Joseph "Joe" Merriman

Wiley married Mary "Molly" Bias on 8 Feb 1885 in Bledsoe County, Tennessee. Mary (daughter of Robert Bias and Mahulda "Hulda" Ewton) was born on 15 Nov 1849 in Bledsoe County, Tennessee; died on 27 May 1909 in Sequatchie County, Tennessee; was buried in Johnson Cemetery, Bledsoe 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.).

end of this census record

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

Home: Surnames: Merriman Family Genealogy Forum

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

end of query











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.

end of profile

Other Events and Attributes:

• Occupation: farming

Notes:

Not listed with family in 1860 Sequatchie Co.,TN Census.

Died:
of pnemonia...

Robert married Mahulda "Hulda" Ewton in (1833) in (White County, Tennessee). Mahulda (daughter of James Ewton and Rebecca "Becky" Parker) was born in 1813 in (White County) Tennessee. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Occupation: housekeeper

Notes:

Family Tree Maker's Genealogy Site: Genealogy Report: Descendants of Rebecca Wootton

As reported by James Richard EWTON, 669 Forest Drive, Crossville,TN 38555 615/688-2237 jimkris@usit.net

Descendants of Rebecca Wootton

Generation No. 1

1. REBECCA1 WOOTTON

Notes for REBECCA WOOTTON:
List in the 1830 Marion County, Tennessee Census:
2 males, 20-30 years
1 female, 10-15 years
2 female, 15-20 years
1 female, 40-50 years
AB Ewton would be 20 years old
Casual Poke would be 22 or 23
Huldah would be 17 or 18
Alice would be 13 or 14
Lydia would be 11 or 12

More About REBECCA WOOTTON:
Census: 1830, Marion County, TN

Children of REBECCA WOOTTON are:
2.i. CASWELL POLK2 EWTON, b. Bet. 1807 - 1808.
3.ii. ALBIN B. EWTON, b. January 15, 1810, KY; d. September 14, 1890,
Dunlap, Sequatchie Co, TN.
4.iii. HULDA EWTON, b. Abt. 1813.
iv. ALLIS EWTON, b. Abt. 1817.
5.v. LYDIA EWTON, b. Abt. 1820.

Generation No. 2


2. CASWELL POLK2 EWTON (REBECCA1 WOOTTON) was born Bet. 1807 - 1808. He married
ELIZABETH POTTOR Abt. 1830. She was born Abt. 1814 in TN.

More About CASWELL POLK EWTON:
Census 1: 1840, Cherokee County, AL
Census 2: 1850, Bledsoe County, TN
Census 3: 1860, Sequatchie County TN

Children of CASWELL EWTON and ELIZABETH POTTOR are:
i. DELILA3 EWTON, b. Abt. 1831, TN.
6.ii. ALBIN BUCHANAN EWTON, b. January 07, 1832, TN.
iii. RBECCA M. EWTON, b. Abt. 1836, AL; m. WILLIAM BRIMER, June 12, 1858,
Dunlap, Sequatchie Co, TN.
iv. SAMPSON EWTON, b. Abt. 1838, AL.
v. NANCY EWTON, b. Abt. 1840, AL.
vi. LYDIA EWTON, b. Abt. 1841, AL.
vii. ALLICE EWTON, b. Abt. 1843, TN.
viii. JAMES R. P. EWTON, b. Abt. 1845, TN.
ix. CASWELL EWTON, b. Abt. 1849, TN.
x. ISAAC EWTON, b. Abt. 1853, TN.
xi. MARION EWTON, b. Abt. 1853, TN.
xii. HULDAH EWTON, b. Abt. 1855, TN.
xiii. MARY EWTON, b. Abt. 1858, TN.
xiv. THOMAS EWTON, b. Abt. 1858, TN.
xv. SILAS EWTON, b. Abt. 1858, TN.


3. ALBIN B.2 EWTON (REBECCA1 WOOTTON) was born January 15, 1810 in KY, and died
September 14, 1890 in Dunlap, Sequatchie Co, TN. He married MARY POLLY CLEMONS
Abt. 1832 in TN. She was born January 12, 1815, and died December 24, 1885 in
Dunlap, Sequatchie Co, TN.

More About ALBIN B. EWTON:
Census 1: 1840, Bledsoe County, TN; listed Albert Wooton, 3 m to 5, 1 m 30-40, 1
f 5-10, 1 f 20-30
Census 2: 1850, Marion County, TN
Census 3: 1860, Sequatchie County TN
Census 4: 1870, Sequatchie County TN
Census 5: 1880, Sequatchie County TN

Children of ALBIN EWTON and MARY CLEMONS are:
7.i. LUCINDA ELIZABETH3 EWTON, b. November 21, 1833, Dunlap, Sequatchie
Co, TN; d. December 21, 1883, Dunlap, Sequatchie Co, TN.
8.ii. JAMES EWTON, b. April 26, 1835, Dunlap, Sequatchie Co, TN; d.
January 15, 1915, Weatherford, Parker Co, TX.
9.iii. THOMAS JEFFERSON EWTON, b. March 05, 1837, Dunlap, Sequatchie Co,
TN; d. December 31, 1914, McMinnville, Warren Co, TN.
10.iv. RICHARD MADISON EWTON, b. November 12, 1838, Dunlap, Sequatchie Co,
TN; d. September 29, 1920, Dunlap, Sequatchie Co, TN.
11.v. ANDREW JACKSON EWTON, b. January 19, 1841, Dunlap, Sequatchie Co,
TN; d. December 29, 1914, Dunlap, Sequatchie Co, TN.
12.vi. MARTIN VANBUREN EWTON, b. March 27, 1843, Dunlap, Sequatchie Co,
TN; d. December 21, 1901, Dunlap, Sequatchie Co, TN.
13.vii. FRANKLIN P. EWTON, b. July 10, 1845, Dunlap, Sequatchie Co, TN; d.
January 17, 1929, Dunlap, Sequatchie Co, TN.
14.viii. ALBIN BUCHANAN EWTON, b. March 04, 1847, Dunlap, Sequatchie Co,
TN; d. April 26, 1919, Dunlap, Sequatchie Co, TN.
15.ix. THOMAS BENTON EWTON, b. February 12, 1850, Dunlap, Sequatchie Co,
TN; d. July 15, 1926, Dunlap, Sequatchie Co, TN.
x. MARGRET MINERVIA EWTON, b. February 20, 1852, Dunlap, Sequatchie Co,
TN; d. September 07, 1879, Dunlap, Sequatchie Co, TN.
16.xi. JOHN HOUSTON EWTON, b. April 29, 1853, Dunlap, Sequatchie Co, TN;
d. September 06, 1903, Dunlap, Sequatchie Co, TN.
xii. ALEXANDER POLK EWTON, b. February 05, 1857, Dunlap, Sequatchie Co,
TN; d. July 07, 1925, Pine Bluff, Jefferson Co, AR; m. SARA J. CANNON,
August 01, 1875, Dunlap, Sequatchie Co, TN.


4. HULDA2 EWTON (REBECCA1 WOOTTON) was born Abt. 1813. She married ROBERT BYAS
Abt. 1833. He was born Abt. 1813 in NC, and died Abt. 1860 in Sequatchie Co, TN.


Children of HULDA EWTON and ROBERT BYAS are:
i. ALLICE3 BYAS, b. Abt. 1834, TN.
ii. CASWELL BYAS, b. Abt. 1836, TN; d. April 1915, Parker Co, TX.
iii. JONAS BYAS, b. Abt. 1840, AL; d. Abt. 1860, Sequatchie Co, TN.
iv. ROBERT BYAS II, b. Abt. 1843, AL.
v. JAMES BYAS, b. Abt. 1845, AL; d. Abt. 1860, Sequatchie Co, TN.
vi. THOMAS BYAS, b. Abt. 1847, TN.
vii. POLLY BYAS, b. Abt. 1850, TN.


5. LYDIA2 EWTON (REBECCA1 WOOTTON) was born Abt. 1820. She married THOMAS MINTON
Abt. 1844. He was born Abt. 1818 in TN.

Children of LYDIA EWTON and THOMAS MINTON are:
i. JOSEPH3 MINTON, b. Abt. 1845, TN.
ii. REBECCA ANN MINTON, b. Abt. 1847, TN.
iii. JOHN P. MINTON, b. Abt. 1853, TN.
iv. CASWELL B. MINTON, b. Abt. 1860, TN.
v. ALBIN MINTON, b. Abt. 1863, TN.

Hulda Is enumerated in the 1850 Bledsoe Co.,TN census...DAH

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

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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

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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.
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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 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.

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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.

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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"

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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.

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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 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

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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:

• Religion: Primitive Baptist
• Residence: 1810, Rutherford County, North Carolina
• Residence: 1818, Warren County, Tennessee
• Residence: 1830, Madison County, Alabama
• Residence: 1850, Bienville Parish, Louisiana
• Residence: 1854, Spartanburg County, South Carolina

Notes:

Posted By: Clovis Byars Herring
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In 1990, Velda Byars Spillalne of Lamesa, TX sent her work Work Sheets in for publication in the Byars-Byers Family Enquirer. Please be sure to use this information as clues.Velda was researching Robert Byas b. c1786 NC. It has been said, but no proof, that he may have been the son of Nathan Byars and Drucilla Harrelson. No one has ever produced a primary document that names any of the children attributed to Nathan & Drucilla. The name of Nathan's child by Delphy was Jackson and he is documented on Nathan's Rev. War Records. Valda showed Robert's children as:

I. Thadden (Thaddeus?) W. Byas b c1810
II. Martha Ann Byas
III, Abram Landres Byas, b 8 Mar 1815 TN d. 26 Sep 1882 Keller,Tarrant Co. TX. buried Mt. Gillead Cemetery, Tarrant Co. TX(Dallas/Fort Worth area)md 1st Permelia Logan b. 23 May 1809 SC d c1844, Bienville Parish, LA d/o William Logan and Joanna Cason: md 2nd Melvina Stephens. Issue by 1st wife: #1 William Robert Byas b. 25 June 1828, Claiborne Pr. La. d. 5 Dec 1889 m(2) Kate Throop: #2 Thomas Harril Byas b 24 Jun 1839, d. 8 Mar 1890 md Lucinda Martin: #3 Joseph Lewis Byas, b 20 Apr 1841 d 19 Feb 1916, md Mary E. McGinnis

#4 Richard Landres Byars (Note spelling of surname) b 15 June 1842 d. 27 Apr 1891 Paradise, Wise Co. TX? md Lucinda West. d/o John Francis West and Mary "Polly" Fargason. The children of this couple is listed.(I won't list them here) #5 Jane Elizabeth Byas b 19 Feb 1844 md R.H. "Bob"McEuin
Isssue by 2nd wife: Permelis Melvina Byas

IV. Asa Harold (Harel?) Byas b c1817 MS md Elizabeth Ann Logan d/o William Logan and Joanna Cason. Asa's two oldest were Joanna and Jane. He had a son Walker Byas

V. Rebecca Byas b AL.

VI. Pemelia Byas

Velda's grandfather told her the original spelling of the name was Byars. Her notes and Sources: 1830 Claiborne Pr. census lists Robert Byas. 1840 census the three boys are listed together; Thadeus W. Byas;A.H. Byas; A.L. Byas:1850 Bienville Pr LA Census: Robert Byas #110; Asa Byas #111; Abram Byas #125.

Copies of Bible Records of Abram L. Byas (Title page not included). The Logan family came from Edgefield Dist. SC in a colony of forty. This was known as the South Carolina Colony in the History of Bienville, Parish, LA.

The first wife of Abram Landres Byas as Permelia Logan is documented when William Logan's land was sold after his death. The Bible records and land records support much of the information on her work sheet. cbh
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Abstracted from "The Upper Cumberland Researcher", Vol. XIX, No.3, Fall 1994,
p. 27; TENNESSEE STATE PRISON INMATES 1850, contributed by Dr. Lewis Johnson,

"The following inmates of the Tennessee State Prison were enumereated in the 1850 Federal census of Davidson County, Tennessee. They were listed under McIntosh, John who was the warden at that time.

...James BIAS 33".

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Hi Steve,

I wanted to share some information that was given to me by Marjorie Tucker (deceased). Marjorie has some postings on this forum and was a long time Byars researcher. She worked with Clovis Byars Herring on the Byars/Byers Family Enquirer. These ladies were tireless researchers and they were well aware of the possible connections between the Bias-Byas-Byars-Byers families.

The first document relates to Robert Byars, son of Nathan Byars and Drucilla Harralson. Robert Byars followed the same route as your Byas family—North Carolina/South Carolina, Alabama, and Tennessee. Note the comments of Velda Byars Spillane regarding the change in the spelling from Byars to Byas in her family.

The second is the Revolutionary War pension file of James Byars, son of Jonas James Byars and Francis Collins. Please note the affidavit given by Robert Byars. This is the same Robert Byars we discussed in our earlier correspondence. Please let me know if you make a connection between the Byars family and your Byas family. I strongly believe there is a common connection

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ROBERT BYARS, b. ca. 1780-1784, Rutherford Co., NC

He married JANE HOUSTON, and was said to be in Madison Co., AL in 1830 (per Byers-Family Enquirer, Clovis Byars Herring, Editor, Vol. I, No. 1, March 1986, page 11). I made a thorough search of the Madison Co., AL records and found no mention of the Byars family.
Perhaps he passed through there and moved on.

The Census of 1810, Rutherford Co., NC lists:

Robert Byars Males 1 26-45; 3 0-10
Females 1 26-45; 1 0-10

Robert came to Warren Co., Tenn., as did his brother, Harrell and sister, Martha Byars Womack. He sold his land to his brother, Harrell and then moved.

Children of NATHAN BYARS and DRUCILLA HARRELSON, cont'd.:

The following is from Warren Co., TN Deeds, Vol. B, 1812-1819, Part 2, pp. 459-60:

INDENTURE: Made Feb. 27, 1818 Between Robert Byars and Harrell Byars, both of Warren County, Tennessee, Witnesseth for $500. The said Robert Byars hath sold to the said Harold Byars a certain tract of land, one hundred acres in Warren Co., Fifth District, on Caney Fork, beginning at a hickory, west one hundred and twenty poles to a hickory, North 100 thirty three and one half poles to a post oak, East 120 poles to a stake, south 133 1/2 poles to the beginning, including Byer's Spring and improvement where he now lives. Grant No. 10774, dated Sept. 23, 1817. To have and to hold, etc.

his
Witnesses: Robert X Byars
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Abner Womack
James Womack
State of Tennessee January Session 1819
Proven in open court
Warren County Court February 8, 1819

He was a member of the Bildad Primitive Baptist Church 1812-1816. He was received and dismissed by letter. If church records exist where we suspect Robert later lived, we should check them. Usually when a family received letters of dismission they used them to join another church.

As printed in the Byars/Byers Family Enquirer, Clovis Byars Herring, Editor, Vol. V, No.2, June, 1990, pp. 34-36, Velda Byars Spillane, 504 N.20th, Lamesa, TX 79331 believes her ancestor, Robert Byas/Byars, was the son of Nathan and Drucilla. After studying what she knows about her Robert's children, it seems possible that she is correct. She gives:

1. Thadden W. Byas (Thaddeus W.?), b. ca. 1810
2. Martha Ann Byas, b. ca. 1814, TN
3. Abram Landres Byas, b. Mar. 8, 1815, TN, d. Sept. 26, 1882, Keller, Tarrant Co., TX, m.1st. Permelia Logan, b. May 23, 1809, SC, d. ca. 1844, Bienville Parish, LA, dau. of William Logan and Joanna Cason. He m.2nd. Melvina Stephens.
4. Asa Harold (Harel?) Byas, m. Elizabeth Ann Logan, dau. of William Logan and Joanna Cason.
5. Rebecca Byas, b. in AL.
6. Permelia Byas, b. in LA.

Note: Velda's grandfather told her the original spelling of the name was Byars.

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James Byars
Pension File 15249

Know all men by these presents that I - ISAIAH BYARS a resident of the County of Pickens and State of Alabama, son of JAMES BYARS (a pensioner of the United States who was placed on the pension roll of the State of South Carolina and who died at his residence in Spartanburg District in the state aforesaid) and of his wife SARAH who removed after the death of said ISAIAH (note - should be JAMES - MST) to the County of Pickens and State of Alabama and who died at the residence of Isaiah Byars in the County of Pickens and State of Alabama on or about the 1st day of January 1838, do hereby Constitute and appoint CATHARINE BYARS (widow of JOHN BYARS) of Spartanburg District and State of South Carolina my agent to ask demand and receive from the Government of the United States the pension due me as son and heir of said SARAH BYARS decd widow of said JAMES BYARS decd hereby authorize her to employ an attorney or attorneys under her to ask and demand a Certificate of the pension due me to be sent in her name to her.

Hereby ratifying and confirming all that the said CATHARINE BYARS may do or her constituted attorney under her may do in the premises.

Witness my hand and seal
this 13 day of June - 1853
Signed and sealed in presence of
Isaiah Byars
M.L. Stansel
I.M. Bryan

State of South Carolina
Spartanburg District

At a court of Pleas and General Sessions held at Spartanburg on this 6th Oct. 1853 present and presiding The Hon. I.N. Whitner personally appeared in Open Court DR. I.G. GAFFNEY a resident of Spartanburg So. Carolina, who being duly sworn according to law upon his oath says that from an examination of Books in the possession of deponent’s Father, he is perfectly satisfied that JAMES BYARS a Revolutionary Pensioner of the United States died in said District the 1st Jany 1835 and from evidence presented to said deponent he is perfectly satisfied that SARAH the wife of said pensioner died in Pickens County Alabama the 1st Jan 1838 — and is also satisfied that ISAIAH BYARS of Pickens Ala. is the only living child of said JAMES & SARAH BYARS dec d

State of South Carolina
Spartanburg District

Know all men by these presents that I., CATHARINE BYARS, widow of JOHN BYARS, decd - a resident of the District of Spartanburg and State aforesaid do hereby in Virtue of a power of Attorney made to me by ISAIAH BYARS of Pickens County State of Alabama which power is herewith sent, Constitute and appoint under me John Anderson of Burke County No, Car, my true and lawful Attorney and agent to prosecute the claim of SARAH BYARS dec’d widow of JAMES BYARS dec’d a pensioner of the U. States on the South Carolina Roll and who recd 96 Dollars per annum for any amount of Revolutionary Pension that may have been due said Sarah Byars dec’d widow aforesaid at the time of her death and I hereby authorize my said agent or Atty. to examine all papers and documents on file at Washington City or elsewhere in relation to said claim, and to receive the certificate which may be issued for said claim, Hereby ratifying and confirming all that said Atty or Agt may do lawfully in the premises, and I hereby revoke all former powers. Witness my hand & seal this 13th day of Octr 1853.

Signed & Sealed in presence
of William Lipscomb, Jr.
her
Catharine x Byars
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Sworn to and acknowledged before me, the day and year before written, by said Catharine Byars personally appearing before me William Lipscomb, Jr. a magistrate of Spartanburg District and state aforesaid, she acknowledging the foregoing power of Atty to be her act & deed for the purposes therein mentioned and I further certify that said Catharine Byars is a respectable resident of said District and State.

In testimony of which I have hereunto subscribed my hand the day and year before written; William Lipscomb, Jr., Magistrate.

State of South Carolina
Spartanburg District

On this 22nd day of June 1854 personally came before me William Lipscomb, Junr a Magistrate within and for the District of Spartanburg and State aforesaid ROBERT BYARS a resident of the aforesaid District and State aged sixty eight years last March who being duly sworn according to law, upon his oath says that JAMES BYARS decd of this district and who as deponent understood was placed on the pension roll of South Carolina was an uncle of deponent's, knowing his uncle from his deponent’s childhood, states that he is satisfied his uncle James was married before deponent’s father was from the fact that in the year 1794 or 1795 his uncle James and his wife Sarah removed from this district to Chester district in this state — at that time, they had the following children to wit POLLY, BETSY, AMY, FRANKY & JOHN, that they returned back to this district in the year 1802 or 1803 bringing back REUBEN. SALLY & SUSAN in addition to those they took away. ISAIAH was born after their return, - and he further says that his uncle remained in this district until he died, after his death his wife Sarah removed to Pickens County, Alabama and as he understands and believes died, believes that his uncle James & SARAH PIGG, daughter of EDWARD PIGG were lawfully married never heard their marriage questioned, and am disinterested.

his
Robert x Byars
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Sworn to and subscribed before me this 22nd day of June 1854 and I certify that I am personally acquainted with Robert Byars who subscribed the foregoing affidavit, a respectable resident of this district and I further Certify that he is known amongst his acquaintances as remarkable for the retention of his memory, a man of strict veracity.

State of So. Carolina
Spartanburg District

On this 22nd day of June 1854 personally came before me William Lipscomb, Junr a Magistrate within and for the District aforesaid, Capt Michael Gaffney, a resident of Spartanburg District aged 78 years last September who being duly sworn according to law upon his oath says that he was acquainted with JAMES BYARS, a Revolutionary pensioner on the Roll of So. Carolina and also with his wife SARAH as far back as about the year 1804 that about that time one or more of their daughters were employed by him as nurses in his family that the girls were of the age at least 10 or 12 years, that said JAMES BYARS was a tenant of his up to his death, was acquainted with him and his wife and “family” for 30 years, knew them as man and wife “esteemed so by all who knew them, never heard it doubted.”

Mich Gaffney

Sworn to and subscribed before me this 22nd day of June 1854 and I certify that I am personally acquainted with Captain Michael Gaffney who is a resident of the aforesaid District, whose character for intelligence and probity is far —far above the mediocrity of men.

William Lipscomb (Jr) Magistrate

State of South Carolina
Spartanburg District







1830 Census - Middle Tennesse, Franklin County, p. 46: "Byas, Robert 10011001-1011101".

...ROBERT BYARS a resident of the aforesaid District and State aged sixty eight years last March who being duly sworn according to law...

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

Robert married Jane Houston on 24 Mar 1804 in Lincoln County, North Carolina. Jane was born in (~1785) in South Carolina; died in ~1850. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Married:
,Wm.Tucker,surety

Notes:

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Yes, I believe James and Rebecca were the parents of Caswell, Albin Sr., Hulda, Allis, and Lydia. James Ewton and Beckey Parker were married on 3 September 1800 in Knox County, Tennessee. Their marriage certificate is on file and able to be seen in the county records.

James married Rebecca "Becky" Parker on 3 Sep 1800 in Knox County, Tennessee. Rebecca was born in (~ 1780). [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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:

• Burial: Byars-Ezell Cemetery, Chesnee, Cherokee County, South Carolina
• Military: Revolutionary War Patriot

Notes:

Big news from the Byars dna project.

