Ancestors of
Blue and Savonne (Cox) Giddens of Texas
Don Giddens
1002 Branch
Greenville, TX 75401
Contents
Ancestors
of Donald Louis Giddens
Third
Generation (Grandparents)
Fourth
Generation (Great-Grandparents)
Fifth
Generation (Great Great-Grandparents)
Sixth
Generation (3rd Great-Grandparents)
Seventh
Generation (4th Great-Grandparents)
Eighth
Generation (5th Great-Grandparents)
Ninth
Generation (6th Great-Grandparents)
Tenth
Generation (7th Great-Grandparents)
1. Donald Louis Giddens [21985],1 son of Pfc.
Elmer Daulton Giddens "Blue" of Odessa [20560] and Louis Savonne Cox
"Bay" [13415], was born on in
Lamesa, Dawson, Texas and was christened on 10 Mar 1950 in First Baptist,
Denver City, Yoakum, TX. Another name for Donald is Don.
Biography:TX Dawson
County, Lamesa. We lived in a shack on the D. L. Adcock place near O'Donnell.
D. L. Adcock was my father's first cousin.
2. Pfc. Elmer Daulton Giddens "Blue"
of Odessa [20560],2 son of Mayes
Elmer Giddens "M. E." [20559] and Maude Nevada Gilliam Tx
Grayson [20558], was born on 1 Feb 1916 in TX
Coleman County, Goldsboro, died on 25 Aug 1981 in TX Ector County, Odessa at
age 65, and was buried in Sunset Memorial Gardens. Another name for Elmer was
Blue Giddens.
Biography.1 WWII Co B
138th Engineer C Bn
Was awarded two Bronze stars and
a Good Conduct Medal
for service in Germany.
Crossed the ocean in the
"Queen Mary"
Elmer married Louis Savonne
Cox "Bay" [13415]2 [MRIN: 5515] on 7
Nov 1937 in O'brien, Haskell, TX by Rev. Woodrow Adcock, cousin. The marriage
ended in divorce on 11 Jun 1970.
Children from this marriage were:
i. Samuel Daulton Giddens "Sam"
[22210] was born on 12 Nov 1938 in Rochester, Haskell, Texas.
1 ii. Donald Louis Giddens [21985]
iii. Glenda Jane Giddens "Janie"
[13411] was born on 11 Jul 1943 in TX Knox County, Knox City.
iv. Leonard Lee Giddens "Doc"
[13412] was born on 12 Jul 1944 in TX Jones County, Stamford.
v. Michael Lynn Giddens "Mike"
[22211] was born on 3 Oct 1946 in NM Roosevelt County, Portales.
vi. Dorothy Jean Giddens [22911] was
born on 22 May 1950 in Denver City, Yoakum, TX.
Elmer next married May Dean
Goodner [3917] [MRIN: 73] on 3 Feb 1971 in TX
Ector County, Odessa.3
3. Louis Savonne Cox "Bay" [13415],2 daughter of Thomas
Samuel Cox "Sam" [2] and Mary Mobeetie Lindsey
"Beetie" [23], was born on 26 Jul 1919 in TX
Mills County, Goldthwaite and was christened in 1928 in TX Jones County,
Stamford- By Sam Morris, Famous Preacher.
Religion: : Baptist.
FYI.4 Mills County
(H-15) is in central Texas, bordered on the north by Comanche County, on the east
by Hamilton County, on the south by San Saba and Lampasas counties, and on the
west by Brown County. In 1887 the Texas state legislature carved Mills County
from lands formerly assigned to Brown, Comanche, Hamilton, and Lampasas
counties. Goldthwaite (1990 population: 1,658), the county seat, contains the
county's hospital, light manufacturing businesses, and serves as a livestock
center.
Autobiographical note.5
The Great Depression- by Savonne Giddens, 5/23/1992
The Depression was when you only
had clabbered milk for supper, and you got out early in the morning to gather
lamb's quarters
for dinner. Dinner was the noon
meal- lamb's quarter is a weed. You cook it like turnip greens. Most of the
time this was eaten wtih water cornbread. Depression was when the whole family
pulled bowls cotton for 35 cents a hundred pounds of cotton. You coasted down
all hills to save gas. It was having a coal oil lamp, and buying the oil in you
own tin can, putting a potato in the spout for a stopper, cooking on an old wood
stove that was missing one leg and waas propped up with bricks. Making all the
bed sheets, shirts, and underwear for the entire family out of feed sacks.
Little boys pants out of the backs of their dad's old worn-out pants legs.
Making towels out of worn-out cotton sacks, and ironing on those old sad irons.
Boy, that was sure a good name for them.
Men wore bib overhauls to church
and ties. Woman rolled their hair on rags. Lye soap was shampoo.
And everyone has heard about out
houses and Sears-Roebuck catalogs. Syrup buckets for lunch boxes, cold
biscuits, walk three miles to school...Well, it happened. Then, after that came
stupidity. Ask me about that.
Chronological Memories:
I asked Mom in 2002 to tell me
what she remembered about each year of her life:
Here's what she said-
1919
1920 age 1
1921 age 2
1922 age 3- Carline born. Papa
worked for a Mr. Crow.
1923 age 4-
1924 age 5 Lived on the Nail
Ranch near Albany, TX
1925 age 6 pulled cotton boles.
Papa paid a nickle a 100 lbs.
1926 age 7 Momma locked Glen in
the toilet
1927 age 8 Papa and Lindsey
bedridden with rheumatism
People from the church brought groceries.
Lindsey broke into the church and drew a picture of his girlfriend on
the board.
Started to school at Big Springs Community a little town near Waco, TX.
Had a teacher named Green.
1928 age 9 Lived at Post
Community. Papa led the singing at the church. Momma did too, when she was a
kid. Mr. West wore a white shirt and
overalls to church. When he prayed he said,
"Dear Lord, bless them that tis here, and them that ta'int."
Mrs. Coker locked her husband in
the cellar for getting drunk. Fed him through the door. When she lt him out he
left home.
1929 age 10 Lived at Berryhill
Community, east of Leuders, across the
street from the Cokers. Played in a two room house with Morgan and Eulla. The boys would scare
us.
1930 age 11 Lived at Berryhill.
The mail man came to the house and
told Momma to stop reusing postage stamps. They cost a nickle.
1931 age 12
1932 age 13 Birthday on the farm
between Stamford and Albany.
Papa raised cotton. We went to O'Brien, TX to pick cotton.
1933 age 14 Met Blue (Elmer
Daulton Giddens) in Post Community. I was in a play at school with R. B. I was
"Jane" in a three act play. Blue and James Adcock, his cousin, both
said, "That's the woman I'm going to marry! James Adcock gave me a diamond. We sat down to eat and I blushed
all the time.
I dated Pennys Stanford. He had a sister named Odessa.
She played the piano at the show. He married Freddie Lee's cousin.
1934 age 15 Brother (Lindsey Cox)
and Audies Coker went to Detroit, Mich
to buy new cars. The Cokers were- Tommy, Morgan, Thelma, Julia (married Lindsey Cox,), Mary
Alice and Audie.
1935 age 16 Started to get married to Blue. We lived at
Post near Paint Creek by Stamford. We rode the school bus to Paint Creek. One boy played with the neck of a balloon
that was blowing in his nose. Jim
"Hog" Faucett. 6'7"
1936 age 17 They made '36 Fords.
We lived on a farm half way between
Paint Creek and Stamford, TX.
1937 age 18. Got married at
O'Brien November 7.
1938 age 19 Snowstorm in July.
Snow was on the ground for 3 weeks.
Lived at Rochester, TX
Fact: Two Little Children. TWO
LITTLE CHILDREN Sung by: Mrs. Russell Vaughan Recorded in Memphis, TN Click here to listen to the original
recording <vaughantwo1252.mp3>
(Mrs. Vaughan: “This is one of my favorites. It's kind of sad, but my
children always liked it, and I liked it too. The name of it is, 'Two Little
Children'.”) Two little children, a boy
and a girl, Sat by an old church door. The girl's little hands were as brown as
the curls That played on the dress that she wore. The boy's coat was faded, and hatless his
head, And the tears shone in each little eye. “Why don't you run home to your
Mama?” I said, And this was the maiden's reply:
“Mama's in Heaven; they took her away, Left Jim and I alone. We came
here to sleep at the close of the day, For we have no Mama nor home. “Papa got lost out at sea long ago, And we
waited all night on the shore, But he was the lifesaving captain, you know, And
he never came back anymore. “Mama got
sick; angels took her away. She's gone to that home of delight. 'The angels are
coming, my darlings,' she said, 'Perhaps they will be here tonight.' “Mama's in heaven; they took her away, Left
Jim and I alone. We came here to sleep at the close of the day, For we have no
Mama nor home.” The sexton came early to
ring the church bell, And he found them beneath the snow white. Together they
died in the cold there alone, But their souls were with Mama that night. Also found in Brown, Vol. II, #150.
All Songs Recorded by John Quincy
Wolf, Jr., unless otherwise noted The
John Quincy Wolf Folklore Collection Lyon College <http://www.lyon.edu>,
Batesville, Arkansas Back to the Song Index <songs.html> Back to the Wolf
Collection Homepage <../index.html> ©Copyright 2002 Lyon College
Louis married Pfc. Elmer
Daulton Giddens "Blue" of Odessa [20560]2 [MRIN: 5515] on 7
Nov 1937 in O'brien, Haskell, TX by Rev. Woodrow Adcock, cousin. The marriage
ended in divorce on 11 Jun 1970.
Louis next married Burton
Cleburn Anderson [168] [MRIN: 10017], son of George
Cleburne Anderson [1028] and Lena Barnes [1029], on 1 Mar 1971 in Lubbock,
Lubbock, Texas. The marriage ended in divorce on 10 Nov 1986.
4. Mayes Elmer Giddens "M. E." [20559],2 son of Ms Tx
Thomas Solitaire Giddens "Toby" "Bud Tommie" [12240] and Ada Elizabeth Mayes of Al
Greene County [12243], was born on 7 Sep 1886 in MS
Madison County, Decatur, died on 28 Mar 1950 in TX Hockley County, Levelland at
age 63, and was buried in Price Cemetery, Levelland, TX.
Biographical note.6 M.
E. and Maude Giddens always had a couple of homeless people living with them.
Note the 1930 census.
Mayes married Maude Nevada
Gilliam Tx Grayson [20558]2 [MRIN: 8669] on 15
Oct 1911 in Brownwood (Brown) TX.
Children from this marriage were:
i. Ada Harriet Giddens of House NM
[3884] was born on 15 Jul 1912 in Brownwood, Brown, TX, died on 14 Aug 1980 in
Clovis, NM at age 68, and was buried in House, NM.
2 ii. Pfc. Elmer Daulton Giddens
"Blue" of Odessa [20560]
iii. Minnie Eargle Giddens "M.
E." of Abilene/Dimmitt [3885] was born on 7 May 1914 in Brownwood,
Brown, TX, died on 17 Feb 1999 in Dimmitt, Castro, TX at age 84, and was buried
in Abilene, Taylor, TX.
iv. Sgt Wilmer Thomas Giddens WWII
[3889] was born on 28 Mar 1918 in Laredo, Webb, TX, died on 5 Jul 1997 in
Littlefield, Lamb, TX at age 79, and was buried in Price Cemetery, Levelland,
TX.
v. Arthur Edwin Giddens WWII [3888]
was born on 28 Jun 1920 in Haskell, Haskell, TX, died on 26 Sep 2004 in
Abilene, Taylor, TX at age 84, and was buried in Knox, City, TX.
vi. George Ray Giddens of Odessa
[3891] was born on 22 Feb 1922 in Haskell, Haskell, TX, died on 27 Apr 1993 in
Odessa (Ector) TX at age 71, and was buried in Sunset Memorial Gardens.
vii. Beryl Laverne Giddens [3890] was
born on 1 Jan 1925 in Haskell, Haskell, TX, died on 22 Jan 2004 in TX
Shackelford County, Albany at age 79, and was buried in Breckenridge TX
Cemetery.
viii. Bobby O'Neal Giddens of Odessa
[3887] was born on 17 Jan 1927 in Rochester, Haskell, TX, died on 7 Nov 2003 in
Odessa, Ector, TX at age 76, and was buried in Sundown Cemetery.
ix. Teddy Egan Giddens [3892] was born
on 24 Sep 1928 and died on 23 Nov 1929 in Rochester, TX maybe at age 1.
x. Ella Mae Giddens of Sundown [3886]
was born on 11 Feb 1932 in Haskell, Haskell, TX.
5. Maude Nevada Gilliam Tx Grayson [20558],2 daughter of George
Rufus Gilliam of Tn Rhea County [20149] and Harriet Didymus Holloway
of Tn Rhea County [20150], was born on 26 Sep 1892 in TX
Fannin County, (Grayson) Savoy, died on 30 Mar 1979 in Lubbock, Lubbock, Texas7
at age 86, and was buried in Price Cemetery, Levelland, TX.
Biographical note: 2003,
Greenville, TX.1 Our grandmother, whom the "Blue" Giddens'
kids called, "Ma",
was a sweet-dispositioned person.
I never heard her raise her voice.
"Ma' gave all her
grandchildren a Christmas present, even though she would be called
"low-income" nowadays. The boys got a sack of marbles, the girls,
"paper-dolls", I think. That was a good Christmas in those days.
I have since lost all my marbles,
but hope to find them all eventually.
Every once in a while I find one
in the yard, and think of my grandmother.
They say she was red-headed and
freckle-faced when she was young.
She weighed around 90 pounds when
she was married, but grew to about twice that; and so have we all.
I loved going to her house when
we lived in Sundown because she would always take time to talk to me. She was
also a blessing to me when I was a teenager, and she lived with us briefly in
Odessa. Janie Rogers said, My Grandma Giddens was in walking distance from my house nearly my entire growing up years in Sundown. There were so many cousins, but we were all special and loved by her. She let me help her cook, iron pillow cases when she took in ironing, and we would listen to the radio while she worked. We were always pumped to listen for the top 20 Country and Western songs. She was a tremendously strong and vibrant woman and always on mine and Butch's and Ted's side. Someone had to be because we were a handful to a very young mother! Only one granddad was alive when we were little. He was our Papa Giddens and we loved him fiercely. One of the best memories is when he and my dad and uncles rescued survivors after the tornado that destroyed the north end of Sundown. They kept bringing more and more people to the tiny house my grandparents owned. This rescue was after being sure all of us were safe in a storm cellar. My mom had our picture made for the grandparents' Christmas the last year he was alive. It was wrapped flat like a calendar. I will never forget how excited I was for them to open it. I knew they were going to be thrilled out of their minds because it was a picture of us. And you know.... they were..... They were our grandparents
Religion. Methodist.
FYI.4 In 1873 a post
office opened; also in the 1870s the Savoy Male and Female College began
operations and the Texas and Pacific Railway extended its tracks through the
community. By that time Savoy had twenty-five businesses, including several
cotton gins, four dry-goods stores, two steam gristmills, two hotels, and a
hardware store. On the eve of World War Iqv Savoy had some twenty-seven
businesses, including a bank and a weekly newspaper; by the end of World War
IIqv it had thirteen businesses...
Maude married Mayes Elmer
Giddens "M. E." [20559]2 [MRIN: 8669] on 15
Oct 1911 in Brownwood (Brown) TX.
6. Thomas Samuel Cox "Sam" [2], son of Jesse Thomas Cox
"Tom" [1] and Amanda Theresa Sanders of
Albany, TX [19], was born on 22 May 1883 in TX
Llano County, Tow Valley, died on 19 Dec 1960 in TX Taylor County, Abilene8
at age 77, and was buried on 21 Dec 1960 in TX Shackelford County, Albany.
General Notes: Letter from Papa
Cox to us Giddenses when my dad was in WWII.
As he wrote it...
Addressed to Mrs. E. D. Giddens
General delivery
Hereford, Texas 5/25/1944
Stamford, Satday 20 at night 1944
Texas
Dear Bay Sambous Donn and little
sister don't gess you think I
ever think of you all but I do
and hope
that God will take care of my
children
more than maby you think because
they was all good kids one as
thottur
We are all well at this time
wheat will
make 10 or 15 to the akres
100/.50 akers maze
up will start planting cotton
Monday
well Sam ole Joe came back and 6
or 7
days but he is in Stamford now
when
come back we will go and get him
and
take (...?)
Do you ever see that Knetth. gess
he is mad at me he won't write
any more
Send me Blue's address I want to
write to him
I hope you take care of yourself,
Bay
and don't weary too much this
will
soon be over befor long
Love to all your dad
T. S. Cox
Medical Notes: Parkinson's
disease
Illness. When Papa Cox was about
55 he was diagnosed with Parkinson's Disease. This caused his right hand to
tremble, but did not progress worse than that.
FYI. Tow is on Farm Road 2241 and
the western shore of Lake Buchanan, twenty miles northeast of Llano in
northeastern Llano County. When William Tow arrived with his family in 1853, he
named the nearby area in which he settled Tow Valley. The Handbook of Texas
Online is a joint project of The General Libraries at the University of Texas
at Austin and the Texas State Historical Association.
Llano County (I-15), in Central
Texas, is bounded on the north by San Saba County, on the east by Burnet
County, on the south by Gillespie County, and on the west by Mason County.
Llano County was organized in 1856 after the Texas legislature formed the
county from the Bexar District and Gillespie County. Communities in the county
include Llano, the county seat (1990 population, 2,962), Kingsland (2,725),
Horseshoe Bay (1,222 in Llano County, partly in Burnet County), and Sunrise
Beach (497).
Occupation: : Stamford/Haskell,
TX.1 Sam and Beetie Cox were sharecroppers. He also worked on the
Swenson Ranch or SMS as a cowboy in his earlier years, I think.
Fact.1
"Papa" and "Grandmother" were 18th cousins because each had
the same 19th great-grandparents, Alexander Fitzwalter, High Steward of
Scotland who lived 1214-1283 in Scotland.
Census: 1890.
Census: 1900.
Census: 1910.
Census: 1920, TX MIlls,
Goldthwaite.
Census: 1930, TX Shackelford County, Albany.
Memories of Sam COX: 2002, TX.
Papa Cox, my grandfather, was a member
of the First Baptist Church of Albany, TX, where he served as Sunday School
Superintendent. My grandmother "Beetie" Cox served as Adult Sunday
School teacher there for many years. They were strong Christians. Both of them
prayed for me personally before they died, as I'm sure they prayed for all
their grandchildren.
My best memory of Papa Cox is
hearing him pray in church. He wept when he cried out to God.
Papa and Grandmother were
share-croppers between Stamford and Haskell.
"Papa"'s dream was to
build a rescure mission in Albany, a dream he was never able to realize.
Don Giddens, Pastor, First Baptist
Church, Blanding, UT, 2002.
Kinship report: 2004, Greenville,
TX.1 T. S. "Papa" Cox probably heard how many Kings and
Queens his in-law Lindsays were kin to: but he probably never knew those to
whom he could claim some kin-
Namely-
President Zachary Taylor* was his
3rd cousin twice removed,
CSA President Jefferson Davis was
the husband of his 4th cousin,
Dr. Daniel Cocke, Physician to
the Queen MAYBE his 5th great-grandfather -or- MAYBE the cousin of his 5th
great-gandfather sent out ships that claimed much of the future America for the
Queen.
Papa's sister-in-law was the
granddaughter of the founder of Dallas, TX. ,John Neely Bryan; (this was the
only tidbit of information we always bragged about when we were kids)
other than we were kin to Buck
Jones (which we were not)
His 7th great-grandparents,
William Armistead and Ann (Ellis) Armistead were the grandparents of TWO United
States Presidents- the Harrisons, Benjamin and William Henry,
President William Henry Harrison
was his 4th cousin,
President Benjamin Harrison was
his 6th cousin.
Most importantly, the Coxes were
strong, enthusiastic Christians.
*Zachary Taylor was his cousin as
follows:
Thomas Samuel Cox (1883-1960) was
the grandson of Josias Hardin Sanders (1829-ca 1865) son of Abby Robbins who
married
Rev. John Sa(u)nders , a pioneer
Baptist preacher of Georgia;
Josias Hardin Sa(u)nders was the great-
grandson of
the Smothers-Dabneys who were the great-grandparents of Zachary
Taylor who was the father-in-law of Jefferson Davis.
Fact: 2005, Greenville, TX.1
Thomas Samuel Cox, in particular through the COX lines, was kin to the
following:
President Zachary Taylor- 2nd
cousin 3 times removed
President William Henry Harrison-
4th cousin 3 times removed
President Benjamin Harrison- 6th
cousin once removed
President Jefferson Davis, CSA-
husband of 3rd cousin twice removed
Grandfather- Josias HARDIN
Sanders, KIA, Civil War
Great-grandfather- Pastor John
Sanders, Baptist
2nd great-grandfather- Pastor
Moses Saunders RWS, Baptist
2nd great-grandfather- Captain
John Hudgins RWS
2nd great-grandfather- Jesse
Ellis, RWS
3rd great-grandfather- Howell
Freeman, RWS
4th great-grandfather- Daniel
Cox, Esquire- owned all of NJ and most of NC
4th great-grandfather- Captain
John Robbins
5th great-grandfather- Dr. Daniel
Cox, Physician to the Queen- financed the exploration of America from NJ to NM-
claiming it all for the Queen
5th great-grandfather- Colonel
William Byrd
5th great-grandfather- Captain
Thomas Massie, House of Burgesses
5th great grandmother- Catherine
Armistead
5th great-grandfather- Colonel
Robert Beverly
5th great-grandfather- Matthew
Rushing, a persecuted Protestant
6th great-grandfather- William
Armistead- ancestor of two US Presidents- the Harrisons
6th great-grandfather- LT. Simon
Dolor Davis
6th great-grandmother- Ann E.
Ellis, grandmother of two US Presidents- Harrison
6th great-grandfather- Colonel
Warham Horsemandin
6th great-grand uncle- General
Edward Massie
6th great-grandfather- Rev. David
Saunders, Baptist
7th great-grandfather- Captain
Thomas Stegge
7th great-grandfather- Captain
Dolor Davis
7th great-grandfather- Earl
Anthony Ashley Cooper
7th great-grandfather- Anthony
Armistead
7th great-grandfather- Major
William Hancock
7th great-grandfather- Randall
Holt of Hogg Island
7th great-grandfather- Rev.
Horsemandin, D. D. - Rector of Kent
7th great-grandfather- Esquire
John Massie of Coddington
1st cousin 6 times removed-
General Nathaniel Massie
8th great-grandfather- Roger
Armistead
8th great-grandfather- Ichabod
Davis
8th great-grandfather- Esquire
Richard Grovesnor of Eaton
8th great-grandfather- Rev.
Richard Horsemandin
9th great-grandfather- Sir
Richard Brooke, Bart of Norton
9th great-grandfather- Sir John
Cox, Royal Navy
9th great-grandfather- Colonel
Bridges Freeman
9th great-grandfather- Sir John
Saunders
10th great-grandfather- Henry
Hudson, the Navigator
10th great-grandfather- Rev.
Joseph Josias Hull, Puritan
10th great-grandmother- Annabel
Buchanan
11th great-grandfather -Patrick
Buchanan
11th great-grandfather- Esquire
Edward Massie of Larton
13th great-grandfather- Sir
Knight Walter Stewart
14th great-grandffather- Duke
Murdoch Stewart
15th great-grandfather- Sir
Maurice Buchanan
15th great-grandfather Prince
Robert Stewart
16th great-grandfather- Sir
Maurice Buchanan, Sr.
16th great-grandfather- King
Robert II Stewart
17th great-grandmother- Princess
Margaret Bruce
17th great-grandfather Sir Knight
Walter Stewart III
18th great-grandmother- Queen
Isabel Matilda de Mar of Scotland
18th great-grandfather- King
Robert VIII de Bruce
18th great-grandfather- Lord
James Stewart
19th great-grandfather- Earl
Robert VII de Bruce
19th great-grandfather- Alexander
Fitzwalter, High Stewart of Scotland
20th great-grandfather- Neil,
Earl of Carrick, Regent of Scotland
20th great- grandfather-Baron
Robert de Bruce "The Competitor"
20th great grandfather- Walter
Fitzalan, High Stewart
21st great-grandfather- Alan de
Heslin- 2nd Great Stewart
21st great-grandfather- Earl
Duncan de Carrick
22nd great-grandfather- Walter
Fitzalan 1, First Great Stewart
22nd great-grandfather- Walter de
Heslin, Great Stewart
22nd great-grandfather- Baron
William de Bruce
22nd great grandfather- Earl Gilbride de Angus
23rd great-grandfather- Baron
Alan de Heslin
23rd great-grandfather- Lord Wm.
Fitzalan
23rd great-grandfather- Earl
Dufugan de Angus
24th great-grandfather- Sheriff
Alan Fitzlaad
24th great-grandmother- Queen
Matilda , Countess of Flanders
25th great-grandfather- Baudoin,
Count of Flanders
25th great-grandfather- Robert,
Duke of Normandy
26th great-grandfather- Baudoin
the Bearded, Count of Flanders
26th great-grandfather- Count
Alan de Dol
26th great-grandfather- Richard,
Duke of Normandy
27th great-grandfather- Duke Eudo
de Bretagne
27th great-grandfather- Richard
the Fearless, Duke of Normandy
27th great-grandfather- Arnold
the Young, Count of Flanders
28th great-grandfather- Baudoin
the Third, Count of Flanders
28th great-grandfather- William
the First, "Longsword" Duke of Normandy,
29th great-grandfather- Arnold
the First, Count of Flanders
29th great-grandfather- Rollo,
Duke of Normandy
31st great-grandfather- Baudoin ,
"Iron Arm" Count of Flanders
31st great-grandmother- Judith,
Princess of the West Franks
32nd great-grandfather- Odoscer,
Count of Harlbec
32nd great-grandfather- Charles
the Bald, Roman Emperor
33rd great-grandmother- Ermigard,
Queen of France
33rd great-grandfather- Engleran,
Count of Harlbec
33rd great-grandfather- Louis I,
Roman Emperor
34th great-gradnfather- Liderie,
Count of Harlbec
34th great-grandfather-
Charlemagne, Roman Emperor
35th great-grandfather- Pepin the
Short, King of the Franks
36th great-grandfather- Charles
Martel
39th great-grandfather- Saint
Arnulfus
42nd great-grandfather- Munderic,
Lord of Vitrey
43rd great-grandfather- Cloderic,
King of Cologne
44th great-grandfather- Siegburt,
King of Cologne
Compiled by Don Giddens- 2005.
Thomas married Mary Mobeetie
Lindsey "Beetie" [23] [MRIN: 25] on 24 Mar 1907 in TX
Mills County, Goldthwaite- by Rev. Templin.
Children from this marriage were:
i. "Lindsey" Thomas Lindsey Cox
[34] was born on 16 Feb 1908 in TX Mills County, Goldthwaite, died on 24 Jul
1969 in TX Haskell, Haskell7 at age 61, and was buried in TX
Haskell, Haskell.
ii. Sammye Walter Elizabeth Cox
"Sammye" [38] was born on 28 May 1909 in TX Mills County,
Goldthwaite, died on 3 Oct 1997 in TX Shackelford County, Albany at age 88, and
was buried in TX Shackelford County, Albany.
iii. "Imogene" Mary Imogene Cox
of Abilene [35] was born on 20 Apr 1911 in TX Mills County, Goldthwaite,
died on 8 Dec 1997 in TX Taylor County, Abilene at age 86, and was buried in TX
Shackelford County, Albany.
3 iv. Louis Savonne Cox "Bay"
[13415]
v. Minnie Carline Cox "Carline"
[36] was born on 13 Nov 1922 in TX Shackelford County, Albany.
vi. Glenn Watson Cox WWII [37] was
born on 2 Oct 1924 in TX Dawson, Patricia, died on 9 Feb 2001 in TX Haskell,
Haskell at age 76, and was buried in Haskell, Haskell, TX.
7. Mary Mobeetie Lindsey "Beetie" [23], daughter of Charles William
Lindsey of TX Parker County [298] and Harriet Elizabeth Lewis
of San Saba Texas [299], was born on 5 Sep 1887 in TX
San Saba County, San Saba, died on 23 Sep 1954 in Stamford, Jones, Texas at age
67, and was buried in TX Shackelford County, Albany.
Religion: : First Baptist Church
Of Albany.
Biographical note.1
Grandmother Cox loved to make dolls to give away. She prayed for, and also
corresponded with missionaries all over the world. She also wrote poems. I can
remember her singing "Will There Be Any Stars in My Crown?"
FYI.4 San Saba, the
county seat of San Saba County, is on U.S. Highway 190 eighty-seven miles
northwest of Austin in eastern San Saba County. When the county was organized a
year later, San Saba won election as the county seat. BIBLIOGRAPHY: Alma Ward
Hamrick, The Call of the San Saba: A History of San Saba County (San Antonio:
Naylor, 1941; 2d ed., Austin: Jenkins, 1969).
Name. Grandmother Cox was named
after the town Mobeetie, TX that burned the day she was born.
Illness: 1949.8
adenocarcinoma rt breast grade 3
Mary married Thomas Samuel Cox
"Sam" [2] [MRIN: 25] on 24 Mar 1907 in TX
Mills County, Goldthwaite- by Rev. Templin.
8. Ms Tx Thomas Solitaire Giddens
"Toby" "Bud Tommie" [12240],2 son of Ga Ms James
Thomas Giddens Rr Engineer [12943] and Martha Jane Paul of Ga
Henry County [13895], was born on 9 Jun 1857 in GA
(NC According To 1860-70 Census MS), was christened in 1890 in 105 S. 4Th Waco,
TX Shoemaker,9 died on 30 Apr 1935 in TX Harris County, Houston at
age 77, and was buried in TX Lavaca County, Yoakum.
note of Jms T Giddens: 10 Jul
1855, GA Atlanta. so, Thomas S. 's dad was in Atlanta then.
Census records say Thomas S. was
born in 1857 in NC.
Then, James T. died in Canton MS
1858.
Perhaps he was in NC in 1857 as a
RR engineer.
Fact: 1858, MS Madison County,
Canton. Thomas Solitaire Giddens was sixteen months old when his father died of
yellow fever.
Health. T. S. Giddens was born
with a club foot. He walked with a cane or crutches.
According to a letter written to
his half-sister in 1938, he also had trouble with his ears. His son, M. E.
Giddens was almost deaf.
Severall of M. E. Giddens' children
have been almost deaf or totally deaf when they reached their old age.
Census: 1860, MS Madison County,
Canton. with Deputy Sheriff William J.Taylor and Martha J. (Paul) Giddens
Taylor
Census: 1870, MS Madison County,
Canton. By The 1870 CENSUS Thomas Solitaire Giddens, thirteen, was on his own.
He said that he raised himself on the Mississippi.
Census: 1880, MS Newton County,
Decatur. Giddens, T. S. 23 M W Farming SC (all other censuses say NC)
parents GA GA
Giddens, Ada (wife) 23 F W AL
parents AL AL
Census: 1890.
Census: 1900.
Census: 1910.
Census: 1920, TX Jones, Stamford.
Census: 1930.
Thomas married Ada Elizabeth
Mayes of Al Greene County [12243]2 [MRIN: 5216] on 20
Feb 1880 in MS Newton County, Decatur.
Children from this marriage were:
i. Martha Ella Giddens Schoolteacher
[5050] was born on 16 Jan 1881 in Decatur, Madison, MS, died on 2 Aug 1959 in
Houston, Harris, TX at age 78, and was buried in Yoakum, Lavaca, TX Yoakum
Cemetery.
ii. Jessie Ada Giddens [5051] was born
on 13 Oct 1882 in Decatur, Madison, MS and died in 1973 in TX Dawson County,
Lamesa at age 91.
iii. Minnie Coit Giddens [5052] was
born in 1885 in MS, died in 1969 in TX Ector County, Odessa at age 84, and was
buried in Laredo Cemetery, Laredo Texas.
4 iv. Mayes Elmer Giddens "M. E."
[20559]
v. Grady McNiel Giddens boilermaker RR
[5053] was born on 21 Mar 1889 in MS Newton County, died on 25 Oct 1918 in
Yoakum, DeWitt, TX at age 29, and was buried in Yoakum, Lavaca, TX. Another
name for Grady was Grady McNeal.
vi. Thomas Egan Giddens RR mechanic
[5054] was born on 23 Feb 1892 in Waco, McLennan, TX and died on 6 Sep 1937 at
age 45.
vii. Mary Lou Giddens [5055] was born
circa 1898.
viii. Byron Andrew Giddens Dairyman
[5056] was born on 3 Dec 1898 in Seymore, Baylor, TX and died on 15 Sep 1984 in
TX Washington County at age 85.
ix. Samuel King Giddens RR fireman
[5057] was born on 8 Jun 1902 in Glen Rose, Somerville, TX, died on 24 Apr 1961
in TX Tarrant, Ft. Worth at age 58, and was buried in Emerald Hills, Kennedale.
Thomas next married someone.
His child was:
i. Tx Samuel King Giddens [12309]
9. Ada Elizabeth Mayes of Al Greene County
[12243],2 daughter of Samuel
Otis (Otterson) Mayes of Al Greene County [3595] and Mary S. Bouchillon of Al
Greene County [3596], was born on 15 Aug 1857 in AL
Greene County, Boligee,, died on 2 Dec 1932 in TX Laredo, Webb at age 75, and
was buried in TX Lavaca County, Yoakum.
Ada married Ms Tx Thomas
Solitaire Giddens "Toby" "Bud Tommie" [12240]2 [MRIN: 5216] on 20
Feb 1880 in MS Newton County, Decatur.
10. George Rufus Gilliam of Tn Rhea County
[20149],2 son of James
Dudley Gilliam [20416] and Sophronia Adeline Paul of
Tn Rhea County [3594], was born on 26 Apr 1859 in TN
Rhea County, Spring City,10 died on 2 Jan 1941 in TX Brownwood8
at age 81, and was buried on 3 Jan 1941 in Hamlin, TX.
Biographical note. Schoolteacher.
Devout Christian. His family had
family devotions out of the Bible every day.
Biographical note. Aunt Ella Mae
Giddens said George Rufus and wife were sweet Christians.
Fact. George Rufus Gilliam was a
short man with a large handle-bar mustache.
Census: 1900, TX Fannin County.
Census: 1940, TX.
George married Harriet Didymus
Holloway of Tn Rhea County [20150]2 [MRIN: 8469] on 1
Sep 1881 in TN Rhea County, Spring City.
Children from this marriage were:
i. Harriet Adaline Gilliam [20151]
was born on 5 Jan 1884 in TN Rhea County10 and died on 24 Aug 1969
in Perry, Houston, GA11 at age 85.
ii. Allie Bessie Gilliam [3503] was
born on 28 Aug 1887 and died on 22 Aug 1964 in Brownwood, Brown, Texas at age
76.
5 iii. Maude Nevada Gilliam Tx Grayson
[20558]
iv. Ora Belle Gilliam [5724] was born
on 15 Jan 1891 in TX Fannin County, died on 30 Oct 1969 in TX Jones County7
at age 78, and was buried in Hamlin, Texas.12
v. Rosa Araminta Gilliam [3504] was
born on 24 Jul 1895 in TX Fannin, now Grayson, Savoy, died on 4 Feb 1961 in TX
Brownwood12 at age 65, and was buried in Hamlin Cemetery.12
Another name for Rosa was Minnie S.
vi. William Bailey Gilliam [3507] was
born on 3 Jan 1901 in TX Fannin County and died on 12 Oct 1918 at age 17.
11. Harriet Didymus Holloway of Tn Rhea County
[20150],2 daughter of Pleasant
Monday Holloway of Tn Rhea County [20200] and Harriet Davis of TN Rhea
County [20201], was born on 27 Apr 1859 in TN
Rhea County, Spring City,10 died on 31 Dec 1941 in TX Brownwood8
at age 82, and was buried in TX Jones County, Hamlin.
Biographical note. twin
Census: 1880, TN Rhea County.
censused with her parents
Harriet married George Rufus
Gilliam of Tn Rhea County [20149]2 [MRIN: 8469] on 1
Sep 1881 in TN Rhea County, Spring City.
12. Jesse Thomas Cox "Tom" [1],13 son of Israel
Cox of TX Wood County [17] and Sarah Elizabeth Hudgins
of TX Wood County [20], was born on 14 Jun 1849 in MS
Tishomingo, (Parents MS MS),14 was christened in 1880 in TX Llano
County, died on 16 Dec 1932 in TX Shackelford, Albany, Nail Ranch at age 83,
and was buried in TX Haskell, Rockdale Cemetery.
General Notes: Uncle Louis said
(when he as 100)- "My dad was a woodchopper. He raised wood. I was there
when Jesus took him. Brother Sam was a good hand.
Jim a fiddler. Bessie and Bertha
were sweeties. Never had scraps with brothers.
Thomas Jesse and Amanda were the
sweetest Christians I knew- Savonne Giddens
Thomas Jesse was trail boss on
the Chishom Trail
Thomas Jesse tried to go to NM,
but the Colorado River as too deep, so they went to Llano County. Uncle Glen
said it was 1865.
Another family story says that
the Sanders brothers (James Lafayette, and Jefferson) did not want Amanda to
marry T. J., so they chased them until they came to the Colorado River and had
to turn back because the Colorado River was too high. If so, Amanda and T. J. were
nice about it, because they named their first son James Lafayette Jefferson Cox
"Uncle Jim" after Amanda's brothers.
Church membership: : First
Baptist Church Of Albany. Tom and Mandy went to camp meetings in a wagon.
FYI: : Tishomingo County, MS. Iuka,
county seat
Tishomingo County, was formed
from the Chickasaw
cessions of 1832. It was amongst
the largest counties
to be formed in the State of
Mississippi and has in its
history been referred to as, The
State of Tishomingo.
At that time it consisted of
present day Alcorn and
Prentiss counties, until they
were divided
in 1870. Tishomingo was named
after a leading
Chickasaw chief TISH-O-MINGO
meaning;
" Warrior Chief "
Fact. We went to see Thomas Jesse
and Mandy. Grandma had hidden raisins from Uncle Louis, and she made us a
raisin pie.
Physical note. Savonne (Cox)
Giddens said Thomas Jesse Cox was short and slightly stooped.
Census: 1860, TX.
Census: 1870, TX.
Census: 1880, TX Llano County.
Tom Cox farmer 30
Mandy
James 6
Isreal 4
Marthy
Nora
Census: 1890, TX Llano County.
Tom Cox and Mandy
Census: 1900, TX Llano County.
Probably since Bertha was born there in 1899.
Census: 1910, TX.
Census: 1920, TX.
Census: 1930, TX Shackelford County, Albany.
Biographical note: 1992, TX
Shackelford County, Albany.1 Uncle Louis Cox, youngest son of Thomas
Jesse and Amanda, said that his father was
a trail driver on the Chisolm
trail. He also said that he rounded up buffalo in Shackleford County.
Uncle Lewis told of the following
conversation of his father, Thomas Jesse Cox, and mother, Amanda, as follows:
"Tom, I wish you would stop
that cold air in that crack."
Tom replied, "I'll have to
go to Uncle Rube Miller's and sharpen my ax!"
Uncle Lewis said his father
daubed it with mud and stopped it up.
Thomas Jesse was a wood chopper.
He raised wood. He would get up in the middle of the night and chop a load of
wood and take it to Lampasas. A stranger offered him
$2.50 for a load. Thomas Jesse
said, "By grab, I didn't charge anyone else that much, and I'm not going
to charge you any more."
He was always fairer to the
other man than he was himself.
He signed his name with an
"X". Amanda said, "Let me teach you how to sign your name (to
vote for Roosevelt). He said, "They know my "X".
He would whip you pretty dad-gum
quick.
We lived on the Gooch place. The
Indians had killed the entire family of Gooches.
We had to pull broomweed to make
brooms.
Jesse married Amanda Theresa
Sanders of Albany, TX [19]13 [MRIN: 19] on 4 Jun
1872 in TX Erath.15
Children from this marriage were:
i. "Uncle Jim" James Lafayette
Jefferson Cox Pro Fiddler [49] was born in 1874 in TX Llano County, Tow
Valley,16 died in 1960 in TX Llano County, Tow Valley age 86 at age
86, and was buried in Tow Cemetery, Llano TX. Another name for James was James
Lafette Jefferson Cox.
ii. Israel Alfred Cox "Bud"
[50] was born in 1875 in TX Bosque County,12 died in 1955 in
Haskell, Haskell, TX12 at age 80, and was buried in Red
Springs/Henson Cemetery, Seymore, Baylor, TX.17
iii. Nora Dell Cox [51] was born in
1878 in TX Llano County, Llano, died in 1960 in TX Burnet, Burnet18
at age 82, and was buried in Tow.
iv. Martha Ann Cox [52] was born in
1879 in TX Llano County, Tow Valley and died in 1896 in TX Llano County, Llano
at age 17.
v. William "Will" Richardson
Cox [253] was born on 18 Jun 1881 in Tow (Llano) TX, died on 3 Nov 1968 in
Seymore, TX19 at age 87, and was buried in TX Baylor County, Red
Springs Henson Cemetery.
6 vi. Thomas Samuel Cox "Sam"
[2]
vii. Brooks Monroe Cox Cowboy [39] was
born on 12 Sep 1886 in TX Llano County, Llano and died in Nov 1979 in TX Archer
County, Archer City20 at age 93. Another name for Brooks was Brooks
Cox.
viii. Elmer Edgar Cox Dairyman [40] was
born on 8 Jan 1888 in TX Llano County, Llano and died in Sep 1986 in TX Jones
County, Stamford21 at age 98. Another name for Elmer was Elmer Cox.
ix. "Lewis" Louis L Cox 102 Yrs
cowboy [41] was born on 12 Apr 1890 in TX Llano County, Llano, died on 4
Oct 1992 in TX Shackelford County, Albany22 at age 102, and was
buried in TX Shackelford County, Albany.
x. "Aunt Bessie" Rosa Elizabeth
Cox 92 Yrs [43] was born on 27 Aug 1895 in TX Llano County, Llano, died in
1987 in TX Haskell County at age 92, and was buried in Albany City Cemetery.
xi. Bertha May Cox [42] was born on 8
May 1899 in TX Llano County, Llano, died in Apr 1988 in TX Mills County,
Goldthwaite23 at age 88, and was buried in TX Mills County, Mullin.
13. Amanda Theresa Sanders of Albany, TX [19],13 daughter of Josiah
Hardin Sanders CSA + [128] and Sarah Elizabeth Rushing
of Tn Madison [121], was born on 3 Apr 1855 in TX
Wood Maybe, was christened in 1880 in TX Llano County, died on 30 May 1930 in
Luvern, Haskell, Texas at age 75, and was buried on 31 May 1930 in TX Haskell,
Leuders, Rockdale Cemetery. Another name for Amanda was Mandy.
Alt. Death: 1930, TX Albany, Nail
Ranch. Cancer Of The Stomach-
Savonne (Cox) Giddens always
thought it was because she ate spoiled canned sweet potatoes.
Religion: : First Baptist Church
Of Albany.
Biographical note: Cir 1925, Nail
Ranch, Albany, TX.1 Amanda and Tom lived in a house with a dirt
floor. Amanda swept the floor and kept it
clean. She ironed all of the
clothes (on a Sad iron of course), even the sheets.
They were sweet Christians. Tom
Cox had a long beard.
From Don Giddens' Bible leafs-
"We search the world for
truth ,
We cull the good, the pure, the
beautiful,
And weary seekers of the best,
We come back laden from the
quest-
To find that all the sages said
Is in the Book our mothers
read."
-Unknown
Family Tales: 1871, TX. Savonne
Giddens said Amanda Theresa Sanders had a daughter named Amanda Theresa Sanders
before she married Tom Cox in 1872.
Amanda married Jesse Thomas
Cox "Tom" [1]13 [MRIN: 19] on 4 Jun
1872 in TX Erath.15
14. Charles William Lindsey of TX Parker County
[298],24 son of Adam
Linn Lindsey of Springtown, TX [302] and Mary Jane Wormington of
Springtown, TX [303], was born on 16 Sep 1849 in MO
Newton County, Neosho, died on 19 Apr 1918 in TX Parker County, Veal Station at
age 68, and was buried in TX Parker County, Veal Station.
Occupation: : Goldthwaite TX.25
City Marshall,
twelve years as tax collector
Occupation: : Tax Collector,
Goldthwaite, Mills, TX.
Residence: 1853, Came To TX Fr
Neosho, MO.
Census: 1880, TX Parker County.
Immigrated: 1882, San Saba
County.25
Owned: After 1882, Four Or Five
Sections.1 according to the courthouse records at San Saba.
Census: 1900, San Saba, San Saba,
Texas. Widower
Charles married Harriet
Elizabeth Lewis of San Saba Texas [299] [MRIN: 232] on 11 Jan 1872 in
Thorp Springs, Hood County TX.
Children from this marriage were:
i. Herschell Hale Lindsey [584] was
born on 26 Aug 1873 in Parker Co., TX, died on 22 Aug 1925 in Pear Valley,
McCulloch, TX at age 51, and was buried in Pear Valley, TX (ghosttown) (age
52).
ii. Walter Grey Lindsey [585] was born
on 26 Jan 1875 in TX Parker County, Veal Station, died on 24 Jun 1952 in TX San
Saba County, San Saba at age 77, and was buried in Richland Springs City
Cemetery.
iii. Samuel J. Tilden Lindsey [586] was
born on 31 Mar 1877 in Shady Grove, Parker Co., TX, died on 7 Jun 1957 in China
Creek, San Saba, TX at age 80, and was buried in China Creek Cemetery, San Saba
TX.
iv. Morgan Conrad Lindsey [587] was
born on 31 May 1878 in Weatherford (Parker Co.) TX, died on 17 Mar 1957 in TX
Andrews County, Andrews8 at age 78, and was buried in Andrews
Cemetery. Another name for Morgan was Coonie.
v. Dora Caldonia Lindsey [588] was
born on 14 Sep 1879 in Parker Co., TX, died in 1944 in Altus, Okla at age 65,
and was buried in Duke, Okla.
vi. Lansing Monroe Lindsey [589] was
born on 6 Mar 1881 in TX Parker County, Veal Station, died on 4 Jan 1939 in
Stamford, Jones, TX8 at age 57, and was buried in Spring Creek
Cemetery, Avoca.
vii. Clay Miller Lindsey [590] was born
on 23 Sep 1883 in TX San Saba County, San Saba, died on 20 Dec 1956 in Fw, TX
at age 73, and was buried in TX San Saba County, San Saba.
viii. Linnie Lee Lindsey [591] was born
on 13 Jul 1885 in Cat Claw, San Saba, TX, died on 23 Jun 1955 in TX San Saba
County, San Saba8 at age 69, and was buried in Mullin, Oak View
Cemetery.
7 ix. Mary Mobeetie Lindsey
"Beetie" [23]
x. Robert Russell Lindsey [592] was
born on 31 Oct 1890 in TX San Saba County, San Saba, died in Jun 1942 in TX
Taylor County, Abilene at age 51, and was buried in Goldthwaite TX.
xi. Adam Lynn Lindsey Tx San Saba
[593] was born on 17 Aug 1891 in TX San Saba County, San Saba, died on 8 Jan
1974 in Brownwood, Brown, TX at age 82, and was buried in China Creek Cemetery,
Near San Saba.
xii. Minnie Elizabeth Lindsey [594] was
born on 21 May 1894 in TX San Saba County, San Saba, died in Apr 1967 in
Lamesa, Dawson, TX at age 72, and was buried in Lamesa, Dawson, TX.
Charles next married Annie
Mckendree Cook [598] [MRIN: 233], daughter of Octavius?
Cook Land Certificate [7084] and DALTON? [7085], on 28 Jun 1901 in Goldthwaite,
Mills, TX By Judge Dalton, a cousin.
Children from this marriage were:
i. Ward Louis Lindsey Driller [595]
was born on 21 Mar 1904 in TX San Saba County, San Saba, died on 15 Oct 1962 in
TX Tarrant County, Azle at age 58, and was buried in TX Parker County, Veal
Station.
ii. Joe Wheeler Lindsey Ranchhand
[596] was born on 20 Aug 1905 in Goldthwaite, TX, died on 16 Apr 1962 in
Aspermont, Stonewall, Texas at age 56, and was buried in Stamford, Jones, Texas
Highland Cemetery.
iii. Glenn Dalton "John" Lindsey
The Rodeo Clown [597] was born on 18 Dec 1906 in TX Mills County, died on
28 Apr 1974 in Fw, TX at age 67, and was buried in TX Parker County, Veal
Station.
15. Harriet Elizabeth Lewis of San Saba Texas
[299], daughter of Our Stephen
William Lewis KIA CSA [730] and SARAH Sidney Letha
Stennett of Ms Jasper [1232], was born on 28 Mar 1853 in MS
Jasper, Claiborne maybe, died on 23 Mar 1899 in China Creek, San Saba TX at age
45, and was buried in China Creek Cemetery, San Saba TX.
General Notes: Alice, Fannie,
Charles, and Thomas were adopted by a John Matheny.
His wife, Massie Matheny b
8/22/1806
d. 1/22/1874
Wife of J. D. Matheny. "She
died a Christian."
Medical Notes: blue eyes, black
hair
Alt. Birth: 1859, MS.26
Adoption: Abt 1865. By a Mr. John
Matheny. It is possible he might have been some kin.
Census: 1870, TX Hood County.
Harriet (11) and Charles (15) were censused with John Matheny who adopted them.
In 1870, Hood County, TX they lived next door to a John D. Lewis b 1838 GA,
wife, Sarah b 1839 AL, and son, Willy b 1853 AL.
Census: 1870, MS Scott census.
pg0177a.txt 179b 25 Levy Sallomon 8 France pg0177a.txt 192b 32
Lewis Abby 20 Mississippi pg0189a.txt 170a 2
Lewis Babe 5 Mississippi
pg0165a.txt 251b 14
Lewis C. W. 58 Tennessee
pg0246a.txt 192b 31
Lewis Easter 13 Mississippi pg0189a.txt 251b
13
Lewis Filding 62 Tennessee
pg0246a.txt 192b 29
Lewis Frank 30 Mississippi
pg0189a.txt 192b 34
Lewis Grimes 30 Mississippi pg0189a.txt 177b
15
Lewis H. F. 35 North Carolina pg0177a.txt 251b
18
Lewis I. E. 9 Tennessee
pg0246a.txt 169b 40
Lewis James 11 Mississippi
pg0165a.txt 243a 26
Lewis Jas. 52 Georgia pg0239b.txt
256b 27
Lewis Jerry 20 Mississippi
pg0252a.txt 243a 27
Lewis Lou 50 Georgia pg0239b.txt
177b 18
Lewis M. E. L. 8 Mississippi pg0177a.txt 177b
20
Lewis M. F. L. 3 Mississippi
pg0177a.txt 177b 19
Lewis M. J. L. 6 Mississippi pg0177a.txt 251b
15
Lewis M. K. 28 Mississippi
pg0246a.txt 177b 16
Lewis M. L. 26 Mississippi pg0177a.txt 169b 39
Lewis Mariah 38 Alabama
pg0165a.txt 240a 6
Lewis Mary 37 Mississippi pg0239b.txt 170a 3
Lewis Mary 3 Mississippi
pg0165a.txt 251b 20
Lewis O. W. 5 Louisiana pg0246a.txt 249a 19
Lewis P. 12 Virginia pg0246a.txt
251b 19
Lewis R. M. 7 Louisiana pg0246a.txt 251b 17
Lewis S. A. 18 Mississippi
pg0246a.txt 251b 16
Lewis S. E. 25 Mississippi
pg0246a.txt 192b 30
Lewis Sam 15 Mississippi pg0189a.txt 170a 4
Lewis Tom 6/12 Mississippi pg0165a.txt 177b 17
Lewis W. E. L. 10 Mississippi
pg0177a.txt 240a 5
Lewis Wm. 27 Alabama pg0239b.txt
192b 33
Lewis Wright 6/12 Mississippi
pg0189a.txt
Harriet married Charles
William Lindsey of TX Parker County [298]24 [MRIN: 232] on 11
Jan 1872 in Thorp Springs, Hood County TX.
16. Ga Ms James Thomas Giddens Rr Engineer
[12943],27 son of Our
James 1800 Giddens Unproven F/O Jms T [13376] and Sarah J. [13377], was born in 1827 in GA DE Kalb,
Atlanta,28 died before 12 Oct 1858 in MS Madison County, Canton,29
and was buried in maybe Rose Hill, Macon, Bibb, GA.30 Another name
for James was Giddings.
Census: 1820.
Census: 1830, GA Hancock. if same
son censused with George and Sarah
Census: 1840.
Newspaper: 1848, GA Bibb, Macon.
letter unclaimed at the postoffice at Macon.
Could be 1818? Abstracts has 1818
Census: 1850, GA Dekalb.31
James Gittons b 1800 NC, farmer
Sarah J. b 1814 GA
no children
This might be James Thomas
Giddens' parents, if our family history
is correct. I. E. that James Thomas Giddens was born in Atlanta.
Rimmer, next door to
James Gillings engineer 1827 GA
THIS IS JAMES T GIDDENS!!!!!!
Lucy 19 GA
William 1 GA
William L. Giddens born: 1850, GA
Bibb County, Macon. I can find no Giddenses
in the Bibb 1850 census however.
note of Jms T Giddens: Jul 1855,
Atlanta, GA. Atlanta, GA 7/10/1855
On the 21st of January I promise
to pay Lemuel Kindrick
Two hundred dollars for value
received with interest from date.
James T. Giddens
Note: He sighned it GIDDENS.
Thomas S. Giddens: 9 Jun 1857, NC
According To Census Info.
Letter: 13 Sep 1857, Atlanta, GA.
Letter from James T. Giddens to his wife, Martha J. (Paul) Giddens
Atlanta, September 13, 1857
Dear wife, (in Athens, Clarke GA)
I received your letter this
morning and it gave me very great pleasure to hear from you and the children,
and particularly to hear that LURA was getting better.
I am well but rather
low-spirited.
BALDWIN says that he has more men
at present than he wants but that he will give me work soon. I want to go to
MACON tomorrow morning, and then I will come back to Atlanta Tuesday morning,
and if Mr. Baldwin has not given me work by that time I thought I would go west
to Nashville; and if I do not get work on that word ,I will go and see HANK
HOBBS and PETER JAMMERREE and see if I can't get some money out of them. It
won't cost me anything hardly to go out there. And while I am doing nothing, I
thought I had better go. The house is rented until Christmas. WALLACE got the
check. Mrs. CANNON had a baby ( a boy) about a month old. Mrs. CALLAHAN had one
while she was gone north, and she has been back since the middle of July. It is
a girl, I think. I'm boarding
at SMITH's now and when I got
here I found GILLON and family and THOLLIN
and family here. I shall write
this by hand and if you get it by Monday evening
and if you want to write to me
again before I go to Nashville you must mail it by Tuesday morning or if you
send it Wednesday you must send it by hand as where you mail a letter there by
morning I can't get it until the next morning
before I go to Nashville. I want
to go to Chattanooga Wednesday night and then to Nashville. Tell my FATHER not
to be mad at me, and I will try not to offend him the same way next time.
Tell MA FULLER and Mrs. WELCH
howdy for me. Kiss LU for me. Tell WILLY
that he must be a good boy. And
kiss DORA and TOBY for me. And next my love for you, dear wife. JAMES HASKELL
has gone to Rushing, LA. Mrs. PRICHARD has gone to Griffin to live. HASSY REESE
is married to a man by the name of BOOKER, a train hand on the road. Nothing
more, but remain,
Your affectionate husband,
J. T. Giddens
JAMES HASKELL's I. O. U. the cow
for $13. THACKLEPORT has not had an offer for the lot yet.
Occupation: 1858. Railroad
engineer from Canton, MS to New Orleans. Thomas Giddings (according to the
Canton paper) caught yellow fever in New Orleans, and died in Canton.
Evergreen Oddfellows Lodge: 12
Oct 1858, MS Canton. Whereas- by an afflicting dispensation of an Almighty
Providens, Evergreen Lodge, N-39, IOOF, has been called upon to mourn the loss
of Brother J. T. GIDDENS therfore:
Resolved- that in the death of
Brother Giddens this Lodge has been bereaved of one who had won the esteem and
admiration of all who knew him, and who though....this Lodge but for a short
time period....have become one of its most useful and...members.
Resolved- that these resolutions
be spread upon the minutes of the Lodge and that the secretary be directed to
transmit a copy of the same signed by the officers of the Lodge under seal to
the family of our deceased brother, J. T. Giddens.
James W. Anderson,NG
Joseph Jeffrie, VG
R. W. Gould, secretary
from Notes of D. L. Adcock, Lamesa,
TX
Census: 1860, MS Madison County,
Canton. William J. Taylor NC 28 Saddler and Jailer $6000
Martha J. (Giddens-Paul) Taylor
22 GA b 1838
Thomas Giddens 3 NC
Facts: 2003.31 James
Thomas Giddens' descendants have found few clues for his ancestors to positively identify them.
Suffice it to say there are
several conjectures:
4. FRANCIS GIDEON Macon, Bibb
County, GA Giddenses-
Our great-grandfather wrote a
letter to his wife, Martha, in 1858 saying "Tell my father not to be mad
at me..." The only Giddens there in 1860 was a Francis Giddens. We have no
clues which one or who his father was.
James Thomas was married in Macon
in 1846 to Lucy Hobbs, his first wife by whom he had a son, WIlliam L. Giddens.
William L. Giddens, a railroad engineer,
moved to Laredo. Later on ca 1920 our Thomas Solitaire Giddens moved to
Laredo also, knowing his half-brother lived there.
The first Gideon in Bibb county
was a Francis Gideon who sold land to a Needham Mims. A Mims Gideon is found
later on in Bibb County, as is a Gideon Mims. Perhaps there is a relationship
to these two families. (I think Gene Mims is a Needham Mims descendant.)
Anyway, James Thomas wrote a
letter to his wife, Martha Paul Giddens, in Athens, Ga 1858 telling her to
"tell my father not to be mad at me". The only Giddens censused in
Athens in 1860 was a Francis Gideon b 1790. The several Francis Gideons were
also descendants of James 1711.
George Giddens 1787 also has ties
to Bibb County. His wife, Sarah Powell, had a uncle or father who moved to
Macon also. Was he a son of Francis? Was James Thomas a son of Francis? Did
James who was born in 1711 once live in Maryland?
5. Aunt Ella Mae Burnett thinks
that James Thomas' father was the George b 1787, and that they were from CT as
were the Gillons who were in-laws of James Thomas...or maybe they were
descendants of George b 1609 and Jane antrobus Lawrence.
The same note that says George
was a descendant of the John of Maryland says that they were from St. Albans,
Herefordshire, England as were George born 1609 and Jane Antrobus Giddings.
(Their descendants continue to spell their name Giddings).
1. GERMAN GIDEONS/Guithins
My grandfather, Mayes Elmer
Giddens, and father both said they were
Germans.
This does not mean they came from
Germany, but probably came from Germany or England or Ireland to Maryland, then
NC then GA. If so, they are among the Germans who fled from Europe from severe
religious persecution to Maryland, NC, or SC.
Among them were a Rev. George Adam Guithins (Giddens), pastor. These
Germans were thrifty, industrious, and Loyalists. There is a Peter Gideon line
who came to VA, but their George Gideon does not appear to be our's.
2. JAMES Giddens b 1711 Ireland d
1820 TN age 109
Many Giddens are his descendants.
It is possible we may be also; and if so, probably through his son Richard or
Roger of Jackson County, GA. My grandmother, Mrs. Mayes "Maude"
Giddens, said that a Word Giddens came to see my grandfather from time to time,
and that they were kin. Word was a grandchild of Richard Giddens who married
Margaret Word. Could the James who was born in 1711 in Ireland be of German
descent? Yes. The religious persecuted fled from one country to another.
3. George Giddens b 1787 NC of
Sparta GA and Baltimore, Maryland. was
censused in Canton, Madison, MS with Rimmers two years after James T. died.
According to the 1830 GA Hancock census, he had one son James Thomas' age, and
one daughter, Eliza's age. Our James Thomas Giddens was censused in 1850
Atlanta next door to a Rimmer. George was also in Atlanta that census. A Thomas
Giddens left Hancock county and went to Alabama. George won land in GA Jackson county in a lottery. Roger, Francis, and WIlliam Giddens lived in
Jackson County, GA, and were decendants of James 1711. The George Giddings of
Sparta, Hancock, GA was a descendant of
John Giddens of Maryland, who was a member of the House of Burgesses, a man of
no small consequence in the history of Maryland. Some of John's descendants say
he was Welsh or English.
And yes, he could have been Welsh
and English.
The Maryland Guithins (Gittins,
Gittings, Giddens) were named Basel, and Morris, and Benjamin through the
generations. No other Giddens' lines have these names.
The Morris Giddens' go back many
generations both in England and Wales. A Basel, Benjamin, and Morris Giddens
all eventually moved to GA. Basel moved on to AL, and had a James Thomas. These
lines can be traced back to the John of Maryland through Basel and Morris.
Their descendants spell the name many ways including: Guithins, Gittings,
Giddeons, Gethins, and Gathings. (Wallace Gideons of Odessa and LA was a
descendant of the Gathings. They are all the same as they are descendants of
Basel, Phillip, Morris, or John. Suffice it to say that the Maryland Giddens
are either Germans or descendants of John and the long line of Morris (Maurice)
Giddenses.
James married Lucy S. Hobbs of
GA [12244]2 [MRIN: 5215],
daughter of Elam Hobbs Of Ga Monroe County [12245] and Martha Mary Chapell Heath
[12981], on 29 Aug 1846 in Bibbs County,
GA.32
Children from this marriage were:
i. William Lawrence Giddens RR Engineer
[88] was born in 1850 in Macon, Bibb, GA33 and died on 10 Aug 1911
in Laredo, Webb, TX at age 61. Another name for William was William Laurence.
ii. Lura Giddens [12248] was born
circa 1848 and died in 1859 in MS6 at age 11.
iii. Dora Giddens [12249] was born
circa 1849 in GA.
James next married Martha Jane
Paul of Ga Henry County [13895]2 [MRIN: 5664] Est
1855.
Children from this marriage were:
8 i. Ms Tx Thomas Solitaire Giddens
"Toby" "Bud Tommie" [12240]
ii. Associates Of James Thomas Giddens
[13667]
James next married Martha Paul
[22915] [MRIN: 9878], daughter of James
Kennard Paul [22916] and Abigail Libbey
[22917].
17. Martha Jane Paul of Ga Henry County [13895],2 daughter of Archibald
Young Paul War of 1812 [13893] and Martha P Russell
[13894], was born on 31 Jul 1836 in GA34
and died on 28 Nov 1893 in MS Leflore County, Greenwood6 at age 57.
Census: 1860, MS Madison County,
Canton. Martha was born 1838 in GA per this census
Census: 1870, MS Madison County,
Canton. Martha was born 1838 GA per this census.
Thomas Giddens 13 was born in NC
again per this census.
Census: 1880, MS Issaquena. W. J.
Taylor 47 farmer NC, NC NC
M. J. Taylor 42 Housekeeper GA GA
GA
Lucy Taylor 15 School MS NC GA
Jessie Taylor 13 School MS NC NC
Sarah Taylor 11 School MS NC NC
Ella Taylor 9 School MS NC NC
Fleta Taylor 7 School MS NC GA
Census: 1890, MS Leflore Maybe.
Biographical note: 1938, MS
Greenwood. "Mother had two children before she married William J.
Taylor," Jessie Bacon- 1938.
Who was the other child- Lura,
Dora? or someone else?
Was Martha J. married before she
married James Thomas Giddens? Was she Martha (Hobbs) Paul?
Martha married Ga Ms James
Thomas Giddens Rr Engineer [12943]27 [MRIN: 5664] Est
1855.
Martha next married William J.
Taylor Deputy Sheriff [13132]35 [MRIN: 5616], son
of Allen Taylor [11401] and Emily [11402], on 31 Oct 1859 in MS Canton,
Madison.
Children from this marriage were:
8 i. Ms Tx Thomas Solitaire Giddens
"Toby" "Bud Tommie" [12240]
ii. Lucy Taylor [13683] was born in
1865 in MS.36
iii. William J Taylor [13133] was born
in 1872 in MS.
iv. Jessie Lee C. Taylor [13684] was
born in 1867 in MS37 and died after 1938 in MS Greenwood Resident.
v. Sarah Taylor "Sadie"
[13685] was born in 1869 in MS37 and was christened in 1904 in MO
St. Louis Resident.38
vi. Ella Taylor [13686] was born in
1871 in MS.37
vii. Fleta A. Taylor [13687] was born
in 1873 in MS37 and was christened in 1904 in MS Greenwood Resident.
viii. Edna Taylor [13690] was born Est
1875 in MS, was christened from 1910 to 1935 in New York City Teacher, and died
after 1938 in TN Memphis Maybe.
18. Samuel Otis (Otterson) Mayes of Al Greene
County [3595], son of Anthony Mayes of AL
Greene County [3627] and Cynthia Otterson of AL
Greene County [3628], was born in 1824 in AL Greene
County, Eutaw and died in 1882 in MS Newton County, Decatur at age 58.
Occupation. Plantation owner
Census: 1880, MS Newton County.
S. O. Mays 56 AL farmer SC SC
Julia Mays 18 dau AL
Samuel N Mays son 15 AL AL AL
Samuel married Mary S.
Bouchillon of Al Greene County [3596] [MRIN: 1406] on 10 Apr 1854 in
AL Greene County, Eutaw.
Children from this marriage were:
9 i. Ada Elizabeth Mayes of Al Greene
County [12243]
ii. Julia Mayes [22073] was born in
1862 and died after 1880 in MS Newton census.
iii. Samuel Noah Mayes [22074] was born
in 1884 in AL and died in 1957 at age 73.
19. Mary S. Bouchillon of Al Greene County [3596], daughter of John T.
Bouchillon Elder [3597] and Elizabeth or Betsey
Doolittle of TX Falls County [3598], was born in 1834 in AL Greene County,
Eutaw, died in 1873 in MS Newton County, Decatur at age 39, and was buried in
Doolittle Cemetery.
CSA: 1863, Doolittle Cemetery. In
1863, more than 1000 soldiers were brought to Newton for medical attention. Of
these, 100 died. There was no public cemetery in the community. The Doolittle
family gave permission for the Confederate soldiers to be buried in their
family plot. 100 wooden crosses were erected bearing the names of the soldiers
buried beneath. After 31 years, the wooden crosses had rotted, erasing the
identity of the soldiers buried there. Today, on these graves, small stone
markers reading "UNKNOWN CONFEDERATE", honor their lives and beliefs
in a cause they found worth dying for. Phone:(601)683-2201.
Mary married Samuel Otis
(Otterson) Mayes of Al Greene County [3595] [MRIN: 1406] on 10 Apr 1854 in
AL Greene County, Eutaw.
20. James Dudley Gilliam [20416],2 son of Nathaniel
1790 Mason Gilliam Nc Tn [20148] and Sarah L Davis Sally
[20160], was born on 29 Aug 1824 in TN
Rhea County, Spring City TN VA NC,39 died on 7 Nov 1907 in TN Rhea
County, Spring City at age 83, and was buried in Gilliam Cemetery Near Spring
City. Ancestral File Number: Dist 2 222D 1880.
Biographical note: Cir 1865,
Civil War. James D. Gilliam served in the 1st Reg TN Cal
TN Csa TN Cal 6Th (Wheeler's) Or
1St Reg TN Cal
Our James D. Gilliam
"suffered severely" in the CSA.
Biographical note.1
Selected as an elder of the Old Friendship Church, Rhea County, TN. An elder in
those days was the pastor (in some churches).
Fact. James Dudley Gilliam hid
their money in a tree. After the Civil War, he got it out and they moved to TX
in an ox cart.
Census: 1880, TN Rhea County.
James 55 TN farmer
Sophronia 39 TN
George 21 TN laborer, my
grandfather
William 19 TN
James 17 TN
Jesse 14 TN
Nora F 11 TN
Miranvin M 8 TN
Sydna M 2 TN
James married Sophronia
Adeline Paul of Tn Rhea County [3594] [MRIN: 1403] on 7 Nov 1858 in TN
Rhea County, Spring City.
Children from this marriage were:
10 i. George Rufus
Gilliam of Tn Rhea County [20149]
ii. Harriet J Gilliam [3485] was born
in 1860 in Spring City, Rhea, TN.
iii. William V Gilliam [6716] was born
in 1861 in TN Rhea County, Spring City.
iv. James Dudley Gilliam Jr [6717] was
born in 1863.
v. Nathaniel 1863 B Gilliam [3486]
was born in 1863 in Spring City, Rhea, TN.
vi. Jesse
Floyd Gilliam [3492] was born in 1867 in TN Rhea County, Spring
City, died in 1941 in TN Rhea County probably at age 74, and was buried in Old
Friendship Cemetery Tow Springs Rd Rhea TN.
vii. Sarah M Gilliam [6719] was born in
1869.
viii. Miravin Gilliam [6720] was born in
1871.
ix. Richard Waterhouse Gilliam [4765]
was born on 10 Jan 1874 in Spring City, Rhea, TN,40 died on 18 Mar
1958 in Spring City, Rhea, TN41 at age 84, and was buried in Old
Spring City Cemetery.
x. Jewel Alice Gilliam Alice [3509]
was born on 5 Dec 1875 in TN Rhea County, Spring City and died after 1930 in
Spring City, Rhea, TN.
xi. Sidney H. Gilliam [3378] was born
on 27 Oct 1877 in Spring City, Rhea, TN19 and died on 12 Jan 1923 in
Spring City, Rhea, TN19 at age 45.
xii. Nora Gilliam [17161] was born in
1878 in TN Rhea County.42
James next married Sophronia
Adeline Paul of Tn Rhea County [3594] [MRIN: 1369] on 13 Oct 1858 in
Spring City, Rhea, TN.
Children from this marriage were:
i. Harriet J Gilliam [3485] was born
in 1860 in Spring City, Rhea, TN.
ii. Nathaniel 1863 B Gilliam [3486]
was born in 1863 in Spring City, Rhea, TN.
iii. John
C Gilliam [3487] was born on 25 Dec 1864 in Spring City, Rhea, TN
and died on 21 Nov 1884 at age 19.
iv. Acoline Gilliam [3488] was born in
1868 in Spring City, Rhea, TN.
v. Elizabeth 1873 Gilliam [3489] was
born in 1873 in Spring City, Rhea, TN.
vi. Richard Waterhouse Gilliam [4765]
was born on 10 Jan 1874 in Spring City, Rhea, TN,40 died on 18 Mar
1958 in Spring City, Rhea, TN41 at age 84, and was buried in Old
Spring City Cemetery.
vii. Sarah Gilliam [3490] was born in
1875 in Spring City, Rhea, TN.
viii. Phebe C Gilliam [2581] was born on
13 Nov 1880 in Rhea County, TN.43
10 ix. George Rufus
Gilliam of Tn Rhea County [20149]
x. Sidney H. Gilliam [3378] was born
on 27 Oct 1877 in Spring City, Rhea, TN19 and died on 12 Jan 1923 in
Spring City, Rhea, TN19 at age 45.
xi. William V Gilliam [6716] was born
in 1861 in TN Rhea County, Spring City.
xii. Jesse
Floyd Gilliam [3492] was born in 1867 in TN Rhea County, Spring
City, died in 1941 in TN Rhea County probably at age 74, and was buried in Old
Friendship Cemetery Tow Springs Rd Rhea TN.
xiii. Jewel Alice Gilliam Alice [3509]
was born on 5 Dec 1875 in TN Rhea County, Spring City and died after 1930 in
Spring City, Rhea, TN.
21. Sophronia Adeline Paul of Tn Rhea County
[3594], daughter of Archibald Duncan
Paul of Tn Rhea County [2588] and Cynthia Breeding of Tn
Rhea County [2587], was born on 24 Feb 1841 in TN
Rhea County, Spring City, died on 16 Jan 1884 in TN Rhea County, Spring City at
age 42, and was buried in Gilliam Cemetery Near Spring City.
Sophronia married James Dudley
Gilliam [20416]2 [MRIN: 1403] on 7
Nov 1858 in TN Rhea County, Spring City.
Sophronia next married James
Dudley Gilliam [20416]2 [MRIN: 1369] on 13
Oct 1858 in Spring City, Rhea, TN.
22. Pleasant Monday Holloway of Tn Rhea County
[20200],44 son of Samuel
Holloway of TN Putnam County [3644] and Frances Davisson or
Davidson Nc [3645], was born in 1825 in TN Rhea
County, Spring City, died in 1885 in TN Rhea County, Spring City at age 60, and
was buried in TN Putnam County.
Census: 1800, TN Rhea Census. 119
119 HALLOWAY Pleasant M 47 M W Farmer 400 TN Harriette 50 F W k-h VA
Eliza A 20 F W k-h TN
John S 17 M W Farm Laborer TN
Nancy E 14 F W TN
Harriette 12 F W TN
Manerva 8 F W TN
Elmira? 8 F W TN 120 120
Census: 1870, TN Rhea County,
Sulphur Springs.
Namesake. "Pleasant
Monday" was a Methodist church social night.
He must have been born on a
"Pleasant Monday".
Occupation. Farmer
Census: 1880, TN Rhea. Pleasant
Holloway 56 TN farmer NC NC
Harriet 60 VA VA VA
Eliza F 30 TN TN VA
Nancy 24 TN TN VA
Harriet 21 TN TN VA
Minerva 17 TN TN VA
Almina 17 TN TN VA
District 1, Page 208 D
Pleasant married Harriet Davis
of TN Rhea County [20201]45 [MRIN: 8490] on 2
Mar 1845 in TN Rhea County, Spring City.
Children from this marriage were:
11 i. Harriet Didymus
Holloway of Tn Rhea County [20150]
ii. Sarah Holloway [4708] was born in
1845.40
iii. Mary E Holloway [4709] was born in
1848.40
iv. Eliza Ann Holloway [4710] was born
in 185040 and died after 1880 in TN Rhea County census.
v. John Holloway [4712] was born in
1852.40
vi. Nancy Holloway [4713] was born in
1857.40
vii. Elmira Holloway [4714] was born in
Apr 1862 in TN Rhea County40 and was christened in 1880 in TN Rhea
County census.
viii. Minerva J Holloway [4716] was born
in 1862.40
ix. Emily Holloway [6762] was born in
1852.
x. Eliva Holloway [6763] was born in
1857.46
Pleasant next married Jane
Crews [4670] [MRIN: 1935] on 26 Feb 1843 in
TN Rhea.
23. Harriet Davis of TN Rhea County [20201],45 daughter of William
Davis [4368] and Harriet Goodridge
[4369], was born on 5 Jun 1818 in VA VA
VA47 and died after 1880 in TN Rhea County, Spring City.
General Notes: probably a
granddaughter of Samuel
Harriet married Pleasant
Monday Holloway of Tn Rhea County [20200]44 [MRIN: 8490] on 2
Mar 1845 in TN Rhea County, Spring City.
Harriet next married William
Hawkins [5585]48 [MRIN: 2371] on 4
Jan 1837 in VA Orange County.
24. Israel Cox of TX Wood County [17], son of John Cox Sawmill
owner [22343] and Sarah Smith [4373], was born on 13 Apr 1810 in SC
Pendleton District, was christened in 1860 in TX Wood County, census, died
before 1870 in TX Tarrant Maybe, and was buried in TX Tarrant, Minter's Chapel
Cemetery On D/Fw Airport Property.49
General Notes: Owned land in Tarrant
County near Haslett.
Reportedly died on a land buying
trip and buried there. So, that must have been the land at or near Haslett. 320
acres. DLG
Migration. One reason people some
people moved often was because you could make enough on your land to buy
MORE land out West, and land was free
for the claiming.
Census: 1830, SC Pendleton
District.
Biographical note: 1836. Israel
Cox is listed in the history of the Methodist church in Alabama as an early
Methodist.
He may have been a pastor or
missionary.
Al Land Records: 1839, AL Jackson
County.
COX, ISRAEL
Land Office: HUNTSVILLE Sequence #:
Document Number: 10378 Total Acres: 39.81
Misc. Doc. Nr.: Signature: Yes
Canceled Document: No Issue Date: August 01, 1839
Mineral Rights Reserved: No Metes and Bounds: No
Survey Date: Statutory
Reference: 3 Stat. 566
Multiple Warantee Names: No Act or Treaty: April 24, 1820
Multiple Patentee Names: No Entry Classification: Sale-Cash Entries
Legal Land Description:
# Aliquot
Parts Block # Base Line Fractional
Section Township Range Section #
1 NESE HUNTSVILLE No 3S 5E 22
Census: 1840, AL Dekalb.1
10001 12001
Censused "down the
road"...
Isaac Little , J. Johnson, L.
McPherson, Geo, McPherson, Jn Briggs, J. G. Winston, W. YCammie?, W. M.
Bimmon?, B. H. Berry, J. Berry, J. Busket, D. Malone, H. Lovelady, W. M. Byown,
M. H. Stuart, T. Pitts, D. McDaniel, W. M. Griffin, ISRAEL COX
Census: 1850, MS Tishomingo
County. Down the road
John Scruggs TN, C. Mcbride TN,
Israel COX SC, J. C. Combs VA, Joseph Lester SC
Residence: Apr 1853, TX Tarrant.50
1853-1854: They migrate to Texas...From the notes of Mrs. Maurine Milson:
"In the spring of 1854 Israel and Elizabeth traveled to Texas with her
brother, El Nathan Hudgins and his family. They stopped in Birdville, (Tarrant
County) Texas. After Israel Cox rented a house and settled his family, he
registered in Tarrant Co. In the school census it shows that he registered his
school age children: 1. Delila E. Cox; 2. Martha J. Cox; 3. Mary A. Cox; 4.
Harriet E. Cox."
Estate Sale: 1856, TX Tarrant.
Estate Records- Tarrant Co., TX, Vol. 18, p.3 Estate of D. Woodward, deceased,
ISRAEL COX among many who owed
the doctor money. 7/5/1856.
Poll tax: Jul 1856, TX Tarrant.51
Israel Cox paid poll tax-
1856-50 cents, a state tax of 50
cents, and a county tax of 25 cents. No real property listed.
1857-1857: Israel Cox reported as
having paid a poll tax of 75 cents, a state tax of 50 cents, and a county tax
of 25 cents. No real property listed.
1858- First ownership of real
property appears: 111 (?) acres, Israel COX original grantee; 22 cattle.
Texas Land Abstracts: 1859, TX
Tarrant. District: Robertson
County: Tarrant
Grantee: Liberty J. Teeter
Patentee: Israel Cox
Patent Date: 05 Jul 1859
Patent #: 422
Patent Volume: 24
Acres: 320
Class: Rob. 3rd.
File: 2826
Census: 1860, TX Wood,
Springville. COX
Israel 51 M Farmer SC
Elizabeth 41 Fe Tn
John B. 21 M Laborer Al
Delilah 20 Fe Al
Mary A. 17 Fe Ms
Harriett E. 13 Fe Ms
Thomas 10 M Ar
James 8 M Tx
Samuel 2 M Tx
Elizabeth 17 Fe Il
Emory, the county seat and
largest town of Rains County, is at the junction of U.S. Highway 69 and State
Highway 19, at the center of the county. When Rains County was organized in
1870 Springville became the county seat, and the name was changed to Emory in
honor of Rains, who had played an important role in the authorization of the
county. BIBLIOGRAPHY: William Oscar Hebison and Ambrose Fitzgerald, Early Days
in Texas and Rains County (Emory, Texas: Leader Print, 1917; rpt., Garland,
Texas:...
Civil War: 1861, TX.51
1861 - According to his son, Jim Cox, Israel was alive at the beginning of the
war, because he gave the family's best horses to his daughters' husbands (or
husband's-to-be) when they went off to war. I found some of these men listed on
the Wood County Gen Web site under the listings of men who'd mustered into the
CSA from Wood County.
However, Dee Flacy wrote me that
at the end of the war, Jim took his younger brother Samuel, and they
"wandered the countryside, surviving as best they could." I do not
know why this would have been, with grown siblings living nearby (if they'd
stayed in Wood County) or Elizabeth's family nearby (if they'd returned to
Tarrant County, where Dee says Israel & Elizabeth are buried). M y dad
often told me that his grandfather Jim Cox had been raised by an uncle, El
Nathan Hudgins, who was the founder of the First Methodist Church of Grapevine.
In 1870, Israel's youngest child, Samuel, is found in the census in the
household of Thomas Hudgins, one of El Nathan's sons, but Jim Cox is not found
in El Nathan's home or in Thomas' home
Biographical note: Cir 1870, TX.
Israel Cox is said to have died on a land-buying trip.
Israel married Sarah Elizabeth
Hudgins of TX Wood County [20] [MRIN: 21] on 6 Mar 1836 in AL
Jackson County.52
Children from this marriage were:
i. John B. Cox [256] was born on 19
Feb 1837 in Bellafonte (Jackson) AL/Jackson Co., AL and died after 1870 in TX
Wood County, Point/Emory.
ii. Delila E. Cox [257] was born on 23
Nov 1838 in AL Jackson County, Bellafonte, died on 10 Feb 1904 in Goldthwaite,
TX at age 65, and was buried in Rocksprings Cemetery.
iii. Martha Jane Cox [263] was born on
26 Sep 1843 in Bellafonte, Jackson, LA53 and died after 1880 in TX
Kaufman County census.
iv. Mary Ann Cox [33] was born on 10
Jun 1845 in MS Tishomingo County, died in 1914 in OK Love County, Orr54
at age 69, and was buried in OK Orr Cemetery.
v. Elizabeth Frances Cox [47] was
born on 13 Oct 1846 in MS Tishomingo County and died before 1860.55
vi. Harriet Elizabeth Cox [48] was born on 23 Jul
1848 in MS Tishomingo County, was christened in 1850 in MS Tishomingo County,
and died after 1880 in TX Tarrant census.
vii. Alabama Eveline Cox [44] was born
on 10 Jan 1852 in TX and died in 1853 at age 1.
viii. James William Cox Lawyer [262] was
born on 4 Jan 1854 in Grapevine, Tarrant, TX, died on 12 Jun 1952 in San
Angelo, Tom Green, TX49 at age 98, and was buried in Emory, Rains,
TX Emory Cemetery.
ix. Samuel Israel Cox [264] was born
on 6 May 1859 in TX Tarrant County, Birdville, died on 26 Apr 1941 in TX
Tarrant, Tate Springs at age 81, and was buried in Hawkins, Kennedale Cemetery,
Tarrant, TX.
12 x. Jesse Thomas Cox
"Tom" [1]
25. Sarah Elizabeth Hudgins of TX Wood County
[20], daughter of Benjamin J
Hudgins Sc Pendleton [265] and Martha Ellis [266], was born on 6 May 1819 in TN
Franklin, Winchester Maybe, was christened in 1860 in TX Wood County census,
died before 1870 in TX Tarrant Maybe, and was buried in TX Tarrant Minor's
Cemetery On D/Fw Airport Property.
Census: 1870. I can't find her,
so she may have died before the census as did he.
Sarah married Israel Cox of TX
Wood County [17] [MRIN: 21] on 6 Mar 1836 in AL
Jackson County.52
26. Josiah Hardin Sanders CSA + [128],56 son of Rev.
John Sanders Baptist War of 1812 [3701] and Alexandria Richardson
Robins [4032], was born in 1829 in TN McNairy
Maybe and died in Nov 1863 in CSA Civil War, "Round Mountain Battle"
maybe57 at age 34. Another name for Josiah was Hardin Sanders, or
Saunders.
General Notes: J. H. Sanders
Regiment Name Baird's Reg't Texas
Cavalry (Showalter's)
4th Cal AZ Brigade Confederate
Company D
Soldier's Rank_In Private
Soldier's Rank_Out Private
No I do not have much on the
Sanders, I found Martha and her family in the 1860 census, her father was
listed as J. H. Sanders 28yrs, TN and mother L. E.(Elizabeth Rushing), children
M. J. (f) 6yrs, A. T. (f) 5yr, J. M.(m) 3yrs. 1870 census, Elizabeth is now
married to a E.C. Hicks,
Children, Sanders, Martha 16,
Amanda 14, James 12, Lafayett 9, Jefferson 7,.
My thought on J. H. is he may
have died in the Civil War but have not proof, I have not been able to find any
thing on him. I do know where Elizabeth's family lived in Van Zandt Co. and a
family cemetery is. I also have found a Jefferson and Lafayett Sanders in the
1900 census in OK, I do know they lived in OK, Elizabeth is living with one of
them and is quite old, she also divorced E. C. Hicks in Rains Co. TX in the 1880's.
My dads sister Vada is still
living and is 87 yrs old and has a wonderful memory she has help me so much,
she remembers Jefferson and Lafayette coming to visit them but can't remember
where in Ok they lived their wife's or children.
I remember Martha I was about
8yrs old when she died and I remember her as a mean old woman that would not
let us come in the room where the fire place was she would chase us out with
the poker, some memory !!
I have a picture of her I will
send you and also a picture of her, James and all the kids. I will send them
separate. I will also send you the info I have on both families. It will take
me awhile to send that I have a little info that I need to add.
How are you related to the
Rabe's. Are you close to Salt Lake City?
----- Original Message -----
From: Helen Skaggs
To: donlgiddens@hubwest.com
Sent: Thursday, October 18, 2001
8:49 PM
Subject: Rabe's
Hi Rev. Don, I saw you gen. info.
you added to the World Connect Project(Ancestry.Com).
I would be interested in knowing
more about your family and how you connect to mine.
James Rabe/ Martha Sanders.
And I would like to sent you the
correct info on Richard Rabe/Josie Allen, you see that is my grandparents and
their son Claude was my dad.
I have quite a bit of info on
Robert W/ Mary Polly Stockton and James/Martha, I would be glad to exchange
info.
I live in Van Alstyne, TX, where
do you live?
Helen
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A Francis Sanders 1776-1826 is
buried in Jackson, Madison, TN where some of the Rushing girls were born.
Aletha Sanders d 10/12/1837 bd
next to him.
In 1850, A Mary L Sanders 65 is
censused b NC.
Companies of Van Zandt County
[Mr. Roberts notes that pages 17
through 20 of the original archive papers were missing.]
12th Brigade TX Miltia
V A N Z A N D T
C O U N T Y T E X A S
The first Company organized in
this County was a Volunteer
Company, organized by Capt.
Whetstone and heretofore forwarded
to your office asking immediate
service in the State or out of it.
C O M P A N Y N O . 2
( R E S E R V E )
1. Casper McBride, Capt. 6.
W. R. White, 2d Sargt.
2. B. W. Anderson, 1st Lt. 7. J.
Bruton, 3d "
3. P. J. Hill, 2nd "
8. G. Y. Ellis, 4th "
4. J. W. Reeves, 3d "
9. J. P. Williams, 1st Corp.
5. H. B. Anderson, O.S. 10. C. Burnett, 2nd "
12. Matthew Johnson, 4th
Corp. 11. Wm. A. James, 3rd "
P R I V A T E S
13. Jacob Humble 14. M. L. Parsons 15. J. M. Thompson
16. N. G. Meek 17. E. W. Bridges 18. (skipped)
19. S. J. Sanders 20. J. Kellana 21. C. H. Ellis
22. Jno. McBride 23. Wm. Murray 24. John Howell
25. R. J. Hick 26. Wm. White 27. J. W. Greggory
28. S. L. Minor 29. H. Braden 30. Neal Martin
31. James Mills 32. Moses James 33. David Furguson
34. Sam'l Mills 35. A. B. Myric 36. Sam'l Jones
37. J. G. Norris 38. Jno. Painter 39. H. W. Whisenhunt
40. A. V. Smith 41. And. Barnett 42. J. M. Jones
43. H. B. Cartwright 44. Jno. Richardson 45. Wm. Freeman
46. Silas Meadows 47. Wade Blasingame 48. Wm. Wilson
49. Jno. McMillan 50. C. B. Owen 51. Jno. A. Jones
52. L. M. Barker 53. D. Cartwright 54. Wm. Flatt
Post Office: Mustang, Van Zandt Co., Tex.
THE STATE OF TEXAS )
VAN ZANDT COUNTY )
I hereby certify that the above names have
been enrolled by me
as an a_a (active) Company of
Reserve(s) under the authority of the
Brigadier General, S. M.
Flournoy, and in accordance to the suggestions
of the Adjutant General of the
State and that on the 22d of July at
Gray Bluff in Van Zandt County,
and after due.... at a regulat
meeting of the Company the above
named officers were elected.
Isaac Anderson, Enrolling Officer
July 29th, 1861.
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Military: : NM, LA, TX. Julius
Giesecke joined a company of young Texas German volunteers, entered the
Confederate service with the
Fourth Texas Calvary
under the command of Captain
Marinus Van der Heuvel. Upon the death of Capt. Van der Heuvel during the New
Mexico campaign, Julius was promoted to Captain and continued to serve with
distinction elsewhere during the war. He and some of his men even endured
capture and imprisonment at the hands of the Union Army, escaping into the
swamps of Virginia after a revolt on board a ship. He later returned to
Louisiana and Texas to fight in the war west of the Mississippi until Robert E.
Lee's surrender in 1865.
Immigrated: 1837, MS. from
McNairy TN
Census: 1840, MS Tishomingo.1
Sa(u)nderses censused:
Alfred p21 1840-45
Alfred p221
Isaac p009 1845
S.A. p002
John p20
John p230 1837-1840
David p024 (1845)
Census: 1850, MS Tishomingo.1
in the home of Joseph and Louisa Jane (Sanders) Carter
Census: 1850, MS Tishomingo.1
Down the road
Whitehursts
J. Burton
J Carter 1810 GA
Nancy 1824 TN
J. M. Sanders 1819 TN (must be
Nancy's brother)
Harden 1829 TN (must be J. M.'s
brother)
Caroline 1843 MS
Nancy 1845 MS
Thursday? 1847 MS
Amanda 1849 MS- Could this be Amanda Theresa Sanders??
Hughes
Census: 1850, MS Tishomingo.1
Possibly kin to our Thos Jesse Cox clan:: surnames
Household 37 Christopher Cox
(later in Wood County, TX)
Household 51 RUSHING
Household 61 COX
Household 85 our ISRAEL COX
(later in Wood County, TX)
Household 92 Frazier
Household 103 Frazier
Household 105 Frazier
Household 111 Calvery
Household 120 Calvery
Household 120 RIAL COX (Israel's
twin) md a Frazier, then a Calvary
or vice-a-reversa
Household 121 WM COX
Household 128 Hutchens (maybe
Hudgins)
Household 131 Calvary
Household 137 HUDGINS
Household 142 RUSHING
Census- Sa(u)nders: 1850, MS
Tishomingo.1 Delany 032 s/o M. desc of Abraham Sanders (moved to
Tish in 1848)
J. M. 009 1819 TN, Hardin 1829
TN, Caroline 1841, Mary 1843, David 1845
J. W. 013 and Nancy cn Jms 1825
TN, Josias 1827 TN WM 1829 TN Susan 1833 TN Avoline 1835 TN, Nancy 1833 AL, JN
1839 AL, Geo. 1838 AL, Jacob 1840 AL, Amanda 1843 AL, Isaac 1845 AL
J. M. 024
M 031
Jn 042
Robert 156
Births: 1855, TX.31
Amanda Theresa and Martha Jane both supposedly born same year. Twins?
Birth of child: 1857, TX. James
Marion Sa(U)nders
Census: 1860, TX Ellis County.58
1860 Census: Ellis Co Co., TX pg 38, sheet 39
J.H. Saunders 28M Farmer Tenn.
L.E. 23F Miss.
M.J.(maybe Martha Jane) 6F Texas
A.T.(maybe Amanda Theresa) 5F
Texas
J.M.(maybe James Marion) 3M Texas
Aunt Bessie (Cox) Martin said the
Sanders had slaves.
This may be them in TEXAS in
1860, if they had a farm in Ellis County.
One J. H. Sanders owned a plantation located
between Wills Point, Texas and the communities of Flats and Lynch. He also
owned slaves. Martha's father had fought
in the Civil War.
Marcus Lafayette was born in 1860
in Wood reportedly.
Child born: 1860, TX Wood or
Ellis County. Marcus Lafayette Sa(u)nders
Civil War: Mar 1861, TX Calvary,
4Th Reg (Showalters).59 Ellis County
or
Baird's Regiment TX Calvary CSA
M227 roll 32 and roll 33 for Dan
Showalter
Military: 1 Sep 1861, TX Ellis
County.60 The "Ellis County Rangers" unit was formed.
Child born: 1862, TX Wood or
Ellis. Jefferson Monroe Sa(u)nders born.
Residence: 1862, TX Wood County
or Ellis. if he was still there when his son was born.
Military: 11 Aug 1862, Des Arc,
Arkansas.60 T. J. Sanders of the "Ellis County Rangers"
died of fever.
Fact: 1863, RootsWeb.61
Moses Marion Sanders of Alcorn County, Mississippi, was a son of John Sanders
and Aby Robins and a grandson of the Reverend Moses Sanders and Mary Hamilton.
In a memoir written for his family about 1880 he stated:
"Our grandfather Moses
Sanders was born in the early part of the 18th century. His life was spent in
agriculture as a pursuit and theology as a profession being a Baptist preacher.
Our grandfather John Robins was a merchant in Virginia. John Sanders, our
father, was born in North Carolina March 2nd A.D. 1787. Our mother, Aby
Richardson Sanders, daughter of John Robins, was born in Virginia August 18th
1796."
He then talks about his brothers
and sisters and adds,
"Josiah Hardin lived in
Texas, engaged in farming and stock raising, was a brave soldier and lost his
life in defense of his country 1863."
Before John and Aby moved to
Tishomingo County, Mississippi, they lived in McNairy County, Tennessee. Josiah
Hardin married Elizabeth Rushing and they had five children, all born between
before 1862 in Texas.
For these reasons, I believe
Josiah Hardin was a son of John Sanders and Aby Robins, not James Sanders and
Sarah Sell.
Death: 1863/1861?, CSA.62
"Josiah Hardin lived in Texas, engaged in farming and stock raising, was a
brave soldier and lost his life in defense of his country 1863."
1861 is more likely. We need to
look up the muster rolls on microfilm at one of the large libraries. DLG 2006
Battle of Round Mountain
On November 19, 1861, the
Confederate troops pursued the Unionist Indians to Round Mountain, but they ran
headlong into a line of resistance that was nearly twelve hundred men long; the
volley from the Creek soldiers cut down several of the unwary Confederates who
then retreated. The Creek forces, led by Creek war chiefs Billy Bowlegs, John
Chupco, Halleck Tuskenugge and Little Captain, had formed a defensive line to
protect the women, children, the elderly and the livestock of Opothle Yahola's
band. [144] Cooper reinforced his troops and again attacked the renegades with
the full force of the combined armies of the Confederacy. Drew's forces had not
yet decided commit to this action. The battle became quite heavy until darkness
fell upon the combatants, forcing both sides to break off the engagement. [145]
Cooper's force was defeated in the battle, losing nearly twenty men in the engagement;
in his inflated reports to military authorities, he reported the loyal Indians
losses to be 110 killed and wounded. [146]
Keetoowah Society notes Avocation of Religious ...
Military: 1863, Ft. Washita 2 OK
Indian Territory.59 The place he may have died if he was the J. H.
Sanders.
Late 1863 Indian Territory
Little is known about the activities of the
two battalions prior to December, 1863. In September 1863, while stationed in
the Indian Territory, Lt. Colonel Showalter's Battalion apparently engaged
hostile Indians in north Texas....
DG' notes
If Josiah died in 1863 as said
and he was in the 4th Calvary as stated then, he did not participate in other
battles of Baird's AZ where they
..massacred a USA Negro battalion
against orders ( they were to take as many prisoners as possible but took only
a handful.
...then some of the Showalter's
men left destitute without supplies wandered in Cooke County living off the
land, and scavenging what they could. These men has to be rounded up by another
regiment.
, and 30 November 1863 the
battalion was ordered to report to Brigadier General H. E. McCullouch at
Bonham, Texas.
On December 15, 1863, the
regiment was ordered to consolidate once again in the region of San Antonio, in
response to the threat of a Union sea-borne invasion. The regiment was to serve
in a command called "The Cavalry of the West," under the command of
Colonel John Salmon Ford (popularly known as "R.I.P." Ford due to his
habit, when filling out death certificates, of adding the abbreviation
"R.I.P."...for "Rest in Peace"... after the names of those
men under his command who had "gone to meet their maker"). However,
this consolidation did not apparently happen at that time, because although
Baird's Battalion was apparently with Ford at San Antonio as of February 5,
Showalter's Battalion apparently did not join the rest of the regiment until
March 31, 1864.31
CSA: 1863, Ft. Washita, Indian
Territory 1.1 The J. H. Sanders censused in Ellis County in 1860
well might be our Josiah Hardin Sanders.
The following soldier appears to
be the same person ESPECIALLY since
Baird's AZ Regiment did recruit
in Ellis County. A picture is attached of the AZ unit in Ellis County in 1864
along with new recruits. So, they had already been in battle in North Texas and
the Indian Territory. Josiah must have been killed before the picture if he
died in 1863.
Sanders, J. H.
Confederate
Cavalry
Baird's Regiment, Texas Cavalry
(Showalter's) (4th Regiment, Arizona Brigade)
980 soldeirs
The 4th Regiment, AZ Brigade was
never in Arizona! It fought from along the Red River, to San Antonio, to
Brownsville.
Its founder, Spruce Baird, wanted
to reatke AZ territory but never made it out of Texas and the Oklahoma
Territory.
Don Giddens 2006.
Josiah Hardins Sanders' brother
reported that he died in the CSA in 1863. If that be the case, then he died
before the picture was taken on previous excursions. Note the brief
descriptions of the outfit in 1863.
The FOURTH TEXAS CAVALRY
REGIMENT, ARIZONA BRIGADE was the brainchild of Spruce McCoy Baird, former
attorney general of New Mexico Territory (U.S.) and an ardent secessionist who
had accompanied the Confederate Army of New Mexico when it retreated back to
Texas. Baird began to recruit troops for the recapture of Arizona, at first
independently of the larger effort which John R. Baylor was organizing at Eagle
Lake, Texas. However, by the end of 1862 Baird had moved his recruiting efforts
to Eagle Lake, and his embryonic regiment became part of the Arizona Brigade.26
1863
The Fourth Regiment was organized
in February 1863, with Spruce Baird himself commissioned as Colonel and placed
in command of the regiment. Other field officers were Major Edward Riordan and
Lt. Colonel Daniel Showalter.27
Lt. Colonel Showalter, who would
later command the Fourth Regiment after Baird resigned in early 1864, was a
California politician and ardent Southern sympathizer who had been captured and
imprisoned by Union authorities in November 1861 while attempting to leave
California on his way to join the Confederate army in Texas. Released from his
enforced confinement at Fort Yuma after five months, Showalter made a second
attempt to defect, this time successfully. Slipping through the Mexican state
of Chihuahua, Showalter made his way to Texas, where he took a commission in
the Fourth Regiment.28
Baird's recruiting efforts were
never as successful as those of Baylor, and Baird was forced to move his
recruiting efforts yet again in early 1863. He set up headquarters near the
Pecos River, in far west Texas, and his recruiters (Josiah could have been a
recruiter) signed up draft evaders, deserters, and other riff-raff who had
drifted into the no-man's-land between Confederate Texas and Union-held New
Mexico. Naturally, the discipline and quality of the regiment suffered as a
result.29
The Fourth Regiment only took to
the field in late 1863, due to the slowness with which its ranks were filled.
The regiment was not assigned to a specific brigade or division for most of the
war, but rather was used as a sort of "mobile reserve" force, to be
moved wherever it was needed. And shortly after it took the field, it was
apparently divided into two Battalions of five companies each.
Late
1863
One of these, under Lt. Colonel
Showalter, was ordered to Fort Washita, Cherokee Nation, in the Indian
Territory (present-day Oklahoma), and the other, under Colonel Baird, was sent
to Brazoria County, on the Texas Gulf Coast.30
The J. H Sanders was under
Colonel Showalter, so he must have died when they had their battle(s) in or
near Ft. Washita in late 1863 in Indian skirmishes -or- as happened to many CSA
troops died of disease. An epidemic of measles hit Ft. Washita about then, and
many died.
Ft. Washita 2
Battle: 1863, OK.63
30. 1863 - Skirmish, Tahlequah, Indian Territory.
Maybe this is where Hardin was
killed.
Military: 1863, TX CSA.64
The following battles took place in late 1863 in TX.
Sept. 8 Action, Sabine Pass NEW
YORK--75th and 161st Infantry. Union loss, 30 killed and wounded, 200 missing.
Total, 230.
Nov. 2 Occupation of Brazos de Santiago
Island.. IOWA--19th Infantry. Nov. 6 Occupation of Point Isabel IOWA--20th
Infantry.
Nov. 6 Occupation of Brownsville
IOWA--19th Infantry. MAINE--13th Infantry. MISSOURI-Battery "B," 1st
Light Artillery. WISCONSIN--20th Infantry.
Nov. 17 Capture of Aransas
IOWA--26th Infantry. MAINE--13th and 15th Infantry.
Nov. 17 Capture of Mustang
Island, Aransas Pass.. IOWA--26th and 34th Infantry. MAINE--13th and 15th
Infantry. MISSOURI--Battery "F," 1st Light Artillery.
Nov. 23 Skirmish, Cedar Bayou
MAINE--15th Infantry (Detachment). Nov. 23-Dec. 2... Expedition to Rio Grande
City ILLINOIS--37th Infantry (7 Cos.).
Nov. 27-30 Action and capture, Fort Esperanza
ILLINOIS--33d and 99th Infantry. INDIANA--8th and 18th Infantry. IOWA--23d,
26th and 34th Infantry. MAINE--13th and 15th Infantry. MICHIGAN--Battery
"G," 1st Light Artillery. MISSOURI--Battery "F," 1st Light
A rtillery. Union loss, 1 killed, 2 wounded. Total, 3. Dec. 29 Action,
Matagorda Peninsula MAINE--13th Infantry (Cos. "C," "H" and
"K"). U.S. Gunboat "Sciota." 1864.
Military: 1863, TX.65
During the war Between the States and immediately following, the Comanches, now
joined by their fierce kinsmen, the Kiowa, took captive many white women and
children, killed large numbers of frontier people and drove the settlers back
into Northern Texas.
Josiah Hardin lived in Texas
engaged in farming and stock raising was a brave soldier and lost his life in
defense of his country 1863.
Military: 1864, Camp San
Fernando.66 Military post on San Fernando Creek, near this site.
Guarded the lifeline of the Confederacy, the cotton road, export-import route
that ran from the Sabine River in East Texas to the Rio Grande. Manned 1862 by
32nd Texas Calvary flying Bonnie Blue flag; in 1863, a banner lettered:
"We fight for our rights". Temporarily occupied, November 1863, by
Gen. H. P. Bee. In February 1864 a strong complement arrived under Col. J. S.
(RIP) Ford. Col. Matt Nolan reported to Ford a victory over Federals under
Capt. C. Balerio 50 miles southwest on Banquete. Winning troops were under
Capt. Thomas Cater, Wm. Tate, Taylor, and A. J. Ware, plus home guard under
Capt. Santiago Richardson. (Capt. Richard King, of King Ranch, also served in
the home guard.) Col. Ford's "Cavalry of the West" included Maj.
Felix A. Von Blucher, chief of staff; capts. H. C. Merritt and J. Littleton,
commissaries; Col. Albert Walthersdorff, technician; Capt. W. G. M. Samuels,
ordnance. On March 30, 1864, the Arizona companies of Lt. Col. Daniel Showalter
reached Camp San Fernando. In April Col. Ford and Col. Santos Benavides
attacked the Federals in the Rio Grande Valley. Cols. Nolan and B. F. Fry
continued to watch over the cotton road and "keep an eye" on Corpus
Christi.
*addendum Captain Cockerel of
Showalter's 4th was killed in this battle. from (Rip Ford's book). DLG 2006
Kinship: 2002, Blanding, UT.1
The reason I "connected" our Hardin Sanders to John and Abby
was because the descendants of
Louisa "Jency" Sanders
who married Joseph Carter, have
her as daughter of a John and Abby
Sanders. The only John and Abby I have found as of 2003 were the ones censused
in Tishomingo MS.
Censused
IN THE household of Louisa and
Joseph Carter is a J. M. Sanders. Below him is a Hardin, evidently a SANDERS
not a Carter since he is listed below J. M. Sanders.
Microfilm: 2006. Microfilms of
the rosters of Baird's Calvary may be seen at some major libraries.
M323 - 180 Baird's Cavalry (4th
Regiment, Arizona Brigade; Showalter's Regiment) A--L
M323 - 181 Baird's Cavalry (4th
Regiment, Arizona Brigade; Showalter's Regiment) M--Y
I have not had an opportunity to
see them.
Don Giddens -2006
Josiah married Sarah Elizabeth
Rushing of Tn Madison [121] [MRIN: 134] circa 1853 in TX
maybe.
Children from this marriage were:
13 i. Amanda Theresa
Sanders of Albany, TX [19]
ii. Martha Jane Sanders [147] was born
in 1855 in TX Wood County, died on 22 Jan 1944 at age 89, and was buried in
Lynch Cem, Point, Rains, TX.67
iii. James
Marion Sanders [149] was born in 1857 in TX, Parents MS MS and died
in 1913 in Caprock, Lea, NM (Chavez or Eddy) at age 56.
iv. Marcus
Lafayette Sanders [150] was born in Jul 1860 in TX Wood or Ellis,
died in 1940 in OK Oklahoma City at age 80, and was buried in Sweat Cemetery,
Deep Fork Township, OK. Another name for Marcus was Fate.
v. Jefferson Monroe Sanders [155] was
born in 1862 in TX Ellis probably and died in 1952 in OK Verden County, Grady
at age 90.
27. Sarah Elizabeth Rushing of Tn Madison [121], daughter of Mark Rushing Tn
[153] and Elizabeth Freeman Tn
[154], was born in Jan 1836 in TN
Madison Maybe, died circa 1906 in OK Elk City or OK City or CLovis NM 1928 at age 70, and was buried in Lea
County NM. Another name for Sarah was E. Rushing.
Census: 1880, TX Jack Censused.
with sons but none of the
daughters-in-law were listed.
Census: 1870, TX Wood County. E.
C. Hicks 44 Farmer AL
Elizabeth 31 MS
Sanders, Martha 16 TX
Sanders, Amanda 14 TX
Sanders, James 12 TX
Sanders, Lafayette 9 TX
Sanders, Jefferson 7 TX
Census: 6 Jun 1900, OK Elk
Township. -1900 Census, OK County, OK, Elk Township, 6th June, 1900, ED 165,
pag e 147A
55-35 Sanders, Marcus F Head
m-w-July 1860-m-5 TX-MS-MS
" Rosita A Wife
f--w-Dec-1869-m-5-3-3 ILL-IN-IN
" Dellia M Daughter
f-w-Dec-1895-s OK-TX-IN
Stella Daughter f-w-Mar-1897-s
OK-TX-IN
Hardin R Son m-w-N ov-1898-s
OK-TX-IN
" Elizabeth Mother
f--w-June-1836 MS-TN-TN
Sarah married Josiah Hardin
Sanders CSA + [128]56 [MRIN: 134] circa
1853 in TX maybe.
Sarah next married E. C. Hicks
[211] [MRIN: 136] aft Civil War.
28. Adam Linn Lindsey of Springtown, TX [302],24 son of John
William Lindsey Judge [304] and Margaret Peggy Linn Tn
Davidson [79], was born on 8 Apr 1831 in KY
Trigg County, Cadiz, died on 15 Feb 1903 in Springtown, Parker, TX68
at age 71, and was buried in TX Parker County, Veal Station Cemetery.
General Notes: Left Benton County
MO 1857 or 1858, and moved to Parker County, TX.
He first lived in Decatur, Wise,
TX then moved to Veal Station, Parker, TX. (Carolyn, GenForum)
He names one daughter Mary
Atlantic after the Old World, and another, Caledonia, after the New World.
Adam Linn Lindsey joined the
Texas Rangers under Capt. Thomasson in October, 1859, and served
until 1862. In July, 1895 he was
living in Springtown, Parker, TX.
Related Lindseys still live
there. 2001...Don Giddens
From the Bible of Mary Atlanta
Lindsey
Adam Linn Lindsey....
I am of Scotch descent. My mother
was Irish, Peggy Linn. I was born in Trigg County, KY 4/8/1831.
My father moved to Lafayett County,
MO in March of 1833. He settled in Benton County, near the county seat Warsaw
(which he named) on the Osage
River. He was elected county judge of that county in 1835. He died (on the
bench) in 1840.
Two years after his death, mother
married Dr. John Morris and moved to Newton County, MO in the year 1843.
There I was principally raised.
My mother died in Newton County, MO just ten years after my father's death.
My mother's people were of some
prominence. Her cousin, Linn Boyd, was a representative in Congress, and once
Speaker of the House.
Rev. Finis Ewing, another cousin,
was one of the founder's of the Cumberland Presbyterian Church.One of his
brothers was a candidate for Governor of Missouri on the Know Nothing ticket.
Bill Lindsey, one of my cousins, is a Representative in Congress at this time.
All of the Lindseys are Democrats
and most of them are Baptists.
Both of my grandfathers were in
the Revolutionary War. Grandfather Linn was wounded at the Battle of Cowpens.
(So was his grandfather Lindsey.) I moved to Texas in the last days of 1858.
Stopped at Decatur in Wise County, 3 January 1859. Served (in the Texas
Rangers) until the War of 1862. Was at Flanangan's Ranch on the headwaters of
the Leon River when I heard Lee had surrendered.
Came home and found Mary and the
children in a destitute condition.
Going back to 1848. I was married
to Mary Wormington, October 26, 1848, and settled down on a little farm of 80
acres, went to work, and accumulated property fast until 1852. In partnership
with my brother, Felix, I engaged in the Mercantile business. Sold goods two years, quit the goods
business, and went on a gold hunt in 1855. Spent all I had, traveled four long
months. Came home a poorer and wiser man.
I am now living July 6th, 1895 in
Springtown, Texas situated on the north side of Parker County, TX on the west
fork of the great Trinity River in a belt of timber called the lower cross
timbers of Texas.
A. L. Lindsey 7/6/1895
Occupation: 1848-1852. Farmer
Occupation: 1852-1854. Mercantile
business
Occupation: 1855.69
Went on a gold hunt, traveled four long months, spent all I had, and came back
a poorer but wiser man.
Land Certificate: 15 May 1857,
Springfield, MO. #18780
Whereas Adam L Lindsey of Newton
County, Missouri
has deposited in the GENERAL LAND
OFFICE of the United States, a
certificate of the REGISTER OF THE LAND OFFICE, at Springfield wherby it
appears that full payment has been made by the said Adam L Lindsey according to
the provisions of the Act of Congress of the 24th of April, 1820, entitled
"An act making further provision for the sale of Public Lands", for
THE WEST HALF OF THE SOUTH WEST
QUARTER OF SECTION ELEVEN, IN TOWNSHIP, TWENTY-FIVE, OF RANGE THIRTY, IN THE
DISTRICT OF LANDS SUBJECT TO SALE AT SPRINGFIELD, MISSOURI, CONTAINING EIGHTY
ACRES.
.........
In testimony whereof, I, James
Buchanan, PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, have caused these letters
to be made patent, and the seal of the GENERAL LAND OFFICE,
to be hereunto affixed.
Given under my hand, at the City
of Washington, the 15th day of May, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight
hundred and fifty-seven
and of the Independence of the
the United States the eighty-first
by the President
James Buchanan
G. H. Jones, Secretary
J. W. Granger, Recorder of the
General land Office
Biographical note: 1858, Camp
Verde, Kerr County, TX. The U.S. Army post of Camp Verde was established in
1855 and the town of Camp Verde followed shortly thereafter. The military post
was one of many situated to protect the Texas frontier. A post office for the
Camp Verde community opened in 1858 and is still operating as part of the Camp
Verde store. The community was subject to Indian attacks until after the Civil
War as were other small towns along the frontier. Today the Camp Verde
community consists of the Camp Verde store, the cemetery and the remains of the
military post. The town is located in Kerr County. SUBMITTED BY: Henry
Chenoweth
Camp Verde has a special
historical significance. It was the site of the U. S. Army's research into the
feasibility of using camels in the U. S. It seems that the experiment showed
that camels would not be used and the animals were released. Stories are told
of great beasts roaming thru the country frightening the residents. It seems
that some of the camels were the great beasts and when released became wild.
There may be some question concerning the truth of this but it makes a good
story. H. H Colvin
It is now a ghost town.
Military: 1859-1862.69
Minuteman or "Texas Rangers"
Military Service: 21 Jul 1862-Feb
1863, Camp Verde, TX. I certify that the within named A. Lindsey, Pvt. of
Captain Ch. de Montels company D of Frontier Regiment of Texas born in (Cadiz,
Trigg County)*...in the State of (KY*)....aged.31.*.years....feet....inches....high...complexion...(he
was dark complected with dark eyes*- Don Giddens 2002)...and by profession a
(Baptist*) was mustered into the service by Ch. de Montel at Camp Verde on the
21st of July 1862 to serve for one year, and is now entitled to a discharge by
reason of order from Adj. Gen. Jeparks.
For pay from 21st of July 1862 to
9th of February 1863 being six months 20 days at $12 per month.....
For use of horse from 21st of
July 1862 to 9th of February 1863 being 204 days @ 40 cents a day...$81.60
For use of Arms from 21st of July
1862 to 9th of February 1863 being six months 20 days at one dollar per
month..$6.66
For pay for traveling from place
of discharge to place of mustering into service being 15
(scratched out) miles, twenty miles
a day equal to one day (scratched out) at 24 per month $80 (scratched out)
For six months 20 days clothing @
$25 for six months $27.77
He is indebted to the State of
Texas
for clothing furnished to him in
kind...shoes, 1 jacket, 1 pair of pants, 1 pair of drawers, 1 shirt
$12.71
The contract price of the ration
at Camp Verde is 75 cents.
Given in duplicate at Camp Verde
this 9th day of February, 1863.
Charles de montel, Commanding
Officer
Total pay received $183.32 paid
in full
Note: Name was according to the
Quartermaster- A. M. Lindsey
Signed A. Linsey
Note: handwriting neat and legible- this might
NOT have been Adam Linn LIndsey. But, we do have family history of him serving
as a Frontier Scout.
* Information in parenthesis
added by Don Giddens-2002
Census: 1880, TX Parker County.
9310 Lindsey, A. L. 1831 MW KY Precinct
1
M. A. dau 1860 FW TX
MM dau 1870 FW TX
MJ wife 1830 TN FW
ZF son MW 1868 TX
Census: 1880, TX Parker County.
LINDSAY, Harriet Mother <1822> F W KY : Precinct4
9133 LINDSAY, Henry Self
<1845> M W KY : Precinct4
9142 LINDSAY, Ludwell Brother
<1862> M W KY : Precinct4
9137 LINDSAY, Young Brother
<1857> M W KY : Precinct4
9127 LINDSEY, Carline Wife
<1816> F W NY : Weatherfor
9134 LINDSEY, Chas W Self
<1850> M W MO : Precinct1
9145 LINDSEY, Chas. Son
<1870> M W TX : Weatherfor
9149 LINDSEY, Clyda Dau
<1877> F W TX : Precinct2
9152 LINDSEY, Della Dau
<1879> F W TX : Precinct2
9153 LINDSEY, Dora C. Sister
<1879> F W TX : Precinct1
9132 LINDSEY, F.E. Self
<1841> F W NC : Weatherfor
9138 LINDSEY, George Self
<1859> M W KY : Precinct4
9147 LINDSEY, H H Son
<1874> M W TX : Precinct1
9136 LINDSEY, Hariet E Wife
<1853> F W MS : Precinct1
9135 LINDSEY, James Self
<1851> M W MO : Precinct2
9141 LINDSEY, Jno. Son
<1862> M W TX : Weatherfor
9128 LINDSEY, John Self
<1816> M W NY : Weatherfor
9140 LINDSEY, Lucy Wife
<1860> F W TX : Precinct4
9151 LINDSEY, M C Son
<1878> M W TX : Precinct1
9139 LINDSEY, Madaline Wife
<1859> F W TX : Precinct2
9154 LINDSEY, Robert Son
<1879> M W TX : Precinct4
9150 LINDSEY, S. J. T. Son
<1877> M W TX : Precinct1
9148 LINDSEY, Walter G. Son
<1875> M W TX : Precinct1
9144 LINDSEY, Wm. Son
<1865> M W TX : Weatherfor
9131 LINDSY, Charles Self
<1833> M W MO : Weatherfor
9143 LINDSY, Charles E. Son
<1865> M W TX : Weatherfor
9130 LINDSY, Janey Wife
<1830> F W OH : Weatherfor
9146 LINDSY, Marget C. Dau
<1870> F W TX : Weatherfor
Autobiography: 6 Jul 1895, TX
Parker County.69 Sketch of the Life of Adam Linn Lindsey
I am of Scotch descent. My
mother, Peggy Linn, was Irish; my father John W. Lindsey, was Scotch.
I was born in Trigg County,
Kentucky, April 8, 1831.
My father moved to Lafayette
County, MO in March 1833. He settled in Benton County near the county seat of
Warsaw (which he named- DLG) on the Osage River. He we elected county judge of
that county in 1835.
He died in January, 1840 (on the
bench). Two years after his death, my mother married Dr. John Morris and moved
to Newton County in the year 1843. There I was principally raised.
