Ancestors of Donald Louis Giddens

First Generation

1. Donald Louis Giddens [21985],¹ son of Pfc. Elmer Daulton Giddens "Blue" of Odessa [20560] and Louis Savonne Cox "Bay" [13415], was born on in Lamesa, Dawson, Texas and was christened on 10 Mar 1950 in First Baptist, Denver City, Yoakum, TX. Another name for Donald is Don.

Biography:TX Dawson County, Lamesa. We lived in a shack on the D. L. Adcock place near O'Donnell. D. L. Adcock was my father's first cousin.

Second Generation (Parents)

2. Pfc. Elmer Daulton Giddens "Blue" of Odessa [20560],² son of Mayes Elmer Giddens "M. E." [20559] and Maude Nevada Gilliam Tx Grayson [20558], was born on 1 Feb 1916 in TX Coleman County, Goldsboro, died on 25 Aug 1981 in TX Ector County, Odessa at age 65, and was buried in Sunset Memorial Gardens. Another name for Elmer was Blue Giddens.

Biography.¹ WWII Co B 138th Engineer C Bn

Was awarded two Bronze stars and a Good Conduct Medal

for service in Germany.

Crossed the ocean in the "Queen Mary"

Elmer married Louis Savonne Cox "Bay" [13415]² [MRIN: 5515] on 7 Nov 1937 in O'brien, Haskell, TX by Rev. Woodrow Adcock, cousin. The marriage ended in divorce on 11 Jun 1970.

Children from this marriage were:

i. Samuel Daulton Giddens "Sam" [22210] was born on 12 Nov 1938 in Rochester, Haskell, Texas.

1 ii. Donald Louis Giddens [21985]

iii. Glenda Jane Giddens "Janie" [13411] was born on 11 Jul 1943 in TX Knox County, Knox City.

iv. Leonard Lee Giddens "Doc" [13412] was born on 12 Jul 1944 in TX Jones County, Stamford.

v. Michael Lynn Giddens "Mike" [22211] was born on 3 Oct 1946 in NM Roosevelt County, Portales.

vi. Dorothy Jean Giddens [22911] was born on 22 May 1950 in Denver City, Yoakum, TX.

Elmer next married May Dean Goodner [3917] [MRIN: 73] on 3 Feb 1971 in TX Ector County, Odessa.³

3. Louis Savonne Cox "Bay" [13415],² daughter of Thomas Samuel Cox "Sam" [2] and Mary Mobeetie Lindsey "Beetie" [23], was born on 26 Jul 1919 in TX Mills County, Goldthwaite and was christened in 1928 in TX Jones County, Stamford- By Sam Morris, Famous Preacher.

Religion: : Baptist.

FYI.⁴ Mills County (H-15) is in central Texas, bordered on the north by Comanche County, on the east by Hamilton County, on the south by San Saba and Lampasas counties, and on the west by Brown County. In 1887 the Texas state legislature carved Mills County from lands formerly assigned to Brown, Comanche, Hamilton, and Lampasas counties. Goldthwaite (1990 population: 1,658), the county seat, contains the county's hospital, light manufacturing businesses, and serves as a livestock center.

Autobiographical note.⁵ The Great Depression- by Savonne Giddens, 5/23/1992

The Depression was when you only had clabbered milk for supper, and you got out early in the morning to gather lamb's quarters

for dinner. Dinner was the noon meal- lamb's quarter is a weed. You cook it like turnip greens. Most of the time this was eaten wtih water cornbread. Depression was when the whole family pulled bowls cotton for 35 cents a hundred pounds of cotton. You coasted down all hills to save gas. It was having a coal oil lamp, and buying the oil in you own tin can, putting a potato in the spout for a stopper, cooking on an old wood stove that was missing one leg and waas propped up with bricks. Making all the bed sheets, shirts, and underwear for the entire family out of feed sacks. Little boys pants out of the backs of their dad's old worn-out pants legs. Making towels out of worn-out cotton sacks, and ironing on those old sad irons. Boy, that was sure a good name for them.

Men wore bib overhauls to church and ties. Woman rolled their hair on rags. Lye soap was shampoo.

And everyone has heard about out houses and Sears-Roebuck catalogs. Syrup buckets for lunch boxes, cold biscuits, walk three miles to school...Well, it happened. Then, after that came stupidity. Ask me about that.

Chronological Memories:

I asked Mom in 2002 to tell me what she remembered about each year of her life:

Here's what she said-

1919

1920 age 1

1921 age 2

1922 age 3- Carline born. Papa worked for a Mr. Crow.

1923 age 4-

1924 age 5 Lived on the Nail Ranch near Albany, TX

1925 age 6 pulled cotton boles. Papa paid a nickle a 100 lbs.

1926 age 7 Momma locked Glen in the toilet

1927 age 8 Papa and Lindsey bedridden with rheumatism

People from the church brought groceries.

Lindsey broke into the church and drew a picture of his girlfriend on the board.

Started to school at Big Springs Community a little town near Waco, TX. Had a teacher named Green.

1928 age 9 Lived at Post Community. Papa led the singing at the church. Momma did too, when she was a kid. Mr. West wore a white shirt and overalls to church. When he prayed he said, "Dear Lord, bless them that tis here, and them that ta'int."

Mrs. Coker locked her husband in the cellar for getting drunk. Fed him through the door. When she lt him out he left home.

1929 age 10 Lived at Berryhill Community, east of Leuders, across the street from the Cokers. Played in a two room house with Morgan and Eulla. The boys would scare us.

1930 age 11 Lived at Berryhill. The mail man came to the house and told Momma to stop reusing postage stamps. They cost a nickle.

1931 age 12

1932 age 13 Birthday on the farm between Stamford and Albany.

Papa raised cotton. We went to O'Brien, TX to pick cotton.

1933 age 14 Met Blue (Elmer Daulton Giddens) in Post Community. I was in a play at school with R. B. I was "Jane" in a three act play. Blue and James Adcock, his cousin, both said, "That's the woman I'm going to marry! James Adcock gave me a diamond. We sat down to eat and I blushed all the time.

I dated Pennys Stanford. He had a sister named Odessa.

She played the piano at the show. He married Freddie Lee's cousin.

1934 age 15 Brother (Lindsey Cox) and Audies Coker went to Detroit, Mich to buy new cars. The Cokers were- Tommy, Morgan, Thelma, Julia (married Lindsey Cox,), Mary Alice and Audie.

1935 age 16 Started to get married to Blue. We lived at Post near Paint Creek by Stamford. We rode the school bus to Paint Creek. One boy played with the neck of a balloon that was blowing in his nose. Jim "Hog" Faucett. 6'7"

1936 age 17 They made '36 Fords. We lived on a farm half way between Paint Creek and Stamford, TX.

1937 age 18. Got married at O'Brien November 7.

1938 age 19 Snowstorm in July. Snow was on the ground for 3 weeks. Lived at Rochester, TX

Fact: Two Little Children. TWO LITTLE CHILDREN Sung by: Mrs. Russell Vaughan Recorded in Memphis, TN Click here to listen to the original recording <vaughantwo1252.mp3> (Mrs. Vaughan: “This is one of my favorites. It's kind of sad, but my children always liked it, and I liked it too. The name of it is, 'Two Little Children'.”) Two little children, a boy and a girl, Sat by an old church door. The girl's little hands were as brown as the curls That played on the dress that she wore. The boy's coat was faded, and hatless his head, And the tears shone in each little eye. “Why don't you run home to your Mama?” I said, And this was the maiden's reply: “Mama's in Heaven; they took her away, Left Jim and I alone. We came here to sleep at the close of the day, For we have no Mama nor home. “Papa got lost out at sea long ago, And we waited all night on the shore, But he was the lifesaving captain, you know, And he never came back anymore. “Mama got sick; angels took her away. She's gone to that home of delight. 'The angels are coming, my darlings,' she said, 'Perhaps they will be here tonight.' “Mama's in heaven; they took her away, Left Jim and I alone. We came here to sleep at the close of the day, For we have no Mama nor home.” The sexton came early to ring the church bell, And he found them beneath the snow white. Together they died in the cold there alone, But their souls were with Mama that night. Also found in Brown, Vol. II, #150.

All Songs Recorded by John Quincy Wolf, Jr., unless otherwise noted The John Quincy Wolf Folklore Collection Lyon College <http://www.lyon.edu>, Batesville, Arkansas Back to the Song Index <songs.html> Back to the Wolf Collection Homepage <../index.html> ©Copyright 2002 Lyon College

Louis married Pfc. Elmer Daulton Giddens "Blue" of Odessa [20560]² [MRIN: 5515] on 7 Nov 1937 in O'brien, Haskell, TX by Rev. Woodrow Adcock, cousin. The marriage ended in divorce on 11 Jun 1970.

Louis next married Burton Cleburn Anderson [168] [MRIN: 10017], son of George Cleburne Anderson [1028] and Lena Barnes [1029], on 1 Mar 1971 in Lubbock, Lubbock, Texas. The marriage ended in divorce on 10 Nov 1986.

Third Generation (Grandparents)

4. Mayes Elmer Giddens "M. E." [20559],² son of Ms Tx Thomas Solitaire Giddens "Toby" "Bud Tommie" [12240] and Ada Elizabeth Mayes of Al Greene County [12243], was born on 7 Sep 1886 in MS Madison County, Decatur, died on 28 Mar 1950 in TX Hockley County, Levelland at age 63, and was buried in Price Cemetery, Levelland, TX.

Biographical note.⁶ M. E. and Maude Giddens always had a couple of homeless people living with them. Note the 1930 census.

Mayes married Maude Nevada Gilliam Tx Grayson [20558]² [MRIN: 8669] on 15 Oct 1911 in Brownwood (Brown) TX.

Children from this marriage were:

i. Ada Harriet Giddens of House NM [3884] was born on 15 Jul 1912 in Brownwood, Brown, TX, died on 14 Aug 1980 in Clovis, NM at age 68, and was buried in House, NM.

2 ii. Pfc. Elmer Daulton Giddens "Blue" of Odessa [20560]

iii. Minnie Eargle Giddens "M. E." of Abilene/Dimmitt [3885] was born on 7 May 1914 in Brownwood, Brown, TX, died on 17 Feb 1999 in Dimmitt, Castro, TX at age 84, and was buried in Abilene, Taylor, TX.

iv. Sgt Wilmer Thomas Giddens WWII [3889] was born on 28 Mar 1918 in Laredo, Webb, TX, died on 5 Jul 1997 in Littlefield, Lamb, TX at age 79, and was buried in Price Cemetery, Levelland, TX.

v. Arthur Edwin Giddens WWII [3888] was born on 28 Jun 1920 in Haskell, Haskell, TX, died on 26 Sep 2004 in Abilene, Taylor, TX at age 84, and was buried in Knox, City, TX.

vi. George Ray Giddens of Odessa [3891] was born on 22 Feb 1922 in Haskell, Haskell, TX, died on 27 Apr 1993 in Odessa (Ector) TX at age 71, and was buried in Sunset Memorial Gardens.

vii. Beryl Laverne Giddens [3890] was born on 1 Jan 1925 in Haskell, Haskell, TX, died on 22 Jan 2004 in TX Shackelford County, Albany at age 79, and was buried in Breckenridge TX Cemetery.

viii. Bobby O'Neal Giddens of Odessa [3887] was born on 17 Jan 1927 in Rochester, Haskell, TX, died on 7 Nov 2003 in Odessa, Ector, TX at age 76, and was buried in Sundown Cemetery.

ix. Teddy Egan Giddens [3892] was born on 24 Sep 1928 and died on 23 Nov 1929 in Rochester, TX maybe at age 1.

x. Ella Mae Giddens of Sundown [3886] was born on 11 Feb 1932 in Haskell, Haskell, TX.

5. Maude Nevada Gilliam Tx Grayson [20558],² daughter of George Rufus Gilliam of Tn Rhea County [20149] and Harriet Didymus Holloway of Tn Rhea County [20150], was born on 26 Sep 1892 in TX Fannin County, (Grayson) Savoy, died on 30 Mar 1979 in Lubbock, Lubbock, Texas⁷ at age 86, and was buried in Price Cemetery, Levelland, TX.

Biographical note: 2003, Greenville, TX.¹ Our grandmother, whom the "Blue" Giddens' kids called, "Ma",

was a sweet-dispositioned person. I never heard her raise her voice.

"Ma' gave all her grandchildren a Christmas present, even though she would be called "low-income" nowadays. The boys got a sack of marbles, the girls, "paper-dolls", I think. That was a good Christmas in those days.

I have since lost all my marbles, but hope to find them all eventually.

Every once in a while I find one in the yard, and think of my grandmother.

They say she was red-headed and freckle-faced when she was young.

She weighed around 90 pounds when she was married, but grew to about twice that; and so have we all.

I loved going to her house when we lived in Sundown because she would always take time to talk to me. She was also a blessing to me when I was a teenager, and she lived with us briefly in Odessa. Janie Rogers said, My Grandma Giddens was in walking distance from my house nearly my entire growing up years in Sundown. There were so many cousins, but we were all special and loved by her. She let me help her cook, iron pillow cases when she took in ironing, and we would listen to the radio while she worked. We were always pumped to listen for the top 20 Country and Western songs. She was a tremendously strong and vibrant woman and always on mine and Butch's and Ted's side. Someone had to be because we were a handful to a very young mother! Only one granddad was alive when we were little. He was our Papa Giddens and we loved him fiercely. One of the best memories is when he and my dad and uncles rescued survivors after the tornado that destroyed the north end of Sundown. They kept bringing more and more people to the tiny house my grandparents owned. This rescue was after being sure all of us were safe in a storm cellar. My mom had our picture made for the grandparents' Christmas the last year he was alive. It was wrapped flat like a calendar. I will never forget how excited I was for them to open it. I knew they were going to be thrilled out of their minds because it was a picture of us. And you know.... they were..... They were our grandparents

Religion. Methodist.

FYI.⁴ In 1873 a post office opened; also in the 1870s the Savoy Male and Female College began operations and the Texas and Pacific Railway extended its tracks through the community. By that time Savoy had twenty-five businesses, including several cotton gins, four dry-goods stores, two steam gristmills, two hotels, and a hardware store. On the eve of World War Iqv Savoy had some twenty-seven businesses, including a bank and a weekly newspaper; by the end of World War IIqv it had thirteen businesses...

Maude married Mayes Elmer Giddens "M. E." [20559]² [MRIN: 8669] on 15 Oct 1911 in Brownwood (Brown) TX.

6. Thomas Samuel Cox "Sam" [2], son of Jesse Thomas Cox "Tom" [1] and Amanda Theresa Sanders of Albany, TX [19], was born on 22 May 1883 in TX Llano County, Tow Valley, died on 19 Dec 1960 in TX Taylor County, Abilene⁸ at age 77, and was buried on 21 Dec 1960 in TX Shackelford County, Albany.

General Notes: Letter from Papa Cox to us Giddenses when my dad was in WWII.

As he wrote it...

Addressed to Mrs. E. D. Giddens

General delivery

Hereford, Texas 5/25/1944

Stamford, Satday 20 at night 1944 Texas

Dear Bay Sambous Donn and little

sister don't gess you think I

ever think of you all but I do and hope

that God will take care of my children

more than maby you think because

they was all good kids one as thottur

We are all well at this time wheat will

make 10 or 15 to the akres 100/.50 akers maze

up will start planting cotton Monday

well Sam ole Joe came back and 6 or 7

days but he is in Stamford now when

come back we will go and get him and

take (...?)

Do you ever see that Knetth. gess

he is mad at me he won't write any more

Send me Blue's address I want to write to him

I hope you take care of yourself, Bay

and don't weary too much this will

soon be over befor long

Love to all your dad

T. S. Cox

Medical Notes: Parkinson's disease

Illness. When Papa Cox was about 55 he was diagnosed with Parkinson's Disease. This caused his right hand to tremble, but did not progress worse than that.

FYI. Tow is on Farm Road 2241 and the western shore of Lake Buchanan, twenty miles northeast of Llano in northeastern Llano County. When William Tow arrived with his family in 1853, he named the nearby area in which he settled Tow Valley. The Handbook of Texas Online is a joint project of The General Libraries at the University of Texas at Austin and the Texas State Historical Association.

Llano County (I-15), in Central Texas, is bounded on the north by San Saba County, on the east by Burnet County, on the south by Gillespie County, and on the west by Mason County. Llano County was organized in 1856 after the Texas legislature formed the county from the Bexar District and Gillespie County. Communities in the county include Llano, the county seat (1990 population, 2,962), Kingsland (2,725), Horseshoe Bay (1,222 in Llano County, partly in Burnet County), and Sunrise Beach (497).

Occupation: : Stamford/Haskell, TX.¹ Sam and Beetie Cox were sharecroppers. He also worked on the Swenson Ranch or SMS as a cowboy in his earlier years, I think.

Fact.¹ "Papa" and "Grandmother" were 18th cousins because each had the same 19th great-grandparents, Alexander Fitzwalter, High Steward of Scotland who lived 1214-1283 in Scotland.

Census: 1890.

Census: 1900.

Census: 1910.

Census: 1920, TX MIlls, Goldthwaite.

Census: 1930, TX Shackelford County, Albany.

Memories of Sam COX: 2002, TX. Papa Cox, my grandfather, was a member of the First Baptist Church of Albany, TX, where he served as Sunday School Superintendent. My grandmother "Beetie" Cox served as Adult Sunday School teacher there for many years. They were strong Christians. Both of them prayed for me personally before they died, as I'm sure they prayed for all their grandchildren.

My best memory of Papa Cox is hearing him pray in church. He wept when he cried out to God.

Papa and Grandmother were share-croppers between Stamford and Haskell.

"Papa"'s dream was to build a rescure mission in Albany, a dream he was never able to realize.

Don Giddens, Pastor, First Baptist Church, Blanding, UT, 2002.

Kinship report: 2004, Greenville, TX.¹ T. S. "Papa" Cox probably heard how many Kings and Queens his in-law Lindsays were kin to: but he probably never knew those to whom he could claim some kin-

Namely-

President Zachary Taylor* was his 3rd cousin twice removed,

CSA President Jefferson Davis was the husband of his 4th cousin,

Dr. Daniel Cocke, Physician to the Queen MAYBE his 5th great-grandfather -or- MAYBE the cousin of his 5th great-gandfather sent out ships that claimed much of the future America for the Queen.

Papa's sister-in-law was the granddaughter of the founder of Dallas, TX. ,John Neely Bryan; (this was the only tidbit of information we always bragged about when we were kids)

other than we were kin to Buck Jones (which we were not)

His 7th great-grandparents, William Armistead and Ann (Ellis) Armistead were the grandparents of TWO United States Presidents- the Harrisons, Benjamin and William Henry,

President William Henry Harrison was his 4th cousin,

President Benjamin Harrison was his 6th cousin.

Most importantly, the Coxes were strong, enthusiastic Christians.

*Zachary Taylor was his cousin as follows:

Thomas Samuel Cox (1883-1960) was the grandson of Josias Hardin Sanders (1829-ca 1865) son of Abby Robbins who married

Rev. John Sa(u)nders , a pioneer Baptist preacher of Georgia;

Josias Hardin Sa(u)nders was the great- grandson of

the Smothers-Dabneys who were the great-grandparents of Zachary Taylor who was the father-in-law of Jefferson Davis.

Fact: 2005, Greenville, TX.¹ Thomas Samuel Cox, in particular through the COX lines, was kin to the following:

President Zachary Taylor- 2nd cousin 3 times removed

President William Henry Harrison- 4th cousin 3 times removed

President Benjamin Harrison- 6th cousin once removed

President Jefferson Davis, CSA- husband of 3rd cousin twice removed

Grandfather- Josias HARDIN Sanders, KIA, Civil War

Great-grandfather- Pastor John Sanders, Baptist

2nd great-grandfather- Pastor Moses Saunders RWS, Baptist

2nd great-grandfather- Captain John Hudgins RWS

2nd great-grandfather- Jesse Ellis, RWS

3rd great-grandfather- Howell Freeman, RWS

4th great-grandfather- Daniel Cox, Esquire- owned all of NJ and most of NC

4th great-grandfather- Captain John Robbins

5th great-grandfather- Dr. Daniel Cox, Physician to the Queen- financed the exploration of America from NJ to NM- claiming it all for the Queen

5th great-grandfather- Colonel William Byrd

5th great-grandfather- Captain Thomas Massie, House of Burgesses

5th great grandmother- Catherine Armistead

5th great-grandfather- Colonel Robert Beverly

5th great-grandfather- Matthew Rushing, a persecuted Protestant

6th great-grandfather- William Armistead- ancestor of two US Presidents- the Harrisons

6th great-grandfather- LT. Simon Dolor Davis

6th great-grandmother- Ann E. Ellis, grandmother of two US Presidents- Harrison

6th great-grandfather- Colonel Warham Horsemandin

6th great-grand uncle- General Edward Massie

6th great-grandfather- Rev. David Saunders, Baptist

7th great-grandfather- Captain Thomas Stegge

7th great-grandfather- Captain Dolor Davis

7th great-grandfather- Earl Anthony Ashley Cooper

7th great-grandfather- Anthony Armistead

7th great-grandfather- Major William Hancock

7th great-grandfather- Randall Holt of Hogg Island

7th great-grandfather- Rev. Horsemandin, D. D. - Rector of Kent

7th great-grandfather- Esquire John Massie of Coddington

1st cousin 6 times removed- General Nathaniel Massie

8th great-grandfather- Roger Armistead

8th great-grandfather- Ichabod Davis

8th great-grandfather- Esquire Richard Grovesnor of Eaton

8th great-grandfather- Rev. Richard Horsemandin

9th great-grandfather- Sir Richard Brooke, Bart of Norton

9th great-grandfather- Sir John Cox, Royal Navy

9th great-grandfather- Colonel Bridges Freeman

9th great-grandfather- Sir John Saunders

10th great-grandfather- Henry Hudson, the Navigator

10th great-grandfather- Rev. Joseph Josias Hull, Puritan

10th great-grandmother- Annabel Buchanan

11th great-grandfather -Patrick Buchanan

11th great-grandfather- Esquire Edward Massie of Larton

13th great-grandfather- Sir Knight Walter Stewart

14th great-grandffather- Duke Murdoch Stewart

15th great-grandfather- Sir Maurice Buchanan

15th great-grandfather Prince Robert Stewart

16th great-grandfather- Sir Maurice Buchanan, Sr.

16th great-grandfather- King Robert II Stewart

17th great-grandmother- Princess Margaret Bruce

17th great-grandfather Sir Knight Walter Stewart III

18th great-grandmother- Queen Isabel Matilda de Mar of Scotland

18th great-grandfather- King Robert VIII de Bruce

18th great-grandfather- Lord James Stewart

19th great-grandfather- Earl Robert VII de Bruce

19th great-grandfather- Alexander Fitzwalter, High Stewart of Scotland

20th great-grandfather- Neil, Earl of Carrick, Regent of Scotland

20th great- grandfather-Baron Robert de Bruce "The Competitor"

20th great grandfather- Walter Fitzalan, High Stewart

21st great-grandfather- Alan de Heslin- 2nd Great Stewart

21st great-grandfather- Earl Duncan de Carrick

22nd great-grandfather- Walter Fitzalan 1, First Great Stewart

22nd great-grandfather- Walter de Heslin, Great Stewart

22nd great-grandfather- Baron William de Bruce

22nd great grandfather- Earl Gilbride de Angus

23rd great-grandfather- Baron Alan de Heslin

23rd great-grandfather- Lord Wm. Fitzalan

23rd great-grandfather- Earl Dufugan de Angus

24th great-grandfather- Sheriff Alan Fitzlaad

24th great-grandmother- Queen Matilda , Countess of Flanders

25th great-grandfather- Baudoin, Count of Flanders

25th great-grandfather- Robert, Duke of Normandy

26th great-grandfather- Baudoin the Bearded, Count of Flanders

26th great-grandfather- Count Alan de Dol

26th great-grandfather- Richard, Duke of Normandy

27th great-grandfather- Duke Eudo de Bretagne

27th great-grandfather- Richard the Fearless, Duke of Normandy

27th great-grandfather- Arnold the Young, Count of Flanders

28th great-grandfather- Baudoin the Third, Count of Flanders

28th great-grandfather- William the First, "Longsword" Duke of Normandy,

29th great-grandfather- Arnold the First, Count of Flanders

29th great-grandfather- Rollo, Duke of Normandy

31st great-grandfather- Baudoin , "Iron Arm" Count of Flanders

31st great-grandmother- Judith, Princess of the West Franks

32nd great-grandfather- Odoscer, Count of Harlbec

32nd great-grandfather- Charles the Bald, Roman Emperor

33rd great-grandmother- Ermigard, Queen of France

33rd great-grandfather- Engleran, Count of Harlbec

33rd great-grandfather- Louis I, Roman Emperor

34th great-gradnfather- Liderie, Count of Harlbec

34th great-grandfather- Charlemagne, Roman Emperor

35th great-grandfather- Pepin the Short, King of the Franks

36th great-grandfather- Charles Martel

39th great-grandfather- Saint Arnulfus

42nd great-grandfather- Munderic, Lord of Vitrey

43rd great-grandfather- Cloderic, King of Cologne

44th great-grandfather- Siegburt, King of Cologne

Compiled by Don Giddens- 2005.

Thomas married Mary Mobeetie Lindsey "Beetie" [23] [MRIN: 25] on 24 Mar 1907 in TX Mills County, Goldthwaite- by Rev. Templin.

Children from this marriage were:

i. "Lindsey" Thomas Lindsey Cox [34] was born on 16 Feb 1908 in TX Mills County, Goldthwaite, died on 24 Jul 1969 in TX Haskell, Haskell⁷ at age 61, and was buried in TX Haskell, Haskell.

ii. Sammye Walter Elizabeth Cox "Sammye" [38] was born on 28 May 1909 in TX Mills County, Goldthwaite, died on 3 Oct 1997 in TX Shackelford County, Albany at age 88, and was buried in TX Shackelford County, Albany.

iii. "Imogene" Mary Imogene Cox of Abilene [35] was born on 20 Apr 1911 in TX Mills County, Goldthwaite, died on 8 Dec 1997 in TX Taylor County, Abilene at age 86, and was buried in TX Shackelford County, Albany.

3 iv. Louis Savonne Cox "Bay" [13415]

v. Minnie Carline Cox "Carline" [36] was born on 13 Nov 1922 in TX Shackelford County, Albany.

vi. Glenn Watson Cox WWII [37] was born on 2 Oct 1924 in TX Dawson, Patricia, died on 9 Feb 2001 in TX Haskell, Haskell at age 76, and was buried in Haskell, Haskell, TX.

7. Mary Mobeetie Lindsey "Beetie" [23], daughter of Charles William Lindsey of TX Parker County [298] and Harriet Elizabeth Lewis of San Saba Texas [299], was born on 5 Sep 1887 in TX San Saba County, San Saba, died on 23 Sep 1954 in Stamford, Jones, Texas at age 67, and was buried in TX Shackelford County, Albany.

Religion: : First Baptist Church Of Albany.

Biographical note.¹ Grandmother Cox loved to make dolls to give away. She prayed for, and also corresponded with missionaries all over the world. She also wrote poems. I can remember her singing "Will There Be Any Stars in My Crown?"

FYI.⁴ San Saba, the county seat of San Saba County, is on U.S. Highway 190 eighty-seven miles northwest of Austin in eastern San Saba County. When the county was organized a year later, San Saba won election as the county seat. BIBLIOGRAPHY: Alma Ward Hamrick, The Call of the San Saba: A History of San Saba County (San Antonio: Naylor, 1941; 2d ed., Austin: Jenkins, 1969).

Name. Grandmother Cox was named after the town Mobeetie, TX that burned the day she was born.

Illness: 1949.⁸ adenocarcinoma rt breast grade 3

Mary married Thomas Samuel Cox "Sam" [2] [MRIN: 25] on 24 Mar 1907 in TX Mills County, Goldthwaite- by Rev. Templin.

Fourth Generation (Great-Grandparents)

8. Ms Tx Thomas Solitaire Giddens "Toby" "Bud Tommie" [12240],² son of Ga Ms James Thomas Giddens Rr Engineer [12943] and Martha Jane Paul of Ga Henry County [13895], was born on 9 Jun 1857 in GA (NC According To 1860-70 Census MS), was christened in 1890 in 105 S. 4Th Waco, TX Shoemaker,⁹ died on 30 Apr 1935 in TX Harris County, Houston at age 77, and was buried in TX Lavaca County, Yoakum.

note of Jms T Giddens: 10 Jul 1855, GA Atlanta. so, Thomas S. 's dad was in Atlanta then.

Census records say Thomas S. was born in 1857 in NC.

Then, James T. died in Canton MS 1858.

Perhaps he was in NC in 1857 as a RR engineer.

Fact: 1858, MS Madison County, Canton. Thomas Solitaire Giddens was sixteen months old when his father died of yellow fever.

Health. T. S. Giddens was born with a club foot. He walked with a cane or crutches.

According to a letter written to his half-sister in 1938, he also had trouble with his ears. His son, M. E. Giddens was almost deaf.

Severall of M. E. Giddens' children have been almost deaf or totally deaf when they reached their old age.

Census: 1860, MS Madison County, Canton. with Deputy Sheriff William J.Taylor and Martha J. (Paul) Giddens Taylor

Census: 1870, MS Madison County, Canton. By The 1870 CENSUS Thomas Solitaire Giddens, thirteen, was on his own. He said that he raised himself on the Mississippi.

Census: 1880, MS Newton County, Decatur. Giddens, T. S. 23 M W Farming SC (all other censuses say NC)

parents GA GA

Giddens, Ada (wife) 23 F W AL

parents AL AL

Census: 1890.

Census: 1900.

Census: 1910.

Census: 1920, TX Jones, Stamford.

Census: 1930.

Thomas married Ada Elizabeth Mayes of Al Greene County [12243]² [MRIN: 5216] on 20 Feb 1880 in MS Newton County, Decatur.

Children from this marriage were:

i. Martha Ella Giddens Schoolteacher [5050] was born on 16 Jan 1881 in Decatur, Madison, MS, died on 2 Aug 1959 in Houston, Harris, TX at age 78, and was buried in Yoakum, Lavaca, TX Yoakum Cemetery.

ii. Jessie Ada Giddens [5051] was born on 13 Oct 1882 in Decatur, Madison, MS and died in 1973 in TX Dawson County, Lamesa at age 91.

iii. Minnie Coit Giddens [5052] was born in 1885 in MS, died in 1969 in TX Ector County, Odessa at age 84, and was buried in Laredo Cemetery, Laredo Texas.

4 iv. Mayes Elmer Giddens "M. E." [20559]

v. Grady McNiel Giddens boilermaker RR [5053] was born on 21 Mar 1889 in MS Newton County, died on 25 Oct 1918 in Yoakum, DeWitt, TX at age 29, and was buried in Yoakum, Lavaca, TX. Another name for Grady was Grady McNeal.

vi. Thomas Egan Giddens RR mechanic [5054] was born on 23 Feb 1892 in Waco, McLennan, TX and died on 6 Sep 1937 at age 45.

vii. Mary Lou Giddens [5055] was born circa 1898.

viii. Byron Andrew Giddens Dairyman [5056] was born on 3 Dec 1898 in Seymore, Baylor, TX and died on 15 Sep 1984 in TX Washington County at age 85.

ix. Samuel King Giddens RR fireman [5057] was born on 8 Jun 1902 in Glen Rose, Somerville, TX, died on 24 Apr 1961 in TX Tarrant, Ft. Worth at age 58, and was buried in Emerald Hills, Kennedale.

Thomas next married someone.

His child was:

i. Tx Samuel King Giddens [12309]

9. Ada Elizabeth Mayes of Al Greene County [12243],² daughter of Samuel Otis (Otterson) Mayes of Al Greene County [3595] and Mary S. Bouchillon of Al Greene County [3596], was born on 15 Aug 1857 in AL Greene County, Boligee,, died on 2 Dec 1932 in TX Laredo, Webb at age 75, and was buried in TX Lavaca County, Yoakum.

Ada married Ms Tx Thomas Solitaire Giddens "Toby" "Bud Tommie" [12240]² [MRIN: 5216] on 20 Feb 1880 in MS Newton County, Decatur.

10. George Rufus Gilliam of Tn Rhea County [20149],² son of James Dudley Gilliam [20416] and Sophronia Adeline Paul of Tn Rhea County [3594], was born on 26 Apr 1859 in TN Rhea County, Spring City,¹⁰ died on 2 Jan 1941 in TX Brownwood⁸ at age 81, and was buried on 3 Jan 1941 in Hamlin, TX.

Biographical note. Schoolteacher.

Devout Christian. His family had family devotions out of the Bible every day.

Biographical note. Aunt Ella Mae Giddens said George Rufus and wife were sweet Christians.

Fact. George Rufus Gilliam was a short man with a large handle-bar mustache.

Census: 1900, TX Fannin County.

Census: 1940, TX.

George married Harriet Didymus Holloway of Tn Rhea County [20150]² [MRIN: 8469] on 1 Sep 1881 in TN Rhea County, Spring City.

Children from this marriage were:

i. Harriet Adaline Gilliam [20151] was born on 5 Jan 1884 in TN Rhea County¹⁰ and died on 24 Aug 1969 in Perry, Houston, GA¹¹ at age 85.

ii. Allie Bessie Gilliam [3503] was born on 28 Aug 1887 and died on 22 Aug 1964 in Brownwood, Brown, Texas at age 76.

5 iii. Maude Nevada Gilliam Tx Grayson [20558]

iv. Ora Belle Gilliam [5724] was born on 15 Jan 1891 in TX Fannin County, died on 30 Oct 1969 in TX Jones County⁷ at age 78, and was buried in Hamlin, Texas.¹²

v. Rosa Araminta Gilliam [3504] was born on 24 Jul 1895 in TX Fannin, now Grayson, Savoy, died on 4 Feb 1961 in TX Brownwood¹² at age 65, and was buried in Hamlin Cemetery.¹² Another name for Rosa was Minnie S.

vi. William Bailey Gilliam [3507] was born on 3 Jan 1901 in TX Fannin County and died on 12 Oct 1918 at age 17.

11. Harriet Didymus Holloway of Tn Rhea County [20150],² daughter of Pleasant Monday Holloway of Tn Rhea County [20200] and Harriet Davis of TN Rhea County [20201], was born on 27 Apr 1859 in TN Rhea County, Spring City,¹⁰ died on 31 Dec 1941 in TX Brownwood⁸ at age 82, and was buried in TX Jones County, Hamlin.

Biographical note. twin

Census: 1880, TN Rhea County. censused with her parents

Harriet married George Rufus Gilliam of Tn Rhea County [20149]² [MRIN: 8469] on 1 Sep 1881 in TN Rhea County, Spring City.

12. Jesse Thomas Cox "Tom" [1],¹³ son of Israel Cox of TX Wood County [17] and Sarah Elizabeth Hudgins of TX Wood County [20], was born on 14 Jun 1849 in MS Tishomingo, (Parents MS MS),¹⁴ was christened in 1880 in TX Llano County, died on 16 Dec 1932 in TX Shackelford, Albany, Nail Ranch at age 83, and was buried in TX Haskell, Rockdale Cemetery.

General Notes: Uncle Louis said (when he as 100)- "My dad was a woodchopper. He raised wood. I was there when Jesus took him. Brother Sam was a good hand.

Jim a fiddler. Bessie and Bertha were sweeties. Never had scraps with brothers.

Thomas Jesse and Amanda were the sweetest Christians I knew- Savonne Giddens

Thomas Jesse was trail boss on the Chishom Trail

Thomas Jesse tried to go to NM, but the Colorado River as too deep, so they went to Llano County. Uncle Glen said it was 1865.

Another family story says that the Sanders brothers (James Lafayette, and Jefferson) did not want Amanda to marry T. J., so they chased them until they came to the Colorado River and had to turn back because the Colorado River was too high. If so, Amanda and T. J. were nice about it, because they named their first son James Lafayette Jefferson Cox "Uncle Jim" after Amanda's brothers.

Church membership: : First Baptist Church Of Albany. Tom and Mandy went to camp meetings in a wagon.

FYI: : Tishomingo County, MS. Iuka, county seat

Tishomingo County, was formed from the Chickasaw

cessions of 1832. It was amongst the largest counties

to be formed in the State of Mississippi and has in its

history been referred to as, The State of Tishomingo.

At that time it consisted of present day Alcorn and

Prentiss counties, until they were divided

in 1870. Tishomingo was named after a leading

Chickasaw chief TISH-O-MINGO meaning;

" Warrior Chief "

Fact. We went to see Thomas Jesse and Mandy. Grandma had hidden raisins from Uncle Louis, and she made us a raisin pie.

Physical note. Savonne (Cox) Giddens said Thomas Jesse Cox was short and slightly stooped.

Census: 1860, TX.

Census: 1870, TX.

Census: 1880, TX Llano County. Tom Cox farmer 30

Mandy

James 6

Isreal 4

Marthy

Nora

Census: 1890, TX Llano County. Tom Cox and Mandy

Census: 1900, TX Llano County. Probably since Bertha was born there in 1899.

Census: 1910, TX.

Census: 1920, TX.

Census: 1930, TX Shackelford County, Albany.

Biographical note: 1992, TX Shackelford County, Albany.¹ Uncle Louis Cox, youngest son of Thomas Jesse and Amanda, said that his father was

a trail driver on the Chisolm trail. He also said that he rounded up buffalo in Shackleford County.

Uncle Lewis told of the following conversation of his father, Thomas Jesse Cox, and mother, Amanda, as follows:

"Tom, I wish you would stop that cold air in that crack."

Tom replied, "I'll have to go to Uncle Rube Miller's and sharpen my ax!"

Uncle Lewis said his father daubed it with mud and stopped it up.

Thomas Jesse was a wood chopper. He raised wood. He would get up in the middle of the night and chop a load of wood and take it to Lampasas. A stranger offered him

$2.50 for a load. Thomas Jesse said, "By grab, I didn't charge anyone else that much, and I'm not going to charge you any more."

He was always fairer to the other man than he was himself.

He signed his name with an "X". Amanda said, "Let me teach you how to sign your name (to vote for Roosevelt). He said, "They know my "X".

He would whip you pretty dad-gum quick.

We lived on the Gooch place. The Indians had killed the entire family of Gooches.

We had to pull broomweed to make brooms.

Jesse married Amanda Theresa Sanders of Albany, TX [19]¹³ [MRIN: 19] on 4 Jun 1872 in TX Erath.¹⁵

Children from this marriage were:

i. "Uncle Jim" James Lafayette Jefferson Cox Pro Fiddler [49] was born in 1874 in TX Llano County, Tow Valley,¹⁶ died in 1960 in TX Llano County, Tow Valley age 86 at age 86, and was buried in Tow Cemetery, Llano TX. Another name for James was James Lafette Jefferson Cox.

ii. Israel Alfred Cox "Bud" [50] was born in 1875 in TX Bosque County,¹² died in 1955 in Haskell, Haskell, TX¹² at age 80, and was buried in Red Springs/Henson Cemetery, Seymore, Baylor, TX.¹⁷

iii. Nora Dell Cox [51] was born in 1878 in TX Llano County, Llano, died in 1960 in TX Burnet, Burnet¹⁸ at age 82, and was buried in Tow.

iv. Martha Ann Cox [52] was born in 1879 in TX Llano County, Tow Valley and died in 1896 in TX Llano County, Llano at age 17.

v. William "Will" Richardson Cox [253] was born on 18 Jun 1881 in Tow (Llano) TX, died on 3 Nov 1968 in Seymore, TX¹⁹ at age 87, and was buried in TX Baylor County, Red Springs Henson Cemetery.

6 vi. Thomas Samuel Cox "Sam" [2]

vii. Brooks Monroe Cox Cowboy [39] was born on 12 Sep 1886 in TX Llano County, Llano and died in Nov 1979 in TX Archer County, Archer City²⁰ at age 93. Another name for Brooks was Brooks Cox.

viii. Elmer Edgar Cox Dairyman [40] was born on 8 Jan 1888 in TX Llano County, Llano and died in Sep 1986 in TX Jones County, Stamford²¹ at age 98. Another name for Elmer was Elmer Cox.

ix. "Lewis" Louis L Cox 102 Yrs cowboy [41] was born on 12 Apr 1890 in TX Llano County, Llano, died on 4 Oct 1992 in TX Shackelford County, Albany²² at age 102, and was buried in TX Shackelford County, Albany.

x. "Aunt Bessie" Rosa Elizabeth Cox 92 Yrs [43] was born on 27 Aug 1895 in TX Llano County, Llano, died in 1987 in TX Haskell County at age 92, and was buried in Albany City Cemetery.

xi. Bertha May Cox [42] was born on 8 May 1899 in TX Llano County, Llano, died in Apr 1988 in TX Mills County, Goldthwaite²³ at age 88, and was buried in TX Mills County, Mullin.

13. Amanda Theresa Sanders of Albany, TX [19],¹³ daughter of Josiah Hardin Sanders CSA + [128] and Sarah Elizabeth Rushing of Tn Madison [121], was born on 3 Apr 1855 in TX Wood Maybe, was christened in 1880 in TX Llano County, died on 30 May 1930 in Luvern, Haskell, Texas at age 75, and was buried on 31 May 1930 in TX Haskell, Leuders, Rockdale Cemetery. Another name for Amanda was Mandy.

Alt. Death: 1930, TX Albany, Nail Ranch. Cancer Of The Stomach-

Savonne (Cox) Giddens always thought it was because she ate spoiled canned sweet potatoes.

Religion: : First Baptist Church Of Albany.

Biographical note: Cir 1925, Nail Ranch, Albany, TX.¹ Amanda and Tom lived in a house with a dirt floor. Amanda swept the floor and kept it

clean. She ironed all of the clothes (on a Sad iron of course), even the sheets.

They were sweet Christians. Tom Cox had a long beard.

From Don Giddens' Bible leafs-

"We search the world for truth ,

We cull the good, the pure, the beautiful,

And weary seekers of the best,

We come back laden from the quest-

To find that all the sages said

Is in the Book our mothers read."

-Unknown

Family Tales: 1871, TX. Savonne Giddens said Amanda Theresa Sanders had a daughter named Amanda Theresa Sanders before she married Tom Cox in 1872.

Amanda married Jesse Thomas Cox "Tom" [1]¹³ [MRIN: 19] on 4 Jun 1872 in TX Erath.¹⁵

14. Charles William Lindsey of TX Parker County [298],²⁴ son of Adam Linn Lindsey of Springtown, TX [302] and Mary Jane Wormington of Springtown, TX [303], was born on 16 Sep 1849 in MO Newton County, Neosho, died on 19 Apr 1918 in TX Parker County, Veal Station at age 68, and was buried in TX Parker County, Veal Station.

Occupation: : Goldthwaite TX.²⁵ City Marshall,

twelve years as tax collector

Occupation: : Tax Collector, Goldthwaite, Mills, TX.

Residence: 1853, Came To TX Fr Neosho, MO.

Census: 1880, TX Parker County.

Immigrated: 1882, San Saba County.²⁵

Owned: After 1882, Four Or Five Sections.¹ according to the courthouse records at San Saba.

Census: 1900, San Saba, San Saba, Texas. Widower

Charles married Harriet Elizabeth Lewis of San Saba Texas [299] [MRIN: 232] on 11 Jan 1872 in Thorp Springs, Hood County TX.

Children from this marriage were:

i. Herschell Hale Lindsey [584] was born on 26 Aug 1873 in Parker Co., TX, died on 22 Aug 1925 in Pear Valley, McCulloch, TX at age 51, and was buried in Pear Valley, TX (ghosttown) (age 52).

ii. Walter Grey Lindsey [585] was born on 26 Jan 1875 in TX Parker County, Veal Station, died on 24 Jun 1952 in TX San Saba County, San Saba at age 77, and was buried in Richland Springs City Cemetery.

iii. Samuel J. Tilden Lindsey [586] was born on 31 Mar 1877 in Shady Grove, Parker Co., TX, died on 7 Jun 1957 in China Creek, San Saba, TX at age 80, and was buried in China Creek Cemetery, San Saba TX.

iv. Morgan Conrad Lindsey [587] was born on 31 May 1878 in Weatherford (Parker Co.) TX, died on 17 Mar 1957 in TX Andrews County, Andrews⁸ at age 78, and was buried in Andrews Cemetery. Another name for Morgan was Coonie.

v. Dora Caldonia Lindsey [588] was born on 14 Sep 1879 in Parker Co., TX, died in 1944 in Altus, Okla at age 65, and was buried in Duke, Okla.

vi. Lansing Monroe Lindsey [589] was born on 6 Mar 1881 in TX Parker County, Veal Station, died on 4 Jan 1939 in Stamford, Jones, TX⁸ at age 57, and was buried in Spring Creek Cemetery, Avoca.

vii. Clay Miller Lindsey [590] was born on 23 Sep 1883 in TX San Saba County, San Saba, died on 20 Dec 1956 in Fw, TX at age 73, and was buried in TX San Saba County, San Saba.

viii. Linnie Lee Lindsey [591] was born on 13 Jul 1885 in Cat Claw, San Saba, TX, died on 23 Jun 1955 in TX San Saba County, San Saba⁸ at age 69, and was buried in Mullin, Oak View Cemetery.

7 ix. Mary Mobeetie Lindsey "Beetie" [23]

x. Robert Russell Lindsey [592] was born on 31 Oct 1890 in TX San Saba County, San Saba, died in Jun 1942 in TX Taylor County, Abilene at age 51, and was buried in Goldthwaite TX.

xi. Adam Lynn Lindsey Tx San Saba [593] was born on 17 Aug 1891 in TX San Saba County, San Saba, died on 8 Jan 1974 in Brownwood, Brown, TX at age 82, and was buried in China Creek Cemetery, Near San Saba.

xii. Minnie Elizabeth Lindsey [594] was born on 21 May 1894 in TX San Saba County, San Saba, died in Apr 1967 in Lamesa, Dawson, TX at age 72, and was buried in Lamesa, Dawson, TX.

Charles next married Annie Mckendree Cook [598] [MRIN: 233], daughter of Octavius? Cook Land Certificate [7084] and DALTON? [7085], on 28 Jun 1901 in Goldthwaite, Mills, TX By Judge Dalton, a cousin.

Children from this marriage were:

i. Ward Louis Lindsey Driller [595] was born on 21 Mar 1904 in TX San Saba County, San Saba, died on 15 Oct 1962 in TX Tarrant County, Azle at age 58, and was buried in TX Parker County, Veal Station.

ii. Joe Wheeler Lindsey Ranchhand [596] was born on 20 Aug 1905 in Goldthwaite, TX, died on 16 Apr 1962 in Aspermont, Stonewall, Texas at age 56, and was buried in Stamford, Jones, Texas Highland Cemetery.

iii. Glenn Dalton "John" Lindsey The Rodeo Clown [597] was born on 18 Dec 1906 in TX Mills County, died on 28 Apr 1974 in Fw, TX at age 67, and was buried in TX Parker County, Veal Station.

15. Harriet Elizabeth Lewis of San Saba Texas [299], daughter of Our Stephen William Lewis KIA CSA [730] and SARAH Sidney Letha Stennett of Ms Jasper [1232], was born on 28 Mar 1853 in MS Jasper, Claiborne maybe, died on 23 Mar 1899 in China Creek, San Saba TX at age 45, and was buried in China Creek Cemetery, San Saba TX.

General Notes: Alice, Fannie, Charles, and Thomas were adopted by a John Matheny.

His wife, Massie Matheny b 8/22/1806

d. 1/22/1874

Wife of J. D. Matheny. "She died a Christian."

Medical Notes: blue eyes, black hair

Alt. Birth: 1859, MS.²⁶

Adoption: Abt 1865. By a Mr. John Matheny. It is possible he might have been some kin.

Census: 1870, TX Hood County. Harriet (11) and Charles (15) were censused with John Matheny who adopted them. In 1870, Hood County, TX they lived next door to a John D. Lewis b 1838 GA, wife, Sarah b 1839 AL, and son, Willy b 1853 AL.

Census: 1870, MS Scott census. pg0177a.txt 179b 25 Levy Sallomon 8 France pg0177a.txt 192b 32

Lewis Abby 20 Mississippi pg0189a.txt 170a 2

Lewis Babe 5 Mississippi pg0165a.txt 251b 14

Lewis C. W. 58 Tennessee pg0246a.txt 192b 31

Lewis Easter 13 Mississippi pg0189a.txt 251b 13

Lewis Filding 62 Tennessee pg0246a.txt 192b 29

Lewis Frank 30 Mississippi pg0189a.txt 192b 34

Lewis Grimes 30 Mississippi pg0189a.txt 177b 15

Lewis H. F. 35 North Carolina pg0177a.txt 251b 18

Lewis I. E. 9 Tennessee pg0246a.txt 169b 40

Lewis James 11 Mississippi pg0165a.txt 243a 26

Lewis Jas. 52 Georgia pg0239b.txt 256b 27

Lewis Jerry 20 Mississippi pg0252a.txt 243a 27

Lewis Lou 50 Georgia pg0239b.txt 177b 18

Lewis M. E. L. 8 Mississippi pg0177a.txt 177b 20

Lewis M. F. L. 3 Mississippi pg0177a.txt 177b 19

Lewis M. J. L. 6 Mississippi pg0177a.txt 251b 15

Lewis M. K. 28 Mississippi pg0246a.txt 177b 16

Lewis M. L. 26 Mississippi pg0177a.txt 169b 39

Lewis Mariah 38 Alabama pg0165a.txt 240a 6

Lewis Mary 37 Mississippi pg0239b.txt 170a 3

Lewis Mary 3 Mississippi pg0165a.txt 251b 20

Lewis O. W. 5 Louisiana pg0246a.txt 249a 19

Lewis P. 12 Virginia pg0246a.txt 251b 19

Lewis R. M. 7 Louisiana pg0246a.txt 251b 17

Lewis S. A. 18 Mississippi pg0246a.txt 251b 16

Lewis S. E. 25 Mississippi pg0246a.txt 192b 30

Lewis Sam 15 Mississippi pg0189a.txt 170a 4

Lewis Tom 6/12 Mississippi pg0165a.txt 177b 17

Lewis W. E. L. 10 Mississippi pg0177a.txt 240a 5

Lewis Wm. 27 Alabama pg0239b.txt 192b 33

Lewis Wright 6/12 Mississippi pg0189a.txt

Harriet married Charles William Lindsey of TX Parker County [298]²⁴ [MRIN: 232] on 11 Jan 1872 in Thorp Springs, Hood County TX.

Fifth Generation (Great Great-Grandparents)

16. Ga Ms James Thomas Giddens Rr Engineer [12943],²⁷ son of Our James 1800 Giddens Unproven F/O Jms T [13376] and Sarah J. [13377], was born in 1827 in GA DE Kalb, Atlanta,²⁸ died before 12 Oct 1858 in MS Madison County, Canton,²⁹ and was buried in maybe Rose Hill, Macon, Bibb, GA.³⁰ Another name for James was Giddings.

Census: 1820.

Census: 1830, GA Hancock. if same son censused with George and Sarah

Census: 1840.

Newspaper: 1848, GA Bibb, Macon. letter unclaimed at the postoffice at Macon.

Could be 1818? Abstracts has 1818

Census: 1850, GA Dekalb.³¹ James Gittons b 1800 NC, farmer

Sarah J. b 1814 GA

no children

This might be James Thomas Giddens' parents, if our family history is correct. I. E. that James Thomas Giddens was born in Atlanta.

Rimmer, next door to

James Gillings engineer 1827 GA THIS IS JAMES T GIDDENS!!!!!!

Lucy 19 GA

William 1 GA

William L. Giddens born: 1850, GA Bibb County, Macon. I can find no Giddenses in the Bibb 1850 census however.

note of Jms T Giddens: Jul 1855, Atlanta, GA. Atlanta, GA 7/10/1855

On the 21st of January I promise

to pay Lemuel Kindrick

Two hundred dollars for value received with interest from date.

James T. Giddens

Note: He sighned it GIDDENS.

Thomas S. Giddens: 9 Jun 1857, NC According To Census Info.

Letter: 13 Sep 1857, Atlanta, GA. Letter from James T. Giddens to his wife, Martha J. (Paul) Giddens

Atlanta, September 13, 1857

Dear wife, (in Athens, Clarke GA)

I received your letter this morning and it gave me very great pleasure to hear from you and the children, and particularly to hear that LURA was getting better.

I am well but rather low-spirited.

BALDWIN says that he has more men at present than he wants but that he will give me work soon. I want to go to MACON tomorrow morning, and then I will come back to Atlanta Tuesday morning, and if Mr. Baldwin has not given me work by that time I thought I would go west to Nashville; and if I do not get work on that word ,I will go and see HANK HOBBS and PETER JAMMERREE and see if I can't get some money out of them. It won't cost me anything hardly to go out there. And while I am doing nothing, I thought I had better go. The house is rented until Christmas. WALLACE got the check. Mrs. CANNON had a baby ( a boy) about a month old. Mrs. CALLAHAN had one while she was gone north, and she has been back since the middle of July. It is a girl, I think. I'm boarding

at SMITH's now and when I got here I found GILLON and family and THOLLIN

and family here. I shall write this by hand and if you get it by Monday evening

and if you want to write to me again before I go to Nashville you must mail it by Tuesday morning or if you send it Wednesday you must send it by hand as where you mail a letter there by morning I can't get it until the next morning

before I go to Nashville. I want to go to Chattanooga Wednesday night and then to Nashville. Tell my FATHER not to be mad at me, and I will try not to offend him the same way next time.

Tell MA FULLER and Mrs. WELCH howdy for me. Kiss LU for me. Tell WILLY

that he must be a good boy. And kiss DORA and TOBY for me. And next my love for you, dear wife. JAMES HASKELL has gone to Rushing, LA. Mrs. PRICHARD has gone to Griffin to live. HASSY REESE is married to a man by the name of BOOKER, a train hand on the road. Nothing more, but remain,

Your affectionate husband,

J. T. Giddens

JAMES HASKELL's I. O. U. the cow for $13. THACKLEPORT has not had an offer for the lot yet.

Occupation: 1858. Railroad engineer from Canton, MS to New Orleans. Thomas Giddings (according to the Canton paper) caught yellow fever in New Orleans, and died in Canton.

Evergreen Oddfellows Lodge: 12 Oct 1858, MS Canton. Whereas- by an afflicting dispensation of an Almighty Providens, Evergreen Lodge, N-39, IOOF, has been called upon to mourn the loss of Brother J. T. GIDDENS therfore:

Resolved- that in the death of Brother Giddens this Lodge has been bereaved of one who had won the esteem and admiration of all who knew him, and who though....this Lodge but for a short time period....have become one of its most useful and...members.

Resolved- that these resolutions be spread upon the minutes of the Lodge and that the secretary be directed to transmit a copy of the same signed by the officers of the Lodge under seal to the family of our deceased brother, J. T. Giddens.

James W. Anderson,NG

Joseph Jeffrie, VG

R. W. Gould, secretary

from Notes of D. L. Adcock, Lamesa, TX

Census: 1860, MS Madison County, Canton. William J. Taylor NC 28 Saddler and Jailer $6000

Martha J. (Giddens-Paul) Taylor 22 GA b 1838

Thomas Giddens 3 NC

Facts: 2003.³¹ James Thomas Giddens' descendants have found few clues for his ancestors to positively identify them.

Suffice it to say there are several conjectures:

4. FRANCIS GIDEON Macon, Bibb County, GA Giddenses-

Our great-grandfather wrote a letter to his wife, Martha, in 1858 saying "Tell my father not to be mad at me..." The only Giddens there in 1860 was a Francis Giddens. We have no clues which one or who his father was.

James Thomas was married in Macon in 1846 to Lucy Hobbs, his first wife by whom he had a son, WIlliam L. Giddens. William L. Giddens, a railroad engineer, moved to Laredo. Later on ca 1920 our Thomas Solitaire Giddens moved to Laredo also, knowing his half-brother lived there.

The first Gideon in Bibb county was a Francis Gideon who sold land to a Needham Mims. A Mims Gideon is found later on in Bibb County, as is a Gideon Mims. Perhaps there is a relationship to these two families. (I think Gene Mims is a Needham Mims descendant.)

Anyway, James Thomas wrote a letter to his wife, Martha Paul Giddens, in Athens, Ga 1858 telling her to "tell my father not to be mad at me". The only Giddens censused in Athens in 1860 was a Francis Gideon b 1790. The several Francis Gideons were also descendants of James 1711.

George Giddens 1787 also has ties to Bibb County. His wife, Sarah Powell, had a uncle or father who moved to Macon also. Was he a son of Francis? Was James Thomas a son of Francis? Did James who was born in 1711 once live in Maryland?

5. Aunt Ella Mae Burnett thinks that James Thomas' father was the George b 1787, and that they were from CT as were the Gillons who were in-laws of James Thomas...or maybe they were descendants of George b 1609 and Jane antrobus Lawrence.

The same note that says George was a descendant of the John of Maryland says that they were from St. Albans, Herefordshire, England as were George born 1609 and Jane Antrobus Giddings. (Their descendants continue to spell their name Giddings).

1. GERMAN GIDEONS/Guithins

My grandfather, Mayes Elmer Giddens, and father both said they were Germans.

This does not mean they came from Germany, but probably came from Germany or England or Ireland to Maryland, then NC then GA. If so, they are among the Germans who fled from Europe from severe religious persecution to Maryland, NC, or SC. Among them were a Rev. George Adam Guithins (Giddens), pastor. These Germans were thrifty, industrious, and Loyalists. There is a Peter Gideon line who came to VA, but their George Gideon does not appear to be our's.

2. JAMES Giddens b 1711 Ireland d 1820 TN age 109

Many Giddens are his descendants. It is possible we may be also; and if so, probably through his son Richard or Roger of Jackson County, GA. My grandmother, Mrs. Mayes "Maude" Giddens, said that a Word Giddens came to see my grandfather from time to time, and that they were kin. Word was a grandchild of Richard Giddens who married Margaret Word. Could the James who was born in 1711 in Ireland be of German descent? Yes. The religious persecuted fled from one country to another.

3. George Giddens b 1787 NC of Sparta GA and Baltimore, Maryland. was censused in Canton, Madison, MS with Rimmers two years after James T. died. According to the 1830 GA Hancock census, he had one son James Thomas' age, and one daughter, Eliza's age. Our James Thomas Giddens was censused in 1850 Atlanta next door to a Rimmer. George was also in Atlanta that census. A Thomas Giddens left Hancock county and went to Alabama. George won land in GA Jackson county in a lottery. Roger, Francis, and WIlliam Giddens lived in Jackson County, GA, and were decendants of James 1711. The George Giddings of Sparta, Hancock, GA was a descendant of John Giddens of Maryland, who was a member of the House of Burgesses, a man of no small consequence in the history of Maryland. Some of John's descendants say he was Welsh or English.

And yes, he could have been Welsh and English.

The Maryland Guithins (Gittins, Gittings, Giddens) were named Basel, and Morris, and Benjamin through the generations. No other Giddens' lines have these names.

The Morris Giddens' go back many generations both in England and Wales. A Basel, Benjamin, and Morris Giddens all eventually moved to GA. Basel moved on to AL, and had a James Thomas. These lines can be traced back to the John of Maryland through Basel and Morris. Their descendants spell the name many ways including: Guithins, Gittings, Giddeons, Gethins, and Gathings. (Wallace Gideons of Odessa and LA was a descendant of the Gathings. They are all the same as they are descendants of Basel, Phillip, Morris, or John. Suffice it to say that the Maryland Giddens are either Germans or descendants of John and the long line of Morris (Maurice) Giddenses.

James married Lucy S. Hobbs of GA [12244]² [MRIN: 5215], daughter of Elam Hobbs Of Ga Monroe County [12245] and Martha Mary Chapell Heath [12981], on 29 Aug 1846 in Bibbs County, GA.³²

Children from this marriage were:

i. William Lawrence Giddens RR Engineer [88] was born in 1850 in Macon, Bibb, GA³³ and died on 10 Aug 1911 in Laredo, Webb, TX at age 61. Another name for William was William Laurence.

ii. Lura Giddens [12248] was born circa 1848 and died in 1859 in MS⁶ at age 11.

iii. Dora Giddens [12249] was born circa 1849 in GA.

James next married Martha Jane Paul of Ga Henry County [13895]² [MRIN: 5664] Est 1855.

Children from this marriage were:

8 i. Ms Tx Thomas Solitaire Giddens "Toby" "Bud Tommie" [12240]

ii. Associates Of James Thomas Giddens [13667]

James next married Martha Paul [22915] [MRIN: 9878], daughter of James Kennard Paul [22916] and Abigail Libbey [22917].

17. Martha Jane Paul of Ga Henry County [13895],² daughter of Archibald Young Paul War of 1812 [13893] and Martha P Russell [13894], was born on 31 Jul 1836 in GA³⁴ and died on 28 Nov 1893 in MS Leflore County, Greenwood⁶ at age 57.

Census: 1860, MS Madison County, Canton. Martha was born 1838 in GA per this census

Census: 1870, MS Madison County, Canton. Martha was born 1838 GA per this census.

Thomas Giddens 13 was born in NC again per this census.

Census: 1880, MS Issaquena. W. J. Taylor 47 farmer NC, NC NC

M. J. Taylor 42 Housekeeper GA GA GA

Lucy Taylor 15 School MS NC GA

Jessie Taylor 13 School MS NC NC

Sarah Taylor 11 School MS NC NC

Ella Taylor 9 School MS NC NC

Fleta Taylor 7 School MS NC GA

Census: 1890, MS Leflore Maybe.

Biographical note: 1938, MS Greenwood. "Mother had two children before she married William J. Taylor," Jessie Bacon- 1938.

Who was the other child- Lura, Dora? or someone else?

Was Martha J. married before she married James Thomas Giddens? Was she Martha (Hobbs) Paul?

Martha married Ga Ms James Thomas Giddens Rr Engineer [12943]²⁷ [MRIN: 5664] Est 1855.

Martha next married William J. Taylor Deputy Sheriff [13132]³⁵ [MRIN: 5616], son of Allen Taylor [11401] and Emily [11402], on 31 Oct 1859 in MS Canton, Madison.

Children from this marriage were:

8 i. Ms Tx Thomas Solitaire Giddens "Toby" "Bud Tommie" [12240]

ii. Lucy Taylor [13683] was born in 1865 in MS.³⁶

iii. William J Taylor [13133] was born in 1872 in MS.

iv. Jessie Lee C. Taylor [13684] was born in 1867 in MS³⁷ and died after 1938 in MS Greenwood Resident.

v. Sarah Taylor "Sadie" [13685] was born in 1869 in MS³⁷ and was christened in 1904 in MO St. Louis Resident.³⁸

vi. Ella Taylor [13686] was born in 1871 in MS.³⁷

vii. Fleta A. Taylor [13687] was born in 1873 in MS³⁷ and was christened in 1904 in MS Greenwood Resident.

viii. Edna Taylor [13690] was born Est 1875 in MS, was christened from 1910 to 1935 in New York City Teacher, and died after 1938 in TN Memphis Maybe.

18. Samuel Otis (Otterson) Mayes of Al Greene County [3595], son of Anthony Mayes of AL Greene County [3627] and Cynthia Otterson of AL Greene County [3628], was born in 1824 in AL Greene County, Eutaw and died in 1882 in MS Newton County, Decatur at age 58.

Occupation. Plantation owner

Census: 1880, MS Newton County. S. O. Mays 56 AL farmer SC SC

Julia Mays 18 dau AL

Samuel N Mays son 15 AL AL AL

Samuel married Mary S. Bouchillon of Al Greene County [3596] [MRIN: 1406] on 10 Apr 1854 in AL Greene County, Eutaw.

Children from this marriage were:

9 i. Ada Elizabeth Mayes of Al Greene County [12243]

ii. Julia Mayes [22073] was born in 1862 and died after 1880 in MS Newton census.

iii. Samuel Noah Mayes [22074] was born in 1884 in AL and died in 1957 at age 73.

19. Mary S. Bouchillon of Al Greene County [3596], daughter of John T. Bouchillon Elder [3597] and Elizabeth or Betsey Doolittle of TX Falls County [3598], was born in 1834 in AL Greene County, Eutaw, died in 1873 in MS Newton County, Decatur at age 39, and was buried in Doolittle Cemetery.