Recent dna results prove that James (Henry) Byars of Hanover Co, VA is NOT the ancestor of Nathan b 1749, William who married Sarah Doggett or William who married Elizabeth Bedford. DNA from a proven descendant of James through his documented son Capt John, matches with dna from a descendant of the Byars who went from Granville Co into West Tennessee.

NO CONNECTION to old Nathan, William or William

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22 Aug 2014: I spoke to Clovis Byars Herring, the "Grand-Dame" of BYARS historians, and she concurs...

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Saturday, November 24th, 2018: I found, John Harris Byars, along with many other 2nd-5th cousins citing the common ancestor of James Henry Byars. This is a repudiation of Clovis Byars Herring's note. I tried to call her however both telephone lines were disconnected. I sent her an email for her comment...DAH

Mr. John Harris Byars
PROFILE
NOTES
Email
jjbyars62@roadrunner.com

Earliest Known Ancestor
Paternal: James Henry Byars b. 1713 and d. 1792

Maternal: Elizabeth Adams b. 1837 and d. 1911

Haplogroup
Y-DNAR-M269
mtDNAN/A

https://www.familytreedna.com/my/family-finder/chromosome-browser

Biography

Nathan Byars is an NSSAR Patriot Ancestor. http://www.sar.org/
NSSAR Ancestor #: P126851 http://patriot.sar.org/fmi/iwp/cgi?-db=Grave%20Registry&-loadframes
Rank: Private

Nathan Byars served North Carolina during the American Revolution
Service started:
Unit(s):
Service ended:

Nathan married Drusilla Harrelson between 1770 and 1772 in North Carolina. The date is uncertain because Drusilla was listed as "Drusilla Harrilson" in her father's will dated 9 May 1772 in Orange County, North Carolina. Does this indicate that she was still unmarried in 1772? It would seem likely.[1]

Nathan married second Delphia Logan 8 October 1819 in Spartanburg County, South Carolina.[2]

http://logan-family.org/doc/byars.html This site put up by Joe Logan

Some of the other information comes from the following records:

Family Data Collection - Births U.S. and International Marriage Records, 1560-1900 U.S. Veterans Gravesites, ca.1775-2006

Nathan Byars article from Bridges to the Past

An article about Nathan Byars appeared in the "Bridges to the Past" column of the Forest City This Week newspaper on July 14, 1971. It was reprinted as part of the book Bridges to the Past HYPERLINK "http://logan-family.org/doc/byars.html" \l "S4#S4" 4 by Roy Brooks and Mrs. Ernest Newton. The information in the article is attributed to a Mrs. C.M. Moser of Shelby, N.C. The article includes details from Nathan Byars' pension application. It indicates he purchased land that included the Cowpens battlefield, and he was buried 1/2 mile from the Cowpens battle monument. The article also includes the following listing of the "known children of Nathan Byars and Drucilla (Harrelson) Byars". No sources are provided for the information on his children:

Martha (b. Dec 31, 1774) married Abner Womack
George (b. about 1773)
Nancy (b. 1776) married Thaddeus Dudley Walker
Nathan (Jr.) (b. about 1770)
John (b. 1777) married Mary Ann "Passer" Logan, daughter of John and Pamey Collins Logan [Note: Yes, these are the correct spellings as listed in this article]
Harrell (b. 1781) married Jane (?)
Elizabeth, married (1st) Daniel Watkins and (2nd), Enoch Anderson
Robert (b. 1786)
Joseph
Drury
Deliah (b. 1785) (died 1860) married Robert Martin (1783-1865) ***
Jackson, known to be by Nathan's second wife Delphy (Logan) Byars
Nathan Byars article from Warren County (TN) Genealogical Association Bulletin

An article about Nathan Byars appeared in the Warren County Genealogical Association Bulletin in the Fall of 2000. HYPERLINK "http://logan-family.org/doc/byars.html" \l "S34#S34" 34

The article is attributed to Marjorie Stewart Tucker. It includes substantial information about Nathan Byars and his two wives Drucilla Harralson and Delphy Logan. It goes into some detail on Nathan's pension application and Drucilla's request for a divorce. However the article doesn't provide indication of any Nathan's parents and doesn't attempt to enumerate all his children. Some points from the article are as follows:

Indicates Nathan took the State Oath of Allegiance on May 22, 1778 according to the Acts of the Assembly passed at New Bern the November 15, 1777. He was among 77 persons in the Island Creek District (Granville County) doing so. Also taking the oath was a William Byars who the article indicates may have been a brother to Nathan. At the end of the article the following source is referenced which may be the source of the information on the Oath of Allegiance: State Records of North Carolina, Vol 22, pp. 174-5, 1907.
Identifies a daughter Elizabeth who married Daniel Watkins, Sr.
Indicates he had land transactions in Granville, Caswell, Rutherford, and Spartanburg Counties. It includes the statement that "On Apr 13, 1802 he sold lands secured by title bond and gave possession to Arthur Clark the whole of 8 plantations containing 1,250 acres". The source for this piece of information is not indicated.
Includes details of his marriage and divorce of Drucilla Harralson, as well as his subsequent marriage to Delphy Logan. Regarding his divorce from Drucilla, it quotes papers from the General Assembly of the State of North Carolina, the Burke County Court of Equity, and The North Carolina Genealogical Society Journal (Vol III, No. 1, Feb. 1977, pp. 43-45).
Indicates that Drucilla's son-in-law, Thaddeus Dudley Walker, helped her get some money from Nathan. Rutherford Co., NC Deed Book 25, page 174 is quoted. Drucilla received 50 pounds as a result of an execution issuing from the Superior Court of Burke County.
References a photo of Nathan Byars' cabin taken April 14, 1978. The cabin was on the grounds of the Cowpens National Battlefield but has since been torn down.
Includes details of his purchase of the Cowpens Battlefield property as well as his subsequent loss of the land when it was seized to pay his debts.
Nathan Byars information from Haralson Book

The book "Haralson - Harrelson Family History and Lineage" HYPERLINK "http://logan-family.org/doc/byars.html" \l "S17#S17" 17 by Danny K. Haralson lists the following children of Nathan Byars and Drucilla (Drucetta) Haralson. No source for this information is indicated.

Nathan Byars
Drucilla Jane Byars
Martha Byars
John Byars
Harrel Byars
Elizabeth Byars
Nancy Byars
George Byars
Robert Byars
Andrew Byars ?
Nathan Byars article from Madison County (AR) Musings

An article by Bobbie Byars Lynch entitled "The Great First Lady of Arkansas" HYPERLINK "http://logan-family.org/doc/byars.html" \l "S33#S33" 33 appeared in the Winter 2002 issue of Madison County (AR) Musings. It details how Celia Alta Faubus, the wife of Gov. Orval Faubus, was descended from Nathan and Drucilla Byars' daughter Martha who married Abner Womack, son of Thomas and Louvisa Rice Womack. It indicates Martha was born 31 December 1774 in Virginia and died in 1820 in Warren County, TN. The author indicates she descends from Nathan and Drucilla's son Harrell who was born in 1781 in NC. The following children of Nathan and Drucilla are listed:

Drucilla Jane Byars Womack
Nathan Byars, Jr.
George Byars
Martha Byars Womack
Elizabeth Byars Watkins
Nancy Byars Walker
John Byars
Harrell Byars, Sr.
Joseph Byars
Robert Byars
The article indicates that Nathan divorced Drucilla and married a second time to Delphia Logan on 2 January 1800.**** They had two children, Delila Byars, born 1802, married Robert Martin; and Jackson Byars, born 1815 at Cowpens, SC, married "a girl named Tabitha". [Note: A statment from Joshua Richards found in Nathan Byars pension file indicates that the marriage date of Nathan and Delphia was 8 October, 1819.] *****

George Byars article from Granville County Queries

An article by Gail Shepard Tomlinson entitled "Three Generations of Descendants of George Byars of Granville County, N.C." HYPERLINK "http://logan-family.org/doc/byars.html" \l "S51#S51" 51 appeared in the Nov 1997 issue of Granville County Queries. It is two page article that details the descendants of George Byars, b. Circa 1748, d. 1785 at Granville Co, NC. Some points from the article are as follows:

George Byars' will in Granville Co., 1785 mentioned wife Mary, son Nicholas, daughter Barbara, and two minors of unproven relationship: Christina Hoofman and George
Census
The 1790 census, Rutherford County, North Carolina, lists Nathan Bias [Byars]. In his household are 4 males under age 16, 2 males age 16 and over (Nathan and probably his son Nathan Jr), and 6 females (including wife Drucilla and 5 daughters).[3]

The 1800 census for Nathan has not yet been located. In 1810 he is living in Rutherford County, North Carolina. There are some anomalies in this census record. Nathan is listed as 1 male age 45 and over. In his household are 1 female age 26 to 44 and 1 female under age 10. Nathan and Drucilla did not have any children born after 1800, so the daughter born between 1800-1810 cannot be Drucilla's daughter. The adult female age 26-44 (b 1766-1784), presumably Nathan's wife, cannot be Drucilla who was born about 1750.

We know that Nathan and Drucilla were divorced, but I have yet to locate the actual date of the divorce. It appears as if it was around 1800, or at least they were separated by that time. One source gives the marriage date of Nathan and his second wife Delphia Logan as 2 January 1800. The actual marriage record gives the date of 8 October 1819. Nathan and Delphia are said to have a daughter, Delila, born in 1802 and a son, Jackson, born in 1815. It seems to me that the 1810 federal census includes Nathan, Delphia and their daughter Delila.[4]


Sources
? Orange County Will Book A, p.152 as cited on Byars Family
? Byars Family
? "United States Census, 1790", database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:XHKB-PP2 : 29 May 2015), Nathan Bias, 1790.
? "United States Census, 1810", database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:XHL9-FX5 : 1 December 2015), Nathan Byars, 1810.
Source: Southern Campaign American Revolution Pension Statements & Rosters Nathan Byars.
Source:Find A Grave Nathan Byars, Memorial# 74053197.

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Served 3 three-month tours during Revolutionary War and volunteered for three months duty in the Indian Wars. DAR Patriot Index, Vol. II, p.5.

Inscription: Pvt Continental Line Revolutionary War, Replacement stone, original is in Park Storage.

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Majorie Stewart Tucker writes,

Nathan Byars was born in 1749, Granville Co., NC, d. Aug. 18, 1846, Spartanburg District, SC. He m.1st. after 1772 (date of Burgess Harrelson's will), Drucilla Harrelson, b. ca 1743-50, d. probably ca 1818, dau. of Burgess Harrelson and wife, Elizabeth.

The will of Burgess Harrelson was made Oct. 9, 1772, in Orange Co., NC. In it he named his daughter, Drucilla Harrelson and gave her two hundred acres of land, indicating that Drucilla was not married when the will was written.

Nathan Byars is buried in the Cowpens National Park, Cherokee County, SC. His tombstone reads "In Memory of Nathan Byars Sen. who died Aug. 18, 1846 in his 97th year." Note - Cherokee Co., SC was formed 1897 from Union, York, and Spartanburg Counties.

Nathan Byars served as a Private from North Carolina during the Revolutionary War. On May 22, 1778, he took the State Oath of Allegiance according to the Acts of the Assembly passed at New Bern the 15th day of November, 1777, in the second year of the Independence of the State of North Carolina, being one of seventy- seven persons in the Island Creek District so doing. Among this number was also one William Byars, who may have been his brother.

While a resident of Caswell County, North Carolina, Nathan Byars was drafted three times and served three months each tour. He then volunteered a tour of three months and went south against the Indians. He was stationed principally at Hillsborough, NC. On Dec. 31, 1844, at the advanced age of ninety-five years, when he applied for his Military Pension, Nathan was unable to remember the exact date of his birth or the exact dates of his service.

He did remember that his father told him that he was a small boy at the time of Gen. Braddock's defeat (1755, during the French and Indian War). He recollected that he was in the service at the time the battle was fought at the Eutaw Springs (Sept. 1781) and at King's Mountain (1780) and at the time of Gates' defeat (Aug. 16, 1780, Camden, SC), though he did not participate in these battles.

Nathan's application for pension was supported by an affidavit submitted by Jesse and Rev. Drury, two sons of his neighbor, Richard Scruggs. His application was also supported by Philip Davis and Sarah (Davis) Wadkins, who made oath that their brother, Jacob Davis, was drafted at the same time and that they served the tour together. Sarah Davis was married to William Watkins, whose brother, Daniel Watkins, Sr. married Nathan's daughter, Elizabeth Byars. She stated that she was raised and lived in NC until she was twelve or fourteen years of age and that she lived near Nathan Byars.

The following is a copy of the interrogation of Nathan Byars when he applied for his Military Pension, Dec. 31, 1844:

NATHAN BYARS
Pension Records
#W6223

Interrogatory put to the applicant -

1st Where and in what year was you born - ?

Ans I was born in Granville County, N.C., but cannot recollect the date of the year, but my father told me I was a small boy at Braddock's Defeat.

2nd Have you any record of your age?

Ans No more than what I have told you -

3rd Where were you living when called in to the service and where have you lived since that time and where do you now live - ?

Ans I lived in Caswell County, N.C. I then lived several years in Rutherford County, N.C. and since that time have (and now do) live in Spartanburgh Dt. South Carolina -

4th How were you called in to the service?

Ans I was drafted in the Militia of N.C. three different times and served three months each tour and volunteered one tour of three months against the Indians -

5th State the names of some of the regular officers who were with the troops where you served.

Ans Col. Ramsey and Major Moore, Capt. Cunningham and Capt. Forker -

6th Did you receive a discharge from the service and if so, by whom was it given and what has become of it?

Ans I had a regular discharge and believe it was given by Capt. Cunningham - which is now lost or mislaid.

7th State the names of persons to whom you are known in your present neighborhood and who can testify to your character for veracity and their belief of your service as a soldier of the Revolution -

Ans Richard Scruggs - Drury Scruggs, Jesse Scruggs and H. Hicks.

Sworn to and Subscribed the day and year before written -

his mark Nathan Byars

R. Bowdin, Judge of the Court of Chancery

Nathan Byars engaged in many land transactions, both buying and selling in Granville Co., NC from 1780 through 1784, yet in Caswell Co., he bought and sold land from 1781 through 1784. It seems likely the family moved to Rutherford Co., NC about 1783-85.

Nathan purchased 200 acres from James Webb April 10, 1783, located on Main Broad River in Rutherford County. A few years later, in 1795, he sold a part of it to William Dobbins. On Apr. 13, 1802 he sold lands secured by title bond and gave possession to Arthur Clark the whole of 8 plantations containing 1,250 acres. Either he or his son, Nathan, Jr. bought land in Spartanburg Co., SC beginning in 1817.

About 1801 Nathan and Drucilla's marriage began to fall apart. Quoting from the Haralson - Harrelson Family History, compiled by Danny K. Haralson, page 47 - "Nathan had been living with Delphy
Logan since 1801." No source was cited as proof for this statement. Delphy Logan became Nathan's second wife, Oct. 8, 1819.

In Delphy's application for a widow's pension, made Dec. 29, 1853, she stated that she and Nathan were not married prior to Jan. 2, 1800. Drucilla filed a petition for a legal separation to the
North Carolina General Assembly October 11, 1808. The following is a copy of the document:

To the Honorable the General Assembly of the State of North Carolina

The humble petition of Drusilla Byars of Rutherford County in the said State wife of Nathan Byars of the same County she with, that your petitioner when married was worth a considerable estate, that her said husband had little or no property; that your petitioner lived in harmony with her husband for a great many years in which time she had 10 children during all which time ever since she hath used her best endeavor to improve their property and support their family, did use unremitted exertions to render her said husband happy. That about seven years ago her husband did withdraw his affection from her and did refuse giving her any protection or support and did convince her to leave his house, she repeate and returned and was often obliged to abandon his house to resort to the cold charity of the world for substenance.

Your petitioner on representing these facts to the Court of Equity of Morgan District had a decree was made in her favor, but she finds no decree can be availing until she is authorized to hold any property she may acquire as she can find no friend who feels sufficient interest to induce him to act as a trustee, and to secure and defend any property to which she might be entitled.

Now your petitioner humbly prays that an act of Assembly be made authorizing her to hold property which she may acquire and to maintain and defend suit in her own name.

October 11, 1808 her
Drusilla X
Byars
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Petition of
Drusilla Byars
of Rutherford County

State of North Carolina
Burk County Court of Equity
I Adolphus L. Erwin, Clerk
Master in Equity for said County do hereby certify that Drusilla Byars, did prefer a Bill of Complaint in the Court of Equity for the district of Morgan against her husband Nathan Byars, and obtained a decree in her favor for a separate maintainance in said Court that Writs of purefacing up side from several terms of said Court, and the Sheriff hath not found by his ruling sufficient property to satisfy the Court of the said Suit and that no part of the decree hath been yet satisfied.

Given under my hand at office in Morgantown November 2nd 1808

A.L. Erwin Clk.
Petition of Drusilla Byars of Rutherford County
Praying a law be passed securing to her such property as she may herself later acquire.

In Senate November 24th 1808
Read and referred to the committee on Divorce and Alimony E/e

By order M. Stokes, Clk Mr. Pickens

Granted in House of Commons 24 November 1808 read orders at by the Senate
By order
Honorable H.B.

With the help of her son-in-law, Thaddeus Dudley Walker, Drucilla received some money from Nathan. From Rutherford Co., NC Deed Book 25, page 174:

"This indenture made this 13th day of July, 1809, between William Carson, Esq., high sheriff of the County of Rutherford, State of North Carolina, on the one part and Thaddius Walker of the County of Rutherford and the State aforesaid of the other part. Whereas by virtue of an execution issuing from the Superior Court of Burke County against Nathan Byars for the sum of fifty pounds 5/ which sum was recovered by Drucilla Byars as on record may appear."

The following information about the early divorces and separations is from The North Carolina Genealogical Society Journal, Vol. III, No. 1, Feb. 1977, pp. 43-45:

"Divorces and Separations Granted by Act of North Carolina Assembly from 1790-1808" by B. Ransom McBride.

McBride gives a history of Divorce and Separation during colonial times through 1808. He says, "With the advent of liberal Jeffersonian democracy, the upward trend continued, and in the six years between 1802 and 1808, the NC Assembly had approved four more complete divorces and 116 separations." A complete listing of divorces and separations is part of the article with divorces indicated with a D. On page 45 is this entry: Byars, Prusilla, husband not named; of Rutherford Co. (1808, page 39)". Complete information for each entry is available in the Legislative Papers of North Carolina.

According to Maurice Rasmussen (Enquirer, Vol. I, No. 4, p. 109)

Drucilla lived with her daughter Elizabeth Watkins and was with her daughter, Nancy Walker when she died.

Tradition says Drucilla died in 1818. Since there was no divorce, Nathan had to wait until she died before he could marry Delphy, so that may well be the year Drucilla Harrelson Byars passed away.
Nathan and Delphy Logan were married Oct. 8, 1819, in Spartanburg Dist., SC, by Rev. Joshua Richards.

Nathan moved from Rutherford Co., NC to the area of the Cowpens Battleground, in the Spartanburg Dist., SC, settling on the high ground separating the Suck and Little Buck Creek watersheds. About 1822 he built a cabin and cleared and fenced a field southwest of the intersection of the Island (Coulter's Ford) and Green River roads. (This info from the Report of U.S. Park Service, Gov't Study).

Shown on the next page is a picture of the cabin that Nathan Byars built, taken April 14, 1978, courtesy of Dorothy Eubanks Hays. Even though it was recommended that the house be studied, the National Parks Service tore it down."

In April 1826, Nathan Byars had Joseph Camp survey for him a 394 acre tract, as evidenced by the following:

State of South Carolina

Pursuant to a warrant from Jabez Galt, Esq., Commissioner of Locations in Spartanburgh District dated 8th of March 1826 - I have admeasured & laid out unto Nathan Byars, Senr. a Tract of Land containing three Hundred & ninety four acres Situate in Said District and on the head waters of Island, Suck & Buck Creeks including his own home & plantation, also including the Cowpen Battle Ground Bounded East by Scruggs' & Earle's Land and all other sides by unknown Lands - and hath such shape & form as above Plat represents. Surveyed this 5th day of April 1826 ___
By me, Joseph Camp,

Andrew Rhea
& C.B.
Robt. Scruggs Recorded 12th April 1826. Paid $2.00 and
Recorded in

Plat Book B, at page 383.

A copy of the plat is presented on the next page, followed by a Historical Base Map of the Cowpens National Battlefield.


The following is quoted from a Report of U.S. Park Service Gov't. Study, page 12:

"Gov. Richard J. Manning, on examining the plat and its accompanying certificate, granted on October 2, 1826, to Nathan Byars, "his heirs and assigns," a 394-acre tract or plantation on the headwaters of Island, Suck, and Buck creeks.

An examination of the Byars, Steadman, and McClaren plats shows that in 1826 Byars had been granted 394 acres of the 2,000 acres granted to McClaren 23 years before. McClaren had conveyed title to most of the acreage in his grants to Wilson Nesbitt, who, plagued by lawsuits, had failed to maintain and defend his title. To the west Byars' grant intruded onto the acreage granted to James Steadman in 1787 by Governor Pinckney. The parties to whom the Steadman heirs had conveyed his 2,482-acre grant were absentee owners. Although the plat prepared for Nathaniel Gist by John Gibbs in 1845 shows a conflict, there were no court challenges.

The Court of Common Pleas for Spartanburg District issued on November 16, 1840, a writ of Five Facias in the suit of Samuel Ezell against Nathan Byars. When Byars was unable to pay the judgment, Sheriff A.C. Bomar of Spartanburg District was ordered to levy $36.60 on his goods and chattels, with interests and costs.

To enforce the writ, Sheriff Bomar seized and taken of the Lands and Tenaments of the said Nathan Byars all that certain piece parcel and tract of land containing three Hundred Acres, more or less."

Samuel Ezell sold the 300 acres to his son, James H. Ezell.

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Nathan Byars was now left penniless, his land and home having been seized from him. On Dec. 31, 1844, he applied for a Military Pension which was repeatedly denied to him. Finally, Oct. 3, 1851, Michael Thompson wrote a letter to James E. Heath, Commissioner of Pensions, pleading emphatically for Nathan's claim to be allowed. This letter must have had a decisive effect. Of Nathan he wrote:
"But I should reproach myself were I not to exhaust all proper means to establish what I solemnly believe to be a clear, legal and valid claim for a poor bedridden, half starved soldier of the revolution, who literally cries to me for help, to prosecute what he conceives, and what I conceive, to be his rights under the law."