My mother died in Newton County,
MO just ten years after my father's death.
My mother's people were of some
prominence. Her cousin, Linn Boyd, was a Representative in Congress, and at one
time was Speaker of the House.
Rev. Finis Ewing, another cousin,
was one of the founders of the Cumberland Presbyterian Church. One of his
brothers was a candidate for the governorship of Missouri on the "Know
Nothing" ticket. Bill Lindsey, a cousin of mine, is a Representative in Congress
at this time.
All of the Lindseys are Democrats
and most of them are Baptists.
Both of my grandparents were in
the Revolutionary War.
Grandfather Linn was wounded at
the Battle of Cowpens.
I moved to Texas in the last days
of 1858. Stopped at Decatur, Wise County, Texas January 3, 1859. Next May, I
moved to Veal Station, Parker County, Texas.
There I joined Captain Thomson's
Ranger Company of Minutemen in October, 1859. Served until the war of 1862.
Was at Flannigan's Ranch on the
headwaters of the Leon River when I heard Lee had surrendered, came home, found
Mary and the children in a destitute condition.
Going back to 1848.
I was married to Mary Wormington,
October 26, 1848, and settled down on a little farm of eighty acres, went to
work and accumulated property fast until 1852 in partnership with my brother,
Felix, I engaged in the mercantile business. Sold goods two years, quits the
goods business, and went on a gold hunt in 1855. spent all I had, traveled four
long months, came home a poorer but wiser man.
I am now living 7/6/1895 in
Springtown, Texas situated on the north side of Parker County on the waters of
the west fork of the great Trinity River in a belt of timber known as the lower
cross-timbers of Texas.
A. L. Lindsey
Adam married Mary Jane Wormington
of Springtown, TX [303] [MRIN: 234] on 26 Oct 1848 in
Newton Co. MO.69
Children from this marriage were:
14 i. Charles William
Lindsey of TX Parker County [298]
ii. Caroline Lindsey [437] was born
about 1850.
iii. Felix Grundy Lindsey [436] was
born about 1850.
iv. Margaret Gertrude Lindsey [438]
was born on 3 Jul 1855 in TX70 and died in Chico, Texas.
v. Della Lindsey [435] was born about
1854.
vi. Caledonia Josephine Lindsey [1385]
was born on 25 Oct 1855 in MO and died on 31 Jul 1930 in Silver Creek, TX at
age 74. Another name for Caledonia was "Donie."
vii. Lanson Alvaro Lindsey [1390] was
born on 28 May 1853.70
viii. Mary Atlanta Lindsey [1832] was
born on 4 Jul 1860 in TX Parker County, Veal Station and died on 18 Apr 1943 in
California at age 82.
ix. Z. Frank Lindsey [1074] was born
on 8 Jul 1868 in TX.70
x. Minnie Mary Lindsey [1833] was
born on 23 Nov 1869 in TX.70 Another name for Minnie was Minnie Mae.
xi. Dr. James Romulus Lindsey CSA
[1065] was born on 12 Mar 1851 in Warsaw, Benton, MO, died on 11 Feb 1928 in
Springtown, Parker, TX8 at age 76, and was buried in Veal Station,
Parker County, TX.8
29. Mary Jane Wormington of Springtown, TX [303], daughter of Abraham Wesley
Wormington Tn [851] and Martha Turpin Tn Sumner
County [852], was born on 22 Nov 1829 in
Newton County, MO or TN,71 died on 8 Jul 1904 in Springtown, Parker,
TX at age 74, and was buried in TX Parker County, Veal Station.
Alt. Death: : Malaria.
Mary married Adam Linn Lindsey
of Springtown, TX [302]24 [MRIN: 234] on 26
Oct 1848 in Newton Co. MO.69
30. Our Stephen William Lewis KIA CSA [730],72 son of Our
William Lewis [3691] and Nancy/Dicy [3692], was born in 1825 in Jasper, MS,73
died on 20 Mar 1863 in CSA74 at age 38, and was buried in Corinth
National Cemetery MS or maybe Camp Chase. Other names for Stephen were Stephen
William per Alice Littlefield death certificate, Hiram, Our family had Thomas,
and but other kin had Stephen.
General Notes: The Lindsey book
says Thomas,
the Bandys desc of Fanny Lewis
say Stephen Lewis and Letha Stinnet.
These notes are true, if indeed,
this is the right Thomas Lewis!!
However, the Bandy desc of Fanny
Lewis think Letha's husband was Stephen or Steven Lewis. Fanny was adopted by
the man, Mr. Thorp, who helped start
Add-Ran College. ACU, in Abilene, now.
He was president of it.
1870 Hood County, TX census
lists:
John Matheny 62 farmer 600 500 MO
Nancy 57 TN
HARRIETT 11 MS
CHARLES 15 MS-
Maybe Thomas instead of Charles-
"disappeared from the wagon train".
1870 Hood County Census
John Lindsey 36 daylaborer TX- I
cannot identify these Lindseys.
Martha 37 TX
William 22 TN This might be
Charles William Lindsey, my great-grandfather.
however, he was born in MO.
James 31 TX
Next door to:
John D. Lewis 32 700 500 GA
Sarah 31 ALA
Willy 17 ALA
Evidently, Thomas, Alice, Fanny
were not in Hood County 1870.
Charles William Lindsey married
Harriet Elizabeth Lewis , January 11, 1872,
Thorp Springs, Hood, Tx.
1860 TX Census, Paris, Lamar
County
John Matheny 52 4172 $5520 KY
Mary Matheny 50 TN
George Bedford 21 MS
Julia Bedford 19 MS
Sarah Bedford 12 TX
It is said that Mr. Matheny
donated land to start a college in Thorp Springs. If so, that would be the
forerunner of Abilene Christian University, Abilene, TX.
It was originally called Thorp
College, then Add-Ran College.
A Stephen B. Lewis of Ohio served
in the Union army..
K1 Ohio Light Infantry
widow, Eliza moved to W. VA. Applied for widow's pension 1891. Albina
Lewis also claimed to be his widow.
A Stephen C. Lewis of MO served
in the E6 IL Calvary.
1879 Invalid's Pension
1898 Elizabeth, widow's pension.
MO.
Widow, ElLizabeth
Military: : Co. F Forest Guards,
20Th Infantry.
Children's Residence: 1870, Thorp
Spring, Hood, TX. Three of the children were married in Thorp Springs, Hood,
Texas:
Harriet Elizabeth Lewis to C. W.
Lindsey. 1/11/1872
Alice Jemima Lewis md John
Washington Steen, 8/1/1875
Sedora Frances "Fanny"
Lewis md James A. Bandy, 7/12/1877
Military: : MS CSA. 5th Reg. MS
Infantry State Troops Co B with a Simeon Lewis
if it is the same Stephen Lewis.
There are several.
Film Number M232 roll 23
Immigrated: 1672, VA. A Steven
Lewis immigrated to VA in 1672.
Alt. Birth: Abt 1832, Forest,
Scott, MS.
Census: 1850, MS Jasper. Next
door to William and Nancy
Stephen and Liddy, Thos.
Jefferson, and Mary- all b MS
Census: 1860, MS Jasper County,
Claiborne. NEXT DOOR TO William and Dicy
STINNETTS p1051 1058
Land: 1860, MS Jasper, Paulding.
79.8 acres
Census: 1880, TX Parker County.
Harriet has her father's bp as Ohio, but that MIGHT be his death place.
The earlier censuses show him
born in MS.
Stephen married SARAH Sidney
Letha Stennett of Ms Jasper [1232]72 [MRIN: 592] about
1847 in MS Jasper, Paulding probably.1
Children from this marriage were:
i. Lou Binion Adopted Also [3693]
ii. Allen Lewis of Morton, Scott, MS
[583] was born in 1849 in MS or Uniontown, Perry, ALA12 and died
before 1920.
iii. Mary Josephine Lewis [1621] was
born in 1850 in MS.
iv. Sarah Lewis Jr [9440] was born in
1852 in MS. Another name for Sarah was "Letha" I assume.
15 v. Harriet Elizabeth
Lewis of San Saba Texas [299]
vi. Charles Lewis of Erath County, Texas
[301] was born in 1854 in MS, died in 1875 in Lost On Way To TX From MS At Age
Of 12 at age 21, and was buried in Pigion Community, Erath, TX.
vii. Sedora Frances Lewis of Palo Pinto,
Texas [581] was born on 4 Jul 1855 in MS Jasper County, Claiborne,12
died in Jan 1940 in Houston, Harris, TX at age 84, and was buried in Mingus,
Palo Pinto, TX. Another name for Sedora was Fanny.
viii. Alice Jemima Lewis of Palo Pinto,
Texas [582] was born in 1856 in MS Jasper County,8 died on 3 Jan
1946 in TX Wichita Falls, State Hospital75 at age 90, and was buried
in Palo Pinto, TX.
ix. Littleton/Allan Crockett Lewis of
Collin County, Texas [9441] was born in 1856 in Claiborne, Jasper, MS, died
on 11 Nov 1920 in TX Haskell County, Haskell at age 64, and was buried in
Willow Cemetery.
x. Bigby Lewis [9443] was born in
1856 in MS.72
xi. George Terrell [9444] was born in
1857 in MS.72
xii. Jane Lewis [9442] was born in 1858
in MS Jasper County.
xiii. Thomas Jefferson Lewis [23064]
Stephen next married
someone.
His child was:
i. Sedora Frances Lewis [1210]
31. SARAH Sidney Letha Stennett of Ms Jasper
[1232],72 daughter of William
Hightower Stennett War of 1812 [3690] and Elizabeth Bynum Of
Bahamas [3694], was born in 1825 in MS73
and died circa 1865 in CSA Civil War at age 40. Another name for SARAH was
Liddy (1850 Jasper census) Stanit.
General Notes:
Descendants of David Stinnett
1
David Stinnett b:
1795 in Yellville, Marion Co., Arkansaw
d: 1863 in Marion Co., Arkansaw
. +Elizabeth Wood b: in Anderson Co.,
Tennessee d: in Arkansaw
...... 2
Letha Stinnett
.......... +Davis K. Tutt
...... 2
Elizabeth Stinnett b:
1827 in Arkansaw
.......... +Jesse Wickersham b: 1821 in Kentucky
...... 2
Isom Stinnett
...... 2
Benjamin Stinnett
...... 2
William M. Stinnett
...... 2
Wiley Stinnett b: August 25, 1842 d: February 18, 1910
Hi don,
I saw your messages on the forum.
I am descended from Lethe's brother Wiley. Lethe was born 1822 yellville ar.
died 1870 Yellville. She married Davis K. Tutt and I have three children for
them. Elizabeth b. 1840, Edmond b. 1842 and Benjamin b. 1849.
I hope this helps in some way..
Verna
Biographical note: Cir 1865, MS.
Died during the Civil War leaving their children orphans.
Census: 1850, MS Jasper. as LIDDY
SARAH married Our Stephen
William Lewis KIA CSA [730]72 [MRIN: 592] about
1847 in MS Jasper, Paulding probably.1
32. Our James 1800 Giddens Unproven F/O Jms T
[13376],2 son of NC TN
James 1749 Isham Giddens Constable [109] and Martha Mills
"Patty" [12462], was born in 1800 in NC Surry
Probably36 and died after 1850 in GA DeKalb census, Stone District.
Another name for James was Gittings.
Census: 1850, GA Dekalb, Stone's
District. Down the road...........1850 GA DeKalb, Stone's District
Alsobrooks
James Manor
Nathaniel Knight, 65, farmer- SC
wife, Nancy
Catherine, Mary, Elizabeth, Emma, Thomas, Edward, William
Joseph Manor and Emily,
farmer, GA
James Gitting 50 farmer NC wife
Sarah J. 36 GA- no cn listed
John Gilham, wife Letitia, James
T., Eleanor, Benjamin, William, Mary
William Baker, wife, Catherine-
Emily, Martha
Cynthia Green 65 f Clement 21
William 16 Cordelia 24 f
James married Sarah J.
[13377]2 [MRIN: 5714] circa
1829 in GA Probably.
The child from this marriage was:
16 i. Ga Ms James Thomas
Giddens Rr Engineer [12943]
James next married someone.
His child was:
i. Son Giddens [13378] was born circa
1825 in NC Bladen County Probably and was christened in 1840 in NC Bladen
County census.
33. Sarah J.
[13377]2 was born in 1814 in GA and died
after 1850 in GA DE Kalb, Stone's District.
Sarah married Our James 1800
Giddens Unproven F/O Jms T [13376]2 [MRIN: 5714] circa
1829 in GA Probably.
34. Archibald Young Paul War of 1812 [13893],76 son of William
Paul [22462] and Sarah [22463], was born in 1797 in SC, was
christened in 1850 in GA Henry Census, Mechanic, died in 1876 in TX Leesville,
Upshur County at age 79, and was buried in TX Leesville, Upshur County.
General Notes: not named as a
son, but as an heir
Immigrated: 1855, TX.77
Fact. hENRY coUNTY IS NEXT TO dE
kALB cOUNTY.
Archibald married Martha P
Russell [13894]2 [MRIN: 5931] on 4
Nov 1817 in SC Fairfield District.78
Children from this marriage were:
i. Mary M Paul [3947] was born in
1825 in GA Henry County.78
17 ii. Martha Jane Paul
of Ga Henry County [13895]
iii. Levi Washington Paul CSA [3945]
was born in 1828 in GA Henry County78 and died in 1881 in Arkansas79
at age 53.
iv. Captain James Patterson Paul State
Militia [13896] was born on 10 Feb 1831 in GA Henry County, near McDonough,79
died in 1905 in TX Ellis County, Waxahachie at age 74, and was buried in TX
Waxahachie.80
v. Archibald Franklin Paul [3940] was
born in 1840 in SC Orangeburgh District, Probably and died on 29 Dec 1926 in GA
Chatham at age 86.
vi. Elizabeth Paul [21217]
vii. Franklin A Paul KIA CSA [21220]
died circa 1865 in Chancellorsville CSA.77
viii. Paul [21235]
ix. Paul [21236]
x. Paul [21237]
35. Martha P Russell [13894],2 daughter of James
Russell Jr [3948] and Elizabeth Paul [3960], was born in 1802 in SC
Fairfield District, was christened in 1850 in GA Henry Census, and died in TX
Upshur County maybe.
Census: 1790, GA Franklin. Joseph
M Russell
Martha married Archibald Young
Paul War of 1812 [13893]76 [MRIN: 5931] on 4
Nov 1817 in SC Fairfield District.78
36. Anthony Mayes of AL Greene County [3627], son of James Mayes Northern
Ireland [3629] and Jane or Jean McElwain of
Pa [3630], was born on 19 Feb 1782 in SC,
died on 10 Sep 1848 in AL Greene County, Eutaw at age 66, and was buried in
Hebron Cemetery.
Occupation. farmer
Anthony married Cynthia
Otterson of AL Greene County [3628] [MRIN: 1425].
Children from this marriage were:
18 i. Samuel Otis
(Otterson) Mayes of Al Greene County [3595]
ii. Margaret Mayes [16837]
iii. Sarah Ann Mayes Maybe [22115] was
born in 1825, died in 1849 in Hebron Cemetery at age 24, and was buried next to
Cynthia.
iv. Elmirah J Mayes [22116] was born
in 1822, died in 1851 in Hebron Cemetery at age 29, and was buried in net to
Cynthia.
37. Cynthia Otterson of AL Greene County [3628], daughter of Major Samuel P.
Otterson Rws [3633] and Ruth Gordon [3636], was born on 3 Oct 1787 in SC,
died on 28 Jun 1852 in AL Greene County, Eutaw at age 64, and was buried in
Hebron Cemetery.
Cynthia married Anthony Mayes
of AL Greene County [3627] [MRIN: 1425].
38. John T. Bouchillon Elder [3597],81 son of Joseph
James Bouchillon Sc Bordeaux District [3599] and Susannah Guillebeau Sc
Bordeaux District [3600], was born on 17 May 1799 in SC Bordeaux,
Abbeville District81 and died on 16 Dec 1880 in TX Falls County,
Lott81 at age 81.
Church: 1869, Mantua, Greene, AL.81
Hebron Church, March 28th 1869. The Session met. Present: Reverend James M.
McLean [16], Moderator; Elders William Miller and James G. Harris. On motion,
ordered that letters of dismission from Hebron Church be granted to John T.
Bouchillon and Elizabeth Bouchillon to join any Church whereever in the
providence of God their lot may be cast and we cordially commend them to the Ministers,
Elders and Brethren. Brother Bouchillon has been an exemplary member and Elder
in this Church and we can but feel that our loss will be his and their gain.
William Miller, Clerk of Sessions
Church: 1828, Mantua, Greene, AL.
Hebron Presbyterian Church lasted from 1828 to 1905 when all the members moved
away or had died. The cemetery is in sad disrepair, and most of the graves now
are unmarked because of neglect and vandalism.
Census: 1880, TX Falls County.
Cemetery. LIVE OAK CEMETERY
Recorded by Mazie Hodges Love
Go south out of Lott from
blinking light on Hwy 77 for about 1 and 3/4 mile
Turn right on county road 490 go
about 2 and 1/2 miles where 390 dead ends into County Road 496
Turn left and go four tenths of a
mile and Live oak Cemetery is on the right.
History. Francis Sullivan
Bouchillon, b ca 1830 in South Carolina, d after 1900 in Falls County, Texas -
was a son of John Bouchillon, b ca 1800 in South Carolina, d 1880 in Falls
County, Texas, and his wife, Elizabeth (Doolittle) Bouchillon, d 1871 in Falls
County. Their ancestors were French Hugenots who came to America on the vessel,
"Friendship," which landed at Charleston, South Carolina on April 12,
1764.
John married Elizabeth or
Betsey Doolittle of TX Falls County [3598] [MRIN: 1407] in 1820.
Children from this marriage were:
19 i. Mary S. Bouchillon
of Al Greene County [3596]
ii. Benjamin Franklin Bouchillon CSA POW
[16830] was born on 19 Dec 1845 in Mantua, Greene, AL maybe, died on 19 Mar
1890 in Lott, Falls, TX81 at age 44, and was buried in Carolina
Cemetery near Chilton, TX.
iii. Lucinda Gray Bouchillon [16840]
was born on 7 Jan 1839.81
iv. Martha Elizabeth Bouchillon
[16841] was born on 14 Sep 183681 and died on 5 Feb 192281
at age 85.
v. Francis Sullivan Bouchillon CSA
[17168] was born on 12 Mar 1830 in SC,19 died on 24 Feb 1912 in TX
Falls County19 at age 81, and was buried in Live Oak Cemetery.
39. Elizabeth or Betsey Doolittle of TX Falls County
[3598], daughter of Samuel Doolittle
V [3608] and Mary Polly Williams kin
to Rev. Roger [3609], was born on 2 Jan 1805 in SC
Probably, died on 2 Jul 1871 in TX Falls County at age 66, and was buried in
Big Springs, Chickasaw, MS.82
Elizabeth married John T.
Bouchillon Elder [3597]81 [MRIN: 1407] in
1820.
40. Nathaniel 1790 Mason Gilliam Nc Tn [20148],2 son of Nathaniel
1767 Mason? Gilliam [19517] and Charity Brown [2419], was born on 10 Mar 1790 in NC
Cherokee County* See Note,83 died on 29 Nov 1869 in TN Rhea County,
Prestonville10 at age 79, and was buried in Gilliam Cemetery Near
Spring City.
General Notes: NC Cherokee County
was formed in 1839 from Macon County
Macon county was formed 1828 from
Haywood County
Haywood County in 1808 from
Buncombe
Buncombe in 1791 from Burke and
Rutherford:
if, George Rufus' affadavit says,
Nathaniel Mason Gilliam was born in NC Cherokee County he was born in Burke or
Rutherford.
Unless, he was born on the
Cherokee reservation!
Don Giddens- 2003
Others say he was born in SC
Cherokee County
Tax List: 1819, TN Rhea County.
John Gilliam (2)
Fact. Place of birth is listed as
Va Cherokee County by Brian Claassen .
Census: 1820, NC Halifax. if same
Nathaniel 220100 00001
Nathaniel b 1794-1802
2 sons b 1810-20
2 sons b 1804-1810
wife or mother b bef 1775
Census: 1820, TN Davidson County.
if same Nathaniel
Census: 1830, TN Davidson County.
also a Nathaniel (2) Gilliam TN Polk County
Census: 1850, TN Rhea County.
Nathaniel married Sarah L
Davis Sally [20160]44 [MRIN: 8468] on 26
Sep 1822 in TN Rhea County.84
Children from this marriage were:
i. Elizabeth Gilliam [20405] was born
in 1823 in TN Rhea County.
20 ii. James Dudley
Gilliam [20416]
iii. John W Gilliam [20406] was born in
1826 in TN Rhea County.
iv. William Stanton Gilliam [20407]
was born in 1826 in TN Rhea County.
v. George Madison Gilliam [20408] was
born in 1828 in TN Rhea County.
vi. Major Cooper Gilliam [20409] was
born in Dec 1830 in TN Rhea County39 and died on 17 Jul 189139
at age 60.
vii. Richard Arch Gilliam [20410] was
born in 1833 in TN Rhea County.
viii. Mary Emma Or Elizabeth Gilliam
[20411] was born in 1835 in TN Rhea County and died in 1913 in TX Bells, Fannin
County at age 78.
ix. Nancy Jane Gilliam [20412] was
born in 1837 in TN Rhea County.
x. Sarah R Gilliam [20413] was born
in 1839 in TN Rhea County.
xi. Letha M Gilliam [20414] was born
on 1 Jan 1842 in TN Rhea County39 and died on 20 May 1929 in MO39
at age 87.
xii. Jesse 1846 P Gilliam [20415] was
born in 1846 in TN Rhea County.
xiii. Elizabeth D Gilliam Dtr? [22027]
was born on 3 May 1830, died on 15 Mar 1859 in Bells, Fannin, Texas22
at age 28, and was buried in Bell-Youree Cemetery.
xiv. Sophronia Gilliam Dtr? [22028] was
born on 4 Sep 1837 and died in Mar 1858 in Bells, Fannin, Texas at age 20.
41. Sarah L Davis Sally [20160],44 daughter of Tn
Rhea County Davis Unknown [3682], was born in 1801 in NC NC NC,
died in 1885 in TN Rhea County, Spring City at age 84, and was buried in
Gilliam Cemetery.
Census: 1880, TN Rhea. living
with Joel Dotson, son-in-law
Sarah Gilliam b 1800 NC NC NC
Sarah married James Elliot
[5580] [MRIN: 2368] in 1814 in TN Rhea
County.
Sarah next married Nathaniel
1790 Mason Gilliam Nc Tn [20148]2 [MRIN: 8468] on 26
Sep 1822 in TN Rhea County.84
42. Archibald Duncan Paul of Tn Rhea County
[2588], son of Moses F Paul Sc
[3651] and Margaret Gladney
[3652], was born on 8 Jan 1799 in
Camden, Fairfield, SC,19 died on 12 Dec 1864 in Spring City, Rhea,
TN19 at age 65, and was buried in Friendship Church Cemetery.
Census: 1830, TN Rhea County,
Spring City. TN Rhea 00001 31001 (20-30)
Census: 1850, TN Rhea County.
Archibald married Cynthia
Breeding of Tn Rhea County [2587] [MRIN: 984] on 15 May 1823 in
Rhea County, TN.43
Children from this marriage were:
i. Cyrena M Paul [6764] was born
circa 1826.46
ii. Myra W Paul [6765] was born circa
1828.46
iii. Narcissa E Paul [6766] was born
circa 1832.46
iv. Nancy C Paul [6767] was born circa
1836.46
v. Vaughn A Paul [6768] was born
circa 1838.
21 vi. Sophronia Adeline
Paul of Tn Rhea County [3594]
vii. Amanda F Paul [6769] was born
circa 1845.46
viii. William L Paul [6770] was born
circa 1848.46
Archibald next married Rebecca
Clark [10176]84 [MRIN: 4421] on 27
Oct 1854 in TN Roane County.86
Marriage Notes: if same Archibald
D Paul.
Children from this marriage were:
i. Sheriff Archibald Duncan Paul Jr.
[3659] was born in 1854 and died after 1930 in TN Rhea County probably.
ii. Samuel E Paul [6771] was born in
1860.87
43. Cynthia Breeding of Tn Rhea County [2587], daughter of Bryon Breeding
Tn Rhea [3654] and Jane Thompson Tn Rhea
[3655], was born on 5 Nov 1802 in Rhea
County, TN,19 died on 7 Aug 1851 in TN Rhea County, Spring City19
at age 48, and was buried in TN Rhea County, Old Friendship Cemetery.
Cynthia married Archibald
Duncan Paul of Tn Rhea County [2588] [MRIN: 984] on 15 May 1823 in
Rhea County, TN.43
44. Samuel Holloway of TN Putnam County [3644], son of Bremillion
"Brim" Holloway Nc Orange [2585] and Sarah Proctor Nc Orange
[2586], was born in 1799 in NC Orange
County and died circa 1870 in TN Putnam at age 71.
Census: 1830, TN Rhea County.
12001 02001
Samuel married Frances
Davisson or Davidson Nc [3645] [MRIN: 1434] in 1819 in TN Rhea
County, Spring City.
Children from this marriage were:
i. Myra Holloway [4718]
ii. Joseph Holloway [4706] was born
circa 1821.88
iii. Eliza A Holloway [4707] was born
in 1822.40
22 iv. Pleasant Monday
Holloway of Tn Rhea County [20200]
v. Ermeline Holloway [4717] was born
in 1828.40
vi. John Holloway [4721] was born in
1830.40
vii. James S. Holloway [3383] was born
in 1835.
viii. Phebe Caroline Holloway [4751] was
born in 183540 and died in 191240 at age 77.
ix. Andrew Jackson Holloway [4722] was
born in 1837.40
x. George Washington Holloway [4724]
was born in 1837.40
xi. Delilah D Holloway [4753] was born
in 183840 and died in 186040 at age 22.
xii. Abigail Emmaline Holloway [4755]
was born in 1839 in TN TN TN40 and died in 191940 at age
80.
xiii. Samuel Houston Holloway [4725] was
born in 1840.40
45. Frances Davisson or Davidson Nc [3645], daughter of James Davidson
of NC Orange [5422] and Unknown, was born on 8 Jul 1799 in NC
Orange County, maybe and died after 1880 in TN Rhea County, Spring City.
Census: 1880, TN Rhea County.
Frances 1799 NC NC VA
Living with sister-in-law,
Elvira.
Census: 1800, NC Buncombe census.
DAVIDOSN, John 40010 01010 0 7 DAVIDSON, William 00201 01001 0 8(?) DAVIDSON,
George 10010 40100 0 4 DAVIDSON, Benjn. 01001 10501 0 2 DAVIDSON, Hugh 10010
10100 0 3 DAVIDSON, John 10010 20010 0 8 DAVIS, John 00001 31310 0 0 DAVIS,
Isham 20010 32010 0 0 DAVIS, Baxter 10100 20100 0 0 DAVIS, Thomnas 10010 00100
0 0 DAVIS, John 31010 21010 0 0 DAVIS, John 00110 00100 0 0 DAVIS, William
22010 01110 0 0 DAVIS, Samuel 20010 10010 0 0
Frances married Samuel
Holloway of TN Putnam County [3644] [MRIN: 1434] in 1819 in TN Rhea
County, Spring City.
46. William Davis [4368],46 son of Davis
[9606] and Unknown, was born Est 1794 in VA Orange
County maybe.
William married Harriet
Goodridge [4369]46 [MRIN: 1746] on 23
Feb 1818 in VA Orange County.48
Children from this marriage were:
23 i. Harriet Davis of
TN Rhea County [20201]
ii. Mary Davis [5581] was born circa
1820.
iii. Mildred Davis [5582] was born
circa 1822.
47. Harriet Goodridge [4369],46 daughter of William
Goodridge Unproven [6864] and Catherine Martin Hinton
[6935], was born circa 1794 in VA
Orange County maybe.
Census: 1830, VA Fauquier County.1
if it is the same Harriet Davis.
Harriet married William Davis
[4368]46 [MRIN: 1746] on 23
Feb 1818 in VA Orange County.48
48. John Cox Sawmill owner [22343],89 son of John Cox
Sc Pendleton [3] and Elizabeth Vaughn
Pendleton Sc [53], was born circa 1756 in NC
Granville County,90 died on 18 Aug 1815 in SC Pendleton District91
at age 59, and was buried in SC Pendleton District.
General Notes: Big Generostee Creek feeds into the Savannah
River two miles south of the Lake Hartwell Dam. Coxes Mill appears on an 1825
map at the foot of the creek.
The site is probably now covered
by the waters of Richard B. Russell Lake.
Elbert County, GA records show
John Cox bought two islands in the Savannah River at Generostee Creek in
1805. (Jerry Tonroy)
Arleen Logan on Rootsweb has the
father of John Cox as Samuel Cox b 3/24/1725 Boston, Suffolk, MA mother, Sarah
Rodgers, 1730, Dorcester, Suffolk, MA.
Father: William COX b: 1 Dec 1695
in Scituate,Plymouth,MA
Mother: Elizabeth RIDGEWAY b:
1697 in of Pamaquid,ME
Marriage 1 Sarah ROGERS b: Abt
1730 in Dorchester,Suffolk,MA
Married: 23 May 1750 in
Dorchester,Suffolk,MA
Dear Rhea, August 27, 2001
Thanks for your note of Aug 26,
on Ellison ...
It is fun trying to sort the
Coxes of that era and area.
Here is a note I made earlier on
the Cox--Allison--Beverley connection..
No real proof, but info is
consistent.. William Cox named in will
of John Beverley 1737 as
grandson, is probably the one who died by
1783 on John's Island... This John Beverley is probably the son of
Major Robert Beverley 1641-1687
of Virginia -- and brother of
Robert Beverley, the early
Virginia historian... ..
I need to
look at the Pendleton Will Book
again. Two sons named in the will
of the William Cox wp 1821 (??)..
were John Wesley Cox and William
Bolen Cox. These two probably kin to John Cox wp 1816.
They
apparently were involved in the
estate sale of William Cannon
about 1822.
Jerry Tonroy
Dear Cox Researcher Cousins and
Beverly -- August 4, 2001
SC State Archives...
I have found the Miller links
that support the connection between the Coxes
of Big Generostee Creek with the
Coxes and Beverlys of Bertie NC. I will
try to give citations.
The Union County Historical
Foundation, Union SC published a Map
book of land grants in NW South
Carolina in 1976 reprinted 1995.
That pinpoints Cox locations..
William Cox got a grant in 1766
along the North side of the Enoree
River 400 acres, across from
Warrior's Creek. His grant was in
present day Spartanburg County --
just south of Exit 44 on I-26,
along SC Highway 49. The James Allison grant from 1769 400 acres
is just south across Enoree River
and along North side of Warrior's
Creek - in present day Laurens
County. The George Cox grant - 300
acres 1767 is about 5 miles west
above Ora and the John Cox (wife Elizabeth)
grant - 150 acres 1768 - is about
10 miles West, near
Gray Court.. William Cox later bought some of the James
Allison
grant.
Just east of the William Cox
grant in Spartanburg County is the
100 acre grant to Matthew Couch
(Crouch) and there were other Couches
in the area, plus a Samuel Cannon
grant 1765 - sons William, John,
James, Isaac. William Cannon may be son-in-law of William
Cox..
There were Bobo's in area too -
including a Hiram and a Tilman.
Laurens County Deed - Book C pages 47-48 LDS roll LR-1 SC roll C3
John Cox planter and wife Sarah
of Indian Creek sold land to
Sandford Berry - 100 acres of 400
acres granted to James Allison
22 September 1769. Wit: John Cannon, John Hall signed 28 June
1788.
Recorded 27 June 1789.
Laurens County Deed - Book F
pages 235-236 LDS roll LR-2 SC roll C4
Sandford Berry sold to Spencer
Bobo of Spartanburg County for
60 pounds sterling on 28 Nov 1794
-- 100 acres SE part of 400 acres
granted to James Allison conveyed
to William Cox by Lease and Release 4 and
5 August 1774. Since conveyed by John Cox son of William
Decd to the said
Sandford Berry by Lease and
Release bearing date of 28 and 29 June 1788.
Beginning at a beach on Enoree
Bank s62w 44.20 chains.
Thence on old line s10e 30
chains. Thence n80e 11 chains along old
line. Thence n20e 28.50 chains.
Thence n50e 11 chains on old line
to Enoree Bank. Thence to
beginning.
---- The importance of these
deeds is that they indicate that
the John Cox will proven 1816
wife Sarah -- was most likely son
of William Cox and not John and
Elizabeth Cox. -----
---- Location of Beverly Cox is
shown to be next to William Cox --
Spartanburg County Deed Book M pages 188-190 Old deed recorded
Mathew Couch and wife Fanny
(Enoree) to Beverly Cox (same) for
50 pounds SC money sold 50 acres
on a branch of the Enoree granted
June 16, 1700 (??) to Mathew
Couch in Craven County.
So it is possible and probable
that four brothers - sons of John
Cox who died by 1752 as indicated
in Granville county NC orphan
records, were in this area by
1770's. 1752 orphan process named
John - 18 Beverley - 16 George - 13 and Amey - 11 as minor
children of John Cox
deceased... William was probably
older..
The establishment of the miller
trade for William Cox and
probably his brothers is
indicated in deeds on the original
William Cox grant on Spartanburg
side of Enoree.
Sparanburg County Deed Book A
pages 104-109 November 14, 1785
Thomas Briggs son of John Briggs
miller of Enoree sold 200
acres and a grist mill to Thomas
Tod -- one tract sold by
William Cox desc to John Briggs
100 acres on north side of
Enoree - other tract was in Union
County. -- We do not
know by this if William Cox or
his survivors sold this land.
Will of James Allison - Laurens
County - proven March 9, 1789.
To son James - 150 acres where he
now lives including saw mill.
To wife Nancy - 100 acres and
grist mill. Daughter Elizabeth
not yet married. James is to use revenue from saw mill to
maintain grist mill (evidently
his mother got this) and get
his milling free.
There were plenty of mills in the
area then -- and William Cox
may have built several of them..
On Beverly Cox son of John Cox
who died in 1798 (estate sale
May 1799) Pendleton District a later deed gives some insight.
Pendleton District Deed Book J -
pages 57-58 Recorded 7 Sep 1807 -
Beverly Cox of Pendleton District
sold 150 acres left by his
father deceased as a deed of gift
30 March 1798 (or 1799?) lying
on a branch of 26 Mile Creek sold
to Harrel (Hamel) Felton 26
Oct 1802. There is a note that witness John Hodgen swore
before
a JP in Buncombe County NC on 28
August 1807 that he saw Beverly
Cox assign and deliver the deed
to Harrel Felton... (Earlier
I thought this connected Beverly
Cox to NC but it does not, just
the witness.)
This deed is not consistent with
Book E - page 201 16 Apr 1801
where the John Cox deed of gift
to his loving son Beverly is
dated 30 March 1789. The Indians still had that area in 1790
I think. Correct date of gift is probably 30 March
1798 -- and
this may explain lack of will by
John Cox wife Elizabeth. This
was probably all the land he
owned and a will was not essential.
1800 census has Elizabeth Cox
living next to or with a John Cox
in Pendleton District. John Cox
with children for wp 1816 lived
elsewhere and Mary Cox (widow of
Beverly)lived near him.
----- Back to Bertie County NC ---
NC Higher Court Minutes March 1727 General Court page 356..
<Daniel v. Cox> William
Daniel Ordinary keeper by Thomas Jones
his Attorney comes to prosecute
John Cox Mill Wright in an action
of Trepass on the Case for One
hundred pounds damage And the
Sayd defendant by John Bapa.
(Baptista) Ashe his attorney appear'd
and at their Motion and by
Consent the Sayd Suite is putt respite
untill the Next Court on the last
Tuesday in July next.
--- Case was eventually dismissed
--
< Daniel v Benton Trepass on
the case> July 1726 page 271
William Daniel of the Precinct of
Bertie Tavernkeeper v Francis
Benton of the precinct of Bertie
....
< Daniel v Salter > March 1726 page 197
William Daniel of Bertie Precinct
against Malachi Salter of
New England Mariner assault on 2
Aug 1725...
These entries seems to indicate
that John Cox Mill Wright -
probably of Bertie Precinct - was
not always welcome at William
Daniel's Tavern, which was
probably a rough honky-tonk where
sailors fought with cowboys of
the day.. or the owner ...
The assault that John Cox later
alleged on 7 September 1726
--page 318 of October 1726 Court
Minutes -- by William Hynes
labourer (in custody) may have
occurred at or near this
honky-tonk during or after happy
hour. It occurred early in
month -- maybe they had just
gotten their paychecks..
I will transcribe that later...
Enough for now --- I hope this is
of interest ...
Jerry Tonroy Columbia
SC tonroyj@hotmail.com
Biographical note: : SC Pendleton
District.31 John Cox was comparatively a large land owner acquiring
at least 1200 acres, and owning at least one sawmill. He also owned two islands
which are called "irelands" in his will. Evidently, he had NO slaves.
Israel was five years old when
his father died, and as was the custom, the older sons inherited everything.
Tax List: 1787, SC Abbeville. if
same John
Rev War: 1776, SC.31
Did our John Cox fight in the Rev War? He was of the right age.
Land transaction: 1789, SC
Pendleton District. 250 acs on 26 Mile Creek from John Pope. Usually people
bought land from kin.
Census: 1790, SC Pendleton
District. census divisions 5 columns
Free white males over 16 TWO KNOWN
Free white males under 16 TWO
KNOWN
Free white females including
heads of families TWO KNOWN
All other free persons NONE
Slaves NONE
Down the road
Thos Armstrong, John GAMBRELL, Wm
Armstrong, John COX 323 Jms Brown, Wood BRAZEAL, Jms Allen, Thos Mc, Ferrell
Mogahok, Robt McCreay, Jms Brown, Benj Stewart, Thos WIlson, Jarrett WIlson,
Noel Moffatt, Reuben COX 122 Brock, Jack, Telford, Crow, Brown, Gand, Davis,
Amos BAILEY, Wm Washington, Crow, Millicent Flood, Read, Finley, Hankins,
William COX 102 Robt King, Saml Smith, Robt Moore...
Census: 1790, SC Pendleton Coxes.
C000 COX Beverly M-637 033 082 01 02 04 00 00 No Twp. Listed C200 COX Edward
M-637 033 083 01 00 03 00 00 No Twp. Listed C200 COX Edward M-637 033 084 02 01
07 00 00 No Twp. Listed C200 COX Edward Sen. M-637 033 083 02 01 02 00 00 No
Twp. Listed C200 COX George M-637 033 085 01 00 01 00 00 No Twp. Listed C200
COX James M-637 033 082 01 00 01 00 00 No Twp. Listed C200 COX John M-637 033
081 02 06 05 00 00 No Twp. Listed C200 COX John M-637 033 082 03 02 03 00 00 No
Twp. Listed C200 COX John M-637 033 081 10 10 02 00 00 No Twp. Listed C200 COX
Reuben M-637 033 082 01 02 02 00 00 No Twp. Listed C200 COX Robert Jun. M-637
033 083 02 02 01 00 00 No Twp. Listed C200 COX William M-637 033 082 01 00 02
00 00 No Twp. Listed C200 COX William M-637 033 083 01 01 05 00 00 No Twp.
Listed
Land transaction: 1794, SC
Pendleton District. bought 304 acs from Thomas Grant, Washington District
Census: 1800, SC Pendleton
District.
Land transaction: 1802, SC Pendleton
District. 142 acres Savannah River
Land transaction: 1802, SC
Pendleton District. 170 acres Savannah River
Land transaction: 1803, SC
Pendleton District. bought 40 acs from Thomas Turner
Land transaction: 1803, SC
Pendleton District. 40 acres Savannah River
Land transaction: 1803, SC
Pendleton District. 340 acres along the Savannah River.
Census: 1810, SC Pendleton
District.
John married someone.
His child was:
i. Elizabeth Cox [22344]
John married Sarah Smith
[4373] [MRIN: 7] circa 1780 in SC
Pendleton District maybe.
Children from this marriage were:
i. William Cox [270] was born in 1783
in SC Abbeville District and died in 1827 in SC Anderson County at age 44.
ii. Edward Cox [11] was born in 1787
in SC Pendleton District92 and died in 1841 in AL Blount County93
at age 54. Another name for Edward was Ned.
iii. Elizabeth Cox [5837] was born in
1787 in SC Pendleton District and died circa 1860 in AL Jackson County at age
73.
iv. Naomi Cox "Elley" [14]
was born in 1793 in SC Pendleton District and died in AL Jefferson.
v. John B Cox [5838] was born in 1796
and died circa 1866 in AL St. Clair County at age 70.
vi. James Cox [5839] was born in 1798.
vii. Casiah Cox [5841] was born in
1802.
viii. Delilah Cox [5843] was born in
1804.
ix. Hiram Cox [29] was born on 15 Jan
1805 in SC Pendleton District and died on 25 Feb 1894 in AL Jefferson,
Jonesborough at age 89.
x. Tilman Cox [5844] was born in 1806
in SC Pendleton District and died in 1864 in GA Fannin County, Morgantown94
at age 58.
xi. Sarah Cox [279] was born in 1808
in Pendleton Dist. SC.
24 xii. Israel Cox of TX
Wood County [17]
xiii. Rial (Raleigh Azariah) Cox
"Rial" [25] was born in 1810 in SC Pendleton District, died circa
1880 in TX Comanche County at age 70, and was buried in Henderson, King's
School Cemetery.95 Another name for Rial was Raleigh Azrariah Cox.
xiv. Alley Cox [5854] was born in 1812
in SC Pendleton District.
49. Sarah Smith [4373], daughter of Job Smith
[5964] and Hannah [6071], was born circa 1756 in SC
Laurens District90 and died after 1828 in GA Fannin County(from
Gilmer, Union).90
Census: 1790, SC Pendleton
Smiths. S530 SMITH David M-637 033 082 01 02 03 00 00 No Twp. Listed S530 SMIHT
Edwin M-637 033 083 01 03 04 00 00 No Twp. Listed S530 SMIHT George M-637 033
081 01 04 02 00 00 No Twp. Listed S530 SMITH Abraham M-637 033 084 01 00 05 00
00 No Twp. Listed S530 SMITH Benjamin M-637 033 082 01 02 66 00 00 No Twp.
Listed S530 SMITH Daniel M-637 033 084 03 03 04 00 00 No Twp. Listed S530 SMITH
David M-637 033 084 02 01 02 00 00 No Twp. Listed S530 SMITH Eleazer M-637 033
083 01 02 04 00 00 No Twp. Listed S530 SMITH Henry M-637 033 083 01 01 00 00 00
No Twp. Listed S530 SMITH Job M-637 033 082 20 03 05 00 00 No Twp. Listed S530
SMITH Job, sen. M-637 033 082 01 00 01 00 00 No Twp. Listed S530 SMITH John
M-637 033 082 01 02 07 00 00 No Twp. Listed S530 SMITH John M-637 033 083 02 01
01 00 00 No Twp. Listed S530 SMITH John M-637 033 083 02 02 04 00 00 No Twp.
Listed S530 SMITH Josep M-637 033 082 03 03 04 00 00 No Twp. Listed S530 SMITH
Joseph M-637 033 081 01 03 02 00 00 No Twp. Listed S530 SMITH Joseph M-637 033
084 02 02 03 00 00 No Twp. Listed S530 SMITH Mary M-637 033 085 02 02 03 00 00
No Twp. Listed S530 SMITH Rachel M-637 033 081 01 10 04 00 00 No Twp. Listed
S530 SMITH Robert M-637 033 083 02 03 03 00 00 No Twp. Listed S530 SMITH Sameul
M-637 033 082 01 00 02 00 00 No Twp. Listed S530 SMITH Samuel M-637 033 082 02
00 04 00 00 No Twp. Listed
Fact: 4 Sep 1755, MA Beverly.39
a Sarah Smith dtr of a Job and Sarah (Allen) Smith was born
Sarah married John Cox Sawmill
owner [22343]89 [MRIN: 7] circa
1780 in SC Pendleton District maybe.
Sarah next married Cannon
[16852] [MRIN: 7091].
50. Benjamin J Hudgins Sc Pendleton [265], son of Captain John Phillip
Hudgins RWS [342] and Rutha Davis [956], was born on 12 Mar 1788 in NC,
died on 12 Jul 1855 in Jackson Co Ala at age 67, and was buried in Hudgins
Cemetery Near Bellafonte Ala.
Benjamin married Martha Ellis
[266] [MRIN: 524] about 1809 in
Pendleton Dist SC?.
Children from this marriage were:
i. Polly Hudgins [170] was born in
1810.
ii. Delilah Hudgins [169] was born in
1812 in Pendleton, SC.96
iii. Rev. Elnathan Hudgins Rev. [6934]
was born in 1814 in TN,26 died on 24 Mar 1901 in Grapevine, Tarrant,
TX at age 87, and was buried in Grapevine, Tarrant, TX.
iv. Jesse Ellis Hudgins Rev. [173] was
born on 26 Dec 1816 in Franklin Co TN (Winchester) and died on 14 Dec 1893 in
MS Lafayette County at age 76.
25 v. Sarah Elizabeth
Hudgins of TX Wood County [20]
vi. John Wesley Hudgins [175] was born
about 1821 in Jackson Co., Ala and died in 1858 about age 37.
vii. James M. Hudgins [177] was born in
1823 in Jackson Co., Ala and died on 26 Aug 1871 at age 48.
viii. Benjamin Franklin Hudgins [179]
was born in 1825 in Jackson Co., Ala and died in 1911 in Bomar, Carter, OK96
at age 86.
ix. Philip Davis Hudgins [181] was
born on 25 Apr 1830 in Bellafonte, Jackson Co Ala96 and died on 19
Oct 1916 at age 86.
x. Anderson Pierce Hudgins [183] was
born in 1832 in Jackson Co Ala and died in 1896 at age 64.
xi. Martha Ann Hudgins [184] was born
on 23 Oct 1834 in Jackson Co Ala and died on 11 May 1859 at age 24.
Benjamin next married Martha
Ellis [266] [MRIN: 1443] circa 1809 in SC
Pendleton District maybe.
Children from this marriage were:
25 i. Sarah Elizabeth
Hudgins of TX Wood County [20]
ii. Rev. Elnathan Hudgins Rev. [6934]
was born in 1814 in TN,26 died on 24 Mar 1901 in Grapevine, Tarrant,
TX at age 87, and was buried in Grapevine, Tarrant, TX.
51. Martha Ellis [266], daughter of Jesse Ellis RWS
[119] and Widow Elizabeth Young
[1503], was born on 10 Mar 1788 in NC
Chatham County and died on 12 Jul 1855 in AL Jackson County at age 67.
General Notes: Additional info
thanks to : J T Mayes <jgmayes2@aol.com>
More info thanks to : Gary Ellis
<wurdluvr@mindspring.com>
Alt. Death: : Lingering Dropsy.
Martha married Benjamin J
Hudgins Sc Pendleton [265] [MRIN: 524] about 1809 in
Pendleton Dist SC?.
Martha next married Benjamin J
Hudgins Sc Pendleton [265] [MRIN: 1443] circa 1809 in SC
Pendleton District maybe.
52. Rev. John Sanders Baptist War of 1812 [3701], son of Pastor Moses Saunders
Sanders RWS [131] and Sarah Hamilton [122], was born on 2 Mar 1787 in NC
Rowan County/SC Laurens97 and died on 15 Nov 1858 in MS Tishomingo
Maybe at age 71.
Resided: 1830, TN McNairy.57
Before they moved to Tishominogo, MS they lived in McNairy County, TN.
Marriages: Bef 1900, GA Franklin.98
SANDERS, Aaron S 28 JAN 1858 Martha M RUCKER
SANDERS, Aaron C 14 MAY 1849 Lucinda M
WHITMORE
SANDERS, Allis 28 DEC 1848 James E SCOTT
SANDERS, Aron 14 FEB 1817 Morning
THOMASON
SANDERS, Asbury 28 JUL 1864 Rhoda
REID
SANDERS, Calvin 23 FEB 1824 Sarah
MILLER
SANDERS, Eliza E 03 DEC 1840 Archibald J
McCURDY
SANDERS, Elizabeth 03 NOV 1848 John McCLESKY
SANDERS, Elizabeth 27 NOV 1839
Ellet RUCKER
SANDERS, George 15 OCT 1848 Elizabeth RAMSEY
SANDERS, John 28 DEC 1811 Abbey ROBBINS
SANDERS, Lewis 06 SEP 1846 Sarah EATON
SANDERS, Lewis 05 AUG 1824
Prudence MILLER(?)
SANDERS, Lucinda 17 OCT 1850 John
H W GREENWAY
SANDERS, Martha Clemantine T 24 JUL 1845
Jefferson WHITE
SANDERS, Martha 22 OCT 1854 Thomas R OSBURN
SANDERS, Martha E 08 AUG 1858
Aaron HILL
SANDERS, Martha 17 JAN 1841 Wesley C WILEY
SANDERS, Mary 20 SEP 1829 John
HARPER
SANDERS, Mary 25 JUL 1838 Francis
HUBBARD
SANDERS, Matthew H 23 MAR 1856
Malissa K RUCKER
SANDERS, Miss F. M. 01 DEC 1859
Thomas C CHANDLER
SANDERS, Morris K 21 OCT 1855 Amelia
Caroline NORWOOD
SANDERS, Moses H 18 NOV 1855
Rhoda Ann IVY
SANDERS, Nancy 08 DEC 1816
William PEET(?)
SANDERS, Orpha 14 FEB 1850 Benson
HERRING
SANDERS, Patience 08 APR 1833
Joseph H. VICKERY
SANDERS, Rachael 08 NOV 1827 Joel
H DYAR
SANDERS, Rebecca 28 JAN 1847 Thomas G
CLEVELAND
SANDERS, Sallie 31 OCT 1811 William DODD
SANDERS, Sallie 31 OCT 1811 David
DODD
SANDERS, Samuel 24 JAN 1828 Ann SKELTON
SANDERS, Samuel 26 JAN 1851
Harriet K AYRES
SANDERS, Sara C 09 JAN 1845 Henry
M WILLBANKS
SANDERS, William T 08 FEB 1855
Loisa A OWEN
Biography: 1860, Corinth,
Tishomingo, MS.99 History of Tishomingo County, Mississippi page 92
(Film 895939 contained a paper submitted by Adelle Sanders Francis, which was
written by Moses Marion Sanders.
“Corinth, Mississippi. July 6,
1880. It is to those in future generations that this biographical sketch is
intended to enlighten upon the immediate history of our family It is natural,
it is right, it is simply a prompting of the soul that inspires in us a love to
perpetuate the deeds of the honorable, good, and noble. Such prompts me to
enclose a link in the chain of chronology that will hand down the unstained
name of our family to the unknown ages of the futures.”
“Whilst my mind runs back along
the family pathway through the lights and shade of several generations for
nearly two hundred years I am delighted to find no dark lines recorded no
traces that lead from the roll of honor no stains or disgrace to mar the bright
heroism of the future generations of the family that will follow in our
footprints.”
“Our grandfather Moses Sanders
was born in the early part of the 18th century. His life was spent in
agriculture as a pursuit and theology as a profession being a Baptist preacher.
Our grandfather John Robins was a merchant in Virginia.”
“John Sanders our father was born
in North Carolina March 2nd A.D. 1787. Our mother Aby Richardson Sanders
daughter of John Robins was born in Virginia August 18th 1796. Father and
mother were married in North Carolina in A.D. 18 (left blank but should read
1811 in Franklin County, Georgia). They lived together nearly long enough to
celebrate their golden wedding-fifty years. Father lived the quiet life of an
independent planter having owned slaves prior to the commencement of the late
war. In the early days of his life he was a soldier being engaged in the Indian
War of A.D. 1812.”
“Alas time with his scythe has
carried many of our family to the tomb. Father and mother like many of their
children sleep in the quiet city of the dead. Father died 15 Nov A.D. 1858
Mother died 10 Apr 1866. Though they are gone yet they lived to see the greater
number of their children married and settled down in reasonable prosperity.”
“Our eldest sister Acenith
married William Muckelroy. Sister Thursialou having married A. G. Pearson whose
family is quite honorable. Our sister Jiney married Joseph Carter. Our sister
Elizabeth married Henry Derryberry. Our eldest brother Lovel Dogaus never
married. He was taken prisoner by the Federals in 1863 during the late war and
never heard from. James Monroe gave most of his time to agriculture, and
politics he was quite a prominent member of the general assembly of the State
of Arkansas in 1860. He was a brave captain in the War Between the States.
Josiah Hardin lived in Texas engaged in farming and stock raising was a brave
soldier and lost his life in defense of his country 1863. Cardinal Walsey,
lived in Tennessee. Engaged in planting was also a brave and generous solider
and officer in the late war and lost his life in service 1864. Simeon Lafayette
the youngest son was born in Miss. 31st May A. D. 1839. He is more inclined to
a mercantile and political life excels many of his fellows in many good and
chivalrous deeds one who wins at will and holds his
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friends with a strengthened
chain. During the war he was engaged for four years coming out with honors and
scars having never missed an engagement unless brought down by the casualties of
war. He married Miss Mary Pinnay Young daughter of I.P. Young of this city in
the year 1867. Is a prominent citizen of this city and has made well-merited
reputation as a political officer and acommercial tourist. This family consists
of four members self wife & two bright intelligent beautiful little girls
Mattie & Mary. Now I have given a biographical sketch of each member of the
family save one, the writer, MosesMarion Sanders."
"As a rule the family has an
inclination to morality; and religion. The writer and next to the youngest and
only son living except Fayette was born Jan A.D. 1838. During his early life he
was engaged in agriculture and attending country schools in company with his
brothers Walsey and Lafayette. He graduated in medicine in 1860 Joined the 1st
Ark infantry in Feb 1861."
"Fayette and I soldiers
together the entire war receiving three wounds each both alike held positions
as officers in our command. The writer married Miss Cynthia C. Bruton daughter
of Benjamine Bruton of this city Dec 19, 1865. We have a pleasant little family
circle with only one we miss from home. Our first is in the grave. The oldest
boy Simeon Alonzo a bright boy very sprightly and bids to be an elocutionist of
note. 2nd boy Earl Bruton quick intelligent and much inclined to refinement 3rd
boy Marcus Marion bright, joyous and happy more mischievious than ever was the
'father of his country..' 4th Edna our girl
endowed with more spirit and will
and equal mind to any of the boys. 5th Sweet Lena 'our first' is in the cold
silent tomb."
As stated in the above paper,
John Sanders was born 2 Mar 1887 in North Carolina. His father deeded land to
him in 1811 but he was not to take possession until after his and his wife's
death.
Franklin County, Georgia Deeds
Book MMM Page 66 (Film 007130); "This a sufficient deed of gift made this
fourth day of June Eighteen Hundred & Eleven being in the county above
written it being a part of a tract of land lying on the north side of the Grove
Fork of Broad River & Graggs Creek containing one hundred and fifty acres
be the same more or less it being a part of the land originally granted to
Lieutenant Henry Long & conveyed by said Long unto the said Moses Sanders
Senr & by him to John Sanders beginning at a pine corner thence running nearly
a west course with the old line to Graggs Creek thence down the meanders of
said creek to the mouth where it empties into theGrove Fork of Broad River,
thence down said river as it meanders to the first branch thence up said branch
to the old line thence along said line to the beginning the said land joins
Aaron Sanders, Richard Mauldin, Moses Sanders Jr. & Dudley Jones lands, to
have & to hold the above mentioned premises to said John Sanders his heirs
& Assigns forever & I the said Moses Sanders Senr do warrant &
defend before mentioned premises & against my heirs & assigns after the
death of my wife & myself and all claims under me or mine unto the said
John Sanders his heirs & assigns forever & the said John Sanders is not
to take possession before my wifes & my death of this land as witness my
hand & seal the day & date above written, a part of a line raist before
assigned. Moses Sanders, Seal. Drury G. Howell, Jesse Holland, Darby Henley
J.P." (The date of recording is not given but is between documents dated 5
Mar 1816 and 15 Mar 1816.)
John Sanders and Abby Robins are
married 28 Dec 1811 in Franklin County, Georgia. After his father's death in
1817 John sells his property in Franklin Co., Ga. And moves to McNairy County,
Tenn.. Franklin County, Georgia Deeds Book HH Page 225(Film 159041): "This
indenture made & entered into this fourth of January in the year of our
lord one thousand eight hundred
and eighteen between John Sanders, Executor of Moses Sanders deceased of the
one part of the County of Franklin & State aforesaid and Moses Sanders of
the same place of the other part. Witnesseth
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that I the said John Sanders for
and in consideration of the sum of fifty dollars to me in hand well & truly
paid by the said Moses Sanders & before the signing & sealing of these
presents the receipt whereof is hereby acknowledged hath this day bargained
& sold & confirmed & do by these presents bargain sell convey release
& confirm unto the said Moses Sanders his heirs & assigns forever all
my half of the tract or parcel of land situate lying and being in the county
& state aforesaid on the North Side of the Grove Fork of Broad River
containing forty acres more or less in the whole of said tract as agreed on by
said legatees butting and bounding as follows beginning at a beach corner on
said river thence down the various meanders of said River to the line of the
old original tract, thence N on said old line to a post oak corner, thence on
the old line to the branch, thence down said branch to a maple corner made by
the said John & Moses thence a straight line to the beach corner at the
beginning to have & to hold all & singular the rights profits benefits
ways water winds minerals & appertenances thereunto belonging or in any way
appertaining to his own profit benefit & behoof free & clear from me
the said John Sanders my heirs, executors administrators & assigns forever
wherof I have hereunto set my hand & affixed my seal the day & year
first above written. Signed, sealed & delivered in presence of us: test
James Suitor, Stephen Harris, Thomas F. Anderson J P Recorded 6 Apr 1818. John
Sanders, Seal."
Franklin County, Georgia Deeds
Book B page 20 (Film 159042): "This indenture made this 25th day of
December 1818 between John Sanders of Franklin County and state aforesaid of
the one part & Reuben Thornton of the same state and county of the other
part. Witnesseth that for & in consideration of the sum of fifteen hundred
dollars to me in hand paid at and before the signing & delivering of these
presents the receipt whereof is hereby acknowledged hath this day bargained and
sold unto the said Reuben Thornton all that plantation or tract of land situate
lying & being in Franklin County and State aforesaid on the north side of
the uppermost South Fork of Broad River called the Grove, beginning on a pine
corner on the northern boundary line of the original survey, thence nearly
southwest with the old line to the creek called Graggs Creek cornering on a boxelder
conditionally, thence down the meanders of said creek including one half of the
waters of the same to the mouth, thence down the meanders of the said Grove
River including half the water of the same to the mouth of the first branch
cornering on a beach thence nearly northeast to a maple corner on a small
branch, thence up said branch to the old original line, thence with said line
its original course to the beginning it being part of a survey originally
granted to Henry Long and from the said Long to Moses Sanders Senr and from
thence to the said John Sanders, and now to the said Reuben Thornton together
with all the rights and appurtenances thereunto belonging to have and to hold
the said tract or parcel of land containing two hundred acres more or less unto
him the said Reuben Thornton his heirs & assigns will warrant and forever
defend the said land and premises as above mentioned against myself my heirs
and assigns and all and every other person or persons making a lawful claim
henceforth from the date hereof in witness whereof I the said John Sanders hath
hereunto set my hand and affixed my seal the day and year above written. John
Sanders, Seal. Signed and sealed and delivered in presence of John Baugh, Wm
Legg J.P. Recorded 24 Mar 1820."
John Sanders moved to McNairy
County, Tenn. after selling his property in Franklin County, Ga. McNairy was
established 8 Oct 1823 from Hardin County. Hardin Co. was established 13 Nov
1819 from lands ceded by Chickasaw Indians Co. Seat Savannah.
In 1837 he sold his property in
McNairy County, Tenn. and moved to Tishomingo County, Miss. (Film 0024750 Item
2 pages 524, 525 Deeds of McNairy Co., Tenn.) Indenture 2 Dec 1837 between John
Sanders & William M. Ferry all of County McNairy & State of Tenn. For $200
John Sanders sells to William M. Ferry all that certain tract of land lying and
being on Little Hatchie in Range 2 and
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Section 3 beg. with a white oak
chestnut maple & sower wood pointers 73 1/3 poles north of the SE corner of
an original tract of 100 acres then so. 170 w 94 poles to a boundary line of
said 100 acre tract thence N 50 poles to the W boundary of said tract to a
stake E 89 72/89 pole to a white oak thence S to beg. containing 18 acres and
125 poles, ss Mark of John Sanders. Recorded 25 Jan 1838.
In a census for 1837 (Film
899870) for Tishomingo County John Sanders is listed with 1 male over 45, 1
male between 21-45, 1 male between 18-21, 3 male under 18, 1 female over 16, 3
females under 16, 1 male slave, 2 female slaves, total 9 white inhabitants and
9 acres cultivated land.
JOHN SANDERS
1. John Sanders
Children of John Sanders and Abby
Richardson Robins
2. i. Lovel Dogaus Sanders b
1817; 33 in 1850 with parents; listed as
insane, d. 1863.
3. ii. James Monroe Sanders b
1819; md Elizabeth;
4. iii. Acenith (Asana, Susan)
Sanders b 1822; md William Muckelroy
(McElroy) 1838-39.
5. iv. Jane (Jiney) Sanders b
1824; md Joseph Carter 9 Oct 1838;
6. v. Thursialou (Thursy) Sanders
b 1826; rod A.G. Pearson
7. vi. Elizabeth Sanders b 1828;
md Henry C. Derryberry 26 Nov 1843;
8. vii. Josiah Hardin Sanders b
1830; d 1863
9. viii. Cardinal Walsey Sanders
b 1835; d 1864
10. ix. Moses Marion Sanders b.
1835; d 1864
11. x. Simeon Lafayette Sanders b
31 May 1839; md Mary Penney Young 1867; d
31 Oct 1908
SECOND GENERATION
3. James Monroe Sanders (John 1)
Children of James Monroe Sanders
& Elizabeth
12. i. Aby (Aba) Sanders b 1850
13. ii. John H. Sanders b 1852; d
Mar 1870 at Hot Springs, Ark. Of whooping
cough.
14. iii. Thyrza L. Sanders b
1854; d Mar 1870 measles
15. iv. Mary E. Sanders b 1856; d
Mar 1870 measles
16. v. Cardinal Walsey Sanders b
1857'
17. vi. Acenith Elizabeth Sanders
b 1859; d Mar 1870 age 11 measles
18. vii. Jefferson Davis Sanders
b 1862
19. viii. Martha L. Sanders b
1864 ;
20. ix. James m. Sanders b 1866
4. Acenith Sanders (John 1)
Children of Acenith Sanders &
William Muckelroy
21. i. Malissa Jane Muckelroy b
1839
22. ii. Isaac Muckelroy 0 1842
23. iii. James Muckelroy b. 1845
24. iv. John Muckelroy b 1846
25. v. Mary (Mollie) Muckelroy b
1849
26. vi. Martha Muckelroy (twin) b
1852
27. vii. David Muckelroy (twin) b
1852
28. viii. William Muckelroy b
1854
29. ix. Catherine Muckelroy b
1856
30. x. Safrony Muckelroy b 1859
31. xi. Walsey Muckelroy b 1860
32. xii. Thesily Muckelroy b 1864
33. xiii. Fanny Muckeiroy b 1866
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5. Jane (Jiney) Sanders (John 1)
Children of Jane Sanders &
Joseph Carter
34. i. Caroline Carter b 1841
35. ii. Mary Carter b. 1843
36. iii. David Carter b 1845
37. iv. Thursday Carter b 1847
38. v. Amanda Carter b 1849
6. Thursialou Sanders (John 1)
Children of Thursialou Sanders
& A.G. Pearson
39. i. Benjamin Pearson b 1846
40. ii. Susan Pearson b 1848
41. iii. Abbie Pearson b 1849
7. Elizabeth Sanders (John 1)
Children of Elizabeth Sanders
& Henry C. Derryberry
42. i. John Derryberry b 1848
43. ii. Thompson Derryberry b
1850
10. Moses Marion Sanders (John 1)
Children of Moses Marion Sanders
& Cynthia C. Bruton
44. i. Lena Sanders
45. ii. Simeon Alonzo Sanders
46. iii. Earl Bruton Sanders
47. iv. Marcus Marion Sanders b 2
Apr 1871; d 3 Aug 1888
48. v. Edna Sanders
49. vi. May b 24 Sep 1885; d. 1
Dec 1889
11. Simeon Lafayette Sanders
(John 1)
Children of Simeon Lafayette
Sanders & Mary Pinnay Young
50. i. Mattie Sanders
ii. Mary Sanders
Immigrated: 1820, TN McNairy.
Sold his land in Franklin County, GA and moved to McNairy TN.
Census: 1840, MS Tishomingo County.
John Sanders 30103001 next door to Joseph Carter.
A Hardin was censused with Louisa
(Sanders) Carter, as was a J. M. Sanders.
Civil case: 1841, MS Tishomingo
County. 567. Alfred Brown vs. Stephen O. Gibbs subpoena for James M. Sanders,
John Sanders, Joseph Carter & Malajah Suratt
Civil case: 1841, MS Tishomingo
County. 606. John Sanders vs. Jas. M. Sutherland & S.B. Read
Census: 1850, MS Tishomingo
County.
John married Alexandria
Richardson Robins [4032]100 [MRIN: 1607] on 28
Dec 1811 in GA Franklin County.101
Children from this marriage were:
i. Lovel Dogaus Sanders CSA+ [22995]
was born in 1817, was christened in Never Married, and died in 1863 in CSA at
age 46. Another name for Lovel was Dougan maybe.
ii. CAPT James Monroe Sanders CSA
[206] was born in 1819 in TN Moved To MS and died in AR maybe. Another name for
James was James Marion.
iii. Acenith Sanders [22989] was born
in 1822. Another name for Acenith was Acenith, Susana, Susan.
iv. Louisa Jane Sanders "Gincy"
[207] was born on 4 Nov 1822 in TN Cumberland Gap and died in 1902 in TX
Nacogdoches, Woden102 at age 80. Another name for Louisa was Jiney.
v. Thursialou Sanders [22991] was
born in 1826. Another name for Thursialou was Thursday.
vi. Elizabeth M Sanders [22993] was
born in 1828.
26 vii. Josiah Hardin
Sanders CSA + [128]
viii. Cardinal Walsey Sanders CSA+
[22996] was born in 1835 and died in 1864 in CSA at age 29. Another name for
Cardinal was Wolsey.
ix. PVT Simeon Lafayette Sanders CSA
[3710] was born in Jan 1838 in MS and died in 1908 at age 70. Another name for
Simeon was Simon.
x. Moses Marion Sanders CSA [3707]
was born in 1839 in MS Tishomingo, died in 1888 in MS Alcorn County, Corinth at
age 49, and was buried in Henry Cemetery, Corinth.
John next married Nancy
Triplett if same JN [7166]103 [MRIN: 3082] in
1797 in NC Wilkes County.103
53. Alexandria Richardson Robins [4032],100 daughter of Our
Major John Robins Jr. [16854] and Elizabeth Dogan
[17245], was born on 18 Aug 1796 in NC
Wilkes County maybe57 and died on 10 Apr 1866 in MS Tishomingo at
age 69. Other names for Alexandria were Alley, Abby, and Alexandria.
Census: 1870, MS Madison, Canton
maybe.
Alexandria married Rev. John
Sanders Baptist War of 1812 [3701] [MRIN: 1607] on 28 Dec 1811 in
GA Franklin County.101
54. Mark Rushing Tn [153],104 son of William
Rushing [293] and Jane Nichols [294], was born in 1809 in TN Stewart,
died in 1883 in TX Van Zandt County at age 74, and was buried in Rocky Point
(Van Zandt) TX.
General Notes: Mark Rushing
bought 631 acres in Rains County, Texas 2/3/1875.
Notes from Bobbie Jo Pinson,
Garland, TX
Thanks to Ira Baxter Rushing for
info below:
PAGE 404 PHILLIP RUSHING OF
STEWART CO. TENNESSEE TO JOHN HUBBARD OF ANSON
CO. 100 DOLLARS FOR A PARCEL OF
LAND ON THOMPSONS CREEK. WIT. JOHN WEBB
APRIL SESSION 1809. TOD ROBINSON
CLK.
DEED T12 PHILIP RUSHING TO
BURWELL BENTON 5 TRACTS OF LAND IN ANSON CO.
TOTAL OF 1200 ACRES OF LAND FOR
THREE THOUSAND AND SIX HUNDRED DOLLARS.
WIT. JOSEPH WHITE AND H. BARRETT.
JANUARY CT. 1820. TOD ROBINSON CLK.
THIS IS THE PHILLIP THAT WENT TO
TENNESSEE WITH RICHARD RUSHING IN 1820.
Censused: 1810-1880, TN To TX.
1810 TN Stewart?
1820 TN Stewart?
1830 TN Rutherford w/ WM*,
Malachi, Asa, and Isaac
1840 MS Tishomingo w/ WM*,
Malachi, and Isaac
1850 MS Tishomingo. WM*
1860 MS Tishomingo, Wm* died, bd
near Corinth
1870 TX Van Zandt?
1880 TX Van Zandt
Census: 1870, TX Wood County.26
Only Mark and Elizabeth are listed in the home.
Census: 1850, Van Zandt County,
TX. 198 198 RUSHIN, MARK 38 M W FARMER 640 TN RUSHIN, ELIZABETH 37 F KY X
RUSHIN, Wm. 12 M MS X RUSHIN, ELIZABETH 14 F TN X RUSHIN, MARTHA 9 F MS X
RUSHIN, JOHN 8 M MS
Residence: 1843, MS Tishomingo.
Census: 1880, TX Van Zandt
County.
Cemetery: : N of Wills Point, TX. Is located off FM 47 north
of Wills Point. The oldest grave is that of Oleva Revlis b. 28 Jan, 1859 d. 22
Mar, 1860. There is one CSA veteran buried in this very small cemetery.
It is on private property now.
RUSHING ELIZABETH 1812 1896
RUSHING J. K. 1849 1918
RUSHING JAMES ELMER 1889 1900
RUSHING L. C. 1851 1919
RUSHING LOULA C. 1879 1881
RUSHING MARK 1809 1883 (source
had Mary but it is Mark) DLG
RUSHING MARY F1872 1880
RUSHING MARY NONE NONE
SANDERS CONNER NONE NONE
SANDERS JAMES W. 1877 1958
SANDERS JIMMIE 1884 1927 SANDERS
MARTHA ANN 1878 1955
SANDERS MINNIE 1890 1976
SANDERS W. M. BENSON NONE NONE
Note: 1848, TX Van Zandt County.
EARLY SETTLERS, The People That Helped to Organize Van Zandt County: The
following is as complete a list of those who were here in 1848, when the new
county was organized, as it is possible to certain.
At that time it embraced, in
addition to its present territory, all of Wood county, and by far the largest
portion of Rains County: H.C. Adams, C.C. Arrington, Samuel Burk, L.H.
Baughman, Leonard Brown, John Baldwin, Allen Blair, Peter S. Benton, Jonathan
Brown, John Red Brown, Henry Creagle, John Cohee, Obediah Cook, Joseph
Crockett, Isom Clark, Thomas Cunningham, Jesse Compton, Joeseph Cox, John G.
Cox, Thomas T. Cox, J.W. Crestman,
(and) Andrew Donley, John Donley,
Mary Davis, Charles Duncan, M. Fitzgerald, A. Fitzgerald, John Freeman, Joseph
Fisher, Ola Gunderson, Walter C. Greer, Gains Greer, Joseph Greer, George
Greer, Adam Greer, Samuel Greer, P.M. Gunderson, Walter Greer, Robert Guinn,
G.A. Hill, David Havins, John Havins, B.Y. Higgins, Victoria Hobbs, James
Hillhouse, Thomas Horseley, A.J. Horseley, John M. Hays, John Jordan, Wm. D.
Johnson, Aanan Knudson, Wm. D. Leggett, E. Lunderman,
(and) T.L. Ledbetter, J.R. Marrs,
John Marrs, Alney T. McGee, S. Manson, Wm. McCarrell, Joseph Moody, Allen
Miller, Robert Mitchell, D.R. McInturff, A.B. McInturff, John Moore, Aslac
Nelson, D.O. Norton, F.D. Chelly, E. Olson, Ola Olson, C.C. Chelly, C.P.
Parker, R.R. Powers, John Piles, William Piles, John Pierce, Joab D. Rains,
Mark Rushing,
C.E. Rivers, David Robinson, William Rose,
(and)John H. Rierson, J.M.
Herman, U. Saark, Jackson Smith, John Simpkins, Benjamin Straner, Samuel
Slater, Redden S. Smith, John Tollett, Allac Tergerson, Terkin Tergerson, James
Tumlinson, Mrs. E.E. Varner, Matthew Wiley, Joseph Williams, Joe Waper, James
D. Wright, Gilbert Yarbrough.
Published in the Canton Herald,
February 23, 1978
Mark married Elizabeth Freeman
Tn [154]104 [MRIN: 109] on 14
Mar 1830 in TN Rutherford Or Madison??.
Children from this marriage were:
i. Dtr Rushing [2037] was born about
1832 in TN Madison County, Jackson.49
ii. Nancy Ann Rushing [333] was born
on 14 Apr 1833 in Madison County, TN, died in Feb 1901 in Rains Co TX at age
67, and was buried in Woosley Cemetery.
27 iii. Sarah Elizabeth
Rushing of Tn Madison [121]
iv. Martha E. Rushing [799] was born
in 1839 in Tishomingo MS and died in 1886 in TX at age 47.
v. William T Rushing [798] was born
in 1839 in Tishomingo MS and died in 1874 in TX at age 35.
vi. John Calvin Rushing 2nd Sgt Co 2
[800] was born on 4 Oct 1843 in Tishomingo MS, died on 11 Mar 1915 in TX Van
Zandt County at age 71, and was buried in Bright Star/McBride Cemetery. Another
name for John was John King Rushing.
vii. James W. "King" Rushing
[998] was born on 13 May 1847 in TX Van Zandt County, died on 31 Aug 1918 in TX
Van Zandt County at age 71, and was buried in Rocky Point Cemetery. Another
name for James was King.
viii. Mark Rushing Descendant [2321] was
born about 1877.
ix. Descendants Rushing [22202] was
born before 1900 and was buried in Rocky Point (Van Zandt) TX.
55. Elizabeth Freeman Tn [154],104 daughter of William
R. Freeman [295] and Mary Massie [296], was born on 20 Nov 1812 in TN
or KY,70 died in 1896 in TX Van Zandt County at age 84, and was
buried in Rocky Point (Van Zandt) TX.
Elizabeth married Mark Rushing
Tn [153]104 [MRIN: 109] on 14
Mar 1830 in TN Rutherford Or Madison??.
56. John William Lindsey Judge [304],105 son of James
1754 MARTIN Adam Lindsey Sgt RWS [305] and Delilah (Hodgson) Brewer
[306], was born on 15 Aug 1788 in NC
Chatham County,68 died on 27 Jan 1840 in MO Benton County, Neosho68
at age 51, and was buried in 3 Miles South Of Warsaw, Benton, MO.
General Notes: Immigrated with
his father to Christian County, KY 1806..
Married Peggy Linn, settled in
Trigg County, KY..
Immigrated to Callaway County,
KY...
3/3/1833 moved to Lafayette
County, MO....
moved to Warsaw, MO.
Settled on Grand River by Bett
Foster Ford on the Big Tebo.
Moved to Benton County MO in 1834
from KY.
First judge of Benton County. See
Benton County history book.- 1835.
The county of Lindsey, MO is
probably named after him.
Buried 3 miles south of Warsaw,
MO.
He named the town of Warsaw, MO,
making me think that his Lindseys
went back to Warsaw, Duplin, NC,
or farther back to
Warsaw, Richmond, VA.
History of these counties:
Duplin County, NC formed 1750
from New Hanover County.
Richmond County, VA formed 1692
from Old Rappahannnock
which is close to Essex where
Caleb Lindsey was,
Essex was also formed from Old
Rappahannock County, 1692.
Old Rappahannock County then
became extinct.
Occupation: 1834, Ist Judge Of
Benton Co, MO- Appointed By Gov. Dunkel.
Death: 1840.68
"Loved and respected by all who knew him."
Land purchase. bought a clearing
between Little Tebo and Sterret's Creek from the Shawnee Indians.
Probate: 1840, MO Benton County.
142 694 Feb 3, 1840 Lindsey, J. W
F. G. Lindsey, Adm ---
Occupation: : NC Fayettesville.68
He learned the saddle trade in Fayettesville, NC.
His tannery and shop were on the
Cumberland River
one and a half miles from the
town of Canton, MO.
Biographical note. Names of the
slaves of John Lindsey, as recorded in his Family Bible.
Hamrick? (illegible) was born
7/4/1835.
George was born 10/11/1837.
Sarah was born 11/20/1839.
William was born June 14, 1849.
Ellen was born 10/26/18-3.
? (illegible) lenevis was born
9/14/1845.
Immigrated: 1806, KY Christian
County.
Residence: 1831, KY Trigg County.69
Migration: 3 Feb 1833, KY.68
John Lindsey left KY for MO on the 3rd of February 1833
and landed in Lafayette County MO
3/9/1833.
Rented a farm one mile from
Lexington on the Independence Road.
It was a great thoroughfare to
Santa Fe, NM.
Residence: 1835, Sterrett Creek
Near James C. Orr's.
Name: Lindsay MO. Lindsay
Township was named for Judge John W. Lindsay, of the county court, and
comprised all that part of the county north of the Osage and Grand Rivers and
west of Cole and Williams Townships. The first elections were held at the house
of John Isbell, which stood near the spring on the south part of the John
Failer farm...In the course of time elections were held at the store of Rings
& Jopling, and then at the house of Markham Fristoe, one mile north of
Warsaw.
Grand Juror: 1822, Cadiz, Trigg,
KY. The third grand jury was composed of the following citizens: Thomas
Raleigh, Samuel Orr, Luke Thomas, William F. Dew, Elijah Whitney, Robert
Anston, James Puckett, John Patterson, John Breeding, James A. Lindsay, John W.
Lindsay, Henry Jones, Baxter Alexander, John Humphries, John Mills, Armstrong
Noel, Benjamin Faulkner, Samuel Scott and William McWaters. About the usual
number of indictments were returned, the majority of which were for
drunkenness, Sabbath breaking and profane swearing. in May, 1822, the following
grand jury was impaneled and sworn: Thomas Raleigh, John A. Candle, Joel
Wilson, John Craig, William Lawrence, Isaac Gray, David Cooper, George Grace,
William Young, John Prescott, Henry James, Smith Martin, John Caldwell and M.
Oliver.
from History of Trigg County
John married Margaret Peggy
Linn Tn Davidson [79] [MRIN: 235] on 20 Mar 1810 in
Trigg Co. KY Reuben Linn, Witness.68
Children from this marriage were:
i. Eliza Linn Lindsey [1230] was born
on 11 Oct 1811 in Christian County, KY and died on 13 Mar 1854 in McDonald Co
MO at age 42.
ii. Albert Gallatin Lindsey [732] was
born on 14 Sep 1813 in Christian County, KY and died on 7 Mar 1828 in Calloway,
KY68 at age 14.
iii. Felix Grundy Lindsey [725] was
born on 28 Dec 1815 in KY Trigg County, Cadiz106 and died on 4 Jan
1899 in AR Benton County at age 83.
iv. Rev. Horace Boyd Lindsey CSA
[1063] was born on 11 Dec 1817 in KY Trigg County, Cadiz and died about 1887 in
Whiteright, Grayson, TX about age 70.
v. Dr. James Alfred Lindsey [724] was
born on 22 Sep 1821 in KY Trigg County, Cadiz and died about 1881 in TX? about
age 60.
vi. Sackfield Stanford Lindsey 2nd
[1327] was born on 19 Feb 1824 in Calloway, KY and died about 1884 about age
60.
vii. Caroline Elizabeth Lindsey [1328]
was born on 15 Sep 1826 in Christian County, KY, died on 13 Nov 1889 in TX
Parker County, Veal Station68 at age 63, and was buried in Veal
Station, Parker County, TX.
viii. John W. Lindsey Jr [1329] was born
on 18 Mar 1829 in KY Calloway and died about 1846 about age 17.
ix. Mary Jane Lindsey [8606] was born
on 22 Nov 1829 in TN Sumner County70 and died after 1850 in MO
Newton County.
28 x. Adam Linn Lindsey
of Springtown, TX [302]
xi. Sheriff Charles Lindsey Parker County
Tx [1332] was born on 15 Apr 1833 in MO Lafayette County106 and
died in Nov 1901 in Parker County, TX?68 at age 68. Another name for
Charles was Doc.
xii. Margaret Lindsey [970] was born on
22 Mar 1837 in MO Benton County68 and died about 1897 about age 60.
Another name for Margaret was Maggie.
57. Margaret Peggy Linn Tn Davidson [79], daughter of Judge Adam Linn
RWS [311] and Sidney Ann Ewing Va
[312], was born on 3 Apr 1795 in TN
Davidson County, died on 27 Jul 1850 in MO Newton County, Neosho107
at age 55, and was buried in MO Newton County, Neosho.
General Notes:
Notes for MARGARET
"PEGGY" LINN:
FROM THE FAMILY BIBLE OF MARY
ATLANTA LINDSEY:
Peggy Linn, wife of John W Lindsey was
born in S. Carolina in 1798 and died in Newton Co. Mo. the 27th of Jan.
1850. Buried in Newton Co. Mo. She was Irish, her father, Adam Linn was born
in Ireland, brought by his parents to S. Carolina when he was two years
old. He was a Rebel in the war for
Independence. He immigrated to Davidson
Co. Tenn. and there married a sister of the Rev. Finas (Finis) Ewing, who was
on of the founders of the Cumberland Presbyterian church which took place in
Logan Co. Ky. In 1803 Adam Linn
immigrated to Trigg Co. Ky. and there died at the age of 82 years. There his daughter Peggy Linn was born and
married to John W Lindsey. The Ewings
were a very prominent family. Finas (Finis) as a Devine and one of the founders
of a very large and popular organization of christians in the United States and
Europe. He immigrated to Lafayett Co.
Mo. in an early day. His youngest son E
B (Ephriam Brevard) Ewing was on of the judges of the Superior Court of Mo.
when the was between the states broke out.
He had one son run for Gov. of Mo. on the know-nothing tickey, but was
defeated by Lenn Boyd of Ky. A nephew of Finas Ewing was a member of congress
from Ky. for 21 years, once speaker of the house. John Boyd (brother of Lenn Boyd) immigrated
to Texas in an early day, settled at the Texarkana hills and was on of the
founders of a sine school at that place.
I here give a list of children and names J W Lindsey and Peggy his wife.
Two years after John William
Lindsey died, his widow married Rev. Dr. John Morris and moved to Newton
County, MO. (Neosho county seat)
Alt. Birth: 1798, SC.
Census: 1850, MO Newton County.
335B 16 Lindsey Adam S. 19 Ky. pg0330a.txt 330B 19 Lindsey Asanith 2 Mo
pg0330a.txt 335B 18 Lindsey Charles 8/12 Mo. pg0330a.txt 330B 11 Lindsey J. W.
41 Tenn pg0330a.txt 330B 15 Lindsey James 11 Tenn pg0330a.txt 330B 17 Lindsey
Jefferson 7 Tenn pg0330a.txt 330B 14 Lindsey Kiziah 13 Tenn pg0330a.txt 330B 18
Lindsey Malvina 5 Mo pg0330a.txt 335B 19 Lindsey Margaret 13 Mo. pg0330a.txt
330B 13 Lindsey Martin 15 Tenn pg0330a.txt 335B 17 Lindsey Mary 21 Tenn.
pg0330a.txt 330B 12 Lindsey Sarah 40 Tenn pg0330a.txt 330B 16 Lindsey
Washington 9 Tenn
Margaret married John William
Lindsey Judge [304]105 [MRIN: 235] on 20
Mar 1810 in Trigg Co. KY Reuben Linn, Witness.68
Margaret next married John
Morris Rev. Dr. [1367] [MRIN: 351] on 8 Feb 1842.68
58. Abraham Wesley Wormington Tn [851], son of Edward Wormington
[866] and Nancy Ann Hassell
[867], was born on 12 Oct 1804 in
Sumner Or Roberson Co TN, died on 25 Apr 1868 in Jasper Co TN at age 63, and
was buried in Shoal Creek, Newton County, MO Wormington Cemetery.
Census: 1850, MO Newton County.
339B 6 Wormington A. W. 45 Tenn. pg0339a.txt 339B 9 Wormington Angeline 15
Tenn. pg0339a.txt 334B 22 Wormington Eliza 1 Mo. pg0330a.txt 339B 11 Wormington
Elizabeth 11 Mo. pg0339a.txt 339B 14 Wormington James 4 Mo. pg0339a.txt 339B 13
Wormington John 6 Mo. pg0339a.txt 334B 19 Wormington Jonathan H. 27 Tenn.
pg0330a.txt 339B 7 Wormington Martha 38 Tenn. pg0339a.txt 339B 10 Wormington
Martin 13 Tenn. pg0339a.txt 334B 21 Wormington Nancy 3 Mo. pg0330a.txt 334B 20
Wormington Sarah Ann 23 Tenn. pg0330a.txt 339B 12 Wormington Thomas 8 Mo.
pg0339a.txt 339B 8 Wormington William 18 Tenn. pg0339a.txt 341B 32
Abraham married Martha Turpin
Tn Sumner County [852]71 [MRIN: 292] on 26
Feb 1827 in TN Sumner.
Children from this marriage were:
i. Nancy C Wormington [8612] was born
on 25 Mar 1824 in TN Sumner70 and died on 2 Jul 1847 in Mo
Wormington Cemtery, Neosho at age 23.
29 ii. Mary Jane
Wormington of Springtown, TX [303]
iii. Eli Wormington [853] was born
about 1831.
iv. William M. Wormington [854] was
born on 22 Dec 1831 in Sumner Co TN71 and died in 1900 in Boggy
Depot, Atoka Co Okla at age 69.
v. Angeline M. Wormington [855] was
born on 12 Jul 1834 in TN Sumner County.71
vi. Susan Elizabeth Wormington [859]
was born on 16 Jan 1839 in MO Barry County.71
vii. Thomas Benton Wormington [861] was
born on 1 Sep 1841 in Newton Co MO and died on 29 Aug 1913 in Sarcoxie
(Jasper)MO at age 71.
viii. Martin Van Buren Wormington [856]
was born on 1 Dec 1841 in MO Newton County.71
ix. John Wesley Wormington [862] was
born on 18 Jan 1844 in MO and died on 5 Oct 1911 in Newton Co MO Wormington
Cemetery at age 67.
x. James K. Wormington [863] was born
on 4 Oct 1845 in MO and died on 11 Mar 1904 in Newton Co MO at age 58. Another
name for James was James H P.
xi. Josiah J. Wormington Killed by the
Utes [864] was born on 22 Aug 1850 in MO Newton County71 and
died on 15 Jul 1884 in Ft. Lewis, CO at age 33.
xii. Joseph W. Wormington Ut Kia [865]
was born about 1851 in MO and died on 15 Jul 1884 in Mt. Ellsworth UT about age
33.
59. Martha Turpin Tn Sumner County [852],71 daughter of Edmund
Turpin Nc [3686] and Charity McBride Nc Maybe
[3687], was born on 20 Jun 1811 in TN
Sumner, died on 29 Dec 1880108 at age 69, and was buried in Shoal
Creek, Newton County, MO Wormington Cemetery.
Martha married Abraham Wesley
Wormington Tn [851] [MRIN: 292] on 26 Feb 1827 in TN
Sumner.
60. Our William Lewis [3691], son of Our Tavener Lewis
[9454] and Branham or Walden maybe
[18198], was born in 1805 in SC Horry
District maybe1 and died after 1850 in MS Jasper, Paulding probably.
General Notes: My only proof is
that Stephen lived next to William and Nancy in 1850 AND next to the Stennetts.
Unproven son of Tavener/Walden.
However, both lived in Jasper COunty MS, 1840.
Census: 1830, MS. because James C
was born in MS.
Census: 1840, MS Jasper. near a
Terrell
012001 0000001 page 177
Census: 1850, MS Jasper. LEWIS-
Alexander, John Sr., Wm., Willis, Demarius, Mary,
Simeon, John Jr, Walden, Mary, Wm D., Erie, Henry, Noah, STEPHEN, William.
William married Nancy/Dicy
[3692] [MRIN: 893].
Children from this marriage were:
30 i. Our Stephen
William Lewis KIA CSA [730]
ii. Letha Lewis [731] was born about
1834.
iii. George A Lewis [4017] was born in
1829.73
iv. James C Lewis [6915] was born in
1823 in MS.73
v. Grandchildren Lewis [18174]
vi. Maybe Katy A. C. Lewis [18177] was
born in 1839 in MS Jasper and died in 1913 in San Jacinto, TX at age 74.
61. Nancy/Dicy
[3692] was born in 1788 in NC and died
after 1850.
Nancy/Dicy married Our William
Lewis [3691] [MRIN: 893].
62. William Hightower Stennett War of 1812 [3690], son of William S Stennett
War of 1812 [4010] and Letha Hightower
"Lethe" [4011], was born in 1788 in VA Amherst
County109 and died after 1870 in MSJasper Maybe.
Census: 1810, VA Amherst County.
William, Benjamin, and Charlse Stennett
Tax List: 1811. TN Davidson
County
Census: 1820, Tennessee.73
1820 Marion County, TN
where William Jr was born, 1825.
By 1830 they were in MS when
Willis was born.
Census: 1830, TN Copiah.
Census: 1840, MS Jasper.
Apparently there were no Stinnetts, Stennets, or Bynums in the 1840 cnesus in
Jasper County, MS.
Census: 1850, MS Jasper. 405 625
IMAGE 63 at the bottom
Census: 1860, MS Jasper.
Biographical note: Cir 1865, MS.
MS STINNETT-Lewis Soldier Names
Stinnetts served in MS CSA
32nd (2)
and one in each of the following
1st 7th 10th 18th 32nd
Stinnett, B.M.
Confederate
Infantry
32nd Regiment, Mississippi Infantry
Stinnett, James L.
Confederate
Infantry
18th Regiment, Mississippi Infantry
Stinnett, Simeon
Confederate
Infantry
40th Regiment, Mississippi Infantry
Stinnett, T.A.
Confederate
Cavalry
10th Regiment, Mississippi Cavalry
Stinnett, W.
Confederate
Infantry
7th Battalion, Mississippi Infantry
Stinnett, W.E.
Confederate
Cavalry
1st Regiment, Mississippi Cavalry Reserves
Stinnett, W.W.
Confederate
Infantry
32nd Regiment, Mississippi Infantry
Stinnett, William
Confederate
Infantry
5th Regiment, Mississippi Infantry (State
Troops)
Census: 1870, MS Prentiss. A Wm
Stinnett
William married Elizabeth
Bynum Of Bahamas [3694]110 [MRIN: 1458] circa
1810.
Children from this marriage were:
31 i. SARAH Sidney Letha
Stennett of Ms Jasper [1232]
ii. Willis Stinnett or Stennett [3695]
was born in 1830 in MS Jasper, Paulding and died in 1910 in MS Smith County,
Pineville at age 80.
iii. William E Stennett unproven s/o WM
[6938] was born in 1830 in TN Davidson73 and died in 1886111
at age 56.
iv. Sina Stennett Indian [9437] was
born in 1821.112
v. Simeon Stennett CSA 40th Ref MS Inf
[9514] was born in 1824 in MS.
vi. Mary Stennett [22155] was born
circa 1810.111
vii. John Stennett [22157] was born
circa 1810.
63. Elizabeth Bynum Of Bahamas [3694],110 daughter of Bynum
of Bahamas [9512] and Unknown, was born in 1790 in England113
and died after 1870 in MS Jasper County maybe.
Census: 1860, MS Jasper.
Elizabeth married William
Hightower Stennett War of 1812 [3690] [MRIN: 1458] circa 1810.
64. NC TN James 1749 Isham Giddens Constable
[109],2 son of Ir NC
Richard 1713 Giddens [7479] and Margaret
"Polly" Barr [17861], was born in 1749 in Ir NC,28
was christened in 1790 in NC Burke County, and died in 1832 in TN Hawkins
County at age 83.
Jury: Jul 1774, NC Surry County.88
Probably this James
Occupation: Bef 1780, NC Surry
County. Constable
Court: 1785, NC Surry County.
James Green vs James Gittins
A John Green md a grandchild of
James 1711-1820.
That JohnGreen had property in GA
around James Jr.
County records: FROM 1774, NC
Surry, Wilkes, Stokes. Include James Giddens in various transactions:
Courtesy Andrew Giddens of
Indianapolis.
1771 Surry formed from Rowan
1778 Wilkes formed from Surry
1787 Stokes formed from Surry
Records of a James Giddens
(Gittins, etc.)
July 1774- jury
Sep 1779- witnessed a deed
Oct 1780- witnessed a deed
Sep 1783 Witnessed a deed.
May 1785- Sued by Green
May 1795- Deed between James
Giddens and John Litten (maybe Gitten?)
Dec 1799- Land grant 60 acres
both sides of the Yadkin R
Aug 1801- Land grant 35 acres
1/18/1802- Property sold for
taxes 100 acres on Yadkin River- witness Reuben Giddens.
9/29/1808- Between Polly Giddens
and James Giddens-
$103 for 100 acres on the N side
of the Yadkin. Witness- Edward Giddens
and Aaron Giddens.
Oct 1809- $50 for 150 acres
(bought or sold?)
Census: 1790, NC Burke County.
11401
DOWN THE ROAD
Ben Ward, Josh Ward, Jame GIDDONS
1140
Robt Searcy, Wm Edmonson, 1241
Thos Hayes, Geo Hayes, Benj Webb, Jas Webb, Reynard Walker, Jonathan Booz, Geo
Do? Moses Keel, Thos Anderson Jesse Downs, Thos Downs, Jn Rice, Nathan Smith,
Rice Mendicant, Moses ? Jas Neely etc
The Edmonsons md into the
Giddenses in GA
James married Martha Mills
"Patty" [12462]114 [MRIN: 5291] on 1
Feb 1787 in NC Burke County.
Children from this marriage were:
i. NC KY Edward 1787 M(ills?) Giddens s/o
James War of 1812 [12463] was born on 5 Nov 1787 in NC Wilkes County115
and died in 1835 in KY Laurel116 at age 48.
ii. Nc Tn William 1791 Giddens s/o James
[13338] was born in 1791 in NC Wilkes County117 and died in 1868 in
MO Christian County118 at age 77.
iii. Nc Ar James 1793 Giddens [12466]
was born in 1793 in NC Wilkes County and died in 1848 in AR at age 55.
iv. Nc Mo Isham Giddens s/o James
[12537] was born on 15 Oct 1795 in NC Wilkes County and died in 1860 in MO at
age 65.
v. Elizabeth 1798 Giddens Of Nc Wilkes
[12538] was born in 1798 in NC Wilkes County.
vi. Sarah Giddens [12469] was born in
1808 in NC Wilkes County.117
vii. Grandchildren Giddens [15855]
viii. John 1810 Giddens [15965] was born
in 1810 in TN Hawkins.
James next married Martha
Mills "Patty" [12462]114 [MRIN: 10092].
The child from this marriage was:
32 i. Our James 1800
Giddens Unproven F/O Jms T [13376]
65. Martha Mills "Patty" [12462],114 daughter of Mills
[15932] and Unknown, was born circa 1749.
Martha married NC TN James
1749 Isham Giddens Constable [109]2 [MRIN: 5291] on 1
Feb 1787 in NC Burke County.
Martha next married NC TN
James 1749 Isham Giddens Constable [109]2 [MRIN: 10092].
68. William Paul [22462], son of Archibald Paul Jr
[5489] and Unknown, died after 1822 in SC Fairfield
County, Camden.
William married Sarah
[22463] [MRIN: 9716].
Children from this marriage were:
34 i. Archibald Young
Paul War of 1812 [13893]
ii. William Paul [22464]
iii. Thomas Paul [22465]
iv. Mary Swan Paul [22466]
v. Margaret Paul [22467]
vi. Samuel Paul [22468]
vii. James Duncan Paul Son? Or Heir
[22470]
viii. John Paul [22471]
ix. Joseph Paul [22472]
69. Sarah
[22463] .
Sarah married William Paul
[22462] [MRIN: 9716].
70. James Russell Jr [3948],119 son of James
Russell unproven DG 2004 [5861] and Unknown, was born in 1765 in Northern
Ieland120 and died in 1833 in GA Henry County121 at age
68.
Census: 1790, SC Camden District.
James married Elizabeth Paul
[3960]78 [MRIN: 1568].
The child from this marriage was:
35 i. Martha P Russell
[13894]
71. Elizabeth Paul [3960],78 daughter of Archibald
Paul Northern Ireland [3653] and Agnes [3925], was born in 1762 in Ireland and
died circa 1835 in If She Died Age 70 at age 73.
Elizabeth married James
Russell Jr [3948]119 [MRIN: 1568].
72. James Mayes Northern Ireland [3629], son of Andrew Mayes Northern
Ireland [3631] and Rebecca McFarland
Northern Ireland [3632], was born in 1729 in Northern
Ireland maybe and died in 1818 in SC Union, Fairforest at age 89.
Biographical note.1
Immigrants from Northern Ireland fled to America from persecution and/or
poverty.
The Mayes and McElwains were
Presbyterians which lends credence to the fact they were persecuted in Northern
Ireland.
Religion: 1776, Union SC.
Fairforest Presbyterian Church,The Heads of familes at Fairforest in 1776 were
as follows: George Storey,Anthony Storey,James Mayes, James McLlwaine,Wid.
James Means, William Means, Richard Saye, William Hodge, George Park, John
Park, Arthur Park, William Patton, Joseph Kelso, John Davidson, Robert Harris,
Nicolas Harris, Mrs Kennedy,Family of Shaw, Thomas Barron Patrick Harberson,
John Thomas, Josiah Culbertson, Samuel Culbertson, Thomas Hayney, John Elder,
Robert Farris, James Crawford, Edward Denny, James Elder, Samuel Clowney, James
Farris, John Armstrong, Authur Simpson, William Simpson, And Widow Armstrong.
Some members recordered as joining after 1776 are: William DeWitt, Thomas Mayes,
Samuel Morrow, Samuel Archibald, Richard Thompson, John Tompson, John McDowell,
and Moses White.
James married Jane or Jean
McElwain of Pa [3630] [MRIN: 1426] circa 1780.
Children from this marriage were:
36 i. Anthony Mayes of
AL Greene County [3627]
ii. Margaret Mayes [16847] was born on
29 Jul 1762, died in 1835 at age 73, and was buried in Hebron Cemetery.
iii. Joseph Mayes [22072] was born on
18 Aug 1784, died on 25 Nov 1843 at age 59, and was buried in Hebron Cemetery.
James next married Henrietta
Scott [10189] [MRIN: 4428].
The child from this marriage was:
i. Scott Mayes [10190]
73. Jane or Jean McElwain of Pa [3630], daughter of James McElevean
or McElwain of PA [3641] and Jane Storey [10191], was born in 1746 in PA and died
in SC Union, Fairforest probably.
Religion: 1776, SC Union.
Fairforest Presbyterian Church,The Heads of familes at Fairforest in 1776 were
as follows: George Storey,Anthony Storey,James Mayes, James McLlwaine,Wid.
James Means, William Means, Richard Saye, William Hodge, George Park, John
Park, Arthur Park, William Patton, Joseph Kelso, John Davidson, Robert Harris,
Nicolas Harris, Mrs Kennedy,Family of Shaw, Thomas Barron Patrick Harberson,
John Thomas, Josiah Culbertson, Samuel Culbertson, Thomas Hayney, John Elder,
Robert Farris, James Crawford, Edward Denny, James Elder, Samuel Clowney, James
Farris, John Armstrong, Authur Simpson, William Simpson, And Widow Armstrong.
Some members recordered as joining after 1776 are: William DeWitt, ThomasMayes,
Samuel Morrow, Samuel Archibald, Richard Thompson, John Tompson, John McDowell,
and Moses White.
Jane married James Mayes
Northern Ireland [3629] [MRIN: 1426] circa 1780.
74. Major Samuel P. Otterson Rws [3633], son of James Otterson
[3634] and Rebecca James [3635], was born in 1754 in SC Berkeley
District, Tyger River, died in 1837 in AL Greene County, Near Union at age 83,
and was buried in Hebron Cemetery.
Biographical note. OTTERSON
Samuel 174? South Carolina, maj.
Historical reg. of officers of the Continental Army. By Francis Bernard Heitman.
Washington, DC, 1914. (685p.): 422
Major Otterson was wounded at the
Battle of Hanging Rock. I found this article about Hanging Rock. Regretfully,
it is from the Loyalist-
British report. DLG
Hanging Rock
After the success of the Siege of
Charlestown, the British set about to pacify the countryside. The PWAR was part
of the main British army and took quarters at Camden, where they constructed
huts for themselves meant to resist the hot weather.(78) In the latter part of
July the bulk of the regiment, along with three other corps, was advanced
towards Hanging Rock in part to "awe the disaffected," having first
stopped at Rocky Mount .(79) This last post had been attacked by a large force
of militia and partisans under the command of Thomas Sumter, who had been
repulsed by the New York Volunteers under Lt. Col. George Turnbull and some
South Carolina Loyalist Militia. On the night of 5 August 1780 the troops
continued their march, arriving at Hanging Rock in the dark of night, and
neglected sending out proper patrols.
Sumter and his force, reinforced
since his repulse at Rocky Mount, made their appearance before Hanging Rock
shortly after dawn. He launched his attack between six and seven in the
morning, directing his force agains t the newly formed North Carolina
Volunteers under Colonel Samuel Bryan, on the right flank of the camp. Bryan's
corps, being undisciplined, soon broke, leaving the right flank exposed. In
this situation Major Carden of the PWAR ordered a part of his regiment and the
Royal North Carolina Regiment to fill the gap. The slaughter was terrible.
Dozens from both regiments fell, compelling a further retreat. The line finally
centered on a three pounder field piece protected by a party of Colonel Henry
Rugeley's Regiment of Camden Militia. One hundred and sixty men of the British
Legion twice charged Sumter's line, likewise the Royal North Carolina Regiment.
Just at this critical period of the battle, forty mounted infantry of the
British Legion appeared from Rocky Mount and dismounted, deploying in extended
files to appear greater in number than they actually were. This turned the
tide. As an officer of the PWAR wrote:
"The Legion a nd Prince of
Wales's pouring in a well(96)directed fire, charged and total ly routed the
enemy, pursuing with a dreadful carnage."
The battle was over. And as a
fighting regiment, so was the Prince of Wales'.(80)
When the smoke had cleared and
the bugle horn ceased sounding, the Loyalists counted their dead. The losses
were appalling for the numbers involved. Of the estimated 181 officers and men
of the PWAR that had taken the field that day, 93 were dead, wounded or
missing. It was amongst the worst losses of any Loyalist regiment during the
war. The other corps, Bryan's excepted, suffered grievously as well. The Royal
North Carolinian s lost 50 officers and men, while the British Legion infantry
counted 35 out of about 200 officers and men as their casualties. The North
Carolina Volunteers likewise had men killed and wounded, but since they fled
the field early, they were not thought significant. No return of Sumter's
casualties was ever made. But by far, the PWAR had fought and bled the most on
that hot summer's day in South Carolina. Of the 17 sergeants that had fielded
that day, 5 were killed and another 4 were badly wounded, 3 of whom were also
taken prisoner by Sumter. Seven corporals were also amongst the wounded and
captured, a devastating blow to the non commissioned officer's corps. Six of
the eleven officers on the field were also eithe r killed or wounded.
Lieutenant Abraham Hickox and Ensign John Fowler were killed immediately.
Lieutenant Benjamin Ogden lived for fifteen hours after the battle before he
too died. The regiment was left shattered and in little shape for any more
active campaigning. To make matters worse , the Southern climate proved too
much for many of these Northern constitutions. As many as seventeen soldiers
had died of disease within that month. Ten of the officers, including the
surgeon's mate, were sick and Major Carden, who had led the regiment in battle,
was just then recovering. Twelve others were otherwise absent or on command
elsewhere, leaving the remnants of the unit with virtually no officers to do
duty.(81)
One of the Loyalists taking part
in the fighting that day was General Browne's servant, Samuel Burke. This Black
Loyalist was a native of Charlestown, South Carolina and met Governor Browne in
England in 1774. He "entered into his service" and traveled with him
to the Bahamas, being take n prisoner with the governor by Hopkins' fleet. All
the time Browne was in captivity and later raising the regiment, Burke was by
his side assisting. While in New York, he married a "free Dutch mulatto
Woman" by whom he acquired a house and garden in the city. These, however,
were soon appropriated as barracks for the troops, and his new wife was soon
turned out of doors. Undaunted, Burke, along with his wife, continued to serve
Browne, taking part in the Danbury expedition where he was "badly wounded.
" After Browne left the regiment after the Siege of Rhode Island, Burke
continued to serve with the unit, but in what capacity is not known. He was,
however, in the fighting at Hanging Rock, being so severely wounded that he was
almost given up for dead. His fighting days were over, and he would end up
destitute in England in August of 1783, seeking the help of a government he had
served for eight years.(82)
On the whole, the Battle of
Hanging Rock was a loss from which the PWAR would never recover. As a complete
unit, they had fought their last battle.
War claims: 1776, SC.122
Series: S108092
Reel: 0113
Frame: 00597
ignore: 000
Date: 1776 C. or later
Description: OTTERSON, SAMUEL,
ACCOUNT AUDITED (FILE NO. 5639) OF CLAIMS GROWING OUT OF THE AMERICAN
REVOLUTION.
Names indexed: OTTERSON, SAMUEL
Locations:
Document type:
Topics:
Land: 1787, sc 96TH. Series:
S213190
Volume: 0021
Page: 00010
Item: 001
Date: 8/8/1787
Description: OTTERSON, SAMUEL,
PLAT FOR 200 ACRES ON BRANCHES OF TYGER RIVER, NINETY SIX DISTRICT, SURVEYED BY
CHARLES SIMS.
Names indexed: GORDON; INLOW;
OAR, WILLIAM; OTTERSON, SAMUEL; SIMS, CHARLES
Locations: BROAD RIVER; NINETY
SIX DISTRICT; TYGER RIVER
Document type: PLAT
Topics:
Land: 1796, SC Pinckney. Series:
S213190
Volume: 0021
Page: 00010
Item: 001
Date: 8/8/1787
Description: OTTERSON, SAMUEL,
PLAT FOR 200 ACRES ON BRANCHES OF TYGER RIVER, NINETY SIX DISTRICT, SURVEYED BY
CHARLES SIMS.
Names indexed: GORDON; INLOW;
OAR, WILLIAM; OTTERSON, SAMUEL; SIMS, CHARLES
Locations: BROAD RIVER; NINETY
SIX DISTRICT; TYGER RIVER
Document type: PLAT
Topics:
Named in will: 1810. Series:
S108093
Reel: 0027
Frame: 00401
Item: 000
Date: 2/18/1810
Description: CRENSHAW, ROBERT OF
UNION DISTRICT, WILL TYPESCRIPT (MSS WILL: BOOK B, PAGE 25; ESTATE PACKET: BOX
6, PKG 32) (2 FRAMES).
Names indexed: ALLEN (SLAVE);
BROWN; CRENSHAW, ANDERSON; CRENSHAW, EPHRAIM ABEL; CRENSHAW, JAMES; CRENSHAW,
JOHN; CRENSHAW, RANDOLPH; CRENSHAW, ROBERT; CRENSHAW, STEPHEN; DAVIS,
CHARLOTTE; DUGAN, FRANCES; DUGAN, JAMES; ELEVEN (SLAVE); EVANS, MARTHA; GLEEN,
BERNARD; JOHN (SLAVE); JOHNSON, DAVID; MCDANIEL, ROBERT; OTTERSON, SAMUEL;
PETER (SLAVE); STRINGFELLOW, JANE
Locations: UNION DISTRICT
Document type: WILL (TYPESCRIPT)
Topics: JERMERSONS PLANTATION;
SLAVES, NAMED
Land: 1835, SC Spartanburg.122
Series: S213192
Volume: 0051
Page: 00171
Item: 000
Date: 2/24/1836
Description: OTTERSON, SAMUEL,
PLAT FOR 1,836 ACRES ON LITTLE THICKETTY CREEK, SPARTANBURGH DISTRICT, SURVEYED
BY RICHARD THOMSON.
Names indexed: ARVAL, CHARLES;
BRYCE, DAVID; BRYCE, POLLY; BRYCE, WILLIAM; LIPESCOMB, WILLIAM; LISCOMB, MRS.;
LITTLEJOHN, THOMAS; MOORE, PATRICK; NUCKOLLS, WILLIAM T.; OTTERSON, SAMUEL;
PERNAK; THOMSON, RICHARD; WILKINS
Locations: BROAD RIVER; LITTLE
THICKETTY CREEK; SPARTANBURG DISTRICT; THICKETTY CREEK
Document type: PLAT
Topics:
Land: 19 Jun 1772, NC Craven.122
Series: S213019
Volume: 0026
Page: 00109
Item: 000
Date: 6/19/1772
Description: OTTERSON, SAMUEL,
LAND GRANT FOR 100 ACRES IN CRAVEN COUNTY.
Names indexed: OTTERSON, SAMUEL
Locations: CRAVEN COUNTY
Document type: LAND GRANT
Topics:
Series: S111001
Volume: 0011
Page: 00377
Item: 003
Date: 8/26/1772
Description: OTTERSON, SAMUEL,
MEMORIAL FOR 100 ACRES BETWEEN BROAD AND SALUDY RIVERS, BERKLEY COUNTY.
Names indexed: KINGSBERRY, HENRY;
OTTERSON, JAMES; OTTERSON, SAMUEL
Locations: BERKELEY COUNTY; BROAD
RIVER; SALUDA RIVER; TYGER RIVER
Document type: MEMORIAL
Topics:
Will: 1837, AL Greene County.
Will of Samuel P.Otterson father of Sarah who married Amos Lay;signed May
2,1837,proven Jan 8,1838; Bk B p/9 Greene Co.Al; Sarah [dau]dec'd'Elizabeth
Lawson; Amos Lay [ son -law] a legacy
to hold & divide among the ch
of Sarah Lay,dec'e viz Samuel Otterson Lay md[ Jane;Mary Ann Lay]
md John Clinton;Thomas Gordon Lay
md Nancy;James J.Lay md Susan Trussell #2 Margat Brown
Vincent Lay md Polly Flowers #2
Sally Fox;Elizabeth Lay md Elisha Estes;Judy lay Md William Cook; Jesse Lay md
Barbara Ann Cook;Sarah Lay md John Flowers
other ch of Samuel were Rebecca
Wright;Ruth Otterson;Nancy Walker;Methane Johnson;James
Otterson;Thomas Gordon
Otterson;John Otterson;Samuel Jr Otterson;Nancy Otterson dau,& executrix
Hebron Church received a large
legacy,the will disposed of much property in Greene Co.Al & in Union
Samuel married Ruth Gordon
[3636] [MRIN: 1428] in 1777 in SC
Newberry.
Children from this marriage were:
37 i. Cynthia Otterson
of AL Greene County [3628]
ii. Mary Otterson [22070] was born in
1786, died in 1845 at age 59, and was buried in Otterson Cemetery.
iii. Sarah Otterson [22075] died before
1837.
iv. Elizabeth Otterson [22077] died
before 1837.
v. Rebecca Otterson [22099]
vi. Ruth Otterson [22101]
vii. Nancy Otterson [22102]
viii. Methane Otterson [22104] was
buried in maybe Hebron Cemetery ME Johnson.
ix. Thomas Gordon Otterson [22106]
x. John Otterson [22107]
xi. Samuel Otterson Jr [22108]
75. Ruth Gordon [3636], daughter of Thomas Gordon Va
[3637] and Elizabeth Anderson
[3638], was born in 1756 in SC Newberry
and died in 1844 in SC Eutaw at age 88.
Ruth married Major Samuel P.
Otterson Rws [3633] [MRIN: 1428] in 1777 in SC
Newberry.
76. Joseph James Bouchillon Sc Bordeaux District
[3599], son of John or Jean
Bouchillon [3601] and Mary Ann LeRoy a French
Huguenot [3602], was born in 1777 in SC
Bordeaux, Mccormick and died in 1806 in SC Bordeaux, Mccormick at age 29.
Joseph married Susannah
Guillebeau Sc Bordeaux District [3600] [MRIN: 1408] in 1798 in SC
Bordeaux, Mccormick.
Children from this marriage were:
38 i. John T. Bouchillon
Elder [3597]
ii. Joseph Leonard Bouchillon [22363]
iii. Lengy Bouchillon [22504]
77. Susannah Guillebeau Sc Bordeaux District
[3600], daughter of SGT RWS Andres
Guillebeau a French Huguenot [3605] and Mary Jane Roquemore a
French Huguenot [3606], was born in 1776 in SC
Bordeaux, Mccormick and died in 1814 in SC Bordeaux, Mccormick at age 38.
Susannah married Joseph James
Bouchillon Sc Bordeaux District [3599] [MRIN: 1408] in 1798 in SC
Bordeaux, Mccormick.
78. Samuel Doolittle V [3608],82 son of Samuel
Doolittle IV Sc [3610] and Nancy Waddy Sc [3611], was born on 27 Dec 1780 in SC
Edgefield District, died in 1817 in SC Edgefield District at age 37, and was
buried in Dry Creek Cemetery.
General Notes: This could be the
grandson of Samuel Doolittle b 1763, instead of the son.
Samuel married Mary Polly
Williams kin to Rev. Roger [3609] [MRIN: 1413] in 1798 in SC
Edgefield District.
Children from this marriage were:
39 i. Elizabeth or
Betsey Doolittle of TX Falls County [3598]
ii. Roger Williams Doolittle [22507]
was born on 15 Sep 1808, died on 17 Apr 1889 in Newton, Newton, Mississippi at
age 80, and was buried in Doolittle Cemetery, Newton, MS.
iii. Sterling W Doolittle [22508]
iv. Lucinda Doolittle [22510]
v. Samuel Doolittle VI [22511]
79. Mary Polly Williams kin to Rev. Roger [3609], daughter of Doctor Roger
Mackerness Williams [4476] and Catherine Read Quarles
Mary [4477], was born on 3 Sep 1787 in SC
Maybe and died on 15 Oct 1846 in SC Edgefield Maybe at age 59.
Kinship report: 2003, Greenvlile,
TX.1 A direct desendant of James and Alice (Pemberton) Williams,
parents of the Rev. Roger Williams, founder of Rhode Island, founder of the
first Baptist church in America.
Fourth great-grand niece of Rev.
Roger Williams.
Mary married Samuel Doolittle
V [3608]82 [MRIN: 1413] in
1798 in SC Edgefield District.
80. Nathaniel 1767 Mason? Gilliam [19517],2 son of Marcus
1747 Gilliam [19559] and Frances Steward Fanny
[18972], was born on 11 Jan 1767 in VA
Sussex County, Albemarle Parish,123 died after 1830 in TN Rhea
Maybe, and was buried in Rhea fr Roane 1806.
Census: 1790, NC Franklin County.
13200
Name: 1830, NC Franklin. could be
MARCUS SR
Nathaniel married someone.
His children were:
40 i. Nathaniel 1790
Mason Gilliam Nc Tn [20148]
ii. Gilliam [20577] was born from 1774
to 1790.124
iii. Gilliam [20578] was born from 1774
to 1790.124
iv. Gilliam [20579] was born from 1774
to 1790.
v. Gilliam [20580] was born from 1774
to 1790.
Nathaniel next married someone
circa 1785.
His children were:
40 i. Nathaniel 1790
Mason Gilliam Nc Tn [20148]
ii. John Gilliam Unproven [3978] was
born circa 1788 in Age Depends On Birth Order and was christened in 1819 in TN
Rhea Tax List.
iii. Marcus Gilliam maybe Marcus Jr
[3979] was born circa 1786 in NC Franklin Probably.
Nathaniel married Charity
Brown [2419] [MRIN: 8595] on 5 May 1801.
The child from this marriage was:
40 i. Nathaniel 1790
Mason Gilliam Nc Tn [20148]
81. Charity Brown [2419] was born circa 1778, died circa
1848 in If 70 At Death at age 70, and was buried in Gilliam Cemetery?.
General Notes: Linked to
Nathaniel Gilliam only because there are Browns in the small Gilliam Cemetery
in Spring City. She would have been a step-mother to our Nathaniel Mason
Gilliam b 1790.
DLG 2007
Charity married Mason
(Probably Desc Of The Gilliam-Mason) Gilliam [2418] [MRIN: 917], son of John 1722
Gilliam Unproven [19823] and Anne Mason [19707], on 5 May 1801 in Lincoln
County, NC.
The child from this marriage was:
i. Mason Gilliam Unproven [2953] was
born circa 1840.
Charity next married Nathaniel
1767 Mason? Gilliam [19517]2 [MRIN: 8595] on 5
May 1801.
82. Tn Rhea County Davis Unknown [3682], son of TN Rhea County Davis
[9337] and Unknown, was christened in 1830 in TN
Rhea (Many Davises).
Tn never married and had no
children.
