Christopher BRANCH

                   NOTE: The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, Ancestral File (TM); ;
July 1996 (c), data as of 2 January 1996; ; , Family History Library, 35 N West
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Christopher Branch, Sr.

Born: 1602-1603 in England
Sex: Male
Married: September 12,1619 in St. Peter's, Westcheap, London, England Died: 1681 in Henrico County, Virginia

Father:
Lionel Branch
Mother:
Valentia Sparkes
Spouse:
Man Addie
Children:
"Thomas Branch
William Branch
Christopher Branch, Jr.

Info:
Gentleman. Tobacco planter. Henrico County representative in the House of Burgesses
Came to Virginia on the ship London Merchant in March 1619/20. First lived in Arrowhattocks (north side of James River) and finally settled at Kingsland on the south side of the river, almost opposite Arrowhattocks, in the present Chesterfield County.

"In 1620, he arrived in Virginia and in 1632 returned briefly to England for the purpose, amongst other things no doubt, of trying to gain possission of the Bull Inn, which he claimed ought, by rights, to be his, but of which he had been cheated by his uncle Robert Payne. "
He lost the suit in Chancery.
Will dated June 20,1678, probated in Henrico County, Va. February 20, 1681/82
Sources:
Genealogies of Virginia Families, From the Virginia Magazine of History and Biography. Volume I, Adams-Chiles, Baltimore, Genealogical Publishing Co., Inc., 1981
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