They lived in Henrico Co., Va., I am told.

In 2008, some 10 years after this posting, I have this query:

"Hello Pat-- I have been fascinated with all the information you have compiled on our families on your website.... I would be forever grateful if you could provide me with the references to any documentation that you have available supporting that Giles was born ABT 1710 in Henrico Co., VA and that Hannah Hughes was born ABT 1720 in Henrico Co. as well. Even more important to me is any reference to documentation that shows that Giles Letcher, his father, was born ABT 1685 and Giles was married to Perkins who was also born ABT 1685. I have been quite unsuccessful in determining who Giles Letcher's father and mother are beyond your earliest dates or even beyond Giles and Hannah Hughes Letcher. All the family histories indicate that Giles' mother was a "Miss Giles" and that he was a descendant of the prominent Leche family, but I am unable to discover these links. Thanking you in advance. Sincerely, Howard Letcher >howardletcher@hotmail.com<"

Sadly I cannot help here.... but will post this in the aim of finding an answer.

Howard wrote again and noted: "Hello again Pat--Did you indicate that you would repost for information on this. I don't know where or how to do that so I would appreciate that. I have narrowed down that Giles II is probably the son of an unspecified daughter of John Giles and Philaritie Woodward since the Perkins and Letcher's continued to marry into these families for 4 more generations. Also, Giles owned contiguous land with the Farrars, Perkins, and 4 other families who were William Giles' and Bethenia Knowles' families. But I am stumped with the Giles I information that he was married to a Perkins instead of a Giles. I will continue to keep you updated on anything I find. Thank you, Howard"

HOWARD LETCHER'S 25 JUL EMAIL SEEKING INPUT FOR HIS LINE:

Howard Letcher >howardletcher@hotmail.com< sent this email below 25 Jul 2008 which carries a query to all for the information he seeks.

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Howard Brion Letcher: My direct ancestors are (Stephen) Giles Letcher b. abt 1710 and Hannah Hughes b. abt 1715-20. And if it can be supported with documentation, then my next generation earlier direct ancestors would be (Stephen) Giles Letcher I b. abt 1685 and (Elizabeth) Perkins b. abt 1685-95 with undocumented information that Giles II above and Hannah were both born in Henrico county.

The family story (passed down in my own family in the below form) continues in many versions which is basically as follows: Giles Letcher II and Hannah Hughes were born in Northern Ireland (but whose families removed from Cornwall and/or Wales to Northern Ireland during the Cromwellian period which is the correct version--and they were neither Irish, nor Hugenots, nor Scotch/Irish as some accounts erroneously relate): they married in Richmond, Va in 1741; that Hannah was "a lady of fortune" descended from the ancient Welsh family of Hughes; that Giles II's mother was a "Miss Giles" of either Gileston or Giles Court, a member of the ancient Welsh Giles family; and finally that Giles Letcher II was a direct descendant of the ancient Devon Leche family (whose existence in Britain can be recorded back to the 5th or 6th century and remains one of the oldest continual landed (not royal) families in Britain by acquisition/inheritance of the ancient Carden estate through the female line resulting from the Leche marriage to the Carden heiress before 1350). The Leche Chatsworth estate (a sub-family of the Carden Leche family) was sold to the Duke of Devonshire (Lord William Cavendish) about 1600 who was married to Bess of Hardwicke (aside from Elizabeth I, the richest and most powerful woman in England resulting from her three successively more resourceful and more affluent marriages (opportunistic, perhaps, as had been noted historically) causing considerable and grave consternation to Queen Elizabeth) whose stepfather was Ralph Leche and whose sister married their stepbrother, Francis Leche, at which time the Chatsworth sale was executed and the Chatsworth Leche family line became extant with no male heirs; the Carden Leche family still exists today under John Leche XIV (pursuant to dates and circumstances, I tend to believe that my ancestor was John Leche IX during whose ownership, Carden was confiscated by either Cromwell or the crown and, moreover, at which time I believe John IX removed to Northern Ireland with the Cavaliers and Quakers and his relatives until Carden was restored to him 30-40 years later about the time that Giles I should have been born in 1685 which was also about the time of the reign of William and Mary). The coat of arms was granted to ____ Leche who was the surgeon to Edward II (Note: recent published papers that were in the possession of Bess of Hardwicke as Countess of Shrewsbury reference Gyles Leche as the bailiff to the first Lord Fitzwilliam c. 1500--could this Gyles be the Leche ancestor of Giles Letcher?). Most portions of the main theme of the above "family legends", for the most part, have been published by the conservators of Jeb Stuart's Letcher birthplace, Laurel Hill plantation, with the cooperation of the Virginia Historical Society (I think they are called) or the William and Mary College Quarterly Genealogical Society (if I am naming that correctly)