His child was:
41 i. Sarah L Davis
Sally [20160]
84. Moses F Paul Sc [3651],125 son of Archibald
Paul Northern Ireland [3653] and Agnes [3925], was born in 1775 in SC
Winnsboro and died after 1830 in TN Rhea Probably.
Census: 1830, TN Rhea.
00001001 00000001
Moses married Margaret Gladney
[3652] [MRIN: 1438].
Children from this marriage were:
42 i. Archibald Duncan
Paul of Tn Rhea County [2588]
ii. John Farris Paul [9252] was born
circa 1800.
85. Margaret Gladney [3652], daughter of Pvt. Samuel
Gladney Rws [3926] and Agnes McCreight
[3927], was born in 1777 in SC
Fairfield, Camden and died after 1830 in TN Rhea Probably.
Margaret married Moses F Paul
Sc [3651]125 [MRIN: 1438].
86. Bryon Breeding Tn Rhea [3654], son of Spencer R Breeding
[3656] and Elizabeth Finney
[3657], was born in 1772 in VA Wythe
County, died in 1832 in TN Rhea County, Spring City at age 60, and was buried
in Morris Family Cem Spring City.
Bryon married Jane Thompson Tn
Rhea [3655] [MRIN: 1440].
Children from this marriage were:
43 i. Cynthia Breeding
of Tn Rhea County [2587]
ii. Stephen Breeding [17165] was born
in 1811 in TN VA VA and died after 1880 in TN Rhea County census.
87. Jane Thompson Tn Rhea [3655], daughter of James Thompson
[228] and Margaret Cowan [229], was born in 1777 in NC Rowan
County and died on 23 May 1844 in TN Rhea County, Spring City at age 67.
Jane married Bryon Breeding Tn
Rhea [3654] [MRIN: 1440].
88. Bremillion "Brim" Holloway Nc
Orange [2585],126 son of Thomas
Holloway RWS [3646] and Amy Morris [4671], was born in 1770 in NC127
and died circa 1840 in TN Rhea at age 70.
Census: 1810, NC Orange County.
Image 303
Census: 1800, NC Orange County.
20010 01100-00
Marriage: 26 Aug 1794, NC Orange
County. This or the earlier Bremillion Holloway was the bondsmand for the
marriage of MARY HOLLOWAY and JAMES WOOD: witness- A. B. Bruce
Census: 1800, NC Wake County.128
John, William, and Major Holloway.
HOLLOWAY Brim M-32 034 574
20010-01100-00
Emigration: 1814, TN.
Census: 1830, TN Rhea County.
00110001 00000001
Bremillion married Sarah
Proctor Nc Orange [2586] [MRIN: 983] on 5 Feb 1798 in NC
Orange, AbramWhitaker, bondsman- Jn Taylor, witness.126
Children from this marriage were:
i. Major Holloway [2582] was born in
1804 in NC43 and died in 1886 in TN Rhea County at age 82.
44 ii. Samuel Holloway of
TN Putnam County [3644]
iii. Delilah Holloway [4726] was born
circa 1800.40
iv. James Holloway [4728] was born on
9 Dec 180140 and died before 1880 in TN Rhea County census.
v. Burton WIlliamson Holloway [4767]
was born circa 1808.
vi. Joseph P(roctor?) Holloway [4769]
was born in 181140 and died in 188140 at age 70.
vii. Sterling Holloway [4780] was born
on 6 Dec 1816 in TN129 and died on 22 Jan 1891129 at age
74.
Bremillion next married Sarah
Proctor Nc Orange [2586] [MRIN: 1435] in 1798 in NC
Orange County.
The child from this marriage was:
44 i. Samuel Holloway of
TN Putnam County [3644]
89. Sarah Proctor Nc Orange [2586], daughter of NC Orange
Proctor Probably [5423] and Unknown, was born in 1774 in NC Orange
County, maybe43 and died after 1830 in TN Rhea Probably.
Sarah married Bremillion
"Brim" Holloway Nc Orange [2585]126 [MRIN: 983] on 5
Feb 1798 in NC Orange, AbramWhitaker, bondsman- Jn Taylor, witness.126
Sarah next married Bremillion
"Brim" Holloway Nc Orange [2585]126 [MRIN: 1435] in
1798 in NC Orange County.
90. James Davidson of NC Orange [5422],128 son of Colonel
William Davidson of NC Orange [7851] and Unknown, was born from circa 1774 to
1784.130
General Notes: unproven
Census: 1790, NC.
Davidson-Holloway in same county 1790
Bertie County- Davidson-Amos,
David, WM (all p12)
Hollaway, Arther p13
Burke County Davidsons-Ben, Geo.,
Jms, Jn, Sml, Thos, Wm
pages 106-110
Hollway- George p 107
DAVIDSON (various spellings)
Bertie County, Amos, David,
WM (all p12)
Burke County- Ben, Geo., Jms, Jn,
Sml, Thos, Wm
pages 106-110
Edgecombe- David
Fayette- Daniel, (2), JN
Hyde- WM,
Iredell- Alex., Geo. Joseph, Wm,
Martin- David.
Mecklenlberg- Jn, Jn, Sml, Thos,
Moore- David,
Randolph- Jms
Rutherford- Jas, Jas, Wm
HOLLOWAYS
Bertie- Arther Hollaway p13
Burke County- Geo. Holliway p 107
Hyde- Willliam Hollaway Image
0577
Orange- Martha, Richard, Thomas,
no Samuel
Census: 1800, NC Orange County.
James Davidson 16-26 (b 1774-1784)
William Davidson over 45 bef 1755
1800 D130 DAVID John M-32 034 559
01010-00001-05 1800 D132 DAVIDSON James M-32 034 504 10100-00010-00 1800 D132
DAVIDSON William M-32 034 504 01001-00101-00 1800 D120 DAVIS David M-32 034 504
10100-20200-00 1800 D120 DAVIS James M-32 034 504 50110-10110-00 1800 D120
DAVIS James M-32 034 561 00110-00100-02 1800 D120 DAVIS James M-32 034 504
50110-10110-00 1800 D120 DAVIS James M-32 034 561 00110-00100-02 1800 D120
DAVIS John M-32 034 561 21201-11010-02 1800 D120 DAVIS Mary M-32 034 504
00200-00201-00 1800 D120 DAVIS Richard M-32 034 561 22010-22010-01 1800 D120
DAVIS Samuel M-32 034 560 10020-00010-00 1800 D120 DAVIS Thomas M-32 034 504
00001-00001-01
James married someone.
His child was:
45 i. Frances Davisson
or Davidson Nc [3645]
92. Davis
[9606], son of Davis [17078] and Unknown, was born circa 1775 in VA
Orange County resident maybe.
Davis married someone.
His children were:
46 i. William Davis
[4368]
ii. Evan Davis [9273] was born circa
1794 in If 23 When Married.
94. William Goodridge Unproven [6864], son of George Goodridge
[6936] and Unknown, was born on 18 Mar 1769 in VA
Orange County131 and died in 1850 in KY Boone County131
at age 81.
William married Catherine
Martin Hinton [6935]131 [MRIN: 2923].
The child from this marriage was:
47 i. Harriet Goodridge
[4369]
95. Catherine Martin Hinton [6935]131 was born circa 1776 in VA.131
Catherine married William
Goodridge Unproven [6864] [MRIN: 2923].
96. John Cox Sc Pendleton [3],92 son of John Cox
I [5] and Sarah Beverly [55], was born in 1734 in NC
Granville County,132 died in 1799 in SC Pendleton District, Anderson
County133 at age 65, and was buried on 16 Apr 1802 in Will Probated
SC Pendleton.
General Notes: Link to John and
Sarah not proven. Don Giddens, 2000.
Land transaction: 1793, SC
Pendleton District. bought land from Asaph Alexnader
Witnesses John Cox and James
Jones
Census: 1790, SC Pendleton
District. 12400 00000 000
Down the road
Jonathan Gibbs, Patrick Whiles,
Geo Brooks, Jms COX 401
Beverly COX 124 Wm Boyd Wm
Manson, Jn Murry, Tinsley, Jms Barton etc Asaph Alexander 134 David Murdick Wm
Bohannon etc
Wm Cannon 114 Anne Cannon 00205
on the same page.
Another John Cox 265
Fact: 1786, Henry County VA.
Peter Saunders was a Colonel and John Cox a second lieutenant.
Larkin Cox was born in Henry
County. Could this have been our John Cox?
Probate: 1787-1799. From
Abstracts of Early Records of Laurens County South Carolina 1785-1820 by Sarah
M. Nash
Page 22 31 August 1787 Deed Book
B page 246 Recorded 5 January 1788 John AND ELIZABETH COX sell for 42 pounds to
Charles Henderson, 150 acres on Warriors Creek, bounded by William Vaughn,
original grant to said Cox in Berkley Co. 4 December 1771. Wit: Thomas
Henderson, Wm. Dodd
Colonial Plats South Carolina
Volume 10 page 240 gives the layout of a 200 acre grant. It is dated 1768 but
may be the 1771 grant mentioned.
In 1769 a 100 acre grant was
given to John Cox on South side of Enoree River as mentioned in a deed from
Laurens Co. Book C, page 47 and mentions John (Jr.) and Sarah selling this,. It
says John and Sarah Cox of Indian Creek.
John also buys 250 acres on 26
mile Creek in Old Pendleton District as recorded in Book H pages 454 and 455 in
1789 and then in 1794 he buys 304 acres, Book C-D pages 425-426. From this land
William Cannon buys 134 acres, part of the 1789 grant (deed says he bought)
Book E pg. 261 Laurens Co. then William sells to Edward Cox 72 acres part of
this 134, Book E,page 262 and then the next month Edward sells the 72 acres
Book H pages 416-418 in Old Pendleton District.
In 1798 John Sr. gives 150 acres
to his son Beverly Cox, the plantation where I now live. Deed Book F, page 201,
Old Pendleton District. This is the land on 26 mile Creek.
These items are included here as
they were labeled and put together in the same packet and box in the county
courthouse of John, Jr. Box 3, #103 but are Administration papers of this John.
On the 22 of December 1798 in
Pendleton District (Now Anderson and Pickens) South Carolina, Elizabeth Cox and
Henry Cox made application to the clerk of the county for letters of
administration of the goods chattels, rights, and credits of John Cox, late of
this county, deceased, and which belong to him at the time of his death.
Book C pages 167 and 172, 15
April, 1799 and 24 June, 1799 respectively. (Box 3 #103 SC Archives)
Elizabeth Cox, Henry Cox, John C.
Griffin and John W. Grissom make bond for $1000.00
Being authorized by the Court of
Pendleton County did repair to the Plantation of John Cox, deceased, and there
did appraise the goods, chattels, of said deceased and hath made a perfect
inventory of the same, agreeable to our best skill and ability.
Total goods inventoried worth
$286.37.
1 horse, 16 cattle, 1 ox, 5
sheep, 21 pigs, various tools, 2 saddles, table, 7 pewter plates, iron, 2
pewter basins, 9 spoons, churn, 7 knives, 10 forks and 1 ladle, 5 pt. tins, 1
qt. tin, ditch oven, spinning wheel, 2 Delft plates, pepper box, 4 spelling
books, 1 testament, 1 primer, 3 beds and furniture.
Certified this 1st day of March
1799 by Andrew Liddle, Berry Dickson, and Lewis Cobb.
Personal property of John Cox
deceased was exposed to public sale 1 May, 1799. Buyers were Elizabeth Cox,
Henry Cox, Capt. George Rewes, Fereby Cox, Beverly Cox, Hollingsworth Vandiver
and Thomas Davis with Elizabeth buying almost all the property.
John married Elizabeth Vaughn
Pendleton Sc [53]92 [MRIN: 33] circa
1756.
Children from this marriage were:
i. James Cox [351] was born about
1759.
ii. Henry Cox [204] was born about
1761 and died on 2 Apr 1800 in Pendleton Dist SC about age 39.
iii. Russell Cox [268] was born about
1764.
iv. Sgt. Beverly 1765 Cox RWS [284]
was born about 1765 and died on 13 Sep 1794 in SC Pendleton District about age
29.
v. Acy Cox [272] was born about 1766.
vi. William M Cox [841] was born on 10
Oct 1766 in NC Granville County134 and died in 1843 in SC Anderson
County, Belton134 at age 77.
vii. Gambrell Cox "Littleberry?"
[1577] was born circa 1775, was christened in 1843 in SC Anderson County, and
was buried in Christ Church, Alexandria, VA.
viii. Legatees of Cox [17500] was born
before 1809.
48 ix. John Cox Sawmill
owner [22343]
97. Elizabeth Vaughn Pendleton Sc [53],92 daughter of William
Vaughn [1865] and Barbary Brewton Bruton [1864], was born circa 1734 in SC
Pendleton or NC Granville maybe and died in 1809 in SC Pendleton at age 75.
Elizabeth married John Cox Sc
Pendleton [3]92 [MRIN: 33] circa
1756.
98. Job Smith [5964],135 son of David
Smith ye sonne of THOS [5982] and Elizabeth/Mary Stephenson
Stevenson [5983], was born in 1718 in PA Bucks
County or Ireland,135 died in 1800 in SC Pendleton District136
at age 82, and was buried in Pickens Chapel.137
Fact: 1718, Yorkshire, England.
Another (or maybe the same) Job Smith was born, son of Richard and Ann Smith of
Cowling.
Land: 1765, SC.122
Series: S213184
Volume: 0007
Page: 00417
Item: 03
Date: 2/9/1765 total 750 acres
Description: SMITH, JOB, PLAT FOR
250 ACRES ON BUFFALOE LICK.
Names indexed: CALHOUN, PATRICK;
SMITH, JOB; TROUP, JOHN
Locations: BUFFALO LICK SPRINGS;
LONG CANE CREEK; SAVANNAH RIVER
Document type: PLAT
Topics:
Fact or Conjecture: 2003,
Greenville, TX.1 I have linked Sarah Smith to Job instead of Joseph
because of the approximate ages. Joseph Smith of Pendleton SC apparently does
not have a Sarah the right age to be the wife of John Cox.
Job married Hannah [6071] [MRIN: 2617].
Children from this marriage were:
i. Joseph Smith [5957] was born in
1740 in PA Bucks County39 and died in Jun 1814 in SC Pendleton
District138 at age 74.
ii. Rev. Job Smith RWS [5966] was born
on 25 Dec 1748 in PA York County138 and died before 1837 in SC
Pickens District.39
iii. Michael Smith [7661] was born in
1749 in PA Bucks County39 and died on 10 Nov 1803 in SC Pendleton
District39 at age 54.
iv. Benjamin Smith RWS [7662] was born
in 1750 in PA York County39 and died in May 1834 in SC Pickens39
at age 84.
49 v. Sarah Smith
[4373]
99. Hannah
[6071] was born in 171778
and died in 1807 in SC Anderson District if same Hannah139 at age
90.
General Notes: Linked by DLG if
same Hannah and Job- DLG 2006
I orginally put Hannah Barney here,
but she is not the right Hannah.
Hannah married Job Smith
[5964]135 [MRIN: 2617].
Hannah next married someone on 18
Nov 1742 in MA Taunton (if same Job and Hannah).140
Her children were:
i. Joseph Smith [5963] was born in
1740 in PA Bucks County141 and died in 1814 in SC Anderson County at
age 74.
49 ii. Sarah Smith
[4373]
iii. Job Smith [5984] was born in 1748
in PA York County, Fawn Township139 and died in 1837 in SC Pickens,
Pendleton139 at age 89.
100. Captain John Phillip Hudgins RWS [342], son of Ambrose Hudgins
Daniel Boone's bro-in-law [343] and Joannah Foster
"Ann" [1536], was born in 1752 in Chatham NC142
and died in Feb 1791 in Blairville, SC at age 39.
General Notes: http://genforum.genealogy.com/cgi-bin/pageload.cgi?Rutha,Davis::hudgins::1
16.html Caleb Tefeteller
http://genforum.genealogy.com/hudgins/messages/124.html Charles Hudgins
I had JohnP., others had John;
others had Phillip. So, I'm guessing John Phillip
Hudgins- Don Giddens
donlgiddens@hubwest.com
Birthdate and Colonel- info from
http://genforum.genealogy.com/cgi-bin/pageload.cgi?Rutha,Davis::hudgins::3
11.html Janet
Biographical note: 2003, Dalton,
GA.143 Don,
I found Rutha Davis Hudgins in
your tree at Rootsweb. Since she is one of my ancestors, I thought I would pass
on the following info I found on her. This abstract of the Rev War Pension
Files, shows that she was the widow of John Hudgins and she remarried James
Murphy in 1812 after the death of John. Rutha Davis Hudgins Murphy was living
in Walker Co., GA, when she first applied for the pension in 1845. Her son
James Hudgins of Gordon Co., GA, said in his application for his father's
pension in 1853 that his mother Rutha died on 17 Nov 1847 in Habersham Co., GA.
I live in Dalton, Whitfield Co., GA, and Gordon and Walker are neighboring
counties. I descend from Rutha and John's daughter Delilah Hudgins who married
Robert Trotter.
Abstract of Rev. War Pension
Files:
John Hudgins or Hutchins, Ruth or
Rutha Murphy, former widow, R7515, NC Line.
Soldier married Rutha Davis 15
Feb 1775 and soldier died in Feb 1791, leaving his widow with 7 children under
the age of 16: to wit: Mary, Teresa, Philip, William, James, Delila, and
Benjamin J. Hudgins. Widow married second to James Murphy in 1812 and he died
in Mar 1831. Soldier and widow had married in Chatham Co., NC, and she married
James Murphy in SC. Widow applied 31 Mar 1845 in Walker Co., GA, but lived in
Habersham Co., GA. A son, James Hudgins, applied 27 Sep 1853, Gordon Co., GA,
aged 68, and stated widow (Rutha Davis Hudgins) died in Habersham Co., GA, on
17 Nov 1847, leaving children: Thursay (Teresa) who married Levi Murphy;
Delilah who married Robert Trotter, Benjamin and James Hudgins.
Melanie Atkins
Dalton, GA
Military.142 NC
Continental Line Rev War Soldier
Captain, Quartermaster
Death: 1791.144 of
small pox
John married Rutha Davis
[956] [MRIN: 362] on 15 Feb 1775 in
Chatham County, NC.
Children from this marriage were:
50 i. Benjamin J Hudgins
Sc Pendleton [265]
ii. James Hudgins [1462] was born in
1785 in Chatham, NC and died after 1853.
iii. Delila Hudgins Melba's line [1698]
was born in 1786 in NC145 and died in 1879 in GA White County142
at age 93.
iv. Phillip Hudgins [2034] was born
before 1790 and died before 1847.
v. Mary Hudgins [4165] died before
1853.
vi. Teresa Hudgins [4166] died after
1847.
vii. William Hudgins [4167] died before
1847.
101. Rutha Davis [956], daughter of Rev. Elnathan
Davis Baptist [1652] and Mary Collins [1501], was born about 1761 in Chatham,
NC and died on 17 Nov 1847 in GA Habersham143 about age 86.
Pension applications: 1845, GA
Walker County.
Rutha married Captain John
Phillip Hudgins RWS [342] [MRIN: 362] on 15 Feb 1775 in
Chatham County, NC.
Rutha next married James
Murphy [4164]143 [MRIN: 1671] in
1812.143
102. Jesse Ellis RWS [119], son of John Ellis Va Surry
[1517] and Mary Wiggins [5590], was born in 1743 in VA Surry
County, Albemarle Parish and died in 1818 in SC Pendleton District at age 75.
General Notes: : Gary Ellis
<wurdluvr@mindspring.com> has Johnnathan Ellis
b 1710 Sussex VA. md to Mary
Wiggins.
Jesse married Sarah Woodson
[120] [MRIN: 462] on 9 Mar 1763 in VA
Goochland County.
The child from this marriage was:
i. Martha Ellis [335] was born about
1765.
Jesse next married Widow
Elizabeth Young [1503] [MRIN: 525] circa 1776 in SC
Pendleton District maybe.
Children from this marriage were:
i. Rev. Jeremiah Ellis Methodist
[1551] was born in 1779 in NC and died circa 1809 in SC Pendleton/Pickens146
at age 30.
ii. Stephen Ellis [1552] was born on
25 Mar 1784.
iii. Rev. Gideon Ellis Methodist [1553]
was born on 27 Feb 1786 in NC Chatham County and died in 1859 in SC Pickens146
at age 73.
iv. Sarah Ellis [1550] was born in
1788 in VA Goochland County.147
51 v. Martha Ellis
[266]
vi. Rev. Jesse Ellis Methodist [7017]
was born on 20 Sep 1790 in NC Chatham County148 and died in 1866 in
AL Elmore County, Wetumpka148 at age 76.
Jesse next married Mary
Goodman [1554] [MRIN: 473].
Jesse next married Hannah
Murphree [1555] [MRIN: 474] in 1809 in Pendleton
District SC.
103. Widow Elizabeth Young [1503], daughter of SC Pendleton
District Young [5862] and Unknown, was born in 1750 in NC Warren
County149 and died in SC Pendleton maybe.
General Notes: Info from
http://worldconnect.genealogy.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=GET&db=nell-
ellis_1&id=I906
Elizabeth married Jesse Ellis
RWS [119] [MRIN: 525] circa 1776 in SC
Pendleton District maybe.
Elizabeth next married William
Young [5993] [MRIN: 3008], son of SC
Pendleton District Young [5862] and Unknown.
104. Pastor Moses Saunders Sanders RWS [131],150 son of John
Saunders or Sanders [2343] and Catherine Nimrod
[3729], was born in 1743 in England,
Deventon, Wiltshire,151 died in 1817 in GA Banks, Groves Level,
Homer152 at age 74, and was buried in Sanders Cemetery, Maysville,
Banks. GA.
General Notes: Would be called
today- Church planter, missionary
Tombstone: : Grove's Level,
Banks, GA. Soldier NC Revolution, Iredell Co.
Founder of Grove Level, Narls
Creek and Many Other Baptist Churches
tombstone says "Christ is My
Anchor"
grandchildren include Sallie
Hooper, Wm. Sanders, Obediah Sanders, Betsy Carter
Aaron Sanders and John Sanders
are also descendants, but children or grand
all listed on Frances Garrett
Hughes DAR application
Land transaction: : NC Onslow
County. 600 acres
Fact. Founder of Groves Level,
Nails Creek, and many other Baptist churches.
Birth: 1743, England.
Census: 1790, SC Laurens
District. In 1790, a Moses Sanders was censused 1020
with Littleberrys and
Shacklefords.
Shacklefords later on wind up in
MS Tishomingo as did some of the Moses 1769 Saunders' family.
Military: 1793, KY.153
A Moses Saunders served in 1793-6 as a Farrier. Russell's Reg. Calvary KY
Volunteers
Census: 1800, SC Darlington
District. A Moses Saunders was censused 0100
by a Nathaniel Saunders 0100
Census: 1800, SC Barnwell
District. A Moses Saunders was censusd- 002005030
Will: 1817, GA Franklin County.154
Amos, Martin, Kennington, Grider and Sanders Families
Entries: 261 Updated: Thu Oct 26
14:08:00 2000 Contact: Sarrah M. Amos
source:Early Settlers of Banks
Count Georgia by Barbara LeFevre
Moses Sanders Constructed a Log
missionary in the early !770's and in the year 1787 became the first pastor of
Nails Creek Baptist Church.
The old Federal Road which ran
off old Cherokee grounds as in the 1805 Treaty of Tellico, Tennessee, the
Cherokees themselves authorized this road which begins in Chattanooga, Tenn and
runs to Flowery Branch to Augusta. It was called the Federal road because it
was a mail route. Communities along this road were Mt. Pleasant.,Walnut Hills,
Jewelsville and Nails Creek named for Joe Nails who ran a trading post.
Nails Creek Baptist Church was
established on 11th February 1787.The marker lists Rev Moses Sanders .page 141
In the minutes of Grove Level
Church May 1802 stated that the following members of the arm of Nails Creek Baptist
Church met at Grove Level Meeting house and were Constituted a Church .( To be
called Grove Level Baptist Church) by a presbytery composed of Moses Sandrers
Sr. , John Doss, William Denman and Thomas Maxwell . choose Moses Sandrers sr
as our supply. The names of 62 members included Richard Mauldin, ( who married
Nancy Sanders dtr of Moses bn 1778), Silas Sanders, David Sanders (who married
Mary Allred) Francis Sanders ( who may be the brother to Moses),Sally Sanders
and Polly Sanders.
abstracted from the NailsCreek
Baptist Church records.
Rev Moses served in the
Continental Army under General George Washington and bore a number of scars
from Bayonet Wounds., Taken from the History of Nails Creek Baptist Church.
one source said he got the scars
in a bayonet fight with a British soldier and the " Brit" lost.<
not confirmed>
Will of Moses Sanders dated 28 th
Feburary 1817 in Franklin Co ( Groves Level ,later Banks Co ) Georgia
"In the name of God,
amen" I Moses Sanders Sr of the state aforesaid and County Of
Franklin,being of sound and disposing mind and Memory, and calling to mind that
it is once appointed for all men to die. I constitute and make this my last
will and testament, hereby revoking all other former wills and testaments made
or intended to be made.
Firstly I will that all my debts
as shall by me owing at my death together, with all changes touching the
proving of or otherwise concerning this my will shall in the first place be
paid out of my personal estate and effects. From and after payment thereof and
subject thereunto this my will is that all the residue of my estate of every
description, shall be appraised except the part I hereafter lend my wife. after
such appraisement made that the same be divided as follows.
I will that my lands shall be
divided into four equal parts, except that I am now about to give and have
deeded to away with a small bit of land to my son, John Sanders adjoining the
place where I now live beginning at Buch Corner at the mouth of the branch
thence to the branch where my ( undeciperable) forms the branch, thence up the
branch to the old line, thence along old line to the other branch.
One hundred acres I give Nancy
Jones and Joel Sanders across the upper end of the Four hundred acre
tract of land granted to myself
adjoining the Aldreds (Allred) old cabin, and the rest of my property of all
description whatever I wish divided int five equal Parts to wit.
I give unto my son Moses Sanders
Jr one fourth part of my land and one fifth part of the residue of my estate.
I give unto my son John Sanders
forty dollars, and one fourth part of my land and one fifth part of the residue
of my estate.
I give unto Aron (Aaron) Sanders
children Nancy Jones , Joel, Moses, Nathanield, Daniel, Polley and Salley
Sanders one fourth part of my land and one fifth part of the residue of my
Estate and also give unto them one Negro girl and the increase of any , that I
lent to my son Aron Sanders during his life by the name of Barsheba.
I give unto my grandchildren of
David Sanders, deceased, namely To wit Martin , Hambleton (William
Hamilton),Sally, Nancy and David , one Negro named Buck which I lent my son
David, deceased. One fourth part of my land and one fifth part of my residue of
my estate to be equally divided between them.
I give unto my Daughter Sally
Hooper two dollars.
I give unto my grandchildren of
Sally Hooper namely to wit William Sanders, Obadia, Betsy Carter, Miley and
James Hooper, two Negoes Lewis and Hannah which negroes I before lent to my
daughtere Sally Hooper and one fifth part of the residue of my estate, except
the land to to be equally divided also twenty dollars cash. ( Sarah B. or Sally
married Obediah Hooper 24 th March 1805, Obediah was son of Obediah Hooper Sr,
both fought in the Rev War.)
I give unto Richard Maulden two
dollars. ( who married Nancy in abt 1800 bn 1778 died about 1808)
I lend unto my wife Mary Sanders
during her life the land whereon I now live and three Negroes, Dinah, Rachel
and Fann, four cows and calves , two horses, two sows and pigs, two feather
beds and Furniture.
All my household and Kitchen
furniture .My plantation, working tools and a sufficient support for her for
one year after my death to be levied out of my estate,
After my wifes death my will is
for all the property I have lent her to to be equally divided in five parts,
except the land my son John Sanders is to have, and my son Moses Sanders is to
have one fifth part and my grandchildren heretofore mentioned of Aron Sanders
to have one fifth part, to be equally divided between them.
My express will is that I ordain
and appoint my sons Moses Sanders and John Sanders my sole executors of this my
last Will and Testament.
Given under my hand and Seal this
28th day of Febuary in the year of our Lord 1817.
witnesses present:
John Bush, William Legg and John
Baugh Justice of the Peace
Signed Moses Sanders his mark
Note: The comments in ( ) are
mine and do not appear in the original will.
1 2
Fact: 2006, RootsWeb.57
Moses Marion Sanders of Alcorn County, Mississippi, was a son of John Sanders
and Aby Robins and a grandson of the Reverend Moses Sanders and Mary Hamilton.
In a memoir written for his family about 1880 he stated:
"Our grandfather Moses
Sanders was born in the early part of the 18th century. His life was spent in
agriculture as a pursuit and theology as a profession being a Baptist preacher.
Our grandfather John Robins was a merchant in Virginia. John Sanders, our
father, was born in North Carolina March 2nd A.D. 1787. Our mother, Aby
Richardson Sanders, daughter of John Robins, was born in Virginia August 18th
1796."
Moses married Sarah Hamilton
[122]155 [MRIN: 131] circa
1764 in VA Augusta County.152
Children from this marriage were:
i. Moses Sanders Jr. Nc [129] was
born in 1766 in VA, was christened in 1787 in GA Grove's Level BC Charter
Member, and died in 1847 in GA Franklin County at age 81.
ii. Aaron Sanders [2325] was born in
1769 in VA156 and died after 1850 in GA Franklin, Groves Level.
iii. Sarah B Sanders [2326] was born on
15 May 1773 in GA Franklin County or VA154 and died in 1862 in TN
Bedford County or MS Coffeeville at age 89.
iv. David Sanders War of 1812 + [209]
was born in 1775 in NC Anson County and died on 25 Feb 1815 in New Orleans War
of 1812157 at age 40.
v. Rev. Amos 1783 Sanders [210] was
born in 1783 in NC Anson County154 and was christened in 1805 in GA
Frankin County.
vi. Grandchildren Sanders [201]
52 vii. Rev. John Sanders
Baptist War of 1812 [3701]
viii. Nancy Sanders [3702] was born in
1778 in NC Iredell154 and died in 1807154 at age 29.
ix. Executors Sanders Of His Estate
[7095] was born circa 1775.
105. Sarah Hamilton [122],155 daughter of Arthur
Hamilton [3699] and Martha Conyngham
[3700], was born in 1745 in GA
Franklin, Groves Level,158 died in 1816 in GA Banks (was Franklin)
Groves Level158 at age 71, and was buried in Sanders Cemetery,
Maysville, Banks. GA. Other names for Sarah were Hambleton, Mary.
Sarah married Pastor Moses
Saunders Sanders RWS [131]150 [MRIN: 131] circa
1764 in VA Augusta County.152
106. Our Major John Robins Jr. [16854],57 son of John
Robins [3839] and Mary Margaret Madison
Strother [3840], was born in 1750 in VA Orange
County,159 was christened in 1787 in NC Wilkes County census, and
died in 1812 in TN Franklin County159 at age 62.
Census: 1787, NC Wilkes County.
1-2-5-5-1
Census: 1790, NC Wilkes County. 3
w males over 16
-1-w male under 16
7--females
-11 slaves
Occupation: : VA.62
merchant
Tax List: 1812, GA Franklin
County. Page 4 (80)
Mathew DOWLY - Charles ROWLIN -
Daniel HAVERN - John GOODWIN - Peter WILEMAN - John GRAHAM - James WOOTEN -
John PHIPS - John DOBS - Henry PAINTER - John PAINTER - John JORDEN - Thomas
HARISON - Abraham HARGESS - Harrison SARTAIN - James SANDERS - Solomon SANDERS
- William FORSYTH - Henry GOTCHER - Joshua GOTCHER - William COOK - Burril COOK
- Archabald GESEL - Robert JONES - Lemuel JOHNSON - Silas JOHNSON - John BURRIS
- Mater SHECKEL - James BONNER - James NAZWORTHY - Jacob BOX - William TRUSSELL
- William TUBB - Daniel HILL - John SWEETON - Stephen FULYERS? - Elizha IVEY -
Gabriel JONES - John BRUMSENT - John WINN - Antony BURRIS - Obediah BEAN - John
BURROWS - Moses SWEETON - Burrel BAGGET - John ROBINS - James BROOKS - Nathan
PRICE - Silas TUCKER - James SERTAIN - Jacob BECK - Henry BECK - Frederick BECK
- Lewis WATSON &C - Lewis WATSON - Lewis POWELL - John C. SMITH - William
MORGAN - John BOX - John MORRIS - William BURGISS - John ARMSTRONG [sub total
238]
John married Elizabeth Dogan
[17245] [MRIN: 7092] in 1771 in VA
Culpeper County.159
Children from this marriage were:
53 i. Alexandria
Richardson Robins [4032]
ii. Margaret Robins [17246] was born
circa 1798.
iii. Nancy Ann Robins [17268] was born
circa 1800.
iv. Mary Robins [17269] was born circa
1802.
v. Samuel Robins [17270] was born
circa 1804.
vi. Jane Robins [17271] was born circa
1806.
107. Elizabeth Dogan [17245], daughter of Samuel Dogan
[17248] and Ann Mary Harrison
[17249], was born in 1754 in VA
Westmoreland County159 and died after 1832 in TN Coffee County.159
Other names for Elizabeth were Dugan, Dougan.
Elizabeth married Our Major
John Robins Jr. [16854]57 [MRIN: 7092] in
1771 in VA Culpeper County.159
108. William Rushing [293],104 son of Abraham
Rushing [1304] and Mariah Meador [1319], was born in 1783 in NC Anson
(Fayette) County, died on 15 Jul 1853 in Tishomingo MS at age 70, and was
buried in Corinth Baptist Cemetery Tishomingo MS.
General Notes:
http://web.utk.edu/~ddonahue/stuff/irarush.txt Ira Rushing's notes
A LIST OF RUSHINGS WHO SIGNED
SEVERAL PETITIONS FROM 1777-1789.
WILLIAM RUSHING, ROWLAND RUSHING,
RICHARD RUSHING, ABRAHAM RUSHING,
JOHNSON RUSHING, JOHN RUSHING,
MARK RUSHING, WILLIAM RUSHING SENIOR,
ROBERT RUSHING, SOLOMON RUSHING,
NOAH RUSHING, PHILLIP RUSHING,
JACOB RUSHING AND MATHEW RUSHING.
ANSON COUNTY DEEDS VOLS H-1
Fact.160 Anson was
formed in 1750 from Bladen. It was named in honor of George, Lord Anson, a
celebrated English admiral who circumnavigated the globe. It is in the south
center section of the State and is bounded by the state of South Carolina and
Union, Stanly, and Richmond counties. Its land area is 531.41 square miles and
its population in 1990 was 23,474. From 1755 to 1780 the county seat was called
Anson Court House. In 1782 and 1783 laws were passed concerning the courthouse.
In the latter year New Town was authorized to be established. In 1787, Newton,
the county seat, was changed to Wadesboro. Wadesboro is the county seat.
Religion. Baptist
William married Jane Nichols
[294] [MRIN: 229] about 1807.
Children from this marriage were:
54 i. Mark Rushing Tn
[153]
ii. Sarah Rushing [988] was born on 6
Feb 1815 in Stewart Co TN and died on 17 Mar 1890 in MS Alcorn County at age
75.
iii. Abraham Rushing [21954] was born
in 1815 in NC and died after 1880 in TX Van Zandt County census.
109. Jane Nichols [294], daughter of Isaac Nichols NC
[6075] and Honor [8170], was born in 1785 in NC Anson
(Fayette) County, died on 27 Feb 1860 in Tishomingo MS Near Corinth at age 75,
and was buried in Corinth Baptist Cemetery Tishomingo MS.
Religion. Baptist
Jane married William Rushing
[293]104 [MRIN: 229] about
1807.
110. William R. Freeman [295],70 son of Howell
Freeman RWS [944] and Elizabeth [1849], was born on 25 Mar 1786 in NC
Franklin County,39 died on 16 Mar 1872 in Pike Co IL at age 85, and
was buried in Taylor-Martin Cemetery, Derry, IL.
General Notes: Posted by: Valerie
Simonton Date: June 13, 2001 at 19:26:51
In Reply to: William R. Freeman b
1786 SC desc by Don L. Giddens of 4781
Don,
William R. Freeman was born in
Franklin Co., North Carolina, not in South Carolina. Wife, Mary Massie was born
in Kentucky. They married 12 Jul 1807 in Ky. She, the d/o Thos. Massie and
Frances Hudson, both of New Kent Co., VA.
William was son of Howell
Freeman, b1760, VA and Elizabeth __?__. Howell served as a private in Rev. War
in NC. His name is on a marker honoring Revolutionary soldiers, in Dickson Co.,
TN, where he and 2nd. wife, Hannah, lived and died.
Regards,
Valerie Simonton
Don,
Thanks for the response. All we know is that Mark Rushing (1809-1883)
and Martha Elizabeth (1812-1896) were the parents of John King Rushing
(1849-1918) who married our Lucinda Caroline Cox ( 18 Nov 1851- 5 Oct 1919)
daughter of T.L. Cox and Lucinda Bentley of South Carolina, via Blount Co.,
Ala., and then to Uphsur Co., Tx.
Lucinda Caroline had a 1st cousin by the name ( taken from the 1850
census, so a good possibility it could be wrong) Mahala Allred, born about 1845,
Blount Co., Ala. I just wonder if John
could have married 1st, the Allred, maybe she died and he then married the
cousin. Not unheard of, but a
possibility. I think we need to find
some marriage records, Since they are
all buried in Van Zandt co., it is quite
possible, Lucinda Caroline had a sister who moved there from Upshur co. I am going to get in touch with some of the
other Cox researchers here in Upshur Co., one of which has worked on this fa
Joyce W.
I found this tonight, have you seen this
before?
George W. Freeman Bible Records
from DAR files, Washington, DC
Bible published by A.L. Bancroft
& Co., 721 Market Street, San Francisco, California 1873.
Bible in possession of Mrs. H. A.
Fraundorf, 2335 N.E. 24th Ave., Portland, Oregon 1959.
W. R. Freeman son of Howel &
Elizabeth Freeman was born in North Carolina March 25th 1786
Mary daughter of Thomas &
Frances Massie wife of W R Freeman was born in Kaintucky June 14th 1789
W R Freeman and Mary Massie was
married in Kaintucky July 12th 1807
Mark Rushing and Elizabeth
Freeman was married in Tennessee March 14th 1830
Elizabeth Freeman daughter of W R
& Mary Freeman and wife of Mark Rushing was born in Tennessee Nov 20th 1812
Mary Freeman Wife of W R Freeman
died in Ills Sept 16th 1868 aged 78
years 3 months & 4 days
W R Freeman died in Ills March
16th 1872 aged 84 years 11 months &
21 days
Click here:
George W. Freeman Bible
William married Mary Massie
[296] [MRIN: 230] on 12 Jul 1807 in
KY.
Children from this marriage were:
i. William Riley Freeman [943] was
born about 1810.
55 ii. Elizabeth Freeman
Tn [154]
iii. James Howell Freeman [11478] was
born on 8 Apr 1820 in Dickson County, TN.39
iv. Sylvannus Freeman [23039] was born
in 1830 in TN.
111. Mary Massie [296], daughter of Thomas Massie
son of Sylvanus and Hannah [5201] and Frances Hudson Kin to the
Navigator [1090], was born on 14 Jun 1789 in KY,70
died on 16 Sep 1868 in Pike Co IL at age 79, and was buried in IL.
Mary married William R.
Freeman [295]70 [MRIN: 230] on 12
Jul 1807 in KY.
112. James 1754 MARTIN Adam Lindsey Sgt RWS [305], son of Major William 1721
Lindsey RWS [307] and Rosanna Martin [308], was born in 1754 in VA,161
died in Jul 1835 in KY Trigg County, Cadiz at age 81, and was buried in KY
Trigg County, Cadiz. Another name for James was Alfred or ADAM (our family has
Adam).
General Notes: A native of
VA...imigrated to NC.
Battle of Cowpens (from the
Revolutionary Web-site)
Posted by kyle (63.178.233.17) on
November 18, 2001 at 22:12:00:
basicly, i need to know anything
and everything about the battle of cow pens. It IS for a report for my 8th
grade Social studies class and im sure you people who are regulars to this
message board get this stuff all the time and it probably bugs the heck out of
when people like me clutter up your message boards with trash like this, but i
really need some help and i would really appreciate any information that you
people out there could give me. I'll be back tomorrow to see if theres anything
thing on here yet. If you read this much later then tomorrow night at around
11:00 don't bother because it will probably be to late for me to include it in
my report.
Special thanks to anyone who
responds,
kyle
The National Society of the
Daughters of the American Revolution Volume 127
page 46
[p.46] Mrs. Jane Lindsey Ketels.
DAR ID Number: 126148
Born in Thayer County, Nebr.
Wife of John Frederick Ketels.
Descendant of James Lindsey,
William Scott and Elisha Barton, as follows:
1. Alfred Lindsey (1847-1926) m.
1876 Mary Francis Barton (b. 1854).
2. William Lindsey (1817-1904) m.
1841 Matilda Leonard (1823-1900); Clark Barton (1812-96) m. 1838 Eliza Myers
(1819-95).
3. James Alfred Lindsey
(1793-1872) m. 1814 Jean Scott (1792-1884); Elisha Barton (1777-1815) m. 1806
Rachel Miller.
4. James Lindsey m. Delilah
Hodgson Brewer; William Scott m. Elizabeth R. Moore; Elisha Barton m. 2d 1771
Anna McCarter (1754-1823).
James Lindsey served as sergeant
in Lieut. Col. Thomas Posey's 1st Virginia
Military: : Battle of Cowpens.68
wounded
Military: 1794, Territory South
of the Ohio.153 Johnson's Detachment
Mounted Militia
if same PVT James Lindsey.
James married Delilah
(Hodgson) Brewer [306]39 [MRIN: 222] in 1782
in Chatham Co NC.
Children from this marriage were:
i. Delilah Lindsey [846] was born
after 1782 in NC Chatham County.
ii. Susan Lindsey [847] was born about
1782 in NC Chatham County.
iii. Archibald P. Lindsey MS Militia
[842] was born in 1784 in NC Chatham County.39
iv. Mary Lindsey [482] was born about
1785.
v. Rebecca Lindsey [2371] was born
about 1786.162
vi. Temperance Lindsey [845] was born
about 1788.
56 vii. John William
Lindsey Judge [304]
viii. James 1793 BREWER Alfred Lindsey
[843] was born in 1793 in NC Wake, Haw River162 and died in 1872 at
age 79. Another name for James was Alford.
ix. Sackfield Stanford Lindsey [844]
was born in 1799 in NC Chatham County and was christened in 1830 in KY Trigg County,
Cadiz.
x. Patton Lindsey [8597]
113. Delilah (Hodgson) Brewer [306],39 daughter of Sackfield
Brewer Va Brunswick [1701] and Lanier UNPROVEN
[5672], was born in 1765 in NC and died
before 1810 in Chatham Co NC.
Delilah married James 1754
MARTIN Adam Lindsey Sgt RWS [305] [MRIN: 222] in 1782 in Chatham
Co NC.
Delilah next married
someone.
114. Judge Adam Linn RWS [311],163 son of Adam
Lynn Gun mfg [958] and Mrs. Isobel Dickerson
[959], was born about 1750 in Ireland,
Belfast,163 died on 1 Jun 1832 in KY Trigg County, Cadiz164
about age 82, and was buried in Age 82.
General Notes: Thanks to Susan
Johnson for this information.
Notes for ADAM LINN:
WILL BOOK A, Page 274
WILL of ADAM LINN, deceased
In the name of God Amen. I, Adam Linn, of Trigg County and State of
Kentucky, being in perfect mind and memory and knowing it is appointed for all
men once to die, I do make and ordain this my last Will and Testament. First of all, I recommend my soul to God who
gave it and my body to the dust to be buried at the discretion of my Executor,
doubting not but I shall receive the same again at the Resurrection of the
Mighty power of God and for such wealth it hath pleased God to bless me with in
this life. I hereby dispose of my
property in the following manner. After all my just debts are paid, it is my
wish and pleasure that my wife, Sarah Linn, have the rest of my old plantation
for her life. The balance of my property
to be equally divided among my then living children, giving each of my
grandchildren two dollars. I appoint
Joseph Linn, my Executor of this my last will and testament, revoking all other
will or wills by me made. In
witness,whereof, I hereunto set my hand and seal this first day of February
1826.
Witnesses
Samuel Saxon
John Craig, Jr.
Ezekiel Vinson Adam Linn
Will produced in court for
probate and has been proven and ordered to be recorded this 18th day of June
1832.
Occupation: : Commissioned By
King To Mfg Guns.
Cumberland Compact: 1787, TN.165
Linn (Lynn), Adam, listed on the 1787 Davidson County tax roll with one
taxable, he received a Land Grant.148 A Justice in 1788,149 he was an early
settler of Civil District Number Eighteen,150 the northern boundary of which
coincides with the southern boundary of Civil District Number19.
Immigrated. Came from Ireland
when he was two.
Immigrated: Abt 1752, SC. at age
two
Military: 1774-1776, Rev. War.
Thomas Buford's Company of Volunteers
Raised in Bedford County,
Virginia. Served under General Andrew Lewis in the Battle at Point Pleasant,
"Lord Dunmore's War"
10 October, 1774.
Military: 1794, KY.153
Johnson's Detachment PVT
Mounted MIltia
Territory south of the Ohio
if same Adam Linn.
Immigrated: 1803, KY Trigg
County.68
Fact: 1810, KY Woodford. An Adam
Lynn applied for his Rev. War pension.
Fact: 1998, Genforum # 15. My
line runs through Adam Linn Sr born in Belfast Ireland with his wife Isabella
through there son Adam Linn Jr born in Belfast Ireland died in Trigg, Ky. He
married Sidney Ann Ewing 1753-1811 on 1771 in Norfork Virginia. Adam traveled
from Virginia to Davidson Tn in the group with Andrew Jackson then onward to
Christian county Ky. were he was a pioneer and one of the first judges. Then
later to Trigg Ky with his son-in-law Abraham Boyd. Adam and Sidney had 12
children: James, Mary Ewing , Nancy 1775-before 1839 married Abraham Boyd in
1794 in Davidson, TN (my line), Charles, Joseph 1780-1859 married Elizabeth
Joslin 1779-before 1859 on 1803 in Davidson TN., Polly, Martha, Robert, Reuben
married Frances Young, Betsey, Margaret married John W. Lindsay, and Isabel.
Would be happy to talk to anyone on this line.
Will: 1832, Trigg County, KY.
WILL BOOK A, Page 274
WILL of ADAM LINN, deceased In
the name of God Amen. I, Adam Linn, of Trigg County and State of Kentucky,
being in perfect mind and memory and knowing it is appointed for all men once
to die, I do make and ordain this my last Will and Testament. First of all, I
recommend my soul to God who gave it and my body to the dust to be buried at
the discretion of my Executor, doubting not but I shall receive the same again
at the Resurrection of the Mighty power of God and for such wealth it hath
pleased God to bless me with in this life. I hereby dispose of my property in
the following manner. After all my just debts are paid, it is my wish and
pleasure that my wife, Sarah Linn, have the rest of my old plantation for her
life. The balance of my property to be equally divided among my then living
children, giving each of my grandchildren two dollars. I appoint Joseph Linn,
my Executor of this my last will and testament, revoking all other will or
wills by me made. In witness,whereof, I hereunto set my hand and seal this
first day of February 1826.
Witnesses
Samuel Saxon
John Craig, Jr.
Ezekiel Vinson Adam Linn
Will produced in court for
probate and has been proven and ordered to be recorded this 18th day of June
1832.
FROM: TRIGG CO. KY WILL BOOKS in
Ft. Worth Library
Adam married Burdeville Sarah
[1651]166 [MRIN: 510] on 12
Nov 1814 in KY Christian County.
Adam next married Sidney Ann
Ewing Va [312] [MRIN: 512] on 2 Feb 1771 in
Norfolk VA.
Children from this marriage were:
i. Reuben Linn [479] was born about
1773.
ii. Nancy Linn [1043] was born about
1775.
iii. Betsey Linn [1044] was born about 1777.
iv. Patty Linn [1045] was born about
1779.
57 v. Margaret Peggy Linn
Tn Davidson [79]
vi. Charles Linn Militia [741] was
born on 11 Sep 1777.
vii. Joel Linn [742] was born about
1802.
viii. Robert Linn [4429]
ix. Joseph Linn [4430] was born in
1780163 and died in 1859163 at age 79.
x. Mary Linn [4433]
xi. James Linn [4434]
115. Sidney Ann Ewing Va [312], daughter of Rev. Robert
Ewing Colonial Presby. Minister
[315] and Mary Baker Va [316], was born in 1756 in VA Bedford
County and died on 1 Jun 1822 in KY Trigg County, Cadiz at age 66.
General Notes: Our line. Also,
the line of Kris Oleson GenForum, Ewing GenForum
Kin: 2000, TN. Sister of Rev.
Finis Ewing, one of the founders of the Cumberland branch of the Presbyterian
Church.
Finis Ewing spent a year at a
time on horseback going from settler to settler telling them about the Lord.
According to the Cumberland
Presbyterian history book, he was "destitute". He and a few others
were instrumental in wrting the doctrines of the Cumberland Presbyterians.
Religion. Cumberland
Preesbyterian probably
Sidney married Judge Adam Linn
RWS [311]163 [MRIN: 512] on 2
Feb 1771 in Norfolk VA.
116. Edward Wormington [866], son of Samuel Wormington
[884] and Mary Denbigh [885], was born on 14 Jun 1770 in
Norfolk VA and died on 20 Nov 1841 in Pierce City, (Barry) MO at age 71.
Edward married Nancy Ann
Hassell [867] [MRIN: 797] on 10 Jan 1793 in NC
Tyrrell County.
Children from this marriage were:
i. Matilda Wormington [872] was born
on 31 Dec 1793 in Hyde Co NC, died on 9 Feb 1854 in Lawrence Co MO at age 60,
and was buried in Lawrence Co MO.
ii. Samuel Denbigh Wormington [874]
was born on 30 Jun 1799 in Hyde Co NC and died after 1860 in MA Attala Co.
iii. John Hassel Wormington [875] was
born on 9 Feb 1801 in Hyde Co NC and died on 7 Jan 1861 in Lawrence Co MO at
age 59.
iv. Mr. Asa Hassell Wormington [876]
was born on 16 Jun 1803 in Sumner Co TN, died on 28 Mar 1875 in Monett (Barry)
MO at age 71, and was buried in Monett (Barry) New Site Cemetery.
58 v. Abraham Wesley
Wormington Tn [851]
vi. Mary Denbigh Wormington [877] was
born on 7 Jan 1807 in TN.
vii. Fletcher G. Wormington [878] was
born on 7 Jan 1809 in Sumner Co TN and died on 9 Feb 1839 in Barry Co MO at age
30.
viii. Robert Edward Wormington [880] was
born on 25 Jan 1812 in Sumner Co TN and died on 1 Jan 1896 in Lawrence Co MO at
age 83.
ix. Nancy Jenett Wormington [882] was
born on 23 May 1814 in Sumner Co TN.
x. Jesse William Della Wormington
[883] was born on 12 Dec 1818 in Sumner Co TN and died before 1870 in Newton Co
MO.
117. Nancy Ann Hassell [867], daughter of John Hassell
[870] and Ann Jennett [871], was born in 1775164
and died in 1857164 at age 82.
Nancy married Edward
Wormington [866] [MRIN: 797] on 10 Jan 1793 in NC
Tyrrell County.
118. Edmund Turpin Nc [3686],167 son of Thomas
Turpin [3688] and Averilla Lewis Va
[3689], was born in 1750 in NC Bute and
died in 1848 in TN Sumner167 at age 98.
Birth: 1767, VA Amelia County.168
Census: 1830, TN Sumner.
012010001 0012101 Household #2128
Edmund married Charity McBride
Nc Maybe [3687]167 [MRIN: 1456] on 26
May 1804 in TN Sumner.
The child from this marriage was:
59 i. Martha Turpin Tn
Sumner County [852]
119. Charity McBride Nc Maybe [3687],167 daughter of Hugh
McBridge or McBride unproven f/o Charity [7722] and Unknown, was born circa 1780 in NC
Maybe.
Charity married Edmund Turpin
Nc [3686]167 [MRIN: 1456] on 26
May 1804 in TN Sumner.
120. Our Tavener Lewis [9454], son of Our William Lewis RWS
[6919] and Mourning Van Pelt
[6920], was born in 1780 in SC Marion
County, was christened in 1820 in MS Pike County, and died in 1837 in MS Copiah169
at age 57. Other names for Tavener were Tabner, Tavner and Tavener (Tavener is
a surname not an occupation), Tavner.
Passport: 1802, GA.170
TABNER LEWIS with wife and one child having one horse in his property; having
permission to travel through that part of the Cherokee Nation between this post
and Jackson County, GA taking care to make no infraction of the law regulating
intercourse with the Indian Tribes.
Southwest Port 7/5/1802 R. J.
Meigs, War Agent in TN
Land Lottery: 1802, GA. IAbraham
Lewis (1)
Anthony Lewis [orphans of] (1)
Archibald Lewis (1)
Benjamin Lewis (1)
Britton Lewis (1)
Chrispr. Lewis (1)
Daniel Lewis (2)
David Lewis (3)
Eli Lewis [/Eleazer/] (1)
Eliza Lewis [orphan] (1)
Fields Lewis (1)
Francis Lewis Junr. (1)
Francis Lewis Senr. (1)
Gale Lewis (1)
George Lewis (2)
Hamlin Lewis (1)
Hannah & John Lewis [orphans
of] (1)
Henry Lewis (1)
saac Lewis (2)
Jacob Lewis (2)
Jacob Lewis Junr. (1)
Jacob Lewis Senr. (1)
James Lewis (3)
Jeremiah Lewis (1)
Jesse Lewis (2)
John Lewis (6)
John Lewis [son of Chrispr.
Lewis] (1)
John Lewis Junr. (3)
John Lewis Senr. (2)
Jonathan Lewis (1)
Joseph Lewis (1)
Josiah Lewis (1)
Mathew Lewis (1)
Nicholas Lewis (1)
Pearce Lewis (1)
Peter Lewis (1)
Richard Lewis (3)
Richard Lewis Senr. (1)
Samuel Lewis (2)
Sherrod Lewis (1)
Sterling Lewis (1)
Tavner Lewis (1)
Thomas Lewis (1)
Thomas Lewis Junr. (1)
Walden Lewis (1)
Walker Lewis (1)
Warren Lewis [orphans of] (1)
William Lewis (3)
John Lewiss (1)
Philip Lewiss Senr. (
Census: 1816, MA Amite. Tavner
Lewis- also a Benj and a Nezzar Lewis
Census: 1820, MS Pike County.171
Tavner Lewis
Census: 1830. NOT in Copiah!
Census: 1860, Wood County TX.1
One Tavener Lewis was censused in Wood COunty TX 1860:
b 1825 AL
wife, Lucinda, b 1826 AL
dtrs Sarah, b AL
Mary J, b AL
and Rebecca, b TX
Tavener married Cynthia
Moseley [9455]172 [MRIN: 4060],
daughter of Moseley [18197] and Unknown, in 1812 in GA.169
Children from this marriage were:
i. Britton Lewis [10245] died after
1820 in MS Pike maybe.
ii. John Washington Lewis [18180] was
born in 1810.
iii. Edward A Lewis [18181] was born
after 1802.
iv. Alfred E Lewis [22139] was born
after 1795.
v. Walden B Lewis [22140] was born
after 1810.
Tavener next married Branham
or Walden maybe [18198] [MRIN: 7628] before 1802 in TN
or GA maybe.
Children from this marriage were:
60 i. Our William Lewis
[3691]
ii. Walden B Lewis [6917] was born in
1814 in MS, died in 1859 in MS Simpson County173 at age 45, and was
buried in Rocky Creek Cemetery.173
iii. Alfred Lewis [18179] was born in
1800 in GA,174 was christened in 1847 in MS HInds, and died in 1852
in MS174 at age 52.
iv. John Anderson Lewis [21706] was
born in 1802 in MS Copiah.
v. Washington Lewis [21707] was born
in 1806 in MS Copiah.
vi. Edward A Lewis [21708] was born in
1814 in MS Copiah.175
Tavener next married
someone.
His child was:
i. MS Pike County Lewis [21695] was
christened in 1850 in MS Pike Census.
121. Branham or Walden maybe [18198], daughter of Tavener Walden
Unproven Link [21709] and Unknown, was born circa 1787.169
Branham or Walden maybe married Our
Tavener Lewis [9454] [MRIN: 7628] before 1802 in TN
or GA maybe.
124. William S Stennett War of 1812 [4010], son of Benjamin H Stinnett
[8639] and Our Usle Isham [8640], was born in 1762 in VA Franklin
County maybe176 and died after 1810 in VA Amherst maybe.
General Notes: first son
Fact. This has to be our line of
the Stinnetts because of the Letha/Lethes. So, our Letha Stinnett would be the
grandaughter of Wm S and Lethe.
Which son was her father I do not know.
Don Giddens-2003.
Tax List: 1788, VA Franklin
County. if same person.
James, John, William Stinnett.
William married Letha Hightower
"Lethe" [4011]176 [MRIN: 1598] circa
1786.
Children from this marriage were:
62 i. William Hightower
Stennett War of 1812 [3690]
ii. Benjamin Stennett [9536] was born
circa 1800 and died after 1810 in VA Amherst maybe.
iii. Charles Stennett [9537] died after
1810 in VA Amherst maybe.
iv. John Stennett [9538] died after
1785 in VA Amherst maybe.
125. Letha Hightower "Lethe" [4011],176 daughter of Hightower
[18234] and Unknown, was born circa 1762 in VA.
General Notes: HIGHTOWER? Last
name just a wild guess by Don Giddens 2004
Note.1 The only reason
I have these Stinnetts here is that we were reported to be descendants of a
Thomas or Stephen LEWIS and a Letha STINNETT.
This Stinnett line has Lethas but
I have yet to find out where our's might fit in. If anyone knows or has any
idea all of our Lewis-Stinnett descendants would like to know.
Our Letha and Stephen or Thomas
Lewis of MS both died during the Civil War leaving their children orphans.
Don Giddens 2003
Letha married William S
Stennett War of 1812 [4010] [MRIN: 1598] circa 1786.
126. Bynum of Bahamas [9512] was born circa 1765.
Bynum married someone.
His child was:
63 i. Elizabeth Bynum Of
Bahamas [3694]
128. Ir NC Richard 1713 Giddens [7479],2 son of Nc Surry
County Giddens [15931] and Unknown, was born circa 1713 in Ireland,
County Cork maybe177 and died in 1783 in NC Surry County at age 70.
Census: 1784, NC Surry County.
Captain Humphries District
WM 21-60 none
WM under 21 or over 60- two
WF all ages two
Blacks- 5
I.E. Perhaps Richard was over
sixty, because
few of these Giddens had any
slaves.
Court Records: 15 Nov 1785, NC
Surry County. Suit for slander by Richard Giddens and wife against
David Humphries. (Humphries
District?)
Giddenses found guilty.
Court Records: 20 Nov 1787, NC
Surry County. A gift from Richard Gittons to wife Margaret in behalf of her
dowry
three Negroes Betty, Nelson, and
Roard,
feather bed and furniture.
Was that to pay for the slander
conviction?
12/10/1790 Grant of 300 acres to
Solomon Humphries
adjoining Richard Gittens on the
Tarrant River.
Richard married Margaret
"Polly" Barr [17861]178 [MRIN: 3221]
before 1738 in PA Delaware County, Chester.179
Children from this marriage were:
i. NC Surry Richard 1738 Gittins Giddens
[7480] was born circa 1738, was christened in 1790 in NC Surry County, and died
before 1800 in NC Surry County maybe.
ii. Nc Surry Va Louisa Giddens [100]
was born circa 1730 and died before 1800 in NC Surry County maybe.
iii. NC Surry John 1740 Gittins Giddens s/o
Richard [8649] was born circa 1740 in Age Approximated By Formula,115
was christened in 1790 in NC Surry County census, and died in 1801 in NC Will
at age 61. Another name for John was Gittens.
iv. NC NC Edward 1742 Giddens Burke Nc
[12534] was born in 1742 in NC Burke County, John's River180 and
died in 1810 in NC Burke County, John's River180 at age 68.
v. Francis 1753 Gideon Giddens of Wilkes
[7450] was born on 31 Jul 1753 in VA181 and died in 1819 in GA
Wilkes County33 at age 66.
64 vi. NC TN James 1749
Isham Giddens Constable [109]
vii. Reuben Giddens s/o Richard maybe
[13276] was born circa 1750 in VA and died in 1775 in VA Accomack County at age
25.
viii. NC Joseph 1745 s/o Richard Giddens
Constable [12531] was born circa 1745 and was christened in 1789 in NC
Surry County.
ix. VA GA William 1753 Gideon Giddens PVT
Indian Wars [7481] was born circa 1753 in VA and died on 1 Apr 1796 in GA
Jackson County at age 43.
129. Margaret "Polly" Barr [17861]178 was born in 1726 in PA Delaware
County Maybe183 and died on 19 Jun 1816 in NC Surry County at age
90.
Death: 19 Jun 1816, NC Stokes
County. Records of the Moravians in NC
Many years ago Brother Hauser
took the widow Giddens in.
Today she died at the age of 90.
Will: 1826, NC Stokes County. To
Robert Mitchell (Note Mitchell Giddens later in history)
550 acres in Surry County
ten shillings
and all my slaves.
Margaret married Ir NC Richard
1713 Giddens [7479]2 [MRIN: 3221] before
1738 in PA Delaware County, Chester.179
130. Mills
[15932] .2
Mills married someone.
His child was:
65 i. Martha Mills
"Patty" [12462]
136. Archibald Paul Jr [5489], son of Archibald Paul
Northern Ireland [3653] and Agnes [3925], was born circa 1750 in SC
Edgefield probably.
Census: 1810, SC Fairfield
District.
Archibald married someone.
His children were:
i. Grandson Of Archibald Paul Unproven
[3920] was born circa 1775 in SC Edgefield probably.
68 ii. William Paul
[22462]
140. James Russell unproven DG 2004 [5861] was born in 1741 in Northern
Ireland184 and died in 1805 in SC Winnsboro184 at age 64.
James married someone.
His child was:
70 i. James Russell Jr
[3948]
James next married someone.
His child was:
i. Russell [3968]
142. Archibald Paul Northern Ireland [3653], son of John Paul [3934] and Margaret Jane Lynn?
[3941], was born in 1727 in Ireland,
Kinbally, County Antrim Maybe, died in 1802 in SC Fairfield, Camden at age 75,
and was buried in Old Lebanon Presb Church Cem Near Winnsboro.
Estate Sale. Estate Sale of John
Paul, Deceased 1801
Value
Surname First Name Bought Lbs
Paul Widow Spinning wheel 4
Paul do Check reel 2
Paul do Wheel of
swifts 2
Kincaid Alex a qty of wool 3
Paul Widow a qty of tobacco 2
Calhoun Alex 1 bb
of powder 4
Montgomery Hugh do 4
Rabb William do 4
Paul Archy do 4
Paul Archy do 4
Boyd Da.v do 4
Montgomery Hugh 1 cag and
powder 8
Smith Robert carpenter's tools 3
Paul Archy do 7
Halthorn Adam 1
handsaw 14
Paul William sm box of
Religion. Presbyterian
Religion: 1766, Northern Ireland.
Religious census
Dissenters: of County Antrim
James Paul, Armagh, Londonderry,
Joseph Paul, Armagh, Londonderry
Robert Russell, County Wicklow,
Protestant
Immigrated: 1768.185
from Ireland
"poor Protestant
immigrants"
Census: 1790, SC Camden District.
SC Camden District Census 21200
Archibald and James Paul.
Census: 1800, SC Fairfield
District.
Will: 1802, SC Fairfield
District.
Archibald married Agnes
[3925]186 [MRIN: 1439] circa
1748 in Northern Ireland maybe.
Children from this marriage were:
136 i. Archibald Paul Jr
[5489]
ii. Mary Paul [3963]
iii. Belle Paul Russell [3967]
iv. James Paul [3958] was born in 1758
in Ireland185 and died in 1798 in SC Fairfield District at age 40.
v. Sarah Paul Robinson [3959] was
born in 1760 in Ireland185 and died after 1830 in SC Fairfield
District.
71 vi. Elizabeth Paul
[3960]
vii. Martha Paul Robinson [3961] was
born in 1764 in Ireland185 and died in 1839 in SC Fairfield County,
Camden at age 75.
viii. William Paul [3962] was born in
1766 in Northern Ireland and died after 1823 in SC Fairfield District.
84 ix. Moses F Paul Sc
[3651]
x. John Paul [22512]
xi. Margaret Paul Russell [22513]
Archibald next married Margaret
Jane Lynn? [3941] [MRIN: 2103].
Archibald next married
someone.
His children were:
71 i. Elizabeth Paul
[3960]
ii. Margaret Paul [7998]
143. Agnes
[3925]186 was born in 1729 in Ireland and
died after 1820 in SC Fairfield District.
Census: 1820, SC Fairfield
District. near many Gladneys and Robinsons
Agnes married Archibald Paul
Northern Ireland [3653] [MRIN: 1439] circa 1748 in
Northern Ireland maybe.
144. Andrew Mayes Northern Ireland [3631], son of James Mayes
[5691] and Unknown, was born in 1698 in Germany187
and died in 1754 in PA Lancaster County at age 56.
Immigrated: 1729, Rotterdam, The
Netherlands.188 Andrew Mayes arrived at the Port of Philadelphia in
August of 1729 . He came to the United States on the ship Mortonhouse which
sailed from Rotterdam and later England. He is listed on the loyalty oath as
Andrew Mayes, and on the log as Andrew Mys. A Scotch/Irishman might say Me niam
is Mys. He settled with his father and brothers in Lancaster County,
Pennsylvania.
Fact: 1766, Northern Ireland. No
Mayes found during the religious survey.
Fact: : Germany-Philadelphia. A
List of Palatinate Passengers, Imported into Philadelphia in the Ship
Mortonhouse, James Coultas, Commander, from Rotterdam. Aug.st 17th 1729
This database contains the
original lists of German pioneers who arrived at the port of Philadelphia from
the years 1727 to 1808. These lists of early arrivals in Pennsylvania are
significant because in none of the other ports of the American colonies,
through which German settlers entered, were such lists prepared or preserved.
In Philadelphia alone did the authorities insist on the preparation of careful
and detailed lists of arrivals. About three hundred family associations,
tracking their ancestry to these pioneers, meet annually in Pennsylvania.
Andrew Mayes is on THIS list.
Andrew married Rebecca
McFarland Northern Ireland [3632] [MRIN: 1427].
The child from this marriage was:
72 i. James Mayes
Northern Ireland [3629]
145. Rebecca McFarland Northern Ireland [3632], daughter of Robert B
McFarland [5692] and Jennett [5693], was born circa 1698 in Northern
Ireland, County Tyrone, Armagh maybe and died in PA Lancaster Probably.
Rebecca married Andrew Mayes
Northern Ireland [3631] [MRIN: 1427].
146. James McElevean or McElwain of PA [3641], son of Andrew McIlvaine
[3642] and Elizabeth Swan [5675], was born in 1713 in PA and died
in 1807 in SC Union District at age 94. Another name for James was McElevean.
Jury List: 1779, SC. Spartan
Division
James Mayes* James Mekelvain*
Andrew Mayes*
*our kin
Will: 1811, SC Sumter.122
Series: S108093
Reel: 0027
Frame: 00293
Item: 000
Date: 8/1/1811
Description: MCELEVEAN, JAMES OF
UNION DISTRICT, WILL TYPESCRIPT (MSS WILL: BOOK A, PAGE 265; ESTATE PACKET: BOX
6, PKG 30) (2 FRAMES).
Names indexed: ARCHIBALD, SAMUEL;
LEATH (SLAVE); MAYES, JAMES JR.; MCELEVEAN, ANTHONY; MCELEVEAN, JAMES;
MCELEVEAN, MARY; MCELVEAN, SALLY; MEANS, HUGH; PATTON, THOMAS; SIMPSON, W. O.;
SMITH, JOSHUA; STORY, JEAN
Locations: SUMTER DISTRICT
Document type: WILL (TYPESCRIPT)
Topics: SLAVES, NAMED
James married Jane Storey
[10191] [MRIN: 1432].
Children from this marriage were:
73 i. Jane or Jean
McElwain of Pa [3630]
ii. Anthony McElwain [22332]
iii. Mary McElwain [22333]
iv. Sally McElwain [22334]
147. Jane Storey [10191], daughter of Anthony 1700
Storey [10192] and Unknown, was born circa 1732 in PA York
County.189
Jane married James McElevean
or McElwain of PA [3641] [MRIN: 1432].
148. James Otterson [3634], son of John Otterson
[22331] and Unknown, was born circa 1720 in VA Or PA
Lancaster and died circa 1768 in SC Union at age 48.
Land: 1762, SC Colleton District.
Series: S372001
Volume: 02Y0
Page: 00349
Item: 000
Date: 1762
Description: SOUTHER, MATHIAS AND
WIFE TO JAMES OTTERSON, LEASE AND RELEASE FOR 200 ACRES OF LAND IN BERKLY
COUNTY.
Names indexed: OTTERSON, JAMES;
SOUTHER, MATHIAS
Locations: BERKELEY COUNTY
Document type: LEASE AND RELEASE
Topics:
Memorial: 4 May 176, NC Anson
(Fayette) County. Series: S111001
Volume: 0006
Page: 00435
Item: 001
Date: 5/4/1765
Description: OTTERSON, JAMES,
MEMORIAL FOR 260 ACRES ON TYGER RIVER, ANSON COUNTY, N.C.
Names indexed: OTTERSON, JAMES;
ROWAN, MATHEW
Locations: ANSON COUNTY, N.C.;
FAIR FOREST CREEK; NORTH CAROLINA; TYGER RIVER
Document type: MEMORIAL
Topics:
Land: 1767, NC Craven.
Series: S213184
Volume: 0009
Page: 00027
Item: 02
Date: 1/21/1767
Description: OTTERSON, JAMES,
PLAT FOR 250 ACRES IN CRAVEN COUNTY.
Names indexed: OTTERSON, JAMES;
TROUP, JOHN; WOFFORD, WILLIAM
Locations: CRAVEN COUNTY; SANTEE
RIVER; TYGER RIVER
Document type: PLAT
Topics:
Series: S111001
Volume: 0009
Page: 00319
Item: 001
Date: 9/12/1767
Description: OTTERSON, JAMES,
MEMORIAL FOR 250 ACRES ON GREAT PEE DEE RIVER, CRAVEN COUNTY.
Names indexed: OTTERSON, JAMES;
WILLIAMS, ROBERT
Locations: CRAVEN COUNTY; GREAT
PEE DEE RIVER
Document type: MEMORIAL
James married Rebecca James
[3635] [MRIN: 1429].
The child from this marriage was:
74 i. Major Samuel P.
Otterson Rws [3633]
149. Rebecca James [3635] was born circa 1720.
Rebecca married James Otterson
[3634] [MRIN: 1429].
150. Thomas Gordon Va [3637], son of John Gordon
[3639] and Ruth [3640], was born circa 1733 in VA
Prince William County and died circa 1809 at age 76.
Census: 1800, SC Newberry. a WM
Gorden was censused p 12, 16, 30
and a Thomas p 100
Memorial: 24 Mar 1766, NC Anson
(Fayette) County.122 Series: S111001
Volume: 0009
Page: 00036
Item: 001
Date: 3/24/1766
Description: GORDON, THOMAS,
MEMORIAL FOR TWO TRACTS IN ANSON COUNTY, N.C., ONE FOR 300 ACRES SUMMARIZING A
CHAIN OF TITLE TO A GRANT TO JOHN GORDON OF AUG. 30, 1753 AND ONE FOR 300 ACRES
SUMMARIZING A CHAIN OF TITLE TO A GRANT TO BENJAMIN GORDON OF FEB. 23, 1754.
Names indexed: GORDON, BENJAMIN;
GORDON, JOHN; GORDON, THOMAS; OTTERSON, JAMES; ROWAN, MATTHEW
Locations: ANSON COUNTY, N.C.;
BEAVER DAM CREEK; BERKELEY COUNTY; ENOREE RIVER; NORTH CAROLINA; ROCKY CREEK;
TYGER RIVER
Document type: MEMORIAL
Topics:
Thomas married Elizabeth
Anderson [3638] [MRIN: 1430].
The child from this marriage was:
75 i. Ruth Gordon
[3636]
151. Elizabeth Anderson [3638] was born circa 1735.
Elizabeth married Thomas
Gordon Va [3637] [MRIN: 1430].
152. John or Jean Bouchillon [3601], son of CAPT Joseph
Bouchillon RWS [3603] and Maria Majinett a French
Huguenot [3604], was born in 1751 in France,
Bordeaux maybe and died in 1789 in SC Abbeville, Hillsborough at age 38.
Land: : SC Abbeville. above
French Mill on Little River at the mouth of Mill Creek
John married Mary Ann LeRoy a
French Huguenot [3602] [MRIN: 1409] in 1773 in SC
Bordeaux, Mccormick.
Children from this marriage were:
76 i. Joseph James
Bouchillon Sc Bordeaux District [3599]
ii. Elizabeth Bouchillon [22505]
iii. John s/o John Bouchillon [22506]
153. Mary Ann LeRoy a French Huguenot [3602], daughter of Peter Michael
LeRoy IMMIGRANT [8070] and Mary LaBraun [8071], was born in 1756 in France,
died in 1839 in SC Abbeville Probably at age 83, and was buried in Willington,
SC.
Census: 1790, SC Old 96Th,
Abbeville. 02201
next door to her father-in-law,
Joseph.
Mary married John or Jean
Bouchillon [3601] [MRIN: 1409] in 1773 in SC
Bordeaux, Mccormick.
154. SGT RWS Andres Guillebeau a French Huguenot
[3605] was born on 18 Aug 1738 in
France, Bordeaux, died on 12 Sep 1814 in SC Abbeville District, Bordeaux,
McCormick County at age 76, and was buried in Hickory Knob State Park.
Census: 1790, SC Old 96Th,
Abbeville. p 60
near our Bouchillons and a David
surname
Andres Gillibo (Guillebeau) 20200
House: : 2008.
http://www.nationalregister.sc.gov/mccormick/S10817733002/index.htm
Pictures of Andres Guillebeau's house and tombstone in
Hickory Knob State Park
Note: 2008, Hickory Knob State
Park. The Guillebeau House is a good example of Southern eighteenth-century
pioneer construction. Built on the double pen house plan developed extensively
in the South, the house has one exterior chimney and two front entrances. The
shed roof porch across the front, originally open, has been enclosed at either
end to provide additional rooms. The walls are constructed of hand-hewn logs
with mortise and tenon joints with filling between the logs. French Huguenot
settler Andre Guillebeau (1739-1814) built this house shortly after his arrival
at New Bordeaux, an upcountry Huguenot settlement, in August 1764. He served in
the American militia under Captain Joseph Bouchilon during the American
Revolution. The house was subsequently owned by Andre's son Peter (1769-1854)
and then by Peter's son Peter (1812-1891). According to Peter's will there was
a 400-acre tract surrounding the house. The family cemetery is included in the
nominated acreage. The house was moved to Hickory Knob State Park ca. 1983.
Listed in the National Register March 7, 1973.
View the complete text of the
nomination form <.. for this National Register property.
Immigrated: 1764, New Bordeaux,
SC.
Andres married Mary Jane
Roquemore a French Huguenot [3606] [MRIN: 1411].
Children from this marriage were:
77 i. Susannah
Guillebeau Sc Bordeaux District [3600]
ii. James Guilbeau or Guillebeau
[22488]
iii. Peter or Pierre Guillebeau [22491]
was born circa 1765 and died after 1852 in SC Abbeville.
155. Mary Jane Roquemore a French Huguenot [3606], daughter of Vincent Gaspar
Pierre Du Roquemore [3607] and Suzanne LaFon [8074], was born in 1745 in France,
died in 1820 in SC Willington, Abbeville District at age 75, and was buried in
Hickory Knob State Park?.
Mary married SGT RWS Andres
Guillebeau a French Huguenot [3605] [MRIN: 1411].
156. Samuel Doolittle IV Sc [3610], son of Samuel Joseph
Doolittle III Ct Yankee [3612] and Experience Bartlett Ct
Yankee [3613], was born in 1740 in Martintown,
SC Edgefield District, died in 1800 in SC Edgefield District at age 60, and was
buried in Dry Creek Cemetery.
Samuel married Nancy Waddy Sc
[3611] [MRIN: 1414] in 1770.
Children from this marriage were:
78 i. Samuel Doolittle V
[3608]
ii. Benjamin Doolittle [22364]
iii. Sarah Doolittle Adams [22365]
iv. Betsey Doolittle Sullivan [22367]
v. Nancy Doolittle [22369]
vi. Amia Doolittle [22370]
157. Nancy Waddy Sc [3611] was born in 1745 in SC Edgefield
District and died in 1828 in SC Edgefield District at age 83.
Nancy married Samuel Doolittle
IV Sc [3610] [MRIN: 1414] in 1770.
158. Doctor Roger Mackerness Williams [4476],190 son of Luke
Williams [4503] and Katherine Barber
[4527], was born in 1764 in VA Richmond
County191 and died on 13 Jan 1837 in SC Edgefield will probated at
age 73.
Biographical note: 1992, SC
Magazine of Ancestral Research. The South Carolina Magazine of Ancestral
Research
SCMAR, Volume XX
Number 3, Summer, 1992
Requests for Information
SCMAR, Vol. XX, Summer 1992, No.
3, p.177
WILLIAMS-ANTONY-PACE-MIZE.
Charlene Self Epps (Route 5, Box 727, Boone, NC 28607) submits the following
query. Butler Williams b. c1805 in SC, married in 1830, Mary “Polly” Antony in
GA. In 1860 he was in Paulding Co., GA, Household 41/41 with his wife Polly and
children Butler b. 23 Oct 1842, Cynthia 17, Henry 15, Willoughby 8, Johnson 5,
and Louisa 3. Butler Williams, Jr., m. 1st Maiden Rebecca Pace (dau. of William
W. and Harriet ? Pace). Their children were Drucilla, Alma, Catherine Eliza b.
29 July 1865, and Butler Lafayette, b. 1868. Shortly after the Civil War,
Butler and Rebecca moved to St. Clair Co., AL., and with them moved Butler's
brothers Johnson, Willoughby, and Henry, along with Rebecca's father William W.
Pace and his new wife Angeline Parks. Rebecca died in childbirth c1870 and
Butler m. 2nd Emily Mize. Butler Williams, Jr., told a daughter-in-law, that
his father was a doctor in Georgia and, incidentally, had red hair. I have not
been able as yet to confirm that he was a doctor. I have a will of Roger M.
Williams dated 14 Nov 1828, recorded 13 Jan 1837 Edgefield District, SC. He
named his wife Mary and children Sterling C. Williams, Mackerness G. Williams,
Pooly Doolittle, Butler Williams, Betsey Gardner, and Caty Morgan. He appointed
his wife Mary and sons Mackerness G. and Butler Williams as executors. Has
anyone researched this family? I hope that there is a connection with Roger and
Butler Williams, but I am not sure.
Biographical note: : SC. Roger M.
Williams (deceased) heirs of, SC Edgefield-
Rev. War rejected pensions- proof
of service
Will: : Edgefield District, SC.
Volume 1 1836-1853
Roger M WIlliams
Page 22
Box 32
Package 1143
Fact: : Richmond County, VA.
formed from Old Rappahannock
Physical note. red headed
Roger married Catherine Read
Quarles Mary [4477]82 [MRIN: 1804].
Children from this marriage were:
79 i. Mary Polly
Williams kin to Rev. Roger [3609]
ii. Sterling C Williams [7103] was
born circa 1782 and died after 1837.
iii. Mackerness G Williams [7104] was
born circa 1784 and died after 1837.
iv. Butler Williams [7105] was born
circa 1786 and died after 1837.
v. Betsey Williams [7106] was born
circa 1788 and died after 1837.
vi. Katy Williams Caty [7107] was born
circa 1790 and died after 1837.
159. Catherine Read Quarles Mary [4477],82 daughter of James
Quarles [4478] and Catherine Read [4479], was born circa 1760 and died after
1837.
Catherine married Doctor Roger
Mackerness Williams [4476]190 [MRIN: 1804].
160. Marcus 1747 Gilliam [19559],192 son of Walter
Gilliam [18653] and Sarah Bolling desc of
Pocahontas [20772], was born circa 1747 in VA
Southampton Maybe and died circa 1817 in NC Franklin County at age 70.
Residence. Sussex, Bute, Warren,
and Franklin County in sucession
Census: 1790, NC Franklin. 12400
Sold land: 1791, NC Franklin
County. to a Leonard
Court: 1798, NC Franklin County.
211) 45 Guardian account or orphans of Lewis HILL dec'd. by Richd. HILL guardian.
Covers 1797, 1798. Persons mentioned: Green HILL, John HALL, Richard HILL,
Gilliam WATKINS, Thomas BASS, Athelston ANDREWS, Henry HILL, Robert COOPER,
John JOHNSTON, James HUNT, Oran BASS, Lewis WEBB, Solomon HARRIS, John FOSTER,
Micajah WELLS, Parker MURFREE, Frederick LEONARD, Sr., William KIRBY, Gray
ANDREWS, Stephen GUPTON, William BRIDGES, David SEARS, Frederick DAVIS, Thomas
STOKES, John WELLS, James DAVIS, Henry COLLINS, William GILLIAM, William
MORRISS, Henry COLLINS, John WATKINS, Theophilus BASS, Marcus GILLIAM, Averit
HIDE, William Clanton HILL. Examined March 15, 1798 by James GRAY, Thomas
BRICKELL.
Census: 1800, NC Franklin.
00001-01011-02
Estate Sale: Mar 1804, NC
Franklin County. (4) Sale of estate of Arthur Murphrey dec'd. Buyers were James
Westray, Jeremiah Dossey, Parker Murphrey, Henry Wood, Robt. Cogging, John
Pearce, James Upchurch, Wm. Collins, Simon Westray, Jos. Brantley, James
Collins Sr., Wm. Coppage, Drury Gilliam, Edmd. Fowler, James Davis, Mills
Robbins, Van Leonard, Dixon Collins, Henry Collins, Stephen Gupton Jr., Reuben
Casson, James Davis, Salley Wood, John Pierce, Tytus Edwards, Gilliam Watkins,
William Gilliam, John Leonard Jr., Daniel Westray, John Cooper, John Leonard,
Rachel Richardson, Benja. Stuart, Marchus Gilliam. Signed by Parker Murphrey
and William Collins. March Court, 1804.
Estate of: 1817, NC Franklin
County. Ordered that administration on the estate of Marcus Gilliam deceased,
be granted to Drury Gilliam, who entered into Bond in the sum of $1000 with Parker
Murphy, William Leonard and Isaac Gupton his Securities,
Marcus married Frances Steward
Fanny [18972]193 [MRIN: 7924]
before 1767 in VA Sussex County.75
Children from this marriage were:
i. Drury Gilliam [3367] was born in
1769 in Albemarle, Sussex, VA?75 and was christened Lived 1804 in
Franklin County, NC.194
ii. William Gilliam [2639] was born in
1771.75
80 iii. Nathaniel 1767
Mason? Gilliam [19517]
iv. Drury 1769 Gilliam [19124] was
born on 1 Oct 1769 in VA Albemarle75 and died after 1830 in NC
Franklin Maybe.
v. William 1771 Gilliam [19558] was
born on 1 Oct 1771.75
vi. Anne Gilliam [19834] was born on
13 Mar 1773 in VA Albemarle.75
vii. Mary "Polly" Gilliam
[19835] was born on 19 Jun 1775 in VA Albemarle.75
Marcus next married someone.
His child was:
i. Marcus 1784 Desc Of Marcus Gilliam
[18973] was born in 1784195 and died after 1850 in NC Franklin
Maybe.
161. Frances Steward Fanny [18972],193 daughter of William
Steward [3974] and Mary Shands [3975], was born circa 1747.
Frances married Marcus 1747
Gilliam [19559]192 [MRIN: 7924]
before 1767 in VA Sussex County.75
164. TN Rhea County Davis [9337], son of Johnnathan Davis
[9300] and Lucy Gibbs [9301].
TN married someone.
His children were:
82 i. Tn Rhea County
Davis Unknown [3682]
ii. Captain Moses Davis War of 1812
[18601] was born circa 1790 and died after 1814 of Rhea County.
iii. NC Buncombe Davis [18605] died
after 1800 in NC Buncombe census.
168. Archibald Paul Northern Ireland [3653], son of John Paul [3934] and Margaret Jane Lynn?
[3941], was born in 1727 in Ireland,
Kinbally, County Antrim Maybe, died in 1802 in SC Fairfield, Camden at age 75,
and was buried in Old Lebanon Presb Church Cem Near Winnsboro.
(Duplicate. See Person 142)
169. Agnes
[3925]186 was born in 1729 in Ireland and
died after 1820 in SC Fairfield District.
(Duplicate. See Person 143)
170. Pvt. Samuel Gladney Rws [3926], son of Richard Gladney
[3928] and Jane Jennett Wilson
[3929], was born in 1737 in Ireland,
Kinbally, County Antrim,196 died in 1799 in SC Fairfield County,
Winnsboro at age 62, and was buried in Gladney Family Cemetery.196
Will: 1799, SC.
Notes for Samuel Gladney:
The ship "James &
Mary" on which Samuel Gladney was a passenger arrived at Charleston harbor
on 31 Dec 1767 from Belfast, Ireland; the "Clerk of the council"
boarded the James & Mary on 12 Jan 1768 and administered the oath to
"the poor protestants who had lately arrived in her."
During the Revolutionary War,
Samuel served with the colonists. When Cornwallis took Winnsboro in 1781 for
his headquarters and sent out raiding parties to wipe out resistance, Samuel
fought with the Militia, Col Richard Winn's Regt., Capt. Edward Martin's
Company. His war record is found in Book U-W page 243, #331, Stub, Entries to
Indents for Revolutionary Claims by A. S. Salley, Jr., Secretary to the
Historical Comm. of S.C. "To 40 days duty on horseback in Capt. Edward
Martin's Co., Col. Richard Winn's Regiment, commencing 16th day Oct. and ending
24th Nov. 1781. March 20th, 1781 To hire of 3 horses impressed into service and
returned June 1st, 1781 being 73 days each. To 2 beef cattle supplied Co.
Winn's Regiment." Refer: John William Gladney Vol. 7 page 181. First
Families of American Institute of American Gen. Chicago, Ill. (above was copied
from DAR Applications of Mary Ethel Reedy Westfall and Paula Virginia Norman
Jacobson)
Samuel wrote his will, 23 October
1799. It is filed in Fairfield County Wills, Apt. 3, File 105, State Archives
of South Carolina. The following is a copy of said will. (Title is: Will of
Samuel Gladen)
IN THE NAME OF GOD, AMEN:
I, Samuel Gladen of Fairfield
County, State of South Carolina, finding myself weak of body but perfectly
sound in Memory and Judgement, Thanks be to God, do therefore make and ordain
this my last Will and Testament in the following manner and form.
And first, I leave to my well
beloved Wife, Agnes, two cows such as she chooses for herself out of the stock,
likewise the use and benefit of the negroe wench Sarah during her widowhood,
afterwards said wench and her issue to devolve to and be the property of my two
sons, Richard and Hugh, likewise one bedding of clothes likewise to be found in
a horse to ride by her two sons, Richard and Hugh, and my well beloved wife is
hereby bound and obligated by these presents, to leave at her death all and
every part of her personal estate to her two sons, Richard and Hugh, equally.
Secondly, I leave to my son Joseph
10 pounds to be paid by my two sons, Richard and Hugh.
Thirdly, I leave to my son
Patrick, five pounds, to say, fifty shillings to himself and fifty to his son,
Samuel.
Fourthly, I leave to my son,
Thomas, eleven pounds, likewise one hundred acre tract of land to his son,
Samuel whereon his Father formerly lived, called Horrell's Land.
Fifthly, I leave to my son James,
twenty pounds sterling.
Sixthly, I leave to my daughter,
Mary, two cows and calves.
Seventhly, In case my son,
Joseph, does not claim or send a lawful power to receive his ten pounds in the
space of seven years from the date, it is my will and desire said money be paid
to my grandson Samuel, son to Patrick. Eightly, I leave to my sons, Richard and
Hugh, to be equally divided between them, quantity and quality considered, Hugh
to hold the house I now live in with the land convenient thereto, his Mother to
have her conveniences in said house during her widowhood,, and Richard, the
other end of said lands as they may be justly divided. And it is my Will and
desire that the different legacies already mentioned be paid by my two sons,
Richard and Hugh, and to enable them for so doing they are to have and enjoy
all and every part of my goods and cattles not already willed away for their benefit
and use, likewise all debts due me by any person or persons whatsoever to me
indebted, be paid to my said two sons, Richard and Hugh.
And, lastly, I do nominate and
appoint my beloved wife, Agnes, and my son, Richard, to be my true and lawful
executors, to see this my last Will and Testament executed and it is my desire
that James Phillips be aiding and assisting them in the Execution of said
Executorship by his Council and Advise when they may think proper at any time
to sell for said assistance. And further I do hereby declare this to be my last
Will and Testament, revoking and disannulling all former Will or Wills by me
hereto fore made whatsoever. Witness my hand and seal this the 23rd day of
October in the year of our Lord one thousand seven hundred and ninety-nine and
of American Independence the Twenty-third.
Signed, Sealed and delivered
Proved 7 March 1800
in presence of: Recorded in Book
3
David Cammoche Pages 3 and 4
James McCrory March 7, 1800
H. Milling Apt. 3, File 105
Burial: : SC Winnsboro.196
Gladney Cemetery is located 9 miles from Winnsboro, S.C. at the intersection of
321 & 34, which is the 321 bypass at Winnsboro, 34 West to the Lebanon
Presbyterian Church, left on 54, Jackson Creek Road (small road south to Jackson
creek). The marker is on the right side of the road on a corner of a smaller
road. Intersection of 213 is past the road. Return on 54 about 3/4 mile, on the
left a stone marker "Gladney Cemetery" by a small dirt road, left on
this dirt road and up a small hill, for 1 mile, through a gate and into a
pasture. Although the cemetery itself has been deeded to the Gladney Family
Association, by Mr. Ed Stevenson the old Gladney land surrounding it belongs to
him, he has for years taken such an interest in the cemetery. Not many families
are so fortunate. At the end of this small road, turn immediately to the right
and follow the fence line around the pasture, the cemetery on the rise of the
hill. The stone fence has been taken down, only the stone posts remain and the
wire fence is now around the cemetery. The area, it is said, is on a part of
Joseph Gladney's land (he was the first Gladney to be sheltered by the land
they loved and worked so hard for.
Turning to the left (at the
pasture) and following the fence row and across some creeks back into the
woods, is the Widow Jane's property. There is a house in Winnsboro containing
the stair case that was in Jane's house, also many houses contain some of the
boards, Ed Stevenson took some of the boards and nails to put on his barn, so
as to preserve some of the original wood from those who helped themselves to
the property. Ed said,loggers took the fence out, without permission--the
granite slabs of the fence are gone except for some of those on the right side
of the fence, laying on the ground.
For additional information on
this cemetery, visit the Gladney Family web site
Religion. Presbyterians
Census: 1790, SC Camden District.
SC Camden District Census 111200
Samuel married Agnes McCreight
[3927]196 [MRIN: 1556].
Children from this marriage were:
85 i. Margaret Gladney
[3652]
ii. Richard Gladney [7110] was born in
1778, died in 1843 at age 65, and was buried in Gladney Family Cemetery.
iii. Hugh Gladney [7111] was born circa
1781.
iv. Joseph Gladney [7112] was born
circa 1783.
v. Patrick Gladney [7113] was born in
1762, died in 1835 at age 73, and was buried in Gladney Family Cemetery.
vi. Thomas Gladney [7115] was born
circa 1787.
vii. James Gladney [7117] was born
circa 1789.
viii. Mary Gladney [7118] was born circa
1791.
ix. Samuel Gladney [22536] was born in
1774, died in 1787 at age 13, and was buried in Gladney Family Cemetery.
171. Agnes McCreight [3927],196 daughter of William
McCreight [3932] and Agnes Smith [3933], was born in 1742 in Ireland,
died after 1840 in SC Fairfield, Winnsboro,196 and was buried in
Gladney Family Cemetery.
Agnes married Pvt. Samuel
Gladney Rws [3926] [MRIN: 1556].
172. Spencer R Breeding [3656], son of John Breeding Va
Maybe [3658] and Mary Short [10095], was born on 9 Oct 1758 in VA
Augusta maybe197 and died on 24 Jun 1835 in VA Russell County at age
76.
Spencer married Elizabeth
Finney [3657]198 [MRIN: 1441] on 5
Sep 1786 in VA Harrisonburg, Rockingham County.197
Children from this marriage were:
86 i. Bryon Breeding Tn
Rhea [3654]
ii. Mary Polly Breeding [10086] was
born in 1796 in VA Russell County39 and died in 1870 in KY Letcher
County39 at age 74.
iii. George Breeding [10088] was born
in 1803 in VA.39
iv. Captain Andrew Breeding [18600]
Spencer next married Hannah
Hicks #2 [10096] [MRIN: 4378].
173. Elizabeth Finney [3657],198 daughter of Corporal
MICHAEL Finney [10090] and Catherine Armstrong
[10098], was born in 1754 in VA
Harrisonburg, AUGUSTA County198 and died circa 1820 in VA Probably198
at age 66.
Elizabeth married Spencer R
Breeding [3656] [MRIN: 1441] on 5 Sep 1786 in VA
Harrisonburg, Rockingham County.197
174. James Thompson [228],199 son of John
Thompson [230] and Jane Kellogg [231], was born on 12 Apr 1734 in MD
St. Mary's and died on 29 Mar 1795 in VA Lee County at age 60.
James married Margaret Cowan
[229] [MRIN: 371] in 1764 in VA.
The child from this marriage was:
87 i. Jane Thompson Tn
Rhea [3655]
James next married Margaret
Cowan [21725]200 [MRIN: 9396] in
1764 in NC Rowan County.201
The child from this marriage was:
87 i. Jane Thompson Tn
Rhea [3655]
175. Margaret Cowan [229] was born about 1680.
Margaret married James Thompson
[228]199 [MRIN: 371] in
1764 in VA.
Margaret next married John
Gass of Lancaster PA [7639] [MRIN: 3317].
The child from this marriage was:
i. John Gass [7636] was born circa
1705.
176. Thomas Holloway RWS [3646],202 son of Bremillion
or Bremilan Holloway maybe JOHN [3648] and Martha [5421], was born circa 1747 in VA
Henrico County, Richmond maybe and died on 9 Apr 1835 in NC Orange County202
at age 88.
Children.203 Here are
the children of Thomas Holloway, as recorded in HOLLOWAYS OF THE SOUTH. Thomas
Holloway, b. ca. 1747;d. 9 apr 1835, Orange Co. NC; m.(1) ______________;
m.(2)5 oct 1782, Orange Co, Mrs. Joanna Caine; m.(3)25 aug 1808, Orange
Co.,Lydia Bryant. Lydia Bryant was b. ca. 1780, Orange Co.; d. before 1870
Issue by first and second marriages: i.Thomas, Jr. ii. Fanny iii. James H., b.
ca. 1814 iv. Bremilion v. Samuel vi. Polly/Mary vii. Lucy viii. David, not
traced ix.William x.Elizabeth xi. Nancy Hannah xii. Ann/Joanna, b. Orange Co.
xiii. Agatha/Agnes
Issue by third marriage: xiv.
John, b. Orange Co.; not traced xv. Williamson Bryant, b. 15 jun 1818, Orange
Co. xvi. Sarah, b. Orange Co. xvii. Lydia Caroline, b. Orange Co. xviii. Milly,
b. ca. 1826, Orange Co.
Fact. People generally named
their first sons after their father:
Thomas 1747 named his first son
Bremillion.
Fact: Bef 1725, NC Orange County.204
A Stephen Holloway, son of Robert was born in NC Orange,
Military: 1771, NC Wake County.
Joined Capt Lee's unit in the Revolutionary War.
Census: 1779, NC Orange County. a
Martha Holloway was censused.
Marriage: 18 Sep 1786, VA York
County.205 a Thomas Holloway md an Amey Morris.
Census: 1790, NC Orange County.
Holloway households-
Martha, Rich, Thomas,
Major Holloway was in Wake
County.
Land: Mar 1810, NC Wake County.206
State of North Carolina: Wake County- Hinton Hudson,
Register of North Carolina in
said state do certify that on page 226 of the Register book V. constituting a
part of the records of my office, appears a deed made by JOHN HOLLOWAY to
THOMAS HOLLOWAY, conveying 34 acres of land lying in said county of Wake, on
the waters of Alobey Creek adjoining the lands of said THOMAS HOLLOWAY and
others- said deed is dated 2/9/1810 and was registered 3/9/1810. I further
certify that by a late fire, many of the records of the record books of my
office of earlier dates through 1810, were consumed.
Given under my hand and private
seal (having no seal of office) at office in REaleigh, this 21st of March,
1859.
Hinton Hudson.
Census: 1810, NC. 11001 101
Census: 1830, NC Orange County.
Thomas Sr.
Will: 18 Nov 1834, NC Orange
County.207 The will of Thomas Holloway, dated Nov 18 1834, and
proved May 1835: wife Lydia, "my children John, Williamson, Sarah, Lydia
Caroline, and Milly Holloway, said daughters all under age," son Bennehan
Holloway, children of my son Samuel Holloway, Susannah Whitaker, the heirs of
my daughter Polly Woods, daughter Lucy Whitaker, David Holloway, William
Holloway, heirs of Elizabeth Trice, Hannah Latta, Ann Farthing, Agatha Harward
(married), Thomas Holloway, Sarah Holloway, Fanny Leathers, James Holloway,
John Holloway, Williamson Holloway, Lydia Caroline and Milly Holloway. The
executors were James Latta, John Leathers, and Williamson Burton; witnesses
were Archibald Cain and William Piper.
References
Stevens, Cj. Holloways of the
South and Allied Families, 1977. p 127-132.
Orange Co NC Records.
Thomas married Joanne or
Johanna Caine [4664]127 [MRIN: 1929],
daughter of Daniel Caine [17074] and Unknown, on 5 Oct 1782 in NC Orange
Witness: Jesse Benton, Bondsman, Robert Abercr.127
Children from this marriage were:
i. Ann Joanna Holloway [4687] was
born circa 1793 in NC Orange County, maybe.
ii. Agatha Agnes Holloway [4688] was
born circa 1786 in NC Orange County, maybe.
Thomas next married Amy Morris
[4671] [MRIN: 1936] on 18 Sep 1786 in
VA York County.
Children from this marriage were:
i. Fanny Holloway [4678]
ii. Polly Mary Holloway [4681]
iii. Lucy Holloway [4682]
88 iv. Bremillion
"Brim" Holloway Nc Orange [2585]
v. Thomas Holloway Jr [4677] was born
circa 1775.
vi. David Holloway [4683] was born Est
1776 in If 23 When Married.
vii. Samuel Holloway [4680] was born
circa 1781 in NC Orange County.88
viii. William Holloway [4684] was born
circa 1782 in NC Orange County maybe.
ix. Elizabeth Holloway [4685] was born
circa 1788 in NC Orange County.40
x. Nancy Hannah Holloway [4686] was
born in 1788.40
Thomas next married Lydia
Bryant Nc [3647] [MRIN: 1436], daughter of Bryant
[17073] and Unknown, on 25 Aug 1808 in NC Orange
County.202
Children from this marriage were:
i. Samuel Holloway [7120] was born
circa 1810 and died before 1835.
ii. John Holloway [4689] was born
circa 1816 in NC Orange County.203
iii. Williamson Bryant Holloway [4690]
was born on 15 Jun 1818 in NC Orange County203 and died in 189240
at age 74.
iv. Sarah Holloway [4691] was born
circa 1822 in NC Orange County.88
v. Lydia Caroline Holloway [4692] was
born circa 1824 in NC Orange County.88
vi. Milly Holloway [4693] was born
circa 1826 in NC Orange County.203
vii. Bennehan Holloway [7119] was born
circa 1828.
177. Amy Morris [4671] was born circa 1747 in VA York
County Maybe208 and died before 1808 in NC Orange County, maybe.
General Notes: if same Thos Holloway-
linked by DLG 2006.
Census: 1779, NC Orange County. a
Martha Holloway was censused
Census: 1790, NC Orange County.
Amy married Thomas Holloway
RWS [3646]202 [MRIN: 1936] on 18
Sep 1786 in VA York County.
178. NC Orange Proctor Probably [5423], son of NC Warren Proctor
Maybe [5430] and Unknown, was born circa 1725.
NC married someone.
His children were:
i. Joseph Proctor Unproven [4676] was
born circa 1750.
ii. Richard Proctor [5424] was born in
1760 in NC Warren County and died after 1817 in NC Orange County.209
89 iii. Sarah Proctor Nc
Orange [2586]
iv. Martha Proctor [5431] was born Est
1774 in If 23 When Married.
v. Nancy Proctor [5433] was born Est
1801 in If 23 When Married.
vi. Sterling Proctor [5435] was born
Est 1802 in If 23 When Married.
180. Colonel William Davidson of NC Orange [7851], son of James Davidson
[7857] and Mary Bane [7858], was born on 4 Jan 1761 in NC
Orange County/Bladen/Granville/Johnston210 and died in 1808 in TN
Jefferson County, Dandridge211 at age 47.
General Notes: unproven
Fact: 1752, NC Orange County. was
created from Bladen, Granville, and Johnston Counties.
Tax List: 1790, NC Granville
County. There were no Davidsons.
Resided: 1790. Not in Orange,
Granville, Bladen, or Johnston, NC.
Tax List: 1790, NC Orange County.
there were no Davidsons,
Tax List: 1790, NC Bladen County.
There were no Davidsons.
Tax List: 1790, NC Johnston
County. There were no Davidsons.
Conjecture: 2004, TX Greenville.88
Could this be Gen. William Lee Davidson???
Of course not- he was killed in
the Revolutionary War.
Don Giddens
William married someone.
His child was:
90 i. James Davidson of
NC Orange [5422]
184. Davis
[17078], son of NC Orange County
Davis [17077] and Unknown, was born circa 1750.
Davis married someone.
His child was:
92 i. Davis [9606]
188. George Goodridge [6936], son of William Goodridge
[6937] and Unknown, was born in 1746212
and died in 1802 in VA Albemarle County, Fredericksburg212 at age
56.
George married someone.
His child was:
94 i. William Goodridge
Unproven [6864]
192. John Cox I [5],213 son of Daniel
Cox [5864] and Windley [59], was born in 1705 in NC?214
and died in May 1752 in NC Granville County215 at age 47.
Court: 3 Jun 1752, Granville, NC.126
June 3, 1752- Cox… following orphans of John Cox: John, 18 years old, Beverly,
16 years old, George, 13 years old, Amey , 11 years old all ordered bound out
by the Church Wardens, currently living with Wm. Gess
Conjecture: 2006, Greenville, TX.
If John Cox, husband of Sarah Beverly, was the son of a Daniel Cox of Craven
County, there is a remote possibility that his father or grandfather was Daniel
Coxe, son of Daniel Coxe, the Physician to the Queen, and Proprietor of much
land in the colonies of New Jersey, and the Carolinas. That Daniel Coxe is said
to have lived in Craven County
at the same time.
If it was not for this
information, it would seem that William and Catherine Longfield Cox would be
the suspects.
-Don Giddens
John married Sarah Beverly
[55]216 [MRIN: 31] circa
1728.217
Children from this marriage were:
i. Isaac Cox Sc Pendleton [54] was
born circa 1730, was christened in 1753 in SC Pendleton, NC Land Grant On Cain
Creek, and died in SC Pendleton District.
ii. William Cox [56] was born in 1732
in NC Granville County215 and died in 1783 in SC Pendleton District
Old 96th133 at age 51.
96 iii. John Cox Sc
Pendleton [3]
iv. Beverly s/o John Cox [4099] was
born in 1736 in NC Granville County and died in 1796 in SC Pendleton District
at age 60.
v. George Cox [57] was born in 1739
in NC Granville County.133
vi. Amy Cox [58] was born in 1741 in
NC Granville County.91
vii. William Bolden Cox G'son [17491]
was born circa 1758, was christened in 1790 in SC Pendleton District tax list,
and died in 1821 in SC Pendleton District at age 63. Ancestral File Number:
10203 1790.
193. Sarah Beverly [55],216 daughter of John
Beverly [10134] and Margaret Early [4018], was born in 1710 in VA
Middlesex County, Christ Church Parish214 and died before 1752 in NC
Granville County probably.
Sarah married John Cox I
[5]213 [MRIN: 31] circa
1728.217
194. William Vaughn [1865], son of Virginia Vaughns
[5604] and Unknown, was born about 1700 in VA
Caroline maybe.216
William married Barbary Brewton Bruton [1864]216 [MRIN: 853].
Children from this marriage were:
97 i. Elizabeth Vaughn
Pendleton Sc [53]
ii. Rev. Joel Vaughn RWS [5605] was
born on 14 Feb 1741 in VA Caroline County, died after 1846 in MS Attala County
(after age 105),218 and was buried in Unmarked Grave.
195. Barbary
Brewton Bruton [1864],216 daughter of James
Bruton Unproven f/o Barbary [5941] and Mary Seward [11464], was born about 1700 in VA Surry
County maybe.
Barbary married William Vaughn
[1865] [MRIN: 853].
196. David Smith ye sonne of THOS [5982], son of Thomas Smith of
Yorkshire [11722] and Unknown, was born in 1674 in England,
Gravesend, Kent,139 was christened on 24 Sep 1674 in Yorkshire, and
died circa 1755 in PA York County141 at age 81.
General Notes: if same David
David married Elizabeth/Mary
Stephenson Stevenson [5983]219 [MRIN: 2574] on 15
Jan 1700 in England, Wakefield, Yorkshire if same person.78
Children from this marriage were:
i. Zerubiah Smith [6045] was born in
1715 in Ireland SC or Scotland and died in TN Maury County.220
ii. John Smith [6041] was born in 1716
in Ireland.137
98 iii. Job Smith
[5964]
iv. Aaron Smith [6042] was born circa
1720 in PA Bucks County.221
v. Ebenezer Smith [6043] was born in
1722 in PA York County221 and died in Mar 1775 in GA St. Pauls
Parish39 at age 53.
vi. Charles Smith [6044] was born
circa 1724 in PA York County maybe.
197. Elizabeth/Mary Stephenson Stevenson [5983]219 was born Est 1680 and died Est
1750 in If 70 At Death about age 70.
Elizabeth/Mary married David
Smith ye sonne of THOS [5982] [MRIN: 2574] on 15 Jan 1700 in
England, Wakefield, Yorkshire if same person.78
200. Ambrose Hudgins Daniel Boone's bro-in-law
[343], son of William/Ambrose
Hudgins [1598] and Sarah Vaughn [5492], was born in 1728 in VA New Kent
County222 and died in 1799 in SC Laurens District at age 71.
General Notes:
pentrekin@sprintmail.com has the father of Ambrose as Ambrose.
I had Benjamin; thus, I am
putting Ambrose/Benjamin until someone tells me
which.
The Ambrose above was born in PA
pentrekin@sprintmail.comfrom
pentrekin@sprintmail.com at Roots-web
The South Carolina Magazine of
Ancestral Research
SCMAR, Volume IX
Number 1, Winter, 1981
Laurens County Estate Book A-1
(Continued from Vol. 8, p.145)
The South Carolina Magazine of
Ancestral Research
SCMAR, Volume IX
Number 1, Winter, 1981
Laurens County Estate Book A-1
(Continued from Vol. 8, p.145)
SCMAR, Vol. IX, Winter 1981, No.
1, p.47
Pp. 167-168: The property of
Stephen Potter decd. sold 31st of May 1797. Purchasers: Jemima Potter, John
Potter, William Potter, Ambrose Hudgins,
Alt. Birth: Abt 1730.
Immigration. Three Hudgins Bros.
Came To America Fr England. One Stayed In NC, One Went West, And One Moved To
TN And Married The Sister Of Daniel Boone (Tennessee Cousins)
Kinship report: 2003, TX
Greenville.1 brother-in-law of Daniel Boone, if Tennessee Cousins
quote is correct, and this is the
same Hudgins.
Ambrose married Joannah Foster
"Ann" [1536]222 [MRIN: 470] on 20
Oct 1751 in VA Gloucester County.222
Children from this marriage were:
i. John Hudgins [1537] was born in
1738 in Marsh Creek, York, PA and died in 1820 in Laurens, SC at age 82.
ii. Humphrey Hudgins [1472] was born
about 1750.
iii. Captain Ambrose Hudgins RWS [990]
was born in 1764 and died after 1840 in SC Laurens District pension.
iv. William Hudgins [991] was born
about 1754.
v. Margaret Hudgins [1461] was born
in 1760.
100 vi. Captain John Phillip
Hudgins RWS [342]
vii. Phebe Hudgins [1534] was born
about 1764.
viii. Robert Hudgins [1542] was born
about 1764.
201. Joannah Foster "Ann" [1536],222 daughter of Richard
Foster [21180] and Unknown, was born circa 1728 in VA
Gloucester maybe.
General Notes:
pentrekin@sprintmail.com has Joanah?
Somewhere the Hudgins must have
married Pughs because there are several with that middle name. I am
interjecting one here as a possibility.
Joannah married Ambrose
Hudgins Daniel Boone's bro-in-law [343] [MRIN: 470] on 20 Oct 1751 in VA
Gloucester County.222
202. Rev. Elnathan Davis Baptist [1652],96 son of Benjamin
1712 Davis S/O James And Ann [2312] and Barbara Richeson
[17826], was born on 9 Nov 1735 in MD
Baltimore,223 died on 8 Dec 1821 in SC Pickens at age 86, and was
buried in Griffin Baptist Church.
Conversion: 1757, NC.224
Elnathan Davis had heard that one John Steward was to be baptized such a day,
by Mr. Stearns. Now this Steward being a very large man, and Stearns of small
stature, he concluded there would be some diversion if not drowning; therefore
he gathered about eight or ten of his companions in wickedness, and went to the
spot. Mr. Stearns came, and began to preach. Elnathan went to hear him, while
his companions stood at a distance. He was no sooner among the crowd that he
perceived some of the people tremble, as if in a fit of the ague; he felt and
examined them, in order to find if it were not a dissimulation; meanwhile one
man leaned on his shoulder, weeping bitterly; Elnathan, perceiving he had wet
his new white coat, pushed him off, and ran to his companions, who were sitting
on a log at a distance. When he came, one said, "Well, Elnathan, what do
you think now of these --- people ?" affixing to them a profane and
reproachful epithet. He replied, "There is a trembling and crying spirit
among them; but whether it be the Spirit of God or the devil, I don't know; if
it be the devil, the devil go with them, for I will never more venture myself
among them." He stood a while in that resolution; but the enchantment of
Stearn's voice drew him to the crowd once more. He had not been long there
before the trembling seized him also; he attempted to withdraw; but his
strength failing, and his understanding being confounded, he, with many others,
sunk to the ground. When he came to himself, he found nothing in him but dread
and anxiety, bordering on horror. He continued in this situation some days, and
then found relief by faith in Christ. Immediately he began to preach conversion
work ... Mr. Davis was born in Baltimore County, Maryland, 1735; was bread a
Seventh-day Baptist; went to Slow River, in North Carolina, in 1757; was
baptized by Shubael Stearns at Sandy Creek, and ordained by Samuel Harris, in
1764 ... (See David Benedict's, A General History of the Baptist Denomination
in America, 1813, vol. 1, pp. 367-368).
Fact: 2002, Genforum #28953.225
Apparently there were at least 3 Elnathan Davises, and at least two of them
were successful New Jersey Surveyors of the 1700s. According to Thomas Shourds
in "Fenwick's Colony," the one considered the "great
surveyor" of West Jersey (Southern NJ) was the grandson of Jonathan, and
named after Jonathan's brother. Jonathan was born on Long Island, the son of
one of 3 or more brothers who emigrated from Wales and settled in the New
England States as early as 1664. (Some brothers were not named.)
Some of the family soon
re-located to Long Island,NY, and then Jonathan and his brother Elnathan Davis
went on to Trenton, New Jersey in 1700. This Elnathan was appointed Surveyor General
of the State. Jonathan became a "conspicuous" Seventh-day Baptist
minister, to quote Shourds, amd married Elizabeth Bowen whose family was of the
Cohansey precinct. He preached occasionally in homes of the Seventh-day
Baptists who lived near Cohansey Corners. After the 7th Day Baptist Church at
Shiloh was organized, Jonathan Davis, Jr., became the first pastor.
Elnathan Davis, the "eminent
surveyor of the lower counties of West Jersey," was the son of this
Jonathan Davis, Jr.
Thomas Shourds gave much
attention in his book to Surveyors, whom he revered as mathematical geniuses.
Elnathan married Susannah Bond of Maryland, and between 1760 and 1776 they had
3 daughters and 7 sons, including yet another Elnathan.
Our Langleys named boys BOTH
Elnathan and Davis, who became Patriots in the Revolution. Then in 1796, we see
Rubin or Reuben Langley purchasing acreage from an Elnathan Davis in
"Broad Neck" of Pittsgrove Twp. So far we cannot say if this was the
renowned Surveyor (husband of Susannah) or the son. No wife's name is on the
deed. -- Dolores in DE
Elnathan married Mary Collins
[1501]96 [MRIN: 456] in 1752
in NC Chatham County.226
Children from this marriage were:
i. Elnathan Davis Jr [2313] was born
about 1753.
ii. Martha Davis [2315] was born about
1755.
iii. Rebecca Davis [2316] was born
about 1756.
iv. Hannah Elizabeth Davis [2317] was
born about 1760.
101 v. Rutha Davis
[956]
vi. Benjamin Davis [2318] was born on
10 Jun 1763.
vii. James Davis [2319] was born about
1765.
viii. Jonathan Davis [2320] was born on
6 Mar 1771 and died after 1841 in SC Greenville District.
203. Mary Collins [1501],96 daughter of Collins
[22372] and Unknown, was born in 1735 and died on 11
Nov 1847 at age 112.
General Notes: There is a will of
a Ruth Davis 1745
http://searches1.rootsweb.com/usgenweb/archives/nc/pasquotank/wills/estind
.txt
Mary married Rev. Elnathan
Davis Baptist [1652]96 [MRIN: 456] in 1752
in NC Chatham County.226
204. John Ellis Va Surry [1517],227 son of Jeremiah
Ellis II [336] and Sarah Harvey [1515], was born in 1710 in VA Surry
County227 and died on 28 May 1793 in NC Bute/Warren County227
at age 83.
General Notes:
http://worldconnect.genealogy.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=GET&db=nell-
ellis_1&id=I819
Land patent: 1742, V Surry
County. A Jeremiah Ellis' land was on the
S side of the Nottoway River next to Major Benj Harrrison,
Robt Sandyford, Wm Jones, Wm
Martin,
John married Mary Wiggins
[5590] [MRIN: 2375] in 1740 in NC
Warren County.228
Children from this marriage were:
102 i. Jesse Ellis RWS
[119]
ii. Gideon Ellis [1511]
iii. Jeremiah Ellis [1509]
iv. Martha Ellis [1512]
v. Reuben Ellis [1514]
vi. Sarah Ellis [1508]
vii. Stephen Ellis [1510]
viii. Benjamin Ellis [1556] was born on
9 Sep 1741 in Albemarle, Surry, VA and died in 1796 in Warren Co NC at age 55.
ix. Johnnathan Ellis [1557] was born
on 29 Jan 1743.
x. William Ellis [1558] was born in
1757.
205. Mary Wiggins [5590], daughter of William Wiggins
Unproven [5597] and Unknown, was born in 1725 in NC Warren
maybe229 and died before 1779 in NC Warren County.228
Mary married John Ellis Va
Surry [1517]227 [MRIN: 2375] in
1740 in NC Warren County.228
206. SC Pendleton District Young [5862], son of SC Pendleton District
[17542] and Unknown, was born circa 1725.
SC married someone.
His children were:
103 i. Widow Elizabeth
Young [1503]
ii. Barbara Young [5988] was born
before 1775.
iii. Ezekiel Young [5989] was born
circa 1775.
iv. Joshua Young [5991] was born
before 1775.
v. William Young [5993] was born
circa 1750.230
vi. Matthew Young RWS [6688] was born
circa 1707 in VA Maybe231 and died after 1755 in VA Augusta maybe
prison.231
208. John Saunders or Sanders [2343], son of Martin Saunders or
Sanders s/o David [3736] and Rachel Aaron [3737], was born in 1705 in England
Downton Wiltshire or VA154 and died in 1791 in IA at age 86.
Immigrated: After 1743, TO
aMERICA. IF SON WAS BORN IN eNGLAND IN 1743.
John married Catherine Nimrod
[3729]232 [MRIN: 754] about
1734 in NC Cumberland Or England.
Children from this marriage were:
i. Isaac 1736-1806 Sanders [3730] was
born circa 1736 and died circa 1806 in If 70 At Death at age 70.
ii. Tabitha Sanders [3731] was born
circa 1725.
iii. William Aaron Sanders [3732] was born in 1735 in
NC Cumberland County and died circa 1805 in If 70 At Death at age 70.
