Henry BLAGRAVE, V & Ann Lindsay Kennedy 'Mrs.' SUTTON

BLAGRAVE, HENRY JR
Service: VIRGINIA Rank: PATRIOTIC SERVICE
Birth: (CIRCA) 1735 VIRGINIA
Death: P 11-2-1797 MERCER CO-LIV KENTUCKY Service Source: ABERCROMBIE & SLATTEN, VA REV PUB CLAIMS, VOL 2, P 646Service Description: 1) PROVIDED MATERIAL AID
Residence
1) County: LUNENBURG CO - State: VIRGINIA
SpouseNumber Name
1)ELIZABETH STOKES 2)ANN KENNEDY SUTTON
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Henry Blagrave found in:
Marriage Index: KY, NC, TN, VA, WV 1728-1850
Spouse: Elizabeth Stokes
Marriage Date: Jul 22, 1756
Location: Lunenberg Co., Virginia
Source: Family History Library, Salt Lake City, UT
Microfilm: 0032421
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Encyclopedia of Virginia Biography, Volumes I-V. Richmond, VA: n.p, 1915.
Name: Henry Blagrave
was apparently a descendant of Dr. Henry Blagrave who appears in the York county, Virginia, records about 1660. The subject of this sketch was a burgess of Lunenberg county from 1761 to 1772.
IV--Burgesses and Other Prominent Persons

From Lunenburg County, Virginia, Deed Book 5, page 25:
Pages 186-188, 4 April 1758. HENRY BLAGRAVE Senr. to HENRY BLAGRAVE Jr., both of Lunenburg Co., love & affection, 500 acres in Lunenburg Co., south side North Meherrin [River], along Briges [Briggs's] old line to Liles Creek, Thomas Fort's fomer line to Elam's & down said river. Signed: HENRY BLAGRAVE. Recorded 4 April 1758.
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From Lunenburg County, Virginia, Deed Book 5, page 36:
Pages 335-336, 8 Oct. 1758. YOUNG STOKES of Lunenburg Co. to HENRY BLAGRAVE, love & affection, Negro girl Hannah now in BLAGRAVE's possession. Signed: YOUNG STOKES. Witnesses: Lyddal Bacon, Silvanus Stokes, Thomas Nale. Recorded: 7 Nov. 1758.
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From Lunenburg County, Virginia, Deed Book 7, page 24:
Pages 112-113, 14 May 1761. Edward Jordon to HENRY BLAGRAVE, both of Lunenburg Co., £40, [acres not noted] in Lunenburg Co., south side north Mehering River & Juniper Creek, adjoining Irby, Poindexter, said BLAGRAVE. Signed: Edward (E) Jordon. Witnesses: Abraham Maury, Lyddal Bacon, Wm. Pettipool. Recorded 5 May 1761.

From Lunenburg County, Virginia, Deed Book 6, pages 51-52:
Pages 513-514, 1 Dec. 1761. Ham[p]ton Wade of Amelia Co. to HENRY BLAGRAVE of Lunenburg Co., £12, 300 acres in Lunenburg Co., south side Juniper Creek, adjoining Yarbrough on Sneed's Creek, Lester, Jordin, Williams. Signed: Hampton Wade. Recorded 1 Dec. 1761.

From Lunenburg County, Virginia, Deed Book 7, page 40:
Pages 234-235, 4 May 1762. HENRY BLAGRAVE to William Fisher, both of Lunenburg Co., £20, 100 acres in Lunenburg Co., south side Juniper Creek, adjoining Tusikey Branch, Tyree Glenn, BLAGRAVE. Signed: HENRY BLAGRAVE. Witnesses: Thos. Shelburn, James Shelburn, Bryant Lester. Recorded 4 May 1762.

