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nephew Richard N. Young, regarding the history of the Bourne family: “About
one hundred and ninety years ago (1657), my great grandfather Bourne with one
brother and a sister came from England, and settled about six miles from the
town of Fredericksburg in Virginia where he reared a family, and died.”
(freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~brookefamily/bourneandrewsr.htm)
There are no birth, marriage, or death records for James Bourn in Virginia,
only the court records regarding James Hambleton. There is a marriage record
of James Borne to Mary Proctor on 3 April 1685 at Chelmsford, Middlesex,
Massachusetts. (http://www.rays-place.com/marrage/middlesex-ma.htm) This
couple never again appears in the records of Massachusetts. Chelmsford is
only 30 miles from the coast of New Hampshire and 55 miles from Rollinsford.
This could be the same James Bourn (Bourne, Borne) who “imported” James
Hambleton to Virginia.
Among the witnesses to the Last Will and Testament of Grace Hambleton was
William Wiginton. His name, spelled “Wigginton,” turns up on the Quit Rent
Roll of 1723 for Overwharton Parish, Stafford County, Virginia (posted at
http://www.kykinfolk.com/stafford/rentroll1723.htm). He is identified as
William of Acquia Creek, “the progenitor of the Stafford Line of Wiggintons.”
(http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~wd9t/5128.html) Aquia
Episcopal Church, in Overwharton Parish, is the very place where Anne
Hamilton and John Alridge were later married. This essentially proves that
the daughter Ann named in Grace Hambleton’s will was the same person who
married John Alridge. Appearing on the same Quit Rent Roll are Daniel Bourn
and Thomas Garner (probably related to James Bourn and John Garner Jr., to
whom James Hambleton was a “servant”), and George Eskridge, to whom James
Bourn sought to assign the “head rights” due him for having “imported” five
persons into Virginia. The Garner and Wigginton families were related by
marriage, as Matthew Rust (son of Martha Garner, the sister of John Garner
Jr.) married Elizabeth Wigginton (daughter of William Wigginton).
http://genforum.genealogy.com/broaddus/messages/359.html
Note: Appearing in the chain of title recited on a deed in Stafford County
is the name of Samuel Aldred. He married the widow of Richard Cary, who
had inherited from him 400 acres by his Last Will and Testament, dated
29 November 1682. (Stafford County, Virginia, Deed Book P, Pages 267-276).
In summary, the maiden name of Grace Hambleton, mother of Anne Hamilton, is
unknown. But: (1) Grace Price, daughter of Meriday Price Sr., is the only
woman named Grace, of the appropriate age range, listed in any of the wills
of Westmoreland County, and she was born in Washington Parish, where James
and Grace Hambleton’s land was located. (2) Grace Hambleton’s will was
witnessed by William Wiginton, who is listed in the Quit Rent Roll of 1723
for Overwharton Parish, Stafford County, where John Alridge and Anne Hamilton
were later married. (3) James Hambleton had been a “servant” to James Bourn,
and to John Garner Jr.; the names of Daniel Bourn and Thomas Garner are
listed in the Quit Rent Roll of 1723 for Overwharton Parish, and the Garner
and Wigginton families were related by marriage. (4) Anne Bourne was married
to Edward Price Sr., whose will was witnessed by John Bourne and Andrew
Bourne; one of the witnesses in the estate case of John Bourne II was Edward
Price Jr.; and Grace Price had a nephew named Bourn Price. This is a large
body of circumstantial evidence. It does not prove that Grace Price married
James Hambleton. But there are no other leads.
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