Charles City County, Virginia Wills and Deeds 1725-1731 - Weisiger
p. 273 Deed of gift - Joseph Bradley of Westover Parish, Charles City Co., for fatherly love, to my two sons Benjamin Bradley and Thomas Bradley, 595 acres, patented by Capt. John Stith of this county, dec'd, and left by him to his son William, and by power from him to William Randolph, Esq., sold to said Joseph Bradley. To my son Thomas, the land from the main road to Storys run, with plantation where William Thomson lately lived, with all houses, 298 acres. Benjamin Bradley's land is from the main road to Shaddos branch, together with plantation where quarter of Madam Stith hath been, with all houses, 297 acres. 3 March 1729/30
Wit: John Basly, James Roper.
Signed Joseph (IB) Bradly.
Livery and seizen witnessed by Jno. Roper, James (I) Roper Recorded 4 March 1729/30.
The Reverend William W. Whitehead, Mississipi Pioneer: His Antecedents and Descendents
E. Grey Dimond, M.D.
William Whitehead (1), Colonel, (Arthur's son)
occupation: mill owner, land speculator, planter, merchant
residence: Spring Meadow, Edgecombe (now Halifax) Co., North Carolina
born: ca. 1685, Isle of Wight Co., Virgoinia
married ca. 1715, Isle of Wight Co., Virginia, Rachel (McKinney?)
died: ca. May 1750, EdgecombeCo., North Carolina
wife's father: Michael McKinnie
Wife died: after 1765, Halifax Co., North Carolina . . .
Some deductions one may make, Arthur I was a cooper, a barrel-maker. His mother, ... her son-in-law Stephen Horsefield, and Arthur were early land owners by virtue of William Ruffin's gift to Katherine of 200 acres (1670) which was to be divided equally between Arthur and Rebecca after her death. This land was on Cypress Swamp of the Blackwater River in the Isle of Wight, perhaps slightly southeast of present-day Isle of Wight Courthouse. Rebecca sold her 100 acres from William Ruffin in 1703 - Arthur's 100?
The landholding progress of the early Whiteheads shows Arthur I settling in the area bounded on the north by the James River and on the east by the Nansemond River. His first land was titled in 1670, acquired more from the Stricklands in 1697-99, slightly southwest of his original holdings. In 1725 son Arthur, Jr. patented land in the area where Nansemond Co. and Southhampton Co. touch North Carolina, and son Lazarus patented land in the same area in 1727.
Arthur I was illiterate, using "X" on legal records. John Scott Davenport summarizes it: "Arthur's sons were literate, he was illiterate. How did this happen? He "married upwards." There were two millers in his neighborhood, Purcell and Godwin. Arthur himself married a daughter of Arthur Purcell, miller. His eldest son William was a miller in North Carolina and was married to Rachel McKinney whose brother Barnaby had mills in both Virginia and North Carolina. Millers abounded in the family thereafter.
Arthur I's land was inherited by his eldest son William who sold the land in 1719 and moved south into North Carolina. William was a major land speculator, merchant miller, Colonel of Edgecombe Co., North Carolina Militia and his plantation was on the south bank of the Roanoke above Scotland Neck.
The Colonel's third son was Lazarus; he lived in Nash Co., North Carolina. He accumulated large acreage, more than 3400 acres on the north side of Swift Creek, south of the Halifax line, adjacent to Edgecome County. . .
Col. William Whitehead settled in 1725 on a plantation called "Spring Meadows" which lay on the south bank of the Roanoke River. . . three to four miles east of Tillery, North Carolina . . . The plantation was deeded to Tobias Whitehead in 1750 and went out of the Whitehead name in 1798 when it was divided between Tobias' heirs: Shields, Pitman, and Forte.
The Colonel had seven sons:
a) William Whitehead lived about 1710-1765 in Halifax Co. . .
b) Jacob Whitehead, about 1712-1785 last known in Nash Co. . . in 1783
c) Joseph Whitehead, 1716-1753, Halifax Co. . .
d) Lazarus Whitehead, about 1722-1784, of Nash Co. . .
e) Arthur (II) Whitehead, about 1725-1777, of Edgecombe Co., Nash Co. . .
f) Abraham Whitehead, about 1728-1766, of Halifax Co. . .
g) Tobias Whitehead, about 1733-1774, of Halifax Co. . .
Some of the descendents of this Arthur II are well outlined in an 1848 diary of Dr. Richard Whitehead Gardner reprinted in Bear Tracks, P.O. Box 278, Hammond, La. 70404.
Appendix I
Documents Relating to Col. Willam Whitehead, 1719
THIS INDENTURE made the 25th day of July in the year of Our Lord 1719 . . . Between William Whitehead of the Isle of Wight County in Virginia of the One party and Francis Parker of the same County of the Other part . . . for and in consideration of a Certain Sum . . One Certain percill of Land . . . in the Lower p(arish of the Isle of Wight County to Say One Hundred and Ten acres more or Less to Say the Land that I Bought of William Whitehead and Rachell his Wife according to the Bounds hereof Mentioned begining at the head of Horse Swamp at George Pierce Line Runing Northwardly along the So(uth Line unto a Marked pine and So Runing Northwardly to the black pond and So Down the Black pond Branch to a marked pine So Runing a Corse of marked trees to a lightwood Stump So Down the horse Swamp to Branch Called the first Branch and So up the Branch to the fork So begining at a black oak So Runing a Course of Marked trees to a Corner tree then northerly a long a Couse of Marked trees to the head of the second branch So Down the said branch to the horse Swamp So up the horse swamp to the first Station . .
Signed Sealed and Delivered William Whitehead Seal
In Presents of us
Samuel Godwin
Daniel Rigins
The North Carolina Historical Review Vol XLVIII No. 3
The Books They Left: Some "Liberies" in Edgecombe County, 1733-1783
Helen R. Watson
Private libraries existed in Edgecombe County from its beginning. An examination of the estate records of that county during its first fifty years, through October Court, 1783, reveals the type and size of many of these.
. . . In 1752 Joseph Whitehead's inventory contained a "small parcell of books," and his sale later listed 1 Bible, 1 Whole Duty of Man, 1 Prayer Book, and 3 books. . .
Several other factors besides the "parcel" precluded precise figures. The ambiguous pocketbook, sometimes a book and sometimes a "money pus," is an example. . . Colonel William Whitehead at his death in 1750 owned an "Interest Pocketbook." As William Whitehead was a merchant, it could be thought that this article was related to his business transactions, but at his sale a "pocket companion" was lited, and no reference made to an interest pocketbook. . .
The Whole Duty of Man, . . . was "laid down in a plain and familiar way for the use of all, but especially the Meanest Reader. Divided into 17 chapters; one wherof being read every Lord's Day, the whole may be read over Thrice in the year. Necessary for all families. With private devotions for several occasions. London, 1684." . . .
William Whitehead left in 1750 the earliest mentioned volumes in Edgecombe of the famous periodical, The Spectator, first printed in 1711. Whitehead also left Gervase Markham's Maister-Peece, or, What does a Horse-man Lacke?, which was composed of "all possible knowledge touching the curing of all amnner of diseases and sorrowes of horses." . . .
Based on a study of the extant records it was determined that the three largest libraries of the entire period belonged to merchants William Whitehead, Henry Irwin, and James Hill. That the most extensive collections would be owned by some of the numerous merchants in this area is not surprising. They were often educted men prominent in the county's affairs, and it can be expected that some, if not all, the books in their inventoris were for their own use. . .
The earliest of these three libraries was that of Colonel William Whitehead, "gentleman," at one time justice of the peace for Bertie and then Edgecombe as well as a representative in the colonial assembly from Edgecombe. He died in 1750, probably at his home, "spring Meadows," a 640-acre tract which he had bought in 1725 from Richard Killingsworth. (Note: Colonel Whitehead did not please his constituents; the inhabitants of Edgecombe petitioned the General Assembly, March 3, 1739, to remove him because of "sundry abuses in execution and under colour of said office.") His inventory was that of his goods at the store he operated on the banks of Swift Creek, and the books it contained were Justice, Web, Maister-Peece, Markham; Don Quixote, 2 volumes; The Spectator, 8 volumes; Virginia Law, Abridged, 1 Common Prayer; 1 Psalm Book; 1 Whole Duty of Man; 2 Bibles; "9 small books or novels;" 7 hornbooks; and, finally, as the administrator perhaps began to find his job tedious, "10 old books." At Colonel Whitehead's sale in 1751 only 1 small Bible, 1 Testament, 1 pocket companion, and 3 history books were listed. Frequently an inventory and sale disagreed. . .
The Jacksons Of Lower Virginia -Evelyn Duke Brandenberger Assisted by Clara Jackson Martin - The Virginia Geneologist V. 31, p. 101
Ambrose Jackson of Brunswick County, Virginia
The name of Ambrose Jackson first appears in lower Virginia in 1719. On 11 July of that year Ambrose Jackson had by patent 180 acres on both sides of Little Creek, Surry County, for importation of two persons, Peleg Heath and William Dodson. This land was very close to the line dividing Surry County and Prince George County and to the land of Col. Nathaniel Harrison. On 14 Dec. 1723 the Hon. Nathaniel Harrison,, Esq., received 2450 acres of old and new land in Surry County, Southwark Parrish, adjacent land of Valentine Minge, dec'd, Peter Bagley, Thomas Eldridge, William Shands and the land of Randall Pratt, dec'd. 540 acres of this land was granted to James Minge on 26 April 1712 and he sold the same to Harrison on 16 Oct. 1718. On the same day Nathaniel Harrison of Surry County received 625 acres on the south side of the Little Creek of Three Creeks in the Parrish of Lawnes Creek adjacent to the land of Matthew Marks, dec'd (died1719) and land of Ambrose Jackson. It should be noted that Benjamin Harrison, the father of Nathaniel, had land on Heath's Branch in 1690 adjacent Peter Bagly, Thomas Bushby and Edward Green.
On 28 Sept. 1732 Ambrose Jackson of Surry County received a patent to old and new land, 510 acres on the north side of the Meherrin River and on both sides of the Little Creek of the Three Creeks adjacent to James Vaughn, Col. Nathaniel Harrison, John Carter and Thomas Jackson, over the run of the Plantation Branch, 100 acres of which had been granted to Ambrose on 11 July 1719 and the residue being waste land and adjacent.
In 1741 Ambrose Jackson made a deed of gift "to son Ambrose Jackson Jr. for love and affection and to son-in-law Samuel Harwell" of 150 acres to each out of a parcell of land on the south side of Little Creek adjacent to Benjamin Harrison and John Ogburn, "granted to me 28 Sept. 1732." The witnesses were Thomas Lanier and William Collier. In 1747 Ambrose Jr., sold his 150 acres to his brother John Jackson who in turn sold the same to Peter Adams on 26 Oct. 1761.
Ambrose Jackson Sr.'s will was written 14 June 1745 and recorded 5 Dec. 1745. In it he named his wife Ann, whose maiden name is not known, sons Henry, Ambose and John Jackson, and daughters Anne Harwell and Tabitha Sims. The witnesses were Thomas Lanier, Ralph Jackson, Daniel Jackson and John Ogburn. The will was proved by Anne Jackson, executrix, Ralph and Daniel Jackson and John Ogburn. Ralph and Daniel Jackson, witnesses to the will, were sons of Thomas Jackson; the olde Ralph had died in 1744, six months before this will was written.
Since we are dealing with so many Jacksons living in the samearea, it is well to remember that Thomas Jackson, who died in 1751, had land on Little Creek, as did Ambrose. Thomas gave all or part of that land to his sons DanielJacksoonRalph Jackson who lived adjoining John Ogburn. Thomas also gave to his son William Jackson land adjoining Ambrose Jackson, which, upon his death, descended to William's son Peter Jackson.
It is also well to remember that Ambrose Jackson had a son named John Jackson, and that John Jackson of Surry County had a son named John Jackson Jr., all of whom lived on the Meherrin River in the midst of the other Jacksons in Brunswick Co., Va.
After the death of Ambrose Jackson his widow Anne married as her second husband Hincha Mabry whose first wife was Frances Parham, daughter of Ephraim Parham. Hincha Mabry married as his third wife Ann Clack Courtney by whom he had a daughter, Ann, who became the wife of Henry Jackson, Jr., grandson of Ambrose.
The Jacksons Of Lower Virginia -Evelyn Duke Brandenberger Assisted by Clara Jackson Martin - The Virginia Geneologist V. 32, p. 119
John Jackson, Son Of Ambrose And His Wife Anne
John Jackson, named as on of the sons of Ambrose in his will of 1745, married Elizabeth, whose identity has not been established. John and Elizabeth had a son named Drury and, as the name persists through many generations in this line only, it is possible Elizabeth was a Drury. Some researchers have assumed that this Elizabeth was the daughter of Thomas Lloyd. A careful examination of the deeds of Brunswick County has proved that Elizabeth Lloyd was the wife of John, son of Thomas Jackson, Sr., of Brunswick County.
The will of Ambrose Jackson gave "unto my son John Jackson and his heirs the Plantation whereon I now live, etc." That plantation was the remaining part of the 510 acres Ambrose had by patent in 1732 and was situated in Brunswick County on both sides of Little Creek. Of the original 510 acres he gave 150 acres in 1741 to his son Ambrose Jr., and 150 acres on the same date to his son-in-law Samuel Harwell. Both tracts were on the south side of the creek.
On 5 Nov. 1746 Ambrose Jr. . . . sold to "brother John Jackson" for 40(pounds) 150 acres on the south side of Little Creek adjoining John Ogburn whereon he now lives. This was the 150 acres the elder Ambrose gave to his son Ambrose in 1741.
In 1757 "John Jackson son of Ambrose" witnessed the will of Peter Jackson, son of Thomas of Brunswick County.
In 1761 "John Jackson and wife Elizabeth" of Brunswick County sold to Peter Adams of the same 150 acres on the south side of Little Creek, part of 510 acres granted Ambrose Jackson. No witnesses were given but the deed was proved on 26 Oct. 1761. The deed was signed with the mark of both John and Elizabeth.on the south side of Little Creek.
John and Elizabeth had already sold the plantation that John inherited from his father in 1745. In a deed dated 28 Nov. 1752, John Jackson and wife Elizabeth sold to William Vaughn of Charles City County for 50(pounds) what was formerly "the manor plantation of Ambrose Jackson Dec'd," being all the land on the north side of Little Creek taken out of the 150 acres adjoinig John Carter, Thomas Jackson and Plantation Branch. The deed was witnessed by John McLean (this may have been McLin), Thomas Stagge and William Wyche. Both John and Elizabeth signed with a mark.
Having dispossed of the last of their property in Brunswick County in 1761, John and Elizabeth went to North Carolina. They settled in Granville County., N.C., where on 9 Jan. 1762 John Jackson bought from William Kimball 210 acres at Hawkins' line. Witnesses were Will Johnson and Peter Kimball.
Part of Granville County became Bute County in 1764 and Warren County in 1779. On 18 Jan. 1764 William Duke of Bute Co., N.C., sold too John Jackson 300 acres in Granville (now Bute) for 33(pounds) 6(shillings) 8(pence). Witnesses were James Buck and Henry Jackson and the deed was proved at Bute County Court July, 1765.
On 18 Dec. 1777 John and Elizabeth sold the same 300 acres to Nemrod Williams, all of Bute County. The land was described as 330 acres, a tract of land on Owens Creek adjoining the Purchase Patent Road and up a branch, etc., adjoining Perdue, Tanner and said Jackson, and the line he marked off for Lewis Kimball. Purchase Patent was the name given the manor plantation of William Duke, Jr. The deed was proved February Court 1778.
It is clear that the John and Elizabeth in Bute County were the same . . . of Brunswick County, Va. They disappeared from the records of Brunswick after the sale of 1761 and appeared on the records of Bute the first month of 1764 (1762?.) This was the time when many from Brunswick Co., Va. were moving to North Carolina, including a number of their relatives. Descendants of John and Elizabeth Jackson have old family records stating that Drury Jackson's father John was born in Virginia. Many of the children and grandchildren of John and Elizabeth appear in the North Carolina records with them.
Other deeds to and from John and Elizabeth in Bute Co., N.C., show their association with the following persons besides those already given: John Tanner, Ashkenaz Williams, Permenus Williams, James Jackson, John Langford, Jonathan Johnson, James and Fields Pardue, William Hogwood, Francis Hogwood, James Laughter.
There were other Jackson families in Granville, Bute and Warren Cos., N.C., at that time. Immediate families lived near William Duke on Owens and Yellowood creeks.
Drury Jackson (listed next to William Duke), Henry Jackson and brother James Jackson are listed in Philomen Hawkins' District in Bute County taxables, 1771. As the father, John, does not appear, he could have been living with one of his sons.
The last reference to John Jackson in the records of Bute was on 11 May 1778 when he and Elizabeth conveyed to Ashenas Williams 50 acres on Owens Creek in Bute County. Soon after the time of this deed John settled in Edgefield Dist., S.C., where he died in 1794. It is not known when Elizabeth died but it must have been before he wrote his will, as he does not mention a wife.