A typed copy of the Certificate issued for his claim appears on the next page. It was made retroactive to March 4, 1831 and his widow, Delphy recovered the sum. On Dec. 29, 1853, Delphy's application for the widow's pension of half-pay was executed.

Nathan Byars had died in poverty Aug. 18, 1846 and was buried in the family graveyard behind the house and outbuildings. It would seem that he had died in obscurity, but in the late summer of 1971, descendants from all over the country gathered at his gravesite to dedicate a permanent government marker at his grave. It is reported by Clovis Byars Herring that in 1985 when she visited the cemetery the stone was in pieces and there was no sign of the DAR marker that was put there.

It is not known when Delphy Byars was born or when she died. She is enumerated in the Census of 1850, Spartanburg District, SC:

#1278 Delphia Bian 65 SC
Juda Turner 36 SC male
Simpson Russ 22 SC
Miranda " 10 SC
John H. " 8 SC
Barbara " 5 SC
Sarah " 3 SC


According to this census record she was born in 1785, but in the Census of 1860, Spartanburg District, SC, she was living at Cowpens with the family of Robert and Delilah Martin, and was born in 1776. It is not known who the people were who were living with her. The last mention of her is in a letter which was found among the papers in Nathan's Pension File. It was written July 20, 1937 by A.H. Hiller, Executive Assistant to the Administrator, to Will Franke of Birmingham, AL. He states that in 1868 Delphy Byars was living about sixteen miles north of the Spartanburg Court House.


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May 4, 1852

DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR
REVOLUTIONARY CLAIM.


I certify that in conformity with the law of the United States of the 7th June, 1832, Nathan Byars of South Carolina who was a private in the Revolution is entitled to receive Twenty dollars per annum, during his natural life, commencing on the 4th of March, 1831, and payable semi-annually on the 4th of March and 4th of September, in every year.

Given at the Department of the Interior, this fourth day of May one thousand eight hundred and fifty two

Alex H.H. Stuart Secretary of the Interior

Examined and )
Countersigned )

J.E. Heath
Commissioner of Pensions


SOURCES:

1. Pension File W6223, Nathan Byars.

2. Byars - Byers Enquirer, Vol. I, No. 1, page 7.

3. The State Records of North Carolina, Vol. 22, pp. 174-75, 1907.

4. Rutherford County, N.C. Abstracts of Wills 1779-1822.

5. Affidavit of Marriage by Rev. Joshua Richards.

6. Report of U.S. Park Service, Gov't. Study. "

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Nonie Webb,"Henry Byars is the brother of Nathan Byars",abstracted from land deeds,Granville,NC

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http://ftp.rootsweb.com/pub/usgenweb/va/halifax/bios/guthrie1.txt

22 Jan. 1779 James Guttree and William Guttree enter 250 A on waters of Adams Creek; borders Nathan Byas, Charles Bostick and William Allen. Includes the improvements where Garritt Guttree now lives

13 Oct. 1783 to William Guttery and James Guttery 250 A. on Adams Creek adjacent Nathan Byas, Charles Allen Caswell Co., Deed Book B

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Rutherford County, NC Records

Rutherford County was created in 1779 from the western portion of Tryon County.

SARAH BYASS was listed in Captain RUSSEL's Company in the 1782 Tax List of Rutherford County, NC. She was listed with 200 acres of land, 1 negro, 2 horses, 8 cattle, and an assessment of 208.
(Source: http://www.northcarolinagenealogy.net/downloads/1782.txt)

Deed Books A-D, P.77: 17 Oct 1783, MICHAEL MCELWRATH to THOMAS MORRIS, for ¹ 60 "Hard money" ... land on E side Mountain Creek adj. DAVID BYERS, 300 A, granted to sd. BYERS 18 Apr 1771 ... MICHAEL MCELWRATH (SEAL), No wit.
(Source: Holcomb, Deed Abstracts of Tryon, Lincoln, & Rutherford Counties, North Carolina, 1769-1786, p.138)31

Deed Books A-D, P.173: 10 Apr 1783, JAMES WEBB of Rutherford Co., to NATHAN BYERS of Caswell Co., for ¹ 150 ... 200 A on N side main Broad River adj. MCCLANNAHANS ... JAMES WEBB (+) (SEAL), Wit: WILLM HACKINS, JOHN WEBB, WILLIAM COOPER.
(Source: Holcomb, Deed Abstracts of Tryon, Lincoln, & Rutherford Counties, North Carolina, 1769-1786, p.145)31

Deed Books A-D, Pp.175-176: 28 July 1779, ALEXANDER COULTER of Rutherford Co., to ROBERT SHIPLEY of same, for ¹ 400 ... 300 A on Cleghorns Creek, formerly Sheppards Creek, JAMES BYARS pattentee ... ALEXANDER COULTER (SEAL), Wit: D. DICKEY, RICHARD SINGLETON.
(Source: Holcomb, Deed Abstracts of Tryon, Lincoln, & Rutherford Counties, North Carolina, 1769-1786, p.146)31

Deed Books A-D, Pp.192-193: 10 Sept 1779, JOHN BERRY of Dist. of Ninety Six, S.C. to JAMES GRAY of N.C., for ¹ 2000 S.C. money ... land on N side Broad River on McDonalds Creek, adj. JAMES BYARS ... JOHN BERRY (SEAL), Wit: RICHARD MCCLURE, ANDREW THOMSON.
(Source: Holcomb, Deed Abstracts of Tryon, Lincoln, & Rutherford Counties, North Carolina, 1769-1786, p.147)31

Deed Books A-D, Pp.214: 15 July 1775, ABRAHAM KIRKENDALL of Tryon Co., to JOHN WEBB of same, for ¹ 35 ... land on W side Second Broad River, 300 A ... ABRAHAM KIRKENDALL (A) (SEAL), Wit: JOHN BYAS (J), ROBERT BYAS.
(Source: Holcomb, Deed Abstracts of Tryon, Lincoln, & Rutherford Counties, North Carolina, 1769-1786, p.149)31

Deed Books A-D, P.228: Grant to ANTHONY DICKEY, 400 A on Mill Creek of Broad River, adj. his own land, BYERS ... 13 Oct 1783. ALEX MARTIN.
(Source: Holcomb, Deed Abstracts of Tryon, Lincoln, & Rutherford Counties, North Carolina, 1769-1786, p.150)31

Deed Books A-D, Pp.442-443: 6 Jan 1786, THOMAS MORRIS to JOSHUA TYLOR, both of Rutherford Co., for ¹ 80 ... land on N side Main Broad River on E side Mountain Creek, adj. THOMAS JOHNSTON, granted to DAVID BYERS, 29 Apr 1768 ... THOMAS MORRIS (SEAL), Wit: MOSES WRIGHT, JAMES JAFFREY.
(Source: Holcomb, Deed Abstracts of Tryon, Lincoln, & Rutherford Counties, North Carolina, 1769-1786, p.166)31

Deed Book G, Page 183, No. 753: 20 April 1786, THOMAS MORRIS to ANTHONY DICKEY for 100 pds. tract of 300 a. on both sides Mill Creek on E. branch of Mountain Creek begin. at DAVID BYERS corner, Land orig. granted to JAMES BYERS 18 April 1779. WM. GRANT, Sp--? COLEMAN BROWN.
(Source: Davis, Rutherford County, North Carolina, Abstracts of Deeds, 1773-1795, p.28)15

Deed Book G, Page 233, No. 801: 25 Sept. 1787, THOMAS WHITESIDES to GARRET VINZANT, JR., for 25 pds. tract of 60 a. on both sides First Broad River being part of a grant to WILLIAM SIMS & MAYDDN BYAR, adj. ROBT. WHITESIDES, SMITH or VINZANT, BARNETT or OZBORN corner. JOHN SMITH.
(Source: Davis, Rutherford County, North Carolina, Abstracts of Deeds, 1773-1795, p.34)15

Deed Book I, Page 379, No. 927: 6 Oct. 1792, JOSEPH BOREN of Ninety-six Dist., S.C. to JOSEPH CAMP of Rutherford Co. for 100 pds. proc. money of N.C. 222 a. in Rutherford Co. on branch of CARTIN's Mill Creek and on E. side of Broad River begin. at a line formerly called JOHN WILSON's line. Land was first granted to JOSEPH CAMP by JOSIAH MARTIN, Esq. by pat. dt'd. 15 May 1772 and conveyed by deed to JOSEPH BOWREN and now from BOWREN to sd. JOSEPH CAMP. Rec. July 10, 1792. WILLIAM CAMP, WILLIAM B. BYARS-x-.
(Source: Davis, Rutherford County, North Carolina, Abstracts of Deeds, 1773-1795, p.52)15

Deed Book J, Page 53, No. 1047: 31 July 1786, STEPHEN SHELTON to JOHN CARVER for 5 pds. paid by ROBERT BYARS lately dec'd., 50 a. in Rutherford Co. being part of tract of 400 a. pat. granted to sd. SHELTON. Said 50 a. lies on N/E of survey join. Beaverdam Creek and First Broad River. Rec. 3 Aug. 1793. JOEL SHELTON, "CON PACK".
(Source: Davis, Rutherford County, North Carolina, Abstracts of Deeds, 1773-1795, p.70)15

Deed Book J, Page 95, No. 1090: 22 Nov 1791, FREDERICK MORNINGSTAIR of Spartanburg Dist. S.C. to JONAS BEDFORD for 50 pds. 150 A. originally granted to GEORGE SAYLOR 26 Nov. 1789 and by deed convy. to FREDERICK MORNINGSTEER. Land on N. fork Floyd's Creek near BEDFOR & ESHLEY. Rec. 7 Dec. 1793. Signed: FREDERICK MORNINGSTER, ELEZABETH MORNINGSTER. WILLIAM-x-BYERS.
(Source: Davis, Rutherford County, North Carolina, Abstracts of Deeds, 1773-1795, p.76)15

Deed Book K, Page 239, No. 1238: 24 May 1787, ELIZABETH THOMASON to BUSHROD DOGED (sic) for 35 pds. proc. money of N.C., 150 a. in the Old Field where JOHN THOMASON used to live on both sides Rocky Creek of Floyds Creek. Rec. 5 July 1794. NATHAN BYARS, GEORGE SUTTLE.
(Source: Davis, Rutherford County, North Carolina, Abstracts of Deeds, 1773-1795, p.96)15

Deed Book L, Page 328, No. 1326: 18 Oct 1788, THOMAS TOWNSON, planter, to SARAH BYARS for 30 pds. Virginia money and one Negro girl, 200 a. on S. side Broad River. Land granted to JAMES MOOR by Pat. 5 April 1766. JOEL-x-BLACKWELL, NATHAN BYARS. Rec. 6 Jan. 1795.
(Source: Davis, Rutherford County, North Carolina, Abstracts of Deeds, 1773-1795, p.108)15

Deed Book L, Page 333, No. 1330: 20 June 1788, NATHAN BYARS to WILLIAM DOBBINS, 90 a. adj. MRS. CLONAHAN on E. side Broad River being part of tract of land granted by Gov. WILLIAM TRYON to JAMES WEBB. The parcel of 90 a. being part of 4 grants granted to WM. WEBB. Rec. 9 Jan. 1795. WILLIAM DOBBINS, JAMES DOBBINS.
(Source: Davis, Rutherford County, North Carolina, Abstracts of Deeds, 1773-1795, p.109)15

[I failed to copy the page that contains the first part of this deed abstract ... probably deed from Robert Crockett listed below ... REMINDER: get a copy of page 110 of this source] ... York Co., S.C. to NATHAN BIAIS (sic) for 100 pds. (no acreage stated) land on N. side Main Broad River. HENRY McKINNEY, GEORGE-x-SWILL, JAMES-g-GLEMONE.
(Source: Davis, Rutherford County, North Carolina, Abstracts of Deeds, 1773-1795, p.111)15

[Note: The list of deeds below is taken from the Rutherford County Grantor/Grantee Deed Indexes available on microfilm from the NC State Archives. In a few cases I have also looked at deed books which are also available on microfilm and created my own abstracts which are listed below. And for selected deeds I have transcribed abstracts found in the Bulletin of the Genealogical Society of Old Tryon County. Also, the Byars/Byers deeds I have listed below from Rutherford County are only for the years prior to 1850. There are many more Byars/Byers deeds in Rutherford County after 1850.]

From Crockett, Robert to Biais, Nathan, Deed Book J-L, p.344, 1795

From Byars, Nathan to Good, Edward, Deed Book 11-Oct, p.487 & 490, 1799

Deed Book 11, p.487, 20 January 1797, Nathan Biers/Byars of RCNC to Edward Good of same, 60 pounds, 105 acres on Grog Creek and Sandy Run, part of a grant to James Webb 28 November 1792, conveyed by Webb to Daniel Shipman Junr. and from Shipman to Nathen Biers. Wit. L. Moore, Harrelson Byars. #873, 25 September 1799.
(Source: Bulletin of the Genealogical Society of Old Tryon County, November 1996, p.181)

Deed Book 11, p.490, 20 January 1797, Nathan Biars/Byars of RCNC to Edward Good of same, 60 pounds 100 acres on Chesnut Log Branch of Sandy Run, conveyed from Daniel Shipman to Nathan Biars. Wit. L. Moore, Harrelson Byars. #874, 26 September 1799.
(Source: Bulletin of the Genealogical Society of Old Tryon County, November 1996, p.181)

From Byars, Nathan to Blackwell, Joel, Deed Book 15-17, p.125, 1801

From Byers, Nathan to Lee, Edmond, Deed Book 15-17, p.146, 1801

From Haney, Richard to Byers, Nathan, Deed Book 15-17, p.194, 1801

From Byers, John to Black, Joel, Deed Book 18-19, p.72, 1802

From Hunter, Samuel to Byers, Nathen, Deed Book 20-21, p.32, 1803
18 January 1800, PATRICK SANDERS of Spartanburgh Co., S.C. to NATHEN BYERS of Rutherford Co., for $333, a tract of land originally granted to JOHN TURNER on October the 19th in the eight year of the independence of te United States, containing 100 acres on the S. side of Broad River on [? ashworths] Creek ... PATRICK SANDERS (Seal), Wit: GEORGE CAMP, WM [? ABBOTT JUNR]. Rec. 28 April 1803.
[Note: The Rutherford County deed index indicates this deed was from Samuel Hunter to Nathen Byers, but the recorded copy of the deed shows that it was actually from Patrick Sanders to Nathen Byers. The next deed recorded in the deed book was from Samuel Hunter to Warren Metcalf.]

From Byers, Nathan to Byars, Nathan, Deed Book 20-21, p.49, 1803
24 August 1802, NATHAN BYARS of Rutherford Co., to GEORGE BYARS of the same, for $50, 50 acres on the S. side of Main Broad River, beginning on the river bank at SARAH BYARS corner, from a patent granted to FRANCES ALEXANDER dated 15 Dec 1799 ... NATHAN BYARS (SEAL), Wit: GABRIEL [? MARTIN], JOHN BYARS. Rec. 6 May 1803.
[Note: Again, the Rutherford County deed index is in error as it indicates this deed was to Nathan Byars when the recorded copy indicates it was to George Byars.]

From Good, Robert to Byers, James, Deed Book 20-21, p.316, 1804

From Byers, Nathan to Hamilton, Joseph, Deed Book 22-23, p.273, 1805
26 November 1804, EDMAND LEA & NATHAN BYARS of Rutherford Co., to JOSEPH & NOBLE HAMILTON of the same, for $600, land on the N. side of Main Broad River adjoining the land of MARTIN MARTIN, containing 48 acres. Another tract of land on the N. side of [?] Broad River joining the land above described, including the Island Ford commonly known by the name of the Island Ford Tract, containing 167 acres ... EDMOND (x) LEA (SEAL), NATHAN BYARS (SEAL), Wit: [? ??? CAMP, ???]. Rec. 29 March 1805.

339. Jan 25, 1806, Nathan Byas enters 100 ac in Rutherford Co on each side of Ashworths Cr and S side of main Broad R; border: Joseph Turner and "the" speculation line; issued.
Source: Pruitt, Abstracts of Land Entries: Rutherford County, NC, January 1804-April 1826, p.23)42

340. Jan 25, 1806, Nathan Byas enters 40 acres in Rutherford Co on S side of main Broad R; border: "his" Harel Byas and near "the" speculation line; issued.
Source: Pruitt, Abstracts of Land Entries: Rutherford County, NC, January 1804-April 1826, p.23)42

342. Feb. 12, 1806, Nathan Byars enters 100 ac in Rutherford Co on both sides of main Broad R; border Wm Dobins and Stephen Philips; issued.
Source: Pruitt, Abstracts of Land Entries: Rutherford County, NC, January 1804-April 1826, p.23)42

343. Feb 12, 1806, Nathan Byars enters 50 ac in Rutherford Co on N side of main Broad R; border: Geo Byars, Richd Goode, Wm McGouin, & his own line; issued.
Source: Pruitt, Abstracts of Land Entries: Rutherford County, NC, January 1804-April 1826, p.23)42

From Byas, Nathan to Alexander, Francis, Deed Book 22-23, p.514, 1806

From Good, Joseph to Byers, Nathan, Deed Book 24-26, p.55 & 84, 1807

Deed Book 24, p.61, 3 February 1807, Stephen Duponceau & William Tilghman Esqrs., Abraham Kintsing Junr., George Worral, and Tench Coxe, by Peter Fisher, their attorney, to Enoch Andrews of RCNC, 30 dollars, 100 acres on Suck Creek, joining Joel Blackwell, Evan Watkins, Daniel Watkins, part of Coxes 6000 acres. Wit. David Webb, Harrel Byars. #67, 7 September 1807.
(Source: Bulletin of the Genealogical Society of Old Tryon County, February 2003, p.33)

Deed Book 24, p.84, 16 October 1802, Joseph Goode of RCNC to Nathan Byers of same, ¹25, 35 acres on the south side of Main Broad River on Suck Creek. Wit. Jas. Wyle, Horrel Byars. #90, 16 September 1807.
(Source: Bulletin of the Genealogical Society of Old Tryon County, February 2003, p.35)

From Byers, Nathan to Walker, Thadius, Deed Book 25, p.174, 1810

From Byers, Nathan to Hamilton, Noble, Deed Book 27-28, p.55, 1813

From Byars, Nathan to Clarke, Arthur, Deed Book 29-31, p.285, 1817

From Byars, George to Patterson, David, Deed Book 32-33, p.31, 1819

From Byars, Samuel to Scoggins, Joseph, Deed Book 32-33, p.45, 1819

From Blackwell, Joel & Sarah to Byars, George, Deed Book 32-33, p.91, 1819

From Byars, Nathan to Hamilton, Noble, Deed Book 32-33, p.115, 1819

From Byars, William to Durham, Edmond, Deed Book 37-38, p.299, 1831

From Byars, George to McKinney, James, Deed Book 39-40, p.176, 1834

From Guthery, Jonathan to Byers, John, Deed Book 41-42, p.118, 1835

From Byars, John to Byars, Drury, Deed Book 43, p.463, 1838

From Byars, Nathan to Guthrie, Joseph, Deed Book 43, p.534, 1839

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Lincoln County, NC Records
Lincoln County was created in 1779 from the eastern portion of Tryon County.
Drury Logan and Polley Bias; 19 Nov 1803; Bondsman: Abner Massee
(Source: Bynum, Marriage Bonds of Tryon and Lincoln Counties, North Carolina)12
Joseph Houston (Hueston) and Pagy Byers; 20 Feb 1809; Bonsdman: John x Mattiss, Witness: Mic Cline
(Source: Bynum, Marriage Bonds of Tryon and Lincoln Counties, North Carolina)12
Robert x Byars and Jane Houston; 24 Mar 1804; Bondsman: William x Tucker; Witness: John Dickson
(Source: Bynum, Marriage Bonds of Tryon and Lincoln Counties, North Carolina)12
Edward Byars and Jane Henry; 27 Feb 1812; Bondsman: Wm J Wilson; Witness: Lwn Henderson
(Source: Bynum, Marriage Bonds of Tryon and Lincoln Counties, North Carolina)12
Wm x Byers and ------ ------; 8 Jan 1796; Bondsman: Wm x Earwood (Carwood)
(Source: Bynum, Marriage Bonds of Tryon and Lincoln Counties, North Carolina)12

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Spartanburg County, SC Records
Spartanburg County was created in 1785 from the district of Ninety-Six. Prior to 1772 when the NC / SC state line was surveyed, the area encompassed by present day Spartanburg County was administered as part of Tryon County, NC.

