Youngblood-Armstrong & Allied Families
Philemon Waters was a descendant of Capt. Edward Waters, the well known Englishman, who came to Virginia, the first time in 1608. His second trip to America was in 1618, and soon thereafter he married "Lady" Grace O'Neill, first cousin of Admiral Jas. O'Neill, also from England. On Hotten's list of Virginia records, is found "Edward Waters, His Muster, of 1624" which gives the names and ages of himself, his wife and two children, William and Margaret. (See Pt. 1)
A chapter of the Daughters of the American Colonists, in Birmingham, Ala. is named for him, and memberships in all colonial societies, have been established on his record.
Early Virginia records contain many references to the important part Capt. Edward Waters played in the development of the new colony. Much has been written of the Waters family in England, as well as America, in Virginia and New England magazines ; Water's Gleanings in England; Waters and Kindred Families, and other publications. For this reason, Edward Waters, his sons and grandsons are not treated in this volume.
"Virginia Heraldica" by William Armstrong Crozier lists Edward Waters' descendants as entitled to Coats of Arms and describes same. Sable on a fess way argent between three swans of the second; two bars wavy azure. Crest. A demi-griffin azure. Motto: Toujous Fidels.
In 1712, Philemon Waters, the elder, was granted 466 acres of land in Stafford Co. by Lady Fairfax, sole proprietor of the Northern Neck of Virginia. In 1742, Lord Fairfax, heir of Catherine, Lady Fairfax, deeded to Philemon Waters, "the Younger" of Prince William Co. land adjoining Philemon Waters, Sr. Again, on Nov. 29, 1742, Lord Fairfax confirmed by deed, land, which when surveyed, was found to be in the tract of land originally granted to Philemon Waters, "the Elder" and given by him to "His son Philemon Waters, the Younger." It was expressly stipulated in the Grants, that these lands were not a part of the Brenton Tract, which had been settled by Huguenots. Several other deeds to father and son are recorded. (Northern Neck Grants, 1710-1754, Va. St. Lib. Richmond)
In the history of Clarke Co. Va. which had originally been part of the Lordly tract of Thomas, Lord Culpepper, and later owned by his daughter, Catherine, Lady Fairfax, is the statement that Lord Fairfax had five million acres in the Northern Neck, but reserved only 10,000 for his own use. It further says that, "It so happened that this section was a distinctly English settlement, the settlers, having migrated from Eastern Virginia. They were already planters of consequence who brought with them an established
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