JOhn Jackson wrote his will in Edgefield District on 26 Feb. 1787. It was proved at June Term of Court, 1794. The witnesses were John Bostick, Thomas Forquhor and Thomas Anderson. John devised to: my son Henry Jackson; to my son Drewry Jackson; to Abigail Duncomb and after her death to her children Elizabeth, James, Jeanette, John, Wiley and Alsey; to my son James; to my daughter Alsey Cimbrall; to my daughter Ann Miller; to my son John; to my son Green one Negro lad and one Negro girl and also "the land and plantation whereon I now live containing one hundred acres more or less." He appointed his two sons James Jackson and Green Jackson as executors.
Frank Jackson Martin, a descendent of John Jackson living in Alabama, found the following in his mother's Bible after her death in 1954.
Our Great, Great Grandfather John Jackson was of English descent and lived in Virginia.
Our Great Grandparents: Drewry Jackson was the son of John Jackson, lived in N.C. and died in hisfortieth year. Married Nancy Mayfield, who was of Irish descent. Had 5 sons and 2 daughters all of whom lived to be over 80 years of age. Nancy Mayfield died of old age.
Our Grand Father Wyche Jackson was the son of Drewry Jackson and lived in Wilkes County., Ga. Pastor of Rehobeth Church.
This note was in his mother's hand and written on a piece of stationary.
Abigail Jackson, daughter of John, married John Duncan of Bute Co., N.C. Six children were named in the will of her father.
Alsey Jackson, daughter of John, married first Lewis Kinball and second Peter Kimball in Warren Co., N. C. They had no children at the time John wrote his will. The Kimballs and Langfords were residents of Brunswick Co., Va., along with the John Jackson family. All these families migrated to Granville Co., N.C., about the same time. John Langford and his wife Phebe sold land to Nimrod Williams on the same day in Dec. 1777 as did John Jackson and his wife Elizabeth. John Langford witnessed the Jackson deed to Williams. From this it becoomes evident they were all neighbors and friends of long standing.
The Jacksons Of Lower Virginia -Evelyn Duke Brandenberger Assisted by Clara Jackson Martin - The Virginia Geneologist V. 32, p. 123
Drury Jackson Son Of John Jackson
Drury Jackson, born in Brunswick Co., Va., accompanied his parents to Granville Co., N.C., about 1762. He was married there a few years later to Ann (Nancy) Mayfield, daughter of Abraham Mayfield and Elizabeth his wife.
Abraham Mayfield wrote his will 5 May 1808 and it was proved at May Court 1809. He named his wife Polly ( who was Mary White, his second wife; his first wife Elizabeth was the mother of his children), his sons Thomas, who married Mary Turner, John, who married Mary Symms, Edmund, who married Catherine Dye, and his daughter Mary, who married Henry Jackson, Catherine, who married Martin Dye, Agnes, who married ___ White, Nancy, who married (1) Drury Jackson, (2) James Hilton and (3) Sherwood Kennedy, Martha, who married ___ Fate, and Jane, who married Peter Daniel. The sons Thomas, John and Edmund were named executors. One item in the will devises "to the children of Nancy Hilton." These children were those of Drury Jackson who died in 1794 in Wilkes Co., Ga. His widow, Nancy Mayfield Jackson, then married James Hilton and lived in North Carolina. She married as her third husband Sherwood Kennedy. This is proved by court records showing intrafamily transactions involving Nancy and Sherwood Kennedy and hersons by Drury Jackson.
In 1771 Drury was on the list of taxables taken by Philemon Hawkins in Bute Co., N.C., as were his brothers Henry and James. Also in 1771 John Hawkins, John Marshall, Peter Kinball, Drury Jackson and Henry Jackson were ordered to process land in Bute County.
Drury was a bondsman for the marriage of his brother-in-law John Mayfield to Mary Symmes on 23 Feb. 1773. A John Jackson is found in the 1785 taxables, Hawtree District, Warren Co., N. C., with one poll and no property. In the same district Drury Jackson and John Mayfield are found. There is little room to doubt that this was John Jackson, living with or near his son Drury and members of the Mayfield family into which two of his sons, Durury and Henry, had married.
Drury received a patent on 10 July 1788 for 38 acres adjoining his own land, that of Taylor and Joshua Davis.
Drury died in Wilkes Co., Ga., leaving will written 21 June 1792 and proved 20 Feb. 1794. He left all his estate to his wife, Ann Jackson, during her widowhood and afterward to the other executor to "do with it as shall be thought best for the children in a lawful manner." He appointed his wife and John Collins as executors. The witnesses were Edward Calphan Callahan and William Eley.
The inventory of the estate appears 2 April 1794. On 6 Dec. 1800 James Hilton and wife, Ann, late Ann Jackson, execuutors of Drury Jackson Dec'd, asked for letters dismissory.
The heirs of Drury Jackson, Dec'd, sold the plantation "whereon the said Drury Jackson resided" in Wilkes County on Fishing Creek and Newford Creek, 272 acres, for $1000 to Hartwell Jackson, son of Drury. The deed was signed by George Muse, John Jackson, Wyche Jackson, Edmund Jackson and William Thomas, was dated 14 Nov., 1807 and was proved 15 Nov. 1808. This deed anmes all of the sons of Drury Jackson except Green and the husbands of his two daughters, Eliozabeth and Nancy.
Ann Jackson Hilton Kennedy died in Davidson Co., N.C., in 1837. She is buried in the Pinewood Churchyard Cemetary.
The wife of Drury and all of her children by him are named again in a deed from Abraham Mayfield to his grandchildren: Elizabeth Sutton, John Jackson, Hartwell Jackson, Wyche Jackson, Edmond Jackson, Nancy Jackson and Green Jackson. They were given a Negro in whom his daughter Ann was to have a life interest. The witnesses were Edmond Mayfield and John Mayfield. Dated 10 Dec. 1797, the deed was proved at August Court 1801.
Nancy Kennedy, the widow of Drury Jackson, wrote a letter to "My Dear Son" Hartwell Jackson from Davidson Co., N.C., on 3 Jan. 1830 in which she asked for news of her children in Georgia.
William Taylor ("Billy") Loftin lived in Troup County near LaGrange, Ga. born May 13, l817 and died June 4, 1887. He was born in Baker County, Ga. Buried in Heard County near Franklin at Hopewell Church in Ephesus. (In Ephesus take Hopewell Street East to Hopewell Church) His first wife was a Collier from Baker County, Ga. The three children from the first marriage were Jeremiah ("Jerry") who was a lawyer, Merrell who was a doctor, Frank and Amanda ("Sis"). His second wife was Indianna C. Hammett "India". She was from Troup County near LaGrange. She was daughter of William and Martha Hammett of Newnan, Ga. Children: Rose or Rosa Taylor, Robert Taylor, Eugene, Benona (died young), Alonza, Newton (died young), George Littleton. (Bob this paper leaves out one wife Jane Bell whose grave we saw!) 3rd wife Margaret Cumby of Troup County near LaGrange, Ga. Children: Laurette, John Cornelius, Pearl
George Littleton's(Uncle George) children. (wife: Aunt Lula) Merrell, Iverson, Gaines, Kathleen (maried Frank Stroud of Augusta, Ark.), Ben, William, Evelyn (married Tandy Marschell of Sinston Salem, N.C.), Mary (married Kenneth Harrison of Beebe Beebe, Arkansas)
(This paper although there are errors is interesting, it gives the children of Robert Taylor Loftin also and I have heard in the family that many of the pictures and stories were handed down in his family.)
One story that was told was of William Taylor's son Jerry. In fact, most of the stories are about Jerry! Maybe you know these also. Jerry got drunk and was mad at his wife and rode into his mansion on his horse, up the stairs and had the horse kick open his wife's bedroom door. He placed a bale of hay (Ray's Dad called it "fodder") on her bed and let the horse eat. Another story is that Jerry was a lawyer and in front of the court he shot the opposing attorney when he called Jerry a lier. It was said that William Taylor paid a fortune to get him off this offense. In front of the old Baptist church in upper Meriwether County is the cemetery where William Taylor buried his mother and one of his wives - Jane Bell and her baby. It was such a beautiful and expensive enclosed area for the graves. We have been to the church in Heard county where William Taylor is buried - Ephesus. It used to be known as Loftin and William Taylor was the postmaster and must have worked right up until the time he died. Unfortunately the times were so dire that he has no headstone and we were not able to locate his grave. He was a leader in the Baptist church in upper Meriwether County near Alvaton. I guess you eard of the trunks of confederate money that was under the porch of John Loftin's house. I used to talk to a lady that was a Cumby and she was the one that filled me in on some of the info on the Cumby family. She told me that he had been an deacon in the church for years and years. She had great stories about the Cumbys. Unfortunately she has passed away but she mailed me items that I need to dig out.
Information from Ray Loftin
Moses GUEST II - 693 ( 67)
Born - 1 Jan 1750 Prince Willi Co., VA
Mar. - 1772 Rowan Co., NC
Died - 1 Oct 1837 Franklin Co., GA
Bur. - Franklin Co., GA, Guest homeplace
Son of William GUEST Sr. & Susannah
Note - Sources: JCB, citing Martin, USNA for Pension File 11072, Bounty Land Warrant 15436-160-55. Possibly he was the eldest son.
S/O Wm. & Susannah Guest., b. 1720-30, d. 1790-1800, Pendleton Dist., SC., S/O Moses I (d. 1758-1760, Frederick Co. VA) & Rosannah Guest. Ensign & a Captain in Rev. War. Captain of horse cavalry at Kings Mountain. Guest, Guess, and Gist all were spellings used by the early generations. R. next to & upriver from father on Mill Creek Farm, next door to Ft. Defiance.
Revolutionary War Pension Application of Moses Guest
State of Georgia, Franklin County
Personally appeared before me the undersigned an acting Justice of the Peace in and for said County, Moses Guest, to whose original and amended Declaration this is Attached, and who being sworn Saith that he has stated in said amendment his several services as fully as he can from memory except that from papers since discovered he served as Captain but does not recollect whether he had a Commission or not in writing, But he knows he was fully authorized to Act as such. In 1777 he held an ensigns Commission in the Infantry but does not recollect that he served under it. he held at the time a Captains Commission which is lost or so misplaced that he cannot possibly obtain it. He has written to the Secretary of State in North Carolina to find if his name is not enrolled there and if any proof is obtained will forward it herewith. He also forwards the affidavit of Col. James Blair late a Senator for the adjoining County of Habersham and also annexes a List of Light Horsemen who were under his Command in the War, also his Ensigns Commission and a Captains Commission dated in January 1782 for a Captain of a foot Company which was at home and not in Service. He further states that both the Ensigns and Captains Commissions annexed were for Foot Companies, While the Commission he has lost and the service he performed was in a Horse Company. Sworn to and subscribed before me this 11th day of September 1833 - Christopher Addison J.P.
State of Georgia, Franklin County
Personally appeared before the undersigned Acting Justice of the Peace in and for said County Col. James Blair of Habersham County in the state aforesaid. Who being Duly Sworn deposith and saith That he has been well aquainted with the aforesaid Moses Guest for about Sixty years. That deponent knew said Guest in the Revolutionary War at several different periods of the War, when he was always acting as a Captain of Horse and was obeyed and respected as such. Deponent saw said Guess presiding as Captain upon Courts Martial amd Courts of Enquiry both before and after the Battle of Kings Mountain in which battle deponent was and he saw Guess Commanding his Horse Company. Deponent further saith upon looking over the annexed List of Capt. Guests Troops at Kings Mountain, that he knew all the men named in the first column of said List, except John Snowdy and that they were serving at the battle under Guess. Deponent saith that Guess was then and is now a very Respectable and truthful man and he is as certain as he can be of anything that he must have held a Regular Captains Commission at the time he states.
Sworn to and subscribed before me this 11th day of September 1833 - Christopher Addison J.P
State of Georgia, Franklin County
I Christopher Addison an Acting Justice of the Peace in and for said County Do Certify that James Blair who has subscribed and sworn to the above affidavit is a Resident of my neighborhood in the adjoining County of Habersham about nine miles from my residence That he is a respectable and credible person and that his state ment is entitled to credit. Witness my hand and seal the day and year above written - C. Addison J.P.
The name of George Abernathy de Barrie as the father of Robert I, the immigrant, comes from a record located in 1975 by a researcher in London in the Public Records Office.
It states that in 1651, Robert Abernathy was 19, making him born in 1632, and that his father was George Abernathy de Barrie. Robert was listed as a prisoner of war after the English Civil War and chose to be deported to the "agricultural colony of VA" instead of going to the Tower of London.
The designation "de Barrie" is quite interesting although to date no one has been able to make the link...the Baronecy of the Abernathys failed in the leading male line and the descent went to 3 daughters...in light of no male heir in the leading branch, a cadet branch later took up the baronecy.
In preceding generations, Abernathys who were not in line to succeed to the peerage held lands in Barrie. There were several Georges. One of these was the father of Robert, the immigrant.
Regina Roper
afn02428@afn.org
The Antecedents of the Abernathy Family in Scotland, Virginia, and Alabama - Thomas Perkins Abernathy
page 7 - The first of our Abernathy ancestors arrived in Virginia in 1652. No information as to his background is available, but the date and circumstances of his coming are significant. At the beginning of of the civil War in England, 1642-1652, the Scots took the side of Parliament against King Charles I, but
after the King was executed in 1649, they agreed to support Prince Charles against the military Dictator and his army of Independents (Puritans) on condition that Charles sanction their Presbyterian establishment. The issue was determined when Cromwell crushed the Scots in the battles of Dunbar,
September 3, 1650, and Worcester, September 3, 1651, in which the Scottish armies were completely destroyed. General David Leslie commanded the Scots at Dunbar, and since the Abernathys were a sept of the Leslie clan, they must have been involved in this disaster. At Worcester Leslie and many of his men were captured . . . The prisoners taken in these engagements were, by order of Cromwell's Council of State, divided into three classes: the common soldiers were to be paroled and permitted to return to their
homes; non-commissioned officers and officers below the rank of captain were to be transported to the colonies. Highlanders, captains and field officers, as well as members of the landed gentry were to be sent to the Tower. Since at this time Scotland was a separate kingdom and its people did not have the privileges of English subjects, it was not legal for Scots to migrate to the colonies. Thus the only legal method of entry would have been as convicts or prisoners of war. In any case, the fact that Robert Abernathy arrived
in Virginia in 1652 is significant. It would seem to indicate clearly that he came as a prisoner of war. He was sold as an indentured servant, as would have been the fate of captives who were to be transported.
Most indentured servants were persons who, wishing to come to America, but unable to pay the cost of their passage, agreed with someone - often a merchant or ship captain - to transport them on condition that their services would be sold to someone in the colonies for a period of five years . . . It was just five years after his entry that Robert first appears in the records as a freeman
Ancestors, Heirs and Families of Sarah Louisa (Sallie) Bazemore - Juanita Goodwin Lumsden -105 Holly Drive - Natchez, Mississippi 39120 - January, 1982
Letters wriiten to Sallie Bazemore (Moody) from her grandfather, John McLean
Hickory Flat, Ala., Jan 24, 1869
Dear Grand Daughter
Yours of the 10th Inst came to hand on the 22nd it was mailed on the 20 at Hogansville, Ga. Which I was glad to get and read The Boys promised to write as soon as they stop (stake?) and I have not Rec’d any letter yet from either of them Yet you did not mention James name in your letter but I supposed he was well satisfied.
This leaves us all well except bad colds. Mollie Thompson is now in Harris Cty, Ga. We Rec’d a letter from her a few days ago which said they were all well. She said William Smith speaks of selling out this next Fall and moving from Harris but where I don’t know. I have nothing of interest to write at this time. Times are hard here and likely to be. You mentioned in your letter that you had no Father and Mother to instruct and Counsil you in anything. It is true you have no Earthly Parents to advise but you have one in Heaven that never Errs nor Counsels wrong if you will but take the word of God for the Man of your Council and cast all your care on him. He will never leave nor forsake you.
Dear Grand Daughter we are now seperated I think forever in this life But let us try to live while we are here on Earth that we may meet in Heaven where parting is no more and where we may meet our Friends who are gone Before and are enjoying Presence of the Lord and Savior Jesus Christ.
Dear Sallie let me caution you about the choice of Associates male or Female you are there now in a land of Strangers where you know nobody. Discard Vain or Rowdy Associates be them who they may. Try and conduct yourself so that you may have the esteem of all there is nothing to be gained by Frolicking and Runing about but all to loose. Let Columbus see this it will apply to him as well as you. Tell James to write as he promised a description of the country. Sallie write often and I will try to Answer your letters, it will Improve you to write. I close by Subscribing Myself your Affectionate Grand Father
John McLean
P.S. This may be the last you will ever get from me as I am going on Since the Second day of Nov. last 76 years and according to the Course of Nature cant live long. Write soon all of you.
