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| 101 | The Mayflower Compact was the first governing document of Plymouth Colony. It was written by the Separatists, also known as the "Saints", fleeing from religious persecution by King James of Great Britain. They traveled aboard the Mayflower in 1620 along with adventurers, tradesmen, and servants, most of whom were referred to as "Strangers". The Mayflower Compact was signed aboard ship on November 11, 1620 by most adult men (but not by most crew and adult male servants). The Pilgrims used the Julian Calendar, also known as Old Style dates, which, at that time, was ten days behind the Gregorian Calendar. Signing the covenant were 41 of the ship's 101 passengers, while the Mayflower was anchored in what is now Provincetown Harbor within the hook at the northern tip of Cape Cod. Reasons for the Compact The Mayflower was originally bound for the Colony of Virginia, financed by the Company of Merchant Adventurers of London. Storms forced the landing to be at the hook of Cape Cod in what is now Massachusetts. This inspired some of the passengers to proclaim that since the settlement would not be made in the agreed upon Virginia territory, they "would use their own liberty; for none had power to command them....". To prevent this, many of the other colonists chose to establish a government. The Mayflower Compact was based simultaneously upon a majoritarian model (even though the signers were not in the majority) and the settlers' allegiance to the king. It was in essence a social contract in which the settlers consented to follow the compact's rules and regulations for the sake of survival. In November 1620, the Mayflower landed at Plymouth, named after the major port city in Devon, England from which she sailed. The settlers named their settlement "Plimoth" or "Plimouth", using the Early Modern English spellings of the early 17th century. Although the original document has been lost, three versions exist from the 17th century: printed in Mourt's Relation (1622), which was reprinted in Purchas his Pilgrimes (1625), hand written by William Bradford in his journal Of Plimoth Plantation (1646), and printed by Bradford's nephew Nathaniel Morton in New-Englands Memorial (1669). The three versions differ slightly in wording and significantly in spelling, capitalization and punctuation. William Bradford wrote the first part of Mourt's Relation, including its version of the compact, so he wrote two of the three versions. The wording of those two versions is indeed quite similar, unlike that of Morton. Bradford's handwritten manuscript is kept in a vault at the State Library of Massachusetts. Modern version: In the name of God, Amen. We, whose names are underwritten, the loyal subjects of our dread Sovereign Lord King James, by the Grace of God, of Great Britain, France, and Ireland, King, defender of the Faith, etc. Having undertaken, for the Glory of God, and advancements of the Christian faith and honor of our King and Country, a voyage to plant the first colony in the Northern parts of Virginia, do by these presents, solemnly and mutually, in the presence of God, and one another, covenant and combine ourselves together into a civil body politic; for our better ordering, and preservation and furtherance of the ends aforesaid; and by virtue hereof to enact, constitute, and frame, such just and equal laws, ordinances, acts, constitutions, and offices, from time to time, as shall be thought most meet and convenient for the general good of the colony; unto which we promise all due submission and obedience. In witness whereof we have hereunto subscribed our names at Cape Cod the 11th of November, in the year of the reign of our Sovereign Lord King James, of England, France, and Ireland, the eighteenth, and of Scotland the fifty-fourth, 1620. The 'dread sovereign' referred to in the document used the archaic definition of dread—meaning awe and reverence (for the King), not fear. Also, the document was signed under the Old Style Julian calendar, since England did not adopt the Gregorian calendar until 1752. The Gregorian date would be November 21. Signers A list of 41 male passengers who signed the document was supplied by Bradford's nephew Nathaniel Morton in his 1669 New England's Memorial. Thomas Prince first numbered the names in his 1736 A Chronological History of New-England in the form of Annals. Because the original document has been lost, Morton (1669) is our sole source for the signers. Although he probably had access to the original document, he could not have known simply by inspecting it the actual order that it was signed. Morton's arrangement of names is probably not the arrangement of names on the original document, and the names may not have been arranged in any orderly fashion. Prince's numbers are based solely on Morton (1669) as he himself stated. His numbers are unfortunate because he could not have known the order that the original document was signed. Morton's list of names was unnumbered and untitled in all editions although their order changed with successive editions. In his original 1669 edition, the columns were placed on two successive pages (15–16) forming six short columns, three columns of seven names each (headed Carver, Samuel Fuller, and Edward Tilley) on the first page and three columns of seven, seven, and six names each (headed Turner, Priest, and Clarke) on the next page.[6] In the second (1721) and third (1772) editions, the six short columns were joined into three long columns of 14, 14, and 13 names each on a single page (20). The first and fourth short columns were joined into the first long column (headed Carver with Turner halfway down), the second and fifth short columns were joined into the second long column (headed Samuel Fuller with Priest halfway down), and the third and sixth short columns were joined into the third long column (headed Edward Tilley with Clarke halfway down), changing their order. In the fifth (1826) and sixth (1855) editions, the names were also in three long columns of 14, 14, and 13 names each on one page (1826: 38, 1855: 26), but now they were placed in their original 1669 order. The first and second short columns formed the first long column (headed Carver with Samuel Fuller halfway down), the third and fourth short columns formed the second long column (headed Edward Tilley with Turner halfway down), and the fifth and sixth short columns formed the third long column (headed Priest with Clarke halfway down). Both long column orders appear in modern lists of unnumbered signers. Prince numbered the names in their original 1669 Morton order (the same as the 1826/55 Morton order) on successive pages (85–86), two columns of eight names each on one page (headed 1 Carver and 9 Martin) and two columns of 13 and 12 names each on the next page (headed 17 Cooke and 30 Williams). The third (1852) edition placed these numbered names in two columns (the first column headed 1 Carver with 8 Samuel Fuller and 15 Edward Tilley below, and the second column headed 22 Turner with 29 Priest and 36 Clarke below) on a single page (172). He added titles (Mr. or Capt.) to eleven names given those titles by William Bradford in the list of passengers at the end of his manuscript.[1][10] He attributed the lack of Mr. Bradford to Bradford's modesty. Prince's numbered order of signers is now used to identify ancestors in genealogical charts.[6] The following list of signers is organized into the six short columns of Morton (1669) with the numbers and titles of Prince. The names are given their modern spelling according to Morison (1966).[14] Mr. John Carver William Bradford Mr. Edward Winslow Mr. William Brewster Mr. Isaac Allerton Capt. Myles Standish John Alden Mr. Samuel Fuller Mr. Christopher Martin Mr. William Mullins Mr. William White Mr. Richard Warren John Howland Mr. Stephen Hopkins Edward Tilley John Tilley Francis Cooke Thomas Rogers Thomas Tinker John Rigsdale Edward Fuller John Turner Francis Eaton James Chilton John Crackstone John Billington Moses Fletcher John Goodman Degory Priest Thomas Williams Gilbert Winslow Edmund Margeson Peter Browne Richard Britteridge George Soule Richard Clarke Richard Gardiner John Allerton Thomas English Edward Doty Edward Lester Separatists Priscilla (Mullins) Alden Isaac Allerton Mary Allerton William Bradford Dorothy Bradford Love Brewster William Brewster Peter Browne William Butten John Carver James Chilton Mary Chilton Francis Cooke Humility Cooper John Crackstone Edward Doty Moses Fletcher Edward Fuller Samuel Fuller Constance Hopkins Oceanus Hopkins John Howland Degory Priest Thomas Rogers Henry Samson George Soule Edward Tilley John Tilley Thomas Tinker John Turner William White Resolved White Peregrine White Edward Winslow Other Passengers John Alden John Billington Francis Eaton Stephen Hopkins Christopher Martin Elinor More Jasper More Mary More Richard More William Mullins Myles Standish Richard Warren Native American associates Squanto Samoset Hobomok Massasoit Corbitant | Allerton, Isaac (I26525)
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| 102 | The Tragedy in Henry County Virginia The usually quiet and law abiding people of the county of Henry have been intensley excited for the past three or four days in consequence of a terrible tragedy - or rather triple tragedy - that was enacted in their midst on Saturday last. The particulars reached us last evening through a source entirely reliable. the details, although not as full as we shall doubtless be enabled to give at an early day, are sufficient to cause a thrill of horror at their mere recital. It appears, according to the version given us, that some years since, a granddaughter of the venerable and talented Vincent Witcher, Esq., of Pittsylvania County, married a gentlemen from the adjoining county of Henry, whose name was Clemmens. His Christian name we have been unable to ascertain. The maiden name of Mr. Witcher's grandaughter was (Victoria C.) Smith. The parties lived happily together until about eighteen months since, when upon the most unfounded suspicions, as we have been informed, Mr. Clemmons desired a separation from his wife, and immediately instituted proceedings for divorce, at the same time impeaching her honor as the grounds for his course. (Comment: She had a baby girl in c. 1858) Last Saturday was set apart for the taking of depositions, and the parties met at a magisterial precinct in Henry county (Dickensons Store). Mr. Witcher appeared to defend the suit and protect the honor of his granddaughter. The taking of the depositions progressed, and after the plaintiff had finished with a witness, Mr. Witcher asked a question, which greatly exasperated the husband, Mr. (James Reid Clement) Clemmens. He immediately rose, drawing a pistol at the same time, and fired at Mr. Witcher. Mr. Witcher, it seems, also rose and drew a pistol from his pocket and as the ball of his antagonist grazed around the abdomen, he fired, striking Clemmens in the forehead and killing him instantly. A nephew of Mr. Witcher (Samuel Swanson), and a Mr. Smith (John Anthony Smith), brother of Mrs. Clemmens hearing the firing rushed into the room. A brother of Mr. Clemmens (Charles Johnson Clement), who had also been attracted by the pistol reports, fired at a nephew (Samuel Swanson) of Mr. Witcher, the ball taking effect and producing, it is feared, a fatal wound. Upon seeing his nephew shot, Mr. Vincent Witcher again fired, striking Clemmens No. 2, and killing him instantly. At this stage of the sanguinary affair, Mr. Smith, a brother of Mrs. Clemmens drew a Bowie knife, but had scarcely unsheathed the blade when he was fired upon by a second brother of Clemmens (Ralph Alexander Clement), the ball taking effect in the shoulder and producing a painful wound. Infuriated by his wound, Mr. Smith rushed upon his antagonist, and with one powerful thrust of the knife completely disemboweled Clemmens No. 3, the unfortunate man falling dead on the spot. Three of the parties dead, and the other three all wounded, the horrible tragedy here ended. Vincent Witcher, Esq., the chief actor in this truly terrible affair, is widely known throughout Virginia. He served for many years in the lower House of Legislature, and subsequently represented his district in the State Senate with signal ability. He is a prominent member of the Whig Party, and his name has been repeatedly mentioned in connexion with the office of Governor of the Commonwealth. He succeeded Whitnall F. Tunstall, upon the death of that gentleman, as President of the Richmond and Danville Railroad. After two years service he resigned the presidency of the railroad, and has since been engaged in the practice of his profession - that of a lawyer. Our informant states that throughout this painful suit, which Mr. Witcher believes to have been instituted against an innocent granddaughter, he has acted with great forebearance, and the part he has been compelled finally to act will be none a source of deeper regret than himself. Of course the whole matter will undergo a judicial investigation, until which we forebear further comment. The Lynchburg "Republican" of Wednesday says that Mr. Vincent Witcher and his grandson (John Anthony Smith) surrendered themselves to the authorities and were promptly acquitted, on the grounds of self-defense. -The Lorain Eagle March 15 1860 Vincent Witcher, Esq., Committed - Bail Refused - It is stated that the examination of Vincent Witcher, Esq., for the killing of the three brothers, James, Ralph and Johnson Clement, at Dickenson's store, Franklin County, on Saturday, the 25th of February, has resulted in his committal to jail for trial. Bail was asked, but refused. Mr. John Anthony Smith, a grandson, and Mr. (William)Addison Witcher, son of Mr. Vincent Witcher, who were likewise implicated, have been sent on for trial before an Examinig Court, which is to be held on Monday next, the 26th instant. - The North Carolina Standard; Wednesday, March 21, 1860 Acquittal of Capt. Vincent Wicher, et al. March 28, 1860 Raleigh Standard 28 March 1860 March 28, 1860 ACQUITTAL OF CAPTAIN VINCENT WICHER AND OTHERS LYNCHBURG, VA. -- March 25 -- CAPT. VINCENT WICHER, ADDISON WITCHER, J. A. SMITH and SAM'L SWANSON, tried for killing the MESSRS. CLEMENTS in Franklin County, Va., were acquitted on Friday evening last. THE WITCHER-CLEMENT SCANDAL The year 1860 was eventful for the little world in which Franklin County citizens lived and moved. A single local occurrence supplied Franklinites with a matter for speculation and conversation far into the 20th century. The occurrence was the killing of the three Clement brothers---James, William and Ralph---by Captain Vincent Witcher, John A. Smith, Vincent Oliver Smith, Samuel Swanson and Addison Witcher. Addison Witcher was the son of Vincent Witcher. John and Vincent Oliver Smith were his grandsons. Samuel Swanson was his son-in-law. The affray had its beginning in the marriage of James Clement and Victoria Smith, which was celebrated on March 13, 1858. The groom was one of the ten children of Dr. George W. Clement. Dr. Clement (b. 1786, m. 1811, d. 186?) was educated in Hampden-Sidney College and in the medical department of the University of Pennsylvania. His mother, Stella Smith, was the daughter of Major John Smith of Lewis Island. Their Franklin County home was called "Mountain View." Victoria Smith (b.1837) was the daughter of Albert G. Smith and a granddaughter of Captain Vincent Witcher. Both Clement and Smith families appeared to be pleased with the marriage, though it was brought out in the court proceedings following the killings, that the Smith family regarded the Clement family as of inferior social station. Dr. Clement was especially proud of the beauty, wit and vivacity of his daughter-in-law. Her magnetic personality gained her many admirers. It is said that two of her old sweethearts, William P. Gilbert and Samuel D. Berger, continued their attentions even after her marriage. Though these affairs were shown to be of an innocent nature, the extremely jealous disposition of her husband led him to charge her with unfaithfulness and to humiliate her constantly. Fearing physical violence, Victoria Smith Clement fled from her husband on the might of August 24, 1859, and found refuge in the home of Sherwood Y. Shelton who lived about a mile distant. She left behind her six months old baby (Lelia Maud, b. March 1, 1859) so great was her terror at the moment of flight. This incident was made the basis of a divorce suit. Within three weeks from her flight, the taking of depositions was begun at Dickinson's Store, the same to be read as evidence in the suit then pending between John A. Smith, next friend of Victoria Smith Clement, plaintiff, against James R. Clement, defendant. The taking of depositions continued through the fall and winter, until Saturday, February 25, 1860, when the killing of the Clement brothers ended the suit. The depositions of S.Y. Shelton, Charles Powell, Willis Woody, G.T. Berger, W.P. Gilbert, George Samson and Edney Shelton had been taken. Elizabeth W. Bennett had been called to make her statement. Captain Vincent Witcher objected to having her qualify and make part of her statement on Saturday "and then being left in the hands of the opposite party to be picked until Monday morning." Captain Witcher made the statement that Miss Bennett had been brought into the case by the Clements and was said to be under their control. Ralph Clement at this point said that "Whoever said that told a damned lie." Whereupon Captain Witcher replied "You had better make your remarks more direct," rose from his chair, put his hand in his bosom, drew therefrom a "five shooter," stepped toward Ralph Clement and began firing. Addison Witcher was conducting the examination for the plaintiff. Robert Mitchell was the justice of the peace before whom the depositions were being taken. His testimony in the trial of Captain Witcher, as recorded in the volume of depositions published by Dr. C.W. Clement, Sr., in June 1860, is not very impressive. He appears to have forgotten everything that transpired in his courtroom. The bodies of the three brothers were not only riddled with bullets, but were horribly gashed with knives. William Clement was disemboweled. James Clement had his throat slit from ear to ear. Ralph Clement lived nearly three hours despite his frightful wounds, and made a dying declaration before Justice Mitchell and Gresham Choice which was written down by Mr. Choice. It read as follows: "I never attempted to draw an arm. Addison Witcher caught me and held me around the waist and arms and told them to come and shoot me---a damned rascal. I was shot several times while in that fix, and he held me until I fell. Numbers of pistols were fired at me then." To this dying declaration, Magistrate Mitchell added these words: "Ralph A. Clement requested me to tell his father that he wanted him to make the deed to his wife and child according to his will." Robert N. Powell stated in his deposition that Addison Witcher held Ralph Clement while Vincent Oliver Smith shot him. George Finney stated in his deposition that John Anthony Smith shot and stabbed James Clement. It was stated by several deponents that both James and William Clement were reclining on a bed in the counting room when the firing began. It was thought by a few that some of the early firing came from the bed. The pistols of both James and William Clement had been fired until empty, but Ralph Clement, it was testified had not drawn gun or dirk. The bodies of the three slain brothers were carried from Washington Dickinson's counting room, in a farm wagon, and buried in a single grave near the shaded driveway which led up to the old brick house which was their boyhood home. The trial of Captain Vincent Witcher and his accomplices was begun almost immediately in general justices' court commonly called magistrates' court. Benjamin F. Cooper and Richard Parker took the depositions of the following: Jacob C. Mackenheimer, Gresham Choice, James Kemp, John C. Hutcherson, James M. Hutcherson, Madison D. Carter, Cluffee M. Brooks, George W. Finney, R.N. Powell, John B. Law, James M. Givson, Silas W. Evans, William C. Poindexter, Gilly Ann Huffman, John C. Law, William H. Hutcherson and Alfred L.H. Muse. Names appearing in the 200 page printed volume of depositions are: Abram Hancock, Tom Keen, Samuel D. Berger, James Rice, Shack Law, Waller Wright, Silas Dudley, Samuel G. Martox, Snead Adams, D.W. Blunt, Henry C. Mease, Mastin Williams, and John Baker, the last named being referred to as "an Englishman." The defendants claimed self-defense as justification for their killings and the charges against them were dismissed. In June 1860, the depositions, which were being taken when the killings occurred, were published in book form. After many years of searching, 1 found a copy and have had the same before me in writing this story. Dr. G.W. Clement, Sr., states in his foreword "To the Public" that "There were five justices on the bench of the Examining Court. Three of whom were in favour of discharging the accused, and two for sending them on to further trial." The courts record of the ease shows the close of the case in the following words: "At a court continued and held for Franklin County at the Court House on the 23rd day of March 1860, for the examination of Vincent Witcher, John A. Smith, Vincent 0. Smith, Samuel Swanson