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244. Grace Chancellor (Married William Hyrum Wroe (243) in February 1758 in Culpepper, Fredrick, Virginia)

 

Born: 1734 in Washington Parish of Westmoreland County of Thomas Chancellor (#487) and Katherine Fitzgerald Copper (#488) . She was christened in Round Hill Episcopal Church in Westmoreland County. "The church records were destroyed during the Revolutionary War and this information has simply been passed along as a matter of oral family tradition." (Source: The Wroe and Chancellor Families Compiled by William C. Wroe, 1992, p. 183).

Died: 20 February 1804 in Shenandoah County, Virginia.

 

[Her siblings included:

John Chancellor (Married Jane Monroe, paternal aunt of President James Monroe) Born: 1726 in Washington Parish, Westmoreland County, Virginia , Died: 10 March 1815 in Prince William County, Virginia, aged 89 years;

Katherine Chancellor (Married Thomas Wroe in about 1764) Born: about 1730 in Westmoreland County, Virginia, Died: ?;

Rebecca Chancellor (Married Richard Wroe) Born: 20 November 1742 in Westmoreland County Died: 30 May 1796 in Prince Willliam County, Virginia;

Thomas Chancellor (Married three times: Winifred ? about 1766, Sarah Dishman in 1780, Judith Pendleton Gaines about 1785-1789) Born: 1745 in Washington Parish, Westmoreland County, Virginia, Died: in Wood County, Virginia, probably Parkersburg, West Virginia in 1823;

Sarah Chancellor (Married Benjamin Wroe) Born: about 1750, Died: between 1798 and 1811] (Source of this blue information: The Wroe and Chancellor Families Compiled by William C. Wroe, 1992).[Note: Four Chancellor sisters, including Grace, married four Wroe brothers, including William.]

Miscellaneous:

She and her husband had seven children: Original, William, Catherine (122), Eleanor, Rebecca, Jane, and Grace. (Source p. 184 The Wroe and Chancellor Families Compiled by William Clarke Wroe, 1992.)

Her husband died in 1781 and named her and her son, Original, as his Executors.

According to The Wroe and Chancellor Families Compiled by William Clarke Wroe, 1992, p. 184, "After the death of William Wroe in Westmoreland County, his widow, Grace (Chancellor) Wroe moved to the adjoining county of King George. Here, she was residing in 1782, when the first list of tithables was taken, as having paid taxes on two slaves and seventy acres of land. Then, following the pattern of her brother John Chancellor, and of Richard and Benjamin Wroe, brothers of her deceased husband, Grace (Chancellor) Wroe took her family to Fauquier County where they resided a few years before settling in Shenandoah County, Virginia in 1788. Here Grace continued to reside with her son William Wroe until her death on February 20, 1804.

Upon the death of Grace, it became necessary to divide the estate of her late husband, William, among the surviving children and their heirs, as mentioned in William's will of 1781, but that will had not provided for the possible marriage of William's children nor had it forseen that the slaves might die or have children. A chancery suit was initiated in Shenandoah County Court to rectify omissions in the will and to effect an equitable distribution of William's remaining estate; a friendly suit, necessary for settlement of the estate."