J. McLean
Will Book A, Page 489 Will of Nicholas Tyner I
ISLE OF WIGHT COUNTY, VIRGINIA
In the name of God Amen. Ye twenty eighth day of Sept. in ye year of our God one thousand seven hundred & eight I Nich'ls Tyner in ye Isle of Wight County in Virginia, being very sick and weak in body but of sound mind and memory, thanks be given unto God. Therefore, calling to mind ye mortality of my body and knowing it was appoinnted for all men to die, do make this my last will and testament (that is to say) principally & first of all, I give and commend my soul into ye hands of God that gave it, and for my body I remand it to ye Earth to be buried in a Christain like & decent manner at the discretion of my Exec., nothing doubting but at ye General Resurrection I shall recover ye same again by ye mighty power of God. And as touching such worldly Estate wherewith it hath pleased God to possess me in this life I give and devise & dispose of the same in ye following manner and form:
Impr. I give unto my son Nich'ls Tyner & bequeath my plantation where I now dwell containing one hundred & thirty acres of land, mor or less, with all housing & orchards & all other appertenances thereouto belonging; after my decease I also give unto my loving son Nicholas all of a tract of land in Chowan pct in ye upper part of said tract containing three hundred acres & also three hundred & forty acres on ye portion where Robert Thomas doth live & forty head of cattle on another, & also three heifers, one two year ould mare running in ye woods, & two mares & colts more & all my stock of hogs & all my debts due to me after my decease either by bills or accts. that justly is due to me to him & his heirs.
Impr. I give unto Margaret two cows & calves & ye plantation where she now lives in Rockahock Neck, being ye remainder of ye land before given to her & her heirs.
Impr. I give unto my daughter Mary five Cowes & calves & also two hundred acres of land on Curroughway Swamp being ye plantation that formerly was Thos. Manns with one iron pott with hooks, pott racks, one feather bed & bolster & pair of sheets & blanketts.
Impr. I give unto my daughter Margaret one iron pott with hooks and pott racks & one ould bedd & one pair of blanketts & one sheet.
Impr. I give unto my daughter Eleanor five cows & calves & one young mare called Shabby, one small pott with hooks and pott racks with one feather bedd which I now lye on, my __?__, one rugg & pair of blanketts and one pr. of sheets.
Impr. I give unto my daughter Sarah one cow & a calf, if shee will have it and no more.
Impr. I give unto my sond Nicholas my riding horse called __?___.
Impr. I give unto my daughter Mary one young mare called Bonney.
Impr. I give unto my sond in law Edward Packett one bald faced mare.
Impr. I give unto my two daughters Eleanor & Mary one mare called Fanny and her increase, and my sond Nicholas to divide ye increase between them.
Impr. I give unto my sond Nicholas ten sides of tanned leather, I also give unto my sond Nicholas thrree iron wedges & all my carpenters tools.
Impr. I give unto my three daughters Margarett, Mary & Eleanor my household stuff yet not already given excepting one great bason and onee small bason & each of them one stack of bees and two stacks of bees unto my sond Rich'd Tyner & all the rest of my estatee I give & desire it be equally divided among ye rest of my children excepting my daughter Sarah, & my will is that she shall have no more than is already given her.
Impr. I give unto my daughter Eleanor one hundred & fifty acres of land which I formerly bought of James Curlee, more or less I say to her & her heirs
Impr. I do hereby constitute, authorize & appoint my loving sond Nicholas Tyner of Isle of Wight County my whole & sole Exec. of this my last Will & Testament & to fulfill this my last will & testament, and I do hereby uttrly disallow, revoke & disannul all & every other former Will & Legacys, ____ & Exec. by me made in any way or before this by me named, willed & bequeathed.
Rattifying & Constituting this and none other to be my last will I Testament.
In witness whereof I have hereunto sett my hand and fixed my Seal ye day & year before mentioned.
his
Nicholas X Tyner
seal
Signed & sealed in ye presence of us
James Johnson
Francis Corbett
Francis Seagrave
Proved in open court for Isle of Wight County this 9th of Feb. 1709 to be the last will & testament of Nich'ls Tyner by the oaths of all the witnesses and probate ordered to his son Nicholas Tyner, Exec. therein named
Teste: Chas Chapman, Clerk
I am keeping her connection to Roger Tillmam in my file for the moment. I think the case for her being born a Parham is much stronger, though. Does anyone have any kind of proof that Christine, daughter of Susannah Parham Tillman was the daughter of Roger Tillman? She married Robert Abernathy ca 1695. I've never been convinced that Christine was a Tilghman. She and her son Robert Abernathy are mentioned in her mother's (Susannah Parham Tillman) will of 1719, but Roger Tilghman did not marry the widow Susannah Parham until about 1680. Christine's son Robert Abernathy was supposed to have been born ca 1695. Has anyone ever considered that Christine may have been a Parham and a daughter of Susannah Parham Tilghman's first marriage? There is nothing to connect her to Roger Tilghman so far as I know. I've seen lots of sources which have her as Roger Tillman's daughter. I'm just saying that as far as the documentary evidence which I've seen (i. e. the will of Susannah Parham Tillman), all we know is that she was Susannah Parham's daughter and unless she were the first child of this marriage, she would be pretty young to have a child by 1695. On the other hand, some sources say that Robert (1695) had a brother named Roger, so I don't know.
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Thomas Basmoor, son of John Basmoor, was christened on 18 Sep 1681 in Kingston-on-the-Thames, Surrey Co, England (Christening and Marriage Records of Surrey Co, Eng, found in records of LDS Church). Thomas' sister Ann Bazmoor was christened in Surrey Co on 15 Mar 1674. The trail of BAZEMOREs to America is shown in records of Barbados where Ann Basmore married John Kingston in Jan 1698. Also, on 14 Mar 1671 Henry Baisemore witnessed the will of John Settle in Barbados. Settle and his two brothers owned Settle Shipping Co of London and had outposts at Barbados and at Jamestown Landing in VA (now Norfolk). I think that Thomas and his sister Ann (both born in Surrey Co, Eng) and other unknown family members went to Barbados before 1698 when Ann married. Probably about 1700, Thomas at age 19 had moved into Norfolk Co, VA, perhaps as an employee for the Settle Co. He witnessed the will of Thomas Wooden in Norfolk on 8 Dec 1712.
I think the above named Thomas married Elizabeth _____ who was born about 1680 and they were probably the parents of John BAZEMORE of Norfolk Co, VA, and later Bertie Co, NC. The 13 October 1761 Bertie County Court minutes show that Elizabeth BAZEMORE was exempted from paying taxes because she was "very aged and infirm" [Minutes Bk 2, p559]. From the records of Mrs Joshua Lee of Raleigh, NC - the will of John Hitchcock of St Phillips Parish in Barbados, dated 20 Jun 1692, states "to godson John Bademore, son of Thomas Bademore". Mrs Lee further states that John Hitchcock had come to Barbados in 1685 on the ship "Betty" from London at the port of Waymouth, City of Dorsett.
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JOHN BAZEMORE (SR), b ca 1714 in Norfolk Co, VA. In 1730 he was counted as taxable with his mother Elizabeth in Norfolk Co (Wingo, p. 36). About 1734 he married Mary _____ , who may have been a dau of Mathew Edwards.
John BAZEMORE was administrator of the estate of Mathew Edwards of Norfolk on 13 May 1734. John and Mary moved between 1734 and 1738 to Bertie Co, NC, with John's mother Elizabeth, and probably with their two eldest sons, Jesse and Thomas. John bought 317 acres on Loosing Swamp in Bertie Co, NC, from Thomas Yates on 21 Jan 1738, recorded in Aug Ct 1738, Wit: Wm Yates, Wm Evans, & John Tryars (Bertie Co Deed Bk 1739-1758, Vol 4-6). On 9 Sep 1742, John Bassmore proved his rights in Bertie Co (i.e. head rights, 50 acres for each person a man brought into the claim with him): "Vixt: John BAZEMORE, Mary Basemore, Elizabeth Edwards, Mary Edwards, Jesse Basemore, Thomas Basemore, John Basemore, Sarah Basemore." (Minutes Bk II, p381, Bertie County North Carolina, County Court Minutes [Court of Pleas & Quarter Sessions", Weynette P. Haun, Bk II, p34). The two Edwards girls in the headrights claim may have been daughters of Mathew Edwards. Also in Bertie Co, William BAZEMORE, John's son, bought land from Benjamin Edwards and the land of Nathan Edwards is mentioned in the deed.
On 6 Mar 1743/44, John BAZEMORE bought from John Speir and wife Judith 220 acres on the mouth of Spring Branch on NS Ahotskey Swamp adjacent Hugh Horton, recorded Feb Ct 1749, wit: Wm Wheeler, Hugh Horton, & Robt Willis. In Feb 1749 John sold 50 acres, part of a tract he bought of Henry Vise on NS Hoskey Swamp. And on 27 Apr 1756, John bought 650 acres on Cheskee Swamp in Bertie Co from Francis Hobson and wife Ann, recorded Apr Ct 1756, wit: Thos Whitmell, Chas King, & Jonathan Kitrell (Bertie Co Deed Bk 1739-1758, Vol 4-6).
John BAZEMORE (Sr) was taxed on son Thomas in 1763. Thomas would have been about 23 years old then. (A call to the NC Archive revealed that Thomas possibly lived on his father's land and worked for him, so John may have paid a tax on Thomas as a laborer just as he paid tax on the slaves. I don't know if this researcher is correct with this information. I do know that the British were raising money for their efforts against the French and Indians at that time so they came up with all sorts of taxes.)
Another daughter of John may have been Elizabeth (b ca 1760) who married in 1777, James Roquemore (b ca 1745 in France). They had son James Jr b 2 Dec 1780, d 25 Apr 1865. (Will, 30 Apr 1803 [Jones Co, GA?], no probate dt, James Roquemore, names wife Elizabeth.)
John BAZEMORE Sr may have had brothers. Robert and Michael BAZEMORE were killed in the Rev War. Both served 84 mo, and their families received 640 acre Rev War grants. A search of Tyrrell Co records may reveal more data on them.
In 1774, BAZEMOREs signed an allegiance to the state of NC: Jesse BAZEMORE, John BAZEMORE Jr, Thomas J. BAZEMORE, William BAZEMORE, James BAZEMORE, and John BAZEMORE Sr (Oath of Allegiance against the King of Great Britain, Bertie County Revolutionary War Papers, 1774-1777, 1821, NC State Archives, Raleigh, NC, C.R.10.911.1, Box 4). John BAZEMORE (Sr) died in 1789.
Will, John BAZEMORE
Bertie, NC
Signed 10 July 1789; proven May Term, 1790
Sons: Jesse, John, Thomas, James, William (manor plantation)
Daughters: Tamer Sowell, wife of Francis Sowell; Elizabeth White, wife of
William White
Son-in-law: Josiah Thomas (husband to daughter Sarah Thomas, deceased)
Grandchildren: Micheal Thomas, Jorden Thomas, Josiah Thomas, Elizabeth
Thomas, Sarah Thomas
Executors: Jesse BAZEMORE, William BAZEMORE, Francis Pugh
Witnesses: Francis Pugh, Josiah Collins, John Douglass
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2. THOMAS BAZEMORE (JR) (John), probably b ca 1738 in Norfolk Co, VA. He was named in his father's head rights petition in 1742. His tombstone in GA says he was b 6 Mar 1745 but this is too late in light of known data. He married Sarah _____ in Bertie Co, NC. Thomas was the grantee on a deed in Bertie Co in Aug 1774 (Bertie Co NC Court Minutes). A deed of sale of land from Thomas & Sarah BAZEMORE to Jeremiah/Nehemiah Bunch, Nov term 1787, is registered on p208, Vol V, Bertie County North Carolina County Court Minutes (Weynette Parks Haun, 1982). Thomas and Sarah were in Edgefield Co, SC, in the 1790 census (p63, 1-und 16, 2-over 16, 4 f), bought land in 1792 and 1793 and sold this land in 1799 with Sarah relinquishing her dower. Thomas BAZEMORE bought 400 acres in Washington Co, GA, in Aug 1800. "Cemeteries and Genealogy, Warren Co, Georgia, 1792-1987", Daniel N. Crumpton, states that Thos BAZEMORE bought land, 2 Feb 1801; Thos BAZEMORE sold land, 7 Feb 1806. A Tattnall Co, GA, deed shows he sold to Dempsey Wood, a Warranty Deed, 28 Feb 1804. He drew land in Warren Co, GA, in the 1805 GA Land Lottery, and more in Baldwin Co in the 1827 lottery. In 1820, the census shows him in Jones Co, age 45+ with son Reddick age 26-45. Thomas d 23 Jan 1837 and is buried in Jones Co, GA. His will was dtd 2 Jul 1836, prob 6 Feb 1837.
ISSUE:
*a. David BAZEMORE, born ca 1760 (more on him below).
b. Reddick BAZEMORE (Sr), b ca 1776, Bertie Co, NC. He m Elizabeth Roquemore (b ca 1790, GA). Reddick made a government claim in Washington Co, GA, 29 Jul 1800 - he said Indians stole his horse while he was at Dempsey Wood's plantation. He was apparently there to buy 400 acres from Dempsey (Washington Co Deeds, p131/133, 29 Aug 1800). He was in Warren Co with Thomas in 1801, & in land records there 1806/7. He was in Jones Co for the 1820 census, age 26-45, wife age 26-45, son 0-10, 2 daughters 0-10, and a daughter 10-15. Reddick drew lot #195, Sec 13, Monroe Co, in the 1821 GA Land Lottery. Reddick d 26 Apr 1860, Houston Co, GA.
c. Winney BAZEMORE, m a Jackson.
d. Kiddy (Catherine) BAZEMORE, b ca 1790 in NC (1850 census), d in 1859. She m in Warren Co, 4 Jul 1805, [Thomas?] Jones Burkhalter/Brookhalter (b 1781, d 1854). They are shown in the 1840 and 1850 census in Covington Co, MS, p309.
e. Riley BAZEMORE. William P. Harris, husband of Riley's sister Mary/Polly, filed for land claim of half brother Riley BAZEMORE (called an idiot in the claim). Mary was the dau of Thos' 2nd wife. Riley was entered in the 1832 Land Lottery.
Thomas' first wife Sarah died ca 1800-1807. He married second on 16 Aug 1808, Sara Rowe (b 1782, d 7 Apr 1842) (Marr Reg Bk A, p12, Jones Co, GA).
f. Sarah (Sally) BAZEMORE, m an Ethridge.
g. Mary (Polly) BAZEMORE, b ca 1812, m Wm Harris on 18 Nov 1830. She lived with brother Reddick in 1850, age about 38. NOTE: William P. Harris filed for land claim of half brother Riley BAZEMORE.
h. James Marion BAZEMORE, b 1820, may be same as Marian M. BAZEMORE who m Paulina S. E. Edwards on 21 Dec 1837. James d 28 Oct 1849 (29 yrs old), Union Co, La.
i. Thomas Jefferson (Jeff) BAZEMORE. The "Ancestor Roster, Georgia Division of the United Daughters of the Confederacy", Vol 5, p117, shows: Thomas Jefferson BAZEMORE, Pvt Co C, 2nd GA Inf, b 7 Jan 1824, Jones Co, GA, d 10 Jan 1891, Monroe Co, GA, m Mary Elizabeth Hart on 9 Dec 1847 in Monroe Co. Estate records show Turner Madison and no others as minor in 1844 so he seems to be the youngest son. Therefore the birth year of 1824 for Thomas Jefferson is questionable.
j. Turner Madison BAZEMORE (sometimes shown as Madison T.), b 6 Mar 1823. Turner was the youngest son of Thomas and 2nd wife Sarah. He m in Jones Co on 28 Dec 1843, Elizabeth S. Renfroe (b 14 Mar 1823, d 25 Nov 1890, Orlando, FL). The 1850 census shows Turner, age 27, with wife Elizabeth S., 27. Turner d 20 Oct 1876, age 53, in Calhoun, GA.
NOTE: A Thomas J. BAZEMORE m 24 Feb 1831, Sarah Hurt. I haven't been able to place this Thomas.