and Addison Witcher charged with the felonies aforesaid by them committed in this, that they did on the 25th day of February 1860, in the Counting Boom of Dickinson's Store in said county willfully, deliberately and with premeditation murder and kill Ralph A. Clement, James R. Clement and William C. Clement. "Present: Richard M. Taliaferro, Robert Bush, Noses C. Greer, Jonathan H. McNeil and Isaac Cannady, General Justices. "The said Vincent Witcher, John A. Smith, Vincent 0. Smith, Samuel Swanson and Addison Witcher were again led to the bar in custody of the jailer of this court. And the court having examined divers witnesses as well on behalf of the Commonwealth as of prisoners at the bar, who were heard in their defense by Counsel, is of the opinion that there is not probable cause for charging the said prisoners with the offense aforesaid and doth order that they be acquitted and go thereof without day." For a half century, the acquittal of these men was pointed to by Franklin County citizens as an illustration of how extreme may be the miscarriage of justice. The Masonic fraternity in which membership was held by both the killers and the killed, did not treat the matter so lightly. After the court had, on the 23rd of March, acquitted the five men of the killings committed less than a month before, Thomas S. Muse and John P, Lowell, members of the Masonic Lodge which bore the name of Vincent Witcher, chief actor in the killings, wrote of the "unfortunate death of Brothers R.A, and James R. Clement who cane to their death by the instrumentality of their brother in Masonry Vincent Witcher," and asked "that a committee of brethren be appointed whose duty it shall he to procure the evidence and make a report therefrom at our next regular communication." The reason given for "a thorough Masonic investigation," after the civil court had acquitted the killers, was stated in the following language: "The laws of a State are not the laws to try Brethren by who have offended against the Constitution and By laws of Masonry, that Civil law and Masonic law are as separate as Church and State." The Muse-Lowell document then asks, "Would the Civil law punish a Brother for violating the secrets and mysteries of Masonry or its Constitution?" Vincent Witcher Lodge No. 87 was chartered December 15, 1852, and had 39 members in 1860. The report of this lodge to the Grand Lodge for the year 1860 shows the deaths of R.A. and James R. Clement. The membership of the lodge down to 1860 includes the name of Vincent Walker. The secretary of the Grand Lodge of Virginia, James N. Hillman, in a letter to the author writes, "I find no reference to him (Vincent Witcher) subsequent to 1860 in the list of expulsions, suspensions or membership. Evidently, something happened to him, but it is not reported in the minutes from that lodge." There were no returns from Vincent Witcher Lodge, No. 87, to the Grand Lodge, according to the minutes of 1860 to 1866. These were war years, however, and that fact, rather than the fratricidal strife, may be the explanation of the interruption of the lodge's activity. Vincent Witcher Lodge No. 87 lost its charter in 1885 for mot having made a report in three years and in 1886 is marked extinct. The number it bore is now borne by Naomi Lodge in Norfolk, but the name of Vincent Witcher, who shed the blood of his brother Masons, has not been perpetuated by Masonry. | Clement, Ralph Alexander (I14395)
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| 103 | Utley Court Documents John Utley, Jr. and William Willis each acknowledge himself indebted to John Fleming and Arthur Hopkins, church wardens of St. James Parish unto their successors in the sum of 20 pounds sterling for the use of the said parish to be levied upon each of their goods and chattels on condition that the said John Utley, Jr. save the said parish of St. James harmless from the maintenance of a bastard male child begotten upon the body of Angelica Wade by the said John Utley, Jr. | Wade, Angelica (I3006)
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| 104 | Volume 1: The Brewster Genealogy 1566-1907 http://www.archive.org/details/brewstergenealog190801jone Volume 2 (with name index in the back for research): http://www.archive.org/details/brewstergenealog190802jone | Brewster, William IV (I26537)
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| 105 | Will of BARNET SHELHORSE, Written July 18 1837, proved Aug 21 1837. Names wife, Mary, daughters Elizabeth, Sally, Nancy, Catherine, Jane and Susan. To William Yates, "who married my daughter Polly", son Jacob, son William, son Henry. Ex: sons Jacob and Henry. Witnesses: Richard Jones, William Thomas and William A. Anthony. | Shelhorse, Johann Bernard Schelhase (I12887)
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| 106 | Will of Major John Bolling, b1700 d1757 1749 Will -In the name of God Amen, I John Bolling of the Parish of Dale in the County of Henrico Gent. being of Sound and disposing mind and memory Thanks be to Almighty God for the same do make constitute and appoint this to be my last Will and Testament in manner following I give and Devise unto my loving Wife Elizabeth Bolling during her natural life all my lands and tenaments in the Counties of Henrico and Chesterfield except the land at the Point where John Bolling Inspection Houses are, also the use of all my Negroes on my several Plantations in the said Countys Also my Plantation cal1ed by the name of Bollings Island in Goochland County against Rock Castle Low Ground Also the use of Six Negroes named Lusey, Austin, Toney, Jugg, Sue, and Betty Also the use of all my Plate during her nature Life with full power to Bequeath the said Plate by her last Will and Testament to such of my Children as She shall think fitt (sic, fit) and in Case She shall Die without such Will then I give and Bequeath so said Plate unto my Sons Living at the Time of her Death to be equally divided amongst them. Also give and bequeath unto my said Wife all my Household goods, Stocks and other Personal Estate belonging to and being upon the said Lands Tenaments and Plantations to her own proper use forever. I Give and devise unto my Son Thomas Bolling and his heirs and afsign (sic, assign) forever all that part of my Land in the County of Goochland called Licking Hole that is above Licking Hole Creek and two acres on the Fork of the said Creek below Alexander Logans be the same more or less which said Two Acres of Land I intended to have bounded by Marked Trees in the presence of several of the Neighbours (sic, neighbors). I give and devise unto my Son John Bolling all the rest of my Licking Hole tract of Land lying below the said Creek and including the Fork thereof (except the two Acres before given to my Son Thomas) to him and his Heirs forever. I also give and devise unto my said Son John Bolling and his Heirs and Afsign (sic, Assign) forever my Mill on Beaver Dam Creek in the County of Goochland and all the Land which I have on the said Beaver Dam Creek and the Branches thereof. Also the Reversion of all my Lands in the County of Henrico on the North Side of James River after the Death of my Wife as also of one Tract of Land on the South Side of James River called Rogsdale joyning (sic, joining)to Henry Battes and Edward Folks Land and on the said River. I Give and Bequeath unto my Son Robert Bolling all my Land at Willis’s Creek and at Tolere or near the seven Islands and Also a small Tract of Land above Dugads between the said Dugads and one of the Seads and all my Surveys Entries and orders of Council adjoining or near the same and also all my entries on Rock Island Creek all which said Lands lye in the County of Albemarle and I do give and devise them unto my said Son Robert his Heirs and afsigns (sic, assign) forever. I Give and Dev1se unto my Son Edward Bolling, his Heirs and Afsigns (sic, Assigns) forever my Lands in the County of Lunenburgh on the Heads of the Branches of Falling River containing Five Thousand Acres also my Land on Roanoak River on Butcher's Creek and the Reversion of all my Lands given unto my Wife lying on the South Side of James River and north side of Appomattox River not herein before given. Also my Land Called John Bollings Inspection at the Point which said Lands at the Point I give unto my said Son Edward, his Heirs and Afsigns (sic, Assigns) when he shall arrive to the age of Twentyone years. I also give and devise unto my said Son Edward my Land called the Buffalo Lick on both Sides of James River also all my Entries not Pattented above Possum Creek to him his Heirs and Afsigns (sic, Assigns) forever. It is my Will and Desire that if either of my Sons Robert Bolling or Edward Bolling should Die before the age of Twentyone years that the survivor of them and his Heirs shall have and enjoy his Part of the Lands hereby devised him. It is also my Will that the Rents and Profits of my Land called John Bollings Inspection at the Point shall be applied by my Executor towards discharging the Quitrents of my Lands 1n the Counties of Albemarle and Lunenburg untill (sic, until) my Son Edward comes to the age of Twentyone years if he Lives so long but if not then until my Son Robert shall Attain that age. I Give and Bequeath unto my Daughter Mary Bolling so much Money as will make the Legacy given her by her Aunt Anne Whiting amount to Five Hundred Pounds to be paid her when She shall Attain the Age of Twentyone Years or be Married which shall first happen. I Give and Bequeath unto my Daughter Sarah Bolling so much Money as will make the Legacy given her by her Aunt Anne Whiting amount to Five Hundred Pounds to be paid her when She shall Attain the Age of Twentyone Years or be Married which shall first happen. It is my Will and Desire that the Slaves given unto my Wife for Life be at her Death equally divided among all of my said Sons and that when the first of my said Sons shall come to the Age of Twentyone Years all my other Slaves shall be then equally Divided into as many Parts as I shall have Sons living and the eldest shall have one Part thereof Allotted to him for his own Use and the other Parts of the said Slaves shall be Delivered unto my said other Sons as they shall arrive to the same Age respectively and if any of my said Sons shall happen to Die before he shall come to such Age then his Part of my said Slaves shall be equally divided among my surviving Sons which said Slaves I give unto my said Sons forever. And Whereas my said Son Thomas Bolling may Claim a Legacy given by the last Will and Testament of his Aunt the said Anne Whiting deceased to him. I do declare my Will to be that whatsoever I have given and devised to him by this my Will is upon this Condition that he my said Son Thomas do as soon as he comes to Age Release to my Executor and the Executors of the said Anne all his Right and Title to the said Legacy and the Legacys given by her to his Brothers therein mentioned now Dead or any of them and if he shall refuse so to do then I do Subject all my Estate hereby given him with the paiment (sic, payment) of so much Money as he shall be entitled to by Virtue of the Will of the said Whiting to be raised and paid to my Executor towards Discharging to Legacys hereby given to my Daughters. It is my Will that the Profits of my Estate given to my Children be app1ied towards the paiment (sic, payment) of my Debts and their Education and Maintenance until they shall have a Right to receive their Parts thereof respectively and that all my Stocks and Personal Estate after paiment (sic, payment) of my Debts and Legacies shall be equally divided among my Sons in the manner and at the same Time and Times as the Slaves are herein before directed to be divided and Allotted to them Lastly I do Constitute and Appoint my esteemed Friend Peter Randolph Esq. and my Son Thomas Bolling when he shall come to the age of Twentyone Years Executors of this my Last Will and Testament and I do also appoint and desire the said Peter Randolph to be Guardian to all my Sons and my said Wife Guardian to my Daughters hereby directing that my Estate shall not be Appraised and revoking all former Wills by me made In Witnys (sic, witness) whereof I have hereunto set my Hand and affixed my Seal this fourth Day of September in the year of our Lord One thousand seven hundred and forty nine. Signed, Sealed published and declared by the Testator to be his last Will and Testament In Presence of William Kennon J" Robert Goldie John Gilliam J" Bolling (SS) 1757 Codicil I John Bolling of the Parish of Dale in the County of Chesterfield late of the County of Henrico Gent. being of perfect and disposing Memory do make the several Alterations and Additions following to my last Will and Testament bearing Date the fourth Day of September in the year One Thousand seven hundred and forty nine and so direct and appoint this Writing as a Codicil thereto and to be taken as Part of my said last Will and Testament to wit; I give and devise to my Son Archibald Bolling and his Heirs forever Twelve Hundred Acres of Land with the Appurtenances situate in the County of Bedford being one half of Six Surveys of Land made by me lying in the County of Bedford aforesaid from the Branches of Rock Island Creek to the Otter River Road that is to say that Part of the said Six Surveys of land lying next the said Road and the other Twelve hundred Acres residue of the said Six Surveys I give and dispose of in manner following that is to say I give and devise Four Hundred Acres with the Appurtenances Part of the said last mentioned Twelve hundred lying next on Rock Island Creek to my Nephew Bolling Eldridge and his Heirs forever and four Hundred Acres other part thereof with the Appurtenances. I give and devise to my Friend John Childers at Willis's Mountains in the County of Albemarle and his Heirs forever and Four hundred Residue thereof I give and Devise to my Friend Richard Taylor of Slate River in Albemarle County to hold the same with the Appurtenances to him and his Heirs forever all the said several Portions of the said Six Surveys to be laid off by such Lines and Boundaries and in such manner as my Son Thomas in his Discretion shall direct and appoint. I do give and devise to my aforesaid Son Archibald and his Heirs forever all Part of my Tract of Land called Buffalo Lick Tract which is Situated on the South Side of the Flevanna River now in the County of Bedford late in Albemarle which in my said Will is before devised to my Son Edward with all my Surveys Entries and Orders of Council adjoining the same some of which Entries Orders of Council and Surveys are in my said Will before given and devised to my Son Robert.It is my Will and Desire that my said Son Archibald come in with my other Sons for an equal Division of my Slaves at the same Time and Times upon the same Terms and under the same Regulations Limitations and Restrictions as in my said Will are mentioned and directed for each of my other Sons Respectively.It is my Will and Desire that the Legacy of Five Hundred Pounds in my said Will be given to my Daughter Sarah be reduced to Four Hundred Pounds and that the same be paid her at her Attaining the Age of Eighteen years and not sooner but if she shall Die before that Age then I give One hundred Pounds part of the said Legacy to my Daughter Anne and the Residue thereof to Sink for total Benefit of my Estate. I give and Bequeath to my Daughter Anne the Sum of Four Hundred Pounds to be paid for on her Attaining the Age of Eighteen years and not sooner and if she shall Die before that Age then I give One hundred Pounds part of her Legacy to my Daughter Sarah and the residue thereof to Sink for the Benefit of my Estate and it is my further Will and Desire that each of my Daughters receive their respective Legacies without Interest and that they be each of them maintained educated and decently supported out of the Profits of my whole Estate untill (sic, until) they each of them respectively become entitled to receive their Legacies or Marry which ever shall first happen In Witnys (sic, Witness) whereof I have hereunto set my Hand and affixed my Seal the Fourth Day of September in the year of Christ One thousand seven hundred and fifty seven Affixing this Codicil to my last said Will and Testament and Declaring it to be Part and Cancel of the same. Signed, Sealed, Delivered, Published and Declared by the said John Bolling as and for Part of his Last Will and Testament the Day and year last above mentioned In presence of the Subscribers John Fleming Alex Bolling John Bannister Thomas Fleming Bolling | Bolling, Major John Kennon Jr. (I33238)
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| 107 | William Brewster (c. 1566 – 10 April 1644) was an English official and Mayflower passenger in 1620. In Plymouth Colony he became a Separatists leader and preacher.[1] Contents William Brewster was most probably born in Scrooby, Nottinghamshire, England, about 1566, and died at Plymouth, Massachusetts on 10 April 1644. He was the son of William Brewster and Mary (Smythe) (Simkinson) and he had a number of half-siblings. His paternal grandparents were William Brewster (1510–1558), and Maud Mann (1513–1558). His maternal grandfather was William Smythe (1505–1560).[2][3] He studied briefly at Peterhouse, Cambridge before entering the service of William Davison in 1584.[4] Brewster was the only Pilgrim with political and diplomatic experience. With his mentor in prison, Brewster had returned home to Scrooby for a time, where he took up his father’s former position as postmaster.[5] Cambridge was a centre of thought concerning religious reformism, but Brewster had spent time in the Netherlands in connection with Davison's work, giving him opportunity to hear and see more of reformed religion. While, earlier in the 16th century, reformers had hoped to amend the Anglican church, by the end of it, many were looking toward splitting from it.[6] (See Brownist.) Restrictions and pressures applied by the authorities convinced the congregation of a need to emigrate to the more sympathetic atmosphere of Holland, but leaving England without permission was illegal at the time, so that departure was a complex matter. On its first attempt, in 1607, the group was arrested at Scotia Creek, but in 1608 Brewster and others were successful in leaving from The Humber. In 1609, he was selected as ruling elder of the congregation.[5] Life in Holland[edit] A rare 17th-century "Brewster Chair," named after the original owned by William Brewster[7] William lived near Pieterskerk (St Peter’s church] with his wife and children. He taught English to Leiden University students and was also a printer of religious pamphlets. His son, Jonathan, was a ribbonweaver. William was chosen as assistant and later as an elder to Pastor John Robinson. He was still an elder when he travelled to Plymouth Colony in 1620.[3] In Leiden, the group managed to make a living. Brewster taught English and later, in 1616–1619, as the partner of one Thomas Brewer, printed and published religious books for sale in England, though they were proscribed there. In 1619, Brewster and Edward Winslow published a religious tract critical of the English king and his bishops. James ordered Brewster’s arrest, and when the king’s agents in Holland came to seize the Pilgrim elder, Brewster was forced into hiding just as preparations to depart for America entered the most critical phase. The printing type was seized by the authorities from the English ambassador, Sir Dudley Carleton, and Brewster's partner was arrested. Brewster escaped and, with the help of Robert Cushman and Sir Edwin Sandys, obtained a land patent from the London Virginia Company on behalf of himself and his colleagues.[8] With Brewster in hiding, the Separatists looked to their deacon John Carver and to Robert Cushman to carry on negotiations with the appropriate officials in London.[9] In 1620 when it came time for the Mayflower departure, Elder Brewster returned to the Leiden congregation. He had been hiding out in Holland and perhaps even England for the last year. At the time of his return, Brewster was the highest-ranking layperson of the congregation and would be their designated spiritual leader in the New World.[10] Brewster joined the first group of Separatists aboard the Mayflower on the voyage to North America. Brewster was accompanied by his wife, Mary Brewster, and his sons: Love Brewster and Wrestling Brewster.[11] Mayflower voyage[edit] Among children boarding the Mayflower were four children from Shipton in Shropshire placed as indentured servants with senior Separatists with William Brewster, John Carver and Robert Cushman, on behalf of Samuel More, husband of the children’s mother Katherine More. The children were placed without their mother’s permission after four rancorous years between the More adults over charges of adultery against Katherine More with her longtime lover, the children’s alleged father. Two children were placed with William and Mary Brewster – Mary More, age four and Richard More, age five. Mary was to die in the winter of 1620 as did two other siblings. Only Richard survived and lived with them until approximately 1627. The event has become a bizarre 17th century historic incident. It is not known what Brewster knew about the More children.