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Andrew Monroe

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  • Name Andrew Monroe
    Birth 1661  Westmoreland Co, VA Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Gender Male
    Will 30 Dec 1713  Westmoreland Co, VA Find all individuals with events at this location  [1
    - probted 6/9/1714 
    Death Between 30 Dec 1713 and 09 Jun 1714  Westmoreland Co, VA Find all individuals with events at this location  [1
    Person ID I1641  Butler Family Tree
    Last Modified 6 Jun 2026

    Family 1 Eleanor Spence,   b. 1664, Westmoreland Co, VA Find all individuals with events at this locationd. Bef 1709, Westmoreland Co, VA Find all individuals with events at this location (Age < 44 years)
    Marriage Bef 1680 
    Children 
     1. Jane Monroe,   b. Bef 1680, Westmoreland Co, VA Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 1774, Charles Co, MD Find all individuals with events at this location (Age > 94 years)  [Father: natural]  [Mother: natural]
    Family ID F541  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
    Last Modified 6 Jun 2026

    Family 2 Sarah Foxhall-xx,   b. 1665, Westmoreland Co, VA Find all individuals with events at this location
    Marriage 1709  Westmoreland Co, VA Find all individuals with events at this location  [1
    Family ID F2097  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
    Last Modified 6 Jun 2026

  • Event Map
    Link to Google MapsBirth - 1661 - Westmoreland Co, VA Link to Google Earth
    Link to Google MapsMarriage - 1709 - Westmoreland Co, VA Link to Google Earth
    Link to Google MapsWill - - probted 6/9/1714 - 30 Dec 1713 - Westmoreland Co, VA Link to Google Earth
    Link to Google MapsDeath - Between 30 Dec 1713 and 09 Jun 1714 - Westmoreland Co, VA Link to Google Earth
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  • Notes 


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      found at http://wc.rootsweb.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=GET&db=mrmarsha&id=I023706

      •ID: I023706
      •Name: Andrew Monroe
      •Sex: M
      •Birth: 1661 in Washington Parish, Westmoreland County, Virginia
      •Death: 9 JUN 1714 in Westmoreland County, Virginia - Probate
      •Note:
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      WILLS OF Westmoreland County, Virginia 1654-1800 BY AUGUSTA B. FOTHERGILL: Pg 53
      MUNROE, ANDREW, gent., 30 Dec. 1713; 9 June 1714. Land to son Spence; brother William Munroe; son Andrew land and negro woman; dau. Susannah Munroe one negro boy, 2 cows, 2 steers, household furniture and 10,000 lbs. of tobacco; to Andrew son of my brother William 1 horse, 1 feather bed and furniture; dau. Elizabeth Arrington and her son John 1 cow. 1 feather bed and 5,000 lbs. tobacco; my wife Sarah; son in law William Elliott 1 mare; daus. in law Elizabeth & Sarah Elliott horse and cow; to Thomas Mustin one coat; friends Charles Tyler and Richard Watts and brother William Munroe, exrs; son Spence negro given him by his grandmother Jordan; to two sons 9 negroes.
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      WESTMORELAND COUNTY ORDER BOOK, 1705-1721
      Westmoreland County Court 1st of November 1705: p 3
      - BURDETT ASHTON v Mulatto Elizabeth, Indenture NATHANIEL POPE, Gent., one of the Churchwardens of Washington Parish acknowledged
      an Indenture made between ANDREW MUNRO, Gent., and him, the said POPE, both Churchwardens of the said Parish on the one part and BURDETT ASHTON, Gent. of the other part of a certain Mulatto Child baptized Elizabeth born of the body of one JANE HUBBARD, ordered the same bee recorded
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      Contributed by: James Hughes

      URL: http://www5.familytreemaker.com/cgi-bin/texis/find/search30/?query=lewis+m arkham&db=online&areas=10&head=online&booknum=&category=&words=&first=lewi s&last=markham&cmd=context&id=39821ba52d#hit1
      URL title: Family Tree Maker Online: GenealogyLibrary.com: Genealogical Memoranda of the Quisenberry Family and other Families, Page 175
      Note:
      Deposition of John Quisenbury.