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DAVID BAZEMORE (John, Thomas) b ca 1760, is called "son of Thomas BAZEMORE" in Aug term 1786, p111, Vol V, Bertie County North Carolina County Court Minutes. He signed the Oath of Allegiance in 1774 and enlisted in 1777. "State Records of NC", Vol XV, 1780-81, p718, Roll of Colonel Thomas Clark's Company, 1st NC Battalion, commanded by Colonel Thomas Clark, Sept. 8th, 1778 (Book of Army Returns, No. 27, p21), shows: David Basemore (#18), enlisted 6 Aug 1777 for 3 years. In 1790 he and his father appeared in the Edgefield Co, SC, census (he age 16+, wife age 16+). David served jury duty in Edgefield Co in 1794 and was a witness in 1795. By 1807 he was in Baldwin Co, GA, registered in the Land Lottery. He was in court for "fighting in the streets" in Milledgeville, Baldwin Co, GA, 12 Sep 1815; and in Warren Co, GA, buying and selling land in 1820. In Jones Co on 5 Dec 1818, David bought S1/2 of lot 178 for $700 (Bk K, p110). In 1820, David BAZEMORE sold this to Thos BAZEMORE Jr (101 1/4 A) for $600 and on 28 Nov 1820, Thos Jr sold this for $600 to George Walker. (These are all found in Jones Co Deeds, office of Superior Court). The 1820 census (p131, line 27), Jones Co, shows David BAZEMORE, age 45+, wife, age 26-45, 1m 0-10 (Geo Wash?), 2m 10-15 (Reddick & Moore or Riley?), 1m 18-25 (Thos J.), 1f 0-10 (Mary Ann?), and 2f 16-25 (Delitha Jane & TJ's wife Cardis?). Martha, Elizabeth Ann, & Nancy were probably married by then. Joseph Dorrough is on line 28, and Thomas Duffee is on p136, line 26. In Baldwin Co, GA, in 1821, tax was levied on David's property and livestock, but nothing is known of him or his wife after this. In 1821, Blount BAZEMORE of Jones Co, a possible son of David, filed for a land grant as an orphan.
In the following list, Elizabeth, Nancy, Martha, Moore and Blount have not been proven as children of David but probably are his children:
1) Thomas J. BAZEMORE (Jr), b ca 1797, m in 1820, Cardis Strother (b ca 1800) (Marr Registrations Book, Jones Co, GA). Her name is given as Ricardy in 1850. Thos m (2) in Coosa Co, AL, 1863, Francis Sharbutt. A Deed of Gift dtd 1823 (Jones Co Bk M, p344), signed by Thos BAZEMORE Jr, names a brother but does not give a first name, also names brother Washington BAZEMORE, sister Mary Ann BAZEMORE, Deletha BAZEMORE (no relationship given), brother Reddick BAZEMORE Jr, signed by Joseph Dorrough and Thomas Duffee.
Children were:
a) Ephraim B. BAZEMORE, b 1823, m Johanna Roberts.
b) Talitha/Tabitha Brantley BAZEMORE, b 1824, m Robert Toombs Massey, 1842, Harris Co, GA.
c) Thomas Jefferson BAZEMORE, b 1827, d 1885, m (1) Oma Palmer/Palmore, 27 Feb 1847, Harris Co, m (2) Eliza Ann Veasey, 1860, Coosa Co, AL.
d) Arrena Jane BAZEMORE, b 1829, m William G. Massey, 1844, Harris Co.
e) Meredith S. BAZEMORE, b 1832, m (1) Harriet F. Murphy, 1852, m (2) Mary J. Driskell/Driscoll, after 1852, served in Civil War as 1st Sgt, 34th AL Reg (History of Coosa County Alabama, p154).
f) James Patrick BAZEMORE, b 1834, d 1906?, m Missouri Frances Calfee, 1857, Coosa Co, AL, served in Civil War as 3rd Sgt, 34th AL Reg (History of Coosa County Alabama, p154). In the 1870 census of Coosa Co: J.P. BAZEMORE, 36, b GA; wife, age 28; sons ages 11, 7, & 3; and a 1 yr old dau.
g) Martha Ann Elizabeth BAZEMORE, b 1835, d 1860, m Alfred D. Massey, 1853, Coosa Co, AL. She may have also m in Coosa Co, AL, John T. Cajul(?).
h) Joseph T. BAZEMORE, b 1839, m Mary Jivia Chancellor, 1859, Coosa Co.
i) Francis M. BAZEMORE, b 1847, d 1862, killed in the Civil War. His will is dated 22 Aug 1862, Coosa Co, AL, exec: Thomas Baysmore.
2) Mary Ann BAZEMORE
3) Blount H. BAZEMORE, b maybe 1805, in Coosa Co, AL by 1850, m Sarah Steely, 28 Dec 1829, Crawford Co, GA, may be same who had son Lemuel in Coosa Co, AL, 1860, and son D. Owen. A bond dated 27 Jan 1866 was found in Coosa Co, AL, for Blount H. BAZEMORE, deceased. Blount has not yet been proven to be son of David.
4) Delitha Jane BAZEMORE, may have m Nathan Parish in Bibb Co, GA, 9 Sep 1827, m (2?) Joseph Dorough, 14 Oct 1831, Crawford Co, GA. (See #8)
5) REDERICK B. BAZEMORE
6) Moore BAZEMORE, b 1805-1810, m Mary A. _____, maybe in Heard Co, GA. He was in Coosa Co, AL, by 1850. Moore had son Jonathan Gatlin BAZEMORE, b bef 1850 in AL. Moore has also not been proven to be David's son.
7) (George) Washington BAZEMORE, b 1810-1820, m Elizabeth Wright, 20 Apr 1833, Crawford Co, GA. They were in Crawford Co by 1840.
8) Elizabeth (Betsey) Ann BAZEMORE, b 1810-1820, m on 25 Oct 1817, in Putnam Co, GA, Joseph T. Dorrough. In 1850 Harris Co, he is m to Jane (Delitha Jane?).
9) Martha BAZEMORE, m Mathew Naugent/Nugent, 21 May 1815, Putnam Co, GA.
10) Nancy BAZEMORE, m in Jones Co, GA, on 4 Nov 1819, Thomas Duffee (b ca 1799). After she died, he m Martha (b ca 1805, SC). They appeared in the 1850 census in Russell Co, AL, p16.
11) Riley BAZEMORE
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5) REDERICK B. BAZEMORE, b ca 1812, m in 1838 in Hickory Flats, Chambers Co, AL, Martha Jane McClean (b ca 1819, d ca 1854, Harris Co, GA). In 1840 they lived with her parents in Hickory Flat, Chambers Co, AL. According to the 1850 census, their first four children were b in AL. A probate record (Minutes of Harris County [GA] Court of Ordinary, Special Term, April 8th 1863, p332) shows Rederick d intestate in Harris Co in early 1863 leaving two minor children. His estate included 200 acres "in the 20th district, originally Muscogee now Harris Co". Nothing definite to show that Rederick was son of David, but seems likely. From the Harris Co, GA, Census, 3 Oct 1850, Whitakers Dist (info in parens is from a paper by Mrs Nita Lumsden, a descendant of Rederick): Rederic BAZEMORE, 38, farmer, b in GA, wife, Martha, 31, b in GA. Their children were:
a) Elizabeth A. BAZEMORE, b 25 Feb 1839, AL, m William R or L Smith, 20 Oct 1857, lvd in Harris Co, GA 1869/70)
b) James Henry BAZEMORE, b 20 May 1841, AL, m in Harris Co, 4 Jul 1861, Elizabeth E. Lyle. James enlisted in Co E., 20th Reg, GA Vols, 27 Jun 1861, was wounded at Gettysburg 3 Jul 1863, was at the battle of the Wilderness 6 May 1864, and was wounded again on 31 Oct 1864. He later lived in Spring Hill, AR. Bill thinks he is bur in City Cem along with a son, James B. BAZEMORE, and James' wife.
c) John Washington BAZEMORE, birthdate is given as 23 Sep 1843 in Mrs Lumsden's paper; 22 Sep 1838 is the date given in the Indigent Pension Appl approved 1906; cem marker says he was b 10 Sep 1838; 1850 census says he was b ca 1842 in AL. John enlisted on 15 Jun 1861 at Whitesville, Harris Co, Co E, 20th GA Reg (Pens Appl), served for the duration of the war, and was present at the surrender of the Confederate army at Appomattox, VA. He m Mary G. Massey (b ca 1842, buried in Antioch Cem, Harris Co, GA). John d 3 Aug 1913 at Columbus, GA, and he is buried in Riverdale Cem, Columbus, where a Confederate marker has been placed on his grave.
ISSUE of John Washington BAZEMORE:
- John C. BAZEMORE, b 12 Mar 1867, d 6 Jun 1931, m IDA W., b 5 Jun 1876, d 26 Dec 1968, owned land at La Grange. Both buried at Riverdale Cem, Columbus, GA.
- Ophelia BAZEMORE, b ca 1869.
- Lorenzo Dow BAZEMORE (named for a traveling preacher), b 7 Dec 1871.
- William Charles BAZEMORE, b 13 Apr 1873, d 18 Sep 1945, m Mary Magdeline Denson (b 15 Apr 1876, d 14 Jan 1955, daughter of James Munroe Denson & Martha Blackstock of AL).
- James W. BAZEMORE, b ca 1874.
- Martha A. BAZEMORE, b ca 1876, (Maddie), m an Allen.
- Sallie F. BAZEMORE, b ca 1879, m a Moore.
- Beatrice BAZEMORE. She was a red head and she m Jett Posey.
NOTE: The 1880 census - Upper Nineteenth Militia: J.W. BAZEMORE (41), M.F. BAZEMORE (38), John C. (13), Ophelia (11), Lorenzo (9), William C. (7) (see History of Harris Co, William Charles BAZEMORE), James W. (6), Martha A. (4), Sallie F. (1).
d) Francis M. BAZEMORE, b 7 Aug 1847, AL, lvd in Stewart City, GA, below Columbus, 1 May 1870, d 1 Sep 1910. He served with the Conf army. Frank m on 24 Nov 1879, Sara Francis Harrington (b 22 Sep 1850, d 28 Jan 1937, bur Riverdale Cem, Columbus, GA).
e) Columbus C. BAZEMORE, b 25 Mar 1850 in GA, m (1) Mary Ellen Lann. Their children were Belle, Alice, Blanche, Hiram D., James Jefferson, Ira Smead, Minnie, and Wallace. Columbus m (2) Lou Dean, (3) M.A. Aaron. He d 10 May 1937, Hatcher, Sabine Ph, LA.
f) Sarah Louisa BAZEMORE, b 13 Dec 1852. Sarah was named a minor in the Apr 1863 probate papers (Harris Co, GA, 12 Months Support Bk 5, 1857-1882, p41) (b 13 Dec 1852). She m in Mt Holly in Union Co, AR, 11 Feb 1876, Joseph Edward Moody. Their children were Lana A., Laura Della, Oliver Wendell, Beulah M., Bertha May, Dale, Minnie Pearl, and Lucy.
Family Puzzlers - #594 3/8/79 pg 3
Maher-Shalal-Hash-Baz, Biblical Name
. . . Check Isaiah 7:3 and 8:1-4 . . . Editor's Note: In the prophesies of Isaiah can be found the birth of a son who the Lord called Maher-shalal-hash-baz. Isaiah's son Shear-jashub with him to meet Ahaz, on orders from the Lord. . .
The first record I have of Maher is as a witness to a Halifax Co. deed, 8/5/1763 between John Payne and Ann, Henry, and Rowland Chiles. He lived near the border of Pittsylvania and that part of Bedford Co. which became Campbell Co., from where he sold his land on Cheese Cr. to a John Ward Sr. in 1783. A John Ward had also witnessed the 1763 deed with Maher. This is all I have of Virginia references to Maher except for his claims for revolutionary service in the early 1780's.
Bible Record
Maher Shalal hasbag Lyle- (Family Record)
(In possession of Mrs. Q. W. Arwood, Jackson, Ga.)
Maher Shallal hastag Lyle died 30th of Jan. 1814, Age 76
(Mrs. Arwood's great,great, gransfather) (Birth 1738)
Betty Lyle was born 15th of Feb. 1741.
Children:
Betty Lyle was born Feb. 13, 1764
Sarah Oct. 14 1767
David May 15, 176?
Susannah Apr 16, 1806.
Age 75 yrs, 26 days born 1731. (? Who is this?)
John Lyle was born March 24, 1769.
Wm. Dec. 21, 1770.
(Mrs Arwood's Great Grandfather)
Judith Lyle was Born Nov.21, 1772
Dilmies June 23,1774
Maher Aug 17,1776
James Mar. 22, 1778
Thomas Feb. 15, 1780
Anah Dec. 12, 1782
Charles Jun 23, 1784
Charles Lyle b. 23 June 1784 Spartanburg Co., S.C. d. 28 April 1862 Md. Nancy Kirby b. 12 Oct. 1793 Spartanburg Co., S.C. d. 14 Oct. 1877 md. 1810
1. James b. 14 Dec. 1811 d. Nov 1888.
2. David b. 15 Oct. 1813 d. 3 Feb. 1869
3. John b. 16 Oct 1814
4. Charles b. 25 Jan. 1816 d. 30 May 1902
5. Berryman b. 16 March 1817 d. 10 July 1850
6. Milton b. 2 Oct. 1818
7. Kirby b. 28 Nov 1819 d. 21 Feb. 1864
8. Missouri b. 30 Oct. 1821
9. Thomas b. 23 July 1823 Sheriff Lakeland, Fla.
10. William M. b. 8 Dec. 1824 d. 16 Nov. 1912 md. Mary Ann Wells 22 Nov. 1846
11. Dilmus b. 3 May 1826
12. Nancy b. 17 Oct. 1827 d. 21 Dec. 1857
13. Richard b. 10 Oct 1829 d. 1920 md. Mary A. ____
14. Mary b. 6 April 1831 B. Stripling Chapel, Carroll Co.
15 Elizabeth b. 6 April 1833
Roots and Branches -Jamie Stephens Barnes
The Rider Family
Word has been passed down that the Riders . . . were originally from the Baden area of Southern Germany near the French border. . . Adam Rider Sr. is listed in the 1790 and 1800 cencus records of Rowan Co., N. C. . . There is a possibility that she (his wife) was a “Beck.” The couple had five daughters and three sons. In his will, dated July 15,1801, Adam lists his five daughters. Since his wife was not named and guardians were appointed for all his daughters we conclude that his wife had died before 1801. Adam’s will was proven November 9, 1804. . . Several members of the Beck family were named as guardians for Adam’s daughters. In his will Adam referred to John Beck as his “trusted friend.” He and John Beck both belonged to the same Lutheran Church. Rowan Co., records dated 4 Nov. 1805, indicates that “Catharine Rider of lawful age chose Phillip Beck Jr. as her guardian.” Catherine later married Abraham Barnes, grandfather of our subject, John Abraham Barnes.
Children of Adam Rider and Wife
Adam Rider Jr. b. 1781 married Barbara ___
Barbara Rider b. 1784
John Rider b 1788 married Jane _____
Catherine Rider b 1790 married Abraham Barnes Nov. 21 1814
George Rider b bef 1800
Margaret Rider “ “ married Ambrose Wythe May 27, 1811
Christinia Rider “ “
Elizabeth Rider “ “ married Samuel Brooks
I feel very strongly, without absolute proof, that John Addison, of Franklin County, Ga. was the father of Christopher Addison of Franklin County and connected to Thomas Addison of Fairfield County, SC and his son Christopher, who died in Gwinnett Co., Ga, abt 1827. Here are soome supporting documents:
South Carolina Patriots
ADDISON, Christopher (R-Pat-SC)
m. Agnes ____ (note: Agnes Montgomery, daughter of Samuel Montgomery)
Child known:
Mary m. Stephen Noland (son of Stephen Noland & Mary)
South Carolina Revolutionary Soldiers
ADDISON, Christopher.
He served three hundred twenty-eight days in the militia during 1781 and 1782. A.A.41A;L2.
ADDISON, John.
He served in the First Regiment during 1783. A.A.41B; C482; Y824.
Revolutionary War Bounty Land Grants in South Carolina - Draine & Skinner
ADDISON, John - Vol. 2, pg. 60, 3 Sep. 1792, 79 acres, Camden District, Richland County, on a branch of Congaree River.
Camden District, South Carolina Plat Book C
July 8, 1786 - Pursuant to a Warrant from John Winn, Esq. for Camden District I have laid out unto William ADDESON a tract of Land Containing two hundred and fifty acres in Camden District on Waters of Col. Creek and hath such shapes, forms and markes as the above Platt Represents. Surveyed the 25th day of January, 1786. Jn. Bolton D.S. (Plat shown borders PATTERSON and John ADDESON).
July 8, 1786 - Pursuant to a Warrant From John Winn, Esq. for Camden District I have laid out unto William ADDESON a Tract of Land Containing two hundred and fifty Acres in Camden District on upper Branch adjoining a prong of Cedar Creek Bounding on all sides Vacant Land and hath such shape form and Marks as the above Platt Represents. Surveyed the 26th day of January, 1786. Jn. Bolton D. S.
Camden District, South Carolina Plat Book E
August 4, 1792 - Richland County - (Bounty) Pursuant to a warrant from John Winn Esq. Commr. La? for Cam'n dist. I have admeasured and laid out to John ADDISON a tract of Land Cont'g Seventy Nine acres situate in Richland County on a small branch of the congaree river called Mill Creek Bounded on all sides by Land not known and hath such shape and Marks as the above platt represents. Surveyed 5th of Feb'y 1790. Alex Kennedy D. S.
