James Byars b. 1740 (Hanover County, Virginia)

1740 -

Name	James Byars
Birth	1740	(Hanover County, Virginia) [1, 2]
Gender	Male
Person ID	I13365	The Hennessee Family
Last Modified	24 Nov 2018

Father	Captain James Henry Byars, b. 1713, Hanover County, Virginia d. 1792, Hanover County, Virginia (Age 79 years)
Mother	Margaret "Peggy" Gentry, b. 0___ 1693, (Virginia) d. Aft 1734, (Louisa County, Virginia) (Age ~ 42 years)
Marriage	(Louisa County, Virginia) [3]
Family ID	F980	Group Sheet \| Family Chart

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Birth - 1740 - (Hanover County, Virginia)

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Notes

Posted By: Clovis Byars Herring
Email:
Subject: James Byars, Factor for the US at Tellico.
Post Date: May 27, 2008 at 18:54:06
Message URL: http://genforum.genealogy.com/byars/messages/940.html
Forum: Byars Family Genealogy Forum
Forum URL: http://genforum.genealogy.com/byars/

Many Byars/Byers descendants have been told they have a Native American Heritage. Has anyone been able to document a connection?

The Following is "A Combination of a Sketch of the Creek Country, in the Year 1798-1799" By Benjamin Hawkins (1848) and Letter of Benjamin Hawkins 1798-1806 (1916). These letters were written to James Byers from Benjamin Hawkins.

"Tellico, 15th April, 1797. I request you to pay the Shohaddookoh (The Bark) 15 dollars, upon his delivering of a sorrel mare, stolen from me, belonging to the Creek Department, and you will oblidge, Your obedient servant, B.H. P.T.A. for I affiars south of Ohio.

Mr. James Byers
Factor for the U. States."

"Cusseta, 9th November, 1797.

I have not heard one syllable of you since you left me; I suppose, notwithstanding, that you are well, or I should have heard you death announced in the newspapers. I find a number of my Creek family are likely to visit you this winter; they have gone towards Cumberland to hunt, and they have taken the traders' horses and some from the provident Indians who keep horse stamps.

I have written to Colonel Henley to aid me to put a stop to this abominable traffic. I have, at the request of the Upper Creeks, notified those who have horses to sell that they must have a certificate from me, or one from the head men of the town, countersigned in the last case by a trader. I expected some of these may be offered in your neighbourhood for sale, and in that case, I request you to note the pruchaser and report him to Colonel Henley or our friend, Mr. Dinsmoor.

I was informed some time past that you owed your appointment to a great man, who you have had the ingratitude to undermine. I am told Colonel Henley owed his appointment to the same man; The latter I said I believed, but as for you, I said I understood that a short billet from the Secretary of War had picked you up far to the east and placed you at Tellico.

I am informed you have Mrs. Butler with you and her amiable family; I wish it may be true; you must present my love to her, and assure her that I have been anxious ever since I had the pleasure to be acquainted with her, to be nearly allied to her, but I was to old for her daughter, and for herself too, If she was a widow: but as fortune would have it , behold , she is my daughter. I must send her a chapter on the rights of my Cherokee daughters, to the end so that if she has any contest with the Commandant, she easily prove at all time she is in the right.

I would be glad to hear from the Cherokee hatter; I want a hat, and fear I must send to Philadelphia for one. May I venture to apply to you for a chapter on gardening? Do you understand this business well? If you do not, let me inform you that the first thing to be done is to have the lot well fenced, the next place well planted, and lastly, well worked and kept free from weeds. I am, with the sincerest regard and esteem, Your obedient servant, B.H.

Mr. James Byers, U.S. Factor, Tellico.

This was published in The Byars-Byers Family Enquirer, Vol. II, No. 4 pp 100-101. Contributed by Columbine Livingston.

This places one James Byers in East Tennessee by April 1797. It would be interesting to learn who his parents were and if he had an Indian family.

cbh (Clovis Byars Herring)

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Sources

[S13917] Bobbie Byars Lynch | Family Group Records | 2 Dec 1994 | 2209 Vine Lane,Springdale,AR 72762, p. 1 (Reliability: 2).
[S47981] http://critterranch.freeservers.com/FamHis/byars.htm | Byars Family History | Published by Darla Mally Case | dmmally@ms.
[S798] "History of the Byars Family", by Nell Byars Thaten, published by Miran, p. 126 (Reliability: 3).
[S13340] "James Byars, Factor for the US at Tellico.