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| 1351 | From "Tracking Your Roots": HUBBARD, William D CRUMPTON, Caroline Dec 05 1835 | Hubbard, William D. (I8602)
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| 1352 | From "Virginia Genealogies", by Rev. Horace Edwin Hayden, pg. 75-76, under the line of Margaret Ball and Rawleigh Downman: "The following is from a very old paper found among the Ball records in the possession of Miss J. R. D. It may be mere tradition: 'When the Saxtons and the Danes invaded England, there was three families joined themselves together and spent a great part of their fortunes in raising what force they could to defend their country and they eventually gained the victory when their battle was over ye King gave Each family A Coat of arms the first had three bleeding hearts ye second had three sheaves of wheat the third had hart stuck with two darts my father's great grandfather gave Great assistance to the building up of a Catherdral Church in plemoth his name was set in the wall. William Downman a Great rememberer of the poor. But I beleave that may be down by this time my Grand father went to perbadus (Barbadoes) and lived at a place called Spikeres (?) my father was left his Estate a youth having more money than he had wit to keep at that time there was some that had run themselves in debt and persuaded him to be their security which he readily agreed to and for a large sum of money not considering the ill Consequences that attended it so many had done that.' To this paper another hand has added: 'Rawleigh Downman, the young son, not being so provided as his father, ran through the large part of his estate, and moved to Bermuda thence to Lanc'r Co., VA, 1653 He m. _____ Travers, and having somewhat repaired his fortune, died 1682, leaving a son, Rawleigh , who married Margaret Ball, and a daughter, Mrs. Pinchard'. Mr. Rawleigh Downman's part of Mr. Pinckhard's estate was two negroes and articles valued at 103 pounds.16.8. I find nothing to confirm this tradition as to the arms, or the church at Plymouth. Later research may discover the correctness of the tradition. The name Downman early appears in VA. Among 'the living', Feb 16, 1623 at Elizabeth City were John Douneman and Elizabeth Douneman. (Col. Rec. #52). This John was Burgess from E(lizabeth) City, Oct 16, 1629. 'When a boy he came to VA, 1611, married a maid sent out in 1621 in the Warwich' ( VA Car. 74). William Downman, Gent, was among the second supply to VA 1608 (Arber's Smith 129). William Downman, Nov 15, 1652, bought of Ben Powell a patent of 100 a(cres) in Corotoman, called 'Harwood' (L. 216). The estate of William Downman and Dorothy Downman was appraised by Thomas Hacket and Edwin Conniway (Conway) 165-. The name Rawleigh is so frequent in this line that in the absence of dates it is impossible to locate those who bear it. 'I have heard my father say that there were three Rawleigh Ds. living at one time in the same neighborhood in what is now Richmond Co. They were all cousins and cousins of my Grandfather Rawleigh (J.R.D.)'. It is probable that I, Rawleigh D., of Lancaster Co., VA of 1653, who married _____ Travers had ii. Margaret, who married c. 1675 Capt. William Ball, and iii. Rawleigh who had iv. Rawleigh m. c. 1715 Margaret Ball, his cousin, supra, v. Eliza,, who married Thomas Pinchard, below, and vi. William, executor of his brother Rawleigh, of whom the above paper makes no mention. This William may have been father of Travers Downman (I.) Dec 23, 1747, Grace Ball (pg. 67), and II, Dec. 30, 1764, Ann Heath Conway (Conway 14); also of William who married Agnes, dau. of Major Field Archer, of Chesterfield (Critic ii.34). Robert Downman, M.D., grad. Univ. Edinburgh 1798; thesis, 'De Puerperam peritonitide,' 2 plates, p. 48, 1798. A Downman whose name does not appear had ----. I. William, who had the following children: i. Eliza, m ____Smyth of Auston, TX.; ii. Sallie C. who m. _____ Brown and had 12 children. Of these, F. R. Brown of Littleton, VA wrote me May 13, 1889, 'My mother has been dead 18 months. I do not know anything of the family beyond my grandfather'; iii. Lucy. II. Mildred m. Thomas Ball, whom I cannot place; III. Elizabeth m. Maj. Stokley Towles. In 1781 Rawleigh Downman II dies at Morattico Plantation, followed in death slightly more than a year later by his wife. Both are buried in the peach orchard close to the house. Their son, Joseph Ball Downman, inherits Morattico Plantation. Letter from William Downman to his brother: "Mr. Raleigh Downman at Joseph Ball's Esqr in Stratford by bow, near London", dated "Virga Rappk, May 16, 1752", states that "his wife, mother and all ower friends are well"; "Miss Elizabeth Chichester & Mr William Glascock was married ye 7th of Febr last", has no offer for tobo as yet, but expects by June ye market will rise; thinks 17s. cash at 30 per cent is almost as good as 13s.p. Bills Exchange; his little boy Raleigh "is often talking about his uncle", "Majr George Glascock & Mrs. Sarah Chinn are dead. Michell Dillon got a fall from his horse and died"; "the exr of Hew Brent deced cant discharge his debt till you prove your account". "I was with Mrs Pinkard to know where our great grandfather Downman lived, and she told me she believed that he lived in Plymouth; if you git ye Coat-of-Arms do send me a seal of it"; "My wife joynes with me in Love to you and my sister, not forgiting our little nease". [William and Mary College Quarterly Historical Magazine, Vol. 3, No. 1. (Jul., 1874), pp. 13-18.] | Downman, Rawleigh II (I1735)
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| 1353 | From articles written by Dr. Chalmers Davidson, Davidson College: Jane Knox was the daughter of Robert and Mary Ewart Knox of Lincoln County, both of whom are buried in Unity Presbyterian churchyard now on Lake Norman. Robert was not rich but in his will he left his wife Mary "all my books, to dispose of as she may think proper among my children." His estate was to be divided amongst eight of his children. To the ninth, his daughter "Jane Latta," he left only five dollars. Jane was not disinherited, but, by 1833 when her father died at the age of ninety-one, she was considerably better off than the rest of the family. Robert had left her a fine heritage of patriotism and integrity. He had fought through the Revolutionary War and so had the Ewarts who were prominent Whig leaders. Jane Knox connected herself with the Presbyterian church when but 14 years of age and always lived in accordance with her profession. There were meager opportunities for the education of girls in the back county after the Revolutionary War and Jane's formal schooling was limited, but she came from a family which stressed "learning" and she was better advantaged than many of her sex and time. Years later when her daughters reached their teens, they were sent away to the Moravian school at Salem for opportunities which were not to be had on the Catawba River. James Latta's travels as a merchant from Salisbury, North Carolina to Yorkville, South Carolina appear to have led to his introduction to Jane Knox of Lincoln County. He was a widower with two small sons, but he was growing reasonably wealthy. The marriage bond in Lincoln County for Jane Knox and James Latta is dated April 12, 1796. Where they were living when Betsy, their first child was born on February 7, 1797 is not known. By then end of the century, James Latta was building his substantial home place, still standing two and a half miles west of Hopewell Church on the Catawba River. It was a fine house for its day with elaborate woodwork trim and mantels made by an unknown craftsman who appears to have aalso worked on the original Torrance house/store. Most farmers were still building houses out of logs, but James Latta built a frame house... Latta Place was not a scene of frivolity but must have been a happy home while Betsy, Nancy, and Polly Latta were growing up. Of one thing we may well be sure: they spent every Sabbath day at Hopewell when they were at home. There were usually two long sermons, one in the morning and one in the afternoon....The meeting house was somewhat barn like, but on the inside there were high seats and low seats to distinguish between those of high estate and the more common class of people. Of a certainty, Jane Knox Latta occupied a high seat. Jane Latta may have occasionally taken trips to Philadelphia with her husband. Tradition has it that he was not easy to live with. On October 30, 1837, at the age of eighty-two he died and was buried at Hopewell. Latta Place was too isolated a location for Jane Latta to remain there alone. Perhaps had little Ezekiel lived, she would not have left it. Under the circumstances, it was offered up for sale and she moved to a small house across from her son-in-law's Mount Mourne Plantation to help rear her grandchildren. Religion was the solace of her old age as it had been the joy of her youth. She lived into her eighty-ninth year. Toward the end of her life she wrote to a granddaughter, "I live very much alone but I can see no help for it, they are all very good in coming and staying with me when they can. There is nothing so dear in this world to me as my grandchildren. Their welfare, for time and eternity, is my prayer both day and night." The War between the States was almost over before she died. She had spanned the years between the two American revolutions. Her death occurred on July 1, 1864. She was taken back to Hopewell for burial , and on her tombstone is the following tribute to her lasting influence: | Knox, Jain (Jane) Allison (I5216)
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| 1354 | From Ezra's Will - "Item; I give and bequeath to my son James Alexander a parcel of land on the East side of Little Sugaw Creek beginning at the Northwest corner of the old field that lies on the East side of the Creek and running west to the Creek, thence down the Creek and down the skirts of the high land so as to include the bottom as far down as my land extends down the said Creek, thence by the hickory corner which stands in the old field and thence East as far as my land extends and all the land included in my lines South of these boundaries." Burial record for Alexander, James Polk Family Cemetery Last Name First Name Middle Name Maiden Name Birth Date Place of Birth Death Date Place of Death Burial Location Family Information Comments Alexander James ? / ? / ? 10/18/1804 son of Ezra Alexander Aged 39 years | Alexander, James (I8818)
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| 1355 | From Magna Charta Barons and Their American Descendants, pg. 88: "........Robert-bossu de Bellomont, or Beaumont, second Earl of Leicester, d. 1167, a stanch adherent of Henry I. and of the interests of Henry II., upon whose accession to the throne he was constituted Justiciary of England, son of Robert the Consul, Earl of Mellent, who was created, in 1109, Earl of Gloucester, a natural son of King Henry I....." (Source: Billy Polk) | Of Beaumont, Robert Bossude II (I8689)
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| 1356 | From the Abbeville Banner-Anderson Gazette, Abbeville, SC, 6 Mar 1856: "Departed this life, January 24th, 1856, Mr. James Herron, at his residence in Tippah Co., MS, in his 85th year. He was for eighty years a citizen of Abbeville and Anderson Districts., SC". It is possible that the Luther Lee Herron line came through either of the two sons of James & Jane Simpson Herron, 1) John, or 2) James Francis. That has yet to be determined through DNA testing. | Herron, James Francis (I641)
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| 1357 | From The Glas(s)cock - Glassco Saga: "Capt. William and his brother Major George proceeded to build up their estates to acquire a prominent position in the society of the day. On April 13, 1726 Maj. George Glascock married Judith Ball, daughter of his neighbor Col. William Ball, and two years later his brother Capt. William Glascock married her cousin Esther Ball, daughter of Capt. Richard Ball of St. Mary's Chapel. The girls were 1st cousins. Their fathers were 1st cousins of Mary Ball who married Augustine Washington, the parents of Geo. Washington, so they were both 2nd cousins of George Washington." Virginia Genealogies, by Rev. Horace Hayden, page 63: Esther Ball married Capt. Wm. Glasscock on May 10, 1728 and had 5 sons & 6 daughters. Pg. 47: President George Washington's mother, Mary Ball Washington, is listed as grand daughter of Col. William Ball. Early Va. marriages 929.3 C Lancaster Co. page 50: lists April 10, 1728 (Capt.) Wm. Glasscock of Richmond Co. & Esther, dau of Sarah Ball. Apparently Capt. William and Esther lived in the house at "Indian Banks" after their marriage in 1728, but both he and Maj. George were associated with the area from then on and the Farnham Parish records contain many births, marriages & deaths of their descendants for several generations. From these two men descended many prominent Virginia Glascocks. In 1730 Capt. William was appointed as Commission of Peace for Richmond Co. | Glascock, William I (I110)
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| 1358 | From the line of Walter Fitz Alan, "the Great", 1st High Steward of Scotland, begins the Dynasty Stewart's. (Dapifer Regis Scottiae). Benefactor of the Knights Templars. Founder of Paisley Priory 1164. Received Grant of Lands from David I, ratified by Malcolm IV. | Of Scotland, Walter Fitz Alan (I5858)
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| 1359 | From usgwarchives.net Coweta Co GA 12th Battalion Georgia Light Artillery - Co A File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by George H. Watkins,(vickipw@gmail.com) Wilson Joseph N., Pvt., Enlisted 5/1/62, Newnan, AWOL 12/63, Wounded 7/9/64 Monocacy, MD, 11/1/64 listed as on furlough. PR Applied Carroll Co 8/18/19. Born 1842 in GA, resided in GA all his life. Wounded rt arm Monocacy, sent to hospital Lynchburg, VA. Given 60 day furlough from Lynchburg. Furlough was renewed by Dr. Devine of Newnan Hospital. After becomming able to return, was cut off from my command by the Enemy. Became a member of Lavender Ray's Company made up in Coweta and Carroll Cos. Never able to get back to the command. Wittness' John B. Goodwin of Newnan, and John N. Austin of Sargent, both present at surrender. Joseph died 7/6/27, Widow Fannie A. Wilson, they were married 9/5/05 Carroll Co at home of J.G.W. Lassetter near Villa Rica. | Wilson, Joseph Nathaniel (I11239)
