William JOLLIFFE, Jr.

Abt 1720 - 1770  (~ 50 years)

• Name	William JOLLIFFE
  Suffix	Jr.
  Birth	Abt 1720
  Gender	Male
  Will	15 Jan 1769	Frederick County, VA
  Codicil	24 Jan 1770	Frederick County, VA
  Death	18 Apr 1770	Frederick County, VA
  Notes	(1) Jolliffe, William, Historical, Genealogical, and Biographical Account of the Jolliffe Family of Virginia, 1652 to 1893, Philadelphia, PA: J. B. Lippincott Company, 1893, pp. 70-79: William Jolliffe, son of William and Phoeby Jolliffe, came with his father and brothers James and Edmund to the valley of Virginia about the year 1743. (Just where his father's home was is uncertain, he being a lawyer practising in the courts east and west of the Blue Ridge. It may have been on a five-hundred-acre tract of land situated near Opecquon Creek, north of the present town of Winchester and adjoining the lands of Alexander Ross, which land was in his possession as late as 1760.) He was born about the year 1720 or 1721, and joined the Friends' Society at an early age. The first record we have of him is found upon a single leaf of the old Hopewell Meeting record, all that was saved from the fire which destroyed the meeting-house and the records from the establishment of the Meeting until the year 1759. This minute of the Monthly Meeting bears date second month 4th, 1748 (the original to be found Ioose between the leaves of the earliest Hopewell records, now in the vault of the Hicksite meeting-house, Baltimore, Maryland.) It was seen and copied by me, and reads as follows: "Alexander Ross and his son George are appointed to inquire into William Jolliffe's conversation and what else may be needful and prepare a certificate to Middletown Monthly Meeting in Bucks county." "Evan Thomas and William Jolliffe Jr. having transgressed the rules of our Discipline have given in the following paper which the meeting having well considered of and hoping to be the truth from their hearts have taken as satisfaction. 'We Evan Thomas Jr. and William Jolliffe Jr. both belonging to the Society of the Christian people called Quakers but through carelessness and unwatchfulness have suffered ourselves to be so far overcome with passion and anger which tended to fighting and quarreling with each other, for which action we acknowledge ourselves highly to blame, it being a breach of the known rules of our Discipline and being heartily sorry for it we do hereby publicly condemn the same, hoping with Divine assistance to be more careful and circumspect in our lives and conversation for the time to come. "EVAN THOMAS Jr. WILLIAM JOLLIFFE Jr." This Evan Thomas, Jr., was a son of Evan and Catherine Thomas, who came from East Nottingham, Pennsylvania, and settled on lands adjoining the elder William Jolliffe and Alexander Ross. He afterwards married (before the year 1741) Albenah Ross, second daughter of Alexander Ross and sister of John Ross, who married Lydia Hollingsworth, October 11, 1735. This John Ross died 1748. His estate was inventoried by William Barrett, William Jolliffe, Jr., and William Dillon, and sworn before John Neill, Gent. (a brother of Lewis Neill the elder), January 18, 1748-49, Lydia Ross administratrix. Early in September, 1750, William Jolliffe, Jr., married his widow, Lydia Ross (nee Hollingsworth). She was a daughter of Stephen Hollingsworth and Ann, his wife, a great-granddaughter of Valentine Hollingsworth, who came to America with William Penn. She was a second cousin of the Lydia Hollingsworth who was then married to Lewis Neill. Lydia (Ross) Jolliffe left children by her first husband,?viz., John Ross, David Ross, born September 18, 1742, Stephen Ross, and Alexander Ross. By her second husband she left children as follows: John Jolliffe, born June 18, 1751; Phoeby Jolliffe, born December 15, 1752, who died when eighteen months old; Gabriel Jolliffe (probably named after Gabriel Jones), born May 19, 1755; and Phoeby Jolliffe (second of this name), born February 12, 1758. The wife, Lydia Jolliffe, died December 30, 1759, and their son, Gabriel Jolliffe, December 22, 1762. "At a court held in Frederick County, Oct.3, 1752, William Jolliffe, Jr. and Lydia his wife, guardian to Alexander Ross, orphan of John Ross, deceased, having produced an account of the estate of the said orphan in their hands and solemnly affirmed to the same, they being of the people called Quakers, the same was admitted to record." It seems that both William Jolliffe and his wife were strict members of the Friends' Society, well educated and prosperous, the wife inheriting from her father and first husband large land estates near Hopewell Meeting-House. William Jolliffe was a well-to-do merchant and miller, and possessed several large farms in his own right, acquired by grant from the Crown and Lord Fairfax and by purchase. His home at this time was known as the Red House, standing on a tract of land containing two hundred and thirteen acres, left by him at the time of his decease to his son John. The house stood a few rods south of