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From: "Beverly Pack" <>
Subject: [PACK-L] Mrs. Sarah PACKE
Date: Sun, 11 Jul 1999 10:49:18 -0700

The following information was found in William & Mary Quarterly, Series 1,
Volume 7, p. 11. I have typed it exactly as it appears.

"Old Virginia Editors--There is a deed at Yorktown dated August 19, 1749,
which shows that Parks had as partner in the printing establishment and
store-house in Williamsburg, Mrs. Sarah Packe, widow of Capt. Graves Packe;
tht when the small-pox occurred in Williamsburg, Parks had established a
store-house at Hanover Courthouse; and the object of the deed was to provide
for a settlement of accounts between him and Mrs. Packe.

Embarking for England on March 23, 1750, Parks died at sea April 1, 1750,
and was buried at Gosport, England. His will, proved at Yorktown June 18,
1750, provides as follows: L100 to each of the children of his sister, Jane
Spilsbury, wife of Thomas Spilsbury; to sister Elizabeth Parks, L50 currency
money; that his wife Eleanor Parks and his son-in-law John Shelton, of
Hanover county, should "complete the printing of the Laws of Virginia which
I have undertaken"; the accounts with Mrs. Sarah Packe to stand until the
determination of John garland and benjamin Waller; son-in-law John Shelton,
Benjamin Waller, and William Prentis, of Williamsburg, gentlemen, executors;
and Mr. Waller to please accept L20 for executing this will; his residuary
estate to fall to his daughter Eleanor Shelton.

It would seem from this will that the first wife of Patrick Henry, Sarah
Shelton, daughter of John Shelton, of Hanover, was granddaughter of William
Parks and Eleanor his wife. It is probable, too, that Mrs. Henry derived
her name, Sarah, from Mrs. Packe, who was, perhaps, connected by family ties
with William Parks or his wife Eleanor.(1)

(1) Was Mrs. Packe mother of William Parks' wife? Captain Graves Packe
married, first, about 1725, mary, sister of Stevens Thompson, the
Attorney-General, and widow of Thomas Booth, of York county. He died before
1732, at which time Sarah Packe was his widow. They had a son Graves,
drowned at 1745, aged eighteen years. John Packe Garland, in 1771, devised
his property to Mr. Holderby Dixon, in trust for the separate use of his
mother, Sarah, wife of Dr. George Pitt, except a legacy to George Pitt, son
of George and Sarah Pitt. The will (proved 1773) of Mrs. Sarah Pitt, wife
of Dr. George Pitt, of Williamsburg, names daughter Mary Pitt, late son John
Packe Garland, and sons Richard, William, and Thomas Pitt. See, also,
Quarterly, III, pages 268, 269."

Beverly L. Pack
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