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| 1360 | From: Atlas of the Cumberland Pioneer Settlements 1779 - 1804 North Carolina Grants : Land Grant officials: Martin Armstrong - Surveyor Continental Line, Daniel Smith - Davidson County Surveyor and Samuel Barton - Entry Officer. The following men were designated Deputy Surveyors: William Black, Anthony Bledsoe, William Bowman, Henry Bradford, Joseph Brock, John Buchanan, Justinian Cartwright, William Christmas, William Crutcher, John Davis, John Dickson, William Dobbins, John Donelson, William Donelson, Robert Ewing, Anthony Foster, Squire Grant, Edward Guinn, David Hay, Robert Hays, Edwin Hickman, Thomas Hickman, Daniel James, Thomas Johnson, William Lytle, John Mann, William Maslin, Samuel McCutchan, David McGavock, Ephraim McLean, Thomas Molloy, Samuel Moore, John C. Mountflorence, James Mulherin, William Murray, Robert Nelson, John Payton, Benjamin William Pollock, Isaac Roberts, Henry Rutherford, James Sanders, Robert Searcy, David Shelby, Moses Shelby, Duncan Stewart, Howel Tatum, William Terrell, Samuel Thornton, David Vance, George W. Walker, Robert Weakley, Sampson Williams, David Wilson & George Winchester Pioneer Grants - 1,467 North Carolina land grants issued to 847 men and women. Images of each grant & surveyor plats included as well as transcriptions - each placed on modern day maps which are located in the Volume I Atlas. Locations shown are directly from the surveyor and are intended to show general locations. Many grant lines were often disputed and were only resolved later in the court systems. What we show does form the base for further examination with subsequent deeds as to more precise placements, should that level of detail be desired. James Adams & Archibald Clinton, George Alexander, William Alexander, Alexander Allen, George Allen, Peggy Allen, Samuel Allen, David Allison, William Allison, John McCoy Alston, Thomas Amas, David Ambrose, Daniel Anderson, Matthew Anderson, Richard Andrews, Baker Archer, Leticia Archer, Andrew Armstrong, Francis Armstrong, John Armstrong, Martin Armstrong, Martin Armstrong & Henry Bradford, Martin Armstrong & Anthony Crutcher, Martin Armstrong & Robert Ewing, Martin Armstrong & Thomas Johnson, Martin Armstrong & David Shelby, William Askew Benjamin Bailey, Charles Baker, John Baker, Lewis Barker, Thomas Barker, John Barrow, Redmon Dillen Barry, Samuel Barton, Andy Bay, David Beard, George Bell, Robert Bell, Jesse Benton, Thomas Berry, George Birdwell, George Dawson Blackmore, John Blackmore, Mary Blackmore, James Blair, John Blair, Samuel Blair, Anthony Bledsoe, Isaac Bledsoe, Frederick Blount, John Gray Blount, Reading Blount, Ezekiel Boggs, John Boggs, John & James Bonner, Stephen Boren, John Borin, James Bosley, Jacob Boston, William Bowen, Mary H. Bowen, John Bowers, Andrew Bowling heirs, William Bowman, Adam Boyd, Andrew Boyd, John Boyd, Robert Boyd, Jacob Braboy, Edward Bradley, James Bradley, Alexander Bradon, Andrew Breaky, James G. Brehon, James Brickell, William Brigance, David Brigham, George Briscoe, James Bristow, heirs of Henry Brizner, James Brown, John Brown, Lewis Brown, Thomas Brown, James Bryan, Morgan Bryan, Archibald Buchanan, John Buchanan, John Buchanan Jr., Samuel Buchanan, Samuel Bud, William Burgess, Isaac Burnham, Phillip Bush, William Bush, Isaac Butler, Archibald Butts, James Byrn James Crabtree, William Cage, Jesse Cain, John Callaway heirs, Charles Campbell, James Campbell, Minos Cannon, Stephen Cantrell, Charles Carter, Giles Carter, Joseph Cartwright, William Carvin, Robert Cartwright, James Cary, Jacob Castleman, William Caswell, William Cathey, Peter Catron, Phillip Catron, Richard Cavett, Daniel Chambers, Joel Chambless, John Cheek, Lardner Clark, Thomas Clark, William Clark, Thomas Clarke, Joshua Claxton, James Clendening, John Clendining, Peter Cloud, Jesse Cobb, Jesse Cobb & Ezekial Smith, Thomas Cocke, William Cocke, John Cockrell, John Coffery, Henry Coffey, William Cole, Spilley Coleman, William Collinsworth, Isaac Colson, Levi Colter, Abraham Coltrain, George Cook, Gabriel Cooley, Conrad Coon, Nicholas Coonrod, James Cootes, John Cordery, Joseph Cosway, John Cotton, Isham Coving heirs, Edward Cox, James Crabtree, William Crafford, Thomas Craighead, John Crain, Lewis Crain, Christian Crips, Andrew Crockett, James Crockett, John Crockett, John Crow, Anthony Crutcher, John Crutchfield, John Cummins James Daniel, George Darnold heir of Henry Darnold, John Daugherty, John Daves, Joshua Davis, John Deaderick, James Dean, Timothy Demumroe, Abraham Denney, David Denney, Thomas Denton, Robert Desha, John Dever, John Dickson & Haydon Wells, William Dillon, Charles Dixon, John Dixon, John Dixon & William Loggins, Tilman Dixon, Winn Dixon, John Dobbins, John Donahoe, James Donelly, John Donelson, John Donelson Sr., Spencer Donelson, Stockley Donelson, Stockley Donelson & William Terrell Lewis, Stockley Donelson & William Tyrrell, William Donelson, Thomas Donoho, Elmore Douglas, Edmon Douglass, Edward Douglass, Edward Douglass & Isaac Bledsoe, Edward Douglass & William Montgomery, Edward Douglass & Anthony Sharp, James Douglass, Reubin Douglass, William Douglass, Benjamin Drake, Benjamin Drake Sr., Cornelius Drake, Isaac Drake, John Drake, Jonathan Drake, John Draper, John Drew, John Duncan, Daniel Dunham, John Dunham John Eaton, John Eaton heir of Pinktham Eaton, Thomas Edmisson, William Edmiston, Thomas Edmunson, Frederick Edward, David Edwards, David Edwards, Forkner Elliott & Isaac Peterson, John Elliott, James Emmit, Andrew Ervin, Joseph Erwin, James Espy, Robert Espy, John Evans, Thomas Evans, Alexander Ewing, Robert Ewing, Samuel Ewing, Thomas Ewins William Faith, James Farr, Archibald Felts, Richard Fenner, Robert Fenner, Thomas Fenney, Joseph Ferebee, James Fergus, Joshua Fisher, Daniel Flanery, Joseph Fleming, Thomas Fletcher, William Fletcher, Benjamin Flood, Lazarus Floron, Richard Flowron, John Ford, John Foreman, Elias Fort, Josiah Fort, William Fort, William Fort & Howell Tatum, James Foster, George Francisco & Thomas Fletcher, James Franklin, Daniel Frazer, George Frazer, James Frazor, William Frazor, Joseph Frebee, George Freeland, Samuel Freeman, Abraham Fulkison, Christopher Funkhouser John Galloway, Edmond Gamble, Samuel Ganer, Nicholas Gentry heirs, Jordan Gibson, Robert Gilkey, George Gillaspie, James Gillaspie, Thomas Gillespie, William Gillespie, Charles Gilmore, Joshua Gist, Robert Givens, Thomas Givings, James Glasgow, James Glasgow, Michael Gleaves, James Godfrey, Andrew Goff,Robert Goodloe, Tobias Goodman, John Gowen, William Gowen, Elijah, Elisha & William Gower, William Graham, John Grant, Francis Graves, Dr. James Green, Robert Green, William Green heirs, Zachariah Green, William Gubbins, William Gubbins, William Gwin Joshua Hadley, Elijah Hamilton, John Hamilton, Thomas Hamilton, Adam Hampton, Samuel Handley, Roddy Hannah, Thomas Hardiman, Benjamin Hardin, John Hardin, Abraham Harges, John Hargrove, Selby Harney, Selby Harney & Anthony Bledsoe, Peter Harrell, Edward Harris, John Harris, Dempsey Harrison, James Harrison, Jesse Harrison, Barnet Harrod, Anthony Hart, David Hart, Daniel Haw, Hugh Hays, James Hays, Nathaniel Hays, Robert Hays, "Robert Hays, Thomas Overton, James Montflorence & John Overton," Samuel Hays, William Head, Amos Heaton, Amos Heaton heirs, Robert Heaton, John Henderson, Pleasant Henderson, John Henley, David Henry, Hugh Henry, Thomas Henry, "William, Isaac & John Hickison heirs of John Hickison," Edwin Hickman, Thomas Hickman, Green Hill, John Hinds, Francis Hodge, Daniel Hogan, Edward Hogan, Humphrey Hogan, John Hogan, Lemuel Hogan, Richard Hogan, William Hogan, James Hogett, William Holderness, Nathaniel Holley, James Hollis, William Hood, Absalom Hooper, Joshua Howard, Henry Howdyshall, Zebulon Hubbard, William Hughlet, William Hughlett, David Hughs, Elisha Hunt, James Hunt, Thomas Hutchings, Chamberlin Hutson John Ingles, Andrew Irwin, Robert Irwin, Thomas Isbell, Curtis Ivey Daniel James, William Jamieson, Thomas Jeffreys, William Jenkins, Edmund Jennings, William Jennings, William Jimmerson, Henry Johnson, Isaac Johnson, Thomas Johnson, John Johnston, Lancelet Johnston, William Johnston, Abraham Jones, Allen Jones, Benjamin Jones, Daniel Jones, David Jones, David Jones & Duncan Stewart, Lazerus Jones, Shadrack Jones, David Kanady, Robert Kearr, Matthew Kerkendall, Thomas Kilgore, Jacob Kimberland, Michael Kimberland, Matthew Kincannon, Robert King, Edmund Kirby, John Kirk, John Kissinger, Jane Kuykendall, Joseph Kuykendall, Matthew Kuykendall, Benjamin Kuykindall, Simon Kuykindall Aron Lambert, James Lanier, John Lantham, Edward Larymore, Christian Lash, William Lauderdail, Adam Lawrence, David Laws, James Lee, George Leeper, James Leeper, Mary & Margaret Lefever, James Lenear, Joel Lewis, Samuel Lewis, Seth Lewis & George Walker, William T. Lewis & William Tyrrell, William Terrel Lewis, William Terrell Lewis, Isaac Lindsay, James Linear, Hezekiah Linton, William Linton, Pleasant Lockett, John Lockhart, Benjamin Logan, William Loggins, Nehemiah Long, David Looney, Peter Looney, John Love, Josiah Love, Robert Love, Thomas Love, Henry Loving, Marvel Lowe, Leonard Loyd heirs, Benjamin Lucas, William Lucas, Hugh Luttrell, Adam Lynn, Archibald Lytle, William Lytle James Mabene, William MacLean, William Madry, Hugh Magary, Jarrott Manefee, Jonas Manefee, John Mann, George Mansker, Kasper Mansker, James Mares, John Marshall, William Marshall, Samuel Marson, Bastian Martin, George Martin, James Martin, Joseph Martin, Thomas & Samuel Martin, William Maslin, Charles Masterson, Mussenden Mathews, Ambrose Maulden, Molton Mauldin, George Maxwell, Jesse Maxwell, William & Moses Maxwell, James Mayfield heirs, Southerlin Mayfield, Arthur McAdone, Arthur McAdow, James McCaferty, James McCain, Alexander McCall, Nathaniel McCann, Jacob McCarty, Matthew McCawley, William McClure, Robert McConnel, Spruce McCoy, Samuel McCraw, Robert McCray, James McCrory, Thomas McCrory, James McCuistion, Robert McCulloch, James McCutchan, Samuel McCutchan, Magnus McDonald, Josiah McDowd, Joseph McDowell, James McFadden, James McFarlin, Morgan McFarlin, Thomas McFarlin, David McGavock, James McGavock, William McGavock, James McKadon, James McKain, Alex McKey, Ephraim McLean, John Russel McIlheke, Daniel McMahan, Domnick McMoren, John McMurry, Samuel McMurry, Thomas McMurry, John McMurtry, John McNairy, James McNear, James McNees, John McPherson, David McRee, George McWhirter, William McWhirter, Alexander Mears, William Medlock, Thomas Meginson, James Mences, Jonas Menefee, Randol Mills, John Milner, Benjamin Miness, William Mitchell, Thomas Molloy, James Montgomery, John Montgomery & Martin Armstrong, Robert Montgomery, William Montgomery, James Moore, Gen'l James Moore, Robert Moore, Samuel Moore, William Moore, Bennet Morgan, John Morgan, William Morrison, John Morrow, Samuel Mosley, John Motheral, James Cole Mountflorence, James Mulherin, John Mulherin, Daniel Mungle, Hardy Murphree, Hardy Murfree, Archibald Murphy, Thomas Murray, William Murray Sarah Nash heiress of Francis Nash, William Nash, Alexander Neeley, William & Samuel Neeley, Isaac Neeley, Alexander Nelson, Robert Nelson, George Nevil, George Neville, William Newell, John Nicholas, John Nichols, John Nichols, Samuel Nicholson heirs, Mark Noble, Thomas Norris Andrew Oliver, William Overall, William Overall & Martin King, John Overton Josiah Pain, Samuel Parker, David Pasmore, Thomas Patton, George Payne, Josiah Payne, Matthew Payne, Peter Payner, Ephraim Payton, John Payton, John Pearce, Isaac Pennington, Jacob Pennington, Constant Perkins, Sion Perry, Caleb Phifer, Martin Phifer, Jonathan Phillips, John Phillips, Mann Phillips, Philip Phillips, Richard Phillips, Thomas Phillips, John Pickle, George Pirtle, Ezekiel Polk, William Polk, David Pooe, Benjamin Porter heirs, John Porter, John Porterfield, James Powers, Sincler Prewit, Jonathan Price, Robert Prince, James Purdie, Thaney Purnal, William Purnell John Rains, Allen Ramsey, Henry Ramsey, Josiah Ramsey, William Ramsey, James Ray, Lewis Realing, Dennis Rearden, William Reasons, Samuel Reditt, Jesse Reed, Alexander Reid, James Renfroe, William Renfroe, James Rentfro, Peter Rentfro, John Rice, John Rice & John Sapington, Jacob Richards, John Richardson, George Ridley, Isaac Right, Lewis Robards, Isaac Roberts, Elijah Robertson, Elisha Robertson, James Robertson, James Randolph Robertson, Mark Robertson, Charles Robeson, Jacob Rochel, Hugh Rogan, Benjamin Rogers, Horatio Rolls, Joseph Ross, William Ross, David Rounsaval, William Rowan, James Rowland, Jordan Rozier heirs & Duncan Stewart, Henry Rule James Russell, Henry Rutherford, James Sanders, James Sanders & Isaac Bledsoe, James Sanders Jr., William Sanders, Samuel Sanford, William Saunders, Ransom Savage, Miller Sawyer, Thomas Sawyer John Sawyers, John Sayers, James Saylor, George Scott, George Scott & Ralph Fleming, James Scott, John Scott, Marmaduke Scott, Matthew Sellers, Jeremiah Sexton, Philip Shackler, Morris Shane, David Shannon, Robert Shannon, Anthony Sharp, Michael Shaver, James Shaw, Robert Shaw, David Shelby, Evan Shelby, Evan Shelby & John Montgomery, Isaac Shelby, Moses Shelby, David Shelton, Benjamin Sheppard, Nancy Sheppard, William Sheppard, Peter Sides, Thomas Simpson, William Simpson, Jeremiah Smith, John Smith, Michael Smith, Oliver Smith, Robert Smith, Thomas Smith, Daniel Smith, William Smith, James Snell, William Snoddy, Thomas Spencer, Thomas Sharp Spencer, Absolom Spyers, John Standley, William Stearn, Robert Steele, John Stephenson & John Payton, Duncan Stewart, John Stewart, William Stewart, William Stolcop, Michael Stoner, William Story, William Stuart, Thomas Stubblefield, Zachariah Stull, Christopher Stump, Frederick Stump, James Summers, James Surlock Adam Tate, William Tate, Howell Tatum, Howell Tatum & George Walker, Howell Tatum & Henry Wiggin, Tatum & Wiggins, James Tatum, Archibald Taylor, John Taylor, Thomas Taylor, Isaac Thomas, John Thomas, Richard Thomas, Andrew Thompson, Charles Thompson, James Thompson, Jason Thompson, John Thompson, Robert Thompson, Thomas Thompson, Yancy Thornton, Ebenezer Titus, James Todd, John Topp, Roger Topp, Phillip Trammel, James Trayner, Spellier Trebell, James Trousdale, John Tucker, William Turnbull, Jacob Turner, Henry Turney, Peter Turney, Jesse & James Turpin, Solomon Turpin, Solomon Turpin Heirs, William Tuton, William Tuttle, Daniel Twigg, William Tyrrell, William Tyrrell & William Lytle Elijah Vance, John Vance, Samuel Varner, Thomas Venus George Walker, George Walker & John Deaderick, George Walker & Seth Lewis, John Walker, Phillip Walker, Samuel Walker, William Walker, William Walton, William Washington, Micajah Watson, Polly Weakley, Robert Weakley, Daniel Welburn, Haydon Wells, Charles Wheaton, James White, John White, Solomon White, Thomas White, William White, Blunt Whitnell, William Whitsell, William Wikoff, William Wikoff & Eusebrus Bushnell, William Wikoff & Lardner Clark, Moses Wilkerson, Isaac Willcocks, Daniel Williams, John Williams, John Pugh