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Descendants of Francis Hester

Generation No. 1

1. FRANCIS¹ HESTER was born 1650 in New Kent County, Virginia, and died Abt. 1720. He married GARLAND Bef. 1685 in Virginia.

Notes for FRANCIS HESTER:
Quotations from the Parish Register of St. Peter's Parish, New Kent County, Virginia, about the baptism of Robert and Mary children of Francis are the earliest records of our Hester line. Francis Hester's descendants lived in Virginia in the early 1700's and some remained there, but most migrated southward to Mecklenburg County, Virginia and Granville County, North Carolina, and from those places to other southern states.
Francis probably had other children besides Robert and Mary, but none were listed in available records. Nor is anything further known of Mary. Robert was mentioned in a number of records. He patented land in New Kent County, Virginia, in 1729 - 1300 acres; and in Hanover County, Virginia, in 1735 - 400 acres.
Francis Hester was first recorded in New Kent County, Virginia in 1686. In 1689, he was recorded in the Parish Baptismal Records of St. Peters Parish, and in 1704, in the Quit Rent roll with 300 acres of land. They were of German origin, left Germany because of religious wars, first settling in England and then to America. Had grants of land in Hanover and Louisa Counties, VA.
"Hester Family" by Marion W. Hester, MD
"Gleanings in the Family Field" by Mary-Helen Sears Foxx, p2, 190 & 231
"The Vestry Book and Register of St. Peters Parish, New Kent and James City Counties, Virginia 1684-1786" by CG Chamber layne, p 359 & 360.
NOTE: Fay Welsch has Francis Hester's birthdate as "abt 1650"

Children of FRANCIS HESTER and GARLAND are:

2.	i.		ROBERT H. (*)² HESTERI, b. October 10, 1686, date of baptism from Parish Register of St. Peter's Paris, New Kent Co., Virgini; d. Aft. July 26, 1748, Louisa County, Virginia.
	ii.		MARY HESTER, b. February 1688/89, St. Peters Parish, New Kent County, Virginia.

More About MARY HESTER:
Fact 1: March 01, 1688/89, Christened St. Peters' Parish, New Kent, Virginia, d/o Francis Hester ¹

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