So digging into the origins of Christopher Binns in New Kent, Virginia. I, as many others have, was curious as to the family origins of the name Amadiah. With a little help from an internet search my query took me to the Bone Family by Robert Gehlmann Bone, where I discovered that Henry Bone went to New Kent where George Bone’s granddaughter-in-law was trying to raise her 4 year old daughter Amadiah. See http://www.bone-family.org/bin-pdf/Bone_sec1.pdf Family.doc
I do not know where Bone discovered that fact. However, if true, I believe it to be strong evidence that Christopher Binns was from the Bone family, not knowing how or when the name was transformed from Bone to Binns.
In the St Peter’s Parish, New Kent register, serendipitously adjacent to Amadiah’s birth record is a daughter born to Henry Bone. It is the only Bone record in the book. In the next parish over, however, is a David Bone listed in the vestry book around the 1740s. I am still trying to flush this out but the reconstruction so far is
Robert Bone b c 1600 (Ireland)
son
George Bone b c 1630 (Ireland to Va), brother William is grandfather of Henry above
son
??? Bone b c1650 (Va)
son
Christopher Bone/Binns b c 1670 (New Kent), David Binns b c 1670
daughter
Amadiah b 1695