[12] Signing the Mayflower Compact 1620, a painting by Jean Leon Gerome Ferris 1899 The Mayflower departed Plymouth, England on 6/16 September 1620. The small, 100-foot ship had 102 passengers and a crew of about 30–40 in extremely cramped conditions. By the second month out the ship was buffeted by strong westerly gales. The ship‘s timbers were badly shaken with caulking failing to keep out sea water. Passengers laid wet and ill even when in their berths. This, combined with a poor rations and unsanitary conditions for several months attributed to what would be fatal for many, especially the majority of women and children. On the journey there were two deaths, a crew member and a passenger. The worst was yet to come after arriving at their destination. In the space of several months almost half the passengers perished in the cold, harsh, unfamiliar New England winter.[13] On 9/19 November 1620, after about 3 months at sea, including a month of delays in England, they spotted land, which was the Cape Cod Hook, now called Provincetown Harbor. After several days of trying to get south to their planned destination of the Colony of Virginia, strong winter seas forced them to return to the harbor at Cape Cod hook, where they anchored on 11/21 November. The Mayflower Compact was signed that day.[13][14] Landing and life in the New World[edit] When the colonists landed at Plymouth Colony, Brewster became the senior elder of the colony, serving as its religious leader and as an adviser to Governor William Bradford. Brewster's son Jonathan joined the family in November 1621, arriving at Plymouth on the ship Fortune, and daughters Patience and Fear arrived in July 1623 aboard the Anne.[15] As the only university educated member of the colony, Brewster took the part of the colony's religious leader until a pastor, Ralph Smith, arrived in 1629. Thereafter, he continued to preach irregularly until his death in April 1644. “He was tenderhearted and compassionate of such as were in misery,” Bradford write, “but especially of such as had been of good estate and rank and fallen unto want and poverty.” [16] Brewster was granted land amongst the islands of Boston Harbor, and four of the outer islands (Great Brewster, Little Brewster, Middle Brewster and Outer Brewster) now bear his name. In 1632, Brewster received lands in nearby Duxbury and removed from Plymouth to create a farm there.[17] In 1634, smallpox and influenza ravaged both the English and the Indians in the region. William Brewster, whose family had managed to survive the first terrible winter unscathed, lost two daughters, Fear and Patience, now married to Isaac Allerton and Thomas Prence, respectively.[18] William Brewster died and was buried on 10 April 1644 at Burial Hill, Plymouth, Massachusetts. At present, a gravestone/memorial stone exists there for him. The memorial stone states that it is in honor of "Elder William Brewster Patriarch of the Pilgrims and their Ruling Elder 1609–1644". The burial place of his wife Mary "Mayflower", who died in 1627, is unknown."[19] Family[edit] Title page of a pamphlet published by William Brewster in Leiden Sometime before 1593, in England, William Brewster married Mary "Mayflower" Wentworth, daughter of Thomas Wentworth, Esquire (1522–1574), and Grace Gascoigne (1532–1574).[20][21][22][23][24] She was born in Scrooby, Nottinghamshire, England in 1569. She 'dyed at Plymouth, Massachusetts on 17 April 1627.' (Brewster Book).* Bradford says that, though she died ' long before' her husband, 'yet she dyed aged,' but by her affidavit of 1609 she was less than sixty years of age and it is probable that her ' great & continuall labours, with others crosses, and sorrows, hastened it (t. a. old age) before y* time.'[25] The children of William and Mary were: Elder Jonathan Brewster (12 August 1593 – 7 August 1659) married Lucretia Oldham of Derby on 10 April 1624,[23][26][27][28][29] and were the parents of eight children. Patience Brewster (c. 1600 – 12 December 1634)[23] married Gov. Thomas Prence of Lechlade, Gloucestershire, 4 children. Fear Brewster (c. 1606 – before 1634)[23] so called because she was born at the height of the Puritans' persecution. Married Isaac Allerton of London, 2 children. Unnamed child was born, died and buried in 1609 in Leiden, Holland.[23] Love Brewster was born in Leiden, Holland about 1611 and died between 6 October 1650 and 31 January 1650/1, at Duxbury, Massachusetts.[23][30][31] At the age of about 9, he travelled with his father, mother and brother, Wrestling, on the Mayflower to Plymouth, Massachusetts. He married Sarah Collier in Plymouth, Massachusetts on 15 May 1634. Love and Sarah were the parents of 4 children. Wrestling Brewster was born in 1614 in Leiden, Holland; was living in 1627, died unmarried before the 1644 settlement of his father's estate.[23] | Brewster, William IV (I26537)
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| 108 | Early Life Charlemagne was the eldest child of Pippin the Short (714 – 24 September 768, reigned from 751) and his wife Bertrada of Laon (720 – 12 July 783), daughter of Caribert of Laon andBertrada of Cologne. Records name only Carloman, Gisela, and a short-lived child named Pippin as his younger siblings. The semi-mythical Redburga, wife of King Egbert of Wessex, is sometimes claimed to be his sister (or sister-in-law or niece), and the legendary material makes him Roland's maternal uncle through a lady Bertha. Much of what is known of Charlemagne's life comes from his biographer, Einhard, who wrote a Vita Caroli Magni (or Vita Karoli Magni), the Life of Charlemagne. Einhard says of the early life of Charles: It would be folly, I think, to write a word concerning Charles' birth and infancy, or even his boyhood, for nothing has ever been written on the subject, and there is no one alive now who can give information on it. Accordingly, I determined to pass that by as unknown, and to proceed at once to treat of his character, his deed, and such other facts of his life as are worth telling and setting forth, and shall first give an account of his deed at home and abroad, then of his character and pursuits, and lastly of his administration and death, omitting nothing worth knowing or necessary to know. On the death of Pippin, the kingdom of the Franks was divided—following tradition—between Charlemagne and Carloman. Charles took the outer parts of the kingdom, bordering on the sea, namely Neustria, western Aquitaine, and the northern parts of Austrasia, while Carloman retained the inner parts: southern Austrasia, Septimania, eastern Aquitaine, Burgundy,Provence, and Swabia, lands bordering on Italy. [edit] On 9 October, immediately after the funeral of their father, both the kings withdrew from Saint Denis to be proclaimed by their nobles and consecrated by the bishops, Charlemagne inNoyon and Carloman in Soissons. The first event of the brothers' reign was the rising of the Aquitainians and Gascons, in 769, in that territory split between the two kings. Years before Pippin had suppressed the revolt ofWaifer, Duke of Aquitaine. Now, one Hunald (seemingly other than Hunald the duke) led the Aquitainians as far north as Angoulême. Charlemagne met Carloman, but Carloman refused to participate and returned to Burgundy. Charlemagne went to war, leading an army to Bordeaux, where he set up a camp at Fronsac. Hunold was forced to flee to the court of Duke Lupus II of Gascony. Lupus, fearing Charlemagne, turned Hunold over in exchange for peace. He was put in a monastery. Aquitaine was finally fully subdued by the Franks. The brothers maintained lukewarm relations with the assistance of their mother Bertrada, but in 770 Charlemagne signed a treaty with Duke Tassilo III of Bavaria and married a Lombard Princess (commonly known today as Desiderata), the daughter of King Desiderius, in order to surround Carloman with his own allies. Though Pope Stephen III first opposed the marriage with the Lombard princess, he would soon have little to fear from a Frankish-Lombard alliance. Less than a year after his marriage, Charlemagne repudiated Desiderata, and quickly remarried to a 13-year-old Swabian named Hildegard. The repudiated Desiderata returned to her father's court at Pavia. The Lombard's wrath was now aroused and he would gladly have allied with Carloman to defeat Charles. But before war could break out, Carloman died on 5 December 771. Carloman's wife Gerberga fled to Desiderius' court with her sons for protection. | Charlemagne, Emperor Charles I Emperor Of The Holy Roman Empire (I36657)
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| 109 | From the article "The Emigration Season of 1738 - Year of the Destroying Angles" which appeared in the report: "A Journal of German - American History" - Vol. 40, Published by society of the History of Germans in Maryland, 1986. Journey to America The Winter galley arrived first in Philadelphia on September 5. Captain Edward Paynter submitted his account of 252 passengers. If the news of the dismal situation in Kralingen had not yet reached Philadelphia, the emigrants themselves now spread the story. As usual during the arrival season, Germans, even from remote settlements, crowded the harbor to greet relatives, friends, or just people from their old home place to hear news and maybe find mail. Four days later, the ship Glasgow and the SNOW TWO SISTERS arrived. The recently installed new governor, George Thomas, attended the oath swearing ceremonies to acquaint himself with the situation. He also was present when the next three vessels arrived with Palatines, the Robert & Alice, the Queen Elizabeth, and the Thistle. Captain Walter Goodman of Robert & Alice sent a letter back to Germany on October 19th. Excerpts were published in the Rotterdamse Courant two months later: “On the 4th of July last I sailed out of Dover in England and arrived here on this river on the 9th of September with crew and passengers in good health but on the way I had many sick people, yet, since not more than 18 died, we lost by far the least of all the ships in company with four of the skippers who together had 425 deaths, one had 140, one 115, one 90, and one 80. The two captains Steadman have not yet arrived and I do not doubt that I shall be cleared for departure before they arrive since I begin loading tomorrow. I have disposed of all my passengers except for 20 families. Another letter, dated October 18th, was sent by Christoph Sauer of Germantown to friends in Wittgenstein who were eagerly awaiting news of several emigrants form Elsoff. Sauer wrote: “The Elsoffers have not yet arrived. Everybody wonders where their ship I, and besides that vessel, 3 to 4 ships with people are still expected. According to all reports, they have been at sea now for a quarter of a year.” As to the vessels that had come in, Sauer remarked: “The throngs of people who let themselves be seduced this year to come into the country are raising much lament here. Besides, as so many hundreds died from sickness aboard ships at sea, the survivors, if there is any left of a family, must pay or go into service which causes so much indigence and privation among a people which is hard to describe. This ship lost near 160 persons, and another one that arrived the day before, more than 150, and on one that came in the following day, only 13 healthy people are said to remain. Still another one arrived meanwhile on which out of 300 freights only 50 are left. Most of them died from dysentery, head sickness and violent fever also some captains and many seamen. Altogether of 15 passenger ships only 2 seem to have arrived with people tolerably healthy and well.” The author estimated about 1,600 people had died on the fifteen ships which had arrived so far. On November 20th another letter from the people in Germantown to the people in Wittgenstein was sent. The letter concludes with an upward assessment of the total number of victims: “There has been a cruel, destroying angel among the travelers this year for the number of those who died so far on the voyage has reached about 2,000. | Yoho, Johannes (I22584)
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| 110 | RALPH SHELTON, SR. OF HENRY COUNTY, VA Ralph Shelton, son of Ralph Shelton and his wife, Mary (surname unknown, believed by some to be Crispin) was born in Middlesex County, VA on 23 October 1709. He married 1st Mary Daniel on 10 June 1731. Both events are recorded in the Christ Church Parish Register, Middlesex Co, VA. He lived in Essex, Amelia, and Lunenburg Counties, VA. By 1776 he was living in Henry Co, VA when he bought 119 ½ acres of land from John Sims then in 1777 with wife, Susannah, sold it to Robert Baker (the sale deed says Ralph Shelton, Jr. though the purchase deed says Ralph Shelton). 23 April 1787, when the will was proved 30 March 1789 he had another wife, Elizabeth (maiden name unknown), who survived him. ESTATE SETTLEMENT RECORDS (Henry and Patrick Cos, VA) The LAST WILL AND TESTAMENT of RALPH SHELTON SR was written 23 April 1787 and proved 30 March 1789. It is recorded in HENRY COUNTY, VA WILL BOOK I: pg 171. See the complete transcript of this will. Securities for the Executor Eliphaz Shelton are Stephen Lyon and John Parr Jr. HENRY COUNTY, VA, WILL BOOK I: pg 174. Inventory and Appraisement of Estate of RALPH SHELTON. 30 May 1789, Returned 29 June 1789 by William Carter, George Carter. Money scales, a still, furniture, livestock. T:51.10.6, HENRY COUNTY, VA, WILL BOOK I: pgs 217-219. Account estate RALPH SHELTON with Eliphaz Shelton, exor. Purchases for estate.. cash from William Hooker. Pd Clerk of Pittsylvania Co; John Redd, Col. Hughes, Samuel Annett, M. Lawson, boarding widow and 5 children for l year; corn for widow and 3 children for 1 year; same for widow and 4 children 5 mos; 9 mos for board of 2 chldren..pd Capt. Willliam Carter. We have settled the account current of the estate of Ralph Shelton. signed: James Lyon, Edward Tatum, William Carter. HENRY COUNTY, VA WILL BOOK II: pgs 226-228. Account RALPH SHELTON 24 Nov 1814. Ret Aug Ct 1815 In acct with Eliphaz Shelton. July 23, 1789, Bond 9 yrs interest; tax 1785-1789; pd Pittsylvania Co. tax, John Redd; Tax for 1786; Pd Clerks Ticket for citing the decedant levy free; Coffin and winding sheet; Col. Hughes; Moorman Lauson (Lawson?); Bread corn for widow and 3 children one year; Same for Widow and 4 children 3 months; 9 months board for 2 children Capt. William Carter; John Henderson; Alexander Askin in Amalia County; board and schooling for one boy a legatee 5 years 6 months; James Shelton; John Davis; James Harrison; Winding sheet for Mrs. Shelton; Interest on the 10 pounds pd James Harrison 1764 to 1789, 25 years. Received money from sales and from rent of the plantation from 1790-1794 + + + + + HENRY COUNTY, VA, GENERAL INDEX TO ENDED LAW AND CHANCERY, COUNTY COURT FROM 1777 TO 1904. (SHELTON PORTION). From the microfilm at Family History Library, Salt Lake City, UT) 1789 Book 5 Page 25. Ralph Shelton, Estate: State appraisors appointed, Last Will & Testament. 1789 Book 5 Page 47. Esup Shelton, Bound out according to law, orphan of Ralph Shelton 1789 Book 5 Page 47. Ralph Shelton, Est. Inventory of his estate returned to be recorded. 1789 Book 5 Page 51. Elizabeth Shelton. Relinquished her claim on the estate of her husband. 1790 Book 5 Page 152. Elizabeth Shelton Ptf. Ezekiah Shelton Def. Power of Attorney proved and o. r. (o. r. =ordered recorded) 1791 Book 5 Page 161. Abigal, Mary & Liberty. Ordered that the overseer of the poor bind them out according to law. Orphan of Ralph Shelton. 1791 Book 5 Page 162. Elizabeth Shelton, Ptf. Eliphaz Shelton, Def. Their award to be the judgment of the court. 1791 Book 5 Page 176. Hezekiah Shelton, Ptf., Ralph Shelton, decd., Def. Award returned. 1791 Book 5 Page 227. Eliphaz Shelton. Ordered that he appear at next court to render an acct. current of the est. of Ralph Shelton decd, which is in his hands. 1791 Book 5 Page 236. Ralph Shelton sr., decd. Appraisors to his estate Appointed. 1791 Book 5 Page 245. Men appointed to lay off the third part of his estate for the benefit of Eliz. Shelton, widow of Ralph. 1792 Book 6 Page 4. An account current of said Shelton estate returned. 1792 Book 6 Page 5. Ralph Shelton, decd. Men appointed to resettle the account current of said Shelton. Make report to court. 1814 Book 10 Page 198. Ralph Shelton est. Commissioners appointed to settle the account current of his estate. ABSTRACTS OF ORDER BOOK 'O', PATRICK COUNTY, VA; JUNE 1791-AUGUST 1800 >From a book compiled by Lela C. Adams, Sherwood Forest, Basset, VA 24055 Order Book "O", Page 11, Court, September 1792. On a motion of Stephen Lyon judgment is granted him against John Smith for the administration of a judgment obtained by Eliphaz Shelton, executor of Ralph Shelton as security for said Smith. Order Book "O", Page 32, Court, Tuesday, 14 May 1793 (Pg 13, printed book) Samuel Staples against Eliphaz Shelton as Guardian for Esop Shelton, Abigail Shelton, Liberty Shelton, and Mary Shelton. Abram Penn attorney for Ralph Shelton Jr, Palatiah Shelton, Jeremiah Shelton, William McGehee and Julius Robertson also Dudley Rutherford, William Arnold, William Jones, Roger Shelton, Azariah Shelton, Ezekiah Shelton, James Shelton. heirs of Ralph Shelton, dec'd. defendants. - The defendants Dudley Rutherford, William Jones, and William Arnold not having given security and not inhabitants of this county. The defendants are to appear the 2nd Monday of August and answer complaint. Copy to be inserted in the Virginia Gazette for two months. Order Book "O", Page 41, Court Wednesday 14 August 1793. Eliphaz Shelton appointed guardian for Esop Shelton, Abigail Shelton, Mary Shelton, Liberty Shelton infants and heirs of Ralph Shelton dec'd to answer a Bill in Chancery exhibited against James Shelton. Order Book "O", Page 81, Court l October 1794. Samuel Staples vs Eliphaz Shelton guardian for Easop Shelton, Abigail Shelton, Liberty Shelton, Mary Shelton and also Abraham Penn attorney in fact for Ralph Shelton, Palitiah Shelton, Jeremiah Shelton, William McGehe, Julious Roberson, Dudley Rutherford, William Jones, William Arnold, Roger Shelton, Azariah Shelton, Ezekiah Shelton, and James Shelton heirs of Ralph Shelton, dec'd Defendants. The Defendants not having appeared it is ordered that George Carter, Edward Tatum, Nathaniel Smith, William Smith Jr and David Hanby are appointed Commissioners to lay off and divide the land named in the Complaint. Order Book "O", Page 83, (No date change entered between the item above and the one following - date apparently l October 1794?) James Shelton and wife against Easop Shelton, Abigail Shelton, Liberty Shelton, Mary Shelton, Ralph Shelton, Palitiah Shelton Jeremiah Shelton, William McGehe, Julious Roberson, Dudley Rutherford, William Arnold, William Jones, Roger Shelton, Azariah Shelton, Ezekiah Shelton, Eliphaz Shelton, heirs of Ralph Shelton dec'd Defendants. The Defendants waving all errors and not gain saying the claim of Complainants. It is ordered that the land according to the Poayer of said Bill be decreed to them. Order Book "O", Page 83, Saturday l November 1794. James Shelton and wife Susannah to Samuel Staples, a Deed. (Same date and page) William Carter, Jonathan Hanby, Edward Tatum and James Taylor or any 3 appointed to lay off and allot the widow and relict of Ralph Shelton dec'd of the residue of land of which Ralph Shelton died seized of after deducting J. Shelton and wifes claim. Order Book "O", Page 93, Court, Thursday 27 March 1795. Deed - James Shelton and wife Susannah to Samuel Staples. PATRICK COUNTY, VA DEED BOOK 1, 1791-1801. Published by TLC GENEALOGY, P. O. Box 403369, Miami Beach, FL 403369 Deed Book Page 270. Nov 1, 1794 From James Shelton & wife of Patrick County, VA to Samuel Staples of Patrick County, Va, for 20 pounds, about 90 acres in Patrick County on South Mayo River, it being a part of the land Ralph Shelton died seized of, and bounded by the lower line where it crosses the Mayo River, then with the meanders of the River to the mouth of Moody branch, thence to sd Ralph Shelton's old line, then along that to the Dwelling House of sd James Shelton, to the beginning, it being the same land that was yesterday decreed by the Patrick Court to sd James Shelton & wife. The land is warranted against me, my heirs, my wife Susannah, and her heirs. Signed - James (S his mark) Shelton, Susannah (I her mark) Shelton. Wit - Wm. Adams, John (X his mark) Clark, Peter (/ his mark) Shelton. Recorded Mar 27 1795. Susannah Shelton was not the wife of Ralph Shelton who was married to Mary Daniel. Ralph, widower of Mary Daniel, did marry a second time as his widow was a woman named "Elizabeth"; however, no record of this marriage has been found, to date. There is a deed in Henry County, Virginia, which prove Susannah was the wife of Ralph Shelton, III, who was the son of Ralph Shelton,II, and Mary Daniel. Ralph Shelton who married Mary Daniel was literate, proven by the fact that he signed his name to his will on file in Henry County, VA, as well as on several deeds where he sold land, in his move from Essex County, VA, to Henry County, VA. Ralph Shelton, III, was not literate and signed his name by mark, using a very distinctive mark. Also, in the records of Pittsylvania County and Henry County, VA, Ralph Shelton who married Mary Daniel is referred to as "Ralph Shelton, Sr." and his son, Ralph Shelton, III, who married Susannah is referred to as "Ralph Shelton, Jr.". One has to remember that in these two Counties on the Virginia frontier of that time, no one knew Ralph Shelton,I, who had died in 1733 and it was logical to refer to Ralph Shelton who married Mary Daniel as "Ralph Shelton,Sr." and his son, Ralph Shelton, III, as "Ralph Shelton, Jr.". By the way, this Ralph Shelton, III, died in Knox County, Tennessee, about 1816. This is the deed which proves Susannah married Ralph Shelton, III: Sept, 1777 Henry County, VA., Deed Book 1, page 70. From Ralph Shelton to Robert Baker, a deed which gave rise to the confusion that Ralph Shelton, Sr., was married to a woman named Susannah. This deed is signed by mark, being a capital "R". There is no question this deed is from the Henry County Ralph Shelton, Jr. and not his father, the Henry County Ralph Shelton, Sr., who signed his own name. Later Tennessee records of this Ralph Shelton are signed with the same "R" mark. I knew and worked with Margaret Alford, whose death several years ago was a great lost to Shelton genealogy. We worked together on the question Susannah and together determined Susannh was not the wife of Ralph, II, but was the wife of his son, Ralph, III. | Shelton, Ralph Jr (I19542)