104 iv. Pastor Moses
Saunders Sanders RWS [131]
v. George Sanders [23037]
vi. Francis Sanders [23038]
209. Catherine Nimrod [3729]232 was born circa 1705.
Catherine married John
Saunders or Sanders [2343] [MRIN: 754] about 1734 in NC
Cumberland Or England.
210. Arthur Hamilton [3699], son of Ireland James Hamilton
[3744] and Janet Campbell [3745], was born in 1690 in Ireland
Londonderry.233
Arthur married Martha
Conyngham [3700]233 [MRIN: 1461].
Children from this marriage were:
105 i. Sarah Hamilton
[122]
ii. Martha Hamilton [3742] was born in
1760.234
iii. Hamilton [3733] was born circa
1725.
Arthur next married someone.
His child was:
i. Hamilton [3733] was born circa
1725.
211. Martha Conyngham [3700]233 was born circa 1690 in VA.154
Martha married Arthur Hamilton
[3699] [MRIN: 1461].
212. John Robins [3839], son of Our John Robins
[17272] and Elizabeth [17273], was born in 1720 in VA
Spotsylvania County,103 was christened in VA Gloucester County, and
died in 1792 in NC Wilkes County103 at age 72.
Census: 1790, Edgecombe. A John
Robbins 113-5,21
Also a Jacob Robbins.
Census: 1790, NC Randoph County.
A John Robbins 14603, 13 est age 1747
William Robbins 30219,21 est bd
1750
Moses Robbins 11201,5 est bd 1760
Isaac Robbins 33500,11 est bd
1747
Christopher Robbins 125008 est bd
1753
John Robbins 162009 est bd 1751
Census: 1787, NC WilkesCounty
census. 1-2-5-5-1
John married Mary Margaret
Madison Strother [3840]103 [MRIN: 113] circa
1743 in VA.103
Children from this marriage were:
i. Capt. Thomas Robins [208] was born
in 1748 in VA Orange County103 and died in 1815 in TN Coffee County103
at age 67.
106 ii. Our Major John
Robins Jr. [16854]
iii. Reuben Robins [17202] was born in
1754, was christened in 1787 in NC Wilkes County census, and died in 1833 at
age 79.
iv. William Robins [17243] was born
circa 1745 and died in 1774 at age 29.
213. Mary Margaret Madison Strother [3840],103 daughter of William
Strother [8181] and Margaret Watts [8183], was born on 3 Sep 1726 in VA
Stafford County maybe235 and died circa 1786 in NC Wilkes County
maybe103 at age 60. Other names for Mary were Margaret Madison,
Strother.
Mary married John Robins
[3839] [MRIN: 113] circa 1743 in VA.103
214. Samuel Dogan [17248], son of John Dogan
[17250] and Mary Salmon [17251], was born circa 1725 in VA
Culpeper County159 and died in 1796 in NC Wilkes County159
at age 71.
Samuel married Ann Mary
Harrison [17249]159 [MRIN: 7237].
The child from this marriage was:
107 i. Elizabeth Dogan
[17245]
215. Ann Mary Harrison [17249],159 daughter of Andrew
Harrison Jr. [17258] and Mary Lovell [17259], was born circa 1725 in VA
Culpeper County159 and died in 1800 in KY Pulaski159 at
age 75.
Ann married Samuel Dogan
[17248] [MRIN: 7237].
216. Abraham Rushing [1304], son of William Rushing
[1305] and Unknown, was born about 1733 in NC
Bladen/Anson County236 and died on 20 May 1805 in NC Anson County
about age 72.
General Notes: Mark Rushing
censused Anson County, NC 1790.
Mark Rushing censused Volusia
County, FLA 1870
Researchers: 2000. Valerie
Simonton
Censused: 1750, NC Anson County.
Before that Anson County was called Bladen County
Mark Rushing was censused 1750
Land Grant: 1762, NC Anson
County. 300 Ac Anson Co, Adjoining John Jackson.
Fact: : NC Bladen County.160
Bladen was formed in 1734 from New Hanover. It was named in honor of Martin
Bladen, one of the members of the Board of Trade which had charge of colonial
affairs. It is in the southeastern section of the State and is bounded by
Sampson, Pender, Columbus, Robeson and Cumberland counties. The present land
area is 875.62 square miles and its 1990 population was 28,663. The county seat
was first called Bladen Court House. Elizabethtown, established in 1773, is the
county seat.
In 1750, Anson was fromed from
Bladen.
Fact: : NC Hanover.
Census: 1790, NC Anson County.
3-2-3-0-3
Will: 1805, NC Anson (Fayette)
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Surnames: Rushing, Morgin,
Morgan, English, Bell, Plantt, Autry
Signed 20 May, 1805
Probated July Session Surname
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- the "land and plantation where I now Live," one black mare and
colt, bridle, saddle, feather bed and furniture, one loom, gear, and cotton
wheel, one pair of "cardes," one chest, one table, a table and two
chairs, pail, "piggin", one "beason" (basin?), one dish,
two pewter plates, white earthen boal, two cows & calves, two ewes &
lambs, one sow & pigs, 20 bushels of corn, 5 bushels of wheat, plough
frame, hoe, and one ax, to be kept during her natural life, and then to be sold
& divded between all the children.
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- the land & plantation where he lives with all the rest of the property he
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- all the property that I have lent him
"my daughter Sarah English
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- $20 to be paid out of my estate and all the property I have lent her
"my son Peeter Rushing
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- all the property that I have lent him
"my son Thomas Rushing
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- all the property that I have lent him
All property not named, including
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href="http://www.ancestry.com/facts/lands-family-history.ashx"Lands,
horses, cattle and all the remainder of the estate to be sold by the executors
and money arising from such sale after paying the above mentioned sums to be equally
divided between the children named.
Executors: Jason Rushing Surname
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Leml. Bell
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(by mark)
Abraham married Sarah Watts
[2067] [MRIN: 655].
Abraham next married Mariah
Meador [1319] [MRIN: 656] about 1764 in NC
Anson County.
Children from this marriage were:
108 i. William Rushing
[293]
ii. Abraham D. Rushing [1320] was born
in 1772236 and died in 1848 in Humphrey's County, TN at age 76.
iii. Elizabeth Rushing [1321] was born
about 1768.237
iv. Jason Rushing [1322] was born in
1770.
v. Sarah Rushing [1323] was born
about 1772.236
vi. Phillip J. Rushing [2069] was born
about 1774.236
vii. Thomas M. Rushing [2068] was born
about 1783.237
viii. Peter Rushing [2071] was born
about 1785 in NC Anson County.236
217. Mariah Meador [1319], daughter of Jason Meadors VA
[1324] and Elizabeth Stone
[1325], was born about 1742. Other
names for Mariah were Sarah, Meadows.
Mariah married Abraham Rushing
[1304] [MRIN: 656] about 1764 in NC
Anson County.
218. Isaac Nichols NC [6075],238 son of Isaac
Nichols [6077] and Unknown, was born circa 1760 in NC Anson
(Fayette) maybe and died circa 1850 in TN Houston County, Erin78 at
age 90.
Census: 1790, NC Anson (Fayette)
County.1 P 35 Image 445 1030= Isaac b ca 1750, two daughters, wife.
Isaac Nichols is censused in the
same area as many Rushings* , leading me to believe that he is the father of
our Jane.
Apparently he is the only Nichols
censused.
"Down the road"
Wm German, Robert?, Martin
Ganada, Wm Threadgill, Anthony Pursley, Lewis Atkins, Jn Lowry, Pleasant Diggs,
Jn Bittle, Jesse Tatum, Williamson Plant, Frederick Temple, Benj Mooreman, Chas
Hinson, Jms Yarbrough, Jn Mills, Jms Boggan, Sr., Sterling May, ISAAC NICHOLS, Jn
Lambden, Jms Harrell, Danl Davidson, Jms Ryal, Thos House, Jn BREWER, Saml
Pound, Jms Baker, Archbd Falkner, Jn Culpper, Jn Dabbs, Jonas Leonard, Edw
Loyd, David Griffin, Roland Williams, Frances Harner, Jesse Mathes?, Jn Melton,
Thos Huntley, Sr. Jr., PHILIP RUSHING, SR 122 Thos MEADOWS 344 David Jackson,
Saml Wilson, Jn Tyson, Thos Gaddy, Jn Dale, Chas Ferrell, Betty Hellems, Wm
Hellems, Tilman Hellems, David Hellems, Jacob Hellems, Olive Head, etc.
* Philip, Philip, Jr., Abraham,
Thos Meadows (also some probably)
Death: 9 May 1847, Al Marion County.238
Isaac married Honor [8170] [MRIN: 3525].
The child from this marriage was:
109 i. Jane Nichols
[294]
219. Honor
[8170] .
Honor married Isaac Nichols NC
[6075]238 [MRIN: 3525].
220. Howell Freeman RWS [944],104 son of Bridges
Freeman [945] and Elizabeth Howell
[4399], was born in 1760 in VA Sussex
Or Brunswick VA39 and died on 4 May 1836 in Dickson Co TN at age 76.
Will: 1836, TN Dickson County.
Dickson County TN
Contact: support
<mailto:lcole@dctn.com>
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Census: 1784, NC Johnston County.
Howell married Elizabeth
[1849] [MRIN: 262] on 7 Mar 1808.
Children from this marriage were:
110 i. William R. Freeman
[295]
ii. Burrell Freeman [1644] was born
about 1780 in NC Franklin County.
iii. Mary Freeman [11479] was born on
10 Mar 1791 in NC.39
221. Elizabeth
[1849] was born about 1760.
General Notes: Burrell, Roland,
Riley?
Elizabeth married Howell
Freeman RWS [944]104 [MRIN: 262] on 7
Mar 1808.
222. Thomas Massie son of Sylvanus and Hannah
[5201],239 son of Sylvanus
Massie [2011] and Unknown, was born on 26 Dec 1758 in VA
Middlesex County, Christ Church Parish240 and died on 7 Sep 1835 in
Springfield, IL39 at age 76.
General Notes: Don,
Somehow you've gotten the wrong
birth year for Thomas Massie. He was born 26
Dec 1758, in New Kent Co., VA;
Died 19 Aug 1835, buried in Old Salem Cem,
Curran, Sangamon Co., IL.
This is documented:
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
"Soldiers of the American
Revolution Buried in Illinois" - Illinois State
Genealogical Society - 1976
THOMAS MASSIE:
Born: December 26, 1759 in
Albemarle County, Virginia,
Died: August 19, 1835
Buried: Old Salem Cemetery (or
Morgan Cemetery), Curran, Sangamon County,
Illinois
Spouses:
(1) Fannie Hudson
(2) Rebecca Collyer
Service: Private: Spy: Virginia
Continental troops. He enlisted from
Albemarle County, VA.
Pension: S31235 (Va); Illinois
Pension List, Sangamon County, April 23, 1834,
age 74.
Marker: His name is on a bronze
plaque in the south mall, Old State Capitol,
Springfield, placed by
Springfield Chapters DAR and SAR, October 19, 1911.
His grave was marked by
Springfield Chapter DAR on January 12, 1973.
Thomas Massie served as a private
under Capt. Robert Adams, Col. John Lynch,
Virginia militia. He was born in
Buckingham Co., VA; Died in Sangamon Co., IL.
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
In the DAR, he is listed as born
in Albermarle Co., VA or Buckingham Co., VA,
but neither is correct, as his
birth was recorded in New Kent Co., VA church
records.
Thomas married 1st. Frances
Hudson, born abt. 1760 in Virginia. She died 25
Jun 1802 in KY.
Frances (Hudson) Massie was the
mother of our Mary Massie. 2nd. wife, Rebecca
Collyer; Birth year not known;
She died 7 Sep 1835, in Sangamon Co., Illinois.
William had several children by
each wife, BUT Frances Hudson was the mother
of our ancestor, Mary Massie.
Mary Massie was born 14 Jun 1789,
KY; Died 16 Sep 1867/8 in Pike Co.,
Illinois.
Mary's husband, Wm. R. Freeman,
(s/o Howell Freeman of Dickson Co., TN) was
born 25 March 1786, Franklin Co.,
NORTH Carolina. He died 16 Mar 1871, not
1872.
I'm sure I gave you all this
information before, but maybe I overwhelmed you
with data. Sorry. Hope this will
help you.
Regards,
Valerie Simonton
I was reading the Massie gen forum and saw where you were saying that
Thomas Massie who had a son Jesse born 1810 and a daughter Mary who Married
William R. Freeman was b 1762 and married to Lucy Davis etc..From everything I
have found you have them tied in with the wrong Thomas....
Our Thomas was born Dec. 26, 1758 and died in
Springfield, IL in 1835...Jesse and most if not all his children were born in
Kentucky..
Thomas had two wives...Frances Hudson and Rebekah Collyer.
I even have a copy of his probate
papers that I got in IL.and it mention Mary and William Freeman in it...
Your new cousin (I think)
Susan Heinzelman
Military: 1793, KY.153
saddler Russell's Reg Calvary KY Volunteers
if same THOMAS MASSEY
Birth: 26 Dec 1758, VA New Kent
County, Christ Church Parish.241 Thomas b son of Sylvanus and Hannah
Massie
Thomas married Frances Hudson
Kin to the Navigator [1090]242 [MRIN: 231].
Children from this marriage were:
111 i. Mary Massie
[296]
ii. Jessie Massie [957] was born in
1810.
iii. Sylvanus Massie son of Thos M and
Frances Hudson [8164] was born on 12 Dec 1799.
223. Frances Hudson Kin to the Navigator [1090],242 daughter of Simon
Hudson III [6030] and Mary Anderson [6032], was born in 1760 in VA New Kent
Maybe243 and died about 1828 about age 68.
Kinship report: 2003, TX
Greenville.1 5th great-granddaughter (or niece) of Captain Henry
Hudson, the Navigator.
Frances married Thomas Massie
son of Sylvanus and Hannah [5201]239 [MRIN: 231].
224. Major William 1721 Lindsey RWS [307], son of William 1695 Lindsey
Va [309] and Jane [7958], was born in 1721 of Brunswick
VA39 and died on 1 Sep 1797 in VA Rockingham County at age 76.
Another name for William was James William.
General Notes: Also No. 50390.
William Lindsay (1721-92) served
as major in the Virginia militia under General Green. Severely wounded at the
battle of Guilford Court House. He was born and died in Virginia.
Elijah Cleveland (1721-94) was a
member of the 9th regiment, Albany County, New York militia. He was born in
Canterbury, Conn.; died in Hillsdale, N. Y.
George Calvert (1712-82) was a
member of the Virginia House of Burgesses, and in 1781 was appointed captain by
Thomas Jefferson, of the Culpeper militia. He was born in Prince William
County, Va.; died in Culpeper County.
Alphabetical List of Officers of
the Continental Army
L
Fifteenth Virginia
page 352
Lindsay, William (Va). Cornet
Virginia Dragoons, 16th June, 1776; 3d Lieutenant 1st Continental Dragoons,
15th March, 1777; wounded near Valley Forge, 21st January, 1778; Captain of
Lee's Battalion of Light Dragoons, 7th April, 1778; resigned 1st October, 1778.
(Died 1st September, 1797.)
Will: 17 Oct 1784, NC Chatham
County. Chatham Co., NC. Record of Estates (1782-1799) Vol. 1 Pg. 21b, 22 a
& b NC State Archives film # C.022.50001 Will of Caleb Lindsey - dated 17
Oct. 1784 no probate date In the name of God Amen I Caleb Lindsey of Chatham
County & State of North Carolina planter being in a low state of health in
Body perfect mind & memory thanks be given unto God Calling to mind the
Mortality of my Body and knowing that it is apointed for all men once to die Do
make & ordain this my Last Will and Testament that is to say principally
and first of all I give and recommend my sole unto the hands of almighty God
that gave it and my Body I recommend to the Earth to be Buried in a decent
Christian burial at the discretion of my Executors Nothing doubting but at
general resurection I shall receive the same again by the might power of God
and as touching such Worldly Estate wherewith pleased God to bless me in this
life I give demise and dispose of the same in the following manner and form
Itam______ I give and bequeath to my Well beloved son John Lindsey one Negro
man named David for which he is to pay forty pounds good and Lawfull Money of
this State to be Equelly divided amongst the surviving Children of my son Caleb
Lindsey deceased as they arive at lawfull age___also I give to my Daughter Joan
Martain one Negro girl named Mary her and her increase to her only use and
benifit___ Also I give to Elizabeth Durham one Negro boy named Solomon to the
only use and benifit of her___also I give to my daughter Judith Spurling one
negroe boy named Carry for which she is to pay Eight pounds good and Lawfull
Money of this State to my Daughter Sarah as a part of her Legacy of my
Estate___ also I give to my daughter Susanah Baker one negroe boy named Isaac
to which she is to pay seven pounds good and Lawfull Money of this State to my
daughter Sarah as a part of her Legascey of my Estate___I also give to my son
James Lindsey one Negroe Man Rubin with one hundred & thirty Eight acres of
Land be the same more or less where my daughter in Law Mary Lindsey now lives
together with one fether Bead and furniture one Cow and Calf and all my working
tools and one Iron Pott for which he is to pay fourty pounds good and Lawfull
Money of this State to be equally divided amongst the surviving Children of my
son William Lindsey deceased & as they arive at Lawfull age and six pounds
of the Money to my Daughter Sarah Lindsey____ I likewise give to my daughter
Sarah Lindsey one Hers (horse?) and cattle and sheep too feather Beds and
furniture together with all My Household furniture other than what is above
mentioned and I do hereby utterly disallow revoke and disanull all and every
other former Testament Wills and Legacies bequeaths and Executors by me in
anywise before named Wills and bequeaths and Testament in Witness whereof I
have hereunto unto set my hand and seal this the fourteenth day of October in
the year of our Lord one thousand Seven hundred and Eighty four___ Signed
seal'd published and declar'd by Caleb Lindsey to be his last Will and
Testament in presents of us William Pickard Caty Pickard Signed Caleb Lindsey
{Seal} A Copy Test. John Ramsey C.C.
Will of Cousin: 1751, VA
Spotsylvania. Virginia County Records SPOTSYLVANIA COUNTY 1721-1800
WILLS
WILL BOOK B 1749-1759
page 10 LUCAS, ANTHONY,
Spotsylvania Co., who died on or about the 28th of Jan. 1750 (nuncupative will)
Leg, estate to be divided between his cousins, Adam Lindsay and Caleb Lindsay.
This will was proved by the depositions of James Stopp, Hannah Alman and Edward
Almond, at Spotsylvania Court, May 7 and June 4, 1751. (Page 71
William married Sarah Carlton
Va Albemarle [792]244 [MRIN: 295],
daughter of Thomas/Blake Carlton Of Va King And Queen [4448] and Unknown, in 1758 in Waukegan, Albemarle,
m Virginia.
Children from this marriage were:
i. Joshua 1763 Lindsey s/o Caleb
[795] was born about 1762.
ii. Archibald Lindsey [796] was born
in 1763 in VA Albemarle Maybe.
iii. William Henry Lindsey [2233] was
born in 1773 and died in 1823 at age 50.
iv. Burkett Lindsey [797] was born
about 1766.
v. Sarah Lindsey Maybe [2242] was
born in 1785.
vi. James William Lindsey RWS [2370]
was born on 11 May 1766 in VA Brunswick County and died on 3 Mar 1831 in AR
Pulaski245 at age 64.
vii. Caleb 1767 Lindsey [8411] was born
in 1767 in VA Brunswick, was christened in 1782 in VA Orange County tax list,
and died after 1836 in AR. Another name for Caleb was Lindsey.
William next married Rosanna
Martin [308] [MRIN: 296] in 1755.
Children from this marriage were:
i. Elizabeth Lindsey [1076] was born
about 1752.
112 ii. James 1754 MARTIN
Adam Lindsey Sgt RWS [305]
iii. John 1748 MARTIN Lindsey RWS .
[1040] was born circa 1748 in VA Brunswick and died in 1793 in Ohio Marion
County161 at age 45.
iv. Judith Lindsey [1077] was born
about 1757.
v. Sarah Lindsey [1078] was born
about 1759.
vi. William Lindsey [1079] was born
about 1761 and died before 1784.
vii. Susannah Lindsey [1080] was born
about 1765.
viii. Caleb 1755 Lindsey [2373] was born
after 1755 and died before 1784.125
ix. Joan Lindsey [2374] was born circa
1760 and died after 1818 in Maybe.
William next married Sarah
Carlton Va Albemarle [792]244 [MRIN: 3744], daughter
of Thomas/Blake Carlton Of Va King And Queen [4448] and Unknown, circa 1745.
Children from this marriage were:
i. John Caleb Lindsey [8616] was born
in 1775 in NC Rockingham County and died in 1837 in Spencer County at age 62.
ii. Daniel Lindsey [8617]
iii. Judith Lindsey [8618]
iv. Reuben Lindsey [8619] died before
1839 in VA Orange County maybe.
v. Joshua May Lindsey s/o William
[8620] was born in 1760.
vi. Elizabeth Lindsey [8622]
vii. Micajah C Lindsey [8623]
viii. Caleb 1767 Lindsey [8411] was born
in 1767 in VA Brunswick, was christened in 1782 in VA Orange County tax list,
and died after 1836 in AR. Another name for Caleb was Lindsey.
ix. James William Lindsey RWS [2370]
was born on 11 May 1766 in VA Brunswick County and died on 3 Mar 1831 in AR
Pulaski245 at age 64.
225. Rosanna Martin [308], daughter of Henry Martin
[1541] and Jane Samuels [1469], was born about 1732 in VA
Spotsylvania, St. George's Parish246 and died before 1784.
Query: 1998, VA Essex County.247
Jeffrey L. Martin <mailto:jmartin@fairfield.com> Mon, 05 Jan 1998
01:46:42 -0800
MARTIN - I am looking for ANY
information concerning the MARTIN family of Essex Co. VA circa 1600-1780. John
MARTIN b. c1659 Essex Co. m. Mary JOHNSON? Their son's were John, Henry and
Benjamin. Their daughter's were Mary and Elizabeth. Son Henry, b. c1785, m.
Jane SAMUELS, had issue: Henry, Benjamin, John, William, Sarah, Alice, Mary
& Rose. Other possible connections were: SHORT, SAMUELS, LINDSEY, TRUE,
LARKIN, MOORE, ROBINSON/ROBERSON.
Rosanna married Major William
1721 Lindsey RWS [307] [MRIN: 296] in 1755.
226. Sackfield Brewer Va Brunswick [1701],248 son of Peter
Brewer [532] and Letitia Lanier [1870], was born in 1727 in VA
Brunswick County248 and died on 10 Nov 1812 in NC Orange County, NC
Age 85 at age 85.
Will.249 Sackfield
Brewer's will of 2 June 1810, there are three references to granddaughters as
follows:
granddaughter: Patsey Lindsey
grandaus: Patsey and Polly
Brewer, daughters of Ezekiel
grandaus: Mary Meachum, Sarah
Edwards, Patsey Lindsey.
Given name "Caleb"
established by marriage record. See source for marriage to Martha
"Patsy" Brewer.
There is also some evidence that
this may have been Dr. William Caleb Lindsey. See my Lindsey file.
Caleb was in Orange County, NC in
1830. In Haywood County, TN, in 1840. In 1860 he is in Drew County, AR, living
with daughter Martha Jane and son-in-law Daniel Nese Cotner.
Sackfield married someone.
His child was:
i. Sackfield Brewer [4473] was born
in 1768 in NC Orange County249 and died in 1844 in NC Orange County249
at age 76.
Sackfield married Lanier
UNPROVEN [5672] [MRIN: 842].
Children from this marriage were:
113 i. Delilah (Hodgson)
Brewer [306]
ii. Sackfield Brewer [4473] was born
in 1768 in NC Orange County249 and died in 1844 in NC Orange County249
at age 76.
iii. Ezekiel Brewer Maybe A Grandson
[7730] was born circa 1780.
227. Lanier UNPROVEN [5672] was born circa 1727.
Lanier married Sackfield
Brewer Va Brunswick [1701]248 [MRIN: 842].
228. Adam Lynn Gun mfg [958], son of John Linn or Lynn
[4406] and Sarah McKay [4407], was born in 1710 in Ireland250
and died on 24 Mar 1772 in VA Bedford County at age 62.
General Notes: Descendant of the
poet Burns of Scotland
Fact: 1828, Ballymoney, Antrim,
Northern Ireland.251 An Adam Linn married a Sarah Sweeney in 1828.
An Adam Lynne md an Anne McNeill
in the same place in 1824.
They were md by the Rev. Chas.
Hill of Ramdan.
Fact.1 It was said
Adam Linn was a Descendant of Robert Burns, the Scottish poet. Robert Burns
lived 1759-1796, so, however there is a
kinship this Adam is not Robert Burn's descendant, but rather an antecedent.
(Sic)
Conjecture.252 Adam
Linn may have invented the KY Long Rifle.
Will: 1771, VA Bedford County. In
the Name of God, Amen,
I, Adam Linn, Junior, of Bedford
County in Virginia, being very sick in body, but of perfit mind and mimory
thanks to God and calling to Mind the mortality of my body and knowing that it
is appointed for all men once to die do make and ordain this my
LAST WILL AND TESTAMENT
..to my well-beloved wife, ISOBEL
Linn
her horse, saddle and bridle and all my
household furniture, and all my grain in and out of the ground at present with
two cows such as she shall chuse..
25 pounds currency Pennsylvania..
..to son, Joseph Linn, all my
land on the side of the river where he now lives
my gray horse and the hind wheels
of my wagon;
to son, ADAM LINN, all my lands
on that side of the above mentioned line where my house and improvements are;
all the remainder of my
wagon...with the plow...and all my other plantation utensils;
to daughter, Martha
Cragge..twenty shillings current money;
to daughter, Agnes..twenty
shillings current money;
to daughter, Martha Carson,
twenty shillings current money;
to sons, Joseph and Adam also-
all my clothes, and all that remains of my money with all my outstanding debts
here in pensalvania or elsewhere with the remainder of all my cattle and hogs
to be equally divided between my said sons..
October 1, 1771
Witnesses:
Robert Ewing, Mykejah Stoan, Appihie
Stoen.
Adam married Mrs. Isobel
Dickerson [959]253 [MRIN: 801] circa
1745 in VA Bedford County.
Children from this marriage were:
114 i. Judge Adam Linn RWS
[311]
ii. Joseph Lynn [960] was born about
1752.
iii. Martha Lynn [961] was born about
1754.
iv. Agnes Lynn [963] was born about
1756.
v. Mary Lynn [965] was born about
1758.
vi. Nancy Linn [1043] was born about
1775.
vii. Witnesses of Adam's will [7099]
was born before 1800.
229. Mrs. Isobel Dickerson [959],253 daughter of Dickerson
[6089] and Unknown, was born about 1725 in Ireland.
Isobel married Adam Lynn Gun
mfg [958] [MRIN: 801] circa 1745 in VA
Bedford County.
230. Rev. Robert Ewing Colonial Presby. Minister [315],254 son of Captain
Findley Ewing fled Northern Ireland [317] and Jane Porter [747], was born in 1718 in Coleraine,
Londonderry, Ireland, died in Jun 1787 in Peaks Of Otter, Bedford, VA at age
69, and was buried in VA Bedford County.
General Notes: Robert Ewing
(1718-87) in 1776 was justice of the Bedford County Virginia Court, where he
died. He was born in Ireland.
Alt. Birth: Between 1740 and
1760.
Origin: : The Ewings And Lindseys
Were Together In Scotland : Note- A James Lindsey Ewing B. Edinburg Scotland
3/14/1814 D Mobile AL 2/1/1866.
Origin: : Also A James Lindsey
And Martha Ann Ewing Had A Son John Ewing B Mobile 1857 D Havava Cuba 1923.
Military: 1774, Rev. War, Capt.
Thos. Buford's Volunteers.
Namesake.
Occupation: : Left 7200 Acres In
Will.
Occupation: : Clerk, Bedford
Court.
Immigration: Abt 1736, From Coleraine,
Londonberry, Ireland.
Religion: : Elder-Presby Ch.
Military. RWS General
Robert married Mary Baker Va
[316] [MRIN: 514] in 1747 in Bedford
VA Peaks Of Otter.39
Children from this marriage were:
i. John Ewing [973] was born on 24
Dec 1747 in Greenbriar W. VA and died in 1803 in Logan Co. KY at age 56.
ii. Jane Ewing [373] was born in 1758
in VA Bedford County.
iii. Baker Ewing [363] was born in 1750
in VA Bedford County and died in 1803 in KY Christian County255 at
age 53.
iv. Martha Ewing [752] was born about
1752 in Peak's Of Otter, Bedford, VA.
115 v. Sidney Ann Ewing Va
[312]
vi. Robert Ewing [368] was born in
1760 in VA Bedford County and died on 14 Jul 1832 in Logan KY at age 72.
vii. Young Ewing [364] was born in 1762
in VA Bedford County and died on 5 Oct 1833 in KY Christian County255
at age 71.
viii. Urban Ewing [365] was born in 1764
in VA Bedford County and died in 1828 in Cooper Co. MO at age 64.
ix. Reuben Ewing [366] was born in
1766 in VA Bedford County and died on 2 Sep 1823 in Logan Co KY at age 57.
x. Polly Ewing [370] was born in 1768
in VA Bedford County and died in 1786 in VA Bedford County255 at age
18.
xi. Chatham Ewing [371] was born in
1770 in Peak's Of Otter, Bedford, VA and died in 1839 in Lexington, Lafayette,
MO at age 69.
xii. Rev. Finis Ewing Presbyterian
[357] was born on 10 Jul 1773 in VA Bedford County and died on 4 Jul 1841 in
Lexington, Lafayette, MO at age 67.
231. Mary Baker Va [316], daughter of Rev. Caleb Baker
Ireland [318] and Martha Brooks [975], was born in 1730 in PA Chester
and died on 25 Jun 1790 in VA Bedford County at age 60.
Namesake.
Mary married Rev. Robert Ewing
Colonial Presby. Minister [315]254 [MRIN: 514] in
1747 in Bedford VA Peaks Of Otter.39
Mary next married Ephraim
Brevard Davidson [386] [MRIN: 518], son of General
William Lee Davidson RWS [360] and Mary Brevard [439], on 5 Nov 1811 in Logan, Shelby,
KY.
232. Samuel Wormington [884], son of William Wormington
[895] and Mary Lockhart [896], was born on 30 Jan 1745 in VA
Norfolk County and died on 3 Feb 1788 in NC Hyde County at age 43.
Samuel married Mary Denbigh
[885] [MRIN: 240] on 11 Apr 1769 in
Princess Anne Co VA.
Children from this marriage were:
i. Dorcas Wormington [888] was born
about 1760.
ii. Nanny Wormington [890] was born
about 1762.
iii. Rebecca Wormington [891] was born
about 1764.
116 iv. Edward Wormington
[866]
v. Mary Wormington [892] was born
about 1772.
vi. Britannia Wormington [893] was
born about 1774 in VA and died in 1796 in NC about age 22.
vii. Elizabeth Wormington [894] was
born about 1780 in Craven Co? NC and died in VA.
233. Mary Denbigh [885], daughter of Edward Denbigh
[886] and Ann Sikes [887], was born on 10 May 1753 in VA
Princess Anne County256 and died in Mar 1821 in NC Crane County at
age 67.
Mary married Samuel Wormington
[884] [MRIN: 240] on 11 Apr 1769 in
Princess Anne Co VA.
234. John Hassell [870], son of Our Abraham Hassell
[17576] and Priscilla Alexander
[17577], was born in 1735164
and died before 1786 in NC Tyrrell County census.
John married Ann Jennett
[871] [MRIN: 236] circa 1763 in NC
Tyrrell County probably.
The child from this marriage was:
117 i. Nancy Ann Hassell
[867]
235. Ann Jennett [871], daughter of John Jennett Jr
[17045] and Ann Patterson [21028], was born in 1742,164
was christened in 1786 in NC Tyrrell County census, and died in 1829164
at age 87.
Census: 1786, NC Tyrrell County.
0-5-2-2-1
"Lillte Alligator"
Ann married John Hassell
[870] [MRIN: 236] circa 1763 in NC
Tyrrell County probably.
236. Thomas Turpin [3688],167 son of Henry
Turpin [4378] and Margaret Some Kin
[17422], was born circa 1720 in VA Henry
Or Henrico257 and died in 1796 in KY Mercer County167 at
age 76.
Will: 1796, KY Mercer County.258
TURPIN, THOMAS Will: November 20, 1796: Book 2 page 25
Wife: Averillor; Heirs: 4 sons:
Edmund, Josiah, Jeremiah, Thomas Jr. Exors: son Jeremiah and wife Averilla.
Wit: Thomas Gill, John Calvert, Michael Mires, Wm. Mires.
Inventory: October 23, 1797: Book
2 page 51
Apprs: Wm. Hays, Wm. Rice, Wm.
Quinn.
Extract -Thomas Turpin's Will,
Book 2, 27 Nov 1796, p. 25, Mercer County
..."being very aged..."
Son Edmond: 400 A. of land where
he now lives-1st choice
Son Jeremiah: 200 A. in Robertson
Co., TN - 2nd choice
Son Josiah: 200 A. of land where
he now lives - 3rd choice
Son Thomas: 200 A. in Robertson
Co., TN
Beloved wife: 125 A. of land
where I now live and plantation, etc.
Executors: Son Jeremiah and wife
Averilor
[Kentucky Pioneer and Court
Records, comp. by Mrs. Harry McAdams (Lexington: Keystone Printery) 1929, p. 74
extract adds the following]: written: Nov. 20, 1796, witnesses: THOMAS GILL,
John Calverd, MICHAEL MIRES, and Wm. Mires; probated March 1797.
Note: There were a total of 1000
acres of land in Robertson Co., TN that were willed in 1796 to 4 sons of Thomas
Turpin Sr. It appears likely that Thomas Turpin Jr. eventually acquired all
1000 acres of land. On 6 Jan 1836, the widow and four children of Thomas Turpin
Jr. (each owning 200 acres of "a tract originally granted to Andrew
Armstrong for 1000 acres and deed by him to Thomas Turpin and now known as
Robertson Springs - on side of the branches of the Sulpher Fork one fourth of a
mile below the Sulpher Spring" in Robertson Co., TN. (see “Turpin Times,”
March 1988, p. 17) Source # 41
Death date of Thomas Turpin Sen.
from the family register of Benjamin and Averilla (Turpin) Egerton Sen.,
handwritten by neighbor Edmund Perkins, and referenced in the Rev. War Pension
file of Benjamin Egerton (see his name). Source # 36
Thomas married Averilla Lewis
Va [3689]167 [MRIN: 1457].
Children from this marriage were:
118 i. Edmund Turpin Nc
[3686]
ii. Josiah Turpin [4374] was born Est
1776.
iii. Jeremiah Turpin KY Milita [4375]
was born circa 1750125 and died after 1794 in KY Maybe.
iv. Thomas Turpin Jr [4376] was born
before 1796.
237. Averilla Lewis Va [3689],167 daughter of Littleberry
Lewis [4384] and Sarah Smith [4385], was born circa 1743 in VA and
died in 1806 in KY Mercer Or Garrard County257 at age 63.
Averilla married Thomas Turpin
[3688]167 [MRIN: 1457].
238. Hugh McBridge or McBride unproven f/o Charity
[7722] was born from 1760 to 1770 and
died after 1830 in TN Sumner maybe.
Census: 1830, TN Sumner County.
000000001 0021001
Household #1696
Hugh married someone.
His child was:
119 i. Charity McBride Nc
Maybe [3687]
240. Our William Lewis RWS [6919],259 son of Our
William Lewis [6921] and Janet Banks [6922], was born in 1740 in NC Hertford
or New Hanover County259 and
died in 1811 in SC Horry District259 at age 71.
William married Mourning Van
Pelt [6920]259 [MRIN: 2956] circa
1763.
Children from this marriage were:
i. LT Walden Spotsford? Lewis [6918]
was born in 1775 in VA and died in 1850 in MS Jasper at age 75. Another name
for Walden was Spotsford?.
120 ii. Our Tavener Lewis
[9454]
iii. Zilpha Lewis [9456] died circa
1832.
iv. Isaac Lewis [9457] was born from
1770 to 1780260 and was christened in 1830 in MS Copiah census.
v. Joel Lewis [10247] died in 1853.
vi. John B Lewis [18214] was born
circa 1780 and was christened in 1830 in MS Copiah census.
241. Mourning Van Pelt [6920],259 daughter of Jan
Van Pelt Belgian [9461] and Mary Ann Perrine
[9462], was born circa 1740 in NC
Bertie County259 and died on 9 May 1817 in SC Horry District259
at age 77.
Mourning married Our William
Lewis RWS [6919]259 [MRIN: 2956] circa
1763.
242. Tavener Walden Unproven Link [21709], son of Walden [22128] and Tavner Maybe [22129], was born in 1739 in VA
Richmond.
Tavener married someone.
His child was:
121 i. Branham or Walden
maybe [18198]
Tavener married Tavenore Descendant
[21932] [MRIN: 9531], daughter of Tavenore
[21931] and Unknown.
The child from this marriage was:
i. Walden [21933]
248. Benjamin H Stinnett [8639], son of Benjamin H Stennett/
Stinnett [8641] and Our Elizabeth Sanders
[9481], was born in 1736 in MD Charles
County.261
Resided: 1791-1801, VA Patrick
County.262 Old Still Branch near Buffalo Creek 363 Samuel ALLENS;
Daniel HOWEL; Thomas HUFF; John KINDRACK; John LACKY; Henry MCGUFFY; Jno P
STEGALL; Benjamin STENNETT
Benjamin married Our Usle
Isham [8640] [MRIN: 3749] in 1763.
Children from this marriage were:
124 i. William S Stennett
War of 1812 [4010]
ii. James Stinnett Maybe Some Kin
[17420] was christened in 1782 in VA Henry County tax list. Ancestral File
Number: 1782- 1-0-1-6.
iii. Isham Stinnett [22164] was born
circa 1760 of Greene County TN and was buried in Charles R Johnson's line.
249. Our Usle Isham [8640], daughter of Our James Isham
[8644] and Unknown, was born in 1738 in VA.261
Usle married Benjamin H
Stinnett [8639] [MRIN: 3749] in 1763.
250. Hightower
[18234], son of Hightower [18235] and Unknown, was born circa 1740.
Hightower married someone.
His child was:
125 i. Letha Hightower
"Lethe" [4011]
256. Nc Surry County Giddens [15931],2 son of Nc Rowan
Giddens [15927] and Unknown, was born in 0092 and was
christened in 1771 from Rowan.
Nc married someone.
His children were:
128 i. Ir NC Richard 1713
Giddens [7479]
ii. Ir Roger 1725 Giddens [12527] was
born before 1725 in County Cork, Ireland263 and died in 1819 in TN
Knox County, Corryton area.263
iii. NC Surry John 1740 Gittins Giddens s/o
Richard [8649] was born circa 1740 in Age Approximated By Formula,115
was christened in 1790 in NC Surry County census, and died in 1801 in NC Will
at age 61. Another name for John was Gittens.
iv. William G Paul Not Proven F/O Our
Martha J [13681] was born in 1774 in VA264 and died in 1881 in
GA Pickens at age 107.
v. Sgt Aaron 1779 Giddens War Of 1812
[12526] was born circa 1779115 and was christened in 3 Regt
(Johnsons) E. TN Militia.
vi. Nc Tn William 1791 Giddens s/o James
[13338] was born in 1791 in NC Wilkes County117 and died in 1868 in
MO Christian County118 at age 77.
vii. Sarah Giddens [12469] was born in
1808 in NC Wilkes County.117
viii. Joshua Giddens [12468] was born in
1816 in NC Wilkes County and died in 1873 in TX116 at age 57.
ix. Nathan Paul [13139] was born in
1822 in NC36 and died after 1850 in NC Surry County.
x. James Paul [13143] was christened
in 1840 in NC Surry County.
xi. Timothy Paul [13144] was
christened in 1840 in NC Surry County.
Nc next married someone.
His children were:
i. NC Joseph 1745 s/o Richard Giddens
Constable [12531] was born circa 1745 and was christened in 1789 in NC
Surry County.
ii. NC Surry John 1740 Gittins Giddens s/o
Richard [8649] was born circa 1740 in Age Approximated By Formula,115
was christened in 1790 in NC Surry County census, and died in 1801 in NC Will
at age 61. Another name for John was Gittens.
iii. Ir Roger 1725 Giddens [12527] was
born before 1725 in County Cork, Ireland263 and died in 1819 in TN
Knox County, Corryton area.263
iv. Roger 1688 Giddens Unproven [12904]
was born circa 1688 and died circa 1784 in NC Surry County at age 96.
v. Richard 1790 Giddens [17398] was
christened in 1790 in NC Surry County. Ancestral File Number: 1790 160-2.
Nc next married someone.
Nc next married someone.
His child was:
i. Nc Wilkes Giddens [13188] was born
in 104 in Formed From Surry and was christened in 1778 from Surry County.
272. Archibald Paul Northern Ireland [3653], son of John Paul [3934] and Margaret Jane Lynn?
[3941], was born in 1727 in Ireland,
Kinbally, County Antrim Maybe, died in 1802 in SC Fairfield, Camden at age 75,
and was buried in Old Lebanon Presb Church Cem Near Winnsboro.
(Duplicate. See Person 142)
273. Agnes
[3925]186 was born in 1729 in Ireland and
died after 1820 in SC Fairfield District.
(Duplicate. See Person 143)
284. John Paul [3934], son of John Paul [3935] and Unknown, was born circa 1706 and died
after 1801 in SC.
Estate Sale: 1801, SC. Estate
Sale of John Paul, Deceased 1801
Value
Surname First Name Bought Lbs
Paul Widow Spinning wheel 4
Paul do Check reel 2
Paul do Wheel of
swifts 2
Kincaid Alex a qty of wool 3
Paul Widow a qty of tobacco 2
Calhoun Alex 1 bb
of powder 4
Montgomery Hugh do 4
Rabb William do 4
Paul Archy do 4
Paul Archy do 4
Boyd Da.v do 4
Montgomery Hugh 1 cag and
powder 8
Smith Robert carpenter's tools 3
Paul Archy do 7
Halthorn Adam 1
handsaw 14
Paul William sm box of
VA Rent roll: 1704, VA.252
There are no Pauls listed in the "Rent Rolls", so all the Pauls must
have settled in SC not VA by that time.
John married Margaret Jane
Lynn? [3941] [MRIN: 1561].
Children from this marriage were:
142 i. Archibald Paul
Northern Ireland [3653]
ii. Jane Paul Unproven [3982]
iii. Rev. Dr. John Paul Irish cousin?
[4001] was born in 1777 in Ireland, Antrim, died on 16 Mar 1848 in Ireland,
Antrim at age 71, and was buried in Loughmore Presbyterian Graveyard.
285. Margaret Jane Lynn? [3941] was born circa 1731 and died
after 1801 in SC.
Margaret married John Paul
[3934] [MRIN: 1561].
Margaret next married Archibald
Paul Northern Ireland [3653] [MRIN: 2103].
288. James Mayes [5691]265 was born in 1670 in Northern
Ireland, Ulster County, Donnegal.188
James married someone.
His child was:
144 i. Andrew Mayes
Northern Ireland [3631]
290. Robert B McFarland [5692],266 son of McFarland
Immigrants [10187] and Unknown, was born in 1680 in Northern
Ireland188 and died in 1751 in PA Lancaster County, Donnegal
Township188 at age 71.
Immigrated: 1722, Pennsylvania.
James and Robert McFarland arrived.
Robert married Jennett
[5693]188 [MRIN: 2442].
The child from this marriage was:
145 i. Rebecca McFarland
Northern Ireland [3632]
291. Jennett
[5693] .188
Jennett married Robert B
McFarland [5692]266 [MRIN: 2442].
292. Andrew McIlvaine [3642],267 son of John
McIlvaine [5676] and Sarah Clark [5677], was born on 14 May 1694 in
Ballykeel, Antrim, Northern Ireland267 and died in 1754 in PA or SC
at age 60.
Andrew married Elizabeth Swan
[5675] [MRIN: 1433] on 12 Feb 1712.267
The child from this marriage was:
146 i. James McElevean or
McElwain of PA [3641]
293. Elizabeth Swan [5675] was born circa 1694 in
Ballykeel, Antrim, Northern Ireland maybe.267
Elizabeth married Andrew
McIlvaine [3642]267 [MRIN: 1433] on 12
Feb 1712.267
294. Anthony 1700 Storey [10192],189 son of Anthony
1675 Storey [10193] and Unknown, was born circa 1700 in England
Haversham or PA Bucks and died in PA Bucks County.
Anthony married someone.
His children were:
147 i. Jane Storey
[10191]
ii. George G Storey [16849] was born
in 1725 in PA Chester and died in Jan 1805 in SC Union, Fairforest268
at age 80.
Anthony married Nancy Cantor
[16850]268 [MRIN: 7089],
daughter of Jacob Cantor [16851] and Unknown.
The child from this marriage was:
i. George G Storey [16849] was born
in 1725 in PA Chester and died in Jan 1805 in SC Union, Fairforest268
at age 80.
296. John Otterson [22331] was born circa 1700 and died
after 1736 in SC Colleton District census.
General Notes: location and last
name only- AND land in SC Colleton transferred to James
no other proof
Land transaction: 1736, SC
Colleton District.
Series: S372001
Volume: 00Q0
Page: 00019
Item: 002
Date: 1736-1737
Description: KELLY, JAMES AND
WIFE TO JOHN OTTERSON, LEASE AND RELEASE FOR 200 ACRES OF LAND IN COLLETON
COUNTY.
Names indexed: KELLY, JAMES;
OTTERSON, JOHN
Locations: COLLETON COUNTY
Document type: LEASE AND RELEASE
Topics:
Land: 1742, SC Colleton District.
Series: S111001
Volume: 0005
Page: 00416
Item: 002
Date: 2/11/1742
Description: CROLL, WILLIAM,
MEMORIAL FOR 200 ACRES ON EDISTO RIVER, COLLETON COUNTY, SUMMARIZING A CHAIN OF
TITLE TO A GRANT TO BRYAN KELLY.
Names indexed: CROLL, WILLIAM;
KELLY, BRYAN; MACTEAR, JOHN; OTTERSON, JOHN
Locations: COLLETON COUNTY;
EDISTO RIVER; ROUND O SWAMP
Document type: MEMORIAL
Topics:
John never married and had no
children.
His child was:
148 i. James Otterson
[3634]
300. John Gordon [3639], son of Gordon [17539] and Unknown, was born in 1709 in Ireland,
County Down, Newry and died in 1756 in SC Newberry at age 47.
Immigrated: 1738, VA. Came with
his brother, James Gordon, to VA from Ireland, 1738...if this is the same
Gordon.
Presbyterians
Biographical note.269
One of the pioneers of Presbyterianism in VA.
John married Ruth [3640] [MRIN: 1431].
The child from this marriage was:
150 i. Thomas Gordon Va
[3637]
301. Ruth
[3640] was born circa 1711.
Ruth married John Gordon
[3639] [MRIN: 1431].
304. CAPT Joseph Bouchillon RWS [3603], son of Unknown and Unknown, was born in 1729 in France and
died in 1799 in SC Abbeville District at age 70.
Military: : Rev War.270
The National Society of the Daughters of the American Revolution Volume 110
page 147
Mrs. Alice Bouchillon Baird
Johnson.
DAR ID Number: 109476
Born in Leesville, S. C.
Wife of Norman Huff Johnson.
Descendant of William Peebles,
Capt. Joseph Bouchillon and Sergt. Andre Guillebeau, as follows:
1. John Grier Baird (b. 1859) m.
1884 Laura Joe Johnson (b. 1864).
2. Henry McKinney Johnson
(1832-85) m. 1857 Mary Eliza Bouchillon (b. 1838).
3. Joseph Leonard Bouchillon
(1801-79) m. 1827 Martha Finette Gardner (1812-95); Henry Johnson (1804-74) m.
1824 Lavinia Tilson (1808-80).
4. James Bouchillon (1777-1806)
m. 1798 Susannah Guillebeau (1776-1814); Stephen Tilson (1775-1858) m. 1807
Elizabeth Peebles (1785-1859).
5. William Peebles m. Elizabeth
Edmondson; Jean Bouchillon (1751-78) m. 1773 Mary Anne LeRoy (1756-1839); Andre
Guillebeau m. 1766 Jane (Sequin)) Roquemore (1745-1820).
6. Joseph Bouchillon m. 1st 1750
Marie Maquinett (1736-65).
William Peebles served as a
private in the 2nd North Carolina regiment, Continental Line, 1776-78; engaged
in battles of Brandywine, Germantown and Monmouth. He was born, 1740, in
Scotland; died in Carter County, Tenn.
Joseph Bouchillon (1729-99)
served, 1779, as captain in the South Carolina militia. He was born in France;
died in Abbeville County, S. C.
Andre Guillebeau (1739-1814)
served as private and sergeant in the South Carolina militia under Capt. Joseph
Bouchillon. He was born in France; died in Abbeville, S. C.
Immigrated: 1764, France to SC.
aboard the vessel "Friendship"
Census: 1790, SC Old 96Th,
Abbeville. 1-0-1-0-1 next door to Mary Ann "Bushilon"
Land: 1769, SC. Chain of title
BUCKEHOLTERS MILL CREEK; SAVANNAH
RIVER
Series: S111001
Volume: 0008
Page: 00530
Item: 003
Date: 11/17/1769
Description: RHOD, STEPHEN,
MEMORIAL FOR 150 ACRES ON LONG CANE CREEK, HILLSBOROUGH TOWNSHIP, SUMMARIZING A
CHAIN OF TITLE TO A GRANT TO JOSEPH BOUCHILLON OF AUG. 13, 1756.
Names indexed: BERAUD, JEAN;
BOUCHILLON, JOSEPH;
RHOD, STEPHEN;
ROQUEMORE,
MRS.; ROQUEMORE,
PIERRE JACQUE
Locations: GRANVILLE COUNTY;
HILLSBORO TOWNSHIP; LONG CANE CREEK
Document type: MEMORIAL
Topics:
Joseph married Maria Majinett
a French Huguenot [3604] [MRIN: 1410] in 1750.
The child from this marriage was:
152 i. John or Jean
Bouchillon [3601]
305. Maria Majinett a French Huguenot [3604] was born in 1730 in France and
died in 1765 at age 35.
Fact.271 The Huguenots
were French Protestants who were members of the Reformed Church established in
France by John Calvin in about 1555, and who, due to religious persecution,
were forced to flee France to other countries in the sixteenth and seventeenth
centuries.
The Protestant Reformation began
by Martin Luther in Germany about 1517, spread rapidly in France, especially
among those having grievances against the established order of government. As
Protestantism grew and developed in France it generally abandoned the Lutheran
form, and took the shape of Calvinism. The new "Reformed religion"
practiced by many members of the French nobility and social middle-class, based
on a belief in salvation through individual faith without the need for the
intercession of a church hierarchy and on the belief in an individual's right
to interpret scriptures for themselves, placed these French Protestants in
direct theological conflict with both the Catholic Church and the King of
France in the theocratic system which prevailed at that time. Followers of this
new Protestantism were soon accused of heresy against the Catholic government
and the established religion of France, and a General Edict urging
extermination of these heretics (Huguenots) was issued in 1536. Nevertheless,
Protestantism continued to spred and grow, and about 1555 the first Huguenot
church was founded in a home in Paris based upon the teachings of John Calvin.
The number and influence of the French Reformers (Huguenots) continued to
increase after this event, leading to an escalation in hostility and conflict
between the Catholic Church/State and the Huguenots. Finally, in 1562, some
1200 Huguenots were slain at Vassey, France, thus igniting the French Wars of
Religion which would devastate France for the next thirty-five years.
The Edict of Nantes, signed by
Henry IV in April, 1598, ended the Wars of Religion, and allowed the Huguenots
some religious freedoms, including free exercise of their religion in 20
specified towns of France.
The Revocation of the Edict of
Nantes by Louis XIV in October, 1685, began anew persecution of the Huguenots,
and hundreds of thousands of Huguenots fled France to other countries. The
Promulgation of the Edict of Toleration in November, 1787, partially restored
the civil and religious rights of Huguenots in France.
Since the Huguenots of France
were in large part artisans, craftsmen, and professional people, they were
usually well-received in the countries to which they fled for refuge when
religious discrimination or overt persecution caused them to leave France. Most
of them went initially to Germany, the Netherlands, and England, although some
found their way eventually to places as remote as South Africa. Considerable
numbers of Huguenots migrated to British North America, especially to the
Carolinas, Virginia, Pennsylvania, and New York. Their character and talents in
the arts, sciences, and industry were such that they are generally felt to have
been a substantial loss to the French society from which they had been forced
to withdraw, and a corresponding gain to the communities and nations into which
they settled. Source: National Huguenot Society:
http://huguenot.netnation.com/general/huguenot.htm
Maria married CAPT Joseph
Bouchillon RWS [3603] [MRIN: 1410] in 1750.
306. Peter Michael LeRoy IMMIGRANT [8070],272 son of SC Old
96th Abbeville LeRoy [17337] and Unknown, was born circa 1725 in France
and died after 1768 in SC Hillsborough District.
Immigrated: 1768, SC. Protestant
colonist from France to Hillsborough District SC
Peter married Mary LaBraun
[8071]272 [MRIN: 3479].
The child from this marriage was:
153 i. Mary Ann LeRoy a
French Huguenot [3602]
307. Mary LaBraun [8071]272 was born circa 1725 in France.
Mary married Peter Michael
LeRoy IMMIGRANT [8070]272 [MRIN: 3479].
310. Vincent Gaspar Pierre Du Roquemore [3607],273 son of Pierre
Roquemore [8086] and Jeanne Fourneyrol
[8087], was born on 11 Mar 1694 in
Ville D'Eymet(Dordogne, France) maybe and died on 2 Oct 1725 at age 31.
Vincent married Suzanne LaFon
[8074]274 [MRIN: 1412] in
1739 in France, Dordogne.274
Children from this marriage were:
155 i. Mary Jane Roquemore
a French Huguenot [3606]
ii. Ann Lespine Roquemore [8075] was
born circa 1744 in France and died in 1776 in France275 at age 32.
iii. James Jacques Pierre Roquemore
[8076] was born circa 1745 in Ville D'Eymet(Dordogne, France) and died circa
1803 in GA Warren County276 at age 58.
311. Suzanne LaFon [8074]274 was born circa 1694 in Ville
D'Eymet(Dordogne, France)maybe.
Suzanne married Vincent Gaspar
Pierre Du Roquemore [3607]273 [MRIN: 1412] in
1739 in France, Dordogne.274
312. Samuel Joseph Doolittle III Ct Yankee [3612], son of Samuel Doolittle II
Giddens' line [3614] and Jane Wheeler Ma
[3615], was born in 1715 in CT
Wallingford, New Haven, was christened in 1779 in SC resident, and died in 1792
in SC Edgefield District at age 77.
Samuel married Experience
Bartlett Ct Yankee [3613] [MRIN: 1415] in 1735 in
Brookfield MA.
The child from this marriage was:
156 i. Samuel Doolittle IV
Sc [3610]
313. Experience Bartlett Ct Yankee [3613] was born from 1710 to 1711 in CT
Wallingford, New Haven Maybe and died in SC Maybe.
Experience married Samuel
Joseph Doolittle III Ct Yankee [3612] [MRIN: 1415] in 1735 in
Brookfield MA.
316. Luke Williams [4503], son of Roger Williams Old
Rappahannock [4505] and Ann Williams [4506], was born in 1739 in VA Richmond
County.191
Biographical note: 1786, VA
Pittsylvania.277 THE HISTORY of PITTSYLVANIA COUNTY VIRGINIA
CHAPTER IX EARLY CHURCHES IN
PITTSYLVANIA THE CHURCH OF ENGLAND
page 130
[p.130] church minutes record:
"August 26, 1786, the church met and drew up plans to build a new meeting
house at or near the place where the old meeting house formerly stood, on a
piece of land given by Luke Williams for that purpose." This was a brick
building and used for 96 years.
Land: 1805, SC Abbeville. Series:
S213192
Volume: 0040
Page: 00424
Item: 004
Date: 8/13/1805
Description: WILLIAMS, LUKE, PLAT
FOR 116 ACRES ON TURKEY CREEK, ABBEVILLE DISTRICT, SURVEYED BY WILLIAM WARE.
Names indexed: GRAHAM, JAMES;
MOORE, THOMAS; WARE, WILLIAM; WILLIAMS, LUKE; WILSON, THOMAS
Locations: ABBEVILLE DISTRICT;
SALUDA RIVER; TURKEY CREEK
Document type: PLAT
Topics:
Luke married Katherine Barber
[4527] [MRIN: 1819] on 8 May 1761 in VA
Richmond County.278
The child from this marriage was:
158 i. Doctor Roger
Mackerness Williams [4476]
317. Katherine Barber [4527] was born circa 1770.
Katherine married Luke
Williams [4503] [MRIN: 1819] on 8 May 1761 in VA
Richmond County.278
318. James Quarles [4478],46 son of Roger
Quarles [4480] and Jane Tunstall [4481], was born circa 1685 in VA King
William County46 and died circa 1751 in VA Caroline County46
at age 66.
James married Catherine Read
[4479]46 [MRIN: 1805].
The child from this marriage was:
159 i. Catherine Read
Quarles Mary [4477]
319. Catherine Read [4479],46 daughter of William
Read [4482] and Elizabeth Hubbard
[4483].
Catherine married James
Quarles [4478]46 [MRIN: 1805].
320. Walter Gilliam [18653],2 son of Hinchea
1667-1737 I Gilliam S/O Jn And Margaret [19539] and Fortune Flood [18651], was born in 1700 in VA
Albemarle194 and died circa 1758 in VA Southampton County279
at age 58.
Walter married Sarah Bolling
desc of Pocahontas [20772]280 [MRIN: 8151] in
1723.
Children from this marriage were:
i. Grandchildren Gilliam Walter's
[3748]
160 ii. Marcus 1747 Gilliam
[19559]
Walter next married Sarah
Bolling desc of Pocahontas [20772]280 [MRIN: 8779] circa
1723.
The child from this marriage was:
160 i. Marcus 1747 Gilliam
[19559]
321. Sarah Bolling desc of Pocahontas [20772],280 daughter of Major
John Fairfax Bolling desc of Pocahontas [20768] and Mary Kennon [20770], was born circa 1700 in VA
Henrico County and died after 1794.
Kinship: 2003, TX Greenville.217
great-granddaughter of Pocahontas.
Although not absolutely proven,
this is a strong likelihood given the scarcity of Bollings in very early VA.
Does she belong to these parents?
DLG
Sarah married Walter Gilliam
[18653]2 [MRIN: 8779] circa
1723.
Sarah next married Walter
Gilliam [18653]2 [MRIN: 8151] in
1723.
322. William Steward [3974],281 son of Charles
Stuart [3976] and Anne Pace [3977], was born circa 1720194
and was christened Resided in VA Surry County.75
William married Mary Shands
[3975]193 [MRIN: 1581] after
1740.75
Children from this marriage were:
161 i. Frances Steward
Fanny [18972]
ii. James Steward [19842] was born on
3 Nov 1743.75
iii. Anne Steward [19843] was born
circa 1745.194
iv. John Steward [19844] was born on
23 Feb 1750.75
v. Thomas Steward [19845] was born on
18 Jun 1752.75
vi. Charles Steward [19846] was born
on 18 Jan 1757.75
vii. Elizabeth Steward [19847] was born
circa 1760.75
viii. Charlotte Steward [19848] was born
on 29 Sep 1763.75
323. Mary Shands [3975],193 daughter of William
Shands [5534] and Nazareth Robbards [5535], was born circa 1720.194
Mary married William Steward
[3974]281 [MRIN: 1581] after
1740.75
328. Johnnathan Davis [9300],282 son of John
Davis [9302] and Elizabeth [9303], was born circa 1733 in VA
Spotsylvania County probably282 and died in 1817 in GA Wilkes County282
at age 84. Another name for Johnnathan was John.
Land sale: 1771, VA Augusta
County. CHRONICLES OF THE Scotch-Irish Settlement IN VIRGINIA EXTRACTED FROM
THE ORIGINAL COURT RECORDS OF AUGUSTA COUNTY 1745-1800
DEED BOOK NO. XVII.
ADDITIONAL MEMBERS OF THE
EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE.
page 514 Page 429.--28th March,
1771. Johnathan Davis and Lucy ( ), of Orange County, to Philip and Joshua
Bush, of county aforesaid, £50, 170 acres on northwest side of the Blue Ridge
on the branches of Hawk's Bill. Teste: James Dever, John Patterson, Robert
Rodgers. [p.514]
Land: 1763, VA Augusta County.
CHRONICLES OF THE Scotch-Irish Settlement IN VIRGINIA EXTRACTED FROM THE
ORIGINAL COURT RECORDS OF AUGUSTA COUNTY 1745-1800
DEED BOOK NO. 11.
ADDITIONAL MEMBERS OF THE
EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE.
page 406 Page 472.--16th
November, 1763. William ( ) Smith and Mary ( ) to Jonathan Davis, of Culpeper
County, £40, 170 acres on branches of the Hawksbill on the north side of top of
Blue Ridge. Livery of seisin.
Johnnathan married Lucy Gibbs
[9301] [MRIN: 3999] in 1756 in VA Orange
County maybe.282
Children from this marriage were:
i. Mary Davis [9281] was born circa
1752 in VA/ W VA Pendleton County.283
ii. James Davis s/o Johnnathan [9290]
was born in 1761 in VA Orange County and died in San Jacinto, TX.
iii. John Davis [9298] was born in 1763282
and died in 1831282 at age 68.
iv. Leonard Davis [9282] was born
circa 1753 in If 23 When Married and died in 1817 in KY Clark County284
at age 64.
v. Thomas Davis [9292] was born circa
1760 in If 23 When Married.
vi. William Davis [9296] was born
circa 1766 in If 23 When Married.
164 vii. TN Rhea County Davis
[9337]
329. Lucy Gibbs [9301] was born circa 1730.282
Another name for Lucy was Milly.
Lucy married Johnnathan Davis
[9300]282 [MRIN: 3999] in
1756 in VA Orange County maybe.282
340. Richard Gladney [3928], son of William Gladney
[3930] and Unknown, was born in 1710 in Ireland,
Kinbally, County Antrim,196 died in 1754 in Ireland, Kinbally,
County Antrim196 at age 44, and was buried in Presbyterian
Churchyard.
Richard married Jane Jennett
Wilson [3929]196 [MRIN: 1557] in
Jun 1735 in Ireland.196
Children from this marriage were:
170 i. Pvt. Samuel Gladney
Rws [3926]
ii. Mary Gladney [22531] was born in
1739 in Kinbally, Skeery, died in SC, and was buried in Gladney Family Cemetery
maybe.
iii. Richard Gladney III [22532] was
born in 1741, died in 1793 in SC Winnsboro at age 52, and was buried in Gladney
Family Cemetery.
iv. Thomas Gladney [22533] was born in
1749 in Ireland, died in 1820 at age 71, and was buried in Gladney Family
Cemetery.
v. Mary Sarah Gladney [22538] was
born in 1745 and died in Gladney Family Cemetery.
vi. Jennett Gladney [22539] was born
in 1786, died in 1786, and was buried in Gladney Family Cemetery.
341. Jane Jennett Wilson [3929]196 was born in 1711 in Ireland,
Antrim,196 died in Oct 1781 in SC Fairfield District at age 70, and
was buried in Gladney Family Cemetery.196
Tombstone: : SC Fairfield County,
Camden. Gladney, Jane "Jennet" "Jeannette" Wilson, b. 1711
Ireland, M. 1735/6 Ireland?, d. 19 Oct. 1781 Fairfield Co, South Carolina, Bur:
On original grant of Gladney land-Gladney Cem. South Carolina, age 70yrs,
"Widow Gladney, " Mother of "County Antrim "Gladneys. w/o
Richard Gladney (bur. in Ireland)
Jane married Richard Gladney
[3928] [MRIN: 1557] in Jun 1735 in
Ireland.196
342. William McCreight [3932] was born before 1716 in Ireland196
and died circa 1792 in SC Fairfield District.196
William married Agnes Smith
[3933]196 [MRIN: 1560] circa
1739 in Ireland.
The child from this marriage was:
171 i. Agnes McCreight
[3927]
343. Agnes Smith [3933]196 was born circa 1720 in Ireland,
Kinbally, County Antrim Maybe.
Agnes married William
McCreight [3932] [MRIN: 1560] circa 1739 in
Ireland.
344. John Breeding Va Maybe [3658],285 son of Spencer
Breeding [4290] and Unknown, was born circa 1726 in England
and died in 1802 in VA Russell County198 at age 76. Another name for
John was Breden.
Fact: 1788, VA Russell County. To
further complicate things, first names of the three Breeding's from the New
Garden Section of Russell County,VA found on Black Mountain scalped and killed,
have never been determined. Not John Breeding Sr.,John Jr.,James nor Spencer
because they were alive after 1788.
John married Mary Short
[10095] [MRIN: 1442].
Children from this marriage were:
172 i. Spencer R Breeding
[3656]
ii. Samuel Breading Breeding Kin?
[18603] died after 1800 in NC Buncombe census.
iii. Meshech Breading Breeding Kin?
[18604] died after 1800 in NC Buncombe census.
345. Mary Short [10095], daughter of Short
[11867] and Unknown, was born circa 1726.
Mary married John Breeding Va
Maybe [3658]285 [MRIN: 1442].
346. Corporal MICHAEL Finney [10090],197 son of Captain
James Finney KIA, Balcony Falls [10091] and Ann Arnold [10102], was born in 1725 in VA Richmond
and died after 1753 in SC Laurens District.
General Notes: unproven by Don
Gidddens 2004
Fact: 1752, VA Halifax County.286
A Thomas Finney was appointed Surveyor from the Falls of Barrister River to
Terrible.
Fact: 1753, VA Augusta County.
20. John Mathews to be overseer of road from North Fork of James River, near
John Mathew's, to Renix's Road, with these workers: Henry Brown, John Smiley,
James Trimble, John Berriford, James Edmondson, Wm. Edmondson, Michael Finney,
Wm. Holdman, Stephen Arnold, Hugh Means, John Harger, Wm. Scot, Edward Bishop,
Alexr. McCorkall, Pat. McCorkall, Henry Fuller, Joseph Pain, Edwd. Baley, James
Baley, John Peter Salling, Jas. Simpson, James Wolson, Alexr. Beggs, John
Mathews, Joshua Mathews, John Maxwell, Jas. Frazier, John Hutcheson, Senr.,
John Hutcheson, Jr., George Sailing, Richd. Beton, Wm. Boil, John Sprowl, John
Smith, Saml. McClure, John Smiley, John McCuley, Richd. Mathews, Sampson
Mathews, Daniel Sancion, Saml. Paxton, Wm. Paxton, John Oleston, Samuel
Oleston, Saml. Walker.
MICHAEL married Catherine
Armstrong [10098]287 [MRIN: 4375] circa
1750 in VA Augusta County.
Children from this marriage were:
173 i. Elizabeth Finney
[3657]
ii. Corporal James Finney RWS [10103]
died after 1778.
347. Catherine Armstrong [10098],287 daughter of Robert
Armstrong [11839] and Martha Alice Calhoun
[11840], was born in 1737.
Catherine married Corporal
MICHAEL Finney [10090]197 [MRIN: 4375] circa
1750 in VA Augusta County.
348. John Thompson [230], son of Robert Thomson
[232] and Margaret Raily [233], was born in 1707 in MD Calvert
and died in 1760 in NC Rowan County201 at age 53.
John married Jane Kellogg
[231] [MRIN: 372].
The child from this marriage was:
174 i. James Thompson
[228]
349. Jane Kellogg [231] was born about 1710. Another
name for Jane was Kelloe.
Jane married John Thompson
[230] [MRIN: 372].
352. Bremillion or Bremilan Holloway maybe JOHN
[3648],288 son of Bremillion
Holloway [4665] and Unknown, was born in 1725 in VA Henrico,
Turkey Island and died before 1790 in NC Orange probably.
Fact: 1635, VA Henrico County
organized.289 At Michaellmas then next followinge, Sir Thomas Dale
removed himfelf with three hundred persons for the buildinge of Henrico Towne,
where being landed he oppreffed his whole companye with such extraordinarye
labors by daye and watchinge by night, as maye seeme incredible to the eares of
any who had not the experimentall triall thereof. Wante of houfes at firft
landinge in the colde of winter, and pinchinge hunger continually bitinge, made
thofe impofed labours moft infufferable, and the beft fruits and effects therof
to be hoe better then the flaughter of his Majefty's free ftlbjects by
starveinge, hangeinge, burneinge, breakinge upon the wheele and shootinge to
deathe, fume (inure than halle famished) runninge to the Indians to gett
reliefe being againe returned were burnt to death. Some for stealinge to
satisfie their hunger were hanged, and one chained to a tree till he starved to
death; others attemptinge to run awaye in a barge and a shallop (all the Boates
that were then in the Collonye) and therin to adventure their lives to their
native countrye, beinge difcovered and prevented, were fhott to death, hanged
and broken upon the wheele, betides continuall whippings, extraordinary
punishments, workinge as slaves in irons for terme of yeares (and that for
petty offences) weare dayly executed. Many famished in holes and other poore
cabbins in the grounde, not respected becaufe ficknes had difabled them for
labour, nor was their fufficient for them that were more able to worke, our
bell allowance beinge but nine ounces of corrupt and putrified meale and halfe
a pinte
Land Grant: 1751, VA Henrico
County, Richmond.
Bremillion married Martha
[5421] [MRIN: 1437].
Children from this marriage were:
176 i. Thomas Holloway RWS
[3646]
ii. John Holloway RWS [4803] was born
in 1759 in VA Henrico County, Richmond290 and died in 1837 in TN
Morgan290 at age 78.
iii. Major Holloway of Wake County
[4870] was born circa 1760 in VA, was christened in 1800 in NC Wake County
census, and died in 1804 at age 44.
iv. Rachel Holloway Unproven [4874]
was born circa 1760 in NC Orange County, maybe.
v. Ruth Holloway Ruthey [4876] was
born circa 1760 in NC Orange County, maybe.
vi. Jane Holloway Unproven [4878] was
born circa 1760 in NC Orange County, maybe.
vii. Lettis Holloway Unproven [4880]
was born circa 1760 in NC Orange County, maybe.
viii. Mary Holloway Unproven [4882] was
born circa 1771 in NC Orange County, maybe.
ix. Suckey Holloway Unproven [4884]
was born circa 1768 in NC Orange County, maybe.
x. Lucy Holloway Unproven [4886] was
born circa 1774 in NC Orange County, maybe.
xi. Elizabeth Holloway Unproven [4888]
was born circa 1776 in NC Orange County, maybe.
xii. William Holloway [4892] was born
circa 1768 in NC Wake County maybe.
xiii. Nancy Holloway Unproven [4895] was
born circa 1782 in NC Wake County maybe.
xiv. Thomas Holloway Unproven [4898]
was born circa 1787 in NC Wake County maybe.
353. Martha
[5421] was born circa 1725 and died
after 1790 in NC Orange if same person.
Martha married Bremillion or
Bremilan Holloway maybe JOHN [3648]288 [MRIN: 1437].
356. NC Warren Proctor Maybe [5430], son of William Proctor
[5438] and Prudence [5439].
NC married someone.
His child was:
178 i. NC Orange Proctor
Probably [5423]
360. James Davidson [7857], son of Samuel Davidson
[7899] and Unknown, was born in Mar 1713 in PA
Chester County211 and died on 7 Mar 1794 in NC Orange County211
at age 81.
General Notes: unproven kin to
our's
Fact: 1790, NC Orange County.
Apparently, he was not taxed.
James married Mary Bane
[7858]211 [MRIN: 3385] in
1744 in PA Chester.211
Children from this marriage were:
180 i. Colonel William Davidson
of NC Orange [7851]
ii. James Davidson [7859] was born in
1755 in PA Lancaster County211 and died in 1812 in TN Jefferson
County, Dandridge211 at age 57.
361. Mary Bane [7858],211 daughter of Alexander
Bane [7860] and Jane Moore [7861], was born in Sep 1715 in PA
Chester211 and died on 6 Jul 1783 in NC Orange County211
at age 67.
Mary married James Davidson
[7857] [MRIN: 3385] in 1744 in PA
Chester.211
368. NC Orange County Davis [17077] was born circa 1730 and was
christened in 1755 in NC Orange County tax.
Tax List: 1755, NC Orange County.
DAVIS:
Evan, John, Chas., Herman, Robt.
Thos.
NC married someone.
His child was:
i. John Davis [7887] was born in 1735
in PA Chester County,291 died in 1806 at age 71, and was buried in
NC Orange County, Cane Creek MM.291
NC next married someone.
His child was:
184 i. Davis [17078]
376. William Goodridge [6937],292 son of Charles
Goodridge [9307] and Unknown, was born circa 1720.
William married someone.
His child was:
188 i. George Goodridge
[6936]
384. Daniel Cox [5864], son of Dr. Daniel Cox
Physician to the Queen [11816] and Rebecca Coldham
[11817], was born in 1680 in NC Chowan
maybe293 and died in 1744 in NC Craven Will at age 64.
General Notes: NOT NAMED IN
VINCENTS WILL!
HE MUST NOT BE THE SON OF
VINCENT>
DON GIDDENS 2004
Fact: 2003, Greenville, TX.1
I once linked Daniel Cox to Charnock Cox
because they were in the same county the same time, then I found out Charnock
did not list a John. Still, ???
Taxed: 1744, NC Craven County.
Fact: 1707, Chowan County NC.31
On July 8, 1707, Daniel Cox of Chowan Precinct sold to Simon Patchett of ye
same place “for 15 lbs. my plantation and tract of land mentioned in ye
conveyance hereunto annexed, the same being conveyed to me from my Father-in-Law
William Windley all housing, fencing, gardens, orchards etc., I bind myself in
the penal sum of 30 lbs. sterling this is an assignment of a conveyance from
Davis to Windley from Windley to Cox and now from Cox to Patchett.” Wits:
Nathaniel Chevin, Selah(Silas) Smith. (Chowan County Deed Book W#1, page 84).
William Windley and his wife Ann,
deeded to Daniel Cox this 10 ___ 1705 for a valuable consideration we set over
the within mentioned land and Plantation and bind ourselves in the penall sum
of 20 lbs.
Some of the mateial on the
Windleys was taken from "Robert Windley and His Descendants
1652-1987" researched and compiled by Helen Bryan Chamberlain Jones.
All source notations attributed
to Lesley Prey came from the website
http:awt.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=REG&db=:3151565&id=10653
printed July 13, 2006, updated Oct. 2005
Tax List: 1711, NC. No Coxes or
Windleys were listed in Chowan Precinct.
Daniel married Windley
[59]294 [MRIN: 2520] circa
1703.
Children from this marriage were:
192 i. John Cox I [5]
ii. Jeremiah Cox [8569] was born circa
1705.
iii. Luke Cox [8570] was born circa
1705.
iv. James Cox [8571] was born circa
1705.
v. William Cox [8572] was born circa
1705.
vi. Tabitha Cox [8574] was born circa
1705.
vii. Stephen Cox [8575] was born circa
1705.
viii. William Cox [1116] was born circa
1710 and died after 1769 in NC Craven County.
Daniel next married Sarah
Eckley of Philadelphia [4943] [MRIN: 7358], daughter of John
Eckley Quaker [17514] and Unknown.
385. Windley
[59],294 daughter of William
Windley [2169] and ANN [5865], was born circa 1680 in NC Maybe217
and died before 1707 in NC.217
Fact.88 Daughters were
named after their mother. The only daughter listed in the will was a Tabitha;
therefore, her mother MAY have been named Tabitha, also.
Fact.88 I have
personally connected Judge Daniel Cox to our family because-
Daniel is a rare name in the Cox
family.
This Daniel was definitely in the
same county, the same time as our Coxes. And both families Cox and Beverly were
wealthy.
I am totally lacking on other
proofs. Don Giddens 2003.
Windley married Daniel Cox
[17452] [MRIN: 45], son of Dr. Daniel
Cox Physician to the Queen [11816] and Unknown, circa 1696 in NC Craven County
maybe.
Children from this marriage were:
i. Stephen Cox [63] was born circa
1695.217
ii. Charles Cox [1862] was born about
1700.
iii. Jeremiah Cox [67] was born circa
1697 in NC Craven Area,217 was christened in 1760 in NC Pitt County,
and died after 1784 in NC Beaufort Maybe.
iv. William Cox [1860] was born in
1700 in VA Orange County.
v. James 1701 Cox [65] was born circa
1701 in NC Craven Area.217
vi. Luke Cox [64] was born circa 1703
in NC Craven Area.217
192 vii. John Cox I [5]
viii. Tabitha Cox [69] was born circa
1707 in Age Depends On Birth Order.
Windley next married Daniel
Cox [5864] [MRIN: 2520] circa 1703.
386. John Beverly [10134],295 son of Major
Robert Beverly Grandchild? [10111] and Mary Keeble [10112], was born in 1675 in VA
Middlesex County and died on 22 Dec 1737 in NC Bertie/Craven/Johnston at age
62.
General Notes: Re: Beverly Cox b abt 1725 d 1794 Pendleton
Posted by: Lee Stockman Date:
November 27, 2000 at 18:40:46
In Reply to: Re: Beverly Cox b
abt 1725 d 1794 Pendleton by Don Giddens of 7205
John Beverly Sr, made will in
Bertie Co, NC 22 Dec 1737 and died shortly afterward. A grandson listed in the
will is William Cox. This William settled on Jones Creek in Pendleton Dist.
according to Leonardo Andre's records on the Coxes. Could Beverly Cox be a son
of William, grand son of John Beverly Sr.?
I have not been able to connect
these fellow back to Essex Co, VA, but that does not mean they are not part of
the same family.
Tax List: 1721, NC Chowan County.
Corn List: 1715, NC Bertie
County.
Fact: Bef 1694, England. John,
under the guardianship of his brother, Peter Beverley was in England prior to
October, 1694, as at that date the executors of Christopher Robinson, executor
de bonis non of Major Robert Beverley render an account which includes an item
of 40 pounds paid to Perry and Lane, of London, merchants, for entertaining and
accommodating Major Robert Beverley's sons, Harry, John and Robert.
John married Margaret Early
[4018]296 [MRIN: 499].
Children from this marriage were:
193 i. Sarah Beverly
[55]
ii. Robert Beverly [7348] was born
circa 1723.
iii. Henry Beverly [10120] was born
circa 1706 and died after 1779 in SC Old 96 th.
iv. William Beverly [10122] was born
in 1708297 and died after 1752 in NC Craven County.
v. John Beverly [17515] was born in
1706 and died in 1786 at age 80.
vi. Mary Beverly [23295]
John next married someone.
His children were:
i. John Beverly [1113] was born about
1724.
ii. Sarah Beverly [1115] was born
about 1726.
387. Margaret Early [4018],296 daughter of William
Early [4371] and Eleanor Williams or
Stephens [4372], was born from 1672 to 1684 and
died in 1735 in NC Bertie/Craven298 at age 63.
Margaret married John Beverly
[10134]295 [MRIN: 499].
388. Virginia Vaughns [5604] was born circa 1650 in VA and
died after 1704 in VA rent rolls.
Virginia married someone.
His children were:
i. VA King and Queen County Vaughn
[11449] died after 1704 in VA King And Queen County rents rolls.
ii. VA Prince George County Vaughn
[11450] died after 1704 in VA Prince George County rent rolls.
iii. VA Nansemond County Vaughn [11454]
died after 1704 in VA Nansemond County rent rolls.
iv. VA James City County Vaughn
[11457] died after 1704 in VA James City County rent rolls.
v. VA St. Peters and St. Paul Parishes
Vaughn [11460] died after 1704 in VA rent rolls.
194 vi. William Vaughn
[1865]
vii. Patrick Vaughn [17324] was born
before 1615 in Ireland.
390. James Bruton Unproven f/o Barbary [5941], son of James Bruton
[5942] and Unknown, was born in 1680 in VA Surry
County and died on 5 Feb 1734 in VA Surry County299 at age 54.
Slaves: 1704, VA Surry County.286
Plymouth and Jude
James married Mary Seward
[11464] [MRIN: 2558] in 1700 in VA Surry
County.299
Children from this marriage were:
195 i. Barbary Brewton Bruton [1864]
ii. Bruton [5945] was born circa 1700.
iii. Mary Bruton [11465] was born in
1702 in VA Surry County.299
391. Mary Seward [11464], daughter of William Seward
[11467] and Unknown, was born in 1682 in VA Surry
County.299
Mary married James Bruton
Unproven f/o Barbary [5941] [MRIN: 2558] in 1700 in VA Surry
County.299
392. Thomas Smith of Yorkshire [11722] was born circa 1649 in If 25
When Child Born.
Thomas married someone.
His child was:
196 i. David Smith ye
sonne of THOS [5982]
400. William/Ambrose Hudgins [1598], son of Edward Hudgens
[5493] and Unknown, was born about 1705.
General Notes: One note said
Ambrose was the son of Ambrose.
William/Ambrose married Sarah
Vaughn [5492]222 [MRIN: 587].
Children from this marriage were:
200 i. Ambrose Hudgins
Daniel Boone's bro-in-law [343]
ii. Hudgins [7121] was born circa
1730.
401. Sarah Vaughn [5492]222 was born circa 1701 in England.
Sarah married William/Ambrose
Hudgins [1598] [MRIN: 587].
402. Richard Foster [21180], son of Robert Foster
[21181] and Elizabeth Garnett
[21183], was born from 1686 to 1693, was
christened in 1704 in VA Gloucester rent rolls,300 and died after
1736.
FYI: 1704, VA Gloucester.31
According to 1704 VA Gloucester rent rolls there were two Fosters there-
Richard and James. Another contributor said James had no children, so our's may
be the Richard.
Richard married someone.
His child was:
201 i. Joannah Foster
"Ann" [1536]
404. Benjamin 1712 Davis S/O James And Ann [2312],223 son of James
1668 Davis S/O Simon And Mary [4172] and Ann [4183], was born in Apr 1712 in MA
Concord301 and died about 1759 in VA Botetourt County, Fincastle
area223 about age 47.
Fact. The reason I have linked
this Benjamin with ours is because of his son, Elnathan. No other proof. - Don
Giddens 2003
Benjamin married Barbara
Richeson [17826]302 [MRIN: 747] on 23
Oct 1731 in Phila PA First Presby. Church.
Children from this marriage were:
i. Benjamin 1731 Davis [4169] was
born on 24 Dec 1731 in MD Baltimore and died on 21 Mar 1802 in NC Orange County
at age 70.
202 ii. Rev. Elnathan Davis
Baptist [1652]
405. Barbara Richeson [17826]302 was born circa 1712.
Barbara married Benjamin 1712
Davis S/O James And Ann [2312]223 [MRIN: 747] on 23
Oct 1731 in Phila PA First Presby. Church.
406. Collins
[22372] .
Collins married someone.
His child was:
203 i. Mary Collins
[1501]
408. Jeremiah Ellis II [336],227 son of Jeremiah
Ellis [5593] and Mary maybe Skinner
[1526], was born in 1671 in VA Surry
County227 and died in 1722 in VA Surry County227 at age
51.
General Notes:
http://worldconnect.genealogy.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=GET&db=nell-
ellis_1&id=I835
Rent rolls: 1704, VA Surry
County.300 Ellis Edward Surry County, 1704
Ellis James Surry County, 1704
Ellis James Surry County, 1704
Ellis Jere Surry County, 1704
Jeremiah married Sarah Harvey
[1515] [MRIN: 461].
Children from this marriage were:
i. Caleb Ellis [1523] was born in
1701 in Surry VA and died in 1761 in Surry VA at age 60.
ii. Jeremiah Ellis [7020] was born in
1706.303
204 iii. John Ellis Va Surry
[1517]
iv. Johnnathan Ellis [7021] was born
in 1710.303
v. Edward Ellis [7022] was born in
1712.303
vi. Joshua Ellis [1524] was born about
1714.
vii. Priscilla Ellis [1561] was born in
1719.
viii. Sarah Ellis [1562] was born in
1720.
ix. Susannah Ellis [1563] was born in
1722.
x. Richard Wiggins Ellis [1519] was
born on 25 Sep 1748.
xi. Mary Ellis [1520] was born on 26
Oct 1751.
Jeremiah next married Mary
Skinner [1565] [MRIN: 479] in 1688.
Children from this marriage were:
i. Joseph Ellis [1566] was born in
1670.
ii. Jeremiah Ellis [1567] was born in
1671.
iii. Edward Ellis [1568] was born about
1673.
iv. James Ellis [1569] was born about
1679.
v. Benjamin Ellis [1570] was born in
1685.
vi. John Ellis [1571] was born in
1687.
Jeremiah next married Elizabeth
[5592]227 [MRIN: 2376].
The child from this marriage was:
204 i. John Ellis Va Surry
[1517]
409. Sarah Harvey [1515], daughter of Harvey
[7019] and Unknown, was born about 1671.
General Notes: : Gary Ellis
<wurdluvr@mindspring.com>
Rent rolls: 1704, VA.300
George Harvey, James City County
Richard Harvey, Norfolk County
Sarah married Jeremiah Ellis
II [336]227 [MRIN: 461].
410. William Wiggins Unproven [5597], son of VA Surry County
Wiggins Unproven [5598] and Unknown, was born circa 1704 in VA Surry
County.
Tax List: 1805, NC Warren County.
William married someone.
His child was:
205 i. Mary Wiggins
[5590]
412. SC Pendleton District [17542] .
SC married someone.
His children were:
206 i. SC Pendleton
District Young [5862]
ii. SC Anderson County Cox [17543] was
christened in 1843 in SC Anderson County tax list.
416. Martin Saunders or Sanders s/o David [3736],232 son of Martin
Sanders [4644] and Elizabeth Isaac
[3740], was born in 1672 in England
Probably232 and died circa 1742 in VA232 at age 70.
Immigrated: 1735, VA.
Martin married Rachel Aaron
[3737]232 [MRIN: 1475].
The child from this marriage was:
208 i. John Saunders or
Sanders [2343]
Martin next married someone.
His child was:
i. Edward Sanders Of Nc [3705] was
born circa 1665.
417. Rachel Aaron [3737]232 was born circa 1670.
Rachel married Martin Saunders
or Sanders s/o David [3736]232 [MRIN: 1475].
420. Ireland James Hamilton [3744],304 son of Frederick
Hamilton [6993] and Christian Glen [6994], was born in 1659 in Scotland,
Glasgow305 and died in Londonderry, Ireland.
Rent rolls: 1704, VA Henrico
County, Richmond. James Hambleton
James married Janet Campbell
[3745] [MRIN: 1480] in 1683 in Ireland,
Londonderry.306
The child from this marriage was:
210 i. Arthur Hamilton
[3699]
421. Janet Campbell [3745] was born circa 1660 in Ireland,
Londonderry.
Janet married Ireland James
Hamilton [3744]304 [MRIN: 1480] in
1683 in Ireland, Londonderry.306
424. Our John Robins [17272],159 son of John
Robins [17846] and Jane/ANNE Throckmorton
[17847], was born in 1700 in VA Richmond
County (Old) and was christened in 1782 in VA Richmond County census. Ancestral
File Number: 1782 4-6.
John married Elizabeth
[17273]159 [MRIN: 7249].
The child from this marriage was:
212 i. John Robins
[3839]
425. Elizabeth
[17273]159 was born circa 1700.
Elizabeth married Our John
Robins [17272]159 [MRIN: 7249].
426. William Strother [8181], son of William Strother
[8186] and Margaret Thornton
[8187], was born in 1697 in VA Stafford
County307 and died on 6 Apr 1732 in VA Stafford County307
at age 35.
General Notes: Unproven father of
our Mary Strothers. However, he has may have been, because he has seven
"unnamed" chioldren on the Smothers page.
William married Margaret Watts
[8183]307 [MRIN: 3531].
The child from this marriage was:
213 i. Mary Margaret
Madison Strother [3840]
427. Margaret Watts [8183],307 daughter of Richard
Watts [8184] and Mary Blagg [8185], was born circa 1700 in VA
Hanover County,307 died circa 1755 in W. VA. at age 55, and was
buried in Zion Episcopal Church, Charlestown, WV.307
Margaret married William
Strother [8181] [MRIN: 3531].
428. John Dogan [17250]159 was born circa 1700.
John married Mary Salmon
[17251]159 [MRIN: 7238].
The child from this marriage was:
214 i. Samuel Dogan
[17248]
429. Mary Salmon [17251],159 daughter of Thomas
Salmon [17252] and Mary Theriot [17253], was born circa 1700.
Mary married John Dogan
[17250]159 [MRIN: 7238].
430. Andrew Harrison Jr. [17258],159 son of Andrew
Harrison [17260] and Thomasine [17261], was born in 1671159
and died in 1727159 at age 56.
Andrew married Mary Lovell
[17259]159 [MRIN: 7243] in
1718 in VA Westmoreland County.159
The child from this marriage was:
215 i. Ann Mary Harrison
[17249]
Andrew next married Mary Kiser
[17267]159 [MRIN: 7248] in
1718 in VA Westmoreland County.159
431. Mary Lovell [17259],159 daughter of Robert
Lovell [17265] and Ursula Nicolas
[17266], was born in 1699 in VA
Westmoreland County and died circa 1741 in VA Westmoreland County159
at age 42.
Mary married Andrew Harrison
Jr. [17258]159 [MRIN: 7243] in
1718 in VA Westmoreland County.159
432. William Rushing [1305], son of Matthew M. Rushing
persecuted Protestants [1315] and Elizabeth Vrow [1316], was born about 1710 in NC
Northampton County236 and died after 1790 in NC Anson County,
Fayette.
Alt. Birth: Abt 1711.
Researchers: 2000. Ayres
Immigration: Abt 1740, NC Anson
County. Northampton (Ira Rushing)
Property: 1730. Bought Land From
His Father
Residence: : NC Anson County.
Brown's Creek, White Store, Anson, NC
Census: 1790, NC Anson County. Wm
Rushing- 14100
William married someone about
1731.
His children were:
216 i. Abraham Rushing
[1304]
ii. Philip J. Rushing [1306] was born
about 1735236 and died after 1840 in Perry County, TN.237
iii. Richard Rushing RWS [1307] was
born in 1749 in VA,237 died on 11 Jan 1841 in Rushing Creek, Perry
County, Decatur, TN237 at age 92, and was buried in Campground
Cemetery, Decatur, TN (Unmarked).237
iv. William D. Rushing RWS KIA [1310]
was born about 1730236 and died in 1776 in NC Anson County about age
46.
v. Jacob Rushing [1311] was born
about 1741.236
vi. Solomon Rushing [1313] was born in
1743236 and died in 1811 in NC Anson County237 at age 68.
vii. John Paul Rushing [1308] was born
about 1745.236
viii. And That's All Rushing [1606]
434. Jason Meadors VA [1324], son of John Meador
[6805] and Elizabeth/Frances Aubrey
[6807], was born in 1704 in VA Essex
County308 and died on 3 Mar 1774 in NC Anson County309 at
age 70. Another name for Jason was Meadows.
Jason married Elizabeth Stone
[1325] [MRIN: 659].
Children from this marriage were:
217 i. Mariah Meador
[1319]
ii. Thomas Meadors [6806] was born in
1737 in VA Essex County and died in 1826 in KY Whitley County308 at
age 89.
iii. Jason Meadors RWS [17067] was born
in 1759, was christened in 1790 in NC Anson County census, and died after 1840
in GA Crawford pension. Another name for Jason was Meadows.
iv. Edward Meadors [17117] was
christened in 1790 in NC Anson County census.
435. Elizabeth Stone [1325] was born in 1709 in NC308
and died on 10 Jun 1778310 at age 69.
Elizabeth married Jason
Meadors VA [1324] [MRIN: 659].
436. Isaac Nichols [6077], son of William Coleman
Nichols [6083] and Unknown [6085], was born circa 1735 and died in
1781 in NC Anson (Fayette) County at age 46.
Isaac married someone.
His child was:
218 i. Isaac Nichols NC
[6075]
440. Bridges Freeman [945],311 son of William
Freeman [4387] and Elizabeth Bridges
[5189], was born before 1734 in Surry
VA and died circa 1820 in AL Limestone County maybe. Another name for Bridges
was Bridgers.
Biographical note: 1755, Sussex.312
DAVIS } vs }Cap.e? FREEMAN } TO FEB.RY 1755 EX.D AND HENRY NIOLSON BAIL JA.S
CHAPPELL J.s S.S FEB 1755 ABATES? (ON FRONT OF PAPER) GEORGE THE SECOND, BY THE
GRACE OF GOD, OF GREAT BRITAIN, FRANCE, AND IRELAND, KING, DEFENDER OF THE
FAITH, &c. TO THE SHERIFF OF SUSSEX COUNTY, GREETING. WE COMMAND YOU THAT
YOU TAKE BRIDGES FREEMAN IF HE BE FOUND WITHIN YOUR BAILIWICK AND HIM SAFELY
KEEP, SO THAT YOU HAVE HIS BODY BEFORE OUR JUSTICES OF OUR SAID COUNTY COURT,
AT THE COURT- HOUSE OF THE SAID COUNTY, ON THE SECOND MONDAY IN FEBRUARY NEXT
TO ANSWER MATTHEW DAVIS OF PLEA OF DEBT DAMAGE TEN POUNDS AND HAVE THEN THERE
THIS WRIT. WITNESS AUG CLAIBORNE CLERK OF SAID COURT, AT THE COURT-HOUSE
AFORESAID, THE XXI.st DAY OF JANUARY IN THE XXVIII.th YEAR OF OUR REIGN. A
CLAIBORNE
WItness: Oct 1765, NC Warren
County.313 DB-l, page 88. 15 October 1765. WILLIAM MOORE to LODWICK
ALFORD, both of Bute Co. 23 Pds: 6 Sh:8 d. Va. money for 290 A. on NS Tarr
River & down the river, granted to JAMES PACE by agent of LORD GRANVILLE.
Wit: JAMES ALFORD, BRIDGES FREEMAN. Ack: by WILLIAM MOORE, Bute April Court
1766, BEN McCULLOCH, C.C. Reg: 6 November 1766, by WILLM. JOHNSON, P.R.
Census: 1784, NC Johnston County.
Biographical note: 2003, Don
Giddens; Wild Guesses. Possibly a descendant of the 1603 Bridges Freeman, the
only proof being the name.
Bridges married Elizabeth
Howell [4399]314 [MRIN: 263].
The child from this marriage was:
220 i. Howell Freeman RWS
[944]
441. Elizabeth Howell [4399],314 daughter of William
Howell G'father [18583] and Unknown, was born circa 1734 in VA
Surry.
Elizabeth married Bridges
Freeman [945]311 [MRIN: 263].
444. Sylvanus Massie [2011],315 son of Captain
Thomas Massie House of Burgesses [2012] and Mary Walker [5162], was born on 8 Apr 1728 in VA
Middlesex County, Christ Church Parish39 and died in 1808 in VA
Campbell County39 at age 80. Another name for Sylvanus was Thomas.
Religion: : St. Peter's Parish,
New Kent County.316 St. Peter's Church warden (Church of England)
Sylvanus married someone.
His child was:
222 i. Thomas Massie son
of Sylvanus and Hannah [5201]
Sylvanus married Hannah
Ragland [8163]39 [MRIN: 508],
daughter of John Ragland [8165] and Judith Raymond [8166], on 3 Oct 1757 in VA Goochland
County.317
The child from this marriage was:
222 i. Thomas Massie son
of Sylvanus and Hannah [5201]
446. Simon Hudson III [6030], son of Robert Hudson
[6033] and Martha Hancock [6034], was born in 1738.242
Fact: 1704, VA Tax Lists. Simon
and Simon Jr were taxed in 1704, Prince Anne County...meaning this must have
been at least the third Simon.
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Simon married Mary Anderson
[6032]242 [MRIN: 2593].
The child from this marriage was:
223 i. Frances Hudson Kin
to the Navigator [1090]
447. Mary Anderson [6032]242 was born circa 1738.
Mary married Simon Hudson III
[6030] [MRIN: 2593].
448. William 1695 Lindsey Va [309], son of William 1654 Lindsey
[950] and Unknown, was born in 1695 in VA Old
Rappahannock County and died in 1768 in VA Brunswick at age 73.
Kin: : Eldon Corkill, 1118
Lausanne, Dal TX 75208.
Silver Mine: 1755, Hillsboro, VA.318
Hillsborough had a silver mine that also whetted Copeland's prose, especially
after he came upon an anonymous Loudoun Mirror article of October 1922 about
the mine, which had been worked since Colonial times and was one of Loudoun's
two silver prospects of that era.
Two strangers caused a
"sensation" in Hillsborough in 1872, the article said, when they
showed up in town and "finally confessed that they were in quest of a
silver mine which had been discovered and worked by their great-great
grandfather in the time of the French wars and Braddock's defeat [in
1755]."
Copeland, 27 in 1872, remembered
that the strangers were the Lindsey brothers, "unheralded and unknown.
They claimed relationship with Benjamin Leslie," an early settler, who had
taken silver from the mine and had fashioned the metal into tableware. To prove
their claim of mineral rights, the Lindseys "produced spoons that were
still owned and cherished by the family as heirlooms."
The Lindseys also showed the town
trustees an agreement between their family and James C. Janney, who had owned
the silver mine, just west of his Gap Mills. The agreement gave the Lindsey
family the right to prospect for silver and other metals with the stipulation
that Janney would receive one-third of the take.
The Lindseys "worked
faithfully during the summer and the following year," noted Copeland, for
townsmen had told them that in the 1820s, Janney observed that earlier
prospectors uncovered a windlass, picks, other mining tools and silver ore at a
depth of 18 to 20 feet.
But, Copeland recalled, the
Lindsey brothers could not find the mine "and returned to their home in
Illinois with depleted pocket books." People still search for the mine, a
few yards east of Gap Mills' old dam across Catoctin Creek.
Indenture: 1754, VA Brunswick
County.319 Indenture made the 24th day of November, 1760, between
John BROWN and Olive, his wife, of Nottoway Parrish, Southampton County,
parties of the first part, and Thomas HARRISON, for 42 pounds 10 shillings,
conveying 143 acres of which lower part of land bounded by land of Peter
SIMMONS and upper part of land bounded by lands of John BUTTS and John JACKSON,
and being part of a larger tract formerly belonging to John DENTON, deceased,
and by John DENTON devised to Elizabeth HARPER, wife of George HARPER, and by
them sold to William LINDSEY by Deed recorded in Williamsburgh and by William
LINDSEY conveyed unto the said John Brown by deed dated February 26, 1754, and
recorded in Brunswick County. Signed by John BROWN and Olive BROWN (her mark).
Witnesses were Jas. STEWART, James HARRISON, William KNIGHT, Peny. HURST, and
Ingram BLANKS. Indenture proved in Court on January 26, 1761, by the oaths of
James STEWART, William KNIGHT, and Peny. HURST, and as to Olive BROWNE, by the
oaths of James STEWART and William KNIGHT. Deed Book 6, page 600.
WItness: 1755, VA Brunswick
County. Indenture made the 22nd day of December, 1755, between Randal BRACEY
and Benjamin HARRISON of Lunenburg County, for 275 pounds, conveying 1117 acres
on Cock's Creek, part of which was granted under a patent for 150 acres and
conveyed from John NIPPER to BRACY on March 4, 1742, 73 acres under a patent
bearing date of September 5, 1749, and also two other patent bearing date of
1755 for 314 acres each. Witnesses were Thomas TWITTY, William LINDSEY,
Silvanus STOKES, Jr., and Robert ALEXANDER. Presented in Court on December 23,
1755. Deed Book 6, page 4.
Indenture: 1759, VA Brunswick
County.319 Indenture made the 20th day of July, 1759, between
William LINDSAY and John LINDSEY, for 10 pounds, conveying 50 acres on West
side of Wildcat Creek, adjoining Old Tanfat Branch. Witnesses were James
LINDSEY, William MARTIN, Caleb LINDSEY, Peter ROFS (his mark), and Abraham
MARTIN (his mark). Indenture and Receipt proved in Court on September 24, 1759,
by the oaths of Caleb LINDSEY, Peter ROFS, and Abraham MARTIN. Deed Book 6,
page 403.
Indenture: 1760, VA Brunswick
County.319 Indenture made the 26th day of July, 1760, between John
CARLTON and Aggatha CARLTON, parties of the first part, and Thomas HOLCOMB, for
20 pounds, conveying 130 acres on East side of Little Wildcat Creek, adjoining
lands of William LINDSEY. Signed by John CARLTON (his mark) and Aggatha CARLTON
(her mark). Witnesses were Joshua DRAPER, William FETCH, and Abraham MARTIN.
Indenture and Receipt were proved in Court on July 28, 1760, by the oaths of
the witnesses. Deed Book 6, page 554.
William married Jane
[7958] [MRIN: 297] about 1723.
Children from this marriage were:
i. Sarah Lindsey [1041] was born
about 1727.
ii. Adam 1730 Lindsey [17860] was born
circa 1730.
iii. Joseph 1730 NICHOLS Lindsey
[10000] was born circa 1730 in VA and died in NC Warren County resident.
224 iv. Major William 1721
Lindsey RWS [307]
449. Jane
[7958] .
General Notes: try Lucas or Chew?
DLG 2006
Jane married William 1695
Lindsey Va [309] [MRIN: 297] about 1723.
450. Henry Martin [1541], son of John Martin
[4424] and Mary Johnson [4425], was born about 1704 in VA
Spotsylvania, St. George's Parish246 and died on 19 Apr 1748 in VA
Spotsylvania, St. George's Parish246 about age 44.
General Notes: Parents of Rosanna
thanks to Alice A. Lindsey <alindsey@btc1.up.net>
Henry married Jane Samuels
[1469]320 [MRIN: 464].
The child from this marriage was:
225 i. Rosanna Martin
[308]
451. Jane Samuels [1469],320 daughter of Anthony
Samuel [11521] and Mary Ann Rogers
[17299], was born about 1710.
Jane married Henry Martin
[1541] [MRIN: 464].
Jane next married Colquit
[17298] [MRIN: 7263].
452. Peter Brewer [532],248 son of Sackfield
Brewer Immigrant [4100] and Mary Smith [4139], was born before 1699 in VA
James City County321 and died after 1779 in NC Orange County tax.
Census: 1755, NC Orange County.
BREWERS:
1755 Henry, Howell,
1779 Peter, Sackville
Peter married Letitia Lanier
[1870]248 [MRIN: 593].
The child from this marriage was:
226 i. Sackfield Brewer Va
Brunswick [1701]
453. Letitia Lanier [1870],248 daughter of George
Lanier [11871] and Unknown, was born about 1699.
Letitia married Peter Brewer
[532]248 [MRIN: 593].
456. John Linn or Lynn [4406] was born in 1690 in Ireland78
and died in 1765 in PA78 at age 75.
Immigrated: After 1730, to PA.
John married Sarah McKay
[4407]323 [MRIN: 1771].
The child from this marriage was:
228 i. Adam Lynn Gun mfg
[958]
457. Sarah McKay [4407]323 was born circa 1690 in PA
Westmoreland County and died in PA.
Sarah married John Linn or
Lynn [4406] [MRIN: 1771].
458. Dickerson
[6089] .
Dickerson married someone.
His child was:
229 i. Mrs. Isobel
Dickerson [959]
460. Captain Findley Ewing fled Northern Ireland
[317], son of William Ewing
Persecuted Protestant [771] and Findley Maybe [7123], was born circa 1725 in
Coleraine, Londonberry, Ulster, Ireland and died in Jun 1787 in Peaks Of Otter
(Bedford) VA at age 62.
Alt. Birth: 7 Sep 1691, Scotland.325
Alt. Birth: 1718.
Kin: 1998, Kris Oleson, Gen Form
Ewing Family, Desc. Of Sydney Ann , As We Are.
Residence: Abt 1734, MD. Came To
USA To Cousin Nathaniel Ewings At Cecil Myd
Residence: : VA Bedford County.
On To Bedford VA W/ Cousin James Ewing.
Findley married Jane Porter
[747] [MRIN: 519] about 1750 in VA
Bedford County.
The child from this marriage was:
230 i. Rev. Robert Ewing
Colonial Presby. Minister [315]
461. Jane Porter [747], daughter of Joshua Porter
[1703] and Margaret, grandtr Ewing
[1704], was born in 1696 in
Londonderry, Ireland.
Jane married Captain Findley Ewing
fled Northern Ireland [317] [MRIN: 519] about 1750 in VA
Bedford County.
462. Rev. Caleb Baker Ireland [318], son of Robert Baker
[319] and Susan Packer [375], was born in 1690 in
Londonderry, Ireland and died in Mar 1754 in VA Prince Edward County at age 64.
Another name for Caleb was Beaker.
General Notes: The Ewings and
Bakers came together from the New Connaught MD area. George Talbot survey,
Cecil County, MD, neighbors of Matthew Wallace. The Thompsons, Lindseys,
Morrows, and Linns might perhaps also be traced there.
Religion: : Colonial Minister.
Occupation. Comm. By King To Make
Guns
Occupation. Colonial Minister
Presby.
Caleb married Martha Brooks
[975] [MRIN: 690] on 13 Nov 1722 in
England, Shropshire maybe.
Marriage Notes: Noncomformist
Friends, Shropshire marriage
Children from this marriage were:
i. Samuel Baker [379] was born in
1715 in Chester Co PA and died in 1782 in VA Prince Edward County at age 67.
ii. Abraham Baker [979] was born in
1719 in PA Lancaster County and died before 1779 in South Carolina.
iii. Henry Baker [980] was born about
1720.
iv. Ruth Baker [981] was born in 1723
in PA Lancaster County.
231 v. Mary Baker Va
[316]
vi. Esther Baker [377] was born in
1732 in PA Chester County and died in Cub Creek, Charlotte, VA.
vii. Martha Baker [382] was born in
1732 in Chester Co PA and died about 1790 about age 58.
viii. Caleb Jr Baker [983] was born in
1734 in PA Lancaster County39 and died in Mar 1824 in VA Prince
Edward County at age 90.
Caleb next married Catherine
Hodwill [4423]254 [MRIN: 1775].
463. Martha Brooks [975], daughter of Rev. John Brooks
[1869] and Unknown, was born in 1695 in Lancashire,
England and died in May 1759 in VA Prince Edward County at age 64.
Martha married Rev. Caleb
Baker Ireland [318] [MRIN: 690] on 13 Nov 1722 in
England, Shropshire maybe.
464. William Wormington [895], son of John Wormington
[905] and Unknown, was born about 1700 and died
about 1762 in VA Norfolk County about age 62.
Will: 1762, VA Norfolk.326
In 1762 the Norfolk County will of William Wormington left Samuel the older
part of the plantation near Great Bridge that had been used by his father John.
He had also been left personal items, a negro slave girl, Violet, a gun called
"new gun" and an equal share of the bulk of the estate.
On 10 Jun 1765 in the Norfolk
County tithables he was listed in the household of Abraham Wormington as
"brother Samuel" in addition, the slave Violet, inherited by Samuel
from his father, is found in that household (proving that only Samuel son of
William and Samuel son of Abraham was over 16 in 1765 and could have been the
Samuel born in 1745 and married in 1769.)
On 17 Dec 1771 in Princess Anne
County a legal suit was filed for inheritance from Edward Denby, Sr. on behalf
of Mary Denby Wormington, Fanny Denby, and Anne Denby. Samuel Wormington was
husband of Mary and legal guardian of Fanny. Jesse Sikes was legal guardian of
Anne. Mary, Fanny, and Anne were granddaughters of Edward.
In 1786 the State census of North
Carolina in Mattamaskeet District of Hyde County found the Samuel Wormington
household consisting of 1 white male between 21 and 60 years old, 1 other white
male, 6 white females, 6 blacks 12 to 50 years old and, 4 other blacks.
There were 2-3 men named John
Wormington living in North Carolina at the same time as Samuel. Neither matches
up as son of Abraham
William married Mary Lockhart
[896] [MRIN: 243].
Children from this marriage were:
i. Abraham Wormington [898] was born
about 1736 in Norfolk Co VA and died in 1789 in Norfolk Co VA about age 53.
ii. Alice Wormington [899] was born
about 1738.
iii. Letice Wormington [901] was born
about 1740.
232 iv. Samuel Wormington
[884]
v. Mary Wormington [903] was born on
19 Feb 1747 in Norfolk Co VA and died in May 1788 in Great Bridge, Norfolk, VA
at age 41.
465. Mary Lockhart [896], daughter of John Lockhart
[897] and Unknown, was born about 1700.
Mary married William
Wormington [895] [MRIN: 243].
466. Edward Denbigh [886],1 son of Edward
Denby [11519] and Elizabeth Pullen
[21114], was born about 1720 and died
before 1761.327 Another name for Edward was Denby in England.
FYI.328 This
Denbigh/Denby/Danby line goes back to William the Conqueror through Edward III
of England
Edward married Ann Sikes
[887]1 [MRIN: 241].
The child from this marriage was:
233 i. Mary Denbigh
[885]
467. Ann Sikes [887],1 daughter of Thomas
Sikes [21069] and Unknown, was born about 1720 and died
before 1762.327
Ann married Edward Denbigh
[886]1 [MRIN: 241].
468. Our Abraham Hassell [17576], son of Our John Hassell
[17578] and Rachel/Jane Wheeler
[17579], was born in 1713,164
was christened in 1748 in NC Tyrrell County, and died in 1771 in NC Tyrrell
County164 at age 58.
Land: 1748, NC Tyrrell County. To
John Alexander Three hundred Acors.
A dispute between Abraham Hassell
and Godfrey Phelps about their Dividing Line.
The above List is Just and True
of Each and Every Persons Land that appeard to us to Possesion Certified under
our hands.
John Alexander Roger Snell
The Line between Abraham Hassell
and Godfrey Phelps Abraham Hassell refuseth to Prossestion or to let it be
Prossesion the Same Certified under our hands this 29th Day of April 1748.
Will: 1770, NC Tyrrell County.329
Military: 1754, NC Tyrrell
County. Clerk
Alligator District
Abraham married Priscilla
Alexander [17577]164 [MRIN: 7385].
Children from this marriage were:
234 i. John Hassell
[870]
ii. William Hassell [21015] was born
circa 1700, was christened in 1748 in NC Tyrrell County, and died after 1748.
469. Priscilla Alexander [17577],164 daughter of Anthony
Alexander Patentee [21016] and Unknown, was born in 1715 and died in
1777164 at age 62.
Priscilla married Our Abraham
Hassell [17576] [MRIN: 7385].
470. John Jennett Jr [17045], son of John Jennett Sr
[17050] and Unknown, was born circa 1725, was
christened in Jun 1747 in NC Tyrrell County, and died in 1748 in NC Tyrrell
County at age 23. Another name for John was Jannett.
Land: 1747, NC Tyrrell County.
Pursuant to an Order of Vestry the 5th Day of June 1747 for the Possessioning
Every Persons Land on the East Side of Scopperlong River to Clays Creek We the
Subscribers Mett and proceeded as follows.---
For John Jennett Senyr. Three
hundred Acors.
For John Jennett Junr. Three
hundred and Twenty two Acors. ---
Will: 1748, NC Tyrrell County.329
Secretary of State
Colony of North Carolina
Tyrrel County
Dated 29 April 1748
In the name of God Amen I John
Jannet, son of John Jannet Senr., of Tyrrel County in the Province of North
Carolina Planter, knowing it is appointed unto all men once to die, and not
knowing when nor how soon it may be my lot to depart this life, do now fine ye
time of my health and memory I ordain make this my Last Will & Testament in
manner & form following, First & principally, I give my Soul unto &
in ye hands of almighty God who gave it, and my body I comit to ye Earth to be
decently buried at ye discretion of my Executors hereafter named, hoping as
well for a joyfull resurrection & redemption of both body & soul with
ye salvation of each through Jesus Christ ye Redeemer of mankind, and as
touching my temperal estate wherewith God hath been pleased to bless me, I give
bequeath & dispose of ye same in ye following manner, to witt,
First - I give & bequeath
unto my son Abraham Jannet all my coopers tools & carpenters tools, and to
my son John Jannet all my shoemaker tools, and to my son Joseph five pounds
Carolina Currency, of ye value of ___ shillings sterling, to my daughter Anne
Jannet ye like sum of money, to my daughter Elizabeth Jannet ye same sum. To my
grandson Abraham Jannet a hand gunn, to each of them as above is given &
bequeathed & to each of their, his or her heirs or assigns forever and all
ye rest of my estate both real and personal, I give bequeath, dispose to my
well beloved wife Ann Jannet at her disposal, her heirs & assigns forever;
whom I do hereby nominate, constitute and appoint Sole Executrix of this my Last
Will & Testament. In witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand & Seal
this twenty ninth day of April Ano. Dom. 1748.
John (his -x- mark) Jannet (Seal)
Signed, Sealed, published, &
declared
by ye sd Testators, to be his
Last will
& Testament in presence of
George Caron
Ann (her -x- mark) Jannet }
Jabez's daughter
Daniel Grandin
John married Ann Patterson
[21028] [MRIN: 7157].
Children from this marriage were:
235 i. Ann Jennett
[871]
ii. Joseph Gennett/ Jennett [21029]
died in 1804 in NC Tyrrell County.
iii. Abraham Jennett [21052] was born
circa 1750 and died in 1785 in NC Tyrrell County at age 35.
iv. John Jennett [21053] died after
1748.
v. Elizabeth Jennett [21054] died
after 1748.
471. Ann Patterson [21028] died in 1764 in NC Tyrrell
County.
General Notes: maybe if same Ann
Will: 1764, NC Tyrrell County.329
Gennet, Ann Patterson Estate 1764 NC Archives/Tyrrell Co. Estates -
C.R.096.508.13
Ann married John Jennett Jr
[17045] [MRIN: 7157].
472. Henry Turpin [4378],330 son of Mathew
Turpin [4379] and Elizabeth Becket
[4380], was born Est 1700 and died
before 1782.
Henry married Margaret Some
Kin [17422] [MRIN: 1751].
The child from this marriage was:
236 i. Thomas Turpin
[3688]
473. Margaret Some Kin [17422] was christened in 1782 in VA
Henry County tax list. Ancestral File Number: 1782- 0-0-1-3.
Margaret married Henry Turpin
[4378]330 [MRIN: 1751].
474. Littleberry Lewis [4384],168 son of John
Lewis [11522] and Elizabeth Claibourne
[11523], was born circa 1710 in VA and
died in VA Prince Edward County maybe.
Littleberry married Sarah
Smith [4385]168 [MRIN: 1755].
The child from this marriage was:
237 i. Averilla Lewis Va
[3689]
475. Sarah Smith [4385]168 was born circa 1710.168
Sarah married Littleberry
Lewis [4384]168 [MRIN: 1755].
480. Our William Lewis [6921], son of Our Isaac Lewis
[6923] and Our Margaret Hooker
[10280], was born circa 1713 in NC
Albemarle County259 and died circa 1757 in NC Bertie County259
at age 44.
William married Janet Banks
[6922]259 [MRIN: 2957].
The child from this marriage was:
240 i. Our William Lewis
RWS [6919]
481. Janet Banks [6922],259 daughter of Banks
[18231] and Unknown, was born circa 1716.259
Janet married Our William
Lewis [6921] [MRIN: 2957].
482. Jan Van Pelt Belgian [9461], son of Teunis Jansen Van
Pelt [10248] and Elsje Hendricks
[10249], was born in 1691 in Leige,
Belgium resident and died in 1748 in NC Bertie County at age 57.
Occupation. Owned a shipping line
Jan married Mary Ann Perrine
[9462] [MRIN: 4063].
The child from this marriage was:
241 i. Mourning Van Pelt
[6920]
483. Mary Ann Perrine [9462], daughter of Henry Perrine
[10273] and Unknown, was born circa 1697 in
Richmond, Staten Island, NY.331
Mary married Jan Van Pelt
Belgian [9461] [MRIN: 4063].
484. Walden
[22128] was born circa 1700.
Walden married Tavner Maybe
[22129] [MRIN: 9610].
The child from this marriage was:
242 i. Tavener Walden
Unproven Link [21709]
485. Tavner Maybe [22129], daughter of John Tavener
[22135] and Unknown, was born circa 1700.
Tavner married Walden
[22128] [MRIN: 9610].
496. Benjamin H Stennett/ Stinnett [8641], son of Our William Stinnett
[8642] and Unknown, was born in 1710 in MD Calvert261
and died in 1772 at age 62.
Benjamin married Our Elizabeth
Sanders [9481] [MRIN: 3750] in 1733.
Children from this marriage were:
248 i. Benjamin H Stinnett
[8639]
ii. William Stinnett [22167] was born
in 1746 in VA Albemarle.109
497. Our Elizabeth Sanders [9481], daughter of Our William
Saunders/ Sanders Planter [9482] and Alice Faulkner Only Heir
[9483], was born circa 1710.
Elizabeth married Benjamin H
Stennett/ Stinnett [8641] [MRIN: 3750] in 1733.
498. Our James Isham [8644], son of Our Isham [17419] and Unknown, was born circa 1713.
James married someone.
His child was:
249 i. Our Usle Isham
[8640]
500. Hightower
[18235], son of Hightower [18236] and Unknown, was born circa 1715.
Hightower married someone.
His child was:
250 i. Hightower
[18234]
512. Nc Rowan Giddens [15927],2 son of Nc Anson
Giddens [13169] and Unknown, was born in 0085 and was
christened in 1753 from Anson.
