Eleanor (Moore) Piland (abt. 1656 - aft. 1693)

Born about 1656 in Isle of Wight, Isle of Wight, Virginia [uncertain]

Ancestors

Wife of Richard Piland — married 1675 in Isle of Wight County, Virginia

Descendants

Died after 1693 after about age 37 in Isle of Wight, Isle of Wight, Virginia

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Biography

Elinor Moore (ca.1656/60-after 1693) married Richard Pyland (ca. 1640/45-ca. 1693).

Richard Pyland was a son of James Pyland (ca. 1610-ca. 1663/64) and his wife Alexandra, maiden name unknown. James Pyland represented Isle of Wight in the House of Burgesses before the Puritans under the leadership of Governor Richard Bennett forced him out in 1653 because of his pronounced Royalist views. Upon the Restoration in 1660, he returned to his former seat. James Pyland married (2) Elizabeth, the widow of Thomas Greenwood following his death in 1656. She married (3) Thomas Edwards. See Boddie, Seventeenth Century Isle of Wight, pp. 102, 108-9, 531-32, 596. James Pyland died intestate by 9 February 1663/64 when his second wife Elizabeth requested probate. Her bondsmen were Robert Kea and John Snellock, who was to name the son Richard Pyland a legatee in 1679. Richard Pyland’s brother Edward Pyland, “son of James Pyland,” was a legatee of Justinian Cooper (26 March 1650) whose will left Edward 500 lbs. of tobacco. Richard Pyland requested the administration of “his brother” Edward in 1670, with bond posted by Thomas Edwards, the second husband of the stepmother (Mrs. Elizabeth Greenwood Pyland Edwards). See Chapman, Isle of Wight Wills, pp. 3, 18, 62, 66.

Thomas Greenwood was undoubtedly a kinsman, probably the uncle of the John Greenwood who died in Middlesex County, Virginia in 1679. John Greenwood’s great-grandson John Greenwood (1716-1748) married Lucretia McTyre who was a great-great-granddaughter of Colonel John George (1604-1678) and Major George Fawdon (ca. 1605/10- ? ), both of whom were Isle of Wight burgesses and are found in the county records frequently in close association with the Pyland and Moore clans. A great-great-great-granddaughter of John Greenwood and Lucretia McTyre, Mary Word Greenwood (1824-1856), the great-great-grandmother of the compiler, married Redding Jefferson Loyless (1808-1870) who was the grandson five times removed of Captain Thomas Carter, father of Thomas Carter, Jr. who married George Moore’s daughter Magdalen. Richard Pyland left a disappointingly simple will (signed 2 February 1692/93, a date of probate not indicated) that made his wife Elinor executrix and mentioned his “five children” without naming them. See Chapman, Isle of Wight Wills, p. 4. Her uncle Thomas Moore and his nephew Henry White witnessed. George Moore named probably the two oldest sons, George and Thomas, in his will. Various records provide the identity of the others.

Issue:

1. George Pyland (ca. 1680-1745) married Mary, maiden name unknown. He sold part of his inheritance, the 580 acres patented by Richard Pyland in the Upper Parish of Surry in 1684, to Peter Deberry on 16 March 1708 but retained a plantation at Pigeon Swamp where he lived. See Surry Deeds, Wills, etc., Book # 5, p. 412. George Pyland made his will in Surry on 13 December 1743; probated 17 July 1745. He named his daughters Mary, Priscilla, and Martha. If they were married, the surnames of their husbands are not indicated. The son Richard Pylandwas to have the plantation following the death of his mother, Mary Pyland. See Surry Will Book # 9, p. 506.
2. Thomas Pyland (ca. 1680/5- ? ) left a thin record. He evidently inherited part of his father’s property in Surry where he obviously lived. On 16 March 1708, he and his brother James Pyland witnessed the aforementioned conveyance by George Pyland to Peter Deberry. The estate papers of Thomas Pyland have not surfaced.
3. James Pyland (ca. 1680/5-1728) married Elizabeth, probably Elizabeth Wood . As discussed in the material about the immigrant progenitor Thomas Wooten, his stepson Thomas Wood, was an uncle of the “half blood” of James Pyland who appears to have married Elizabeth Wood, a daughter of Thomas Wood by his second wife Elizabeth. As noted there, the sole legatee of Mrs. Elizabeth Wood in her will of 22 November 1720 was James who was designated to receive “my whole estate” (Chapman, Isle of Wight Wills, p. 85). James Pyland signed his will on 20 March1727/28; probated 22 April 1728. See ibid., p. 100. He named his wife Elizabeth and left a plantation and a “box of doctor’s instruments” to his son James Pyland. As explained in the aforementioned material in the Wooten Section, Dr. William Amos had left these items to his "friend” James, Sr. by will in 1720/21. Also named in the father’s will were his daughter Ann, Thomas Pyland who moved to the Chowan Basin and left a large family in what was to become Hertford County, William Pyland, Catherine Pyland, and Edward Pyland who moved to North Carolina with his brother Thomas. The compiler has traced this entire family for several more generations for anyone interested, although they are not particularly germane to the project at hand. However, it should be noted that Thomas Pyland became the overseer of the road from Knotty Pine Swamp to Sarem Landing on the Chowan in 1732 and was commissioned to repair Bennett’s Creek Bridge under the supervision of Colonel John Alston (Hathaway, Vol. 1, p. 450). As noted below, Colonel Alston’s daughter Elizabeth married Pyland's cousin Samuel Williams.
4. Richard Pyland (ca. 1680/90-after 1743) may have moved to North Carolina where, however, he literally disappears from view. He was possibly the Richard Pyland shown in Northampton Deed Book # 1, p. 108, as a witness to a conveyance of 22 December 1743 by Benjamin Hill, “esquire” of Bertie County to Henry Sowerby [or Sorsby?] of Northampton.
5. Catherine Pyland remains an enigma, except for the fact that she joined her brother James Pyland in witnessing the will of their uncle of the “half blood” and his purported father-in-law Thomas Wood in 1715.^[1]

Father's Will

Will book A, page 586

Will of George Moore, aged 78 years, dated Nov. 1710, probated Jan.24, 1714. Legatees: Wife, Jennie: dau., Jane White. Codicil: grandsons: George Carter, John White, Moore Thomas White, William White, Mary White, land adjoining Thomas Carter. Grandson, Samuel Williams, reversion to his brother, John Williams: Grandson: George Piland. Witness to codicil: Wm. Baldwin, James Simpson, Henry White. Wit. to the will: Elizabeth Brown, Henry Baker, Lawrence Baker. Wife: Jennie, Executrix. Will probated by Magdalen Carter.^[2]

Name

Name: Elanore Moore-Piland

Given Name: Elanore

Surname: Moore

Married Name: Piland

Sources

1. ↑ [1] Moore-Williams Excerpt
2. ↑ Section: Will and Deed Book #2, page 586. Wills and Administrations of Isle of Wight County, Virginia, 1647-1800, (database on-line). Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations Inc, 2006. Original data: Chapman, Blanche Adams. Wills and Administrations of Isle of Wight County, Virginia, 1647-1800. Baltimore, MD, USA: Genealogical Publishing Co., 2003. Accessed 28 September 2018, amb

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