I40651: John BRITTON (ABT 1699

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Acceded 1483 on the death of his brother Edward IV. Richard, was created Duke of Gloucester at the age of eight and entered the household of his cousin, Richard Neville, Earl of Warwick, to begin his education as a nobleman. This took place primarily at the earl's Yorkshire estates of Middleham and Sheriff Hutton.

He had been Admiral of England since 1461 and he was now appointed Constable. King Edward granted Richard many of Warwick's forfeited estates and the following year the duke married Warwick's younger daughter, Anne who was the widow of Prince Edward who was killed at Tewkesbury. The couple took up residence in the North of England, which King Edward effectively entrusted to his brother, and Richard was created Warden of the West Marches of Scotland. Richard took his duties seriously and kept the north peaceful for the King. In 1476 Duchess Anne gave birth to their only child, who became known as Edward of Middleham.

During the remaining years of his brother's reign Richard of Gloucester only occasionally left the North. Such occasions included the invasion of France in 1475 and attending the parliament of 1478 when their brother Clarence was attainted for treason and privately executed. In the summer of 1482 Richard invaded Scotland at King Edward's behest. He was accompanied by the Scots King's brother, the duke of Albany. Richard and Albany marched as far as Edinburgh before Richard strategically withdrew over the border.

King Richard III was crowned, with his wife Anne, on 6 July at Westminster Abbey. Shortly afterwards the couple began a progress around the country which ended in York with the investiture of their son Edward as Prince of Wales. In the autumn of 1483, however, King Richard suffered a serious set-back. His former supporter, the duke of Buckingham, became involved in a rebellion, primarily based in the west country and Kent. Although swiftly repressed, the effects were far reaching and King Richard now began to rely more on his northern supporters by placing them in the vacant offices left by the rebels. The rebellion had been supported by a scion of the house of Lancaster, the exiled Henry Tudor, a descendant of King Edward III through his son John of Gaunt's legitimised Beaufort family. Tudor had assumed the role of representative of the Lancastrian line and focus for any disaffected English nobles and gentry. On Christmas Day 1484 in Rennes Cathedral, Henry Tudor declared his intention of marrying King Edward IV's eldest daughter, the Lady Elizabeth, when he became King of England. He then spent the next eighteen months planning his invasion.

King Richard meanwhile called his first, and only parliament, in January 1484. The legislation covered three main areas, the ratification of Richard as King, the passing of acts of attainder against the October rebels and the passing of a number of acts designed to reform part of the legal system.

King Richard's reign was overshadowed by the threat of Tudor's invasion and by personal loss. Near the anniversary of the death of his brother King Edward, Richard's son died and the King and Queen shut themselves in their apartments at Nottingham Castle to mourn their loss. Richard's Queen died less than a year later on 16 March 1485.

The long awaited invasion came on the 7 August when Tudor landed at Milford Haven in Wales. King Richard mobilised his forces and on 22 August King and invader joined battle at Bosworth Field in Leicestershire. Despite Richard's superior army the battle was lost when the King was slain by the forces of Sir William Stanley, who turned traitor in favour of his step-nephew, Henry Tudor. Richard Plantagenet was the last king of England to die on the battlefield.

http://www.r3.org/ American Branch of the Richard III Society.
This site is devoted to the study of King Richard III, last of the medieval English kings the Wars of the Roses, a dynastic struggle in the later middle ages that pitted Yorkist against Lancastrian fifteenth-century England and its culture the reputation of Richard III in history, literature, and drama, especially Shakespeare.

http://www.richardiii.net/ Richard III Society Founded 1924 UK
Richard III was King of England from 1483 to 1485. Thanks mainly to Shakespeare, he is known in the popular imagination as being the archetypal wicked uncle who murdered his way to the throne.

In the belief that many of the features of the traditional accounts are not supported by sufficient evidence, the purpose of the Richard III Society is to promote research into his life and times, and thereby secure a reassessment of his reputation and of his place in history.

By the time the Elizabethan playwright William Shakespeare penned, what was to become one of his most popular and often performed plays, The Tragedy of King Richard III, the works of the anonymous Croyland Chronicler, John Rous, Bernard Andre, Polydore Virgil, Sir Thomas More, Edward Hall, Richard Grafton and Raphael Holinshed had been written. Shakespeare followed their tradition and presented his anti-hero as the murderous, deformed tyrant so well known to theatre, television and cinema audiences.

385-392. "The Complete Peerage Vol XIIpII.".

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"Census: 1860 Liberty, Bedford County, VA age 72; Census: 1850 Richmond City, Henrico, VA age 60. "Jesse Hopkins Turner, the son of Rev. James and Sally (Leftwich) Turner, born in Bedford County, January 1, 1788. He was early taught the way of life, and made a profession of religion in his sixteenth year, and joined the Peaks Church in Bedford County, VA his father being pastor at the time. He was educated in Hampden-Sidney College, VA and studied Divinity in the Union Theological Seminary, Prince Edward, VA. He was licensed by Hanover Presbytery and ordained by the same Presbytery in 1813. He began his labors as a missionary in Richmond, VA as early as 1810 and was earnest and faithful in advancing the cause of his Master. He was called to succeed his brother, William who died
while pastor of the church in Fayetteville, NC.

He subsequently preached in Manchester, VA and his last charge was in Hanover County, VA. He was without charge for several years, as his health was somewhat infirm. He died at his residence in Liberty, VA March 11, 1863, of Billious Fever. He was twice married: First to Miss Harriet Burr, of New Haven, CT April 22, 1811. She died in 1850. Second he married Miss Sarah Fitzwilson, of Richmond VA, January 9, 1855, who with one child survive him.
He was a sincere good man, quite successful as a teacher. He lived the life of a humble Christian and died in the full assurance of a blessed immortality." Wilson Presbyterian Historical Almanac, 1867"

1850 Richmond City, Henrico, VA Census page 430 (age 60, born in VA, clergyman, living with other people in a boarding house)
1860 Northern Div., Liberty, Bedford, VA Census page 488 (age 72, born in VA, OSP Clergyman, real estate value $2500, personal value $12,800, living with wife and child and near sister Mildred Leftwich)

Marriage 2 Sarah FITZWILSON b: 13 Dec 1820 in Richmond, VA Married: 9 Jan 1855 in Richmond, VA d. 1903; Children: Jessie TURNER b: 22 Jun 1856 in Liberty, Bedford, VA

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My Southern Family

John BRITTON

ABT 1699 - 1729

ID Number: I40651

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Patsy DAVENPORT

ABT 1780 - ____

ID Number: I53255

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THOMAS DESPENSER

ABT 1183 - ____

ID Number: I84714

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Susan LOCKETT

ABT 1680 - ____

ID Number: I97318

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John MATHEWS

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ID Number: I76030

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Giles NANCE

ABT 1750 - ____

ID Number: I59510

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King RICHARD III PLANTAGENET of England

2 Oct 1452 - 22 Aug 1485

ID Number: I28051

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Eunice REYNOLDS

ABT 1599 - ____

ID Number: I99688

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Rev. Jesse Hopkins TURNER

1 Jan 1788 - 11 Mar 1863

ID Number: I49339

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