Nc married someone.
His child was:
256 i. Nc Surry County
Giddens [15931]
568. John Paul [3935], son of William Paul Weaver
[3936] and Margaret Park [9255], was born circa 1679 in Ireland
and died in 1745 in Scotland, Dalrymple Castle, If Right Line at age 66.
John married someone.
His child was:
284 i. John Paul [3934]
580. McFarland Immigrants [10187] .
McFarland married someone.
His children were:
290 i. Robert B McFarland
[5692]
ii. James McFarland [10188] died after
1722 in PA immigrant.
584. John McIlvaine [5676],267 son of John
McIlvaine [5678] and Anne Cunningham
[5679], was born circa 1656 in
Scotland, Ayrshire267 and died in 1735 in Ballykeel, Antrim,
Northern Ireland267 at age 79.
John married Sarah Clark
[5677]267 [MRIN: 2432] on 3
May 1687.267
The child from this marriage was:
292 i. Andrew McIlvaine
[3642]
585. Sarah Clark [5677]267 was born in 1660 in Scotland,
Ayrshire.267
Sarah married John McIlvaine
[5676]267 [MRIN: 2432] on 3
May 1687.267
588. Anthony 1675 Storey [10193],189 son of Thomas
Storey [10195] and Unknown, was born circa 1675 in
Westmoreland, England.
Anthony married someone.
His child was:
294 i. Anthony 1700 Storey
[10192]
600. Gordon
[17539] was born in Ireland.
Gordon married someone.
His children were:
300 i. John Gordon
[3639]
ii. James Gordon [17540] was born
circa 1710.
612. SC Old 96th Abbeville LeRoy [17337] was christened in 1790 in SC Old
96Th, Abbeville.
SC married someone.
His children were:
306 i. Peter Michael LeRoy
IMMIGRANT [8070]
ii. Philip LeRoy [17338] was born
before 1761 in France and was christened in 1790 in SC Old 96Th, Abbeville.
Ancestral File Number: 12201 1790.
iii. Rene LeRoy [17339] was born before
1774 in France and was christened in 1790 in SC Old 96Th, Abbeville. Ancestral
File Number: 100000 1790.
620. Pierre Roquemore [8086]332 was born circa 1670 in Ville
D'Eymet(Dordogne, France) maybe.
Fact. Situated on a meander of
the Dropt, a peacefully-flowing river which for a long time was the
thorouglifare of gabares (barges), the small medieval town of EYMET, founded in
1270, is ideally sited at the crossing point between regions of different and
complementary landscapes, architectures and economic activities: Haut Agenais,
Entre Deux Mers and le Pays de Duras... and to the north, the Bergerac region
with fortified villages and sun-drenched vineya
Pierre married Jeanne
Fourneyrol [8087]332 [MRIN: 3486].
The child from this marriage was:
310 i. Vincent Gaspar
Pierre Du Roquemore [3607]
621. Jeanne Fourneyrol [8087]332 was born circa 1670.
Jeanne married Pierre
Roquemore [8086]332 [MRIN: 3486].
624. Samuel Doolittle II Giddens' line [3614], son of Samuel Doolittle I Ct
Yankee [3616] and Mary Cornwall Ct Yankee
[3617], was born in 1691 in MA Maybe
and died in 1736 in MA at age 45.
Samuel married Jane Wheeler Ma
[3615] [MRIN: 1416].
The child from this marriage was:
312 i. Samuel Joseph
Doolittle III Ct Yankee [3612]
625. Jane Wheeler Ma [3615] was born circa 1691 in MA Maybe
and died in MA Maybe.
Jane married Samuel Doolittle
II Giddens' line [3614] [MRIN: 1416].
632. Roger Williams Old Rappahannock [4505], son of Shadrack Williams Old
Rappahannock [4507] and Elizabeth Walker
[4508], was born circa 1700 in VA
Richmond County191 and died in 1744 in VA Surry (if same Roger) at
age 44.
Roger married Ann Williams
[4506]191 [MRIN: 1820].
The child from this marriage was:
316 i. Luke Williams
[4503]
633. Ann Williams [4506]191 was born circa 1700.
Ann married Roger Williams Old
Rappahannock [4505] [MRIN: 1820].
636. Roger Quarles [4480],333 son of Capt.
John Quarles [4484] and Jane Mallory [4485], was born in 1692334
and died in 1751 at age 59.
Biographical note: : VA Caroline
County. Church warden of St. Margaret's Church in Caroline.
Roger married Jane Tunstall
[4481]335 [MRIN: 1806] in
1718 in VA King William County.334
The child from this marriage was:
318 i. James Quarles
[4478]
637. Jane Tunstall [4481] .335
Jane married Roger Quarles
[4480]333 [MRIN: 1806] in
1718 in VA King William County.334
638. William Read [4482] .46
William married Elizabeth
Hubbard [4483]46 [MRIN: 1807].
The child from this marriage was:
319 i. Catherine Read
[4479]
639. Elizabeth Hubbard [4483] .46
Elizabeth married William Read
[4482]46 [MRIN: 1807].
640. Hinchea 1667-1737 I Gilliam S/O Jn And
Margaret [19539],336 son of Captain
Leift John 1614 Gilliam Immigrant [20836] and Margaret Henshaw
[19543], was born in 1667 in VA Washington
County, Bristol Parish,337 was christened Lived in VA Sussex, and
died on 20 May 1737 in VA Surry County338 at age 70.
Transported people over. with
Captain Nathaniel Harrison
Bought land: 25 Apr 1701,
Blackwater Swamp.339 348 acres near Nottaway River
Rent roll: 1704, VA Surry County.
Hinche Gillham
Bought land: 1714. along with
Charles and John and Thomas Poythress same day, same location
Bought land: 23 Dec 1714, VA Isle
Of Wight County.339 620 acres S side of Nottaway River; beg on N
side of Raccoon sw; adj his land & land of Capt. Henry Harrison. 3 lbs, 5
shillings
Hinchea married Fortune Flood
[18651]340 [MRIN: 7826] circa
1682 in VA Surry County.341
Children from this marriage were:
i. John 1683 Gilliam S/O Hinchea And
Fortune [18652] was born in 1683 in VA Albemarle342 and died on
20 Apr 1737 in VA Surry County343 at age 54.
ii. Captain Hinchea 1698-1769 Gilliam S/O
Hinchea And Fortune [20808] was born in 1698 in Albemarle, Sussex, And/Or
Surry County, VA,344 was christened Patentee in VA Sussex County
1714-23, and died on 18 May 1769344 at age 71.
320 iii. Walter Gilliam
[18653]
iv. William S/O Henshaw Gilliam [3403] was born in
1704 in Surry County, VA344 and died on 21 Feb 1765 in Sussex, VA If
Same Wm at age 61.
v. Thomas 1702 S/O Henshaw Gilliam
[18654] was born in 1702 in VA Surry County344 and died in 1793 in
VA Southampton County346 at age 91.
vi. William 1704 S/O Henshaw Gilliam Desc
Of Richard And Margaret? [18655] was born from 1704 to 1720 in VA Surry
County Or Washington, Bristol347 and died in 1765 in VA Sussex194
at age 61.
vii. Lydia D/O Henshaw Gilliam [18656]
was born circa 1706 in VA Surry County.344
viii. Anne 1731 Near Hinchea Gilliam
[3029] was born circa 1731 in Surry County, VA.194
ix. Charles 1706 Gilliam [19308] was
born in 1706 in VA Surry.345
x. Priscilla 1708 D/O Henshaw Gilliam
[18657] was born in 1708 in VA Surry County.344
xi. Samuel 1712 Gilliam [19739] was
born in 1712.349
xii. Anne 1733 Gilliam Near Hinchea
[18804] was born in 1733 in VA Washington County, Bristol Parish.350
Hinchea next married Maybe
Another For Earlier Kids [2762] [MRIN: 1046].
641. Fortune Flood [18651],340 daughter of John
Flood Jr Interpreter also [20448] and Unknown, was born circa 1665 in VA Washington
County, Bristol Parish344 and died on 13 May 1754 in VA Surry County351
at age 89.
Fortune married Hinchea
1667-1737 I Gilliam S/O Jn And Margaret [19539]336 [MRIN: 7826] circa
1682 in VA Surry County.341
642. Major John Fairfax Bolling desc of Pocahontas
[20768],352 son of Colonel
Robert Bolling Immigrant [20738] and Jane Rolfe [20739], was born on 26 Jan 1673 in
Chesterfield County, Cobbs, VA,39 died in 1729 in VA Henrico County353
at age 56, and was buried in Cobbs.
Fact. VA Prominent Families has
no Sarah.
Fact: : Cobbs, Virginia. Cobbs,
one of the old seats of the Bollings, and the site of the first institution for
teaching deaf mutes in America.
John Bolling, son of the first
Robert, lived, grew immensely rich, and died, and was buried at Cobbs, April
20th, 1729. The place descended through his son John, who died September 6,
1757. He was succeeded by Thomas Bolling. Col. Robert B. Bolling, of
Petersburg, and the author lately visited this place, which is on an eminence,
on the north side of the Appomattox, nine miles below Petersburg. The site is
beautiful, commanding long reaches up and down the river, with the steeples and
other prominent features of Petersburg shining in the distance. Not a trace of
the old mansion or of the old tombs is to be seen upon the ground, nor is there
a trace of its history on the minds of the people. The tourist, who seeks it,
will probably be told by some blissful descendant of Ham, that he " never
hearn of Mr. Cobbs." The most conspicuous features in its present
physiognomy are the military earthworks, and a mill solemnly grinding ochre,
with which perhaps the Indians, who used to trade with the first proprietor,
stained their yellow faces.
It seems not to be known, that
Cobbs was the seat of the first institution for the education of deaf mutes
established in America. Thomas Bolling, of Cobbs, had several children who were
deaf and dumb. He sent his oldest, John, to Edinburgh, Scotland, in 1771, and
put him under the care of Thomas Braidwood, the famous preceptor of that art.
His children, Thomas and Mary, followed in 1775, and they all remained at
Braidwood's institute during the American revolution, returning to Cobbs in
1783. John died soon after his return. Thomas was a miracle of accomplishments.
His articulation became so good, that his familyjand friends understood him in
conversation and in reading aloud. He died in the 67th year of his age at Gay-
mount in Caroline county. The late Judge John Robertson (his relation) in an
obituary printed in the Richmond Enquirer, February 18, 1836, said of him,
"He composed and wrote in a peculiar, clear and graphic style; and
attained an artificial faculty of speech almost equal to natural. His grace of
manner, vivacity, power of imitation, made him the wonder and admiration of
strangers, and the delight of friends and relatives." In 1812 Mr. Bolling
heard, through the Hon. James Pleasants, that a grandson of Braidwood's was in
Washington; Mr. Bolling sent for him, and he established at Cobbs the
institute, and issued a prospectus, of which I have been so fortunate as to
find a copy, as follows: " An institution for the education of the deaf
and dumb, and for removing impediments of speech has been established at Cobbs,
near Petersburg, Va., and is conducted by Mr. J. Braidwood, a descendant of the
late Thomas and John Braidwood, of Edinburgh and London. Children born deaf, or
who have lost their hearing, are taught to speak and read distinctly, to write
and understand accurately the principles of language; they are also taught
every branch of education necessary to qualify them for every situation in
life. The above institution was begun at Cobbs in March last, the home of Major
Thomas Boll- ing, Chesterfield county. Several pupils have been received under
the tuition of the Professor, and the most satisfactory testimony of the
students may be had of the Hon. James Pleasants, M. C, Washington, the Rev. Mr.
Maffit, Salona, near Georgetown, Capt. William Bolling, Goochland, or at the
institute
From the History of Bristol
Parish
John married Mary Kennon
[20770]354 [MRIN: 8778] in
1697 in VA Henrico, St. John's Church.
Children from this marriage were:
i. Major John Bolling [20771] was
born on 20 Jan 1699 in VA Henrico County, Richmond355 and died on 6
Sep 1757 in VA Chesterfield County356 at age 58.
321 ii. Sarah Bolling desc
of Pocahontas [20772]
iii. Jane Bolling [20774] was born in
1703 in VA Henrico County, Richmond357 and died in 1766 at age 63.
iv. Elizabeth Bolling [20775] was born
in 1709.358
v. Mary Bolling [20776] was born in
1711.358
vi. Martha Bolling [20777] was born in
1713.358
vii. Anne Bolling [20778] was born
circa 1715.
643. Mary Kennon [20770],354 daughter of Dr.
Richard Kennon Of Conjuror's Neck [20773] and Unknown, was born in 1679 in VA Henrico
County, Conjurer's Neck39 and died in 1729 in VA Henrico County,
Cobbs39 at age 50.
Mary married Major John Fairfax
Bolling desc of Pocahontas [20768]352 [MRIN: 8778] in
1697 in VA Henrico, St. John's Church.
644. Charles Stuart [3976],193 son of Stuart
[5542] and Unknown, was born circa 1682359
and died on 2 Dec 1752 in VA Surry County75 at age 70.
Charles married Anne Pace
[3977]193 [MRIN: 1582].
Children from this marriage were:
322 i. William Steward
[3974]
ii. Richard Steward [19840] was born
circa 1722.194
645. Anne Pace [3977],193 daughter of Richard
Pace [5522] and Rebekah Poythress
Unproven [5544], was born circa 1700.194
Anne married Charles Stuart
[3976]193 [MRIN: 1582].
646. William Shands [5534],360 son of Thomas
Shands [5537] and Frances Harrison
[5538], was born circa 1685 in VA
Charles City County.360
William married Nazareth
Robbards [5535]360 [MRIN: 2340].
The child from this marriage was:
323 i. Mary Shands
[3975]
647. Nazareth Robbards [5535],360 daughter of John
Robbards [5536] and Unknown, was born circa 1688 in VA
Charles City County maybe and died in 1764 in VA Sussex County360 at
age 76.
Nazareth married William
Shands [5534]360 [MRIN: 2340].
656. John Davis [9302], son of VA Essex Davis
[9318] and Unknown, was born circa 1685 in VA
Spotsylvania County361 and died in 1734 in VA Spotsylvania County361
at age 49.
Will: 1734, VA Spotsylvania
County.361 WILL OF JOHN DAVIS
(Will obtained from Nancy Kiser)
In the name of God amen. I John
Davis of the parish of St. Mark in Spotsylvania County being sick and weak of
body but of a sound & perfect memory praise be to God for ye same do
premake and ordain my last will & Testament in writing as followeth...
Imprimis - I give & bequeath
my soul to God that gave it in hopes to ___ ye ressurection of ye Great Day
& my body to ye Earth to be buried in a decent mannor according to the
discretion of my exe. hereafter named...
Item - I give & bequeath to
my beloved wife Elizabeth ye plantation and land whereon I now dwell &
after her decease to descend to my son John & his heirs....
Item - I give & bequeath to
Leonard Phillips my son in law three hundred acres of land situate on Pamunky
to begin at yet North west end of ye sd land & so along ye line to ye S.
west....
Item - I give & bequeath to
my son William three hundred acres more of land situate on Pamunky aforesd to
joyn ye sd bequeathed to ye sd Leonard Phillips...
Item - I give & bequeath to
my sd wife all my moveable goods & estate wherewith it hath pleased God to
bless me during her natural life & after her decease to be in equall manner
divided among my sd sons Leonard, John, William, Mathew & Joseph only that
my daughters Elizabeth & Elinor shall at their wedding day each them have
four dows and calves & one featherbed & furniture & whereas my said
wife is now great with child, if it happen to be a boy I hereby require that my
sons Leonard, William, Mathew & Joseph shall buy or take up for him one
hundred acres of land, but it happen to be a girl I do hereby bequeath her ye
same portion of her other sisters & I do hereby constitute & appoint my
sd wife & my son John to be Executors of this my last will & Testament
& do hereby disannul & make void all other former wills & legacies
whatsoever this 14th day of March in ye year of our Lord 1733.
John Davis (his mark)
Signed and saled in presence of
us
D Bryne
John Davison
James Coward
BOND OF ELIZABETH DAVIS
Know all men by these presents,
That we Elizabeth Davis, John Rucker & John Davison are held and firmly
bound unto the Worshipfull Justices of Spotsylvania County in the sum of two
hundred pounds currt money to be paid unto ye sd Justices their heirs and successors,
to the which payment well and truly to be made and done, we bind our selves and
every (one) of us, our and every (one) of our heirs, Executors &
Administrators, joyntly and severally firmly by these presents sealed with our
seals.
Dated the 4th day of June 1734.
The condition of this obligation
is such that if the above bound Elizabeth Davis Executrix of the Last Will
& Testament of John Davis Deceasd to make or cause to be made a Just and
Perfect Inventory of all and singular the goods, chattels & credits of the
sd deced which have or shall come to the hands possession or knowledge of ye sd
Elizabeth Davis or into the hands and possession of any other person or persons
for her and the same so made do Exhibit into the County court of Spotsylvania
at such time as she shall be thereunto rquired by ye sd court and the same
goods chattells and credits and all other the goods chattells and credits of
the sd deceased which at any time after shall come to the hands possession or
knowledge of ye sd Eliz. Davis or into the hands and possession of any other
person or persons for her do well and truly administer acording to law and
further do make a true and just account of her actings and doings therein when
thereto required by ye sd Court, and also shall well and truly pay and deliver
all the legacies contained and specified in ye sd Testament as far as the said
goods chattells and credits with thereunto extend & the law shall charge,
then this obligation to be void & of none effect or else to remain in full
force and virtue.
Elizabeth Davis
John Rucker
John Davison
Signed and delivered in the
presence of
Wm Wallor
John Wallor
At a Court held for Spotsylvania
County on Tuesday June ye 4, 1734, Elizabeth Davis, John Rucker & John
Davison presented & acknowledged this their bond in Open Court which was
ordered to be recorded...
Test, John Wallor, Cl Court
John married Elizabeth
[9303]275 [MRIN: 4000].
Children from this marriage were:
328 i. Johnnathan Davis
[9300]
ii. William Davis [9304] was born
circa 1715.
iii. Matthew Davis [9305] was born
circa 1722.
iv. Joseph Davis [9306] was born circa
1717.
657. Elizabeth
[9303] .275
Elizabeth married John Davis
[9302] [MRIN: 4000].
680. William Gladney [3930], son of Richard Gladney
[3931] and Unknown, was born circa 1690 in Ireland,
Kinbally, County Antrim196 and died circa 1731 in Ireland, Kinbally,
County Antrim196 at age 41.
William married someone.
His child was:
340 i. Richard Gladney
[3928]
688. Spencer Breeding [4290],362 son of Bryant
Breeding [4291] and Unknown, was born circa 1700.
Spencer married someone.
His child was:
344 i. John Breeding Va
Maybe [3658]
690. Short
[11867], son of John Thos or Wm Short
[11868] and Unknown, was born circa 1700 in VA.
Short married someone.
His child was:
345 i. Mary Short
[10095]
692. Captain James Finney KIA, Balcony Falls
[10091], son of Finney [10092] and Unknown, was born in 1680 in
Londonderry, Ireland, died on 14 Dec 1742 in VA Augusta County363 at
age 62, and was buried in Captain McDowell land.
Fact: 1742, VA Rockbridge County.364
Captain John McDowell was killed in the first Settler-Indian confrontation on
14 December 1742 during the "Massacre of Balcony Downs" near Balcony
Falls in Rockbridge County, Virginia. The spot where this incident occurred is
now called Battle Run Creek as a result of this event. In early December 1742,
the Delaware tribe of the Iroquois Nation, specifically the Onandaga and Oneida
bands, were en route to meet the Catawba Indians when Capt. John McDowell and
his company of militia (33 men, which included his father Ephraim - 70 years
old at this time! - and his brother James) were sent out to escort the Delaware
Indians away from the White settlements. Captain John McDowell's Company of
Militia in 1742: John Aleson, Humble Beaker, David Bires, David Breenden,
Gilbert Camble, James Camble, John Cares, John Cosier, Hugh Cuningham, James
Cuningham, Joseph Finney, Michael Finney, John Gray, William Hall, James
Hardiman, Henry Kirkham, Joseph Lapsley, ?Long, ?Long, Alexander McClewer,
Halbert McClewer, John McClewer, Alexander McClure, Moses McClure, Frances
McCowan, James McDowell (brother of Capt. John), Ephraim McDowell (father of
Capt. John), Andrew McKnab, John McKnab, Patrick McKnab, Sam McRoberts, Loromor
Mason, John Matthews, William Miles, John Miles, Mitchell Miller, James More,
Edward Patterson, Irwin Patterson, John Peter Salley, Thomas Taylor, Charles
Quail, Thomas Whiteside, Malco Whiteside, Richard Wood, Sam Wood, William Wood,
Robert Young and Mathew Young
James married Ann Arnold
[10102]287 [MRIN: 4376].
Children from this marriage were:
346 i. Corporal MICHAEL
Finney [10090]
ii. Joseph Finney [10099] was born
from 1709 to 1714365 and died after 1742 in VA Augusta County.
iii. Jane Finney [10100]
iv. Christopher Finney RWS VA [10101]
died after 1769 in VA Augusta County.
693. Ann Arnold [10102]287 was born circa 1695 in
Londonderry, Ireland.
Ann married Captain James
Finney KIA, Balcony Falls [10091] [MRIN: 4376].
694. Robert Armstrong [11839], son of Joshua Armstrong
[11842] and Unknown, was born circa 1712 in VA
Augusta County.
Robert married Martha Alice
Calhoun [11840]287 [MRIN: 5080] in
1728 in SC Abbeville District.287
The child from this marriage was:
347 i. Catherine Armstrong
[10098]
695. Martha Alice Calhoun [11840],287 daughter of Patrick
Calhoun [11841] and Unknown, was born circa 1715 in SC.
Martha married Robert
Armstrong [11839] [MRIN: 5080] in 1728 in SC
Abbeville District.287
696. Robert Thomson [232]201 was born in 1670 and died in
1709201 at age 39.
Robert married Margaret Raily
[233] [MRIN: 373] in St. Marys Myd.
The child from this marriage was:
348 i. John Thompson
[230]
697. Margaret Raily [233], daughter of John Raily
[160] and Unknown, was born on 29 Sep 1677 in PA.366
Another name for Margaret was Margaret Thomson.
Margaret married Robert
Thomson [232]201 [MRIN: 373] in St.
Marys Myd.
704. Bremillion Holloway [4665], son of Treasurer John
Holloway Unproven f/o [4666] and Bremillion? [21919], was born in 1700.
Land transaction: 1751, VA
Henrico County, Richmond.367 106 acres
Bremillion married someone.
His children were:
352 i. Bremillion or
Bremilan Holloway maybe JOHN [3648]
ii. Levi Holloway RWS [21886] was born
in 1733 and died after 1840 in White River, Hamilton.
712. William Proctor [5438]368 was born in VA Shenandoah
resident.
Death: Sep 1719, VA Middlesex
County, Christ Church Parish. a WM Proctor died.
William married Prudence
[5439]369 [MRIN: 2279].
The child from this marriage was:
356 i. NC Warren Proctor
Maybe [5430]
713. Prudence
[5439] .369
Prudence married William
Proctor [5438]368 [MRIN: 2279].
720. Samuel Davidson [7899]370 was born in 1693.370
Samuel married someone.
His child was:
360 i. James Davidson
[7857]
722. Alexander Bane [7860], son of James Bane IMMIGRANT
1688 [7862] and Helen Thompson [7863], was born in 1688 in Iverness Shire,
Scotland.211
Alexander married Jane Moore
[7861] [MRIN: 3386].
The child from this marriage was:
361 i. Mary Bane
[7858]
723. Jane Moore [7861] was born on 13 Feb 1693 in Blockley,
Philadelphia Co., PA.211
Jane married Alexander Bane
[7860] [MRIN: 3386].
752. Charles Goodridge [9307], son of William Goodridge
[9308] and Thomazin Smoot [9316], was born before 1684 and died
after 1704 in VA Isle Of Wight.
General Notes: unproven by Don
Giddens 2004!!!!!!!!!!!
Rent rolls: 1704, VA.300
Goodrich, Benjamin, James City County, VA
Charles Goodrich, Isle of Wight
County
John Goodrich, Middlesex County
Charles married someone.
His child was:
376 i. William Goodridge
[6937]
768. Dr. Daniel Cox Physician to the Queen [11816], son of Daniel Cox
[11820] and Susannah [11821], was born in 1640 in London,
England and died in 1729 in London, MIddlesex at age 89.
Fact: : Carolinas.371
Historians say that Sir Robert Heath conveyed his right to the Earl of Arundel;
that this earl was at the expense of planting several parts of the country, but
that the civil wars breaking out put a stop to the design: that by different
conveyances, the property of the whole country devolved at length on Dr. Cox, who at great expense, discovered
part of it, and, in a memoria to King William, incontestibly proved his claim
to it; and that his son, Daniel Cox, Esquire, who resideed fourteen years in
the country , continued his father's claim, and published a very full account
of it. The province of Carolina extended north and south from the river St.
Mattheo, lying, according to the patent, between 31degrees
and 36 degrees north latitude and
in the longitude from the Atlantic Ocean to New Mexico, "now in the
possession of the Spaniards, which is in the direct line above 1000 miles, and
were not inhabited by them to the South Sea." It was distinct from
Carolina, though they were "bordering provinces, the east of Carolina,
joyning to the west of Carolina. It comprehends within its bounds the greatest
part of the province of Carolina, whose proprietors derive their claim and
pretensions by charters from King Charles II, about thirty years after the
grant to Sir Robert Heath." Coxe, c.1, See A. D. 1663.
Univ. Hist. XL 274-278. Chalmers.
book 1. pages 515-517. See A. D. 1663.
Fact. Financed the immigration of
the Huguenots to VA
History.372
Top of Form 2 Re: Heartwell Cocke/Ann Ruffin
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What I found is in this and
that's all right now:
GENEALOGY OF THE COCKE FAMILY OF
VIRGINA
Prepared by James C. Southall
Published in Genealogies of
Virginia Families from the Virginia Magazine of History and Biography, Volume
II
In the lists of “Adventurers”, as
they were styled, in the charters of the Virginia Companies, 1609 and 1620, the
name is spelled Cock, Cocks. Cox, Coxe. Stith spells it Cock; Burk, Cox; Alex.
Brown, in his learned work “The Genesis of the United States”, Cox, Cocks,
Coxe, Cocke. The term “Adventurers” was not used in a bad sense. It referred to
that spirit of adventure which made the seas swarm, in that morning of modern
European civilization, with ships sent out from London and Bristol under the
auspices of the English gentry and the Trades-Guilds of the English cities, to
all parts of the world in search of undiscovered countries, and new avenues of
commerce, and which led to the formation and incorporation of the Russia, the
East India, the Northwest Passage and the Virginia Companies, whose bold
sea-captains - men like Drake, Raleigh, John Smith, Samuel Argall, the Powells
and scores of others - in their frail barks, roamed unterrified over all the
ocean-wastes, laying the foundation of that great maritime empire which has
made England in the nineteenth century - like the Phoenicians and the Greeks in
the ancient world - the wealthiest and the busiest of nations.
The Cocke Family of Virginia is
to be traced in four distinct lines:
1. The main line, of whom the
propositus was Richard Cocke of Henrico (VA) who came over to this country
prior to 1632, in which year his name appeared in the list of Burgesses of the
“Grand Assembly”, as the early records denominate the first Colonial
legislative bodies. He patented some 8,000 acres of land in Henrico County (VA)
and held the office of County Commandant or Lieutenant-Colonel of the County.
2. The second descending line is
the Surry and the Princess Anne Cockes, whose progenitors were three brothers:
Captain Thomas Cocke, William Cocke and Walter Cocke; and their cousin, Captain
Christopher Cocke; who came to Virginia about 1690 and settled in Surry and
Princess Anne counties (in 1700-1716 Captain Christopher Cocke was Clerk of
Princess Anne county, and about 1695 the family of Captain Thomas Cocke
intermarried with that of Colonel Lemuel Mason, the leading citizen of Norfolk
county; while in 1699, William Cocke was a justice of Surry county, and both
William and Walter justices of the same county in 1714, showing that they were
persons of consequence from the very beginning).
3. The third line is that of
Secretary William Cocke of Williamsburg, the friend of Governor Spotswood, who
came to this country from Suffolk, England, about 1705, and whose epitaph or
memorial tablet is in old Bruton Church. Like the Princess Anne Cockes, his
male line soon became extinct, and it is only in female lines that his
descendants are represented. (Some of their descendants are shown under “Cocke,
Gray, Bowie, Robb &c by Miss Fanny B. Hunter toward the end of this
transcription.)
4. The fourth line is that of the
Cockes and Coxes of Lancaster, Middlesex and Westmoreland. In 1658, Nicholas
Cocke, and later his son Maurice Cocke, are in Lancaster County and Middlesex
(Middlesex was taken from Lancaster, 1675); and prior to 700, Pressley Cox is
in Westmoreland, where we also find in the early records the name of Fleet Cox.
The Henrico branch, descended
from the five sons of Colonel Richard Cocke, or Coxe, as it is spelled in the
beginning, were much the most numerous, and became prominent, not only in
Henrico (where throughout the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries they seemed
to divide the county influence with the Randolphs), but also in Charles City,
Isle of Wight, Prince George, Goochland, Amelia, Cumberland, Powhatan,
Chesterfield and Albemarle.
The original seats of the Henrico
Cockes were “Bremor” or “Bremo” and “Malvern Hills”, the latter (Thomas Cocke
(2) lived there) some fifteen miles below Richmond on James river, just back of
“Turkey Island”, the dwelling-house which is yet standing being described as
“on of the best specimens of old Colonial architecture:, and the estate as on
of the finest on the river. It passed out of the hands of the Cockes about the
close of the eighteenth century to one of the Nelsons, James Powell Cocke (6)
on account of his health, removing to the county of Albemarle. It was here that
one of the most sanguinary conflicts of the Civil War took place in the year
1862 in the battles around Richmond between the troops of General Magruder and
a heavy detachment of the army of General McClellan.
London and Bristol, as already
alluded to, were the chief centers of the activity of the various companies
that sent out their emigrants and their ships to America and the “Summer Isles”
at this busy period. Rich tradesmen-like the merchant-princes of Venice in the
16th century -extended their commerce to all parts of the world and gallant
sailors - some of them educated and accomplished men - sought adventures and
lands on the Virginia coasts and in the Indian seas.
The composition and character of
these companies will appear from the following statement (see “Genesis” United
States, I, 228; II, 542): The incorporators under the second charter of the
Virginia Company (1609), were 56 London companies and 659 persons, consisting
of 21 peers, 96 knights, 11 doctors, ministers, &c., 53 captains, 28
esquires, 58 gentlemen, 110 merchants and 28 citizens, and others not
classified. Of these 230 paid 37 pounds 10 shillings, or more; 229 paid less than
this sum and about 200 were delinquent and failed to pay their subscriptions.
At least 100 of them served in the House of Commons.
In the third charter (1620) there
were 325 names; 25 peers, 111 knights, 66 esquires, &c. “The trader
predominated in the second charter, while in this, three-fourths belonged to
the gentry.”
The price of one share of stock
was 12 pounds, which entitled the payer to 100 acres of land.
“of those who paid their
subscriptions,” says Mr. Brown, “about one-third came to Virginia and settled;
about one-third sent over their agents or their heirs; and the remaining third
sold out to others. These classes were the landed gentry, and they brought over
another class as servants.” Ib, II, 550.
We must take another statement in
connection with this; it is made by a writer in the valuable and well-informed
“William and Mary College Quarterly” (July, 1895, p.28). The writer says: “In
England at this time the trades were in high repute. The younger sons of the
English gentry resorted to the cities, and became tailors, grocers, coopers,
weavers, &c.”
Our space does not permit us to
comment on this, although it opens an interesting field. We only append the
following, which our readers may investigate, from the Biographical Dictionary
at the end of Vol. II of “The Genesis of the United States”:
“Stuart, Prince Henry, merchant
tailor. Eldest son of James I; born 1594; died 1612 of typhoid fever.”
Among the sea captains who came
to Virginia and the Bermudas and Barbadoes occur the names of at least four
Powells (1609-'20), and later (1690) of Captain Thomas Cocke, Captain
Christopher Cocke, Walter Cocke, mariner, and Captain James Cocke, who appear
in Princes Anne, Surry, and Isle of Whyte (about 1680 Captain James Cocke, of
the ship Barbadoes, sails from Barbadoes to Isle of Wight)
Richard Cocke of Henrico, as we
have stated, took p his abode at Bremo, which included, as would appear, the
property called “Malvern Hills”, which became the residence of the family of
Thomas Cocke (2) and descended to Thomas Cocke (3), James Powell Cocke (4)
&c., down to the beginning of the present century.
About thirty miles north of
Bristol, in the west of England, running due north and south for a distance of
about ten miles and south for a distance of about ten miles and with an average
breadth of three miles, presenting very gentle acclivities in many parts, but
its summit attaining a height of 1q,444 feet, and commanding a wide prospect
over the three great shires that converge around it, the Archaean Ridge of
Malvern Hills, divides the county of Hereford from the county of Worcester, and
on the southeast of these, on the south bank of the Upper Severn, with yet
ampler dimensions, stretches the county of Gloucester-all three counties
touching each other at a common point near the city of Gloucester.
It was this district and from
Somersetshire and the neighboring counties of Wales, and from Warwick on the
north, Devon in the southwest, Herts and the Isle of Wight in the south, and
across the Bristol Channel from the coasts of Ireland, that in Virginia, the
counties of Henrico, James City, Charles City, Isle of Wight, Gloucester, Surry
and Prince George, were in great part settled.
It is important to observe that
the names of the early colonial settlers in the James River Valley up to
Henricus City are the family names of Hereford, Gloucester and Worcester and
the neighboring districts referred to in England, Wales and Ireland. This would
at once become apparent to any one familiar with the history of the Virginia
colonists, who would take the trouble to consult for a moment Walford's “County
Families of the United Kingdom”. London: Robert Hardwicke, 1860.
The names “Berkeley”, “Bruton”,
“Shirley”, and “Malvern Hills”, on James River; Gloucester, Surry, Isle of
Wight, Southampton, Warwick, Lancaster, prove the same thing.
“Berkeley” is from the Berkeleys
of Bruton in Somersetshire, and the Berkeleys of Gloucester. (Sir Maurice
Berkeley, of Gloucestershire; Sir Charles Berkeley (son of Sir Maurice) of
Bruton, Somersetshire; Richard Berkeley, Esquire, of Gloucester, who, with John
Smyth, George Thorpe and Sir Wm. Throgmorton, jointly owned and named the
Berkeley-Hundred plantation. This John Smyth (d. 1641) was no doubt the ancestor
of John Smyth, who was a Burgess from Percies Point in 1632 and the John Smyth
of Warwick, who was Speaker of the House of Burgesses in 1658. Probably of
Nicholas Smith and Arthur Smith, justices of Isle of Wight, 1680; and of John
Smith, of Gloucester, 1702, and of Phil. Smith, sheriff of Gloucester, 1714.)
“Shirley” is probably after the Shirleys of Warwickshire. “Malvern Hills” is of
course, from Malvern Hills in Hereford and Worcester.
In 1636 Richard Cock, gentleman,
patented 3,000 acres of land in Henrico adjoining the land of John Pearce and
Thomas Harris; in 1639 he patented 2,000 acres; in 1652, 2,842 acres; in 1664
Richard Cocke, Sr., and John Beauchamp patented together 2,974 acres on the
south side of the Chickahominy river. Cox, Cocks, Coxe are family names in
Hereford; the Beauchamps were from Worcestershire; Harris is a Gloucestershire
name; Pearce is a very old Welsh name, Co. Brecon. A near neighbor of these was
the Lygons from Worcestershire.
The Carys intermarried with the
family of Richard Cocke about 1690. This was a Devonshire family, in the
southwest of England, as were the Brays and Dukes; the Powells, Tylers, Lewis',
Jennings, Llewellyns (Llewellyn Eps), the Jones' (Anthony Jones was Burgess
from Isle of Wight, 1639), are Welsh names; Webb and Dennis are Hereford and
Gloucester names. Secretary Thomas Ludwell was from Bruton, in Somerset, as was
Captain Pawlett, member of House of Burgesses, 1619; Throgmorton is a family
name in Warwick, as is probably Randolph; Bathurst and Wyatt are Gloucester
names; Carter, a family in Hampshire and Isle of Wight; Archer, a very ancient
family in Devon and Cornwall; Pryor, in Herts; Browne in Hereford and
Lancaster; Farrer in West Riding of Yorkshire; Woodward (Eliz. Cocke married
Lawrence Woodward, a descendant of Christopher Woodward, Burgess of James City
county, 1629) is a family of Worcestershire; Dennis (Richard Dennis was sheriff
of Charles City county in 1714) is an Irish family; so were the Battes. Peter
Jones must have been Welsh, as he had a son or grandson named Cadwallader.
All these families lived near to
the Gloucestershire port of Bristol, and almost within view of the summits of
Malvern Hills. (“In 1685 William Slaughter”, says the William and Mary College
Quarterly, “was sheriff of Essex County. In Burk, 'Slaughter of counties
Gloucester, Hereford and Worcester'”. January '94, p. 157. Can it be that this
district bore for a brief period this name - as for a brief period it did that
of “Rappahannock”? Were the settlers on the Rappahannock also from 'Gloucester,
Hereford and Worcester'?
(ADDITONS AND CORRECTIONS:
Bristol. That portion which states that “all these families lived near
Bristol”. In illustration we may refer to Mr. Bruce's recent work on the
Economic History of Virginia. I, 384. He has the statement than in 1667 there
were anchored in James River nine merchantmen from Bristol, two from London and
sever from other towns in England.)
The head of the Cocks family in
England, in 1860, was CHARLES SOMERS SOMERS-COCKS, (ADDITION: EARL OF SOMERS)
of Eastnor Castle, near Ledbury, Herefordshire, his magnificent seat, being
situated at the base of the Malvern Hills, about midway between the cities of
Gloucester and Worcester. The heir-presumptive to the Barony of Somers was his
cousin, the REV. CHARLES RICHARD SOMERS-COCKS, magistrate for Herefordshire.
THOMAS SOMERS COCKS, Esquire, of
Thames Bank, near Great Marlow, Bucks, represented a younger branch of the
family and married Agneta, daughter of Right Hon. Reginald Pole Carew of
Antony, Cornwall.
REGINALD THISBLETHWAYTHE COCKE
was a brother of above.
Lieutenant-Colonel CHARLES LYGON
COCKS, of Treverlyn-Vean, Cornwall, was a third brother. (In Henrico the Cocks,
the Lygons and the Beauchamps were near neighbors. In England the Cocks family
had intermarried with the Lygons, and the Lygons had intermarried with the
Beauchamps-all three families living in Worcestershire and Herefordshire. Earl
Beauchamp's name (1860) was Henry Beauchamp Lygon (of Madresfield Court, Worcester).
RICHARD SNEAD COX, Esquire, of
Broxwood Court, magistrate and Dep. Lieutenant for County Hereford (High
Sheriff 1858), was doubtless of same stock.
SIR WILLIAM COX, K. T. S.,
Ireland was a lineal descendant of Dr. Richard Cox, one of the compilers of the
Liturgy, and tutor to Edward VI.
ARTHUR ZACHARY COX, Esquire, of
Harwood Hall, Essex, is another of this name. Balsall Heath, Worcestershire,
EDWARD TOWNSEND COX, Esquire, of
Balsall Heath, Worcestershire belongs to a family which came over with William
the Conqueror.
And there are several others.
There was a celebrated Dr. DANIEL COXE, one of the court physicians of Queen
Anne and under William and Mary, who was the chief patron and promoter of the
Huguenot settlement in Virginia. See Va. Hist. Col., V, p. 9, note.
It is hardly to be doubted that
Richard Cocke or Coxe, who came to Virginia bring with him the name of “Malvern
Hills”, was connected with these Cocks' and Coxes of Hereford and Worcester in
England. (The name Cocke is so exceedingly rare in England and in this country
that it may be quite safely assumed that all who bear it are of a common stock.
In the “American Christian Record”, a volume containing lists of the clergy of
all the religious denominations in the United States and Canada, 1860, giving
20,000 names alphabetically arranged, the name Cocke does not occur once; Cox
and Coxe only five times (Episcopal clergy).
With the little beginnings which
we have described, the Cockes of Virginia established themselves in the James River
Valley, and as time rolled on they intermarried with the families of the
Pleasants;, the Carys, the Harwoods, the Eppes', the Fields, the Poythress',
the Randolphs, the Coles, the Masons of Princess Anne, the Webbs, the Farrers,
the Claibornes, the Thorntons, the Ruffins, the Hartwells, the Hills, the
Ashtons, the Brownes, the Peters and Allens of Surry, the Taliaferros, the
Nelsons, the Bollings, the Archers of Amelia and Norfolk, the Innes', the
Carters, the Lewis', the Minges, the Adams', the Cabells, the Smiths, the
Nicholas', the Ruffins, the Shorts, the Kennons, the Barrons, the Harrisons,
the Fitzhughs, the Custis', the Lees, the Bowdoins, the Barrauds, the
Chastains, the Egglestons, the Prestons, the Taylors of Southampton, &c.
At the close of the seventeenth
century they were seated at Malvern Hills, Curles and Bremo, in Henrico, and
later at Shirley (Bowler Cocke (6) who married daughter of Colonel Edward
Hill), Turkey Island, Bacon's Castle (Surry), Shoal Bay (Isle of Wight), Sandy
Point (through Sarah Steward Minge, daughter of Elizabeth Cocke (6) of Surry,
and at the same time through Colonel Robert Buckner Bolling of Centre Hill,
descended from Robert Bolling (2) and Anne Cocke), Bremo, in Fluvanna, Bremo in
Powhatan (correction: For “Bremo, in Powhatan” read “Belmead in Powhatan”. (Ph.
St. George Cocke).
The first glimpse that we get of
this name in Virginia is an entry in the records of the Virginia Land Patents;
“WILLIAM COX, of Elizabeth City, planter (lease for ten years), 100 acres in
Elizabeth City. September 20, 1628.”
The next is in a list of the
members of the Grand Assembly for 1632, given in Hening's Statutes, Vol. 1, p.
178, and among these names we find:
Both Shirley Hundreds, Captain H.
Epes
From Kethes Creek to Mulberry
Island, Th. Harwood
Warrasquyoake (Isle of Wight
afterwards), Thos. Jordan
Waters Creeke and upper parish of
Elizabeth City, Captain Thomas Willoughby
Weyanoke, Richard Coxe
This is the manner of our
introduction to Richard Cocke of Weyanoke.
In 1646, in a list of the House
of Burgesses, we come again upon the name of William Cocke, and he represents
Henrico, to which county he must have removed from Elizabeth City. He was no
doubt a brother or relative of Richard and perhaps died unmarried; he
disappears as suddenly as he appears - we have no historian of that day.
In the Land Office Book, Vol I,
at end of grant, it is stated that Lewis Cocke “came over in 1635”.
In 1635 William Prior patented
200 acres of land in Charles City, “bounded N. E. by Charles River (York Co.),
south by his own dividend and west by land of Lewis Cocke” (Virginia Magazine
History, October '95. p. 184). This is all we know of Lewis Cocke; he too was,
no doubt, related to Richard.
In 1654, we in Hening another
list of the members of the Grand Assembly. Among them are:
Henrico, Richard Cocke
Surry, William Batt, James Mason
(later the Cockes intermarry with these Masons).
In 1658 there was a Nicholas
Cocke in Lancaster county, and in 1673 a Nicholas Cocke (same no doubt) was
naturalized, and in 1687 a Nicholas Cocke died in Middlesex county (coat of
arms).
In Lancaster county the will of
one Oliver Segar (1658)(mark) refers to his “friends Nicholas Cocke and Richard
Lee”, and one of his legatees is a son named Randolph.
The pedigree of Valentine Wood,
clerk of Goochland, 1753 (maternal ancestor of General Joseph E. Johnston and
Valentine Wood Southall), represents that his father, Henry Wood, married
Martha Cox, daughter of William Cox, at Bremo, in Henrico, in the year 1723.
This was a descendant of Richard Cocke (1) (for Richard Cocke (2) and Richard
Cocke (3) lived at Bremo), and it is introduced to show that the name was
spelled Cox as well as Cock (as has already appeared from Richard Coxe and
William Cox). The well-known Cox family of Chesterfield are probably descended
from this William Cox. (The Cox's of Chesterfield and Henrico are descended
from John Cox, who lived near Dutch Gap in 1677. The Cockes of this period all
lived in this neighborhood. John Cocke (2) was a son of Richard Cocke (1) -
Editor)
We have mentioned that in
Alexander Brown's “Genesis of the United States” the name is variously spelled
Cocks, Cocke, Cox, Coxe, as also in the early Virginia Chronicles.
In England it is only in old
Pepys' book, 1688, (the Diary), that the word is spelled as we spell it in
Virginia now. One of his principal characters is a certain “Captain Cocke” whim
(I, 27) he describes as “a man of great reputation and repute”, and whose
opinions he quotes on all occasions. He was connected (like Pepys) with the
Admiralty and had “a most pleasant seat at Gravesend”. Pepys also refers to one
Colonel Charles George Cocke, whom he mentions as having “formerly been a very
great man:, iii, 398.
In Governor Dinwiddie's
correspondence (Dinwiddie Papers) during the French Wars, 1754-'55, he refers
frequently to Captain Thomas and Captain William Cocke, and he spells the name
indifferently -sometimes Cocks, sometimes Cock, and sometimes Cocke. (Similarly
we read of Captain John Wilcocks, who came to Virginia in 1623. His will is
printed in the New England Historical and Genealogical Register. There was a
John Wilcocks who was Burgess for Northampton, 1657-'8, A John Wilcox was
Burgess for Nansemond in 1655.)
There was a great deal of
reckless independence in the spelling of that day, even in official documents
and especially in the seventeenth century: Poythress was Poythes and Poythers;
Eppes was Epes, Eps; Flood was Fludd; Randolph was Randall and Randle; Percy
was Persy, Peirsey, Pierse; Byrd was Bird; Bland was written Blund and Blunt;
Cabell was Kebel; Baker was Becker; Powell was Powel, Powle; Calthorpe,
Cailtropp; Ashton, Aston; Barbour, Barber; Brazier, Brazure, Brashear, Brasseur,
Brassier, Brashaw; Goggin (according to Campbell, see his History of Virginia,
page 164) was Colkin, Cockin, Cockayn, Cocyn, Cokain, Cokin, Gockin, Gokin,
Gookin, Gookins, Gooking.
We should make a mistake in
conceiving of the old Colonial times if we should call u the picture suggested
by the title of Mr. Moncure D. Conway's recent book. “The Barons of the Potomac
and the Rappahannock”. There was a distinct gentry class in Virginia, and some
of them, for that day, were quite wealthy, but they did not live in baronial
castles, nor have the “Pride, pomp and circumstance” of the old feudal
aristocracy of England, who maintained their estates by the system of entails.
They were simply planters and farmers, and owned slaves (in the beginning there
were a good many white servants) and ruled the counties. They had little
learning. Books were very rare. Few lf the planters had such a library as
Colonel Richard Lee of Westmoreland, 1715, or Edmund Berkley, Esquire, 1719.
See William and Mary College Quarterly, April 1894. Their inventories show that
not many of them owned more than one or two dozen books and the state of
education is indicated by the fact that even men of property often sign their
wills by making their mark. The spelling (as mentioned just above) is lawless
beyond our imagination. In an old MS. Will (written evidently by an attorney)
the testator appoints his loving wife “the hole and soul executor of this my
last will and testament”. Jane Lightfoot, in 1649, signs her will with her
mark. As late as 1730 the will of Harry Beverly, of Spotsylvania, who devises
to his children a half dozen plantations in several counties, containing some
10,000 acres, is witnessed by four persons, all of whom make their marks.)
Nor did our gentry ancestors live
in fine houses. There were no bricks in the country (CORRECTION: It is not true
that there were no bricks in the country in the seventeenth century. Bricks
were made in Virginia in 1609. The dwellings were generally==almost
universally, except the chimneys - of wood; but the first story of all the
houses at Henricus City was of brick court-house in Middlesex, in Gloucester
and in James City counties. See Bruce ii, 134-44. The old colonial house at
Malvern Hills is also of brick.) and few good mechanics, little money, and at
first “very few people”. They lived in the forest on the great River that swept
silently to the sea that interposed between them and the civilization of
Europe. A few miles up the river (where is now Goochland and Powhatan) were the
“Indians”.
They had in the seventeenth
century few cattle, few horses and the importation of Negro slaves had only
been a short time in progress. There were in 1648 about 15,000 whites and 300
negroes in the Colony. The number of horses was 250; of asses, 50. In 1670 the
whole population was 40,000, of which 2,000 were Negroes, and 6,000 white
servants.
When we recall the fact that in
Virginia at the close of the late war, there were few country houses containing
more than eight or nine rooms and a kitchen, we should not expect the Virginia
planters of the first colonial century to possess very spacious dwellings. In
those days places like Warner Hall, Westover, Rosehill, Rosegill, Stratford,
which numbered perhaps sixteen or seventeen rooms, were the exception; few of
them had more than six or eight rooms. The rooms are often enumerated in the
inventory: Mr. Samuel Timson of York (1704) , had seven rooms in his house;
Rosegill, the residence of Ralph Wormley, esquire, President of the Council and
Secretary of State ()1701), one of the greatest and wealthiest men in the
Colony, contained nine rooms. (ADDITIONS: Governor Berkeley's house (brick),
1645, at Green Spring, had only six rooms. The house of Nathaniel Bacon, Sr.,
had five rooms, “an old and new hall”, a kitchen, dairy and storehouse. He was
very rich. 1694. Mrs. Elizabeth Digges, of York (1690) who owned 108 slaves,
lived in “six rooms and a cellar”. Major Robert Beverley of Middlesex, 1687,
had “a chamber, a second chamber above, a porch and hall, chamber, a dairy and
kitchen and the overseer's room. He had forty-two Negroes. William Fitzhugh's
house had twelve or thirteen rooms. (Mr. Bruce's Economic History of Virginia
in the Seventeenth Century, ii, 151-8) Mr. R. Heber Nelson who lives near
Malvern Hills and whose grandfather Robert Nelson, bought the Malvern Hills
property from the Cocke family, informs us that the house here contains eight
rooms (one added by his grandfather), with a hall through the center and a side
hall. The house is of brick, and there is a brick porch.
The inventory of Ralph Wormley's
personal property as 2,861 pounds. Samuel Timson owned 14 negroes, 10 horses,
78 cattle, &c. Inventory, 472 pounds.
The total inventory of Colonel
Thomas Ballard of 1707, one of the most famous men of that period, amounted to
603 pounds, comprising 18 slaves, 7 horses, 51 cattle, 70 oz. of plate &c.
(The wants of the people in those old days were exceedingly few, so that a
little money went a great ways. This is illustrated by the salary paid the ministers
of the Established Church which was 1,700 pounds of tobacco, equal to about
$70, which is estimated in purchasing power as equivalent to about $500 of the
present day. In 1665 Lord Paulett, of England, to whom his brother, Captain
Thomas Paulett, of Virginia, had in 1644 devised the Westover estate on James
river, sold the same, 1,200 acre to Theoderick Bland for 170 pounds, which was
about 50 cents an acre, equal to about $5 now. In 1688 the Blands sold it to
Colonel William Byrd for 300 pounds sterling and 10,000 pounds of tobacco.)
Mrs. Elizabeth Digges, widow of Governor Digges, left (1692) personal property
amounting to 1,102 pounds. (The pound of that day was 20s of the value of 16
2/3 cents each shilling. Money went a great deal farther than it does now. Five
pounds was about equal to $150.
These inventories (applying of
course only to the personal estate) throw a good deal light upon the condition
of the gentry. That of John Washington (son of the immigrant), who died 1712,
amounted to 377 pounds, 3s, 7d. (See William and Mary Quarterly) That of John
Carter, Jr., of Lancaster, however, (1690), included 71 slaves and 63 books in
various languages. The inventory of Thomas Jefferson (1696), one of the
justices of Henrico, and grandfather of President Jefferson, amounted to 97
pounds 16 06 ½, including “1 p'cell of old books, 10s.” Virginia Historical
Magazine, ii, 237; I, 209
One of the features of the
earlier Colonial period which has attracted our attention in the progress of
this investigation is the comparatively short duration of life; and 2. The
frequency of marriage. They died young and there was brief delay on the part of
the survivor in finding a new companion. We have to meet with the first
instance of an octogenarian; they rarely passed 50 or 60, and they all seem to
have married twice-and some four and six times. See examples of this last
Virginia Magazine of History, ii, 237; iii, 61.
After the County Lieutenant, the
most important officer in the county in Colonial times was the County Clerk,
who was not only the clerk, but whose house was the Clerk's Office, where the
county records were kept, and who was probably the legal adviser for the people
in general at time when educated lawyers at least did not abound. The office
also brought in a certain salary, probably greater than the products of the
plantation; official position too in that day carried with it a great deal of
power and importance, as is the case in all monarchies and even in Republican
governments in Europe at the present day. The Clerk was, therefore, what that
champion gossip, whom we have quoted. Samuel Pepys, denominates “a very great
man”, and he was always not only taken from the gentry, but he was the leading,
or one of the leading men in the county. This is illustrated by referring to a
list of county officers for any year, some of which are yet preserved.
(ADDITION: Salary of the County Clerk - In the valuable book on the descendants
of Roger Jones, Colonel Thomas Jones (4), clerk of Northumberland county, 1781,
in a letter to Mr. Turberville, states that the office yielded him about 400
pounds a year.) The following are from the official records of 1702: We have in
Charles City, Benjamin Harrison, Clerk; in Elizabeth City, Nicholas Curle; in
Essex ffra Meriwether; in Gloucester, Peter Beverly; in Henrico, James Cock; in
King & Queen, Robert Beverly; in King William, Wm. Aylett; in Stafford,
William Fitzhugh; in Warwick, Miles Cary, &c. Next in importance to the
Clerk was the Sheriff, who was appointed by the Governor. In 1702 the sheriffs
were: York county, Henry Tyler; New Kent, Nicholas Merriwether; Middlesex, Sir
William Skipwith; Lancaster, John Tayloe; King William, John Waller; Henrico,
Giles Webb (Captain Thos Cocke (2) had been sheriff (1699) and was sheriff in
1707, but he was now (1702) in the House of Burgesses); Gloucester, Peter Kemp,
&c. Robert Bolling was Surveyor in Charles City (His son Robert, in 1706
married Anne Cocke and had issue: Lucy (Cocke) Bolling, who married Richard
Eppes, Burgess from Chesterfield; and Robert, of Bollingbrook, father of Robert
Bolling of Centre Hill. See History Bristol Parish, p. 141); Edm'd Scarburgh in
Accomac; Charles Smith in Essex; Miles Cary (there were two at this time; one
of them married Elizabeth Cocke, daughter of Richard Cocke (2) of Bremo) in
Gloucester; James City, James Minge, Jr.; King and Queen, Henry Beverley; New
Kent, James Minge, Sr., &c.
When Thomas Cocke, Sheriff of
Henrico, died in 1707, he was succeeded by William Randolph, whose competitors
for the office were Lieutenant-Colonel Francis Epes and Major William Farrar,
two of the most influential names in this county at that period.
There is on record (see Va.
Magazine History, October, '75) in Henrico Courthouse a certificate in behalf
of Colonel Edward Hill, of Charles City, which gives the following names of the
members of the Henrico County Court at a session held in 1680; Mr. Thomas
Cocke, High Sheriff; Colonel Wm. Byrd, Lieutenant-Colonel John Farrar, Mr.
Richard Cocke, Sr., Mr. Abell Gower, Mr. Thomas Batte, Mr. Peter Field and Mr.
Richard Kennon.
Lieutenant-Colonel Richard Cocke
(1) was in the House of Burgesses in 1632 from Weyanoake; again in 1654 from
Henrico. William Cocke was a Burgess from Henrico in 1646. In 1702 Thomas Cocke
(3), grandson of Richard, represented Henrico in this body. Thomas Cocke (2)
(son of Richard) was sheriff 1680-88. Thomas Cocke (3) (grandson) was sheriff
in 1699 and 1707, and in the interim between these dates was probably either
sheriff or member of the House of Burgesses. James Cocke, son of Thomas, was
clerk of the county, 1691-1707. In 1680, 1699, 1702, 1714 (and no doubt in
intervening years), Richard Cocke and Thomas Cocke were members of the county
court. In 1728 Bowler Cocke (4) succeeded William Randolph as clerk; which
office he held until 1751, when he was succeeded by his son, Bowler Cocke (5)
who was clerk until about 1762. In 1752, Bowler Cocke (5) was a member of the
House of Burgesses, and his son, Bowler Cocke (6) was in the House of Burgesses
in the famous session of 1766. Colonel Allen Cocke and Hartwell Cocke (Surry)
were also members of both the last-named bodies. Hartwell Cocke was in the Convention
of 1788. (CORRECTION AND ADDITONS: The statement about Bowler Cocke, Allen
Cocke, &c., should be as follows:
In 1752 Lieutenant-Colonel Bowler
Cocke (5) was a member of the House of Burgesses and in 1765 Bowler Cocke (6)
and Hartwell Cocke (5) of Surry were members of that body.
In 1773 and 1775 Colonel Allen
Cocke (5) of Surry, was a member of the House of Burgesses, and in 1776 he was
in the State Convention.
In 1778 there was a Cocke in the
Legislature from Washington county.
In 1786, Colonel Lemuel Cocke of
Surry, was a member of the House of Delegates.
In 1787-'8 John Hartwell Cocke
(6) of Surry, was a member of the House of Delegates.
In 1788 John Hartwell Cocke (6)
above-mentioned (son of Hartwell Cocke (5) and father of General John Hartwell
Cocke (7) of Bremo, Fluvanna) was a member of the Convention.
In the Journal of the House of
Delegates for 1793 the name of Cocke occurs on a committee, as also in
subsequent years in the Journal of the Senate and House of Delegates.
ENGLISH MERCHANTS OF THE
SEVENTEENTH CENTURY - RICHARD COX AND ANTHONY COCKE --
In the Economic History of
Virginia, ii, 333-4, a list is given of the twenty-four English merchants who
in the seventeenth century furnished the greater part of the supplies imported
into Maryland and Virginia. Among them is the name of RICHARD COX. This was no
doubt the same RICHARD COX who in the years 1690020 was one of the Wardens of
the Grocers' Company in London, a member of the East India and Russia
Companies, of the Virginia Company (paid 25 pounds) and chief of the first
English factory in Japan. Genesis of the United States, ii, 856. Anthony Cocke
traded with Middlesex.
We have recently obtained
information of an important character about the Cockes of England (counties
Durham, Worcester, Hertford and Suffolk), who were all connected with each
other, and with the Cockes of Henrico and Princess Anne and Middlesex, but
shall have to defer a notice on the subject to our next article.
The earliest Cocke of whom we
know anything in England was CAPTAIN WILLIAM COCKE of Plymoutht, county Devon,
who fitted out a ship at his own expense, and “went out to fight the Spanish
Armada” (1588) and was killed in the engagement. He was called “the Cock of the
Game”. Prince's “Worthies of Devon”.
We have indulged in this somewhat
protracted dissertation on the Colonial age because it seemed to us necessary
to give a certain entours and setting to the genealogy which is about to
follow, and which would otherwise be a mere barren list of names without
associations and without significance.
We will begin our next
installment with the descendants of Richard Cocke (1).
RICHARD COCKE OF HENRICO - HIS
DESCENDANTS
I. RICHARD COCKE (1) born about
1600, died 1665. Married twice. Name of first wife not known; married second,
Mary Aston. Children by both wives. Was County Commandant or Lieutenant Colonel
of the county of Henrico. Was a member of the Grand Assembly or House of
Burgesses, 1632, from Weyanoake, and in 1644 and 1654 from Henrico. (The
presence of Richard Cocke in this Assembly was inadvertently overlooked in
referring to the matter in our article in the January number. The second is
wanting from 1632 to 1644 except for one year. In the year 1655, having been
appointed sheriff, he resigned his seat in the House of Burgesses. We take
occasion also to mention that the first land patented by Richard Cocke (3,000
acres in 1636) was for the bring over of sixty persons, a list of whom is given
in the books of the Land Office, and among them is the name of Margaret Powell,
a fact to which we shall advert again hereafter.
His relative, Thomas Jordan,
represented Warrosquyoake in the Assembly of 1632. In the will of Richard Cocke
there is a legacy to his “cousin Daniel Jordan”. Samuel Jordan was a member of
the first Legislative Assembly in Virginia from Charles City (16619); his
plantation was called in the alliterative style of that day “Jordan's Journey”.
Thomas Jordan was Burgess for Isle of Wight 1629, 31, 32. Richard Jordan was a
Burgess in 1676 and sheriff of Nansemond in 1718. George Jordan was a Burgess
from James City county in 1644. The name Jordan was also a prominent one at the
beginning of the eighteenth century in Bristol Parish (Prince George). Dr.
Slaughter writes: “The representative names” (in this parish) “were Wood,
Jordan, Poythress, Wynne, Hatcher, Cocke, Hamlin, Eppes, Bolling, Bland, Jones,
Randolph, Kennon, Bott, Batte, Gilliam, Walker, Munford, &c.,” p. 121
Another member at this time was
Walter Aston (Ashton) who was the father of Mary Aston, Richard Cocke's second
wife, as mentioned above. Lieutenant-Colonel Walter Aston (his tomb is at
Westover) was in the House of Burgesses for Shirley Hundreds and Charles City
in 1629-30, 1631-32, 1632, 1632-3 and 1642-3. When Richard Cocke died, Mary
Ashton married, second, Colonel Edward Hill, of Charles City, a very great man
in that day. (CORRECTION: Mary Ashton, widow of Richard Cocke, did not marry
second, Colonel Edward Hill, but her mother, the widow of Colonel Walter Aston
who married Colonel Edward Hill) His descendants owned “Shirley”, on James
River and intermarried with the Carters (Hill Carter). About 1750 one of the
Bowler Cockes married the daughter of Colonel Edward Hill, the widow of Colonel
John Carter of “Corotoman”. There were Ashtons in the 17th century also in
Elizabeth City and Northumberland. In 1655 Peter Ashton was a Burgess from
Elizabeth City and in 1658 from Northumberland and is called “Colonel Ashton”.
The tomb of Colonel Henry Ashton, 1731, is in Westmoreland, with family arms.
Brown (see Genesis of United States) affirms that Lieutenant- Colonel Walter
Ashton was a cousin of Sir Walter Ashton, Lord Ashton, of Forfar, in Scottish
Peerage, who was Ambassador to Spain, 1635.
Another member of this Assembly
was John Smith, who represented Smythe's Mount and Peryces Point. He was
probably the ancestor of Obadiah Smith, who married Mary Cocke (3) daughter of
William Cocke (2) about 1685-'90.
The will of Richard Cocke is on
record in Henrico County Clerk's Office, and bears date October 4, 1665. The
witnesses are Henry Randolph (then clerk of the House of Burgesses) and Henry
Isham. Henry Randolph is a different line from William Randolph of “Turkey
Island”, who did not come to Virginia till 1674. He was Wm. Randolph's uncle.
Captain Henry Randolph came over in 1637. In 1656 he was clerk of Henrico
county. In 1660 he was made clerk of the House of Burgesses. In 1665 William
Tanner or William Randolph was clerk of Henrico. In 1678 William Randolph was
clerk. In 1683, Henry Randolph. In 1693-1707, James Cocke. In 1679 Peter Field
was guardian of Henry Randolph, aged 13.
He left issue, five sons and one
daughter
1. Thomas 2. Richard 3. John 4.
William 5. Richard “the younger”6. Elizabeth
In the name of God Amen” (his
will commences) “I Richard Cocke, Sen'r, being at present in perfect health and
memorie for which I render hearty thanks to Almighty God my Creator, yet
considering the uncertainty of this transitory life I have therefore for the
peaceable settling that little Estate God in his Goodness hath given me made
and ordained this m last will and testament hereby reversing all former wills
at any time made by me. Imprimis. I beg to bequeath my soule to God that gave
it trusting in the merits of my Redeemer to obtaine a joyfull Resurrection” -
and his “body to be Interred according to the usuale Solemnities of the Church
of England.
He devises and bequeaths
one-third of his estate to his wife for life. He divides his lands among his
sons - some 600 acres to each of his and 100 pounds to his daughter, and
divides his personalty equally among his children (except two Negroes and some
cattle, &c., given Richard, Sr., by his mother).
He devises some land to his
cousin Daniel Jordan.
And appoints his son Thomas to
see after “the mill” for the use of his younger brothers and sisters, for which
he was to be paid “three thousand pds. Of tobacco and casket p. Annum” (equal
to about $700 a year at present)
We notice his children in order:
II. THE CHILDREN OF RICHARD COCKE
(1)
1. THOMAS COCKE (2) (styled of
“Pickthorne Farm”, Henrico ) born 1638, died 1696 (at age 58). Married, 1663,
Margaret Jones, widow, and mother of Major Peter Jones, founder of Petersburg.
Both Thomas Cocke (2) and Richard
Cocke (2) were justices of Henrico in 1678 and 1680, and in the last named year
Thomas Cocke was also sheriff of the county, and in 1680 he was coroner. The
office of coroner at that time seems to have been a prominent one. He was
sheriff also in 1688.
In 1689 Thomas Cocke (2) deeds
625 acres of land to William Randolph (very probably Turkey Island)
In 1681, Thomas (2) and Richard
(2) own a Ferry and an “Ordinary” at the courthouse (Varina). (The first
Colonel Edward Hill was owner of an “ordinary” in Charles City county, and
there is complaint against him for his exorbitant charges). It was still
“Cocke's Ferry” in 1810.
Thomas Cocke 92) left six
children: Thomas, Stephen, John, James, Agnes and Temperance.
COUNTY OFFICES
There was a military
establishment in all of the counties, and he was called Captain Cocke, a title
which his son, Thomas (3) bore after him.
Like his father, as we learn from
the Henrico Records, he was a member of the House of Burgesses in 1679, and it
is probable that he was a member between 1680 and 1697. From 1660 (after the
restoration of the Stuarts) to 1776 there was no election of Burgesses, and
afterwards there is no list of Burgesses until 1792.
We mentioned in our previous article
that his son, Thomas Cocke (3), was one of the Burgesses from Henrico in 1702.
We have ascertained since the writing of that article that the county of
Henrico was represented in this Assembly in the year 1698-99 by Thomas Cocke
(3) and his brother James Cocke (3). It is probable that they were members of
the body in other years of which we have no record.
HIS WILL
The will of Thomas Cocke(2) was
probated April 1, 1697. It appears that he lived at “Malvern Hills”. (His
father had lived at Bremo (probably an Indian name), which is brother, Richard
(2) inherited.)
For those days he was quite a
wealthy man, and left a considerable estate - including the advancements made
to his children, some 5,000 acres of land, the home place “Malvern Hills”
having on it a flour-mill and two tanneries. This was of course the mill that
had been owned by his father prior to 1665, and was undoubtedly one of the
first mills erected in the Colony.
TANNERIES
Besides the mill, he owned, as
stated two tanneries, and he mentions by name one of his tanners whom he
bequeaths to his son James. He owned another mechanic (Jack Long) at the ill,
whom he leaves “with all his tools” to his son Stephen (probably a Cooper).
MANUFACTURES LINEN CLOTH
In 1693 the Assembly offered a
reward for specimens of linen cloth of home manufacture - 800 pounds of tobacco
for that of the first quality. In 1695 this amount was paid to Thomas Cocke for
such a piece of cloth, fifteen ells in length and three=quarters of a yard in
width. (See Bruce's Economic History of Virginia, ii, 459.)
Thomas Cocke (2) and his brother,
William Cocke (2), both owned looms also, and manufactured woolen cloth (see
Bruce ii, 470) and in his will Thomas Cocke bequeaths to his daughter, Agnes
Harwood, a mulatto girl (whom he enjoins was to be tenderly treated, she having
waited on him in his sickness), with a weaver's loom “and all the stages and
harness” thereunto belonging.
Among his slaves were some four
or five Indian girls.
He leaves a legacy of 1,000
pounds of tobacco “towards purchasing a bell for the Church”.
He makes several special legacies
of horses.
His son, James and his wife are
his executors, and the will is sealed with red wax, as was the will of Richard
Cocke (1) (implying arms)
VALUE OF HIS ESTATE
The estate left by Thomas Cocke
(2) amounted to about $75,000 in present figures. His land (5,000 acres),
including the improvements, dwelling, mill, tan-yards, tobacco houses,
orchards, gardens (all referred to in his will) must have been worth at least
$1 an acre, and estimating the one pound went as far in 1690 as 9 pounds in
1896, the landed estates must have been worth $45,000, and the personalty must
have amounted to 1,000 pounds or some $30,000.
During the same period (see
Bruce, ii, 251) in Henrico county the appraisements of Francis Eppes (who also
owned a store) was 600 pounds; of Thos. Osborne, 208 pounds; John Davis, 250
pounds.
In York county, 1672-'90, the
largest personalty is 642 pounds (James Vaulx). The next highest are 455, 355,
235, 220 pounds. Nathaniel Bacon (1690-1700) is rated at 925 pounds.
The highest personalty in
Elizabeth City, 1690-1700 was 282 pounds (Wm. Marshall).
Colonel John Carter, Sr., in
Lancaster, is rated at 2,250 pounds and Robt. Beverley in Middlesex at 5,000
pounds.
There is an advertisement noticed
in the old county records in which Thomas Cocke offers land for sale or rent.
From the land-books we learn that he patented some 5,100 acres f land in
Henrico and Charles City county in 1675.
Since this article was in the
printer's hands we have seen the will of Margaret Cocke, widow of Thomas Cocke
(2). She die not die till 1718, surviving him over twenty years. We discover
from the will that before marrying Thomas Cocke, she had been married to
-------- Jones, and had three children, one of whom was MAJOR PETER JONES, the
founder of Petersburg, and after whom the town was named. It is the same family
with Roger Jones of Northumberland and Lieutenant-Colonel Cadwallander Jones of
Stafford. On the register of Bristol parish, 1725, is the name “Cadwallander
Jones, son of Peter Jones”.
The executors of Margaret Cocke's
will are Peter Jones and William Randolph. She leaves a Negro girl to Mrs. Mary
Randolph and a “mulatto boy” to her “godson William Randolph, son of William
Randolph.”
A COLONIAL PICTURE
In an article on Racing in
Virginia, Mr. W. G. Stanard (Virginia Historical Magazine, ii, 294) gives some
interesting extracts from the Henrico Records about Thomas (3) and Stephen Cocke
(3) in this connection in 1689. We have only room for one of them which follows
below:
In 1689 Thomas and Stephen Cocke
were twenty-five and twenty-three years of age. In the will of this Thomas
Cocke (3), who died 1707 he makes reference to the “Race Paths” at Malvern
Hills.
The following is a deposition
filed in the Henrico Records, 1688-'97, p. 74.
“William Randolph, aged about 38
years, Deposeth: That about Saturday last was a fortnight this ep't was at a
race at Mauvern hills at which time Mr. Wm. Epes and Mr. Stephen Cocke came to
this depon't & desired him to take notice of ye agreement: w'ch was that ye
hore of ye s'd Epes and ye horse of Mr. Sutton was to run that Race for ten
shillings on each side, and each horse was to keep his path, they not being to
crosse unlesse Stephen Cocke could get the other Rider's path at ye start at
two or three Jumps (to ye best of the dep'ts knowledge) and also that they were
not to touch neither man nor horse, and further desired the dep't to start the
Horses, w'ch this dep't did and to the best of this dep't's judgment they had a
fair start and Mr. Cocke endeavored to get the other rider's path as aforesaid
according to ye agreement, but to ye best of the depon't's Judgment he did not
get it at two or three Jumps nor many more, upon which they Josselled upon Mr.
Epes horse's path all most part of the race. And further saith not.
“Wm. Randolph”
Aug. 1, 1689.
2. RICHARD COCKE (2), the elder,
of “Bremo” in Henrico. Born 1639; died 1706. Married Elizabeth -------------.
He seems to have been surveyor of the county, and was a member of the county
court 1678, 1680, 1699 and probably during all of this period. The justices of
Henrico at this time were: Richard Cock, William Randolph, Peter Field, Francis
Epps, William Farrer, John Worsham, Thomas Cock (sheriff), Giles Webb, Joseph
Royall, John Bolling, James Cock (3), clerk court. In Charles City county,
Robert Bolling (2), whose son Robert (3) married (1706) Anne Cocke, was
sheriff. John Brasseur (Brazure - Mary Brazier married Thomas Cocke (3)) was a
justice in Nansemond; Miles Cary in Warwick; Coll: Lemuel Mason (whose daughter
married Captain Thomas Cocke) in Lower Norfolk; William Cocke in Surry.
The will of Richard Cocke (2) was
admitted to probate December 2, 1706 and is witnessed by William Randolph and
William Randolph, Jr. and certified by James Cocke, Cl. Cur. He left one son,
Richard (3) who is his executor) and two daughters, Elizabeth (3) and Martha
(3) (married to Joseph Pleasants, ancestor of Governor James Pleasants, and
Miles Cary) and a number of grandchildren. He leaves an estate worth at present
$35,000.
The Cockes at this time were all
nestled along Turkey Island Creek, Thomas (2), Richard (2), William (2), Thomas
(3) and Stephen (3) on the north side of the creek in Henrico; Richard Cocke
(2), the younger, on the south side, at “Old Man's Creek”, in Charles City
county.
Henrico and Charles City counties
originally lay on both sides of the river, including what are now Prince George
and Chesterfield. Prince George was created in 1702.
The town of Charles City was what
is now called City Point, at the mouth of the Appomattox, five miles below
Henricus City in the remarkable loop of the river at Varina or Dutch Gap. In
this neighborhood lived the Cockes, the Randolphs, the Ishams, the Bollings,
the Eppes', the Pleasants', the Kennons, the Poythress', the Ligons, the
Banisters, the Fields, the Jeffersons, the Royalls, the Davis', the Hardimans,
the Jones' (the father of Major Peter Jones, the founder of Petersburg).
Immediately opposite Charles
City, on the north side of the river, Turkey Island creek, about two miles in
length, emptied into the James. It is the dividing line between Henrico and
Charles City counties. Midway, on its north side, is Malvern Hills, which is
separate from the river by the estate of Turkey Island (William Randolph's and
afterward owned by Bowler Cocke (6)). On the river above Turkey Island
plantation was Curles, where James Cocke (3) lived, and Bremo in a little loop (the
river makes a tremendous bend) lies just between, about two miles from Malvern
Hills.
Above Malvern Hills, on the
creek, in the year 1700, were Stephen and William Cocke (3), and about half-way
between the Malvern House and the head of the creek still stands the line of an
old dam, where stood Thomas Cocke's mill. Half a mile farther, at the head of
the creek, Carters Mill (Shirley) is still standing.
3. JOHN COCKE (2). Born 1647,
died --------------, married Mary Davis. There was a planter in Henrico county
at this time named John Davis, whose personalty was appraised in 1690 at 265
pounds, rather above than below that of the larger landholders in Henrico at
this date. At the close of Dale's administration (1616) Captain James Davis had
command of the colonists in Henrico. In 1619 Thomas Davis was a member for
Martin-Brandon of the Assembly of 1619, the first that met in Virginia. William
Davis was a member of the House of Burgesses from James City in 1642 and 1647.
Captain James Davis died in 1657 at his plantation over against James City.
John Cocke (2) was the progenitor
of the Cox family of Chesterfield. (Judge James H. Cox was in the Legislature
in 1840-]'50 and a member of the Constitutional Convention of 1850 from the
Petersburg District.). It was probably this family of Cox's that lived at
Arrahattocks, near Dutch Gap.
There is no will of John Cocke on
record, and we are ignorant of the names of his children. He was he godson of
Walter Aston and the first child of Mary Aston.
4. WILLIAM COCKE (2) born 1655,
died 1693. He married first, Jane Clarke in 1678 and second Sarah Flower, about
1689 . Jane Clarke was the daughter of Lieutenant-Colonel Daniel Clarke of
Charles City county, possibly the son of Captain Jon Clarke, “an Englishman by
nation, a native of London, and of the same religion as his king” (See Brown);
died in Va., 1623. The Henrico Records mention a judgment against estate of
Lieutenant-Colonel Daniel Clarke, late guardian of Lieutenant-Colonel Richard
Cocke's orphans for 500 pounds sterling, 1686. Sarah Flower was of James City
county. In the “William & Mary Quarterly” for April 1894, page 1, is an
epitaph from a tomb in Gloucester county (Abingdon Parish), the grave of
Jeffrey Flower who died in 1726. The arms of the family are on the tomb and are
“those of Flower of Chilton, county Wilts. Sa. A unicorn pass., or on a a chief
ar.” He left three children: William, Mary and Elizabeth. This Mary Cocke(3)
married Obadiah Smith and these were the parents of Obadiah Smith of Westham,
Chesterfield county, whose daughter Lucy Smith, was the second wife of James
Powell Cocke (6).
5. RICHARD COCKE (2) the younger
(It was not unusual in those days for brothers to have the same Christian name)
settled at “Old Man's Creek”, in Charles City county, left him by his father's
will. The records of Charles City county (like those of James City) were mostly
destroyed by the Federal soldiers in the late war, and we know almost
absolutely nothing about this youngest of Richard Cocke (1). There is good
reason to conjecture that he may have been the father of Anne Cocke (3) who
married Robert Bolling of Charles City in 1706 and became the maternal ancestor
of the line of the Petersburg Bollings.
There was a Littleberry Cocke, a
justice of Charles City in 1768; an Acrill Cocke, a Bolling Cocke and an R.
Cocke Tyler in the same county in 1790-'93. (William Acrill was a member of the
Convention of 1736 from Charles City. His grandson, William Acrill of Charles
City was in the Convention of 1776.
6. ELIZABETH COCKE (2). We know
absolutely nothing of her - save an entry in the Henrico Records, 1678, that
“Elizabeth Cocke, Mary Randolph and Anne Isham are witnesses to Eliz. Eppes'
will”.
GENEALOGY OF THE COCKE FAMILY OF
VIRGINIA
THE COCKE FAMILY OF HENRICO -
THIRD GENERATION
I. THE CHILDREN OF THOMAS COCKE
(2) (SON OF RICHARD COCKE AND TEMPERANCE BALEY/BAILEY AND MARY ASTON)
(He left six children: 1. Thomas
Cocke; 2. Stephen Cocke; 3. John Cocke; 4. William Cocke; 5. Temperance Cocke
and 6. Agnes Cocke)
1. THOMAS COCKE, (JR.)(3)
(Captain), born c. 1662; died 1707; married first, about 1687 Mary Brazier
(Brazure, Brashear, Brasier, Brassieux, Brashure) of Nansemond; married second
Frances -----------------. I think that at least four of his six children
(including his two daughters) were by his first wife. (In the Richmond Enquirer
of 1824 there is mention of Gen. Brazure W. Pryor of Elizabeth Cit, who was a
candidate for Congress. (A sister of President Tyler married one of the
Pryors.) In Vol I. of the “Dinwiddie Papers”, p. xxiii, it is stated that Col.
Gerard Fowke of Gunston Hall, Eng., of the Bedchamber to Charles I and his
cousin, Col. Geo. Mason, both of the Royalist Army, came to Virginia about
1650. Chandler Fowke, son of the above, had issue: Chandler, Gerard and
Elizabeth, the last of whom married Z. Brazier, son of Robert Brazier, of Isle
of Thanet, Eng. Gov. Dinwiddie married into the family. In 1680 John Brassier
was one of the Justices of Nansemond Co.; also in 1699. In 1702-9 (See Meade)
John Brasseur and Maj. Thos. Jordan were vestrymen of Chuckatuck Parish,
Nansemond. In 1696 John Brassieux and Thomas Jordan (sheriff) were in the House
of Burgesses from Nansemond. There is a deed from John Brasher (as it is
spelled in the deed) on 17th May 1692, which is signed by Thomas and Mary
Cocke.)
His life was a short one, but he,
with James, were the most prominent members of the family at this time. James
Cocke and Wm. Randolph were in the House of Burgesses from Henrico in 1696. In
1698 Thomas and James were the representatives from this county. Thomas was
made sheriff in 1699. The law did not permit the sheriff to be a member of the
House of Burgesses (See Hening), but in 1702 we find him again a member of this
body, and in 1707, when he died, he was again sheriff. We have no record for
the intervening years.
On his death Colonel William
Randolph was appointed sheriff, competing with Lieutenant-Colonel Francis Epes
and Major William Farrar.
At this time (say 1702) his
brother James Cocke (3) was the county clerk; his brother or cousin William (3)
was coroner; Richard (3) of Bremo, was (like the others) a member of the county
court. One of the justices of the county at this time was Thomas Jefferson,
great-grandfather of President Jefferson.
Thomas Cocke's will was admitted
to probate 1707. He appointed his son Thomas (4) his executor, and his “beloved
friends Thomas Farrar, Littlebury Epes and Sam'l Harwood (his brother-in-law),
Gent., overseers of his last will and testament”. He left six children: Thomas,
James Powell, Henry, Brassuir, Mary, Elizabeth.
His wife (Frances) had a separate
estate settled on her by her father, which she retains intact.
The testator first devises 650
acres of land to his son Thomas; then to James Powell Cock the tract on which
testator lives (Malvern Hills); also another tract of 200 acres to same; and
also to said James Powell Cocke a third tract lying in Charles City County,
containing 920 acres; to son Henry he gives a tract of land in Henrico and
another tract containing 943 acres; to Brassuir two tracts, containing 1650
acres. He devises in all about 6,000 acres of land in Henrico, and another
tract containing 943 acres; to Brassuir two tracts, containing 1650 acres. He
devises in all about 6,000 acres of land. He gives land, Negroes, tobacco and
money to his two daughters, and certain Negroes to his sons, and divides,
excepting certain special legacies, all his personal property equally among the
four sons with certain provisions for the support of his daughters.
As Thomas receives much less land
than the other sons, it is probable (he was older) that he had been advanced in
the testator's life-time.
Among the special legacies are:
100 acres of land to his servant, Edward Richardson; to his son, Thomas, his
horse “Desperate”, his “longest cane and great silver-hilted sword with m best
trooper's saddle and furniture with brass plate Crooper, Holsters, Pistolls and
Carbine” to so James Powell Cocke, “a Bay horse called 'Prince' with my
silver-headed cane and Baginet”; unto son, Henry “a spayed mare called 'Bonny'
& his old silver-hilted sword”; to Mary “my old silver Tankard and the one
half of her deceased mother's wearing apparel (he was married twice), best
chest of Drawers, Rusha Leather Trunk, 10 pounds sterling, one of my silver
wine cups, largest Gold Ring marked J. P. and M. C., with a silver Tumbler, ear
Bobbs, and one silver wine cup marked to M., &c”; to Elizabeth “Walnut
chest Drawers, 1 Seile Skin Trunk, newest Silver Tankard, 10 pounds sterling,
one of my silver wine cups, gold ring and ear-rings and bobs of Gold and five
silver spoons”. He gives to wife and children and son, Thomas, the wearing
apparel had “sent for to England”.
In the account of the Huguenot
Emigration to Virginia in the yer 1700 published in the Virginia Historical
Collections, Vol. V, pages 17-21, there is a statement of moneys paid out “for
the Transport and Supplies of ye French Refugees”, and among the items are the
following:
To Cap't. Cocke and his brother
for 10 Cowes and a Calfe, 23 pounds 11 0
To Capt. Cocke for 3 tin pans,
one Cullinder, &c., &c., 9 pounds 1 6
In 1687 Thomas Cocke, Jr.,
patented 671 acres of land in Henrico county for transportation of 14 persons:
Sarah Carter, Peter Dangerfield, &c.
In 1688 he patented in Henrico
1650 acres. Showing the capriciousness in the spelling, there is in the
Land-Books about 1690 an entry for 79 acres of land to Thomas Cox. His estate
at his death we judge amounted in present figures to about $75,000 - very
large, considering that he was only about 45 years of age.
2. STEPHEN COCKE (3) born c.
1664, died 1717, married 1. Mrs. Sarah Marston, 1688; 2. Martha Banister, 1694.
There was at this time a Marston Parish in James City county. In 1702 William
Marston was sheriff of James City county. Frances Benskin, daughter of Henry
Benskin of England (died 1692) married William Marston of James City, and her
son Benskin was sheriff of Charles City 1747. Benskin was a name in the Lightfoot
family. In 1638 Francis Epes, John Banister and other imported thirty Negroes
into Virginia. There was a Lieutenant John Banister (no doubt the same person)
who died in Charles City county prior to 1661. On the 5th January 1689, the
Rev. John Banister baptized Henry Randolph at Appamatock. This last-mentioned
John Banisher (2) was no doubt the father of Martha Banister (3) and of John
Banister (3) the celebrated botanist, who was killed by an accident near the
Falls of Roanoke. (See Campbell, page 724.) John Banister (3) was the father or
grandfather of Colonel John Banister (5) of Revolutionary period, who was in
the Convention of 1776 and in the Continental Congress, and who was a man of
very large wealth. He lived at “Battersea”, and married about 1760 Elizabeth
Bland, daughter of Colonel Theodorick Bland and sister of Frances Bland, mother
of John Randolph of Roanoke and Judge Henry St. George Tucker. Martha Banister
(5) was a sister of Colonel John Banister (5) born (see Slaughter's Bristol
Parish) February 9, 1732 and married, 1751, Robert Bolling (4), son of Robert
Bolling (3) and Anne Cocke (3).
We have no will of Stephen Cocke,
but it is ascertained from the few remaining records of Prince George that he
died in that county in the year 1717. He had crossed over among the Banisters
and Bolling and Jones'. He had a son Abraham Cocke (4) who settled in Amelia
Co. (then part of Charles City Co., and became the progenitor of the
distinguished line of Tennessee Cockes: General Wm Cocke (in U. S. Senate,
1795), General John Cocke, his son, in House of Representatives 1819-27 and Hon
Wm. M. Cocke in Congress, 1849-53.
Stephen Cocke left also a
daughter Agnes (4). He patented, as appears, 1040 acres of land in 1695 in
Henrico and Charles City In 1687, his father, Thomas Cocke (2) conveyed to him
200 acres of land “one part of which was part of ye tract of dividend of land
at Malvern Hills”, which included the Mill property; and in 1701 Stephen Cocke
(3) conveyed 56 acres on which the mill stood, to John Pleasants who married
Dorothea Cary (3), daughter of Henry Cary (2) of Warwick. Her brother Miles
Cary (3) married Elizabeth Cocke (3) daughter of Richard (2). This piece of
property is described as adjoining lands of Thomas Cocke (3), William Cocke (3)
and Stephen (3). Sealed by Stephen Cocke with a red wafer. Sealed by Martha
Cocke with “seal of yellow wax”. Witnessed by James Cocke, Theodorick Carter,
Benj. Hatcher.
In 1700 there is a deed from
Stephen Cocke (3) to Robert Bolling (3) who married Anne Cocke (3)). In 1698
Stephen (3) deeds to brother Thomas (3) land left him by his father's will. In
1704 Stephen (3) deeds to Thomas (3) the land, taken from Malvern Hills, deeded
to Stephen by his father in 1687. In 1701 Stephen Cocke (3) gives a Negro girl to
Martha Jones (his half-niece). These Jones' intermarried with the descendants
of Colonel Abram Wood (of the Governors Council in 1657), and they all moved
(along with Abraham Cocke (4)) to the vicinity of Petersburg, and thence into
Amelia. There is a Richard Jones from Amelia in House of Burgesses in 1736, and
a Wood Jones from Amelia in 1752, and Colonel Joseph Jones, Binns Jones (son of
Peter) and John Jones are in the Convention of 1788 from Dinwiddie and
Brunswick.
3. JAMES COCKE (3) (son of Thomas
(2)), born c. 1666; died 1721; married Elizabeth Pleasants, January 1691,
daughter of John and Jane Pleasants. (John Pleasants, ancestor of this Virginia
family, was a Quaker; came to Virginia in 1665 from Norwich, England and
settled in Henrico. He received grants for some 5,000 acres of land and married
Jane Tucker, widow of Samuel Tucker. He died at “Curles”, on James river, 1698.
He had three children: 1. John married Dorothea Cary and was a patentee of some
10,000 acres of land; 2. Elizabeth married James Cocke and their children
intermarried with the Harrisons and Poythress', 3. Joseph married Martha Cocke
(3), daughter of Richard Cocke (2). John Pleasants of “Pickanockie”, son of
Joseph Pleasants and Martha Cocke (3) married Susanna Woodson, daughter of
Colonel Tarleton Woodson (grandson of Stephen Tarleton, of the family of
Colonel Banater Tarleton, the famous British partisan) and Ursula Fleming said
to be descended from Sir Tarleton Fleming, second son of the Earl of Wigton
(Judge William Fleming and Tarleton Fleming, who married Mary Randolph were of
this family). James Pleasants, third son of John and Susanna Pleasants, married
Anne, widow of Isham Randolph, of “Dungeness”, Goochland county, son of William
Randolph of “Turkey Island”. They were the parents of Governor James Pleasants.
See Brock I, 139. Through this marriage he acquired the estate of “Curles” on
James River, he being known as “James Cocke of Curles”. He was clerk of Henrico
from 1692 to 1707, in which office he was succeeded a few years after by
William Randolph.
His cousin, Martha Cocke (3),
daughter of Richard Cocke (2) of Bremo, married Joseph Pleasants; brother of
his wife. Here was a double alliance with the Pleasants'. But it did not top
here. At the same date the Carys intermarried with both the Cockes and the
Pleasants' of Henrico. So that there was a dual connection with the Carys and a
triple connection with the Pleasants' family.
James Cocke (3) was a member of
the house of Burgesses in 1696 and in 1698-9, and probably in other years. He
was clerk of Henrico for the period 1692-1707. We lose sight of him after this
date, except some conveyances to his son, James Cocke (4) (1713) and others.
Unfortunately we have not got his will, but we have the will of his widow,
Elizabeth Cocke who survived him many years and died about 75 years age in
1731. They had two sons, James (executor of Elizabeth Cocke's will) and
Pleasant (from Pleasants) who died 1744, and left a son, William Fleming (he
married a Fleming) Cocke, and a son named Pleasant, who was a captain in the
Revolutionary War. They also left a daughter who married a Poythress and we are
told that there were intermarriages with the Harrisons.
4. WILLIAM COCKE (3), son of
Thomas (2) (on an earlier entry we enumerate John Cocke among the children of
Thomas Cocke (2) instead of William. In this we followed the genealogy
published in the Fifth Volume of the Virginia Historical Collections; but we
find from an examination of the will of Thomas Cocke (2) that his fourth son
was named William NOT JOHN.) born c. 1670; died 1717; married 1691, Sarah
Dennis. (Richard Denis was a member of the House of Burgesses from Charles City
in 1714, very probably the father of Sarah Dennis. Sir Thomas Dennis paid 105
pounds as member of the Virginia Company of Bicton and Holcombe, Devon. He
married Anne, daughter of Wm Powlett, Marquis of Winchester; died 1613. Captain
Robt. Dennis was sent over in 1652 by Cromwell to establish his authority in
the colony) These had issue: William (4) Temperance (4), Catharine (4), Mary
(4) and Sarah (4).
5. TEMPERANCE COCKE (3), daughter
of Thomas (2) born c. 1670; died ------------; married Captain Samuel Harwood,
who was the delegate from Charles City county in the House of Burgesses in
1710, '14, '23 and '26. His son, Samuel Harwood, Jr. of Weyanoke, was sheriff
of the county in 1730, '31, '37. Temperance Cocke was certainly a daughter of
Thos. Cocke's first wife. .
6. AGNES COCKE (3), daughter of
Thos Cocke (2), born c. 1672; died ------------------, married Captain Joseph
Harwood of Charles City, Justice of the county and Member House of Burgesses
1710.
(Few Colonial families can show
such a record as the Harwoods. The first of the name is Sir Edward Harwood,
Governor of North Carolina in 1625. We next meet with Captain Thomas Harwood,
who represented Mulbury Island (Warwick Co.) in the House of Burgesses
continuously from 1629 to 1642. In 1642 and 1652 he was a member of the
Council. In 1685 Major Humphrey Harwood, was a Burgess from Warwick and he was
sheriff in 1692. In 1693, Anne Harwood, daughter of Thomas Harwood, married
Thomas Wythe, ancestor of Chancellor Wythe. Colonel William Harwood (Warwick)
was a member of House of Burgesses 1744, 1748, 1752, 1753, 1755, 1758, 1764,
1765, 1769, 1772, 1774 and of the Convention of 1776. The first of the name who
appeared in Charles City county were Capt. Joseph and Capt. Samuel Harwood (who
married the daughters of Thomas Cocke (2) of Henrico). They were both (as
mentioned) in the House of Burgesses in 1710 from Charles City, and Samuel
Harwood was a member of this body also in 1714, 1723 and 1726 (as above
stated). In 1730, '31 and '37 Samuel Harwood, probably son of foregoing, was
(as stated above) sheriff of Charles City, and Samuel Harwood, Jr., of
Weyanoke, is appointed justice in 1739. In 1775 Samuel Harwood, probably
grandson of he first Samuel, is appointed a major of the Virginia Forces; and
in 1776 (along with his kinsman Colonel Wm. Harwood, of Warwick) he is a member
of the State Convention. William H. Harwood, of Charles City, c. 1770, married
Margaret Waldrop, who had issue: Agnes Harwood married Fielding Lewis of
Gloucester, 1788 and Nancy Harwood married Thomas Lewis of Gloucester.
Christopher Harwood of King and Queen, married Margaret, daughter of Thomas
Roane, and had issue: Col. Archibald Roane Harwood of "Newington",
member House of Delegates from King and Queen 1816, '22, '23, '24, '32, '34. He
married Martha, daughter of Samuel G. Fauntleroy, and their children married
with Brockenbroughs, Garnetts, Pollards, Winders. All of these Charles City and
King and Queen Harwoods were descended from Temperance and Agnes Cocke (3).
There was a Harwood of Warwick in Legislature in 1823, 1824 and 1829. In 1819
John R. Harwood was a Director in Exchange Bank in Norfolk; and Wm. B. Harwood
was a Director in Farmer's Bank, Petersburg.)
THIRD GENERATION - Continued
II. THE CHILDREN OF RICHARD COCKE
(2)
RICHARD COCKE (2) of Bremo, born
1672; died 1720; married first Anne Bowler. We don't know the name of his
second wife.
Anne Bowler was the daughter of
Thomas Bowler of the county of Rappahannock (now Essex and Richmond); member of
the Governor's Council in 1670. She was born in 1695 and died 1705. There
appear to have been three children by this marriage, on of them Bowler Cocke
(4) of Bremo. Among the children of the second marriage was Richard (4) the
ancestor of Col. Richard Cocke of Bacon's Castle, of Hartwell Cocke (5),
General John Hartwell Cocke (7) &c. (In the Revolutionary period there was
a Bowler's Wharf on the Rappahannock. The name now is spelled also Boulware.
In the William and Mary College
Quarterly for January 1895, p. 204, is the following interesting notice of the
grave-yard at Bremo: “At Bremor, in Henrico county, I observed two badly
shattered stones with the following inscriptions.
“Here lyes Interr'd the Body of
Richard Cocke (2)
Son of Richard (10 of B * * * *
He was born the 105h day
* * ecember 1639, and departed
* * * ife on the 20th November *
* “
“Here lyeth Interr'd the Body
of Anne, the wife of Richard
Cocke (3)
the younger, of Bremor in this
county,
and daughter of Thomas Bowler,
late
of the County of Rappahannock.
She was born the 23d day of Jan:
1675 and departed this life the
24th
day of April, 1705 Aged
30 * * 3 months 1 day”
In the year 1710 (see Vol. V,
Virginia Historical Collections, Huguenot Emigration to Virginia, p. 73) Mr.
Robert Bolling is ordered by the Honorable the Liet.-Governor and the Council
to survey and lay of the second 5,000 acres of land assigned to the French
Refugees at Manakin Town, and Colo. Wm. Randolph and Mr. Richard Cocke are
appointed to here and determine all disputes in regard to the distribution of
the above shares, &c.
In 1714 (Dr. William Cocke was at
this time secretary of the colony) Richard Cocke (3) bought of Lt.-Governor
Spotswood, as appears by a deed recorded at Williamsburg, for the sum 12 pounds
10 shillings (about $350 at present), 2,447 acres of land on the north side of
James river, in what is now Goochland county, adjoining the lands of Nicholas
Meriwether and Joseph Lewis. A part of this tract, 1,100 acres, was bought in
1770 by the Rev. Wm. Douglas, the teacher of Mr. Jefferson, and given to his
grandson Thomas Meriwether. (In the county of Goochland in 1751 Patty Wood,
daughter of Henry Wood and Martha Cox, married Wm. Meriwether.)
About 1700 Richard Cocke (3) or
Richard Cocke (2) patented 975 acres land.
We have not the will of Richard
Cocke (3) but there is a memorandum in the Order-Book of Henrico county that it
was proven October 1720, with Ebenezer Adams, Nathaniel Harrison and Henry
Harrison as executors. Nathaniel Harrison was son of Benjamin Harrison of Surry
county. He was the grandfather of Benjamin Harrison of Brandon “the signer”.
(CORRECTION: We erroneously represented Nathaniel Harrison as the grandfather
of Benjamin Harrison, “the signer”. But this Benjamin Harrison was of Berkeley
and was the son of Benjamin Harrison (2), Eldest son of Benjamin (1).)
Ebenezer Adams was the father of
Thomas Adams (afterwards of New Kent) who married Martha Cocke (4), daughter of
Richard (3), member of the Continental Congress 1778, 1780 and the progenitor
of the Adams family who lived in Richmond in beginning of present century. (CORRECTION:
In our last article we stated that the ancestors of the Adams family of the
Revolutionary period, and afterwards so prominent in Richmond were Thomas
Adams, son of Ebenezer Adams and Martha Cocke (4), daughter of Richard Cocke
(3). This was an error, as we learn from a carefully prepared genealogy of the
Adams family in the January number of the William and Mary College Quarterly by
Mr. C. W. Coleman. It was from “Ebenezer Adams and Tabitha Cocke(4)” daughter
of Richard (3) that Richard and Thomas Adams and Colonel Richard Adams, Jr.,
and the other members of that family were descended. Tabitha Cocke (4) was a
daughter of Anne Bowler (Richard (3) Cocke's first wife). She married c. 1718
(she must have been born about 1698), Ebenezer Adams and it was through their
son Richard (5) (not Thomas (5)), that the descent of the Richard Adams' was
drawn. Thomas Adams (5) died childless, although he married in 1775 the widow
of his first cousin, Colonel Bowler Cocke (5) whose maiden name was Fauntleroy
(died 1791).)
It is not unlikely that there was
some connection by marriage with Nathaniel and Henry Harrison.
2. ELIZABETH COCKE (3) was the
second child of Richard Cocke (2). She married in 1695 (and was probably born
about 1675) Miles Cary (3), clerk of Warwick County.
The Carys are an ancient
Devonshire family, of which collateral branches were Barons of Hunsdon, Earls
of Monmouth and Dover, and Viscounts Falkland. (See Burke for the descent.)
Miles Cary (1) came to Virginia
in 1640-46 and died 1667. Settled in Warwick and the name continued potent in
that county down to 1800, and very prominent elsewhere. Miles Cary was a member
of the Governor's Council in 1665. His children were:
1. Thomas Cary (2)
2. Ann Cary (2)
3. Henry Cary (2)
4. Bridget Cary (2)
5. Elizabeth Cary (2)
6. Miles Cary (Jr.) (2)
7. William Cary (2)
Thomas Cary (2) died 1708. Issue:
Thomas, James, Milnor, Elizabeth
Henry Cary (2) was the father of
Miles Cary (3) who married Elizabeth Cocke. He lived at a place called “The
Forest”, and was appointed to erect and superintend the building of William and
Mary College and the capitol at Williamsburg. He had issue: Henry (3); Miles
(3); Ann (3), Elizabeth (3), Judith (3) married ------------ Barber.
Henry Cary (3) was the father of
Colonel Archibald Cary (4) of Ampthill, died 1787; prominent in the
Revolutionary period; married Mary Randolph, daughter of Richard Randolph (3).
One of his daughters married Thomas Mann Randolph; another Carter Page
Miles Cary (3) son of Henry (2)
died 1724; married, as we have said, Elizabeth Cocke (3) and they had issue:
1. Anne Cary (4)
2. Elizabeth Cary (4) (who
married Benjamin Watkins of Chesterfield and had descendants: Benjamin Watkins
Leigh (grandson)(who was descended from the Cocke family), Conway Robinson,
Finney, Royall, Worsham, Barksdale &c.)
3. Bridget Cary (4)
4. Dorothy Cary (4)
5. Martha Cary (4)
6. Miles Cary (4)
7. Thomas Cary (4)
8. Nathaniel Cary (4)
Colonel Miles Cary (2) died 1708;
surveyor-general, naval officer, &c.; married daughter of Colonel William
Wilson (Naval Officer for Lower James). They had issue:
1. Colonel Wilson Cary (3) of
“Cesley's”, and “Richneck”, born 1702. Educated at William and Mary and
Cambridge, England. One of his daughters married Robert Carter Nicholas;
another Bryan Fairfax, Baron Fairfax; 2. Miles Cary (3) d.s.p.; 3. Mary Cary
(3) married Joseph Selden.
William Cary (2) had issue:
1. Harwood Cary (3)
2. Miles Cary (3) died 1766;
father of Judge Richard Cary of the Court of Appeals;
3. Martha Cary (3) who married
Edward Jaquelin, whose daughter married Richard Ambler
Miles Cary (3) who married
Elizabeth Cocke, was clerk of Warwick county 1699-1714, and perhaps after 1714.
He seems also to have been in the year 1714 clerk of the Committee of Claims in
the General Assembly.
About this time (1690) Dorothea
Cary (3) married John Pleasants, establishing a very close connection between
the Carys, the Cockes and the Pleasants'. She must have been a cousin of Miles
Car (3), not the daughter of Miles Cary (3), son of Miles (2).
3. MARTHA COCKE (3), daughter of
Richard (2) died -------------------; married Joseph Pleasants. (See under head
of James Cocke (3)). (It is restated here by transcriber: 3. JAMES COCKE (3)
(son of Thomas (2)), born c. 1666; died 1721; married Elizabeth Pleasants,
January 1691, daughter of John and Jane Pleasants. (John Pleasants, ancestor of
this Virginia family, was a Quaker; came to Virginia in 1665 from Norwich,
England and settled in Henrico. He received grants for some 5,000 acres of land
and married Jane Tucker, widow of Samuel Tucker. He died at “Curles”, on James
river, 1698. He had three children: 1. John married Doethea Cary and was a
patentee of some 10,000 acres of land; 2. Elizabeth married James Cocke and their
children intermarried with the Harrisons and Poythress', 3. Joseph married
Martha Cocke (3), daughter of Richard Cocke (2). John Pleasants of
“Pickanockie”, son of Joseph Pleasants and Martha Cocke (3) married Susanna
Woodson, daughter of Colonel Tarleton Woodson (grandson of Stephen Tarleton, of
the family of Colonel Banater Tarleton, the famous British partisan) and Ursula
Fleming said to be descended from Sir Tarleton Fleming, second son of the Earl
of Wigton (Judge William Fleming and Tarleton Fleming, who married Mary
Randolph were of this family). James Pleasants, third son of John and Susanna
Pleasants, married Anne, widow of Isham Randolph, of “Dungeness”, Goochland
county, son of William Randolph of “Turkey Island”. They were the parents of Governor
James Pleasants. See Brock I, 139. Through this marriage he acquired the estate
of “Curles” on James River, he being known as “James Cocke of Curles”. He was
clerk of Henrico from 1692 to 1707, in which office he was succeeded a few
years after by William Randolph.
His cousin, Martha Cocke (3),
daughter of Richard Cocke (2) of Bremo, married Joseph Pleasants; brother of
his wife. Here was a double alliance with the Pleasants'. But it did not top
here. At the same date the Carys intermarried with both the Cockes and the
Pleasants' of Henrico. So that there was a dual connection with the Carys and a
triple connection with the Pleasants' family.
THIRD GENERATION - continued
III. THE CHILDREN OF JOHN COCKE
(2)
1. WILLIAM COCKE (3) married
Sarah Perrin 1695; died 1711 (In Gloucester county, at the mouth of York river,
opposite Yorktown, the old Perrin mansion is still standing in good condition.
It is of the style of architecture so usual in Virginia during the reigns of
the Georges - a large, brick building, two stories high and four rooms on each
floor, wainscoted and paneled. The house is in full view of Yorktown, at the
mouth of Sarah's Creek on the east side of Gloucester Point.
There are several graves of the
Perrin family her, among them that of John Perrin, the epitaph stating that he
died November 2, 1752, aged 63 years. See William and Mary Col. Quar., April
1895, p. 254.
In a list of slave owners in
Abingdon Parish, Gloucester, 1786, the largest slave-holders were: John Page,
160; Warren Lewis, 143; John Perrin, 116; John Seawell, Sr., 39; Sam'l Cary,
39; Joseph Cluverius, 32, &c.
Major Wm. Farrar of Henrico, d.
1715; Burgess 1700, 1701, 1702; son of Lt.-Col. John Farrar; had a brother,
Thomas who married Katherine, daughter of Richard Perrin. These had issue:
Perrin Farrar (a child in 1691). Sarah Perrin was, no doubt, the daughter of
Richard Perrin. The Farrars (Ferrars) were of a very distinguished English
descent.)
In the course of the
investigation of a subject like this, accompanied by published articles as the
investigation progresses, new information is, or course, constantly obtained
from old records, and more especially from the correspondence which is
naturally developed with the scattered members of the connection who become
interested in the family memoir.
We have just received from
Lieutenant Champe Carter McCulloch of the United States Arm, a descendant of
Co. Valentine Wood, and grandson of Edward Carter of Blenheim, a very
interesting letter, which gives us the children and descendants of John Cocke
(2) and solves several very important collateral questions.
From this we learn that John Cox
(2) (this line seems to have adopted this spelling) left a will on record in
Henrico, dated 19 February 1691 - 1692 and probated February 1, 1696. He had
six sons: John (3); Bartholomew (3); Richard (3); William (3); Henry (3) and
George (3) and his wife MARY COX.
There is also on record the will
of William Cox (3) dated February 10, 1711, probated June 1712, which mentions
son Stephen, daughters Martha, Mary Prudence, Judith, Elizabeth and wife SARAH.
There is recorded in Goochland
county the will of Sarah Cox, dated March 26, 1726, probated January 20, 1747.
She mentions son Stephen, daughters Edith, Martha, Elizabeth, Mary, Prudence
and Judith. She appoints Henry Wood her executor, and the will is in the
handwriting of Henry Wood (the clerk of Goochland county at that date, and
father of Col. Vakebtube Wood), who married Lucy Henry, and was the grandfather
of General Joseph E. Johnston, Beverly Johnston of Abingdon, Valentine Wood
Southall and Dr. Philip Southall of Amelia and whose daughters married Edward
Carter of Blenheim, Albemarle county; William Meriwether, grandson of Col.
Nich. Meriwether of Hanover; and Wm. Pryor.
In the genealogy of the Wood
family, it is stated that Henry Wood (for forty-odd years an attorney-at-law
and county clerk of Goochland) married Martha Cox, 13 October 1723 at Bremo, in
Henrico county. Martha Cox, says the genealogy, was the daughter of William and
Sarah Cox of Henrico.
The genealogy proceeds: Valentine
Wood (son of Henry) was baptized Oct. 23, 1724; William Finney, Stephen Cox and
Ann Hoper sureties; and married (Valentine Wood) to Lucy Henry, daughter of
Colonel John Henry, January 3, 1764. At the baptism of other children of Henry
Wood, one of the sureties is Judith Cox.
William Finney, referred to above
was the Rev. Wm. Finney, M. A. of the University of Glasgow, who married Mary
Cocke (4) daughter of Thomas Cocke (3). He was minister of Henrico Parish
1714-27.
The foregoing facts negative of
course the statements on p. 411 of our January article, that William Cocke (3)
son of William Cocke (2) was father of Martha Cox who married Captain Henry
Wood.
It appears that William Cox (3),
son of John (2) died in 1711. This explains the marriage of his daughter in
1723 “at Bremo”. He left a widow and a family of young children, who found
shelter at Bremo with their relative Richard Cocke (3).
2. JOHN COCKE (3) married Mary
-------; born c. 1670; died 1710. Issue: William (4); James (4) died 1713;
Martha (4) married ------- Wilkinson; Robert (4).
We know nothing farther of any of
these individuals, nor have we information about the other children of John
Cocke (2). The family is said to have lived at Dutch Gap, and to have been the
ancestors of the Coxes of Chesterfield.
The Cockes became also a very
prominent family in Goochland (See Meade's “Old Churches”). This may be
connected, however, with the large tract of land bought in this county in 1714
by Richard Cocke.
THIRD GENERATION - continued
IV. THE CHILDREN OF WILLIAM COCKE
(2)
1. WILLIAM COCKE (3). He may have
been a son of William Cocke (2) by his first marriage with Jane Clarke. If so,
he was born about 1679. If his mother was Sarah Flower, he was not born before
1690. His two sisters were certainly by the second wife. There was a “Captain
William Cocke”, of this period, who died in 1736. This may have been the
person.
2. MARY COCKE (3) born c. 1690;
married Obadiah Smith; died 1754. Her husband died 1746. Their wills are on
record in Henrico county. They left a son named Obadiah Smith (died 1765) and a
son named Luke, who was the father of Obadiah Smith (3) (lieutenant in the
Revolution and a man of considerable property), whose daughter, Lucy Smith
married James Powell Cocke (6) in 1777. (Previously we state that he was the
son of Obadiah Smith (1). We confounded him with his uncle, Obadiah Smith (2)
who died in 1765. There is a case reported in 3 Randolph's Reports involving
some contest about the will of this Obadiah Smith (3).
THE COCKE FAMILY OF VIRGINIA
(HENRICO) FOURTH GENERATION
1. DESCENDANTS OF THOMAS COCKE
(3) SON OF THOMAS COCKE.
1. THOMAS COCKE (3) left six
children: Thomas (4), James Powell (4), Henry (4), Brazure (4), Mary (4) and
Elizabeth (4)
1. Thomas Cocke, born c. 1684,
died unmarried 1711.
By his will, probated November 5,
1711, he leaves all his property to his three brothers. His appraisement was
147 pounds; appraisers, John Cocke, Joseph L. Royall, John Archer, John
Worsham, Jr. Executors, Littlebury Eppes and Samuel Harwood.
He leaves the tract of land “on
which his Grandmother now lives” (relict of Thomas Cocke (2)), called “Mawborn
Hills” (note the pronunciation), to his brother Brashaw Cocke, being the land
given him by his grandfather. This property, the homestead, had been left to
Margaret Cocke, widow of Thomas Cocke(2), for life, and she was still living in
1711.
Thomas Cocke (4) had the executor
of his father's will, and he was in “loco parentis” to his younger brothers. It
appears from the settlement of his accounts that Brazure Cocke had been at a
boarding-school.
His funeral sermon was preached
by the Rev. Charles Anderson (He was minister of Westover Parish from 1694 to
1718. His tomb is still standing at Westover. His daughters married John Stith,
Henry Taylor and Ellison Armistead, all belonging to prominent families in
Charles City.) He is charged for this sermon, as also attendance of “Dr. Cocke”
and “Dr. Irby”. Who was this “Dr. Cocke?” That is an interesting question which
we cannot answer. Where did he take his degree? About the same time (1705) in
the Henrico Records there is noted a payment to “Dr. Chastain”, at Manakin
Town. (These families subsequently intermarried.)
2. JAMES POWELL COCKE(4) married
Martha Anderson(?) born c. 1688, died 1747. Martha Anderson may have been
sister to Rev. Charles Anderson.
Another member of this Anderson
family at this time in Henrico was “Henry Anderson” probably brother to Rev.
Charles Anderson. His daughter, Anne Anderson married Benjamin Ward (4) (died
1732) and they had issue: 1. Colonel Seth Ward (5) of “Wintopock”, member House
of Burgesses from Chesterfield about 1769; 2. Benjamin Ward (5); 3. Henry Ward
(5) of Amelia, alive 1746; 4. Rowland Ward (5). Benjamin Ward (6) had a
daughter Maria (7) born 1784 who married Peyton Randolph. She was said to have
been John Randolph's only love. See Virginia Historical Magazine, January 1895,
page 312.
James Powell Cocke (4) resided at
Malvern Hills, and it was he no doubt who built the old colonial house now
standing. He appears to have been County Surveyor of Henrico county, and his
name occurs on the vestry records of Henrico Parish as Vestryman as early as
1731, and frequently afterwards (In the handwriting of John Randolph, copied
from a family Bible, the following entry occurs: Sarah Randolph, daughter of
Henry Randolph, baptized 1715 by Mr. William Finney. Sponsors Mr. Richard
Randolph, Mr. James Powell Cock, Mrs. Anne Epes, Mrs. Sarah Epes. (William and
Mar Quarterly, IV, 2, 126.))
It is a matter of conjecture how
the name Powell was introduced into the Cocke family. Thomas Cocke (3) married
Mary Brashear (or Brazure) in Isle of Wight county. Her mother may have been a
Powell. Or it may be that Margaret Cocke, wife of Thomas Cocke (2) was a
Powell.
There lived in the latter half of
the seventeenth century in Isle of Wight (or Nansemond) county, a MAJOR JAMES
POWELL, who had (as we learn from his will) a sister named Margaret.
In Thomas Cocke's (3) will he
bequeaths to his daughter a gold ring marked “J. P. and M. C.”, which had
probably belonged to her mother, Mary (Brashear) Cocke, and might have been a
gift from James Powell (in this case supposed to be her mother's brother).
In all events it is to be noted
that Thomas Cocke (3) married in Nansemond county, in the neighborhood of Major
James Powell.
Thomas Cocke (2) had a son named
James, and had also a son named Stephen. Now Stephen was distinctively a name
in the Powell family, and it does not occur anywhere else either in England or
Virginia in the Cocke family. Sir Stephen Powell (a member of the Virginia
Company) sub. 37 pounds, 10 shillings and paid 100 pounds. He was one of the
six clerks of chancery, London, and was knighted at Theobold's July 21, 1604;
M. C. for Virginia Company, 1609, and still living in 1619. The name of Captain
Nathaniel Powell is one of the most prominent in Captain John Smith's History -
“one of the first planters”, as he calls him, “a valiant souldier, and not any
in the country better knowne amongst them”, Vol ii, 68. About 1730 there was a
descendant of Richard Cocke (2) named Nathaniel. All these facts are worthy of
consideration.
These Powells were a famous group
in the early period of Virginia. The first of them, Sergeant-Major Anthony
Powell, was killed at St. Augustine in 1586 in the expedition of Sir Frances
Drake.
In 1618 Captain Nathaniel Powell
was Governor of Virginia and member of the Council in 1621, and was killed at
Powel's Brooke, “near Flowerda hundred”, in the Indian massacre of 1622. He
married a daughter of William Tracy, son of Sir John Tracy, and it was about
1680 that Dorothy Cocke, daughter of Thomas Cocke of Castleditch, county
Hereford, England, married Viscount Tracy of Ireland. (her brother Charles
Cocke, M. P. for the city of Worcester, 1691, married the niece of Lord
Chancellor Somers) Captain William Powell was also famous at this time
(administration of Governor Yeardley). He was a member of first House of
Burgesses, 1619. Captain John Smith, in his history, mentions Captain John
Powell as “one of the first and leading adventurers to the planting of this
fortunate isle (the Barbados)”, and states that “Capt. Henry Powell brought
thither the first planters” (40 English and 7 or 8 negroes).
William Powell it is stated, left
two sons, Cuthbert and Thomas, who were living in Lancaster in 160, and were
ancestors of the Powells of Lancaster and Loudoun counties. (See American
Monthly Magazine, February, 1895.)
OLD ST. JOHN'S CHURCH
“In 1737, at a vestry meeting
held at Curl's Church for Henrico Parish, there were present: James Powell
Cocke, James Cocke, church wardens; Richard Randolph, John Redford, Bowler
Cocke, John Bolling, William Fuller, John Povall, John Williamson and Robert
Mosby. At this meeting a resolution was passed to build a church, 60 feet long
by 25 feet in breadth, after the model of Curl's Church, near Thomas
Williamson's.
“At a meeting held December 20,
1739 (same names pretty much), it was agreed to build a church 'on the land the
Hon. William Bird, Esq., 60 feet long and 25 feet broad'. Richard Randolph,
gentleman, was the contractor. The sum of 317 pounds 10 shillings to be paid
for same.
“At a vestry meeting held for
Henrico Parish October 13, 1740, the following members were present: William
Stith, clerk; James Powell Cocke, James Cocke, gentlemen, church wardens;
Richard Randolph, John Redford, Bowler Cocke, John Williamson and William
Fuller, gentlemen vestrymen.
A letter was read by Richard
Randolph, gentleman, as follows:
From the Hon. William Byrd, Esq.
