James Withers

1681 - 1746  (~ 65 years)

• Name	James Withers  [1]
  Birth	Between 6 Jun 1680 and 6 Jun 1681	Potomac Creek, Stafford, Virginia   [2]
  Gender	Male
  Alternate birth	1681  [3]
  Alternate death	3 Jun 1746	Overwharton Parish, Stafford, Virginia   [3]
  Death	6 Jun 1746	Overwharton Parish, Stafford, Virginia   [2]
  Person ID	I35104	Ancestry of PNH, TNH, and others | Ancestor of JDM
  Last Modified	15 May 2021

  
  

  Father	William Withers,   b. Abt 1636, Lancashire, England d. 1698, Stafford County, Virginia (Age ~ 62 years)
  Family ID	F20630	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	Elizabeth Keene,   b. Abt 1682   d. 26 Jul 1769, Stafford County, Virginia (Age ~ 87 years)
  Marriage	Abt 1701  [2]
  Children	+ 1. Thomas Withers,   b. 15 Feb 1724, Potomac Creek, Stafford County, Virginia d. Dec 1794, Fauquier County, Virginia (Age 70 years)
  Family ID	F20629	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	15 May 2021

  
  

• Notes

  About 1733 he deposed that he was 52 years of age and that thirty years earlier he had helped Capt. Edward Mountjoy, with whom he was living at the time, clear certain land in Stafford County. In 1844 one of his great-grandsons, Martin Withers (b. 1792) wrote a pedigree of the Withers family in which his great-grandfather was called "James Withers of Bristol, England." In light of this it is worth noting, as Franz V. Recum (citation details below) points out, that Capt. Edward Mountjoy's brother Thomas Mountjoy was a merchant in Bristol.

  
  

• Sources

  [S5771] The Wigfield and Nelson Families of Fauquier Co., Virginia by J. Douglas Bradshaw. Richmond, Virginia: The Dietz Press, 1986. [S5770] Withers Family of the County Lancaster, England by Robert Edwin Withers with Kathrine Cox Gottschalk and A. May Osler. Richmond, Virginia: The Dietz Printing Company, 1947. [S5761] Withers - America, Or, A Collection of Genealogical Data Concerning the History of the Descendants in the Male Line of James Withers (1680/1 - 1746) of Stafford County, Virginia by Franz V. Recum. New York, 1949.