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Dorothy died between the ages of 62 and 90. Dorothy was last recorded in a document in 1725 and died sometime between then and 1753, a span of 28 years. Jeremiah Greenham died in 1753 and we know that his wife at the time was named Mary. Dorothy married Jeremiah Greenham, a well-respected gentleman who had been involved with the family and neighborhood for years.
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Someone had to manage the plantation, plant the crops, maintain tobacco which necessitated a lot of manual labor and TLC at just the right time, and harvest the tobacco when ripe. Probate of a will generally happened no later than 90 days after the person died although in this case, Thomas had obviously died sometime prior to February when Dorothy remarried. Dorothy did what colonial wives did, she remarried quickly, in February 1715, before Thomas Durham’s will was probated. Thomas died before Jwhen his will was probated, leaving Dorothy with children still at home.
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It wasn’t uncommon for second wives to be significantly younger than their husbands and it looks like Thomas was probably at least 25+ years older than Dorothy, if not more. By that time, Richmond County had been formed and Rappahannock County was dissolved.ĭorothy appears to be somewhat younger than Thomas Durham, her husband, who was probably born sometime before 1649 based on the fact that he was exempted from paying levies by the court in September of 1699 “by reason of his great age.” Dorothy was all of 36 years old at that time. We also know that Dorothy had two more children that lived, Thomas Durham born on Jand John Durham on November 23, 1698. We don’t know if Mary was Dorothy’s first child, but Mary was the first of Dorothy’s children recorded in the North Farnham Parish church records which are known to be incomplete.
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Dorothy, born in 1663, was the wife of Thomas Durham by sometime in 1685, because their daughter, Mary, was born on Jin what was then Rappahannock County, Virginia, now referred to as Old Rappahannock.