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James married Mary Ann Kinzer. Mary was born in 1834; died in 1939. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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From the Valdo James Smith Research document, The Sudburys of Virginia and Tennessee.

WILLIAM D. SUDBURY was born in Nottoway County, Virginia, in the year 1790,
or shortly thereafter. Glenn Boyd speculates that William may have been the boy born
between 1794 and 1800 who is listed with his mother, Frances Sudbury, in the 1810
U.S. census for Nottoway County. The earliest public record under William's own
name is an entry in the 1815 tax list for Nottoway County, cited by Glenn Boyd. In
this record, William is listed as possessing one slave, two horses, and twelve cattle.

According to Nancy Montgomery, who cites an unidentified source, William married
SALLY CRIDDLE on July 3, 1820. Glenn Boyd suggests that the marriage took
place in Williamson County, and that William was about 25 years old, while Sally was
age 29.

The only definite listing for William yet discovered in any census records is found in
the 1830 U.S. census for Tennessee. He appears as one of only two Sudburys living in
Tennessee at that time. The other Sudbury listed in the 1830 census is William's
brother, Shadrack. Both men were living in Williamson County in close proximity to
each other.

The data in the 1830 census record confirms that William and his wife, Sally, were
born between 1790 and 1800. Four other individuals were living with William at the
time of the 1830 census, including two young boys, one between the ages of 5 and 10,
and the other under 5 years of age. These were probably William's sons, Patrick and
James. Also living with William and his wife were a young man between 20 and 30
years of age (born 1800-1810), and a girl between 15 and 20 years old (born 1810-
1815). Glenn Boyd offers the following ideas about the identity of these last two
individuals:

The unknown female born 1810-1815 could be a daughter of William from an
earlier unknown marriage. Perhaps more likely, this could be the daughter of his
wife, Sally, from a previous unknown marriage of hers. The presence of a male
born 1800-1810 makes it unlikely that both are children of William, but they
could both be children of Sally from a previous marriage as she is about four
years older than William and could have had a son in her late teens and a
daughter in her early twenties. Then, perhaps, Sally's married name was Criddle,
and her maiden name is as yet unknown. The children would be named Criddle
as well, but nothing is known of them from William's estate in 1835. Perhaps the
name "Criddle" should be looked up in 1840 and 1850.

There is a Frances Sudbury (born 1815) in Virginia that may be the female in the
1830 census. Still, then, is unresolved whether this might be William's daughter
or perhaps Sally's daughter adopted by William. The entry for William's mother,
Frances, in the 1820 Virginia census lists a male born 1794-1804 which could be
William. Also listed are two females born 1810-1820, both of whom could be
daughters of William. Since no male child is listed, the likelihood increases that
the male listed in 1830 is a child of Sally, not of William. The best guess at the
moment is that the male born 1800-1810 is a son of Sally Criddle and is probably
named Criddle. The female born 1810-1815 is most likely Frances Sudbury, a
daughter of William from a previous marriage.

One interesting fact about William was that he at one time pursued a military career.
According to a document obtained by Nancy Montgomery from the Tennessee State
Archives, he was a Captain in the 44th Regiment of the Tennessee Militia. Glenn Boyd
says that William received his commission as a Captain in 1825 in Williamson County.
William appears on the Williamson County tax rolls for five consecutive years from
1831-1835. The listings identify him as the owner of 51 acres of land on or near Hayes
(or Hays?) Creek.

An obituary in the January 1, 1836, edition of the Western Weekly Review, quoted by
Nancy Montgomery from the book Early Obituaries of Williamson County, Tennes-
see, states that William died on December 22, 1835. On February 27, 1836, an estate
sale of William's personal property was held. In addition to his brother Shadrack, two
other Sudburys, Sally and another William, were purchasers at the sale. Sally made
significant purchases, including many items of furniture. Was this Sally, who made so
many purchases, William's widow? If so, why did she have to buy from her own
husband's estate? These questions remain unanswered. The sale yielded a sum of
money which appears to be $561.07.
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William married Sally Criddle. Sally was born about 1791. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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From the Valdo James Smith Research document, The Sudburys of Virginia and Tennessee.

WILLIAM SEINIIIRY_was, like his brothers David and John, probably born between
1747 and 1758 to Ezekiel Sr.'s second wife, Anne. The only known records of his
childhood and adolescence are the 1758 reference to him and his siblings being bound
as apprentices by the local churchwardens, and an additional record, cited by Glenn
Boyd as referencing a further apprenticeship.