Another aspect to the story that appears to ring true is as follows: the Leche/Letcher family had a history in medicine (as borne out by both the occupational name as derived from the word, "leech" and the historical Leche English family facts regarding their ancestry--in college, I even recall seeing a record that attributed the direct ancestry of the Letcher/Leche family to King Arthur's counterpart, Merlin, relative to Merlin's mysterious and magical healing powers and the Leche family's ancient beginnings in Cornwall--wouldn't this be about 900?).

My grandmother's personal story (married to my grandfather Julian Charles Letcher) derived directly and personally from his well-known family in Alabama who have always been cognizant of their genealogy which has been published in books detailing state and national biographies of prominent doctors and lawyers and diplomats (my great-uncle, Francis Marion Letcher, Jr., was the U.S. Foreign Trade Advisor, the first consul-general in Mexico, and consul-general in Belgium and Sweden and, I believe, a fourth country that I cannot at this moment recall--his father (my g-grandfather), Dr. Letcher, refused to educate FM, Jr. because he, conversely, refused to study medicine with his brothers who attended Tulane, and Dr. Letcher vehemently and disdainfully disregarded Marion's desire to become a diplomat, so Uncle Marion paid for his own education by tutoring students at a private school headmastered by another relative). My grandmother's story related that five Letcher brothers came to Virginia and they were extremely large folk with handspans twice the size of ordinary folk. I only wonder how strong this legend was reinforced in her mind's eye based on her simple observation that some of my grandfather's brothers along with my g-grandfather, Dr. Francis Marion Letcher along with some of his brothers were at least 6'9"; Dr. Letcher's sister, Mary Elizabeth Letcher King who settled in Milam Co, Texas, was approximately 6'. (I might add here that two of Elizabeth's sons--her oldest and her youngest, Judge Harry Tom King and Dr. Kenneth A. King, Jr.--married two of my grandmother's sisters (Jephalona Hale and Annie Campbell Hale) in Jones Co, Texas, and that Julian Letcher (my grandfather) was their first cousin who married a third Hale sister, my grandmother, Henry Clay Hale, Jr. According to my father, this union directly resulted from Julian's trip to Texas from Alabama in order to visit his Letcher/King cousins and Letcher uncle in Anson and Abilene fairly soon after his termination of his 10-year first marriage (all this was certainly complicated by the fact that my grandmother was his second wife, while his first wife was his Howard first cousin--but that is not the exact point of my story here.) The "five sons" interpretation appears to be accurate but based on the sons of Giles II and Hannah rather than being based on five independent Virginia Letcher brother-immigrants.

