Descendants of Edwin Conway, the Immigrant

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.