Williams, Nathaniel Williams, Oliver Williams, Sampson Williams, Sampson Williams & John Boyd, Turner Williams, Willoughby Williams, Zodock Williams, George Williamson, John Williamson, Matthew Willoughby, William Willoughby, David Wilson, David Wilson & John Dickson, James Wilson, John Wilson, Samuel Wilson heirs, David Winchester, James & George Winchester, Stephen Winchester, Thomas Winningham, Moses Winters, John Withers, Noah Woodard Simon Woodard, Thomas Woodard, Stephen Wright, Jones Wynn Daniel Young, Robert Young Jacob Zeglar, In writing about James Claxton (b ca. 1750), I am including information on four woman who appear to be very closely related to him. If you have you information or insights into these woman, and would like to have it included in Jamess story, I would enjoying from you. They are: Susannah Claxton, married to Stephen Evans (Appears to be a part of the Evans Clan of 1820 Overton County) Rebecca Claxton, married to John Shaver (son of Michael Shaver, a neighbor of James and Joshua Claxton in Sumner County) Mary Claxton, married to William Mohundro (Omohundro) (Married Granville Co, settled into Wilson, then Bedford counties; children followed Hiram Madison to Tippah Co. MS) Nancy Claxton, married to John Bachelor (Spelled a number of ways) (Later of Maury County TN) (Source: Email - Bill Clalxton - 12/2008) It's a Tax List INDEX In other words, they took several tax lists, and crunched them together and them created one master index. The *underlying* Tax lists still exist, and you can view them as they are, through an LDS microfilm request. These tax lists would tell you specifically what year the person is being taxed, and for what, such as One Poll, Three Horses, One Wagon, or whatever. It certainly would be worth your while to view these specific entries directly, since they show a lot more detail than what you're seeing now online. (Source: Will Johnson, Professional Genealogist Email from Claxton List, posted Jan 1, 2009: Dear Mr. Clarkson, My partner Jack Masters forwarded to me your email regarding Joshua Claxton. As to the specific grantees you ask about, we have several for Howell Tatum, most in Nashville. However two are in present Sumner about 4.5 miles north of Claxton's grant, on East Fork of Bledsoe. A third is in present Trousdale, on Goose Creek. We do not have William Green and Lewis Barker is far north on the Ky line. To find the others we would need first names as there are many, many different Wilsons, Paytons, etc. It looks like Tatum may be your key man. This leaves the intriguing question of Michael Shaver. His only deeded grant lies far west on Station Camp Creek at Long Hollow Pike. However, since Shaver was listed on the 1787 Sumner tax roll, since he was killed by Indians at Zieglers in 1792 and since Claxton's and another nearby deed below Ziegler list his grant, though not necessarily his deed, as a boundary we know something about him. We believe there was a major warpath approaching Bledsoe's Lick from a ford of the river near Hunter's Point and that it ran up a branch of Rocky Creek through Shaver (later Sampson Williams) and the land Claxton took after the Indian Wars. This is supported by an entry in Haywood (p415) mentioning the sighting of 'a party of fellows crossing the road between Bledsoe's Lick and Shaver's Cabin. We have found a deeply cut old road in this area. Thank you for the interesting article on Claxton. Bill Puryear James Claxton was the Bondsman for the marriage of Joshua and Susannah. | Claxton, James (I8870)
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| 1361 | From: "Lineage and Tradition of the Family of John Springs III", by Caroline Isabel Poole Jones. "Evan Shelby died in NC about 1813. Susan Shelby was left a widow, with a large family of children, who remembered hearing their mother tell of hardships and bitter experiences. She was often annoyed by Indians, Tories and British soldiers and often would go miles with her children to some place of safety, carrying the smaller children on her blind horse, 'Old Ball'. She never left north Carolina, and spent her last days with her daughter, Harriet." It is possible that Susanna Shelby is buried in the same cemetery as her daughter, Harriet, the Sugar Creek Cemetery, Mecklenburg Co., near Charlotte, NC. | Alexander, Susannah Polk (I3243)
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| 1362 | From: Abstracts of Deed Books 15-23, Mecklenburg County, North Carolina, 1794 - 1830 by Herman W. Ferguson, Rocky Mount, NC, 2001. p. 23: Recorded in Deed Bk. 23, p. 298: 25 Jan 1828, Samuel Knox & Jane N., his wife & John Knox & Hannah his wife, all of Lincoln County to Samuel Neely, Ezekiel C. Neely & Thomas B. Neely all of Mecklenburg for $767.42, the interest of the grantors in the lands of Saml. Neely, decd. Wit: John Hard, & Jos. Neely. Thomas J. Greer examined Jane and Hannah apart from their husbands and acknd that the ladies signed the deed voluntarily. Proven at Feb Court 1829. Reg. 21 Mar 1829. | Neely, Samuel (I3621)
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| 1363 | From; John Rosser's letter to Lyman Draper at the University of Wisconsin, Sept. 13, 1878 (Draper Mss VV, Vol. 13, p. 12).."The first one of them I ever heard of was John Knox, who was the father of ten sons and only one daughter, Mary Knox, and that daughter was my great-grandmother, and married Alexander McKee, who came from Pennsylvania. He married a 2nd wife - Blair of York. Of the ten brothers I have only heard of six who were in American, that was Samuel, David, John, James, Jack (or Joseph) and Matthew, of the two last I am not sure about the names. These six all Whigs in the Revolution. I have seen this in print when Mr. Polk was a candidate. Some of the brothers went to England to live, I was told settled in London." (From notes of Louise Pettus of Rock Hill, SC entitled "Samuel & Mary Knox, Steele Creek, Mecklenburg Co., NC. Compiled by Louise Pettus, a double descendant" (All information on this line, included in this database, is from The Steele Creek Historical and Genealogical Society, unless stated otherwise) We do know that Dr. John Knox and Florence Neely of Steele Creek were from the Knox/Craig line of Chester. The Chester line is documented in the book Heritage History of Chester County, SC, 1982. There are land grant records from the 1760 period indicating that John, Samuel, and Matthew had large acreage on the East side of the Catawba River in an area known as Johney’s Town. We know a lot about the family of John and Ann Knox from his will filed in Mecklenburg Will Book D, pp.122-123 CR 065.801.19. Their children were: James (1758-1842) who married Hannah McFalls; Samuel (1763-1833) who married Agnes Nancy; Matthew, Joseph, John, Sarah, Mary, Elizabeth and Ann. James and Samuel have Revolutionary War records. Joseph moved to Tennessee in 1815. Some of the descendants of Samuel (b 1763) are buried at Pleasant Hill Presbyterian Church. The Samuel and Mary Knox line is also well researched by Louise Pettus. Samuel’s daughters were Jane, Sarah, and Mary. They married into the Pettus and Candlish families. These families remained in the area, and the lines and descendants are well documented by deeds and wills in the NC archives. David Knox died a bachelor. Ms. Draper indicates he was known in his day as a bully who was fond of fisticuffs, fighting, and was hard to whip, reference Draper MSS. VV., Vol. 13, p. 12, John Rosser letter written September 13, 1878. At this time we do not have information on Robert’s descendants. | Knox, John (I3573)
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| 1364 | Fulton, Charles J., History of Jefferson County, Iowa: a record of settlement, organization, progress and achievement, Chicago; S.J. Clarke Pub. Co., 1912-1914, 945 pgs., Pgs 153-155, HeritageQuest Online Books: "Clarkson Ashmead - One by one the soldiers of the Civil War answer to the last roll call and pass on to join the greater army of the boys in blue, who have gone before. Clarkson Ashmead was among those who were spared to enjoy for many years the peace and prosperity which came to the country following the cessation of hostilities between the north and the south. Patriotism ever remained one of his dominant qualities, for he was as loyal to his country in times of peace as he was when he followed the nation's starry banner on the battlefields of the south. His birth occurred in Washington county, Pennsylvania, June 8, 1829, his parents being Samuel and Abigail (Milleson) Ashmead, who were natives of Maryland and Pennsylvania, respectively. The father was a farmer by occupation and for many years cultivated a tract of land in the Keystone state but in 1855 he left the east and came to Iowa, settling in Jefferson county. He purchased and improved a farm in Cedar township, continuing its cultivation until his death, and his wife also passed away upon the old homestead. Clarkson came to Jefferson county with his parents when a young man of twenty-six years. He had acquired his education in the schools of Pennsylvania and had afterward learned the carpenter's trade, at which he worked until he came to Iowa. He then took up farming in connection with his father, and following the latter's death, he rented a farm, which he operated for one year. At the end of that time he went to Missouri, where he purchased an improved tract of land, making his home thereon for ten years. He returned to Iowa and purchased a farm near Brookville, to the further development and cultivation of which he devoted his energies until 1901, when his children having married and left home and his own health being somewhat impaired he retired from the farm and moved to Fairfield, where his remaining days were passed, his death occurring in February, 1903. As an agriculturist he labored diligently and untiringly and had converted the once wild prairie into a productive tract, gathering large harvests as a reward of his persistent and practical methods. He kept everything about the place in a state of good repair and neatness, and thrift pervaded every part of the farm. On the 8th of January, 1852, Mr. Ashmead was married to Miss Jane McCutcheon, a daughter of John and Margaret (McCutcheon) McCutcheon, who though of the same name were not relatives. The father was born in Ireland and the mother in Pennsylvania. When he was but twelve years of age the family came to the new world, settling in the Keystone state, where he secured employment in the iron works of Pittsburg. Later he engaged in farming for a number of years and was a resident of that part of the country up to the time of his death, which occurred in the city of Pittsburg. His wife passed away in Brownsville, Pennsylvania. To Mr. and Mrs. Ashmead were born five children, two of whom died in Pennsylvania in infancy. Those still living are: Benson C., a resident farmer of Davis county, Iowa; Addie May, the wife of Moses B. Shelby, a resident farmer of the state of Washington; and Samuel J., who is also engaged in farming in Washington. While Mr. Ashmead devoted the greater part of his life to general agricultural pursuits he allowed nothing to interfere with what he considered his duty to his country in the dark days of the Civil war. Responding to the call for aid he enlisted as a member of Company E, Thirteenth Iowa Infantry and the hardships and rigors of war were such that his health became undermined and his death was really the result of his military experience. He held membership in the Grand Army of the Republic in connection with the post Batavia and he thus enjoyed meeting with his old comrades. He always voted with the republican party and his religious faith was that of the Methodist Church, to which his wife and family belonged. For many years he was a resident of Jefferson county and his good qualities were recognized by all with whom he came in contact. He worked earnestly and persistently in the cultivation and improvement of his farm, was ever willing to give his support to progressive measures for the benefit of the community and at all times cast his influence on the side of right, justice and truth. Mrs. Ashmead still survives her husband and now resides in a pleasant home, at No 406 W. Briggs street in Fairfield." 1850 United States Federal Census Name: Clarkson Ashmead Age: 21 Birth Year: abt 1829 Birthplace: Pennsylvania Home in 1850: Bridgeport, Fayette, Pennsylvania Gender: Male Family Number: 843 Household Members: Name Age Millison Carver 33 Catharine Carver 27 Sarah Carver 4 William Carver 2 Clarkson Ashmead 21 Benson Ashmead 21 U.S., Civil War Soldier Records and Profiles, 1861-1865 Name: Clarkson Ashmead Residence: Iowa Age at enlistment: 37 Enlistment Date: 4 May 1864 Rank at enlistment: Private State Served: Iowa Survived the War?: Yes Service Record: Enlisted in. Enlisted in Company E, Iowa 45th Infantry Regiment on 25 May 1864. Mustered out on 16 Sep 1864 at Keokuk, IA. Birth Date: abt 1827 Sources: Roster & Record of Iowa Soldiers in the War of Rebellion 1870 United States Federal Census Name: Clarkson Ashmead Age in 1870: 41 Birth Year: abt 1829 Birthplace: Pennsylvania Home in 1870: Des Moines, Jefferson, Iowa Race: White Gender: Male Post Office: Fairfield Household Members: Name Age Clarkson Ashmead 41 Jane Ashmead 38 Ida Ashmead 12 Benson Ashmead 6 1880 United States Federal Census Name: Clarkson Ashmead Age: 52 Birth Year: abt 1828 Birthplace: Pennsylvania Home in 1880: Des Moines, Clark, Missouri Race: White Gender: Male Relation to Head of House: Self (Head) Marital Status: Married Spouse's Name: Jane Ashmead Father's Birthplace: Pennsylvania Mother's Birthplace: Pennsylvania Occupation: Farmer Household Members: Name Age Clarkson Ashmead 52 Jane Ashmead 46 Benjamin Ashmead 17 (Benson) Samuel Ashmead 5 1900 United States Federal Census Name: Clarkson Ashmead Age: 70 Birth Date: Jun 1829 Birthplace: Pennsylvania Home in 1900: Locust Grove, Jefferson, Iowa Race: White Gender: Male Relation to Head of House: Head Marital Status: Married Spouse's Name: Jane M Ashmead Marriage Year: 1852 Years Married: 48 Father's Birthplace: Maryland Mother's Birthplace: Pennsylvania Household Members: Name Age Clarkson Ashmead 70 Jane M Ashmead 66 Samuel Ashmead 26 Nannie M Ashmead 17 Luther R Caser 57 Web: Iowa, Find A Grave Index, 1800-2012 Name: Clarkson Ashmead Birth Date: 8 Jun 1829 Age at Death: 73 Death Date: 10 Feb 1903 Burial Place: Fairfield, Jefferson County, Iowa, USA U.S., Civil War Pension Index: General Index to Pension Files, 1861-1934 Name: Clarkson Ashmead State Filed: Missouri and Iowa Widow: Jane Ashmead Roll Number: T288_13 | Ashmead, Clarkson (I11801)
