• Notes:
  • An unsourced birthdate of 01/02/1660 has circulated on this profile. c.1654 is being added to this profile until a source supporting another date is found.

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Frances Rachel Purifoy

• Frances PUREFOY was daughter of Thomas (son of CPT Thomas PUREFOY b 1591 in Warwickshire England d 1640 at Drayton in Elizabeth City county and Lucy RANSON b 1578 in Leicester England d 1657 in Elizabeth City County married 1620 in England, Cpt Thomas Purefoy reported Bacon’s Rebellion in Jamestowne. Thomas immigrated in 1621 and in 1629 Lucy followed with their 3 children).
• A contemporary of Cpt Thomas Purefoy principal commander of Elizabeth City County in 1628 – justice same year – Member of the Council in 1631. A contemporary said of him “He is a soldier and a man of open heart, hating, for ought I can perceive, all kinds of dissimulation and baseness”.

Married

• Married: (1) Robert Hand
• Married: (2) William LOWRY in 1689 Elizabeth City Virginia, Colonial America.

Children With Richard Hand

• Martha Purefoy Hand; Birth: 1650 in Elizabeth City, Colony of Virginia, British Colonial America, married John Thomas Tabb
• Hannah Hand; Birth: 1656 in Elizabeth City, Virginia, Colonial America, married Capt. William Marshall and Capt Richard Booker Sr.

Children with William Lowry

• Frances Lowry; married Thomas Kirby
• William Lowry; married 3 times, (1) Rachel Moore, (2) Mary MOTTRAM Ball & (3) Rebecca Unknown, she is listed as his wife in his Will.
• Margaret Lowry; married Richard Booker Jr.
• John Lowry; married Jane Nutting

Richard Hand’s Will from The Wills and Administrations of Elizabeth City County, Virginia To add William Lowry as the administrator In the right of Frances his relict, now the said wife of William Lowry. Bond signed by William Wilson & Edmund Sweeny.

Will of William Lowry in Wills and Administrations of Elizabeth City County, Virginia 1688-1800

Sources:

• The Tabb Family, The William and Mary Quarterly, Vol. 7, July 1, 1898-https://www.myheritage.com/research/record-90100-349103006/the-tabb...
• Dorman, John Frederick, C.G., F.A.S.G. Complied and Edited
• Adventurers of Purse and Person, Virginia 1607-1624/5, Fourth Edition Volume Two, Families G-P PUREFOY, pages 863-877 [page 865] "The fact that Frances PUREFOY (1) Hand (2) Lowry was "one of the daughters and coheirs of Thomas PUREFOY means that Thomas PUREFOY had no sons, as only then were daughters coheirs."Less
• William and Mary College quarterly historical magazine- https://archive.org/stream/williamandmaryc02marygoog#page/n154/mode...
• 1675, Mathew WAKELIN "petitioned on behalf of the PUREFOY orphans - MCGC ["Minutes of the Council and General Court of Colonial Virginia, 2nd ed." (Richmond, 1979), ed. by H. R. McIlwaine, p. 416
• 1691/2 Bond, William LOWRY administered the estate of Richard HAND-Elizabeth City Co., Deeds, Wills & Orders, 1684-99, p. 103 The bond was undated; however it was recorded at Court 18 February 1691/2.
• Compendium of American Genealogy 1600s-1800s Vol. V-Frederick A. Virkus, Editor, Compendium of American Genealogy 1600s-1800s Vol. V ( Genealogical Publishing Co.; Baltimore; 1968;), Page 463.
• Virginia, 1607-1624/5: Families G-P, By John Frederick Dorman, page 867 - https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=tcM40zgdAZgC&pg=PA867&lpg=PA867...
• The Virginia magazine of history and biography, by Bruce, Philip Alexander, 1856-1933; Stanard, William Glover, 1859-; Virginia Historical Society; Virginia Historical Society. Proceedings - https://archive.org/details/virginiamagazine07bruc/page/100/mode/2u...
• (Wm & Mary 1908 article)
• William Lowry's bond as administrator of the estate of his wife's first husband was recorded 18 Feb 1691/92. (Eliz. City Co. Records, 1689-1699, p. 120; OR Eliz. City Co. Deeds, Wills & Orders 1684-99 p 103)
• Other references: VA Mag. VII, 100-101; W&M Q (1st) VII 47-50.