Howard Sutton Jones

Other Events and Attributes:

• Residence: 1910, Greer County, Oklahoma

Notes:

author of, "From The Beautiful Ben Lomand To The Great Southwest", publish date unknown...DAH

Name: Howard Jones
Titles and Terms:
Event Type: Census
Event Date: 1930
Event Place: Mangum, Greer, Oklahoma, United States
District: ED 9
Gender: Male
Age: 34
Marital Status: Married
Race: White
Race: White
Relationship to Head of Household: Head
Relationship to Head of Household: Head
Birth Year (Estimated): 1896
Birthplace: Tennessee
Immigration Year:
Father's Birthplace: Tennessee
Mother's Birthplace: Tennessee
Sheet Letter: B
Sheet Number: 13
Sheet Number and Letter: 13B
Household ID: 327
Line Number: 88
Affiliate Name: The U.S. National Archives and Records Administration (NARA)
Affiliate Publication Number: T626
Affiliate Film Number: 1905
GS Film Number: 2341639
Digital Folder Number: 004950072
Image Number: 00559


Household Role Sex Age Birthplace
Howard Jones Head M 34 Tennessee
Sallie Jones Wife F 32 Texas
Howard W Jones Jr. Son M 5 Oklahoma
Billy B Jones Son M 4 Oklahoma
Sarah Mayes Mother-in-law F 76 Alabama

Citing this Record
"United States Census, 1930," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:XC7L-SBR : accessed 23 May 2019), Sarah Mayes in household of Howard Jones, Mangum, Greer, Oklahoma, United States; citing enumeration district (ED) ED 9, sheet 13B, line 92, family 327, NARA microfilm publication T626 (Washington D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, 2002), roll 1905; FHL microfilm 2,341,639.

end of this census record

Buried:
PLOT Section Highland (14) L-26 #5

Family/Spouse: Sally M. Mayes. Sally was born in 1898 in Texas; died in 1979; was buried on 28 Apr 1979 in Rose Hill Cemetery, Tulsa, Tulsa County, Oklahoma. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

1. William B. "Billy" Jones
2. Howard Sutton "Sutton" Jones, Jr. was born on 12 Aug 1924 in Mangum, Greer County, Oklahoma; died on 11 Feb 2006; was buried in Floral Haven Memorial Gardens, Broken Arrow, Tulsa County, Oklahoma.

Other Events and Attributes:

• Occupation: laborer
• Residence: 0___ 1910, Greer County, Oklahoma

Noah married Nancy Elizabeth "Nannie" Merriman on 28 Sep 1873 in Warren County, Tennessee. Nancy (daughter of William C(urby) Merriman and Sarah J(ane) "Sally" Thomas) was born on 10 Aug 1854 in Dunlap, Sequatchie County, Tennessee; died on 22 Dec 1919 in Mangum, Greer County, Oklahoma; was buried in White Flat Cemetery, Mangum, Greer County, Oklahoma. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Excerpted from "From The Beautiful Ben Lomand To The Great Southwest", by Howard S. Jones, Chapter II, pp. 5-7, date unknown:

" EARLY LIFE OF MY MOTHER

My mother, Nancy Elizabeth Merriman, was born August 10, 1854 in the small mining town of Dunlap, Tennessee.

She had three brothers and three sisters. Her brothers were George, Dick and Lee. Her sisters were Josie, Simmie and Ella.

The coal mining town of Dunlap, Tennessee was an early day "Boom Town" and considered a very tough place to live.

My mother's description of life in Dunlap,the way she remembered it as a young girl was certainly not a very pleasant memory. We might compare Dunlap with the Oil Boom towns of Oklahoma and Texas. However, according to all reports, lawlessness in the coal mining town of Dunlap, Tennessee far exceeded that of amy of the "crime ridden" oil boom towns of the Great Southwest.

My Grandfather Merriman worked in one of the business establishments in downtown Dunlap.

My mother recalls that on one occasion her father witnessed a "feuding shoot out" on Main Street. When the smoke cleared ten men lay dead.

My mother's brother Dick worked in the coal mines all of his active adult life He was never married. His mother and sisters, in fact all of the folks, were very concerned about him, because of the health hazzards and the "ever present" danger of mining accidents.

Her brother, George, was the "practical joker" of the Merriman family. My mother told me about some of her brother's "so called practical jokes." It was quite clear that my mother did not share her brother's idea of a "practical joke." I remember when Uncle George visited our family. I was a very small boy, but I do recall the pleasure he seemed to get in telling us about some of his practical jokes. One of them took place in South Pittsburg, Tennessee. It seems that Uncle George had a team of horses hitched to a wagon and was driving down the street when he saw a man with a small stand on the sidewalk, selling some kind of gadgets to make a living. So Uncle George thought it would be very funny to pretend that his horses had suddenly become frightened and were running away and completely out of his control. So Uncle George
managed to hit that small stand with the wheel of the wagon, destroying the stand and scattering the gadgets all over the place, to say nothing of almost scaring that poor salesman to death.

After Uncle George ended his visit my mother said her brother conveniently forgot to tell us the outcome of his practical joke. She said he was arrested by the police and forced to pay all the damages he had inflicted upon that poor sidewalk salesman. She said it was a substantial sum considering that period of time. My mother said she hoped this would teach Uncle George a lesson about his so called practical jokes, but of course it did not! The trouble with Uncle George was that sometimes his practical jokes were neither practical nor jokes.

My mother's brother Lee was shot and killed in an argument with a Dunlap man. This shocked and grieved my mother very much. Uncle Lee was her favorite brother and he was only in his twenties.

As mentioned before, mother's three sister were Josie, Simmie and Ella. Her sister, Josie, married a man by the name of Smith. They had three sons and three daughters, two of the daughters were born deaf mutes. My mother visited Aunt Josie and her family quite often and she said the two girls who were deaf mutes were (to use my mother's words) and "smartest things she ever saw".

The state of Tennessee provided a school for those who could neither hear nor speak. The school started with the elementary and went through college. One of the girls married a college instructor and the other girl was on the college faculty and taught for many, many years.

My mother's sister, Simmie, married a man by the name of Vonner. They had one daughter and two sons. The sons went into military service when they reached the proper age. My mother did not know very much about sister Simmie's family. After Mr. Vonner passed awary, Aunt Simmie married a Mr. Dugan. Aunt Simmie and her husband did visit our family one time.

My mother's sister, Ella, who was named for Grandmother Merriman's sister, Aunt Ella Kesey, married Mr. Joe Harmon. They had four children, three daughters, and one son.The daughters were Josie,Lula and Frankie.The son was Billy. My mother was very close to her sister, Ella and family. They seemed to have a lot in common and enjoyed being together very much. However, this wonderful association was to last only a few years. They were all saddened and grieved by the sudden death of Aunt Ella. The children were young when their mother passed away, but uncle Joe, who was a very fine man, did a marvelous job in taking care of them. He realized the difficulty he faced in trying to be both a father and mother to his children, but he was determined to meet the responsibility. My mother said Joe Harmon was such a good and kind man that he put the welfare of his children above everything else. Uncle Joe devoted his life to his children and denied himself the possibility of happiness in another marriage. He lived on a farm in the Smyrna Community, but it seems that he was more interested in the timber business. However, this was all changed by an accident involved in hauling a load of lumber. One leg was so badly injured that it had to be amputated. As a result of this accident Uncle Joe was forced to turn to something less active. This he did by opening a country store. Since he was such a nice, friendly person, his operation of the country store proved to be very successful."

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Nancy E. Merriman Jones
BIRTH 10 Aug 1854
DEATH 22 Dec 1919 (aged 65)
BURIAL
White Flat Cemetery
Mangum, Greer County, Oklahoma, USA
PLOT Row 3
MEMORIAL ID 66666995 · View Source

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1852–1930

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Notes:

Married:
,by W.W.Ware,JP

Other Events and Attributes:

• Occupation: carpenter
• Military: CSA - POW

Notes:

Spent two years in a Federalist Prison Camp, in Illinois during the Civil War.
Identified as "Robert" during 1870 Warren Census...DAH.

Military:
CSA Private 35th Tennessee Infantry Company A & D

Buried:
Crain Hill Cemetery, White Hill...

Robert married Nancy Elizabeth Walker(Warren County) Tennessee. Nancy was born in 0May 1822 in Tennessee; died on 8 Feb 1904 in Van Buren County, Tennessee; was buried in Crain Hill Cemetery, White Hill, Van Buren County, Tennessee. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

May have married Ambrose Killian...DAH

Other Events and Attributes:

• Occupation: farm labor
• Occupation: Retail Grocer
• Alt Birth: 1827, Georgia
• Alt Birth: 1830, North Carolina

Notes:

Re 1870 Warren County Census, p. 19.
Have arbitrarily assigned this document to William...DAH

MERRIMAN GRAVESITES - BLEDSOE COUNTY, TENNESSEE

COLLIER CEMETERY

Name DOB DOD

Mitchell V. Merriman 11/23/1914 11/16/1997
Mary Kate Stone Officer (Wife) 12/1/1918 Still Living
Married 11/23/1941

Virgil Rufus Merriman 4/7/1876 7/2/1963
Eula Mae Brown (Wife) 6/7/1878 12/9/1952

Maggie B. Moseley Merriman 5/24/1904 6/16/1937

J. Willie Merriman 1898 1948
Myrtle (Unknown) - Wife 1898 1964

Joseph Graden Merriman 12/20/1895 12/29/1964
Alice Rae (2nd Wife) 5/12/1905 No Date
Nellie May Brown (1st Wife) 12/30/1896 6/16/1932

Ovid Walton Merriman 9/27/1921 12/4/1989
Daniel Paul Merriman 1/11/1907 2/23/1986

Don Carlos Merriman 2/17/1912 5/8/1939

James W. Merriman, Jr. 12/28/1921 4/8/1954

Betty Merriman Staggs 6/29/1923 2/21/1998

HOWARD WALKER CEMETERY http://files.usgwarchives.net/tn/bledsoe/cemeteries/hwalker.txt

Hoyt Basil Merriman 9/22/1897 5/10/1970
Susie Marie Smith Merriman (Wife) 9/9/1899 12/14/1939
Olen Eugene Merriman (Son) 10/18/1926 8/16/1928

James W. Merriman 1867 1944
Melinda Jane Heard Hughes (Wife) 1863 1941

JOHNSON LEWIS CEMETERY

Addie Merriman 2/12/1888 3/6/1888
Joe Merriman 3/17/1890 6/16/1890

Abigale Byas Merriman 2/24/1851 2/16/1884

Wiley F. Merriman 7/27/1842 8/21/1908

W. T. Merriman 10/17/1874 12/21/1912

S. J. Merriman 1837 (?) 11/28/1890 (?)
William G. (or C.) Merriman
(Husband of S. J.)

OLD ROBERSON CEMETERY

This cemetery was so overgrown and in the woods, that it was impossible to get to all the graves. It was late in the afternoon and when we reached the cemetery, we stumbled into a yellow jackets nest and had to leave immediately. Several relatives indicated that this was where Rufus Allen and Margaret Roberson Merriman are buried. On the next trip to Bledsoe County, I plan to revisit this cemetery and get as much information as possible. I do know that Margaret's parents are buried there, Col. Isaac Roberson and his wife, Elivira Cole. I was able to get a faint picture of their gravesites before being stung several times.

Name: William Mirriman
Titles and Terms:
Event Type: Census
Event Date: 1860
Event Place: Bledsoe, Tennessee, United States
Gender: Male
Age: 30
Race: White
Race: [Blank]
Occupation:
Birth Year (Estimated): 1830
Birthplace: North Carolina
Page: 78
Household ID: 549
Affiliate Name: The U.S. National Archives and Records Administration (NARA)
Affiliate Publication Number: M653
Affiliate Film Number: 1240
GS Film Number: 805240
Digital Folder Number: 005171419
Image Number: 00288


Household Role Sex Age Birthplace
William Mirriman M 30 North Carolina
Sarah Mirriman F 26 Tennessee
Nancy Mirriman F 5 Tennessee
Eliott J Mirriman M 4 Tennessee
George W Mirriman M 1 Tennessee
Layfayett Kerley M 16 Tennessee

Citing this Record
"United States Census, 1860", database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:M8T7-2DY : 12 December 2017), Layfayett Kerley in entry for William Mirriman, 1860.

end of this census record

Name: W C Merriman
Event Type: Census
Event Date: 1880
Event Place: District 4, Sequatchie, Tennessee, United States
District: ED 112
Gender: Male
Age: 53
Marital Status: Married
Race: White
Race: W
Occupation: Retail Grocer
Relationship to Head of Household: Self
Relationship to Head of Household: Self
Birth Year (Estimated): 1827
Birthplace: North Carolina, United States
Father's Birthplace: Virginia, United States
Mother's Birthplace: Virginia, United States
Note:
Sheet Letter: A
Sheet Number: 272
Sheet Number and Letter: 272A
Household ID: 13357884
Person Number: 0
Volume: 1
Affiliate Name: The U.S. National Archives and Records Administration (NARA)
Affiliate Publication Number: T9
Affiliate Film Number: 1277
GS Film Number: 1255277
Digital Folder Number: 005162511
Image Number: 00551


Household Role Sex Age Birthplace
W C Merriman Self M 53 North Carolina, United States
Sallie Merriman Wife F 53 Tennessee, United States
Josephine Merriman Daughter F 18 Tennessee, United States
Wiley Merriman Son M 16 Tennessee, United States
Sciney Merriman Daughter F 14 Tennessee, United States
William Merriman Son M 12 Tennessee, United States
Levada Merriman Son M 10 Tennessee, United States

Citing this Record
"United States Census, 1880," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:MDWH-WNJ : 15 July 2017), Levada Merriman in entry for W C Merriman, 1880; citing enumeration district ED 112, sheet 272A, NARA microfilm publication T9 (Washington D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, n.d), roll 1277; FHL microfilm 1,255,277.

end of this census recrod

William married Sarah J(ane) "Sally" Thomas in 1853 in (Bledsoe County, Tennessee). Sarah (daughter of Henry M. Thomas and Elizabeth Hammond) was born on 5 Dec 1827 in Pikeville, Bledsoe County, Tennessee; died on 2 May 1907 in Dunlap, Sequatchie County, Tennessee; was buried in Johnson Cemetery, Bledsoe County, Tennessee. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Alt Birth: 1829

Abraham married Celia Allen Allred. Celia was born on 30 Jul 1793 in North Carolina; died on 1 Mar 1857 in McGee Cove, Warren County, Tennessee. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Alt Birth: Virginia
• Occupation: laborer

Notes:

Name: William Merryman
Event Type: Census
Event Year: 1850
Event Place: Bledsoe county, Bledsoe, Tennessee, United States
Gender: Male
Age: 52
Race: White
Race:
Birth Year (Estimated): 1798
Birthplace: North Carolina
Household ID: 179
House Number: 179
Line Number: 30
Affiliate Name: The U.S. National Archives and Records Administration (NARA)
Affiliate Publication Number: M432
Affiliate Film Number: 870
GS Film Number: 24561
Digital Folder Number: 004191096
Image Number: 00176


Household Role Sex Age Birthplace
William Merryman M 52 North Carolina
Matilia Merryman F 44 North Carolina
William C Merryman M 23 Georgia
Owen M Merryman M 21 North Carolina
Lewis W Merryman M 19 North Carolina
Rufus Merryman M 16 North Carolina
Caroline Merryman F 14 Tennessee
Jane Merryman F 12 Tennessee
Wiley Merryman M 10 Tennessee
Adaline Merryman F 8 Tennessee
Lowry Merryman M 5 Tennessee
Eliza Kerby F 81 Virginia

Citing this Record
"United States Census, 1850," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:MCD7-XGZ : 12 April 2016), Eliza Kerby in household of William Merryman, Bledsoe county, Bledsoe, Tennessee, United States; citing family 179, NARA microfilm publication M432 (Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, n.d.).

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Eliza Kerby, born in Virginia in 1769 is listed with his family in 1850.
1830 Middle Tennessee (Lincoln Co.) p. 71:Meriman,William:0120101-11111.
1840 Bledsoe Co.,TN,p.9:"Meramon,William"122001/0200010001".

No proof that it is the same William Merriman who married Lorena Page...DAH

https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.1.1/MCD7-XL1
ame: William Merryman
esidence: Bledsoe county, Bledsoe, Tennessee
ge: 52 years
alculated Birth Year: 1798
irthplace: North Carolina
ender: Male
ace (original):
ace (expanded):
eath Month:
eath Year:
ilm Number: 24561
igital GS Number: 4191096
mage Number: 00176
ine Number: 30
welling House Number: 179
amily Number: 179
arital Status:
ree or Slave:
ollection: United States Census, 1850

9 Jul 2004

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Re: Looking for info on Merrimans from Bledsoe Co., TN
Posted by: Debbie Ellison Carson (ID *****2848)
Date: October 18, 2003 at 15:35:40
In Reply to: Re: Looking for info on Merrimans from Bledsoe Co., TN by David Songer of 1002

David,

Yes, I have a Ida Jane listed as a child of Lowra Monroe Merriman. I will give you all I have - this info came from my great aunt who is still living in Bridgeport, AL

William Alan Merriman married Malita Curby and they had the following children:

Lowra Monroe; William; Rufus; Milton Owen; Walter Lewis; Carolyne; Jane and Adeline.

Lowra Monroe Merriman married Martha Ann McGarr and they had the following children:

John Floyd; William Luther (my gg-grandfather); Tom Polk; Charles Richard; Homer Sewell; Annette Loyd; Ida Jane; Lillie Mae; Ethel Lee; Mollie Edna; Mattie Lowra and Josie. ** the date 1873 showes up beside Ida Elliott's name. . . could this be her birth year?

The father of William Alan Merriman was a Demarcus Merriman born about 1760-1770 in Lancaster Co., VA. He died in 1850 in Bledsoe Co. TN. He married Elizabeth (ukn) who was born about 1772 in N. C. So far nothing on Demarcus' parents.

I do have a tidbit on Martha Ann McGarr. . . her father William Issac McGarr came to America from Ireland as a stowaway during the potato famine. He married a Susan Shumake and Martha Ann was born in Pikeville, TN April 1852 and died on Feb. 13, 1925.

I hope this helps you. Debbie

William married Malitia Margaret Kirby on 13 Nov 1823 in Burke County, North Carolina. Malitia (daughter of William W. Kirby, Patriot and Eliza LNU) was born on 15 Apr 1806 in (Surry County) North Carolina; died on 1 Mar 1886 in Bledsoe County, Tennessee. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Alt Birth: Virginia

Notes:

Name: William Merryman
Event Type: Census
Event Year: 1850
Event Place: Bledsoe county, Bledsoe, Tennessee, United States
Gender: Male
Age: 52
Race: White
Race:
Birth Year (Estimated): 1798
Birthplace: North Carolina
Household ID: 179
House Number: 179
Line Number: 30
Affiliate Name: The U.S. National Archives and Records Administration (NARA)
Affiliate Publication Number: M432
Affiliate Film Number: 870
GS Film Number: 24561
Digital Folder Number: 004191096
Image Number: 00176


Household Role Sex Age Birthplace
William Merryman M 52 North Carolina
Matilia Merryman F 44 North Carolina
William C Merryman M 23 Georgia
Owen M Merryman M 21 North Carolina
Lewis W Merryman M 19 North Carolina
Rufus Merryman M 16 North Carolina
Caroline Merryman F 14 Tennessee
Jane Merryman F 12 Tennessee
Wiley Merryman M 10 Tennessee
Adaline Merryman F 8 Tennessee
Lowry Merryman M 5 Tennessee
Eliza Kerby F 81 Virginia

Citing this Record
"United States Census, 1850," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:MCD7-XGZ : 12 April 2016), Eliza Kerby in household of William Merryman, Bledsoe county, Bledsoe, Tennessee, United States; citing family 179, NARA microfilm publication M432 (Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, n.d.).

end of census record

Her mother, Eliza Kirby(81), is listed in her household in Bledsoe/1850 Census.

Judy Ogren notes, 'Her marriage license is recorded as William Marymon and Malila Kerby.'

end of note

27 May 2007

http://www.familysearch.org/Eng/search/frameset_search.asp?PAGE=ancestorsearchresults.asp

30 Sep 2007

Posted By: Lori
Email: buckspoeketchick@charter.net
Subject: Re: Bailey Kerby of NC and GA
Post Date: August 27, 2001 at 05:37:15
Message URL: http://genforum.genealogy.com/kirby/messages/2165.html
Forum: Kirby Family Genealogy Forum
Forum URL: http://genforum.genealogy.com/kirby/

A very kind researcher forwarded a will abstract to me some months ago for John Kerby of Burke/Wilkes County, NC. In that will, John names the children of his brother, William, and his sister, Sarah?, as well. Apparently, John and his wife never had children and he left everything to his nieces and nephews. Among his nephews, a boy by the name of Bailey Kerby. A girl, Lettie, is who I am hoping is my Malitia. She would have been Bailey's sister and I know that my Malitia was born around 1806. So it is very probable that Bailey Kerby, the person listed in John Kerby's will, is one in the same. AND IF Bailey is my Malitia's brother, that would make their parents William and Eliza Kerby. Notice, Bailey Kerby named his second daughter Eliza. Just thought I'd share my donated tidbits with you!

Posted By: Lori
Email: buckspoeketchick@charter.net
Subject: Re: Thomas Kerby III /immigrate/ Eng. VA.
Post Date: October 19, 2000 at 10:21:33
Message URL: http://genforum.genealogy.com/kerby/messages/231.html
Forum: Kerby Family Genealogy Forum
Forum URL: http://genforum.genealogy.com/kerby/

Dorothy, do you have anything on a Malitia Margaret Kerby, whose mother was named Eliza. She was born 1806 in the Surry County, NC, area. She married William Merriman in Burke County, NC in the early 1820's. He was from Wilkes County, NC. They moved, with her mother, to Bledsoe County, TN, around 1830. I suppose I'm looking for a will or deed that names her and her father. Thanks!
Lori

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Malitia Margaret Kirby
Born about 15 Apr 1806 in Surry, North Carolina, United States
HIDE ANCESTORS
Daughter of William W Kirby and Eliza (Unknown) Kirby
Sister of Hannah Kirby [half], William James Kirby [half], Suanna Kirby [half], Susanna Kirby [half], Nancy Kirby [half], John Martin Kirby [half], Minor J Kirby [half] and Edmond Richard Kirby [half]
Wife of William Allen Merriman — married [date unknown] [location unknown]
DESCENDANTS descendants
Mother of William Curby Merriman, Allen Rufus Merriman and Lowry Monroe Merriman
Died about Mar 1886 in Bledsoe, Tennessee, United States
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Profile last modified 8 Jul 2018 | Created 11 Mar 2016
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Biography
Malitia was born in 1806 in North Carolina .

1850 census adds 9 children, and also lists mother to Matilda, an Eliza Kerby, age 81, bn VA[1]

Malitia passed away about 1886.

Sources
? US Census 1850
"United States Census, 1850," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:MCD7-XGC : 9 November 2014), Lowry Merryman in household of William Merryman, Bledsoe county, Bledsoe, Tennessee, United States; citing family 179, NARA microfilm publication M432 (Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, n.d.).

Children:

2. William C(urby) Merriman Descendancy chart to this point was born 26 Aug 1827, North Carolina; died 28 Nov 1890, Bledsoe County, Tennessee; was buried Johnson Cemetery, Bledsoe County, Tennessee. 3. Owen Milton "Milton" Merriman Descendancy chart to this point was born 0___ 1829, North Carolina; died Aft 1879, Sequatchie County, Tennessee. 4. Lewis Walter Merriman Descendancy chart to this point was born 0Aug 1831, Wilkes County, North Carolina; died 27 Sep 1901, Dunlap, Sequatchie County, Tennessee. 5. Allen Rufus "Rufus" Merriman Descendancy chart to this point was born 0___ 1834, North Carolina; died 0May 1886, Grundy County, Tennessee. 6. Caroline Merriman Descendancy chart to this point was born 0___ 1836, Bledsoe County, Tennessee. 7. Louise Jane "Jane" Merriman Descendancy chart to this point was born 0Apr 1838, Tennessee; died Aft 1900, (Sequatchie County) Tennessee. 8. Wiley F(loyd) Merriman Descendancy chart to this point was born 27 Jul 1842, Bledsoe County, Tennessee; died 21 Aug 1909, Bledsoe County, Tennessee; was buried Johnson Cemetery, Bledsoe County, Tennessee. 9. Adaline Merriman Descendancy chart to this point was born 0___ 1842, Bledsoe County, Tennessee; died Bef 1896, (Sequatchie County) Tennessee. 10. Lowry Monroe Merriman Descendancy chart to this point was born 6 Feb 1844, Bledsoe County, Tennessee; died 30 Jan 1925, Jackson County, Alabama; was buried Rocky Springs Cemetery, Jackson County, Alabama.

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Other Events and Attributes:

• Occupation: Blacksmith
• Alt Birth: 1796, Tennessee
• Alt Death: 5 Oct 1839, Tennessee

Notes:

ID: I0794
Name: Henry M. THOMAS 1
Sex: M
Birth: ABT. 1798 in TN 2
Death: UNKNOWN in aft 1850
Reference Number: 29
Note:
MARRIAGE BOND of H. Thomas and E. Hammond 5th day of January 1820
Know all Men by These Presents, that we, HENRY THOMAS and JOHN SMITH, are held firmly bound into Jos. McMinn Esq., Governor of the State of Tennessee, and successors in office, in the sum of Twelve Hundred and Fifty Dollars to be void on condition there be no lawful cause to obstruct a marriage from being solemnized in the County of Knox between HENRY THOMAS and ELIZABETH HAMMOMD

Witness our hands and seal this day 5th day of January 1820.
Signed HENRY THOMAS (seal) JOHN SMITH (seal)

MARRIAGE LICENSE FOR H. THOMAS and E. HAMMOND

I, Charles McClung, Clerk of the Pleas and Quarter Sessions of the County of Knox, aforesaid by virture of the power in me vested by law, do license you or either of you, to celebrate the rites of Matrimony between HENRY THOMAS and ELIZABETH HAMMOND as uniting them as HUSBAND and WIFE IN Office of Knoxville, Tennessee.

