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It appears that both Richard Tye and Charles Sparrow's families came from Cambridgeshire,
England.
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Capt. Charles Sparrow Timeline: Capt. Richard Tye Timeline: |
Tye, Richard, 1642, by Adam Cooke, Charles Co.
Land Patent (link)
168 Charles Sparrow 750 acres. Lying onto the west side of Chipoakes Creek.
Mr. Richard Tye, 1450 acs. known by the name of the old Towne above Merchants
Hope....Due by vertue of the rights of a patent granted Chene
Boys, 23 Aug 1637 for 1500 acres and surrendered into the office by sd.
Tye, who married the relict of sd. Chene Boys. 26 Oct 1649.
Cavaliers and Pioneers,Vol.1 page 199.
Aug. 3, 1655, Capt Richard Tye
Militia, Sept 17, 1655
Ca Richd Tye
Octobr: 27. 1656.
| “While it was a general practice to use the churches, which were public buildings, for court sessions, the future Prince George, apparently, had its own court house and jail as early as 1658. In August of that year, Captain Richard Tye was the donor of one-half acre at Merchant’s Hope, on which a court house and jail were erected. In the fragmentary Charles City court records is found the following: “Whereas Captain Richard Tye att a co’rt holden in August last in Westover did freely give to the use of this Com halfe an acre of land at Merchts hope for ever (according to the title and tenure) inhereon to build and continue a co’rt house and prison for the Com use, as by testimony of divers gent of the Comicon doth appe’, upon wch land the Co’rt having gratefully accepted the sd offer and guift, hath caused to be erected two houses for the uese afresd; This co’rt doth therefore continue and estabash the sd Donacon to be and continue to this Com use as aforesd.’ - The Hopewell Story |
1660 died in Charles City Co
Charles Sparrow buried September 11 1660
7. Thomas NEWHOUSE, 1050 acres, south side of James River
Bounded: ---nigh to Mr SPARROW his land ----to Burchen Swamp
-----to the beginning the land was due by transportation of 21 persons
15 Jul 1669
1. Edward ELLIS 12. Lawrence ELLIS Jr
2. Roger RIEESE 13. Jno. BALL
3. Hugh BARROW 14. James OKELDRY
4. Judith AVERY 15. Daniel LAWMAN
5. Francis POYSEN 16. Ann DANBY
6. William HIND 17. Jno. CROMWELL
7. John WARD 18. Jno. YAPP
8. Ellener FOWKE 19. David (a Scotsman)
9. Thomas MALLORY 20. Thomas FITCHETT
10. Jno. BARDOE
11. James CABBOCK (only 20 persons listed)
(source: Colonial Abstracts for Prince George Co, Va)
John Coggin or Coggan, the father of Rebecca Poythress, was an early settler and physician in Charles City. He m. (1) a daughter of Gregory Bland; (2) the relict and executrix of Capt. Richard Tye, another early citizen, but it is not known if she were the mother of his children. Ref
| “With the decline of the Church of England after the Revolution, Merchant’s Hope Church was abandoned for some years. However, it was put back into service early in the Nineteenth Century, only to be desecrated during the Civil War, when it was used by Union troops as a picket station and horses were stabled in the church building. It was stripped of its woodwork at that time, and the present interior dates from around 1870 when it was put back into use again. “Martin’s Brandon also had a church building about the time Merchant’s Hope was built, but it must have been in poor condition because two substantial bequests for its repair were made. John Sadler, one of the owners of the plantation, in a will dated 11 December 1658, left 20 pounds to Master Charles Sparrowe ‘and one of the chieftest of the parishioners’ of the parish of Martin’s Brandon to repair the church and parsonage. John Westhope, also, left a large sum of money and tobacco for the same purpose." -The Hopewell Story |
The only people named Tye in the indexes of the Virginia Gazetter 1739-1779 were in Dinwiddie County, VA.
William Tye 1757 Dinwiddie Co, VA
Allen Tye 1767 250 A on Willis Crek in Dinwiddie Co, VA
Lamberth Tye 1779 Dinwiddie Co, VA