George Vanderford (107)
Father: George Paul Vanderford (18) Mother:
b.c. 1684 [Ledley]
d. Feb. 22, 1758 in Kent County, Delaware
[KC deed R:22]
m. Eleanor (Hollingsworth?)
[QA deed NTB:279]
Eleanor
m. April 21, 1737, George Seward
[Barnes]
Esther
Rachel
George
John (235), b. 1728-30, d. 1770
Hollingsworth (236), b. 1730, d.
March 17, 1820
Matthew (237), b. Aug. 21, 1738, d.
Dec. 15, 1772
Information:
1728: George was a member of St. Luke's
Parish. [St. Luke's Reg.]
1729: George appeared in the Queen Annes
County Levy Court Squirrel Head Bounty List. [Wright,1986]
May 7, 1729: George received 56 2/3 acres
of Fox Hill from his brother, Charles (104) for brotherly
love and affection and 1000 pounds of tobacco. [QA
deed IKC:240]
1734: George paid taxes on 56 3/4 acres
of Fox Hill (2 shillings, 3 1/2 pence) and on 47 acres of Brotherhood (1
shilling, 10 1/2 pence). [QA debt book, pg. 70]
February 11, 1739: George sold to John
Hayes for 8000 pounds of tobacco the 47 acres of Brotherhood which he had
bought from Edward Wright, Jr. on Feb. 9, 1729 (recorded September 2, 1729).
[QA deed NTB:279 & QA rent 12:501]
1740: George and his wife Elenor sold the
56 2/3 acres of Fox Hill. [Ledley]
1740, 1743, 1744, 1748, and 1751-4:
George appeared in the Murderkill Hundred Tax List, Kent County, Delaware.
[KC tax]
September 5, 1745: George purchased for
80 pounds 233 acres in the middle of "Great Geneva," Kent County, Delaware.
[Vandaveer]
February 10, 1756: George sold 75 acres
of "Great Geneva" for 75 pounds. "Great Geneva" was on the south side of
Tibdury Branch of Dover River in Murderkill Hundred, Kent County, Delaware.
[KC deed O:324]
February 22, 1758: George left to his
three sons, Hollingsworth, John and Matthew, 150 acres in the "Great Geneva."
Also mentioned were son George, daughters Elenor, Esther and Rachel and wife
Elenor. (There is a picture of a house on "Great Geneva" in the Dover Hall of
Records.) [KC deed Q:19]
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