The 5th day of January, Anno Domini 1820 and of American Independence the 44th.

Charles McClung, by his Deputy.


1840 Bledsoe County, Tennessee Census
District 8, pg 49 of Ancestry.com

Henry Thomas 30 & under 40 (This age does not fit Henry?)
1 male under 5
1 male 15 & under 20
2 females under 5
1 female 5 & under 10
2 females 10 & under 15
1 female 20 & under 30 (This age does not fit Elizabeth?)

I am not sure if this is Henry and Elizabeth in the 1840 census in Bledsoe Co., or not for sure. The ages do not seem to fit in for the family from the information we see in the 1850 census.


1850 Census STATE: TN COUNTY: Bledsoe County
REFERENCE: Enumerator E.M. Evins, August 26, 1850, MF#703 VAL SCH

19 166 166 Thomas Henry 52 M Blacksmith 300 TN
20 166 166 Thomas Elizabeth 46 F TN
21 166 166 Thomas Sarah 21 F TN
22 166 166 Thomas Martha 19 F TN
23 166 166 Thomas John 18 M Labourer TN X
24 166 166 Thomas Nancy G. 14 F TN X
25 166 166 Thomas Elvira 12 F TN X
26 166 166 Thomas Elizabeth 8 F TN X
27 166 166 Thomas George W. 3 M TN

Missing child from 1850 census is Adam Thomas born October 1, 1823 in Bledsoe Co., TN. From 1880 census information on Adam and going by the birth dates of his children, I believe he was already living in Texas by the time of the 1850 census.

1860 Tennessee BLEDSOE NO TWP LISTED Series: M653 Roll: 1240 Page: 418
PO Pikeville Enumerated on the first day of August 1860
Line 20 - 24 548

Henry Thomas 60 male Black Smith 200 born in TN all the family b Tenn
Elizabeth 58 female
Elvira 21 female
Isabel 15 female
George 13 male


Father: Adam THOMAS b: 1 JAN 1770 in PA
Mother: Anna B. UNKNOWN b: UNKNOWN in Possibly Virginia

Marriage 1 Elizabeth HAMMOND b: ABT. 1804 in TN
Married: 5 JAN 1820 in Knox Co., TN. 3 4 5 6
Children
Has Children Adam THOMAS b: 1 OCT 1823 in Bledoe Co., TN
Has No Children Sarah THOMAS b: 1829
Has No Children Martha THOMAS b: 1831
Has No Children John THOMAS b: 1832
Has No Children Nancy G. THOMAS b: 1836
Has No Children Elvera THOMAS b: 1838
Has No Children Elizabeth THOMAS b: 1842
Has No Children Isabel THOMAS b: 1845
Has No Children George W. THOMAS b: 1847

end of this profile

25 Jan 2009:

go to: http://www.gencircles.com/users/cfrost/183/data/6400 for more THOMAS family information...DAH

Henry M Thomas
Birth: About 1796 in Tennessee
Death: After 1850
Sex: M
Father: Adam Thomas Sr b. 1 Jan 1770 in Pennsylvania
Mother: Anna B

Spouses & Children

Elizabeth Hammond (Wife) b. About 1804

Marriage: 5 JAN 1820 in Knox, Tennessee

Children:

Sarah Thomas b. About 1829
Martha Thomas b. About 1831
John Thomas b. About 1832
Nancy G Thomas b. About 1836
Elvera Thomas b. About 1838
Elizabeth Thomas b. About 1842
George W Thomas b. About 1847

end of this report

Name: Henry Thomas
Event Type: Census
Event Year: 1850
Event Place: Bledsoe county, Bledsoe, Tennessee, United States
Gender: Male
Age: 52
Race: White
Race:
Birth Year (Estimated): 1798
Birthplace: Tennessee
Household ID: 166
House Number: 166
Line Number: 19
Affiliate Name: The U.S. National Archives and Records Administration (NARA)
Affiliate Publication Number: M432
Affiliate Film Number: 870
GS Film Number: 24561
Digital Folder Number: 004191096
Image Number: 00174


Household Role Sex Age Birthplace
Henry Thomas M 52 Tennessee
Elizabeth Thomas F 46 Tennessee
Sarah Thomas F 21 Tennessee
Martha Thomas F 19 Tennessee
John Thomas M 18 Tennessee
Nancy G Thomas F 14 Tennessee
Elvira Thomas F 12 Tennessee
Elizabeth Thomas F 8 Tennessee
George W Thomas M 3 Tennessee

Citing this Record
"United States Census, 1850," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:MCD7-8RG : 12 April 2016), George W Thomas in household of Henry Thomas, Bledsoe county, Bledsoe, Tennessee, United States; citing family 166, NARA microfilm publication M432 (Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, n.d.).

end of this census record

Name: Henry Thomas
Titles and Terms:
Event Type: Census
Event Date: 1860
Event Place: Bledsoe, Tennessee, United States
Gender: Male
Age: 60
Race: White
Race: [Blank]
Occupation:
Birth Year (Estimated): 1800
Birthplace: Tennessee
Page: 78
Household ID: 548
Affiliate Name: The U.S. National Archives and Records Administration (NARA)
Affiliate Publication Number: M653
Affiliate Film Number: 1240
GS Film Number: 805240
Digital Folder Number: 005171419
Image Number: 00288


Household Role Sex Age Birthplace
Henry Thomas M 60 Tennessee
Elizabeth Thomas F 58 Tennessee
Elvira Thomas F 21 Tennessee
Isabel Thomas F 15 Tennessee
George W Thomas M 13 Tennessee

Citing this Record
"United States Census, 1860", database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:M8T7-2DL : 12 December 2017), George W Thomas in entry for Henry Thomas, 1860.

end of this census record

Henry married Elizabeth Hammond on 5 Jan 1820 in Knox County, Tennessee. Elizabeth was born in 1804 in (Knox County) Tennessee. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Alt Birth: 1802, Tennessee

Notes:

2 Feb 1998: Looking for her parents...DAH

25 Jan 2009: Elizabeth's family is id'd as HAMMOND by GenCircles, http://www.gencircles.com/users/cfrost/183/data/16857.

27 Jul 2009: Searched the LDS site, www.familysearch.com, to no avail...DAH

29 Jun 2019: Still zip

Other Events and Attributes:

• Alt Birth: (1774-1780), Lancaster County, Virginia
• Possessions: Wilkes County, North Carolina
• Alt Birth: 1760-1770, Lancaster County, Virginia
• Residence: 1840, Bledsoe County, Tennessee

Notes:

20 Dec 2019 - Emailed and asked Don Merriman, merrimand@yahoo.com, http://thehennesseefamily.com/getperson.php?personID=I51661&tree=hennessee, to send source citation for DeMarcus' antecedents.

5 Oct 2019 - DeMarcus is probably a NPE (Non-Parental-Event) which would explain our lack of knowlege regarding his ancestry...DAH

10 Feb 2012, 26 Dec 2019 - Still looking for evidence of his blood-line to William Merriman of Maryland and his HAILE antecedents. There is still no proof that DeMarcus comes from this family even though there are many researchers citing such...DAH

26 Apr 2013 - William Merriman, Senior is enumerated in the 1812 Warren Co, Tennessee Tax List of Christopher Shell...http://www.combs-families.org/combs/records/tn/warren/tl12a.htm. Who is this?

24 Jan 2018 - I think it possible, given dates & locations, that DeMarcus may be a sibling of Charles Merriman (1780-1863), http://thehennesseefamily.com/getperson.php?personID=I45838&tree=hennessee

end of commentary

From: Bashak@aol.com [Bill & Barb Kelley | Family Group Records | 16 Feb 1998 | 6227 20th Street North, St. Petersburg, FL 33702 | 813.525. 0628 | Bashak@aol.com] Editor's note: FMarch 25th, 2019, neither email or phone appear active

Date: Fri, 6 Feb 1998 13:45:06 EST

To: schoolstuff@worldnet.att.net
Mime-Version: 1.0

Subject: MERRIMAN info.

Dear David,

Your information came in the mail today. Thanks ever so much.

I am sending part of the information we have now as an attachment. I will get the information together, that we have, starting with Owen MERRIMAN and send it later. My asthma & allergies are bothering me & I didn't get it all ready. Hope some of this is helpful. Bill & Barb Kelley


MERRIMAN/MERRYMAN


Info from Evelyn J. Russeff that she copied from records in Salt Lake Library [Did she mean LDS library in Utah?]

Records of Bledsoe Co., TN. Chancery Court Minute Book. 1847-1856 Pg 378--

James A Tulloss & Thomas N. Frazier Executors of Alexander H. Montgomery--vs--Lewis D. Merriman, Jesse Colbert, Nancy Colbert, Levi Green, Elizabeth Green, Owen Merriman, Allen B. Carrolton, Evaline Saxton, & Willie & Allen Merriman administrators on the estate of Mark Merriman deceased.

Be it remembered that this cause came on again to be heard on this 14th day of March 1848 before the honorable B. L. Ridly Chancellor & C (?) upon the report of Stephen Hicks the special Commissioner here to fore ordered in this cause & the exceptions filed by the defendants thereon which exception being since heard & understood by the court are ordered to be overruled & said report in all things confirmed from which it appears that the defendant Lewis D. Merriman was indebted to the complainants for principal & interest on the 15th day of March 1848 in the sum of $692.34 & that the distributive share of the said Lewis D. Merriman in the personal estate of his father Demarcus Merriman deceased in the hands of his administrators. Willie & Allen Merriman amounts to the sum of $350.38 & it further appears from said report that commissioners were appointed by the Circuit Court of Bledsoe County who assigned to the widow of the said Demarcus Merriman deceased dower in his real estate & also to the defendant Lewis D. Merriman his distributive share of residue of said estate unencumbered with the dower distinguished in the commissioners report as lot No. 9 & described as follows.

Beginning at the forked dogwood & corner to corner Levi Green in William Haskews line thence with Haskews line north 70 poles due west 50 poles to a stake in the line of lot No. 8. Thence South 67 degrees east to the beginning. (I didn't copy the rest).

Signed Thomas N. Frazier, Guardian of David H. Spring Exparte.

Pg. 414--Tues Mar 13, 1849 William Merriman to be allowed to file a cross bill in this same cause.

Pg. 427--Tues 12th Mar 1850--

John Thurman vs William Merriman. John Spears, James D. Spears, Tho. Sutherland & Allen Merriman Adms. of D. Merriman & Wiiliam Merriman vs John Thurman, James G. Spears & others appearing to the court that deft. William Merriman is justly in debt to complainant Thurman as follows-by judgement remembered by Elijah M. Hale & Johnathan Whiteside------ note with interest sum of $109.82 (about estate earlier).

Elizabeth Merriman vs Allen Merriman et als. Continued later.
(I didn't copy.)

[1]
Sept 1853--

Eliz Merriman vs James Robinson & William Gardener. About negro ownership-bill it is ordered & decreed that the bills of complainant be dismissed & that complainant pay the costs for which execution may ? sue at law against sd. complt. & her security Bryant Maryman.

Bryant Merriamn adm. of Eliz Merriman deceased. William Merryman, Elizabeth Green, Mary Merryman, Allen Merriman, Wyley Merriman, Wyly M. Colvert son of Nancy Colvert decd. Owen Merriman, Benton A. Carlton & the children of Eveline Lastor names.

Pg 590--Tues Mar 13, 1855

Unknown said Eveline being sister to said Benton A now deceased & Lewis D. Merriman.

Mary Merryman mentioned.

(There was so much on these Merriman's in the court record that I just gave up writing it down. At that time I didn't recognize any names. I was in Salt Lake Library & was trying to get as much information that I could on my lines.) Now I wish I had.

I gathered all my information that I have collected over the years & for at least a month, I have been trying to piece it all together.

We all descend from John & Audrey Merryman, John the immigrant. Came in early 1600's to VA then they went on to MD. All of that information is in MD Hist. Mag. by Culver. I have that.

1st generation was John & Audrey.
2nd generation was Charles Merryman Sr.
3rd generation was Charles Merryman Jr.
4th generation was John Charles Merryman, called Charles, he married Millicent Haile.MERRIMAN/MERRYMAN

I don't know from which of John Charles children we descend from, but I think it was a Charles that had a wife Elizabeth. He died and the family eventually moved to Bledsoe Co., TN, remarried. I descend from his second wife. He had about 4 children under 10 when wife Betsy Cook died. Elisha, Malachia Merryman and a few others followed him to IL. Others stayed in Bledsoe Co., TN.

They say most of Bledsoe Records had been destroyed, but I know that the one I just typed off is still available, think it was on film. They all originated from Granville, NC, They were in Lancaster, VA. They may never had moved, when the states redid their state lines. They may have been just over the line.

So many in those days couldn't read or write and names spelled as they sounded.

[2]


Children of John Charles & Millicent [HAILE] Merryman:

Charles b. Balto. Co., MD 27 May 1733;
Mary b. Balto. Co., MD 28 Jan 1734;
Millicent b. Balto. Co., MD 7 Dec 1736;
William;
Benjamin.

Evelyn J. Russeff
10534 Witter Springs Road
Witter Springs, CA 95493
[End of info from Evelyn Russeff]

Orlando, FL Public library

Book: Marriage Records 1765-1810 Mecklenburg Co., VA
By: Katherine B. Elliott Copyright 1963, reprint 1984

Notes on Marriage Records
In compiling this volume of early marriage records of Mecklenburg County, it was deemed advisable to examine the marriage records of Granville County, NC, because of the close association of the early families in the two counties.

Many of the early residents of Granville County had settled first in Mecklenburg & later moved to Granville. Colonial Granville County was established in the same year, 1746, in which Lunenburg County was created. Warren, Vance & the present Granville, all boarding on Mecklenburg County, were a part of Colonial Granville County. Many of the early Mecklenburg County people owned land on both sides of the state line dividing the two counties; & in many of the early wills reference is made to land owned in North Carolina.

1840 census TN, Bledsoe Co.

Merimon, Markus: 5-10 10-15 20-30 60-70
Males: 1 0 1 1
Females: 0 1 1 1
Merimon, William: under 5 5-10 10-15 30-40 70-80
Males: 1 2 2 1 0
Females: 0 2 0 1 1

Book: Court Minutes of Granville County, NC 1746-1820.
By: Zae Hargett Gwynn 1977
Author states no dates given--just page numbers.

Abstracts of Granville County, NC [Court Minutes 1789-1791]
43- Administration of estate of CHARLES MERRYMAN, deceased, granted to MELICAI MERRYMAN, with bond of 500 pounds secured by MALACHIA MERRYMAN & JOSEPH WALLER, securities.

[Court Minutes 1796-1799]

146- Estate of MILLISON MERRYMAN, deceased, administered by MALACHI MERRYMAN, with bond secured by BENJ. MOORE.

179- MALACHI MERRYMAN, administrator of CHARLES MERRYMAN, deceased, returns inventory.
[3]
Book: Abstracts of the Wills & Estate Records of Granville County, NC 1746-1808 By: Zae Hargett Gwynn 1973

Book 2, 1787-1792
100,101 [p. 100-101]- 8, 1786-proved May Court 1789-CHARLES MERRYMAN wills to wife MILLISON all land on north side of Leeder branch for her lifetime;

to son WILLIAM, all remaining land between Cedar & Pichter branch;

to grandson MALIRE MERRYMAN, the Indian grave tract containing 120 acres;

to my son BENJAMIN, the bed he lies on & a cow & calf after his mother's death to be in the care of MALICE MERRYMAN;

to my wife, all household goods & stock of all kinds &, at her death, all movable property to be divided to my son, 1/2 to WILLIAM & the rest of other half to the other children.

Wts: HENRY COOK, HENRY GREEN

[Is Malice suppose to be Malachi?]

194- Inventory of Estate of CHARLES MERRYMAN, deceased, Aug 1790, by MILLISON MERRYMAN.

Book 4, 1796-1799

79- Inventory of Estate of CHARLES MERRYMAN by MAT MERRYMAN, administrator, Feb Court 1796.

LDS Micro-fiche [Largo Library] State of MD

Millicent HAILE married [Balto., Co., MD 02 Feb 1730] Charles John MERRYMAN [sometimes referred to as John Charles].

Millicent HAILE b. 1711. Father: Nicholas HAILE Mother: Frances GARRETT.

Nicholas HAILE married [1700] Frances GARRETT.

State of NC

William MERIMAN married Lorana PAGE 10 Dec 1818 Wilkes Co., NC.
Briant MARYMON married Matha FERGUSIN 16 or 18 Sept 1818 Wilkes Co., NC.

Micro-fiche [Tampa Library] Marriages of NC

MERRIMAN, Nancy & COLVARD, Jesse 12 Nov 1834 Bondsman: Thornton Kilby; Witness: D. Grey. Wilkes Co., NC. #104-01-054

MERRIMON, Elizabeth & GREEN, Levi 14 Feb 1830 Bondsman: Owen Merrimon; Witness W. Davenport. Wilkes Co., NC. #104-01-098

MERRYMAN, Jenney & CARLTON, Thomas 26 Mar 1813 Bondsman: George Crouch; Witness: A. Nesbitt. Wilkes Co., NC. #104-01-043

end of this notation

Date: November 17, 2003 at 12:30:55

The information that I have is the following.

Demarcus [Mark] Merriman had land in Wilkes Co., NC in 1807/1810. He died before 1848 in Bledsoe Co., TN. There is a will or estate papers for him in Bledsoe Co., TN naming wife Elizabeth.

(Editor's Note: Bledsoe County Clerk cannot find any papers for DeMarcus - I contacted them in 2012 - DAH)

Children are:

Briant/Bryant [b.c.1794 VA] married [Wilkes Co., NC Sept 1818] Martha Ferguson;
William Allen [b.c.1798 NC]; Owen [b.c.1806 NC probably Wilkes] married [Nov 4, 1834 Wilkes Co., NC] Jane Colvard [Bill's line];
Nancy married [Nov 12, 1834 Wilkes Co] Jesse Colvard;
Elizabeth married [Feb 14 Wilkes Co.] Levi Green;
Virginia "Jenny" married [Mar 26, 1813 Wilkes Co.] Thomas Carlton.

There is a will/estate papers in Granville Co., NC for a Charles Merriman & wife Millicent & a Malachi is named there.

I think it may have given the relationship of Malachi to Charles & Millicent but not sure. I've only seen the abstract info in a book. The will/estate info for both Charles & his wife Millicent are at the NC State Archives. We don't know what the relationship between Demarcus/Mark & Charles was [could have been parent or maybe grandparent]. This Charles & Millicent Merriman could be the John "Charles" Merriman who married Millicent Hale/Hail in Baltimore Co., MD. It is reported that they were in several counties in VA before going to GranvillCo., NC. There have been quiet a few people working on this Demarcus/Mark Merriman puzzle. Welcome to our club! If your Allen isn't the son of Demarcus, then he is probably the grandson. There is a marriage for a William Merriman married [Nov 13, 1823 NC]Malita Kirby. Some say that Malita is a misspelling. Looking forward to hearing from you.


* Re: Demarcus Merriman Jean Beardmore 11/17/03


Re: Mark Merriman Wilkes Co. N.C. http://genforum.genealogy.com/merriman/messages/606.html

Posted by: douglaswinters

Date: March 09, 2001 at 19:03:16

In Reply to: Re: Mark Merriman Wilkes Co. N.C. by Judy Ogren of 1015

_______

WE think your Mark may be the father to our Nancy Merriman who married Henry Webb. We have found info that many of the Merrimans ended up in Caldwell Co. N.C.

Dovie Meeriman married a Benjamin Gilbert in Caldwell.
Lewis Merriman operated a stagecoach in Caldwell County about 1835.
We also have an Augustus Merryman who was in Buncombe Co.
There was also an Owen that ended up in Buncombe Co. that may be this Mark Merrimans son.

We discovered most of these Merriman names you have listed have a mother named as Sally. She shows as a head of household from about 1830 to 1850 in Caldwell Co. We also have a Merriman that married an Isaac Green in Burke Co. N.C. We know that this hodgepodge of info ties together somehow, we just aren't sure how. Hope this helps and please pass on anything you have.
_____

Re: Mark Merriman Wilkes Co. N.C.

Posted by: Judy Ogren

Date: May 15, 2000 at 12:48:04

In Reply to: Mark Merriman Wilkes Co. N.C. by doug winters
of 1015

Mark Merriman also appeared in the 1830 Wilkes Co., NC Census. All Merriman cousins, including myself, believe this to be Demarcus Merriman who was born between 1760 - 1770 In Lancaster, VA. He married Elizabeth Unknown, born abt. 1772 in North Carolina. Demarcus died before 1850 in Bledsoe County, TN. Demarcus & Elizabeth had the following children:

William,
Allen,
Nancy,
Jenny,
Mary (never married),
Elizabeth M.,
Briant,
Lewis D. and
Owen.

Do you have any information on this Mark Merriman before he appeared on the 1810 Wilkes Co. Census? There is a missing link between him and the Merryman/Merriman families of Lancaster, VA. and Baltimore, Ann Arundel Counties, MD. Any thing you might add will be greatly appreciate.

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Re: Demarcus Merriman
Posted by: ************* Kelley (ID *****2046) Date: November 17, 2003 at 12:30:55
In Reply to: Demarcus Merriman by Jean Beardmore of 1272

The information that I have is the following.

Demarcus [Mark] Merriman had land in Wilkes Co., NC in 1807/1810. He died before 1848 in Bledsoe Co., TN. There is a will or estate papers for him in Bledsoe Co., TN naming wife Elizabeth.

Children are:

Briant/Bryant [b.c.1794 VA] married [Wilkes Co., NC Sept 1818] Martha Ferguson;
William Allen [b.c.1798 NC]; Owen [b.c.1806 NC probably Wilkes] married [Nov 4, 1834 Wilkes Co., NC] Jane Colvard [Bill's line];
Nancy married [Nov 12, 1834 Wilkes Co] Jesse Colvard;
Elizabeth married [Feb 14 Wilkes Co.] Levi Green;
Virginia "Jenny" married [Mar 26, 1813 Wilkes Co.] Thomas Carlton.

There is a will/estate papers in Granville Co., NC for a Charles Merriman & wife Millicent & a Malachi is named there. I think it may have given the relationship of Malachi to Charles & Millicent but not sure. I've only seen the abstract info in a book. The will/estate info for both Charles & his wife Millicent are at the NC State Archives. We don't know what the relationship between Demarcus/Mark & Charles was [could have been parent or maybe grandparent]. This Charles & Millicent Merriman could be the John "Charles" Merriman who married Millicent Hale/Hail in Baltimore Co., MD.

It is reported that they were in several ounties in VA before going to Granville Co., NC.

There have been quiet a few people working on this Demarcus/Mark Merriman puzzle. Welcome to our club! If your Allen isn't the son of Demarcus, then he is probably the grandson.

There is a marriage for a William Merriman married [Nov 13, 1823 NC] Malita Kirby. Some say that Malita is a misspelling. Looking forward to hearing from you.

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Re: Mark Merriman Wilkes Co. N.C.
Posted by: Judy Ogren Date: May 15, 2000 at 12:48:04
In Reply to: Mark Merriman Wilkes Co. N.C. by doug winters of 1272

Mark Merriman also appeared in the 1830 Wilkes Co., NC Census. All Merriman cousins, including myself, believe this to be Demarcus Merriman who was born between 1760 - 1770 In Lancaster, VA. He married Elizabeth Unknown, born abt. 1772 in North Carolina. Demarcus died before 1850 in Bledsoe County, TN.

Demarcus & Elizabeth had the following children:

William,
Allen,
Nancy,
Jenny,
Mary (never married),
Elizabeth M.,
Briant, Lewis D. and
Owen.

Do you have any information on this Mark Merriman before he appeared on the 1810 Wilkes Co. Census? There is a missing link between him and the Merryman/Merriman families of Lancaster, VA. and Baltimore, Ann Arundel Counties, MD. Any thing you might add will be greatly appreciate.

end of query

Do you know where in England John/Audrey came from?

Also trying to find MISSING LINK/Unknown for father of Demarkus/Markus whose Gfather was William Merriman b-1731-or 1738, Baltimore Co MD whose father is John Charles/Married Mill.Haile.

Thanks (Mark Merriman) 17 Oct 1999

28 Nov 2013: Editor's Note: Tantalizing comment re DeMarcus' antecedents. Still looking for his lineage...DAH

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Re: JOHN & RICHARD MERRYMAN LANCSTR. VA 1650

Posted by: Mark Merryman

Date: November 23, 2001 at 11:59:52

In Reply to: Re: JOHN & RICHARD MERRYMAN LANCSTR. VA 1650 by Judi Talbot of 447

John Merryman (immigrant) born prior to 1635 Herefordshire, England. Died 1674 Lancaster County Virginia. Married in England prior to 1649. Wifes name Audry or Ardera. My G-G-G-G-G-G-G-G Grandfather through son Charles Merryman Sr. b. 1657/1659 Lancaster County, Virginia. Died 22 Dec 1725, Baltimore County MD. Charles Merrymans wife was Mary Humphries daughter of Thomas Humphreys and Mary Kinsey.