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| 1365 | General Evan Shelby's eldest son, Isaac, governor of Kentucky, born in North Mountain, Maryland, 11 December, 1750; died near Stanford, Kentucky, 18 July, 1826, acquired a common English education, and the principles of surveying at Fredericktown, and before he was of age served as deputy sheriff of Frederick county. In 1771 he removed with his father to the present site of Bristol, Tennessee, and followed with him the business of herding cattle till 1774, when, being appointed lieutenant in his father's company, he served in the battle of Point Pleasant, which he was instrumental in winning. He commanded the fort at that place till July, 1775, when his troops were disbanded by Lord Dunmore, lest they should join the patriot army. During the following year he was employed at surveying in Kentucky, but, his health failing, he returned home in July, 1776, just in time to be at the battle of Long Island fiats. At the first furious onset of the savages, the American lines were broken, and then Shelby, present only as a volunteer private, seized the command, reformed the troops, and inflicted upon the Indians a severe defeat, with the loss of only two men badly wounded. This battle, and John Sevier's defence of Watauga, frustrated the rear attack by which the British hoped to envelop and crush the southern colonies. Soon afterward Governor Patrick Henry promoted Shelby to a captaincy, and made him commissary-general of the Virginia forces. When Sevier, in 1779, projected the expedition that captured the British stores at Chickamauga, Shelby equipped and supplied the troops by the pledge of his individual credit. In this year he was commissioned a major by Governor Thomas Jefferson, but, when the state line was run, his residence was found to be in North Carolina. He then resigned his commission, but was at once appointed to the colonelcy of Sullivan county by Governor Caswell. He was in Kentucky, perfecting his title to lands he had selected on his previous visit, when he heard of the fall of Charleston and the desperate situation of affairs in the southern colonies. He at once returned to engage in active service against the enemy, and, crossing the mountains into South Carolina, in July, 1780, he won victories over the British at Thicketty Fort, Cedar Springs, and Musgrove's Mill. But, as the disastrous defeat at Camden occurred just before the last engagement, he was obliged to retreat across the Alleghanies. There he soon concerted with John Sevier the remarkable expedition which resulted in the battle of King's Mountain, and turned the tide of the Revolution. For this important service he and Sevier received the thanks of the North Carolina legislature, and the vote of a sword and a pair of pistols. Having been elected to the general assembly, Shelby soon afterward left the army to take his seat, but, before he left, suggested to General Horatio Gates the expedition which, carried out by Morgan under General Greene, resulted in the victory at Cowpens. Being soon afterward recalled to South Carolina by General Greene, he marched over the mountains with Colonel Sevier and 500 men, and did important; service against the British in the vicinity of Charleston. In the winter of 1782-'3 he was appointed a commissioner to survey the lands along the Cumberland that were allotted by North Carolina to her soldiers, and this done, he repaired to Boonesborough, Kentucky, where he settled as a planter. He was a delegate to all the early conventions that were held for obtaining the separation of Kentucky from Virginia, and succeeded, in connection with Thomas Marshall and George Muter, in thwarting the treasonable scheme of General James Wilkinson and his associates to force Kentucky out of the Union and into an alliance with Spain. When, in 1792, Kentucky was admitted as a state, Shelby was almost unanimously elected its first governor. During nearly the whole of his administration the western country was in a state of constant irritation, in consequence of the occlusion of the Mississippi by Spain; but, by his firm and sagacious policy, this discontent was kept from breaking out into actual hostilities. Finally, by the treaty of 20 October, 1795, the Spaniards conceded the navigation of that river; and Shelby's term of office expiring soon afterward, he refused to be again a candidate, and returned to the cultivation of the farm which he had reluctantly left at what he deemed the call of his country. He subsequently refused all office except that of presidential elector, to which he was chosen six times successively under Jefferson, Madison, and Monroe; but, on the eve of the second war with Great Britain, his state again peremptorily demanded his services. Our first western army had been captured, Michigan was in the hands of the enemy, and the whole frontier was threatened by a strong coalition of savages, armed by Great Britain. Instinctively the people turned to Shelby, and he consented to serve as governor "if there should be a war with England." Organizing a body of 4,000 volunteers, he had them mounted on his own responsibility, and at the age of sixty-three led them in person to the re-enforcement of General William Henry Harrison, whom he joined just in time to enable that general to profit by the victory of Perry on Lake Erie. For his services in this campaign Shelby received a gold medal and the thanks of congress and of the Kentucky legislature. In March, 1817, he was tendered the post of secretary of war by President Monroe; but he declined, and never again held any office except that of commissioner for the purchase from the Chickasaws of their remaining lands in Tennessee and Kentucky. (Edited Appletons Encyclopedia, Copyright © 2001 VirtualologyTM)From the unpublished manuscript, Indian Atrocities Along the Clinch, Powell and Holston Rivers, page 17. After killing John Duncan at Moore's Fort the next strike of Logan, the Mingo Chief, was at the fort of General Evan Shelby, near the present Bristol. At this time General Shelby was away on the Lewis Expedition to Ohio. On October 6, 1774, the Indians captured a slave girl belonging to Shelby. In a letter dated October 9, 1774, Major Arthur Campbell reports the raid on Shelby's settlement in this manner: On last Thursday evening, ye 6th instant, the Indians took a Negro wench prisoner, belonging to Captain Evan Shelby, within 300 yards of his home. After they took her some distance, they examined her, asking how many guns were in the fort and other questions relative to the strength of the place. They asked her if the store was kept there now. After they had carried her off about a mile, they saw or heard a boy coming from the mill; they immediately tied the wench and went off to catch the boy. While they were gone the wench luckily got loose and made her escape. She says they knocked her down twice when she refused to tell in what situation the fort was; and she says one was a large man much whiter than the rest, and talked good English. It was the same kind of person Mr. Blackmore saw in pursuit of the Negro he relieved. (1) (1) Calender Virginia State Papers, Draper Mss 3 QQ. (Liberation of Georgia) Georgia militia were called on by Col. Isaac Shelby of North Carolina to assist in driving the British from an encampment at Musgrove's Mill on the Enoree River. Elijah Clarke answered this call with some 300 men, and helped Shelby rout the British foes on August 17, 1780. Clarke suffered a serious wound during the battle. His return trip took him through South Carolina, where he meted out justice to the Tory occupiers. Clarke returned home and after a brief rest reformed his brigade to attack Augusta. Clarke nearly succeeded in taking Augusta from Loyalist Thomas Brown, but was stymied when British Regulars arrived from Ninety-six in support of Brown's militia. Since the defeat of the Continental Army at Savannah the British had been trying to make inroads with the farmers in the Georgia backcountry. Repeated attempts to disarm those not trusted by the British and Tories met with little success. These soldiers and militia met Whig resistance with force, killing men, assaulting women and children, and destroying property. As Clarke returned from his near victory at Augusta he stumbled upon a group of some 400 backcountry women and children who were fleeing the ravages of these British and Tory soldiers. He and his men escorted them to the Watauga Valley of North Carolina (now Tennessee), firmly in the control of the Whigs whom he had aided at Musgrove's Mill. Clarke's militia then joined Thomas Sumter to win the battle of Blackstock (variously described as a ferry, a plantation or a farm), defeating Tarleton Banistre on November 20, 1780. Returning to Georgia his men dispersed for Winter. Spring would bring better news. Listed in the Battle of King's Mountain: Shelby, David Shelby, Evan Jr., Major Shelby, Isaac, Colonel Shelby, James, Captain Shelby, John Shelby, John, Captain Shelby, Moses (w) Shelby, Moses, Captain Shelby, Thomas The oldest, and for this reason, the most noted of the Kentucky estates, is Travelers Rest--The Shelby homestead. The first certificate of settlement and pre-emption granted by the Governor of Virginia was to Isaac Shelby for raising a crop of corn in the county of Kentucky, in the year 1776, on the land which Shelby made his farm in 1780. The name Travelers Rest was given to this grant on account of its being the resting place of all the early settlers on their way into "settlements" and the camping grounds for the friendly Indians who were passing to and fro, to treat and trade with the whites. Isaac Shelby always supplied the Indians with corn when they camped on his place and treated them otherwise so well that he was known amongst them as "old King Shelby" The charred remains of the old oak tree still stands near which they always camped, under which several noted treaties were signed. Travelers Rest is in Lincoln County - One of the original counties into which Kentucky was divided in 1760 by the legislature of Virginia, and is five miles from Danville, the first capital of Kentucky before it was a state. Here were erected the first courthouse and jail- both built of logs. It was in this courthouse that the numerous conventions were held to consider and decide upon the expediency of a separation of Kentucky from Virginia and to petition Congress for admission of the new state into the federation by the name of Kentucky which was done n the 4th Feb 1791. In accordance with the provisions of the Constitition of the State, Isaac Shelby was two years after declared Governor, and again in 1813, when past seventy, he was solicited to become a candidate, and only consented on the condition (so honorable to his love of country) that the United States were involved in war. He was elected. In answer to a call for volunteers in the Summer of 1813 Governor Shelby placed himself at the head of 4,000 men, who he commanded in the decisive battle of the Thames. He was awarded a sword by his State for his gallant conduct, and a resolution was introduced in Congress, assigning a gold medal to him and General Harrison - His ranking officer. Owing to some prejudice against the latter, the vote was delayed on session on learning this, Governor Shelby requested his friends in Congress- Mr Clay and Col. Richard M Johnson, to permit no expression of thanks unless he was associated with General Harrison. The vote was passed at the next session and awarded a medal to each. In General Harrisons report to the Secretary of War he says: I am at a loss has to mention the merits of Governor Shelby, being convenced that no euloguin of mine can do him justice, the Governor of an independent and greatly my superior in years, in experience and in military fame, he placed himself under my command and was more remarkable for his zeal and activity, than for the promptitude and cheerfulness with which he obeyed my orders. Governor Shelby was appointed Secretary of War in the cabinet of President Monroe, but declined on account of the infirmitives of age. Governor Shelby's wife was Susannah Hart, the daughter of Captain Nathaniel Hart of Hanover County, Virginia, who was an officer in the Revolutionary War, and was also one of the pioneers of Kentucky. They were married in the Fort at Boonesborough April 19, 1783. The bride spun and wove her wedding gown of flax grown near the fort. It was two widths of linen, of a texture so fine that it could be drawn through her wedding ring. The ring and gown are still in possession of the family. The wedding gifts of the bride were a horse, saddle and bridle, a set of blue stone china, captured from the English and some house linen. The wreck of the saddle and bridle is still in existence and several pieces of the china are in possession of Mrs Grigbsy of Washington City, a grand daughter of Governor Shelby. The newly married couple journeyed from Boonesborough to Travelers Rest on horseback, carrying their worldly goods in saddle bags. They went to housekeeping in a log cabin which stood on the site of what is now the family graveyard, where in old age, they were buried. The year after his marriage Isaac Shelby began the erection of a more spacious and comfortable house than the rude log cabin. It contained seven rooms with walls of rough stone nearly three feet in thickness. The woodwork was all made from walnut timber on the "grant" and done by two men who are now amongst the wealthiest and most respected citizens of the state. No cut nails were to be had at that time and the pinning was done with wooden pegs, on the order of shoe pegs of the present day. Whilst the carpenters were putting on the roof Governor Shelby was obliged to keep a guard of armed men stationed around the house to prevent them from being shot by hostile Indians. In this age of progress and improvement, when thousands of spacious and costly edifices go up as if by magic, it is difficult to realize that it took two years of hard and incessant labor to build this modest stone house. The first addition made to the original house was a very large room at the end of a long back gallery, called the weaving room. In it were the spinning wheels and looms used in the manufacturing of cotton, woolen and linen goods of which were made all the garments worn by the family and numerous slaves of Governor Shelby. The negro women did all the work under the dir4ect supervision of Mrs Shelby. There are in the family today many beautiful table cloths, large and handsome counterpanes and many yards of linen sheeting manufactured by Mrs Shelbys women slaves from flax grown on the farm. It was never the custom in Kentucky for the slave women to work in the fileds. The farmers wives were expected to find employment for them, and to train them in all domestic industries. They carded, spun, wove, dyed and made into garments the various farics manufactured; they