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3251 John, son of John Collins, was born in Boston about 1640, died at Guilford Connecticutt Dec 10 1704. He came to Guilford in 1669, having previously been at Branford, and bought John Stevens' house and land, and was made planter Feb 13 1670-71. He was one of the patentees named in the Charter of 1685, granted by the Connecticutt government. He served as townsman and school teacher as late as 1702. He was chosen to teach grammar school in Sep 1682, and allowed thirty pounds a year, to be paid in produce. He married first in 1662 Mary Trowbridge, who died at Branford Connecticutt in 1667. He married second June 2 1669 Mary Kingsnorth, sister of Henry Kingsnorth of Guilford. He married third March 6 1699 Dorcas (Swain) Taintor, who died May 1724, daughter of Samuel Swain and widow of John Taintor. Children, all by first wife: Mary born 1663, John 1665, Robert 1667. Collins, John (I49871)
 
3252 John/1 Jones, of Cambridge, MA, married, circa 1645, as her 1st husband, Dorcas (–?–). 1 He removed from Cambridge to Concord about 1650, and was admitted a freeman 22 May of that year. 1,2 His taxes for 9 lots comprising 351 acres at Concord were abated in the 1666 tax list. 3 Resided in Concord's North District, near the 1835 habitation of James Jones. 1
He died at Concord 22 Jun 1673. 4 His widow married (2), 1674, Lt. William/1 Buss of Concord. 5

Family

Dorcas (–?–) d. 22 Nov 1709

Children

Samuel/2 Jones 6 b. 8 Oct 1648, d. 5 Jan 1717/18
Ephraim/2 Jones 7 b. 6 Jan 1650/51, d. 23 Jan 1676
Elizabeth/2 Jones 8 b. 11 Feb 1652
John/2 Jones+ 9 b. 6 Jul 1656, d. 14 Feb 1725/26
Rebecca/2 Jones 10 b. 8 Mar 1662/63, d. 17 Jul 1712

Source Citations/Notes:
[S182] Shattuck, Hist. Concord, 376–77, Jones genealogy.
[S222] Paige, "Massachusetts Freemen," 22, John Jones.
[S182] Shattuck, Hist. Concord, 37, 1666 tax list.
[S185] Concord BMD, 17, John Jones d.
[S185] Concord BMD, 18, William Buss/Dorcas Jones m.
[S308] Cambridge VR, 1:401, Samuel Jones b.
[S185] Concord BMD, 10, Efram Jones b.
[S185] Concord BMD, 10, Elizabeth Jones b.
[S185] Concord BMD, 10, John Jones b.
[S185] Concord BMD, 10, Rebake Jones b. 		Jones, John (I4247)
 
3253 Jomfru ved skifte etter farmoren Tuchsen, Christine Maria (I39569)
 
3254 Jonas Daae døde i Vik prestegård, av slag Daae, Jonas (I39564)
 
3255 Jonathan & Mary were both members of the Piscataway Seventh Day Baptist Church.

Will dated 25 Feb 1779; proved 05 Jun 1783:
Grandson, Nathaniel Fitz Randolph, son of Malichi, deceased - 10 shillings.
Son, Jonathan - 1/2 of salt meadow that I bought of Nugent Kelly of 6 2/3 acres.
Grandson, Jonathan Fitz Randolph, son of Malichi, deceased - The other 1/2.
Son, Samuel - Land that I bought of Samuel Johnston, lying on Schooley's Mountain.
Son, Phinehas - Plantation I live on and 36 acres that I bought of Thomas Holton.
Daughter, Shsanna Boyde, widow of Patrick Doyle, if she be alive - 40 shillings.
Executors: Son, Jonathan and friend, Henry Sutton.
Witnesses: Benjamin Dunn, Sarah Davis, Justice Dunn.
05 June 1783 - Inventory: L18.5.6 made by Isaac Fauret and Justice Dunn.
Lib. 34, p.307.

Information Sources:
1. "Fitz Randolph Traditions" by Lewis V. Fitz Randolph - 1907 Sect 1,LL. Ch 1&2.
2. "Edward Fitz Randolph Branch Lines, Allied Families & Norman ancestry" by Oris H. Fitz Randolph - 1976, p 148.
3. Proceedings of The New Jersey Historical Society, Third Series, Vol. II, 1897, P.355. 		Fitz Randolph, Jonathan (I22587)
 
3256 JONES FAMILY HISTORY As shown by ORIGINAL RECORDS.

Pittsylvania County, Virginia
Court Orders, Book 31

Elisha Jones files for Revolutionary War Pension in the above mentioned county on the 22nd day of August. He appeared personally before the County Court in said County; Elisha Jones a resident of said County aged Seventy odd years who being first duly known according to Son doth on his Oath make the following declaration in Order to obtain the benefit of the provision made by the Act of Congress paped [passed] June 7th 1832. That he enlisted &c. (as on Declaration).

Personal Data in Pension Records in National Archives.
Elisha Jones (S5633; VA. Service and Agcy.,; Cert. 16385 issued 5th of August 1833, Act. 7 June 1832, at $100 per an. from 4 March 1831).

Soldier applied for pension 22 August 1832, age over 70 years, from Pittsylvania County, Virginia; entered the service 1 January 1777 in Hanover County, Virginia and served under Captain Wm. Meredith, also in the Company of Captain Nathaniel Burwell, 2d Lt. Wm. Stevenson, 1st Lt. John Blair,1st Va. Regiment Artillery. He first marched to Williamsburg, to Portsmouth, Ft. Nelson, and remained there about eight months; thence to Gasport for two months, to Portsmouth, to Hampton, and to Valley Forge,and met the main army; was in the battle of Monmouth, White Plains for two weeks, Ft. Putnam on North River for one month, and then joined the command of General Knox at Pluckemin, N. J. and winter quarters. He served over two years.

Pittsylvania County Records November 20, 1848
Court Orders, Book 40, pg. 92:

The Court doth certify the Elisha Jones who was a Soldier of the Revolutionary War departed this life in this county on the 27th day of October last.

Virginia State Library
Military Certificate No. 2: 3229-4769...
Council Chamber March 18th 1784
I do Certify that Elisha Jones is entitled to the proportion of Land allowed as Private of the State line who has served three years.
N3439 Thos. Meriwether
Benjamin Harrison
A Warrant for 100 acres ipued (issued) to Samuel Couch as a/c of Elisha Jones September 11th 1784.

Will of Elisha Jones
Pittsylvania County, Va.
Will Bk. 2, pg. 60:
Will made: 19 January 1844
Recorded: 20 November 1848
I Elisha Jones of the County of Pittsylvania and State of Virginia being of sound mind and disposing memory and calling to mind the uncertaintyof human life, do hereby make and ordain this my last will and testament,hereby revoking all wills by me made heretofore.
First, I give and bequeath to my son John Jones one Negro Girl Marynow about 14 years of age, and her increase to him and his heirs forever-
Secondly, I devise to my son Alexander Jones and his heirs forever one Negro woman Nancy and her young child, now a few days old & mot yetnamed and their future increase in fee simple in addition to what I have heretofore given him.
Thirdly, I devise to my Daughter Giddy Mottley the wife of John Mottley during her life one mullatto boy John and at her death to be equally divided among her children; and it is my desire that John Mottley shall have no control whatever over the said boy John.
Fourthly, I devise to the children of my son George Jones Decd. and their heirs, on Negro boy Morton.
Fifthly, I devise to my Daughter Polly Mottley during life one Negro boy Vaden, and at her death to be equally divided between her children.
Sixthly, I devise to the children of Betsey Morrison the wife of William Morrison, on Negro Girl Sally and her future increase and one hundred acres of Land near the Pittsylvania Court House, to be equally divided among said children.
Seventhly, I devise to my Daughter Anny Oakes the wife of Thomas Oakes during her life one Negro boy Green and at her death to be equally divided among her children.
Lastly, Any property I may have at my Death not herein before disposed of, I give to my son Alexander Jones, in addition to what I have heretofore given him.
I appoint my friend Coalman D. Bennett Executor of this my last will; As witness my hand this 19th day of January 1844; signed and delivered in the presence of Richd. Jones, William Haden, David Thomas.

His
Elisha X Jones
Mark

At a Court held for Pittsylvania County the 20th day of November 1848; This last will and Testament of Elisha Jones Decd. was presented in Court and proven by the oaths of the three subscribing witnesses to be the act and deed of said Testator and ordered to be recorded; And on the motion of Caolman D. Bennett the Executor in said will named who made oath and with Thomas Oakes, John Jones, Senr., Alexander Jones and John W. Jones as he entered into and acknowledged a bond in the penalty of four thousand five hundred dollars conditioned according to Law, certificate is granted him obtaining probat of said will in due form;

Teste
Wm. H. Tunstall Clk.

Court Order 40, page 92:
The Court doth certify that Elisha Jones who was a Soldier of the Revolutionary War departed this life in the county on the 27th day of October last.
Recorded: 20 November 1848

Pittsylvania County Court Records
Court Order 35, pg. 222:
Court February 17, 1840
A deed of trust from Geo. Hoskins to William H. Tunstall Trustee tosecure & Indemnify Wilson & Bennett and Coalman D. Bennett Conveyinghis wife?s interest in
Elisha Jones Estate was acknowledged by said Geo. Hoskins to be his own act and deed and admitted to record in the officethe 9th day of this month.
NOTE: Alexander Jones gt-granddaughter, Gayle, md. George Hoskins and thus in this way was an heir of Elisha Jones.

Pittsylvania Death Register:
Mary (Polly) E. Jones, wife of Joseph Motley was daughter of Elisha and J. Jones. She died 29 Jan 1862 of at 83 years of age. Her informant was her son, John Motley.

Pension Record in National Archives
Birth: In 1832 he was aged 70 years.
Service: In a declaration for pension made on August 22, 1832, the veteran stated that he enlisted on January 1, 1777, served as a Private in Captain Nathaniel Burwells Company, 1st Regiment of Artillery and was in the Battle of Monmouth; he served at least two years.

Pension: Elisha Jones was allowed pension on Certificate No. 16385, issued under act of June 7, 1832 and paid at the Virginia Agency.

Residence: In 1777 he lived in Hanover County, Virginia, In 1832 he resided in Pittsylvania County, Virginia,

Veterans Name: Elisha Jones
Pension Case Number: S 5 633

Woodford County, Kentucky, Old Kentucky Entries & Deeds by Willard Reuse Jillson pg. 341 is found: Elisha Jones, 100 A.
Warrant #3439 Service 3 yrs. soldier in Virginia line date 9-11-1784. 		Jones, Elisha (I45)
 
3257 Jordan Dodd and Liahona Research, comp.. <i>Illinois, Marriages, 1851-1900</i>. Index compiled from county marriage records on microfilm located at the Family History Library in Salt Lake City, Utah by Jordan Dodd of Liahona Research (P.O. Box 740, Orem, Utah 84059). Specific source information is listed with each entry. Source (S1011)
 
3258 Jorund or Jörundr (5th century) was a Swedish king of the House of Yngling. He was the son of Yngvi, and he had reclaimed the throne of Sweden for his dynasty from Haki (the brother of Hagbard, the hero of the legend of Hagbard and Signy, and Snorri cites two kennings from this legend Sigar's steed and Hagard's fell noose, when telling of Jorund).

Snorri Sturluson relates that when Jorund was young he used to travel the seas and plunder with his brother Erik, and they were great warriors. One summer they plundered in Denmark where they met another pillager, King Gudlög of Hålogaland (a province in Norway) with whom they fought. They took him prisoner and carried him ashore at Stromones where they hanged him. Gudlaug's surviving companions raised a mound over him there.

Snorri then cites the poem Háleygjatal by a Norwegian skald named Eyvindr skáldaspillir:

En Guðlaugr
grimman tamdi
við ofrkapp
austrkonunga
Sigars jó,
er synir Yngva
menglötuð
við meið reiddu.
Og náreiðr
á nesi drúpir
vingameiðr,
þar er víkur deilir,
þar er fjölkunnt
um fylkis hreyr
steini merkt,
Straumeyjarnes.
By the fierce East-kings' cruel pride,
Gudlog must on the wild horse ride --
The wildest horse you e'er did see:
'Tis Sigur's steed – the gallows tree.
At Stromones the tree did grow,
Where Gudlog's corpse waves on the bough.
A high stone stands on Stromo's heath,
To tell the gallant hero's death.
This act rendered the Swedish princes, Eric and Jorund, even more famous and they were thought of as even greater men. When they learnt that King Haki no longer had his forces around him, they decided to take care of their enemy. They assembled a large force that was joined by Swedes as they approached. They entered Mälaren (a bay at the time) and steered towards Uppsala. They left their ships at the Fyris Wolds and were met by Haki who had fewer men. Haki was a brutal fighter and managed to turn the tide of the battle. He slew Erik who held the banner and Jorund retreated with his men. Haki had been seriously wounded and died.

Jorund then ruled Sweden at Uppsala, but he usually spent the summers pillaging. One summer, he plundered in Jutland and entered Limfjorden, where he continued the pillaging. They anchored in Oddesund (before a storm in 1825, it was near the innermost part of the fjord and almost 200 km from its mouth) but were discovered by the Norwegian pirate Gylaug of Hålogaland, the son of Gudlaug. Gylaug and his men attacked them and were joined by local forces who wanted revenge. As Jorund was vastly outnumbered (and had to run an almost 200 km long gauntlet to get out of the fjord), he lost the battle, and Gylaug had him hanged.

Snorri illustrates this event with the stanza from Ynglingatal:

Varð Jörundr
hinn er endr of dó,
lífs of lattr
í Limafirði,
þá er hábrjóstr
hörva Sleipnir
bana Goðlaugs
of bera skyldi;
ok Hagbarðs
hersa valdi
höðnu leif
at halsi gekk.
Jorund has travelled far and wide,
But the same horse he must bestride
On which he made brave Gudlog ride.
He too must for a necklace wear
Hagbert's fell noose in middle air.
The army leader thus must ride
On Horva's horse, at Lymfjord's side.
The Historia Norwegiæ presents a Latin summary of Ynglingatal, older than Snorri's quotation, continuing after Yngvi (called Ingialdr):

Post hunc filius ejus Jorundr, qui cum Danos debellasset, ab eisdem suspensus in loco Oddasund in sinu quodam Daciæ, quem Limafiorth indiginæ appellant, male vitam finivit. Iste genuit Auchun (i.e. Aun) [...]

After him his son Jorund ruled, who ended his days unhappily once he had fought a war against the Danes, who hanged him at Oddesund, on an arm of the sea in Denmark which the natives call Limfjorden. He became the father of Aukun, [...]

The even earlier source Íslendingabók also cites the line of descent in Ynglingatal and it gives the same line of succession: xiiii Yngvi. xv Jörundr. xvi Aun inn gamli.

The Skjöldunga saga and the Bjarkarímur tell that Jorund was defeated by the Danish king Fróði (corresponds to the Heaðobard Froda in Beowulf), who made him a tributary and took his daughter. The daughter gave birth to Halfdan, but another woman became Fróði's legitimate wife and gave him an heir named Ingjaldr (corresponds to the Heaðobard Ingeld in Beowulf). Together with one of his earls, Swerting, Jorund conspired against Fróði and killed him during the blót. 		Jorund (I36971)
 
3259 Joseph STREET
Born in 1720 - Prob. Caroline County, Virginia
Deceased in 1780 - Halifax Or Hanover Virginia, aged 60 years old
Parents William STREET ca 1690-1752 Jane WADDY
Spouses and children
Married to Jean Jane MURRAY ca 1740- with
David STREET 1754-1843
Anthony STREET 1757-1836
Joseph STREET, Jr . ca 1761-
Frances STREET 1762-
John Murray , Sr. STREET ca 1763-ca 1836
Sarah STREET ca 1764-
Elizabeth STREET ca 1765-1780
Nathaniel STREET 1765-
Annie STREET ca 1766-
James Murray STREET 1768-1840
Siblings
John STREET ca 1710-
Rachael STREET ca 1712-
William STREET ca 1714-
Anthony STREET 1717-1790
 		Street, Joseph (I33184)
 
3260 Joseph Allen was born just before 1765, probably in Virginia. He received a Military Land Warrant #848 for three years' service in the Virginia line on 17 June 1783. He is listed as serving in the 2nd Virginia Brigade or State Line, Colonel Marshall's Artillery Regiment.
What is now Kentucky was previously part of the state of Virginia. In December 1776 Kentucky Co., Virginia was created. In 1780 it was divided into Fayette, Jefferson and Lincoln Counties. In 1785, Bourbon County was created from Fayette County and Joseph appears on 19 Sep 1787 (?) as a signer of a petition to the state of Virginia to create Bourbon County. Mason County was formed from Bourbon County in 1788 and finally in 1798 Fleming County was formed from Mason County. Joseph Allen had lived in four counties without moving.

Joseph Allen appears on the list for Central Kentucky Militia in 1786 in Captain Cave Johnson's Company along with a William Walker and Henry Chandler

On 3 Sep 1788 Joseph Allen married Dorothy Walker in Bourbon Co., Kentucky. Thought Dorothy was listed as "of age" her guardians were George and Eliza? Elijah Wood.

On 21 Aug 1790, Joseph Allen appears as the only Allen in the 1790 Kentucky Tax List.

On 27 August 1793 Joseph Allen purchased lot #42 in the town of Washington, Mason Co., Kentucky from William Wood and Arthur Fox and their wives. This town was developed as a possible capitol city for Kentucky. Joseph is listed there in the census as a blue dyer by occupation.

Joseph and Dorothy Allen were the parents of at least nine children-five girls and four boys. Daughters were Nancy m. Nathaniel Chandler, Mariah m. Nathaniel Chandler (after death of her sister), Margaret m. William McCord Sr., and Elizabeth who married Thomas Owen Caywood. Sons were James F. Allen who married Mary Hyzer, Joseph, Henry L. Allen who married Elizabeth Sullivan and William H Allen who married Eliza Reader. Many descendants of this family moved into Daviess County, Indiana.

In 1793 Joseph Allen was appointed in Mason County as a trustee for land and boundary formation.
Joseph Allen appears in the 1800 census of Kentucky in Mason County. Other Allens in that county were Adam, Barnabas, Hugh, and William. A Robert Allen appeared in Fleming Co. Joseph Allen appears in the 1810 Census of Mason County, Kentucky (with four male children and five female children in addition to himself and Elizabeth, his wife). Joseph Allen appears in the 1820 census of Fleming Co, Kentucky with one male 45+, a female 26-45, a female 16-26, and one male and one female 0-10.

Shortly after, Joseph Allen died 24 September 1822 in Fleming County, Kentucky. His estate bill of sale named William Mc Cord, Sr. as the administrator. Among those purchasing items at the sale were: Benjamin Allen, William Frealts, Nathaniel Chandler, William McCord, John McCord, Jr., Thomas Caywood, Thomas McCarty, Joseph Thomson, William McCord Sr., John McCord, Jesse Hickman, James McCord Jr., James McCord, and Erasmus Caywood.
Items found in the sale included ten books, a Bible, a razor and razor strap, a set of weights, a sifter, two candlesticks, two smoothing irons, a sprouting hoe, a shovel, a coffee mill,a pair of knives and forks, two hoes, a keg, an ink stand, two buckets, a teakettle, a pair of snuffers, a big wheel, a bell, three bedstands, a blanket, a hackel, six chairs, a chest, two big kettles, a pot, a tub, a big coat, a coat, two pair pantaloons, a hat, a pair of shoes, a table, a candlestand, two washing tubs, a pair of specks, a howel, thirteen big spools and Chandler's note worth $733. One wonders what his widow used to live with after he died! However, the number of books and writing tools indicate literacy. 		Allen, Joseph (I26680)
 
3261 Joseph and brother Maximilian sailed from Hull, England, in 1638 on the ship "John of London" to Boston Mass, 1 Dec 1638. Founded the town of Rowley, Mass. Rep. to general court, 1651-1654 & 1660, a large land owner, and he and brother Max founded the 1st woolen mills. he married 2nd to Ann Allen (widow of Bozoan Allen of Boston) May 13,1653. Jewitt, Joseph (I19507)
 
3262 Joseph and Sarah Barnard

A law on Massachusetts stated that Persons whose estates did not exceed 200 lbs. and those dependent upon them, should not wear gold and silver, or lace above 2 shillings per yard or silk hoods or scarves. The penalty was 10 shillings. In 1673, 25 wives and 5 maids were fined. Sarah Strong (age 19) of Hadley was among them. She was fined 10 shillings and costs, 2 shillings & 6 pence. After she married Joseph Barnard, they moved to Deerfield, where he was a tailor, farmer and one of the leading citizens, and in 1690, the first Town Clerk.

On Aug. 21, 1695, five men. including Joseph Barnard, set out from Deerfield for the mill, three miles away, each with his gun across his saddle. Capt. Wells, the commander of the town. having been warned the night before of impending danger, rode up and stopped them. But when he saw Joseph Barnard in the party, knowing him to be a prudent man, he let them go. Before they reached the mill, the horses began to snort and became frightened. Suddenly, one of the men cried out, "Indians, Indians" and they all turned to head back toward town. The Indians fired and hit Joseph in the left arm, shattering his wrist. They shot him once more and also shot his horse. Godfrey Nims put him on his horse and then Nim's horse was shot. Then Philip Matton mounted Joseph on his horse and they rode back to town. Joseph lingered until Sept. 6, and then died.

Col. John Pynchon description of the event:

"On 21 Aug. 1695, eight Indians at Deerfield laid in wait, near the road, one mile from the garrison. Five men, headed for the mill, when they had 7 or 8 guns fired at them, unexpectedly Joseph Barnard was shot off his horse and seriously wounded but surprizingly no one else was hurt. As the others helped Barnard to remount, the Indians could have rushed forward, but they did not, possibly because one of the men kept calling as if there were others approaching. Then the horse was shot out from under Barnard again, and he mounted for the third time, another horse. They fired again, and again hit him. Immediately, 30 or 40 men set out in pursuit of the Indians, but could not find them".

Three years later, she married Capt. Jonathan Wells, in 1698. At the time she had a 12-year old daughter, Rebecca Barnard and Jonathan had a 15 year old son, Jonathan Jr. Nineteen years later these two were married.

At age, 16, Jonathan Became known as the "Boy Hero" of the Fight at Turner's falls, on 19 May 1676. After the massacre of a group of Indians at Turner's falls, the militia was attacked by hundreds of Indians, who rushed in at the news of the fight. Jonathan was in the rear guard, with 20 men covering Capt. William Turner's retreat. He wrote about his experiences after the battle.

As the rear guard protected Turner's forcers, three Indians shot at Jonathan at close range. One bullet brushed his hair, one hit his horse and another struck him in the thigh. In danger of falling off his horse, the grabbed the horse's mane and recovered himself. Believing him to be badly wounded, some of the Indians charged him, but he kept them back with a couple of shots. He picked up Stephen Belding, a 16 year old companion, and they escaped on Jonathan's horse. When he reached Capt. Turner, he urged the commander to either turn back or at least wait until the rear guard caught up. But Capt. Turner replied, "Better to save some, than to lose all", at which time the main force broke up and went different directions.

Jonathan fell back to the rear again with some men. They ran into some Indians and most of the men with him were killed. The remaining force split again. Ten men stayed with Jonathan, but as his horse began struggling with his wound, and with Jonathan weak from the loss of blood, he was left behind, with another wounded man, John Jones. Jonathan had a gun and Jones had a sword. Neither knew the woods, nor could they find a trail. They decided to split up to find a trail, and since Jones' wound appeared to be fatal, Jonathan was glad to leave him, so he would not be slowed down. At one point, with Indians on his trail, he nearly fainted, but he ate a nutmeg his grandmother had given him, and he revived. He reached Green River and started up a mountain, but he fainted and fell off his horse. When he came to, he found the bridle reins in his hands and his horse standing beside him. He tied his horse and laid down again. After a while he grew so weak he could not get back on his horse. He thought he was going to die there, so, pitying his horse he released him, never thinking about keeping some provisions in the saddle bags. At noon he was bothered by flies, so using his flintlock he started a fire and set the woods on fire. The fire soon spread so fast his hands and hair were burned. Then, realizing the fire would attract the Indians, he resigned himself to the fact they would find him and he would be killed. He flung his powder horn in one direction and his bullet pouch in another so they would not find them. He kept a little powder so he might have one shot before he was killed. He stopped the bleeding of his wound, crawled to a different spot to rest, away from the fire and fell asleep. When he awoke, he found he had new strength, and he could walk using his gun as a staff. After a few miles, he reached a river. He laid down and fell asleep again. When he awoke he saw an Indian approaching him in a canoe. He was greatly frightened because his gun was full of sand and he was in no condition to fight. But he aimed his gun at the Indian and the frightened foe jumped out of his canoe and fled. The Indian, upon reaching his people told them the English army was coming because he had seen one of their scouts.