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| 111 | RALPH SHELTON, SR. OF HENRY COUNTY, VA Ralph Shelton, son of Ralph Shelton and his wife, Mary (surname unknown, believed by some to be Crispin) was born in Middlesex County, VA on 23 October 1709. He married 1st Mary Daniel on 10 June 1731. Both events are recorded in the Christ Church Parish Register, Middlesex Co, VA. He lived in Essex, Amelia, and Lunenburg Counties, VA. By 1776 he was living in Henry Co, VA when he bought 119 ½ acres of land from John Sims then in 1777 with wife, Susannah, sold it to Robert Baker (the sale deed says Ralph Shelton, Jr. though the purchase deed says Ralph Shelton). 23 April 1787, when the will was proved 30 March 1789 he had another wife, Elizabeth (maiden name unknown), who survived him. ESTATE SETTLEMENT RECORDS (Henry and Patrick Cos, VA)The LAST WILL AND TESTAMENT of RALPH SHELTON SR was written 23 April 1787 and proved 30 March 1789. It is recorded in HENRY COUNTY, VA WILL BOOK I: pg 171. See the complete transcript of this will. Securities for the Executor Eliphaz Shelton are Stephen Lyon and John Parr Jr.HENRY COUNTY, VA, WILL BOOK I: pg 174. Inventory and Appraisement of Estate of RALPH SHELTON. 30 May 1789, Returned 29 June 1789 by William Carter, George Carter. Money scales, a still, furniture, livestock. T:51.10.6,HENRY COUNTY, VA, WILL BOOK I: pgs 217-219. Account estate RALPH SHELTON with Eliphaz Shelton, exor. Purchases for estate.. cash from William Hooker. Pd Clerk of Pittsylvania Co; John Redd, Col. Hughes, Samuel Annett, M. Lawson, boarding widow and 5 children for l year; corn for widow and 3 children for 1 year; same for widow and 4 children 5 mos; 9 mos for board of 2 chldren..pd Capt. Willliam Carter.We have settled the account current of the estate of Ralph Shelton. signed: James Lyon, Edward Tatum, William Carter.HENRY COUNTY, VA WILL BOOK II: pgs 226-228. Account RALPH SHELTON 24 Nov 1814. Ret Aug Ct 1815In acct with Eliphaz Shelton.July 23, 1789, Bond 9 yrs interest; tax 1785-1789; pd Pittsylvania Co. tax, John Redd; Tax for 1786; Pd Clerks Ticket for citing the decedant levy free; Coffin and winding sheet; Col. Hughes; Moorman Lauson (Lawson?); Bread corn for widow and 3 children one year; Same for Widow and 4 children 3 months; 9 months board for 2 children Capt. William Carter; John Henderson; Alexander Askin in Amalia County; board and schooling for one boy a legatee 5 years 6 months; James Shelton; John Davis; James Harrison; Winding sheet for Mrs. Shelton; Interest on the 10 pounds pd James Harrison 1764 to 1789, 25 years. Received money from sales and from rent of the plantation from 1790-1794+ + + + +HENRY COUNTY, VA, GENERAL INDEX TO ENDED LAW AND CHANCERY, COUNTY COURT FROM 1777 TO 1904. (SHELTON PORTION). From the microfilm at Family History Library, Salt Lake City, UT)1789 Book 5 Page 25. Ralph Shelton, Estate: State appraisors appointed, Last Will & Testament.1789 Book 5 Page 47. Esup Shelton, Bound out according to law, orphan of Ralph Shelton1789 Book 5 Page 47. Ralph Shelton, Est. Inventory of his estate returned to be recorded.1789 Book 5 Page 51. Elizabeth Shelton. Relinquished her claim on the estate of her husband.1790 Book 5 Page 152. Elizabeth Shelton Ptf. Ezekiah Shelton Def. Power of Attorney proved and o. r. (o. r. =ordered recorded)1791 Book 5 Page 161. Abigal, Mary & Liberty. Ordered that the overseer of the poor bind them out according to law. Orphan of Ralph Shelton.1791 Book 5 Page 162. Elizabeth Shelton, Ptf. Eliphaz Shelton, Def. Their award to be the judgment of the court.1791 Book 5 Page 176. Hezekiah Shelton, Ptf., Ralph Shelton, decd., Def. Award returned.1791 Book 5 Page 227. Eliphaz Shelton. Ordered that he appear at next court to render an acct. current of the est. of Ralph Shelton decd, which is in his hands.1791 Book 5 Page 236. Ralph Shelton sr., decd. Appraisors to his estate Appointed.1791 Book 5 Page 245. Men appointed to lay off the third part of his estate for the benefit of Eliz. Shelton, widow of Ralph.1792 Book 6 Page 4. An account current of said Shelton estate returned.1792 Book 6 Page 5. Ralph Shelton, decd. Men appointed to resettle the account current of said Shelton. Make report to court.1814 Book 10 Page 198. Ralph Shelton est. Commissioners appointed to settle the account current of his estate.+ + + + +ABSTRACTS OF ORDER BOOK 'O', PATRICK COUNTY, VA; JUNE 1791-AUGUST 1800>From a book compiled by Lela C. Adams, Sherwood Forest, Basset, VA 24055Order Book "O", Page 11, Court, September 1792. On a motion of Stephen Lyon judgment is granted him against John Smith for the administration of a judgment obtained by Eliphaz Shelton, executor of Ralph Shelton as security for said Smith. Order Book "O", Page 32, Court, Tuesday, 14 May 1793 (Pg 13, printed book)Samuel Staples against Eliphaz Shelton as Guardian for Esop Shelton, Abigail Shelton, Liberty Shelton, and Mary Shelton. Abram Penn attorney for Ralph Shelton Jr, Palatiah Shelton, Jeremiah Shelton, William McGehee and Julius Robertson also Dudley Rutherford, William Arnold, William Jones, Roger Shelton, Azariah Shelton, Ezekiah Shelton, James Shelton. heirs of Ralph Shelton, dec'd. defendants. - The defendants Dudley Rutherford, William Jones, and William Arnold not having given security and not inhabitants of this county. The defendants are to appear the 2nd Monday of August and answer complaint. Copy to be inserted in the Virginia Gazette for two months.Order Book "O", Page 41, Court Wednesday 14 August 1793. Eliphaz Shelton appointed guardian for Esop Shelton, Abigail Shelton, Mary Shelton, Liberty Shelton infants and heirs of Ralph Shelton dec'd to answer a Bill in Chancery exhibited against James Shelton. Order Book "O", Page 81, Court l October 1794. Samuel Staples vs Eliphaz Shelton guardian for Easop Shelton, Abigail Shelton, Liberty Shelton, Mary Shelton and also Abraham Penn attorney in fact for Ralph Shelton, Palitiah Shelton, Jeremiah Shelton, William McGehe, Julious Roberson, Dudley Rutherford, William Jones, William Arnold, Roger Shelton, Azariah Shelton, Ezekiah Shelton, and James Shelton heirs of Ralph Shelton, dec'd Defendants. The Defendants not having appeared it is ordered that George Carter, Edward Tatum, Nathaniel Smith, William Smith Jr and David Hanby are appointed Commissioners to lay off and divide the land named in the Complaint.Order Book "O", Page 83, (No date change entered between the item above and the one following - date apparently l October 1794?) James Shelton and wife against Easop Shelton, Abigail Shelton, Liberty Shelton, Mary Shelton, Ralph Shelton, Palitiah Shelton Jeremiah Shelton, William McGehe, Julious Roberson, Dudley Rutherford, William Arnold, William Jones, Roger Shelton, Azariah Shelton, Ezekiah Shelton, Eliphaz Shelton, heirs of Ralph Shelton dec'd Defendants. The Defendants waving all errors and not gain saying the claim of Complainants. It is ordered that the land according to the Poayer of said Bill be decreed to them. Order Book "O", Page 83, Saturday l November 1794. James Shelton and wife Susannah to Samuel Staples, a Deed.(Same date and page) William Carter, Jonathan Hanby, Edward Tatum and James Taylor or any 3 appointed to lay off and allot the widow and relict of Ralph Shelton dec'd of the residue of land of which Ralph Shelton died seized of after deducting J. Shelton and wifes claim.Order Book "O", Page 93, Court, Thursday 27 March 1795. Deed - James Shelton and wife Susannah to Samuel Staples.+ + + + +PATRICK COUNTY, VA DEED BOOK 1, 1791-1801. Published by TLC GENEALOGY, P. O. Box 403369, Miami Beach, FL 403369Deed Book Page 270. Nov 1, 1794 From James Shelton & wife of Patrick County, VA to Samuel Staples of Patrick County, Va, for 20 pounds, about 90 acres in Patrick County on South Mayo River, it being a part of the land Ralph Shelton died seized of, and bounded by the lower line where it crosses the Mayo River, then with the meanders of the River to the mouth of Moody branch, thence to sd Ralph Shelton's old line, then along that to the Dwelling House of sd James Shelton, to the beginning, it being the same land that was yesterday decreed by the Patrick Court to sd James Shelton & wife. The land is warranted against me, my heirs, my wife Susannah, and her heirs. Signed - James (S his mark) Shelton, Susannah (I her mark) Shelton. Wit - Wm. Adams, John (X his mark) Clark, Peter (/ his mark) Shelton. Recorded Mar 27 1795. Susannah Shelton, wife of Ralph Shelton Susannah Shelton was not the wife of Ralph Shelton who was married to Mary Daniel. Ralph, widower of Mary Daniel, did marry a second time as his widow was a woman named "Elizabeth"; however, no record of this marriage has been found, to date. There is a deed in Henry County, Virginia, which prove Susannah was the wife of Ralph Shelton, III, who was the son of Ralph Shelton,II, and Mary Daniel. Ralph Shelton who married Mary Daniel was literate, proven by the fact that he signed his name to his will on file in Henry County, VA, as well as on several deeds where he sold land, in his move from Essex County, VA, to Henry County, VA. Ralph Shelton, III, was not literate and signed his name by mark, using a very distinctive mark. Also, in the records of Pittsylvania County and Henry County, VA, Ralph Shelton who married Mary Daniel is referred to as "Ralph Shelton, Sr." and his son, Ralph Shelton, III, who married Susannah is referred to as "Ralph Shelton, Jr.". One has to remember that in these two Counties on the Virginia frontier of that time, no one knew Ralph Shelton,I, who had died in 1733 and it was logical to refer to Ralph Shelton who married Mary Daniel as "Ralph Shelton,Sr." and his son, Ralph Shelton, III, as "Ralph Shelton, Jr.". By the way, this Ralph Shelton, III, died in Knox County, Tennessee, about 1816. This is the deed which proves Susannah married Ralph Shelton, III: Sept, 1777 Henry County, VA., Deed Book 1, page 70. From Ralph Shelton to Robert Baker, a deed which gave rise to the confusion that Ralph Shelton, Sr., was married to a woman named Susannah. This deed is signed by mark, being a capital "R". There is no question this deed is from the Henry County Ralph Shelton, Jr. and not his father, the Henry County Ralph Shelton, Sr., who signed his own name. Later Tennessee records of this Ralph Shelton are signed with the same "R" mark. I knew and worked with Margaret Alford, whose death several years ago was a great lost to Shelton genealogy. We worked together on the question Susannah and together determined Susannh was not the wife of Ralph, II, but was the wife of his son, Ralph, III. | Shelton, Ralph Jr (I19542)
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| 112 | Sir Thomas Reid of Inverness, Scotland Bible records: Joseph Reid and Anne Gordon Reid who were married in holy Wedlock the 23rd day of June in the year of our lord one thousand seven hundred thirty four in the home of Sir Thomas Reid, Inverness Births: Nathaniel Reid was born October 4, 1736 Inverness William Reid was born at 3 oclock in the fore noon in our new home Augusta County, Virginia December 14, 1746 Edith Reid was born Feb 18, 1761 to Nathaniel and Elizabeth Rachel Reid was born Jan 5, 1762 to Nathaniel and Liz William Reid born to Nathaniel + Elizabeth Decemb 10, 1762 Anne Nancy Reid was born on Oct 4, 1765 to Elizabeth and Nathaniel Reid John Reid was born March 29, 1766 -- first born child of William Reid + Jane Reid Sarah Reid was born Jan 23, 1767 to William + Jane Nathaniel Reid was born March 7, 1768 to Nathaniel + Liz William Reid was born August 19, 1768 to William and Jane Thomas Reid was born on the 1st day of August, 1770 to William Reid and Jane Reid in the afternoon around 3 oclock. Deaths: Sir Thomas Reid dyed this earth on the 5th day of May one thousand seven hundred sixty nine. Anne Reid, beloved wife of Joseph Reid dyed at 7 oclock in the afternoon of Monday 13th day of December in the year of our Lord one thousand seven hundred seventy Augusta County, Virginia at age of 51 years, 4 months and one day Marriages: Nathaniel Reid was married April 5, 1760 to Elizabeth Clayton -- Augusta County, Virginia William Reid, youngest son of Joseph and Anne Gordon Reid was married to Jane Anderson in Augusta County, Virginia this afternoon the 10th day of March, 1765 From Family Bible of Joseph and Anne (Gordon) Reid: Sir Thomas Reid dyed this earth on the 5th day of May one thousand seven hundred sixty nine. Notes: Inverness-shire (before the reorganisation of Local Government in 1975) was the largest of all the old counties and stretched from Inverness to Fort William and Strath Spey in the Grampian Mountains out west as far as it was possible to go. This included many Islands i.e. Rum, Eigg, Muck, Skye and all the outer Hebrides except the northern tip of Lewis. Covering such a vast area, many Clans were included e.g. MacNeil, MacLeod, MacKinnon, Maclean, Fraser, MacIntosh, Cameron, MacPherson, Campbell, Gordon, and MacDonald & Clanranald to name only the largest. A Mrs. Etta Reid Wells, twice married but never blessed by children, salvaged out of her belongings, her family's genealogical notations and passed them on as a legacy to a nephew in South Carolina. After her death, her voice would trail off and be forgotten, but the written message would remain. These notations reach back through the awful and empty chasms of the ages to a perpetual silence that shuts out everything. The Reid connectedness is with the totality of forces that operated within the clans of the Scottish Highlanders in the tenth century. These Highlanders, whether novice or immigrants, were from the first to last of the same Celtic stock. There we find the Reids of Scottish nobility with a reputation for moral and physical strength, energy, ingenuity, piety, resourcefulness, and the ability to lead and direct others. Having been confined for many years within their natural boundaries and having little or no intercourse with the rest of the world, they formed strong attachments with their neighbors, the BROWNS, the KEITHS, the EDENS, the RANDOLPHS, the HESTERS, the DOUGLASES, and the SUTHERLANDS, and intermarried with them. The REIDS and their allied families lived in Inverness-Shire, the Strath-Sprey. The Reids and their allies were loyal to the Stuarts and followed them with the clang and color of weaponry during all their misfortunes. They took part in the BATTLE OF FLODDEN when the English won the victory near Branxton, Northumberland, in 1513. Scarcely a family of eminence survived without having had an ancestor killed at Flodden Field. This battle was in fact, the beginning of Scotch genealogical records. Again the Reids and their allies were engaged in the BATTLE OF CULLODEN, fought in support of Prince Charles on a tract of land in Inverness-Shire about six miles east of Inverness, when the fate of the house of Stuart was decided on April 16, 1746. SIR JOSEPH REID was driven from Scotland as a political refugee, he and his family with their friends and other families mentioned above, along with other notable families of Scotland. For them it was farewell to the "land of brown heath and shaggy wood". He, like his father, SIR THOMAS REID, who was born and died in InvernessShire, had been knighted for deeds of Chivalry. The trip to America was an eight weeks voyage in a sailing vessel. His destination was Botetourt County, Virginia, where he settled. The genealogical notations on our Sir Joseph Reid end with the notation that he died in Virginia, the date of death not given. His son, NATHANIEL REID, loving the cause of liberty, fought on the side of America in the War of Independence. He lived in Virginia until after the war, but was given grants of lands in the Old Pendleton District of South Carolina in compensation for his war service, and he and his family moved to that District in upper South Carolina. (From the book "The Nathan Reids of Virginia in the March of Freedom", by Elizabeth Reid Austin and Helen Reid Roberts. The source for names and dates of Thomas and his children are from the Family Bible of Joseph and Anne (Gordon) Reid, dated 1698. Matthew Morris who descends from the line of Alexander Reid was kind enough to send me photo copies of the Family Register and Title page. He also gave me the information on William Reid, born 1746 and his descendants. Source: Lois Branch's website Sir Thomas Reid lived his whole live in Iverness-Shire, Scotland. His name places him squarely in the Robertson Clan (Donnacaidh in gaelic). The clan Robinson/ Donnacaidh is composed of many families, including Duncan, McInroy, Stark, Collier and the largest sept, Reid. He was knighted by the King, as was his son Joseph Reid. Joseph was also born in Iverness. He was exiled to North America after the Jacobite uprising in Scotland. Joseph and his father had been strident supporters of the restorations of the Stuart Family (Bonnie Prince Charlie) to the English throne. After the Scots were defeated at the Battle of Culloden in 1746, the English exiled many of those rebellious Scots in an effort to break up the Clans and control the unruly ones left behind. | Reid, Sir Joseph (I53777)
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| 113 | Named as a son in the Will of his Father Daniel W. Rice.Wills and Administrations, 1792-1902; Author: New York. Surrogate's Court (Otsego County); Probate Place: Otsego, New York. Ancestry.com. New York, Wills and Probate Records, 1659-1999 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2015. | Rice, Ebenezer Sawyer (I7147)
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| 114 | Frants Beyer mistet i februar 1849 paa samme dag 3 små sønner, som døde av "pustula maligna". De havde leket med farens puddelhund og var av denne paaført den dræpende sykdom. Søren de Fine Augustinus Brun Beyer, Frands Georg Dekke Beyer ogard Christopher von Krogh Beyer. | Beyer, Gerhard Christopher von Krogh (I23835)
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| 115 | Captain Jabez Fairbanks, son of Jonas Fairbanks, was born at Lancaster, January 8, 1670-1, and he settled there after the war. He died March 2, 1758, aged eighty-seven. He was a very efficient soldier and officer in the Indian war, and was no doubt incited to heroic exploits by the massacre of his father and brother in 1676 and of his only surviving brother in 1697 during a raid on the town. At the time his brother Jonathan and one of his children were killed, Captain Jabez was the means of saving a garrison and perhaps many lives including that of his own little son Joseph. Twenty-one persons were killed in this raid, two were wounded and six carried off captives, of whom five were ransomed later, including the wife of Jonathan Fairbanks. In 1700 Jabez had lands laid down to him on both sides of Dane's brook above Thomas Sawyer's saw mill. This site was the homestead of Jabez and his descendants for a hundred years. He was deputy to the general court in 1714-21-22-23. He married Mary Wilder, daughter of Thomas and Mary (Houghton) Wilder, who died February 21, 1718 in her forty-third year. He married (second), March 25, 1719, Elizabeth Whitcomb, who died May 11, 1755, aged about eighty years. The children of Jabez and Mary were: Joseph, born 1693, see forward; Jabez; Elizabeth, married Deliverance Brown, December 24, 1718; Jonas; Thomas; Abigail, married Major Henry Willard, of Ashburnham, descendant of Major Simon Willard; Jonathan, baptized June 18, 1710; Grace, baptized February 27, 1712, married Joseph Brown, March 27, 1733; Joshua, baptized March 28, 1714; Anna, baptized November 18, 1716, married April 5, 1738, Simon Butler. Jabez was well educated for the times. He was his father's only son who left any male descendents and he shines in history. His military dispatches preserved in the records show him to have been a man of marked intellectual ability, and he was certainly a hero of great physical stamina and bravery. His children and their descendants contributed largely o the population of Lancaster and the neighboring towns, especially Sterling and Harvard, originally parts of Lancaster. The name did honor to the towns in those days. The marriages were generally with the foremost families. About 1720, the Indians at the East again began to manifest open hostilities to the whites, which soon assumed the proportions of war. There had been occasional fights previous to 1722, instigated by the French Jesuits, and in August 1723 the General Court met and approved of the proclamation of war which had been issued by Governor Samuel Shute, July 25, 1722. By the death of Governor Shute the conduct of the war fell to the lot of Lieut-Governor William Dummer, acting governor of the colony; hence it is sometimes known as Dummer's War. Expeditions were sent in successive years, with great loss of men and money, until the natives were subdued. The people of Lancaster bore their part of the public burden, and probably volunteered more than their proportion of fighting men. Prominent among these were the Willards, White, Fairbank and Hartwell. (See Marvin's History of Lancaster). "First in the order of time of our military heroes in these days of trial," says Marvin, "was Lieut. afterwards Capt. Jabez Fairbank. He was a famous scouting officer, and traversed large sections of the country to the north, east and west, in search of prowling Indians. More than sixty parties were engaged in this service. Some of names of the men under his command, between 1721 and 1724, were the following; Edward Hartwell, Ephriam Wheeler, Daniel Osgood, Isaac Farnsworth, Isaac Lacain, John Bennett, Joseph Wheelock, Ezra Sawyer, Moses Willard, John Eams" Gov. Dummer immediately sought the services of Fairbank to enlist men. He offered him the choice of the office of sergeant, if he remained at home in Lancaster, or that of Lieutenant, if he were willing to serve at Groton or at Turkey Hill. He chose the latter, and at once entered the service. He reported directly to the Governor during the war, and the published correspondence between them furnishes many interesting chapters of history. (See Mass. Archives and Marvin's History of Lancaster; also History of Groton). In the year 1700 he had lands laid out to him "on both sides of Danes Brook about Thomas Sawyer's Sawmill." This site became the home of the Fairbanks, and so remained for a hundred years or more." He was elected as a representative to the General Court in 1714, 1721, 1722 and 1723. | Fairbanks, Jabez (I1573)