_______________


Abstracted by David A. Hennessee;

From "The Originals List of Persons of Quality" (1600-1700), pp. 73-75;

"Passenger Which Passed from Ye Port of London

2 Maij 1635

Theis under-written names are to be transported to ye Barbadoes imbarqued in the ALEXANDER (ship) Capt: Burche and Gilbert Grimes Mr p Cerificate from the Minister where they late dwelt the Men tooke the oaths of Alleg. (of) Supremacie die et A prd

GEO: MERRIMAN age 41."


ibid, pp. 124-125;

21 Aug 1635

"Theis under-written names are to be transported to Virginea, embarqued in the GEORGE (ship) JO: SEVERNE mr bound theither p examination of the Minister of Gravesend .

JO: GOODSON age 25
SARA MERRIMAN age 20"

____

Also known as Demarkus/Demarcus. According to Bledsoe County, TN court records, Mark was deceased by March 1848.

Have copy of land warrant from N C State Archives: County Wilkes; Name Merimon, Mark; Acers 50; Grant No . 2787; Issued 6 Dec 1810; Entry No. 495; Entered 20 Mar 1809; Book No. 1 27; Page No. 401; Location On waters of Beaver Creek.

In the 1810 censu s his age was listed of 26 & under 45 [putting his birth year between 17 66 & 1774]. In the 1840 census his age was listed of 60 & under 70 [put ting his birth between 1771 & 1780]. With this info, he was probably bo rn 1774 & before 1780.

The goal is to find the parents of Mark/Demarkus .

William & Babara Kelly/Kelley

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DeMarcus' son, Allen Merriman, names his first son, "Isaac Mark Merriman". Could this imply that Demarcus' full name might be, "Isaac DeMarcus Merriman"? Just another clue...DAH

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Re: Mark Merriman Wilkes Co. N.C.
By genealogy.com user May 15, 2000 at 12:48:04
In reply to: Mark Merriman Wilkes Co. N.C.
5/11/00

Mark Merriman also appeared in the 1830 Wilkes Co., NC Census.

All Merriman cousins, including myself, believe this to be Demarcus Merriman who was born between 1760 - 1770 In Lancaster, VA.

He married Elizabeth Unknown, born abt. 1772 in North Carolina.

Demarcus died before 1850 in Bledsoe County, TN.

Demarcus & Elizabeth had the following children:

William, Allen, Nancy, Jenny, Mary (never married), Elizabeth M., Briant, Lewis D. and Owen.

Do you have any information on this Mark Merriman before he appeared on the 1810 Wilkes Co. Census?

There is a missing link between him and the Merryman/Merriman families of Lancaster, VA. and Baltimore, Ann Arundel Counties, MD.

Any thing you might add will be greatly appreciate.

end of comment

Surname: Merriman

Recorded in several forms including Merriman, Merryman, Merriment, Maryman, and the usually Irish, Marmon and Marmion, this ancient surname is found in most parts of the British Isles, although is never common. It is a derivative of the Olde English pre 7th century personal name 'Myrige', meaning merry, which in the medival period became a nickname surname given either to a person of 'honest' character, or a professional clown, one who took part in the theatres of the day. The suffix ending "man(n)" was in the context of a surname, a form of endearment meaning "friend of". The overall meaning is probably "Merry's friend". Given the robust humour of the medieval period as shown in the famous works of Geoffrey Chaucer, the alternative possibility exists, that the name could sometimes mean the very reverse of merry! Early examples of the recordings taken from authentic registers and charters of the period include John Meryman in the registers of Gloucester, known as the "Letter books", in the year 1359, whilst Adam Myryman is recorded in the 1379 Poll Tax rolls of the city of York. Later examples include those of Alice Merriman, who married Thomas Chalduke at St James church, Clerkenwell, London, on October 9th 1563, and John Meriment, christened at St Botolphs without Aldgate, also London, on October 17th 1686. The famous Irish poet Brian Merriman, was born in 1757, and died in 1810. The first recorded spelling of the surname is believed to be that of Adam Muryman, which was dated 1332, in the subsidy rolls of the county of Staffordshire, during the reign of King Edward III of England, who reigned from 1327 to 1377.

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

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DeMarcus married Elizabeth (Fleshman) in 1793 in North Carolina. Elizabeth was born in 1772 in North Carolina; died after 1850 in Bledsoe County, Tennessee. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Alt Birth: 1772, Greenbrier County, West Virginia
• Residence: 1850, Bledsoe County, Tennessee
• Alt Death: ~1867

Notes:

Enumerated in 1850 Bledsoe County,TN Census,Family 190:

Allen MERRYMAN (m.y.) 37 Farmer 1200 NC
Eliza E. 30 Tenn

ELIZABETH 78 700 NC

Mary 46 400 NC Who is this?
Ervin 76 Laborer NC........Ervin Merriman? Who is this? No "Ervin" in database...DAH

end of census record

Name: Ervin Merryman
Event Type: Census
Event Year: 1850
Event Place: Bledsoe county, Bledsoe, Tennessee, United States
Gender: Male
Age: 76
Race: White
Race (Original):
Birth Year (Estimated): 1774
Birthplace: North Carolina
Household ID: 190
House Number: 190
Line Number: 10
Affiliate Name: The U.S. National Archives and Records Administration (NARA)
Affiliate Publication Number: M432
Affiliate Film Number: 870
GS Film Number: 24561
Digital Folder Number: 004191096
Image Number: 00178


Household Role Sex Age Birthplace
Allen Merryman M 37 North Carolina
Eliza E Merryman F 30 Tennessee
Elizabeth Merryman F 78 North Carolina
Mary Merryman F 46 North Carolina
Ervin Merryman M 76 North Carolina

Citing this Record
"United States Census, 1850," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:MCD7-VX3 : 12 April 2016), Ervin Merryman in household of Allen Merryman, Bledsoe county, Bledsoe, Tennessee, United States; citing family 190, NARA microfilm publication M432 (Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, n.d.).

end of this census record

Other Events and Attributes:

• Military: Revolutionary War Patriot

Notes:

William W Kirby aka Kerby
Born 19 Nov 1759 in Albemarle County, Virginia Colony
Son of John Kirby and [mother unknown]
[sibling(s) unknown]
Husband of Eliza (Unknown) Kirby — married [date unknown] [location unknown]
Husband of Elizabeth (McDaniel) Kirby — married 1781 in Fluvanna County, Virginia
DESCENDANTS descendants
Father of Hannah Kirby, William James Kirby, Suanna Kirby, Susanna Kirby, Malitia Margaret Kirby, Nancy Kirby, John Martin Kirby, Minor J Kirby and Edmond Richard Kirby
Died 17 Aug 1848 in Monroe County, Virginia, United States of America

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Biography

William was born on November 19, 1759 in Louisa County, Virginia to currently unknown parents.

He married Elizabeth McDaniels in Fluvanna County, Virginia before 1800.

They had several children including:

Hannah - born 1790
William James - born 1795
Susanna - born 1806
Nancy - born 1808
John Martin - born 1810
Minor J. - born 1815
Edmond Richard - born 1818
He passed away on August 17, 1848 in Monroe County, Virginia which is now West Virginia[1]. He was buried in the Kirby Family Cemetery but also might be in the McCarty-Broyles Cemetery depending on the source both in Monroe County, West Virginia[2].

Military
From West Virginians in the American Revolution
"Service: Virginia; Va. No. 7091; No. W. 7998 and B. L. Wt. 17717
Enlisted, Hanover County, Virginia, 1779, and served eighteen months as a private under Captain Richardson and Stribling in Colonel Blueford's Regiment. Took part int he battles of Guilford Courthuose, Camden, the Siege of Ninety-Six, and Eutaw Springs.
Applied for pension, aged, 69, Albemarle County, Virginia, which was issued, 1819. Died, August 17, 1848. Married before 1800 to Elizabeth McDaniels, born near Alta Vista in 1769. She recieved a widow's pension in 1851. In 1821, their children were: Nancy, 12; Martin, 10; Minor, 5. (Uncertain as to West Virginia residence.)"
From his headstone
Service: Private Continental Line Revolutionary War
From his Pension Application
"State of Virginia
County of Albemarle
On this lst day of January 1821 personally appeared in open court, being
a court of record for said county William Kerby aged sixty one years the 19th day of November last, resident of said County who being first duly sworn according to law doth on his oath declare that he served in the revolutionary war as follows, that he enlisted in the County of Hanover, State of Virginia in the year 1771 and that he served during eighteen months until the year 1781 where he was discharged from service at Sallsbury in North Carolina, that he enlisted under Thomas Richardson and was transferred to the Company of Capt. Shibling attached to Bufords Regiment, that he was in the battle of Guilford, Camden, at the Siege of Ninety Six and the battle of Eutaw Springs and was discard in 1781 having served 18 months and that he made a declaration in August 1818 and that he has obtained a pension Certificate Number 7091 and I do solemnly swear that I was a resident citizen of the United States on the 18th day of March 1818 and that I have not since that time by gift sale or in any other manner disposed of my property at any .... as to bring myself within the provinces of the act of Congress, entitled "an act to provide for certain persons engaged in the army and naval services of the United States during the Revolutionary War" passed on the 18th day of March 1818 and that I have not nor has any person, if trust for me any property or securities contract or debts due to me nor have I any means other than what is contained in the schedule hereto amended, viz., one heifer, one one spinning wheel, ....chairs, one chest, one table, one... and oven, one ...pan one earthen bowl, four pewter plates, two dishes, five knives and eight forks, 3 tubs and two ...sheets and two ???, 3 hoes and two ??and one one old gun and one pair flat irons, ? cups and saucers.

Signed William Kerby
Name: William W. Kirby. [3] [4] [5] [6]


Died 17 Aug 1848. Monroe County, West Virginia, United States of America. [4]

Buried Knobs, Monroe County, West Virginia, United States of America. [4]

Residence 1790 St Anne's Parish, Albemarle County, Virginia, United States. [6] 1848-1862 Richmond, Virginia, USA. [3]

File File: Media Format: jpg. William W. Kirby.

Marriage Husband @P446@. Wife @P445@. Child: @P450@. Child: @P113@. Child: @P449@. Child: @P448@. Child: @P452@. Child: @P451@. Child: @P447@. Marriage 17 Dec 1798. Southampton County, Virginia. [7]

Sources
? The National Archives; Washington, D.C.; Ledgers of Payments, 1818-1872, to U.S. Pensioners Under Acts of 1818 Through 1858 From Records of the Office of the Third Auditor of the Treasury; Record Group Title: Records of the Accounting Officers of the Department of the Treasury; Record Group Number: 217; Series Number: T718; Roll Number: 5. Retrieved from Ancestry.com.
? Find A Grave, database and images (https://www.findagrave.com : accessed 16 September 2018), memorial page for William W. Kirby (19 Nov 1759–17 Aug 1848), Find A Grave Memorial no. 9215153, citing McCarty-Broyles Cemetery, Knobs, Monroe County, West Virginia, USA ; Maintained by BoatieMac (contributor 49125714). Retrieved from https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/9215153.
? 3.0 3.1 Source: #S482995223 The National Archives; Washington, D.C.; Ledgers of Payments, 1818-1872, to U.S. Pensioners Under Acts of 1818 Through 1858 From Records of the Office of the Third Auditor of the Treasury; Record Group Title: Records of the Accounting Officers of the Depar Ancestry Record 1116 #128247
? 4.0 4.1 4.2 Source: #S482487034 Ancestry Record 60525 #92541209
? Source: #S483739294 Ancestry Record 3002 #40335
? 6.0 6.1 Source: #S483812486 Document: Personal Property Tax List, 1789, Book A [Virginia State Library]; Call Number: FHL Film 2024443; Page Number: 4; Family Number: 22 Ancestry Record 2234 #62445
? Source: #S483739294 Ancestry Record 3002 #40335
http://www.thehennesseefamily.com/getperson.php?personID=I15744&tree=hennessee

U.S. Census Bureau; United States Federal Census. Year: 1810; Census Place: St Anns, Albemarle, Virginia; Roll: 66; Page: 164; Image: 00179; Family History Library Film: 0181426. Retrieved from Ancestry.com.
U.S. Census Bureau; United States Federal Census. Year: 1820; Census Place: Buckingham, Nelson, Virginia; Page: 196; NARA Roll: M33_130; Image: 374 Retrieved from Ancestry.com.
U.S. Census Bureau; United States Federal Census. Year: 1840; Census Place: Monroe, Virginia; Page: 165. Retrieved from Ancestry.com.
Source: S482487034 U.S., Find A Grave Index, 1600s-Current Ancestry.com Publication: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc. Record Collection 60525
Source: S482995223 U.S., Revolutionary War Pensioners, 1801-1815, 1818-1872 Ancestry.com Publication: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc. Record Collection 1116
Source: S483739294 Virginia, Compiled Marriages, 1660-1800 Dodd, Jordan Publication: Ancestry.com Operations Inc Record Collection 3002
Source: S483812486 U.S. Census Reconstructed Records, 1660-1820 Ancestry.com Publication: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc. Record Collection 2234

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From: "James or Lori Bynum"
To: "David Hennessee"
Subject: Re: MERRIMAN
Date: Sunday, July 08, 2001 11:12 PM

I think that I've narrowed the Kerby line down to brothers John and William Kerby of Wilkes/Burke Counties, NC. Just going from memory here, but John didn't have children, but willed things to brother William's children. I think that William had a daughter referred to as Letty (Malitia?) and I don't have access to the necessary records to be sure that it's the right bunch. I didn't find this info, a kind gentleman posted the will and I just tried to fit the pieces together. If you have access to Wilkes/Burke NC and have the time, you may want to check it out! I will get around to it in time, but that it something I lack right now! Maybe when the kids return to school.........
Take care, and I'll keep you posted!
Lori
----- Original Message -----
From: David Hennessee
To: Lori Bynum
Sent: Sunday, July 08, 2001 7:44 AM
Subject: MERRIMAN

Dear Lori - Noted you comments re MERRIMAN & KIRBY lines. I, too, come from William & Malitia. Have you made any progress on either of these lines? David Hennessee

23 Feb 2007

http://genforum.genealogy.com/cgi-bin/pageload.cgi?malitia::kirby::2165.html

Corraborating content...

Re: Bailey Kerby of NC and GA
Posted by: Lori email: buckspocketchick@aol.com Date: August 27, 2001 at 05:37:15
In Reply to: Bailey Kerby of NC and GA by Ronald W. Fletcher of 3720

A very kind researcher forwarded a will abstract to me some months ago for John Kerby of Burke/Wilkes County, NC. In that will, John names the children of his brother, William, and his sister, Sarah?, as well. Apparently, John and his wife never had children and he left everything to his nieces and nephews. Among his nephews, a boy by the name of Bailey Kerby. A girl, Lettie, is who I am hoping is my Malitia. She would have been Bailey's sister and I know that my Malitia was born around 1806. So it is very probable that Bailey Kerby, the person listed in John Kerby's will, is one in the same. AND IF Bailey is my Malitia's brother, that would make their parents William and Eliza Kerby. Notice, Bailey Kerby named his second daughter Eliza. Just thought I'd share my donated tidbits with you!

29 Jun 2007

Posted By: darlene green
Email:
Subject: Re: Burke County NC Kirby married Eliza 1800
Post Date: July 23, 2001 at 20:23:06
Message URL: http://genforum.genealogy.com/kirby/messages/2069.html
Forum: Kirby Family Genealogy Forum
Forum URL: http://genforum.genealogy.com/kirby/

Lori, I'm searching for a John Kirby who married Elizabeth Humphreys(ies). They married about 1800 in Burke Co I believe. This is where the Humphreys lived. Her sisters that I know about are Frances, (my ggggrandmother) Nancy and Rhoda. Her brothers were James, William and George.Her parents are William and Susannah Webb Humphreys. Frances was born in 1780. Maybe you can figure something out. Don't know anything about John or his family

Darlene

Editor's note: Corraborating Lori's notes regarding John & William KERBY...

20 Sep 2009:

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

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

"Kerby, Jno 1,0,0,0,0"

1790 Census North Carolina
Wilkes County 9th Company Morgan District

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

"Kerby, Wm 1,5,6,0,0"

1790 Census North Carolina
Wilkes County 9th Company Morgan District

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

Oops, found two more candidates whose ages & issue appear more likely to be the William & John we are seeking...DAH

"Kerby, Jno 1,0,2,0,0"

1790 Census North Carolina
Wilkes County 15th Company 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 (no other children)
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

"Kerby, Wm 2,1,2,0,2"

1790 Census North Carolina
Wilkes County 15th Company Morgan District

2 of 1st # free white males 16 year upwards and head of families
1 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 (no other children)
2 of 5th # slaves

end of report

24 Jul 2007

Surname: Kirby

Recorded in many spelling forms including: Cerby, Cirby, Curby, Cerbee, Kirby, Kirkby, Kirkebye, Kerbey, Kerby, and Kurby this is an English surname.

It is of locational origin from one of the numerous places named Kirby or Kirkby, as for example, Kirby le Soken in the county of Essex; Kirby Cane in Norfolk; Monks Kerby in Warwickshire; Kirby Hill in the North Riding of Yorkshire; Kirkby on Bain in Lincolnshire; and Kirkby Lonsdale, in Westmorland.

These places, recorded variously as Chirchebi, Kerkeby and Kirchebi in the famous Domesday book of 1086 for the above counties, derive from the Northern Middle English word "kirk", meaning a church and ultimately from the Olde Norse word "kirkja," with "byr", a farm.

The Olde English pre 7th Century "cyrice", also meaning "church," accounts for the initial "C" in some Domesday Book recordings.

Early examples of the surname recording taken from surviving early registers include: Richard Kyrby in the Subsidy Rolls of Suffolk in 1524, whilst on October 19th 1589, Ann Kirby was christened at the famous church of St. Dunstan's in the East, Stepney, and Nathaniel Curbee was christened at the church of Holy Trinity in the Minories, in the city of London, on February 21st 1647.

The first recorded spelling of the family name is shown to be that of Godebold de Kirkebi. This was dated 1121, in the records of the Abbey of Bury St. Edmund's, Suffolk, during the reign of King Henry 1st of England, 1100 - 1135.

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

William married Eliza LNU in (~1800) in (Commonwealth of Virginia). Eliza was born in 1769 in Commonwealth of Virginia; died after 1850 in Bledsoe County, Tennessee. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Residence: 1850, Bledsoe County, Tennessee

Notes:

Enumerated in household of her son-in-law, William Merriman during 1850 Bledsoe County Census,p.25...DAH

Other Events and Attributes:

• Will: 12 Oct 1850, Knoxville, Knox County, Tennessee
• Probate: 0Feb 1855, Knoxville, Knox County, Tennessee

Notes:

Name: Adam THOMAS 1 1 2
Sex: M
ALIA: /Sr./
Birth: 1 JAN 1770 in PA
Death: 10 JAN 1855 in Knox Co., TN 3
Burial: Davenport Cemetery, Knoxville, TN
Reference Number: 28,29
Note:
Adam was married twice, his first wife, believed to be named Anna B., dying about 1840. His second wife Jane Raulston/Rawlston had two children already when she married Adam. The Will of Adam Thomas is in Knox Co. Archives, Estate Book 12, pages 98, 121,129, & 360. The Will was dated 12 October 1850 and filed in February 1855. John Brakebill was named as executor and presumed to be his daughter, Ann's husband.

Deed information -

KNOXVILLE EAST TENNESSEE 15 December 1820 Land Grant No. 787

IT IS HEREBY CERTIFIED THAT ADAM THOMAS, of ______ did, on the 15th day of December 1820, purchase the Lot or North East quarter of Section Twenty Two in __________ Township, number TWO, Range number TWO East in the HIWASSEE DISTRICT A which Lot or Quarter Section is estimated at, One Hundred Sixty Acres of Land which has been sold to the said ADAM THOMAS at the rate of Two dollars and no cents per acre, amounting in the whole to Three Hundred and Twenty Dollars and no cents, of which there has been paid agreeable to law to the Treasurer of East Tennessee. Eighty Dollars and no cents, being the one forth part of the purchase money for said Lot or Quarter Section.
Now the remaining balance being Two Hundred and Forty Dollars and no cents, shall be paid to the Treasurer of East Tennessee at Knoxville, at or before the end of ten years from this date with interest commencing on one third at the expiration of two years, on one third at the end of four years and on one third at the end of six years, which interest is to be paid annually; the amount paid becomes forfeited if the said balance is not paid; but if it should be duly paid, the said ADAM THOMAS, or his assignee or legal representative shall be entitled to a grant for the Lot or Quarter Section above described.

Alex B. Bradford Register of East Tennessee

M. Nelson Treasurer of East Tennessee
Adam Thomas, Sr., had two land deeds 1820 and 1824.

TO ALL OF WHOM THESE PRESENT SHALL COME; GREETINGS

Know ye that in consideration of an entry made in the Entry Taker's Office of Knox County of no. 197 dated 20th day of July 1824 at the rate of twelve and one half cents per acre by ADAM THOMAS.

There is GRANTED by the said State of Tennessee unto the said ADAM THOMAS and his heirs, certain TRACK OR PARCEL OF LAND containing fifty acres, lying in the County aforesaid on the south side of the river French Road and Stake to beginning at giant Oak Sapling NORTH top of a ridge in Owash line then with the same, North thirty six West twenty eight portion to a trench in Wastett (?) line, turned with his line North, six feet then West, several _________ then to a Spanish Oak runs thro head of a spring, then with WASHETTE line, to his line. Stake twenty four East one hundred and thirty six poles to a White Oak, in William Brown's line, Morris Smith to same South thirty North West nine two poles to a stake, then to the beginning. Surveyed the 25th day of November 1824. With its appurtenance to have and to hold the said TRACK or PARCEL of LAND with its appurtenances to the said ADAM THOMAS and his heirs forever in witness whereof, William Canote, Governor of the State of Tennessee has hereunto set his hand and caused a GREAT SEAL of the said State to be offered at Murfreeborough, on this 4th day of March in the YEAR OF OUR LORD, One Thousand Eight Hundred Twenty Five, and of AMERICAN INDEPENDENCE the Forty Ninth.
by the Governor: W. Canote Samuel Graham, Secretary. Deeds of Blount County, Tennessee 1796 -1829

Microfilm roll # 171 Blount Library Book 2 page 160 25 March 1820
Richard Williams, John Williams, and James Williams sell to ADAM THOMAS for $410 Land in Blount County "on the Waters of Ellijoy" (Creek). 129 acres adjoins James Dunn.

Early East Tennessee Tax List
Blount County 1800 Tax List
ADAM THOMAS 1 white pole 100 acres
East Tennessee Tax List
The tax list of Blount County for 1801 shows;
Captain Bogle's Company;

ADAM THOMAS 2 white pole's 100 acres
MARGARET NIMAN 100 acres Margaret is believed to be Adam's sister.



Early East Tennessee Tax List of 1800; Blount County.
Captain McGinley's Company 1800
JOHN THOMAS 1 free pole


Blount County, Tennessee, Tax List 1800 1801
THOMAS, GEORGE
THOMAS, HENRY
THOMAS, JACOB
THOMAS, JOHN

Data on Family of ADAM THOMAS, SR., as shown by Census Records
1830 Census, Knox County, Tennessee
ADAM THOMAS

1 male age 15-20 years
1 male age 20-30 years
1 male age 60-70 years (Adam Sr., born 1770)
1 female age 40-50 years

Living about two houses away:
THOMAS DAVENPORT (married Sally or Sarah Thomas)
1 male under 5 years
1 male 30-40 years
1 female 20-30 years
The next name was Elizabeth Keyhill; a man named Keyhill signed Adam Thomas' will as a witness.

RICHARD WALKER (married Susannah Thomas in 1822)
1 male under 5 years
2 males 5-10 years
1 male 30-40 years
2 females under 5 years
1 female 5-10 years
1 female 30-40 years

Adam Thomas, Sr.'s, second marriage to Jane Ralston born 1826 in Tennessee married 13 November 1849, Knox County, Tennessee.
Jane had two children at the time of the 1850 census of Knox County.
1. Henry C. Ralston age 5 born Tennessee
2. Jerry Jackson age 1 born Tennessee


LAST WILL AND TESTAMENT OF ADAM THOMAS, SR.
of Knox County, Tennessee
[Typed from a copy, I do not have original copy, 06 Mar 1999.]

An instrument in writing pertaining to be the last Will and Testament of Adam Thomas, deceased, and
Richard Keyhill and Benjamin Hackney, Gordon Desam, Subscribing Witnesses thereto appearing in open Court, acknowledge that they saw Adam Thomas sign the said Will by making his mark and heard him acknowledge the same to be his last Will and Testament, the same thereupon ordered to be admitted to Court.

Know all men by these present that I, Adam Thomas of the County of Knox and State of Tennessee being of sound mind and disposing memory, enjoying tolerable good health being far advanced in years and knowing the uncertainty of life and earthy affairs, I do hereby make and Publish this my Last Will and Testament to wit----.

First, my Will is that all my funeral expenses and just debt be paid out of monies or property that I may have at the time of my death.

Second, my will is that my beloved wife Jane shall have and enjoy fifty acres of land adjoining the lands of Jacob Thomas, heir and the land of Wm. Brown, James Crew and others. Said land having been granted by the State of Tennessee to me and dated the 4th day of March 1825, and also two hundred dollars in cash to be expended in building of a house and lot and necessary improvements on said land as she may think fit and if she does not choose to spend said money enterly [entirely] on said land she may use it otherwise at her option, it is also my will that she have and enjoy two feather beds, underbeds and bed steads, and each bed to have one couterpen, two quilts, and one sheet, and as many articles as is now exempt from Executors for the benefit of heads of family and to her illegitimate son Jerry Rawlston, my will is that at the death of my wife Jane that he enjoy the said land forever, and that my Executor retain in his hands one hundred dollars to be expended in the support or schooling said child, or in any other lawful way, that said Executors may think best now if my wife Jane shall desent [dissent] from this my last Will and Testament, then it is my Will that she only enjoy as the law may form to do and nothing else and as for Jerry her son she will have to provide for him herself and the fifty acres of land shall be sold to the highest bidder on a credit of twelve months but if she agrees to this my Will in that my plantation on which I now live and joining the land of C. N. Baker, Wilson, S. Enudle and others, may also be sold for cash on a twelve month credit after having given them three months notice of sale, but if my wife Jane should disent [dissent] from said will then my will is that said land be sold reserving to her, her lifetime estate to one third of the Home place. I also with that all personal property be exposed to sale on the above mentioned terms.

