George W. Meadows

Hershell married Lottie McGeeWarren County, Tennessee. Lottie (daughter of Samuel Franklin "Frank" McGee and Willie L. Martin) was born on 25 Oct 1909 in Warren County, Tennessee; died on 18 Dec 1928 in Warren County, Tennessee; was buried in Shellsford Cemetery, 121 Bottoms Road, McMinnville, Warren County, Tennessee 37111. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Occupation: farmer

Notes:

Nfr.

Samuel married Willie L. Martin on 12 Dec 1896 in Warren County, Tennessee. Willie (daughter of Henry Edgar Martin and Pernetta "Nettie" Jennings) was born on 25 Jun 1880 in Warren County, Tennessee; died on 27 Mar 1969 in Warren County, Tennessee; was buried in Shellsford Cemetery, 121 Bottoms Road, McMinnville, Warren County, Tennessee 37111. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Samuel married Eliza(beth) Jane "Lizzie" Hennessee on 7 Nov 1872 in Warren County, Tennessee. Eliza(beth) (daughter of Samuel M(cGee) "Sam" Hennessee and Mahala C. Harper) was born on 10 Dec 1853 in Warren County, Tennessee; died on 4 May 1921 in Warren County, Tennessee; was buried in Shellsford Cemetery, 121 Bottoms Road, McMinnville, Warren County, Tennessee 37111. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Married:
,by B.P.Jarrett,J.P.

Other Events and Attributes:

• Occupation: Farmer

Notes:

Ida Hennessee is listed as a step-daughter in the 1880 Warren County Census.

Henry married Pernetta "Nettie" Jennings on 23 Nov 1873 in Warren County, Tennessee. Pernetta (daughter of Isham Jennings and Elizabeth "Eliza" England) was born in 1855 in Warren County, Tennessee; died on 22 Jan 1923 in Warren County, Tennessee; was buried in Shellsford Cemetery, 121 Bottoms Road, McMinnville, Warren County, Tennessee 37111. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Occupation: farmer

Notes:

Magness Library, McMinnville TN, McGee Folder

Samuel McGee

Born in Kentucky on December 13, 1805 and died Dec. 31, 1884.

Buried in McGee Cemetery. He was the son of John McGee (Rev. soldier, see pension records), died Jan. 24, 1820 and his wife,

Ester Clendenon McGee died March 1846.

Minerva Hamons McGee
Born in Warren County, Tennessee on January 17, 1820 and died Oct 7, 1905. Buried in McGee Cemetery. She was the daughter of Leroy Hammons and Mary (Polly) Hampton. Miinerva Ann was
one of their 13 children. Leroy Hammons moved to Warren-White County, Tennessee in 1809, from Giles-Montgomery Counties area of Virginia.

He erected a tavern at Scott's Ford near Viola in 1828, which was a stage stop.

A Captain, White County, Milita on August 1, 1807 and on May 21, 1808 he became commandant and Lt. COl. of the Warren County Milita.

He married Mary Hampton on September 10, 1809 in White County, Tennessee.

Leroy served during the War of 1812 in the 2nd Regiment, West Tennessee Milita under General Winchester, he was discharged at Wilson's Springs, Alabama on April 10, 1815.

In 1820, he owned nine slaves and this had increased to 13 by the 1840 Warren County, Tennessee Census.

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Reared his family at the home place in McGee Cove. Laid to rest in the family plot nearby.
Member of the 30th & 31st Tennessee General Assemblies,1853-57.
Represented Warren County, Democrat.Extent of schooling not known.
Elected sheriff of Warren County in 1838.
Elder of Shiloh Church.

Samuel married Minerva Ann Hammonds about 1840 in (Warren County, Tennessee). Minerva (daughter of Lt. Col. Leroy Hammons and Mary "Polly" Hampton) was born on 17 Jan 1820 in Tennessee; died on 7 Oct 1905 in Warren County, Tennessee; was buried in McGee Cemetery, Warren County, Tennessee. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Living with her son, William, during 1900 census...DAH.

Other Events and Attributes:

• Occupation: Farmer & J.P.

Samuel married Mahala C. Harper in 1850 in Warren County, Tennessee. Mahala (daughter of Thomas Harper and Eliza G. "Lizzie" Rink) was born on 8 Jul 1829 in (Warren County) Tennessee; died on 18 Dec 1891 in Warren County, Tennessee; was buried in Shellsford Cemetery, 121 Bottoms Road, McMinnville, Warren County, Tennessee 37111. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Birth: 0___ 1830, (Warren County) Tennessee

Notes:

Married:
(not listed in Warren Co.,TN 1852-1900)

Other Events and Attributes:

• Occupation: farmer

Alexander married Elizabeth Forrest(Warren County, Tennessee). Elizabeth (daughter of Reverend Richard Albert Forrest and Sarah Matlock) was born on 28 Jun 1811 in McMinnville, Warren County, Tennessee; died on 22 Sep 1863 in McMinnville, Warren County, Tennessee; was buried in Shellsford Cemetery, 121 Bottoms Road, McMinnville, Warren County, Tennessee 37111. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Occupation: farmer

Notes:

Listed on roster of 35th Tenn.Regiment, CSA, Company "B".

Hennessee, Thomas L.
Confederate
Infantry
35th Regiment, Tennessee Infantry (5th Infantry) (1st Mountain Rifle Regiment)

http://www.itd.nps.gov/cwss/soldiers.cfm CONFEDERATE TENNESSEE TROOPS

35th Regiment, Tennessee Infantry (5th Infantry) (1st Mountain Rifle Regiment)

35th Infantry Regiment formerly the 5th Tennessee Regiment Provisional Army, [also called 1st Mountain Rifle Regiment] was organized during September, 1861, at Camp Smartt, near McMinnville, Tennessee. Its men were from the counties of Grundy, Warren, Van Buren, Cannon, Sequatchie, DeKalb, Hamilton, and Bledsoe. It fought at Shiloh, Shelton's Hill, Richmond, Perryville, then moved to Knoxville, Shelbyville, and later Murfreesboro. During the war it was assigned to General L.E. Polk's, Granbury's, and Palmer's Brigade, Army of Tennessee, and from September, 1863, to April, 1864, consolidated with Nixon's 48th Regiment. The 35th participated in many battles from Murfreesboro to Atlanta, returned to Tennesee with Hood, and saw action in North Carolina. It had 369 engaged at Shiloh, lost nine percent of the 295 in the Richmond fight, and sustained 25 casualties at Murfreesboro. Twenty-nine percent of the 215 at Chickamauga were disabled and in December, 1863, the 35th/48th totalled 251 men and 207 arms. On April 26, 1865, it surrendered. The field officers were Colonel Benjamin J. Hill; Lieutenant Colonels R.B. Roberts, Joseph A. Smith, and John L. Spurlock; and Majors Joseph Brown, William W.J. Broawnlow, and G.S. Deakins.

Extracted form Warren County Genalogical Association, Vol. II, No. 3, Fall,
1993, p. 1:

WARREN COUNTY RECORDS

Contributed by
JAMES A. DILLON, JR.
HISTORIAN
Warren County, Tennessee

July 6, 1993

Some years ago a number of old books and ledgers were discarded from the courthouse and were slated for the garbage dump when the courthouse janitor called me thinking I might want to survey the discarded material. I picked up all the books. Among them was a ledger containing a listing of insolvent estates for the period 1860-1881. Also listed in the ledgers was the Tax List for the 14th Civil District of Warren County for the year 1859.

It will be noted that the period following the Civil War was a difficult economic period for many residents who were considered somewhat wealthy prior to the conflict. This listing is valuable in determining the approximate death date of the individual involved in the insolvency.


INSOLVENT ESTATES 1860 - 1881
Warren County, Tenn.

Date Filed Name of Estate Administrator Remarks

04 May 1861 William Jennings Alexander Harrison
28 Apr 1866 Isham Jennings Moses Martin McMinnville Ent.

*30 Apr 1866 William I. Moore A. A. Moore (Mrs.) J.H.Savage,Atty

28 May 1866 George Harrison Harrison Smith
06 May 1867 P. G. Webb B. R. Womack J.C.Webb Co-Adm
06 May 1867 D. W. Webb J. C. Webb
26 Sep 1870 Thomas Hennessee Thos. S. Myers

Appears in 1860 Wright Co.,MO Federal Census, living with his Uncle Gideon.

Raised his minor siblings after his father's death...Warren County,TN Will, Book I, p. 52.

Was guardian to David Potter's children...DeKalb County,TN Settlement Book, p. 34.

Enumerated with his uncle Gideon in 1850 Wright Co.,MO Census,p.10...DAH

Isham married Elizabeth "Eliza" England in (~1849) in (Warren County, Tennessee). Elizabeth (daughter of Richard England and Mary Freeman) was born on 4 Mar 1834 in Tennessee; died on 15 Oct 1917 in Warren County, Tennessee; was buried in Higginbotham Cemetery, Warren County, Tennessee. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Military: Revolutionary War Patriot
• Alt Birth: 30 Jan 1761, Rockbridge County, Virginia

Notes:

Author unknown; "John McGee, A Revolutionary Soldier, is of Scotch-Irish descent, was born in the State of Virginia, January 30, 1757. His wife, Easter Clendenon McGee, was born January 30, 1769. They lived in the Virginia Valley before moving to Tennessee and relocated in what is known as "McGee Cove" in the 18th century. The first building stood near where Floyd McGee now lives, later he built a large log home in the same location with fireplace in the middle. John McGee was not only a Revolutionary War soldier but an Indian Fighter also. John McGee was the father of 9 children. He died at his home in Warren County, January 24, 1820. His wife, Easter, died March 24, 1846. They both were laid to rest in the family plot near the home.

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To The Honorable House Of Congress on the Committee of Military Affairs:

"With humble (respects), John McGee, Sr., I would inform your Honorable Body that I served as a soldier in the Revolutionary War and I yet have my discharge which reads as follows: (The bearer hereof, John McGee, a soldier in my Company of the 12th Virginia Regt. whose term of enlistment is fully expired having served upwards of two years and behaved himself during said time as good soldier is hereby discharged given under my hand at Ft.Randolph on October the 10th 1778 - Signed, Wm. McKey (Capt., 12th Virginia Regiment) for which services I have received any land grant nor warrant nor gave no person any power of attorney to receive it in my behalf -

I your petitioner was on Lewis's Campaign against the Shawnee Indians and at the Battle at Gilford Court House with General Green against Lord Cornwallis, and have been wounded in my arm with two bullets through between my elbow and my wrist and on ball through my shoulder -

I, your petitioner, John McGee, prays that your honors would grant me some land or warrant for land in the Western Country (as my residence is there in West Tennessee and Warren County) or do otherwise as your Honors shall think best and I your petitioner will ever pray-

This from your humble servant-John McGee

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fought in the 12th Virginia Regiment, discharged at Fort Randolph, Virginia (now West Virginia), in 1778.

He was wounded by two bullets through his elbow and wrist and one ball through his shoulder.

He also fought in Lewis's campaign against the Shawnee (1774) and fought at the battle of Guilford Courthouse (1780).

Click here for images of the McGee Homeplace... http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~mcgee/index.html

Dean McGee is the author and webmaster of this website. We were early collaborators on his McGee bloodlines...DAH

John's DNA ... http://www.familytreedna.com/public/mcgee/default.aspx?section=yresults

Military:
John McGee from Warren County, TN was in the Virginia militia and fought under Washington... Stephen Lamar Jones

John married Easter Clendenon in ~1790 in Nelson County, Kentucky. Easter (daughter of John Clendenon and Mary "Margaret" LNU) was born on 30 Jan 1769 in Virginia; died on 24 Mar 1846 in Warren County, Tennessee; was buried in McGee Cemetery, Warren County, Tennessee. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

1840 Warren County Census, p. 2: "Ester McGee: M010011; F0100010001, 1 S".

Other Events and Attributes:

• Military: War of 1812 Veteran
• Will: 19 Feb 1840, Warren County, Tennessee

Notes:

Built one of the first taverns in the county. Was located at Scott's Ford on Hickory Creek. Later owned by the Scott family.

Ref "WCGA Bulletin",Vol.X #4,Winter 2001 for a more complete issue-registry...DAH

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Posted By: Betty Whitlock
Email: rlbcwhit@dtecom.net
Subject: Re: Will of LEROY HAMMONS
Post Date: October 13, 2006 at 07:24:10
Message URL: http://genforum.genealogy.com/hammons/messages/1123.html
Forum: Hammons Family Genealogy Forum
Forum URL: http://genforum.genealogy.com/hammons/


The will of Leroy Hammons Sr. includes the following names (other than slaves):
wife Polly Hammons
son James
daughter Talitha Powell, wife of John Powell
son William (dead) and Wm.'s daughters Mary Ann and Missoury
son Reubin
daughter Elizabeth Sullivan, wife of Charles Sullivan
daughter Caroline Hoover
daughter Mary Coulson, wife of Bartlett Caulson
daughter Minerva
daughter Rebecca
daughter Martha Ann
daughter Margarette
son John
son Leroy

Executors: Ransom Gwynn and William McGeehee

Witnesses: Will Armstrong, John Thaxton and Nimrod Kell

Codicil names:
my wife Mary Hammons [Polly being a nickname for Mary]

Settlement:
Michael Hoover
Joseph Waits
A. V. Faulkner and wife

http://genforum.genealogy.com/cgi-bin/pageload.cgi?goodson::tn::34206.html

October 29, 1881

MARY COULSON daughter of Leroy and Mary Hammons, born in Warren Co., Tenn., April 18, 1817; married Bartlett M. Coulson, May 26, 1836; died Warren Co., Tenn., June 3, 1881.



11 Sep 2009 Birth-year cited by FM Bradley, pedigree, 11 Sep 2009, bradleyfm@aol.com

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War of 1812 Veteran
Lieutenant Colonel, 2nd West Tennessee Militia

Son of John Hammons Sr. and Mary _____.

Husband of:
1) Nancy Green (c.1783-c.1807)
2) Mary "Polly" Hampton (c.1791-1858)

Father of:
1) James Hammons Sr.
2) William Hammons
3) Talitha (Hammons) Powell
4) Elizabeth "Betsy" (Hammons) Sullivan
5) Reuben Hammons
6) Caroline A. (Hammons) Hoover
7) Mary Ann (Hammons) Coulson
8) John Hammons
9) Minerva Ann (Hammons) McGee
10) Rebecca E. (Hammons) Jones
11) Leroy Hammons Jr.
12) Martha Ann (Hammons) Faulkner
13) Margaret (Hammons) Waites

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COLONEL ALEXANDER LOURY & LT. COL. LEROY HAMMONS

DESIGNATION: 2nd Regiment West Tennessee Militia
DATES: September 1814 - April 1815
MEN MOSTLY FROM: Davidson, Warren, Humphreys, Lincoln, Maury, Robertson, Smith, Sumner, White, and Williamson Counties.
CAPTAINS: James Craig, Thomas Delaney, James Kincaid, John Looney, Gabriel Mastin, Asahel Rains, George Sarver, James Tubb, Thomas Wells, Joseph N. Williamson.

BRIEF HISTORY:

Part of General Nathaniel Taylor’s brigade, this regiment was scattered throughout the Creek territory and the vicinity of Mobile to man the various forts in the region: Forts Jackson, Montgomery, Claiborne, and Pierce. Some of the companies participated in the taking of Pensacola (7 November 1814) from Spanish authorities that were accused by Jackson of supporting British troops there.

Loury resigned on 20 November 1814 and Lieutenant Colonel Leroy Hammonds took over as commander. The regiment was plagued by disease during its tenure in the Mississippi Territory. For example, a morning report of Captain Asahel Rains on 6 January 1815 shows twenty-seven on the sick list and twenty-seven additional men required to take care of the sick (totaling half the company).

Military:
Lieutenant Colonel, 2nd West Tennessee Militia

(A note in the Barnes papers states that Leroy Hammonds was lieutenant Colonel in the Tennessee Militia from Sept. 20, 1814 to April 20, 1815 and served under General Winchester, and that he was mustered out of service at Wilson’s Springs, Alabama.)

Leroy married Mary "Polly" Hampton on 10 Sep 1809 in White County, Tennessee. Mary (daughter of David Hampton and Nancy Bryan) was born in 0___ 1790 in (Virginia); died on 18 Jul 1858 in Warren County, Tennessee; was buried in Mount Zion Cemetery, Warren County, Tennessee. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Maiden name identified in WCGA Bulletin,Vol.VII,No.1,p.29...DAH

Other Events and Attributes:

• Occupation: Farmer
• Possessions: 1805; Warren County, Tennessee
• Possessions: 1812; Warren County, Tennessee
• Will: 7 Mar 1848, Warren County, Tennessee
• Will: 2 Feb 1851, Warren County, Tennessee
• Probate: 19 Apr 1851, Warren County, Tennessee

Notes:

From James came all of the Tennessee, Missouri, Oklahoma, Texas and other Western Hennessee families...

Last Will & Testament of James Hennessee of the County of Warren and the State of Tennessee

I, James Hennessee, considering the uncertainty of this mortal life, I being of sound mind and memory do make and publish this my last will and testament in manner and form following: That is to say

Item First:

I have heretofore given my oldest son, Thomas Hennessee, one tract of land lying in Warren County on the waters of Collins River worth two hundred dollars, also one negro girl worth three hundred dollars, one horse, bridle and saddle worth fifty dollars, one bed and furniture, one cow and calf worth sixteen dollars and that is all I ever intend to give him.

Item Second:

I have given my son, Patrick S. Hennessee, on tract or parcel of land worth two hundred and fifty dollars, one horse, bridle and saddle worth fifty dollars and one cow and calf and one bed and furniture worth sixteen dollars and also one other negro girl, named Hannah, worth two-hundred and fifty dollars and that is all I ever intend to give him.

Item Third:

I have given my daughter, Alsey Christian, one negro woman named Betty, worth five hundred dollars, one cow and calf and one bed and furniture worth sixteen dollars and two horses worth thirty dollars each and that is all I ever intend to give her.

Item Fourth:

I have given my son Archibald W. Hennessee one tract or parcel of land on the waters of Collins River in the County of Warren worth two hundred dollars, one mare, bridle and saddle worth fifty dollars, and one cow and calf, bed and furniture worth sixteen dollars, and that is all I ever intend to give him.

Item Fifth:

I have given my son Alfred Hennessee one tract or parcel of land in County of Warren on the waters of Collins River worth two hundred dollars, one negro boy worth four hundred dollars and one bed and furniture and one cow and calf worth sixteen dollars and that is all I ever intend to give him.

Item Sixth:

I have given my son Alexander Hennessee one tract of land lying on the waters of Collins River worth two hundred dollars and two negro girls worth two hundred and fifty dollars each and one bedstead bed and furniture worth ten dollars and that is all I ever intend to give him.

Item Seventh:

I have given my son Henry Hennessee one negro boy and one negro girl worth three hundred dollars each, one bed and furniture and one cow and calf worth sixteen dollars and that is all I ever intend to give him.

Item 8:

I have given my son James W. Hennessee one tract of land in the county of Warren on the waters of Collins River worth two hundred dollars and one negro girl worth two hundred dollars and one horse, bridle and saddle worth eighty-five dollars, one bed and furniture worth eight dollars and that is all I ever intend to give him.

Now as touching my free hold estate which I am lawfully seized and possessed of at this time. First, I give to and bequeath to my beloved wife Jane Hennessee ten acres of land including by dwelling houses and all other out-building running from the bank of Collins River west to the branch, also the seventh part of forty acres of land in the County of Warren and west of my dwelling house and formerly know as school land, also the seventh part of all my household furniture and here saddle which she now is in possession of and the seventh part of my stock.

Item 2nd:

I give to my son John Hennessee ten acres of land on the upper end of my land next to the river including a small field, also his saddle and also the seventh part of all my stock and household furniture and the seventh part of the above mentioned school-land, and lastly as to all the rest residing and remainder of my real and personal estate goods and cattles of whatsoever kind, the one I give and demise to Polly Ann Hennessee my oldest daughter, Samuel M. Hennessee, Ester Hennessee, Anderson L. Hennessee and Eliza Jane Hennessee in the following manner, that is to say the same shall be equally divided amongst the five last mentioned children.

I hereby appoint my wife Jane Hennessee and P. S. Hennessee sole executrix and executor of this my last will and testament hereby revoking all former wills by me made and my said wife Jane Hennessee shall remain in full possession of all that part of the land then divided to my last mentioned six children during her widowhood or until the youngest child becomes of age my said executrix and executor give theirs of their portion as mentioned in my last will and testament.

In witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand and seal this seventh day of March in the year of our Lord one-thousand-eight-hundred and forty-eight. The above division shall be made after all my just debts is paid.

Signed: James Hennessee

Note: A Codicil was signed by James Hennessee on Sunday, February 2, 1851, affirming "Item 2nd" of his will. On Saturday, April 19, 1851 a commission was appointed to sell the property.

Elisha David Cunningham witnessed the will of James Hennessee, Warren County, TN Will Book I, p. 119 ... DAH

end of Last Will & TEstament

Wanda Gant, who has abstracted a list of 1820 Warren County jail-petitioners, cites among them;

"...Wilcher, Thomas
Wilsher, R. P.". - Who is this? Could he be another son of Thomas (Ransom Pinckney?). He must have been born before 1799 as the list cites those who are in majority only. On further reflection, R. P., could be simply a misread or typo for A. P. - Archibald Price?...DAH

What is the relationship between Miss Cain and John CAIN listed in following complaint?

circa 1830-1831:

"CHANCERY of M'MINVILLE DECREES

Thomas Wilcher, administrator and legale of Archibald P. Wilchire, dec. and Leroy Hammans, guardian of Barto Vaughn, complaints vs.

John Cain, Jesse Wooton, Jas. Henessee, Nancy Wilcher, Charles Colson, Jonathan Wootton and Wm. Pragill, defendants."

13 Jul 2008: Could not locate Wooton or Pragill in 1850 Warren or White County census...DAH

Abstracted from "The Upper Cumberland Researcher", Volume XXI, No.1, Spring 1996,article entitled, "The Sparta Recorder and Law Journal by Anderson and Long, July 31, 1830 Vol. 1, No. 13", p. 18

20 Jul 2008

http://www.tngenweb.org/white/_minutes/1814_172.html

Would Frances Hennessee be a sibling or a son to James? There no further references to the name, "Frances", in James' line...DAH

21 July 1815

P. 172 It is therefore considered by the Court the cause continue until the next term of this Court.

Ordered by Court that Zachariah Jones be appointed Overseer of the road leading from Sparta to Allens ferry beginning where Furgersons path turns off, thence to said ferry, and that William Irwin Esqr. furnish a sufficient number of hand to work there on and open said road and who shall be considered bound to work thereon until sufficiently opened and then to return to work on former road assigned them to work on and keep in repair &c.

Ordered by Court that Moses Lynnville be appointed Overseer of the road from Hailys old Cabin to the house of Reuben Ragland Esqr. and that Reuben Ragland assign a list of hand to work there on.

Saturday July 22nd 1815. Ordered that Court be adjourned until Court in Court.

Turner Lane )

Frances Hennessee )

Joseph Smith ) Esqrs.

Isaac Medkiff )

Test- Jacob A. Lane. Clk.

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Other "James'" found in early records...

James Henesy 1762 North Carolina Taxpayers List New Hanover County, NC p. 95 Tax Roll: North Carolina New Hanover D.A.Hennessee Item:
James Henesy 1763 North Carolina Taxpayers List New Hanover County, NC p. 95 Tax Roll: North Carolina New Hanover D.A.Hennessee Item:
James Hennesy 1780 Irish Settlers in America Vermont Revolutionary Patriot p. 257 Rev.Patriots: Vermont Uncited Vol. I Grant Hennessa Item:
James Hennessy 1778 Calender of Maryland State Papers:The Red Papers Oath: Maryland Anne Arundel State of Maryland D.A.Hennessee Item:
James Hennessee 1860 Alabama Census:1860 p. 220 Census: Alabama Jones Bluff,Sumter 1860Sumter ALD.A.Hennessee Item:

James Henecy 1778 Burke County, NC, Land Records: 1778 p. 565 Land Record: North Carolina Burke County Vol. I Mary Barnes Item:
James Heney 1778 Burke County, NC, Land Records: 1778 p. 230 Land Record: North Carolina Burke County Vol. I Mary Barnes Item:
James Henecy 1778 Burke County, NC, Land Records: 1778 p. 229 Land Record: North Carolina Burke County Vol. I Mary Barnes Item:
James Hennessy 1780 Irish Settlers in America p. 318 Mil. Service: Uncited Uncited Vol. IMichael J. O'Brien Grant Hennessa Item:

James Hennesy 1777 Irish Settlers in America Vermont Revolutionary Patriot p. 257 Rev.Patriots: Vermont County Unknown Vol. IMichael J. O'Brien Grant Hennessa Item:

James Hennessy 1805 Talbot County,MD Guardian Accounts Apprenticeship: Maryland Talbot D.A.Hennessee Item:
James Hennessy 1793 Talbot County,MD Guardian Accounts Birth: Maryland Talbot D.A.Hennessee Item:
James Hennessee 1809 Early Deeds of Williamson Co.,TN:1792-1812 Land Purchase Tennessee Franklin Joyce Martin Murray Davidson Mary Barnes

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Subject Jump: You might be interested that on this same 1805 Tax List, image 4 of 5, left side, entry number 17 is a James Hennessee.

{Someone has scribbled in the edge of the document that James Hennessee was a handsome dude, wealthy beyond belief and the local power broker for Rock Island governent when it was still White County---or something like that........}

Source Information: Ancestry.com. Tennessee, Early Tax List Records, 1783-1895 [https://www.ancestry.com/search/collections/tnearlytaxlist/?name=james_hennessee&name_x=_x&residence=_tennessee-usa_45].

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"Tennessee County Formation Maps" 1777-1985 ... http://tngenweb.org/maps/county-ani/tn-maps/tn-cf.html

Select a year and view county line changes...

Note: In March 2018, a researcher wrote in to state the following: "...when Hamilton was expanded to include land previously held by the Cherokee and when Bradley County was formed, it shows the current line between the two counties. In fact, Hamilton County originally followed White Oak Mountain to the GA line, which left Apison, Howardville and other parts east in Bradley County. When James County was formed, those communities of Bradley County withdrew to join with the eastern strip of Hamilton County to form James County; however, when James County was dissolved, all of its territory went to Hamilton County, including the portion previously in Bradley County." Source: Donnelly, P. W., & East Tennessee Historical Society. (1983). James County: A lost county of Tennessee. Ooltewah, Tenn: Old James County Chapter, East Tennessee Historical Society.

Page last updated: March 3, 2018


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Name: James Hennessee
Event Type: Census
Event Year: 1850
Event Place: Warren county, Warren, Tennessee, United States
Gender: Male
Age: 84
Race: White
Birth Year (Estimated): 1766
Birthplace: North Carolina
House Number: 438


Household Role Sex Age Birthplace
James Hennessee M 84 North Carolina
Jane Hennessee F 52 Tennessee
Samuel Hennessee M 19 Tennessee
Easther Hennessee F 17 Tennessee
Anderson T Hennessee M 14 Tennessee
Eliza J Hennessee F 11 Tennessee
William Harper M 25 Alabama

Household ID: 438
Line Number: 5
Affiliate Name: The U.S. National Archives and Records Administration (NARA)
Affiliate Publication Number: M432
Affiliate Film Number: 898
GS Film Number: 444854
Digital Folder Number: 004206055
Image Number: 00072

Citing this Record
"United States Census, 1850," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:MC69-PH3 : 12 April 2016), William Harper in household of James Hennessee, Warren county, Warren, Tennessee, United States; citing family 438, NARA microfilm publication M432 (Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, n.d.).

end of this census record

Birth:
Map & History of Burke County, North Carolina http://bit.ly/Rd17uM

Will:
Initial will recorded...

Will:
This was the last codicil recorded.

Died:
Map & History of Warren County, Tennessee... http://bit.ly/PIsRbw

Buried:
http://freepages.rootsweb.com/~jemjr/genealogy/graveyard.htm

OLD BURIAL GROUNDS OF WARREN COUNTY, TENN. By MRS. BLANCHE BENTLEY

"One of the best known and first organized churches of Warren County was Liberty, a mile or so from McMinnville. As shown by his will, land was given by Thomas Wiltshire (Wilcher) http://thehennesseefamily.com/getperson.php?personID=I1214&tree=hennessee, the church house built and the church, Cumberland Presbyterian in doctrine, organized all in 1815. William Cheek Smartt is the reputed founder and he and John Allison, a Revolutionary soldier, were two of its first elders William C. Smartt, his wives, his venerable mother, and many descendants are buried in this peaceful enclosure which in the springtime, with its level grassy turf, its evergreens, flowers, and waving vines, looks very like a garden of the long ago. William C. Smartt was a commissioned general in the militia, but he won his spurs as a fighting man at Mobile under Jackson where he was promoted to the rank of major."

James married Jane McGee in ~1828 in Warren County, Tennessee. Jane (daughter of John Alexander McGee, Sr. and Easter Clendenon) was born on 28 May 1797 in Tennessee; died in 1857 in Warren County, Tennessee. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Alt Birth: 1798, Tennessee

Other Events and Attributes:

• Occupation: Brick Mason
• Residence: 1860, Warren County, Tennessee

Notes:

There is no documentation to prove Thomas Harper's kinship to John Harper, however, his son, William Thomas Harper, is enumerated in the household of James Hennessee during the Warren County, Tennessee of 1850 Census (cited below).

I posit it is highly possible that James Hennessee is William's uncle by marriage. James Hennessee first married, Sarah "Sallie" Wilcher, sister to Elizabeth "Betsy" Wilcher who married John Harper. Click here to view their relationship:

http://thehennesseefamily.com/relationship.php?altprimarypersonID=&savedpersonID=&secondpersonID=I12&maxrels=1&disallowspouses=0&generations=30&tree=hennessee&primarypersonID=I13242

Ergo, William is the son of Thomas Harper, who would be the son of Elizabeth "Betsy" Wilcher, who married John Harper, and is the daughter of Thomas Wilcher...DAH

Name: William Harper
Event Type: Census
Event Year: 1850
Event Place: Warren county, Warren, Tennessee, United States
Gender: Male
Age: 25
Race: White
Race (Original): undefined
Birth Year (Estimated): 1825
Birthplace: Alabama
Household ID: 438
House Number: 438
Line Number: 11
Affiliate Name: The U.S. National Archives and Records Administration (NARA)
Affiliate Publication Number: M432
Affiliate Film Number: 898
GS Film Number: 444854
Digital Folder Number: 004206055
Image Number: 00072


Household Role Gender Age Birthplace
James Hennessee undefined M 84 North Carolina
Jane Hennessee undefined F 52 Tennessee
Samuel Hennessee undefined M 19 Tennessee
Easther Hennessee undefined F 17 Tennessee
Anderson T Hennessee undefined M 14 Tennessee
Eliza J Hennessee undefined F 11 Tennessee
William Harper undefined M 25 Alabama

1840 Federal Census for Warren County, Tennessee

Thomas Harper: 112001 - 112001

Under 5: 10-15: 15-20: 30-40: 40-50: 50-60:

Male 1 1 2 0 0 1
Female 1 1 2 0 0 1

There are no HARPERS enumerated in the 1820 Federal Census for Warren County, Tennessee

Died:
23 Jun 2013: Thomas is not enumerated during the 1870 Warren County, Tennessee census...DAH
No death or burial records found...DAH

Thomas married Eliza G. "Lizzie" Rink in ~1825 in (Warren County) Tennessee. Eliza (daughter of Johann Peter "John" Rinck and Sarah Eliza Robinson) was born in 1808 in South Carolina; died in 0Mar 1876 in Warren County, Tennessee; was buried in Shellsford Cemetery, 121 Bottoms Road, McMinnville, Warren County, Tennessee 37111. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Posted By: Mary Harbinson
Email: harbinson493@msn.com
Subject: John Rink daughter Eliza Rink Harper
Post Date: October 04, 2000 at 13:36:52
Message URL: http://genforum.genealogy.com/al/messages/10234.html
Forum: Alabama Genealogy Forum
Forum URL: http://genforum.genealogy.com/al/


Searching for information on John Rink, His daughter was Eliza Rink and married Thomas Harper and moved to the state of Alabama. This would be a time frame of around 1835-1845 give or take, I am having a hard time finding anything on John Rink at all. Jacob Rink and his family was there also. If you know of him please contact me.
Thank you so much.



Posted By: Mary
Email: harbinson493@msn.com
Subject: Hennessee/Rink connection
Post Date: October 06, 2002 at 00:29:51
Message URL: http://genforum.genealogy.com/hennessee/messages/44.html
Forum: Hennessee Family Genealogy Forum
Forum URL: http://genforum.genealogy.com/hennessee/


Searching for anyone that may know of a Hennessee/Rink/Rinck connection. Could be the daughter of John Rinck of Lincoln Co. N.C. think his wife was from S.C. and Eliza Rink could be his daughter, Do not have much to go on. John Rinck was born in Lincoln County, N.C. and could have gone to Tenn with several of his brothers. One moved to Alabama ,and the other stayed in Tenn. If you know of any connection to your Hennessee's and even a Harper Connection. John could have been John Peter Rinck or spelling there of.
Thanks for any help on this most difficult family.
Mary Rink Harbinson
m.harbinson@worldnet.att.net












1870 Census lists her as 63 years old and born in NC.
1850 Census lists her as 42 and born in SC.
Wanda Gant cites her as "Rennick"

Notes:

Residence (Family):
Thomas' two oldest children are cited as being born in Alabama...

Notes:

Left Warren County in 1843 and went to Texas Co.,MO...Leona Hillis

From: Ann James
To: David Hennessee
Subject: Martin File
Date: Thursday, April 22, 1999 7:25 PM

Thanks so much for your Martin data. I will add it to my database.
Data to add to yours:
Children of James Martin and Ellender Yocum:

George W. Martin,
Hannah Martin,
Alexander Martin,
William Martin,
Elizabeth Martin,
Mahala Martin,
Nancy Martin,
Samuel Martin.

You sent data on Hannah, Alexander and Mary.

A. George W. Martin born 1804 KY married Mary ?. Mary died 1861.
Children of George and Mary:
1. James Martin married Sarah M. Jennings
2. Martha C. Martin
3. John R. Martin born Nov 1837 d.Jan 1901 married Mary Jennings
with children: Nancy Jane Martin.
4. Mary A. Martin
5. Frances E.Martin
6. Malainda E.Martin
7. Hannah C. Martin married Franklin M. Walker
8. Charles H.T.Martin
9. George Taylor Martin married Martha E. Davis
10.Henry A.C.Martin

B. William Martin born 1812 Warren Co TN died 1869 Union Co MO
married Letha Hart b.1812 Bedford Co TN died 1888 Union Co MO,
daughter of Henry and Nancy Rainey Hart.
Children of Wm. & Letha:
1. Nancy Caroline Martin b.Oct 1834 TN d.Jan 1915 Atoka OK
married Andrew Douglas b. 1824 TN d.1900 OK
Children: William R., Matthew, Clerrindia, Minerva, Milly
James, Mary Francis, Leatha, John Richard, Nancy Jane, and
Martha Isibell.
2. Eleanor Martin
3. James Martin b.1835 TN d. 1896 AR married Nancy Sanders b.
1848 ILL,dau. of Peter and Jane Moody Sanders of TN.
Children of James and Nancy:Dialphia, Jefferson, Susan, Frances,
Leatha Catherine, Sarah, Ehpriam, Thomas, Elizabeth, Bartholomew.
4. Catherine Martin -died infancy
5. Ovtavia Martin -died infancy
6. Mahala Martin -died infancy
7. Perlina Martin b.1851 MO d.1916 Leonia ID married James Edward
Stewart b.1853 MO d.1916 ID.
Children: William Thomas, Clarissa, Charles Edward,Luther.
8. Hannah Martin

C. Elizabeth Martin b.1820 lived in Dade Co MO married Thomas Ross

D. Mahala Martin b. 1820 Warren Co TN d. 1898 Texas Co MO married
Edd Thomas Johnson b. 1820 NC d.1887 MO.
Children: Mary Elizabeth, Phamy, Letha,Thomas,Wm.Larry,James Burton,
Nancy Margaret,Almeda.

E.Nancy Martin b.1825 TN d.1888 Texas Co MO married Abraham Hilterbrand
b.1820 OH d.1882 MO.
Children:Samuel,John,Alexander,Mary,James H.,Mahala C.,Jefferson,
Laura Belle.

F.Samuel Martin b.after 1826 TN married Rebecca ?.Married 1839 White
Co TN. Did not go with family to MO. No other info.
Thanks again-Ann

James married Elender Yokum on 15 Nov 1802 in Wayne County, Kentucky. Elender (daughter of Jesse Ray Yocum and Diana How) was born in (Kentucky). [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Religion: Baptist Preacher
• Alt Birth: 4 Oct 1783, Halifax County, Virginia

Notes:

Rev Richard Albert Forrest
BIRTH 4 Oct 1783
Orange County, North Carolina, USA
DEATH 8 Aug 1869 (aged 85)
Warren County, Tennessee, USA
BURIAL
Shellsford Cemetery
McMinnville, Warren County, Tennessee, USA
MEMORIAL ID 27294664 · View Source

MEMORIAL
PHOTOS 2
FLOWERS 2
Family Members
Parents
Photo
James Forrest
1750–1836

Spouse
Photo
Sarah Matlock Forrest
1783–1827 (m. 1803)

Siblings
Lydia Tyler Forrest McCorkle
1771–1855

Children
Photo
Elizabeth Forrest Martin
unknown–1863

Photo
Loucinda Forrest Burlison
1815–1868

Photo
Charles Matlock Forrest
1817–1892

end of profile

Witnessed will of James David Hennessee, Warren County,TN Will Book I, p. 119...DAH

Richard married Sarah Matlock on 9 Jun 1803 in (McMinn County) Tennessee. Sarah was born on 22 Sep 1783 in Grainger County, Tennessee; died on 16 Sep 1827 in Warren County, Tennessee; was buried in Shellsford Cemetery, 121 Bottoms Road, McMinnville, Warren County, Tennessee 37111. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Occupation: Farmer

Jesse married Lucinda Shell(Warren County) Tennessee. Lucinda (daughter of Christian Shell and Rachel Martin) was born on 8 Mar 1808 in Warren County, Tennessee; died on 3 Oct 1887 in Dublin, Erath County, Texas; was buried in Lower Greens Creek Cemetery, Stephenville, Erath County, Texas. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Occupation: farmer

Richard married Mary Freeman(Tennessee). Mary (daughter of William Hamilton Freeman and Amelia Ann Starling) was born on 13 Jan 1812 in North Carolina; died on 21 Oct 1883 in McMinnville, Warren County, Tennessee; was buried in Smyrna Cemetery, Irving College, Warren County, Tennessee. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Refer to Augusta Co.,VA Website for more information...DAH

From: Tammie Chada
To: BradleyFM
Cc: David Hennessee
Subject: Re: McGee and Clendenen
Date: Monday, May 04, 1998 4:32 PM


BradleyFM wrote:

Dear Tammie:

I have Esther and you have Easter. You have McGees middle name of Alexander I did not have. I have McGee b in Rockbridge County, Va.

On Easter's parents I have her grandparents to be Archibald Clendennen, Sr. bc 1710 Scotland d 1749, Cowpasture, Augusta Cty, Va and 2nd m Esther Mayse(widow of Robert Burnside) and she died before 1756 in Augusta Cty, Va, 1st wife may have been Jane Beatty.

McGees are a sept of the McKay Clan from upper NW of Scotland.

Archibald's parent MAY have been William and Rose Kirkpatrick Clenendennen.

Frank Bradley

--
Thanks!!

Tammie Chada
tchada@flash.net

VA Patents 34, p. 367
Library of Virginia Digital Collection:
Land Office Patents and Grants
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Archd. & Jno: Clendening
340 Acres
Form Page [illegible]st
Examd.
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George the Second &c: To all &c: Know ye that for the Considerations mentioned in an order of our Trusty and Wellbeloved William Gooch Esquire late our Lieutenant Governor and Commander in Chief of our Colony and Dominion of Virginia in our Council of the said Colony Granted to John Robinson Esquire, James Wood Henry Robinson and John Lewis the xxix Day of October one thousand seven Hundred & forty three, We have Given Granted and confirmed and by these Presents for us our heirs and Successors Do Give Grant and confirm unto Archibald Clendening & John Clendening one certain Tract or Parcel of Land containing three hundred and forty Acres lying and being in the County of Augusta and bounded as followeth (to wit) Beginning at two pines on the East sides [sic] of the Cow Pasture River corner to the Land in possession of William Docharty thence up crossing the River one hundred and seventy five Poles to a black Oak and Poplar opposite to the House of William Docharty then[ce] West one hundred and eight Poles to three Black Oaks on the side of a Hill North seventy Degrees West sixty four Poles to two Pines on a hill, Thence South seventy Degrees West sixty four Poles cross the River to a Lynn on the Bank Thence South five Degrees East one hundred & eighty two Poles to three white Oaks, [T]hence South fifty five Degrees East sixty four Poles to a Black & White Oaks, thence North eighty Degrees east one hundred and fifty six Poles to a Sugar & Mulberry Trees on the River Side thence up the same South twenty Degrees East twenty Poles to a Hiccory at the Mountain Foot Thence up the River and Mountain Foot to the Beginning: With all &c: To have hold &c: To be held &c: Yielding & Paying &c: Provided &c: In Witness &c: Witness our Trusty and Welbeloved Francis Fauquier Esquire our Lieutenant Governor and Commander in Chief of our said Colony & Dominion at Williamsburgh under the Seal of our said Colony the tenth Day of August one Thousand seven hundred and fifty nine In the thirty Third Year of our Reign ~
Fran: Fauquier
==========
Surnames: CLENDENING, ROBINSON, WOOD, LEWIS, DOCHARTY.
NOTE: Transcriber's comments are in brackets [ ].
NOTE: Image format copyrighted by the Library of Virginia.
http://www.lva.lib.va.us/dlp/index.htm

John married Mary "Margaret" LNU(Virginia). Mary was born in (~1745) in (Virginia); died in ~1790 in Greene County, Tennessee. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Military: Revolutionary War Patriot

Notes:

John (Road Block)10 HAMMOND Sr. (Charles (Road Block)9 HAMMOND, Thomas Howard8 HAMMOND Sr., John7, Thomas6, John5 HAMOND Sr., George Ralph4 HAMOND, Antony3 HAMOND Esq., William2 HAMOND, John1) was born Abt. 1748 in Augusta County, Virginia Colony, and died 17 Aug 1819 in Viola, Warren County, TN. He married (1) Mary HAMMOND. She died Unknown. He married (2) Sabra Joyce NAPIER Abt. 1778 in Fluvanna County, VA, daughter of Patrick NAPIER and Elizabeth WOODSON. She was born Abt. 1753 in Albemarle County, Virginia Colony, and died Abt. 1811 in Warren County, TN.

