Jacob Remy  Married: #2 1668 Mary Spencer: Born In Virginia 1650

Mary Is sometimes Referred To As Mary Miles  because someone saw the will of Miles Marmaduke and thought it was Marmaduke Miles and she was his daughter. This is not so. His name was Miles Marmaduke. It is most likely that they were just simply friends, since Miles Marmaduke is close to Jacob Remy’s age. The fact that Miles Marmaduke was Jacob’s age and Mary was born in 1650  would rule out her being his sister, and Miles son Christopher was born in 1680 would basically rule out her being his daughter since Jane was Miles Only wife and she was young enough to have a child in 1680 but 1650 would make her too young to have had Mary.

Other  genealogies have Mary as Mary Spencer. This seems to be the right conclusion since John Spencer, son of Nicholas,  left money to his sisters Mary and Elizabeth in his will.

 John also in Westmoreland Co. Va., Deed Book 3, P. 72; “John Spencer Godfather Of John Thomas On April 29, 1702, Deeds To John Thomas 50 Acres Of Land, Being Part Of 200 Acres Formerly Sold By Jacob Remy Unto My Father Nicholas Spencer, Esq., Dec’d., Being In Nominy Forest, Bounded As Follows; A Path Leading From Jacob Remy’s To Richard Doziers”, Also French Who Lived Next To The Remy Plantation”

1702 Jacob had acquired much land and was large enough to call it a plantation. A mere slave would not have been able to accumulate this land and have the respect and standing in the Parish as Jacob did.

He was according to land records closely associated with Nicholas Spencer and John his son. Jacob had even sold land to Nicholas his former master.

“Westmoreland Co., Va., Court Records, Deed Book 5, P. 628;

 “Francis Spencer Vs. Carderoy Vaughan, July 27, 1715; Deposition Of Jacob Remy, That In The Year 1661 He Carried Chains In A Survey That Was Made On The Land, Which Nicholas Spencer, Esq., His Then Master, Afterward Purchased, And Lived On By The Aforesaid Nicholas Spencer, Esq., And One Richard Wright, Etc. We Find By The Oaths Of Mary Taylor, Mary Remy, And The Aforementioned Jacob Remy, That John Armsbys Successors Did Live In The Old Field A Little Above Where We Began The Survey, Etc. That They (Jacob And Mary Remy) Never Knew The Aforesaid John Armsby, But They Heard And Always Understood That He Lived There And That The Land Was Called His…….”

Spencer:

1…Nicholas: Will was proven in 1626 in Bedfordshire Canterbury. Parish of Cople Bedford 1626

Cople Parish in Westmoreland County Va was named after Nicholas’s hometown in Bedfordshire.

1…Nicholas Spencer Married; Mary Spencer  dau of Sir Edward Gostwick, Bart. Of Willington

died in 1669.

Children:

1…William Spencer born  1590 Yeoman and ancient planter came to Virginia in the “First Supply” in 1608. He was an ensign and burgess for Jamestown in 1619.had a wife Alice and a daughter Alice born 1620. Among the dead at James City is listed : “William Spencer a child”. Which is most likely their son. He was referred to Ensigne William Spencer in Surry County in 1624.

2…Robert born 1600

3…Nicholas Spencer 1620

He emigrated to Virginia, settled in Westmoreland Parish of Cople He married

Married: 1663 #2 Frances Motrom , Daughter of  Colonel John Motrom of Northumberland County in 1645.

He died Sept 23 1689.

Nicholas is still listed as secretary in 1689 when he died  and William Cole became secretary of Va.

Nicholas Spencer owned considerable lands in Westmoreland County Va in 1668-1680

Virginia County Records, New Series, Volume I, 1913: Westmoreland County

There are indications he was in Virginia as early as 1623.

Listed as a Notable man in Virginia and Secretary of Virginia emigrant 1623. Nicholas and John Washington, as partners, had received from Lord Culpeper, the Governor of Virginia in 1670, a grant of 5000 acres farther north along the Potomac. And more than a century later, a part of this tract became the Mt. Vernon estate of the Washington. He is  listed as secretary of Virginia in 1680.(Council of Colonial Virginia,Vol I, June 11,1680-June 22, 1699, From the Public Record Office,  London, Colonial Office, Class 5, Vol. 1405)

1…Nicholas jr Spencer

Westmoreland County Land Grants Book No. 6. Westmoreland County Land Grants Book No. 6.
Original Source Page #: 319 Nicholas Spencer 1670. He was a descendant of the famous Spencer,s of Northamptonshire in England. (This is Lady Diana’s Family, and how he is connected is unknown at this time).

