Harrison Genealogy Repository

Willliam SHANDS

1685 - BEF 17 Aug 1759

Repository ID Number: I30603

Original Submitter (General Source): ^[S1342]

BIRTH: 1685
DEATH: BEF 17 Aug 1759, Sussex Co., VA
WILL: 4 Jan 1759, Sussex Co., VA
PROBATE: 17 Aug 1759, Sussex Co., VA

Father: Thomas SHANDS
Mother: Frances HARRISON

Notes

William Shands(2), we believe, was born 1685 because his name was among 34 others whose signatures were affixed in 1710 to a petition of the citizens of Charles City Co, VA, deploring conditions resulting from the partitioning in 1703 of Charles City County. (VA Mag of Hist and Biog XVIII, 1910, p. 398) His signature on that document establishes he had reached his majority by or before that time, 1710, which indicates the date of his birth to have been about the mid-to-late 1680's.

William became a large, prosperous land owner, as indicated by his will, which was dated 4 Jan 1759. It was said that William patented land in 1722 in Surry County, VA, from King George and that he was given land in Prince George Co, VA, by his father. The original of a deed of land to William Shands in Surry County, signed by then-gov, William Gooch.

                                             _____________________
                                            |                     
                       _____________________|
                      |                     |
                      |                     |_____________________
                      |                                           
 _Thomas SHANDS ______|
|                     |
|                     |                      _____________________
|                     |                     |                     
|                     |_____________________|
|                                           |
|                                           |_____________________
|                                                                 
|
|--Willliam SHANDS 
|  (1685 - 1759)
|                                            _Robert HARRISON ____+
|                                           |                     
|                      _Robert HARRISON ____|
|                     | (1613 - 1668)       |
|                     |                     |_____________________
|                     |                                           
|_Frances HARRISON ___|
                      |
                      |                      _Nicholas COMINS ____
                      |                     | (1602 - 1656)       
                      |_Elizabeth COMINS ___|
                                            |
                                            |_Eleanor ELISON _____
                                              (.... - 1660)