Jonathan, expecting the Indians to return, hid among some fallen trees in a swamp. Finally, he reached Hatfield, and safety. It took him four years for his wounds to heal, one and one half years he laid in one spot on a bed, without being turned once and the skin came off his back from laying in one position.

Jonathan Wells was the military commander of Deerfield, when it was attacked in 1704 and he survived because his house was fortified and not attacked. The next day he led a force that drove the French & Indians out of town, but he did not order a pursuit, in the three foot snows, possibly remembering his experience at Turner's Falls and not wanting to be drawn into an ambush. (Volume 8 Mary and John Clearinghouse.) 		Barnard, Joseph (I30150)
 
3263 Joseph Andrews and Elizabeth
Joseph Andrews was born about 1597 in Devon, England, the son of Thomas Andrews and unknown (possibly Mary Simon). He immigrated with his father to Plymouth Colony, New England, America about 1628. Elizabeth was born about 1610 in England. There is speculation she immigrated in 1630 with the Winthrop Fleet. They married about 1631 and had eight children:

i. Thomas, b. Nov 1632 Joseph's father
ii. Joseph, b. abt 1635 Joseph
iii. Elizabeth, b. Mar 1637/38 Elizabeth
iv. Ephraim, b. Aug 1639
v. Hannah, b. unk (abt 1641)
vi. Mary, b. unk (abt 1643) Joseph's mother
vii. Hepzibah, b. unk (abt 1645)
viii. Abigail, b. 1647

They were one of the first families to settle Hingham, New Plymouth Colony and were granted a house lot on Town Street next to his father on 18 Sep 1635. Joseph was the first town clerk. He was appointed as the constable in 1635 and served as a representative at the General Court from 1636 through 1638. He was a freeman on 03 Mar 1636. There seems to be no further records of the family until their appearance in Duxbury.

I've jumped around a bit in reading Bradford's History of Plimoth Plantation in large part because the language use and spelling can be tedious, but it is a good account of their trials and tribulations. Persecuted by the English for their religious practices the Puritans had fled to Holland in 1608. When the decision was made to try to make a go of it in New England they were cheated and betrayed several times. When they finally boarded the Mayflower, their trip was delayed several times because of repairs needed on their sister ship Speedwell. They finally made it to America but during the first year they lost about half of their members to sickness and misadventures. To establish themselves in the wilderness (and based on their contract), their initial organization was along Communist lines where everyone was to work according to their abilities and take according to their needs for the first seven years. Not surprisingly, this caused some grumblings. Then, as they got established, their agents in England kept cheating them. Amid local disputes regarding leadership and religion, the Pequot Indians came to the realization that if they didn't stop the invaders now, they themselves would be wiped out. The Pequot War ensued with the colonists emerging victorious.

Beginning in 1627 settlers began moving away from Plymouth and to settle along the coastline to parcels allotted to them for farming. Initially they would live and work the area during the warmer months and return to Plymouth for the winter. By 1632 they had begun building homes in Duxbury and were living there year-round. In 1637 Duxbury was incorporated.

At some point Joseph's family had moved to Duxbury, New Plymouth Colony and in 1654 Joseph was made a surveyor of highways along with Robert Barker. In 1657 he took an oath of fidelity. On 08 Jun 1664 he was the constable. Joseph served on civil juries several times. Some of the cases included the 06 Mar 1654/55 Robert Latham trial and Joseph Tilden's trial for a false oath. Latham was found guilty of manslaughter of his servant, John Walker, and was sentenced to die by burning. On 08 Jun 1655 Joseph served on the Grand Inquest. The entry is somewhat confusing as it appears he and Barker were accused of neglecting to mend the highways. He was on the 03 Jun 1656 jury regarding lands of Arthur Howland and Thomas Chillingsworth and on 07 May 1662 he served on a committee examining the death of Thriston Clarke, Sr who was lost in the cold. On 01 Jun 1663 he was appointed to make decisions in the Faith Clarke estate regarding the payment of debts. He was fined five shillings for refusing to serve on a jury for laying out highways on 04 Aug 1663.

On 16 Oct 1665 Joseph and Elizabeth transferred their property in Hingham to their son, Thomas.

They eventually returned to Hingham where Joseph died on 01 Jan 1680. Elizabeth died there 12 Aug 1688. Following is a copy of Joseph's will and the estate inventory. I have updated some of the spelling to make it easier to read. The original transcriptions are available on Ancestry.com.

Will of Joseph Andrews—21 Jan 1679/80
I, Joseph Andrewes of Hingham of the County of Suffolk in New England, being weak in body but of perfect memory, do make & ordain this my last will and Testament in manner & form as follows, revoking & hereby making void all other will or wills formerly made by me the said Joseph Andrews either by word or writing.

Impris: I give & bequeath my soul into the hands of Jesus Christ my Redeemer and my body to be buried with Decent burial,
Item: I give & bequeath unto Elizabeth Andrewes my well beloved wife all that my estate of movable goods now in possession for her to use & improve during her natural life,
Item: I give and bequeath unto my Daughter Elizabeth Emes that feather bed and bedstead with all the furniture there unto belonging whereon I now lie,
Item: I give and bequeath unto my Daughter Hannah Ganitt one pewter platter
Item: I give unto my Daughter Mary Beard one pewter platter and one candlestick
Item: I give unto my Son Joseph Andrewes my sword and my gold ring and a bible and also ten pounds to be paid him by my executor if he come to demand it,
Item: I give unto Ephraim Andrewes my son all that estate of mine that is in his hands which he had of me when he went to New Jersey
Item: I give unto Hipsebeth Maning my daughter three pounds of that bill of eight pounds that I had of her husband Jeffery Maning, and my mind and will is that the remainder of the said bill which is five pounds shall be equally divided between Rehobath Gannitt and Israeli Thorne fifty shillings apiece,
Item: I give and bequeath unto all my grandsons that bare my name Joseph each of them & every one of them a pewter platter
Item: I give & bequeath unto Ruth Andrewes my daughter-in-law my newest chest
Item: I give unto Ruth Andrewes my granddaughter my old chest and my frame table & form
Item: I give to my grandson Thomas Andrewes a cow,
Item: I give to my grandson Steaven Andrewes and Jededyah each of them an iron pot
Item: I give to Benjamine Andrewes my grandson my desk
Item: I give unto Elizabeth Andrewes my granddaughter my warming pan
Item: I give unto my granddaughter Abygall Andrewes my frying pan,
Item: I give and bequeath unto Thomas Andrewes my Son all the rest & remainder of my goods and household stuff, and do hereby make and appoint him the said Thomas Andrewes my sole executor of this my last will and testament And my mind and will is that whatsoever I have given & bequeath of my goods & estate in this my will above said shall not be claimed by any of the persons above said until after the decease of my said wife but shall be for her use as above said

In witness whereof I the above said Joseph Andrewes have hereunto Set my hand and Seal this Seven & twenty day of September Anno Dom 1679.

The mark of Joseph Andrews
Signed & Sealed in the presence of us—witnesses — Josiah Loring & Edmd Pitts
The 12th Day of January Anno Dom 1679[-80]

An Inventory of the goods of Joseph Andrews of Hingham Deceased appraised by us whose names are under subscribed

£ s p

Imps his wearing Apparel 10 9 6
Item. one gold ring 10. one Silver cup and Silver tooth picker14s 1 4 —
Item. one Sword — 5 —
Item. In Books 3 10 —
Item. three Cows 7 10 —
Item. one Bedstead with mat and cord and feather bed one pair of blankets and one pair of Sheets one coverlid one bolster and one pillow and curtains 10 — — and vaillents
Item. one Bedstead and cord and small old feather bed with one old over-worn bedding 2 13 —
Item. one Burial Cloth 1 — —
Item. one frame Table and frame form — 15 —
Item. two old Chests and one old Desk — 12 —
Item. one pair of Tailors Sheers pressing Iron — one small hammer and two Button hole Chisels — 5 —
Item. ten pewter platters 1 10 —
Item. one small pewter dish, one plate one bason two porringers, two pewter candlesticks one vinegar — 13 — one Salt one dram cup and one old Razor
Item. one glass bottle and Earthen ware — 4 —
Item. one small brewing tub one washing Keeler and pail — 4 —
Item. one warming pan, one brass Skillet and one Ladle — 8 6 one Scummer and meat fork
Item. one wainscoat box — 5 —
Item. one small Swine — 7 —
Item. four pillowbeers — 7 6
Item. three tablecloths Six towels and one Napkin — 12 —
Item. two pairs of Sheets 1 5 —
Item. Lumber — 5 —
Total £45 07 6

Edm Pitts. Josiah Loring

Tho Andrews Executor made Oath before Simon Bradstreet Esqr Govr and Humphry Davie Esqr Assist 21° Janur° 1679[-80] to the truth of this Inventory and when more appears to add it

Issues

A number of trees list Elizabeth's parents as William Hatch, b. 1598, and Jane Young, b. 1596. However they then go on to give Elizabeth's birth date as 1610 when William was 12 and Jane was 14. They continue that she married Joseph Andrews in 1622 when Elizabeth would have only been 12. One tree suggested Elizabeth Manning. Another suggested she was the widow of Israel Stoughton and William Ripley. Elizabeth Porter of Twywell, Northamptonshire, England is given in some trees. I saw Elizabeth England and initially thought they meant Elizabeth who was born in England but in future encounters realized they meant England was her last name. Likewise, I found Elizabeth Doe, but I do think that is given as an unknown. I didn't find any notes or references that made be think one choice was better than another. I think some more research might be done using her children's names as possible parent names.

The birth years and birth order of their children is also in dispute. I've chosen to use the listing from History of the town of Hingham. The most significant difference is that many trees show Hannah was born about 1622. I was able to find any source for Elizabeth's birth date, but if it was 1610, Hannah certainly couldn't have been born in 1622. Additionally, due to the closeness of the other children's birth dates, the 1622 date seems out of place.
 		Andrews, Joseph (I23178)
 
3264 Joseph Berry was born about 1750 in King and Queen County, Virginia. He married in 1765 in St. Patricks Parish, Prince Edward County, Virginia. He was on the tax list for Prince Edward County in 1783 and counted in the census in 1783, 10 persons in the household. First found in Prince Edward records in the 1770's with a land purchase near the village of Jamestown and Saylers Creek, in the northeastern part of the county, and his wife Elizabeth, identified in 1805 deed records, are known to have at least 10 children. Although the 'convenient' parents of Joseph Berry would be found in Amelia County as early as the 1730's, being Thomas and Catherine Berry, no solid evidence exists. Joseph Berry's will was written 22 Dec 1808, a codocil added 16 May 1812, and probated in Prince Edward County 19 May 1812. Berry, Joseph (I5996)
 
3265 Joseph came to Amelia Co., Va. about 1737. His will was probated 27 Aug 1777 in Amelia Co., Va. He md Elizabeth Forrest of Gloucester Co., Va. (dau of Judith & Abraham Forrest) and she died in Amelia Co., Va.
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Amelia County Records
Will Book 2, pg. 233
Will of Joseph Motley
In the name of God Amen, I, Joseph Motley of Amelia County and Parish of Nottoway being in Perfect health and memory thanks be to Almighty God for the same do make this my last will and testament and do revoke and disannul all other wills by me made before declaring this and no other to be my last will and testament in manner & form following viz. first, I will and direct that all my just debts and funeral charges be paid and satisfied and next for settling & dividing my temporal estate which it hath pleased Almighty God to bless me with.
Item I give to my son Abraham Motley one tract of land which I purchased of Thomas Tabb lying and being in Amelia County in Nottoway Parish and on the North side of Whetstone Creek to him and his heirs forever I also give to my said son Abraham the following negroes viz Peter a negro man & Judah a negro woman with all her increase which he is in possession of, to him and to his heirs forever.
Item I give to my son Joseph Motley one negro woman named Sarah with all her increase which he, my said son, is in possession of, to him and his heirs forever.
Item I give to my daughter Judith Pain all which I have given her which she hath in her possession to her & to her heirs forever.
Item I give to my daughter Ann Hundley all which I have before given her which she hath in possession to her and to her heirs forever.
Item I give to my daughter Else Vaughn all which I have before given her which she hath in possession to her & to her heirs forever.
Item I give to my daughter Mary Dupey all which I have before given her which she hath in possession to her & to her heirs forever.
Item I give to my daughter Joice Motley one negro girl named Rachel and her increase, also Fifty pounds current money and increase the said negro girl should die before my daughter Joice should come of age or marry I give her the further sum of fifty pounds in the lue thereof.
Item I give to my daughter Martha Motley one negro girl named Dinah & her increase, also fifty pounds current money and in case the said negro girl should die before my daughter Martha Motley should come of age or marry I give her further sum of fifty pounds in the lue thereof.
Item of will and desire is that in case either of my two daughters Joice or Martha should die before they come to age or marry that the survivor have the whole which I have given to them.
Item I give to my son Joel Motley six hundred acres of land, four hundred of which being the land whereon I now live and the other two hundred joining of it & being part of a tract of land I purchased of Richd Royal, beginning at Childrys line and running a straight line to the upper line to include the two hundred acres to him and to his heirs forever, but my will and desire is that in case my son Joel should die before he arrives to the age of twenty one years or falls of issue before the term of time aforesaid that then the six hundred acres of land be equally divided between my two grandsons Joseph Motley, the son of Abraham Motley, & David Motley, the son of Joseph Motley, to them and to their heirs forever.
Item I lend to my beloved wife Elizabeth during her natural life or widowhood the following estate viz the six hundred acres of land which I have given to my son Joel Motley my mill and nine negroes, Dick, Abraham, James, Jack, June, Jude Sarah, Sue & Like and all my personal estate which I am possessed with be it of what kind or quality soever and after her death or widowhood, I will and give the same after paying the two legacies to my daughters, Joice and Martha to my son Joel to him and to his heirs, and in case my son Joel should die before he arrives to the age of twenty one years or falls of issue before the term of time aforesaid, that then I will and give the same, except the land which I have before given, to be equally divided between my two daughters Joice & Martha, and my eldest granddaughter of Abraham Motley, Joseph Motley, Thos. Pain, Robert Vaughn, and Bartho. Dupey to them & to their heirs, and lastly I appoint my wife Elizabeth executrix and my son Joel Executors of this my last will and testament and desire that there may be no appraisement of my estate unto which I have here unto set my hand & seal this second day of November 1763.
his
JOSEPH X MOTLEY (LS)
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Signed & sealed published & declared by Joseph Motley to be his last will and testament in presence of Henry Ward John Harper Charles Hundley
Teste: S. L. Farrar, Jr. Clerk
Amelia Circuit Court, Va.

 		Motley, Joseph (I224)
 
3266 Joseph Devin, born 17 Sep 1760 in Pittsylvania Co.,
Virginia; died 1806 in Pittsylvania Co., Virginia;
married Elizabeth Nowlin 16 Feb 1789 in Pittsylvania
Co., Virginia.


Notes for Elizabeth Nowlin:
Elizabeth Nowlin was the sister of Susan Nowlin who
married Joseph's brother Alexander. Quoted from the
will of Bryan Ward Nowlin: I lend to my daughter,
Elizabeth Devin, a negro girl named Hannah, and her
increase during her natural life and at her death my will
and desire is that the said negro and increase be equally
divided by lot or sale as may best suit among the
children of my daughter Elizabeth Devin... Item. My
daughter Sucky Devin has received 16 pounds value."
See Nowlin records in possession of Dessa Hofstetter or
Anna Hudelson.

Joseph Devin, born 17 Sep 1760 in Pittsylvania Co.,
Virginia; died 1806 in Pittsylvania Co., Virginia;
married Elizabeth Nowlin 16 Feb 1789 in Pittsylvania
Co., Virginia.


Notes for Elizabeth Nowlin:
Elizabeth Nowlin was the sister of Susan Nowlin who
married Joseph's brother Alexander. Quoted from the
will of Bryan Ward Nowlin: I lend to my daughter,
Elizabeth Devin, a negro girl named Hannah, and her
increase during her natural life and at her death my will
and desire is that the said negro and increase be equally
divided by lot or sale as may best suit among the
children of my daughter Elizabeth Devin... Item. My
daughter Sucky Devin has received 16 pounds value."
See Nowlin records in possession of Dessa Hofstetter or
Anna Hudelson.

Joseph Devin, born 17 Sep 1760 in Pittsylvania Co.,
Virginia; died 1806 in Pittsylvania Co., Virginia;
married Elizabeth Nowlin 16 Feb 1789 in Pittsylvania
Co., Virginia.


Notes for Elizabeth Nowlin:
Elizabeth Nowlin was the sister of Susan Nowlin who
married Joseph's brother Alexander. Quoted from the
will of Bryan Ward Nowlin: I lend to my daughter,
Elizabeth Devin, a negro girl named Hannah, and her
increase during her natural life and at her death my will
and desire is that the said negro and increase be equally
divided by lot or sale as may best suit among the
children of my daughter Elizabeth Devin... Item. My
daughter Sucky Devin has received 16 pounds value."
See Nowlin records in possession of Dessa Hofstetter or
Anna Hudelson.

Joseph Devin, born 17 Sep 1760 in Pittsylvania Co.,
Virginia; died 1806 in Pittsylvania Co., Virginia;
married Elizabeth Nowlin 16 Feb 1789 in Pittsylvania
Co., Virginia.


Notes for Elizabeth Nowlin:
Elizabeth Nowlin was the sister of Susan Nowlin who
married Joseph's brother Alexander. Quoted from the
will of Bryan Ward Nowlin: I lend to my daughter,
Elizabeth Devin, a negro girl named Hannah, and her
increase during her natural life and at her death my will
and desire is that the said negro and increase be equally
divided by lot or sale as may best suit among the
children of my daughter Elizabeth Devin... Item. My
daughter Sucky Devin has received 16 pounds value."
See Nowlin records in possession of Dessa Hofstetter or
Anna Hudelson.

Joseph Devin, born 17 Sep 1760 in Pittsylvania Co.,
Virginia; died 1806 in Pittsylvania Co., Virginia;
married Elizabeth Nowlin 16 Feb 1789 in Pittsylvania
Co., Virginia.


Notes for Elizabeth Nowlin:
Elizabeth Nowlin was the sister of Susan Nowlin who
married Joseph's brother Alexander. Quoted from the
will of Bryan Ward Nowlin: I lend to my daughter,
Elizabeth Devin, a negro girl named Hannah, and her
increase during her natural life and at her death my will
and desire is that the said negro and increase be equally
divided by lot or sale as may best suit among the
children of my daughter Elizabeth Devin... Item. My
daughter Sucky Devin has received 16 pounds value."
See Nowlin records in possession of Dessa Hofstetter or
Anna Hudelson.

Joseph Devin, born 17 Sep 1760 in Pittsylvania Co.,
Virginia; died 1806 in Pittsylvania Co., Virginia;
married Elizabeth Nowlin 16 Feb 1789 in Pittsylvania
Co., Virginia.


Notes for Elizabeth Nowlin:
Elizabeth Nowlin was the sister of Susan Nowlin who
married Joseph's brother Alexander. Quoted from the
will of Bryan Ward Nowlin: I lend to my daughter,
Elizabeth Devin, a negro girl named Hannah, and her
increase during her natural life and at her death my will
and desire is that the said negro and increase be equally
divided by lot or sale as may best suit among the
children of my daughter Elizabeth Devin... Item. My
daughter Sucky Devin has received 16 pounds value."
See Nowlin records in possession of Dessa Hofstetter or
Anna Hudelson.





















 		Devin, Joseph (I568)
 
3267 Joseph Dyer & John Dyer of Caroline County, Virginia

1700s , Caroline County, Virginia

In 1706, Robert Beverly persuaded the English Crown to give him 1,600 acres in the Lower Reedy Church District of King William County. The Crown encouraged a mass settlement of the Reedy Church district by making many land patents each year mostly to small homeowners that attracted a large volume of European settlers, which settled the country very quickly. Our Dyers were among these European settlers attracted to the land patents in the Reedy area.

The story of our earliest documented Dyer ancestors in America begins at the turn of the century in the Reedy area of eastern Virginia in what was then King William County, Virginia. Joseph Dyer?s wife, whose name is not documented, gives birth to a son whom they name John Dyer. Little else of our ancestor?s immediate family members can be documented with official records, though lots of guesses and assumptions are made to extend the line ? but caution is urged to check for documentation beyond this point.

Joseph Dyer
of Caroline County, Virginia
Joseph Dyer, was born around 1680. He may have been an immigrant from England, or he may have been born in Virginia ? still undocumented as fact, though theories are floating around. Joseph Dyer lived in King William County, Virginia (St. John?s Parish), which was divided into the new Caroline County, Virginia (St. Margaret?s Parish) where he resided until his death in 1748. His marriage and wife?s name are undocumented.

Children of Joseph Dyer:
John Dyer, b. abt 1710, King William Co, Virginia (which became Caroline Co.); d. 1774, Halifax Co., Virginia; m. 1. unknown (b. ?; d. 1753 Caroline Co, VA) 2. Dinah Spann, abt 1754, Caroline Co. VA. (b. 1734; d. 1778, Halifax, VA)
James Dyer, b. abt 1712, King William County, Virginia; d. ?? , Spotsylvania Co., Virginia; m. Eleanor ___

Notes & Documentation

Joseph Dyer passed away in Caroline County, Virginia in 1748, leaving his will to probate in court. His will names John Dyer as the executor of his estate. Joseph Dyer does not mention a wife in his will, which means she probably preceded him in death. No one else was mentioned in the will - likely all other children had already received their inheritance or dowry. Since it was customary at the time for father?s to name their sons as executor of their estate, especially if their wife is not living, John Dyer is reasonably concluded to be the oldest son of Joseph Dyer.

Joseph Dyer?s son, John Dyer (our ancestor), remained in Caroline County, Virginia until 1755 when he moved to Halifax County, Virginia, where he died in 1774. Joseph Dyer?s other son, James Dyer, remained in Caroline County until 1750, when he moved his wife, Eleanor, and family to Spotsylvania County, Virginia where they purchased 70 acres of land on May 1, 1750.

Source: Spotsylvania County Virginia Deed Book D, pg. 183
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Also living in Caroline County, Virginia was Joseph Dyer?s brother, John Dyer (uncle to our ancestor).

Brother of Joseph Dyer: John Dyer, b. abt 1685; d. 1761, Caroline County, Va.Children of John Dyer (cousin to our ancestor John Dyer): 1. James Dyer, b. abt. 1710, of Caroline County, Virginia. d. May 1771, Halifax, North Carolina. Chilen of James Dyer (2nd cousins to our ancestor John Dyer?s sons):

James Dyer, Jr. b. 1752, Halifax, North Carolina; d. 1784, Wilkes, North Carolina Joel Dyer, b. 1754, Halifax, North Carolina; d. 11 Jun 1825, Madison, Tennesee; m. Sophia Weston. (Son is Robert Henry Dyer for whom Dyer, Tennesee is named.) John Dyer, b. 1756, Halifax, North Carolina; d. 1799, Christian Co, Kentucky; m. Elizabeth George Dyer, b. 1758, Halifax, North Carolina. Joseph Dyer, b. 1760, Halifax, North Carolina
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John Dyer
of Caroline County, VA & Halifax, VA
John Dyer, son of Joseph Dyer, was born around 1710 in King William County, Virginia (St. John Parish); lived in Caroline Co. (St. Margaret?s Parish), and then Halifax Co., Virginia (Antrim Parish) where he died in 1774. He married his first wife (name undocumented) around 1735 and she died around 1753 in Caroline C., Virginia; John Dyer married a second time to Dinah about 1754 in Caroline County, Virginia.

Children of John Dyer & first wife:
James Dyer, b. abt 1736 in Caroline County, Virginia; d. ?? , Pittsylvania Co, Virginia: m. Winifred Trible abt 1763, Halifax Co, Virginia. Named as executor of father?s will, and was Surety though probate process.
John Dyer Jr., b. abt 1738 in Caroline Co., Virginia. m. Elizabeth Martin abt 1760 in Halifax Co. Virginia. Surety through probate process of father?s will.
Nancy Dyer, b. abt 1740 in Caroline Co., Virginia; d. ?? m. Byrd Pruitt abt 1756, Halifax, Virginia. Named as daughter of John Dyer on land deed.
Joshua Dyer, b. 1742, Caroline Co., Virginia; d. 11 Dec. 1809, Pendleton District, South Carolina; m. Sarah Stephens abt. 1775, Halifax, Virginia. Joshua is the only documented child f James CHICK of Caroline Co., VA, based on a court order dated Mar. 9, CHICK of Halifax Co., VA.
Elisha Dyer, b. abt. 1745, Caroline Co., Virginia; d. June 1816, Warren Co. Kentucky; m. Amy Laws abt 1764, Halifax, Virginia (b. d.). Elisha is named as a son on father?s will.
Agnes Dyer, b. abt. 1748, Caroline County, Virginia; d. Bef. 1771 when father wrote will that John Chick witnessed. Theory 1: Agnes DYER married James Chick, son of John Chick. Child: William, Agnes, & Amy Chick; Theory 2: Miss Dyer married William Chick and they had daughters Agnes & Amy Chick. Theory 3: Miss Dyer married John Chick, who witnessed John Dyer?s will, and their three children are Agnes, Amy, & William.