From Lunenburg County, Virginia Deed Book 13, 1777-1784, abstracted by June Banks Evans, Bryn Ffyliaid Publications, New Orleans, LA, 1991, pages 79-80:
Page 404, 23 Nov. 1781. HENRY BLAGRAVE [V] and wife ELIZABETH to Sylvanus Walker, both of Lunenburg Co., exchange of said Walker's part of 4 negroes in the estate of HENRY BLAGRAVE [IV] decd., for 280 acres in Lunenburg Co. on Juniper Creek, adjoining Slaughter's spring, Samuel Jordan, and James Gregory. Signed: HENRY BLAGRAVE, ELIZABETH BLAGRAVE. Witnesses: Bryan Lester jr., Nathaniel Dacus, William Glenn. Recorded: 13 Dec. 1781. ELIZABETH, wife of BLAGRAVE, relinquished dower right.
Page 405, 23 Nov. 1781. HENRY BLAGRAVE [V] and wife ELIZABETH to Henry Blagrave Pamplin, all of Lunenburg Co., exchange of said Pamplin's part of 4 negroes in the estate of HENRY BLAGRAVE [IV] decd., for 200 acres in Lunenburg Co. on both sides of Lyles Creek, adjoining Thackstone, John Locke, Lester, and said BLAGRAVE. Signed: HENRY BLAGRAVE, ELIZABETH BLAGRAVE. Witnesses: Bryan Lester jr., Nathal. Dacus, Wm. Glenn. Recorded: 13 Dec. 1781. ELIZABETH, wife of BLAGRAVE, relinquished dower righ
Page 406, 24 Nov. 1781. HENRY BLAGRAVE [V] and wife ELIZABETH to Henry Cook, all of Lunenburg Co., exchange of said Cook's part of 4 negroes in estate of HENRY BLAGRAVE [IV] decd., for 400 acres in Lunenburg Co. on west side of Meherring, adjoining Wm. Glen, Sylvanus Walker, Edwd. Jordan's former lines on path from Juniper Creek to where said Cook lives, new line eastward to branch. Signed: HENRY BLAGRAVE, ELIZABETH BLAGRAVE. Witnesses: Nath. Dacus, Bryan Lester jr., William Glenn. Recorded: 13 Dec. 1781. ELIZABETH, wife of BLAGRAVE, relinquished dower right.
Page 407, 23 Nov. 1781. HENRY BLAGRAVE [V] and wife ELIZABETH to Jeremiah Glenn, all of Lunenburg Co., exchange of said Glenn's part of 4 Negroes in estate of HENRY BLAGRAVE [IV] decd., for 333 acres in Lunenburg Co., on mouth of branch on Meherring, adjoining John Glenn (formerly David Lyle), James Eastham, old Edward Jordan's line, north side Couches Creek, Eavins, Craghead, and Wm. Glenn. Signed: HENRY BLAGRAVE, ELIZABETH BLAGRAVE. Witnesses: William Glenn, Bryan Lester jr., Nathl. Dacus. Recorded: 13 Dec. 1781. ELIZABETH, wife of BLAGRAVE, relinquished dower right.

From Lunenburg County, Virginia Publick Claims, 1780-1784, pages 1-
At a court held for Lunenburg County the 15th day of March 1782 agreeable to an act for adjusting claims for property impressed or taken for public use:
HENRY BLAGRAVE 772# beef
Estate of HENRY BLAGRAVE 650# beef
Estate of HENRY BLAGRAVE, Gent., dec'd. for a bay stud 4 years impressed by order Brig. Gen. Lawson.
Estate of HENRY BLAGRAVE, Gent. for a horse 12-13 years impress by orders of Col. Henry Morris.
(My note: This was probably Henry Blagrave, Jr.'s father who died after 1781)

From Lunenburg County, Virginia, Deed Book 14, page 20:
Page 109, 8 Feb. 1784. HENRY BLAGRAVE of Cumberland Parish, Lunenburg Co., to AARON HUTCHINGS, b/sale Negroes Waga and wife Patt, men Seacer and Tom, boys Fanny, Tabitha, also 3 mares, 2 horses, stock of cattle and hoggs, all purchase money received above ?700 for sale of his land on Meherren River and Juniper Creek; in consideration of 700 acres in Pittsylvania Co. near Bannester River on Bare Skin Creek in value of ?1,150 and balance of cash and bonds said Hutchings has endorsed to said BLAGRAVE. Signed: HENRY BLAGRAVE. Witnesses: James Harriss and Wm. Moore. Recorded: 9 Sept. 1784.

From The Virginia Genealogist, Volume 30, page 31:
Legal Notices from the Virginia Gazette, Richmond, 1784:
14 Feb. 1784. William Cowan at Lunenburg County forewarns all persons from purchasing from Mr. HENRY BLAGRAVE [V] or AARON HUTCHINGS a tract of land lying mostly in the fork of the Juniper and Maherrin in this county on which BLAGRAVE resides, as they have sold it to him.