made the garden and orchard; they manufactured by the most primitive method sugar and syrup from the sugar maple trees, so abundant at that time, they "rendered up" the lard, cured the hams, compounded sausage and souse from the hogs slaughtered made soap, starch and blueing for home consumption; raised the poultry, attended the dairy and trained in all household service. Farmers wifes had also the care of all the sick --white and black, and often of the domestic animals. But they were expected to read many other books than their Bible, to know something of music, French, the different schools of philosophy or politics, prohibition of women's rights, and they were only expected to discuss such subjects as pertained to their "peculiar sphere". They were respectable and obedient wives, affectionate mothers, and were indefategable in the care and training of their slaves. It is a question whether the negros or the white women of the south have most reason to rejoice over the result of the war --The Emancipation Proclamation, yet the very heavy responsibility and hardships of slavery and the times combined to make a race of women seldom equaled for strength of intellect, physical and moral courage and personal endurance to these qualities in Mrs Shelby were added others that would make her a remarkable woman in this more polite age. It is said of her that no lady in Kentucky has ever filled the elevated position she occupied as the Governors wife with more grace and dignity. There is a portrait pained of her when she presided as first mistress in the Governor's mansion in which the extraordinary beauty of her hands is remarkable by all who sees it. Dispite the arduous duties of an unusually protracted official career, Governor Shelby found time to make many improvements on his house and farm. He built a school house of stone, in which his children were educated under private tutors. He also built a dairy and other out houses of stone and put up comfortable quarters for his slaves. One of the chief beauties of Travelers Rest was the avenue of forest trees, more than a mile long, trough which ran a broad, smooth, white pebbled road, over which the trees arched, making a lovely drive in all seasons. No home in Kentucky is as associated with the great names of our own country as Travelers Rest. It was the rendezvous of the pioneer patriots of the state. The Boones, Browns, Breckinridges, Harts, Marshalls, McAfeers, Floyds, etc, Amongst the distinquished guests entertained here were President Madison and Andrew Jackson, Gen. Lafayette, Gen Rogar Clark, Gen Wilkinson and Gen. Winfield Scott, Aaron Burr, Ames Kendell, Henry Clay, Felix Grundy and Thomas Hart Benton. Governor Shelby and his wife lived and died in the home of their youth, leaving a large family and a magnificent land estate, lying principally in the counties of Fayette and Lincoln. The Shelbys were among the most influential families in the state. At the death of Governor Shelby, Travelers Rest passed to his youngest son Alfred, who married his first cousin Virginia Hart and died a few years later, leaving his widow of twenty two with three children. In some respects Mrs Virginia Hart Shelby ws the most remarkable woman Kentucky has ever produced. She was gifted with a beauty so exquisite that it would have been fatal to a woman of less strenqth of mind and character in the exposed and responsible position in which whe was placed so young. Immediately after her husbands death she modestly but bravely assumed the management of his large estate, and devoted fifteen years of her life to it with such energy, judgement and fidelity, that no farmer in the country around was nearly so successful as she. Today you can hear from the gray haired farmers, traders, and bankers stories of her wonderful success in every department of her business. She was considered on of the best judges of stock in the state and the different fairs was awarded premiums on her cattle, hourses, mules, sheep and hogs, on the products of her farm, orchard and garden, dairy and her own handwork, also on the linen goods she had woven by her women from flax grown on the farm and woolen fabrics from the fleeses of her own flocks, many yards of which are still in the possession of her own family, as well as numerous pieces of silver awarded as premiums. It must not be supposed that she was at all what would be called a masculine Woman. To the contrary, she was indowed with an unusual share of womanly graces, and the sweetness of her voice was as remarkable as the beauty of her face. She was a devoted mother and an earnest chritian, and altogether a thoroughly successful business woman. There was no woman of her day in Kentucky who was so general a favorite in Society, or more beloved by her friends and family. To the surprise of all that knew her, after fifteen years of widowhood she married her relative, the distingqushed Divine Dr R. J. Breckinridge. Although she gave her children the best educational advantages, dispensed the most generous hospitality, and gave liberally to her church and different charities she turned over the estate to her children on her second marriage, more than double in value, and to her husband she brought a handsome fortune which she had accumulated for herself. The only children who survived her was her daughter Susan Preston, who married Col. J. Warren Grigsby of Virginia. Col. Grigsby had spent most of his life (up to the time of meeting his wife) in Europe, and had just begun the practice of law in New Orleans when he married. To gratify his wife he removed her to her ancestral home, to which she was passionately attached and until the breaking out of the war they devoted themselves to the improvements and embellishment of the home and farm. The house was enlarged and the interior somewhat modernized. Most of the spacious fireplaces, stretching nearly across one end of the rooms, with their huge buck logs and smaller ones of ash piled up on bright brass and irons, gave way to grates in which crackled Kentucky coal, as abundant now as wood was sixty years ago. But the small deep windows in the strong thick wall with a row of portholes near the ground, gave the whole house. Still somewhat the appearance of a fortress and the exterior retains much of its primitive and vunerable appearance. For years there was not in the Blue grass region of Kentucky, a woman who dispensed such generous and eleqant hospitality as Mrs Grigsby. Col. Grigsby was a man of rare culture and courtleness and was strikingly handsome and no man in the state enjoyed in a higher degree of confidence and esteem of the people generally. He was the soul of honor-- trusting others as he would be trusted. He lived by the proverb of the exact gentleman--noblese oblige, rather than that of the modern man, or the land shark "business is business" After four years of gallant service in the Confederate Army he returned to find himself in such business complications as to make it necessary to mortgage Travelers Rest. This, with already failing health, soon put him in his grave. Mrs Grigsby remained at Travelers Rest alone with her children during her husband's absence in the Army, and she needed all of her inherited heroism to fight the bloodless battles of war. Hers was a case of exceptional sorrows and sacrifices. For some years after her husband's death, she struggled heroically to save Travelers Rest by paying off the mortgage but the fatal blow came at last. The mortgage foreclosed and she and hr children were made homeless and penniless, and now amongst strangers, three brave women are making a fight with adversity that proves them worthy descendants of the hero of Kings Mountain. Yet like "my lady in the sad refrain of the song, they long for the old Kentucky home far away." Travelers Rest is still owned by one of the descendants of Governor Shelby, but it is shorn of much of its beauty. The 3,400 acres that once spread over the river and magnificently wooded valley, lying above the "fort of knobs" have dwindled to one third of the original tract, and here, as elsewhere in the Blue grass region, the finest forest trees have been felled. There is no trace left of the once beautiful avenue. - | Shelby, Gov. Isaac Sr. (I1534)
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| 1366 | George Glasscock of R'd Co., & Judith Ball, dau of William Ball, who consents. Marriage Bonds in Lancaster Co, VA. Wm & Mary Quarterly Vol. 12 No. 2. Oct. 1903 pp 96 to 103158; born Abt. 1705; died Abt. 1766. George Glascock, Major.: Early Va. marriages 929.3 C Lancaster Co. page 49 April 13, 1720 George Glasscock & Judith, daughter of Wm. Ball. Occupation: Planter | Glascock, George II (I221)
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| 1367 | George Henry Smith was born in 1855 in Stewart County, TN and died in Feb 27 1922 in Erin Houston County TN. He married Mary Dora Powers born Feb 15 1882 in Montgomery County TN, the daughter of Charles R Powers and Malinda Edwards. George Henry and Mary Dora are buried in the Erin Cemetery. They had 6 daughters and 2 sons; Berta Married (1) John Seay and (2) Jim Hull; Ann married Hermise Averitt; Lena married Philbert Cross; Willie Elnora married Jessie Levi Waldrip; Nina married (1) Buck Beason (2) Marvin Keel; George Harvey; Luna Douglas married (1) Taylor Reddick (2) Noah "Smitty" Smith; and Earl married Lousill. George Harvey Smith was b 2/14/1891 in Houston County, TN and died June 3 1955 at his daughter Dora Lee's home in Paris Henry County TN. Harvey married Lillie Lee Watkins on 5/20/1925 She was born 4/6/1902 in Stewart County, TN. the daughter of David Jerome Watkins and Susan Jane Bird. Harvey was a share copper/farmer and had various other jobs. After 10 short years of marriage, Lillie died 3/25/1935 in Houston County. Relatives and friends helped Harvey with raising his three children; Dora Lee married Raymond Henry Gansner; George David; and Margie Dean married James Otho "Shorty" Fowler. Harvey. Lillie, and Margie Dean are buried in Cane Creek Cemetery. Source: History of Houston County, Tennessee: History and Families | Smith, Lena Elizabeth (I8744)
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| 1368 | George Washington was a Major in the forces of Virginia 6 Nov 1752, for Fredericksburg County; Elected in the House of Burgesses of Virginia 24 Jul 1758; Inherited Mount Vernon from his sister-in-law 14 Mar 1761; Elected as one of the seven delegates of Virginia to the First Continental Congress in Philadelphia 5 Aug 1774; Elected 1st president of the United States 4 Feb 1789. died Mount Vernon 14.12.1799, buried there 18.12.1799. Married New Kent County 6.1.1759 Martha Dandridge. | Washington, Gen. & U.S. President George (I150)
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| 1369 | Gertrude was the manager of the Brandon Springs Restaurant. She was also a member of the Eastern Star. | Vaughn, Wilton Gertrude (I2018)
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| 1370 | Gwynedd is one of several Welsh successor states that emerged in 5th-century post-Roman Britain. It was based on the former Brythonic tribal lands of the Ordovices, Gangani, and the Deceangli which were collectively known as Venedotia in late Romano-British documents. Between the 5th and 13th centuries Gwynedd grew to include Ynys Môn and all of north Wales between the River Dyfi in the south and River Dee (Welsh Dyfrdwy) in the northeast.[1] The Irish sea (Môr Iwerddon) washes the coast of Gwynedd to the west and north and lands formerly part of the Kingdom of Powys border Gwynedd in the south-east. Gwynedd's strength lay in part due to the region's mountainous geography which made it difficult for foreign invaders to campaign in the country and impose their will effectively.[2] Popular tradition attributed to Nennius, a 10th-century Welsh chronicler, traced Gwynedd's foundation to Cunedda.[1] According to Nennius, Cunedda migrated with his sons and followers from Brythonic Lothian, in southern Scotland, in the 5th century. [1] The heart of Gwynedd was originally at Deganwy Castle, where Maelgwn Gwynedd (died 547) had his stronghold. The senior line of descendants of Rhodri the Great would make Aberffraw on Ynys Mon as their principle seat, and later rulers of Gwynedd would adopt the title "Prince of Aberffraw" or "Lord of Snowdon". The early 9th century saw a power struggle between two brothers, Hywel and Cynan, for control of the north-western kingdom of Gwynedd. The 'Annales Cambriae' note: 813 "Battle between Hywel and Cynan. Hywel was the victor." 814 "Hywel triumphed over the island of Mona (Anglesey) and he drove Cynan from there with a great loss of his own army." 816 "Hywel was again expelled from Mona. Cynan the king dies." Nine years later (825), the 'Annales' succinctly announce: "Hywel dies." The direct male line appears to have ended with Hywel's death, and he was succeeded by one Merfyn Frych ('the Freckled'). According to the 'Harleian Genealogies', Merfyn was the son of Cynan's daughter, Essyllt (in other, later, genealogies, Essyllt appears as Merfyn's wife). Kari Maund, in 'The Welsh Kings', writes: In 825 a new dynasty came to power in Gwynedd following a civil war. The new ruler, Merfyn Frych (the Freckled), founded the royal house, which was to rule until 1283. His court was an important cultural centre, which welcomed Irish scholars on their way to the continent. Merfyn was succeeded in 844 by his son Rhodri Mawr (the great) who brought much of Wales under his rule although this did not survive him. He was regarded as a powerful ruler who succeeded in the face of threats from both Saxons and Vikings. It was during the ninth century that Viking raids on Wales began. The first recorded raid was in 853. Gwynedd, being so near to one of the centres of Viking power in Dublin, was particularly vulnerable, but Rhodri was usually able to hold his own. Merfyn's descent on his father's side is traced (Jesus College MS 20) back, via the legendary late 6th/early 7th century bard Llywarch Hen, who is associated with Powys (and who, incidentally, was at one time thought to be the author of the 'Canu Heledd'), along a branch of the line associated with the erstwhile kingdom of Rheged (north-west England), to Coel Hen. Further, tradition has it that Merfyn came "from the land of manaw". That could refer to either Manau Gododdin or The Isle of Man. Merfyn's father was Gwriad. An inscribed stone on the Isle of Man, which could date from the 9th century, reads "crux guriat" (cross of Guriat). Guriat is usually identified with Gwriad. At any rate, when Merfyn died (844), he was succeeded by his son Rhodri. According to the genealogies in Jesus College MS 20, Rhodri's mother was Nest of Powys, sister of Cyngen, king of Powys. Cyngen is the Concenn who erected Eliseg's Pillar, in memory of his great-grandfather, Eliseg (Elisedd). Elisedd would probably have been a contemporary of the powerful Mercian king, Offa (757-796). The pillar commemorates Elisedd's reclamation of Powysian territory from the English, and the 'Annales Cambriae' record several campaigns against the Welsh by Offa. At some point, Offa seems to have decided that there should be no doubt where the border between the English and the Welsh lay, and the massive earthwork, known as Offa's Dyke was constructed. Whether Offa's Dyke was more symbolic than truly defensive is the subject of debate. Even if it prevented Welsh incursions into England, it certainly it didn't prevent English incursions into Wales. 'Annales Cambriae' (822): "The fortress of Degannwy (Gwynedd) is destroyed by the Saxons and they took the kingdom of Powys into their own control." Cyngen died in 854, possibly having been forced into exile by Rhodri. Powys was subsequently annexed by Gwynedd. How this takeover was achieved is not recorded, but Powys was ruled as a subsidiary of Gwynedd until the late 11th century. In 853, the 'Annales Cambriae' had noted: "Mon (Anglesey) laid waste by black gentiles." The phrase "black gentiles" (and variations thereof, e.g. dark heathens, dark foreigners) means Danish, rather than Norwegian (fair heathens, fair-haired foreigners), Vikings. The first recorded Viking attack on Wales actually appears in the 'Annales' three years previously (i.e. in 850). They were responsible for the killing of one Cyngen, whose provenance is unknown. (Source: http://www.stephen.j.murray.btinternet.co.uk/wales.htm) | Of Gwynedd (Wales), Merfyn Frych (I6100)