Children of John Dyer & Dinah:
Manoah Dyer, b. 28 Sept 1755, Caroline County, Virginia; d. 1838, Monroe Co., Tennessee. Executor of father?s will ?with his mother? Dinah, and named as a son.
Hamon Dyer, b. abt. 1757 in Halifax Co., Virginia; m. Frankie ___ in Halifax Co., Virginia. Named as a son on father?s will.
Hezekiah Dyer, b. 1760, Halifax Co., Virginia. m. Ann Kelly 4 June 1782, Wilkes, North Carolina. Named as a son of father?s will.

Notes & Documentation

John Dyer, a tavern owner, lived in Caroline County, Virginia after it was created from King William County in 1728 where he was born. Even for colonial Virginia, Caroline County was frontier country. Early settlers lived a rugged, severe life. As they cut trees and made the soil ready for planting tobacco, they always had their guns ready ? for the threat of wolves and hostile Indian attacks was very real. Unfortunately, few early county records exist because they burned with the court house during the Civil War. The surviving court order books are a primary source of information about the county's inhabitants. These contain numerous references to John Dyer during the 1730's through 1750's. There are also a couple of references to a William DYER, but his relationship to John Dyer (brother?) is not known as no record indicates such a relationship.

1732 - The first court record of John Dyer appears where he serves as a juror. He continues to serve as juror 10 times over the next 15 years until 1747. In 1734 the court records that John Dyer owned three slaves. John Dyer married around 1735, though a record of his wife?s name is not found (but many Dyer researchers have various theories, all unproven). This same year John Dyer went into business by opening a tavern on the south side of Mattapony, at Doguetown (Medford) bridge across Pamukey River, which he would run from 1735-1755

1735 Caroline County, Virginia John Dyer marries. Wife?s name not verifiable. Note: No marriage record is available, but some family historians surmise that John Dyer?s wife?s maiden name might have been Bluford, because the Bluford ne is passed down through some family lines. However, this is pure speculation and, without evidence, should not be used as fact. There are just as many valid reasons to question Bluford as her maiden name. Other theories propose that John Dyer, and his father Joseph Dyer, married women from New England ? or that they themselves are from New England, but given the nature of travel during this time period in early America, what with hostile Indians and only hunting trails rather than wagon roads between Virginia and New England, this myth is busted. ?Genealogy without documentation is Mythology.?

Throughout the land and court records of John Dyer, two men continually live close by him and appear on various records: James Dyer and John Dyer (Jr), who are believed to be his sons two oldest sons. Both James and John Dyer, Jr. later became bondsmen for John Dyer?s second wife, Dinah, as she later executed her husband?s will, evidence they were his sons. Evidence of other children born prior to John Dyer?s marriage to Dinah also indicates an earlier first marriage. For ten years, John Dyer?s social and business life center around the Taverns. Planters and tradesmen met there to exchange views, gather news, talk politics and execute business deals. Also gamblers and speculators gathered there to do business.

According to the county court records, John Dyer was fined for gambling in Jesse Martin?s tavern at the north end of Gurneys Bridge. John was also fined, along with several other men, five pounds for shooting craps at the tavern. Still, John Dyer was considered an upstanding citizen. He was appointed counselor in the Caroline County Court for a term in 1740. A few years earlier he had paid the passage to America of a man from England named John Whaling, which made Mr. Whaling an indentured servant to John Dyer for a number of years. In 1744 Mr. Whaling sued John Dyer for his freedom.

1746 - Evidence of John Dyer?s affiliation with the Church of England appears when he and some friends petition the court for permission to build a church on the land of Richard George near Reedy Mill. This building became known as Reedy Church. Church entries began in 1741.

1748 - John Dyer?s father, Joseph Dyer, passed away in Caroline County, Virginia, leaving his will to probate. His will names John Dyer as the executor of his estate. Joseph Dyer does not mention a wife in his will, which means she probably preded him in death. No one else was mentioned in the will - likely all other children had already received their inheritance or dowry. Since it was customary at the time for father?s to name their sons as executor of their estate, especially if their wife is not living, Joseph Dyer is reasonably concluded to be the father of John Dyer. With father Joseph Dyer now deceased, the sons were no longer tied to Caroline County, Virginia. Though John Dyer would remain in Caroline County a few more years, his brother James Dyer and wife, Eleanor, and family moved to Spotsylvania County, Virginia where he purchased 70 acres of land. 1753 - Tragedy strikes the Dyer family again, as John Dyer?s wife (Elisha Dyer?s mother) dies. John Dyer remarries in

1754 John Dyer marries Dinah . "Dinah" is listed as John Dyer?s wife on a Caroline County land deed and on his will. (Note: some researchers suggest that Dinah?s maiden name is reasonably concluded to be ?Spann? due to the fact that Mr. Spann names Dinah as his daughter in his will of 1747 - but this is not valid since they did not married until 7 years after the will was written). Soon after their marriage, Dinah is expecting their first child.

1755 brought financial insecurity to John Dyer and his family. The French and Indian War Seven Year?s War had started with England, which resulted in the closure of all the markets of Europe to the sales of tobacco in America. In addition, the worst draught in the early history of the American Colonies seized the land. Virginians exhausted all their tobacco certificates with no prospects of getting more. As tobacco was the money crop of the time, all the landowners struggled to survive. Although John Dyer?s tavern business was managing, he no longer had family ties to Carolina County. The low-priced land ?grants? the Governor of Virginia was offering to those who settled in Lunenburg or Halifax Counties was irresistible to John Dyer. That year, John Dyer let his tavern license elapse. John Almond took over and held the tavern license on the John Dyer stand at Douguetown bridge for a number of years.

If John Dyer was to move his family to Halifax County and build them a house before winter set in, time was of the essence. So in October, a few weeks after their first son Manoah Dyer was born, John Dyer moved his family to Antrim Parish, Halifax County, Virginia where he purchased his 400 acres of land for 40 shillings on December 15, 1755. His land was next door to Shadrack Tibble, the grandfather of Manoah Dyer?s future wife Rebecca Tibble; her brother is bondsman for their marriage license 40 years later in Wilkes County, North Carolina.

1755 HALIFAX COUNTY, VIRGINIA Robert Dinwiddie, Lieutenant Governor & Commander of Williamsburg, of the colony of Virginia sold to John Dyer of Halifax, Virginia 400 acres of land in Antrim Parish, Halifax county, Virginia for the sum of 40 shillings. Beginning at Shadrack Tibble?s corner pointer, thence on Trible?s line, ...etc. (Source: Halifax County Deed Book. December 15, 1755 (WD pg. 56)

For the next few years, John Dyer and his family would meet and interact with those who would become their in-laws now, and even a hundred years from now. The William Laws family is becoming good friends with John Dyer, and at times the Halifx ounty Court orders the two of them to work together on various projects. One of the first projects recorded is in 1757 when William Laws and John Dyer are ordered to appraise the personal estate of a William Dendy, deceased, and to return an inventory of the estate. (Source: Court Orders, Halifax County, Virginia 1755 - 1758, pg. 114) In November of 1757, John Dyer is listed on the court records to clear and repair a road with Peter Trible. John Dyer has no problem keeping busy serving in his new county. 1758 - John Dyer and Dinah Dyer of Halifax county Antrim Parish, of the colony of Virginia made a deed of 108 acres to Nancy, the wife of Byrd Pruitt, ?my daughter for natural love and affection.? This was a portion of the land John Dyer. obtained from Governor Dinwiddie and is evidently Nancy?s dowry. Nancy met Byrd Pruitt soon after moving to Halifax county and married him about 1756. (Source: Halifax County Deed Book One, page 426, March 16, 1758)

John Dyer?s Cousins In 1761 John Dyer?s uncle, John Dyer (brother of Joseph Dyer), passed away in Caroline County, Virginia. His son James Dyer is named executor of his will. Within a few years, this James Dyer moves his family to Halifax Co, North Carolina, where he dies in 1771. In his will, he names his five sons: John Dyer, Joseph Dyer, George Dyer, Joel Dyer, and James Dyer (notice how the Dyers reuse family names). Soon after James Dyer?s will is probated, all his five sons move to join John Dyer?s family in the adjacent county of Halifax, Virginia. Evidently, these sons were also enticed by the Governor?s land grants. Eventually, these five sons and the sons of John Dyer will again resettle together in Wilkes Co, North Carolina.

Another interesting side note is that also in 1761, the estate of Shadrack Trible, deceased, is appraised and sold. In this record, Nathaniel Terry is mentioned. Nathaniel is the brother of another ancestor (Joseph Terry) on a different line (Eatherly/Williams) ( Will Book O, 1752-1773, Halifax County, Virginia, Marian Dodson Chiarito, pg. 16) With the 400 acres initially purchased at such a low price as 40 shillings, and as settlers are flowing into the county at a dazzling rate, the availability of the land decreases while causing the resale price of prime land to increase. As a result, the Dyer family and many others are speculating in land sales for profit. At different times, brothers Elisha Dyer, James Dyer, and Manoah Dyer all act as witnesses for John Dyer and Dinah as they buy and sell land in Halifax County

In 1762 - John Dyer?s son, James Dyer, is found purchasing 380 acres on Dunaway Creek. on May 1, 1762 (Halifax County Deed Book 3, page 292). However, on 23 October 1762, James Dyer deeds the same land to Peter Bowman and realizes a profit of 1 pound, 10 shillings. Witnesses: Elisha Dyer, John Dyer, Joseph Laws. Note: Peter Bowman will later become Elisha Dyer?s brother-in-law. (Source: Halifax County Virginia, Deed Book 4, page 101)

In 1764 - ?John Dyer and Dinah his wife of Antrim Parish of the Colony of Virginia? sells 200 acres for 33 pounds current Virginia money on February 15, 1764. Signed: John Dyer & Dinah Dyer (x). (Halifax County Virginia Deed Book 5, page ) The next year John Dyer purchases another land grant of 400 acres on the branches of Childries Creek. (Entry Record Book, 1737-1770, pg. 285).

1766 - John Dyer purchases a land grant of 400 acres for 40 shillings along the Pitchfork and Buffalo Creek, with a plantation thereon on 22 September 1766. Six months later John Dyer and Dinah his wife of Halifax County deeded to John Dyer, Jr. ( son) of Antrim Parish Colony of Virginia, Halifax county 200 acres of this land on 19 Mar 1767. (Source: Halifax County, Virginia Deed Book 6, page 468). That same day, John Dyer is granted another 400 acres, this time near Cherry Tree Fork. (Source: Entry Record Book 1737-1770 - Land entries in counties that became Halifax & Pittsylvania, Pg. 317 and 323) Six months later on 1 Jun 1767, John Dyer deeds the other half of his land along the Pitchfork and Buffalo Creek for double of what he paid for it the year before. (Source: Halifax County, Virginia Deed Book 6, page 468)

1767 - With so many new people moving into the area, it?s time to divide the county again. Halifax County, Virginia is divided to create Pittsylvania County, with Peytonsburg the county seat and Camden Parish. Members of the Dyer family find themselves split, with some living within the boundaries of Halifax County and others within the new boundaries of Pittsylvania County, Virginia. Elisha Dyer is in Pittsylvania County. Other ancestors in Pittsylvania at this time include: Benjamin Terry, Joseph Terry, William Williams. William Laws remains in Halifax County as does John Dyer. Still trusting in the booming real estate market, John Dyer of Halifax County purchases 50 acres on the south side of Staunton River on Sept. 25, 1767 from John & Ellen Chisolm. Witnesses included James Dyer and Elisha Dyer. (Source: Halifax County, Virginia Deed Book 1, page 63). However, when he sells this same land nearly six years later on February 6, 1773 ? shortly before he dies - he realizes little profit. The deed is witnessed by Manoah Dyer and others. This is the last deed found on record of John or Dinah Dyer. (Source: Halifax County, Virginia Deed Book 3, page 175)
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1773 PITTSYLVANIA COUNTY, VIRGINIA John Dyer?s grandson, Caleb Dyer, is born to Elisha and Amy Dyer .

1774 (Source: Halifax County, Virginia Wills ? Copy of Will; WD pg. 59)HALIFAX COUNTY, VIRGINIA March Court 1774I,

John Dyer of Halifax County and Antrim Parish in the Colony of Virginia being at this time imperfect sense and memory?first of all commit my body unto the Earth whence it came and then my soul to Almighty God who gave it to me, and then ?as for the entry of land I gave my son Elisha, at this time William Lansdown holds, therefore I shall not think fit to give him anything more for his making so bad and out with that. (names land to be sold by executors) And as to the rest of my land as I therefore hold, my desire is that it may be equally divided between Manoah and Hamon, Manoah to have first choice?.my desire is that my part of land in partnership with Branham may be equally divided between Agnes, Amy and William Chick. The next thing my will is that my son Hezekiah shall have Two Hundred acres of land I now live on, to him and his hirs forever. Then my desire is if either of this present wife?s children should decease without issue lawfully begotten be divided equally among the rest of the brothers and sisters?I make an ordain my wife as whole and sole Executrix and my son Manoah Executor with his mother of this my last will and testament. I also give to my son Menoah my Gold Ring in pledge of love. Written 9 April 1771. Executed and recorded in March Court 1774.Witnesses: Susannah Gunnison; Benjamin Branham; John Chick.
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1771 - John Dyer made his will and then died in Halifax County, Virginia. The will was probated in March court of 1774, which named his wife, Dinah, as Executrix, his son, Manoah, as executor ?with his mother? (indicating Manoah is Dinah?s first-born son), and James Dyer as executor (indicating John?s first born son). He also names Manoah, Hamon, and Hezkiah Dyer as his sons of ?my present wife.? James and John Dyer Jr. were Surety for Dinah during the probate of the will, indicating they were also sons of John Dyer. The will also gives a hint there may be more daughters. Most confusing for Dyer researchers is that John Dyer in his will leaves land to be equally divided between Agnes, Anes (Amy or Ann) and William Chick, but no relationship is stated. One theory is: given that John Dyer does not mention any of his other grandchildren in his will, these may be his motherless grandchildren (mom died) for whom he wishes to provide land to be equally divided among themselves. John Chick witnessed John Dyer?s will, so perhaps he is the father of these children. There are other theories as well, but the theories are just speculation since there is no supporting documentation.

There is one son we know of who is not named anywhere within the will or the probate record: Joshua Dyer. Researchers discovered Joshua?s existence while researching Elisha Dyer. In December 1809, Elisha Dyer writes a letter to the court of South Carolina (Pendleton District) when his brother, Joshua, died without a will. In the letter, Elisha states ?I am his only brother that is in these parts? and then he recommends an administrator for Joshua?s estate.

Not long after John Dyer?s death, Dinah either remained or passed away as there is no more record of her.

During the Revolutionary War, North Carolina enticed settlers to her lands by offering land grants ? land that had once belonged to the now-exiled Tory, the Earl of Granville. (See ?History of Wilkes County, North Carolina? pg. 4). John Dyer?s sons Elisha, Manoah, Hezekiah, and Hamon are all found acquiring these land grants in Wilkes County, North Carolina starting in 1779.

Dyer Cousins - Sons of Joseph Dyer's brother
Apparently the Dyer brothers and cousins (sons and grandsons of John Dyer who is brother of Joseph Dyer) all moved together to the new land, finding strength in numbers among family. There were other Dyers living in North Carolina between 1767 and 1771 according to the North Carolina Taxpayers List of 1701-1786, including John Dyer?s cousins James & Joel Dyer (sons of Joseph Dyer?s brother, John Dyer) and their children. Not long afterwards, one of these Dyer cousins, James, died in 1780. He had been partners in many land deals with his brother, Joel Dyer. After settling up with James? wife, Joel went to Hawkins County, Tennessee and then on to Madison County, Tennessee and then to Dyer County, Tennessee. - which was supposedly named for his son Robert Dyer. John Dyer went to Christian County, Kentucky and made his will in 1799. Page 53 of W. B. Dyer?s ?Dyer Family History? Book. See Watson Dyer?s book for more information on this line.
Sources:
Watson B. Dyer, Dyer Family History , self published. (WD).
History of Pittsylvania County, Virginia, by Maud Carter Clement. 		Dyer, Joseph S (I16544)
 
3268 Joseph Echols (1735-1789) married first Elizabeth King and second in 1772, Elizabeth Street. On 20 September 1751 Joseph and Isaac Echols obtained individual patents to land on Straightstone Creek in Lunenburg County. We presume this was this Joseph Echols and his brother. Joseph's patent was for 400 acres. We speculate that he was the same Joseph Echols who had a patent for 272 acres in Lunenburg County on both sides of Sandy Creek in 1756. A cousin and uncle of the same name were in the area. As Joseph Echols Jr he had a patent for a 13-acre island in the Staunton River 29 November 1756. In 1785 the plantation upon which Joseph lived had nine cabins, including a 640-square foot dwelling and a mill. Ten whites were then in his family. Joseph was dead by 1792, intestate, and the court granted Obediah Echols administration. A chancery suit and the division of land of Joseph Echols in 1794 reveals the names of his surviving 12 children.

1 Obediah Echols married Nanny Franklin in Halifax County 7 September 1805.
2 Sarah Echols
3 John Echols
4 Rhoda Echols
4 Drusilla Echols
6 Mary Echols
7 Joseph Echols married Elizabeth Lambeth, a daughter of Meredith Lambeth, in Campbell County 6 June (bond) 1814.
8 Abraham Echols was a resident of Monongalia County, now West Virginia, in 1797 when he sold his inheritance to James Echols of Bedford County.
9 Rebecca Echols was in Hawkins County, Tennessee in 1797 when she sold her inheritance to James Echols.
10 Tabitha Echols married Elijah Lacy in Halifax County 12 January (bond) 1802.
11 David Echols (14 Jan. 1776 - 18 Feb. 1854) married Diana Tribble (14 Jan. 1784 - 12 May 1848), a daughter of James Tribble, in Halifax County 29 May (bond) 1802. They were the parents of eleven children born 1803-1823.
12 Moses Echols married Elizabeth Hicks in Campbell County 9 February (bond) 1807.
13 Judith Echols , a daughter of Joseph Echols, married Benjamin Gosnell in Halifax County 24 March (bond) 1788. She evidently died before the distribution of her father's estate. 		Echols, Joseph (I33)
 
3269 Joseph Irby b. 1728 and Peter/Elizabeth Cook Irby (their daughter Rebecca Anne Irby Grant)

You might ask, why am I posting this story in Joseph Irby's gallery? Because I now have another very interesting family connection involving who I believe was Joseph Irby's half brother; Peter Irby b. abt 1713 in Prince George, VA to Dr. Joseph Irby and Elizabeth Ludson. Peter Irby married Elizabeth Cook. Their youngest daughter Rebecca Ann Irby (b. abt 1769 in Pittsylvania, VA) first married John Grant who was b. abt 1768 in Stafford or Loudoun, VA. They married in Pittsylvania. Their son James Grant b. abt 1787 in Pittsylvania married Mary Ann Swepson or Swepston b. abt 1794. Mary Ann Swepson Grant was a daughter to John Swepson b. 1759 and Dolly Ashford - they, too, married in Pittsylvania, VA. John Swepson's father was Richard Swepson b. abt 1720 in Gloucester, VA and Jane Jeffries b. abt 1724; Richmond, VA. John Swepson b. 1759 was the younger brother of Lucy Swepson b. abt 1740 in Lunenburg, VA. Lucy Swepson's second husband was William Peasley. They were married about 1764 in Halifax, VA. They had one son and two daughters; Mary Peasley who married Edward Shackelford b. 1768 to Roger Shackelford and Nancy Carter. I mentioned the Shackelford's and their connection to the Carter family in another attachment. (See attachment). The sister to Mary Peasley was Lucy Peasley who married Abner Hiatt. They were my 4th gr grandparents. If you go back now to John Grant who married Rebecca Anne Irby, you can see that John Grant's older sister Rachel L. Grant (my 6th gr grandmother) married a Samuel Dennis also born abt. 1750 to a John Dennis of Henrico, VA. Not a lot is know about him. It is possible that he died in South Carolina. His son Samuel Dennis b. abt 1770 in Orange, NC married unknown Hannah. Their daughter Rachel L. Dennis b. abt 1791 married my 4th gr grandfather Gardner Dennis; son of Henry Mullins and Mary Polly Terry; daughter of Olive Terry and Elizabeth Irby, both born abt 1727 in VA. I believe that Elizabeth Irby was sister to Joseph Irby b. 1728 and half sister to Peter Irby b. abt 1713 in Prince George, VA. So...we now have two family connections from the Grant family to Irby, Shackelford, Carter, Swepson, Peasley, Hiatt, Dennis, etc. Also, John Grant, before he married Rebecca Ann Irby, was married to Mary Mosby. They had a son before she died; William Mosby Grant. William Mosby Grant married Mary Polly Spillar Graves b. 1790. They married in Fayette, KY. Mary Polly Spillar Graves was the daughter of Bartlett Graves b. abt 1766 in Louisa, VA and Francis Lane b. abt 1767. Bartlett Graves was the son of Thomas Graves b. 1721 and Isabella Bartlett b. 1739. Thomas Graves was the son of Thomas Graves b. 1691 and Sarah Davenport. Sarah Davenport was the sister of Thomas Davenport who married Grace Terry - cousin of James Terry - grandfather to Mary Polly Terry who married Henry Mullins; parents of Gardner Mullins mentioned above. I will add more information as time permits. Feel free to follow the links as well. *Note as well that Nathaniel Parrott and Penelope Irby (sister of Peter Irby above), b. abt 1707 in Henrico, Va had a son named John Parrott b. abt 1730 who was married to Ruth Treadwell. Their daughter Elizabeth Judith Mourning Parrott b. abt 1766 married Easom Graves. Easom Graves was the son of John Adams Graves and Frances Coleman. In turn, John Graves was son to John Graves b. abt 1714 and married Lucy Adams. John Graves B. 1714 was the brother to Thomas Graves mentioned above b. 1721 who married Isabella Bartlett. So, you can see just how closely intertwined these families were. Not to leave out that it is likely that a daughter to Thomas and Isabella Graves; Ann Graves - married Charles Warren. They lived in Pulaski, KY. There are lots of family ties to this couple that connect to Henry and Mary Polly Terry Mullins in Rockcastle Co., KY (Langfords, Randolph, Blankenship, Farley, Sutton, Haggard, Gentry, Overton, Harris, and so on. 		Terry, Grace (I38719)
 
3270 Joseph Merriam and his brothers, Robert and George
[The following is a transcribed excerpt from The Ancestry of Franklin Merriam Peabody, compiled by Sidney A. Merriam, 1929, pages 44 to 46.]

Joseph 6 Merriam (William,5 William,4 Richard,3, Stephen,2 William1), eldest son, was probably born at Tudeley, County Kent, England, where his father was taxed at several dates between 1598 and 1621-2. He married about 1623, Sarah, daughter of John and Frances (Jefferie) Goldston or Goldstone. The will of Robert Goldston of Tonbridge, Kent, dated 10 April 1637; proved 16 May 1637 (Consistory of Rochester xxii:248) reads: “to Sara the wife of Joseph Merryam of Tewdly aforesaid Clothier my sister . . . .” and bequeaths to William, Sara, Joseph, Thomas, Elizabeth and Hannah the six children of the said Joseph Mirriam by the said Sara his now wife . . . .

Joseph6 Merriam, with his brothers, Robert6 and George6, and others, mostly connected by marriage, chartered a vessel called the “Castle” and sailed from the “River of Thames” for New England in April 1638. They arrived off Charleston and Boston, in July 1638, where the vessel lay at anchor several weeks with her passengers living on board. Suits among those who chartered the “Castle” reveal minute and interesting details about the voyage. (Note Book of Thomas Lechford, Boston Attorney: 105, 118, 140, etc.)

Besides the religious situation, there were economic causes for emigration to America. About one year after the death of William Merriam, father of the immigrants, another “Ship Subsidy” was levied. Simon Willard of Horsmonden had gone to Concord in New England; Sir “Harry” Vane, son of Sir Henry Vane of Hadlow, where William Merriam died in 1635, had gone to Massachusetts in 1635 and was elected governor of Massachusetts in 1636. Other neighbors and friends had gone. The cloth industry, formerly highly prosperous, had declined.

