REFN: A
Believed to have been single.
There is another reference to William in Lancaster County, PA, in the area that would later become Cumberland County. There were a number of inhabitants of the area who signed a petition to the Penns asking for a road to be built from John Harris' ferry on the Susquehanna, which would later become tthe site of Harrisburg, through Cumberland County to an area not distinguished. Quite a number of early settlers signed it,including James and William, here spelled Wekely as well as Robert Weakley's grandfather, Robert Rutherford. (Not sure if he is also grandfather of James & William). The petition was dated May 21, 1735.
On this same list of petitioners is James Woods, whose son Robert Woods appears in the 1749 tithables of Lunenburg County, VA. This same Robert Woods patented 5,000 acres of land in 1765 in what would become Franklin County, VA.
Source: The Pennsylvania Archives, series 6,vol. 14, pg. 273
William, Robert and James Weakley, and a kinsman, Griffith Rutherford, were listed in the first available tithable list (1748) of Lunenburg Co, VA. Their names also appear in the 1749 list and the Weakleys in the 1750 list. These lists were taken by Wm. Caldwell, from Little Roanoke and up the fork.
It is the opinion of the author, from the digest of much data, that William, Robert, and James were brothers and the sons of an older Robert ... and that they followed the same route, as did the Caldwells, when they came to Virginia; namely, by way of Lancaster Co. Pa. (formed in 1729)....
William Weakley purchased a tract of land of 389 Acres on Mch. 30, 1751 (Lunenburg deed 2 p 183( from Francis Crymes (Grymes) for 20L. This land lay on the waters of Cubb (Cub) Creek and Rough or Williams Creek in what is now Charlotte Co. VA. The land is 10 miles northwest of the county seat, Charlotte Courthouse, Va.
William Weakley 