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| 1371 | Gwyr-y-Gogledd seat at Carlisle. "Old King Cole" reigned about 400 AD. | Of Rheged, Coel Hen Godebog (I5450)
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| 1372 | Hannah E., child of John Knox and Polly B. This date is only 20 days after the 9 August 1845 Marriage Bond for her older brother, Robert J. Wilson Knox's marriage to Martha N. Jetton. Also, note that the timing of her death makes it very likely that she died in the 1845 Erysipelas Epidemic described by Rev. Sommerville account below. This epidemic also took the lives of her Uncle Dr. Carnes Henderson Robison [brother of Mary B. Robison Knox], and his wife, Mary Abigail Alexander, daughter of William Bain Alexander and Violet Davidson. Erysipelas (Greek - red skin) is an acute streptococcusbacterial infection of the dermis, resulting in inflammation and characteristically extending into underlying fat tissue. (Source: Peggy Bruckner) | Robison, Polly B. (I8413)
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| 1373 | Harry was a dental surgeon in Birmingham, AL. He and Ardelle had five children: Hattie Margaret Bradford 1904 – Josephine Albina Bradford 1906 – 2004 Patton Bradford 1909 – 2001 Lillian Pauline Bradford 1913 – 1996 Robert William Bradford 1917 – 1994 | Bradford, Harry Searcy MD (I1595)
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| 1374 | He acceded in 971, ruling until 995. He waged war on the Britons, and received from King Edgar of the Anglo-Saxons all the lands called Lothian, between the Tweed and the Forth. He was murdered at Fettercairn by his own subjects through an act of treachery. | Of the Scots and Picts, Kenneth II (I5775)
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| 1375 | He acceeded in 877 upon the death of his brother, Constantine I. He was murdered a year later by Eochaid, who conspired with Giric to seize the throne. Little is known of Aedh's life or short reign. He had two sons, the future Constantine II and Donald, King of Strathclyde. ( | Of the Scots, Aedh White Foot (I8567)
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| 1376 | He appeared on the census of 1820 in Edwards County, Illinois: ( 1820 U.S. Census Illinois, Edwards County.); page 6 Joel Boyd 10001-101 (1 male -10 b. 1810-20, 1 male 26-45: 1 female -10, 1 female 16-26. He was listed inthe 1820 Edwards County Illinois census. "Pursuant to an order from the worshipful court of said County, we the subscribers have this day settle with Robert Boyd, administrator of Joel Boyd, deceased, and find remaining in his hands the sum of seventeen dollars & 26 3/4 cents of the estate of Joel Boyd decd this 13th day of December 1828 -- J. W. Knight, John Weatherspoon." (Record Book 7:187). | Boyd, Joel (I2803)
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| 1377 | He is buried in the Hall Cemetery; Choctaw Co., Alabama. He served in Civil War and must have died or was killed in the War. His marker reads: Co. F 40 Ala Inf C. S. A. | Daugherty, William A. (I7495)
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| 1378 | He is listed as a head of household in the 1785 Amherst Co, VA census, with 10 white souls. Served in the American Revolution under Gen. George Washington in 1777-1778. His Service Number was 401189. He was wounded in action. His will is located in Nelson Co WB A pg. 222. He is buried in Nelson Co, VA. | Campbell, Ambrose (I6579)
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| 1379 | He killed the usurper, Giric, and succeeded in 889. He ruled until 900. He spent much of his reign battling the Danes and crushing Highland robber tribes. He was killed in battle by the Danes at Dunnottar. | Of the Scots and Picts, Donald II (I5773)
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| 1380 | He must have died young since he's 2 on the 1860 census but not shown on the 1870 census. | Cobb, Calvin D. (I6134)
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| 1381 | He never married and was killed in the Civil War. | Knox, John H. B. (I3657)
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| 1382 | He never married. Was killed in the Civil War at Petersburg, VA and is buried there. | Knox, Joseph G. (I3661)
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| 1383 | He was a Baptist M.G. having been licensed at the Sandy Creek Baptist Church in Jun 1835. | McCoy, Edward Cowan (I6702)
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| 1384 | He was a Col. in the Revolutionary War. He was commissioned as a Major in the Amherst Co militia 5 June 1769. He may have also served in the French & Indian War. He was a vestryman of Lexington Parish, Albemarle in 1779. On 6 Jan 1777 in court he produced his commission to be a surveyor in Amherst Co, VA. He was the s/o John Higginbotham (b. 10 Jun 1695, St. Philip Parish, Barbados, BWI), and Frances Riley (b. 1696, Ireland). | Higginbotham, Sr. James (I6583)
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| 1385 | He was a doctor of medicine about 1805 in Philidelphia, PA He was a State Senator in 1817/18 in TN. He was an U. S. Representative to Congress in Mar 1825 in 8th Congressional District, TN.He was named executor in the will of Gully Moore on 30 Sep 1825 in Montgomery Co., TN. He was Received letter from Sam Houston on 4 Dec 1828 in TN. He appeared on the census in 1840 in Montgomery Co., TN. He appeared on the census in 1841 in Montgomery Co., TN. | Marable, I John Hartwell (I7822)
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| 1386 | He was a member of the "Helen Johnstone Guards" 24th Regiment, Ms. Volunteers. | Davis, Joshua Oliver (I4973)
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| 1387 | He was a member of the Congregational Church, was a Mason and a member of the Lions Club. | Smith, James William (I2413)
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| 1388 | He was born on 5 March , 1133, at Le Mans to the Empress Matilda and her second husband, Geoffrey the Fair, Count of Anjou. Brought up in Anjou, he visited England in 1149 to help his mother in her disputed claim to the English throne. Prior to coming to the throne he already controlled Normandy and Anjou on the continent; his marriage to Eleanor of Aquitaine on May 18, 1152 added her holdings to his, including Touraine, Aquitaine, and Gascony. He thus effectively became more powerful than the king of France with an empire (the Angevin Empire) that stretched from the Solway Firth almost to the Mediterranean and from the Somme to the Pyrenees. As king, he would make Ireland a part of his vast domain. He also maintained lively communication with the Emperor of Byzantium Manuel I Comnenus. In August 1152, Henry, previously occupied in fighting Eleanor's ex-husband Louis VII of France and his allies, rushed back to her, and they spent several months together. Around the end of November 1152 they parted: Henry went to spend some weeks with his mother and then sailed for England, arriving on 6 January 1153. Some historians believe that the couple's first child, William, Count of Poitiers, was born in 1153. During Stephen's reign the barons had subverted the state of affairs to undermine the monarch's grip on the realm; Henry II saw it as his first task to reverse this shift in power. For example, Henry had castles which the barons had built without authorisation during Stephen's reign torn down, and scutage, a fee paid by vassals in lieu of military service, became by 1159 a central feature of the king's military system. Record keeping improved dramatically in order to streamline this taxation. Henry II established courts in various parts of England, and first instituted the royal practice of granting magistrates the power to render legal decisions on a wide range of civil matters in the name of the Crown. His reign saw the production of the first written legal textbook, providing the basis of today's "Common Law". By the Assize of Clarendon (1166), trial by jury became the norm. Since the Norman Conquest jury trials had been largely replaced by trial by ordeal and "wager of battel" (which English law did not abolish until 1819). Provision of justice and landed security was further toughened in 1176 with the Assize of Northampton, a build on the earlier agreements at Clarendon. This reform proved one of Henry's major contributions to the social history of England. As a consequence of the improvements in the legal system, the power of church courts waned. The church, not unnaturally, opposed this and found its most vehement spokesman in Thomas Becket, the Archbishop of Canterbury, formerly a close friend of Henry's and his Chancellor. Henry had appointed Becket to the archbishopric precisely because he wanted to avoid conflict. The conflict with Becket effectively began with a dispute over whether the secular courts could try clergy who had committed a secular offence. Henry attempted to subdue Becket and his fellow churchmen by making them swear to obey the "customs of the realm", but controversy ensued over what constituted these customs, and the church proved reluctant to submit. Following a heated exchange at Henry's court, Becket left England in 1164 for France to solicit in person the support of Pope Alexander III, who was in exile in France due to dissention in the college of Cardinals, and of King Louis VII of France. Due to his own precarious position, Alexander remained neutral in the debate, although Becket remained in exile loosely under the protection of Louis and Pope Alexander until 1170. After a reconciliation between Henry and Thomas in Normandy in 1170, Becket returned to England. Becket again confronted Henry, this time over the coronation of Prince Henry (see below). The much-quoted, although probably apocryphal, words of Henry II echo down the centuries: "Who will rid me of this turbulent priest?" Although Henry's violent rants against Becket over the years were well documented, this time four of his knights took their king literally (as he may have intended for them to do, although he later denied it) and travelled immediately to England, where they assassinated Becket in Canterbury Cathedral on December 29, 1170. As part of his penance for the death of Becket, Henry agreed to send money to the Crusader states in Palestine, which the Knights Hospitaller and the Knights Templar would guard until Henry arrived to make use of it on pilgrimage or crusade. Henry delayed his crusade for many years and in the end never went at all, despite a visit to him by Patriarch Heraclius of Jerusalem in 1184 and being offered the crown of the Kingdom of Jerusalem. In 1188 he levied the Saladin tithe to pay for a new crusade; the chronicler Giraldus Cambrensis suggested his death was a divine punishment for the tithe, imposed to raise money for an abortive crusade to recapture Jerusalem, which had fallen to Saladin in 1187.) Henry's first son, William, Count of Poitiers, had died in infancy. In 1170, Henry and Eleanor's fifteen-year-old son, Henry, was crowned king, but he never actually ruled and does not figure in the list of the monarchs of England; he became known as Henry the Young King to distinguish him from his nephew Henry III of England. Henry II depicted in Cassell's History of England (1902)Henry and his wife, Eleanor of Aquitaine, had five sons and three daughters: William, Henry, Richard, Geoffrey, John, Matilda, Eleanor, and Joan. Henry's attempts to wrest control of her lands from Eleanor (and from her heir Richard) led to confrontations between Henry on the one side and his wife and legitimate sons on the other. Henry's notorious liaison with Rosamund Clifford, the "fair Rosamund" of legend, probably began in 1165 during one of his Welsh campaigns and continued until her death in 1176. However, it was not until 1174, at around the time of his break with Eleanor, that Henry acknowledged Rosamund as his mistress. Almost simultaneously he began negotiating to divorce Eleanor and marry Alys, daughter of King Louis VII of France and already betrothed to Henry's son Richard. Henry's affair with Alys continued for some years, and, unlike Rosamund Clifford, Alys allegedly gave birth to one of Henry's illegitimate children. Henry also had a number of illegitimate children by various women, and Eleanor had several of those children reared in the royal nursery with her own children; some remained members of the household in adulthood. Among them were William de Longespee, 3rd Earl of Salisbury, whose mother was Ida, Countess of Norfolk; Geoffrey, Archbishop of York, son of a woman named Ykenai; Morgan, Bishop of Durham; and Matilda, Abbess of Barking. Henry II's attempt to divide his titles amongst his sons but keep the power associated with them provoked them into trying to take control of the lands assigned to them (see Revolt of 1173-1174), which amounted to treason, at least in Henry's eyes. Gerald of Wales reports that when King Henry gave the kiss of peace to his son Richard, he said softly, "May the Lord never permit me to die until I have taken due vengeance upon you." When Henry's legitimate sons rebelled against him, they often had the help of King Louis VII of France. Henry the Young King died in 1183. A horse trampled to death another son, Geoffrey, Duke of Brittany (11581186). Henry's third son, Richard the Lionheart (11571199), with the assistance of Philip II Augustus of France, attacked and defeated Henry on July 4, 1189; Henry died at the Chateau Chinon on July 6, 1189, and lies entombed in Fontevraud Abbey, near Chinon and Saumur in the Anjou Region of present-day France. Henry's illegitimate son Geoffrey, Archbishop of York also stood by him the whole time and alone among his sons attended on Henry's deathbed. Richard the Lionheart then became king of England. He was followed by King John, the youngest son of Henry II, laying aside the claims of Geoffrey's children Arthur of Brittany and Eleanor. Peter of Blois left a description of Henry II in 1177: "...the lord king has been red-haired so far, except that the coming of old age and gray hair has altered that color somewhat. His height is medium, so that neither does he appear great among the small, nor yet does he seem small among the great... curved legs, a horseman's shins, broad chest, and a boxer's arms all announce him as a man strong, agile and bold... he never sits, unless riding a horse or eating... In a single day, if necessary, he can run through four or five day-marches and, thus foiling the plots of his enemies, frequently mocks their plots with surprise sudden arrivals...Always are in his hands bow, sword, spear and arrow, unless he be in council or in books." | Of Anjou, Henry II (I5794)
