John Payne

Notes:

Buried at "Red House" (Cedar Hill), now in Westmoreland County; his grave is not marked, but a bronze tablet indicates the approximate location thereof. The earliest extant, well identified record of him is dated 1653 in Lancaster County, when he bought from Francis Hobbes 940 acres on Pepetick Creek, on N.S.R.R. in that region of Lancaster County then known as Rappahannock, and which in 1656 was organized as Rappahannock County. Pepetick Creek (called Pedee and Perpertocks on current U. S. Geological Survey maps) is to-day in Westmoreland, and flows into the Rappahannock River about two and a half miles below Leedstown. Court records indicate that in 1653 he lived on Payne's Creek in Lancaster County on the West side of the Corrotoman River near what is now called Ottoman, which till recently was known as Payne's Shop. Francis Hobbes was of Isle of Wight County, for which he was Burgess in 1654. The large group of Isle of Wight personal names of this period-such as Upton, Underwood, Lawson, Thatcher, Williamson, Jennings, Travers, Vivian, Thompson, etc.,- which are found later along the Rappahannock River, points to an extensive migration in this direction, and leads to the suggestion of the origin of our family at some neighboring point along the James River.

He was a ship owner, as evidenced by the fact that in 1653 the Lancaster County Court paid him for provisioning and transporting Burgesses from Lancaster to James Town. In 1654 he was ordered by the Court to appraise the contents of Mr. Raleigh Travers's tobacco warehouse. In the same year the records show that he made a trip to England; upon his return in 1655 he moved to and occupied his plantation on Pepetick Creek, then in Lancaster County, near what is now Leedstown. This town was not founded, however, until 1742, the locality being first known as Rapphannock, and later as Bray's. In 1655 and 1656 he was appointed collector of tithes for Lancaster County.

An examination of 103 separate wills, deeds, etc., referring to him in the counties of Lancaster, Rappahannock, Middlesex and Westmoreland, and covering the period 1649-1690, clearly reveal that he was usually referred to as Mr. John Payne, and that he was a planter, carpenter, and boat owner. It does not appear that he was a ship-master, but that he owned sail-boats of considerable tonnage, which he operated at a profit, and which the Court occasionally employed. It is not improbable that he built boats of lighter draft.

Mr. John Payne owned large quantities of land at various times and places during the period of the above-mentioned including 1,500 acres at Occoquan; 1,485 acres in Caroline, called "Hazelwood" and once the home of John Taylor, Mr. Jefferson's chief lieutenant; and considerable land in the vicinity of what is now Leedstown and Pope's Creek, in addition to his holdings in Lancaster and his seated property on Pepetick Creek. Before his death he apparently disposed of all this land except that which lay on Pepetick Creek. The records of the Land Office in the Capitol at Richmond show that, between 1653 and 1666, nine patents aggregating over 5,116 acres were issued to him, of which 1,356 acres were allotted for importing 28 persons into the colony. Of this total amount granted, 3,443 acres bordered on Pepetick Creek and its branches.

John Payne had the following children - Richard (1), John (2), William (3), and George (4).

WESTMORELAND COUNTY, VA - WILLS - John Payne, 9 Dec 1668
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Last Will and Testament of John Payne

Westmoreland County, Virginia, Deeds and Wills Book One, 1653-1671, page 346:

In the name of God amen I John Payne of Cople parish in the Will county of Westmoreland planter being very sick but of Good and perfect memory doe make constitute and ordain this my last will and
Testament in manner and form following In priori I give and bequeath unto my son John Payne and his heirs my share of the four hundred Acres of land which is betwixt Cornelius Morphew and me also a cow Called Violett and a Gun when he comes to the age of twenty one Years. likewise my will is that he work for his mother til he be seventeen Years of age. in Case he die before he comes to age the land to fall to the next heir. I give and bequeath unto my daughter Elisabeth one Yearling. I [Due ?] I give and bequeath unto my loving wife Millicent Payne my share of hogs thate are betwixt Cornelius Morphew and me with all the rest of my estate. I give and bequeath unto my Son James one
two year old heifer with her Increase. Lastly I doe constitute ordain and make Millicent Payne my loving wife sole and whole Executrix of this my last will and Testament affixed my hand and seal this 9th of December 1668.
[The clerk did not note a date of recording.]

1. JOHN1 PAYNE was born 1615 in England, and died 1690 in Rappahannock Co., Virginia. He married MARGARET.
Notes for JOHN PAYNE:

Excerpts from the book: THE PAYNES of VIRGINIA
by: Brook Payne Colonel U.S. Army (retired) 1872-1938
SECOND EDITION
C J. Carrier Company
Harrisonburg, Virginia 1977


John Payne was born 1615 in England and he married Margaret?. He died in 1690 in Rappahannock Co., Virginia and was buried at "Red House" (Cedar Hill), now in Westmoreland County, Virginia. His grave iis not marked, but a bronze tablet indicates the approximate location thereof. It has been impossible to determine the maiden name of John Paye's wife margaret, and there is nothing of unquestionable value on which to hazard a guess. She first appears in the records in 1652, when land was granted for her importation: and last in 1674, when she unites with her husband in a deed. In 1655 her husband was granted land for her importation. She was possibly his second wife.

John Payne was a ship owner, as evidenced by the fact that in 1653 the Lancaster County Court paid him for provisioning and transporting Burgesses from lancaster to james Town. At this date Mr. John Payne was charged with five tithables. In 1654 Mr. John Payne was ordered by the Court to appraise the contents of Mr. Raleigh Traver's tobacco warehouse. In the same year the records show that he made a trip to England: upon his return in 1655 he moved to and occupied his plantation on Pepetick Creek, then in Lancaster County near what is now Leedstown. This town was not founded, however, until 1742.

The old family grave yard, where John Payne was undoubtedly buried, is still in use, being, until recently, surrounded by the remains of a rapidly disappearing mound, and overgrown with a dense tangle of brush, weeds, honeysuckle, and periwinkle. A description of its restoration is given in the chapter on Homes. Bishop Payne in his letter to Bishop Meade, appearing in the latter's "Old Churches and Families of Virginia", calls this old home "Red House", and says "it was immediately in rear of Bunker Hill and three miles from Leedstown. The original house has long since disappeared. The present owner of the estate is Mr. Harry W. Coates. It has been known for many years as "Cedar Hill". He bought 940 acres in 1653 in Lancaster County on Pepetick Creek, on N.S.R.R. in that region of Lancaster County then known as Rappahannock, and which in 1656 was organized as Rappahannock County. He did not occupy this land until some years later. Pepetick Creek (called Pedee and Perpertocks on current U.S. Geological Survery maps) is today in Westmoreland and flows int the Rappahannock River about two and a half miles below Leedstown.

More About JOHN PAYNE:
Burial: 1690, Rappahannock Co., Virginia

Children of JOHN PAYNE and MARGARET are:
2. i. WILLIAM PAYNE2 SR., b. 1652.
ii. JOHN PAYNE, d. 1669, Rappahannock Co., Virginia; m. ANNIE WALKER, 1668.
iii. GEORGE.
iv. RICHARD PAYNE.


Generation No. 2

2. WILLIAM PAYNE2 SR. (JOHN1 PAYNE) was born 1652. He married (1) MRS. FRANCE CLEMENTS 1688. He married (2) ELIZBETH POPE 1691 in Westmoreland Co., Virginia, daughter of HUMPHREY POPE and ELIZABETH. She was born June 1667, and died 1716.

Notes for WILLIAM PAYNE SR.:
Excerpts from the book "The Paynes of Virginia" by Colonel Brook Payne

WILLIAM PAYNE SR. born 1652 married Elizabeth Pope 1691 in Westmoreland County, Virginia, died in February 1698 in Westmoreland County, leaving a will dated 31 January 1697/8 (23 February 1697/8; buried in Yeocomico Churchyard, Westmoreland County; grave is not marked. He was a merchant, planter, Justice, and probably shipowner. His first wife was Mrs. Frances Clements, married in 1688 in Westmorland Co. The earliest recognized Court reference to him is found in Rappahannock County 1673, when "William Payne, son of Mr. John Payne" recorded the earmark of his cattle---"three slits in each ear, and the middle slit cropt" This reference and the composite of the 17 traditional versions abstracted in the Introduction under the title of Genesis of the Virginia Families, particularly the 6th. and 10th. taken in conjunction with the fact that the 1673 reference cannot be made to fit any other William Payne found in the Northern Neck records of this period, and that the McCartys, Lees, Fitzhughs, and Popes continued to be neighbors of or to intermarry with the Paynes of Leedstown and their descendants, are accepted by me after 15 years research in the matter as satisfactory proof of the identity of the said William Payne as the son of John whom I call the immigrant and who is the subject of the first sketch in this history. Particularly convincing is the fact, shown by the document referred to in Version 10 and still preserved in the family, that my great-grandfather Captain William Payne (1, 1755) recognized his relationship to the Paynes of Fairfax Co. near whom he lived. I lay stress on this point of the identity of the said William Payne because it is a critical one, and one that many of my readers will want expounded.

His first wife was Mrs. Frances Powell and they had one child, Anne.

Child of WILLIAM SR. and MRS. CLEMENTS is:
3. i. ANNE3 PAYNE, b. 1689, Westmoreland Co., VA; d. 1712, Westmoreland Co., VA.