the great Pennsylvania Highway, or old Indian or Pack-Horse Trail (now the Winchester and Martinsburg Turnpike), six and one-half miles north of Winchester and just east of the Ross Spring Branch (now the Washington Spring Branch). Just west of and across the road stood his mill and storehouse afterwards bought from Colonel John Nevill and rebought from Fairfax. This mill received its power from Ross Spring Branch. This old Red House was a frame structure built by William Jolliffe on solid limestone foundations, with rived clapboards and wrought nails. It was a noted landmark, having been painted a bright red. In the yard was a deep well surrounded by shade trees. A modern frame structure now occupies the site. The old mill has entirely disappeared, though I can well remember it as the stable of our cousin Meredith Jolliffe (just before the Civil War). "At a court held Nov. 9, 1758, William Jolliffe, Jr. was appointed overseer of the road from Cunningham's mill to Robert Mosley's." This was one of the most important roads in the county, extending from Cedar Creek, fifteen miles south of Winchester, to Mosley's, some twenty miles north of Winchester, in what is now Berkley County, embracing the present Valley Turnpike. At that time only persons of position and influence were appointed to such offices. March 26, 1759, he was appointed clerk of the Monthly Meeting of Hopewell, succeeding Jesse Pugh. This Meeting was established about the year 1735?36 in a log house near the present house. This building was destroyed by fire, and with it all the Meeting records, a loss that can never be repaired. "A committee to 'set the minutes in order for recording' was appointed in 1760, who reported that one of the books being lost by accident by fire they could not proceed any farther back than when William Jolliffe was clerk, to wit 26th of Third month 1759." About this time it was deemed necessary to build a new meeting house, and July 23, 1759, "It was unanimously agreed that the meeting house going to be built be raised to two story high, and augmented three feet wider than was before agreed." This was the present stone house at Hopewell, which in 1788 was enlarged and added to (Abraham Hollingsworth and Lewis Neill working on the walls in person). At this time Lydia Jolliffe also appears to have acted as clerk of the Monthly Meeting. William Jolliffe continued to be clerk of the Meeting until his death, having filled for a period of eleven years that office during the most energetic and flourishing time of the Society's existence in Frederick County. The minutes were kept by him in a remarkably neat, clear, round hand, and give evidence of a person of culture and education above the average of his day and generation. The very first record in this old book was of a Meeting held at Hopewell Meeting-House March 26, 1759, at which time James Jolliffe, Thomas Babb, Jr., and John Mendinghall were disowned for some breach of the Society's discipline. This James Jolliffe was his brother. I find that at a meeting held November 9, 1759, his brother Edmund Jolliffe requested to be admitted to membership, and one month later, or December 24, 1759, his request was granted. On December 30, 1759, his wife, when about forty-one years old, died, and was buried at Hopewell graveyard. In the deed books of' the county at Winchester I find, "November 13, 1751, George Ross transferred about ten acres of land to Isaac Hollingsworth, Evan Thomas, Jr. and Evan Rogers, for building a Quaker meeting house." This embraced the land now used for a graveyard as well as that on which the meeting-house stands. At a meeting held October 6, 1760, I find his step-son Alexander Ross was disowned for marrying out of meeting. "January 14,1760, this Alexander Ross, son of John Ross, deceased, and grandson of Alexander Ross, deceased, sold to William Jolliffe, Jr. 220 acres of land being part of a tract of 2373 acres granted Alexander Ross their grand-sire by patent in Land Office Nov. 12, 1736. Witness?Joseph Lupton, Wm. Neill, Thomas Jones." This land was willed to his son Edmund Jolliffe, and is now owned by our cousin Edward Jolliffe. When about forty years old, April 9, 1761, William Jolliffe was married a second time to Elizabeth Walker, daughter of Abel and Sinah Walker, of Frederick County, Virginia. This lady was born October 8, 1732, and was therefore twenty-nine years of age. . . . She was a member of Friends' Society and a lady of exemplary piety. They had children as follows: Edmund Jolliffe, born January 15, 1762; Mary Jolliffe, born May 13, 17 63; Amos Jolliffe, born August 5, 1764; Lydia Jolliffe, born May 9, 1766; Elizabeth Jolliffe, born June 16, 1768; Gulielmo Jolliffe, born September 14, 1770. This last, a posthumous child, died January 21, 1773, and Edmund Jolliffe died May 8, 1778, when sixteen years old. William Jolliffe was a member of a committee of Friends appointed to meet other Friends, March 22, 1767, at Curies, below Richmond, to solicit the governor to remit