William SPEIGHT

1665 - 1719  (54 years)

• Name	William SPEIGHT
  Birth	1665	Speights Run, Nansemond, Virginia, British Colonial America   [1]
  Gender	Male
  FamilySearch ID	GTC9-8RF
  Name	William B Speight  [2]
  Name	William SPEIGHT  [1]
  _UID	6796C57B1FD44B68949C6C4508C9BFEA3E0D
  Death	26 Mar 1719	Speights Bridge, Greene, North Carolina   [1]
  Person ID	I29759	Carney Wehofer 2024 Genealogy
  Last Modified	20 Dec 2024

  
  

  Father	Francis SPEIGHT,   b. 1614, London, Middlesex, England d. Apr 1684, Sommerton Creek, (now Pittmantown), Virginia (Age 70 years)
  Mother	Elizbeth O'ROURKE   d. 1682
  Family ID	F14018	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	Elizabeth TAYLOR,   b. 16 Oct 1654, Rappahannock, Virginia, British Colonial America d. Abt 1730, Sunbury, Gates, North Carolina (Age 75 years)
  Marriage	Perquimans, North Carolina   [1]
  Children	1. Honorable Thomas SPEIGHT, Esquire,   b. 1670, Perquimans, North Carolina d. 1737, Perquimans, North Carolina (Age 67 years)   2. Thomas C SPEIGHT,   b. 1674, Sunbury, Gates, North Carolina d. 9 Apr 1737, Perquimans, North Carolina (Age 63 years)   3. William Francis SPEIGHT,   b. 1674, Chowan, North Carolina d. 16 Jan 1749, North Carolina (Age 75 years)   4. Ann SPEIGHT,   b. Abt 1676, England d. Yes, date unknown   5. William Clark SPEIGHT,   b. 1677, England d. 1704 (Age 27 years)   6. Elizabeth SPEIGHT,   b. 1678, North Carolina d. 1740 (Age 62 years)   7. Francis C SPEIGHT,   b. 1684, Probably Chowan County, North Carolina d. 1749, Sunbury, probably Chowan County (now Gates County) North Carolina (Age 65 years)   8. John Thomas SPEIGHT,   b. 1687, Isle of Wight, Virginia, British Colonial America d. 4 Oct 1738, Suffolk, Nansemond, Virginia, British Colonial America (Age 51 years)
  Family ID	F14017	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	20 Dec 2024

  
  

• Notes

  Cannot prove correct "John Speight" father... at this time. William Speight, son of John Speight, was born about 1665 at Speights Run, Virginia. When William was about eighteen years old his family moved to Somerton Creek (now Pittmantown), Virginia. In 1686 he left home and settled in nearby Isle of Wight County, Virginia. William worked for Henry Southen as a cooper (barrel maker). William was the first Speight with the occupation as a barrel maker and not a planter. William married and had one son, John. William and his family lived in Isle of Wight County for about five years. William and his brother, Francis lived a short distance from each other then in 1691 the Speight families played "musical chairs" with their land. William left the Isle of Wight County and returned to the manor house that his father had left him at Somerton Creek. His brother, Francis, went to the Speights Run plantation, father, John, left Somerton Creek and went to Sunbury, where he and his wife lived at the old home place of our immigrant ancestor, Francis. William continued to expand his land holdings at the Somerton Creek farm. Between 1701 and 1711 he had acquired five hundred and fifteen acres and eleven indentured servants. When William's brother, Francis, died the courts appointed William as guardian of his nineteen-year-old nephew, Moses Speight. In 1728 the legislatures of Virginia and North Carolina commissioned a surveying team to lay off the line. William Byrd of Virginia and Colonel Edward Moseley of Edenton were appointed Surveyor Generals. Mr. Byrd published his famous book, William's Byrd's Histories of the Dividing Line Betwixt Virginia and North Carolina mentioned William Speight and his cousin, Thomas. In 1733 when Colonel Moseley published a map of North Carolina, William's plantation was divided, leaving his house and orchard in Virginia and his tobacco house in North Carolina. This is how William became known as State Line William. William resided at the Somerton Creek plantation in Virginia until his death in 1735. The grave of William and his wife have not been identified, but most likely they were buried on the Somerton Creek farm.

  
  

• Sources

  [S1160] The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, FamilySearch Family Tree (http://www.familysearch.org), ((http://www.familysearch.org)), accessed 2 Jan 2023), entry for William SPEIGHT, person ID G3PK-J6W. (Reliability: 3). [S1160] The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, FamilySearch Family Tree (http://www.familysearch.org), ((http://www.familysearch.org)), accessed 20 Dec 2024), entry for William SPEIGHT, person ID GTC9-8RF. (Reliability: 3).