CSA: 1863, Doolittle Cemetery. In 1863, more than 1000 soldiers were brought to Newton for medical attention. Of these, 100 died. There was no public cemetery in the community. The Doolittle family gave permission for the Confederate soldiers to be buried in their family plot. 100 wooden crosses were erected bearing the names of the soldiers buried beneath. After 31 years, the wooden crosses had rotted, erasing the identity of the soldiers buried there. Today, on these graves, small stone markers reading "UNKNOWN CONFEDERATE", honor their lives and beliefs in a cause they found worth dying for. Phone:(601)683-2201.

Mary married Samuel Otis (Otterson) Mayes of Al Greene County [3595] [MRIN: 1406] on 10 Apr 1854 in AL Greene County, Eutaw.

20. James Dudley Gilliam [20416],² son of Nathaniel 1790 Mason Gilliam Nc Tn [20148] and Sarah L Davis Sally [20160], was born on 29 Aug 1824 in TN Rhea County, Spring City TN VA NC,³⁹ died on 7 Nov 1907 in TN Rhea County, Spring City at age 83, and was buried in Gilliam Cemetery Near Spring City. Ancestral File Number: Dist 2 222D 1880.

Biographical note: Cir 1865, Civil War. James D. Gilliam served in the 1st Reg TN Cal

TN Csa TN Cal 6Th (Wheeler's) Or 1St Reg TN Cal

Our James D. Gilliam "suffered severely" in the CSA.

Biographical note.¹ Selected as an elder of the Old Friendship Church, Rhea County, TN. An elder in those days was the pastor (in some churches).

Fact. James Dudley Gilliam hid their money in a tree. After the Civil War, he got it out and they moved to TX in an ox cart.

Census: 1880, TN Rhea County. James 55 TN farmer

Sophronia 39 TN

George 21 TN laborer, my grandfather

William 19 TN

James 17 TN

Jesse 14 TN

Nora F 11 TN

Miranvin M 8 TN

Sydna M 2 TN

James married Sophronia Adeline Paul of Tn Rhea County [3594] [MRIN: 1403] on 7 Nov 1858 in TN Rhea County, Spring City.

Children from this marriage were:

10 i. George Rufus Gilliam of Tn Rhea County [20149]

ii. Harriet J Gilliam [3485] was born in 1860 in Spring City, Rhea, TN.

iii. William V Gilliam [6716] was born in 1861 in TN Rhea County, Spring City.

iv. James Dudley Gilliam Jr [6717] was born in 1863.

v. Nathaniel 1863 B Gilliam [3486] was born in 1863 in Spring City, Rhea, TN.

vi. Jesse Floyd Gilliam [3492] was born in 1867 in TN Rhea County, Spring City, died in 1941 in TN Rhea County probably at age 74, and was buried in Old Friendship Cemetery Tow Springs Rd Rhea TN.

vii. Sarah M Gilliam [6719] was born in 1869.

viii. Miravin Gilliam [6720] was born in 1871.

ix. Richard Waterhouse Gilliam [4765] was born on 10 Jan 1874 in Spring City, Rhea, TN,⁴⁰ died on 18 Mar 1958 in Spring City, Rhea, TN⁴¹ at age 84, and was buried in Old Spring City Cemetery.

x. Jewel Alice Gilliam Alice [3509] was born on 5 Dec 1875 in TN Rhea County, Spring City and died after 1930 in Spring City, Rhea, TN.

xi. Sidney H. Gilliam [3378] was born on 27 Oct 1877 in Spring City, Rhea, TN¹⁹ and died on 12 Jan 1923 in Spring City, Rhea, TN¹⁹ at age 45.

xii. Nora Gilliam [17161] was born in 1878 in TN Rhea County.⁴²

James next married Sophronia Adeline Paul of Tn Rhea County [3594] [MRIN: 1369] on 13 Oct 1858 in Spring City, Rhea, TN.

Children from this marriage were:

i. Harriet J Gilliam [3485] was born in 1860 in Spring City, Rhea, TN.

ii. Nathaniel 1863 B Gilliam [3486] was born in 1863 in Spring City, Rhea, TN.

iii. John C Gilliam [3487] was born on 25 Dec 1864 in Spring City, Rhea, TN and died on 21 Nov 1884 at age 19.

iv. Acoline Gilliam [3488] was born in 1868 in Spring City, Rhea, TN.

v. Elizabeth 1873 Gilliam [3489] was born in 1873 in Spring City, Rhea, TN.

vi. Richard Waterhouse Gilliam [4765] was born on 10 Jan 1874 in Spring City, Rhea, TN,⁴⁰ died on 18 Mar 1958 in Spring City, Rhea, TN⁴¹ at age 84, and was buried in Old Spring City Cemetery.

vii. Sarah Gilliam [3490] was born in 1875 in Spring City, Rhea, TN.

viii. Phebe C Gilliam [2581] was born on 13 Nov 1880 in Rhea County, TN.⁴³

10 ix. George Rufus Gilliam of Tn Rhea County [20149]

x. Sidney H. Gilliam [3378] was born on 27 Oct 1877 in Spring City, Rhea, TN¹⁹ and died on 12 Jan 1923 in Spring City, Rhea, TN¹⁹ at age 45.

xi. William V Gilliam [6716] was born in 1861 in TN Rhea County, Spring City.

xii. Jesse Floyd Gilliam [3492] was born in 1867 in TN Rhea County, Spring City, died in 1941 in TN Rhea County probably at age 74, and was buried in Old Friendship Cemetery Tow Springs Rd Rhea TN.

xiii. Jewel Alice Gilliam Alice [3509] was born on 5 Dec 1875 in TN Rhea County, Spring City and died after 1930 in Spring City, Rhea, TN.

21. Sophronia Adeline Paul of Tn Rhea County [3594], daughter of Archibald Duncan Paul of Tn Rhea County [2588] and Cynthia Breeding of Tn Rhea County [2587], was born on 24 Feb 1841 in TN Rhea County, Spring City, died on 16 Jan 1884 in TN Rhea County, Spring City at age 42, and was buried in Gilliam Cemetery Near Spring City.

Sophronia married James Dudley Gilliam [20416]² [MRIN: 1403] on 7 Nov 1858 in TN Rhea County, Spring City.

Sophronia next married James Dudley Gilliam [20416]² [MRIN: 1369] on 13 Oct 1858 in Spring City, Rhea, TN.

22. Pleasant Monday Holloway of Tn Rhea County [20200],⁴⁴ son of Samuel Holloway of TN Putnam County [3644] and Frances Davisson or Davidson Nc [3645], was born in 1825 in TN Rhea County, Spring City, died in 1885 in TN Rhea County, Spring City at age 60, and was buried in TN Putnam County.

Census: 1800, TN Rhea Census. 119 119 HALLOWAY Pleasant M 47 M W Farmer 400 TN Harriette 50 F W k-h VA

Eliza A 20 F W k-h TN

John S 17 M W Farm Laborer TN

Nancy E 14 F W TN

Harriette 12 F W TN

Manerva 8 F W TN

Elmira? 8 F W TN 120 120

Census: 1870, TN Rhea County, Sulphur Springs.

Namesake. "Pleasant Monday" was a Methodist church social night.

He must have been born on a "Pleasant Monday".

Occupation. Farmer

Census: 1880, TN Rhea. Pleasant Holloway 56 TN farmer NC NC

Harriet 60 VA VA VA

Eliza F 30 TN TN VA

Nancy 24 TN TN VA

Harriet 21 TN TN VA

Minerva 17 TN TN VA

Almina 17 TN TN VA

District 1, Page 208 D

Pleasant married Harriet Davis of TN Rhea County [20201]⁴⁵ [MRIN: 8490] on 2 Mar 1845 in TN Rhea County, Spring City.

Children from this marriage were:

11 i. Harriet Didymus Holloway of Tn Rhea County [20150]

ii. Sarah Holloway [4708] was born in 1845.⁴⁰

iii. Mary E Holloway [4709] was born in 1848.⁴⁰

iv. Eliza Ann Holloway [4710] was born in 1850⁴⁰ and died after 1880 in TN Rhea County census.

v. John Holloway [4712] was born in 1852.⁴⁰

vi. Nancy Holloway [4713] was born in 1857.⁴⁰

vii. Elmira Holloway [4714] was born in Apr 1862 in TN Rhea County⁴⁰ and was christened in 1880 in TN Rhea County census.

viii. Minerva J Holloway [4716] was born in 1862.⁴⁰

ix. Emily Holloway [6762] was born in 1852.

x. Eliva Holloway [6763] was born in 1857.⁴⁶

Pleasant next married Jane Crews [4670] [MRIN: 1935] on 26 Feb 1843 in TN Rhea.

23. Harriet Davis of TN Rhea County [20201],⁴⁵ daughter of William Davis [4368] and Harriet Goodridge [4369], was born on 5 Jun 1818 in VA VA VA⁴⁷ and died after 1880 in TN Rhea County, Spring City.

General Notes: probably a granddaughter of Samuel

Harriet married Pleasant Monday Holloway of Tn Rhea County [20200]⁴⁴ [MRIN: 8490] on 2 Mar 1845 in TN Rhea County, Spring City.

Harriet next married William Hawkins [5585]⁴⁸ [MRIN: 2371] on 4 Jan 1837 in VA Orange County.

24. Israel Cox of TX Wood County [17], son of John Cox Sawmill owner [22343] and Sarah Smith [4373], was born on 13 Apr 1810 in SC Pendleton District, was christened in 1860 in TX Wood County, census, died before 1870 in TX Tarrant Maybe, and was buried in TX Tarrant, Minter's Chapel Cemetery On D/Fw Airport Property.⁴⁹

General Notes: Owned land in Tarrant County near Haslett.

Reportedly died on a land buying trip and buried there. So, that must have been the land at or near Haslett. 320 acres. DLG

Migration. One reason people some people moved often was because you could make enough on your land to buy MORE land out West, and land was free for the claiming.

Census: 1830, SC Pendleton District.

Biographical note: 1836. Israel Cox is listed in the history of the Methodist church in Alabama as an early Methodist.

He may have been a pastor or missionary.

Al Land Records: 1839, AL Jackson County.

COX, ISRAEL

Land Office: HUNTSVILLE Sequence #:

Document Number: 10378 Total Acres: 39.81

Misc. Doc. Nr.: Signature: Yes

Canceled Document: No Issue Date: August 01, 1839

Mineral Rights Reserved: No Metes and Bounds: No

Survey Date: Statutory Reference: 3 Stat. 566

Multiple Warantee Names: No Act or Treaty: April 24, 1820

Multiple Patentee Names: No Entry Classification: Sale-Cash Entries

Legal Land Description:

# Aliquot Parts Block # Base Line Fractional Section Township Range Section #

1 NESE HUNTSVILLE No 3S 5E 22

Census: 1840, AL Dekalb.¹ 10001 12001

Censused "down the road"...

Isaac Little , J. Johnson, L. McPherson, Geo, McPherson, Jn Briggs, J. G. Winston, W. YCammie?, W. M. Bimmon?, B. H. Berry, J. Berry, J. Busket, D. Malone, H. Lovelady, W. M. Byown, M. H. Stuart, T. Pitts, D. McDaniel, W. M. Griffin, ISRAEL COX

Census: 1850, MS Tishomingo County. Down the road

John Scruggs TN, C. Mcbride TN, Israel COX SC, J. C. Combs VA, Joseph Lester SC

Residence: Apr 1853, TX Tarrant.⁵⁰ 1853-1854: They migrate to Texas...From the notes of Mrs. Maurine Milson: "In the spring of 1854 Israel and Elizabeth traveled to Texas with her brother, El Nathan Hudgins and his family. They stopped in Birdville, (Tarrant County) Texas. After Israel Cox rented a house and settled his family, he registered in Tarrant Co. In the school census it shows that he registered his school age children: 1. Delila E. Cox; 2. Martha J. Cox; 3. Mary A. Cox; 4. Harriet E. Cox."

Estate Sale: 1856, TX Tarrant. Estate Records- Tarrant Co., TX, Vol. 18, p.3 Estate of D. Woodward, deceased,

ISRAEL COX among many who owed the doctor money. 7/5/1856.

Poll tax: Jul 1856, TX Tarrant.⁵¹ Israel Cox paid poll tax-

1856-50 cents, a state tax of 50 cents, and a county tax of 25 cents. No real property listed.

1857-1857: Israel Cox reported as having paid a poll tax of 75 cents, a state tax of 50 cents, and a county tax of 25 cents. No real property listed.

1858- First ownership of real property appears: 111 (?) acres, Israel COX original grantee; 22 cattle.

Texas Land Abstracts: 1859, TX Tarrant. District: Robertson

County: Tarrant

Grantee: Liberty J. Teeter

Patentee: Israel Cox

Patent Date: 05 Jul 1859

Patent #: 422

Patent Volume: 24

Acres: 320

Class: Rob. 3rd.

File: 2826

Census: 1860, TX Wood, Springville. COX

Israel 51 M Farmer SC

Elizabeth 41 Fe Tn

John B. 21 M Laborer Al

Delilah 20 Fe Al

Mary A. 17 Fe Ms

Harriett E. 13 Fe Ms

Thomas 10 M Ar

James 8 M Tx

Samuel 2 M Tx

Elizabeth 17 Fe Il

Emory, the county seat and largest town of Rains County, is at the junction of U.S. Highway 69 and State Highway 19, at the center of the county. When Rains County was organized in 1870 Springville became the county seat, and the name was changed to Emory in honor of Rains, who had played an important role in the authorization of the county. BIBLIOGRAPHY: William Oscar Hebison and Ambrose Fitzgerald, Early Days in Texas and Rains County (Emory, Texas: Leader Print, 1917; rpt., Garland, Texas:...

Civil War: 1861, TX.⁵¹ 1861 - According to his son, Jim Cox, Israel was alive at the beginning of the war, because he gave the family's best horses to his daughters' husbands (or husband's-to-be) when they went off to war. I found some of these men listed on the Wood County Gen Web site under the listings of men who'd mustered into the CSA from Wood County.

However, Dee Flacy wrote me that at the end of the war, Jim took his younger brother Samuel, and they "wandered the countryside, surviving as best they could." I do not know why this would have been, with grown siblings living nearby (if they'd stayed in Wood County) or Elizabeth's family nearby (if they'd returned to Tarrant County, where Dee says Israel & Elizabeth are buried). M y dad often told me that his grandfather Jim Cox had been raised by an uncle, El Nathan Hudgins, who was the founder of the First Methodist Church of Grapevine. In 1870, Israel's youngest child, Samuel, is found in the census in the household of Thomas Hudgins, one of El Nathan's sons, but Jim Cox is not found in El Nathan's home or in Thomas' home

Biographical note: Cir 1870, TX. Israel Cox is said to have died on a land-buying trip.

Israel married Sarah Elizabeth Hudgins of TX Wood County [20] [MRIN: 21] on 6 Mar 1836 in AL Jackson County.⁵²

Children from this marriage were:

i. John B. Cox [256] was born on 19 Feb 1837 in Bellafonte (Jackson) AL/Jackson Co., AL and died after 1870 in TX Wood County, Point/Emory.

ii. Delila E. Cox [257] was born on 23 Nov 1838 in AL Jackson County, Bellafonte, died on 10 Feb 1904 in Goldthwaite, TX at age 65, and was buried in Rocksprings Cemetery.

iii. Martha Jane Cox [263] was born on 26 Sep 1843 in Bellafonte, Jackson, LA⁵³ and died after 1880 in TX Kaufman County census.

iv. Mary Ann Cox [33] was born on 10 Jun 1845 in MS Tishomingo County, died in 1914 in OK Love County, Orr⁵⁴ at age 69, and was buried in OK Orr Cemetery.

v. Elizabeth Frances Cox [47] was born on 13 Oct 1846 in MS Tishomingo County and died before 1860.⁵⁵

vi. Harriet Elizabeth Cox [48] was born on 23 Jul 1848 in MS Tishomingo County, was christened in 1850 in MS Tishomingo County, and died after 1880 in TX Tarrant census.

vii. Alabama Eveline Cox [44] was born on 10 Jan 1852 in TX and died in 1853 at age 1.

viii. James William Cox Lawyer [262] was born on 4 Jan 1854 in Grapevine, Tarrant, TX, died on 12 Jun 1952 in San Angelo, Tom Green, TX⁴⁹ at age 98, and was buried in Emory, Rains, TX Emory Cemetery.

ix. Samuel Israel Cox [264] was born on 6 May 1859 in TX Tarrant County, Birdville, died on 26 Apr 1941 in TX Tarrant, Tate Springs at age 81, and was buried in Hawkins, Kennedale Cemetery, Tarrant, TX.

12 x. Jesse Thomas Cox "Tom" [1]

25. Sarah Elizabeth Hudgins of TX Wood County [20], daughter of Benjamin J Hudgins Sc Pendleton [265] and Martha Ellis [266], was born on 6 May 1819 in TN Franklin, Winchester Maybe, was christened in 1860 in TX Wood County census, died before 1870 in TX Tarrant Maybe, and was buried in TX Tarrant Minor's Cemetery On D/Fw Airport Property.

Census: 1870. I can't find her, so she may have died before the census as did he.

Sarah married Israel Cox of TX Wood County [17] [MRIN: 21] on 6 Mar 1836 in AL Jackson County.⁵²

26. Josiah Hardin Sanders CSA + [128],⁵⁶ son of Rev. John Sanders Baptist War of 1812 [3701] and Alexandria Richardson Robins [4032], was born in 1829 in TN McNairy Maybe and died in Nov 1863 in CSA Civil War, "Round Mountain Battle" maybe⁵⁷ at age 34. Another name for Josiah was Hardin Sanders, or Saunders.

General Notes: J. H. Sanders

Regiment Name Baird's Reg't Texas Cavalry (Showalter's)

4th Cal AZ Brigade Confederate

Company D

Soldier's Rank_In Private

Soldier's Rank_Out Private

No I do not have much on the Sanders, I found Martha and her family in the 1860 census, her father was listed as J. H. Sanders 28yrs, TN and mother L. E.(Elizabeth Rushing), children M. J. (f) 6yrs, A. T. (f) 5yr, J. M.(m) 3yrs. 1870 census, Elizabeth is now married to a E.C. Hicks,

Children, Sanders, Martha 16, Amanda 14, James 12, Lafayett 9, Jefferson 7,.

My thought on J. H. is he may have died in the Civil War but have not proof, I have not been able to find any thing on him. I do know where Elizabeth's family lived in Van Zandt Co. and a family cemetery is. I also have found a Jefferson and Lafayett Sanders in the 1900 census in OK, I do know they lived in OK, Elizabeth is living with one of them and is quite old, she also divorced E. C. Hicks in Rains Co. TX in the 1880's.

My dads sister Vada is still living and is 87 yrs old and has a wonderful memory she has help me so much, she remembers Jefferson and Lafayette coming to visit them but can't remember where in Ok they lived their wife's or children.

I remember Martha I was about 8yrs old when she died and I remember her as a mean old woman that would not let us come in the room where the fire place was she would chase us out with the poker, some memory !!

I have a picture of her I will send you and also a picture of her, James and all the kids. I will send them separate. I will also send you the info I have on both families. It will take me awhile to send that I have a little info that I need to add.

How are you related to the Rabe's. Are you close to Salt Lake City?

----- Original Message -----

From: Helen Skaggs

To: donlgiddens@hubwest.com

Sent: Thursday, October 18, 2001 8:49 PM

Subject: Rabe's

Hi Rev. Don, I saw you gen. info. you added to the World Connect Project(Ancestry.Com).

I would be interested in knowing more about your family and how you connect to mine.

James Rabe/ Martha Sanders.

And I would like to sent you the correct info on Richard Rabe/Josie Allen, you see that is my grandparents and their son Claude was my dad.

I have quite a bit of info on Robert W/ Mary Polly Stockton and James/Martha, I would be glad to exchange info.

I live in Van Alstyne, TX, where do you live?

Helen

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A Francis Sanders 1776-1826 is buried in Jackson, Madison, TN where some of the Rushing girls were born.

Aletha Sanders d 10/12/1837 bd next to him.

In 1850, A Mary L Sanders 65 is censused b NC.

Companies of Van Zandt County

[Mr. Roberts notes that pages 17 through 20 of the original archive papers were missing.]

12th Brigade TX Miltia

V A N Z A N D T C O U N T Y T E X A S

The first Company organized in this County was a Volunteer

Company, organized by Capt. Whetstone and heretofore forwarded

to your office asking immediate service in the State or out of it.

C O M P A N Y N O . 2 ( R E S E R V E )

1. Casper McBride, Capt. 6. W. R. White, 2d Sargt.

2. B. W. Anderson, 1st Lt. 7. J. Bruton, 3d "

3. P. J. Hill, 2nd " 8. G. Y. Ellis, 4th "

4. J. W. Reeves, 3d " 9. J. P. Williams, 1st Corp.

5. H. B. Anderson, O.S. 10. C. Burnett, 2nd "

12. Matthew Johnson, 4th Corp. 11. Wm. A. James, 3rd "

P R I V A T E S

13. Jacob Humble 14. M. L. Parsons 15. J. M. Thompson

16. N. G. Meek 17. E. W. Bridges 18. (skipped)

19. S. J. Sanders 20. J. Kellana 21. C. H. Ellis

22. Jno. McBride 23. Wm. Murray 24. John Howell

25. R. J. Hick 26. Wm. White 27. J. W. Greggory

28. S. L. Minor 29. H. Braden 30. Neal Martin

31. James Mills 32. Moses James 33. David Furguson

34. Sam'l Mills 35. A. B. Myric 36. Sam'l Jones

37. J. G. Norris 38. Jno. Painter 39. H. W. Whisenhunt

40. A. V. Smith 41. And. Barnett 42. J. M. Jones

43. H. B. Cartwright 44. Jno. Richardson 45. Wm. Freeman

46. Silas Meadows 47. Wade Blasingame 48. Wm. Wilson

49. Jno. McMillan 50. C. B. Owen 51. Jno. A. Jones

52. L. M. Barker 53. D. Cartwright 54. Wm. Flatt

Post Office: Mustang, Van Zandt Co., Tex.

THE STATE OF TEXAS )

VAN ZANDT COUNTY )

I hereby certify that the above names have been enrolled by me

as an a_a (active) Company of Reserve(s) under the authority of the

Brigadier General, S. M. Flournoy, and in accordance to the suggestions

of the Adjutant General of the State and that on the 22d of July at

Gray Bluff in Van Zandt County, and after due.... at a regulat

meeting of the Company the above named officers were elected.

Isaac Anderson, Enrolling Officer

July 29th, 1861.

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Military: : NM, LA, TX. Julius Giesecke joined a company of young Texas German volunteers, entered the Confederate service with the

Fourth Texas Calvary

under the command of Captain Marinus Van der Heuvel. Upon the death of Capt. Van der Heuvel during the New Mexico campaign, Julius was promoted to Captain and continued to serve with distinction elsewhere during the war. He and some of his men even endured capture and imprisonment at the hands of the Union Army, escaping into the swamps of Virginia after a revolt on board a ship. He later returned to Louisiana and Texas to fight in the war west of the Mississippi until Robert E. Lee's surrender in 1865.

Immigrated: 1837, MS. from McNairy TN

Census: 1840, MS Tishomingo.¹ Sa(u)nderses censused:

Alfred p21 1840-45

Alfred p221

Isaac p009 1845

S.A. p002

John p20

John p230 1837-1840

David p024 (1845)

Census: 1850, MS Tishomingo.¹ in the home of Joseph and Louisa Jane (Sanders) Carter

Census: 1850, MS Tishomingo.¹ Down the road

Whitehursts

J. Burton

J Carter 1810 GA

Nancy 1824 TN

J. M. Sanders 1819 TN (must be Nancy's brother)

Harden 1829 TN (must be J. M.'s brother)

Caroline 1843 MS

Nancy 1845 MS

Thursday? 1847 MS

Amanda 1849 MS- Could this be Amanda Theresa Sanders??

Hughes

Census: 1850, MS Tishomingo.¹ Possibly kin to our Thos Jesse Cox clan:: surnames

Household 37 Christopher Cox (later in Wood County, TX)

Household 51 RUSHING

Household 61 COX

Household 85 our ISRAEL COX (later in Wood County, TX)

Household 92 Frazier

Household 103 Frazier

Household 105 Frazier

Household 111 Calvery

Household 120 Calvery

Household 120 RIAL COX (Israel's twin) md a Frazier, then a Calvary

or vice-a-reversa

Household 121 WM COX

Household 128 Hutchens (maybe Hudgins)

Household 131 Calvary

Household 137 HUDGINS

Household 142 RUSHING

Census- Sa(u)nders: 1850, MS Tishomingo.¹ Delany 032 s/o M. desc of Abraham Sanders (moved to Tish in 1848)

J. M. 009 1819 TN, Hardin 1829 TN, Caroline 1841, Mary 1843, David 1845

J. W. 013 and Nancy cn Jms 1825 TN, Josias 1827 TN WM 1829 TN Susan 1833 TN Avoline 1835 TN, Nancy 1833 AL, JN 1839 AL, Geo. 1838 AL, Jacob 1840 AL, Amanda 1843 AL, Isaac 1845 AL

J. M. 024

M 031

Jn 042

Robert 156

Births: 1855, TX.³¹ Amanda Theresa and Martha Jane both supposedly born same year. Twins?

Birth of child: 1857, TX. James Marion Sa(U)nders

Census: 1860, TX Ellis County.⁵⁸ 1860 Census: Ellis Co Co., TX pg 38, sheet 39

J.H. Saunders 28M Farmer Tenn.

L.E. 23F Miss.

M.J.(maybe Martha Jane) 6F Texas

A.T.(maybe Amanda Theresa) 5F Texas

J.M.(maybe James Marion) 3M Texas

Aunt Bessie (Cox) Martin said the Sanders had slaves.

This may be them in TEXAS in 1860, if they had a farm in Ellis County.

One J. H. Sanders owned a plantation located between Wills Point, Texas and the communities of Flats and Lynch. He also owned slaves. Martha's father had fought in the Civil War.

Marcus Lafayette was born in 1860 in Wood reportedly.

Child born: 1860, TX Wood or Ellis County. Marcus Lafayette Sa(u)nders

Civil War: Mar 1861, TX Calvary, 4Th Reg (Showalters).⁵⁹ Ellis County

Baird's Regiment TX Calvary CSA

M227 roll 32 and roll 33 for Dan Showalter

Military: 1 Sep 1861, TX Ellis County.⁶⁰ The "Ellis County Rangers" unit was formed.

Child born: 1862, TX Wood or Ellis. Jefferson Monroe Sa(u)nders born.

Residence: 1862, TX Wood County or Ellis. if he was still there when his son was born.

Military: 11 Aug 1862, Des Arc, Arkansas.⁶⁰ T. J. Sanders of the "Ellis County Rangers" died of fever.

Fact: 1863, RootsWeb.⁶¹ Moses Marion Sanders of Alcorn County, Mississippi, was a son of John Sanders and Aby Robins and a grandson of the Reverend Moses Sanders and Mary Hamilton. In a memoir written for his family about 1880 he stated:

"Our grandfather Moses Sanders was born in the early part of the 18th century. His life was spent in agriculture as a pursuit and theology as a profession being a Baptist preacher. Our grandfather John Robins was a merchant in Virginia. John Sanders, our father, was born in North Carolina March 2nd A.D. 1787. Our mother, Aby Richardson Sanders, daughter of John Robins, was born in Virginia August 18th 1796."

He then talks about his brothers and sisters and adds,

"Josiah Hardin lived in Texas, engaged in farming and stock raising, was a brave soldier and lost his life in defense of his country 1863."

Before John and Aby moved to Tishomingo County, Mississippi, they lived in McNairy County, Tennessee. Josiah Hardin married Elizabeth Rushing and they had five children, all born between before 1862 in Texas.

For these reasons, I believe Josiah Hardin was a son of John Sanders and Aby Robins, not James Sanders and Sarah Sell.

Death: 1863/1861?, CSA.⁶² "Josiah Hardin lived in Texas, engaged in farming and stock raising, was a brave soldier and lost his life in defense of his country 1863."

1861 is more likely. We need to look up the muster rolls on microfilm at one of the large libraries. DLG 2006

Battle of Round Mountain

On November 19, 1861, the Confederate troops pursued the Unionist Indians to Round Mountain, but they ran headlong into a line of resistance that was nearly twelve hundred men long; the volley from the Creek soldiers cut down several of the unwary Confederates who then retreated. The Creek forces, led by Creek war chiefs Billy Bowlegs, John Chupco, Halleck Tuskenugge and Little Captain, had formed a defensive line to protect the women, children, the elderly and the livestock of Opothle Yahola's band. [144] Cooper reinforced his troops and again attacked the renegades with the full force of the combined armies of the Confederacy. Drew's forces had not yet decided commit to this action. The battle became quite heavy until darkness fell upon the combatants, forcing both sides to break off the engagement. [145] Cooper's force was defeated in the battle, losing nearly twenty men in the engagement; in his inflated reports to military authorities, he reported the loyal Indians losses to be 110 killed and wounded. [146] Keetoowah Society notes Avocation of Religious ...

Military: 1863, Ft. Washita 2 OK Indian Territory.⁵⁹ The place he may have died if he was the J. H. Sanders.

Late 1863 Indian Territory

Little is known about the activities of the two battalions prior to December, 1863. In September 1863, while stationed in the Indian Territory, Lt. Colonel Showalter's Battalion apparently engaged hostile Indians in north Texas....

DG' notes

If Josiah died in 1863 as said and he was in the 4th Calvary as stated then, he did not participate in other battles of Baird's AZ where they

..massacred a USA Negro battalion against orders ( they were to take as many prisoners as possible but took only a handful.

...then some of the Showalter's men left destitute without supplies wandered in Cooke County living off the land, and scavenging what they could. These men has to be rounded up by another regiment.

, and 30 November 1863 the battalion was ordered to report to Brigadier General H. E. McCullouch at Bonham, Texas.

On December 15, 1863, the regiment was ordered to consolidate once again in the region of San Antonio, in response to the threat of a Union sea-borne invasion. The regiment was to serve in a command called "The Cavalry of the West," under the command of Colonel John Salmon Ford (popularly known as "R.I.P." Ford due to his habit, when filling out death certificates, of adding the abbreviation "R.I.P."...for "Rest in Peace"... after the names of those men under his command who had "gone to meet their maker"). However, this consolidation did not apparently happen at that time, because although Baird's Battalion was apparently with Ford at San Antonio as of February 5, Showalter's Battalion apparently did not join the rest of the regiment until March 31, 1864.31

CSA: 1863, Ft. Washita, Indian Territory 1.¹ The J. H. Sanders censused in Ellis County in 1860 well might be our Josiah Hardin Sanders.

The following soldier appears to be the same person ESPECIALLY since

Baird's AZ Regiment did recruit in Ellis County. A picture is attached of the AZ unit in Ellis County in 1864 along with new recruits. So, they had already been in battle in North Texas and the Indian Territory. Josiah must have been killed before the picture if he died in 1863.

Sanders, J. H.

Confederate

Cavalry

Baird's Regiment, Texas Cavalry (Showalter's) (4th Regiment, Arizona Brigade) 980 soldeirs

The 4th Regiment, AZ Brigade was never in Arizona! It fought from along the Red River, to San Antonio, to Brownsville.

Its founder, Spruce Baird, wanted to reatke AZ territory but never made it out of Texas and the Oklahoma Territory.

Don Giddens 2006.

Josiah Hardins Sanders' brother reported that he died in the CSA in 1863. If that be the case, then he died before the picture was taken on previous excursions. Note the brief descriptions of the outfit in 1863.

The FOURTH TEXAS CAVALRY REGIMENT, ARIZONA BRIGADE was the brainchild of Spruce McCoy Baird, former attorney general of New Mexico Territory (U.S.) and an ardent secessionist who had accompanied the Confederate Army of New Mexico when it retreated back to Texas. Baird began to recruit troops for the recapture of Arizona, at first independently of the larger effort which John R. Baylor was organizing at Eagle Lake, Texas. However, by the end of 1862 Baird had moved his recruiting efforts to Eagle Lake, and his embryonic regiment became part of the Arizona Brigade.26

1863

The Fourth Regiment was organized in February 1863, with Spruce Baird himself commissioned as Colonel and placed in command of the regiment. Other field officers were Major Edward Riordan and Lt. Colonel Daniel Showalter.27

Lt. Colonel Showalter, who would later command the Fourth Regiment after Baird resigned in early 1864, was a California politician and ardent Southern sympathizer who had been captured and imprisoned by Union authorities in November 1861 while attempting to leave California on his way to join the Confederate army in Texas. Released from his enforced confinement at Fort Yuma after five months, Showalter made a second attempt to defect, this time successfully. Slipping through the Mexican state of Chihuahua, Showalter made his way to Texas, where he took a commission in the Fourth Regiment.28

Baird's recruiting efforts were never as successful as those of Baylor, and Baird was forced to move his recruiting efforts yet again in early 1863. He set up headquarters near the Pecos River, in far west Texas, and his recruiters (Josiah could have been a recruiter) signed up draft evaders, deserters, and other riff-raff who had drifted into the no-man's-land between Confederate Texas and Union-held New Mexico. Naturally, the discipline and quality of the regiment suffered as a result.29

The Fourth Regiment only took to the field in late 1863, due to the slowness with which its ranks were filled. The regiment was not assigned to a specific brigade or division for most of the war, but rather was used as a sort of "mobile reserve" force, to be moved wherever it was needed. And shortly after it took the field, it was apparently divided into two Battalions of five companies each.

Late 1863

One of these, under Lt. Colonel Showalter, was ordered to Fort Washita, Cherokee Nation, in the Indian Territory (present-day Oklahoma), and the other, under Colonel Baird, was sent to Brazoria County, on the Texas Gulf Coast.30

The J. H Sanders was under Colonel Showalter, so he must have died when they had their battle(s) in or near Ft. Washita in late 1863 in Indian skirmishes -or- as happened to many CSA troops died of disease. An epidemic of measles hit Ft. Washita about then, and many died.

Ft. Washita 2

Battle: 1863, OK.⁶³ 30. 1863 - Skirmish, Tahlequah, Indian Territory.

Maybe this is where Hardin was killed.

Military: 1863, TX CSA.⁶⁴ The following battles took place in late 1863 in TX.

Sept. 8 Action, Sabine Pass NEW YORK--75th and 161st Infantry. Union loss, 30 killed and wounded, 200 missing. Total, 230.

Nov. 2 Occupation of Brazos de Santiago Island.. IOWA--19th Infantry. Nov. 6 Occupation of Point Isabel IOWA--20th Infantry.

Nov. 6 Occupation of Brownsville IOWA--19th Infantry. MAINE--13th Infantry. MISSOURI-Battery "B," 1st Light Artillery. WISCONSIN--20th Infantry.

Nov. 17 Capture of Aransas IOWA--26th Infantry. MAINE--13th and 15th Infantry.

Nov. 17 Capture of Mustang Island, Aransas Pass.. IOWA--26th and 34th Infantry. MAINE--13th and 15th Infantry. MISSOURI--Battery "F," 1st Light Artillery.

Nov. 23 Skirmish, Cedar Bayou MAINE--15th Infantry (Detachment). Nov. 23-Dec. 2... Expedition to Rio Grande City ILLINOIS--37th Infantry (7 Cos.).

Nov. 27-30 Action and capture, Fort Esperanza ILLINOIS--33d and 99th Infantry. INDIANA--8th and 18th Infantry. IOWA--23d, 26th and 34th Infantry. MAINE--13th and 15th Infantry. MICHIGAN--Battery "G," 1st Light Artillery. MISSOURI--Battery "F," 1st Light A rtillery. Union loss, 1 killed, 2 wounded. Total, 3. Dec. 29 Action, Matagorda Peninsula MAINE--13th Infantry (Cos. "C," "H" and "K"). U.S. Gunboat "Sciota." 1864.

Military: 1863, TX.⁶⁵ During the war Between the States and immediately following, the Comanches, now joined by their fierce kinsmen, the Kiowa, took captive many white women and children, killed large numbers of frontier people and drove the settlers back into Northern Texas.

Josiah Hardin lived in Texas engaged in farming and stock raising was a brave soldier and lost his life in defense of his country 1863.

Military: 1864, Camp San Fernando.⁶⁶ Military post on San Fernando Creek, near this site. Guarded the lifeline of the Confederacy, the cotton road, export-import route that ran from the Sabine River in East Texas to the Rio Grande. Manned 1862 by 32nd Texas Calvary flying Bonnie Blue flag; in 1863, a banner lettered: "We fight for our rights". Temporarily occupied, November 1863, by Gen. H. P. Bee. In February 1864 a strong complement arrived under Col. J. S. (RIP) Ford. Col. Matt Nolan reported to Ford a victory over Federals under Capt. C. Balerio 50 miles southwest on Banquete. Winning troops were under Capt. Thomas Cater, Wm. Tate, Taylor, and A. J. Ware, plus home guard under Capt. Santiago Richardson. (Capt. Richard King, of King Ranch, also served in the home guard.) Col. Ford's "Cavalry of the West" included Maj. Felix A. Von Blucher, chief of staff; capts. H. C. Merritt and J. Littleton, commissaries; Col. Albert Walthersdorff, technician; Capt. W. G. M. Samuels, ordnance. On March 30, 1864, the Arizona companies of Lt. Col. Daniel Showalter reached Camp San Fernando. In April Col. Ford and Col. Santos Benavides attacked the Federals in the Rio Grande Valley. Cols. Nolan and B. F. Fry continued to watch over the cotton road and "keep an eye" on Corpus Christi.

*addendum Captain Cockerel of Showalter's 4th was killed in this battle. from (Rip Ford's book). DLG 2006

Kinship: 2002, Blanding, UT.¹ The reason I "connected" our Hardin Sanders to John and Abby

was because the descendants of Louisa "Jency" Sanders

who married Joseph Carter, have her as daughter of a John and Abby Sanders. The only John and Abby I have found as of 2003 were the ones censused in Tishomingo MS.

Censused

IN THE household of Louisa and Joseph Carter is a J. M. Sanders. Below him is a Hardin, evidently a SANDERS not a Carter since he is listed below J. M. Sanders.

Microfilm: 2006. Microfilms of the rosters of Baird's Calvary may be seen at some major libraries.

M323 - 180 Baird's Cavalry (4th Regiment, Arizona Brigade; Showalter's Regiment) A--L

M323 - 181 Baird's Cavalry (4th Regiment, Arizona Brigade; Showalter's Regiment) M--Y

I have not had an opportunity to see them.

Don Giddens -2006

Josiah married Sarah Elizabeth Rushing of Tn Madison [121] [MRIN: 134] circa 1853 in TX maybe.

Children from this marriage were:

13 i. Amanda Theresa Sanders of Albany, TX [19]

ii. Martha Jane Sanders [147] was born in 1855 in TX Wood County, died on 22 Jan 1944 at age 89, and was buried in Lynch Cem, Point, Rains, TX.⁶⁷

iii. James Marion Sanders [149] was born in 1857 in TX, Parents MS MS and died in 1913 in Caprock, Lea, NM (Chavez or Eddy) at age 56.

iv. Marcus Lafayette Sanders [150] was born in Jul 1860 in TX Wood or Ellis, died in 1940 in OK Oklahoma City at age 80, and was buried in Sweat Cemetery, Deep Fork Township, OK. Another name for Marcus was Fate.

v. Jefferson Monroe Sanders [155] was born in 1862 in TX Ellis probably and died in 1952 in OK Verden County, Grady at age 90.

27. Sarah Elizabeth Rushing of Tn Madison [121], daughter of Mark Rushing Tn [153] and Elizabeth Freeman Tn [154], was born in Jan 1836 in TN Madison Maybe, died circa 1906 in OK Elk City or OK City or CLovis NM 1928 at age 70, and was buried in Lea County NM. Another name for Sarah was E. Rushing.

Census: 1880, TX Jack Censused. with sons but none of the daughters-in-law were listed.

Census: 1870, TX Wood County. E. C. Hicks 44 Farmer AL

Elizabeth 31 MS

Sanders, Martha 16 TX

Sanders, Amanda 14 TX

Sanders, James 12 TX

Sanders, Lafayette 9 TX

Sanders, Jefferson 7 TX

Census: 6 Jun 1900, OK Elk Township. -1900 Census, OK County, OK, Elk Township, 6th June, 1900, ED 165, pag e 147A

55-35 Sanders, Marcus F Head m-w-July 1860-m-5 TX-MS-MS

" Rosita A Wife f--w-Dec-1869-m-5-3-3 ILL-IN-IN

" Dellia M Daughter f-w-Dec-1895-s OK-TX-IN

Stella Daughter f-w-Mar-1897-s OK-TX-IN

Hardin R Son m-w-N ov-1898-s OK-TX-IN

" Elizabeth Mother f--w-June-1836 MS-TN-TN

Sarah married Josiah Hardin Sanders CSA + [128]⁵⁶ [MRIN: 134] circa 1853 in TX maybe.

Sarah next married E. C. Hicks [211] [MRIN: 136] aft Civil War.

28. Adam Linn Lindsey of Springtown, TX [302],²⁴ son of John William Lindsey Judge [304] and Margaret Peggy Linn Tn Davidson [79], was born on 8 Apr 1831 in KY Trigg County, Cadiz, died on 15 Feb 1903 in Springtown, Parker, TX⁶⁸ at age 71, and was buried in TX Parker County, Veal Station Cemetery.

General Notes: Left Benton County MO 1857 or 1858, and moved to Parker County, TX.

He first lived in Decatur, Wise, TX then moved to Veal Station, Parker, TX. (Carolyn, GenForum)

He names one daughter Mary Atlantic after the Old World, and another, Caledonia, after the New World.

Adam Linn Lindsey joined the Texas Rangers under Capt. Thomasson in October, 1859, and served

until 1862. In July, 1895 he was living in Springtown, Parker, TX.

Related Lindseys still live there. 2001...Don Giddens

From the Bible of Mary Atlanta Lindsey

Adam Linn Lindsey....

I am of Scotch descent. My mother was Irish, Peggy Linn. I was born in Trigg County, KY 4/8/1831.

My father moved to Lafayett County, MO in March of 1833. He settled in Benton County, near the county seat Warsaw

(which he named) on the Osage River. He was elected county judge of that county in 1835. He died (on the bench) in 1840.

Two years after his death, mother married Dr. John Morris and moved to Newton County, MO in the year 1843.

There I was principally raised. My mother died in Newton County, MO just ten years after my father's death.

My mother's people were of some prominence. Her cousin, Linn Boyd, was a representative in Congress, and once Speaker of the House.

Rev. Finis Ewing, another cousin, was one of the founder's of the Cumberland Presbyterian Church.One of his brothers was a candidate for Governor of Missouri on the Know Nothing ticket. Bill Lindsey, one of my cousins, is a Representative in Congress at this time.

All of the Lindseys are Democrats and most of them are Baptists.

Both of my grandfathers were in the Revolutionary War. Grandfather Linn was wounded at the Battle of Cowpens. (So was his grandfather Lindsey.) I moved to Texas in the last days of 1858. Stopped at Decatur in Wise County, 3 January 1859. Served (in the Texas Rangers) until the War of 1862. Was at Flanangan's Ranch on the headwaters of the Leon River when I heard Lee had surrendered.

Came home and found Mary and the children in a destitute condition.

Going back to 1848. I was married to Mary Wormington, October 26, 1848, and settled down on a little farm of 80 acres, went to work, and accumulated property fast until 1852. In partnership with my brother, Felix, I engaged in the Mercantile business. Sold goods two years, quit the goods business, and went on a gold hunt in 1855. Spent all I had, traveled four long months. Came home a poorer and wiser man.

I am now living July 6th, 1895 in Springtown, Texas situated on the north side of Parker County, TX on the west fork of the great Trinity River in a belt of timber called the lower cross timbers of Texas.

A. L. Lindsey 7/6/1895

Occupation: 1848-1852. Farmer

Occupation: 1852-1854. Mercantile business

Occupation: 1855.⁶⁹ Went on a gold hunt, traveled four long months, spent all I had, and came back a poorer but wiser man.

Land Certificate: 15 May 1857, Springfield, MO. #18780

Whereas Adam L Lindsey of Newton County, Missouri

has deposited in the GENERAL LAND OFFICE of the United States, a certificate of the REGISTER OF THE LAND OFFICE, at Springfield wherby it appears that full payment has been made by the said Adam L Lindsey according to the provisions of the Act of Congress of the 24th of April, 1820, entitled "An act making further provision for the sale of Public Lands", for

THE WEST HALF OF THE SOUTH WEST QUARTER OF SECTION ELEVEN, IN TOWNSHIP, TWENTY-FIVE, OF RANGE THIRTY, IN THE DISTRICT OF LANDS SUBJECT TO SALE AT SPRINGFIELD, MISSOURI, CONTAINING EIGHTY ACRES.

.........

In testimony whereof, I, James Buchanan, PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, have caused these letters to be made patent, and the seal of the GENERAL LAND OFFICE,

to be hereunto affixed.

Given under my hand, at the City of Washington, the 15th day of May, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and fifty-seven

and of the Independence of the the United States the eighty-first

by the President

James Buchanan

G. H. Jones, Secretary

J. W. Granger, Recorder of the General land Office

Biographical note: 1858, Camp Verde, Kerr County, TX. The U.S. Army post of Camp Verde was established in 1855 and the town of Camp Verde followed shortly thereafter. The military post was one of many situated to protect the Texas frontier. A post office for the Camp Verde community opened in 1858 and is still operating as part of the Camp Verde store. The community was subject to Indian attacks until after the Civil War as were other small towns along the frontier. Today the Camp Verde community consists of the Camp Verde store, the cemetery and the remains of the military post. The town is located in Kerr County. SUBMITTED BY: Henry Chenoweth

Camp Verde has a special historical significance. It was the site of the U. S. Army's research into the feasibility of using camels in the U. S. It seems that the experiment showed that camels would not be used and the animals were released. Stories are told of great beasts roaming thru the country frightening the residents. It seems that some of the camels were the great beasts and when released became wild. There may be some question concerning the truth of this but it makes a good story. H. H Colvin

It is now a ghost town.

Military: 1859-1862.⁶⁹ Minuteman or "Texas Rangers"

Military Service: 21 Jul 1862-Feb 1863, Camp Verde, TX. I certify that the within named A. Lindsey, Pvt. of Captain Ch. de Montels company D of Frontier Regiment of Texas born in (Cadiz, Trigg County)*...in the State of (KY*)....aged.31.*.years....feet....inches....high...complexion...(he was dark complected with dark eyes*- Don Giddens 2002)...and by profession a (Baptist*) was mustered into the service by Ch. de Montel at Camp Verde on the 21st of July 1862 to serve for one year, and is now entitled to a discharge by reason of order from Adj. Gen. Jeparks.

For pay from 21st of July 1862 to 9th of February 1863 being six months 20 days at $12 per month.....

For use of horse from 21st of July 1862 to 9th of February 1863 being 204 days @ 40 cents a day...$81.60

For use of Arms from 21st of July 1862 to 9th of February 1863 being six months 20 days at one dollar per month..$6.66

For pay for traveling from place of discharge to place of mustering into service being 15

(scratched out) miles, twenty miles a day equal to one day (scratched out) at 24 per month $80 (scratched out)

For six months 20 days clothing @ $25 for six months $27.77

He is indebted to the State of Texas

for clothing furnished to him in kind...shoes, 1 jacket, 1 pair of pants, 1 pair of drawers, 1 shirt

$12.71

The contract price of the ration at Camp Verde is 75 cents.

Given in duplicate at Camp Verde this 9th day of February, 1863.

Charles de montel, Commanding Officer

Total pay received $183.32 paid in full

Note: Name was according to the Quartermaster- A. M. Lindsey

Signed A. Linsey

Note: handwriting neat and legible- this might NOT have been Adam Linn LIndsey. But, we do have family history of him serving as a Frontier Scout.

* Information in parenthesis added by Don Giddens-2002

Census: 1880, TX Parker County. 9310 Lindsey, A. L. 1831 MW KY Precinct 1

M. A. dau 1860 FW TX

MM dau 1870 FW TX

MJ wife 1830 TN FW

ZF son MW 1868 TX

Census: 1880, TX Parker County. LINDSAY, Harriet Mother <1822> F W KY : Precinct4

9133 LINDSAY, Henry Self <1845> M W KY : Precinct4

9142 LINDSAY, Ludwell Brother <1862> M W KY : Precinct4

9137 LINDSAY, Young Brother <1857> M W KY : Precinct4

9127 LINDSEY, Carline Wife <1816> F W NY : Weatherfor

9134 LINDSEY, Chas W Self <1850> M W MO : Precinct1

9145 LINDSEY, Chas. Son <1870> M W TX : Weatherfor

9149 LINDSEY, Clyda Dau <1877> F W TX : Precinct2

9152 LINDSEY, Della Dau <1879> F W TX : Precinct2

9153 LINDSEY, Dora C. Sister <1879> F W TX : Precinct1

9132 LINDSEY, F.E. Self <1841> F W NC : Weatherfor

9138 LINDSEY, George Self <1859> M W KY : Precinct4

9147 LINDSEY, H H Son <1874> M W TX : Precinct1

9136 LINDSEY, Hariet E Wife <1853> F W MS : Precinct1

9135 LINDSEY, James Self <1851> M W MO : Precinct2

9141 LINDSEY, Jno. Son <1862> M W TX : Weatherfor

9128 LINDSEY, John Self <1816> M W NY : Weatherfor

9140 LINDSEY, Lucy Wife <1860> F W TX : Precinct4

9151 LINDSEY, M C Son <1878> M W TX : Precinct1

9139 LINDSEY, Madaline Wife <1859> F W TX : Precinct2

9154 LINDSEY, Robert Son <1879> M W TX : Precinct4

9150 LINDSEY, S. J. T. Son <1877> M W TX : Precinct1

9148 LINDSEY, Walter G. Son <1875> M W TX : Precinct1

9144 LINDSEY, Wm. Son <1865> M W TX : Weatherfor

9131 LINDSY, Charles Self <1833> M W MO : Weatherfor

9143 LINDSY, Charles E. Son <1865> M W TX : Weatherfor

9130 LINDSY, Janey Wife <1830> F W OH : Weatherfor

9146 LINDSY, Marget C. Dau <1870> F W TX : Weatherfor

Autobiography: 6 Jul 1895, TX Parker County.⁶⁹ Sketch of the Life of Adam Linn Lindsey

I am of Scotch descent. My mother, Peggy Linn, was Irish; my father John W. Lindsey, was Scotch.

I was born in Trigg County, Kentucky, April 8, 1831.

My father moved to Lafayette County, MO in March 1833. He settled in Benton County near the county seat of Warsaw (which he named- DLG) on the Osage River. He we elected county judge of that county in 1835.

He died in January, 1840 (on the bench). Two years after his death, my mother married Dr. John Morris and moved to Newton County in the year 1843. There I was principally raised.

My mother died in Newton County, MO just ten years after my father's death.

My mother's people were of some prominence. Her cousin, Linn Boyd, was a Representative in Congress, and at one time was Speaker of the House.

Rev. Finis Ewing, another cousin, was one of the founders of the Cumberland Presbyterian Church. One of his brothers was a candidate for the governorship of Missouri on the "Know Nothing" ticket. Bill Lindsey, a cousin of mine, is a Representative in Congress at this time.

All of the Lindseys are Democrats and most of them are Baptists.

Both of my grandparents were in the Revolutionary War.

Grandfather Linn was wounded at the Battle of Cowpens.

I moved to Texas in the last days of 1858. Stopped at Decatur, Wise County, Texas January 3, 1859. Next May, I moved to Veal Station, Parker County, Texas.

There I joined Captain Thomson's Ranger Company of Minutemen in October, 1859. Served until the war of 1862.

Was at Flannigan's Ranch on the headwaters of the Leon River when I heard Lee had surrendered, came home, found Mary and the children in a destitute condition.

Going back to 1848.

I was married to Mary Wormington, October 26, 1848, and settled down on a little farm of eighty acres, went to work and accumulated property fast until 1852 in partnership with my brother, Felix, I engaged in the mercantile business. Sold goods two years, quits the goods business, and went on a gold hunt in 1855. spent all I had, traveled four long months, came home a poorer but wiser man.

I am now living 7/6/1895 in Springtown, Texas situated on the north side of Parker County on the waters of the west fork of the great Trinity River in a belt of timber known as the lower cross-timbers of Texas.

A. L. Lindsey

Adam married Mary Jane Wormington of Springtown, TX [303] [MRIN: 234] on 26 Oct 1848 in Newton Co. MO.⁶⁹

Children from this marriage were:

14 i. Charles William Lindsey of TX Parker County [298]

ii. Caroline Lindsey [437] was born about 1850.

iii. Felix Grundy Lindsey [436] was born about 1850.

iv. Margaret Gertrude Lindsey [438] was born on 3 Jul 1855 in TX⁷⁰ and died in Chico, Texas.

v. Della Lindsey [435] was born about 1854.

vi. Caledonia Josephine Lindsey [1385] was born on 25 Oct 1855 in MO and died on 31 Jul 1930 in Silver Creek, TX at age 74. Another name for Caledonia was "Donie."

vii. Lanson Alvaro Lindsey [1390] was born on 28 May 1853.⁷⁰

viii. Mary Atlanta Lindsey [1832] was born on 4 Jul 1860 in TX Parker County, Veal Station and died on 18 Apr 1943 in California at age 82.

ix. Z. Frank Lindsey [1074] was born on 8 Jul 1868 in TX.⁷⁰

x. Minnie Mary Lindsey [1833] was born on 23 Nov 1869 in TX.⁷⁰ Another name for Minnie was Minnie Mae.

xi. Dr. James Romulus Lindsey CSA [1065] was born on 12 Mar 1851 in Warsaw, Benton, MO, died on 11 Feb 1928 in Springtown, Parker, TX⁸ at age 76, and was buried in Veal Station, Parker County, TX.⁸

29. Mary Jane Wormington of Springtown, TX [303], daughter of Abraham Wesley Wormington Tn [851] and Martha Turpin Tn Sumner County [852], was born on 22 Nov 1829 in Newton County, MO or TN,⁷¹ died on 8 Jul 1904 in Springtown, Parker, TX at age 74, and was buried in TX Parker County, Veal Station.

Alt. Death: : Malaria.

Mary married Adam Linn Lindsey of Springtown, TX [302]²⁴ [MRIN: 234] on 26 Oct 1848 in Newton Co. MO.⁶⁹

30. Our Stephen William Lewis KIA CSA [730],⁷² son of Our William Lewis [3691] and Nancy/Dicy [3692], was born in 1825 in Jasper, MS,⁷³ died on 20 Mar 1863 in CSA⁷⁴ at age 38, and was buried in Corinth National Cemetery MS or maybe Camp Chase. Other names for Stephen were Stephen William per Alice Littlefield death certificate, Hiram, Our family had Thomas, and but other kin had Stephen.

General Notes: The Lindsey book says Thomas,

the Bandys desc of Fanny Lewis say Stephen Lewis and Letha Stinnet.

These notes are true, if indeed, this is the right Thomas Lewis!!

However, the Bandy desc of Fanny Lewis think Letha's husband was Stephen or Steven Lewis. Fanny was adopted by the man, Mr. Thorp, who helped start Add-Ran College. ACU, in Abilene, now.

He was president of it.

1870 Hood County, TX census lists:

John Matheny 62 farmer 600 500 MO

Nancy 57 TN

HARRIETT 11 MS

CHARLES 15 MS-

Maybe Thomas instead of Charles- "disappeared from the wagon train".

1870 Hood County Census

John Lindsey 36 daylaborer TX- I cannot identify these Lindseys.

Martha 37 TX

William 22 TN This might be Charles William Lindsey, my great-grandfather.

however, he was born in MO.

James 31 TX

Next door to:

John D. Lewis 32 700 500 GA

Sarah 31 ALA

Willy 17 ALA

Evidently, Thomas, Alice, Fanny were not in Hood County 1870.

Charles William Lindsey married Harriet Elizabeth Lewis , January 11, 1872,

Thorp Springs, Hood, Tx.

1860 TX Census, Paris, Lamar County

John Matheny 52 4172 $5520 KY

Mary Matheny 50 TN

George Bedford 21 MS

Julia Bedford 19 MS

Sarah Bedford 12 TX

It is said that Mr. Matheny donated land to start a college in Thorp Springs. If so, that would be the forerunner of Abilene Christian University, Abilene, TX.

It was originally called Thorp College, then Add-Ran College.

A Stephen B. Lewis of Ohio served in the Union army..

K1 Ohio Light Infantry

widow, Eliza moved to W. VA. Applied for widow's pension 1891. Albina Lewis also claimed to be his widow.

A Stephen C. Lewis of MO served in the E6 IL Calvary.

1879 Invalid's Pension

1898 Elizabeth, widow's pension. MO.

Widow, ElLizabeth

Military: : Co. F Forest Guards, 20Th Infantry.

Children's Residence: 1870, Thorp Spring, Hood, TX. Three of the children were married in Thorp Springs, Hood, Texas:

Harriet Elizabeth Lewis to C. W. Lindsey. 1/11/1872

Alice Jemima Lewis md John Washington Steen, 8/1/1875

Sedora Frances "Fanny" Lewis md James A. Bandy, 7/12/1877

Military: : MS CSA. 5th Reg. MS Infantry State Troops Co B with a Simeon Lewis

if it is the same Stephen Lewis. There are several.

Film Number M232 roll 23

Immigrated: 1672, VA. A Steven Lewis immigrated to VA in 1672.

Alt. Birth: Abt 1832, Forest, Scott, MS.

Census: 1850, MS Jasper. Next door to William and Nancy

Stephen and Liddy, Thos. Jefferson, and Mary- all b MS

Census: 1860, MS Jasper County, Claiborne. NEXT DOOR TO William and Dicy STINNETTS p1051 1058

Land: 1860, MS Jasper, Paulding. 79.8 acres

Census: 1880, TX Parker County. Harriet has her father's bp as Ohio, but that MIGHT be his death place.

The earlier censuses show him born in MS.

Stephen married SARAH Sidney Letha Stennett of Ms Jasper [1232]⁷² [MRIN: 592] about 1847 in MS Jasper, Paulding probably.¹

Children from this marriage were:

i. Lou Binion Adopted Also [3693]

ii. Allen Lewis of Morton, Scott, MS [583] was born in 1849 in MS or Uniontown, Perry, ALA¹² and died before 1920.

iii. Mary Josephine Lewis [1621] was born in 1850 in MS.

iv. Sarah Lewis Jr [9440] was born in 1852 in MS. Another name for Sarah was "Letha" I assume.

15 v. Harriet Elizabeth Lewis of San Saba Texas [299]

vi. Charles Lewis of Erath County, Texas [301] was born in 1854 in MS, died in 1875 in Lost On Way To TX From MS At Age Of 12 at age 21, and was buried in Pigion Community, Erath, TX.

vii. Sedora Frances Lewis of Palo Pinto, Texas [581] was born on 4 Jul 1855 in MS Jasper County, Claiborne,¹² died in Jan 1940 in Houston, Harris, TX at age 84, and was buried in Mingus, Palo Pinto, TX. Another name for Sedora was Fanny.

viii. Alice Jemima Lewis of Palo Pinto, Texas [582] was born in 1856 in MS Jasper County,⁸ died on 3 Jan 1946 in TX Wichita Falls, State Hospital⁷⁵ at age 90, and was buried in Palo Pinto, TX.

ix. Littleton/Allan Crockett Lewis of Collin County, Texas [9441] was born in 1856 in Claiborne, Jasper, MS, died on 11 Nov 1920 in TX Haskell County, Haskell at age 64, and was buried in Willow Cemetery.

x. Bigby Lewis [9443] was born in 1856 in MS.⁷²

xi. George Terrell [9444] was born in 1857 in MS.⁷²

xii. Jane Lewis [9442] was born in 1858 in MS Jasper County.

xiii. Thomas Jefferson Lewis [23064]

Stephen next married someone.

His child was:

i. Sedora Frances Lewis [1210]

31. SARAH Sidney Letha Stennett of Ms Jasper [1232],⁷² daughter of William Hightower Stennett War of 1812 [3690] and Elizabeth Bynum Of Bahamas [3694], was born in 1825 in MS⁷³ and died circa 1865 in CSA Civil War at age 40. Another name for SARAH was Liddy (1850 Jasper census) Stanit.

General Notes:

Descendants of David Stinnett

1 David Stinnett b: 1795 in Yellville, Marion Co., Arkansaw d: 1863 in Marion Co., Arkansaw

. +Elizabeth Wood b: in Anderson Co., Tennessee d: in Arkansaw

...... 2 Letha Stinnett

.......... +Davis K. Tutt

...... 2 Elizabeth Stinnett b: 1827 in Arkansaw

.......... +Jesse Wickersham b: 1821 in Kentucky

...... 2 Isom Stinnett

...... 2 Benjamin Stinnett

...... 2 William M. Stinnett

...... 2 Wiley Stinnett b: August 25, 1842 d: February 18, 1910

Hi don,

I saw your messages on the forum. I am descended from Lethe's brother Wiley. Lethe was born 1822 yellville ar. died 1870 Yellville. She married Davis K. Tutt and I have three children for them. Elizabeth b. 1840, Edmond b. 1842 and Benjamin b. 1849.

I hope this helps in some way.. Verna

Biographical note: Cir 1865, MS. Died during the Civil War leaving their children orphans.

Census: 1850, MS Jasper. as LIDDY

SARAH married Our Stephen William Lewis KIA CSA [730]⁷² [MRIN: 592] about 1847 in MS Jasper, Paulding probably.¹

Sixth Generation (3rd Great-Grandparents)

32. Our James 1800 Giddens Unproven F/O Jms T [13376],² son of NC TN James 1749 Isham Giddens Constable [109] and Martha Mills "Patty" [12462], was born in 1800 in NC Surry Probably³⁶ and died after 1850 in GA DeKalb census, Stone District. Another name for James was Gittings.

Census: 1850, GA Dekalb, Stone's District. Down the road...........1850 GA DeKalb, Stone's District

Alsobrooks

James Manor

Nathaniel Knight, 65, farmer- SC wife, Nancy

Catherine, Mary, Elizabeth, Emma, Thomas, Edward, William

Joseph Manor and Emily, farmer, GA

James Gitting 50 farmer NC wife Sarah J. 36 GA- no cn listed

John Gilham, wife Letitia, James T., Eleanor, Benjamin, William, Mary

William Baker, wife, Catherine- Emily, Martha

Cynthia Green 65 f Clement 21 William 16 Cordelia 24 f

James married Sarah J. [13377]² [MRIN: 5714] circa 1829 in GA Probably.

The child from this marriage was:

16 i. Ga Ms James Thomas Giddens Rr Engineer [12943]

James next married someone.

His child was:

i. Son Giddens [13378] was born circa 1825 in NC Bladen County Probably and was christened in 1840 in NC Bladen County census.

33. Sarah J. [13377]² was born in 1814 in GA and died after 1850 in GA DE Kalb, Stone's District.

Sarah married Our James 1800 Giddens Unproven F/O Jms T [13376]² [MRIN: 5714] circa 1829 in GA Probably.

34. Archibald Young Paul War of 1812 [13893],⁷⁶ son of William Paul [22462] and Sarah [22463], was born in 1797 in SC, was christened in 1850 in GA Henry Census, Mechanic, died in 1876 in TX Leesville, Upshur County at age 79, and was buried in TX Leesville, Upshur County.

General Notes: not named as a son, but as an heir

Immigrated: 1855, TX.⁷⁷

Fact. hENRY coUNTY IS NEXT TO dE kALB cOUNTY.