Children of WILLIAM SR. and ELIZBETH POPE are:
4. ii. WILLIAM PAYNE3 JR., b. 10 August 1692, Westmoreland Co., Virginia.
iii. EDWARD PAYNE, b. 1693, Westmoreland Co., Virginia; d. 1702.
Notes for EDWARD PAYNE:
His father's will dated 31Jany 1697, 8 referred to him as his second son, and left to him 700 acres in Stafford County adjacent to Captain Peale. Apl 1702 Daniel McCarty and wife Elizabeth (Edward's mother) applied for administration of the estate of "Edward Paine, deceased, son of William and Elizabeth Paine". the court appointed Mr Thomas Garland, Mr. Nathaniel Garland, Mr. George Eskridge, and Mr. james Orchard as Appraisers. Edward's uncle Humphrey Pope was security for the administrators. Upon Edwardd's death his land in Stafford develoved upon his brother and heir-at-law William. It lay about three miles south of what is now Fairfax court house.

5. iv. ELIZABETH PAYNE, b. 1695, Westmoreland County..
v. MARY PAYNE, b. 1697.

Notes for MARY PAYNE:
Mary Payne was born about 1697 in Westmoreland county; no record of death.

Her father's will dated 1697/8 referred to her as under 16; on reaching that age she was to receive 20,000#. the will of her step-father Daniel McCarty dated 1724 referred to her as Mary Burns, and gave her a Bible with the hope that she would make good use of it. The records of Westmoreland Co., fail to throw any light on her history, or to furnish any suggestion as to her husband's first name.

Family/Spouse: Margaret Payne. Margaret died in , Westmoreland, Virginia, USA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Residence: 1660, Cedar Hill, Westmoreland, Virginia, USA

Notes:

Richard Payne
Sources:
(1) Payne, Col. Brooke, The Paynes of Virginia, (2nd Ed., Third printing C. J. Carrier Co., Harrisonburg VA 1998), 50.,
(2) Virginia Vital Records #1 1600s-1800s, Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Company, Inc., 1982-1983, 261, Virginia Tax Records, Tithables of Lancaster Co. VA 1654: A deed from John Payne Sr. to his son Richard was dated Nov. 9 1656 and proved in Lancaster.,
(3) Sparacio, Ruth and Sam Sparacio, compilers, Deed and Will Abstracts of Lancaster County, Virginia, (Antient Press, 1991. McLean, VA), 33, Vol. 2: p. 106-07: I John Paine Senr. of ye County of Lancaster do give unto John Pine Junr. one heifer named Young Stewelin marked with 3 slits on ye right ear and crop and a halfe moon in ye left ear and a slit in ye crop. I John Paine do give unto my son Richard Paine one heifer named Young Coll marked with 3 slits in ye right ear a crop and a half moone in ye left ear. I do give the above written cattle and their increase to ye above written parties. John Paine Recorded in ye Court of Lancaster 10th day of September 1655.), born Aft. 1633; died Unknown. He was the son of John Sr. Payne and Margaret Robinson.

Children of Richard* Payne are:

i. John Payne, died Unknown. 192
ii. William Payne, born 1660 in Red House, Rappahanock Co. VA; died Abt. 1700 in Lancaster Co. VA; married Susannah Merriman 1684 in Lancaster Co., VA.

Richard married Sarah Anne Sheppard in 1657. Sarah (daughter of Major Robert Sheppard and Elizabeth Spencer) was born in May 1644 in Jamestown, James City, Virginia, USA; died on 20 Mar 1711 in , Westmoreland, Virginia, USA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

William Payne of Westmoreland County and his descendants.

His only surviving son moved to Fairfax County about 1733, where the family resided for three generations. Soon after the Revolution all but one household of this group migrated to Kentucky, where they expanded and prospered.

Of William's descendants were Edward Payne of Fairfax County and Kentucky; Colonel William Payne, one of General Washington's honorary pall-bearers; General John Payne and Major Devall Payne of the War of 1812; Sanford Payne, brother of the gentleman who had the altercation with General Washington, described in Parson Weems's book, remained with his family in Fairfax County; some of his descendants now reside in Prince William and neighboring counties.

WILLIAM b. 1652 m(1) Mrs. Frances Clements 1688 in We. Co.; m(2) Elizabeth Pope 1691 in We. Co.; d. Feb 1698 in We. Co., leaving a will dated 31 Jany 1697/8 (23 Feb 1697/8); buried in Yeocomico Churchyard, We. Co.; grave is not marked. He was a merchant, planter, Justice, and probably shipowner. The earliest recognized Court reference to him is found in Ra. Co. 1673, when "William Payne, son of Mr. John Payne", recorded the earmark of his cattle—"three slits in each ear, and the middle slit cropt." This reference and the composite of the 17 traditional versions abstracted in the Introduction under the title of Genesis of the Virginia Families, particularly the 6th and 10th, taken in conjunction with the fact that the 1673 reference cannot be made to fit any other William Payne found in the Northern Neck records of this period, and that the McCartys, Lees, Fitzhughs, and Popes continued to be neighbors of or to intermarry with the Paynes of Leedstown and their descendants, are accepted in the matter as satisfactory proof of the identity of the said William Payne as the son of John Payne the immigrant.

The next identified record of him is found in We. Co. dated 1688, when Josiah Pitt of England and w. Rebecca and Samuel Bonum, Jr., sued William Payne for possession of 150 a. that had been patented to John Powell. Plaintiffs claimed that said Powell left this land to "his then wife Joanna”, and that after her death it was to go to the children of his stepdaughters Rebecca Thomas and Margaret Bonum. At the time of this suit William Payne was in possession of this land. To understand this case and its historical value as evidence of William Payne's first marriage, the following summary is presented:

John and Michael Powell of Boston, Mass., settled in We. Co. John m. Mrs. Joanna Philpott, widow of Robert Philpott, Gent., of Nb. Co., who had 3 children--Captain Thomas Philpott; Rebecca Philpott, who m(1) Mr. Thomas < 1679, and m(11) Josiah Pitt < 1688; and Margaret Philpott, who m. Samuel Bonum, Sr., < 1670. John Powell d. < 1668, leaving a nuncupative will which was not probated until 1679, and which is not to be found. The plaintiffs in this suit produced the will of John Powell and asked that Samuel Bonum, Sr., be admitted as a witness thereto. The Court denied the application, and Samuel Bonum, Sr., was ordered to pay William Payne for his unjust molestation.

The land involved was on Bonum's Creek, later called Journeau's, or Rotank's.

On the answer to the question as to how William Payne came into possession of this land hangs the identity of his first wife. 1670 Mr. William Clements signed a marriage contract with Mrs. Frances Powell, widow of John Powell, whom he was about to marry. Mr. Clement's will was recorded 1688/9 in We. Co. by John son of Henry Clements of Torrington, Devonshire, England. In the meanwhile the said Frances had m(111) William Payne, who thus came into possession of the 150 acre patent, which was not recorded in We. Co. until about 1712.

Mrs. Rebecca Thomas had a dau. Rebecca who m. James Orchard. Samuel Bonum, Sr., had Sarah, Thomas, Margaret who m. William Rust, and Rebecca who m. Captain George Eskridge. In 1698 shortly after William Payne's death Mrs. Orchard, Mrs. Rust, Samuel and Thomas Bonum sold to George Eskridge the said “150 a. in Yeocomico, formerly in the occupation of William Clements and late of William Paine, both deceased", which John Powell devised "to Joanna his then wife", and after her decease to the children of his two step-daughters. The land continued, however, in the Payne family.

William Payne's widow m(11) Capt. Daniel McCarty, who continued to possess the disputed land. Capt. Eskridge instituted proceedings to oust Capt. McCarty. The case was submitted to "King Carter", who decided that McCarty was to keep the land and pay Eskridge £ 34. It seems quite conclusive, therefore, that John Powell m(11) said Frances after making the unwritten will above referred to. She probably died about 1690.

Throughout these records William Payne is referred to as Mr., Gentleman, or merchant of Yeocomico Neck. In the above law suit his attorney was Mr. Robert Brent. 1692 he proved the will of Mr. Richard Sturman, father of John Sturman who m. Mr. Payne's daughter. 1694 he applied to build a mill on Bonum's Creek, saying that he had land thereon "of his own inheritance" ; Mr. Gawin Corbin owned on the opposite side of the creek. 1696 Humphrey, Lawrence, and John Pope, sons of Mr. Humphrey Pope, deceased, of We. Co. chose Mr. William Payne, merchant, of Yeocomico as their guardian. The Court ordered Mr. Payne to collect the debts due the 5 orphans of Mr. Pope. 27 Jany 1696/7 he took the oath as Justice. In the same year he was ordered to take the tithables for the lower end of Cople Parish.

1697 Jeremiah Jadwin, Justice, died, leaving a negro to his god-daughter Anne Payne, dau. of William Payne of Yeocomico Neck. Mr. Payne was apparently acquainted in England with merchants whom he represented in Virginia. He was probably the Captain Payne who in 1680 delivered letters from England to Col. William Fitzhugh of We. Co. (V.M.-1/30). His will referred to money that he had on deposit in Newcastle. It also provided that he was to be interred at the discretion of his executors (his minor children Anne and William) and the guardian of his children—his "loving friend Col. Richard Lee of Lower Machoticque".

William Payne's home lay on the S.E. side of Bonum's Creek and near the head thereof, not far from Tucker Hill, and therefore less than one mile from Yeocomico Church, where he was doubtless buried. Here too his widow was buried; her grave is marked. "The first church, a frame structure, was built 1655 on the land of John Powell, in Chicacoan Parish. John Powell was a member of the first Vestry." (Eubank). "When the church, the present one, was rebuilt of brick in 1706, the John Powell plantation was in possession of Capt. Daniel McCarty, who had acquired the plantation by marriage with the widow of William Payne, Gent., planter, merchant, and miller at Tucker Hill." (We. Co. Assn.) The list of those who worshipped at Yeocomico Church between 1655 and 1706 includes the names of William Payne and Daniel McCarty. (Va. Colonial Churches )

Mrs. Elizabeth (Pope) Payne-McCarty was the oldest daughter of Col. Humphrey Pope of We. and w. Elizabeth, dau, of Richard Hawkins. Col. Pope d. 1684. Beside the four children named above he had Jemima, who m. Nicholas Minor. Col. Pope's widow m(11) Richard Youell < 1687; she m(111) Patrick Muckleroy < 1691. Her will dated 1717 (1718) We. Co. left bequests to the daus. of her son Lawrence Pope and w. Jemima, and to the children of her son Harmon Youell and w. Dinah.

