Talk:Nicholas Gassaway

Burial Mystery
The odd discovery of both Colonol Nicholas Gassaway's(d.1691) and Captain Nicholas Gassaway's(d. 1699) gravestones, with Jr.'s stone clearly indicating that his remains were once beneath it ("Here Lyeth") while the house was occupied by Greshams beyond 1723 and the land was not even owned by a Gassaway until 1693, may be explainable. The Mayo plantation was refered to as "Gresham" or as "Mayo's Neck". The later name is a variation on the name of the Gassaway home plantation "Love's Neck" (which was the old name of the neck of the South River). Colonel Gassaway left his home at Love's Neck to Captain Gassaway who died there at age 31 only 8 years later. It seems reasonable for the day that both might have been burried adjacent to the Love's Neck residence on land that abutted the Cotter's Desire portion of the former Selby Marsh from which Cotter's Desire, Gassaway's Poplar Ridge, and possibly parts of Love's Neck had all been purchased at varrious times. Admiral Joseph Mayo bought acreage that included Gresham for the plantation that he ultimately left to his nephew Commodore Mayo whose daughter's daughter-in-law provides the record of Captain Gassaway's stone.

The first of two possibilities is that the Love's Neck residence went away, by age, accident or choice, and that the Gassaway family, then owning Cotter's Desire as well, and sometime after 1723 so as to have control of Gresham house, elected to reside there and use the Love's Neck residence site for some other, potentially agricultural, purpose. Valuing the memory of grandfather and great grandfather, they might have relocated the stones to Gresham so as to remember them by (and also pragmatically to clear the land's surface for the new use).

Less likely is that a similar repurposing of the Love's Neck residence site took place under the Mayo family, but it seems implausible that the stones would have been transported to their home instead of mearly disposed of near their original location. This would require that the Love's Neck residence site was included in the lands sold to Mayo, but Warfield does site Mayo's plantaion as the former home of Captain Nicholas - which was Love's Neck, not Gresham.--Rwberndt (talk) 13:05, 28 June 2011 (UTC)

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Date of Death for Ann Gassaway / Gaswaie
In the Family Name section of the article on Nicholas Gassaway there is a reference to his sibling Ann. It states "...and Anne (1639)[9] have "Gassaway"; but when Ann dies as a young child, in 1632, her burial record has "Gaswaie.".[10]" While the burial date referenced does indicate a death of Dec 18, 1632, this date is prior to the indicated birth in 1639.