Now, I will work my way down from (Stephen) Giles Letcher II and Hannah Hughes to me (all these genealogies in my family are, of course, supported with documentation) as follows: Their son was James C. (C = possibly Childers) Letcher who married an heiress, Melinda Key (Key family property was located next to Perkins and other Virginia settlers in Henrico, Isle of Wight, Albermarle, Goochland, and Charles City), and after his marriage, James removed to Edgefield, SC, in partnership with his father-in-law, Henry Key II (Henry's gg-grandfather, Henry Key, was lethally married to Lady Margaret Grey (or Katherine--can't remember which at the moment), sister of Lady Jane Grey; and Henry Key I's father was Martin Key of Albermarle), who was a planter and resided there alongside many of the other Henrico county, Goochland, and Albermarle settlers who also came to Edgefield and were family members (Melinda's--aka Millie--second husband was Isaac LeFevre with whom she also had issue); James' and Melinda's son was Giles V who married Agnes Talbert (or Talbot or Tolbert in early Virgina and whose family also was involved with the same Henrico, Albermarle, Goochland, and Charles City familes); Giles V's and Agnes'--aka Aggie--son was John David Letcher who married Anne Mathilda Bozeman (the Boseman, Perkins, Harding, Key, Talbot families again all intermarried and are also all early Virginia colonists) and I participated in a DNA program on behalf of Bob Campbell whose Letcher uncle was tested against my DNA confirming that James and Melinda had another son, Stephen Tolbert Letcher--my father appears to have been knowledgeable about the possible existence of this second son via family lore regarding the abduction by the Cherokees of these two sons as youths and their subsequent separation and then their release from the Indians during General Stonewall Jackson's punitive expeditions through the Indian territories; John David's and Anne's oldest son was Dr. Francis Marion Letcher who married an heiress of the Howard/Billingslea/Slatter plantation fortune, Louisa Claudia Caroline Howard Clanton (her first husband was Nathaniel Holt Clanton and she was a direct descendant of Matthew Arundell Howard b. 1609 through her g-grandfather, Revolutionary Captain/Attorney/Judge Rhesa Howard of Augusta, who married Hannah Few, sister of William Few, signer of the U.S. Constitution and U.S. Senator from Georgia), whose youngest son was Julian Charles (middle-named after his uncle Major Charles Gordon Howard) Letcher who married 2nd Henry Clay Hale, Jr. (direct descendant of Tidewater planter, John Clay II via her g-grandmother Mary Clay Thaxton Hale buried in Independence, Texas), my grandmother (her second husband was James Jefferson Boley), and whose son was my father John Benson (middle-named after a relative, Dr. Benson Booth) Letcher and my aunt Clay Hale Letcher (Julian's first wife was his 1st cousin, Marion Ramsey--issues of this marriage were Elizabeth Letcher and Julian Lightfoot (middle-named after another relative, Dr. Lightfoot) Letcher--, and third wife was Louise Hamburger Pinckney with whom he had Frances Louise Letcher).

I have not provided information on collateral families, but that is where the Perkins and Hughes family relationships become very complex and interesting. From the time of Giles II and Hannah, the Letcher family continued to marry Perkins and Hughes and Harding family members for at least 3-4 more generations.

Having researched the Harford Co, Maryland, Howard family from whom I am descended via Matthew Arundell Howard b. 1609, I was so surprised that all these families were Quakers and relative to the requirements of Society of Friends could only marry within the society (the Howard family not only married within the society, but they typically only married within themselves generally marrying 1st cousins for the first 200 years in America (at least in my family) until sometime before 1799 when Rhesa and Hannah Few Howard converted to the Methodist faith; but moreso, they married double, triple, and quadruple first cousins who were even multiple-related second, third, fourth, and more cousins--unbelievably confusing. Additionally, when a Howard spouse/relative died, the survivor typically married the deceased spouse's brother or sister or another multiple/multiple cousin and because of these circumstances, attempting to separate and trace the issue of children (who usually have all the same names each generation) with each relative/spouse, was extremely complicated, As I said, my grandfather even married his Howard first/and more cousin.

Starting my research on the Letchers again about one and a half years ago, I was astonished to find that someone had posted not only Hannah Hughes Letcher's father and mother as Thomas Hughes Sr and Sarah Perkins, but that (Stephen) Giles II's father was posted as (Stephen) Giles Letcher I b. abt 1685 and his mother was posted as "Perkins" who I subsequently was able to identify as Elizabeth Perkins b. abt 1685-95 whose father was Nicholas Perkins IV and mother was Sarah Childers. The only source I had for this new Giles Letcher I and Elizabeth Perkins information was Pat M. Stevens IV (his Mitchell family was descended from the Mitchell first cousin maternal marriage of two grandchildren of Sarah Hannah Letcher, the only daughter of Giles II and Hannah Hughes) who I have been in touch with as of late but who is unable to locate his supporting material for Giles II's parentage or Giles II's and Hannah's birthplace as Henrico County. He reposted for me on a genealogical website to try to find the person who provided him this information.