Deed Book F, p.251-252, Jul. 31, 1798: DRURY SCRUGGS (Spartanburgh) to JAMES BLACK (same); for 11¹ 11s sterling sold 85 ac on for of Horse Cr; border: conditional line between DRURY SCRUGGS to RICHARD HANEY; part of 655 ac grant Dec. 2, 1793 State's Office to REUBIN WARREN. Witness WILLIAM MORROW and NATHAN BYARS. Signed DRURY SCRUGGS. Wit. oath Aug. 18, 1798 WILLIAM MORROW to WM MCDOWELL. Rec. Apr. 15, 1799.
(Source: Pruitt, Spartanburg County / District South Carolina Deed Abstracts, 1785-1827, p.161)43

Deed Book F, p.273-274, Aug. 24, 1798: MATTHIAS TURNER (Spartanburgh) to JOHN SUTHERLAND (or SOUTHERLAND) (same); for 50¹ sterling sold 100 ac on Surratt's Cr; border: THOMAS HARRIS. Witness: NATHAN BYARS and ZACHARIAH BLACKWELL. Signed: MATTHIAS TURNER's mark. Wit. oath Jan. 10, 1799 NATHAN BYARS to GEOR LAMKIN. Rec. Apr. 21, 1799
(Source: Pruitt, Spartanburg County / District South Carolina Deed Abstracts, 1785-1827, p.163)43

Deed Book G, p.116-117, Mar. 1, 1800: JOHN SUTHERLIN (Spartanburgh) to WILLIAM MORROW (same); for 30¹ sterling sold 100 ac; on both sides of Horse Cr of Broad R; part of 300 ac grant Jan. 1, 1787 States Office to JOSEPH WARREN and sold by NATHANIEL PACACE (or PERRACE) to JOHN SUTHERLIN. Witness: NATHAN BYARS, JNO BONNER, and DAVID PARIS. Signed: JOHN SUTHERLIN. Wit. oath May 10, 1800, DAVID PARIS to GEO LAMKIN. Rec. Nov. 13, 1800.
(Source: Pruitt, Spartanburg County / District South Carolina Deed Abstracts, 1785-1827, p.195)43

Deed Book I, p.423-424, May 29, 1804: JAMES PHILIPS (Rutherford Co, NC) to REUBIN PHILLIPS (Spartanburgh); for $50 sold 170 ac on both sides of Ashworth Cr; border: N-North Carolina line, S-Camp; on lower end of 300 ac grant to THOMAS THOMSON; survey Sept. 23, 1794 for THOMAS THOMSON. Witness: JACOB PHILLIPS and NATHAN BYARS. Signed: JAMES PHILLIPS' mark. Wit. oath Jul. 21, 1804 JACOB PHILLIPS to JNO RICKMAN. Rec. Oct. 8, 1804.
(Source: Pruitt, Spartanburg County / District South Carolina Deed Abstracts, 1785-1827, p.276)43

Deed Book K, p.37-38, Sept. 5, 1803: JOHN COOPER (Spartanburgh) to JOHN CHAMPION, WM HESTER, NATHAN BYARS, and VARDRY CAMP, deacons of Church of Providence; for $5 sold 4 ac; plat attached. Witness ABISHA CAMP and JOSEPH CAMP. Signed JOHN COPPER. Wit. oath Mar. 25, 1805 ABISHA CAMP to WILLIAM LANCASTER. Rec. Mar. 25, 1803.
(Source: Pruitt, Spartanburg County / District South Carolina Deed Abstracts, 1785-1827, p.288)43

Deed Book L, p.337, Dec. 9, 1807: JACOB CROCKER (Spartanburgh) to JOSEPH BYARS (same); for $300 sold 286 ac; border: Camp, Cherokee Cr, Watson, Markley, and Green's Cr. Witness: NATHAN BYARS and THOMAS BYARS. Signed: JACOB CROCKER. Wit. oath Aug. 27, 1808 THOMAS BYARS to JOHN LIPSCOMB. Rec. Oct 3, 1808.
(Source: Pruitt, Spartanburg County / District South Carolina Deed Abstracts, 1785-1827, p.377)43

Deed Book O, p.247, Apr.3, 1815: DETITHY MERRIMAN (Bledso Co, Tenn) to BRIANT BONNER (Spartanburgh); for $100 sold 100 ac on Sarratt's Cr of Broad R; border: SILAS YARBOROUGH, NATHAN BYARS, path from NATHAN
[I failed to copy the page that contains the last part of this deed abstract ... REMINDER: get a copy of page 508 of this source]
(Source: Pruitt, Spartanburg County / District South Carolina Deed Abstracts, 1785-1827, p.507)43

Deed Book P, p.290-291, Nov. 19, 1813: WILLIAM MORRESS (Spartanburgh) to WILSON NESBETT (same); for $250 sold 573 ac in two parts -- (l) (ac omitted); border: TURNER and WILSON NESBETT (bought from JAMES HARRISON); part of grant to JOHN BOMAR; and (2) 79 ac; border; WILSON NESBETT (bought from JAMES HARRISON, WOFFORD, and TURNER; 23 ac excepted "where Spece's old line runs into (1)"; WILLIAM MORRESS is to return money if older grant takes the land in 10 years. Witness: WILLIAM CAMP JR and NATHAN BYARS. Signed: WILLIAM MORRISS. Wit. oath Jul. 28, 1813 WILLIAM CAMP JR to J CAMP. Rec. Jul. 23, 1817.
(Source: Pruitt, Spartanburg County / District South Carolina Deed Abstracts, 1785-1827, p.556)43

Deed Book S, p.375, Jan. 14, 1824: JACOB CROCKER (Spartanburgh) to THOMAS THOMAS (same); for $50 sold 211 ac; border JAMES CROCKER and JEREMIAH MARTIN. Witness NATHAN BYARS and SHADRICK WEER. Signed: JACOB CROCKER. Wit. oath Jan. 14, 1824 NATHAN BYARS to JOSEPH CAMP. Rec. Aug. 2, 1824.
(Source: Pruitt, Spartanburg County / District South Carolina Deed Abstracts, 1785-1827, p.720)43

Deed Book T, p.135, Oct. 24, 1825: THOMAS THOMAS and NATHAN BYARS to CABRED MCCRAW; for $131.25 sold 211 ac on waters of Island Cr of Pacolate R; except what is in BONNER's tract. Witness: JOHN MARTIN and STERLING GORDEN. Signed: THOMAS THOMAS and NATHAN BYARS. Wit. oath Oct. 24, 1824 JOHN MARTIN to J CAMP. Rec. Nov. 12, 1825. Dower renounced Oct. 31, 1825 NANCY THOMAS to GEO CAMP.
(Source: Pruitt, Spartanburg County / District South Carolina Deed Abstracts, 1785-1827, p.750)43

[NOTE: I have only transcribed selected Byars related deeds from the Pruitt 1785-1827 book. The full list of Byars/Byers given names from the index is as follows: James, James Jr., James Sr., John, Jonas, Jonathan, Joseph, Joshua, Nathan, Robert, Thomas, and William]

Deed Book U, 590, p.487-488, 7 Jan 1828: ASPASIO EARLE [ESPASIO EARLE in one ref.] (Rutherford County., N.C.) to ROBERT S. SCRUGGS JUNR. (Spartanburgh Dist), for $130 sold a certain tract of land in Spartanburgh dist on the head branches of Suck creek. Containing 300 acres more or less as will appear by patent, bearing date to SAML. EARLE 5 June 1786. Witness: NATHAN BYARS SR., CHARLES B. DURHAM. Signed: ASPASIO EARLE. Witness oath by NATHAN BYARS SR. 29 Sept 1828 to GEO. CAMP, J.Q. DOWER relinquished by POLLY (X) EARLE 21 Feb 1829 to WM. S. MORGAN, J.Q. Rec. 7 Mar 1831.
(Source: Vehorn, Spartanburg District South Carolina Deed Abstracts, 1827-1839, p.127)57

Deed Book V, 735, p.586, 19 Sept 1834: ANTHONY GILMORE (Ga.) do hereby appoint DANIEL GILMORE my lawful attorney to recover and receive from ELIJAH TURNER, Executor of the Estate of READICK ARNDEL late of Spartanburgh Dist. Decd. all my right, title and interest in the said Estate. Witness JOSEPH CAMP, NATHAN BYARS. Signed ANTHONY GILMORE. Witness oath by NATHAN BYARS 2 Jan 1836 to J. CAMP J.Q. Rec. 4 Jan 1836.
(Source: Vehorn, Spartanburg District South Carolina Deed Abstracts, 1827-1839, p.315)57

Deed Book W, 13, Page 236-238, 9 Nov 1836: MARY RICHARDS and sons NOAH RICHARDS, JAMES RICHARDS, JOSHUA RICHARDS, JOSEPH RICHARDS for $200 paid by the treasurer of the So. Ca. Manufacturing Company, do sell unto WM. WALKER, HUGH BAILY, S.N. EVINS, JNO. BOMAR JR., SIMPSON BOBO, President & Directors of said Co., all that tract of land on the waters of Thickaty. Border; CROCKER, MARKLEY, PRICE, BIV. Containing 269 acres more or less. Witness FREDERICK PRICE, WILLIS SMITH, E.S.E. CHAMBERS, DRURY BYARS. Signed: NOAH RICHARDS, JAMES RICHARDS, JOSHUA RICHARDS, JOSEPH RICHARDS, MARY (x) RICHARDS. Witness oath by WILLIS SMITH that he saw NOAH RICHARDS, JAMES RICHARDS, JOSHUA RICHARDS, and JOSEPH RICHARDS sign the deed. Given 10 Feb 1837 to J. CAMP J.Q. Witness oath by DRURY BYARS that he saw MARY RICHARDS execute the conveyance. Given 10 Feb 1837 to J. CAMP J.Q. Dower relinquished by HANNA (x) RICHARDS, ELIZABETH (x) RICHARDS & NANCY (x) RICHARDS, the wives of NOAH RICHARDS, JAMES RICHARDS, and JOSEPH RICHARDS, 10 Feb 1837 to JOSEPH CAMP J.Q. Rec. 4 Apr 1837.
(Source: Vehorn, Spartanburg District South Carolina Deed Abstracts, 1827-1839, p.384)57

Deed Book W, 18, Page 243-244, 26 Sept 1836: NATHAN BYARS (Spartanburgh Dist) in consideration of $109 paid by WILLIAM CLARK Agent for the So. Ca. M. Co. (same), have sold unto WILLIAM WALKER, SAMUEL N. EVINS, JOHN BOMAR JR., HUGH BAILY & SIMPSON BOBO, President and directors, a certain tract of land in said Dist. on the branches of Turners fork, of Thickaty Creek. Border: TURNER. By computation 96 acres more or less. Witness JOHN R. RICHARDS, JOHN BYARS. Signed NATHAN BYARS. Witness oath by JOHN R. RICHARDS 20 Nov 1836 to J. CAMP, J.Q. Dower relinquished by EMELIA (x) BYARS 6 Oct 1836 to JOSEPH CAMP, J.Q. Rec. 5 Apr 1837.
(Source: Vehorn, Spartanburg District South Carolina Deed Abstracts, 1827-1839, p.384)57

[NOTE: I have only transcribed selected Byars related deeds from the Vehorn 1827-1839 book. The full list of Byars/Byers given names from the index is as follows: Drury, Emelia, John, Joseph, Joshua, Nathan, Nathan Sen., Robert, Thomas, and Wm]

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Nathan Byars, was born in Granville Co., NC sometime in 1749 and, according to his pension declaration, he had no proof of his birthdate except that his father told him that he was a small boy at Braddock's defeat.

At the time of his entry into the service, he was a resident of Caswell County, NC and was drafted for a 3-months tour of duty, serving as a Private under Captain Cunningham and Captain Forbes (?) (Forker?) in the Regiment commanded by Col. Ramsey and Major Moore. He was drafted for two additional tours of duty and later volunteered for a three-months tour. He did not remember the dates of his services; however, his declaration for pension, indicated that he was in the service `at the time of the battle of Eutah Springs, Kings Mountain, and at the time of Gates' defeat', although he did not fight in any of those battles. During the various tours of duty, Private Byars was stationed principally at Hillsborough, and adjacent counties, and, during one tour, went out against the Indians' in the western part of the State. In support of his claim for pension, two of his neighbors, Rev. Drury Scruggs, and Jesse Scruggs, attached a statement supporting the facts given by the claimant, Nathan Byars.

Sometime just prior to, or during the Revolution, Nathan Byars was married to Drucilla Harrelson, Drucilla Harrelson born 1750, in Hanover Co., VA, daughter of Burges Harrelson and Elizabeth Green. According to a Rutherford Co., NC book 25, page 174, Nathan was ordered by the court to pay Drucilla $50.00 cash. Thought to be a divorce. After the divorce of Nathan and Drucilla, in 1799, Drucilla went to live with her daughter Elizabeth Byars Watkins in or near McMinnvile, TN. She later went to live with her daughter Nancy Byars Walker. She lived there until her death in 1816. Nathan later married Delphy Logan on October 8, 1819, and at least one, and possibly more, children were born of this marriage. Delphy Logan was born about 1779, and was married to Nathan Byars on October 8, 1819 in Spartanburg District, S. C. by Rev. Joshua Richards.

Nathan Byars purchased 200 acres of land from James Webb on April 10,1783, located on Main Broad River in Rutherford County, NC. A few years later in 1795, part of this land was sold to Williams Dobbins {special note not included in article - William Dobbins is the 4th great-grandfather of Cecil VanDyke}. Byars moved to that area now in Cherokee County, SC about 1822, and on April 5, 1826, received a South Carolina State grant for 394 acres of land, in Spartanburg District located on the headwaters of Island, Suck and Buck creeks, part of an original grant to James Steadman. This land included that tract that is now the Cowpens National Battleground. Part of this land was sold by Byars to James H. Ezell on November 16, 1840, and on January 6, 1886, James Ezell sold part of th land, but reserved one acre, where the Cowpens Battleground monument now stands, as belonging to the Washington Light Infantry Company of Charleston, S.C. The federal government later erected the present monument on the site.

Nathan Byars died August 18th, 1846, at the age of 97 years, and his grave is located about 1/2 mile from the battleground monument, about 11 miles west of Gaffney, Cherokee County, SC.

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1778--22 May: took loyalty oath in Granville Co. NC along with Nathan Byars. Source: The NC State Records, Vol 22, p 174, "Persons of Island Creek District." (Nathan Byars was a Rev. War patriot, b 1749 in Granville Co., NC, died 1846 in Spartanburg Co SC. Nathan had land where the National Cowpens Battle Ground is in Cherokee Co. SC. To the writer's knowledge, the descendants of Nathan have not found his parents as of 1999.)

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At the time of his entry into the service, he was a resident of Caswell County, NC and was drafted for a 3-months tour of duty, serving as a Private under Captain Cunningham and Captain Forbes (?) (Forker?) in the Regiment commanded by Col. Ramsey and Major Moore.

He was drafted for two additional tours of duty and later volunteered for a three-months tour.

He did not remember the dates of his services; however, his declaration for pension, indicated that he was in the service `at the time of the battle of Eutah Springs, Kings Mountain, and at the time of Gates' defeat', although he did not fight in any of those battles.

During the various tours of duty, Private Byars was stationed principally at Hillsborough, and adjacent counties, and, during one tour, went out against the Indians' in the western part of the State. In support of his claim for pension, two of his neighbors, Rev. Drury Scruggs, and Jesse Scruggs, attached a statement supporting the facts given by the claimant, Nathan Byars.

Nathan married Drucilla Harrelson in 1770-1772 in (Orange County, North Carolina), and was divorced on 24 Nov 1808 in (Rutherford County, North Carolina). Drucilla (daughter of Burgess Harrelson and Elizabeth Gaines) was born in 1744 in (New Hanover County, North Carolina); died in 1816. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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:

• Military: Patriotic Service (DAR Ancestor #: A017964)
• Alt Birth: 1713, New Kent County, Virginia
• Alt Death: 1792, St. John's Parish, Granville County, North Carolina

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From "Colonial Granville And It's People", by Ray, p. 174; we know that a John and James Byars were early Granville settlers...Margie Tucker

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Message #27 Monday, September 27, 1999

Subject: JAMES HENRY BYARS/BYERS b.1713 VA, m. PEGGY (MARGARET) GENTRY & CHILDREN

Posted by: CLARA BYARS/BYERS GREEN

Message:

Really hit jackpot today, my ancestors were the above, their son, Capt. John Henry Byars b.1734 m. Elizabeth Thomason (Thompson?) b.1735, they had a son called Capt. George Byars (1771-1843 )m. Sarah Watkins (1794-1869), their son William Peyton Byars (b.1792-1873) m. Nancy Sutton.

These two moved their family to southern Illinois (Marion Co.) in 1827 and the family pretty much stayed there until WW2 when my oldest brother,

William D. Byars, Jr., relocated to Oklahoma. His only son,

William Robert Byars lives near Tulsa. I've been trying to find info about James Henry's parents and how they came to America & from where.

Believe this is the Byers sept of the Clan Lindsay and they came from Scotland via Ulster in the Plantation of the 1600's.

Do please write me if you have anything to add. Sure hope you find this useful. CGreen2505@aol.com

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James (Henry) Byars Deed Granville Co NC

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James (Henry) Byars Deed Granville Co NC
Posted by: Tim Byars Date: January 25, 2001 at 23:08:44 of 473


I would like to share the following information from Marjorie Tucker. Marjorie was a Byars researcher over the past 20 + years. She passed from this life last year but wanted to share her work with other Byars
researchers. I have included below her comments regarding the James Byars deed in Granville County, North Carolina (1757), and her transcription of that deed.

From: MTucker211@aol.com
Sent: Wednesday, October 06, 1999 5:28 PM
To: tblife@bigfoot.com
Subject: James Byars Deed

Tim, I suppose you gave up on my transcribing the deed! It was very difficult, but I am satisfied with my results. I very much appreciate your scanning it for me. That helped a lot.

I am attaching it as a file, but I have made comments that I will paste here. I would very much like to have copies of this deed sent to all serious Byars researchers. I consider this a very important new breakthrough. I welcome comments by others.

Marjorie Stewart Tucker (1932-2000)

COMMENTS

The following is a copy of the abstract of the Granville Deed, which has appeared in print for many years - at least as early as 1944 in the Will Franke papers:

Granville Co., NC, Book C, page 334 - Indenture Nov. 3, 1757 Nathaniel Henderson and wife, Parish St. John to James Byars of Hanover County, Va. 400 acres in County of Granville, Parish of St. John - Both sides of Michael's Creek along Haywood (?) line. Witness Wm Sims - Proven Dec. 6, 1757.

There is a very important inaccuracy in this abstract. The location of the 400 acres is crucial to Byars research. It is a "parcel of land containing by estimation four hundred acres situate lying & being in the County of Granville & Parish of St. Johns & on both sides of Michael's Crook of Island Creek."

Both Nathan Byars and William Byars took the State Oath of Allegiance Nov. 15, 1777, being of 77 persons in the Island Creek so doing. For some time I had been unsure of the identification of this William, because there was only one William who received a pension from the Rev. War from either North or South Carolina, and he was William, son of David Byars and Margaret Carson.

I now believe the William of Island Creek, was the William who married Sarah Ann Doggett. I found a note in the Byars/Byers Family Enquirer, Vol. No. 1, March 1986, page 5 that there is a reference to William Byers being a Rev. Soldier in the DOGGETT FAMILY BOOK, Pub. 1894. This William has no DAR record, and did not receive a pension.

Nathan Byars and William Byars were most likely brothers or cousins.

It is important to find that James Byars bought land in the Island Creek area, but it is still unclear whether he ever lived there. Note that he paid for the 400 acres with Virginia currency, indicating he was living in Virginia at the time (1757). Note also that James and his wife, Rachel, of Hanover Co., VA, sold half of New Market Grist Mill Feb. 8, 1790, indicating that he was still living in Virginia then.

The 400 acres bordered the land of Capt. Sherwood Haywood. His name was not clear in the abstract.

Note: I still have not found that James' name was James Henry.


Granville County, NC, Book C, pp. 334-335 November 3, 1757

This Indenture made this third day of November in the year of our Lord one thousand seven hundred & fifty seven Between Nathaniel Henderson & his wife Patience in the County of Granville Carolina of His own part and James Byars in the County of Hanover in Virginia the other part Witnesseth that the said Nathaniel Henderson & Patience his wife for and in consideration of the sum of forty pounds Virginia Currency to them in hand by the said James Byars at or before the onsealing & delivery of the sd. presents the sd. script whereof they the sd. Nathl. Henderson & Patience his wife doth hereby acknowledge & thereof & of & from every part & parcel thereof doth acquit & discharge the said James Byars his heirs Exers. & Admrs. They the said Nathaniel Henderson & Patience his wife hath granted bargained & sold aliened (transferred) enfeoffed (made a gift of any corporeal hereditamints to another) released & confirmed and by these presents doth grant bargain & sell alien enfeoff Release & Confirm unto the said James Byars and to his heirs & assigns forever one certain tract or parcel of land containing by estimation four hundred acres situate lying & being in the County of Granville & Parish of St. Johns & on both sides of Michaels Crook of Island Creek the same land being part of a greater quantity granted by Deeds to the said Nathaniel Henderson dated the fourteenth day of May 1757 and bounded as follows to wit Beginning at a Red Oak in a line of the said Nathl Henderson thence along Sherd Haywoods (Capt. Sherwood Haywood - his name is spelled in full in the deed preceding this one) line South 30 degrees West one hundred & fifty two poles to a Red Oak thence South one hundred fifty six poles to a Hicory thence East two hundred poles crossing the I Creek (Island Creek) to a Red Oak then North one hundred & four poles to a red oak then East ninety poles to a pine then North one hundred seventy three poles to a Red Oak then West two hundred & four poles to the beginning and all houses out houses edifices buildings trees woods underwoods waters water courses fences yards gardens feedings profits commodities advantages hereditaments & appurtenances whatsoever to the said tract or parcel of land belonging or in anywise appurtaining and the Reversion Remainder and Remainders Rents issues & profits of all & singular the said premises and of every part & parcel thereof and also all the Estate Right Title or claim whatsoever of them the said Nathaniel Henderson & Patience his wife of in or to the sd. premises above memtioned & every part thereof To have and to hold the said four hundred acres of land & premises above mentioned & every part & parcel thereof to the appurtenances unto the said James Byars his heirs & assigns to the only proper use and behoof of him the said James Byars his heirs & assigns forever and they the sd. Nathaniel Henderson & Patience his wife for themselves their heirs Exers & Admrs doth covenant & grant to and with the said James Byars his heirs & assigns forever against the claim challenge or demand of them the sd. Nathaniel Henderson & Patience his wife their heirs and all & every other person or persons shall & will warrant and forever defend by these presents.

In Witness whereof they the sd. Nathaniel Henderson & Patience his wife hath hereunto set their hands and Seals the day and year first above written.

Nathaniel Henderson (LS)
Patience X Henderson (LS)

Memorandum that on the day & year first within mentioned (can't read) & quiet possession and Livery of seizin (archaic phrase meaning an act of transferring physical possession of property) of the lands & premises within mentioned was conveyed & delivered by the within named Nathaniel Henderson & Patience his wife unto the within named James Byars to hold to him his heirs & assigns according to the purport bias intent & meaning of the within written Deed.

In the presence of Nathaniel Henderson (LS)

William Sims mark

Patience X Henderson (LS)

Received the day & year first within mentioned of the within named James Byars the sum of forty pounds Virginia Currency it being the consideration within mentioned to be by him paid.

William Sims Nathaniel Henderson

At a Court for Granville County 6th December 1757. Nathaniel Henderson acknowledged this Deed with the Livery of Seizin & the Receit thereon endorsed to be his Acts & deeds, previous to which, Patience, wife of the sd. Nathaniel Henderson, who being first privately examined according to Law by Samuel Henderson, Esqr. appointed for that purpose by the Court, relinquished her right of Dower in the Lands by this Deed conveyed all which on Motion were Ordered to be Register'd.

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Truly Register'd. William Eaton, Public Registrar

Will book- 8 Feb 1790

James Byars of Hanover Co., and Rachel his wife to Pleasant Terrell; 1/2 of New Market Grist Mill on Little River and 2-1/2 acres of land loining said mill; the one half acre on the opposite side of the river from the mil and the other acre and 3/4 joining the mill house...Dossels line...Browns line...to the mill house there being about 1-3/4 acres in said line; further I give said Terrel liberty to build a Cay Dam on my land joining William Harris provided said Harris is willing for same to be built and logs to build said dam.

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http://duplin.lostsoulsgenealogy.com/ncparishes.htm

St. John’s Parish in Granville County In 1746, when Granville Co., N.C. was formed from Edgecombe, St. John's Parish was created, including all of Granville Co. In 1761, Granville Co. was divided into two parishes, the western part becoming Granville Parish and the eastern part remaining St. John's. In 1764, the whole of St. John's Parish, the eastern part of Granville Co., became Bute County and a small part of Northampton Go., N.C. was added to Bute, in 1766.