Notes for John (Road Block) HAMMOND Sr.:
Important Note: Charles (Road Block) HAMMOND may not be a parent of John (Road Block) HAMMONS Sr. This linkage has been established in order to make a connection with members of the large HAMMOND family that settled in the Anne Arundel County, Maryland area during colonial times. Y-DNA tests have proven that such a connection exists but exact lineage has not been found.
_________________________________________________
1.Media: Electronic
Abbrev: Hammond/Napier
Title: Twelve Generations of Farleys
Author: Jesse Kelso Farley, Jr.
Publication: Privately Printed, Evanston, Illinois 1943
Press of Albin O. Horn Company, Chicago
Note:
Source shows probable relationship between John Hammond (b. 1748, Giles Co. VA; d. 17 Aug 1819, Warren Co. TN), Warren County, TN and Sabra Napier, probable daughter of Patrick Napier. Indicates John Hammond probably served as member of Virginia Revolutionary Militia of Montgomery Co., VA. References sale of Giles Co., VA property prior to moving westward to Tennessee. Property is said to have belonged to Thomas Hughes Napier, John Hammond's probable father-in-law.
Page: pp. 101, 111, 114, 115. 117. 118, a.56, a.58
Quality: 3
__________________________________________________
John HAMMOND (HAMMONS) Sr. was a member of the American Revolution.Org. He was a Private in Captain Cox's Company of the Virginia Militia from Montgomery County, Virginia 1777.
__________________________________________________
According to HAMMONS Researcher Margaret Austin, c1215@earthlink.net, one John HAMMONS was of Surry NC and his son, Leroy was Lt. Col. Leroy HAMMONS, son Woodson m Mary JOHNSON (d/o Jacob JOHNSON of Grayson VA & Warren TN), dau. Polly HAMMONS m Archbald BLANCHETT in Patrick Co VA. John HAMMONS, Sr. d 1820-23.
__________________________________________________
State of Tennessee be it remembered that heretofore to wit on the fourth day of September 1829 there was filed in the office of the Clerk of the District Court of Chancery holders at McMinnville in the state aforesaid a bill in the words and figures following to wit: To the Honorable the Chancellor of the Eastern Division of the State of Tennessee, sitting at McMinnville: The bill of complaint of Charles, Woodson, Nancy, Elizabeth, Leroy HAMMONS, who is an infant, and sues by Charles Hammons, his brother, all of Jackson County, Alabama, Leroy Hammons Sr. of Warren County, Tennessee and Andrew Miller and his wife Polly of the Western District. Humbly praying begs leave to show to your honor that they are heirs and legal representatives of John Hammons, deceased, who died intestate in the County, Jackson, Alabama 1828.

Depositions of Becky Shrouder: State of Tennessee personally appeared before me, Josiah F. Morford Clerk and Master of the District Court of Chancery holden at McMinnville in the State aforesaid on the 20th day of April AD 1831, Elisha Reynolds, Uriah York and Becky Shrouder witness in behalf of the complainants in a certain matter of controversy now depending in said court wherein John Hammons heirs and administrator are complainants and Layne and Hopkins are defts who first being duly sworn on the Holy Evangalists depose as follows:

Becky Shrader 1st witness. Question 1st. By the complainants. Are you acquainted with the parties in this controversy? Answer: I am acquainted with them, the heirs of John Hammons, Leroy and the Adm's. I have no great acquaintance with the deft's. I have seen them. Question 2: State who are the heirs of John Hammons and give their names. Answer. There are six now living, two dead, Polly, the wife of Andrew Miller, Charles, Woodson, Nancy, Betsy and Leroy Hammons. Question 3rd: Were the above named children the legitimate children of John Hammons? Answer: They were, they never were otherwise reputed. Question 4th: Do you recollect that Houston Hammons and James Hammons went with John Hammons to drive some cattle from Mr. Hopkins quarters in this County and if so, state the time as near as you can. Answer: I do recollect of their going in company for that purpose and it has been about 10 or 11 years ago as near as I can recollect. HOUSTON HAMMONS IS MY SON. Cross examined by the defendants council. Did you say that one of the girl heirs of John Hammons was married? Answer: I understood that one Betsy was married to a man by the name of Henderson. Betsy Shrader [her mark].
_________________________________________________

More About John (Road Block) HAMMOND Sr.:
Burial: Unknown, Viola, Warren County, TN

Notes for Mary HAMMOND:
Maiden Name Unknown.

Children of John HAMMOND Sr. and Sabra NAPIER are:

114 i. Selah11 HAMMONS, born Abt. 1773 in Patrick County, Virginia Colony; died Abt. 1819 in Wayne County, KY.
115 ii. George Washington HAMMONS, born Abt. 1776 in Montgomery County, Virginia Colony; died Abt. 1821 in Cooper County, MO.
116 iii. Rebecca HAMMONS, born Abt. 1778 in Virginia; died Unknown. She married Merriday KING 07 Jan 1796 in Montgomery County, VA; died Unknown.
117 iv. Jane HAMMONS, born Abt. 1779 in Montgomery County, VA; died Abt. 1822 in East St. Louis, St. Clair County, IL.
118 v. John HAMMONS Jr., born Abt. 1781 in Giles County, VA; died Abt. 1828 in Jackson County, AL.
119 vi. Polly HAMMONS, born Abt. 1781 in Virginia; died Unknown. She married Andrew MILLER; died Unknown.
120 vii. Thomas HAMMOND Sr., born Abt. 1785 in Virginia; died Abt. 1858 in Giles County, TN.
121 viii. LTC Leroy HAMMONS Sr., born Abt. 1785 in Virginia; died 04 Aug 1843 in Warren County, TN.
122 ix. Charles HAMMONS, born Abt. 1785 in Virginia; died 04 Aug 1843.
123 x. Woodson HAMMONS, born Abt. 1786 in Virginia; died Unknown. He married Mary JOHNSON; died Unknown.
124 xi. Nancy HAMMONS, born Abt. 1788 in Virginia; died Unknown.
125 xii. William HAMMONS, born Abt. 1788; died Unknown.
126 xiii. Mary HAMMONS, born Abt. 1790 in Patrick County, VA; died 22 Sep 1833 in Cooper County, MO. She married Alexander JOHNSON 06 Dec 1813 in Thaxton, Jackson County, TN; died Unknown.
127 xiv. Woodson HAMMONS, born Abt. 1792 in Patrick County, VA; died Abt. 1820 in Warren County, TN.
128 xv. Beulah HAMMONS, born Abt. 1796; died Unknown.
> 129 xvi. William Housten HAMMONS, born Abt. 1806 in Kentucky; died Unknown

Military:
was a member of the American Revolution.Org. He was a Private in Captain Cox's Company of the Virginia Militia from Montgomery County, Virginia 1777.

John married Sabre Napier about 1778 in Fluvanna County, Virginia. Sabre (daughter of Patrick Napier and Elizabeth Woodson) was born about 1753 in Albermarle County, Virginia; died about 1811 in Viola, Warren County, Tennessee. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

David married Nancy Bryan. Nancy was born in (CIRCA 1770) in (Virginia); died in (Kentucky). [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Military: Revolutionary War Patriot
• Military: 3 Jul 1754; Battle of the Great Meadows
• Military: 1755; Braddock's Defeat
• Military: 1758; Bedford Militia, Bedford County, Virginia
• Residence: 1761, New London, Campbell County, Virginia
• Military: 10 Oct 1774; Battle of Point Pleasant
• Residence: 1781, Salisbury, Rowan County, North Carolina
• Probate: 0Oct 1796, Burke County, North Carolina

Notes:

From: Nick Hennessee
To: David Hennessee
Subject: Re: Check-in
Date: Thursday, March 12, 1998 12:32 PM

David,

Here is what I have on Patrick I in the Revolution. Emmett White found his name (with spelling only close to Hennessee) in "NC Rev Army Accts, Vol III, BKG-16 (Haun, Part V)." Emmett said he has yet to extract from the source the data that he will use in his Volume III. I encouraged him to add to his data before he shares with us at our reunion April 19.

My source is the November 1997 issue of the "Journal of Burke County Historical Society" and a section, "Revolutionary War Soldiers of Burke County, NC." Pages 8-13 are a "Roster of 500 Participants with Service Documentation." The roster has 325 names with sketches in Dr. White’s first two volumes, Revolutionary War Soldiers of Western North Carolina : Burke County, NC. The remaining 175 names are eligible to be sketches in Vol. III.

Southern Historical Press, Greenville, SC published the first two volumes. The sketches are of "partisans of the American Revolution, including Loyalists, who resided in, served in, or later moved to Burke County." Among those with sketches in Vol. I are the Kincaids, James, John Sr. and Robert. Also Thomas Sumter and Charles McDowell. Vol. II includes William Sumter.

Dr. White’s explanatory note for "NC Rev Army Accts" reads: "Revolutionary Army Auditors’ Accounts. Since payments due both soldiers and civilians were spotty during the Revolution, vouchers were often given, or no remuneration at all. Boards of auditors were set up in each of the Military-judicial districts of NC. The records of the accounts are extant and, in many cases, establish proof of service. The auditors were to settle all Revolutionary claims by direct payments. Land warrants were issued to Continental Line veterans (in Tennessee Military District). Printed versions of these accounts are available from Weynette Parks Haun of Durham (243 Argonne Drive, 27704-1423)."

If you need more, let me know

Best regards,

Nick

At 11:34 AM 3/11/98 -0500, you wrote:

Dear Cuz - Thanks for e-mailing the letter re Patrick I and Emmet White. Keep in touch and best regards to Betty...

Sincerely yours...

David Hennessee
626 Biscayne Drive
West Palm Beach,FL 33401
H:561/832-6612
O:800/327-3380
F:561/655-5331

16 Sep 2009:

http://files.usgwarchives.org/nc/burke/census/morgandis.txt

This census is from Microcopy No. T-498 Roll 2

"Hensy, Patrick, 1,1,1,0,3"

1790 Census North Carolina
Burke County Morgan District

1 of 1st # free white males 16 year upwards and head of families (Patrick)
1 of 2nd # free white males under 16 years (Ailsey)
1 of 3rd # free white females and head of families (John)
0 of 4th # all other free persons (no other children)
3 of 5th # slaves (unnamed)

*

more...

"Kegley's Virginia Frontier: The Beginning of the Southwest - The Roanoke of Colonial Days: 1740-1783", by F. B. Kegley, p. 322: "New London in Bedford (County, Virginia) became a new western frontier town. Lots were laid off in 1761 and a good percentage of the purchasers came from the up country. The original owners were Col. Wm. Callaway...Patrick Henacie.
Besides a sufficient number of stores there was an Academy of learning in operation as early as 1765."

It is not known at this point whether Patrick had siblings. Given the average size of families in the 18th century if would seem likely that he did. There are several Hennessees appearing in census records and tax rolls during the late 18th century in and around the Virginia and North Carolina areas, i.e., David and Sarah appear in the Wilmington District (eastern North Carolina) well before 1800.

"Thomas" is another Hennessee name rife in Colonial Virginia history and appears frequently during Patrick's early lifetime. If we consider the fact that there are several traditional forenames in our family, i.e., Patrick, James, David, John, Alexander and Thomas, to name but a few, Patrick's first son, John had a David, James' middle name was David, etc. It is likely that the aforementioned were brothers to Patrick. Other children of Patrick may have been Alexander and Richard, who both appear the 1800 Burke County, NC census. Reference my work titled, "Unlinked Hennessees".

View document: http://thehennesseefamily.com/media/Early%20Unlinked%20Hennessees.pdf

"Burke County, North Carolina, Land Records and More Important Miscellaneous Records: 1751-1809", Vol.III, p. 103;

"John and Mary Ballew vs. Hensey, Oct.15. Affid. of sd. Ballews: In 1780 he was at Patrick Henesys on Catawba River and saw a field of mares, and Henesy said his sons in law sent them, and later saw a similar mare delivered to Mr. Wm. Heartgrove."

...interesting passage in the fact that it implies Patrick had daughters. If he did, we have yet no knowledge of them...DAH*

In 1761, Patrick shows ownership of a Land Grant in Bedford County, Virginia (see document). Later in 1774-1775, court records list many purchases for Patrick around the Catawba River. Also refer to "Petition of North Carolina Congress", 1775; many signatories: i.e., "David Crockett" and "Patrick Hennesey".

More content:

Patrick's will was proven October 25, 1795, in Tryon,Polk Co., NC. Will has been lost...Nita Shepherd

Hamilton Mortimer Hennessee cited that his great-grandfather was from Ireland as was reported in his Civil War Veteran Interview...

View his questionnaire: http://thehennesseefamily.com/getperson.php?personID=I904&tree=hennessee

*Posted By: Nita Shepherd
Email:
Subject: Patrick Hennessee, 1700's, Va. & N. C.
Post Date: November 03, 1998 at 11:26:08
Message URL: http://genforum.genealogy.com/va/messages/1364.html
Forum: Virginia Genealogy Forum
Forum URL: http://genforum.genealogy.com/va/

Need parentage and names of children of Patrick Hennessee who owned lot 31 in Bedford, Va., who left Va., settling in western N. C., whose will was probated in N. C. but whose will cannot be located, even in the N. C. Archives at Raleigh. His father may have been Thomas who fought in the French & Indian War. Patrick had sons James & John, possibly Peter who had schooling in Bedford, Va., and at least two daughters, names of daughters and sons-in-law not known.

...Nita was one of the earliest HENNESSEE researchers and a joy to work with. We spent many happy hours conjecturing early Hennessee heritage. Nita passed away 6 May 2003...

*

more...

Received via E-mail Dec. 23, 1999, information on Patrick Hennessy, from Jim Hamlin:

"Nita, here is some info from Bedford County Court orders:

25 May 1763 Youile & Co vs Henicie. Charles Pattison represented Youile & Co and stated he had sold a Negro for the debt, but more was owed and Patrick Henicie's estate was in disrepute (Bedford Co., Va. OB 3 1763 - 71 pg 36). "Gar" was used after Pattison's name.

25 May 1763 Alice* Henicie allowed 3 days in Matlock v Walker (Bedford Co. Va OB 3 1763 - 71 pg 37).

Later he was in Burke Co., NC.:

April 1784 Charles Ballow vs Patrick Henesy re horses. Deferred to court to be held 3rd Monday in July 1784. John and wife Mary were subpoenaed, with Wm Welch, John Harper, and Esther McMullin (NC Archives Series CRO 14.325.2 Box: Civil Action. Folder: 1784 (#2).

Margaret Hawkins was summoned to give testimony for Patrick Henesy at the January 1784 court (1784 #1).

April 1785 Patrick Henesy made oath that William Dalton, a material witness was sick and unable to appear in court (1785 #2). The suit was continued. In July 1785, Henesy swore that Dalton was summoned, but did not appear and he (Henesy) cannot come safely to trial (1785 #2).

Came across Patrick while researching Ballew family who were also in Bedford & then Burke Co., N. C. The Ballews were from Goochland, Albemarle, and Amherst Counties. Have not seen Patrick there, though.

Not much, but all I have. Hope it helps some. Jim Hamlin"

* First and only record of Ailsey's Christian name being cited as "Alice".

item:

http://ftp.rootsweb.com/pub/usgenweb/va/bedford/military/mil1758b.txt

Bedford County Militia, 1758 (part 2)

Submitted by Gwen Hurst

Transcribed from: Hening, William Waller

1820 The Statutes at Large; Being A Collection Of All The Laws Of Virginia, From The First Session Of The Legislature In The Year 1619. Volume VII. Franklin Press, Richmond, Virginia.

"...Patrick Hensey (¹0.5.0 each) ...five shillings"

More content:

A conclusion: Apparently, Patrick went to Bedford Co.,VA before 1758 and was there through 1763

*

More Content:

PATRICK HENNESSEE

INSIGHT FROM LAND GRANTS

BURKE COUNTY, NORTH CAROLINA

INTRODUCTION

Patrick Hennessee (c.1735-1796), the Patriarch of his family in America, had several land grants in Burke County, North Carolina during the era of the Revolutionary War. Patrick settled on them and raised a family, which has over 3,700 descendants.

This paper is in two parts. Part I: Summarizes the settlement problems and grant difficulties existing in rebellious colonial North Carolina before and just after the Mecklenburg Declaration. It gives a glimpse into this time of terrible turmoil during the period when Patrick was making entries for land grants. Then, his land grant data are presented in tabular form. Part II: Describes the grants and highlights new insight and significant knowledge about Patrick and his family from the grants and collateral data.

The work is an extension of research about Hennessee land grants by Fred and Carl Hennessee and others. It is dedicated to Nita Hennessee-Houk Shepard and her brother Dr. Albert Hennessee Houk, both children of Dr. E. A. Hennessee of Glen Alpine, North Carolina. Late in her life, Nita (my aunt) "discovered" a need for knowledge of her "roots". She then spent twenty years of inquiry in the noble search. Her work -- is an inspiration to all!

For comments, please contact Gene Hennessee at (937) 864-7047.

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(Author's note: The first computerized compilations of survey maps of Patrick's and his neighbors' grants are featured in the article. The mapping is part of research in progress concerning Burke County by Dr. Robert McNeely. Earlier work had been initiated by the Burke County Genealogical Society.)

PART I: HENNESSEE LAND GRANTS

ROYAL GRANTS IN NORTH CAROLINA (1578-1777)


The history of Royal land grants in colonial North Carolina is one of failure for many reasons.

In 1578, Queen Elizabeth I of England granted a large territory in America, including present North Carolina, to Sir Gilbert. Following his unsuccessful venture in colonization, the Queen granted the territory to Sir Raleigh in 1584. He was not successful either. So, the territory was next granted in 1606 to the Virginia Company. However, this grant was revoked in 1629. At that time, King Charles I granted a large region south of Virginia to Sir Heath. Failure in colonization happened again.

Finally in 1663, Charles II granted large separate tracts of this region to eight loyal supporters of his restoration. Most of these proprietors' colonization efforts were failures. So, these tracts were returned to the Crown. An exception was made for the grant, which eventually became known as the Granville District, in the northern part of the Royal Province of North Carolina.

The district was bounded on the north by the North Carolina-Virginia border and on the south by an east-west survey line designated the "Granville Line". The line was just to the south of the "old" Burke County. Patrick's grants were located entirely in the Granville District. However due to (perhaps because of "creative") surveying, there was often confusion about the location of the line between Granville and the Crown lands bordering Burke County. Burke County was formed from Rowan County in 1777. At that time, Burke County contained all or part of 16 future counties including present Burke County.

INDIANS AND SPECULATION IN BURKE COUNTY (1752)


In 1752, at the invitation of Lord Granville, Bishop August Spangenburg became one of the early explorers of Burke area. His purpose was to assess the suitability of several locations for a Moravian settlement there. The Bishop recorded the first written description of the area. He noted in the Burke area many buffalo, deer, and hunters including white ones, but not settlements.

Others described the area as part of a "hunting ground" between the Cherokees and the Catawba Indians. The Bishop also claimed that "…the forest had been ruined by the Indians who are accustom to setting fire to large tracts to drive deer to a given spot [in order to easily kill them] and that keeps the trees from growing." (This was very likely to have been the case on the home grant of Patrick Hennessee based on the salient features of his grant area.)

According to E. Phifer Burke: History of a North Carolina County, 1977, "Spangenburg chose his fourth tract, 6,000 acres beginning seven or eight miles above the mouth of Middle Creek because the land between the mouth of the river [was] already taken up". (This is of special interest because some of the later Hennessee grants were in this "taken up area".)

EARLY SETTLEMENT IN BURKE COUNTY (1753-1776)


In 1753, the Crown's legislators established Rowan County. At once, Granville land promoters began selling the "cheap" land in the Burke County area, then a part of Rowan County. They sold to speculators, immigrants just off the boats in port cities, settlers who had been "late" in other areas, and to those who had settled on marginal farmland elsewhere. Phifer, in his history emphasizes the promoter's appeal to the "pinched" settlers in the northeast. They found many in Pennsylvania eager to buy in North Carolina because land prices in Pennsylvania were very high. Other colonies contributing significant number of pioneers, settlers, and speculators to Burke County were Virginia, Maryland, and the North and South Carolina coast cities according to Burke County Heritage, 1981, Volume 1, published for the Burke County Historical Society. (Both books are highly recommended by the writer as 'the' sources of information about Burke County.)

Many settlers did not acquire formal title to the land. They were "squatters" who "tried-it-out" or "avoided-the-taxes". Some eventually sought grants for the land; others just moved "on" or "back". However, the migration into the Burke area certainly did not really begin until after the French and Indian War in 1754-1763. During this period, several forts were built along the Indian frontier areas in the Appalachian Mountains, including Burke County for defense. Fear of the Cherokees caused many frontier families to "go-back". Many had died "at the hands of the Cherokees" or from diseases. In fact, Phifer writes, "Between 1756 and 1759, taxable persons in the fairly large Rowan County (which at that time included Burke) diminished from over 1,500 to fewer than 800."

NC'S "FREEDOM" VOIDS ALL ROYAL GRANTS (1777)


In 1771, a military force of the North Carolina Regulators engaged Royalists near Greensboro. This was the first overt action in the Colonies against the British. More significantly, in 1775, the North Carolina General Assembly in Charlotte passed the Mecklenburg Declaration proclaiming independence from the Crown. So, this Colony was the first colony to formally declare "freedom" from Royal English rule. (Patrick lived during an exciting time in history!)

North Carolina's Assembly declared all previous Royal derived land grants void in 1777. To be valid, all the Crown and Granville grants and all new land entries were required to be entered in a new procedure with new records. Having just become a county in 1777, Burke County commissioned Joseph MacDowell as entry taker and Christopher Beekman as surveyor for North Carolina grants in Burke County. Patrick's land transactions were with them.

"SQUATTERS" ON ROYAL LAND


There are no known records of Crown/Granville land grants to Hennessees in old Burke County. The date Patrick entered North Carolina is as yet unknown. This writer believes it's most likely that Patrick Hennessee could have been among the early hunters/squatters that did not make any land entries. Apparently, many early pioneers did not apply for grants in the Burke area.

I speculate that Pat had disdain for the Granville rights derived from the Crown and preferred not to pay "rent" or the taxes required by them. Or possibly he was one of the many whose land entries were lost by the inefficient and very corrupt Granville system. Another possibility is corrupt Crown officials, who supposedly "unknowingly" sold land in the Granville District, never properly recorded the grants.

NORTH CAROLINA GRANTS TO HENNESSEES (1778-1898)


There were at least 13 land entries granted by North Carolina to Patrick (b c1735-d 1796) and other Hennessees. Of these, at least four were to Patrick and are listed in Table I. The grants are located on or near the Catawba River about three miles north east of Morganton. Pat's home place, grant #226, was on the south bank of the Catawba River. Other grants in Burke County were taken by James (1766-1851), Patrick's older son; and John (before 1775-1844), the younger son; and Patrick's grandson, Patrick (II) (c.1793-1845) the son of John. The final grant was to R. J. Hennessee (1845-1902), a descendent of Patrick II. Discussions of these other grants and their ramification are beyond the scope of this paper.

INTRODUCTION TO PART II


In Part II, Patrick's and his neighbors' land grants are presented in map form. A summary description of his neighbors follows this. Then, comes a brief but "grim" account of the regional war waged by the Cherokee Indians. The local war in the Catawba valley was during the period when Patrick was probably "squatting" on the land for which he was to make a land entry. Next, his wise selections of a home site and other land grants are described. Finally, Patrick's family and progeny beginning are summarized.

PART II: INSIGHT ABOUT PATRICK

INTRODUCTION


Patrick Hennessee, the Patriarch of his family with over 3,700 descendants, had several North Carolina land grants in Burke County during the Revolutionary War. Part I of this paper in the previous issue of the Journal contains a concise history of the Royal grants issues, settlement problems, and background for Pat's grants. It also cataloged the Hennessee grants. Part II, given below, highlights significant insight and knowledge about Patrick from the grants correlated with the latest genealogical and other data sources.

MAP OF HENNESSEE LAND GRANTS


(In the final draft of this paper) Patrick's land grants listed in Table I are presented in map form in Figure 1. The location of his grants listed in Table I and other grants can readily be determined from Figure 1. This map is from "Burkemap." It is the work of Dr. Robert L. McNeely. His pioneer ancestors had several grants in Burke County. For copies of the Hennessee grants and survey descriptions, see Carl Hennessee's enhanced packet of grant data. These maps, data, and additional grant information are available at the Burke County Library and partially available at the State Archives.

PATRICK'S NEIGHBORS (1771-1810)


The location of Pat's and his neighbors' grants are shown in Figure 1. There are several rewarding "clues-about Pat" that have been derived or confirmed from grantees' names and collateral information. The clues are rewarding in knowledge about the early Hennessees. For example, near Pat's home:
--To the south, was a grant to Charles McDowell, of military fame.
--To the north, across the Catawba, was Patrick's grant, which "changed hands" and became the home of Col. John Suddreth (his sister married Patrick(II), the grandson of Patrick, the Patriarch); and also, Thomas Wilcher (his daughter married James).
--To the east, John Ballew*, whose affidavit, indicated Patrick Hennessee, his neighbor, had at least two married daughters (Burke County: Land and Misc. Records 1771-1809, Volume III, Page 103); and also, Abraham Harshaw, alleged loyalist, indicted by the State of North Carolina in 1782.
--To the west, John Hughes, selected as justice of the County Court.

Did Pat travel to Burke with any of them? From where? When? etc, Hopefully, more will be learned by future research into these and other clues from the past about Patrick of North Carolina. (Note: *In 2005, Peggy Hennessee and her husband Ralph Ballew were living near Patrick Hennessee's grant on the north side of the Catawba River.)

PATRICK BOLDLY CLAIMED LAND: WAR RAGED (1778-1794)


One of Patrick's North Carolina land grants was entry # 185. It was located on the south bank of the Catawba River. (Note this is his west grant on the river in Figure 1). This early entry indicates several characteristics of Pat. Apparently, he was quick to adapt to change (and the War for Independence and the new freedom of North Carolina from English rule were major changes).

In 1776, the situation of Pat and his family on the south bank of the Catawba River bank was grim. Now, threats on their lives from the Cherokees had always existed. But during that summer, the Cherokees boldly struck the Burke area in force. Down the Catawba and then to the east of Morganton, the Cherokees savagely destroyed and dealt death to those not in the forts or strong houses.


Later that year, a large joint colonial military action on the western frontier of North and South Carolina, Virginia, and Georgia devastated the Cherokees. Most of their large villages and crops were destroyed and the Cherokees scattered. The following year 1777, as Burke became a county, North Carolina even placed a bounty of 15 pounds for each prisoner and 10 pounds for each scalp. Finally, the Cherokee by treaty ceded all claims to land east of the Blue Ridge. (The above is a condensed summary of the area's history from Heritage of Burke, 2001, Volume I, Article 1 and Volume II, Article 53.) Patrick and his family probably were relieved at this new freedom from fear of the Cherokee tomahawk. So following the military action, the entry rush for land grants began!

Pat acted and made several entries! A land entry required an oath of allegiance to North Carolina, not the king. (No Tories Need Apply!)The decision to make early land entries beginning in 1778 certainly highlights the confidence he had that the Colonies would win the War. At that time, the threat in Burke County from the Tories and the British was yet to come.

HOMESITE WISELY SELECTED


Again, consider Patrick's homeland grant on the south bank of the Catawba River below the mouth of Hunting Creek (It is his west grant on the river shown in Fgure 1). As he probably lived there at the time, most likely, he was the first to place an entry for the parcel. However, the description of the grant indicates Pat was probably not the first to have been there. The land survey description noted an "Allen's Bottom". This probably indicated that somebody had previously been there. A search of available Burke County records, in that time frame, provided no additional information about Allens. He was possibly a hunter who quartered there and moved on west. Less likely, he was killed by the Indians, was frightened, or was "worked out" and had moved back to "civilization" or "followed a hope" for better land elsewhere. (However in 1771, there is record of a John Allen who signed a petition to form a county west of Rowan County).

For that period, the location of Pat's home on the south bank of the Catawba River, near his river bank grant to the east, was a very desirable one. Consider the advantages of the location. There were easily defended high sites for a cabin and other buildings. They could readily be built using logs from trees located thereon or from the flat ridge to the south. (The cabin site has probably been identified.) The relatively flat bottom, next to the river, appears better for corn than the steep slope rising to higher level ground, which was probably treed. However, this slope and ridge top most likely supplied wood for poles, fences, and fireplaces from an uphill location. The hunting technique of "burning-over" used by the Indians most likely had cleared the bottom. The method was typically used during their hunting in the region.

The easy access to the river and the adjacent streams made the location ideal for canoe and raft travel. The main north-south road passing through the property had a rocky ford on the river to his grant on the north bank. The ridge road to the south connected with the main east-west wagon road. While to the north, the road was to Fort Defiance and other east-west roads.

PATRICK'S NORTH BANK GRANT


Another example of Patrick's wise selection of property was his only grant on the north bank of the Catawba River. It had outstanding development potential with some low bank frontage and a ford for the 'south-to-north' road that passed through both the north bank grant and his grant on the opposite bank.

As noted in Table I above, Entry #1015 (or #22 from Phifer) was between Middle Creek (now the John's River) and Lower Creek. Both of these were hardy waterways with banks that could readily support grain and lumber mills. Timber was available or could be "floated" to the mill from more than one direction or transported by road. This valuable property was acquired by Col. John Suddreth as his home place. He developed the potential of the property by building mills there. The Colonel was a master investor, land speculator, horse breeder, and had other enterprises. For example, he, with the Hennessees, initiated a ferry operation near the Catawba River ford by their homesteads. According to Phifer, …"the ferry was still operating in 1846 and probably in 1861."

Between the two families, there were three marriages within a generation and there were more interesting happenings. But that is another story.

PATRICK'S POSTERITY


The name(s) of Patrick's wife (wives) has yet to be confirmed. Some say that she was a McDowell. Their two sons, James and John, assured the Hennessee posterity. In addition, there were at least two married daughters with little more being known at this time. Patrick's date of birth is essentially undocumented. He died ca 1796 (his will has not been "found" but is said to have been "proven" then).

James, the elder son, married Sally Wilcher. After Sally died, James married Jane McGee of Tennessee. He had a total of at least 14 children. John, the younger son, remained on his grant in Burke County. He had at least two wives and probably four children. From these two families, Patrick has at least 3,700 descendants without consideration of the children of his daughters. (The best compilation of the descendants is David Hennessee's Hennessees in America, 1991, located in the Burke County Library). There are several informal family histories about the Hennessees that provide information about branches and families of Patrick's descendants. Proper judgement to resolve certain conflicts in these histories concerning Patrick's early life can not be made because the available evidence is inadequate at this time. The histories are mainly in possession of family members.

JAMES MARRIED AND MOVED WEST


As was customary and practical because of transportation limitation, marriages were often between neighbors. This was true for the Thomas Wilchers, with their grants on the north bank of the Catawba just to the west and adjacent to Patrick's north bank grant (see Figure 1). They were the parents of Sally, the bride of James. In 1804, the Wilchers sold 600 acres to William Walton, a trader who also trained servants, from Charleston, South Carolina. Then, the Wilchers "moved over the mountains" to Tennessee. James and his new family went with them to the less settled and "more promising land".

More can be derived about James from the move. The wills of the early Tennessee Hennessees and Wilchers have given some insight into the situation at that time and their characteristics. The status of Thomas Wilcher in Tennessee is attested to as he held the first court for the area in which he lived at his home. It is hoped that future inquiries into Hennessee/Wilcher genealogical data may document more information about Patrick's family in North Carolina.

JOHN REMAINED IN BURKE COUNTY


John, Patrick's younger son, made an entry for a land grant on the north side of the Catwaba River in Burke. The grant was "one-land grant" north of Patrick's grant as shown in Figure 1. It is believed that John procured the land of the Alan Derryberry grant, which was between his grant and his father's grant. John acquired James' grant and his other land when James moved to Tennessee. The will of John is available.

John's son, Patrick (II), also made entries for land grants adjacent to Patrick's homestead grant as shown in Figure 1. The Hennessees who today are located in Burke County, surrounding counties, and those originating in Burke County and moving elsewhere are mostly descendants from the John and Patrick (II) line.

CONCLUSION


Hopefully, Patrick, the Patriarch of the Hennessee family in America, is now better known from the insight provided by this paper in terms of the turmoil from the War during his time, his decisions, land grants, family, and neighbors. However, there is much that is unknown and even difficult to speculate about Patrick.

Patrick Hennessee was definitely on the banks of the Catawba River in Burke County, North Carolina. But from where did he come? Who was his wife? His daughters? His military service? His description? Personal characteristics? Etc, Etc?

Again, hopefully, this paper has provided clues for leads to sources that will furnish some answers in the future.

By Eugene L. Hennessee Jr.
4237 West Enon Drive
Enon, OH 45323
ehennessee@aol.com
(937) 864-7047

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The earliest Hennessee in America, as far as we know, landed in Maryland about 1690. He had guessed wrong at the Battle of the Boyne in the English Civil War. He had supported the ambitions of James II. He had fought at the Saarsfield brigade at the Battle of the Boyne in Ireland. And for his part in that, after James II lost his throne, the principal officers were exiled, including him. He was exiled and lived in Maryland. As far as we know he was a member of the Roman Catholic Church.

He brought his wife to Maryland and had one son. And this son married in Virginia into a family by the name of Courtney who were members of the Episcopal Church. This son at,...this son had a son, who was killed at the Battle of Fort Necessity, in Washington's Company, in 1754 or 1755, I'm not sure which. He in turn left a boy seven years old. And this boy fought through the Revolution and then came down near Morganton and settled in Burke County.

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In the Bedford Militia in the 1750s were Thomas Hennesey and Patrick Henicie. In the French and Indian War, the Virginia Militia on the western frontier consisted mostly of the Bedford Militia. It was under command of celebrated land surveyor, map maker and college professor Colonel Joshua Fry, Major (later Colonel, General and President) George Washington and Captain (later Colonel) William Calloway, wealthy Bedford County merchant, land developer and manufacturer.

Virginia records report that Thomas Hennesey survived the first battle of the war at Fort Necessity, PA, in 1754 and that Patrick Henicie received militia pay in 1758.

A 1761 indenture evidences that Patrick paid "one pound, one shilling and six pence" to Colonel Calloway for a lot in New London. Four months later, Patrick sold it back at a good profit.

In 1763, he and Alice were sued in Bedford Court for non-payment of debt.

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December 31, 2015;

Are you aware that the 1775 Joshua Frye & Peter Jefferson map of Virginia and northern North Carolina shows two surveys in North Carolina made for Moravian Bishop Spangenburg:

(1) land for Salem, settled by the Moravians in the central Piedmont's Yadkin River watershed to begin metropolitan Winston-Salem in present Forsyth County, and

(2) a western Piedmont tract east of present Morganton in the Piedmont's upper Catawba River watershed where pioneer settler Patrick Hennessee purchased in Burke County?

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This first one I believe belongs to this Patrick based on some of the documents within it which have initials of some of his heirs:

The dates you have and the dates on the record appears to be off though but as best as I can tell, that seems to be him. I couldn't swear to it though.

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Sorry for so many emails but I seem to be on a roll lol. I found this 1781 military service pay voucher for Patrick Hennesy. It is from Salisbury, Rowan County, NC



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Patrick Hennessee
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Biography
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Patrick Hennessee was born in 1725 in Ireland. [2]He died in 1795 in North Carolina.[3]He served in the Revolutionary War from his enlistment in 1781 at Salisbury, Rowan, North Carolina, in the Continental Army.[4][5] He married Ailsey McDowell in 1763. [6] [7] [8]

Proven Children

John Hennessee, b. 1764, Sudderth Family Cemetery, Burke County, North Carolina d. 1844, North Carolina
James Hennessee, b. 1766, Burke County, North Carolina , d. 03 Mar 1851, Warren County, Tennessee.


Sources

? Virginia's Colonial Soldiers By Lloyd DeWitt Bockstruck, pg 208
? The Heritage Book of Burke County, NC" by The Burke County Historical Society, p. 329
? http://www.harrison-hennessee.com/getperson.php?personID=I706&tree=001
? 1790 Census
? https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:Q2WT-GR16
? https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/2:2:94FN-RPW
? Burke County, North Carolina land records indicate Patrick was a plantation owner
? "Hennessee Family History" by D. A. Hennessee, p. 1


Citing this record: 1790 Census does show Patrick Hensy in Burke County, NC with 1 free white male over 16, 1 free white male under 16, 1 free white female and 3 other persons with no details. I can only assume these were slaves as the family had slaves listed on other census records.

Citing this record: "The Heritage Book of Burke County, NC" by The Burke County Historical Society, p. 329: "The Hennessee (O'hennessa, Hennesey, Hency) family is of Irish decent, a sect of the Colgon Clan of Ireland. They have been in Burke County, NC for at least 200 years, possibly longer. Patrick Hennessee, Sr. was the beginning of the family in Burke County.

"Burke county, North Carolina, Land Records and more Important Miscellaneous Record: 1751-1809, Vol. III, p. 103: "John and Mary Ballew vs. Hensey, October 15, 1780. Affidavit of said Ballews: In 1780 he was at Patrick Henesy's on Catawba River and saw a field of mares, and Henesy said his sons in law sent them, and later saw a similar mare delivered to Mr. Wm. Heartgrove." Note: This implies Patrick had daughters.

"In 1761, Patrick was granted ownership of a Land Grant in Bedford County, Virginia. Later in 1774-1775, records list many purchases for him around the Catawba River. Also the "Petition To North Carolina Congress" 1775; co-signatories are David Crockett & Patrick Hennesey." Note: This researcher finds the David Crockett in this document can not be the Davy Crockett as the popular title "King of the Wild Frontier" who represented Tennessee in the U.S. House of Representatives, served in the Texas Revolution, and died at the age of 49 at the Battle of the Alamo as this Davy Crockett was not born until 1786. It also could not be his father as his name was John.

Citng this record:

Burke County, North Carolina land records indicate Patrick was a plantation owner. Item Name Ref Date Reference

70 Patrick II Hennessee Grant 5647 03 Oct 1831 Catawba River
470 Patrick II Hennessee Grant 5615 26 Jan 1830 Catawba River S
1173 John Hennessee Grant 2295 14 Jan 1794 Catawba River N
20 Patrick Hennessee Grant 0267 02 Oct 1778 Catawba River S
63 Patrick Hennessee Grant 2304 14 Jan 1794 Wards Branch
67 Patrick Hennessee Grant 0226 28 Jan 1778 Catawba River S
479 Patrick Hennessee Grant 0320 11 Dec 1778 Lower Creek Mouth

Additional land entries for Burke County, North Carolina 1778-1779 Entry # Settler or Enterer Acres Description

22 Patrick HENNESSEE 150 N side of Catawba River from mouth of Lower Crk. to mouth of Middle Creek, both sides of river
185 Patrick HENNESSEE 300 South side of Catawba River below mouth of Hunting Creek
292 Patrick HENNESSEE 150 South side of Catawba River, joining William WAKEFIELD and Arthur LOCKHART's improvements

Citing this record:

"Hennessee Family History" by D. A. Hennessee, p. 1: " Patrick's will was proven October, 1796, in Tryon County, NC." Fact: Tryon ceased to exist as a county in 1799 when it was divided into Lincoln County and Rutherford County, which are just south of Burke County. Tryon did remain a town to present day and therefore this information may be difficult to prove. Hennessee Family History, D. A. Hennessee, (D. A. Hennessee ).

Patrick Hennesy North Carolina Revolutionary Pay Vouchers Name Patrick Hennesy Event Type Military Service Event Date 1781 Event Place Salisbury, Rowan, North Carolina, United States Event Place (Original) Salisbury, , North Carolina, United States Gender Male

Citing this Record:

"North Carolina Revolutionary Pay Vouchers, 1779-1782," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:Q2WT-GR16 : accessed 17 August 2017), Patrick Hennesy, 1781; citing Salisbury, Rowan, North Carolina, United States, State Archives of North Carolina, Raleigh.

Citing this record:

http://www.harrison-hennessee.com/getperson.php?personID=I706&tree=001

Patrick Samuel Hennessee. View Tree Sex Male Birth from 1720 to 1730 Ireland Birth from 1720 to 1730 Birth from 1720 to 1745 Burke Cty, NC Death 1796 Burke Cty, NC MARRIAGES (1) Spouse Ailsey McDowell Marriage 1763 NOTES (1) Patrick is AFN P659 F6 and Ailsey is AFN 1FBT DOG One LDS has Sally Welcher as his wife. Will recorded Oct 25, 1795 In Burke Cty, NC Ailsey may have been sister of Generals Charles and Joseph

CITING THIS RECORD:

The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, "Pedigree Resource File," database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/2:2:94FN-RPW : accessed 2017-08-17), entry for Patrick Samuel Hennessee, submitted by fbradley2737624. ANCESTRAL FILE Ancestral File Number 4902-J5S PEDIGREE RESOURCE FILE Person Count 1,294 Submission ID MM9R-937. (Editor's Note: Full & maiden names cited on this link are NOT proven)

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Hennessee

<<
o John 1722-1756 &1746 Catharine Moore 1713-
o Patrick 1745-1796 &1763 Ailsey McDowell ca 1742-1800
o John 1764-1844 &ca 1790 Elizabeth Sumpter
o Elizabeth 1791-1865 &/1812 Tisdale Spencer 1792-/1870

email sent March5th, 2019:

Hello James.