Upon arrival in America, Joseph Merriam went almost immediately to Concord, where he settled at what has since been known as “Merriam''s Corner,” at the junction of the Concord-Bedford roads. (Book 10:525, Middlesex Deeds.) This point is now marked by an old tablet reading:

MERRIAM'S CORNER

The British Troops retreating from the old North Bridge were here attacked in flank by the men of Concord and neighboring towns and driven under a hot fire to Charleston.

In this vicinity was the original American home of the family and there they chiefly remained for many generations, some few spreading only as far away as Lexington and Littleton. In Concord, Joseph6 Merriam died 1 January 1640-41, having lived long enough in the new world to erect a house and establish a home. His youngest son, John, was born in Concord. Joseph's will is dated at Concord 29 December 1640; proved 26 October 1642. (Suffolk Court Files. See “Register” : II:184.) His widow, Sara, afterward married Lieut. Joseph Wheeler of Concord, and died 12 March 1670-71. The sons, William, Joseph, and John, joined in a quitclaim to the estate of Joseph Wheeler, their “father-in-law,” 17 April 1667. (Suffolk Court Files 2286.)

Robert6 Merriam remained a short time in Charleston, where his real estate is recorded in the “Book of Possessions.” He was a “trader” and “planter” (as was also Major Simon Willard from Hosmonden, Kent), dealing with Indians in furs, etc. Robert Merriam was Clerk to the Court of Assistants, Deputy to the General Court, 1655, etc. His wife was Mary, daughter of Edmund Sheafe of Cranbrook, Kent. Mary (Sheafe) Merriam was sister to Jacob Sheafe of Boston, aunt to Mrs. Jonathan Corwin of Salem, and closely connected with the Portsmouth Sheafes. These facts do not accord with the highly imaginative account in one of the lesser histories of Concord. He died 15 February 1682 (N. S.), aged 72. His will dated 10 December 1681, proved 4 April 1682 (Register 11:237), mentions many relatives and fixes the connections of persons named in England. His widow, Mary, died 22 July 1693 aged 72. Her will dated 15 February 1688 is also remarkable for the number of relationships explained. She was baptized at Cranbrook, Kent, 26 September 1620. Robert and Mary Merriam had no children.

George6 Merriam is not recorded in New England until after the death of his brother, Joseph, at Concord in 1641. He was probably born at Tudely, Kent. He married at Tonbridge, Kent, 16 October 1627, Susanna Raven. In 1638, Easter Term, Charles I, George Merriam and Susanna, his wife, conveyed to Anne Towne, widow, “tow messuages, two barns, two gardens, two orchards, and six acres of land in Tewdley, co. Kent.” This was close to the date of the departure of the “Castle.” It is doubtful whether or not George and Susannah Merriam came in that vessel. He died 29 December 1675, and his wife, Susannah, 8 October previous. His will of 8 October 1675 mentions one son and five daughters. The male line from his son Samuel soon became extinct. Descendants of the name are all descended from Joseph6 Merriam. The name became extinct in England in 1889.

Children:

William, 7 b. England.
Sarah
Joseph, b. about 1630, probably at Tudely, Kent, England.
Thomas.
Elizabeth, m. Thomas Henchman.
Hannah.
John, b. 9 July 1641, at Concord; (posthumous; provided for in will of his father.) 		Goldstone, John (I29859)
 
3271 Joseph Mesmer deserves the everlasting good will of the City of Los Angeles, which has been his home for seventy years. It has been well said that “the index of his entire career has been one of public spirit and public service.” No where has this leadership been more in evidence than in his efforts to secure adequate street widening and the opening of public spaces in the midst of the masses of structures that mark the modern city. His constructive effort has entered into every other phase of Los Angeles' progress during the past fifty years. Mr. Mesmer assisted in maintaining the annual feature of the district agricultural and industrial fairs. He has been a contributor to the building of many churches, irrespective of race, color or creed, of various denominations, and to the practical work of charity and charitable institutions.

In 1876 Mr. Mesmer accepted employment in a general merchandising store and later in a shoe store. With money advanced by his father in 1878 he established The Queen Shoe Store. This business he sold in 1906, and he with his family made a thirteen months' tour through the United States, Canada and Europe.

Mr. Mesmer is president of the Los Angeles County Pioneer Society, he having come to Los Angeles County in August, 1859, when less than four years of age. He was born at Tippecanoe City, Miami County, Ohio, November 3, 1855, son of Louis and Catherine (Forst) Mesmer. He came with his parents to California by way of the Isthmus of Panama, arriving in San Francisco in April, 1859, and the following August came down the coast on a steamer to San Pedro, landed at Wilmington and traveled by stage coach to Los Angeles. Joseph Mesmer was educated in the early public schools of Los Angeles. He completed his education in the college of Strassbourg, France. In 1907 Mr. Mesmer became identified with the Saint Louis Fire Brick and Clay Company of Los Angeles, and has for many years been its active head.

Mr. Mesmer married, April 22, 1879, Miss Rose Elizabeth Bushard, of Los Angeles. [p.67] Their children were Louis Francis, Marie Josephine Perier, Clarence Woodman, Junietta Lucille, Beatrice Evalynn and Aloysius Joseph Mesmer. Two of his sons volunteered for service during the World war, Louis and Aloysius. Louis was given the rank of major of engineers in the army and Aloysius as ensign in the navy. 		Mesmer, Joseph F (I43837)
 
3272 Joseph Montfort Street
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Joseph Montfort Street Born October 18, 1782(1782-10-18)
Virginia, United States Died May 5, 1840(1840-05-05) (aged 57)
near Agency City, Iowa Nationality American Other names Joseph Montford Street

Joseph Monford Street Joseph Monfort Street Occupation Pioneer, soldier, and businessman Known for Iowa pioneer and one of the earliest to settle in Prairie du Chien; U.S. Indian Agent to the Sauk and Fox after the Black Hawk War. Religion Presbyterian Spouse Eliza Posey Parents Anthony and Molly Street Relatives Thomas Posey, father-in-law Alexander Posey, brother-in-law
General Joseph Montfort Street (October 18, 1782–May 5, 1840) was a 19th century American pioneer, trader and US Army officer. During the 1820s and 1830s, he was also a U.S. Indian Agent to the Winnebago and later to the Sauk and Fox tribes after the Black Hawk War. His eldest son was Joseph H.D. Street, the first appointed registrar of the Council Bluffs Land Office in western Iowa.[1]

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Born to Anthony and Molly Street in Virginia, he studied law under Henry Clay and traveled to Frankfort, Kentucky where became the editor of The Western World in July 1806. The newspaper's "Spanish Conspiracy" series was partially responsible for exposing the Aaron Burr conspiracy. However, he and other members of the paper received lawsuits, threats and challenges to duels until eventually Burr's friends and supporters forced him to leave for Illinois.[2]

He eventually settled in Shawneetown during the early 19th century where his father-in-law, Governor Thomas Posey, died of typhus fever at his home on March 9, 1818.[3] Following the death of Nicholas Boilvin in 1827, Street became the U.S. Indian Agent to the Winnebago. He and his family were one of the earliest to settle in Prairie du Chien and the first Presbyterian families to live in the area.[4] While residing at Prairie du Chien, he was present at the signing of the peace treaty ending the Winnebago War.[5] During his administration, his attempts to help the Winnebago ultimately failed largely due to the interests of the American Fur Company.[5]

In 1829, Major Stephen W. Kearney of Fort Crawford arrested French-Canadian logger Jean Brunett who Street had reported was illegally leading a logging party on an island on the Mississippi River and lay within the Winnebago territory. He and Kearney kept Brunett in custody for a considerable length of time before releasing him, however the two were sued for illegal arrest and ordered to pay fines and court expenses in excess of $1,374 dollars. The presiding judge of the territorial court had ruled that only the President of the United States had the authority to expel a foreigner, even in the process of committing an illegal act, and that the officers arrest was unlawful unless receiving a presidential order. However both men were later reumbursed by the United States Congress.[6]

In 1831, he wrote to U.S. Secretary of War Lewis Cass that when the Sauk, Fox and other tribes had agreed to cede their lands in western Iowa the previous year, a local trader had reported that "The Sacs and Foxes wish to sell to the United States the whole of their country that borders on the Mississippi, but they won't sell unless the commissioners will pay to Messrs. Farnham and Davenport what the Indians owe them."[7]

He and his brother-in-law Alexander Posey both participated in the Black Hawk War and, in the weeks following the Battle of Bad Axe, members of the Sioux delivered 68 scalps and 22 prisoners to him.[8] The Winnebago Prophet and Black Hawk were delivered to him by two Winnebago warriors, One-Eyed Decorri and Cha-e-tar at the agancy headquarters on August 27, 1832. One-Eyed Decorri claimed credit for Black Hawk's capture who told Street,

“ Near the Dalle, on the Wisconsin, I took Black Hawk. No one did it but me - I say this in the ears of all present, and they know it - and I now appeal to the Great Spirit, our grand-father, and the earth, our grand-mother, for the truth of what I say.[9] ”
In a letter sent on September 3, Street reported "The day after Gen's Scott and Atkinson left this place, I sent out two parties of Winnebagos to bring Black Hawk, the Prophet and Neopope to me."[9] While Black Hawk was being transported to Galena, Illinois by steamship, he took special care that the prisoners were well-treated. When it was reported to him that iron handcuffs had been riveted on Black Hawk, he ordered officer Jefferson Davis to have them removed.[10]

During 1832 and 1833, he was extensively involved in post-war settlements with the Sac and Fox and was eventually named as a U.S government liaison and representitive of the Sauk and Fox in 1836. The following year, he accompanied a Sauk and Fox delegation to Washington, D.C. where they agreed to relinquish 1,250,000 of their lands In Iowa to the United States officially signing the "Second Purchace" treaty on October 21, 1837.[11] He later accompanied the Fox chieftain Poweshiek to select a location for the Sac and Fox agency on the Des Moines River. The agency was located on the Lower Des Moines, at the site of present-day Agency City, Iowa. Using money from the U.S. Indian Fund, he oversaw the construction of several buildings including a small farm for his family when they arrived from Prairie du Chien in April 1838. Recognizing the scarcity of game in the region, he encouraged the federal government to introduce farming to the agency as well as the establishment of Presbyterian missions to provide education to the local tribes.

Street had been in negotiations with the U.S. government on behalf of the Fox and Sauk for another purchase of Sac and Fox lands in Iowa, however he had been in failing health for some time and died at the agency on May 5, 1840.[12] His son-in-law, Major John Beach, took over his position as agent to the Sac and Fox and hosted a week long council which resulted in the signing of the treaty on October 11, 1842. One of the clauses requested by the chieftains was a special stipend to be paid to Street's widow.

He was greatly respected among both his contemporaries as well as Native Americans. The war chieftain Wapello, a close and personal friend, requested to be buried alongside him in what is now Chief Wapello's Memorial Park.

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^ Keatley, John H. History of Pottawattamie County, Iowa. Chicago: O.L. Baskin & Co. Historical Publishers, 1883. (pg. 104-105)
^ Cole, Cyrenus. A History of the People of Iowa. Ceder Rapids, Iowa: The Torch Press, 1921. (pg. 174)
^ Bateman, Newton and Paul Selby, ed. Historical Encyclopedia of Illinois. Chicago and New York: Munsell Publishing Company, 1900. (pg. 430)
^ Barber, John W. and Henry Howe. All the Western States and Territories, from the Alleghanies to the Pacific, and From the Lakes to the Gulf. Cincinnati: Henry Howe, 1867. (pg. 333)
^ a b Teakle, Thomas. The Spirit Lake Massacre. Iowa City, Iowa: State Historical Society of Iowa, 1918. (pg. 25)
^ Shambaugh, Benjamin F., ed. The Iowa Journal of History and Politics. Vol. XV. Iowa City, Iowa: State Historical Society of Iowa, 1917. (pg. 416)
^ Iowa Journal of History and Politics. Iowa City, Iowa: State Historical Society of Iowa, 1915. (pg. 418)
^ Lewis, James. "The Black Hawk War of 1832," Abraham Lincoln Digitization Project, Northern Illinois University, p. 2C. Retrieved August 1, 2007.
^ a b Clark, Satterlee. "Early Times at Fort Winnebago and Black Hawk War Reminiscences". Report and Collections of the State Historical Society of Wisconsin for the years 1877, 1878, and 1879. Vol. VIII. Madison: David Atwood, 1879. (pg. 316-317)
^ Felicity, Allen. Jefferson Davis, Unconquerable Heart. Columbia, Missouri: University of Missouri Press, 1999. (pg. 75) ISBN 0-8262-1219-0
^ Petersen, William J. Steamboating on the Upper Mississippi. Mineola, New York: Dover Publications, 1995. (pg. 124) ISBN 0-486-28844-7
^ Union Historical Company. The History of Marion County, Iowa. Des Moines: Birdsell, Williams & Co., 1881. (pg. 39-40) 		Street, Gen Joseph Monfort (I38108)
 
3273 Joseph Montfort Street was born in Lunenburg County, Virginia, on the 18th day of December, 1782. His father, Anthony Street, was a Virginia planter, of English ancestry. His mother, Mary (Stokes) Street, was a sister of Gov. Montfort Stokes, of North Carolina. Anthony Street was a soldier in the Continental army from the commencement to the close of the Revolutionary war, and retired a colonel in command of a regiment. He was then made sheriff of Lunenburg County, holding the office for many years.

Joseph was appointed deputy sheriff before he was of age. His early educational advantages must have been meager, for we soon find him employed in a commercial house in Richmond, Virginia.

Little is known of his migration to Kentucky. He read law in the office of Humphrey Marshall and with the great Henry Clay, and for a brief period practiced law in the courts of Kentucky and Tennessee.

Young Street and John Wood began in Frankfort the publication of a politically independent weekly newspaper named The Western World. The World one day startled its readers by boldly charging Aaron Burr, Judge Innis, one Sebastian and others with conspiracy against the Government. Kentucky was alive with sympathizers with Burr, some of them erroneously believing that the proposed expedition to the Southwest was secretly sanctioned by the Government. Judge Innis sued the publishers for libel. The editors pleaded justification, proving that Innis had transmitted sealed documents to New Orleans, documents prepared and sent by Burr. Innis, taken by surprise, fainted and was carried from the courtroom. Street was challenged by several of Burr's allies, but he paid no attention to their challenges further than to publish them as items of news, editorially remarking that they were on file and the writers would severally be attended to!

We next learn of Street's marriage to Eliza Maria, daughter of Maj.-Gen. Thomas Posey of Revolutionary fame, and of his retirement from the State of Kentucky. In Shawneetown, Illinois, Street served for sixteen years as clerk of the court. During much of that time he served also as postmaster and recorder of deeds.

In the year 1827, President John Quincy Adams appointed Joseph M. Street agent for the Winnebago Indians at Prairie due Chien, on the Wisconsin side of the upper Mississippi.

The appointment was due to the influence of Street's friend, Henry Clay. In a letter announcing that he had been appointed to the Indian agency, Clay expressed his conviction that the appointment would redound to the welfare of the Indians and the honor of the Government.

The newly appointed agent entered upon his duties in November, 1827. Early the next year he moved his family to Prairie du Chien.

The next move of the superintendent, in 1835, was the transfer of General Street from the Winnebago agency to that of the Sacs and Foxes, with a change of residence from Prairie du Chien to Rock Island. This change was a great loss to the Winnebagoes, but a corresponding gain to the Sacs and Foxes.

From 1835 to 1837 General Street and his family resided in Rock Island. Then, at no little personal sacrifice, he removed to Prairie du Chien that he might place the Government school which he had founded upon a permanent basis.

Accompanied by Chief Poweshiek and a body-guard of Sac and Fox braves, General Street penetrated the wilderness of the lower Des Moines, to locate an agency at a point most accessible from the principal villages of the tribe. The site was duly selected -- early in 1838 -- and the general contracted for the erection of the necessary buildings, including a council house, a dwelling for his family, a business office, stables and a blacksmith shop.

The site selected, Street contracted with a builder from Missouri and imported a force of mechanics, laborers and negro slaves. The council house was first erected and after that the blacksmith shop. In April, 1939, General Street moved his family and household effects to the new agency, and, with many plans for the future, settled down to the final work of his career.

While deeply engaged in work for his wards, he was warned by failing health that his end was near. He was taken ill in November, 1839, and lingered on until the 5th of May, 1840. Drs. Enos Lowe of Burlington and Volney Spaulding of Fort Madison attended him during his last illness, their ride extending over seventy-five miles each way. Doctor Posey, of Shawneetown, his wife's brother, came to their relief as soon as possible. While his death was attributed to apoplexy, his son was of the opinion that he was afflicted with paralysis attended with aphasia. While he found difficulty in expressing himself, "his mind was clear and his faith bright. A short time before his death he called his family together and spoke of his probable death with his customary fearlessness, and charged them to meet him in Heaven."

In a picket enclosure in the woods not far from Agency City, new Ottumwa, Iowa, are three vaults each covered with a marble slab. One of these contains the mortal remains of Chief Wapello; another, those of the Indian's "father and friend," General Street, and the third, the remains of the widow and those of her children who have passed away.

These graves may be seen on the south side of the railroad track about a half-mile east of Agency City. As a local historian has well said, "This spot is classic ground in Iowa's aboriginal history."

Now, three-quarters of a century removed from the period made glorious by this man's fidelity to a sacred trust, we of the twentieth century should be proud of the fact that away back in the thirties there lived in Iowa a man who in his long career as Indian agent was, and will remain for all time, an ideal public servant whom the spoils of office could not buy.

Source:
Iowa: Its History and Its Foremost Citizens Revised, Home and School Edition by Brigham Johnson. 2 Vols. Des Moines, IA: The S. J. Clarke Publishing Company, 1918. 		Street, Gen Joseph Monfort (I38108)
 
3274 JOSEPH MOSES ECHOLS [5910] was born 1704 in Virginia, and died before 1794 in Halifax County, North Carolina. He never married. He had severe asthma and could not lay down. He had a device made to hold his head up so he could sleep while sitting up. His primary occupation was hunting and trapping. According to Milner Echols Joseph "never lay down for 40 years." Echols, Joseph (I514)
 
3275 Joseph Motley, the son of Joseph and Elizabeth (Forrest) Motley, was born in Gloucester County about 1720. About 1750 he married Martha Ellington, the daughter of David Ellington who named Martha Motley in his 1773-will in Amelia County. Joseph took the oath of militia captain in 1770. Joseph and Martha sold four tracts of land of 778 acres and a mill in Amelia County in 1780. Joseph died in 1806 in Pittsylvania County identifying eleven children in his will (will dated 8 Nov 1804, & recorded 15 Dec 1806), and they buried him in Danville, Virginia.

In 1778 Joseph Motley purchased 1000 acres in Pittsylvania County, Virginia He served as a Captain under George Washington in the French & Indian War, and was a supply agent for the Continental Army in the Revolutionary War. Joseph Motley's will names (second) wife Elizabeth, sons David, Daniel, Samuel and John; daughters Martha Stewart, Obedience Morehead, Sally Anderson, Amey Carter, and Delilah Terry; grandson Joseph Tanner.

Pittsylvania County Deeds & Wills
Volume 11 p.279
Joseph Motley ......will recorded 12-15-1806
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Pittsylvania County Courthouse, Chatham, Va.
Deeds and Wills Vol. 2 Page 299

In the name of God amen. I Joseph Motley, of Pittsylvania County, in the state of Virginia being weak in body but of perfect mind and memory, calling to mind the uncertainty of life and the certainty of death that is alloted once for all men to die, do make, constitute and ordain this my last will and testament in the manner and words following: viz; First of all I give and bequeath my soul into the hands of Almighty God who gave it and my body to the earth to be buried in a decent and christian-like manner at the discretion of my executors, nothing doubting that I shall receive it again at the morning Ressurection by the mighty power of God and as touching my worldly goods as it has pleased Almighty God to bless me with, I give and bequeath in the following manner: first it is my will and desire that all my just debts should be paid and the remainder to be divided in the following manner, viz Item, I give and bequeath to my beloved wife, Elizabeth Motley, one hundred pounds cash to her and her heirs forever. I also lend her during her natural life the following property to wit: the land the plantation whereon I now live and the following negroes to wit: Primor, Will, Stat, Hannah and children, also twelve head of my choice cattle, one chart (cart) and
oxen two mares, Sinai and Snip, six head of choice sheep, all my stock of hogs household and kitchen furniture and plantation utensils, and one London still by her to be quietly and peacefully enjoyed without trouble and molestation and the remainder of my estate to be divided in the following manner among my children and grandchildren in the following manner hereafter named.

First, to my grandaughter, Patsy Motley, daughter of David Motley, one eleventh part I give and bequeath my family is from virginia to her and her heirs forever.
Item, to my son Daniel Motley, I give and bequeath one eleventh part to him and his heirs forever.
Item, to my son Samuel Motley, I give and bequeath one eleventh part to him and his heirs forever.
Item, to my son John Motley, I give and bequeath one eleventh part to him and his heirs forever.
Item, to my daughter, Martha Stewart's four children I give and bequeath one eleventh part to be
divided equally among them and to them and their heirs forever.
Item, to my daughter Obedience Morehead, I give and bequeath one eleventh part to her and her heirs forever.
Item, to my daughter, Prudence Stone, one eleventh part to her and her heirs forever.
Item, to my daughter, Sally Anderson, I give and bequeath one eleventh part to her and her heirs forever.
Item, to my daughter, Amy Carter, I lend one eleventh part during her natural life and at her death
I give and bequeath to the heirs of her body, lawfully begotten to them and their heirs forever.
To my daughter Delilah Terry, I give and bequeath one eleventh part to her and her heirs forever.
Item, to my grandson, Joseph Motley Tanner, I give and bequeath one eleventh part to him and his
heirs lawfully begotten and if the said Joseph should die without such heirs it is my will and desire that his two brothers, Joel Tanner and Asa Tanner, should have his part equally divided between them.

It is also my will and desire that the part of my estate lent to my wife, at her death should be divided among the persons and in the manner the other part of my estate has been given and bequeathed to and among, and having disposed of my whole estate, I constitute, ordain and appoint my executors as the worshipful court shall think proper to direct and herby disannulling and revoking all other or wills heretofore by me made.

I do make and ordain this my last will and testament, this eight day of November in the year of our Lord Jesus Christ, one thousand eight hundred and four as witness my hand and seal.

(signed) JOSEPH MOTLEY

Signed, sealed, pronounced, delivered and declared in the presence of John R. Hall,
William Hall. her
Rhoda X Oliver
mark

Notes for Joseph Junior Motley:
Siblings Joice,Martha and Joel Motley were apparently born after 1742 since they were minors in 1763 when Joseph Motley's Will was drawn. Conversely, Joseph was apparently born before 1742.

Joseph Motley, by a deed from his father dated 4 JUN 1760, received the three hundred acres in Amelia Co., VA that his father purchased in 1744. His will was made on 8 NOV 1804,and presented in court on 15 DEC 1806.

Joseph Motley Jr. was a member of the Church of England or Episcopal Church as it was later called. In the FEB Court of Amelia Co, 1770, he took oath of office as Captain of Militia, and it is said served under Colonel Washington. He later removed to Pittsylvania Co, VA where he was an extensive planter and where he died.

Will Probated: December 15, 1806
Marriage: 1750, Virginia.

Father: Joseph Motley
Mother: Elizabeth Forrest
Spouse: Martha Ellington
Married: 1750 in Amelia County, Virginia
Children:
1. David James Motley
2. Obedience "Biddy" Motley (m. John Morehead IV)
John Motley Morehead, son of John Morehead and Obedience Motley.
Governor of North Carolina 1841-1845; later served in the Confederate Congress.
3. Martha Motley (m. James Stewart)
4. Samuel Motley (m. Elizabeth Terry)
5. Daniel Motley (m. Sarah Pain)
6. Prudence Motley (m. Joshua Stone)
7. Amy Motley (m. James C. Carter)
8. Delilah Motley (m. Benjamin Terry)
9. Sally Motley (m. Frances Anderson)
10. John Motley (m. Elizabeth Dupuy)
11. Elizabeth Motley (m. Floyd Tanner)
Spouse: Elizabeth Irby
Married 24 July 1782 in Pittsylvania County, Virginia.

