Name: Charles FEATHERSTONE
Birth:  England
Death: 22 Aug 1682 Henrico Co., Virginia
Spouse: Rebecca Evans STRATTON
Birth: abt 1649 London, Middlesex Co., England
Death: 18 Sep 1725 Henrico Co., Virginia
Father: Edward STRATTON
Mother: Martha EVANS

Children

1 M: Henry Charles FEATHERSTONE
Birth: 1680 Henrico Co., Virginia
Death: bef 28 Feb 1747 Chesterfield Co., Virginia
Spouse: Elizabeth WALTHALL
Marriage: abt 1714 Henrico Co., Virginia
Spouse: Elizabeth BOWMAN

2 F: Anne Stratton FEATHERSTONE
Birth: abt 1673 Henrico Co., Virginia
Death: 17 Jan 1745 Amelia Co., Virginia-Will Dated 12 Dec1745
Spouse: Abraham Allen BURTON
Marriage: abt 1690 Henrico Co. Virginia

3 F: Sarah FEATHERSTONE
Birth: 1676 Henrico Co., Virginia

4 F: Susanna FEATHERSTONE
Birth: 1678 Henrico Co., Virginia
 

Notes for Charles FEATHERSTONE
One source has birth 1637 England and death date 8-22-1682 Henrico Co., VA. Though not proven, it is believed that this Charles Feathertone emigrated from England to Virginia with his brothers Henry and Edward about 1653. [Charles City, Va 9 June 1653] All three brothers supposedly died in Virginia. Charles emigrated as a headright of Major Abraham WOOD (may have been a relative). Charles came with Major WOOD to Charles City, Virginia in 1653. He settled in Henrico County, which later became Chesterfield County, Virginia.  In 1679, Charles was named in a list of "40 tythables" ordered by the court to "fit out arms and men". He was assigned a quota of three men.  The birth order of his 3rd, 4th and 5th children - Sarah, Susanna and William - may not be correct, if his second child, Henry Charles FEATHERSTONE, was born shortly before his death about 1681.

Sources: This Featherstone line shared by Melinda Bailey from info given her from many sources. Much information on this line came from papers found after the death of Sam Arnold Gaines Featherston, including one she had titled - with no author listed - called "Ancestors and Descendants of Judge Lucius Horus Featherston".

"Ancestors and Descendants of Judge Lucius Horus Featherston" there is a copy of that document in The Society of Genealogists in London which I have seen- written by Dr. G.P. Cuttino in a booklet intitled FEATHERSTONIANA ....W. Paul Feathrstone
http://www.featherstone-society.com/Indexes/usa/featherstone%20findings/index.htm  - look under contents index

According to "Featherstone Family News" Spring 1998, Issue #6, Charles died before 25 September 1682 in Henrico Co., Virginia

Check out The Featherstone Society
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Charles Featherstone, a prominent citizen of Henrico County, was born about 1637 according to a Henrico County deposition . He appeared as a headright for Maj. Abraham Wood when he secured a patent to 1,557 acres  at Fort Henry in Charles City County on 9 June 1653. Charles himself held a patent to 700 acres  on the northside of the Appomattox River along Timsbury Run on 30 September 1672.  Charles married Rebecca Stratton then the widow of Anthony Patram. Charles Featherstone died before 2 October 1682 when Henrico County recorded the inventory and appraisementof his estate . By then his wife had married Samuel Newman.

  Charles Featherstone had in his possession when he died a horse belonging to Joseph Tanner . Newman refused to return the horse and in the October Court 1683 Tanner sued Newman for trespass . The court impaneled and swore in a jury to consider the matter. Their verdict favored Tanner and the court granted him a judgement against Newman for the horse.

 Henrico County ordered Samuel Newman to make a bond to the benefit of the orphans of Charles Featherstone on 1 August 1694. 

Henry Featherstone reached his twenty-first birthday after 20 August 1702 when he acknowledged receipt of his inheritance and discharged Newman of his guardianship . 

On 20 April 1687, Samuel Newman secured a patent to 559 acres  on the south side of Swift Creek in Henrico (now Chesterfield) County. Among his collection of twelve headrights were Edward Stratton Sr. [S], Edward  Stratton Jr. [S.1], and Charles Featherstone. 

 Rebecca (Stratton) Patram Featherstone Newman was "loving sister Rebeckah Newman," was a legatee of the 1698-will of her brother Edward Stratton. 

In 1726 when she was seventy-seven, Rebecca (Stratton) Newman made a deposition in Henrico County court about Charles Featherstone's four children . She acknowledged that she personally knew Charles Featherstone, that he had the four children identified below, and that his son remained in good health. We do not know the purpose of the deposition.
  Children of Charles and Rebecca (Stratton) Featherstone: Anne, Sarah, Susanna, Henry Charles.
 

Notes for Rebecca Evans STRATTON
Rebecca dau of Edward Stratton & Martha Evans. Rebecca STRATTON had two other husbands. Her first husband was Anthony PATRAM/PATRUM, and her third husband was Samuel NEWMAN m. by Oct 1683 Henrico Co., VA. "Featherstone Family News" (Spring 1998, Issue #6) indicated that she was born "ca 1649-56" and that she died after 2 May 1726. Another source says she was born 1649 London, Middlesex Co., England and  died 9-25-1725 Henrico Co. VA.

In 1726 when she was seventy-seven, Rebecca (Stratton) Newman made a deposition in Henrico County court about Charles Featherstone’s four children . She acknowledged that she personally knew Charles Featherstone, that he had the four children identified below, and that his son remained in good health.
 

Notes for Anne Stratton (Child 1)
One source says Anne married in 1692. "Giles County Lineage Book" (Giles County Historical Society, Pulaski Co., Tennessee) states that Anne died in Amelia County Virginia and that she and Abraham had a son, Abraham BURTON, Jr. who was born about 1690 in Henrico Co., VA.
 

Notes for Henry Charles (Child 4)
His name may have been Charles Henry. "Featherstone Family News" (Spring 1998, issue #6) said that he died by 28 Sept 1747 in Henrico County, Virginia and that he was married in Henrico Co., VA about 1714. Chesterfield County was made from Henrico County, VA

paid quit rents on 700 acres in Henrico County in 1704.