Capt. Daniel McCarty was son of Dennis McCarty of Ri. Co. and w. Elizabeth Billington. He m(1) Mrs. William Payne 19 Oct 1699; he m(11) Mrs. Ann Fitzhugh, widow of William Fitzhugh, and dau. of Richard Lee and w. Lettice Corbin. Capt. McCarty d. 4 May 1724 at age of 45, leaving a will naming his children by both marriages and his step-son William Payne. (H-86) His son Dennis m. 1724 Sarah Ball, whose brother George Ball, son of Capt. William Ball of Lc., m. 1735 Judith, dau. of William Payne of Lc. (D-IV-I).

Capt. Daniel McCarty was a sheriff, Justice, Burgess, and Speaker of the House of Burgesses 1715. He was buried in Yeocomico Churchyard; his grave is marked. His epitaph reads in part—"He was endowed with many virtues and good qualifications, but the actions proceeding from them bespeak their praise.” Mrs. Payne- McCarty's tomb is alongside. Her gravestone was discovered 1907 heneath the tomb of Capt. McCarty while the latter was being repaired. It is badly defaced and broken. I have attempted to supply the lacunae as follows, the parts in parentheses being mine—“(Here liet)h the body of Elizabeth (daught)er of Humphrey Pope, Gentle- man, by (Elizabeth) his wife, first the wife of (William Pay)ne, Gentleman, to whom sh(e bore two sons and two daughters, and last (tly of) Daniel McCarty, Esq., to (whom she) was married 19th October (1699 and b)ore four sons and four daugh (ters). She was born of June 1667." I think she d. 1716. By his m(1) Mr. Payne had i child-Anne (1). By his m(1) he had 4 children-William (2), Edward (3), Elizabeth (4), and Mary (5).

William Payne 1652-1678 excerpt from The Paynes of Virginia
The Paynes of Virginia by Brooke Payne, 1937, Published by The William Byrd Press, Inc., Richmond, VA
Pages 223-226

GENERATION II

3. WILLIAM (s. A-I-I) born < 1652; married (l) Mrs. Frances Clements 1688 in Westmoreland County; married (II) Elizabeth Pope 1691 in Westmoreland County; died Feb 1698 in Westmoreland County, leaving a will dated 31 January 1697/8 (23 Feb 1697/8); buried in Yeocomico Churchyard, Westmoreland County; grave is not marked. He was a merchant, planter, Justice, and probably ship owner. The earliest recognized Court reference to him is found in Old Rappahannock County 1673, when "William Payne, son of Mr. John Payne", recorded the earmark of his cattle—”three slits in each ear, and the middle slit cropt." This reference and the composite of the 17 traditional versions abstracted in the Introduction under the title of Genesis of the Virginia Families, particularly the 6th and l0th, taken in conjunction with the fact that the 1673 reference cannot be made to fit any other William Payne found in the Northern Neck records of this period, and that the McCartys, Lees, Fitzhughs, and Popes continued to be neighbors of or to intermarry with the Paynes of Leedstown and their descendants, are accepted by me after 15 years research in the matter as satisfactory proof of the identity of the said William Payne as the son of John Payne whom I call the immigrant and who is the subject of the first sketch in this history. Particularly convincing is the fact, shown by the document referred to in Version 10 and still preserved in the family, that my great-grandfather Captain William Payne (b. 1755) recognized his relationship to the Paynes of Fairfax County, near whom he lived. I lay stress on this point of the identity of the said William Payne because it is a critical one, and one that many of my readers will want expounded.

The next identified record of him is found in Westmoreland County dated 1688, when Josiah Pitt of England and wife Rebecca and Samuel Bonum, Jr., sued William Payne for possession of 150 acres that had been patented to John Powell. Plaintiffs claimed that said Powell left this land to "his then wife Joanna", and that after her death it was to go to the children of his stepdaughters Rebecca Thomas and Margaret Bonum. At the time of this suit William Payne was in possession of this land. To understand this case and its historical value as evidence of William Payne's first marriage, the following summary is presented. John and Michael Powell of Boston, Mass., settled in Westmoreland County John married Mrs. Joanna Philpott, widow of Robert Philpott, Gent., of Northumberland County, who had 3 children—Captain Thomas Philpott; Rebecca Philpott, who married (I) Mr. Thomas < 1679, and married (II) Josiah Pitt < 1688; and Margaret Philpott, who married Samuel Bonum, Sr., < 1670. John Powell died < 1668, leaving a nuncupative will which was not probated until 1679, and which is not to be found. The plaintiffs in this suit produced the will of John Powell and asked that Samuel Bonum, Sr., be admitted as a witness thereto. The Court denied the application, and Samuel Bonum, Sr., was ordered to pay William Payne for his unjust molestation. The land involved was on Bonum's Creek, later called Journeau's, or Rotank's. On the answer to the question as to how William Payne came into possession of this land hangs the identity of his first wife. 1670 Mr. William Clements signed a marriage contract with Mrs. Frances Powell, widow of John Powell, whom he was about to marry. Mr. Clement's will was recorded 1688/9 in Westmoreland County by John son of Henry Clements of Torrington, Devonshire, England. In the meanwhile the said Frances had married (III) William Payne, who thus came into possession of the 150-acre patent, which was not recorded in Westmoreland County until about 1712. Mrs. Rebecca Thomas had a daughter Rebecca who married James Orchard. Samuel Bonum, Sr., had Sarah, Thomas, Margaret who married William Rust, and Rebecca who married Captain George Eskridge. In 1698 shortly after William Payne's death Mrs. Orchard, Mrs. Rust, Samuel and Thomas Bonum sold to George Eskridge the said" 150 acres in Yeocomico, formerly in the occupation of William Clements and late of William Paine, both deceased", which John Powell devised "to Joanna his then wife", and after her decease to the children of his two step-daughters. The land continued, however, in the Payne family. William Payne's widow married (II) Captain Daniel McCarty, who continued to possess the disputed land. Captain Eskridge instituted proceedings to oust Captain McCarty. The case was submitted to "King Carter", who decided that McCarty was to keep the land and pay Eskridge £ 34. It seems quite conclusive, therefore, that John Powell married (II) said Frances after making the unwritten will above referred to. She probably died about 1690.

Throughout these records William Payne is referred to as Mr., Gentleman, or merchant of Yeocomico Neck. In the above lawsuit his attorney was Mr. Robert Brent. 1692 he proved the will of Mr. Richard Sturman, father of John Sturman who married Mr. Payne's daughter. 1694 he applied to build a mill on Bonum's Creek, saying that he had land thereon "of his own inheritance"; Mr. Gawin Corbin owned on the opposite side of the creek. 1696 Humphrey, Lawrence, and John Pope, sons of Mr. Humphrey Pope, deceased, of Westmoreland County chose Mr. William Payne, merchant of Yeocomico as their guardian. The Court ordered Mr. Payne to collect the debts due the 5 orphans of Mr. Pope. 27 January 166/7 he took the oath as Justice. In the same year he was ordered to take the tithables for the lower end of Cople Parish. 1697 Mr. Jeremiah Jadwin, Justice, died, leaving a negro to his goddaughter Anne Payne, daughter of William Payne of Yeocomico Neck.

Mr. Payne was apparently acquainted in England with merchants whom he represented in Virginia. He was probably the Captain Payne who in 1680 delivered letters from England to Col. William Fitzhugh of Westmoreland County (Virginia Magazine of History and Biography-1/30). His will referred to money that he had on deposit in Newcastle. It also provided that he was to be interred at the discretion of his executors (his minor children Anne and William) and the guardian of his children-his "loving friend Col. Richard Lee of Lower Machoticque".

William Payne's home lay on the S.E. side of Bonum's Creek and near the head thereof, not far from Tucker Hill, and therefore less than one mile from Yeocomico Church, where he was doubtless buried. Here too his widow was buried; her grave is marked. "The first church, a frame structure, was built 1655 on the land of John Powell, in Chicacoan Parish. John Powell was a member of the first Vestry." (Eubank). "When the church, the present one, was rebuilt of brick in 1706, the John Powell plantation was in possession of Captain Daniel McCarty, who had acquired the plantation by marriage with the widow of William Payne, Gent., planter, merchant, and miller at Tucker Hill." (Westmoreland County Assn.) The list of those who worshipped at Yeacornice Church between 1655 and 1706 includes the names of William Payne and Daniel McCarty. (Virginia Colonial Churches)

Mrs. Elizabeth (Pope) Payne-McCarty was the oldest daughter of Co1. Humphrey Pope of Westmoreland County and wife Elizabeth, daughter of Richard Hawkins. Co1. Pope died 1684. Beside the four children named above he had Jemima, who married Nicholas Minor. Co1. Pope's widow married (II) Richard Youell < 1687; she married (III) Patrick Muckleroy < 1691. Her will dated 1717 (1718) Westmoreland County left bequests to the daughters of her son Lawrence Pope and wife Jemima, and to the children of her son Harmon Youell and wife Dinah. Captain Daniel McCarty was son of Dennis McCarty of Richmond County and wife Elizabeth Billington. He married (I) Mrs. William Payne 19 Oct I699; he married (II) Mrs. Ann Fitzhugh, widow of William Fitzhugh, and daughter of Richard Lee and wife Lettice Corbin. Captain McCarty died 4 May 1724 at age of 45, leaving a will naming his children by both marriages and his stepson William Payne. (H-86) His son Dennis married 1724 Sarah Ball, whose brother George Ball, son of Captain William Ball of Lancaster married 1735 Judith, daughter of William Payne of Lancaster. (D-lV-I).