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| 1389 | He was called Monroe by the family. Monroe was the name on his tombstone. Although the family recorded the name as Jefferson Monroe Culpepper, he was noted in census records as J. M., James M., or Monroe Culpepper. Mr. and Mrs. Monroe Culpepper, Inez, Harold and Helen Ruth" were listed in a 1938 article about a John James Culpepper reunion. Helen Ruth appears to be listed here as a child of J. Monroe Culpepper but has not been identified unless she was a granddaughter, Helen Ruth Presley. 1880 US Federal Census Name: J. M. Culpepper Home in 1880: Louina, Randolph, Alabama Age: 8 Estimated birth year: abt 1872 Birthplace: Alabama Relation to head-of-household: Son Father's name: J. J. Culpepper Father's birthplace: Alabama Mother's name: N. J. Culpepper Mother's birthplace: Alabama Race: White Gender: Male Household Members: Name Age J. J. Culpepper 29 N. J. Culpepper 30 J. M. Culpepper 8 R. D. Culpepper 4 Effin Culpepper 1m L. A. Willoughby 16 1900 US Federal Census Name: Monroe Culpepper Home in 1900: Albertville, Marshall, Alabama [Albertville, Marshall, Alabama] Age: 27 Birth Date: Aug 1872 Birthplace: Alabama Race: White Gender: Male Relationship to head-of-house: Head Father's Birthplace: Alabama Mother's Birthplace: Alabama Spouse's name: Beatris Culpepper Marriage Year: 1894 Marital Status: Married Years Married: 6 Household Members: Name Age Monroe Culpepper 27 Beatris Culpepper 22 Lillian I Culpepper 6 Ines I Culpepper 4 Nina L Culpepper 1 1920 Census Gadsden, Etowah Co., AL, ED 90, Sheet 1A, Lines 24-31, Turkey Town Rd, Hollis, Etowah Co., AL (2 Jan 1920): Monroe J. Culpepper, Head, M, Wh, 40, md, AL/AL/AL, Farmer (#34454)v Nola Culpepper, Wife, F, Wh, 38, md, GA/GA/GA Lillian Culpepper, Dau, F, Wh, 26, sng, AL/AL/GA, Telephone Operator Ina Culpepper, Dau, F, Wh, 24, sng, AL/AL/GA, Telephone Operator Erma Culpepper, Dau, F, Wh, 17, sng, AL/AL/GA, Telephone Operator Johny Culpepper, Dau, F, Wh, 14, sng, AL/AL/GA Elwood Culpepper, Son, M, Wh, 8, sng, AL/AL/GA Imogene Culpepper, Dau, F, Wh, 5, sng, AL/AL/GA 1930 Census Gadsden, Etowah Co., AL, ED 45, Sheet 4B, Lines 65-70, Turkey Town Road, Hollis, Etowah Co., AL (8 Apr 1930): Rent=$24, Radio=N, Farm=Y (#34454)v Jefferson M. Culpepper, Head, M, Wh, 57, md@21, AL/AL/AL, Foreman/Ore Mine, Vet=N Nola B. Culpepper, Wife, F, Wh, 53, md@16, GA/GA/GA Inez Culpepper, Dau, F, Wh, 31, sng, AL/AL/GA, Supervisor/Telephone Office Elwood Culpepper, Son, M, Wh, 18, sng, AL/AL/GA, Hostiler/Railroad Yard Imogene Culpepper, Dau, F, Wh, 15, sng, AL/AL/GA Harold Culpepper, Son, M, Wh, 10, sng, AL/AL/GA Alabama Deaths, 1908-59 Name: James M Culpepper Death Date: 23 Feb 1952 Death County: Marshall Volume: 12 Certificate: 5894 Roll: 5 | Culpepper, James Monroe (Monroe) (I2579)
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| 1390 | He was known as Jim. He never married. He fought in the Civil War and was wounded. He was able to make it home before he died on 4 Apr 1865. | Knox, James S. (I3656)
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| 1391 | He was Lord of Beaumont, Pont-Audemer and Brionne, Count of Meulan, the 1st Earl of Leicester in 1103, and Companion of William the Conqueror at Hastings in 1066. | Of Beaumont, Robert (I3371)
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| 1392 | Helen who is shown in The Complete Peerage Vol.V, p.373 as a daughter of Llywelyn Fawr "the Great" ap Lowerth, Prince of Wales and his wife Tangwystyl Goch. | Of Wales, Helen (I3224)
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| 1393 | Henry Culpepper (Culpeper / Colepeper) is an ancestor of most American Culpeppers. He was the son of John Culpeper (born 1606), who was the son of John Culpeper of Feckenham and Ursula Woodcock, but this is far from being proven. While there is some evidence to suggest that the name of Henry's father was John, it has not been possible to prove that this John was the one just mentioned. But he seems to be a good candidate, since he was the right age to have been Henry's father, was known to have been abroad from England, and belonged to a family with other connections in Virginia. Although several of Thomas's children are known from baptismal records in England, one cannot necessarily conclude that the list of known children is a complete list, since neither Thomas nor his wife left a will. Henry was probably born in England, perhaps around 1633, and came to Virginia as a young man, in May 1653 or prior. One cannot be certain of the exact date of his arrival, as Henry apparently paid for his own voyage, and then sold his claim to 50 acres of land (his headright) to Captain Nathaniel Hurd. He might have arrived some time prior to selling his headright, perhaps even years earlier. There is no evidence that Henry paid for his voyage by becoming an indentured servant to Captain Hurd. Only five years later (1658) Henry is mentioned as a Planter, and so seems to have been someone of means. On 7 Dec 1658, "Henry Colepepper, Planter" sold a cow in Lancaster Co., VA ("Virginia County Court Records: Deed & Will Abstracts of Lancaster County, Virginia, 1654-1661"] p. 94). The fact that Henry was listed as a "Planter" indicates that he had chosen to make Virginia his home, that he owned land, and that he was apparently making a living raising cattle. Exactly what land he owned, where, and how and when he acquired it, has not been determined. A check of early Lancaster County tithable records does not reveal anyone named Culpeper, Culpepper, or Colepeper. This does not mean that Henry did not live in Lancaster County, just that he was not taxed for being a property owner. On 14 Sep 1659, a "John Colepeper" was also noted in Lancaster Co., VA deed records witnessing a deed which set parish boundaries. ("Virginia County Court Records: Deed & Will Abstracts of Lancaster County, Virginia, 1661-1702"] p. 88 (recorded 9 May 1660 p. 374)) This same document is also referenced in Beverly Fleet's "Virginia Colonial Abstracts, Vol. 1, Lancaster County, Record Book No. 2, 1654 - 1666. John Colepeper served "as a witness to a meeting of the parishoners of Lancaster Parish and Pieankitank for the final ordering of all differences betwixt the 2 parishes concerning the bounds of the said parishes should be and extend according to an order of the County Court bearing date 10th day of Sept 1657." This meeting was recorded on 20 May 1660. The area of discussion at the meeting is the part of Lancaster County across the Rappahannock River in what is now Middlesex County. Middlesex County was formed from Lancaster County in 1673. The Pianketank River (just mentioned) divides present Middlesex County from Mathews County. The records of Mathews County were burned during the Civil War, but Middlesex County, on the other hand, has excellent records, including the Christ Church Parish records. The Middlesex records are probably too late to be of much use. Lancaster County records have survived, for the most part, from the beginning of the county in 1652, and should be studied further. Lancaster County, at the tip of the Northern Neck, was a home base of the Northern Neck Proprietary. Bill Russell has suggested that Thomas Culpeper, son of John of Feckenham, may also have lived in the Lancaster County area from 1649 until his death in 1652. For most of this time the area would have been in Northumberland County, the parent county of Lancaster County. Thomas was one-seventh proprietor of the Northern Neck under the charter of 1649. A Henry Culpeper and a John Culpeper were both listed as "Shippers by the Defence," which was bound from London for New England 10 May 1664 - 30 June 1664. Also mentioned was Sir William Peake, who was perhaps the Sir William Peake who was Lord Mayor of London a few years later, in 1667. ["The Complete Book of Emigrants 1661-1699"], p. 64 by Peter Wilson Coldham, Genealogical Publishing Co., Inc]. It is difficult to say which John Culpeper this might have been, who was traveling with Henry. There were as many as three Johns in Virginia and neighboring Albemarle, NC, about this time: John (born 1606), John (born 1633, son of Thomas and Katherine), and John (born 1640's, of Albemarle). But it doesn't necessarily matter which John it was, as all three may have been related, and this record seems to connect Henry to this branch of the family, which is the descendants of John Culpepper of Feckenham (born 1565) and and his wife Ursula Woodcock. No record has been found of Henry's marriage to Elizabeth. But evidence suggests that her maiden name was probably Greene. By 1667 or prior, Henry had moved to Lower Norfolk County, VA. The following is what we have been able to glean about him from the early Lower Norfolk deed records. 1667 -- Deed Bk E, p 25. Henry Culpepper from Thomas Fulcher 1668 -- Deed Bk E, p 24a. Henry Culpepper for payment of 355 pounds of tobacco. The following is only the last part of the copy of a document pertaining to the estate of Richard Russell contained in The Lower Norfolk County Virginia Antiquary, Peter Smith, NY, 1951, Vol. 4, pp. 112-113. "Wee the Sub-Scribrs being by ordr of Lower Norfolk County Court ordered to Appraizer the Estate of Richard Russell decd have accordinly to the best of Or Judgmts appraized Soe much as was Shewed to us to ye Som of Seaventeen thousand Eight hundred & Sixty pnds of Toba & Caske whereunto wee have Sett or hands this 7th April 1668 This is a true Inventory of my husband Richard Russells Estate to the best of my Knowledge Sign Anne Russell Wm WA Andrews Wm Green Jno Lownes Henry H Culpeper An cco of debts due to the Estate Mr ffrancis Sayer, by bill 1638 Jno White by bill 1650 Batt. Ingobritson by bill 2600 Batts bill 4 barrell Ind Meale 5888 Juriat in Cur 16th Jany 1668 Test Jno Okeham Cl Cur (The editor noted that the WA in the name Andrews and the H in the name Culpeper were their marks) Source of above: Bill Russell Jun 1669 -- Deed Bk E, p 51. "I Henry Culpepper do ordaine & make my loving wife Elizabeth my attorney to...." 6 May 1670 -- Deed Bk E, p 77. Henry Culpepper to Edward Brown. Wit: Henry Brown, Bartholomew Ingolbertson. Signed: Henry Culpepper 1671 -- Deed Bk E, p 90. John White to Henry Culpepper, 225 a. North side of Little Creek joining the land of Thomas Everidge. Land was in the plantation of father John W. 16 Jun 1671 -- Deed Bk E, p 97. Bartholomew Ingolbertson to Henry Culpepper, "out of love & affection I have unto my loving god son Henry Culpepper Jr. do freely give unto him my said god son a heifer of two years old which I purchased of Henry Culpepper Sr. & living now with his father & of ye same marking his cattle & of to have & to hold of said Heifer with all her female increases to ye said Henry Culpepper Jun. his heirs & assigns forever & his father to have ye male increases & to have ye keeping of the said Heifer with her increases until my said god son is of age. 18 Oct 1671 -- Deed Bk E, p 103. Henry Culpepper to John Everidge. "Henry Culpepper and Elizabeth my wife." Signed: Henry Culpepper, Elizabeth Culpepper 1672 -- Deed Bk E, p 132. Henry Culpepper to Elizabeth Culpepper. "Know all men... I Henry Culpepper of ye County of Lower Norfolk... ordain & appoint my loving wife Elizabeth Culpepper my ... & lawful attorney to ... granting unto my said attorney to make or employ one or more attorneys & or... shall.... Wit: Bartholomew Ingolbertson, John White. Signed: Henry Culpepper 1672 -- Deed Bk E, p 158. Henry Culpepper to Richard Philpott, 100 a. in consideration of ye land of 1145 pounds of tobacco... to Richard Philpott... land called Broad Neck along Church Creek.. to run into ye run toward ye swamp... whereas said Culpepper with the consent of his wife Elizabeth. Signed: Henry Culpepper 14 Jun 1673 -- Deed Bk E, p 145. Henry Culpepper to William Green. "Appoint William Green my attorney acting between John Adams & myself." Signed: Henry Culpepper Will of WILLIAM GREENE, Lower Norfolk Co., NC Book E, p. 178 dated 21 Mch. 1673 proved 15 Feb 1674 ... wife SARAH GREENE ... one third .. extx ... ... two thirds to be equally divided amongst my three daughters ... to be made my friend THO. HALLOWAY segr & JOHN FEREBEE ... Overseers .. ... daughter SARAH shall be of yeares to bee possessed ... ... unto RICHARD PHILPOTT one young Eue ... witnesses: HENRY CULPEPER, JNO. WHINFELL WILL GREENE & Seale. [Editor's note: this William Greene was probably Henry's brother-in-law.] 15 Apr 1675 -- Deed Bk E, p 183. Henry Culpepper to Robert Spring, 375 a. on mouth of Western Branch of Elizabeth River... One grey gelding about four years old called by ye name of Jack... 44 head of cattle young & old & a grey gelding. Signed: Henry Culpepper 16 Apr 1675 -- Deed Bk E, p. 185. Henry Culpepper to Henry Spratt & Henry Holmes. Signed: Henry Culpepper 16 Aug 1675 -- Deed Bk 4, p 2. Henry Culpepper of Western Branch of Elizabeth River in Virginia, planter, to Thomas Hollowell Jr. ... said land being granted.. said plantation or tract of land above sd. was assigned to me by Thomas Fulton as may largely upon record ... Apr 1667. It is important to note that Henry signed all of the above deeds with a distinct handwriten or script "H," suggesting that he was literate, and probably educated abroad. There are no further deeds in Lower Norfolk County signed with this mark after 1675. This writer has found that each of the first three Henry Culpeppers in Lower Norfolk / Norfolk County used a distinct mark in signing his deeds, and has used these marks to distinguish between the three men. There are no further records on this Henry Culpepper or his wife Elizabeth in Lower Norfolk County after 1675, and he is assumed to have died in the few years following that date. In 1691, Lower Norfolk County was split into Princess Ann County, and Norfolk County. The land where Henry and Elizabeth Culpepper had lived fell into Norfolk County. | Culpeper, Henry (I3543)
