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Martha Kennon married Robert Mumford I in Henrico County 22 December 1701. He was the son of James Mumford and his wife, probably a daughter of Robert Wyatt, for whom James was estate trustee in 1685 in Charles City County. James married second Sarah Wallis, the widow of John Wallis, not long before his death. He was living in December 1689 but was dead by June 1690. In September 1690 the court ordered his estate divided between his widow, Sarah, and their children. The court bound out Robert Munford, son of James Mumford, deceased, to Richard Bland in October 1690. James was the father also of Wilmette Mumford and Edward Mumford.
Robert’s 1704-patent for 50? acres in Westover Parish was originally granted James Mountfort in 1689, and on 7 March 1712/3 Robert Mumford deeded 230 acres, including 130 acres he had inherited from his father, James Mumford, to Richard Bland.
Robert Mumford held 339 acres in Prince George County in 1704, to which in 1706 he added 351 acres in his own name on Moccosoneck Creek and 405 acres with John Anderson. As Robert Mumford of Prince George County, he secured a patent to 190 acres in Surry County 22 January 1717/8, and added 592 acres on Moccosoneck Creek in Prince George County 14 July 1718, 390 acres on Sappony Creek in Prince George 11 July 1719, and 150 acres on Sappony 17 August 1720. Again with John Anderson, he got 2,811 acres in Brunswick County 15 May 1722, and by himself added 480 acres on Moccosoneck and 5,960 acres on Sappony 5 September 1723. On 16 June 1727 he added 290 acres in Brunswick County and joined Richard Jones patenting 465 acres on the north side of Meherrin. On the south side of the Nottoway River in Brunswick County, Munford got 792 acres 13 October 1727. On 28 September 1732 in Prince George County he added 915 acres back on Moccosoneck and 400 acres next to Thomas Hardaway.
Robert Mumford was a vestryman of Bristol Parish from as early as 1720, colonel of the Prince George militia, and county justice (1714, 1726, 1729). Robert represented Prince George County in the Virginia House of Burgesses (1720-22).
A Brunswick County deed of 4 September 1754 to Edward Brodnax Walker said Robert wrote his will 20 April 1734 but the will is lost. He was dead by October 1739 when Martha, James, and Robert Munford made an executor’s bond. He probably died about 1735 when he ceased to be a vestryman.
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