You reported on Geneanet:



"o John 1722-1756 &1746 Catharine Moore 1713-


o Patrick 1745-1796 &1763 Ailsey McDowell ca 1742-1800
o John 1764-1844 &ca 1790 Elizabeth Sumpter
o Elizabeth 1791-1865 &/1812 Tisdale Spencer 1792-/1870"

I was delighted to find this registry. Can you please cite source material? I would like to investigate further. Please use my email address: dah@classroomfurniture.com

Thnak you,

David Hennessee
561.352.1052

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Birth:
Hamilton Mortimer Hennessee (1845-1939) responded to the "Confederate Soldiers Questionaire", 1922;

"My father Archibald Hennessee was the son of James Hennessee. My great grandfather came from Ireland and settled in N. C.

View Hamilton's page: http://thehennesseefamily.com/getperson.php?personID=I904&tree=hennessee

Military:
The Battle of the Great Meadows, also known as the Battle of Fort Necessity was a battle of the French and Indian War fought on July 3, 1754 in present-day Fayette County, Pennsylvania. It, along with the Battle of Jumonville Glen, are considered the opening shots of the French and Indian War which would spread to the Old World and become the Seven Years War. It was the only time George Washington ever surrendered on the battlefield.

source: http://www.patriotfiles.com/index.php?name=Sections&req=viewarticle&artid=8988&page=1

Military:
The Braddock expedition, also called Braddock's campaign or, more commonly, Braddock's Defeat, was a failed British military expedition which attempted to capture the French Fort Duquesne (modern-day downtown Pittsburgh) in the summer of 1755 during the French and Indian War. It was defeated at the Battle of the Monongahela on July 9, and the survivors retreated. The expedition takes its name from General Edward Braddock, who led the British forces and died in the effort. Braddock's defeat was a major setback for the British in the early stages of the war with France and has been described as one of the most disastrous defeats for the British in the 18th century.

Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Braddock_Expedition

Military:
Map & History of Bedford County, Virginia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bedford,_Virginia

Residence:
Notes & History for New London, Virginia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_London,_Virginia

Military:
The Battle of Point Pleasant — known as the Battle of Kanawha in some older accounts — was the only major action of Dunmore's War. It was fought on October 10, 1774, primarily between Virginia militia and Indians from the Shawnee and Mingo tribes. Along the Ohio River near modern Point Pleasant, West Virginia, Indians under the Shawnee Chief Cornstalk attacked Virginia militia under Colonel Andrew Lewis, hoping to halt Lewis's advance into the Ohio Valley. After a long and furious battle, Cornstalk retreated. After the battle, the Virginians, along with a second force led by Lord Dunmore, the Royal Governor of Virginia, marched into the Ohio Valley and compelled Cornstalk to agree to a treaty, ending the war.

Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Point_Pleasant

Probate:
Will proved by Thomas Lain...

Map & History of Burke County, North Carolina http://bit.ly/Rd17uM

Died:
Map & History of Burke County, North Carolina http://bit.ly/Rd17uM

Buried:
Map & History of Polk County, North Carolina... http://bit.ly/1ebUmzJ

Patrick married Alice "Ailsey" LNU(Virginia). Alice was born in (ABT 1735) in (Virginia); died after 1800 in (Burke County) North Carolina. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

"Ailsey" is a dimunitive for "Alice"...DAH

Suggested by some as a sister of Generals Charles and Joseph McDowell according to Dr. Emmet White, a Revolutionary War Historian, however Helen Money could find NO McDowell-Hennessee relationship in early NC.

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Died:
Map & History of Burke County, North Carolina http://bit.ly/Rd17uM

Notes:

Residence (Family):
Citing this record: 1790 Census does show Patrick Hensy in Burke County, NC with 1 free white male over 16, 1 free white male under 16, 1 free white female and 3 other persons with no details. I can only assume these were slaves as the family had slaves listed on other census records.

Other Events and Attributes:

• Military: Revolutionary War Patriot
• Alt Birth: 30 Jan 1761, Rockbridge County, Virginia

Notes:

Author unknown; "John McGee, A Revolutionary Soldier, is of Scotch-Irish descent, was born in the State of Virginia, January 30, 1757. His wife, Easter Clendenon McGee, was born January 30, 1769. They lived in the Virginia Valley before moving to Tennessee and relocated in what is known as "McGee Cove" in the 18th century. The first building stood near where Floyd McGee now lives, later he built a large log home in the same location with fireplace in the middle. John McGee was not only a Revolutionary War soldier but an Indian Fighter also. John McGee was the father of 9 children. He died at his home in Warren County, January 24, 1820. His wife, Easter, died March 24, 1846. They both were laid to rest in the family plot near the home.

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To The Honorable House Of Congress on the Committee of Military Affairs:

"With humble (respects), John McGee, Sr., I would inform your Honorable Body that I served as a soldier in the Revolutionary War and I yet have my discharge which reads as follows: (The bearer hereof, John McGee, a soldier in my Company of the 12th Virginia Regt. whose term of enlistment is fully expired having served upwards of two years and behaved himself during said time as good soldier is hereby discharged given under my hand at Ft.Randolph on October the 10th 1778 - Signed, Wm. McKey (Capt., 12th Virginia Regiment) for which services I have received any land grant nor warrant nor gave no person any power of attorney to receive it in my behalf -

I your petitioner was on Lewis's Campaign against the Shawnee Indians and at the Battle at Gilford Court House with General Green against Lord Cornwallis, and have been wounded in my arm with two bullets through between my elbow and my wrist and on ball through my shoulder -

I, your petitioner, John McGee, prays that your honors would grant me some land or warrant for land in the Western Country (as my residence is there in West Tennessee and Warren County) or do otherwise as your Honors shall think best and I your petitioner will ever pray-

This from your humble servant-John McGee

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fought in the 12th Virginia Regiment, discharged at Fort Randolph, Virginia (now West Virginia), in 1778.

He was wounded by two bullets through his elbow and wrist and one ball through his shoulder.

He also fought in Lewis's campaign against the Shawnee (1774) and fought at the battle of Guilford Courthouse (1780).

Click here for images of the McGee Homeplace... http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~mcgee/index.html

Dean McGee is the author and webmaster of this website. We were early collaborators on his McGee bloodlines...DAH

John's DNA ... http://www.familytreedna.com/public/mcgee/default.aspx?section=yresults

Military:
John McGee from Warren County, TN was in the Virginia militia and fought under Washington... Stephen Lamar Jones

John married Easter Clendenon in ~1790 in Nelson County, Kentucky. Easter (daughter of John Clendenon and Mary "Margaret" LNU) was born on 30 Jan 1769 in Virginia; died on 24 Mar 1846 in Warren County, Tennessee; was buried in McGee Cemetery, Warren County, Tennessee. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

1840 Warren County Census, p. 2: "Ester McGee: M010011; F0100010001, 1 S".

Notes:

Ref Will of Thomas Wilcher, Sr.
Maybe son of Miles - ref Burke Co.,NC land grants...DAH

Other possibilities:

20 Sep 2009:

http://files.usgwarchives.org/nc/burke/census/morgandis.txt

This census is from Microcopy No. T-498 Roll 2

"Harper, Jonathan, 1,0,2,0,0"

1790 Census North Carolina
Burke County Morgan District

1 of 1st # free white males 16 year upwards and head of families
0 of 2nd # free white males under 16 years
2 of 3rd # free white females and head of families
0 of 4th # all other free persons
0 of 5th # slaves

20 Sep 2009:

http://files.usgwarchives.org/nc/burke/census/morgandis.txt

This census is from Microcopy No. T-498 Roll 2

"Harper, Jonathan, Junior 2,3,3,0,0"

1790 Census North Carolina
Burke County Morgan District

2 of 1st # free white males 16 year upwards and head of families
3 of 2nd # free white males under 16 years
3 of 3rd # free white females and head of families
0 of 4th # all other free persons
0 of 5th # slaves

John married Elizabeth "Betsy" Wilcher(Burke County, North Carolina). Elizabeth (daughter of Thomas Wilcher, Sr. and (Nancy Anna) "Anne" (Walton) LNU) was born in 1782 in (Amherst County) Virginia; died after 1850 in Warren County, Tennessee. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Alt Birth: 1788, Virginia

Notes:

Elizabeth (Betsy) Wilcher was born 1782; died after 17 Dec 1835; married John Harper who died prior to the 1830 census.

"Elizabeth Harper: 0021-02001"

"1830 Census - Middle Tennessee", by Sistler, 1971, p. 166.


Enumerated as Elizabeth MITCHAEL in 1850 Warren Census, in her sister's, Lucy, household...DAH


Name: Elizabeth Mitchael
Event Type: Census
Event Year: 1850
Event Place: Warren county, Warren, Tennessee, United States
Gender: Female
Age: 68
Race: White
Race (Original): undefined
Birth Year (Estimated): 1782
Birthplace: Virginia
Household ID: 439
House Number: 439
Line Number: 22
Affiliate Name: The U.S. National Archives and Records Administration (NARA)
Affiliate Publication Number: M432
Affiliate Film Number: 898
GS Film Number: 444854
Digital Folder Number: 004206055
Image Number: 00072


Household Role Gender Age Birthplace
Lucy Forrest undefined F 66 Virginia
Martha Mc Gee undefined F 42 Tennessee
John Mc Gee undefined M 25 Tennessee
Joseph Mc Gee undefined M 19 Tennessee
Mary A Mc Gee undefined F 17 Tennessee
Martin Mc Gee undefined M 13 Tennessee
James Mc Gee undefined M 11 Tennessee
Archibald C Mc Gee undefined M 8 Tennessee
William Tell Mc Gee undefined M 6 Tennessee
Martha C Mc Gee undefined F 3 Tennessee
Elizabeth Mitchael undefined F 68 Virginia
Richard Forrest undefined M 67 North Carolina



Citing this Record:
"United States Census, 1850," index and images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.1.1/MC69-PHQ : accessed 24 Jun 2014), Lucy Forrest, Warren county, Warren, Tennessee, United States; citing family 439, NARA microfilm publication M432.

Notes:

http://boards.ancestry.com/surnames.rink/114/mb.ashx

Subject: Rinks of Indiana, Jackson, Daviess, Knox, Washington
Author: Mary Harbinson
Date: Friday, February 20, 2004
Classification: Query
Surnames: Rink, Alsup, Denton, Crow, Wibbenmeyer, Stoptaw, Golliher, McWilliams, Vincent, Grissmore, Lee, Kern, Bennett, Ruminer, Willcut, Mallet, Harper, Hennessee


Searching for All Rink/Rinck of the above counties of Indiana
John Peter Rinck/Rink about 1780 Lincoln Co. N.C. and Sarah Eliza Robison about 1780 N.C. or S.C. ANY HELP ON THIS LINE IS VERY MUCH APPRECIATED
children;
1.Eli Rink born about 1813, Married Margaret May sister to Mary
children by MARGARET MAY

Thomas W. Rink born about 1839 married Mary M. Unknown children:
Mary E. , William , George W. and Sarah Rink
Sarah E. Rink born:about 1845 nothing known about her
Eli married Mahala Martha Jackson Sept 25, 1864 in Washington Co. Indiana
married Martha Bostick Nov 20, 1869 Orange County, Indiana

2.Lawson Rink about 1818, North Carolina married Mary May about 1812 Va? and Margaret Unknown Children by MARY MAY
James F.Rink 1837 married Sarah Emily Cummins, children:
Margeret E. , married George Kern, Whitney Bennett, William Ruminer,
Bert S. Rink about 1867
, Nettie May Rink 1871, married Charles McWilliams, children, Dello C. McWilliams, Ardelly or Troy McWilliams, Ralph J, McWilliams, Arta J. McWilliams, Chester McWilliams
Lula Rink,1874 married Charles H. Denham Children unknown
, Thomas Jefferson Rinck 1841 son of Lawson moved to Missouri, wife Susanah Elizabeth Willcut, children:
Award A. W. Rinck, Lovena Millie Laura Rinck, Martisha Artesea Rinck, David Franklin Rinck, Mary A. Rinck, Amos, Rinck, John A. Rinck, Charity Ann Jittie Rinck

Caroline Rink about 1844 married John Crow and Heinrich Wibbenmeyer
Margaret E. ,about 1846
Sarah Elizabeth Rink 1851 married James Alsup and James Denton

John W Rink 1852 married Amanda J. Mallet children, Viola married Adolphus Shoptaw, Delight married William Golliher, Ralph, Clay, William Z. , Cleo R., and Charles Vearl Rink married Naomi Nelson and Mary Banta
George W. Rink/Rinck 1857 Unknown at this time.
CHILDREN WITH MARGARET UNKNOWN
ALonzo Rink married Julia Yount, children: John W. Rink and Orville Rink

3.Sarah Rink marriages unknown but children:
Silas Vincent married Nancy unknown children Jane Vincent, Ransom, and William Vincent.
Ramsom Grissmore/Rink
John M. Lee

4.Eliza G. Lizzie Rink ,1808 N.C. Married Thomas Harper children William Thomas Harper, Ann Elizabeth , Mahala C., Sarah, the Hennessee family married into this line in Tennessee

Johann married Sarah Eliza Robinson on 27 Nov 1805 in Lincolnton, Lincoln County, North Carolina. Sarah was born about 1780 in (North Carolina). [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Alexander married unnamed spouse in (CIRCA 1775). unnamed was born in (CIRCA 1755). [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Jesse Yocum is an ancestor of my wife, Gina Chamberlain Ferstel. Jesse and Diana Denton Yocum came out to Louisiana from Kentucky between 1800 and 1810. Jesse applied for a revolutionary war veteran pension but was apparently turned down. Since he fought in the battle of Blue Licks and as held POW for nearly a year, he should have been eligible.

(In addition, Jesse' brother Thomas Denton Yocum also migrated to Louisiana but moved to Texas where he lived in Liberty and Sour Lake, TX. He was part of the infamous Yocum Gang--> Check the "Handbook of Texas Online" on the Web for more information about Thomas).

Jesse and Diana lived in north Louisiana in the parish(county) called Natchitoches. There son, Jesse, eventually migrated by 1850 to south Louisiana to Cameron Parish to the town of Grand Cheniere, where the family stayed and produced another son named Jesse, whose son Ross finally moved the entire family to Jefferson County, TX around 1916.

I don't see any connection with the names you mentioned, but I hope this provides some help.

Jack Ferstel
Lafayette, LA

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Interesting account of the murderous Jesse and his notorious and infamous "Yocum Gang" ... http://www.ancientfaces.com/story/yocum-the-yocum-gang-family-story/385784

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Comments and Contributions from Web Site Readers

Comment: 1
From: Steve Smith
Email: bgood@centuryinter.net
Subject: Matthias; George(1755) and Martha (Van Bebber) Yoakum; Felty/Valentine; early Yoakum line.

Comments:

Just visited this page and want to say thanks for the time invested in getting started. GREAT IDEA. I have a truck load of YOAKUM information. First off some corrections: Matthias YOAKUM married Eleanor SEA/ZEH/SEE. Matthias was father of Valentine YOAKUM. I'm not sure if Eleanor was his mother, as I suspect she was a second wife of Matthias. Matthias left LW&T in Lincoln County, Kentucky in 1780's. Valentine went by the nickname "Felty", and can be seen in some historical accounts as Felty. ALL researchers confuse these as two different men, but I can prove they are the same man. Valentine "Felty" YOAKUM is believed to be married to Margaret ________. I cannot prove this definite, but records suggest this is her name. Valentine and Margaret? had at least three children: Sarah (Salley), Elizabeth, and George YOAKUM (1755). In 1763 on Muddy Creek in Greenbrier County, this family was massacred along with several other families by Shawnee Indians. Valentine "Felty" YOAKUM was killed. His wife and children taken hostage, and later released in an Indian treaty with Colonel Henry BOUQUET in the Winter of 1764/1765. The four named YOAKUM wife? and children above are on the lists of captives released.

George was about eight years old when captured. He later fought at the Battle of Point Pleasant on Oct 10, 1774 with the VAN BEBBER brothers. Isaac VAN BEBBER was killed in this battle against the border Indians led by Chief Cornstalk. George later married Isaac's daughter: Martha VAN BEBBER/VAN BIBBER. ALL Historians claim she is Margaret but I have proof she is Martha. They married about 1776/1777. They had 12 children whose names I have. George and Martha moved to what is now Dryden, Virginia in Southwest of state in 1786 with four of Martha's VAN BEBBER siblings. They all stayed in this area at YOAKUM Station until 1796 when they moved to what is now Speedwell, CLAIBORNE County, Tennessee and built another YOAKUM Station on the lands of John VAN BEBBER, a brother of Martha (and my ancestor).

The children of George and Martha were: Isaac YOAKUM (who married Mary DAVIS (not Martha)); Peter YOAKUM, Valentine "Felty" YOAKUM; John YOAKUM; George YOAKUM, II; Robert YOAKUM; Jesse YOAKUM; Margaret YOAKUM; Nancy YOAKUM; William YOAKUM; James YOAKUM; and Matthias YOAKUM. George was killed in a bear hunt on Oct 28, 1800 in the Cumberland Mountains and buried in Powell Valley close to the YOAKUM Station. His widow, Martha, left Tennessee in 1810 and went to Illinois and by 1819 settled in Salisbury Township near Springfield where she later died. Several of her children were with her in Illinois. I have so very much information on this family I could not begin to list all the descendants. Thank You.

Steve Smith.

Comment: 2
From: Gordon Pattison
Email: glpbmp@ix.netcom.com
Subject: Matthias Yoakum/Elinor See-- William Yocum/Mary line.

Comments:

Hi Greg,
I think your web site will be most helpful. My wife is descended from
Elizabeth Yocum (1800-1833) who died in Clay Co., IN. She was born in
KY. Many Yocums lived in Clay Co. and still do. I'm sending along an
outline of her line as best I have been able to put it together.
Gordon Pattison In Irvine, CA glpbmp@ix.netcom.com
Descendants of MATTHIAS YOAKUM SR.

1 MATTHIAS YOAKUM SR. 1700 - 1783
.. +ELINOR SEE 1710 - 1791
......... 2 FRANCIS YOCUM 1729 - 1780
......... 2 VALENTINE FELTY YOCUM 1730 - 1763
............. +MARGARET SEE
.................... 3 ELIZABETH YOCUM 1751 -
.................... 3 JOHN YOCUM 1755 - 1791
.................... 3 GEORGE YOCUM 1758 - 1800
........................ +MARGARET PATTY VAN BIBBER 1754 -
......... 2 JACOB YOCUM 1730 - 1780
............. +ELZABETH SEE
.................... 3 MICHAEL YOCUM 1759 -
........................ +DRUSILLA STUMP
.................... 3 ELIZABETH YOCUM 1762 -
.................... 3 GEORGE YOCUM 1763 - Aft 1850
........................ +REBECCA POWELL
............................... 4 JACOB YOCUM 1787 - 1848
................................... +MARY BOOTH
.................... 3 AMELIA MILLIE YOCUM 1764 - 1828
.................... 3 JACOB YOCUM Abt 1767 -
........................ +EVE AMBROSE
.................... 3 SOLOMUN YOCUM Abt 1769 -
........................ +POLLY
.................... 3 MATTHIAS YOCUM Abt 1770 -
........................ +ROSINA PURCELL
.................... 3 ISAAC YOCUM
......... 2 VALENTINE YOCUM Abt 1734 - Abt 1767
......... 2 MATHIAS M. YOCUM JR. Abt 1736 -
............. +Miss DIXON Bef 1739 - Aft 1785
.................... 3 CATHERINE YOCUM Abt 1756 -
........................ +HUGH McGARY
.................... 3 JONATHON YOCUM Abt 1757 -
.................... 3 JESSE YOCUM Abt 1760 -
........................ +DIANNA DENTON 1762 -
.................... 3 MATTHEW M. YOCUM III Abt 1763 - 1836
........................ +LAVINA COLEMAN 1768 -
.................... *2nd Wife of MATTHEW M. YOCUM III:
........................ +SILVY COULTER 1764 -
.................... 3 SARAH YOCUM Abt 1765 -
........................ +JOHN STEVENS
.................... 3 AMELIA YOCUM Abt 1766 - 1783
........................ +JAMES RAY 1761 - 1810
.................... 3 JOHN YOCUM Abt 1768 - Abt 1807
........................ +ELIZABETH KING 1773 -
.................... *2nd Wife of JOHN YOCUM:
........................ +SARAH SPORTSMAN 1789 -
.................... 3 MARY YOCUM 1774 - 1831
........................ +DENNIS SAMUEL, JR 1757 - 1820
.................... 3 ROSANNA YOCUM 1778 - Abt 1816
........................ +WILLIAM HIGGINS 1774 -
.................... 3 GEORGE YOCUM Abt 1780 -
........................ +JANE BALLEW
.................... 3 SAMUEL YOCUM Abt 1785 - Aft 1827
........................ +MARY McCLURE 1785 -
......... *2nd Wife of MATHIAS M. YOCUM JR.:
............. +LEAH WILLIAMS DUNCAN
......... 2 JESSE YOCUM Abt 1738 -
............. +DIANE DIXON
......... 2 MICHAEL YOCUM Abt 1740 -
............. +ANN BOYLES
......... 2 CONRAD YOCUM Abt 1742 -
......... 2 JOHN YOCUM 1747 - 1839
............. +MARY
.................... 3 SUSANNA YOCUM
........................ +JAMES BOGART
.................... *2nd Husband of SUSANNA YOCUM:
........................ +JAMES DOWNING
.................... 3 ROBERT YOCUM
.................... 3 ELEANOR YOCUM
........................ +JOHN KEYS
.................... 3 FRANCIS M. YOCUM 1774 -
........................ +SARAH REED 1775 - 1858
.................... 3 WILLIAM YOCUM 1775 - 1857
........................ +POLLY
.................... 3 JACOB YOCUM 1778 -
.................... 3 NANCY YOCUM
.................... 3 GEORGE YOCUM 1784 -
.................... 3 SARAH YOCUM 1787 -
.................... 3 JOHN YOCUM 1789 -
......... 2 WILLIAM YOCUM 1750 -
............. +MISS DOWNING ?
.................... 3 WILLIAM YOCUM 1775 - 1840
........................ +SARAH STEWART
............................... 4 ELIZABETH YOCUM Abt 1800 - 1833
................................... +LEWIS FORTNER 1798 - 1847
............................... 4 MARY YOCUM 1799 - 1854
................................... +JOHN DOWNING
............................... 4 DAVID YOCUM Abt 1803 - 1826
................................... +NANCY DOUGLAS
............................... 4 JOHN STEWART YOCUM 1802 - 1846
................................... +ELIZABETH STEWART
............................... 4 FRANCIS B. YOCUM 1807 - 1884
................................... +RHODA WEBSTER - 1847
............................... *2nd Wife of FRANCIS B. YOCUM:
................................... +MRS. MARY ADAMS GARRIGUS
............................... 4 LEVI D. YOCUM 1809 - 1873
................................... +SUSAN ABEL
............................... *2nd Wife of LEVI D. YOCUM:
................................... +LUCY GORDON
............................... 4 WILLIAM H. YOCUM Abt 1810 - 1837
................................... +MARY BRINTON
............................... 4 JESSE YOCUM 1814 - 1877
................................... +ELIZABETH KINNEY
............................... *2nd Wife of JESSE YOCUM:
................................... +RACHEL M. GORDON LYLE
............................... 4 RACHEL YOCUM
................................... +JOHN McCULLOUGH
............................... 4 ISOM DAVID YOCUM 1818 - 1869
................................... +MARY JANE WILSON
............................... 4 SARAH YOCUM 1816 - 1851
................................... +WILLIAM TOWNSEND
......... 2 HENRY YOCUM Abt 1753 - 1815
............. +MARY SALLY KING
......... 2 GEORGE YOCUM Abt 1755 -
............. +ELIZABETH TAYLOR

Comment: 3
From: Sloan L. Robertson
Email: SRHAFALOF@aol.com
Subject: Yoachum

Comments:

Jo DUNNE has just told me about the Yoakum-L Discussion List which led me to your Web Page. It's fantastic!!!

We are related as eighth cousins, once removed. At least I think I have it down correctly. I am assuming that you are one of the "Us Brown Kids" and a son of 10. Vertie Mae [RUNYON] BROWN. We both go back to 3. Francis JOCHEM, b. ABT 1678, who was our common ancestor. Your line continued down through Francis' son, 4. George YOCUM, b. 1719, while my line descended from another son, 4. Mathias YOCUM, b. 1700-1705-1715, who was a brother to your 4. George. These brothers were in the Fourth generation.

My line continued from 4. Mathias YOCUM; through 5. Jacob YOAKUM, b. ABT 1732; 6. Solomon YOACHUM, b. ABT 1769; 7. George W. YOACHUM, b. 1796; 8. James Harvey "Harve" YOACHUM, b. 1840; 9. Sarah Alice [YOACHUM] DAVIS, b. Jun 5, 1864, Greene County, MO; 10. Mina Jane [DAVIS] ROBERTSON, b. Sep 30, 1886, Billings, Christian County, MO; 11. Sloan Davis ROBERTSON, b. Aug 8, 1915, Aurora, Lawrence County, MO; and finally to me, 12. Sloan Lindsey ROBERTSON, b. Oct 26, 1947, Red Bank, Monmouth County, NJ.

I have briefly looked through the areas of your Web Page. The "JOCHEM, YOAKUM, YOKUM, OUTLINE" is most interesting. I was immediately drawn to the name Margaret GOLD who was listed as the wife of 7. James YOCHUM, b. 1828. I think that there is an error, or there were two Margaret GOLDS which is unlikely. The 7. James YOCHUM, b. 1828 was the son of 6. Jacob YOCUM, b. 1802; and a grandson of 5. George YOCUM, b. May 7, 1763. This 6. George YOCUM was also your ancestor.

Margaret L. GOLD, b. Mar 30, 1840, Lincoln County, TN: d. Feb 22, 1894, Int. Smart Cemetery, Christian County, MO, was the daughter of Jonathan and Sarah [RYALLS] GOLD. On Aug 1, 1858, Greene County, Missouri, she married 8. James Harvey YOACHUM, b. 1840. He was the son of 7. George W. YOACHUM, b. 1796. 8. James Harvey and Margaret L. [RYALLS] GOLD were my great-great-grandparents.

In the section titled JOCHEM 3, Descendants of Heinrich Jochem, there is a more complete listing for 7. James YOCUM, b. 1828. He is listed with a marriage to Margaret GOLD on August 1, 1858 in Greene County, MO. I believe that the two James YOCUM/YOACHUMS are being confused. I don't have any information on the 7. James YOCUM, b. 1828, son of 6. Jacob YOCUM, b. 1802; but it was my great-great-grandfather, 8. James Harvey YOACHUM, b. 1840, who married Margaret L. GOLD on Aug 1, 1858 in Greene County, MO.

I can see that it would be easy to confuse the two. The marriage in 1858 would be consistent with someone born in 1828. I do not have a copy of their Marriage Certificate and don't know just how his name was listed. Family tradition indicates that he went by the nickname "Harve." On Census records he appeared under various names: 1860 Greene County, Harvey YOCUM; and 1870 Lawrence County, James H. YOACHUM. By 1870 he had been divorced from Margaret and remarried to a Sarah I. with two additional children. Margaret had married a William GERROTT/JARRETT, and they were listed on the 1870 Census for Christian County, MO along with Margaret's three children from her first marriage to 8. James Harvey YOACHUM.

I don't have any information on any of the early YOACHUMS before 7. George W. YOACHUM except for what I have found in some of the same sources that you already have. However, I have prepared an eleven page outline of the descendants of 7. George W. YOACHUM from his two marriages to (1) Alcey FRIEND and (2) Elizabeth HOPPER. Elizabeth was my great-great-great-grandmother and the mother of my 8. James Harvey YOACHUM. I can Snail-Mail you a copy.

All of this new YOACHUM information is mind-boggling. Most of my time has been spent in researching my ROBERTSON, GOLD, and HART lines. I had planned on one day being able to find out more about my YOACHUM ancestors. I had no idea that there were so many cousins out there with the same interest.

Please let me know how I may be able to help.

Best regards,

Sloan

Sloan L. Robertson
P.O. Box 35116
Phoenix, AZ 85069-5116
602-465-9205

Comment: 4
From: James H. Davis
Email: jdavis@jaguar1.usouthal.edu
Subject: Franklin County Alabama Yocums

Comments:

Glad the information that I furnished you on Mary Lucinda (Lula) Allen Yocum, wife of John Yocum of Franklin Co., Alabama, was helpful. Will you be incorporating it into the web site?

Also, a couple of miscellaneous Franklin County, Alabama, Yocum notes. First, there were Yocums there by 1818. In that year, a letter was sent to Gov. Bibb of the Alabama Territory, regarding the roll of the Franklin Co., militia. A John Yocum was listed as a Captain. The full roster may be viewed at the Franklin County page of the Alabama genealogy site called "Tracking Your Roots". Secondly, Joshua Yocum was "drafted" into the 10th Alabama Cavalry, CSA, on February 4, 1865. When that unit attacked Tuscumbia, AL on the 21st of February, he deserted and crossed Union lines to seek amnesty. He was granted an immediate parole, and was given permission to "stay north of the river [the Tennessee]" until the end of hostilities. The north bank of the river was securely in Union hands, so he would have been protected from reprisal. Also, A Joshua Yocum was appointed postmaster at the "Yocum" statio post office in Franklin Co., around 1900. Finally, there's a Yocum Cemetery in Frankiln, though I don't know exactly where.

Keep up the good work,
Jim Davis

Comment 5
From: Gordon L. Pattison
Email: glpbmp@ix17.ix.netcom.com
Date: 12 Dec 1997
Subject: George Yocum

Hi Greg,
[Steve's] brief writeup about George is quite interesting. I've been researching the Germans who settled in Berks Co., PA. My wife is descended from Martin Stupp who lived in Tulpehocken Township. He and a large group of Germans arrived in New York in 1710 at the behest of the English Queen. They settled in Schoharie Co., NY. Because of disatisfaction they moved some years later to Berks Co. If you go to the Schoharie Co. web site they have 2 histories there that discuss all of that.

I'm one of your researchers and my wife is also descended from Elizabeth
Yocum (1800-1833).
Keep up the good work. Gordon

Yoakum Home Page E-mail the Site Author

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Jesse married Diana How on 12 May 1787 in Mercer County, Kentucky. Diana (daughter of James How and Catherine Cox) was born in 1762; died in (Louisiana). [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Was Jesse her second marriage?

Denton's Station -- This settlement was established by Thomas and Sarah Denton as early as 1776 on the waters of Shawnee Run, Mercer County, Kentucky.

The land actually belonged to Diana Denton, widow of John Denton who had been killed by Indians.

Kentucky Genealogy and History
Mercer County Kentucky
The Register of the Kentucky Historical Society, Volume 20 By Kentucky Historical Society, No. 58, 1922

EARLY MARRIAGE RECORDS 1786 -1800
Compiled by Mrs. T. Henry Coleman, Jane McAfee Chapter, N. S., D. A. R. Harrodsburg, Ky.

Editor's Note.—There may be some inaccuracies in this copy, due to the great difficulty in deciphering some of the names found

in the original records.

DATE GROOM BRIDE MINISTER
1786
Nov. 22 Bassett, Wm. Margt. McGurdy Rice
Aug. 16 Berry, John Ann Mitchell Rice
Nov. 28 Caldwell, Robert, Hannah Willis Rice
Aug. 23 Fallis, Isaac Eliz. Campbell J. Smith
Aug. 24 Floyd, Wm. Elizabeth Lawrence Rice
Aug. 29 Freeman, Benj. Margaret Devine Rice
Dec. 25 Goodnight, John Ruth Davis Jas. Smith
Aug. 30 Jeffries, Wm. Nancy Smith J. Smith
Nov. 22 Lear, George Rebekah Garrett Jas. Smith
May 4 Lillard, John Agah Chiles Jas. Smith
Dec. 1 Poor, Jeremiah Rebekah Wayter Rice
Dec. 26 Talbott, Isham Janie Talbott Rice
Nov. 27 Smith, Daniel Elizabeth Racy Jas. Smith
1787
Jan. 10 Armstrong, Alexander Abegail Arnold Rice
Jan. 18 Arnett, Wm. Margaret Monroe Rice
Oct. 30 Ayres, Joseph Rachael Harrison Rice
Jan. 27 Blackford, Benj. Catherine Sadowskey Rice
May 13 Bruer, Samuel Rebekah Smith Rice
June 10 Barton, Ambros Ann Smith J. Smith
July 24 Crose, Henry Jane Hornback J. Hall
Sept. 18 Corn, Timothy Nancy Douglas Rice
July 10 Cock, John Susannah Benidick Rice
Apr. 23 Davis, John Mary Fisher J. Smith
Jan. 27 Davis, Robert Elizabeth Davis J. Smith
Jan. 23 Derkin, Joseph Mary Sulton Rice
Dec. 24 Duely, Samuel Mary Kilso Rice
Feb. 21 Foley, Cornelius Margt. Phillips Rice
Apr. 31 Hurrigan, Patrick Winnie Arnold Jas. Hall
-- Holmes, Lewis Rosanna Law J. Hall
Aug. 1 Kinkead, Robert Jane Kinkead J. Bledsoe
Dec. 12 Little, John Eloratelle McBride Rice
Jan. Mitchell, James Betsy Brumfield J. Smith
May 7 Moseby, John Eliz. Grant J. Smith
May 10 McKeyney, Raney Tabiltha Vardeman J. Hall
July 25 McQuintis, James Anne Linney Rice
Mar. 6 Praltier, Thos. Ann Ashley Rice
Mar. 27 Peters, Richard Ruth Fullington J. Smith
Dec. 26 Parker, John Sally Poor Rice
Feb. 7 Ray, James Elziabeth Talbott Rice
Jan. 9 Samuel, Jamiseen Margaret Kincaid Rice
Nov. 1 Smith, Wm. Mary Shead Rice
Sept. 10 Tiemmons, George Rose Ashay Rice
Mar. 31 Underwood, Joseph Rachel Lams Rice
Jan. 16 Whitehead, William Agnes Phillips Rice
Feb. 17 Waughup, John Sarah Daugherty Rice
May 13 Walker, Philip Fanny Prewitt Rice
Aug. 28 White, John Lydia Bone Rice
Aug. 20 Woodcock, Joseph Susannah Hammond Jas. How
May 12 Yocum, Jesse Diana Denton Jas. How
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Married:
by James How...

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James Forrest
BIRTH 24 Jan 1750
Chester County, Pennsylvania, USA
DEATH 11 Apr 1836 (aged 86)
McMinnville, Warren County, Tennessee, USA
BURIAL
Shellsford Cemetery
McMinnville, Warren County, Tennessee, USA
MEMORIAL ID 27294665 · View Source

MEMORIAL
PHOTOS 2
FLOWERS 4
The dates on the Memorial are from Shellsford records. The dates on the stone differ, stone says 1752-1832. I don’t know which are correct.

Family Members
Children
Photo
Lydia Tyler Forrest McCorkle
1771–1855

Photo
Richard Albert Forrest
1783–1869

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James married unnamed spouse. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Occupation: Surveyor
• Religion: Primitive Baptist
• Residence: 1812, Warren County, Tennessee
• Will: 12 Apr 1830, Warren County, Tennessee
• Probate: 12 Apr 1832, Warren County, Tennessee

Notes:

"The parents of Obediah are not proven but his name was thought to be Royal Obediah and if so, he is listed in the Grainger Co.,TN will of Royal Jennings, Sr. Others say his name was Pleasant Obediah and that he is the Pleasant Jennings mentioned in the will. All unproven...CGL"

Note: Seems more likely that Obediah is a brother to Royal...DAH.

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Re: Obediah Jennings of Claiborne/Warren TN

Posted by: Walter Dreier Date: January 10, 2002 at 17:31:19

In Reply to: Re: Obediah Jennings of Claiborne/Warren TN by Dana of 5891


I have proof that Obadiah Jennings, (the surveyor)who died in 1839 in Warren Co. Tenn. was in Grainger Co. Tenn. by 1796. His name is on a marriage bond application. in County records. He left the area for Warren Co. in about 1805

Family members say that Obadiah died and is buried under a Rock Fence on a farm belonging to Gobel Jennings. in Warren Co

A descendent took my wife and I out to that site in 1980. There are several big rocks in the area,-but there is no sign of individual grave marking any graves.Some family descendants think he might have used another name,in Virginia and that he was really Pleasant Obadiah Jennings. He did have a son named Pleasant who was killed by Yankees looking for deserters. I attached the the name of "The Surveyor" to our Obadiah to distinguish him from the Rev. Obadiah Jennings-a distinguished minister in Nashville who died the same year as Obadiah. He did surveying work in Warren Co.
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Excerpted from "The Warren County,TN Will Book I", abstracted and compiled by Betty Moore Majors, p. 10:

"pg 52. 12 Apr 1830. The will of Obadiah Jennings.

I, Obadiah Jennings, being low in body but of sound mind and disposing memory, knowing life is uncertain and death certain, after committing my soul to God that gave it, and my body to the Earth, I now set about to fix my worldly affairs.

1st, I wish all my debts and funeral expenses paid. I give my loving wife Elizabeth Jennings stock, furniture [etc.] and sufficient provision for one year. My desire is that all the rest of my estate, both real and personal be sold and equally divided, and that part which fall to daughter Sally Hennisee that of her legacy be and remain in the hands of my executors and be paid out by them as her "kneads" may require and that part which falls to my daughter Nancy Watley to remain in the hands of my executors to give to her as they may think her kneads require, and in addition I wish my loving daughter Elizabeth to have a horse beast, bridle and saddle, bed and furniture, and my son Riol to have a bed and furniture. I wish my executors to pay to my loving wife Elizabeth $300.00 out of the proceeds of my estate.

After the sale of the estate [the money is to be] paid to my heirs, to wit:
Rutha Smith,
Jesse Gennings,
Polly Griffith,
Lear Gennings,
John Gennings,
Sally Hennisee,
Nancy Watley,
Elizabeth Gennings,
and Riol Jennings.

Executors Audley Harrison and William McGregor

Witnesses: Haston S. Crim and Frances Cardwell."

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Found in the Jennings genforum, submitted by Carin, fourpawsjake@worldnet.att.net;

Documented Notes on Jennings and Allied Families by Doughtie

Page 906

Obidiah Jennings, Sr. married Ruth Dodson, a daughter of Jesse Dodson of Halifax and Pittsylvania County, Virginia to Hawkins County, Tennessee settling in the part that later became Grainger County. He is buried in the Matlock Cemetery in McMinn County, Tennessee. Obidiah Jennings, Sr. and Ruth Dodson had a son Obidiah Jennings who married Minnie McGee. Obidiah Jennings, Sr. had a sister who married Marion Clendening Drake in Warren County, Tennessee.

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October Second Saturday 1806. Church met at Big Spring (Primitive Baptist Church, Claiborne County, Tennessee) and after worship proceeded to business.

1st Hannah Hill, Mercurius and Rachel Cook took their seats.

2nd Agreed to petition the Association for an alteration of their citing from Thursday to Saturday.

3rd Association letter read and approved.

4th Reference relative to Ritchard Harper continued to the 14th day of this month.

William and Nancy Stroud, Obediah and Elisabeth Jennings, Jesse and Ruth Dodson and Dodson's Sukey and James Cunningham dismisd by letter.

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Religion:
Primitive Baptists, are also known as Hard Shell Baptists, Anti-Mission Baptists, or Old School Baptists. The adjective "Primitive" in the name has the sense of "original".

Obediah married Elizabeth Dodson in (~1793) in (North Carolina). Elizabeth (daughter of Elder Jesse Buford Dodson, Sr. and Ruth Dodson) was born in 1776 in (Pittsylvania County) Commonwealth of Virginia; died on 18 May 1850 in Warren County, Tennessee; was buried in Warren County, Tennessee. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Buried:
on Gobel Jennings Farm, Harrison's Ferry, Warren County, Tennessee

Notes:

Kept the first tavern in Warren County, circa 1807.

Buried:
Inscription:
A Justice of the Peace, who from 1801 to 1805 donated land for this cemetery. Land for the First Baptist Church and built the first mill in this area.

Christian married Rachel Martin in 1795 in (Burke County, North Carolina). Rachel (daughter of Isaac Martin and unnamed spouse) was born in 1774 in (Burke County, North Carolina); died in Warren County, Tennessee; was buried in Shellsford Cemetery, 121 Bottoms Road, McMinnville, Warren County, Tennessee 37111. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Military: Revolutionary War Patriot
• Residence: 1780, Catawba River, Burke County, North Carolina

Notes:

There is no proof that Joseph is a son to Richard. I've attached him because of favorable time frames & event-locations...DAH

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Wes Dodson identifies him as "John". Note the age disparity between him and Lucy. Perhaps this was a second marriage for him. Think it likely that the ENGLAND & WILCHER families pioneered Middle Tennessee in tandem, circa 1800...


Posted By: Nancy Lewis
Email: nlewis@freewwweb.com
Subject: Joseph England b 12-25-1762 VA
Post Date: April 21, 2000 at 13:43:57
Message URL: http://genforum.genealogy.com/england/messages/1007.html
Forum: England Family Genealogy Forum
Forum URL: http://genforum.genealogy.com/england/


Have Joseph b in New Kent Co. Va ..enlisted Rev. War Surry Co NC - moved C1780 to Catawba River, Burke Co., NC and 1827 moved to Anderson Co. NC. Applied for Rev war Pension 2-27-1833 from Anderson Co., Tn and living with "unnamed" son.

Last info was 1820 census - Looking for a death date...any will/estate left and if he had a brother named Charles (possibly a Rev. Soldier as well).

JOSEPH ENGLAND ANDERSON COUNTY PRIVATE NORTH CAROLINA LINE $63.33 ANNUAL ALLOWANCE $189.99 AMOUNT RECEIVED AUGUST 13, 1833 PENSION STARTED AGE 71

Anyone have a will, death date or information if Charles is related?