And for my children my Will is as follows;

To my deceased daughter Peggy Carpenter I wish her heir to enjoy all that their mother could of alive, to be equal with the rest of my children, the word above used as Peggy Carpenter heirs.

I wish to be understood as to apply to all the living children and to by [my] daughter Polly Doyle. I will that she receive an equal part with all the rest of my children and then to divide equally with her two sons Thomas and John so that each one may have one third of Polly’s part,

and to Amy Breakbill I likewise wish her to receive equal part with the rest.

Also my son Henry to receive equally with the rest of my children,

and to Caty Doyle I will to receive equal with the rest of my children, and to Susannah Walker I will equal with the rest and to Sally Davenport I wish her a equal part on and with the rest.

Now the word equal with the rest.

I wish to be understood to mean an equal portion of cash whatever amount that may be left in the hands of my Executor, weather [whether] by sale of land as in cash in hand, money in Bank to be paid over by said Executor soon as possible after my death as in lawful sale and collect the money owed -- but as to Adam Thomas, my son I will him five dollars in cash as he has already got all that I believe I owe him, and to the heir of my son Jacob Thomas, deceased to his two children each one dollar.

And Lastly I do hereby constitute my dear friend and son in law John Breakbill, my Executor of this my Last Will and Testament, hereby keeping all other.

12th day of October, One Thousand Eight Hundred and Fifty (1850)

ADAM X [his mark] THOMAS

Attest Richard Keyhill
Benjamin Hackney
Gordon Desam

The Last Will of ADAM THOMAS SR. deceased having been by the Court admitted to probate, wit appearing from the said will that John Breakbill had been appointed Executor.

Page 98 February Session 1855
Witness Geo. W. Cox, Clerk of said Court at office in Knoxville, Tennessee, Geo. C. Cleve, Clerk The first Monday of February 1855, G. W. C. Cox, Clerk.

State of Tennessee, Knox County For all persons, Greetings;
Whereas, at our County Court held for the County Knox, at the Court House in Knoxville on the 1st Monday, February 1855 it appeared to the Court that Adam Thomas, late of said County had died having first made his Last Will and Testament, in Which John Breakbill is appointed Executor. It was ordered that Letter, Testament any issue known ? We therefore impower the said John Breakbill to take unto his possession all and singular the goods and chattel rights and Credits of the said Testator. Wheresoever the same, may be found, and all Just Debts, Debts of said Testator, and all the Legacies specified in said Will, will and duly to pay. So far as the said goods and Chattel, rights and Credits may extend and in all things to administer said goods and chattel, rights and Credits according to the terms of said Will and the law of the Land.

Witness Geo. W. C. Cox Clerk of said Court at Office in Knoxville, the 1st Monday of February 1855.


Father: Jacob THOMAS b: UNKNOWN in PA?
Mother: Margaret UNKNOWN b: UNKNOWN

Marriage 1 Anna B. UNKNOWN b: UNKNOWN in Possibly Virginia
Married: ABT. 1789 in TN?
Children
Has Children Margaret THOMAS b: ABT. 1790 in Probably TN
Has Children Henry M. THOMAS b: ABT. 1798 in TN
Has Children Ann E. THOMAS b: 16 OCT 1798 in TN
Has Children Catherine THOMAS b: ABT. 1803 in TN
Has Children Susannah THOMAS b: ABT. 1804 in TN
Has Children Mary THOMAS b: ABT. 1810 in Blount Co., TN
Has Children Sarah THOMAS b: 11 MAY 1812 in VA or TN?
Has Children Adam THOMAS b: 4 JUL 1813 in Blount Co., TN.
Has Children Jacob THOMAS b: 6 NOV 1817 in Blount Co., TN.

Marriage 2 Jane RALSTON b: 1826 in Unknown
Married: 13 NOV 1849 in Knox Co., TN.
Children
Has No Children Henry C. RALSTON b: ABT. 1845
Has No Children Jerry Jackson RALSTON b: ABT. 1848

Sources:

Title: Will of Adam Thomas, Sr., in Knox Co. Archives, Knoxville, TN, Book 12, 1854 -58 pages 98, 121, 129, 360..
Note: ABBR Will of Adam Thomas, Sr.
Note: Will of Adam Thomas, Sr., in Knox Co. Archives, Knoxville, TN, Book 12, 1854 -58 pages 98, 121, 129,360..
Repository:
Note:
ADDR Knox Co. Archives
CONT 500 W. Church Avenue
CONT Knoxville, TN 3902-2505
Media: Book
Title: Typed Copy of the Will of Adam Thomas, Sr.
Note: ABBR Will of Adam Thomas, Sr.TEXT LAST WILL AND TESTAMENT OF ADAM THOMAS, SR. of Knox County,
Tennessee
[Typed from a copy, I do not have original copy, 06 Mar 1999, by Barbara (Thomas)
Fitzmaurice - 10225 Dice Rd., Freeland, MI 48623-8882
E-mail BLFITZMA@prodigy.net]
An instrument in writing pertaining to be the last Will and Testament of Adam Thomas,
deceased, and Richard Keyhill and Benjamin Hackney, Gordon Desam, Subscribing
Witnesses thereto appearing in open Court, acknowledge that they saw Adam Thomas
sign the said Will by making his mark and heard him acknowledge the same to be his last
Will and Testament, the same thereupon ordered to be admitted to Court.
Know all men by these present that I, Adam Thomas of the County of Knox and State of
Tennessee being of sound mind and disposing memory, enjoying tolerable good health
being far advanced in years and knowing the uncertainty of life and earthy affairs, I do
hereby make and Publish this my Last Will and Testament to wit----.
First, my Will is that all my funeral expenses and just debt be paid out of monies or
property that I may have at the time of my death.
Second, my will is that my beloved wife Jane shall have and enjoy fifty acres of land
adjoining the lands of Jacob Thomas, heir and the land of Wm. Brown, James Crew and
others. Said land having been granted by the State of Tennessee to me and dated the 4th
day of March 1825, and also two hundred dollars in cash to be expended in building of a
house and lot and necessary improvements on said land as she may think fit and if she
does not choose to spend said money enterly [entirely] on said land she may use it
otherwise at her option, it is also my will that she have and enjoy two feather beds,
underbeds and bed steads, and each bed to have one couterpen, two quilts, and one sheet,
and as many articles as is now exempt from Executors for the benefit of heads of family
and to her illegitimate son Jerry Rawlston, my will is that
Repository:
Note:
ADDR Knox Co. Archives
CONT 500 W. Church Avenue
CONT Knoxville, TN 3902-2505
Title: "THE THOMAS FAMILY" by Elsie Faye Thomas Davis, 1996. Book, self-published.
Note: ABBR "THE THOMAS FAMILY" by Elsie Faye Thomas Davis, 1996.
Note: "THE THOMAS FAMILY" by Elsie Faye Thomas Davis, 1996. Information from H. Gene Brakebill, Knoxville, TN.
Repository:
Media: Book
Note: "THE THOMAS FAMILY" by Elsie Faye Thomas Davis, 1996. Elsie Faye cites the persons she contacted to assist with her research of the Thomas family -
Jane Thomas, Blount County, Tennessee
Mr. Hunter Raneer
Dorothy Merrill, Clyde Groff for Thom or Thomas in Pennsylvania
Etta Oxner in Wise Co., TN
David S. Johnson, Bradley Co., TN
Faye Davis - My own research in Eastland Co, & Haskell Co., TX. The California State Capitol, birth, death, marriage records. Visits to cemeteries, State Library Archives, County and City libraries, S alt Lake City, Utah Library of the Latter Day Saints. Wills, land deeds, tax records in Texas, Arkansas, Tennessee, Pennsylvania, Washington D. C. Civil War Records, newspaper offices, and many letter s and visits over the period of many years.

end of this biography

Adam Thomas
BIRTH 1 Jan 1770
Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, USA
DEATH 10 Jan 1855 (aged 85)
Knox County, Tennessee, USA
BURIAL
Davenport Cemetery
Knoxville, Knox County, Tennessee, USA
MEMORIAL ID 48317528 · View Source

Family Members
Children

Sally Thomas Davenport

Ann E Thomas Brakebill
1798–1877

Catherine Thomas Doyle
1801–1894

Susannah Thomas Walker
1804–1892

Photo
Adam Thomas
1813–1887

Photo
Jacob Thomas
1817–1840

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http://www.geocities.com/blynnfitzz/Page2.html (Note: this link is now extinct, May 22nd, 2019)

5. Adam THOMAS, Sr., (1.Jacob1) b. 01 Jan 1770, PA or TN?. He married (1) Anna B.?, 1789 ??, in TN?, b. Unknown, d. abt. 1840.

He married (2) Jane RALSTON, 13 Nov 1849, in Knox Co., TN., b Unknown, d. Unknown.

Adam died 10 Jan 1855, Knox Co., TN., buried: Davenport Cemetery, Knoxville, TN.

See Gravestone and Will of Adam THOMAS. Old Adam Thomas Home and Davenport Cemetery pictures.


Children by Anna B.?:
9. i Margaret (Peggy) THOMAS b. Abt. 1790, PA, VA, TN??. She married John CARPENTER, c 1810, in Blount Co.,TN. b. Unknown, d. Unknown. Margaret died c 1850, Blount Co., TN.
+ 10. ii Ann (Amy) E. THOMAS b. 16 Oct 1798.
+ 11. iii Henry M. THOMAS b. Abt 1796.
12. iv Susannah (Susan) THOMAS b. Abt. 1800, VA. or TN?. She married Richard WALKER, 12 Apr 1822, in Knox Co., TN. b.Unknown, d.Unknown. Susannah died Unk.
+ 13. v Catherine (Caty) THOMAS b. 26 Oct. 1801.
+ 14. vi Mary (Polly) THOMAS b. abt. 1810.
+ 15. vii Sarah (Sally) THOMAS b. 11 May 1812.
+ 16. viii Adam THOMAS, Jr. b. 04 Jul 1813.
+ 17. ix Jacob THOMAS b. 06 Nov 1817.

Individual:

Adam was married twice, his first wife, believed to be named Anna B., dying about 1840. His second wife Jane Raulston/Rawlston had two children already when she married Adam.

The Will of Adam Thomas is in Knox Co. Archives, Estate Book 12, pages 98, 121,129, & 360. The Will was dated 12 October 1850 and filed in February 1855. John Brakebill was named as executor and presumed to be his daughter, Ann's husband.

Deed information -

KNOXVILLE EAST TENNESSEE 15 December 1820 Land Grant No. 787

IT IS HEREBY CERTIFIED THAT ADAM THOMAS, of ______ did, on the 15th day of December 1820, purchase the Lot or North East quarter of Section Twenty Two in __________ Township, number TWO, Range number TWO East in the HIWASSEE DISTRICT A which Lot or Quarter Section is estimated at, One Hundred Sixty Acres of Land which has been sold to the said ADAM THOMAS at the rate of Two dollars and no cents per acre, amounting in the whole to Three Hundred and Twenty Dollars and no cents, of which there has been paid agreeable to law to the Treasurer of East Tennessee. Eighty Dollars and no cents, being the one forth part of the purchase money for said Lot or Quarter Section.
Now the remaining balance being Two Hundred and Forty Dollars and no cents, shall be paid to the Treasurer of East Tennessee at Knoxville, at or before the end of ten years from this date with interest commencing on one third at the expiration of two years, on one third at the end of four years and on one third at the end of six years, which interest is to be paid annually; the amount paid becomes forfeited if the said balance is not paid; but if it should be duly paid, the said ADAM THOMAS, or his assignee or legal representative shall be entitled to a grant for the Lot or Quarter Section above described.

Alex B. Bradford Register of East Tennessee


LAST WILL AND TESTAMENT OF ADAM THOMAS, SR.

of Knox County, Tennessee

An instrument in writing pertaining to be the last Will and Testament o f Adam Thomas, deceased, and Richard Keyhill and Benjamin Hackney, Gordon Desam, Subscribing Witnesse s thereto appearing in open Court, acknowledge that they saw Adam Thomas sign the said Will by makin g his mark and heard him acknowledge the same to be his last Will and Testament, the same thereupo n ordered to be admitted to Court.

Know all men by these present that I, Adam Thomas of the County of Knox a nd State of Tennessee being of sound mind and disposing memory, enjoying tolerable good health being far advanced in years and knowing the uncertainty of life and earthy affairs, I do hereby make and Publis h this my Last Will and Testament to wit----.

First, my Will is that all my funeral expenses and just debt be paid ou t of monies or property that I may have at the time of my death.

Second, my will is that my beloved wife Jane shall have and enjoy fifty acres of land adjoining the lands of Jacob Thomas, heir and the land of Wm. Brown, James Crew and others.

Said land having been granted by the State of Tennessee to me and dated the 4th day of March 1825, and als o two hundred dollars in cash to be expended in building of a house and lot and necessary improvements on said land as she may think fit and if she does not choose to spend said money enterly [entirely] on said land she may use it otherwise at her option, it is also my will that she have and enjoy two feather beds, unde rbeds and bed steads, and each bed to have one couterpen, two quilts, and one sheet, and as many articles as is now exempt from Executors for the benefit of heads of family and to her illegitimate son Jerry Rawlston , my will is that at the death of my wife Jane that he enjoy the said land forever, and that my Executor retain in his hands one hundred dollars to be expended in the support or schooling said child, or in any other lawfu l way, that said Executors may think best now if my wife Jane shall desent [dissent] from this my last Will an d Testament, then it is my Will that she only enjoy as the law may form to do and nothing else and as for Jerry her son she will have to provide for him herself and the fifty acres of land shall be sold to the highes t bidder on a credit of twelve months but if she agrees to this my Will in that my plantation on which I now live and joining the land of C. N. Baker, Wilson, S. Enudle and others, may also be sold for cash on a twelve month credit after having given them three months notice of sale, but if my wife Jane should disent [dissent ] from said will then my will is that said land be sold reserving to her, her lifetime estate to one third of t he Home place. I also with that all personal property be exposed to sale on the above mentioned terms.

And for my children my Will is as follows;

To my deceased daughter Peggy Carpenter I wish her heir to enjoy all that their mother could of alive, to be equal with the rest of my children, the word above used as Peggy Carpenter heirs.

I wish to be understood as to apply to all the living children and to by [my] daughte r Polly Doyle. I will that she receive an equal part with all the rest of my children and then to divide equally with her two sons Thomas and John so that each one may have one third of Polly’s part,

and to Amy Breakbil l I likewise wish her to receive equal part with the rest. Also my son Henry to receive equally with the rest of my children,

and to Caty Doyle I will to receive equal with the rest of my children,

and to Susannah Walker I will equal with the rest and to Sally Davenport I wish her a equal part on and with the rest.

Now the word equal with the rest. I wish to be understood to mean an equal portion of cash whatever amount that may be left in the hands of my Executor, weather [whether] by sale of land as in cash in hand, money in Bank to be paid over by said Executor soon as possible after my death as in lawful sale and collect th e money owed --

but as to Adam Thomas, my son I will him five dollars in cash as he has already got all that I believe I owe him, and to the heir of my son Jacob Thomas, deceased to his two children each one dollar.

And Lastly I do hereby constitute my dear friend and son in law John Breakbill, my Executor of this my Last Will and Testament, hereby keeping all other.

12th day of October, One Thousand Eight Hundred and Fifty (1850)

ADAM X [his mark] THOMAS Attest Richard Keyhill, Benjamin Hackney, Gordon Desam

The Last Will of ADAM THOMAS SR. deceased having been by the Court admitt ed to probate, wit appearing from the said will that John Breakbill had been appointed Execu tor.

Page 98 February Session 1855

Witness Geo. W. Cox, Clerk of said Court at office in Knoxville, Tennesse e, Geo. C. Cleve, Clerk The first Monday of February 1855, G. W. C. Cox, Clerk. State of Tennessee, Knox County For all persons, Greetings;

Whereas, at our County Court held for the County Knox, at the Court Hous e in Knoxville on the 1st Monday, February 1855 it appeared to the Court that Adam Thomas, late of said County had died having first made his Last Will and Testament, in Which John Breakbill is appointed Executor. It was ordered that Letter, Testament any issue known ? We therefore impower the said John Breakbill to take unto his possession all and singular the goods and chattel rights and Credits of t he said Testator. Wheresoever the same, may be found, and all Just Debts, Debts of said Testator, and all the Legacies specified in said Will, will and duly to pay. So far as the said goods and Chattel, rights and Credits may extend and in all things to administer said goods and chattel, rights and Credits according to the terms of said Will and the law of the Land.

Witness Geo. W. C. Cox Clerk of said Court at Office in Knoxville, the 1s t Monday of February 1855.

end of this report

Adam married Anna B. LNU in ~1789 in (Knox County, Tennessee). Anna was born in (Virginia). [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Alt Death: ~1840, Knox County, Tennessee

Notes:

Emailed & called Don Merriman for his source information. No response of yet,,,

William married Margaret LNU. Margaret was born in ~1740 in Baltimore, Baltimore County, Province of Maryland; died in Baltimore, Baltimore County, Province of Maryland. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Occupation: Farmer
• Will: 15 Feb 1804, Blount County, Tennessee

Notes:

http://files.usgwarchives.net/tn/blount/wills/thomas01.txt


Will of Jacob Thomas, of Blount Co., Tennessee

Typed from a copy of original Will, pages 260-262, 14 July 1998 by Barbara L. Fitzmaurice
On file at McClung Library, Knoxville, TN Using original text and punctuation.


In the name of God Amen I Jacob Thomas of the County of Blount and State of Tennessee farmer being of Sound mind and memory and understanding but considering the uncertainty of life do think fit to make this my last will and testament in the following manner and form (Viz) I recomment my soul unto the hand of God and my body the earth to be buried in a christian manner and as touching such worldly Estate wherewith it hath pleased God to bless me with in this life I give devise and dispose of in the following manner and form after all my Just debts are paid

First I will and bequeath that my Son George Thomas shall provide for his mother My beloved wife Margaret Thomas during her Natural life off of farm on which she is to her residence her life time in Annually twelve bushels wheat ground if she requires it one fatted hog of one hundred and fifty weight with the Lard half a bushel of Sault six bushels of Irish potatoes six bushels of Turnips provided he raises any Six bushels of Sweet potatoes also one quarter of beef if he Kills any of pair of shoes three pounds of clean cotton Sufficient quality of firewood cut and hauled to her door fit for use the third part of the garden equally manured with the rest a third part of the cabbage garden the fourth part of the flax that grows on the place two heifers to be wintered with grain and fodder with his own also the third part of all debts that is due to me when recovered after the Just debts are deducted therefrom also a third part of all the poultry with their Eggs all my house hold and Kitchen furniture is to be entirely for her own use during her life Except what is Georges Real property and at her disposal at her decease except the stove and large Kettle which is to be Georges at her death she is to have liberty to take a shoat out of the Stock of hogs when she needs one all the articles above mentioned for her provisions is to be delivered to her annually during her life

Secondly I will and bequeath to my Son George Thomas my whole farm with all and every one of my farming Tools with the wagon and gears with the two stills and vessels the house clock all the horses the balance of my xxxxx stock of Cattle and hogs I also give and bequeath to my Son Henry Thomas one dollar by reason I consider to have given him a sufficient Share of my Estate heretofore I will and bequeath fifty dollars in property by reason I considered him to receive his share

heretofore to my son Jacob Thomas I like wise will and bequeath

to my son John Thomas one dollar by reason I consider him to have received a Sufficient share of my Estate heretofore I give and bequeath

to my son Adam Thomas one dollar he having received his proportion of my Estate heretofore also

to my daughter Margaret Numan I will and bequeath forty dollars in property it being her full Share of my Estate

Margaret my wife is at full liberty to dispose of clothing to whom she pleases

I likewise by these presents constitute make and ordain my wife Margaret and George Thomas my son to be whole and Executors of this last will and Testament and do hearby utterly disallow revoke all other wills and Testaments and to heretofore made and legacies and bequests and Executors by me in any way before named wills and bequeathed Ratifying and confirming this and no other to be my last will and testament

In witness whereof I have Set my hand and Seal this fifteenth day of February in the year of our lord one thousand eight hundred and four.

Signed Sealed and delivered by the said Jacob X Thomas (__?___)
Jacob Thomas as his last will and testament mark

in presence of (Wm. Lowery, Robert Everett (0r Eferett )

I don't believe there is a family relationship to William Lowery or Robert Everett, but it is worth investigating further since we do not know what Margaret Thomas' maiden name is. From Robert EVERETT researchers, he was born in England about 1750 and died in Blount Co., TN in 1827.

Robert was married to Margaret COX LOCKHART, widow of Rev War Veteran Thomas Lockart. Robert was buried on his farm about one mile from Piney Level Baptist Church which is on Lee Lambert Rd. in Maryville, TN.

The Everett farm was on Crooked Creek in the Law's Chapel Community. (This is from information from Everett researchers.) I believe Jacob Thomas' farm was very near by.

Will of Jacob Thomas, of Blount Co., Tennessee

Typed from a copy of original Will, pages 260-262, 14 July 1998 by Barbara L. Fitzmaurice

JACOB THOMAS - Dd INVENTORY
June 20 1804
[Hand written document & very difficult to read. Typed by Barbara (Thomas)
Fitzmaurice barbfitz@chartermi.net 17 Feb 1999]

An Inventory of the Estate of Jacob Thomas Deceased file 28 of August 180[cutoff]

An inventory of the estate of Jacob Thomas deceased and valued by us as
returned? by George Thomas executor of Said estate

D S
One Bible of the Large Sort 2

One Hyme Book 75

One Large Sermon Book ?

One Large pare of Sheep Shears 75

One Large Black Bottle 25

Ditto Small 2 50

One Large feax? Hackkle? 50

Two chairs 2 50

One Rowain? Rowam? Hat 3 75

Cote and Wastcote Cotten 1

One grate cote 50

One Loom & Iron? 25

One Lamp 50

One Looking Glass

One pare of woollen stockens and one cotton Set? 75

One pare of overhalls 50

One old Saddle for mare? man? 1 50

One pare of old Saddle Bags 2 00

One New and foure old Bags of Plain Cloth? 2 50

One small Bag 37?

Two Small Pots an one Small Oven and freying Pan small
Pare of Small Pot hooks 8

One Large fork 1

One Small Lantern 37?

One Common Size teakettle 2

One grater? 25

One tinn pail and tinn bittle? 1

One old coffee mill 75

One garden shovel 75

One Donge Shovel and grane fork 1 50
Hay
One Donge Hook for Cleaning Donge out of stable 50

two Large old orgers? and one chisel and Small hammer 2 25

One old Sykes 50

One fron? 1 50

One old hand saw one Donge fork 1 25

[Start of second page. This all on legal sized brown paper, looks like a paper
bag due to age. BF]

D S
One old ---? 1. 0
One old Black ------? 3 50
One old half bag hel? 37

H. T [looks like initials] [signed] Wm Lowery
June 20.. 1804 [signed] Thos? Wallace

end of will & inventory

Name: Jacob THOMAS 1
Sex: M
ALIA: /Sr./
Birth: UNKNOWN in PA?
Death: 1804 in Maryville, Blount Co., TN
Occupation: Farmer
Reference Number: 28
Note:
Jacob Sr. lists his beloved wife as Margaret and his five sons and one daughter in his Will of 1804. Jacob lived near the town of Maryville, Blount County, Tennessee where he died in the spring of 1804. I do not know the birth order of their children and I don't know if the Will naming George to be the provider for his mother, Margaret indicates George was the eldest of the sons. Jacob leaves the farm to George and in most cases this was a tradition that the oldest son would get the farm. If we follow the names in Jacob's Will, he names, George first, Henry second, Jacob, John and then Adam. Jacob names his daughter, Margaret "Numan" last. I have been able to determine from court records and census, that Margaret was probably born about 1762 or 1763. I am almost convinced she is the oldest child. We know from census records that Adam was born in 1770 and Jacob born in about 1780. We still know nothing more about George, Henry or John.

From Knox Co., TN Archives at McClung Library in Knoxville, Tennessee, there is a deed conveyance from Jacob Newman to Jacob Thomas, of Blount Co., TN., in October of 1800. This deed described the lands as 300 1/4 Acres on the South side of the Holston River. Neighbors were; John Coulter? Bounds?, John Patterson. I do not really know if this is Jacob that died in 1804 or his son Jacob, Jr. who would have been about 20 to 21 years old in 1800. Early tax lists generally included all white males over 21 and indicate whether they owned land or slaves. It is also hard to determine if Jacob and his family had been in the area prior to this time because we have not found an older record of his land holdings. But we do have an indication from early court records; the family was in Blount County, Tennessee area in 1799. Jacob Thomas served on a jury on Thursday, the 29th of November 1799. There are still records to be looked into in Knox, Greene and Washington Counties in Tennessee to see if any of our Thomas family can be found in these early records. We know from the history of Blount County, Tennessee that many people settled in this area at an earlier date but no deeds were obtained until a much later time due to the formation of the counties and also much of this area was considered Indian Lands.

In the book; "History of Blount County, Tennessee" by Edith Ward Little, page 300, the 1800 & 1801 tax list of Captain McGinley's Company has the names of, Jacob Thomas, John Thomas, George Thomas, Henry Thomas, which are all most likely the sons of Jacob Thomas, Sr. Jacob, the father, probably was 50 years of age or over would not be required to pay a poll tax on himself. If we estimate Jacob was about twenty-five when his daughter Margaret was born, it would place the time of his birth around 1739, if daughter Margaret were born in 1764. Of course this is guesswork at best and we hope to find more information or clues as we continue researching.