Hannah's father, Thomas Hughes Sr. had his children by Sarah Perkins, daughter of Nicholas Perkins III and Elizabeth Harding (with whom he had all his children except Nicholas IV--Nicholas III and Mary Burton Perkins christened Nicholas IV 11 October 1649 at Stepney St Dunsten in London--whose mother was Mary Burton who married second, Richard Parke (see Parke-Custis or Parker). Thomas Sr.'s second wife was Mary Giles Harding, widow of Thomas Harding. I don't find that Thomas Hughes Sr. and Mary Giles Harding had any children. All her children appear to be with Thomas Harding (but I have not substantiated this as a fact) and children of all of the Giles/Harding and Giles/Hughes and Hughes/ Perkins marriages continued to marry Perkins and Hughes and Harding and Letcher children and descendants--again, so very complicated. Additional information is that Nicholas III claimed headrights in 1650 (Aug 3) for Mary (Burton) Perkins, Wm Owens, and Richard Hughes (possibly Rees Hughes Sr). Upon Nicholas III's death in 1656, he left property both in Virginia and England which was claimed by Mary Burton Perkins Parke who had already married Richard Parke. Children of Thomas Harding and Mary Giles were as follows: 1. William d. 1768 and first married Edith Cox with one daughter, Sarah, who married Thomas Pollard, and secondly married Sarah LaForce (daughter of Rene LaForce) and their oldest son was Giles Harding who married Amida Morris, and Thomas who married Jane Farrar, and William who married Obedience Hutchins and finally Rene with no data; 2. Thomas Jr; 3. Mary who married Edward Thomas; 4. Susannah b. 1722 who married first Charles Ellis, and second John Beckley; and 5. Bethenia b. 1719 d. after 1782 who married first Nicholas Perkins V and second John Chadwell. Again, the Harding marriages reinforce that they could have been all of Giles Letcher II's half-first cousins if his mother was, in fact, Mary Giles Letcher Harding Hughes; the Hutchins, Perkins, LaForces, Farrars, and others included all the families surrounding Giles II or for whom he appeared as a witness in the mid-17th century. It is also interesting to note that Giles II appears out of nowhere for the first time in 1741 which is coincidentally the marriage date ascribed for him and Hannah Hughes--again to emphasize, Giles II literally appears out of nowhere. Also, Thomas Hughes Sr. b. 1685-90 and wife, Sarah Perkins, had the following issue: 1. Thomas Jr whose will was probated 1779 had 2 sons and 2 daughters--William b. 1743 who married Mary Ball; Moses b. 1745 who married Ellizabeth Ball; Mary married John Jude; and Rebekkah who married Lewis Ball; 2. Charles; 3. Stephen; and 4. Hannah Hughes married to Giles Letcher II. Both Thomas Hughes Sr and Mary Giles Harding Hughes were alive in 1748 but she had died by 1769. Another fact to remember is that Nicholas Perkins IV was the Administrator for William Arrington (married either Melinda Key Letcher's aunt or sister and was, as I recall, a Revolutionary War General). Stephen Giles Letcher III's son was General Benjamin Letcher.

So, the points at which I am stranded are as follows: Is Giles II's mother really Elizabeth Perkins or does his mother remain as "Miss Giles" according to family tradition? In this case, then, does (Stephen) Giles Letcher I even exist because if he does exist, then he would require a "Miss Giles" as his mother to support not only the Giles nomenclature, but also the family tradition--or is the family tradition regarding Giles nomenclature simply inaccurate? Were Giles Letcher II and Hannah Hughes both born in Henrico co instead of Northern Ireland to which many Quakers and Cavaliers had removed during the reigns of Charles I and II and the ensuing Cromwellian rule of England, even the Carden Leches? Where exactly in Northern Ireland? And if Giles II's mother was "Miss Giles"--then which one--it could probably not be a sister of Mary Giles Harding Hughes since her parents, William Giles and Bethenia Knowles, are not recorded as having another daughter either by will or any other information or available document? Or could another daughter have existed named Bethenia Giles--because I have seen records indicating that a Bethenia Giles was the daughter of William and Bethenia Knowles Giles--however, I only assumed that Mary Giles' full name was Mary Bethenia Giles, but I may have incorrectly assumed that idea? My most interesting question regarding Mary Giles is this new hypothesis of mine--could Giles II be the son of Mary Giles with unnamed Letcher spouse who died previous to her first marriage in 1710 (married first to Thomas Harding at age 22-25 would easily afford her means and opportunity for an earlier though truncated marriage to ____ Letcher) to Thomas Harding--this is a possibility because Giles II's birthdate has generally been recorded as 1710, so give or take a couple of years for birth of everyone involved, then Mary Giles Harding Hughes could easily have been married to ____ Letcher first and this would definitely account for the Giles nomenclature and the intermarriage of the Letcher, Hughes, Harding, and Giles families along with the Perkins family? Also supporting this hypothesis is that none of the children of Mary Giles and Thomas Harding was married since that Letcher would be have to be Giles Letcher II, her own son. Would it not then be logical that Mary Giles son, Giles Letcher, was married to her step-daughter, Hannah Hughes--this is perfectly logical given the pattern of marriages herein? But if Giles I's or Giles II's mother was "Miss Giles" though not Mary Giles, then could "Miss Giles" be the daughter (to account for Giles I) or grandaughter (to account for Giles II) of John Giles and heiress, Philaritie Woodward, b. respectively 1624 and 1628 (William Giles' mother and father)? John's and Philaritie's children are known, at the least, to be John, Thomas, and William along with an illegitimate daughter by Philiaritie named Jane Johnston (Johnson) to whose father, William Johnson (Johnston), she paid almost 6,000 pounds of tobacco for support of this child who did not live with her and John Giles, and then Jane received the 400 acre plantation at Blackwater from her mother; however, a legitimate daughter of Philaritie and John Giles easily remains possible since I have not found record of all their issue? Two Thomas Gileses exist and one was the brother of referenced John Giles and the other was his son, Thomas. Two daughters of Thomas Giles, the brother of John--Eleanor Giles and Elizabeth Giles--are known to have married the two Smelley brothers who were their stepbrothers. Also, the younger Thomas Giles married the daughter of Jacob Darden and there is an Ann Giles who married John Moore before 1739. To summarize this subject, thank goodness the unattractive Smelley family name never became a nomenclature for any us--take a moment and consider one's unfortunate labelling as Smelley Letcher; Shakespeare already did a number on the Letcher name without adding something Smelley to it. Hopefully, this name was changed to Smedley in subsequent generations.