August 4, 1792 - Richland County - Pursuant to a Warrent from John Winn Esq. C. L. for C. D. I have admeasured and laid out to John ADDISON a Tract of Land Con'g Two Hundred and Nine acres Situate in Richland County on a branch of Ceader creek Called the Middle Branch of the Waters of Congaree River and Bounded S.W. and E. by Land of Andrew Patterson, S.W. by William ADDISONs Land and on all other sides by Vacant Land and hath such shape form and Marks as the above Plat represents. Surveyed 4th February 1790. Alex. Kennedy D. S. Certified for Jesse Brown.
August 4, 1792 - Rich'd County - Pursuant to a warrant from John Winn Esq. Com. Loca. Cam. Dist. I have admeasured and laid out to John ADDISON a tract of Land Cont'g Two Hundred thirty two acres Situate in Richland County on a branch of the Congaree River called Ceader Creek and Bounded E. by John Marshalls Land and on all other sides by vacant Land and hath such shapes form and Marks as the above plat Represents. Surveyed 4th February 1790. Alex'r Kennedy D.S. Certified for Jesse Brown.
Revolutionary War Bounty Land Grants in South Carolina - Draine & Skinner
ADDISON, John - Vol. 2, pg. 60, 3 Sep. 1792, 79 acres, Camden District, Richland County, on a branch of Congaree River.
Camden District, South Carolina Plat Book C
July 8, 1786 - Pursuant to a Warrant from John Winn, Esq. for Camden District I have laid out unto William ADDESON a tract of Land Containing two hundred and fifty acres in Camden District on Waters of Col. Creek and hath such shapes, forms and markes as the above Platt Represents. Surveyed the 25th day of January, 1786. Jn. Bolton D.S. (Plat shown borders PATTERSON and John ADDESON).
July 8, 1786 - Pursuant to a Warrant From John Winn, Esq. for Camden District I have laid out unto William ADDESON a Tract of Land Containing two hundred and fifty Acres in Camden District on upper Branch adjoining a prong of Cedar Creek Bounding on all sides Vacant Land and hath such shape form and Marks as the above Platt Represents. Surveyed the 26th day of January, 1786. Jn. Bolton D. S.
Camden District, South Carolina Plat Book E
August 4, 1792 - Richland County - (Bounty) Pursuant to a warrant from John Winn Esq. Commr. La? for Cam'n dist. I have admeasured and laid out to John ADDISON a tract of Land Cont'g Seventy Nine acres situate in Richland County on a small branch of the congaree river called Mill Creek Bounded on all sides by Land not known and hath such shape and Marks as the above platt represents. Surveyed 5th of Feb'y 1790. Alex Kennedy D. S.
August 4, 1792 - Richland County - Pursuant to a Warrent from John Winn Esq. C. L. for C. D. I have admeasured and laid out to John ADDISON a Tract of Land Con'g Two Hundred and Nine acres Situate in Richland County on a branch of Ceader creek Called the Middle Branch of the Waters of Congaree River and Bounded S.W. and E. by Land of Andrew Patterson, S.W. by William ADDISONs Land and on all other sides by Vacant Land and hath such shape form and Marks as the above Plat represents. Surveyed 4th February 1790. Alex. Kennedy D. S. Certified for Jesse Brown.
August 4, 1792 - Rich'd County - Pursuant to a warrant from John Winn Esq. Com. Loca. Cam. Dist. I have admeasured and laid out to John ADDISON a tract of Land Cont'g Two Hundred thirty two acres Situate in Richland County on a branch of the Congaree River called Ceader Creek and Bounded E. by John Marshalls Land and on all other sides by vacant Land and hath such shapes form and Marks as the above plat Represents. Surveyed 4th February 1790. Alex'r Kennedy D.S. Certified for Jesse Brown.
Pendleton District, S.C. Deeds - 1790-1806
pages 145-146 - 10 Feb. 1794, Godfrey Isbell of Franklin County, Ga., planter, to James Alexander of Pendleton Co., planter, for L75 stg. for 100 acres on Cain Creek of Toogalow River, part of 200 acres granted to John ATTERSON, soldier, by Benj. Guerrard, 21 Jan. 1784, conveyed to Minor Winn, Esq., then to Isbell, 14 Feb. 1790.
Signed: Godfrey Isbell, Hannah Isbell
Wit: James Clark, John Alexander
Rec: 14 Feb 1794
(note: Minor Winn is in 1790 census of Fairfield County, S.C. 102-09)
1820 Georgia Land Lottery
ADISON, John - Franklin County - Akin's District - Lot # 29, Section 7, Gwinnett County.
ADDISON, Brazel - Franklin County - Kelton's District - Lot # 113, Section 13, Irwin County.
1821 Georgia Land Lottery
ADDERSON, Christopher - Franklin County - Tate's District - Lot # 58, Section 1, Dooly County.
ADERSON, Thomas F. - Franklin County - Duncan's District - Lot #224, Section 13, Henry County.
Franklin County Tax Digests
1810 - page 13 - Capt. Willises Dist. - John ADDERSON: poll
1811 - page - Capt. Willis' Dist. - John ATTERSON: 100a., Brewer, Farrell, Hunters Ck.
1813 - page 107 - Capt. Payne's Dist. - John ATTERSON: 50a., William Brewer(?), Jarrell, Hunters Ck.
1819 - page 129 - Capt. Akins Dist. - Brazell ADISON: 100 a., Robertson, Adams, Hunters Ck.
1819 - page 128 - Capt. Akins Dist. - John ADISON: 100 a., Robertson, ADISON(?), Hunters Ck.
1820 - page 71 - Capt. Kelton's Dist. - John ADISON: 100 a., Robertson, Barnett, Hunters Ck.
1820 - page 73 - Capt. Kelton's Dist. - Brazel ADISON: 100a., Robertson, Dobbs, Hunters Ck.
1820 - page 74 - Capt. Kelton's Dist. - Brasil ADISON for Christopher ADISON: poll
1821 - page - Capt. Kelton's Dist. - Christopher ADISON for Brasell ADISON: 490 a., B. ADISON, #113, Dist. 13, Irwin Co.
1821 - page - Capt. Kelton's Dist. - James Dobbs: 100a., Kelly, ADISON, Hunters Ck.
1821 - page - Capt. Kelton's Dist. - John ADISON: 250a., self, #29, Dist. 7, Guynnett Co.
1822 - page - Nathaniel Guest: 400 a., Bowman & others, ADISON, Hunters Ck.
1822 - page - Brasel ADISON: ln.; 202 1/2 a., Guest, #5, Dist. 6, Houston Co.
1822 - page - Christopher ADERSON: 202 1/2 a., self, #58, Dist. 1, Dooley Co.
1823 - page - Christopher ADISON: poll
1823 - page - Brassell ADISON: poll
1825 - page - Capt. Payne's Dist. - Christopher ATTiSON
1825 - page - Capt. Payne's Dist. - Brassell ATTiSON: Poll
1827 - page 108 - Capt. Mills' Dist. - Josiah ATTiSON: Poll
1827 - page 111 - Capt. Mills' Dist. - Enok Anders For Brazel ADDERSON: Poll
1827 - page 111 - Capt. Mills' Dist. - Lott ATTERSON
1827 - page 111 - Capt. Mills' Dist. - Christoher ATTERSON
1828 - page - Capt. Mills's Dist. - Christopher ADDERSON
1828 - page - Capt. Mills's Dist. - Josiah ADDERSON: Poll
1828 - page - Capt. Mills's Dist. - Brazellar ADDERSON: Poll
1829 - page 45 - Capt. Payne's Dist. - Christopher ADERSON
1829 - page 45 - Capt. Payne's Dist. - Josiah ADDERSON: Poll
1829 - page 45 - Capt. Payne's Dist. - Hestry (?) ADDERSON: Poll
1829 - page 49 - Capt. Payne's Dist. - Brazzlar ADDERSON: Poll
1830 - page - Capt. Payne's Dist. - For Christopher ADDISON, William Ayres & Thomas Payne See Brawner Dist.
1830 - page - Capt. Payne's Dist. - Josiah ATTESON: Poll
1831 - page - Capt. Payne's Dist. - Josiah ADDISON
1831 - page - Capt. Payne's Dist. - Christopher ADISON
1832 - page - Capt. Smith's Dist. - Josiah ADISON: Poll
1832 - page - Capt. Smith's Dist. - Christopher ADDISON
1832 - page - Capt. Smith's Dist. - Christopher ADDISON For William Keller: Poll
1832 - page - Capt. Smith's Dist. - Sanford Guest For Kester (?) ADISON: Poll
1833 - page - Joseph ADDISON
1833 - page - Christopher ADISON And For Kester (?) ADISON: Poll
1833 - page - Christopher ADISON For Stacy Rogers
1835 - page - Capt. Wheeler's Dist. - Hester ADDISON: Poll
1835 - page - " " - Josiah ADDISON
1835 - page - " " - Christopher ADDISON
1836 - page - Capt. Verner's Dist. - Hestry (?) ADDISON: Poll
1836 - page - " " - Josiah ADDISON
1836 - page - " " - Christopher ADDISON
1839 - page 43 - Capt. Tabor's Dist. - Josiah ADDISON
1839 - page 44 - " " - Hester ADDISON: Poll
1839 - page 48 - " " - Josiah ADDISON For Stacy Rogers
1839 - page 48 - " " - Christopher ADDISON
Franklin County, Georgia Deeds
August 8, 1821 - Brazilla ADDISON of Franklin County to Nathan Bramblett of Franklin County for $150, 80 acres on Hunter's Creek.
Wit: James Quillian, David Quillian J. P.
Rec: May 11, 1835
February 17, 1827 - John ADDERSON of Franklin County to James Smith of Franklin County for $150 100 acres on Middle fork of Hunter's Creek where said Smith now lives, bordering William Bell, Dorsey's, Adams's Mill, including half benefit of spring.
Wit: John S. Davis, Robert Williams J. P.
Rec: November 9, 1855
January 24, 1835 - James McIntire of Franklin County to Christopher ADDISON of Franklin County for $100 ? acres on waters of Little Leatherwood Creek adjoining Crump.
Wit: Obediah Neal, William E. Smith J. P.
Rec: October 3, 1837
February 29, 1835 - James McIntire of Franklin County to Christopher ADDISON of Franklin County for $100 58 acres bordering ADDISON's own land.
Wit: ?
Rec: May 12, 1835
October 17, 1835 - Landon Payne of Franklin County to Josiah ADDISON of Franklin County for $150 100 acres on waters of Payne's Fork.
Wit: S. D. Thomason, E. W. M?.
Rec: July 12, 1838
? - Josiah ADDISON of Franklin County to Thomas Morris & Eppy McMorris for $100 80 acres on waters of Payne's Creek, Bordering Robert Williams & Benjamin F. Guest, dividing line made by Thomas Payne Sr. between Littleton & Landrum
Payne, Baker Ayers, Wagner.
Wit: T. F. Cooper, Noah Soony J. P.
Rec: October 25, 1838
August 20, 1853 - Christopher ADDISON of Franklin County to Thomas Mize of Franklin County for $180 337 acres dividing waters of the Middle and North Rivers where H. P. Mize now lives and Mize Store stands.
Wit: E. W. Morris, Issac B. Laurense J. P.
Rec: January 7, 1854
September 8, 1855 - Thomas McConnal of Franklin County to Hester ADDISON of Franklin County for $110 100 acres on waters of North River bordering R. E. Baird & Meirs, where Susannah Miniard now lives, known as Miniard place.
Wit: E. W. Moors, Henry Forman J.J.C.
Rec: May 21, 1859
? - Colbert Guest of Franklin County to Hester ADDISON of Franklin County for ? ? acres on wters of North River, bordering R. E. Baird, Mier, Miniard place.
Wit: P. G. Payne, C. ADDISON
Rec: November 22 1858
October 29, 1855 - Hester ADDISON of Franklin County to Walter Mabry of Franklin County for $300 145 acres on waters of North River.
Wit: W. J. Oliver, N. M. Payne J. P.
Rec: May 21, 1859
December 8, 1855 - William Kelly of Franklin County to Hester ADDISON of Franklin County for $100 145 acres on North Fork of Broad River bordering Guest, Baird.
Wit: Samuel H. Mosley, John G. York
Rec: May 21, 1859
January 10, 1857 - Christopher ADDISON of Franklin County to Thomas Mize of Franklin County for $500 160 acres on fork of Hunter's Creek, bordering Payne, Oliver, Curtis Guest, Mize, F. C. Payne.
Wit: John L. Mize, Morgan Guest J. P.
Rec: April 24, 1857
April 16, 1858 - Mortgage on crop of fodder & cotton. Josiah ADDISON of Franklin County agrees to pay Joseph L. Henson of Franklin County $5 before October 14, 1858.
Wit: David Scoggins, N. M. Payne J. P.
Rec: August 16, 1858
Richard Tyner - Revolutionary Patriot (Tyner File in Georgia Archives)
Shortly after the close of the Revolutionary War, when Elbert County was only a year or two old, (note: Elbert County wasn't formed until 1790) the Indians began a series of depredations along the thinly settled out-post of the County which took a large toll in Pioneer lives. Only the most dastardly attacks took place in what is now Gaines District. The Tyner Family was the unfortunate victims.
Early in the morning in the late Fall season, Richard Tyner left his home on a hunting exploration, leaving his wife, two sons and three daughters, Mary, Tamar and an infant. A few hours after his departure, a band of hostile Indians made an attack upon the home and, although the mother and older children fought fearlessly with the old muskets kept for defense, they were overpowered. Mrs. Tyner, with her infant daughter were immediately slain and scalped. Little Noah secreted himself in a hollow tree thus escaping capture. The eldest son escaped by flight and the two daughters, both in their teens, were taken captive and carried away.
As soon as the alarm spread, the stern pioneers formed a posse but after days of fruitless search, they were compelled to abandon the chase.
The family and friends gave the girls up for lost, for few captives ever returned when taken by hostile indians of that period.
Two years later, the attention of one John Mamack, an Indian trader, while in one of the Coweta towns of the Indians, was attracted to two beautiful girls. He quickly recognized that they were not indians or of Indian blood. He had heard of the abduction of the Tyner sisters and believed that he had located them, He finally reached an agreement where-by he was able to purchase Mary but no amount of persuation was he permitted to purchase Tamar. The indians calmly stated that she was quick to obey, of good disposition, tireless in work and hence was necessary to them.
Finally realizing that efforts were of no avail, he and Mary set out for Elbert County and soon after arrival were married. Neither the sister nor the brother-in-law were happy for the knowledge that Tamar was still captive haunted them continuously. In a few weeks, not being able to stand the thought of his wife's sister in captivity, Manack again set out for the Indian town with the determination to either purchase or abduct Tamar. Upon arrival, he alternately begged and threatened, but to no avail. His every movement was spied upon and he was finally forced to return . . . in despair.
A day or two after . . ., the indians seemed very suspicious of Tamar . . . She was informed by an old Indian Squaw whom she had befriended that the headman believed that she was soon to make an attempt to escape and was therefore planning to burn her at the stake on an approaching ceremonial day. Tamar prevailed on the indian woman to furnish her a canoe and provisions. One night, with the aid of the squaw, she successfully made her escape.
Down the Chattahooche she paddled all night. She would make the best time possible and during the day . . . hide along the River bank . . . Several times she barely escaped capture but finally, with all her provisions exhaysted, she reached the waters of the Appalachicola Bay where she was sighted by passing merchantmen and conveyed in safety to Savannah. The good people of Savannah, upon hearing her story, received her as a heroine and furnished her with . . . means of travel to return to Elbert County. .
A short time after her arrival home, she was married to a gentleman by the name of Hunt. . . She lived to be quite an old lady and thrilled many of her Grandchildren with the stories of the Coweta Towns.
It is said that she delighted in pointing out the hollow tree in which her young brother, Noah had hidden to escape capture. This tree which stood for years was known throughout the country-side as "Noah's Ark." - John H. McIntosh, Historian, Elbert County 1925
Coldwater Community in Elbert County - 1770's - 1970 - Clara Adams Stowers
Page 44 - We are indebted to Mr. Parker Smith of Elberton, Ga. for this story of the Indian Massacre of the Tyner family, which was recorded by his father, Dr. Smith.
Cause of the Raid
"As is generally understood, Indians as friends are faithful, but as enemies are relentlessly savage. The Tyners were prominent and high-toned. One of then in an official capacity caused severe punishment to be inflicted on an Indian of a tribe for some reprehensible conduct. This arroused a spirit of revenge. There fore a slaughter of the offending family living on Coldwater Creek was planned. In the abscence of Mr. Tyner, a mob rushed in on the defenseless family, and killed the mother, slashed her babe against a tree, and threw it down on her. It is said by near relatives, that when found, the babe was instictively feeling for its dead mother's breasts.
"Joshua, being fleet and strong, ran and climbed a tree a few hundred yards from the spring, but was pursued and shot down dead. Noah was a small boy and concealed himself in the hollow of a large tree at the spring pulling the washpot in after him. Therefore, that tree was called 'Noah's Ark' as long as it stood. Another son is said to have made his escape by flight. Harris was caught, scalped, and beatened until pronounced dead, but he revived and lived many years afterwards.
