Jeremiah Godwin

Jeremiah Godwin Jr 1766 - 1820 | his parents
& 1784 Sally Wilkinson 17xx - 1843 | her parents
of Stockley Plantation and Suffolk, Nansemond Co VA
& Putnam Co GA

1809 Sally Wilkinson and Jeremiah Godwin Jr
64.34.6 64.34.1
Attributed to Felix Sharples (American ca. 1786-after 1824)
Chalk/Paper 10 x 8 inches
Chrysler Museum of Art , Norfolk , VA
245 West Olney Road , Norfolk , VA 23510

Jeremiah Godwin Jr and Sally Wilkinson were married 30 Sept 1784.
Jeremiah Godwin was born 2 Feb 1766 the son of Jeremiah Sr and wife Mary Holladay;
two days later his mother died 4 Feb 1766.

Sally Wilkinson was the daughter of William Wilkinson of "Shackley Hill" and Suffolk.
family oral history has it that Sally Wilkinson had an uncle that was Commodore of the British Navy.[from Skip Boyd]

Jeremiah Godwin Jr and Sally first lived at "Stockley Plantation" on the Nansemond River
in 1813 they were living at the Castle Inn in Suffolk VA. [Charles Whitlock's (the former tavern)]
in 1817 on 135 acres named "Athens" NW of Suffolk below the river's oxbow.

Jeremiah Godwin Jr died in Putnam Co GA in 1820 and his widow returned to VA.

Children of Jeremiah Godwin Jr and wife Sally Wilkinson:
1. George Godwin 3 Dec 1785 at "Stockley Plantation" - 1866 at "Stockley Plantation"
          lived on Main Street in house built on Dr. Robert H. Fisher's lot.
     married 1804 Frances [Fanny] Green 1785 - aft 1850
           daughter of Thomas and Mary Giles Green

1809 George and Frances Green Godwin, Mary Giles Green
64.34.8 64.34.9 64.34.5
Attributed to Felix Sharples (American ca. 1786-after 1824)
Chalk/Paper 10 x 8 inches
Chrysler Museum of Art , Norfolk , VA
245 West Olney Road , Norfolk , VA 23510

2. Harriet [Harriot] Godwin 17 Sept 1787 Nansemond Co VA - 1825/29 Murfreesboro NC
     married 1805 Thomas Wood Borland M.D. 1770/80 Scotland - 1831/32
3. William H Godwin Sept 1789 -
4. Keaton [Rueben] Godwin 5 Dec 1791 - ca 1836
5. David Godwin 2 Feb 1793 - 1841
     married 1st Best
      a. one child dy
    married 2nd Charity [Cherry] G Kelly
      b. Georgianna Godwin
           married James Robert Maguire of Suffolk
      c. Col. David Jeremiah Godwin 1829 Nansemond Co VA - 18 Jan 1890 CSA
9th Virginia Infantry, Colonel, a lawyer before the war. wounded in 1862; resigned and joined the Invalid Corps.
obit of David J. Godwin, in the Washington Post 1-20-1890. a judge of the corporation court of Norfolk City, state legislator; lost a race for US Congress and the VA Supreme Court postwar. buried in Cedar Grove Cemetery, Portsmouth VA.
         married 1st Lucrece P Wilson of Portsmouth
                  dau of W H Wilson and Ellen Keeling
            i. Lucrece W Godwin
                 married Theodore Rogers of New Jersey
            ii. Harriett Godwin
                  married Daly of Washington DC
            iii. George Godwin
                  married Clara Tebeault of Norfolk
           married 2nd Miss Caprey [or Osprey] of SC
             iv. Harold Godwin
6. Nathan Godwin 23 Jan 1795 -
7. Eliz Godwin 15 Feb 1797 -
8. Jeremiah Godwin III Feb 99 - 1827
     married 2 Jan 1823 Mary Rosser [did she die at childbirth?]
      a. Benjamin Franklin Godwin buried AL
           married Sarah Pleasant Caver
             i. James Cicero Godwin buried Salty TX, Milam Co
                married Sarah Elizabeth Williams
                       1. Annie Verda Bella Godwin
                           married Samuel Albert Smith
                            a. Lillian Annie Smith
                                married Jack Harris
                                   parents of Barbara Hensley
9. child - not named
10. Albert Godwin Aug 1803 - never married
11. Elmira Godwin 20 Jan 1807 -
      married Mr. Murray
12. Sally Brown Godwin 16 Nov 1808 - 1861 New Kent Co VA
      married Gates Co NC 30 July 1827 John Parker Boyd 1798 - 1861 New Kent Co VA
      a. John Parker Boyd Jr
                 22 July 1853 Dallas Co AL - 18 July 1916 Grimstead, Gwynns Island VA
         married K-Q Co 11 May 1876 Ada M Wright
                8 July 1857 King & Queen Co VA - Aug 1885 Matthews Co VA
                                  childbirth
        i. William Arthur Boyd
             19 Mar 1877 Matthews Co VA - 25 Aug 1907 Near Sparrows Point, Baltimore MD
           married Baltimore MD 24 Dec 1899 Lucy Alberta Insley
              20 June 1885 Baltimore - 10 Dec 1972 Baltimore MD
                1. William Earl Boyd 9 Apr 1904 Baltimore MD - 12 Sept 1967 Annapolis MD
                    married Alexandria VA 18 Jan 1938 Jane Mildred Boyd 10 Dec 1911 Severn MD - 2 Dec 1997 Annapolis MD
                        parents of William E [Skip] Boyd Jr