'Sir -- October 12, 1740 - I
should with great pleasure oblige the vestry, and particularly yourself, in
granting them an acre to build their church upon; but there are so many roads
already thro' that land that the damage to me would be too great to have
another of a like cut through it. I should be very glad if you would please to
think Richmond a proper place, and considering the great number of people that
live below it, and would pay their devotions there, that would not care to go
so much higher. I cannot but think it would be agreeable to most of the people,
and if they will agree to have it there, I will give them two of the best lots
that are not taken up, and besides give tem any pine timber they can find on
that side of Shockoe Creek, and wood for burning of bricks into the bargain. I
hope the gentlemen of the vestry will believe a friend to the church when I
make this offer, and that I am both theirs, sir, and your humble servant,
W. Byrd.'
“Whereupon the question was put
whether the church should be built on the hill called Indian Town, at Richmond,
or at Thomas Williamson's plantation, on the Brook road, and is carried by a
majority of votes for the former.
It is therefore ordered that the church
formerly agreed on to be built by Richard Randolph, gentleman, on the south
side of Bacon's Branch, be built on Indian Town, at Richmond, after the same
manner as in the said former agreement was mentioned.
James P. Cocke
James Cocke”
This is the origin of old St.
John's Church, on Church Hill, in Richmond, which thrilled with Patrick Henry's
eloquence in the Revolutionary period.
It will be observed that there
were three Cockes on the Vestry Board of Henrico Parish at this. (In his “Life
and Times of James Madison”, the Hon. W. C. River has the remarks: “The
vestrymen of that day, we shall find, were the Washingtons, the Lees, the
Randolphs, the Masons, the Blands, the Pendletons, the Nelsons, the Nicholas',
the Harrisons, the Pages, the Madisons, and other names far too numerous to
recapitulate in detail, which stand among the first on the roll of our
Revolutionary worthies”. Vol I, 50.
3. HENRY COCKE (4) was the third
son of Thomas Cocke (3). Born c. 1690; died 1715. James Powell Cocke and his brother-in-law,
William Finney, his executors. He was only some 25 years old. No record of his
marriage.
4. BRAZURE COCKE (4) was the
fourth son of Thomas Cocke (3). He was born c. 1694, and was living in 1753 in
James City county, where he removed about 1730. He probably married there, and
the most interesting fact about him is that he was probably the father of
Auditor James Cock of Williamsburg, who died 1781-90 and was very prominent
figure in the Revolutionary period.
Brazure Cocke was named after his
mother's family, and was the youngest son. It appears from an entry in the
executorial accounts of (his brother) Thomas Cocke (4) that he had been sent to
a boarding=school, which is an interesting fact at this early period, about
1710.
(“There was a Horse Race” says
the Virginia Gazette of December 14, 1739, “round the Mile Course (at
Williamsburg) the First Day (of the Fair), for a Saddle of Forty Shillings
Value. Eight Horses started, by Sound of Trumpet, and Col. Chiswell's Horse,
Edgecomb, came in First, and won the Saddle; Mr. Cocke's Horse, Sing'd Cat,
came in Second and won the Bridle, of 12 Shillings Value; and Mr. Drummond's
Horse, ------------- came in Third, and won the Whip.” Virginia Historical
Magazine, ii, 3, page 300. This “Mr. Cocke” was probably Brazure Cocke. There
were no other Cockes in James City county.)
5. MARY COCKE (4), daughter of
Thomas (3), married the Reverend William Finney, who died in 1727. His will is
in Henrico clerk's office. They left issue William and Mary Finney.
There is a deed of gift for 370
acres of land, in 1736, from James Powell Cocke and his sister, Mar Finney, to
William Finney.
The Rev. William Finney, M. A.
was a graduate of the University of Glasgow (name spelled Finnie). Colonel
William Finney in the Revolution was Quartermaster-General of the Virginia
forces. There was a Rev. Alexander Finnie, minister in Prince George, and a
Captain Alexander Finnie, of Williamsburg, in employ of Governor Spotswood in
1752.
William Finnie was minister of
Varina Parish 1714-27 and in 1724 he was one of the “sureties” at the baptism
of Valentine Wood, son of Henry Wood and Martha Cocke.
6. ELIZABETH COCKE (4) daughter
of Thomas (3). We know nothing of her.
II. DESCENDANTS OF STEPHEN COCKE
(3), Son of Thomas (2)
1. ABRAHAM COCKE, born c. 1690,
died 1759. He got is name from the Jones'. Stephen Cocke had a half brother
named Abraham Jones.
Abraham Cocke journeyed to
Amelia, to the banks of the Nottoway River, then part of Prince George; he had
interests near Petersburg. His children were related to the descendants of
Major Peter Jones and Colonel Abram Wood.
The Act of Assembly (1720 - see
Hening) enabling Abraham Cocke to sell certain entailed lands, mentions the
land granted to Stephen Cocke (3) at Malborne Hill, and farther says the said
Stephen Cocke departed this life, leaving issue a son and a daughter, to-wit:
Abraham Cocke and Agnes, “now the wife of Richard Smith”.
The will of Abraham Cocke was
probated in Amelia county May 22, 1760. He died 1759.
He seems to have owned large
estates in what is now Nottoway and Lunenburg counties. He leaves a plantation
or one (sometimes two) tracts of land to each of his six sons: Peter, Abraham,
Stephen, Tomas, John and William and he leaves two slaves to each of his four
daughters, slaves to his sons, and a mill to his wife. These lands lay in
Amelia (now Nottoway), o the Great and Little Nottoway Rivers, and in
Lunenburg.
His four daughters were named
Mary (married Richard Ellis), Agnes (married Charles Hamlin), Martha and
Elizabeth.
In the year 1751 he was Sheriff
of Amelia, then a large county, and a justice 1745-60. In 1749 he is recorded
as a Vestryman of Nottoway Parish.
His youngest son was General
William Cocke (5) one of the founders of the State of Tennessee (Cocke county
is called after him), and one of the first two Senators in Congress from that
State (1795-1805).
General John Cocke (6), son of
General William Cocke (5) had a fierce controversy with General Andrew Jackson
(see Parton's Life of Jackson).
2. AGNES COCKE (4), daughter of
Stephen (3). She married Richard Smith; we know nothing more of her.
III. DESCENDANTS OF JAMES COCKE
(3), Son of Thomas (2)
James Cocke (3) married Elizabeth
Pleasants. They had issue:
1. James Cocke (4), born c. 1690;
died c. 1769. His mother (Elizabeth Pleasants) lived, as we have stated, until
1751. The will of Elizabeth (Pleasants) Cocke, recorded in Henrico county,
mentions her daughter, Elizabeth Poythress, her grandson, William Fleming Cocke
(son of Pleasant Cocke, deceased), her granddaughters, Rebecca, Ann and Tabitha
and her son James Cocke (4) who is made her executor. She bequeaths 12 negroes
to the above and the residue of her estate to James Cocke (4).
James Cocke (4) was a member of
the vestry of Henrico Parish in 1735, and afterwards down to 1750 or later. It
was he whose name is associated with that of James Powel Cocke (4) in
connection with the founding of old St. John's Church.
He lived a long life. A deed is
on record in Henrico courthouse, dated July 2, 1763, from James Cocke, Sr., to
James Cocke, Jr. We have stated that he probably died about 1769; but it is
likely he died about 1765. He interests us not only from his association with
Old St. Jon's Church, but also because his name is connected with the lot which
states the present court-house of Henrico county, as appears from a deed, dated
Oct. 19, 1751, recorded in Henrico clerk's office, in which William Randolph,
gentleman, conveys to James Cocke, gentleman “a certain half acre of ground in
the city of Richmond, and designated as lot No. 22 in plan of said city.” See
Richmond Enquirer, July 23 25, 1876. This lot is the land on which the present
court-house stands. The deed is recorded Nov. 4, 1751, and certified by Bowler
Cocke, C. C.
We have not his will and know the
name of only one of his children, Capt. James Cocke (4).
2. PLEASANT COCKE (4) born,
perhaps, 1692; died 1744. He must have married a Fleming. He seems to have left
two sons; William Fleming Cocke (5) and Pleasant Cocke (Jr.)(5). He seems to
have left two sons: William Fleming Cocke (5) and Pleasant Cocke (5). He may
have also been the father of Rebecca, or Ann, or Tabitha Cocke mentioned as her
grand-daughters in the will of Elizabeth Pleasants Cocke, the widow of James
Cocke (3). Pleasant Cocke(5) was an officer in the Revolution. (The Flemings
were a distinguished family in Goochland and Cumberland in the Revolutionary
period. Several of them were officers high in command in the Continental army,
and several of them in the House of Burgesses. Judge Fleming of the Court of
Appeals in the post-Revolutionary period, was prominent as a member of that
court.)
3. ELIZABETH (COCKE) POYTHRESS
(4). In the next generation there was a marriage between another Poythress and
a certain James Cocke, who lived at “Bon Accord”.
Dr. Bock states in his “Virginia
and Virginians”, Vol. I, page --, that the children of James Cocke (3)
intermarried with the Harrisons. We do not know the authority for this
statement, but that accomplished genealogist is rarely wrong.
IV. The other children of Thomas
Cocke (2) were William Cocke (3) and Temperance (Cocke) Harwood (3). We know
nothing of the children of this William Cocke (3) and of the Harwoods we have
already spoken. (There was a Captain William Cocke and a Captain Thomas Cocke
in the French-Indian wars of the middle of the century.)
V. DESCENDANTS OF RICHARD COCKE
(3) SON OF RICHARD (2) (FOURTH GENERATION)
Richard Cocke (3) left three sons
and four daughters, to-wit: Bowler Cocke (4); Richard Cocke (4), Benjamin Cocke
(4), Martha Cocke (4) (married Thomas Adams, who became quite prominent
afterwards); a daughter who married William Acrill, of Charles City, member
House of Burgesses 1736; Mary Cocke (4) who married ------------- Eppes,
ancestor of Senator John W. Eppes) and a daughter named Tabitha Cocke (4). We
notice them in order.
1. BOWLER COCKE (4) born 1696,
died 1771, at “Shirley”, in Charles City. He married twice: 1. Sarah
----------------; 2. Mrs. Elizabeth Carter, widow of Colonel John Carter of
“Corotoman” and a daughter of Colonel Edward Hill of “Shirley”. Colonel John
Carter married Elizabeth Hill in 1723. He died in 1743. Colonel Bowler Cocke
was then living at “Bremo”. His first wife had died about 1736. He probably
married Mrs. Carter about 1745. When he moved to “Shirley” is not ascertained;
probably about 1752, when he ceased to be clerk of Henrico, which office he
held from 1728. On the death of his second wife, he became the owner of
“Shirley” for life as tenant by curtsey. He died in 1771. (On the death of
Bowler Cocke (1771) Shirley passed to Charles Carter, the eldest son of
Elizabeth Hill by her first marriage. He was father of Edward Carter of
Blenheim, Albemarle county (represented Albemarle in House of Burgesses 1768
and 1785 and no doubt other years), who was grandfather of Dr. Charles Carter
of Charlottesville, who married Mary Cocke, daughter of James Powell Cocke of
Edgemont, Albemarle.)
There were four of these Bowler
Cockes in succession. Bowler Cocke (4) was clerk of Henrico 1728-52; Vestryman
for Henrico Parish 1730-43, probably until 1748; member House of Burgesses from
Henrico 1752, 1756, 1757, 1758, 1759, 1761 (and probably other years), and was
Lieutenant-Colonel of the militia of the county (then a prominent position).
2. RICHARD COCKE (4) son of
Richard (3) born c. 1706 (by second wife) died 1772; married Elizabeth
Hartwell, daughter of John Hartwell of Swan's Point, Surry County (opposite
James City), and great-niece of Hon. Henry Hartwell, Clerk of Council in
1675-95.
Richard (4) and Benjamin (5) were
half-brothers of Bowler (4) and both ancestors of distinguished lines. And both
moved from Henrico to Surry County. (This has led to confusion with the regular
line of the Surry Cockes, who were established in Surry before Richard Cocke
(4) and Benjamin Cocke (4) moved into that county from Henrico. Hartwell Cocke
(5), John Hartwell Cocke (6), Richard Cocke (5), Richard Herbert Cocke (6),
Colonel Allen Cocke (5) all of Surry and Isle of Wight, were descended from the
Henrico Cockes. Colonel Lemuel Cocke, Colonel John Cocke, Colonel Thomas Cocke
were descended from William Cocke, the emigrant of 1690. Nicholas Cocke, Walter
Cocke, Commodore Harrison Cocke were also descended from William and Walter
Cocke, who came over about 1690. Colonel Richard Cocke (5) was living in Surry
in 1784, in which year he represented that county in the House of Burgesses. He
was by a second marriage of Richard Cocke (4) and his mother was a daughter of
Colonel Augustine Claiborne. He was born about 1745, and was still living in
1813, when he gave to General John H. Cocke of Fluvanna, an exceeding valuable
and interesting genealogy of the family, drawn up by himself. He had met many
of the actors on the scene in the latter half of the eighteenth century. We
shall give this genealogy in full further on.)
Richard Cocke (5), son of Richard
(4), afterwards moved to Isle of Wight and was known as “Richard Cocke of Shoal
Bay”, five miles from Smithfield on James River. (The grandson of Richard (4),
Richard Herbert Cocke (6) of “Bacon's Castle”, who was very wealthy, lived in
Surry.) Richard Cocke (4) left a number of other children, among them the
distinguished Hartwell Cocke (5) grandfather of General John Hartwell Cocke
(7), of Bremo, in Fluvanna. His son, Colonel Richard Cocke (4) was also
prominent.
3. BENJAMIN COCKE (4) Son of
Richard (3). Born c. 1710, died 1763. He married Catharine Allen, daughter of
Arthur Allen, of Surry County. (These Allens were among the most influential
people in Surry county. John Allen was clerk of the county, 1708-51. His son,
Col. John Allen was an officer in the Revolution, a member of the Virginia
Convention of 1776 and a member of the Privy Council, 1780. William Allen of
Claremont, who died in 1793, was probably the wealthiest citizen of Surry
County.) She was the daughter of Mrs. Elizabeth Stith, who married three times:
1. Arthur Allen of Surry; 2. Arthur Smith, Jr., of Isle of Wight; 3.
------------- Stith. (See William & Mary Quarterly, Oct. 1896, p. 113.) Her
maiden name was Elizabeth Bray, sister of Thomas and James Bray.
Benjamin Cocke (4) had moved from
Henrico to Goochland, and in 1744-47, he was vestryman in the parish of St.
James-Northam in that county. The vestry records for 1747 have the same entry
that “Peter Jefferson (father of Thomas Jefferson) is appointed vestryman in
the room of Benj. Cocke, removed.” (Signed by Thomas Cocke. Who was this Thomas
Cocke? In 17674 “it is ordered that Thomas Cock and Stephen Perkins do
Procession the lands within the Precincts, &c.”)
Richard Cocke (3) in 1714 had
bought a large body of land in Goochland county. This was probably the occasion
of his son (Benjamin (4)) moving to that county. But when Benj. Cocke married
Catharine Allen (who was probably rich) he removed to Surry.
Benj. Cocke (4) and Catharine
Allen left three children: 1. Catharine Allen Cocke, m. ---------- Bradly; 2.
Arthur Allen Cocke (6) m. Nancy Kennon; 3. Rebecca Cocke m. -------------
Eaton. When he (ARTHUR ALLEN per Corrections) died in 1763, his widow married
Arthur Smith, Jr., and afterwards ---------- Stith. She lived until 1774. Her
will is recorded in Surry county and evidences that she was quite rich. She
leaves (Arthur) Allen Cocke (her grandson) her gold watch, chain and seals,
three silver castes, four silver salt spoons, one silver can, a gold ring and a
mourning stone ring, her father's picture, and a plantation called Rockohock in
James City county. To her granddaughters, Catharine Allen Bradly and Rebeckah
Cocke, large silver tankard, a dozen and a half silver spoons, silver tongs and
strainer, certain lots in Smithfield, &c. She gives a silver tankard to
Col. Joseph Bridger (Lt. Col. James Bridger, in the latter part of the
seventeenth century was, perhaps the leading citizen of Isle of Wight county.
In 1680 he was commander-in-chief of the Horse in Isle of Wight, Surry,
Nansemond and Lower Norfolk. Wm. Bridger was sheriff of Isle of Wight in 1702
and Burgess in 1714 and 1718. In 1752, 1765, 1768 and 1770 Capt. James Bridger
(the executor of this will) was a member of the House of Burgesses. Col. Joseph
Bridger was no doubt his brother, and in 1761 both of them were in the House of
Burgesses from Isle of Wight) and to Col. Philip Johnson and Mrs. Elizabeth
Johnson ten pounds to “buy them two neat rings” (Beginning with 1644 and coming
down to 1825 the family of Arthur Smith has been one of the best known in Isle
of Wight. The first of the name was a member of House of Burgesses in 1644.
Nicholas Smith (probably brother) in 1660. Arthur Smith in 1718. Thomas Smith
(c. 1780) married Elizabeth Waddrop, daughter of John Waddrop and Nancy Hunt Cocke
of Surry (dau. Of Col Allen Cocke. (CORRECTION: On p. 325, note, the statement
(taken from Virginia Hist. Mag., Oct. 1895, p. 197) that Nancy Hunt Cocke
married John Waddrop, is erroneous. As will appear hereafter, she married: 1.
Gen. James A Bradley. 2. Patrick Henry Adams 3. Col. Richard Herbert Cocke
(6)). They had a daughter Elizabeth, who married James Johnson and these had a
daughter Eliza, who married Lieut. Wm. H. Cocke of Surry, U.S.N. and was killed
in 1822 by accidental discharge of a gun off Moro Castle. James Johnson was a
member of Congress 1813-20. There was a James Johnson (of James City) who was
member of Convention of 1788. In 1752 Capt. Arthur Smith, the husband of
Catharine Allen, our testatrix, founded the town of Smithfield. His son, Col.
Arthur Smith was a member of the Legislature in 1839-40. “Col Philip Johnson of
James City county, married Elizabeth, heiress of James Bray, and had issue:
James Bray Johnson and others. James Bray Johnson married Rebecca, daughter of
Col. Littlebury Cocke of Charles City county and had Eliza, sole heiress, who
married Chancellor Samuel Tyler of Williamsburg”. See for the foregoing William
& Mary College Quarterly, Oct., 1896, p. 114. Col. Philip Johnson
represented James City co. in the House of Burgesses, 1765, 1768.) also 15
pounds to three godchildren to buy cups. She gives unto Parish of Southwark 50
pounds “to purchase an Altar piece”. “I would have” (she adds) “Moses and Aaron
drawn at full length, holding up between them the ten commandments * * and the
Lord's Prayer a small Fraim to hang on right hand of great Pew, and the Creed *
* on left hand over other great Pew.” She gives then unto her free school at
Smithfield 120 pounds, &c. These legacies were to be discharged by the sale
of certain Negroes. Executors: Mr. Wm. Edwards and Capt. James Bridger.
Benjamin Cocke (4) seems to have
lived at “Bacon's Castle”, Surry, which afterwards passed into the hands of
Col. Richard Herbert Cocke (6)
4. MARTHA COCKE (4), daughter of
Richard Cocke (3). She married Thomas Adams. (There is an account of the Adams
family, (Richard, Samuel and John Adams) in Mordecai's, “Richmond in B-gone
Days”. He speaks of their large wealth and states that they owned the Eastern
portion of the city (Church Hill), then called “Adams' Hill”. This was about
1800-1825. The late Mrs. Gen. George W. Randolph, so well known in the social
circles of Richmond, was of this family.
Ebenezer Adams (with Nathaniel
Harrison and Henry Harrison), was the executor of Richard Cocke (3). He moved
to New Kent county. He had two sons, Thomas and Richard Adams. Richard was in
the House of Burgesses from New Kent in 1752 and 1765, 1773. He was also a
member of the convention of 1776. He married Elizabeth Griffin, daughter of
Judge Cyrus Griffin, President of Congress in 1788. He was born 1723, and died
1800. Thomas Adams, who married Martha Cocke (4) is stated to have been clerk
of Henrico, He went to England and was in his earlier life a merchant in
London. He returned to Virginia in 1772, and was a delegate to the Continental
Congress in 1778 and 1780. Afterwards removed to Augusta county, and died in
1788. In 1785, he represented Augusta, Rockingham, Rockbridge and Shenandoah in
the Senate of Virginia. Ann Hunt Cocke, daughter of Col. Allen Cocke (5)
married Patrick Henry Adams. The names of both Thomas and Richard Adams are
recorded in the list of the Association of Williamsburg, 1776. Col. Richard
Adams and his brothers, who lived in Richmond at the beginning of the present
century, were descendants of Thomas Adams and Martha Cocke.)
5. MARY COCKE (4) daughter of
Richard Cocke (3) married --------------- Eppes c. 1730. This is mentioned in
the account of the descendants of Richard Cocke (3) given in 1813, by Richard
Cocke (5) now in possession of the family of the late Gen. Philip St. George
Cocke. It is also mentioned in the pedigree in possession of Capt. Edmund
Randolph Cocke's family of Cumberland. Col. Richard Cocke (5) states that his
contemporary United States Senator John W. Eppes, as descendant of the above
marriage.
6. ANNE COCKE (4) daughter of
Richard Cocke (3). Married William Acrill, of Charles City county, member House
of Burgesses 1736. He died in 1737, and Richard Cocke (4) and (4) were his
executors. She died about 1755. Then had issue (amongst others) Susanna,
Rebecca and Hannah Acrill.
Another William Acrill, probably
son of above, represented Charles Cit in House of Burgesses, 1768, 1777 and in
the convention of 1776, and was member of the Association of Williamsburg of 1770
- a list of the most distinguished names in the colony.
There was an Acrill Cocke living
in Charles City county in 1790, and in 1775 we find an Acrill Cocke in Surry.
7. TABITHA COCKE (4), daughter of
Richard Cocke (4). We know nothing of her.
VI. DESCENDANTS OF ELIZABETH
(COCKE)(3) CARY, DAUGHTER OF RICHARD(2) (FOURTH GENERATION)
ELIZABETH CARY (3) nee Cocke,
daughter of Richard Cocke (2) and wife of Miles Cary (3) (married 1695) had
issue: Ann Cary (4); Elizabeth Cary (4); Bridget Cary (4), Dorothy Cary (4),
Martha Cary (4), Miles Cary (4), Thomas Cary (4), Nathaniel Cary (4).
One of the daughters of Miles
Cary (4) married Benjamin Watkins (4), who was first clerk of Chesterfield
county, and was a member of the convention of 1776, and a member of House of
Burgesses from Chesterfield in 1777.
BENJAMIN WATKINS LEIGH. The Rev.
William Leigh of King and Queen, married the daughter of Benjamin Watkins and
Elizabeth Cary (4). These last were the parents of Benjamin Watkins Leigh and
Judge William Leigh, and of Mrs. Finney (See Meade)
Another daughter of Miles Cary
(4), son of Miles Cary, Jr.(3) married the Rev. William Selden of Henrico,
father of Miles Selden and progenitor of the Seldens of James River.
The eminent lawyer, Conway
Robinson, of Richmond and Washington, was also descended from Miles Cary (3)
and Elizabeth Cocke (3).
VII. DESCENDANTS OF MARTHA
(COCKE)(3) PLEASANTS (FOURTH GENERATION)
She was the daughter of Richard
Cocke (2) and wife of Joseph Pleasants (2). They married about 1730-35. They
had issue: 1. Joseph Pleasants; 2. John Pleasants m. Susanna Woodson; 3. Richard
Pleasants; 4. Thomas Pleasants; 5. Robert Pleasants; 6. Jane Pleasants; 7.
Martha Pleasants m. Nathaniel Vandewall; Elizabeth Pleasants.
Martha Pleasants (4) and
Nathaniel Vandewall had issue: 1. Mary Vandewall (5) m. Wm. Lewis, 2. Martha
Vandewall (5) m. Col. Turner Southall, in House of Delegates and Senate of
Virginia from Henrico, from 1779 to 1791. (Col. Marks Vandewall, son of
Nathaniel, was appointed by Mr. Jefferson, Postmaster of Richmond in 1804, in
which office he as succeeded by Dr. William Foushee in 1812.)
GOVERNOR JAMES PLEASANTS
John Pleasants (4) and Susanna
Woodson had a number of children, among them James Pleasants of “Contention”,
m. Ann Randolph of “Dungeness”, who were the parents of Gov. James Pleasants.
VIII. DESCENDANTS OF WILLIAM
COCKE (3) (FOURTH GENERATION)
This William Cocke (3) was the
son of John Cocke (2) and was the only child of John Cocke (2) of whose
descendants we have any information. He married Sarah Perrin 1695, and died
1711.
His daughter, Martha Cocke (4) married
as we have mentioned in a previous article, Colonel Henry Wood in 1724, who was
the first clerk of Goochland (He qualifies as captain 1730, and as a vestryman
in 1744. Was afterwards elected or appointed Colonel. Henry Wood's tomb is
still preserved at his old homestead, “Woodville”, about twelve miles northwest
of Goochland Courthouse. An oblong granite slab, mounted on pedestals. It bears
the inscription: “Henry Wood, son of Valentine and Rachel Wood. Born in London
July 8th, 1696, and departed this life May 2nd, 1757. Fuimu quoque nos.” Was a
justice for Albemarle county (cut off from Goochland) in 1744, one of the first
appointed) and who was the father of Colonel Valentine Wood (second clerk), who
married Lucy Henry, sister of Patrick Henry.
Three of the daughters of Colonel
Valentine Wood, Martha, Mary and Lucy married respectively, Major Stephen
Southall, Judge Peter Johnston and Edward Carter of Blenheim, in Albemarle
(afterwards owned by Hon. Andrew Stevenson, who died there in 1857).
In 1765 Valentine Wood, Edward
Carter and Bowler Cocke (4) were on a commission appointed by the General
Assembly to improve the navigation of James River. The Board consisted of Hon.
Peter Randolph, William Byrd, Archibald Cary, &c., for Chickahominy; Bowler
Cocke, Jr., Benjamin Harrison, &c., for North Bend James River; Thomas
Walker, Thomas Jefferson, Edward Carter, Valentine Wood, &c., for district
Goochland and Albemarle. (See Hening, VIII, 149.)
IX. DESCENDANTS OF MARY (COCKE 3)
SMITH. (FOURTH GENERATION)
She was the daughter of William
Cocke (2) and married Obadiah Smith (3) and died 1754. Their children were:
William Smith (4), John Smith (4), Obadiah Smith (4), Jacob Smith (4), Luke
Smith (4), Elizabeth Smith (4), Annie Smith (4), Mary Smith (4) married William
Smith of “Montrose”, Powhatan county).
This Mary (Cocke) Smith was the
grandmother of Obadiah Smith (6) of Westham, Chesterfield county, who married
Mary Burks, and was the father of Lucy Smith (6) second wife of James Powell
Cocke (6) of Albemarle. (Mary Burks was sister of Elizabeth Burks, who married
Dr. William Cabell, progenitor of the Cabell family. See “Cabells and their
Kin”, page 59)
This brings our record down to
about the middle of the eighteenth century or a little later. The lines of the
James Powell Cockes, the Bowler Cockes, the Richard Cockes, the Hartwell Cokes,
the Allen Cockes are now prominent. Contemporary with this fourth generation
were the children of Secretary William Cocke of Williamsburg: 1. Elizabeth
Cocke who married Colonel Thomas Jones (2), son of Captain Roger Jones,
ancestor of General Walter Jones and Commodore Catesby Jones; 2 Catesby Cocke
born 1702 of “Belmont” Fairfax county, father of Captain John Catesby Cocke of
the Revolution; 3. William
Cocke, who lived mostly abroad;
4. Ann Cocke who married Major William Woodford of “Windsor”, Caroline, father
of General William Woodford, of the Revolution; 5. Lucy Cocke who married
Colonel Thomas Waring, Burgess from Essex, 1736.
Contemporary also were the
earlier members of the Surry line, descended from William and Walter Cocke, who
arrived in Surry about 1690. These intermarried with the Fludds, the Masons,
the Harrisons, the Shorts, the Edmunds of Surry county, and of these were
Colonel Thomas Cocke of Surry, who died 1750, and Colonel Lemuel Cocke of the
pre-Revolutionary and the Revolutionary period.
We have made reference to two
Captain Cocke's in the French-Indian wars in the time of Governor Spotswood,
whose correspondence frequently mentions them; Captain William Cocke (174), and
Captain Thomas Cocke (1758).
The Cockes had also penetrated
into Goochland and had become a prominent family there. In 1744 Henry Wood (who
married Martha Cocke) and Benjamin Cocke were vestrymen for the parish of St.
James, Northam. In 1747 Thomas Cocke is a vestryman for same parish and Peter
Jefferson is appointed vestryman in place of Benjamin Cocke, who had removed
from the parish. This is, no doubt, the Benjamin Cocke referred in Hening, Vol
VI, page 15 (1748-55), who had lands and a ferry on the Rivanna river (in
Fluvanna or Albemarle).
X. DESCENDANTS OF ANNE COCKE (3)
AND ROBERT BOLLING (3)
In his genealogy of the Bolling
Family (Bristol Parish), Dr. Slaughter gives the descendants of Robert Bolling
(3) and Anne Cocke (3), who were the progenitors of a most notable line of
prominent names in the history of the colony.
Robert Bolling(3) was of Charles
City (he was thrown into Prince George in 1702), and was surveyor of that
county. (Either he or his father was sheriff in 1699) It is probable that his
wife was of the same county, and was the daughter of Richard Cocke (2) “the
younger”, who lived in Charles City at “Old Man's Creek”. The Charles City
Records being lost, we cannot verify this conjecture. (William Lightoot (4) of
Teddington (Sandy Point, Charles City), had a daughter named Anne Cocke and a
daughter named May Elizabeth Bolling. See William and Mary Quarterly, October
1894, page 108. And there was a Bolling Cocke in Charles City county in the
latter part of the Eighteenth Century).
We give the descendants of this
pair as given by Dr. Slaughter, with such additional comments as have appeared
to us of interest.
The Bollings belonged to the
English family of Bollings of “Bolling Hall, Yorkshire”. Robert Bolling (2)
(son of John Bolling of Bolling Hall) born 1646, came from London to Virginia
in 1660, and married 1675, Jane, daughter of Thomas Rolfe, and granddaughter of
Pocahontas; he marred second, 1681, Anne Stith of Brunswick county, and lived
at “Kippax” in Prince George county. Died 1709. Issue by first marriage:
1. John Bolling (3), born 1675.
He became a prominent citizen of Henrico and represented that county in the
House of Burgesses in 1714, 1723 and 1726. He became, says Dr. Slaughter,
“immensely rich”, and was buried at Cobb's, April 20th, 1729.
Issue by second marriage
2. Robert Bolling (3), born 1682,
married 1706, Anne Cocke, died 1749
3. Stith Bolling (3)
4. Edward Bolling (3)
5. Anne Bolling (3)
6. Drury Bolling (3)
7. Thomas Bolling (3)
8. Agnes Bolling
Issue of Robert Bolling (3) and
Anne Cocke (3):
1. Mary Bolling (4) born 1708,
married William Starke, who died 1755 (The Starkes came from York County.
William Starke of York, son of Dr. Richard Starke, moved to Prince George, and
married Mary Bolling(4) in 1727. William Starke was one of the vestry of
Bristol Parish, 1733, 1737. These had issue:
a. Bolling Starke born 1733, who
was a man of prominence during the Revolution. He represented Dinwiddie in the
House of Burgesses 1761 and 1770, and in the Convention of 1776, and was one of
the Governor's Council; 1n 1781 was appointed by Governor Jefferson one of the
auditors to succeed Thomas Everard.
b. William Starke married Mary
Bassett Dangerfield
c. Robert Starke, father of Dr.
Powhatan Bolling Starke, who married Miss Orgaine
2. Anne Bolling (4) married John
Hall. (In 1720 we find the name of Instant Hall among the vestry of Bristol
Parish. In 1718 Robert Hall was Burgess from Prince George County
3. Elizabeth Bolling (4) born
1709, married James Munford. (The Munford family of Richmond, was originally
from Prince George. Robert Munford was clerk of the House of Burgesses and
married Anne, daughter of Richard Bland. Robert (2) was a colonel in the
Revolutionary war. He married a Beverley. Their children intermarried with the
Kennons, Byrds, &c.
4. Lucy Bolling (4) born 1719,
married Colonel Peter Randolph of Chatsworth. (Colonel Peter Randolph was a son
of William Randolph (2) of “Turkey Island” and Elizabeth Beverley. He lived at
“Chatsworth” on James River and was a member of the Council 1761, 1768 and
other years. Also Attorney-General and Surveyor of Customs of North America
1749. He was the father of Governor Beverley Randolph, who married, 1775,
Martha Cocke, daughter of Auditor James Cocke of Williamsburg.)
5. Jane Bolling (4) born 1722
married Hugh Miller. (Hugh Miller was one of the vestry of Bristol Ford Parish
in 1746. Sir Peyton Skipwith, Seventh Baronet, married Ann, daughter of Hugh
Miller, born 1743.
6. Martha Bolling (4) born 1726,
married Richard Eppes of Bermuda Hundreds. (This Richard Eppes (5) represented
Chesterfield in the House of Burgesses 1742, 1755, '58, '62, '63, '64, '65, in
which last year leaving a large estate.) (The Cockes intermarried a number of
times with the Eppes. The mother of Benjamin Cocke (5) of Prince George, was
Mary Eppes, daughter of Richard Eppes (4). His son married an Eppes. The Eppes'
were among the most distinguished families of Virginia and were prominent
during the seventeenth and the whole of the eighteenth centuries in Henrico,
Charles City, Prince George and Chesterfield. There were three Colonel Francis
Eppes in succession in Henrico from 1650 to 1734, the first of the name having
been a member of the Governor's Council in 1652. In Charles City county Colonel
Littlebury Eppes was frequently Burgess, and members of the family were the
clerks and sheriffs of the county repeatedly from 1707 to 1770. In Prince
George they held the same offices repeatedly during the same period, as well as
that of Burgess. Francis Eppes of Prince George was Colonel of the Second
Virginia Regiment in the Revolution. They were also prominent in Chesterfield
and Nottoway.
7. Susanna Bolling born 1728
married Alex Bolling of Prince George. He represented Prince George in the
House of Burgesses 1761, 1768.
8. Robert Bolling, Jr.,(4) born
1730, died 1775; settled at “Bollingbrook”, Peterburg, Va., and married first,
Martha, sister of Colonel John Banister of “Battersea”, M. C.; she dying, he
married second 1758, Mary Marshall, daughter of Colonel Thomas Tabb of “Clay
Hill”, Amelia county, who died 1814. Thomas Tabb was a Burgess from Amelia 1751
and 1768. John Tabb was a Burgess from same count in 1777 and was a member of
the Convention of 1776.)
Issue of Robert Bolling and Mary
Tabb
a. Robert Bolling III (of “Centre
Hill”) born 1759, married first 1781, Mary Burton, only daughter of Colonel
Robert Bolling of “Challowe”, who died 1787, married second 1790, Catharine,
daughter of Buckner Stith of “Rockspring”, Brunswick county, who died 1795;
married third 1796, Sally, daughter of Lawrence Washington who died 1796;
married fourth, Anne Dade, daughter of Buckner Stith, who died 1846. (This
Lawrence Washington must have been a nephew or more probably a cousin of
General Washington.)
Issue of Robert Bolling (5) and
Mary Burton
(1) Mary Burton Augusta Bolling
(6) born 1789, married John Monro Banister, son of Colonel John Banister, died
1853
Issue of Robert Bolling (5) and
Catharine Stith
(A) W. C. Banister, killed in
battle June 9th, 1864
(B) John Munro Banister, Jr. D.
D. (7) married Mary, daughter of General Wm. H. Broadmax;
(C) Edith C Banister (7) married
Commodore Harrison H. Cocke, U. S. N. of Prince George (He was the son of
Walter Cocke of Surry, who died 1802, of the line of Surry Cockes. His family
had married with the Harrisons, Travises and Henleys.
Issue of Robert Bolling and
Catharine (Stith) Bolling (second marriage)
(2) Rebecca Bolling (6) married
John Blackwood Strachan, M.D. died 1845
(3) Lucy Ann Bolling (6) married
N. Snelson
Issue of Robert Bolling (5) and
Ann Dade Stith
(4) Ann Robertson Bolling (6)
married J. N. Campbell of Philadelphia; died 1828
(5) Martha Stith Bolling (6)
married first Martin Slaughter of Culpeper and second E. C. Freeman of Culpeper
(6) Robert Buckner Bolling (6)
married 1831, Sarah Melville, only daughter of John and Sarah Stuart Minge of
Sandy Point, Charles City county, on the river-a splendid estate. She died July
20th 1854. (Colonel Robert Buckner Bolling as very wealthy and lived at the
beautiful residence in Petersburg called “Centre Hill”. By his wife he obtained
the splendid estate of “Sandy Point” on James river. He represented Petersburg
in the Legislature for a number of years - 1840 - 1850. His wife, Sarah
Melville Minge (a lovely woman), was the great-great-granddaughter of William
Cocke, the progenitor of the line of the Surry Cockes, who died 1720.
Issue of Robert Buckner Bolling
and Sarah Melville Minge
A. Robert Bolling (7) M. D. of
Philadelphia
B. John Bolling (7)(lawyer) of
New York (&c.)
(7) George W. Bolling (6) married
Martha, daughter of W. N. Nicholls of Georgetown, DC
Issue of Colonel George W.
Bolling (6) and Martha Nicholls
A. Robert Bolling (7) married
Nanny Webster
B. William N. Bolling (7) married
Susan, daughter of Hon. Richard Kidder Meade.
C. Mary Tabb Bolling (7) married
1867, General W. H. F. Lee, son of General Robert E. Lee
b. Thomas Tabb Bolling (5) born
1763 who married Seignora, daughter of Sir John Peyton of Gloucester county,
died 1810
Issue of Thomas Tabb Bolling and
Signora Peyton
(1) John Peyton Bolling (6)
married Anne Skelton Gilliam
(2) Frances Bolling (6) married
Everard Meade, M. D.
(3) Martha Tabb Bolling (6)
married Thomas Tabb of Amelia
(4) Harriet Bolling (6) married
Charles Eggleston of Amelia
(5) Thomas Bolling (6) married
Mary Carter of Goochland
(6) William Bolling (6) married
Pocahontas Robertson of Richmond
c. Anne Bolling (5) married John
Shore, M. D.
d. Frances Bolling (5) married
John Lemessurier
e. Marianna Bolling (5) died
unmarried.
THE COCKE FAMILY OF VIRGINIA
(HENRICO) - FIFTH AND SIXTH GENERATIONS
1. LINE OF THOMAS COCKE (2)
Thomas Cocke (2) left the
following children: Thomas Cocke (3), Stephen Cocke (3), James Cocke (3),
William Cocke (3), Agnes Cocke (3) and Temperance Cocke (4)
Thomas Cocke (3) left the
following children: Thomas Cocke (4), James Powell Cocke (4), Henry Cocke (4),
Brazure Cocke (4), Mary Cocke (4) and Elizabeth Cocke (4)
We have in our last article
gotten through with the fourth generation of the Cocke family from Richard
Cocke (1). We now enter upon generations five and six, and begin with the
children of Thomas Cocke (4), the eldest son of Thomas Cocke (3), the eldest
son of Thomas Cocke (2), the eldest son of Richard Cocke (1).
1. DESCENDANTS OF THOMAS COCKE
(4) - Thomas Cocke (4), son of Thomas (3), died unmarried, and left no
descendants. As we have mentioned he was the executor of his father's will.
Henry Cocke (4), son of Thomas (3) also died unmarried; and of Elizabeth (4) we
know nothing. The only children left of Thomas Cocke (3) are James Powell Cocke
(4), Brazure Cocke (4) and Mary Cocke (4).. Mary Cocke (4) who married Rev.
William Finney, we have noticed. There only remain the descendants of James
Powell Cocke (4) and Brazure Cocke (4).
2. JAMES POWELL COCKE (4), son of
Thomas (3) - He left only two children: James Cocke (5) and Martha Cocke (5)
JAMES COCKE (5), son of James
Powell Cocke (4) was born at Malvern Hills about 1721. He was alive in 1781. (A
letter from Colonel Charles Fleming to Colonel Davies, describing the movements
of the enemy, dated January 10, 1781, says: “Colonel Nicholas is at Mr. James
Cock's of Malburn Hills with between 3 and 400 men”. Calendar Virginia State
Papers, I, 426. This was at the time of Arnold's landing with 800 troops at
Westover, and marching upon Richmond.). He married in 1742, Mary Magdeleine
Chastain, daughter of Dr. Stephen Chastain, one of the French Huguenots at
Mannikin Town, who came over, we are told, “in the first ship”, and whose name
occurs on the records in Henrico Clerk's Office in 1706. The wife of Stephen
Chastain was named Martha, and we learn from the Parish Records of King William
Parish, signed by Jean Chastain, clerk, that she died in 1725, aged 52 years.
The Huguenot settlement at
Mannikin Town was made in the year 1700, one of the most active promoters in
the enterprise being Dr. Daniel Coxe of London, who owned large tracts of land
in the Carolinas, and who was no doubt of the family of the English Cockes, whose
name as early as 1600 is spelled interchangeably Cock, Cocke, Cox, Coxe.
Prominent among the names of the
Huguenot settlers in Virginia were those of Salle, Fontaine, Chastain, Dupuy,
Latane, Marye, Maury, Duval, Contesse (Tylers descended from) &c., &c.
(There were other Huguenot names in the colony, not of this settlement: The
Barrauds, the Bowdoins, the Bertrands, the Trezvants, the Moncure, the
Ghiselins, &c.)
There were three Chastains among
these settlers in the beginning of the eighteenth century: Dr. Stephen
Chastain, Pierre Chastain (vestryman) and Jean Chastain (clerk of the parish).
In the year 1700 more than 500
immigrants, under the Marquis de la Muce, were landed in Virginia, by four
successive debarkations. Dr. Brock has published a most interesting account of
them in the fifth volume of the Virginia Historical Collections, with the
pedigrees of some of the prominent families, including the Chastains.
Among the settlers at Mannikin
Town were three ministers and two doctors, one of the former being Louis
Latane; and the physicians being Etienne Chastain (Castaing) and La Soree.
The parishioners at Monocantown
proceeded to erect it into a parish (King William parish), and to elect a
vestry of twelve men, one of whom was Pierre Chastain. Another was Abra. Salle,
who seems to have been a leading man, and who was a justice of Henrico in 1709.
In the year 1726 the clerk of the
parish is Jean Chastain, who holds the office until 1754, wee the Register of
Births ends.
As time rolls on the names of
Anne, Charlotte, Elizabeth, Magdelain, Jane, Martha, Judith, Rene occur on the
record.
It appears from the foregoing
account that there were three of these Chastains originally at Mannikin Town.
The name of Dr. Stephen Chastain is spelled both Castaing (In La France
Protestante we find the following notice of this family: “Castaing, ancienne
famille de Manvezin (at foot of the Pyrenees, in extreme south of France, on
northern frontier of Spain), Jean Castaing, practitioner (lawyer) for pendant
long temps un des members actif de Consistoire de sa ville natole en xvii e
siecle “En 1635 ses collegues au sein de ce conseil etaient Sebastian de
Saint-Faust, docteur; Joseph D. Lamigue, docteur; de Gouland bourgeois; Isaac
Dirah; Jean Machat, docteur; deputi en synolde de Castres, 1637; John Charles,
medecin; Jean Dupre, bourgeois; Jean Dubarr, notarie; Etienne Lassene, docteur;
Daniel Cadours, marchand.” III.833.) and Chastain (See Virginia Historical
Collections V, page viii)
On pages 112-14 of the Virginia Historical
Collections is a list of “Tithables”, at Mannikin Town, in 1744 - apparently
the head of the family and the blacks. The highest number of blacks is credited
to James Cocke, who was a very young man, and apparently living (with his
Huguenot wife) at Mannikin Town. His list is eight persons: Wm. Salle, fice;
estate of John James Flournoy, six; John Chastain, five; Mrs. Ann Scott, eight;
Mrs. Eliza Bernard, six. On page 194, James Cocke and Mary Magdelain Chastain
have a son born to them in 1743 - Chastain Cocke.
From the records in the Land
Office we learn that Stephen Chastain between 1714 and 1730, received patents
for some 1,400 acres of land in Henrico and Goochland counties, chiefly the
former. Peter Chastain patents some 500 acres.
We ascertain through the Land
Records that there was a fourth member of this family among these refugees.
There is a warrant, dated April 1, 1717 to Charles Chastain, for 672 acres of
land in Charles City county, “granted for divers good reasons, but more especially
for the importation of 100 persons to dwell within this our colony of
Virginia.” George II, Governor Spotswood, 1717
This Charles Chastain no doubt
resided in Charles City county, and not with the main colony. Land, it would
appear, had greatly appreciated in value, as in the middle of the previous
century the Government had allowed fifty acres per head for the importation of
colonists.
The Chastains, as a name, have
disappeared from Virginia. In the Richmond Enquirer of September 15, 1818, is a
non-resident chancer notice in a suit in Buckingham county, of David Guerrant
vs Lewis Chastain, John Chastain, William Chastain, Jacob Chastain, Judith
Chastain and others.
In the Enquirer of October 25,
1822, is a long chancery publication: Thomas Keeran and Sarah Gillis vs Miles
Botts, John Brockenbrough, William Archer, Ph. N. Nicholas, the President and
Directors of the Bank of Virginia, &c. &c., and Millon Clarke, Colin
Clarke and William B. Chastain, later merchants and partners, &c.
Colin Clarke was father of
Captain Maxwell Clarke of Richmond, and of the first Mrs. Douglas Gordion. He
lived at Warner Hall, Gloucester county, having moved there from Chesterfield
county.
The mother of Colin Clarke was a
Salle, with which Huguenot family the Chastains had intermarried.
Captain Clark informs us that the
late Chastain White of Hanover was a son of Larkin White, who was the son of
General Mercer White. In the year 1752, we find the name of Isham Chastain
among the vestrymen of Antrim parish in Halifax County, VA. Henry Isham settled
at Bermuda Hundred; died 1675. Was son of Mary Brett, sister of Sir Edward
Brett and William Isham. He married widow of Joseph Royall and left issue: Mary
Isham who married William Randolph of “Turkey Island”, and Elizabeth Isham
married Fr. Eppes of Henrico. He must also have left a daughter who married
circa 1710 a Chastain, probably Pierre or Jean. Otherwise, except as a fancy
name, we cannot account for Isham Chastain of Halifax in 1752.)
Rene Chastain of Chesterfield,
married 1810, Winifred Goode, daughter of William Goode, son of Richard Goode,
born 1750. Rene Chastain left issue: Judge Samuel Chastain of Kentucky and John
William Chastain of Kentucky.
Colin Clarke was son of Colonel
James Clarke of Powhatan, born 172, married Mary Goode Lyle, who died in 1884
in South Carolina at the residence of her son-in-law, Governor Manning.
The Bowdoins, Barrauds and
Bertrands intermarried with the line of Richard Cocke (4) and Bowler Cocke(4)
of Bremo, and will be noticed further on.
James Powell Cocke (4) left also
a daughter Martha, referred to in his will as married, but we do not know the
name of her husband.
THE DESCENDANTS OF JAMES COCKE
(5) OF MALVERN HILLS
1. CHASTAIN COCKE (6) born March
14, 1743, died March 19, 1795; married Martha Field Archer (born 1752, died
1816) daughter of John Field and Elizabeth Royall (her mother a Field), a
sister of the father of Hon. William S. Archer, United States Senator. He was
ancestor of the “Cockes” of “Clover Pasture”, Powhatan county. Among his
children were:
a. William Archer Cocke (7), died
1844; in Legislature from Powhatan 1822; married Catherine Murray Winston
Ronald (William Ronald of Powhatan, was at this period one of the leading
public men in the State. He was in the Legislature during and after the
Revolution, and in the Convention of 1788. Mr. Rives, in his “Life of Madison”,
classes him with the ablest men the parliamentary bodies of that epoch. His
brother (they were both Scotchmen), Andrew Ronald, was one of the most eminent
lawyers of Richmond. He was opposed to Patrick Henry in the great suit arising
from the confiscation of British debts during the war.)
b. John Field Cocke (7), died
1857; captain of cavalry in war of 1812; married Anne Waller Ronald.
c. James Cocke (7) married Mary
Lewis of Williamsburg.
Captain John Field Cocke (7) was
father of the late Richard Ivanhoe Cocke (8), Commonwealth's Attorney for
Fluvanna; member of Legislature and of Constitutional Convention of 1850-51;
and of the late Judge Ronald Cocke (8) of Fluvanna.
2. JAMES POWELL COCKE, JR. (6)
born 1748, died January 13, 1829. He married twice: First Elizabeth Archer,
sister of Martha Archer, wife of Chastain Cocke (6), and of the father of Hon.
Wm. S. Archer (died 1773 without issue) (Col. William Archer, County Commandant
of Amelia, was a distinguished officer during the Revolution. His son, Hon.
William S. Archer, was U. S. Senator from Virginia, 1841-47 and was a man of
large wealth and a striking type of the old Virginia gentleman. His brother,
Dr. Branch T. Archer of Powhatan, is recommended (see Richmond Enquirer) by
Legislative Caucus of 1819-20 as a Presidential Elector. He was President of
the Convention which framed the Constitution of Texas, and Secretary of War for
that republic. See Howe's Historical Collections, page 173-4.) married second,
September 1777, Lucy Smith, born October 1756; died February 27, 1816. He was
born at Malvern Hills and lived there until about 1785, and was a justice of
Henrico County in 1770.
Lucy Smith, the second wife of
James Powell Cocke (6), was the daughter of Obadiah Smith of Westham,
Chesterfield county, who was man of considerable property, and owned lands in
Chesterfield, Mecklenburg, North Carolina and a fourth plantation at the junction
of Hico and Dan rivers in the southeastern corner of Halifax. He died in 1777.
His son, Obadiah, was a lieutenant in the Continental army, (There were also in
the Continental Line two William Smiths, one whom was certainly a brother of
Lucy Smith. The other of a collateral branch was of Powhatan).
It will be remembered that in a
previous article (see April Number Magazine, page 411) we stated that Mary
Cocke (3), daughter of William Cocke (2) married (about 1700) Obadiah Smith.
The present Obadiah Smith, of Westham in Chesterfield county, was his grandson,
and the son of Luke Smith.
There was another Obadiah Smith,
who was the contemporary and cousin of Obadiah Smith of Westham. He died in
1765, and there was a litigation about his will, the case (Smith vs. Carter)
being reported in 3 Randolph's Reports, page 166.
James Powell Cocke (4) and Lucy
Smith, his wife, were, therefore, both descended from Richard Cocke (1) - the
former through Thomas Cocke (2); the latter through William Cocke (3). (The pedigree
of Lucy Smith, as a descendant of William Cocke (2), is given farther on under
the head of the line of William Cocke (2).
On account of his health, James
Powell Cocke, who seems to have lived t Malvern Hills, removed to the
up-country in 1791. Malvern Hills had been sold some time before to Robert
Nelson, brother of Governor Nelson and James Powell Cocke (as is stated by Mr.
R. Heber Nelson, grandson of Robert Nelson) received in exchange for it lands
in the North Garden, Albemarle county.
But he did not leave Henrico
until 1791, when he removed to Augusta county, having purchased the Spring Hill
estate (840 acres), near Tinkling Spring, from the Rev. James Waddell, D. D.,
the celebrated blind preacher immortalized b Wirt. He paid for this land 1,050
pounds ($3,500), which he sold in 1793 for $5,333.331/3, and which was bought
by John Coalter in 1812 for $13,700 (Joseph Addison Waddell in Staunton
Spectator, February 1885). (The Rev. James Waddell bought this property from
heirs of John Preston, who lived on it and who was the progenitor of the
Preston family of Virginia. Died c. 1780)
James Powell Cocke was a member
of the Board of Trustees of the old Staunton Academy, which consisted of the
following distinguished names: Rev. John . McCue, Gabriel Jones (a famous man
in that day); Alex. St. Clair, Archibald Stuart, Robert Gamble, William Mower,
General Robert Porterfield (married half-sister of J. P. C.), James Powell
Cocke, John Tate, Robert Grattan, Gentlemen.
In 1793, James Powell Cocke sold
his plantation in Augusta, removed to Albemarle and lived at Edgemont, on the
Hardware river, near the Green Mountain, thirteen miles south of
Charlottesville - a handsome old place still in good preservation, where his
monument stand in the old family burying-ground.
James Powell Cocke (6) and Lucy
Smith (6) had issue:
a. James Powell Cocke (7) born
October 10, 1779; died 1811, married Martha Ann Lewis; died 1856; connected
with Lewises and Randolphs of Albemarle.
b. Another son born and died
1783.
c. Mary Cocke (7) born 1785, died
in infancy
d. Martha Cocke (7) born 1788 and
died in infancy
e. Chastain Cocke (7) born 1790
and died in infancy
f. Smith Cocke (7) born 1792,
died in Kentucky 1835, educated at Washington College
g. Chastain Cocke (7) (the second
of this name) born February 1795, died (unmarried) at Edgemont December 16,
1838
h. Mary Cocke (7) born October
21, 1796, died March 5, 1888
i. Martha Cocke (7) born June 14,
1799, died July 12, 1874
Mary Cocke (7) daughter of James
Powell Cocke (6) married about 1817, Dr. Charles Carter of Charlottesville.
Charles Warner Lewis Carter (he called himself Charles Carter) was son of
Edward Carter (the second), of Blenheim, Albemarle, and Mary Lewis, and
grandson of the first Edward Carter of Blenheim who was a son of Colonel John
Carter of Shirley; son of “King” Carter. The first Edward Carter represented
Albemarle in House of Burgesses about 1770 and again in 1785, and probably
other years. Dr. Charles Carter was also in the Legislature about 1849. Mary
Lewis was the daughter of Colonel Charles Lewis (of the family of Colonel
Fielding Lewis), of Buck Island, Albemarle. (Represented Albemarle in
Convention of 1776.)
Martha Cocke (7) daughter of
James Powell Cocke (6) married 1825, Valentine Wood Southall, son of Major
Stephen Southall and grandson of Colonel Turner Southall of Henrico. There was
a singular conjunction here. Both of the parties were descended from Richard
Cocke (1) by a double line. Martha Cocke (7) daughter of James Powell Cocke (6)
as descended through James Powell Cocke (4), from Thomas Cocke (2), eldest son
of Richard (1). Through her mother Lucy Smith, she was descended from William
Cocke (2), father of Mary Cocke (3), wife of Obadiah Smith (3). Valentine Wood
Southall was descended from Martha Cocke (4) who married Henry Wood in 1724.
She was daughter of William (3), son of John (2) so that he traces through John
Cocke (2), son of Richard (1). This was his maternal line. His grandfather,
Colonel Turner Southall, married Martha Vandewall, who was the daughter of
Martha (Cocke) Pleasants (4), who was daughter of Martha Cocke (3), who was
daughter of Richard Cocke (2). So that the descent by this line is to Richard
Cocke (2) son of Richard (1). The pair traces their descent to four of the five
sons of Richard Cocke (1) by four different lines, and Richard Cocke, “the
Younger”, of Charles City, alone, is not represented.
Colonel Turner Southall, paternal
grandfather of Valentine Wood Southall, was a very prominent figure in Henrico
in the last quarter of the eighteenth century. He represented Henrico in the
House of Delegates 1778-84, and was a member of the State Senate in 1790, at
the time of his death, from the Senatorial District of Henrico, Goochland and
Louisa. He was Colonel Commandant of the county of Henrico (and kept pretty
active) during the Revolution; a member of the Committee of Safety 1774-75;
appointed on a commission to erect the new capitol in Richmond, and to lay off
the streets of the new city; Director of Public Buildings; one of the trustees
to improve the navigation of James river; vestryman with Peyton Randolph and
Bowler Cocke in 1785 of Henrico parish. He was connected with every prominent
public movement in Henrico from 1770 to 1790.
Major Stephen Southall of
Henrico, who served as a lieutenant through the Revolutionary War (he lived in
Richmond, cor. Leigh and 7th streets, and at Westham, Henrico), was the father
of Valentine Wood Southall.
The latter was for many years the
leading member of the bar in Albemarle; for many years represented Albemarle in
House of Delegates; was Speaker of that body; was member of the Constitutional
Convention of 1850-51; attorney for the Commonwealth of Albemarle for may
years; member of the State Convention of 1861, and acting President of the body
after President Janney's sickness, (He ran against Mr. Janney for the
presidency, the latter being elected by the more extreme Union vote.)
3. STEPHEN COCKE (8) was the
third son of James Cocke (5) and Mary Magdalene Chastain. He married Jane Segar
Eggleston of Amelia, daughter of Major Joseph Eggleston of the Revolution.
(Judge Peter Johnston was in Major Eggleston's command during the Revolution,
and he called his son, Joseph Eggleston Johnston after him. Maj. Eggleston is
said to have been a man of considerable literary attainments, and he was made a
general of militia by the Legislature after the war, but he declined it. John
Eggleston was M. C. from Virginia 1798-1801. (There was another Stephen Cocke
(5) living at this time, son of Abraham (4).)
The Segars were from Lancaster.
Joseph Eggleston married Judith Segar of Lancaster 1753. The will of Oliver
Segar, 1658, of Middlesex, refers to his friends Nicholas Cocke (who was a
vestryman of the old Christ Church (Middlesex), still standing, in 1670) and
(Col.) Richard Lee. He mentions his “son Randolph”.
The name of Joseph Eggleston
occurs in 1775 as a member of the James City Co. Committee of Safety. He probably
removed to Amelia. There were several intermarriages of the Cockes with the
Egglestons.)
Stephen Cocke (6) died in 1794,
and must have been an exceedingly wealthy man. The will was probated in 1795.
He directed his hole estate to be kept together during the life of his wife for
the support of the family.
The tract of land on which he
lived was divided equally between his sons Joseph and James Powell Cocke (this
last for many years represented Amelia in the Legislature.)
He devises two tracts of land on
Flat Creek in Nottoway, and on Beaver Pond in Amelia, to his son Charles. He
left to Charles also 330 pounds to build such houses as were needed.
He left to each of his daughters
1000 pounds apiece.
The personal estate to be divided
between his sons.
He appoints as executors, his
wife and his friends, Richard Archer, Daniel Hardaway, Richard Ogilby, Everard
Meade, John Archer, Samuel Farrar and Joseph Eggleston.
The executors gave bond in the
penalty of $133.333.
Dr. Charles Cocke (7) son of
Stephen (6) settled in Albemarle. He was very rich in early life, but
speculated unfortunately in Texas lands. He represented Albemarle for many
years in the Senate and the House of Delegates. He was beaten in some political
contest on leaving the Democratic party (he was a great Whig), and at a 4th of
July dinner, someone offered the following toast: “Dr. Charles Cocke of
Albemarle: A dead cock in the pit - killed in wheeling.”
He married Sarah W. Taylor of
Southampton, daughter of John Taylor, descended from Ethelred Taylor, and her
sister Charlotte married Gen. Armistead Mason, who was killed in the famous
Mason-McCarty duel.
Ethelred Taylor was a Burgess for
Surry county 1714, and his son Ethelred Taylor in 1752. William Taylor
represented Southampton in 1761. Henry Taylor was in the Convention of 1776
(from Southampton). John Taylor was in Legislature 1784, 1785.
The brother of Dr. Charles Cocke
(James Powell Cocke) was in the House of Delegates from Amelia 1809, 1811,
1822, 1824, 1842, 1843 and perhaps other years.
Two of the daughters of Stephen
Cocke (6) married Peterfield and Richard Archer.
4. Martha Cocke (6) was the
fourth child of James Cocke (5). She married Col. William Cannon of Buckingham
county. (William Cannon of Buckingham, is mentioned several times in Hening's
Statutes and seems to have been a man of influence in that county. Martha Cocke
was his second wife; he had been previously married to Sarah Mosby, daughter of
Col. Littlebury Mosby, of Fort Hill, Powhatan county, who was quite prominent
in the Revolutionary period. He was county lieutenant of Cumberland, in 1780;
sheriff 1795, a member of the Cumberland Committee of Safety 1775, and a
captain in the Revolution.
There is an Act of Assembly given
in Hening (1758) appropriating money to reimburse Capt. Henry Anderson, William
Cannon and Maj. Wood Jones of Amelia, for provisions, &c, furnished
militia. This last William Cannon of Amelia, was probably the father of William
Cannon of Buckingham.
Thomas Cannon, Esquire, was one
of the list of “Adventurers” for 1620. In the Revolutionary war, there was a
Captain Jesse Cannon in the Virginia navy and a Capt. Luke Cannon in the
Continental army.
5. ELIZABETH CHASTAIN COCKE (6)
was the fifth child of James Cocke (5) of Malvern Hills. Born c. 1745-50. She
married c. 1767, Capt. Henry Anderson of Amelia county, who was no doubt the
Capt. Henry Anderson of 1758, mentioned by us in the note about William Cannon.
(We have already spoken of Henry Anderson of Henrico, who was probably a
brother of Rev. Charles Anderson; this Henry Anderson was probably his
grandson.)
Henry Anderson and Elizabeth
Chastain Cocke (6) had issue:
a. Crawford Anderson, d.s.p.
b. William Anderson, d. s. p.
c. James Anderson. Lost sight of
d. Henry T. Anderson, born c
1766-70, married circa 1790, Elizabeth Bass, daughter of Col. Joseph Bass of
Chesterfield (member of the Chesterfield Committee of Safety, 1774) (Nicholas
Bass was a member of the second “Grand Assembly”, held in the Colony (1724)).
Issue of Henry T. Anderson (7)
and Elizabeth Bass:
(1) Stephen Anderson (8)
(2) James Powell Anderson (8)
(3) Dr. Peter Anderson (8). Went
to California and married.
(4) Dr. Joseph Bass Anderson (8),
born 1795, married first 1819, Sally Scott Merriwether (daughter of Dr. Wm.
Merriwether and Sally Scott of Amelia county); married second Jane B. Archer
(8), no issue.
Issue of Dr. Joseph Bass Anderson
and Sally Scott:
(a) Ann E. Anderson (9) married
-------------Harris, married second Col. --------- Davis
(b) Martha Anderson (9) married
Col. Austin
(c) Joseph Anderson (9)
(d) Francis J. Anderson (9)
(e) Laura Anderson (9)
(f) Mary Chastain Anderson (9)
born November 14, 1829, married 1845, Josiah M. Jordan of Prince George, died
1866. Left a number of children; among them Sarah Rebecca Jordan, married Judge
William J. Leake of Richmond.
After the death of James Cocke
(5), his widow, Mary (Chastain) Cocke, married Samuel Farrar of Amelia. (The
Farrars of Henrico, in early times were exceedingly prominent.) Their daughter,
Rebecca Farrar, half sister to James Powell Cocke (6) and his brothers married
General Robert Porterfield of Augusta county, who was a captain the Continental
army. The family seems to have been from Berkeley. There was a Porterfield from
this county in House of Delegates, 1819.) He had also a brother, who was
distinguished in that war, Lieutenant- Colonel Charles R. Porterfield, and
there was yet another, Charles Porterfield, who was a captain in the same
service. Colonel Charles R. Porterfield was killed fighting gallantly at the
disastrous battle of Camden.
General Robert Porterfield had a
fine estate twelve miles from Staunton, in Augusta county, on South river. His
daughter, who was Rebecca Porterfield, married William Kinney of Staunton, who
represented Augusta county for many years in the House of Delegates and the Virginia
Senate, as did his father, Jacob Kinney, who was clerk of Augusta, 1793-1818.
And after him his son Chesley Kinney was clerk, and after him his son-in-law,
Erasmus Stribling, and after him Jefferson Kinney, son of Chesley, who was also
clerk of the District Court. And Nicholas Kinney (1831-5) was clerk of the
Superior Court.
II. FIFTH AND SIXTHE GENERATIONS
(LINE OF THOMAS COCKE (continued)
DESCENDANTS OF BRAZURE COCKE (4),
SON OF THOMAS (3), SON OF THOMAS (2), SON OF THOMAS (2)
Brazure Cocke, as we have stated,
went to James City County - possibly settled in Williamsburg. Records are
wanting. We trace him as late as 1753. In 1753, there was a James Cocke in
Williamsburg, to whom Henry Hacker, “a rich merchant of Williamsburg”, left a
legacy. This was no doubt, Auditor James Cocke, who was also Mayor of
Williamsburg about 1760. In conjunction with Thomas Everard he was Auditor of
the State for the period 1761-80 (James Cocke and Thos. Everard were succeeded
by Harrison Randolph and Leighton Wood, Jr.) There is no trace (excepting his
daughters) of any other Cocke in James City county, and James Cocke must (as
would suit the dates) have been the son of Brazure Cocke. (We cannot help
thinking that in certain enquiries submitted in 1671 by the Lord Commissioners
of Foreign Plantations, the name of A. Broucher (one of the commissioners) is
equivalent to Brashear. See Hening ii, 511.
James Cocke left two daughters
(possibly other children, but his ill is lost, who both married Randolphs
(CORRECTION: Page 440 (middle of page). “For both married Randolphs” say one
(Martha) married a Randolph; the other Colonel James Innes, whose daughter
married a Randolph.); one (Martha) Gov. Beverly Randolph (1775)(See York county
Records for marriage license), the other (Elizabeth) the celebrated Col. James
Innes, Colonel in Revolutionary army, member Convention of 1788, first
attorney-general of Virginia, to whom Washington offered the
attorney-generalship of the United States, which he declined.
The daughter of Col. James Innes,
married Peyton Randolph of Wilton and from them was descended the late Innes
Randolph of Baltimore, of whom it is enough to say that he wrote, “The Night
Before Christmas”. (CORRECTION: Page 440. Clement C. Moore, not Inness
Randolph, was the author of “The Night before Christmas”.)
A member of this family sends us
the following record preserved by this family, which we copy verbatim:
Col. James Innes was an officer
during the entire Revolutionary war, and raised a company in Williamsburg, he joined
Patrick Henry in his visiting Dunmore, and was present in command of the
portion of the army stationed on Gloucester Heights at the surrender at
Yorktown. He was afterwards Attorney-General of Virginia. He and Governor
Beverly Randolph married sisters.
James Cocke of Williamsburg,
Virginia married Catherine Richards, their daughter Elizabeth Cocke married
Colonel James Innes, officer in the Revolution; Attorney-General of Virginia;
their daughter Anne Brown Innes, married Peyton Randolph of Wilton, Virginia;
their son James Innes Randolph married Susan Peyton Armistead. (In Enquirer
March 12, 1805, Peyton Randolph advertises for Eliza Innes, the estate of
“Vermouth”, on the Chickahominy, ten miles from Williamsburg, containing 2,700
acres.)
Benjamin Harrison of Berkeley
married Ann Carter of Virginia; their son Benjamin Harrison married Lucy
Bassett. He was the signer of the Declaration of Independence, and father of
the President of the United States; their daughter, Lucy Harrison married
Peyton Randolph of Wilton, Virginia; their son Peyton Randolph married Ann
Brown Innes; their son James Innes Randolph married Susan Peyton Armistead.
John Armistead of Hesse Castle,
Gloucester county, Va., married Luc Baylor of Essex county; their son, Addison
Bowles Armistead, married Mary Peyton of Winchester, Va.; their daughter, Susan
Peyton Armistead married James Innes Randolph.
James Cocke was one of the
executors of Peyton Randolph (the other was John Randolph), first President of
the Continental Congress. (Peyton Randolph's Will and Inventory include 105
negroes, 173 head of cattle, books 250 pounds, wine 60 pounds, 30 gal. rum, 5
chariot 230 pounds and &c.)
Governor Beverly Randolph (6) and
Martha Cocke (6), the other daughter of Auditor James Cocke, left issue: Lucy
Randolph (6) married William Randolph of “Chitower, son of Gov. Thos. Mann
Randolph (4).
FIFTH AND SIXTH GENERATIONS (LINE
OF THOMAS COCKE (2)
III. DESCENDANTS OF ABRAHAM COCKE
(4) OF AMELIA
ABRAHAM COCKE (6) son of Stephen
(3), son of Thomas (2), as we have already set out, moved to the banks of the
upper Nottoway river, in Nottoway, then Amelia County. He prospered, grew
wealthy and left a number of children, to-wit:
1. Peter Cocke (5)
2. Abraham Cocke, Jr. (5)
(removed to Alabama)
3. Stephen Cocke (5) married
(1764) Amy Jones, daughter of Richard Jones, who represented Amelia in House of
Burgesses in 1736 (Wood Jones represented it in 1752), (There was a Peter Jones
who died in 1721 and he left sons: Abraham Jones, Peter Jones, William Jones,
Thomas Jones, John Jones, Wood Jones. Margaret Cocke, widow of Thomas Cocke (3)
had by a first marriage two sons, named Abraham and Peter Jones. It was a
numerous family and there were several Peter Jones.) (ADDITIONAL INFORMATION ON
THIS FAMILY IS SHOWN LATER ON IN THIS TRANSCRIPTION.)
4. Thomas Cooke (5) removed to
Tennessee
5. John Cocke (5)
6. William Cocke (5) born 1748,
ancestor of Tennessee Cockes
7. Mary Cocke (5) married William
Ellis
8. Agnes Cocke (5) married
Charles Hamilin of Prince George, 1757
9. Martha Cocke (5) married
Theophilus Lacy, 1760
10. Elizabeth Cocke (5) married
John Cross, 1765. (In 1790 Elizabeth Cocke (6), a descendant of Abraham Cocke,
married in Amelia, William Cameron, son of Rev. John Cameron, minister of
Bristol Parish, who was ancestor of Judge Duncan Cameron of North Carolina and
of Governor William E. Cameron, of Virginia.)
Abraham Cocke (4) lived in
1730-59 in what is now the extreme southeast corner of Nottoway county, in the
fork of the Great and Little Nottoway rivers, and at a point where the three
counties of Nottoway, Brunswick and Mecklenburg come together. Nottoway was
then (as we have stated) part of Amelia, which in 1720, had been taken off from
Prince George. Many years ago the main thoroughfare from Petersburg to
Clarksville, in Mecklenburg county, which crossed the fork of the Nottoway
river, was called “Cocke's Road”. There was a Cox's creek in Lunenburg county
on this route, and a Cock's creek, we think, in Mecklenburg, on the same line.
We know little of the children of
Abraham Cocke (4), excepting Stephen and William (5).
1. STEPHEN COCKE (5), son of
Abraham (4), was sheriff of Amelia county for a number of years (about
1775-90). He lived in southeast corner of what is now Nottoway, in the fork of
the Great and Little Nottoway rivers. He lived and died at the old family
homestead, And his son, John H. Cocke, succeeded him.
He was the contemporary of his
relative Stephen Cocke (6) of Amelia, son of James Cocke (5) of Malvern Hills,
but their homes were far apart, Stephen Cocke (6) probably lived among the
Archers, near (the present) Chula Depot.
2. GEN. WILLIAM COCKE (5) of
Tennessee, son of Abraham Cocke (4) , married Sarah Maclin (Sarah Maclin was probably
the daughter of Frederick Maclin, who represented Brunswick in the House of
Burgesses 1777.), was in the Virginia House of Burgesses from Washington
county, Virginia, in 1778. He was at this time thirty-one years old. He had
gone “West”, and located in what was then known as the “Wtanga” settlement, at
a point then claimed by both Virginia and North Carolina. He was elected to the
House of Burgesses of both Virginia and North Carolina about the same time, and
after coming to Williamsburg (1778) he sat in the General Assembly of North
Carolina. (ADDITION: Page 442, note. Francis Maclin also represented Brunswick
in House of Burgesses 1766, 1767 (no session) and 1768. Francis (it should
probably be Frederick) in 1775.)
He was a man of very active life,
and was at this time a captain in the Revolutionary army and fighting the
Indians in the South-west on the North Carolina and Tennessee line.
There is a memoir of General
William Cocke by William Goodrich of Philadelphia, one of his descendants, in
the July number (1896) of the "American Historical Magazine",
Nashville, TN. We learn from this sketch, that William Cocke studied law in his
early life and it is there stated that at the age of twenty-seven he was sent
for by Lord Dunmore and offered a very high position if he would espouse the
cause of King against the Colonies, which he indignantly declined.
Somewhat previous to this he had,
in company with Daniel Boone, explored what is now East Tennessee and Western
Kentucky, being absent about a year. In 1776 (see Ramsay's History of
Tennessee) four companies, principally Virginians, were raised, who marched to
Heaton's Station, where a fort had been built by the advice of Captain William
Cocke and named after him "Cocke's Fort:. There was here a fierce battle
with the Indians, in which they received a crushing defeat. After this he was
very active in the military operations in this quarter, and took part in the
engagements at Long Island, Threkeldry Fort and King's Mountain.
He was very prominent in the
efforts to withdraw from the State of North Carolina and establish he separate
State of Frankland or Franklin and made a speech of great power before the
House of Commons of North Carolina. He was sent by the people of Franklin to
Philadelphia with a memorial to Congress applying for admission to the Union.
In 1796 he was elected by the new
State of Tennessee the first Senator from the State of Tennessee to the Federal
Congress, having been previously very prominent in the Convention which framed
the first Constitution of that State. Andrew Jackson became his colleague in
the U. S. Senate in 1797. The State of Tennessee honored him in 1797 by naming
a county after him. He continued in the Federal Senate until 1809, when he was
appointed Judge of the First Circuit.
Removing to Mississippi, he was
elected to the State Legislature and in 1814 President Madison appointed him
Agent for the Chickasaw Nation. two wars, the Legislatures of four States
(Virginia, North Carolina, Tennessee and Mississippi) and in the Senate of the
United States. He was active also in laying the foundations of the educational
system of his adopted State. He was the founder of the University of Tennessee,
a trustee of Greenville College and incorporator of Washington College.
He died in Columbus, MS on 22
August 1828 in the 81st year of his age and is buried there under a tombstone
erected to his memory by the State of Mississippi. This monument bears the
inscription:
"Here lie the remains of
William Cocke, who died in Columbus, Miss., on the 22d of August, 1828. The
deceased passed an eventful and active life. Was Captain in command during the
war of 1776. Was distinguished for his brave daring and intrepidity. Was one of
the pioneers who first crossed the Allegheny Mountains with Daniel Boone into
the wilderness of Kentucky. Took an active part in the formation of the
Franklin Government, afterwards the State of Tennessee. Was the delegate from
that free limit to the Congress of the United States. Was a member of the
convention which formed the first Constitution of Tennessee, and was one of the
first Senators from that State to the Congress of the United States for a
period of twelve years, and afterwards one of the Circuit Judges. He served in
the Legislatures of Virginia, North Carolina, Tennessee, and Mississippi, at
the age of sixty-five was a volunteer of the war of 1812, and again
distinguished himself for his personal bravery and courage. He departed this
life in the eight-first year of his age, universally lamented."
3. GENERAL JOHN COCKE (7), son of
General William Cocke, was in the Legislature of Tennessee for many years as
Representative and Senator, and was in the United States Congress from 1817 to
1827. He was very prominent in the Florida and Creek wars; was a major-general
in the army, and had a fierce controversy with General Andrew Jackson, who was
his superior in command, and who had him cashiered. Parton, in his “Life of
Andrew Jackson”, blames Jackson and states that General Cocke was completely
vindicated on the trial.
He founded the School for the
Deaf and Dumb, at Knoxville.
4. COLONEL WILLIAM M. COCKE (8),
son of John (7) (CORRECTION: Son of Sterling (7)) died in Nashville in February
1896. He had been also prominent; was for a number of years a member of the
General Assembly; and in the United States Congress in 1845-59.
FIFTH AND SIXTH GENERATIONS (LINE
OF THOMAS COCKE (2))
IV. DESCENDANTS OF JAMES COCKE
(4), SON OF JAMES (3), SON OF THOMAS (1)
We know nothing of the children
of James Cocke (4), except that he had a son named James (5), who died in 1772,
and whose will is on record.
James Cocke (4) must have died
about 1765, between seventy and seventy-five years of age. His son James (5)
was called James Cocke, Jr., and had the title of “Captain”. He (James (5)) had
seven children, viz:
1. James Cocke (6)
2. William Cocke (6)
3. John Cocke (6)
4. Elizabeth Pleasants Cocke (6)
(after her grandmother)
5. Sarah Lewis Cocke (Joseph
Lewis was a member of the Revolutionary Committee for Henrico (1774). So also
was Samuel Price, who was of the executors of the will)
6. Ann Cocke (6)
7. Susanna Cocke (6) (We know in
addition to the above, that one of the daughters of James Cocke (5) married
Elisha Meredith, son of Samuel Meredith (c. 1740). Sampson Meredith was sheriff
of Prince George in 1714. Samuel Meredith was a member of the Hanover Committee
of Safety 1775.
He seemed to have been in
moderate circumstances, perhaps 1,000 acres of land (partly in Goochland) and
ten or fifteen negroes.
He appointed his son James and
William Lewis of Goochland, and Samuel Price of Henrico, his executors.
There were several other James
Cockes living at this period (1750-80). There was a James Cocke (the auditor)
in Williamsburg, probably son of Brazure Cocke (4). There was also a James
Cocke (5) (son of John Cocke (3) of Surry, son of Nicholas (2) of the line of
the Surry Cockes, who had married a Poythress) living at “Bon Accord”, in
Prince George county, on the river, and who was captain in the Virginia Navy in
the Revolution.
II. FIFTH AND SIXTH GENERATIONS
(LINE OF RICHARD COCKE (2)(DESCENDANTS OF BOWLER COCKE (4), SON OF RICHARD (3),
SON OF RICHARD (2)
1. BOWLER COCKE (4) married
twice.
Sarah ---------------, by whom he
had following issue:
a. Susanna Cocke (5), born 1712,
died 1713;
b. Anne Cocke (5) born 1720;
c. Tabitha Cocke, born 1724;
d. Bowler Cocke (5) born 1726,
died 1772;
e. Sarah Cocke (5) born 1728
f. Elizabeth Cocke (5) born 1731
g. Richard Cocke (5) born 1733,
died 1733
h. Charles Cocke (5) born 1735,
died 1739
Mrs. Elizabeth Carter, widow of
Colonel John Carter of Shirley (no issue)
Bowler Cocke (4) was clerk of
Henrico from 1728 to 1748 (not 1752, as stated in previous articles.
Most of the above children died
in infancy. We know nothing of any of the rest except Bowler (5)
2. BOWLER COCKE (JR.) (5)
He succeeded his father as clerk
of Henrico in 1748. He was at various times a member of the House of Burgesses
from Henrico in 1761 (when he ceased to be clerk), 1765 (Colonel Hartwell Cocke
of Surry, was also a member of this body at this memorable session. It was the
session when Patrick Henry offered his resolution against the Stamp Act. Among
the members occur the names of Philip Johnson, Arch Car, Richard Eppes, Benj.
Harrison, John Fleming, Robert Bolling, Richard Adams, Fielding Lewis, William
Fitzhugh, Thomas Ludwell Lee, William Harwood, Richard Lee, Richard Henry Lee,
Wythe, Pendleton, Marshall, Washington, Page, Cabell, &c.), 1767, 1768,
1769 and probably other years; and he was a vestryman of Henrico parish
1749-1771.
In 1769 Bowler Cocke, Sr. of
Shirley, as appears from a deed recorded in Henrico clerk's office, gave to
Bowler Cocke, Jr. of Henrico, 30 slaves. The latter was then residing at Bremo,
where his son, Bowler Cocke (6) was living in 1775, as appears from an
advertisement in the Virginia Gazette, but Bowler Cocke (6) afterward resided
at “Turkey Island” until his death in 1812.
In 1752 the General Assembly (see
Little's Hist. Richmond, p. 19) passed an Act to lay off the city of Richmond,
with power to elect successors and fill vacancies. The following were the trustees:
Hon. Peter Randolph, Esq., William Byrd, Esq., Wm. Randolph, Bowler Cocke, Jr.,
Richard Randolph, Thos. Atkinson, Sam'l Gleadowe, Sam'l Duval and John
Pleasants, gentlemen.
In 1765 (see Hening, viii, 149)
an Act was passed by the Assembly for the improvement of the navigation of
James River. The trustees to carry out the act were. For James River, Hon.
Peter Randolph, William Byrd, Arch'd Cary, &c. For Chickahominy, Bowler
Cocke, Jr. (6), Benj. Harrison, &c. For North Branch James River (Rivanna),
Thos Walker, Thomas Jefferson, Edward Carter, Valentine Wood, &c.
Col. Richard Adams, Sr., of
Richmond, Aug. 8, 1771, writes to his brother, Thomas Adams: “I had a most
unfavorable account our poor old uncle of Bremo (Bowler Cocke (4)) yerday. I
fear he will not survive may days.
Again Aug, 12: “The old gentleman
our uncle …..cannot survive many days. He had acted nobly by his son's estate”,
&c. He died soon after. The death of his son, Bowler Cocke (5) occurred in
the following year (1772).
There is an advertisement, Dec.
1, 1774, of the household and kitchen furniture, &c., of Col Bowler Cocke
(5) dec'd, signed George Webb ex'or. (He was treasurer of the State and member
of the Council.0. in q780 Gen'l Andrew Lewis, George Webb and (we forget the third)
are appointed to the Council to succeed John Page, David Blackbourne, and David
Mead.
Bowler Cocke (5) shortly after
1750 married Elizabeth, widow of Harry Turner, and daughter of Colonel Nicholas
Smith (Thomas Turner was a Burgess from King George in 1736, 1752. Nicholas
Smith was a Burgess from King George in 1723. An earlier Nicholas Smith was a
Burgess from Isle of Wight in 1659 and probably of family of Arthur Smith.
Nicholas Smith of King George, was probably of same family, and both of same
family as Merriwether Smith of Essex.) Harry Turner died in 1750 and his wife
survived him but a short time. There were probably no children by this marriage
and Bowler Cocke (5) must have married again, but we do not know he name of his
second wife. (The cousin of Bowler Cocke (5) Anne Adams (5) (as will be seen
under the head of the “Adams Family”) married Colonel Francis Smith of Essex in
1748; contracted a second marriage with Miss Fauntleroy. (CORRECTION: Page 446,
note, last line: omit words “contracted a second marriage with Miss
Fauntleroy.”)
DESCENDANTS OF BOWLER COCKE (5).
We only have the names of three children: Bowler Cocke (6), William Cocke (6)
and Sarah Cocke (6)
1. BOWLER COCKE (JR.) (6). He
lived at Turkey Island, and was born 1750-55, died 1812. We find his name as a
vestryman of Henrico Parish, 1785.
The first vestryman of Henrico,
says Bishop Meade (Old Churches, I, 141) after the Revolution were: Edmund
Randolph, Turner Southall, Jaq. Ambler, Nath'l Wilkinson, Wm. Foushee, Miles
Selden, Jr., Bowler Cocke, &c.” This was in 1785. Edmund Randolph and
Bowler Cocke were church-wardens.
We have reason to believe (it was
perhaps about 1775-80)that he married a Miles Fox (we are so informed by Mr. R.
Heber Nelson, grandson of Robert Nelson, who lived at Malvern Hills, 1783-1800.
(The Foxes were of King William and a very old family. Henry Fox married Anne
West, daughter of Governor John West, son of Thomas, second Lord de la War.
Captain David Fox was a Burgess from Lancaster in 1692 and William Fox
represented the county in 1702.)
His son was named Bowler F. Cocke
(7)and he had a daughter named Ellen F. Cocke (7), who married Walter Coles of
Albemarle.
We have then soon after 1800,
three marriages of “Bowler Cocke”, viz: About 1800, Bowler F. Cocke (as we
suppose) married Ann Eliza Agnes Pleasants Heth, daughter of Captain Harry Heth
of the Revolution, Va. Hist. Col., xi, 329. (Harry Heth was a captain in the
Revolution, and possessed large landed estates. He lived at Blackheath,
Chesterfield county. His executor was one of the Randolphs. William Heth was a
colonel in the Revolutionary Army. Andrew and John Heth were Lieutenants.)
We have then, Nov. 1802, the
marriage of Bowler Cocke (6) to Nancy Dandridge, daughter of Col. Francis
Dandridge. Letter of Bowler Cocke dated February 4, 1803.
We have again an obituary notice
in the Richmond Enquirer of April 1, 1804 of the death of Maria Cocke, wife of
Bowler Cocke of Henrico, aged seventeen years.
So it would seem that Bowler
Cocke (6) of Henrico, when nearly fifty years of age, married twice between
1802 and 1804. On the 29th July 1798, Bowler Cocke (6) exor. Of Francis
Dandridge of King William Co, advertises “Huntington “on the Matagony”” as it
is necessary for me to go over the mountains for my health. I have requested
Mr. Edmund P. Chamberlayne to attend to the business.” In the Richmond Enquirer
, December 22, 1812, Bowler F. Cocke, administrator of the late Bowler Cocke,
advertises the sale of the estate “Turkey Island”, containing 900 acres,
fifteen miles below Richmond on James River.”
2. WILLIAM COCKE (6) of Bremo,
was another son of Bowler Cocke (5). He removed to Cumberland county, and
resided at “Oakland”, which family seat is still occupied by one of his
descendants, Captain Edmund Randolph Cocke, brother of Preston Cocke of
Richmond. He married Jane Armistead of Hesse, Gloucester county and had issue:
a. WILLIAM ARMISTEAD COCKE (6) of
Oakland (died 1855), who married Elizabeth Randolph Preston, who was the
daughter of Major Thomas Lewis Preston and Edmonia Randolph daughter of
Governor Edmund Randolph. Major Thomas Lewis Preston was brother of Governor
James Patton Preston; of General John Preston, Treasurer of Virginia; of
General Francis Preston and of some five or six other distinguished members of
the Preston family, all of whom were the children of Colonel Wm. Preston, son
of John Preston of Spring Hill, Augusta county, afterwards owned by Rev. James
Waddell who sold it to James Powell Cocke (6).
(1) Wm. Fauntleroy Cocke (7)
killed at Gettysburg
(2) Thomas L. P. Cocke (7)
(3) Captain Edmund Randolph Cocke
(7)
(4) Preston Cocke (7)
3. SARAH COCKE (6) who married
about 1780, Major Thomas Massie, was a daughter of Bowler Cocke (5). She was
born (according to the record in “The Cabells and their Kin”, page 377) at
“Turkey Island”, in 1760 and died at “Level Green”, in Nelson county, 1838.
Major Thomas Massie (ancestor of the Massies of Nelson county) was born in New
Kent county, 1747, and was a distinguished officer in the Revolution. They had
issue:
(1) Thomas Massie (7), surgeon in
war of 1812 and member of Virginia Convention of 1829-30. Married Lucy Waller
of “Bellfield”.
(2) William Massie (7), married
Miss Steptoe, and several other times
(3) Henry Massie (7) married Miss
Lewis
Thomas and Lucy (Waller) Massie
had issue: Sarah Massie married Hon. Wm. O. Goode and several others
Mrs. James Pleasants of Richmond
(wife of James Pleasants, son of John Hampden Pleasants) is a daughter of the
late Henry Massie of Charlottesville who married Miss Lewis of Bath county.)
THE ADAMS FAMILY
III. DESCENDANTS OF TABITHA COCKE
(4) AND EBENEZER ADAMS
In our last article we stated
that the ancestors of the Adams family of the Revolutionary period, and
afterwards so prominent in Richmond were Thomas Adams, son of Ebenezer Adams
and Martha Cocke (4), daughter of Richard Cocke (3). This was an error, as we
learn from a carefully prepared genealogy of the Adams family in the January
number of the William and Mary College Quarterly by Mr. C. W. Coleman.
It was from “Ebenezer Adams and
Tabitha Cocke(4)” daughter of Richard (3) that Richard and Thomas Adams and
Colonel Richard Adams, Jr., and the other members of that family were
descended. Tabitha Cocke (4) was a daughter of Anne Bowler (Richard (3) Cocke's
first wife). She married c. 1718 (she must have been born about 1698), Ebenezer
Adams and it was through their son Richard (5) (not Thomas (5)), that the
descent of the Richard Adams' was drawn. Thomas Adams (5) died childless,
although he married in 1775 the widow of his first cousin, Colonel Bowler Cocke
(5) whose maiden name was Fauntleroy (died 1791).
We followed the statement of
Colonel Richard Cocke, in the paper given by him to General John H. Cocke in
1813, and which will be given in our next article. Ebenezer Adams (we learn
from the William and Mar Quarterly) came to Virginia in 1714 and patented 3,883
acres of land in New Kent and Henrico. He died 1735.
He was (as we have previously
mentioned) one of the executors of Richard Cocke (3). With him were associated
Nathaniel Harrison and Henry Harrison, sons of Benjamin Harrison of Surry,
progenitor of the Harrisons of Berkeley and Brandon and Sussex county. We
erroneously represented Nathanial Harrison as the grandfather of Benjamin
Harrison, “the signer”. But this Benjamin Harrison was of Berkeley and was the
son of Benjamin Harrison (2), Eldest son of Benjamin (1).
Colonel Nathaniel Harrison (2)
second son of Benjamin (1), Naval Officer for the Upper James, Burgess in 1702,
member of the Council 1715, &c., was the ancestor of the Harrisons of
Brandon and grandfather of the Honorable Benjamin Harrison of Brandon, member
of the Council.
A third son of Benjamin (1) was
Henry Harrison (2) ancestor of the Sussex Harrisons. His descendant, Henry,
married a daughter of John Cocke (died 1798) of Surry, who was of the line of
William Cocke (1) of Surry. In 1718, Henry Harrison was Burgess from Surry.
Issue of Ebenezer and Tabitha (4)
Cocke Adams:
1. Richard Adams (5) died in
infancy
2. Bowler Adams (5) died in
infancy
3. William Adams (5) d.s.p
4. Richard Adams (5) to be
noticed
5. Tabitha Adams (5) married
Richard Eppes. (This seems to differ also from paper of Colonel Richard Cocke
(5), which represents that ------------ Eppes (ancestor of John W. Eppes)
married a daughter (Mary) of Bowler Cocke (4))
6. Thomas Adams (5) (who was a
member of the Continental Congress, died 1788)
7. Anne Adams (5) married Colonel
Francis Smith (1748) of Essex county, member House of Burgesses 1752-58 (he
died 1762), who had been previously married to Lucy Merriwether, mother of the
distinguished Merriwether Smith. (Among the descendants of Colonel Francis
Smith and Anne Adams were Thomas Adams Smith (7), Brigadier-General United
States Army, died 1844; Lucy Ann Smith (8) (died 1867) married Judge Beverley
Tucker of Williamsburg.)
8. Sarah Adams (5) married
Colonel John Fry of Albemarle and had issue:
a. Joshua Fry (6) married Peachy,
daughter of Dr. Thomas Walker of “Castle Hill”, Albemarle
b. William Adams Fry (6)
c. Tabitha Fry (6) married Bowler
Cocke of Kentucky
Colonel Richard Adams (5) of
Richmond, born 1726 in New Kent. We have already noticed him in our previous
article. He was very prominent. He married Elizabeth Griffin, daughter of Leroy
and Mary (Bertrand) Griffin of Richmond county and sister of Judge Cyrus
Griffin of Williamsburg, who was a delegate to the Continental Congress in
1778-81-87-88, and in the last named year was President of that body. He
married Lady Christine Stuart, daughter of John, sixth Earl of Traquar,
Scotland.
Richard Adams represented New
Kent in House of Burgesses, 1752-61-65-68 and Henrico in 1770. Was a member of
the Committee of Safety, 1774-5. His residence on Adams' (Church) Hill, was the
building now known as the Convent of Monte Maria. He and a number of his
descendants are buried in Richmond. We think it is a mistake that Adams street
was named after him. It was probably called after President Adams, along with
Jefferson, Madison and Monroe.
He left issue:
1. Thomas Bowler Adams (6) who
married Sarah Morrison, whose mother was a Miss Bland.
2. Colonel Richard Adams, Jr. (6)
born 1760, died 1817. He married first, Elizabeth, widow of Peter Skipwith
Randolph and daughter of Colonel James and Frances (Jones) Southall; married
second Sara Travers, daughter of Travers and Frances (Moncure) Daniel
3. Anne Adams (6) married Colonel
Mayo Carrington of Cumberland (died 1803)
4. Sarah Adams (6) married in
1793, George William Smith, Governor of Virginia
5. John Adams (6) physician and
prominent member Legislature, 1803-4; mayor of Richmond. Erected and occupied
house in Richmond now known as the Van Lew residence
6. Samuel Griffin Adams (6)
married Catherine Innes
Thomas Adams (says Mr. Coleman)
used a seal identical with arms of English branch of the family (Co. Salop). A
pedigree of eleven generations appears in the Visitation of Shropshire for
1623. The arms are: Ermine, three cats passant in pale azure.
“Tabitha (Cocke (4)) Adams (wife
of Ebenezer Adams) owned that portion of her grandfather's estate in Essex
county still known as Bowler's (where was a warf) and on which there was a
public warehouse.” She was still living, a widow in New Kent county in 1760.
CORRECTIONS: (Since this
transcription doesn't correspond to these page numbers, the changes have been
noted in their location)
In the January number, p. 324, at
line 27, for “he” substitute “Arthur Allen”.
On p. 325, note, the statement
(taken from Virginia Hist. Mag., Oct. 1895, p. 197) that Nancy Hunt Cocke
married John Waddrop, is erroneous. As will appear hereafter, she married: 1.
Gen. James A Bradley. 2. Patrick Henry Adams 3. Col. Richard Herbert Cocke (6)
THE COCKE FAMILY
A bound copy of Vol. IV of your
Magazine, page 442, says “Stephen Cocke (5) son of Abraham ……………… and his son
Jno. H. Cocke succeeded him”, which interested me very much as my grandmother
was Amy Elizabeth Cocke of Somerville, Tennessee, m. Dr. Josiah Higgason, born
1801 in Hanover Co., Va., and a son of Chas. R. Higgason. Before her death in
1890 she gave me some Cocke genealogical data taken from old family Bibles the
may show a slight error in the above quoted statement concerning Stephen Cocke.
I am taking the liberty of sending it to you for perpetuation in your valuable
journal.
This is the record:
Stephen Cocke Sr. was born March
31, 1740
Amy Jones his wife was born
Jany'y 26, 1747
The children of Stephen and Amy
Jones Cocke were:
1 Richard Cocke, born 1766, d.
Feb. 17,1823
2 Mary Cocke, born 1768
3 Elizabeth Cocke, born 1770,
------------ 1804
4. Martha Lacy Cocke, born 1772,
d. ---------- 1824
5. Sarah Stratton Cocke, born
1774
6. Rebecca Cocke, born 1776
7. Amy Jones Cocke, Jr., born
1778, d. June 1, 1824
8. Thos Jones Cocke, born 1780,
d. Aug. 21, 1845
9. Stephen Cocke, born 1784, d.
April 5, 1822
Stephen Cocke, Sr. died 1792
& Amy Jones Cocke died Sept 15, 1788
Thomas Jones Cocke married Lucy
Watkins Nicholson on Jany 20, 1802 (Lucy W. Nicholson was b. Feby 4, 1783, d.
Nov. 2, 1836.)
Their children were as follows:
1 A son born Feby 10, 1803
2 James Nicholson Cocke b. Jany
3, 1805, d. Dec. 29, 1850
3 Stephen William Cocke b. Feby
10, 1807, d --------------
4 Thomas Cocke Oct. 27, 1808, d.
Oct. 29, 1808
5 Martha Ann Cocke, Mch 20, 1810
6 Amy Elizabeth Cocke b. Oct. 17,
1812, d. ----------1899
7 Thos Richard Cocke b. Oct. 13,
1814, d. -------- 1883
8. Edwin Cocke b. Aug 27, 1817,
d. July 21, 1830
9 Jack Lacey Cocke b. May 11,
1821, d. Oct. 26, 1822
My grandmother said her parents
moved from Virginia and settled in Kentucky, afterwards in about 1825 coming to
Fayette Co, Tennessee. Her father, Thos. Jones Cocke was wealthy, owned many
slaves and much land, was for years a member of the County Court.
Lucy Watkins Nicholson, wife of
Thos Jones Cocke, was the daughter of James Nicholson, b. Nov. 1, 1748, and his
wife Sally Harris b. May 11, 1787
Martha Ann Cocke m.. Maj. Edmund
Winston of La Grange, Tennessee on Feb. 11, 1828.
The record also gives this
information:
Richard Cocke, oldest son of
Stephen & Amy Jones Cocke, married Mary Watkins Dec. 6, 1797 (Mary dying
Feb. 20, 1823). Their children:
1. John Watkins Cocke b. Jany 21,
1808
2. Rich'd Cocke b. July 12, 1815
3. Mary Ann Cocke b. Dec. 13,
1816
4 Martha Frances Cocke
Stephen Cocke, Jr. son of Stephen
Sr. & Amy, married Mch 10, 1806, Harriet A. Nance & their children are
as follows:
1 Susan Francis Cocke, b. Dec.
29, 1806
2 Stephen Frederick Cocke b. Dec.
29, 1809
3 Thomas Robert Cocke b. April
23, 1815
Thinking this data might be
interesting to some of the numerous Cocke heirs in Virginia and elsewhere, and
considering its reliability as I have explained, I am in hopes that you will be
able to print it.
Very Respty
J. H. Dortch
1510 Park Road, N. W.
Washington, D.C.
Oct. 9, 1920
COCKE-COX
It is no reflection upon the late
Dr. Southall that I wish to suggest a few corrections in his article on the
Cocke family of Henrico, in Vol 4, of the Virginia Magazine of History and
Biography. If he were living today, in the light of deeper researches, these
corrections would most probably be made by himself.
The following marriages are taken
from the old records of Henrico County:
Sept. 25, 1682, John Cox paid for
license to marry Mary Kennon
Nov. 10, 1686, John Cocke to
marry Mary Davis
June 16, 1691, William Cocke
Sen., married Sarah Dennis
1695, William Cocke married Sarah
Perrin
John Cox, Sen., had among others,
a son William, to whom Dr. Southall erroneously assigns the above Sarah Perrin
as wife. When the above wives are transferred to their proper mates, it leaves
William Cox with a wife, Sarah --------------, They had a daughter, Martha who
married Henry Wood at Bremo, 1723. Through this Martha Cox comes to the Wood
family the tradition of Cocke descent. Dr. Southall, in trying to place the
tradition which he got from Lieutenant Champe Carter McCulloch (deceased as
Colonel C. C. McCulloch, Oct. 14, 1928), assigned it to the Cox side of the
family, making John Cox, Sen., appear to be the son of Lieutenant Col. Richard
Cocke.
After exhaustive search, Judge
Edwin P. Cox, Attorney Walter L. Hopkins (both of Richmond), the late Col. C.
C. McCulloch, as well as myself, have come to the conclusion that an error was
made that the tradition came through the wife of William Cox, who instead of
being Sarah Perrin, as Dr. Southall outlined, was in fact, Sarah Cocke. Many
thing point to this conclusion. Her only son was “Stephen”, a Cocke name. After
her husband's death in 1711, Sarah Cox retired to “Bremo”, the Cocke family
estate, where her daughter Martha, married Henry Wood, 1723. At the baptism of
Martha (Cox) Wood's son Valentine Wood, Oct. 23, 1724, William Finney and
Stephen Cox (probably Martha's brother) were sureties. William Finney was the
Rev. William Finney, M. A. of the University of Glasgow, who married Mary
Cocke, daughter of Thomas Cocke (3). There is no record that points in the
least to John Cox having been born a Cocke.
William Elam's will, 1688, gives
to “so-in-law John Cox, Sen., one shilling. The rest to cousin Martin Elam.”
Were William Elam's daughter the
then wife of John Cox, Sen., would he not have left his estate to her instead
of to his cousin, Martin Elam? Or, had his daughter been the mother of John
Cox's children, would he not have left his estate to her children? The
conclusion is forced upon me that instead his being “son-in-law”, John Cox,
Sen., was step-son to William Elam, as the expression so frequently meant in
those early days. There is no record of the wife of William Elam among Henrico
records.
“William Cox, Elizabeth Jux” were
among headrights to Matthew Edloe, 1737. Although the “J” in “Jux” is very
distinct, in Photostat copies just received of old records from the Archives
Division, State Library, Richmond, Va., I find an exact reproduction of the “J”
in “Jux” used as the symbol “&”. I believe, as does also Mrs. Nugent, of
the State Land Office, that the rendering should be “William Cox, Elizabeth
& ux. “
1636, William Cox had a grant of
land “about 3 ½ miles above Harroe Attocks”, 1685. John Cox, Sen., in a deed
calls himself “of Harry Addocks, planter”. The probability is that they were
father and son.
1646, a William Cocke was a
Burgess from Henrico. There was no known adult William Cocke in Henrico at that
time. The foregoing points to the scribe having mis-written the name. The
so-called William Cocke, Burgess, was in all probability, William Cox, father
of John Cox, Sen. My conclusion is that after William Cox's death his widow
married William Elam. John Cox, Sen, was born Cox not Cocke, and was the
step-son of William Elam.
Ella Foy O'Gorman, 226 E. St., N.
E., Washington, D.C.
THE COCKE FAMILY OF VIRGINIA
(HENRICO)
FIFTH AND SIXTH GENERATIONS
LINE OF RICHARD COCKE (2)
III. DESCENDANTS OF RICHARD COCKE
(4), SON OF RICHARD (3), SON OF RICHARD (1)
Richard Cocke (4), as stated in
the article for January, was the second son of Richard (3) and half-brother of
Bowler Cocke (4)
We shall now publish entire (with
such annotations as may seem proper) a paper drawn up in the year 1813 by
Colonel Richard Cocke (5), son of Richard (4) and given to him to General John
Hartwell Cocke (7) of “Bremo” on James river in Fluvanna county. It carries
with it, therefore, unusual authority as a family record. It gives the
descendants of Richard Cocke (4) in full and has a brief account of the family
of Benjamin Cocke (4) and the daughters of Richard (4).
The following is the pedigree:
FAMILY RECORD OF COLONEL RICHARD
COCKE (5) OF “SHOAL BAY”
“The following genealogical
narration was received from Col. Richard Cocke (5) of Shoal Bay, in the county
of Isle of Wight, at an advanced period of his age, by John H. Cocke of Bremo,
Fluvanna county, April, 1813”.
The original ancestor of the
Cockes of Virginia emigrated from Leeds in Yorkshire, England about the year
1650 and settled at Malvern Hills in the county of Henrico.
(We know of no authority for this
statement. We have not been able to find any traces of the Cocke family in
Yorkshire, though they were widely scattered in England in the beginning of the
17th century. Nor is it probable, as stated further on, that Richard Cocke (1)
settled at “Malvern Hills”, which does not appear in the family until the
second generation (Thomas Cocke (2)), though the place was probably owned by
Richard Cocke (1). On one of the tombstones at Bremo we have the inscription:
“Here lyes Interr'd the Body of Richard Cocke, son of Richard Cocke of B * *
(born 1639)”, which shows that Richard Cocke, the first, lived at Bremer, as it
is spelled on the tombstone of Anne (Bowler) Cocke, wife of Richard (3).
In a previous article we have
stated that Bremo” or “Bremor” was probably an Indian name, but we have
discovered that there is a “Breamore House” in the county of Wilts, and also
that there is a village called “Breamore” in the western part of the county of
Hants (Hampshire), about 7 or 8 miles south of Salisbury, just to the southern
frontier of Wilks, which last county adjoins Gloucester, where the Cockes were
numerous and where lay “Malvern Hills, that Richard Cocke (1) came, and that he
was nearly connected with the Cockes of Gloucester, who settled in that county
from Kent about 1450.
Colonel Cocke was also mistaken
as to the date of Richard Cocke's arrival in the colony. We have stated in a
previous article that his name first appears in 1632 as a member of the
Colonial Assembly from Weyanoke. We have since ascertained that Richard Cocke
patented 100 acres of land in Elizabeth City in 1628. We have already mentioned
in our first article (January, 1895, page 287) that “William Cox patented 100
acres in Elizabeth City September 20, 1628.” (They came over together) In 1636
Henry Southwell or Southall (Spelt both ways on the land-books) patented 700
acres of land “on Lynn Haven” in Elizabeth City. Elizabeth City then included
what is now Princess Anne county, lying on Lynn Haven Bay, and it is probable
that Richard Cocke (1), William Cox (1) and Henry Southall all landed in what
is now Princess Anne county, on Lynnhaven Bay, and they were about the three
first Virginians who ever realized the delicious flavor of the famous bivalve
now in such esteem among all the epicures of the western world.
In 1632, as we have said, Richard
Cocke (1) was in the House of Burgesses from Weyanoke. This is in Charles City
county. In March 1636, he is entered on the land-books as patenting 3,00 acres
of land in Henrico. Lands adjoin those of Thomas Harris. Same year Thomas
Harris adds by patent 700 acres to his lands near “the Bremoes dividend”. This
must have been Bremo, and it was this time it got its name.
Richard Cocke (1) came over when
Captain Francis West, brother of Lord De La Warr (first governor) was in charge
of the colony (1627). Governor West was succeeded by his brother in 1635,
Captain John West, who remained in Virginia, and he (Francis) owned lands near
“Westover”. In England, about 1675, Elizabeth Cocke, daughter of Sir Henry
Cocke of Herts, married Robert West, son of Lord De La Warr. About this date
the family of Sir George Percy, Governor of Virginia (1609-11) and brother of
Henry, Earl of Northumberland, had intermarried with the family of Thomas Cock
(1620), county Gloucester, England.
The Cockes at this time were very
prominent in England. Richard Cox was a prominent Virginia merchant in London.
Several members of the family were connected with the Royal Household in the
reigns of Henry VIII, Mary, Elizabeth and James I. They were connected by
marriage with the Wests and Percys, Lord Chandos, the Berkeley, Sir Hugh Poyntz,
Sir Robert Oxenbridge, Sir Edmund Lucy, Lord Somers, Lord Wentworth, &c.)
A descendant from the English
emigrant settled at Bremo, near the same place in the same county, were Richard
and Benjamin Cocke were born, who both married heiresses in Surry and settled
in that county. Richard and Benjamin were young and “half brothers” of the
elder Bowler Cocke of Bremo (Henrico). They had sisters, one of whom married
Mr. Adams, ancestor of the late Col. Richard Adams of Richmond; another married
Mr. Epps, of the Hundred, near City Point, progenitor of John W. Epps, Esq.,
(U. S. Senator from Virginia 1817) and a third married Mr. Acrill of Charles
City, whose family name is extinct.
IV. BENJAMIN COCKE'S BRANCH.
Benjamin (4) married Miss Allen, (daughter of Arthur Allen of Bacon's Castle)
of Surry and raised a son and two daughters, namely Allen Cocke (5), Nancy
Cocke (5) and Rebecca Cocke (5).
1. Allen Cocke (5) married Nancy
Kennon of Charles City and raised three sons and two daughters, viz: Benjamin
Allen Cocke (6), Richard Cocke (6), Allen Cocke, Jr. (6), Nancy Cocke (6) and
Catharine Cocke (6). The two elder sons married but left no children; (6) Allen
Cocke (6), the youngest, died single. Nancy Cocke (6) first married General
James A. Bradley, by whom she raised no child; Secondly, Patrick H. Adams -- no
child-and is now living, the wife of Richard H. Cocke (6) of Bacon's Castle,
Surry. (We may notice here the prominent position occupied at this time by the
Cocke family in the county of Surry, which at this date seems to have been one
of the leading counties. There were living during this period (1759-1790) in
this county, Colonel Richard Cocke (5), Colonel Allen Cocke (5), Colonel
Hartwell Cocke (5),Colonel Lemuel Cocke (4) and Colonel John Cocke (4) (these
last two of the line of William Cocke, who came over in 1690). They were all
prominent men. Richard Cocke (5) was a member of the House of Delegate, 1784,
and no doubt other years. Allen Cocke (5) was a member of the House of
Burgesses in 1773, 1775, 1776. Hartwell Cocke (5) was a member in 1759, 1761,
1765, 1767, 1768, 1770 (and no doubt other years). Col. Lemuel Cocke was a
member 1786, 1788 and probably other years. John Hartwell Cocke (6) 1787.
During the same period, Bowler Cocke (5) and Bowler Cocke (6), Wm. Cocke of
Washington, Charles Cocke of Lee (a few years later), Anderson Cocke of
Cumberland &c., were members.
In the year 1886, in Surry
county, on the Revolutionary Committee of Safety, there were five Cockes: Col.
Allen Cocke, Col. John Cocke, John Cocke, Jr., John Hartwell Cockes, Col.
Lemuel Cocke. Hartwell Cocke was just dead.)
Catherine Cocke (6), daughter of
Allen (5) married first Wilson C. Wallace (by whom she had a daughter, Sally,
now living) and died the wife of Thomas Hare, leaving him a son.
2. Catherine Cocke (5), the
daughter of Benjamin (4) married Mr. Bradley and raised James A. Bradley (who
married his cousin Nancy Cocke (6) as above stated) (General James Allen
Bradley (6) (he is called general by Governor Bev. Randolph in 1794) was the
issue of this marriage. He married Nancy (Ann Hunt) Cocke (6), daughter of
Allen Cocke (5) and Nancy Kennon, ad died leaving her a widow. She married
second, Patrick H. Adams and third, Richard Herbert Cocke (6), her cousin, son
of Richard Cocke (5). Robert Bradley in 1680 was one of the attorneys of the
colony. William Bradley was a Burgess for Norfolk county, 1761 and 1768. It was
a prominent name in Charles City county.)
3. Rebecca Cocke (5), daughter of
Benjamin (4) married Mr. Eaton (of James City. Colonel John Eaton was a Burgess
for James City in 1736 and in 1739, in which last year he died) and raised a
son, William (who is now living in North Carolina and has several children and
two daughters, Mrs. Brownloe, who has left two children and Mrs. Williams, who
is living and has several.
RICHARD COCKE'S (4) BRANCH
Richard Cocke (4), (born 1707;
died 1772) married Elizabeth Hartwell (4) of Swan's Point, Surry, and raised
the following named children, viz: Hartwell Cocke (5), Benjamin Cocke (5),
Elizabeth Hartwell Cocke (5) and Rebecca Cocke (5). In a second marriage with
Elizabeth Ruffin, relict of Mr. Kinchin, he raised Nancy Cocke (5), Richard
Cocke (5) (the author of this narrative), Lucy Cocke (5), Nathaniel Cocke (5)
and John Cocke (5).
1. Hartwell Cocke (5) married Ann
Ruffin, daughter of John Ruffin of Rich Neck in Surry and raised John Hartwell
Cocke (6), Hartwell Cocke (6), Mary Cocke (6), Richard Cocke (6) and Martha
Cocke (6) (twins), Nancy Cocke (6), Benjamin Cocke (6), Robert Cocke (6) and
Elizabeth Cocke (6). (This line of Cockes intermarried several times with the
Ruffins. 1. Richard Cocke (4) married Elizabeth Ruffin (Mrs. Kinchin), Hartwell
Cocke (5) son of Richard (4) married Anne Ruffin of “Rich Neck”, Surry county,
daughter of John Ruffin. 3. Lucy Cocke (5) sister of Hartwell Cocke (5),
married William Ruffin, of “Rich Neck (1770). (Rich Neck” had been the seat of
Colonel Philip Ludwell). The daughter (Nancy Ruffin) of Lucy Cocke (5) and Wm
Ruffin married William Browne of “Four Mile Tree”, Isle of Wight.
2. Benjamin Cocke (5) (the
brother of Hartwell) died unmarried.
3. Elizabeth Hartwell Cocke (5)
married Mr. Thornton and raised four daughters and one son, viz: Nancy Thornton
(6), Rebecca Thornton (6), Francis Thornton (6), Lucy Thornton (6), Elizabeth
Thornton (6). Elizabeth Thornton (6) daughter of Elizabeth Hartwell (Cocke)
Thornton first married William Wilkinson of James City, and had a son, Cary
Wilkinson (7) who is now (1813) living. (Cary Wilkinson was one of the
Committee of Safety of James City county, in 1774. In 1819-20, Cary Wilkinson,
John Tyler, Capt. John Armistead &c. constitute the County Committee for
Charles City county, in the Presidential election (Republican). In the Virginia
Argus for Nov. 20, 1810, Cary Wilkinson advertises three tracts of land of 180,
200 and 234 acres - the last as agent for Miss Martha B. Southall.) By her
second marriage with Robert H. Taliaferro, there are four children.
Nancy Thornton (6), daughter of
Elizabeth Thornton (5), married Mr. Branch and raised a son, Henry F. Branch
(7).
Francis Thornton (6) son of
Elizabeth Hartwell Thornton (5) died at New Orleans in the military service of
the United States, about 1812.
4. Rebecca Cocke (5), the
daughter of Richard Cocke (4), married Colonel Richard Taliaferro of
“Powhatan”, in the county of James City, and raised three sons and seven
daughters, all of whom, except one, she survived. The eldest son Richard
Taliaferro died unmarried. The second son, Benjamin Taliaferro, raised no
children. The children of the third son, Robert H. Taliaferro are noticed
above.
The eldest daughter (6) of
Rebecca (Cocke (5)) Taliaferro married Daniel Call of Richmond, who has one
daughter living. Daniel Call was one of the most eminent lawyers of Richmond in
the beginning the century. He was the author of Call's Reports.)
The second (6) married the late
Judge William Nelson from whom there are no descendants now living. (President
William Nelson (acting Governor in 1770, as President of Council) died in 1772.
His son, Judge William Nelson, was a member of the Convention of 1776 and 1788,
and one of the Privy Council in 1785. He was also a member of the Legislature
in 1783, and probably other years.
The third (6) married Mr. Carter
Nicholas, who raised no children.
The fourth (6) (married) Mr.
William Browne - no children.
The fifth (6) (married) Mr.
Wilkinson, who raised one daughter, the present Mrs. Harrison of Petersburg.
The sixth (6) married Mr. William
P. Harris, and raised no children.
The seventh (6) married Mr.
McCandlish, at present living in Williamsburg, and who has several children.
5. Nancy Cocke (5), daughter of
Richard Cocke (4), a child of the second marriage, married Colonel William
Browne of Four Mile Tree, Surry, and raised Richard, John and Polly Browne, all
of whom died early and left no descendants. (One of the wealthiest and most
influential families in Surry County in the eighteenth century was the “Browne”
family of “Four Mile Tree”. These were neighbors to the Cockes (Richard Cocke
(4) and his descendants, intermarried with them, and held evidently very
intimate relations toward them). As far back as 1637, Captain Henry Browne
patented 2,250 acres of land in James City county, on the south side of the
river (Surry), at “Half-way Tree”; in 1639, 900 acres of James City county; and
in 1643, 2,450 acres at “Four Mile Tree”. He was a member of the Council in
1634-60. William Browne was member of the Council in 1646 and repeatedly a
member of the House of Burgesses.
In 1747 the inventory of Captain
William Browne amounted to 2,630 pounds in Surry and 619 pounds in Isle of
Wight. In 1734 there is a record of the will of Henry Browne, who leaves rings
to Richard Cocke (4) and his son Hartwell (5). By a nuncupative will, 1744,
Captain William Browne leaves the direction of his wife and children to his
“good friends, Captain Richard Cocke and William Eaton”. About 1768 Colonel
William Browne, born 1739, married Anne Cocke, daughter of Colonel Richard
Cocke (4).
6. Richard Cocke (5), son of
Richard (4), married Ann Claiborne and raised Richard H. Cocke (6), Augustine
Cocke (6) (born 1771), Lucy Cocke (6), and Buller Cocke (6). (FOOTNOTE: Colonel
Augustine Claiborne of “Windsor”, born at “Sweet Hall”, 1721; eminent lawyer;
married Mary, only daughter of Buller Herbert of “Puddledock”, near Petersburg,
brother of Martha Herbert, wife of James Powell Cocke (4) who was immensely
wealthy. They had issue: 1. Mary Claiborne, born 1744, married General Charles
Harrison of the Revolution, son of Benjamin Harrison of Berkely, uncle of
President William Henry Harrison; 2. Herbert Claiborne married a Ruffin of
“Sweet Hall”, King William county; second a daughter of William Burnet Browne; 3.
Thomas Claiborne, born 1747, married ---------- Scott whose mother was a Miss
Cocke of James River; member House of Burgesses, 1775-8, from Brunswick; 4.
Anne Claiborne, born 1749, married 1768, Richard Cocke (5) of Shoal Bay, Isle
of Wight county, author of this paper; 5. Buller Claiborne, born 1755, Major in
Revolution, aid to General Lincoln; married Patsy Ruffin; issue: Sterling
Claiborne of Amherst; 6. Lucy Herbert Claiborne married Colonel John Cocke (5),
son of Richard Cocke (4).)
In a second marriage with Mrs.
White he has now living Nathaniel Cocke (6), William Cocke (6) (married Eliza
Johnson) FOOTNOTE: William Henry Cocke (6) son of Colonel Richard Cocke (5)
married Eliza Johnson, daughter of James Johnson of James City (in Convention
of 1776). William H. Cocke was in United States Navy and was killed in 1822 by
accidental discharge of a gun off Moro.
), John Cocke (6) (married Ann
Bressie Webb, 1820), Leonard Cocke (6) and a daughter.
(Martha Anne Cocke (7) who
married, 1. Batt Henley; 2. John Peter. Issue by first marriage: Indiana Henley
(8) who married Dr. Emmett Robinson of Petersburg.)
a. Richard H. Cocke (6) married
first Miss Markie and has a daughter living and by second marriage with Mrs.
Adams (nee Ann Hunt Cocke), daughter of Colonel Allen Cocke, has no children.