the muster fines charged against Friends in Virginia. The same year he was appointed "to care for the meeting house in the room of David Ross and make the fires one year from Second Month 2nd, and to be allowed 40 shillings." By order of the General Assembly be was ordered as clerk of the meeting, December 7, 1767, to return to General Adam Stephens a list of all Friends belonging to Hopewell Meeting. "At a meeting held Eighth Month 6th, 1770, Robert Haines was appointed clerk in place of William Jolliffe deceased." During these years he was an active business man, and bought lands all around him from George Ross, Colonel John Nevill, and Lord Fairfax. With the land bought from Colonel Nevill he acquired a large and handsome stuccoed stone house, that formerly stood on the west side of the Great Road a half-mile south of the Red House. This property afterwards belonged to our cousin Meredith Jolliffe; it was wantonly destroyed by fire during the Civil War. Here William Jotliffe and his wife Elizabeth made their home, and it was in this house that some of the exiled Friends of the Revolution were so hospitably entertained by his widow; and here one of their number, the good old Quaker minister John Hunt, died March, 1778, and was buried at Hopewell. After a well spent, active Christian life filled with good deeds, William Jolliffe died April 18, 1770, when fifty years of age. His remains rest in Hopewell Burying Ground beside those of his wife Lydia. His widow Elizabeth Jolliffe survived him thirteen years, and died about the year 1783, aged fifty-one. She was an elder in the Meeting, and was often chosen to represent the Monthly Meeting at the Quarterly Meetings; at that time held alternately at Fairfax, Loudoun County, Virginia, and at Warrington, York County, Pennsylvania. She attended these meetings on horseback though the distance was long, Fairfax being thirty miles from her home and Warrington not less than one hundred and twenty miles. The road to the latter was by the old Indian Trail over the Potomac River at the old Pack-Horse Ford, one mile below Shephardstown, Virginia. It was not until the year 1787 that Quarterly Meetings were established at Hopewell. The personal estate of William Jolliffe was appraised by John Ross, John Smith, Joseph Day, and Edward Beeson, May 7, 1777, at four hundred and nighty-three pounds three shillings. Among the items were his silver watch, two pairs silver buckles, silver snuff-box with tortoise-shell top, gold sleeve-buttons, riding-chair, and one year and eight months' servitude of a man's time, rifles, guns, etc., and sundry books. Elizabeth Jolliffe's personal estate was appraised, September, 1783, by Peter Babb, Jonathan Wright, and Isaac Brown for three hundred and thirty-eight pounds eleven shillings and sixpence. William Jolliffe's will bears date January 15, 1769, with a codicil bearing date January 24, 1770. He disposes of his estates, amounting to eleven hundred acres of land, and orders his other property sold and divided among his children. His negroes he orders shall be set free at their attaining the age of eighteen years. (2) O'Dell, Cecil, Pioneers of Old Frederick County, Virginia, Marceline, MO: Walsworth Publishing Company, 1995, pp. 205-208: William Jollife Sr. sold 500 acres (where he lived) to his sons William Jr. and James Jolliffe on 16 September 1756. On 4 January 1749/50 this land was Warranted and then surveyed on 30 Apri1 1751. The land was adjacent Alexander Ross, part of Joliffe's [sic] grant. William Joliffe [sic] Jr. and James Jolliffe were issued a Fairfax grant for the 500 acres on 7 April 1755. William Joliffe took a mortgage from Isaac Jackson and on 2 April 1767 securing a Bond on land located on Back Creek. Cuthbert Hayhurst, an adjacent land owner when Jolliffe sold land in Bucks County, Pennsylvania in 1736, witnessed the mortgage. . . . James and William Jolliffe Jr. sold the 500 acres for 220 pounds on 3 August 1761. James' wife Hannah and William's wife Elizabeth signed the Deed of Sale. This tract of land was located approximately three miles northwest of Clear Brook, Virginia. Frederick County Highway 669 crosses the land west from U.S. Highway 11. . . . William Jolliffe Jr. married Lydia Hollingsworth Ross (daughter of Stephen Hollingsworth/widow of John Ross). After Lydia's death, he married Elizabeth (daughter of Abel and Sinah Walker) on the 9th day, 4th month 1761 at Opeckon. . . . William Jolliffe Jr. received a Fairfax grant for 210 acres "where he lives" on 4 October 1753.18 This land encompasses present-day Clear Brook, Virginia. He also purchased five other grants from Fairfax: 1. 11 March 1761?152 acres adjacent Alexander Ross and his father. . . . 2. 3 July 1766?304 acres on Babb's Creek. . . . 3. 4 July 1766?37 acres adjacent "where he lives" (north of Clear Brook, Virginia) 4. 4 November 1766?129 acres on Opequon Creek adjacent north of Alexander Ross . . . , adjacent south of his father's 500-acre grant 5. 