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| 116 | Thomas emigrated with his parents and lived in Sudbury where he was made a freeman in 1660. He moved to Marlborough in 1664 and was one of the original proprietors of the town. In 1675, when the Indians destroyed the town, Thomas moved back to Sudbury and remained there the rest of his life. He was termed a yeoman and/or husbandman (both meaning farmer). He seemed to continue in his father's footsteps, making many real estate transactions all for the improvement of the family fortunes. His wife Mary was named executrix of his will, which was dated 11 Nov 1681 and proved 4 Apr 1682. The initial inventory placed the value at 702 Pounds, but a secondary inventory dated 19 Dec 1681 added another 370.01.00 Pounds to the total. An item in the inventory that I found interestingly worded was, "Horse, bridle, saddle with all his trooping furniture at 10 Pounds. | Rice, Thomas (I17950)
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| 117 | "William the Patriot" born in 1710, who is recognized by the DAR as a Patriot. The Daughters of the American Revolution recognize William NUCKLOS as a Patriot.. Refer to application Number 468329. William NUCKOLS served as a provisioner to soldiers in the Revolutionary War. This service is recognized by the Daughters of the American Revolution.. In DAR lingo this is called Patriotic Service rather than Military Service, but is acceptable for membership. | Nuckols, William (I46424)
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| 118 | After the parents he inherited Eve in Heskestad 1 bishop's pound butter, 1 bismer pound 3 brands butter in Saurdal in Sogndal, of which he sold 18 brands to his brother Lauritz, and 6 spd. grain in Hetland in Birkreim, remodeled on December 4, 1701. He bought it together with his brother Lauritz on March 31, 1698 1 bismerpund 1 mark butter in Haneberg and the building block November 18, 1695 the part of Nedre Løvaas with the plain that the brother Ellef had used, and March 2, 1696 and January 18, 1699, two shares in Aarstad. Sr. Jacob Kielland, who (before 1691) had had the bourgeoisie of Christiansand, seems to have run insignificant business. In 1693 he treasured the garrison's maintenance in Christiansand 6 Rd. - Highest tax there 24th Rd. and lowest 1 mark, and he had many debtors around in Sogndal and the adjacent districts. In 1701 he is seen with his ship, 4 tests, having made several trips with fishery products etc. to Christiania and Drammen. He worked with his brother Lauritz, who publicly appointed an inspector and was in charge of accident cases. Happiness, however, completely failed him. On August 24, 1708, he had to sell his house and sea house in Sogndalstrand. On September 13, he sold a third in the ship "Giertrud Cecilia" for 200 rd, and on November 21 he had to distinguish himself with what he had left of the estate. It appears from the land register that he has, among other things, a. had come into debt to Sr. Tørres Christensen in Mandalen, and by the customs officer Jens Duns in Flekkefjord, he had been extorted with money "to the ship's room for transportation to the Dunkerchen". He now took residence for some time in Flekkefjord. The legal record for Lister (Riksark. No. 2297 fol. 5) contains the following entry from the spring lawsuit at Fedde tingsted on March 4, 1709: "Jakob Nielsen Kielland, a citizen of Christiansand and a resident of Flechefiord, made and handed over how unfortunate the hand now has lost his ship's room, called Dirche Zicilia on a journey here from Scotland, leave with lumbering to save half the party, and for this is still in the debate: Admit, as unkind, by the sea, one bypasses his craft at landing, is now by such great stumbling blocks (disvergence) the guise of the gield and so vile state, that no firm or means knowing its and children's nutrition than say to continue his bourgeois trade and use, which he has so far endeavored to maintain, but now for the sake of his despair, this all in all respects to seek the king, grace to any help and fear again - and now hand in hand. Present Almue, if this one has not proved his great adversity, to the same, replied that each one is well-known, and regretted that he was so contraire, as if he were ed any condition in his bourgeois use, the hand has assisted every one who has applied for gardens, whose hand has been about to get away, circumcised hand even in many gardens, and damage and misconduct - Hereupon when a witness of the court was covetous ". Later he lived alternately in Flekkefjord and on the farm Løvås in Sogndal. In 1712 he was once again seen to have come into power, when he then bought a share, 28 brands of butter, in the farm Midbø. He now also owned the farm Egeland, 36 brands of butter, in Heskestad. In 1717 he acted as an agent in a casualty. He is mentioned in 1720 as being eastern and in 1721 as "well-known citizen" in a shift in Sogndal. Death at Hvidbrandsøen near Haugesund on December 4, 1726 and buried in Haugesund church. His son Jan says in his records, after mentioning his father's death: "No one of the world should stand before hand in the grave has come hand in hand like other sinners in the world god highly upset so hand hand often complain that the gentleman had full skienchet his cup as he said no to haue to deserve the one who seems to customer been wiser it had to be wished that we might be injured by others. " | Kielland, Jacob Nielsen (I35983)
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| 119 | He is stated in the son's records to have been a student student. In the 1750s he went to sea as a skipper, and then established himself in 1758 in Sogndalsstrand as a trader and casualty commissioner and took citizenship in Christiansand. He was a church guard in Sogndal. While living there, he is constantly seen having done business with his brother Jacob, established in Stavanger. After the mother's parents, the brothers had inherited 1 bismer pound 4 ½ marks butter in the farm Drageland in Sogndal, which they sold on January 5, 1758, 3 brands of butter in Reeg, which was sold January 2, 1765, and 12 brands of butter in Høiland in Hetland. June 27, 1764, Gabriel Kielland bought ¼ in Sogndal church for 230 Rd. When his father died, Gabriel Kielland moved to Stavanger in the summer of 1765. He then sold his houses, which were listed on the land previously inhabited by his father in Sogndalsstrand. In Stavanger, where he took the bourgeoisie and set up as a merchant, on June 22, 1764, Gabriel Kielland had purchased his wife's grandmother, Birgitta Nyrop, the family's Valentinsens farmhouse with associated sea house on Jorenholmen with two associated plots. On April 5, 1769, he purchased a sea house and on August 4, 1780 a house on Holmen, and on April 13, 1771 he acquired a sea house in Skudesnes to participate in the herring fisheries in progress. From a tax record from 1773 it is seen that Gabriel Kielland at that time was the fourth in the series of Stavanger's taxpayers. He owned several ships with his brother and belonged to its first traders. He is therefore also called in the shift protocol "The in good life and well-known merchant". In 1772, he attached several of the then extinct Egenæs loops, and on September 12, 1768, he had his mother-in-law for 500 Rd. received letter of resignation on "little Hvidingsø" with adjacent islets (later Sølyst and Ressholmen). He was a dealer of stamped paper and became one of the city's "elated men". Gabriel Kielland seems to have been a man of taste. His son says he had used a great deal of expense to equip his house in Sogndal, and it can be seen from old documents that he had a sense of beautiful furnishings and household items. | Kielland, Gabriel Kirsebom Jansen (I35932)
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| 120 | In a family record from the end of the 18th century. It is stated that in his youth he acquired funds by sailing around with a slip and supplying the fleet with provisions during the war with Sweden. Whatever the case may be, it can at least be seen that Jan Kielland already had some capital at his disposal early on. On December 4, 1721, when he had recently been married, he attached his father-in-law to a land in Sogndalsstrand. He settled there as a trader, was called the well-known citizen of Christiansand in 1729 and also took citizenship in Stavanger. One of the founding dean on June 14, 1727, an authorized accounting book is still preserved. His business included general merchandising, money stores, shipping companies and fishing in the Sogndalselven. He is seen, among other things. having had lasting connections at Bragernes, where he shipped off fishery products. In a document dated Stavanger November 5, 1743, he employed his fortune for approx. 3000 Rd. He owned 1 bismer pound 3 brands of butter in Saurdal, which was demolished on March 15, 1730, and bought it: October 2, 1732 2 bismer pound 6 brands butter in Lower Aamot with cheese and cheese, which farm he already removed in 1734 and March 11, 1761 resold; March 4, 1737 1 mark butter in Gytland, sold November 10, 1738, and 11 brands butter in Ytre Myland, sold November 14, 1740; January 8, 1741 1 run 1 bismer pound 19 brands butter and April 5, 1743 17 brands butter in Haneberg, again sold February 3, 1765; even 2 bismer pound butter and 11 brands butter in Aarstad, sold March 19, 1744 and March 29, 1753, as well as 10 ½ marks butter in Øyestad, sold November 14, 1748. Already February 24, 1724 he had bought 1/6 in Sogndal church for 113 Rd. Later he bought several shares, so he came to own 5/8 in the church. 4/8 was sold on December 18, 1765 for 370 Rd, while 1/8 according to his determination of the sons was bestowed on the parish's poor 9 January 1769. The public protocols show that Jan Kielland has been in rather extensive business and that he has unquestionably been the most important trader of the place. The fact that he also enjoyed the district's esteem and trust appears to be evident from the many offices of the guardian and lawyer, who were entrusted to him. In his old days, he ceased trading and took up residence at Haneberg. Some public shift business after him does not exist, but there is reason to assume that he left behind a substantial wealth. From his last year, a few records have been kept, suggesting that he has been a very religious man. | Kielland, Jan Jacobsen (I35945)
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| 121 | Isaac Mitchell (elder)left will in Abbeville, 1789, naming his wife Mary executrix {maiden name unknown; probably second wife), and Nathan Sims, Robert Pollard, Richard Pollard, and son Isaac (minor) executors. Daughters Ursula, Catherine, Mary, and Sarah (married Whitlow), "other sons," and "all my children" are mentioned in will. Existing estate papers name other children William, Daniel, James, John (got family Bible), Martha (married Hill), and possibly Elisha. Old Isaac's widow Mary married John Satterwhite. Some of the Mitchell family moved to Laurens, and Mary Satterwhite left will in Laurens, 1824. Son Isaac Mitchell married Sally Shackelford, daughter of Richard Shackelford, prominent Baptist preacher. Isaac and Sally had several children before Mitchells and Shackelfords moved from Laurens to Madison County, Alabama, 1812/14. Sally (and Richard Shackelford) died in Alabama, but Isaac Mitchell died near Memphis, Tennessee, 1856/57. Most of his children were dead, and his will provides few clues to his MANY descendants; but apparently one son was Daniel Mitchell, born in S.C. In Alabama, 1820, Daniel Mitchell married Ruth Malot Young, daughter of William Young and Catherine (Mason). Daniel, and his oldest son William who had descendants through three children, both died before Isaac. | Mitchell, Isaac Jr (I40611)
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| 122 | Isaac Mitchell (elder)left will in Abbeville, 1789, naming his wife Mary executrix {maiden name unknown; probably second wife), and Nathan Sims, Robert Pollard, Richard Pollard, and son Isaac (minor) executors. Daughters Ursula, Catherine, Mary, and Sarah (married Whitlow), "other sons," and "all my children" are mentioned in will. Existing estate papers name other children William, Daniel, James, John (got family Bible), Martha (married Hill), and possibly Elisha. Old Isaac's widow Mary married John Satterwhite. Some of the Mitchell family moved to Laurens, and Mary Satterwhite left will in Laurens, 1824. Son Isaac Mitchell married Sally Shackelford, daughter of Richard Shackelford, prominent Baptist preacher. Isaac and Sally had several children before Mitchells and Shackelfords moved from Laurens to Madison County, Alabama, 1812/14. Sally (and Richard Shackelford) died in Alabama, but Isaac Mitchell died near Memphis, Tennessee, 1856/57. Most of his children were dead, and his will provides few clues to his MANY descendants; but apparently one son was Daniel Mitchell, born in S.C. In Alabama, 1820, Daniel Mitchell married Ruth Malot Young, daughter of William Young and Catherine (Mason). Daniel, and his oldest son William who had descendants through three children, both died before Isaac. | Mitchell, Isaac (I40588)
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| 123 | Was raised by his grandparents in Stavanger when the mother traveled to Ireland. Cand.jur. 1826. As Mayor of Oslo 1841-42, he took the initiative for many municipal reforms. Minister of State, Head of the Ministry of Finance 1850-54, later for the Ministry of the Interior 1854-71. Representative of Oslo at the Storting 1848, chairman of several committees. Great Cross of St. Olav's Order, Great Cross of the Swedish North Star Order. | Bretteville, Christian Zetlitz (I35933)
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| 124 | Accidentally at Westover | Carter, Elizabeth Hill (I43330)
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| 125 | By deed dated 1 Feb 1688, Henry Gay, of Isle of Wight County conveyed to Lewis Brian "...the land and houses whereon Robert Lawrence now liveth..." said land "formerly belonging to Ms (Mr?) Henry Gay...". Henry Gay signed this deed by making his mark which was witnessed by Jno. Brian and James Doughtie, and this deed is recorded un the Clerk's Office of the Circuit Court of Isle of Wight County, Virginia in Deed Book 1 at Page 17.*2 On 1 May 1689, Henry Gay, son of Henry, made an agreement with Lewis Brian (Bryan) as follows: Lewis Brian of Nansemond stands indebted to Henry Gay of Isle of Wight, 1 Feb 1688-89. Conditions are that Lewis Brian will not molest Robert Lawrence where he now lives on land formerly belonging to Henry Gay, decd., from the main river up to Burnt House Branch. Henry Gay also stands indebted to Lewis Brian and promises to pay in Tobacco. Conditions are that Henry Gay will not molest Lewis Brian in possession of land adjacent to John Brian Sr." 1 May 1689, Witnesses: John Brian, James Daughter (17c-601)*1 On 10 Apr 1710 , Michael MacQuinley (McKenny) and Rose, his wife, conveyed to Henry Gay 150 acres, plus or minus, on the western branch of Nansemond River in Isle of Wight County. This deed recites that it is a part of 450 acres conveyed to John MacKenny on 20 Apr 1694, as aforesaid and excepts 200 acres which was conveyed to Capt. Richard Exum and 100 acres conveyed to Lewis Brian. This deed is recorded in the Isle of Wight Courthouse in Deed Book 2 at Page 157.*2 | Gay, Henry (I46995)
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| 126 | copied from Washington County, Ky message board 8/18/14; Re: Shewmakers of Kentucky wparrott59 (View posts) Posted:5 Mar 2003 3:07AM Classification: Query There is a John Shewmaker who was born abt 1765 in Albermarle (now Amherst) co in Va, and moved to Ky around 1787, perhaps to Mercer Co. He married Nancy Peter, and they moved to the Willisburg area of Washington Co., where he died in 1811. They have numerous Shewmaker descendants in the area. Some reverted to Shoemaker, and then back to Shewmaker. Another line of Shewmakers moved to Missouri. I think John was the son of William Shoemaker, who was son of John Shoemaker, both born in Virginia. John Sr. was the son of John Shoemaker, born in England, and arrived in Henrico Co., Va abt 1652. Information on William and his descendants is from: Rhoades, Clara Lee Shewmaker. 1975. Ancestors and Heirs of the Elizabeth Catharine Davenport, S.T. "Doc" Shewmaker, and Elizabeth Corn Family of Mercer County and Washington County, Kentucky. Britton's Printing Service, Harrodsburg, Kentucky. | Shewmaker, John (I23584)
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| 127 | Daniel Fought for King George of England in Canada. For his valor in the British army, King George awarded him with land in Virginia. Daniel returned to France for wife and children, unfortunatly his journey was shortlived. Daniel did not make it to America, but Mother Mary Ann Chastain (known as the Widow Faure) and children arrived to the new world to spawn a whole generation of Americanized names ranging from Faure, Ford, Fore, Foret, etc... http://awtc.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=GET&db=:2115342&id=I106320017 7/30/2 011 Wiley Fore Family Fought for King William of England. It is believed he fought in Canada and that he received a land grant in America. His wife and 3 sons came to Virginia. He died before they came. http://awtc.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=GET&db=:1083465&id=I51888974 7/ 30/2011 King William Parish Register. "When the name is recorded by the Huguenot Colony, it is always spelled French -- "Faure". When Goochland County was formed from Henrico County in 1727, the Faures found themselves in this new county. By this time the name began to be Anglicized and recorded as "Ford." http://awtc.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=GET&db=:2882698&id=I44936 7/30/2011 | Faure, Daniel Isaac (I25700)