Archibald married Martha P Russell [13894]² [MRIN: 5931] on 4 Nov 1817 in SC Fairfield District.⁷⁸

Children from this marriage were:

i. Mary M Paul [3947] was born in 1825 in GA Henry County.⁷⁸

17 ii. Martha Jane Paul of Ga Henry County [13895]

iii. Levi Washington Paul CSA [3945] was born in 1828 in GA Henry County⁷⁸ and died in 1881 in Arkansas⁷⁹ at age 53.

iv. Captain James Patterson Paul State Militia [13896] was born on 10 Feb 1831 in GA Henry County, near McDonough,⁷⁹ died in 1905 in TX Ellis County, Waxahachie at age 74, and was buried in TX Waxahachie.⁸⁰

v. Archibald Franklin Paul [3940] was born in 1840 in SC Orangeburgh District, Probably and died on 29 Dec 1926 in GA Chatham at age 86.

vi. Elizabeth Paul [21217]

vii. Franklin A Paul KIA CSA [21220] died circa 1865 in Chancellorsville CSA.⁷⁷

viii. Paul [21235]

ix. Paul [21236]

x. Paul [21237]

35. Martha P Russell [13894],² daughter of James Russell Jr [3948] and Elizabeth Paul [3960], was born in 1802 in SC Fairfield District, was christened in 1850 in GA Henry Census, and died in TX Upshur County maybe.

Census: 1790, GA Franklin. Joseph M Russell

Martha married Archibald Young Paul War of 1812 [13893]⁷⁶ [MRIN: 5931] on 4 Nov 1817 in SC Fairfield District.⁷⁸

36. Anthony Mayes of AL Greene County [3627], son of James Mayes Northern Ireland [3629] and Jane or Jean McElwain of Pa [3630], was born on 19 Feb 1782 in SC, died on 10 Sep 1848 in AL Greene County, Eutaw at age 66, and was buried in Hebron Cemetery.

Occupation. farmer

Anthony married Cynthia Otterson of AL Greene County [3628] [MRIN: 1425].

Children from this marriage were:

18 i. Samuel Otis (Otterson) Mayes of Al Greene County [3595]

ii. Margaret Mayes [16837]

iii. Sarah Ann Mayes Maybe [22115] was born in 1825, died in 1849 in Hebron Cemetery at age 24, and was buried next to Cynthia.

iv. Elmirah J Mayes [22116] was born in 1822, died in 1851 in Hebron Cemetery at age 29, and was buried in net to Cynthia.

37. Cynthia Otterson of AL Greene County [3628], daughter of Major Samuel P. Otterson Rws [3633] and Ruth Gordon [3636], was born on 3 Oct 1787 in SC, died on 28 Jun 1852 in AL Greene County, Eutaw at age 64, and was buried in Hebron Cemetery.

Cynthia married Anthony Mayes of AL Greene County [3627] [MRIN: 1425].

38. John T. Bouchillon Elder [3597],⁸¹ son of Joseph James Bouchillon Sc Bordeaux District [3599] and Susannah Guillebeau Sc Bordeaux District [3600], was born on 17 May 1799 in SC Bordeaux, Abbeville District⁸¹ and died on 16 Dec 1880 in TX Falls County, Lott⁸¹ at age 81.

Church: 1869, Mantua, Greene, AL.⁸¹ Hebron Church, March 28th 1869. The Session met. Present: Reverend James M. McLean [16], Moderator; Elders William Miller and James G. Harris. On motion, ordered that letters of dismission from Hebron Church be granted to John T. Bouchillon and Elizabeth Bouchillon to join any Church whereever in the providence of God their lot may be cast and we cordially commend them to the Ministers, Elders and Brethren. Brother Bouchillon has been an exemplary member and Elder in this Church and we can but feel that our loss will be his and their gain.

William Miller, Clerk of Sessions

Church: 1828, Mantua, Greene, AL. Hebron Presbyterian Church lasted from 1828 to 1905 when all the members moved away or had died. The cemetery is in sad disrepair, and most of the graves now are unmarked because of neglect and vandalism.

Census: 1880, TX Falls County.

Cemetery. LIVE OAK CEMETERY

Recorded by Mazie Hodges Love

Go south out of Lott from blinking light on Hwy 77 for about 1 and 3/4 mile

Turn right on county road 490 go about 2 and 1/2 miles where 390 dead ends into County Road 496

Turn left and go four tenths of a mile and Live oak Cemetery is on the right.

History. Francis Sullivan Bouchillon, b ca 1830 in South Carolina, d after 1900 in Falls County, Texas - was a son of John Bouchillon, b ca 1800 in South Carolina, d 1880 in Falls County, Texas, and his wife, Elizabeth (Doolittle) Bouchillon, d 1871 in Falls County. Their ancestors were French Hugenots who came to America on the vessel, "Friendship," which landed at Charleston, South Carolina on April 12, 1764.

John married Elizabeth or Betsey Doolittle of TX Falls County [3598] [MRIN: 1407] in 1820.

Children from this marriage were:

19 i. Mary S. Bouchillon of Al Greene County [3596]

ii. Benjamin Franklin Bouchillon CSA POW [16830] was born on 19 Dec 1845 in Mantua, Greene, AL maybe, died on 19 Mar 1890 in Lott, Falls, TX⁸¹ at age 44, and was buried in Carolina Cemetery near Chilton, TX.

iii. Lucinda Gray Bouchillon [16840] was born on 7 Jan 1839.⁸¹

iv. Martha Elizabeth Bouchillon [16841] was born on 14 Sep 1836⁸¹ and died on 5 Feb 1922⁸¹ at age 85.

v. Francis Sullivan Bouchillon CSA [17168] was born on 12 Mar 1830 in SC,¹⁹ died on 24 Feb 1912 in TX Falls County¹⁹ at age 81, and was buried in Live Oak Cemetery.

39. Elizabeth or Betsey Doolittle of TX Falls County [3598], daughter of Samuel Doolittle V [3608] and Mary Polly Williams kin to Rev. Roger [3609], was born on 2 Jan 1805 in SC Probably, died on 2 Jul 1871 in TX Falls County at age 66, and was buried in Big Springs, Chickasaw, MS.⁸²

Elizabeth married John T. Bouchillon Elder [3597]⁸¹ [MRIN: 1407] in 1820.

40. Nathaniel 1790 Mason Gilliam Nc Tn [20148],² son of Nathaniel 1767 Mason? Gilliam [19517] and Charity Brown [2419], was born on 10 Mar 1790 in NC Cherokee County* See Note,⁸³ died on 29 Nov 1869 in TN Rhea County, Prestonville¹⁰ at age 79, and was buried in Gilliam Cemetery Near Spring City.

General Notes: NC Cherokee County was formed in 1839 from Macon County

Macon county was formed 1828 from Haywood County

Haywood County in 1808 from Buncombe

Buncombe in 1791 from Burke and Rutherford:

if, George Rufus' affadavit says, Nathaniel Mason Gilliam was born in NC Cherokee County he was born in Burke or Rutherford.

Unless, he was born on the Cherokee reservation!

Don Giddens- 2003

Others say he was born in SC Cherokee County

Tax List: 1819, TN Rhea County. John Gilliam (2)

Fact. Place of birth is listed as Va Cherokee County by Brian Claassen .

Census: 1820, NC Halifax. if same Nathaniel 220100 00001

Nathaniel b 1794-1802

2 sons b 1810-20

2 sons b 1804-1810

wife or mother b bef 1775

Census: 1820, TN Davidson County. if same Nathaniel

Census: 1830, TN Davidson County. also a Nathaniel (2) Gilliam TN Polk County

Census: 1850, TN Rhea County.

Nathaniel married Sarah L Davis Sally [20160]⁴⁴ [MRIN: 8468] on 26 Sep 1822 in TN Rhea County.⁸⁴

Children from this marriage were:

i. Elizabeth Gilliam [20405] was born in 1823 in TN Rhea County.

20 ii. James Dudley Gilliam [20416]

iii. John W Gilliam [20406] was born in 1826 in TN Rhea County.

iv. William Stanton Gilliam [20407] was born in 1826 in TN Rhea County.

v. George Madison Gilliam [20408] was born in 1828 in TN Rhea County.

vi. Major Cooper Gilliam [20409] was born in Dec 1830 in TN Rhea County³⁹ and died on 17 Jul 1891³⁹ at age 60.

vii. Richard Arch Gilliam [20410] was born in 1833 in TN Rhea County.

viii. Mary Emma Or Elizabeth Gilliam [20411] was born in 1835 in TN Rhea County and died in 1913 in TX Bells, Fannin County at age 78.

ix. Nancy Jane Gilliam [20412] was born in 1837 in TN Rhea County.

x. Sarah R Gilliam [20413] was born in 1839 in TN Rhea County.

xi. Letha M Gilliam [20414] was born on 1 Jan 1842 in TN Rhea County³⁹ and died on 20 May 1929 in MO³⁹ at age 87.

xii. Jesse 1846 P Gilliam [20415] was born in 1846 in TN Rhea County.

xiii. Elizabeth D Gilliam Dtr? [22027] was born on 3 May 1830, died on 15 Mar 1859 in Bells, Fannin, Texas²² at age 28, and was buried in Bell-Youree Cemetery.

xiv. Sophronia Gilliam Dtr? [22028] was born on 4 Sep 1837 and died in Mar 1858 in Bells, Fannin, Texas at age 20.

41. Sarah L Davis Sally [20160],⁴⁴ daughter of Tn Rhea County Davis Unknown [3682], was born in 1801 in NC NC NC, died in 1885 in TN Rhea County, Spring City at age 84, and was buried in Gilliam Cemetery.

Census: 1880, TN Rhea. living with Joel Dotson, son-in-law

Sarah Gilliam b 1800 NC NC NC

Sarah married James Elliot [5580] [MRIN: 2368] in 1814 in TN Rhea County.

Sarah next married Nathaniel 1790 Mason Gilliam Nc Tn [20148]² [MRIN: 8468] on 26 Sep 1822 in TN Rhea County.⁸⁴

42. Archibald Duncan Paul of Tn Rhea County [2588], son of Moses F Paul Sc [3651] and Margaret Gladney [3652], was born on 8 Jan 1799 in Camden, Fairfield, SC,¹⁹ died on 12 Dec 1864 in Spring City, Rhea, TN¹⁹ at age 65, and was buried in Friendship Church Cemetery.

Census: 1830, TN Rhea County, Spring City. TN Rhea 00001 31001 (20-30)

Census: 1850, TN Rhea County.

Archibald married Cynthia Breeding of Tn Rhea County [2587] [MRIN: 984] on 15 May 1823 in Rhea County, TN.⁴³

Children from this marriage were:

i. Cyrena M Paul [6764] was born circa 1826.⁴⁶

ii. Myra W Paul [6765] was born circa 1828.⁴⁶

iii. Narcissa E Paul [6766] was born circa 1832.⁴⁶

iv. Nancy C Paul [6767] was born circa 1836.⁴⁶

v. Vaughn A Paul [6768] was born circa 1838.

21 vi. Sophronia Adeline Paul of Tn Rhea County [3594]

vii. Amanda F Paul [6769] was born circa 1845.⁴⁶

viii. William L Paul [6770] was born circa 1848.⁴⁶

Archibald next married Rebecca Clark [10176]⁸⁴ [MRIN: 4421] on 27 Oct 1854 in TN Roane County.⁸⁶

Marriage Notes: if same Archibald D Paul.

Children from this marriage were:

i. Sheriff Archibald Duncan Paul Jr. [3659] was born in 1854 and died after 1930 in TN Rhea County probably.

ii. Samuel E Paul [6771] was born in 1860.⁸⁷

43. Cynthia Breeding of Tn Rhea County [2587], daughter of Bryon Breeding Tn Rhea [3654] and Jane Thompson Tn Rhea [3655], was born on 5 Nov 1802 in Rhea County, TN,¹⁹ died on 7 Aug 1851 in TN Rhea County, Spring City¹⁹ at age 48, and was buried in TN Rhea County, Old Friendship Cemetery.

Cynthia married Archibald Duncan Paul of Tn Rhea County [2588] [MRIN: 984] on 15 May 1823 in Rhea County, TN.⁴³

44. Samuel Holloway of TN Putnam County [3644], son of Bremillion "Brim" Holloway Nc Orange [2585] and Sarah Proctor Nc Orange [2586], was born in 1799 in NC Orange County and died circa 1870 in TN Putnam at age 71.

Census: 1830, TN Rhea County. 12001 02001

Samuel married Frances Davisson or Davidson Nc [3645] [MRIN: 1434] in 1819 in TN Rhea County, Spring City.

Children from this marriage were:

i. Myra Holloway [4718]

ii. Joseph Holloway [4706] was born circa 1821.⁸⁸

iii. Eliza A Holloway [4707] was born in 1822.⁴⁰

22 iv. Pleasant Monday Holloway of Tn Rhea County [20200]

v. Ermeline Holloway [4717] was born in 1828.⁴⁰

vi. John Holloway [4721] was born in 1830.⁴⁰

vii. James S. Holloway [3383] was born in 1835.

viii. Phebe Caroline Holloway [4751] was born in 1835⁴⁰ and died in 1912⁴⁰ at age 77.

ix. Andrew Jackson Holloway [4722] was born in 1837.⁴⁰

x. George Washington Holloway [4724] was born in 1837.⁴⁰

xi. Delilah D Holloway [4753] was born in 1838⁴⁰ and died in 1860⁴⁰ at age 22.

xii. Abigail Emmaline Holloway [4755] was born in 1839 in TN TN TN⁴⁰ and died in 1919⁴⁰ at age 80.

xiii. Samuel Houston Holloway [4725] was born in 1840.⁴⁰

45. Frances Davisson or Davidson Nc [3645], daughter of James Davidson of NC Orange [5422] and Unknown, was born on 8 Jul 1799 in NC Orange County, maybe and died after 1880 in TN Rhea County, Spring City.

Census: 1880, TN Rhea County. Frances 1799 NC NC VA

Living with sister-in-law, Elvira.

Census: 1800, NC Buncombe census. DAVIDOSN, John 40010 01010 0 7 DAVIDSON, William 00201 01001 0 8(?) DAVIDSON, George 10010 40100 0 4 DAVIDSON, Benjn. 01001 10501 0 2 DAVIDSON, Hugh 10010 10100 0 3 DAVIDSON, John 10010 20010 0 8 DAVIS, John 00001 31310 0 0 DAVIS, Isham 20010 32010 0 0 DAVIS, Baxter 10100 20100 0 0 DAVIS, Thomnas 10010 00100 0 0 DAVIS, John 31010 21010 0 0 DAVIS, John 00110 00100 0 0 DAVIS, William 22010 01110 0 0 DAVIS, Samuel 20010 10010 0 0

Frances married Samuel Holloway of TN Putnam County [3644] [MRIN: 1434] in 1819 in TN Rhea County, Spring City.

46. William Davis [4368],⁴⁶ son of Davis [9606] and Unknown, was born Est 1794 in VA Orange County maybe.

William married Harriet Goodridge [4369]⁴⁶ [MRIN: 1746] on 23 Feb 1818 in VA Orange County.⁴⁸

Children from this marriage were:

23 i. Harriet Davis of TN Rhea County [20201]

ii. Mary Davis [5581] was born circa 1820.

iii. Mildred Davis [5582] was born circa 1822.

47. Harriet Goodridge [4369],⁴⁶ daughter of William Goodridge Unproven [6864] and Catherine Martin Hinton [6935], was born circa 1794 in VA Orange County maybe.

Census: 1830, VA Fauquier County.¹ if it is the same Harriet Davis.

Harriet married William Davis [4368]⁴⁶ [MRIN: 1746] on 23 Feb 1818 in VA Orange County.⁴⁸

48. John Cox Sawmill owner [22343],⁸⁹ son of John Cox Sc Pendleton [3] and Elizabeth Vaughn Pendleton Sc [53], was born circa 1756 in NC Granville County,⁹⁰ died on 18 Aug 1815 in SC Pendleton District⁹¹ at age 59, and was buried in SC Pendleton District.

General Notes: Big Generostee Creek feeds into the Savannah River two miles south of the Lake Hartwell Dam. Coxes Mill appears on an 1825 map at the foot of the creek.

The site is probably now covered by the waters of Richard B. Russell Lake.

Elbert County, GA records show John Cox bought two islands in the Savannah River at Generostee Creek in 1805. (Jerry Tonroy)

Arleen Logan on Rootsweb has the father of John Cox as Samuel Cox b 3/24/1725 Boston, Suffolk, MA mother, Sarah Rodgers, 1730, Dorcester, Suffolk, MA.

Father: William COX b: 1 Dec 1695 in Scituate,Plymouth,MA

Mother: Elizabeth RIDGEWAY b: 1697 in of Pamaquid,ME

Marriage 1 Sarah ROGERS b: Abt 1730 in Dorchester,Suffolk,MA

Married: 23 May 1750 in Dorchester,Suffolk,MA

Dear Rhea, August 27, 2001

Thanks for your note of Aug 26, on Ellison ...

It is fun trying to sort the Coxes of that era and area.

Here is a note I made earlier on the Cox--Allison--Beverley connection..

No real proof, but info is consistent.. William Cox named in will

of John Beverley 1737 as grandson, is probably the one who died by

1783 on John's Island... This John Beverley is probably the son of

Major Robert Beverley 1641-1687 of Virginia -- and brother of

Robert Beverley, the early Virginia historian... ..

I need to

look at the Pendleton Will Book again. Two sons named in the will

of the William Cox wp 1821 (??).. were John Wesley Cox and William

Bolen Cox. These two probably kin to John Cox wp 1816. They

apparently were involved in the estate sale of William Cannon

about 1822.

Jerry Tonroy

Dear Cox Researcher Cousins and Beverly -- August 4, 2001

SC State Archives...

I have found the Miller links that support the connection between the Coxes

of Big Generostee Creek with the Coxes and Beverlys of Bertie NC. I will

try to give citations.

The Union County Historical Foundation, Union SC published a Map

book of land grants in NW South Carolina in 1976 reprinted 1995.

That pinpoints Cox locations..

William Cox got a grant in 1766 along the North side of the Enoree

River 400 acres, across from Warrior's Creek. His grant was in

present day Spartanburg County -- just south of Exit 44 on I-26,

along SC Highway 49. The James Allison grant from 1769 400 acres

is just south across Enoree River and along North side of Warrior's

Creek - in present day Laurens County. The George Cox grant - 300

acres 1767 is about 5 miles west above Ora and the John Cox (wife Elizabeth)

grant - 150 acres 1768 - is about 10 miles West, near

Gray Court.. William Cox later bought some of the James Allison

grant.

Just east of the William Cox grant in Spartanburg County is the

100 acre grant to Matthew Couch (Crouch) and there were other Couches

in the area, plus a Samuel Cannon grant 1765 - sons William, John,

James, Isaac. William Cannon may be son-in-law of William Cox..

There were Bobo's in area too - including a Hiram and a Tilman.

Laurens County Deed - Book C pages 47-48 LDS roll LR-1 SC roll C3

John Cox planter and wife Sarah of Indian Creek sold land to

Sandford Berry - 100 acres of 400 acres granted to James Allison

22 September 1769. Wit: John Cannon, John Hall signed 28 June 1788.

Recorded 27 June 1789.

Laurens County Deed - Book F pages 235-236 LDS roll LR-2 SC roll C4

Sandford Berry sold to Spencer Bobo of Spartanburg County for

60 pounds sterling on 28 Nov 1794 -- 100 acres SE part of 400 acres

granted to James Allison conveyed to William Cox by Lease and Release 4 and

5 August 1774. Since conveyed by John Cox son of William Decd to the said

Sandford Berry by Lease and Release bearing date of 28 and 29 June 1788.

Beginning at a beach on Enoree Bank s62w 44.20 chains.

Thence on old line s10e 30 chains. Thence n80e 11 chains along old

line. Thence n20e 28.50 chains. Thence n50e 11 chains on old line

to Enoree Bank. Thence to beginning.

---- The importance of these deeds is that they indicate that

the John Cox will proven 1816 wife Sarah -- was most likely son

of William Cox and not John and Elizabeth Cox. -----

---- Location of Beverly Cox is shown to be next to William Cox --

Spartanburg County Deed Book M pages 188-190 Old deed recorded

Mathew Couch and wife Fanny (Enoree) to Beverly Cox (same) for

50 pounds SC money sold 50 acres on a branch of the Enoree granted

June 16, 1700 (??) to Mathew Couch in Craven County.

So it is possible and probable that four brothers - sons of John

Cox who died by 1752 as indicated in Granville county NC orphan

records, were in this area by 1770's. 1752 orphan process named

John - 18 Beverley - 16 George - 13 and Amey - 11 as minor

children of John Cox deceased... William was probably older..

The establishment of the miller trade for William Cox and

probably his brothers is indicated in deeds on the original

William Cox grant on Spartanburg side of Enoree.

Sparanburg County Deed Book A pages 104-109 November 14, 1785

Thomas Briggs son of John Briggs miller of Enoree sold 200

acres and a grist mill to Thomas Tod -- one tract sold by

William Cox desc to John Briggs 100 acres on north side of

Enoree - other tract was in Union County. -- We do not

know by this if William Cox or his survivors sold this land.

Will of James Allison - Laurens County - proven March 9, 1789.

To son James - 150 acres where he now lives including saw mill.

To wife Nancy - 100 acres and grist mill. Daughter Elizabeth

not yet married. James is to use revenue from saw mill to

maintain grist mill (evidently his mother got this) and get

his milling free.

There were plenty of mills in the area then -- and William Cox

may have built several of them..

On Beverly Cox son of John Cox who died in 1798 (estate sale

May 1799) Pendleton District a later deed gives some insight.

Pendleton District Deed Book J - pages 57-58 Recorded 7 Sep 1807 -

Beverly Cox of Pendleton District sold 150 acres left by his

father deceased as a deed of gift 30 March 1798 (or 1799?) lying

on a branch of 26 Mile Creek sold to Harrel (Hamel) Felton 26

Oct 1802. There is a note that witness John Hodgen swore before

a JP in Buncombe County NC on 28 August 1807 that he saw Beverly

Cox assign and deliver the deed to Harrel Felton... (Earlier

I thought this connected Beverly Cox to NC but it does not, just

the witness.)

This deed is not consistent with Book E - page 201 16 Apr 1801

where the John Cox deed of gift to his loving son Beverly is

dated 30 March 1789. The Indians still had that area in 1790

I think. Correct date of gift is probably 30 March 1798 -- and

this may explain lack of will by John Cox wife Elizabeth. This

was probably all the land he owned and a will was not essential.

1800 census has Elizabeth Cox living next to or with a John Cox

in Pendleton District. John Cox with children for wp 1816 lived

elsewhere and Mary Cox (widow of Beverly)lived near him.

----- Back to Bertie County NC ---

NC Higher Court Minutes March 1727 General Court page 356..

<Daniel v. Cox> William Daniel Ordinary keeper by Thomas Jones

his Attorney comes to prosecute John Cox Mill Wright in an action

of Trepass on the Case for One hundred pounds damage And the

Sayd defendant by John Bapa. (Baptista) Ashe his attorney appear'd

and at their Motion and by Consent the Sayd Suite is putt respite

untill the Next Court on the last Tuesday in July next.

--- Case was eventually dismissed --

< Daniel v Benton Trepass on the case> July 1726 page 271

William Daniel of the Precinct of Bertie Tavernkeeper v Francis

Benton of the precinct of Bertie ....

< Daniel v Salter > March 1726 page 197

William Daniel of Bertie Precinct against Malachi Salter of

New England Mariner assault on 2 Aug 1725...

These entries seems to indicate that John Cox Mill Wright -

probably of Bertie Precinct - was not always welcome at William

Daniel's Tavern, which was probably a rough honky-tonk where

sailors fought with cowboys of the day.. or the owner ...

The assault that John Cox later alleged on 7 September 1726

--page 318 of October 1726 Court Minutes -- by William Hynes

labourer (in custody) may have occurred at or near this

honky-tonk during or after happy hour. It occurred early in

month -- maybe they had just gotten their paychecks..

I will transcribe that later...

Enough for now --- I hope this is of interest ...

Jerry Tonroy Columbia SC tonroyj@hotmail.com

Biographical note: : SC Pendleton District.³¹ John Cox was comparatively a large land owner acquiring at least 1200 acres, and owning at least one sawmill. He also owned two islands which are called "irelands" in his will. Evidently, he had NO slaves.

Israel was five years old when his father died, and as was the custom, the older sons inherited everything.

Tax List: 1787, SC Abbeville. if same John

Rev War: 1776, SC.³¹ Did our John Cox fight in the Rev War? He was of the right age.

Land transaction: 1789, SC Pendleton District. 250 acs on 26 Mile Creek from John Pope. Usually people bought land from kin.

Census: 1790, SC Pendleton District. census divisions 5 columns

Free white males over 16 TWO KNOWN

Free white males under 16 TWO KNOWN

Free white females including heads of families TWO KNOWN

All other free persons NONE

Slaves NONE

Down the road

Thos Armstrong, John GAMBRELL, Wm Armstrong, John COX 323 Jms Brown, Wood BRAZEAL, Jms Allen, Thos Mc, Ferrell Mogahok, Robt McCreay, Jms Brown, Benj Stewart, Thos WIlson, Jarrett WIlson, Noel Moffatt, Reuben COX 122 Brock, Jack, Telford, Crow, Brown, Gand, Davis, Amos BAILEY, Wm Washington, Crow, Millicent Flood, Read, Finley, Hankins, William COX 102 Robt King, Saml Smith, Robt Moore...

Census: 1790, SC Pendleton Coxes. C000 COX Beverly M-637 033 082 01 02 04 00 00 No Twp. Listed C200 COX Edward M-637 033 083 01 00 03 00 00 No Twp. Listed C200 COX Edward M-637 033 084 02 01 07 00 00 No Twp. Listed C200 COX Edward Sen. M-637 033 083 02 01 02 00 00 No Twp. Listed C200 COX George M-637 033 085 01 00 01 00 00 No Twp. Listed C200 COX James M-637 033 082 01 00 01 00 00 No Twp. Listed C200 COX John M-637 033 081 02 06 05 00 00 No Twp. Listed C200 COX John M-637 033 082 03 02 03 00 00 No Twp. Listed C200 COX John M-637 033 081 10 10 02 00 00 No Twp. Listed C200 COX Reuben M-637 033 082 01 02 02 00 00 No Twp. Listed C200 COX Robert Jun. M-637 033 083 02 02 01 00 00 No Twp. Listed C200 COX William M-637 033 082 01 00 02 00 00 No Twp. Listed C200 COX William M-637 033 083 01 01 05 00 00 No Twp. Listed

Land transaction: 1794, SC Pendleton District. bought 304 acs from Thomas Grant, Washington District

Census: 1800, SC Pendleton District.

Land transaction: 1802, SC Pendleton District. 142 acres Savannah River

Land transaction: 1802, SC Pendleton District. 170 acres Savannah River

Land transaction: 1803, SC Pendleton District. bought 40 acs from Thomas Turner

Land transaction: 1803, SC Pendleton District. 40 acres Savannah River

Land transaction: 1803, SC Pendleton District. 340 acres along the Savannah River.

Census: 1810, SC Pendleton District.

John married someone.

His child was:

i. Elizabeth Cox [22344]

John married Sarah Smith [4373] [MRIN: 7] circa 1780 in SC Pendleton District maybe.

Children from this marriage were:

i. William Cox [270] was born in 1783 in SC Abbeville District and died in 1827 in SC Anderson County at age 44.

ii. Edward Cox [11] was born in 1787 in SC Pendleton District⁹² and died in 1841 in AL Blount County⁹³ at age 54. Another name for Edward was Ned.

iii. Elizabeth Cox [5837] was born in 1787 in SC Pendleton District and died circa 1860 in AL Jackson County at age 73.

iv. Naomi Cox "Elley" [14] was born in 1793 in SC Pendleton District and died in AL Jefferson.

v. John B Cox [5838] was born in 1796 and died circa 1866 in AL St. Clair County at age 70.

vi. James Cox [5839] was born in 1798.

vii. Casiah Cox [5841] was born in 1802.

viii. Delilah Cox [5843] was born in 1804.

ix. Hiram Cox [29] was born on 15 Jan 1805 in SC Pendleton District and died on 25 Feb 1894 in AL Jefferson, Jonesborough at age 89.

x. Tilman Cox [5844] was born in 1806 in SC Pendleton District and died in 1864 in GA Fannin County, Morgantown⁹⁴ at age 58.

xi. Sarah Cox [279] was born in 1808 in Pendleton Dist. SC.

24 xii. Israel Cox of TX Wood County [17]

xiii. Rial (Raleigh Azariah) Cox "Rial" [25] was born in 1810 in SC Pendleton District, died circa 1880 in TX Comanche County at age 70, and was buried in Henderson, King's School Cemetery.⁹⁵ Another name for Rial was Raleigh Azrariah Cox.

xiv. Alley Cox [5854] was born in 1812 in SC Pendleton District.

49. Sarah Smith [4373], daughter of Job Smith [5964] and Hannah [6071], was born circa 1756 in SC Laurens District⁹⁰ and died after 1828 in GA Fannin County(from Gilmer, Union).⁹⁰

Census: 1790, SC Pendleton Smiths. S530 SMITH David M-637 033 082 01 02 03 00 00 No Twp. Listed S530 SMIHT Edwin M-637 033 083 01 03 04 00 00 No Twp. Listed S530 SMIHT George M-637 033 081 01 04 02 00 00 No Twp. Listed S530 SMITH Abraham M-637 033 084 01 00 05 00 00 No Twp. Listed S530 SMITH Benjamin M-637 033 082 01 02 66 00 00 No Twp. Listed S530 SMITH Daniel M-637 033 084 03 03 04 00 00 No Twp. Listed S530 SMITH David M-637 033 084 02 01 02 00 00 No Twp. Listed S530 SMITH Eleazer M-637 033 083 01 02 04 00 00 No Twp. Listed S530 SMITH Henry M-637 033 083 01 01 00 00 00 No Twp. Listed S530 SMITH Job M-637 033 082 20 03 05 00 00 No Twp. Listed S530 SMITH Job, sen. M-637 033 082 01 00 01 00 00 No Twp. Listed S530 SMITH John M-637 033 082 01 02 07 00 00 No Twp. Listed S530 SMITH John M-637 033 083 02 01 01 00 00 No Twp. Listed S530 SMITH John M-637 033 083 02 02 04 00 00 No Twp. Listed S530 SMITH Josep M-637 033 082 03 03 04 00 00 No Twp. Listed S530 SMITH Joseph M-637 033 081 01 03 02 00 00 No Twp. Listed S530 SMITH Joseph M-637 033 084 02 02 03 00 00 No Twp. Listed S530 SMITH Mary M-637 033 085 02 02 03 00 00 No Twp. Listed S530 SMITH Rachel M-637 033 081 01 10 04 00 00 No Twp. Listed S530 SMITH Robert M-637 033 083 02 03 03 00 00 No Twp. Listed S530 SMITH Sameul M-637 033 082 01 00 02 00 00 No Twp. Listed S530 SMITH Samuel M-637 033 082 02 00 04 00 00 No Twp. Listed

Fact: 4 Sep 1755, MA Beverly.³⁹ a Sarah Smith dtr of a Job and Sarah (Allen) Smith was born

Sarah married John Cox Sawmill owner [22343]⁸⁹ [MRIN: 7] circa 1780 in SC Pendleton District maybe.

Sarah next married Cannon [16852] [MRIN: 7091].

50. Benjamin J Hudgins Sc Pendleton [265], son of Captain John Phillip Hudgins RWS [342] and Rutha Davis [956], was born on 12 Mar 1788 in NC, died on 12 Jul 1855 in Jackson Co Ala at age 67, and was buried in Hudgins Cemetery Near Bellafonte Ala.

Benjamin married Martha Ellis [266] [MRIN: 524] about 1809 in Pendleton Dist SC?.

Children from this marriage were:

i. Polly Hudgins [170] was born in 1810.

ii. Delilah Hudgins [169] was born in 1812 in Pendleton, SC.⁹⁶

iii. Rev. Elnathan Hudgins Rev. [6934] was born in 1814 in TN,²⁶ died on 24 Mar 1901 in Grapevine, Tarrant, TX at age 87, and was buried in Grapevine, Tarrant, TX.

iv. Jesse Ellis Hudgins Rev. [173] was born on 26 Dec 1816 in Franklin Co TN (Winchester) and died on 14 Dec 1893 in MS Lafayette County at age 76.

25 v. Sarah Elizabeth Hudgins of TX Wood County [20]

vi. John Wesley Hudgins [175] was born about 1821 in Jackson Co., Ala and died in 1858 about age 37.

vii. James M. Hudgins [177] was born in 1823 in Jackson Co., Ala and died on 26 Aug 1871 at age 48.

viii. Benjamin Franklin Hudgins [179] was born in 1825 in Jackson Co., Ala and died in 1911 in Bomar, Carter, OK⁹⁶ at age 86.

ix. Philip Davis Hudgins [181] was born on 25 Apr 1830 in Bellafonte, Jackson Co Ala⁹⁶ and died on 19 Oct 1916 at age 86.

x. Anderson Pierce Hudgins [183] was born in 1832 in Jackson Co Ala and died in 1896 at age 64.

xi. Martha Ann Hudgins [184] was born on 23 Oct 1834 in Jackson Co Ala and died on 11 May 1859 at age 24.

Benjamin next married Martha Ellis [266] [MRIN: 1443] circa 1809 in SC Pendleton District maybe.

Children from this marriage were:

25 i. Sarah Elizabeth Hudgins of TX Wood County [20]

ii. Rev. Elnathan Hudgins Rev. [6934] was born in 1814 in TN,²⁶ died on 24 Mar 1901 in Grapevine, Tarrant, TX at age 87, and was buried in Grapevine, Tarrant, TX.

51. Martha Ellis [266], daughter of Jesse Ellis RWS [119] and Widow Elizabeth Young [1503], was born on 10 Mar 1788 in NC Chatham County and died on 12 Jul 1855 in AL Jackson County at age 67.

General Notes: Additional info thanks to : J T Mayes <jgmayes2@aol.com>

More info thanks to : Gary Ellis <wurdluvr@mindspring.com>

Alt. Death: : Lingering Dropsy.

Martha married Benjamin J Hudgins Sc Pendleton [265] [MRIN: 524] about 1809 in Pendleton Dist SC?.

Martha next married Benjamin J Hudgins Sc Pendleton [265] [MRIN: 1443] circa 1809 in SC Pendleton District maybe.

52. Rev. John Sanders Baptist War of 1812 [3701], son of Pastor Moses Saunders Sanders RWS [131] and Sarah Hamilton [122], was born on 2 Mar 1787 in NC Rowan County/SC Laurens⁹⁷ and died on 15 Nov 1858 in MS Tishomingo Maybe at age 71.

Resided: 1830, TN McNairy.⁵⁷ Before they moved to Tishominogo, MS they lived in McNairy County, TN.

Marriages: Bef 1900, GA Franklin.⁹⁸ SANDERS, Aaron S 28 JAN 1858 Martha M RUCKER

SANDERS, Aaron C 14 MAY 1849 Lucinda M WHITMORE

SANDERS, Allis 28 DEC 1848 James E SCOTT

SANDERS, Aron 14 FEB 1817 Morning THOMASON

SANDERS, Asbury 28 JUL 1864 Rhoda REID

SANDERS, Calvin 23 FEB 1824 Sarah MILLER

SANDERS, Eliza E 03 DEC 1840 Archibald J McCURDY

SANDERS, Elizabeth 03 NOV 1848 John McCLESKY

SANDERS, Elizabeth 27 NOV 1839 Ellet RUCKER

SANDERS, George 15 OCT 1848 Elizabeth RAMSEY

SANDERS, John 28 DEC 1811 Abbey ROBBINS

SANDERS, Lewis 06 SEP 1846 Sarah EATON

SANDERS, Lewis 05 AUG 1824 Prudence MILLER(?)

SANDERS, Lucinda 17 OCT 1850 John H W GREENWAY

SANDERS, Martha Clemantine T 24 JUL 1845 Jefferson WHITE

SANDERS, Martha 22 OCT 1854 Thomas R OSBURN

SANDERS, Martha E 08 AUG 1858 Aaron HILL

SANDERS, Martha 17 JAN 1841 Wesley C WILEY

SANDERS, Mary 20 SEP 1829 John HARPER

SANDERS, Mary 25 JUL 1838 Francis HUBBARD

SANDERS, Matthew H 23 MAR 1856 Malissa K RUCKER

SANDERS, Miss F. M. 01 DEC 1859 Thomas C CHANDLER

SANDERS, Morris K 21 OCT 1855 Amelia Caroline NORWOOD

SANDERS, Moses H 18 NOV 1855 Rhoda Ann IVY

SANDERS, Nancy 08 DEC 1816 William PEET(?)

SANDERS, Orpha 14 FEB 1850 Benson HERRING

SANDERS, Patience 08 APR 1833 Joseph H. VICKERY

SANDERS, Rachael 08 NOV 1827 Joel H DYAR

SANDERS, Rebecca 28 JAN 1847 Thomas G CLEVELAND

SANDERS, Sallie 31 OCT 1811 William DODD

SANDERS, Sallie 31 OCT 1811 David DODD

SANDERS, Samuel 24 JAN 1828 Ann SKELTON

SANDERS, Samuel 26 JAN 1851 Harriet K AYRES

SANDERS, Sara C 09 JAN 1845 Henry M WILLBANKS

SANDERS, William T 08 FEB 1855 Loisa A OWEN

Biography: 1860, Corinth, Tishomingo, MS.⁹⁹ History of Tishomingo County, Mississippi page 92 (Film 895939 contained a paper submitted by Adelle Sanders Francis, which was written by Moses Marion Sanders.

“Corinth, Mississippi. July 6, 1880. It is to those in future generations that this biographical sketch is intended to enlighten upon the immediate history of our family It is natural, it is right, it is simply a prompting of the soul that inspires in us a love to perpetuate the deeds of the honorable, good, and noble. Such prompts me to enclose a link in the chain of chronology that will hand down the unstained name of our family to the unknown ages of the futures.”

“Whilst my mind runs back along the family pathway through the lights and shade of several generations for nearly two hundred years I am delighted to find no dark lines recorded no traces that lead from the roll of honor no stains or disgrace to mar the bright heroism of the future generations of the family that will follow in our footprints.”

“Our grandfather Moses Sanders was born in the early part of the 18th century. His life was spent in agriculture as a pursuit and theology as a profession being a Baptist preacher. Our grandfather John Robins was a merchant in Virginia.”

“John Sanders our father was born in North Carolina March 2nd A.D. 1787. Our mother Aby Richardson Sanders daughter of John Robins was born in Virginia August 18th 1796. Father and mother were married in North Carolina in A.D. 18 (left blank but should read 1811 in Franklin County, Georgia). They lived together nearly long enough to celebrate their golden wedding-fifty years. Father lived the quiet life of an independent planter having owned slaves prior to the commencement of the late war. In the early days of his life he was a soldier being engaged in the Indian War of A.D. 1812.”

“Alas time with his scythe has carried many of our family to the tomb. Father and mother like many of their children sleep in the quiet city of the dead. Father died 15 Nov A.D. 1858 Mother died 10 Apr 1866. Though they are gone yet they lived to see the greater number of their children married and settled down in reasonable prosperity.”

“Our eldest sister Acenith married William Muckelroy. Sister Thursialou having married A. G. Pearson whose family is quite honorable. Our sister Jiney married Joseph Carter. Our sister Elizabeth married Henry Derryberry. Our eldest brother Lovel Dogaus never married. He was taken prisoner by the Federals in 1863 during the late war and never heard from. James Monroe gave most of his time to agriculture, and politics he was quite a prominent member of the general assembly of the State of Arkansas in 1860. He was a brave captain in the War Between the States. Josiah Hardin lived in Texas engaged in farming and stock raising was a brave soldier and lost his life in defense of his country 1863. Cardinal Walsey, lived in Tennessee. Engaged in planting was also a brave and generous solider and officer in the late war and lost his life in service 1864. Simeon Lafayette the youngest son was born in Miss. 31st May A. D. 1839. He is more inclined to a mercantile and political life excels many of his fellows in many good and chivalrous deeds one who wins at will and holds his

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friends with a strengthened chain. During the war he was engaged for four years coming out with honors and scars having never missed an engagement unless brought down by the casualties of war. He married Miss Mary Pinnay Young daughter of I.P. Young of this city in the year 1867. Is a prominent citizen of this city and has made well-merited reputation as a political officer and acommercial tourist. This family consists of four members self wife & two bright intelligent beautiful little girls Mattie & Mary. Now I have given a biographical sketch of each member of the family save one, the writer, MosesMarion Sanders."

"As a rule the family has an inclination to morality; and religion. The writer and next to the youngest and only son living except Fayette was born Jan A.D. 1838. During his early life he was engaged in agriculture and attending country schools in company with his brothers Walsey and Lafayette. He graduated in medicine in 1860 Joined the 1st Ark infantry in Feb 1861."

"Fayette and I soldiers together the entire war receiving three wounds each both alike held positions as officers in our command. The writer married Miss Cynthia C. Bruton daughter of Benjamine Bruton of this city Dec 19, 1865. We have a pleasant little family circle with only one we miss from home. Our first is in the grave. The oldest boy Simeon Alonzo a bright boy very sprightly and bids to be an elocutionist of note. 2nd boy Earl Bruton quick intelligent and much inclined to refinement 3rd boy Marcus Marion bright, joyous and happy more mischievious than ever was the 'father of his country..' 4th Edna our girl

endowed with more spirit and will and equal mind to any of the boys. 5th Sweet Lena 'our first' is in the cold silent tomb."

As stated in the above paper, John Sanders was born 2 Mar 1887 in North Carolina. His father deeded land to him in 1811 but he was not to take possession until after his and his wife's death.

Franklin County, Georgia Deeds Book MMM Page 66 (Film 007130); "This a sufficient deed of gift made this fourth day of June Eighteen Hundred & Eleven being in the county above written it being a part of a tract of land lying on the north side of the Grove Fork of Broad River & Graggs Creek containing one hundred and fifty acres be the same more or less it being a part of the land originally granted to Lieutenant Henry Long & conveyed by said Long unto the said Moses Sanders Senr & by him to John Sanders beginning at a pine corner thence running nearly a west course with the old line to Graggs Creek thence down the meanders of said creek to the mouth where it empties into theGrove Fork of Broad River, thence down said river as it meanders to the first branch thence up said branch to the old line thence along said line to the beginning the said land joins Aaron Sanders, Richard Mauldin, Moses Sanders Jr. & Dudley Jones lands, to have & to hold the above mentioned premises to said John Sanders his heirs & Assigns forever & I the said Moses Sanders Senr do warrant & defend before mentioned premises & against my heirs & assigns after the death of my wife & myself and all claims under me or mine unto the said John Sanders his heirs & assigns forever & the said John Sanders is not to take possession before my wifes & my death of this land as witness my hand & seal the day & date above written, a part of a line raist before assigned. Moses Sanders, Seal. Drury G. Howell, Jesse Holland, Darby Henley J.P." (The date of recording is not given but is between documents dated 5 Mar 1816 and 15 Mar 1816.)

John Sanders and Abby Robins are married 28 Dec 1811 in Franklin County, Georgia. After his father's death in 1817 John sells his property in Franklin Co., Ga. And moves to McNairy County, Tenn.. Franklin County, Georgia Deeds Book HH Page 225(Film 159041): "This indenture made & entered into this fourth of January in the year of our

lord one thousand eight hundred and eighteen between John Sanders, Executor of Moses Sanders deceased of the one part of the County of Franklin & State aforesaid and Moses Sanders of the same place of the other part. Witnesseth

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that I the said John Sanders for and in consideration of the sum of fifty dollars to me in hand well & truly paid by the said Moses Sanders & before the signing & sealing of these presents the receipt whereof is hereby acknowledged hath this day bargained & sold & confirmed & do by these presents bargain sell convey release & confirm unto the said Moses Sanders his heirs & assigns forever all my half of the tract or parcel of land situate lying and being in the county & state aforesaid on the North Side of the Grove Fork of Broad River containing forty acres more or less in the whole of said tract as agreed on by said legatees butting and bounding as follows beginning at a beach corner on said river thence down the various meanders of said River to the line of the old original tract, thence N on said old line to a post oak corner, thence on the old line to the branch, thence down said branch to a maple corner made by the said John & Moses thence a straight line to the beach corner at the beginning to have & to hold all & singular the rights profits benefits ways water winds minerals & appertenances thereunto belonging or in any way appertaining to his own profit benefit & behoof free & clear from me the said John Sanders my heirs, executors administrators & assigns forever wherof I have hereunto set my hand & affixed my seal the day & year first above written. Signed, sealed & delivered in presence of us: test James Suitor, Stephen Harris, Thomas F. Anderson J P Recorded 6 Apr 1818. John Sanders, Seal."

Franklin County, Georgia Deeds Book B page 20 (Film 159042): "This indenture made this 25th day of December 1818 between John Sanders of Franklin County and state aforesaid of the one part & Reuben Thornton of the same state and county of the other part. Witnesseth that for & in consideration of the sum of fifteen hundred dollars to me in hand paid at and before the signing & delivering of these presents the receipt whereof is hereby acknowledged hath this day bargained and sold unto the said Reuben Thornton all that plantation or tract of land situate lying & being in Franklin County and State aforesaid on the north side of the uppermost South Fork of Broad River called the Grove, beginning on a pine corner on the northern boundary line of the original survey, thence nearly southwest with the old line to the creek called Graggs Creek cornering on a boxelder conditionally, thence down the meanders of said creek including one half of the waters of the same to the mouth, thence down the meanders of the said Grove River including half the water of the same to the mouth of the first branch cornering on a beach thence nearly northeast to a maple corner on a small branch, thence up said branch to the old original line, thence with said line its original course to the beginning it being part of a survey originally granted to Henry Long and from the said Long to Moses Sanders Senr and from thence to the said John Sanders, and now to the said Reuben Thornton together with all the rights and appurtenances thereunto belonging to have and to hold the said tract or parcel of land containing two hundred acres more or less unto him the said Reuben Thornton his heirs & assigns will warrant and forever defend the said land and premises as above mentioned against myself my heirs and assigns and all and every other person or persons making a lawful claim henceforth from the date hereof in witness whereof I the said John Sanders hath hereunto set my hand and affixed my seal the day and year above written. John Sanders, Seal. Signed and sealed and delivered in presence of John Baugh, Wm Legg J.P. Recorded 24 Mar 1820."

John Sanders moved to McNairy County, Tenn. after selling his property in Franklin County, Ga. McNairy was established 8 Oct 1823 from Hardin County. Hardin Co. was established 13 Nov 1819 from lands ceded by Chickasaw Indians Co. Seat Savannah.

In 1837 he sold his property in McNairy County, Tenn. and moved to Tishomingo County, Miss. (Film 0024750 Item 2 pages 524, 525 Deeds of McNairy Co., Tenn.) Indenture 2 Dec 1837 between John Sanders & William M. Ferry all of County McNairy & State of Tenn. For $200 John Sanders sells to William M. Ferry all that certain tract of land lying and being on Little Hatchie in Range 2 and

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Section 3 beg. with a white oak chestnut maple & sower wood pointers 73 1/3 poles north of the SE corner of an original tract of 100 acres then so. 170 w 94 poles to a boundary line of said 100 acre tract thence N 50 poles to the W boundary of said tract to a stake E 89 72/89 pole to a white oak thence S to beg. containing 18 acres and 125 poles, ss Mark of John Sanders. Recorded 25 Jan 1838.

In a census for 1837 (Film 899870) for Tishomingo County John Sanders is listed with 1 male over 45, 1 male between 21-45, 1 male between 18-21, 3 male under 18, 1 female over 16, 3 females under 16, 1 male slave, 2 female slaves, total 9 white inhabitants and 9 acres cultivated land.

JOHN SANDERS

1. John Sanders

Children of John Sanders and Abby Richardson Robins

2. i. Lovel Dogaus Sanders b 1817; 33 in 1850 with parents; listed as

insane, d. 1863.

3. ii. James Monroe Sanders b 1819; md Elizabeth;

4. iii. Acenith (Asana, Susan) Sanders b 1822; md William Muckelroy

(McElroy) 1838-39.

5. iv. Jane (Jiney) Sanders b 1824; md Joseph Carter 9 Oct 1838;

6. v. Thursialou (Thursy) Sanders b 1826; rod A.G. Pearson

7. vi. Elizabeth Sanders b 1828; md Henry C. Derryberry 26 Nov 1843;

8. vii. Josiah Hardin Sanders b 1830; d 1863

9. viii. Cardinal Walsey Sanders b 1835; d 1864

10. ix. Moses Marion Sanders b. 1835; d 1864

11. x. Simeon Lafayette Sanders b 31 May 1839; md Mary Penney Young 1867; d

31 Oct 1908

SECOND GENERATION

3. James Monroe Sanders (John 1)

Children of James Monroe Sanders & Elizabeth

12. i. Aby (Aba) Sanders b 1850

13. ii. John H. Sanders b 1852; d Mar 1870 at Hot Springs, Ark. Of whooping

cough.

14. iii. Thyrza L. Sanders b 1854; d Mar 1870 measles

15. iv. Mary E. Sanders b 1856; d Mar 1870 measles

16. v. Cardinal Walsey Sanders b 1857'

17. vi. Acenith Elizabeth Sanders b 1859; d Mar 1870 age 11 measles

18. vii. Jefferson Davis Sanders b 1862

19. viii. Martha L. Sanders b 1864 ;

20. ix. James m. Sanders b 1866

4. Acenith Sanders (John 1)

Children of Acenith Sanders & William Muckelroy

21. i. Malissa Jane Muckelroy b 1839

22. ii. Isaac Muckelroy 0 1842

23. iii. James Muckelroy b. 1845

24. iv. John Muckelroy b 1846

25. v. Mary (Mollie) Muckelroy b 1849

26. vi. Martha Muckelroy (twin) b 1852

27. vii. David Muckelroy (twin) b 1852

28. viii. William Muckelroy b 1854

29. ix. Catherine Muckelroy b 1856

30. x. Safrony Muckelroy b 1859

31. xi. Walsey Muckelroy b 1860

32. xii. Thesily Muckelroy b 1864

33. xiii. Fanny Muckeiroy b 1866

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5. Jane (Jiney) Sanders (John 1)

Children of Jane Sanders & Joseph Carter

34. i. Caroline Carter b 1841

35. ii. Mary Carter b. 1843

36. iii. David Carter b 1845

37. iv. Thursday Carter b 1847

38. v. Amanda Carter b 1849

6. Thursialou Sanders (John 1)

Children of Thursialou Sanders & A.G. Pearson

39. i. Benjamin Pearson b 1846

40. ii. Susan Pearson b 1848

41. iii. Abbie Pearson b 1849

7. Elizabeth Sanders (John 1)

Children of Elizabeth Sanders & Henry C. Derryberry

42. i. John Derryberry b 1848

43. ii. Thompson Derryberry b 1850

10. Moses Marion Sanders (John 1)

Children of Moses Marion Sanders & Cynthia C. Bruton

44. i. Lena Sanders

45. ii. Simeon Alonzo Sanders

46. iii. Earl Bruton Sanders

47. iv. Marcus Marion Sanders b 2 Apr 1871; d 3 Aug 1888

48. v. Edna Sanders

49. vi. May b 24 Sep 1885; d. 1 Dec 1889

11. Simeon Lafayette Sanders (John 1)

Children of Simeon Lafayette Sanders & Mary Pinnay Young

50. i. Mattie Sanders

ii. Mary Sanders

Immigrated: 1820, TN McNairy. Sold his land in Franklin County, GA and moved to McNairy TN.

Census: 1840, MS Tishomingo County. John Sanders 30103001 next door to Joseph Carter.

A Hardin was censused with Louisa (Sanders) Carter, as was a J. M. Sanders.

Civil case: 1841, MS Tishomingo County. 567. Alfred Brown vs. Stephen O. Gibbs subpoena for James M. Sanders, John Sanders, Joseph Carter & Malajah Suratt

Civil case: 1841, MS Tishomingo County. 606. John Sanders vs. Jas. M. Sutherland & S.B. Read

Census: 1850, MS Tishomingo County.

John married Alexandria Richardson Robins [4032]¹⁰⁰ [MRIN: 1607] on 28 Dec 1811 in GA Franklin County.¹⁰¹

Children from this marriage were:

i. Lovel Dogaus Sanders CSA+ [22995] was born in 1817, was christened in Never Married, and died in 1863 in CSA at age 46. Another name for Lovel was Dougan maybe.

ii. CAPT James Monroe Sanders CSA [206] was born in 1819 in TN Moved To MS and died in AR maybe. Another name for James was James Marion.

iii. Acenith Sanders [22989] was born in 1822. Another name for Acenith was Acenith, Susana, Susan.

iv. Louisa Jane Sanders "Gincy" [207] was born on 4 Nov 1822 in TN Cumberland Gap and died in 1902 in TX Nacogdoches, Woden¹⁰² at age 80. Another name for Louisa was Jiney.

v. Thursialou Sanders [22991] was born in 1826. Another name for Thursialou was Thursday.

vi. Elizabeth M Sanders [22993] was born in 1828.

26 vii. Josiah Hardin Sanders CSA + [128]

viii. Cardinal Walsey Sanders CSA+ [22996] was born in 1835 and died in 1864 in CSA at age 29. Another name for Cardinal was Wolsey.

ix. PVT Simeon Lafayette Sanders CSA [3710] was born in Jan 1838 in MS and died in 1908 at age 70. Another name for Simeon was Simon.

x. Moses Marion Sanders CSA [3707] was born in 1839 in MS Tishomingo, died in 1888 in MS Alcorn County, Corinth at age 49, and was buried in Henry Cemetery, Corinth.

John next married Nancy Triplett if same JN [7166]¹⁰³ [MRIN: 3082] in 1797 in NC Wilkes County.¹⁰³

53. Alexandria Richardson Robins [4032],¹⁰⁰ daughter of Our Major John Robins Jr. [16854] and Elizabeth Dogan [17245], was born on 18 Aug 1796 in NC Wilkes County maybe⁵⁷ and died on 10 Apr 1866 in MS Tishomingo at age 69. Other names for Alexandria were Alley, Abby, and Alexandria.

Census: 1870, MS Madison, Canton maybe.

Alexandria married Rev. John Sanders Baptist War of 1812 [3701] [MRIN: 1607] on 28 Dec 1811 in GA Franklin County.¹⁰¹

54. Mark Rushing Tn [153],¹⁰⁴ son of William Rushing [293] and Jane Nichols [294], was born in 1809 in TN Stewart, died in 1883 in TX Van Zandt County at age 74, and was buried in Rocky Point (Van Zandt) TX.

General Notes: Mark Rushing bought 631 acres in Rains County, Texas 2/3/1875.

Notes from Bobbie Jo Pinson, Garland, TX

Thanks to Ira Baxter Rushing for info below:

PAGE 404 PHILLIP RUSHING OF STEWART CO. TENNESSEE TO JOHN HUBBARD OF ANSON

CO. 100 DOLLARS FOR A PARCEL OF LAND ON THOMPSONS CREEK. WIT. JOHN WEBB

APRIL SESSION 1809. TOD ROBINSON CLK.

DEED T12 PHILIP RUSHING TO BURWELL BENTON 5 TRACTS OF LAND IN ANSON CO.

TOTAL OF 1200 ACRES OF LAND FOR THREE THOUSAND AND SIX HUNDRED DOLLARS.

WIT. JOSEPH WHITE AND H. BARRETT. JANUARY CT. 1820. TOD ROBINSON CLK.

THIS IS THE PHILLIP THAT WENT TO TENNESSEE WITH RICHARD RUSHING IN 1820.

Censused: 1810-1880, TN To TX. 1810 TN Stewart?

1820 TN Stewart?

1830 TN Rutherford w/ WM*, Malachi, Asa, and Isaac

1840 MS Tishomingo w/ WM*, Malachi, and Isaac

1850 MS Tishomingo. WM*

1860 MS Tishomingo, Wm* died, bd near Corinth

1870 TX Van Zandt?

1880 TX Van Zandt

Census: 1870, TX Wood County.²⁶ Only Mark and Elizabeth are listed in the home.

Census: 1850, Van Zandt County, TX. 198 198 RUSHIN, MARK 38 M W FARMER 640 TN RUSHIN, ELIZABETH 37 F KY X RUSHIN, Wm. 12 M MS X RUSHIN, ELIZABETH 14 F TN X RUSHIN, MARTHA 9 F MS X RUSHIN, JOHN 8 M MS

Residence: 1843, MS Tishomingo.

Census: 1880, TX Van Zandt County.

Cemetery: : N of Wills Point, TX. Is located off FM 47 north of Wills Point. The oldest grave is that of Oleva Revlis b. 28 Jan, 1859 d. 22 Mar, 1860. There is one CSA veteran buried in this very small cemetery.

It is on private property now.

RUSHING ELIZABETH 1812 1896

RUSHING J. K. 1849 1918

RUSHING JAMES ELMER 1889 1900

RUSHING L. C. 1851 1919

RUSHING LOULA C. 1879 1881

RUSHING MARK 1809 1883 (source had Mary but it is Mark) DLG

RUSHING MARY F1872 1880

RUSHING MARY NONE NONE

SANDERS CONNER NONE NONE

SANDERS JAMES W. 1877 1958

SANDERS JIMMIE 1884 1927 SANDERS MARTHA ANN 1878 1955

SANDERS MINNIE 1890 1976

SANDERS W. M. BENSON NONE NONE

Note: 1848, TX Van Zandt County. EARLY SETTLERS, The People That Helped to Organize Van Zandt County: The following is as complete a list of those who were here in 1848, when the new county was organized, as it is possible to certain.

At that time it embraced, in addition to its present territory, all of Wood county, and by far the largest portion of Rains County: H.C. Adams, C.C. Arrington, Samuel Burk, L.H. Baughman, Leonard Brown, John Baldwin, Allen Blair, Peter S. Benton, Jonathan Brown, John Red Brown, Henry Creagle, John Cohee, Obediah Cook, Joseph Crockett, Isom Clark, Thomas Cunningham, Jesse Compton, Joeseph Cox, John G. Cox, Thomas T. Cox, J.W. Crestman,

(and) Andrew Donley, John Donley, Mary Davis, Charles Duncan, M. Fitzgerald, A. Fitzgerald, John Freeman, Joseph Fisher, Ola Gunderson, Walter C. Greer, Gains Greer, Joseph Greer, George Greer, Adam Greer, Samuel Greer, P.M. Gunderson, Walter Greer, Robert Guinn, G.A. Hill, David Havins, John Havins, B.Y. Higgins, Victoria Hobbs, James Hillhouse, Thomas Horseley, A.J. Horseley, John M. Hays, John Jordan, Wm. D. Johnson, Aanan Knudson, Wm. D. Leggett, E. Lunderman,

(and) T.L. Ledbetter, J.R. Marrs, John Marrs, Alney T. McGee, S. Manson, Wm. McCarrell, Joseph Moody, Allen Miller, Robert Mitchell, D.R. McInturff, A.B. McInturff, John Moore, Aslac Nelson, D.O. Norton, F.D. Chelly, E. Olson, Ola Olson, C.C. Chelly, C.P. Parker, R.R. Powers, John Piles, William Piles, John Pierce, Joab D. Rains,

Mark Rushing,

C.E. Rivers, David Robinson, William Rose,

(and)John H. Rierson, J.M. Herman, U. Saark, Jackson Smith, John Simpkins, Benjamin Straner, Samuel Slater, Redden S. Smith, John Tollett, Allac Tergerson, Terkin Tergerson, James Tumlinson, Mrs. E.E. Varner, Matthew Wiley, Joseph Williams, Joe Waper, James D. Wright, Gilbert Yarbrough.

Published in the Canton Herald, February 23, 1978

Mark married Elizabeth Freeman Tn [154]¹⁰⁴ [MRIN: 109] on 14 Mar 1830 in TN Rutherford Or Madison??.

Children from this marriage were:

i. Dtr Rushing [2037] was born about 1832 in TN Madison County, Jackson.⁴⁹

ii. Nancy Ann Rushing [333] was born on 14 Apr 1833 in Madison County, TN, died in Feb 1901 in Rains Co TX at age 67, and was buried in Woosley Cemetery.

27 iii. Sarah Elizabeth Rushing of Tn Madison [121]

iv. Martha E. Rushing [799] was born in 1839 in Tishomingo MS and died in 1886 in TX at age 47.

v. William T Rushing [798] was born in 1839 in Tishomingo MS and died in 1874 in TX at age 35.

vi. John Calvin Rushing 2nd Sgt Co 2 [800] was born on 4 Oct 1843 in Tishomingo MS, died on 11 Mar 1915 in TX Van Zandt County at age 71, and was buried in Bright Star/McBride Cemetery. Another name for John was John King Rushing.

vii. James W. "King" Rushing [998] was born on 13 May 1847 in TX Van Zandt County, died on 31 Aug 1918 in TX Van Zandt County at age 71, and was buried in Rocky Point Cemetery. Another name for James was King.

viii. Mark Rushing Descendant [2321] was born about 1877.

ix. Descendants Rushing [22202] was born before 1900 and was buried in Rocky Point (Van Zandt) TX.

55. Elizabeth Freeman Tn [154],¹⁰⁴ daughter of William R. Freeman [295] and Mary Massie [296], was born on 20 Nov 1812 in TN or KY,⁷⁰ died in 1896 in TX Van Zandt County at age 84, and was buried in Rocky Point (Van Zandt) TX.

Elizabeth married Mark Rushing Tn [153]¹⁰⁴ [MRIN: 109] on 14 Mar 1830 in TN Rutherford Or Madison??.

56. John William Lindsey Judge [304],¹⁰⁵ son of James 1754 MARTIN Adam Lindsey Sgt RWS [305] and Delilah (Hodgson) Brewer [306], was born on 15 Aug 1788 in NC Chatham County,⁶⁸ died on 27 Jan 1840 in MO Benton County, Neosho⁶⁸ at age 51, and was buried in 3 Miles South Of Warsaw, Benton, MO.

General Notes: Immigrated with his father to Christian County, KY 1806..

Married Peggy Linn, settled in Trigg County, KY..

Immigrated to Callaway County, KY...

3/3/1833 moved to Lafayette County, MO....

moved to Warsaw, MO.

Settled on Grand River by Bett Foster Ford on the Big Tebo.

Moved to Benton County MO in 1834 from KY.

First judge of Benton County. See Benton County history book.- 1835.

The county of Lindsey, MO is probably named after him.

Buried 3 miles south of Warsaw, MO.

He named the town of Warsaw, MO, making me think that his Lindseys

went back to Warsaw, Duplin, NC, or farther back to

Warsaw, Richmond, VA.

History of these counties:

Duplin County, NC formed 1750 from New Hanover County.

Richmond County, VA formed 1692 from Old Rappahannnock

which is close to Essex where Caleb Lindsey was,

Essex was also formed from Old Rappahannock County, 1692.

Old Rappahannock County then became extinct.

Occupation: 1834, Ist Judge Of Benton Co, MO- Appointed By Gov. Dunkel.

Death: 1840.⁶⁸ "Loved and respected by all who knew him."

Land purchase. bought a clearing between Little Tebo and Sterret's Creek from the Shawnee Indians.

Probate: 1840, MO Benton County. 142 694 Feb 3, 1840 Lindsey, J. W

F. G. Lindsey, Adm ---

Occupation: : NC Fayettesville.⁶⁸ He learned the saddle trade in Fayettesville, NC.

His tannery and shop were on the Cumberland River

one and a half miles from the town of Canton, MO.

Biographical note. Names of the slaves of John Lindsey, as recorded in his Family Bible.

Hamrick? (illegible) was born 7/4/1835.

George was born 10/11/1837.

Sarah was born 11/20/1839.

William was born June 14, 1849.

Ellen was born 10/26/18-3.

? (illegible) lenevis was born 9/14/1845.

Immigrated: 1806, KY Christian County.

Residence: 1831, KY Trigg County.⁶⁹

Migration: 3 Feb 1833, KY.⁶⁸ John Lindsey left KY for MO on the 3rd of February 1833

and landed in Lafayette County MO 3/9/1833.

Rented a farm one mile from Lexington on the Independence Road.

It was a great thoroughfare to Santa Fe, NM.

Residence: 1835, Sterrett Creek Near James C. Orr's.

Name: Lindsay MO. Lindsay Township was named for Judge John W. Lindsay, of the county court, and comprised all that part of the county north of the Osage and Grand Rivers and west of Cole and Williams Townships. The first elections were held at the house of John Isbell, which stood near the spring on the south part of the John Failer farm...In the course of time elections were held at the store of Rings & Jopling, and then at the house of Markham Fristoe, one mile north of Warsaw.

