Edwin Conway

• Evidence needed to support Edwin Conway as son of John Taylor & Dorothy Conway

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No known primary source for birth, marriage or death

Magna Carta Ancestry: A Study in Colonial and Medieval Families, 2nd Edition, p. 122:

Children of Anne Sutton, by Richard Eltonhead, Gent.:
iv. 'MARTHA ELTONHEAD, born after 1613, living 28 Jan. 1653/4. She married EDWIN CONWAY, Gent. He was born in Worcestershire, England. They had one son, Edwin, and one daughter, Eltonhead (wife of Henry Thacker). He immigrated to Virginia, where he settled in Northampton County, Virginia. He was third clerk of Northampton County in 1642. He was granted land in 1644 and 1652/3 on Hungars Creek in Northampton County, Virginia. he was granted 1,250 acres of land on Corotoman River in Lancaster County, Virginia in 1652, to which county re removed. In 1657 he was granted 2,500 acres adjacent to John Maredith, of which 1,200 acres were due for an earlier patent and 1,200 acres for the transport of 25 persons. In 1660 he sold 200 acres of this land to William Gordon. EDWIN CONWAY, Gent., died in Lancaster County, Virginia shortly before 14 March 1660/1.

References

• “Conway Family.” The William and Mary Quarterly, vol. 12, no. 4, 1904, pp. 264–267
• ”A Genealogy of the Glassell Family of Scotland and Virginia : Also of the Families of Ball, Brown, Bryan, Conway, Daniel, Ewell, Holladay, Lewis, Littlepage, Moncure, Peyton, Robinson, Scott, Taylor, Wallace, and Others, of Virginia and Maryland.” Horace Edwin Hayden E.B. Yordy, printer, 1891 - Virginia - 759 pages. Page 231: GoogleBooks