So, for Giles I to obtain the name Giles, then his mother, "Miss Giles", would have to be born in time for his birth in 1685 to attribute either Giles I or II with a "Miss Giles" as his mother (i.e., in order to support the Giles nomenclature as derived from his mother's Giles' surname) which is easily supported by my premise above. These same Giles and Harding and Burton families all married the same Hughes and Perkins families and, of course, they were all Quakers. For this reason, I am assuming that the Letchers may have been Quaker, too, but this may be the reason that there is a lack of information in the event that "Miss Giles" or Elizabeth Perkins married outside the Society of Friends when marrying a Letcher and were ostracised; however, I truly don't really believe this is a credible conclusion on my part since the marriages with the Letchers continue for generations. During the past 4 weeks, I have copied from the Internet any and all documents in Henrico, James Co., Albermarle, Charles City, Goochland co that mention or contain Giles Letcher II's name either as a witness or purchaser or seller--I probably only have 10 references. And his name appears with Farrar (daughter married Thomas Harding III), Ware (Ward or Wade), Perkins, Harding, Burton, Childers, Hutchins (daughter married William Harding Jr), Mosely (more of the same marriages), LaForce (daughter married William Harding Jr), Beasley (Thomas Harding or Thomas Hughes was married to Phoebe Beasley), Price (Sarah Price daughter of Daniel Price married Harding Perkins, Mildred Perkins father), Moore (son married Ann Giles daughter of John Giles--see above) which supports that some if not all these people besides the Perkins and Hardings and Childers were his family with whom Giles II lived and interacted--they were all certainly intermarried with each other and with the Letchers both then and later on.

Finally, I will provide you with another Perkins/Letcher marriage involving Hughes as follows: Nicholas Perkins IV son, Constantine (brother to Elizabeth Perkins who was allegedly married to Giles Letcher I), married first Ann Pollard whose father was Stephen Pollard and whose mother was Ann Hughes (Hannah's sister, I believe); their son was Nicholas Perkins IV who married Bethenia Harding whose daughter married Capt William Letcher (Giles II's son) whose grandaughter was Elizabeth Letcher Pannill Stuart Hairston, the mother of Jeb Stuart and Governor ____ Stuart and General George Hairston, as I recall, along with some other Virginia notables. Constantine and Ann Pollard's son, Stephen Perkins, married Mary Hughes, daughter of Benjamin Hughes (Hannah's and Ann's brother, possibly--I haven't finished this); their daughter, Elizabeth Perkins, married Stephen Giles Letcher IV whose son was Governor/General/Ambassador Robert Perkins Letcher of Kentucky. And of course, Governor Letcher of Virginia who generally has the same descent as above essentially with Sam Houston added into the formula deriving the ubiquitous genealogy of the Houston/Letchers of Rockbridge Co, Lexington, Virginia (I recollect my visits with my elderly cousin Marine General John Seymour Letcher who was the grandson of Governor Letcher of Virginia during the War-between-the-States--I heard that his children recently sold a handful of their Sam Houston/John Letcher/Robt E Lee War-between-the-States correspondences for several millions of dollars at auction with either Sothebys or Christies--General Letcher kept all these documents in his detached garage, as I recall, and offered to get the letters out and show them to me at a convenient for him to dig for them, but unfortunately, I never visited at a convenient time as I was usually enroute to college in Williamsburg--his property divided Virginia Military Institute from Washington and Lee perpendicular to Letcher Avenue in Lexington and was the rebuilt residence of Governor Letcher's original home that Sherman burned; post-war, General Robert E. Lee served as president of Washington College--nka Washington and Lee--while Governor Letcher served as president of VMI). Also, in Edgefield Co, SC, Melinda Key Letcher's brother, Tandy Key, married Mildred Perkins, the daughter of Harding Perkins. Mildred's brother, Daniel Perkins, married first Margaret Perkins and third, Susan Perkins. This is only a small amount of collateral Perkins/Hughes/Letcher/Harding marriages that I have bothered to note.

