Some of the descendants of Edwin and Martha Conway were compiled by
W. Conway Price, PhD (1906-1991), one of their descendants. Edwin
Conway came to Virginia about 1640. According to Hayden (Virginia
Genealogies, by Rev. Horace Edwin Hayden, M.A., 1891), he appears
in Northumberland County records June 1642 as "Mr Edwyne Conaway,
Clarke of this Com., in the County of Northampton." He married in
England Martha ELTONHEAD, daughter of Richard ELTONHEAD of
Lancashire, England, and his wife, Ann SUTTON of Huston Spencer.
Martha ELTONHEAD was a descendant of a distinguished family. Hayden
gives a chart showing her Eltonhead ancestry for eleven
generations. Edwin Conway was the third Clerk of Northampton
County. He appears frequently as Clerk in the record volumes from
1642 to 1645. He probably moved to Lancaster County in 1652 when
his wife is thought to have arrived in Virginia. He was recipient
of grants of 500 acres of land in Northampton County in 1644 and
1250 acres in Lancaster in 1652. A total of 1000 acres of the
second grant resulted from two patents. The five pages of surname
index reflect a diversity of names found in these lines, including
Ball, Blackwell, Carter, Fitzhugh, Gordon, Lee, McCarty, Moncure,
Robinson, Taliaferro, Wallace, and many more.
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