Unity is from Hancock County, Georgia.
During the Revolution, William served as a captain.
In 1783 Greensville County listed William head of a household of ten whites. He then owned thirty-eight slaves, more than all but six other families.
William’s will was recorded in Greensville County (will dated Mar. 1789, recorded April 1789) and his wife’s in February 1816.
Consequently it was Sarah Batte in the Census of 1810 in Greensville County. William and Sarah had eight children.
A grandson James T. Batte volunteered to serve in the Texas War for Independence and was one of 330 prisoners executed by Santa Anna at Goliad on 27 March 1836.
His marriage license was recorded in Henrico County in May 1704.
Mary was the sister of Edward Stratton III who married Anne Batte.
In 1704 the year he married, William was paying quit rents on 750 acres in Prince George County.
On 14 May 1728, William bought 40 acres on the south side of Baileys Run in Bristol Parish from Edward Mitchell and his wife, Margaret. The deed excluded the Mitchell family burying ground.
William Batte of Prince George County obtained four land patents of 740 acres in Isle of Wight County: 250 acres in 1715, 170 acres in 1719, 150 acres in 1723, and 170 acres in 1732.
On 17 September 1731, Batte obtained a patent to 200 acres in Prince George County on the north side of the Little Nottoway River above Peterson’s Run.
When they created Amelia County in 1735 this land fell in the new county.
On 8 August 1735, William registered his livestock mark at the Amelia County court house. He marked his hogs with a crop on their left ear and with cut tails. His black cattle had a crop on the left ear. Livestock marks helped to identify freely roaming cattle or hogs.
In 1737 he was farming his land on the Little Nottoway River in Amelia County with slaves Roger, Cate, and Boatswain.
We know little about William Batte and his family because of the substantial destruction of Prince George County records. He was evidently a prominent citizen for, in 1737-38, he was twice foreman of a grand jury and often the foreman of a civil jury. As they called him Mr. William Batte he was evidently of above average social standing.
On 17 November 1738, John Donen, John McKee, and two slaves, Sam and Phil, stole a young steer and hog belonging to William Batte. One of “His Majesty’s Justices” apprehended Donen and jailed him. Though Donen denied the allegations, the court kept him and McKee, an accessory, in jail until they could make a £25 bail. Sam and Phil received twenty-five lashes on their bare backs at the whipping post. Batte later brought debt cases against the two white defendants but the court dismissed them.
The Bristol Parish vestry appointed William Batte and Miles Thweatt to procession land in part of the parish. When they went to mark the boundary between property belonging to Batte and Samuel Jordan a dispute arose. William Stark, a churchwarden, asked the Prince George County court to order the county surveyor and a jury to settle the differences.
William died in Prince George County, Virginia (will dated 9 Dec. 1754, recorded 11 Jan. 1755). His wife was already dead.
June 1, 1700 a fragment of a Charles City County record book in the Library of Congress records an indenture in which James Thweatt Sr. of Charles City County and Mary Batte of same, widow, conveyed to Matthew Sturdivant a 153-acre portion of Capt. Henry Batte’s 1695-patent.
In 1704 Henry and William Batte paid quit rents on 790 and 750 acres each. The other orphans of Capt. Henry Batte paid on 1,200 acres.
December 1, 1708 Mary Batte, widow, brought her father’s will to Henrico County court.
In June 1715 Mary was living in Prince George County when she and William Ligon agreed to divide a tract called “Neck of Land” in Henrico County that had belonged to her father, Henry Lound.
In December 1717 Mary Batte charged that James Parham detained a slave, Isabel, worth £30. Yet a jury dismissed the case against Parham.
On 10 September 1720, in Prince George County, the five daughters of Capt. Henry Batte and their husbands agreed to divide 1,200 acres of land in Prince George County, left to them in their father’s will.Richard B. Batte represented Prince George County in the Virginia House of Delegates (1818-21). We presume he was a descendant of William Batte. He served all three of his terms with Nathaniel Colley, the second husband of Martha Batte.
In 1721Henry Batte was paying quit rents on 790 acres.
Henry and his brother, William, bought 449 acres in Prince George County from John Mayes.
In April 1695 Henry obtained a patent of 700 acres at “High Peak” in Charles City County.
In his Prince George County will (will dated 5 July 1727, recorded 2 Oct. 1727), he named his mother, his five sisters and his brother, William. He left to William, the sole executor, all of his estate in England and Virginia. Abraham Cocke Sr., Samuel Jordan, John Cureton, and Robert Poythress witnessed the will.