              Nicholas Will in Bedfordshire. Nicholas’s Will was proven in England in: 1700.

              England: Canterbury-Bedfordshire Wills proved in the Prerogative Court of Canterbury

Spencer, Nicholas, Nominy, Westmoreland County Virginia 1700.

2…Mary Spencer  born 1650 Married Jacob Remy/Ramey

3…Elizabeth Spencer  born 1652 Married William Hancock.

4…John Spencer

History of colonial Families of Virginia, states Nicholas Spencer had a son Nicholas Jr, and a son  John who died without Issue in 1675, and two daughters, Elizabeth who married William Hancock and Mary. Mr William Hancock said that  on Dec 27 1675 John Spencer was sick at his house and John said he would leave his property to his sisters Mary and Elizabeth, Probate was granted William Hancock in right of his wife and sister on the estate of John Spencer. John was born in 1653, Mary in 1650 and Elizabeth born 1652, Mary Married Jacob Remy in 1668 and Elizabeth was the wife of William Hancock.

Original Lists Of Persons Of Quality, Etc., From Great Britain To America; “Entries From 1606-1702, March 2, Nicholas Spencer Is Appointed Secretary Of The Colony Of Virginia, During The Pleasure Of King Charles I”. (Reign 1600-1649). Vol. 31, P. 6.

Marmaduke:

Prominent Genealogy Research. Westmoreland Will Book II volume I

Name Miles Marmaduke, 16 May 1695 proven 28 August 1695

My wife Jane home plantation for life; son Christopher residue of estate when 16 years of age; Jacob Remy and Morgan Williams to be trustees of my estate.

This will says his son Christopher is not 16 in 1695 so Mary would not have been his daughter. Jacob was about the same age as Miles Marmaduke.

His name is Miles Marmaduke not Marmaduke Miles.

Miles Marmaduke (his name is listed as Meredith Miles Marmaduke  ancestor of 2 Governor’s of Missouri.  Married to Jane, Father Richard Marmaduke of England

Descendants.

1…Christopher Marmaduke  born 1680 Married: Mary McKinney

1…Vincent Marmaduke 1704 born in Westmoreland County married Sarah Porter

               Children were: Christopher born 1740

Jean, Esther, Jemima, Daniel, John, William all born in Va.

Christopher  born 1740’s children:

1…Elizabeth Porter Marmaduke born in Westmoreland Co.

2…Vincent Marmaduke born in Westmoreland Co.

3…Molly Marmaduke.

4…Meredith Miles Marmaduke born in Westmoreland County Aug 28 1791

Governor  of Missouri.

1…John Sappington Marmaduke born March 14 1838 Missouri was also governor of Missouri

sources:(Notable Americans)( Bible Records of Missouri, Volume II)(Westmoreland County Virginia Wills).

He came to Virginia from England in 1654 under the “Indenture System”, bound to “Nicholas Spencer, Esq., who was appointed Secretary of the colony of Va., during the pleasure of the King Charles II (1606-1702) - March 2.”

Original Lists of Emigrants, Vol. 1-1600 to 1637; Vol. 2-1662 to 1700, by John C. Hotten, 1874, p. 271, Vol. 1: “Fra. (Francois) Rame to Westmoreland Co., Va., by John Drayton, 1654.” His wife Francoise evidently did not survive the trip to Va., and he m. 2nd. In 1671 Mary Spencer. He became a land owner in this year and was naturalized in 1680. He d. in 1721.

“Westmoreland Co., Va., Court Records, Deed Book 5, p. 628; “Francis Spencer vs. Carderoy Vaughan, July 27, 1715; Deposition of Jacob Remy, that in the year 1661 he carried chains in a survey that was made on the land, which Nicholas Spencer, Esq., his then master, afterward purchased, and lived on by the aforesaid Nicholas Spencer, Esq., and one Richard Wright, etc. We find by the oaths of Mary Taylor, Mary Remy, and the aforementioned JACOB REMY, that John Armsbys successors did live in the old field a little above where we began the survey, etc. that they (Jacob and Mary Remy) never knew the aforesaid John Armsby, but they heard and always understood that he lived there and that the land was called his, etc.”