Captain Daniel McCarty was a sheriff, Justice, Burgess, and Speaker of the House of Burgesses 1715. He was buried in Yeocomico Churchyard; his grave is marked. His epitaph reads in part—”He was endowed with many virtues and good qualifications, but the actions proceeding from them bespeak their praise." Mrs. Payne-McCarty's tomb is alongside. Her gravestone was discovered 1907 beneath the tomb of Captain McCarty while the latter was being repaired. It is badly defaced and broken. I have attempted to supply the lacunae as follows, the parts in parentheses being mine—” Here lieth the body of Elizabeth daughter of Humphrey Pope, Gentleman, by Elizabeth his wife, first the wife of William Payne, Gentleman, to whom she bore two sons and two daughters, and lastly of Daniel McCarty, Esq., to whom she was married 19th October 1699 and before four sons and four daughters. She was born of _______ of June 1667." I think she died I716.

By his marriage (I) Mr. Payne had 1 child—Anne (1). By his marriage (II) he had 4 children-William (2), Edward (3), Elizabeth (4), and Mary (5).

William married Frances in 1688 in , Westmoreland, Virginia, USA. Frances was born in 1655 in , Westmoreland, Virginia, USA; died in 1690 in , Westmoreland, Virginia, USA; was buried in Kinsale, Westmoreland, Virginia, USA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

William married Elizabeth Pope in 1691 in Cople, Westmoreland, Virginia, USA. Elizabeth (daughter of Humphrey Pope, , Colonel and Elizabeth Hawkins) was born on 25 Jun 1667 in Old Rappahannock, Richmond, Virginia, USA; died on 21 Mar 1716 in Yeocomico, Westmoreland, Virginia, USA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

William married Susannah Merriman in 1684 in , Lancaster, Virginia, USA. Susannah (daughter of Sir Richard Merriman and Susan Campion) was born on 1 Nov 1664 in , Lancaster, Virginia, USA; died in 1726 in , Lancaster, Virginia, USA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Residence: , , , USA

Notes:

William Payne born 10 Aug, 1692 (son of William Payne and Elizabeth Pope) married Alicia Jones Feb 1713 in Richmond; Alicia died 1760. William then married Anne Jennings 1 Mar 1763 in Fairfax. William died 24 Aug 1776 in Fairfax Co.


William and 1st wife Alicia Jones children:
1. Anne
2. William 1724 - 1782
3. Edward 1726 -1806 4. Sanford 1730 - aft 1787
William and his 2nd wife Anne Jennings children:
1. John
2. Mildred
3. girl Payne

1706: William Payne listed as attending Yeocomico Church, Westmoreland Co., VA.

1713 William marries Alicia Jones Richmond, Wise Co., VA

1713 26 Aug: The date of his birth exists in the following record in a Court Order Book, Westmoreland County—“26 Aug 1713 William Paine, son of William Paine, Gent., deceased, being born the 10th day of August 1692 as appeared to the Court to be so entered on the account-book of the said William Paine, deceased, and which the Court verily believes to be his own handwriting, personally appeared in Court and acknowledged a sale of land to Daniel McCarty, Esq., and Alicia, wife of said William, relinquished her right of dower.” This deed was in exchange for land left to William Payne in his father's will (1698), which bequeathed to him "the land I now live on, bounded from the outside fence next my quarter, where Footman lived, so to the mill, which mill I give to my wife till said William comes to the age of 16, when he may use 2 negroes; one half the residue of my personal estate." William Payne, Jr., and his sister Anne were made joint executors of their father's will.

1733: William Payne , Gent. and planter, and Alicia his wife of Truro Parish, Prince William Co., VA, sold their home in Westmoreland Co. to George Tuberville, stating that the land was that on which they formerly lived and that it was sold to them by Daniel McCarty. In this deed he is recorded as William Payne, Gentleman and planter. He settled on the 700 acres that he inherited from his brother Edward, which was first in Stafford; in 1731 Prince William County; 1742 Fairfax County This estate was near what was later Payne's Church on the Colchester Road.
1744: Sheriff of Fairfax Co., VA.

1748: William Payne and Edward Washington were inspectors of tobacco warehouses at Occoquan and Pohick, Fairfax Co., which were 7 miles apart by land and 14 by water.1752 , 9 Jul: Daniel M'Carty and William Payne, Churchwardens, printed a notice in "The Maryland Gazette" regarding buildings to be built for Truro Parish in Fairfax Co., VA. William Payne and Daniel McCarty, son of the Daniel from whom he purchased land in Westmoreland Co., were Church Wardens of Truro Parish. A meeting of the Vestry took place during this year at the home of the Rector, Rev. Charles Green.1755: Listed as one of the freeholders of Fairfax Co., VA.

1756: Vestryman at Colchester, at the mouth of Occoquan Creek.

1760 Wife Alicia dies Fairfax Co., VA

1763 William marries Anne Jennings Fairfax Co., VA

1763: "William Payne Sr. and William Jr., his son, were Vestrymen of Truro Parish on March 28, 1763, when it was decided to build the present Falls Church. In 1769, Edward Payne, of this family, was also a Vstryman. He was the one for whom Payne's Church near Fairfax Court House was named. On March 22, 1785, William Payne was a Gentleman Justice of Fairfax County. He signed the famouse "Fairfax Resolves" on July 18, 1774, and was a member of the committtee which was to 'have power to call a general meeting, and to concern such measure as be though most expedient and necessary.' George Washington was chariman of the committee. Falls Church: Be Fence and Fireside...Steadman pg. 396
,."At a Vestry at the Falls Church March 28, 1763. Present, Henry Gunnell, William Payne jun. Church Wardens, John West, William Payne (senior) Chas. Broadwater, Thos. Wren." One of the Vestrymen of Falls Church, among whom were George Washington, John West, Daniel McCarty. . His services as Sheriff, Church Warden, Vestryman, etc., were not confined to the dates here given merely to indicate the general period of his incumbency.1769 , 20 Jun: William Payne wrote his will. Names his sons William, Edward, Sanford, and John. Mentions his wife and daughters but not by name. His wife to live on the plantation on which he now lives if she so chooses. Otherwise, his son Edward to possess it. Edward named as sole executor, and is to have the care and education of son John until the latter reaches the age of 18 or 21, as his guardian sees fit.

1776 William dies Fairfax Co., VA 16 Sep will proved
Alicia Jones born about 1658, daughter of Edward Jones of Richmond County whose marriage to Alicia Lunn on 27 Aug 1679 is recorded in South Farnham Parrish Register. Edward Jones's will is dated 1715 and names his daughter Alicia Payne. He was a descendant of Robert Jones of Fleet's Bay, Northumberland County While the births of some of Edward Jones's children are recorded in the above Register, Alicia's does not there appear; it is estimated that she was born about 1686. She died 31 Oct 1760 in Fairfax County. Anne Jennings was born 28 Feb 1740 and died 11 May 1827 at the home of her son John Payne near Georgetown, Ky., where, in spite of his affectionate protests, she insisted upon residing in a cottage in his yard. No convincing account of her parentage has been presented; she was probably related to Daniel Jennings, Sr., of Fairfax who died 1754. She is listed with the DAR Ancestor A131553 having given patriotic service providing 6 ½ bushels of rye valued at 70 pounds.

William married Alicia Jones in Feb 1713 in Richmond, Independent Cities, Virginia, USA. Alicia was born in 1686 in Truro Parish, Fairfax, Virginia, USA; died on 31 Oct 1760 in , Fairfax, Virginia, USA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

William married Anne Jennings on 1 Mar 1763 in , Fairfax, Virginia, USA. Anne was born on 28 Feb 1739 in Fairfax, Fairfax, Virginia, USA; died on 11 May 1827 in Georgetown, Scott, Kentucky, USA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

George married Mary Jane Woodson on 30 Oct 1705 in , Goochland, Virginia, USA. Mary (daughter of Col Robert "Potato Hole" Woodson and Elizabeth Ferris) was born in 1678 in Curles Plantation, Henrico, Virginia, USA; died on 15 Jan 1744 in , Goochland, Virginia, USA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

William married Susannah Clark on 3 Feb 1748 in Truro Parish, Fairfax, Virginia, USA. Susannah (daughter of Thomas Clarke and Susannah) was born on 17 Dec 1721 in , Loudoun, Virginia, USA; died on 22 Feb 1771 in Truro Parish, Fairfax, Virginia, USA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Josias 'Sr' Payne was born on 30 Oct 1705 in Northam, Goochland Co, VA, USA as the first child of. He had one sibling, namely: John 'Colonel'. He died on 17 Dec 1785 in Pittsylvania Co, VA, USA. When he was 26, He married Anne Fleming Payne in 1732 in Goochland Co VA, and had the following children:

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

Will of Josias Payne 12 January 1785 Pittsylvania Co., Virginia.
To son William in Fluvanna Co. containing Four Hundred Acres, the following slaves: LONG TOM, SQUIRE, PATT
To son, Josias and gives him land in Goochland Co. of seven hundred acres on the waters of Beaver Dam Creek with the following slaves: LONDON, NED, and NICE
To son George: Two hundred acres land on Licking Hole Creek, land on Three Chop ? Road with the following slaves: WILL, ROSIE?, JUDE.
To son John: Two Hundred acres Land on the Little Bird Creek and the following slaves: PETER, NED, BOB and IALIO.
To son in-law William Heale: m. DA. Susanna : Three hundred and sixty-five acres land on the waters of Little Bird Creek and the following slaves: PHILLIS, a girl named TILLER.
To son Robert Payne: all tract land in Gooochland co. on Licking Hole Creek and land where I formerly lived: and following slaves: JOE, NAN, SUSY, JAMES
To DA. Agnes Michel the Negroes she rec. of me after her Marriage with the following Negroes: JANE MOLE and her child HANAH
To DA. Anna Harrison the Negroes she has in her population with the following: TOM, HANAH his Wife and BON their son.
To Granddaughter Ann DA. of Robert: MILLEY
To Granddaughter Keturah DA. of Robert: BETTY

Will of Josias Payne, 1785 In the name of God Amen. I JOSIAS PAYNE of Pittsylvania County being at this time in perfect health, mind and memory do make an d ordain this my last Will and Testament in manner and form following first I recommend my Soul to God hoping for a happy resurrection and my body the Earth to be buried in a Christian like manner at the direction of Executor hereafter mentioned, And after all my just debts and funeral Charges are paid I give and dispose of my Estate in the following manner -------?