"The three daughters were ordered to march with the departing mob, but one refused to go. She was promptly scalped and buffeted, and left in a supposed dying condition, but she played 'possum' until the Indians were gone, later recovered. Mary and Tamar seeing their sister's fate consented and went, becoming slaves. Tamar was first sent to hoe corn, but feigned ignorance by cutting out the little corn and leaving the grass. She was then required to get firewood and catch fish with Mary.
"Soon after these events, John Monack, a man who traded with Indians, went to the region and recognized the Tyner girls. Being fascinated with Mary's features of nobility, hebought her and married her. On Monack's next trip to the Indian village he tried to purchase Tamar, but failed.
"After Mary went home Tamar became very despondent, and seeing no prospect of better conditions resolved to desert. While out fishing one night, with some parched corn in her pocket, she got on an improvised raft and floated below the section inhabited by her captors, making her bearings for Elbert County. At first the sparslly settled country was almost a wilderness. As nights approached, she watched for cow trails and listened for bells in order to follow the cows to their homes.
"On reaching a settlement at last, she was an interesting guest when she related her experiences, and wa spiloted on her way some miles next morning until she reached denser population.
"After reaching home Tamer married Moses Hunt of this community. She lived to a great age and extreme febleness. After her death, Jeff and Dinah (slaves) were Moses' special attendents. One day Moses was seated in front of the fire leaning on his head on the end of his staff, while Dinah was out gathering turnip greens for dinner. When she returned, he was lying dead with his head in the fire burned beyond recognition. It was a supposable case of sudden death from natural causes. . .
"After Monack's death his widow, Mary, married Rev. James Riley, well remembered a 'Uncle Jimmy Riley.' He moved from this community to one in Mississippi, and little is known of him since.
"Lawrence Adams, son of William Adams, married Nancy Hunt, daughter of Moses and Tamar Hunt. They lived and died at the home of Moses Hunt. James, brother of Lawrence Adams, married Mary A. Hunt, daughter of Moses and Tamar Hunt. James purchased the James (Jimmy) Riley home when he sold and went to Mississippi. Here he and Mary reared their family, and are buried in the family burial ground on the 'Rucker Plantation.' . . .
"My children drank water from the Tyner spring when going to school. It was later called the 'Dobb's spring.' I have seen the walnut tree from which Joshua was shot, th largest I ever saw. It was cut for sawlogs more than forty years ago.
"I greatly appreciate the kindness of Mr. John M. Craft for information about the early settlers in the Coldwater community. He is in his eighty-seventh year, and remarkably vigorous physically and mentally. He has clear recollection of seeing Mary and Tamar Tyner.
"this sketch is made from reminiscenses rather than printed history. Where it does not agree, it is open to criticism." B. C. Smith (note: See also History of Hart County, Ga. pg 266 - "Tamar Escapes . . .)
For 20 Years, the Wards were among the Walton's closest neighbors, Bryant Ward (1725-1815) being one of the first settlers near Walton's Ford. Ward had left the Cherokees at an unknown date and settled with his white family somewhere on the south fork of Walton's Creek (soon named Ward's Creek). As William Martin recalled: "When I lived in S. C. Bryant Ward, then old, sensible, & intelligent, lived my neighbor -- was settled, and had a family." Yet Brice Martin recalled in 1854 that he had last seen Bryant Ward in 1807, living on a farm on the Chatahoochee. On Ward's Creek, Ward had a mill, a "station," and a close partnership with his son, Samuel, until he died around 1814.
Old Frontiers by John P. Brown (1938)
page 148-149, footnote 18: Nancy Ward first came into prominence at the Battle of Taliwa in 1755, by which the creeks were defeated by the Cherokees and driven out of North Georgia. She was at that time the wife of the warrior Kingfisher, and had accompanied him on the war path. Her husband was killed, and Nacy Ward took up his rifle and fought as a warrior in his place during the rest of the battle. She was given the title of Beloved Woman in recognition of her bravery. She soon afterward married Brian ward a trader who had served with English forces in the French and Indian War. Ward later left the Cherokee country and in 1791 was living upon Tugaloo River, Pendleton District SC with his white family. Nancy ard occasionally visited him there, and was received with respect by his family. William Martin, who was a son of General Joseph Martin, lived near Ward, and saw Nancy on her occasional visits. He says "The was, I think one of the most superior women I ever saw..." Using Draper as a source.
Terry W. Lipscomb, ed. The Colonial Record of South Carolina, The Journal of the Commons House of Assembly November 12, 1754-September 23, 1755. [Columbia SC: University of SC Press. SC Dept of Archives & History] pp. 78-79, Commons Journal, Jan 6, 1755 - Feb 7, 1755:
No. 34. An Account of William McCord amounting to the sum of twenty eight pounds and ten shillings for apprehending and sending down to the Work House BRYAN WARD, a suspected idle person, by Virtue of a Warrant from Peter Mercier Esqr. Your Committee are in doubt whether this Account should be allowed and therefore beg leave to refer it to the consideration of the House.
English Crown Grants, St. Paul’s Parrish, Ga.
WARD, Bryan 100 acres, St. Paul Parrish
Surveyed April 16, 1758 Plat Book c, page 431
Granted Decenber 7, 1762 Grant Book D, page 249
Bounded on the north by Savannah River, south by Charles Weatherfoot(Weatherford,)west by __ Weatherfoot (plat shows this to be Martin Weatherford.)
South Carolina Deed Abstracts 1719-1772 by Clara A Langley
Book O-3, p. 73-75, 13 April 1769 - Release. James McClenachan, yeoman, Charleston to Edward Barnard & Thomas Waters, Indian traders & co-partners of Granvill Co. 200 acs on Savannah River... Witness: Bryan (his mark) Ward, James Morgan.
Book V-3, p. 202-204, 20 June 1768 - Release. Charles White, laborer to Messrs. Barnard & Waters, 200 acs on Savannah River, bounding Bryan Ward...
Book A-4, pg 186-188, 20 July 1771. Samuel Glover to Thomas Waters, merchant, 100 acs Savannah River, in Granville Co. Witnesses: Bryan (His mark) Ward, Andrew Stephen, Benjamin Ford.
Wilkes Co Georgia Deed Books A-VV, 1784-1806, by Michal M. Farmer.
Book CC, p 23. Dionysius Oliver and Mary Ann Oliver to Bryant Ward, lots in Petersburg Ga in fork of Savanah and Broad Rivers, Lots 65, 67, 69, 72 on 2nd St. & Front St. Lots are 1/2 acres, 44 yards on street, 30 Dec 1786. {signed} Dionysius Oliver, Mary An Oliver.
Test: Jas Shepherd, JP, Registered 30 April 1787.
Book CC, p. 81. 17 & 18 April 1787. Bryan Ward of Franklin Co GA to Thomas Commander Russell. Lease and Release, 600 acs on Broad River, adj. River W. on Allas Mills & ---d but now by Holman Freeman, s by Owens, E by Benjamin Ragland, obtained by Ward for headrights, granted to Ward. {signed} Bryan (B) Ward. Wit: Henry Searring, Isaac Ford, Isaac Ward. Proved by Searring 25 June 1787.
NOTE signed his mark with (B).
Book EE, p 25 Bryan Ward to William Reynolds, Lot #37 in Petersburg GA in fork of Savannah & Broad River, E. side of Front St., 1/2 ac, 5 Feb 1788. {signed*} Bryan Ward. Wit: Jas. Tait JP. Registered 6 May 1789. {No mention of his mark}
NOTE: Does this mean there might have been two Bryan Wards? One who signed his mark with a (B) and one who signed his name?
And BTW, what happen to the lots in Petersburg? Who dispose of them and when?
South Carolina Deed Abstracts 1719-1772 by Clara A Langley
Book O-3, p. 73-75, 13 April 1769 - Release. James McClenachan, yeoman, Charleston to Edward Barnard & Thomas Waters, Indian traders & co-partners of Granvill Co. 200 acs on Savannah River... Witness: Bryan (his mark) Ward, James Morgan.
Book V-3, p. 202-204, 20 June 1768 - Release. Charles White, laborer to Messrs. Barnard & Waters, 200 acs on Savannah River, bounding Bryan Ward...
Book A-4, pg 186-188, 20 July 1771. Samuel Glover to Thomas Waters, merchant, 100 acs Savannah River, in Granville Co. Witnesses: Bryan (His mark) Ward, Andrew Stephen, Benjamin Ford.
Annals of Georgia by Caroline Price Wilson. Volume I Liberty County Records
and A State Revolutionary Pay Roll. p. 140 "Sundry persons, Dr. to the State of Georgia, viz: ...Bryan Ward, for 800 Dollars per S. Heard's account, 18 June 1780, [pound sign or ?Folio?] 2-6-3.
Trogdon's "History of Stephens County, Ga:"
In 1802, there was a deposition made by by Briant B. Ward, sworn to before William W. Walton, Justice of the Peace: It reads as follows:
Georgia, Franklin County
This day appeared before me Briant Ward of the County and State aforesaid and made oath, that sometime in the month of the seventeen hundred and eighty-five, Thomas P. Carnes, put into this deponent's hands a large sorrel horse about six years old and fifteen hands high which horse this deponent believes to have been worth at that time the sum of twenty-five guineas for the purpose of taking care of and putting in good order, that in about four weeks after the aforesaid horse was put in the deponent's possession he was stolen out of his possession as this deponent verily believes by some of the Indians of the Creek Nation and never recovered as this deponent believs.
his
Bryant (B) Ward
mark
Sworn to before me this 4th day of October, 1802 - Wm. W. Walton J. P.
On Reverse
Georgia Franklin County
Samuel Ward appeared this day before me & made oath that he was well acquanted with the horse of the said Thomas P. carnes placed in the possession of his father Briant Ward at the time mentioned in the within affidavit, that he this deponent believes the said horse to have been worth the sum of twenty-five guineas, and that he was stolen by some of the Creek Nation of Indians
Saml. Ward
Sworn to before me this 4th day of October, 1802 - Wm. W. Walton J. P., Thomas P. Carnes
Bryan Ward's Debts. From a papers on the Ward family in Section X, Okla
Historical Society Archives:
North Carolina State Records, Vol 20, p. 701. Hon William Blount to Governor Caswell. (From Executive Letter Book) New York, May 20t 1787.
Sir:
By the enclosed papers your Excellency will be informed that some part of the debt due from Bryan Ward of Georgia, to the State of North Carolina, for the goods by me sold him has been by him paid to Mr. George Ogg, in Deerskins, which have been Shipped to this place & sold by my order on account of the State, by Mr. John Ramsey at three months Credit...
North Carolina State Records, Vol 22, p. 801. From George Ogg to the General
Assemby. Gentleman:
I beg leav to lay before you the papers on which the demand of the State of North Carolina is founded against Mr. Bryan Ward, of the State of Georgia, on account of my transactions with h im on the part of the State. That Mr. Ward is yet a debtor to the State of North Carolina to a considerable amount will appear by the bonds and accounts herewith delievered you, and it is owing to the heavy losses sustained by the depreciation of paper moneyand the sudden and unexpected fall in the price of deer skins that he is so. [p. 802] His ability to pay is, notwithstanding, at this time sufficient, for to my knowledge he is possessed of a valuable landed property. When he contracted this debt his credit was equal in goodness to any other man in the State in same line, and under all his misfortunes he still support the character of an honest man. You will however pemit me to inform you that he is an aged man...George Ogg. Fayetteville, 24th November 1790.
Knoxville Gazette 20 October 1792
It was published in Rogersville TN and was the first newspaper in the state. It holds news from all over the state.
http://www.tngenweb.usit.com/newspaper/kg014.htm
We learn (via Estanaula) that early in the present month, three Cherokees, two fellows and a squaw, who had gone into the settlement of Tugelo, Georgia, for friendly purposes, were fired upon by a party of the neighboring white people, at or near the house of Bryan Ward, and the two former killed, and the latter wounded, who escaped to her nation and friends.
Georgia - Franklin County
Creek Indian Letters, Talks, and Treaties 1705-1859
Part I - 1705 - 1793 Inclusive
Reprinted From Microfilm By Cobb County Archeological Survey
We the subscribers do Oblige Ourselelves to finish the Block house begun and build a nother in the Oposit corner where the ground is pointed out 24 feet by 16 two Story high wall Chunked(?) Jetted Over two feet the Doors to be four Inches thick to be well floored in both Storys, the Stockade Work to be sufficient in length to Inclose the whole to be two feet in the ground and ten above.
Ingalo Jan’y 25th 1795 Bryan WARD
Sam’l WARD
John Ables
Deborough Baley
N2 127
N. B 5 pound is to be with held for the use of Dennegan’s(?) Block houses, and the same sums for the same purpose from Waffort.
Another "clue":
Gone To Georgia
. . .What was Bryan WARD's connection if any to Bryan WARD Nowling from Pittsylvania Co., Va? WARD consented 1795 to the marriage of Lucy Nowlin and Stephen Bennett (see Bennettt in Jackson Co. and WARD in Greenville Co., SC.)
Greenville Co., SC Estate Records:
Pgs 92-95 Apt 7 - File 472 1796
Townsend, Thomas (Loose Papers) An inventory of the Estate of Thomas Townsend 19 Aug 1796. . . One note on Peyton Nowlin . . .An Account of the Sale: (among buyers)Bryan WARD, Bryan Nowlin, Stephen Bennet
June 21, 1792, Bryant Ward sold 100 acres of land on Tugalo River to George Rushin for the sum of 50 pounds, Sterling money, Page 76 deed book 11, Feb. 15, 1792 to Nov 4, 1793
December 16, 1793 Bryant Ward sold to Robert Duncan 200 acres of land on the North Fork of Broad River.
Feb 1, 1792, Bryant Ward sold to Samuel Fulton 900 acres on the North Fork of Oconee River for the sum of 50 pounds sterling, page 109, Book H Feb. 15, 1792 to November 4, 1793
This Indenture made this 4th June 1796 between Bryant Ward, Samuel Ward and Ann Ward the wife of Bryan Ward all of the county of Franklin and state of Georgia of the one part and Joseph Box of the state and county aforesaid of the other part. WITNESSETH that the said Bryan (sic) Ward, Samuel Ward and Ann Ward for and in the consideration of the sum of three hundred pounds sterling to them in hand paid by the said Joseph Box.....sell.....to Joseph Box.....two hundred 87 and one half acres situated lying and being in the said county of Franklin in and on both sides of the forks of the north branch of Broad River near Currahee mountain...
Will of Bryant Ward, State of Georgia, Franklin County:
In the Name of God, Amen:
I, Bryant Ward being of sound & perfect memory and calling to mind that man was born to die and knowing that the time when is unknown to all, do make ordain and constitute this to be my last will and testament in writing. First of all I will that my soul should return to the Almighty God who gave it me hoping for Christ Sake he will receive the same and secondly I will and beequeath my body in decent burial to its mother earth from whence it was taken and as touching such worldly goods, as it has pleased god to bless me with, I dispose of the same in the manner and form following (viz):
First, I will and bequeath my negro woman Jean to my beloved wife Ann Ward during her natural life and at her decease should said negro Jean survive my will is then and in that case that sh the said negro Jean shall belong to my niece, Susannah Ward now Susannah England and the heirs of her body and not there from to be taken.
2nd, I will and bequeath my negro boy Providence at my decease to Bryant Ward, my nephew but should I decease before my nephew aforesaid arrives to the age of 18 years then and in that case my will is that the negro before named remain in hands of my executors hereafter to be named until my said nephew Bryant Ward arrives to the age of 18 aforesaid at which time he my executors is to put my nephew in possession of said negro.
3rd, I will and bequeath my son Samuel Ward five dollars to be paid by my executors out of any moneyes goods or chattels that I may be in possession of at my decease.
4th. I will and bequeath my son John Ward five dollars to be paid by my executors out of any moneys goods or chattels that I may be in possession of at my decease.
5th. and lastly, I will Joseph Martin of this county on Tugalo river to be my whole and sole executor of this my last will and testament and hope and trust that he will faithfully execute the same, and I do hereby revoke all other wills legacies or bequests by me made and ratify and confirm this to be my only and last will and testament. In witness
therefor I have hereunto set my hand and affixed my seal this 18th day of August in the Year of our Lord 1815.
Signed Bryant
(B his Mark) Ward
(Seal)
Signed, Sealed and Confirmed
In Presence and etc.
N. Dobson
John Bryon
and George Ward
This will was taken from the minutes of the court of Ordinary dated March 7,
1814 through July 7, 1823 on pages 50-50a of the records of Franklin County,
Georgia.
John and Ann Ward did sue Joseph Martin to break the will, but the case was dismissed in 1819. That year Samuel Sr. also died. I don't know why Bryant refers to George Ward (murdered in Oklahoma in 1862) as his nephew, unless the John Ward who married Catherine McDaniel was actually his brother. This seems unlikely since Bryant was probably born around 1725-1730 and John and Samuel Ward were born in the 1750-1760 range.