      Westmoreland county, Virginia, ss.--John Quisenbury, aged eighty years or thereabouts, being examined and sworn on the Holy Evangelist of God, doth say that about fifty years ago Mrs. Wingate, a nigh relation to old Mrs. Vaulx, her husband (that first took up the said land called Vaulxland), being in England, came up to the said Wingate's with surveyors and seated the plantation now called Vaulx Quarter. Your deponent desired the said Wingate to speak to Mrs. Vaulx to sell him part of the said land, who seemed to be willing, and sent up the patent with orders to Mr. William Horton to lay out the same, who did forthwith lay out the same at the time aforesaid, and your deponent went with the said surveyor in laying out the said land, and well remembers yt yr. Deponent did help to make the line next to Potomac River, or part thereof, which took in the plantation of Vaulx Quarter, and likewise the line of fifteen hundred poles, and the next line, next to Rappahannock River which included a plantation formerly seated by one Mr. Lane, since Allen Mounjoy, and further saith not.

      JOHN QUISENBURY. In obedience to an order of the Westmoreland County Court we have taken the above deposition at the place and time appointed in the said order. Given under our hands this 31st day of January, 1707.

      LEWIS MARKHAM.
      CALEB BUTLER.
      ANDR. MUNROE. The within deposition was entered on the records of Westmoreland County the 25th day of February, 1707.
      J. A. WESTCOMB,
      Cl. Com. Prd.
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      Wills of Westmoreland County, Virginia , Page 53
      MUNROE, ANDREW, gent., 30 Dec. 1713; 9 June 1714. Land to son Spence; brother William Munroe; son Andrew land and negro woman; dau. Susannah Munroe one negro boy, 2 cows, 2 steers, household furniture and 10,000 lbs. of tobacco; to Andrew son of my brother William 1 horse, 1 feather bed and furniture; dau. Elizabeth Arrington and her son John 1 cow. 1 feather bed and 5,000 lbs. tobacco; my wife Sarah; son in law William Elliott 1 mare; daus. in law Elizabeth & Sarah Elliott horse and cow; to Thomas Mustin one coat; friends Charles Tyler and Richard Watts and brother William Munroe, exrs; son Spence negro given him by his grandmother Jordan; to two sons 9 negroes.
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      URL (Click on link) http://lvaimage.lib.va.us/cgi-bin/GetLONN.pl?first=110&last=112&g_p=G1&col lection=NN Grant
      http://lvaimage.lib.va.us/cgi-bin/GetLONN.pl?first=113&last=114&g_p=G1&col lection=NN Grant
      Title Mountjoy, Thomas.
      Publication 10 September 1691.
      Other Format Available on microfilm. Northern Neck Grants, reels 288-311.
      Note Location: Westmoreland County.
      Description: Piece of land bounded Vizt. upon the land of Andrew Monrow and the land of Daniel Swillivant, decd. now in the possession of John Lancett and upon a creek commonly called Andrew Monroe’s Creek.
      Source: Northern Neck Grants No. 1, 1690-1692, p. 110-112 (Reel 288).
      Recorded survey available. Northern Neck Grants No. 1, 1690-1692, p. 113-114 (Reel 288).
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      Wills of Westmoreland County, Virginia , Page 108
      MONROE, SARAH, 25 July 1739; 27 Nov. 1739. Son John Elliott; dau. in law Sibella Elliott; grandson John Elliott 1 negro boy; grandson Foxhall Sturman 1 negro girl; grandson Spence Monroe 12 shillings; to Mr. Wharton Ransdell 3 shillings for pair of gloves; dau. Sarah Ransdell; my five grandchildren Elizabeth, Sarah, Martha Sturman, Thomas Ransdell and Sarah Elliott Ransdell; exr. John Elliott.
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      Contributed by: James Hughes

