Wootten

Edward Wootten was b. 31 Oct 1489 Boughton, Malherbe, Kent, England, d. 8 Nov 1550,buried Church at Boughton, Malherbe, Kent, England, m. Dorothy Read b. 23 Mar 1489 Boresall, Kent, England. Issue:
Thomas Wootten was b. 1521 Boughton, Malherbe, Kent, England, Sheriff, d. 11 Jan 1587 m. Elizabeth Rudston who d. 17 August 1564, the daughter of John Rudston and his wife, Ursula Dymoke. Issue:
Thomas Wootten was b. 1585 Northamptonshire, England, d. 16 Mar 1669 Isle of Wight Co., Virginia, LWT probated 16 Mar 1699, naming wife, Sarah, and son, Richard (and wife's son, Thomas Wood). He m. Sarah Jennings Wood. First Republic of America, p. 28, by Alexander Brown, states that Dr. Thomas Wootten, gentleman, was one of Capt. John Smith's exploring expedition which left Jamestown May 31, 1607. He was the first doctor of medicine in America, and was the fifth son of Sheriff Thomas Wootten of Kent.
During early spring of 1608, Captain John Smith crossed the James River, driven by the necessity of obtaining food for the colonists at Jamestown. He was successful in getting fourteen bushes of corn from the Worrosquoyacke Indians at a place now known as the Isle of Wight County, Virginia. In December of the same year Smith spent the night with the Worrosquoyackes, while enroute to the York River to visit the Indian chief, Powhatan. The first settlers suffered the first years in the colony, with the threat of Indian attacks and lack of food. Five hundred colonists died from starvation during the spring of 1611, after a terrible winter, leaving about sixty men, who were determined to abandon the colony, to spent their first night in the Indian village Fergusson's Wharf.
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Richard Wootten was b. 1625 from Northamptonshire, England, d. 1697 Isle of Wight Co., Virginia, his LWT probated 28 Sept 1687 in Isle of Wight County (named sons, Richard and Thomas). He received a Land Grant in the Isle of Wight County, Virginia in 1638.

Cavaliers and Pioneers by Nell Marion Nugent, Vol. I, , Patent Book No. 1, Part II:
Richard Wootton resided near the Thorogood House
Location: 1636 Parish Rd, Virginia Beach, Virginia. "Thomas Todd, 250 acs. Low. Co. of New Norf., 12 May 1638, p. 577, being a neck of land lying up the back creek called the Little Cr., between the plantations of Capt. Adam Thorogood & Capt. Thomas Willoughby, about a mile up the Cr. on the W. side, N. Ely. above an Indian feild about the space of a mile, sd. feild haveing a fresh water pond joyning unto it. Due for the trans. of 5 pers: John Williams, Richard Wootton, John Withers, John Johnsons, John Fells."

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Thomas B. Wootten was b. 1651 Isle of Wight Co., Virginia, lived in York Co., Virginia, d. 1734/1738. Issue:
Thomas Wootten, d. 1782/1783 York Vo., Virginia, m. Priscilla Benjamin. Issue:
Benjamin Wootten was b. in Norfolk Co., Virginia, m. Elizabeth Rousseau, the daughter of Hellare Rousseau and his wife, Elizabeth Lynton. He removed to Halifax County, North Carolina where he died in 1768, leaving a LWT naming children, Thomas, John, Mary and Priscilla. Issue:

• Mary Wootten.
• John Wootten.
• Priscilla Wootten m. Burwell Pope, Revolutionary War Soldier.
• Thomas Wootten of Wilkes Co., Georgia, d. 12/1785 Wilkes Co., Ga., m. 1st, Sarah, who d. 1768 N. C., and 2d, in Wake Co. N. C. 1769, Tabitha Bradford Crowell Pope, b. 1729 N. C., d. Wilkes Co., Ga. 1828. From Wilkes Co. Ceded Lands: "Thomas Wootten of N. C., wife, 7 sons, and one daughter from 18 to one, moved to ceded lands of Ga." granted 200 acres on N. S. of the Broad River opposite mouth of Long Creek, and 300 acres on s.s. of said river adj. Vann's old field.
  In 1785 he paid taxes on 3,357 acres in Wilkes Co., 1400 acres in Franklin Co., 14 slaves. Served as Revolutionary War Soldier. first in 7th Ga. Regt., then Wake Co., N. C.; served as Member of House of Commons in N. C. in 1777. He obtained a grant of 287-1/2 acres in Franklin Co. Ga. His widow drew in 1819 Ga. land lottery. He was J. P. in N. C. and Ga., surveyor of Wake Co., N. C., and a member of the N. C. Colonial Militia. Issue follows:

A. Thomas Wootten, Jr., Rev. War Soldier. m. Mildred Smith.
B. Richard B. Wooten, b. 1760. d. 1798 Wilkes Co., Ga., Revolutionary War Soldier. m. Lucretia, daughter of Drury Cade.
C. Lemuel Wootten m. Nancy Smith.
D. John Wootten.
E. Daniel Wootten.
F. Robert Wootten.
G. James Wootten. b. Wake Co., N. C. 1772, d. Wilkes Co. Ga. 1828. his LWT dtd 9/20/1820, probated 1/6/1823 Wilkes Co., Ga. wife, Polly Smith.
H. Mary Ann Wootten b. 6/28/1770 m. 3/1789 James Cade.

Church in the village of Boughton Malherbe.

Sources: The Georgians by Jeannette Holland Austin; Halifax Co., North Carolina Wills; Wilkes Co., Georgia Wills; Isle of Wight County, Virginia Wills; Baughton Parish, Kent.