Thanks much - Nancy

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Joseph married Lucy Wilcher(North Carolina). Lucy (daughter of Thomas Wilcher, Sr. and (Nancy Anna) "Anne" (Walton) LNU) was born in 1784 in (Amherst County) Virginia; died on 7 Oct 1863 in Warren County, Tennessee. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Alt Birth: 1784, Burke County, North Carolina

Notes:

Name: Martha Mc Gee
Event Type: Census
Event Year: 1850
Event Place: Warren county, Warren, Tennessee, United States
Gender: Female
Age: 42
Race: White
Race (Original): undefined
Birth Year (Estimated): 1808
Birthplace: Tennessee
Household ID: 439
House Number: 439
Line Number: 13
Affiliate Name: The U.S. National Archives and Records Administration (NARA)
Affiliate Publication Number: M432
Affiliate Film Number: 898
GS Film Number: 444854
Digital Folder Number: 004206055
Image Number: 00072


Household Role Gender Age Birthplace
Lucy Forrest undefined F 66 Virginia
Martha Mc Gee undefined F 42 Tennessee (her daughter and a widow)
John Mc Gee undefined M 25 Tennessee
Joseph Mc Gee undefined M 19 Tennessee
Mary A Mc Gee undefined F 17 Tennessee
Martin Mc Gee undefined M 13 Tennessee
James Mc Gee undefined M 11 Tennessee
Archibald C Mc Gee undefined M 8 Tennessee
William Tell Mc Gee undefined M 6 Tennessee
Martha C Mc Gee undefined F 3 Tennessee
Elizabeth Mitchael undefined F 68 Virginia
Richard Forrest undefined M 67 North Carolina (husband)



Citing this Record:
"United States Census, 1850," index and images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.1.1/MC69-PH7 : accessed 02 Jun 2014), Martha Mc Gee in household of Lucy Forrest, Warren county, Warren, Tennessee, United States; citing family 439, NARA microfilm publication M432.

No proof that she married Richard Albert Forrest, however, they are enumerated in the 1850 Warren County Census, and in the same household...DAH

William married Amelia Ann Starling. Amelia was born in 0___ 1783; died in 0___ 1870. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Birth: 1716, Dumfries, Dumfriesshire, Scotland

Notes:

Tragedy for the family...

I am descended from Archibald and your post was not quite correct on what happened to him.
It was not Archibald Sr. but his son Archibald Jr. who was killed in the massacre. His wife Ann was initially captured, but escape, and received a frosty reception from relatives when she arrived to reclaim the family property from them.

Quite a few of Ann's relatives were also killed in the massacre. As for Archibald Jr. and Ann's children, this is a somewhat confusing point:
-- An oldest son named John is said in some accounts to have been killed, but in others to have escaped. I have seen some researchers claim to be his descendants.
-- A baby was kidnapped and eventually killed. One version has the baby killed immediately when Ann escaped. Another has a Shawnee family adopting the child, but killing it a few years later. Both versions describe a gruesome death by the child's head being bashed in.
-- Jane Clenndennin was the young daughter of Archibald Jr. and Ann, who was captured by the Shawnees. She was held captive by near Pittsburg for nine years. At the age of 14 she was released in a hostage swap or some such arrangement. According to one version, she was with child and Ann intially would not accept her as her daughter.

Jane married a Mr. Davis. Her daughter Mary Gray Davis (wife of Congressman Ballard Smith of Virginia) is my direct ancestor.

Since one version of the story implies that Jane's oldest child was not really a Davis, I would be very interested in learning more about whether that is accurate and whether that was Mary or an older sibling (half-sibling).

-- Frank Taylor
W. Melbourne, Fla.

Archibald married Esther Mayse(Virginia). Esther (daughter of James Mayse and Rachel LNU) was born in 0___ 1711 in Tyrone, Ulster, Ireland; died on 2 Aug 1756 in Greenbrier, Virginia. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

she was his second wife...http://genforum.genealogy.com/cgi-bin/pageload.cgi?archibald::clendenen::237.html

FNU married unnamed spouse(Anne Arundel County, Maryland). unnamed was born in (Anne Arundel County, Maryland). [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Patrick Napier b. about 1748 the son of Patrick Napier and Martha Claiborne.Patrick m. Elizabeth Woodson 29 Sep 1776 in Goochland Co.,Va. I have John Fitzpatrick Napier in Casey Co.,Ky 1820-1850 as his son because he is listed in his mother's will, yet I do not know if John F. had any siblings. There are other Napier families listed online in the 1850 Casey Co, Ky Census.Is anyone willing to share any information concerning the children of Patrick Napier and Elizabeth Woodson? Thanks.

Children of Patrick NAPIER and Elizabeth WOODSON were:

1. Benjamin Woodson, b. 1777; last taxed Casey County, Kentucky, 1844; m. bond 29-Aug-
1811, Lincoln Co., Ky., Margaret {Peggy}
Wilson, d. Thomas. Sheriff of Casey Co., 1829.

2. Mary {Polly} P. Napier, b. 1779; m.. 1805, Fluvanna Co., VA, George A. Strange, went to Casey Co., KY, before 1820.

3. Rebecca C. Napier, b. 1781; m. 7-Jan-1808,
Fluvanna Co., KY., John E. Fitzpatrick; went to Casey Co., KY., after 1810; perhaps died before 23-Dec-1823, when one John E. Kirkpatrick took bond to marry Rhoda Renick in Lincoln Co., KY.

4. Richard Claiborne Napier, b. ca. 1784; last seen in deed 10-Oct-1843 {5:256} Casey Co., KY.: estate insolvent 1845 {5:258}; m.
Rebecca.

5. John F. Napier, b. ca. 1786: last listed 1849 in Casey Co., KY.

6. Joseph Fox Napier, b. ca. 1788; d. 1846, Casey Co., KY., age 58; m. 29-Dec-1818,
Frances Fitzpatrick, Casey Co. KY.

The above info came from book "Dr. Patrick Napier by Vava Knepp. It seems to be a well documented book.

Hope this helps you.

Ramonetta

Patrick married Elizabeth Woodson on 29 Sep 1776 in Goochland County, Virginia. Elizabeth (daughter of Benjamin Woodson and Frances"Franky" Jordan) was born about 1755 in (Goochland County) Virginia; died in 0___ 1825 in (Goochland County) Virginia. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Immigration: Talbot County, Maryland
• Immigration: 8 Mar 1679, Youghal, Ireland

Notes:

Philip Popplestone craves [claims] Rtts for 1150 Acres of Land due to him for importation of 23 persons into this Province to Inhabit according to the following Catalog: viz.

A Catalogue of the names of what Servants were brought in the Shipp called the Increase of Youghale, Philip Popleston, Commander, Anno Domini 1679:

Cornelius Nevill
Mary Buchan
Ann Barry
Piers Wally
Dennis Donnavan
Margarett Duohy
Darby Quick
Cornelius Lynch
Robert Kearny
Dennis Murphy
Edward Kirby
John Clancy
Cornelius Hible
Katherine Leary
Hana Neal
Margarett Joflynger
Darby Sullivan
Joan Dally
Daniel Murphy
Thomas Corcran

Thomas Henesy

John Haghiesen
Joan Ronayne

The Persons above specified were imported by me Philip Popleston and never made use of the rtts for their transportation untill assigned by me unto William Sharp. Witness my hand this 19th of March 1679: s/ Philip Popleston

March 19, 1679:

Warrant: then granted by the Rtt Honorable: the Lord Proprietor to William Sharp of Talbott County for 1150 Acres for and in consideration of the foregoing rtts of Assignment :
__________________ Ret. in Six Months.

Phil:
129

Philip Poplestone craved Rtts to One Thousand Acres of Land for Importacon from Ireland into this Province to Inhabitt according to the following Catalogue viz

Anno 1679

William Newmarch
Morrish Keally
Timothy Connor
Adam Merritt
Thomas White
Joan English
Habia Loftus
John Legge
Thomas Gelliburne
James Smyth
Dennis Nunane
Edmund Goremond
John Haghieren

Thomas Henery (sp)

Honor Mulrean
Thomas Bullen
Robert Hawkins
Corneluis Sheehane
John Brendevill
Katherine Londry

The persons above specified were imported by me Philip Poplestone and never made use of the rights for their transportation untill Assigned by me unto John Stevens Witness my hand this nineteenth Day of March 1679

s/ Philip Popleston

and underneath was thus written vis

Do hereby Assigne and make over all my right and Interest to the Rtts above specified unto John Stephens and his Assigns as witness my hand and seal the 19th March 1679:

Philip Popleston (Seale)

March 19th: 1679
Warrant then granted unto John Stevens of Dorchester County by the Rtt Honorable the Lord Proprietor for and in consideration of the foregoing Rtts and Assignment from Philip Poplestone for one Thousand Acres of Land. ___
_______________
Thom:
( 184 )
[ Preceeding Item Omitted from this Transcription ]
Maryland Ss:
Know all men by these presents that William Sharpe of Talbott County and Phillip Poplestone, Master of the Ship Encrease of Youghal are holden and firmly bound to the right Honorable Charles Lord Baltimore in the sum of One hundred pounds Sterling money to be paid to the said Charles Lord Baltimore the said Sum of One Hundred Pounds or his certain Attorney Executors and Administrators or Assignees To which payment well and trulely to be made We bind us and either of us, our and either of our heirs executors and Administrators and every of us joyntly and severally by Himself for all and in the whole firmly by these presents. Signed with our hands and Sealed with our Seals dated this eight and twentieth day of March One Thousand six hundred seventy nine and in the fourth Year of the Dominion of the Said Charles Lord Baltemore over Maryland ?? ____

WHEREAS the persons in the Catalogue mentioned were lately brought over by the above bound Philip Poplestone in the Ship above mentioned and their rights to him assigned to the above bound William Sharpe as by the said Catalogue may appear due. Whereas upon their Humble request the the above named Charles Lord Baltemore hath the day of the date above written promised a grant to the said William Sharpe by his generall Warrant to take up Land in this Province for the rights of the said severall Persons mentioned and named in the said Catalogue or any or either of them have not formerly been mad use of in order to their rights nor shall hereafter be made use of that purpose otherwise than according to the Interest that is herein and hereby declared Then this obligation to be void and of none Effect otherwise to remain in full force and Virtue ____

Sealed and delivered by the said William Sharpe in the presence of William Sharpe Vincent Sower Rich Recii Thomas Greenway?

Annexed to the above Obligation was this Catalogue followingn Viz.

(667) Catalogue of all the Servants Nameds which came out of Ireland into Maryland in the Ship the Encrease of Youghall Philip Poplestone, Master

I????
John Coverane 1
Morrish Magrath 2
Morgan Caduell 3
Edward Burke 4
Thomas Smith 5
Patrick Sacey 6
Patrick Freeman 7
David Dally 8
Morish Doulen 10
Rich Ashwood 14
Dorris Brothers 12
Coriel Driskols 13
Dave Gallahoe 14
John Jones 15
John Feakine 16
Thomas Nanury 17
Patrick Cahane 18
Mortagh Murphey 19
Tim Hartaggue 20
Thomas Sherwin 21
William Heage 22
John London 24
John Tye 25
Norris Fitzgerald 26
John Mushhave 27
Catherine Magralis 28
her young daughter 29
Alice Green 30
Catherine Haloorans 32
Margaret West 33
Catherine Kennedy 34
Mary Ireland 35
Catherine Ahagh 36
Elizabeth Fostor 37
Alice Quaine 38
Houdra Neale 39
Mary Bower 40
Mary Carrous 41

Catherine Henesy 42

Helena Mulreau 43
Marg Gerrald 44
Joan Pully 45
John Bughlaus 46

Underneath the aforegoing Catalogue was thus written ???
This)

( 185)

This is a true Account of the names of what Servants I brought to Maryland as above said and do by these Presents assign all my right Title of this Forty-six Servants by name above said unto William Sharpe being never before assigned nor made over to any other person as Wittness my hand

Witness George Sullivan Philip Poplestone (Signed)


Maryland Ss: Know all men by these presents that Samuel Groome the Younger as owner Commander of the Globe of Soudou are holden and firmly bound to the right Honorable Charles Lord Baltimore in the value? of One hundred and fifty pounds Sterling to be paid to the said Charles Lord Baltimore or his order Attorney Executors of Assignees To which payment well and trulely to be made We bind us, our heirs executors and Administrators firmly by these presents. Signed with my hand and Sealed with my Seal dated this five and twentiety day of April One Thousand six hundred seventy nine.........................

WHEREAS the persons mentioned in the Catalogue annexed were brought over in the Ship above mentioned by Samuel Groome the Elcer, father of the above bound Samuel Groome as by the said Catalogue ??? appear and Whereas upon the Humble request of the said Samuel Groome the above named Charles Lord Baltemore hath promised against? Warrant to take up Lands for the rights of the said Several Persons amounting in the whole to four Score and Three Now the Conditionn of this obligation is such that if the said persons mentioned in the Catalogue annexed or any or either of them have not formerly been made use of [or?] in order to use? their rights ??? shall hereafter be made use of to that purpose by Consent or Knowledge of the said Samuel Groome the Elder of Samuel Groome the Younger or either of them or by any other under them or by their Title otherwise before mentioned then this present Obligation to be void and of none Effect or else it to Stand and abide in full force and Virtue _________ Samuel Groome ??? (Sealed)

Sealed and delivered in the presence of

Thomas Green???. Annexed to the above Obligacion was the following Catalogue Viz

Servants imported into Maryland by the Owners of the Ship Globe .. Viz

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More content:

5 Jun 1995:

There is no proof that this Thomas HENESY is our progenitor. I include him as he is the earliest HENNESSEE found in records and the fact that "Thomas" is a re-occuring forename in our family...DAH

30 Jul 2009:

Nick Hennessee confirms that "Thomas & Catherine" are the parents of Patrick. This fact has been long suspected but not proven until now...

Through a serendipitous web search, Nick found:

"An 1820 publication that I found in a 2009 internet search, A Collection Of All The Laws Of Virginia, From The First Session Of The Legislature In The Year 1619, Volume VII, documents that Patrick was son of Irish natives, Thomas and Catherine, who immigrated in 1688 and 1689 to Maryland. Colonial Maryland records confirm the immigration: Thomas was indentured to John Stevens of Dorchester County and Catherine to William Sharpe of adjacent Talbot County under arrangements made by Philip Poplestone, Captain of the ship Increase of Youghale (Ireland), with the employers of Thomas and Catherine and with Lord Baltimore, Proprietary Governor of Maryland."

Note:

Nick & I suspected that there was an intermediate generation between Thomas and Patrick because of the considerable age disparity between the two. I still feel uncomfortable with their pairing for that same reason. In addition, I wonder why we've not been able to locate more issue for Thomas & Catherine given their assumed Catholic heritage and its cultural invective to procreate large families. An Irish Catholic family with one child? If that is the case, then there must have been some tragic circumstance regarding their union, i. e., a death of one of the spouses or infertility for either...

30 Aug 2009 Nick's response:

"I can agree with your comment with the addition that ages of Thomas and Catherine at time of marriage or conception ...if after they had fulfilled the indentures... could be a factor in family size. Also, if other children had been female, poor people, colonial practices did not honor female identity for posterity as much as later periods (witness Ailsey McDowell)."

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More...

Hennessee pioneer genealogy questions and answers by Nick Hennessee relating to Thomas Hennessee (the immigrant), Thomas (son of the immigrant), Thomas (possible grandson of the immigrant) and Patrick of Burke County, North Carolina

CONCLUSIONS 9/9/2009:

(1) It can reasonably be assumed and concluded (but is not completely documented) that 1688 Maryland immigrant Thomas Henesy was forebearer of Patrick Hensey of Bedford County, VA, and Burke County,NC.

(2) Whether there were one or more generations between late 17th Century Maryland immigrant Thomas and mid 18th Century Bedford resident Patrick depends on assumptions (no birth year records found) of birth years of Maryland immigrant Thomas, of other Henesys named Thomas and of Patrick.

(3) The Thomas christening reported in Middlesex County, VA, in 1736, while not identifying the christened person by age, has other value because it shows location then of the Hennessee family near the Chesapeake Bay after the earlier Maryland locale and before their migrating west (a pattern common in that century) to Bedford County.

(4) Was the 1736 christening of an adult or an infant? With other evidence of Thomas and Patrick at Bedford, an adult christening in Middlesex County in 1736 would fit supposed age of the adult Thomas of Bedford, and an infant christening would fit a reasonably calculated age of child Patrick. Whatever the answer, a reasonable assumption is that Thomas was father and not brother of Patrick.

(5) The father-son (not brother) relationship assumption also extends from (a) historic records of community popularity and honor from serving in the Bedford Militia that would likely attract any male old engough to be eligible and (b) Militia records that Thomas of the Militia survived the French and Indian War initial battle at Fort Necessity in Pennsylvania in 1754 before (c) the earliest record of Patrick in the Militia in 1758.

(6) Therefore, I propose to report in an article for a Burke County book:

18th Century Burke County, NC, settler Patrick Henesy was son of French and Indian War militiaman Thomas, who had earlier migrated from coastal Middlesex County, VA, to western frontier Bedford County, VA, and who likely descended one or two generations from Thomas and Catherine Henesy, 1688 and 1689, immigrants to Maryland from Ireland.

DISCUSSION:

Early Hennessee History documentations:
Thomas, Irish immigrant indentured to Maryland 1688
Thomas christening, Middlesex County, VA, 1736
Thomas, member Bedford Militia, French and Indian War, 1754
Thomas, land grant (for Militia service) 1755 in Bedford County
Patrick, Bedford Militia, 1758
Patrick, homesteader in North Carolina, 1775 (Polk) and 1778 (Burke)

Thomas Hennessee, the immigrant in Maryland as an indentured servant in 1688, would have worked off his indenture by 1691 or 1695 (3 to 7 years per Wikipedia extract below).

How old was he in 1695? (Maybe 25, if born 1670. Maybe 45, if 1650 birth as assumed in http://ftp.rootsweb.com/pub/usgenweb/va/bedford/military/mil1758b.txt).

Were there one or two Henesys named Thomas between Thomas the immigrant and Patrick of Burke?

To me, the Thomas christening reported in Middlesex County, VA, in 1736, has greatest riddle-solving value of the listed Hennessee documentations because it shows location then of the Hennessee family near the Chesapeake Bay. Irish immigrant Thomas, if still living in 1736, could then be 66 or 86 years old when member-of-Bedford-Militia Thomas was 20 years old and Patrick was an infant. That leaves a large age gap that supports existence of a generation or more between immigrant Thomas and member-of-Bedford-Militia Thomas. The christening makes sense to me now only if it:

(A) was an adult christening (a) of immigrant Thomas or (b) of son of immigrant Thomas or (c) of member-of-Bedford-Militia Thomas or

(B) if it was an infant christening of Patrick, who was in the Bedford Militia in 1758 (age 22 if Christened 1736). Presumed also is that some time after the christening, the family (particularly family of member-of-Bedford-Militia Thomas) migrated from Middlesex County (near Chesapeake Bay) to Bedford County (just east of the Blue Ridge Mountains).

Scenario 1: Where does the 1736 Patrick christening premise put birth year for his father Thomas, who was in the Bedford Militia in 1754? If father of Patrick were to be 20 before the presumed christening of Patrick, that would make father-of-Patrick's birth in 1716 and his age 38 at Fort Necessity in 1754. In this scenario, immigrant Thomas would have been 46 or 56 when father of Patrick was born in 1716. That suggests greater possibility but not certainty that immigrant Thomas was grandfather, not father, of Thomas, the father of Patrick.

Scenario 2 assumes another generation, between Thomas, the immigrant (1650 or 1660-?), and Thomas (possibly 1716-?), father of Patrick. This alternative implies younger ages for births in generations from the immigrant Thomas to father of Patrick.

Scenario 3 supports assumption by some Hennessee genealogists that Thomas in Bedford County was brother of Patrick in Bedford County and accepts, without identifying intermediate kin, that both descended from immigrant Thomas.

From Wikipedia -- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indentured_servant

"Indentured Servant"

An indentured servant is a laborer under contract of an employer for usually three to seven years, in exchange for their transportation, food, drink, clothing, lodging and other necessities. Unlike a slave, an indentured servant is required to work only for a limited term specified in a signed contract.[1]

The labor-intensive cash crop of tobacco was farmed in the American South by indentured laborers in the 17th and 18th centuries.[2] Indentured servitude was not the same as the apprenticeship system by which skilled trades were taught, but similarities do exist between the two mechanisms, in that both require a set period of work.

In addition to slaves (who were mostly from Africa), Europeans, including Irish,[3] Scottish,[4] English, and Germans,[5] were brought over in substantial numbers as indentured servants,[6] particularly in the British Thirteen Colonies.[7] Over half of all white immigrants to the English colonies of North America during the 17th and 18th centuries may have been indentured servants.[8

In Colonial North America, employers usually paid for European workers' passage across the Atlantic Ocean, reimbursing the shipowner who held their papers of indenture. In the process many families were broken apart. During the time living with their masters, their fellow indentured servants took the role of family.[citation needed]

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HENNESSEE FAMILY OF BURKE COUNTY

In three trips in September and October 1791, Patrick Hennessee and his teenage son, John, patronized The Morganton Store, "the only store for miles around." Then they either walked or rode on horseback or in a horse- or mule-drawn wagon or buggy. It was a 4 to 6 hour or more roundtrip from their home six miles northeast of Courthouse Square. That was long travel time for purchases of 100 10-penny nails, stirrup irons and spurs as well as three pints of rum and a bushel of Indian corn.
Patrick (circa 1735-1796) was forebear of the Hennessee family in Burke County. Records of the State of North Carolina show he was paid for Revolutionary War army service. In 1778, his first land grant in Burke was on both sides of the Catawba River between Johns River and Lower Creek. In his home, up from the south bank of the Catawba at Hunting Creek, he lived with his wife Alice, (nicknamed Ailsey), and sons James and John. Two daughters had married.
Long after Patrick of Burke was alive and available to answer questions, descendants wanted to know more about him and his forebears. Was he an Irish immigrant or a descendant of immigrants? Was Patrick of Burke the Patrick of Bedford County, VA?

LURE OF INEXPENSIVE FERTILE CAROLINA LAND

Vagueness continues in the record, but helpful perspective and inspiration came in 2006. Then Virginia and North Carolina frontier historian Dr. Christopher Hendricks published The Backcountry Towns of Colonial Virginia, one of which was New London in Bedford County. Data and patterns emphasized by Professor Hendricks would logically relate Patrick of Bedford to the large colonial migration through Virginia to North Carolina via the store of William Calloway in New London. That perspective plus studies of 17th Century maps available to militiamen in that era and internet-enabled finding in 2009 of data previously not as accessible to or appreciated by family historians make plausible conclusions not earlier reached about Patrick of Burke and his heritage.
In the Bedford Militia in the 1750s were Thomas Hennesey and Patrick Henicie. At the beginning of the French and Indian War, the Virginia Militia (on the western frontier consisting mostly of the Bedford Militia) was under command of celebrated land surveyor, map maker and college professor Colonel Joshua Fry, Major (later Colonel, General and President) George Washington and Captain (later Colonel) William Calloway, wealthy Bedford County merchant, land developer and manufacturer. Official Virginia records report Thomas Hennesey survived the first battle of the war at Fort Necessity, PA, in 1754 and Patrick Henicie received militia pay in 1758.
A 1761 indenture evidences that Patrick Henicie paid "one pound, one shilling and six pence" for a lot in New London owned by Colonel Calloway. Within a year, he sold it back at a good profit.
Some have suggested--and some questioned--the kinship of Patrick and Thomas (whether father-son or brothers) while proposing that one or both descended a generation or two from Thomas and Catherine Henesy, 1688 and 1689 immigrants to Maryland from County Cork, Ireland; Maryland records confirm the immigration. Some others have argued that Patrick descended from James Hennessee, who left County Cork and landed in Norfolk, Va., in 1740; they were influenced (1) by the Irish tradition that the oldest son is named after the father's father and (2) by Patrick's first-born son being named James. Another claim: Confederate war veteran Hamilton Mortimer Hennessee said that his great grandfather, Patrick of Burke, migrated from Ireland.
Regardless of the ancestry, pre-Revolutionary-War records show in addition to Thomas of Bedford, VA, (1) some Thomas Hennesey and other Hennesey families who continued to be residents of Maryland, (2) other Hennesys who located in coastal Virginia and North Carolina counties early in the 18th Century and (3) great migrations later in the century of many families from coastal counties in Virginia, Maryland and Pennsylvania not only to the western frontier of Virginia (including Bedford County) but also south to the western North Carolina Piedmont (including Burke County).

GREAT WAGON ROAD TO NORTH CAROLINA

A 1752 map of Virginia, Maryland and northern North Carolina had been surveyed by Militia Colonel Fry and Peter Jefferson. It informed migrating settlers about the Great Wagon Road from Philadelphia via the Valley of Virginia to inexpensive fertile North Carolina land. The primary route in Virginia went through the Roanoke Gap of the Blue Ridge Mountains. However, many settlers -- as many as 300 one week - went through the James River Gap. They continued toward North Carolina through Bedford County via Colonel Calloway's New London store, where many paused to buy provisions. Understandably, the great enthusiasm of the settlers en route to North Carolina opportunities would be contagious to New London witnesses such as Patrick Henicie.
Other maps also added to the lure. A 1752 Moravian Church survey described fertile Burke County land on the Catawba River, Lower Creek, Johns River and Upper Creek. The Mouzon 1775 North Carolina map showed an old Cherokee Indian trail between Virginia and South Carolina crossing the Catawba River north of present-day Morganton near Quaker Meadows. From the river, the Indian trail went south on the path later followed by the old Rutherfordton road. Just north of the South Carolina line, the trail went through the remote Green River wilderness, where land was even less expensive than in Burke County. It was in that wilderness, southeast of Chimney Rock, that Patrick Henecy obtained a 200 acre grant February 28, 1775. (Acting under Patrick's will proven October 25, 1796, son John, executor of the estate, sold the Green River tract in 1800.)

PIONEER VOCATIONS

Twentieth Century descendant Elizabeth Hennessee Finger, heralded as a talented school teacher, as a diligent family historian and as a founding officer and life member of the Burke County Historical Society, shared her conclusions. She said that typical of the times for poor first-arriving settlers on the frontier wildernesses (as recorded by many families in the American colonies), Patrick initially was a trapper and hunter, trading animals and pelts for food and income. Most likely, she said, he devoted full time to trapping and hunting … in Green and Broad River forests and other frontier wilderness forests in and west of Burke … before he was able to acquire fertile Catawba River land, and he continued trapping, hunting and trading while farming in Burke County.
Owning river-and-creek-enriched bottom land, it was natural that Patrick and his sons and grandsons were farmers (and at least one was also a blacksmith) in Burke County into the 20th Century. Until after the War Between the States, Patrick, John and their descendants farmed their Catawba river-front acreage.
"The location of Patrick's home on the south bank of the river (below the mouth of Hunting Creek) was a very desirable one," wrote descendant Eugene L. Hennessee Jr. "There were easily defended…sites for a cabin and other buildings…. The relatively flat bottom, next to the river, appears better for corn than the steep slope rising to higher level ground…. However, this slope and ridge top … supplied wood for (house logs), poles, fences and fireplaces…. (Already cleared, Allen's Bottom, as shown on the land survey, suggested a previous occupant.)… The easy access to the river and the adjacent streams made the location ideal…. The ridge road to the south connected with the main east-west wagon road. The main north-south (Old Wilkes Road) passed through the property at a rocky ford on the river and went to Fort Defiance and other east-west roads." Evidence of the Old Wilkes Road still exists (2009) on a steep grade through the former Hennessee farm.
It was a good neighborhood. General Charles McDowell had a grant to the south. North across the Catawba (on land previously Patrick's that in the 20th Century became the Burke County landfill) was Colonel John Suddreth (his sister married Patrick II). Also north was Thomas Wilcher (his daughter married James). To the east were John Ballew and Abraham Harshaw. West was John Hughes, Justice of the Burke County Court.
About 1805, Patrick's older son James (1766-1851) and family, his Wilcher in-laws and other Burke residents moved west to even cheaper land. They went from Morganton via the old Indian Road south past Patrick's Green River grant into South Carolina and then west across Georgia and north to McMinnville in less-crowded middle Tennessee.

Younger son John (circa 1775-1844) had two sons, Patrick II (1793-1845), who maintained the Hennessa plantation until his death, and John II, who moved to Murphy in Cherokee County. Beginning in 1833, Patrick II and John Sudderth, his brother-in-law on the north side of the Catawba, operated a ferry to carry Old Wilkes Road traffic.

GOLD RUSH AND CIVIL WAR

The two oldest sons of Patrick II, John Alexander and Emanuel Augustus (Manuel) Hennessee, followed the lure of the 1852 California Gold Rush. John remained and died there. Manuel returned home to resume his cabinetmaker trade and to marry Elizabeth Caroline Johnson, daughter of Isaac Wilburn and Catherine Louisa Kincaid Johnson.
Elizabeth's cousin, Lt. William Joseph Kincaid, recruited Manuel to join the 11th NC Regiment of the Confederate Army. Also in the Army were four of Manuel's brothers. Thomas A. was killed in action, Manasa Sudderth died in a Yankee prison camp, and Patrick Waightsill surrendered with General Lee at Appomattox but did not return home.
Two brothers did return home, Robert Jones (RJ) of the Burke Rifles and Manuel. RJ had been captured July 3, 1863 at Gettysburg near "the angle," the farthest advance of Pickett's Charge. Freed in early 1864, RJ won promotion to sergeant. In the Fall of 1864 in the Battle of Peebles Farm near Petersburg, VA, Manuel was gravely wounded and left to die on the battlefield. But he did not die. The next day, one may conclude from hospital records, RJ got him from the battlefield to the first of a series of hospitals.
Among many wounds, Manuel had a hole in his forehead and suffered "paralysis of right arm and leg and loss of power of speech." However, he outlived all of his brothers, dying in 1903. Then the Morganton News Herald heralded him as best known of Burke's Civil War survivors. Also, ex-lieutenant Kincaid, by then a Georgia textile manufacturer, praised Manuel for his service in the war and example after the war and added: "The Hennessees are a good old Burke family and were among the valiant North Carolinians who won for our dear old state, during the Civil War, everlasting renown."

FARM SOLD, FAMILY RELOCATES

Not in the army were brothers William Richard, who managed his in-law family farms in North Cove and was a Confederate quartermaster supplier, and James David, farmer and blacksmith who managed the Burke farm for his mother until it was sold. Sisters were Martha H. (Mrs. John) Ferree, Levinia Hennessee and Myra H. (wife of Sheriff Bartlett A.) Berry. Sheriff Berry acquired part of the riverfront Hennessee farm, and in the 20th Century, Duke Power Company bought all of it along with miles of Catawba riverfront south from the upper reaches of Lake James into South Carolina.
By the time of the sale of the Hennessee Hunting Creek farm, the family of Patrick II had relocated. RJ continued nearby, a leader in the Zion Church community. Manuel and James David moved their families to farms near Gilboa Methodist Church in Silver Creek Township. Widow Nancy Sudderth Hennessee went to live with son William in North Cove. She took with her family heirlooms and records which could later have informed and enlightened family historians had they not been destroyed when the 1916 Catawba River Flood washed downstream the family's North Cove home, barns, etc.
Manuel's children were Sarah (Mrs. George) Farr, Idalia (Mrs. Horace) Kincaid, Florence (Mrs. John) Ferree, Alice (Mrs. Thomas P.) Satterwhite, Manassa Nixon (Nas), Dr. Emanuel Augustus (Gus) MD, Joseph Richardson, Daniel Lafatte, William L. and Russell Kimsey Hennessee. All resided in Burke County. After US Army service and college medical education, Gus returned to Burke in 1902 to practice medicine, and in the 1920s, Spanish American War veteran Russell moved to Sunshine in Rutherford County.
Children of RJ were Patrick Lee, James Phifer, Robert Avery, Ella H. Thompson, John and Margaret H. Garrison. Children of William Richard were Robert Horace Sr., James Patrick, William Lee, Paralee H. Brown, Wade Hampton and Samuel Arthur Hennessee. Children of James David were Martha Jo H. Duckworth, Thomas Patrick, Mary, Lois May and Ophelia Hennessee.
Much more data about these and other descendants of Patrick are included in the 1981 and 2001 editions of Burke County Historical Society's Heritage of Burke County.

SPELLINGS AND PRONUNCIATION

Henesy, Henacie, Hensy, Hennessy, Henicie, Hennessa, Henessee, Henecy, Henessey and Hennessee are spellings found in documents from colonial to current times. Near consensus among later descendants of Patrick to spell the name "Hennessee" may be attributed not only to increasing familiarity with the spelling of Tennessee but also to the greater number of Tennessee Hennessees than North Carolina Hennessees. The name derives from the ancient Irish "O'haonghusa" (son of Angus) as also does Guinness -- the actor Alec, the stout beer and the world records.
However the name is spelled, pronounce it Hen'-i-sy.
Never never rhyme the last syllable with Tennessee.

COINCIDENCES, PRECEDENTS, INCIDENTS

Patrick's great great grandson Nas in the late 19th Century began his mercantile career on the old Cherokee Indian Road south of Morganton toward Rutherfordton. At the store, just south of Conley Road and north of Mount Olive Church Road, Nas bought Silver Creek gold and served Brindletown area residents and patrons of the nearby Glen Alpine Springs Hotel. In 1889, he relocated his store near the Glen Alpine railroad depot to compete more productively for the hotel-bound trade and to serve the town's growing population. Nas was also Town of Glen Alpine Treasurer and Justice of the Peace and proprietor of the Linville Hotel, which additionally was his family residence until 1930. At both Brindletown (1888) and Glen Alpine (1893-1897), Nas was postmaster as was his son Paul at Glen Alpine (1939-1972). Also, both Nas (1898-1900 and 1917-1918) and Paul (1936-1939) were Burke County Commissioners.
Reflecting the zeal of their mother and wives for childhood education, Gus and Nas Hennessee were among Glen Alpine leaders who won, 44-2, a 1906 public tax vote for a new school. Gus was Chairman and Nas Treasurer of the building committee to set a leadership precedent followed by school-teaching descendants, by Charliemae H. Hamilton (Morganton School Board member for 14 years) and by her sister Nelle's advocating college for talented students and, as warranted, providing scholarship aid.
Incidents in Glen Alpine in 1913 in Pitts Store and in 1918 at the railroad depot resulted (a) in deaths of two men, including Dr. Gus Hennessee in 1918, (b) in trials that attracted extensive interest and newspaper coverage both in Morganton and across North Carolina and (c) in life-long emotional trauma for witnesses and the victims' families.
Nas purchased the Pitts building in 1926 and made it his primary store location. After he died in 1946, the business continued as partnership of Paul and Nelle until, after Nelle died, Paul closed the 100+ year-old Hennessee business in 1996.

WHERE IS HENESSEY?

Henessey was on early 20th Century US postal maps. It identified a post office established in 1896 in the store of John C. Landreau in the former home of Manuel and Elizabeth Caroline Hennessee at the intersection of US 64 and Bollinger Loop. The office served postal patrons south of Chambers, north of Brindletown and east of Rollins until rural free delivery began in 1903.

SPECULATION

Paddy's Creek flows into Lake James. Because of trapping and hunting ventures of Patrick before and after he settled in Burke, some 20th Century Hennessees speculated that Paddy's Creek was named for him. (What other men named Patrick and nicknamed Paddy were in Burke in the North Carolina Colony?)

REUNIONS

Toward the end of the 20th Century, descendants of Patrick Hennessee began annual reunions, with descendants of son John convening initially at Gilboa Methodist Church in Burke's Silver Creek Township and descendants of son James convening at McMinnville in Warren County, Tennessee. John and James descendants had a joint reunion in McMinnville in 1991. Reunions of descendants of John have also been held at Chesterfield (close to Patrick's farm and to Sudderth Cemetery), at Glen Alpine and Morganton in Burke County and at Sunshine in Rutherford County.

SOURCES:

The Back country Towns of Colonial Virginia, by Dr. Christopher E. Hendricks, 2006, University of Tennessee Press/Knoxville; "New London," pages 72-76 et al.

"A Map of the Most Inhabited Part of Virginia (and) the Whole Province of Maryland With Parts of Pensilvania, New Jersey and North Carolina Drawn by Joshua Fry and Peter Jefferson in 1775," an update based on their 1751 original and including the 1752 Moravian Church survey of Catawba River and tributaries in what since 1777 has been Burke County, NC.

"An Accurate Map of North and South Carolina With Their Indian Frontiers…from Actual Surveys by Henry Mouzon and Others, London, 1775."

"Patrick Hennessee, Insight from Land Grants, Burke County, NC," by E. L. Hennessee Jr., 4237 West Enon Drive, Enon, OH, ehennessee@aol.com. ww.http://ftp.rootsweb.com/pub/usgenweb/va/bedford/military/mil1758b.txt. Hening, William Waller 1820, The Statutes at Large; Being A Collection Of All The Laws Of Virginia, From The First Session Of The Legislature In The Year 1619; VolumeVI; Franklin Press, Richmond, VA.

"Hennessee Family in America", 1991 and revisions since, compiled by David A. Hennessee, including "Hennessee Pre-Revolution Chronology," Patrick, homesteader in North Carolina, 1775 (Polk) and 1778 (Burke), Transcript of answers by Hamilton Mortimer Hennessee on government questionnaire for Tennessee Civil War veterans.

Fort Necessity National Battlefield Roster of Virginia Militia: Thomas Henacy (pre-battle), Thomas Hennesey (list of survivors) (http://www.nps.gov/archive/fone/rostercmb.htm#h).

Archives, Colony of Maryland, documentation of passengers 1688 and 1689 by Philip Poplestone, Captain of the ship Increase of Youghale (Cork County, Ireland).

North Carolina Atlas & Gazetteer, Fourth Edition, Copyright 2000, pages 33, 54.

Bedford Co., Va. OB 3 1763 - 1771 pg 36-37, court cases involving Patrick Henicie and Alice Henicie, furnished Nita Hennessee by Jim Hamlin in 1999.
Book of Patents, Colony of North Carolina, 1765-1775, County of Rowan, 200 Acres to Patrick Henecy, February 28, 1775, on both sides of the south fork of White Creek of the Green River (land in Polk County since it was established in 1855). Burke County: Land and Misc. Records 1771-1809, Volume III, Page 103. BURKE,

The History of a North Carolina County, 1777-1920, 1982, by Edward William Phifer, Jr., pages 179-180, 364, 367, 369. North Carolina Wills: A Testator Index, 1665-1900;
Corrected and Revised Edition by Thornton W. Mitchell including: "Hennessa, John/Heslip, Thomas/Deed/10-11/533/1800 and Hennessy, John/Heslip, Thomas/Deed/ 10-11/536/1800" (deeds of Green River land to Thomas Heslip by John Hennessa, executor of estate of Patrick Hennessa I). http://files.usgwarchives,org/nc/rutherford/deeds/h2grntor.txt. http://www.lib.unc.edu/mss/inv/n/North_Carolina_Land_Grants_and-Deeds.html.

CSA Army records 1861-1865--regiment: "E A Hennessee" (spelling used by Manual); hospitals (1864): "E A Hennessa" (spelling favored by RJ Hennessa).

My Dearest Friend, Civil War Correspondence of Cornelia McGimsey and Lewis Warlick, page 184. The Heritage of Burke County 1981, published by The Burke County Historical Society, Morganton, NC, pages 225-226, sketches 100,152, 221, 304, 329, 359, 408, 413, 596, 612, 650, 661,724 and 763.

The Heritage of Burke County 2001, published by The Burke County Historical Society, Morganton, NC, articles 10, 24, 29, 31, 63, 80, 136, 173, 295, 365, 404, 413, 414, 416-428, 466, 488, 532, 534, 617,645, 676, 678, 717, 718,727 and 775.

NC Rev Army Accts (Rev. Army Auditors Accounts),Vol III,BKG-16(Haun,Part V). North Carolina Atlas, 1975, University of North Carolina Press, Pages 13, 16.

North Carolina Yearbook 1902, published by News & Observer, Raleigh ttp://www.archive.org/stream/northcarolinayea1902/northcarolinayea1902_djvu.txt.

Interviews, conversations and correspondence with Elizabeth Hennessee Finger, Jean Davis Hennessee, Nita Hennessee Shepard, David A. Hennessee, Eugene L. Hennessee, Jr., Keith C. Hennessee, Philip H. Hennessee, Fred Hennessee, Carl D. Hennessee, R. Floyd Hennessee, Nelle Augusta Hennessee, Margaret Hennessee Williams, Peggy Hennessee Ballew, Dewey W. Hennessee, Caroline Hamilton Ervin, Nixon Scott Hennessee, James D. Spainhour, Robert T. Pitts, et al.

By Manassa Nixon (Nick) Hennessee III,

Descendant of Patrick, John, Patrick II, Emanuel Augustus (Manuel), Manassa (Nas) Nixon and Manassa Nixon (Nick) Hennessee Jr.,

Father of Nixon Scott Hennessee,

Grandfather of Sean Alexander, Ryan Augustus and Aidan Patrick Hennessee

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From: Helen R Money
To: schoolstuff@worldnet.att.net
Subject: Archibald W. Hennessee
Date: Saturday, March 07, 1998 1:27 PM

David,

The other day when I talked to you, I mentioned that someone had moved to TN when they were 6 yrs. old. I said that it was Patrick but I was WRONG. It was Archibald W. Hennessee. Could you tell me where you found that fact. Reference in your notes: See testimony. What testimony and do I have it? I have not seen anything in detail on Archibald at all. Where are you getting this? I realize that you said that you did not have references on some of the things but if you have this, I would like to have it. I do have the rest of the references.

The Revolutionary War........

In the book VIRGINIA'S COLONIAL SOLDIERS by Lloyd Bockstuck, it lists

Thomas Henacy, pg 129, 12 March
Thomas Henacy, pg 134,
Thomas Hennesey, pg 47, 50
Thomas Hennessey, pg 131
Patrick Hensey, pg 208 0.5.0

REVOLUTIONARY WAR RECORDS Vol. I VA by Gaius M. Brumbaugh

Wm. Henesey #4803 3 yrs. pg. 448

This was all they had at the Family History Library here. It is very small. Don't know if you are interested in this "poop" or not. I printed off the Hennessee family that they had at the FHL-BC. I do not use it but only as a reference to look for something.