I give and bequeath to my Son WILLIAM the Negroes he has now in population. I likewise give to my Son WILLIAM the tract of Land whereon he now lives in Fulvanna County containing Four hundred acres, with the following Negroes, LONG TOM, SQUIRE, AND PATT.

Item I confirm the gift formerly made my son JOSIAS of Seven hundred acres of land in Goochland County on the Waters of Beaver dam Creek with the following Negroes, LONDON, NED, AND NICE,

Item I confirm the gift formerly made to my Son GEORGE of two hundred acres Land on Lickinghole Creek, also tow hundred acres on the Three chopt Road with the following Negroes, WILL, ROSIE, AND JUDE and fifty pounds I gave him in Cash in lieu of a Negroe.

I confirm Gift made to my son JOHN of two hundred acres of land in the fork of James River with the following Negroes PETER, NED AND BOB, IALIO.

Confirm the Gift made to WILLIAM HEALE who married my daughter SUSANNA of three hundred and sixty-five acres of land on the waters of the Little Bird creek with the following Negroes PHYLLIS AND HER CHILDREN AND A NEGRO GIRL NAMED TILLER.

Item I give and bequeath to my son ROBERT PAYNE all that tract of Land in Goochland County on Licking hole creek contango eight hundred acres being the Plantation and Land whereon I formerly lived. I likewise confirm the gift of Negroes I formerly made him, which he has now in population with the following Negroes, JOE, NAN, SUSY AND JAMES, with their future increase, together with my Still my household and Kitchen furniture and all the plantation Utensils to him his heirs forever.

Item I give to my daughter AGNES MICHEL the Negroes she rec of me after her Marriage with the following Negroes JANE MOLE AND HER CHILD HANAH with their future Increase.

Item I give to my daughter ANNA HARRISON the Negroes she has now in population with Negroes following TOM, HANAH HIS WIFE AND BON their Son with their future increase.

Item I give and bequeath to my Granddaughter ANNA the daughter of my son ROBERT one Negro a Girl named MILLEY with her future increase to her and her heirs for ever.

Item I give to my Granddaughter KETURAH daughter of my Son ROBERT Negro Girl named BETTY, with her future increase to her and her heirs forever

And all the rest of my Estate not heretofore given consisting of Stock--? I desire my be sold and after my debts and funeral charges are paid the Money equally divided amonst all my Children.

I do hereby constitute and appoint my two Sons WILLIAM AND ROBERT PAYNE and my Son in Law WM HARRRISON Exuetors of this my last Will and Testament revoking and disannulling all and every Will or Wills by me heretofore made In --------? Whereof I have hereunto set my hand and seal this 12 day of January 1785. JOSIAS PAYNE LS Signed, sealed and delivered published-d-? to be last will in presence of JAMES SANDERS, CHAS DIXSON SA HOPSON Will probated in Pittsylvainia County the 19th day December 1785 . Teste: WILL TURNBALL ?

Josias married Mary Anna Fleming in 1732 in , Goochland, Virginia, USA. Mary was born on 30 Oct 1705 in Saint Peters Parish, James City, Virginia, USA; died on 6 May 1794 in , Goochland, Virginia, USA; was buried in , Goochland, Virginia, USA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Name: Alica Cooke
• Residence: 1810, , Warren, Kentucky, USA

Alicia married Giles Cooke on 30 Nov 1775 in , Fairfax, Virginia, USA. Giles (son of Mordecai Cooke and Elizabeth Whiting) was born on 19 Oct 1744 in , Fairfax, Virginia, USA; died on 26 Sep 1805 in , Fairfax, Virginia, USA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Residence: , , , USA

Mary married Pierce Bayly, Sr on 23 Feb 1772 in , Fairfax, Virginia, USA. Pierce (son of William Bayly and Mary Hampton) was born on 12 May 1742 in Diamond Hill, Bedford, Virginia, USA; died on 7 Oct 1800 in , Loudoun, Virginia, USA; was buried in Gilberts Corner, Loudoun, Virginia, USA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Residence: 1782, , Pittsylvania, Virginia, USA

Notes:

Robert Payne of Goochland and Pittsylvania Co., VA, was born about 1738, grandson of George (will 1744) and Mary Woodson, son of Josias Payne (died Jan. 12, 1785, probate Dec. 17, 1785 Pittsylvania Co. Will Book, 1767-1820) and Ann Fleming of Goochland. Josias and Anna move to the south side of Dan River. "Widow" Anna Fleming Payne lived with son Robert Payne. Her will filed in Orange Co., NC. Robert's brother, John Payne and wife Mary Coles, the parents of Dolley, future wife of President James Madison, live in the Quaker settlement, "New Garden," Rockingham Co., NC, south of Robert's home on the Dan River at Cascades, named "Cascades." John returns 1769 to Hanover, VA, before the Battle Of Alamance. Robert's sister, Anna Payne married William Harrison, settled on the south side of the Dan near his brother Thomas Harrison. The people of goochland are familiar with the Dan river area as it is part of the vast section that neighbor Col. William Byrd claimes, called "New Eden". Robert is said to have been a chain carrier during part of running NC and VA line.

Robert Payne died testate about Nov. 5, 1785; probate May 16, 1791 (Pittsylvania Co. Will Book: 1767-1820), married July 20, 1762, Ann Burton, born 1742 Goochland Co., Ann died in 1810 in Bedford Co., part of giant Rutherford, TN. Nine known children: 1. Charles married Ann Lee. 2. Robert married Elizabeth Lee Fern. 3. John, born 1772, died after 1797, married Lucy Lee Fern. 4. Elizabeth "Betsy", born Mar. 31, 1763, married Richard Saunders. 5. Keturah, born Feb. 2, 1765, married Jan. 8, 1786, Wynne Dixon, Pittsylvania. 6. Ann, born Nov. 13, 1766 married (1) Nov. 30, 1784, Pittsylvania, 1st cousin Robert Harrison; (2) May 28, 1804, John Shelton. 7. Susannah, born about 1768, "Cascades," died about 1828, "Cascades", married Oct. 17, 1789 1st cousin William Ware, his second wife, at "Cascades". (Compilers line) Wiliam's first was 1st cousin Susannah Harrison, who died in childbirth. 8. Agnes, b. unknown, died Alabama, married (1) Feb. 2, 1795, Robert Harris, married (2) Dec. 25, 1798, Marmaduke Williams, US Senator, Yanceyville, Caswell Co. NC. 9. Mary "Polly" Woodson, b. unknown, married (1) Christopher Harris, Pittsylvania Co.; (2) John Cooper, Hnederson Co. TN.

"Widow" Ann Burton Payne moves with two daughters Agnes and "Polly" to frontier Rutherford Co., TN. The county government meets in her house, "tavern," for three years. David Crockett, Sam Houston, and Andrew Jackson are frequent visitors. She is called the "famous" widow Payne of TN. Relations include Patrick Henry and her neice Dolley Payne Madison, first lady of the land, 1809-1817. She dies in 1810. Cousin William Charles Cole Clayborne is the Jefferson-appointed governor of Mississippi Territory, and new Territorial Govenor of the "Orleans Territory." Marmaduke goes to Alabama and becomes a power. Another Burton clan cousin is neighbor Charles L. Davis, the father of Sam Davis, called "The Nathan Hale of the Confederacy." In TN, the "widow" Payne is famous still, although her grave is unmarked.



Robert Payne owned a plantation named "Cascades," which he willed to his daughter Susannah Payne (second wife of William Ware).
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As if the place just grew, like Harriet Beecher Stowe's Topsy, the origins of Danville are frustratingly vague because its first settlers did not keep written records of life on the south side of the Dan. It is known from early land records that the first man to ask the Commonwealth for land of his own within what has become the City of Danville was William Wynne, a justice of Brunswick County. He received 200 acres on the south side of the Dan in 1738, at which time Danville, Pittsylvania County and all the land around them in Virginia were a part of Brunswick. Later he moved his family to this area and settled at the falls on the river.

The rush of water at that place became known as Wynne's Falls (or Ford), the original name of Danville. This ford, down river from the falls, was the shallowest spot on the Dan in this area. In an age before bridges, it was a natural place for people to cross over and, if they liked the spot, to settle.