Note. Excerpt from
The American monthly magazine, Volume 2
By Daughters of the American Revolution

Captain Joseph Motley, himself served in the French and Indian War, under Colonel George Washington, and was with him at Braddock's defeat. He did not go into the Revolutionary army, but sent six sons, while he remained at home with the delicate wife and little children whom he must protect from harm in his hiding place in the woods, because of the many Tories that then infested that part of the State. One of these sons was gone with the army seven years, and had entirely outgrown the memory of all who knew him, as he went forth a tender youth of seventeen, when one day there came down the "great road" a bronzed and hardened man, worn and weary, accompanied by a few straggling soldiers. Captain Motley met the strangers, saluted and passed them, when one of them called out, "Isn't that horse you ride 'Old Dobbin', and aren't you Captain Motley, my father?" Yes, it was Old Dobbin, and the stranger, "Brother Davy", the long lost one, mourned as dead. Of course there was joy as they returned to the old homestead, where the negroes in their annual corn-shucking jubilee were singing "round up corn! round up corn!", when suddenly there came a louder shout, "Hul-ded-da, dere's Mars Davy! li Hul-ded-da, dere's Mars Davy!", from "Old Rachel", the faithful black woman, once an African Princess in her own country, but for years the beloved and loving nurse and friend of these motherless children. They always spoke of her in later years with tenderest affection, and honored her memory. They had known the horrors of suspense and fear which war brings, and longed for the presence of their brothers and father, and wondered why he could never come home except under cover of night. They feared the "Red Coats", as they heard the booming of guns down the James river, and trembled at the thought of their coming.

Alas, not enemies, but former friends, brought to them the saddest of all disasters. One day there came galloping into the yard a troop of noisy, drinking, rude Tories, led on by their neighbor and friend, who, knowing the family and their faithful devotion to their Country, had determined to wreak their vengeance upon the innocent and helpless children and their mother, then as helpless in bed herself, nursing an infant only a few weeks old. After demanding something to eat, to drink, the whereabouts of her husband and sons, this man seized her hand, felt the pulse, declared, "Mrs Motley, you need bleeding, and I shall bleed you", pierced the tender vein with his knife, despite her struggles and the cries of the frightened children. They saw the life blood spouting from the loved mother's arm as she fainted into unconsciousness, and the picture seemed never to fade away from the daughter's memory. The Tories hurried away; the faithful servant applied restoratives and brought back to temporary life the dying mother ere the father's return to his house. Seeing his wife's condition, he seized his gun and started in pursuit of the murderer. But the good mother called him back, beseeching him to leave vengeance to the Lord and save his own life for their children's sake. He yielded to her, put aside the gun to soothe and comfort the dying hours.

Long years afterward there came a day of retribution. The little Obedience having grown up through these years of privation and hardship without a mother's love for which she constantly yearned, had herself become a wife and mother, with a home of her own, whose doors ever stood

Residence, 1768. Amelia, Virginia, USA
Joseph, Jr. Motley found in:
Virginia Vital Records #1, 1600s-1800s
Listed in: Virginia Tax Records
Page number: 15
Tax list - Capt. Thomas Tabb's Poll

Virginia Tax Records
Poll of Amelia County, Va., 1768
Page 15

Military, Feb 22, 1770. 7 Amelia, Virginia, USA
Genealogical Records: Virginia Colonial Records, 1600s-1700s
Listed in: Virginia Colonial Soldiers
Page number: 3
Capt.Joseph Motley

In the FEB Court of Amelia Co., 1770,he took oath of office as Captain
of Militia, and it is said served under Colonel Washington. He later removed to Pittsyvania Co., VA where he was an extensive planter and where he died.

Military, 1777. Virginia, USA
Captain Joseph Motley III was one of the Virginia soldiers under
Washington?s command at Braddock?s defeat (Morehead in Hurt 1976, 98,218).

Daughters of the American Revolution
MOTLEY, JOSEPH
[Full Ancestor Record]
Ancestor #: A082205
Service:VIRGINIA Rank(s): CIVIL SERVICE, PATRIOTIC SERVICE
Birth: 1720 VIRGINIA
Death: 15 Dec 1806 PITTSYLVANIA CO VIRGINIA
Service Source:ABERCROMBIE & SLATTEN, VA REV PUB CLAIMS, VOL 3, PP 761,762; PITTSYLVANIA CO CIRCUIT COURT REC,NO 4,P 502
Service Description:
1) RENDERED MATERIAL AID
2) MEMBER OF GRAND JURY, PITTSYLVANIA CO
http://216.36.105.133/DAR_Research/search_descendants/?action=list&MyP rimary_Seqn=458508&MyLineageCount=1&Control_Min_Seqn=458508

Residence, 1779. 9 Amelia, Virginia, USA
Joseph Motley found in:Colonial America, 1607-1789 Census Index
State: VA
County: Amelia Co.
Census/Enumeration year: 1779

Virginia Census, 1607-1890
Name: Joseph Motley
State: VA
County: Amelia County
Township: No Two Listed
Year: 1779
Record Type: Rent Role
Page: NPN
Database: VA Early Census Index

Deed, May 6, 1780. Amelia, Virginia, USA
(Amelia Co., Va., DB 15:357) May 6, 1780. Joseph MOTLEY and Martha his wife of Amelia to William BELL of same. . .land in Amelia on both sides of Flat Creek adjoining Robert VAUGHAN, Thomas ADKINSON, Benjamin OVERTON, Anthony WEBSTER and Mary JETER. . . (Deed Book 15, Deed Book 16 and Deed Book 17, Amelia County, Virginia. Gibson Jefferson McConnaughey)
http://www.combs-families.org/combs/assoc/atkinson.htm

Legatee, Feb 19, 1785. Amelia, Virginia, USA
AMELIA COUNTY ORDER BOOKS 17 & 18
June 1785 - March 1788
Transcribed by Reiley Kidd

Whereas Joseph Motley sued out of this Court on a judgment of the said
Court an execution against the estate of John Dalby for 12,506 pounds of crop tobacco and £1.19.2 & three farthings including debt interest and all costs. By virtue whereof the Sheriff of this County the 19th day of February 1785 seized and took into his hands sufficient of the estate of John Dalby to satisfy the same and the said John with Nicholas Vaughan his security having entered into bond to pay the said 12,506 lbs crop tobacco and £1.19.2 ¾ and lawful interest thereon, within three months according to the direction of the Act of Assembly. The said Sheriff restored to the said John Dalby the estate taken as aforesaid and the said 12506 pounds crop tobacco and £1.19.2 ¾ and interest not being paid (cont.)

p. 7b
(cont.) paid (sic) according to law, and the condition of the said bond. On the motion of the said Joseph Motley by his attorney, the said John Dalby and Nicholas Vaughan, having had legal notice of this motion and not appearing though solemnly called, It is considered by the Court that the said Joseph Motley have execution against the said John and Nicholas of the said 12,506 lbs crop tobacco and £1.19.2 ¾ and lawful interest thereon from the 19th day of February 1785 till payment and also for his costs by him in this behalf expended.

Residence, 1799. Amelia, Virginia, USA
Joseph Motley found in:Colonial America, 1607-1789 Census Index
State: VA
County: Amelia Co.
Census/Enumeration year: 1779 		Motley, Joseph (I213)
 
3276 Joseph Parsons 1690-1770 and Sarah Woodson's son Richard Parsons born was abt 1713 Henrico, Va married Lydia Biggs 1725-aft 1758 Richard wrote his will on 22 Dec 1783 in Pittsylvania, Va, his wife Lydia was in the will, and recorded on 21 Feb 1785 in Pittsylvania, Va. After Sarah Woodson Parsons died in 1746 Henrico. Joseph Parsons married Suzannah Woody on 7 Feb 1750 in Henrico, Va, and she was mentioned in Joseph's will written 6 Aug 1762 Henrico. Parsons, Joseph (I5979)
 
3277 Joseph Parsons 1690-1770 and Sarah Woodson's son Richard Parsons born was abt 1713 Henrico, Va married Lydia Biggs 1725-aft 1758 Richard wrote his will on 22 Dec 1783 in Pittsylvania, Va, his wife Lydia was in the will, and recorded on 21 Feb 1785 in Pittsylvania, Va. After Sarah Woodson Parsons died in 1746 Henrico. Joseph Parsons married Suzannah Woody on 7 Feb 1750 in Henrico, Va, and she was mentioned in Joseph's will written 6 Aug 1762 Henrico. Parsons, Richard (I638)
 
3278 Joseph Reynolds and his first wife Margaret Devin were the parents of 9 children. Margaret died about 1798. His second wife was Nancy Ford whom he married on 26 Jul 1803. According to census records, they were the parents of 7 or 8 children. Joseph served in the military during the American Revolution. Evidently two of Joseph's children by his second marriage were James M born in 1803 and John M born in 1810.

Pittsylvania County VA Deed Book 16, Page 243-244:
Reynolds from Devin, 06 January 1809:
From Robert Devin, executor, to Joseph Reynolds (widower husband of Margaret who is daughter of William Devin, Sr.) partitioning land in the estate of William Devin, Sr.

Deed From Robert Devin To Joseph Reynolds
This Indenture made this Sixth Day of [?D. Jan.y?] in the year of our Lord Christ one thousand eight Hundred & nine Between Robert Devin Surviving Executor of Wm Devin decd of the one part and Joseph Reynolds guardian to the Children of Margret Reynolds decd and fore the said Childrens benifit of the County of Pittsylvania of the other part, Witnesseth that the said Robert Devin as Ex. for deceased in consideration of the Sum of Twenty five pounds 14/3 lawful money of Virginia to him in hand paid by the said Joseph Reynolds the receipt whereof is hereby acknowledged hath bargained Sold and by these presentz doth absalutely give Grant bargain and Sell unto the said Joseph Reynolds for the bennifit of Said Children, one Certain tract or Lot of land, lying & being in the County of Pittsylvania on the waters of Banister Containing One Hundred & Eight acres 71 poles bithr Same more or less, it being the part of the land directed to be Sold by the Executors to the Will of William Devin Decd and Jointly purchased on the day of Sale by the legalus of Said Devin Deceased and after divided by Lot which Lot is bounded as followeth To Wit Beginning at John Mitchells Corner Located in the old Build home The Orchard then his line North 15 degress West one Hundred and thirty poles to a black Jack Corner of the old line then is with the old line S. 64 E. 5 poles to pointers, N. 16. E. 35. pos. to a red oak Corner N 49 E 73 pos. to a white oak N 74 E 24 pos. to a red oak Corner S 13 E 168 poles to pointers on the old line and thence to South 61 W 106 pos to the Beginning, which lot of land aforesaid the said Robert Devin Execr for himself forever. 		Reynolds, Joseph Sr. (I800)
 
3279 Joseph Reynolds and William Reynolds were both named as executors in the will of their grandfather William Nealy, dated 6 December 1787 and probated 21 July 1788. William Reynolds, qualified as executor on Sept. 15, 1788. Reynolds, William (I21532)
 
3280 Joseph Reynolds, son of Hew, was baptised by Rev. John Cuthbertson in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania on 15 Aug 1759. Reynolds, Joseph Sr. (I800)
 
3281 Joseph Street was probably born in Caroline county, Virginia, as he ismentioned several times in the Carolina Court Order Books. He married
Jane Murray, daughter of James Murray, also mentioned in Caroline
county. He died in 1780 from Smallpox.

It is believed he is a son of William Street.#720 in "The Street Genealogy"
Res. Prince Edward, Caroline, Halifax and Hanover Co., VA
Possibly a brother to Capt. John Street.
Will dated 2 Jul 1781, Probate 21 Feb 1782, Will Book 2, pg. 28
Emigrated from england. Settled in Hanover Co vA, Died of Small-pox in1782.
 		Street, Joseph (I33184)
 
3282 Joseph Terry and Judith his wife acknowledge their deed indebted to Daniel Singleton. If Joseph was only 20 years old at this time he would have been born 1716. That he was born earlier is borne out by the fact that his son David would have to be born at this time period for him to have fathered his son John, born 1760. That David was not the oldest child is proven in Amherst County, Will Book 1, page 6, when the grandfather David Crawford states that Lucy is the oldest child of his daughter Judith. Assumption based on Pittsylvania County settlement Bk 1, p. 163, South Carolina Historical and Genealogical Magazine Vol 7 p. 106, Nintey-Six Dist. SC Wills Bk B, p. 373, Annals of Georgia, Liberty County records, p. 95, The Journals of the House of Burgesses, Vol. 1770-1772, pp 21-29. Caroline County, VA Order Book 1732-1740.
Birth: ABT 1705 in Chesterfield County, Virginia
Death: 19 DEC 1785 in Pittsylvania County, Virginia

Father: James Terry b: ABT 1675 in Lunenburg County, Virginia
Mother: Mary Diana Royall b: ABT 1680 in Chesterfield County, Virginia
Marriage 1 Judith Crawford b: 9 JUL 1705 in Hanover County, Virginia
Married: ABT 1738
Children
Lucy Terry b: ABT 1737 in Virginia
David Terry b: ABT 1740 in Halifax County, Virginia
Joseph Terry b: ABT 1750 in Pittsylvania County, Virginia
Thomas Terry b: 15 JAN 1754
Anne Terry
Elizabeth Terry
Champness Terry b: ABT 1740 in Virginia 		Terry, Joseph (I11151)
 
3283 Joseph Thurman Signed Surety Bond, Family: William Farmer / Mary Molly Drury (F5212)
 
3284 Joseph Ward patented 731 acres on the north fork of Little Roanoke in
Brunswick county in 1739. The next year John Ward patented 40O acres on the south side of Rose's creek; in 1742 Richard Ward patented 17OO acres on Staunton river; in 175O John Ward patented 425 acres on Hunter's branch on the north side of Hunter's creek and a year later patented 55O acres at the head of Jenita creek. Two or more families bearing the Ward name were recorded in Campbell, and the names John and Richard are found among Major John Ward's descendants, but nothing has been found concerning these early patentees.

In 1753 the two brothers, John and Jeremiah Ward, of Albemarle, patented 32OO acres of land on the north side of Dan river in Pittsylvania county, which were located (as designated) "in the mountains." John then settled at Reed creek; and some years later Jerry moved to Cabell county on the Guyandotte river. John Ward married the beautiful Anne, daughter of Henry and Anne Harrelson-Chiles of Pittsylvania. He built a second home, The Mansion, east of the mouth of Otter river near its entrance into the Staunton and only a few miles from where Alta Vista now stands; here he lived, and, dying (over 10O years old), in 1816, was buried in the family grave-yard nearby. Major Ward married, secondly, 1766, Mrs. Sarah Clark - Lynch, daughter of Christ. Clark and widow of Charles Lynch, Sr., for which she was disowned by the Quakers, Ward not being of the sect. He received his title in 1778 as Major of Bedford county militia, an office he resigned in 1781 on account of his great age.

In 1778 Major Ward established a ferry across the Staunton, having previously kept there a boat free to passengers, and in 1810 he obtained permission to erect a toll bridge near his ferry. As early as 1769 he built mills at Sinkler's and Chile's creeks; raised large yield of hemp upon his land. Included in his estate was a tract called Indian Camps, which received the name from its use by Indians. He surveyed the road leading to Lynchburg which still bears his name and which, though recently improved by shortening of curves, filling of depressions and sand-clay resurfacing, is not materially changed from its early lines; in providing cross-country passage for his neighbors, Ward builded better than he reckoned, for his road now forms part of a highway which runs through the state, and connects with routes leading north and south.

Children of John and Anne H. Ward:
I.—John, Jr., never married, was ensign of Bedford militia in 1781, and
lieutenant in 1782; he owned a large estate in land, of which he willed (1826) the larger part to his nephew, John, the son of his brother, William. Indian Camps, was part of his inheritance.

II.—William, born 1745, married Mildred, eldest daughter of Robert and
Penelope Lynch - Adams, owned land above Leesvtlle; was a justice in
Pittsylvania in 1777, member of the Committee of Safety in 1775, captain of militia, in 178O was allowed £53.14 for provisions furnished Mrs. Atkinson, the wife of a soldier. Children: Robert Adams m. Betsy, dau. of Charles L. and Sally Lynch-Terrell in 18O7; their son, Robert H., was appointed by Underwood in 187O judge of Campbell county court; a son, Charles, m. Martha K., dau. of Nathaniel and Virginia Woodson-Henry.

John (3rd of the name),m., in 18O5, Tabitha Hubbard, dau. of Chas. and
Elizh. M. Wall-Walden, gr.-dau. of Col. Chas. F. Wall, and gr.-dau. of Rd. and Candace Hub-bard-Walden. John Ward was killed in 1838 by a tree falling on him, when he was having ground cleared; his home was Edge Hill, Pittsylvania, near Leesville. He had 12 children of whom
—Mildred, the eldest, m. (1st wife), Augustine Leftwich and died young;

— Henry Chiles m. Sally Winston, dau. of Dr. John J. Cabell; their son, Capt. John C. Ward of the C. S, army, was imprisoned at Johnson's Island, where he contracted consumption, and died two years later: m: Elizabeth, dau. of Hugh Roy Scott;

—William Walden m., 1836, Elizabeth M. Adams; owned 13O2 acres on Staunton river and Cheese creek, along Lynchburg and Pittsylvania turnpike: will recorded 1845;

-Charles m. Martha A. Dillard, 1835; soldier in Mexican War, remained and died in Texas;

—Three next sons died unmarried;

—Dr. David C. went with the gold hunters in 1849; returned to Virginia; died, unmarried, 19O6;

—Addison Whitfield, m., 1st, Wilmouth W. Adams; m., 2nd, Mary C. Anthony; m., 3rd, Fanny S. Terry;

—Sally Wilmouth m. Samuel Clark Tardy, Jr., son of Saml. C. and Jane Haden-Tardy, and moved first to Richmond, then to Lynchburg, where he conducted a wholesale grocery. Their daughter, Eva, youngest of a large family of sons and daughters, married Wm. McAdoo, secretary of the Navy under Cleveland;

—Lucy E. m. James M. Spindle of Wytheville;

-Alex Tazewell m. Ann, dau. of Wm. Lee. Major Ward devised his lands, above the mouth of Old Woman's creek, adjoining Staunton river, to his son, William.

III.—Agatha m. (2nd wife) Col. John Callaway, and lived near Evington, died in 1812. To her Major Ward gave his lands on Smith river in Patrick, Franklin and Montgomery counties, jointly with his son Henry.

IV.-Ann m., 1st, Christopher, son of Charles Lynch; m., 2nd, Benjamin Dillard, to whose 3 children their grand-father bequeathed 85O acres on Sycamore creek above Early's mill.

V.—Major Henry, a commissary during the Revolution, was active in providing for the American troops and was also issuing commissary to the Catawba Indians from February 21st till April 2O, 178O. It is probable that these were the Indians who occupied the Camps and whose friendship Henry Ward gained by acts of kindness to them. After his death they came back to make him a call and were distressed to learn that their friend had passed away. In remembrance of his service to them they performed certain religious ceremonies to obtain by favorable sign the assurance that Ward had passed to the happy hunting grounds; this was effected by knocking heads together till the blood flowed from their nostrils and was caught in straws which they then held to the sun to discover if light showed through, thus indicating that he had reached the desired goal,—the
perception of a favorable sign gave them much satisfaction.

Henry Ward received from his father, the land adjoining the ferry on the south side of Staunton river, land and the home place on the north side of Staunton and Otter rivers and Cheese creek, the mill and tract on Old Woman's creek, the tract on the south side of the Staunton purchased of Henry Chiles and known as Jack’s Place. Children of Henry Ward: Matilda Callaway, born 18OO, m. Thomas Tunstall Adams of Pittsylvania; — Lucinda Dillard, born 18O1, m. 1823 Dr. John Biddle Rutledge of Maryland, their daughter, Martha Henry m. James Carter, whose daughter, Maud, married Nathaniel K. Clement, a member of the House of Delegates from Pittsylvania, who has served two terms, also as state senator. Dr. Rutledge built Monteflora and resided there; after his death Major Henry Adams bought the place and lived there until it was burned, when he moved to the old Mansion home which was also burned down seven or eight years ago. Monteflora was rebuilt by H. W. Adams, a son of Major Henry W. Adams, but the Mansion has not been rebuilt.—Juliana, born 18O8, m. John Wheeler Rutledge and moved to Maryland;—Henrietta, born 181O, m. 1828, Dr. William J. McIlheiny of Baltimore: moved to St. Louis;—William, born 1814, moved to Missouri:—Robert A. born 1817;—^-Edwin Jeremiah, born 1821 moved to Arkansas.

VI.—Jeremiah Ward, Jr., moved to Texas.

VII.-Thomas Ward m. Milly, daughter of Richard Walden, and moved to Ohio.

Three families of Wards located in Campbell county at different periods. The second to come was Seth Ward, 5th or 6th in family line bearing that full name.

Seth Ward of Henrico county, in 1632 was granted 60 acres of land in Varina; he died in 1677. His son, Richard Ward, had four sons, the eldest of whom was Seth, who lived at Sheffield and who died in 1732. The third of these brothers was Joseph (who died in 1743) and he had six sons, the second of whom was named Seth.

In 1823 David J. Thompson sold Seth Ward the "Buffalo Mills," and distillery on Buffalo creek (reserving the carding machine) near the town of New London on the east side of Turner's branch. Seth, son of Seth and Mary Goode-Ward, born between 172O and 173O in Powhatan county, married Martha, the sister of Captain William Norvell of Lynchburg and settled in New-London. Episcopalian in faith, he built Chax creek church near Trinity, and was instrumental in building St. Stephen's church, a brick church still standing and not far from Forest depot. His son, Seth Ward, married Ann Hard wick in 1818. The family of Seth and Martha Norvell-Ward moved to Tennessee. Rev. William Norvell Ward, an Episcopal clergyman, was a son of this Seth Ward; the daughters were Mrs. Williams, Mrs. Kerr and Miss Ward.

Giles Ward, who made his home in Lynchburg, was the third of the name to
settle in Campbell, coming to Virginia from Connecticut. He possessed
considerable dramatic talent and started in Lynchburg the Thespian Society, of which he was made the president. Giles Ward married Adeline, the daughter of Major James Risque, and his wife, Elizabeth Kennerly, and their son, James Beverley Ward married Harriet Emmaline, daughter of John Buford and Angeline Brown-Otey; they resided on a farm near Forest but moved to Lynchburg. Of this family only two daughters, Mrs. Emory McVeigh and Mrs. Will Johns, remained in the locality; other sisters and brothers moving south; daughters—Ella, Addie (m. McVeigh), Annie, Julia (married
Johns); sons: John, Otey, Charles (m. Helen Cartmell of Lynchburg). Ferdinand Ward went West. Harriet, eldest daughter of Major Risque and sister of Mrs. Giles Ward, married Major George Hutter, of Sandusky. 		Ward, John (I27037)
 
3285 Joseph was a cordwainer, and lived in the East Parish of Guilford. A deed bearing the date of 1740 gives his place of residence as Guilford. Witness to will of Josiah Arnold of Haddam, 15th June 1733. It is said he moved to Killingworth, Conn. No record of his death is found here or at Guilford. Probably moved west with one of his sons. Munger, Joseph (I2149)
 
3286 Joseph was probably born in Tudeley in the County of Kent in England, around 1600. His parents were William Merriam and Sarah Burgess. He married Sarah Goldstone about 1623, probably in Tudeley. He followed his father in the business of being a clothier, and obviously was successful.

He formed a partnership to charter a ship and take freight and passengers to New England. Joseph, Sarah and their five children also sailed on that ship, the "Castle" of London, which arrived in Charlestown in July 1638. They settled in Concord, joined the church, and Joseph was admitted as a freeman. Joseph's life in New England was very brief, however, for he died on January 1, 1640/1.

His will, which was written on December 29, shows his thoughtful, businesslike mind. His oldest son had not yet reached legal age, so he charged his brother and two of the leading citizens of the town with carrying out his plans for his family. He is buried in the Old Hill Burying Ground in Concord. His widow later married Joseph Wheeler of Concord. She died in Concord in 1671. 		Merriam, Joseph (I29860)
 
3287 Joseph William Echols, was the son of Joel Hubbard Echols & Sarah W. Anthony. Per his own testimony he was born in Pittsylvania County, Virginia in 1833.

Joseph moved to DeSoto County, Missisisppi in July of 1849. He lived eight miles west of Senatobia for five years. In October of 1851, he joined the Old Salem Baptist Church and tried to live a Christian life from there on. Then he return to Virginia where he married Minerva Susan EASLEY on 5 SEP 1855. They had at least seven children together: Annie E., Joel P., Emma J., M. Ellen, Eula Lee, Willie Sue and infant.

Soon after, he returned to DeSoto County, Mississippi to a land he described as: "country . . .divided into large plantations. Where were only a few settlements between my home and Helena. Neither were there any roads or cleared land west of Arkabutla."

In 1860, Joseph enlisted to serve in the Civil War but after three months, he had to hire a substitute on account of bad health. He described his part of the country as "relatively quite during the war, though we were frightened pretty much at times."

In 1869 Joseph moved to a place just west of Senatobia until he moved into town around 1907.