I did run into a document for Harford co Maryland referencing both Thomas Hughes and John Giles--together--but these appear to be different Quaker Hughes and Giles familes as they are involved and intermarried with my own Howard and Hammond families associated with my referenced ancestor, Matthew Arundell Howard b. 1609. I have not discounted their relationship with the Virginia Hughes and Giles families but I haven't spent any time attempting to connect them since the Virginia familes all knit so closely and sensibly.

So, if you have anything that will provide me answers or information regarding the above Giles Letcher I/II questions, I would appreciate that enormously. Or anything more you have available on Giles Letcher II since I have absolutely no document or deed or anything to support Giles Letcher II's existence in the colonies or in Virginia before about 1741.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:

please process this with your copy below that we are descended from both of nicholas perkins III marriages to elizabeth harding and mary burton since i failed to note that since giles letcher I's wife elizabeth perkins was the daughter of nicholas perkins IV and sarah childers and that nicholas perkins IV was the son of nicholas perkins and mary burton. elizabeth perkins father was who i am referring to as nicholas IV. sarah perkins mother of hannah hughes was daughter of nicholas III. nicholas III's mother was jane irondonger (I have much more on her parentage) and nicholas III first wife elizabeth harding's father was constantine harding. nicholas II has unidentified wife and his father nicholas I was son of arthur perkins whose wife was elizabeth kymball whose father was nicholas kymball. nicholas perkins III second wife mary burton (mother of nicholas IV) was daughter of lydia fry and john burton son of robert burton of longfield and mary knowles (have lots more on this since mary giles harding hughes was daughter of william giles and bethenia knowles and she was the daugher and heir of capt. john knowles of jamestown--also see newell noel noles). nicholas IV's wife sarah childers is daughter of abraham childers I and jane anne howard--jane anne's father was john howard b 1590 d 1660 and abraham's father was william sr the immigrant 1622-1679 and his wife was dame anne ramsden; william sr the immigrant's father was william childers d. 1648 married to anne webster and his father was hugh childers 1500-1571 married to maude _____. thomas hughes sr was edward married to elizabeth skiffen anderson and his father was rees hughes sr (possibly richard). philaritie woodward giles (married to john giles)--she had an illegitimate daughter jane with william johnston/johnson before her marriage to john giles was consummated. her father was thomas woodward sr who was 1st surveyor general of north carolina and remained assay master to the mint under charles I and did not give up that appointment even after coming to virginia; his father was thomas and the woodwards and the smiths and nathaniel bacon are intermarried. the hardings herein listed are direct descendants of the scottish clan/house of bueccleuch and are listed as such in a genealogy that i have on the hardin/harding family which includes them. also giles letcher has involvement with ware family. somewhere the ware and turpin families that adjoin giles letcher property are also on my father's genealogy, possibly key--can't remember.

Since Mary Giles Harding Hughes (or perhaps a sister, Bethenia Giles) might be the mother of Giles Letcher II, then the following genealogy for her is as follows: father was William Giles b. 1650 and d. 1728-9 Henrico co married to Bethenia Knowles b. 1669 d. 1742 whose father was Capt John Knowles of Jamestown b. 1612 d. 1685 and will was witnessed 1676 by John and Robert Burton--he may have been born 1629-30; William Giles was son of John Giles d. 1708 and Philaritie Woodward b. 1628; John's father was Jonathan Giles b. 1603; Philaritie's father was....

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