(She married first, General James A. Bradley). (Richard Herbert Cocke (6) died
1833. His wife (Ann Hunt Cocke) renounced the will. His appraisement was
$29,048.39; he had seven coaches and sets of harness and twenty-two horses)
b. Buller Cocke (6) married Miss
(Eliz. ) Barron and has several children living. (There was a Commodore James
Barron, a Commander, Richard Barron and a Lieutenant William Barron in the
Revolution. Commodore James Barron killed Commodore Stephen Decatur in a duel
(1820).) (Elizabeth Cocke (7), daughter of Buller Cocke (6) married Lewis
Curzon Tresvant. James Tresvant represented the Southampton District in
Congress in 1825-31 and was in the Convention of 1829-30. It is a Huguenot
name. The family came from Maine.
Colonel Richard Herbert Cocke
(6), son of Richard (5) lived at “Bacon's Castle”, Surry, and his brother,
Buller (6) lived at “Monk Dale”, both on James River, near the old Surry
Church. Bacon's Castle had been a seat of Benjamin Cocke (4) whose
granddaughter (the widow of General James Allen Bradley), Richard H. Cocke
married. In 1675 it had belonged to Arthur Allen, father of Benjamin Cocke's
wife, and was taken possession of and defended by parties engaged in Bacon's
Rebellion, and got its name from this circumstance. The original house is brick
dwelling of two stories and some six or eight rooms, four gables) is still
standing.
c. Lucy Cocke (6), daughter of
Richard (5), married William Ruffin of Richneck, and raised a son and daughter,
Wm. Cocke (7) and Betsey Cocke (7). William (7) married Miss Edwards and has
left two sons, William Cocke (8) and Thomas Cocke (8). Betsey Cocke (7) married
the late Wm. Browne, Esq. of Four Mile Tree and has left an daughter, lately
(1813) married to John T. Bowdoin, Esq.
d. Nathaniel Cocke (6) son of
Richard (5), married Miss Thompson of Halifax, and raised three sons, Nathaniel
Cocke (Jr) (7), John Cocke (7) and William Cocke (7), the two first died young,
the latter still lives in Savannah, Georgia. Nathaniel Cocke (6), son of
Richard Cocke (5) (of Halifax) was Lieutenant Colonel in the State Line in the
Revolution.
7. John Cocke (5), son of Richard
(4), married Miss Claiborne (Lucy Herbert) of Sussex (born 1769) and raised two
sons, Herbert Cocke (6) and John Cocke (6), both of whom are now living in the
count of Halifax, and have children (1813).
DESCENDANTS OF HARTWELL COCKE (5)
a. JOHN HARTWELL COCKE (6), son
of Hartwell (5) married Elizabeth Kennon of Mount Pleasant, in Chesterfield,
daughter of Robert Kennon and Sally (formerly Sally Skipwith, daughter of Sir
Wm. Skipwith), and raised the following children, viz: Sally Cocke (7), Nancy
Cocke (7), Elizabeth Cocke (7), John Hartwell Cocke (Jr.)(7) and Mary Kennon
Cocke (7). Nancy Cocke (7) married first Carter Nicholas of Chesterfield, by
whom she raised no child, and secondly Merrit M. Robinson of Richmond, leaving
a son Merrit M. Robinson (8) now (1840) living. Elizabeth Cocke (7) married
Arthur Sinclair, late a commodore in the United States Navy, and died, leaving
no child. Mary Kennon Cocke (7) married John Faulcon of Surry, deceased,
leaving one child, Elizabeth Ann Faulcon, now Mrs. Upshur. (Nicholas Faulcon
and Colonel Allen Cocke represented Surry in the Convention of 1776. In 1781
(to 1801) Jacob Faulcon was clerk of Surry, and from 1801 to 1829 John Faulcon
was clerk. Several of these Faulcons married with the line of John Hartwell
Cocke (6).) (the ancestor of the Kennon family (see Slaughter) was Richard
Kennon, who, with Francis Eppes, Joseph Royall and George Archer appear as
joint patentees of 2,8727 acres of land in Henrico in 1670. Wm. Kennon (3) in
1713, was in House of Burgesses from Prince George. General Richard Kennon (4)
of the Revolution, was a brother of Robert Kennon (3).
b. HARTWELL COCKE (6) son of
Hartwell (5), married Miss Clements of Southampton and died without having a
child.
c. MARY COCKE (6) daughter of
Hartwell (5), married Captain Edward Archer of Norfolk Borough and left two
son, Richard Arthur (7) and Samuel B. Hartwell (7) and a daughter Maria
Hartwell (7) married Mr. Woodruff of Fredericksburg.
d. RICHARD COCKE (6) son of
Hartwell (5), died unmarried.
e. MARTHA COCKE (6), daughter of
Hartwell (5) is now living, the wife of Colonel Daniel Coleman of Caroline and
has three sons, viz: John Coleman (7), Ruffin Coleman (7) and Daniel Coleman
(7) now residing in Kentucky and Alabama. (She died in Alabama, March 1842).
f. NANCY COCKE (6), daughter of
Hartwell (5) is now living, the wife of Thomas Gray, Esq., of Southampton and
has four sons and two daughters living, viz: Edwin Gray (7), Joseph Gray (7),
Robert Gray (7) and Thomas Gray; Catherine Gray (7) and Nancy Gray (1813).
(William Gray was a Burgess from Surry, 1710-15. Joseph Gray was a Burgess from
Isle of Wight, 1736. Joseph Gray (son probably) was Burgess from Southampton in
1744, 1755, '56, '57, '58, '62, '67, '69. Edwin Gray (probably his son) was a
member of the Convention of 1776, from Southampton (with Henry Taylor,
grandfather of Sarah W. Taylor, who married Dr. Charles Cocke of Albemarle
county). Edwin Gray also represented the Southampton District in Congress, in
1799-1813. John C. Gray represented this district in Congress, 1820-21.)
g. BENJAMIN COCKE (6), son of
Hartwell (5), died unmarried.
h. ROBERT COCKE (6), married
twice; first, Miss Browne and then Miss Newsum. No child by either marriage.
i. ELIZABETH COCKE (6), daughter
of Hartwell (5), married Wm. Taliaferro.
JOHN HARTWELL COCKE (6)
Copied from an old prayer-book in
the possession of Dr. C. C. Cocke, 1848.
John Hartwell Cocke (6), born
November 26, 1749, married, November 28th, 1773, to Elizabeth Kennon (7), who
was born July 13, 1755; died 1791; of which marriage was born: Sallie Cocke,
May 10, 1775. Ann Hartwell Cocke (7) November 11, 1776. Elizabeth Cocke (7).
John Hartwell Cocke (7), September 19, 1780. Mary Kennon Cocke, July 25, 1783.
Robert Kennon Cocke (7), December 26, 1785; died 1790. Martha Ruffin Cocke (7),
January 26, 1788. Rebecca Kennon Cocke (7), July 10, 1791; died 1791.
GENERAL JOHN HARTWELL COCKE (7)
John Hartwell Cocke (7), the son
of John Hartwell (6), the son of Hartwell (5), the son of Richard (4), was
married to Ann Blaus Barraud, daughter of Dr. Philip Barraud of Norfolk, Va.,
December 25th, 1802 (died 1816). From which marriage were born: John Hartwell
Cocke (8), January 25, 1804, died September 1846. Louisiana Barraud Cocke (8),
June 24, 1806; married Dr. John Faulcon, of Surry; died 1829. Philip St. George
Cocke (8), April 17, 1809; married Sally Elizabeth Courtney Bowdoin; died
December 26, 1861. Ann Blaus Cocke (8), December 15, 1811, died 1862. Cary
Charles Cocke (8), January 1, 1814. Sallie Faulcon Cocke (8) September 8, 1816.
C. FIFTH AND SIXTHGENERATIONS
(LINE OF JOHN COCKE (2))
DESCENDANTS OF MARTHA COCKE (4),
DAUGHTER OF WILLIAM COCKE (3), SON OF JOHN COCKE (2)
MARTHA COCKE (4), daughter of
William (3), married Henry Wood, whose commission as Clerk is the first paper
in the county records of Goochland (1728).
Henry Wood was born in London in
1696 and arrived at Yorktown 1713, after which he lived for two years, as his
apprentice, with Christopher Robinson, a wealthy merchant on the Rappahannock
river, and who was Secretary of State, 1705.
We find him (Henry Wood) thin in
Henrico county, where he married Martha Cocke at Bremo, in 1723. He was (says
the family record) a person of good education, strong natural parts, and a
great vivacity of temper. He practiced law and acted as Clerk of Goochland for
forty odd years. He was a person of unblemished character and acquired a
considerable property. (Henry Wood and Benjamin Cocke (4) (son of Richard)(3))
were Vestrymen of Goochland in 1744.) He was appointed Clerk in 1728, which
office he held until 1757, when he as succeeded by his son, Col. Valentine
Wood. He died and was buried at his seat, “Woodville”, and his tomb, a heavy,
oblong, granite slab mounted on pedestals, bearing the inscription “Fuimus
quoque nos”, is still well preserved.
Issue of Henry and Martha (Cocke)
Wood:
1. VALENTINE WOOD (5), born Sept.
2, 1724, married January 3, 1764, Lucy Henry, sister of Patrick Henry, born in
Hanover county, March 29, 1743, died in Fluvanna, July 14, 1826.
2. SALLY WOOD (5), born 1726;
married William Pryor
3. PATTY WOOD (5), born 1732,
married Wm. Merriwether, 1751
4. Three other children who died
unmarried.
a. Valentine Wood succeeded his
father as Clerk of Goochland (1757-81). He was Colonel of the County Militia,
and one of the first justices appointed for Albemarle (1744 taken from
Goochland). Lucy Henry, the wife of Valentine Wood, was of an intellect
comparing in vigor with her brother's (Patrick Henry). She was a woman of most
earnest piety, and was an attendant on the ministry (more or less frequently),
of the celebrated Samuel Davies. (“Two of the sisters of Patrick Henry,” say
Campbell (Hist. Va., p. 522) - “Lucy, who married Valentine Wood, and Jane, who
married Col. Samuel Meredith, were members of Davies' congregation.)
The descendants of Valentine Wood
and Lucy Henry were: Henry Wood, died unmarried. 2. Martha Wood, married Major
Stephen Southall, son of Col. Turner Southall of Henrico. 3. Mary Wood married
Judge Peter Johnston, father of Gen. Joseph E. Johnston. 4. Valentine Wood,
died unmarried. 5. Lucy Wood married Edward Carter of Blenheim, Albemarle, son
of Colonel John Carter of Shirley. 6. John Henry Wood married Eliz. Spencer.
b. Sally Wood and William Pryor.
The latter was Sheriff of Goochland county, 1753, 1754. Colonel of Va. Militia,
many years one of his Majesty's justices for Goochland. He died in 1777. His
will mentions wife Sarah, sons, Samuel, William and John Pryor; daughters,
Sally Payne, Patty and Mary Pryor.
c. Patty Wood and William
Merriwether. The latter was a captain in Revolution and died in Louisa county,
where his will is probated. He left several children, of whom one, David Wood
Meriwether (born 1756) married Mary Lewis, daughter of John Lewis, one of the
most eminent members of the bar of that period, and moved to Kentucky in 1801.
(There was a David Merriwether in the United States Senate from Kentucky in
1852.)
William Merriwether was the son
of David Merriwether, who was son of Major Nicholas Merriwether and Elizabeth
Woodhouse, the former of Surry county, the latter of the old Woodhouse family
of Princess Anne. (There was a Nicholas Merriwether, Burgess from New Kent in
1714, 18, 23 and 26. George Merriwether was in the Virginia Convention of 1776,
from Louisa.)
D. FIFTH AND SIXTH GENERATIONS
(LINE OF WILLIAM COCKE (2))
THE FAMILY OF OBADIAH SMITH
In a previous article (page 95 of
Virginia Historical Magazine, July, 1896 and page 328, October 1896), we stated
that Mary Cocke (3), daughter of William Cocke (2), married Obadiah Smith, and
some seventy-five years afterwards (1777) his descendant, Lucy Smith (daughter
of his grandson, Obadiah Smith (4),) married James Powell Cocke (6) of Malvern
Hills.
Obadiah Smith (3) and Mary Cocke
(3) left issue: William Smith, John Smith, Obadiah Smith, Jacob Smith, Luke Smith
(4), Elizabeth Smith, Anne Smith and Mary Smith.
Luke Smith (4) left a son,
Obadiah (5) who married Mary Burks, in Albemarle county, Va., and died in 1777.
(In “The Cabells and their Kin”, we have the following (page 59), Elizabeth
Cabell (Burks), wife of Dr. William Cabell, was the daughter of Samuel and Mary
Davis Burgs of Hanover count (when that county extended to the Blue Ridge
mountains). Her only sister, Mar Burks, married Obadiah Smith (who died 1777 in
Chesterfield county) and became the mother, inter alias, of Peartree Smith,
whose descendants went to Kentucky; of William Smith who married Elizabeth Mayo
of Lucy Smith who married James Powell Cocke and of Elizabeth Smith who married
Isaac Winston.
Peartree Smith got his name from
John Peartree Burke, the brother of Mary Burks, the wife of Obadiah Smith. He
moved to Kentucky. In 1852 “Mrs. Hebe Carter Preston married her cousin, Wm.
Peartree Smith of Henderson county, Ky.” (page 455).
Isaac Winston married second,
daughter of John Coles. He was a son of Isaac and Mary Ann (Fontaine) Winston:
the latter born 1718 and daughter of Rev. Peter Fontaine. Peter Winston,
brother of Isaac, was a member of the Henrico Committee of Safety, 1774 and he
was the grandfather of John Winston Jones, Speaker of House of Representatives.
William Smith (6) and Elizabeth
Mayo (he died in Chesterfield County in 1800) (She descended from Joseph Mayo
who came to Virginia, 1727, from Barbdoes and settled at “Powhatan” (near Richmond),
the seat of the Indian chief. The intermarried with the Carringtons. Philip
Mayo represented Henrico in House of Burgesses in 1768. John Mayo represented
Cumberland in 1770 and 1777. William Mayo, Jr., represented Powhatan in 1785.
John Mayo was a member of the Cumberland Committee of Safety, 1775.) left
issue: Mary Smith, William Smith, Elizabeth Smith, Dr. Beverly Smith, Lucy Ann
Smith, Signora Tabb Smith, William Mayo Smith, Edward Warren Smith and Obadiah
Smith. We get the above information from Mr. Charles L. Pullen, of New Orleans,
great grandson of William Smith (6), son of Obadiah (5).
We have another pedigree of the
Smith family sent us by Mr. Willis B. Smith of Richmond, which gives the
descendants of Mary Smith (3), who was daughter of the first Obadiah Smith. Mr.
Willis Smith writes that their “old book says” that Obadiah Smith (3) who
married Mary Cocke (3) was the son of John Smith of Charles City, who came
there from England. (Captain Roger Smyth (who had been a captain (1692) under
Sir Francis Vere in the Netherlands), a member of the Virginia Council in 1621,
had a plantation in Charles City county. John Smith (or Smyth), gentleman of
Nibley, spent large sums of money in Virginia, though he never came to the
colony himself. He was interested in the Tracy-Berkeley-Smith-Thorpe plantation
at Berkeley. Some of his family probably cane to Virginia. From one of the
above it is likely that Obadiah Smith (3) was descended.) (Neill (Virginia
Carolorium) thanks that Roger Smyth was a son of John Smyth, Esq., of Nibley,
in Gloucestershire.
Mary Smith, born 1726, died 1804,
the ancestor of Mr. Willis B. Smith, married a William Smith of Gloucester, son
of Robert Smith of Gloucester, son of William Smith of Gloucester, probably of
the family of Colonel Lawrence Smith. William and Mary Smith settled at
“Montrose”, in Powhatan county. (Robert Smith of Gloucester had a large estate
now Rockcastle” in Goochland county, owned by Mrs. John C. Rutherford, just
opposite “Belmead”, former seat of Philip St. George Cocke. Robert Smith was a
member of the Cumberland Committee of Safety in 1775.) They had a number of
children, among them: 1. Josiah Smith, who was the father of the late Benjamin
Mosby Smith, D. D., of Union Theological Seminary, Virginia. 2. Mary Smith
married James Morton, father of W. S. Morton of Cumberland county; 3. Anne
Smith married Rev. Drury Lacy, who was the grandmother of the Rev. Moses D.
Hoge, D. D., of Richmond; 4. Judith Smith, who was grandmother of Mrs. Terhune
(Marlon Harland).
Josiah Smith married Judith
Michaux Mosby, daughter of Colonel Littlebury Mosby and granddaughter of Jacob
Michaux.
The will of Obadiah Smith (3),
probated in Chesterfield county, May 2, 1777, disposes of lands in Mecklenburg
county, “with negroes and stock” to son of Peartree Smith; to son William land
on James River “above Moses' creek, &c.”; to Obadiah the residue of tract
of land in Chesterfield county, “being plantation whereon I now live”, to
William land at mouth of Hico and Dan rivers (Halifax county); to Obadiah all
his land in North Carolina; to Lucy two Negroes; to Elizabeth two Negroes; to
Edith Christmas one Negro boy and 100 pounds in money, and two girls for life;
to granddaughter Eliz. Winston, one girl and 100 pounds; to Peartree Smith 250
pounds; and all the residue of his estate to William, Obadiah and Lucy.
There is a letter from “Will
Scott” dated “Bunkershill, Va., Feb'y 25, 1777”, to “Mr. Wm. Smith, Paymaster
5th Virginia Regiment”, who was with the army in New Jersey, informing him of
the death of his father.
There was an Obadiah Smith and
two William Smiths , who were lieutenants in the Continental Line in the
Revolutionary War.
E. THE COCKES OF CHARLES CITY
COUNTY
We have given the descendants of
Robert Bolling (3) and Anne Cocke (3), and we stated that this Anne Cocke was
probably the daughter of Richard Cocke (2), the younger (youngest son of
Richard Cocke (1)), who settled in Charles City county.
The destruction of the records of
Charles City county leaves us only a few glimpses now and then of the Cocke
family in Charles City in the 18th century. In the “Calendar of Virginia State
Papers”, vol. I, page 261, there is a record of the justices appointed for
Charles City county in April, 1769: Edward Cocke, Benjamin Harrison, Littlebury
Hardyman, Littlebury Cocke, &c. - twelve in all. (Captain Littlebury
Hardyman of “Indian Fields”, Charles City county, is named in the article on
“Racing in Colonieal Virginia”, in the Virginia Historical Magazine for Jany'y
'95, p. 301, along with Colonel John Tayloe, Colonel Wm. Byrd, Mr. Maclin, Wm.
Lightfoot, George Washington, Lewis Burwell, Sir Marmaduke Beckwith, and a
number of other gentlemen, who were engaged at that period in the importation
of horses of the English racing stock. He married Elizabeth Eppes, and she
married, second, ---------- Cocke and had by him a daughter named Eliza Cocke,
who in the year 1830, at the house of George Hairston of Henry county, married
Amos Allen Atkinson of Alabama. George Hairston had married her half-sister,
Louisa (Eppes) Hardyman. Another half-sister, Susan (Eppes) Hardyman, married
John Southall of Charles City. Littlebury had a sister Lucy who married Colonel
John Bradley of “Laurel Hill”, Charles City county, and these had a daughter
Maria, who married Philip Southall, son of William Southall of Charles City.
(c. 1800).) The grandmother of Eliza (Cocke) Atkinson was also a Hardyman
(Anne), and she had a brother, Stith Hardyman, who married (c. 1770), Rachel
Tyler, sister of Governor Tyler, the father of President John Tyler. See Wm
& Mary Quar., April '97, p. 272.) In 1768 there is a deed on record from
Littlebury Cocke (and Rebecca his wife) to his daughter, Rebecca Cocke. In 1773
there is a marriage license to Bray Johnson and Rebecca H. Cocke. In 1793,
there is recorded the will of Rebecca H. Cocke, widow of Colonel Littlebury
Cocke, devising a tract of land called “Westbury”, and thirteen negroes to R.
Cocke Tyler. In 1790 there is a mortgage from Acrill Cocke to Major Willcox. In
1791 a power of attorney from Jane Cocke to John Harwood. In 1792 a deed from
Bolling Cocke to John Cocke. In 1810 a deed from John Minge to John Cocke. In
1793 the will of Jane Cocke, devising tract of land called “Bullfield” to
Frances Riddlehurst.
From the will of William
Lightfoot of Tedington, Charles City county, proved 1809, we learn that his
first wife was named Anne, and they had a daughter named Anne Cocke Lightfoot
and a daughter named Elizabeth Bolling Lightfoot. Three daughters were born
about 1780 and in 1790 there is a deed on record in Charles City Clerk's
office, from Bolling Cocke, who was therefore a contemporary of William
Lightfoot. We think it probable that William Lightfoot married a daughter of
Bolling Cocke. See Wm. And Mary College Quarterly, Oct. 1894, p. 108.
Tedington (says Dr. Slaughter)
was one of the four farms which composed the splendid estate of Sandy Point,
between the James and Chickahominy rivers. (Three of these farms were inherited
by Miss Minge (Mrs. Robert B. Bolling), and the fourth was added by Col.
Bollong.). These Lightfoots were extremely wealthy. Philip Lightfoot, of York,
father of William of Tedington, who died in 1748, owned 180 slaves and
plantations in York, Charles City, Surry, Brunswick, Goochland, New Kent and
Hanover, and he left 2,000 pounds sterling to each of his sons. His will
mentions large amounts of plate, “two-wheeled and four-wheeled chase”, “coach
and six horses”, &c.
Wm. Lightfoot imported many fine
horses.
We have mentioned just above,
Acrill Cocke, who was living in Charles City county in 1790, whose father no
doubt married the daughter or sister of Capt. William Acrill, who died in 1738.
This William Acrill (as mentioned elsewhere) had married Anne Cocke (4) of
Surry, sister of Richard Cocke (4) and Benjamin Cocke (4). He was a member of
the House of Burgesses at the time of his death.
His son, William Acrill was in
the House of Burgesses, 1766, '68, '69, '70, '71, '72, '73, '74, '75.
We learn from the marriage
license cited above and from the William and Mary College Quarterly, Octobe4
1896, page 114 (note), that James Bray Johnson, son of Colonel Philip Johnson
of James City county, married Rebecca, daughter of Colonel Littlebury and
Rebecca Hubard Cocke of Charles City county, and that Elizabeth, daughter James
Bray Johnson and Rebecca Cocke, married Chancellor Samuel Tyler of
Williamsburg. This explains the gift in 1793 from Rebecca H. Cocke of the
estate called “Westbury” to R. Cocke Tyler, who was her grandson and son of
Chancellor Tyler. (James Bray of James City county, was a member of the Council
in 1676. His grandson, David Bray (3), son of David Bray (2), was a member of
the Council in 1699. James Bray (2), son of James Bray (1), was a Burgess from
James City in 1702. He was grandfather of Elizabeth Bray (4) who married
Colonel Philip Johnson. The wife of Governor Edward Diggs was a Bray.)
It may be gathered from the
foregoing facts that the Cockes of Charles City (descendants, as may be
presumed of Richard Cocke (2), “the younger”) intermarried with the Bollings,
the Lightfoots, the Johnsons, the Tylers and the Acrills, of that county. We
may mention in this connection the name “Littlebury Cocke”. We can find no
trace of any Littlebury family in Virginia, and yet there was a Littlebury
Cocke, Littlebury Harrison, a Littlebury Ligon, a Littlebury Eppes, a
Littlebury Royall, a Littlebury Carrington, a Littlebury Mason, a Littlebury
Harwood.
ADDITONS AND CORRECTIONS.
JAMES POWELL COCKE (4) - It is now
ascertained from the Virginia Gazette of August 7, 1752 (see William and Mary
Quarterly, Vol. 4, page 240), that James Powell Cocke (4) married, not Martha
Anderson, as heretofore conjectured, but “Martha Herbert”, daughter of John
Herbert, said to have been “a merchant on James River,” who had married Frances
Anderson, probably of Henrico or Prince George. (The Herberts were a prominent
family in Lower Norfolk county in the 17th century.) John Herbert, who died in
1704, was the son of John Herbert of London, Apothecary, and grandson of
Richard Herbert, of London, Grocer. His tomb was until a year or two, since, at
“Puddledock”, on the north side of the Appomattox, near Petersburg, but the
slab, which is of slate, about six inches thick, has been removed to Blandford
Churchyard, Petersburg. On it were inscribed the FAMILY ARMS: Per pale az, and
gu. 3 lions rampant ar. Armed and langued or. Crest: A bundle or arrows or
headed and feathered ar., six in saltire, one in pale, girt round the middle
with a belt gu. Buckle and point estended, of the first. The arms are those of
Colbrook, County Monmouth. See Slaughter's Bristol Parish, 167.
John Herbert had three sons and
one daughter: John Herbert, Buller Herbert, Richard Herbert and Martha Herbert.
The three sons were all among the earliest vestrymen of Bristol Parish,
1722-27.
Buller Herbert “said to be
(Slaughter) a grandson of one of Lords Herbert”, married a Miss Stith of
Brunswick, by whom he got 200 slaves, 15,000 acres of land south side of the
Appomattox, 3,000 acres on Monkananock creek, the Puddledock estate, including
Matoax, and lots and houses at Bolling's Point.” The left only one child --- a
daughter - Mary Herbert, who married Colonel Augustine Claiborne of “Windsor” ,
a distinguished lawyer, member House of Burgesses, 1748, '53 and '54, from
Surry. In addition to the great fortune inherited from her father, Mary Herbert
got a block of Houses in London from her aunt, which sold for 80,000 pounds.
Nor was this all; her uncle, John Herbert, whose will is on record in
Chesterfield, left her the bulk of his large estate - he presumably had no
children. This accounts (the absence of sons) for the rare occurrence of the
name in the succeeding generations. Of Richard we only know that he was a
vestryman in 1727. Martha, the daughter of John Herbert, married, in 1718,
James Powell Cocke.
In regard to the marriage of
James Powell Cocke (4) with Martha Herbert, we find on going over our notes,
that in the Henrico Clerk's office there is a record of the Inventory of
Herbert Powell in 1690. His mother must have been Herbert, and his father one
of the Powells of 1620 and thereabouts. The children of Thomas Cocke (2) were
not by his second wife, Margaret Jones, but by his first wife, and she was
probably a Powell. In this way the names Stephen Cocke, James Cocke and James
Powell Cocke, may have gotten into the family, and in that way James Powell
Cocke (4) may have met Martha Herbert (a relative), whom he married.
We note that in 1635, Henry Harte
patented 350 acres “on the south side of the main river over against James Town
island”, “adjoining apt. Powell's land”. This was in what is now Surry County.
It was in Surry County that Thomas Cocke (2) married Mary Brashear and Major
James Powell lived in Isle of Wight adjoining.
In 1619, Capt. William Powell was
a member of the first House of Burgesses, and represented James City. He was
the “Capt. Powell” of 1635, as we know from the fact (see Burk I, 332), that in
the allotments of land in the year 1620, in the “Territory of Tappahannock over
against James City”, 200 acres, planted were allotted to Capt. William Powell.
Among the original “Adventurers”,
his name is entered as “William Powell, Gentleman, Paid 25 pounds. Major James
Powell of Isle of Wight, was probably his son.
It is from this Capt. William
Powell that the Powells of Loundoun, claim to be descended, and in their
genealogy, the family is said to have been from Wales co. Brecon, and is traced
from Bliddyn ap Macnyrch ap Driffen ap Hwgan, Lord of Brecon, in the reign of
William Rufus, 1087. It is stated that he left two sons, Cuthbert and Thomas,
who were living in Lancaster in 1660.
Among sixty persons whom Richard
Cocke brought over in 1636, was a Margaret Powell. James Cocke of Surry, had a
sister Margaret. And there was a Margaret descended from the Capt. Wm. Powell
of the Loudoun family.
Herbert is the family name of the
Earls of Pembroke and Montgomery.
William Herbert, third Earl of
Pembroke, was a member of the Virginia Company in 1609. Paid 400 pounds. Born
in 1850. Married sister of Sir Philip Sidney. He patented 30,000 acres of land
in Virginia in 1630. The Rappahannock river was originally called Pembroke
river. He took an active part in Virginia affairs.
Philip Herbert, the second earl,
was also a member of the Virginia Council in 1612, Paid 169 pounds.
JAMES COCKE (5), son of James
Powell Cocke (4) was living at Malvern Hills in 1781. But this must have been
James Powell Cocke (6). We have discovered that James Cocke (5) died in 1753,
some six years after his father, aged about 34; and this is the reason that we
hear so little of him. His wife, Mary Magdaleine Chastain Cocke, about a year
after his death, married again - Peter (not Samuel) Farrar. These facts are
given in a pedigree in the possession of DR. Charles Irving of Amelia (one of
the Cocke family). In this pedigree it also appears that James Cocke (5) had
two sons named Chastain, the elder of whom died in infancy, about a year after
his grandfather, James Powell Cocke (4), who had left him all of his landed
property, reserving a life estate in his widow (which she afterwards deeded to
her son). The death of this infant (and his father) gave the estate to his
heirs, who were his brothers and sisters. The children were all very young;
Mrs. Cocke married Peter Farrar, who is said in the family tradition to have
“managed” her property. (She probably remained at Malvern Hills.) When James
Powell Cocke (6) grew to manhood he probably bought out the interests of his
brothers and sisters, and Peter Farrar and his wife moved to Amelia. It was
always stated in the family that James Powell Cocke (6) owned Malvern Hills. He
must have been there in 1781, when Arnold was at Westover. Some years
afterwards he exchanged the property with Robert Nelson for lands in Albemarle.
The other estate, Four Mile Creek, willed by James Cocke (4) to his grandson,
Chastain (6) passed into the hands of one of the Pleasants family.
MARGARET COCKE (2), wife of
Thomas Cocke (2) and Peter Jones. It is stated (see Virginia Historical
Magazine III, 3, page 252) that Peter Jones married the daughter of
Major-General Abram Wood. This must have been Margaret Jones who married (her
third marriage (questioned by transcriber)) Thomas Cocke (2) (his second
marriage). She had a son, Peter Jones, who died 1721, and he left a son, Peter
Jones, who in 1733, with Colonel Byrd was the founder of Petersburg. Peter
Jones left a son, Wood Jones, who represented Amelia in House of Burgesses
1752.
On page 431, April number of
Magazine, for Roman numeral I substitute letter A; on page 445, for numeral II
substitute letter B; on page 448 (Adams Family), substitute numeral II for III.
Page 440. Clement C. Moore, not
Inness Randolph, was the author of “The Night before Christmas”.
Page 440 (middle of page). “For
both married Randolphs” say one (Martha) married a Randolph; the other Colonel
James Innes, whose daughter married a Randolph.
COLONEL JAMES INNES. See page
440. It was his mother who was Catharine Richards. She married the Rev. Robert
Innes of Drysdale Parish, Caroline.
Page 442, note. Francis Maclin
also represented Brunswick in House of Burgesses 1766, 1767 (no session) and
1768. Francis (it should probably be Frederick) in 1775.
Page 444. Colonel William M.
Cocke was the son of Sterling Cocke, brother of General John Cocke.
Page 446, note, last line: omit
words “contracted a second marriage with Miss Fauntleroy.”
Page 447. Top line. See page 449,
third line from top.
BOWLER COCKE (T) (see page 447).
His will bears date 24 February 1771. He left the following children: Bowler
Cocke (Jr.)(6), Elizabeth Cocke (6), Sarah Cocke (6), Charles Cocke (6),
William Cocke (6), all under age at above date. Exors.: Thomas Adams, George
Webb, Peter Lyons of Hanover and son Bowler “when of age”. Witnesses: Richard
Randolph, Beverly Randolph, David I. Hylton, &c.
There was a Colonel Charles Cocke
in Legislature from Lee county in 1797-'8. Engaged in southwest against the
Indians, 1792. This must have been the son of Bowler Cocke (5). There was no
other Charles Cocke at this time.
LIST OF BURGESSES AND
REPRESENTATIVES (COCKE FAMILY) 1750-1850
We have already made some
reference to this subject, but on imperfect data. And the following, which is a
list of the Cockes who were in the House of Burgesses or the General Assembly
for the period 1750-1850, is not complete; the record is frequently wanting. There
is no record preserved for the period 1728-52, except one year (1736):
COLONEL BOWLER COCKE (4) of
Henrico, 1752, 1756, 1757, 1758, 1759, 1761. There is no record from 1761 to
1765.
BOWLER COCKE (5) of Henrico,
1765, 1766, 1767, 1768, 1769.
COLONEL HARTWELL COCKE (5) of
Surry, son of Richard Cocke (4), 1759, 1761, 1765, 1766, 1767, 1768, 1769,
1770, 1771 (died)
COLONEL ALLEN COCKE (5) of Surry,
son of Benjamin Cocke (4), brother of Richard (4) both sons of Richard (3)),
1772, 1773, 1774, 1775, 1776, 1777. Also in Convention of 1776.
GENERAL WILLIAM COCKE (5), son of
Abraham Cocke (4), afterwards United States Senator from Tennessee, 1778.
COLONEL RICHARD COCKE (5) of
Surry, son of Richard (4), 1784.
COLONEL LEMUEL COCKE, of Surry,
of the line of William Cocke (1), who settled in Surry, 1691 (brother of
Captain Thos. Cocke (1) of Princess Anne), 1786, 1788.
JOHN HARTWELL COCKE (6) (Surry),
1787, 1788, also in Convention of 1788.
---------------- COCKE (county
unknown), 1793
ANDERSON COCKE of Cumberland, of
the line of Bowler Cocke (4), 1795, 1796, 1798
COLONEL CHARLES COCKE (6) of Lee
(probably son of Bowler (5)), 1797, 1798, 1799, 1800
------------ COCKE (60) of Prince
George, 1796
JAMES POWELL COCKE (7) of Amelia,
of the line of James Powell Cocke (4), 1809, 1811, 1822, 1824, 1842, 1843
PETER PRESLEY COX, of
Westmoreland, descended from Presley or Fleet Cox (1700-25), 1809
WILLIAM ARCHER COCKE of Powhatan,
of the line of James Powell Cocke (4), 1812
CHARLES COCKE (7) of Albemarle,
son of Stephen Cocke (6) of Amelia, of the line of James Powell Cocke (4),
1822, 1827, 1828 (House of Delegates), 1832, 1833, 1835, 1842, 1843 (Senate
from Albemarle, Nelson and Amherst.)
JUDGE JAMES H. COX of
Chesterfield, descended from John Cocke (2), 1839, 1840, 1842 (H. of D.), 1844,
1845, 1847, 1848, 1849 (Senate from Chesterfield and Petersburg). Member of
Convention of 1851.
CHASTAIN COCKE (7) of Powhatan,
of the line of James Powell Cocke (4), 1844, 1845, 1846, 1847, 1848.
RICHARD IVANHOE COCKE of
Fluvanna, of the line of James Powell Cocke (4), 1851, 1852. In Convention of
1851.
In the above deliberative bodies
the female line was largely represented by the Harwoods, the Bollings, the
Banisters, the Randolphs, the Eppes', the Adams', the Balls, the Jones, the
Warings, the Carters, the Lees, the Archers, the Egglestons, &c.
Col. Richard Adams, son of
Tabitha Cocke (4), was member of the House of Burgesses almost continuously
from New Kent and Henrico, from 1752 to 1775. His brother, Thomas Adams, was in
the Continental Congress, and in the Senate of Virginia.
OFFICERS IN THE REVOLUTION
There were in the Revolutionary
War, the following officers of the Cocke Family:
COL. WILLIAM FINNIE, PROBABLY SON
OF Rev. William Finnie and Mary Cocke (4).
COL. JAMES INNES, married
daughter of Auditor James Cocke.
LT. COL. NATHANIEL COCKE (6) of
Halifax, son of Col. Richard Cocke (5)
CAPT. PLEASANT COCKE (5), son of
James Cocke
CAPT. JOHN COCKE of Surry
CAPT. COLIN COCKE of Surry
CAPT. JOHN CATESBY COCKE,
grandson of Col. Thomas Jones, married daughter of Secretary William Cocke
(Navy)
CAPT. JAMES COCKE of Prince
George, son of John Cocke, line of Surry Cockes. (Navy)
CAPT. JOHN COX, died 1837. (Navy)
CAPT. WILLIAM (afterwards
General) COCKE (6) of Southwest Virginia.
CAPT. CADWALLADES JONES,
descended from Secretary William Cocke.
LIEUT. STEPHEN SOUTHALL, grandson
of Henry Wood and Martha Cocke (4).
LIEUT. PETER JOHNSON, grandson of
same
LIEUT OBADIAH SMITH (6), son of
Obadiah Smith (5)
LIEUT. WILLIAM SMITH (6)
COCKE GENEALOGY
In the July number of the
Virginia Magazine, in the Genealogy of the Cocke Family”, page 76, there is
note which I desire to correct, as to the only surviving child of Mrs.
Elizabeth Marion Cocke Trezevant, who was the only child who married and left
issue, of Buller Cocke and Elizabeth Barron his wife. The said Elizabeth
married Dr. Lewis Cruger Trezevant, only child of Judge Lewis Trezevant of
Charleston, South Carolina. The judge died in 1808, at the early age of
thirty-nine years, having been nine years on the bench; “he was the youngest
judge who had ever been appointed”. The Trezevants were a Huguenot family,
mentioned by Ramsay in his “History of the United States” as coming to America,
1685, soon after the revocation of the Edict of Nantes. I might give the page,
&c., if my notes were not in America. Colonel James Trezevant, as he was
always called, who represented the Southampton district in Congress in 1825-31,
and was in the Convention of 1829-30, was a cousin of Dr. Lewis Cruger
Trezevant, being a son of Dr. John Trezevant, a surgeon during the Revolution,
who left South Carolina with the army, and later settled in Virginia. I cannot
account for the statement that “the family came from Maine”.
Dr. Lewis Cruger Trezevant was
the father of the gallant Colonel Edward Buller Trezevant, whose biography you
will find in “General Bedford Forrest's Cavalry “, by Strange. He lost his life
at Spring Hill, before Columbia, Tenn.
The Barrons deserve a full sketch
from the State of Virginia, as in the early days, they did much service, and in
the familial of Captain James Barron Hope, the commission “Commander-in-Chief
of the State Navy” was transmitted from Com. Samuel Barron, signed by Thos.
Jefferson, then President of the United Sates.
I have written in haste, having
just received my Magazines, without my papers, but on my return I shall be glad
to furnish any further information I may possess.
BETTY T. KEIM
Hamburg, December 30, 1897
CONCERNING COX AND COCKE FAMILIES
OF HENRICO
By James P. C. Southall
Published in Genealogies of
Virginia Families from The Virginia Magazine of History and Biography
1. Many years ago Dr. Bruce
stated that the Coxes of Chesterfield and Henrico are descended from John Cox
who lived near Dutch Gap in 1677 (3 V 288). Unfortunately John Cox's son
William Cox and Thomas Cocke's son William Cocke have been confused with each
other in this Magazine, Vol. III, 94, and one main purpose of this note is to
separate these two Williams who, as far as known, were not related (See
particularly 37 V 157-159. (Pages 163-165, this volume).
Coxes were among the earliest
immigrants to Virginia. William Coxe who came in the Godspeed in 1610 (Nugent,
C&P, I, Intrude., p. xxix) was apparently a lad not more than eleven years
old when he landed at Jamestown; and doubtless he is the same as William Cox,
Planter, who patented, 100 acres of land within the “precincts” of Elizabeth
City, 20 September 1628. (Id., p. 12; 3 V 287)
Arthur Bayly, merchant and real
estate dealer, had a grant of 550 acres of land in Henrico Co., “on N. side the
Riv., known by the name of Harristocks, beg. Next to land of Capt. Edloe”;
which had been purchased from Bayly by Wm. Johnson and then assigned to John
Cox, early in April 1666 (29 March, 1665, O.S.) This John Cox was perhaps a son
of William Cox who had patented 150 acres of land in Henrico Co., 29 November
1636, “About 2 ½ mi. above Harroe Attocks”. (Id. P. 447.)
John Cox, Sr., had two sons, John
Cox, Jr., who married Mrs. Jane Gower's daughter Mary Baugh, and William Cox,
whose wife was named Sarah, and who has been confused, as above stated, with
William Cocke (3), youngest of the four sons of Thomas Cocke (2) “of Pick-thorn
Farm in the County of Henrico” (43 V 75) or Thomas Cocke who was the first of
Henrico Cockes to live at Malvern Hills adjoining Old Bremo.
2. As well as can be ascertained,
William Cocke(3) (Thomas (2) Richard (1)) married twice and lived to be nearly
50 years old. He was born probably about 1669, for when his father made his
will, 10 December 1696, William Cocke's first wife, mother of his eldest
daughter Sarah Cocke (4), was then no longer alive. We know that William Cocke
(3) married Sarah Perrin in 1695 a year or more before his father's death, and
that nearly a decade earlier, namely in 1686, Thomas Farrar (b. 1665) grandson
of Councilor William Farrar and his wife Cicely, had married Katherine Perrin,
daughter of Richard Perrin and perhaps an elder sister of Sarah Perrin. William
Cocke and his wife Sarah Perrin had one son and three daughters all of whom
came of age: William Cocke (4), Temperance Cocke (4), Mary Cocke (4) and
Catharine Cocke (4).
About William Cocke(3) little
more is known beyond the fact that a deed is on record of date 16 November 1708
from John Pleasants who married Dorothia Cary, whereby part of a tract of land
that had been patented by Pleasants in 1699, on the south side of Chickahominy
Swamp, was conveyed to William Cocke, and that soon afterwards, 1 April 1709,
William Cocke sold some of this land. William Cocke (3) died near the end of
1717 or early in 1718, not long after the death of his brother Stephen Cocke
(3); for his will, dated 5 November 1717, was probated 3 February 1717-1718.
3. Sarah Cocke (4), eldest of
William Cocke(3)'s children, married (1) William Cox (d. 1711), son of John
Cox, Jr., above mentioned and (2) Thomas Jordan who survived her. Sarah Cocke
died around 1730, for by May 1734 she had been dead some four years, when her
husband Thomas Jordan was plaintiff in a law-suit Jordan vs. Cox in which
Sarah's son John Cox(5) was defendant against his stepfather. (27 W, 140-141,
Sarah Cocke(4), whose first husband was William Cox (d. 1711) is not to be
confused with Sarah who married the elder William Cox an whose will, dated 29
March 1726-7, names her only son Stephen Cox, and her six daughters, one of the
latter being Martha Cox, Henry Wood's wife.)
William Cocke's only son William
Cocke (4) (William (3), Thomas (2), Richard (1)) married Judith Stewart.
Neither of their two children lived to be eight years old although both were
alive when their father died perhaps about a year after the death of his
half-sister Sarah Cocke (4) or possibly earlier, say, between 1727 and 1731.
Mary Cocke (4)(William (3),
Thomas (2), Richard (1)) married John Redford (or Radford).
Temperance Cocke (4), perhaps
named for aunt Temperance Cocke (3) (Thomas (2) Richard (1)) wife of Samuel
Harwood, married Abraham Bailey, a large landowner in Henrico county, in 1704,
who flourished there apparently long years afterwards. (27 V. 209. Wright and
Tinling, Secret diary of William Byrd, p. 150. Henrico Records, p. 310.
Valentine Papers, II, y4i, 1050, and III, 1441.) Accordingly, if Temperance
Baley (b. 1618) was the first wife of the immigrant Richard Cocke of old Bremo,
Mrs. Abraham Bailey, nee Temperance Cocke, was her great grand-daughter.
Catharine Cocke (4)(William (3),
Thomas (2), Richard (1)) possibly named for Katherine Perrin (Mrs. Thomas
Farrar) married John Burton. Her husband and her son John Burton, Jr., both
survived her.
Early in January 1743, N.S.,
Abraham Bailey, John Redford, Jr., Thomas Jordan and John Burton joined in
asking the court to appoint them administrators of the estate of “Miss Judith
Cocke”, dec'd. The inference is that she was Judith Cocke (5), daughter of
William Cocke (4) and his wife Judith Stewart, afterwards wife of Francis
Redford (10).
4. It is easy to see how the
confusion arose between William Cox, son of John Cox, Sr., and William Cocke,
son of Thomas Cocke of Pick-thorn Farm, who both lived in Henrico county about
the same time. Each had a wife named Sarah and William Cox and his wife Sarah
------ had a son Stephen Cox, while William Cocke had a brother named Stephen
Cocke. One of William Cox's daughters was Martha Cox who married Henry Wood at
Bremo in 1723 (4 V 94, 95), but why the wedding took place at the home of
Bowler Cocke (4) (Richard (3), Richard the Elder (2), Richard (1)) is something
of a puzzle.
Rev. William Finney (Finnie), who
married Mary Cocke, daughter of Thomas Cocke (3) (Thomas (2), Richard (1)) was
minister of Varina Parish 1714-1727. In 1724 he was one of the sureties at the
baptism of Valentine Wood, son of Henry Wood and his wife Martha Cox. (4 V
216).
In the light of the facts here
put together, corrections need to be made in the Cocke Genealogy as given in
Volume IV of this Magazine not only pp. 94-95 but pp. 327 and 436. (Pages
122-123, 136 & 147, this volume.)
MALVERN HILLS, HENRICO COUNTY,
AND EDGEMONT, ALBEMARLE COUNTY, HOMES OF JAMES POWELL COCKE (4) AND JAMES
POWELL COCKE (6)
By James P. C. Southall
Published in Genealogies of
Virginia Families from The Virginia Magazine of History and Biography
In a valuable and painstaking
article recently contributed to William and Mary College Quarterly, 2nd ser.,
XIII, 207-213, Dr. William Cabell Moore, of Washington, D. C., has related in
some detail an outline of the history of old Bremo on James River, where
Richard Cocke (1), ancestor of the Cocke family of Henrico Co., settled in 1636
or soon afterwards (Note 1) and where one line of his descendants continued to
live for several generations or nearly 175 years down to the beginning of the
nineteenth century. This estate which comprised about 640 acres when Richard
Cocke (1) died in 1665 and was buried in his “orchard” or garden by the side of
his early wife, was situated on the north bank of the river between Curles Neck
and Turkey Island, as may be seen on the folded map which is attached to Dr.
Moore's article.
The two eldest sons of Richard
Cocke (2), both by his first wife whose identity has never been ascertained
(Note 2), were Richard Cocke (2) of Bremo (1639-1706), known as Richard Cocke
(2) the elder to distinguish him from his half-brother Richard Cocke (2) the
younger, and Thomas Cocke (2) of Malvern Hills (c. 1638-1697) (Note 3), who in
1672 speaks of himself as “Thomas Cocke of Pick-thorn Farm in the County of
Henrico” (Note 4). Both brothers were prominent and influential personages in
Henrico in the latter half of the seventeenth century.
The land patented by their father
in 1636 and 1639 comprised not only the plantation called Bremo, but a larger
tract on the ridge a mile or two from the river which extended to the head of
Turkey Island Creek and was called Malvern Hills or “Mawborne” Hills, as is
frequently written, phonetically, in the old documents with many variations of
spelling (Va. M. H. & B., III, 285 (Page 96, this volume) and XIV, 192; Wm.
& M. C. Q., 2nd ser., XI, 228 and XIII, 207-212). From the will of Richard
Cocke (1) (Miscel. Records of Henrico Co., Book I, p. 27, Archives Div., Va.
State Library; abstract in Edw. Pleas. Valentine Papers, II, 640), dated 4
October 1665, it may reasonably be inferred that shortly before he died he had
given Malvern Hills by deed to Thomas Cocke (2) for his home, perhaps about
1663 near the time of his first marriage. When the latter died more than thirty
years afterwards, no doubt he likewise was buried in his garden at Malvern
Hills in compliance with the wish expressed in his will dated 10 December 1696
and probated 1 April 1697 (Henrico County Records, Book 5, 1684-1697, pp. 684,
foll., Archives Div., Va. State Library), but according to Dr. Moore no trace
of a grave can be found now at Malvern Hills.
The four sons of Thomas Cocke
(2), namely, Thomas Cocke (3) (1664-1707), Stephen Cocke (3) (1666-1717), James
Cocke (3) (1667-1721) and William Cocke (3) (d. 1717), as well as his two
daughters, Temperance Cocke (3) (m. Samuel Hardwood) and Agnes Cocke (3) (m.
Joseph Harwood), all named in their father's will were undoubtedly Thomas
Cocke's children by his first wife. Her identity, like that of his mother,
remains undiscovered, although it has been conjecture that she may have been a
Miss Powell (Va. M. H. & B., V, 84; see IV, 90). Some time after 1670,
Thomas Cocke (2) married again. His second wife (by whom he had no issue as far
as known) was a widow named Margaret Jones (Va. M. H. & B., III, 407 (for
pages 84,90, 407 &36 see p. 179, 118, 106 & 181, this volume.) where
several errors need to be corrected in the light of the above account). She was
a daughter of Major-General Abraham Wood, a very prominent character in the
annals of colonial Virginia from 1644 to 1656, and the grandmother of Major
Peter Jones who, with Colonel Byrd, founded Petersburg in 1733 (Va. M. H. &
B., III, 252 and V, 86). Thomas Cocke 92) left Malvern Hills to his widow,
Margaret Wood-Wynne-Jones-Cocke, for life and afterwards to his grandson,
Thomas Cocke (4), son of Thomas Cocke (3), naming his “loving wife and dutiful
son James” executors of his will. The old lady outlived all her husband's sons
except her co-executor, James Cocke (3), and even outlived the grandson above
mentioned; dying at Malvern Hills in 1718 (Note 5).
The eldest son of Thomas Cocke
(2) was Captain Thomas Cocke (3) and although his life was comparatively short,
he also, like his father and grandfather before him, was a prominent citizen of
Henrico Co, being a man of affairs and of considerable means. Probably about
1684, before attaining the age of manhood, he married Mary Brazure (Brassuir,
Brashear, etc.), daughter of John Brazure or Brasseur from Nansemond Co. She
was certainly the mother all his children, possibly with the exception of the
youngest. Doubtless he married his second wife, Frances ----------, not long
before his death in 1707. Thomas Cocke (3) may have lived at Malvern Hills with
his step-mother as implied in his will which was probated 1 April 1707, is
eldest son Thomas Cocke (4) (c. 1684-1711), who was himself little over
twenty-one years old at the time was appointed executor by his father,
evidently with the intention of his acting in loco parentis to his younger
brothers and sisters who were all under age. Their names were as follows: James
Powell Cocke (4), (b. 1688), Henry Cocke (4) (born about 1693, Brazure (or
Brassuir) Cocke (4) (born about 1694), Mary Cocke (4) who may have been born
about 1693, and Elizabeth Cocke (4).
Thomas Cocke (3) leaves to his
second son, James Powell Cocke (4), “the plantation I now live upon and part of
the land adjoining thereto which I purchased from by brother Stephen Cocke”,
all in Henrico Co., besides a tract of land in Charles City Co. consisting of
920 acres, amounting in all to considerably over 1,500 acres. Presumably the
land in Henrico Co., included some part of the Malvern Hills estate, although
James Powell Cocke doubtless acquired the whole of this property subsequently
by purchasing his youngest brother's (Brazure) share. It has been conjectured
with some plausibility that James Powell Cocke derived his name in some way
from Lieutenant-Colonel James Powell of Isle of Wight Co., on the supposition
that the latter was kinsman of his mother's family in Nansemond Co. Her
husband's will mentions a gold ring “marked J. P.' which may have been hers
before her marriage. James Powell was a leading citizen in his part of the
country between 1677 and 1682 (Va. M. H. &B., IV, 213 and VI, 116). See
also another conjecture connecting the Powells with the Cockes and likewise
with the Herberts who intermarried with the Powells (V. M. H. 7 B. V.
84-85).(For pages 213, 84-85, 95, 21t & 440 see pp. 126, 179-180, 95, 129
& 151, this volume)
In July 1711 when Henry Cocke (4)
(1693-1715), third son of Captain Thomas Cocke (3), was nearly eighteen years
old and was “designing to leave” Virginia, he appointed his “kinsman Richard
Cocke” to receive from his brother, Thomas Cocke (4), in his absence abroad the
property which had been left him in trust in his father's will. About four
years later Henry Cocke died (at sea, so it is said, Va. M. H. & B.,
XXXVII, 230), unmarried. His will dated 1 February 1714 was proved 4 April
1715; the executors being Mr. William Finney, M. A. (Glasgow), minister of
Henrico Parish 1714-1727 (Va. M. H. & B., IV, 95, 216 and XXXVII, 230), who
had married his older sister, Mary Cocke (4), and his brother, James Powell
Cocke (4). An inventory of his books at the time of his death is given in Va.
M. H. & B., X, 404.
Brazure (or Brassuir) Cocke (4)
(c. 1694-1770, youngest of the four brothers, was only thirteen years old when
his father died (in 1707). Three years later (1710) he was at boarding school,
as we know from the accounts kept by his eldest brother. He long outlived all
his brothers, dying in Brunswick Co. in 1770, where his will, dated four years
earlier (1766), is on record (Brunswick County Will Book, IV, 32; Va. M. H.
& B., XXII, 78 and XXVIII, 162). Earlier in life, from about 1730 until
1753 or later (some years after the death of his nephew, James Cocke (5) of
Cumberland Parish in Lunenburg Co.), he seem to have resided in James City Co.
(Va. M. H. & B, IV, 216, 440 (Note 6)).
The eldest son, Thomas Cocke (4),
did not long survive his father, dying four years later in 1711, shortly after
his brother Henry went abroad. Not more than twenty-six years old at the time
of his death, he left all his property to his three younger brothers above
mention. To “Brashaw” Cocke in particular he left the tract of land called
“Mawborn Hills” “on which his Grandmother now lives”, that is, the property
which had been left him by his grandfather, Thomas Cocke (2), after the death
of his widow, Margaret Wood-Wynne-Jones-Cocke. At that time (1711) the old lady
still had seven years longer to live, as mentioned above.
Whatever interest Brazure
Cocke(4) had in Malvern Hills in consequence of the bequest above referred,
presumably he afterwards disposed of it some way to his elder brother, James
Powell Cocke (4)(1688 - 1747) who had himself inherited part of this land from
his father, as has been pointed out. At all events the fact is that James
Powell Cocke (4) lived at Malvern Hills nearly all his life and died there; and
apparently it was he who built the old brick dwelling (Va. M. H. & B., IV,
213)(for pages 213, 413, 447, 283, 84, 215, 86 & 214 see pp. 126, 112, 158,
94, 179, 128, 181 & 127 of this volume) which seems to have contained
originally seven rooms and a main hall that extended from the front of the
house to the rear, as was the fashion in so many country houses in old Virginia
(Va. M. H. & B., III, 413 and IV, 447). The simple and unpretentious
structure (a picture of which photographed by H. P. Cook and reproduced from
General Dabney H. Maury's History of Virginia may be found in Va. M. H. &
B., IV, opp. P. 434 and XXXVII, opp. P. 230) is said to have been “one of the
best specimens of colonial architecture” in Tidewater, Virginia (Va. M. H.
& B., II, 283).
James Powell Cocke (4) married
Martha Herbert in 1718. She was the daughter of John Herbert (d. 1704) of
Puddledock, Prince George Co., and his wife, Frances Anderson (Va. M. H. &
B., V, 84 and SVIII, 190; Wm. & M. C. Q., XIII, 4); and doubtless it was by
this marriage that, some time prior to 1727, James Powell Cocke had acquired
the “land on Nibb's Creek” in Prince George Co. which was adjacent to a place
called Beachtree belonging to Henry Anderson, whose daughter, Judith, married
one of the Cockes (Va. M. H. & B., XXII, 374, 388). Besides Malvern Hills,
James Powell Cocke (4) owned also another plantation in Henrico Co. known as
Four Mile Creek (Va. M. H. & B., IV, 215 and V, 86; Wm. & M. C. Q.,
XXVII, 143), which was not far from the site of Richmond below the falls in the
river. He and his wife had two children, Martha Cocke (5)(married
--------------), and James Cocke (5), sometimes called James Cocke, Junior.
Contemporary with James Powell
Cocke (4) (Thomas (3), Thomas (2), Richard (1)) in Henrico Co. were James Cocke
(4) (James (3), Thomas (2), Richard (1)) and Bowler Cocke (4) (Richard (3),
Richard the elder (2), Richard (1)); all three of whom were present, for
example, at a meeting of the vestry of Henrico Parish held in Curls Church in
1737 when it was first proposed to build old St. John's Church in Richmond (Va.
M. H. & B., IV, 214). The following year (1738) we hear that Luke Smith,
grandfather of Lucy Smith, who married James Powell Cocke's grandson, James
Powell Cocke (6), in 1777, had been appointed inspector at “Shochoes” Warehouse
in place of James Cocke (4) above mentioned (Va. M. H. & B., XIV, 241).
These items serve to give us some little idea of James Powell Cocke and his
neighbors. At this time (1738) his only surviving brother, Brazure Cocke, was
perhaps living in James City Co., as had been previously stated.
In his will dated 19 August 1747
and probated in Henrico County Court early in the following month (Va. M. H.
& B., IV, 215, Wm & M. C. Q., XXVII, 143) James Powell Cocke (4) appoints
his only son, James Cocke (5), executor and leaves to his “loving wife the use
of all my hole estate during her Natural life except what is Given to my
Daughter and to her Husband in a bond Signed but not recorded the particulars
that are in that bond to be Given by my Exrs when required according to the
true intent of the bond” (plainly indicating, as does the entire document, that
the testator, like the Emperor Sigismund, was super grammaticam and apparently
disdainful of orthography also). After his wife's death his grand-daughter,
Martha Cocke (6) is to have “four Negro Garls not under twelve years of age”.
His two plantations at Malvern Hills and Four Mile Creek are to go to his
grandson, “Chasteen” Cocke (6) (Note 7), after the death of his father James
Cocke (5); and all the rest of his estate is to be divided between James Cocke
(5) and his son Chastain Cocke (6), when the latter comes of age. Shortly after
the testator's death his widow, Martha Herbert Cocke, by a deed recorded in
Henrico County Court in June 1749, conveyed to her son, James Cocke (5), the
plantation of “Malborne” Hills, together with all her other interest in her
late husband's estate as devised to her by the latter in his will.
James Cocke (5) (c. 1721-1753),
only son of James Powell Cocke (4) is the same as James Cocke of Cumberland
Parish in Lunenburg Co., (Wm. & M. C. Q., XXVII, 141). He married Mary
Magdaleine Chastain, 19 April 1742, daughter of Dr. Stephen Chastain, who was
one of the Huguenot settlers at Mannikin Town (Va. Hist. Col., new series, Vol.
V; Va. M. H. & B., IV, 431, foll.). They had five children (the two eldest
being named in their grandfather's will, as above noted), namely: Chastain
Cocke (6), Martha Cocke (6) (born about 1744 and named for her grandmother),
James Powell Cocke (6), Stephen Cocke (6) (youngest son, named after his
maternal grandfather), and Elizabeth Cocke (6) or Elizabeth Chastain Cocke. As
was so frequently the case in Colonial Virginia, James Cocke (5) had a short
life, dying 13 April 1753 before he was thirty-five years old and before any of
his children had reached the age of ten years (Note 8). According to his will
dated 30 April 1753 and probated 3 July 1753 (Lunenburg County Court Will Book,
No. 1, p. 96; abstract in Wm. & M. C. Q., XXVII, 141-143), he died
possessed of over 7,000 acres of land in various localities comprising Malvern
Hills (670 acres) in Henrico Co., a tract of 750 acres in Cumberland Co., his
home in Cumberland Parish (300 acres), Lunenburg Co. (not far from the place in
Brunswick Co., where his uncle, Brazure Cocke, afterwards lived and died, a
large tract of 2,560 acres on the south side of the Staunton River in Halifax
Co., and another large tract containing 2,771 acres in Amelia Co., which was
left to his widow (Note 9) for her lifetime and afterwards to his youngest son,
Stephen Cocke (6).
Notwithstanding the fact that
James Powell Cocke (4) had left “the Plantation Malborn Hills” in his will to
his grandson, Chastain Cocke (6), “after the Death of his Father James Cocke”,
the will of James Cocke (5) clearly sets forth that Malvern Hills, together
with the stock, household goods and sixteen of the Negroes on the place, was
left to his second son, James Powell Cocke (6) as well as his land in
Cumberland Co., amounting in all to over 1,400 acres (Note 7). On the other
hand, to his oldest son, Chastain Cocke (6), his father left his land in
Halifax Co. with twenty-five negroes; and to his youngest son, Stephen Cocke
(6), his home in Lunenburg Co., together with the reversion of the land in
Amelia Co. above mentioned. To each of his two daughters he left 500 pounds to
be paid when they were eighteen years old or married;;; with the stipulation
that his elder daughter, Martha Cocke (6), should relinquish her claim to the
legacy (four Negro girls) left her in her grandfather's will (Note 10).
At the outbreak of the
Revolutionary War in 1776 James Powell Cocke (6) (1748-1829) was a young man
still under thirty years of age living at Malvern Hills. Early in his life, indeed
before he was grown, he had married Elizabeth Archer in Amelia Co., 25 November
1767 (Wm. & M. C. Q., XVI, 84). She was the sister of Martha Field Archer,
wife of his elder brother, Chastain Cocke (6) (1743-1795); and dying in 1773
she had left her young husband a childless widower (Va. M. H. & B., IV,
434). Three or four years afterwards (September 1777) James Powell Cocke (6),
still under thirty years of age, married his second wife, Lucy Smith
(1756-1821), daughter of Obadiah Smith of Westham in Chesterfield Co., and
great-granddaughter of Mary Cocke (3) (William (2), Richard (1)) (Va. M. H.
& B., IV, 95, 328; v, 80, 81) (For pages 434, 95, 328, 80 & 81, see pp
145, 133, 137, 175 & 176, this volume). They lived happily together many
years until she died at Edgemont in Albemarle Co., leaving husband a widower
again in his old age. She was the mother of nine children, only four of whom
survived her, namely, her two sons, Smith Cocke (7) and Chastain Cocke (7) and
her two daughters, Mary Cocke Carter (7) and Martha Cocke (7) (Note 11).
Near the end of the Revolutionary
War when Arnold landed at Westover with a considerable force, we infer that
James Powell Cocke (6) was still living at “Malburn Hills”, because Colonel
Charles Fleming, writing to Colonel Davies, 10 January 1781, notifies him that
Colonel Nicholas was stationed at “Mr. James Cock's” with three or four hundred
troops (Cal. Va. State Papers, I, 426; Va. M. H. & B., I , 431 and, 86)
(for pages 431, 86, 435, 447 & 283, see pp. 142, 181, 146, 158 & 94
this volume)
Apparently not long after peace
was restored James Powell Cocke (6) sold Malvern Hills to Robert Nelson,
brother of Governor Nelson, taking in exchange 1,600 acres in the North Garden
of Albemarle Col (Va. M. H. & B., IV, 431 and V, 86) (For pages 431, 86,
435, 447 & 283, see pp. 142, 181, 146, 158 & 94, this volume.); and
thus Malvern Hills, one of the original seats of the Cockes of Henricom passed
out of the hands of that family (Note 12). Robert Nelson is said to have lived
there from 1783 to 1800 (Va. M. H. & B., IV, 447). Twenty years later, when
so many of the old plantations in Virginia were being sold at auction, the
“fine estate” of Malvern Hills was advertised for sale by Messrs. Berkeley and
Nelson as commissioners to sell under decree of the court (Richmond Enquirer,
10 May 1820). In 1862 Malvern Hills was the scene of one of the most desperate
and bloody conflicts of the Civil War “in the battles around Richmond between
the troops of General Magruder and a heavy detachment of the army of General
McClellan”. (Va. M. H. & B., III, 283) Having long survived the ravages of
three wars, including the War of 1812 (Note 9), the historic and venerable and
mansion was destroyed by fire, 3 December 1908. At that time it had been the
country residence of Mr. William Hall of New York for some fifteen years. Near
the ruins of the house, which are still standing, a small modern dwelling has
been erected (Wilstach's Tidewater Virginia, p. 146).
In the interval from 1783 to 1791
presumably James Powell Cocke (6) continued to reside in Tidewater Virginia,
although the place of his abode at this time is not definitely known. It was
during this period that two of his children died in infancy, and he himself
appears to have been in poor health, perhaps being a victim of the malaria that
was prevalent malady in the low country. At any rate, in 1791 James Powell
Cocke (6) purchased Springhill in Augusta Co., and moved there with his family
(Va. M. H. & B., IV, 435), perhaps at the instance of General Robert
Porterfield of Augusta Co., who had married his half-sister, Rebecca Farrar
(Note 9). Two years later (1793) he sold Springhill and moved from the Valley
to Albemarle Co., where he built his home, called Edgemont, on the south fork
of he Hardware River, occupying part of the land which he had purchased some
years before from Robert Nelson; and here he dwelt all the rest of his life,
and here also his son, Chastain Cocke (7), continued to dwell until he died in
1838, the last male survivor of his father's household. Since that time for
nearly a century none of all this extensive property has been in the possession
of the Cocke family.
The old house at Edgemont with
its surroundings is now rather desolate and forlorn in appearance, showing the
effects of neglect and the ravages of time, and it takes an effort of
imagination to reconstruct the picture it must have presented in the days when
James Powell Cocke and his family lived there. Nevertheless, thanks to its
solid foundations and enduring material, the original structure is still
standing in a state of fair preservation and could be renovated and remodeled
at no great cost so as to be both comfortable and imposing. The dwelling, which
faces west toward Applebury mountain, occupies a commanding site on a high hill
and is plainly visible from the highway, about a quarter of a mile away. The
driveway leading to the house has fallen into decay from long disuse and is
well-nigh impassible for a large modern vehicle. The entrance to it is about
four miles from the railway station at North Garden and not far beyond the old
plantation mill (formerly Coles's Mill) on the south fork of the Hardware River
along the road from North Garden to Keen which leads past “Estouteville” in the
Green Mountain district of Albermarle. The driveway turns a little abruptly
into the front yard, and as the visitor stands face to face with the deserted
old mansion for the first time he cannot fail to admire its simple grace and
dignity and the beauty of the wide plateau on which it is situated; and this
first impression is heightened by closer inspection. The front porch surmounted
by a gable roof which is supported by four tall pillars is perfectly
proportioned; and the proportion and symmetry of the whole plan constitute on
of the chief chars. Formerly there were two side porches, each exactly like the
front porch, but one of them has fallen away and been replaced by an unsightly
addition on the south side of the house, where the well-worn path ascends from
the spring about fifty yards away. (The water from the spring gushes from the
mountain slope and is deliciously pure and fresh. Miss Julia Peyton, of
University, Va, inherited from her grandmother, Mrs. Charles Warner Lewis
Carter (Mary Cocke (7)) a china mug which her father used to send to the spring
to be filled with water for his own use.) The outward appearance of the
structure is that of a plain frame house, but in reality the walls are thick
brick masked over by heavy weather-boarding on the outside after the manner of
the “stock brick buildings” that were not uncommon in colonial days (Wilatach's
Tidewater Virginia, p. 127). The woodwork was put together almost entirely by
concealed wooden pegs, occasionally also by hand-made iron nails. The front
porch leads directly into what was probably the sitting-room or drawing-room.
There are six large rooms on the main floor, the three front rooms being
separated from the three back rooms by a commodious hall 56 feet long extending
the whole width of the house from the north porch to the south porch. The house
bulges out at the back to make space for the large octagonal dining-room which
is across the hall from the drawing-room and directly opposite the front door.
The characteristic shape and dimension of the dining-room leads to the
supposition that Thomas Jefferson was the architect of Edgemont, and indeed
there are many other details that point to his influence (Note 13). The six
rooms on the main floor, each with its old-fashioned fireplace and mantelpiece,
all open on the hall, which was the only means of access from one room to
another. The doors all have brass-ring knockers instead of knows, the locks in
some instances being of solid brass.
The basement has the same
dimensions as the floor above it, but is divided differently into six
compartments, including a spacious kitchen and a long dining-room for the
servants. The fireplace in the kitchen, 8 feet wide and 5 feet high, contains
two large cranes and various other iron utensils and furniture still in place
as of yore. Here in the basement the huge beams can be seen that support the
main floor and superstructure. Five of the basement doors have massive iron
clasps and the old H-L hinges that are so dear to the colonial antiquary. The
smokehouse is one of the outbuildings in the back yard that is still standing.
Behind the house is the old
brick-terraced garden on four levels of four plots each, the foundations of
which were so securely laid in the beginning that to this day the plan symmetry
of the design are still intact. Much of the boxwood has perished by fire and
from neglect, but enough has survived to give an idea of its former luxuriance.
North of the garden lies the old
graveyard, overgrown now with think underbrush, making it difficult to find the
monuments over the tombs of those who lie buried there. The column that marks
the three graves of James Powell Cocke (6) and his wife and their son, Chastain
Cocke (7), has toppled over and lies flat on the ground. The inscription on the
monument to James Powell Cocke (7) states that it was erected by his widow. One
of the graves is that of Sarah W. Taylor, who died 26 November 1831; she was
the daughter of John Taylor, of Southampton, and the wife of Dr. Charles Cocke
(7), nephew of James Powell Cocke (6). Long afterwards (about 1861) her husband
was buried by her side.
Apparently about four or five
years before his death James Powell Cocke (6) sold Edgemont to Martha Ann Lewis
Cocke, widow of his eldest son. She died intestate in 1856 and Edgemont
descended to her heir, Mrs. Judith A. Randolph. For sixty years, from 1862 to
1922, this property was owned by a family named Yates, one of whom lived at
Edgemont a long time. During the past twelve years it has been in the
possession of Mr. J. R. Johnson and his family.
In conclusion, it may be added
that the writer has several heirlooms associated with Edgemont which came to
him through his grandmother, Martha Cocke Southall, a youngest child of James
Powell Cocke (6). One of them is a handsome old mahogany desk or “secretary”
which was brought from Malvern Hills to Edgemont. Another highly prized
memorial is a small crayon portrait of James Powell Cocke (6) made in his old
age. Some of the old Edgemont silver which undoubtedly came originally from
Malvern Hills is owned by Mrs. Florence Sharp Grant, widow of Admiral Albert W.
Grant, U.S.N. who was as granddaughter of Martha Cocke Southall (7).
Note 1 -
In the colony of Virginia in
early days there were numerous other individuals named Cocke (Cock, Cocks,
etc.) who were contemporary with Lieutenant-Colonel Richard Cocke (1) of
Henrico Co., some of whom were presumably more or less distantly related to
him, although positive evidence on this point is lacking. A partial list of
such persons is worth keeping in mind, as follows:
(1) Hugh Cockes or Cocks of
Charles City Co., 1634 (Greer's Early Va. Imm. 50, 83, 148, 164, etc; Va. M. H
& B, V, 313; Wm & M. C. Q., 2nd ser. IX, 57 and X, 160)
(2) Lewis Cock or Cocke, of
Charles River Co., who was transported to Virginia in 1635 by Thomas Harwod
(Early Va. Imm. 71; Va. M. H. & B, III, 60, 288 and IV, 187; Wm. & M.
C. Q. 2nd ser., IX, 57 and X, 160);
(3) Thomas Cocke, who witnessed
an assignment of land belonging to Margarett Rogers in the Upper County of New
Norfolk, 9 June 1636 (Va. M. H. 7 B., VII, 296; Wm. & M. C. Q., 2nd ser,
IX, 57)
(4) Richard Cocke, whose name,
together with that of Robert Asten (Aston)?, is found in a list of forty
persons transported to Virginia by Theodore Moyses in 1637 (Va. M. H. & V.,
III, 188, 191, Wm. & M. C & Q 2nd ser., IX, 57 AND xi, 229; Early Va.
Imm., 14, etc);
(5) William Cocke, who (according
to Mr. William Ronald Cocke, Jr., of Columbia, Va.) was a “surveyor” in
Middlesex or Lancaster Co. about 1646, and contemporary with a certain
(6) Richard Cocke of Middlesex
Co., and his wife Sarah, who made a deposition in that county about 1646
(7) William Cock or Cox, who was
burgess from Henrico Co. in 1646 (Va. M. H. & B., III, 288, 292; Wm. &
M. C. Q., 2nd ser. IX, 57)
(8) Edward Cock or Cocke, a headright
of Thomas Browne of York Co., 1648, who had a land transaction of some kind
with George Jordan in 1652 (Early Va. Imm., 71, 81; Wm. 7 M. C. Q., 2nd ser.
IX, 57; Edw. Pleasants Valentine Papers, p. 716);
(9) Richard Cocke who patented
180 acres of land in Northumberland Co., 24 August 1662 (as reported by Mr.
Ronald Cocke, Jr.), and who devised land to John Wet (Wm & M. C. Q., X, 64;
see land patent records of Northumberland Co. in which both Richard Cocke and
Nicholas Cocke are named as being in that county in 1664, according to Mr.
William Ronald Cocke, Jr.). Little more is known about any of these individuals
beyond the bare facts briefly alluded to above in connection with each name.
Likewise during the lifetime of Richard Cocke (1), of Henrico Co., there were
numerous individuals in Virginia by the name of Cox which in some instances was
probably really Cocke. In Hening's Statutes, I, 178, we find the name of
Richard Coxe as a member of the Grand Assembly for Weyanoke in 1632, and it has
been assumed but not established that he and Richard Cocke (1) of Henrico Co.,
were one and the same individual (Va. M. H. & B., III, 282,288,292, etc). A
patent or grant of 100 acres of land was issued by Governor John West to
Richard Cox or Cocke, in Elizabeth City, 20 September 1628 (Va. M. H. & B.,
V, 72, Wm & M. C. Q., 2nd ser., XI, 231). Undoubtedly there were Cox's in
colonial Virginia who had no connection whatever with the Cockes, but that the
two names were sometimes confused and interchanged in the old records seems to
be beyond question. Thus, for example, it is difficult to suppose that Symon
Cox, immigrant in Isle of Wight Co., in 1648 (Early Va. Imm. 71; Wm & M. C.
Q., 2nd ser., IX, 57) was not somehow related to “Symon Cocke of Plymouth” in
England; or that Christopher Cox or Coxe, Northampton Co., 1652-1658 (Early Va.
Imm. 81; Wm. & M. C. Q., 2nd ser., IX, 58) was not one of the Christopher
Cockes whose name recurs so often among the Cockes.
The Cox's of Chesterfield Co.
were not related to the Cockes of Henrico Co. Unfortunately John Cocke (2),
younger brother of William Cocke 92) of “the lowgrounds” in Henrico Co., has
been confused with John Cox. Senior (Va. M. H. H. &B., III, 288) whose
second wife was Mary Kennon (Va. M. H. & B., XXXVII 157-159). This John
Cox, Sr. (and not John Cocke (2) as stated in Va. M. H. & B., III, 411 and
elsewhere), was the progenitor of the Chesterfield Cox's. His grandson, William
Cox, has likewise been confused with William Cocke (3), son of John Cocke (3)
(Va, M. H. & B., IV, 94). William Cox married Sarah --------, and their
son, Stephen Cox, had a daughter, Martha Cox, who was the wife of Henry Wood.
Sarah Perrin was the wife of
William Cocke (3), son of Thomas Cocke (2)
Doubtless Richard Cocke (1) of
Bremo likewise had other relatives in Virginia whose surname was not Cocke. In
his will he himself alludes to his “Couzon Daniell Jordan” (Va, N, G, 6 B,M
UUUM 495, 406). He mentions also “Mr. John Beauchamp”, who was not his cousin
but his close friend and partner. The Beauchamps and Ligons, who were his near
neighbors, were related to each other (Va. M. H. & B. III, 285, 286 and V,
310; Wm. & M. C. Q., 2nd ser., XI, 228). Thomas Harris, whose land patented
in 1636 adjoined the “Bremoes dividend”, was a cousin of Richard Ligon.
Note 2 - It is just possible that
the first wife of Richard Cocke (1) of Henrico Co., was John Browne's widow
(whoever she was) who married a certain Richard Cocke in 1632 (Minutes of the
Council and Gen. Court of Va., p. 201; Wm. & M. C. Q., 2nd ser., XI, 231).
According to Mr. William Ronald Cocke, Jr., this John Browne was living at
“Flower dew Hundred” in 1623, the year after the great Indian massacre and was
burgess for Shirley Hundred in 1629. It may have been his son, John Browne, who
paid a debt of 400 pounds of tobacco to the estate of Richard Cocke (1), of
Henrico Co., as recorded by William Randolph, clerk of the court, in 1679.
Note 3 - In his will Richard
Cocke (1) distinctly names each of his five sons in succession from the oldest
to the youngest, namely, Richard Cocke (2), Sr., Thomas Cocke (3) and their
half-brothers, William Cocke (2), John Cocke (2) and Richard Cocke (2), Jr.;
(Edward Cocke (2), the youngest of all his children, was not born when Richard
Cocke (1) made his will and was probably a posthumous child) and more than once
in this carefully worded document he specifically designates Richard Cocke (2),
Sr., as “my eldest Son”. To this son who bore his name he left his estate of
Bremo which would have fallen to the eldest son by the law of primogeniture in
Virginia; and, moreover, to this one of her two sons his mother had made a
special gift before she died, as is likewise stated in the father's will.
Accordingly, the fact that Richard Cocke (2), Sr., was his father's eldest son
seems to be established beyond dispute.
Nevertheless, it has been
maintained that Thomas Cocke (3) was the elder of the two brothers, and in view
of the careful phraseology of their father's will it cannot be altogether
without significance that in each of the four instances where the two brothers
are mentioned together, as, for example, “my two Sons Tho: & Richd Cocke
Senr”, Thomas's name comes first. Moreover, the provisions of the will seem to
imply that the father relied chiefly on his son,, Thomas, and appointed him to
manage the mill for the benefit and “use of my other Children until they come
to Age”.
Entirely apart from the evidence
here adduced from the will of Richard Cocke (1), we know by the inscription
which is still legible on one of the old tombstones in the graveyard at Bremo
that Richard Cocke (2), Sr., was born 10 December 1639 (Wm. & M. C. Q.,
III, 204: Va. M. H. & B., IV, 91, Wm. & M. C. Q., 2nd ser., XIII, 135);
and the fact that he was indeed born near the end of the year 1639 is confirmed
by a deposition which was dated 1 August 1685 and in which he declares that he
was then 46 years old (Id., p. 327). This statement implies that his birth
occurred not earlier than towards the end of the year (1638 in accordance with
the date given in Va. M. H. & B., III, 407) nor later than August 1639.
This process of reckoning makes Thomas Cocke (2) older than Richard Cocke (3),
Sr.,. But it must be in error, because it seems impossible to refute the plain
declaration the will of Richard Cocke (1) that his eldest son was Richard Cocke
(2), Sr. (Wm. & M. C Q., 2nd ser., XIII, 151).
Note 4 - The writer is indebted
to Mr. Wm. Ronald Cocke, Jr., for much of the information in this article and
above all for a Photostat copy of an agreement which was made by Thomas Cocke
(2) of Pickthorn Farm, Henrico Co., with an individual named “Tho East” who was
tenant on his land. This document duly signed and executed in the presence of
witnesses, 20 August 1672, was long afterwards, 1 October 1691, “Produced in
Court at tryall of a Cause between ye subscribed Cocke and East” (Col. Records
Henrico, V, folio 245, Va. State Library). In it Thomas Cocke (2) confirms in
writing an oral agreement which he made with Thomas East some three or four
years earlier whereby East was to “lease” for a term of twenty years “One
parcel of land lying & being within the line of that land belonging now to
me and my brother as being given us by the Will of our father and Pattent in
the name of him and John Beauchamp”, etc., etc. The chief interest of this
document at present is that it clearly established the fact that Thomas Cocke
(2) of Malvern Hills had formerly lived at “Pick-thorn Farm in the County of
Henrico.”
Although the English origin of
the Cocke Family of Henrico Co., remains unsolved, the fact that Thomas Cocke
(2) was “styled of Pick-thorne Farm” (Va. Hist. Collections, new ser., V, 194;
Va. M. H. 7 B., III,406) leads to the plausible conclusion that he and his
father had some close and direct connection or association with the Cockes of
Shropshire in England (who were themselves perhaps connected in some way to the
Cocks of Gloucestershire), especially with “Tho. Cocke de Pickthorn in com.
Salop” whose daughter Alice Cocke married “Thomas Holland de Burwarton et de
Medio Temple ao 1592 (Harl. Soc. Pub., XXVIII, 250-251; Wm. & M. C. Q., 2nd
ser., XI, 232-233). Pickthorn or Pickthorne is an ancient place-name peculiar
to Shropshire. A family of Cockes flourished there in the sixteenth century. It
may have been the boyhood home of Richard Cocke (1) of Bremo or the home of his
near kinsfolk, and thus it would be easy to see how the name had been revived
and perpetuated in far-off Virginia.
Thanks to the courtesy of Dr. E.
G. Swem, a copy of the will of Thomas Cocke, “yeoman”, of Pickthorne in the
Parish of Statesdon, Shropshire, is now in the writer's possession (which was
transmitted to Dr. Sem by Mr. Boddie of Chicago). Thomas Cocke died in August
1587. His will, dated 26 July 1587 and proved 2 October 1587, indicates that he
was a person of some standing and intelligence. He and his wife Agnes had five
daughters, namely, Elizabeth who married John Buckhowse, Elinor who married William
(?( Blakeseye, Alice who married Thomas Holland, Ann who married Walter (?)
Dolman and Joan who married John (?) Norgrove. Thomas Cocke left legacies to
friends and kinsfolk and also to the poor in his own and neighbouring parishes.
He left his featherbed to his daughter Alice (Cocke) Holland and five pounds to
each of the five children of his son-in-law “Mr. Holland”, at the same time
specifying that “Thomas Holland of Burwarton, gent., owes me 80 pounds, this to
be divided equally among his children”. Generally the testator refers to his
grandchildren by name, and the fact that he does not do so in the case of his
Holland grandchildren may imply that all five of them were still very young at
the time; whence it may be inferred that Alice Cocke married Thomas Holland
about 1580. (Her husband Thomas Holland was a member of the Middle Temple of
the two Inns of Court in London, “ao 1592” as above stated. In a footnote in
Wm. & M. C. Q., 2nd ser., XI, 232, the year of his marriage is given as
1592; but this is a mistake, as pointed out above.)
Thomas Cocke likewise left
legacies to his brother Humphrey Cocke, to his “kinsmen” William, Robert and
Thomas Cocke, to his “kinswomen” Margery Cocke, and to his sister-in-law
Elizabeth Cocke. The name Humphrey Cocke recalls the fact that Humfrey Cocke of
Steeple was church-warden of the parish of Neen Savage in Shropshire in 1582
(Parish Registers of Shropshire, Hereford Diocese, XVII, p. 2 of Register of
Neen Savage; Wm & M. C. Q., 2nd ser. XI, 233). This church contains
handsome monuments to Cocks and Somers which were closely allied families in
the neighbouring count of Gloucester (Va. M. H. & B., V, 308-314, Wm. &
M. C. Q., 2nd ser., IX, 51-53 & X, 146-147).
In the Visitation of Shropshire
1623 (p. 218) the arms of Cocke of Shropshire are: Orgent, a bend and chief an
annulet azure.
Note 5 - The will of Mrs.
Margaret Wood Wynne-Jones- Cocke, widow of Thomas Cocke (2) of Malvern Hills,
dated 12 August 1718, is preserved in the Virginia State Library in Miscel. Court
Records of Henrico 1650-1807, pp. 433-434. Thomas Cocke (2) was her third
husband (see Va. M. H. & B., V, 86) (For pages 86, 409, 88, 89, 412 &
90 see pp. 181, 108, 116, 117, 111 & 118, this volume). The will alludes to
her first marriage named Wynne and to those by her second marriage named Jones.
It is evident that she had no children by her last husband. (TRANSCRIBER NOTE:
The Wynne's mentioned in her last will and testament were her GRANDCHILDREN not
her children so she did not have a first marriage to a Wynne.)
Concerning the sons of Thomas
Cocke (2) it is appropriate to add here several comments. It is in connection
with Thomas Cocke (3) (1664-1707) and his brother Stephen Cocke (3) (1666-1717)
that we first hear (1689) about the horse-races at Mauvern Hills” (Va. M. H.
& B., II, 294 & III 409) and the “Race Paths” mentioned by Thomas Cocke
(3) in his will.
Stephen Cocke (3) is said to have
married (1) Mrs. Sarah Marston in 1688 and (2) Mrs. Martha Bannister in 1694
(Va. M. H. & B., II, 294 & III, 409)(for pages 86, 409, 88, 89, 412
& 90 see pp. 181, 108, 116, 117, 111 & 118 this volume). In 1704 he and
his wife Martha executed a deed to his brother Thomas Cocke (3); and after his
death his widow Martha presented at the court of Prince George Co., 9 July
1717, a list of small debts owed by Stephen Cocke to various individuals
including Littlebury Eppes and John and Richard Bolling. Concerning Martha
Bannister there is a curious record of the Henrico Court dated 1 December 1694
(Colon. Records Henrico, V, 352) as follows:
“Report-false-that the late Mrs.
Bannister was hung up by a hook under chin by - Her husband, Stephen Cocke at
the supposed time was aboard a ship with Peter Jones.”
We can merely conjecture that the
lady referred to here as “the late” (or former) Mrs. Bannister, who had
suffered this cruel treatment 20 August 1694, was near being killed; that to
make matters worse, her husband to whom she had been married only a short time
before was suspected of the dastardly crime; and that the court, having
investigated the charge, had exonerated him by establishing an alibi.
Stephen Cocke (3) and Peter Jones
above mentioned, who was doubtless the son of Stephen's step-mother seem to
have been close friends. In 1697 Stephen Cocke made a deed to him.
Stephen Cocke likewise had
connections with the Bollings. There is a deed on record from him to Robert
Bolling, merchant, of Charles City Co., in 1700 or 1701 (Va. M. H. & B.,
IV, 89 & XXII, 104); which leads to conjecture whether Anne Cocke who married
Robert Bolling in 1706 (Va. M. H. & B., III, 412) was perhaps Stephen
Cocke's daughter, although there is no positive evidence that he had a daughter
named Anne.
Concerning James Cocke (3) (c.
1666-1721) who was executor of his father's will, see Va. M. H. & B., IV,
89-90.
William Cocke (3), youngest son
of Thomas Cocke (2), is said to have married Sarah Perrin in 1695 (Va. M. H.
& B., XXVII, 230). His was NOT Sarah Dennis, as stated in Va. M. H. &
B., IV, 90.
Note 6 - In his will dated 20
September 1766 Brazure Cocke (4) leaves bequests to his wife Frances, son
William Cocke (5), children of son Thomas Cocke (5) (who had doubtless died
before 1766), daughter Elizabeth Holt (= Elizabeth Cocke (5)), daughter Fanny (
= Frances Cocke (5)) who married John Oliver), daughter Mary Anderson (= Mary
Cocke (5)) who may have been the Mary Cocke who married Parsons Anderson in
Cumberland Co. in 1748; see Wm. & M. C. Q., 2nd ser., XII, 282, also 289),
daughter Susanna Coleman (= Susanna Cocke (5)) and daughter Martha Cocke (5).
Mention is likewise made of son James Cocke (5), dec'd. The latter is said to
have died in Lunenburg Co., with will in 1761 (Note 8).
Auditor James Cocke was mayor of
Williamsburg in 1752 and who died in 1769 (Va. M. H. & B., XX, 283) was not
Brazure Cocke's son as was formerly conjectured (Va. M. H. & B., IV, 440)
(For pages 440, 216, 330, 441, 85-86, 217, 322, 444-445, 284, 84 & 186 see
pp. 151, 129, 139, 152, 180-181 130, 141, 155-156, 95, 179 & 190 this
volume) nor was he descended from Richard Cocke (1) of Bremo. On the contrary
he was James Cocke (4), son of Lemuel Cocke (3) (Thomas (2), Walter (1)) of
Surry Co. and his wife Jane Browne (Wm. & M. C. Q., XVI, 231; XX, 229;
XXV,164; Wm & M. C. Q., 2nd ser., XII, 287. See also Va. M. H. & B.,
IV, 216, 330, 440, 441; V, 86 XXVI, 153, 155).
Note 7 - The story “that James
Cocke (5) had two sons named Chastain, the elder of whom died in infancy, about
a year after his grandfather James Powell Cocke (4)”, etc., as derived from
“the pedigree in the possession of Dr. Charles Irving of Amelia” (Va. M. H.
& B., V, 85-86), may be dismissed from consideration in the light of all
the facts and especially in view of the will of James Cocke (5) which the author
above quoted never had the opportunity of seeing. On the other hand, James
Powell Cocke (6) did have two sons called Chastain, one of whom died in infancy
(Note 11); and doubtless it is this circumstance which is the basis of the
above story. It is true, it is difficult to explain why Chastain Cocke (6) did
not inherit Malvern Hills after his father's death in accordance with his
grandfather's will and the story may have originated in order to account for
this difficulty. It is not unlikely to suppose that during his lifetime James
Cocke (5) had given his eldest son Chastain certain land in exchange for his
rights in the Malvern Hills estate; but, however that may have been, it is
certain that in his will James Cocke (5) left Malvern Hills expressly to his son
James, that is, to James Powell Cocke (6).
Note 8 - Contemporary with James
Cocke (5) (James Powell (4), Thomas (3), Thomas (2), Richard (1)) were several
other James Cockes who are liable to be confused with one another. One of these
was James Cocke (4) (James (3), Thomas (2), Richard (1)) of Henrico Co, who
lived to be nearly eighty years old (dying about 1769) and who really belonged
to the same generation as James Powell Cocke (4) with whom, as has been
mentioned, he was associated on the vestry of Henrico Parish (Va. M. H. &
B., IV, 217, 332). However, his son Captain James Cocke (5) (Va. M. H. &
B., IV, 444-445) who was born about 1720 was nearly the same age as James Cocke
(5), son of James Powell Cocke (4).
Another contemporary was James
Cocke (5), son of Brazure Cocke (4) (Thomas (3), Thomas (2), Richard (1)) who
seems to have died in Lunenburg Co., in 1761 with will, nine years after the
death of his first cousin of the same name who likewise died in Lunenburg Co.
More eminent of all these James Cockes
was James Cocke (4), son of Lemuel Cocke (3) (Thomas (2), Walter (1) of Surry
Co., who was mayor of Williams burg in 1752 near the close of the short life of
James Cocke (5), son of James Powell Cocke (4). This was Auditor James Cocke
(Note 6). However, both he and his rather distant cousin Captain James Cocke
(4) of Bon Accord, Prince George Co. (Va. M. H. & B., III, 284; V, 84 &
186), who was the eldest son of John Cocke (3) (Nicholas (2) William (1) of
Surry Co, really belonged to the revolutionary era in the generation succeeding
James Cocke (5), son of James Powell Cocke (4).
Note 9 - Mary Chastain Cocke,
widow of James Cocke (4), married Peter Farrar (Va. M. H. & B., V, 85)(For
pages 85, 439, 438 & 434 see pp. 180, 150, 149 & 145, this volume) Acting
as the guardian of his stepsons, Peter Farrar had some litigation in their
behalf with the executors of their father's will.
Rebecca Farrar, daughter of Mary
Chastain Cocke Farrar and half-sister of James Powell Cocke (6), married Robert
Porterfield of Augusta Co., who was adjutant to General Washington in the
Revolutionary War (Va. H. h. & b., iv, 439). Afterwards in the War of 1812,
General Porterfield wrote to the Governor of Virginia, 2 September 1814,
calling his attention to the strategic importance of Malvern Hills and
requesting the Governor “to furnish me with two twelve pounders to be used at
Malvern Hills” to check the enemy if he attempted to advance (Cal. Va. State
Papers, X, 383-4).
Note 10 - Who were the husbands
of the two sisters, Martha Cocke (6) and Elizabeth (Chastain) Cocke (6),
daughters of James Cocke (5) ?
(a) We know that Martha Cocke
married Henry Anderson in Amelia Co., 24 January 1760 (Va. County Rec., IV,
Early Va. Mar., p. 63). If she was Martha Cocke (4) above mentioned, she was
not much more than sixteen years old at the time of her marriage.
(b) We know also that Elizabeth
Cocke married William Cannon in Amelia Co., 24 June 1790 (Va. County Rec. IV,
Early Va. Mar., p. 66). If she was Elizabeth (Chastain) Cocke(6), she must have
been about forty years old at that time.
On the other hand, we are told
that Martha Cocke (6) married Col. William Cannon of Buckingham Co. who was
perhaps the son of William Cannon of Amelia Co.; and also that Elizabeth
Chastain Cocke (6) married about 1767 Captain Henry Anderson of Amelia Co. (Va.
M. H. & B., IV, 438). Evidently in view of the undoubted facts above
mentioned, neither of the latter statements is correct.
Note 11 - James Powell Cocke (6)
and his wife Lucy Smith had nine children in all, as has been stated. Four of
them died in infancy, namely, a son born in 1783 who lived only a few weeks,
the eldest daughter Mary Cocke (7) (1785-1793) who did not live to be eight
years old, Martha Cocke (7) (b. 1788), and Chastain Cocke (7) (1790-1793). Each
of these names, Mary, Martha and Chastain is duplicated the following list of
their other children, three sons and two daughters, all of whom attained
maturity:
1. James Powell Cocke (7)
(1779-1812), who married Martha Ann Lewis in Powhatan Co., 25 December 1804,
and who died seven years afterward without issue.
2. Smith Cocke (7) (1792-1835),
who was a student at Washington College in 1812-13 and afterwards (1814) for a
short time member of a company of militia commanded by his cousin Captain John
Field Cocke (7) who died in 1857 (Va. M. H. & B., IV, 434). Smith Cocke
died in Kentucky, unmarried.
3. Chastain Cocke (7)
(1795-1838), who lived at Edgemont and died unmarried.
4. Mary Cocke (7) (1796-1888) who
married Dr. Charles Warner Lewis Carter (b. 1793) of Charlottesville 18 April
1816 five years before her mother's death (19 March 1821).
5. Martha Cocke (7) (1799-1874)
who married Valentine Wood Southall (1793-1861) of Charlottesville in 1825 four
years after her mother's death.
James Powell Cocke (6) had no
grandsons who bore his surname and agnatic descent along this line ceased with
his sons (see Va. M. H & B., IV, 436) (For pages 436, 438, 77, 88 & 83
SEE PP. 147, 149, 172, 183 & 269 this volume.) He had a nephew named James
Powell Cocke (7) who was the son of Stephen Cocke (6) and a brother of Dr.
Charles Cocke (7) who lived near James Powell Cocke (6) at Esmont in the Green
Mountain district of Albemarle Co. (Va. M. H. & B., IV, 438; V, 77,88;
XXXV, 83) This J. P. Cocke (7) married Caroline Lewis, but apparently they had
no issue.
There was a number of other
Chastain Cockes besides those that have been mentioned already, all of them
descended, of course, from James Cocke (5) and his wife Mary Magdaleine
Chastain. Thus, for example, Chastain Cocke (7), who was born 30 January 1775
and died at sea in 1797, was a son of Chastain Cocke (6), eldest brother of
James Powell Cocke (6). Chastain Cocke (8), eldest son of William Archer Cocke
(7) and grandson of Chastain Cocke (6), is said to have married Sarah Meade
Eggleston, daughter of Edward Eggleston, in January 1825 (Wm. & M. C. Q.,
XVI, 84; see also Va. M. H. & B., XXXV, 83), he was a member of the
legislature from Powhatan Co. from 1843 to 1848 and died in Mississippi in
1855.
Note 12 - During the decade that
succeeded the Revolutionary War both Bremo and Malvern Hills changed hands by
sale, but Bremo continued to be one of the Cocke places a few years longer, As
well as can be ascertained from the meager records of the period, William Cocke
(6) (1758-1828) having inherited Bremo from his father Bowler Cocke (5) (Bowler
(4), Richard (3), Richard, the elder (2), Richard (1), sold it about 1791 to
his older brother Bowler Cocke (4) of Turkey Island and lived thereafter at
Oakland in Cumberland Co. This was the same year (1791) when James Powell Cocke
(6) took up his abode at Springhill in Augusta Co. The subsequent history of
Bremo has been given by Dr. Moore in his article above mentioned.
Note 13 - The story, still
current among the countryfolk in the vicinity, that “Edgemont was built for
James Powell Cocke by Jefferson's own carpenters”, perhaps has little basis of
fact.
James Powell Cocke (6) was five
years younger than Thomas Jefferson (1743-1826); both of them lived to be over
eighty years of age so that their lives almost completely overlapped from
beginning to end. In his younger days doubtless Jefferson had been a frequent
visitor at Malvern Hills, and for over thirty years he and James Powell Cocke
were near neighbors in Albemarle. Thus notwithstanding the fact that the two
individuals were obviously far apart in some respects, it is reasonable to
suppose that they were often thrown together and were perhaps close friends.
However, as far as the present writer is aware, no reference to James Powell
Cocke has been found in Jefferson's wide correspondence.
RICHARD COCKE (1) OF BREMO AND
HIS CHILDREN
By James P. C. Southall
In the year 1636 Richard Cocke
(1), who may have been born about 1600, patented 3,000 acres of land on the
James river in Henrico County, Virginia, due him for the transportation of
sixty immigrants into the colony (Wm & MCQ, 2nd ser., XIII, 207, see also
VaMH&B, III, 285, 405; V, 72; VI, 186; and Wm&MCQ, 2nd ser., XI, 228)
(For pages 285, 405 & 72 see pp. 96, 104 & 167, this volume). Three
years later (1639) “Richard Cocke gent” obtained a grant of 2,000 acres of land
in the county of Henrico for the transportation of forty persons, of which a
tract of 300 acres was at the place called Bremo where Richard Cocke had his
home on the bank of the river and rest called by the name of “Mauburne Hills”
or Malvern Hills was along the ridge at the head of “Turkie Island Creek”
(VAMH&B, III, 285; XIV, 192 and Wm&MCQ, 2nd ser., XI, 228; XIII, 208).
However, this second parcel of land of 2,000 acres was included in the first
patent, for the second patent sets forth his fact specifically. Finally, some
twelve or thirteen years later in 1652 Richard Cocke (1) obtained a third
patent, this time for 2,482 acres of land (VaMH&B, III, 285; Wm&MCQ,
2nd ser., XI, 228) made up of “1860 acres near the head of Turkey Island Creek”
and “622 acres the residue thereof commonly called by the name of Bremo”. This
third patent likewise was chiefly in order to confirm and establish Richard
Cocke's exclusive rights to the domain which he had acquired by the two
previous patents; as has been clearly elucidated in Wm&MCQ, 2nd ser., XIII,
209, where the details of these several transactions are given. (See also
“Cavaliers & Pioneers”, I, 54, 120 and 266).
(It seems that Arthur Bayly,
merchant in Jamestown in 1638 (Id., I, 97; see I, 131), who was perhaps a son
of William Bayley, ancient planter (Id., I, p. xxix), had sold prior to year
mentioned a tract of 1,000 acres in Henrico County to Robert Hallom's heirs,
one of whom was his widow, Ann Hallom formerly the wife of John Price, labourer
(Id., I, 86). John Price and his son, Matthew Price, after him owned land on
Turkey Island Creek (Id., I, 88). The above facts help us to understand the
references to some of these names in Richard Cocke's several patents.)
The name Richard Cocke appears
here and there occasionally in the old colonial records of Virginia as early as
1627 (Wm&MCQ, 2nd ser. XI, 231), although there is no certain evidence to
show that Richard Cocke (1) of Bremo in Henrico County was in Virginia prior to
the date of his first patent (1636) which is now three hundred years ago or
indeed that he came Virginia until after that date. It is has generally been
taken for granted that he was the same as Richard Coxe or Cocks whose name
appears in the list of burgesses of the Grand Assembly of Virginia for the year
1632 as a member for Weyanoke in Charchles City Count (Hening's Statutes, I,
178; VaMH&B, III, 287; XLIII, 84), and it seems more than likely that this
is true. Possibly also he was the Richard Cocke who married John Browne's widow
in this same year (1632)(Minutes of Council & Gen. Court of Va., p. 201)
(This John Browne who was living at Flower Dew Hundred in 1623 (the year after
the great Indian massacre) was burgess for Shirley Hundred in 1629. The name John
Brown is such a common name that it is perhaps hardly worth while to note that
in the list of thirty persons transported to Virginia by Richard Cocke (1) of
Bremo in 1626 the name “John Browne” occurs twice. It is just possible that one
of them may perhaps have been a son or kinsman of John Browne whose widow
married a person named Richard Cocke. One of the debtors of the estate of
Lt.-Col. Richard Cocke (1) of Bremo was likewise named John Browne, as is
recorded by William Randolph, clerk of court, in 1679 in a list of “Debts
Received” or payments made to Richard Cocke's estate.
Concerning the early occurrences
of the name Richard Cocke in Virginia, it would be helpful, for example, if we
could identify “Richard Cock, the Attorney of Patrick Canada” in 1628 (Wm&MCQ,
2nd ser. XI, 231) who may have been the same as Richard Cox who was attorney
for “John Hudleston, Marriner” in connection with land that Hudleston had
patented in 1621 (Caval. & Pion. I, 44) or the same as Richard Coxe,
burgess for Weyanoke in 1632. “Patrick Canada” above mentioned in
unquestionably the same as Patrick Kannady (Kennedye, etc.), also a “Marriner”
who doubtless speculated in colonial lands on a small scale as was quite
frequently done by ship-captains whose voyages brought them to Virginia (Id. I,
55, 78, 118, 119). Moreover it appears that Captain Thomas Harris whose land in
Henrico County was closely adjacent to the “Bremoes devident” (as subsequently
stated) had sold some land to Patrick Kannaday (Id. 188).)
Although it is abundantly evident
that Richard Cocke (1) was a gentleman of birth and standing in the community
where he lived, little or nothing positive is known about his English origin.
Perhaps the most direct of all the clues to this puzzle is the fact that Thomas
Cocke (2), on of his two eldest sons, describes himself in 1672 as “Thomas
Cocke of Pickthorn Farm in the County of Henrico” (Col. Records of Henrico, Vol
V, folio 245, Va. State Library; Va. Hist. Collections, V, 194; VaMH&B,
III, 406; XLIII, 75) (For pages 287, 84, 406 & 75 see pp. 98, 241, 105
& 231, this volume); which points almost unmistakably to the conclusion
that the Cockes of Henrico County in Virginia had some close and direct
connection with a family of Cockes who flourished in Shropshire, England, as far
back as the latter part of the sixteenth century; and more specifically with a
yeoman known as “Tho. Cocke de Pickthorn in comp. Salop” whose daughter Alice
married “Thomas Hollard de Burwarton et de Medio Templo London ao 1592” (Harl.
Soc. Pub., XXVIII, 250-0251, Wm&MCQ, 2nd ser., XI, 232-233; VaMH&B
XLIII, 86-87). (According to the will of Thomas Cocke of Pickthorne in the
Parish of Stotesdon, Shropshire (a copy of which is in the writer's
possession), his daughter Alice married Thomas Holland perhaps about 1580.
Thomas Cocke himself died in 18587. Pickthorn was an ancient place-name in
Shropshire doubtless of Danish origin. So far as the writer has been able to
ascertain, this name occurs nowhere else in the world except in Shropshire and
in the single instance in colonial Virginia which is cited here.)
Circumstantial evidence seems to indicate that the Cockes of Henrico County in
Virginia were more or less distantly related also the Cocks family of
Gloucestershire in England who were connected by marriage with Hon. George
Percy, one of the leaders of the original company at Jamestown (VaMH&B, V,
309, 318p Wm&MCQ, 2nd ser., IX, 53, 56; X, 147) and likewise with the
family of Walter Lord Aston (Wm&MCQ, 2nd ser., IX, 56) who was a cousin of
Lt.-Col. Walter Aston of Charles City County, Va.
Bremo, where Richard Cocke (1)
made his home some time prior to 1640, was an estate of more than six hindered
acres of land in the bend of James river called Curles Neck (Wm&MCQ, 2nd
ser., XIII, 207, foll.). It was situated between Turkey Island where the
Randolphs lived and the Curles estate which belonged originally to Captain
Thomas Harris (“an Ancient planter and Adventurer in the time of Sir Thomas
Dale his government”, Caval & Pion., 1, p. 34) and which was afterwards
conveyed by him to Nathaniel Bacon, Kr., “the rebel” (Va. MH&B, XXXVII,
354-357; Wm7MCQ, 2nd ser., XI, 228). In Thomas Harris's patent dated 2 May 1636
(less than two months after Richard Cocke (1) was granted his first patent) his
land is described as extending “southwest toward the Bremoes dividend” (Wm&
MCQ, 2nd ser., XIII, 209); which is apparently the first mention of the name
Bremo in the old records. (All efforts to discover the origin of this name have
been in vain, although various conjectures have been offered (Wm&MCQ, 2nd
ser. XIII, 210). Contrary to the opinion of Dr. Wm. Cabell Moore (loc. Cit.),
the writer is disposed to think that the name had probably been in use in this
locality before Richard Cocke (1) came there to live and the name Bremo was not
original with him. It may be noted that shortly after Richard Cocke (1) took
out his first patent in Henrico County, one of the individuals who was
transported to Virginia by Richard Maior in 1638 was Thomas Breamer (Caval.
& Pion., I, 90). Doubtless he was the same as Thomas Bremor who was
probably a gentleman of standing in the colony and who may have been in York
County in 1647 (VaMH&B, in the colony and who may have been in York County
in 1647 (VaMH&B, XII, 453); and possibly “Bremers land” adjoining Mulberry
Island Parish may have been named after him or some of his family (VaMH&B,
XXIII, 247; Wm &MCQ, 2nd ser., XI, 229). Thomas Bremo (as his name is spelt
in Caval. & Pion., I, 222) patented 1,500 acres of land in “Gloster Co”, 9
January 1651; and we hear of him afterwards in 1656 as “Capt. Thomas Breamor”
(or “Bremor”) and again in 1663 as “Mr. Bremar” of Gloucester County (Caval.
& Pion. I, 341, 473). It seems reasonable to suppose that the “Bremoes
devident” was called after the antecedents in Virginia of this Captain Thomas
Bremo (Bremer, Bremor, Breamor, Bremar).
The ridge called Malvern Hills
was certainly named after the famous range of bills in England of that name,
possibly in the days of Sir Thomas Dale when the city of Henricus was founded
and fortified against the Indians.
In short there is no good reason
to suppose that Richard Cocke (2) bestowed the names Bremo and Malvern Hills on
his adjoining places in Henrico County. On the other hand, the name Pickthorne
Farm which is associated with one of his two eldest sons is in a different
category and doubtless had some peculiar connection with the Cockes
themselves.)
Other neighbours of Richard Cocke
(1) were the Lygons and Beauchamps (VaMH&B, III, 285, 286) who were closely
inter-related (VaMH&B, V, 310)(For pages 310, 285, 84-85, 405 & 406 see
pp. 210, 96, 241-242, 104 & 105, this volume)
In his will dated 10 February
1678, Thomas Harris alludes to his “Cozen Richard Lygon”. Not long before
Richard Cocke (1) died he and “Mr. John Beauchamp”, as he is called in Richard
Cocke's will, patented (1664) a tract of nearly 3,000 acres of land on the
south side of the Chickahominy river (VaMH&B, III, 285; V, 310), and long
afterwards in 1689 when Beauchamp had “gone out of the Country” and was then no
longer alive, this property was amicably divided between three of Richard
Cocke's son and Mr. John Pleasants acting as attorney for the executors of John
Beauchamp (Colon. Records Henrico, V, 88, Va. State Library).
In the colony of Virginia there
were numerous other individuals named Cocke (Cock, Cocks) who were contemporary
with Richard Cocke (1) of Bremo, some of them doubtless more or less distantly
kin to him, although now little is known about any of these early immigrants
(VaMH&B, XLIII, 84-85) (For pages 310, 285, 84-85, 405 & 406, see pp.
210, 96, 241-242, 104 & 105, this volume). We know of his “Cousen Daniell
Jordan” (VaMH&B, III, 405) because he happens to be mentioned in Richard
Cocke's will.
For at least a quarter of a
century Richard Cocke (1) of Bremo was a leading and influential personage in
Henrico County (VaMH&B, III, 405-406). His will (Miscellaneous Records
Henrico, I, p. 27, Va. State Library) is an interesting document in many ways.
It is dated 4 October 1665, shortly before his death, although the date when
the will was probated is not given. He expresses the wish “to be Interred in my
Orchard near my first Wife decently according to the usual Solemnities of the
Church of England”. The word “Orchard” is used here to mean garden, as in
Shakespeare's Much Ado About Nothing, Act III, Sc. 2. Neither his grave nor
that of his wife can be located now in the old graveyard at Bremo (Wm&MCQ,
2nd ser., XIII, 135-136). To his loving wife Mary Cocke”, who was his second
wife, he leaves “the one third of all my Estate whether in lands or Chattels”
“for her naturall life and no longer”; particularly stipulating “that she lay
no Claims to any part of that land formerly given by me to my sons Thomas and
Richard Cocke but that they may enjoy the Same Intirely to them & their
heirs according to a deede of gift thereof recorded in Henrico Court.”
To the two eldest sons of Mary
Aston Cocke, “Will & John Cocke”, their father devises: “the residue of
that dividend of land not disposed by the aforesaid deed of gift and the mill
always excepting in the Gift the Six hundred and forty Acres called Bremo to be
held to them and their heiress for Ever & to be equally divided between
them when they Come to age.”
To his son Richard Cocke (2),
Sr., his father leaves his estate of Bremo above mentioned: “I give and
bequeath the afore excepted Six hundred and forty Acres of land to my eldest
Son Richard Cocke & the heire males of his body lawfully begotten & for
want of such issue to my Son Tho. Cocke & the heir males of his body
lawfully begotten & for want of such issue to my Son Will Cocke and the
heire males of his body lawfully begotten & for want of Such heires to the
heire males of John Cocke & for want of Such to the heir males of Richard Cocke
my youngest Son.”
However, an express condition was
attached to this bequest on behalf of his daughter Elizabeth Cocke (2) which
reads as follows:
“Provided always that my first
named Son Richard Cocke if he lives to Inheritt it or any other of my sons or
their heirs that shall after my decease first possess the said land shall pay
to my Daughter Elizabeth Cocke for her portion one hundred pounds Sterling
& if he or they shall refuse payment or fail of making good payment of the
said Sum to the said Elizabeth when she attaines the age of Seaventeen years or
at the day of her Marriage which shall first happen then the said land to be
extended to the use of the said Eliza: until the said Sum by annuall value of
the land shall be accomplished and in Case the said Eliza should die before
either of the said terms of Seaventeen years of age or Marriage then my will is
that the hundred pounds be paid to my other Children by my now Wife by equall
portion as they shall attaine to be full age.”
The following paragraph in the
will of Richard Cocke (1) of Bremo concerns his son Richard Cocke (2), Jr.,
half-brother of Richard Cocke (2), Sr., the latter being perhaps at least
twenty years older than the former: “I give and bequeath to my now youngest Son
Richard Cocke and his heirs seven hundred and fifty Acres of Land out of the
patent of land taken up Jointly between Mr. John Beauchamp & my Self of
which Seaventeen hundred & fifty belongs to me the residue of which
Seaventeen hundred & fifty I have already given and hereby Confirm to my
Sons Thomas Cocke and Richard Cocke the older & their heires.”
Having thus provided for each of
his children in turn, Richard Cocke (1) makes a number of special provisions in
his will, as follows: “And for my personall Estate I do hereby acknowledge that
all the Cattle of my oldest Son Richard & the hogs being of a distinct
mark-all known by my Cozen Daniell & the two Negroes do properly belong to
him by a gift from his Mother which I hereby Confirm they being never by me
reputed as any part of my proper Estate, as for the rest of my Estate my wives
thirds being deducted, I give to be equally divided between my Children by my
present Wife Mary Cocke willing that the Make & Stock of Cattle & Sheep
run in Comon for their point benefit & as any of my said Children come to
Age that they receive their equall portion of the female Stocks then in being
& all the male Increase to the Guardian of my Children.”
*I give & bequeath to my
Couzon Daniell Jordan as much manured land as he & two hands shall be able
& will manure with a teame during his life or abode in the Country provided
he accept the same upon these terms, Vizt. To employ himself & one hand, my
Son finding team & Seedes & all housing & tackling belonging to it
& one hand more & to have my said Cozen the third part of the produce
of all theire labours.”
Item my will is that in Case my
Son Thomas Cocke will look to the Mill for the use of my other Children until
they Come to Age that then he Shall have for his paines & Care the grinding
of his Cornet ole free & three thousand pds of Tob & Cask per Annum out
of the profits my other Childrens Estate keeping his in repair.”
“It. I make my loving Wife Mary
Cock & my two Sons Tho: & Richd Cocke Senr my Executors of this my
Will-appointing my Wife the Guardian of all my Younger Children born of her -
until they Come to age & in Case of her decease then my said Sons Tho:
& Ricd.”
“It. I desire & request the
Justices of the County of Henrico in whose fatherly Care & Integrity
towards the Widdow & fatherless I repose much Confidence to bee my
Overseers of this last will & Testament & to take care that it be
performed according to the true Intent & meaning Thereof.”
This document “Declared Signed
& Delivered” by “Richd Cocke Senr” was witnessed by Henry Randolph and
Henry Isham. It shows that the testator was twice married, although it affords
no clue as to the identity of his first wife. The elder Richard Cocke (2) who
bore his father's name and naturally inherited Bremo and his brother Thomas
Cocke(2) of Pick-thorn Farm who afterwards lived at Malvern Hills were her two
sons. At the time of their father's death the two brothers who were nearly the
same age and who were closely associated all their lives were not more than
twenty-five years old, whereas none of Richard Cocke's other children had come
of age, all of them being in fact quite young.
It may be conjectured that
Elizabeth Cocke (2) was perhaps between twelve and fourteen years old in 1665,
and it also seems reasonable to infer that her mother was the mother of her two
older brothers. However, the language used by Richard Cocke (1) in his will
when he speaks of his only daughter in connection with “my other Children by my
now Wife” may be construed literally to imply that she was the eldest child of
Mary Aston Cocke, her father's second wife. On the assumption that Elizabeth
Cocke (2) was the daughter of the first wife of Richard Cocke (1) of Bremo, it
may be supposed that he married his second wife Mary Aston about ten years
before his death. She was the daughter of Lt.-Col. Walter Aston of Charles
County and the sister of Walter Aston, Jr., whose tomb as likewise the tomb of
his father is at Westover. William Cocke (2), John Cocke (2) and the younger
Richard Cocke (2) were about eight years old. Mary Aston Cocke's fourth son,
Edward Cocke (2) was undoubtedly a posthumous son of Richard Cocke (1) of
Bremo; and this explains why he is not mentioned in his father's will, although
the expression which his father uses in speaking of Richard Cocke (2)(Jr.) as
being “my now Youngest Son” seems to imply that he was not without expectation
of his wife's bearing another child in his old age.
Mary Aston Cocke and her two
stepsons “Tho: & Richd Cocke Senr” were appointed executors of her
husband's estate and she was named as “the Guardian of all my Younger Children
born of her.” The widow afterwards married Lt.-Col. Daniel Clarke of Charles City
County, as is proved by the will of her oldest son William Cocke (2) dated 13
October 1969 (Colon. Rec. Henrico, V, 452, Va. State Library), in which he
refers to “my mother, Mrs. Mary Clarke”, and likewise by a deed executed in
1680 win which William Cocke(2) speaks of Daniel Clarke as his “father-in-law”
meaning step-father. In consequence of this marriage Daniel Clarke became the
guardian of “the orphants” of Lt.-Col. Richard Cocke (1) of Bremo (VaMH&B,
III, 411)(page 110 of this volume) and much litigation ensured thereafter
between him and Richard Cocke's sons in settlement of their just claims, as is
shown by the records of Henrico County for many years as late as 1692 (Col.
Rec. Henrico, Vol. IV, under years 1677, 1681 and 1692).
The fact that Richard Cocke (1)
names all his sons in his will in due order of succession from the oldest to
the youngest and more than once specifically designated Richard Cocke (2), Sr.,
as “my elder Son”, and likewise the fact to this one of her sons his mother had
made a special gift before she died, would seem to establish Richard's
primogeniture beyond question (Wm&MCQ, 2nd ser., XIII, 151; VaMH&B,
XLIII, 85-86)(For pages 85-86, 410, 91, 71, 90, 84 & 76-77 see pp. 242-243,
109, 119, 166, 179 & 232-233, this volume) although in spite of these facts
it has been argued on other grounds that Thomas Cocke (2) was the oldest son.
Richard Cocke (2), Sr., (1639-1706) of Bremo was the ancestor of a long line of
Cockes many of whom including the Bowler Cockes of Henrico County and General
Hartwell Cocke (7) (1780-1866) of Bremo in Fluvanna County (Wm&MCQ, 2nd
ser., XIII, 150, foll. & 213, foll.) were persons of much influence and
distinction in their day. He married Elizabeth ---------------- by whom he had
two sons Richard Cocke (3) (b. 1672) whose first wife was Ann Bowler and John
Cocke (3) who married Obedience Branch in 1696 and died several years later,
according to VaMH&B, XXXVII, 230; Wm&MCQ, XXV, 63, 108, 109-110;
Wm&MCQ, 2nd ser., XIII, 151, and had two daughters, namely Elizabeth Cocke
(3) (who married Miles Cary, Jr., in 1695) and Martha Cocke (3) (who married
Joseph Pleasants in 1699). For further information concerning Richard Cocke,
Sr., see for example: VaMH&B, III, 410; IV, 91; V. 71; XXVI, 21, 38;
XXVIII, 210,211; XXXVII, 230, 231, 354-357; Wm&MCQ, III, 204; XXIV, 131;
Wm&MCQ, 2nd ser., XI, 228, 229; 2nd ser., XIII, 135, 150, foll., 211,212.
