John Fleming (abt. 1725 - abt. 1767)

Ancestors

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Biography

John Fleming is a descendant of Pocahontas. Here is the trail.

Died 1776 of natural causes

Name

Name: John /Fleming

Will

Will of John Fleming. Cumberland Co., VA, WB 1, pp. 323-324, w. 7 Apr 1763, p. 27 Apr 1767. Digital image at Ancestry.com - [1]

my deceased father John Fleming
brother (faded)
brother Charles
wife Susanna
son John (under 21)
mentions land called “Maidens Adventure”
mentions land he bought of Hugh Miller in Lunenburg county [VA]
two lots in “Gatesville Town,” Chesterfield county [VA]
appoints brothers Thomas, William & Richard guardians to son John and appoints his wife guardian to his daughter (unnamed)
Exrs: son John (when he shall attain the age of twenty one years) and brothers Thomas, William & Richard
no witnesses

Obituary

The Virginia Gazette, Williamsburg, VA, Thursday, 30 Apr 1767, p. 3, col. 2 (digital image at Newspapers.com)

"On Tuesday the 21st of this instant died, at his house in Cumberland, Col. John Fleming, Member of the Assembly for that county, and an eminent practitioner of the law. He was a Gentleman of distinguished merit and abilities, which makes his death much lamented by all who had the pleasure of his acquaintance, and may be considered as a publick loss."

Sources

• Executor of the will of his aunt, Elizabeth (Bolling) Gay, and that of her husband William Gay.

• Mentioned in the will of his father, Col. John Fleming sr.

• "Ancestors and Descendants of John Rolfe", in V.M.H.B, Vol. 23, no. 4 (Oct 1915), p. 442.Vol. 24, no. 1 (Jan 1916), p. 94.

• POCAHONTAS DESCENDANTS

• Source: S-2063027587 Title: Pocahontas List Note: _UPD: 25 MAY 2009 18:12:06 GMT-8 CONT _UID: 5C1E590B-753A-4B31-AE79-362A6616FFD5

• Pocahontas and Her Descendants, by Wyndham Robertson (1887), pages 33 and 38. Garbled. See Research notes.