Lunenburg Co., Virginia, Deed Book 14:
Page 75, 27 April 1784. HENRY BLAGRAVE and wife ELIZABETH, Aaron Hutchings and wife Nancy, MARY BLAGRAVE (widow/relict of HENRY BLAGRAVE, decd.) to William Cowan, all of Lunenburg Co., £1,800, 1,200 acres in Lunenburg Co., up branch from Meherrin, adjoining Henry Cook, Wm. Glen, John Glen, James Shelburne, Bryant Lester, Juniper Creek, Hutchins, Henry Pamplin, Lyles's Creek, Nat Dacus. Signed: HENRY BLAGRAVE, ELIZABETH BLAGRAVE, AARON HUTCHINGS AND NANCY HUTCHINGS. Witnesses: Geo. Craghead, Anthony Fulliloave, John Pamplin, TABBITHA BLAGRAVE, and SARAH BLAGRAVE.
Recorded: 8 July 1784.

From Mercer County, Kentucky Records, Volume 1, page 308:
Page 354, 24 April 1792. An instrument of writing from HENRY BLACKGRAVE and ELIZABETH BLACKGRAVE his wife, to their children, was acknowledged and ordered recorded.

From Mercer County, Kentucky Records, Volume 1, page 388:
Page 106, 22 July 1794. Indenture from Jacob Crow to HENRY BLAGRAVE was acknowledged and ordered recorded.

From Mercer County, Kentucky Records, Volume 1, page 389:
Page 107, 22 July 1794. Indenture from William Brumfield to Jacob Crow was proved by HARRISON BLAGRAVE, HENRY BLAGRAVE and John Wren, witnesses thereto, and ordered recorded.

From Mercer County, Kentucky Records, Volume 1, page 485:
Page 351, 28 Nov. 1797. Indenture from Nicholas Wren to HENRY BLAGRAVE was acknowledged and ordered recorded.

From Mercer County, Kentucky Records, Volume 1, page 481:
Page 343, 24 Oct. 1797. Indenture containing articles of a marriage contract between HENRY BLAGRAVE and [Mrs.] ANN SUTTON was acknowledged by them and ordered to be recorded.

Marriage Notes for HENRY BLAGRAVE and ANN KENNEDY:
From Mercer County, Kentucky Records, Volume 2, page 48 (marriage bonds
HENRY BLAGRAVE, to [Mrs.] ANN SUTTON, with John Decker as surety, October 24, 1797.

Mercer County, Kentucky: Marriages (1786-1800) & Wills (1786-1801)
Name: Henry Blagrave
Spouse: Anne Setten
Marriage Date: 2 Nov 1797

Web: RootsWeb Marriage Records Index
Name: Sutton Anne Kennedy
Spouse: Henry Blagrave
Marriage Date: 1797
Marriage Place: Mercer, KY

From Mercer County, Kentucky Records, Volume 2, page 56 (marriage bonds
John Anderson, to Ann Sutton, with Josiah Grover as surety, February 3, 1798. HENRY BLAGRAVE and ANN BLAGRAVE his wife give consent for bride, wife stating that Ann Sutton is her daughter and is of age, same date, witnessed by Joseph Dicken and Mary Dicken.

Kentucky Census, 1810-90
Name: Henry Blagrave
State: KY
County: Campbell County
Township: No Township Listed
Year: 1800
Record Type: Tax list
Database: KY Early Census Index

Mercer County, Kentucky, Deed Book 5 Mercer , page 535:
24 October 1805. HENRY BLAGRAVE of Campbell Co., Kentucky, conveys to HARRISON BLAGRAVE of Mercer Co., for ?10 and love and good will which the said HENRY bears towards his son, HARRISON, he deeds his right, title, and claim to and in 150 acres in Campbell Co. on Pond Creek, a part of Anthony Walton White's survey of 7,000 acres and the place on which John Colvin formerly lived, and adjoining Esquire Grant and John Lipscomb. Also gives him a feather bed and furniture and ?12. Signed: HENRY BLAGRAVE. Witnesses: Jeremiah Briscoe, John Durham, and Samuel Carr. Proved in Mercer Co. by witnesses Dec. 1805 and Jan. 1806 and recorded.

From Michelle Taunton
http://familytreemaker.genealogy.com/users/t/a/u/Michelle-J-Taunton/GENE18-0006.html#CHILD6