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Military:
provided supplies to the American Army...

James married Margaret "Peggy" Gentry(Louisa County, Virginia). Margaret was born in 0___ 1693 in (Virginia); died after 1734 in (Louisa County, Virginia). [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Probably connected to Nathan Gentry... http://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Gentry-249

Notes:

Twelve children... http://familytreemaker.genealogy.com/users/f/u/e/Andrew-T-Fuentes/WEBSITE-0001/UHP-0392.html

Burgess married Elizabeth Gaines in 1740 in (Orange County) North Carolina. Elizabeth was born in 1720 in Hanover County, Virginia; died in 1758 in (Orange County) North Carolina. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

View Tree for Elizabeth GainesElizabeth Gaines (b. 1720, d. 1758)
Elizabeth Gaines (daughter of Fnu Gaines)53, 53, 53, 53 was born 1720 in Hanover, Hanover, Virginia, USA53, 53, 53, and died 1758 in North Carolina, USA53, 53, 53.She married (1) Richard Howell.She married (2) Burgess Harrelson on 1740 in North Carolina, USA53, son of Peter Harrelson and Mary Chambers.
More About Elizabeth Gaines:
Date born 2: 1716, Rec.53
More About Elizabeth Gaines and Burgess Harrelson:
Marriage 1: 1740, North Carolina, USA.53
Marriage 2: 1739, Hanover, Virginia, USA.53
Marriage 3: 1740, New Kent, Virginia, USA.53
Marriage 4: 1740, New Kent, Virginia, USA.53
Children of Elizabeth Gaines and Richard Howell are:

Elizabeth Howell, d. 27 May 1901, Montgomery, Alabama, USA53.


Children of Elizabeth Gaines and Burgess Harrelson are:

Burgess Harrelson, b. 1740, Hanover, Virginia, USA53, 53, d. 183153, 53.
+Elijah Harrelson, b. 1743, Hanover, Virginia, USA53, d. 1789, Caswell, North Carolina, USA53, 53, 53.
Elisha Harrelson, b. 1745, Hanover, Virginia, USA53, 53.
Elisheba Harrelson, b. 1746, Hanover, Virginia, USA53, 53, d. 1779, Caswell, North Carolina, USA53, 53.
Ezekiel Harrelson, b. 1746, Hanover, Virginia Beach, Virginia, USA53, 53,d., Caswell, Cumberland, North Carolina, USA53, 53.
Penina Harrelson, b. 1749, Hanover, Virginia, USA53, 53.
Jermima Harrelson, b. 175053, 53, d. 177753.
Jermima Harrelson, b. 1751, Orange, North Carolina, USA53, d. 177753.
Drucilla Harrelson, b. 1753, Orange Factory, Orange, North Carolina, USA53, 53, d. 1816, Rutherfordton, Rutherford, North Carolina, USA53, 53.
Drusetta Harrelson, b. 1753, Orange, North Carolina, USA53, 53, d. 1816, Rutherford, North Carolina, USA53, 53.
Elizabeth Harrelson, b. 1755, Orange, North Carolina, USA53, 53,d., Caswell, Cumberland, North Carolina, USA53, 53.
John Harrelson, b. 1758, Orange, North Carolina, USA53, 53

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: ~ 1675, (England)
• Will: 18 Jan 1734, Hanover County, Virginia
• Residence: 1748, Lunenburg County, Virginia, British Colonies of North America
• Residence: 1749, Lunenburg County, Virginia, British Colonies of North America

Notes:

27 Feb 2013 Follow-up and 15 years later...

Found on WikiTree, John BYARS, born 1612, Newcastle Upon Tyne, England, lists three more BYARS generations. Very likely that this is an early progenitor... http://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Byars-36

----- Original Message -----
From: David Hennessee
To: Margie Tucker
Sent: Thursday, March 19, 1998 11:13 AM
Subject: John BYERS

Cuz - Was searching through County Durham,England Marriages 1575-1837 confirming a DURHAM line of mine and ran across:

"21 Apr 1694 John Byers + Jane Kirton". There are no further references to BYERS/BYARS. Many "Johns" appear in progeny of James Henry. Through serendipity I think I've found a possible clue. What do you think? Could this "John Byers" be our "John Byars'" antecedent?

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From: MTucker211
To: schoolstuff@worldnet.att.net
Subject: Re: BYARS
Date: Tuesday, March 31, 1998 11:35 PM

Cuz, I found a page sent to me years ago by Faye Robbins. This is what has led Byars researches to believe that it constitues proof. A note at the top of this page she writes that she never tried to prove it. I need to xerox it and send to you. I have a fax modem but don't know how to use it, so I am typing it..

John Byars m. ______?

Children: (2)

1. James Henry Byars b. ca. 1713
wed (1) Peggy Gentry
(2) Rachel Mathews

2. Jonas Byars b. ca 1718

According to THE VESTRY BOOK, ST. PAUL'S PARISH, Hanover County, Virginia, pages 130 and 183 that John Byars was living in New Kent Co., VA on Sept. 24, 1708. That he resided in St. Paul's Parish before 1734 was living in St. Martin's Parish on Feb. 8, 1734.
________________________

(1) JAMES HENRY BYARS

James Henry Byars, m. , (1) Peggy Gentry

Born: ca. 1713

Died: ca. 1792

Children:- (4) (known)

1. John Byars Mar. 16, 1734, Louisa Co., VA

2. James Byars 1740

3. William Byars Apr. 6, 1747
wed Sarah Ann Doggett

4. Nathan Byars 1749
wed (1) Drucilla Harrelson
(2) Delphy Logan

(2) JONAS BYARS

Jonas Byars m. Frances "Fanny" Collins Born: ca. 1718

Children: (2) Known

1. William Byars 1755/60 1819
wed Elizabeth Bedford

2. Henryetta Byars

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An excellent monograph on the BYARS Family by Joe Logan ... http://logan-family.org/doc/byars.html

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28 Mar 2007 Joel Hager reports a compilation of "John Byars" sightings in the Virginia Colony... http://wc.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=GET&db=hagerj&id=I278629

Hanover County, VA 1706 - 1786 Vestry Book of St. Paul's Parish File submitted for use in the USGenWeb Archives by: Pat C. John

This volume was the sixth in the series of parish books started in 1931. Churchill Gibson Chamberlayne, B.A., B.D., M.A., Ph.D., LL.D., the editor of four previous volumes in the series, agreed to transcribe and edit the volume. Dr. Chamberlayne was headmaster of St. Christopher's School near Richmond, and a recognized authority on the history of the Protestant Episcopal Church in Virginia. His efforts on four of the five previous volumes in the series, plus three volumes published at his own expense, made him a highly qualified transcriber and editor of early parish records. He undertook the work as a labor of love without remuneration.

Soon after the volume had gone to press in January 1939, Dr. Chamberlayne died on April 3, 1939. Under the general direction of Mr. Wilmer L., Hall, State Librarian, members of the library staff assisted in completing the work. Mr. William J. Van Schreeven, then Head Archivist and later State Archivist edited Dr. Chamberlayne's rough draft of an introduction and compiled the appendix. The proof reading was done by Mrs. Marjorie C. Gough and the index was prepared by Miss Virginia E. Jones. St. Paul's Vestry Book and four other vestry books published in the series relate to the contiguous area in which the early local records have been either lost or destroyed. This volume is distinctive because it was regularly used to enter processioning orders and returns as well as the recording of minutes of vestry meetings. Thus it is a comprehensive record of land owners in the parish. Since records of Hanover County were destroyed during the evacuation fire in Richmond in 1865, the entries in the vestry book are the only existing record of land ownership. Louis H. Manarin State Archivist Richmond, October 27, 1972 Introduction (p. xi) The manuscript volume hereinafter reproduced in print embodies the earliest consecutive records of St. Paul's Parish, Hanover County Virginia, known to be in existence.

It covers, with more or less completeness, the period from January, 1706 to August 1786. The history of the volume from the day the last entry in it was written until 1907, when the writer examined it along with other parish records at the Theological Seminary at Alexandria, is unknown to the editor. That Bishop Meade was unaware of its existence when writing his "Old Churches, Ministers and Families of Virginia" (first published in book form in 1857) is evident to those who have read his chapter on the "Parishes in Hanover County - No. 1." At some date unknown to the editor the volume was deposited by someone, whose identity the editor has been unable to establish, in the library of the Protestant Episcopal Theological Seminary in Virginia, at Alexandria. With the other parish record books on deposit there, it was in 1931 transferred for safe-keeping to the Virginia State Library in Richmond, and is preserved in the Archives Division of the library. It is the property of the Protestant Episcopal Church in Virginia. It has not hitherto been published…. (p. xii) St. Paul's Parish was established in 1704 by act of the General Assembly convening on April 20 of that year. Under the terms of the Act the parish was to come into being on June 1; it may fairly be assumed therefore that the vestry records began with the minutes of a vestry meeting held within a month or two of that date, and it is possible that they began with a transcript of the proceedings of the meeting of the "ffreeholders and Housekeepers of the Parish" which was scheduled under the Act to convene on the "second thirsday in June next and there choose twelve of the most able and discreet persons of the parish to be Vestrymen for their said parish…"

But whatever may have been the date of the first entry in the original vestry book, the first complete vestry minutes in the extant book are those for the meeting held on July 10, 1706 - or two years subsequent to the establishment of the parish. Another circumstance of interest, and indeed of importance, in connection with this old manuscript volume, raising as it does some doubt as to the absolute validity of the record up to the year 1754, is the fact that the volume is for the first two hundred and forty- one pages merely a transcript, of an older and long since disappeared, manuscript volume, which was ordered to be made ( p. xiii) in the year 1754. Furthermore it is not certain that the volume transcribed in 1754, was the original record prior to the year 1742, for under the date Oct. 12, 1742, there occurs the item "To Do, for Transcribing the Register Book from ye; year 1704, to this p'sent time. 1000," the matter hinging entirely upon the meaning of the term "Register Book." If this term means here vestry book, then there were two transcripts made (one in 1742, the other in 1754) and the present manuscript is from 1742 to 1754 a copy of the original record, while for the entries prior to 1742 it is only a copy of a copy of the original. On the other hand, if the term "Register Book" here refers to the record kept of births, baptisms, and deaths in the parish, then the present manuscript vestry book is for the entire period prior to 1754 a transcript of the original record. The Extent of the Parish In order to determine the extent of St. Paul's Parish in 1704, the year of its establishment, it is necessary first to know the boundaries of St. Peter's Parish, from which St. Paul's was cut off. In 1704 St Peter's Parish was bounded on the north-east by the Pamunkey River up to the fork and from (p.xiv) that point on by the north fork (North Anna River); on the south-east by the line dividing it from Blisland (or Blissland) Parish and by the north-west boundary of Wilmington Parish, if there ever was any definitely fixed north-west boundary line of that parish; on the south-west by the ridge between the Pamunkey and the Chickahominy rivers (the dividing line between the parishes of St. Peter's and Wilmington) up to the north-west extent of Wilmington Parish, and then by the Chickahominy River. To the north-west the parish extended theoretically indefinitely; practically it extended to the farthest point of settlement. From 1704, then, until St. Martin's Parish was in turn cut off from it, St. Paul's Parish extended indefinitely north-west from the north-west boundary of St. Peter's Parish between the Pamunkey (in its upper reaches the North Anna) and the Chickahominy. In 1726 when St. Martin's Parish was cut off from St Pauls, the new parish included all that part of St. Paul's Parish lying in the fork of the Pamunkey (made by the junction of the North Anna and the South Anna rivers) together with all that part of the original parish lying north-west of Stone Horse Creek, which flowed north-east into the South Anna. In 1923, that part of St. Paul's Parish lying between Stone Horse Creek and a line running parallel to the Richmond, Fredericksburg and Potomac Railroad and two and a half miles to the east of it was by action of the Episcopal Diocesan Council formed into a new parish to which was given the name Ashland. The St. Paul's of this vestry book, however, which originally extended from Matadequin Creek on the east indefinitely to the west, after 1726 extended west as far as the fork of the Pamunkey and as far as Stone Horse Creek for the territory south of the South Anna. Processioning (p.xv) Each one of the parish vestry books still in existence has perhaps something of peculiar interest attaching to it. The thing of most outstanding interest in connection with the vestry book of St. Paul's Parish, Hanover County, is that the volume served a unique as well as a double purpose. It was the repository of two very different sets of records; i.e., the minutes of the vestry meetings and, as well, the orders for processioning and the returns made by the processioners. In view of the fact that in this old vestry book the processioning orders and processioning returns together comprise so large a part of the record as a while, it may not be out of place here to make clear what the terms "processioning" and " processioners" mean, what the practice of processioning was, and what the reason for the practice; and all the more so as even the term, "processioning" itself has become practically obsolete, and therefore meaningless, in Virginia. The first reference to processioning that the editor can find in the Virginia colonial records occurs in Hening's Statues…..

This reference is embodied in Act LXXVIII of the session of the Grand Assembly begun March 23rd 1662, the preamble of which, giving clear the purpose of the proposed practice, is as follows: "Whereas many contentious suites are dayly incited and stirred up about the bounds of land for which noe remedy hath yett bin provided, the ffifty seaventh act prohibiting resurveighs not applying the expected remedies, for if the surveighs be just (p.xvi) yet the surveighors being for the most part careles of seeing the trees marked, or the owners never renewing them, in a small time the chopps being growne up, or the trees fallen, the bounds become as uncertaine as at first, and upon a new surveigh the least variation of a compasse alters the scituation of a whole neighborhood and deprives many persons of houses, or chards and all to their infinite losse and trouble; for prevention whereof, Bee it enacted" etc. The purpose of processioning, accordingly, was to obviate lawsuits over boundary lines, with the necessary expenses and possible injustices incident to resurveys, which were almost inevitably attendant upon law suits over disputed property lines. The wording of the Act proper was as follows: "….that within twelve months after this act, all the inhabitants of every neck and tract of land adjoining shall goe in procession and see the marked trees of every mans land in those precincts to be renewed, and the same course to be taken once every fower years, by which meanes the inconvenience of clandestine surveigh will be taken away, and the bounds wilbe soe generally known and the marks soe fresh that noe alteration can be made afterwards. And be it further enacted that the bounds by the consent of the present proprietors being once thus setled shall conclude the said proprietors, and all others clayming from or under them, from any future alterations of their bounds, be there within the said bounds more or lesse land than they pretend to: And if it shall happen any difference to be at present that cannot be by the neighbors themselves decided, Bee it further enacted that two honest and able surveyors shall in presence of the neighbour-hood lay out the land in controversie, and the bounds than laid out to be the certaine bounds, and ever after to be renewed and continue soe, but the person causing the difference to pay the charge of the survey, it tending much more to the preservation of ffriendshipp among neighbors to have a present and finall decission of their (p.xvii) differences, while men yet live that are acquainted with the ffirst surveys, and while land is yet at a low value, then it will be when time hath rooted out all knowledge to the bounds and added a greater value to the land. Be it enacted further that each county court shall appoint and order the vestrys of each parish to devide the parishes into soe many precincts as they shall think necessary for the neighbors to joyne and see each others markes renewed, and to appoint certaine dayes between Easter and Whitsunday to goe the said processions and put this act in effectuall execution, and in case the court shall omitt to make such orders and to send the same to the severall vestryes of the parishes in their counties, they shalbe fined ten thousand pounds of tobacco, and the vestry failing in ordering the precincts and the persons to goe together shall be fined twelve hundred pounds of tobacco and the persons fayling to goe upon the day appointed, or to renew his marke accordingly shall for his neglect be fined three hundred and fifty pounds of tobacco." The practice of processioning, as inaugurated under the above Act of the session of 1662 was later amplified and altered in certain important details by subsequent legislation, as follows: 1. In 1673 provision was made for the processioning of lands of orphans 2. In 1691 the time of year for processioning was changed to the six months between September 30 and March 31st. 3. In 1705 it was directed (1) that the court orders for processioning should go out between June 1 and September 1 of every fourth year, beginning with the year 1708; (2) that the vestries were each to appoint "at least two intelligent honest freeholders of every precinct, to see such processioning performed, and take and return to the vestry an account [in writing] of every persons land, they shall proscession, and of the persons present at the same, and of what lands in their precincts, (p.xviii) they shall fail to proscession, and of the particular reasons of such failure"; (3) that the vestries were to see to it that the written returns of the processioners were "registered in particular books to be kept for that purpose by the clerk of the vestry," the registers to be examined by the churchwardens for the purpose of seeing that the returns made by the processioners had been copied fully and exactly; (4) that specified fines should be the penalties for failure on the part of county and parish officials, and the other persons affected by the act, to perform their respective duties under the act; and (5) that bounds three times processioned should be considered settled and determined forever. 4. In 1710 the processioning legislation of 1705 was ineffect re-enacted, the one change of importance being the requirement that from thenceforth the court orders for processioning should go out every fourth year beginning with the year 1711; and the one material addition being a provision for the processioning under special court orders of lands whose owners had refused to have them processioned in ordinary and regular course. 5. In 1748 the processioning law of 1710 was re-enacted without any important change by way of addition, omission or substitution. C.G.Chamberlayne,

In extracting this data on the Surname Harris from the above referenced book, there are two things I want to tell you. I will indicate the book page first and in parenthesis, I will indicate the page in the actual vestry records. When given, I will also show the date. I will extract data only, making no assumptions. You will also note that there are entries in the vestry minutes that have the abbreviations C: and C:C. From what I can determine, the C:C stands for Contra: Credit and the C: stands for Credit. Permission to publish this data online was obtained from John T. Kneebone, Director of Publications & Educational Services, Library of Virginia on February 3, 2000. Pat C. Johns (pacj11945@aol.com)

P. 39 & 40 (46), dated April 11, 1710 "In Obedience to an order of New Kent Court, dated 28th Feb. 1709/10, Its ordered that Henry Mills, Joseph Poors, Joseph Brown, Henry Farmur, Col. Dukes Quarter, Roger Smith, Charles Rhodes, William Howlet, Samuel Rennolds, John Byas, Rob't Walker, John Kinbrow Junr., John Harris, Rennold Allen, Wm Hatfield and Daniel Dishman, with all their Male Thitables, are to Assist John Glenn to clear the road according to the said Court Order."

RECORDS OF HANOVER COUNTY, VIRGINIA William and Mary College Quarterly Historical Magazine, Vol. 21, No. 1. (Jul., 1912), pp. 47-63. File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by: Edward Reynolds I have tried to maintain the exact format of the originals. This is a copyrighted Transcription of this article by Edward Reynolds on 9-15-1997. It may be distributed and copied for any non-profit use without written permission from Edward Reynolds. All other uses are prohibited. WLLLIAM AND MARY QUARTERLY 47 RECORDS OF HANOVER COUNTY. There are only two old books in the clerk’s Office of Hanover county, Va The oldest, designated the "Small Book" in these notes, covers the years 1734 and 1735, and contains orders, wills, deeds, etc. The other, "The Larger Book" of these notes is a deed book for 1780-1790. The following are the abbreviations: adj, adjoining; extor --executor: adm.-administrator; s.-son; d.-daughter or died; est. estate; X - his mark; a.---acres. These notes were copied by me in the winter of 1910-1911 - S. 0. Southall. THE SMALL BOOK, 1734-1735.

P. on Totopotomoy Creek. Feb., 1734.~John X Byars to his son James Byars.

Hanover County, Virginia Deed Book References Page 181-182

I John Byars of St. Martins par., Hanover Co., for good will and fatherly love do give my loving son, James Byars my plantation and all my 200a. of land with houses edifices buildings and tenements, gardens, ordhards, and woods: sd. James Paying what quitrent shall grow due to the king. 18 Jan 1734. Wit: Robert Harris, Wm. Hendrick, Richard Harris.

Note: there are many othe references to James Byars and James Byars, Jr. and wife Rachel in Hanover records until the late 1790's.

Transcribed by Alan Bias

http://ftp.rootsweb.com/pub/usgenweb/va/brunswick/deeds/book3pt1.txt

BRUNSWICK COUNTY, VA - DEEDS - Deed Book 3 Abstracts Part 1 (1744-1749)

Indenture dated 1 August 1745, between Runall Alling of Brunswick County and Andrew Presley of Amela County, 100a, œ25, Release. Signed Runall Alling (bhm), Mary Alling (bhm). Witnesses: John Hearn, John Byas (bhm), Edward Matthis (bhm). Court August 1, 1745, Indenture acknowledged by Runal Alling and Mary the wife of the said Runal personally appeared and relinquished her Right of Dower. Deed Book 3, Page 57.

http://ftp.rootsweb.com/pub/usgenweb/va/lunenburg/census/sun002.txt

Lunenburg County, Virginia Lewis Deloney's List of Tithables, 1748

John Bias .................................................. 1

http://ftp.rootsweb.com/pub/usgenweb/va/lunenburg/census/sun003.txt

Lunenburg County, Virginia

William Howard, "from Butchers Creek to the extent of the County downwards."

William Howard's List of Tithables, 1749 Tithes H. & Scalps

John Byas [?] ................................ 1 6

Carrie Bias Hoffert - Mar 14, 2005

"April 11, 1710, O.S., p. 24 [new pagination p. 32; Chamberlayne p. 40] In Obedience to an Order of New Kent Court, dated 28th Feb,ry 1709/10 Its ordered that Henry Mills, Joseph Poors, Joseph Brown Henry Farmur, Col,o Dukes Quarter, Roger Smith, Charles Rhodes, William Howlet, Samuel Rennolds, JOHN BYAS Rob,t Walker John Kimbrow Jun,r John Harris, Rennold Allen, W,m Hatfield and Daniel Dishman, with all their Male Tithables, are to Assist John Glenn to clear the road According to the said order of Court" Source; This is information copied from original ROAD ORDERS for the state of VA NOTE THE YEAR 1710 in NEW KENT CO, VA….Could this be the father of our JAMES BYAS????? Maybe this is where we will finally find his origins??? Definitely bears a lot more investigation. NOTE THE NAMES OF others, FARMER, HATFIELD, names that have continued continuity with the BYAS/BIAS family for generations! I wonder if we might find a will for the above JOHN BYAS…..Naming patterns for our James Byas are correct, he had a son Jonathon. Give me your thoughts…. IS there anyone out there that has access to NEW KENT Co, records on a direct basis, also can someone might want to check out adjoining counties that were formed from part of NEW KENT Co, after 1710 to see if we might find a will there. I live in NC, so I do not have access to NEW KENT county court house and their records.

