Carsley of Virginia
Henry Carsley was born ca 1600 and came to Virginia in 1621 age the age of 23.[1]
At the age of 25 years when the Muster was taken (1624/1625), he was residing at Newport News, Virginia, as one of Daniel Gookins men. The shipping and cattle breeding enterprise of Goodkin did not prosper, and so Henry Carsley migrated to the eastern shore where many settlers began to take up land after the 1622 Indian massacre in Virginia. In 1633, he petitioned the court held at Accomack for a lease of 50 acres of land on Old Plantation Creek which was located on the southside of Fishing Creek.
He had previously married Elizabeth Berriman, the stepdaughter of Henry Wilson and the daughter of his wife, Alice, whose LWT was recorded 1640 in Accomack County, mentioning her granddaughter, Frances Carsley.
On 26 November 1635, Elizabeth Carsley of Accomack County, executrix of the estate of her husband, Henry Carsley, made a Deed Gift to her two daughters and named her stepfather as overseer.
Issue:
- Agnes Carsley.
- Frances Carsley, born before 1635 in Virginia, married 1650 Jeffrey Minshall who gave his deposition in Northampton County, Virgina in 1655, age 34.[2]
Sources:
[1] Original Lists of Persons of Quality 1600-1700. Henry Carsley, age 23, from Mr. Daniell Goodkines Muster, ship Flyinge Harte.
[2] Jeffery Minshall was born in Wistaston, Chester County, England, and was the son of Richard Minshall who came to Virginia before 1645 and by 17 Deecember 1660 his wife and five children had gone to Maryland, where, on that date, he was assigned 400 acres known as "Adventure" lying at the head of Morumscoe. He died 8 April 1675 in Somerset County, Maryland and was buried at Norumscoe. The issue of Frances Carsley and Jeffrey Minshall was: Jeffery, Randolph, Mary, Jane, Elizabeth (born 23 November 1660), Anne married John Moore in 1685, Alice, and Thomas, born 2 May 1671.