In 1897, Joseph married his cousin, the widow Mary D. (nee Echols) Garrett HUNTER. This was Mary D's third marriage. Mary died on July 19th, 1902. Joseph married a final time to Nancy Juliet DEES. Juliet died onDecember 11th, 1917.

Joseph died around 1927 and was buried next to his three wives in Bethesda Cemetery in Senatobia, Tate, Mississippi.

Family links:
Spouses:
Nancy Juliet Dees (1851 - 1917)
Minerva Susan Easley Echols (1831 - 1894)*
Mary Diana Echols (1848 - 1902)*

Children:
Mary Ellen Echols Goldsby (1861 - 1930)*
Emma Echols Goldsby (1885 - 1951)*

*Calculated relationship

Burial:
Bethesda Cemetery
Senatobia
Tate County
Mississippi, USA

Created by: Cari Lee Crane
Record added: May 01, 2011
Find A Grave Memorial# 69200557 		Echols, Joseph William (I16809)
 
3288 Joseph's age is listed as 60-70 in the 1830 census. Because his marriage bond is dated 1780, he must be closer to 70 years old in 1830. These records indicate a birth about 1760.

Since Hugh Reynolds first appears in the Pittsylvania County area records about 1766, Joseph was born elsewhere. His father appeared on the 1757 tax list for Martic Township, Lancaster Co., Pa and did not arrive in Pittsylvania County unitl about 1766. The diary of Rev. John Cuthbertson, a reformed Presbyterian missionary, shows that he baptised Joseph Reynolds, son of Hew, on 15 Aug 1759 in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania. 		Reynolds, Joseph Sr. (I800)
 
3289 Joshua Brooks, son of Captain Thomas Brooks, was born about 1630, probably in England. He married, October 17, 1653, Hannah Mason, daughter of Captain Hugh Mason. He was a tanner by trade. He settled in that part of Concord later made the town of Lincoln, where many of his family and his descendants have since lived. Three generations of his descendants in the direct male line have successively held the office of deacon of the Lincoln Church. He was the ancestor of nearly all the name since in Concord and Lincoln. He inherited one-half the Medford property, but there is no account of its disposition except that in January, 1708. He learned his trade as furrier and tanner from Captain Mason, and subsequently married his daughter. He was admitted as freeman May 26, 1652. The children of Joshua Brooks were : Hannah, married Benjamin Pierce, of Watertown ; John, died May 18, 1697; Noah, born 1657, died February 1, 1738-9; married Dorothy Wright, daughter probably of Edward Wright, of Concord. Grace born at Concord, March 10, 1660-1, died 1753, married Judah Potter; Daniel, born at Concord, November 15, 1663, of whom later; Thomas, born May 5, 1666, died September 9, 1671 ; Esther, born July 4, 1668, died 1742; married, August 17, 1692, Benjamin Whittemore, born 1669, died 1734, son of John and Mary (Upham) Whittemore; Joseph, born September 16, 1671, married (first) Abigail Bateman; (second) Rebecca Blodgett; Elizabeth, born December 16, 1672; Job, born July 26, 1675, died May 18, 1697; Hugh, born January 1, 1677-8, died January 17, 1746-7, married, March 9, 1701-2, Abigail Barker, born 1683, daughter of John and Judith (Simonds) Barker; Thomas (possibly), married Elizabeth. Brooks, Joshua (I1088)
 
3290 Joshua GIFFORD is placed as a son of William because he named his oldest son William, and because he had at least one grandson named Benjamin, and because Jonathan of Little Egg Harbor (grandson of William) named one of his sons Joshua. Joshua was a very rare name in early Monmouth County.

Joshua GIFFORD was listed in 1748 as a freeholder in Shrewsbury Tp, Monmouth Co, NJ.

On 24 Nov 1750, Joshua and Hannah GIFFORD were baptized as adults into Christ Church in Shrewsbury. Also baptized at the same time were 3 of their children: Ann (age 8 years and 10 months), William (age 7 years and 5 months), and Joseph (age 1 year and 7 months). Their 4th child, Annaniah, was baptized on 23 Sep 1755, presumably as an infant. At that time, the family was listed as living in Shark River, probably near the present-day town of Belmar.

Joshua GIFFORD was not listed in not 1755 as a freeholder in Monmouth Co, NJ.

Joshua GIFFORD witnessed the will of Annaniah GIFFORD dated 25 Mar 1753 Shrewsbury Tp, Monmouth Co, NJ.

Joshua GIFFORD witnessed the will of Hugh JACKSON dated 16 Apr 1760. He filed an inventory of the estate of Hugh JACKSON on 30 May 1760 Monmouth Co, NJ.

Joshua GIFFORD appeared in the tax ratables for Shrewsbury Tp, Monmouth Co, NJ, between 1779 and 1789 (50 acres of improved land).

Joshua GIFFORD left a will dated 21 Dec 1790 (the will mentioned wife Hannah, daughter Anne Davis, sons William, Joseph, Annaniah, three sons were named as executors). An inventory of the estate of Joshua GIFFORD was filed on 26 Feb 1793 in Monmouth Co, NJ, by Benjamin JACKSON and Annaniah GIFFORD.

The earliest ancestor of whom there is any record was William Gifford, who lived on the banks of "Shirk" (or Shark) river, Momnouth county, and died there in 1683. His son, Ananias Gifford. married at Long Branch, in 1687 or 1688, and their son, Joshua Gifford, married Hannah Dean. Ananias Gifford, "baptized September 23. 1755, was their son. His son, Ananias Gifford, born about 1785. married in 1808, Elizabeth Brewer, born April 15. 1776, daughter of Eleazerus Brewer, born 1716, died 1820, aged one hundred and four, granddaughter of Adam Brewer, died 1769. great granddaughter of Jacobus Brewer, died 1783, and great-great-granddaughter of Adam Brewer, who came to New York from England in 1642. The Ananias Gifford last above mentioned was a judge of the common pleas court of Monmouth county in 184=;. He and his wife, Elizabeth Brewer, were the parents of five children : Hannah Maria, mentioned above, wife of Benjamin Hance Fielder : John В.: Joshua: Samuel; and Ann Jeannette.

1718
Birth of Joshua
Manasquan River, Monmouth Co., NJ
1740
April 5, 1740
Age 22
Marriage of Joshua to Hannah Gifford
Monmouth Co., NJ
1742
January 7, 1742
Age 24
Birth of Anna "Annie" Davis (Gifford)
Shrewsbury, Monmouth Co., NJ
1743
1743
Age 25
Birth of William Gifford
1748
1748
Age 30
Birth of Annaniah Gifford
1748
Age 30
Birth of Joseph Gifford
1793
February 1793
Age 75
Death of Joshua
Sharkle River, Monmouth Co., NJ
Burial of Joshua 		Gifford, Joshua (I22557)
 
3291 Joshua Hawks dtr Nancy Wynn
This is not an attempt to set forth the entire Wynne-Wynn-Winn Genealogy, as there have been many volumes written on the subject, but only to recreate my connection to this lineage. First of all, it is appropriate to note my lineage up to the point where the Winn line enters my direct lineage. It is as follows:

I am the third child and only daughter of Marvin Benjamin Brand and Hazel Alene Standridge, born September 21, 1937 in Farwell, Parmer Co. TX.

Marvin Benjamin Brand, born 2 Feb 1912, in Alvarado, Johnson County, Texas, died 26 May 1995 in Lodi, California, was the fourth child of Nathan Jesse Brand and Ollie Neona Lloyd.

Nathan Jesse Brand, born 20 Nov 1882 in Cherokee County, Georgia, died 29 Aug 1961 in Clovis, New Mexico, was the fifth child born to Robert Mathis Cleveland Brand (RMC) and Melissa Jane Moore.

Robert M. C. Brand (RMC), born 3 March 1843 in Cherokee County, GA, died 25 February 1933 in Grandview, Johnson County, Texas and was the sixth child born to Jonas Brand and his second wife Harriet Winn. This is where the Winn line enters the Brand line.

Harriet Winn had many brothers and sisters, to name only a few: George Washington Winn, William Booker Wynn, Clemmon Quillian Wynn, Mary Melissa Wynn Trewhitt (wife of Judge Trewhitt in Hamilton County, Tennessee), Elmyra Wynn Fincher and about a dozen more I do not have information on.

Harriet Winn was born on 18 November 1810 in Burke County, North Carolina. She died 21 June 1877 in Cherokee County, Georgia and is buried in Shiloh Methodist Cemetery in Walton County, Georgia near the small town of Loganville, Georgia. She gave birth to twelve children, they were 1) Isaiah Brand, 2) Jeremiah D. "Doc" Brand, 3) Joseph N. Brand, 4) Jonas Washington "Wash" Brand, 5) Nancy Amanda Brand, 6) Robert Mathis Cleveland Brand, 7) Nathan Hamilton Brand, 8) John Goodman Brand, 9) Sarah Harriet Brand, 10) Rebecca A. Brand, 11) Margaret Jane Brand, 12) Pricilla Ann Brand.

Harriet Winn’s father was Thomas Marion Wynn also known as Thomas Wynn Jr. By all estimates he was born between 1775 and 1785. Thomas Marion Wynn married Nancy Agee in Wilkes County, Georgia in 1806. The Agee line is the French Connection to the family and well-documented (see "The Agee Register"), also the well known Bonduarant line back to the Huguenots enters the Agee Line. Nancy Agee was the daughter of Joshua Agee and Sarah Ann Bonduarant. Joshua Agee was born 4 Jan 1757 in Buckingham County, Virginia and died December 1837 in Wilkes County, Georgia. Sarah Ann Bonduarant died in 1835 and was the daughter of Peter and Amy Bonduarant. Joshua Agee was the son of Anthony Agee and Christian Worley (see below for more on her line). Anthony Agee was born about 1719 in Manakin, Goochland County, Virginia and died about 1800. Anthony Agee and Christian Worley married 1 May 1751 in Cumberland County, Virginia. Anthony Agee was the son of Mathieu Agee and Ann Gandovin [or Godwin]. Ann was the daughter of Isaac and Ann Gandovin [or Godwin]. Mathieu Agee was the son of Anthony Agee and Judith Chastain. Anthony was born in 1650 in Nantes, LaRochelle, France and Judith was born about 1650 near Nantes, LaRochelle, France. Christian Worley, wife of Anthony Agee was born in 1727 in Manakin, Goochland County, Virginia and died in 1815 in Buckingham County Virginia. She was the daughter of John Worley and Esther Blount. John was born in Virginia, died in Cumberland County, Virginia, the son of Edward and Mary Worley. Esther was born 17 Mar 1703 and died in Virginia, the daughter of John Blount (born 17 Oct 1670 in Virginia) and Elizabeth Davis.

There is no record of Thomas Marion Wynn’s death. In fact, as the family story goes, he owned a gold mine in north Georgia, and one Saturday morning he left home to go to the assay office to sell some of the (or all of the) gold he had, and was never heard from again. The family thought he was killed for the gold, as Cherokee County at the time was almost a wilderness, but the body was never found. There was even some speculation that he took the gold and just "went over the mountain" to start a new family. This seems highly unlikely as he was 70 years of age or better at the time. The story may have some validity because Wyndell Taylor is in possession of a map of Cherokee County, Georgia that was made 12 years after his Great-Great-Great Grandfather George Washington Wynn left Cherokee County, Georgia for Cherokee County, Alabama. On this map, at the location of the 3.5 land lots that George Washington Wynn sold prior to his leaving is listed the "Old Dupree Mine".

Harriet’s Grandfather was Thomas Wynn Sr. from Wilkes County, Georgia, who married Mary Echols. Thomas Wynn St. was the son of Major Joshua Wynne.

Major Joshua Wynne, Harriet’s Great Grandfather, was the youngest son of Colonel Robert Wynne. Joshua was born in Charles City, Virginia in 1660. He was married to Mary Jones, daughter of Captain Peter Jones and wife Margaret (Wood) Jones, daughter of the eminent Major General Abraham Wood, head of Virginia’s fur trade under Royal Governor Sir William Berkley. Joshua was overseer of the Berkley plantation during Bacon’s Rebellion, was a member of the Governor’s Council, and a member of the Virginia House of Burgesses. After building Fort Henry in 1646, he and three other Virginians, two servants and a guide explored what someday would become Tennessee and Kentucky, and being the first Englishmen to set foot there. After this, Joshua lived in Prince George County, Virginia. On 29 March 1715 Major Joshua Wynne was shot and killed by Saponey Indians because one of Joshua’s servants had killed one of the Indian’s "great" men. Upon trial of the Indian, they pleaded that the Wynne’s were the aggressors and that they never rest without revenge. The Indians said that they and the Wynne’s were then equal, each having lost a great man. To avoid more bloodshed the Indian was pardoned. Joshua was an Indian interpreter and was said to be a fearless adventurer. He was a Justice in Charles City County, Virginia as well as Sheriff of Prince George County, Virginia.

Colonel Robert Wynne, Joshua’s father, was the ancestor of all the Marion County, Tennessee Wynne’s. Robert Wynne was born on 28 December 1622 in Canterbury, County Kent, England. He migrated to the Virginia Colony in 1655. He was married in 1657 to Mary Frances (Sloman) Poythress by whom he had four children. Colonel Robert Wynne was speaker of the House of Burgesses and served longer than any man in Virginia’s history, from 13 March 1661 to 1675. Robert died on 8 October 1675. His will, dated 1 July 1675 and proved 15 August 1678 at Jordan

S Parish or Charles City (now Prince George County) shows and estate in Canterbury, England of two houses and a farm, in addition to his 600-acre Virginia estate south of the James River.

Peter Wynne, Colonel Robert Wynne’s father, was born on 25 November 1593 in County Kent, England. He was married 8 Dec 1620 to Martha Coppin who was born 1 June 1595 in England. Martha was the granddaughter of John Coppin, born in 1530 and a member of British Parliament 20 May 1581 and his wife Mary Denne. The Denne family is descended from the Vikings who invaded Normandy and who settled part of France then moved north to England, Scotland and Wales. Peter Wynne and Martha Coppin had two children: 1) Col. Robert Wynne, and 2) Sarah Wynne. Peter was freed from apprenticeship in 1626. Peter Wynne died on 30 May 1638 in Canterbury, County Kent, England.

Peter Wynne’s father was Robert Wynne, born 1558 in Salop (now known as Shrewbury) England. He was a woolendraper. As a young man he was apprenticed to John Rose and was released from his indenture in 1590. By 1599 he was shown as Mayor of Canterbury, England. He and his wife Francis died of the Plague within 2 days of each other. Robert died 6 Oct 1609, and is buried at St. George’s Parish in Canterbury. Peter Wynne’s mother was Frances Wattmer, born in 1594 and died 8 Oct 1609 in Canterbury, County Kent, England. Francis was the daughter of William Wattmer (born 1535) and Johanna Hatch. William Wattmer was the son of William Watmoughe (1510-?) and Margaretta Sparkes. Francis’ father William Wattmer took the Wynne children to a house outside the city and procured a nurse for them. It was William who raised the children. Robert Wynne and Francis Wattmer had the following children:

1) Thomas Wynne, born 1580 in Canterbury, was freed from apprenticeship in 1612. He married his 1st wife Mary Wickham 20 Jul 1613 at Ospringe, England, and had one child. He married his 2nd wife Ann (?) Nichols, widow on 26 Oct 1629.

2) Peter Wynne, born 25 Nov 1593 in Canterbury, England, died 30 May 1638 and is buried at St. George’s Parish, Canterbury, England. Their children were Robert and Sarah Wynne.

3) Daughter, married Paul May.

4) Anne Wynne, married Roger Pey. They had at least two children.

Attached to the end of this short Wynne-Wynn-Winn Genealogy is a copy of a hand written letter sent to me by my fourth Cousin Wyndell Taylor of Powder Springs, Georgia, on January 17, 1998. It was written by a Mr. Edward C. Fox on October 24, 1915. Mr. Fox was president of the United Secret Association of Detectives, incorporated under the state Laws of Ohio, with an office at that time at 128 Clarence Building, 612 Euclid Ave., Cleveland, Ohio. Mr. Fox was investigating heirs to "Estates and Property" of the Wynn family in the United States. This letter, though difficult to read, is reproduced below:

Sir John Wynne. Baronet of Gwgdir [Glyndwr], born in 1553; died March 1, 1627. He succeeded to his father’s Estate in Wales in 1580; and in 1611 he was created a Baronet, in 1586 he was made a member of Parliament. And in 1606 he was made a Knight. He founded a Hospital, , a school.

This ancient family can trace their pedigree in a straight male line through Roderick [Rhodri], Lord of Anglesay, son of Owain Gwgnedd [Gynedd], Prince of North Wales to Onaswd ( ?) King of North Wales, eldest son of Roderick [Rhodri Mawr], the great King of Wales. The latter succeeded to the principality of power and the Kingdom of Gwnedd, and South Wales. He was killed in 876.

Our own great good Christian King Llwelyn [Llywelyn], the great King of Wales was slain December 11, 1282 near Bueth South Wales. His cousin King Edward I succeeded to the throne after Edward’s soldiers had killed Llwelyn [Llywelyn] in battle. Hence we see the foundation of the great English Nation was founded by our own people.

If the throne had not have been confiscated by the other side of the house, I dare say that today the Wynne People would stand at the throne of England in the form of a King or Queen.

I might say that even our present King George the V is distantly related, but the family branches off before reaching the House of Wynnes of Gwgdir[Glyndwr]. So they would not be in our family heirs to share in any of the Wynn Estates.

Yours very truely

Edward C. Fox

Note: The wife of Edward C. Fox was a Wynne…hence his interest in the vast fortune left up for grabs in Wales. Reportedly worth $500,000,000 in 1915!

Some additional information is necessary to understand the source of this Wynn history. As mentioned above, my Great-Great Grandmother was Harriet Winn, and her brother was George Washington Winn. This same George Washington Winn that enlisted in the Confederate Army with RMC. George Washington Winn Married Nancy Jane Kirk, whose brothers George W. Kirk and William A. Kirk also appear on the muster roll of Company B, 34th Regiment Gerogia Volunteer Infantry. Zacharaiah David Brand, RMC’s half brother who also fought in the 34th Georgia Regiment signed the pension application on Nancy Jane Kirk’s behalf, as did John McRae another future relative.

Marcressa Cicero Wynn was the son on George Washington Winn and Nancy Jane Kirk. Marcressa married Sarah Elizabeth Mangum and had a son named Dilmus Jacob Wynn who married Nancy Elizabeth Underwood. Dilmus Jacob Wynn and Nancy Elizabeth Underwood had a daughter named Elsie Pearl Wynn who married Thomas Willard Taylor. The son of Thomas Willard Taylor and Elsie Pearl Wynn is my 4th cousin Wyndell Othella Taylor and the source of this Wynn history.

Road Map

I like to think of genealogy as a road map to the identity of my ancestors, and on all road maps, you will quickly notice many roads entering and exiting the main road, highway or freeway. Genealogically speaking, the main road or freeway would be my direct lineage, and with each prior (or successive) generation, you will encounter a different branch or road leading off in a new direction. I offer the reader a chance now to view this particular genealogy from a new perspective, a side road if you will, as any adventure off the main road tends to be more interesting than traveling the freeway.

Now that the reader is familiar with the direct lineage to my Great Great Grandmother Harriet Winn, and her father Thomas Marion Wynn, and his father Thomas Wynn Sr., and his father Major Joshua Wynne, and his father Colonel Robert Wynne, let’s examine a side branch purely for the fun and adventure of it.

Mary Wynne (1650-1707), daughter of Colonel Robert Wynne and the sister of Major Joshua Wynne, married John Woodliffe III

John Woodliffe III (1650-1772) was Pastor in Prince George County, Virginia in 1689. He was the son of Captain John Woodliffe II

Captain John Woofliffe II (1614-1676) was Burgess of Charles City, Virginia in 1652. He was taken to court in 1658, charged with assault on a Mr. Anthony Wyatt. In 1661, he commanded the county Regiment as a Captain. In 1664, he was again taken to court for getting his servant Ann Berrey "with Child" and was ordered to pay a fine. He went with John Lanier to ask Governor Berkley for permission to attack the Indians. Permission was refused so the two men took Nathaniel Bacon as their leader and went anyway. He died during Bacon’s Rebellion. His father was:

Captain John Woofliffe (1584-1637) was born at Peterly Manor, in Prestwood, England. He attended Oxford University and married Mary Archard on 1 May 1609 at Stevenson, Buckinghamshire, England. He came to the Virginia Colony in 1608 and was a member of the London Company (2nd Charter 1609). Evidently he returned to England, where he signed an agreement on 4 Sep 1619 to settle an 8,000 acre plantation in Virginia to be known as Berkley Hundred. He was to act as Captain and Governor. He sailed on 15 Sep 1619 aboard the "Margaret" (47 Tons) with 38 settlers. Already in Virginia were his wife and two children and 4 servants. His commission as Captain and Governor was revoked on 28 Aug 1620 because of a lack of quick profits and was replaced by George Thorpe. Thus he was not present on Easter 1622 when the Indians attacked and killed all the settlers. His father was:

Drewe Woodliffe (1562-1627) was the sixth child born to Robert Woofliffe and Ann Drury.

Anne Drury was the daughter of Sir Robert Drury and Elizabeth Brudenell. Elizabeth Brudenell was the daughter of Edmund Brudenell, Esq. Besides their daughter, Anne, Sir Robert Drury and Elizabeth had two sons, they were:

1) Sir William Drury, who was Lord Justice governor of Ireland in 1576 and who married Margaret, daughter of Thomas Lord Wentworth, and

2) Sir Drue of Lynsted, Usher of the Privy Chamber to Queen Elizabeth and keeper of Mary, Queen of Scots and who married 1st wife Elizabeth, daughter of Sir Phillip Calthorpe and Amata Boleyn (aunt of Queen Ann Boleyn) and who married 2nd wife Catherine, daughter of William Finch of Lynsted. Sir Robert Drury’s father was:

Sir Robert Drury Sr. (1463-1536) was a Privy Councilor to King Henry VII and Speaker of the House of Commons in 1498. He was born at Hawsted, Suffolk, England and was a Knight. He married Ann Calthrope in 1483.

Ann Calthorpe was the daughter of Sir William Calthorpe and Elizabeth Stapeleton.

Elizabeth Stapleton (1442-1505) was the daughter of Sir Miles Stapleton and Catherine de la Pole.

Catherine de la Pole was the daughter of Sir Thomas de la Pole and Ann Cheney.

Sir Thomas de la Pole was the son of Michael de la Pole (1361-1410) and Lady Katherine Stafford.

Lady Katherine Stafford was the daughter of Sir Hugh Stafford and Lady Phillipa Beauchamp.

Sir Hugh Stafford was the son of Sir Ralph de Stafford and Lady Margaret de Audley.

Lady Margaret de Audley was the daughter of Hugh de Audley and Lady Margaret de Clare.

Lady Margaret de Clare was the daughter of Gilbert de Clare (The Red), 9th Earl of Clare, 7th Earl of Hertford, and 3rd Earl of Cloucester and his second wife Joan D’Acre (Plantagenet).

Joan D’Acre (Plantagenet) was born 1271 in Nazareth, Galilee, died 1305, was the daughter of King Edward I and Princess Eleanor of Castile. Princess Eleanor accompanied her husband on the 7th Crusade to the Holy Land and was the only child of Ferdinand III of Castile. King Edward I had another child, Edward II, the first "Prince of Wales" and ancestor of Queen Elizabeth II.

King Edward I (Plantagenet) was born 17 Jun 1239 in Westminister. He was crowned on 18 Aug 1274 and was the son of King Henry III and Eleanor Berenger. He reigned for 35 years.

King Henry III (1207-1272) was the son of King John and Isabella, daughter of Aymar Tallifer, Count of Angouleme. He reigned for 56 years.

King John (born 1133) was the son of Matilda (Maud) and Geoffrey Plantagenet, Count of Anjou, son of Fulco V. He reigned as King of England 1154-1189.

Maud (1104-1167) was the daughter of King Henry I and Matilda (also Maud), daughter of Malcolm III, King of Scotland and granddaughter of Henry II, King of Hungary.

King Henry I (born 1068) was the son of King William I (William the Conquerer) and Matildis of Flanders, daughter of Baldwin V and granddaughter of Robert II, King of France.

King William I (William the Conquerer) (born 1020) was the duke of Normandy and King of England 1066-1087. William conquered the Saxons of England at the battle of Hastings on 14 Oct 1066. He reigned for 21 years.