Recreation Area

But before Danville became a town of settled homes and businesses, it was a recreation area. People came to the shallows on the Dan to fish, as they still do today. Dr. George W. Dame, one of Danville's earliest educators and founder of the Episcopal Church of the Epiphany, described this recreational enterprise in his "Notes on the Origin of Danville." He wrote, ". . . some years after the close of the Revolutionary War, many of these gentlemen who had become impoverished by that War, in the Eastern part of the State, moved into this then very thinly settled part of the country to begin life again. "To keep up their acquaintance and talk over the past, they agreed to meet at Wynne's Falls annually, at the fishing season, and enjoy themselves. The fish chiefly sought was the sturgeon, which then abounded in the Dan River." These people vacationed in tents along the river, Dame claimed, because there were no houses south of the Dan at that time.

Ferry Operation

That situation changed when John Barnett, Danville's second permanent settler known by name, moved here to operate a ferry on the river in the late 18th century. According to Dame, Barnett also "had a line of bateaux (flat-bottom boats) put on the river for trading purposes" and the increasing river traffic determined that Danville would become more than a favorite fishing spot for the new settlers from eastern Virginia. On Nov. 23, 1793, the Virginia Legislature directed that 25 acres of Barnett's land be vested in 12 men who would lay it off into half-acre lots and establish streets. The new town would be called Danville, or village on the Dan.

These 12 men, Danville's founders, were George Adams, John Call, Matthew Clay, James Dix, Thomas Fearne, William Harrison, Roberty [sic] Pane, Thomas Smith, John Sutherlin, Thomas Tunstall, John Wilson and Thomas Worsham.

Prominent Danvillians

Many of their descendants have been prominent Danvillians, instrumental in Danville's later progress. Of the 12 names, seven survive as appellations for streets in the city. Following the legislature's directive, it took nearly two years for sale of the lots to be accomplished. Although Edward Pollock in his "Sketch Book of Danville" claims that a grocery store-tavern-blacksmith's shop was the first edifice erected on this side of the river, the sale of Barnett's lots provides the first documented evidence that structures definitely were to be built. Barnett, later a postmaster here, obviously took land during the sale. Other original landowners, in addition to the founders, included James Colquhoun and Halcourt Townes. They settled on what have become Main and Craghead streets. There were enough citizens in the fledgling town in 1797 to sustain a post office and Danville's first postmaster, Charles Hoyle.

Main Street Homes

The town grew slowly during the early 19th century. One by one, homes crept up Main Street. Shops were opened and warehouses built on Craghead. In 1820, the Roanoke Sentinel became the town's first newspaper. It folded fast, to be replaced in 1822 by The Telegraph. The Danville Male Academy was opened, followed by the Danville Female Academy. In a grove of trees near the male academy, a cemetery was established. Now called Grove Street Cemetery, in the early 19th century the burial ground was situated on the extreme western edge of town. Beside Dames notes on Danville's early history, which were penned nearly a century after the town's founding, there is only one good source which describes the youthful village built on the banks of the Dan. Thompson Coleman, postmaster of the town from 1831 to 1853, arrived in Danville in 1829. Years later, he carefully described the place as he found it that year. His account is quoted in part below:

Coleman's Account

When I came to Danville to reside there, in 1829,I approached the place, then a mere struggling village, by way of the country road leading north, towards Pittsylvania Court House (Chatham). The road was a common country road, unimproved by grading or otherwise, narrow and often impassable in winter because of the sticky red mud, into which vehicles sank to the hubs. The country on the north side of the river, opposite Danville (now occupied by the town of North Danville

Dan River Bridge

The bridge was an old-fashioned structure of heavy girders, twelve to fourteen inches square, laid at length from pillar to pillar - the pillars being pens of logs in the bed of the river, filled in with loose stones. (Coleman then explains that between the river and the canal, which had been cut around the falls to carry river traffic, were situated several milling operations, including flour, saw, corn and linseed-oil mills.) Passing from the toll bridge, the canal was crossed by a small frail bridge, built of hewn togs laid from bank to bank and covered with two-inch boards: and then the road took the name of Main Street, made a sharp turn to the right, and led up the hill and out of the town to a point a mile from the bridge, where it forked - one branch leading south into Caswell County, N.C., and the other west, and known as the Salisbury, N.C. road. (Coleman continues by naming the 55 structures he remembered as being the total number of buildings existing in Danville at the time.) Forty-five residences, business houses and warehouses stood on Main Street, which was a dirt road without sidewalks. It stopped in the vicinity of Grove Street Cemetery. In addition, there were four buildings on Bridge Street and three on Craghead and three others scattered near the river east of there.

Limited Business

The business of the town was small. There were only two regular stores, the most extensive of which was kept by Thomas and Samuel D. Rawlings, and the other by John Ross & Co. (Wilson and Baskerville and Ross, Lansdown & Co. have just gone into liquidation.) There was an agency of the Farmer's Bank of Virginia with a very small capital, managed by Seymour Scott and John W. Chew, as officers, and a board of directors. There were two tailor's shops, one blacksmith's shop and one shoemaker's shop (Captain John Noble's). There was one tan-yard (Linn's) operated by Samuel Patton, a brother of Dr. James D. Patton. Hats were manufactured on a small scale by Gilmore & Lyon. The trade of the place was in general merchandise, like that of the country stores of the present period, and was mostly carried on by barter for country produce, including whiskey and bacon, which were the staples of this section of the country at this time.

New Tobacco Trade

The tobacco trade was in its infancy, and was carried on by Thomas and Samuel D. Rawling and John B. Roy (who may be called the pioneers of the trade here). It amounted to about 350 hogsheads per annum. No leaf tobacco was sold loose, but all was prized in hogsheads, which were inspected by State Inspectors and sold at the warehouses; though the greater part of it was purchased from the planters at their barns, then prized and delivered at the warehouses. There was scarcely any tobacco manufactured here at all, but there was one small establishment conducted by Captain Wm. Linn and Wm. Chandler, who were the "Pioneer Manufacturers" of Danville.

There was one newspaper, The Telegraph, published weekly by Colonel Thomas H. Clark. There was no church in the town, and but little preaching. Occasionally there was preaching at some private residence, and sometimes at the "Yellow House" or the Male Academy, managed by a board of trustees, with Robert B. Gilliam at that time principal of the school; there were also two mixed schools for girls and boys, one of which was conducted by James Aiken and the other by Robert White. Such was Danville in 1829.

Source: The Register & The Bee Bicentennial Edition, Sunday, 4 July 1976.
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Robert Payne's will in Pittsylvania County, VA, Deed & Will Book 9, pp. 14-16,written on 15 Nov 1785 names a daughter Keturah and her marriage. The will was witnessed by Robert Burton, Thomas Fearn, and Edmund Burton.

In Pittsylvania County, VA, December Court, on 18 Dec 1797 and recorded in Book 8, p.437-8, several of the children of Robert Payne (and their spouses) sued the executor. Keturah is not mentioned by name, but Wynne Dixon is:

"It is decreed and ordered that Thomas Fearn, Charles Hoyle, Daniel Coleman, Halcott Townes and John Russell or any three of them do divide between the plaintiffs and defendants their several and respective Legacies devised them by the Last Will and Testament of said Robert Payne deceased and agreeable to said Will, and report thereof to the court for a final decree, and it is ordered that Wynne Dixon be summoned to March Court and to show cause why a final decree should not be entered agreeable to the report of the Commissioners aforesaid, if any there be." (as transcribed by Kitty Dawson).

Robert married Anne Burton on 22 Jul 1762 in St James Northam Parish, Goochland, Virginia, USA. Anne was born on 12 Aug 1742 in , Goochland, Virginia, USA; died in Aug 1819 in , Pittsylvania, Virginia, USA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Residence: 1790, Philadelphia, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA

John married Mary Winston Coles in 1761 in New Garden, Guilford, North Carolina, USA. Mary was born on 14 Oct 1743 in Coles Hill, Hanover, Virginia, USA; died on 8 Feb 1808 in Clarksburg, Harrison, West Virginia, USA; was buried in Clarksburg, Harrison, West Virginia, USA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Name: Annie
• Residence: 1850, , Pittsylvania, Virginia, USA
• Probate: 19 Oct 1857, , Pittsylvania, Virginia, USA

Ann married John A Giles, Sr in 1800 in , , Virginia, USA. John (son of John Cristie Giles and Catherine Jane Shisler) was born in 1769 in , Loudoun, Virginia, USA; died in Aug 1849 in , Pittsylvania, Virginia, USA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Emily married Zachariah William Matlock on 12 Apr 1780 in , Halifax, Virginia, USA. Zachariah was born on 3 Mar 1754 in , Halifax, Virginia, USA; died on 12 Apr 1837 in Buffalo Ridge, Washington, Tennessee, USA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Keturah married Wynne Dixon on 8 Jan 1786 in , Pittsylvania, Virginia, USA. Wynne (son of Lieutenant Colonel Henry Dixon and Martha Frances Wynne) was born in 1764 in Redhouse, Caswell, North Carolina, USA; died on 24 Nov 1829 in Henderson, Henderson, Kentucky, USA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Residence: 1840, , Pittsylvania, Virginia, USA
• Residence: 1850, , Pittsylvania, Virginia, USA; Age: 80

Notes:

Residence:
10 slaves

Anna married Robert Harrison on 30 Nov 1784 in , Pittsylvania, Virginia, USA. Robert (son of William Henry Harrison and Anne Payne) was born on 29 Jun 1766 in , Goochland, Virginia, USA; died in May 1839 in , Pittsylvania, Virginia, USA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Residence: Abt 1830, , , Virginia, USA
• Probate: 12 Jul 1830, , Pittsylvania, Virginia, USA

Robert married Elizabeth Lee Fearn on 17 Jun 1793 in , Pittsylvania, Virginia, USA. Elizabeth was born on 17 Jun 1775 in Danville, Independent Cities, Virginia, USA; died in 1855 in Russell, Greenup, Kentucky, USA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Dolley Madison, wife of James Madison, fourth president of the United States, died July 12, 1849. She was 81.