5 November 1766?113 acres on Opequon Creek adjacent his 210-acre tract (south end of Clear Brook, Virginia) On 3 March 1767, he purchased another 64 acres from George Ross for 150 pounds.20 . . . William Joliffe Jr. was deceased by 7 August 1770 when his will (dated 15th day, 1st month 1769) was proved in Frederick County Court. He bequeathed: "to son John Jolliffe, at age 21, tract where I lately lived containing 210 acres with improvements; also 152 acres joining the north side of Alexander Ross and James Keith's land; to son Edmund Joliffe, tract I bought of Alexander Ross containing 220 acres, also 37 acres joining same, south side of Abel Walker's land; to son Amos Joliffe, 3 tracts of land I bought of John Neavil and George Ross whereon I now live containing 306 acres (129 acres, 113 acres and 64 acres) Executors to convey to Tresham Ewen upon his paying for it and money from it to be used to pay my just debts; (304 acres) To wife Elizabeth, personal property and the use of all my lands until the children to whom they are willed come of age; Negroes Jean and Ruth to wife till they arrive at 18, then to be set free; negro [sic] man Crespen to my brother James; also money for sd man's support if he lives past labor To four daughters, Phebe, Mary, Lydia and Elizabeth, proceeds from sale of personal estate, divided equally; ??15 to Jonathan Ross or his assigns. Executrix wife Elizabeth; Wit: Joseph Day, Lewis Walker, Mordecai Walker 25 Jany, 1770 Codicil When Wm. Joliffe made this will he had bought of David Gilkey 216 acres on which to build a water grist mill, but being in a low state of health and not wishing my family to be burdened with it, I authorize by executrix Elizabeth Joliffe, to sell sd land and apply proceeds toward paying my just debts. Wit: Cuthbert Hayhurst, Edward Dodd, Joseph Day"
  Person ID	I10496	Frost, Gilchrist and Related Families
  Last Modified	17 Apr 2024

  
  

  Father	William JOLLIFFE, Sr.,   b. Abt 1695, Norfolk County, VA d. 1765, Frederick County, VA (Age ~ 70 years)
  Mother	Phoeby (JOLLIFFE)
  Marriage	Abt 1720
  Family ID	F4144	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family 1	Lydia HOLLINGSWORTH,   b. 1718   d. 30 Dec 1759, Frederick County, VA (Age 41 years)
  Marriage	Sep 1750	Frederick County, VA
  Family ID	F4579	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	17 Apr 2024

  
  

  Family 2	Elizabeth WALKER,   b. 8 Oct 1732   d. Abt 1783 (Age 50 years)
  Marriage	9 Jun 1761	Frederick County, VA
  Notes	(1) Jolliffe, William, Historical, Genealogical, and Biographical Account of the Jolliffe Family of Virginia, 1652 to 1893, Philadelphia, PA: J. B. Lippincott Company, 1893, pp. 66-79: "Whereas William Jolliffe Junior of Opeckon in the County of Frederick and Colony of Virginia and Elizabeth Walker of the Same place Daughter of Abel Walker and Sinah Walker Decd. Having Declared their Intentions of taking each other in Marriage before Several Monthly Meetings of the Christian People called Quakers at Opeckon aforesaid And having Consent of parents and parties concerned their said proposals of Marriage were allowed of by the Said Meeting: Now these are to Certifie whom it may concern that for the full accomplishing their said Intentions Upon the Ninth Day of the fourth Month in the Year One Thousand seven Hundred & Sixty One They the said William Jolliffe and Elizabeth Walker Appeared in a public Assembly of the said people & others met together at their public Meeting house at Opeckon aforesaid And the said William Jolliffe taking the said Elizabeth Walker by the hand Did in a Solemn Manner Openly Declare that he took the said Elizabeth Walker to be his wife promising with Divine Assistance to be unto her a loving & faithful Husband until Death should Separate them or words to that Effect. And then & there in the said Assembly the said Elizabeth Walker Did in like Manner Openly Declare that she took the said William Jolliffe to be her Husband promising with Divine Assistance to be unto him a Loving & faithful wife until Death should Separate them or words to that Effect. Moreover the said William Jolliffe & Elizabeth Walker she according to the Custom of Marriage Assuming the Name of her Husband as a further Confirmation thereof Have unto these presents set their hands. "And we whose names are hereunder written being present at the Solemnization of the said Marriage & Subscription in manner aforesaid Have as Witnesses thereunto subscribed our Names the Day & Year above written. "Esther Wright Lydia Cunningham Albenah Thomas Sarah Milburn Martha Nelson William Dillon Henry Rees George Ross Eduard Beeson John Ridgeway George Cunningham James Stewart Alexander Ross Robert Bull Evan Thomas Edward Dodd William Jolliffe Jun. Elizabeth Jolliffe Wm. Jolliffe Senr. James Jolliffe Edmund Jolliffe Abel Walker Lewis Walker Mordecai Walker Mary Campbell Sinah Walker Margaret Dorster Hannah Jolliffe." (Pages 7 and 8, Hopewell Marriage Records.)
  Family ID	F4746	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	17 Apr 2024