Will of Jacob Thomas, of Blount Co., Tennessee

Typed from a copy of original Will, pages 260-262, 14 July 1998 by Barbara L. Fitzmaurice
On file at McClung Library, Knoxville, TN
Using original text and punctuation.

In the name of God Amen I Jacob Thomas of the County of Blount and State of Tennessee farmer being of Sound mind and memory and understanding but considering the uncertainty of life do think fit to make this my last will and testament in the following manner and form (Viz) I recomment my soul unto the hand of God and my body the earth to be buried in a christian manner and as touching such worldly Estate wherewith it hath pleased God to bless me with in this life I give devise and dispose of in the following manner and form after all my Just debts are paid

First I will and bequeath that my Son George Thomas shall provide for his mother My beloved wife Margaret Thomas during her Natural life off of farm on which she is to her residence her life time in Annually twelve bushels wheat ground if she requires it one fatted hog of one hundred and fifty weight with the Lard half a bushel of Sault six bushels of Irish potatoes six bushels of Turnips provided he raises any Six bushels of Sweet potatoes also one quarter of beef if he Kills any of pair of shoes three pounds of clean cotton Sufficient quality of firewood cut and hauled to her door fit for use the third part of the garden equally manured with the rest a third part of the cabbage garden the fourth part of the flax that grows on the place two heifers to be wintered with grain and fodder with his own also the third part of all debts that is due to me when recovered after the Just debts are deducted therefrom also a third part of all the poultry with their Eggs all my house hold and Kitchen furniture is to be entirely for her own use during her life Except what is Georges Real property and at her disposal at her decease except the stove and large Kettle which is to be Georges at her death she is to have liberty to take a shoat out of the Stock of hogs when she needs one all the articles above mentioned for her provisions is to be delivered to her annually during her life

Secondly I will and bequeath to my Son George Thomas my whole farm with all and every one of my farming Tools with the wagon and gears with the two stills and vessels the house clock all the horses the balance of my xxxxx stock of Cattle and hogs

I also give and bequeath to my Son Henry Thomas one dollar by reason I consider to have given him a sufficient Share of my Estate heretofore I will and bequeath fifty dollars in property by reason I considered him to receive his share heretofore

to my son Jacob Thomas I like wise will and bequeath

to my son John Thomas one dollar by reason I consider him to have received a Sufficient share of my Estate heretofore I give and bequeath

to my son Adam Thomas one dollar he having received his proportion of my Estate heretofore also

to my daughter Margaret Numan I will and bequeath forty dollars in property it being her full Share of my Estate Margaret my wife is at full liberty to dispose of clothing to whom she pleases I likewise by these presents constitute make and ordain my wife Margaret and George Thomas my son to be whole and Executors of this last will and Testament and do hearby utterly disallow revoke all other wills and Testaments and to heretofore made and legacies and bequests and Executors by me in any way before named wills and bequeathed Ratifying and confirming this and no other to be my last will and testament In witness whereof I have Set my hand and Seal this fifteenth day of February in the year of our lord one thousand eight hundred and four.

Signed Sealed and delivered by the said Jacob X Thomas (__?___)
Jacob Thomas as his last will and testament mark
in presence of (Wm. Lowery
(Robert Everett 0r Eferett

I don't believe there is a family relationship to William Lowery or Robert Everett, but it is worth investigating further since we do not know what Margaret Thomas' maiden name is. From Robert EVERETT researchers, he was born in England about 1750 and died in Blount Co., TN in 1827. Robert was married to Margaret COX LOCKHART, widow of Rev War Veteran Thomas Lockart. Robert was buried on his farm about one mile from Piney Level Baptist Church which is on Lee Lambert Rd. in Maryville, TN. The Everett farm was on Crooked Creek in the Law's Chapel Community. (This is from information from Everett researchers.) I believe Jacob Thomas' farm was very near by.



JACOB THOMAS - Dd INVENTORY
June 20 1804

[Hand written document - Found by a cousin in Maryville Court Records, Maryville, Blount County, Tennessee. Some of the writing is very hard to make out. Typed 17 February 1999.]

An Inventory of the Estate of Jacob Thomas Deceased file 28 of August 180[cutoff]

An inventory of the estate of Jacob Thomas deceased and valued by us as returned?
by George Thomas executor of Said estate

D S
One Bible of the Large Sort 2

One Hyme Book 75

One Large Sermon Book ?

One Large pare of Sheep Shears 75

One Large Black Bottle 25

Ditto Small 2 50

One Large feax? Hackkle? 50

Two chairs 2 50

One Rowain? Rowam? Hat 3 75

Cote and Wastcote Cotten 1

One grate cote 50

One Loom & Iron? 25

One Lamp 50

One Looking Glass

One pare of woollen stockens and one cotton Set? 75

One pare of overhalls 50

One old Saddle for mare? man? 1 50

One pare of old Saddle Bags 2 00

One New and foure old Bags of Plain Cloth? 2 50

One small Bag 37?

Two Small Pots an one Small Oven and freying Pan small
Pare of Small Pot hooks 8

One Large fork 1

One Small Lantern 37?

One Common Size teakettle 2

One grater? 25

One tinn pail and tinn bittle? 1

One old coffee mill 75

One garden shovel 75

One Donge Shovel and grane fork 1 50
Hay
One Donge Hook for Cleaning Donge out of stable 50

two Large old orgers? and one chisel and Small hammer 2 25

One old Sykes 50

One fron? 1 50

One old hand saw one Donge fork 1 25

[Start of second page. This all on legal sized brown paper, looks like a paper bag due to age. BF]

D S
One old ---? 1. 0
One old Black ------? 3 50
One old half bag hel? 37
H. T [looks like initials] [signed] Wm Lowery
June 20.. 1804 [signed] Thos? Wallace



Marriage 1 Margaret UNKNOWN b: UNKNOWN
Married: ABT. 1761 in PA?
Children
Has No Children George THOMAS b: UNKNOWN in PA?
Has Children Margaret THOMAS b: BET. 1763 - 1764 in PA?
Has No Children John THOMAS b: UNKNOWN in PA?
Has Children Adam THOMAS b: 1 JAN 1770 in PA
Has No Children Henry THOMAS b: UNKNOWN in PA?
Has Children Jacob THOMAS b: ABT. 1780 in Unknown, PA/TN?

Sources:

Title: Will of Jacob THOMAS, 1804, Blount Co., TN. Administrator's Settlement in Knox Co., Knoxville, TN McClung Library
Note: ABBR Will of Jacob THOMAS, 1804, Blount Co., TN. Administrator's Settlement in Knox
Note: Will of Jacob THOMAS, 1804, Blount Co., TN. Administrator's Settlement in Knox Co., TN., Vol. 1 - pgs., 6,7,9,10, & 12.

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Posted By: Barbara Fitzmaurice, Email: blfitzma@prodigy.net

Subject: Jacob THOMAS>Blount>Monroe>Bradley Co,TN,
Post Date: July 16, 1998 at 02:58:59,
Message URL: http://genforum.genealogy.com/thomas/messages/586.html ,
Forum: Thomas Family Genealogy Forum,
Forum URL: http://genforum.genealogy.com/thomas/

Are there any other cousins searching Jacob THOMAS b.1750's mar Margaret. Early settlers to Blount Co., near Maryville, TN.

Are they from Pennsyalvania or Maryland?

Settled near Pistol and Crooked Creek.

Children; George, Henry, Jacob, John, Adam & daughter Margaret THOMAS.

George, Henry, Adam and John may have stayed around Knoxville, Blount Co., area.

Jacob b. abt 1870 and wife Margaret Nieman THOMAS ended up in Bradley Co., between 1840-50 after a stay in Monroe Co. (The County lines could have just changed.) Jacob and Margaret Elizabeth's children that we know of:

Hettie Lillie Esther b. abt 1811, m. Jacob Adam CARVER,
Adam b.1813 mar. Lydia and were in Bradley Co., 1850,
Wilson b. 1815 mar 1st Tresa WETSON?, 2nd Sarah SCHOAT in Bradley CO.,
Mary 'Polly' bc 1817 mar James Ervin, may have lived in McMinn Co.,
Catherine E. bc 1819 mar Beard Waller 1841 in Monroe Co., ended up a widow? Living in Bradley Co. by 1850 with her parents and children.
Jacob, son of Jacob and Margaret died about 1855 in Bradley Co., TN.

We still need all the help we can get straighting these lines out. Thanks!!

end of comment

Jacob married Margaret LNU in ~1761-1763 in (Pennsylvania). Margaret was born in 1743 in Pennsylvania, British Colonies of America. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

ID: I0784
Name: Margaret UNKNOWN
Sex: F
Birth: UNKNOWN
Death: UNKNOWN
Reference Number: 28
Note:
We have been unable to find out Margaret Thomas' maiden name. Still looking, June of 2004.

The birth order of the children is still unknown. The farm was left to George Thomas in the Will of Jacob Thomas, Sr. in 1804, with the stipulation to take care of mother, Margaret. Most times the oldest son was left the farm. We cannot say for sure that George was the oldest from the records we have obtained. If he is the oldest son and his sister Margaret "Numan" was born about 1863 or 1864, this would put the date of birth either before Margaret "Numan" or just after her.

We can follow mom, Margaret in Blount County Court Records and we learn that there must be some sort of dispute between son George and his mother since we see that Margaret did end up taking George to court over the land. I look at the court records and it strikes me that Margaret lost her husband near the end of May in 1804 since the last will and testament was proven in court on the 28th of May in 1804. Then we see there is a court appearance for George, which leaves a lot of questions in our mind about what it is that George did so soon after his father's death to end up before the courts? As we look further into the court records, it appears that George may not have paid the property taxes or had liens on the farm and the family was just about ready to loose the whole plantation due to debts George had run up so Margaret set in to motion a suit to recover what was hers. Then we see on the 25th of May in 1808, George failed to appear in court and was fined heavily. I think at this time George has taken off from Blount County. And we see next Jacob Thomas getting permission to open a Public House in Maryville. And on March 31, 1810 we see where Jacob Thomas obtains a clear title to the land that Margaret had owned.