Madison was born Dolley Payne on May 20, 1768 in Guilford County, North Carolina. Her family moved to Philadelphia when Dolley was 15. She grew up in the rigid confines of the Quaker Society of Friends.

In 1790 she married John Todd Jr. They had two children. In 1793 her husband and one of their children died in a yellow fever epidemic.

She soon met James Madison, who represented Virginia in the U.S. Congress. They were married in 1794. Seventeen years older than Dolley, the couple would be married for 42 years, but had no children of their own. Dolley’s son, John Payne, would be the only child in the household.

When her husband became Thomas Jefferson’s Secretary of State in 1801, Dolley assisted in social events at the White House since Jefferson was a widower.

And when her husband became president in 1809, Dolley came into her own as a First Lady with both social and political skills. It is said that she could charm and appease statesmen, diplomats and politicians who were at odds with either the president or themselves.

When the War of 1812 resulted in the capital and the White House being ransacked and burned by the British, the story is told that Dolley was the cool head who tore the Gilbert Stuart painting of George Washington from its frame and took it with her as she fled the White House.

After their White House years, the Madisons returned to their plantation home in Virginia where they had seventeen years of retirement together. When her husband died in 1836, she moved back to Washington where she is reported to have had an active social life.

Her last public appearance was at a ball for President James Polk in 1848. Dolley Madison died in Washington on July 12, 1849.

Dorothea married John Todd, Jr on 7 Jan 1790 in Philadelphia, Delaware, Pennsylvania, USA. John was born on 17 Nov 1763 in Philadelphia, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA; died on 24 Oct 1793 in Philadelphia, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Dorothea married James Madison on 15 Sep 1794 in Harewood Charlestown, Jefferson, West Virginia, USA. James (son of James Madison and Eleanor Rose "Nelly" Conway) was born on 16 Mar 1751 in Port Conway, King George, Virginia, USA; died on 28 Jun 1836 in Montpelier Station, Orange, Virginia, USA; was buried in Montpelier Station, Orange, Virginia, USA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Residence: 1820, , Pittsylvania, Virginia, USA
• Residence: 1830, , Pittsylvania, Virginia, USA
• Residence: 1840, , Pittsylvania, Virginia, USA
• Residence: 1850, , Pittsylvania, Virginia, USA
• Residence: 1860, Whitmell, Pittsylvania, Virginia, USA

John married Susanna Riddle on 9 Sep 1815 in , Pittsylvania, Virginia, USA. Susanna (daughter of Benjamin Riddle and Nancy Susannah Giles) was born in 1797 in , Pittsylvania, Virginia, USA; died in , Pittsylvania, Virginia, USA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Residence: 1840, Hot Spring, Hot Spring, Arkansas, USA
• Residence: 1850, , Saline, Arkansas, USA
• Probate: 2 Jan 1854, , Saline, Arkansas, USA

Vaden married Frances G Chattin on 18 Dec 1820 in , Pittsylvania, Virginia, USA. Frances (daughter of John William Chattin, Jr and Catherine Davis) was born in 1799 in , Pittsylvania, Virginia, USA; died in 1830 in , , Tennessee, USA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Vaden married Sarah Prillaman on 9 Sep 1834 in , Rhea, Tennessee, USA. Sarah was born in 1814 in , , Virginia, USA; died on 18 Nov 1855. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Residence: 1850, , Pittsylvania, Virginia, USA

Susanna married David Mahan on 18 Mar 1823 in , Pittsylvania, Virginia, USA. David (son of Alexander Mahan and Catherine Ball) was born on 7 Sep 1798 in , Pittsylvania, Virginia, USA; died on 4 Apr 1882 in , Pittsylvania, Virginia, USA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Residence: 1850, , Pittsylvania, Virginia, USA
• Residence: 1860, , Pittsylvania, Virginia, USA

Elizabeth married James A Giles on 16 Jul 1821 in , Pittsylvania, Virginia, USA. James (son of George Giles and Martha Stevens) was born on 18 Jul 1795 in , Loudoun, Virginia, USA; died on 23 Aug 1854 in Banister, Pittsylvania, Virginia, USA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Residence: 1850, , Pittsylvania, Virginia, USA
• Residence: 1860, , Pittsylvania, Virginia, USA

Rebecca married James Mitchell Reynolds on 18 May 1826 in , Pittsylvania, Virginia, USA. James (son of Hugh Reynolds and Elizabeth Mitchell) was born on 7 Jan 1803 in , Pittsylvania, Virginia, USA; died in Jul 1866 in , Pittsylvania, Virginia, USA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Residence: 1850, , Pittsylvania, Virginia, USA

Keturah married Joseph Lewis on 15 Oct 1830 in , Pittsylvania, Virginia, USA. Joseph was born in 1794 in , , Virginia, USA; and died. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

John married Susan Riddle about 1856 in , Pittsylvania, Virginia, USA. Susan (daughter of William Riddle and Martha Anne "Patsy" Giles) was born in 1834 in , Pittsylvania, Virginia, USA; died in , , Virginia, USA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Residence: 1850, , Pittsylvania, Virginia, USA
• Residence: 1860, , Pittsylvania, Virginia, USA
• Residence: 1870, , Pittsylvania, Virginia, USA
• Residence: 1880, Callands, Pittsylvania, Virginia, USA

Rebecca married John Ward Reynolds on 22 Dec 1857 in , Pittsylvania, Virginia, USA. John (son of Berryman Reynolds and Nancy Adkins) was born on 24 Sep 1831 in , Pittsylvania, Virginia, USA; died on 3 May 1910 in , Pittsylvania, Virginia, USA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: Levinia Unknown. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Residence: 1850, , Pittsylvania, Virginia, USA
• Residence: 1860, Bachelors Hall, Pittsylvania, Virginia, USA
• Residence: 1880, Callands, Pittsylvania, Virginia, USA

Osborne married Edith "Eady" Adkins on 19 Oct 1846 in , Pittsylvania, Virginia, USA. Edith was born in 1824 in , Pittsylvania, Virginia, USA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Residence: 1850, , Pittsylvania, Virginia, USA
• Residence: 1870, Chatham, Pittsylvania, Virginia, USA

Family/Spouse: Brintha Everline Nuckols. Brintha (daughter of John Nuckols and Labinda Brinthe Grubb) was born on 10 Dec 1832 in , Pittsylvania, Virginia, USA; died on 23 Jun 1922 in Chatham, Pittsylvania, Virginia, USA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Residence: 1850, , Pittsylvania, Virginia, USA
• Residence: 1860, , Stokes, North Carolina, USA

Martha married George Walter Watson on 28 Jan 1847 in , Pittsylvania, Virginia, USA. George was born on 22 Sep 1818 in , Pittsylvania, Virginia, USA; died on 2 Jun 1897 in , Stokes, North Carolina, USA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Sarah married Jesse B Nuckols on 8 Feb 1855 in , Pittsylvania, Virginia, USA. Jesse (son of John Nuckols and Labinda Brinthe Grubb) was born in 1832 in , Pittsylvania, Virginia, USA; died on 15 Jul 1862. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Residence: 1850, , Pittsylvania, Virginia, USA
• Residence: 1860, , Pittsylvania, Virginia, USA
• Residence: 1880, Callands, Pittsylvania, Virginia, USA; Marital Status: MarriedRelation to Head: Self

George married Mary Ann Ward Walton on 8 Apr 1858 in , Pittsylvania, Virginia, USA. Mary was born on 18 Oct 1837 in , Pittsylvania, Virginia, USA; died on 24 Sep 1862 in , Pittsylvania, Virginia, USA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

George married Eliza Ann Collie on 31 Jan 1865 in , Pittsylvania, Virginia, USA. Eliza (daughter of Carter Collie and Gideon "giddy" Hall) was born on 24 Oct 1846 in Chatham, Pittsylvania, Virginia, USA; died on 6 Feb 1908 in Chatham, Pittsylvania, Virginia, USA; was buried in Flint Hill, Pittsylvania, Virginia, USA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: Martha Jane Fender. Martha was born on 17 Feb 1838 in , Ashe, North Carolina, USA; died on 28 Feb 1920 in Whitehead, Alleghany, North Carolina, USA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Residence: 1850, , Pittsylvania, Virginia, USA
• Residence: 1860, , Pittsylvania, Virginia, USA

Notes:

CENSUS YR: 1850 STATE or TERRITORY: VA COUNTY: Pittsylvania DIVISION: Northern District REEL NO: M432-968 PAGE NO: 232A
REFERENCE: enumerated by me on the 21st day of October 1850 Wm.H.Waller
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LN HN FN LAST NAME FIRST NAME AGE SEX RACE OCCUP. VAL. BIRTHPLACE MRD. SCH. R/W DDB REMARKS
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17 914 914 Reynolds James M. 47 M / Farmer 1,000 Va . . . . .
18 914 914 Reynolds Rebecca 43 F . . . Va . . . . .
19 914 914 Reynolds Elizabeth 22 F . . . Va . . . . .
20 914 914 Reynolds William 20 M . . . Va . X . . .
21 914 914 Reynolds Mary 18 F . . . Va . X . . .
22 914 914 Reynolds John 16 M . Laborer . Va . X . . .
23 914 914 Reynolds Samuel 14 M . . . Va . X . . .
24 914 914 Reynolds Joseph 12 M . . . Va . X . . .
25 914 914 Reynolds Henry 10 M . . . Va . X . . .
26 914 914 Reynolds James 8 M . . . Va . X . . .
27 914 914 Reynolds Wilson 7 M . . . Va . X . . .