I am really having a problem with Ailsey McDowell. Can't find doodley-squat on her. Will continue to look...................

Helen

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"An 1820 publication that I found in a 2009 internet search, A Collection Of All The Laws Of Virginia, From The First Session Of The Legislature In The Year 1619, Volume VII, documents that Patrick was son of Irish natives, Thomas and Catherine, who immigrated in 1688 and 1689 to Maryland. Colonial Maryland records confirm the immigration: Thomas was indentured to John Stevens of Dorchester County and Catherine to William Sharpe of adjacent Talbot County under arrangements made by Philip Poplestone, Captain of the ship Increase of Youghale (Ireland), with the employers of Thomas and Catherine and with Lord Baltimore, Proprietary Governor of Maryland."

The full Virginia citation: Hening, William Waller 1820, The Statutes at Large; Being A Collection Of All The Laws Of Virginia, From The First Session Of The Legislature In The Year 1619. VolumeVII. Franklin Press, Richmond, Virginia. “Patrick Hensey, Bedford County Militia, 1758, Parents (Thomas Henesy) #26192 born (circa 1650), (Ireland), died (MD or PA), married in (VA), (Catherine) #26193, born (circa 1650), Ireland, died (MD or PA).”

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http://www.electricscotland.com/webclans/scotsirish/hennessey.htm

"Hennessy" and all its corruptions;

The early homeland of one O'hAonghusa sept, ancestors of families named Hennessy, was in the barony of Lower Philipstown, Co. Offaly, along the present border of that county and Co. Westmeath.
Hennessy is a name from which the prefix O has been dropped in modern times, though O'Hennessy was still widely used in the seventeenth century and may be retained by some families today. In Irish it is O'hAonghusa, i.e. descendant of Aonghus of Angus. The principal sept of the name was located near the town of Kilbeggan and the hill of Croghan, their territory being chiefly in the northern part of Co. Offaly, where they shared with O'Holohan the lordship of Clan Cholgain: a branch of this was located nearer to Dublin, the head of it being chief of Gailenga Beg on the north side of the River Liffey on the borders of Counties Meath and Dublin. The latter was displaced by the Anglo-Norman invasion. The Offaly O'Hennessys spread into Tipperary and Clare - in the later county they are now called Henchy, formerly Hensey.

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Immigration:
on the ship, "Increase"

(Thomas married (Catherine LNU)(Ireland). (Catherine was born in (1650-1660) in Ireland; died in (Maryland). [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Immigration: Talbot County, Maryland
• Immigration: 8 Mar 1679, Youghal, Ireland

Notes:

"...Know all men by these presents that we William Sharpe of Talbot County and Phillip Poplestone master of the ship Encrease of Youghall are holden and firmly bound to the right honorable Charles Lord Baltimore in the sum of one hundred pounds sterling to be paid to the said Charles Lord Baltimore the said sum of one hundred pounds or his certain attorney, executors and administrators or assigns to they which payment well and truly be made we bind us and either of us our and either of our heirs executors and administrators and every of us jointly and severally by himself for all and in the whole firmly by these presents signed with our hand and sealed with our seals dated the eight and twentieth day of March one thousand six hudred seventy nine and in the fourth year of the Dominion of the said Charles Lord Baltimore over Maryland.

Whereas the persons in the catague(sic) mentioned were lately brought over by the above bound Phillip Poplestone in the ship above mentioned and their rights by him assigned to the above bound William Sharpe as by the said catalogue may appear and whereas upon their humble request the above named Charles Lord Baltimore hath the day of the date above written promised a grant to the said William Sharpe by his general warrant to take up land in the province for the right of the said several persons now the condition of this obligation is such that if the said persons mentioned and named in the said catalogue or any or either of them have not formerly been made use or in order to their rights nor shall be hereafter made use of to the purpose otherwise then according to the intent that is herein and hereby declared then this obligation to be void and of none effect otherwise to remain in full force and virtue.

Sealed and delivered by the said Wm. Sharpe in the presence of William Sharpe, Vincent Lowe, Rich Keen, Thos. Greening. Annexed to the above obligation was this catalogue follow viz and catalogue of all the servants names which came out of Ireland into Maryland in the ship Encrease of Youghall Phillip Poplestone master, March 8, 1679.

...42. Cath Hennesy"

(Data taken from a photocopy of the original record, located at the Maryland Hall of Records (Patents, Liber 20, folio 184). Photocopy. Personal library of Eric Shawn, Oak Grove, Oregon. This reference to Thomas Shehawne is also found in Harry Wright Newman's To Maryland from Overseas. Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Co., 1986, p. 156.)

Immigration:
on the ship, "Increase"

Notes:

Refer to Augusta Co.,VA Website for more information...DAH

From: Tammie Chada
To: BradleyFM
Cc: David Hennessee
Subject: Re: McGee and Clendenen
Date: Monday, May 04, 1998 4:32 PM


BradleyFM wrote:

Dear Tammie:

I have Esther and you have Easter. You have McGees middle name of Alexander I did not have. I have McGee b in Rockbridge County, Va.

On Easter's parents I have her grandparents to be Archibald Clendennen, Sr. bc 1710 Scotland d 1749, Cowpasture, Augusta Cty, Va and 2nd m Esther Mayse(widow of Robert Burnside) and she died before 1756 in Augusta Cty, Va, 1st wife may have been Jane Beatty.

McGees are a sept of the McKay Clan from upper NW of Scotland.

Archibald's parent MAY have been William and Rose Kirkpatrick Clenendennen.

Frank Bradley

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Thanks!!

Tammie Chada
tchada@flash.net

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George the Second &c: To all &c: Know ye that for the Considerations mentioned in an order of our Trusty and Wellbeloved William Gooch Esquire late our Lieutenant Governor and Commander in Chief of our Colony and Dominion of Virginia in our Council of the said Colony Granted to John Robinson Esquire, James Wood Henry Robinson and John Lewis the xxix Day of October one thousand seven Hundred & forty three, We have Given Granted and confirmed and by these Presents for us our heirs and Successors Do Give Grant and confirm unto Archibald Clendening & John Clendening one certain Tract or Parcel of Land containing three hundred and forty Acres lying and being in the County of Augusta and bounded as followeth (to wit) Beginning at two pines on the East sides [sic] of the Cow Pasture River corner to the Land in possession of William Docharty thence up crossing the River one hundred and seventy five Poles to a black Oak and Poplar opposite to the House of William Docharty then[ce] West one hundred and eight Poles to three Black Oaks on the side of a Hill North seventy Degrees West sixty four Poles to two Pines on a hill, Thence South seventy Degrees West sixty four Poles cross the River to a Lynn on the Bank Thence South five Degrees East one hundred & eighty two Poles to three white Oaks, [T]hence South fifty five Degrees East sixty four Poles to a Black & White Oaks, thence North eighty Degrees east one hundred and fifty six Poles to a Sugar & Mulberry Trees on the River Side thence up the same South twenty Degrees East twenty Poles to a Hiccory at the Mountain Foot Thence up the River and Mountain Foot to the Beginning: With all &c: To have hold &c: To be held &c: Yielding & Paying &c: Provided &c: In Witness &c: Witness our Trusty and Welbeloved Francis Fauquier Esquire our Lieutenant Governor and Commander in Chief of our said Colony & Dominion at Williamsburgh under the Seal of our said Colony the tenth Day of August one Thousand seven hundred and fifty nine In the thirty Third Year of our Reign ~
Fran: Fauquier
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Surnames: CLENDENING, ROBINSON, WOOD, LEWIS, DOCHARTY.
NOTE: Transcriber's comments are in brackets [ ].
NOTE: Image format copyrighted by the Library of Virginia.
http://www.lva.lib.va.us/dlp/index.htm

John married Mary "Margaret" LNU(Virginia). Mary was born in (~1745) in (Virginia); died in ~1790 in Greene County, Tennessee. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Military: Revolutionary War Patriot
• Possessions: 16 Apr 1770; Amherst County, Virginia
• Occupation: 5 Feb 1776; Appraiser, Amherst County, Virginia
• Will: 8 Aug 1816, Warren County, Tennessee
• Probate: 7 Jun 1823, Warren County, Tennessee

Notes:

From: "Nita Shepard"
To: "David Alden Hennessee"
Subject: Grants
Date: Saturday, August 03, 2002 3:49 PM

Hi, David:

I received Grants #0941 dated Dec 1 1780, #1220 dated Sept 9 1780, #2295 dated Jan 14 1794, and #2576 dated Mar 3 1790 from Robert McNeely this afternoon

#1220 (9 Sep 1780) shows land belonging to Charles Welsher, Jumping Creek, to the left of Miles Harper and above 2 pieces of land belonging to John Harper.

#2295 (14 Jan 1794) shows 2 pieces of land belonging to Thomas Welsher. 1 piece is next to Patrick Hennessee. That same piece is above John Hughes.

Who is Charles Welsher? [Editor's Note] Click here to view a registry of Joseph Wilcher, Sr. which offers many clues to the early WILCHER lines in Amherst County, Virginia...

http://genforum.genealogy.com/cgi-bin/pageload.cgi?charles::wilcher::329.html

Cuz Nita

26 Jun 2007

Interesting tidbit re Thomas...

http://home.att.net/~jemjr/graveyard.htm

OLD BURIAL GROUNDS OF WARREN COUNTY, TENN. By MRS. BLANCHE BENTLEY

"One of the best known and first organized churches of Warren County was Liberty, a mile or so from McMinnville. As shown by his will, land was given by Thomas Wiltshire (Wilcher), the church house built and the church, Cumberland Presbyterian in doctrine, organized all in 1815. William Cheek Smartt is the reputed founder and he and John Allison, a Revolutionary soldier, were two of its first elders..."

Thomas Wilcher, TN

Posted By:Cecile Harrell
Email:
Subject:Thomas Wilcher, TN
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Have recently received info that Thomas Wilcher, d. 8 Aug 1816 in Warren County, TN has been certified as a Revolutionary soldier. Have a little more info if anyone is interested.

Cecile Harrell


Burke County (NC) Land Grants, abstracted by Betsy Dodd Pittman, The Burke Journal, August, 1993, p. 17:

"1409. THOMAS WELSHER 100 A. on No. side of Catawba River, on a conditional line between Welsher & Alexander Erwin, adj. McKenny. Ent. 31 Oct. 1779, #1020. CB: Micajah Sansom & Benj. Harris. Grant issued 16 Nov. 1790. [Warrant for survey mentions John Deals line and the Improvements made by Thomas Day.]"

Early Wilchers...

The name is spelled Welcher, Whelchel, Wilsher, Wilshire, Wicher, Willshire, Whiltshire, Wilsure, Wilkshire in various early VA and NC records. In 1654 John Wiltshire is listed as a Virginia immigrant, and in 1679 several of the Wilsheir family immigrated from Barbados. There was a Thomas Wiltshire in Northampton country, VA in 1672 and in the Isle of Wight Country in 1682. By the mid 1700's Thomas, Dorcas, and Joseph Wilshire are in Caroline County, VA. John Weltshire was in Augusta County, VA in 1762 and David Whiticher is there in 1769.

The name seems without doubt Wiltshire, at first, and shows an English origin - becoming Wilcher in both English and pioneer usage, until Wilcher became generally adopted. Thomas, of Warrant County, signs himself "Thomas Wiltshire" on several county records, one of them among the last he signed, in 1816 - the year of his death. (Copied from "The History and Genealogy of some pioneer Norther Alabama Families" by Mary N. Gibson - Brittain, Marie Brittain Craig, and Marjorie Craig Churchill.)

Research on the surname "Wilcher" shows it to be a variation on the name "Wiltshire," a county in SW England. About 90% of all people with that name 200-300 years ago came from there. Wilshire, England, is probably where the American Wilchers came from.

The vast majority of the Wilchers (or other spellings) who came to the New World in the 1600s and 1700s came as indentured servants, usually as an alternative to other punishment for petty offenses.

The first Wilcher in America showed up in Virginia in 1635 as an indentured servant. Over the next 150 years a couple dozen others showed up in various places: Maryland, Pennsylvania, and the Bahamas.

About ¾ of the Wilchers came to Virginia in the 1600s and 1700s.

One of these early Virginia indentured servants was likely the progenitor of the Wilchers in Amherst-Bedford.

End.

Abstraction from Thomas Bragg, 14 Apr 2005, Tom Bragg

Thomas Wilcher, Sr.
Anne Walton Wilcher

Father: See early Wiltsheirs from Barbadoes immigration about 1769 - John or Thomas Wiltsheir

Mother:

Born: About 1745 (court order on 2 Jun 1766 concerning road work listed Thomas Wilcher along with others which may suggest he was at least 21 years old at that time).

Married to: Anne (Nancy) Walton Wilcher who was born about 1745-50 and died after 1831 - age ~81 (she relinquished unto Thomas Wilcher Jr and Alberto Vaughan ... my life estate to the farm on which I now live and all the personal property.") [Warren County, TN, Deed Vol. I, Book D, pp.412-415]. Based on the age of her father and her oldest child, and the age of her brother William; she may have been born about 1745-50. Assumed to have married about 1774 (first child born 1775).

Re: 1. Moses Park (1738-1828): His Descendants and Related Families Vaughan and Wilcher. Gateway Press, 1991. Birmingham Public Library.
2. The Wiseman Family and Allied Lines, Vol I, 1991, Eugene M. Wiseman Author [PO Box 14054, Bradenton, FL 34280-4054

Children:

1. Sarah (Sally) Wilcher, born 1775, Burke County, NC, died before July 8, 1830 (age ~55) in Warren County. She was the wife of James Hennessee (born 1766, died 3 Mar 1851, son of Patrick Hennesee of Burke,County, NC).

2. Thomas W. Wilcher, Jr. born in the 1780's (Moses Park lists as 2nd child) - ~1785

3. Nancy Wilcher born 1776, Died 1843 in Blount County, Alabama married first Chambers, second George D. Staton (need to go back to Wiseman Collection and verify info on children)

4. Ritty (Ritrier, Kitriece, Kittie) Wilcher, born 1780, died 22 Aug 1827 in Cooper County, MO. She was the wife of Thomas Vaughn, Sr. - p 219, 248.

5. Elizabeth (Betsy) Wilcher was born 1782; died after 17 Dec 1835; married John Harper who died prior to the 1830 census.

6. Christian (Christeen, Christine) Wilcher, born 1790-1800 wife of Mr. North - p 283.

7. Winifred (Winny) Wilcher, wife of William Brassell, both living 1 Feb 1831 - p285.

8. Lucy Wilcher born 1784, died 1865 married first Joseph England, second Richard Forrest in 1828 - see p286.

9. Archibald born 1802-1804, never married, died about 1827 - page 265.

Note: The exact order of births of the children, 7 daughters and 2 sons, is not known.

Died: Between 8 Aug 1816 and 7 Oct 1816 in McMinnville, TN (about age 74)
Buried: Buried in the Liberty Cumberland Presbyterian Church Cemetery, but exact location unknown.

The earliest records of Thomas Wilcher, Sr. are in Amherst County, Virginia and were two court cases which were started in Dec 1767 against Thomas Wilcher for slander decided in Wilcher's favor. The other was for trespass and assault, but it was dismissed by the plaintiffs. He was probably born in the 1740s in Virginia. A good assumption might be that he was about 21 years old when the court order on road work was issued on 2 Jun 1766. Thus, he might have been born about 1745.

On 5 Feb 1776 he was appointed as 1 of 4 appraisers for a personal estate in Amherst County, VA. During the 1770s in Amherst County no court cases could be found. He did buy and sell land with the purchase of 174 acres on 16 Apr 1770 of part of tract which had been conveyed by Peyton Randolph and Lusford Lomax, Jr. to Philip Grymes.In 1770 he bought 150 acres which he and his wife Anne sold on 13 Feb 1779. He bought 200 acres in Amherst County on 2 Jan 1785. On 7 May 1787 he sold 481 acres in Amherst County. Thomas Wilcher Sr and his wife Anne sold 681 of his 855 acres in 1787 and 1788. He and Anne sold 81 acres on 2 Jul 1787. On 4 Nov 1788 they sold 600 acres. He also sold 200 acres on the south side of Berry's Mountain which he had bought in Oct 1785. Also on 4 Nov 1788 Thomas Wilcher and Anne sold 400 acres on both sides of Harris Creek.

In May 1787 he served on the Amherst County Court grand jury. The court orders of the late 1780s and early 1790s show that Thomas Wilcher was the defendant in two suits and was the plaintiff in six suits. None of these appear to be overly significant. There were other suits for amounts of about $100 or less, some of which were ruled in Wilcher's favor, and others dismissed. A case in court in May 1791 mentioned that Thomas Wilcher was "not a resident of Amherst County." In an Aug 1789 case it was state that "it appearing to the court that the said Thomas Wilcher hath removed to the State of North Carolina . . "

He died in 1816 so he would have been about 71 years old at the time of his death. He moved to Burke County, NC in 1789, and to Warren County, TN in 1807.

Thomas Wilcher, Sr purchased land on John's River in Burke County, NC as early as 1778. He moved there from Amherst Country, Virginia in 1789 (the suit against David Tinsley proves that Thomas Wilcher moved from Amherst County, VA, to North Carolina prior to Aug 1789).

Thomas Wilcher's wife is thought by most Wilcher researchers to be Anne Walton.

William Walton, Sr., was a Revolutionary Soldier, born 1735 in Virginia, son of William and Susannah Walton who were in Amherst County, VA by 1761 and in Burke County, NC 1792.

Thomas Walton purchased 600 acres at the mouth of John's River from Thomas Welcher (later a plantation belonging to Colonel John Sudderth).

Thomas Welcher's land in Burke Co., NC was granted to him by the State of North Carolina (copied from Burke: The History of a North Carolina County, 1777-1920). Thomas Welcher and William White were overseers of John's River in 1796.

Patrick Hennessey lived on the south side of John's River. After Thomas Wilcher Sr's death it was conveyed in 1818 by "Joseph England, Thomas Wilcher, Jr. and Benjamin Wooten, all of Warren County, TN to William Erwin of Burke County, NC" ... "tract adjoining the lands of John and Samuel Franklin, William Erwin and the children of William Walton",. This was a tract of land granted to Thomas Wilcher Sr. in 1799 by the State of North Carolina. This deed is recorded in Deed Book C, Warren County, TN.

Thomas Wilcher Sr moved to Warren County in 1807 (actually was White County that became Warren County about 1817-1820) from Burke County, NC. His business life is very well documented with many legal proceedings, including land deals and various disagreements with associates (see Moses Park reference). On 4 Dec 1807 he was 1 of 12 men appointed or commissioned as Justice of the Peace by the Tennessee General Assembly as part of the first County Court of Warren County [McMinnville at a Milestone 1810-1960 in the Birmingham Public Library written by the Southern Standard in McMinnville].

Thomas Wilcher Sr first arrived in White County in 1807, part of which became Warren County in late 1807. About 1807, Thomas Wilcher assignee of three Revolutionary War Soldiers, Martin Armstrong, John Nelson and Grady Byinham, entered a part of the land called for in the warrant of each. This was land extending south from the Barron Fork river to beyond present day Liberty Lane. Wilcher built a two-story brick home sometime after 1807, a portion of which exists recently as the home of Dr. B.C. Smoot. Thomas Wilcher Sr. died in this house. His earliest land grant records were in Aug 1808 in White County. There were six in the amount of 75 to 240 acres. He had 4 land grants for land in Warren Country of 33 to 125 acres on 24 Aug 1808. There were numerous other land related transactions. It is noted in the Warren County, TN marriage records prior to 1852 and court records prior to 1848 were lost or destroyed leaving quite a void for researchers.

When Warren County was organized in 1807, according to the laws of the State, a temporary log house and jail were erected near the center of the county, where the courts were to be held until the citizens of the county should elect commissioners who were to select a proper place for a permanent county seat. In 1808 a small log courthouse was built on top of a high hill, near a big spring just above the Barron Fork - at the towns southeast fording place - and where the Looney's Trace then crossed the river. From 1808 until sometime in 1811, circuit court was well as the other courts, met in the little log house twice a year at which time other lawyers from other towns with the circuit attended.

From Laughlin's "Reminiscences of McMinnville "as it was in 1811, he says "On occasions when the courts met in the log court house across the river, the judges and lawyers boarded about in the neighborhood as best they could. Most of them stayed in the home of Thomas Wilcher Sr. - two miles from the place of holding the court. After the death of Mr. Wilcher in 1816, the late Joshua Coffee occupied the house until his death in 1842 (Mr. Coffee didn't occupy the house until after Mrs. Wilcher's death).

Abstracted form the WCGA Bulletin, Volume XXII, Spring & Summer 2013, page 57:

SALE OF PROPERTY OF THOS. WELCHER [WILCHER] DECEASED

The Nashville Whig, Nashville, Tennessee, Tuesday, November 12, 1816, Volume V, Number 12, front page:

NOTICE:

There will be sold to the highest bidder, at the late dwelling-house of Thos. Welcher [Wilcher], deceased, on the first of January next, the following property belonging to the estate of said decedant [sic], viz:

One tract of first rate land, lying on the Barren fork of Collin's river, containing 300 acres, with 12 acres cleared and under good fence:

One tract of 90 acres, with 18 acres cleared:

One town lot in the town of M'Minnville. Twelve months credit will be given, the purchaser giving bond with approved security.

Executors:

Benj. Wooten (relationship unknown, Thomas cites him as a "trusted friend")
Tho. Welcher (son)
Jos. England (son-in-law)

On 7 Oct 1818 the executors sold 333 acres for $1,053. They sold about 183 acres of land in Burke Co. NC on 25 Nov 1818 for $100 (was originally granted on 7 Jun 1799).

One of the best known and first organized churches of Warren County was Liberty, a mile or so from McMinnville. As shown by his will, land was given by Thomas Wiltshire (Wilcher), the church house built and the church, Cumberland Presbyterian in doctrine, organized all in 1815. William Cheek Smartt is the reputed founder and he and John Allison, a Revolutionary soldier, were two of its first elders. On August 8, 1816, Thomas Wilcher gave the land to build the Cumberland Presbyterian Church at Liberty.

Thomas Wilcher Sr and his wife, Anne Walton, are likely buried in the Liberty Cumberland Presbyterian Church cemetery. He donated the land for the cemetery. Liberty is 1 mile south of McMinnville off Highway 55 on Liberty Lane. Turn left going south on Morrison St on Old Morrison Hwy then Liberty Lane and the Liberty Cumberland Presbyterian Church will be on the right as well as the cemetery.

Joseph M. Bragg and his wife, Richard M. Bragg, and other family members are buried here in order: Richard M. Bragg 14 Jun 1833 - 11 Dec 1858; Joseph M. Bragg 25 May 1798 - 9 Jul 1879; Clarissa T. Bragg 25 Sep 1806 - 16 Aug 1851; Hugh T. Bragg 25 Nov 1831 - 22 Dec 1845; and Martha Bragg 8 Feb 1845 - Jun 1845.

In summary Thomas Wilcher was probably born about 1745-46. He moved from Amherst County, VA, to Burke County, North Carolina (near Morganton), whe he was approximately 44 years old, in before Aug 1779. He moved on to Tennessee when he Thomas Wilcher, Sr. (cont'd) was about 62 years old.Thomas Wilcher died in Warren County, TN, Oct 1816 when he was about 71 years old.

Will of Thomas Wilcher, Sr

The will of Thomas Wilcher, Sr. to Annie Wilcher, et al was a Deed of Gift and is recorded in Warren County Deed Book D, pages 412-414.. It reads as follows:

"In the name of God, Amen. I, Thomas Wilcher of the County of Warren and the State of Tennessee, this 8th day of August A.D. 1816, being weak of body but of perfect mind and memory and calling to mind the mortality of my body and knowing that it is appointed unto all men to die, do make and ordain this to be my last Will and Testament.

Principally and first of all, I recommend my soul into the hands of Almighty God who gave it, and my body to the dust to be interred in a decent and Christian-like manner. At the discretion of my executors hereinafter named and as touching such worldly estate wherewith it has pleased God to bless me with in this life I give, devise and dispose of in the following manner. Viz,--I will and desire that all my just debts and funeral expenses be paid out of my estate.

1st Imprimis. I give and bequeath to my beloved wife Anne and son Archibald, all the tract of land whereon I now live lying north of John Harper old line to join a line of Thomas Wilcher, Junr said tract to run with the main road until it strikes the aforesaid line of Thomas Wilcher, Junr. Further I give to my wife and son aforesaid four negroes, viz. Isaac, Rella, Jo and Lawson with the increase of said slave Rella forever and should one or more of the aforesaid Negroes die before my decease in that case I will and allow the number to be kept up of others of my Negroes of my son's own choice. Also to my said wife and son I leave all my household furniture that I possess at my decease together with all stock of every description with all farming utentials and every necessary thing or things suitable for a farm and necessary to make life comfortable and living convenient to my wife during her natural life and to my son Archibald his heirs forever, and I do put my son in possession of the above with the injunction laid of my son Archibald that he shall during his mother's natural life support, take care, and nourish her as comfortable in this world as will be in his power.

2 Item. I give to my son Thomas Wilcher the tract of land where on he now lives containing 250 acres agreeable to the survey, be the same more or less to him and his heirs forever.

3 Imprimis. I give and bequeath to my daughter Sally Hennessee a Negro woman named Sucky with her off spring, the tract of land whereon James Hennessee now lives, containing by estimation 223 acres all my right and title of the same to her and her heirs forever.

4th Item. I give to my daughter Christian a tract of land beginning on my son Thomas' line where it crosses the road south side of said road that is the line between my son Thomas and son Archibald running with the road till it strikes John Harpers line thence with Harpers line to a red oak south side of the ?ting being a corner of Harper's tract, thence northeastwardly to a poplar marked TW, thence with said line east to a corner of another tract, thence south to a corner thence continuing south till it strikes another line of mine being a preference of Edmond McMahons(?) purchased from Anderson and Thomas Wilcher, Sr. (cont'd)

Doak, thence east to a corner thence south to a corner thence east to a corner then north to a corner on Thomas Vaughans line then west with his line to his corner thence north with his line to Thomas Wilcher, Junr., line to the road to the beginning including all in that boundary except an acre for the use of the church, also a Negro girl named June and her offspring to her and her heirs forever.

5th Item. I give to my daughter Nancy Staton a Negro girl Peggy and offspring during her natural life and at her death to be sold and the money accruing therefrom to be equally divided among her children begotten of her body, to them and their heirs forever.

6th Item. I give to my grand daughter Rachel Chambers one hundred dollars when collected out of my estate by my Exrs.

6th(sic) Item. I give to my daughter Betsey Harper a Negro girl named Pat which are (sic) now in the possession of John Harper and that said girl shall never be sold not put away by no bargain or contract whatsoever from the use and benefit of my aforesaid daughter and her children during my daughter's natural life, and at her death my will is that said girl and her offspring be equally divided between her children forever.

7th I give to my daughter Lucy England a Negro boy named John, together with $300 that she has already received making her dividend equal with my other children to her and heirs forever.

8th Item. I give to daughter Ritty the sum of five dollars as she has heretofore received her dividend of my estate.

9th Item. I give to Polly, Thomas, and Aaron Vaughan my daughter Ritty's children begotten of her body one hundred dollars each and no more, by my Exors. To be given them when they arrive at age or at marriage.

10th Item. I give to my daughter Winny the sum of $5 at the discretion of my Exors. Hereafter named and empowering them to consider my daughter Winny that if they see her necessity required assistance that they will allow her the use of Negroe girl named Lucy as her need requires and to recall her at their discretion also upon their discretion to allow her to the amount of three hundred dollars occasionally as her necessity demands and should it be that her circumstance should not required to that amount I wish the other part of the $300 to be adapted for the purpose of educating her grandchildren viz Sandy England and Polly Taylor. The property that I bought at William Brasel's sale to be returned to my Exors. And it to be at their discretion if not discretionally used. Two horses, thirteen head of cattle, 15 head of hogs and the house furniture.

11th Item. And the residue of my estate both real and personal not heretofore bequeathed I wish to be sold and equally divided amon my legatees viz. Sally Hennessee, Nancy Staton, Betsey Harper, Lucy England, Thomas Wilcher, and daughter Christian, Archibald Wilcher to them and them only and heirs forever.

12th Item. And I do by these presents appoint my trusty friends Benjamin Wooten, Thomas Wilcher, Jr., and Joseph England the sole executors of this my will and testament and none other ratifying and confirming this to be my last will and testament and revoking and disallowing all other wills heretofore by me made. In witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand and seal the date first written."

Signed Thomas Wilcher (Seal)

Signed, sealed, and pronounced In presence of Aaron Abernathy, Joseph Taylor x his mark, Alexander Snell.

To my son Arch I want my wife and son to have two horses of their choosing.

State of Tennessee October Term 1816
Warren County Court

I do hereby certify that the due execution of the within last will and Testament of Thomas Wilcher deceased was proven in open Court of the first day of the above Term by the oaths of Joseph Taylor and Alexander Shenell two of the subscribing witnesses thereto, and ordered to be recorded.

Given at office the 7th June A. D. 1823
Jos. Coville Clk
By S. D. Own D. Clk.

This will was proved in open court on the 7th day of June 1823 and registered 9 June 1823. Thomas I and Ann had 7 daughters and 2 sons, all of whom received bequests from his will. [See "Siblings," p. 4]

On 7 Oct 1818 the executors sold 333 acres for $1,053. They sold about 183 acres of land in Burke Co. NC on 25 Nov 1818 for $100 (was originally granted on 7 Jun 1799).

Per "The North Carolinian Journal by Wm. Perry Johnson editor in March 1960 the North Carolina Revolutionary War Pay Vouchers listed Thomas Wilcher (or Welsher) from the Morgan District, Burke Co., NC. No further information is available, but this shows clearly Thomas Wilcher Sr was a Revolutionary War soldier from the state of North Carolina. He was in North Carolina from 1789 - 1807.

Early Wilchers

From "The Wiseman Family and Allied Lines, Vol I" found in the Warren County, TN genealogical library. The ancestors for the Warren Country, TN family by the surname Wilcher are difficult to assertain. The name is spelled Welcher, Whelchel, Wilsher, Wilshire, Wicher, Willshire, Whiltshire, Wilsure, Wilkshire in various early VA and NC records. In 1654 John Wiltshire is listed as a Virginia immigrant, and in 1679 several of the Wilsheir family immigrated from Barbados. There was a Thomas Wiltshire in Northampton country, VA in 1672 and in the Isle of Wight Country in 1682. By the mid 1700's Thomas, Dorcas, and Joseph Wilshire are in Caroline County, VA. John Weltshire was in Augusta County, VA in 1762 and David Whiticher is there in 1769.

The name seems without doubt Wiltshire, at first, and shows an English origin - becoming Wilcher in both English and pioneer usage, until Wilcher became generally adopted. Thomas, of Warrant County, signs himself "Thomas Wiltshire" on several county records, one of them among the last he signed, in 1816 - the year of his death. (Copied from "The History and Genealogy of some pioneer Northern Alabama Families" by Mary N. Gibson - Brittain, Marie Brittain Craig, and Marjorie Craig Churchill.)
Thomas Wilcher, Sr. (cont'd)

Research on the surname "Wilcher" shows it to be a variation on the name "Wiltshire," a county in SW England. About 90% of all people with that name 200-300 years ago came from there. Wilshire, England, is probably where the American Wilchers came from. The vast majority of the Wilchers (or other spellings) who came to the New World in the 1600s and 1700s came as indentured servants, usually as an alternative to other punishment for petty offenses. The first Wilcher in America showed up in Virginia in 1635 as an indentured servant. Over the next 150 years a couple dozen others showed up in various places: Maryland, Pennsylvania, and the Bahamas. About 3/4 of the Wilchers came to Virginia in the 1600s and 1700s. One of these early Virginia indentured servants was likely the progenitor of the Wilchers in Amherst-Bedford.

William Walton & Susannah Walton (father/mother of Anne Walton)

Children:

1. William Walton -to become William Walton Sr. born 24 Dec 1736. Married Elizabeth Tilghman in St. James, Northern Parish, Goochland County, Virginia to Elizabeth Tilghman on 1 Dec 1758. Had 15 children. Before 1767 moved to Amherst County, Virginia. Served in the American Revolution. Son, William Jr. served in the Army in South Carolina. In Amherst County 1785-87. Moved to Charleston, SC where Elizabeth Tilghman died on 8 Sep 1787. Listed in 1800 census of Burke County. Died 31 Jan 1806 (age70). Buried at the churchyard of the First Presbyterian Church, Morganton, NC.
2. Jesse Walton -in the Revolutionary War records of Wilkes County, NC. Later moved to Tennessee and was second in command to John Sevier. Founder of Jonesboro, TN.
3. Susannah Walton
4. Mary Walton
5. Anne Walton, born about 1748, and married Thomas Wilcher, Sr.
6. Louise Walton
7. Frances Walton

End

10 Oct 2008:

Abstracted from,

"Early Tennessee Tax List", Sistler; p. 206;

WELCHIR, Thomas L., Warren-1812

p. 207;

WHELCHAE, Day?, Warren-1812
WHELCHAE, John, Warren-1812
WHELCHAE, William, Warren-1812
WHILCHAE, Francis, Warren-1812

"The Reconstructed 1810 Census of Tennessee", Charles A. Sherrill,

p. 546;

Whelchae, Dave ?, Warren Co. Tax 1812 tax list, in Christian Schell's district
Whelchae, John, Warren Co. Tax 1812 tax list, in Christian Schell's district
Whelchae, Dave ?, Warren Co. Tax 1812 tax list, in Christian Schell's district
Wilcher, Thomas, Jr, Warren Co. Tax 1812 tax list, in Samuel Colville's district
Whehae, Frances, Warren Co. Tax 1812 tax list, in Christian Schell's district

24 Jun 2009:

Listed in the 1812 Warren County, Tennessee Tax List...

Enumerated by Christian Shell:

12. Wilchar, John
48. Wilchar, Davis
49. Wilchar, William
56. Wilchar, Frances

John, Davis & Frances are, no doubt, connected to the WILCHER tree, however, there is no mention of them in any of the Thomas Wilcher, Sr. documents. Nor do they appear in the 1820, 1830 or the 1850 Warren County Census records. Could they be issue of the Charles WILCHER of Burke Co.,NC as noted by Nita Shepard? ...DAH

End.

Could John be his father? Go to this link... http://www.geni.com/people/John-Wilcher/6000000014961325946 or his record within this website:

http://thehennesseefamily.com/getperson.php?personID=I36645&tree=hennessee

Birthdate: April 5, 1716 Birthplace: Christ Church, Middlesex, Virginia, British Colonies of North America

Died 1770 in Spartanburg, South Carolina, British Colonies of North America

end of comment

Joseph Wilcher Sr. Amherst Co., VA

Probably connected to an earlier WILCHER line and might be a brother to Thomas & Charles Wilcher:

Chronology Report 1
Printed by Legacy on 20 Nov 2002
Age Name: Joseph WILCHER Sr.
Life Range: 70 1760-1765 - After 1830
1760-1765 Birth: 1, 2
Between 1760-1770 Spouse (#2): Sarah TYREE (Between 1760- ).
1 1761 History: Virginia, Amherst Co.. Formed from southern half of Albemarle County.
1 1761 History: Virginia, Amherst Co.. Amherst Parish was formed from St. Anne's Parish to cover the county. . 3
11 1771 May 25 To 1771 May 27 History: Virginia, Amherst Co.. Amherst suffered a disaster when the James river ws a t flood stage, 150 persons were lost at that time.
Marriage (1): Mildred "Milly" ( -Bef 1798). 17
Unknown Spouse (#1): Mildred "Milly" ( -Bef 1798). Died before 28 Apr 1798. 4
23 1783-1786 Tax: Virginia, Amherst Co.. list Charles Wilcher & Joseph Wilcher. 4
25 1785 Tax: Virginia, Amherst Co.. Welsher, Joseph 5 white.
27 1787 Tax: VA, Amherst Co., List B. List B: Wilcher, Joseph self, 0 16/21 white males, 0 black 16/+, 0 black 16/-, Horses 2, Cattle 7. 5
29 1789 Nov 12 Deed: Virginia, Amherst Co.. Saml Meredith, Jno Stewart & Jos Wilsher, AC to Jas Owen AC for 70 lbs 95 acres 56 acres is that of Wilsher; Lines. Christian, Saml Meredith (formerly Braxton) Wit. Nelson Crawford, Lindsey Coleman, Jas Callaway, Jas Ballinger. 6
Abt 1790 Child born (1-#1): 30 Joseph WILCHER Jr. (Abt 1790- ).
1793 Sep 2 Child born (1-#2): 33 Virginia, Amherst Co.. Lawson Green WILCHER (1793-1843). Born in Amherst Co., Virginia, USA. Died on 4 Dec 1843 in Amherst Co., Virginia, USA.17
36 1796 Feb 23 To 1798 Sep 22 Deed: VA, Amherst Co., 102a. Saml & Jane Meredith to Jos Wilcher 5sh 102a pt. tract Rockey River, Braxton's old line, Notley Maddox, Jos Higginbotham. Wit. Davis S Garland, Jas Garland, Jas P Garland.. 7
38 Bef 1798 Apr 28 Death of Spouse (#1): Mildred "Milly" ( -Bef 1798).
38 1798 Apr 28 Bond: Virginia, Amherst Co.. Joseph Wilcher & Jacob Tyree are bound to commonwealth of VA $150 28 Apr 1798. A marriage is intended between Sally Rutherford (widow) & Joseph Wilcher (Widower) signed Jos Wilsher Jacob Tyree. 19
38 1798 Apr 28 Certificate: Virginia, Amherst Co.. Married Wilsher, Joseph and Sally Rutherford, widow by the Rev Walter Christian. (M.R.).. 20
1798 Apr 28 Marriage (2): 38 Virginia, Amherst Co.. Sarah TYREE
(Between 1760- ). In Amherst Co., Virginia, USA. 19
38 1798 May 12 Deed: Virginia, Amherst Co.. Jos Wilcher AC to Andrew Monroe (Munroe) AC for 300 lbs 231a branches Rockey Run, Lines :Jos Higginbotham, Peter Cashwell, Charles Christian, Richa Wilson, Saml Huckstep. Wit. Chas Christian, Jacob Pierce, Rich Wilson. 8
38 1798 Jun 21 Deed: Virginia, Amherst Co.. Jacob Tyree AC to jos Wilcher AC for 5 sh & love a slave Sue for his wife Sarah who is my daughter. Wit. Francis Bunt, Nicodemus Vermilion. 9
50 1810 Census: Virginia, Amherst Co.. Joseph Wilcher m. 2 16/26, 1 26/45, 1 45/+ f. 1 0/10, 1 16/26, 1 45/+; slaves 8. 1
51 1811 Jun 12 Bondsman: Virginia, Amherst Co.. Joseph Willshire Jr. and Joseph Willshire Senior are bound; a marrriage is intended between Joseph Wilcher Jr. & Nancy Rutherford; Sarah Willshire signed dau. Nancy is 20y of age. Recorded in Marriage Regiter #1 p. 226, Amherst County Clerks Office, Amherst, Virginia. 12
Jun 1811. Know all men by these presents that we Joseph Willshire Jr. and Joseph Willshire Senior are held jointly bound unto his excellency Gov. Wm. South Lieutenant governor of chief magistrate of the 10
52 1812 Aug 17 Deed: Virginia, Amherst Co.. Joseph WILSHIRE, JacobPIERCE & Joseph KENNEDY- Joseph WILSHIRE debt to Joseph KENNEDY 200 lbs due 1 Jan 1814, slaves, Moll Isham, China (life est of wife Sarah Wilshire) Dick, Wiatt, Robinson, Joe, Clara, horse, cattle, beds, furniture, hogs . 11
57 1817 Tax: Virginia, Amherst Co.. Joe Wilchar 1 wm/+16, 2 horses; Joseph W Wilcher 1 wm/+16, 1 bm/+16,
1horse (2nd hundred); . 12
57 1817 Tax: Virginia, Amherst Co.. Jos Wilshar 1 wm/+16 1 bm/12-16; Joseph W Wilcher 1. 13
59 1819 Tax: Virginia, Amherst Co.. Joseph Wilcher Sr 1 wm/+ 16, 1 slave; Joseph Wilcher 1 wm+16, 1. Tax list 1819 Amherst Co. VA. 14
60 1820 Census: Virginia, Amherst Co.. Wilsher, Joseph Amherst Co VA p. 38 No Twp. . 15
61 1821 Mar 12 Purchased: Virginia, Amherst Co.. James M (W) Wilshire, Amherst County, to Joseph Wilshire, amherst Co $133 horse; beds, etc. Wit. Charles A Christian, Samuel DChristian, William Pollard (could be Jr). 16
70 1830 Census: Virginia, Amherst Co.. Joseph Wilcher m 1 80/90, f 1 15/20, 2 20/30, 1 60/70 9 slaves. 2
70 After 1830 Death:

Source Citations
1. 1810 U. S. Census Amherst Co., Virginia. Wilchers, Calab m. 2 10/16 1 16/26 1 45/+ f. 1 16/26 1 45+26/45: Richard m. 1 45/+ slaves 11: Joseph m. 2 16/26 1 26/45 145/+ f 1 0/10 1 16/26 1 45/+ slaves 8
2. 1830 U S Population Census Amherst Co., Virginia.
3. Charles Frances Cocke, Parish Lines Diocese of Virginia, (Richmond, VA: The Virginia State Library, 1967).
4. Smith, Melba M, Wilcher Family Information, a descendant of Lawson Green Wilcher son of Joseph Wilcher Sr & Milly, (1998). 5. Netti Schreiner-Yantis and Florene Speakman Love, The 1787 Census Of Virginia: An accounting of the Name of Every White Male Tithable Over 21 Years; the Number of Wite Males between 16 & 21 Years; the Number of Slaves Over 16 & those Under 16 years, together with a Listing of their Horses; Cattle & Carriages: and also the Names of all Persons to whom Ordinary Licenses and Physician's Licenses were Issued, (Genealogical Books in Print, Springfield, VA).
5. Netti Schreiner-Yantis and Florene Speakman Love, The 1787 Census Of Virginia: An accounting of the Name of Every White Male Tithable Over 21 Years; the Number of Wite Males between 16 & 21 Years; the Number of Slaves Over 16 & those Under 16 years, together with a Listing of their Horses; Cattle & Carriages: and also the Names of all Persons to whom Ordinary Licenses and Physician's Licenses were Issued, (Genealogical Books in Print, Springfield, VA).
6. Rev Bailey Fulton Davis, The Deeds of Amherst County, Virginia 1761-1807 & Albemarle County, Virginia 1748-1763, (The Rev. S Emmett Lucas Jr, P O Box 738 Easley, SC 29640: Southern Historical Press, 1979), p. 243: 413.
7. Ibid, p. 325: p. 204 & p. 340: p. 429.
8. Ibid, p. 333. p. 329.
9. Ibid, Deed Bk L p.335/358.
10. William Montgomery Sweeny, Marriage Bonds, and Other Marriage Records of Amherst County, Virginia 1763-1800 [Although Amherst was formed in 1761, no marriage records have been found before 1763], (Baltimore MD: Genealogical Publishing Co., Inc, 1937 & 1973), Recorded in Marriage Regiter #1 p. 226, Amherst County Clerks Office, Amherst, Virginia.
11. Rev Bailey Fulton Davis, The Deeds of Amherst County, Virginia 1807- 1827: Books L-R, (The Rev. S Emmett Lucas Jr, P O Box 738 Easley, SC 29640: Southern Historical Press, 1985), p. 39. DB M p228.
12. Tax list 1817 Amherst Co., VA.
13. Tax list 1818 Amherst Co., VA.
14. Tax list 1819 Amherst Co. VA.
15. AIS Census Indexes: This collection contains Federal Census Indexes, State Census indexes, and indexes to various Federal non-population schedules (Mortality Schedules, Veterans Schedules, Slaves Schedules) for most of the U.S. and parts of Canada. The scope of the collection includes colonial records (pre-1790 tax lists, resident's lists, etc.) and censuses from 1790 to 1870. Some census indexes for later years exist for some states, (1999 , Url: http://data/ancestry/com), Wilsher, Joseph Amherst Co VA p. 38 No Twp.
16. Rev Bailey Fulton Davis, The Deeds of Amherst County, Virginia 1807- 1827: Books L-R, (The Rev. S Emmett Lucas Jr, P O Box 738 Easley, SC 29640: Southern Historical Press, 1985), p. 635. 12 Mar 1821.
17. Smith, Melba M, Wilcher Family Information, a descendant of Lawson Green Wilcher son of Joseph Wilcher Sr & Milly, (1998).
18. The Holy Bible, Containing The Old and New Testaments: Together with The Apocrypha: Translated out of the Original Tongues, and with The Former Translations Diligently Compared and Revised, with Canne's Marginal Notes and Refrences, to which are added an index; An Alphabetical, Table of all the names in the old and new testaments, with their Sigifications, tables of Scripture weights, measures and coins & C., Family Info: Lawson G. Wilcher, (White & Hutchinson & Dwier, Hartford, 1836), Lawson G Wilsher Died the 4 of December 1843.
19. William Montgomery Sweeny, Marriage Bonds, and Other Marriage Records of Amherst County, Virginia 1763-1800 [Although Amherst was formed in 1761, no marriage records have been found before 1763], (Baltimore MD: Genealogical Publishing Co., Inc, 1937 & 1973), Marriage Register #1 p. 125, Amherst County Clerk's Office, Amherst, VA.
20. Ibid, p 28.