Grand Juror: 1822, Cadiz, Trigg, KY. The third grand jury was composed of the following citizens: Thomas Raleigh, Samuel Orr, Luke Thomas, William F. Dew, Elijah Whitney, Robert Anston, James Puckett, John Patterson, John Breeding, James A. Lindsay, John W. Lindsay, Henry Jones, Baxter Alexander, John Humphries, John Mills, Armstrong Noel, Benjamin Faulkner, Samuel Scott and William McWaters. About the usual number of indictments were returned, the majority of which were for drunkenness, Sabbath breaking and profane swearing. in May, 1822, the following grand jury was impaneled and sworn: Thomas Raleigh, John A. Candle, Joel Wilson, John Craig, William Lawrence, Isaac Gray, David Cooper, George Grace, William Young, John Prescott, Henry James, Smith Martin, John Caldwell and M. Oliver.

from History of Trigg County

John married Margaret Peggy Linn Tn Davidson [79] [MRIN: 235] on 20 Mar 1810 in Trigg Co. KY Reuben Linn, Witness.⁶⁸

Children from this marriage were:

i. Eliza Linn Lindsey [1230] was born on 11 Oct 1811 in Christian County, KY and died on 13 Mar 1854 in McDonald Co MO at age 42.

ii. Albert Gallatin Lindsey [732] was born on 14 Sep 1813 in Christian County, KY and died on 7 Mar 1828 in Calloway, KY⁶⁸ at age 14.

iii. Felix Grundy Lindsey [725] was born on 28 Dec 1815 in KY Trigg County, Cadiz¹⁰⁶ and died on 4 Jan 1899 in AR Benton County at age 83.

iv. Rev. Horace Boyd Lindsey CSA [1063] was born on 11 Dec 1817 in KY Trigg County, Cadiz and died about 1887 in Whiteright, Grayson, TX about age 70.

v. Dr. James Alfred Lindsey [724] was born on 22 Sep 1821 in KY Trigg County, Cadiz and died about 1881 in TX? about age 60.

vi. Sackfield Stanford Lindsey 2nd [1327] was born on 19 Feb 1824 in Calloway, KY and died about 1884 about age 60.

vii. Caroline Elizabeth Lindsey [1328] was born on 15 Sep 1826 in Christian County, KY, died on 13 Nov 1889 in TX Parker County, Veal Station⁶⁸ at age 63, and was buried in Veal Station, Parker County, TX.

viii. John W. Lindsey Jr [1329] was born on 18 Mar 1829 in KY Calloway and died about 1846 about age 17.

ix. Mary Jane Lindsey [8606] was born on 22 Nov 1829 in TN Sumner County⁷⁰ and died after 1850 in MO Newton County.

28 x. Adam Linn Lindsey of Springtown, TX [302]

xi. Sheriff Charles Lindsey Parker County Tx [1332] was born on 15 Apr 1833 in MO Lafayette County¹⁰⁶ and died in Nov 1901 in Parker County, TX?⁶⁸ at age 68. Another name for Charles was Doc.

xii. Margaret Lindsey [970] was born on 22 Mar 1837 in MO Benton County⁶⁸ and died about 1897 about age 60. Another name for Margaret was Maggie.

57. Margaret Peggy Linn Tn Davidson [79], daughter of Judge Adam Linn RWS [311] and Sidney Ann Ewing Va [312], was born on 3 Apr 1795 in TN Davidson County, died on 27 Jul 1850 in MO Newton County, Neosho¹⁰⁷ at age 55, and was buried in MO Newton County, Neosho.

General Notes:

Notes for MARGARET "PEGGY" LINN:

FROM THE FAMILY BIBLE OF MARY ATLANTA LINDSEY:

Peggy Linn, wife of John W Lindsey was born in S. Carolina in 1798 and died in Newton Co. Mo. the 27th of Jan. 1850. Buried in Newton Co. Mo. She was Irish, her father, Adam Linn was born in Ireland, brought by his parents to S. Carolina when he was two years old. He was a Rebel in the war for Independence. He immigrated to Davidson Co. Tenn. and there married a sister of the Rev. Finas (Finis) Ewing, who was on of the founders of the Cumberland Presbyterian church which took place in Logan Co. Ky. In 1803 Adam Linn immigrated to Trigg Co. Ky. and there died at the age of 82 years. There his daughter Peggy Linn was born and married to John W Lindsey. The Ewings were a very prominent family. Finas (Finis) as a Devine and one of the founders of a very large and popular organization of christians in the United States and Europe. He immigrated to Lafayett Co. Mo. in an early day. His youngest son E B (Ephriam Brevard) Ewing was on of the judges of the Superior Court of Mo. when the was between the states broke out. He had one son run for Gov. of Mo. on the know-nothing tickey, but was defeated by Lenn Boyd of Ky. A nephew of Finas Ewing was a member of congress from Ky. for 21 years, once speaker of the house. John Boyd (brother of Lenn Boyd) immigrated to Texas in an early day, settled at the Texarkana hills and was on of the founders of a sine school at that place. I here give a list of children and names J W Lindsey and Peggy his wife.

Two years after John William Lindsey died, his widow married Rev. Dr. John Morris and moved to Newton County, MO. (Neosho county seat)

Alt. Birth: 1798, SC.

Census: 1850, MO Newton County. 335B 16 Lindsey Adam S. 19 Ky. pg0330a.txt 330B 19 Lindsey Asanith 2 Mo pg0330a.txt 335B 18 Lindsey Charles 8/12 Mo. pg0330a.txt 330B 11 Lindsey J. W. 41 Tenn pg0330a.txt 330B 15 Lindsey James 11 Tenn pg0330a.txt 330B 17 Lindsey Jefferson 7 Tenn pg0330a.txt 330B 14 Lindsey Kiziah 13 Tenn pg0330a.txt 330B 18 Lindsey Malvina 5 Mo pg0330a.txt 335B 19 Lindsey Margaret 13 Mo. pg0330a.txt 330B 13 Lindsey Martin 15 Tenn pg0330a.txt 335B 17 Lindsey Mary 21 Tenn. pg0330a.txt 330B 12 Lindsey Sarah 40 Tenn pg0330a.txt 330B 16 Lindsey Washington 9 Tenn

Margaret married John William Lindsey Judge [304]¹⁰⁵ [MRIN: 235] on 20 Mar 1810 in Trigg Co. KY Reuben Linn, Witness.⁶⁸

Margaret next married John Morris Rev. Dr. [1367] [MRIN: 351] on 8 Feb 1842.⁶⁸

58. Abraham Wesley Wormington Tn [851], son of Edward Wormington [866] and Nancy Ann Hassell [867], was born on 12 Oct 1804 in Sumner Or Roberson Co TN, died on 25 Apr 1868 in Jasper Co TN at age 63, and was buried in Shoal Creek, Newton County, MO Wormington Cemetery.

Census: 1850, MO Newton County. 339B 6 Wormington A. W. 45 Tenn. pg0339a.txt 339B 9 Wormington Angeline 15 Tenn. pg0339a.txt 334B 22 Wormington Eliza 1 Mo. pg0330a.txt 339B 11 Wormington Elizabeth 11 Mo. pg0339a.txt 339B 14 Wormington James 4 Mo. pg0339a.txt 339B 13 Wormington John 6 Mo. pg0339a.txt 334B 19 Wormington Jonathan H. 27 Tenn. pg0330a.txt 339B 7 Wormington Martha 38 Tenn. pg0339a.txt 339B 10 Wormington Martin 13 Tenn. pg0339a.txt 334B 21 Wormington Nancy 3 Mo. pg0330a.txt 334B 20 Wormington Sarah Ann 23 Tenn. pg0330a.txt 339B 12 Wormington Thomas 8 Mo. pg0339a.txt 339B 8 Wormington William 18 Tenn. pg0339a.txt 341B 32

Abraham married Martha Turpin Tn Sumner County [852]⁷¹ [MRIN: 292] on 26 Feb 1827 in TN Sumner.

Children from this marriage were:

i. Nancy C Wormington [8612] was born on 25 Mar 1824 in TN Sumner⁷⁰ and died on 2 Jul 1847 in Mo Wormington Cemtery, Neosho at age 23.

29 ii. Mary Jane Wormington of Springtown, TX [303]

iii. Eli Wormington [853] was born about 1831.

iv. William M. Wormington [854] was born on 22 Dec 1831 in Sumner Co TN⁷¹ and died in 1900 in Boggy Depot, Atoka Co Okla at age 69.

v. Angeline M. Wormington [855] was born on 12 Jul 1834 in TN Sumner County.⁷¹

vi. Susan Elizabeth Wormington [859] was born on 16 Jan 1839 in MO Barry County.⁷¹

vii. Thomas Benton Wormington [861] was born on 1 Sep 1841 in Newton Co MO and died on 29 Aug 1913 in Sarcoxie (Jasper)MO at age 71.

viii. Martin Van Buren Wormington [856] was born on 1 Dec 1841 in MO Newton County.⁷¹

ix. John Wesley Wormington [862] was born on 18 Jan 1844 in MO and died on 5 Oct 1911 in Newton Co MO Wormington Cemetery at age 67.

x. James K. Wormington [863] was born on 4 Oct 1845 in MO and died on 11 Mar 1904 in Newton Co MO at age 58. Another name for James was James H P.

xi. Josiah J. Wormington Killed by the Utes [864] was born on 22 Aug 1850 in MO Newton County⁷¹ and died on 15 Jul 1884 in Ft. Lewis, CO at age 33.

xii. Joseph W. Wormington Ut Kia [865] was born about 1851 in MO and died on 15 Jul 1884 in Mt. Ellsworth UT about age 33.

59. Martha Turpin Tn Sumner County [852],⁷¹ daughter of Edmund Turpin Nc [3686] and Charity McBride Nc Maybe [3687], was born on 20 Jun 1811 in TN Sumner, died on 29 Dec 1880¹⁰⁸ at age 69, and was buried in Shoal Creek, Newton County, MO Wormington Cemetery.

Martha married Abraham Wesley Wormington Tn [851] [MRIN: 292] on 26 Feb 1827 in TN Sumner.

60. Our William Lewis [3691], son of Our Tavener Lewis [9454] and Branham or Walden maybe [18198], was born in 1805 in SC Horry District maybe¹ and died after 1850 in MS Jasper, Paulding probably.

General Notes: My only proof is that Stephen lived next to William and Nancy in 1850 AND next to the Stennetts.

Unproven son of Tavener/Walden. However, both lived in Jasper COunty MS, 1840.

Census: 1830, MS. because James C was born in MS.

Census: 1840, MS Jasper. near a Terrell

012001 0000001 page 177

Census: 1850, MS Jasper. LEWIS- Alexander, John Sr., Wm., Willis, Demarius, Mary,

Simeon, John Jr, Walden, Mary, Wm D., Erie, Henry, Noah, STEPHEN, William.

William married Nancy/Dicy [3692] [MRIN: 893].

Children from this marriage were:

30 i. Our Stephen William Lewis KIA CSA [730]

ii. Letha Lewis [731] was born about 1834.

iii. George A Lewis [4017] was born in 1829.⁷³

iv. James C Lewis [6915] was born in 1823 in MS.⁷³

v. Grandchildren Lewis [18174]

vi. Maybe Katy A. C. Lewis [18177] was born in 1839 in MS Jasper and died in 1913 in San Jacinto, TX at age 74.

61. Nancy/Dicy [3692] was born in 1788 in NC and died after 1850.

Nancy/Dicy married Our William Lewis [3691] [MRIN: 893].

62. William Hightower Stennett War of 1812 [3690], son of William S Stennett War of 1812 [4010] and Letha Hightower "Lethe" [4011], was born in 1788 in VA Amherst County¹⁰⁹ and died after 1870 in MSJasper Maybe.

Census: 1810, VA Amherst County. William, Benjamin, and Charlse Stennett

Tax List: 1811. TN Davidson County

Census: 1820, Tennessee.⁷³ 1820 Marion County, TN

where William Jr was born, 1825.

By 1830 they were in MS when Willis was born.

Census: 1830, TN Copiah.

Census: 1840, MS Jasper. Apparently there were no Stinnetts, Stennets, or Bynums in the 1840 cnesus in Jasper County, MS.

Census: 1850, MS Jasper. 405 625 IMAGE 63 at the bottom

Census: 1860, MS Jasper.

Biographical note: Cir 1865, MS. MS STINNETT-Lewis Soldier Names

Stinnetts served in MS CSA

32nd (2)

and one in each of the following

1st 7th 10th 18th 32nd

Stinnett, B.M.

Confederate

Infantry

32nd Regiment, Mississippi Infantry

Stinnett, James L.

Confederate

Infantry

18th Regiment, Mississippi Infantry

Stinnett, Simeon

Confederate

Infantry

40th Regiment, Mississippi Infantry

Stinnett, T.A.

Confederate

Cavalry

10th Regiment, Mississippi Cavalry

Stinnett, W.

Confederate

Infantry

7th Battalion, Mississippi Infantry

Stinnett, W.E.

Confederate

Cavalry

1st Regiment, Mississippi Cavalry Reserves

Stinnett, W.W.

Confederate

Infantry

32nd Regiment, Mississippi Infantry

Stinnett, William

Confederate

Infantry

5th Regiment, Mississippi Infantry (State Troops)

Census: 1870, MS Prentiss. A Wm Stinnett

William married Elizabeth Bynum Of Bahamas [3694]¹¹⁰ [MRIN: 1458] circa 1810.

Children from this marriage were:

31 i. SARAH Sidney Letha Stennett of Ms Jasper [1232]

ii. Willis Stinnett or Stennett [3695] was born in 1830 in MS Jasper, Paulding and died in 1910 in MS Smith County, Pineville at age 80.

iii. William E Stennett unproven s/o WM [6938] was born in 1830 in TN Davidson⁷³ and died in 1886¹¹¹ at age 56.

iv. Sina Stennett Indian [9437] was born in 1821.¹¹²

v. Simeon Stennett CSA 40th Ref MS Inf [9514] was born in 1824 in MS.

vi. Mary Stennett [22155] was born circa 1810.¹¹¹

vii. John Stennett [22157] was born circa 1810.

63. Elizabeth Bynum Of Bahamas [3694],¹¹⁰ daughter of Bynum of Bahamas [9512] and Unknown, was born in 1790 in England¹¹³ and died after 1870 in MS Jasper County maybe.

Census: 1860, MS Jasper.

Elizabeth married William Hightower Stennett War of 1812 [3690] [MRIN: 1458] circa 1810.

Seventh Generation (4th Great-Grandparents)

64. NC TN James 1749 Isham Giddens Constable [109],² son of Ir NC Richard 1713 Giddens [7479] and Margaret "Polly" Barr [17861], was born in 1749 in Ir NC,²⁸ was christened in 1790 in NC Burke County, and died in 1832 in TN Hawkins County at age 83.

Jury: Jul 1774, NC Surry County.⁸⁸ Probably this James

Occupation: Bef 1780, NC Surry County. Constable

Court: 1785, NC Surry County. James Green vs James Gittins

A John Green md a grandchild of James 1711-1820.

That JohnGreen had property in GA around James Jr.

County records: FROM 1774, NC Surry, Wilkes, Stokes. Include James Giddens in various transactions:

Courtesy Andrew Giddens of Indianapolis.

1771 Surry formed from Rowan

1778 Wilkes formed from Surry

1787 Stokes formed from Surry

Records of a James Giddens (Gittins, etc.)

July 1774- jury

Sep 1779- witnessed a deed

Oct 1780- witnessed a deed

Sep 1783 Witnessed a deed.

May 1785- Sued by Green

May 1795- Deed between James Giddens and John Litten (maybe Gitten?)

Dec 1799- Land grant 60 acres both sides of the Yadkin R

Aug 1801- Land grant 35 acres

1/18/1802- Property sold for taxes 100 acres on Yadkin River- witness Reuben Giddens.

9/29/1808- Between Polly Giddens and James Giddens-

$103 for 100 acres on the N side of the Yadkin. Witness- Edward Giddens and Aaron Giddens.

Oct 1809- $50 for 150 acres (bought or sold?)

Census: 1790, NC Burke County. 11401

DOWN THE ROAD

Ben Ward, Josh Ward, Jame GIDDONS 1140

Robt Searcy, Wm Edmonson, 1241 Thos Hayes, Geo Hayes, Benj Webb, Jas Webb, Reynard Walker, Jonathan Booz, Geo Do? Moses Keel, Thos Anderson Jesse Downs, Thos Downs, Jn Rice, Nathan Smith, Rice Mendicant, Moses ? Jas Neely etc

The Edmonsons md into the Giddenses in GA

James married Martha Mills "Patty" [12462]¹¹⁴ [MRIN: 5291] on 1 Feb 1787 in NC Burke County.

Children from this marriage were:

i. NC KY Edward 1787 M(ills?) Giddens s/o James War of 1812 [12463] was born on 5 Nov 1787 in NC Wilkes County¹¹⁵ and died in 1835 in KY Laurel¹¹⁶ at age 48.

ii. Nc Tn William 1791 Giddens s/o James [13338] was born in 1791 in NC Wilkes County¹¹⁷ and died in 1868 in MO Christian County¹¹⁸ at age 77.

iii. Nc Ar James 1793 Giddens [12466] was born in 1793 in NC Wilkes County and died in 1848 in AR at age 55.

iv. Nc Mo Isham Giddens s/o James [12537] was born on 15 Oct 1795 in NC Wilkes County and died in 1860 in MO at age 65.

v. Elizabeth 1798 Giddens Of Nc Wilkes [12538] was born in 1798 in NC Wilkes County.

vi. Sarah Giddens [12469] was born in 1808 in NC Wilkes County.¹¹⁷

vii. Grandchildren Giddens [15855]

viii. John 1810 Giddens [15965] was born in 1810 in TN Hawkins.

James next married Martha Mills "Patty" [12462]¹¹⁴ [MRIN: 10092].

The child from this marriage was:

32 i. Our James 1800 Giddens Unproven F/O Jms T [13376]

65. Martha Mills "Patty" [12462],¹¹⁴ daughter of Mills [15932] and Unknown, was born circa 1749.

Martha married NC TN James 1749 Isham Giddens Constable [109]² [MRIN: 5291] on 1 Feb 1787 in NC Burke County.

Martha next married NC TN James 1749 Isham Giddens Constable [109]² [MRIN: 10092].

68. William Paul [22462], son of Archibald Paul Jr [5489] and Unknown, died after 1822 in SC Fairfield County, Camden.

William married Sarah [22463] [MRIN: 9716].

Children from this marriage were:

34 i. Archibald Young Paul War of 1812 [13893]

ii. William Paul [22464]

iii. Thomas Paul [22465]

iv. Mary Swan Paul [22466]

v. Margaret Paul [22467]

vi. Samuel Paul [22468]

vii. James Duncan Paul Son? Or Heir [22470]

viii. John Paul [22471]

ix. Joseph Paul [22472]

69. Sarah [22463] .

Sarah married William Paul [22462] [MRIN: 9716].

70. James Russell Jr [3948],¹¹⁹ son of James Russell unproven DG 2004 [5861] and Unknown, was born in 1765 in Northern Ieland¹²⁰ and died in 1833 in GA Henry County¹²¹ at age 68.

Census: 1790, SC Camden District.

James married Elizabeth Paul [3960]⁷⁸ [MRIN: 1568].

The child from this marriage was:

35 i. Martha P Russell [13894]

71. Elizabeth Paul [3960],⁷⁸ daughter of Archibald Paul Northern Ireland [3653] and Agnes [3925], was born in 1762 in Ireland and died circa 1835 in If She Died Age 70 at age 73.

Elizabeth married James Russell Jr [3948]¹¹⁹ [MRIN: 1568].

72. James Mayes Northern Ireland [3629], son of Andrew Mayes Northern Ireland [3631] and Rebecca McFarland Northern Ireland [3632], was born in 1729 in Northern Ireland maybe and died in 1818 in SC Union, Fairforest at age 89.

Biographical note.¹ Immigrants from Northern Ireland fled to America from persecution and/or poverty.

The Mayes and McElwains were Presbyterians which lends credence to the fact they were persecuted in Northern Ireland.

Religion: 1776, Union SC. Fairforest Presbyterian Church,The Heads of familes at Fairforest in 1776 were as follows: George Storey,Anthony Storey,James Mayes, James McLlwaine,Wid. James Means, William Means, Richard Saye, William Hodge, George Park, John Park, Arthur Park, William Patton, Joseph Kelso, John Davidson, Robert Harris, Nicolas Harris, Mrs Kennedy,Family of Shaw, Thomas Barron Patrick Harberson, John Thomas, Josiah Culbertson, Samuel Culbertson, Thomas Hayney, John Elder, Robert Farris, James Crawford, Edward Denny, James Elder, Samuel Clowney, James Farris, John Armstrong, Authur Simpson, William Simpson, And Widow Armstrong. Some members recordered as joining after 1776 are: William DeWitt, Thomas Mayes, Samuel Morrow, Samuel Archibald, Richard Thompson, John Tompson, John McDowell, and Moses White.

James married Jane or Jean McElwain of Pa [3630] [MRIN: 1426] circa 1780.

Children from this marriage were:

36 i. Anthony Mayes of AL Greene County [3627]

ii. Margaret Mayes [16847] was born on 29 Jul 1762, died in 1835 at age 73, and was buried in Hebron Cemetery.

iii. Joseph Mayes [22072] was born on 18 Aug 1784, died on 25 Nov 1843 at age 59, and was buried in Hebron Cemetery.

James next married Henrietta Scott [10189] [MRIN: 4428].

The child from this marriage was:

i. Scott Mayes [10190]

73. Jane or Jean McElwain of Pa [3630], daughter of James McElevean or McElwain of PA [3641] and Jane Storey [10191], was born in 1746 in PA and died in SC Union, Fairforest probably.

Religion: 1776, SC Union. Fairforest Presbyterian Church,The Heads of familes at Fairforest in 1776 were as follows: George Storey,Anthony Storey,James Mayes, James McLlwaine,Wid. James Means, William Means, Richard Saye, William Hodge, George Park, John Park, Arthur Park, William Patton, Joseph Kelso, John Davidson, Robert Harris, Nicolas Harris, Mrs Kennedy,Family of Shaw, Thomas Barron Patrick Harberson, John Thomas, Josiah Culbertson, Samuel Culbertson, Thomas Hayney, John Elder, Robert Farris, James Crawford, Edward Denny, James Elder, Samuel Clowney, James Farris, John Armstrong, Authur Simpson, William Simpson, And Widow Armstrong. Some members recordered as joining after 1776 are: William DeWitt, ThomasMayes, Samuel Morrow, Samuel Archibald, Richard Thompson, John Tompson, John McDowell, and Moses White.

Jane married James Mayes Northern Ireland [3629] [MRIN: 1426] circa 1780.

74. Major Samuel P. Otterson Rws [3633], son of James Otterson [3634] and Rebecca James [3635], was born in 1754 in SC Berkeley District, Tyger River, died in 1837 in AL Greene County, Near Union at age 83, and was buried in Hebron Cemetery.

Biographical note. OTTERSON Samuel 174? South Carolina, maj. Historical reg. of officers of the Continental Army. By Francis Bernard Heitman. Washington, DC, 1914. (685p.): 422

Major Otterson was wounded at the Battle of Hanging Rock. I found this article about Hanging Rock. Regretfully, it is from the Loyalist-

British report. DLG

Hanging Rock

After the success of the Siege of Charlestown, the British set about to pacify the countryside. The PWAR was part of the main British army and took quarters at Camden, where they constructed huts for themselves meant to resist the hot weather.(78) In the latter part of July the bulk of the regiment, along with three other corps, was advanced towards Hanging Rock in part to "awe the disaffected," having first stopped at Rocky Mount .(79) This last post had been attacked by a large force of militia and partisans under the command of Thomas Sumter, who had been repulsed by the New York Volunteers under Lt. Col. George Turnbull and some South Carolina Loyalist Militia. On the night of 5 August 1780 the troops continued their march, arriving at Hanging Rock in the dark of night, and neglected sending out proper patrols.

Sumter and his force, reinforced since his repulse at Rocky Mount, made their appearance before Hanging Rock shortly after dawn. He launched his attack between six and seven in the morning, directing his force agains t the newly formed North Carolina Volunteers under Colonel Samuel Bryan, on the right flank of the camp. Bryan's corps, being undisciplined, soon broke, leaving the right flank exposed. In this situation Major Carden of the PWAR ordered a part of his regiment and the Royal North Carolina Regiment to fill the gap. The slaughter was terrible. Dozens from both regiments fell, compelling a further retreat. The line finally centered on a three pounder field piece protected by a party of Colonel Henry Rugeley's Regiment of Camden Militia. One hundred and sixty men of the British Legion twice charged Sumter's line, likewise the Royal North Carolina Regiment. Just at this critical period of the battle, forty mounted infantry of the British Legion appeared from Rocky Mount and dismounted, deploying in extended files to appear greater in number than they actually were. This turned the tide. As an officer of the PWAR wrote:

"The Legion a nd Prince of Wales's pouring in a well(96)directed fire, charged and total ly routed the enemy, pursuing with a dreadful carnage."

The battle was over. And as a fighting regiment, so was the Prince of Wales'.(80)

When the smoke had cleared and the bugle horn ceased sounding, the Loyalists counted their dead. The losses were appalling for the numbers involved. Of the estimated 181 officers and men of the PWAR that had taken the field that day, 93 were dead, wounded or missing. It was amongst the worst losses of any Loyalist regiment during the war. The other corps, Bryan's excepted, suffered grievously as well. The Royal North Carolinian s lost 50 officers and men, while the British Legion infantry counted 35 out of about 200 officers and men as their casualties. The North Carolina Volunteers likewise had men killed and wounded, but since they fled the field early, they were not thought significant. No return of Sumter's casualties was ever made. But by far, the PWAR had fought and bled the most on that hot summer's day in South Carolina. Of the 17 sergeants that had fielded that day, 5 were killed and another 4 were badly wounded, 3 of whom were also taken prisoner by Sumter. Seven corporals were also amongst the wounded and captured, a devastating blow to the non commissioned officer's corps. Six of the eleven officers on the field were also eithe r killed or wounded. Lieutenant Abraham Hickox and Ensign John Fowler were killed immediately. Lieutenant Benjamin Ogden lived for fifteen hours after the battle before he too died. The regiment was left shattered and in little shape for any more active campaigning. To make matters worse , the Southern climate proved too much for many of these Northern constitutions. As many as seventeen soldiers had died of disease within that month. Ten of the officers, including the surgeon's mate, were sick and Major Carden, who had led the regiment in battle, was just then recovering. Twelve others were otherwise absent or on command elsewhere, leaving the remnants of the unit with virtually no officers to do duty.(81)

One of the Loyalists taking part in the fighting that day was General Browne's servant, Samuel Burke. This Black Loyalist was a native of Charlestown, South Carolina and met Governor Browne in England in 1774. He "entered into his service" and traveled with him to the Bahamas, being take n prisoner with the governor by Hopkins' fleet. All the time Browne was in captivity and later raising the regiment, Burke was by his side assisting. While in New York, he married a "free Dutch mulatto Woman" by whom he acquired a house and garden in the city. These, however, were soon appropriated as barracks for the troops, and his new wife was soon turned out of doors. Undaunted, Burke, along with his wife, continued to serve Browne, taking part in the Danbury expedition where he was "badly wounded. " After Browne left the regiment after the Siege of Rhode Island, Burke continued to serve with the unit, but in what capacity is not known. He was, however, in the fighting at Hanging Rock, being so severely wounded that he was almost given up for dead. His fighting days were over, and he would end up destitute in England in August of 1783, seeking the help of a government he had served for eight years.(82)

On the whole, the Battle of Hanging Rock was a loss from which the PWAR would never recover. As a complete unit, they had fought their last battle.

War claims: 1776, SC.¹²² Series: S108092

Reel: 0113

Frame: 00597

ignore: 000

Date: 1776 C. or later

Description: OTTERSON, SAMUEL, ACCOUNT AUDITED (FILE NO. 5639) OF CLAIMS GROWING OUT OF THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION.

Names indexed: OTTERSON, SAMUEL

Locations:

Document type:

Topics:

Land: 1787, sc 96TH. Series: S213190

Volume: 0021

Page: 00010

Item: 001

Date: 8/8/1787

Description: OTTERSON, SAMUEL, PLAT FOR 200 ACRES ON BRANCHES OF TYGER RIVER, NINETY SIX DISTRICT, SURVEYED BY CHARLES SIMS.

Names indexed: GORDON; INLOW; OAR, WILLIAM; OTTERSON, SAMUEL; SIMS, CHARLES

Locations: BROAD RIVER; NINETY SIX DISTRICT; TYGER RIVER

Document type: PLAT

Topics:

Land: 1796, SC Pinckney. Series: S213190

Volume: 0021

Page: 00010

Item: 001

Date: 8/8/1787

Description: OTTERSON, SAMUEL, PLAT FOR 200 ACRES ON BRANCHES OF TYGER RIVER, NINETY SIX DISTRICT, SURVEYED BY CHARLES SIMS.

Names indexed: GORDON; INLOW; OAR, WILLIAM; OTTERSON, SAMUEL; SIMS, CHARLES

Locations: BROAD RIVER; NINETY SIX DISTRICT; TYGER RIVER

Document type: PLAT

Topics:

Named in will: 1810. Series: S108093

Reel: 0027

Frame: 00401

Item: 000

Date: 2/18/1810

Description: CRENSHAW, ROBERT OF UNION DISTRICT, WILL TYPESCRIPT (MSS WILL: BOOK B, PAGE 25; ESTATE PACKET: BOX 6, PKG 32) (2 FRAMES).

Names indexed: ALLEN (SLAVE); BROWN; CRENSHAW, ANDERSON; CRENSHAW, EPHRAIM ABEL; CRENSHAW, JAMES; CRENSHAW, JOHN; CRENSHAW, RANDOLPH; CRENSHAW, ROBERT; CRENSHAW, STEPHEN; DAVIS, CHARLOTTE; DUGAN, FRANCES; DUGAN, JAMES; ELEVEN (SLAVE); EVANS, MARTHA; GLEEN, BERNARD; JOHN (SLAVE); JOHNSON, DAVID; MCDANIEL, ROBERT; OTTERSON, SAMUEL; PETER (SLAVE); STRINGFELLOW, JANE

Locations: UNION DISTRICT

Document type: WILL (TYPESCRIPT)

Topics: JERMERSONS PLANTATION; SLAVES, NAMED

Land: 1835, SC Spartanburg.¹²² Series: S213192

Volume: 0051

Page: 00171

Item: 000

Date: 2/24/1836

Description: OTTERSON, SAMUEL, PLAT FOR 1,836 ACRES ON LITTLE THICKETTY CREEK, SPARTANBURGH DISTRICT, SURVEYED BY RICHARD THOMSON.

Names indexed: ARVAL, CHARLES; BRYCE, DAVID; BRYCE, POLLY; BRYCE, WILLIAM; LIPESCOMB, WILLIAM; LISCOMB, MRS.; LITTLEJOHN, THOMAS; MOORE, PATRICK; NUCKOLLS, WILLIAM T.; OTTERSON, SAMUEL; PERNAK; THOMSON, RICHARD; WILKINS

Locations: BROAD RIVER; LITTLE THICKETTY CREEK; SPARTANBURG DISTRICT; THICKETTY CREEK

Document type: PLAT

Topics:

Land: 19 Jun 1772, NC Craven.¹²² Series: S213019

Volume: 0026

Page: 00109

Item: 000

Date: 6/19/1772

Description: OTTERSON, SAMUEL, LAND GRANT FOR 100 ACRES IN CRAVEN COUNTY.

Names indexed: OTTERSON, SAMUEL

Locations: CRAVEN COUNTY

Document type: LAND GRANT

Topics:

Series: S111001

Volume: 0011

Page: 00377

Item: 003

Date: 8/26/1772

Description: OTTERSON, SAMUEL, MEMORIAL FOR 100 ACRES BETWEEN BROAD AND SALUDY RIVERS, BERKLEY COUNTY.

Names indexed: KINGSBERRY, HENRY; OTTERSON, JAMES; OTTERSON, SAMUEL

Locations: BERKELEY COUNTY; BROAD RIVER; SALUDA RIVER; TYGER RIVER

Document type: MEMORIAL

Topics:

Will: 1837, AL Greene County. Will of Samuel P.Otterson father of Sarah who married Amos Lay;signed May 2,1837,proven Jan 8,1838; Bk B p/9 Greene Co.Al; Sarah [dau]dec'd'Elizabeth Lawson; Amos Lay [ son -law] a legacy

to hold & divide among the ch of Sarah Lay,dec'e viz Samuel Otterson Lay md[ Jane;Mary Ann Lay]

md John Clinton;Thomas Gordon Lay md Nancy;James J.Lay md Susan Trussell #2 Margat Brown

Vincent Lay md Polly Flowers #2 Sally Fox;Elizabeth Lay md Elisha Estes;Judy lay Md William Cook; Jesse Lay md Barbara Ann Cook;Sarah Lay md John Flowers

other ch of Samuel were Rebecca Wright;Ruth Otterson;Nancy Walker;Methane Johnson;James

Otterson;Thomas Gordon Otterson;John Otterson;Samuel Jr Otterson;Nancy Otterson dau,& executrix

Hebron Church received a large legacy,the will disposed of much property in Greene Co.Al & in Union

Samuel married Ruth Gordon [3636] [MRIN: 1428] in 1777 in SC Newberry.

Children from this marriage were:

37 i. Cynthia Otterson of AL Greene County [3628]

ii. Mary Otterson [22070] was born in 1786, died in 1845 at age 59, and was buried in Otterson Cemetery.

iii. Sarah Otterson [22075] died before 1837.

iv. Elizabeth Otterson [22077] died before 1837.

v. Rebecca Otterson [22099]

vi. Ruth Otterson [22101]

vii. Nancy Otterson [22102]

viii. Methane Otterson [22104] was buried in maybe Hebron Cemetery ME Johnson.

ix. Thomas Gordon Otterson [22106]

x. John Otterson [22107]

xi. Samuel Otterson Jr [22108]

75. Ruth Gordon [3636], daughter of Thomas Gordon Va [3637] and Elizabeth Anderson [3638], was born in 1756 in SC Newberry and died in 1844 in SC Eutaw at age 88.

Ruth married Major Samuel P. Otterson Rws [3633] [MRIN: 1428] in 1777 in SC Newberry.

76. Joseph James Bouchillon Sc Bordeaux District [3599], son of John or Jean Bouchillon [3601] and Mary Ann LeRoy a French Huguenot [3602], was born in 1777 in SC Bordeaux, Mccormick and died in 1806 in SC Bordeaux, Mccormick at age 29.

Joseph married Susannah Guillebeau Sc Bordeaux District [3600] [MRIN: 1408] in 1798 in SC Bordeaux, Mccormick.

Children from this marriage were:

38 i. John T. Bouchillon Elder [3597]

ii. Joseph Leonard Bouchillon [22363]

iii. Lengy Bouchillon [22504]

77. Susannah Guillebeau Sc Bordeaux District [3600], daughter of SGT RWS Andres Guillebeau a French Huguenot [3605] and Mary Jane Roquemore a French Huguenot [3606], was born in 1776 in SC Bordeaux, Mccormick and died in 1814 in SC Bordeaux, Mccormick at age 38.

Susannah married Joseph James Bouchillon Sc Bordeaux District [3599] [MRIN: 1408] in 1798 in SC Bordeaux, Mccormick.

78. Samuel Doolittle V [3608],⁸² son of Samuel Doolittle IV Sc [3610] and Nancy Waddy Sc [3611], was born on 27 Dec 1780 in SC Edgefield District, died in 1817 in SC Edgefield District at age 37, and was buried in Dry Creek Cemetery.

General Notes: This could be the grandson of Samuel Doolittle b 1763, instead of the son.

Samuel married Mary Polly Williams kin to Rev. Roger [3609] [MRIN: 1413] in 1798 in SC Edgefield District.

Children from this marriage were:

39 i. Elizabeth or Betsey Doolittle of TX Falls County [3598]

ii. Roger Williams Doolittle [22507] was born on 15 Sep 1808, died on 17 Apr 1889 in Newton, Newton, Mississippi at age 80, and was buried in Doolittle Cemetery, Newton, MS.

iii. Sterling W Doolittle [22508]

iv. Lucinda Doolittle [22510]

v. Samuel Doolittle VI [22511]

79. Mary Polly Williams kin to Rev. Roger [3609], daughter of Doctor Roger Mackerness Williams [4476] and Catherine Read Quarles Mary [4477], was born on 3 Sep 1787 in SC Maybe and died on 15 Oct 1846 in SC Edgefield Maybe at age 59.

Kinship report: 2003, Greenvlile, TX.¹ A direct desendant of James and Alice (Pemberton) Williams, parents of the Rev. Roger Williams, founder of Rhode Island, founder of the first Baptist church in America.

Fourth great-grand niece of Rev. Roger Williams.

Mary married Samuel Doolittle V [3608]⁸² [MRIN: 1413] in 1798 in SC Edgefield District.

80. Nathaniel 1767 Mason? Gilliam [19517],² son of Marcus 1747 Gilliam [19559] and Frances Steward Fanny [18972], was born on 11 Jan 1767 in VA Sussex County, Albemarle Parish,¹²³ died after 1830 in TN Rhea Maybe, and was buried in Rhea fr Roane 1806.

Census: 1790, NC Franklin County. 13200

Name: 1830, NC Franklin. could be MARCUS SR

Nathaniel married someone.

His children were:

40 i. Nathaniel 1790 Mason Gilliam Nc Tn [20148]

ii. Gilliam [20577] was born from 1774 to 1790.¹²⁴

iii. Gilliam [20578] was born from 1774 to 1790.¹²⁴

iv. Gilliam [20579] was born from 1774 to 1790.

v. Gilliam [20580] was born from 1774 to 1790.

Nathaniel next married someone circa 1785.

His children were:

40 i. Nathaniel 1790 Mason Gilliam Nc Tn [20148]

ii. John Gilliam Unproven [3978] was born circa 1788 in Age Depends On Birth Order and was christened in 1819 in TN Rhea Tax List.

iii. Marcus Gilliam maybe Marcus Jr [3979] was born circa 1786 in NC Franklin Probably.

Nathaniel married Charity Brown [2419] [MRIN: 8595] on 5 May 1801.

The child from this marriage was:

40 i. Nathaniel 1790 Mason Gilliam Nc Tn [20148]

81. Charity Brown [2419] was born circa 1778, died circa 1848 in If 70 At Death at age 70, and was buried in Gilliam Cemetery?.

General Notes: Linked to Nathaniel Gilliam only because there are Browns in the small Gilliam Cemetery in Spring City. She would have been a step-mother to our Nathaniel Mason Gilliam b 1790.

DLG 2007

Charity married Mason (Probably Desc Of The Gilliam-Mason) Gilliam [2418] [MRIN: 917], son of John 1722 Gilliam Unproven [19823] and Anne Mason [19707], on 5 May 1801 in Lincoln County, NC.

The child from this marriage was:

i. Mason Gilliam Unproven [2953] was born circa 1840.

Charity next married Nathaniel 1767 Mason? Gilliam [19517]² [MRIN: 8595] on 5 May 1801.

82. Tn Rhea County Davis Unknown [3682], son of TN Rhea County Davis [9337] and Unknown, was christened in 1830 in TN Rhea (Many Davises).

Tn never married and had no children.

His child was:

41 i. Sarah L Davis Sally [20160]

84. Moses F Paul Sc [3651],¹²⁵ son of Archibald Paul Northern Ireland [3653] and Agnes [3925], was born in 1775 in SC Winnsboro and died after 1830 in TN Rhea Probably.

Census: 1830, TN Rhea. 00001001 00000001

Moses married Margaret Gladney [3652] [MRIN: 1438].

Children from this marriage were:

42 i. Archibald Duncan Paul of Tn Rhea County [2588]

ii. John Farris Paul [9252] was born circa 1800.

85. Margaret Gladney [3652], daughter of Pvt. Samuel Gladney Rws [3926] and Agnes McCreight [3927], was born in 1777 in SC Fairfield, Camden and died after 1830 in TN Rhea Probably.

Margaret married Moses F Paul Sc [3651]¹²⁵ [MRIN: 1438].

86. Bryon Breeding Tn Rhea [3654], son of Spencer R Breeding [3656] and Elizabeth Finney [3657], was born in 1772 in VA Wythe County, died in 1832 in TN Rhea County, Spring City at age 60, and was buried in Morris Family Cem Spring City.

Bryon married Jane Thompson Tn Rhea [3655] [MRIN: 1440].

Children from this marriage were:

43 i. Cynthia Breeding of Tn Rhea County [2587]

ii. Stephen Breeding [17165] was born in 1811 in TN VA VA and died after 1880 in TN Rhea County census.

87. Jane Thompson Tn Rhea [3655], daughter of James Thompson [228] and Margaret Cowan [229], was born in 1777 in NC Rowan County and died on 23 May 1844 in TN Rhea County, Spring City at age 67.

Jane married Bryon Breeding Tn Rhea [3654] [MRIN: 1440].

88. Bremillion "Brim" Holloway Nc Orange [2585],¹²⁶ son of Thomas Holloway RWS [3646] and Amy Morris [4671], was born in 1770 in NC¹²⁷ and died circa 1840 in TN Rhea at age 70.

Census: 1810, NC Orange County. Image 303

Census: 1800, NC Orange County. 20010 01100-00

Marriage: 26 Aug 1794, NC Orange County. This or the earlier Bremillion Holloway was the bondsmand for the marriage of MARY HOLLOWAY and JAMES WOOD: witness- A. B. Bruce

Census: 1800, NC Wake County.¹²⁸ John, William, and Major Holloway.

HOLLOWAY Brim M-32 034 574 20010-01100-00

Emigration: 1814, TN.

Census: 1830, TN Rhea County. 00110001 00000001

Bremillion married Sarah Proctor Nc Orange [2586] [MRIN: 983] on 5 Feb 1798 in NC Orange, AbramWhitaker, bondsman- Jn Taylor, witness.¹²⁶

Children from this marriage were:

i. Major Holloway [2582] was born in 1804 in NC⁴³ and died in 1886 in TN Rhea County at age 82.

44 ii. Samuel Holloway of TN Putnam County [3644]

iii. Delilah Holloway [4726] was born circa 1800.⁴⁰

iv. James Holloway [4728] was born on 9 Dec 1801⁴⁰ and died before 1880 in TN Rhea County census.

v. Burton WIlliamson Holloway [4767] was born circa 1808.

vi. Joseph P(roctor?) Holloway [4769] was born in 1811⁴⁰ and died in 1881⁴⁰ at age 70.

vii. Sterling Holloway [4780] was born on 6 Dec 1816 in TN¹²⁹ and died on 22 Jan 1891¹²⁹ at age 74.

Bremillion next married Sarah Proctor Nc Orange [2586] [MRIN: 1435] in 1798 in NC Orange County.

The child from this marriage was:

44 i. Samuel Holloway of TN Putnam County [3644]

89. Sarah Proctor Nc Orange [2586], daughter of NC Orange Proctor Probably [5423] and Unknown, was born in 1774 in NC Orange County, maybe⁴³ and died after 1830 in TN Rhea Probably.

Sarah married Bremillion "Brim" Holloway Nc Orange [2585]¹²⁶ [MRIN: 983] on 5 Feb 1798 in NC Orange, AbramWhitaker, bondsman- Jn Taylor, witness.¹²⁶

Sarah next married Bremillion "Brim" Holloway Nc Orange [2585]¹²⁶ [MRIN: 1435] in 1798 in NC Orange County.

90. James Davidson of NC Orange [5422],¹²⁸ son of Colonel William Davidson of NC Orange [7851] and Unknown, was born from circa 1774 to 1784.¹³⁰

General Notes: unproven

Census: 1790, NC. Davidson-Holloway in same county 1790

Bertie County- Davidson-Amos, David, WM (all p12)

Hollaway, Arther p13

Burke County Davidsons-Ben, Geo., Jms, Jn, Sml, Thos, Wm

pages 106-110

Hollway- George p 107

DAVIDSON (various spellings)

Bertie County, Amos, David, WM (all p12)

Burke County- Ben, Geo., Jms, Jn, Sml, Thos, Wm

pages 106-110

Edgecombe- David

Fayette- Daniel, (2), JN

Hyde- WM,

Iredell- Alex., Geo. Joseph, Wm,

Martin- David.

Mecklenlberg- Jn, Jn, Sml, Thos,

Moore- David,

Randolph- Jms

Rutherford- Jas, Jas, Wm

HOLLOWAYS

Bertie- Arther Hollaway p13

Burke County- Geo. Holliway p 107

Hyde- Willliam Hollaway Image 0577

Orange- Martha, Richard, Thomas, no Samuel

Census: 1800, NC Orange County. James Davidson 16-26 (b 1774-1784)

William Davidson over 45 bef 1755

1800 D130 DAVID John M-32 034 559 01010-00001-05 1800 D132 DAVIDSON James M-32 034 504 10100-00010-00 1800 D132 DAVIDSON William M-32 034 504 01001-00101-00 1800 D120 DAVIS David M-32 034 504 10100-20200-00 1800 D120 DAVIS James M-32 034 504 50110-10110-00 1800 D120 DAVIS James M-32 034 561 00110-00100-02 1800 D120 DAVIS James M-32 034 504 50110-10110-00 1800 D120 DAVIS James M-32 034 561 00110-00100-02 1800 D120 DAVIS John M-32 034 561 21201-11010-02 1800 D120 DAVIS Mary M-32 034 504 00200-00201-00 1800 D120 DAVIS Richard M-32 034 561 22010-22010-01 1800 D120 DAVIS Samuel M-32 034 560 10020-00010-00 1800 D120 DAVIS Thomas M-32 034 504 00001-00001-01

James married someone.

His child was:

45 i. Frances Davisson or Davidson Nc [3645]

92. Davis [9606], son of Davis [17078] and Unknown, was born circa 1775 in VA Orange County resident maybe.

Davis married someone.

His children were:

46 i. William Davis [4368]

ii. Evan Davis [9273] was born circa 1794 in If 23 When Married.

94. William Goodridge Unproven [6864], son of George Goodridge [6936] and Unknown, was born on 18 Mar 1769 in VA Orange County¹³¹ and died in 1850 in KY Boone County¹³¹ at age 81.

William married Catherine Martin Hinton [6935]¹³¹ [MRIN: 2923].

The child from this marriage was:

47 i. Harriet Goodridge [4369]

95. Catherine Martin Hinton [6935]¹³¹ was born circa 1776 in VA.¹³¹

Catherine married William Goodridge Unproven [6864] [MRIN: 2923].

96. John Cox Sc Pendleton [3],⁹² son of John Cox I [5] and Sarah Beverly [55], was born in 1734 in NC Granville County,¹³² died in 1799 in SC Pendleton District, Anderson County¹³³ at age 65, and was buried on 16 Apr 1802 in Will Probated SC Pendleton.

General Notes: Link to John and Sarah not proven. Don Giddens, 2000.

Land transaction: 1793, SC Pendleton District. bought land from Asaph Alexnader

Witnesses John Cox and James Jones

Census: 1790, SC Pendleton District. 12400 00000 000

Down the road

Jonathan Gibbs, Patrick Whiles, Geo Brooks, Jms COX 401

Beverly COX 124 Wm Boyd Wm Manson, Jn Murry, Tinsley, Jms Barton etc Asaph Alexander 134 David Murdick Wm Bohannon etc

Wm Cannon 114 Anne Cannon 00205 on the same page.

Another John Cox 265

Fact: 1786, Henry County VA. Peter Saunders was a Colonel and John Cox a second lieutenant.

Larkin Cox was born in Henry County. Could this have been our John Cox?

Probate: 1787-1799. From Abstracts of Early Records of Laurens County South Carolina 1785-1820 by Sarah M. Nash

Page 22 31 August 1787 Deed Book B page 246 Recorded 5 January 1788 John AND ELIZABETH COX sell for 42 pounds to Charles Henderson, 150 acres on Warriors Creek, bounded by William Vaughn, original grant to said Cox in Berkley Co. 4 December 1771. Wit: Thomas Henderson, Wm. Dodd

Colonial Plats South Carolina Volume 10 page 240 gives the layout of a 200 acre grant. It is dated 1768 but may be the 1771 grant mentioned.

In 1769 a 100 acre grant was given to John Cox on South side of Enoree River as mentioned in a deed from Laurens Co. Book C, page 47 and mentions John (Jr.) and Sarah selling this,. It says John and Sarah Cox of Indian Creek.

John also buys 250 acres on 26 mile Creek in Old Pendleton District as recorded in Book H pages 454 and 455 in 1789 and then in 1794 he buys 304 acres, Book C-D pages 425-426. From this land William Cannon buys 134 acres, part of the 1789 grant (deed says he bought) Book E pg. 261 Laurens Co. then William sells to Edward Cox 72 acres part of this 134, Book E,page 262 and then the next month Edward sells the 72 acres Book H pages 416-418 in Old Pendleton District.

In 1798 John Sr. gives 150 acres to his son Beverly Cox, the plantation where I now live. Deed Book F, page 201, Old Pendleton District. This is the land on 26 mile Creek.

These items are included here as they were labeled and put together in the same packet and box in the county courthouse of John, Jr. Box 3, #103 but are Administration papers of this John.

On the 22 of December 1798 in Pendleton District (Now Anderson and Pickens) South Carolina, Elizabeth Cox and Henry Cox made application to the clerk of the county for letters of administration of the goods chattels, rights, and credits of John Cox, late of this county, deceased, and which belong to him at the time of his death.

Book C pages 167 and 172, 15 April, 1799 and 24 June, 1799 respectively. (Box 3 #103 SC Archives)

Elizabeth Cox, Henry Cox, John C. Griffin and John W. Grissom make bond for $1000.00

Being authorized by the Court of Pendleton County did repair to the Plantation of John Cox, deceased, and there did appraise the goods, chattels, of said deceased and hath made a perfect inventory of the same, agreeable to our best skill and ability.

Total goods inventoried worth $286.37.

1 horse, 16 cattle, 1 ox, 5 sheep, 21 pigs, various tools, 2 saddles, table, 7 pewter plates, iron, 2 pewter basins, 9 spoons, churn, 7 knives, 10 forks and 1 ladle, 5 pt. tins, 1 qt. tin, ditch oven, spinning wheel, 2 Delft plates, pepper box, 4 spelling books, 1 testament, 1 primer, 3 beds and furniture.

Certified this 1st day of March 1799 by Andrew Liddle, Berry Dickson, and Lewis Cobb.

Personal property of John Cox deceased was exposed to public sale 1 May, 1799. Buyers were Elizabeth Cox, Henry Cox, Capt. George Rewes, Fereby Cox, Beverly Cox, Hollingsworth Vandiver and Thomas Davis with Elizabeth buying almost all the property.

John married Elizabeth Vaughn Pendleton Sc [53]⁹² [MRIN: 33] circa 1756.

Children from this marriage were:

i. James Cox [351] was born about 1759.

ii. Henry Cox [204] was born about 1761 and died on 2 Apr 1800 in Pendleton Dist SC about age 39.

iii. Russell Cox [268] was born about 1764.

iv. Sgt. Beverly 1765 Cox RWS [284] was born about 1765 and died on 13 Sep 1794 in SC Pendleton District about age 29.

v. Acy Cox [272] was born about 1766.

vi. William M Cox [841] was born on 10 Oct 1766 in NC Granville County¹³⁴ and died in 1843 in SC Anderson County, Belton¹³⁴ at age 77.

vii. Gambrell Cox "Littleberry?" [1577] was born circa 1775, was christened in 1843 in SC Anderson County, and was buried in Christ Church, Alexandria, VA.

viii. Legatees of Cox [17500] was born before 1809.

48 ix. John Cox Sawmill owner [22343]

97. Elizabeth Vaughn Pendleton Sc [53],⁹² daughter of William Vaughn [1865] and Barbary Brewton Bruton [1864], was born circa 1734 in SC Pendleton or NC Granville maybe and died in 1809 in SC Pendleton at age 75.

Elizabeth married John Cox Sc Pendleton [3]⁹² [MRIN: 33] circa 1756.

98. Job Smith [5964],¹³⁵ son of David Smith ye sonne of THOS [5982] and Elizabeth/Mary Stephenson Stevenson [5983], was born in 1718 in PA Bucks County or Ireland,¹³⁵ died in 1800 in SC Pendleton District¹³⁶ at age 82, and was buried in Pickens Chapel.¹³⁷

Fact: 1718, Yorkshire, England. Another (or maybe the same) Job Smith was born, son of Richard and Ann Smith of Cowling.

Land: 1765, SC.¹²² Series: S213184

Volume: 0007

Page: 00417

Item: 03

Date: 2/9/1765 total 750 acres

Description: SMITH, JOB, PLAT FOR 250 ACRES ON BUFFALOE LICK.

Names indexed: CALHOUN, PATRICK; SMITH, JOB; TROUP, JOHN

Locations: BUFFALO LICK SPRINGS; LONG CANE CREEK; SAVANNAH RIVER

Document type: PLAT

Topics:

Fact or Conjecture: 2003, Greenville, TX.¹ I have linked Sarah Smith to Job instead of Joseph because of the approximate ages. Joseph Smith of Pendleton SC apparently does not have a Sarah the right age to be the wife of John Cox.

Job married Hannah [6071] [MRIN: 2617].

Children from this marriage were:

i. Joseph Smith [5957] was born in 1740 in PA Bucks County³⁹ and died in Jun 1814 in SC Pendleton District¹³⁸ at age 74.

ii. Rev. Job Smith RWS [5966] was born on 25 Dec 1748 in PA York County¹³⁸ and died before 1837 in SC Pickens District.³⁹

iii. Michael Smith [7661] was born in 1749 in PA Bucks County³⁹ and died on 10 Nov 1803 in SC Pendleton District³⁹ at age 54.

iv. Benjamin Smith RWS [7662] was born in 1750 in PA York County³⁹ and died in May 1834 in SC Pickens³⁹ at age 84.

49 v. Sarah Smith [4373]

99. Hannah [6071] was born in 1717⁷⁸ and died in 1807 in SC Anderson District if same Hannah¹³⁹ at age 90.

General Notes: Linked by DLG if same Hannah and Job- DLG 2006

I orginally put Hannah Barney here, but she is not the right Hannah.

Hannah married Job Smith [5964]¹³⁵ [MRIN: 2617].

Hannah next married someone on 18 Nov 1742 in MA Taunton (if same Job and Hannah).¹⁴⁰

Her children were:

i. Joseph Smith [5963] was born in 1740 in PA Bucks County¹⁴¹ and died in 1814 in SC Anderson County at age 74.

49 ii. Sarah Smith [4373]

iii. Job Smith [5984] was born in 1748 in PA York County, Fawn Township¹³⁹ and died in 1837 in SC Pickens, Pendleton¹³⁹ at age 89.

100. Captain John Phillip Hudgins RWS [342], son of Ambrose Hudgins Daniel Boone's bro-in-law [343] and Joannah Foster "Ann" [1536], was born in 1752 in Chatham NC¹⁴² and died in Feb 1791 in Blairville, SC at age 39.

General Notes: http://genforum.genealogy.com/cgi-bin/pageload.cgi?Rutha,Davis::hudgins::1 16.html Caleb Tefeteller

http://genforum.genealogy.com/hudgins/messages/124.html Charles Hudgins

I had JohnP., others had John; others had Phillip. So, I'm guessing John Phillip

Hudgins- Don Giddens donlgiddens@hubwest.com

Birthdate and Colonel- info from http://genforum.genealogy.com/cgi-bin/pageload.cgi?Rutha,Davis::hudgins::3 11.html Janet

Biographical note: 2003, Dalton, GA.¹⁴³ Don,

I found Rutha Davis Hudgins in your tree at Rootsweb. Since she is one of my ancestors, I thought I would pass on the following info I found on her. This abstract of the Rev War Pension Files, shows that she was the widow of John Hudgins and she remarried James Murphy in 1812 after the death of John. Rutha Davis Hudgins Murphy was living in Walker Co., GA, when she first applied for the pension in 1845. Her son James Hudgins of Gordon Co., GA, said in his application for his father's pension in 1853 that his mother Rutha died on 17 Nov 1847 in Habersham Co., GA. I live in Dalton, Whitfield Co., GA, and Gordon and Walker are neighboring counties. I descend from Rutha and John's daughter Delilah Hudgins who married Robert Trotter.

Abstract of Rev. War Pension Files:

John Hudgins or Hutchins, Ruth or Rutha Murphy, former widow, R7515, NC Line.

Soldier married Rutha Davis 15 Feb 1775 and soldier died in Feb 1791, leaving his widow with 7 children under the age of 16: to wit: Mary, Teresa, Philip, William, James, Delila, and Benjamin J. Hudgins. Widow married second to James Murphy in 1812 and he died in Mar 1831. Soldier and widow had married in Chatham Co., NC, and she married James Murphy in SC. Widow applied 31 Mar 1845 in Walker Co., GA, but lived in Habersham Co., GA. A son, James Hudgins, applied 27 Sep 1853, Gordon Co., GA, aged 68, and stated widow (Rutha Davis Hudgins) died in Habersham Co., GA, on 17 Nov 1847, leaving children: Thursay (Teresa) who married Levi Murphy; Delilah who married Robert Trotter, Benjamin and James Hudgins.

Melanie Atkins

Dalton, GA

Military.¹⁴² NC Continental Line Rev War Soldier

Captain, Quartermaster

Death: 1791.¹⁴⁴ of small pox

John married Rutha Davis [956] [MRIN: 362] on 15 Feb 1775 in Chatham County, NC.

Children from this marriage were:

50 i. Benjamin J Hudgins Sc Pendleton [265]

ii. James Hudgins [1462] was born in 1785 in Chatham, NC and died after 1853.

iii. Delila Hudgins Melba's line [1698] was born in 1786 in NC¹⁴⁵ and died in 1879 in GA White County¹⁴² at age 93.

iv. Phillip Hudgins [2034] was born before 1790 and died before 1847.

v. Mary Hudgins [4165] died before 1853.

vi. Teresa Hudgins [4166] died after 1847.

vii. William Hudgins [4167] died before 1847.

101. Rutha Davis [956], daughter of Rev. Elnathan Davis Baptist [1652] and Mary Collins [1501], was born about 1761 in Chatham, NC and died on 17 Nov 1847 in GA Habersham¹⁴³ about age 86.

Pension applications: 1845, GA Walker County.

Rutha married Captain John Phillip Hudgins RWS [342] [MRIN: 362] on 15 Feb 1775 in Chatham County, NC.

Rutha next married James Murphy [4164]¹⁴³ [MRIN: 1671] in 1812.¹⁴³

102. Jesse Ellis RWS [119], son of John Ellis Va Surry [1517] and Mary Wiggins [5590], was born in 1743 in VA Surry County, Albemarle Parish and died in 1818 in SC Pendleton District at age 75.

General Notes: : Gary Ellis <wurdluvr@mindspring.com> has Johnnathan Ellis

b 1710 Sussex VA. md to Mary Wiggins.

Jesse married Sarah Woodson [120] [MRIN: 462] on 9 Mar 1763 in VA Goochland County.

The child from this marriage was:

i. Martha Ellis [335] was born about 1765.

Jesse next married Widow Elizabeth Young [1503] [MRIN: 525] circa 1776 in SC Pendleton District maybe.

Children from this marriage were:

i. Rev. Jeremiah Ellis Methodist [1551] was born in 1779 in NC and died circa 1809 in SC Pendleton/Pickens¹⁴⁶ at age 30.

ii. Stephen Ellis [1552] was born on 25 Mar 1784.

iii. Rev. Gideon Ellis Methodist [1553] was born on 27 Feb 1786 in NC Chatham County and died in 1859 in SC Pickens¹⁴⁶ at age 73.

iv. Sarah Ellis [1550] was born in 1788 in VA Goochland County.¹⁴⁷

51 v. Martha Ellis [266]

vi. Rev. Jesse Ellis Methodist [7017] was born on 20 Sep 1790 in NC Chatham County¹⁴⁸ and died in 1866 in AL Elmore County, Wetumpka¹⁴⁸ at age 76.

Jesse next married Mary Goodman [1554] [MRIN: 473].

Jesse next married Hannah Murphree [1555] [MRIN: 474] in 1809 in Pendleton District SC.

103. Widow Elizabeth Young [1503], daughter of SC Pendleton District Young [5862] and Unknown, was born in 1750 in NC Warren County¹⁴⁹ and died in SC Pendleton maybe.

General Notes: Info from http://worldconnect.genealogy.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=GET&db=nell- ellis_1&id=I906

Elizabeth married Jesse Ellis RWS [119] [MRIN: 525] circa 1776 in SC Pendleton District maybe.

Elizabeth next married William Young [5993] [MRIN: 3008], son of SC Pendleton District Young [5862] and Unknown.

104. Pastor Moses Saunders Sanders RWS [131],¹⁵⁰ son of John Saunders or Sanders [2343] and Catherine Nimrod [3729], was born in 1743 in England, Deventon, Wiltshire,¹⁵¹ died in 1817 in GA Banks, Groves Level, Homer¹⁵² at age 74, and was buried in Sanders Cemetery, Maysville, Banks. GA.

General Notes: Would be called today- Church planter, missionary

Tombstone: : Grove's Level, Banks, GA. Soldier NC Revolution, Iredell Co.

Founder of Grove Level, Narls Creek and Many Other Baptist Churches

tombstone says "Christ is My Anchor"

grandchildren include Sallie Hooper, Wm. Sanders, Obediah Sanders, Betsy Carter

Aaron Sanders and John Sanders are also descendants, but children or grand

all listed on Frances Garrett Hughes DAR application

Land transaction: : NC Onslow County. 600 acres

Fact. Founder of Groves Level, Nails Creek, and many other Baptist churches.

Birth: 1743, England.

Census: 1790, SC Laurens District. In 1790, a Moses Sanders was censused 1020

with Littleberrys and Shacklefords.

Shacklefords later on wind up in MS Tishomingo as did some of the Moses 1769 Saunders' family.

Military: 1793, KY.¹⁵³ A Moses Saunders served in 1793-6 as a Farrier. Russell's Reg. Calvary KY Volunteers

Census: 1800, SC Darlington District. A Moses Saunders was censused 0100

by a Nathaniel Saunders 0100

Census: 1800, SC Barnwell District. A Moses Saunders was censusd- 002005030

Will: 1817, GA Franklin County.¹⁵⁴ Amos, Martin, Kennington, Grider and Sanders Families

Entries: 261 Updated: Thu Oct 26 14:08:00 2000 Contact: Sarrah M. Amos

source:Early Settlers of Banks Count Georgia by Barbara LeFevre

Moses Sanders Constructed a Log missionary in the early !770's and in the year 1787 became the first pastor of Nails Creek Baptist Church.

The old Federal Road which ran off old Cherokee grounds as in the 1805 Treaty of Tellico, Tennessee, the Cherokees themselves authorized this road which begins in Chattanooga, Tenn and runs to Flowery Branch to Augusta. It was called the Federal road because it was a mail route. Communities along this road were Mt. Pleasant.,Walnut Hills, Jewelsville and Nails Creek named for Joe Nails who ran a trading post.

Nails Creek Baptist Church was established on 11th February 1787.The marker lists Rev Moses Sanders .page 141

In the minutes of Grove Level Church May 1802 stated that the following members of the arm of Nails Creek Baptist Church met at Grove Level Meeting house and were Constituted a Church .( To be called Grove Level Baptist Church) by a presbytery composed of Moses Sandrers Sr. , John Doss, William Denman and Thomas Maxwell . choose Moses Sandrers sr as our supply. The names of 62 members included Richard Mauldin, ( who married Nancy Sanders dtr of Moses bn 1778), Silas Sanders, David Sanders (who married Mary Allred) Francis Sanders ( who may be the brother to Moses),Sally Sanders and Polly Sanders.

abstracted from the NailsCreek Baptist Church records.

Rev Moses served in the Continental Army under General George Washington and bore a number of scars from Bayonet Wounds., Taken from the History of Nails Creek Baptist Church.

one source said he got the scars in a bayonet fight with a British soldier and the " Brit" lost.< not confirmed>

Will of Moses Sanders dated 28 th Feburary 1817 in Franklin Co ( Groves Level ,later Banks Co ) Georgia

"In the name of God, amen" I Moses Sanders Sr of the state aforesaid and County Of Franklin,being of sound and disposing mind and Memory, and calling to mind that it is once appointed for all men to die. I constitute and make this my last will and testament, hereby revoking all other former wills and testaments made or intended to be made.