Sources:
John Bennett Boddie's "Seventeenth Century Isle of Wight County Virginia"
chapter XXV on the Godwin Family by Mildred M Holladay
Family History: Virginia Genealogies #1, pre-1600 to 1900s
Genealogies of Virginia Families III, Fl-Ha

e-mail from Barbara Hensley of Houston TX: I am descend from the first Thomas Godwin through Thomas whose son married Martha Bridger, Their son Thomas who married ,Mary, daughter of Capt. Edmond Godwin, through Jeremiah born l727 who married Mary Holliday, through Jeremiah b. l766 who married Sally Wilkinson, who had Jeremiah who married Mary Rosser, through Benjamin Franklin Godwin who married Sarah Pleasant Caver, through James Cicero Godwin who married Sarah Elizabeth Williams and through my grandmother Annie Verda Bella Godwin who married Samuel Albert Smith and then my Mother, Lillian Annie Smith who married my Dad, Jack Harris. That is a mouthful, isn't it. We live in Houston and have been to Al. , met a Godwin relative and visited the burial site of Benjamin F. Godwin, his wife, and several of his children. My great grandfather is buried in Salty, Tx., Milam County, Tx., and have seen his stone.

I have wills and probate of Jeremiah who married Sally Wilkinson. He died in Putnam Co., Ga., and she went back to Va. I know the Boddie, Seventeenth Century Isle of Wight book, says my -the 3rd- Jeremiah died
young but not so. We have also been to Millege ville, (sp.?) and it is very pretty, lots of trees but didn't find any information on the Godwins. I have never been able to find the parents of Mary Rosser.

This Thomas Godwin was the son of Col Thomas Godwin II.
His wife Mary was the daughter of Edmund Godwin, brother of Col. Thomas Godwin II.

1714 and 1723 - Member of the House of Burgess
1731, 1732, and 1734 sheriff of Nansemond Co VA

His family Bible has been preserved and was with descendants living in New Orleans LA

Children of Col Thomas Godwin and wife Mary Godwin:
1. Thomas Godwin 10 July 1705 - 1749
          Vestryman in St John's Chuckatuck and sheriff in 1749
      married Margaret Reade? six children
2. Mary Godwin 19 Sept 1707 -
     married Holladay
3. Edmond Godwin 19 Feb 1712 - 1762
Will 31 Jan 1762 - prob 1 July 1762: Edmund Godwin. Leg.-to my wife, the plantation on which Martha Pitt now lives, with reversion to my son Edmund; son Jeremiah, with reversion to my three children, Edmund, Elizabeth and Millicent; daughter Priscilla; son Brewer; granddaughter Julia Pi
     married 1st Ann Brewer
               dau of Thomas Brewer
      a. Col. Brewer Godwin    d 1799
          married Hannah Wills
                             dau of John Wills
           i. Brewer Godwin
                   1. Alexander H Godwin
          ii. Dr. Josiah Godwin
          iii. John Godwin
          iv. Dolly Godwin
          v. Priscilla Godwin
      b. Edmund Godwin
           married Ann King
                  daughter of Henry King and Martha Browne
           married Holland Wills
                  daughter of General Wills 1794 will
      c. Jeremiah Godwin d. 1782
           married Martha ?
           i. Jeremiah Godwin
               married 1787 Ann Blow
           ii. Mary Godwin
          iii. Elizabeth Godwin
         Martha married 2nd 1787 Rowland Reynolds
       d. Elizabeth Godwin
       e. Millicent Godwin
       f. Priscilla Godwin
     married bef 1746 Ann Applewhaite
          daughter of Henry Applewhaite Will 1741
4. Joseph Godwin 8 Sept 1713 - 1749
       from his Will dated 12 Oct 1747 "Item, I give to my sisters Mary Holladay, Patience Gregory, and brother Jeremiah each fifty shilling to buy them a mourning ring."
     married Johanna Margaret Jackson?
      a. Mary Godwin
      b. Ann Godwin
      c. Sophia Godwin
      d. Christopher Godwin d ca 8 Sept 1781
                Capt in the Rev. Army, killed at the Battle of Eutaw Springs.
           married Clotilda Godwin
                dau of Jonathan Godwin and wife Charity Holladay

