William Tyree 
  Unknown son
    William Tyree, (?immigrant) heir of his grandfather William Tyree.
      William Tyree, Jr. appears in James City County as an independent
        tither with 1 slave, 1 horse and 5 cows on the 1787 tax.  Later
        he seems to have moved to New Kent County, born circa 1766.
      Francis Tyree's name appeared on his father's tithe list 1790;
        born circa 1774.
      Richard F. Tyree's name appeared on his father's tithe list 1791;
        born circa 1775; THIS IS OUR ANCESTOR WHO WENT TO WEST VIRGINIA
        and built the Old Stone House.  Richard F. Tyree was on a list
        of young boys for whom Northampton County took responsibility circa
        1781 - were they evacuated as Lafayette's army swept down the peninsula?
      John Tyree's name appeared on his father's tithe list 1793;
        born circa 1777.

(Since the heir William sold his Charles City County property to the Ladd family [see Chap. 2,  p. 7], it might be useful to have this brief list on the Ladds:
    John Ladd
    James Ladd
        Amos Ladd
        Thomas Ladd
        5 daughters)

Francis Tyree bought 2A on the west side of Chickahominy River at the head 
of Pease Hill Creek, one on south side and one on north side of creek with 
a mill, from Isaac Bates, given said Bates by his father, John Bates, with 
all houses, among witnesses William Tyree, recorded March 5, 1728.  
This Francis Tyree served as executor of William Tyree's will circa 1740 
and took over maintenance of William's property.  Francis Tyree married Mary 
Cocke (or Cooke), a widow of Edward Cooke, Sr. as of 1737.  Francis died 1754.
  Edward Cocke (or Cooke wherever there is a Cocke)
  Littlebury Cocke m. Rebecca Hubbard Soane (widow 1750 of Henry Soane).
    In 1773 Littlebury Cooke ran a newspaper ad offering "Brick House
    Tract" for sale, which the ad said he had inherited from his mother,
    Mary Tyree.  RebeccaÕs will of 1792 left ÒWestburyÓ and 340A in Charles
    City Co. to granddaughter Elizabeth Bray Tayler; the 340A devised
    to Rebecca by her mother, Mary Tyree.
    Rebecca Cocke, who had received control of the William Tyree inheritance
      by 1773 (after death of Francis Tyree, Sr., Francis Tyree, Jr., Mary
      Tyree, Littlebury Cocke), filed notice that the inheritance would not
      become the property of James Bray Johnson when their proposed marriage
      took place.
  Mary Tyree m. Benjamin Goodrich, Sept. 1763.
  Susannah Tyree m. 1769 Ed Finch who served as an administrator
    of Mary Cocke Tyree's estate, May 24, 1773.
  Francis Tyree, Jr. took charge of William's inheritance after his father died.
    When he died (between 1767 and 1769), he willed the problems to his
    mother Mary Cocke Tyree.  Sales in his name for 1769 could have been for
    his estate: 300A for 212 pounds.

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