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http://www.surnamedb.com/surname.aspx?name=byars

Surname: Byars

Recorded in a number of modern spelling forms including Byars, Byers, Byre, Byres, Bier, Biers, and Buyers, this is an English topographical or occupational surname, and one associated with the pre 7th century Viking. It derives from the word "bi or byre", meaning the cattle barn or dairy, and is one of a group of surnames which originate from working or living on a farm. These include Bull, Heffer, Stott, and Palfrey, and all relate to the keeping of livestock, the prime agricultural function of the medieval period. Perhaps not surprisingly given the importance of the occupation, this is one of the earliest of all recorded hereditary surnames, and it is also not surprising that it was in the then cattle breeding regions of East Anglia and the West Country, where originally the surname was most prevalent. There is also a possibility that in some cases the surname may have descended from an Olde English personal name "Bye", of unproven meaning. This is suggested by the recording of Thomas filius Bye of Cambridge, in the Hundred Rolls of the year 1279. Other early examples of the name recording include John Attebey also in the same Hundred Rolls of Cambridge and John Buyres of Somerset in the Subsidy Tax rolls of 1327. The famous portrait painter of the 17th century Nicholas Byer, who died in 1681, was actually born in Norway, although possibly of English parents. The first known recording is believed to be that of Elias de la Byare of Devonshire in the year 1275. This was during the reign of King Edward 1st of England, 1272 -1307.

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John married Elizabeth Glen in 1712 in New Kent County, Virginia. Elizabeth (daughter of James Glen and Hanna (Thompson)) was born in ~1694 in New Kent County, Virginia; died in ~1763 in Louisa County,Virginia Colony. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Elizabeth Byars formerly Glen
Born about 1694 in New Kent County, Virginia
ANCESTORS ancestors
Daughter of William Glen and Constance Taylor
Sister of Elizabeth MacKyger [half]
Wife of John Byars — married 1712 in New Kent, Virginia
HIDE DESCENDANTS
Mother of James Henry Byars and Jonas Byars
Died after 1763 in Virginia
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Questioned Parents
No evidence is presented on this profile to substantiate the statement that William Glen and Constance Taylor are Elizabeth's parents. Other sources state that Elizabeth is the daughter of John Glenn and Hannah Thompson.[1] Also note that in a court order of 28 February 1709/10, John Byars is required to join other neighbors in assisting John Glenn to clear a road.[2] This seems to indicate a relationship between this John Glenn and Elizabeth Glenn.

There is another possibility. James Glen's will, dated 11 June 1762 and proved 3 February 1763 in Hanover County, Virginia names wife Hannah and children. Among the children are Elizabeth Byass.[3] It is of course not certain that this Elizabeth is the one we are dealing with here.

Biography
Elizabeth was born about 1694.

Sources
? Tucker, Marjorie Stewart Genealogical Collection: Descendants of John Byars https://dcms.lds.org/delivery/DeliveryManagerServlet?dps_pid=IE66973
? Hanover County, VA 1706-1786 Vestry Book of St. Paul's Parish, p 39 & 40 as cited on The Hennessee Family http://www.thehennesseefamily.com/getperson.php?personID=I25588&tree=hennessee
? Tucker, Marjorie Stewart Genealogical Collection: Descendants of John Byars
See also:

http://trees.ancestry.com/tree/11183518/person/65435048

end of biogaphy

Other Events and Attributes:

• Occupation: Danish Army Captain
• Residence: Address:
  Dorothy Hogwood
  412 Parkside Drive, Ft. Worth,TX 76108
  817/246-1642
• Probate: 1733, Hanover County, Virginia

Notes:

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"William and Mary Quarterly",Aug. 1773, abstracted by Edward Reynolds,
September 15, 1997;


"Peter Harralson (will) dated Jany 20th, 1732, Gives wife Mary Harralson the place where Daniel Tyler lives, Sons, Paul, Burges, John and Nath; Harralson; daus, Elizabeth, Agnes and Sarah.

Witness, Paul Harralson, Rolf Hunt, and James Hooper. Admtor Mary Harralson. Security, Henry Chiles and Paul Harralson."

23 May 2007

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Re: Paul Harrelson b. 1650 Denmark
Posted by: Joy Smith (ID *****4293) Date: May 04, 2007 at 13:09:49
In Reply to: Paul Harrelson b. 1650 Denmark by Michele Petersen of 1366


Michele:
Here is the info I have on Paul Harrelson. I have more information on descendents if you are looking for it. Contact me at jjoysmith@excite.com.

Joy


PAUL1 HARRALSON was born circa 1655 in Denmark; was a crusty old sea captain who brought immigrants to New Kent Co., Virginia; migrated to America about 1670 and died 1734 in New Kent Co., Virginia. His father is possibly PETER HARRELSON. Paul was naturalized in Virginia House of Burgesses 2 APR 1703. He attended St. Paul’s Episcopal Church in Hanover Co., Virginia. First located 03 Dec 1692 Deed. Last located 25 JAN 1734 when he sold 150 acres to Henry Power of Parish of James City. From William and Mary Quarterly – Paul’s estate was administered 1 April 1734 in Hanover Co., Virginia. The will was proven 5 APR 1734, dated 1718. Son Peter to receive 200 acres on Crump Creek. Also listed son Paul, daughter Ann Chiles, daughter Judith Harralson, granddaughter Rebeckah Sims, wife and all 5 children begotton of Paul Harralson I. Cr. Paul Harralson, Henry Childs security, executor’s bond. It is believed that Paul, Jr. and his wife, Patience, returned for the probate. The plantation where Paul, Sr. lived, all land and appurtenenaces were left to Paul, Jr. (no children were listed) (Record Book 46, New Kent County, Virginia). Paul, Sr. married about 1734 to REBEKKA BURGESS b. 1670, d. after 1734 in Hanover, Virginia. Rebecca’s father was PETER BURGESS b. 1630 in Holland. Paul was a guardian over JAMES PERRIN in 1713.

Children of PAUL HARRELSON and REBEKKA BURGESS:

1. PAUL2 HARRELSON II (PAUL1) b. 1682 in Hanover Co., Virginia; m. Patience Lewis. See Generation No. 2.

2. PETER2 HARRELSON (PAUL1) b. 1683 was a captain in Danish Army; came from Holland; died 1/21/1733 in Hanover Co., Virginia; will proved 8/1773; m. in St Paul’s Parrish, Virginia in 1715 to Mary Chambers (daughter of EDWARD CHAMBERS b. 1660-1669, d. 1731 and ELIZABETH HARRISON b. 1660-1670) b. 1694 in Virginia, d. 1752-1757 in Albemarle, Virginia.

3. ANNE2 HARRELSON (PAUL1) b. 1690, d. 6/20/1760 in Halifax Co., Virginia; m. about 1718 in New Kent Co., Virginia to Henry Childs II (son of HENRY CHILDS and MARGARET LITTLEPAGE) b. 11/13/1698, d. 1746 in Amelia Co., Virginia.

4. JUDITH2 HARRELSON (PAUL1) b. about 1695 New Kent Co., Virginia; m. William Chambers b. 1686 in New Kent Co., Virginia

5. REBECCA2 HARRELSON (PAUL1) b. about 1696 in Culpepper Orange, Virginia; d. 4/21/1784 in Culpepper Orange, Virginia; m. Thomas Sims circa 1716 of Richmond, Virginia.

GENERATION NO. 2

PAUL2 HARRELSON II (PAUL1) (son of Paul Harrelson and Rebekka Burgess) b. circa 1683 in Hanover Co., Virginia; d. about 1754, at age 72; petitioned the Virginia House of Burgess in 1702 for naturalization; m. about 1707 to Patience Lewis (daughter of Maj. JOHN LEWIS b. 12/15/1633 in Monmouthshire, Wales; d. 1690 in Cheokins, New Kent, Virginia and ISABELLA MILLER b. 2/8/1639 in New Kent Co., Virginia; d. 2/19/1703 in Cheokins, New Kent Co., Virginia). Paul leased 360 acres of land in 1705 in Hew Kent County, Virginia. There are numerous records, between 1715 and 1743, available in the Vestry Book of St. Paul’s Parish in Hanover Co., Virginia. Listings involved clearing roads, and forming precincts and appointing overseers for them. Last appears in Vestry of Books of Virginia 11/18/1743. After Jan 1739 the family was in Edgecombs Co., N.C. buying land 10/23/1740 that they sold 4/9/1741 to John Hardy. 11/29/1744 he petitions for 450 acres of land in Fredericksborough Township, near present-day Camden, S.C. Paul was paid 50 pounds by the Township for establishing a mill. This petition was never certified. The family is presumed wiped out in 1750-1755 in Indian uprising around Wateree River, S.C. However, some sources say he died about 1754 in Fredericksborough Township, Marion Co., S.C.

From Petitions for Land from South Carolina Council Journals, Volumbe 1: 1734/35-1748 by Brent Holcomb, page 201: “Pp. 505-506: Read the humble Peition of Paul Harlson & others shewing tha the Peti’rs family consists of nine White Persons who being lately arrived in this Province with design to Cultivate & Settle 400 and 50 acres of land, therefore prays that his Excell’cy and their Honours to grant him a Warrant for y’e same by virtue of his family Right in Fredericksbourgh Township and the said Paul Harelson with ‘ye under written Inhabitants humbly pray that the Boad would grant ye s’d Harleson fifty acres more of land on a Creek called Sander’s Creek for y’e building & settling up a Water-mill in y’e frontiers of Fredericksburgh Town ship and which millis of extraordinary benefit to y’e distressed subscribers and further pray that an order be Granted for a road to be Cut to y’e said Town’p of Fredericksburgh which will enable them to Convey their Small produce to y’e market . . . Signd Paul Harleson, Mark Catterton abot 24 more Subscribers. The Peitioner appearing before his Excell’cy the Gov’r in Council and Swearing to y’e Truth of the allegations of his Petition, the Pray’r thereof with regard to the land was Granted . . .”

**Notes on Patience Lewis**New Kent Co. is now King and Queen Co., Virginia. Her older brother COL. JOHN LEWIS is buried at Warner Hall in Gloucester Co., VA. Patience’s grandfather, the Immigrant, was JOHN LEWIS b. 2/22/1594 in Monmouthsire, Wales, d. 8/21/1657, New Kent Co., Virginia. Her grandmother was CATHERINE PHILLIP, John’s second wife. See “Lewis of Warner Hall” on GenForum.


Children of PAUL HARRELSON and PATIENCE LEWIS:

1. Dorothy3 HARRELSON (PAUL2, PAUL1) b. circa 1714 in Virginia

2. William3 HARRELSON (PAUL2, PAUL1) b. 1720 (no proof – believed to be a son) in Virginia; d. 1792 in Georgetown District, S.C.; m. Jane Anderson. .

3. Benjamin3 Lewis HARRELSON (PAUL2, PAUL1) **NOTE** It is possible that William (PETER2, PAUL1) is the father** b. 1725 in Virginia; will proved 3/2/1802; m. in 1745 in S.C. to (1)Selah Commander b. 1745; d. 1802 in Marion District, S.C. Found in 1800 Georgetown District Census (page 447).

4. Andrew3 HARRELSON (PAUL2, PAUL1) b. 1727; d. about 1773

5. Prudence3 HARRELSON (PAUL2, PAUL1) b. 1735; m. William Reaves b. 1724 in Virginia. See family sheet for children.

6. Nathaniel HARRELSON (PAUL2, PAUL1) d. 1774 in Orange Co., N.C.; m. Anne Bush 11/18/1787 in Caswell Co., N.C.

7. Paul HARRELSON III (PAUL2, PAUL1) b. 1710 in Virginia; d. after 7/1769 in Georgia; m. Mary Unknown

8. Joseph3 HARRELSON (PAUL2, PAUL1) b. 1720; d. before 1800 in Washington District, Marion Co., S.C.; m. Su Song, a Sawra Indian.


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Peter married Mary Chambers in 1715 in St. Paul's Parish, Hanover County, Virginia. Mary (daughter of Edward Chambers and Elizabeth Harrison) was born in 1694 in (York County) Virginia; died in 1755 in Albermarle County, Virginia. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Re: Peter Harrelson/Mary Chambers

Posted by: Marcia McAllum Harrelson Robovitsky
Email: marcia327@mediaone.net
Date: November 25, 2000 at 18:42:43

In Reply to: Peter Harrelson/Mary Chambers by Bruce N Cross



Peter Haralson (Harralson) married to Mary Chambers (daughter of William Chambers) had seven children. John (will dated 8-10-1764 Halifax County, VA), Burgess (will made Orange Co., N.C. 1772), Paul (married Nancy Lea about 1754 Orange Co. N.C.)I have more info about him, Nathaniel who married Dorcus Forbes and died 1781 (this is my line and I don't have much information), Elizabeth, Agnes, and Sarah.
If you have any information to share, I would love it as I'm just getting started. I'm working from information found from papers discovered among grand parents belongings.

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.

end of this report

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:

• Probate: 0___ 1762, Hanover County, Virginia

Notes:

JAMES GLEN, who in 1717-1719 owned land adjacent to the North Anna River in St. Paul's Parish, New Kent County.

He is listed in the Vestry Book of St. Paul's Parish from 1719-1724, in connection with John Glenn.

In 1725-1731 he owned land further upstream along the same (North Anna) river, in Hanover County. He is probably the same James of St. Martin's Parish, Hanover County, who purchased land in 1739 on Great Guinea Creek, St. James Parish, Goochland County (southeast of Hanover), an area that later became Cumberland County.

He left a will in 1762 in Hanover County naming wife Hannah (maiden name probably Thompson) and children:

GIDEON,
NEHEMIAH,
NATHAN,
JAMES,
GEMIMA GLEN SYMES,
HANNAH GLEN AUSTIN,
MARY GLEN HOPKINS,
ELIZABETH GLEN BYARS,
ANNA GLEN,
THOMPSON GLEN,
KEZIAH GLEN HARRIS, and
SARAH GLENN DABNEY.

Also named were grandchildren Frances Harris, Judy Harris, Anna Glen Harris, Molley Glen Harris, Peter Harris and Tyre Harris.

James married Hanna (Thompson). [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Occupation: Sea Captain
• Occupation: Surveyor & Land Owner
• Alt Birth: 1669, Denmark
• Will: 18 Aug 1718, St. Paul's Parish, Hanover County, Virginia
• Probate: 0Apr 1734, Hanover County, Virginia

Notes:

Paul Peter Harrelson
BIRTH 1664
New Kent County, Virginia, USA
DEATH 5 Apr 1734 (aged 69–70)
Hanover County, Virginia, USA
BURIAL
Saint Pauls Church Cemetery
Hanover, Hanover County, Virginia, USA
MEMORIAL ID 105493041 · View Source

Paul Peter Harrelson was born abt 1664 in St Peters Parish, New Kent, Virginia. He was the son of Peter Harrelson (1633-1715) and Rebekka Mary Chambers Harrelson (1635-1664).

Paul married Rebekkah Burgess (1667-1734) in New Kent County, Virginia in 1687. Rebekkah was the daughter of Joseph Burgess and Patience Freeman Burgess. In the book "Seventeenth Century Colonial Ancestors, Vol. II" on page 28 shows that Paul Harrelson was married to Rebecca Burgess, and that he was a Surveyor and a Landowner.

From ancestry.com: Family Data Collection - Individual Records about Paul Haraalson: Name: Paul Haraalson - Spouse: Rebekkah Burgess - Parents: Peter Haraalson - Birth Place: New Kent, of St Peter, VA - Birth Date: 1664 - Marriage Place: of New Kent - Marriage Date: 1687 - Death Place: W, Hanover, VA - Death Date: 5 Apr 1734.

Paul Peter and Rebekkah Burgess Harrelson became the parents of the following known children: Judith Harrelson, Rebecca Harrelson, Anne Harrelson, Peter Harrelson, Paul Harrelson, Dorothy, William, Benjamin, Andrew, Joseph, Nathaniel, Prudence and Mary Frances Harrelson.

Books and articles about Paul and his family: "Virginia Genealogical Society Quarterly" - page 63. "Denizations and Naturalizations in the British Colonies in America, 1607-1775" - Page 122. Paul's dad was naturalized in Virginia on 23 March 1703. "Virginia Land Records" - page 87, page 97. "The Edward Pleasants Valentine papers : abstracts of records in the local and general archives of Virginia" page 4 - 2171. The book "The Compendium of American Genealogy, Vol. IV" on Page 583 "First Families in America" is talking about Paul's dad, Peter Harrelson who was Captain of the Danish Army, went from Denmark to Holland, then on to Hanover County, Va (1715), married to Miss Chambers. "The vestry book of St. Paul's Parish, Hanover County, Virginia, 1706-1786" page 136.

Paul died on 5 April 1734 in St Paul Parish, Hanover, Virginia, United States. He was 70 years old. The interesting parts are that the records of Paul's death is at St Peters Parish, New Kent, Virginia, and the records of his death are at St Paul Parish, Hanover, Virginia, United States. This is the same church and the same location.

History of Saint Paul's Episcopal Church, Hanover, www.stpaulshanover.org:


St. Paul's Parish was created in 1704 from St. Peter's Parish, New Kent. In 1720 the parish boundaries also became those of Hanover County. Two Church of England edifices existed in St. Paul's Parish at the time of its creation. One was near the present day community of Old Church and the other near the present day Hanover Courthouse. By 1724 the Parish which was 60 miles long and 12 miles wide had outgrown itself and a new parish, St. Martin's, was formed from its western end. In 1729 the church building near the Courthouse was replaced by the church known today as Slash Church. The Rev. Patrick Henry (uncle of the famous patriot) was the rector of St. Paul's Parish from 1737 until 1777. Toward the end of his tenure a new brick church was constructed. Its location is unknown today.

After the American Revolution the work of the Church of England in rural Virginia was put to an end. Slash Church was used by the Methodists and Disciples of Christ. Today it is a congregation of Disciples of Christ. It was not until 1836 that services began to be held in the Hanover Courthouse area again. In 1840 the Bishop of Virginia laid the cornerstone of a new church on the site of the present day St. Paul's. The new brick church was consecrated in 1845. It was in the thick of things during the Civil War as the Courthouse area changed hands between Union and Confederate forces. During the Battle of Hanover Courthouse the church's Bible was stolen. It was found in a California bookstore in 1967 and returned to the church. In 1893 following the annual Christmas Pageant, the church burned down. In 1895 a new church was built on the same foundations in the late Gothic Revival style. Additions for offices, classrooms and a parish hall were completed in the 1930's, 1960's and in the first decade of the 21st century. St. Paul's Church, Hanover is a Virginia Historic Landmark and on the National Register of Historic Places.

Family Members
Parents
Peter Harrelson
1633–1715

Rebekka Mary Chambers Harrelson
1635–1664

end of this profile

"William and Mary Quarterly", abstracted by Edward Reynolds and contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives, Records of Hanover County, Virginia, September 15, 1997/elreynolds@atl.mindspring.com, p. 7;

"Jan 25, 1734 - ...whereon Paul Harrelson decd., father of Paul Harrison(Harrelson) lately lived..."

p. 10;

"Aug. 7, 1735 - Estate of Paul Harralson decd to Paul Harralson for going to York to take in his Father's mortgage for Mr. Nelson."

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Re: DENMARK Rebekka Burgess b. 1668
Posted by: melquiades melquiades (ID *****2882) Date: June 14, 2007 at 13:55:54
In Reply to: DENMARK Rebekka Burgess b. 1668 by Michele Petersen of 5084


Michelle,

Rebekka Burgess was my 6th great-grandmother. Here's what I have, including conflicting info and speculations that may stimulate hours of pleasant researching. I've suppressed the footnotes to save space; most sources are secondary at best, so if anyone has different and more reliable information, please let us know. I think I've sorted out the Peter/Paul confusion correctly.

melquiades


PAUL1 HARRELSON (son of PETER HARRALSON) was born 1665 in Denmark, and died Apr 01, 1734 in St. Paul Parish, Hanover Co./New Kent Co., VA. He married REBECCA BURGESS Abt. 1690 in Hanover, VA, daughter of PETER BURGESS. She was born Abt. 1665 in Denmark, and died Aft. 1734 in Hanover, VA.

Notes for PAUL HARRELSON: See the book "Haralson-Harrelson Family History and Lineage" 3rd edition, includes the lines of all lineages bearing the name in the Americas. The book is $60.00 plus $3.50 for shipping to Danny Haralson, 828 Kimball Lane, Safford, Arizona 85546; email klech@zekes.com.

More About PAUL HARRELSON:
Date born 2: Abt. 1650, Denmark
Date born 3: Abt. 1655, Denmark
Date born 4: 1669, Denmark or Holland
Immigration: Abt. 1670, North Carolina (?)
Naturalization: Mar 24, 1702/03, Petition to the House of Burgesses, VA
Residence: Abt. 1734, St. Paul's Parish, Hanover Co., VA
Will 1: Aug 18, 1718, Date signed; St. Paul's Parish, New Kent Co.
Will 2: Apr 05, 1734, Proved; Hanover Co., VA

Notes for REBECCA BURGESS:

Rough check of name frequency at rootsweb.com suggests that Rebecca and/or her parents were born in what is now the UK. Holland was a frequent stop for Brits escaping religious persecution.
The cohesion of such refugees suggest that the Burgess family may have travelled with the Lewis family; Patience Lewis, whose father John was born in Wales, married Paul Harrelson II.
Alternatively, BURGESS might have been anglicized from BERTGES.

More About REBECCA BURGESS:

Name 2: Rebekkah BURGESS
Date born 2: Holland
Date born 3: Abt. 1670, Hanover, VA?
Died 2: 1728

More About PAUL HARRELSON and REBECCA BURGESS:
Marriage 1: Abt. 1690, Hanover, VA
Marriage 2: Bet. 1678 - 1689, VA
Marriage 3: Bef. 1718, Denmark

Children of PAUL HARRELSON and REBECCA BURGESS are:
i. PETER2 HARRELSON, b. Abt. 1690, Denmark or Holland; d. 1733, Hanover Co., VA; m. MARY CHAMBERS, 1715, St. Paul's Par., Hanover, VA; b. 1694, VA; d. 1752, Albemarle Co., VA.