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A summation of early Wilchers...

Peggy,

Below is a message I posted a couple of years ago to Geneva Anderson. She apparently has the "link" I'm looking for which puts my John Wilcher (b. 1783) in KY at the right time. However, we haven't connected yet. I think she sent me a monumental, several megabyte database dump in 1999, but nothing specific on the link.

I've posted this to her again in hopes she will be more specific. It doesn't look like my John and your John are the same guy, although they may have been from the same family before that.

Brett (previous posting below)

I am descended from a line of Wilchers that found its way to the Pacific Northwest in 1868. I can trace back five generations (including myself) to a Stephen Wilcher, who was born in Casey Co. or Lincoln Co., KY, in 1810. He moved to Missouri in the 1840's, then on to Clark Co., WA, in 1868. His descendants all live in the PNW.

Stephen's father appears to have been named John Wilcher, who was 67 years old in the 1850 census and claimed to have been born in KY. That would put his birth in 1783, pretty early for KY, but possible if his parents were there with Daniel Boone and George Rogers Clark (and a whole lot of Indians).

The family seems to have been from Virginia. Your Amherst, Bedford Co., connections look promising because of the same set of names-- John, Joseph, Charles, etc.-- and because of the dates. They were there in the late 1700's and the same names show up in Casey-Lincoln, KY, in the early 1800's. This doesn't do much for John Wilcher's claim about being born in KY in 1783, but works well for connecting Wilchers in KY and VA.

I've also been looking back further to try to figure out how Wilchers got to Amherst-Bedford in the late 1700's. Most of my conclusions are based purely on statistical probablilities. For example, research on the surname "Wilcher" shows it to be a variation on the name "Wiltshire," a county in SW England. About 90% of all people with that name 200-300 years ago came from there. I'm inclined to think that Wiltshire, England, is where the American Wilchers came from. The vast majority of the Wilchers (or other spellings) who came to the New World in the 1600's and 1700's came as indentured servants, usually as an alternative to other punishment for petty offenses. The first Wilcher in America showed up in Virginia ca. 1635 as an indentured servant. Over the next 150 years a couple dozen others showed up in various places: Maryland, Pennsylvania, and the Bahamas. About three-quarters of the Wilchers came to Virginia in the 1600's and 1700's. I suspect one of these early Virginia indentured servants was the progenitor of the Wilchers in Amherst-Bedford.

My challenges are:

1) to verify the connection between my Stephen Wilcher, born KY in 1810, with John Wilcher;
2) connect that John Wilcher with the Amherst-Bedford, VA, Wilchers; and
3) figure out the who, when, and how of the Wilcher migration from England to Virginia and then to Amherst-Bedford.

Any information you can provide that might help fill in the "middle years" would be appreciated.

Later response...

Hi Brett

Do you have further info on the Amherst County, Va Wilchers which you could share with me? I have come across references to Charles and John W. Wilcher being sons of Joseph and Barbara Wilcher of Amherst Co, Va (late 1700s time period). There was also a Thomas Wilcher who may fit as another relative. Thomas Wilcher, formerly of Amherst co, Va, is listed in land records of Burke co, Nc along with Charles Wilcher. This same Thomas had issue who removed to Warren and Cannon Counties, Tennessee.

I would appreciate any details you might have on any Amherst co, Va Wilcher family, which might help me verify or add to the limited Wilcher info I have...

Thanks

David Travillion Bunton
613 South Commerce Ave
Russellville, AR 72801
travillion@hotmail.com

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Thomas Wilcher built a two-story brick home sometime after 1807, a portion of which exists today as the home of Dr. B. C. Smoot...

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Sat 3/11/2017 4:41 PM

Hey cuz,

I was looking at your notes for Nancy Anna Walton and looking at the sources... I was wondering if you realized that the Family Search sources link back to trees that give her parents as the William who married Susannah Cobb? Even so, I still don't think this is correct because there is no proof that she was even a Walton let alone the daughter of William and Susannah. Also, I have seen (but not sure if it is sources) that Anne, the daughter of William and Susannah was married to someone else. Again, I don't know if that had sources or not but it is worth noting. I thought you might want to know in case you want to alter or remove those cited sources. So far I haven't found anything regarding her parentage or even real surname. I have definitely ruled out William Walton and Elizabeth Tilman as her parents. They were married on 1 Dec 1758. I found the record proving their marriage date and therefore proving they aren't her parents.

I have found quite a few deed records for Thomas Wilcher. I wasn't really thinking about Warren County having been formed from White County before. A lot of the land deeds for him are in White County...something to keep in mind when searching for records for Warren County. I will have to change the format from jpg to pdf for you so it may take some time.

Here is a plat map that shows his land in Warren County:

A note regarding Thomas Wilcher's death date... it is given by everyone as 08 Aug 1816...but that was the day he made the will. The transcription of his will indicates his will was proved in open court during the Oct 1816 term so his death date is sometime between when he wrote his will (08 Aug 1816) and when it was proved (Oct 1816). Then there is a note at the bottom which reads:
Given at office the 7th June A.D. 1823
So I am not sure what that is about.

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Interestingly, on the page opposite to one of the Thomas Wilcher land deeds was one for James Cain. The name is mistranscribed as Caise but when you look at the bottom of the document it is more obvious that it said Cain. I also found this tidbit in the White County Minutes on GenWeb (this site also has lots several mentions of Thomas Wilcher suing various people for money owed).


Peter Hutson )
vs. )
Henry Lowery )
In this case the parties personally appeared in Court and agreed to refer the cause in dispute to Henry J. H. Hill, Esq., james Kane, Joseph Hutton, John Huse, Isham McGuire, James Boyd and Vincent Hubbs, and their verdict be returned to next court and be binding as the verdict of a Jury would have been.
Tuesday 14 Apl. 1807 Court adjourned till tomorrow morning Seven O'clock, Members present: John Dergan, Henry J. H. Hill & Benjamine Weaver, Esqr.
Wednesday 15th April 1807 Court met according to adjournment
Members Present: Henry J. H. Hill, Thomas Bounds ) Esqrs.
& Thomas Matthews )

and this on a John Kain:

October 8, 1821
P. 285
Andrew McElroy. )
To Issd. ) Deed trust
Thomas Hopkins & )
John Kain )
Was this day proven in open Court by the oaths of Richard Nelson and Nathan Haggard the subscribing witnesses thereto, for the purposes and things mentioned and ordered to be recorded, let it be registered.
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I remember you talking about always coming across Cunninghams, so here are a few things:

Here is a bio on George Cunningham, husband of Sarah Hennessee:


Another Hennessee and Cunningham marriage... Bible record:

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I will let you know what else I find but wanted to send a rundown of this stuff. Otherwise it gets to be too much to remember and include at once lol.

Love,
Stef

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Thomas Wilcher
Born 1745 in Amherst, Virginia, British Colonial America
Son of [father unknown] and [mother unknown]
[sibling(s) unknown]
Husband of Nancy (Walton) Wilcher — married before 1768 in Amherst County, Virginia Colony
DESCENDANTS descendants
Father of Archibald P. Wilcher, Sarah (Wilcher) Hennessee, Winnefred (Wilcher) Braswell and Thomas Walton Wilcher
Died 1816 in McMinnville, Warren County, Tennessee
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Thomas Wilcher served during the American Revolution
Service started:
Unit(s):
Service ended:

"The North Carolinian Journal by Wm. Perry Johnson editor in March 1960 the North Carolina Revolutionary War Pay Vouchers listed Thomas Wilcher (or Welsher) from the Morgan District, Burke Co., NC."[1]

Biography
Thomas Wilcher was probably born about 1745-46. He moved from Amherst County, VA, to Burke County, North Carolina (near Morganton), when he was approximately 44 years old, before Aug 1879. He moved on to Tennessee when he was about 62 years old. Thomas Wilcher died in Warren County, TN, Oct 1816 when he was about 71 years old.[2]

Children
Archibald P. Wilcher, b. Abt 1771, (Amherst County, Virginia) , d. 0___ 1829, Warren County, Tennessee
Sarah "Sallie" Wilcher, b. 0___ 1775, (Amherst County, Virginia) d. Abt 8 Jul 1830, Warren County, Tennessee, married James Hennessee,
Nancy Wilcher, b. 6 Apr 1776, (Amherst County, Virginia) d. 0___ 1843, Blount County, Alabaman married George Dameron Staton,
Christian Wilcher, b. Abt 1777, (Amherst County, Virginia) married William North,
Winnefred "Winne" Wilcher, b. 1770-1780, (Amherst County, Virginia) d. 1840-1850, Blount County, Alabama married William Braswell, Sr.,
Ritnier "Ritty" Wilcher, b. (ABT 1780), (Amherst County, Virginia) d. ABT 1813, Warren County, Tennessee, married Thomas Vaughan,
Lucy Wilcher, b. 0___ 1784, (Amherst County) Virginia d. 7 Oct 1863, Warren County, Tennessee married Joseph England, married John Harper,
Elizabeth "Betsy" Wilcher, b. 0___ 1782, (Amherst County) Virginia, d. Aft 1850, Warren County, Tennessee
Thomas W(alton) Wilcher, Jr., b. 0___ 1788, Amherst County, Virginia d. 0___ 1854, Warren County, Tennessee married Pauline C. "Polly" Gordon,
Goodspeed’s History of Warren Count]y

Collins River is the main stream of the county. this stream rises in Grundy County, passes near McMinnville, just below the town receives the waters of Barren Fork, and empties into Caney Fork. Hickory Creek is a branch of Barren Fork, and Charles Creek empties into Collins River, they, with the two named and Mountain Creek composing the principal streams of the county.
When the pioneers came to what is now the territory of Warren County, they found the valleys and coves covered with an almost impenetrable growth of tall cane and the mountains and hills with heavy timber. Game was plentiful and many are the stories of exciting bear and deer hunts handed down and now told with keen relish by the sons of the hardy pioneers.
First District, Faulkner’s Chapel Methodist Episcopal South and Baptist, and Liberty Cumberland Presbyterian.[3]
OLD BURIAL GROUNDS OF WARREN COUNTY, TENN. By MRS. BLANCHE BENTLEY

"One of the best known and first organized churches of Warren County was Liberty, a mile or so from McMinnville. As shown by his will, land was given by Thomas Wiltshire (Wilcher), the church house built and the church, Cumberland Presbyterian in doctrine, organized all in 1815. William Cheek Smartt is the reputed founder and he and John Allison, a Revolutionary soldier, were two of its first elders William C. Smartt, his wives, his venerable mother, and many descendants are buried in this peaceful enclosure which in the springtime, with its level grassy turf, its evergreens, flowers, and waving vines, looks very like a garden of the long ago. William C. Smartt was a commissioned general in the militia, but he won his spurs as a fighting man at Mobile under Jackson where he was promoted to the rank of major."[4]
Sources
? "North Carolina Revolutionary Pay Vouchers, 1779-1782," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:Q2WT-561H : accessed 12 March 2017), Thos Wilcher, ; citing Morgan Township, Rowan, North Carolina, United States, State Archives of North Carolina, Raleigh.
? http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~mcgee/w/t_w730/t_w730.html
? Goodspeed’s History of Warren County
? OLD BURIAL GROUNDS OF WARREN COUNTY, TENN. By MRS. BLANCHE BENTLEY
http://thehennesseefamily.com/getperson.php?personID=I1214&tree=hennessee

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Birth:
Amherst County, Virginia was formed in 1761, from parts of Albemarle County, Virginia... http://bit.ly/1opXGkp

Possessions:
purchased 174 acres...

Occupation:
Appointed as an appraiser...

Died:
on Wilcher's Plantation...

Map & History of Warren County, Tennessee... http://bit.ly/PIsRbw and http://www.tngenweb.org/warren

Buried:
http://home.att.net/~jemjr/graveyard.htm

OLD BURIAL GROUNDS OF WARREN COUNTY, TENN. By MRS. BLANCHE BENTLEY

"One of the best known and first organized churches of Warren County was Liberty, a mile or so from McMinnville. As shown by his will, land was given by Thomas Wiltshire (Wilcher), the church house built and the church, Cumberland Presbyterian in doctrine, organized all in 1815. William Cheek Smartt is the reputed founder and he and John Allison, a Revolutionary soldier, were two of its first elders..."

Thomas married (Nancy Anna) "Anne" (Walton) LNU in (~1768) in (Amherst County, Virginia Colony). (Nancy was born on 24 May 1748 in Amherst County, Virginia; died in 1831 in McMinnville, Warren County, Tennessee; was buried in (Liberty Cemetery, Warren County, Tennessee). [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Alt Birth: ~1748, (Goochland County) Virginia

Notes:

Friday, March 10th, 2017:

Allen Thomas, allanharlthomas@gmail.com, alerts me to this error and I can thank him for his quick-eye:

"Hey David we have a problem with Nancy and her Mom's birthdates, what do you think?
"

Allan

to which I replied on the same day:

"Oh, s...

I've got to do some diggin'"

I spent several hours revisiting sites to verify her lineage and to no avail, so with great chagrin and embarrassment on

Saturday, March 11th, 2017:

I have unlinked Nancy Anna "Ann" Walton,

http://thehennesseefamily.com/getperson.php?personID=I1215&tree=hennessee,

from the family William & Elizabeth Tilman Walton,

http://thehennesseefamily.com/getperson.php?personID=I25624&tree=hennessee,

because there is no proof of the relationship.

It is likely that she was enumerated as one of their issue in error and that error has been copied, repeated and recapitulated by other researchers too lazy to verify the information

Alt Birth:
Now a part of Albermarle County, Virginia.

Goochland was founded in 1728 as the first county formed from Henrico shire, followed by Chesterfield County in 1749. Goochland was named for Sir William Gooch,[5] the royal lieutenant governor from 1727 to 1749, at which time the nominal governor, the Earl of Albemarle, remained in England. Goochland originally included all of the land from Tuckahoe Creek, on both sides of the James River, west as far as the Blue Ridge Mountains...

Map & History of Goochland County, Virginia ... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goochland_County,_Virginia

Notes:

Married:
Amherst County, Virginia was formed in 1761, from parts of Albemarle County, Virginia... http://bit.ly/1opXGkp

Residence (Family):
then it was known as "White County"...

Johann married Mary Margariete Killian in 1780-1784 in Lincoln County, North Carolina. Mary (daughter of Leonard Killian and Mary Margaret Fry) was born in 0___ 1755 in (Lincoln County) North Carolina; died in 0___ 1817 in Lincoln County, North Carolina. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

James married Catherine Cox. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

12 Feb 2007:

After eighteen years of searching, can find no sources citing father to Obediah. I've assigned, 'John', as his grand father, 'Mary', his grand mother based on the traditional naming protocol of:

First female child is named after maternal mother...
Second female child is named after paternal mother...
First male child is named after paternal father...
Second male child is named after maternal father...
Later issue named after siblings...DAH


Clue-laden message citing possible siblings of Obediah;

http://genforum.genealogy.com/cgi-bin/pageload.cgi?isham::jennings::1746.html

' Late 1700 Jennings in TN
Posted by: Rand Cardwell, kahuna@netramp.net

Date: December 16, 1999 at 21:46:23
of 6059


I have a few Jennings men that show up in early court records in Claiborne Co.,TN

Can anyone place them with families in NC or VA?

Mentioned in 1804 to 1810 in records working as road hands;

Obediah Jennings
Edward Jennings
William Jennings
John Jennings
Isom or Isham Jennings
George Jennings'

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Surname: Jennings

This interesting surname, is of early medieval English origin, although later strongly associated with both Wales and Ireland. Recorded in the spellings of Jennings, Jennins and Jennens, it is a patronymic. It derives from the given name Janyn or Jenyn, a diminutive of the personal name John, and meaning "Little John". John itself derives from the Hebrew name "Yochanan", meaning "Jehovah has favoured (me with a son)". The patronymic surname which in this case means "the son of Little John", dates back to the late 13th Century (see below), "John" being a 12th century Crusader introduction. Soldiers of the crusades returning from the Holy Land, gave to their children and specifically sons, Hebrew and Greek names as a reminder of the fathers "pilgrimage". These "English" personal names which later became surnames, include such examples as Thomas, Isaac, Abraham, and many others. In this case early recordings include Walter Jannes and Richard Janyns in the Subsidy Rolls of Worcestershire of 1327, and Thomas Jenyn, in the charter rolls of 1428 known as "Inquisitions and Assessments relating to Feudal Aids". Elizabeth, the daughter of Thomas Jennyns, was christened on August 9th 1544, at St. Pancras', Soper Lane, London, and Jeffrey Jennings was christened on August 24th 1561, at St. Dunstans in the East, London. Among the namebearers in the "Dictionary of National Biography" is Sir Patrick Alfred Jennings (1831 - 1896), who was Premier of New South Wales. He was born in Newry, Ireland, and emigrated to the gold fields of Victoria in 1852, before moving to New South Wales in 1863. The first recorded spelling of the family name is shown to be that of Roger Jonyng, which was dated 1296, in the Subsidy Rolls of the county of Sussex, during the reign of King Edward 1, known as "The Hammer of the Scots", 1272 - 1307. Surnames became necessary when governments introduced personal taxation. In England this was known as Poll Tax. Throughout the centuries, surnames in every country have continued to "develop" often leading to astonishing variants of the original spelling.

© Copyright: Name Orgin Research www.surnamedb.com 1980 - 2007

(John married (Mary LNU). [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Occupation: Farmer
• Military: Revolutionary War Patriot
• Religion: 1801-1805; Primitive Baptist Elder
• Religion: 1820; Primitive Baptist Elder

Notes:

Sketches of Tennessee's Pioneer Baptist Preachers... http://www.knoxcotn.org/tnbaptists/index.html

JESSE DODSON

"In memory of Rev. Jesse Dodson; born November 22, 1752; died November 22, 1843. A minister of the gospel sixty years." (Tombstone record, Eastanallee Church.)

The deceased was born in Halifax County, Va. His first settlement in Tennessee was in Claiborne County. From there he went to Middle Tennessee. In 1819 he came to the Hiwassee Purchase, making a settlement in McMinn County, a few months before the county was "erected." On the Eastanallee is a house still standing, I believe, built ninety-eight years ago by Jesse Dodson.

Soon after his settlement in the Hiwassee district he began pioneer work. He and seven others constituted themselves into the Eastanallee Church. He and Silas Witt organized New Hopewell. He and James Courtney founded the Hiwassee Church. Salem Church was organized by him and Richard Wilson, while he and John Short were co-founders of the Friendship Church. He was preacher to and pastor of these and other churches for many years. He was of Welsh extraction and had the Welsh fire. He was not trained to methodical sermonizing or systematic exposition of Scripture, but was earnest and fervent in exhortation, and was successful in revivals.

Elder Dodson owned 300 acres of land in the heart of Eastanallee valley, and ten negroes, whom he "freed," it is said, after the death of his wife (by whom he came into possession of them), giving as his reason that he had "concluded that a bill of sale of negroes in his pocket would be a bad passport at the gate of Heaven."

His wife was a Miss Ruth Johnson, of South Carolina, of a well-to-do. family, but the date of his marriage and other family and ministerial records have perished, were washed away or destroyed, it is thought, by the high waters of the Eastanallee in the year 1875. Editor's Note: Jesse was, in fact, married to Ruth Dodson, daughter of Elisha Dodson, Sr.

He lived to preach and exhort sinners to repentance about sixty-one years, and on his 91st birthday died in the triumph of a living faith.

Burnett, J .J. Sketches of Tennessee's Pioneer Baptist Preachers. Nashville, Tenn.: Press of Marshall & Bruce Company, 1919.

HTML presentation of this material is Copyright (c) 2002 by Rose-Anne Cunningham Bray. All rights reserved.

Thanksgiving of 1752 had a special meaning for Reverend Thomas DODSON and his wife Elizabeth ROSE, for on November 22nd they welcomed a new child into their Virginia family, Jesse DODSON. Not much is known about Jesse DODSON as a youth...one of at least 10 children in his family....but plenty is known about his adult life. Unknown to his father, a Virginia Baptist minister, Jesse would follow in his footsteps and change the lives of many settlers in the early days of America.

At the time of the American Revolution, the dominant religious force in the colonies was the Church of England, the mother country for so many of its settlers. To be a minister of any church that had broken ties with England was difficult in many social settings, but by the time Jesse DODSON was 23 years old, he was living on land given to him by his father in what is now Pittsylvania County in Virginia, and starting his life as a Baptist preacher, . Jesse and his wife Ruth were married in 1774, one year before the gunfire at Lexington and Concord would start the colonies on a path of thier own, and in 1777, Jesse's name is on the list of those taking an Oath of Allegiance to the State of Virginia. While there is no evidence of military service for Jesse DODSON during the War, we can feel confident that he served in some capacity, for at the end of the War he received a Land Grant in North Carolina, which would become Tennessee.

We know Jesse was still in Pittsylvania County, Virginia when the Revolutionary War ended in 1781, for he obtained property on Birch Creek, or Burches' Creek in some records. The following year he sold that land on "Jeremiah's Fork of Birches Creek" to relatives, and headed for Tennessee, leaving behind his brother William, also a Baptist minister.

Rev. Jesse DODSON is listed as a member of the County Line Baptist Church, also known as the North on Holston River Baptist Church, in 1785 Hawkins County, Tennessee. Rev. Jesse DODSON joined the Big Springs Primitive Baptist Church in what is now Springdale, Tennessee in 1801, and became the Pastor of the congregation from November 1801 until November of 1805.

In 1803, Jesse DODSON was listed in the tax records of what is now Claiborne County, in the northeast part of Tennessee, which includes part of Cumberland Gap National Park. The path from Virginia to Tennessee through Cumberland Gap had been widened by none other than Daniel Boone, and opened to wagon traffic after Rev. Jesse DODSON and his family passed through. The Big Springs Primitive Baptist Church that Jesse led was constructed in the winter of 1795-96 from hand-hewn logs, and is still standing today near Springdale, over two centuries later. It is one of the oldest churches still standing in the State of Tennessee.

Jesse and Ruth DODSON left Claiborne County in 1806 and moved to Warren County, Tennessee, where they are listed on the 1812 Tax List, and the 1820 Census. While in Warren County, they were involved with the Collins Creek Baptist Church and several others in the area.

Reverend Jesse DODSON was described by his peers as "earnest and fervent in exhortation", and "successful in Revivals". He was also said to have had the "Welsh fever" in describing his ancestrial traits and style of preaching, and is mentioned in the 1919 Baptist historical sketches as a Tennessee Pioneer Baptist Preacher.

Around 1820, Rev. Jesse DODSON was called to lead the Big Springs Baptist Church on Mouse Creek, near Niota in McMinn County, Tennessee...only a year after the Hiwassee Purchase Treaty with the Cherokee Indians had opened that land to settlement. Jesse was a founder of the Eastanallee Baptist Church, and his son Elisha donated the land for the structure. Over the years Rev. Jesse DODSON would be involved in the early McMinn County churches of Salem, Hiwassee, Friendship, and New Hopewell. Owning 300 acres of land in the Eastanallee Valley, his wife Ruth had obtained ten slaves from her father's Will, and when Ruth died in 1828 Jesse set the slaves free stating that "a Bill of Sale of Negroes in my pocket would be a bad passport at the Gates of Heaven"....another brave act in a Southern State over 30 years before the Civil War. After more than 60 years of preaching from the pulpit, and inspiring many pioneer churches, Jesse DODSON died on his 91st birthday in 1843. He is buried in the Eastanalle Church Cemetery in McMinn County, Tennessee.

The cemetery photo used at the top of this page in the header is the Eastanallee Cemetery, with the two broken headstones on the left side being those of Ruth and Jesse DODSON...and the Eastanallee Church is planning to replace them. Pioneer and Frontier Preacher, another good story in the ancestral book. Jesse is the 5th great grandfather of Anthony Martini, on his mother's side.

"In memory of Rev. Jesse Dodson; born November 22, 1752; died November 22, 1843. A minister of the gospel sixty years." (Tombstone record, Eastanallee Church.)

The deceased was born in Halifax County, Va. His first settlement in Tennessee was in Claiborne County. From there he went to Middle Tennessee. In 1819 he came to the Hiwassee Purchase, making a settlement in McMinn County, a few months before the county was "erected." On the Eastanallee is a house still standing, I believe, built ninety-eight years ago by Jesse Dodson.

Soon after his settlement in the Hiwassee district he began pioneer work. He and seven others constituted themselves into the Eastanallee Church. He and Silas Witt organized New Hopewell. He and James Courtney founded the Hiwassee Church. Salem Church was organized by him and Richard Wilson, while he and John Short were co-founders of the Friendship Church. He was preacher to and pastor of these and other churches for many years.

He was of Welsh extraction and had the Welsh fire. He was not trained to methodical sermonizing or systematic exposition of Scripture, but was earnest and fervent in exhortation, and was successful in revivals.


His wife was Ruth Dodson, of the same family lineage of Dodson pastors. Together, Jesse and Ruth raised 12 children whom all followed in their faith.

He lived to preach and exhort sinners to repentance about sixty-one years, and on his 91st birthday died in the triumph of a living faith.

MINUTES OF BIG SPRING PRIMITIVE BAPTIST CHURCH

[The first few pages are in very bad shape.]

Church Records for the Year 1800 - 1801

December 2nd Saturday 1800. ______Received John Goin in to fellowship. Received Obediah Jennings by experience. Agreed to continue meeting at Rob Camp 1st Saturday in January 1801 and appointed James Kinney, Elijah Chissum, William________, ________Harper and Isaac Lane to attend. Agreed to send James Kinney to Powder Gap Creek at their request.

Feby the 2nd Saturday 1801. Church met and after worship proceeded to business.
1st…..to continue meeting at Rob Camp.
2nd____
2nd Saturday_____Cloud by experience_______Richard________attend_______
______Saturday 1801. Church met for worship and proceeded to business.
1st Opened a door for the reception of members.
2nd Report made by the members from Robcamp that they received Marjorie Connor, Millie Armstrong into Fellowship.
3rd Appointed James Kinney, Isaac Lane and Thomas Jeffries to attend at Rob Camp first Saturday in April.
4th Peter Neal and William Stroud appointed to attend at Powells Valley Church on Gap Creek.

April the 2nd Saturday 1801. Church met and after worship proceeded to business.
1st. Opened a door for the reception of new members and received Judah Dodson by Experience.
2nd Appointed Bro James Kinney, Thomas Jeffries, William Stroud, Joseph Clark and Elijah Chissum to attend at Rob Camp meeting house on the first Saturday in May.

May the 2nd Saturday 1801. Church met and after worship proceeded to business.
1st Opened a door for the reception of new members.
2nd The brethren that attended at Rob Camp made_______that they had received Richard Hanes and advised____Members to meet together to worship God and____over each other according to the gospel________if any should want to join to the Church______advise that they send to the body for________

June the 2nd Saturday 1801. Church met and after worship proceed_________
1st Considered Bro. Obediah Martin's___________the ministry of the gospel______glory of God that he be_______ordinances but exercise______public prayer.
2nd ______Zachariah McCul_____
_____appoint Isaac Lane, Jesse Dodson and Joseph____to write with the church to which he formerly belonged their distresses.
4th Appoint Isaac Lauk and Joseph______to write to the association.

July the 2nd Saturday 1801. Church met and after worship proceeded to business.
1st Letters read and approbated.
2ne Appointed a Church Meeting at Rob Camp meetinghouse and appoint Joseph Clark and Peter Neal to attend.
3rd Appointed Joseph Cogdal to the association.

August the 1st Saturday 1801. Church met at Rob Camp and after worship proceeded to business.
1st Appointed James Kinney, Jesse Dodson and Peter Neal to settle a distress with Bro. Obediah Martin which was attended by Brother Martin's recantation.
2nd Dismist Richard Hanes, John Grimes, Milly Armstrong and Margery Conner.

August the 2nd Saturday 1801. Church met and after worship proceeded to business.
1st Opened a door for the reception of members. Received Jesse Dodson by letter.
2nd Elijah Chissum intended to travel desires letter of recommendation. Is granted a letter of dismission for himself and his wife when called for.
3rd Agreed to petition for a division of the association.

September the 2nd Saturday 1801. Church met and after worship proceeded to business.
1st Opened a door for the reception of members and received James Forrest and Mary his wife by letter.
2nd Received Stacy Edwards by experience.

______Saturday 1801. Church met and after worship proceeded to business.
1st Opened a door for the reception of members.
2nd Appointed our meeting in November for sacrament and the day before for fasting and prayer.
3rd. Brother William Stroud having a mind to travel requests a letter of recommendation is granted.
4th Motion for choosing a pastor is defered.

November the 2nd Saturday 1801. Church met and after worship proceeded to business.
1st Chose Jesse Dodson pastor.
2nd Agreed to call Isaac Barton and William Jones to install our pastor.

December the 2nd Saturday 1801. Church met and after worship proceeded to business.
1st Agreed to send Brethren Jesse Dodson, Isaac Land and Joseph Cogdal to the church on Buffaloo to inquire into their stand with John Conley.
End of Year 1800 - 1801

Could he have had a daughter who married James Cunningham?

October Second Saturday 1806. Church met at Big Spring and after worship proceeded to business.

1st Hannah Hill, Mercurius and Rachel Cook took their seats.

2nd Agreed to petition the Association for an alteration of their citing from Thursday to Saturday.

3rd Association letter read and approved.

4th Reference relative to Ritchard Harper continued to the 14th day of this month.

William and Nancy Stroud, Obediah and Elisabeth Jennings, Jesse and Ruth Dodson and Dodson's Sukey (Susanna) and James Cunningham dismisd by letter.

Tony Martini has put together an excellent biography with lots of location shots in Middle Tennessee ... http://graveyardgossip.blogspot.com/2010/03/martini-family-jesse-dodson-frontier.html

Dodsons who bureid in Matlock Cemetery:

http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gsr&GSln=Dodson&GSiman=1&GScid=1964531&

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"In memory of Rev. Jesse Dodson; born November 22, 1752; died November 22, 1843. A minister of the gospel sixty years." (Tombstone record, Eastanallee Church.)

The deceased was born in Halifax County, Va. His first settlement in Tennessee was in Claiborne County. From there he went to Middle Tennessee. In 1819 he came to the Hiwassee Purchase, making a settlement in McMinn County, a few months before the county was "erected." On the Eastanallee is a house still standing, I believe, built ninety-eight years ago by Jesse Dodson.

Soon after his settlement in the Hiwassee district he began pioneer work. He and seven others constituted themselves into the Eastanallee Church. He and Silas Witt organized New Hopewell. He and James Courtney founded the Hiwassee Church. Salem Church was organized by him and Richard Wilson, while he and John Short were co-founders of the Friendship Church. He was preacher to and pastor of these and other churches for many years.

He was of Welsh extraction and had the Welsh fire. He was not trained to methodical sermonizing or systematic exposition of Scripture, but was earnest and fervent in exhortation, and was successful in revivals.


His wife was Ruth Dodson, of the same family lineage of Dodson pastors. Together, Jesse and Ruth raised 12 children whom all followed in their faith.

He lived to preach and exhort sinners to repentance about sixty-one years, and on his 91st birthday died in the triumph of a living faith.

Family Members
Parents
Thomas Dodson
1707–1783

Elizabeth Rose Dodson
1706–1766

Spouse
Photo
Ruth Dodson Dodson
1754–1828 (m. 1774)

Siblings
Thomas Dodson
1728–1816

Alice Dodson Dodson
1734–1792

Photo
William Dodson
1737–1832

Children
Photo
Elijah Dodson
1785–1858

Photo
Elisha Dodson
1785–1864

Photo
Jesse Buford Dodson
1791–1878

Photo
Tabitha Dodson Rice
1798–1839

Photo
Ruth Dodson Ware
1802–1885

Eli Dodson
1813–1876

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Military:
While there is no evidence of military service for Jesse DODSON during the War, we can feel confident that he served in some capacity, for at the end of the War he received a Land Grant in North Carolina, which would become Tennessee.

Religion:
Primitive Baptists, are also known as Hard Shell Baptists, Anti-Mission Baptists, or Old School Baptists. The adjective "Primitive" in the name has the sense of "original".

Joined the Big Springs Primitive Baptist Church in what is now Springdale, Tennessee in 1801, and became the Pastor of the congregation from November 1801 until November of 1805.

Religion:
Around 1820, Rev. Jesse DODSON was called to lead the Big Springs Baptist Church on Mouse Creek, near Niota in McMinn County, Tennessee...only a year after the Hiwassee Purchase Treaty with the Cherokee Indians had opened that land to settlement.

Jesse married Ruth Dodson in 1774 in Halifax County, Virginia. Ruth (daughter of Elisha Dodson, Sr. and Sarah Everett) was born on 12 Dec 1754 in Fauquier County, Virginia; died on 22 Nov 1828 in McMinn County, Tennessee; was buried in Matlock Cemetery, Athens, McMinn County, Tennessee. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Birth: 25 Dec 1754, Pittsylvania County, Virginia

Notes:

Family Members
Spouse
Photo
Jesse Dodson
1752–1843 (m. 1774)

Children
Photo
Elijah Dodson
1785–1858

Photo
Elisha Dodson
1785–1864

Photo
Jesse Buford Dodson
1791–1878

Photo
Tabitha Dodson Rice
1798–1839

Photo
Ruth Dodson Ware
1802–1885

Eli Dodson
1813–1876

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Notes:

Married:
Ruth was his first cousin.

Johannes married unnamed spouse. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Tory soldier during Revolutionary War...Wes Dodson

Military:
Tory soldier during Revolutionary War...

Isaac married unnamed spouse(Burke County, North Carolina). unnamed was born in (North Carolina). [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Perhaps "Rebecca"...DAH

Notes:

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Richard was born about 1730 to Richard England and Mary in Acle, Norfolk, England.

Sources
"England Births and Christenings, 1538-1975," database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:JSHP-RBV : 30 December 2014), Richard England, 11 Sep 1730; citing Acle, Norfolk, England, reference item 4; FHL microfilm 1,911,574.

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Richard married unnamed spouse(Commonwealth of Virginia). [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Died:
in Quarterland, Killinchy ...

William married Rose Ann Kirkpatrick in ~1700 in Dumfriesshire, Dumfries, Scotland. Rose was born in ~1682 in (Dumfries) Scotland; died in (Scotland). [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

James married Rachel LNU. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Patrick married Martha Claiborne. Martha was born in 0___ 1721. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Benjamin married Frances"Franky" JordanFluvanna County, Virginia. Frances"Franky" died after 1808 in (Fluvanna County, Virginia). [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Married:
Married (1) Rebecca Cocke; married (2) Frances "Franky" Jordan.

Notes:

In comparing Y-DNA 25 marker results, the probability that Mr. John Andrew Close and Mr. David Alden Hennessee shared a common ancestor within the last...

James Close, b 1618: might be a sibling to our unknown O'Sheal antecedent

COMPARISON CHART

Generations Percentage

4 61.17%
8 84.92%
12 94.15%
16 97.73%
20 99.12%
24 99.66%


John Andrew Close
andy@closeancestry.com
R-M269
Y-DNA HAPLOGROUP
N/A
mtDNA HAPLOGROUP
Earliest Known Ancestors Paternal: James Close, b 1618
Maternal:Emma Steels, b 1872
About Me No information entered.

Ancestral Surnames

Close (Swaledale) Close (Grinton) Graham (Cumberland) Peacock (Swaledale)

FNU married unnamed spouse. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Birth: 1716, Dumfries, Dumfriesshire, Scotland

Notes:

Tragedy for the family...

I am descended from Archibald and your post was not quite correct on what happened to him.
It was not Archibald Sr. but his son Archibald Jr. who was killed in the massacre. His wife Ann was initially captured, but escape, and received a frosty reception from relatives when she arrived to reclaim the family property from them.

Quite a few of Ann's relatives were also killed in the massacre. As for Archibald Jr. and Ann's children, this is a somewhat confusing point:
-- An oldest son named John is said in some accounts to have been killed, but in others to have escaped. I have seen some researchers claim to be his descendants.
-- A baby was kidnapped and eventually killed. One version has the baby killed immediately when Ann escaped. Another has a Shawnee family adopting the child, but killing it a few years later. Both versions describe a gruesome death by the child's head being bashed in.
-- Jane Clenndennin was the young daughter of Archibald Jr. and Ann, who was captured by the Shawnees. She was held captive by near Pittsburg for nine years. At the age of 14 she was released in a hostage swap or some such arrangement. According to one version, she was with child and Ann intially would not accept her as her daughter.

Jane married a Mr. Davis. Her daughter Mary Gray Davis (wife of Congressman Ballard Smith of Virginia) is my direct ancestor.

Since one version of the story implies that Jane's oldest child was not really a Davis, I would be very interested in learning more about whether that is accurate and whether that was Mary or an older sibling (half-sibling).

-- Frank Taylor
W. Melbourne, Fla.

Archibald married Esther Mayse(Virginia). Esther (daughter of James Mayse and Rachel LNU) was born in 0___ 1711 in Tyrone, Ulster, Ireland; died on 2 Aug 1756 in Greenbrier, Virginia. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

she was his second wife...http://genforum.genealogy.com/cgi-bin/pageload.cgi?archibald::clendenen::237.html

Notes:

December 23, 2015:

I've abstracted this information for Benjamin and his issue from the web. And his profile must be questioned as there was NO sources cited for any of his events. It is also noteworthy that Thomas WILCHER did not name any of his children after his grandfather or his issue...DAH

Benjamin married unnamed spouse(Amherst County, Virginia, British Colonies of America). [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Baptism: 30 Apr 1724, Erzberg, Germany

Notes:

New Info: March 26, 2008 By researcher William McCreight, a North Carolina native now living in Germany. On 30 April 1724 Leonard Killian Headstone the son of Andreas Kilian, the younger, and Margaretha Fischer Kilian was baptized in Erzberg and named Leonhardt after the child's godfather, Leonhardt Steyern, a blacksmith from Wildenholz. Wildenholz is one mile south of Steinbach. Andreas Kilian, the younger, was described as a weaver. This baptismal record is consistent with the date of Leonhardt's birth taken from his grave mark.