So, you must admit, this little side trip was more interesting than staying on our Genealogical highway. Here are some other facts uncovered about other siblings of Joshua Wynne and their descendents"

The Wynne line branches many, many times, and the branch at Major Joshua Wynne is of historical interest and deserves mention. One of Joshua Wynne’s sons was Thomas Wynne Sr., this was my line as indicated above, however the youngest son of Joshua Wynne was Colonel William Wynne, also known as William Wynne I, born in 1699. He moved to Danville, Virginia in 1752, along with several others at the instigation of the English Crown to help halt French expansion eastward from the Mississippi Valley. He was a great land owner, close to 90,000 acres. Colonel William Wynne was a surveyor, a vestryman and possessed a large library. He was married to Frances Reed who was also born in 1699 and died between 1778 and 1790. Colonel William Wynne made his will on 8 October 1777, and died in 1778. His will was proved 26 March 1778 in Pittsylvania County, Virginia.

William Wynne Jr., also known as William Wynne II was the son of Colonel William Wynne. William Jr. was born 10 August 1729 and moved to Pittsylvania County, Virginia with his father. He married Mary Cynthia Harmon of North Carolina in 1752 and had eleven children. Mary Cynthia Harmon was born in 1735 and died in July 1776 in Tazewell County, Virginia. He married his second wife Fillis Marrs and had sixteen children by her. He built the William Wynne Fort of Tazewell, Virginia in 1773 because the Mingos (Indians) were raiding out of the Ohio country during the Lord Dunmore’s War and he moved his family there two years later and manned the fort during the Revolutionary War. He died on 8 July 1808.

John Wynne was the second son of William Wynne II and was born on 14 December 1760 in Pittsylvania County, Virginia. He married Mary Poly St. John in July 1795 in Campbell County, Virginia and had six known children who lived in Sweedens Cove in Marion County, Virginia. Those children were:

1) Sarah Wynne, born 1796 and married to Robert Beene Jr. They had 12 children.

2) John Berry Wynne, born 1800 and married to Peggy Kennedy. They had 8 children from whom Marion County and Jackson County Wynne’s descend.

3) Thomas Wynne, also born in 1800 (twin to John Berry Wynne) married Nancy Sweeton (Sweeden) and had 12 children, decendants of which are in Mississippi, Arkansas and Louisiana.

4) Matthew Wynne who married Nancy Beene, daughter of Obadiah Beene who had 5 daughters, 3 of which married Ralstons.

5) Obadiah Wynne, born in 1811 and married to Frances Kirk, daughter of Samuel and Lamb Kirk of Alabama, and moved to Wright County, Missouri. 		Agee, Joshua Hawks (I42048)
 
3292 Joshua How/Original grantee at #2 (later Westmoreland,N.H.)

EARLY HISTORY OF WESTMORELAND

A committee chosen to survey the area of land where Westmoreland now lies, reported November 30, 1736, when the report was accepted, and the township of No. 2 was chartered. Nathaniel Harris, of Watertown, Mass., was appointed to call the first meeting of the proprietors of
No. 2. Afterwards it was called Great Meadow, which name it retained until it was chartered by the NH Legislature, when it took the name it now bears. The grantees under the Massachusetts charter were: "Daniel How, Jethro Wheeler, Thomas Chamberlain, Moses Wheeler, Harriden Wheeler Jr., Jethro Wheeler, Abner How, Josiah Foster, Joshua How, Meshach Taylor, Benjamin Alldridge, Jonathan Hildrith,Joseph How, Daniel How Jr., Nathaniel Wooster, Jeremiah Hall" and possibly others. Prior to the white settlers, the only inhabitants of "No. 2" consisted of a few families of Abenaquis, or Abenakees Indians, a small sub-branch of the Five Nations. It is said the meaning of this name is the "Pines." Their wigwams were in the north part of the town, on land now owned by Robert E. Green, beside a small brook afterward known as the Wigwam Brook. They remained for a
brief time only, and on terms of amity with the pioneer white settlers.

The first settlement in the town was made in 1741. In the spring of that year, Daniel How, Jeremiah Phips, Jethro Wheeler and Nehemiah How with their families, started up the Connecticut in canoes from Northfield, Mass. Daniel How, however, had been previously, with a surveying part, and he it was probably, who had attracted the others thither by stories of the great fertility of the "Great meadows." [A second account lists the earliest settlers as Daniel How,
Jethro Wheeler, Philip Alexander and THomas Crissen]. They settled upon the farm now owned by Frederick G. Parker, on road 8. He subsequently erected a small fort, the exact site of which is still pointed out as a little knoll on said farm. Peter Hayward settled near the Ashuelot river in 1764. Then John Cole and son John settled upon "Canoe Place," also known as "Canoe Meadow." Accessions were made to the little settlement from time to time; but the French war came on in 1744, which greatly retarded the growth. At this time the settlers of No. 2, Putney and Westminster united to build a stockaded fort upon the Great Meadow, in Putney, upon the
site of the house formerly occupied by Colonel Thomas White, near the landing of the ferry. Leading to this ferry (the first one in town) was a road to the Howe settlement. This fort was named "Fort Hill." It was of oblong form, eighty by one hundred and twenty feet, built of yellow pine timber hewed six inches thick and laid up about ten feet high. Fifteen dwellings were erected within it, the wall of the fort forming the back wall of the houses. These were covered
with a single roof, which slanted upward to the top of the wall of the fort. In the centre of the inclosure was a hollow square, on which all the houses fronted. On the northeast and southeast corners of the fort watchtowers were placed. A great gate opened on the south, toward the river, and a smaller one towards the west. The forst was generally garrisoned by ten or twelve men. A cannon was furnished by the Massachusetts government that survived the fort many years... Upon the completion of the fort several of the
inhabitants of No. 2 joined the garrison (These were David How, Thomas Chamberlain, Isaac Chamberlain, Joshua Warner and son Daniel Warner, wife and son, Harrison Wheeler, Samuel Minot, Benjamin Aldrige and his son George, who afterward became a general).

Hardly had the little township recovered from its effects when the second war came upon it. Still, it recovered so rapidly therefrom that in 1767 it was the third largest township in what is now Cheshire county, having a population
of 391 souls.

The "Great Meadows" was a favorite spot with the Indians in their journeyings up and down the Connecticut. The settlers were several times attacked by the Indians, and various mischief was done, though of no great magnitude.

In one of their incursions the Indians killed William Phipps, the first husband of Jemima How, and in another carried Nehemiah How, the father of her second husband, a captive to Canada, where he died. But the story of these troubles are familiar to all--well-known subjects of general history (See Belknap's Hist. N.H., Vol. II, pages 240-42).
[A second source tells this story: "William Phips, an inhabitant of Great Meadow, as he was hoeing corn near the southwest corner, was surprised and captured by two of these Indians and carried into the woods to the west. While ascending the steep hill-side, above a half mile from the fort, one of his captors returned for something left,
leaving the prisoner in charge of his comrade. Watching his
opportunity, Phips struck down his captor with his hoe, which he had retained, and, seizing the gun of the prostrate savage, shot the other as he was ascending the hill. Phips thereupon started for the fort, but before reaching it was seized by three others of the same party, killed and scalped. Phips, but a short time previous, had married Jemima Sartwell, daughter of the owner of Sartwell's Fort, a lady whose beauty, goodness and suffereings afterward come
down ot us, through the mists of many years, as 'The Fair Captive.' .... and the second story: Nehemiah How, who was chopping wood about eighty rods from the fort, was taken by the Indians as they came. His capture was effected in full sight of the fort, but it would have endangered the lives of all in the garrison to attempt a rescue. As they were leading him away by the side of the river they perceived
a canoe approaching containing two men. Firing, they killed one of them, Daniel Rugg, but the other, Robert Baker, made for the opposite shore and escaped. All three of these men belonged to the garrison. Proceeding father, they passed three other men, who, by skulking under the bank, reached the fort in safety. One of them was Caleb How, the prisoner's son. Arriving opposite to Number Four they
compelled the captive to write his name on a piece of bark and there left it....How was taken to Quebec where he died... Soon after these occurrences the fort was evacuated and went to decay].

In 1750, when the area of Town No. 2 was determined to be under New Hampshire jurisdiction, the adult male citizens of the town signed a petition to the New Hampshire Governor et al. This document was signed by "Daniel How, William Moor, Jethro Wheeler, Joshua How, Thos Chamberlain, Benjamin Knights, Amos Davies, Silas Brown, Amos Davis Junr, Meshach Taylor, Jonas Davis, John Alexander, Samuel Davis, Daniel Shattuck Sr., Ebenezer Davis, Enoch Hall, Moses Wheeler, Simon Hall, Isaac Chamberlen [sic], Joshua Chamberlain, Hariden Wheeler Jr., Jedidiah Chamberlain, Jethro wheeler,
Job Chamberlain, Simeon Knight, Aaron Davis, Martin Severance, Beniaman [sic Benjamin] Alldridge, John Brown, Jonathan Hildrith, Abner How, Joseph How, Josiah Foster, Daniel How Jr., Samuel Foster, Nathaniel Woods, Michal Gibson, Jeremiah Hall, John Sheilds [sic Shields], Isaac Stone, and Danil [sic Daniel] Sheilds. The charter was granted February 12, 1752, being given a new incorporation under the name of Westmoreland, in honor of Lord Westmoreland, an intimate friend of Governor Wentworth.

The names of the grantees of Westmoreland (under the new charter) are as follows: Thomas Chamberlain, Benja. Aldridge, Daniel How, Jethro Wheeler, Daniel How Jr., Caleb How, Abner How, Josiah Willard, Oliver Willard, Samuel How, John Arms, Valentine Butler, Samson Willard, John Fowl, James Fowl, Nathaniel Woods, Jeremiah Hall, Timothy Harrington, Josiah Foster, Edward How, Samuel Minot,
John Fowl Jr., Philip Alexander, Richard Ward, Nathaniel Harris, Cornelius White, Ebenezer Turner, Samuel Livermore, Samuel Williams, Moses Hastens, John Chandler, Simeon Alexander, Ebenezer Hubbard, Joseph Harrington, John Rugg, Thomas marshal, Ebenezer Hinsdale, Samuel Hunt, John Alexander, Enoch Hall, William Moor, Jethro Wheeler Jr., Fairbanks Moor Jr., Joseph Bellows, Herridon Wheeler, Isaac Chamberlain, Josiah Chamberlain, Joshua Chamberlain, Amos Davis, Jedediah Chamberlen [sic], Jonathan Cole, Mical [sic Michael] Gilson, Simeon Knights, John Brown, William How,
Jonathan Cummings Jr., John Chamberlain, John Taylor, Daniel Pearce, His Excellency Benning Wentworth, Esq... This was signed by Samuel Wentworth of Boston; THeodore Atkinson, Richard Samuel Smith, John Downing, Samson Sheaffe, John Wentworth Jr., Esq., and Stephen Chace [sic] of New Castle... Of these grantees we have very limited knowledge. It is certain, however, that but a small portion of them were ever actual settlers. A number of names were placed in
the list of grantees in reward for public and military services. Others were included through favoritism, and other reasons, no doubt. The grant was not satisfactory to the petitioners, inasmuch as it did not include as much territory as the old grant of No. 2 by some eight square miles.

In 1752 a committee was chosen by the proprietors to lay out the house lots, consisting of Daniel How, Jethro Wheeler, Thomas Chamberlain, Benjamin Aldrich, Richard Ward, Caleb How, and Joseph Hutchins.

The first meeting of the proprietors of the township of Westmoreland was held at the house of Thomas Chamberlain, March 31, 1752. Samuel Hunt was chosen moderator, Caleb How proprietor's clerk, and Joshua Warnen treasurer. These meetings were held by notifications posted in said town, in Northfield and in Winchester.

On September 26, 1764 nine members of other churches signed thefirst church covenant, including: William Goddard pastor-elect member of ye first church at Newtown; Thomas Chamberlain, church at Newtown; Joshua Warner, church at Harvard; Amos Davis, church at Petersham; Samuel Minot, church at Chelmsford; Robert Thompson, church at Reading; Benjamin Pierce, church at Attleborough; Abner How, church
at Amherst; Joseph Pierce, church at Wilmington."

HISTORY OF WESTMORELAND NH [EXCERPTS ONLY]
TAKEN FROM TWO SOURCES:
1. History of Cheshire and Sullivan Counties, New Hampshire Philadelphia: J.W. Lewis & Co., 1886, 1073 pgs.
2. Gazetteer of Cheshire County, N.H., 1736-1885 by Hamilton Child, Syracuse, N.Y.: H. Child, 1885, 882 pgs. 		Howe, Joshua (I18450)
 
3293 Joshua Johnson removed to Va, and later to Tenn. where he was engaged in surveying in the Tenn. Valley. Later he became a merchant trader, boat builder and operator of a series of boats in the Tenn. New Orleans trade. In his will, Joshua Johnson provided "that should the proceeds of my estate be insufficient to send my two sons to some good college in East Tenn, and to keep them there until their education shall be completed, then I give them (my executors) full power to sell the land between Mr. Barclay's tract and the Tenn. Riv. for the purpose of creating a fund for the education of my sons. In addition to about 1880 acres of land, he left a personal estate of $12, 263.44. The will was probated 13 Mar 1841 and is on record in Marshall Co. at Guntersville, Ala.. .
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Joshua Johnson removed to Va, and later to Tenn. where he was engaged in surveying in the Tenn. Valley. Later he became a merchant trader, boat builder and operator of a series of boats in the Tenn . New Orleans trade. In his will, Joshua Johnson provided "that should the proceeds of my estate be insufficient to send my two sons to some good college in East Tenn, and to keep them there until t heir education shall be completed, then I give them (my executors) full power to sell the land between Mr. Barclay's tract and the Tenn. Riv. for the purpose of creating a fund for the education of m y sons. In addition to about 1880 acres of land, he left a personal estate of $12, 263.44. The will was probated 13 Mar 1841 and is on record in Marshall Co. at Guntersville, Ala.. .





















 		Johnson, Joshua (I309)
 
3294 Joshua Wynne was born in Jordan's Parish, Charles City County, Virginia about 1663. He was the son of Col. Robert Wynne and his wife, Mary Frances Sloman, the widow Poythress. Joshua married Mary Jones about 1687 in Virginia. Mary Jones was the daughter of Major Peter Jones and Margaret "Wood" Powell. Margaret Powell's step-father, General Abraham Wood was the head of Virginia's fur trade under Royal Governor Sir William Berkeley and was the official who negotiated the British fur trade with the Cherokee Nation. General Wood also testified against Nathaniel Bacon, leader of Bacon's Rebellion. General Abraham Wood was also Commander of Ft.Henry and the elader of the first English expedition into the Mississippi Valley. Major Peter Jones was Commander of the fort built near present Petersburg.
Joshua lived a varied life and was said to have been a "fearless adventurer". He inherited property in England from his father consisting of a house and oatmeal mill on Dover Lane in St.George's Parish, Canterbury, commonly called the "Lily Pot", as well as two houses adjoining a ropermaker and one Rawlins were former tenants. Joshua's grandfather, Peter Wynne of Canterbury had left these properties to Joshua's father in 1638. Joshua also received the plantation called Georges in Virginia along with the tobacco houses.
Joshua made several trips to England trading tobacco and probably checking on his properties in England.
We first read of Joshua in Henrico County recoreds 1 Feb 1681/82 when Thomas Chamberlayne appointed Joshua as his attorney.
He was a Justice in Charles City 23 Feb 1698 and he was also sheriff of Prince George County, VA after the area became Prince George County 1705-1712. Joshua was also a member of the House of Burgesses 10 Dec 1700-1704, as was his father before him.
In March 1701/02, Joshua signed the Loyalty Oath.
In 1704, Joshua was listed in the Tax Roll with 860 acres.
He commanded various militia units in the Virginia colonies. He was Captain of the militia for Charles City County with over forty men.
Joshua was a close family friend of the Byrds of Westover and with Colonel William Byrd in particular.
As was his brother, Thomas, Joshua was also an Indian interpreter. In 1704, Joshua was enlisted by the governor to accompany the Nottoway, Meherrin, Nansemond, Pamunkey and Chickahominy Indians north in order to ransom the Nottoway king taken prisoner by the Seneca tribe the summer before. The Indians had specifically requested that the governor allow Joseph and his brother, Thomas, to accompany them "without whose consent and approbation they were to conclude nothing".
He was commissioned in 1707, along with Captain John Poythres Sr., Colonel John Hardyman and Captain Francis Mallory to be part of a commission to investigate the Virginia-North Carolina border. They were to examine under oath "such ancient inhabitants of Prince George, Surry, Isle of Wight and Nansemond Counties and discover the truth as to the said bounds between the said colonies." They were also to ask the "ancient and intelligent Indians of the Nottoway, Meherins and Nansemond nations" what they knew about the area. Among the old inhabitants of Prince George County deposing were: Robert Bolling, Gentleman, aged 61, who "hath known the Nottoway River for 37 years or more... and "Major Wynn's quarter is on the sight of the old Nottoway Indian Town." Captain Wynne became Major Wynne by 1708.
Joshua devoted many years to keeping peace with the Indian tribes and represented them by presenting their grievances to the Council of Virginia.
In late August of 1711, a rumor spread throughout the James that there were fifteen French ships entering the river. The militia officers lit their warning bonfires, donned their uniforms, leaped on their horses and dashed to Westover for news. It turned out that the ships were English and everything was quiet again.
Joshua was responsible for treaties with the Indians from New York to Virginia.
Joshua and (the husband of his niece Mary), Robert Malone were paid of a bounty of £200 to kill wolves.
On 29 Mar 1715, Joseph was shot and killed in Dinwiddie County in revenge by Saponi Indians after one of Joshua's servants killed one of their "great" men. The accused Indian claimed that the white men were the aggressors and that they never rest without revenge and that now they were equal, having each lost a great man. In order to avoid more bloodshed, the accused Indian was pardoned.
The Saponi Indians were of the Siouan linguistic group, related to the nearby Tutelo tribe. They were unrelated to the Iroquoian tribes (Nottoway, Meherrin) and Algonquin speaking Powhatan Confederacy tribes with whom the Wynne's had friendly relations.
The earliest known location of the Saponi tribe was an "extensive village site on the banks of the Rivanna in Albemarle County." The Saponi is identical with the Monasukapanough, which appears on John Smith's map as though it were a town of the Monacan, which it may have been. Before 1670, they moved southwest, settling on Otter Creek, when visited by Thomas Batts. Shortly thereafter, they moved to an island in the Roanoke River in present Mecklenburg County, VA in order to escape the Iroquois. For the same reason, they again moved south in 1701 to the Yadkin River in present Salisbury, NC. Soon afterwards they again moved toward the white settlements in Virginia and crossed the Roanoke River before the Tuscarora War of 1711, establishing themselves about 15 miles west of present Windsor in Bertie, NC. A little later, they, along with the Tutelo and a few other tribes, were near Fort Christanna about 10 miles north of the Roanoke River near present Gholsonville in Brunswick County, VA. The name, Sappony Creek in Dinwiddie County, dating to 1733, indicates that they sometimes extended their excursions north of the Nottoway River.
Joshua's will was probated 30 Mar 1715, shortly after his death by his son, Peter. The estate had debts in the amount of £359 and credits of £283. He was in debt to Richard Bland, Col. Edward Hill, Maj. Charles Goodrich and John Hardyman among others. On 30 Mar 1715, a suit was brought against Peter Wynne as administor of the estate of his father.
Joshua Wynne's Signature
Joshua and Mary had children: Peter who married the daughter of Col. Edward Hill and later the widow, Frances Anderson Herbert; Joshua who married Mary Sloman; Robert who married a Hamlin and secondly Sarah Knibb; William who married Frances Read; Francis; Mary who married John Worsham and Margaret who married Edward Goodrich.
His widow, Mary, married William Randolph. She died in 1718 in Henrico Co., VA. 		Wynne, Joshua "Major" (I25128)
 
3295 Josiah Haynes - As Passenger aboard Colony Ship "Confidence"
The Confidence left Southampton April 11, 1638 or April 24, with Master John Gibson, and 84 passengers. Other sources say the master was John Jobson, arriving in Boston from Southampton April 24, 1638.

Alphabetical roll :
Baunsh William 24, Jones servant
Bayley, Robert 23, Guy servant
Bearce, Augustine 20 (From Longstock, Hampshire, bound for Barnstable. Ref: Banks Mss. 36 pg 61)
Benson/Binson, John 30 husbandman of Caversham, Oxfordshire (From Eynsham, Oxfordshire, bound for Hingham. Ref: Pope 36 pg 134)
Benson/Binson, Mary, wife
Benson/Binson, John 3
Benson/Binson, Mary 1
Bent, John 35 husbandman of Penton, Hampshire, wife Martha. (From Weyhill, Hampshire, bound for Sudbury. Ref: NEGR 49/65. 36 pg 64)
Bent children Robert 10, Agnes 8, William 6, Peter 4, John 2
Biddlecombe, Richard 16, Hayes servant
Bidgood, Richard, merchant of Romsey, Hampshire (From Romsey, Hampshire, bound for Boston. NEGR 60/60. 36 pg 62)
(Possibly really Richard Osgood, husband to Sarah listed below, http://immigrantships.net/v4/1600v4/confidence16380424.html)
Blake, Richard 16, Sanders servant - bound for Salisbury
Blandford, John 27, Hayes servant
Church, George 16, Kent servant - bound for Newbury
Cole, John 40 - bound for Salisbury
Cottle, William 12, Sanders servant - bound for Salisbury
Davie/Davis, Philip 12, Ilsley servant - bound for Newbury
Davis, Margaret 26, Noyes servant
Davis, Robert 30, Noyes servant
Donley, Jude, Jones servant
Eastman/Casman, Roger 25, Sanders servant - (From Romsey Hampshire, or Landford Wiltshire, bound for Salisbury. Ref: Gen. 36 pg 62 & 178)
Came with two brothers, Servant to John Cole per http://immigrantships.net/v4/1600v4/confidence16380424.html
Goodenowe, John 42, 42 husbandman of Semley, Wiltshire, wife Jane, children Lydia, Jane (From Donhead, Wiltshire, bound for Sudbury. Ref: Pope. 36 pg 177)
Goodenowe, Edmund 27 husbandman of Donhead, Wiltshire, wife Anne,
Goodenowe children John 3, Thomas 1
Goodenowe, Thomas 30 of Shaftesbury, Dorset, wife Jane. (From Shaftsbury, Dorsetshire, bound for Sudbury. Ref: Pope. 36 pg 34)
Goodenowe children Thomas 1, Ursula (Thomas's sister?)
http://immigrantships.net/v4/1600v4/confidence16380424.html:
John, Thomas, Edmond, Ursula and Dorothy, all siblings.
John had 2 daughters
Edmond had John
Possibly Thomas is son of Thomas
Gore, Richard, shipper of goods
Guy, Nicholas 50 carpenter of Upton Grey, (From Uptown Gray, Hampshire, bound for Watertown. Ref: NEGR 60/59 and 61/258. 36 pg 63)
Guy wife Jane 30, child Mary all under 16
Hangert/Haugert, Henry 40, Ludwell servant
Haynes, (spelled Hayes) Walter 55, linen weaver of Sutton Mansfield, Wiltshire, shipper of goodsHaynes wife Elizabeth, children John, Josias, Suffrance, Mary 5 Haynes per W1 Mary and Sufferance only, 3 servants
Ilsley, Barbara - listed as wife of John or William (William's wife, Barbara Stevens, per http://members.cox.net/mountgen/ilsley.html)
Ilsley, John - bound for Salisbury (From Wallop, Nether, Hampshire, bound for Newbury. Ref: Waters 187. 36 pg 63)(Brother to William per http://members.cox.net/mountgen/ilsley.html)
Ilsley, William 26, shoemaker of Nether Wallop, Hampshire - (From Wallop, Nether, Hampshire, bound for Newbury. Ref: Waters 187. 36 pg 63)
Jones, Thomas 36 tailor of Caversham, Oxfordshire, wife Anne, 4 children under 10
Jones, William, under 11, listed with Osagood - bound for Newbury
Keene, John 17
Keene, Martha 60 with Elizabeth, Martha, Josias, John and Sarah
Kent, Stephen 17 of England or 27 of Nether Wallop, wife Margery 16 or 26(From Tytherly or Wallop, Hampshire, bound for Newbury. Ref: Banks Mss. 36 pg 63)
Kent, Rebecca 16, Kent servant
Kerley, Edmund 22, husbandman of Ashmore, Dorset (Edward, from Ashmore, Dorsetshire, bound for Sudbury, MA. Ref: NEGR 61/60. 36 pg 30)
Kerley, William 22, husbandman of Ashmore, Dorset
King, Robert 24, Sanders servant - bound for Salisbury (Ring, Robert, from Marlborough, Wiltshire, bound for Salisbury. Ref: Hoyt Families Salis. 297. 36 pg 179)
Lougie/Lowgee, John 16, Stephens servant - bound for Newbury
Lougie, Grace Stephens servant - bound for Newbury
Ludwell, John 50
March/Marshe, Hugh 20, Kent servant (From Tytherly, Hampshire, bound for Newbury. Ref: Banks Mss. 36 pg 63)
Morris/Morres, Edmund Kington of Magna, Dorset (Edward, from Wlatham Abbey, Essex, bound for Roxbury. Ref: Banks Mss. 36 pg 53)
Noyes/Noyce, Peter 47 yeoman of Penton, Hampshire. (From Penton Mewsey, bound for Sudbury. Ref: NEGR 60/59. 36 pg 61)
Noyes children Thomas 15, Elizabeth
W1: Same children, 3 servants
Osgood, Mrs. Sarah, spinster of Wherwell, Hampshire - bound for Newbury
(Husband John possibly John Bigood above, http://immigrantships.net/v4/1600v4/confidence16380424.html
Osgood 4 children Sarah 9, John 7, Mary 5, Elizabeth 3
Osgood William under 11, listed with but not one of Sarah's 4 children
Parke, Margery Osgood servant - bound for Newbury
Parker, Joseph 24 tanner (From Newbury or Romsey, Berkshire, bound for Newbury. Ref: NEGR 60/60. 36 pg 5 & 62)
Porter, Roger 55 of Long Sutton, Hampshire, with Joan. (From Sutton, Hampshire, bound for Watertown. Ref: NEGR 60/59. 36 pg 63)
Porter children Susan, Mary, Rose
Riddet, John 26, Hayes servant
Rolfe/Roaffe, John, 50 of Melchitt, wife Anne (From Whiteparish, Wiltshire, bound for Newbury. Ref: NEGR 66/260. 36 pg 182)
Rolfe/Roaffe, sons and daughter Hester
Rutter, John, 22, Noyes servant ((From Penton Mewsey, bound for Sudbury. Ref: Hotten. 36 pg 61)
Sadler, Anthony 9, Kent servant (From Tytherly, Hampshire, bound for Newbury. Ref: Banks Mss. 36 pg 63)
Sanders, John, 25, husbandman of Caversham, Oxfordshire, or Landford Wiltshire, wife Sarah
Sanger, Richard 18, Goodenowe servant (From Donhead, Wiltshire, bound for Sudbury. Ref: Banks Mss. 36 pg 177)
Stephens, John, 31 (From Eynsham, Oxfordshire, bound for Newbury. Ref: Pope 36 pg 134)
Stephens, William 21 husbandman of Caversham, Oxfordshire (From Eynsham, Oxfordshire, bound for Newbury. Ref: Pope 36 pg 134)
Stephens wife Elizabeth, grandmother Alice of John or William (Alice mother of Barara Isley, John and William Stevns per http://members.cox.net/mountgen/ilsley.html)
Taintor, Joseph 25, Guy servant (From Uptown Gray, Hampshire, bound for Watertown. Ref: Pope. 36 pg 63)
Wallington, Nicholas, poor boy, Kent servant (From Wallop, Nether, Hampshire, bound for Newbury. Ref: Waters 187. 36 pg 63)
Wheeler/Whealer, David 11, Ludwell servant
Whittle Thomas 18, Rolfe servant
Wilder, Mary, spinster(?), of Shiplake,Oxfordshire, daughter Mary (Martha, from Shiplake, Berkshire, bound for Hingham. Ref: NEGR 60/60. 36 pg 6)
Mother of Edward, wife of Thomas. Son Edward was in Hingham at her arrival at the colonies.