      Note:
      Vol III, page 744-45-46. John Sturman later crossed into Virginia where he married Elizabeth, daughter of Patrick and Dorcas Spence, the sister of Eleanor Spence, who married Andrew the 2nd, son of Andrew1, the immigrant. Patrick Spence the second married Penelope, daughter of Thomas Yowell. Andrew and Elizabeth Monroe had issue the following 6 children: - 1 Mary2, who was buried in Westmoreland county 15 Jan 1661. 2 George. 3 Elizabeth2, married Bunce Roe (or Wroe). 4 Susannah, who married George Weedon. He died in Westmoreland county 1704 leaving a will under that date in which he mentions his wife and two children - 1. Jordon3 Weedon. He married Martha Sturman, daughter of William Sturman (who died 1732) and his wife Sarah Elliott,
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      WESTMORELAND COUNTY, VIRGINIA ORDER BOOK, 1709-1712 {Antient Press}: pg 76
      Westmoreland County Court 29th of Augt 1711
      - WEEDON & Uxor v MUNROE as ELLIOTT
      JORDAN WEEDON in behalfe of MARTHA his Wife, one of the Daughters of JOHN ELLIOTT, Gent., deced., preferred his Petition to this Court against ANDREW MUNROE, Gent. and SARAH his Wife, Executrix of JOHN ELLIOTT, for that part of the Estate of JOHN ELLIOTT which of right belongs to MARTHA, Whereupon it is ordered the Sheriff doe summon ANDREW and SARAH to be and appeare at next Court to be held for this County to answer the same
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      WESTMORELAND COUNTY, VIRGINIA ORDER BOOK, 1712-1714 {Antient Press}: pg 64
      Westmoreland County Court 26th of August 1713
      - LANCELOTT's Admon granted MUNROE
      ANDREW MUNROE, Gent. in right of the Orphants of WILLIAM LANCELOTT, deceased, came into Court and made oath that JANE, Relict ofWILLIAM, departed this life without makeing any Will soe farr as he knowes or believes and on his motion a Certifycate is granted him
      for obtaining Letters ofAdministration of the Decedent's Estate in due form; RICHARD WATTS, Gent., assumeing to be his Security for the same, and ANDREW MUNROE ordered to return an Inventory of the decedent's Estate to the next Court upon Oath. It is alsoe ordered that DANIELL MAREEN, CHARLES TYLER, GILBERT ATTWOOD and THOMAS TAYLOR or any three ofthem being first sworn before one ofher Majties Justices for this County doe some tyme before the next Court value and appraise the Estate and make report thereof to the next Court
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      WESTMORELAND COUNTY, VIRGINIA ORDER BOOK, 1712-1714 {Antient Press}: pg 102
      Westmoreland County Court 26th of May 1714
      - MUNROE's Will proved
      The Last Will and Testament of ANDREW MUNROE, Gent., deced. was presented into Court by RICHARD WATTS, CHARLES TYLER and WILLIAM MUNROE, the Executors, who made Oath thereto and being proved by the Oath of DANIEL PORTEN, ROBERT LOVELL and THOMAS ARRINGTON wittnesses thereto is admitt to Record; and on motion of RICHARD, CHARLES and WILLIAM and their performing what is usual in such cases, Certifycate is granted them for obtaining a Probat thereof in due form, and it is ordered ROBERT LOVELL, ANDREW HARRISON, CHARLES ASHTON, JOHN PRATT JUNR and DANIEL FIELD, or any three ofthem being first sworn before one ofher Majties Justices for this County doe some time before the next Court value andappraise the Estate and make report thereof to the next Court
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      WESTMORELAND COUNTY ORDER BOOK, 1716-1718; pg 40
      Westmoreland County Court 26th of June 1717
      - MUNROE v MUNROE's Exrs.
      SPENCE MUNROE, Son of ANDREW MUNROE, Gent., deced. by his Petition to this Court set forth that he is of age to receive the Estate left him by his Father and prayed the Court's Order for CHARLES TYLER and WILLIAM MUNROE, Surviveing Executors of the Last Will and Testament of ANDREW, to pay and deliver him the same. Upon consideration whereof [CHARLES TYLER being present and assenting thereto] it is ordeFed by the Court that CHARLES TYLER and WILLIAM MUNROE doe pay and deliver unto SPENCE MUNROE all and singular the Estate left him by his Father ofwhat natureor kind soever the same be
