to the County Line & along the County Line, part of a tract granted to sd. PHILIP CHAVIS 29 July 1761. Wit: JOHN STONE, AQUILLER SNELLING. Proved by JOHN STONE, Bute January Court 1767, BEN Mc-CULLOCH, C.C. Reg: 24 April 1767, by WILL JOHNSON, P.R.

http://www.rootsweb.com/~ncbute/dbook1-5/db1-2.htm

william chavis(born abt. 1706). he was the son of bartolomew chavis(born abt. 1685)

Granville County,

1753 List of Robert Harris ("one of his lists")
Richard Chavers negro 1
List of Robert Harris [another district]
William Chavis tenn himself and sons Gibbin & William & Negro slaves Peter: Gordon:Noon:Frank:Moll: Pomp & Gilly
http://bz.llano.net/gowen/dud/manuscript/Gowenms096.htm

• See also. http://www.freeafricanamericans.com/Gibson_Gowen.htm
http://www.freeafricanamericans.com/free_Chavis.htm
http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~palsgaard/shivers/THOMAS%20CHEVERS%20.htm

• Related: surname. A theory about the origin of the name, according to The Heritage of Blacks in North Carolina, is that it is a corruption of the Spanish name CHAVEZ, given to American Indians by Spanish conquistadors. After the CHAVEZes, most of them Cherokee, came in contact with English settlers in Virginia, the name is said to have been Anglicized to CHIVERS, CHAVERS, CHAVIS, and other varied spellings.

http://www.freeafricanamericans.com/free_Chavis.htm

• Reference: Thomas Barber, Samuel Austin. Thomas Barber sheriff of York County
Capt. Thomas Barber.

1692: Contains a writ of summons from Miles Cary, Clerk of the General Court, to the sheriff of James City County, for the arrest of Thomas Barber, a mulatto, & Elizabeth Johnson, alias Barber, for their appearance to answer an objection against them.


Robert Booth, II #927, (1.Robert¹) b. ABT 1633 in Belleville Plantation, Gloucester, Va, d. BEF Mar 1692 in York County, VA

York County Deeds, Orders, Wills, etc, No.9, 1691-1694, Part One (1), pp 66, 89, and 113: Mrs ann Booth relict of Mr Robert Booth, hath order granted her for a commision of administration of the estate of her deceased husband who dyed without making a will, Mr. Thomas Barber and mr samll Timpson became her security"
http://genecharris.com/BoothDecendancyBook.htm

John Webb & John Rea, 700 acs., in Up. part of New Kent Co., on S. Side of
Land formerly taken up by Andrew Davis on Machumps Cr: ____ of ___ 1677, p. 619. 500 acs. belonging to sd. Webb & 200 to sd. Rea. Trans. of 14 pers: Thomas Davis, Charles Halsy, Abigail Neale, Rich. Davenport, James the
frenchman; Daniell Sterre, Tho. Turpin, Tho. Barber, Amor (or Amos) Via, Fr. Derige, Tho. Wallbrooke, Jo. Bird, Morrice Thomas, Deborah Buncks.

http://idisk.mac.com/jcmoule/Public/ball/ps01/ps01_487.html

YORK COUNTY
"THE VIRGINIA GENEALOGIST, Volume 20, Number 3, Whole Number 79, July-September 1976. "INQUISITIONS ON ESCHEATED LAND, 1665-1677 (continued)," page 259:
:York Co., Va. 12 Jan. 1674 [1675] Thomas Ludwell, Esqr., Escheator General. Writ 5 Jn. 1674 [1675]. Jury find that by a pattent 16 Sept. 1639 John Broach was seized of 300 acres on Queen's Creek. The 300 acres doth escheat fo that to our knowledge Broach was a French man borne. John Whisler[?] Lawham Peirson
Jo. Risly [?] Edwd. Viccars
Jo. Saunders Robt. Jackson
Tho: Barber Otho Thorpe
Robt. Booth James Beduel
Alex. Anderson Thomas Whaley
http://kvickers.tfc.edu/Virginia.htm

Christian of London, March 1634
Tho: Barber 21 [b. 1613 < possible match]
http://www.olivetreegenealogy.com/ships/christian1634.shtml

12 July 1692.
Heale, George. grantee.
Location: Lancaster County.

Description: 350 acres adjoining the land of Daniel Armes, Joseph Harrison, Richard Merryman, Thomas Barber and William Clarke.
[http://lvaimage.lib.va.us ]

13 July 1727.
Location: Stafford County.
Grubb, Richard. grantee.
Description: 80 acres on the south side of Ceader Run, adjoining William Russell, and Thos. Barber.
[http://lvaimage.lib.va.us ]


http://www.allcensus.com/original_lists_041.htm
16 Marcij 1634
THO: BARBER 21 [b. 1613]

Elizabeth married possibly Thomas (or Peter) GIBSON, son of Unknown and Unknown. (possibly Thomas (or Peter) GIBSON was born ca. 1640.)