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| 128 | David Parker, my great, great, great grandfather, and some of his family died of poison, in Kentucky. Whether the poisoning was accidental or intentional is unknown. However, here are some facts that I did gather from county court records. Shortly after the May 1824, birth of my great, great grandfather, James, arsenic was used instead of salt or baking powder in the family’s bread and four members of the family died. The older children, Joel, George, Mary, Sally and another brother survived. Perhaps because they were not home. This event was mentioned in the book, Our Kin, written by M. D. Ackerly and L. Parker in 1930 (page 650) as well as a Parker history compiled by the Virginia Parkers who met yearly for so many years. An entry in the Hardin County court records of a bill from William Rutherford for “making three coffins $12.00 for David Parker Family” and another a few days later for “a coffin for David Parker $5.00” There has been much speculation on this tragic incident. It was evidently considered an accident since there are no court records of an arrest or trial. However, Franky’s life could not have been easy – her husband taking her and their family into a wild, untamed country and being married to what was evidently a hard drinking, hard fighting man. She was not a young woman when James was born, her ninth child in 18 years – well, perhaps in a postpartum depression, she decided she just could not take any more. Or perhaps while Franky was still bedfast from giving birth, one of the younger girls made the biscuits accidentally reaching for the wrong tin. But then, why would arsenic have been kept with the food? Hardin County Court records are still intact and take us through the settlement of David Parker’s estate as well as confirming the approximate date of his death, and the fact that he left children not yet of legal age. Monday, 5 July 1824 – Benjamin Parker made guardian of David Parker’s children and administrator of his estate. Monday, 9 September 1824 – bills: Benjamin to go to Virginia for money. This he did, at his advanced age, riding horseback over 400 miles. It later became necessary for him to again make the trip to Virginia. Monday, 3 January 1825 – Inventories of the appraisement and sales of the estate of David Parker deceased was produced in court and ordered recorded. Monday, 15 May 1826 – Order that settlements with Isham Jeffries, one of the administrators of David Parker deceased was produced in court and approved and ordered to be recorded (Isham Jeffries married Jenny Parker, daughter of Benjamin Parker, David’s brother, 19 June 1820, in Harden County, KY). Monday, 3 July 1826 – A further settlement with Benjamin Parker and Isham Jefferies, administrators of the estate of David Parker, deceased, was produced in court and on being examined and approved by the court, was ordered to be recorded. Monday, 2 April 1827 – A further settlement with Isham Jeffries, administrators of the estate of David Parker, deceased, was produced in court and on being examined and approved by the court, was ordered to be recorded. 11 April 1827 – bills – Benjamin again goes to Virginia for money. Monday, 1 February 1830 - – A further settlement with Isham Jeffries, administrators of the estate of David Parker, deceased, was produced in court and on being examined and approved by the court, was ordered to be recorded. Monday, 1 May 1828 - – A further settlement with Isham Jeffries, administrators of the estate of David Parker, deceased, was produced in court and on being examined and approved by the court, was ordered to be recorded. | Parker, David (I48299)
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| 129 | Henry died in 1720 in St. Paul's Parish, Virginia. He married first Margaret Littlepage and second Mary. --Among the “Public Officers in Virginia in 1702” was Henry Chiles, Sr. He was a Justic of the Peace from New Kent County on 18 Jul 1702. --A King William Courhouse deed dated 20 Nov 1702 records Henry Chiles, Gent, of New Kent purchasing 492 acres on the Pamunkey River from Richard Littlepage, Gent, of New Kent, and Frances his wife. It is a three page deed and very full in describing the transaction. --On the Quit Rent Rolls (Tax Rolls) Henry was listed as owning 700 acres of land in King William County in 1704 and also 700 acres in New Kent County in the Parish of St. Peters and St. Pauls. (pg. 17) --Henry married first Margaret Littlepage, and 2nd Mary (last name unknown. who 2ndly married a Mr. Howe). --In 1671 there is a record of Henry Sr. in the Countil Journal MSS when his father Walter, appears on behalf of his sons John and Henry regarding land in Westmoreland County on 4 April 1671. (pg. 16) --There is a deed in from Mary Howe, Orange Co., Virginia dated 17 Jun 1765 that mentions certain slaves left to her by will to the said Mary Howle (then Mary Chiles) will bearing the date 29 April 1718 by Henry Chiles. --The last record of Henry Chiles on the St. Paul’s Parish Vestry Book of Hanover Co. was : “At a Vestry held at ye lower Church ye 29 Oct. 1720. Mr. David Meriwether was admitted a Vestryman for this Parish in the room of Mr. Henry Chiles, lately deceased.” pg. 18) Copy of document in book of the Indenture 20 November 1673 between James Wadding, Susanna his wife, late the wife and executrix of Walter Chiles of James City aforesaid gentleman deceased, and John Page.....It mentions in the indenture (1649 Walter Chiles of James City aforesaid Gentleman, (father of the aforesaid Walter Chiles)....towards the end---”And in or about the year of our Lord, one thousand six hundred fifty and three, the said Walter Chiles, the father dyed (leaving the said Walter Chiles late husband to the said Susanna Wadding party to these parts) his eldest son and heir at law.....the fifteenth day of November Annos Domi one thousand six hundred seventy one he the said Walter Chiles the son, made his last will and testament in writing, and Susanna his then wife (now Susanna Wadding party to these presents) sole executrix thereof....Shortly after the making of the will the said Walter Chiles the son dyed. (pages 10-12) The 2 known children of Henry and Mary are as follows: IV. Manoah Chiles Micajah Chiles b. 1678 d. 1734 | Chiles, John Henry (I27077)
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| 130 | http://family.insytz.org/195.htm Thomas Glascock Born: 1611, Essex County, England Marriage: Jane "Just" Juet in London, England Died: 1677, VA at age 66 General Notes: English: habitational name from Glascote near Tamworth in Staffordshire, named from Old English glæs 'glass' + cot 'hut', 'shelter'; it was probably once a site inhabited by a glass blower. Welsh: habitational name from Glascoed in Monmouthshire (Gwent), named from Welsh glas 'gray', 'green' + coed 'wood'. This name is also found in Ireland and may also have been brought to the U.S. from there. THOMAS GLASCOCK (1620-1663) Just what forces combined to cause Thomas to leave England are unknown. We do know that England was in those days a very distraught country, for the Great Rebellion--the bitter struggle between King Charles I and Parliament for control of the country--was in process. England's Civil War began in 1642 and the battle between the Royalist Cavaliers, who supported the reigning Stuart king, and the Roundheads, who supported Parliament and Oliver Cromwell for political and religious control of the country soon split the nation into two armed camps. 1643 was a bloody year in England and, as in all wars, many people suffered great hardships. Some of them left the country and emigrated to America--and among these emigrants was Thomas Glascock. Perhaps he was a disillusioned Cavalier. During the war a considerable number of these Royalists came to Virginia because it held steadfast to the Crown and the old reign of Charles I under the rule of Sir William Berkely. Berkely, a rich young Royalist, had been commissioned governor of Virginia by Charles and arrived in 1642, about a year ahead of Thomas. Perhaps he left for religious reasons for believers of the established Church of England were at the threats of Puritans and reformers, and vice versa during these dare days. Or perhaps he was just an adventurous younger son who wanted to try his luck as a Virginia planter. One of Thomas' 1643 patents was for 130 acres in Warwick River County "parallel to his own and land of John Leyden and adjacent to land of Thomas Davis" for transporting three persons to Virginia from England. John Leyden's patents, issued in 1636, are for land on the "Old" Poquoson River, the "New" Poquosin River, and the James River. Thus it appears that Thomas' 1643 patent was for land on the lower part of the peninsula between the James and the York Rivers and situated near the James River somewhat between Newport News, Hampton and Yorktown, now mostly a heavily populated city area. On August 30, 1643, Thomas also patented 200 acres "a mile and a half upon the South side of Peankatanke River, adj Christopher Royce" for transporting 4 persons to Virginia. Two of the four were himself and his wife Jane. We are sure that he lived on this patent, for in 1652 he was appointed Justice of the Peace for the Peankatanke area by the Burgesses, sitting at Jamestown. The Peankatanke River is north of his other patent, in York County on the peninsula between the York and Rappahannock Rivers, and it flows into the Chesapeake Bay just a few miles below the mouth of the Rappahannock. The first patent on the Peankatanke was granted in 1642 and only four others were granted before Thomas', so we know that he was one of the first settlers in the area. Settlement started around Jamestown, moved up and down the James River, and then spread further north and south along the Tidewater coast as Indians were driven back and more settlers arrived. John Leydon (or Laydon) is listed in the records as an "Ancient Planter"...one who arrived in Virginia before 1616. In fact, he arrived with John Smith and the first settlers, at age 27, on the "Susan Constant" in 1607. He married a maid who came in 1608, and the wedding was the first one solemnized in English America. He survived the massacre of 1622 and by the time of the muster of 1624/1625 only one other man is listed as a survivor of the first settlement of 1607--so he was apparently the oldest and the last of the original settlers. If Thomas did live next to him in 1643, the 63 year old Leyden and his wife must have had some interesting tales to tell of the suffering and trials of the first 36 years of the colony! Thomas' other neighbor, Thomas Davis, was the son of James Davis, also an "Ancient Planter" who had died before 1633. We can only speculate about what contact the Glascocks had with these earliest settlers at the Jamestown settlement, but it is interesting to learn that Glascock's patent was apparently between the patents of these revered "Ancient Planters." On June 28, 1652, Thomas Glascock patented 600 acres in Lancaster County, 200 acres of which were granted upon his surrendering "200 acres on Peankatanke River formerly granted." This transaction proves that the Glascocks arrived in Lancaster County in 1652. Here the Glascocks set about the task of building a home and clearing land for tobacco. The typical Virginia dwelling of that day was a frame one and a half story building, with brick underpinning and high chimneys at either end. Nails were so hard to get that settlers often burned their homes when moving in order to get nails to start a new house. After the house was built, the forests had to be cleared. After the trees were cut, the stumps had to be dug up and the soil broken up with hoes before the tobacco could be planted. Probably Thomas had some of his headrights or indentured servants help his sons and him with this hard labor. So their tobacco plantation began to grow and Thomas established a way of life as a Rappahannock River planter that was to continue for generations in the Glascock family. Little else is known about the lives of Thomas and Jane. It is probable that Thomas died before June 3, 1667, for on that date his son, Gregory, was in possession of the Morattico Creek land which had been granted to him in 1662. No record of his or his wife's death; Thomas Glascock's will is presumably in lost will book (1692-1709) of Richmond County. Commissioner, Warwick County, 1652. (Virginia Colonial Abstracts Volume 26, York County, 1648-1657 by Fleet, page 43). PATENT--THOMAS GLASCOCKE, 130 acres Warwick River County, August 30, 1643, page 902. Parallel to his own and land of John Leydon and adj Thomas Davis. Transportation of three persons: Thomas Trade and Bestney Brookes. SAME--200 acres, a mile and a half upon the South side of Peankatanke River, adj Christopher Reeve, August 30, 1643, page 903. Transportation of four persons: Thomas Glascocke, Jane his wife, William Charles, James Allen. PATENT--THOMAS GLASCOCK, 600 acres Lancaster County, 28 July 1652, page 195. Upon North side of Morratico Creek, running to land of Nicholas Ferman, etc. 200 acres by rights of a former patent, surrendered; and 400 acres for transportation of eight persons: Fra. Brumly, Alice Bird, Henry Cosham, John Barrom, Thomas Dison, John Ingram, James Ororke, Thomas West; Sarah Parsons land due for. Note: The patent surrendered is dated 30 August 1643 for land in Peyanketanke. PATENT--MR. THO. GLASCOCKE, 280 acres upon North side of Rappahannock River, 9 January 1662, page 140. Upon head of Morattico Creek, bounding upon land of Nicholas Farmer, Mr. Thomas Stephens, and the land he now lives on. Transportation of six persons: John Randall, Ann Scarton, Richard Gates, John Alexander, Patrick Highlander, Ann Rowse (or Rowze). PATENT--THOMAS GLASCOCK, 600 acres Lancaster County, 11 March 1662, page 309, (286). NorthWest side of Morratico Creek, about a mile up the same, beginning on NorthEast side at the mouth of NorthNorthWest br. of Morratico Creek &c. SouthEast parallel to the branch upon the land of Nicholas Ferman (or Forman) &c. Renewal of patent dated 20 July 1652. PATENT--THOMAS GLASCOCK, 280 acres on North side of Rappahannock County on the head of Morratico Creek, 4 April 1678, page 630. Adjacent Nicholas Farmer and Thomas Stephens. Transportation of six persons: Joane Wade, John Butcher, Richard Vessi, Edmond Symons, Anthony Billington, John Sharpe. Guildhall Library, City of London Libraries, London EC.2, MS 10, 091/16: 17 Mo Jun 1634... "This day appeared personally Thomas Glascock of ye parishe of St. Mary Whitechappell in ye county of Middlesex, joyner and a batchelor aged about 23 yeares and at his owne government & alledgeth that he intendeth to marry Jane Juet of ye same place, maiden aged about 23 years & att her own government, her parents being deceased & that there is noe lawful lett or impediment by reason of any precontract, consanguinity, affinity or otherwise, to hinder this intended marriage, he made faith and desired license for them to be married in ye parish churche of St. Mary Staynings, London. (Signed) Thomas Glascock (Signed) Row: Jennings--(Rowland Jennings, surrogate of the Vicar General of the Bishop of London)" (See The Glas(s)cocks of England and America by Rev. Lawrence A. Glassco on page 231 for a copy of the license). By signing his name Thomas shows he was of the Gentry class. Thomas had moved to VA with his family by 1643 because on 30 Aug 1643 he received two land patents. From the patents we know his wife's name was "Jane". The reason for moving might have been the 1642 Civil War in England instigated by a power struggle between King Charles I and the Parliment led by Oliver Cromwell. One of the 1643 patents was for 130 acres in Warwick River Co. "parallel to his own and land of John Leyden and adjacent to land of Thomas Davis" possibly for transporting three persons to Virginia from England. This was for land on the lower part of the penninsula between the James and York Rivers and situated near the James River somewhat between Newport News, Hampton and Yorktown. John Leyden is listed in the records as an "Ancient Planter", one who arrived in Virginia before 1616. He arrived with John Smith and the first settlers, at age 27, on the "Susan Constant" in 1607. On 30 Aug 1643, Thomas also patented 200 acres "a mile and a half upon the south side of Peankatanke River, adjacent Christopher Boyce" for transporting 4 persons to Virginia, which included Thomas and his wife, Jane. In 1652 he was appointed Justice of the Peace for the Peankatanke area by the Burgesses, sitting at Jamestown. The Peankatanke River was north of his other patent, between the York and the Rappahannock Rivers. It flows into the Chesapeak Bay just a few miles below the mouth of the Rappahannock. The first patent on the Rappahannock was granted in 1642, and only four others before Thomas'. The south shore of the Peankatanke was inhabited by the Chiskiake Indians. It is believe that the Glascocks lived in this are for about 9 years. On 28 Jul 1652 Thomas was granted a patent for 600 acres about 30 miles north of his Peankatanke land, on Morattico Creek in Lancaster Co. of VA. Two hundred of these acres were received in exchange for the surrender of his first patent for the land on the Peankatanke River and the remaining 400 acres were for transporting eight more persons to the colony. On 9 Jan 1662, Thomas received another patent for 280 acres adjoining the land he had at the head of the Morattico Creek for transporting 6 more persons. It is most likely that he moved his family north onto the Morattico Creek property during the early 1660s. Morattico Creek was named for the "Moraughtacund Indians". "Thomas Glassocks's land, in Lancaster Co., is on a narrow seaboard peninsula of VA called the 'Northern Neck' which is bounded on the east by Chesapeake Bay, on the north by the Potomac River (River of Swans), and on the south by the Rappahannock River (Quick Rising Waters). Only fifteen to twenty miles wide, it runs inland between the great rivers for about a hundred miles. The Glascock land is located on the point of land at the junction of the Morattico and the Lancaster (formerly also called the Morattico) Creeks where they flow into the Rappahannock River, and is thus surrounded on three sides by water. The land is situated uphill from the little fishing village of Simonson. The East Creek (Lancaster Creek) is the boundary between Richmond and Lancaster Counties... This area was one of the most densely inhabited parts of Powhaten's Empire, and the hardest fighting must have occurred along the Rappahannock near the 'Indian Banks' area."(Source: The Glas(s)cock--Glassco Saga, by Lawrence A. Glassco) The Thomas Glascock Family (Thomas Glascock & Jane Juet & children - the immigrants) have their family name inscribed on the American Immigrant Wall of Honor on Ellis Island in New Jersey (near the Statue of Liberty - next island in New York). The family appears on Panel # 706 which was just recently installed in late December, 2003. I have chosen to have the Thomas Glascock Family - our immigrant ancestors of about 1643- to be honored onthe Wall of Honor at Ellis Island. Although our Glascock family did not immigrate through Ellis Island, this wall has been chosen to honor immigrants to the USA. The wall contains the names of President George Washington's great grandfather and John F. Kennedy's great grandparents among others. If you travel to Ellis Island be sure and see the wall where Thomas Glascock & Jane (Juet) Glascock & children are honored. Thomas married Jane "Just" Juet in London, England. (Jane "Just" Juet was born in 1611 in Essex County, England and died in VA.) | Glasscock, Thomas (I26649)
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| 131 | In 1748, the Council of Virginia granted James and Joseph Terry 20,000 acres on Turkey Cock Creek in what was then Halifax County. He was appointed by the Court of Pittsylvania in 1777 as surveyor of the road from the Halifax line to the Old Town (Peytonsburg). Joseph Terry's will was dated Dec 4, 1785 and proved Dec 19, 1785 in Pittsylvania Co., Virginia. Will of Joseph Terry "In the name of God, Amen, I, Joseph Terry of Pittsylvania. Co., Va." First: To my son, David Terry, one Negro woman named "Kate" and her increase, which he has been possessed with for some time. (note 1764) and one Negro woman named "Sarah" and her issues hereafter, to him and his heirs. Second: I lend to my son, Thomas Terry, one Negro "Peter" and one Negro "Lucy" and her issue, also, one mulatto boy "Harry" during his life and his wife's natural life and after their deaths to be equally divided among their children and their heirs. Third: I lend to my son, Joseph Terry, one Negro named "?" which has been in his possession, likewise on Negro boy named "Jack" and a Negro girl named "Grace" and her increases during his life and his wife's natural life and then to be equally divided between their children and their heirs forever. Forth: I give to my daughter, Anna Barksdale, one Negro woman named "Ziller" and one mulatto girl named "Anna" to her and her heirs forever, and also one mulatto woman "Sarah Martin" for the term 6 yrs. and then she is to go free, but if she should have children, they shall remain and belong to the said Anna Barksdale and her heirs forever. Fifth: I lend to my daughter, Lucy Williams, one Negro boy named "Abram" during her natural life and then after her death to her younger son, Dr. Crawford Williams and his heirs forever. Sixth: I give to my daughter, Elizabeth Oliver, 20 Shillings. Seventh: I give to my son, Champness Terry, dec'd heirs, 20 Shillings. Eighth: I give to my grandson, Thomas Terry, son of David Terry, one Negro girl named "Phillis" to him and to his heirs forever. I give 230 acres on branches of Jeremiah's Fork and one Negro boy named "George" to be sold; and the rest of my worldly goods after my just debts be paid, to be equally divided among my three sons: David Terry, Thomas Terry, Joseph Terry, and my two daughters Lucy Wiliams, Anna Barksdale. Executer: Beverly Barksdale, Thomas Terry, David Terry. Signed: Joseph Terry Sr. Witnesses: Charles Terry, Samuel Sloan, John Terry | Terry, Joseph (I11147)
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| 132 | In May 1648 Edward 1 Parrish, planter of Elizabeth City, Virginia purchased 200 acres of land in the said Elizabeth City County. This tract was part of an original land patent awarded to John Graves. Edward 1 Parrish had several sons that we know of. Edward 2, who married Mary Roberts. William who married Susannah Parsons. Robert, Richard who married Comfort____________. John who married Sarah Franklin. Edward 2 Parrish moved to Anne Arundel Co, Maryland and eventually became a large landowner in the area of present day Baltimore. A 2000-acre patent to Edward 2 Parrish became known as Parrish's Range. Part of this 2000 acres along with part of a 350 acre tract known as Parrish's Fear and owned by Edward 2 Parrish's son Edward 3 now makes up a major part of the municipally owned Druid Hill Park of Baltimore. Edward 2 was drowned in 1680 when his boat capsized in Maryland waters. He was buried at his homeplace in Maryland. He and his family were members of the Quaker religion in Maryland. Some descendant's of Edward 2 Parrish may have moved back to Virginia and quite a number of them still live in and around the Baltimore area. | Parrish, Edward (I33447)