Firstly I will that all my debts as shall by me owing at my death together, with all changes touching the proving of or otherwise concerning this my will shall in the first place be paid out of my personal estate and effects. From and after payment thereof and subject thereunto this my will is that all the residue of my estate of every description, shall be appraised except the part I hereafter lend my wife. after such appraisement made that the same be divided as follows.

I will that my lands shall be divided into four equal parts, except that I am now about to give and have deeded to away with a small bit of land to my son, John Sanders adjoining the place where I now live beginning at Buch Corner at the mouth of the branch thence to the branch where my ( undeciperable) forms the branch, thence up the branch to the old line, thence along old line to the other branch.

One hundred acres I give Nancy Jones and Joel Sanders across the upper end of the Four hundred acre

tract of land granted to myself adjoining the Aldreds (Allred) old cabin, and the rest of my property of all description whatever I wish divided int five equal Parts to wit.

I give unto my son Moses Sanders Jr one fourth part of my land and one fifth part of the residue of my estate.

I give unto my son John Sanders forty dollars, and one fourth part of my land and one fifth part of the residue of my estate.

I give unto Aron (Aaron) Sanders children Nancy Jones , Joel, Moses, Nathanield, Daniel, Polley and Salley Sanders one fourth part of my land and one fifth part of the residue of my Estate and also give unto them one Negro girl and the increase of any , that I lent to my son Aron Sanders during his life by the name of Barsheba.

I give unto my grandchildren of David Sanders, deceased, namely To wit Martin , Hambleton (William Hamilton),Sally, Nancy and David , one Negro named Buck which I lent my son David, deceased. One fourth part of my land and one fifth part of my residue of my estate to be equally divided between them.

I give unto my Daughter Sally Hooper two dollars.

I give unto my grandchildren of Sally Hooper namely to wit William Sanders, Obadia, Betsy Carter, Miley and James Hooper, two Negoes Lewis and Hannah which negroes I before lent to my daughtere Sally Hooper and one fifth part of the residue of my estate, except the land to to be equally divided also twenty dollars cash. ( Sarah B. or Sally married Obediah Hooper 24 th March 1805, Obediah was son of Obediah Hooper Sr, both fought in the Rev War.)

I give unto Richard Maulden two dollars. ( who married Nancy in abt 1800 bn 1778 died about 1808)

I lend unto my wife Mary Sanders during her life the land whereon I now live and three Negroes, Dinah, Rachel and Fann, four cows and calves , two horses, two sows and pigs, two feather beds and Furniture.

All my household and Kitchen furniture .My plantation, working tools and a sufficient support for her for one year after my death to be levied out of my estate,

After my wifes death my will is for all the property I have lent her to to be equally divided in five parts, except the land my son John Sanders is to have, and my son Moses Sanders is to have one fifth part and my grandchildren heretofore mentioned of Aron Sanders to have one fifth part, to be equally divided between them.

My express will is that I ordain and appoint my sons Moses Sanders and John Sanders my sole executors of this my last Will and Testament.

Given under my hand and Seal this 28th day of Febuary in the year of our Lord 1817.

witnesses present:

John Bush, William Legg and John Baugh Justice of the Peace

Signed Moses Sanders his mark

Note: The comments in ( ) are mine and do not appear in the original will.

1 2

Fact: 2006, RootsWeb.⁵⁷ Moses Marion Sanders of Alcorn County, Mississippi, was a son of John Sanders and Aby Robins and a grandson of the Reverend Moses Sanders and Mary Hamilton. In a memoir written for his family about 1880 he stated:

Moses married Sarah Hamilton [122]¹⁵⁵ [MRIN: 131] circa 1764 in VA Augusta County.¹⁵²

Children from this marriage were:

i. Moses Sanders Jr. Nc [129] was born in 1766 in VA, was christened in 1787 in GA Grove's Level BC Charter Member, and died in 1847 in GA Franklin County at age 81.

ii. Aaron Sanders [2325] was born in 1769 in VA¹⁵⁶ and died after 1850 in GA Franklin, Groves Level.

iii. Sarah B Sanders [2326] was born on 15 May 1773 in GA Franklin County or VA¹⁵⁴ and died in 1862 in TN Bedford County or MS Coffeeville at age 89.

iv. David Sanders War of 1812 + [209] was born in 1775 in NC Anson County and died on 25 Feb 1815 in New Orleans War of 1812¹⁵⁷ at age 40.

v. Rev. Amos 1783 Sanders [210] was born in 1783 in NC Anson County¹⁵⁴ and was christened in 1805 in GA Frankin County.

vi. Grandchildren Sanders [201]

52 vii. Rev. John Sanders Baptist War of 1812 [3701]

viii. Nancy Sanders [3702] was born in 1778 in NC Iredell¹⁵⁴ and died in 1807¹⁵⁴ at age 29.

ix. Executors Sanders Of His Estate [7095] was born circa 1775.

105. Sarah Hamilton [122],¹⁵⁵ daughter of Arthur Hamilton [3699] and Martha Conyngham [3700], was born in 1745 in GA Franklin, Groves Level,¹⁵⁸ died in 1816 in GA Banks (was Franklin) Groves Level¹⁵⁸ at age 71, and was buried in Sanders Cemetery, Maysville, Banks. GA. Other names for Sarah were Hambleton, Mary.

Sarah married Pastor Moses Saunders Sanders RWS [131]¹⁵⁰ [MRIN: 131] circa 1764 in VA Augusta County.¹⁵²

106. Our Major John Robins Jr. [16854],⁵⁷ son of John Robins [3839] and Mary Margaret Madison Strother [3840], was born in 1750 in VA Orange County,¹⁵⁹ was christened in 1787 in NC Wilkes County census, and died in 1812 in TN Franklin County¹⁵⁹ at age 62.

Census: 1787, NC Wilkes County. 1-2-5-5-1

Census: 1790, NC Wilkes County. 3 w males over 16

-1-w male under 16

7--females

-11 slaves

Occupation: : VA.⁶² merchant

Tax List: 1812, GA Franklin County. Page 4 (80)

Mathew DOWLY - Charles ROWLIN - Daniel HAVERN - John GOODWIN - Peter WILEMAN - John GRAHAM - James WOOTEN - John PHIPS - John DOBS - Henry PAINTER - John PAINTER - John JORDEN - Thomas HARISON - Abraham HARGESS - Harrison SARTAIN - James SANDERS - Solomon SANDERS - William FORSYTH - Henry GOTCHER - Joshua GOTCHER - William COOK - Burril COOK - Archabald GESEL - Robert JONES - Lemuel JOHNSON - Silas JOHNSON - John BURRIS - Mater SHECKEL - James BONNER - James NAZWORTHY - Jacob BOX - William TRUSSELL - William TUBB - Daniel HILL - John SWEETON - Stephen FULYERS? - Elizha IVEY - Gabriel JONES - John BRUMSENT - John WINN - Antony BURRIS - Obediah BEAN - John BURROWS - Moses SWEETON - Burrel BAGGET - John ROBINS - James BROOKS - Nathan PRICE - Silas TUCKER - James SERTAIN - Jacob BECK - Henry BECK - Frederick BECK - Lewis WATSON &C - Lewis WATSON - Lewis POWELL - John C. SMITH - William MORGAN - John BOX - John MORRIS - William BURGISS - John ARMSTRONG [sub total 238]

John married Elizabeth Dogan [17245] [MRIN: 7092] in 1771 in VA Culpeper County.¹⁵⁹

Children from this marriage were:

53 i. Alexandria Richardson Robins [4032]

ii. Margaret Robins [17246] was born circa 1798.

iii. Nancy Ann Robins [17268] was born circa 1800.

iv. Mary Robins [17269] was born circa 1802.

v. Samuel Robins [17270] was born circa 1804.

vi. Jane Robins [17271] was born circa 1806.

107. Elizabeth Dogan [17245], daughter of Samuel Dogan [17248] and Ann Mary Harrison [17249], was born in 1754 in VA Westmoreland County¹⁵⁹ and died after 1832 in TN Coffee County.¹⁵⁹ Other names for Elizabeth were Dugan, Dougan.

Elizabeth married Our Major John Robins Jr. [16854]⁵⁷ [MRIN: 7092] in 1771 in VA Culpeper County.¹⁵⁹

108. William Rushing [293],¹⁰⁴ son of Abraham Rushing [1304] and Mariah Meador [1319], was born in 1783 in NC Anson (Fayette) County, died on 15 Jul 1853 in Tishomingo MS at age 70, and was buried in Corinth Baptist Cemetery Tishomingo MS.

General Notes: http://web.utk.edu/~ddonahue/stuff/irarush.txt Ira Rushing's notes

A LIST OF RUSHINGS WHO SIGNED SEVERAL PETITIONS FROM 1777-1789.

WILLIAM RUSHING, ROWLAND RUSHING, RICHARD RUSHING, ABRAHAM RUSHING,

JOHNSON RUSHING, JOHN RUSHING, MARK RUSHING, WILLIAM RUSHING SENIOR,

ROBERT RUSHING, SOLOMON RUSHING, NOAH RUSHING, PHILLIP RUSHING,

JACOB RUSHING AND MATHEW RUSHING.

ANSON COUNTY DEEDS VOLS H-1

Fact.¹⁶⁰ Anson was formed in 1750 from Bladen. It was named in honor of George, Lord Anson, a celebrated English admiral who circumnavigated the globe. It is in the south center section of the State and is bounded by the state of South Carolina and Union, Stanly, and Richmond counties. Its land area is 531.41 square miles and its population in 1990 was 23,474. From 1755 to 1780 the county seat was called Anson Court House. In 1782 and 1783 laws were passed concerning the courthouse. In the latter year New Town was authorized to be established. In 1787, Newton, the county seat, was changed to Wadesboro. Wadesboro is the county seat.

Religion. Baptist

William married Jane Nichols [294] [MRIN: 229] about 1807.

Children from this marriage were:

54 i. Mark Rushing Tn [153]

ii. Sarah Rushing [988] was born on 6 Feb 1815 in Stewart Co TN and died on 17 Mar 1890 in MS Alcorn County at age 75.

iii. Abraham Rushing [21954] was born in 1815 in NC and died after 1880 in TX Van Zandt County census.

109. Jane Nichols [294], daughter of Isaac Nichols NC [6075] and Honor [8170], was born in 1785 in NC Anson (Fayette) County, died on 27 Feb 1860 in Tishomingo MS Near Corinth at age 75, and was buried in Corinth Baptist Cemetery Tishomingo MS.

Religion. Baptist

Jane married William Rushing [293]¹⁰⁴ [MRIN: 229] about 1807.

110. William R. Freeman [295],⁷⁰ son of Howell Freeman RWS [944] and Elizabeth [1849], was born on 25 Mar 1786 in NC Franklin County,³⁹ died on 16 Mar 1872 in Pike Co IL at age 85, and was buried in Taylor-Martin Cemetery, Derry, IL.

General Notes: Posted by: Valerie Simonton Date: June 13, 2001 at 19:26:51

In Reply to: William R. Freeman b 1786 SC desc by Don L. Giddens of 4781

Don,

William R. Freeman was born in Franklin Co., North Carolina, not in South Carolina. Wife, Mary Massie was born in Kentucky. They married 12 Jul 1807 in Ky. She, the d/o Thos. Massie and Frances Hudson, both of New Kent Co., VA.

William was son of Howell Freeman, b1760, VA and Elizabeth __?__. Howell served as a private in Rev. War in NC. His name is on a marker honoring Revolutionary soldiers, in Dickson Co., TN, where he and 2nd. wife, Hannah, lived and died.

Regards,

Valerie Simonton

Don,

Thanks for the response. All we know is that Mark Rushing (1809-1883) and Martha Elizabeth (1812-1896) were the parents of John King Rushing (1849-1918) who married our Lucinda Caroline Cox ( 18 Nov 1851- 5 Oct 1919) daughter of T.L. Cox and Lucinda Bentley of South Carolina, via Blount Co., Ala., and then to Uphsur Co., Tx. Lucinda Caroline had a 1st cousin by the name ( taken from the 1850 census, so a good possibility it could be wrong) Mahala Allred, born about 1845, Blount Co., Ala. I just wonder if John could have married 1st, the Allred, maybe she died and he then married the cousin. Not unheard of, but a possibility. I think we need to find some marriage records, Since they are all buried in Van Zandt co., it is quite possible, Lucinda Caroline had a sister who moved there from Upshur co. I am going to get in touch with some of the other Cox researchers here in Upshur Co., one of which has worked on this fa

Joyce W.

I found this tonight, have you seen this before?

George W. Freeman Bible Records

from DAR files, Washington, DC

Bible published by A.L. Bancroft & Co., 721 Market Street, San Francisco, California 1873.

Bible in possession of Mrs. H. A. Fraundorf, 2335 N.E. 24th Ave., Portland, Oregon 1959.

W. R. Freeman son of Howel & Elizabeth Freeman was born in North Carolina March 25th 1786

Mary daughter of Thomas & Frances Massie wife of W R Freeman was born in Kaintucky June 14th 1789

W R Freeman and Mary Massie was married in Kaintucky July 12th 1807

Mark Rushing and Elizabeth Freeman was married in Tennessee March 14th 1830

Elizabeth Freeman daughter of W R & Mary Freeman and wife of Mark Rushing was born in Tennessee Nov 20th 1812

Mary Freeman Wife of W R Freeman died in Ills Sept 16th 1868 aged 78 years 3 months & 4 days

W R Freeman died in Ills March 16th 1872 aged 84 years 11 months & 21 days

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George W. Freeman Bible

William married Mary Massie [296] [MRIN: 230] on 12 Jul 1807 in KY.

Children from this marriage were:

i. William Riley Freeman [943] was born about 1810.

55 ii. Elizabeth Freeman Tn [154]

iii. James Howell Freeman [11478] was born on 8 Apr 1820 in Dickson County, TN.³⁹

iv. Sylvannus Freeman [23039] was born in 1830 in TN.

111. Mary Massie [296], daughter of Thomas Massie son of Sylvanus and Hannah [5201] and Frances Hudson Kin to the Navigator [1090], was born on 14 Jun 1789 in KY,⁷⁰ died on 16 Sep 1868 in Pike Co IL at age 79, and was buried in IL.

Mary married William R. Freeman [295]⁷⁰ [MRIN: 230] on 12 Jul 1807 in KY.

112. James 1754 MARTIN Adam Lindsey Sgt RWS [305], son of Major William 1721 Lindsey RWS [307] and Rosanna Martin [308], was born in 1754 in VA,¹⁶¹ died in Jul 1835 in KY Trigg County, Cadiz at age 81, and was buried in KY Trigg County, Cadiz. Another name for James was Alfred or ADAM (our family has Adam).

General Notes: A native of VA...imigrated to NC.

Battle of Cowpens (from the Revolutionary Web-site)

Posted by kyle (63.178.233.17) on November 18, 2001 at 22:12:00:

basicly, i need to know anything and everything about the battle of cow pens. It IS for a report for my 8th grade Social studies class and im sure you people who are regulars to this message board get this stuff all the time and it probably bugs the heck out of when people like me clutter up your message boards with trash like this, but i really need some help and i would really appreciate any information that you people out there could give me. I'll be back tomorrow to see if theres anything thing on here yet. If you read this much later then tomorrow night at around 11:00 don't bother because it will probably be to late for me to include it in my report.

Special thanks to anyone who responds,

kyle

The National Society of the Daughters of the American Revolution Volume 127

page 46

[p.46] Mrs. Jane Lindsey Ketels.

DAR ID Number: 126148

Born in Thayer County, Nebr.

Wife of John Frederick Ketels.

Descendant of James Lindsey, William Scott and Elisha Barton, as follows:

1. Alfred Lindsey (1847-1926) m. 1876 Mary Francis Barton (b. 1854).

2. William Lindsey (1817-1904) m. 1841 Matilda Leonard (1823-1900); Clark Barton (1812-96) m. 1838 Eliza Myers (1819-95).

3. James Alfred Lindsey (1793-1872) m. 1814 Jean Scott (1792-1884); Elisha Barton (1777-1815) m. 1806 Rachel Miller.

4. James Lindsey m. Delilah Hodgson Brewer; William Scott m. Elizabeth R. Moore; Elisha Barton m. 2d 1771 Anna McCarter (1754-1823).

James Lindsey served as sergeant in Lieut. Col. Thomas Posey's 1st Virginia

Military: : Battle of Cowpens.⁶⁸ wounded

Military: 1794, Territory South of the Ohio.¹⁵³ Johnson's Detachment

Mounted Militia

if same PVT James Lindsey.

James married Delilah (Hodgson) Brewer [306]³⁹ [MRIN: 222] in 1782 in Chatham Co NC.

Children from this marriage were:

i. Delilah Lindsey [846] was born after 1782 in NC Chatham County.

ii. Susan Lindsey [847] was born about 1782 in NC Chatham County.

iii. Archibald P. Lindsey MS Militia [842] was born in 1784 in NC Chatham County.³⁹

iv. Mary Lindsey [482] was born about 1785.

v. Rebecca Lindsey [2371] was born about 1786.¹⁶²

vi. Temperance Lindsey [845] was born about 1788.

56 vii. John William Lindsey Judge [304]

viii. James 1793 BREWER Alfred Lindsey [843] was born in 1793 in NC Wake, Haw River¹⁶² and died in 1872 at age 79. Another name for James was Alford.

ix. Sackfield Stanford Lindsey [844] was born in 1799 in NC Chatham County and was christened in 1830 in KY Trigg County, Cadiz.

x. Patton Lindsey [8597]

113. Delilah (Hodgson) Brewer [306],³⁹ daughter of Sackfield Brewer Va Brunswick [1701] and Lanier UNPROVEN [5672], was born in 1765 in NC and died before 1810 in Chatham Co NC.

Delilah married James 1754 MARTIN Adam Lindsey Sgt RWS [305] [MRIN: 222] in 1782 in Chatham Co NC.

Delilah next married someone.

114. Judge Adam Linn RWS [311],¹⁶³ son of Adam Lynn Gun mfg [958] and Mrs. Isobel Dickerson [959], was born about 1750 in Ireland, Belfast,¹⁶³ died on 1 Jun 1832 in KY Trigg County, Cadiz¹⁶⁴ about age 82, and was buried in Age 82.

General Notes: Thanks to Susan Johnson for this information.

Notes for ADAM LINN:

WILL BOOK A, Page 274

WILL of ADAM LINN, deceased

In the name of God Amen. I, Adam Linn, of Trigg County and State of Kentucky, being in perfect mind and memory and knowing it is appointed for all men once to die, I do make and ordain this my last Will and Testament. First of all, I recommend my soul to God who gave it and my body to the dust to be buried at the discretion of my Executor, doubting not but I shall receive the same again at the Resurrection of the Mighty power of God and for such wealth it hath pleased God to bless me with in this life. I hereby dispose of my property in the following manner. After all my just debts are paid, it is my wish and pleasure that my wife, Sarah Linn, have the rest of my old plantation for her life. The balance of my property to be equally divided among my then living children, giving each of my grandchildren two dollars. I appoint Joseph Linn, my Executor of this my last will and testament, revoking all other will or wills by me made. In witness,whereof, I hereunto set my hand and seal this first day of February 1826.

Witnesses

Samuel Saxon

John Craig, Jr.

Ezekiel Vinson Adam Linn

Will produced in court for probate and has been proven and ordered to be recorded this 18th day of June 1832.

Occupation: : Commissioned By King To Mfg Guns.

Cumberland Compact: 1787, TN.¹⁶⁵ Linn (Lynn), Adam, listed on the 1787 Davidson County tax roll with one taxable, he received a Land Grant.148 A Justice in 1788,149 he was an early settler of Civil District Number Eighteen,150 the northern boundary of which coincides with the southern boundary of Civil District Number19.

Immigrated. Came from Ireland when he was two.

Immigrated: Abt 1752, SC. at age two

Military: 1774-1776, Rev. War. Thomas Buford's Company of Volunteers

Raised in Bedford County, Virginia. Served under General Andrew Lewis in the Battle at Point Pleasant,

"Lord Dunmore's War"

10 October, 1774.

Military: 1794, KY.¹⁵³ Johnson's Detachment PVT

Mounted MIltia

Territory south of the Ohio

if same Adam Linn.

Immigrated: 1803, KY Trigg County.⁶⁸

Fact: 1810, KY Woodford. An Adam Lynn applied for his Rev. War pension.

Fact: 1998, Genforum # 15. My line runs through Adam Linn Sr born in Belfast Ireland with his wife Isabella through there son Adam Linn Jr born in Belfast Ireland died in Trigg, Ky. He married Sidney Ann Ewing 1753-1811 on 1771 in Norfork Virginia. Adam traveled from Virginia to Davidson Tn in the group with Andrew Jackson then onward to Christian county Ky. were he was a pioneer and one of the first judges. Then later to Trigg Ky with his son-in-law Abraham Boyd. Adam and Sidney had 12 children: James, Mary Ewing , Nancy 1775-before 1839 married Abraham Boyd in 1794 in Davidson, TN (my line), Charles, Joseph 1780-1859 married Elizabeth Joslin 1779-before 1859 on 1803 in Davidson TN., Polly, Martha, Robert, Reuben married Frances Young, Betsey, Margaret married John W. Lindsay, and Isabel. Would be happy to talk to anyone on this line.

Will: 1832, Trigg County, KY. WILL BOOK A, Page 274

WILL of ADAM LINN, deceased In the name of God Amen. I, Adam Linn, of Trigg County and State of Kentucky, being in perfect mind and memory and knowing it is appointed for all men once to die, I do make and ordain this my last Will and Testament. First of all, I recommend my soul to God who gave it and my body to the dust to be buried at the discretion of my Executor, doubting not but I shall receive the same again at the Resurrection of the Mighty power of God and for such wealth it hath pleased God to bless me with in this life. I hereby dispose of my property in the following manner. After all my just debts are paid, it is my wish and pleasure that my wife, Sarah Linn, have the rest of my old plantation for her life. The balance of my property to be equally divided among my then living children, giving each of my grandchildren two dollars. I appoint Joseph Linn, my Executor of this my last will and testament, revoking all other will or wills by me made. In witness,whereof, I hereunto set my hand and seal this first day of February 1826.

Witnesses

Samuel Saxon

John Craig, Jr.

Ezekiel Vinson Adam Linn

Will produced in court for probate and has been proven and ordered to be recorded this 18th day of June 1832.

FROM: TRIGG CO. KY WILL BOOKS in Ft. Worth Library

Adam married Burdeville Sarah [1651]¹⁶⁶ [MRIN: 510] on 12 Nov 1814 in KY Christian County.

Adam next married Sidney Ann Ewing Va [312] [MRIN: 512] on 2 Feb 1771 in Norfolk VA.

Children from this marriage were:

i. Reuben Linn [479] was born about 1773.

ii. Nancy Linn [1043] was born about 1775.

iii. Betsey Linn [1044] was born about 1777.

iv. Patty Linn [1045] was born about 1779.

57 v. Margaret Peggy Linn Tn Davidson [79]

vi. Charles Linn Militia [741] was born on 11 Sep 1777.

vii. Joel Linn [742] was born about 1802.

viii. Robert Linn [4429]

ix. Joseph Linn [4430] was born in 1780¹⁶³ and died in 1859¹⁶³ at age 79.

x. Mary Linn [4433]

xi. James Linn [4434]

115. Sidney Ann Ewing Va [312], daughter of Rev. Robert Ewing Colonial Presby. Minister [315] and Mary Baker Va [316], was born in 1756 in VA Bedford County and died on 1 Jun 1822 in KY Trigg County, Cadiz at age 66.

General Notes: Our line. Also, the line of Kris Oleson GenForum, Ewing GenForum

Kin: 2000, TN. Sister of Rev. Finis Ewing, one of the founders of the Cumberland branch of the Presbyterian Church.

Finis Ewing spent a year at a time on horseback going from settler to settler telling them about the Lord.

According to the Cumberland Presbyterian history book, he was "destitute". He and a few others were instrumental in wrting the doctrines of the Cumberland Presbyterians.

Religion. Cumberland Preesbyterian probably

Sidney married Judge Adam Linn RWS [311]¹⁶³ [MRIN: 512] on 2 Feb 1771 in Norfolk VA.

116. Edward Wormington [866], son of Samuel Wormington [884] and Mary Denbigh [885], was born on 14 Jun 1770 in Norfolk VA and died on 20 Nov 1841 in Pierce City, (Barry) MO at age 71.

Edward married Nancy Ann Hassell [867] [MRIN: 797] on 10 Jan 1793 in NC Tyrrell County.

Children from this marriage were:

i. Matilda Wormington [872] was born on 31 Dec 1793 in Hyde Co NC, died on 9 Feb 1854 in Lawrence Co MO at age 60, and was buried in Lawrence Co MO.

ii. Samuel Denbigh Wormington [874] was born on 30 Jun 1799 in Hyde Co NC and died after 1860 in MA Attala Co.

iii. John Hassel Wormington [875] was born on 9 Feb 1801 in Hyde Co NC and died on 7 Jan 1861 in Lawrence Co MO at age 59.

iv. Mr. Asa Hassell Wormington [876] was born on 16 Jun 1803 in Sumner Co TN, died on 28 Mar 1875 in Monett (Barry) MO at age 71, and was buried in Monett (Barry) New Site Cemetery.

58 v. Abraham Wesley Wormington Tn [851]

vi. Mary Denbigh Wormington [877] was born on 7 Jan 1807 in TN.

vii. Fletcher G. Wormington [878] was born on 7 Jan 1809 in Sumner Co TN and died on 9 Feb 1839 in Barry Co MO at age 30.

viii. Robert Edward Wormington [880] was born on 25 Jan 1812 in Sumner Co TN and died on 1 Jan 1896 in Lawrence Co MO at age 83.

ix. Nancy Jenett Wormington [882] was born on 23 May 1814 in Sumner Co TN.

x. Jesse William Della Wormington [883] was born on 12 Dec 1818 in Sumner Co TN and died before 1870 in Newton Co MO.

117. Nancy Ann Hassell [867], daughter of John Hassell [870] and Ann Jennett [871], was born in 1775¹⁶⁴ and died in 1857¹⁶⁴ at age 82.

Nancy married Edward Wormington [866] [MRIN: 797] on 10 Jan 1793 in NC Tyrrell County.

118. Edmund Turpin Nc [3686],¹⁶⁷ son of Thomas Turpin [3688] and Averilla Lewis Va [3689], was born in 1750 in NC Bute and died in 1848 in TN Sumner¹⁶⁷ at age 98.

Birth: 1767, VA Amelia County.¹⁶⁸

Census: 1830, TN Sumner. 012010001 0012101 Household #2128

Edmund married Charity McBride Nc Maybe [3687]¹⁶⁷ [MRIN: 1456] on 26 May 1804 in TN Sumner.

The child from this marriage was:

59 i. Martha Turpin Tn Sumner County [852]

119. Charity McBride Nc Maybe [3687],¹⁶⁷ daughter of Hugh McBridge or McBride unproven f/o Charity [7722] and Unknown, was born circa 1780 in NC Maybe.

Charity married Edmund Turpin Nc [3686]¹⁶⁷ [MRIN: 1456] on 26 May 1804 in TN Sumner.

120. Our Tavener Lewis [9454], son of Our William Lewis RWS [6919] and Mourning Van Pelt [6920], was born in 1780 in SC Marion County, was christened in 1820 in MS Pike County, and died in 1837 in MS Copiah¹⁶⁹ at age 57. Other names for Tavener were Tabner, Tavner and Tavener (Tavener is a surname not an occupation), Tavner.

Passport: 1802, GA.¹⁷⁰ TABNER LEWIS with wife and one child having one horse in his property; having permission to travel through that part of the Cherokee Nation between this post and Jackson County, GA taking care to make no infraction of the law regulating intercourse with the Indian Tribes.

Southwest Port 7/5/1802 R. J. Meigs, War Agent in TN

Land Lottery: 1802, GA. IAbraham Lewis (1)

Anthony Lewis [orphans of] (1)

Archibald Lewis (1)

Benjamin Lewis (1)

Britton Lewis (1)

Chrispr. Lewis (1)

Daniel Lewis (2)

David Lewis (3)

Eli Lewis [/Eleazer/] (1)

Eliza Lewis [orphan] (1)

Fields Lewis (1)

Francis Lewis Junr. (1)

Francis Lewis Senr. (1)

Gale Lewis (1)

George Lewis (2)

Hamlin Lewis (1)

Hannah & John Lewis [orphans of] (1)

Henry Lewis (1)

saac Lewis (2)

Jacob Lewis (2)

Jacob Lewis Junr. (1)

Jacob Lewis Senr. (1)

James Lewis (3)

Jeremiah Lewis (1)

Jesse Lewis (2)

John Lewis (6)

John Lewis [son of Chrispr. Lewis] (1)

John Lewis Junr. (3)

John Lewis Senr. (2)

Jonathan Lewis (1)

Joseph Lewis (1)

Josiah Lewis (1)

Mathew Lewis (1)

Nicholas Lewis (1)

Pearce Lewis (1)

Peter Lewis (1)

Richard Lewis (3)

Richard Lewis Senr. (1)

Samuel Lewis (2)

Sherrod Lewis (1)

Sterling Lewis (1)

Tavner Lewis (1)

Thomas Lewis (1)

Thomas Lewis Junr. (1)

Walden Lewis (1)

Walker Lewis (1)

Warren Lewis [orphans of] (1)

William Lewis (3)

John Lewiss (1)

Philip Lewiss Senr. (

Census: 1816, MA Amite. Tavner Lewis- also a Benj and a Nezzar Lewis

Census: 1820, MS Pike County.¹⁷¹ Tavner Lewis

Census: 1830. NOT in Copiah!

Census: 1860, Wood County TX.¹ One Tavener Lewis was censused in Wood COunty TX 1860:

b 1825 AL

wife, Lucinda, b 1826 AL

dtrs Sarah, b AL

Mary J, b AL

and Rebecca, b TX

Tavener married Cynthia Moseley [9455]¹⁷² [MRIN: 4060], daughter of Moseley [18197] and Unknown, in 1812 in GA.¹⁶⁹

Children from this marriage were:

i. Britton Lewis [10245] died after 1820 in MS Pike maybe.

ii. John Washington Lewis [18180] was born in 1810.

iii. Edward A Lewis [18181] was born after 1802.

iv. Alfred E Lewis [22139] was born after 1795.

v. Walden B Lewis [22140] was born after 1810.

Tavener next married Branham or Walden maybe [18198] [MRIN: 7628] before 1802 in TN or GA maybe.

Children from this marriage were:

60 i. Our William Lewis [3691]

ii. Walden B Lewis [6917] was born in 1814 in MS, died in 1859 in MS Simpson County¹⁷³ at age 45, and was buried in Rocky Creek Cemetery.¹⁷³

iii. Alfred Lewis [18179] was born in 1800 in GA,¹⁷⁴ was christened in 1847 in MS HInds, and died in 1852 in MS¹⁷⁴ at age 52.

iv. John Anderson Lewis [21706] was born in 1802 in MS Copiah.

v. Washington Lewis [21707] was born in 1806 in MS Copiah.

vi. Edward A Lewis [21708] was born in 1814 in MS Copiah.¹⁷⁵

Tavener next married someone.

His child was:

i. MS Pike County Lewis [21695] was christened in 1850 in MS Pike Census.

121. Branham or Walden maybe [18198], daughter of Tavener Walden Unproven Link [21709] and Unknown, was born circa 1787.¹⁶⁹

Branham or Walden maybe married Our Tavener Lewis [9454] [MRIN: 7628] before 1802 in TN or GA maybe.

124. William S Stennett War of 1812 [4010], son of Benjamin H Stinnett [8639] and Our Usle Isham [8640], was born in 1762 in VA Franklin County maybe¹⁷⁶ and died after 1810 in VA Amherst maybe.

General Notes: first son

Fact. This has to be our line of the Stinnetts because of the Letha/Lethes. So, our Letha Stinnett would be the

grandaughter of Wm S and Lethe. Which son was her father I do not know. Don Giddens-2003.

Tax List: 1788, VA Franklin County. if same person.

James, John, William Stinnett.

William married Letha Hightower "Lethe" [4011]¹⁷⁶ [MRIN: 1598] circa 1786.

Children from this marriage were:

62 i. William Hightower Stennett War of 1812 [3690]

ii. Benjamin Stennett [9536] was born circa 1800 and died after 1810 in VA Amherst maybe.

iii. Charles Stennett [9537] died after 1810 in VA Amherst maybe.

iv. John Stennett [9538] died after 1785 in VA Amherst maybe.

125. Letha Hightower "Lethe" [4011],¹⁷⁶ daughter of Hightower [18234] and Unknown, was born circa 1762 in VA.

General Notes: HIGHTOWER? Last name just a wild guess by Don Giddens 2004

Note.¹ The only reason I have these Stinnetts here is that we were reported to be descendants of a Thomas or Stephen LEWIS and a Letha STINNETT.

This Stinnett line has Lethas but I have yet to find out where our's might fit in. If anyone knows or has any idea all of our Lewis-Stinnett descendants would like to know.

Our Letha and Stephen or Thomas Lewis of MS both died during the Civil War leaving their children orphans.

Don Giddens 2003

Letha married William S Stennett War of 1812 [4010] [MRIN: 1598] circa 1786.

126. Bynum of Bahamas [9512] was born circa 1765.

Bynum married someone.

His child was:

63 i. Elizabeth Bynum Of Bahamas [3694]

Eighth Generation (5th Great-Grandparents)

128. Ir NC Richard 1713 Giddens [7479],² son of Nc Surry County Giddens [15931] and Unknown, was born circa 1713 in Ireland, County Cork maybe¹⁷⁷ and died in 1783 in NC Surry County at age 70.

Census: 1784, NC Surry County. Captain Humphries District

WM 21-60 none

WM under 21 or over 60- two

WF all ages two

Blacks- 5

I.E. Perhaps Richard was over sixty, because

few of these Giddens had any slaves.

Court Records: 15 Nov 1785, NC Surry County. Suit for slander by Richard Giddens and wife against

David Humphries. (Humphries District?)

Giddenses found guilty.

Court Records: 20 Nov 1787, NC Surry County. A gift from Richard Gittons to wife Margaret in behalf of her dowry

three Negroes Betty, Nelson, and Roard,

feather bed and furniture.

Was that to pay for the slander conviction?

12/10/1790 Grant of 300 acres to Solomon Humphries

adjoining Richard Gittens on the Tarrant River.

Richard married Margaret "Polly" Barr [17861]¹⁷⁸ [MRIN: 3221] before 1738 in PA Delaware County, Chester.¹⁷⁹

Children from this marriage were:

i. NC Surry Richard 1738 Gittins Giddens [7480] was born circa 1738, was christened in 1790 in NC Surry County, and died before 1800 in NC Surry County maybe.

ii. Nc Surry Va Louisa Giddens [100] was born circa 1730 and died before 1800 in NC Surry County maybe.

iii. NC Surry John 1740 Gittins Giddens s/o Richard [8649] was born circa 1740 in Age Approximated By Formula,¹¹⁵ was christened in 1790 in NC Surry County census, and died in 1801 in NC Will at age 61. Another name for John was Gittens.

iv. NC NC Edward 1742 Giddens Burke Nc [12534] was born in 1742 in NC Burke County, John's River¹⁸⁰ and died in 1810 in NC Burke County, John's River¹⁸⁰ at age 68.

v. Francis 1753 Gideon Giddens of Wilkes [7450] was born on 31 Jul 1753 in VA¹⁸¹ and died in 1819 in GA Wilkes County³³ at age 66.

64 vi. NC TN James 1749 Isham Giddens Constable [109]

vii. Reuben Giddens s/o Richard maybe [13276] was born circa 1750 in VA and died in 1775 in VA Accomack County at age 25.

viii. NC Joseph 1745 s/o Richard Giddens Constable [12531] was born circa 1745 and was christened in 1789 in NC Surry County.

ix. VA GA William 1753 Gideon Giddens PVT Indian Wars [7481] was born circa 1753 in VA and died on 1 Apr 1796 in GA Jackson County at age 43.

129. Margaret "Polly" Barr [17861]¹⁷⁸ was born in 1726 in PA Delaware County Maybe¹⁸³ and died on 19 Jun 1816 in NC Surry County at age 90.

Death: 19 Jun 1816, NC Stokes County. Records of the Moravians in NC

Many years ago Brother Hauser took the widow Giddens in.

Today she died at the age of 90.

Will: 1826, NC Stokes County. To Robert Mitchell (Note Mitchell Giddens later in history)

550 acres in Surry County

ten shillings

and all my slaves.

Margaret married Ir NC Richard 1713 Giddens [7479]² [MRIN: 3221] before 1738 in PA Delaware County, Chester.¹⁷⁹

130. Mills [15932] .²

Mills married someone.

His child was:

65 i. Martha Mills "Patty" [12462]

136. Archibald Paul Jr [5489], son of Archibald Paul Northern Ireland [3653] and Agnes [3925], was born circa 1750 in SC Edgefield probably.

Census: 1810, SC Fairfield District.

Archibald married someone.

His children were:

i. Grandson Of Archibald Paul Unproven [3920] was born circa 1775 in SC Edgefield probably.

68 ii. William Paul [22462]

140. James Russell unproven DG 2004 [5861] was born in 1741 in Northern Ireland¹⁸⁴ and died in 1805 in SC Winnsboro¹⁸⁴ at age 64.

James married someone.

His child was:

70 i. James Russell Jr [3948]

James next married someone.

His child was:

i. Russell [3968]

142. Archibald Paul Northern Ireland [3653], son of John Paul [3934] and Margaret Jane Lynn? [3941], was born in 1727 in Ireland, Kinbally, County Antrim Maybe, died in 1802 in SC Fairfield, Camden at age 75, and was buried in Old Lebanon Presb Church Cem Near Winnsboro.

Estate Sale. Estate Sale of John Paul, Deceased 1801

Value

Surname First Name Bought Lbs

Paul Widow Spinning wheel 4

Paul do Check reel 2

Paul do Wheel of swifts 2

Kincaid Alex a qty of wool 3

Paul Widow a qty of tobacco 2

Calhoun Alex 1 bb of powder 4

Montgomery Hugh do 4

Rabb William do 4

Paul Archy do 4

Boyd Da.v do 4

Montgomery Hugh 1 cag and powder 8

Smith Robert carpenter's tools 3

Paul Archy do 7

Halthorn Adam 1 handsaw 14

Paul William sm box of

Religion. Presbyterian

Religion: 1766, Northern Ireland. Religious census

Dissenters: of County Antrim

James Paul, Armagh, Londonderry,

Joseph Paul, Armagh, Londonderry

Robert Russell, County Wicklow, Protestant

Immigrated: 1768.¹⁸⁵ from Ireland

"poor Protestant immigrants"

Census: 1790, SC Camden District. SC Camden District Census 21200

Archibald and James Paul.

Census: 1800, SC Fairfield District.

Will: 1802, SC Fairfield District.

Archibald married Agnes [3925]¹⁸⁶ [MRIN: 1439] circa 1748 in Northern Ireland maybe.

Children from this marriage were:

136 i. Archibald Paul Jr [5489]

ii. Mary Paul [3963]

iii. Belle Paul Russell [3967]

iv. James Paul [3958] was born in 1758 in Ireland¹⁸⁵ and died in 1798 in SC Fairfield District at age 40.

v. Sarah Paul Robinson [3959] was born in 1760 in Ireland¹⁸⁵ and died after 1830 in SC Fairfield District.

71 vi. Elizabeth Paul [3960]

vii. Martha Paul Robinson [3961] was born in 1764 in Ireland¹⁸⁵ and died in 1839 in SC Fairfield County, Camden at age 75.

viii. William Paul [3962] was born in 1766 in Northern Ireland and died after 1823 in SC Fairfield District.

84 ix. Moses F Paul Sc [3651]

x. John Paul [22512]

xi. Margaret Paul Russell [22513]

Archibald next married Margaret Jane Lynn? [3941] [MRIN: 2103].

Archibald next married someone.

His children were:

71 i. Elizabeth Paul [3960]

ii. Margaret Paul [7998]

143. Agnes [3925]¹⁸⁶ was born in 1729 in Ireland and died after 1820 in SC Fairfield District.

Census: 1820, SC Fairfield District. near many Gladneys and Robinsons

Agnes married Archibald Paul Northern Ireland [3653] [MRIN: 1439] circa 1748 in Northern Ireland maybe.

144. Andrew Mayes Northern Ireland [3631], son of James Mayes [5691] and Unknown, was born in 1698 in Germany¹⁸⁷ and died in 1754 in PA Lancaster County at age 56.

Immigrated: 1729, Rotterdam, The Netherlands.¹⁸⁸ Andrew Mayes arrived at the Port of Philadelphia in August of 1729 . He came to the United States on the ship Mortonhouse which sailed from Rotterdam and later England. He is listed on the loyalty oath as Andrew Mayes, and on the log as Andrew Mys. A Scotch/Irishman might say Me niam is Mys. He settled with his father and brothers in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania.

Fact: 1766, Northern Ireland. No Mayes found during the religious survey.

Fact: : Germany-Philadelphia. A List of Palatinate Passengers, Imported into Philadelphia in the Ship Mortonhouse, James Coultas, Commander, from Rotterdam. Aug.st 17th 1729

This database contains the original lists of German pioneers who arrived at the port of Philadelphia from the years 1727 to 1808. These lists of early arrivals in Pennsylvania are significant because in none of the other ports of the American colonies, through which German settlers entered, were such lists prepared or preserved. In Philadelphia alone did the authorities insist on the preparation of careful and detailed lists of arrivals. About three hundred family associations, tracking their ancestry to these pioneers, meet annually in Pennsylvania.

Andrew Mayes is on THIS list.

Andrew married Rebecca McFarland Northern Ireland [3632] [MRIN: 1427].

The child from this marriage was:

72 i. James Mayes Northern Ireland [3629]

145. Rebecca McFarland Northern Ireland [3632], daughter of Robert B McFarland [5692] and Jennett [5693], was born circa 1698 in Northern Ireland, County Tyrone, Armagh maybe and died in PA Lancaster Probably.

Rebecca married Andrew Mayes Northern Ireland [3631] [MRIN: 1427].

146. James McElevean or McElwain of PA [3641], son of Andrew McIlvaine [3642] and Elizabeth Swan [5675], was born in 1713 in PA and died in 1807 in SC Union District at age 94. Another name for James was McElevean.

Jury List: 1779, SC. Spartan Division

James Mayes* James Mekelvain* Andrew Mayes*

*our kin

Will: 1811, SC Sumter.¹²² Series: S108093

Reel: 0027

Frame: 00293

Item: 000

Date: 8/1/1811

Description: MCELEVEAN, JAMES OF UNION DISTRICT, WILL TYPESCRIPT (MSS WILL: BOOK A, PAGE 265; ESTATE PACKET: BOX 6, PKG 30) (2 FRAMES).

Names indexed: ARCHIBALD, SAMUEL; LEATH (SLAVE); MAYES, JAMES JR.; MCELEVEAN, ANTHONY; MCELEVEAN, JAMES; MCELEVEAN, MARY; MCELVEAN, SALLY; MEANS, HUGH; PATTON, THOMAS; SIMPSON, W. O.; SMITH, JOSHUA; STORY, JEAN

Locations: SUMTER DISTRICT

Document type: WILL (TYPESCRIPT)

Topics: SLAVES, NAMED

James married Jane Storey [10191] [MRIN: 1432].

Children from this marriage were:

73 i. Jane or Jean McElwain of Pa [3630]

ii. Anthony McElwain [22332]

iii. Mary McElwain [22333]

iv. Sally McElwain [22334]

147. Jane Storey [10191], daughter of Anthony 1700 Storey [10192] and Unknown, was born circa 1732 in PA York County.¹⁸⁹

Jane married James McElevean or McElwain of PA [3641] [MRIN: 1432].

148. James Otterson [3634], son of John Otterson [22331] and Unknown, was born circa 1720 in VA Or PA Lancaster and died circa 1768 in SC Union at age 48.

Land: 1762, SC Colleton District. Series: S372001

Volume: 02Y0

Page: 00349

Item: 000

Date: 1762

Description: SOUTHER, MATHIAS AND WIFE TO JAMES OTTERSON, LEASE AND RELEASE FOR 200 ACRES OF LAND IN BERKLY COUNTY.

Names indexed: OTTERSON, JAMES; SOUTHER, MATHIAS

Locations: BERKELEY COUNTY

Document type: LEASE AND RELEASE

Topics:

Memorial: 4 May 176, NC Anson (Fayette) County. Series: S111001

Volume: 0006

Page: 00435

Item: 001

Date: 5/4/1765

Description: OTTERSON, JAMES, MEMORIAL FOR 260 ACRES ON TYGER RIVER, ANSON COUNTY, N.C.

Names indexed: OTTERSON, JAMES; ROWAN, MATHEW

Locations: ANSON COUNTY, N.C.; FAIR FOREST CREEK; NORTH CAROLINA; TYGER RIVER

Document type: MEMORIAL

Topics:

Land: 1767, NC Craven.

Series: S213184

Volume: 0009

Page: 00027

Item: 02

Date: 1/21/1767

Description: OTTERSON, JAMES, PLAT FOR 250 ACRES IN CRAVEN COUNTY.

Names indexed: OTTERSON, JAMES; TROUP, JOHN; WOFFORD, WILLIAM

Locations: CRAVEN COUNTY; SANTEE RIVER; TYGER RIVER

Document type: PLAT

Topics:

Series: S111001

Volume: 0009

Page: 00319

Item: 001

Date: 9/12/1767

Description: OTTERSON, JAMES, MEMORIAL FOR 250 ACRES ON GREAT PEE DEE RIVER, CRAVEN COUNTY.

Names indexed: OTTERSON, JAMES; WILLIAMS, ROBERT

Locations: CRAVEN COUNTY; GREAT PEE DEE RIVER

Document type: MEMORIAL

James married Rebecca James [3635] [MRIN: 1429].

The child from this marriage was:

74 i. Major Samuel P. Otterson Rws [3633]

149. Rebecca James [3635] was born circa 1720.

Rebecca married James Otterson [3634] [MRIN: 1429].

150. Thomas Gordon Va [3637], son of John Gordon [3639] and Ruth [3640], was born circa 1733 in VA Prince William County and died circa 1809 at age 76.

Census: 1800, SC Newberry. a WM Gorden was censused p 12, 16, 30

and a Thomas p 100

Memorial: 24 Mar 1766, NC Anson (Fayette) County.¹²² Series: S111001

Volume: 0009

Page: 00036

Item: 001

Date: 3/24/1766

Description: GORDON, THOMAS, MEMORIAL FOR TWO TRACTS IN ANSON COUNTY, N.C., ONE FOR 300 ACRES SUMMARIZING A CHAIN OF TITLE TO A GRANT TO JOHN GORDON OF AUG. 30, 1753 AND ONE FOR 300 ACRES SUMMARIZING A CHAIN OF TITLE TO A GRANT TO BENJAMIN GORDON OF FEB. 23, 1754.

Names indexed: GORDON, BENJAMIN; GORDON, JOHN; GORDON, THOMAS; OTTERSON, JAMES; ROWAN, MATTHEW

Locations: ANSON COUNTY, N.C.; BEAVER DAM CREEK; BERKELEY COUNTY; ENOREE RIVER; NORTH CAROLINA; ROCKY CREEK; TYGER RIVER

Document type: MEMORIAL

Topics:

Thomas married Elizabeth Anderson [3638] [MRIN: 1430].

The child from this marriage was:

75 i. Ruth Gordon [3636]

151. Elizabeth Anderson [3638] was born circa 1735.

Elizabeth married Thomas Gordon Va [3637] [MRIN: 1430].

152. John or Jean Bouchillon [3601], son of CAPT Joseph Bouchillon RWS [3603] and Maria Majinett a French Huguenot [3604], was born in 1751 in France, Bordeaux maybe and died in 1789 in SC Abbeville, Hillsborough at age 38.

Land: : SC Abbeville. above French Mill on Little River at the mouth of Mill Creek

John married Mary Ann LeRoy a French Huguenot [3602] [MRIN: 1409] in 1773 in SC Bordeaux, Mccormick.

Children from this marriage were:

76 i. Joseph James Bouchillon Sc Bordeaux District [3599]

ii. Elizabeth Bouchillon [22505]

iii. John s/o John Bouchillon [22506]

153. Mary Ann LeRoy a French Huguenot [3602], daughter of Peter Michael LeRoy IMMIGRANT [8070] and Mary LaBraun [8071], was born in 1756 in France, died in 1839 in SC Abbeville Probably at age 83, and was buried in Willington, SC.

Census: 1790, SC Old 96Th, Abbeville. 02201

next door to her father-in-law, Joseph.

Mary married John or Jean Bouchillon [3601] [MRIN: 1409] in 1773 in SC Bordeaux, Mccormick.

154. SGT RWS Andres Guillebeau a French Huguenot [3605] was born on 18 Aug 1738 in France, Bordeaux, died on 12 Sep 1814 in SC Abbeville District, Bordeaux, McCormick County at age 76, and was buried in Hickory Knob State Park.

Census: 1790, SC Old 96Th, Abbeville. p 60

near our Bouchillons and a David surname

Andres Gillibo (Guillebeau) 20200

House: : 2008. http://www.nationalregister.sc.gov/mccormick/S10817733002/index.htm

Pictures of Andres Guillebeau's house and tombstone in Hickory Knob State Park

Note: 2008, Hickory Knob State Park. The Guillebeau House is a good example of Southern eighteenth-century pioneer construction. Built on the double pen house plan developed extensively in the South, the house has one exterior chimney and two front entrances. The shed roof porch across the front, originally open, has been enclosed at either end to provide additional rooms. The walls are constructed of hand-hewn logs with mortise and tenon joints with filling between the logs. French Huguenot settler Andre Guillebeau (1739-1814) built this house shortly after his arrival at New Bordeaux, an upcountry Huguenot settlement, in August 1764. He served in the American militia under Captain Joseph Bouchilon during the American Revolution. The house was subsequently owned by Andre's son Peter (1769-1854) and then by Peter's son Peter (1812-1891). According to Peter's will there was a 400-acre tract surrounding the house. The family cemetery is included in the nominated acreage. The house was moved to Hickory Knob State Park ca. 1983. Listed in the National Register March 7, 1973.

View the complete text of the nomination form <.. for this National Register property.

Immigrated: 1764, New Bordeaux, SC.

Andres married Mary Jane Roquemore a French Huguenot [3606] [MRIN: 1411].

Children from this marriage were:

77 i. Susannah Guillebeau Sc Bordeaux District [3600]

ii. James Guilbeau or Guillebeau [22488]

iii. Peter or Pierre Guillebeau [22491] was born circa 1765 and died after 1852 in SC Abbeville.

155. Mary Jane Roquemore a French Huguenot [3606], daughter of Vincent Gaspar Pierre Du Roquemore [3607] and Suzanne LaFon [8074], was born in 1745 in France, died in 1820 in SC Willington, Abbeville District at age 75, and was buried in Hickory Knob State Park?.

Mary married SGT RWS Andres Guillebeau a French Huguenot [3605] [MRIN: 1411].

156. Samuel Doolittle IV Sc [3610], son of Samuel Joseph Doolittle III Ct Yankee [3612] and Experience Bartlett Ct Yankee [3613], was born in 1740 in Martintown, SC Edgefield District, died in 1800 in SC Edgefield District at age 60, and was buried in Dry Creek Cemetery.

Samuel married Nancy Waddy Sc [3611] [MRIN: 1414] in 1770.

Children from this marriage were:

78 i. Samuel Doolittle V [3608]

ii. Benjamin Doolittle [22364]

iii. Sarah Doolittle Adams [22365]

iv. Betsey Doolittle Sullivan [22367]

v. Nancy Doolittle [22369]

vi. Amia Doolittle [22370]

157. Nancy Waddy Sc [3611] was born in 1745 in SC Edgefield District and died in 1828 in SC Edgefield District at age 83.

Nancy married Samuel Doolittle IV Sc [3610] [MRIN: 1414] in 1770.

158. Doctor Roger Mackerness Williams [4476],¹⁹⁰ son of Luke Williams [4503] and Katherine Barber [4527], was born in 1764 in VA Richmond County¹⁹¹ and died on 13 Jan 1837 in SC Edgefield will probated at age 73.

Biographical note: 1992, SC Magazine of Ancestral Research. The South Carolina Magazine of Ancestral Research

SCMAR, Volume XX

Number 3, Summer, 1992

Requests for Information

SCMAR, Vol. XX, Summer 1992, No. 3, p.177

WILLIAMS-ANTONY-PACE-MIZE. Charlene Self Epps (Route 5, Box 727, Boone, NC 28607) submits the following query. Butler Williams b. c1805 in SC, married in 1830, Mary “Polly” Antony in GA. In 1860 he was in Paulding Co., GA, Household 41/41 with his wife Polly and children Butler b. 23 Oct 1842, Cynthia 17, Henry 15, Willoughby 8, Johnson 5, and Louisa 3. Butler Williams, Jr., m. 1st Maiden Rebecca Pace (dau. of William W. and Harriet ? Pace). Their children were Drucilla, Alma, Catherine Eliza b. 29 July 1865, and Butler Lafayette, b. 1868. Shortly after the Civil War, Butler and Rebecca moved to St. Clair Co., AL., and with them moved Butler's brothers Johnson, Willoughby, and Henry, along with Rebecca's father William W. Pace and his new wife Angeline Parks. Rebecca died in childbirth c1870 and Butler m. 2nd Emily Mize. Butler Williams, Jr., told a daughter-in-law, that his father was a doctor in Georgia and, incidentally, had red hair. I have not been able as yet to confirm that he was a doctor. I have a will of Roger M. Williams dated 14 Nov 1828, recorded 13 Jan 1837 Edgefield District, SC. He named his wife Mary and children Sterling C. Williams, Mackerness G. Williams, Pooly Doolittle, Butler Williams, Betsey Gardner, and Caty Morgan. He appointed his wife Mary and sons Mackerness G. and Butler Williams as executors. Has anyone researched this family? I hope that there is a connection with Roger and Butler Williams, but I am not sure.

Biographical note: : SC. Roger M. Williams (deceased) heirs of, SC Edgefield-

Rev. War rejected pensions- proof of service

Will: : Edgefield District, SC. Volume 1 1836-1853

Roger M WIlliams

Page 22

Box 32

Package 1143

Fact: : Richmond County, VA. formed from Old Rappahannock

Physical note. red headed

Roger married Catherine Read Quarles Mary [4477]⁸² [MRIN: 1804].

Children from this marriage were:

79 i. Mary Polly Williams kin to Rev. Roger [3609]

ii. Sterling C Williams [7103] was born circa 1782 and died after 1837.

iii. Mackerness G Williams [7104] was born circa 1784 and died after 1837.

iv. Butler Williams [7105] was born circa 1786 and died after 1837.

v. Betsey Williams [7106] was born circa 1788 and died after 1837.

vi. Katy Williams Caty [7107] was born circa 1790 and died after 1837.

159. Catherine Read Quarles Mary [4477],⁸² daughter of James Quarles [4478] and Catherine Read [4479], was born circa 1760 and died after 1837.

Catherine married Doctor Roger Mackerness Williams [4476]¹⁹⁰ [MRIN: 1804].

160. Marcus 1747 Gilliam [19559],¹⁹² son of Walter Gilliam [18653] and Sarah Bolling desc of Pocahontas [20772], was born circa 1747 in VA Southampton Maybe and died circa 1817 in NC Franklin County at age 70.

Residence. Sussex, Bute, Warren, and Franklin County in sucession

Census: 1790, NC Franklin. 12400

Sold land: 1791, NC Franklin County. to a Leonard

Court: 1798, NC Franklin County. 211) 45 Guardian account or orphans of Lewis HILL dec'd. by Richd. HILL guardian. Covers 1797, 1798. Persons mentioned: Green HILL, John HALL, Richard HILL, Gilliam WATKINS, Thomas BASS, Athelston ANDREWS, Henry HILL, Robert COOPER, John JOHNSTON, James HUNT, Oran BASS, Lewis WEBB, Solomon HARRIS, John FOSTER, Micajah WELLS, Parker MURFREE, Frederick LEONARD, Sr., William KIRBY, Gray ANDREWS, Stephen GUPTON, William BRIDGES, David SEARS, Frederick DAVIS, Thomas STOKES, John WELLS, James DAVIS, Henry COLLINS, William GILLIAM, William MORRISS, Henry COLLINS, John WATKINS, Theophilus BASS, Marcus GILLIAM, Averit HIDE, William Clanton HILL. Examined March 15, 1798 by James GRAY, Thomas BRICKELL.

Census: 1800, NC Franklin. 00001-01011-02

Estate Sale: Mar 1804, NC Franklin County. (4) Sale of estate of Arthur Murphrey dec'd. Buyers were James Westray, Jeremiah Dossey, Parker Murphrey, Henry Wood, Robt. Cogging, John Pearce, James Upchurch, Wm. Collins, Simon Westray, Jos. Brantley, James Collins Sr., Wm. Coppage, Drury Gilliam, Edmd. Fowler, James Davis, Mills Robbins, Van Leonard, Dixon Collins, Henry Collins, Stephen Gupton Jr., Reuben Casson, James Davis, Salley Wood, John Pierce, Tytus Edwards, Gilliam Watkins, William Gilliam, John Leonard Jr., Daniel Westray, John Cooper, John Leonard, Rachel Richardson, Benja. Stuart, Marchus Gilliam. Signed by Parker Murphrey and William Collins. March Court, 1804.

Estate of: 1817, NC Franklin County. Ordered that administration on the estate of Marcus Gilliam deceased, be granted to Drury Gilliam, who entered into Bond in the sum of $1000 with Parker Murphy, William Leonard and Isaac Gupton his Securities,

Marcus married Frances Steward Fanny [18972]¹⁹³ [MRIN: 7924] before 1767 in VA Sussex County.⁷⁵

Children from this marriage were:

i. Drury Gilliam [3367] was born in 1769 in Albemarle, Sussex, VA?⁷⁵ and was christened Lived 1804 in Franklin County, NC.¹⁹⁴

ii. William Gilliam [2639] was born in 1771.⁷⁵

80 iii. Nathaniel 1767 Mason? Gilliam [19517]

iv. Drury 1769 Gilliam [19124] was born on 1 Oct 1769 in VA Albemarle⁷⁵ and died after 1830 in NC Franklin Maybe.

v. William 1771 Gilliam [19558] was born on 1 Oct 1771.⁷⁵

vi. Anne Gilliam [19834] was born on 13 Mar 1773 in VA Albemarle.⁷⁵

vii. Mary "Polly" Gilliam [19835] was born on 19 Jun 1775 in VA Albemarle.⁷⁵

Marcus next married someone.

His child was:

i. Marcus 1784 Desc Of Marcus Gilliam [18973] was born in 1784¹⁹⁵ and died after 1850 in NC Franklin Maybe.

161. Frances Steward Fanny [18972],¹⁹³ daughter of William Steward [3974] and Mary Shands [3975], was born circa 1747.

Frances married Marcus 1747 Gilliam [19559]¹⁹² [MRIN: 7924] before 1767 in VA Sussex County.⁷⁵

164. TN Rhea County Davis [9337], son of Johnnathan Davis [9300] and Lucy Gibbs [9301].

TN married someone.

His children were:

82 i. Tn Rhea County Davis Unknown [3682]

ii. Captain Moses Davis War of 1812 [18601] was born circa 1790 and died after 1814 of Rhea County.

iii. NC Buncombe Davis [18605] died after 1800 in NC Buncombe census.

168. Archibald Paul Northern Ireland [3653], son of John Paul [3934] and Margaret Jane Lynn? [3941], was born in 1727 in Ireland, Kinbally, County Antrim Maybe, died in 1802 in SC Fairfield, Camden at age 75, and was buried in Old Lebanon Presb Church Cem Near Winnsboro.

(Duplicate. See Person 142)

169. Agnes [3925]¹⁸⁶ was born in 1729 in Ireland and died after 1820 in SC Fairfield District.

(Duplicate. See Person 143)

170. Pvt. Samuel Gladney Rws [3926], son of Richard Gladney [3928] and Jane Jennett Wilson [3929], was born in 1737 in Ireland, Kinbally, County Antrim,¹⁹⁶ died in 1799 in SC Fairfield County, Winnsboro at age 62, and was buried in Gladney Family Cemetery.¹⁹⁶

Will: 1799, SC.

Notes for Samuel Gladney:

The ship "James & Mary" on which Samuel Gladney was a passenger arrived at Charleston harbor on 31 Dec 1767 from Belfast, Ireland; the "Clerk of the council" boarded the James & Mary on 12 Jan 1768 and administered the oath to "the poor protestants who had lately arrived in her."

During the Revolutionary War, Samuel served with the colonists. When Cornwallis took Winnsboro in 1781 for his headquarters and sent out raiding parties to wipe out resistance, Samuel fought with the Militia, Col Richard Winn's Regt., Capt. Edward Martin's Company. His war record is found in Book U-W page 243, #331, Stub, Entries to Indents for Revolutionary Claims by A. S. Salley, Jr., Secretary to the Historical Comm. of S.C. "To 40 days duty on horseback in Capt. Edward Martin's Co., Col. Richard Winn's Regiment, commencing 16th day Oct. and ending 24th Nov. 1781. March 20th, 1781 To hire of 3 horses impressed into service and returned June 1st, 1781 being 73 days each. To 2 beef cattle supplied Co. Winn's Regiment." Refer: John William Gladney Vol. 7 page 181. First Families of American Institute of American Gen. Chicago, Ill. (above was copied from DAR Applications of Mary Ethel Reedy Westfall and Paula Virginia Norman Jacobson)

Samuel wrote his will, 23 October 1799. It is filed in Fairfield County Wills, Apt. 3, File 105, State Archives of South Carolina. The following is a copy of said will. (Title is: Will of Samuel Gladen)

IN THE NAME OF GOD, AMEN:

I, Samuel Gladen of Fairfield County, State of South Carolina, finding myself weak of body but perfectly sound in Memory and Judgement, Thanks be to God, do therefore make and ordain this my last Will and Testament in the following manner and form.

And first, I leave to my well beloved Wife, Agnes, two cows such as she chooses for herself out of the stock, likewise the use and benefit of the negroe wench Sarah during her widowhood, afterwards said wench and her issue to devolve to and be the property of my two sons, Richard and Hugh, likewise one bedding of clothes likewise to be found in a horse to ride by her two sons, Richard and Hugh, and my well beloved wife is hereby bound and obligated by these presents, to leave at her death all and every part of her personal estate to her two sons, Richard and Hugh, equally.

Secondly, I leave to my son Joseph 10 pounds to be paid by my two sons, Richard and Hugh.

Thirdly, I leave to my son Patrick, five pounds, to say, fifty shillings to himself and fifty to his son, Samuel.

Fourthly, I leave to my son, Thomas, eleven pounds, likewise one hundred acre tract of land to his son, Samuel whereon his Father formerly lived, called Horrell's Land.

Fifthly, I leave to my son James, twenty pounds sterling.

Sixthly, I leave to my daughter, Mary, two cows and calves.

Seventhly, In case my son, Joseph, does not claim or send a lawful power to receive his ten pounds in the space of seven years from the date, it is my will and desire said money be paid to my grandson Samuel, son to Patrick. Eightly, I leave to my sons, Richard and Hugh, to be equally divided between them, quantity and quality considered, Hugh to hold the house I now live in with the land convenient thereto, his Mother to have her conveniences in said house during her widowhood,, and Richard, the other end of said lands as they may be justly divided. And it is my Will and desire that the different legacies already mentioned be paid by my two sons, Richard and Hugh, and to enable them for so doing they are to have and enjoy all and every part of my goods and cattles not already willed away for their benefit and use, likewise all debts due me by any person or persons whatsoever to me indebted, be paid to my said two sons, Richard and Hugh.

And, lastly, I do nominate and appoint my beloved wife, Agnes, and my son, Richard, to be my true and lawful executors, to see this my last Will and Testament executed and it is my desire that James Phillips be aiding and assisting them in the Execution of said Executorship by his Council and Advise when they may think proper at any time to sell for said assistance. And further I do hereby declare this to be my last Will and Testament, revoking and disannulling all former Will or Wills by me hereto fore made whatsoever. Witness my hand and seal this the 23rd day of October in the year of our Lord one thousand seven hundred and ninety-nine and of American Independence the Twenty-third.

