ANN and WILLIAM NANCE Jr.;
Reuben Nance and his will

A Crouch Family Heritage Association Family Tree page, Nance family line

Husband: WILLIAM NANCE Jr. ca. 1706-1770 , son of WILLIAM NANCE Sr. and MARY ELIZABETH TINSLEY, and brother of Thomas Nance and Daniel Nance
m.
Wife: Ann
Children Include:
Isham Nance
John Nance
Tabitha Nance
Sarah Nance m. Lanier
Mary Nance m. Lanier
Elizabeth Nance m. Glover
REUBEN NANCE 1745-1812 of Brunswick & Henry Co.s, Va., friend of Patrick Henry
Reuben's 13 Children by 1st wife Amy Williamson:
| Bird Nance.
| Allen Nance m.10 Dec 1799, Henry Co, VA Betty Nance
| William Nance b. 24 Dec 1768 Mecklenberg Co, Va.
| Clement Nance b 30 Sep 1787 m. 14 May 1813, Patty Hall
| Joseph Nance m. Polly Philpot.
| Isham Nance.
| Mary Sarah Nance m. Jesse Crouch
| Susannah Nance b. 10 Aug 1781 Mecklenberg Co, VA m Alexander McCulough.
| Tabithia Nance m 29 Oct 1798, Henry Co, VA Daniel Shackelford.
| John Nance.
| Reubin Nance Jr. m. Frances Ingram
| Isaac Nance b. 13 Feb 1774, Mecklenberg Co, VA m. 12 Jan 1795 Pitts. Co, VA Jane Smith
| Sarah ("Sally") Nance m. Sandford.
Reuben's 7 Children by 2nd wife Nancy Brown:
| Stephen Nance.
| Sarah Philpott.
| Reuben Saunders Nance b5/28/1808 m 7/16/1831 Sarah Woodson Clardy.
| Edmund Nance. [ancestor of Joni Mueller]
| Nancy Nance
| Peyton Skipper Nance who appears with his descendants in a query
| Lessonby Nance. --
Contact dsowards@usasn.com for info on surname Lisonbee / Lasenby / Lisenby / Lisanby / Lisenby]

Will of Reuben Nance

From Dave Nance's Definitive Nance Genealogy Clearinghouse
This will was dated 10 Jan 1812 and proved 9 Mar
1812 in Henry Co., VA. (This is as set out in "Henry Co. VA Will
Abstracts", Lela C. Adams, Southern Historical Press, 1985).

To wife Nancy Nance negro Benn, cow and calf, bed and furniture to
dispose of at her discretion. To wife Nancy for her use during her
natural lifetime or widowhood negros: Isaac, Dyder, Will, Hester, Jury,
Martin, Simon, Joe and Janey also a wagon and team, still, all
plantation tools, cattle stock, land, plantation house, furniture and
the mill. My desire is that my old stock of negros should be divided
between my oldest family of children that I had with my first wife viz:
son William Nance, deduct $175 pd him, son Bird Nance, son Allen Nance,
son Clement Nance, son Joseph Nance, daus Mary Crouch, Susannah
McCulough and Tabithia Shackelford, the following negros, Bess'
children, George, Peter, Moses, Bob, Rachel, Jiney and Gill. As to my
son Isaac Nance, son John Nance, son Reubin (sic) Nance, son Isham Nance
and Dau Sarah Sandford I have given each of them their part as follows:
son Isaac has received one hundred pounds, son Isham one hundred pounds;
son John received negro Amy; dau Sarah Sandford a negro named Liza; son
Reuben (sic) negro named Lucy. The balance of my estate to my last
children: Stephen Nance, Peyton Nance, Sarah Philpott, Edmund Nance,
Lessonla (sic) Nance, Nancy Nance and Reuben Saunders Nance. Appoint
Benjamin Jones as exor. Wit: John Conaway, Edward Richardson, John
Lovell. Thomas Starling, Joseph Gravely Sr sec for Benjamin Jones.
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QUERY: Looking for information regarding John & Martha (Estes) Nance's second
son SPOTTSWOOD NANCE (SR.), who md. a Mary Ann Nance, the dau. of Peyton
Skipper Nance, who was a son of Reubin, who was the son of William & Ann
Nance. Spottswood Sr. had a son SPOTTSWOOD JR., who m. Iantha Nance,
dau. of Thorpe Hoad Nance, who was also a son (# 11) of John & Martha
Nance. Spottswood A. Nance was a merchant in Dallas, d. 1920, bur. Oak
Cliff Cem. 7/17/97 Jim E. Nance (nanlkfrnan@juno.com)

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See also-- Nance's Shop Cemetery, Charles City Co., Va.
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