William and his brothers David and John would appear to have been the right age to
have fought in the Revolutionary War. However, despite the oral tradition passed
down to Nancy Sudbury Yates (and from Nancy to Valdo Yates Smith) that one of
Nancy's greatgrandfathers fought in the Revolutionary War, the sources listing
Revolutionary War veterans for the state of Virginia do not mention any Sudburys.
William's marriage on July 29, 1784, to_FRANCES DUNNAVANT, is listed in the
book Marriages of Amelia County, Virginia 1735-1815. The record reveals the
interesting fact that Frances was not "given away" by anyone, but instead "wrote her
own consent" to be married. The marriage was witnessed by John Wyley and Clark H.
(last name unknown). Samuel Booker served as surety.

There is also an entry for William in the 1787 Virginia census for Amelia County
(district of George Booker, Tax Commissioner) which simply indicates that a man
named John Archer, Sr. was "charged with" William's tax. Whether this means that
William was a laborer working for Mr. Archer, or that he was somehow disabled, is
unknown. Although it seems that William was not a landowner in 1787, he almost
certainly was by the late 1790s. Glenn Boyd writes of Nottoway County tax records
listing William dated May 12, 1796, May 18, 1797, May 24, 1798, and May 29, 1799.

William apparently died in the year 1800. Glenn Boyd cites an unidentified record
from Nottoway County dated August 11, 1800, which refers to Frances Dunnavant
Sudbury as administratrix of the estate of William Sudbury, deceased. Use of the term
"administratrix" in this context means that William unfortunately died without a will.
Glenn lists an additional record from 1809 indicating that Frances was granted
administration of William's estate, but the date seems clearly wrong, since it is nine
years distant from the earlier reference to William's estate.

Frances Sudbury survived her husband by more than twenty years. According to Glenn
Boyd, Frances's name appears in Nottoway County tax records for the years 1809,
1810, 1814, 1815, 1817, and 1818. Information about Frances can also be garnered
from the U.S. census records for Nottoway County. An entry from 1810 shows her as
one of two women in her household over the age of 45, with five children (two boys
and three girls). The 1820 census record lists, in addition to'Frances, one "free white
male" aged 18-26, two "free white females" aged 16-26, and two "free white females"
under 10 years of age. While the two young women could have been born before
1800, and thus could be Frances's daughters, and the young man, born no earlier than
1794 might possibly be William D. Sudbury, the only one of Frances's known sons
who doesn't have his own separate entry in the 1820 census, the identity of the two
little girls is a complete puzzle.

Glenn Boyd supplies the record which gives the approximate date of Frances's death.
This unidentified source, dated January 1, 1824, recites that administration of Frances
Sudbury's estate was granted to her oldest son, Shadrack Sudbury. Most likely she
died in late 1823.

As far as Frances's ancestry is concerned, more census work needs to be done. Entries
for Hezeldah Dunnavant (head of a family of seven "white souls") and Philip
Dunnavant (two white souls) appear in the First Census of the United States, Amelia
County, Virginia (1782), in the list of the same census taker as recorded the entry for
John Sudbury. Entries for the following "heads of families" appear in the First Census
of the United States, Amelia County, Virginia (1785): Hodge Dunnavant (eleven white
souls), Philip Dunnavant (three white souls), Abner Dunnavant (three white souls),
Estate of Nowell Dunnavant, and Clement Dunnivant (six white souls). Could it be that
Nowell Dunnavant, who apparently died in 1784 or 1785, was Frances's father, and
that she gave her "own consent" to be married as a result of his death or incapacity at
the time of her marriage to William in 1784? Perhaps there might be a will for Nowell
Dunnavant in the Amelia County records.

Unfortunately, we may never know the names of all of William and Frances's three
daughters or their husbands, if any (although there is strong reason to believe that Mary
Polly Sudbury was one of the daughters). Hampering our ability to research these
individuals is the destruction of records that occurred in Nottoway County, where
William's children were raised and, most likely, got married. If marriage records
existed for that period of time in Nottoway County, the names of his daughters would
probably be available to us. Carol McGinnis, in her book Virginia Genealogy:
Sources & Resources, explains the tragedy of the missing records as follows:

During the last week of the Civil War, Federal soldiers "ransacked the [Nottoway
County Clerk's] office, hacking the record books with their sabers and throwing
the mutilated volumes into the horse trough on the square." Three deed books
were destroyed or lost; several of the early order books were badly mutilated, as
were another deed book and a will book. Marriage records [up to 1856] also
were destroyed.
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Simon married Frances Darnavant. Frances was born in 1764 in 1825; died in 1825. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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