Excerpts of Court Records;


~~~Monday 28 May 1804~~~



~~487.~~

The last will & testement of Jacob Thomas Deceased was proven in open
Court by Wm Lowry Robert Everett & Henry Tubs the subscribing wittnesses there-
to & admitted to record.


~~489.~~ ~~~Tuesday 29 May 1804~~~

McKarmack )
vs )
Thomas ) In this case Thomas who was appearance bail for George Thomas
surrendered him in discharge of himslf.

Peter Hoyl & John Caldwell Come into Court and acknowledged that in the
case the Defendent failed to pay the Judgement & Cost that they would do it
for him or surrender his body to the prison in discharge if themselves.


~~497.~~ ~~~Thursday 31 May 1804~~~

Wm McKarmack )
vs )
George Thomas ) In this case George Thomas came into Court & confessed Judg-
ment for ninety eight dollars eighty four cents twenty days stay of Execution

Page 278. ~~~fourth Monday 23 of February 1807~~~

Love & Co )
vs ) Attachment
George Thomas ) On motion of E Parsons it Appears that Charles Donahoo
Deputy Sheriff had levied an attachment on the lands
said Thomas formerlay lived on It is therefore Ordered that the same be
exposed to sale agreeably to law

Page 280. ~~~Tuesday morning 24 February 1807~~~

Margaret Thomas )
vs ) Order of sale
George Thomas ) On motion of John Lowry Esqr it appears that execu-
tion Issued from Wm Lowry Esqr Commanding that the
goods and chattles Lands & Teniments of George to be made the sum of Ele-
ven Dollars & twenty five cents and returned he had levied on the land
where sd George now lives
It is therefore considered by court that the said lands be exposed
to sale Agteeable to law and the money arising from the proceeds of the
Sale to be applied accordingly
1807
Do )
vs ) order of Sale
Ditto ) on Motion of Lowry Attorney it appears that Execution Issued
from Wm Lowry Esqr command Uriah Sherrell constable that of the
goods & chattles lands & Tenements of said George Thomas be cause to be
made the sum of thirty four dollars & seventy five cents (75cents) costs and
said Uriah Sherrill returned he had levied on the land where he now lives
It is therefore considered by the court that the same be exposed to sale
agreeably to law & the monies to be applied accordingly which arises
from the proceeds of the same

Page 293 ~~~Thursday 26 February 1807~~~

White & Wilson )
vs )
George Thomas ) On motion of E Parsons Esqr it appears that John Keys
levied an Execution on the land where said Thomas for-
merly lived and could not Expose the same to sale without permission of
the Court - It is therefore considered by the court that the said tract
of land be exposed to sale Agreably law to satisfy said Execution & costs

Page 299 ~~~Saturday 28 February 1807~~~

Margarett Thomas)
vs ) Atto.
George Thomas ) On Motion of John Lowry Attorney It appears that an
attachment Issued from William Lowry Esqr to Uriah
Sherrill constable commending him to attach so much of the property of
George Thomas as would satisfy Margarett Thomas for the sum of one hun-
dred & forty five dollars and it appears that said Sherrill made this
return (to wit) levied on the stove clock Kittle & plantation
Therefore It is considered by the court that the articles
aforesaid together with the plantation be exposed to sale agreably to
Law and the monies arising from the proceeds of said sales go to satis-
fy said Debt & costs
Page 310 ~~~fourth Monday of May 1807~~~

John Rider )
vs ) Debt
George Thomas ) This day came the parties by their Attornies and there-
upon came a jury to wit
(The same Jury as in 940)
who being elected tried and sworn the truth to speak upon the Issue
Joined upon their Oath do say that the Defendant hath not paid the Debt
in the Declaration mentioned & they do assess the Plaintiffs Damages by
ocassion of the Detention of the Debt to five Dollars & 82 cents be-
sides his costs
Therefore It is considered by the court
Page 387 ~~~Friday 27 November 1807~~~

Samuel Finley is appointed Constable by court who took the nec-
essary oaths and entered into bond with John Lowry atto and Jacob New-
man his securities


Excerpts from;
"Blount County, Tennessee This book & others available from;
Court Records, 1808 - 1811" Mountain Press, P.O. Box 400
W.P.A. Records September 22, 1937 Signal Mountain, TN 37377-0100
www.mountainpress.com


Page 49 ~~~Wednesday 25 May 1808~~~

William Black )
vs )
Joseph Smith ) In this case George Thomas was summoned as a witness on
behalf of the Defendant and being solemnly called fail-
ing to appear.
It is therefore considered by Court that the said Joseph
Smith recover against the said George Thomas $125 agreable to the Statues
in that case made & provided.

Page 141 ~~~fourth Monday 22nd May Term 1809~~~

4 Ordered by the court that Jacob Thomas have liberty to Keep a publick
House in Blount County he having given bond with approved Security.

Page 244 ~~~Saturday 31st March 1810~~~

A Bill of Sale from Margaret Thomas to Jacob Thomas was proven
in open court by Margaret Warfel & John Gardiner the subscribing wit-
nesses thereto & admitted to record 1st it to be registered.

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Another Thomas researcher Linda B. Morin - LinLB5@ashlandnet.net who is descended from Henry Thomas b. 1756 contacted me regarding the Warfel/Warfield name found in the above records. Henry Thomas' daughter Margaret Thomas married Adam Warfel/Warfield. Henry Thomas, a Rev War soldier moved his family to Indiana sometime in the early 1800's. He was in Butler Co., Ohio for his daughter's wedding in 1811. We have not been able to prove our relationship to this Henry Thomas, but the fact that Margaret Warfel witnessed a court document for Margaret and her son Jacob Thomas suggests there is some sort of relationship possibly. We wondered if Henry Thomas and our elder Jacob Thomas (died 1804) were brothers?


----- Original Message -----
From: Linda B. Morin
To: BLFITZMA@prodigy.net
Sent: Saturday, June 16, 2001 3:34 AM
Subject: THOMAS


Hi Barb

I really haven't done a lot of research myself on the THOMAS line, especially not in TN :-( I am reading everyone's input with avid interest. In one of your E-mails you said:

Lucille Whiteturky had her Henry Thomas b. 1756 in Tulpehocken, Berks Co., PA settled in Ripley Co, IN & Rush Co., IN. He married a Mary Unkn. b. 08 Feb 1767, PA died 27 Feb 1858, Rush Co., IN buried Homer Cemetery, Walker Twp., Rush Co., IN. Henry d. 14 Sept 1836, Rush Co., IN.

Homer Cemetery, Walker Twp., Rush Co., IN is where my Adam WARFIELD and his wife Margaret Mary Ann (Thomas) WARFIELD are buried. That seems like more than just a coincidence. Do you have the family for Henry? I have no idea whether or not my grandmother's research is correct. All I have is a typed page with THOMAS information and no sources. Mind you I am not complaining; at least I have facts to check :-)

If one followed the German naming pattern, the first son would be named after the husband's father and the second son after the wife's father. So Adam WARFIELD's father should be George WARFIELD and Margaret THOMAS's father should be Henry THOMAS. The third son was John.

I wonder if there is a Rush Co., IN Will for Henry THOMAS. Even an intestate distribution would mention the married names of Henry's daughters. Hmmmm. Gives me a good direction to pursue.

Thank you for including me in the loop. I will try to get up to speed quickly.

Linda (Lin) Morin
LinLB5@Ashlandnet.net




Henry Thomas' daughter, Margaret Thomas was born in 1788 and died. May 11, 1863. She married Adam Warfield about 1806-7. Their children were: Elizabeth (b. March 7, 1808); Henry (b. July 19, 1810 ); John ( b.. July 1, 1812); Margaret (b. March, 1815); Susan (b. March 22, 1817) Catherine (b. Oct. 19, 1819); Lavina (b. Oct., 1822 ); James (b. March 8, 1827 ); David (b. 1825); and William (b. July 3, 1830).


Henry b. 1756, We know he was in TN for 26 years after being discharged from the army in the Rev. War in 1782. One of his daughters was married in Jan. 1810 in Butler Co., OH and he obtained land in Butler county in 1807. So I would assume that he left TN between 1807 and 1810 meaning he must have arrived somewhere in TN between 1782-1784.

From Linda B. Morin
Thursday, October 18, 2001 1:04 PM

Hi Barb

My Henry died 18 Sept 1836 in Rush Co., IN. He is on the 1820 and 1830 Ripley Co., IN census along with his son George. There is no way he was still living in TN in 1836. This would indicate to me that my Henry b. 1756 is the brother of old Jacob d. 1804 and not his son. The Henry still in Blount Co., TN would then be Jacob's son. Have you come across any deeds between Henry and anyone after 1836? Another question - If Henry Thomas is living in Blount Co., TN in 1836 where is he on the 1830 census? There are only two Henrys listed in TN in 1830; one is Adam's son Henry M. in Sevier Co. and the other is in Williamson Co. which is across the state.

Maybe I should order the film for tax records in Blount Co., TN beginning 1836 just to see what THOMAS members are still there.

Lin

I read through my information on deeds. There has to be more that I have not seen yet. I did notice that in that 1836 deed transaction where I indicate Margaret is still alive, Henry was granted land by TN that either is the same land Old Jaocb got or near too. I need to figure that out. Get the deeds from Knox. He sold off acreage little by little to some of the Neiman/Newman kids. And to other family. I will get that written up. It does indicate it is still "where I live." But I need to double check dates on that for when he was last there. We will get this sorted.........!!
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----- Original Message -----
From: Linda B. Morin
To: Barbara Fitzmaurice
Sent: Monday, October 15, 2001 1:04 AM
Subject: Thank You!


Hi Barbara

You are a sweetheart :-) Thank you, thank you! At least I know where in TN I am looking! I was beginning to feel very lost. This is fabulous news!

I found a reference to Margaret Warfel/Warfield in Blount Co.Court records info where
Mom, Margaret Thomas sold property to Jacob Thomas and Margaret Warfel/Warfield witnessed.

We need to address right here my grandmother's genealogy. She made an incorrect jump.
Martin Thomas was born in 1702 and. died in 1768. He came to America in 1749 and settled in Heidelberg Township where he became a prominent citizen. He was a lieutenant in a company of rangers in the French and Indian War of 1756-7. He moved to Lebanon Town-ship where he died in 1768. He left a wife, Barbara, and seven children. His children were: Philip (b. 1725); Theodorus (b. 1727); Jacob ( b. 1729 ); Henry ( b. 1731 ); Adam ( b. 1733 ); Anna (b. 1735) and Martin ( b. March 15, 1737 ).

(Linda had sent this little note to me also regarding Martin Thomas - Martin Thomas born c. 1702 married Barbara (the Martin who was a Lt. in the French and Indian War.) Son John Thomas married Ursula and also a son Jacob Thomas that married an Ursula. Then there is information from the LDS Ancestral file that John Thomas' son Jacob Thomas married Lousia Schultz - came to Sullivan Co., TN. We wondered then if it could be possible that my Jacob Thomas who died in Maryville, Blount Co., TN in 1804 could have been married first to Ursula and then remarried Margaret Unknown maiden name?)

Thoodorus Thomas was born in 1727 in Germany and died in May, 1790 in Lebanon Township. He served in the French and Indian War. He was Overseer of the poor in 1761 and served in other official positions in the town. He married Catherine Bomberger, possibly the daughter of Christian and Marie from Baden, Germany. They had seven children: Theodorus or "Durst" (b. 1759); Martin ( b.1761 ); John ( b. 1763 ); Jacob ( b. 1765 ); Catherine (b. 1767 ); Margaret ( b. Nov. 11, 1769 ); and Marie ( b, 1771 ).

John Thomas and his family came to Indiana. He was born in 1763 and died in 1795. Some of his children settled in Chemckin, Pennsylvania. His wife was Anna Wolfersburger. Their children were: John, Jacob, Margaret, Barbara, Elizabeth, and Anna.

John THOMAS (above) did indeed have a daughter named Margaret b.c. 1783. This Margaret is NOT the Margaret (below) who married Adam WARFIELD. The Margaret THOMAS b. 1787 who married Adam WARFIELD is the daughter of Henry THOMAS b. 1756 a Revolutionary soldier. It is this Henry that was in TN for 26 years according to his pension papers. And now you (thank you, thank you) have just proven that this family was indeed in Blount Co., TN.

Margaret Thomas was born in 1788 and died May 11, 1863. She married Adam Warfield about 1806-7. Their children were: Elizabeth (b. March 7, 1808); Henry (b. July 19, 1810 ); John ( b.. July 1, 1812); Margaret (b. March, 1815); Susan (b. March 22, 1817) Catherine (b. Oct. 19, 1819); Lavina (b. Oct., 1822 ); James (b. March 8, 1827 ); David (b. 1825); and William (b. July 3, 1830). I have found that this couple also had an oldest son named, George.

Henry THOMAS b. 1756 stated in his pension papers that he was discharged in 1782. His oldest daughter was married in Butler Co., OH in Feb of 1810. So he must have been living in OH by 1810. Henry THOMAS purchased land in Butler Co., OH in 1807 but may not have moved there right away. Sooooo, if Henry were in TN for 26 years he had to have come to TN between 1782-1784. Whether or not he was in Blount Co., TN all of that time, I don't know.

Thank you again for finding this land transaction. I will put my brain to work again on the THOMAS line :-)

Lin

----- Original Message -----
From: Linda B. Morin
To: Barbara Fitzmaurice
Sent: Monday, October 15, 2001 3:59 PM
Subject: This is Great :-)


Hi Barbara

Now that you have proved that Adam WARFEL/WARFIELD and his wife Margaret THOMAS were indeed in Blount Co., TN, I need to look for records before 1790 for her father and mother, Henry THOMAS b. 1756 and his wife Mary. They should be somewhere in TN by 1784. They left TN by 1810 because a daughter was married in OH in Feb 1810. And yet there are land transactions after 1810 involving a Henry. Possibly he just sold off his property after leaving, or there are two Henrys based on whether my Henry is the son of Jacob and Margaret or the brother of Jacob.

Based on the census records stating where the children of Adam WARFEL b. 1778 were born he left TN between 1812 when John was born in TN and 1815 when Margaret was born in OH. Adam is on the Butler Co. OH 1820 census. Adam must have been in TN by 1800-1802 as he married Margaret THOMAS about that time based on the birth date of the oldest son, George. Margaret was sure young, about 15 :-( I know the big picture of the WARFEL family as they all stem from one family in Germany, but not where my Adam fits in yet. They multiplied quickly from the late 1600's and early 1700's in the US.

My Henry THOMAS was born in Tulpehocken, Berks, PA in 1756. He moved to Northumberland Co., PA where he became a Rev soldier in 1781. He was injured and discharged in 1782, was married after being discharged and moved to TN. Of course the church records for Tulpehocken begin in 1757 but according to an article that I read John Caspar Stoever had records from 1746 - 1756 that included 106 baptisms from Tulpehocken. I will look for John Caspar Stoever's records and see if I can find my Henry. If so that will list his parents. I should be so lucky.

I also thought that I would look in the Lutheran church records of Northumberland Co., PA for a marriage record for my Henry and see what other THOMAS families lived in that county. I did find a query on GenForum for a George THOMAS who fought in the Rev. War from Northumberland Co., PA. He thought that this George was the father of his ancestor, Isaac THOMAS who went to OH but a different county than mine.

All very wispy. It just seems to me that the WARFEL family must have known the THOMAS family in PA as it appears that Adam WARFEL is the only WARFEL who came to TN. Why would he come there unless he knew someone who had come previously. I'm wondering if the whole bunch aren't originally from Berks Co., PA. I should check the ships manifests for when the WARFELs came over in the 1730's to see if there are any THOMAS or NEIMAN on board. Just thinking out loud. Chat with you later. Thanks again for your help.

Lin

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As of June 2004 we still have not determined if Linda's ancestor Henry Thomas born in 1756 is our Jacob Thomas' brother, or a cousin. We do not believe he is the Henry Thomas son of Jacob who died in 1804. We see a Henry Thomas in the early Blount Co., TN court records and deeds, but we do not know if some of this information might pertain to Linda's Henry born 1756 or all of it is pertaining to Jacob's son Henry. We can't be sure which Henry we are seeing in some of the early Blount Co., Tennessee records for sure until after her Henry was known to leave Tennessee around 1809/1810.

It is possible we are of the Martin Thomas Line from Pennsylvania, but we have not been able to determine this. We do need to learn who Margaret, Jacob's wife was.









Marriage 1 Jacob THOMAS b: UNKNOWN in PA?
Married: ABT. 1761 in PA?
Children
Has No Children George THOMAS b: UNKNOWN in PA?
Has Children Margaret THOMAS b: BET. 1763 - 1764 in PA?
Has No Children John THOMAS b: UNKNOWN in PA?
Has Children Adam THOMAS b: 1 JAN 1770 in PA
Has No Children Henry THOMAS b: UNKNOWN in PA?
Has Children Jacob THOMAS b: ABT. 1780 in Unknown, PA/TN?

end of profile

Adam married Elizabeth LNU in 1735 in (Lancaster County), Virginia, British Colonies of North America. Elizabeth was born in 1720 in Virginia, a British Colony; died in 0Dec 1811 in Lancaster, Lancaster County, Virginia. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Will: 19 Jul 1718, Lancaster, Lancaster County, Virginia Colony
• Probate: 12 Nov 1718, Lancaster, Lancaster County, Virginia Colony

Notes:

Biography

Thomas [middle name?] Merryman


Born 1674 [place of birth?]

Son of William Merryman and [mother?]

Brother of Margaret Merryman and William Merryman [add sibling]

[spouse?]

Father of Adam Merryman, Ben Merryman and John Merryman [add child]

Died 1718 in Lancaster, VAmap


7. Thomas MERRYMAN (William2, John1) was born about 1674 and died in 1718 in , Lancaster Co., VA, about age 44. General Notes: From "Abstracts of Lancaster Co., VA. Wills, 1653 - 1800" by Ida J. Lee, Dietz Press, Richmond, VA., 1959


Virginia County Records Volume VI Index to Land Grants Lancaster County - Book 3 Page Name Date No. Acres 46 Thomas Merryman & Mogan Heynes 1653 700

Merriman, Thomas - 19 July 1718. Rec. 12 Nov. 1718. Wife Ellenor. Sons: John, Adam and benjamin. Brother, Wm. Merriman. Exors: Wife and Henry towles. Wits: Chris Stevens, Jas Gaylor. W. B. 10, 275.


Will of Thomas Merriman

In the name of god amen. I Thomas Merriman being sick & weak of body both but of sound mind & memory, thanks be to god, therefore do make & form following ____. I bequeath my soul to god who gave it choosing to be saved by the Alone Merritt & mediation of my lord & saviour Jesus Christ and my body to be buried in the earth from whence it was taken and for what worldly goods the lord hath lent me I dispose of as followeth:

I give unto my three sons John, Adam & Benjamin Merriman each of them a plantation as they come to age equally to be divided if they will, the eldest the first choice as they come to age to them & their heirs forever. Next I give to my two sons John Merriman & Adam, one negro fellow named Eagle to be divided betwixt them when they come to age to them & their heirs forever. I give unto my son Benjamin Merriman one negro woman named Molloque. I give unto my brother William Merriman the plantation that he now lives on for his lifetime and to make use the rest of my estate divided amongst them all boys or/and girls.* I leave my loving wife Ellenor & Henry Towles to be executors to this my last will and testament as witness my hand this 19th day of July in the year of our lord god 1718. In the presence of:

Christopher Stevens James Gaylor Tho. Sharp Thomas Merriman (&seale)

Lancaster V.. Atta court held for Lancaster County the 12th dayof Nov Annodom. 1718, this will was proved by the oath of Ellenor Merriman one of the executors & Henry Towles the other executor seeking the executorship and by the oath of Christopher Stephens & Tho. Sharp tow of the witnesses thereto & is ordered to be recorded & is recorded.

Wm. Dave Clk. Ct.

(Note: When the clerk recorded this will, he wrote "this will was proved by the oath of Ellenor Sharp". He then marked through Sharp and wrote Merriman above it. Was Sharp her maiden name? Could Thomas Sharp have been her brother? Gladys M. Mitchell)

This is not clear. Was his wife pregnant?
Translated by Gladyne Merryman Mitchell

Post on Merryman Genforum message board by: Georgi (gwakeham1@home.com) Lancaster County Court 10th of July 1689:

"I have given to THOMAS MERRIMAN, the sonne of WILLIAM MERRIMAN one Heifer of three yeares olde, a crop and underkeele of both eares and all her encrease for ever by me. July 10th 1689 ANN DIMSEY" Thomas married Ellenor SHARP ?? .

Children from this marriage were: + 14 M i. John MERRYMAN was born before 1718 and died 1726- 1783 in , Lancaster Co., VA + 15 M ii. Adam MERRYMAN was born before 1718 in , Lancaster Co., VA and died in 1772 in , Caroline Co., VA, about age 54. 16 M iii. Benjamin MERRYMAN was born before 1718.

end of this report

Thomas married Ellenor Towles(Lancaster, Lancaster County, Virginia Colony). Ellenor was born in 1680 in Lancaster, Lancaster County, Virginia Colony; died in 1725 in Lancaster, Lancaster County, Virginia Colony. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Alt Birth: ~1652, Charles City County, Virginia
• Alt Death: 1697

Notes:

Biography

William [middle name?] Merryman a


Born before 1652 in Lancaster, PA

Son of John L. Merryman and [mother?]

Brother of Elizabeth Merryman and Charles Merryman [add sibling]

[spouse?]

Father of Thomas Merryman, Margaret Merryman and William Merryman [add child]

Died 1679 [place of death?]


•ID: I22515 •Name: William Merryman •Sex: M •Birth: 1649 in England or Lancaster County, Virginia •Death: 9 JUN 1697 in Lancaster County, Virginia - Inventory & Admin •Note: Father: John Merryman b: 1625 in England Mother: Audrie Heynes b: ABT 1627 in England

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1695-1699 Lancaster County Order Book 4: pg 11 Lancaster County Court 10th of March 1696/97 - Commission of administration upon the Estate of WILLIAM MERRIMAN, late of this County, deceast, is granted unto MARY MERRIMAN, his Widdow and Relict she giving securitie according to Act and Mr. JOSEPH HARRISON. Mr. WILLIAM PAINE, Mr. THOMAS BARKER and Mr. JAMES CAMELL are ordered to apprize the Estate and to be sworn by the next Justice and an Inventory thereof to be exhibited at the next Court. Mr. DANIELL ARMES and WALTER ARMES securities

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1695-1699 Lancaster County Order Book 4: pg 45 Lancaster County Court 11th of August 1698 Judgment is granted unto NICHOLAS GEORGE and GEORGE HEALE, JUNR., Executor of Mr. GEORGE HEALE, SENR., deced. against WALTER ARMES as marrying MARY, ye Administratrix of WILLIAM MERRYMAN, deced, and EDWARD CARTER as Security for GEORGE HEALE, SENR. and NICHOLAS GEORGE Security of HENRY KING, deced for three thousand pounds of tobacco and casque and all costs of suit which is ordered to be paid with costs als Execution The action brought by EDWARD ROGERS against THOMAS PINKARD, Administrator of his deced. Mother, is dismist neither party appearing

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Contributed by: James Hughes

Title Merryman, William. Publication 1697. Gen. note Part of index to Lancaster County Wills and Administrations (1652-1800) Note p. 66-67. Inv. & appr. rec. 9 June 1697. Wills, Etc., No. 8, 1696-1709 (Reel 18)

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The Quit Rents of Virginia, 1704 Merriman William 1694 Lancaster Co 68

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James Hughes 2006-04-28 15:59:36 Supplement to Early Settlers Query by Dr. Carson Gibb

Merryman, William AA:453 Film No.: Transported by 1663 Transcript. 6:214 MSA SC 4341-

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James Hughes 2006-04-28 16:50:32 THE JOHNSON - FREEBURN GENEALOGY - St. Mary's County, Maryland & Dauphin County, Pennsylvania & Related Families

Could this have been a second marriage? William is suposed to have had a son named Thomas born before 1677.

Mary Married: 11 JUL 1677 in Lancaster County, Virginia

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1674-1678 Lancaster County Order Book; Antient Press: pg 304 Lancaster County Court 9th of December 1674 - Commission of Administration accordinge to Acte upon the Estate of JOHN MERRIMAN (deced) is granted unto ARDERE MERRIMAN, the Relicte of ye sde. JOHN MERRIMAN, and to WILLIAM MERRIMAN, Eldest Sonne of the saide JOHN MERRIMAN, they giveing security accordinge to Acte. DOMINE THERIOTT, THOMAS CHOWNING, WILLIAM LENNELL and GEORGE BALLEY are ordered to apprize the sde. Estate and to bee sworne by the nexte justice. An Inventory thereof to bee exhibited to ye nexte Cort, Mr. DANIEL HARRISON and Mr. EDWARD CARTER security


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Contributed by: James Hughes

URL: http://gary.bossler.com/Merryman-Bill%20Merryman-GA.htm URL title: Descendants of John and Audrey Merryman Note: Second Generation

William Merryman b. __-___-1649, Lancaster Co.,Va., Occup: Planter, m. 11 Jul 1677, in Lancaster Co.,Va., Mary __________ #2015, William died __-___-1740,

William was the eldest son. He was given a calf by Mr. Wm. Neesum before 1652. (Neesum, possibly being his godfather) By 1677 he married Mary ?. On 11 July 1677 William transfered to "my beloved brother Charles Merriman ... left me by my father, John Merriman, 100 acres bordering William White and William Merriman." Deed signed William and Mary Merriman, witnessed by Edward Carter and Richard King. In 1693 Charles sold this land back to William. In 1690 he bought 150 acres from Robert and Frances Neesum bordering Robert Neesum and Mr. Edward Carter. There is an inventory for William Merryman filed 1697 signed by Maria Merryman. There was a William, Thomas, James and John Merriman's in later generations in Lancaster Co.,Va. A will for a William Merriman in 1740 named grandaughter Elizabeth, daughter of Samuel Neesom and Anne Merryman.

Children:

i Thomas Merryman b. Abt 1674. ii Anne Merryman b. Abt 1677. iii Margaret Merryman b. Bef 1678, Lancaster Co.,Va. iv William Merryman b. Abt 1680, Lancaster Co.,Va., d. __-__-1740,

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Contributed by: James Hughes

URL: http://gary.bossler.com/Merryman-Bill%20Merryman-GA.htm URL title: Descendants of John and Audrey Merryman Note: He died intestate. Court of 21 Nov 1674 commissioned administration of the estate of John Merriman, dec'd to Audrey Merriman, relict of the said John Merriman. On 13 Jan 1675, William Merriman, heir of John Merriman, dec'd in administration with his mother, Audrey Merriman, petitions for his estate. The inventory was made in Nov 1674 by Thomas Chowning, George Bussey, William Sonnett, D. Parish and Dominie Therryot. Listed were a Bible annd other books, four horses, twelve cows, tables, chairs, beds, dram cups, looking glasses, kitchenware, tools, saddles and other items, total value of 20,640#, tabacco and the original grant of 500 acres.

By Nov 1680, his widow had married Edward Carter. A deed of Nov 1680 reads: "Indenture between William, the eldest son of John Merriman, late of said county, Charles Merriman, Lancaster wheelwright, youngest son of said John Merriman, and Edward Carter of the same county and Audrey his wife, the late widow and relict of the said John Merriman, dec'd... to Col. John Carter and Capt. David Fox, gentlemen for 1000# tabacco... being part of 500 acres granted to John Merriman 14 Nov 1649... 50 acres standing on the point at the mouth of small creek...".

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James Hughes 2006-04-28 12:15:42 URL (Click on link) http://lvaimage.lib.va.us/cgi-bin/GetLONN.pl?first=83&last=&g_p=G2&collect ion=NN Grant Title Merriman, William. Publication November 1694. Gen. note N. N. Grants No. 2, p. 83, fragment. Other Format Available on microfilm. Northern Neck Grants, reels 288-311. Note Location: Lancaster County. Description: 68 acres begg. &c in Edward Carter’s old line it being ____ post of Robert Newsoms. Adjoining land of Samuel Parr, Willm. White &c. Source: Northern Neck Grants No. 2, 1694-1700, p. 83 (Reel 288).


URL (Click on link) http://lvaimage.lib.va.us/cgi-bin/GetLONN.pl?first=83&last=&g_p=G2&collect ion=NN Grant Title Merriman, William. Publication November 1694. Gen. note N. N. Grants No. 2, p. 83, fragment. Other Format Available on microfilm. Northern Neck Grants, reels 288-311. Note Location: Lancaster County. Description: 68 acres begg. &c in Edward Carter's old line it being ____ post of Robert Newsoms. Adjoining land of Samuel Parr, Willm. White &c. Source: Northern Neck Grants No. 2, 1694-1700, p. 83 (Reel 288).




Father: John Merryman b: 4 MAY 1599 in Quedgeley, Gloucester, England Mother: Audrie Haynie b: ABT 1627 in England