Signed, Sealed and delivered Proved 7 March 1800

in presence of: Recorded in Book 3

David Cammoche Pages 3 and 4

James McCrory March 7, 1800

H. Milling Apt. 3, File 105

Burial: : SC Winnsboro.¹⁹⁶ Gladney Cemetery is located 9 miles from Winnsboro, S.C. at the intersection of 321 & 34, which is the 321 bypass at Winnsboro, 34 West to the Lebanon Presbyterian Church, left on 54, Jackson Creek Road (small road south to Jackson creek). The marker is on the right side of the road on a corner of a smaller road. Intersection of 213 is past the road. Return on 54 about 3/4 mile, on the left a stone marker "Gladney Cemetery" by a small dirt road, left on this dirt road and up a small hill, for 1 mile, through a gate and into a pasture. Although the cemetery itself has been deeded to the Gladney Family Association, by Mr. Ed Stevenson the old Gladney land surrounding it belongs to him, he has for years taken such an interest in the cemetery. Not many families are so fortunate. At the end of this small road, turn immediately to the right and follow the fence line around the pasture, the cemetery on the rise of the hill. The stone fence has been taken down, only the stone posts remain and the wire fence is now around the cemetery. The area, it is said, is on a part of Joseph Gladney's land (he was the first Gladney to be sheltered by the land they loved and worked so hard for.

Turning to the left (at the pasture) and following the fence row and across some creeks back into the woods, is the Widow Jane's property. There is a house in Winnsboro containing the stair case that was in Jane's house, also many houses contain some of the boards, Ed Stevenson took some of the boards and nails to put on his barn, so as to preserve some of the original wood from those who helped themselves to the property. Ed said,loggers took the fence out, without permission--the granite slabs of the fence are gone except for some of those on the right side of the fence, laying on the ground.

For additional information on this cemetery, visit the Gladney Family web site

Religion. Presbyterians

Census: 1790, SC Camden District. SC Camden District Census 111200

Samuel married Agnes McCreight [3927]¹⁹⁶ [MRIN: 1556].

Children from this marriage were:

85 i. Margaret Gladney [3652]

ii. Richard Gladney [7110] was born in 1778, died in 1843 at age 65, and was buried in Gladney Family Cemetery.

iii. Hugh Gladney [7111] was born circa 1781.

iv. Joseph Gladney [7112] was born circa 1783.

v. Patrick Gladney [7113] was born in 1762, died in 1835 at age 73, and was buried in Gladney Family Cemetery.

vi. Thomas Gladney [7115] was born circa 1787.

vii. James Gladney [7117] was born circa 1789.

viii. Mary Gladney [7118] was born circa 1791.

ix. Samuel Gladney [22536] was born in 1774, died in 1787 at age 13, and was buried in Gladney Family Cemetery.

171. Agnes McCreight [3927],¹⁹⁶ daughter of William McCreight [3932] and Agnes Smith [3933], was born in 1742 in Ireland, died after 1840 in SC Fairfield, Winnsboro,¹⁹⁶ and was buried in Gladney Family Cemetery.

Agnes married Pvt. Samuel Gladney Rws [3926] [MRIN: 1556].

172. Spencer R Breeding [3656], son of John Breeding Va Maybe [3658] and Mary Short [10095], was born on 9 Oct 1758 in VA Augusta maybe¹⁹⁷ and died on 24 Jun 1835 in VA Russell County at age 76.

Spencer married Elizabeth Finney [3657]¹⁹⁸ [MRIN: 1441] on 5 Sep 1786 in VA Harrisonburg, Rockingham County.¹⁹⁷

Children from this marriage were:

86 i. Bryon Breeding Tn Rhea [3654]

ii. Mary Polly Breeding [10086] was born in 1796 in VA Russell County³⁹ and died in 1870 in KY Letcher County³⁹ at age 74.

iii. George Breeding [10088] was born in 1803 in VA.³⁹

iv. Captain Andrew Breeding [18600]

Spencer next married Hannah Hicks #2 [10096] [MRIN: 4378].

173. Elizabeth Finney [3657],¹⁹⁸ daughter of Corporal MICHAEL Finney [10090] and Catherine Armstrong [10098], was born in 1754 in VA Harrisonburg, AUGUSTA County¹⁹⁸ and died circa 1820 in VA Probably¹⁹⁸ at age 66.

Elizabeth married Spencer R Breeding [3656] [MRIN: 1441] on 5 Sep 1786 in VA Harrisonburg, Rockingham County.¹⁹⁷

174. James Thompson [228],¹⁹⁹ son of John Thompson [230] and Jane Kellogg [231], was born on 12 Apr 1734 in MD St. Mary's and died on 29 Mar 1795 in VA Lee County at age 60.

James married Margaret Cowan [229] [MRIN: 371] in 1764 in VA.

The child from this marriage was:

87 i. Jane Thompson Tn Rhea [3655]

James next married Margaret Cowan [21725]²⁰⁰ [MRIN: 9396] in 1764 in NC Rowan County.²⁰¹

The child from this marriage was:

87 i. Jane Thompson Tn Rhea [3655]

175. Margaret Cowan [229] was born about 1680.

Margaret married James Thompson [228]¹⁹⁹ [MRIN: 371] in 1764 in VA.

Margaret next married John Gass of Lancaster PA [7639] [MRIN: 3317].

The child from this marriage was:

i. John Gass [7636] was born circa 1705.

176. Thomas Holloway RWS [3646],²⁰² son of Bremillion or Bremilan Holloway maybe JOHN [3648] and Martha [5421], was born circa 1747 in VA Henrico County, Richmond maybe and died on 9 Apr 1835 in NC Orange County²⁰² at age 88.

Children.²⁰³ Here are the children of Thomas Holloway, as recorded in HOLLOWAYS OF THE SOUTH. Thomas Holloway, b. ca. 1747;d. 9 apr 1835, Orange Co. NC; m.(1) ______________; m.(2)5 oct 1782, Orange Co, Mrs. Joanna Caine; m.(3)25 aug 1808, Orange Co.,Lydia Bryant. Lydia Bryant was b. ca. 1780, Orange Co.; d. before 1870 Issue by first and second marriages: i.Thomas, Jr. ii. Fanny iii. James H., b. ca. 1814 iv. Bremilion v. Samuel vi. Polly/Mary vii. Lucy viii. David, not traced ix.William x.Elizabeth xi. Nancy Hannah xii. Ann/Joanna, b. Orange Co. xiii. Agatha/Agnes

Issue by third marriage: xiv. John, b. Orange Co.; not traced xv. Williamson Bryant, b. 15 jun 1818, Orange Co. xvi. Sarah, b. Orange Co. xvii. Lydia Caroline, b. Orange Co. xviii. Milly, b. ca. 1826, Orange Co.

Fact. People generally named their first sons after their father:

Thomas 1747 named his first son Bremillion.

Fact: Bef 1725, NC Orange County.²⁰⁴ A Stephen Holloway, son of Robert was born in NC Orange,

Military: 1771, NC Wake County. Joined Capt Lee's unit in the Revolutionary War.

Census: 1779, NC Orange County. a Martha Holloway was censused.

Marriage: 18 Sep 1786, VA York County.²⁰⁵ a Thomas Holloway md an Amey Morris.

Census: 1790, NC Orange County. Holloway households-

Martha, Rich, Thomas,

Major Holloway was in Wake County.

Land: Mar 1810, NC Wake County.²⁰⁶ State of North Carolina: Wake County- Hinton Hudson,

Register of North Carolina in said state do certify that on page 226 of the Register book V. constituting a part of the records of my office, appears a deed made by JOHN HOLLOWAY to THOMAS HOLLOWAY, conveying 34 acres of land lying in said county of Wake, on the waters of Alobey Creek adjoining the lands of said THOMAS HOLLOWAY and others- said deed is dated 2/9/1810 and was registered 3/9/1810. I further certify that by a late fire, many of the records of the record books of my office of earlier dates through 1810, were consumed.

Given under my hand and private seal (having no seal of office) at office in REaleigh, this 21st of March, 1859.

Hinton Hudson.

Census: 1810, NC. 11001 101

Census: 1830, NC Orange County. Thomas Sr.

Will: 18 Nov 1834, NC Orange County.²⁰⁷ The will of Thomas Holloway, dated Nov 18 1834, and proved May 1835: wife Lydia, "my children John, Williamson, Sarah, Lydia Caroline, and Milly Holloway, said daughters all under age," son Bennehan Holloway, children of my son Samuel Holloway, Susannah Whitaker, the heirs of my daughter Polly Woods, daughter Lucy Whitaker, David Holloway, William Holloway, heirs of Elizabeth Trice, Hannah Latta, Ann Farthing, Agatha Harward (married), Thomas Holloway, Sarah Holloway, Fanny Leathers, James Holloway, John Holloway, Williamson Holloway, Lydia Caroline and Milly Holloway. The executors were James Latta, John Leathers, and Williamson Burton; witnesses were Archibald Cain and William Piper.

References

Stevens, Cj. Holloways of the South and Allied Families, 1977. p 127-132.

Orange Co NC Records.

Thomas married Joanne or Johanna Caine [4664]¹²⁷ [MRIN: 1929], daughter of Daniel Caine [17074] and Unknown, on 5 Oct 1782 in NC Orange Witness: Jesse Benton, Bondsman, Robert Abercr.¹²⁷

Children from this marriage were:

i. Ann Joanna Holloway [4687] was born circa 1793 in NC Orange County, maybe.

ii. Agatha Agnes Holloway [4688] was born circa 1786 in NC Orange County, maybe.

Thomas next married Amy Morris [4671] [MRIN: 1936] on 18 Sep 1786 in VA York County.

Children from this marriage were:

i. Fanny Holloway [4678]

ii. Polly Mary Holloway [4681]

iii. Lucy Holloway [4682]

88 iv. Bremillion "Brim" Holloway Nc Orange [2585]

v. Thomas Holloway Jr [4677] was born circa 1775.

vi. David Holloway [4683] was born Est 1776 in If 23 When Married.

vii. Samuel Holloway [4680] was born circa 1781 in NC Orange County.⁸⁸

viii. William Holloway [4684] was born circa 1782 in NC Orange County maybe.

ix. Elizabeth Holloway [4685] was born circa 1788 in NC Orange County.⁴⁰

x. Nancy Hannah Holloway [4686] was born in 1788.⁴⁰

Thomas next married Lydia Bryant Nc [3647] [MRIN: 1436], daughter of Bryant [17073] and Unknown, on 25 Aug 1808 in NC Orange County.²⁰²

Children from this marriage were:

i. Samuel Holloway [7120] was born circa 1810 and died before 1835.

ii. John Holloway [4689] was born circa 1816 in NC Orange County.²⁰³

iii. Williamson Bryant Holloway [4690] was born on 15 Jun 1818 in NC Orange County²⁰³ and died in 1892⁴⁰ at age 74.

iv. Sarah Holloway [4691] was born circa 1822 in NC Orange County.⁸⁸

v. Lydia Caroline Holloway [4692] was born circa 1824 in NC Orange County.⁸⁸

vi. Milly Holloway [4693] was born circa 1826 in NC Orange County.²⁰³

vii. Bennehan Holloway [7119] was born circa 1828.

177. Amy Morris [4671] was born circa 1747 in VA York County Maybe²⁰⁸ and died before 1808 in NC Orange County, maybe.

General Notes: if same Thos Holloway- linked by DLG 2006.

Census: 1779, NC Orange County. a Martha Holloway was censused

Census: 1790, NC Orange County.

Amy married Thomas Holloway RWS [3646]²⁰² [MRIN: 1936] on 18 Sep 1786 in VA York County.

178. NC Orange Proctor Probably [5423], son of NC Warren Proctor Maybe [5430] and Unknown, was born circa 1725.

NC married someone.

His children were:

i. Joseph Proctor Unproven [4676] was born circa 1750.

ii. Richard Proctor [5424] was born in 1760 in NC Warren County and died after 1817 in NC Orange County.²⁰⁹

89 iii. Sarah Proctor Nc Orange [2586]

iv. Martha Proctor [5431] was born Est 1774 in If 23 When Married.

v. Nancy Proctor [5433] was born Est 1801 in If 23 When Married.

vi. Sterling Proctor [5435] was born Est 1802 in If 23 When Married.

180. Colonel William Davidson of NC Orange [7851], son of James Davidson [7857] and Mary Bane [7858], was born on 4 Jan 1761 in NC Orange County/Bladen/Granville/Johnston²¹⁰ and died in 1808 in TN Jefferson County, Dandridge²¹¹ at age 47.

General Notes: unproven

Fact: 1752, NC Orange County. was created from Bladen, Granville, and Johnston Counties.

Tax List: 1790, NC Granville County. There were no Davidsons.

Resided: 1790. Not in Orange, Granville, Bladen, or Johnston, NC.

Tax List: 1790, NC Orange County. there were no Davidsons,

Tax List: 1790, NC Bladen County. There were no Davidsons.

Tax List: 1790, NC Johnston County. There were no Davidsons.

Conjecture: 2004, TX Greenville.⁸⁸ Could this be Gen. William Lee Davidson???

Of course not- he was killed in the Revolutionary War.

Don Giddens

William married someone.

His child was:

90 i. James Davidson of NC Orange [5422]

184. Davis [17078], son of NC Orange County Davis [17077] and Unknown, was born circa 1750.

Davis married someone.

His child was:

92 i. Davis [9606]

188. George Goodridge [6936], son of William Goodridge [6937] and Unknown, was born in 1746²¹² and died in 1802 in VA Albemarle County, Fredericksburg²¹² at age 56.

George married someone.

His child was:

94 i. William Goodridge Unproven [6864]

192. John Cox I [5],²¹³ son of Daniel Cox [5864] and Windley [59], was born in 1705 in NC?²¹⁴ and died in May 1752 in NC Granville County²¹⁵ at age 47.

Court: 3 Jun 1752, Granville, NC.¹²⁶ June 3, 1752- Cox… following orphans of John Cox: John, 18 years old, Beverly, 16 years old, George, 13 years old, Amey , 11 years old all ordered bound out by the Church Wardens, currently living with Wm. Gess

Conjecture: 2006, Greenville, TX. If John Cox, husband of Sarah Beverly, was the son of a Daniel Cox of Craven County, there is a remote possibility that his father or grandfather was Daniel Coxe, son of Daniel Coxe, the Physician to the Queen, and Proprietor of much land in the colonies of New Jersey, and the Carolinas. That Daniel Coxe is said to have lived in Craven County

at the same time.

If it was not for this information, it would seem that William and Catherine Longfield Cox would be the suspects.

-Don Giddens

John married Sarah Beverly [55]²¹⁶ [MRIN: 31] circa 1728.²¹⁷

Children from this marriage were:

i. Isaac Cox Sc Pendleton [54] was born circa 1730, was christened in 1753 in SC Pendleton, NC Land Grant On Cain Creek, and died in SC Pendleton District.

ii. William Cox [56] was born in 1732 in NC Granville County²¹⁵ and died in 1783 in SC Pendleton District Old 96th¹³³ at age 51.

96 iii. John Cox Sc Pendleton [3]

iv. Beverly s/o John Cox [4099] was born in 1736 in NC Granville County and died in 1796 in SC Pendleton District at age 60.

v. George Cox [57] was born in 1739 in NC Granville County.¹³³

vi. Amy Cox [58] was born in 1741 in NC Granville County.⁹¹

vii. William Bolden Cox G'son [17491] was born circa 1758, was christened in 1790 in SC Pendleton District tax list, and died in 1821 in SC Pendleton District at age 63. Ancestral File Number: 10203 1790.

193. Sarah Beverly [55],²¹⁶ daughter of John Beverly [10134] and Margaret Early [4018], was born in 1710 in VA Middlesex County, Christ Church Parish²¹⁴ and died before 1752 in NC Granville County probably.

Sarah married John Cox I [5]²¹³ [MRIN: 31] circa 1728.²¹⁷

194. William Vaughn [1865], son of Virginia Vaughns [5604] and Unknown, was born about 1700 in VA Caroline maybe.²¹⁶

William married Barbary Brewton Bruton [1864]²¹⁶ [MRIN: 853].

Children from this marriage were:

97 i. Elizabeth Vaughn Pendleton Sc [53]

ii. Rev. Joel Vaughn RWS [5605] was born on 14 Feb 1741 in VA Caroline County, died after 1846 in MS Attala County (after age 105),²¹⁸ and was buried in Unmarked Grave.

195. Barbary Brewton Bruton [1864],²¹⁶ daughter of James Bruton Unproven f/o Barbary [5941] and Mary Seward [11464], was born about 1700 in VA Surry County maybe.

Barbary married William Vaughn [1865] [MRIN: 853].

196. David Smith ye sonne of THOS [5982], son of Thomas Smith of Yorkshire [11722] and Unknown, was born in 1674 in England, Gravesend, Kent,¹³⁹ was christened on 24 Sep 1674 in Yorkshire, and died circa 1755 in PA York County¹⁴¹ at age 81.

General Notes: if same David

David married Elizabeth/Mary Stephenson Stevenson [5983]²¹⁹ [MRIN: 2574] on 15 Jan 1700 in England, Wakefield, Yorkshire if same person.⁷⁸

Children from this marriage were:

i. Zerubiah Smith [6045] was born in 1715 in Ireland SC or Scotland and died in TN Maury County.²²⁰

ii. John Smith [6041] was born in 1716 in Ireland.¹³⁷

98 iii. Job Smith [5964]

iv. Aaron Smith [6042] was born circa 1720 in PA Bucks County.²²¹

v. Ebenezer Smith [6043] was born in 1722 in PA York County²²¹ and died in Mar 1775 in GA St. Pauls Parish³⁹ at age 53.

vi. Charles Smith [6044] was born circa 1724 in PA York County maybe.

197. Elizabeth/Mary Stephenson Stevenson [5983]²¹⁹ was born Est 1680 and died Est 1750 in If 70 At Death about age 70.

Elizabeth/Mary married David Smith ye sonne of THOS [5982] [MRIN: 2574] on 15 Jan 1700 in England, Wakefield, Yorkshire if same person.⁷⁸

200. Ambrose Hudgins Daniel Boone's bro-in-law [343], son of William/Ambrose Hudgins [1598] and Sarah Vaughn [5492], was born in 1728 in VA New Kent County²²² and died in 1799 in SC Laurens District at age 71.

General Notes: pentrekin@sprintmail.com has the father of Ambrose as Ambrose.

I had Benjamin; thus, I am putting Ambrose/Benjamin until someone tells me

which.

The Ambrose above was born in PA

pentrekin@sprintmail.comfrom pentrekin@sprintmail.com at Roots-web

The South Carolina Magazine of Ancestral Research

SCMAR, Volume IX

Number 1, Winter, 1981

Laurens County Estate Book A-1 (Continued from Vol. 8, p.145)

The South Carolina Magazine of Ancestral Research

SCMAR, Volume IX

Number 1, Winter, 1981

Laurens County Estate Book A-1 (Continued from Vol. 8, p.145)

SCMAR, Vol. IX, Winter 1981, No. 1, p.47

Pp. 167-168: The property of Stephen Potter decd. sold 31st of May 1797. Purchasers: Jemima Potter, John Potter, William Potter, Ambrose Hudgins,

Alt. Birth: Abt 1730.

Immigration. Three Hudgins Bros. Came To America Fr England. One Stayed In NC, One Went West, And One Moved To TN And Married The Sister Of Daniel Boone (Tennessee Cousins)

Kinship report: 2003, TX Greenville.¹ brother-in-law of Daniel Boone, if Tennessee Cousins

quote is correct, and this is the same Hudgins.

Ambrose married Joannah Foster "Ann" [1536]²²² [MRIN: 470] on 20 Oct 1751 in VA Gloucester County.²²²

Children from this marriage were:

i. John Hudgins [1537] was born in 1738 in Marsh Creek, York, PA and died in 1820 in Laurens, SC at age 82.

ii. Humphrey Hudgins [1472] was born about 1750.

iii. Captain Ambrose Hudgins RWS [990] was born in 1764 and died after 1840 in SC Laurens District pension.

iv. William Hudgins [991] was born about 1754.

v. Margaret Hudgins [1461] was born in 1760.

100 vi. Captain John Phillip Hudgins RWS [342]

vii. Phebe Hudgins [1534] was born about 1764.

viii. Robert Hudgins [1542] was born about 1764.

201. Joannah Foster "Ann" [1536],²²² daughter of Richard Foster [21180] and Unknown, was born circa 1728 in VA Gloucester maybe.

General Notes: pentrekin@sprintmail.com has Joanah?

Somewhere the Hudgins must have married Pughs because there are several with that middle name. I am interjecting one here as a possibility.

Joannah married Ambrose Hudgins Daniel Boone's bro-in-law [343] [MRIN: 470] on 20 Oct 1751 in VA Gloucester County.²²²

202. Rev. Elnathan Davis Baptist [1652],⁹⁶ son of Benjamin 1712 Davis S/O James And Ann [2312] and Barbara Richeson [17826], was born on 9 Nov 1735 in MD Baltimore,²²³ died on 8 Dec 1821 in SC Pickens at age 86, and was buried in Griffin Baptist Church.

Conversion: 1757, NC.²²⁴ Elnathan Davis had heard that one John Steward was to be baptized such a day, by Mr. Stearns. Now this Steward being a very large man, and Stearns of small stature, he concluded there would be some diversion if not drowning; therefore he gathered about eight or ten of his companions in wickedness, and went to the spot. Mr. Stearns came, and began to preach. Elnathan went to hear him, while his companions stood at a distance. He was no sooner among the crowd that he perceived some of the people tremble, as if in a fit of the ague; he felt and examined them, in order to find if it were not a dissimulation; meanwhile one man leaned on his shoulder, weeping bitterly; Elnathan, perceiving he had wet his new white coat, pushed him off, and ran to his companions, who were sitting on a log at a distance. When he came, one said, "Well, Elnathan, what do you think now of these --- people ?" affixing to them a profane and reproachful epithet. He replied, "There is a trembling and crying spirit among them; but whether it be the Spirit of God or the devil, I don't know; if it be the devil, the devil go with them, for I will never more venture myself among them." He stood a while in that resolution; but the enchantment of Stearn's voice drew him to the crowd once more. He had not been long there before the trembling seized him also; he attempted to withdraw; but his strength failing, and his understanding being confounded, he, with many others, sunk to the ground. When he came to himself, he found nothing in him but dread and anxiety, bordering on horror. He continued in this situation some days, and then found relief by faith in Christ. Immediately he began to preach conversion work ... Mr. Davis was born in Baltimore County, Maryland, 1735; was bread a Seventh-day Baptist; went to Slow River, in North Carolina, in 1757; was baptized by Shubael Stearns at Sandy Creek, and ordained by Samuel Harris, in 1764 ... (See David Benedict's, A General History of the Baptist Denomination in America, 1813, vol. 1, pp. 367-368).

Fact: 2002, Genforum #28953.²²⁵ Apparently there were at least 3 Elnathan Davises, and at least two of them were successful New Jersey Surveyors of the 1700s. According to Thomas Shourds in "Fenwick's Colony," the one considered the "great surveyor" of West Jersey (Southern NJ) was the grandson of Jonathan, and named after Jonathan's brother. Jonathan was born on Long Island, the son of one of 3 or more brothers who emigrated from Wales and settled in the New England States as early as 1664. (Some brothers were not named.)

Some of the family soon re-located to Long Island,NY, and then Jonathan and his brother Elnathan Davis went on to Trenton, New Jersey in 1700. This Elnathan was appointed Surveyor General of the State. Jonathan became a "conspicuous" Seventh-day Baptist minister, to quote Shourds, amd married Elizabeth Bowen whose family was of the Cohansey precinct. He preached occasionally in homes of the Seventh-day Baptists who lived near Cohansey Corners. After the 7th Day Baptist Church at Shiloh was organized, Jonathan Davis, Jr., became the first pastor.

Elnathan Davis, the "eminent surveyor of the lower counties of West Jersey," was the son of this Jonathan Davis, Jr.

Thomas Shourds gave much attention in his book to Surveyors, whom he revered as mathematical geniuses. Elnathan married Susannah Bond of Maryland, and between 1760 and 1776 they had 3 daughters and 7 sons, including yet another Elnathan.

Our Langleys named boys BOTH Elnathan and Davis, who became Patriots in the Revolution. Then in 1796, we see Rubin or Reuben Langley purchasing acreage from an Elnathan Davis in "Broad Neck" of Pittsgrove Twp. So far we cannot say if this was the renowned Surveyor (husband of Susannah) or the son. No wife's name is on the deed. -- Dolores in DE

Elnathan married Mary Collins [1501]⁹⁶ [MRIN: 456] in 1752 in NC Chatham County.²²⁶

Children from this marriage were:

i. Elnathan Davis Jr [2313] was born about 1753.

ii. Martha Davis [2315] was born about 1755.

iii. Rebecca Davis [2316] was born about 1756.

iv. Hannah Elizabeth Davis [2317] was born about 1760.

101 v. Rutha Davis [956]

vi. Benjamin Davis [2318] was born on 10 Jun 1763.

vii. James Davis [2319] was born about 1765.

viii. Jonathan Davis [2320] was born on 6 Mar 1771 and died after 1841 in SC Greenville District.

203. Mary Collins [1501],⁹⁶ daughter of Collins [22372] and Unknown, was born in 1735 and died on 11 Nov 1847 at age 112.

General Notes: There is a will of a Ruth Davis 1745

http://searches1.rootsweb.com/usgenweb/archives/nc/pasquotank/wills/estind .txt

Mary married Rev. Elnathan Davis Baptist [1652]⁹⁶ [MRIN: 456] in 1752 in NC Chatham County.²²⁶

204. John Ellis Va Surry [1517],²²⁷ son of Jeremiah Ellis II [336] and Sarah Harvey [1515], was born in 1710 in VA Surry County²²⁷ and died on 28 May 1793 in NC Bute/Warren County²²⁷ at age 83.

General Notes: http://worldconnect.genealogy.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=GET&db=nell- ellis_1&id=I819

Land patent: 1742, V Surry County. A Jeremiah Ellis' land was on the S side of the Nottoway River next to Major Benj Harrrison,

Robt Sandyford, Wm Jones, Wm Martin,

John married Mary Wiggins [5590] [MRIN: 2375] in 1740 in NC Warren County.²²⁸

Children from this marriage were:

102 i. Jesse Ellis RWS [119]

ii. Gideon Ellis [1511]

iii. Jeremiah Ellis [1509]

iv. Martha Ellis [1512]

v. Reuben Ellis [1514]

vi. Sarah Ellis [1508]

vii. Stephen Ellis [1510]

viii. Benjamin Ellis [1556] was born on 9 Sep 1741 in Albemarle, Surry, VA and died in 1796 in Warren Co NC at age 55.

ix. Johnnathan Ellis [1557] was born on 29 Jan 1743.

x. William Ellis [1558] was born in 1757.

205. Mary Wiggins [5590], daughter of William Wiggins Unproven [5597] and Unknown, was born in 1725 in NC Warren maybe²²⁹ and died before 1779 in NC Warren County.²²⁸

Mary married John Ellis Va Surry [1517]²²⁷ [MRIN: 2375] in 1740 in NC Warren County.²²⁸

206. SC Pendleton District Young [5862], son of SC Pendleton District [17542] and Unknown, was born circa 1725.

SC married someone.

His children were:

103 i. Widow Elizabeth Young [1503]

ii. Barbara Young [5988] was born before 1775.

iii. Ezekiel Young [5989] was born circa 1775.

iv. Joshua Young [5991] was born before 1775.

v. William Young [5993] was born circa 1750.²³⁰

vi. Matthew Young RWS [6688] was born circa 1707 in VA Maybe²³¹ and died after 1755 in VA Augusta maybe prison.²³¹

208. John Saunders or Sanders [2343], son of Martin Saunders or Sanders s/o David [3736] and Rachel Aaron [3737], was born in 1705 in England Downton Wiltshire or VA¹⁵⁴ and died in 1791 in IA at age 86.

Immigrated: After 1743, TO aMERICA. IF SON WAS BORN IN eNGLAND IN 1743.

John married Catherine Nimrod [3729]²³² [MRIN: 754] about 1734 in NC Cumberland Or England.

Children from this marriage were:

i. Isaac 1736-1806 Sanders [3730] was born circa 1736 and died circa 1806 in If 70 At Death at age 70.

ii. Tabitha Sanders [3731] was born circa 1725.

iii. William Aaron Sanders [3732] was born in 1735 in NC Cumberland County and died circa 1805 in If 70 At Death at age 70.

104 iv. Pastor Moses Saunders Sanders RWS [131]

v. George Sanders [23037]

vi. Francis Sanders [23038]

209. Catherine Nimrod [3729]²³² was born circa 1705.

Catherine married John Saunders or Sanders [2343] [MRIN: 754] about 1734 in NC Cumberland Or England.

210. Arthur Hamilton [3699], son of Ireland James Hamilton [3744] and Janet Campbell [3745], was born in 1690 in Ireland Londonderry.²³³

Arthur married Martha Conyngham [3700]²³³ [MRIN: 1461].

Children from this marriage were:

105 i. Sarah Hamilton [122]

ii. Martha Hamilton [3742] was born in 1760.²³⁴

iii. Hamilton [3733] was born circa 1725.

Arthur next married someone.

His child was:

i. Hamilton [3733] was born circa 1725.

211. Martha Conyngham [3700]²³³ was born circa 1690 in VA.¹⁵⁴

Martha married Arthur Hamilton [3699] [MRIN: 1461].

212. John Robins [3839], son of Our John Robins [17272] and Elizabeth [17273], was born in 1720 in VA Spotsylvania County,¹⁰³ was christened in VA Gloucester County, and died in 1792 in NC Wilkes County¹⁰³ at age 72.

Census: 1790, Edgecombe. A John Robbins 113-5,21

Also a Jacob Robbins.

Census: 1790, NC Randoph County. A John Robbins 14603, 13 est age 1747

William Robbins 30219,21 est bd 1750

Moses Robbins 11201,5 est bd 1760

Isaac Robbins 33500,11 est bd 1747

Christopher Robbins 125008 est bd 1753

John Robbins 162009 est bd 1751

Census: 1787, NC WilkesCounty census. 1-2-5-5-1

John married Mary Margaret Madison Strother [3840]¹⁰³ [MRIN: 113] circa 1743 in VA.¹⁰³

Children from this marriage were:

i. Capt. Thomas Robins [208] was born in 1748 in VA Orange County¹⁰³ and died in 1815 in TN Coffee County¹⁰³ at age 67.

106 ii. Our Major John Robins Jr. [16854]

iii. Reuben Robins [17202] was born in 1754, was christened in 1787 in NC Wilkes County census, and died in 1833 at age 79.

iv. William Robins [17243] was born circa 1745 and died in 1774 at age 29.

213. Mary Margaret Madison Strother [3840],¹⁰³ daughter of William Strother [8181] and Margaret Watts [8183], was born on 3 Sep 1726 in VA Stafford County maybe²³⁵ and died circa 1786 in NC Wilkes County maybe¹⁰³ at age 60. Other names for Mary were Margaret Madison, Strother.

Mary married John Robins [3839] [MRIN: 113] circa 1743 in VA.¹⁰³

214. Samuel Dogan [17248], son of John Dogan [17250] and Mary Salmon [17251], was born circa 1725 in VA Culpeper County¹⁵⁹ and died in 1796 in NC Wilkes County¹⁵⁹ at age 71.

Samuel married Ann Mary Harrison [17249]¹⁵⁹ [MRIN: 7237].

The child from this marriage was:

107 i. Elizabeth Dogan [17245]

215. Ann Mary Harrison [17249],¹⁵⁹ daughter of Andrew Harrison Jr. [17258] and Mary Lovell [17259], was born circa 1725 in VA Culpeper County¹⁵⁹ and died in 1800 in KY Pulaski¹⁵⁹ at age 75.

Ann married Samuel Dogan [17248] [MRIN: 7237].

216. Abraham Rushing [1304], son of William Rushing [1305] and Unknown, was born about 1733 in NC Bladen/Anson County²³⁶ and died on 20 May 1805 in NC Anson County about age 72.

General Notes: Mark Rushing censused Anson County, NC 1790.

Mark Rushing censused Volusia County, FLA 1870

Researchers: 2000. Valerie Simonton

Censused: 1750, NC Anson County. Before that Anson County was called Bladen County

Mark Rushing was censused 1750

Land Grant: 1762, NC Anson County. 300 Ac Anson Co, Adjoining John Jackson.

Fact: : NC Bladen County.¹⁶⁰ Bladen was formed in 1734 from New Hanover. It was named in honor of Martin Bladen, one of the members of the Board of Trade which had charge of colonial affairs. It is in the southeastern section of the State and is bounded by Sampson, Pender, Columbus, Robeson and Cumberland counties. The present land area is 875.62 square miles and its 1990 population was 28,663. The county seat was first called Bladen Court House. Elizabethtown, established in 1773, is the county seat.

In 1750, Anson was fromed from Bladen.

Fact: : NC Hanover.

Census: 1790, NC Anson County. 3-2-3-0-3

Will: 1805, NC Anson (Fayette) County. Angie Rayfield <> (View posts <http://boards.rootsweb.com/authorposts.aspx?uname=Angie+Rayfield&uid=&uem=&rurl=http%3a%2f%2fboards.rootsweb.com%2flocalities.northam.usa.states.northcarolina.counties.anson%2f32%2fmb.ashx>) Posted: 4 Jul 1999 12:00PM GMT

Classification: Will

Surnames: Rushing, Morgin, Morgan, English, Bell, Plantt, Autry

Signed 20 May, 1805

Probated July Session Surname FactsSession Surname Board < off links < Resources',null,null,200,750,300);" title="Session Surname Facts" style="COLOR: #000000; BORDER-BOTTOM: #afbc22 1px double; TEXT-DECORATION: none" onmouseout=TGN.Util.HoverTip.startHideHoverTipTimer(); href="http://www.ancestry.com/facts/session-family-history.ashx"Session, 1806

Will mentions:

"my Beloved wife Sarah Rushing Surname FactsRushing Surname Board < off links < Resources',null,null,200,750,300);" title="Rushing Surname Facts" style="COLOR: #000000; BORDER-BOTTOM: #afbc22 1px double; TEXT-DECORATION: none" onmouseout=TGN.Util.HoverTip.startHideHoverTipTimer(); href="http://www.ancestry.com/facts/rushing-family-history.ashx"Rushing" - the "land and plantation where I now Live," one black mare and colt, bridle, saddle, feather bed and furniture, one loom, gear, and cotton wheel, one pair of "cardes," one chest, one table, a table and two chairs, pail, "piggin", one "beason" (basin?), one dish, two pewter plates, white earthen boal, two cows & calves, two ewes & lambs, one sow & pigs, 20 bushels of corn, 5 bushels of wheat, plough frame, hoe, and one ax, to be kept during her natural life, and then to be sold & divded between all the children.

"to my Son Phillis Surname FactsPhillis Surname Board < off links < Resources',null,null,200,750,300);" title="Phillis Surname Facts" style="COLOR: #000000; BORDER-BOTTOM: #afbc22 1px double; TEXT-DECORATION: none" onmouseout=TGN.Util.HoverTip.startHideHoverTipTimer(); href="http://www.ancestry.com/facts/phillis-family-history.ashx"Phillis Rushing Surname FactsRushing Surname Board < off links < Resources',null,null,200,750,300);" title="Rushing Surname Facts" style="COLOR: #000000; BORDER-BOTTOM: #afbc22 1px double; TEXT-DECORATION: none" onmouseout=TGN.Util.HoverTip.startHideHoverTipTimer(); href="http://www.ancestry.com/facts/rushing-family-history.ashx"Rushing" - the land & plantation where he lives with all the rest of the property he had been given

"my daughter Elizabeth Morgin" - $20 to be paid out of the estate & all of the property I have lent her

"my son William Rushing Surname FactsRushing Surname Board < off links < Resources',null,null,200,750,300);" title="Rushing Surname Facts" style="COLOR: #000000; BORDER-BOTTOM: #afbc22 1px double; TEXT-DECORATION: none" onmouseout=TGN.Util.HoverTip.startHideHoverTipTimer(); href="http://www.ancestry.com/facts/rushing-family-history.ashx"Rushing" - the land & plantation where he now lives with all the rest of the property I have lent him

"my son Jason Rushing Surname FactsRushing Surname Board < off links < Resources',null,null,200,750,300);" title="Rushing Surname Facts" style="COLOR: #000000; BORDER-BOTTOM: #afbc22 1px double; TEXT-DECORATION: none" onmouseout=TGN.Util.HoverTip.startHideHoverTipTimer(); href="http://www.ancestry.com/facts/rushing-family-history.ashx"Rushing" - all the property that I have lent him

"my son Abraham Surname FactsAbraham Surname Board < off links < Resources',null,null,200,750,300);" title="Abraham Surname Facts" style="COLOR: #000000; BORDER-BOTTOM: #afbc22 1px double; TEXT-DECORATION: none" onmouseout=TGN.Util.HoverTip.startHideHoverTipTimer(); href="http://www.ancestry.com/facts/abraham-family-history.ashx"Abraham Rushing Surname FactsRushing Surname Board < off links < Resources',null,null,200,750,300);" title="Rushing Surname Facts" style="COLOR: #000000; BORDER-BOTTOM: #afbc22 1px double; TEXT-DECORATION: none" onmouseout=TGN.Util.HoverTip.startHideHoverTipTimer(); href="http://www.ancestry.com/facts/rushing-family-history.ashx"Rushing" - all the property that I have lent him

"my daughter Sarah English Surname FactsEnglish Surname Board < off links < Resources',null,null,200,750,300);" title="English Surname Facts" style="COLOR: #000000; BORDER-BOTTOM: #afbc22 1px double; TEXT-DECORATION: none" onmouseout=TGN.Util.HoverTip.startHideHoverTipTimer(); href="http://www.ancestry.com/facts/english-family-history.ashx"English" - $20 to be paid out of my estate and all the property I have lent her

"my son Peeter Rushing Surname FactsRushing Surname Board < off links < Resources',null,null,200,750,300);" title="Rushing Surname Facts" style="COLOR: #000000; BORDER-BOTTOM: #afbc22 1px double; TEXT-DECORATION: none" onmouseout=TGN.Util.HoverTip.startHideHoverTipTimer(); href="http://www.ancestry.com/facts/rushing-family-history.ashx"Rushing" - all the property that I have lent him

"my son Thomas Rushing Surname FactsRushing Surname Board < off links < Resources',null,null,200,750,300);" title="Rushing Surname Facts" style="COLOR: #000000; BORDER-BOTTOM: #afbc22 1px double; TEXT-DECORATION: none" onmouseout=TGN.Util.HoverTip.startHideHoverTipTimer(); href="http://www.ancestry.com/facts/rushing-family-history.ashx"Rushing" - all the property that I have lent him

All property not named, including Negros, Lands Surname FactsLands Surname Board < off links < Resources',null,null,200,750,300);" title="Lands Surname Facts" style="COLOR: #000000; BORDER-BOTTOM: #afbc22 1px double; TEXT-DECORATION: none" onmouseout=TGN.Util.HoverTip.startHideHoverTipTimer(); href="http://www.ancestry.com/facts/lands-family-history.ashx"Lands, horses, cattle and all the remainder of the estate to be sold by the executors and money arising from such sale after paying the above mentioned sums to be equally divided between the children named.

Executors: Jason Rushing Surname FactsRushing Surname Board < off links < Resources',null,null,200,750,300);" title="Rushing Surname Facts" style="COLOR: #000000; BORDER-BOTTOM: #afbc22 1px double; TEXT-DECORATION: none" onmouseout=TGN.Util.HoverTip.startHideHoverTipTimer(); href="http://www.ancestry.com/facts/rushing-family-history.ashx"Rushing, Leml. Bell

Signed by mark Abraham Surname FactsAbraham Surname Board < off links < Resources',null,null,200,750,300);" title="Abraham Surname Facts" style="COLOR: #000000; BORDER-BOTTOM: #afbc22 1px double; TEXT-DECORATION: none" onmouseout=TGN.Util.HoverTip.startHideHoverTipTimer(); href="http://www.ancestry.com/facts/abraham-family-history.ashx"Abraham Rushing Surname FactsRushing Surname Board < off links < Resources',null,null,200,750,300);" title="Rushing Surname Facts" style="COLOR: #000000; BORDER-BOTTOM: #afbc22 1px double; TEXT-DECORATION: none" onmouseout=TGN.Util.HoverTip.startHideHoverTipTimer(); href="http://www.ancestry.com/facts/rushing-family-history.ashx"Rushing

Witnesses: Wm. Plantt, John Autry Surname FactsAutry Surname Board < off links < Resources',null,null,200,750,300);" title="Autry Surname Facts" style="COLOR: #000000; BORDER-BOTTOM: #afbc22 1px double; TEXT-DECORATION: none" onmouseout=TGN.Util.HoverTip.startHideHoverTipTimer(); href="http://www.ancestry.com/facts/autry-family-history.ashx"Autry (by mark)

Abraham married Sarah Watts [2067] [MRIN: 655].

Abraham next married Mariah Meador [1319] [MRIN: 656] about 1764 in NC Anson County.

Children from this marriage were:

108 i. William Rushing [293]

ii. Abraham D. Rushing [1320] was born in 1772²³⁶ and died in 1848 in Humphrey's County, TN at age 76.

iii. Elizabeth Rushing [1321] was born about 1768.²³⁷

iv. Jason Rushing [1322] was born in 1770.

v. Sarah Rushing [1323] was born about 1772.²³⁶

vi. Phillip J. Rushing [2069] was born about 1774.²³⁶

vii. Thomas M. Rushing [2068] was born about 1783.²³⁷

viii. Peter Rushing [2071] was born about 1785 in NC Anson County.²³⁶

217. Mariah Meador [1319], daughter of Jason Meadors VA [1324] and Elizabeth Stone [1325], was born about 1742. Other names for Mariah were Sarah, Meadows.

Mariah married Abraham Rushing [1304] [MRIN: 656] about 1764 in NC Anson County.

218. Isaac Nichols NC [6075],²³⁸ son of Isaac Nichols [6077] and Unknown, was born circa 1760 in NC Anson (Fayette) maybe and died circa 1850 in TN Houston County, Erin⁷⁸ at age 90.

Census: 1790, NC Anson (Fayette) County.¹ P 35 Image 445 1030= Isaac b ca 1750, two daughters, wife.

Isaac Nichols is censused in the same area as many Rushings* , leading me to believe that he is the father of our Jane.

Apparently he is the only Nichols censused.

"Down the road"

Wm German, Robert?, Martin Ganada, Wm Threadgill, Anthony Pursley, Lewis Atkins, Jn Lowry, Pleasant Diggs, Jn Bittle, Jesse Tatum, Williamson Plant, Frederick Temple, Benj Mooreman, Chas Hinson, Jms Yarbrough, Jn Mills, Jms Boggan, Sr., Sterling May, ISAAC NICHOLS, Jn Lambden, Jms Harrell, Danl Davidson, Jms Ryal, Thos House, Jn BREWER, Saml Pound, Jms Baker, Archbd Falkner, Jn Culpper, Jn Dabbs, Jonas Leonard, Edw Loyd, David Griffin, Roland Williams, Frances Harner, Jesse Mathes?, Jn Melton, Thos Huntley, Sr. Jr., PHILIP RUSHING, SR 122 Thos MEADOWS 344 David Jackson, Saml Wilson, Jn Tyson, Thos Gaddy, Jn Dale, Chas Ferrell, Betty Hellems, Wm Hellems, Tilman Hellems, David Hellems, Jacob Hellems, Olive Head, etc.

* Philip, Philip, Jr., Abraham,

Thos Meadows (also some probably)

Death: 9 May 1847, Al Marion County.²³⁸

Isaac married Honor [8170] [MRIN: 3525].

The child from this marriage was:

109 i. Jane Nichols [294]

219. Honor [8170] .

Honor married Isaac Nichols NC [6075]²³⁸ [MRIN: 3525].

220. Howell Freeman RWS [944],¹⁰⁴ son of Bridges Freeman [945] and Elizabeth Howell [4399], was born in 1760 in VA Sussex Or Brunswick VA³⁹ and died on 4 May 1836 in Dickson Co TN at age 76.

Will: 1836, TN Dickson County. Dickson County TN

Contact: support <mailto:lcole@dctn.com>

Census: 1784, NC Johnston County.

Howell married Elizabeth [1849] [MRIN: 262] on 7 Mar 1808.

Children from this marriage were:

110 i. William R. Freeman [295]

ii. Burrell Freeman [1644] was born about 1780 in NC Franklin County.

iii. Mary Freeman [11479] was born on 10 Mar 1791 in NC.³⁹

221. Elizabeth [1849] was born about 1760.

General Notes: Burrell, Roland, Riley?

Elizabeth married Howell Freeman RWS [944]¹⁰⁴ [MRIN: 262] on 7 Mar 1808.

222. Thomas Massie son of Sylvanus and Hannah [5201],²³⁹ son of Sylvanus Massie [2011] and Unknown, was born on 26 Dec 1758 in VA Middlesex County, Christ Church Parish²⁴⁰ and died on 7 Sep 1835 in Springfield, IL³⁹ at age 76.

General Notes: Don,

Somehow you've gotten the wrong birth year for Thomas Massie. He was born 26

Dec 1758, in New Kent Co., VA; Died 19 Aug 1835, buried in Old Salem Cem,

Curran, Sangamon Co., IL.

This is documented:

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

"Soldiers of the American Revolution Buried in Illinois" - Illinois State

Genealogical Society - 1976

THOMAS MASSIE:

Born: December 26, 1759 in Albemarle County, Virginia,

Died: August 19, 1835

Buried: Old Salem Cemetery (or Morgan Cemetery), Curran, Sangamon County,

Illinois

Spouses:

(1) Fannie Hudson

(2) Rebecca Collyer

Service: Private: Spy: Virginia Continental troops. He enlisted from

Albemarle County, VA.

Pension: S31235 (Va); Illinois Pension List, Sangamon County, April 23, 1834,

age 74.

Marker: His name is on a bronze plaque in the south mall, Old State Capitol,

Springfield, placed by Springfield Chapters DAR and SAR, October 19, 1911.

His grave was marked by Springfield Chapter DAR on January 12, 1973.

Thomas Massie served as a private under Capt. Robert Adams, Col. John Lynch,

Virginia militia. He was born in Buckingham Co., VA; Died in Sangamon Co., IL.

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

In the DAR, he is listed as born in Albermarle Co., VA or Buckingham Co., VA,

but neither is correct, as his birth was recorded in New Kent Co., VA church

records.

Thomas married 1st. Frances Hudson, born abt. 1760 in Virginia. She died 25

Jun 1802 in KY.

Frances (Hudson) Massie was the mother of our Mary Massie. 2nd. wife, Rebecca

Collyer; Birth year not known; She died 7 Sep 1835, in Sangamon Co., Illinois.

William had several children by each wife, BUT Frances Hudson was the mother

of our ancestor, Mary Massie.

Mary Massie was born 14 Jun 1789, KY; Died 16 Sep 1867/8 in Pike Co.,

Illinois.

Mary's husband, Wm. R. Freeman, (s/o Howell Freeman of Dickson Co., TN) was

born 25 March 1786, Franklin Co., NORTH Carolina. He died 16 Mar 1871, not

1872.

I'm sure I gave you all this information before, but maybe I overwhelmed you

with data. Sorry. Hope this will help you.

Regards,

Valerie Simonton

I was reading the Massie gen forum and saw where you were saying that Thomas Massie who had a son Jesse born 1810 and a daughter Mary who Married William R. Freeman was b 1762 and married to Lucy Davis etc..From everything I have found you have them tied in with the wrong Thomas....

Our Thomas was born Dec. 26, 1758 and died in Springfield, IL in 1835...Jesse and most if not all his children were born in Kentucky..

Thomas had two wives...Frances Hudson and Rebekah Collyer.

I even have a copy of his probate papers that I got in IL.and it mention Mary and William Freeman in it...

Your new cousin (I think)

Susan Heinzelman

Military: 1793, KY.¹⁵³ saddler Russell's Reg Calvary KY Volunteers

if same THOMAS MASSEY

Birth: 26 Dec 1758, VA New Kent County, Christ Church Parish.²⁴¹ Thomas b son of Sylvanus and Hannah Massie

Thomas married Frances Hudson Kin to the Navigator [1090]²⁴² [MRIN: 231].

Children from this marriage were:

111 i. Mary Massie [296]

ii. Jessie Massie [957] was born in 1810.

iii. Sylvanus Massie son of Thos M and Frances Hudson [8164] was born on 12 Dec 1799.

223. Frances Hudson Kin to the Navigator [1090],²⁴² daughter of Simon Hudson III [6030] and Mary Anderson [6032], was born in 1760 in VA New Kent Maybe²⁴³ and died about 1828 about age 68.

Kinship report: 2003, TX Greenville.¹ 5th great-granddaughter (or niece) of Captain Henry Hudson, the Navigator.

Frances married Thomas Massie son of Sylvanus and Hannah [5201]²³⁹ [MRIN: 231].

224. Major William 1721 Lindsey RWS [307], son of William 1695 Lindsey Va [309] and Jane [7958], was born in 1721 of Brunswick VA³⁹ and died on 1 Sep 1797 in VA Rockingham County at age 76. Another name for William was James William.

General Notes: Also No. 50390.

William Lindsay (1721-92) served as major in the Virginia militia under General Green. Severely wounded at the battle of Guilford Court House. He was born and died in Virginia.

Elijah Cleveland (1721-94) was a member of the 9th regiment, Albany County, New York militia. He was born in Canterbury, Conn.; died in Hillsdale, N. Y.

George Calvert (1712-82) was a member of the Virginia House of Burgesses, and in 1781 was appointed captain by Thomas Jefferson, of the Culpeper militia. He was born in Prince William County, Va.; died in Culpeper County.

Alphabetical List of Officers of the Continental Army

Fifteenth Virginia

page 352

Lindsay, William (Va). Cornet Virginia Dragoons, 16th June, 1776; 3d Lieutenant 1st Continental Dragoons, 15th March, 1777; wounded near Valley Forge, 21st January, 1778; Captain of Lee's Battalion of Light Dragoons, 7th April, 1778; resigned 1st October, 1778. (Died 1st September, 1797.)

Will: 17 Oct 1784, NC Chatham County. Chatham Co., NC. Record of Estates (1782-1799) Vol. 1 Pg. 21b, 22 a & b NC State Archives film # C.022.50001 Will of Caleb Lindsey - dated 17 Oct. 1784 no probate date In the name of God Amen I Caleb Lindsey of Chatham County & State of North Carolina planter being in a low state of health in Body perfect mind & memory thanks be given unto God Calling to mind the Mortality of my Body and knowing that it is apointed for all men once to die Do make & ordain this my Last Will and Testament that is to say principally and first of all I give and recommend my sole unto the hands of almighty God that gave it and my Body I recommend to the Earth to be Buried in a decent Christian burial at the discretion of my Executors Nothing doubting but at general resurection I shall receive the same again by the might power of God and as touching such Worldly Estate wherewith pleased God to bless me in this life I give demise and dispose of the same in the following manner and form Itam______ I give and bequeath to my Well beloved son John Lindsey one Negro man named David for which he is to pay forty pounds good and Lawfull Money of this State to be Equelly divided amongst the surviving Children of my son Caleb Lindsey deceased as they arive at lawfull age___also I give to my Daughter Joan Martain one Negro girl named Mary her and her increase to her only use and benifit___ Also I give to Elizabeth Durham one Negro boy named Solomon to the only use and benifit of her___also I give to my daughter Judith Spurling one negroe boy named Carry for which she is to pay Eight pounds good and Lawfull Money of this State to my Daughter Sarah as a part of her Legacy of my Estate___ also I give to my daughter Susanah Baker one negroe boy named Isaac to which she is to pay seven pounds good and Lawfull Money of this State to my daughter Sarah as a part of her Legascey of my Estate___I also give to my son James Lindsey one Negroe Man Rubin with one hundred & thirty Eight acres of Land be the same more or less where my daughter in Law Mary Lindsey now lives together with one fether Bead and furniture one Cow and Calf and all my working tools and one Iron Pott for which he is to pay fourty pounds good and Lawfull Money of this State to be equally divided amongst the surviving Children of my son William Lindsey deceased & as they arive at Lawfull age and six pounds of the Money to my Daughter Sarah Lindsey____ I likewise give to my daughter Sarah Lindsey one Hers (horse?) and cattle and sheep too feather Beds and furniture together with all My Household furniture other than what is above mentioned and I do hereby utterly disallow revoke and disanull all and every other former Testament Wills and Legacies bequeaths and Executors by me in anywise before named Wills and bequeaths and Testament in Witness whereof I have hereunto unto set my hand and seal this the fourteenth day of October in the year of our Lord one thousand Seven hundred and Eighty four___ Signed seal'd published and declar'd by Caleb Lindsey to be his last Will and Testament in presents of us William Pickard Caty Pickard Signed Caleb Lindsey {Seal} A Copy Test. John Ramsey C.C.

Will of Cousin: 1751, VA Spotsylvania. Virginia County Records SPOTSYLVANIA COUNTY 1721-1800

WILLS

WILL BOOK B 1749-1759

page 10 LUCAS, ANTHONY, Spotsylvania Co., who died on or about the 28th of Jan. 1750 (nuncupative will) Leg, estate to be divided between his cousins, Adam Lindsay and Caleb Lindsay. This will was proved by the depositions of James Stopp, Hannah Alman and Edward Almond, at Spotsylvania Court, May 7 and June 4, 1751. (Page 71

William married Sarah Carlton Va Albemarle [792]²⁴⁴ [MRIN: 295], daughter of Thomas/Blake Carlton Of Va King And Queen [4448] and Unknown, in 1758 in Waukegan, Albemarle, m Virginia.

Children from this marriage were:

i. Joshua 1763 Lindsey s/o Caleb [795] was born about 1762.

ii. Archibald Lindsey [796] was born in 1763 in VA Albemarle Maybe.

iii. William Henry Lindsey [2233] was born in 1773 and died in 1823 at age 50.

iv. Burkett Lindsey [797] was born about 1766.

v. Sarah Lindsey Maybe [2242] was born in 1785.

vi. James William Lindsey RWS [2370] was born on 11 May 1766 in VA Brunswick County and died on 3 Mar 1831 in AR Pulaski²⁴⁵ at age 64.

vii. Caleb 1767 Lindsey [8411] was born in 1767 in VA Brunswick, was christened in 1782 in VA Orange County tax list, and died after 1836 in AR. Another name for Caleb was Lindsey.

William next married Rosanna Martin [308] [MRIN: 296] in 1755.

Children from this marriage were:

i. Elizabeth Lindsey [1076] was born about 1752.

112 ii. James 1754 MARTIN Adam Lindsey Sgt RWS [305]

iii. John 1748 MARTIN Lindsey RWS . [1040] was born circa 1748 in VA Brunswick and died in 1793 in Ohio Marion County¹⁶¹ at age 45.

iv. Judith Lindsey [1077] was born about 1757.

v. Sarah Lindsey [1078] was born about 1759.

vi. William Lindsey [1079] was born about 1761 and died before 1784.

vii. Susannah Lindsey [1080] was born about 1765.

viii. Caleb 1755 Lindsey [2373] was born after 1755 and died before 1784.¹²⁵

ix. Joan Lindsey [2374] was born circa 1760 and died after 1818 in Maybe.

William next married Sarah Carlton Va Albemarle [792]²⁴⁴ [MRIN: 3744], daughter of Thomas/Blake Carlton Of Va King And Queen [4448] and Unknown, circa 1745.

Children from this marriage were:

i. John Caleb Lindsey [8616] was born in 1775 in NC Rockingham County and died in 1837 in Spencer County at age 62.

ii. Daniel Lindsey [8617]

iii. Judith Lindsey [8618]

iv. Reuben Lindsey [8619] died before 1839 in VA Orange County maybe.

v. Joshua May Lindsey s/o William [8620] was born in 1760.

vi. Elizabeth Lindsey [8622]

vii. Micajah C Lindsey [8623]

viii. Caleb 1767 Lindsey [8411] was born in 1767 in VA Brunswick, was christened in 1782 in VA Orange County tax list, and died after 1836 in AR. Another name for Caleb was Lindsey.

ix. James William Lindsey RWS [2370] was born on 11 May 1766 in VA Brunswick County and died on 3 Mar 1831 in AR Pulaski²⁴⁵ at age 64.

225. Rosanna Martin [308], daughter of Henry Martin [1541] and Jane Samuels [1469], was born about 1732 in VA Spotsylvania, St. George's Parish²⁴⁶ and died before 1784.

Query: 1998, VA Essex County.²⁴⁷ Jeffrey L. Martin <mailto:jmartin@fairfield.com> Mon, 05 Jan 1998 01:46:42 -0800

MARTIN - I am looking for ANY information concerning the MARTIN family of Essex Co. VA circa 1600-1780. John MARTIN b. c1659 Essex Co. m. Mary JOHNSON? Their son's were John, Henry and Benjamin. Their daughter's were Mary and Elizabeth. Son Henry, b. c1785, m. Jane SAMUELS, had issue: Henry, Benjamin, John, William, Sarah, Alice, Mary & Rose. Other possible connections were: SHORT, SAMUELS, LINDSEY, TRUE, LARKIN, MOORE, ROBINSON/ROBERSON.

Rosanna married Major William 1721 Lindsey RWS [307] [MRIN: 296] in 1755.

226. Sackfield Brewer Va Brunswick [1701],²⁴⁸ son of Peter Brewer [532] and Letitia Lanier [1870], was born in 1727 in VA Brunswick County²⁴⁸ and died on 10 Nov 1812 in NC Orange County, NC Age 85 at age 85.

Will.²⁴⁹ Sackfield Brewer's will of 2 June 1810, there are three references to granddaughters as follows:

granddaughter: Patsey Lindsey

grandaus: Patsey and Polly Brewer, daughters of Ezekiel

grandaus: Mary Meachum, Sarah Edwards, Patsey Lindsey.

Given name "Caleb" established by marriage record. See source for marriage to Martha "Patsy" Brewer.

There is also some evidence that this may have been Dr. William Caleb Lindsey. See my Lindsey file.

Caleb was in Orange County, NC in 1830. In Haywood County, TN, in 1840. In 1860 he is in Drew County, AR, living with daughter Martha Jane and son-in-law Daniel Nese Cotner.

Sackfield married someone.

His child was:

i. Sackfield Brewer [4473] was born in 1768 in NC Orange County²⁴⁹ and died in 1844 in NC Orange County²⁴⁹ at age 76.

Sackfield married Lanier UNPROVEN [5672] [MRIN: 842].

Children from this marriage were:

113 i. Delilah (Hodgson) Brewer [306]

ii. Sackfield Brewer [4473] was born in 1768 in NC Orange County²⁴⁹ and died in 1844 in NC Orange County²⁴⁹ at age 76.

iii. Ezekiel Brewer Maybe A Grandson [7730] was born circa 1780.

227. Lanier UNPROVEN [5672] was born circa 1727.

Lanier married Sackfield Brewer Va Brunswick [1701]²⁴⁸ [MRIN: 842].

228. Adam Lynn Gun mfg [958], son of John Linn or Lynn [4406] and Sarah McKay [4407], was born in 1710 in Ireland²⁵⁰ and died on 24 Mar 1772 in VA Bedford County at age 62.

General Notes: Descendant of the poet Burns of Scotland

Fact: 1828, Ballymoney, Antrim, Northern Ireland.²⁵¹ An Adam Linn married a Sarah Sweeney in 1828.

An Adam Lynne md an Anne McNeill in the same place in 1824.

They were md by the Rev. Chas. Hill of Ramdan.

Fact.¹ It was said Adam Linn was a Descendant of Robert Burns, the Scottish poet. Robert Burns lived 1759-1796, so, however there is a kinship this Adam is not Robert Burn's descendant, but rather an antecedent. (Sic)

Conjecture.²⁵² Adam Linn may have invented the KY Long Rifle.

Will: 1771, VA Bedford County. In the Name of God, Amen,

I, Adam Linn, Junior, of Bedford County in Virginia, being very sick in body, but of perfit mind and mimory thanks to God and calling to Mind the mortality of my body and knowing that it is appointed for all men once to die do make and ordain this my

LAST WILL AND TESTAMENT

..to my well-beloved wife, ISOBEL Linn

her horse, saddle and bridle and all my household furniture, and all my grain in and out of the ground at present with two cows such as she shall chuse..

25 pounds currency Pennsylvania..

..to son, Joseph Linn, all my land on the side of the river where he now lives

my gray horse and the hind wheels of my wagon;

to son, ADAM LINN, all my lands on that side of the above mentioned line where my house and improvements are;

all the remainder of my wagon...with the plow...and all my other plantation utensils;

to daughter, Martha Cragge..twenty shillings current money;

to daughter, Agnes..twenty shillings current money;

to daughter, Martha Carson, twenty shillings current money;

to sons, Joseph and Adam also- all my clothes, and all that remains of my money with all my outstanding debts here in pensalvania or elsewhere with the remainder of all my cattle and hogs to be equally divided between my said sons..

October 1, 1771

Witnesses:

Robert Ewing, Mykejah Stoan, Appihie Stoen.

Adam married Mrs. Isobel Dickerson [959]²⁵³ [MRIN: 801] circa 1745 in VA Bedford County.

Children from this marriage were:

114 i. Judge Adam Linn RWS [311]

ii. Joseph Lynn [960] was born about 1752.

iii. Martha Lynn [961] was born about 1754.

iv. Agnes Lynn [963] was born about 1756.

v. Mary Lynn [965] was born about 1758.

vi. Nancy Linn [1043] was born about 1775.

vii. Witnesses of Adam's will [7099] was born before 1800.

229. Mrs. Isobel Dickerson [959],²⁵³ daughter of Dickerson [6089] and Unknown, was born about 1725 in Ireland.

Isobel married Adam Lynn Gun mfg [958] [MRIN: 801] circa 1745 in VA Bedford County.

230. Rev. Robert Ewing Colonial Presby. Minister [315],²⁵⁴ son of Captain Findley Ewing fled Northern Ireland [317] and Jane Porter [747], was born in 1718 in Coleraine, Londonderry, Ireland, died in Jun 1787 in Peaks Of Otter, Bedford, VA at age 69, and was buried in VA Bedford County.

General Notes: Robert Ewing (1718-87) in 1776 was justice of the Bedford County Virginia Court, where he died. He was born in Ireland.

Alt. Birth: Between 1740 and 1760.

Origin: : The Ewings And Lindseys Were Together In Scotland : Note- A James Lindsey Ewing B. Edinburg Scotland 3/14/1814 D Mobile AL 2/1/1866.

Origin: : Also A James Lindsey And Martha Ann Ewing Had A Son John Ewing B Mobile 1857 D Havava Cuba 1923.

Military: 1774, Rev. War, Capt. Thos. Buford's Volunteers.

Namesake.

Occupation: : Left 7200 Acres In Will.

Occupation: : Clerk, Bedford Court.

Immigration: Abt 1736, From Coleraine, Londonberry, Ireland.

Religion: : Elder-Presby Ch.

Military. RWS General

Robert married Mary Baker Va [316] [MRIN: 514] in 1747 in Bedford VA Peaks Of Otter.³⁹

Children from this marriage were:

i. John Ewing [973] was born on 24 Dec 1747 in Greenbriar W. VA and died in 1803 in Logan Co. KY at age 56.

ii. Jane Ewing [373] was born in 1758 in VA Bedford County.

iii. Baker Ewing [363] was born in 1750 in VA Bedford County and died in 1803 in KY Christian County²⁵⁵ at age 53.

iv. Martha Ewing [752] was born about 1752 in Peak's Of Otter, Bedford, VA.