Leonard Killian is the second child, and first son, of Andreas Killian (1702 - 1788) the pioneer who came to America from Germany in 1732. Although in Germany Andreas' name was Kilian (with one "L") he used the two "L" form after his arrival in America. His descendants use mostly the two "L" form of the name as he did. However, some of Leonard's descendants use the name Killion. (Note the use of "O" in the name rather than the more common "A". Bill Hinds, of Florida has made a long term study of Leonard's descendants and has a web site with many thousands of his descendants. In like manner Ed Killian, of Mississippi has studied the descendants of Andreas' son, George and has a web site with that information. My own web site includes all of Andreas' descendants, but does not attempt to include the massive information included in the sites mentioned above. Leonard Killian inadvertently confused the subsequent generations by marrying a girl whose name was Mary Margaret Killen. For decades it was assumed that Killen was just another bad spelling of her married name. Not the case, her maiden name was Killen. His life is also very interesting because his tombstone is in the German language and gives the dates of his birth and death as well as his age in years, months and days. The dates and age are not consistent. The material below sheds some light on this curious anomaly. Leonard tombstone is in Old St. Paul's Church Cemetery which is located about one mile northwest of Newton, NC. The tombstone is in the German language. This might suggest that German was spoken in his home, or that Germany was still thought of as the "home" country. Since Leonard was nine years old when he arrived in America this may seem a little surprising. However, in both PA and NC where he lived there were many Germans. A brief history of St. Paul's Church begins: "A great emigration of German colonists mostly from PA began settling in the Piedmont area of NC during the first half of the eighteenth century. These people were of the Lutheran and Reformed faiths. As a result of living and working together, members of the two denominations agreed to build common houses of worship. ...Old St. Paul's Church in Catawba County just northwest of Newton was organized about 1759,....St. Paul's was the first church established in the State west of the Catawba River.

...The Church was originally known as The Dutch Meeting House', but became known as The South Fork Church' about the beginning of the nineteenth century. It came to be called by its present name, Old St. Paul's' sometime afterwards. The cemetery has reached extensive proportions. Many graves date back to the 1700's. Most tombstones are still legible, but others obviously older were either never inscribed or since eroded by time and the elements. Among the markers chiseled in German is included one dedicated to the memory of Abraham Mauser who died in 1702". Leonard's tombstone is #341 in the cemetery and according to the book reads as follows on a line for line basis:




HIER.RUHET.
IN.GOTT.LEONH
ARD.KIL-LIAN.GE
BOHREN.DEN 1.5
TEN.MAI.1723
STARB.DEN.6 TEN
JUNIUS.1795.SEIN
ALTER.73 JAHR
1.MONATH.
UND 6 TAG.
With the help of friends this has been translated to:
Here Rests
In God Leon-
ard Killian
Born on the 15
th of May 1723
Died the 6th
of June 1795 his
age 73 year
1 month
and 6 day.

A native German who examined this said the use of the periods was old and unusual but that there was no doubt it still meant the birth date as the 15th. It has also been suggested that it would have been more proper to add an "E" at the end of the last word of the last line and at the end of the last word of the third from the last line, to make the words plural. Also the "U" in the second word of the first line might more properly have been "és". The reason for the hyphen in "Killian" was not understood. I wonder if the hyphen in the Killian could be some sort of way of saying that the name was originally with a single "L", The "GE" after Killian is part of the word on the next line, i.e. words end with a period.

With the dates given one could calculate Leonard as into his 73rd year by only 23 days (counting both the 15th and 6th). Perhaps it was custom to count all of the month of birth as one month and then the six days of June. During Leonard's life there was a calendar reform in 1752 which caused the skipping of eleven days. At this time it would be speculation as to the birth date being given by the old calendar or the new. Probably the old calendar would be my guess. But I have understood that some historical dates have been converted to their equivalent on the new calendar so that by the old calendar George Washington was born 11 Feb 1732, but this is converted to 22 Feb 1732 for the new calendar. Part of the world had been using the new calendar (our present calendar, the Gregorian calendar) for many years when England adopted it. In any event no matter how I try to adjust for the calendar change I can not get Leonard 1 month and 6 days into his 73rd year by any means other than that already suggested. If the suggestion is not correct it means that there is a clear error on the tombstone and we can only speculate concerning where the error lies without other data. Tombstone are NOT generally accepted as accurate and reliable data sources. Also the tombstone may have been so old when the text was copied that there was an error in reading one or more of the numbers. I have seen the tombstone and believe an experienced person should have been able to read it accurately.

In March 1992 a Jerry Waldrop called me about another matter. He collects data about tombstones and has published a few books about tombstones in cemeteries in and around Catawba Co., NC. He particularly works on family cemeteries. I asked him about the dates on Leonard's tombstone. He said that the stone mason often added the age in years, months and days and that he often did it from poorly constructed tables. He said the dates of birth and death are more likely right than the age in years months and days, and that tombstone data is not usually accepted as authentic.

I have also thought that tombstones may include age in years, months and days if the person's life spanned the calendar change.
By: George W. Killian

Leonard married Mary Margaret Fry. Mary was born in 0___ 1730 in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania; died in 0Oct 1810 in Lincoln County, North Carolina. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Probate: Pittsylvania County, Virginia
• Religion: Baptist Minister
• Will: 12 Aug 1779
• Probate: 21 Oct 1783, Pittsylvania County, Virginia

Notes:

Thomas Jessie Dodson Jr

Thomas Jessie Dodson Jr was born about 1707 in Richmond County, Virginia as the first child of Thomas Jesse Dodson Sr and Mary Durham. He had eight siblings, namely: Abraham, Joshua Sr., Elisha Sr., Greenham, George, David, Mary, and Alice. He died before 21 Oct 1783 in Pittsylvania County, Virginia. When he was 18, He married Elizabeth Rose,daughter of John Rose, before 1725 in Richmond County, Virginia. When he was 63, He married Ellenor ? (Widow Sloan) about 1770.

Thomas Jessie Dodson Jr was affiliated with the Broad Run Baptist Church, in Fauquier County, Virginia. He signed his will on 12 Aug 1779.

Thomas Jessie Dodson Jr and Elizabeth Rose had the following children:

George.

Rhoda.

Thomas (2nd Fork).

Joseph Dodson Sr. was born on 21 Feb 1725 in North Farnham Parish, Richmond County, Virginia. He died about 1773 in Halifax County, Virginia.

Mary Dodson was born on 16 Jun 1730 in Richmond, County, Virgina.

Elizabeth Dodson was born on 27 May 1732 in Richmond, County, Virgina.

Sarah Dodson was born on 27 May 1732 in Richmond, County, Virgina.

Alice (Alcy) Dodson was born about 1734 in ? Prince William County, Virginia. She died after Sep 1799.

William Dodson Sr. was born in Apr 1737 in Prince William (Present day Fauquier) County, Virginia. He died on 06 May 1832 in Taylorsville, Iredell County, North Carolina (Buried Three Forks Baptist Church Cemetery, Taylorsville, Iredell County, North Carolina). He married Winifred Johns(t)on on 30 Nov 1763 in Fauquier County, Virginia. He married (Given & Maiden Name Unknown) after 1770.

Rev Jesse Dodson was born on 22 Nov 1752 in Fauquier County, Virginia. He died on 22 Nov 1843 in McMinn County, Tn.

Thomas Jessie Dodson Jr and Ellenor ? (Widow Sloan) had no children.

Source: The Dodson (Dotson) Family of North Farnham Parish, Richmond County, Virginia, Volume I; Chapter 1.

Family Members
Parents
Thomas Jesse Dodson
1681–1740

Mary Durham Dodson
1686 – unknown

Spouse
Elizabeth Rose Dodson
1706–1766

Siblings
George Dodson
1702–1783

David Dodson
1703–1740

Joseph Neville
1707–1783

Greenham Dodson
1709–1777

Alice Dodson Creel
1711 – unknown

Joshua Dodson
1725–1798

Elisha Dodson
1727 – unknown

Children
Thomas Dodson
1728–1816

Alice Dodson Dodson
1734–1792

Photo
William Dodson
1737–1832

Photo
Jesse Dodson
1752–1843

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"Will of Thomas Dodson of Pittsylvania Co.,VA, dated August 12, 1779, proved, October 21, 1783". Abstracted by Catherine Lynn.


"In the name of God Amen this twelfth day of August in the year of our Lord 1779, I Thomas Dodson of Pittsylvania County of the State Virginia being in good health and perfect and sound memory...

I give to my grandson Thomas Dodson, son of Jospehy deceased, the sum of one shilling Sterling.

Item - I give and bequeath to my son Tho's Dodson my whip saw.

Item - I also give and bequeath to my son George Dodson a Negro Levina, to him and his heirs forever.

Item - I also give and bequeath to my son William Dodson after the death of my wife the plantation and tract of land whereon I now alive to him and his heirs forever.

Item - I give and bequeath to my daughter Sarah Nevil one shilling.

Item - I give and bequeath to my daughter Elizabeth one shilling.

Item - I give and bequeath my daughter Else Dodson one shilling.

Item - I give and bequeath to my loving wife Ellinor Dodson all my moveable Estate excepting my still and whipsaw, such as horses, cattle, hogs, and sheep with all my household and kitchen furniture provided she will give up her join and what I had with and in not as much to be sold as will pay her and she shall have the remainder likewise I lend her the use of my Negro woman named Violet, her natural life and afterward to my son Jesse Dodson and his heirs forever provided the wench should breed in my wife's life the said child or children to return with their mother to my son Jesse Dodson and his heirs forever.

Item - I also leave my still to be valued at my decease and for my son Jesse to have the still by paying his brother and sisters their equal proportion according to the valuation of said still.

Item - I also give to use of the Separate and Regular Baptists to meet in the worship service of the Lord, the Meeting house near John Creek's Mill with three acres of land to the same more of less.

Item - I also appoint my loving wife Elenor Dodson and my son George Dodson my only and sole Executors of this my last Will and Testament and I do hereby disallow, revoke and disannul all and every other former will and Legacies and Executors by me in any ways before this time named, willed and bequeathed Ratifying and confirming this and no other to be my last Will and Testament, as witness wereof I have hereunto set my hand and seal this day and year above written.


Thomas Dodson



Signed, sealed and delivered by the said Thomas Dodson to be his last will and Testament in the presence of the subscribers.

Daniel Gardner
Heath Gardner
Silvaney Gardner
Nathaniel Gardner"

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Birth:
in Farnham Parish...

Thomas married Elizabeth Rose on 3 Apr 1726 in (Richmond County, Virginia). Elizabeth (daughter of John Rose and Mary Jenkins) was born in 1706 in Richmond County, Virginia; died in 1766 in Fauquier County, Virginia. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Alt Birth: 1710, Richmond County, Virginia

Other Events and Attributes:

• Military: Revolutionary War Patriot

Notes:

Biography

Elisha Dodson was born 22 FEB 1727, North Farnham Parish, Richmond County, Virginia, page 22, of The Dodson (Dotson) Family of North Farnham Parish, Richmond County, Virginia: A History and Genealogy of Their Descendants Volume One, by Mrs. Sherman Williams, Compiler and Editor and Rev. Silas Emmett Lucas, Jr., Publisher, copyright 1988; Library of Congress Number: 88-60291.

Elisha Dodson and Sarah Everett were married about 1748 in Richmond County, Virginia. Sarah Everett (daughter of William Everett and Margaret [Everett]) was born on 13 Apr 1729 in North Farnham Parish, Richmond County, Virginia. Sarah Everett's father said to be William Everett, born 15 Mar 1691 in VA; his father was Daniel Everett.

Elisha Dodson and Sarah Dodson were baptized December 4, 1762 in the Broad Run Baptist Church, Fauquier County. Their son Elisha Jr was one of the infants received into the care of the church on 9 Oct 1763. It is indicated in such records that Elisha and Sarah Dodson were "dismissed to Halifax" - date not shown.

Elisha Dodson is in the DAR patriot index. He is listed in the Pittsylvania Co. Court Order Book 4, 1777-1783, p.127 as a ensign in the milita, Capt. Richard Gwynn's Company.

In 1774 Elisha patented 400 acres in Halifax Co and appears on the tax lists there from 1782 until 1787 when he apparently moved to Pittsylvania. He continues on the tax lists in Pittsylvania Co through 1796, so apparently died at at hat time. He had perhaps taken care of his estate distribution previously by a deed of gift to his children.

Elisha Dodson on 27 Apr 1791, "for love and affection he doth bear his children," gave to his sons, Presley and William Dodson "the land whereon he now lives" containing 300 acres on Toby Creek, and slaves Simon, Harry, Sam, Winny, Milly, Letty, Crisia, Sucky, Aggy and Eve, as well as moveable estate to be equally divided between all the children. Margaret the wife of Railey [Rawleigh]Dodson, Lydda the wife of John Waller, Ruth the wife of Jesse Dodson, Sarah the wife of Thomas Dodson, Jemimah the wife of Joshua Hardey & Elisha Dodson Jr. Said Negro Harry to be delivered to John Waller and with him to remain until a debt is paid which the said Elisha Dodson is now owing the said Waller. Negro Aggy already given & in possession of said Elisha Dodson Jr. After said Debt is paid then Harry to be returned into a division. Slaves & moveable estate to be equally divided between all the afore named children. Wit: W. Wright, Ann Wright, Martha (X) Wright. Ack by Elisha Dodson 16 May 1791 Pittsylvania Co., Va. Deed Book 9, page 11.


Sources

The Dodson (Dotson) Family of North Farnham Parish, Richmond County, Virginia: A History and Genealogy of Their Descendants Volume One, by Mrs. Sherman Williams, Compiler and Editor and Rev. Silas Emmett Lucas, Jr., Publisher, copyright 1988; Library of Congress Number: 88-60291.
Two Volumes and Volume Two contains the index, abstracts & transcripts of documents. Pages 22 and 23.

Repository: R10 Name: NEHGS Lending Library Address: New England Historic Genealogical Society Address 1: New England Historic Genealogical Society Note: 2008. No longer lends books, available only at the Library.
Source: S652 Abbreviation: North Farnham Parish Registers Title: George Harrison Sanford King, Compiler & Publisher, The Registers of North Farnham Parish 1663-1814 and Lunenburg Parish 1783-1800 Richmond County, Virginia (Self-Published; Fredericksburg, VA; 1966) Repository: #R17 Call Number: F232 .R4K52 1986
Source: S860 Abbreviation: Pittsylvania Co VA Deeds Title: Pittsylvania Co Virginia Deeds; Deed Books 3 & 4, Microfilm #0033263; Deeds & Wills Book 5, Microfilm #0033264; DB 6 & 7 with some Court Records from 1767, Microfilm #0033265; DB 8, Microfilm #0033266; DB 9 & 10, Microfilm #0033267; Deeds & Wills 11, Microfilm #0033290 [these are dated earlier than DB 9; the wills begin in 1780]
Note

Elias Dodson found on a list of taxpayers for Hamilton Parish, Elk Run & vicinity, 1751. From the account book of Capt. John Crump, Sheriff of Prince William County. After 1759, this area became Fauquier County.

[Since the earliest known Elias Dodson was not born until 1760, this is most likely Elisha.]

The Rev. Elias Dodson in writing his history of the family claimed that Elisha Sr was blind due to an eye injury in his youth; he also stated that Elisha Jr and perhaps daughter Peggy [Margaret] were born in Maryland. There's no explanation for this statement. [There were Dodsons in Maryland with some of the same given names, but they are of no relationship - some of the early researchers have confused the families.] Rev. Dodson stated that seven daughters were born before they had a son; he named two children that were not named in the deed of gift that perhaps had died before 1791. Eleanor is not named and she was still living. Eleanor had perhaps already received her inheritance or had elected to opt out if she had no need of additional property.

1763 moved to Halifax Co. 7/5/1774 Elisha Dodson land in Halifax Co adj to Joseph Wm and Russell Terry

In 1774 Elisha patented 400 acres in Halifax Co and appears on the tax lists there from 1782 until 1787 when he apparently moved to Pittsylvania. He continues on the tax lists in Pittsylvania Co through 1796, so apparently died at at hat time. He had perhaps taken care of his estate distribution previously by a deed of gift to his children.

*

Will of Elisha Dodson

Pittsylvania DB9, p.11

p.11 27 Apr 1791

Elisha Dodson to Presley Dodson, William Dodson, Margaret the wife of Railey [Rawleigh]Dodson, Lydda the wife of John Waller, Ruth the wife of Jesse Dodson, Sarah the wife of Thomas Dodson, Jemimah the wife of Joshua Hardey & Elisha Dodson Jr.

For natural love & affection to his said children and also for 5sh (shillings), makes over to them, the land whereon he now lives.

300 acres on Toby Creek unto his sd sons Presley & William to be divided between them Presley the N side & Wm the S including to William 4 acres on N side known Antain Land reputed bounds thereof.

Also the following slaves: Simon, Harry, Sam, Winney, Milley, Lettey, Cresia, Suckey, Aggy & Ever.

And all his moveable estate of what kind of quality.

Said Negro Harry to be delivered to John Waller and with him to remain until a debt is paid which the sd Elisha Dodson is now owing the sd Waller.

Negro Aggy already given & in possession of sd Elisha Dodson Jr.

After sd Debt is paid then Harry to be returned into a division.

Slaves & moveable estate to be equally divided between all the afore named children.

Wit: W. Wright, Ann Wright, Martha (X) Wright.

Ack by Elisha Dodson 16 May 1791

*

Revolutionary Patriot, Ensign. Was blinded during early adulthood.

Birth:
in Farnham Parish...

Elisha married Sarah Everett on 1 Jul 1748 in Richmond County, Virginia. Sarah (daughter of William Everett and Margaret Foushee Mitchell Petty) was born on 13 Apr 1729 in Pittsylvania County, Virginia; died in 1824 in Halifax County, Virginia. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Alt Birth: 13 Apr 1729, North Farnham Parish, Richmond County, Virginia
• Alt Death: 1824, Richmond County, Virginia

Notes:

Virginia Sarah Dodson formerly Everett
Born about 13 Apr 1729 in North Farnham Parish, Richmond County, Virginia
HIDE ANCESTORS
Daughter of William Everett and Margaret (UNKNOWN) Everett
Sister of Anne (Everett) Hammond, Elizabeth Everett, Lucretia Everett, Daniel Everett, George Everett, William Everett and Ruth Everett
Wife of Elisha Dodson Sr. — married [date unknown] [location unknown]
DESCENDANTS descendants
Mother of Purthena Eleanor (Dodson) Stamps, Margaret Dodson, Lydia Dodson, Tabitha Dodson, Ruth Dodson Dodson, Jemima Dodson, Sarah Dodson, Elisha Dodson Jr., Presley Dodson and William E. Dodson
Died about 1824 [location unknown]
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Biography

Viginia Sara was born 13 APR 1729 in North Farnham Parish, Richmond County, Virginia[1][2]

Sarah married Elisha Dodson 1 JUL 1748 in Richmond County, Virginia[3]

Anne Everett
Elizabeth Everett
Lucretia Everett
Sarah Everett
Daniel Everett
George Everett
William Everett
Ruth Everett
Sources
Source: S641 Abbreviation: Gedcom - Thomas Ancestors Title: William Thomas Stamps; GEDCOM file imported on 23 Dec 2000. "Stamps Family History & Lineage Updated 12 Nov 2000. Walters, Stamps, Echols, Slade, Howard, etc. Repository: #R6
Repository: R6 Name: Online Address: Web Address: http://www.gentryjournal.org/index.htm
Source: S645 Abbreviation: Thomas/Walters - Brenda Walters Title: Data from Brenda Walters, descendant of Phillip Henry Thomas. Email, copies of records, Pedigree Chart, Family Group Sheets. Jan 2001. Repository: #R3
Repository: R3 Name: My Files Address:
Source: S648 Abbreviation: Dodson Family Title: Mrs. Sherman Williams, Compiler & Editor, The Dodson (Dotson) Family of North Farnham Parish, Richmond County, Virginia: A History and Genealogy of Their Descendants. Two Volumes with index in Volume Two. Volume Two contains abstracts & transcripts of documents. (Easley, SC: Rev. Silas Emmett Lucas Jr.; Southern Historical Press, Inc., 1988) Repository: #R10 Call Number: CS 71 D648
Repository: R10 Name: NEHGS Lending Library Address: New England Historic Genealogical Society Address 1: New England Historic Genealogical Society Note: 2008. No longer lends books, available only at the Library.
Source: S652 Abbreviation: North Farnham Parish Registers Title: George Harrison Sanford King, Compiler & Publisher, The Registers of North Farnham Parish 1663-1814 and Lunenburg Parish 1783-1800 Richmond County, Virginia (Self-Published; Fredericksburg, VA; 1966) Repository: #R17 Call Number: F232 .R4K52 1986
Repository: R17 Name: National Genalogical Society Address: Lending Library Address 1: Lending Library Note: The Lending Library of NGS was moved to St. Louis; the books may be obtained on Interlibrary Loan.
? Source: #S648 Page: p.22
? Source: #S652 Page: p.60
? Source: #S648 Page: p.22

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Other Events and Attributes:

• Military: Revolutionary War Patriot

Notes:

The Schell/Shell yDNA Project may help us find the parents and place of origin of Johannes Casper Schell. If you know of any male Schell/Shell direct descendants that would like to participate, please let them know. The project is through FamilytreeDNA.com.

See discussion below regarding possible parents of Johannes Casper Schell. There are several possibilities/theories.

ABSTRACT OF WILL: son, Charles Frederick Schell, other children mentioned, but not named. Also mentions Morey (Mary?) Conrad. Witnesses Abraham Cook, Jacob Miller, N.B. John Dietz. Casper Schell made his mark to sign it. Executors are Henry Schell and Christian Hawn.

List of Casper and Catherine's children was derived from this will, baptism and confirmation church records, and county records.
BURIAL: According to a transcription of a document dated 1800, Casper Schell was one of the early members of the Zion Lutheran Church in North Carolina. Descendants believe that Casper and Catherine Schell were buried at Zion Lutheran Church, although there are no marked headstones. There are many early graves marked only by fieldstones.

SOURCES INCLUDE:

Lists of Passengers of the Ship ROBERT AND ALICE, 1742;
Oath of Allegiance, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 1742;
Land Records – Lancaster County, Pennsylvania;
Baptismal Certificates (Frakturs) Johannes and Anna Magdalena;
Baptismal/ Birth Records of Lancaster County Churches;
Baptismal/Birth Records of Reformed Congregation, Hagerstown, Maryland;
Land Records - Lincoln County North;
Will of Casphor Shell, Lincoln County, North Carolina, 1804; handwritten inventory of the estate papers (1806) He died between these dates.
Newspaper Article THE SHELL FAMILY by Azor Shell,
1890, published in THE LENOIR TOPIC, Lenoir, NC;
Newspaper Article - The Shell Family by Ralph T. Shell of Chicago, abt 1950 in HICKORY DAILY RECORD;
1790 US Census, Lincoln County, North Carolina (current day Catawba County);
History of the German Settlements and of the Lutheran Church in North and South Carolina. By G. D. Bernheim. Baltimore, Regional Publishing Co., 1975;
Hickory Tavern Chapter (NC) DAR Records, ancestors of Michael Schell, Revolutionary War Soldier;
A History of Catawba County, by Catawba County Historical Association, 1954;
Nixon's History of Lincoln County (NC) – The German Settlers;
German Speaking People West of the Catawba River in North Carolina 1750-1800 by Lorena Shell Eaker - 1995;
The Shell Clan of Catawba County, records submitted by Hickory Tavern Chapter, DAR, Hickory, North Carolina.


PARENTS AND BIRTH PLACE OF JOHANNES CASPAR SCHELL - SEVERAL POSSIBILITIES -

1) Hendrik Schell of Amsterdam, Netherlands - Dr. Harvey Shell of Missouri, a descendant of Johannes Caspar Schell, said his family tradition stated that Johannes Caspar Schell was Holland Dutch. Dr. Shell hired a professional genealogist in the Netherlands, Erika Niederhander, and she found the following baptismal record that is a possible match for Johannes Casper Schell. The baptism of Jan (short for Johannes) Schell, son of Hendrik Schell was recorded 26 JAN 1725 at the Old Kirk in Amsterdam. The church and the baptismal font still exist. See the attached image of the baptismal record. It is interesting to note that the name Hendrik (Henry) was passed down to descendants of Johannes Caspar Schell. Dr. Harvey Shell of Missouri had a website for several years and shared his research and family information. He distributed DVDs with family history information to interested parties. (GF obtained one in 2009)

2) Other Schell families in Germany - Johannes Caspar Schell may have come from the Palatinate area of Germany. Many people left this area, because of war, severe winter, and religious persecution. William Penn offered an invitation to these Germans asking them to come to Pennsylvania. At least six individuals names Johannes Caspar Schell (or something similar) were christened in Germany between 1710 and 1730, according to a search of the data base GERMAN BIRTHS AND BAPTISMS 1558-1898 that is available on familysearch.org. All of these individuals should be researched.

3) Petro Schild of Ettringen, Germany - Several years ago a couple of individuals posted claims on several genealogy forums saying they had found the parents of Johannes Caspar Schell - the Petro Schild family of Ettringen, Rheinland Prussia, Deutschland (Germany). They did not offer any research notes or explanation of why or how they came to this conclusion. This researcher has made several unsuccessful attempts to obtain more information from them. Several questions seem obvious - Why the name change from Schild to Schell, and why wasn’t the name Peter (Petro) repeated in later generations of the family? This Petro Schild theory has been widely circulated, but it remains an unproven theory, in the opinion of this researcher.

ADDITIONAL RESEARCH AND DNA ANALYSIS - Additional research is needed to determine the birthplace and parents of Johannes Caspar Schell. DNA analysis might be valuable in this search. It may be impossible to prove the identity of his parents or his place of birth without DNA analysis of descendants. The Shell/Schell yDNA Project has been established. Direct Schell descendants (male) are encouraged to take a yDNA test and add to this project (FamilyTreeDNA).

Buried:
GRAVE IS MARKED BY ONLY A FIELDSTONE...

Johannes married Anna Catharina Gertrude Pott. Anna was born on 7 Jun 1730 in Germany; died in 0___ 1800 in Lincoln County, North Carolina; was buried in Zion Evangelical Lutheran Church Cemetery, Hickory, Catawba County, North Carolina. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Daughter of Johannes Wilhelm 'William' Pott and Gerdraut Mey 'Gertrude' Catron.

The passage of time had blurred the ancestry of Catherine Bott, wife of Casper Schell, and in the early 1900s when family research was begun on the Schell family of North Carolina, the only knowledge regarding her parents were the children's baptismal records that showed Catherine's name had been Bott. This caused some confusion and errors in early family trees regarding her parents. Then the will of William Pott (Johan Wilhelmus Pott) was found to contain a reference to Catherine. It was not uncommon for early Germans to mix their Bs and Ps and this may explain why Catherine indicated on her children's birth records that her maiden name was Bott rather than Pott.

The will of William Pott of Rockland, Berks County, Pennsylvania lists his daughter Catherine, wife of Casper Shell. The will is dated October 1781 and proved December 1781 - ABSTRACT OF WILL: POTT, WILLIAM, Rockland. October 18, 1781 - December 17, 1781. B- 22.

Mentions that eldest son William had rec'd. his portion. And gives to his children ¹125 to be divided among them when 21. To dau. Catharina wife of Casper SHELL, ¹25, having had considerable sums. To her dau. Anna Mary ¹25 for the faithful services done to me. To son John, one acre and 48 per of land whereon my sawmill was fixed, adjoining other land I have given him by Deed. Exrs: son John and friend Daniel LEVAN of Oley. Wit: Jacob KEIM and Peter BLAESER.

Abstract of will available on Berks County Genweb in 2012.

Buried:
GRAVE IS MARKED BY A FIELDSTONE ONLY...

Thomas married unnamed spouse. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

William married unnamed spouse(Scotland). unnamed was born in (Scotland); died in (Scotland). [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Joseph married unnamed spouse(Ireland). unnamed was born in (Ireland); died in (Ireland). [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Booth married Sara La Force. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

BENJAMIN WOODSON, SR.4

Benjamin Woodson, Sr., was the son of John3 and Mary (Tucker) Woodson. He was born ca 1693 in Henrico County, Virginia and died in 1778 in Fluvanna County, Virginia, aged about 85 years.

Benjamin Woodson, Sr. married, ca 1720, in Henrico County, VA. Francis Napier, daughter of Capt. Robert2 Napier and his wife Mary Perrin. Frances Napier was born 5, February 1694/95, in New Kent County, Virginia, and was last known to be living on 25 October 1777 in Fluvanna County, Virginia at the age of 82 years.

The Woodson’s and the Napiers were united for the first time in 1720 when both families dwelt in Henrico County, Virginia. It would have been impossible for Frances Napier not to know about the Woodson family, and conversely, we find it hard to imagine that Benjamin Woodson was not aware of Miss Napier. Their prominence in the affairs of the colony and the plantations indicates they may have known each other from some years and had a lengthy courtship. As facts on Capt. Robert2 Napier reveal, he had dealings at the courthouse at Varina, the old County Seat for Henrico County, as early as the 1690s before his own family was produced.

Benjamin and Frances was the first marriage between the two families, but it was not the last. Two of their own grandchildren, Elizabeth and Tabitha Woodson were married to two more of the Napier's a couple of generations later.

While Woodson was a lifelong inhabitant of Henrico, until it was subdivided and the plantation fell into Goochland County, Frances Napier was raised in several counties. It is probably correct to say she was born in New Kent, raised in King and Queen, King William and Henrico, and lived her married life in Goochland, Ablemarle and Fluvanna Counties, yet not to have moved from the place of her birth very far. Certainly, in the years from her marriage until her death in is probable that she never moved at all, living on the same land all the rest of here life.

The Woodson family first appears in the records if Goochland County, Virginia as far as our examination of records goes, in a deed of gift as follows:

To All people ... I, Adam Buttrey of Goochland County, Virginia, in consideration of the affection I beare unto my Godson Bouth Woodson, son of Benjamin & ffrances Woodson of the same County, ... for ¹10. paid by his ffather Benjamin Woodson ... 120 acres ... Dated 8 June 1734. Signed Adam "A" Buttrey his mark. Witnesses: Rene Napier, Patrick Napier and ffra: Woodson. This was proved at Court January 21, 1734/5 by the oaths of the witnesses before Henry Wood, clerk of the court.

The land was in trust for Booth Woodson since he was a minor at the time this instrument was written.

The next mention of this couple is in a scandalous case set before the County Court of Goochland in February Term, 1739. Patrick3 Napier and Rene3 Napier, with Frances, wife of Benjamin Woodson, all of Goochland, were charged with the kidnapping of Martha Claiborne, an orphan minor of Thomas Claiborne. She was, at the time of the alleged abduction, living with her sister and brother-in-law, Joseph and Frances (Claiborne) Thompson. Frances Woodson was found not guilty. Of course, the two Napier's involved where her brothers. No animosity seems to have resulted. A couple of years later, Martha Claiborne married to Patrick3 Napier, one of her accused abductors.

The Woodson’s lived long and saw many grandchildren. In his will, Benjamin, Sr. gave property to sons Benjamin, Jr., John, Rene and Patrick, and daughters Mary Perrin Fitzpatrick and Frances Anderson. He also remembered several grandchildren, including Elizabeth Booth Woodson, Benjamin and Joseph Fitzpatrick, and George and Benjamin Anderson. This will is dated 25, November 1777 and proved 3, September 1778 at Fluvanna Courthouse. He appointed his wife Frances Executrix and sons Benjamin, Rene and Patrick as Executors. He must have considered her able to carry out that work, and healthy enough for her age. However, she did not participate in the execution of the will after all and may have been ill by that time. Frances Napier Woodson left no will and no administration was taken out.

Children of Benjamin and Frances (Napier) Woodson:

1. Booth Woodson, born ca 1721, Henrico County, VA. died 1757, Goochland Co.; married Tabitha Cocke sister to Rebecca, wife of Benjamin 5 Woodson, Jr. No issue. Tabitha Cocke is said to have married second to John Winston, and had at least one child, Sarah Winston, Born 14, May 1761.

2. Benjamin5 Woodson, Jr. born ca 1725-30, Henrico Co., VA. and died 1808, Fluvanna County, VA. Married (1) Rebecca Cocke; married (2) Frances "Franky" Jordan.

3. Mary Perrin Woodson, born 1720s, still living in December 1786, married ca 1735-40, Joseph Fitzpatrick, son of William Fitzpatrick who is said to have come from Ireland about 1710. See Fitzpatrick Family for continuation of my husbands line.

4. Rene Woodson, born 1730s, Goochland County, VA. died 1817/18, Fluvanna Co., VA., married (1) 1758 Mary Thompson (she died shortly in or after childbirth 1759); married (2) 2, February 1775, St. James Northam Church, Martha Johnson, of Louisa Co., VA; (She survived him.) He was Commissioner of the Provision Law, Fluvanna, 1780-82.

5. Frances Woodson, born 1730s, Goochland Co., VA. living in 1778; married about 1752, George Anderson, born 1733, alive in 1800, Fluvanna Co., VA.

6. John Woodson, born 1740s, Goochland Co., VA. or Ablemarle, living 1800, Fluvanna Co., VA., married 20 March 1760, St. James Northan Church, Goochland Co., VA., Mary Mims.

7. Patrick Woodson, born 1740s, Goochland or Ablemarle, Co., VA., dead by 30, March 1722 when his estate Inventory was filed in Fluvanna Court. Married Nancy Cloof, she living 24 November 1823. His inventory was totaled at $10,788.50, including 47 slaves. Patrick Woodson, Sr., and Jr. are mentioned, and one Rene Woodson was paid for giving out whiskey at the sale.

NOTE: testament: Fluvanna County, Virginia [25 Oct 1777]

NOTE: Will of Benjamin Woodson (Sr)

at Book 1 Deeds and Wills, Fluvanna County, pp.9-10.

IN THE NAME OF GOD AMEN, I. Benjamin Woodson of Fluvanna County, being Sick of Body but of Perfect Sence and Sound Memory to make and ordaine this my Last Will & Testament in manner and form as followes:

First - my desire is that all my just Debts be paid and then what the Lord has bestowing upon of this worlds wealth I give asd followeth:

Item - I bequeath unto my son BENJAMIN WOODSON, Jr, the whold of my Estate that he the said Benja. Woodson has now in his possession to him and his Heirs forever.

Item, I give unto my Son John Woodson the estate I before have given him now is his possesion to him & his heirs forever, he paying to William Fitzpatrick fifteen pounds current money & making Rene Napier a right to one hundred acres of land in Goochland County on Lickinghole Creek.

Item - I give to my son Rene Woodson one Negroe Man named Mark now in his possession and all the estate I have before given him now in his possession to him & his heirs forever.

Item - I give & bequeath unto my son Patrick Woodson the whole of my Estate now in his possession except Negro Frank and Janny, which I lend unto my wife Frances Woodson during her life and after her decease to return to my son Patrick Woodson.

I lend to my Daughter Mary Perrin Fitzpatrick Negro Moll and Toby during her life and after her decease, Toby to return to Benjamin Fitzpatrick and Moll to Joseph Fitzpatrick jto them and their Heirs forever.

I lend to my Daughter Frances Anderson and my Son in Law George Anderson, one hundred acres of land and the Plantation whereon they now live during their Lives and after their decease to return to George Anderson, Junior to him & his Heirs forever. I also lend my said son in law & Daughter four Negroes - Lucy, Isbell, Sharod & Amey during their lives and after their decease to be equally divided amongst their children then living, except Benjamin Anderson.

I give & bequeath unto my Grand Daughter Elizabeth Buth Woodson five head of cattle to her and her heirs forever.

I give and bequeath to my grand son Benjamin Anderson one Negro man named Ellick which he has in his possession to him & his Heirs forever.

I do appoint my sons Benjamin Woodson, Rene Woodson & Patrick Woodson Executors and my Wife Frances Woodson Executrix of this my last Will and Testament revoking all other will or wills by me made.

IN WITNESS whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed my Seal this 25th day of October 1777.

Benja X Woodson (SL)

Signed sealed & acknowledged in presence of us

George Clough, Senr., Archbill Sneed, George Clough Jr.

AT A COURT Held Thursday, 3 Sept. 1778, and by the oath of the witnesses, will was proved, and on the motion of Rene Woodson and Patrick Woodson, the Executors named, who took the necessary oathes, will was proved and ordered to be recorded.

Teste: John Cobbs, C.C.

Benjamin Woodson's antecedents ...http://www.wikitree.com/treewidget/Woodson-135/9

Benjamin married Frances Napier in 1720 in Fluvanna County, Virginia. Frances (daughter of Robert Napier and Mary Perrin) was born on 5 Feb 1695 in Goochland County, Virginia; died in 1778 in Fluvanna County, Virginia. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Died:
in Quarterland, Killinchy ...

William married Rose Ann Kirkpatrick in ~1700 in Dumfriesshire, Dumfries, Scotland. Rose was born in ~1682 in (Dumfries) Scotland; died in (Scotland). [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

James married Rachel LNU. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

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Joseph married unnamed spouse(England). [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Immigration: 4 Oct 1732, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
• Residence: 0___ 1747, North Carolina
• Will: 22 Sep 1785
• Probate: 0___ 1788

Notes:

Notes for Andreas Killian:

Andreas came over from Germany on the ship Adventure in 1732 with his First wife and three children. They settled in Reamstown, Lancaster County, Pennsylvania.


[Photo of Andreas Killian memorial in Catawba County, NC, by Guyline Woodlee]

"Our pioneer ancestor came from Germany on the ship Adventure, landing at Philadelphia where he took the oath of allegiance September 23, 1732. He came to North Carolina about 1747 and later established a home about two miles northwest of here."

[Photo of Meeting House, Catawba County, NC, by Guyline Woodlee]

"This tablet is dedicated to the glory of god and to commemorate the unbroken record of the preaching of the gospel of our lord Jesus Christ on or near this site since 1757 A.D. This church known as Old St. Paul's Church, First known as the "Dutch Meeting House" is the mother church of most of the reformed and Lutheran churches of Western North Carolina."

More About Andreas Killian:
Immigration: October 04, 1732, Ship Adventure Landed in Philadelphia.

Immigration:
on the "Adventurer"

Andreas married Margaretha Magdalena Fischer on 6 May 1722 in Feuchtwangen, Bavaria, Germany. Margaretha (daughter of Hans Leonhard Fischer and Margaretha LNU) was born in 1696 in Tháeurnhofen, Bavaria, Germany; died before 1750. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Immigration: Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

Notes:

Margartha Magdalena (Margartha) Killian formerly Fischer
Born 1696 in Dèurnhof, Bavaria
Daughter of Hans Leonhard Fischer and [mother unknown]
[sibling(s) unknown]
Wife of Andreas Killian — married 6 May 1722 in Feuchtwangen, Bavaria
DESCENDANTS descendants
Mother of Margaret (Killian) Price, Leonard Killian, Jean (Killian) Lawing, Johannes Killian, Andrew Killian Jr, Brina (Killian) Barringer, George Killian and Catherine (Killian) Dobson
Died before 1750 [location unknown]

Biography

Margaretha Fischer, daughter of Hans Leonhard Fischer and Margaretha nâee unknown, was born in 1696 in Thèurnhofen, Bavaria (at that time the village was known as Dèurnhof). She married Andreas Killian on the 6th of May 1722 in Feuchtwangen, Bavaria.[1]


Flag of Germany
Margartha (Fischer) Killian migrated from Germany to Philadelphia.
Flag of Philadelphia
"Andreas arrived in Philadelphia in 1732."[2] Whether or not Margaretha was with him has not been proven, but she probably was.