Notes for PETER HARRELSON:

'On page 22 of "Walter Chiles of Jamestown" Joanne states (after Paul's will),"In the same Will book (Hanover County, Virginia Court Records 1733-35) we find the will of Peter Harralson, father of Paul Senior, dated 25 Jan 1733. Paul Sr. and "my friend Henry Chiles" were appointed executors. Paul Harrelson, Sr.'s will was acknowledged 5 April 1734 by Henry Chiles and Paul (jr.) Harralson.' (http://genforum.genealogy.com, Harrelson forum)

See also 'WILL BOOK B PAGE 46-47 ST PAULS PARRISH NEW KENT CO. VA 189 AUG 1718'

from www.rootsweb.com (family trees, Nathaniel Harrelson):

In the book LINEAGE AND DESCENDANTS OF JOHN WESLEY HARRELSON OF MARION CO, SC 1756-1984 by Brent Holcomb, pub in 1984 mentions the family of Paul Harralson, who petitioned the House of Burgesses in Virginia for Naturalizaton March 24, 1702/03. The early records of Hanover County and of New Kent County have been destroyed but one record book of Hanover Co survives in which are two wills for early members of the Harrelson family. The will of Paul Harrelson "of St. Pauls Parish in New Kent County" dated Aug. 18, 1718 names a daughter Judith Harrelson, a daughter Anne Childs, two sons Peter and Paul Harrelson, as well as a granddaughter Reb ekka Sims. The will was proved in Hanover Co., April 5, 1734. The will of his son, Peter, "of St. Pauls Parish of the County of Hanover" in which he names a wife Mary, sons Paul, Burgess, John, and Nathaniel, and daughters Elizabeth, Agness, and Sarah Harralson. The will was dated in 1733/34 and proved March of the same year.

Immigrated: 1715, From Holland (? -- doesn't comport with Naturalization request above)

More About PETER HARRELSON:

Date born 2: Abt. 1680, Denmark
Date born 3: Abt. 1685, New Kent Co., VA
Date born 4: 1689
Date born 5: Abt. 1695, Denmark
Died 2: 1732, St. Pauls Parish, Hanover Co., VA
Died 3: Jan 21, 1732/33, Hanover, Hanover Co., VA
Immigration: 1715 (?), from Holland
Military service: Captain in Danish Army. Came from Holland. Or vice versa?
Will 1: Mar 1733/34, St. Paul's Parish, County of Hanover

More About MARY CHAMBERS:

Date born 2: Abt. 1690, VA
Date born 3: Abt. 1697, York Co., VA

More About PETER HARRELSON and MARY CHAMBERS:
Marriage: 1715, St. Paul's Par., Hanover, VA

ii. PAUL HARRELSON II, b. Abt. 1682, VA; d. Aft. 1755, Fredericksborough Twp., SC; m. PATIENCE LEWIS, Bet. 1710 - 1720, VA; b. 1682, Poropotank Creek, New Kent Co., VA; d. Abt. 1750, Watertree, SC.

Notes for PAUL HARRELSON II:

William and Mary College Quarterly Historical Magazine, Vol. 21, No. 1. (Jul., 1912), pp. 47-63. "RECORDS OF HANOVER COUNTY", p. 58:

Jan. 25, 1734 Paul Harralson of St. Paul's to Henry Power of Parish of James City in Co. of James City 150 acres (same land whereon Paul Harrelson decd., father of Paul Harrison lately lived).

Taken from one of two old books in the clerk’s Office of Hanover County, Va: The Small Book, 1734 and 1735.

More About PAUL HARRELSON II:

Date born 2: Abt. 1719, Denmark
Died 2: 1754, SC
Deed: Jan 25, 1733/34, 150 acres where Paul senior lived, to Henry Power
Residence: 1734, St. Paul's Parish, Hanover Co., VA

Notes for PATIENCE LEWIS: See Book: "The Descendants of Joshua Gore" by Otis Prince

More About PATIENCE LEWIS:

Date born 2: Holland or Denmark

More About PAUL HARRELSON and PATIENCE LEWIS:
Marriage: Bet. 1710 - 1720, VA

iii. REBEKKA HARRELSON, b. 1690, New Kent Co., VA; d. Culpeper Co., VA; m. THOMAS SIMS.

Notes for REBEKKA HARRELSON:
at www.rootsweb.com, family tree of Nathaniel Harrelson, Brent Holcomb (LINEAGE AND DESCENDANTS OF JOHN WESLEY HARRELSON OF MARION CO, SC 1756-1984; 1984) is quoted as stating that Rebekka SIMS is the granddaughter of Paul HARRELSON.

More About REBEKKA HARRELSON:
Name 2: Rebecca HARRELSON
Name 3: Rebekkah HARRELSON
Date born 2: Abt. 1696, VA
Date born 3: Abt. 1700

iv. ANNE HARRELSON, b. 1699, New Kent, Hanover Co., VA; d. 1761, Halifax Co., VA; m. HENRY CHILES.

More About ANNE HARRELSON:

Name 2: Ann HARRELSON
Name 3: Anna HARRELSON
Date born 2: 1690, New Kent Co., VA
Date born 3: Abt. 1721
Died 2: Abt. 1760
Land Patent: 1751, 245 acres on Staunton river, including the mouth of Hills creek.

More About HENRY CHILES:

Land Patent 1: 1745, 104 acres, s. side of Staunton River, Pittsylvania Co., VA
Land Patent 2: 1746, on Staunton River opposite Otter Creek, Pittsylvania Co., VA
Land Patent 3: Four tracts on Falling River, Pittsylvania Co., VA
Land Patent 4: Two tracts of 250 and 300 acres, n. side of Staunton River, Pittsylvania Co., VA
Position 1: Commissioner of the Peace, Amelia Co., VA
Residence: Pittsylvania

v. JUDITH HARRELSON, b. Abt. 1702, VA; d. Bef. Sep 08, 1748, Goochland Co., Va; m. CHAMBERS.

More About JUDITH HARRELSON:

Date born 2: 1690, New Kent Co., VA
Date born 3: Abt. 1695
Date born 4: Abt. 1723

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23 Aug 2008:

http://genforum.genealogy.com/cgi-bin/pageload.cgi?harralson::burgess::4873.html

Notes for PAUL HARRELSON:

See the book "Haralson-Harrelson Family History and Lineage" 3rd edition, includes the lines of all lineages bearing the name in the Americas. The book is $60.00 plus $3.50 for shipping to Danny Haralson, 828 Kimball Lane, Safford, Arizona 85546; email klech@zekes.com.

Surnames: Harrelson Family Genealogy Forum

Re: Actor Woody Harrelson
Posted by: Robert Stapleton
Date: September 26, 1998 at 12:44:58
In Reply to: Re: Actor Woody Harrelson by Dolly Gambrell of 1291

I found the following from one of
Craig Smith's earlier posts :
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Descendants of Paul Harrelson

Generation No. 1
1. PAUL1 HARRELSON was born 1669 in Denmark, and died 1734 in New Kent Co., VA. He married REBECCA BURGESS Abt. 1690.

Children of PAUL HARRELSON and REBECCA BURGESS are:

2. i. PAUL2 HARRELSON II.
ii. REBECCA HARRELSON, b. Abt. 1700; m. THOMAS SIMS.
iii. PETER HARRELSON, m. MARY CHAMBERS. Notes for PETER HARRELSON: Captain in Danish Army. Came from Holland.
iv. ANNE HARRELSON, m. CHILDS.
v. JUDITH HARRELSON.
Generation No. 2
2. PAUL2 HARRELSON II (PAUL1). He married PATIENCE LEWIS.
Children of PAUL HARRELSON and PATIENCE LEWIS are:
3. i. JOSEPH3 HARRELSON, b. 1730-1735; d. Bef. 1800, Marion Co., SC.
4. ii. DOROTHY HARRELSON.
iii. BENJAMIN HARRELSON.
iv. ANDREW HARRELSON.
v. PRUDENCE HARRELSON.
vi. NATHANIEL HARRELSON.
vii. WILLIAM HARRELSON.
viii. PAUL HARRELSON.
Generation No. 3
3. JOSEPH3 HARRELSON (PAUL2, PAUL1) was born 1730-1735, and died Bef.
1800 in Marion Co., SC.
Children of JOSEPH HARRELSON are:
5. i. JOSIAH L.4 HARRELSON, b. 1735; d. 1824, Horry Co., SC.
ii. BENJAMIN HARRELSON.
iii. JOSEPH HARRELSON
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My aunt has the correct info, but going by memory , I think my Benjamin Harrelson was the one who was the son of Paul & Patience Lewis. He married Ruth & had children Celia (my dad's line) and Patience (my mom's line). If you think that makes for a family bonsai, I have found 3 Burgess lines on my father's mother's side & have yet to connect any of them :)
It is my understanding that some of Woody Harrelson's Harrelson's came from North Carolina.
Thanks !

http://genforum.genealogy.com/cgi-bin/pageload.cgi?harralson::burgess::4873.html:

More About PAUL HARRELSON:
Date born 2: Abt. 1650, Denmark
Date born 3: Abt. 1655, Denmark
Date born 4: 1669, Denmark or Holland
Immigration: Abt. 1670, North Carolina (?)
Naturalization: Mar 24, 1702/03, Petition to the House of Burgesses, VA
Residence: Abt. 1734, St. Paul's Parish, Hanover Co., VA
Will 1: Aug 18, 1718, Date signed; St. Paul's Parish, New Kent Co.
Will 2: Apr 05, 1734, Proved; Hanover Co., VA

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Paul Peter Harrelson was born abt 1664 in St Peters Parish, New Kent, Virginia. He was the son of Peter Harrelson (1633-1715) and Rebekka Mary Chambers Harrelson (1635-1664).

Paul married Rebekkah Burgess (1667-1734) in New Kent County, Virginia in 1687. Rebekkah was the daughter of Joseph Burgess and Patience Freeman Burgess. In the book "Seventeenth Century Colonial Ancestors, Vol. II" on page 28 shows that Paul Harrelson was married to Rebecca Burgess, and that he was a Surveyor and a Landowner.

From ancestry.com: Family Data Collection - Individual Records about Paul Haraalson: Name: Paul Haraalson - Spouse: Rebekkah Burgess - Parents: Peter Haraalson - Birth Place: New Kent, of St Peter, VA - Birth Date: 1664 - Marriage Place: of New Kent - Marriage Date: 1687 - Death Place: W, Hanover, VA - Death Date: 5 Apr 1734.

Paul Peter and Rebekkah Burgess Harrelson became the parents of the following known children: Judith Harrelson, Rebecca Harrelson, Anne Harrelson, Peter Harrelson, Paul Harrelson, Dorothy, William, Benjamin, Andrew, Joseph, Nathaniel, Prudence and Mary Frances Harrelson.

Books and articles about Paul and his family: "Virginia Genealogical Society Quarterly" - page 63. "Denizations and Naturalizations in the British Colonies in America, 1607-1775" - Page 122. Paul's dad was naturalized in Virginia on 23 March 1703. "Virginia Land Records" - page 87, page 97. "The Edward Pleasants Valentine papers : abstracts of records in the local and general archives of Virginia" page 4 - 2171. The book "The Compendium of American Genealogy, Vol. IV" on Page 583 "First Families in America" is talking about Paul's dad, Peter Harrelson who was Captain of the Danish Army, went from Denmark to Holland, then on to Hanover County, Va (1715), married to Miss Chambers. "The vestry book of St. Paul's Parish, Hanover County, Virginia, 1706-1786" page 136.

Paul died on 5 April 1734 in St Paul Parish, Hanover, Virginia, United States. He was 70 years old. The interesting parts are that the records of Paul's death is at St Peters Parish, New Kent, Virginia, and the records of his death are at St Paul Parish, Hanover, Virginia, United States. This is the same church and the same location.

http://www.stpaulshanover.org/our_church/our-history/

St. Paul's Parish was created in 1704 from St. Peter's Parish, New Kent. In 1720 the parish boundaries also became those of Hanover County. Two Church of England edifices existed in St. Paul's Parish at the time of its creation. One was near the present day community of Old Church and the other near the present day Hanover Courthouse. By 1724 the Parish which was 60 miles long and 12 miles wide had outgrown itself and a new parish, St. Martin's, was formed from its western end. In 1729 the church building near the Courthouse was replaced by the church known today as Slash Church. The Rev. Patrick Henry (uncle of the famous patriot) was the rector of St. Paul's Parish from 1737 until 1777. Toward the end of his tenure a new brick church was constructed. Its location is unknown today.

After the American Revolution the work of the Church of England in rural Virginia was put to an end. Slash Church was used by the Methodists and Disciples of Christ. Today it is a congregation of Disciples of Christ. It was not until 1836 that services began to be held in the Hanover Courthouse area again. In 1840 the Bishop of Virginia laid the cornerstone of a new church on the site of the present day St. Paul's. The new brick church was consecrated in 1845. It was in the thick of things during the Civil War as the Courthouse area changed hands between Union and Confederate forces. During the Battle of Hanover Courthouse the church's Bible was stolen. It was found in a California bookstore in 1967 and returned to the church. In 1893 following the annual Christmas Pageant, the church burned down. In 1895 a new church was built on the same foundations in the late Gothic Revival style. Additions for offices, classrooms and a parish hall were completed in the 1930's, 1960's and in the first decade of the 21st century. St. Paul's Church, Hanover is a Virginia Historic Landmark and on the National Register of Historic Places.

Family Members
Parents
Peter Harrelson
1633–1715

Rebekka Mary Chambers Harrelson
1635–1664

Spouse
Photo
Rebekkah Burgess Harrelson
1667–1734 (m. 1687)

Children
Rebecca Harrelson Sims
1696–1784

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Paul married Rebecca Burgess in 1687 in New Kent County, Virginia. Rebecca (daughter of Joseph Burgess and Patience Freeman) was born on 17 Jan 1667 in Sandwich, Massachusetts, British Colonies of America; died on 1 Apr 1734 in New Kent County, Virginia. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Alt Birth: 1670, Hanover County, Virginia
• Alt Death: 1734, Hanover County, Virginia, British Colonies of America

Notes:

Rebekkah (Rebecca) Harrelson formerly Burgess
Born 17 Jan 1667 in Massachusetts Bay
ANCESTORS ancestors
Daughter of Joseph Burgess and Patience (Freeman) Burgess
Sister of Rebecca (Burgess) Rose, Dorothy (Burgess) Clifton, Joseph Burgess, Benjamin Burgess and Ichabod Burgess
Wife of Paul Peter Harellson — married 1689 in Hanover, Virginia
DESCENDANTS descendants
Mother of Rebecca (Harrelson) Sims
Died 1 Apr 1734 in West Hanover, Hanover, Colony of Virginia
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Biography
Rebekkah Burgess was born on January 17, 1667, in Sandwich, Massachusetts to Patience Freeman, age 20, and Joseph Burgess, age 29.

Rebekkah Burgess married Paul Peter Harrelson in 1687 in New Kent County, Virginia, when she was 20 years old. Her daughter Rebecca was born in 1687 in New Kent County, Virginia.

They had only one child during their marriage.

Rebekkah's father Joseph passed away in August 1695 in Sandwich, Massachusetts, at the age of 57.

Rebekkah Burgess died on April 1, 1734, in New Kent, Virginia, when she was 67 years old.

Born 17 January 1667. Plymouth County, Massachusetts, USA. [1][2][3]

Marriage

Date: 1689
Place: Hanover, Virginia, United States[4][5]

Died 1 April 1734. West Hanover, Hanover, Virginia, United States. [6][7]

Buried Hanover, Hanover County, Virginia, USA. [8]



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Michelle,
Rebekka Burgess was my 6th great-grandmother. Here's what I have, including conflicting info and speculations that may stimulate hours of pleasant researching. I've suppressed the footnotes to save space; most sources are secondary at best, so if anyone has different and more reliable information, please let us know. I think I've sorted out the Peter/Paul confusion correctly.

melquiades


PAUL1 HARRELSON (son of PETER HARRALSON) was born 1665 in Denmark, and died Apr 01, 1734 in St. Paul Parish, Hanover Co./New Kent Co., VA. He married REBECCA BURGESS Abt. 1690 in Hanover, VA, daughter of PETER BURGESS. She was born Abt. 1665 in Denmark, and died Aft. 1734 in Hanover, VA.

Notes for PAUL HARRELSON:
See the book "Haralson-Harrelson Family History and Lineage" 3rd edition, includes the lines of all lineages bearing the name in the Americas. The book is $60.00 plus $3.50 for shipping to Danny Haralson, 828 Kimball Lane, Safford, Arizona 85546; email klech@zekes.com.


More About PAUL HARRELSON:
Date born 2: Abt. 1650, Denmark
Date born 3: Abt. 1655, Denmark
Date born 4: 1669, Denmark or Holland
Immigration: Abt. 1670, North Carolina (?)
Naturalization: Mar 24, 1702/03, Petition to the House of Burgesses, VA
Residence: Abt. 1734, St. Paul's Parish, Hanover Co., VA
Will 1: Aug 18, 1718, Date signed; St. Paul's Parish, New Kent Co.
Will 2: Apr 05, 1734, Proved; Hanover Co., VA

Notes for REBECCA BURGESS:
Rough check of name frequency at rootsweb.com suggests that Rebecca and/or her parents were born in what is now the UK. Holland was a frequent stop for Brits escaping religious persecution.
The cohesion of such refugees suggest that the Burgess family may have travelled with the Lewis family; Patience Lewis, whose father John was born in Wales, married Paul Harrelson II.
Alternatively, BURGESS might have been anglicized from BERTGES.

More About REBECCA BURGESS:
Name 2: Rebekkah BURGESS
Date born 2: Holland
Date born 3: Abt. 1670, Hanover, VA?
Died 2: 1728

More About PAUL HARRELSON and REBECCA BURGESS:
Marriage 1: Abt. 1690, Hanover, VA
Marriage 2: Bet. 1678 - 1689, VA
Marriage 3: Bef. 1718, Denmark

Children of PAUL HARRELSON and REBECCA BURGESS are:
i. PETER2 HARRELSON, b. Abt. 1690, Denmark or Holland; d. 1733, Hanover Co., VA; m. MARY CHAMBERS, 1715, St. Paul's Par., Hanover, VA; b. 1694, VA; d. 1752, Albemarle Co., VA.

Notes for PETER HARRELSON:
'On page 22 of "Walter Chiles of Jamestown" Joanne states (after Paul's will),"In the same Will book (Hanover County, Virginia Court Records 1733-35) we find the will of Peter Harralson, father of Paul Senior, dated 25 Jan 1733. Paul Sr. and "my friend Henry Chiles" were appointed executors. Paul Harrelson, Sr.'s will was acknowledged 5 April 1734 by Henry Chiles and Paul (jr.) Harralson.' (http://genforum.genealogy.com, Harrelson forum)

See also 'WILL BOOK B PAGE 46-47 ST PAULS PARRISH NEW KENT CO. VA 189 AUG 1718'

from www.rootsweb.com (family trees, Nathaniel Harrelson):
In the book LINEAGE AND DESCENDANTS OF JOHN WESLEY HARRELSON OF MARION CO, SC 1756-1984 by Brent Holcomb, pub in 1984 mentions the family of Paul Harralson, who petitioned the House of Burgesses in Virginia for Naturalizaton March 24, 1702/03. The early records of Hanover County and of New Kent County have been destroyed but one record book of Hanover Co survives in which are two wills for early members of the Harrelson family. The will of Paul Harrelson "of St. Pauls Parish in New Kent County" dated Aug. 18, 1718 names a daughter Judith Harrelson, a daughter Anne Childs, two sons Peter and Paul Harrelson, as well as a granddaughter Reb ekka Sims. The will was proved in Hanover Co., April 5, 1734. The will of his son, Peter, "of St. Pauls Parish of the County of Hanover" in which he names a wife Mary, sons Paul, Burgess, John, and Nathaniel, and daughters Elizabeth, Agness, and Sarah Harralson. The will was dated in 1733/34 and proved March of the same year.

Immigrated: 1715, From Holland (? -- doesn't comport with Naturalization request above)

More About PETER HARRELSON:
Date born 2: Abt. 1680, Denmark
Date born 3: Abt. 1685, New Kent Co., VA
Date born 4: 1689
Date born 5: Abt. 1695, Denmark
Died 2: 1732, St. Pauls Parish, Hanover Co., VA
Died 3: Jan 21, 1732/33, Hanover, Hanover Co., VA
Immigration: 1715 (?), from Holland
Military service: Captain in Danish Army. Came from Holland. Or vice versa?
Will 1: Mar 1733/34, St. Paul's Parish, County of Hanover

More About MARY CHAMBERS:
Date born 2: Abt. 1690, VA
Date born 3: Abt. 1697, York Co., VA

More About PETER HARRELSON and MARY CHAMBERS:
Marriage: 1715, St. Paul's Par., Hanover, VA

ii. PAUL HARRELSON II, b. Abt. 1682, VA; d. Aft. 1755, Fredericksborough Twp., SC; m. PATIENCE LEWIS, Bet. 1710 - 1720, VA; b. 1682, Poropotank Creek, New Kent Co., VA; d. Abt. 1750, Watertree, SC.

Notes for PAUL HARRELSON II:
William and Mary College Quarterly Historical Magazine, Vol. 21,
No. 1. (Jul., 1912), pp. 47-63. "RECORDS OF HANOVER COUNTY", p. 58:

Jan. 25, 1734 Paul Harralson of St. Paul's to Henry Power of Parish of James City in Co. of James City 150 acres (same land whereon Paul Harrelson decd., father of Paul Harrison lately lived).

Taken from one of two old books in the clerk’s Office of Hanover County, Va: The Small Book, 1734 and 1735.

More About PAUL HARRELSON II:
Date born 2: Abt. 1719, Denmark
Died 2: 1754, SC
Deed: Jan 25, 1733/34, 150 acres where Paul senior lived, to Henry Power
Residence: 1734, St. Paul's Parish, Hanover Co., VA

Notes for PATIENCE LEWIS:
See Book: "The descendants of Joshua Gore" by Otis Prince

More About PATIENCE LEWIS:
Date born 2: Holland or Denmark

More About PAUL HARRELSON and PATIENCE LEWIS:
Marriage: Bet. 1710 - 1720, VA

iii. REBEKKA HARRELSON, b. 1690, New Kent Co., VA; d. Culpeper Co., VA; m. THOMAS SIMS.

Notes for REBEKKA HARRELSON:
at www.rootsweb.com, family tree of Nathaniel Harrelson, Brent Holcomb (LINEAGE AND DESCENDANTS OF JOHN WESLEY HARRELSON OF MARION CO, SC 1756-1984; 1984) is quoted as stating that Rebekka SIMS is the granddaughter of Paul HARRELSON.

More About REBEKKA HARRELSON:
Name 2: Rebecca HARRELSON
Name 3: Rebekkah HARRELSON
Date born 2: Abt. 1696, VA
Date born 3: Abt. 1700

iv. ANNE HARRELSON, b. 1699, New Kent, Hanover Co., VA; d. 1761, Halifax Co., VA; m. HENRY CHILES.