Marriage 1 Mary MNU Merryman b: ABT 1661 in Lancaster County, Virginia •Married: 11 JUL 1677 in Lancaster County, Virginia Children 1. Thomas Merryman b: ABT 1678 in Lancaster County, Virginia 2. William Merryman b: ABT 1679 in Lancaster County, Virginia

2. William MERRYMAN (John1) was born before 1652 in Lancaster Co., VA and died in 1697, about age 45. General Notes: When John Sr died in the late 1600 William inhereited the lands totaling 1700 acures. Charles and John moved to Baltimore .

. He was chosen, on April 1, 1657, as a Churchwarden for the Church of England parish on the north side of the Rappahannock River ("Christ's Church"). On November 10, 1680, he was deeded 500 acres in Lancaster County that his father had patented in 1649. On July 11, 1677, he deeded his brother Charles Merryman land he had inherited from their father. William Merryman's will was probated in 1697 in Lancaster County Court. His wife, whose name is unknown, evidently died before 1697 since she is not mentioned in his will, from which the following information about his family comes. William married Mary (MERRYMAN) . Mary (MERRYMAN) died before 1697.

Children from this marriage were: + 7 M i. Thomas MERRYMAN was born about 1674 and died in 1718 in , Lancaster Co., VA, about age 44. 8 F ii. Margaret MERRYMAN was born before 1678. 9 M iii. William MERRYMAN was born about 1680 and died in 1740 in Lancaster Co., VA, about age 60.

1. John MERRYMAN , son of ?? MERRYMAN and Unknown , was born in 1614 in Monkton Manor, Herefordshire England, died on 21 Nov 1674 in Lancaster Co., VA, at age 60, and was buried in Christ Church In VA. General Notes: The History of Hereford can be traced to the early 7th century AD when the Saxon settlers fortified the site against the marauding Welsh. Situated adjacent to a ford over the River Wye, the name is said to derive from the Old English, ford used by the army. Following the Conquest, the Normans extended the city to the north, beyond the Saxon ramparts, and surronded it by fortified perimeter wall. The city remained a military stronghold until the 17th century. Hereford was valiantly loyal to the Crown during the English Civil War (AD 1642-49) but afterwords lost its strategic significance.

There has been no family information linking John Merryman to Herefordshire nor is there any information in the town naming John Merryman. Some historians of Herefordshire do note that there was a Monkton Manor, but it is no longer standing.

John Merryman, the bother of James Merryman, was born in England about 1614. He immigrated to Virginia by 1638, when he patented 150 acres adjoining Weyanoke in Charles City County, on May 10, 1638. He lived there until about 1649 when he moved to Lancaster County, Virginia, where he patented land in 1649, and acording to a court record had a new dwelling house in 1652. Audrey Merryman, the wife of John who sponsered her immigration, came from England to Virginia in 1649 when he evidently returned to England to marry her and bring her home to Virginia.

On November 14, 1649, John Merryman patented 500 acres in Lancaster County (then located in Northumberland County since Lancaster County was formed in 1652), on the north side of the Rappahannock River on Island Neck Creek. The new home in Lancaster County is mentioned in a court order of September 21, 1652. John Merryman was a attorney as well as a planter.

John Merryman, Sr., is listed among churchwardens and sidesmen, appointed by the court, in parish records of 1650-1664, before Lancaster and Middlesex counties were divided and a general vestry was formed in 1661. He died in 1674 in Lancaster County where his will was dated December 3, 1673, and probated on January 13, 1674. He and his wife Audrey had four sons and a daughter, born in Lancaster County. They were William, Elizabeth (both born by 1652) , and Richard who remained in Lancaster County, John Merryman, Jr., of James City County, Virginia, and Charles Merryman who moved to Baltimore County, Maryland. (Above notes came from web page of William "Bill" Merryman II at merrymanfamily.com) John married Audrey Haile. She was the daughter of Nicholas Haile and Mary Travers. She was born about 1635 and died after 1680 .

Children from this marriage were: + 2 M i. William MERRYMAN was born before 1652 in Lancaster Co., VA and died in 1697, about age 45. 3 F ii. Elizabeth MERRYMAN was born before 1652 in Lancaster Co., VA. 4 M iii. John MERRYMAN Jr., + 5 M iv. Charles MERRYMAN was born before 1660 in Lancaster Co., VA and died on 22 Dec 1725 in St Pauls Parish, Baltimore Co., MD, about age 65.

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William married Mary LNU in 1670 in Lancaster County, Virginia Colony. Mary was born in 1640 in Lancaster County, Virginia Colony; died in 1700 in Lancaster County, Virginia Colony. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Baptism: 26 Sep 1622, St Leonard, Shoreditch, Middlesex, England
• Immigration: ~1649
• Will: 3 Dec 1673, Lancaster County, Virginia, a British Colony
• Probate: 13 Jan 1674, Lancaster County, Virginia, a British Colony

Notes:

Biography

The nickname "of Lancaster" was added to his name to differentiate him from other John Merryman profiles.
Lancaster County was chartered by the Virginia General Assembly in 1651 from the former Northumberland and York Counties.
John and his wife Audrey had two known sons and a daughter born in Virginia. They were William (b. abt-1650), Elizabeth (abt-1652) and Charles Merryman Sr. (b. abt-1657) who moved to Baltimore County. Maryland as an adult.
John & Audrey came to Virginia in 1649. She is listed as Audrey Merryman, so she & John were already married, or they were married by the time the event was recorded. (See below)
Court Transactions
1649 - CAVALIERS AND PIONEERS PATENT BOOK No. 2; Pg 186 JOHN MERRIMAN, 500 acs., 14 Nov. 1649, p. 190. Being a neck, lyeing on the N. side of Rappa. River, upon Island Neck Cr., beg. at a poynt at Seymes Cr. Mouth, up Island Neck Cr. to the head, being Wm. Newsom's utmost bounds, to the head of parting cr. dividing this from land of Thomas Harwood. Trans. of 10 pers: Angle Johnson, Elinor Gillis, Tho. Tuata (?), William Harrison, Heilton Arrens, Rebecca Fraine, Audry Merryman, Robert Adkins, his own adventure 3 tymes. His last adventure is yett due to him. Test: R. Huberd. Land Office Patents & Grants, Patent 2, p. 190 (Card #21 of 81), Virginia County Records, Volume VI, Index to Land Grants, Lancaster Co., Book 3. http://www.lva.lib.va.us/dlp/index.htm
1652 - A home in Lancaster County is mentioned in a court order of September 21. 1652, when John Merryman recorded the receipt of six barrels of Indian corn from Captain Henry Fleet.
1653 - CAVALIERS AND PIONEERS PATENT BOOK No. 3; Pg 248, MERRYMAN, John & MORGAN, HEYNES, 700 acs., Publication: 26 February 1653, Land Office Patents No. 3, 1652-1655, p. 46 (Reel 2). Lancaster Co., upon N. side of Rappa. Riv., 26 Feb. 1653, p. 46. Lying near the mouth of the narrows, N. W. upon land of John Pain, S. E. upon the first clifts & S. W. upon sd. River. Trans. of 14 pers: Jno. Willett, Wm. Johnson, Richd. Barrett, Ja. Holding, Tho. Mash, Wm. Lanett, Ja. Attaway, Richd. James, Robt. Lane (or Land), Wm. Robinson, Tho. Harrison, Wm. Long, James West, Antho. Byfeild. http://lvaimage.lib.va.us/cgi-bin/GetLONN.pl?first=46&last=&g_p=P3&collect
1653 - John and Audrey Merryman patented 100 acres February 26. 1653. All this land adjoined that of John Paine. and is the land, referred to in court records of 1657 stating that John Merryman owned land near the mouth of the Corotoman River. and of 1665 stating that his land was very near the first Lancaster County Court House on White House Creek.
1670-1674 Lancaster County Order Book; Antient Press: pg 153, Lancaster County Court, 13th of July 1670, "For the affront offered by the Wife of JOHN MERRYMAN in the face of this Cort: to Mr. THOMAS MARSHALL, hee is fined 500 lb. of tob: to bee disposed off by the further order of this Cort , or his Wife to suffer corporall punishmt".

The Estate of John Merryman

(2) 1674-1678 Lancaster County VA Order Book; (Antient Press) pg 304. Lancaster County Court, 9 December 1674; Commission of Administration accordinge to Acte upon the Estate of JOHN MERRIMAN (deced) is granted unto ARDERE MERRIMAN, the Relicte of ye sde. JOHN MERRIMAN, and to WILLIAM MERRIMAN, Eldest Sonne of the saide JOHN MERRIMAN, they giveing security accordinge to Acte. DOMINE THERIOTT, THOMAS CHOWNING, WILLIAM LENNELL and GEORGE BALLEY are ordered to apprize the sde. Estate and to bee sworne by the nexte justice. An Inventory thereof to bee exhibited to ye nexte Cort, Mr. DANIEL HARRISON and Mr. EDWARD CARTER security.
(1) Court of 21 Nov 1674 commissioned administration of the estate of John Merriman, dec'd to Audrey Merriman, relict of the said John Merriman. (There was no will.)
(3) On 13 Jan 1675, William Merriman, heir of John Merriman, dec'd in administration with his mother, Audrey Merriman, petitions for his estate. The inventory was made in Nov 1674 by Thomas Chowning, George Bussey, William Sonnett, D. Parish and Dominie Therryot. Listed were a Bible and other books, four horses, twelve cows, tables, chairs, beds, dram cups, looking glasses, kitchenware, tools, saddles and other items, total value of 20,640#, tobacco and the original grant of 500 acres.
(4) Deed in Lancaster Co., 10 N 1680, from Wm. Merriman, planter, eldest son of John Merryman, decd.; Charles Merryman, wheelwright, youngest son of sd. John Merryman; & Edward Carter, planter, & Audrie, his wife, wid/o sd. John Merryman, to Lt. Col. Jno. Carter, Gent. & Capt. David Fox, Gent., for use of the county to establish a town, 50 acres of a patent dated 14 N 1649 to sd. John Merriman decd., ("VA Hist. Mag.," 5:430). (John Merryman's widow Audrey, married Edward Carter in 1680).

Sources

https://colonial-settlers-md-va.us/ ; John Merryman, Person ID # 1022653. This Source has to be used carefully, as John Merryman of Lancaster (this profile), is sometimes confused here with John Merryman the Lawyer (Who died in 1664.) There is an interesting discussion of that problem in the "Notes" Section.
http://www.garybossler.com ; The Descendants of John and Audrey Merryman.
http://www.thehennesseefamily.com ; Genealogy Pages, John Merryman, Person ID=125800.
Charles MERRYMAN (Son), of Currotoman River, Lancaster Co., VA, wheelwright was referred to in Balto. Co., MD, land records in a deed of 30 Mar. 1682, when he purchased from Thos. EVEREST & his wife Hannah BALL, 300 acres, "East Humphreys," north of Patapsco R[iver].
William Merriman (Son), November 1694. Gen. note N. N. Grants No. 2, p. 83, fragment. Other Format Available on microfilm. Northern Neck Grants, reels 288-311, Location: Lancaster County. Description: 68 acres begg. &c in Edward Carter's old line it being ____ post of Robert Newsoms. Adjoining land of Samuel Parr, Willm. White &c. Source: Northern Neck Grants No. 2, 1694-1700, p. 83 (Reel 288).

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Descendants of John MERRYMAN

There were a number of Merrymans in Colonial Virginia between 1638 and 1650.

The name Merryman and Merriman shows up early on Virginia Records. Merryman in The Chancery Patent Rolls of 12 Charles I, part 23, (1636/1637) Merryman in Port Book of London, Waiters Overseas (1637/1638)

The relationship of John Merryman to there others is not certain. These others include a John Merryman and John Merryman Jr. who settled around Isle of Wight Co. VA. John, the father of Charles, is thought to been related to Richard Merryman who also settled in Lancaster Cp VA and lived close by to John. There is evidence of several men named Merryman coming to Maryland prior to Charles Merryman. In Skordas' "Early Settlers of Maryland" There is a John Merryman listed as being transported prior to 1677 (l.15/f.448) and prior to 1679 (l. WC/f.108) and a William Merryman transported before 1663 (l.6/f.214). Also a James Merriman was among the early settlers of Anne Arundel Co MD, being a justice in 1650. James Merryman assigned his grant of 500 acres of land in 1662 to John Browne of New England.
Charles Merryman of Baltimore Co has long been known to come from Lancaster Co., VA, as he was styled Wheelwright of Crototoman River, Virginia as grantee of the 300 acre tract "East Humphreys"on the north side of Patapsco River dated 30 March 1682 from Thomas Everset, planter and wife Hannah, alias Hanah Bale.1 Also many of the genealogies that address the family, identify records in Lancaster Co that show he was the son of John and Audrey Merriman. However, what seems to be missing from most of the material on the family is the fact that his first wife, Mary, was the daughter of Nicholas and Mary Hale/Heale and the widow of Henry King. He had a second wife Mary who appears to be the mother of his daughter, while his three sons are by Mary Hale. The Henry King who left a will dated 18 Jan 1717 in Baltimore Co appears to have been the step-son of Charles Maerryman. Also in the Virginia records we find the likely reason why Charles Merriman left Virginia and came to Maryland

The trail of evidence for the identity of Mary, wife of Charles Merryman starts with the court of 12 Nov 1672 in Lancaster Co in an action concerning the estates of Nicholas HALE and Mary Hale. A suite was filed by Henry King, who married Mary, the daughter of Nicholas Hale against George Hale, the Administrater of Mary Hale who was the administrix of the estate of Nicholas Hale. The court ordered that one-third part of the two third part of Nicholas Hale's estate and a one-third part of the estate of Mary Hale be delivered to Henry King. This action shows that Mary Hale, daughter of Nicholas and Mary married Henry King. It also indicates she had two sibblings. At the 12 March 1672/3 Court there is further action about the suite of Henry King, the husband of Mary daughter of Nicholas Hale against George Hale, administrator of Mary Hale who has been administrix of Nicholas Hale in which Thomas Martyn, Nicholas George, Thomas Bickley, and John Arnold on the 15th Instant were to divide the estate into three equal parts.

On 8 March 1681/82 a suite was filed in Lancaster Co Court by Nicholas George and George Heale, securities for the Estate of Henry KING. The Court order that since Charles MERRYMAN, who had married the widow and relict of the said KING, had clandestinely departed the Country, that for the security of Nicholas GEORGE and George Heale, an Inventory of the whole Estate belonging to Charles Merriman in this County be forthwith taken by Robert PRITCHARD and Thomas PARFIT and exhibited to the next Court. This is the time of course at which Charles Merryman purchased the 300 acre track "East Humphreys" in Baltimore County (30 April 1682).

For further data on Charles Merryman in Virginia, researchers are encouraged to look at the Court Order books for Lancaster County, VA that have been extracted by the Sparacios. , & the series Cavaliers and Pioneers of Virginia.

From: Bashak@aol.com

Date: Fri, 6 Feb 1998 13:45:06 EST

To: schoolstuff@worldnet.att.net

Dear David,

Your information came in the mail today. Thanks ever so much.

I am sending part of the information we have now as an attachment. I will get the information together, that we have, starting with Owen MERRIMAN and send it later. My asthma & allergies are bothering me & I didn't get it all ready. Hope some of this is helpful. Bill & Barb Kelley


MERRIMAN/MERRYMAN


Info from Evelyn J. Russeff that she copied from records in Salt Lake Library [Did she mean LDS library in Utah?]

Records of Bledsoe Co., TN. Chancery Court Minute Book. 1847-1856 Pg 378--

James A Tulloss & Thomas N. Frazier Executors of Alexander H. Montgomery--vs--Lewis D. Merriman, Jesse Colbert, Nancy Colbert, Levi Green, Elizabeth Green, Owen Merriman, Allen B. Carrolton, Evaline Saxton, & Willie & Allen Merriman administrators on the estate of Mark Merriman deceased.

Be it remembered that this cause came on again to be heard on this 14th day of March 1848 before the honorable B. L. Ridly Chancellor & C (?) upon the report of Stephen Hicks the special Commissioner here to fore ordered in this cause & the exceptions filed by the defendants thereon which exception being since heard & understood by the court are ordered to be overruled & said report in all things confirmed from which it appears that the defendant Lewis D. Merriman was indebted to the complainants for principal & interest on the 15th day of March 1848 in the sum of $692.34 & that the distributive share of the said Lewis D. Merriman in the personal estate of his father Demarcus Merriman deceased in the hands of his administrators. Willie & Allen Merriman amounts to the sum of $350.38 & it further appears from said report that commissioners were appointed by the Circuit Court of Bledsoe County who assigned to the widow of the said Demarcus Merriman deceased dower in his real estate & also to the defendant Lewis D. Merriman his distributive share of residue of said estate unencumbered with the dower distinguished in the commissioners report as lot No. 9 & described as follows.

Beginning at the forked dogwood & corner to corner Levi Green in William Haskews line thence with Haskews line north 70 poles due west 50 poles to a stake in the line of lot No. 8. Thence South 67 degrees east to the beginning. (I didn't copy the rest).

Signed Thomas N. Frazier, Guardian of David H. Spring Exparte.

Pg. 414--Tues Mar 13, 1849 William Merriman to be allowed to file a cross bill in this same cause.

Pg. 427--Tues 12th Mar 1850--

John Thurman vs William Merriman. John Spears, James D. Spears, Tho. Sutherland & Allen Merriman Adms. of D. Merriman & Wiiliam Merriman vs John Thurman, James G. Spears & others appearing to the court that deft. William Merriman is justly in debt to complainant Thurman as follows-by judgement remembered by Elijah M. Hale & Johnathan Whiteside------ note with interest sum of $109.82 (about estate earlier).

Elizabeth Merriman vs Allen Merriman et als. Continued later.
(I didn't copy.)

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Sept 1853--

Eliz Merriman vs James Robinson & William Gardener. About negro ownership-bill it is ordered & decreed that the bills of complainant be dismissed & that complainant pay the costs for which execution may ? sue at law against sd. complt. & her security Bryant Maryman.

Bryant Merriamn adm. of Eliz Merriman deceased. William Merryman, Elizabeth Green, Mary Merryman, Allen Merriman, Wyley Merriman, Wyly M. Colvert son of Nancy Colvert decd. Owen Merriman, Benton A. Carlton & the children of Eveline Lastor names.

Pg 590--Tues Mar 13, 1855

Unknown said Eveline being sister to said Benton A now deceased & Lewis D. Merriman.

Mary Merryman mentioned.

(There was so much on these Merriman's in the court record that I just gave up writing it down. At that time I didn't recognize any names. I was in Salt Lake Library & was trying to get as much information that I could on my lines.) Now I wish I had.

I gathered all my information that I have collected over the years & for at least a month, I have been trying to piece it all together.

We all descend from John & Audrey Merryman, John the immigrate. Came in early 1600's to VA then they went on to MD. All of that information is in MD Hist. Mag. by Culver. I have that.

1st generation was John & Audrey.
2nd generation was Charles Merryman Sr.
3rd generation was Charles Merryman Jr.
4th generation was John Charles Merryman, called Charles, he married Millicent Haile.MERRIMAN/MERRYMAN

I don't know from which of John Charles children we descend from, but I think it was a Charles that had a wife Elizabeth. He died and the family eventually moved to Bledsoe Co., TN, remarried. I descend from his second wife. He had about 4 children under 10 when wife Betsy Cook died. Elisha, Malachia Merryman and a few others followed him to IL. Others stayed in Bledsoe Co., TN.

They say most of Bledsoe Records had been destroyed, but I know that the one I just typed off is still available, think it was on film. They all originated from Granville, NC, They were in Lancaster, VA. They may never had moved, when the states redid their state lines. They may have been just over the line.

So many in those days couldn't read or write and names spelled as they sounded.

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Children of John Charles & Millicent [HAILE] Merryman:

Charles b. Balto. Co., MD 27 May 1733;
Mary b. Balto. Co., MD 28 Jan 1734;
Millicent b. Balto. Co., MD 7 Dec 1736;
William;
Benjamin.

Evelyn J. Russeff
10534 Witter Springs Road
Witter Springs, CA 95493
[End of info from Evelyn Russeff]

Orlando, FL Public library

Book: Marriage Records 1765-1810 Mecklenburg Co., VA
By: Katherine B. Elliott Copyright 1963, reprint 1984

Notes on Marriage Records

In compiling this volume of early marriage records of Mecklenburg County, it was deemed advisable to examine the marriage records of Granville County, NC, because of the close association of the early families in the two counties.

Many of the early residents of Granville County had settled first in Mecklenburg & later moved to Granville. Colonial Granville County was established in the same year, 1746, in which Lunenburg County was created. Warren, Vance & the present Granville, all boarding on Mecklenburg County, were a part of Colonial Granville County. Many of the early Mecklenburg County people owned land on both sides of the state line dividing the two counties; & in many of the early wills reference is made to land owned in North Carolina.

1840 census TN, Bledsoe Co.
Merimon, Markus: 5-10 10-15 20-30 60-70
Males: 1 0 1 1
Females: 0 1 1 1
Merimon, William: under 5 5-10 10-15 30-40 70-80
Males: 1 2 2 1 0
Females: 0 2 0 1 1

Book: Court Minutes of Granville County, NC 1746-1820.
By: Zae Hargett Gwynn 1977
Author states no dates given--just page numbers.

Abstracts of Granville County, NC [Court Minutes 1789-1791]
43- Administration of estate of CHARLES MERRYMAN, deceased, granted to MELICAI MERRYMAN, with bond of 500 pounds secured by MALACHIA MERRYMAN & JOSEPH WALLER, securities.

[Court Minutes 1796-1799]
146- Estate of MILLISON MERRYMAN, deceased, administered by MALACHI MERRYMAN, with bond secured by BENJ. MOORE.

179- MALACHI MERRYMAN, administrator of CHARLES MERRYMAN, deceased, returns inventory.
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Book: Abstracts of the Wills & Estate Records of Granville County, NC 1746-1808. By: Zae Hargett Gwynn 1973

Book 2, 1787-1792
100,101 [p. 100-101]- 8, 1786-proved May Court 1789-CHARLES MERRYMAN wills to wife MILLISON all land on north side of Leeder branch for her lifetime;

to son WILLIAM, all remaining land between Cedar & Pichter branch;

to grandson MALIRE MERRYMAN, the Indian grave tract containing 120 acres;

to my son BENJAMIN, the bed he lies on & a cow & calf after his mother's death to be in the care of MALICE MERRYMAN;

to my wife, all household goods & stock of all kinds &, at her death, all movable property to be divided to my son, 1/2 to WILLIAM & the rest of other half to the other children.

Wts: HENRY COOK, HENRY GREEN

[Is Malice suppose to be Malachi?]

194- Inventory of Estate of CHARLES MERRYMAN, deceased, Aug 1790, by MILLISON MERRYMAN.

Book 4, 1796-1799

79- Inventory of Estate of CHARLES MERRYMAN by MAT MERRYMAN, administrator, Feb Court 1796.

LDS Micro-fiche [Largo Library] State of MD

Millicent HAILE married [Balto., Co., MD 02 Feb 1730] Charles John MERRYMAN [sometimes referred to as John Charles].

Millicent HAILE b. 1711. Father: Nicholas HAILE Mother: Frances GARRETT.

Nicholas HAILE married [1700] Frances GARRETT.

State of NC
William MERIMAN married Lorana PAGE 10 Dec 1818 Wilkes Co., NC.
Briant MARYMON married Matha FERGUSIN 16 or 18 Sept 1818 Wilkes Co., NC.

Micro-fiche [Tampa Library] Marriages of NC

MERRIMAN, Nancy & COLVARD, Jesse 12 Nov 1834 Bondsman: Thornton Kilby; Witness: D. Grey. Wilkes Co., NC. #104-01-054

MERRIMON, Elizabeth & GREEN, Levi 14 Feb 1830 Bondsman: Owen Merrimon; Witness W. Davenport. Wilkes Co., NC. #104-01-098

MERRYMAN, Jenney & CARLTON, Thomas 26 Mar 1813 Bondsman: George Crouch; Witness: A. Nesbitt. Wilkes Co., NC. #104-01-043

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The Descendants of John Merryman England, Virginia, Maryland


0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 John Merryman (1625-1674) +Audrey ( )

William Merryman (1652-1697)
+Mary ( )
Elizabeth Merryman (b. 1654)
Charles Merryman Sr (Captain) (1657-1725)
+Mary ( )
. Charles Merryman Jr (1678-1722)
. +Jane Long
. . William Merryman
. . Kedemoth Merryman (b. 1717)
. . Mary Merryman (b. 1719)
. . +William Hall
. . John Charles Merryman
. . Ann Merryman
. . +Benjamin Richards
. . Elizabeth Merryman
. . +Joseph Cross
. . Jemima Merryman
. . +Henry Stevenson
. Samuel Merryman Sr (1682-1754)
. +Mary Boone (1686-1728)
. . Rebecca Merryman
. . +John Price (1690-1790)
. . . Mary Price (1726-1793)
. . . +John Parrish (1720-1796)
. . . . Hannah Parrish (b. 1748)
. . . . +Leonard Belt Sr (?-1808)
. . . . : Leonard Belt (b. 1773)
. . . . : +Catherine Almack (1790-1829)
. . . . : . Caroline Belt (1808-1903)
. . . John Price (1729-1809)
. . . +Mary Parrish (1729-dec.)
. . . +Urith Cole (1731-dec.)
. . . Mordecai Price (1731-1807)
. . . +Mary Hyatt (1725-1770)
. . . +Tabitha Tipton (1747-1827)
. . . Leah Price (b. 1733)
. . . Aquilla Price (1735-1773)
. . . +Ann Griffith (b. 1752)
. . . Elizabeth Price (b. 1738)
. . . Keturah Price (b. 1739)
. . . +Richard Belt (1739-1788)
. . . Isabella Price (1742-1836)
. . . Agnes Price (b. 1745)
. . . Benjamin Price (b. 1748)
. . . Ann Price (b. 1749)
. . . +Mr Stevenson
. . . Rebecca Price (b. 1749)
. . . +John Moore (b. 1749)
. . . Rachel Price (b. 1751)
. . . +Mr Wooden
. . Ketura Merryman (1717-1789)
. . +Thomas Price (1711-1741)
. . . Benjamin Price (b. 1733)
. . . +Millicent Vaughn (?-1788)
. . . . Christopher Price (1750-1833)
. . . . Edith Price (1760-dec.)
. . . . +John Busby (1760-1791)
. . . . : Rachel Busby (1780-1863)
. . . . : +Daniel Bossom (b. 1780)
. . . . : . Abraham Bossom (1814-1886)
. . . . : Elizabeth Busby
. . . . : +Dennis Mallonee
. . . . : +Matthew Wisner
. . . . : +John Coffield
. . . . : John Busby Jr
. . . . : +Agnes Wisner
. . . . : Abraham Busby (b. 1792)
. . . . : +Deborah Kemp
. . . . : Mary Busby
. . . . : +Samuel Shawl
. . . . : Mehudy Busby
. . . . : Melinda Busby
. . . . : +Sheridan Cox
. . . . : Dorcas Busby
. . . . : +John Ford
. . . . : Benjamin Busby
. . . . : +Anne Caples
. . . . : Edith Busby
. . . . : +John Pitts
. . . . John Price
. . . . +Susanna Hatfield
. . . . Mordecai Price
. . . . Thomas Price
. . . . Benjamin Price Jr
. . . . +Nancy Ann Wheeler
. . . . Melinda Price
. . . . +William Wheeler
. . . . Gist Price
. . . . Rachel Price
. . . . +Aquilla Carr
. . . Samuel Price
. . . Thomas Price Jr
. . . Rebecca Price (b. 1741)
. . +William Parrish Jr (1718-1788)
. . Samuel Merryman Jr (1721-1809)
. . +Jane Price (1722-1771)
. . Nicholas Merryman (1727-1770)
. . +Avarilla Raven
. Elizabeth Merryman (1700-1770)
. +Jacob Cox (1700-1724)
. . Merryman Cox (b. 1722)
. . +Honour Hall
. . Jacob Cox Jr (1725-1798)
. . +Elizabeth Gain (1728-dec.)
. . . Diana Cox (1750-dec.)
. . . +John Murray (Captain) (1751-1833)
. . . . Elizabeth Murray (1769-1789)
. . . . +Michael Armacost (1763-1840)
. . . . : Johann "John" A Armacost (1789-1883)
. . . . : +Mary Ella Wheeler (1793-1882)
. . . . Jabez Murray (1771-1847)
. . . . +Sarah Richards (1782-1868)
. . . . : Joshua Murray (1804-1892)
. . . . : +Minerva Beasman
. . . . : . John Thomas Murray (1832-1857)
. . . . : . Mary E Murray (b. 1834)
. . . . : . Sarah Ann Murray (b. 1836)
. . . . : +Mary Bennett (1805-1888)
. . . . : . Almira Murray (b. 1842)
. . . . : . Ann M Murray (b. 1843)
. . . . : Maria Murray (1807-1874)
. . . . : +Evan Garner
. . . . : . Jabez F Garner (b. 1831)
. . . . : . Richard W Garner (b. 1832)
. . . . : . Sarah E Garner (b. 1835)
. . . . : . Keziah Garner (b. 1836)
. . . . : . Evan H Garner (b. 1839)
. . . . : +Amos Williams
. . . . : . Christopher C Williams (b. 1842)
. . . . : . Joshua M Williams (b. 1844)
. . . . : Nancy Murray (b. 1809)
. . . . : Elizabeth Murray (1811-1894)
. . . . : Kezia Murray (1814-1901)
. . . . : +Moses Barnes
. . . . : Sarah Murray (1819-1863)
. . . . : +David Shrieves
. . . . : Diann Murray (1822-1834)
. . . . Rachel Murray (b. 1774)
. . . . +Mr Boring
. . . . Belinda "Lindia" Murray (1776-dec.)
. . . . +Christophel Armacost (Arbegast) (1769-1835)
. . . . : Diana Armacost (1796-dec.)
. . . . : +Joseph Peregoy (1786-1860)
. . . . : . Michael A Peregoy (1818-1881)
. . . . : . Amelia Peregoy (1820-1903)
. . . . : . Elizabeth Peregoy (b. 1822)
. . . . : . John H Peregoy Sr (1825-1873)
. . . . : . Joseph A Peregoy (1827-1896)
. . . . : . Henry Peregoy (1828-1894)
. . . . : . Linday Peregoy (b. 1829)
. . . . : . William Peregoy (1831-1836)
. . . . : . Maryann Peregoy (b. 1833)
. . . . : . Stophel Armacost Peregoy (1836-1915)
. . . . : . Robert Peregoy (1838-1904)
. . . . : . Arietta "Ary" Jane Peregoy (b. 1840)
. . . . : John Murray Armacost (1798-1855)
. . . . : +Arianna "Ara" Cullison (b. 1800)
. . . . : Caleb Murray Armacost (1799-1878)
. . . . : +Mary Fowble (1803-1859)
. . . . : +Harriet Ebaugh
