The portion of Charles City County located south of the James River became Prince George County in 1703. Part of Prince George County's original lands, along with parts of Isle of Wight County and Surry County, would later form Brunswick County in 1720. Greensville County would be cut from Brunswick in 1780.
Katherine Lanier
Born - 1664/1665 Charles City (later Prince George) County, Virginia (to John Lanier and Lucreece)
Died - before Jun 1665 Charles City (later Prince George) County, Virginia
Cause of Death - accidental smothering and strangulation
(Katherine's mother, Lucreece, was the paternal grandmother of Sarah Lanier, wife of George1 Brewer.)
Cause of Death - accidental smothering and strangulation
(Katherine's mother, Lucreece, was the paternal grandmother of Sarah Lanier, wife of George1 Brewer.)
Suspicious Death Investigation, 1665 -
Lucreece was evidently accused of "strangling her daughter (Katherine) in her crib on a hot, May day."
Source - The Lanier Family of France, England, Virginia and Duplin Co., NC, by Mamie Chambers Sawyer, 1972
"In June of 1665 in Charles City County an inquest was held to investigate the untimely death of Katherine Lanier, daughter of John and Lucreece Lanier, who was smothered in her crib 'on a hot May day, the 7th'."
The following was printed in 1934 in the Virginia Magazine of History and Biography, volume 42, page 42 and quoted on Rootsweb ➚:
"An inquest without the 'ordeal of the bier' was held over the smothering on a hot May Day, of Katherine Lanier, daughter of John and Lucreece (p. 565), headrights of Howell Price, clerk of court.
"According to an affidavit May 6, 1665, the body was discovered by one Percival Barton. The jury ... brought in the following verdict, on June 6, 1665:
'Jury to inquire & examine ye cause of the unnatural death of Katherine ye daughter of John Lanier do find and return ye verdict (as we have discovered by proofe and circumstance) that the 7th of this instant May sd child being layd on a bed to sleepe (& none to take care of her) tumbled by reason of the heat till she came under a rayle fastened at the beds side, where with the face downwards she recd her accidental death, & having the body over the bed and hanging by the head stifled against ye bed and clothe.'"
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