Andreas Killian married (2) Mary [Beaver or Cline] in the 1750s: a memorial tombstone for their son Daniel has the birth year 1752.[3]

"It is unknown when Margaretha Fischer Killian died. From census records of Andreas and his Last Will and Testament we know Margaretha died prior to the birth of Mary's son Daniel ca. 1750."[4]
Research Notes

1722 marriage record shows Magdalene. Baptism records show Margaretha. Killian researchers investigated village records for a death of Magdalene and a marriage for Margaretha and, finding none, concluded that "they are most probably the same person. She may have had a double name, e.g., Margaretha Magdalena. Clerics recorded verbal information and discrepancies with multiple names were common."[4]
Three records of baptisms for Andreas Kilian and Margaretha Fischer's children. The first being that of Leonhardt Kilian baptised 20 April 1724. (Erzberg 172-1, 1724, page 211). All three records note the name of the mother as Margaretha Fischer, wife of Andreas Kilian. (from Fischer-2384)
Andreas raised 12 children. Three are known to have been born in Germany to Margartha (Margaret, Leonard, and John). The later children, simply by their birth years, must be by a different woman than his first wife, whom he married in 1722. The Andreas Killian Descendants Historical Association's biography for Andreas's son Samual says that Mary was the mother of four of his children: Daniel (b c1752), Samuel (b c1756), Christianna (b 20 Feb. 1755), and Elizabeth (b c1760).[5] That leaves five children born after John (son of Margaretha), baptized in Germany on 24 September 1729. The dates are estimated by AKDHA based on the order the children are named in Andreas' 1785 will:
Jean: born between 1731 and 1734 ("Andreas arrived in Philadelphia in 1732, so this could place her birth anywhere between Germany and the Shenandoah Valley of Virginia")[6]
Crate: born between 1733 and 1736[7]
Andrew: born between 1735 and 1736, "somewhere between Pennsylvania and North Carolina"[8]
George: born 1740[9] or 1745,[10] (birth/baptism record not found); born before Andreas was known to have settled in North Carolina (1747).
Catherine ('Trina'): "believed she was born between 1746 and 1753."[11]
Sources

? AKDHA: Andreas Killian biography (AKDHA: Andreas Killian Descendants Historical Association)
? Jean, AKDHA
? Daniel Killian, AKDHA
? 4.0 4.1 The Family of North Carolina Pioneer Andreas Killian (1702-1788); Andreas and his children and grandchildren (Andreas Killian Descendants Historical Association, 2009 edition), pp 9, 29
? See AKDHA's biography of Samuel; Daniel's biography includes an image of his memorial stone that shows a 1752 birth year. The dates are from AKDHA's biographies of these children.
? Jean, AKDHA
? Crate, AKDHA
? Andrew, AKDHA
? George, AKDHA
? memorial tombstone
? Catherine, AKDHA

end of biography

Other Events and Attributes:

• Probate: Richmond County, Virginia
• Will: 17 Feb 1739, Richmond County, Colony of Virginia

Notes:

Richmond County,VA Wills:05-378,

"Will of Thomas Dodson, dated 17 Feb 1739; proved 2 March 1740

In The Name Of God Amen I Thomas Dodson of Northfarnham p'ish in Richmond County Being sick and Weak of Body but in Perfect since and Memory do make and ordain this to be my Last Will and Testam.t in manner and forme -

Impri I lend to my Wife Mary Dodson my Plantation whereon I now Live and the Land thereto Blonging with all my Negroes and Moveable Estate dureing her Natural Life -

Item. I give to my Son Thomas Dodson Five Shill.s to be Paid by Ex.rrs -

I give to my Son George Dodson and his heirs for Ever one hundred and fifty Acres of Land whereon he ye sd George Dodson is now Liveing -

I Give to my Son Greenham Dodson and his heirs for Ever the Whole Tract of Land I bought of Lambarth Dodson -

I give to my Sone Elisha Dodson & his Heirs for Ever the Plantation whereon I now Live and Land Land therto Belonging after my Wife Mary Dodsons Decease -

I Give to my Daughter Alice Creel One Negroe Girl named Sarah -

I give to my Daughter Mary Oldam one New Suit of calica Cloaths -

I Give to my Son Greenham Dodson one Negroe man Named Harry -

I GIve to my Son Abraham Dodson one Negroe Woman named Bess and one Negroe Boy named Joe -

I Give to my Son Josha Dodson one Negroe woman Named Sue and one Negroe Boy named Dick -

I give to my son Elisha Dodson one Negroe Girl Named Nan -

I give to my son Greenham Dodson one feather Bed and furniture -

I give to my son Abraham Dodson one feather Bed and furniture -

I give to my son Joshua Dodson one feather Bed and furniture -

I give to my son Elisha Dodson one feather Bed and furniture -

I Give to Granddaughter ye Daughter of David Dodson Twenty Shill.s

All the Remaining Part of My Estate be the same more or Less I give to be Equally Divided between three of my sons Vist Abraham Dodson Joshua Dodson & Elisha Dodson

I Likewise ordain and Appoint my Wife Mary Dodson and my son Greenham Dodson to be the true and Lawful Exr.s of the my Last will & Tesatam.t

as Witness my hand and seal this 17th Day of February 1739


(S) Thomas (T his mark) Dodson (Seal)


Wits: H. Miskell, John (X) Hightower, Charles Dodson"

end of entry

Thomas Dodson's Estate Inventory

An exhaustive examination by Roberta Estes:

https://dna-explained.com/2017/03/26/thomas-dodsons-estate-inventory-a-tallow-sort-of-fellow-52-ancestors-153/

end of note

Thomas Dodson , He Married Mary May Dorothy Durham.1 Aug 1701 in North Farnham Richmond County Virginia, He was born 15 Jun 1686 in North Farnham Richmond County Virginia, and died Aft Jan 1745 in North Farnham Richmond County Virginia. She was buried Aft Jan 1745 in North Farnham Richmond County Virginia. {{son of Charles Dodson and Anne Elmore. He was born 15 May 1681 in Jamestown, Virginia, and died 21 Nov 1740 in North Farnham Richmond County Virginia. He was buried Nov 1740 in North Farnham Richmond County Virginia.}}

Children of Thomas Dodson and Mary May Dorothy Durham are:

i. George Dodson was born 31 Oct 1702 in North Farnham, Richmond County, Virginia, and died 1758 in Prince William/Pittsylvania County Virginia.
ii. Thomas Dodson was born Oct 1707 in North Farnham Parish Richmond County Virginia, and died 21 Oct 1783 in Halifax, Virginia.
iii. Greenham Dodson was born Abt 1709.
iv. Elisha Dodson was born 22 Feb 1727.
v. Alice Dodson was born Abt 1711. She married William Creel 15 Nov 1729.
vi. Abraham Dodson was born 4 Apr 1723, and died 1768 in Fauquier Co., VA. He married Barbary Russell, daughter of George Russell and Mary. She was born 9 Nov 1729 in North Farmham Richmond County VA.
vii. Mary Dodson was born 5 Oct 1715. She married Oldham.
viii. Joshua Dodson was born 25 May 1725. He married Ruth.
ix. David Dodson was born Abt 1704, and died 1740 in Prince William County, VA.
x. Joseph Dodson was born 21 Feb 1725.

2. -George Dodson was born 31 Oct 1702 in North Farnham, Richmond County, Virginia, and died 1758 in Prince William/Pittsylvania County Virginia. He was buried 1758 in Virginia. He married Margaret Dagord 20 Apr 1726 in North Farmham Richmond County Virginia, daughter of Henry Dagood Dagord. She was born 30 Apr 1708 in Richmond, VA, and died Abt 1770 in Pittsylvania County Virginia. She was buried 1770 in Virginia.

Children of George Dodson and Margaret Dagord are:
i. Mary Dodson was born 21 Dec 1726.
ii. Lazarus Dodson was born 7 Oct 1728 in Richmond County, Virginia, and died Abt 1795 in Pittsylvania Co., VA.
iii. Rawleigh Dodson was born 18 Jan 1730 in Richmond County, Virginia, and died Aft 20 Jul 1793 in Hawkins County, TN.
iv. Thomas Dodson was born 25 May 1735 in Richmond County, Virginia.
v. George Dodson was born 31 Oct 1737, and died 1825 in Pittsylvania Co., VA. He married Elizabeth Dodson. He married Margaret.
vi. Fortunatus Dodson was born 31 Jul 1740. He married Margaret (Peggy) Dodson Aft 1836, daughter of Elisha Dodson and Sarah Everett.
vii. Hannah Dodson was born 2 May 1747. viii. David Dodson was born 1743 in Culpeper County, VA.

3. Thomas Dodson was born Oct 1707 in North Farnham Parish Richmond County Virginia, and died 21 Oct 1783 in Halifax, Virginia. He was buried in Pittsylvania County Virginia. He married Elizabeth Rose 3 Apr 1724 in Pittyslvania County Virginia, daughter of John Rose and Mary Dodson Blackerby. She was born 1710 in Richmond County, Virginia, and died 1766 in Fauquier Co., VA.

Children of Thomas Dodson and Elizabeth Rose are:

i. Thomas "Second Fork" Dodson was born 3 Oct 1728 in Richmond County, Virginia, and died Bef 1809 in Hawkins County, TN.
ii. Joseph Dodson was born 21 Feb 1725 in Richmond County, Virginia, and died 1773. He married Martha Anna.
iii. Mary Dodson was born 16 Jun 1730. She married Childress.
iv. Sarah Dodson was born 27 May 1732. She married John Neville.
v. Elizabeth Dodson was born 27 May 1732. She married John Bennett.
vi. Alce Dodson was born Abt 1734, and died 1792 in Pittsylvania Co., VA.
vii. Joshua Dodson was born Abt 1736.
viii. William Dodson was born Abt 1738, and died 6 May 1832 in Iredell Co., NC.
ix. George "Lame George" Dodson was born Abt 1740.
x. Jesse Dodson was born 22 Nov 1752 in Fauquier Co., VA, and died 1841-1843 in East Stanley Valley, TN.
xi. Rhoda Dodson was born Abt 1744, and died 1792. She married John Creel.

4. Greenham Dodson was born Abt 1709. He married Elinor Hightower. She was born Abt 1718 in Richmond County, Virginia.
Children of Greenham Dodson and Elinor Hightower are:

i. Judith Dodson was born 6 Jan 1741.
ii. Thomas Dodson was born Abt 1743 in Richmond County, Virginia. He married Sarah Dodson, daughter of Elisha Dodson and Sarah Everett. She was born Abt 1758 in Richmond County, Virginia.
iii. Hightower Dodson was born Abt 1745. He married Unity Dodson 7 Jan 1804.
iv. Rawleigh Dodson was born Abt 1745, and died 3 Jun 1836. He married Margaret (Peggy) Dodson, daughter of Elisha Dodson and Sarah Everett.
v. William Fortunatus Dodson was born Abt 1747.
vi. George Dodson was born Abt 1751.

5.Elisha Dodson was born 22 Feb 1727. He married Sarah Everett.

Children of Elisha Dodson and Sarah Everett are:
i. Margaret (Peggy) Dodson. She married Fortunatus Dodson Aft 1836, son of George Dodson and Margaret Dagord. He was born 31 Jul 1740. She married Rawleigh Dodson, son of Greenham Dodson and Elinor Hightower. He was born Abt 1745, and died 3 Jun 1836.
ii. Eleanor Dodson was born Abt 1749 in Richmond County, Virginia.
iii. Ruth Dodson was born Abt 1756 in Richmond County, Virginia.
iv. Lydia Dodson was born Abt 1756.
v. Sarah Dodson was born Abt 1758 in Richmond County, Virginia. She married Thomas Dodson, son of Greenham Dodson and Elinor Hightower. He was born Abt 1743 in Richmond County, Virginia.
vi. Jemima "Mima" Dodson was born Abt 1760 in Richmond County, Virginia. She married Joshua Hardy.
vii. Tabitha Dodson was born Abt 1762 in Richmond County, Virginia.
viii. Elisha Dodson was born Abt 1764 in Halifax County, VA. He married Hannah Lawson 21 May 1789. He married Mary Lipscomb Pettus Jordan.
ix. Presley Dodson was born Abt 1766 in Halifax County, VA. He married Elizabeth Bates 22 Oct 1789.
x. William Dodson was born Abt 1768 in Halifax County, VA.

10. David Dodson was born Abt 1704, and died 1740 in Prince William County, VA. He married Amey. Child of David Dodson and Amey is:

i. Unknown Dodson was born Abt 1740.

Descendant Register, Generation No. 3

12. Mary Dodson was born 21 Dec 1726. She married Thomas "Second Fork" Dodson, son of Thomas Dodson and Elizabeth Rose. He was born 3 Oct 1728 in Richmond County, Virginia, and died Bef 1809 in Hawkins County, TN.

Children of Mary Dodson and Thomas "Second Fork" Dodson are:
i. Ida (Ioda) Dodson.
ii. George Dodson.

13. Lazarus Dodson was born 7 Oct 1728 in Richmond County, Virginia, and died Abt 1795 in Pittsylvania Co., VA. He married Alce Dodson, daughter of Thomas Dodson and Elizabeth Rose. She was born Abt 1734, and died 1792 in Pittsylvania Co., VA.

Children of Lazarus Dodson and Alce Dodson are:

i. Elisha Dodson was born Abt 1753 in Pittsylvania Co., VA, and died 1828 in Williamson Co., TN. He married Rachel Henry. She was born Abt 1754 in Holsten Co., TN.
ii. George Dodson was born Abt 1755.

14. Rawleigh Dodson was born 18 Jan 1730 in Richmond County, Virginia, and died Aft 20 Jul 1793 in Hawkins County, TN. He married Elizabeth Dodson Abt 1750. She died Aft 1793.

Children of Rawleigh Dodson and Elizabeth Dodson are:

i. Rawleigh Dodson was born Abt 1751.
ii. Mary Dodson.
iii. Peggy Dodson. She married Menafee.
iv. James Dodson was born Abt 1760. He married Lucy Davis 20 Dec 1804 in Jefferson Co TN.
v. Lazarus Dodson. vi. Toliver Dodson. vii. Eleanor "Nelly" Dodson was born Abt 1755. She married John Saunders. 19. David Dodson was born 1743 in Culpeper County, VA. He married Elizabeth Betty Dodson, daughter of Thomas "Second Fork" Dodson and Ann Mary Neville. She was born Abt 1748.

Children of David Dodson and Elizabeth Betty Dodson are:
i. Fortunatus Dodson.
ii. Abner Dodson.
iii. Ann Dodson.

20. Thomas "Second Fork" Dodson was born 3 Oct 1728 in Richmond County, Virginia, and died Bef 1809 in Hawkins County, TN. He married Ann Mary Neville 1747 in VA, daughter of Joseph Neville and Ann Neville. She was born 1730 in VA. He married Mary Dodson, daughter of George Dodson and Margaret Dagord. She was born 21 Dec 1726.

Children of Thomas "Second Fork" Dodson and Ann Mary Neville are:

i. Elizabeth Betty Dodson was born Abt 1748.
ii. Thomas Jeremiah Dodson was born in Halifax County, VA, and died Abt 1835 in Hawkins County, TN.
iii. Leonard Dodson. He married Randall.
iv. Jesse Dodson was born Abt 1774. He married Judith Combs 19 Mar 1794 in Halifax County, VA. She was born Abt 1775.
v. Fanny Dodson. She married Thomas Dodson.
vi. Agnes Aggy Dodson. She married Moses Hanks.
vii. Rhoda Dodson. She married Alexander Hitson 20 Nov 1786 in Halifax County, VA.
viii. Winny Dodson. She married William Johnson. ix. Alcy Dodson. She married Jerry Johnson. x. Samuel Dodson. xi. William Dodson died 22 Dec 1809 in KY.
xii. James Dodson.

Children of Thomas "Second Fork" Dodson and Mary Dodson are:
i. Ida (Ioda) Dodson.
ii. George Dodson.

25. Alce Dodson was born Abt 1734, and died 1792 in Pittsylvania Co., VA. She married Lazarus Dodson, son of George Dodson and Margaret Dagord. He was born 7 Oct 1728 in Richmond County, Virginia, and died Abt 1795 in Pittsylvania Co., VA.
Children of Alce Dodson and Lazarus Dodson are:
i. Elisha Dodson was born Abt 1753 in Pittsylvania Co., VA, and died 1828 in Williamson Co., TN. He married Rachel Henry. She was born Abt 1754 in Holsten Co., TN.
ii. George Dodson was born Abt 1755.

27. William Dodson was born Abt 1738, and died 6 May 1832 in Iredell Co., NC.
Children of William Dodson are:
i. Sarah Sally Dodson was born Abt 1777 in Halifax County, VA.
ii. William Dodson.
iii. Annis Dodson was born 1759, and died 1788.
iv. Elija Dodson was born 1759, and died 1788.
v. James B Dodson was born 1764 in Halifax County, VA.
vi. Rachael Dodson was born 1765 in Fauquier Co., VA.
vii. Winnifred Dodson was born 1770 in Halifax County, VA.
viii. Rosannah Dodson was born 1775 in Halifax County, VA.
ix. Mary Dodson was born 12 Apr 1790 in Halifax County, VA.
x. Elizabeth Dodson was born 1796 in Halifax County, VA.

29. Jesse Dodson was born 22 Nov 1752 in Fauquier Co., VA, and died 1841-1843 in East Stanley Valley, TN. He married Ruth Dodson, daughter of Elisha Dodson and Sarah Everett. She was born Abt 1756 in Richmond County, Virginia.

Children of Jesse Dodson and Ruth Dodson are:

i. Nimrod Dodson was born Abt 1775.
ii. Elizabeth Dodson was born Abt 1776.
iii. Elisha Dodson was born 17 Sep 1785.
iv. Elijah Dodson was born 17 Sep 1785.
v. Jesse Dodson was born 7 Mar 1791.
vi. William Dodson was born 14 Jun 1795.
vii. Sarah Dodson.
viii. Tabitha Dodson was born 19 Mar 1798.
ix. Sallie Dodson was born 1801.
x. Ruth Dodson was born 1 Apr 1802.

39. Ruth Dodson was born Abt 1756 in Richmond County, Virginia. She married Jesse Dodson, son of Thomas Dodson and Elizabeth Rose. He was born 22 Nov 1752 in Fauquier Co., VA, and died 1841-1843 in East Stanley Valley, TN.

Children of Ruth Dodson and Jesse Dodson are:

i. Nimrod Dodson was born Abt 1775.
ii. Elizabeth Dodson was born Abt 1776.
iii. Elisha Dodson was born 17 Sep 1785.
iv. Elijah Dodson was born 17 Sep 1785.
v. Jesse Dodson was born 7 Mar 1791.
vi. William Dodson was born 14 Jun 1795.
vii. Sarah Dodson.
viii. Tabitha Dodson was born 19 Mar 1798. ix. Sallie Dodson was born 1801. x. Ruth Dodson was born 1 Apr 1802.
Descendant Register, Generation No. 4

53. Mary Dodson She married Shelton.

Children of Mary Dodson and Shelton are:
i. Mary Shelton.
ii. Nancy Shelton.

62. Elizabeth Betty Dodson was born Abt 1748. She married David Dodson, son of George Dodson and Margaret Dagord. He was born 1743 in Culpeper County, VA.
Children of Elizabeth Betty Dodson and David Dodson are:

i. Fortunatus Dodson.
ii. Abner Dodson.
iii. Ann Dodson.

63. Thomas Jeremiah Dodson was born in Halifax County, VA, and died Abt 1835 in Hawkins County, TN. He married Jemina Lockett. She was born in Halifax County, VA, and died 29 Dec 1850 in TN.

Children of Thomas Jeremiah Dodson and Jemina Lockett are:

i. Elisha Dodson was born 1 Nov 1801 in Hawkins County, TN, and died 17 Jun 1874 in Hawkins County, TN.
ii. James Dodson was born Abt 1790. He married Rachel Grantham.
iii. Sarah Dodson.
iv. Raleigh "Rolly" Dodson was born 1804 in TN, and died 1853.

Descendant Register, Generation No. 5

96. Elisha Dodson was born 1 Nov 1801 in Hawkins County, TN, and died 17 Jun 1874 in Hawkins County, TN. He married Frances "Fanny" Thompson 4 Nov 1819 in Hawkins County, TN. She was born 17 Feb 1803 in Hawkins County, TN, and died 17 Jun 1874 in Hawkins County, TN.

Children of Elisha Dodson and Frances "Fanny" Thompson are:

i. Thomas Richard Dodson was born 10 Aug 1820 in Hawkins County, TN, and died 20 Aug 1893 in Overton County, TN.
ii. Mary M W Dodson was born 17 Feb 1822 in Hawkins County, TN, and died 2 Jun 1885.
iii. James Kendrick Dodson was born 10 Jan 1824 in Hawkins County, TN, and died 4 Mar 1885 in Hamblen Co., TN. He married Narcissa A Taylor 28 Sep 1854.
iv. Sarah J Dodson was born 26 May 1825 in Hawkins County, TN, and died 23 Aug 1826 in Hawkins County, TN.
v. William T. Dodson was born 14 Jun 1827 in Hawkins County, TN, and died 26 Jul 1827 in Hawkins County, TN.
vi. Raleigh J. Dodson was born 22 Jul 1828 in Hawkins County, TN, and died 11 Dec 1891. He married Emma. He married Eliza J.
vii. Samuel E Dodson was born 9 Dec 1830 in Hawkins County, TN, and died 13 Jan 1905.
viii. Stephen Orville Dodson was born 8 Jan 1833 in Hawkins County, TN, and died 29 Jan 1892 in Pickett, TN.
ix. Nancy Cornelia Dodson was born 7 Jan 1836 in Hawkins County, TN, and died 11 Jan 1913 in Pickett, TN.
x. Stokley D M Dodson was born 4 Apr 1839 in Hawkins County, TN, and died 18 Apr 1862 in TN.
xi. Lucinda M Dodson was born 4 Apr 1841 in Hawkins County, TN, and died 18 Apr 1915 in TN.
xii. Susan B Dodson was born 26 May 1843-1844 in Hawkins County, TN.

99. Raleigh "Rolly" Dodson was born 1804 in TN, and died 1853. He married Martha "Patsy" Johnson. She was born 1802 in TN.

Children of Raleigh "Rolly" Dodson and Martha "Patsy" Johnson are:
i. Penelope Dodson was born 1822 in TN.
ii. Eliza Dodson was born 1824 in TN.
iii. Thomas Dodson was born 1825 in TN.
iv. William Dodson was born 1828 in TN.
v. James Hardy Dodson was born 1831 in TN, and died 1904.
vi. Raleigh Sanford Samuel Dodson was born 1832 in TN, and died 1905.
vii. George Dodson was born 1835 in TN.
viii. Cynthia Dodson was born 1839 in TN.

Descendant Register, Generation No. 6

100. Thomas Richard Dodson was born 10 Aug 1820 in Hawkins County, TN, and died 20 Aug 1893 in Overton County, TN. He was buried in Dodson Chapel Cemetery, Overton County, TN. He married Martha Ann Johnson 26 Nov 1840. She was born 7 Jan 1821 in TN, and died 12 Oct 1906 in Putnam County, TN.

Children of Thomas Richard Dodson and Martha Ann Johnson are:
i. Louisa Frances Dodson was born 5 Jan 1842, and died 26 May 1880.
ii. James Elbert Dodson was born 13 Feb 1844, and died 2 Feb 1885. He married Margaret Etta "Bette" Gentry 17 Nov 1869. She was born 1 Oct 1850, and died 20 Mar 1940.
iii. Sanford Johnson Dodson was born 12 Aug 1846, and died 18 May 1882 in TN.
iv. Elisha Frank Dodson was born 20 Nov 1848, and died 29 Sep 1924. He married Elizabeth "Bessie" Kembrough. v.John Larkin Dodson was born 30 Jul 1851 in TN, and died 13 Dec 1892.
vi. Mary Nancy C Dodson was born 29 Apr 1854 and died 8 Apr 1936.
vii. William Robert L Dodson was born 28 Jul 1856. viii. Sarah Catherine Hannah Dodson was born 8 Apr 1860, and died 13 Sep 1894.
ix. Susan Alice Dodson was born 15 Feb 1863.

106. Samuel E Dodson was born 9 Dec 1830 in Hawkins County, TN, and died 13 Jan 1905. He was buried in Coldwell Cemetery, #195, Hawkins Co., TN. He married Mary Jane Taylor 12 Oct 1854 in Hawkins County, TN. She was born 1840, and 1910. She was buried in Coldwell Cemetery, #195, Hawkins Co., TN.

Children of Samuel E Dodson and Mary Jane Taylor are:
i. Elisha S Dodson was born 1857.
ii. William H Dodson was born 1857.
iii. J E Dodson was born 1859.
iv. Margaret Dodson was born 1861.
v. Eliza Emma Dodson was born 1863, and died 1893.
vi. Narcissus Dodson was born 7 Nov 1866, and died 16 Feb 1888. She married John E Jones. He was born 3 Apr 1887, and died 3 Jul 1894.
vii. Fannie Effie Dodson was born 17 Feb 1876 in Morresburg, TN, and died 12 Nov 1914.
viii. Ludie T Dodson was born 18 Aug 1878.
ix. James S. Dodson was born 1880. He married Dollie Lawson.

107. Stephen Orville Dodson was born 8 Jan 1833 in Hawkins County, TN, and died 29 Jan 1892 in Pickett, TN. He married Mary Alta Catherine Johnson 28 Oct 1852. She was born 1835, and died 1909.

Children of Stephen Orville Dodson and Mary Alta Catherine Johnson are:
i. James Elisha Dodson was born 1854.
ii. Martha Lucinda Dodson was born 1855.
iii. Sarah Maneova Dodson was born 1857, and died 1908.
iv. William Dodson was born 1859. v. Fannie Dodson was born 1860.
vi. Raleigh J " Rolla" Dodson was born 1 Jun 1862.
vii. Louise Dodson was born Abt 1863.
viii. Nancy Jane Dodson was born 1865.
ix. Steven Orville Dodson was born 1866.
x. Alice Dodson was born 1868.
xi.Charles Dodson was born 1869.
xii. Robert Dodson was born 1871.
xiii. Merchant Frank Dodson was born 30 Sep 1883 in Overton County, TN, and died 18 Nov 1962.
xiv. Rebecca Melvina Johnson Dodson was born 15 Apr 1868 in Overton County, TN, and died 18 Sep 1948 in Pickett, TN.
109. Stokley D M Dodson was born 4 Apr 1839 in Hawkins County, TN, and died 18 Apr 1862 in TN. He married Sarah J Hartman 26 Mar 1857 in TN. She was born 28 Feb 1840 in TN, and died 9 Mar 1899 in TN.

Children of Stokley D M Dodson and Sarah J Hartman are:

** i. John Henry Dodson was born 17 Apr 1858 in Hawkins County, TN, and died 4 Jun 1918 in Tulare, Tulare County, CA. He married Mary Rosina "Mollie" Williams 13 Mar 1874 in Hamblen Co., TN. She was born Dec 1858 in TN, and died 28 Sep 1889 in Whitesburg, Hamblen County, TN.
ii. Thomas E Dodson was born 20 Nov 1859 in TN.

iii. Stokely C Dodson was born 12 Aug 1861 in TN.


Sarah J. Hartman
1840 - 1899
Parents: John and Mary
Siblings: Marshall, Rebecca A. and Margaret
Partners: (1)Stokely D. M. and(2)Benjamin Abbot
Children: (1)John Henry, Thomas E., Stokely C., ----(2)-Sarah J., Angeline R., Benjamin Abbot, Marion, Flora, Robert, Nora Etta and Hattie

end of registry

Thomas Dodson

Thomas Dodson Sr was born on 15 May 1681 as the first child of CHARLES DODSON SR. and Ann (Maiden Name Unknown) in Old Rappahannock (Present day Richmond) County, Virginia. He had seven siblings, namely: Charles Jr., LAMBETH SR., Bartholomew Richard, William, Anne, Elizabeth, and John. He died on 1739/40 in Richmond County, Virginia. When he was age unknown, He married Mary Durham,daughter of Thomas Durham Sr. and Dorothy Smoot, in Fauquier County, Virginia.

Thomas Dodson Sr signed his will on 17 Feb 1739 in Richmond County, Virginia.

Thomas Dodson Sr and Mary Durham had the following children:

Thomas Dodson, Jr. was born about 1707 in Richmond County, Virginia. He died before 21 Oct 1783 in Pittsylvania County, Virginia. He married Elizabeth Rose before 1725 in Richmond County, Virginia. He married Ellenor ? (Widow Sloan) about 1770.

Abraham Dodson was born in 1723. He died in 1768 in Fauquier County, Virginia.

Joshua Dodson Sr. was born in 1725. He died in 1793 in Surrey, North Carolina.

Elisha Dodson Sr. was born on 22 Feb 1727 in Richmond County, Virginia (NFPR). He died in 1791.

Greenham.

George.

David.

Mary.

Alice.

Source: The Dodson (Dotson) Family of North Farnham Parish, Richmond County, Virginia, Volume I; Chapter 1.

Bio by: Paul B Dotson

Family Members
Parents
Charles Dodson
1649–1705

Anne Elmore Dodson
1654–1715

Spouse
Mary Durham Dodson
1686 – unknown (m. 1701)

Siblings
Charles Dodson
1679–1715

Lambeth Dodson
1692–1780

Children
David Dodson
1703–1740

Joseph Neville
1707–1783

Thomas Dodson
1707–1783

Joshua Dodson
1725–1798

Gravesite Details married Colony Of Jamestown, USA,

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Birth:
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Probate:
Richmond County has nothing whatever to do with the city of Richmond. There was no city of Richmond at that time. Richmond City sits in Henrico Co., Va, but it has no Court House. The county was named for His Grace, The First Duke of Richmond, or for Richmond in Surry County, England.

"The Three Rivers Chronicle", Publication of the Three Rivers Historical Society at Hemingway, S.C. 29554, Volume VII March, 1987 No. 1

http://www.joepayne.org/rappa.htm

Thomas married Mary May Durham on 29 Aug 1701 in Richmond County, Virginia. Mary (daughter of Thomas Durham, Sr. and Dorothy (Smoot)) was born on ~5 Jun 1686 in North Farnham Parish, Richmond County, Virginia; died after 1745 in North Farnham Parish, Richmond County, Virginia. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Alt Death: 1 Jan 1715, Richmond County, Virginia
• Alt Death: 21 Nov 1740, Richmond County, Virginia

Notes:

Mary Dodson formerly Durham
Born about 5 Jun 1686 in North Farnham Parish, Richmond, Virginia

Daughter of Thomas Durham Sr and Dorothy (Smoot) Durham
Sister of Richard Durham [half], Samuel Durham [half], Thomas Durham Jr [half] and John Durham [half]
Wife of Thomas Dodson Sr. — married 29 Aug 1701 in Richmond, Virginia
Wife of Robert Galbreath — married 29 Sep 1743 in Richmond County, Virginia

DESCENDANTS descendants

Mother of George Dodson Sr, David Dodson, Thomas Dodson Jr, Greenham Dodson, Alice (Dodson) Creel, Mary Dodson, Abraham Dodson, Joshua Dodson Sr. and Elisha Dodson Sr.
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Biography

Mary Durham was baptized June 5, 1686 at North Farnham Parish, Old Rappahannock County, Virginia.[1][2] Her parents were Thomas Durham and Dorothy Durham. Her baptism was recorded at North Farnham Parish Church.[3]

Mary is named in the will of her father, Thomas Durham, dated 4 August 1711 and proved in court 1 June 1715 in Richmond County, Virginia. Her son, Thomas, is also named as "my grandson Thomas Dodson.…"[4]

On August 29, 1701, Dorothy-Mary Durham married Thomas Dodson in Richmond County, Virginia.[1] The couple had nine children, all born in Richmond County, in the English colony of Virginia:[3]

George Dodson b Oct 31, 1702, d 1770; mar Margaret Dagord
David Dodson b ca 1704, d ca 1740); mar Amy
Thomas Dodson b ca 1707, d October 21, 1783:mar 1) Elizabeth Rose, 2) Ellenor Sloan
Greenham Dodson b ca 1709, d after 1777; mar Elinore Hightower
Alice Dodson b 1711, d after 1730; mar William Creel
Mary Dodson b Oct 5, 1715, d after 1739; mar Mr. Oldham
Abraham Dodson b April 4, 1723, d ca 1768; mar Barbara Russell?
Joshua Dodson b May 25, 1725, d ca 1793; mar Ruth LNU
Elisha Dodson b February 22, 1727, d after 1780; mar Sarah Everett
Mary and her son Greenham Dodson were named the executors in the Will of Thomas Dodson dated 17 February, 1739. He died on November 21, 1740, a date some family genealogies have "adopted" as Mary's death date by mistake.

On September 29, 1743, nearly 3 years after Thomas Dodson's death, his widow, Mary (Durham) Dodson, married local planter Robert Galbreath. There were apparently issues with the marriage as her son, Greenham Dodson, filed suit in Chancery Court in Richmond Co., Virginia, in 1744. The court ruled in 1745 as follows:

" . . . Complainant Greenham Dodson to take possession of the estate for the use of his mother, Mary Galbreath, during her coverture according to the intention of the Testators Will, the said Robert Galbreath in open court refusing to give security . . ."[5]
Mary Durham Dodson died sometime after 1745, in Richmond Co., Virginia. Her exact date of death is not known as local records were destroyed before the 20th Century. Estimates have ranged from 1745 to 1775. [6]

Sources
? 1.0 1.1 Williams, Mrs. Sherman, Compiler & Editor, The Dodson (Dotson) Family of North Farnham Parish, Richmond County, Virginia: A History and Genealogy of Their Descendants. (Page 4) Easley, Southern Historical Press, 1988, NEHGS
? King, George Harrison Sanford, The Registers of North Farnham Parish 1663-1814 and Lunenburg Parish 1783-1800 Richmond County, Virginia (Page 56) Self-Published; Fredericksburg, 1966
? 3.0 3.1 Ule, Michelle Duval, compiler The Dodsons, Durhams, Roses and Nevilles. Spring, 2000, Michelle Ule's Website Author generously provided a PDF.
? Last Will & Testament of Thomas Durham Sr. dated 4th August 1711 and Probated 1 June 1715, Richmond County Virginia Will Book 3, page 210.
? Susan's Ancestors on RootsWeb - Dorothy-Mary Durham. Cites: Mrs. Sherman Williams, Compiler & Editor: "The Dodson (Dotson) Family of North Farnham Parish, Richmond County,Virginia".
? See preceding note; this well-researched family genealogy states that her exact date of death after the 1745 lawsuit remains unknown.
Will of Thomas Dodson, Richmond Co., VA Will Book 5, pages 378 & 379; Will is dated February 17, 1739, naming wife Mary and son Greehham as executors and sons: George, Thomas, Greenham, Abraham, Joshua, Elisha and daughters Mary Oldham and Alice Greel and granddaughter, daughter of David Dodson who pre-deceased his father.
North Farnham Parish Register, microfilm of original register, Library of Virginia, Richmond county records, microfilm Reel No. 66. Births of the following children of Mary and Thomas Dodson are found in the North Farnham Parish Register: Mary, born October 5, 1715; Abraham born April 4, 1723; Joshua born May 25, 1725; and Elisha born February 22, 1727.
Stamps, William Thomas; GEDCOM file imported on 23 Dec 2000.

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Birth:
in Farnham Parish...

Notes:

Married:
Gravesite Details, married Colony Of Jamestown

Residence (Family):
Many families with names familiar to us here also lived along Totuskey Creek, and the Rappahannock River. Along with William and Sarah Stone there was living in the Northern Neck of Virginia in 1680 William, Thomas and John Chandlor; John , William and James Creel; Robert, James and Henry Austin, who also lived on Totuskey Creek. There was Charles and Thomas Dodson; Charles, John, William, and Alexander Fleming; William, John, George, and Robert Taylor; Samuel Godwin, many Turners and Tunes, Many Colemans and Coles, and Pursells and others.

Source: The Three Rivers Chronicle
Publication of the Three Rivers Historical Society at Hemingway, S.C. 29554
Volume VII March, 1987 No. 1... http://www.joepayne.org/rappa.htm

Other Events and Attributes:

• Occupation: plantation owner

Notes:

John Rose
Birthdate: circa 1680 (62)
Birthplace: England or Northern Neck of, Virginia
Death: November 18, 1742 (58-66)
Wiccomico, Northumberland, Virginia, United States
Immediate Family:
Husband of Mary Rose - Blackerby
Father of Mary Stamps and Elizabeth Dodson
Occupation: Planter
Managed by: Tim Stamps
Last Updated: January 10, 2017
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About John Rose of Wicomico
John Rose
Birth: abt 1680 probably England, possibly Virginia
Death: Nov 18 1742 - Wiccomico, Northumberland, Virginia, United States
Parents: unknown
Wife: Mary Blackerby
Children: Mary Rose, Elizabeth Rose

The earliest record that we have of our John Rose is that in 1701 in Northumberland County when he and his wife, Mary Rose, witnessed the will of James Wildey. Rose is mentioned in a number of land purchases and finally we have his will dated November 18, 1742 wherein he names James Blackerby, his wife's son by her first marriage; and Joseph Davis, his wife's grandson, his daughters Mary Stamps and Elizabeth Dodson and his beloved wife Mary Rose.

Will of John Rose of Wicomico Parish, Northumberland County, Virginia

In the name of God, Amen, I, John Rose, of Weiomore Parish and County of Northumberland, being weak of age, but of perfect mind and memory, thanks be to Almighty God for it, calling to mind the mortality of my body, knowing that it is appointed for all men once to die, do make ordain this my last will and testament, that is to say, principally and first of all, I recommend my Soul unto the hands of Almighty God that gave it to me and as for my body I recommend it to the Earth, to be buried in a Christian like and decent manner, at the discretion of my executors hereafter mentioned, nothing doubting but at the general resurrection I shall receive the same again by the Might power of God, and as for such worldly estate as it hath pleased Almighty God to bless me with in the world I give as follows:

Imprimes, I give to James Blackerby my wife's son three sheep.

Item, I give to Joseph Davis my wife's grandson seven sheep and as for the rest of my personal estate, such as my lands, negroes, stocks and all other tenements I give to my two daughters, viz: Mary Stamps and Elizabeth Dodson and their heirs forever, to be equally divided between the two, and it is my will that my land shant be sold as long as the wars continue.

Item, I leave the rest of my estate to my loving wife Mary Rose during her widowhood or natural life.

Item, I constitute, make, appoint and ordain my loving wife Mary Rose, Thomas Stamps, Thomas Dodson and William Thomas Sr. to be my sole executors of this my last will and testament, wills and legacies, bequests executed to me anyways before this time named, willed and bequeathed, ratifying and confirming this and no other to be my last will and testament.

In witness whereunto I set my hand and seal this 18th day of November in the year our Lord God 1742.

John Rose (seal)

Witnessed by: Wm. Stonum Elenor (x) Chapman"

Links

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http://www.thehennesseefamily.com/getperson.php?personID=I3722&tree=hennessee

John married Mary Jenkins before 1701 in (Virginia). Mary was born in ~ 1666 in Weldmore, Northumberland County, Virginia; died in ~ 1742 in Weldmore, Northumberland County, Virginia. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Mary Rose - Blackerby (Jenkins)
Also Known As: "Mary (Jenkins) Blackerby Rose", "NOT Mary Wildly", "Mary (Jenkins) Blakesley Rose"
Birthdate: circa 1666 (76)
Birthplace: Weldmore, Northumberland, Virginia USA
Death: circa 1742 (68-84)
Weldmore, Northumberland, Virginia USA
Immediate Family:
Daughter of Philip Jenkins and Sarah Jenkins
Wife of John Rose of Wicomico and James Blackerby
Mother of Mary Stamps; Elizabeth Dodson; James Blackerby, Jr. and ?? Davis
Managed by: Timothy Paul Setser
Last Updated: January 10, 2017

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Philip Jenkins
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Sarah Jenkins
mother
About Mary Rose - Blackerby
will of John Rose
Attached hereto is a copy of the will of John Rose dated November 11, 1742. When it was offered for probate, John Rose lived in Wicomico Parish, Northumberland County. The original will is in possession of the Shackleford family of Seattle, Washington. They also have the original will of Thomas Stamps and also his revoked will.

The executors of John Rose's will were Mary, his widow, his sons-in-law Thomas Stamps and Thomas Dodson. Witnesses were William Stonum and Eleanor Chapman. The will gave to his wife's son James Blackerby three sheep, her grandson Joseph Davis seven sheep; his lands, negroes, stock, etc., to Mary Stamps and Elizabeth Dodson equally, but the entire estate to his wife during her natural life or widowhood.

notes
Another researcher thought Mary "Blackerby" had been previously married to a Blackerby and was not the daughter of a Blackerby. Can anyone fine additional documentation?

The "Rose Tree" http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~bouquet/john_rose.html

lists her as being born Mary Jenkins, whose first husband was the Blackerby. As Mary Jenkins, she is the daughter of PHILIP JENKINS and SARAH STORY.

The latest information that I have is that Mary was born Mary Jenkins, and married into the name Blackerby. Her second marriage was to John Rose

According to Patt Roach: "Apparently James Blackerby I died and his wife, Mary married John Rose. Date of death of James Blackerby I would be about 1700-1701." "Her name was not Wildly."

Citations

Roach, Patt. We Boast of the Name Of Blackerby Blackaby Blackorby. Baltimore, MD: Gateway Press, 2007. Print.
Links

http://www.thehennesseefamily.com/getperson.php?personID=I3723&tree=hennessee
http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~bouquet/john_rose.html

Notes:

24 Jul 2007

Posted By: Doyleen Turner
Email:
Subject: William Everett b.1692, Virginia
Post Date: February 07, 2001 at 07:24:52
Message URL: http://genforum.genealogy.com/everett/messages/1281.html
Forum: Everett Family Genealogy Forum
Forum URL: http://genforum.genealogy.com/everett/


I am seeking information about the parents of William Everett who was born March 15, 1692 in Richmond County, Virginia.

William (my 6th great grandfather) was married to "Margaret" and they had eight known children: Sarah, Anne, Elizabeth, Lucrecy, Daniel, George, William, and Ruth.

Does anyone know who William's parents were and who the immigrant Everett was for this line? THANKS

Doyleen

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Birth:
in Farnham Parish...

William married Margaret Foushee Mitchell Petty in ~1715 in Richmond County, Virginia. Margaret was born in 1698 in (Richmond County) Virginia. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

William Everett b. 1691/1692 in Richmond and d. 1759 in Richmond Co. Spouse was Margaret Foushee Mitchell Petty b. 1698.

Children:

Anne Everett

Elizabeth Everett

Lucrecy Everett

Sarah Everett

Daniel Everett

George Everett

William Everett

Ruth Everett

end of note

Robert married Mary Perrin. Mary was born in 0___ 1665. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Alt Birth: Bef 1663, Curles, Henrico, Colony of Virginia
• Probate: 1 May 1700, Henrico County, Virginia Colony

Notes:

JOHN WOODSON3

John3 Woodson, son of John2 Woodson and his wife (name unknown), was born before 1663, in Henrico Co., VA. and died there before 1 May 1700, aged about 37 years.

He married about 1677 to Mary Tucker, daughter of Capt. Samuel Tucker and his wife Jane Larcome. Mary Woodson died in 1710 in Henrico County. She is said to have been the orphan of a ship's captain. The name of Samuel Tucker's vessel was the Vinetree. He was trading on the Virginia coast and perhaps died at sea. His widow, Jane (Larcome) Tucker, then married John Pleasants, of Curles, Henrico County, VA.

John's will, was proved in court 1, May 1700. His widow made her will on 24, September 1709 and it was proved 1, August 1710 in the Henrico Court at Varina. Her mother, Jane Pleasants had only died the previous year. Her will is dated 2, January 1708/09 and was proved at the same court in June 1709, it shows she had Tucker and Pleasants offspring, and also names some of her Woodson grandchildren.

Children of John Woodson3 and Mary Tucker Woodson:

1. Joseph Woodson married three times, first to Mary Sanburne, second Elizabeth Scott and third Elizabeth Murry.

2. Samuel Tucker Woodson, died 1718 without issue, will 1717, proved 7, July 1718, naming brothers Joseph and Benjamin, sister Jane and cousin Tarleton.

3. Benjamin Woodson, born about 1693, Henrico County, VA. Married Frances Napier. See Napier Family.

4. Jane Woodson married her first cousin, once removed, Joseph Woodson, son of Robert2 Woodson (John1) and wife Elizabeth Ferris.

John married Mary Tucker on 20 Aug 1681 in Curles, Henrico, Colony of Virginia. Mary was born in 1660 in Curles, Henrico, Colony of Virginia; died in 1710 in Henrico County, Virginia Colony. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Married:
He married about 1677 to Mary Tucker, daughter of Capt. Samuel Tucker and his wife Jane Larcome. Mary Woodson died in 1710 in Henrico County. She is said to have been the orphan of a ship's captain. The name of Samuel Tucker's vessel was the Vinetree. He was trading on the Virginia coast and perhaps died at sea. His widow, Jane (Larcome) Tucker, then married John Pleasants, of Curles, Henrico County, VA.

William married unnamed spouse(Scotland). unnamed was born in (Scotland); died in (Scotland). [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Joseph married unnamed spouse(Ireland). unnamed was born in (Ireland); died in (Ireland). [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]