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| 133 | John Davis and Hannah Lynnell had twelve children. He was a farmer and house carpenter. His name appears frequently in the Barnstable town records in real estate transactions and transactions with the Indians. He owned considerable real estate at various locations and settled portions on his sons during his own lifetime. His will is dated 10 May, 1701, and mentions his still living wife along with his sons and daughters. The will was approved 09 April, 1703. | Davis, John Sr (I34526)
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| 134 | The following entries are almost certainly William, the son of Benjamin and Martha Jones Ragsdale. The name William was so frequently used within the family that it's easy to combine two different men - or mistakenly identify one. The secondary sources seem inconsistent and the primary sources haven't helped. Relatives and associated families can offer a clue, but with the Ragsdales, we not only encounter common first names used by uncles, cousins, sons, and brothers, but often the same associated families. I'm unable to draw any conclusions without further, much more intensive research, which with advancing age and the siren call of other surnames, I may never undertake. Either our William, son of Benjamin, was highly mobile and much married, or there were more Williams than have been heretofore described. For additional possibilities, see Too Many Williams. In order to have been married in 1753, William must have been born before 1735. c. 1753: William married Ann Parker, daughter of John and Ann Sterling Parker. Sep 1758: Richard, Peter, and William Ragsdale appeared on the militia roster in Bedford County, VA. Richard was a Sergeant.[50a] They were either listed again in Oct 1765, or the dates have become confused - And these men may not have been William and his brothers. 1764: Lunenburg County Tax List (List of Edmund Taylor): William was assessed for 3 tithes and 300 acres of land.[51] 11 Mar 1771: He was deeded 50 acres on the upper side of Middle Bluestone Creek by [father] Benjamin Ragsdale.[52] 27 Jun 1771: William Ragsdale was mentioned as an adjoining landowner in a deed from Richard Jones to Richard Jones Junior in Nottoway Parish, Amelia County. The parcel Jones sold was bought from Abraham Cocke and was described as lying on both sides of Woody Creek . Other landowners adjoining were Henry Robertson, Samuel Sherwin, Richard Jones Junior, James Henderson, and the estate of John Irby.[52a] 23 Sep 1771: He sold two properties. The first was 58 acres in Nottoway Parish, Amelia County, to Richard Jones Junior for £47.10.0. This was described as adjoining William Hudson, the John Irby estate, said Jones' own line, and land William "sells to William Hudson". Witnesses: William Fitzgerald, Thomas (x) Wynne, Francis (x) Belsher, Abner Bates, and William Hudson. The second parcel William sold was 149 acres in the forks of Woody Creek sold to William Hudson for £120. This adjoined Richard Jones, the said Hudson's line, the middle of Woody Creek, Ragsdale's Spring Branch, and Henry Robertson. On 31 May 1773, wife Mary relinquished any dower right to both parcels. Was Ann actually Mary Ann, was William married three times, or was this man another William? The deeds were proved 24 Feb 1774.[52b] 7 Apr 1773: William mortgaged 325 acres on Bluestone Creek in Mecklenburg County for £78 to cover a debt to Charles Duncan & Company of Prince George County.[53] He supposedly resided in Hillsborough District, Caswell County, NC during the Revolutionary War, signing an Oath of Allegiance there on 10 Sep 1777. A William Ragsdale was also paid for flintlocks loaned to the Army, which were then lost. For that, he was awarded £2,113.13, which had to represent a substantial number of guns.[54] 11 Oct 1779: William, [brother] Benjamin, and [brother] Peter Ragsdale were appointed to work on the road from Burwell's Mill to Woodpecker Creek.[55] 20 Dec 1781: Along with James Randolph Junior and Ann Smith, William Ragsdale was mentioned as an adjoining landowner in a deed from James Randolph to Abram Randolph on Country Line Creek in Caswell County, NC.[56] 1782 Mecklenburg County Tax List (List of Lewis Burwell): 1 male over 21, 11 cattle, 2 horses, mules, or colts.[57] 14 Feb 1783: William, John, and [John's son] Drury Ragsdale witnessed a deed from [brother] Thomas Ragsdale to John Bruce. John and Benjamin Ragsdale, Hutchens Burton, Sampson Lamkin, Thomas Berry and John Berry were mentioned as adjoining landowners.[58] 14 Jul 1785: He sold 50 1/2 acres to James Randolph for £70.10. The parcel was located on Country Line Creek adjoining Randolph's old line. Witnesses: Ad Murphy and James Randolph Senior.[59] 15 Dec 1788: John Ragsdale gave bond to William Ragsdale Senior ceding any rights to William's estate in return for land already received. Witnesses: Thomas Tarpley and William Ragsdale Junior.[60] 1790 Census, Laurens County, SC: There were two William Ragsdales in Laurens County. The first, enumerated next to David Ragsdale, had 3 white males over age 16 1/2, 1 under, 3 while females and no other free persons or slaves.[60a] This William was enumerated next to Jacob Wright, who moved to Warren County, KY c. 1797. In 1789 or 1790 David Ragsdale purchased 100 acres on Reedy Creek adjoining Jacob Wright from George Madden and his mother Ann. Witnesses: David Madden, Thomas Ragsdale, and George Anderson, J.P.[60b] The second William Ragsdale enumerated in Laurens County was listed closer to Mark Moore and several Rowland families. This William had 2 males over 16 1/2, 2 under, 4 females, and no slaves.[60c] I'm assuming that this second William was the son of Benjamin Ragsdale. Brother Peter Ragsdale had moved to this area in 1784; and sister and -brother-in-law Rachel and Mark Moore in 1787. William's sister Mary, deceased 1772, was the wife of Augustine Rowland. 4 Feb 1812: William married Mary Daniel Isbell, mother-in-law of son Lewis Ragsdale. They signed a prenuptial contract that day, stipulating that the bride and groom would retain the rights to any and all property possessed before the marriage, that neither would make any claim to the other's estate. Witnesses: Abraham Moore and A. M. Campbell. Some researchers have claimed that they soon separated, but the couple who "soon separated" was actually son Lewis Ragsdale and second wife Nancy Foster. Mary Daniel Isbell was the daughter of Thomas and Mary Daniel. First married to George Isbell, she had been a widow for many years when she purchased land in Robertson County from Thomas Yates. Her son Thomas Daniel, who was a child at the time of purchase, eventually married Rebecca Yates, daughter of Rebecca Ragsdale Yates. 1812: William appeared on the tax list in Robertson County, TN. There are several deeds from this period which could conceivably have been William Senior rather than William Junior. The reader should therefore check William Junior also. 30 Sep 1819: William signed his will . . . Will of William Ragsdale In the name of God, Amen. I William Ragsdale Senr of the State of Tennessee and County of Robertson being sick of body but of sound mind and knowing that all men have to died do make and ordain this my last will and testament. First and principally I commit my body to the dust from whence it came, my soul to God who gave it, and as to what worldly estate it hath pleased God to bless me with I give in the manner and form following. Item. My desire is that my just debts should first be paid. Item. I give to my son John one dollar. Item. To my son Peter one dollar. Item. To my son William one dollar. Item. To my son James one dollar. Item. To my son Joel one dollar. Item. To my son Benjamin one dollar. Item. To my daughter Dolly one dollar. Item. To my daughter Sally one dollar. Item. To my son Lewis one dollar. Having heretofore given to the above named children all that I ever intended to give them. Item. The balance of my estate both real and personal with all debts and money due on demand, I do give to my daughter Rebecca to hold good to her and her heirs forever. I nominate and appoint my nephew [sic] Lewis Yates and my friend William Adams Senr Executors to this my last will and testament revoking all wills heretofore by me made ratifying this to be my last will & testament. I witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed my seal this 30th of September in the year of our Lord eighteen hundred nineteen. William Ragsdale The will was witnessed by Jonathan Huddleston and Susanna Blackburn.[61] 1824: William died in Robertson County, TN. He was buried in Ragsdale Cemetery, but no marker has ever been found. | Ragsdale, William R (I46347)
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| 135 | Walter Chiles was born in 1608 in England and died in 1653 in Jamestown, Virginia. Walter married Elizabeth Maury. She was born ca. 1602 in Middlesex, England and died in 1672. The first mention of the original Chiles emigrant to Virginia is found in the records of the High Court of Admiralty Examinations in England. In the record of Examination No. 301 dated 24 July 1637 the Witness was Walter Chiles, Sr. of Bristol, a clothworker ages 29 who signed his own name to the document. He states that he was a passenger on the ship 'Blessing', of Falmouth and was employed to assist Henry Tuton, the ship’s purser. The ship was at James Town, Virginia for fourteen weeks. The date of Walter Chiles's first arrival in Virginia was probably 1636. Some six months later after the 24 Jul 1637 Examinations, Walter Chiles, Sr. had outfitted his own ship and by 1 Mar 1638 was again in Virginia. On that date he was awarded 400 acres in Charles City County. The award stipulation was: “50 acres being due for his own personal adventure, 50 for his wife Elizabeth, 50 for his son William, 50 for son Walter and two hundred for the transportation of four other persons, viz: Henry Fulton, John Govey John Shaw and Sarah Cole, to the colony.” The location of the land was Westerly upon the Appamattuck River, Northerly upon land of Edward Tunstall and Southerly towards the falls. The records of 20 Oct 1642 granted Walter Chiles 613 acres in Charles City Couty, “At Appamattocke River, beginning at the upward bounds of Mr. Tunstall’s land and adjoining William Sanders. Due by virtue of a former patent and transportation of 4 persons:.....(page 1) We do not know the name of Walter Chiles's ship in 1838, but the name of his ship in 1652 was, “The Fame of Virginia”, and it was engaged in trade with Holland and England. He was chosen Speaker of the Assembly of the House of Burgesses Jun/July 6, 1652 but he refused at that time because he was having a dispute with the authorities over his ship. (see page 2). He was a member of the 1641 Virginia Assembly. He was held in high esteem by the colonists. He represented Charles City in the House of Burgesses in 1642 and 1643, represented James City in 1645,46,49, and in 1652 was elected Speaker of the House. Other records are missing so he may have been a representative for other years. Governor William Berkeley, in 1649, sold the home known as the “Kemp House” to Walter Chiles for the sum of 26,000 pounds of tobacco. It was the first brick house in America and was located in Jamestown. | Chiles, Walter (I33926)
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| 136 | "Bolling Hall" is located on the James River, about 35 miles west of Richmond. The land was claimed by John Bolling in 1714 and was inherited by grandson, William Bolling. William Bolling built the original Bolling Hall in the late 18th century and the house remained in the Bolling family from 1714 to 1872. Bolling Hall was the original site for one of the first schools in the United States to educate deaf children. Congenital deafness ran in the Bolling family. William Bolling had three siblings who were born deaf. Since there were not any schools for the deaf in the United States at the time, William’s deaf siblings were sent to Scotland to learn under acclaimed teacher, Thomas Braidwood. In 1760, Thomas Braidwood opened 'Braidwoods Academy' in Edinburgh, the first school for the deaf in Britain, which later relocated to Hackney, England. He made early use of a form of sign language, which continues to be used today. William Bolling married Mary Randolph and they had 4 children. One of their children, William Albert Bolling, was born deaf. William hired John Braidwood, grandson of Thomas Braidwood, to come to Bolling Hall and teach all his children. Thus, Bolling Hall became the first place in Virginia where children with congenital deafness were taught. Later, William opened a larger school for the deaf at Cobbs, another Bolling family plantation, which was large enough to accommodate deaf children from other families. The Cobbs school operated from 1812 until 1816. Bolling Hall fell into disrepair in the 1940's but has undergone a rejuvenation in recent years. The house was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1972, noted for its significance in architecture, education and social history. Sources: http://xroads.virginia.edu/~HYPER/VAGuide/tour19.html www.bolling.net www.wikipedia.com http://www.nationalregisterofhistoricplaces.com/va/Goochland/state.html | Bolling, William (I46978)
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| 137 | "Early Records of Georgia" "Advanced in life" To wife Elizabeth home place on the Augusta Road, all personal estate for life or widowhood final division to daughter Elizabeth, wife of John Wilson, and all my children except the heirs of David Ellington, dec'd. Confirms gifts and adds $2.00 each to the heirs of David Ellington, dec'd. Confirms gifts and adds @2.00 each to the heirs of Elizabeth Wilson, son Simeon Ellington, grandcildren the heirs of Josiah Ellington, dec'd, son Hezekiah Ellington, dau. Sarah, wife of James Chivers, dau, Polly, Wife of James D. Gresham, dau. Nancy, wife of Richard Daniel, dau Dolletha, wife of Springer Gibson. To niece Frances Gibson, a slave. James D. Gresham and William Jones, Excrs. Signed Dec.11, 1818. Probated Feb 1, 1819. Buford Bird, Thos. G. Jones, William Ogletree, Test. Inferior Court Records of Taliaferro County, Georgia 1826-1857 from LDS Film 220557 Page 33, Robert Chivers and James D. Gresham qualified as the only executors to the last will and testament of James Chivers. (No date on this page but must be Sept 1827) Page 34, Hermon Mercer, Henry Perkins, William Little, James D. Gresham, Chivers a Nelonz ?, Solomon Harper and Wilie Womack appointed commissioners to divide and distribute the estate of William Janes, deceased, 3 Sept 1827. Page 71, Jas. D. Gresham, Thomas Truitt, William S. Anderson, Henry B. Lee appointed commissioners for the purposes of letting out the building of a bridge across the south fork of Little River commonly called Ellington's Bridge for the term of five years 6 Oct 1829. Josiah Ellington moved to Wilkes County, GA. | Ellington, Josiah Sr (I1388)
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| 138 | "Fannie's father, Jeremiah Echols, a son of William Echols III and Mary Elizabeth Farmer, was born in Virginia in 1811. His mother died in Huntsville, Madison County, Alabama, in 1816, and is buried there. In about 1836 Jeremiah came with his father, his stepmother (Sarah Haley), and some of his siblings to Chulahoma, Marshall County, Mississippi. There the family bought land from the Chickasaw Indians. in 1837. Fannie's mother Harriet Echols, also came from Pittsylvania County, Virginia to Marshall County, Mississippi, in the late 1830s. Jeremiah and Harriet were third cousins. Their line of descent goes back to "Old" John Echols and Mary Cave; Jeremiah descending from John and Mary's son, William I, through William II and William III; and Harriet descending from John and Mary's son, Abraham, through Joseph Echols and Elizabeth Street and their son, David Echols and Dinah Tribble who married 3 June 1802. When Jeremiah and Harriet married in Marshall County, Mississippi, on 12 October 1841, they made their home in the adjoining cunty, which was then DeSoto County, Mississippi. Tate County was formed out of DeSoto County in 1873. The children born to Jeremiah and Harriet were Joel Turner, Susan Luvenia, Mary D., David E., and Frances Jeremiah. Jeremiah and Harriet lived on land owned by his brother, John, until Jeremiah's death, at which time John, who had moved to Texas, sold that land so he would have no holdings in Mississippi to see about. Harriet, being a strong person in both personality and perserverance, managed to buy 300 acres of land in the Crockett area, and later bought other land connected to the 300. The Echols' had donated a plot for a Baptist Church and space for a cemetery in that area. It was in that cemetery that both Jeremiah and Harriet were buried. In the 1990's I went into that area to locate the land and the cemetery. The church had been gone many, many years; but I learned that the cemetery had been destroyed in abut 1937 when a new road was cut through. An elderly gentleman who owned and lived on some of the land that Harriet had bouhgt in 1856, showed me where the cemetery had been. He lived there in 1937 when the road came through. I asked him about the tombstones, and he told me they were simply covered over with dirt scraped from the hillside as the road was made. Fannie's brother, Joel Turner Echols, served in and was killed in the Civil War. On 31 July 1867 Susan Luvenia married William L. Hudson of Yalabusha County (MS) and lived first in Arkabutla, but were in Yalabusha by 1880. Their first child was William E Hudson. They eventually moved to Memphs, Shelby County, Tennesse. In the 1940s I was with my father when he visited one one of her descendants there, Jim Hudson, who was a retired dentist. Mary D. married Ambrose C. Garrett 19 Dec 1866, soon after Harriet died in 1866; their first child was a daughter, Rena. David E., born in 1846, fought in the Civil War in Company G, Woods Regiiment, 1st Mississippi Cavalry, under Adams. I was told by a distant cousin, now deceased, that David E. was a scout for the Confederate troops in the Civil War. It was said that he sold various items from a horse-drawn cart and was allowed to move freely among the troops of both the North and the South. In this capacity he was able to gather information from the North troops and carry it to the Confederates. David E. suffered injuries during that war. On 27 Dec 1867 he married Martha/Mattie A. E. Owens; they had four children. They lived in Yalabusha County. David E. died 20 Oct 1877, supposedly from the wounds he suffered in the war. His wife died in 1876. One of the children died as an infant, but the others were raised by relatives. Ther were Jeremiah Joel (Jerry), Isham Turner (I.T.), and Harriet Corina (Cora), who was living with her Aunt Susan in 1880 in Yalabusha County. By 1889, she was living with Sydnor Coleman and Frances Jeremiah in Tate County. She is in a family picture made in 1889 of the Sydnor Coleman Giles family. " (Iva Erlene Giles Moore). | Echols, Jeremiah (I16680)
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| 139 | "Finch, Abraham, s. of Isaac. Born at Stamford, 5 July 1665; m. Martha Couch, dau. of Simon of Fairfield. He testified Sept. 1692 in the Clawson witch trial as Abraham Finch, Jr., ae. abt 26 (fn: Abraham Finch of Stamford was freed from training because of constant lameness, Mar. 1684/5." He purchased land in Fairfield from James Newton, 7 Apr. 1696. Martha Finch renewed her covenant at Fairfield Church, 6 Sept. 1696, and Abraham had children bapt. there: Isaac, bapt. 13 Sept. 1696. Elizabeth, bapt. 15 May 1698." 10 Mar 1684/5, Abraham Finch of Stamford freed from training because of lameness. 3 Dec 1686, Samuel Finch, Stamford, conveyed to brother Abraham of same. Sept. 1692, testified in Clawson trial as Abraham Finch, Jr., age about 26. 15 Aug 1695, sold land to Samuel Blachley. The will of Isaac Finch, Stamford, dated 23 Nov. 1702, stated that he had given his son Abraham lands that Samuel Blachley now has. 6 Sep 1696, Martha Finch renewed her covenant at Christ Church, Fairfield, Connecticut, and children baptized there, Isaac, 13 Sep 1696 and Elizabeth, 15 May 1698. 27 Feb 1698/9, Abraham Finch of Stamford conveyed to Isaac Finch Jr. of same. 26 Dec 1699, name on list of assignement of lots. Jan 1701, list showing worth of inhabitiants of Stamford shows Abraham and Abraham Jr. 6 May 1712, judgement against Abraham Finch on behalf of John Dunbar. 9 Mar 1714/5, Abraham Finch of Stamford, sold to James Weed of same, 12 acres. 31 July 1714, Abraham Finch, Samuel Seeley, and John Holley, all of Stamford, purchased grants in the Wawayanda Patent, Orange County, New York. 22 Aug 1715, Abraham Finch of Stamford sold to Isaac Quintard of same 3 acres with house. This was probably done in preparation to moving to Orange County, New York. 1716, Isaac Finch dies in Goshen, Orange County, New York, with burial in the First Presbyterian Churchyard, which is recorded as the first Church burial there. 17 Apr 1718, Martha Finch, widow and relict of Abraham Finch, deceased, of Goshen, who died intestate and Isaac Finch eldest son and heir of Abraham convey to John Everetts and Samuel Clawes of same province, undivided land in Goshen. Martha made her mark, Isaac signed. 1 Oct 1724, deed recorded in Goshen, made to Abraham Finch, deceased, dated July 1, 1714, by John Everetts and Henry Clawes of Jamaica, Long Island, to Abraham Finch of Stamford Colony. References: Thummel, ref no. 323, p.17-18. Jacobus, Families TAG Mead, History Huntington, History Huntington, Registration Scheuser, Tirst Extant Parish Records. Ruttenber & Clark, History of Orange County, New York. CSL, Probate Records. M. P. Seese, A Tower of the Lord . . . Orline St. John Alexander, St. John Genealogy | Finch, Abraham (I47421)