Elizabeth married Calahill M Edwards on 31 Oct 1851 in , Pittsylvania, Virginia, USA. Calahill (son of George Allen Edwards and Judith C Witcher) was born on 1 Jan 1831 in , Pittsylvania, Virginia, USA; died on 25 Oct 1896 in Rondo, Pittsylvania, Virginia, USA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Residence: 1850, , Pittsylvania, Virginia, USA
• Residence: 1870, , Pittsylvania, Virginia, USA; Residence Post Office: Chatham
• Residence: 1880, Callands, Pittsylvania, Virginia, USA; Marital Status: MarriedRelation to Head: Self
• Residence: 1900, Callands, Pittsylvania, Virginia, USA; Marital Status: WidowedRelation to Head: Head
• Residence: 1910, Callands, Pittsylvania, Virginia, USA; Marital Status: WidowedRelation to Head of House: Head

Family/Spouse: Valeria A Swanson. Valeria (daughter of Samuel Addison Swanson and Sarah Elizabeth Witcher) was born on 5 Jul 1832 in Callands, Pittsylvania, Virginia, USA; died on 17 Dec 1899 in , Pittsylvania, Virginia, USA; was buried in Callands, Pittsylvania, Virginia, USA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Residence: 1850, , Pittsylvania, Virginia, USA
• Residence: 1860, Chatham, Pittsylvania, Virginia, USA
• Residence: 1880, Callands, Pittsylvania, Virginia, USA
• Residence: 1900, Chatham, Pittsylvania, Virginia, USA
• Residence: 1910, Chatham, Pittsylvania, Virginia, USA

John married Almira Elizabeth Edwards in 1858. Almira (daughter of George Allen Edwards and Judith C Witcher) was born in May 1840 in , Pittsylvania, Virginia, USA; died on 22 Jul 1885 in , Franklin, Virginia, USA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Residence: 1850, , Pittsylvania, Virginia, USA
• Residence: 1860, , Pittsylvania, Virginia, USA
• Census: 1870, , Pittsylvania, Virginia, USA
• Residence: 1870, Whitmell, Pittsylvania, Virginia, USA
• Residence: 1880, Tunstall, Pittsylvania, Virginia, USA
• Residence: 1900, Tunstall, Pittsylvania, Virginia, USA
• Residence: 1910, Tunstall, Pittsylvania, Virginia, USA

Ann married William A Price on 28 Oct 1851 in , Pittsylvania, Virginia, USA. William (son of William Price and Ann S Coleman) was born in 1828 in , , Virginia, USA; died on 22 Jul 1862 in Richmond, Independent Cities, Virginia, USA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Ann married Calvin B Moore on 17 Sep 1867 in Danville, Independent Cities, Virginia, USA. Calvin (son of Samuel B Moore and Elizabeth Bondurant) was born on 18 May 1829 in , Prince Edward, Virginia, USA; died on 22 Aug 1871 in Whitmell, Pittsylvania, Virginia, USA; was buried in Green Hill Cemetery, Danville, Independent Cities, Virginia, USA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Residence: 1850, , Pittsylvania, Virginia, USA
• Residence: 1860, , Pittsylvania, Virginia, USA
• Residence: 1870, , Pittsylvania, Virginia, USA
• Residence: 1880, Tunstall, Pittsylvania, Virginia, USA
• Residence: 1900, Tunstall, Pittsylvania, Virginia, USA
• Residence: 1910, Tunstall, Pittsylvania, Virginia, USA

Joseph married Parthenia S Robertson on 17 Jan 1867 in , Pittsylvania, Virginia, USA. Parthenia was born in Jul 1840 in , , Virginia, USA; and died. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Residence: 1850, , Pittsylvania, Virginia, USA

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• Residence: 1880, Callands, Pittsylvania, Virginia, USA
• Residence: 1900, Callands, Pittsylvania, Virginia, USA

Family/Spouse: William Barton Reynolds, Jr. William (son of William Barton Reynolds, Sr and Ruth Ann Oakes) was born on 14 Feb 1862 in , Pittsylvania, Virginia, USA; died on 22 Jun 1938 in , Pittsylvania, Virginia, USA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Residence: 1880, Callands, Pittsylvania, Virginia, USA

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• Residence: 1880, Callands, Pittsylvania, Virginia, USA

Family/Spouse: Samuel Edwards. Samuel was born about 1861 in , Pittsylvania, Virginia, USA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Residence: 1870, Chatham, Pittsylvania, Virginia, USA
• Residence: 1880, Callands, Pittsylvania, Virginia, USA
• Residence: 1900, Chatham, Pittsylvania, Virginia, USA

Mary married Hubbard Comer Yeatts on 15 Nov 1884 in , Pittsylvania, Virginia, USA. Hubbard (son of David Terry Yates and Elizabeth F Johnson) was born on 5 Mar 1860 in , Pittsylvania, Virginia, USA; died on 8 Mar 1942 in Chatham, Pittsylvania, Virginia, USA; was buried in Chatham, Pittsylvania, Virginia, USA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Residence: 1880, Callands, Pittsylvania, Virginia, USA

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• Residence: 1880, Callands, Pittsylvania, Virginia, USA

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• Residence: 1880, Callands, Pittsylvania, Virginia, USA
• Residence: 1900, Callands, Pittsylvania, Virginia, USA

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• Residence: 1880, Callands, Pittsylvania, Virginia, USA

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• Name: Ardena Giles
• Residence: 1850, , Pittsylvania, Virginia, USA
• Residence: 1860, Bachelors Hall, Pittsylvania, Virginia, USA

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• Residence: 1860, Bachelors Hall, Pittsylvania, Virginia, USA
• Residence: 1880, Callands, Pittsylvania, Virginia, USA
• Residence: 1900, Chatham, Pittsylvania, Virginia, USA
• Residence: 1910, Chatham, Pittsylvania, Virginia, USA

Elmira married Samuel W Holly on 10 Nov 1870 in , Pittsylvania, Virginia, USA. Samuel was born about 1848 in , , Virginia, USA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Residence: 1860, Bachelors Hall, Pittsylvania, Virginia, USA
• Residence: 1880, Callands, Pittsylvania, Virginia, USA

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• Residence: 1860, Bachelors Hall, Pittsylvania, Virginia, USA

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• Residence: 1860, Bachelors Hall, Pittsylvania, Virginia, USA

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• Residence: 1880, Callands, Pittsylvania, Virginia, USA

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• Residence: 1880, Callands, Pittsylvania, Virginia, USA; Marital Status: SingleRelation to Head: Son

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• Residence: 1880, Callands, Pittsylvania, Virginia, USA; Marital Status: SingleRelation to Head: Daughter

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• Residence: 1880, Callands, Pittsylvania, Virginia, USA; Marital Status: SingleRelation to Head: Son

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• Residence: 1900, Danville, Independent Cities, Virginia, USA; Marital Status: SingleRelation to Head: Partner
• Residence: 1910, Danville, Independent Cities, Virginia, USA; Marital Status: MarriedRelation to Head of House: Head
• Residence: 1920, Danville, Independent Cities, Virginia, USA; Relation to Head: HeadResidence Marital Status: Married
• Residence: 1930, Danville, Independent Cities, Virginia, USA; Marital Status: MarriedRelation to Head: Head

Andrew married Mary L Mahan on 19 Oct 1904 in , Pittsylvania, Virginia, USA. Mary (daughter of Joseph Carr Mahan and Augusta C Dyer) was born on 19 Jul 1883 in , Pittsylvania, Virginia, USA; died on 20 Aug 1955 in Danville, Independent Cities, Virginia, USA; was buried in Danville, Independent Cities, Virginia, USA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Residence: 1880, Callands, Pittsylvania, Virginia, USA; Marital Status: SingleRelation to Head: Son

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• Residence: 1880, Callands, Pittsylvania, Virginia, USA; Marital Status: SingleRelation to Head: Daughter

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• Residence: 1880, Callands, Pittsylvania, Virginia, USA; Marital Status: SingleRelation to Head: Son

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• Residence: 1880, Callands, Pittsylvania, Virginia, USA; Marital Status: SingleRelation to Head: Daughter

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• Residence: 1860, , Pittsylvania, Virginia, USA
• Residence: 1880, Callands, Pittsylvania, Virginia, USA
• Married: 13 Jan 1881
• Residence: 1900, Chatham, Pittsylvania, Virginia, USA
• Residence: 1910, Chatham, Pittsylvania, Virginia, USA

James married Emma J Yeatts on 11 Jan 1881 in , Pittsylvania, Virginia, USA. Emma (daughter of Stephen Yates and Mary Polly Terry) was born on 6 Feb 1862 in , , Virginia, USA; died on 16 May 1917 in , , Virginia, USA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Residence: 1860, , Pittsylvania, Virginia, USA
• Residence: 1880, Callands, Pittsylvania, Virginia, USA

William married Alice Belle Haden on 11 Jan 1879 in , Pittsylvania, Virginia, USA. Alice was born in Aug 1859 in , Pittsylvania, Virginia, USA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Residence: 1860, , Pittsylvania, Virginia, USA
• Residence: 1880, Callands, Pittsylvania, Virginia, USA
• Residence: 1900, Chatham, Pittsylvania, Virginia, USA

Susan married Coleman Bennett Yeatts on 23 Nov 1876. Coleman (son of David Terry Yates and Elizabeth F Johnson) was born on 30 Jan 1853 in , Pittsylvania, Virginia, USA; died on 19 Mar 1907 in , Pittsylvania, Virginia, USA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]