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Captain James Henry Byars

Male 1713 - 1792  (~ 79 years)


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  • Name James Henry Byars 
    Title Captain 
    Born 0___ 1713  Hanover County, Virginia Find all individuals with events at this location  [1] 
    Gender Male 
    Alt Birth 0___ 1713  New Kent County, Virginia Find all individuals with events at this location  [2] 
    Alt Death 0___ 1792  St. John's Parish, Granville County, North Carolina Find all individuals with events at this location  [3] 
    Military Patriotic Service (DAR Ancestor #: A017964)  [2] 
    Died 0___ 1792  Hanover County, Virginia Find all individuals with events at this location  [2] 
    Person ID I2525  The Hennessee Family
    Last Modified 11 Apr 2017 

    Father John Byars,   b. 0___ 1675, King and Queen County, Virginia Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. Aft 1749, Lunenburg County, Virginia, British Colonies of North America Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age ~ 75 years) 
    Mother Elizabeth Glen,   b. cir 1694, New Kent County, Virginia Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. cir 1763, Louisa County,Virginia Colony Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age ~ 69 years) 
    Married 0___ 1712  Orange County, Virginia Find all individuals with events at this location  [4, 5, 6] 
    Family ID F9081  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

    Family 1 Margaret "Peggy" Gentry,   b. 0___ 1693, (Virginia) Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. Aft 1734, (Louisa County, Virginia) Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age ~ 42 years) 
    Married (Louisa County, Virginia) Find all individuals with events at this location  [3] 
    Children 
     1. John Byars, Sr.,   b. 16 Mar 1734, Louisa County,Virginia Colony Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 23 Dec 1781, Louisa County, Virginia Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 47 years)
     2. James Byars,   b. 0___ 1740, (Hanover County, Virginia) Find all individuals with events at this location
     3. Sarah Byars,   b. 0___ 1742, Granville County, North Carolina Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. Aft 1803, Rutherford County, North Carolina Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age ~ 62 years)
     4. Mourning Byars,   b. Abt 1755, St. Martin's Parish, Hanover County, Virginia Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 0___ 1791, Louisa County, Virginia Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age ~ 36 years)
    Last Modified 19 Jun 2018 
    Family ID F980  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

    Family 2 Margaret Rachel Matthews,   b. 0___ 1714, (Culpepper County, Virginia) Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 8 Feb 1790, St. John's Parish, Granville County, North Carolina Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age ~ 76 years) 
    Married (North Carolina) Find all individuals with events at this location  [3] 
    Married 0___ 1742  Orange County, Virginia Find all individuals with events at this location  [7] 
    Children 
     1. Jeremiah Byars,   b. 0___ 1755, (Hanover County, Virginia) Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 18 Nov 1796  (Age ~ 41 years)
    Last Modified 19 Jun 2018 
    Family ID F4865  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  • Event Map
    Link to Google MapsBorn - 0___ 1713 - Hanover County, Virginia Link to Google Earth
    Link to Google MapsAlt Birth - 0___ 1713 - New Kent County, Virginia Link to Google Earth
    Link to Google MapsMarried - 0___ 1742 - Orange County, Virginia Link to Google Earth
    Link to Google MapsAlt Death - 0___ 1792 - St. John's Parish, Granville County, North Carolina Link to Google Earth
    Link to Google MapsDied - 0___ 1792 - Hanover County, Virginia Link to Google Earth
    Link to Google MapsMarried - - (Louisa County, Virginia) Link to Google Earth
    Link to Google MapsMarried - - (North Carolina) Link to Google Earth
     = Link to Google Earth 

  • Notes 
    • 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

      end






      [9]
    • 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.

      end

      Truly Register'd. William Eaton, Public Registrar [10]
    • 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.

      end [11]
    • 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.

      end [12]

  • Sources 
    1. [S2677] "History of the Byars Family", by Nell Byars Thaten, published by Miran, p. 126 (Reliability: 3).

    2. [S47994] http://services.dar.org/public/dar_research/search_adb/?p_id=A017964&action=full.

    3. [S798] "History of the Byars Family", by Nell Byars Thaten, published by Miran, p. 126 (Reliability: 3).

    4. [S9977] Tucker,Marjorie Stewart;617 Paden Drive,Birmingham,AL 35226. Historian &.

    5. [S45215] http://wc.rootsweb.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=GET&db=hagerj&id=I278629.

    6. [S45218] http://genforum.genealogy.com/byars/messages/194.html.

    7. [S53097] Gary Griffin | 17 Jan 2014 | Family Group Records | griffingw@comcast.net.

    8. [S855] Marjorie Stewart Tucker (1932-2000) Historian & genealogist for many Warren, DeKalb and White County families. Authored.

    9. [S53099] http://boards.ancestry.com/surnames.byars/1.6.9.11.21.27/mb.ashx.

    10. [S53100] http://genforum.genealogy.com/cgi-bin/pageload.cgi?nathl::byars::464.html.

    11. [S47981] http://critterranch.freeservers.com/FamHis/byars.htm | Byars Family History | Published by Darla Mally Case | dmmally@ms.

    12. [S53101] http://duplin.lostsoulsgenealogy.com/ncparishes.htm.


  

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