Alias:<ALIA> Robin Povall or /Povey/
REFERENCE: 1 Povall
Robert or Robin Povall was indentured for six years as a servant to
Robert "King" Carter of "Corotoman," Charles City Co., Va. Upon the
adjoinring plantation of Soloman Knibbs, was employed, so runs the
tradition, a girl named Elizabeth Hooker, whom Robin knew and hoped to
marry. Robin was one day in attendance as a servant at a dinner given by
Carterto the neighboring gentry when his master read a letter from
England, in which inquiry was made concerning Elizabeth, daughter of
"Lord Hooker," who had died leaving a large estate called "Malvern Hills"
this Elizabeth being his only daughter and heir. profiting by what he had
learned, Robin at once married his sweetheart, and sailed with her for
England.
In the records of Henrico Co., June 2, 1679, occurs the following minute:
"A deposition of Elizabeth Hooker, aged 22 years or thereabouts, That she
did see in the custody of Katherine Knibbs since the death of her
husband, Soloman Knibbs, a small trunk or cabinet about half full of
money, which she said her husband had resolved to carry with him to
England, because he would not be beholding to his friends, y likewise in
her custody, a dozen of pewter plates, one tankard, y a salt seller, y 2
pewter porringers."
Arriving in England, the Povalls, the tradition continues, obtained
possession of "Malvern hills," having re-married in England to satisfy
legal requirements. The estate was then leased for 99 years, at the end
of which period it is said it became escheated to the Crown.
Returning to America, they became possessed of an estate called "Malvern
Hills," in Henrico Co., Va., where they were living in 1685. In 1686,
Robert Povall was upon the jury lists of Henrico Co., and in 1687, it is
recorded that a child was bound out to him. p 68 Va Cousins