115 v. Sidney Ann Ewing Va [312]

vi. Robert Ewing [368] was born in 1760 in VA Bedford County and died on 14 Jul 1832 in Logan KY at age 72.

vii. Young Ewing [364] was born in 1762 in VA Bedford County and died on 5 Oct 1833 in KY Christian County²⁵⁵ at age 71.

viii. Urban Ewing [365] was born in 1764 in VA Bedford County and died in 1828 in Cooper Co. MO at age 64.

ix. Reuben Ewing [366] was born in 1766 in VA Bedford County and died on 2 Sep 1823 in Logan Co KY at age 57.

x. Polly Ewing [370] was born in 1768 in VA Bedford County and died in 1786 in VA Bedford County²⁵⁵ at age 18.

xi. Chatham Ewing [371] was born in 1770 in Peak's Of Otter, Bedford, VA and died in 1839 in Lexington, Lafayette, MO at age 69.

xii. Rev. Finis Ewing Presbyterian [357] was born on 10 Jul 1773 in VA Bedford County and died on 4 Jul 1841 in Lexington, Lafayette, MO at age 67.

231. Mary Baker Va [316], daughter of Rev. Caleb Baker Ireland [318] and Martha Brooks [975], was born in 1730 in PA Chester and died on 25 Jun 1790 in VA Bedford County at age 60.

Namesake.

Mary married Rev. Robert Ewing Colonial Presby. Minister [315]²⁵⁴ [MRIN: 514] in 1747 in Bedford VA Peaks Of Otter.³⁹

Mary next married Ephraim Brevard Davidson [386] [MRIN: 518], son of General William Lee Davidson RWS [360] and Mary Brevard [439], on 5 Nov 1811 in Logan, Shelby, KY.

232. Samuel Wormington [884], son of William Wormington [895] and Mary Lockhart [896], was born on 30 Jan 1745 in VA Norfolk County and died on 3 Feb 1788 in NC Hyde County at age 43.

Samuel married Mary Denbigh [885] [MRIN: 240] on 11 Apr 1769 in Princess Anne Co VA.

Children from this marriage were:

i. Dorcas Wormington [888] was born about 1760.

ii. Nanny Wormington [890] was born about 1762.

iii. Rebecca Wormington [891] was born about 1764.

116 iv. Edward Wormington [866]

v. Mary Wormington [892] was born about 1772.

vi. Britannia Wormington [893] was born about 1774 in VA and died in 1796 in NC about age 22.

vii. Elizabeth Wormington [894] was born about 1780 in Craven Co? NC and died in VA.

233. Mary Denbigh [885], daughter of Edward Denbigh [886] and Ann Sikes [887], was born on 10 May 1753 in VA Princess Anne County²⁵⁶ and died in Mar 1821 in NC Crane County at age 67.

Mary married Samuel Wormington [884] [MRIN: 240] on 11 Apr 1769 in Princess Anne Co VA.

234. John Hassell [870], son of Our Abraham Hassell [17576] and Priscilla Alexander [17577], was born in 1735¹⁶⁴ and died before 1786 in NC Tyrrell County census.

John married Ann Jennett [871] [MRIN: 236] circa 1763 in NC Tyrrell County probably.

The child from this marriage was:

117 i. Nancy Ann Hassell [867]

235. Ann Jennett [871], daughter of John Jennett Jr [17045] and Ann Patterson [21028], was born in 1742,¹⁶⁴ was christened in 1786 in NC Tyrrell County census, and died in 1829¹⁶⁴ at age 87.

Census: 1786, NC Tyrrell County. 0-5-2-2-1

"Lillte Alligator"

Ann married John Hassell [870] [MRIN: 236] circa 1763 in NC Tyrrell County probably.

236. Thomas Turpin [3688],¹⁶⁷ son of Henry Turpin [4378] and Margaret Some Kin [17422], was born circa 1720 in VA Henry Or Henrico²⁵⁷ and died in 1796 in KY Mercer County¹⁶⁷ at age 76.

Will: 1796, KY Mercer County.²⁵⁸ TURPIN, THOMAS Will: November 20, 1796: Book 2 page 25

Wife: Averillor; Heirs: 4 sons: Edmund, Josiah, Jeremiah, Thomas Jr. Exors: son Jeremiah and wife Averilla. Wit: Thomas Gill, John Calvert, Michael Mires, Wm. Mires.

Inventory: October 23, 1797: Book 2 page 51

Apprs: Wm. Hays, Wm. Rice, Wm. Quinn.

Extract -Thomas Turpin's Will, Book 2, 27 Nov 1796, p. 25, Mercer County

..."being very aged..."

Son Edmond: 400 A. of land where he now lives-1st choice

Son Jeremiah: 200 A. in Robertson Co., TN - 2nd choice

Son Josiah: 200 A. of land where he now lives - 3rd choice

Son Thomas: 200 A. in Robertson Co., TN

Beloved wife: 125 A. of land where I now live and plantation, etc.

Executors: Son Jeremiah and wife Averilor

[Kentucky Pioneer and Court Records, comp. by Mrs. Harry McAdams (Lexington: Keystone Printery) 1929, p. 74 extract adds the following]: written: Nov. 20, 1796, witnesses: THOMAS GILL, John Calverd, MICHAEL MIRES, and Wm. Mires; probated March 1797.

Note: There were a total of 1000 acres of land in Robertson Co., TN that were willed in 1796 to 4 sons of Thomas Turpin Sr. It appears likely that Thomas Turpin Jr. eventually acquired all 1000 acres of land. On 6 Jan 1836, the widow and four children of Thomas Turpin Jr. (each owning 200 acres of "a tract originally granted to Andrew Armstrong for 1000 acres and deed by him to Thomas Turpin and now known as Robertson Springs - on side of the branches of the Sulpher Fork one fourth of a mile below the Sulpher Spring" in Robertson Co., TN. (see “Turpin Times,” March 1988, p. 17) Source # 41

Death date of Thomas Turpin Sen. from the family register of Benjamin and Averilla (Turpin) Egerton Sen., handwritten by neighbor Edmund Perkins, and referenced in the Rev. War Pension file of Benjamin Egerton (see his name). Source # 36

Thomas married Averilla Lewis Va [3689]¹⁶⁷ [MRIN: 1457].

Children from this marriage were:

118 i. Edmund Turpin Nc [3686]

ii. Josiah Turpin [4374] was born Est 1776.

iii. Jeremiah Turpin KY Milita [4375] was born circa 1750¹²⁵ and died after 1794 in KY Maybe.

iv. Thomas Turpin Jr [4376] was born before 1796.

237. Averilla Lewis Va [3689],¹⁶⁷ daughter of Littleberry Lewis [4384] and Sarah Smith [4385], was born circa 1743 in VA and died in 1806 in KY Mercer Or Garrard County²⁵⁷ at age 63.

Averilla married Thomas Turpin [3688]¹⁶⁷ [MRIN: 1457].

238. Hugh McBridge or McBride unproven f/o Charity [7722] was born from 1760 to 1770 and died after 1830 in TN Sumner maybe.

Census: 1830, TN Sumner County. 000000001 0021001

Household #1696

Hugh married someone.

His child was:

119 i. Charity McBride Nc Maybe [3687]

240. Our William Lewis RWS [6919],²⁵⁹ son of Our William Lewis [6921] and Janet Banks [6922], was born in 1740 in NC Hertford or New Hanover County²⁵⁹ and died in 1811 in SC Horry District²⁵⁹ at age 71.

William married Mourning Van Pelt [6920]²⁵⁹ [MRIN: 2956] circa 1763.

Children from this marriage were:

i. LT Walden Spotsford? Lewis [6918] was born in 1775 in VA and died in 1850 in MS Jasper at age 75. Another name for Walden was Spotsford?.

120 ii. Our Tavener Lewis [9454]

iii. Zilpha Lewis [9456] died circa 1832.

iv. Isaac Lewis [9457] was born from 1770 to 1780²⁶⁰ and was christened in 1830 in MS Copiah census.

v. Joel Lewis [10247] died in 1853.

vi. John B Lewis [18214] was born circa 1780 and was christened in 1830 in MS Copiah census.

241. Mourning Van Pelt [6920],²⁵⁹ daughter of Jan Van Pelt Belgian [9461] and Mary Ann Perrine [9462], was born circa 1740 in NC Bertie County²⁵⁹ and died on 9 May 1817 in SC Horry District²⁵⁹ at age 77.

Mourning married Our William Lewis RWS [6919]²⁵⁹ [MRIN: 2956] circa 1763.

242. Tavener Walden Unproven Link [21709], son of Walden [22128] and Tavner Maybe [22129], was born in 1739 in VA Richmond.

Tavener married someone.

His child was:

121 i. Branham or Walden maybe [18198]

Tavener married Tavenore Descendant [21932] [MRIN: 9531], daughter of Tavenore [21931] and Unknown.

The child from this marriage was:

i. Walden [21933]

248. Benjamin H Stinnett [8639], son of Benjamin H Stennett/ Stinnett [8641] and Our Elizabeth Sanders [9481], was born in 1736 in MD Charles County.²⁶¹

Resided: 1791-1801, VA Patrick County.²⁶² Old Still Branch near Buffalo Creek 363 Samuel ALLENS; Daniel HOWEL; Thomas HUFF; John KINDRACK; John LACKY; Henry MCGUFFY; Jno P STEGALL; Benjamin STENNETT

Benjamin married Our Usle Isham [8640] [MRIN: 3749] in 1763.

Children from this marriage were:

124 i. William S Stennett War of 1812 [4010]

ii. James Stinnett Maybe Some Kin [17420] was christened in 1782 in VA Henry County tax list. Ancestral File Number: 1782- 1-0-1-6.

iii. Isham Stinnett [22164] was born circa 1760 of Greene County TN and was buried in Charles R Johnson's line.

249. Our Usle Isham [8640], daughter of Our James Isham [8644] and Unknown, was born in 1738 in VA.²⁶¹

Usle married Benjamin H Stinnett [8639] [MRIN: 3749] in 1763.

250. Hightower [18234], son of Hightower [18235] and Unknown, was born circa 1740.

Hightower married someone.

His child was:

125 i. Letha Hightower "Lethe" [4011]

Ninth Generation (6th Great-Grandparents)

256. Nc Surry County Giddens [15931],² son of Nc Rowan Giddens [15927] and Unknown, was born in 0092 and was christened in 1771 from Rowan.

Nc married someone.

His children were:

128 i. Ir NC Richard 1713 Giddens [7479]

ii. Ir Roger 1725 Giddens [12527] was born before 1725 in County Cork, Ireland²⁶³ and died in 1819 in TN Knox County, Corryton area.²⁶³

iv. William G Paul Not Proven F/O Our Martha J [13681] was born in 1774 in VA²⁶⁴ and died in 1881 in GA Pickens at age 107.

v. Sgt Aaron 1779 Giddens War Of 1812 [12526] was born circa 1779¹¹⁵ and was christened in 3 Regt (Johnsons) E. TN Militia.

vi. Nc Tn William 1791 Giddens s/o James [13338] was born in 1791 in NC Wilkes County¹¹⁷ and died in 1868 in MO Christian County¹¹⁸ at age 77.

vii. Sarah Giddens [12469] was born in 1808 in NC Wilkes County.¹¹⁷

viii. Joshua Giddens [12468] was born in 1816 in NC Wilkes County and died in 1873 in TX¹¹⁶ at age 57.

ix. Nathan Paul [13139] was born in 1822 in NC³⁶ and died after 1850 in NC Surry County.

x. James Paul [13143] was christened in 1840 in NC Surry County.

xi. Timothy Paul [13144] was christened in 1840 in NC Surry County.

Nc next married someone.

His children were:

i. NC Joseph 1745 s/o Richard Giddens Constable [12531] was born circa 1745 and was christened in 1789 in NC Surry County.

ii. NC Surry John 1740 Gittins Giddens s/o Richard [8649] was born circa 1740 in Age Approximated By Formula,¹¹⁵ was christened in 1790 in NC Surry County census, and died in 1801 in NC Will at age 61. Another name for John was Gittens.

iii. Ir Roger 1725 Giddens [12527] was born before 1725 in County Cork, Ireland²⁶³ and died in 1819 in TN Knox County, Corryton area.²⁶³

iv. Roger 1688 Giddens Unproven [12904] was born circa 1688 and died circa 1784 in NC Surry County at age 96.

v. Richard 1790 Giddens [17398] was christened in 1790 in NC Surry County. Ancestral File Number: 1790 160-2.

Nc next married someone.

His child was:

i. Nc Wilkes Giddens [13188] was born in 104 in Formed From Surry and was christened in 1778 from Surry County.

272. Archibald Paul Northern Ireland [3653], son of John Paul [3934] and Margaret Jane Lynn? [3941], was born in 1727 in Ireland, Kinbally, County Antrim Maybe, died in 1802 in SC Fairfield, Camden at age 75, and was buried in Old Lebanon Presb Church Cem Near Winnsboro.

(Duplicate. See Person 142)

273. Agnes [3925]¹⁸⁶ was born in 1729 in Ireland and died after 1820 in SC Fairfield District.

(Duplicate. See Person 143)

284. John Paul [3934], son of John Paul [3935] and Unknown, was born circa 1706 and died after 1801 in SC.

Estate Sale: 1801, SC. Estate Sale of John Paul, Deceased 1801

Value

Surname First Name Bought Lbs

Paul Widow Spinning wheel 4

Paul do Check reel 2

Paul do Wheel of swifts 2

Kincaid Alex a qty of wool 3

Paul Widow a qty of tobacco 2

Calhoun Alex 1 bb of powder 4

Montgomery Hugh do 4

Rabb William do 4

Paul Archy do 4

Boyd Da.v do 4

Montgomery Hugh 1 cag and powder 8

Smith Robert carpenter's tools 3

Paul Archy do 7

Halthorn Adam 1 handsaw 14

Paul William sm box of

VA Rent roll: 1704, VA.²⁵² There are no Pauls listed in the "Rent Rolls", so all the Pauls must have settled in SC not VA by that time.

John married Margaret Jane Lynn? [3941] [MRIN: 1561].

Children from this marriage were:

142 i. Archibald Paul Northern Ireland [3653]

ii. Jane Paul Unproven [3982]

iii. Rev. Dr. John Paul Irish cousin? [4001] was born in 1777 in Ireland, Antrim, died on 16 Mar 1848 in Ireland, Antrim at age 71, and was buried in Loughmore Presbyterian Graveyard.

285. Margaret Jane Lynn? [3941] was born circa 1731 and died after 1801 in SC.

Margaret married John Paul [3934] [MRIN: 1561].

Margaret next married Archibald Paul Northern Ireland [3653] [MRIN: 2103].

288. James Mayes [5691]²⁶⁵ was born in 1670 in Northern Ireland, Ulster County, Donnegal.¹⁸⁸

James married someone.

His child was:

144 i. Andrew Mayes Northern Ireland [3631]

290. Robert B McFarland [5692],²⁶⁶ son of McFarland Immigrants [10187] and Unknown, was born in 1680 in Northern Ireland¹⁸⁸ and died in 1751 in PA Lancaster County, Donnegal Township¹⁸⁸ at age 71.

Immigrated: 1722, Pennsylvania. James and Robert McFarland arrived.

Robert married Jennett [5693]¹⁸⁸ [MRIN: 2442].

The child from this marriage was:

145 i. Rebecca McFarland Northern Ireland [3632]

291. Jennett [5693] .¹⁸⁸

Jennett married Robert B McFarland [5692]²⁶⁶ [MRIN: 2442].

292. Andrew McIlvaine [3642],²⁶⁷ son of John McIlvaine [5676] and Sarah Clark [5677], was born on 14 May 1694 in Ballykeel, Antrim, Northern Ireland²⁶⁷ and died in 1754 in PA or SC at age 60.

Andrew married Elizabeth Swan [5675] [MRIN: 1433] on 12 Feb 1712.²⁶⁷

The child from this marriage was:

146 i. James McElevean or McElwain of PA [3641]

293. Elizabeth Swan [5675] was born circa 1694 in Ballykeel, Antrim, Northern Ireland maybe.²⁶⁷

Elizabeth married Andrew McIlvaine [3642]²⁶⁷ [MRIN: 1433] on 12 Feb 1712.²⁶⁷

294. Anthony 1700 Storey [10192],¹⁸⁹ son of Anthony 1675 Storey [10193] and Unknown, was born circa 1700 in England Haversham or PA Bucks and died in PA Bucks County.

Anthony married someone.

His children were:

147 i. Jane Storey [10191]

ii. George G Storey [16849] was born in 1725 in PA Chester and died in Jan 1805 in SC Union, Fairforest²⁶⁸ at age 80.

Anthony married Nancy Cantor [16850]²⁶⁸ [MRIN: 7089], daughter of Jacob Cantor [16851] and Unknown.

The child from this marriage was:

i. George G Storey [16849] was born in 1725 in PA Chester and died in Jan 1805 in SC Union, Fairforest²⁶⁸ at age 80.

296. John Otterson [22331] was born circa 1700 and died after 1736 in SC Colleton District census.

General Notes: location and last name only- AND land in SC Colleton transferred to James

no other proof

Land transaction: 1736, SC Colleton District.

Series: S372001

Volume: 00Q0

Page: 00019

Item: 002

Date: 1736-1737

Description: KELLY, JAMES AND WIFE TO JOHN OTTERSON, LEASE AND RELEASE FOR 200 ACRES OF LAND IN COLLETON COUNTY.

Names indexed: KELLY, JAMES; OTTERSON, JOHN

Locations: COLLETON COUNTY

Document type: LEASE AND RELEASE

Topics:

Land: 1742, SC Colleton District. Series: S111001

Volume: 0005

Page: 00416

Item: 002

Date: 2/11/1742

Description: CROLL, WILLIAM, MEMORIAL FOR 200 ACRES ON EDISTO RIVER, COLLETON COUNTY, SUMMARIZING A CHAIN OF TITLE TO A GRANT TO BRYAN KELLY.

Names indexed: CROLL, WILLIAM; KELLY, BRYAN; MACTEAR, JOHN; OTTERSON, JOHN

Locations: COLLETON COUNTY; EDISTO RIVER; ROUND O SWAMP

Document type: MEMORIAL

Topics:

John never married and had no children.

His child was:

148 i. James Otterson [3634]

300. John Gordon [3639], son of Gordon [17539] and Unknown, was born in 1709 in Ireland, County Down, Newry and died in 1756 in SC Newberry at age 47.

Immigrated: 1738, VA. Came with his brother, James Gordon, to VA from Ireland, 1738...if this is the same Gordon.

Presbyterians

Biographical note.²⁶⁹ One of the pioneers of Presbyterianism in VA.

John married Ruth [3640] [MRIN: 1431].

The child from this marriage was:

150 i. Thomas Gordon Va [3637]

301. Ruth [3640] was born circa 1711.

Ruth married John Gordon [3639] [MRIN: 1431].

304. CAPT Joseph Bouchillon RWS [3603], son of Unknown and Unknown, was born in 1729 in France and died in 1799 in SC Abbeville District at age 70.

Military: : Rev War.²⁷⁰ The National Society of the Daughters of the American Revolution Volume 110

page 147

Mrs. Alice Bouchillon Baird Johnson.

DAR ID Number: 109476

Born in Leesville, S. C.

Wife of Norman Huff Johnson.

Descendant of William Peebles, Capt. Joseph Bouchillon and Sergt. Andre Guillebeau, as follows:

1. John Grier Baird (b. 1859) m. 1884 Laura Joe Johnson (b. 1864).

2. Henry McKinney Johnson (1832-85) m. 1857 Mary Eliza Bouchillon (b. 1838).

3. Joseph Leonard Bouchillon (1801-79) m. 1827 Martha Finette Gardner (1812-95); Henry Johnson (1804-74) m. 1824 Lavinia Tilson (1808-80).

4. James Bouchillon (1777-1806) m. 1798 Susannah Guillebeau (1776-1814); Stephen Tilson (1775-1858) m. 1807 Elizabeth Peebles (1785-1859).

5. William Peebles m. Elizabeth Edmondson; Jean Bouchillon (1751-78) m. 1773 Mary Anne LeRoy (1756-1839); Andre Guillebeau m. 1766 Jane (Sequin)) Roquemore (1745-1820).

6. Joseph Bouchillon m. 1st 1750 Marie Maquinett (1736-65).

William Peebles served as a private in the 2nd North Carolina regiment, Continental Line, 1776-78; engaged in battles of Brandywine, Germantown and Monmouth. He was born, 1740, in Scotland; died in Carter County, Tenn.

Joseph Bouchillon (1729-99) served, 1779, as captain in the South Carolina militia. He was born in France; died in Abbeville County, S. C.

Andre Guillebeau (1739-1814) served as private and sergeant in the South Carolina militia under Capt. Joseph Bouchillon. He was born in France; died in Abbeville, S. C.

Immigrated: 1764, France to SC. aboard the vessel "Friendship"

Census: 1790, SC Old 96Th, Abbeville. 1-0-1-0-1 next door to Mary Ann "Bushilon"

Land: 1769, SC. Chain of title

BUCKEHOLTERS MILL CREEK; SAVANNAH RIVER

Series: S111001

Volume: 0008

Page: 00530

Item: 003

Date: 11/17/1769

Description: RHOD, STEPHEN, MEMORIAL FOR 150 ACRES ON LONG CANE CREEK, HILLSBOROUGH TOWNSHIP, SUMMARIZING A CHAIN OF TITLE TO A GRANT TO JOSEPH BOUCHILLON OF AUG. 13, 1756.

Names indexed: BERAUD, JEAN;

BOUCHILLON, JOSEPH;

RHOD, STEPHEN;

ROQUEMORE,

MRS.; ROQUEMORE,

PIERRE JACQUE

Locations: GRANVILLE COUNTY; HILLSBORO TOWNSHIP; LONG CANE CREEK

Document type: MEMORIAL

Topics:

Joseph married Maria Majinett a French Huguenot [3604] [MRIN: 1410] in 1750.

The child from this marriage was:

152 i. John or Jean Bouchillon [3601]

305. Maria Majinett a French Huguenot [3604] was born in 1730 in France and died in 1765 at age 35.

Fact.²⁷¹ The Huguenots were French Protestants who were members of the Reformed Church established in France by John Calvin in about 1555, and who, due to religious persecution, were forced to flee France to other countries in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries.

The Protestant Reformation began by Martin Luther in Germany about 1517, spread rapidly in France, especially among those having grievances against the established order of government. As Protestantism grew and developed in France it generally abandoned the Lutheran form, and took the shape of Calvinism. The new "Reformed religion" practiced by many members of the French nobility and social middle-class, based on a belief in salvation through individual faith without the need for the intercession of a church hierarchy and on the belief in an individual's right to interpret scriptures for themselves, placed these French Protestants in direct theological conflict with both the Catholic Church and the King of France in the theocratic system which prevailed at that time. Followers of this new Protestantism were soon accused of heresy against the Catholic government and the established religion of France, and a General Edict urging extermination of these heretics (Huguenots) was issued in 1536. Nevertheless, Protestantism continued to spred and grow, and about 1555 the first Huguenot church was founded in a home in Paris based upon the teachings of John Calvin. The number and influence of the French Reformers (Huguenots) continued to increase after this event, leading to an escalation in hostility and conflict between the Catholic Church/State and the Huguenots. Finally, in 1562, some 1200 Huguenots were slain at Vassey, France, thus igniting the French Wars of Religion which would devastate France for the next thirty-five years.

The Edict of Nantes, signed by Henry IV in April, 1598, ended the Wars of Religion, and allowed the Huguenots some religious freedoms, including free exercise of their religion in 20 specified towns of France.

The Revocation of the Edict of Nantes by Louis XIV in October, 1685, began anew persecution of the Huguenots, and hundreds of thousands of Huguenots fled France to other countries. The Promulgation of the Edict of Toleration in November, 1787, partially restored the civil and religious rights of Huguenots in France.

Since the Huguenots of France were in large part artisans, craftsmen, and professional people, they were usually well-received in the countries to which they fled for refuge when religious discrimination or overt persecution caused them to leave France. Most of them went initially to Germany, the Netherlands, and England, although some found their way eventually to places as remote as South Africa. Considerable numbers of Huguenots migrated to British North America, especially to the Carolinas, Virginia, Pennsylvania, and New York. Their character and talents in the arts, sciences, and industry were such that they are generally felt to have been a substantial loss to the French society from which they had been forced to withdraw, and a corresponding gain to the communities and nations into which they settled. Source: National Huguenot Society: http://huguenot.netnation.com/general/huguenot.htm

Maria married CAPT Joseph Bouchillon RWS [3603] [MRIN: 1410] in 1750.

306. Peter Michael LeRoy IMMIGRANT [8070],²⁷² son of SC Old 96th Abbeville LeRoy [17337] and Unknown, was born circa 1725 in France and died after 1768 in SC Hillsborough District.

Immigrated: 1768, SC. Protestant colonist from France to Hillsborough District SC

Peter married Mary LaBraun [8071]²⁷² [MRIN: 3479].

The child from this marriage was:

153 i. Mary Ann LeRoy a French Huguenot [3602]

307. Mary LaBraun [8071]²⁷² was born circa 1725 in France.

Mary married Peter Michael LeRoy IMMIGRANT [8070]²⁷² [MRIN: 3479].

310. Vincent Gaspar Pierre Du Roquemore [3607],²⁷³ son of Pierre Roquemore [8086] and Jeanne Fourneyrol [8087], was born on 11 Mar 1694 in Ville D'Eymet(Dordogne, France) maybe and died on 2 Oct 1725 at age 31.

Vincent married Suzanne LaFon [8074]²⁷⁴ [MRIN: 1412] in 1739 in France, Dordogne.²⁷⁴

Children from this marriage were:

155 i. Mary Jane Roquemore a French Huguenot [3606]

ii. Ann Lespine Roquemore [8075] was born circa 1744 in France and died in 1776 in France²⁷⁵ at age 32.

iii. James Jacques Pierre Roquemore [8076] was born circa 1745 in Ville D'Eymet(Dordogne, France) and died circa 1803 in GA Warren County²⁷⁶ at age 58.

311. Suzanne LaFon [8074]²⁷⁴ was born circa 1694 in Ville D'Eymet(Dordogne, France)maybe.

Suzanne married Vincent Gaspar Pierre Du Roquemore [3607]²⁷³ [MRIN: 1412] in 1739 in France, Dordogne.²⁷⁴

312. Samuel Joseph Doolittle III Ct Yankee [3612], son of Samuel Doolittle II Giddens' line [3614] and Jane Wheeler Ma [3615], was born in 1715 in CT Wallingford, New Haven, was christened in 1779 in SC resident, and died in 1792 in SC Edgefield District at age 77.

Samuel married Experience Bartlett Ct Yankee [3613] [MRIN: 1415] in 1735 in Brookfield MA.

The child from this marriage was:

156 i. Samuel Doolittle IV Sc [3610]

313. Experience Bartlett Ct Yankee [3613] was born from 1710 to 1711 in CT Wallingford, New Haven Maybe and died in SC Maybe.

Experience married Samuel Joseph Doolittle III Ct Yankee [3612] [MRIN: 1415] in 1735 in Brookfield MA.

316. Luke Williams [4503], son of Roger Williams Old Rappahannock [4505] and Ann Williams [4506], was born in 1739 in VA Richmond County.¹⁹¹

Biographical note: 1786, VA Pittsylvania.²⁷⁷ THE HISTORY of PITTSYLVANIA COUNTY VIRGINIA

CHAPTER IX EARLY CHURCHES IN PITTSYLVANIA THE CHURCH OF ENGLAND

page 130

[p.130] church minutes record: "August 26, 1786, the church met and drew up plans to build a new meeting house at or near the place where the old meeting house formerly stood, on a piece of land given by Luke Williams for that purpose." This was a brick building and used for 96 years.

Land: 1805, SC Abbeville. Series: S213192

Volume: 0040

Page: 00424

Item: 004

Date: 8/13/1805

Description: WILLIAMS, LUKE, PLAT FOR 116 ACRES ON TURKEY CREEK, ABBEVILLE DISTRICT, SURVEYED BY WILLIAM WARE.

Names indexed: GRAHAM, JAMES; MOORE, THOMAS; WARE, WILLIAM; WILLIAMS, LUKE; WILSON, THOMAS

Locations: ABBEVILLE DISTRICT; SALUDA RIVER; TURKEY CREEK

Document type: PLAT

Topics:

Luke married Katherine Barber [4527] [MRIN: 1819] on 8 May 1761 in VA Richmond County.²⁷⁸

The child from this marriage was:

158 i. Doctor Roger Mackerness Williams [4476]

317. Katherine Barber [4527] was born circa 1770.

Katherine married Luke Williams [4503] [MRIN: 1819] on 8 May 1761 in VA Richmond County.²⁷⁸

318. James Quarles [4478],⁴⁶ son of Roger Quarles [4480] and Jane Tunstall [4481], was born circa 1685 in VA King William County⁴⁶ and died circa 1751 in VA Caroline County⁴⁶ at age 66.

James married Catherine Read [4479]⁴⁶ [MRIN: 1805].

The child from this marriage was:

159 i. Catherine Read Quarles Mary [4477]

319. Catherine Read [4479],⁴⁶ daughter of William Read [4482] and Elizabeth Hubbard [4483].

Catherine married James Quarles [4478]⁴⁶ [MRIN: 1805].

320. Walter Gilliam [18653],² son of Hinchea 1667-1737 I Gilliam S/O Jn And Margaret [19539] and Fortune Flood [18651], was born in 1700 in VA Albemarle¹⁹⁴ and died circa 1758 in VA Southampton County²⁷⁹ at age 58.

Walter married Sarah Bolling desc of Pocahontas [20772]²⁸⁰ [MRIN: 8151] in 1723.

Children from this marriage were:

i. Grandchildren Gilliam Walter's [3748]

160 ii. Marcus 1747 Gilliam [19559]

Walter next married Sarah Bolling desc of Pocahontas [20772]²⁸⁰ [MRIN: 8779] circa 1723.

The child from this marriage was:

160 i. Marcus 1747 Gilliam [19559]

321. Sarah Bolling desc of Pocahontas [20772],²⁸⁰ daughter of Major John Fairfax Bolling desc of Pocahontas [20768] and Mary Kennon [20770], was born circa 1700 in VA Henrico County and died after 1794.

Kinship: 2003, TX Greenville.²¹⁷ great-granddaughter of Pocahontas.

Although not absolutely proven, this is a strong likelihood given the scarcity of Bollings in very early VA.

Does she belong to these parents? DLG

Sarah married Walter Gilliam [18653]² [MRIN: 8779] circa 1723.

Sarah next married Walter Gilliam [18653]² [MRIN: 8151] in 1723.

322. William Steward [3974],²⁸¹ son of Charles Stuart [3976] and Anne Pace [3977], was born circa 1720¹⁹⁴ and was christened Resided in VA Surry County.⁷⁵

William married Mary Shands [3975]¹⁹³ [MRIN: 1581] after 1740.⁷⁵

Children from this marriage were:

161 i. Frances Steward Fanny [18972]

ii. James Steward [19842] was born on 3 Nov 1743.⁷⁵

iii. Anne Steward [19843] was born circa 1745.¹⁹⁴

iv. John Steward [19844] was born on 23 Feb 1750.⁷⁵

v. Thomas Steward [19845] was born on 18 Jun 1752.⁷⁵

vi. Charles Steward [19846] was born on 18 Jan 1757.⁷⁵

vii. Elizabeth Steward [19847] was born circa 1760.⁷⁵

viii. Charlotte Steward [19848] was born on 29 Sep 1763.⁷⁵

323. Mary Shands [3975],¹⁹³ daughter of William Shands [5534] and Nazareth Robbards [5535], was born circa 1720.¹⁹⁴

Mary married William Steward [3974]²⁸¹ [MRIN: 1581] after 1740.⁷⁵

328. Johnnathan Davis [9300],²⁸² son of John Davis [9302] and Elizabeth [9303], was born circa 1733 in VA Spotsylvania County probably²⁸² and died in 1817 in GA Wilkes County²⁸² at age 84. Another name for Johnnathan was John.

Land sale: 1771, VA Augusta County. CHRONICLES OF THE Scotch-Irish Settlement IN VIRGINIA EXTRACTED FROM THE ORIGINAL COURT RECORDS OF AUGUSTA COUNTY 1745-1800

DEED BOOK NO. XVII.

ADDITIONAL MEMBERS OF THE EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE.

page 514 Page 429.--28th March, 1771. Johnathan Davis and Lucy ( ), of Orange County, to Philip and Joshua Bush, of county aforesaid, £50, 170 acres on northwest side of the Blue Ridge on the branches of Hawk's Bill. Teste: James Dever, John Patterson, Robert Rodgers. [p.514]

Land: 1763, VA Augusta County. CHRONICLES OF THE Scotch-Irish Settlement IN VIRGINIA EXTRACTED FROM THE ORIGINAL COURT RECORDS OF AUGUSTA COUNTY 1745-1800

DEED BOOK NO. 11.

ADDITIONAL MEMBERS OF THE EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE.

page 406 Page 472.--16th November, 1763. William ( ) Smith and Mary ( ) to Jonathan Davis, of Culpeper County, £40, 170 acres on branches of the Hawksbill on the north side of top of Blue Ridge. Livery of seisin.

Johnnathan married Lucy Gibbs [9301] [MRIN: 3999] in 1756 in VA Orange County maybe.²⁸²

Children from this marriage were:

i. Mary Davis [9281] was born circa 1752 in VA/ W VA Pendleton County.²⁸³

ii. James Davis s/o Johnnathan [9290] was born in 1761 in VA Orange County and died in San Jacinto, TX.

iii. John Davis [9298] was born in 1763²⁸² and died in 1831²⁸² at age 68.

iv. Leonard Davis [9282] was born circa 1753 in If 23 When Married and died in 1817 in KY Clark County²⁸⁴ at age 64.

v. Thomas Davis [9292] was born circa 1760 in If 23 When Married.

vi. William Davis [9296] was born circa 1766 in If 23 When Married.

164 vii. TN Rhea County Davis [9337]

329. Lucy Gibbs [9301] was born circa 1730.²⁸² Another name for Lucy was Milly.

Lucy married Johnnathan Davis [9300]²⁸² [MRIN: 3999] in 1756 in VA Orange County maybe.²⁸²

340. Richard Gladney [3928], son of William Gladney [3930] and Unknown, was born in 1710 in Ireland, Kinbally, County Antrim,¹⁹⁶ died in 1754 in Ireland, Kinbally, County Antrim¹⁹⁶ at age 44, and was buried in Presbyterian Churchyard.

Richard married Jane Jennett Wilson [3929]¹⁹⁶ [MRIN: 1557] in Jun 1735 in Ireland.¹⁹⁶

Children from this marriage were:

170 i. Pvt. Samuel Gladney Rws [3926]

ii. Mary Gladney [22531] was born in 1739 in Kinbally, Skeery, died in SC, and was buried in Gladney Family Cemetery maybe.

iii. Richard Gladney III [22532] was born in 1741, died in 1793 in SC Winnsboro at age 52, and was buried in Gladney Family Cemetery.

iv. Thomas Gladney [22533] was born in 1749 in Ireland, died in 1820 at age 71, and was buried in Gladney Family Cemetery.

v. Mary Sarah Gladney [22538] was born in 1745 and died in Gladney Family Cemetery.

vi. Jennett Gladney [22539] was born in 1786, died in 1786, and was buried in Gladney Family Cemetery.

341. Jane Jennett Wilson [3929]¹⁹⁶ was born in 1711 in Ireland, Antrim,¹⁹⁶ died in Oct 1781 in SC Fairfield District at age 70, and was buried in Gladney Family Cemetery.¹⁹⁶

Tombstone: : SC Fairfield County, Camden. Gladney, Jane "Jennet" "Jeannette" Wilson, b. 1711 Ireland, M. 1735/6 Ireland?, d. 19 Oct. 1781 Fairfield Co, South Carolina, Bur: On original grant of Gladney land-Gladney Cem. South Carolina, age 70yrs, "Widow Gladney, " Mother of "County Antrim "Gladneys. w/o Richard Gladney (bur. in Ireland)

Jane married Richard Gladney [3928] [MRIN: 1557] in Jun 1735 in Ireland.¹⁹⁶

342. William McCreight [3932] was born before 1716 in Ireland¹⁹⁶ and died circa 1792 in SC Fairfield District.¹⁹⁶

William married Agnes Smith [3933]¹⁹⁶ [MRIN: 1560] circa 1739 in Ireland.

The child from this marriage was:

171 i. Agnes McCreight [3927]

343. Agnes Smith [3933]¹⁹⁶ was born circa 1720 in Ireland, Kinbally, County Antrim Maybe.

Agnes married William McCreight [3932] [MRIN: 1560] circa 1739 in Ireland.

344. John Breeding Va Maybe [3658],²⁸⁵ son of Spencer Breeding [4290] and Unknown, was born circa 1726 in England and died in 1802 in VA Russell County¹⁹⁸ at age 76. Another name for John was Breden.

Fact: 1788, VA Russell County. To further complicate things, first names of the three Breeding's from the New Garden Section of Russell County,VA found on Black Mountain scalped and killed, have never been determined. Not John Breeding Sr.,John Jr.,James nor Spencer because they were alive after 1788.

John married Mary Short [10095] [MRIN: 1442].

Children from this marriage were:

172 i. Spencer R Breeding [3656]

ii. Samuel Breading Breeding Kin? [18603] died after 1800 in NC Buncombe census.

iii. Meshech Breading Breeding Kin? [18604] died after 1800 in NC Buncombe census.

345. Mary Short [10095], daughter of Short [11867] and Unknown, was born circa 1726.

Mary married John Breeding Va Maybe [3658]²⁸⁵ [MRIN: 1442].

346. Corporal MICHAEL Finney [10090],¹⁹⁷ son of Captain James Finney KIA, Balcony Falls [10091] and Ann Arnold [10102], was born in 1725 in VA Richmond and died after 1753 in SC Laurens District.

General Notes: unproven by Don Gidddens 2004

Fact: 1752, VA Halifax County.²⁸⁶ A Thomas Finney was appointed Surveyor from the Falls of Barrister River to Terrible.

Fact: 1753, VA Augusta County. 20. John Mathews to be overseer of road from North Fork of James River, near John Mathew's, to Renix's Road, with these workers: Henry Brown, John Smiley, James Trimble, John Berriford, James Edmondson, Wm. Edmondson, Michael Finney, Wm. Holdman, Stephen Arnold, Hugh Means, John Harger, Wm. Scot, Edward Bishop, Alexr. McCorkall, Pat. McCorkall, Henry Fuller, Joseph Pain, Edwd. Baley, James Baley, John Peter Salling, Jas. Simpson, James Wolson, Alexr. Beggs, John Mathews, Joshua Mathews, John Maxwell, Jas. Frazier, John Hutcheson, Senr., John Hutcheson, Jr., George Sailing, Richd. Beton, Wm. Boil, John Sprowl, John Smith, Saml. McClure, John Smiley, John McCuley, Richd. Mathews, Sampson Mathews, Daniel Sancion, Saml. Paxton, Wm. Paxton, John Oleston, Samuel Oleston, Saml. Walker.

MICHAEL married Catherine Armstrong [10098]²⁸⁷ [MRIN: 4375] circa 1750 in VA Augusta County.

Children from this marriage were:

173 i. Elizabeth Finney [3657]

ii. Corporal James Finney RWS [10103] died after 1778.

347. Catherine Armstrong [10098],²⁸⁷ daughter of Robert Armstrong [11839] and Martha Alice Calhoun [11840], was born in 1737.

Catherine married Corporal MICHAEL Finney [10090]¹⁹⁷ [MRIN: 4375] circa 1750 in VA Augusta County.

348. John Thompson [230], son of Robert Thomson [232] and Margaret Raily [233], was born in 1707 in MD Calvert and died in 1760 in NC Rowan County²⁰¹ at age 53.

John married Jane Kellogg [231] [MRIN: 372].

The child from this marriage was:

174 i. James Thompson [228]

349. Jane Kellogg [231] was born about 1710. Another name for Jane was Kelloe.

Jane married John Thompson [230] [MRIN: 372].

352. Bremillion or Bremilan Holloway maybe JOHN [3648],²⁸⁸ son of Bremillion Holloway [4665] and Unknown, was born in 1725 in VA Henrico, Turkey Island and died before 1790 in NC Orange probably.

Fact: 1635, VA Henrico County organized.²⁸⁹ At Michaellmas then next followinge, Sir Thomas Dale removed himfelf with three hundred persons for the buildinge of Henrico Towne, where being landed he oppreffed his whole companye with such extraordinarye labors by daye and watchinge by night, as maye seeme incredible to the eares of any who had not the experimentall triall thereof. Wante of houfes at firft landinge in the colde of winter, and pinchinge hunger continually bitinge, made thofe impofed labours moft infufferable, and the beft fruits and effects therof to be hoe better then the flaughter of his Majefty's free ftlbjects by starveinge, hangeinge, burneinge, breakinge upon the wheele and shootinge to deathe, fume (inure than halle famished) runninge to the Indians to gett reliefe being againe returned were burnt to death. Some for stealinge to satisfie their hunger were hanged, and one chained to a tree till he starved to death; others attemptinge to run awaye in a barge and a shallop (all the Boates that were then in the Collonye) and therin to adventure their lives to their native countrye, beinge difcovered and prevented, were fhott to death, hanged and broken upon the wheele, betides continuall whippings, extraordinary punishments, workinge as slaves in irons for terme of yeares (and that for petty offences) weare dayly executed. Many famished in holes and other poore cabbins in the grounde, not respected becaufe ficknes had difabled them for labour, nor was their fufficient for them that were more able to worke, our bell allowance beinge but nine ounces of corrupt and putrified meale and halfe a pinte

Land Grant: 1751, VA Henrico County, Richmond.

Bremillion married Martha [5421] [MRIN: 1437].

Children from this marriage were:

176 i. Thomas Holloway RWS [3646]

ii. John Holloway RWS [4803] was born in 1759 in VA Henrico County, Richmond²⁹⁰ and died in 1837 in TN Morgan²⁹⁰ at age 78.

iii. Major Holloway of Wake County [4870] was born circa 1760 in VA, was christened in 1800 in NC Wake County census, and died in 1804 at age 44.

iv. Rachel Holloway Unproven [4874] was born circa 1760 in NC Orange County, maybe.

v. Ruth Holloway Ruthey [4876] was born circa 1760 in NC Orange County, maybe.

vi. Jane Holloway Unproven [4878] was born circa 1760 in NC Orange County, maybe.

vii. Lettis Holloway Unproven [4880] was born circa 1760 in NC Orange County, maybe.

viii. Mary Holloway Unproven [4882] was born circa 1771 in NC Orange County, maybe.

ix. Suckey Holloway Unproven [4884] was born circa 1768 in NC Orange County, maybe.

x. Lucy Holloway Unproven [4886] was born circa 1774 in NC Orange County, maybe.

xi. Elizabeth Holloway Unproven [4888] was born circa 1776 in NC Orange County, maybe.

xii. William Holloway [4892] was born circa 1768 in NC Wake County maybe.

xiii. Nancy Holloway Unproven [4895] was born circa 1782 in NC Wake County maybe.

xiv. Thomas Holloway Unproven [4898] was born circa 1787 in NC Wake County maybe.

353. Martha [5421] was born circa 1725 and died after 1790 in NC Orange if same person.

Martha married Bremillion or Bremilan Holloway maybe JOHN [3648]²⁸⁸ [MRIN: 1437].

356. NC Warren Proctor Maybe [5430], son of William Proctor [5438] and Prudence [5439].

NC married someone.

His child was:

178 i. NC Orange Proctor Probably [5423]

360. James Davidson [7857], son of Samuel Davidson [7899] and Unknown, was born in Mar 1713 in PA Chester County²¹¹ and died on 7 Mar 1794 in NC Orange County²¹¹ at age 81.

General Notes: unproven kin to our's

Fact: 1790, NC Orange County. Apparently, he was not taxed.

James married Mary Bane [7858]²¹¹ [MRIN: 3385] in 1744 in PA Chester.²¹¹

Children from this marriage were:

180 i. Colonel William Davidson of NC Orange [7851]

ii. James Davidson [7859] was born in 1755 in PA Lancaster County²¹¹ and died in 1812 in TN Jefferson County, Dandridge²¹¹ at age 57.

361. Mary Bane [7858],²¹¹ daughter of Alexander Bane [7860] and Jane Moore [7861], was born in Sep 1715 in PA Chester²¹¹ and died on 6 Jul 1783 in NC Orange County²¹¹ at age 67.

Mary married James Davidson [7857] [MRIN: 3385] in 1744 in PA Chester.²¹¹

368. NC Orange County Davis [17077] was born circa 1730 and was christened in 1755 in NC Orange County tax.

Tax List: 1755, NC Orange County. DAVIS:

Evan, John, Chas., Herman, Robt. Thos.

NC married someone.

His child was:

i. John Davis [7887] was born in 1735 in PA Chester County,²⁹¹ died in 1806 at age 71, and was buried in NC Orange County, Cane Creek MM.²⁹¹

NC next married someone.

His child was:

184 i. Davis [17078]

376. William Goodridge [6937],²⁹² son of Charles Goodridge [9307] and Unknown, was born circa 1720.

William married someone.

His child was:

188 i. George Goodridge [6936]

384. Daniel Cox [5864], son of Dr. Daniel Cox Physician to the Queen [11816] and Rebecca Coldham [11817], was born in 1680 in NC Chowan maybe²⁹³ and died in 1744 in NC Craven Will at age 64.

General Notes: NOT NAMED IN VINCENTS WILL!

HE MUST NOT BE THE SON OF VINCENT>

DON GIDDENS 2004

Fact: 2003, Greenville, TX.¹ I once linked Daniel Cox to Charnock Cox because they were in the same county the same time, then I found out Charnock did not list a John. Still, ???

Taxed: 1744, NC Craven County.

Fact: 1707, Chowan County NC.³¹ On July 8, 1707, Daniel Cox of Chowan Precinct sold to Simon Patchett of ye same place “for 15 lbs. my plantation and tract of land mentioned in ye conveyance hereunto annexed, the same being conveyed to me from my Father-in-Law William Windley all housing, fencing, gardens, orchards etc., I bind myself in the penal sum of 30 lbs. sterling this is an assignment of a conveyance from Davis to Windley from Windley to Cox and now from Cox to Patchett.” Wits: Nathaniel Chevin, Selah(Silas) Smith. (Chowan County Deed Book W#1, page 84).

William Windley and his wife Ann, deeded to Daniel Cox this 10 ___ 1705 for a valuable consideration we set over the within mentioned land and Plantation and bind ourselves in the penall sum of 20 lbs.

Some of the mateial on the Windleys was taken from "Robert Windley and His Descendants 1652-1987" researched and compiled by Helen Bryan Chamberlain Jones.

All source notations attributed to Lesley Prey came from the website

http:awt.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=REG&db=:3151565&id=10653 printed July 13, 2006, updated Oct. 2005

Tax List: 1711, NC. No Coxes or Windleys were listed in Chowan Precinct.

Daniel married Windley [59]²⁹⁴ [MRIN: 2520] circa 1703.

Children from this marriage were:

192 i. John Cox I [5]

ii. Jeremiah Cox [8569] was born circa 1705.

iii. Luke Cox [8570] was born circa 1705.

iv. James Cox [8571] was born circa 1705.

v. William Cox [8572] was born circa 1705.

vi. Tabitha Cox [8574] was born circa 1705.

vii. Stephen Cox [8575] was born circa 1705.

viii. William Cox [1116] was born circa 1710 and died after 1769 in NC Craven County.

Daniel next married Sarah Eckley of Philadelphia [4943] [MRIN: 7358], daughter of John Eckley Quaker [17514] and Unknown.

385. Windley [59],²⁹⁴ daughter of William Windley [2169] and ANN [5865], was born circa 1680 in NC Maybe²¹⁷ and died before 1707 in NC.²¹⁷

Fact.⁸⁸ Daughters were named after their mother. The only daughter listed in the will was a Tabitha; therefore, her mother MAY have been named Tabitha, also.

Fact.⁸⁸ I have personally connected Judge Daniel Cox to our family because-

Daniel is a rare name in the Cox family.

This Daniel was definitely in the same county, the same time as our Coxes. And both families Cox and Beverly were wealthy.

I am totally lacking on other proofs. Don Giddens 2003.

Windley married Daniel Cox [17452] [MRIN: 45], son of Dr. Daniel Cox Physician to the Queen [11816] and Unknown, circa 1696 in NC Craven County maybe.

Children from this marriage were:

i. Stephen Cox [63] was born circa 1695.²¹⁷

ii. Charles Cox [1862] was born about 1700.

iii. Jeremiah Cox [67] was born circa 1697 in NC Craven Area,²¹⁷ was christened in 1760 in NC Pitt County, and died after 1784 in NC Beaufort Maybe.

iv. William Cox [1860] was born in 1700 in VA Orange County.

v. James 1701 Cox [65] was born circa 1701 in NC Craven Area.²¹⁷

vi. Luke Cox [64] was born circa 1703 in NC Craven Area.²¹⁷

192 vii. John Cox I [5]

viii. Tabitha Cox [69] was born circa 1707 in Age Depends On Birth Order.

Windley next married Daniel Cox [5864] [MRIN: 2520] circa 1703.

386. John Beverly [10134],²⁹⁵ son of Major Robert Beverly Grandchild? [10111] and Mary Keeble [10112], was born in 1675 in VA Middlesex County and died on 22 Dec 1737 in NC Bertie/Craven/Johnston at age 62.

General Notes: Re: Beverly Cox b abt 1725 d 1794 Pendleton

Posted by: Lee Stockman Date: November 27, 2000 at 18:40:46

In Reply to: Re: Beverly Cox b abt 1725 d 1794 Pendleton by Don Giddens of 7205

John Beverly Sr, made will in Bertie Co, NC 22 Dec 1737 and died shortly afterward. A grandson listed in the will is William Cox. This William settled on Jones Creek in Pendleton Dist. according to Leonardo Andre's records on the Coxes. Could Beverly Cox be a son of William, grand son of John Beverly Sr.?

I have not been able to connect these fellow back to Essex Co, VA, but that does not mean they are not part of the same family.

Tax List: 1721, NC Chowan County.

Corn List: 1715, NC Bertie County.

Fact: Bef 1694, England. John, under the guardianship of his brother, Peter Beverley was in England prior to October, 1694, as at that date the executors of Christopher Robinson, executor de bonis non of Major Robert Beverley render an account which includes an item of 40 pounds paid to Perry and Lane, of London, merchants, for entertaining and accommodating Major Robert Beverley's sons, Harry, John and Robert.

John married Margaret Early [4018]²⁹⁶ [MRIN: 499].

Children from this marriage were:

193 i. Sarah Beverly [55]

ii. Robert Beverly [7348] was born circa 1723.

iii. Henry Beverly [10120] was born circa 1706 and died after 1779 in SC Old 96 th.

iv. William Beverly [10122] was born in 1708²⁹⁷ and died after 1752 in NC Craven County.

v. John Beverly [17515] was born in 1706 and died in 1786 at age 80.

vi. Mary Beverly [23295]

John next married someone.

His children were:

i. John Beverly [1113] was born about 1724.

ii. Sarah Beverly [1115] was born about 1726.

387. Margaret Early [4018],²⁹⁶ daughter of William Early [4371] and Eleanor Williams or Stephens [4372], was born from 1672 to 1684 and died in 1735 in NC Bertie/Craven²⁹⁸ at age 63.

Margaret married John Beverly [10134]²⁹⁵ [MRIN: 499].

388. Virginia Vaughns [5604] was born circa 1650 in VA and died after 1704 in VA rent rolls.

Virginia married someone.

His children were:

i. VA King and Queen County Vaughn [11449] died after 1704 in VA King And Queen County rents rolls.

ii. VA Prince George County Vaughn [11450] died after 1704 in VA Prince George County rent rolls.

iii. VA Nansemond County Vaughn [11454] died after 1704 in VA Nansemond County rent rolls.

iv. VA James City County Vaughn [11457] died after 1704 in VA James City County rent rolls.

v. VA St. Peters and St. Paul Parishes Vaughn [11460] died after 1704 in VA rent rolls.

194 vi. William Vaughn [1865]

vii. Patrick Vaughn [17324] was born before 1615 in Ireland.

390. James Bruton Unproven f/o Barbary [5941], son of James Bruton [5942] and Unknown, was born in 1680 in VA Surry County and died on 5 Feb 1734 in VA Surry County²⁹⁹ at age 54.

Slaves: 1704, VA Surry County.²⁸⁶ Plymouth and Jude

James married Mary Seward [11464] [MRIN: 2558] in 1700 in VA Surry County.²⁹⁹

Children from this marriage were:

195 i. Barbary Brewton Bruton [1864]

ii. Bruton [5945] was born circa 1700.

iii. Mary Bruton [11465] was born in 1702 in VA Surry County.²⁹⁹

391. Mary Seward [11464], daughter of William Seward [11467] and Unknown, was born in 1682 in VA Surry County.²⁹⁹

Mary married James Bruton Unproven f/o Barbary [5941] [MRIN: 2558] in 1700 in VA Surry County.²⁹⁹

392. Thomas Smith of Yorkshire [11722] was born circa 1649 in If 25 When Child Born.

Thomas married someone.

His child was:

196 i. David Smith ye sonne of THOS [5982]

400. William/Ambrose Hudgins [1598], son of Edward Hudgens [5493] and Unknown, was born about 1705.

General Notes: One note said Ambrose was the son of Ambrose.

William/Ambrose married Sarah Vaughn [5492]²²² [MRIN: 587].

Children from this marriage were:

200 i. Ambrose Hudgins Daniel Boone's bro-in-law [343]

ii. Hudgins [7121] was born circa 1730.

401. Sarah Vaughn [5492]²²² was born circa 1701 in England.

Sarah married William/Ambrose Hudgins [1598] [MRIN: 587].

402. Richard Foster [21180], son of Robert Foster [21181] and Elizabeth Garnett [21183], was born from 1686 to 1693, was christened in 1704 in VA Gloucester rent rolls,³⁰⁰ and died after 1736.

FYI: 1704, VA Gloucester.³¹ According to 1704 VA Gloucester rent rolls there were two Fosters there- Richard and James. Another contributor said James had no children, so our's may be the Richard.

Richard married someone.

His child was:

201 i. Joannah Foster "Ann" [1536]

404. Benjamin 1712 Davis S/O James And Ann [2312],²²³ son of James 1668 Davis S/O Simon And Mary [4172] and Ann [4183], was born in Apr 1712 in MA Concord³⁰¹ and died about 1759 in VA Botetourt County, Fincastle area²²³ about age 47.

Fact. The reason I have linked this Benjamin with ours is because of his son, Elnathan. No other proof. - Don Giddens 2003

Benjamin married Barbara Richeson [17826]³⁰² [MRIN: 747] on 23 Oct 1731 in Phila PA First Presby. Church.

Children from this marriage were:

i. Benjamin 1731 Davis [4169] was born on 24 Dec 1731 in MD Baltimore and died on 21 Mar 1802 in NC Orange County at age 70.

202 ii. Rev. Elnathan Davis Baptist [1652]

405. Barbara Richeson [17826]³⁰² was born circa 1712.

Barbara married Benjamin 1712 Davis S/O James And Ann [2312]²²³ [MRIN: 747] on 23 Oct 1731 in Phila PA First Presby. Church.

406. Collins [22372] .

Collins married someone.

His child was:

203 i. Mary Collins [1501]

408. Jeremiah Ellis II [336],²²⁷ son of Jeremiah Ellis [5593] and Mary maybe Skinner [1526], was born in 1671 in VA Surry County²²⁷ and died in 1722 in VA Surry County²²⁷ at age 51.

General Notes: http://worldconnect.genealogy.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=GET&db=nell- ellis_1&id=I835

Rent rolls: 1704, VA Surry County.³⁰⁰ Ellis Edward Surry County, 1704

Ellis James Surry County, 1704

Ellis Jere Surry County, 1704

Jeremiah married Sarah Harvey [1515] [MRIN: 461].

Children from this marriage were:

i. Caleb Ellis [1523] was born in 1701 in Surry VA and died in 1761 in Surry VA at age 60.

ii. Jeremiah Ellis [7020] was born in 1706.³⁰³

204 iii. John Ellis Va Surry [1517]

iv. Johnnathan Ellis [7021] was born in 1710.³⁰³

v. Edward Ellis [7022] was born in 1712.³⁰³

vi. Joshua Ellis [1524] was born about 1714.

vii. Priscilla Ellis [1561] was born in 1719.

viii. Sarah Ellis [1562] was born in 1720.

ix. Susannah Ellis [1563] was born in 1722.

x. Richard Wiggins Ellis [1519] was born on 25 Sep 1748.

xi. Mary Ellis [1520] was born on 26 Oct 1751.

Jeremiah next married Mary Skinner [1565] [MRIN: 479] in 1688.

Children from this marriage were:

i. Joseph Ellis [1566] was born in 1670.

ii. Jeremiah Ellis [1567] was born in 1671.

iii. Edward Ellis [1568] was born about 1673.

iv. James Ellis [1569] was born about 1679.

v. Benjamin Ellis [1570] was born in 1685.

vi. John Ellis [1571] was born in 1687.

Jeremiah next married Elizabeth [5592]²²⁷ [MRIN: 2376].

The child from this marriage was:

204 i. John Ellis Va Surry [1517]

409. Sarah Harvey [1515], daughter of Harvey [7019] and Unknown, was born about 1671.

General Notes: : Gary Ellis <wurdluvr@mindspring.com>

Rent rolls: 1704, VA.³⁰⁰ George Harvey, James City County

Richard Harvey, Norfolk County

Sarah married Jeremiah Ellis II [336]²²⁷ [MRIN: 461].

410. William Wiggins Unproven [5597], son of VA Surry County Wiggins Unproven [5598] and Unknown, was born circa 1704 in VA Surry County.

Tax List: 1805, NC Warren County.

William married someone.

His child was:

205 i. Mary Wiggins [5590]

412. SC Pendleton District [17542] .

SC married someone.

His children were:

206 i. SC Pendleton District Young [5862]

ii. SC Anderson County Cox [17543] was christened in 1843 in SC Anderson County tax list.

416. Martin Saunders or Sanders s/o David [3736],²³² son of Martin Sanders [4644] and Elizabeth Isaac [3740], was born in 1672 in England Probably²³² and died circa 1742 in VA²³² at age 70.

Immigrated: 1735, VA.

Martin married Rachel Aaron [3737]²³² [MRIN: 1475].

The child from this marriage was:

208 i. John Saunders or Sanders [2343]

Martin next married someone.

His child was:

i. Edward Sanders Of Nc [3705] was born circa 1665.

417. Rachel Aaron [3737]²³² was born circa 1670.

Rachel married Martin Saunders or Sanders s/o David [3736]²³² [MRIN: 1475].

420. Ireland James Hamilton [3744],³⁰⁴ son of Frederick Hamilton [6993] and Christian Glen [6994], was born in 1659 in Scotland, Glasgow³⁰⁵ and died in Londonderry, Ireland.

Rent rolls: 1704, VA Henrico County, Richmond. James Hambleton

James married Janet Campbell [3745] [MRIN: 1480] in 1683 in Ireland, Londonderry.³⁰⁶

The child from this marriage was:

210 i. Arthur Hamilton [3699]

421. Janet Campbell [3745] was born circa 1660 in Ireland, Londonderry.

Janet married Ireland James Hamilton [3744]³⁰⁴ [MRIN: 1480] in 1683 in Ireland, Londonderry.³⁰⁶

424. Our John Robins [17272],¹⁵⁹ son of John Robins [17846] and Jane/ANNE Throckmorton [17847], was born in 1700 in VA Richmond County (Old) and was christened in 1782 in VA Richmond County census. Ancestral File Number: 1782 4-6.

John married Elizabeth [17273]¹⁵⁹ [MRIN: 7249].

The child from this marriage was:

212 i. John Robins [3839]

425. Elizabeth [17273]¹⁵⁹ was born circa 1700.

Elizabeth married Our John Robins [17272]¹⁵⁹ [MRIN: 7249].

426. William Strother [8181], son of William Strother [8186] and Margaret Thornton [8187], was born in 1697 in VA Stafford County³⁰⁷ and died on 6 Apr 1732 in VA Stafford County³⁰⁷ at age 35.

General Notes: Unproven father of our Mary Strothers. However, he has may have been, because he has seven "unnamed" chioldren on the Smothers page.

William married Margaret Watts [8183]³⁰⁷ [MRIN: 3531].

The child from this marriage was:

213 i. Mary Margaret Madison Strother [3840]

427. Margaret Watts [8183],³⁰⁷ daughter of Richard Watts [8184] and Mary Blagg [8185], was born circa 1700 in VA Hanover County,³⁰⁷ died circa 1755 in W. VA. at age 55, and was buried in Zion Episcopal Church, Charlestown, WV.³⁰⁷

Margaret married William Strother [8181] [MRIN: 3531].

428. John Dogan [17250]¹⁵⁹ was born circa 1700.

John married Mary Salmon [17251]¹⁵⁹ [MRIN: 7238].

The child from this marriage was:

214 i. Samuel Dogan [17248]

429. Mary Salmon [17251],¹⁵⁹ daughter of Thomas Salmon [17252] and Mary Theriot [17253], was born circa 1700.

Mary married John Dogan [17250]¹⁵⁹ [MRIN: 7238].

430. Andrew Harrison Jr. [17258],¹⁵⁹ son of Andrew Harrison [17260] and Thomasine [17261], was born in 1671¹⁵⁹ and died in 1727¹⁵⁹ at age 56.

Andrew married Mary Lovell [17259]¹⁵⁹ [MRIN: 7243] in 1718 in VA Westmoreland County.¹⁵⁹

The child from this marriage was:

215 i. Ann Mary Harrison [17249]

Andrew next married Mary Kiser [17267]¹⁵⁹ [MRIN: 7248] in 1718 in VA Westmoreland County.¹⁵⁹

431. Mary Lovell [17259],¹⁵⁹ daughter of Robert Lovell [17265] and Ursula Nicolas [17266], was born in 1699 in VA Westmoreland County and died circa 1741 in VA Westmoreland County¹⁵⁹ at age 42.

Mary married Andrew Harrison Jr. [17258]¹⁵⁹ [MRIN: 7243] in 1718 in VA Westmoreland County.¹⁵⁹

432. William Rushing [1305], son of Matthew M. Rushing persecuted Protestants [1315] and Elizabeth Vrow [1316], was born about 1710 in NC Northampton County²³⁶ and died after 1790 in NC Anson County, Fayette.

Alt. Birth: Abt 1711.

Researchers: 2000. Ayres

Immigration: Abt 1740, NC Anson County. Northampton (Ira Rushing)

Property: 1730. Bought Land From His Father

Residence: : NC Anson County. Brown's Creek, White Store, Anson, NC

Census: 1790, NC Anson County. Wm Rushing- 14100

William married someone about 1731.

His children were:

216 i. Abraham Rushing [1304]

ii. Philip J. Rushing [1306] was born about 1735²³⁶ and died after 1840 in Perry County, TN.²³⁷

iii. Richard Rushing RWS [1307] was born in 1749 in VA,²³⁷ died on 11 Jan 1841 in Rushing Creek, Perry County, Decatur, TN²³⁷ at age 92, and was buried in Campground Cemetery, Decatur, TN (Unmarked).²³⁷

iv. William D. Rushing RWS KIA [1310] was born about 1730²³⁶ and died in 1776 in NC Anson County about age 46.

v. Jacob Rushing [1311] was born about 1741.²³⁶

vi. Solomon Rushing [1313] was born in 1743²³⁶ and died in 1811 in NC Anson County²³⁷ at age 68.

vii. John Paul Rushing [1308] was born about 1745.²³⁶

viii. And That's All Rushing [1606]

434. Jason Meadors VA [1324], son of John Meador [6805] and Elizabeth/Frances Aubrey [6807], was born in 1704 in VA Essex County³⁰⁸ and died on 3 Mar 1774 in NC Anson County³⁰⁹ at age 70. Another name for Jason was Meadows.

Jason married Elizabeth Stone [1325] [MRIN: 659].

Children from this marriage were:

217 i. Mariah Meador [1319]

ii. Thomas Meadors [6806] was born in 1737 in VA Essex County and died in 1826 in KY Whitley County³⁰⁸ at age 89.

iii. Jason Meadors RWS [17067] was born in 1759, was christened in 1790 in NC Anson County census, and died after 1840 in GA Crawford pension. Another name for Jason was Meadows.

iv. Edward Meadors [17117] was christened in 1790 in NC Anson County census.