Forthergills Wills of Westmoreland Co., Va.; p. 4; “Will of John Armsby dated 1659”.

As John Armsby d. in 1659 and above deposition shows Jacob Remy living there in 1661, this places his importation at 1654 or before. His first wife, Francois, was imported in 1654 under Indenture to John Drayton, while Jacob was Indentured to Nicholas Spencer. Under this Indenture System large land owners and other influential men in the colonies made a contract whereby many worthy men and women were obligated to work out their passage money as servants to their “masters by indenture”. These so called Masters received from the crown 50 additional acres for each person so imported.

Westmoreland Co., Va., Deed Book 1, p. 403; “Jacob Remy is deeded by William Pierce, 200 acres of a tract of 1200 acres in Nominee Forest in Cople Parish July 21, 1671. Deed recorded Nov. 28, 1671.” (Nominee forest was the wooded land adjacent to Nomini River and its branches.)

Westmoreland Co. Va., Deed Book 3, p. 72; “John Spencer godfather of John Thomas on April 29, 1702, deeds to John Thomas 50 acres of land, being part of 200 acres formerly sold by Jacob Remy unto my father Nicholas Spencer, Esq., dec’d., being in Nominy forest, bounded as follows; a path leading from Jacob Remy’s to Richard Doziers”, also French who lived next to the Remy plantation.

Original Lists of Persons of Quality, etc., from Great Britain to America; “Entries from 1606-1702, March 2, Nicholas Spencer is appointed Secretary of the Colony of Virginia, during the pleasure of King Charles I”. (Reign 1600-1649). Vol. 31, p. 6.

Westmoreland Co., Va. Deed Book 7, p. 336; “Abraham Smith on Sept. 27, 1721 deeds to John Ramey, 50 acres, being part of a deed of 200 acres of land bought of Jacob Ramey, Sr., by Coll. Nicholas Spencer, and afterward made over to John Spencer, Gent., by deed of gift to Abraham Smith, his godson, etc., land commonly called and known by name of Beatles Neck, and bounded on the land of Jacob Ramey, Sr.”
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“JACOB REMY’S NATURALIZATION PAPERS;
By the Deputy Govr. Of Virg.

Whereas the Kings most Excellent Majesty in his most Special Grace and favour hath been graciously pleased for the Greater promotion and propagation of this his Majesty’s Colony and Dominion of Virga: by Act of Assembly, to enact and declare all Aliens coming into this country and here residing, taking the Oath of Allegience, to be invested with all rights and privileges of any, or his Majesty’s natural born subjects within the said Colony and, Whereas by the said Act it is enacted and declared that the Governor and Commander in Chief for the time being in said Colony having taken the Oath of Allegience before the Governor and Commander in Chief for the time being to be to all intents and purposes fully and completely naturalized, and the person or persons so approved of and named in the letters Patent to have and enjoy to them and their heirs, the same immunities and rights of and unto the laws and privileges of their colony, and as fully and amply as any of his Majesty’s natural born subjects of this colony have or enjoy within the same. Therefore I, Sir Henry Chichley, Knight, his Majesty’s Deputy Governor and Commander in Chief, do by virtue of the said Act, hereby certify and declare that Jacob Remy, a Natural born subject of the French King, hath taken the Oath of Allegience before me. In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and caused the Colony Seal to be hereunto affixed. Dated in James City, Sept. the nine and twentieth, 1680, and in the two and thirtieth year of his Majesty’s Reign. He: Chichley.
Recorded: Octavo die Octobris, 1702. Pr: Ja: Westcomb
Civ. Comm. Westmoreland Co., Va.”
Copy by Deputy Clerk, Richmond Co., Va.

Jacob Remy/Ramey and Mary's Children

1...William Remy Sr.
born: 1672 Westmoreland County Va Died: 1727 Va
Married: Catherine Asbury daughter of Henry Asbury and Mary Durrant
William was left one shilling by his father in his will.
William Remy Sr. Genealogy

2...Jacob Remy Jr.
born 1675 Westmoreland County Va. died" 1727 Virginia
Married: Ann Sanford 1699 Virginia:
This Jacob JR was left 200 acres of Land by his Father
Jacob Remy Jr. Genealogy

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