Richard WHITE, IV

                   Her surname also spelled "White."

This "Frances Whyte," of royal lineage, is not substantiated
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In a message dated 2/6/99 6:53:08 AM, PGEORG-D-@rootsweb.com
<< But the Stockett did go back on its own. If one wishes to exchange information on Duvall or Stockett I will gladly do so. >>
Carol,
About a month ago you enlightened me on the Wells/White connection. Since then I have received a flurry of e-mails from Wells descendants, pro and con on the issue of whether Frances White was who people have, until recently, thought she was. Just wanted to alert you that there is at least one serious scholar out there--who he is, I'll have to dig out from my e-mails--who is
preparing an article for publication which he says refutes "in part" the recent article you cited to me which seems to identify Frances White as the wife of another man. I'm not sure what his argument is; perhaps that the marriage cited in the recent article was a second marriage? In any event he would only tell me to "wait for the article"--apparently, he has so much time and effort invested in researching the problem he doesn't want to reveal what he knows until the article is published (i.e., he doesn't want to be scooped).Having come to this issue but recently, I come down on your side--the recent article (wish I could remember the author's name offhand, and I'm too lazy to look up the article at the moment) made a pretty good analysis. But this other fellow seems to think the analysis is full of holes, and while he stops
short from saying that he can prove Richard Wells was married to Frances White, the woman with the fancy ancestry, he does say he raises considerable doubt as to many points that have been made that point away from this conclusion. By the way, my wife is descended from Richard Wells and his wife through the Stocketts as well, and, though I know the Stockett family was armigerous, don't know the details as to their ancestry. I have never seen any alleged royal lines for this family, so I assume the Stocketts can be taken back just a couple of additional generations in England. Is this so? Dave Morehouse."
14.) Frances White, b. 1622, "Hutton Hall", County Essex, England, d. aft. 1678, Anne Arundel County, Md.; in Virginia, Captain Richard Wells, b. ca. 1610, Saltish, County Cornwall, England, d. 31 August 1667, Anne Arundel County, Md., son of John Wells, and his wife, Elizabeth Ellyott, (Richard Wells was among the strict adherents of the Puritan faith in Virginia. His leadership soon placed him in an important capacity among the Puritans, a sect which grew to such portions that the Legislature became somewhat alarmed, inasmuch as the Church of England was the only faith allowed to be practiced at that time in Virginia. In 1645 the Puritans were so string in Upper Norfolk County, that they elected Richard Wells to the House of Burgess. Lt. Governor Stone of Maryland about this time invited the Puritans to settle in Maryland where complete religious toleration was offered to all. During 1649 about 50 Puritan families left Virginia and settled on the Severn and thus began the early history of Anne Arundel County. His first grant, directly from Lord Baltimore was for 600 acres of land. When he died in 1667, the estate of Richard Wells contained well over 7,000 acres of land in Anne Arundel, Howard and Baltimore Colonies, Maryland.),

Sources:

A.) The History and Antiquities of the County of Essex, Volume I, (1768) Philip Morant, pp 194-195, and pp 265-285

B.) Surrey Pedigrees, (1837) William Berry, pp 54-55

C.) Memorials of the Antiquities and Architecture; Family History and Heraldry of the Counts of Essex, Pub. London, (1845) Reverend Alfred Suckling, pp 75-78

D.) Visitations of Essex. "1634", Volume 13, (1888) Sir Edward Bysshe, page 521

E.) Anne Arundel Gentry, Volume I, (1933) Harry Wright Newman, pp 631-637 gives an excellent history of Richard Wells and his family

F.) Index of Maryland Colonial Wills, 1634-1777, (1986) James M. Magruder, Jr., page 509, line 3, shows the Will of Richard Wells, as being recorded in 1667, Anne Arundel County Maryland, Volume I, page 287, at the Hall of Records, Annapolis Maryland

G.) Original Lists of Persons of Quality 1600-1700, (1980) John Camden Hotten, page 120, column 2, line 6, shows Richard Wells departing London England aboard the "Globe", 7 August 1635, bound for the American Colonies

E.) Pedigrees of some of the Emperor Charlemagne's Descendants, Volume II, (1974) Aileen Lewers Langston and Orton Buck Jr., page 309, confirms parentage of Frances White, her birth and death location, as well as her marriage to Captain Richard Wells
Immigration bef 1637, Eng. to VA