About Clotilda Godwin by Mildred M Holladay [ca 1938]
    Clotilda was a great beauty and belle. She visited relatives in Williamsburg and was on friendly terms with the statesmen and prominent men of the period. She was a brilliant woman, made by her family to marry a rich cousin much older than herself. According to family tradition she led him a dance. During the Revolution she enjoyed herself riding about on her fine horse; she wore a blue velvet riding habit that has become historical in the family circle. Thus attired one day she met a number of American soldiers trying to elude the British who were pursuing them. Among them were perhaps many of her friends and relatives. Advising them as to the road they should take, for the main road forked at the spot, she hurried them on. The dust from the horses hoofs had hardly cleared when the Red Coats appeared. Clotilda knew she could not foil them by giving the wrong path. But she determined to save her friends and what Madame Clo, as she was called, undertook to do she did. An officer approached her with the expected question. Madame Clo was fascinating . The officer was in a hurry to go but Madame Clo, held him and he was no longer keen on the trail. She became more and more fascinating and when she felt sure that the pursued had had full time to get ahead, she told the genteel gentleman the way the men had gone, but she told them in such a way that they thought she was fooling them and so they did not take her advise, thereby losing their prey.
   Towards the latter part of the war Clotilda Godwin raised a great scandal in the county. An English officer fell in love with her and she encouraged his attentions and some said she eloped with him. It would be interesting to know if he was the officer who pursued the Americans and was so charmed by her. Family tradition, however has never said more of Clotilda than was absolutely necessary as a rule, and when her uncle, Thomas Holladay, spoke of her in angry scorn, his young son Andrew, one of her devoted followers, reproved him for his strictures. Father and son quarreled ---Andrew's ears were boxed by his irate father and the youth, then about 18, left home swearing that his family should never hear of him again. His fate has always been a mystery and from that day to this, nothing has been heard of him by them.
   Many years ago one of the old Godwin Homesteads in Chuckatuck was sold and left in the house was the portrait of Clotilda Godwin. None of the family wanted Madame Clo though I have been told by a lady living in Chuckatuck that it was a beautiful portrait of a very beautiful woman.
   Clotilda lived to a great age. She and her husband had spent their fortune in their early days. When very old she opened a school for girls at Chuckatuck and many in the county were horrified and declared that Madame Godwin should never teach their children. A rival school ma'am appeared on the scene; but Clotilda Godwin never brooked a rival. Her very advanced pedagogy left the other lady not a`leg to stand on. Unfortunately her ideas in general have not come down to us but some of her spelling methods still linger--among them that dairy delicacy bonny clabber, which she spelled b-a-u-g-h N-a-u-g-h c-l-a-u-g-h b-a-u-g-h. In a short while she reigned alone and the doors of the other school were closed. My father remembers having been sent to her school when he was five years old. The school being near the gates of the home, he was carried over each day on the back of a man servant. He could remember nothing of her methods; but the woman herself mad a great impression on him, he thought her "the oldest thing he had ever seen."

5. Martha Godwin 1 July 1715 -
      married bef 1749 James Godwin db8p308
6. John Godwin 23 Sept 1716 - dy
7. James Godwin 3 Oct 1717 - untraced
8. Elizabeth Godwin 3 Nov 1720 -
9. Patience Godwin 14 Mar 1723 -
     married James Gregory
10. Jeremiah Godwin 22 Mar 1727 -
     married 18 May 1748 Mary Holladay 17xx - 4 Feb 1766
          dau of Col. Anthony Holladay
     married 1767 Mary Pedin d. 1769
     married 1770 Mary Reade d 1782
     married 1786 Ann Gray [Blunt] [Blow] as her third husband

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re Col. Brewer Godwin - d. 1801 Isle of Wight
married Hannah Wills
dau of John Wills

e-mail from Tim Riley -
I live on land originally deeded to Johnathan Brewer and left to his relative Brewer Godwin and Hannah Godwin, who apparently left the land to their son, Dr. Josiah Godwin who supposedly built the home approx. in 1789ish. He in turn left it back to his mother and then his nephew Alexander H Godwin.
The tract of land on which this two story house stands was part of a grant of John Brewer who died in Va. in 1635. On the south chimney of the house are three dates which appear to be 1716, 1766, and 1789. One has to assume that the house standing now was built or restored at the latest date given. In that case Dr. Josiah Godwin built it on land given by his father and mother, Brewer and Hannah Godwin in 1795 and confirmed in Brewer Godwin's will, probated 1800 "...to my son Josiah - the plantation on which he now lives, the lands which lie on the south side of the road to the Brick Church (St. Lukes)" Dr. Josiah Godwin died shortly after his father and left "the plantation I now live on called Mount Airdere" to his mother for her life and then to his nephew, Alexander H. Godwin, son of Brewer II.
The home lies on the banks of Brewer's Creek in Isle of Wight Co. , Va.
We have no more information than that above and tidbits found on sites like yours,
If anyone out there has info please contact me. thank you, tim riley