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| 140 | "Guillaume Fouquet" is thought by many to be the single male ancestor of the entire Fuqua family in America. He was mentioned in several records of Charles City County and Henrico County in the colony of Virginia. The English Connection Huguenots are known to have fled from France and gone to numerous European countries, from which some unquestionably migrated to America. It is not the purpose of this dissertation to present a case for how "Guillaume Fouquet" may have fit into that situation. However, it is interesting to note that, in England, an interpretation of Huguenot church records encounters the same problems as one has with the Colonial Virginia records of our ancestor. The Bishop's Transcripts of St. Dunstan's Church in Canterbury are typical. Records are found involving two families. In the case of the first, their surname is entered as Feuquet, Foquet, Fouquet, Fouquett and Fuquett. The second family is referred to as Farquett and Fuqueet. It is possible, if not probable, that the families were related. There were many Huguenot churches in England, and there are many records which contain references which are similar to those found at St. Dunstan's Church. The prospect of simply looking for, and finding, "Guillaume Fouquet" or any other Fouquet in English church records seems somewhat optimistic, at best. Will the correct surname spelling please stand up? The "Guillaume" Documents Presented below are nine known documents which specifically refer to him. | Fouquet, Guillaume (I25869)
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| 141 | "He [Richard Tracy Esq.] married Barbara Lucy, pupil of Fox, the Martyrologist, she was the daughter of Thomas Lucy, of Charlecote, in Warwickshire, and it was her nephew on whom Shakespeare took revenge, by writing in one of his plays as Justice Shallow, as it was before Sir Thomas Lucy, Shakespeare was arraigned for deer stealing. Richard Tracy, Esq., of Stanway, and Barbara Lucy had three sons and three daughters. He was sheriff of Gloucestershire in 1560, Barbara Lucy, his wife, was a descendant in the sixteenth generation from Hugh de Mountfort, son of Gilbert de Gamet and Alice Mountfort, and great grand-son of Baldwin V, Count of Flanders, who married Alice, daughter of Richard II, King of France. Through her ancestress, Judith, wife of Baldwin, the first Count of Flanders, Barbara Lucy descended from the Emperor Charlemagne, and through his ancestors, Alfritha, wife of Baldwin II, Count of Flanders, she was descended from Alfred the Great, and other Saxon kings of England." pages 6-7 | Lucy, Lady Barbara (I26757)
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| 142 | "He [Richard Tracy Esq.] married Barbara Lucy, pupil of Fox, the Martyrologist, she was the daughter of Thomas Lucy, of Charlecote, in Warwickshire, and it was her nephew on whom Shakespeare took revenge, by writing in one of his plays as Justice Shallow, as it was before Sir Thomas Lucy, Shakespeare was arraigned for deer stealing. Richard Tracy, Esq., of Stanway, and Barbara Lucy had three sons and three daughters. He was sheriff of Gloucestershire in 1560, Barbara Lucy, his wife, was a descendant in the sixteenth generation from Hugh de Mountfort, son of Gilbert de Gamet and Alice Mountfort, and great grand-son of Baldwin V, Count of Flanders, who married Alice, daughter of Richard II, King of France. Through her ancestress, Judith, wife of Baldwin, the first Count of Flanders, Barbara Lucy descended from the Emperor Charlemagne, and through his ancestors, Alfritha, wife of Baldwin II, Count of Flanders, she was descended from Alfred the Great, and other Saxon kings of England." pages 6-7 | Tracy, Richard (I26985)
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| 143 | "I’ll always remember the time we spent together at Cindy’s wedding weekend and at your father Big Mike’s funeral with Cindy Mike and our mom. You were showing me one of your magazines lol you were truly one of a kind." - Summer Ruppert | Redding, Jessica (I39218)
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| 144 | "Johann Michael Spiegel" was baptized at the Lutheran Church in Brickersville, Pennsylvania, in 1741. [1] He moved to the Shenandoah Valley of Virginia by 1765 and is referred to in most Virginia records as "Michael Spiggle." The first record of him in Virginia is his purchase of a lot in the town of Stephensburg (now Stephens City), in Frederick County, May 6, 1765. [2] Michael married Christina Snapp, daughter of Lawrence Snapp and Margaret Stephens, who lived at Stephens City soon after. He and Christina sold the Stephens City lot in May 1768 and at the same time purchased an 80 acre tract in one of the "Seven Bends" of the North Fork of the Shenandoah near Woodstock, Virginia.[3] This the same time that Christina's father, Lawrence Snapp and his family also moved from Stephens City to what is now Shenandoah County. This area became what is Shenandoah County in 1772 and in a 1783 census of Shenandoah County, Michael Speagle is listed as head of a family of five and in another census in 1785, for which he was the census taker, he is listed as head of a family of six. [4] A survey of Shenandoah County farms made in 1786 lists Michael Speagle on the North Fork with 25 acres of cleared and cultivated bottom land, 15 acres of meadow land, an orchard of 60 small apple trees and a house 18 feet by 24 feet with a stone chimney. [5]Michael Spiegel purchased a 132 acre tract adjoining his previous purchase on the river from the heirs of Hildebrand Inabnet in 1789, giving him a total of 212 acres. [6] During the Revolutionary War Michael Spiggle was listed as a sergeant in the county militia in 1782 and in September 1784, a year after the war ended he was promoted to captain of his county militia unit. He was appointed Sheriff of Shenandoah County in 1801. [7] Christina was mother of four children and after her death Michael married Barbara Hamman and had seven more children. Michael is last listed in personal property tax records in 1815. His will was probated in Shenandoah County, 11 March, 1816.[8] Because a number of his children by Barbara were minors his estate was not finally settled until 1825.[9] Sources Spiggle Chapter, Daniel W. Bly, From the Rhine to the Shenandoah, Volume I, Baltimore, MD (1992), pp. 182-3. Pennsylvania Church Records. Public records, Shenandoah County, Virginia. Footnotes ↑ Frederick S. Weiser, trans. Records of the Pastoral Acts at Emanuel Lutheran Church, Brickersville, Pennsylvania (1983). ↑ Frederick County, Virginia Deed Book "10," p. 429) ↑ "...daughter Christina, wife of Michael Speagle." Will of Lawrence Snapp, Shenandoah County Will Book "A," p. 420. Frederick County, Virginia Deed Book "12," pp. 334-338. ↑ John W. Wayland A History of Shenandoah County, Virginia, Strasburg, VA (1929), p. 233. ↑ "Jonathan Clark Notebook, 1786" in Peggy Shomo Joyner, Abstracts of Virginia's Northern Neck Warrants and Surveys, Volume IV, Portsmouth, VA (1987), p. 176.-+ ↑ Shenandoah County, Virginia Deed Book "G," pp. 310 and 376. ↑ Appointment as Sheriff: Bond to Governor James Monroe, Shenandoah County Deed Book "M," pp. 453-4. ↑ Shenandoah County, Will Book "K," p. 26. ↑ Shenandoah County, Virginia Will Book "N," pp. 305-6. | Spiegel, Johann Michael (I52297)
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| 145 | "John Custis’s marriage was famously miserable." In an apocryphal story, he once drove a carriage bearing him and his wife Frances Parke right into the Chesapeake Bay. The following exchange is said to have taken place: “Where are you going, Mr. Custis?” Frances asked, with the water swirling around them. “To hell, madam.” Came the reply. “Drive on,” said Frances, “any place is better than Arlington.” Source: Wiencek, Henry. An Imperfect God: George Washington, His Slaves, and the Creation of America. Farrar, New York, NY: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2003, pg. 72. | Custis, John IV (I47662)
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| 146 | "Mann Page son of Judith & M. Page born the 8th of December, about three of the clock in the morning,1716. On the twelfth day of December (the most unfortunate that ever befel me) about seven of the clock in the morning, the better halft of me, my dearest dear wife was taken from me after she had endured the bitterest pangs of death about thirty hours, with the greatest patience imaginable, and most absolute resignation to the blessed will of God." | Wormeley, Judith (I47339)
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| 147 | "Not named in the will of her husband which was dated 25 November 1800. Dessa's booklet mentions a letter to Alfred Harrison Devin written b Rev. Robert Ira Devin son of James, son of William Jr., son of William Sr. The letter is said to make the following statement: "Records of the Parish of Camden: Sarah Devin born March 20, 1728". " "William Devin, Senior is considered to be the Progenitor of the protestant Devin family in the United States of America. William Devin, Senior of Virginia was born in Dublin, Ireland and came to America in 1745 or 1746. In 1750, he married Sarah Smith and settled in what is now Pittsylvania County, Virginia. --The Devin Family, page 1. A William Davin along with son James Davin is listed in the 1767 list of Tithables for Pittsylvania County, Virginia Colony. Like many landowners of the era and region, William Devin Senior owned slaves. His will states that he owned at least one male slave, named Alleck, which he bequeathed to his daughter Sarah Devin. -The Devin Family, page 2. William Sr. served as Sergeant of Infantry, Virginia Continental Line. He "received a certificate for balance of full pay, according to act passed November session 1781". [more likely this was his son William Jr.] -The Devin Family, page 3. Children listed in will: James Devin, Mary Biggar, William Devin, Jr. Robert Devin, Joseph Devin, heirs of Margaret Reynolds, decd. References: (1) War Records No.4 Page 166 (2) Will of William Devin Senior recorded April 19, 1802 in deed and Will Book 11, page 243, of Pittsylvania County, Virginia. Will was signed 25 Nov 1800. (3) 1787 Pittsylvania Co VA for William Devin, Sr. Personal Property Tax List: 2 white males 16-21 1 black over 16 0 blacks under 16 8 horses, mules, etc. 12 cattle Dessa's booklet mentions a letter to Alfred Harrison Devin written by Rev. Robert Ira Devin son of James, son of William Jr, son of William Sr. The letter is said to make the following statements: 'William Devin born 1724.'" These statements may be accurate, but Dessa's booklet, as written, seems to relate that these records have Irish origins. There is a Camden Parish in Pittsylvania County, Virginia. If the referenced records are from the Virginia parish, why do they mention the marriage of William and Martha Devin? Is the Sarah Devin mentioned in the records actually William Sr.'s spouse rather than his sister? Another theory is that the William and Martha Devin mentioned in the parish of Camden records is William Devin and Martha Mitchell and the 2 in 1720 is actually an eight. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/St._Kevin's_Church,_Camden_Row,_Dublin | Smith, Sarah (I563)
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| 148 | "Seedlings Of William Foster" by Flavius Foster pg. 9-10, 18-19 "Enoch, 11th child of Isaac & Sarah Foster, was born in Prince William Co., Virginia, and went with his parents to Monroe Co., W. Va. Here, he met and married Margaret, daughter of John and Jane Wallace. Enoch and Margaret went to Nicholas County with his father, but soon returned to Monroe County, where they bought 200 acres of land. A short time later, they sold this land and joined John and Jane Wallace in the trek to Anderson Co., Tennessee. Their son Samuel and possibly another child was born in West Virginia. The rest were born in Anderson Co., Tenn. Both Enoch and Margaret Foster were on the 1850 census of Anderson County, but Enoch's Will was probated by his son, William Enoch, July 31, 1850 (Estate sale, not Will,) Margaret's death date is not known. Thanks to Morris Foster, Pine Village, Indiana, most of the confusion surrounding the marriages of members of Enoch & Margaret (Wallace) Foster's families has been cleared up. Due to Enoch and his eldest sons siring children during the same period, and using the same given names, past recorders have listed marriages to sons of Enoch that belong to his grandsons. Thanks to Morris Foster, his cousin, Betty Bratt, Lynnfield, Mass., and a third "cousin," Wm. Longmire, Spring Hope, N.C., most of this material is being recorded here. By kindly letting me cannibalize their myriads of material, along with my own research, the families of Enoch & Margaret Foster are pretty well represented here. Since we have birthdates of so few members of the below family, it is doubtful that they are in proper sequence." Note from Adrienne: Additional birthdates on children from One World Tree, ancestry.com Samuel b. 1797 d. 1877 Isaac b. 1800 Joshua b. Jan. 10, 1802 d. July 28, 1875 John b. 1803 Robert b. 1805 Jane b. ? Elijah b. 1810 Elizabeth Sarah Linda Wm. Enoch b. Oct. 5, 1820 d. Feb. 16, 1826 Margaret b. 1824 Susahhan b. 1827 | Foster, Enoch (I44194)
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| 149 | "The Divorce of Annetje Arians" from Olde Ulster, vol. 7, 1911 (Reel #897082, page 207-212) - Article refers to Aert T. Tach being accused of bigamy, having a wife in Amsterdam, Holland and Annatje Arians, his first wife, in New York. "On which ground Annenken Ariaens, his first wife, has petitioned your honours for a decree of divorce and permission to marry someone else… Annetje Arians (Annatje) (Adriaensen, Adrians, Gelvins), b. c1632, Amsterdam, Holland. Jacobus died c1693, Hurley (Kingston) Ulster Co, NY, USA. Annetje of Amsterdam: Deserted wife of Aert Pietersen Tach/Tack. Two children by Aert Tack: Cornelius Tack, chr 14 Aug 1661 & Grietze Artze Tack, (Grietjen), chr 16 Aug 1663, Reformed Dutch Church, Kingston, Ulster Co., NY Aert deserted his wife some time between December 12, 1662 and January 23, 1663. His wife, Annetje was carrying her second child at that time. Aert probably returned to Holland, where he married another woman. Annetje was granted a divorce from Aert Tack August 21, 1664 at Fort Amsterdam. | Tack, Aert Pietersen (I32168)
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| 150 | "The Elder Thomas Arthur was born in Virginia. He traveled to South Carolina where he married Elizabeth Courtney. They moved from South Carolina to Christian County, Kentucky, where most of their children were born.Then moved to Pike County, Mississippi, after a short stay moved to Sabine Parish, Louisiana. Thomas Arthur had 649 acres of the Rio Hondo lands on Negreet Creek. It is said that they came to Sabine Parish between 1819 -1820. Thomas Arthur was an owner of a mercantile business in the Parish. He reportedly was robbed one evening and never recovered financially from the loss of the theft. The children of Thomas were educated by private tutor, although the females were only taught to read as he believed anything more than this would be unlady like. Thomas Arthur and his wife are buried in the Negreet area but their graves have become lost." Land: Residents on the Rio Hondo in 1805, Sabine Parish, Louisiana Source: Biographical & Historical Memories of Northwest Louisiana Nashville & Chicag, The Southern Printing Company, 1890 Township 5, Range 12 Jacob Leahy Thomas Arthur Thomas Gray C. Anthony Benjamin Winfree 1807 In the Neutral Strip known as the Rio Hondo lands, 640 acres was claimed and assigned to, Thomas Arthur, Bayou Negriete. Biographical & Historical Memories of Northwest Louisiana Southern Printing Company, 1890 Residents on the Rio Hondo in 1805, Sabine Parish, Louisiana Township 5, Range 12 Jacob Leahy Thomas Arthur Thomas Gray C. Anthony Benjamin Winfree In 1819-1824 the above named proved their claims, and after the survey of 1832 located their claims anew. 1840 United States Federal Census Name: Thomas Arthurs Township: Not Stated County: Natchitoches State: Louisiana Roll: 127 Page: 181 History: History of Sabine Parish Louisiana Source: Biographical & Historical Memoirs of Northwest Louisiana, The Southern Publishing Company, 1890, Nashville and Chicago The first record of the police jury is dated June 19, 1843, when the minutes of an adjourned meeting are recorded. T. Arthur, B. P. Biles, W. Estes, J. Lebo, R. B. Stille, J. R. Smart and A. Lavell were present as jurors; John Baldwin, treasurer, and S. S. Eason , secretary; John Lebo presided. A road from Hugo Wallaces' house to the parish site was authorized. On June 20 a resolution postponing the sale of town lots at the original seat of justice was carried --- the cause being the dissatisfaction expressed at the location. The question of location was then taken up, and the Legislature petitioned to pass an act empowering the people to select a seat of justice in July 1844. The Herald and the Reporter of Natchitoches were selected as advertising mediums. E. F. Presley was appointed assessor, John Q McDonald, constable and in September the following named administrators of public schools were appointed: Thomas Ford, D. R. Gandy, N. J. Alford, Hosea Presley and Voluntine Nash. In May, 1844, J. A. McLanahan replaced Arthur as juror; Testator Name: Arthur, Thomas Document Date: August 28, 1847 Executor/Administrator: Elizabeth Arthur/Admin Record No.: LDS 0279108 Index #40 Petitioner Elizabeth Arthur states her husband Thomas Arthur died intestate in Sabine Parish, July 1847. No minor children at the time of his death. Administrators bond posted by Elizabeth Arthur as principal and Benjamin Arthur and J. J. Irwin as security. Wit: T. G. S. Godwin. Appraisers listed as Nicholas Jacks and Munson Duckworth. Land includes 620 acres in Sabine Parish, slaves and livestock valued at $6,623.22 all in community with his surviving wife. Wit: Bird W. Stroud and James Shelburne. History: Neutral Strip and Pioneers, Sabine Parish La. Source: History of Sabine Parish Louisiana by John G. Belisle, The Sabine Banner Press, 1913 (Pages 65-78) A large number of the first immigrants to Sabine parish settled on what was designated, and still commonly known, as Rio Hondo lands, the original title to which was based on a Spanish grant tot he settler, in return for some stipulated service to be or having been rendered, or other considerations. The residents on these lands in 1805 were Joe Leaky, John Waddell, Christopher Antony, Thomas Hicks, Jacob Winfree, Jose Rivers, Peter Patterson, David Watterman, John Gordon, Benjamin Winfree, James Kirkham, Andries Galindo, Hugh McGuffy, Jose Maria Procello (heirs of James Denney and Manuel Bustamento), Thomas Yokum, John Yokum (assignee of Jesse Yokum), Azer Mathias, George Slaughter (assignee of Louis Warren) Remey Christy, William Davidson, Thos. Gray (assignee of James Bridges and John Mackay), Stephen Bascus, Jose Bascus Doningo Gonzales, Felicien and Francisco Gonzales, Raymond Dally, Martin Dios, Dennis Dios, John Yokum, Matthias Yokum, James Wilson, Phillip Winfree, Absalom J. Winfree, James Walker, Nicholas Jacks, Hugh McNeely, Jacob Leahy, Thomas Arthur, Given Cook (assignee of Henry Charbineau), Edmund Quirk, William Quirk, Thomas Gray, Joseph Montgomery, Samuel Holmes, Benjamin Morris, Antoine Laroux, John Lum, John H. Thompson, Benjamin Biles, Jose Antonio Mancbac, Jacques Lepine, David Case, Widow La Lena Padea, Manuel Gonzales, Jean Baptiste Parrot, Andrew Bassum, Thomas Wilson, Louis Latham, Antonio de La Sarda, Jose Estrader, John Cortinez, Robert McDonald (assignee of Stephen Moore), widow Ganissieu Parried, Henry Quirk, Henry Stoker, Manuel Cherino, Maria Sanchez, Michael Early, John Litton, Asa Beckum, Francisco Rosalis, Jose Antonio Rodriguez, John Maximilian, the widow Interest Toval, Guilliam Bebee. These claimants presented evidences of their settlement on Rio Hondo lands in 1824, but after a new survey of the country had been made eight years later they filed new proof of their settlement and claims. The claims were for tracts of various size. One claimant, Antoine Laroux, very modestly asked for title to one or two acres, on which he had located his dwelling in the woods,explaining that he would not know what to do with more land. | Arthur, Thomas Jefferson (I41636)
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