Thomas Cocke (2), who was born
between 1638 and 1640, was likewise an active man of affairs and a prominent
personage in the community where he lived. He married his first wife probably
about 1663 several years before the death of his father. Without any sure basis
of fact and perhaps chiefly in order to account for the name of his grandson
James Powell Cocke (4), it has been conjectured that Thomas Cocke's first wife
was related to the Powells of Isle of Wight County (VaMH&B, IV, 90; V, 84;
XLIII, 76-77). At all events she was undoubtedly the mother of his four sons,
namely, Thomas Cocke (3) (1664-1707), Stephen Cocke (3) (c. 1666 - 1717), James
Cocke (3) (1667-1721), and William Cocke (3)(d. 1717), and of his two daughters
Temperance Cocke (3) (born probably about 1670; married Samuel Harwood) and her
younger sister Agnes Cocke (3) (wife of Joseph Harwood).
By a deed dated 29 August 1672
(to which reference has already been made) “Thomas Cocke of Pick-thorn Farm in
the County of Henrico” confirmed in writing an oral agreement which he had made
about four years previously with one of his tenants named Thomas East; whereby
in consideration of a nominal rent “of one Ear of Corn” payable on Christmas
Day each year, the said East was to have for his own use, subject various
stipulations, a certain parcel of land for a term of twenty years, with the
option of buying it at the expiration of the lease. The land in question was
part of a tract that had been given to Thomas Cocke (2) and Richard Cocke 92),
Sr., “by the Will of our father & Pattent the name of him and John
Beauchamp who also acknowledges our Right to be good in Court as the Records
will show” (Colon. Rec. Henrico, V, folio 245, Va. State Library). Apparently
therefore some five or six years after his father's death Thomas Cocke (2) was
living at Pick-thorn Farm. During the latter part of his life, perhaps after
his second marriage, he lived at Malvern Hills on the ridge overlooking his
brother's estate of Bremo. His second wife was a widow named Margaret
Wood-Wynne-Jones, daughter of Major-General Abraham Wood. She was the
grandmother of Major Peter Jones who with Colonel Byrd founded the town of
Petersburg two hundred years ago (1733) (VaMH&B, III, 252; V, 86; XLIII,
76, 88) (For pages 86, 76, 88, 407 & 206-208 see pp. 181, 232, 245, 106
& 747-479, this volume)
In 1678 Thomas Cocke (2) of
Malvern Hills was appointed a justice of Henrico County and in 1679 he was a
member of the House of Burgesses. About this time he owned and operated
“Cocke's ordinary at Varina” (VaMH&B, III, 407) which was some little
distance from his home at Malvern Hills. The colonial records afford occasional
glimpses of this old tavern, as, for example, in a deposition made by William
Farrar, 20 February 1681, when he was 24 years old, in which he states that he
saw Thomas Cocke, Jr., a youth about seven years younger than himself, and
Robert Sharp playing with each other in “the Ninepin Alley at the Ordinary”.
Thomas Cocke (2) was one of the appraisers of William Farrar's estate in 1687
(VaMH&B, VIII, 206-208). Not long afterwards William Byrd writing to Lord
Eppingham in 1690 complains that “for ordinary's wee have none in our County,
mr Cocke having left of(f) these two years” (VaMH&B, XXVI,254); from which
it may be inferred that Thomas Cocke(2) had abandoned his inn at Varina as far
back as 1688.
In a deed dated 1 October 1689
Thomas Cocke (2) gives a black mare to his god-daughters Mary and Anne Aust,
daughters of John Aust (Colon. Rec. Henrico, V, 185). The latter may have been
the John Ast whose place was adjacent to William Cocke's (2) plantation of the
“Lowground”.
It would seem that in 1691 Thomas
Cocke (2) had fallen out with his tenant Thomas East and there was some
litigation between them, as has been indicated previously. At any rate in 1693
Thomas Cocke (2) advertises for an overseer to take care of his land in both
Henrico County and Charles City County, some of which he offers for sale
(Colon. Rec. Henrico, V, folio 487, Va. State Library).
Shortly before his death in 1696
Thomas Cocke (2) was “Security” for the marriage of Richard Ward and Elizabeth
Blackman (Wm&MCQ, XXVII, 195). It appears that he “was Secty for the
delivery of some Estate, in the hands of Richard Ward, belonging to his Ward's
children, as a legacy left them by Edward Deeby dec'd.” Thomas Cocke 92) having
died in the meantime, and the executors of his estate “refusing to stand
bound”, the Court ordered 20 August 1697, that the executors “be discharged and
that the sd Richard Ward doe provide new Sec'ty for the delvry of said Estate”
(Colon. Rec. Henrico, IV, 39, Va. State Library).
For other data concerning Thomas
Cocke (2), in addition to the references given above, see VaMH&B, III,
406-409; IV 90, 213; VIII, 206-208; XXVIII 15, 1211; XXXII, 49; XLIII, 75-76,
85-86; Wm&MCQ, 2nd ser., IX, 56 57; 2nd ser., XI, 230, 132; 2nd ser., XIII
211 (For pages 406-409, 90, 213, 206-208, 75-76, 85-86, 412 & 410 SEE PP.
105-108, 118, 126, 747-749, 231-232, 242-243, 111 & 109, this volume)
All that is known about Elizabeth
Cocke (2) (born perhaps about 1653) is contained in her father's will. Whether
she ever “attained the age of Seaventeen years” or “the day of her Marriage”,
whether her brother Richard Cocke (2), Sr., paid the “one hundred pounds
Sterling” to her, or whether she died and the money was divided among the sons
of Mary Aston Cocke, are questions that cannot be answered. It is supposed that
she witnessed will of Elizabeth Eppes in 1678 (VaMH&B, III, 412).
William Cocke (2) (1657-1693) who
is described in his will as “William Cocke of the Lowground in Henrico co”, was
Mary Aston Cocke's oldest son. His plantation was close to the homes of several
of his brothers on the north side (VaMH&B, III, 410) of “Turkey Island
Creek adjoining the mill of John Pleasants and (extending) to the Lines of
Robert Povey, John Cocke and Giles Carter and so along the said Criik Now in
possession of John Ast (Aust?) and Henry Lester containing about 254 acres”
(Indenture Deed dated 6 April 1705 between Obadiah Smith & his wife Mary
Cocke (3) and Launcelot Woodward & his wife Elizabeth Cocke (3), Col.. Rec.
Henrico, 1700-1709, p. 127).
Perhaps about a year or two after
William Cocke (2) came of age a deed dated 19 July 1680, signed by him and
acknowledged a few days later in Henrico County Court, absolves his
“father-in-law” (= step-father) Daniel Clarke from all further indebtedness to
him in consideration of his having received from Clarke 5,490 lbs tobacco
“which is my full due from him of what was due to me by my father Lt. Coll.
Richard Cocke of Bremo”; and accordingly I do “hereby acquit and discharge the
said Clarke of all debts dues or demands wtsover from the beginning of the
world to this day accrueing by that estate, as witness my hand”, etc.
Another paper dated 20 February
1681/2 relates that one day when William Cocke (2) was of “age 24 years or
thereabouts” his brother Thomas Cocke (3) “sent his sonne Stephen Cocke down to
my house” to fetch him to Valvern Hills; and that on his arrival at his
brother's home the latter asked to go with hit to “the old tobacco house” for
the purpose of inspecting a hogshead of tobacco which had been delivered to
Thomas Cocke (2) by a certain John Watson and in which the tobacco was mixed in
with layers “of ground leaves and trash tobacco” such as was “not fit to be put
into a hd.” While this incident is not of much interest in itself, it has a
human touch which lends it a little importance and wee seem to share Thomas
Cocke's anger at finding he had been cheated by John Watson.
William Cocke (2) had three
children, namely, two daughters Mary Cocke (3) and Elizabeth Cocke (3) and one
son William Cocke (3). The two girls were certainly the children of his first
wife and the son was almost certainly her child also. She was a Miss Flower,
sister of John Flower (or Flowers) of James City County (VaMH&B, IV, 96)
(for pages 96, 411 & 90 see pp. 124, 110 & 118, this volume) Her name
was probably Jane Flower inasmuch as we know by several deeds that in 1684 and
earlier the name of William Cocke's (2) was Jane. Undoubtedly a little more
that two years before he died William Cocke (2) married again 16 June 1691, the
name of his second wife being Sarah Dennis (Colon. Rec. Henrico, V, 253).
(FOOTNOTE: It has been stated (VaMH&B, III, 411) that William Cocke (2)
married first, Jane Clarke, daughter of his step-father Daniel Clarke, and
second Sarah Flower; but each of these statements appears to be erroneous. It
has not ascertained that Daniel Clarke had a daughter named Jane. Moreover, it
is not true that William Cocke(3), son of Thomas Cocke (2) married Sarah Dennis
(VaMH&B, IV, 90), the fact being that this William Cocke married Sarah
Perrin in 1695)
Mary Aston Cocke who married
Daniel Clarke after the death of her first husband outlived her son William
Cocke(3), as we know by his will dated 13 October 1693 and proved early in the
following February (Colon. Rec. Henrico, V, 452). The witnesses of this will
were his step-father Daniel Clarke, his brother Richard Cocke(2), Jr., Mary
Horner and Mary Cocke. The two last named witnesses being unable to write made
their “signum” or mark. This Mary Cocke could hardly have been William Cocke's
elder daughter Mary Cocke (3), because at that time was probably not more than
about twelve or fifteen years at most.
To his only son and youngest
child William Cocke (3) the father gives that tract of Land I now live on”
called “the lowground”; on condition that in case the lad died before coming of
age, this property should be divided equally between his two older sisters Mary
Cocke (3) and Elizabeth Cocke (3). Moreover on each of these girls their father
bestow the sum of 20 shillings which he says he had “received of my mother Mrs.
Mary Clarke” to buy rings for them when “they come of age or are married.”
Ample provision was made in the
will for the widow of whom the testator seems to have stood perhaps a little in
awe, as may be inferred from the following paragraphs:
ITEM: I desire that my Wife, and
it is my will that she be no way molested to Fall, Maul, Saw, Cutt off Sell and
dispose of what timber she pleases, either for Boards, Pipe, Staves or for Cask
Soe far forth as to ye paying my Debts, I am now engaged as also if my son
William should live till he be of age for himself that then the Land to be
divided, she to enjoy the one half during her natural life and so otherwise if
my sd Son should Die ere he come of age but then that she shall keep the
Mannour House and Land adjoining to be her half and no way therein to be
molested”.
ITEM: I give unto my loving Wife
to her Heirs for Ever two Hundred acres of Land Lying out at Shipley's
Quarter.”
ITEM: All the rest of my Estate I
leave unto my Loving Wife Sarah who I make, ordain, Constitute and to be my
whole and sole Execux of this my last will and testament. In witness whereof I
have hereunto sett my Hand and Seal this 13th day of 8ber 1693.”
That the testator was not without
some anxiety about entrusting his daughters to their step-mother's care is
shown by the following paragraph:
ITEM: It is my desire that my
children Mary and Elizabeth may remaine with my wife till they are of age or
married, but is my wife be not able or willing to keep them, then I do desire
that they may be both put to my mother, Mrs. Mary Clarke or to my brother
Richard Cocke, Jr., there to remain till they are of age or married.”
As a matter of fact the two girls
went to live with their uncle Richard Cocke(2), Jr., continuing under his roof
until each of them was married. The lad William Cocke (3) doubtless remained
with his father's widow. Apparently he died early in life, for he disappears
from sight entirely and his sisters inherited his estate as provided in their
father's will.
Mary Cocke (3) who died in 1754
married Obadiah Smith (VaMH&B, 8V, 95)(For pages 95, 96, 411, 288 &
157-159, see 123, 124, 110, 99 & 163-165 this volume) Her younger Elizabeth
Cocke (30 married “Lanse-lott” (Launcelot) Woodward in 1708 (VaMH&B, IV,
96, Wm&MCQ, 2nd ser., XIV, 179).
Little is known of John Cocke (2)
and his descendants. He was born probably before 1660, possibly in 1658
(certainly not in 1647, as stated in VaMH&*B, III, 411) (FOOTNOTE: The name
John Cocke or John Cocks occurs in Virginia as early as 1619-20 (Brown's “First
Republic in America” p 629). A certain John Cocke who was apparently a merchant
in Bristol, England, was a contemporary of Richard Cocke (1) of Bremo, as we know
by the will of Richard Fielding of Northumberland County, Va., dated 16 July
1666 (Wm&MCQ, IX, 265).
Unfortunately John Cocke (2) has
been confused with John Cox, Sr. (VaMH&B, III, 288), WHOSE SECOND WIFE WAS
Mary Kennon (VaMH&B, XXXVII, 157-159)(For pages 95, 96, 411, 288 &
157-159 see pp. 123, 124, 110, 99 & 163-165, this volume). This John Cox
(and not John Cocke (2), as stated in VaMH&B, III, 411 and elsewhere) was
the progenitor of the Cox's of Chesterfield County who were not originally
related to the Cockes of Henrico County, although the two families intermarried
(Concerning these Cox's and some of their connections with the Cockes of
Henrico, see several paragraphs at the end of this paper.) William Cox,
grandson of John Cox, Sr., has likewise been confused with William Cocke (3),
son of John Cocke (2) (VaMH&B, IV, 94). The wife of William Cox was named
Sarah but she was not Sarah Perrin. William Cox and his wife Sarah had a son
Stephen Cox and a daughter Martha Cox who married Henry Wood. Sarah Perrin (as
has been stated already) was the wife of William Cocke (3), son of Thomas Cocke
(2). One of her daughters was named Temperance Cocke (4) after her aunt
Temperance Cocke (3))
Undoubtedly younger than William
Cocke (2), John Cocke (2) was perhaps nearly the same age as his older brother
with whom he seems to have closely associated all his life. Both brothers lived
not far apart on Turkey Island Creek, and their names are found frequently
liked together in the old records; as for example in the following dated 5
August 1682: “Wee William and John do acknowledge the above survey containing
84 acres - the bounds of the land formerly sold to our brother Thomas Cocke
(with the mill)”, etc. (Colon Rec. Henrico, I, 222, Va. State Library), from
which it may be inferred that Thomas Cocke (2) had bought the mill (mentioned
in his father's will) from his younger brothers. Again (p.390) almost
immediately after John Cocke (2) had married Mary Davis, 10 November 1686, it
appears that he and his wife Mary relinquished dower to Francis Cleavely with
reference to the “line between William Cocke and ye aforesaid John Cocke”. John
Cocke (2) paid quit rent in Henrico County in 1704 and we hear of him in this
same year in connection with his half-brother Richard Cocke (2), Sr., of Bremo,
his younger brother Richard Cocke (2), Jr., of Charles City County, and his two
nephews Thomas Cocke (3) and James Cocke (3) (VaMH&B, XXVIII, 210, 211). He
appraised the estate of Roger Carr, Henrico County, 1717. Was he the John Cocke
whose will was proved 6 April 1724, with James Powell Cocke (4) as executor?
As in the case of John Cocke (2),
little information is available about his brother Richard Cocke (2), Jr., of
Old Man's Creek in Charles City County. Born probably soon after 1660, he was
scarcely more than a baby when his father died leaving him the plantation above
mentioned, as may be conjectured from his father's will. Perhaps Richard Cocke
(2), Jr., was the same as Richard Cocke of Westover Parish, Charles City
County, who in 1735 conveyed 500 acres of land in Henrico County to his
daughter Mary Cocke Eppes (VaMH&B, XXXVIII, 231); and if so, Richard Cocke
(2), Jr., lived to be about 75 years old or more (FOOTNOTE: It is likewise
possible to suppose that Mary Cocke Eppes was the granddaughter of Richard
Cocke (2), Jr., and therefore the daughter of his son Richard Cocke, although
whether Richard Cocke (2), Jr., had a son named Richard is not known. Richard
Cocke of Westover Parish, Charles City County, may have been a son of Edward
Cocke (2), although it is doubtful whether Edward Cocke (2) could have had a
marriageable granddaughter in 1735. At all events it is obvious that Mary Cocke
Eppes was not the daughter of Richard Cocke (3) (1672-1720, about) of Bremo,
elder son of Richard Cocke (2), Sr., as stated in VaMH&B, IV, 323, 326,
Because Richard Cocke (3), who was about 12 or 15 years younger than his uncle
Richard Cocke (2), Jr., had been dead about fifteen years when Richard Cocke of
Westover Parish, Charles City County, deeded the land in Henrico County above
mentioned to his daughter Mary Eppes.)
It is conjectured that Richard
Cocke (2), Jr., may have been the father of Anne (or Mary Ann) Cocke who
married Robert Bolling in 1706 (VaMH&B, III, 412 (For pages 412, 88 &
411, see pp. 111, 245 &110, this volume); also XXVII, 210, 211; XXXVII,
230). However, another conjecture is that this Anne Cocke may have been a
daughter of Stephen Cocke (3) (Thomas (2), Richard (1)) who had business
transaction with Robert Bolling (VaMH&B, XLIII, 888). (FOOTNOTE: The
various Richard Cocke's are confusing. Besides those above mentioned there was
Richard Cocke (3) (Thomas (2), William (1)) of Surry County, who was not one of
the Henrico Cockes at all and who died in 1773, and his contemporary Richard
Cocke (4) of Surry County (1707-1772), who was the son of Richard Cocke (3) of
Bremo. Was Richard Cocke (3) of Bremo the same as Richard Cocke, burgess for
Henrico County who was assaulted by John Bolling of Hanover County in 1715
(Wm&MCQ, XXI, 215)?)
In the will of Walter Aston, Jr.
(1638-1666), which was proved 4 February 1666(7) was not long after the death
of his brother-in-law Richard Cocke (1) of Bremo, he leves to his nephew and
godson John Cocke (2), son of Richard Cocke (1), deceased, 4,000 lbs. tobacco
and to his nephew and godson Edward Cocke (2), likewise said to be the son of
Richard Cocke (1), deceased, 6,000 lbs. tobacco (Wm7MCQ, IV, 149; 2nd ser., XI,
230; 32 and 48 pounds sterling, respectively, assuming that the court's
valuation in 1632 in the case of John Browne's debts was valid in 1666-7
(Wm&MCQ, 2nd ser., XI, 231, where a thousand pounds of tobacco is estimated
as worth about eight pounds sterling). At the time of their uncle's death John
Cocke (2) was perhaps not more than five or six years old and Edward Cocke (2),
supposed to be a posthumous son of Richard Cocke (1) was still an infant in
arms. If Edward Cocke (2) was born in 1666, he was 38 years old in 1704 when we
first hear of him in Charles City County (VaMH&B, XXXI, 314). The same
individual appears as a resident and petitioner in Charles City County in 1710
(VaMH&B, XVIII, 399). In 1732 Edward Cocke was appointed sheriff by the
Council (Exec. Journals, IV, 273) and in 1734 he succeeded Dasey Southall (or
Southwell) as tobacco inspector at Soan's warehouse (Exec. Journals, IV, 335).
In 1739 Mary, relict of Edward Cocke, deceased, came into court in Charles City
County and made oath he died intestate (VaMH&B, XXI, 85; XXII, 334).
Although it cannot definitely be established, it seems reasonable to suppose
that Edward Cocke who lived in Charles City County in the early part of the
18th century, who married Mary -------, and who died prior to April 1739, was
Edward Cocke (2), youngest son of Richard Cocke(1) of Bremo. (FOOTNOTE; Among
the Cockes Edward is an uncommon baptismal name. As has been mentioned already,
one of the immigrants in York County in 1648 was Edward Cocke who reappears as
Edward Cocks in 1651 and who was probably the same as Edward Cocke who was
concerned in a land transaction with George Jordan in 1652. There is no ground
for supposing that he was related to Richard Cocke (1) of Bremo except that
they had the same surname and both in Virginia at the same time; but in
connection with the name George Jordan mentioned above (who was burgess from
James City County in 1644), it is perhaps worth pointing out that Richard Cocke
(1) had two cousins, Thomas Jordan (burgess for Isle of Wight County in 1629,
1631 and 1632) and Daniel Jordan to whom he left a legacy in this will, as has
been stated (VaMH&B, III, 405, 406). Mary Aston Cocke, widow of Richard
Cocke (2), may have named her youngest son Edward Cocke (2) after her
brother-in-law, Lt. Col. Edward Major of Charles City County, who married
Susanna Aston in 1655 (Wm&MCQ, VII, 62; 2nd ser., IX, 56, 229). Still
another possibility is that Edward Cocke (2) was named after Colonel Edward
Hill who married Hannah, widow of Lt.-Col. Walter Aston, Sr. (VaMH&B, IV,
96)(For pages 94-95, 495, 406 & 96, see pp. 122-123, 104, 105 & 124,
this volume)
In conclusion, owing to several
intermarriages between the Cox's of Chesterfield County and the Cockes of
Henrico County, some confusion has arisen between certain individuals of these
families which is desirable to straighten out as far as possible. John Cox,
Sr., presumable the son of William Cox who obtained a grant in 1636 of 150
acres of land 3 ½ miles above Harroe Attocks near Dutch Gap, was twice married.
By his first wife whose identity is not known he had two sons, John Cox Jr.,
and William Cox. He married his second wife Mary Kennon in 1682.
John Cox, Jr., son of John Cox,
Sr.., married Mary Baugh, daughter of Jane Gower of Kingsland, Henrico County.
Mary Baugh Cox was a sister or half-sister of John Branch, eldest son of Jane
Gower, whose daughter Obedience Branch married John Cocke (3), son of Richard
Cocke (2), Sr., of Bremo (Colon. Rec. Henrico, V, 689, Va. State Library) in
1696, as have been previously stated.
William Cox, younger son of John
Cox, Sr., and brother of John Cox, Jr., married Sarah --------------, by whom
he had one son Stephen Cox and a number of daughters one of whom, Martha Cox,
married Henry Wood at Bremo in Henrico County in 1723 (VaMH&B, IV, 94-95).
The fact that this wedding took place at Bremo seems to imply some connection
with the Cockes of Henrico, but what this connection was is not clear.
The youngest of the four
daughters of William Cocke (3) (Thomas (2), Richard (1)) was Sarah Cocke (4)
(named after her mother who was Sarah Perrin). The first husband of Sarah Cocke
(4) was William Cox, son of John Cox, Jr.
John Cocke (3), younger son of Richard
Cocke (2), Sr., of Bremo, married Obedience Branch, daughter of John Branch, in
1696, as above stated. He died soon afterwards before August 1699 (Wm&MCQ,
XXV, 109). He and his wife had three children, namely: John Cocke (4) of
Henrico and Albemarle counties who died in 1759 (Wm&MCQ, XXV, 109).
Obedience Cocke(4) who married Benjamin Branch and Martha Cocke who married,
1st, Arthur Moseley, Jr., and 2nd, Edward Friend (Wm&MCO, XXV, 110).
(FOOTNOTE: There was likewise a John Cocke who married, Elizabeth, relict of
Edward Baxter of Charles City County, who died in 1726. She died before 1746
(VaMH&B, XXXVII, 231).
There appears to be no doubt
about the fact that the first husband of Martha Cocke (4) (John (3), Richard
(2), Sr., Richard (1)) was Arthur Moseley, Jr., as above stated; and if so,
this married occurred perhaps about 1720. On the other hand, it is said that
the second husband of Elizabeth Cox Jameson, daughter of William Cox and sister
of Martha Cox Wood was Arthur Moseley, Jr., both of these statements cannot be
true, unless there were two different individuals named Arthur Moseley, Jr. )
NOTES ON THE COCKE FAMILY (From
“Virginia Council Journals, 1726-1753” prepared by Fairfax Harrison
The genealogy of the Cocke family
(or rather families) prepared by Dr. Southall and published in this Magazine,
is remarkable piece of work, when the field to be covered in considered. But
there were many branches he did not treat of fully and many details which did
not come to his attention. A number of accounts prepared by various people and
notes from records of various counties, etc., will be given here. It is
understood that, for some years past, a member of the Cocke family has been
making a most careful study preparatory to writing a history of the family.
Richard and Anne (Bowler) Cocke
had (as is shown by the will of Richard Cocke, 1706) at least two children,
Bowler and Tabitha.
FOURTH GENERATION
Bowler Cocke of Bremo, was clerk
of Henrico County in 1728 to 1738. In 1733 he sold certain lands which he
states in the deed was granted to his father, Richard Cocke, in 1706. He
married Sarah ------------------, and they had issue, first, Ann, born at
Bowler's farm on the Rappahannock River, June 18th, 1720. Second, Susanna, born
at Bremo, November 6th, 1722; died in October following. Third, Tabitha, born
September 25th, 1724. Fourth, Bowler, born March 7th, 1726. Fifth, Sarah, born
February 6th, 1728. Sixth, Elizabeth, born May 15th, 1731. And seventh,
Richard, born March 7th, 1733, and died in twenty-days. (These dates are from
the fragment of the Henrico Parish Register.) Bowler Cocke, the father of these
children, died about Aug. 20, 1771.
FIFTH GENERATION
Bowler Cocke, Jr., of Bremo, born
March 7th, 1726, was appointed Clerk of Henrico County, February, 1749 to 1750.
There is recorded in Henrico, a deed dated March 31st, 1769, from Bowler Cocke,
the elder, of Shirley, to his son Bowler Cocke, Jr., of Bremo, conveying
thirty-seven slaves. He is stated by the Virginia Gazette to have died in
April, 1772. Bowler Cocke, Jr., was a member of the House of Burgesses for
Henrico, 1758, 1761, 1764 and 1765. He had issue, according to old letters, in
the Virginia Historical Society Collections, first William, second Bowler,
third Sarah, who married Massie. The Virginia Gazette notes the marriage in
1778 of Sarah, daughter of Col. Bowler Cocke, Jr., of Bremo, to Major Thomas
Massie.
SIXTH GENERATION
Bowler Cocke of “Turkey Island”
made his will March 1st, 1812, proved in Henrico, September 7th 1812. Directs
his executors to see ten thousand acres of land in Lincoln County, Kentucky.
States that his brother William and himself own four thousand acres in Randolph
County, Va., part of forty thousand acres which was deeded to him as assignee
of Foster Webb, and which was sold at auction to pay a debt for said Webb, to
Mr. Carter of Shirley. Bequests to his daughters Rebecca C. and Lucy Webb
Cocke, to his wife all his title to the negroes which were owned before her
marriage. Son Bowler F. Cocke, daughter Sallie W. Dandridge, and the children
of his daughter, Betsy F. Coles, deceased.
SEVENTH GENERATION
Bowler F. Cocke of “Strawberry
Plain”, will dated June 3rd, 1825, proved July 5th, 1825, legatees, son Bowler
(not of age), daughters Rebecca and Elizabeth, appoints his friend, John Stagg,
guardian to his daughters and Gurdon H. Buckers one of his executors.
EIGHTH GENERATION
Elizabeth Cocke married first,
Joseph Henderson, June 11, 1830, recorded in Memphis, Tenn. Issue: one
daughter, Catherine. Joseph Henderson died in 1843. On Oct. 7th, 1846,
Elizabeth Henderson married Jarman M. Fletcher. Issue: one son, Claude, and
three daughters, Annie, Ida and Elizabeth, all dead except Ida.
NINTH GENERATION
Catherine Henderson married
first, Tighlman H. Bunch of Memphis, Tenn., Nov 20 1860. Issue: one daughter
Laura Tate, and one son Tighman Howard. T. H. Bunch, Sr., died in 1866.
Catherine Bunch married again, 1871, Edwin Henry Skipwith, of Little Rock,
Arkansas, no children.
The following notes from Henrico
County records relate to the several Bowler Cockes.
Will of Bowler Cocke of “Turkey
Island”. Executors are desired to dispose of 10,000 acres of land in Lincoln
County, Ky. My brother, William Cocke and myself own 4,000 acres in Randolph
County, Va., part of 40,000 acres decreed to me as assignee of Foster Webb and
sold at auction to pay a debt due to Mr. Carter of Shirley from said Webb. The
testator directs how the 10,000 and 4,000 acres shall be sold to pay certain
debs. Daughters Rebecca C. Cocke and Lucy Webb Cocke to be supported and
maintained. Wife to have all his estate in the negroes that were her own before
marriage. Son Bowler F. Cocke, daughter Sally W. Dandridge, daughter Betsy F. Coles'
four children. Dated March 1, 1812, proved Henrico, Sept. 8, 1812.
Will of Bowler F. Cocke of
“Strawberry Plain”. Son Bowler Cocke not 20 years of age. Daughters Rebecca and
Elizabeth. Friend John Stagg, guardian to daughters. Dated June 3, 1825, proved
July 5, 1825.
Marriage Bond, Henrico, November
18, 1797, Walter Coles and Eliza F., daughter of Bowler Cocke of “Turkey
Island”.
Marriage Bond, Jan. 4, 1808,
Bowler F. Cocke and Eliza Agnes Pleasants Heath (Heth).
Deed Oct. 1783 from Bowler Cocke
of Bremo to Charles Carter, in regard to the property of Foster Webb.
Deed 1807 from Bowler Cocke and
Sally his wife.
Deed, March 1808, from Bowler
Cocke, conveying in trust the land he lives on called “Turkey Island”, 1,400
acres.
In April, 1814, B. F. Cocke,
executor of Bowler Cocke, sold Turkey Island to Pickett.
Deed March 31, 1769, from Bowler
Cocke the elder, of Shirley, conveying to his son, Bowler Cocke, Jr., of Bremo,
37 male and female slaves.
Deed, July 1748, from Bowler
Cocke, the elder, to his son, Bowler Cocke, the younger, 96 acres in Curles
Swamp.
Col. Bowler Cocke, Jr., of Bremo,
had a daughter, Sarah, who in 1778 married Major Thomas Massie.
Richard Cocke of Henrico, died
May 11, 1820, aged 67 years.
Bowler F. Cocke, of Strawberry
Plain, Henrico, separated in 1825 from his wife, Mary B.
Col. Bowler Cocke, Sr., married
secondly, Elizabeth, widow of John Carter of “Shirley”, but there was no issue
by this marriage.
SOME COCKE FAMILY RECORDS
(Contributed by Mr. W. Ronald
Cocke, Jr.)
From an original paper of Charles
Cocke of Albemarle County, dated 7 February 1860, in possession of his
grandson, Judge Bennett Taylor Gordon, Nelson County, Virginia.
Chronologically arranged and
contributed by William Ronald Cocke, III.
James Powell (1) Cocke, was born
at Malvern Hills, where he lived until just before his marriage with Mary
Magdalene Chastain, an heiress of a Huguenot family at Manakin Town,
Chesterfield county; by whom he left three sons and two daughters:
1. CHASTAIN (2) married Judith
Archer, daughter of Colonel William Archer, conspicuous in the war of the
Revolution, by whom he had six sons and two daughters:
a. CHASTAIN COCKE (3) died young
b. JAMES POWELL COCKE (3) married
Polly Lewis and had five children:
(1) John Lewis Cocke (4) died
unmarried
(2) James Cocke (4) died
unmarried
(3) Aubion Cocke (4) married
Armistead Green
(4) Mary Cocke (4) married a Mr.
Boyd
(5) Martha Cocke (4) died
unmarried
c. WILLIAM ARCHER COCKE (3)
married the widow Ronald and left four children:
(1) Chastain Cocke (4) married
first, Sally Eggleston, daughter of Major Joseph Eggleston of Amelia and
second, Mary Eggleston, daughter of Edward Eggleston, Esq.
(2) William Archer Cocke (4)
married Murray and left one son: William Archer Cocke (5)
(3) Judith Cocke (4) married
Fran. Eggleston, both of whom are dead leaving two children:
(a) William Eggleston (5)
(b) Judith Eggleston (5)
(4) Mary Cocke (4) married a Mr.
Saunders
d. JOHN FIELD COCKE (3) married
Miss Ronald and left two sons:
(1) R. Ivanhoe Cocke (4)
(2) William Ronald Cocke (4)
e. ELIZABETH COCKE (3) married
John Royall and left one son: (1) Albert Royall
f. MARY COCKE (3) died at age of
18
g. RICHARD COCKE (3) died young
h. JOSEPH COCKE (3) died young
2. JAMES POWELL COCKE (2) married
first Martha Archer by whom he had no issue and second Lucy Smith, by whom he
had three sons and two daughters.
a. JAMES POWELL COCKE (3) married
Martha Ann Lewis, by whom he had no issue
b. SMITH COCKE (3) died unmarried
c. CHASTAIN (3) died unmarried
d. MARY C. COCKE (3) married Dr.
Charles Carter and had one son and three daughters
(1) C. Everett Carter (4) is dead
(2) Mary Carter (4) married John
Singleton of S.C.
(3) Lucy Carter (4) married P.
Minor
(4) ----------- Carter (4)
married Champelo (Champe?) Green Peyton
e. MARTHA COCKE (3) married V. W.
Southall, has three sons and three daughters:
(1) William Southall (4) married
Miss Alden of Richmond
(2) James C. Southall (4)
(3) Valentine Southall (4)
(4) Lucy Southall (4) married Mr.
Sharp
(5) Mary Southall (4) married
John Thompson Brown
(6) Florence Southall (4), died
unmarried
3. STEPHEN COCKE (2) married Jane
Segar Eggleston by whom he had three sons and five daughters:
a. JOSEPH E. COCKE (3) married
Ann Mosby, no issue
b. JAMES POWELL COCKE (3) married
Caroline Lewis, still living and never had issue
c. CHARLES COCKE (3) (the writer
of this), married Sally W. Taylor of Southampton, by whom he had one living
child
(1) Charlotte Mary Cocke (4)
married William Gordon, and had six sons and two daughters:
(a) Sally Taylor Gordon (5)
(b) Charles Cocke Gordon (5)
(c) Lennox Gordon (5)
(d) Agnes Stuart Gordon (5)
(e) William F. Gordon (5)
(f) Bazel B. Gordon (5)
(g) Bennett Taylor Gordon (5)
(h) Robert Walker Gordon (5)
d. JUDITH E. COCKE (3) married
Peter Field Archer, and had two sons and two daughters
(1) John F. Archer (4) died young
(2) Richard Archer (4) died young
(3) Fanny Archer (4)
(4) Jane Segar Archer (4), wife
of Dr. Jos. B. Anderson
(By a former married, Peter Field
Archer had three sons: William Archer, Branch T. Archer, Peter F. Archer, and
three daughters: Fanny Tanner Archer, Martha Archer and Elizabeth Archer.)
e. MARY M. COCKE (3) married
Richard Archer and had two sons:
(1) Stephen C. Archer (4)
(2) Richard T. Archer (4)
(They removed to Mississippi
where Stephen died, leaving one son, Edward Archer (5), Richard Archer is still
alive and has eight or ten children)
f. MARTHA COCKE (3) married
William T. Eggleston and left one son and four daughters:
(1) Everard Eggleston (4) died
unmarried
(2) Mana? Eggleston (4) married
Alfred B. Eggleston and has two sons and three daughters
(a) William Eggleston (5) married
Miss Booth
(b) Irving Eggleston (5)
(c) Patty Eggleston (5) married
William Townes of Texas
(d) A daughter (5)
(e) A daughter (5)
(3) Charlotte Eggleston (4)
married Dr. May of Petersburg
(4) Martha Eggleston (4) married
George Johnson
(5) Jane Eggleston (4) married
first, Dr. Irving, and second, L. Masters; three children
g. NANCY COCKE (3) died fifteen
years of age
h. JANE S. COCKE (3) married
Captain James Hobson of Cumberland and is now a widow without children
4. ELIZABETH COCKE (2) married
Henry Anderson of Amelia and left fur sons and two daughters:
a. HENRY ANDERSON (3) married and
had two sons
(1) Dr. Joseph B. Anderson (4) of
Amelia
(2) Dr. Stephen C. Anderson (4)
of Chesterfield
b. CRAWFORD ANDERSON (3)
c. JAMES P. ANDERSON (3)
d. WILLIAM ANDERSON (3)
e. MARTHA ANDERSON (3) died
unmarried
f. ELIZABETH ANDERSON (3) married
John Royall of Nottoway - no issue
5. NANCY COCKE (2) (I think)
married Colonel William Kennon or Cannon of Buckingham and left two sons who
moved with their father to the west before this century.
The James P. (3) and the writer
of this (Charles) are now (1860), the only surviving children of Stephen Cocke
(2). In our branch of the family and that of my uncle James P. (2), the name is
extinct in the next generation, although the two brothers had between them six
sons to hand down.
A few years after his marriage,
my grandfather, James P. (1), removed from Malvern Hills to the “old place” in
Amelia, where he lived until his death, and where he and my grandmother are
buried. The estate in Amelia was inherited by my father, and is now owned by my
brother, James P. (3), the property in Powhatan, and an estate on Roanoke
River, were given to my uncle, Chastain (2), who lived and died on the former,
and Malvern Hills, and land in Albemarle were given to my uncle, James P. (2),
who sold out and removed to Augusta but afterwards settled and died in
Albemarle.
After the death of my
grandfather, my grandmother married Peter Farrar, by whom she had to sons and
two daughters:
1. John Farrar
2. Samuel Farrar married
Elizabeth Eggleston (first cousin of my mother) and left two sons and two
daughters
a. Dr. Stephen C. Farrar of
Mississippi
b. Dr. Richard Farrar of Amelia
c. Polly Farrar married Beverley
Eggleston
d. Jane Farrar died unmarried
3. Judith Farrar married Richard
Ogilby and left several children
4. Rebecca Farrar married General
Porterfield of Augusta, and left two sons and two daughters
a. Robert Farrar
b. John Farrar married Miss McCue
and left a son, Robert Farrar, who I believe died without issue
c. Mary Farrar married
--------------
d. Rebecca Farrar, married
William Kenney of Staunton, is still living and has several children
I have reason to believe that my
grandfather and great grandfather was an only child, which adds to the
difficulty of tracing the remote family connections. Strange as it may seem, my
old uncle, forty years ago, could tell me little or nothing of his grandfather,
and did not seem to know whether he had an uncle or an aunt on the father's
side. I know he had none on the maternal.
The total ignorance of family
connections may have grown out of the fact that he was reared in a region of
country as remote in those days from that in which his father had been born and
dwelt, as California is from Virginia, in our times, besides, his father, from
whom alone he could have obtained information on the subject, had he been
curios enough to seek for it, had died when he was quite a small boy.
My uncle thought our branch of
the family was nearest related to Bowler Cocke of Turkey Island. Contemporary
with my father, there was a Stephen Cocke of Nottoway, with whose son, Stephen,
I was at college. The family removed west before I was grown and I always
though that Judge William Cocke and General John Cocke, both United States
Senators from Tennessee were of the Nottoway family.
I do not remember that any
relationship was claimed between my family and that of Nottoway, but my father
died when I was six years old.
Feb. 7, 1860
------------------------------------------------- Chas. Cocke
COCKE, GRAY, BOWIE, ROBB, &c.
by Miss Fanny B. Hunter, Alexandria, Va. Published in Genealogies of Virginia
Families from The Virginia Magazine of History and Biography
Some partial tracing through the
line of Lucy (2) the fourth daughter of Secretary Cocke (1) of Williamsburg and
Elizabeth Catesby, his wife (Va. His. Mag., Vol. ----, p. -----), who married
Frank Waring of Essex county, Va., May 12, 1744.
Of this marriage there were four
daughters and three sons, viz: Lucy Cocke (3), Ann, Elizabeth, Susanna, Thomas,
William and Henry. The late Mr. Lewis of ------------, in his history of the
family, from which the most of this is taken, wrote of these sons: “They
entered heart and sword into the Revolution, and were in all hard-fought
battles at the North, and we, their descendants, may well be proud of the part
they bore.” Henry Cocke (3) the youngest, was Capt. Of the 7th Virginia
Regiment, and died from exposure near the close of the war, leaving no
children. Thomas Cocke (3) was unmarried in 1803. William Cocke (3), second
son, left one son Henry Cocke (4), father of Mrs. Mary Waring Buckner. His
first wife was Lucy Robb, daughter of Robert Gilchrist Robb; the second was
Lucy Stiff, of Middlesex county.
Lucy Waring (3), eldest daughter
of Frank and Lucy Cocke Waring, m. December 14, 1769, James Robb, of Port
Royal, a native of Scotland, and nephew of Robt. Gilchrist, a man of much
prominence in the Colony. Mr. Robb died April 21, 1805; his wife died October
3, 1819. Their children were:
I. William Robb (4) b. in Essex,
1771; d. 1820
II. Lucy Robb (4), b. April 1773,
married John Gray, of Traveller's Rest, Stafford county, Va.
III. Robert Gilchrist Robb, born
in Orange county, 1775; m. 1st Nellie, dau. of Dr. Wm. Bankhead and Ellen
Stewart; 2d Mrs. Serephena Norfleet, nee Vermecula, of Naples
IV. Anne Robb (4), b. January
1777, married John Catlett of Port Royal; died March 10, 1853 (issue: Robert
Catlett (5), James Catlett (5), Peter Catlett (5) and 2 daus.)
V. Margaret Robb (4) b. in Orange
county 1779; d. aged 13 years
VI. Elizabeth Robb (4), b. in
Orange county 1782; d. 1804
VII. James Robb, b. 1784; d. 1788
VIII. Patrick Robb (4) b. 1771,
m. ----------Pratt, dau. of John Pratt of Caroline county
Issue of John and Lucy (Robb)(4)
Gray (Roman Number II above)
I. Agnes Gray (5) b. March 2,
1794; died at “Eastwood” in 1864-a woman of great force of character, a devoted
churchwoman; “given to hospitality”, especially to its ministers, several of
whom bestowed her name upon their children.
II. Atcheson Gray (5), b.
December 1, 1798; d. 1822; married Catherine Lewis Willis; left no children
III. Margaret Gray (5), b. March
3, 1803; d. 1839 unmarried
IV. Janet Robinson Gray (5), b.
September 10, 1805; d. 1879; married Jan. 3, 1827, her 1st cousin, William
Pollock of Scotland, who was b. in Glasgow August 20, 1797
V. John Bowie Gray (5), born
November 11, 1808; died June 1861; married, 1829, Jane Moore Cave of
Fredericksburg, daughter of Benjamin Cave and Jane Moore Glassnell (FOOTNOTE:
Glassell Family - Andre Glassell of Torchorwald, Madison county, emigrated from
Dumfries, Scotland, in 1756. He was grandson of John Glassell and his wife Mary
Coulter, and son of Robert, who in 1734, married Mary Kelton of Torchorwald
Town near the castle of the Douglas. The eldest son by this marriage was John
Glasell, who was for many years a merchant in Fredericksburg, but returned to
Scotland and bought an estate near Edinburgh, where he resided with his wife,
Helen Buchan. Their one daughter married Lord John Campbell, whose son, George,
became Duke of Argyle. Andrew Glassell, the send son, was born October 8, 1738.
He married Elizabeth, daughter of Erasmus and Jane (Moore) Taylor.)
VI. Robert Gray (5), born
December 12, 1811; died aged 18
Issue of William and Janet (Gray)
Pollock (Roman Numeral IV above)
I. William Pollock (6) , Captain
C.S.A.; died 1864 unmarried
II. John Gray Pollock (6),
Captain Confederate Army, married Estelle Lewis, daughter of Fielding Lewis,
King George county (three children, Catherine Lewis Pollock (7), wife of Harry
Knox Gore, of Ireland; Margaret Aitcheson Pollock and John Gray Pollock (Jr.))
III. Aitcheson Pollock (6)
married Hannah Jett of King George (six children, Janet Robinson Pollock (7),
Julia Lane Pollock, John Gray Pollock, Nellie Pollock, Malcom Pollock, Agnes
Pollock)
IV. Matthew Bailey Pollock (6)
married, 1870, Catherine Lewis, second daughter of Fielding Lewis, who died
1871, married second Lucy Daingerfield Tayloe, daughter of Colonel John Tayloe
of Chatterton, King George, who married a sister of Field Lewis. Issue: Matthew
Tayloe Pollock (7) married Elizabeth 1. Bernard Pollock (one son Matthew Tayloe
Pollock (8); Helen Janet Pollock (7); 3. Andrew Pollock (7); Catherine Lewis
Pollock (7)
Children of John Bowie (5) and
Jane Moore (Cave) Gray:
I. Robert Acheson Gray (6)
married Adelaide Heyman of Georgetown, D. C. Issue: Anna Heyman (7); Julia
Heyman (7) Robert Heyman (7), John Heyman (7)
II. Lucy Robb Gray (6) married
first, Dr. Joseph Alexander, second ----------- Ongley (no children).
III. Agnes Spruel Gray (6)
married Captain Paul Venable, C. S. A., of Danville, Va.
IV. Margaret Gray (6) married
William Dickinson of Caroline county. She died young, leaving one child,
Margaret Gray who married William Madison (no children).
V. Gertrude Gray (6) married
Walter Hamilton of England, later of New Jersey (2d wife). Their four children
are: Maud Hamilton (7), Isabel Hamilton wife of Chas Atkinson of Palmyra, N.
J.; Gertrude Hamilton, wife of Geo. Ricardo of Hackensack; Henry Hamilton and
Agnes Gray Hamilton.
VI. Jane Glassell Gray (6)
VII. Isabella Bowie Gray. These
two last named are residents of Fairfax, Va.
VIII. John Bowie Gray (Jr.)(6) of
Travellers Rest, a graduate of Virginia Military Institute, and participant in
the battle of New Market. He married Mary, fourth daughter of Maj. Bushrod
Washington Hunter, C.S.A., formerly U. S. Navy of “Abingdon”, Alexandria Co.,
and his wife Mary Frances, daughter of Col. George Blow of Sussex Co. Va. Their
children:
1. Mary Hunter Gray (7), married
to Ernest Deans of Wilson, N.C., (one child, Mary Hunter Deans (8)
2. Jane Moore Gray (7)
3. Aylmer Gray (7)
4. John Bowie Gray (III) of
Wilson, NC
Issue of Capt. Paul and Agnes
(Gray) Venable: (Roman Numeral III. Above)
1. Samuel “Woodson” Venable of
Wilson, married Jean Armstead (four children: Jean St. Clair Venable; Mary
Howard Venable; Paul Carrington Venable; Samuel Armistead Venable).
2. Wade “Hampton” Venable married
Eliza Talbot.
Issue of Robert Gilchrist (4) and
Nellie (Bankhead) Robb:
1. Robert Gilchrist Robb (5)
Capt. U. S. and C. S. Navy, married Fanny Lightfoot and had two sons and one
daughter, viz:
a. Robert Lightfoot Robb (6)
married 1st Augusta Turner, daughter of Carolinus Turner of King George co.,
who died, leaving two sons, Robert Robb (7) and Turner Robb (7), his second
wife was Mr. Ada Randolph, daughter of Col. Richard H. Stuart of that county;
b. Philip Lightfoot Robb (6)
married Helen Bernard of Caroline county. Their children are Fanny Bernard Robb
(7); Helen Struan Robb (7); Gay Robertson Robb (7); Robert Gilchrist Robb (7);
Philip Lightfoot Robb (7); Frances Randolph Robb (7)
c. Mittie Robb (6) married
William Augustine Smith of King George. There only child, Frances Lightfoot
Smith (7) is the wife of A. Randolph Howard of Fredericksburg. (One daughter
Frances Randolph (8)
2. Mary Robb (5) died unmarried
3. Elizabeth Robb (5) married
Robert Waring
4. Ellen Robb (5) died unmarried
5. Lucy Robb (5) was the first
wife of Henry Waring
(by 2nd wife)(Mrs. Serephena
Norfleet, nee Vermecula of Naples
6. Roberta Robb (5) died young
7. Margaret Robb (5) married Dr.
Banum
Issue of Dr. Patrick Carrick (4)
and Unknown (Pratt) Robb:
1. Lucy Ann Pratt Robb (4)
married Dr. George Lewis of Westmoreland
2. John Robb (4) married Mary
Turner of King George
Issue of Dr. George and Lucy
(Robb (5)) Lewis
1. Millie Lewis (6) married
------------ Long or Clarke County
2. Alice Lewis (6) married
Henderson Wallace
3. James Lewis
4. Eliza Lewis
Issue of John and Mary (Turner)
Robb (5)
1. Mary Robb (6)
2. Lelia Robb (6)
3. Jennie Robb (6)
4. Patrick Robb (6)
5. Alice Robb (6) married 1st
---------- Maddox by whom she had one daughter, Josephine Maddox; married 2nd
George Richardson
Issue of Colonel Spencer and Lucy
(Waring) Ball (3), second daughter of Colonel Frank Waring and Lucy Cocke:
I. William Ball (4), a
distinguished Colonel in the War of 1812, died unmarried.
II. -------------- Ball, a
physician of note, resident of Fairfax County.
III. Spencer Ball married Bettie
Landon Carter, daughter of Councellor Robert of Nomini, Westmoreland County
IV. Henry Ball
V. Elizabeth Ball married John
Burwell
Issue of William Latane of Essex
County and Anne Waring (3), third daughter of Colonel Frank and Lucy (Cocke)
Waring:
I. John Latane (4) born April 27,
1777, married Parthenia Robinson, daughter of Robert Payne Waring of
Paynesfield, Essex County (three children: Roberta Latane (5); William Latane
(5); Mary Latane (5).
II. Lucy Latane (4), born September
14, 1778, married July 1800, Robert Payne Waring of Edenetta, son of Robert P.
Waring of Paynesfield (two children: Robert Waring (5); Mary Waring (5).
III. Samuel Peachy Latane (4),
born December 30, 1779, died 1794
IV. Henry Latane (4), born July
29, 1782, died June 1860; married October 28, 1818, Susan Allan, daughter of
James Allan of Spring Hill, Essex county.
V. Mary Latane (4), born July 29,
1785; died February 8, 1838; married January 10, 1804, John Temple of King and
Queen
VI. Thomas Latane (4), born May
14, 1787; died August 1837; married October 1, 1818, Mary Bassett, daughter of
Nelson Berkeley of Hanover county (one daughter Lucy Robinson Latane (5)
VII. William Catesby Latane (4),
born April 14, 1788; died August 1846, married Ann Eliza Burwell, daughter of
James and Judith Ball Burwell.
VIII. Ann Susanna Latane (4),
born November 7, 1791; died July 7, 1822; married May 22, 1810, Warner Lewis of
“Lewis Level”.
IX. Elizabeth Latane (4), born
May 11, 1794; died February 1727; married December 1810, James Waring, son of
Robert Payne Waring of Paynesfield.
X. Susan Latane (4), born
November 7, 1797; died May 12, 1807
Issue of Henry (4) and Susan
(Allen) Latane:
Lewis Latane (5); John Latane
(5); Thomas Latane (5); Ann Ursula Latane (5); Henry Waring Latane (5); James
Allen Latane (5); William Samuel Latane; Peachy Lewis Latane and John Latane
(twins)(5)
Children of John and Mary (Latane
(4)) Temple were Arthur Temple (5); John Temple (5); Lucy Latane Temple (5); Henry
Waring Temple (5)
Children of William Catesby (4)
and Ann (Burwell) Latane: James Henry Latane (5) born 1820; Ann Waring Latane;
Susan Catesby Latane; John Lafayette Latane
Children of Warner and Ann S.
(Latane(4)) Lewis: Thomas Waring Lewis (5); William Latane Lewis (5); John
Lewis (5); Joseph Lewis (5); Henry Lewis (5)
Children of James and Elizabeth
(Latane) Waring: William Payne Waring; John Henry Waring; Thomas Waring; Warner
Lewis Waring.
Susanna Waring, third daughter of
Colonel Frank and Lucky Cocke Waring, married Dr. John Taliaferro Lewis of
Culpeper county, a distinguished graduate of Edinburgh, Scotland, and a son of
Colonel Charles Lewis, who resided at Cedar Creek, near Port Royal, Va., who
was brother of Fielding Lewis of Fredericksburg, Av.
WARING FAMILY
Colonel Thomas Waring emigrated
from England and settled at Goldsburg, St. Anne's Parish, Essex county, VA, in
the latter part of the seventeenth century. He was vestryman, justice of the
peach and represented Essex in the House of Burgesses in 1736. He died at his
family seat, January 17674, leaving two sons Frank and Thomas Waring, and three
daughters, Elizabeth Waring, the eldest married Thomas Todd of King and Queen
county, from whom are descended the Fauntleroys and Todds of that county. Mary
Waring, the second daughter, married Henry Robinson of Hanover, brother of
Speaker John Robinson, from whom descend the Robinsons, Winstons and Pollards
of Hanover. Anne Waring, the younger married Rev. James Stith of St. Anne's
Parish, a man of distinguished talents and piety. Mrs. Ann Lile Butler was
their daughter.
Thomas Waring, the second son
above named, born September 8, 1719, married Betty Payne, an heiress, and the
owner of Payne's Island. Frank Waring, the elder son, was born July 23rd, 1717,
died 1771. He inherited Goldsberry; was a vestryman, justice of the peace, and
represented Essex in the House of Burgesses in 1758 and 1764. He married Lucy
Cocke, daughter of Sec. William Cocke, of Williamsburg, who was aunt of Mrs.
Bishop Madison, of Gen. Woodford of the Revolution and of Dr. Walter Jones, who
represented the Northern Neck in Mr. Jefferson's administration, and was a
writer of great force and perspicuity.
GRAY FAMILY
William Gray, of Garleraig,
Scotland, married in 1718 Jennett Barrie.
William Gray, his son, also of
Gareraig, was born 1729, died 1777; married Isabella, only child and heiress of
John Bowie of “Hill of Bath”, and Agnes Spreul, and grand-daughter of John
Bowie and Marian Gow, whose silver ladle, marked J. B. & M. G., and Bowie
seal is in possession of their descendant, Mr. John Bowie Gray, Sr., of
“Traveler's Rest”, Stafford county, Va.
The following is from the diary
of Mr. John Gray, grandfather of the above, written in 1845. The said Mr. Gray
was born 1769, at Garlcraig; came to America 1784, settled first in Port Royal,
and in 1809 purchased Traveller's Rest, once the residence of Col. Burgess
Ball, and spoken of in a pamphlet by his grandson, Capt. G. W. Ball, as “the
well-known and most appropriately named seat”, whose unbounded hospitality
characterized it literally. This reputation was no less marked in the change of
owners, even to the present day.
“My brother William being the
eldest, inherited the whole of my father's estate. My first cargo of goods I
purchased with my small patrimony, about 400 pounds, that I got from my
grand-uncle, Andrew Spreul's will who lived in Gosport, Va., and I believe
owned the site on which the Navy Yard now stands”.
The old seal of Gray is described
by Nesbit as follows: (This seal, with that of Bowie, was inherited by Mr.
Gray, and is now in possession of his great-grandson, John Bowie Gray, Jr.)
Gray Arms: Gules. A lion rampant within
a bordure engrailed argent Crest. An anchor in pale of Suppartors. Two lions
guardant gules. Motto: Anchor fast anchor.
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Land: 1698, Carolina (VA).373
Indenture made 2d day of May, 1698, between Daniel Cox, in the County of
Middlesex, Proprietary of Carolana and fflorida, on the one part, and Sir
William Wailer, Knight, Oliver, Marques de la Muce and Monsieur Charles de
Sailly, of the other part: "Whereas a discovery being made of a region or
Territory in ye parts of America between ye degrees of 31 and 36 North latitude
inclusively, King Charles V, by Letters Pat. under the great seal bearing date
Westminster, 30 October, in the 5th year of his reign, granted and confirmed
unto Sir Robert Heath, Kn'ght, all this land lying within certain boundaries;
and also all those Islands of Veanis, Bahamas, and all other Islands or Isletts
there or neare thereto, and lying Southwards of and from ye s'd Continent, all
w'ch lye within ye degrees of 31 and 36 northern latitude inclusively,''
&c., &c. Of this land, Daniel Cox sells to the above nam'd parties
500,000 acres, English measure, on ye west side of ye River Spiritu Sancto,
which empties itself into ye Bay of apalache at ye N. E'd of ye Gulph of
Mexico, which shall be purchased by ye Proprietary of ye Indian natives; To
have and to hold the s'd Tract of land to them, the said Sir William Waller,
Knight, Oliver, Marques de la Muce and Monsieur Charles de Sailly, their heires
and assigns forever; and if ye s'd parties and their associates shall take up
500,000 acres more, they shall have power from ye Proprietary so to doe,
Provided it be taken up within ye space of Seaven yeares ensueing the date
hereof, paying quit rents for the same," &c., &c. The late King
did erect this Territory into a Province, and named it Carolana, and the said
Islands the Carolana Islands. The last 500,000 acres to be purchased by the
parties to the second part "of ye Indian natives at their own proper
charge and expence;" and they shall be allowed "six months' time to
view the country in order to their choice of such Lands whereon they intend to
settle, and that from and after the time of their choice of such lands, that
the said Sir Wm. Wailer, Kn'ght, Oliver, Marques de la Muce, and Monsieur
Charles de Sailly, or their associates, shall enjoy the said lands Seven
yeares, paying only a ripe Ear of Indian Come in the season if demanded ; and
from ye Expiring of the said Seaven yeares 5 shillings Sterling money of
England, or the value thereof, in either Come or Bullion of Gold or silver, as
a Quitt-rent for every 500 acres of Land soe taken up and purchased by the
Proprietary as aforesaid." Dr. Cox also reserved for himself the selection
of 2 or more places for Ports or Harbours, with a competent Tract of land
adjoining; also stipulates for certain royalties on all mines, quarrys, or
pearl fisheries discovered. Also certain concessions are made for the
introduction into the country of " 100 families or 200 Persons,"
Protestants. " It is mutually agreed, that if the said parties and their
associates doe not within the space of 2 yeares, next ensuing ye date hereof,
transport, or cause to be transported, at least 200 families to plant and
settle within ye s'd Colony, then this Grant and commission shall cease,
Determine, and be utterly void and ineffectuall to all Intents and purposes
whatsoever."
DAN' LL COXE.
Land: 1700, VA.373
Daniel Cox sold 500,000 acres to the Huguenots.
Conjecture: 2006, TX Hunt County,
Greenville.252 I linked the two Daniel Coxes together because they
were in the same county at the same time. And also the name Daniel is exrememly
rare in Cox antiquity.
Don Giddens
Fact: Land ownership, From 1685,
NJ. 1. Certain deeds of conveyance vesting in Daniel Cox two shares of
propriety in East New Jersey. These deeds are : First. One from Edward
Byllynge, one of the original 24 proprietors of East Jersey (see Learning &
Spicer, 73), being a lease and release for one share, dated 19th and 20th of
March, 2 Jas. II. (1685-86) ; second, a deed from the widow and heir of William
Gibson, another of the original 24 proprietors, to Thomas Cox, for one share,
dated 6th April, 3 Jas. II. (1687), and a deed from R.it‹Tt West and Thomas Cox
to Daniel Cox, for the same share, dated 4th December, 1 W. & M. (1639).
These deeds, if duly authenticated, show that Daniel Cox- who, history tells
us, was not only a noted person at court, being physician to the queen of James
II., and to Princess, afterwards Queen, Anne, but a very prominent man in the
affairs both of East and West Jersey - was the owner of two shares of propriety
in 1689. It will be seen that he disposed of them to the West Jersey Society in
1692. But in the mean time he made other deeds or mortgages affecting these
shares. The records show that he conveyed the first share, purchased from
Byllynge, to one Samuel Stancliff, in April, 1687, and that Stancliff got out a
warrant for 10,000 acres of land upon it, but whether he ever procured surveys
therefor is not shown. It would seem that this conveyance was by way of
secuiity or mortgage, and that the share was recon- veyed to Daniel Cox ; for,
in January, 1690-91, Cox conveyed the same share to John Hyde and John Haskins
by way of mortgage ; and they joined him in releasing it to the West Jersey
Society, in March, 1692, soon after the conveyance of his propel'ty in America
to that association, as will presently be mentioned. The other share, derived
from the Gibson estate, was also mortgaged by Daniel Cox to Roliert West and
Benjamin Wetton, by lease and release, dated 5th and 6th of June, 2 W. & M.
(1690) ; and these persons joined him in a quitclaim to the West Jersey
Society, in March, 1692. The records and certified copies of all these
conveyances were produced in evidence on the trial. The objections to their
reception will be noticed hereafter. Meanwhile it is pertinent to observe here
that they were recognized by the proprietors of East Jersey, as will presently
appear.
2. The next link in the
plaintiffs chain of title is a survey to Doctor Daniel Cox, returned and
entered October 7, 1691, for 2,400 acres of meadow at Little Egg Harbor beach,
which it is conceded embraces the premises in question. The plaintiff first
introduced a resolution of the council of proprietors, adopted May 20, 1690, as
follows : -
" Forasmuch as this board is
given to understand by the surveyor general that there is at least 24,000 acres
of meadow at Barnegat, it is therefore agreed and ordered that each propriety
have allotted to it 1,000 acres of the said meadow, and that warrants be
granted to each proprietor, and such other person or persons, their equal
quantity, according to each one's proportional share in a propriety as they now
hold, when desired, and that all the upland adjoining to the said meadows be
granted to such of the said proprietors as desire the same, provided it join
their own meadow."
Several of the proprietors
availed themselves of this resolution, and took up lands at the Barnegat
meadows and on Little Egg Harbor beach, and took patents therefor. Four of
these patents were produced in evidence, -one to Peter Somans, dated 24th May,
1690, for 6,300 acres, partly on the beach ; one to A. Gordon, of same date,
for about 4,000 acres, embracing 3 miles of the beach ; one to Thomas Hart ;
and one to William Dockwra, -all including portions of the beach in continuous
tracts. The tenor of the survey to Dr. Cox is as follows, to wit: -
" By warrant from the
proprietors of East New Jersey, dated May 20, 1690, surveyed and laid out for
Doctor Daniel Cox (in right of two proprieties), two thousand four hundred
acres of meadow and upland at Barnrgat, in two tracts : The first on ths beach
of Little Egg Harbor, beginning at the north side of the mouth or opening of
Fact: Governor of Jersey Colony,
1690.
Daniel married Rebecca Coldham
[11817] [MRIN: 5062] in 1671 in London.
Children from this marriage were:
384 i. Daniel Cox
[5864]
ii. Judge Daniel Cox [68] was born in
1664 in England, London374 and died on 21 Mar 1737 in NJ Hunterdon
Will at age 73.
Daniel next married someone.
His child was:
i. Daniel Cox [17452] was born in
1674 and died in 1738 in NC Craven Will at age 64.
769. Rebecca Coldham [11817], daughter of John Coldham
[11818] and Rebecca Dethick
[11819], was born circa 1640.
Rebecca married Dr. Daniel Cox
Physician to the Queen [11816] [MRIN: 5062] in 1671 in London.
770. William Windley [2169], son of Robert Windley
[6024] and Mary [17014], was born in 1652 in NC Bath
County78 and died after 1705.
General Notes:
I am descended from Daniel Cox of
Chowan Co NC and I found this deed as follows:
"Chowan Co NC Deed from
Daniel Cox to Samuel Patchett dated 8 July 1707 my plantation conveyed to me by
my father-in-law, William Windley. Wit: Nathaniel Chevin and Silas Smith."
Would you please check your Windley Genealogy book and see if you have any
information on this William Windley and his daughter who married Daniel Cox.
William married ANN [5865]51 [MRIN: 597].
Children from this marriage were:
385 i. Windley [59]
ii. William Windley [17037] was born
circa 1675 in NC Albemarle County and died after 1717 in NC Beaufort County.
771. ANN
[5865]51 died after 1705.
ANN married William Windley
[2169] [MRIN: 597].
772. Major Robert Beverly Grandchild? [10111],297 son of Robert
Beverly [10113] and Frances Fairfax
[5876], was born circa 1630 in
Beverley, Yorkshire297 and died circa 1678 in VA Middlesex County,
Christ Church Parish297 at age 48.
Will: 20 Aug 1686. John Beverley
named in his father's will dated August 20, 1686: I give unto my sonne John
Beverley and to his heirs forever three thousand acres of land part of the
Devident of land situate in Rappahannock Countie on both sydes a great runne
and commonly called and known by the name of Beverley Parke and adjoining on
one part thereof to Buttons Rainge. The Said three thousand acres to be
contiguous and in a square or long square or neer that figure and to be by him
made choice of at the age of twenty-one years out of the whole tract, or within
three years after my decease at his pleasure and the lines and bounds thereof
to suit his Choyce (for ascertaing the same) to be put upon the records of
Rap'a Countie, New Kent Countie or in the Master secretaries office.
Robert married Mary Keeble
[10112] [MRIN: 4381] on 1 Apr 1656 in VA
Middlesex County, Christ Church Parish.297
Children from this marriage were:
i. Harry Beverly [10106] was born
circa 1660 and died circa 1731 in VA Spotsylvania County at age 71.
ii. Peter Beverly [10116] was born
circa 1658.297
iii. Robert Beverly [10117] was born
circa 1659 and died in 1733 at age 74.
386 iv. John Beverly
[10134]
v. William Beverly Grandson? [10135]
was born in 1698 and died in 1756 in VA Essex County at age 58.
vi. Mary Beverly [10137] was born
circa 1664.
vii. Catherine Beverly [10138] was born
circa 1665.
viii. Thomas Beverly [17574]
Robert next married Catherine
Hone [23294] [MRIN: 10061] on 28 Mar 1679 in
VA Middlesex County.
773. Mary Keeble [10112] was born in 1635 in Yorkshire297
and died on 1 Jun 1678 at age 43.
Mary married Major Robert
Beverly Grandchild? [10111]297 [MRIN: 4381] on 1
Apr 1656 in VA Middlesex County, Christ Church Parish.297
Mary next married someone.
Her child was:
386 i. John Beverly
[10134]
774. William Early [4371],298 son of William
Early [5935] and Elizabeth Stephens
[5939], was born in 1650375
and died in 1704 in NC Craven County, New Bern298 at age 54.
William married Eleanor
Williams or Stephens [4372]298 [MRIN: 1748] in
1670 in VA.298
Children from this marriage were:
387 i. Margaret Early
[4018]
ii. Eleanor Early [5936]
iii. William Early [5937] was born in
1670 in NC,376 was christened in 1717 in NC Chowan County tax list,
and died on 6 Aug 1740 in NC Chowan County376 at age 70.
775. Eleanor Williams or Stephens [4372],298 daughter of John
Stephens [5934] and Ann Wade [5940], was born on 1 Jun 1655 in VA
York County377 and died on 2 Sep 1732 in NC Craven County maybe78
at age 77.
Eleanor married William Early
[4371]298 [MRIN: 1748] in
1670 in VA.298
780. James Bruton [5942],286 son of Bruton
[5943] and Unknown, was born circa 1650 of Lawns
Creek Parish and died after 1683 in VA Surry County titheables.
James married someone.
His child was:
390 i. James Bruton
Unproven f/o Barbary [5941]
782. William Seward [11467]378 was born of Lawns Creek Parish
and died after 1684 in VA Surry County titheables.286
William married someone.
His child was:
391 i. Mary Seward
[11464]
800. Edward Hudgens [5493] was born in 1676 in England,
Liverpool area.222
Edward married someone.
His child was:
400 i. William/Ambrose
Hudgins [1598]
804. Robert Foster [21181], son of Major Richard Foster
[21182] and Unknown, was born circa 1660379
and died in 1716 in VA Gloucester at age 56.
Robert married Elizabeth
Garnett [21183]379 [MRIN: 9023] circa
1682 in VA Gloucester.379
Children from this marriage were:
402 i. Richard Foster
[21180]
ii. John Foster [21188] was born in
1688 in VA Essex.
805. Elizabeth Garnett [21183] .379
Elizabeth married Robert
Foster [21181] [MRIN: 9023] circa 1682 in VA
Gloucester.379
808. James 1668 Davis S/O Simon And Mary [4172],380 son of Lt
Simon Dolar Davis S/O Dolor And Margery [4186] and Mary Blood [4187], was born in Jan 1668 in MA
Concord.
James married Ann [4183]380 [MRIN: 1674]
JOINED together in genealogy by Don Giddens-.
Children from this marriage were:
i. James 1701 Davis S/O James And Ann
[4192] was born in Oct 1701 in MA Concord.380
ii. Ruth Davis D/O James And Ann
[4194] was born in Sep 1703 in MA Concord.380
iii. Thomas Davis S/O James And Ann
[4173] was born in Nov 1705 in MA Concord.
iv. Joseph Davis S/O James And Ann
[4193] was born in Jan 1707 in MA Concord.380
v. Ann 1709 Davis D/O James And Ann
[4184] was born in Mar 1709 in MA Concord.380
404 vi. Benjamin 1712 Davis
S/O James And Ann [2312]
vii. Zachariah Davis S/O James And Ann
[4195] was born in May 1715 in MA Concord.380
viii. Esther 1717 Davis D/O James And Ann
[4185] was born in Sep 1717 in MA Concord.380
809. Ann
[4183] .380
Ann married James 1668 Davis
S/O Simon And Mary [4172]380 [MRIN: 1674]
JOINED together in genealogy by Don Giddens-.
816. Jeremiah Ellis [5593],227 son of Edward
Ellis [5595] and Unknown, was born in 1643 in VA Surry
County227 and died circa 1722 in VA Surry County227 at age
79.
Tax List: 1668, VA Surry County.
Southwarke Parish
Jeremiah married Mary maybe
Skinner [1526]227 [MRIN: 2377].
The child from this marriage was:
408 i. Jeremiah Ellis II
[336]
817. Mary maybe Skinner [1526]227 was born about 1645.
Mary married Jeremiah Ellis
[5593]227 [MRIN: 2377].
818. Harvey
[7019], son of Sir John Harvey The
Council [21907] and Unknown, was born circa 1650.
Harvey married someone.
His child was:
409 i. Sarah Harvey
[1515]
820. VA Surry County Wiggins Unproven [5598] .
VA married someone.
His child was:
410 i. William Wiggins
Unproven [5597]
832. Martin Sanders [4644],61 son of Rev.
David Saunders or Sanders Baptist minister [3739] and Elizabeth Isaac
[3740], was born on 20 Dec 1595 in
England, Berkshire381 and died on 4 Aug 1658 in Braintree, MA at age
62.
Immigrated: 1635.382
Sailed for New England on the "Planter" with
Martin married Mrs. Rachel
Wheatley Brackett [4662]382 [MRIN: 1916] circa
1618.383
The child from this marriage was:
i. Martin Sanders s/o David [3738]
was born on 4 Mar 1631 in England232 and died on 4 Sep 1706 in
Braintree, MA384 at age 75.
Martin next married Elizabeth
Isaac [3740]232 [MRIN: 1915].
Children from this marriage were:
416 i. Martin Saunders or
Sanders s/o David [3736]
ii. Daniel Saunders or Sanders [4650]
833. Elizabeth Isaac [3740]232 was born circa 1587.
Immigrated: 1622, VA.385
NIcholas Isaac, merchant
Elizabeth married someone.
Her child was:
i. Martin Sanders s/o David [3738]
was born on 4 Mar 1631 in England232 and died on 4 Sep 1706 in
Braintree, MA384 at age 75.
Elizabeth married Martin
Sanders [4644]61 [MRIN: 1915].
Elizabeth next married Rev.
David Saunders or Sanders Baptist minister [3739]232 [MRIN: 1941].
The child from this marriage was:
832 i. Martin Sanders
[4644]
840. Frederick Hamilton [6993],305 son of Robert
Hamilton [6995] and Christian Robeson
[6996], was born on 4 Sep 1625 in
Scotland, Lanark, Kitticide.305
Frederick married Christian
Glen [6994] [MRIN: 2990].
The child from this marriage was:
420 i. Ireland James
Hamilton [3744]
841. Christian Glen [6994] was born in 1633 in Scotland,
Lanark, Glasgow.305
Christian married Frederick
Hamilton [6993]305 [MRIN: 2990].
848. John Robins [17846], son of Dr. Thomas C Robins
[17401] and Mary Hansford [17400], was born in 1668, was
christened in 1704 in VA Gloucester County rent rolls, and died on 5 Aug 1725
in VA Gloucester386 at age 57.
John married Jane/ANNE
Throckmorton [17847] [MRIN: 7496] in 1691.386
Children from this marriage were:
i. William Robins [17812] was born in
1715 and died in 1786 of Robin's Neck at age 71.
424 ii. Our John Robins
[17272]
849. Jane/ANNE Throckmorton [17847], daughter of Captain John
Throckmorton [17907] and Frances Mason [17911], was born in 1675 in VA
Gloucester, Ware Parish.387
Jane/ANNE married John Robins
[17846] [MRIN: 7496] in 1691.386
852. William Strother [8186],307 son of William
Strother [8205] and Dorothy Savage [8207], was born in 1665 in VA
Gloucester County and died in 1726 in VA King George County at age 61.
General Notes: Great-great
grandfather of President Zachary Taylor
William married Margaret
Thornton [8187]307 [MRIN: 3533].
Children from this marriage were:
426 i. William Strother
[8181]
ii. Francis Strothers [8182] was born
in 1700 in VA Culpeper County and died in 1752 in VA Orange County235
at age 52.
853. Margaret Thornton [8187],307 daughter of Francis
Thornton [8188] and Anne Alice Savage
[8189], was born in 1678.307
Margaret married William
Strother [8186]307 [MRIN: 3533].
854. Richard Watts [8184]307 was born circa 1675 in If 25
When Child Born.
Richard married Mary Blagg
[8185]307 [MRIN: 3532].
The child from this marriage was:
427 i. Margaret Watts
[8183]
855. Mary Blagg [8185]307 was born circa 1675 in If 25
When Child Born.
Mary married Richard Watts
[8184]307 [MRIN: 3532].
858. Thomas Salmon [17252], son of Thomas Salmon
[17256] and Elizabeth Read
[17257], was born in Mar 1676 in En
Hertfordshire, Harpenden159 and died circa 1751 in VA Orange County159
at age 75.
Thomas married Mary Theriot
[17253]159 [MRIN: 7239].
The child from this marriage was:
429 i. Mary Salmon
[17251]
859. Mary Theriot [17253],159 daughter of William
Theriot [17254] and Unknown, was born in 1680159
and died after 1751 in VA Culpeper County.159
Mary married Thomas Salmon
[17252] [MRIN: 7239].
860. Andrew Harrison [17260],159 son of Andrew
Harrison [17263] and Eleanor Long [17264], was born circa 1650 in VA Old
Rappahannock County and died in 1686 at age 36.
Andrew married Thomasine
[17261]159 [MRIN: 7244].
The child from this marriage was:
430 i. Andrew Harrison Jr.
[17258]
861. Thomasine
[17261] .159
Thomasine married Andrew
Harrison [17260]159 [MRIN: 7244].
862. Robert Lovell [17265]159 was born circa 1675.
Robert married Ursula Nicolas
[17266]159 [MRIN: 7247].
The child from this marriage was:
431 i. Mary Lovell
[17259]
863. Ursula Nicolas [17266]159 was born circa 1675.
Ursula married Robert Lovell
[17265]159 [MRIN: 7247].
864. Matthew M. Rushing persecuted Protestants
[1315] was born before 1684 in Possibly
In Germany Along The French Border Or Wales and died before 1730 in NC Anson
County.388
General Notes:
The following information was supplied by
Charles C. Rushing and appears
in the "Rushing Past"
newsletter, II(1), March 1980. "Let's start with the Isle
of Wight County, Virginia. 'Early
Eighteenth Century Palatine Emigration' by
Knittle (on Page 252) states that
on the 2nd sailing from Holland to England
then to Virginia, there was
listed 23 May 1709 Mathys Riesin (German for
Rushing) and Vrow (wife) and
three children. Then on page 262 Mattys Russin --
they were of Protestant faith and
could not worship as Protestants in Germany.
(Rushings) were living in an area
overrun by Louis XIV of France and had
escaped to Holland. There they
were helped by Queen Anne of England who
promised to take them to Virginia
to settle there.
Researchers: 2000, Ayers.
Matthew married Elizabeth Vrow
[1316] [MRIN: 491] about 1709.236
Children from this marriage were:
432 i. William Rushing
[1305]
ii. Matthew Rushing [1317] was born
about 1722.
865. Elizabeth Vrow [1316] was born about 1684 and died
about 1743 about age 59.
Elizabeth married Goodson
[1655] [MRIN: 647].
Elizabeth next married Matthew
M. Rushing persecuted Protestants [1315] [MRIN: 491] about 1709.236
868. John Meador [6805],309 son of Thomas
Meadors [6808] and Sarah Hoskins [6810], was born in 1653 in VA Essex
County308 and died on 21 Nov 1721 in VA Essex County308
at age 68.
John married Elizabeth/Frances
Aubrey [6807]389 [MRIN: 2892].
The child from this marriage was:
434 i. Jason Meadors VA
[1324]
869. Elizabeth/Frances Aubrey [6807]389 was born in 1678 in VA Essex
County.
Elizabeth/Frances married John
Meador [6805]309 [MRIN: 2892].
872. William Coleman Nichols [6083], son of Nichols [6086] and Coleman [6087], was born circa 1710.390
William married Unknown
[6085]88 [MRIN: 2622].
Children from this marriage were:
436 i. Isaac Nichols
[6077]
ii. Coleman Nichols [6082] was born
circa 1737 in NC Bladen County.
iii. Jeremiah Nichols [6088] was born
in 1740 in NC Bladen County maybe.
873. Unknown
[6085] .88
Unknown married William
Coleman Nichols [6083] [MRIN: 2622].
880. William Freeman [4387], son of John Freeman
[4388] and Elizabeth Hancock/ Stokes
[5190], was born circa 1700 in VA Surry
County maybe311 and died before 1761 in NC Granville County.311
William married Elizabeth
Bridges [5189]311 [MRIN: 1756].
Children from this marriage were:
440 i. Bridges Freeman
[945]
ii. Barbary Freeman [5194]
iii. Thomas Freeman [11483] was born in
1739 in VA Surry County.39
iv. Thomas Freeman [11484] was born
circa 1720.
881. Elizabeth Bridges [5189],311 daughter of William/Thos/Joseph
Bridges Jr [9669] and Unknown, was born circa 1700 in If Same
Age As Spouse.
Elizabeth married William
Freeman [4387] [MRIN: 1756].
882. William Howell G'father [18583], son of William Howell
[18579] and Rebecca [18580], was born circa 1680 and was
christened in 1704 in VA Surry rent rolls.300
William married someone.
His child was:
441 i. Elizabeth Howell
[4399]
888. Captain Thomas Massie House of Burgesses
[2012], son of Peter Massie
[5161] and Lucretia Ashley
[8159], was born in 1675 in VA New Kent
County39 and died in Mar 1731 in VA New Kent County or Goochland391
at age 56.
Rent rolls: 1704, VA St. Peters
Parish.
Thomas married Mary Walker
[5162] [MRIN: 865] on 23 Mar 1699 in VA
Middlesex County, Christ Church Parish.392
Children from this marriage were:
444 i. Sylvanus Massie
[2011]
ii. William Massie House of Burgesses
[2013] was born on 28 May 1718 in New Kent, VA, St. Peter's Parish and died in
1749 in VA New Kent County392 at age 31.
iii. John Massie [2014] was born on 3
Oct 1721 in New Kent, VA, St. Peter's Parish.393
iv. Mary Massie [2015] was born in Jan
1719 in New Kent, VA, St. Peter's Parish.393
v. James Massie [5160] was born in
1708 in VA New Kent County and was christened on 16 May 1708 in VA New Kent,
St. Peters Parish.393
vi. Peter Massie [5196] was born on 4
May 1718 in VA Middlesex County, Christ Church Parish and died in 175639
at age 38.
889. Mary Walker [5162] was born circa 1676.
Mary married Captain Thomas
Massie House of Burgesses [2012] [MRIN: 865] on 23 Mar 1699 in VA
Middlesex County, Christ Church Parish.392
892. Robert Hudson [6033],242 son of Robert
Hudson [6036] and Mary F Farguson Ferguson
[6814], was born in 1685 in VA Henrico
County, Richmond242 and died in 1757 in VA Chesterfield County at
age 72.
Rent rolls: 1704, VA Henrico
County, Richmond.
Robert married Martha Hancock
[6034]242 [MRIN: 2595].
The child from this marriage was:
446 i. Simon Hudson III
[6030]
893. Martha Hancock [6034],242 daughter of John
Hancock [6035] and My Jane Holt if same John
Hancock [6842], was born in 1689 in VA
Chesterfield County242 and died after 1758 in VA Chesterfield
County.242
Martha married Robert Hudson
[6033]242 [MRIN: 2595].
896. William 1654 Lindsey [950], son of VA rent rolls Lindsey
[23328] and Unknown, was born circa 1654 and died
after 1704 in VA St. Peters and St Pauls rent rolls.
William married someone.
His children were:
448 i. William 1695
Lindsey Va [309]
ii. Joseph Lindsey Maybe A Son [23329]
died after 1704 in VA St. Peters and St Pauls rent rolls.
900. John Martin [4424]247 was born circa 1659 in VA Essex
County maybe247 and died after 1704 in VA Essex rent rolls.
John married Mary Johnson
[4425]394 [MRIN: 1776].
The child from this marriage was:
450 i. Henry Martin
[1541]
901. Mary Johnson [4425]394 was born circa 1663 in VA Essex
County and died in 1715 in VA Essex County at age 52.
Mary married John Martin
[4424]247 [MRIN: 1776].
902. Anthony Samuel [11521], son of Anthony Samuel
[17306] and Anna [17307], was born in 1660 in EN Cornwall
County, was christened in 1704 in VA Essex rent rolls, and died on 15 Jun 1731
in VA Essex County at age 71.
General Notes: only Samuel
surname in the rent rolls.
Anthony married Mary Ann
Rogers [17299] [MRIN: 4942].
The child from this marriage was:
451 i. Jane Samuels
[1469]
903. Mary Ann Rogers [17299], daughter of Giles Rogers
[17300] and Rachel Eastham
[17301], was born in 1687 in VA New
Kent.
Mary married Anthony Samuel
[11521] [MRIN: 4942].
904. Sackfield Brewer Immigrant [4100],249 son of of
London Edmund Brewer Desc Not Proven [4103] and Marie Waterman of London
[4104], was born Est 1625 in If 25 When
Child Born and died in Oct 1699 in VA James City County249 about age
74.
GenKin: 2003, GenForum#6763. Top
of Form 1 Posted by: Davis Brewer </cgi-genforum/email.cgi?160583501> (ID
*****3501) Date: August 14,
2003 at 08:43:08
In Reply to: Possible Lineage of
the Sackfield Brewers fr 1530 <6492.html> by Don L Giddens of 6763
Bottom of Form 1
Thank you Don for your hypothesis
on the origin of our Sackfield line of Brewers. It is the first clue I ever saw
to a family across the Atlantic.
Using your info, I have found one
other site that gives the names of people of your first three generations--that
of Janet Reakes from Australia that is easily found by searching Ancestry for
Bartholomew Brewer. Janet does not name a Sackfield child and that is the key I
need to fully accept your proposal.
Next, I think you may have an
extra generation (and extra Sackfield). The Sackfield who died in James City
county, VA, in 1699 (and had children Edmund and Katherine) was in Virginia nlt
1652. he was the only Brewer among 40 persons brought in by Jane Harmer so was
in his late teens or early adulthood when he came over, most likely unmarried.
His birth has been placed at 1632 but could have been several years earlier.
Thus, he could have been your 4th generation Sackfield who named his two known
children for his grandparents.
I have not studied your
subsequent generations enough to comment yet, but if you would like to compare
notes, my data can be seen at:
<http://worldconnect.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?db=dbrewer1838>.
Would like to pursue your ideas.
Please post comment or email me direct.
Davis Brewer
Immigrated: 1652, VA
Northumberland County.
Sackfield married Mary Smith
[4139]396 [MRIN: 1642].
Children from this marriage were:
i. Edmund Brewer [1872] was born in
1655 in England397 and died on 2 Oct 1699 in VA James City County at
age 44.
ii. Sackfield Brewer [4137] was born
circa 1650.
452 iii. Peter Brewer
[532]
iv. Katherine Brewer [4140] was born
in 1680.397
905. Mary Smith [4139],396 daughter of James
Smith Immigrant [4136] and Unknown, was born on 26 Jan 1624 in VA398
and died in 1721 at age 97.
Mary married someone.
Mary married Sackfield Brewer
Immigrant [4100]249 [MRIN: 1642].
906. George Lanier [11871] died after 1704 in VA Surry County
rent rolls. Another name for George was Laneer.
George married someone.
His child was:
453 i. Letitia Lanier
[1870]
920. William Ewing Persecuted Protestant [771],163 son of William
Ewing [772] and Eliza Milford [773], was born in 1665 near Sterling
Castle, Ireland and died in NJ.
General Notes: The Ewings are of
Scottish descent, originally from the West of Scotland, near Glasgow. They were
located on the river Forth, near Stirling Castle, in the vicinity of Loch
Lomond. Their religion was Presbyterian (John Knox).
During the mid 1600's there was a
great religious persecution of the Protestants in Scotland. They fled to
Ireland, settling in Colermaine, Londonberry, Ireland. July 12, 1690, the Ewing
brothers took place in the Battle of Boyne. In this battle King James II was
opposed by William of Orange who was fighting for the Irish Protestants. The result
of that battle was the complete overthrow of King James II, thus forcing the
abdication of his throne to William and Mary.
Immigration: 1689, NJ. Ewing, NJ
is named after this family.
Fact. a "John Knox"
Presbyterian, persecuted for his faith.
William married Findley Maybe
[7123] [MRIN: 198].
Children from this marriage were:
i. Nathaniel Ewing [770] was born in
1692 in Coleraine, Londonderry, Ulster, Ireland.
460 ii. Captain Findley
Ewing fled Northern Ireland [317]
iii. Charles Ewing [383] was born about
1735 and died about 1770 about age 35.
iv. Robert Ewing [158] was born in
1654 in Scotland, Stirlingshire, Stirling Castle and died in Londonderry,
Ireland.
v. William Ewing [1751] was born in
1665 in Coleraine, Londonberry Ireland.
vi. James Ewing [1752] was born about
1667.
vii. Alexander Ewing [1753] was born in
1679 in Northern Ireland, Londonberry.
viii. Thomas Ewing Descendant [22592]
was born in 1695, was christened on 10 Oct 1690 in Coleraine, Londonberry
Ireland, died in Aug 1747 in NJ Greenwich, Cumberland County at age 52, and was
buried in Old Presbyterian Chrurch.
921. Findley Maybe [7123] was born circa 1665.194
Findley married William Ewing
Persecuted Protestant [771]163 [MRIN: 198].
922. Joshua Porter [1703]163 was born about 1675.
Joshua married Margaret,
grandtr Ewing [1704]163 [MRIN: 843].
Children from this marriage were:
i. Rachel Porter [774] was born about
1700.
461 ii. Jane Porter
[747]
923. Margaret, grandtr Ewing [1704],163 daughter of William
Ewing [772] and Eliza Milford [773], was born about 1675.
Margaret, married Joshua
Porter [1703]163 [MRIN: 843].
924. Robert Baker [319], son of Joseph Baker
[157] and Mary [7135], was born in 1686 in PA, died in
Apr 1759 in VA Prince Edward County at age 73, and was buried in New Connaught
Myd.
Rent rolls: 1704, VA Nansemond
County.300
Robert married Susan Packer
[375] [MRIN: 691] in 1728 in VA Prince
Edward County.
Children from this marriage were:
i. Douglas Baker [356] was born in
1688 in PA and died in 1765 in VA Prince Edward County at age 77.
462 ii. Rev. Caleb Baker
Ireland [318]
iii. Rev. Andrew Baker "A Joshua"
[972] was born in 1692 in MS Panola County356 and died in VA.
iv. Mary Baker [984] was born in 1696
in NC Wilkes County.
v. May Baker [985] was born in 1700
in NC Wilkes County and died in 1800 in NC Ash County, Walnut Grove at age 100.
vi. Samuel Baker [219] was born about
1732.
vii. Robert Baker [19062] was born in
1686 in VA Lancaster399 and died in Apr 1759 in VA Prince Edward
County at age 73.
925. Susan Packer [375] was born about 1686.
Susan married Robert Baker
[319] [MRIN: 691] in 1728 in VA Prince
Edward County.
926. Rev. John Brooks [1869],400 son of Rev.
John Brooks Minister of God's Word [9723] and Unknown, was born about 1670 in
Lancashire maybe.
General Notes: unproven by DG
2004
John married someone.
His child was:
463 i. Martha Brooks
[975]
928. John Wormington [905], son of John Wormington
[21113] and Unknown, was born about 1675 in VA
Norfolk County and died about 1744 in VA Princess Anne County about age 69.
Rent rolls: 1704, VA Norfolk
County.
Will: 1728.326 In Jan
1728 - Jun 1729: The will of Richard Silvester of Beaufort County, North
Carolina (besides bequests to son, Richard William Silvester including land at
Bridgetown, Norfolk County, Virginia) "to William Worminton two bitts of
ground in Virga att ye Bridgetown."
In 1730, 1732, 1733, 1734, 1735 -
Norfolk County tithables (1 poll)
On 5 Sep 1744 Princess Ann County
deed (see father, John Wormington notes)
On 18 Feb 1747 the Norfolk County
will of George Griffen was witnessed by William Wormington, Richard William
Silvester, and John Lockhart.
On 10 Jun 1750 and 10 Jun 1751
Norfolk tithables list: "William Worminton and negroes Dick and
Sarah".
On 11 Jun 1753 the Norfolk
tithables lists: "William Wormington and son Abraham and negros Dick and
Sarah". (note: a white male became a tithable at age 16)
On the 1754 Norfolk County
tithables lists: "William Wormington and son Abraham and negros Dick and
Sary".
On 12 Feb 1755 in the Norfolk
County deeds, he sold 18 1/2 acres to John Murden "adjacent to Murden's
high ground".
On 10 Jun 1756, the Norfolk
County tithables list: "William Wormenton and son Abraham and William and
negros Dick and Sarah".
On 10 Jun 1757 the Norfolk County
tithables lists: "William Worminton and son Abraham and negroes Simon,
Dick, and Sarah.
On 10 Jun 17 59 and 10 Jun 1761,
the Norfolk tithables lists: "William Wominton and negroes Dick, Simon,
Sarah, and Violet" (Abraham is listed on his own on another page)(note:
Samuel was 16 at this time, but had been at that age only 5 months and was not
listed)
- 10 Jun 1762, Feb-Mar 1762
William's will in Norfolk County (Will Book 1, page 76) too much info to list
here. See notes on father. Mentions living children Abraham, Alice, Letice,
Samuel, and Mary with Samuel as Executor (age 17?) with Richard Silvester.
Property includes slaves (Dick, Sarah, Simon, Violet, and Jack) and just over
285 acres of land around Great Bridge. His own plantation went to grandson
William, son of Abraham (after death of Abraham) with 135 acres and his
father's plantation to son Samuel with 150 acres.
John married someone about 1700
in Princess Anne Co VA.
His children were:
464 i. William Wormington
[895]
ii. Abraham Wormington [906] was born
about 1705 in VA? and died in 1734 in Norfolk? Co VA about age 29.
iii. Grace Wormington [907] was born
about 1707.
iv. John Wormington [908] was born
about 1710.
930. John Lockhart [897],1 son of Lockhart
[11517] and Unknown, was born about 1675.
John married someone.
His child was:
465 i. Mary Lockhart
[896]
932. Edward Denby [11519], son of William Danby
[21070] and Unknown, was born in 1665 in VA326
and died after 1704 in VA Norfolk County rent rolls. Another name for Edward
was Denby.
Edward married Elizabeth
Pullen [21114]326 [MRIN: 4940].
The child from this marriage was:
466 i. Edward Denbigh
[886]
933. Elizabeth Pullen [21114]326 was born circa 1665.
Elizabeth married Edward Denby
[11519] [MRIN: 4940].
934. Thomas Sikes [21069]327 was born circa 1695.
Thomas married someone.
His child was:
467 i. Ann Sikes [887]
936. Our John Hassell [17578],164 son of Edward
Hassell [17580] and Johannah Briggs
[17062], was born in 1678164
and died in 1734 in NC Tyrrell County maybe164 at age 56.
John married Rachel/Jane
Wheeler [17579]164 [MRIN: 7386].
Children from this marriage were:
468 i. Our Abraham Hassell
[17576]
ii. Joseph Hassell [21021] died in
1783 in NC Tyrrell County.
iii. Benjamin Hassell [21023] was born
circa 1700 and died in 1781 in NC Tyrrell County at age 81.
iv. John Hassell [21024] died before
1781.
v. Isaac Hassell [21026] died on 15
Jan 1776 in NC Tyrrell County and was buried in Presilar's Ridge maybe.
937. Rachel/Jane Wheeler [17579]164 was born circa 1680164
and died in 1724164 at age 44.
Rachel/Jane married Our John
Hassell [17578]164 [MRIN: 7386].
938. Anthony Alexander Patentee [21016] was born circa 1690 and died in
1741 in NC Tyrrell County at age 51.
Anthony married someone.
His children were:
469 i. Priscilla Alexander
[17577]
ii. Anthony Alexander [21017] died in
1784 in NC Tyrrell County.
iii. Benjamin Alexander [21018] died after
1748 in NC Tyrrell County Quit Rents.
iv. Joshua Alexander vestryman, St.
Andrews parish [21019] died after 1748 in NC Tyrrell County Quit Rents.
v. Isaac Alexander [21020] died in
1777 in NC Tyrrell County.
vi. Joseph Alexander [21059] died in
1746 in NC Tyrrell County.
vii. Anne Alexander [21060] died after
1741.
viii. Lemuel Alexander [21061] died in
1778 in NC Tyrrell County.
ix. Rachel Alexander [21062] died
after 1741.
x. Sarah Alexander [21063] died after
1741.
xi. John Alexander [21064] died after
1741 and was buried in Mocason Plantation maybe.
xii. Josiah Alexander [21065] died afft
1741 and was buried in Huttle Fields Plantation maybe.
xiii. Gideon Alexander [21066] died
after 1741.
940. John Jennett Sr [17050], son of John Jennett
[17571] and Dorothy [21055], was born circa 1700, was
christened in 1735 in NC Tyrrell County Quit Rents, and died in 1738 in NC
Tyrrell County at age 38. Ancestral File Number: 605 acs.
John married someone.
His children were:
470 i. John Jennett Jr
[17045]
ii. Abraham Jennett [17051] was born
circa 1725, was christened in 1740 in NC Perquimans County tax list, and died
in 1761 in NC Tyrrell County at age 36.
944. Mathew Turpin [4379],330 son of Michael
Turpin IMMIGRANT [4383] and Unknown, was born in 1664401
and died in 1689402 at age 25.
Rent rolls: 1704, VA Henrico
County, Richmond. Thomas Turpin, Sr. and Jr.
Mathew married Sarah Hatcher
[21162] [MRIN: 9006], daughter of Edward
Hatcher [21163] and Unknown, in 1686 in VA Henrico, St.
John's Church.403
Mathew next married Elizabeth
Becket [4380]330 [MRIN: 9008].
The child from this marriage was:
472 i. Henry Turpin
[4378]
945. Elizabeth Becket [4380],330 daughter of Thomas
Beckitt [11510] and Unknown, was born Est 1675.
Elizabeth married someone.
Elizabeth married Mathew
Turpin [4379]330 [MRIN: 9008].
Elizabeth next married Turpin
[21878] [MRIN: 1752] Est 1700.
The child from this marriage was:
i. Michael Miles Turpin [11509] was
born in 1735 in VA Lunenberg.404
948. John Lewis [11522]405 was born circa 1690.
John married Elizabeth
Claibourne [11523]405 [MRIN: 4944].
The child from this marriage was:
474 i. Littleberry Lewis
[4384]
949. Elizabeth Claibourne [11523],405 daughter of John,
Thomas, or William Claibourne [11524] and Unknown, was born circa 1690.
Elizabeth married John Lewis
[11522]405 [MRIN: 4944].
960. Our Isaac Lewis [6923],259 son of Our
Edward Lewis [6924] and Bridget [6925], was born in 1692 in Chesthunt,
Herefordshire406 and died in 1742 in NC Bertie County259
at age 50.
Isaac married Our Margaret
Hooker [10280] [MRIN: 2958].
The child from this marriage was:
480 i. Our William Lewis
[6921]
961. Our Margaret Hooker [10280], daughter of William Hooker
[10281] and Unknown, was born circa 1692 in If Same
Age As Spouse407 and died in NC Maybe.
Margaret married Our Isaac
Lewis [6923]259 [MRIN: 2958].
962. Banks
[18231] was born circa 1690 in NC Maybe.
Banks married someone.
His child was:
481 i. Janet Banks
[6922]
964. Teunis Jansen Van Pelt [10248],331 son of Teunis
Jansen Van Pelt [10250] and Unknown, was born circa 1699 in NY Kings
County, Manhattan.
Teunis married Elsje Hendricks
[10249]331 [MRIN: 4458] circa
1690 in Manhattan.
The child from this marriage was:
482 i. Jan Van Pelt
Belgian [9461]
965. Elsje Hendricks [10249]331 was born circa 1699.
Elsje married Teunis Jansen
Van Pelt [10248]331 [MRIN: 4458] circa
1690 in Manhattan.
966. Henry Perrine [10273], son of Daniel Perrin
HUGUENOT [10274] and Maria Thorell [10275], was born circa 1669 in
Richmond, Staten Island, NY.408
Henry married someone.
His child was:
483 i. Mary Ann Perrine
[9462]
970. John Tavener [22135], son of John Tavener
[22136] and Unknown, was born in 1675 and died after
1712 in VA Richmond.
John married someone.
His child was:
485 i. Tavner Maybe
[22129]
992. Our William Stinnett [8642],261 son of Our
William Stinnett [8643] and Unknown, was born in 1682 in MD Calvert.
William married someone.
His child was:
496 i. Benjamin H
Stennett/ Stinnett [8641]
994. Our William Saunders/ Sanders Planter [9482], son of Our Matthew Saunders/
Sanders [9484] and Eleanor [9485], was born in 1684 in MD Charles
County and died in 1731 in MD Charles County at age 47.
William married Alice Faulkner
Only Heir [9483] [MRIN: 4076].
The child from this marriage was:
497 i. Our Elizabeth
Sanders [9481]
995. Alice Faulkner Only Heir [9483], daughter of Shipwright John
Faulkner [18215] and Alice [18216], was born circa 1694 in MD
Charles County and died circa 1711 in MD Charles County at age 17. Another name
for Alice was Falkner.
Alice married Our William
Saunders/ Sanders Planter [9482] [MRIN: 4076].
996. Our Isham
[17419], son of Our Henry Isham
[7236] and Katherine Banks 3rd Wife
[10338], was born circa 1680.
Isham married someone.
His child was:
498 i. Our James Isham
[8644]
1000. Hightower
[18236] was born circa 1690.
Rent roll: 1704, VA. No
Hightowers are listed.
Hightower married someone.
His child was:
500 i. Hightower
[18235]
1. Don Giddens.
2. DON GIDDENS- contributor.
3. Eddie Smith. .... Ector County Records.
4. Handbook of Texas Online.
5. Savonne Giddens.
6. Ella Mae Burnett.
7. SSDI.
8. Death certificate.
9. Wife's birth date.
10. Gene Pool.
11. Martha Brown. .... Gene Pool.
12. Death certificate.
13. Savonne (Cox) Giddens.
14. census. .... Death certificate.
15. Erath County Marriage Certificate.
16. Census.
17. Jerry Tonroy.
18. Barbara Duke.
19. Tombstone.
20. Broderbund Family Archive #110, Vol. 1,
Ed. 7, Social Security Death Index: U.S., Date of Import: Jul 28, 2000,
Internal Ref. #1.111.7.57804.169.
21. Broderbund Family Archive #110, Vol. 1,
Ed. 7, Social Security Death Index: U.S., Date of Import: Jul 28, 2000,
Internal Ref. #1.111.7.57858.138.
22. Tombstone.
23. Cathy Levee.
24. A. L. Lindsey.
25. History of Springtown-Parker County.
26. 1870 Census.
27. DON GIDDENS- contributor. .... Evergreen
Lodge N39, IOOF, Canton, MS. .... Egan Giddens' letter.
28. Giddens Wild Guesses. .... Don Giddens' Wild
Guesses.
29. Evergreen Lodge N39, IOOF, Canton, MS.
30. census.
31. Don Giddens.
32. Marriage License.
33. Giddens' Lost Notes.
34. kdnel@aol.com. .... Ella Mae Burnett. ....
Census data. .... census.
35. Don Giddens. .... DON GIDDENS-
contributor. .... Census data.
36. Census data.
37. D. L. Adcock.
38. Letter from Fleta Bright 1904.
39. Family data collection.
40. Ann Nollsch.
41. Tombstone. .... Ann Nollsch.
42. 1880 Census.
43. Peggy Conley.
44. DON GIDDENS- contributor. .... Gene Pool.
45. DON GIDDENS- contributor. .... Ella Burnett.
46. Ella Burnett.
47. George Hawkins.
48. VA Marriages.
49. Valerie Simonton.
50. Mrs. Maurene Milson.
51. Rose Parks.
52. Liz Cox lijola@socal.rr.com.
53. Simonton-Allen.
54. Tombstone- thanks to Jerry Tonroy.
55. Joyce Willingham, GenForum.
56. David Earl Pinson. .... Moses Marion
Sanders of Alcorn MS, Gary B Sanders.
57. Moses Marion Sanders of Alcorn MS, Gary B
Sanders.
58. James M Sanders.
59. Robert P. Perkins.
60. John Q. Anderson, Campaigning with
Parson's Texas Calvary CSA.
61. Gary B Sanders.
62. Moses Marion Sanders of Alcorn MS.
63. Confederate Society of America.
64.
http://www.researchonline.net/txcw/battles.htm.
65.
http://www.posttexas.com/native_americans_in_garza_county.htm.
66. Texas Historical Commission.
67. Helen Skaggs, Val Alysten, TX 2001.
68. Bible Records.
69. Adam Linn Lindsey.
70. Family Bible.
71. Record of A. W. and Martha Wormington.
72. 1860 census.
73. 1850 U. S. Census.
74. Michael Jones.
75. Peggy A. Givens.
76. Keli Odom-Garcia. .... DON GIDDENS-
contributor.
77. Memorial and Biographical History of Ellis
County.
78. Family Search.
79. Family Search. .... Memorial and
Biographical History of Ellis County.
80. James Paul.
81. Jim Taylor Houston, TX transcriber.
82. John Turner, GenForum#20652 Williams.
83. gryphon@inna.net. .... Gene Pool.
84. TN Marriages to 1825.
85. Jeremy.
86. TN Marriages 1851-1900.
87. Ella Burnett. .... 1880 Census.
88. Giddens Wild Guesses.
89. Joyce WIllingham. .... Leila Eldridge
D'Aiutolo. .... Suzanne Tull-Stroup.
90. Mary Mastripolito.
91. Lesley Baird Prey.
92. Jenni Glass.
93. Joyce WIllingham. .... Ken Nehr.
94. Lovena Norton.
95. Vickie Pearson.
96. Candy Rockwood.
97. Jackie Leatham. .... Normand D Nelson. ....
Moses Marion Sanders of Alcorn MS. .... Gary B Sanders.
98. Franklin Genweb.
99. Adele Sanders Francis.
100. Burton-Sanders. .... Eugene D TIDWELL.
101. Sarrah M. Amos. .... International
Genealogical Index: British Isles.
102. Helen Nichols Battleson.
103. Eleanor Howell.
104. Bobbie Jo Pinson, Garland, TX.
105. Bible Records. .... A. L. Lindsey.
106. Carolyn, GenForum.
107. Susan Johnson. .... Family Bible.
108. Lawrence Barnett/Wormington Gen.
109. Beverly McNease.
110. Patton D Jr McHenry.
111. Bill Thompson.
112. Say-Jane Russell.
113. Census. .... Carolyn Waagen.
114. DON GIDDENS- contributor. .... Martha Jane
Gracey.
115. Don Giddens' Wild Guesses.
116. Martha Jane Gracey.
117. Virginia Paul ginnysq@pacwest.net.
118. Tom Stevenson. .... Virginia Paul
ginnysq@pacwest.net.
119. Family Search. .... Kelli Odum-Garcia.
120. Kelli Odum-Garcia. .... Memorial and
Biographical History of Ellis County.
121. Kelli Odum-Garcia. .... Kandsander.
122. SC Archives.
123. Richard Baker. .... Albemarle Parish Record,
Cited by Peggy A Givens.
124. 1790 census.
125. Will.
126. NC Marriage Bonds 1741-1868.
127. Robert Darville.
128. Paul R Sarratt Jr.
129. Ann Nollsch. .... Family data collection.
130. 1800 Census.
131. Michael Marshall.
132. Leila Eldridge D'Aiutolo. .... Beasley
carolinapetresscu@aol.com.
133. Leila Eldridge D'Aiutolo.
134. Lesley Baird Prey. .... Arleen Logan.
135. MIke Hobe.
136.
MIke Hobe. .... http://www.adupree.com/outlines/smithout.htm.
137. 44307.
138. Mary Carol Sheets. .... Family data
collection.
139. http://www.adupree.com/outlines/smithout.htm.
140. MA Town Marrriages.
141. Ken and Vickie Smith.
142. Melba Pierce.
143. Melanie Atkins.
144. Robin D. Bryson.
145. margaret14@prodigy.net>.
146. K Shumate.
147. John Lucas.
148. Kerry Gray.
149. Laura Buckmaster.
150. Sarrah M. Amos.
151. Harry W. Allred.
152. Sarrah M. Amos. .... Sarrah M. Amos.
153. Military Records: US Soldier 1784-1812.
154. Jackie Leatham.
155. Sarrah M. Amos. .... Will.
156. 1850 Census.
157. Will. .... Service records.
158.
Jennifer Ett.
159. Jerry Brown.
160. NC State Library.
161. DAR.
162. Howard Scroggins.
163. Kris Oleson.
164. Susan Johnson.
165. Madison Station.
166. KY Marriages to 1825.
167. Kenneth Tinkham.
168. Susan Monaghan.
169. Charles E Lewis.
170. Dorothy Williams Potter, Passports of
Southeastern Pioneers.
171. 1820 Census.
172. Charles Lewis.
173. Debbie Van Scoy.
174. Dorothy Atkins.
175. Doug
Lewis <thanks.
176. Peggy Seidler.
177. Giddens Wild Guesses. .... Don Giddens' Wild
Guesses. .... Virginia Paul ginnysq@pacwest.net. .... Wife's birth date. ....
1850 U. S. Census. .... 1850 Georgia Census.
178. DON GIDDENS- contributor. .... Roy Giddens.
179. Roy Giddens.
180. Barbara Callahan.
181. Giddens' Lost Notes. .... Don Giddens' Wild
Guesses.
182. Eugenia S. Rowe.
183. Moravians of NC.
184. Kelli Odum-Garcia.
185. Leonardo Andrea.
186. Jean Heather Wright of Australia. ....
Barbara McCormick.
187. PA German Pioneers.
188. Kirsa Sommersted.
189. Lyndell Storey.
190. SC Magazine of Ancestral Research. .... John
Turner, GenForum#20652 Williams.
191. Robert Williams.
192. DON GIDDENS- contributor. .... 1790 census.
193. DON GIDDENS- contributor. .... Peggy A.
Givens.
194. Don L. Giddens' Notes and Wild Guesses.
195. Martha Mulford.
196. Brian Brooks.
197. Carroll Smith.
198. Barbara Breeding<THANKS.
199. Kezziah <Thanks. .... 274418.ged
<Thanks.
200. Kezziah <Thanks.
201. 274418.ged <Thanks.
202. Pension application.
203. Holloways of the South.
204. Douglas Brent Holloway.
205. VA Marriages before 1824.
206. County Records.
207. Ann Blomquist.
208. William and Mary Quarterly.
209. Bob Newsome.
210. 1800 Census. .... David Roberds.
211. David Roberds.
212. Sharon M Campbell.
213. Lesley Baird Prey. .... Beasley
carolinapetresscu@aol.com. .... Will.
214. Lesley Baird Prey. .... Beasley
carolinapetresscu@aol.com.
215. Leila Eldridge D'Aiutolo. .... Ann Dean.
216. Beasley carolinapetresscu@aol.com.
217. Giddens' Wild Guesses.
218. Teresa Sparks.
219. http://www.adupree.com/outlines/smithout.htm.
.... All Saints, Yorkshire, England.
220. Jennifer Hankins.
221. 44307. .... Family data collection.
222. Linda Whorton.
223. Alerwick.
224. Bill Page.
225. "Hidden" <THANK YOU, HIDDEN.
226. Mary Scarborough.
227. Sharon Cords.
228. Chris Goodnight.
229. Sharon Cords. .... Chris Goodnight.
230. Debbie Koellein Settles.
231. A. Deason Smith.
232. Beth Johnson<THANKS.
233. Jackie Leatham. .... Jennifer Ett.
234. Laurel Fuson.
235. Henry Taylor.
236. Giddens' Wild Guesses.
237. Donahue.
238. Glendon L. and Mary Kennedy Stacks.
239. Family data collection. .... VA Christ Church
Parish.
240. Brøderbund Software, Inc, Family Archive
#17, Ed. 1, Birth Records: United States/Europe, Birth Records AAI Birth
Records Extraction (Release date: December 23, 1993), Internal Ref.
#1.17.1.21278.11. .... Family data collection.
241. VA Christ Church Parish.
242. Sherry Hooper.
243. Sherri Hooper.
244. Jane Bardwell, GenForum.
245. John B Milner.
246. Kay Roberts Martin.
247. Jeffrey L Martin.
248. Nancy Dillard Sewwhat333@aol.com.
249. Davis Brewer.
250. David Warren.
251. Irish Record Extraction Database.
252. Don Giddens' Notes and Wild Guesses.
253. Rebecca A Carr. .... Will.
254. Early Immigrants to VA 1500-1600's.
255. Ewing Family Information.
256. Edward Freelan Bryan.
257. Kenneth Tinkham. .... Susan Monaghan.
258.
http://www.rootsweb.com/~kymercer/wills/will-t.html.
259. Janis I Mason.
260. 1830 Census.
261. Helen L Smith Hoke.
262. (USGENWEB NOTICE: In keeping with our policy of providing free
information on the Internet, data may be freely used by non-commercial
entities, as long as this message
remains on all copied material. These electronic pages cannot be reproduced in any format for
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263. Lucy de Young. .... Virginia Paul
ginnysq@pacwest.net.
264.
kdnel@aol.com.
265. Susan Cranston.
266. Passenger and Immigration Lists...
267. Caryl and Suzie Lamont.
268. MIchael Pelter.
269. Encyclopedia of VA.
270. DAR.
271. National Huguenot Society.
272. Wayne Bouchillon.
273. James Simms. .... Brenda Huggins.
274. Family Search. .... James Simms.
275. Will.
276. Millennium File.
277. Pittsylvania County: VA History.
278. VA Marriages to 1800.
279. Regenia Buchanan.
280. DON GIDDENS- contributor. .... VA 1704 Rent
Rolls. .... Giddens Wild Guesses. .... Giddens' Wild Guesses.
281. Peggy A. Givens. .... DON GIDDENS-
contributor.
282. Terrance Richard Mills.
283. Wally Ewing.
284. Helen Sills.
285. Pat Breeding.
286. VA Genealogical Society Quarterly.
287. Jennifer Horne.
288. Robert Darville. .... Giddens Wild Guesses.
289. VA Colonial Records.
290. Becky McEntire.
291. Elizabeth Aarhus.
292.
Mark Tonn.
293. Suzanne Tull-Stroup.
294. Lesley Baird Prey. .... Beasley
carolinapetresscu@aol.com. .... Giddens' Wild Guesses. .... Don Giddens
2002.
295. 2622193. .... Dale Dietzman.
296. Will. .... Nancy Scott.
297. Dale Dietzman.
298. Nancy Scott.
299. Kae, Kay, Kea, Kee, Keie, Key, et alii.
300. Wright Electronic Geneaolgy Project (USGENWEB
NOTICE: In keeping with our policy of
providing free information on the Internet, data may be freely used by
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301. Alerwick. .... MA Town Birth Records.
302. Phila PA First Presby. Church.
303. Toby Hampton.
304. Kirk Larson. .... Normand D Nelson.
305. Kirk Larson.
306. Jennifer Ett. .... Kirk Larson.
307. A. Henderson Rupert.
308. Regina Bowman.
309. David C Plunkett.
310. Betty L Cash.
311. Patricia Hutchins.
312. David Pinson.
313. http://www.patch.net/deeds/db1-1.html.
314. Family Search. .... Jim Hudson.
315. VA Christ Church Parish. .... Family data
collection.
316. VA St. Peter's Parish Records.
317. Robert E Washburn Family Tree.
318. History of Hillsboro, VA.
319. RootsWeb.
320. Jeffrey L Martin. .... Source unknown.
321. Nancy Dillard Sewwhat333@aol.com. ....
gryphon@inna.net.
322. Carolyn Kyle.
323. Family Search. .... Rebecca A Carr.
324. Sandcastles.net/thomas.htm.
325. Brøderbund Software, Inc, Family Archive
#17, Ed. 1, Birth Records: United States/Europe, Birth Records AAI Birth
Records Extraction (Release date: December 23, 1993), Internal Ref.
#1.17.1.10390.35.
326. Judith Wormington Shannon, Wormington Book.
327. Judith Wormington.
328. Compendium of American Genealogy.
329. Tyrrell County, NC Probate Records.
330. Tom Turpin of Jefferson City, MO.
331. Pelt: Sally's Family Place.
332. Brenda Huggins.
333. Bob Quarles. .... Ella Burnett.
334. Bob Quarles.
335. Ella Burnett. .... Myra Quarles Brown.
336. DON GIDDENS- contributor. .... Family data
collection.
337. Don L. Giddens' Notes and Wild Guesses. ....
Susanmargaret. .... Mrs. Max Hand of Demopolis, AL. .... Family data
collection.
338. Mrs. Max Hand of Demopolis, AL.
339. Cavaliers and Pioneers.
340. DON GIDDENS- contributor. .... Mrs. Max Hand
of Demopolis, AL.
341. Susanmargaret. .... Don L. Giddens' Notes and
Wild Guesses.
342. Monte Marie Blacksten. .... Ernest Stanley.
.... Don L. Giddens' Notes and Wild Guesses.
343. Kathryn Gearhart. .... Family data collection.
344. Susanmargaret.
345. George Walter Gildersleeve
<paganel@teleport.com>.
346. Barbara Cunningham<THANKS!. .... Barbara
Cunningham barbjo@erols.com.
347. Susanmargaret. .... Pauline Hammond.
348. Don L. Giddens' Notes and Wild Guesses. ....
Gene Pool.
349. Ernest Stanley.
350. Gene Pool. .... Don L. Giddens' Notes and
Wild Guesses. .... Family data collection.
351. Patricia Lowrie Hurst.
352. DON GIDDENS- contributor. .... Leslie
Ferguson.
353. David Burkhart. .... Family data collection.
354. Bill Wilkins. .... DON GIDDENS- contributor.
.... Family data collection.
355. David Burkhart.
356. Leslie Ferguson.
357. Clint Dillon.
358. VA Prominent Families.
359. Peggy A. Givens. .... Don L. Giddens' Notes
and Wild Guesses.
360. Bob Barker-Bylsma.
361. Virginia Phillips-Smith.
362. International Genealogical Index: British
Isles.
363. Jennifer Horne. .... Lynn M Stuter.
364. Leo B McDowell.
365. Barbara A Smith.
366. Brøderbund Software, Inc, Family Archive
#17, Ed. 1, Birth Records: United States/Europe, Birth Records AAI Birth
Records Extraction (Release date: December 23, 1993), Internal Ref.
#1.17.1.32795.7.
367. VA County Records.
368. Jeri Dearing- Genforum.
369. Donna Nell Basinger.
370. Lois & Dave Stephens.
371. Chalmers.
372. James C. Southall.
373. New River Notes.
374. Lori Wichman wichstrick@pdqnet.com.
375. Nancy Scott. .... 2622193.
376. 2622193.
377. Nancy Dillard Sewwhat333@aol.com. ....
Kerry Acker.
378. Sarah Sharpless.
379. William Faulkner.
380. MA Town Birth Records.
381. Jan Oldham.
382. The Great Migration.
383. Gary B Sanders. .... The Great Migration.
384. Wm R Ferris, Jr. .... Jan Oldham.
385. VA Land Company records.
386. Karen Smith.
387. David Buchroeder.
388. David L Donahue, Parsons, TN,
ddonahue@netease.net.
389. David C Plunkett. .... Betty L Cash.
390. Dale Biba.
391. James Lanier Poore. .... Family data
collection.
392. VA Biographical Dictionary.
393. VA St. Peters Parish Records.
394. Jeffrey L Martin. .... Kay Roberts Martin.
395. Deborah Shelton Wood.
396. Betty Qualls<THANKS. .... Davis Brewer.
397. Betty Qualls<THANKS.
398. Sondra Bateman.
399. Sandra Daniel <danielsg@hotmail.com.
400. Barbara Leedahl <barbron@inlink.com>.
401. <dwalker1@bellsouth.net. .... Al
Marin.
402. Al Marin.
403. Patty B White.
404. Bernard Howard.
405. Rebecca Mann.
406. Janis I Mason. .... Christiane Roque.
407. Christiane Roque.
408. Rockaway Records of Morris County, New
Jersey, Families.
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