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| 1394 | Henry Massengill Jr. was engaged in farming and was the proprietor of a wagon shop and was engaged in hauling salt from the saltworks (now Saltville) in Virginia and trading and boating as far as Natchez, Mississippi.(Source: Massengills, Massengales etc; (Bristol, Tennessee: The King Printing Company, 1931), Page 269. According to Oliver Taylor's Historic Sullivan (1909), "In the spring of 1767, two years after the first settlers made their homes in the county, Jacob Womack built a fort two miles east of Bluff City on the land once owned by Sam Miller [not further identified]." Womack's Fort was located in what is now Sullivan County, Tennessee, but was originally considered part of southwest Virginia. The Fort is also mentioned in Goodspeeds' History of Sullivan County, which states "Fort Womack, which stood two miles east of Bluff City, was built by Jacob Womack. It afforded protection for the people who lived in the territory now covered by the Fourth, Sixteenth, Ninth and Twentieth Civil Districts. It is said that when on one occasion its people were forted here a marriage took place between Hal [Henry] Massengill and Penelope Cobb. From this union have sprung a large number of descendants. many of whom still reside in the county." In 1776, however, Womack's Fort was part of Fincastle County, Virginia, and that same year, upon war having been declared against the English, became part of the newly-created Washington County, Virginia, both of which counties are named in the following muster roll of Jacob Womack's Militia Company. By 1778, however, upon erection of Washington County, North Carolina (now Tennessee), Jacob Womack was one of the justices of the new county court (Washington County Court Minutes, 23 Feb 1778), with the 1778 Washington County, North Carolina Tax Return of Jacob Womack including a number of the following men in addition to himself, many of whom are also on the 1796 Sulivan County tax lists (See also Squabble State). Pay Roll for Captain Womack's Company of Militia stationed at Womacks Fort in Fincastle County Page 1 Names when inlisted when discharged Days on Duty Jacob Womack Captain 15 July [1776] October 12 George Russel Lieut Henry Jones Ensign Pharoah Cobb Sgt. 15 July [1776] October 12 Edward Russel do Joseph Benson do Landford Hezziah Benjamin Gest John Russel John Benson Robert Shirley James Fowler Aaron Benson Richard Bennet Andrew Thompson Geo Potts Caleb Powell Hadiah Russel Edward Shirley John Shirley Thomas Shirley Absalom Thompson Matthias Little Henry Massengale 15 July [1776] October 12 Bradley Cambell John Reller [?] [Page 2] Thomas Binson Jno McMahon Isham Irby James Stephenson Charles Thompson Godfrey Isbell Michl. Massengall 15 July [1776] October 12 Vallentine Little John Chisolony (Commissary) John McAdams [Page 3] Arthur Cobb 15 July [1776] October 12 John Chissam Henry Massengall 15 July [1776] October 12 John Gibson Samuel Underwood William Russel William Hood Dempsey Ward James Ward Thomas Fletcher (Drummer) William Fletcher Joel Chalacham Sam Weaver Jacob Thompson William Shirley Geo Russel (a spy) Jno Russel (Ditto) Pat Hennifree Jno Calacham Sam Weaver Reuben Dunnam Jno Gist Thomas Jonekin Jordan Roach John Maroon Duke Pinson Jno Carrack Ezekl Potts Washington County Captain Jacob Womack makes Oath that the within is a just pay roll of the men called into duty under his command. Signed Thomas Maddison, 4 February 1777 I hereby certify the service of the within enrolled Company was necessary for the Protection of Fincastle County against the Cherokees and acted under my orders. Signed W. Russel, Febry 4th, 1777 | Massengill, Jr. Henry (I7922)
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| 1395 | Henry Melton, age 23, arrived in Virginia in 1635. Source: "Passengers for Virginia, 1635" New England Historical & Genealogical Society, Page 145. | Milton, Henry (I484)
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| 1396 | Henry the Young King (February 28, 1155June 11, 1183) was the second of five sons of Henry II of England and Eleanor of Aquitaine. Henry was a younger maternal half-brother of Marie de Champagne and Alix of France. He was a younger brother of William, Count of Poitiers. He was also an older brother to Matilda of England, Richard I of England, Geoffrey II, Duke of Brittany, Leonora of Aquitaine , Joan Plantagenet and John of England. Fostered by Thomas à Becket, in June 1170 the fifteen-year-old Henry was crowned king during his father's lifetime, but he never actually ruled and is not counted among the monarchs of England. There is a story that at the banquet following his coronation, he was waited on by his father, who remarked what a rare honour it was to be waited on by a king; the younger Henry replied that it was only fitting for the son of a count to wait on the son of a king. He is now known as "Henry the Young King" to distinguish him from his nephew Henry III of England. He broke with his father and allied with his mother Eleanor of Aquitaine and brothers in a civil war (117374) in which he tried to wrest the power of the crown from his father. When he died at the age of 28 of dysentery, during the middle of a second rebellion, his father is said to have exclaimed: "He cost me much, but I wish he had lived to cost me more." The historian W. L. Warren said of him, "The Young Henry was the only one of his family who was popular in his own day. It was true that he was also the only one who gave no evidence of political sagacity, military skill, or even ordinary intelligence ", and elaborated in a later book, "He was gracious, benign, affable, courteous, the soul of liberality and generosity. Unfortunately he was also shallow, vain, careless, empty-headed, incompetent, improvident, and irresponsible." Henry did not seem much interested in the day-to-day business of government, or in the subtleties of military tactics. Instead he spent much of his time at tournaments or meddling in the affairs of his brothers. Henry the Young King was married to Marguerite of France, daughter of King Louis VII of France by his second wife Constance of Castile, on November 2, 1160 when he was 5 years of age and she was 2. The marriage was orchestrated by Henrys father, Henry II, in order to gain control over Marguerites dowry, the strategically vital castles of the Vexin region between Normandy and Paris. Her maternal grandparents were Alfonso VII of Castile and Berenguela of Barcelona. Berenguela was a daughter of Ramon Berenguer III, Count of Barcelona by his third wife Douce of Provence. The only child of Henry and Marguerite was William, born prematurely on June 19, 1177, and dying on June 22 of the same year. This difficult delivery seems to have rendered her sterile, as she had no further children by Henry or her second husband. In 1182 Henry accused her of having a love affair with the famed knight William Marshal. Henry repudiated his wife and sent her back to France, and exiled Marshal from his court. Marshal offered to prove his innocence via trial by combat, but this offer was refused. Henry the Young King died of dysentery in 1183, near Martel Castle in the Turenne, while in rebellion against his father and brother Richard. On his deathbed he reportedly asked to be reconciled to his father, but King Henry, fearing a trick, refused to see him. After some drama on the way, Young Henry was eventually buried in Rouen Cathedral, where his tomb can be seen, appropriately, on the opposite side of the altar from his younger brother Richard, with whom he was perpetually quarrelling. The tomb of the Bishop of Rouen, who had married Henry and Margaret, lies nearby in the ambulatory. His brothers Richard the Lionheart and John Lackland both later became king. | Of England, Henry (I7251)
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| 1397 | Henry Thomas Belcher was the forebearer of the Belcher's in VA. | Belcher, Henry Thomas (I4701)
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| 1398 | Henry was also Earl of Huntingdon. | Of Huntingdon, Henry (I8089)
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| 1399 | Henry was Duke of Normandy by usurpation of his brother Duke Robert III, 1106. He was crowned king 6 Aug 1100. Henry I, the most resilient of the Norman kings (his reign lasted thirty-five years), was nicknamed "Beauclerc" (fine scholar) for his above average education. During his reign, the differences between English and Norman society began to slowly evaporate. Reforms in the royal treasury system became the foundation upon which later kings built. The stability Henry afforded the throne was offset by problems in succession: his only surviving son, William, was lost in the wreck of the White Ship in November 1120. The first years of Henry's reign were concerned with subduing Normandy. William the Conqueror divided his kingdoms between Henry's older brothers, leaving England to William Rufus and Normandy to Robert. Henry inherited no land but received £5000 in silver. He played each brother off of the other during their quarrels; both distrusted Henry and subsequently signed a mutual accession treaty barring Henry from the crown. Henry's hope arose when Robert departed for the Holy Land on the First Crusade; should William die, Henry was the obvious heir. Henry was in the woods hunting on the morning of August 2, 1100 when William Rufus was killed by an arrow. His quick movement in securing the crown on August 5 led many to believe he was responsible for his brother's death. In his coronation charter, Henry denounced William's oppressive policies and promising good government in an effort to appease his barons. Robert returned to Normandy a few weeks later but escaped final defeat until the Battle of Tinchebrai in 1106; Robert was captured and lived the remaining twenty-eight years of his life as Henry's prisoner. Henry was drawn into controversy with a rapidly expanding Church. Lay investiture, the king's selling of clergy appointments, was heavily opposed by Gregorian reformers in the Church but was a cornerstone of Norman government. Henry recalled Anselm of Bec to the archbishopric of Canterbury to gain baronial support, but the stubborn Anselm refused to do homage to Henry for his lands. The situation remained unresolved until Pope Paschal II threatened Henry with excommunication in 1105. He reached a compromise with the papacy: Henry rescinded the king's divine authority in conferring sacred offices but appointees continued to do homage for their fiefs. In practice, it changed little - the king maintained the deciding voice in appointing ecclesiastical offices - but it a marked a point where kingship became purely secular and subservient in the eyes of the Church. By 1106, both the quarrels with the church and the conquest of Normandy were settled and Henry concentrated on expanding royal power. He mixed generosity with violence in motivating allegiance to the crown and appointing loyal and gifted men to administrative positions. By raising men out of obscurity for such appointments, Henry began to rely less on landed barons as ministers and created a loyal bureaucracy. He was deeply involved in continental affairs and therefore spent almost half of his time in Normandy, prompting him to create the position of justiciar - the most trusted of all the king's officials, the justiciar literally ruled in the king's stead. Roger of Salisbury, the first justiciar, was instrumental in organizing an efficient department for collection of royal revenues, the Exchequer. The Exchequer held sessions twice a year for sheriffs and other revenue-collecting officials; these officials appeared before the justiciar, the chancellor, and several clerks and rendered an account of their finances. The Exchequer was an ingenious device for balancing amounts owed versus amounts paid. Henry gained notoriety for sending out court officials to judge local financial disputes (weakening the feudal courts controlled by local lords) and curb errant sheriffs (weakening the power bestowed upon the sheriffs by his father). The final years of his reign were consumed in war with France and difficulties ensuring the succession. The French King Louis VI began consolidating his kingdom and attacked Normandy unsuccessfully on three separate occasions. The succession became a concern upon the death of his son William in 1120: Henry's marriage to Adelaide was fruitless, leaving his daughter Matilda as the only surviving legitimate heir. She was recalled to Henry's court in 1125 after the death of her husband, Emperor Henry V of Germany. Henry forced his barons to swear an oath of allegiance to Matilda in 1127 after he arranged her marriage to the sixteen-year-old Geoffrey of Anjou to cement an Angevin alliance on the continent. The marriage, unpopular with the Norman barons, produced a male heir in 1133, which prompted yet another reluctant oath of loyalty from the aggravated barons. In the summer of 1135, Geoffrey demanded custody of certain key Norman castles as a show of good will from Henry; Henry refused and the pair entered into war. Henry's life ended in this sorry state of affairs - war with his son-in-law and rebellion on the horizon - in December 1135 | Henry I, King Of ENGLAND (I3816)
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| 1400 | Her father is named as Samuel Cross on a probate paper for Jesse's estate and a Daniel Cross (Bro?) gave consent for the marriage. She was born in TN in 1809. (Source: lcdrose1@aol.com Diana) I have tracked an elderly Samuel Cross in Gallitin Co, OH in 1830 back to Humphreys Co, TN in 1820 and there is a young Daniel Cross in Perry Co, TN in 1820. Daniel Cross is in 1840 Hamilton Co, IL and it appears there are two couples in the household, a set of parents and a young couple....I think possibly Samuel and his wife are the elderly couple living with son Daniel. I stumbled upon the Samuel Cross in Wilson Co, TN yesterday and I have to wonder if they are the same individual. (Diana) | Cross, Sarah (I4147)
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