Isaac Collyer

IV.  Isaac Collyer, Sr., b ca 1606, d 1688, son of Robert Collyer and Mary Strangs, came to
       Virginia from London England about 1650, settling in York County. He married Sarah, sister
       of John and Edward Lockley (Lockey) of London.   In his will dated 1667, Edward Lockley
       left his "cousin" (a term then used to signify nephew) Isaac Collyer, son of  Isaac Collyer, Sr.,
       Morgans Plantation, 300 acres in York Co VA and Potobello 320 acres in King Williams Co.
       Isaac Collyer, Sr., died in 1688, will proved May 24th, 1688.
       Isaac's wife, named Mary, in his will, md 2)_________Bennett
 
                   Children of Isaac Collyer and Sarah Lockley

       1.  Isaac, Jr., d.s.p. ca 1671 (before his father) and his brother, Thomas administered his
            estate.

       2.  Thomas, d 1704 md Mary______.  In 1693 Thomas Collier sold the Morgan
            Plantation on York River, inherited from his brother, Isaac Collyer, Jr., to Dudley Diggs,
            gent., of Warwick Co VA.  Thomas left will dated 25 Oct 1704, proved 24 Feb 1705
            York Parish, York Co VA; will names wife, Mary Collier, daughter, Mary Collier and
            sister, Sarah Whitaker
            A. Mary Collier md John Young

       3.  Charles Collyer

       4.  Abraham, willed 200 acres by his father, died unmarried before 1704

       5.  Sarah was willed 700 acres by her father.  She  md 1) William Whitaker (d bef 1711); she
            md 2) James Dowling whose will dated 1719 mentions wife, Sarah and brother, Charles
            Collier.  There is a deed dated 24 Feb 1705 of William Whitaker "of  Warwick Co VA,
            gent, and Sarah, his wife, dau of Isaac Collier late of York Co VA, gent, dec" which con-
            veys the land in New Pocoson given to said Sarah by her father's will, and formerly
            obtained from Samuel Snignall and Elizabeth, his wife, the only dau and heiress of Capt.
            William Hay.  By 1711, only Charles and Sarah survived, when Charles Collier and Judith,
            his wife, and William Whitaker and Sarah, his wife, sold the land which had been devised
            by Isaac Collyer, Sr., to all his children
 


 

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