http://immigrantships.net/v4/1600v4/confidence16380424.html

Newton, Richard, on Confidence per handwritten account

Confidence sources:
http://immigrantships.net/v4/1600v4/confidence16380424.html
http://members.aol.co m/dcurtin1/gene/confid38.htm
http://english-america.com/spls/638ne001.html#Confidence
http ://immigrantships.net/1600/confidence380424.html (many additional notes about passengers)

If you choose to use this information or copy this page,please have the courtesy to include an acknowledgment that the work,research and compilation was done by Anne Stevens from packrat-pro.com 		Haynes, Walter (I4737)
 
3296 Josiah Rising was born on February 2, 1694 to John Rising and Sarah Hall. Josiah's mother died when he was 4 years old and he was sent to live with his father's cousin, Mehuman Hinsdell.

Mehuman had been the first child born in Deerfield Massachusetts. His father, his grand-father and two of his Hinsdell uncles were killed in the 1675 Bloody Brook Massacre during King Phillip's War. Mehuman lived just across the way from the Nims family. Josiah would surely have known his future wife, Abigail Nims.

By 1703 were still no English settlements west of Deerfield for fifty miles, until the Hudson River and New York. Nor were there English towns north of Deerfield at all. To the east was forty miles of wilderness. It was a time of great anxiety, similar to the time of King Phillip's War. Queen Anne's War had begun, and the New York Governor Lord Cornbury had sent word in May that the French soldiers and their Native American allies were heading down from Canada towards Deerfield and the Connecticut Valley.

Deerfield strengthened its fortifications, and the Massachusetts General Court sent soldiers from Boston to help protect the town. All was quiet as winter descended, and Josiah's family must have felt some relief, as wars are not usually fought in the cold and snow of a New England winter. However, as a precaution, everyone, including the 20 Massachusetts soldiers, slept in the dozen houses that were inside the palisades of Deerfield, leaving the other thirty or so houses empty. A watchman patrolled the town every night.

Two hours before dawn, on the leap-year morning of February 29, 1704, as Deerfield's residents slept, joint French and Native American forces under the command of Jean-Baptiste Hertel de Rouville gathered two miles north of town, just across the Deerfield River. De Rouville's forces consisted of 47 French and French-Canadian soldiers, including regular army men and coureur de bois, and 200 Native Americans, mostly Abenaki, Kanienkehaka and Wyandot, as well as a few Pocumtuck. They had made their way south on snowshoes, walking atop the frozen waterways - up the Sorel River to Lake Champlain, up the Winooski River, and onto the upper Connecticut River. They had left a few of their party, plus the sleds and provisions, some twenty-five miles above Deerfield.

Silently, De Rouville's forces they crossed the river and made their way towards Deerfield. They were able to move quietly in the snow that dampens all sound. Heavy snowdrifts piled against the walls surrounding Deerfield - they were so high that the attackers easily scaled the ten to twelve-foot high walls.


When they were discovered by the watchman, (who has been accused of being unfaithful to his duty that night,) he discharged his musket and cried, "Arm! arm!" This was the signal for the assault. Doors and windows were broken down; men, women, and children dragged from their beds, murdered in cold blood, or bound as captives. De Rouville's forces had the advantage, despite the townspeople's efforts to fight back. The main body of the French stood to their arms, firing upon the houses and killing all who resisted, shooting the cattle and sheep, while detached parties were securing "provisions, drink, and clothing," which were packed up and carried to their rendezvous, others collecting and guarding the prisoners and leading them to the same place.

Just after 8:00 a.m., English reinforcements charged up from Hadley and Hatfield. The French and Natives were driven from the fort. The siege being raised, the brave garrison, with men from Captain Wells, joined their rescuers. There were 57 men in all, and they pursued the retreating enemy across the meadows. De Rouville, noticing their small numbers, halted his front and formed an ambuscade. Into this the English, let on by Sergeant Wait, fell, in spite of a command to retreat by the cautious Captain Wells. Nine men were killed in this trap and the ensuing retreat. De Rouville's forces chased the English back into the stockades, then withdrew to Petty's Plain. Deerfield was destroyed. At the battles end, almost half of the houses were burned down, 22 men, 9 women and 25 children were dead, another 109 had been taken captive, including 11 year old Josiah, and his uncle Mehuman.

The captives were forced on a months-long, 300 mile journey to Quebec. As it was winter, the conditions were harsh and 21 of the captives died or were killed along the way.

Josiah was adopted by the Catholic Iroquois at Sault au Récollet mission, and given the name Shoetakani, which means "his village has been taken from him." Some of the captives, like Josiah, received special attention from the local Sulpician priests, who wanted to convert them to Catholicism. As a result of this, Josiah developed ties to the French community. He was baptized and given the French name Ignace Raizenne, Ignace after his god-father, Ignace Kanatagariasse, and Raizenne was the way that the French pronounced Rising. Eventually, Abbé Maurice Quéré de Treguron, one of the Sulpicians, ransomed Josiah from the Iroquois, and he came to live among the French. In July 1715, Ignace. as he was now called, married a fellow Deerfiled captive, Elisabeth Stebenne (born Abigail Nims.)

In 1719, Ignace's father John Rising died. His will left his "well-be-loved son Josiah, now in Captivity" 5 pounds should he ever return.

Ignace, however, chose to remain in New France. He and Elisabeth settled in the newly formed mission of Oka in 1721, where they received a large grant of land, where they raised 9 children. It is not surprising that Ignace would chose to stay among the French and the Native Americans. There was little for him to go back to, as he had few close relatives left in New England, and he had been taken when he was young enough that he adapted well to his new home. Ignace also had become a devout Catholic. Having been so influenced by the priests and nuns in their formative years, Ignace and Elisabeth's household was ordered in the ways of the religious life. Two of his daughters became nuns, and one of his sons became a priest. The oldest daughter, fluent in Mohawk, joined the Congregation de Notre Dame and spent 54 years as a schoolteacher at Lac des Deux Montagnes. the younger daughter eventually became the Superior of the Congregation de Notre Dame, while the son joined the Sulpicians. In addition, 7 of Ignace and Elisabeth's grand-children devoted their lives to the Catholic Church: 2 grand-daughters joined the Congregation de Notre Dame, 2 grand-daughters joined the Hotel-Dieu, 2 grand-daughters joined the Grey Nuns and 1 grand-son became a priest.

Ignace died December 30, 1771, in Oka. He was buried in the Chapelle des Rois. 		Rising, Josiah (I10216)
 
3297 Josias 'Sr' Payne was born on 30 Oct 1705 in Northam, Goochland Co, VA, USA as the first child of. He had one sibling, namely: John 'Colonel'. He died on 17 Dec 1785 in Pittsylvania Co, VA, USA. When he was 26, He married Anne Fleming Payne in 1732 in Goochland Co VA, and had the following children:

1. Josias Payne was born in 1735 in St. James Northam Parish, Goochland Co., VA. He died in 1804 in Nashville, TN.
2. William Payne was born on 10 Feb 1731/32 in Goochland Co, VA, USA. He died on 02 Mar 1822 in Fulvanna, VA.
3. George Payne was born in 1734 in Fluvanna, VA. He died on 13 Sep 1807 in Fluvanna, VA.
4. Susanna Payne Heale was born in 1737 in Goochland Co, VA, USA. She died on 30 Oct 1812 in Scott Co., KY.
5. Robert Payne was born in 1738 in Goochland Co, VA, USA. He died in 1791 in Pittsylvania Co, VA, USA. He married Anne Burton Payne on 22 Jul 1763.
6. John Payne was born on 09 Feb 1738/39 in Goochland Co, VA, USA. He died on 24 Oct 1792 in Philadelphia, PA.
7. Agnes Michel Payne was born in 1739 in St. James Northam Parish, Goochland Co., VA. She died in 1766.
8. Anna Payne Harrison was born on 27 Mar 1748 in Goochland Co, VA, USA. She died in 1779 in Dan River, Pittsylvania, VA.
9. Tarleton Payne was born in 1749.

Will of Josias Payne 12 January 1785 Pittsylvania Co., Virginia.
To son William in Fluvanna Co. containing Four Hundred Acres, the following slaves: LONG TOM, SQUIRE, PATT
To son, Josias and gives him land in Goochland Co. of seven hundred acres on the waters of Beaver Dam Creek with the following slaves: LONDON, NED, and NICE
To son George: Two hundred acres land on Licking Hole Creek, land on Three Chop ? Road with the following slaves: WILL, ROSIE?, JUDE.
To son John: Two Hundred acres Land on the Little Bird Creek and the following slaves: PETER, NED, BOB and IALIO.
To son in-law William Heale: m. DA. Susanna : Three hundred and sixty-five acres land on the waters of Little Bird Creek and the following slaves: PHILLIS, a girl named TILLER.
To son Robert Payne: all tract land in Gooochland co. on Licking Hole Creek and land where I formerly lived: and following slaves: JOE, NAN, SUSY, JAMES
To DA. Agnes Michel the Negroes she rec. of me after her Marriage with the following Negroes: JANE MOLE and her child HANAH
To DA. Anna Harrison the Negroes she has in her population with the following: TOM, HANAH his Wife and BON their son.
To Granddaughter Ann DA. of Robert: MILLEY
To Granddaughter Keturah DA. of Robert: BETTY 		Payne, Josias Sr (I44853)
 
3298 Joyce Pemberton, who became the wife of Isaac East, was the second of ten children born to William and Rhoda (Luck) Pemberton of Pittsylvania County. Joyce was born January 17, 1780.
(Descendants have to thank Richard H. Luck for preservation of family data. Names of William Pemberton's children, with their dates of birth were written in a memorandum book by Richard Luck who added two lines: "When this you see, remember me / Though many miles apart we be").

William Pemberton, father of Joyce East, was a Revolutionary War Soldier. War Department records indicate that Pemberton, residence not stated, served in Capt. Thomas Merriweather's Company, First Virginia State Regiment under Colonel George Gibson. He enlisted in 1777 for three years. Well-settled family tradition says Pemberton was at the seige of Yorktown and that he had part of one ear shot away by a shell. Pemberton was born in Virginia about 1750 and died in Adams County, Ohio before 1820.

Rhoda Luck, mother of Joyce Pemberton, was the fifth child of Frances and Sarah Luck. She was married to William Pemberton in or about 1775 and died in Adams County, Ohio, Jan. 1, 1845.
The compiler is in possession of a piece of linen which was spun and woven by Rhoda Luck Pemberton. The linen was part of the lining of a quilt. It was given to Ninna Arnold by her aunt, India Anne Arnold. Miss Arnold came into possession of the relic through her mother, Katie Luck Pemberton, daughter of Rhoda Luck Pemberton and wife of Josephus Arnold. Miss Ninna Arnold, then of Peebles, Ohio, presented the piece to the compiler in 1925.)
Francis Luck was a captain of Pittsylvania Militia in the Revolution. Luck and twenty-six other men were nominated as captain by the Committee of Safety on Sept. 27, 1775. The list was returned to court and ordered to be recorded Feb. 27, 1777 (Pittsylvania County Records, Vol. 19, p. 307. See also Carter, The History of Pittsylvania County Virginia, p. 143)
Isaac East was compelled to dispose of the land he inherited from his father to satisfy a debt. A public record entry dated June 11, 1805 reads as follows:
"Isaac East of Pittsylvania County, in order to secure the payment of his debt to Samuel Panniel (merchant) of Campbell County, for which execution has been issued, Isaac doth hereby grant and sell 36 acres in Pittsylvania County on Staunton River, being part of the land of Thomas East, deceased, which was allotted to Isaac East by commission appointed to divide the lands of said Thomas East, deceased, which said 36 acres of land was lot No. 2 and bounded by the lands of Elizabeth East, Joseph East, and land of Obedience East's entry on land of Thomas East."
Isaac East removed to Adams County, Ohio, early in the 19th century but the year is unknown to the compiler. He last appears of record in Pittsylvania County in 1805. It is known that he was in Adams County in 1813. William Pemberton went to Ohio in 1808 and it is not unlikely that Isaac East went at the same time.
Isaac East lived one and one-half miles west of Locust Grove, Ohio, on what is now known as the "Old Dunbar farm." He was buried in Locust Grove cemetery on the highway between Peebles and Locust Grove. His gravestone bears this inscription: "Isaac East died Aug. 29, 1830 in the 54th year of his age."

Miss Beatrice Davis, who visited the grave in March, 1925, at the request of the compiler, wrote: "I found Isaac East's grave in Locust Grove cemetery. The grave is well kept and had a good monument. The monument is old and leaning some yet it is in fairly good condition."

Joyce East died in Adams county some time after 1850 for her name appears in the United States census report for that year. Her age then is stated to be 70 years and her place of birth Virginia. Her name was not found in the 1860 census. L. N. Conaway of Peebles, Ohio, born in 1846, told Miss Beatrice Davis that he remembered the funeral of Joyce East and that he was then 11 or 12 years old. This would place her death at 1857 or 1858.

"Joyce was a lively and congenial woman," wrote Miss Davis in her report. "She had a disease, in those days known as 'wild-fire' and had to have one leg amputated above the knee. Yet she delighted to show the youngsters that she could jump over a log as well as they."

A copy of a tintype picture of Joyce Pemberton East is in possession of this compiler. The original was owned in 1932 by Abigail Tener, (street address omitted for privacy), Sabina, Ohio. In response to an inquiry, Miss Tener wrote: "The kodak print of Joyce Pemberton East taken from an original picture in my possession was, as you say, a tintype. There is no mark whatever on it. When I was a small child and looking through the small album I would ask who certain pictures were and can remember father as speaking of this as 'Granny East.' As you know, Sarah East Tener and Joshua Tener were my grandparents.
Joyce Pemberton East lived for many years with her daughter, Sarah and the latter's husband, Joshua Tener. She was buried in Locust Grove cemetery near her husband but her grave is unmarked.

Isaac East bought land in Adams County and appears to have farmed until he died.
The Third Generation
Isaac and Joyce (Pemberton) East had:
(1) Elizabeth b probably in Pittsylvania County d May 1884 at Bainbridge /?/ Ohio; m James Bennett b 23 Sept 1824 in Adams county Ohio, d 12 July 1817 in same
(2) Catherine m 12 July 1817 in Adams County Ohio Joseph Tarr
(3) Thomas b 1808 d 1809
(4) Nancy m in Adams County Ohio 15 Feb 1819 William Nickols (Nickolas or Nichols)
(5) Sarah Katherine b 3 Sept 1808 d 20 Aug 1858 probably near Locust Grove Ohio; m 29 Dec 1825 in Adams County Joshua Porter Tener b 17 Apr 1800 d 4 Mar 1865(6) Rhoda m 9 Dec 1824 in Adams County James Cox
(7) Julia Ann b 8 Jan 1811 in Adams County d 8 Jan 1859 buried in Dunn's Chapel /?/ cemetery near Hillsboro Ohio; m 19 Aug 1827 in Adams County James Frost b 13 Jan 1807 d 14 Dec 1876
(8) Thomas b 24 April 1813 near Locust Grove, Ohio d 28 Sept 1864 near Milmine, Ill.; m 17 Nov 1833 /1832?/ in Adams County Priscilla McCracken b 5 May 1817 in Adams County of Henry and Ann (Holman) McCracken, d 18 Sept 1897 (both buried Decatur, (Ill. / cemetery)
(9) William
(10) John Milton b 27 Aug 1817 near Locust Grove Ohio d 2 Oct 1896 at Dunlap, Kansas; m 2 Aug 1842 Drusilla A. King b 3 Aug in Virginia d 2 June 1885
(11) Isaac d aged about 27

Isaac East (senior) seems to have supplied the names for his sons and Joyce the names for their daughters. All the boys had East names and most of the girls Pemberton family names. Rhoda was the name of the mother of Joyce, and Sarah of her grandmother, Sarah Luck. Nancy was the name of the wife of Joseph Pemberton. Joyce's father named his second daughter Caty (possibly from Caterine LeSeur) but she died young and he named his third daughter Caty Luck Pemberton.

Thomas East, son of Isaac, engaged in farming in Adams County and as such was listed in the census of 1850. A value of $732 was placed on his real estate by the census enumerator. In the autumn of 1851 Thomas East moved to Christian County, Illinois. He lived in Taylorville during the winter and moved in the spring to a farm 2-
1/2 miles west of Taylorville. He later moved to a farm in the northern part of Christian County near the town of Pawnee. He moved some time after 1860 to a farm one mile south and one-quarter mile west of Milmine, Illinois.

Thomas, who also had a large family, appears to have acquired little property although he bought several places when land was cheap. Priscilla, his wife, complained some about moving from Ohio to Illinois. She was the daughter of Henry McCracken b March 22, 1781 in Pennsylvania; died after 1830 in Adams County, Ohio, and Ann (Holman) McCracken, born July 4, 1786 in Pennsylvania; died Sept. 9, 1878 at Clermont, Mo. Her parents had twelve children and a number were "bound out" to other families. Priscilla was "bound" to a family named Cannon. She had seven sons under 21 years old when her husband died but managed to hold her family well together and made special sacrifices to insure her children's education.
The compiler is in possession of the original "Schedule of a Common School" for the Milmine district in the school year which began Oct. 3, 1864, shortly after the death of Thomas East. H. A. Stark was the teacher. Five sons of Priscilla East attended school during the term. Ulrich, 8 years old, and Oscar, 6, started on Oct. 3 and continued until school closed on March 21, 1865. Wheatly, 14, and Frank, 10, entered on Nov. 4. Joseph, 16, began on Dec. 5. Stillman Barber, the compiler's maternal grandfather, was treasurer of the school board. Attending as a pupil was Sarah C. Barber, daughter of Stillman, who became the wife of Wheatly East.

Thomas East was a good carpenter and cabinet-maker and plied this craft to enlarge his income. He made baskets, chairs, handles for tools, and many articles of wood. Oscar N. East, son of Thomas, preserved a large chiffonier which his father made. Thomas East was a Methodist, and quite devout, as also was his wife, Priscilla.

Priscilla East in the late years of her life lived alone in a cottage in Milmine next door to her son, Oscar. The compiler well remembers that when a boy his father directed him to stop on his way home from the village school and carry in for his grandmother a bucket of coal. She frequently rewarded him with a penny for his labor. Wheatly East took his mother half a hog after he had butchered in the autumn of one year, the compiler remembers.

Thomas and Mildred (Timberlake) East had:
(1) Lorenzo Dow unmarried; died aged about 90 years
(2) Jackson b 1813 died in Virginia; m (1) unknown; m (2) 3 April 1865 Anna Dove.
(3) Leland T/imberlake?/ died in Virginia; m
(4) Thomas C b near Altavista, Va. ab 1809 d 8 April 1871 near Chatham, Va. m 1837 Matilda (Watson) Shackleford
(5) John East d 1838 in Virginia; m Clarisa ___ who d 1883
Joseph and Polly (Bell) East had:
(1) Thomas b 25 Dec 1803 d 2 Oct 1890 near Fincastle, Tenn.; m Elizabeth West of Joseph and Catherine (McAney) West, b 1807 d 8 Dec 1894 in Tennessee
(2) Joseph b 1815 d 1881 in Virginia
(3) Isaac b 1817 removed to Sinking Spring, Ohio and died there, 1894.
(4) Elizabeth Louise m William Bernet 16 Jan 1839 in Pittsylvania County

Nathaniel W. East of Whittles Depot, Va., of John O. East, of Thomas and Elizabeth (West) East, wrote in 1925 that his grandfather, before 1848, removed from Pittsylvania County to Mercer County, Virginia. In 1867 Thomas removed to Fincastle, Tenn., with his wife and nine of his eleven children. Nathaniel W. East forwarded to the compiler a page from his father's Bible containing essential family data.

Ezekiel and Elizabeth (Worsham) East had:
(1) Thomas East b 1802 d 1867 in Virginia, probably on part of his father's plantation; m Parthaenia Lane who is buried in Lane cemetery near Straightstone
(2) Wesley
(3) Agnes unmarried
(4) Obedience m James King
(5) Permelia m Thomas Eason or Eastham
(6) Henry b (twin) about 1817 in Pittsylvania County d April 1866 near Latham, Ohio. Removed in 1855 from Pittsylvania to Wilmington, Clinton County, Ohio; removed to Locust Grove, Adams County, Ohio in 1856; removed soon to Pike County, Ohio; m Susanna Lay b 14 Oct 1822 d 16 June 1861 buried in Jones Chapple cemetery 5 miles south of Bainbridge, Ohio
(7) Ezekiel b (twin) about 1817 in Pittsylvania d there about 1887
(8) John East
(9) Sarah East

(Source M38, 1947 edition) 		Luck, Francis (I25012)
 
3299 jryden@rogue.cc.or.us (Judy)

My third great grandmother was Elizabeth Jennings b. abt 1790 place unknown.
She married Henry Pell in 1810. She is said to be sister to Meredith (info
from: Suzzette Greth Yandle in 1995).

In a book of transcribed marriage bonds for Pittsylvania Co., the record
states: 30 October 1810. Henry PELL and Betsey Jennings, dau. of Robert
Jennings whose consent says that he and his wife Susanna consent. Sur.
James Collie. Married by the Rev. George Dodson. 		Jennings, Elizabeth (I22280)
 
3300 Judge David Rorer
http://trees.ancestry.com/rd?f=image&guid=2aad33e6-3cb3-4b2f-9c30-c51ab4ad791c&tid=13149490&pid=-116630692



 		Rorer, David (I8991)
 

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