. . . . : Michael Murray Armacost (1801-1876)
. . . . : +Barbary "Barbara" Zouck (1801-1873)
. . . . : . John Henry Armacost (1831-1920)
. . . . : Elizabeth Armacost (b. 1803)
. . . . : +Luther A Martin
. . . . : Mary Armacost (1805-1890)
. . . . : +Richard Richards III (1801-1863)
. . . . : +John Morfoot (b. 1803)
. . . . : Christopher Murray Armacost (1807-1886)
. . . . : +Sarah Hoover (1812-1902)
. . . . : . Eli Hinkel Armacost (1838-1914)
. . . . : . Henry H Armacost (1840-1867)
. . . . : . Amanda Susanna Armacost (b. 1842)
. . . . : . Louisa Armacost (b. 1843)
. . . . : . John Armacost (1846-1846)
. . . . : . Sarah Elizabeth Armacost (1847-1864)
. . . . : . Lydia Armacost (b. 1849)
. . . . : . Mary Permelia Armacost (1851-1932)
. . . . : . Katherine Margaret Armacost (b. 1854)
. . . . : . James Buck Armacost (1857-1940)
. . . . : William Murray Armacost (b. 1811)
. . . . : +Elizabeth Curtis
. . . . : Jacob Murray Armacost (b. 1814)
. . . . : +Kezia Murray (b. 1817)
. . . . : Margaret Emily Armacost (1816-1849)
. . . . : +Daniel Bush (b. 1808)
. . . . : . Jabez A Bush (b. 1834)
. . . . : . Mary E Bush (b. 1835)
. . . . : . Sarah I Bush (b. 1837)
. . . . : . John M Bush (b. 1838)
. . . . : . William A Bush (b. 1840)
. . . . : . Margaret E Bush (b. 1843)
. . . . : . Cecilia Bush (b. 1845)
. . . . : . Alice V Bush (b. 1847)
. . . . : Jabez "Jaby" Murray Armacost (1817-1893)
. . . . : +Maria Showers (1820-1889)
. . . . John Murray Jr (1778-1835)
. . . . +Sarah Beasman (1781-1846)
. . . . : Ketura B Murray (1806-1893)
. . . . : +William T Chenoweth (1802-1876)
. . . . : Sarah B Murray (1808-1884)
. . . . : +John Baxter Chenoweth (b. 1795)
. . . . : . Asbury Chenoweth (b. 1832)
. . . . : . Dianah Chenoweth (b. 1834)
. . . . : . Maryetta Chenoweth (b. 1835)
. . . . : . Susannah Chenoweth (b. 1837)
. . . . : . Ann Eliza Chenoweth (b. 1839)
. . . . : . John M Chenoweth (b. 1841)
. . . . : . Sarah Chenoweth (b. 1842)
. . . . : . Richard M Chenoweth (b. 1844)
. . . . : . Samuel Chenoweth (b. 1846)
. . . . : . Christian E Chenoweth (b. 1848)
. . . . : . Thomas B Chenoweth (b. 1850)
. . . . : Eliza Murray (b. 1809)
. . . . : +Samuel Kerlinger
. . . . : Thomas B Murray (1809-1850)
. . . . : +Catharine A Maurer (1817-1864)
. . . . : . Eleanor Murray (b. 1838)
. . . . : . John Murray (b. 1839)
. . . . : . Charles Murray (b. 1841)
. . . . : . Hanson Murray (b. 1843)
. . . . : . Whitfield Murray (b. 1845)
. . . . : . William C Murray (b. 1848)
. . . . : Susan Murray (1812-1880)
. . . . : +James Benson
. . . . : Diana Murray (1814-1900)
. . . . : +Christian Eby (?-1892)
. . . . : Rebecca Murray (1817-1880)
. . . . : +John M Hendrix
. . . . : Elizabeth Murray (b. 1818)
. . . . : +Andrew C Fowble
. . . . : Harriett Murray
. . . . : +Wesley W Garner
. . . . : Isabella Jane Murray (1820-1909)
. . . . : +Adam Hendrix
. . . . : Joshua Murray (b. 1821)
. . . . : +Rebecca Hendrix
. . . . : +Hattie Hall
. . . . : +Maria Cox
. . . . : John Westly Murray (1824-1915)
. . . . : +Keziah Cox (1824-1861)
. . . . : . Sarah E Murray (b. 1846)
. . . . : . John O Murray (b. 1849)
. . . . : +Rachel E Kelbaugh (1823-1917)
. . . . : +Keziah Murray
. . . . Jacob Murray (1780-1852)
. . . . Nancy Murray (1782-1821)
. . . . +John Nace (b. 1780)
. . . . Joshua Murray (b. 1784)
. . . . Caleb Murray (b. 1786)
. . . . Dianah Murray (b. 1788)
. . . . +Christopher Avey
. . . . William Murray (1789-1850)
. . . . +Charlotte ( ) (1791-1844)
. . . . Keziah Murray (b. 1792)
. . . Rachel Cox
. . . +William Marshall
. . . Zebediah Cox
. . . Elizabeth Cox
. . . +Mr Davis
. . . Jacob Cox II
. . . Rebecca Cox
. . . +Mr Boring
. . . Elijah Cox
. . . +Elizabeth Gill
. . . Elisha Cox (?-1837)
. . . +Avarilla Murray
. . . . Ephraim Cox
. . . . +Maria Foster
. . . . : Harriet Cox (b. 1824)
. . . . : +Christian Kelbaugh (1820-1903)
. . . . : . Thomas Kelbaugh (1849-1900)
. . . . : . Surge Kelbaugh (b. 1851)
. . . . : . John Kelbaugh (1853-1937)
. . . . : . Lewis Kelbaugh (1855-1937)
. . . . : . Richard Kelbaugh (1857-1942)
. . . . : . William H Kelbaugh (1858-1936)
. . . . : . George Kelbaugh (b. 1859)
. . . . : . Joseph Franklin Kelbaugh (1865-1925)
. . . . : . Ida Rebecca Kelbaugh (b. 1865)
. . . . : . Frances J Kelbaugh (1866-1866)
. . . William Cox
. . . +Susannah Bosley
. . . John Cox (?-1825)
. . +Keziah Peregoy (1750-1828)
. . . Jesse Cox (b. 1798)
. +Samuel Smith
. . Samuel Smith Jr (b. 1728)
. . Elizabeth Smith (b. 1730)
. . Sophia Smith (b. 1732)
. . +Mr Greenfield
. . Charles Merryman Smith (b. 1734)
. . Abner Smith (b. 1737)
. John Merryman (?-1749)
. +Martha Bowen
. . Moses Merryman
. . John Merryman Jr (1703-1777)
. . Joana Merryman
. . Rebecca Merryman
. . Mary Merryman
. . Temperence Merryman
. . Charles Merryman
. . Joseph Merryman

end of this registry

24 Jul 2007

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Surname: Merriman

Recorded in several forms including Merriman, Merryman, Merriment, Maryman, and the usually Irish, Marmon and Marmion, this ancient surname is found in most parts of the British Isles, although is never common. It is a derivative of the Olde English pre 7th century personal name 'Myrige', meaning merry, which in the medival period became a nickname surname given either to a person of 'honest' character, or a professional clown, one who took part in the theatres of the day. The suffix ending "man(n)" was in the context of a surname, a form of endearment meaning "friend of". The overall meaning is probably "Merry's friend". Given the robust humour of the medieval period as shown in the famous works of Geoffrey Chaucer, the alternative possibility exists, that the name could sometimes mean the very reverse of merry! Early examples of the recordings taken from authentic registers and charters of the period include John Meryman in the registers of Gloucester, known as the "Letter books", in the year 1359, whilst Adam Myryman is recorded in the 1379 Poll Tax rolls of the city of York. Later examples include those of Alice Merriman, who married Thomas Chalduke at St James church, Clerkenwell, London, on October 9th 1563, and John Meriment, christened at St Botolphs without Aldgate, also London, on October 17th 1686. The famous Irish poet Brian Merriman, was born in 1757, and died in 1810. The first recorded spelling of the surname is believed to be that of Adam Muryman, which was dated 1332, in the subsidy rolls of the county of Staffordshire, during the reign of King Edward 111 of England, who reigned from 1327 to 1377.

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Re: JOHN & RICHARD MERRYMAN LANCSTR. VA 1650

Posted by: Mark Merryman

Date: November 23, 2001 at 11:59:52

In Reply to: Re: JOHN & RICHARD MERRYMAN LANCSTR. VA 1650 by Judi Talbot of 447

John Merryman (immigrant) born prior to 1635 Herefordshire, England. Died 1674 Lancaster County Virginia. Married in England prior to 1649. Wifes name Audry or Ardera. My G-G-G-G-G-G-G-G Grandfather through son Charles Merryman Sr. b. 1657/1659 Lancaster County, Virginia. Died 22 Dec 1725, Baltimore County MD. Charles Merrymans wife was Mary Humphries daughter of Thomas Humphreys and Mary Kinsey.

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Re: Where did Merryman surname originate?
Posted by: tcc

Date: February 16, 1999 at 05:55:42

In Reply to: Where did Merryman surname originate? by Sue Jorgenson
of 1015


The name is from the Old English- Merry Ham- "happy home" from England originally - today found in Ireland and can be associated with several hundred years in Ireland- mine were from Co. Longford moving to America post famine- also found in Colonial New England 1600's as Merriam- various spellings. tcc
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Abstracted by David A. Hennessee;

From "The Originals List of Persons of Quality" (1600-1700), pp. 73-75;

"Passenger Which Passed from Ye Port of London

2 Maij 1635

Theis under-written names are to be transported to ye Barbadoes imbarqued in the ALEXANDER (ship) Capt: Burche and Gilbert Grimes Mr p Cerificate from the Minister where they late dwelt the Men tooke the oaths of Alleg. (of) Supremacie die et A prd

GEO: MERRIMAN age 41."


ibid, pp. 124-125;

21 Aug 1635

"Theis under-written names are to be transported to Virginea, embarqued in the GEORGE (ship) JO: SEVERNE mr bound theither p examination of the Minister of Gravesend .

JO: GOODSON age 25
SARA MERRIMAN age 20"

end of this commentary

John married Audrey Haile on 3 Feb 1640 in Lancaster County, Virginia, a British Colony. Audrey (daughter of George Haile, The Immigrant and Mary Elizabeth Blood) was born in 1627 in (Kent), England; died in 0Nov 1680 in Lancaster County, Virginia, a British Colony. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Alt Birth: ~1627, Lancaster County, Virginia, a British Colony
• Alt Death: 1663, Lancaster County, Virginia, a British Colony

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Audrey was born about 1627. Audrey's father Nicholas Haile ... Audrey's mother Mary Travers ...she married firstly John Merryman and then Captain Edward Carter. She passed away about 1683.

1670 - 1670-1674 Lancaster County Order Book; Antient Press: pg 153 Lancaster County Court 13th of July 1670 - For the affront offered by the Wife of JOHN MERRYMAN in the face of this Cort: to Mr. THOMAS MARSHALL, hee is fined 500 lb. of tob: to bee disposed off by the further order of this Cort , or his Wife to suffer corporall punishmt.

Audrey Merryman, widow of John Merryman, Sr., married Captain Edward Carter of Lancaster County in 1680. She deeded 50 acres of John Merryman's land to Lt Colonel John Carter, on November 10, 1680 to establish a town in Lancaster County.

Descendants
John Merryman England, Virginia, Maryland 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 John Merryman (1625-1674) +Audrey ( )

William Merryman (1652-1697)
+Mary ( )
Elizabeth Merryman (b. 1654)
Charles Merryman Sr (Captain) (1657-1725)
+Mary ( )
. Charles Merryman Jr (1678-1722)
. +Jane Long
. . William Merryman
. . Kedemoth Merryman (b. 1717)
. . Mary Merryman (b. 1719)
. . +William Hall
. . John Charles Merryman
. . Ann Merryman
. . +Benjamin Richards
. . Elizabeth Merryman
. . +Joseph Cross
. . Jemima Merryman
. . +Henry Stevenson
. Samuel Merryman Sr (1682-1754)
. +Mary Boone (1686-1728)
. . Rebecca Merryman
. . +John Price (1690-1790)
. . . Mary Price (1726-1793)
. . . +John Parrish (1720-1796)
. . . . Hannah Parrish (b. 1748)
. . . . +Leonard Belt Sr (?-1808)
. . . . : Leonard Belt (b. 1773)
. . . . : +Catherine Almack (1790-1829)
. . . . : . Caroline Belt (1808-1903)
. . . John Price (1729-1809)
. . . +Mary Parrish (1729-dec.)
. . . +Urith Cole (1731-dec.)
. . . Mordecai Price (1731-1807)
. . . +Mary Hyatt (1725-1770)
. . . +Tabitha Tipton (1747-1827)
. . . Leah Price (b. 1733)
. . . Aquilla Price (1735-1773)
. . . +Ann Griffith (b. 1752)
. . . Elizabeth Price (b. 1738)
. . . Keturah Price (b. 1739)
. . . +Richard Belt (1739-1788)
. . . Isabella Price (1742-1836)
. . . Agnes Price (b. 1745)
. . . Benjamin Price (b. 1748)
. . . Ann Price (b. 1749)
. . . +Mr Stevenson
. . . Rebecca Price (b. 1749)
. . . +John Moore (b. 1749)
. . . Rachel Price (b. 1751)
. . . +Mr Wooden
. . Ketura Merryman (1717-1789)
. . +Thomas Price (1711-1741)
. . . Benjamin Price (b. 1733)
. . . +Millicent Vaughn (?-1788)
. . . . Christopher Price (1750-1833)
. . . . Edith Price (1760-dec.)
. . . . +John Busby (1760-1791)
. . . . : Rachel Busby (1780-1863)
. . . . : +Daniel Bossom (b. 1780)
. . . . : . Abraham Bossom (1814-1886)
. . . . : Elizabeth Busby
. . . . : +Dennis Mallonee
. . . . : +Matthew Wisner
. . . . : +John Coffield
. . . . : John Busby Jr
. . . . : +Agnes Wisner
. . . . : Abraham Busby (b. 1792)
. . . . : +Deborah Kemp
. . . . : Mary Busby
. . . . : +Samuel Shawl
. . . . : Mehudy Busby
. . . . : Melinda Busby
. . . . : +Sheridan Cox
. . . . : Dorcas Busby
. . . . : +John Ford
. . . . : Benjamin Busby
. . . . : +Anne Caples
. . . . : Edith Busby
. . . . : +John Pitts
. . . . John Price
. . . . +Susanna Hatfield
. . . . Mordecai Price
. . . . Thomas Price
. . . . Benjamin Price Jr
. . . . +Nancy Ann Wheeler
. . . . Melinda Price
. . . . +William Wheeler
. . . . Gist Price
. . . . Rachel Price
. . . . +Aquilla Carr
. . . Samuel Price
. . . Thomas Price Jr
. . . Rebecca Price (b. 1741)
. . +William Parrish Jr (1718-1788)
. . Samuel Merryman Jr (1721-1809)
. . +Jane Price (1722-1771)
. . Nicholas Merryman (1727-1770)
. . +Avarilla Raven
. Elizabeth Merryman (1700-1770)
. +Jacob Cox (1700-1724)
. . Merryman Cox (b. 1722)
. . +Honour Hall
. . Jacob Cox Jr (1725-1798)
. . +Elizabeth Gain (1728-dec.)
. . . Diana Cox (1750-dec.)
. . . +John Murray (Captain) (1751-1833)
. . . . Elizabeth Murray (1769-1789)
. . . . +Michael Armacost (1763-1840)
. . . . : Johann "John" A Armacost (1789-1883)
. . . . : +Mary Ella Wheeler (1793-1882)
. . . . Jabez Murray (1771-1847)
. . . . +Sarah Richards (1782-1868)
. . . . : Joshua Murray (1804-1892)
. . . . : +Minerva Beasman
. . . . : . John Thomas Murray (1832-1857)
. . . . : . Mary E Murray (b. 1834)
. . . . : . Sarah Ann Murray (b. 1836)
. . . . : +Mary Bennett (1805-1888)
. . . . : . Almira Murray (b. 1842)
. . . . : . Ann M Murray (b. 1843)
. . . . : Maria Murray (1807-1874)
. . . . : +Evan Garner
. . . . : . Jabez F Garner (b. 1831)
. . . . : . Richard W Garner (b. 1832)
. . . . : . Sarah E Garner (b. 1835)
. . . . : . Keziah Garner (b. 1836)
. . . . : . Evan H Garner (b. 1839)
. . . . : +Amos Williams
. . . . : . Christopher C Williams (b. 1842)
. . . . : . Joshua M Williams (b. 1844)
. . . . : Nancy Murray (b. 1809)
. . . . : Elizabeth Murray (1811-1894)
. . . . : Kezia Murray (1814-1901)
. . . . : +Moses Barnes
. . . . : Sarah Murray (1819-1863)
. . . . : +David Shrieves
. . . . : Diann Murray (1822-1834)
. . . . Rachel Murray (b. 1774)
. . . . +Mr Boring
. . . . Belinda "Lindia" Murray (1776-dec.)
. . . . +Christophel Armacost (Arbegast) (1769-1835)
. . . . : Diana Armacost (1796-dec.)
. . . . : +Joseph Peregoy (1786-1860)
. . . . : . Michael A Peregoy (1818-1881)
. . . . : . Amelia Peregoy (1820-1903)
. . . . : . Elizabeth Peregoy (b. 1822)
. . . . : . John H Peregoy Sr (1825-1873)
. . . . : . Joseph A Peregoy (1827-1896)
. . . . : . Henry Peregoy (1828-1894)
. . . . : . Linday Peregoy (b. 1829)
. . . . : . William Peregoy (1831-1836)
. . . . : . Maryann Peregoy (b. 1833)
. . . . : . Stophel Armacost Peregoy (1836-1915)
. . . . : . Robert Peregoy (1838-1904)
. . . . : . Arietta "Ary" Jane Peregoy (b. 1840)
. . . . : John Murray Armacost (1798-1855)
. . . . : +Arianna "Ara" Cullison (b. 1800)
. . . . : Caleb Murray Armacost (1799-1878)
. . . . : +Mary Fowble (1803-1859)
. . . . : +Harriet Ebaugh
. . . . : Michael Murray Armacost (1801-1876)
. . . . : +Barbary "Barbara" Zouck (1801-1873)
. . . . : . John Henry Armacost (1831-1920)
. . . . : Elizabeth Armacost (b. 1803)
. . . . : +Luther A Martin
. . . . : Mary Armacost (1805-1890)
. . . . : +Richard Richards III (1801-1863)
. . . . : +John Morfoot (b. 1803)
. . . . : Christopher Murray Armacost (1807-1886)
. . . . : +Sarah Hoover (1812-1902)
. . . . : . Eli Hinkel Armacost (1838-1914)
. . . . : . Henry H Armacost (1840-1867)
. . . . : . Amanda Susanna Armacost (b. 1842)
. . . . : . Louisa Armacost (b. 1843)
. . . . : . John Armacost (1846-1846)
. . . . : . Sarah Elizabeth Armacost (1847-1864)
. . . . : . Lydia Armacost (b. 1849)
. . . . : . Mary Permelia Armacost (1851-1932)
. . . . : . Katherine Margaret Armacost (b. 1854)
. . . . : . James Buck Armacost (1857-1940)
. . . . : William Murray Armacost (b. 1811)
. . . . : +Elizabeth Curtis
. . . . : Jacob Murray Armacost (b. 1814)
. . . . : +Kezia Murray (b. 1817)
. . . . : Margaret Emily Armacost (1816-1849)
. . . . : +Daniel Bush (b. 1808)
. . . . : . Jabez A Bush (b. 1834)
. . . . : . Mary E Bush (b. 1835)
. . . . : . Sarah I Bush (b. 1837)
. . . . : . John M Bush (b. 1838)
. . . . : . William A Bush (b. 1840)
. . . . : . Margaret E Bush (b. 1843)
. . . . : . Cecilia Bush (b. 1845)
. . . . : . Alice V Bush (b. 1847)
. . . . : Jabez "Jaby" Murray Armacost (1817-1893)
. . . . : +Maria Showers (1820-1889)
. . . . John Murray Jr (1778-1835)
. . . . +Sarah Beasman (1781-1846)
. . . . : Ketura B Murray (1806-1893)
. . . . : +William T Chenoweth (1802-1876)
. . . . : Sarah B Murray (1808-1884)
. . . . : +John Baxter Chenoweth (b. 1795)
. . . . : . Asbury Chenoweth (b. 1832)
. . . . : . Dianah Chenoweth (b. 1834)
. . . . : . Maryetta Chenoweth (b. 1835)
. . . . : . Susannah Chenoweth (b. 1837)
. . . . : . Ann Eliza Chenoweth (b. 1839)
. . . . : . John M Chenoweth (b. 1841)
. . . . : . Sarah Chenoweth (b. 1842)
. . . . : . Richard M Chenoweth (b. 1844)
. . . . : . Samuel Chenoweth (b. 1846)
. . . . : . Christian E Chenoweth (b. 1848)
. . . . : . Thomas B Chenoweth (b. 1850)
. . . . : Eliza Murray (b. 1809)
. . . . : +Samuel Kerlinger
. . . . : Thomas B Murray (1809-1850)
. . . . : +Catharine A Maurer (1817-1864)
. . . . : . Eleanor Murray (b. 1838)
. . . . : . John Murray (b. 1839)
. . . . : . Charles Murray (b. 1841)
. . . . : . Hanson Murray (b. 1843)
. . . . : . Whitfield Murray (b. 1845)
. . . . : . William C Murray (b. 1848)
. . . . : Susan Murray (1812-1880)
. . . . : +James Benson
. . . . : Diana Murray (1814-1900)
. . . . : +Christian Eby (?-1892)
. . . . : Rebecca Murray (1817-1880)
. . . . : +John M Hendrix
. . . . : Elizabeth Murray (b. 1818)
. . . . : +Andrew C Fowble
. . . . : Harriett Murray
. . . . : +Wesley W Garner
. . . . : Isabella Jane Murray (1820-1909)
. . . . : +Adam Hendrix
. . . . : Joshua Murray (b. 1821)
. . . . : +Rebecca Hendrix
. . . . : +Hattie Hall
. . . . : +Maria Cox
. . . . : John Westly Murray (1824-1915)
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On 9 Jul 2019 at 11:54 GMT Dusty Boren wrote:

Nicholas Haile may have been Audrey's brother, but it is impossible that he was her father. Respectfully, dusty
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Amazing, Audrey was born when her father was 7 years old or less!
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Unknown-331749 and Haile-181 appear to represent the same person because: First name & Spouses are the same. Dates are consistent. Published Descendant tree includes children mentioned in each profile.
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Haile-181 and Haynes-525 appear to represent the same person because: Haynes must be wrong
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John Merryman & Audrie Heynes, progenitors of the Merryman family in the USA
Posted by: Michael Merryman

Date: March 19, 2005 at 08:33:55


Does anyone know about the parents of John Merryman (b. circa 1625) and/or Audrie Heynes that came to Lancester County, Virginia prior to 1650 and started the Merryman line in the United States?

John's children started the Merryman family of Maryland, among many other lines of descendency.

John and Audrie apparently came from Herefordshire, England, and one source from Family Tree Maker's World Family Tree says that father of John Merryman is William.

Please respond direct to:

Michael.D.C.Merryman@gmail.com

many thanks!!!

Michael Merryman

Audrey Merryman, widow of John Merryman, Sr., married Captain Edward Carter of Lancaster County in 1680. She deeded 50 acres of John Merryman's land to Lt Colonel John Carter, on November 10, 1680 to establish a town in Lancaster County.

16 Feb., 1786, Edwd Carter & Sally White. Sec. Joseph Carter.

Other Events and Attributes:

• Alt Birth: 16 Jul 1601, Kent, England
• Alt Birth: 1602, Bristol, Gloucestershire, England
• Alt Birth: 30 Jul 1602, Kent, England
• Immigration: 1630
• Alt Death: 1631, Northumberland County, Virginia
• Alt Death: 1660, Northumberland County, Virginia
• Alt Death: 12 Jan 1697, Lancaster County, Virginia

Notes:

I disconnected the link between George and his father, William, http://thehennesseefamily.com/getperson.php?personID=I43971&tree=hennessee, as their kinship is highly unlikely...DAH

George Hale
Also Known As: "William", "Haile"
Birthdate: circa 1600
Birthplace: Probably Kent, England
Death: November 08, 1671 (66-75)
Probably Reedville, Northumberland County, Province of Virginia
Immediate Family:
Husband of Mary Haile
Father of George Hale, Jr.; Ellin Rogers; John Haile; Nicholas Haile (immigrant) and Thomas Haile
Occupation: drummer, indentured servant
Immigration Year: 1620
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Last Updated: January 9, 2019
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About George Hale, of Jamestown
No proof that this George Hale is the father of Nicholas Haile (immigrant)

George Hale, said to have been the son of William Hale, Esq., of King's Walden, and wife Rose Bond, was born July 13, 1601 in Hertfordshire, England. Many believe that he was the original Hale or Hale emigrant to Virginia. This is not well proven, but more information is below.

Those who do not believe that this is the emigrant point out that this George was the son of a well-to-do landowner from Hertfordshire and the emigrant was an indentured servant. Also, George the emigrant is believed to be from Kent, not from Hertfordshire.

See also:

The New England Historical and Genealogical Register, Volume 35 (available as Google e-book)
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George Hale (or Haile) left Bristol, England on the ship "Supply" and arrived in "James Cittie" (Jamestown), Virginia in 1620. George was an indentured servant. He married a young woman of English blood in 1626 and had a son, Nicholas, in 1628. Grandson Nicholas went to Baltimore with his sister Mary (Heale) King after Nicholas' death in 1671.

http://www.geocities.com/awoodlief/hale.html

Nicholas was born in 1628 near Elizabeth City VA. His father was George Hale who sailed from Bristol Eng. in 1620 on the Supply and is listed as "George Hale, a drummer, age 18 years." He landed at Elizabeth City in the fall and lived with Sir Wyatt Governor of the colony. George was born in 1601 at Kings Walden, Hertfordshire,England at the Hale Manor House (which they owned 1575-1898). His father was William, son of Richard (1536-1620), whose father was Thomas of Codicote , whose father was Edward Hales, whose father was Gilbert Hales, whose father was Henry Hales , whose father was Thomas Hales , whose father was Nicholas Hales, whose father was Nicholas Hales of Hales Place Halden in the County of Kent, England. [hmmm--there had to be some mothers in there too!] George Haile's wife was named Elizabeth. They had three sons; Francis, Nicholas and Thomas. Francis was the father of Capt. Richard Haile of his majesty's Dragoons and his wife was named Jane; Richard m. Mary, fathered John Haiale of South Farnham Parrish in Essex County. The children of John Haile and Mary Fullerton are john, Francis (--d. Bedford, 1780, m. Adara Meador), Thomas, Benjamin, Mary, and Susanna. [buffalojwh@aol.com].

Ancestors beyond this individual may not be accurate.
Updated from WikiTree Genealogy via wife Mary Elizabeth Haile by SmartCopy: Jul 24 2015, 17:54:16 UTC

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About George Haile

George Hale, son of William Hale, Esq., of King's Walden, and wife Rose Bond, was born July 13, 1601 in Hertfordshire, England. Many believe that he was the original Hale or Hale emigrant to Virginia. This is not well proven, but more information is below.
Those who do not believe that this is the emigrant point out that this George was the son of a well-to-do landowner from Hertfordshire and the emigrant was an indentured servant. Also, George the emigrant is believed to be from Kent, not from Hertfordshire.

See also: The New England Historical and Genealogical Register, Volume 35 (available as Google e-book)
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George Hale (or Haile) left Bristol, England on the ship "Supply" and arrived in "James Cittie" (Jamestown), Virginia in 1620. George was an indentured servant. He married a young woman of English blood in 1626 and had a son, Nicholas, in 1628. Grandson Nicholas went to Baltimore with his sister Mary (Heale) King after Nicholas' death in 1671.


Nicholas was born in 1628 near Elizabeth City VA. His father was George Hale who sailed from Bristol Eng. in 1620 on the Supply and is listed as "George Hale, a drummer, age 18 years." He landed at Elizabeth City in the fall and lived with Sir Wyatt Governor of the colony. George was born in 1601 at Kings Walden, Hertfordshire,England at the Hale Manor House (which they owned 1575-1898).

His father was William, son of Richard (1536-1620), whose father was Thomas of Codicote , whose father was Edward Hales, whose father was Gilbert Hales, whose father was Henry Hales , whose father was Thomas Hales , whose father was Nicholas Hales, whose father was Nicholas Hales of Hales Place Halden in the County of Kent, England. [hmmm--there had to be some mothers in there too!]

George Haile's wife was named Elizabeth. They had three sons; Francis, Nicholas and Thomas. Francis was the father of Capt. Richard Haile of his majesty's Dragoons and his wife was named Jane;
Richard m. Mary, fathered John Haiale of South Farnham Parrish in Essex County. The children of John Haile and Mary Fullerton are john, Francis (--d. Bedford, 1780, m. Adara Meador), Thomas, Benjamin, Mary, and Susanna. [buffalojwh@aol.com ].

Ancestors beyond this individual may not be accurate.

Updated from WikiTree Genealogy via wife Mary Elizabeth Haile by SmartCopy : Jul 24 2015, 17:54:16 UTC

added 18 May 2011

Re: George Haile (Hall, Hale, Heale) d. aft. 6/22/1652
Posted by: Jared Hale (ID *****9651)
Date: January 22, 2011 at 21:41:58
In Reply to: George Haile (Hall, Hale, Heale) d. aft. 6/22/1652 by William Culverhouse of 623

The only information I have is:

George Haile Born about 1602 in Bristol, England. He was a passenger on the Ship "Supply" that landed in Virginia in 1620. His occupation was a Drummer or Salesman. He married around 1626, wife unknown. His known children were John, Thomas and Nicholas Haile Senior. He died about 1662 in Lancaster County, Virginia.

Other people on ancestry.com say his father was Nicholas Haile, but I have no clue if that is right or not.

DISCLAIMER:

Ed Haile
Date: January 01, 2001 at 17:18:55
In Reply to: Re: George Haile(Hale) 1602(Eng)-ca1650(VA) by Linda Lawhon of 623

I am a seventh generation decendant of the first Nicholas Haile of Virginia. I was personally acquainted with Maude Crowe. She did us all a great disservice with her sloppy research and by making a completely unwarranted connection with the drummer boy on the Supply. There is no documentation to support this. I have never seen any reliable link beyond the first Nicholas going back to England. Unfortunately the internet spreads a lot of misleading information.


Hale name meaning

English (also well established in South Wales): topographic name for someone who lived in a nook or hollow, from Old English and Middle English hale, dative of h(e)alh ‘nook’, ‘hollow’. In northern England the word often has a specialized meaning, denoting a piece of flat alluvial land by the side of a river, typically one deposited in a bend. In southeastern England it often referred to a patch of dry land in a fen. In some cases the surname may be a habitational name from any of the several places in England named with this fossilized inflected form, which would originally have been preceded by a preposition, e.g. in the hale or at the hale.

Immigration:
to The American Colonies on the ship, "Supply"

Alt Death:
in the Tidewater Area...

George married Mary Elizabeth Blood in 1626 in Bristol, England. Mary was born in 1602 in Bristol, England; died in 1672 in Lancaster County, Virginia. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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Mary Elizabeth (Blood) Haile (1602 - 1672)
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Mother of George Hale, Ellin Haile, Audrey (Haile) Carter, John Haile, Nicholas Haile and Thomas Haile
Died 1672 in Lancaster, Virginia
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Mary cannot have been daughter of Colonel Thomas Blood as she was born before he was.

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On 13 May 2018 at 16:24 GMT C. Mackinnon wrote:

Have disconnected Mary b1602 from Colonel Thomas Blood b1618. She cannot have been his daughter
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On 7 Apr 2018 at 10:57 GMT C. Mackinnon wrote:

Mary daughter of Colonel Thomas Blood married a man called Corbett. Thepeerage.com Cites Montgomery-Massingberd, Hugh. Burke's Irish Family Records. London, U.K.: Burkes Peerage Ltd, 1976.
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On 7 Apr 2018 at 08:06 GMT C. Mackinnon wrote:

Her sons have a DOB about the same as her father. This parentage is clearly in error. Should it be removed?
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On 31 Dec 2017 at 22:41 GMT Sue (Howard) Ison wrote:

I don't think Mary is a child of THIS Thomas and Mary Holcroft Blood. I can't find her listed for them. AND she was born before them.
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On 7 Mar 2017 at 18:23 GMT Beverly (Davis) Ahrens wrote:

Blood-803 and Haile-94 appear to represent the same person because: Same lineage
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