Bryant was married to Ann by 1774, perhaps before, and was in the part of Wilkes County that became Lincoln Co. by 1758. He moved to Franklin County after the Revolution after receiving some bounty land there. I don't buy the theory that he came direct from the British Isles in the service of the English army. The best clue I've got to his origins is that there was a Bryan and a Samuel Ward in Old Rapphanock Co., Va by 1675. This Samuel married a widow of Richard Barber and had sons Bryan and Samuel Jr. Samuel Sr. died in 1691. His son Bryan died in 1719. Samuel Jr. was still in then Essex Co. in 1735. A Bryan Ward, too old to be our Bryan or Bryant, received a grant in Bladen Co (later Richmond), NC in 1740 and still had the land in 1766.
The identity of Ann Ward:
Bryan had a lot of dealings when he lived on the Savannah with Edward Barnard and Thomas Waters, the leaders of the Loyalist Militia. The land that Bryan and Ann sold in 1774 had been conveyed to them in 1772 (I think) by Thomas Waters. I need to remind myself to look at the originals of those conveyances. Why did Ann have to join him in selling them? After the war, Bryan was one of the men who gave evidence against Waters when they where confiscating his property. Also, Bryan's original land on the Savannah was surrounded by Weatherford land. Could Ann have been from one of these families?
From: SJOASHTON@aol.com
Date sent: Fri, 18 Apr 1997 08:47:42 -0400 (EDT)
To: iscre@emory.edu
Subject: Re: WARD
Hi Bob:
Thanks for replying to my WARD/Yowell queries. The use of the terms niece and nephew in Bryant WARD's will, Samuel's deed of gift and other documents are so confusing. Both are obsolete terms for grandchildren in old documents. But how old? Another consideration might be the age of the person using the term, according to Lloyd Bockstruck in one of his lectures. But would Samuel have used the same term when he deeded the slaves to Joel and Lucy Yowell?
The personal relationship between Bryant and Samuel is almost as confusing. It seems more like two brothers rather than a father and son, i.e., the 1813 and 1814 Articles of Agreement between the two. Also, why was Samuel included in the 1796 deed selling Bryant's 2871/2 acres of land to Joseph Box? Is this because Bryant owed a large sum of money to the State of NC and he was hiding his assets? In his will, why didn't Bryant name other children? Wasn't Elizabeth (WARD) Martin still living? Why was the case dismissed? Because everyone concerned died? Caty (McDaniel) WARD, wife of (we assume) John, was a widow in 1818.
Dr. William Henry TYLER, born in GA June 15, 1824, died in Dadeville, ALA, Dec 19, 1890. Both his parents were born in GA. He married Elvey MILNER, June 8, 1845 in Waverley, Chambers Co., ALA. Her parents wer James MILNER (July 5, 1810 - May 8, 1879) and Sarah MILNER (Sept 19, 1807 - July 28, 1885).Elvey MILNER born Sept. 22, 1830 in GA and died Jan 7, 1870. Their Children were:
Martha Dec 21, 1846 - Mar., 1942
Sarah E. Oct 10, 1848 - March 31 1936
Elvira Jane Nov. 10 1850 - Nov 20, 1919
Rebecca Feb. 20 1854
Mary Aug 15, 1856 - Mar 1, 1860
Eliza Jun. 2, 1858 - June 2, 1937
Nany Jun 16, 1860 - July 3, 1861
Ophelia March 9, 1862 - Sept 19, 1875
Willie Feb. 19, 1865 - Sept, 1921
Jame H. Jan 14, 1867 - June 4, 1935
William H. (Hun) Jan. 27, 1869 - July ?
Job T. April 10, 1873 - May 7, 1953
William TYLER married 2nd, Mary Frances PUGH and they had children;
John Allen (1880 - 1963)
George Franklin (1881 - 1951)
Augusta Vera (1885)
Illa (1888)
Simeon L. (Sim) 1891- 1976), born after his father's death
Addison Bible Record (from Mrs. Era Stinson)
Christopher Addison was born February the 21st 1799.
Susannah Addison was Born August the 29th 1802.
Mary ann Addison was born October the 15th 1821.
B. G. Addison was born April the 26th 1824.
Jincy L. Addison was born June the 12th 1826.
Syntha Addison was born March 13th 1829.
Clark T. Addison was born October 8th 1831.
Marion Addison was born July the 13th 1834.
Elisabethe Addison was born July the 9th 1842?
Tompson B. Addison was born March the 20th 1843.
C. Addison Deceased Nov 25 1861.
B. G. Addison Deceased May 22 1851.
Susanah Adison Deceased May 27 1876.
(Note: Susannah Guest, 14th child of Moses Guest and Mary Blair, was born August 28, 1802 in Franklin
County, Georgia).
JAMES LINDLEY II
James Lindley II, born April 16, 1681 in Ballinclash, Ireland, was the son of James Lindley and Alice Walsmith. His parternal grand-father was believed to be a John Lindley who was born in England circa 1611. This John Lindley is the first Lindley in our line that there is any mention of.
In 1705, James married Eleanor Parke, a daughter of Robert and Margery Parke, in Kilconner, County Carlow, Ireland. Eleanor, born February 1, 1684 in Ballyredman, County Carlow, Ireland, was the granddaughter of Thomas Parke and Rebecca Ward. By the time they migrated to America in 1713, they had five of their twelve children.
New Garden Township in Chester County, Pennsylvania, where James and Eleanor settled, was land that had been granted to William Penn, Jr. as a settlement of a debt owed his father by the King of England. Penn had been given a tract of 14,500 acres, of which Irish Quakers bought 5413 acres at the rate of 20 pence per hundred. Penn himself, never lived in America, but sold the land through agents.
James was described in legal documents as both a blacksmith and a yeoman(farmer). He was one of the largest landowners in the Toughkenemon Valley with a recorded estate of at least 600 acres. A quote from a letter to Mary Parke Valentine in England from her brother Robert Parke in October 1725, reads, "Unkle James Lindley and family is welland thrives exceedingly, he has 11 children and reaped last harvest about 800 bushels of wheat, he is a thriving man anywhere he lives, he has a thousand acres of land, a fine estate."
In 1722, James bought 400 acres in London Grove, an area West of New Garden, whichin the following year was organized into a township which today is still called London Grove. James became the first elected township official, constable. Of the 43 taxable persons in this township in 1722, James Lindley's tax of 19 schillings was the largest. James was to die at the young age of 45 on October 13, 1726. It is interesting to note that 11 year old son, William, died just 13 days later. Possibly some disease or sickness struck the family. Eleanor was to give birth to their twelfth child just three months after James death. Eleanor re- married to Henry Jones in 1730.
The inventory of James' estater is as follows: "Purs and apparel 22 pounds 12 schillings; 7 Beds and Furniture thereto belonging; 1 Chest of Drawers, 2 Chests, 2 Boxes and 1 Looking glass; 4 Table Cloaths, 13 Sheets and 1Warming pan; 2 Pieces of Stuff and 1 Sett of New Curtains;fflax, 1 hackle, Chains, Salt box, Iron pots and Candle sticks; 2 mens Saddles, 2 weomens Sadles, 1 Pillion and 2 Bridles; Wool Cards, Sole Leather, Pewter, Brass Tin and wooden ware; to Baggs. Mault, Indian Corn, Salt, Wheels, and a half Bushell; Irons in Kitchen, Coopers ware and Earthen ware and c; Dressed Skin, Books Iron, Steel 2 whip saws and 1 Cross; Carpenters Tools, Pincers, Hows, Plows, Harrows and Ox chains; Grinding Stones, Coles, Bells, Shovells, and forks and c; A Cart with the Gaers and Chains, hooks, and hors Shoes; Oak Boards, Scantling, 3 Guns and Bullet Moulds; Grubing Axes; Well Chain, Wolf Trap, falling axes and c; Sickles, Scythes and Doe troughs; corn in the Barn, and Corn in the Mill; Corn in the Ground, and Hay in the Meadow, 16 horses, Mares and Colts; Cows, Oxen and Young Cattle; 10 Sheep and Swine; Smiths Tools in the Shop; one Servant Man; 5 Bonds and one Bill; Book Debts; Plantation and Improvements. (Total value 1,115 pounds, 9 schillings, 8d.)" Looking glasses were very scarce in those days. The bells were probably used on the stock running at large to locate them. James' was one of the largest estates in this locality.
Les Lindley
Note: It has been reported that the guy who inventoried Jame's estate descendants are now working for the IRS!
THOMAS LINDLEY
Thomas Lindley, the son of James Lindley II and Eleanor Parke, was born in Ballybrommel, Carlow County, Ireland on February 25, 1706. Thomas immigrated to America in 1713 with his parents and two brothers and sisters. His paternal grandparents were James Lindley and Alice Walsmith. His maternal grandparents were Robert and Margery Parke.
Thomas, who was the oldest of twelve children, grew up in New Garden and London Grove Townships in Chester County, Pennsylvania. In 1731, he married Ruth Hadley, who had been born in 1711 in Westmeath County, Ireland, and had come to America with her parents, Simon Hadley and Ruth Miller, in 1712. Her paternal grandparents were Simon Hadley, Sr. and Katherine Talbot. Her maternal grandparents are unknown. The home that Ruth grew up in, still stands today in New Castle County, Delaware near Hockessin, just south of the Pennsylvania border.
For more than twenty years, Thomas and Ruth lived on a farm in London Grove Township making their living entirely by farming. In the early Spring of 1753, they sold their farm in London Grove and moved to the Piedmont of central North Carolina. This was an area of rolling hills of mild undulations up to some as much as 200 feet of relief above the adjacent lowlands or valleys. There were large stands of oak, hickory, and pine forests. It is probable that the move was made because they wanted land and other economic opportunities for their children. Troubles with the Indians had made the Western frontier of Pennsylvania increasingly dangerous.
Life was difficult in these early days on the frontier. Families had to be self-sufficient. Animal skins and hides had to be tanned into leather. Wool and flax had to be spun and woven into cloth. Any available iron had to be fashioned into crude tools and plows with hammer and anvil at a small forge. Cooking was done at the open fireplace, either in pots hanging on the crane directly over the fire or in skillets on the hearth, where bread and potatos were baked by the heat of live coals piled underneath and on the heavy iron lid of the skillet.
Thomas received two land grants from the Earl of Granvile for a total of almost 1000 acres. The second for 600 acres reads, "On the South Fork of Cane Creek and West side of Haw River, beginning at a white oak by the creek, then running South 100 chains to a black oak, then West 60 chains to a white oak, then North cross the fork 100 chains to a black jack, then East across the fork to the first station." In 1756, Thomas entered into a partnership with Hugh Laughlin, who lived on the land adjoining Thomas', to build and operate a grist mill. The mill pond and race were on Laughlin's land and the mill was placed just across the line on Lindley land. This mill, known for many years as Sutphin Mill, is still in existence today, has been renamed Lindley's Mill for many years, and, is operated by a family named Lindley, who are descendants of Thomas. The area around the mill was the site on September 13, 1781 of one of the hardest fought battles of the American Revolution in North Carolina. The following excerpts are from the "Journal of the Expedition Against the Insurgents of the Western Frontier of North Carolina, Begun the 20th of April, 1771." (NC State Records, Vol. 18).
"Tuesday 21 May.. Note--made requisition from the Quaker settlement at Cane creek of six waggon loads of Flour for his majesty's service."
"Wednesday 22 May: The Quakers on Cane creek reporting that the Flour required was stopped by the Regulators, the Governor ordered the detachment of Cumberland and Wake the Light Horse to march immediately to escort the Flour to Camp."
"Thursday 23 May... The detachments of the preceding day arrived in Camp from Lindley's and Dixon's Mills with nine loads of flour, making seventy barrels..."
A considerable body of the Regulators were beaten in the battle at Alamance, not many miles from Lindley's mill and most of the rest sought a truce. Governor Tyron neglected to compensate the Quakers for the flour he had commandered. Apparently he also retained without payment six wagons and teams used to haul the flour, for 11-7-1772 at the Monthly Meeting at Cane Creek, the Quakers addressed a petition to the Governor(Tyron's successor, Josiah Martin) the Council and the Speaker and members of the general Assembly. Thomas and William Lindley were among the signers.
In February, 1773, the General Assembly got around to considering Thomas Lindley's claim for 30 pounds. The records also lsted a claim from him and others for 58 pounds for 36 barrels of flour. The latter was disallowed. It is not clear whether the smaller claim was a revision of the first, or a seperate claim. The surviving record says only that the claim was "under consideration," not indicating whether it was or was not paid.
Thomas and Ruth were the parents of 12 children. Their youngest, Jonathon, was a member of the State legislature and the National Convention. He also was the leader of the first anti-slavery group of Quakers that left Cane Creek in 1811 and went to Indiana. Thomas and Ruth also gave the land on which the Spring Monthly Meeting was founded. The first meetinghouse may have been started in the 1770's. This Quaker meetinghouse is still in existence today in a building that was rebuilt in 1910. Thomas, who died on September 14, 1781, the day after The Battle of Lindley's Mill, is buried in the Spring Friends Cemetery immediately across the road from the meetinghouse. Ruth, who died December 4, 1785, is also buried there. In 1928, a large granite memorial was placed in the cemetery to honor Thomas and Ruth. A Lindley reunion was held to commemorate the event, and over 1000 Lindleys from all parts of the country were present. Many of the people today with the name Lindley, who can trace their lineage to the South, are related to Thomas and Ruth.
The children of Thomas and Ruth Hadley Lindley:
1. Katharine b. 22 Sep 1732 d. 1 May 1811 m. William White
2. James b. Sep 22 1735 d. Apr 1779 m. Mary Cox (James was hung in SC)
3. Simon b. 22 Sep 1735
4. Simon b. 5 jan 1737 d. 1760
5. Thomas b. 7 Aug 1740 d. 28 Feb 1833 m. 1st Sarah Evans m. 2nd Margery Buckingham
6. William b. 27 Dec 1742 d. 29 Sep 1784 m. Mary Morton
7. Ruth b. 25 mar 1745 d. 15 Jul 1798 m. Joshua Hadley
8. John b. 13 Oct 1747 d. 5 Jul 1798 m. Sarah Pyle
9. Mary b. 1749
10. Eleanor b. 15 Sep 1750 d. 12 Jan 1783 m. George maris
11. Deborah b. 28 Jun 1753 d. bet 1823-1830 m. James newlin
12. Jonathon b. 15 Jun 1756 d. 1828 m. 1st Deborah Dicks m. 2nd Martha Henley
Written in 1988, revised 1999 by Les Lindley
"THE BATTLE OF LINDLEY'S MILL"
The Quakers, because they steadfastly refused to bear arms against their fellow man, were for the most part, neutral during the War of the American Revolution. In the immediate area around Thomas Lindley's land and grist mill in North Carolina, there were both Tory and Whig sympathizers. The Tories were those loyal to the British Crown, while the Whigs were the rebels, or those who sought their independence from England. The Whig forces are said to have commandeered Thomas Lindley to provide flour for the troops from his grist mill. It is most likely for this reason that in the DAR lineage books, Thomas and his son Jonathon, are listed as Patriots.
On September 13, 1781, the hardest fought battle of the American Revolution in North Carolina outside of the Guilford Courthouse Battle, six months earlier, was fought at and around Thomas Lindley's grist mill and on the land that he owned. It was the last military engagement of the Revolutionary War in North Carolina, and was basically a civil war among two small armies of Tory and Whig loyalists from that area of North Carolina.
Colonel David Fanning, an unpredictable and strikingly successful Tory leader, who had the reputation for cruel retalitory vengenance on Whigs and their families, crept during the night to the outskirts of Hillsborough, the temporary State Capitol. On the morning of September 12, 1781, Fanning and his men, under a cover of heavy fog, swept into Hillsborough and captured Whig Govenor Burke and 200 or so other political prisoners. Fanning's destination was Wilmington, North Carolina, where he was to deliver his prisoners to the British. After five hours of looting the village of Hillsborough, the Tories set out with their prisoners on the road to Wilmington.
Someone had escaped from Hillsborough and made their way to the Cane Creek area to warn General Butler of the Whigs of the coming Tory force. The Tories camped the night of the 12th some six or seven miles from Lindley's Mill. On the morning of the 13th, they set out again. The Whigs, some 300 strong, had massed on a plateau 15 to 20 feet above the road from Hillsborough where it crossed the Stafford Branch of cane creek, jus a few hundred feet east of Lindley's Mill. At about noon on the 13th, the advance line of 600 Tories was fired upon from the plateau by the hidden Whigs. In the ensuing four hour battle, a 100 or so men were killed and 150 wounded. The Whigs retreated, fearful that Fanning's forces would kill their prisoners. Fanning was wounded in the battle, but his force was successful in delivering the prisoners to the British. However, The American Revolution ended less than a month later with the surrender of Cornwallis at Yorktown.
