ROSCOE FAMILY

William Roscow, or Roscoe, of Blunt Point, Warwick County, Va., died in 1700. On his tomb at Blunt Point are the following arms and epitaph: (Arms, a lion rampant and a ragged staff; crest, a hand holding a dagger). “Under this stone lyeth the body of William Roscow, Gentleman, who was born at Charley, in the County of Lancaster, the 30th day of November, Anno Dom. 1664, and departed this life at Blunt Point, in ye County of Warwick, the 2d day of November, Anno Dom. 1700, and in the thirty-sixth year of his age. Also here lyes the body of Mary, wife of the above William Roscoe, and daughter of Colonel William Wilson, of Elizabeth City County, who was born in October, 1675, and dyed January the 11th, 1741, in the sixty-seventh year of her age.”

SOURCE: Vol, X, No 5, October 1921 Genealogy: a journal of American ancestry