      WESTMORELAND COUNTY ORDER BOOK, 1716-1718; pg 104
      Westmoreland County Court 27th of March 1718
      - MUNROE v MUNROE's Exrs. SARAH MUNROE, Relict ofANDREW
      MUNROE, Gent., deced. by her Petition to this Court sett forth that ANDREW MUNROE by his Last Will and Testament did give and bequeath to her, SARAH, the Horse she usually did ride with her bridle and saddle, a feather bed and bolster with a rugg blanketts and sheets, a quilt and a pair of curtains and vallances, and that RICHARD WATTS, CHARLES TYLER and WILLIAM MUNROE, the Executors do refuse to deliver the same to SARAH and prayed thereon &c., to which the Executors appeared and said that they have paid the Petitioner one full Child's part ofthe Testator's Estate in which she hath had all and singular the Legacies in the Will delivered to her by these Defendts. and they say that neither by Law nor Equity she ought to have both &c., upon hearing as also the arguements by each party alleadged it is the
      opinion of the Court that the Legacy abovementioned was designed by the Testator as a perticular bequest and not intended to be in lieu of any part of ANDREW MUNROE's Estate which by Law the Petitioner might claime, and thereupon they doe order the Executors to deliver her the same with costs alias Exon;
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      http://image.lva.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/GetLONN.pl?first=166&last=&g_p=G1&co llection=NN Grant
      Title Roe, Bunce.
      Publication 12 July 1692.
      Other Format Available on microfilm. Northern Neck Grants, reels 288-311.
      Note Location: Westmoreland County.
      Description: 163 acres on the lands of Thomas Mountjoy, Thomas Buckock, Andrew Munro and John Beard, decd. now in the possession of Michael Phillipps.
      Source: Northern Neck Grants No. 1, 1690-1692, p. 164-166 (Reel 288).
      Recorded survey available. Northern Neck Grants No. 1, 1690-1692, p. 166 (Reel 288).
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      http://image.lva.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/GetLONN.pl?first=42&last=43&g_p=G2&c ollection=NN Grant
      Title Munroe, William.
      Publication 22 October 1694.
      Other Format Available on microfilm. Northern Neck Grants, reels 288-311.
      Note Location: Westmoreland County.
      Description: 60 acres adjoins the land, of Andrew Munroe, Thomas Mountjoy and John Lancett.
      Source: Northern Neck Grants No. 2, 1694-1700, p. 42-43 (Reel 288).
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      http://image.lva.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/GetLONN.pl?first=200&last=&g_p=G3&co llection=NN Grant
      Title Hoare, John.
      Publication 7 December 1708.
      Other Format Available on microfilm. Northern Neck Grants, reels 288-311.
      Note Location: Westmoreland County.
      Description: 20 acres adjoins land of Andrew Munroe, Thomas Mountjoy and his own land.
      Source: Northern Neck Grants No. 3, 1703-1710, p. 200 (Reel 288).

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      2 possible matches found on Ancestry.com Ancestry.com

      Father: Andrew Monroe b: 1625 in Scotland
      Mother: Elizabeth {Unproven} Alexander b: ABT 1636 in England

      Marriage 1
      Eleanor Spence b: 1664 in Westmoreland County, Virginia
      •Married: ABT 1690 in Westmoreland County, Virginia
      Children
      1.Has Children Jane Monroe b: BEF 1680 in Westmoreland County, Virginia
      2.Has Children Spence Monroe b: 1690 in Westmoreland County, Virginia
      3.Has Children Elizabeth Monroe b: 1692 in Westmoreland County, Virginia
      4.Has Children Susannah Monroe b: 1695 in Westmoreland County, Virginia
      5.Has Children Andrew Monroe b: 1697 in Washington Parish, Westmoreland County, Virginia

      Marriage 2
      Sarah Foxhall b: ABT 1665 in Westmoreland County, Virginia
      •Married: 1709 in Westmoreland County, Virginia
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  • Sources 
    1. [S48] See Notes.