Tradition tells us that the wounded of both sides were cared for by the Quakers of the area, many of whom were Lindleys by blood or marriage. It is said that 34 men were buried in a mass grave along Cane Creek. Some of the wounded were laid on the floor of the Spring Meetinghouse which at that time was under construction. Lumber from the ceiling was stacked on the floor and became blood stained from the wounds of the injured. According to family tradition, the lumber was put into place without removing the bloodstains, and they remained visible on the ceiling and a reminder of the battle for many years.
Thomas Lindley, then in his 76th year, died the day after the battle.
While tradition does not tell us why, it is quite possible that the shock of the bloody conflict was too much for a man of his age.
Written in 1986 and revised in 1999 by Les Lindley
The Lincoln County Branch Of The Lauderdale Family
William, James and Agnes Lauderdale, brothers and sister, lived in East Tenn. James and Agnes remained there. William Lauderdale came to Lincoln County prior to 1806. He came from East Tenn. And settled near Fayetteville, Lincoln County, Tennessee.
William Lauderdale married Miss Bettie Willis of the same community. The children born of their marriage were:
William, Samuel, Lewis, Eliza
William Lauderdale, son of Wm. And Bettie willis Lauderdale, moved to Missouri in his early manhood and no further knowledge is known of him.
Samuel Lauderdale, son of Wm. And Bettie Willis Lauderdale, (May 5,) 1804 to (Oct. 14,) 1870, remainedc in Lincoln County and there married Miss Elizabeth Lay (Leigh) (Feb 3, 1804 - July 31,1877), daughter of Wm. And Edith Gilham Lay. Three girls and one son were born of their marriage.
Sarah Jane, Mary, Margaret, William T.
Lewis Lauderdale, son of Wm. And Bettie Willis Lauderdale, married Miss Polly Lay, daughter of Wm. And Edith Gillham Lay, (note: Polly and Elizabeth Lay were sisters and came from Oglethorpe, Ga.) The children of this marriage were:
John William, Samuel, Frances (Fannie) Edith
Eliza Lauderdale, daughter of Wm. And Bettie willis Lauderdale, married Barnett McWhorter.
Sarah Jane Lauderdale, 1831-1887, oldest daughter of Samuel and Elizabeth lay Lauderdale, married Andrew Wright, 1838 - 1898. The children of this marriage were:
Sue 1861 - 1888
Sarah Thomas
Maggie
Jennie
. . .
Jennie Wright, daughter of Andrew and Sarah Jane Lauderdale Wright, married John A(braham) Barnes. They had six children:
Wallace (This is my son’s great-grandfather, a Methodist minister)
Minnie
Albert
Stella
Edith
Joe
Southern Christian Advocate Tues, May 30, 1876
Mrs. Elmira Erwin was born in Burke County, N. C., April 23, 1812; was married to Robert H. Erwin March 30, 1828, and died May 3, 1876 in Union County, Ga.
She joined the Presbyterian Church in early life and was a consistent Christian until the day of her death. Having no regular minister of her own communion, her interest was all manifested in the Methodist Church and we have lost one of our best friends. Her home was always open for the entertainment of the Methodist preachers, and her hands were ever ready to minister to their wants. She was an affectionate wife, true to all her husband's interests. She was kind to the poor, who will miss her greatly. She was always ready to minister to the suffering in any way that she could. If Sister Erwin had left no words behind, her life testified fully to her saving faith. A few days before she died, she told her children and friends to give her nothing more, and let her die in peace and go to rest; and in the midst of many friends and relatives, she died in the full triumphs of a lasting faith
Thos J. Edwards - The Gainesville Eagle will please copy
Arrived, at the invitation of the General Assembly of Georgia, December 1768 from Ireland in a group of Irish Protestants. They were provided with homes in the fork of Lambert Creek and the Great Ogeechee River. There they built a town called Queensbury. They were supposed to receive reimbursement for their expenditures. By the time the revolution started, due to British harassment, many Blairs had already left the state. The family of Johnson Blair went to NC. Johnson and his brother William Blair fought at the battles of King's Mountain and the Cowpens under Morgan.
Certificate of service; Blair, Johnson (private), signed by General John Twiggs. Certified list of Georgia troops page 376.
Notes from Norm Ricker
In 1782 he was a resident of Cumberland County VA. He married about 1766. In 1782 his family consisted of himself, his wife and three children; 5 blacks. The Name And Family of Boat(w)right, by Robert Guy Boatright, Cushing, OK, 1961, pg 23.
1782 Tax Roll, Cumberland County VA: Five whites, five blacks.
6.11.4 pounds paid British Merchantile Claim on Richmond Store, Henrico County VA. William unable to pay; removed to Bedford County VA. Public Notice.
1785, William is "ALLD. 2 days attendance" Bedford County VA Court Order Bk 8 (1784-1786), pg 159, 288. (Alowed payment for attending Court)
1787 Bedford County Tax List: One white male over 21, one male age 16-21 (This is an error).
William was Surety for marriage of Frances Tyler to William Wills on 13 Jan 1791, married by James Mitchell. Bedford County VA Marriage Bond 12 Jan 1791. American Quaker Genealogy by Henshaw.
1795 Jury Duty, Bedford VA County Court, Feb Session.
Court actions document he was in Bedford Co, VA, by 1785. Assuming Anna, his underage daughter, was about 15 when she m Joshua Wade (Ct accepted Wm's approval), William m Mary before 1770. In 1800 Joshua Wade died, and Ct Rcds show Anna went to Franklin Co, GA, with her father. 15 Nov 1802, he deeded his property in Bedford County to Robert Austin. His son, William Boatright, Jr., m Elizabeth Tyner, little doubt in GA, as her family was already there. William, Jr and Elizabeth's daughter Nancy Boatright was born in 1803 (Census) in GA. Wm Jr and Elizabeth had early connections in SC, just across the border from Franklin Co, GA, and their son Abner lived there. After Wm Jr's death, Elizabeth lived with Abner in SC.
William's daughter Anna Wade, made application for her Widow's Revolutionary War Pension, and on 19 Jul 1842, while residents of Elbert County GA, her children made affidavits supporting her application. "--- Joshua Wade died 18 Feb 1800 after sliding upon the ice, and a few years after his death, Anna moved with her father William Boatright and family to the State of GA and settled in Elbert County.
24 Feb 1800 "On motion of William Boatright, Admin is granted him on the Estate of Joshua Wade, Decd, who made oath & gave Bond with Security accd to law." Bedford County VA Court Order Bk 12, pg 49. He was recorded as William Boatright Sr. in Will Bk 2, pgs 196-298 for Joshua's Will dated 1 Oct 1800 (?) recorded 26 Jan 1801.
BIRTH: He is named in his father's Will dtd 16 Aug 1776. His father, Thomas, Sr., was in VA on a 322 Acre Patent dtd 22 Jun 1733; therefore his son Thomas, Jr., was born there abt 1735. William was born abt 1744. Thomas' whereabouts between 1736, when he sold his 322 Acre Patent, and 1751, when he is documented in Cravens Co, SC, is unknown. No other Court records are found for William in Cravens Co, SC. William was in Bedford Co, VA in 1786 when his daughter Anna m Joshua Wade. In 1800, when his son in law died in an accident, he and his widowed daughter are documented to have moved to GA soon thereafter. Anna's Pension Application documents the move to Elbert, Franklin, and finally to Hart Co, GA. Documentation of William's residency in Elbert and Franklin Co, GA, from 1800 to 1806 is plentyful. His son William, Jr., m Elizabeth TYNER in Franklin Co, GA in 1802. No record of William, Sr., death has been found.
DEATH: 1828, James Boatright, son of William and Mary Boatright, orphaned; his tuition paid the Trustee of the Poor School Fund, Wilkes County GA. At that time, Mary had been Widowed, and remarried to Isaac Hopkins.
DEATH: 1830, tuition for James Boatright, age 16, the orphan of Lan (AKA William) Boatright, paid to the Trustee Poor School Fund, Wilkes County, GA.
Deed, 12 Sep 1770 recorded 21 Oct 1771, Thomas Botewright Sr to William Botewrite, 200 acres on Thomsons Creek Craven County SC; the balance of 300 acre Grant of Thomas Sr not deeded to Thomas Botewright Jr. #352. Vol 3W, SC Deeds, SC Archives microfilm 12 Sep 1776.
28 Jul 1784: This day His Honor the Governor signed the following grants in council - viz, WILKES COUNTY; Richard Tyner - 300 acres; William Moss - 600 acres.
Deed, 1800, Elbert County GA Deed Bk B, pgs 183/184.
Deed, 1801, Thomas Holt & William Adams to William Boatright 12 acres on the West side of Lick Run, a N branch of Otter River. Bedford County VA Deed Bk 11, pg 386.
Deed 25 Oct 1802, William Boatright &ux (wife) Mary Boatright to Robert Austin 37 acres on Lick Run Creek. Mary Boatright relinquishing Dower. Bedford County VA Deed Bk 11, pg 656.
Deed, 17 Feb 1803, Thomas Patterson & Frances his wife to William Boatright, 300 acres sold to Patterson by Ezekiah Bailey on 19 Jul 1794, adjacent to Picket Shiflet. Elbert County GA Deed Bk H, pgs 128a & 229.
Quit Claim Deed, 1803, Ezekiah Bailey to William Boatright, 300 acres. Elbert County GA Deed Bk H, pg 129.
1806 Land Lottery, William had two draws in CPT George Roebuck's District.
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28 Jul 1784: This day His Honor the Governor signed the following grants in council - viz, WILKES COUNTY; Richard Tyner - 300 acres; William Moss - 600 acres. The Revolutionary Records of the State of Georgia, VOL II, Minutes of the Executive Council, From January 14, 1778, to January 6, 1785, and The Journal of The Land Court, From April 6, to May 26, 1784, published by the State of Georgia. (Tampa Library) (Note: William Boatright married Elizabeth Tyner, daughter of Richard Tyner)
Tax Digests, vol. 5, 1814-1817
BOATHWRITE, WILLIAM ELBERT COUNTY GA/Underwood dist> 1814,p.063 BOATRIGHT, Wm LINCOLN COUNTY GA/Stinson # 6 dist>, 1815,p.022* BOATWRITE, DANIEL ELBERT COUNTY GA/ Dooly dist. 1814, p. 057.
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1810 Federal Census of Franklin County GA.
1850 Federal Federal Census Western District, Pickens County, SC; Pg 395B, Dwelling 347, Family 359, Line 7 and 8.: William age 77 born in VA, Elizabeth age 70, born in GA. Their son Abner lived in the next dwelling (348).
!BIRTH: 1812; Quota of the 42d Battalion, MAJ Oliver. When he he served he was age 39, 5' 5 1/2" tall, light hair, light eyes (sic), a Volunteer. Military Records at the National Archives. In his 1850 affidavit he stated his age was 76. (born 1774)
MARRIAGE: The time between his families move from Bedford County, VA to the time of his daughter's birth in 1803, requires that he was married in 1802; probably Elbert County GA. Richard TYNER's Will documents his daughter Elizabeth married William, Jr., and Nancy Liles BOATRIGHT is documented by Census to have been born in CA 1803.
!MARRIAGE: 1850 Federal Census of Pickens County SC.
!DEATH: William's Will dated 27 Oct 1850, recorded 21 Feb 1851, Pickens County SC Will Bk 1, pg 143. Elizabeth was his wife at the time of the Will. Sons: Abner and William. Daughters: Nancy Moss, Ruth, Shirley, Charity Ellard, Ann Clinton, Drusilla Davidson, Mary Crow, Frances Towery, Elizabeth Quinn, Sarah Vandiver. See transcription in Ricker Boatright manuscript, LDS 1597678.
!DEATH: William's Will dated 27 Oct 1850, Proved 21 Feb 1851, Pickens County SC. SC Archives Box 20, #358.
1812; Quota of the 42d Battalion, MAJ Oliver. He is age 39, 5' 5 1/2" tall, light hair, light eyes (sic), a Volunteer. Military Records at the National Archives.
National Archives: PVT William Boatright enlisted in CPT Charles Carter's Company of Infantry., 1st Regiment, GA Militia on 25 Aug 1813 for six months, 16 days, paid $8 per month, total pay $53.24, seperated 9 Mar 1814 at Elberton, Elbert County GA.
Certified that William Boatright, Army of U.S. is rendered incapable of performing the duty of a soldier by reason of an injury inflicted while in the service and in the line of duty, viz by evidence and examination, it appears that between 24 Aug 1813 and 3 Mar 1814, from forced march in the Creek Nation, he received an overstrain in his hips and legs and is thereby not only incapacitated for military duty, but is totally disabled from obtaining his substance from manual labor. Sworn/Subscribed by George D. Phillips, MD and Joseph Underwood, MD.
Kratovil's Index to War of 1812 Service for Volunteer Soldiers from GA, contains a reference to PVT William Boatright, 1st Regiment (Harris') GA Militia.
An attempt was made to secure military records from the GA Archives, Atlanta, with negative results.
At the time he applied for War of 1812 Pension, he applied from Clarksville, Habersham County, GA by Proxy, his residence at the time he served in the Military was in GA, but his home of record was in Pickens County SC. In his 1850 affidavit he stated his age was 76. (born 1774)
Deed, 1817, Charles Crump to William Boatright, Franklin County GA Deed Bk B, pg 183. Index to Deeds, Franklin County GA 1784-1860.
Deed, 1817, Charles Crump to William Boatright, both of Elbert County GA, lots 10 & 11 in Franklin County GA containing 100 acres each. Witnesses Lemuel Crump and William Dooly, JP. Franklin County GA Deed Bk HH, pg 183. Recorded 29 Jan 1824.
Deed, 29 Mar 1817, recorded 29 Jan 1824, Charles Crump to William Boatright, both of Elbert County GA, lots 10 & 11 in the 5,000 acres reserved on Shoal Creek in Franklin County, containing 100 acres each, Elbert County GA Deed Bk ?, pg 437. (Same property as above; Deed recorded in both Counties, property in one county and parties of the other county)
1819 Tax Roll, Franklin County GA; 200 acres Academy Shoal Creek.
1821 Tax Roll, Franklin County GA; 200 acres;
and for Ann Wade 100 acres.
and for James Wade, Poll Tax
and for John B. Wade 270 acres
and for Tavner Rucker 100 acres
9 Dec 1823, William Boatright to James Isbell of Pendleton District SC 200 acres in Franklin County known as Lots 10 & 11 in the 5000 acre tract of Academy Land. Deeds of Franklin County GA 1784-1826.
#86 Pickens District SC authorization of Surveyor to lay out and measure unto William Boatwright a tract of land not exceeding 10,000 acres, --- dated 6 Nov 1845, Warrant #552 executed on 3 Dec 1845. A Genealogical Collection of SC Wills and Records, Vol 1.
Roster Of Confederate Soldiers in Georgia
Thomas, James B. - Private Aug. 24, 1861. Wounded in finger, necessitating amputation, at Chancellorsville, Va. May 3, 1863. Wounded in head at Gettysburg, Pa. July 3, 1863. Admitted to Receiving and Wayside Hospital #9, at Richmond, Va. nov 1, 1863. Returned to duty in 1863. No record of discharge or transfer found. Enlisted as a private in Co. K, Regt. Ga. Inf. July 26, 1864, Wounded in Neck, shoulders and arms at Jonesboro, Ga. Aug 31, 1864, and captured near there Sept. 1, 1864. Exchanged at Rough and Ready, Ga. Sept 19-22, 1864. Captured and paroled at Andersonville, S. C. May 3, 1865. (Born in Habersham County, Ga. Sept 9, 1830. Died near Toccoa, Ga. Mar 22, 1897.)
Abstracts of Wills & Settlements, Logan County, Ky. 1838-1856
Marshall, Lewis, Book G, pages 321-322
To Nancy Henry, daughter, Negro woman Mary Ann until year 1845 at which time she is to be free and all her children born after date of will to be free; to Susan Richardson, daughter, Negro woman Sarah Ann, to be free when 25 years old along with her children, kithchen furniture; to Cassandra Arnold, daughter, Negro woman to be free at age 25 along with her children; to Sally Foulks, daughter, same as Cassandra's bequest. Rest of estate to be divided equally between 4 above daughters and grandson, William Henry.
Written 2 Sept 1837. Exec.: George Richardson, son-in-law, and Marmaduke B. Morton. Wit.: Samuel Arnold, Phillip Kennerly. Signiture is indicated by mark. Date of Probate: 26 Sept 1842.
Logan Co., Ky., Cemeteries
Jarrett Cemetery - (on U.S. 431, at Epleys, Ky.)
Marshall, Lewis, 5 Sep 1766 - 20 Aug 1842
Marshall, Martha, 19 Nov 1767 - 13 Sep 1833
Foulks, Joseph, Rev., b. New Jersey, 30 Aug 1786 - 3 May 1863
Foulks, Sallie, 1 Oct 1798 - 13 Dec 1879
Marriages of Franklin County, Virginia 1786-1858 - Wingfield
Marshall, Lewis and Martha Jamison, Jan 1, 1798. Sur. Wm. Jamison