More About ANNE HARRELSON:
Name 2: Ann HARRELSON
Name 3: Anna HARRELSON
Date born 2: 1690, New Kent Co., VA
Date born 3: Abt. 1721
Died 2: Abt. 1760
Land Patent: 1751, 245 acres on Staunton river, including the mouth of Hills creek.

More About HENRY CHILES:
Land Patent 1: 1745, 104 acres, s. side of Staunton River, Pittsylvania Co., VA
Land Patent 2: 1746, on Staunton River opposite Otter Creek, Pittsylvania Co., VA
Land Patent 3: Four tracts on Falling River, Pittsylvania Co., VA
Land Patent 4: Two tracts of 250 and 300 acres, n. side of Staunton River, Pittsylvania Co., VA
Position 1: Commissioner of the Peace, Amelia Co., VA
Residence: Pittsylvania

v. JUDITH HARRELSON, b. Abt. 1702, VA; d. Bef. Sep 08, 1748, Goochland Co., Va; m. CHAMBERS.

More About JUDITH HARRELSON:
Date born 2: 1690, New Kent Co., VA
Date born 3: Abt. 1695
Date born 4: Abt. 1723

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Other Events and Attributes:

• Alt Birth: ~1665, New Kent County, Virginia

Notes:

Chambers & Harrelson (Caswell Co NC)

Posted by: Meredith Adams Sheridan

Date: March 09, 2002 at 20:21:52

I see that several of you have roots in the Caswell Co and Person Co NC Harrelsons. Have any of you looked at the message from Mabel Chambers #133 on the Chambers board where she gives the children of William Chambers bn@1728. Of the 14 children, there are two married to Harrelsons: one Jane Chambers who married Ezekial Harralson (who died 1779)and my John Chambers who is believed to have married Rebecca Harrelson. Josias Chambers married in 1783 (Caswell Co NC) Nancy Stanfield. Elizabeth Chambers md Hugh Barnett. The Chambers, Stanfields, Harralsons, Barnetts, and Adams seem to be interrelated for several generations. Can anyone shed light on these families of Caswell Co, NC and then Person Co when it was split from Caswell. Thanks Meredith Adams Sheridan

Edward married Elizabeth Harrison in 1694 in York County, Virginia. Elizabeth was born in 1665 in York County, Virginia; died in 1694 in Hanover County, Virginia. [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.)

[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 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.

[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

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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)
. . . . : +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
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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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On 6 May 2019 at 05:10 GMT Dusty Boren wrote:

Amazing, Audrey was born when her father was 7 years old or less!
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On 16 Dec 2018 at 17:18 GMT James Mulhausen wrote:

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:

• Military: Danish Army

Notes:

Peter Harrelson
BIRTH 1633
DEATH 1715 (aged 81–82)
New Kent County, Virginia, USA
BURIAL
St. Peter's Episcopal Church Cemetery
Putneys Mill, New Kent County, Virginia, USA
MEMORIAL ID 155722959 · View Source

Peter Harrelson was born about 1633. He married Rebekka Mary Chambers. Rebekka was born about 1637. They had the following known children:

1. Paul Peter Harrelson.

Rebekka died about 1664 in New Kent County, Virginia. Peter died about 1715 in New Kent County, Virginia. They were both buried in St. Peters Parish cemetery in Putney's Mill, New Kent County, Virginia.

Family Members
Spouse
Rebekka Mary Chambers Harrelson
1635–1664

Children
Paul Peter Harrelson
1664–1734

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Peter married Rebecca Mary Chambers(New Kent County, Colony of Virginia). Rebecca was born in 1635 in St. Peters Parish, New Kent County, Virginia; died in 1664 in New Kent County, Virginia, Colony of the British Empire; was buried in St Peters Episcopal Church Cemetery, Putneys Mill, New Kent County, Virginia. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Rebekka Mary Chambers Harrelson
BIRTH 1635
DEATH 1664 (aged 28–29)
New Kent County, Virginia, USA
BURIAL
St. Peter's Episcopal Church Cemetery
Putneys Mill, New Kent County, Virginia, USA
MEMORIAL ID 155723040 · View Source

Rebekka Mary Chambers was born about 1635 in New Kent County, England, the daughter of Edward and Elizabeth (Harrison) Chambers. Ancestry.com family tree titled Rehfeldt Family Tree-(2) follows Rebekka's line back to the 10th century. She married Peter Harrelson in 1664 in St. Peters, New Kent County, Virginia. Peter was born about 1633 in Denmark. They had the following known children:

1. Paul Peter Harrelson

Rebekka's husband Peter was a Captain of the Danish Army. Rebekka died about 1664 in New Kent County, Virginia. Peter died about 1715 in New Kent County, Virginia. They were both buried in St. Peters Parish cemetery in Putney's Mill, New Kent County, Virginia.

Family Members
Spouse
Peter Harrelson
1633–1715

Children
Paul Peter Harrelson
1664–1734

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Descendants
[uncertain] Paul Harrelson Sr ancestors descendants (abt 1650 - 05 Apr 1734) m. Rebekah Burgess (abt 1652 - 05 Apr 1734) on 1672.
Elizabeth Harrelson ancestors ()
John Harrelson ancestors ()
Susanna Harrelson ancestors ()
Paul Harrelson Jr ancestors descendants (1682 - 1754) m. Patience Lewis (1682 - 1750).
Dorothy Glover (Harrelson) Davenport ancestors descendants (abt 1690 - Sep 1767) m. Martin Davenport (abt 1683 - bef Oct 1735) on 1714.
Mary Davenport ancestors descendants (1706 - 1776) m. Henry Gambill Sr. (1714 - Nov 1775) on Oct 1735.
Sarah (Gambill) White ancestors descendants more descendants (abt 1737 - 1828)
William Henry Gambill Sr ancestors descendants more descendants (abt 1740 - 1779)
John A Gambill ancestors descendants more descendants (1752 - 1839)
Thomas Davenport ancestors descendants (1711 - 10 Dec 1809) m. Dorothy Strother () on 1732.
Sophia (Davenport) White ancestors descendants more descendants (abt 1735 - bef 1818)
Mary (Davenport) Wiseman ancestors descendants more descendants (abt 1742 - 17 Jun 1796)
Richard Davenport ancestors descendants (1713 - 1792)
Sarah (Davenport) Matthis ancestors descendants more descendants (abt 1758 - bef 08 Apr 1839)
William Davenport ancestors descendants (1716 - 01 Jun 1795) m. Elizabeth Heale (08 Mar 1710 - 1748) on 26 Nov 1728. m. Anne Arnold (1720 - 1782) abt 1735.
Mary Davenport ancestors (abt 1735)
Augustine Davenport ancestors descendants more descendants (1738 - bef Nov 1799)
Martin Davenport ancestors (abt 1739)
Francis Davenport Sr. ancestors descendants more descendants (1743 - 1803)
Dorothy (Davenport) Baker ancestors descendants (02 Nov 1716 - 1790) m. Thomas Corbie Baker (abt Jan 1711 - 10 Jan 1777) on 1734.
William Baker ancestors descendants more descendants (20 Jul 1735)
Thomas Baker ancestors (06 Apr 1737 - 1860)
Mary P. (Baker) Mallory ancestors descendants more descendants (1739)
Martin Baker ancestors (23 Jan 1741 - 1821)
Crotia (Baker) Gouge ancestors descendants more descendants (12 May 1743)
Josiah Baker ancestors (1745)
Henry Baker ancestors descendants more descendants (16 Mar 1747 - 1806)
David Baker ancestors descendants more descendants (03 Jun 1749 - 15 Sep 1838)
Dorothy Baker ancestors (11 Feb 1751 - 1820)
Richard Baker ancestors (1753 - 1777) [unmarried] [no children]
James Baker ancestors descendants more descendants (18 Feb 1755 - 1839)
John Baker Sr. ancestors descendants more descendants (04 May 1758 - abt 07 Dec 1806)
John Baker Sr ancestors descendants more descendants (04 May 1758 - 07 Dec 1806)
Charles R. Baker ancestors descendants more descendants (02 Feb 1762 - 1850)
John Davenport ancestors (1717 - 1773)
Glover Davenport ancestors descendants (1719 - 1785) m. Ann Jouett (abt 1720).
Matthew Davenport ancestors descendants more descendants (abt 1743 - abt 1767)
James Davenport ancestors descendants (1719 - 1803) m. Frances Jouette (1732).
James Glover Davenport Jr. ancestors descendants more descendants (29 Apr 1759 - 08 Jun 1824)
Jesse Davenport ancestors (1767 - 1822)
Martin Davenport ancestors (1720 - 1790)
David Davenport ancestors (1721 - 1803) m. Jane Yarbough () on 1745.
Lucy Davenport ancestors descendants (1725 - 20 Aug 1772) m. Joseph Venable (1725 - 1818). m. Richard Graves (1750 - aft 1788).
William Venable ancestors descendants more descendants (1755 - 01 Apr 1836)
William B Graves ancestors (1761)
Joseph Venable ancestors (1769 - 1811)
John Wilson Venable ancestors (1770)
Elizabeth Venable ancestors (abt 1772 - abt 1852)
Pheby (Harrelson) Harrel ancestors (1719 - aft 1751) m. Henry Mayes IV (27 Oct 1709 - 15 May 1787).
Benjamin Harrelson Sr. ancestors descendants (1725 - 1802) m. Selah Commander (02 Jan 1740 - 21 Dec 1854). m. Patience Lewis (1689 - 1750) on 1707. m. Cealey Smith (02 Jan 1740 - 21 Dec 1854) on 1767.
Charity Harrelson ancestors ( - aft 01 Jan 1855)
Henry Hugh Harrelson ancestors ( - abt 01 Jan 1845)
Lucy Harrelson ancestors ( - aft 01 Jan 1855)
Mary Ann (Harrelson) Shooter ancestors ( - aft 01 Jan 1855)
Molly Harrelson ancestors ( - aft 01 Jan 1855)
Patience (Harrelson) Norton ancestors descendants ( - aft 01 Jan 1855) m. William Norton (20 Nov 1718 - 01 Aug 1806).
Danat Norton ancestors ( - aft 01 Jan 1835)
James Norton ancestors descendants more descendants (abt 1761 - 31 Oct 1857)
Abigail Norton ancestors (abt 1774 - aft 01 Jan 1835)
Sarah (Norton) Stonestreet ancestors descendants more descendants (1776 - aft 01 Jan 1835)
Rufus Norton ancestors (abt 1777 - abt 01 Jan 1835)
Samuel Norton ancestors (abt 1779 - abt 01 Jan 1835)
Mary C. (Norton) Ware ancestors descendants more descendants (abt 01 Mar 1779 - aft 01 Mar 1838)
William Norton Jr. ancestors descendants more descendants (abt 1784 - abt 01 Jan 1836)
John Wesley Norton ancestors descendants more descendants (22 Jan 1784 - aft 15 Mar 1862)
Benjamin Harrelson ancestors (1737 - 1840)
Lewis Harrelson ancestors descendants (1765 - 12 May 1804)
Susannah (Harrelson) Martin ancestors descendants more descendants (abt 20 Sep 1784 - 20 Sep 1863)
Celia (Harrelson) Bethea ancestors descendants (02 Jan 1768 - aft 21 Dec 1854) m. Jesse Bethea II (1763 - 1820) abt 1786.
Goodman Bethea ancestors descendants more descendants (02 Jul 1793 - 22 Sep 1863)
Benjamin Harrelson Jr. ancestors descendants (1770 - Aug 1840)
Timothy D. Harrelson Sr. ancestors descendants more descendants (1810 - 09 Jun 1884)
Abigail (Harrelson) Grice ancestors descendants (12 Oct 1772 - 1855) m. Jacob Grice (05 Aug 1771 - 29 Mar 1818).
Charlotte A. (Grice) Bethea ancestors descendants more descendants (11 Oct 1798 - 12 May 1864)
Benjamin J. Grice ancestors (30 Apr 1799 - 09 Dec 1882)
Prudence (Harrelson) Reeves ancestors descendants (1727 - 1780) m. William Reeves (1730 - 1763) on 1754.
Solomon Reeves ancestors descendants (1754 - 01 Feb 1835) m. Sarah Floyd (1757 - 1832) on 1777.
Jerusha (Reeves) Norton ancestors descendants more descendants (1778)
Joel Lide Reaves ancestors descendants more descendants (12 Aug 1782 - 13 Jul 1860)
Peter Harellson ancestors descendants (abt 1683 - bef 01 Mar 1734) m. Mary Chambers (abt 1690 - abt 1752) on 1715.
Burgess Harrelson ancestors descendants (abt 1718 - aft May 1772) m. Elizabeth Gaines (abt 1716 - aft 1772) on 1740.
Elijah Haralson ancestors descendants (1742 - 1789)
Pricilla (Haralson) Beadles ancestors descendants more descendants (1775)
Elijah Haralson ancestors descendants more descendants (10 Apr 1779 - 04 Aug 1852)
Drusilla (Harrelson) Byars ancestors descendants (abt 1750 - abt 1818) m. Nathan Byars (1749 - 18 Aug 1846) aft Oct 1772.
Nathan Byars ancestors descendants more descendants (1773 - 09 Sep 1858)
Elizabeth Byars ancestors descendants more descendants (abt 1774 - bef 1850)
Martha (Byars) Womack ancestors descendants more descendants (31 Dec 1774 - aft 1830)
Nancy (Byars) Walker ancestors (abt 1775)
John Byars ancestors descendants more descendants (abt 1777 - abt 1852)
Burgess Harrelson Byars ancestors descendants more descendants (1779 - 13 Feb 1874)
Paul H. Harrelson ancestors descendants (abt 1727 - 1834) m. Nancy Lea (1736 - May 1795) abt 1754.
Herndon Haralson ancestors descendants (12 Oct 1757 - abt 27 May 1847) m. Mary Murphey (13 Feb 1771 - 13 Aug 1847) on 4 Oct 1791.
Archibald Haralson ancestors descendants more descendants (05 Jul 1792 - 29 Oct 1839)
Herndon Haralson ancestors (20 Jan 1796 - 20 Jul 1852)
James Harrelson ancestors descendants (12 Oct 1757 - 1829) m. Rebekah Brown (1768 - 22 Jul 1849) abt 1782.
William M Harrelson ancestors descendants more descendants (22 Jun 1784 - 16 Dec 1882)
Jonathon Anderson Haralson ancestors descendants (1759 - 1832) m. Jane Houston (abt 1762 - aft 1796) on 12 Mar 1782. m. Clarissa Browning (01 Mar 1765 - 01 Mar 1841) on 1798.
Herndon Haralson ancestors descendants more descendants (abt 25 Dec 1796 - 25 Oct 1868)
Hugh Anderson Haralson ancestors (13 Nov 1805 - 25 Sep 1854)
Lea Miles Haralson ancestors descendants (1762 - 05 Sep 1844) m. Mary L Stanfield (1766 - 17 Aug 1848) on 4 Sep 1791.
Zarah Isaac Haralson ancestors descendants more descendants (07 May 1802 - 25 May 1879)
Nathaniel Chambers Harelson ancestors descendants (1729 - 21 Apr 1781)
Forbes Harelson ancestors descendants (1761 - 1824) m. Martha Elizabeth Henderson (1778) on 19 Nov 1793.
Sarah McComas (Harelson) Womack ancestors descendants more descendants (abt 1810 - 21 Jun 1867)
Ann (Harrelson) Chiles ancestors descendants (abt 1700 - abt 1760) m. Henry Chiles II (13 Nov 1698 - aft 27 Jun 1746) on 1718.
Henry Chiles ancestors ( - 27 Nov 1758) m. Judith Daniel ().
Paul Chiles Sr. ancestors descendants (1718 - 19 Mar 1761) m. Ann Rowland (1725 - 1776) abt 1738.
Henry Chiles ancestors (1744 - 1832) m. Frances Nevil (1744) on 1760.
Elizabeth (Chiles) Ingram ancestors descendants (1750 - 21 Jul 1814) m. John Ingram (1756 - 1813) on 1770.
Nancy Anne (Ingram) Martin ancestors descendants more descendants (1774 - 1844)
Elizabeth Chiles ancestors descendants (1760 - 21 Jul 1814) m. John Ingram (abt 1750 - Dec 1813) on 9 Jan 1774.
Sarah Bodkin Ingram ancestors descendants more descendants (abt 1775 - 14 Nov 1872)
Rowland H Ingram ancestors descendants more descendants (1790 - 05 May 1848)
Ann Chiles ancestors descendants (1726) m. John Ward (1708).
John Ward ancestors (1743)
Josiah Ward ancestors (1747)
William Ward ancestors (1749)
Sarah Jane (Ward) Brazill ancestors descendants (abt 1750 - 1809) m. John Lee (28 Mar 1729 - abt 1795).
John Lee ancestors (1769)
Mary Ann Lee ancestors (1773)
Roland V Lee ancestors descendants more descendants (06 May 1774 - 1845)
Sarah Lee ancestors (1777)
William E Lee ancestors (1781)
Able Lee ancestors (1783)
Deidamia (Lee) Fuson ancestors descendants more descendants (31 Jul 1784 - 21 Aug 1862)
Penina Lee ancestors (1789)
Nancy Lee ancestors (24 Mar 1791)
Agatha Ward ancestors (09 Feb 1750)
Anne Ward ancestors (09 Feb 1750)
Henry Ward ancestors (05 Apr 1751)
Mary A Ward ancestors (02 Jun 1754)
Jeremiah Ward ancestors (1755)
Thomas Ward ancestors (1757)
Susannah Ward ancestors (29 Nov 1760)
Luke Ward ancestors (1763)
Polly Ward ancestors (11 Jan 1768)
Anne (Chiles) Ward ancestors descendants (abt 1726 - 01 Jan 1765) m. John Ward Sr. (12 Aug 1720 - bef 11 Nov 1816). m. John Ward (abt 1700) on 1739.
Jeremiah Ward ancestors ()
Thomas Ward ancestors ()
Henry Ward ancestors (aft 1744)
William Ward ancestors descendants (abt 1745 - 15 Aug 1795) m. Mildred Adams (1758 - abt 1777).
James Ward ancestors descendants more descendants (25 Mar 1758 - 15 Jul 1848)
John Ward JR III ancestors (abt 1769 - abt 1846)
Robert Adam Ward ancestors descendants more descendants (abt 1773 - abt 1880)
Mildred (Ward) Dillard II ancestors (abt 1776 - abt 1800)
Ann (Ward) Lynch ancestors (abt 1746 - bef 1766)
Agatha (Ward) Callaway ancestors descendants (abt 1750) m. John Callaway (10 Jun 1738 - 1821).
William Callaway ancestors (11 Oct 1769 - 28 Feb 1808)
Sarah Jane Ward ancestors descendants (1750 - 1809) m. John Lee (1765 - aft 1795).
Elizabeth Lee ancestors (1780 - Feb 1850)
Henry Ward ancestors descendants (05 Apr 1751 - 12 Apr 1823) m. Martha Barber (bef 1800 - 1851).
Lucinda Dillard (Rutledge) Ward ancestors descendants more descendants (21 Nov 1801 - abt 1859)
Henrietta Eloise (Ward) McElhiney ancestors (25 May 1810 - 24 Dec 1891)
John Chiles Ward ancestors descendants more descendants (11 Nov 1812 - 13 Jun 1887)
William Ward ancestors (25 Jul 1814 - Jul 1844)
Robert A. Ward ancestors (08 Dec 1817 - 27 Feb 1871)
John Ward Jr. ancestors (abt 1760)
Ann (Ward) Dillard ancestors (09 Feb 1761 - 08 Aug 1816)
John Chiles ancestors descendants (1730 - aft 04 Jan 1813) m. Elizabeth Unknown ( - aft 1813). m. Elizabeth Garland (1734 - 1817).
Henry Chiles ancestors descendants (1760 - 1832) m. Sarah Ballinger (1775 - 20 Apr 1842) on 10 Nov 1789.
Christopher Lillard Chiles Sr. ancestors descendants more descendants (18 Dec 1800 - abt 1855)
James C Chiles ancestors descendants more descendants (14 Aug 1802 - 23 Mar 1883)
Joseph Ballinger Chiles Sr. ancestors (16 Jul 1810 - 25 Jun 1885)
John Chiles Jr ancestors descendants (23 May 1761 - 02 Jan 1804) m. Elizabeth Lillard (08 Jul 1764 - 14 Jul 1850) on 10 Mar 1785.
Elizabeth (Chiles) Fields ancestors descendants more descendants (17 Jan 1793 - 15 Dec 1872)
Garland Chiles ancestors descendants (17 Feb 1783 - 17 Jan 1858) m. Frances Thomas (1786) on 7 May 1802.
Bushrod Chiles ancestors (06 Aug 1806 - 19 Oct 1854)
Martha Chiles ancestors (abt 1810)
Henry T. Chiles ancestors (20 Feb 1810 - 24 Nov 1836)
Fleming Nuckles Chiles ancestors (06 Aug 1811 - 1884)
Martha A (Chiles) Moody ancestors descendants more descendants (abt 1814 - bef 1914)
Charles Hill Chiles ancestors (1827)
Elizabeth (Chiles) Jennings ancestors (1731) m. Robert Jennings ().

Rebecca Mary Chambers
Born 1635 in Saint Peters, New Kent, Colony of Virginiamap
Daughter of [father unknown] and [mother unknown]
[sibling(s) unknown]
Wife of Peter Harrelson — married [date unknown] [location unknown]
HIDE DESCENDANTS
Mother of Paul Harrelson Sr
Died 1664 in Saint Peters, New Kent, Colony of Virginiamap
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Joseph married Patience Freeman. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

From "Book of Imigrants" found in Person Co. library
The Muster of those that Live in Ye Treasurors Plant
James Chambers in the Dutie 1620
Living in Virginia Feb 16, 1623 At the Eastern Shore = James Chambers
(James was the only Chambers listed in VA at that time).
Church records show Edward's first son as named James. Since it was the custom to name the first son after the father's father and Edward lived in New Kent Co., very close to Williamsburg, I believe that it is reasonable to conclude that James is father of Edward.

1998-2007 Swyrich Corporation - Certificate # 2536320072400681853 - names of early Settlers in US. They list James Chambers who setled in VA in 1620 among the name of early Settlers and James being the earliest.

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In April Court, 1625, James Chambers was placed upon a committee; again, in 1634, he was mentioned. Also, in 1625, Thomas and John Chambers were recognized in some way by the Virginia Court. The above were English representatives of the Chambers family.

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

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
Managed by: Private User
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)
==========
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

end of report

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)
==========
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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Mary Elizabeth Haile formerly Blood
Born 1602 in Bristol, Somerset, England
Daughter of [father unknown] and [mother unknown]
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Wife of George Haile — married [date unknown] [location unknown]
DESCENDANTS descendants
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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