435. Elizabeth Stone [1325] was born in 1709 in NC³⁰⁸ and died on 10 Jun 1778³¹⁰ at age 69.

Elizabeth married Jason Meadors VA [1324] [MRIN: 659].

436. Isaac Nichols [6077], son of William Coleman Nichols [6083] and Unknown [6085], was born circa 1735 and died in 1781 in NC Anson (Fayette) County at age 46.

Isaac married someone.

His child was:

218 i. Isaac Nichols NC [6075]

440. Bridges Freeman [945],³¹¹ son of William Freeman [4387] and Elizabeth Bridges [5189], was born before 1734 in Surry VA and died circa 1820 in AL Limestone County maybe. Another name for Bridges was Bridgers.

Biographical note: 1755, Sussex.³¹² DAVIS } vs }Cap.e? FREEMAN } TO FEB.RY 1755 EX.D AND HENRY NIOLSON BAIL JA.S CHAPPELL J.s S.S FEB 1755 ABATES? (ON FRONT OF PAPER) GEORGE THE SECOND, BY THE GRACE OF GOD, OF GREAT BRITAIN, FRANCE, AND IRELAND, KING, DEFENDER OF THE FAITH, &c. TO THE SHERIFF OF SUSSEX COUNTY, GREETING. WE COMMAND YOU THAT YOU TAKE BRIDGES FREEMAN IF HE BE FOUND WITHIN YOUR BAILIWICK AND HIM SAFELY KEEP, SO THAT YOU HAVE HIS BODY BEFORE OUR JUSTICES OF OUR SAID COUNTY COURT, AT THE COURT- HOUSE OF THE SAID COUNTY, ON THE SECOND MONDAY IN FEBRUARY NEXT TO ANSWER MATTHEW DAVIS OF PLEA OF DEBT DAMAGE TEN POUNDS AND HAVE THEN THERE THIS WRIT. WITNESS AUG CLAIBORNE CLERK OF SAID COURT, AT THE COURT-HOUSE AFORESAID, THE XXI.st DAY OF JANUARY IN THE XXVIII.th YEAR OF OUR REIGN. A CLAIBORNE

WItness: Oct 1765, NC Warren County.³¹³ DB-l, page 88. 15 October 1765. WILLIAM MOORE to LODWICK ALFORD, both of Bute Co. 23 Pds: 6 Sh:8 d. Va. money for 290 A. on NS Tarr River & down the river, granted to JAMES PACE by agent of LORD GRANVILLE. Wit: JAMES ALFORD, BRIDGES FREEMAN. Ack: by WILLIAM MOORE, Bute April Court 1766, BEN McCULLOCH, C.C. Reg: 6 November 1766, by WILLM. JOHNSON, P.R.

Census: 1784, NC Johnston County.

Biographical note: 2003, Don Giddens; Wild Guesses. Possibly a descendant of the 1603 Bridges Freeman, the only proof being the name.

Bridges married Elizabeth Howell [4399]³¹⁴ [MRIN: 263].

The child from this marriage was:

220 i. Howell Freeman RWS [944]

441. Elizabeth Howell [4399],³¹⁴ daughter of William Howell G'father [18583] and Unknown, was born circa 1734 in VA Surry.

Elizabeth married Bridges Freeman [945]³¹¹ [MRIN: 263].

444. Sylvanus Massie [2011],³¹⁵ son of Captain Thomas Massie House of Burgesses [2012] and Mary Walker [5162], was born on 8 Apr 1728 in VA Middlesex County, Christ Church Parish³⁹ and died in 1808 in VA Campbell County³⁹ at age 80. Another name for Sylvanus was Thomas.

Religion: : St. Peter's Parish, New Kent County.³¹⁶ St. Peter's Church warden (Church of England)

Sylvanus married someone.

His child was:

222 i. Thomas Massie son of Sylvanus and Hannah [5201]

Sylvanus married Hannah Ragland [8163]³⁹ [MRIN: 508], daughter of John Ragland [8165] and Judith Raymond [8166], on 3 Oct 1757 in VA Goochland County.³¹⁷

The child from this marriage was:

222 i. Thomas Massie son of Sylvanus and Hannah [5201]

446. Simon Hudson III [6030], son of Robert Hudson [6033] and Martha Hancock [6034], was born in 1738.²⁴²

Fact: 1704, VA Tax Lists. Simon and Simon Jr were taxed in 1704, Prince Anne County...meaning this must have been at least the third Simon.

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Simon married Mary Anderson [6032]²⁴² [MRIN: 2593].

The child from this marriage was:

223 i. Frances Hudson Kin to the Navigator [1090]

447. Mary Anderson [6032]²⁴² was born circa 1738.

Mary married Simon Hudson III [6030] [MRIN: 2593].

448. William 1695 Lindsey Va [309], son of William 1654 Lindsey [950] and Unknown, was born in 1695 in VA Old Rappahannock County and died in 1768 in VA Brunswick at age 73.

Kin: : Eldon Corkill, 1118 Lausanne, Dal TX 75208.

Silver Mine: 1755, Hillsboro, VA.³¹⁸ Hillsborough had a silver mine that also whetted Copeland's prose, especially after he came upon an anonymous Loudoun Mirror article of October 1922 about the mine, which had been worked since Colonial times and was one of Loudoun's two silver prospects of that era.

Two strangers caused a "sensation" in Hillsborough in 1872, the article said, when they showed up in town and "finally confessed that they were in quest of a silver mine which had been discovered and worked by their great-great grandfather in the time of the French wars and Braddock's defeat [in 1755]."

Copeland, 27 in 1872, remembered that the strangers were the Lindsey brothers, "unheralded and unknown. They claimed relationship with Benjamin Leslie," an early settler, who had taken silver from the mine and had fashioned the metal into tableware. To prove their claim of mineral rights, the Lindseys "produced spoons that were still owned and cherished by the family as heirlooms."

The Lindseys also showed the town trustees an agreement between their family and James C. Janney, who had owned the silver mine, just west of his Gap Mills. The agreement gave the Lindsey family the right to prospect for silver and other metals with the stipulation that Janney would receive one-third of the take.

The Lindseys "worked faithfully during the summer and the following year," noted Copeland, for townsmen had told them that in the 1820s, Janney observed that earlier prospectors uncovered a windlass, picks, other mining tools and silver ore at a depth of 18 to 20 feet.

But, Copeland recalled, the Lindsey brothers could not find the mine "and returned to their home in Illinois with depleted pocket books." People still search for the mine, a few yards east of Gap Mills' old dam across Catoctin Creek.

Indenture: 1754, VA Brunswick County.³¹⁹ Indenture made the 24th day of November, 1760, between John BROWN and Olive, his wife, of Nottoway Parrish, Southampton County, parties of the first part, and Thomas HARRISON, for 42 pounds 10 shillings, conveying 143 acres of which lower part of land bounded by land of Peter SIMMONS and upper part of land bounded by lands of John BUTTS and John JACKSON, and being part of a larger tract formerly belonging to John DENTON, deceased, and by John DENTON devised to Elizabeth HARPER, wife of George HARPER, and by them sold to William LINDSEY by Deed recorded in Williamsburgh and by William LINDSEY conveyed unto the said John Brown by deed dated February 26, 1754, and recorded in Brunswick County. Signed by John BROWN and Olive BROWN (her mark). Witnesses were Jas. STEWART, James HARRISON, William KNIGHT, Peny. HURST, and Ingram BLANKS. Indenture proved in Court on January 26, 1761, by the oaths of James STEWART, William KNIGHT, and Peny. HURST, and as to Olive BROWNE, by the oaths of James STEWART and William KNIGHT. Deed Book 6, page 600.

WItness: 1755, VA Brunswick County. Indenture made the 22nd day of December, 1755, between Randal BRACEY and Benjamin HARRISON of Lunenburg County, for 275 pounds, conveying 1117 acres on Cock's Creek, part of which was granted under a patent for 150 acres and conveyed from John NIPPER to BRACY on March 4, 1742, 73 acres under a patent bearing date of September 5, 1749, and also two other patent bearing date of 1755 for 314 acres each. Witnesses were Thomas TWITTY, William LINDSEY, Silvanus STOKES, Jr., and Robert ALEXANDER. Presented in Court on December 23, 1755. Deed Book 6, page 4.

Indenture: 1759, VA Brunswick County.³¹⁹ Indenture made the 20th day of July, 1759, between William LINDSAY and John LINDSEY, for 10 pounds, conveying 50 acres on West side of Wildcat Creek, adjoining Old Tanfat Branch. Witnesses were James LINDSEY, William MARTIN, Caleb LINDSEY, Peter ROFS (his mark), and Abraham MARTIN (his mark). Indenture and Receipt proved in Court on September 24, 1759, by the oaths of Caleb LINDSEY, Peter ROFS, and Abraham MARTIN. Deed Book 6, page 403.

Indenture: 1760, VA Brunswick County.³¹⁹ Indenture made the 26th day of July, 1760, between John CARLTON and Aggatha CARLTON, parties of the first part, and Thomas HOLCOMB, for 20 pounds, conveying 130 acres on East side of Little Wildcat Creek, adjoining lands of William LINDSEY. Signed by John CARLTON (his mark) and Aggatha CARLTON (her mark). Witnesses were Joshua DRAPER, William FETCH, and Abraham MARTIN. Indenture and Receipt were proved in Court on July 28, 1760, by the oaths of the witnesses. Deed Book 6, page 554.

William married Jane [7958] [MRIN: 297] about 1723.

Children from this marriage were:

i. Sarah Lindsey [1041] was born about 1727.

ii. Adam 1730 Lindsey [17860] was born circa 1730.

iii. Joseph 1730 NICHOLS Lindsey [10000] was born circa 1730 in VA and died in NC Warren County resident.

224 iv. Major William 1721 Lindsey RWS [307]

449. Jane [7958] .

General Notes: try Lucas or Chew? DLG 2006

Jane married William 1695 Lindsey Va [309] [MRIN: 297] about 1723.

450. Henry Martin [1541], son of John Martin [4424] and Mary Johnson [4425], was born about 1704 in VA Spotsylvania, St. George's Parish²⁴⁶ and died on 19 Apr 1748 in VA Spotsylvania, St. George's Parish²⁴⁶ about age 44.

General Notes: Parents of Rosanna thanks to Alice A. Lindsey <alindsey@btc1.up.net>

Henry married Jane Samuels [1469]³²⁰ [MRIN: 464].

The child from this marriage was:

225 i. Rosanna Martin [308]

451. Jane Samuels [1469],³²⁰ daughter of Anthony Samuel [11521] and Mary Ann Rogers [17299], was born about 1710.

Jane married Henry Martin [1541] [MRIN: 464].

Jane next married Colquit [17298] [MRIN: 7263].

452. Peter Brewer [532],²⁴⁸ son of Sackfield Brewer Immigrant [4100] and Mary Smith [4139], was born before 1699 in VA James City County³²¹ and died after 1779 in NC Orange County tax.

Census: 1755, NC Orange County. BREWERS:

1755 Henry, Howell,

1779 Peter, Sackville

Peter married Letitia Lanier [1870]²⁴⁸ [MRIN: 593].

The child from this marriage was:

226 i. Sackfield Brewer Va Brunswick [1701]

453. Letitia Lanier [1870],²⁴⁸ daughter of George Lanier [11871] and Unknown, was born about 1699.

Letitia married Peter Brewer [532]²⁴⁸ [MRIN: 593].

456. John Linn or Lynn [4406] was born in 1690 in Ireland⁷⁸ and died in 1765 in PA⁷⁸ at age 75.

Immigrated: After 1730, to PA.

John married Sarah McKay [4407]³²³ [MRIN: 1771].

The child from this marriage was:

228 i. Adam Lynn Gun mfg [958]

457. Sarah McKay [4407]³²³ was born circa 1690 in PA Westmoreland County and died in PA.

Sarah married John Linn or Lynn [4406] [MRIN: 1771].

458. Dickerson [6089] .

Dickerson married someone.

His child was:

229 i. Mrs. Isobel Dickerson [959]

460. Captain Findley Ewing fled Northern Ireland [317], son of William Ewing Persecuted Protestant [771] and Findley Maybe [7123], was born circa 1725 in Coleraine, Londonberry, Ulster, Ireland and died in Jun 1787 in Peaks Of Otter (Bedford) VA at age 62.

Alt. Birth: 7 Sep 1691, Scotland.³²⁵

Alt. Birth: 1718.

Kin: 1998, Kris Oleson, Gen Form Ewing Family, Desc. Of Sydney Ann , As We Are.

Residence: Abt 1734, MD. Came To USA To Cousin Nathaniel Ewings At Cecil Myd

Residence: : VA Bedford County. On To Bedford VA W/ Cousin James Ewing.

Findley married Jane Porter [747] [MRIN: 519] about 1750 in VA Bedford County.

The child from this marriage was:

230 i. Rev. Robert Ewing Colonial Presby. Minister [315]

461. Jane Porter [747], daughter of Joshua Porter [1703] and Margaret, grandtr Ewing [1704], was born in 1696 in Londonderry, Ireland.

Jane married Captain Findley Ewing fled Northern Ireland [317] [MRIN: 519] about 1750 in VA Bedford County.

462. Rev. Caleb Baker Ireland [318], son of Robert Baker [319] and Susan Packer [375], was born in 1690 in Londonderry, Ireland and died in Mar 1754 in VA Prince Edward County at age 64. Another name for Caleb was Beaker.

General Notes: The Ewings and Bakers came together from the New Connaught MD area. George Talbot survey, Cecil County, MD, neighbors of Matthew Wallace. The Thompsons, Lindseys, Morrows, and Linns might perhaps also be traced there.

Religion: : Colonial Minister.

Occupation. Comm. By King To Make Guns

Occupation. Colonial Minister Presby.

Caleb married Martha Brooks [975] [MRIN: 690] on 13 Nov 1722 in England, Shropshire maybe.

Marriage Notes: Noncomformist Friends, Shropshire marriage

Children from this marriage were:

i. Samuel Baker [379] was born in 1715 in Chester Co PA and died in 1782 in VA Prince Edward County at age 67.

ii. Abraham Baker [979] was born in 1719 in PA Lancaster County and died before 1779 in South Carolina.

iii. Henry Baker [980] was born about 1720.

iv. Ruth Baker [981] was born in 1723 in PA Lancaster County.

231 v. Mary Baker Va [316]

vi. Esther Baker [377] was born in 1732 in PA Chester County and died in Cub Creek, Charlotte, VA.

vii. Martha Baker [382] was born in 1732 in Chester Co PA and died about 1790 about age 58.

viii. Caleb Jr Baker [983] was born in 1734 in PA Lancaster County³⁹ and died in Mar 1824 in VA Prince Edward County at age 90.

Caleb next married Catherine Hodwill [4423]²⁵⁴ [MRIN: 1775].

463. Martha Brooks [975], daughter of Rev. John Brooks [1869] and Unknown, was born in 1695 in Lancashire, England and died in May 1759 in VA Prince Edward County at age 64.

Martha married Rev. Caleb Baker Ireland [318] [MRIN: 690] on 13 Nov 1722 in England, Shropshire maybe.

464. William Wormington [895], son of John Wormington [905] and Unknown, was born about 1700 and died about 1762 in VA Norfolk County about age 62.

Will: 1762, VA Norfolk.³²⁶ In 1762 the Norfolk County will of William Wormington left Samuel the older part of the plantation near Great Bridge that had been used by his father John. He had also been left personal items, a negro slave girl, Violet, a gun called "new gun" and an equal share of the bulk of the estate.

On 10 Jun 1765 in the Norfolk County tithables he was listed in the household of Abraham Wormington as "brother Samuel" in addition, the slave Violet, inherited by Samuel from his father, is found in that household (proving that only Samuel son of William and Samuel son of Abraham was over 16 in 1765 and could have been the Samuel born in 1745 and married in 1769.)

On 17 Dec 1771 in Princess Anne County a legal suit was filed for inheritance from Edward Denby, Sr. on behalf of Mary Denby Wormington, Fanny Denby, and Anne Denby. Samuel Wormington was husband of Mary and legal guardian of Fanny. Jesse Sikes was legal guardian of Anne. Mary, Fanny, and Anne were granddaughters of Edward.

In 1786 the State census of North Carolina in Mattamaskeet District of Hyde County found the Samuel Wormington household consisting of 1 white male between 21 and 60 years old, 1 other white male, 6 white females, 6 blacks 12 to 50 years old and, 4 other blacks.

There were 2-3 men named John Wormington living in North Carolina at the same time as Samuel. Neither matches up as son of Abraham

William married Mary Lockhart [896] [MRIN: 243].

Children from this marriage were:

i. Abraham Wormington [898] was born about 1736 in Norfolk Co VA and died in 1789 in Norfolk Co VA about age 53.

ii. Alice Wormington [899] was born about 1738.

iii. Letice Wormington [901] was born about 1740.

232 iv. Samuel Wormington [884]

v. Mary Wormington [903] was born on 19 Feb 1747 in Norfolk Co VA and died in May 1788 in Great Bridge, Norfolk, VA at age 41.

465. Mary Lockhart [896], daughter of John Lockhart [897] and Unknown, was born about 1700.

Mary married William Wormington [895] [MRIN: 243].

466. Edward Denbigh [886],¹ son of Edward Denby [11519] and Elizabeth Pullen [21114], was born about 1720 and died before 1761.³²⁷ Another name for Edward was Denby in England.

FYI.³²⁸ This Denbigh/Denby/Danby line goes back to William the Conqueror through Edward III of England

Edward married Ann Sikes [887]¹ [MRIN: 241].

The child from this marriage was:

233 i. Mary Denbigh [885]

467. Ann Sikes [887],¹ daughter of Thomas Sikes [21069] and Unknown, was born about 1720 and died before 1762.³²⁷

Ann married Edward Denbigh [886]¹ [MRIN: 241].

468. Our Abraham Hassell [17576], son of Our John Hassell [17578] and Rachel/Jane Wheeler [17579], was born in 1713,¹⁶⁴ was christened in 1748 in NC Tyrrell County, and died in 1771 in NC Tyrrell County¹⁶⁴ at age 58.

Land: 1748, NC Tyrrell County. To John Alexander Three hundred Acors.

A dispute between Abraham Hassell and Godfrey Phelps about their Dividing Line.

The above List is Just and True of Each and Every Persons Land that appeard to us to Possesion Certified under our hands.

John Alexander Roger Snell

The Line between Abraham Hassell and Godfrey Phelps Abraham Hassell refuseth to Prossestion or to let it be Prossesion the Same Certified under our hands this 29th Day of April 1748.

Will: 1770, NC Tyrrell County.³²⁹

Military: 1754, NC Tyrrell County. Clerk

Alligator District

Abraham married Priscilla Alexander [17577]¹⁶⁴ [MRIN: 7385].

Children from this marriage were:

234 i. John Hassell [870]

ii. William Hassell [21015] was born circa 1700, was christened in 1748 in NC Tyrrell County, and died after 1748.

469. Priscilla Alexander [17577],¹⁶⁴ daughter of Anthony Alexander Patentee [21016] and Unknown, was born in 1715 and died in 1777¹⁶⁴ at age 62.

Priscilla married Our Abraham Hassell [17576] [MRIN: 7385].

470. John Jennett Jr [17045], son of John Jennett Sr [17050] and Unknown, was born circa 1725, was christened in Jun 1747 in NC Tyrrell County, and died in 1748 in NC Tyrrell County at age 23. Another name for John was Jannett.

Land: 1747, NC Tyrrell County. Pursuant to an Order of Vestry the 5th Day of June 1747 for the Possessioning Every Persons Land on the East Side of Scopperlong River to Clays Creek We the Subscribers Mett and proceeded as follows.---

For John Jennett Senyr. Three hundred Acors.

For John Jennett Junr. Three hundred and Twenty two Acors. ---

Will: 1748, NC Tyrrell County.³²⁹ Secretary of State

Colony of North Carolina

Tyrrel County

Dated 29 April 1748

In the name of God Amen I John Jannet, son of John Jannet Senr., of Tyrrel County in the Province of North Carolina Planter, knowing it is appointed unto all men once to die, and not knowing when nor how soon it may be my lot to depart this life, do now fine ye time of my health and memory I ordain make this my Last Will & Testament in manner & form following, First & principally, I give my Soul unto & in ye hands of almighty God who gave it, and my body I comit to ye Earth to be decently buried at ye discretion of my Executors hereafter named, hoping as well for a joyfull resurrection & redemption of both body & soul with ye salvation of each through Jesus Christ ye Redeemer of mankind, and as touching my temperal estate wherewith God hath been pleased to bless me, I give bequeath & dispose of ye same in ye following manner, to witt,

First - I give & bequeath unto my son Abraham Jannet all my coopers tools & carpenters tools, and to my son John Jannet all my shoemaker tools, and to my son Joseph five pounds Carolina Currency, of ye value of ___ shillings sterling, to my daughter Anne Jannet ye like sum of money, to my daughter Elizabeth Jannet ye same sum. To my grandson Abraham Jannet a hand gunn, to each of them as above is given & bequeathed & to each of their, his or her heirs or assigns forever and all ye rest of my estate both real and personal, I give bequeath, dispose to my well beloved wife Ann Jannet at her disposal, her heirs & assigns forever; whom I do hereby nominate, constitute and appoint Sole Executrix of this my Last Will & Testament. In witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand & Seal this twenty ninth day of April Ano. Dom. 1748.

John (his -x- mark) Jannet (Seal)

Signed, Sealed, published, & declared

by ye sd Testators, to be his Last will

& Testament in presence of

George Caron

Ann (her -x- mark) Jannet } Jabez's daughter

Daniel Grandin

John married Ann Patterson [21028] [MRIN: 7157].

Children from this marriage were:

235 i. Ann Jennett [871]

ii. Joseph Gennett/ Jennett [21029] died in 1804 in NC Tyrrell County.

iii. Abraham Jennett [21052] was born circa 1750 and died in 1785 in NC Tyrrell County at age 35.

iv. John Jennett [21053] died after 1748.

v. Elizabeth Jennett [21054] died after 1748.

471. Ann Patterson [21028] died in 1764 in NC Tyrrell County.

General Notes: maybe if same Ann

Will: 1764, NC Tyrrell County.³²⁹ Gennet, Ann Patterson Estate 1764 NC Archives/Tyrrell Co. Estates - C.R.096.508.13

Ann married John Jennett Jr [17045] [MRIN: 7157].

472. Henry Turpin [4378],³³⁰ son of Mathew Turpin [4379] and Elizabeth Becket [4380], was born Est 1700 and died before 1782.

Henry married Margaret Some Kin [17422] [MRIN: 1751].

The child from this marriage was:

236 i. Thomas Turpin [3688]

473. Margaret Some Kin [17422] was christened in 1782 in VA Henry County tax list. Ancestral File Number: 1782- 0-0-1-3.

Margaret married Henry Turpin [4378]³³⁰ [MRIN: 1751].

474. Littleberry Lewis [4384],¹⁶⁸ son of John Lewis [11522] and Elizabeth Claibourne [11523], was born circa 1710 in VA and died in VA Prince Edward County maybe.

Littleberry married Sarah Smith [4385]¹⁶⁸ [MRIN: 1755].

The child from this marriage was:

237 i. Averilla Lewis Va [3689]

475. Sarah Smith [4385]¹⁶⁸ was born circa 1710.¹⁶⁸

Sarah married Littleberry Lewis [4384]¹⁶⁸ [MRIN: 1755].

480. Our William Lewis [6921], son of Our Isaac Lewis [6923] and Our Margaret Hooker [10280], was born circa 1713 in NC Albemarle County²⁵⁹ and died circa 1757 in NC Bertie County²⁵⁹ at age 44.

William married Janet Banks [6922]²⁵⁹ [MRIN: 2957].

The child from this marriage was:

240 i. Our William Lewis RWS [6919]

481. Janet Banks [6922],²⁵⁹ daughter of Banks [18231] and Unknown, was born circa 1716.²⁵⁹

Janet married Our William Lewis [6921] [MRIN: 2957].

482. Jan Van Pelt Belgian [9461], son of Teunis Jansen Van Pelt [10248] and Elsje Hendricks [10249], was born in 1691 in Leige, Belgium resident and died in 1748 in NC Bertie County at age 57.

Occupation. Owned a shipping line

Jan married Mary Ann Perrine [9462] [MRIN: 4063].

The child from this marriage was:

241 i. Mourning Van Pelt [6920]

483. Mary Ann Perrine [9462], daughter of Henry Perrine [10273] and Unknown, was born circa 1697 in Richmond, Staten Island, NY.³³¹

Mary married Jan Van Pelt Belgian [9461] [MRIN: 4063].

484. Walden [22128] was born circa 1700.

Walden married Tavner Maybe [22129] [MRIN: 9610].

The child from this marriage was:

242 i. Tavener Walden Unproven Link [21709]

485. Tavner Maybe [22129], daughter of John Tavener [22135] and Unknown, was born circa 1700.

Tavner married Walden [22128] [MRIN: 9610].

496. Benjamin H Stennett/ Stinnett [8641], son of Our William Stinnett [8642] and Unknown, was born in 1710 in MD Calvert²⁶¹ and died in 1772 at age 62.

Benjamin married Our Elizabeth Sanders [9481] [MRIN: 3750] in 1733.

Children from this marriage were:

248 i. Benjamin H Stinnett [8639]

ii. William Stinnett [22167] was born in 1746 in VA Albemarle.¹⁰⁹

497. Our Elizabeth Sanders [9481], daughter of Our William Saunders/ Sanders Planter [9482] and Alice Faulkner Only Heir [9483], was born circa 1710.

Elizabeth married Benjamin H Stennett/ Stinnett [8641] [MRIN: 3750] in 1733.

498. Our James Isham [8644], son of Our Isham [17419] and Unknown, was born circa 1713.

James married someone.

His child was:

249 i. Our Usle Isham [8640]

500. Hightower [18235], son of Hightower [18236] and Unknown, was born circa 1715.

Hightower married someone.

His child was:

250 i. Hightower [18234]

Tenth Generation (7th Great-Grandparents)

512. Nc Rowan Giddens [15927],² son of Nc Anson Giddens [13169] and Unknown, was born in 0085 and was christened in 1753 from Anson.

Nc married someone.

His child was:

256 i. Nc Surry County Giddens [15931]

568. John Paul [3935], son of William Paul Weaver [3936] and Margaret Park [9255], was born circa 1679 in Ireland and died in 1745 in Scotland, Dalrymple Castle, If Right Line at age 66.

John married someone.

His child was:

284 i. John Paul [3934]

580. McFarland Immigrants [10187] .

McFarland married someone.

His children were:

290 i. Robert B McFarland [5692]

ii. James McFarland [10188] died after 1722 in PA immigrant.

584. John McIlvaine [5676],²⁶⁷ son of John McIlvaine [5678] and Anne Cunningham [5679], was born circa 1656 in Scotland, Ayrshire²⁶⁷ and died in 1735 in Ballykeel, Antrim, Northern Ireland²⁶⁷ at age 79.

John married Sarah Clark [5677]²⁶⁷ [MRIN: 2432] on 3 May 1687.²⁶⁷

The child from this marriage was:

292 i. Andrew McIlvaine [3642]

585. Sarah Clark [5677]²⁶⁷ was born in 1660 in Scotland, Ayrshire.²⁶⁷

Sarah married John McIlvaine [5676]²⁶⁷ [MRIN: 2432] on 3 May 1687.²⁶⁷

588. Anthony 1675 Storey [10193],¹⁸⁹ son of Thomas Storey [10195] and Unknown, was born circa 1675 in Westmoreland, England.

Anthony married someone.

His child was:

294 i. Anthony 1700 Storey [10192]

600. Gordon [17539] was born in Ireland.

Gordon married someone.

His children were:

300 i. John Gordon [3639]

ii. James Gordon [17540] was born circa 1710.

612. SC Old 96th Abbeville LeRoy [17337] was christened in 1790 in SC Old 96Th, Abbeville.

SC married someone.

His children were:

306 i. Peter Michael LeRoy IMMIGRANT [8070]

ii. Philip LeRoy [17338] was born before 1761 in France and was christened in 1790 in SC Old 96Th, Abbeville. Ancestral File Number: 12201 1790.

iii. Rene LeRoy [17339] was born before 1774 in France and was christened in 1790 in SC Old 96Th, Abbeville. Ancestral File Number: 100000 1790.

620. Pierre Roquemore [8086]³³² was born circa 1670 in Ville D'Eymet(Dordogne, France) maybe.

Fact. Situated on a meander of the Dropt, a peacefully-flowing river which for a long time was the thorouglifare of gabares (barges), the small medieval town of EYMET, founded in 1270, is ideally sited at the crossing point between regions of different and complementary landscapes, architectures and economic activities: Haut Agenais, Entre Deux Mers and le Pays de Duras... and to the north, the Bergerac region with fortified villages and sun-drenched vineya

Pierre married Jeanne Fourneyrol [8087]³³² [MRIN: 3486].

The child from this marriage was:

310 i. Vincent Gaspar Pierre Du Roquemore [3607]

621. Jeanne Fourneyrol [8087]³³² was born circa 1670.

Jeanne married Pierre Roquemore [8086]³³² [MRIN: 3486].

624. Samuel Doolittle II Giddens' line [3614], son of Samuel Doolittle I Ct Yankee [3616] and Mary Cornwall Ct Yankee [3617], was born in 1691 in MA Maybe and died in 1736 in MA at age 45.

Samuel married Jane Wheeler Ma [3615] [MRIN: 1416].

The child from this marriage was:

312 i. Samuel Joseph Doolittle III Ct Yankee [3612]

625. Jane Wheeler Ma [3615] was born circa 1691 in MA Maybe and died in MA Maybe.

Jane married Samuel Doolittle II Giddens' line [3614] [MRIN: 1416].

632. Roger Williams Old Rappahannock [4505], son of Shadrack Williams Old Rappahannock [4507] and Elizabeth Walker [4508], was born circa 1700 in VA Richmond County¹⁹¹ and died in 1744 in VA Surry (if same Roger) at age 44.

Roger married Ann Williams [4506]¹⁹¹ [MRIN: 1820].

The child from this marriage was:

316 i. Luke Williams [4503]

633. Ann Williams [4506]¹⁹¹ was born circa 1700.

Ann married Roger Williams Old Rappahannock [4505] [MRIN: 1820].

636. Roger Quarles [4480],³³³ son of Capt. John Quarles [4484] and Jane Mallory [4485], was born in 1692³³⁴ and died in 1751 at age 59.

Biographical note: : VA Caroline County. Church warden of St. Margaret's Church in Caroline.

Roger married Jane Tunstall [4481]³³⁵ [MRIN: 1806] in 1718 in VA King William County.³³⁴

The child from this marriage was:

318 i. James Quarles [4478]

637. Jane Tunstall [4481] .³³⁵

Jane married Roger Quarles [4480]³³³ [MRIN: 1806] in 1718 in VA King William County.³³⁴

638. William Read [4482] .⁴⁶

William married Elizabeth Hubbard [4483]⁴⁶ [MRIN: 1807].

The child from this marriage was:

319 i. Catherine Read [4479]

639. Elizabeth Hubbard [4483] .⁴⁶

Elizabeth married William Read [4482]⁴⁶ [MRIN: 1807].

640. Hinchea 1667-1737 I Gilliam S/O Jn And Margaret [19539],³³⁶ son of Captain Leift John 1614 Gilliam Immigrant [20836] and Margaret Henshaw [19543], was born in 1667 in VA Washington County, Bristol Parish,³³⁷ was christened Lived in VA Sussex, and died on 20 May 1737 in VA Surry County³³⁸ at age 70.

Transported people over. with Captain Nathaniel Harrison

Bought land: 25 Apr 1701, Blackwater Swamp.³³⁹ 348 acres near Nottaway River

Rent roll: 1704, VA Surry County. Hinche Gillham

Bought land: 1714. along with Charles and John and Thomas Poythress same day, same location

Bought land: 23 Dec 1714, VA Isle Of Wight County.³³⁹ 620 acres S side of Nottaway River; beg on N side of Raccoon sw; adj his land & land of Capt. Henry Harrison. 3 lbs, 5 shillings

Hinchea married Fortune Flood [18651]³⁴⁰ [MRIN: 7826] circa 1682 in VA Surry County.³⁴¹

Children from this marriage were:

i. John 1683 Gilliam S/O Hinchea And Fortune [18652] was born in 1683 in VA Albemarle³⁴² and died on 20 Apr 1737 in VA Surry County³⁴³ at age 54.

ii. Captain Hinchea 1698-1769 Gilliam S/O Hinchea And Fortune [20808] was born in 1698 in Albemarle, Sussex, And/Or Surry County, VA,³⁴⁴ was christened Patentee in VA Sussex County 1714-23, and died on 18 May 1769³⁴⁴ at age 71.

320 iii. Walter Gilliam [18653]

iv. William S/O Henshaw Gilliam [3403] was born in 1704 in Surry County, VA³⁴⁴ and died on 21 Feb 1765 in Sussex, VA If Same Wm at age 61.

v. Thomas 1702 S/O Henshaw Gilliam [18654] was born in 1702 in VA Surry County³⁴⁴ and died in 1793 in VA Southampton County³⁴⁶ at age 91.

vi. William 1704 S/O Henshaw Gilliam Desc Of Richard And Margaret? [18655] was born from 1704 to 1720 in VA Surry County Or Washington, Bristol³⁴⁷ and died in 1765 in VA Sussex¹⁹⁴ at age 61.

vii. Lydia D/O Henshaw Gilliam [18656] was born circa 1706 in VA Surry County.³⁴⁴

viii. Anne 1731 Near Hinchea Gilliam [3029] was born circa 1731 in Surry County, VA.¹⁹⁴

ix. Charles 1706 Gilliam [19308] was born in 1706 in VA Surry.³⁴⁵

x. Priscilla 1708 D/O Henshaw Gilliam [18657] was born in 1708 in VA Surry County.³⁴⁴

xi. Samuel 1712 Gilliam [19739] was born in 1712.³⁴⁹

xii. Anne 1733 Gilliam Near Hinchea [18804] was born in 1733 in VA Washington County, Bristol Parish.³⁵⁰

Hinchea next married Maybe Another For Earlier Kids [2762] [MRIN: 1046].

641. Fortune Flood [18651],³⁴⁰ daughter of John Flood Jr Interpreter also [20448] and Unknown, was born circa 1665 in VA Washington County, Bristol Parish³⁴⁴ and died on 13 May 1754 in VA Surry County³⁵¹ at age 89.

Fortune married Hinchea 1667-1737 I Gilliam S/O Jn And Margaret [19539]³³⁶ [MRIN: 7826] circa 1682 in VA Surry County.³⁴¹

642. Major John Fairfax Bolling desc of Pocahontas [20768],³⁵² son of Colonel Robert Bolling Immigrant [20738] and Jane Rolfe [20739], was born on 26 Jan 1673 in Chesterfield County, Cobbs, VA,³⁹ died in 1729 in VA Henrico County³⁵³ at age 56, and was buried in Cobbs.

Fact. VA Prominent Families has no Sarah.

Fact: : Cobbs, Virginia. Cobbs, one of the old seats of the Bollings, and the site of the first institution for teaching deaf mutes in America.

John Bolling, son of the first Robert, lived, grew immensely rich, and died, and was buried at Cobbs, April 20th, 1729. The place descended through his son John, who died September 6, 1757. He was succeeded by Thomas Bolling. Col. Robert B. Bolling, of Petersburg, and the author lately visited this place, which is on an eminence, on the north side of the Appomattox, nine miles below Petersburg. The site is beautiful, commanding long reaches up and down the river, with the steeples and other prominent features of Petersburg shining in the distance. Not a trace of the old mansion or of the old tombs is to be seen upon the ground, nor is there a trace of its history on the minds of the people. The tourist, who seeks it, will probably be told by some blissful descendant of Ham, that he " never hearn of Mr. Cobbs." The most conspicuous features in its present physiognomy are the military earthworks, and a mill solemnly grinding ochre, with which perhaps the Indians, who used to trade with the first proprietor, stained their yellow faces.

It seems not to be known, that Cobbs was the seat of the first institution for the education of deaf mutes established in America. Thomas Bolling, of Cobbs, had several children who were deaf and dumb. He sent his oldest, John, to Edinburgh, Scotland, in 1771, and put him under the care of Thomas Braidwood, the famous preceptor of that art. His children, Thomas and Mary, followed in 1775, and they all remained at Braidwood's institute during the American revolution, returning to Cobbs in 1783. John died soon after his return. Thomas was a miracle of accomplishments. His articulation became so good, that his familyjand friends understood him in conversation and in reading aloud. He died in the 67th year of his age at Gay- mount in Caroline county. The late Judge John Robertson (his relation) in an obituary printed in the Richmond Enquirer, February 18, 1836, said of him, "He composed and wrote in a peculiar, clear and graphic style; and attained an artificial faculty of speech almost equal to natural. His grace of manner, vivacity, power of imitation, made him the wonder and admiration of strangers, and the delight of friends and relatives." In 1812 Mr. Bolling heard, through the Hon. James Pleasants, that a grandson of Braidwood's was in Washington; Mr. Bolling sent for him, and he established at Cobbs the institute, and issued a prospectus, of which I have been so fortunate as to find a copy, as follows: " An institution for the education of the deaf and dumb, and for removing impediments of speech has been established at Cobbs, near Petersburg, Va., and is conducted by Mr. J. Braidwood, a descendant of the late Thomas and John Braidwood, of Edinburgh and London. Children born deaf, or who have lost their hearing, are taught to speak and read distinctly, to write and understand accurately the principles of language; they are also taught every branch of education necessary to qualify them for every situation in life. The above institution was begun at Cobbs in March last, the home of Major Thomas Boll- ing, Chesterfield county. Several pupils have been received under the tuition of the Professor, and the most satisfactory testimony of the students may be had of the Hon. James Pleasants, M. C, Washington, the Rev. Mr. Maffit, Salona, near Georgetown, Capt. William Bolling, Goochland, or at the institute

From the History of Bristol Parish

John married Mary Kennon [20770]³⁵⁴ [MRIN: 8778] in 1697 in VA Henrico, St. John's Church.

Children from this marriage were:

i. Major John Bolling [20771] was born on 20 Jan 1699 in VA Henrico County, Richmond³⁵⁵ and died on 6 Sep 1757 in VA Chesterfield County³⁵⁶ at age 58.

321 ii. Sarah Bolling desc of Pocahontas [20772]

iii. Jane Bolling [20774] was born in 1703 in VA Henrico County, Richmond³⁵⁷ and died in 1766 at age 63.

iv. Elizabeth Bolling [20775] was born in 1709.³⁵⁸

v. Mary Bolling [20776] was born in 1711.³⁵⁸

vi. Martha Bolling [20777] was born in 1713.³⁵⁸

vii. Anne Bolling [20778] was born circa 1715.

643. Mary Kennon [20770],³⁵⁴ daughter of Dr. Richard Kennon Of Conjuror's Neck [20773] and Unknown, was born in 1679 in VA Henrico County, Conjurer's Neck³⁹ and died in 1729 in VA Henrico County, Cobbs³⁹ at age 50.

Mary married Major John Fairfax Bolling desc of Pocahontas [20768]³⁵² [MRIN: 8778] in 1697 in VA Henrico, St. John's Church.

644. Charles Stuart [3976],¹⁹³ son of Stuart [5542] and Unknown, was born circa 1682³⁵⁹ and died on 2 Dec 1752 in VA Surry County⁷⁵ at age 70.

Charles married Anne Pace [3977]¹⁹³ [MRIN: 1582].

Children from this marriage were:

322 i. William Steward [3974]

ii. Richard Steward [19840] was born circa 1722.¹⁹⁴

645. Anne Pace [3977],¹⁹³ daughter of Richard Pace [5522] and Rebekah Poythress Unproven [5544], was born circa 1700.¹⁹⁴

Anne married Charles Stuart [3976]¹⁹³ [MRIN: 1582].

646. William Shands [5534],³⁶⁰ son of Thomas Shands [5537] and Frances Harrison [5538], was born circa 1685 in VA Charles City County.³⁶⁰

William married Nazareth Robbards [5535]³⁶⁰ [MRIN: 2340].

The child from this marriage was:

323 i. Mary Shands [3975]

647. Nazareth Robbards [5535],³⁶⁰ daughter of John Robbards [5536] and Unknown, was born circa 1688 in VA Charles City County maybe and died in 1764 in VA Sussex County³⁶⁰ at age 76.

Nazareth married William Shands [5534]³⁶⁰ [MRIN: 2340].

656. John Davis [9302], son of VA Essex Davis [9318] and Unknown, was born circa 1685 in VA Spotsylvania County³⁶¹ and died in 1734 in VA Spotsylvania County³⁶¹ at age 49.

Will: 1734, VA Spotsylvania County.³⁶¹ WILL OF JOHN DAVIS

(Will obtained from Nancy Kiser)

In the name of God amen. I John Davis of the parish of St. Mark in Spotsylvania County being sick and weak of body but of a sound & perfect memory praise be to God for ye same do premake and ordain my last will & Testament in writing as followeth...

Imprimis - I give & bequeath my soul to God that gave it in hopes to ___ ye ressurection of ye Great Day & my body to ye Earth to be buried in a decent mannor according to the discretion of my exe. hereafter named...

Item - I give & bequeath to my beloved wife Elizabeth ye plantation and land whereon I now dwell & after her decease to descend to my son John & his heirs....

Item - I give & bequeath to Leonard Phillips my son in law three hundred acres of land situate on Pamunky to begin at yet North west end of ye sd land & so along ye line to ye S. west....

Item - I give & bequeath to my son William three hundred acres more of land situate on Pamunky aforesd to joyn ye sd bequeathed to ye sd Leonard Phillips...

Item - I give & bequeath to my sd wife all my moveable goods & estate wherewith it hath pleased God to bless me during her natural life & after her decease to be in equall manner divided among my sd sons Leonard, John, William, Mathew & Joseph only that my daughters Elizabeth & Elinor shall at their wedding day each them have four dows and calves & one featherbed & furniture & whereas my said wife is now great with child, if it happen to be a boy I hereby require that my sons Leonard, William, Mathew & Joseph shall buy or take up for him one hundred acres of land, but it happen to be a girl I do hereby bequeath her ye same portion of her other sisters & I do hereby constitute & appoint my sd wife & my son John to be Executors of this my last will & Testament & do hereby disannul & make void all other former wills & legacies whatsoever this 14th day of March in ye year of our Lord 1733.

John Davis (his mark)

Signed and saled in presence of us

D Bryne

John Davison

James Coward

BOND OF ELIZABETH DAVIS

Know all men by these presents, That we Elizabeth Davis, John Rucker & John Davison are held and firmly bound unto the Worshipfull Justices of Spotsylvania County in the sum of two hundred pounds currt money to be paid unto ye sd Justices their heirs and successors, to the which payment well and truly to be made and done, we bind our selves and every (one) of us, our and every (one) of our heirs, Executors & Administrators, joyntly and severally firmly by these presents sealed with our seals.

Dated the 4th day of June 1734.

The condition of this obligation is such that if the above bound Elizabeth Davis Executrix of the Last Will & Testament of John Davis Deceasd to make or cause to be made a Just and Perfect Inventory of all and singular the goods, chattels & credits of the sd deced which have or shall come to the hands possession or knowledge of ye sd Elizabeth Davis or into the hands and possession of any other person or persons for her and the same so made do Exhibit into the County court of Spotsylvania at such time as she shall be thereunto rquired by ye sd court and the same goods chattells and credits and all other the goods chattells and credits of the sd deceased which at any time after shall come to the hands possession or knowledge of ye sd Eliz. Davis or into the hands and possession of any other person or persons for her do well and truly administer acording to law and further do make a true and just account of her actings and doings therein when thereto required by ye sd Court, and also shall well and truly pay and deliver all the legacies contained and specified in ye sd Testament as far as the said goods chattells and credits with thereunto extend & the law shall charge, then this obligation to be void & of none effect or else to remain in full force and virtue.

Elizabeth Davis

John Rucker

John Davison

Signed and delivered in the presence of

Wm Wallor

John Wallor

At a Court held for Spotsylvania County on Tuesday June ye 4, 1734, Elizabeth Davis, John Rucker & John Davison presented & acknowledged this their bond in Open Court which was ordered to be recorded...

Test, John Wallor, Cl Court

John married Elizabeth [9303]²⁷⁵ [MRIN: 4000].

Children from this marriage were:

328 i. Johnnathan Davis [9300]

ii. William Davis [9304] was born circa 1715.

iii. Matthew Davis [9305] was born circa 1722.

iv. Joseph Davis [9306] was born circa 1717.

657. Elizabeth [9303] .²⁷⁵

Elizabeth married John Davis [9302] [MRIN: 4000].

680. William Gladney [3930], son of Richard Gladney [3931] and Unknown, was born circa 1690 in Ireland, Kinbally, County Antrim¹⁹⁶ and died circa 1731 in Ireland, Kinbally, County Antrim¹⁹⁶ at age 41.

William married someone.

His child was:

340 i. Richard Gladney [3928]

688. Spencer Breeding [4290],³⁶² son of Bryant Breeding [4291] and Unknown, was born circa 1700.

Spencer married someone.

His child was:

344 i. John Breeding Va Maybe [3658]

690. Short [11867], son of John Thos or Wm Short [11868] and Unknown, was born circa 1700 in VA.

Short married someone.

His child was:

345 i. Mary Short [10095]

692. Captain James Finney KIA, Balcony Falls [10091], son of Finney [10092] and Unknown, was born in 1680 in Londonderry, Ireland, died on 14 Dec 1742 in VA Augusta County³⁶³ at age 62, and was buried in Captain McDowell land.

Fact: 1742, VA Rockbridge County.³⁶⁴ Captain John McDowell was killed in the first Settler-Indian confrontation on 14 December 1742 during the "Massacre of Balcony Downs" near Balcony Falls in Rockbridge County, Virginia. The spot where this incident occurred is now called Battle Run Creek as a result of this event. In early December 1742, the Delaware tribe of the Iroquois Nation, specifically the Onandaga and Oneida bands, were en route to meet the Catawba Indians when Capt. John McDowell and his company of militia (33 men, which included his father Ephraim - 70 years old at this time! - and his brother James) were sent out to escort the Delaware Indians away from the White settlements. Captain John McDowell's Company of Militia in 1742: John Aleson, Humble Beaker, David Bires, David Breenden, Gilbert Camble, James Camble, John Cares, John Cosier, Hugh Cuningham, James Cuningham, Joseph Finney, Michael Finney, John Gray, William Hall, James Hardiman, Henry Kirkham, Joseph Lapsley, ?Long, ?Long, Alexander McClewer, Halbert McClewer, John McClewer, Alexander McClure, Moses McClure, Frances McCowan, James McDowell (brother of Capt. John), Ephraim McDowell (father of Capt. John), Andrew McKnab, John McKnab, Patrick McKnab, Sam McRoberts, Loromor Mason, John Matthews, William Miles, John Miles, Mitchell Miller, James More, Edward Patterson, Irwin Patterson, John Peter Salley, Thomas Taylor, Charles Quail, Thomas Whiteside, Malco Whiteside, Richard Wood, Sam Wood, William Wood, Robert Young and Mathew Young

James married Ann Arnold [10102]²⁸⁷ [MRIN: 4376].

Children from this marriage were:

346 i. Corporal MICHAEL Finney [10090]

ii. Joseph Finney [10099] was born from 1709 to 1714³⁶⁵ and died after 1742 in VA Augusta County.

iii. Jane Finney [10100]

iv. Christopher Finney RWS VA [10101] died after 1769 in VA Augusta County.

693. Ann Arnold [10102]²⁸⁷ was born circa 1695 in Londonderry, Ireland.

Ann married Captain James Finney KIA, Balcony Falls [10091] [MRIN: 4376].

694. Robert Armstrong [11839], son of Joshua Armstrong [11842] and Unknown, was born circa 1712 in VA Augusta County.

Robert married Martha Alice Calhoun [11840]²⁸⁷ [MRIN: 5080] in 1728 in SC Abbeville District.²⁸⁷

The child from this marriage was:

347 i. Catherine Armstrong [10098]

695. Martha Alice Calhoun [11840],²⁸⁷ daughter of Patrick Calhoun [11841] and Unknown, was born circa 1715 in SC.

Martha married Robert Armstrong [11839] [MRIN: 5080] in 1728 in SC Abbeville District.²⁸⁷

696. Robert Thomson [232]²⁰¹ was born in 1670 and died in 1709²⁰¹ at age 39.

Robert married Margaret Raily [233] [MRIN: 373] in St. Marys Myd.

The child from this marriage was:

348 i. John Thompson [230]

697. Margaret Raily [233], daughter of John Raily [160] and Unknown, was born on 29 Sep 1677 in PA.³⁶⁶ Another name for Margaret was Margaret Thomson.

Margaret married Robert Thomson [232]²⁰¹ [MRIN: 373] in St. Marys Myd.

704. Bremillion Holloway [4665], son of Treasurer John Holloway Unproven f/o [4666] and Bremillion? [21919], was born in 1700.

Land transaction: 1751, VA Henrico County, Richmond.³⁶⁷ 106 acres

Bremillion married someone.

His children were:

352 i. Bremillion or Bremilan Holloway maybe JOHN [3648]

ii. Levi Holloway RWS [21886] was born in 1733 and died after 1840 in White River, Hamilton.

712. William Proctor [5438]³⁶⁸ was born in VA Shenandoah resident.

Death: Sep 1719, VA Middlesex County, Christ Church Parish. a WM Proctor died.

William married Prudence [5439]³⁶⁹ [MRIN: 2279].

The child from this marriage was:

356 i. NC Warren Proctor Maybe [5430]

713. Prudence [5439] .³⁶⁹

Prudence married William Proctor [5438]³⁶⁸ [MRIN: 2279].

720. Samuel Davidson [7899]³⁷⁰ was born in 1693.³⁷⁰

Samuel married someone.

His child was:

360 i. James Davidson [7857]

722. Alexander Bane [7860], son of James Bane IMMIGRANT 1688 [7862] and Helen Thompson [7863], was born in 1688 in Iverness Shire, Scotland.²¹¹

Alexander married Jane Moore [7861] [MRIN: 3386].

The child from this marriage was:

361 i. Mary Bane [7858]

723. Jane Moore [7861] was born on 13 Feb 1693 in Blockley, Philadelphia Co., PA.²¹¹

Jane married Alexander Bane [7860] [MRIN: 3386].

752. Charles Goodridge [9307], son of William Goodridge [9308] and Thomazin Smoot [9316], was born before 1684 and died after 1704 in VA Isle Of Wight.

General Notes: unproven by Don Giddens 2004!!!!!!!!!!!

Rent rolls: 1704, VA.³⁰⁰ Goodrich, Benjamin, James City County, VA

Charles Goodrich, Isle of Wight County

John Goodrich, Middlesex County

Charles married someone.

His child was:

376 i. William Goodridge [6937]

768. Dr. Daniel Cox Physician to the Queen [11816], son of Daniel Cox [11820] and Susannah [11821], was born in 1640 in London, England and died in 1729 in London, MIddlesex at age 89.

Fact: : Carolinas.³⁷¹ Historians say that Sir Robert Heath conveyed his right to the Earl of Arundel; that this earl was at the expense of planting several parts of the country, but that the civil wars breaking out put a stop to the design: that by different conveyances, the property of the whole country devolved at length on Dr. Cox, who at great expense, discovered part of it, and, in a memoria to King William, incontestibly proved his claim to it; and that his son, Daniel Cox, Esquire, who resideed fourteen years in the country , continued his father's claim, and published a very full account of it. The province of Carolina extended north and south from the river St. Mattheo, lying, according to the patent, between 31degrees

and 36 degrees north latitude and in the longitude from the Atlantic Ocean to New Mexico, "now in the possession of the Spaniards, which is in the direct line above 1000 miles, and were not inhabited by them to the South Sea." It was distinct from Carolina, though they were "bordering provinces, the east of Carolina, joyning to the west of Carolina. It comprehends within its bounds the greatest part of the province of Carolina, whose proprietors derive their claim and pretensions by charters from King Charles II, about thirty years after the grant to Sir Robert Heath." Coxe, c.1, See A. D. 1663.

Univ. Hist. XL 274-278. Chalmers. book 1. pages 515-517. See A. D. 1663.

Fact. Financed the immigration of the Huguenots to VA

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GENEALOGY OF THE COCKE FAMILY OF VIRGINA

Prepared by James C. Southall

Published in Genealogies of Virginia Families from the Virginia Magazine of History and Biography, Volume II

In the lists of “Adventurers”, as they were styled, in the charters of the Virginia Companies, 1609 and 1620, the name is spelled Cock, Cocks. Cox, Coxe. Stith spells it Cock; Burk, Cox; Alex. Brown, in his learned work “The Genesis of the United States”, Cox, Cocks, Coxe, Cocke. The term “Adventurers” was not used in a bad sense. It referred to that spirit of adventure which made the seas swarm, in that morning of modern European civilization, with ships sent out from London and Bristol under the auspices of the English gentry and the Trades-Guilds of the English cities, to all parts of the world in search of undiscovered countries, and new avenues of commerce, and which led to the formation and incorporation of the Russia, the East India, the Northwest Passage and the Virginia Companies, whose bold sea-captains - men like Drake, Raleigh, John Smith, Samuel Argall, the Powells and scores of others - in their frail barks, roamed unterrified over all the ocean-wastes, laying the foundation of that great maritime empire which has made England in the nineteenth century - like the Phoenicians and the Greeks in the ancient world - the wealthiest and the busiest of nations.

The Cocke Family of Virginia is to be traced in four distinct lines:

1. The main line, of whom the propositus was Richard Cocke of Henrico (VA) who came over to this country prior to 1632, in which year his name appeared in the list of Burgesses of the “Grand Assembly”, as the early records denominate the first Colonial legislative bodies. He patented some 8,000 acres of land in Henrico County (VA) and held the office of County Commandant or Lieutenant-Colonel of the County.

2. The second descending line is the Surry and the Princess Anne Cockes, whose progenitors were three brothers: Captain Thomas Cocke, William Cocke and Walter Cocke; and their cousin, Captain Christopher Cocke; who came to Virginia about 1690 and settled in Surry and Princess Anne counties (in 1700-1716 Captain Christopher Cocke was Clerk of Princess Anne county, and about 1695 the family of Captain Thomas Cocke intermarried with that of Colonel Lemuel Mason, the leading citizen of Norfolk county; while in 1699, William Cocke was a justice of Surry county, and both William and Walter justices of the same county in 1714, showing that they were persons of consequence from the very beginning).

3. The third line is that of Secretary William Cocke of Williamsburg, the friend of Governor Spotswood, who came to this country from Suffolk, England, about 1705, and whose epitaph or memorial tablet is in old Bruton Church. Like the Princess Anne Cockes, his male line soon became extinct, and it is only in female lines that his descendants are represented. (Some of their descendants are shown under “Cocke, Gray, Bowie, Robb &c by Miss Fanny B. Hunter toward the end of this transcription.)

4. The fourth line is that of the Cockes and Coxes of Lancaster, Middlesex and Westmoreland. In 1658, Nicholas Cocke, and later his son Maurice Cocke, are in Lancaster County and Middlesex (Middlesex was taken from Lancaster, 1675); and prior to 700, Pressley Cox is in Westmoreland, where we also find in the early records the name of Fleet Cox.

The Henrico branch, descended from the five sons of Colonel Richard Cocke, or Coxe, as it is spelled in the beginning, were much the most numerous, and became prominent, not only in Henrico (where throughout the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries they seemed to divide the county influence with the Randolphs), but also in Charles City, Isle of Wight, Prince George, Goochland, Amelia, Cumberland, Powhatan, Chesterfield and Albemarle.

The original seats of the Henrico Cockes were “Bremor” or “Bremo” and “Malvern Hills”, the latter (Thomas Cocke (2) lived there) some fifteen miles below Richmond on James river, just back of “Turkey Island”, the dwelling-house which is yet standing being described as “on of the best specimens of old Colonial architecture:, and the estate as on of the finest on the river. It passed out of the hands of the Cockes about the close of the eighteenth century to one of the Nelsons, James Powell Cocke (6) on account of his health, removing to the county of Albemarle. It was here that one of the most sanguinary conflicts of the Civil War took place in the year 1862 in the battles around Richmond between the troops of General Magruder and a heavy detachment of the army of General McClellan.

London and Bristol, as already alluded to, were the chief centers of the activity of the various companies that sent out their emigrants and their ships to America and the “Summer Isles” at this busy period. Rich tradesmen-like the merchant-princes of Venice in the 16th century -extended their commerce to all parts of the world and gallant sailors - some of them educated and accomplished men - sought adventures and lands on the Virginia coasts and in the Indian seas.

The composition and character of these companies will appear from the following statement (see “Genesis” United States, I, 228; II, 542): The incorporators under the second charter of the Virginia Company (1609), were 56 London companies and 659 persons, consisting of 21 peers, 96 knights, 11 doctors, ministers, &c., 53 captains, 28 esquires, 58 gentlemen, 110 merchants and 28 citizens, and others not classified. Of these 230 paid 37 pounds 10 shillings, or more; 229 paid less than this sum and about 200 were delinquent and failed to pay their subscriptions. At least 100 of them served in the House of Commons.

In the third charter (1620) there were 325 names; 25 peers, 111 knights, 66 esquires, &c. “The trader predominated in the second charter, while in this, three-fourths belonged to the gentry.”

The price of one share of stock was 12 pounds, which entitled the payer to 100 acres of land.

“of those who paid their subscriptions,” says Mr. Brown, “about one-third came to Virginia and settled; about one-third sent over their agents or their heirs; and the remaining third sold out to others. These classes were the landed gentry, and they brought over another class as servants.” Ib, II, 550.

We must take another statement in connection with this; it is made by a writer in the valuable and well-informed “William and Mary College Quarterly” (July, 1895, p.28). The writer says: “In England at this time the trades were in high repute. The younger sons of the English gentry resorted to the cities, and became tailors, grocers, coopers, weavers, &c.”

Our space does not permit us to comment on this, although it opens an interesting field. We only append the following, which our readers may investigate, from the Biographical Dictionary at the end of Vol. II of “The Genesis of the United States”:

“Stuart, Prince Henry, merchant tailor. Eldest son of James I; born 1594; died 1612 of typhoid fever.”

Among the sea captains who came to Virginia and the Bermudas and Barbadoes occur the names of at least four Powells (1609-'20), and later (1690) of Captain Thomas Cocke, Captain Christopher Cocke, Walter Cocke, mariner, and Captain James Cocke, who appear in Princes Anne, Surry, and Isle of Whyte (about 1680 Captain James Cocke, of the ship Barbadoes, sails from Barbadoes to Isle of Wight)

Richard Cocke of Henrico, as we have stated, took p his abode at Bremo, which included, as would appear, the property called “Malvern Hills”, which became the residence of the family of Thomas Cocke (2) and descended to Thomas Cocke (3), James Powell Cocke (4) &c., down to the beginning of the present century.

About thirty miles north of Bristol, in the west of England, running due north and south for a distance of about ten miles and south for a distance of about ten miles and with an average breadth of three miles, presenting very gentle acclivities in many parts, but its summit attaining a height of 1q,444 feet, and commanding a wide prospect over the three great shires that converge around it, the Archaean Ridge of Malvern Hills, divides the county of Hereford from the county of Worcester, and on the southeast of these, on the south bank of the Upper Severn, with yet ampler dimensions, stretches the county of Gloucester-all three counties touching each other at a common point near the city of Gloucester.

It was this district and from Somersetshire and the neighboring counties of Wales, and from Warwick on the north, Devon in the southwest, Herts and the Isle of Wight in the south, and across the Bristol Channel from the coasts of Ireland, that in Virginia, the counties of Henrico, James City, Charles City, Isle of Wight, Gloucester, Surry and Prince George, were in great part settled.

It is important to observe that the names of the early colonial settlers in the James River Valley up to Henricus City are the family names of Hereford, Gloucester and Worcester and the neighboring districts referred to in England, Wales and Ireland. This would at once become apparent to any one familiar with the history of the Virginia colonists, who would take the trouble to consult for a moment Walford's “County Families of the United Kingdom”. London: Robert Hardwicke, 1860.

The names “Berkeley”, “Bruton”, “Shirley”, and “Malvern Hills”, on James River; Gloucester, Surry, Isle of Wight, Southampton, Warwick, Lancaster, prove the same thing.

“Berkeley” is from the Berkeleys of Bruton in Somersetshire, and the Berkeleys of Gloucester. (Sir Maurice Berkeley, of Gloucestershire; Sir Charles Berkeley (son of Sir Maurice) of Bruton, Somersetshire; Richard Berkeley, Esquire, of Gloucester, who, with John Smyth, George Thorpe and Sir Wm. Throgmorton, jointly owned and named the Berkeley-Hundred plantation. This John Smyth (d. 1641) was no doubt the ancestor of John Smyth, who was a Burgess from Percies Point in 1632 and the John Smyth of Warwick, who was Speaker of the House of Burgesses in 1658. Probably of Nicholas Smith and Arthur Smith, justices of Isle of Wight, 1680; and of John Smith, of Gloucester, 1702, and of Phil. Smith, sheriff of Gloucester, 1714.) “Shirley” is probably after the Shirleys of Warwickshire. “Malvern Hills” is of course, from Malvern Hills in Hereford and Worcester.

In 1636 Richard Cock, gentleman, patented 3,000 acres of land in Henrico adjoining the land of John Pearce and Thomas Harris; in 1639 he patented 2,000 acres; in 1652, 2,842 acres; in 1664 Richard Cocke, Sr., and John Beauchamp patented together 2,974 acres on the south side of the Chickahominy river. Cox, Cocks, Coxe are family names in Hereford; the Beauchamps were from Worcestershire; Harris is a Gloucestershire name; Pearce is a very old Welsh name, Co. Brecon. A near neighbor of these was the Lygons from Worcestershire.

The Carys intermarried with the family of Richard Cocke about 1690. This was a Devonshire family, in the southwest of England, as were the Brays and Dukes; the Powells, Tylers, Lewis', Jennings, Llewellyns (Llewellyn Eps), the Jones' (Anthony Jones was Burgess from Isle of Wight, 1639), are Welsh names; Webb and Dennis are Hereford and Gloucester names. Secretary Thomas Ludwell was from Bruton, in Somerset, as was Captain Pawlett, member of House of Burgesses, 1619; Throgmorton is a family name in Warwick, as is probably Randolph; Bathurst and Wyatt are Gloucester names; Carter, a family in Hampshire and Isle of Wight; Archer, a very ancient family in Devon and Cornwall; Pryor, in Herts; Browne in Hereford and Lancaster; Farrer in West Riding of Yorkshire; Woodward (Eliz. Cocke married Lawrence Woodward, a descendant of Christopher Woodward, Burgess of James City county, 1629) is a family of Worcestershire; Dennis (Richard Dennis was sheriff of Charles City county in 1714) is an Irish family; so were the Battes. Peter Jones must have been Welsh, as he had a son or grandson named Cadwallader.

All these families lived near to the Gloucestershire port of Bristol, and almost within view of the summits of Malvern Hills. (“In 1685 William Slaughter”, says the William and Mary College Quarterly, “was sheriff of Essex County. In Burk, 'Slaughter of counties Gloucester, Hereford and Worcester'”. January '94, p. 157. Can it be that this district bore for a brief period this name - as for a brief period it did that of “Rappahannock”? Were the settlers on the Rappahannock also from 'Gloucester, Hereford and Worcester'?

(ADDITONS AND CORRECTIONS: Bristol. That portion which states that “all these families lived near Bristol”. In illustration we may refer to Mr. Bruce's recent work on the Economic History of Virginia. I, 384. He has the statement than in 1667 there were anchored in James River nine merchantmen from Bristol, two from London and sever from other towns in England.)

The head of the Cocks family in England, in 1860, was CHARLES SOMERS SOMERS-COCKS, (ADDITION: EARL OF SOMERS) of Eastnor Castle, near Ledbury, Herefordshire, his magnificent seat, being situated at the base of the Malvern Hills, about midway between the cities of Gloucester and Worcester. The heir-presumptive to the Barony of Somers was his cousin, the REV. CHARLES RICHARD SOMERS-COCKS, magistrate for Herefordshire.

THOMAS SOMERS COCKS, Esquire, of Thames Bank, near Great Marlow, Bucks, represented a younger branch of the family and married Agneta, daughter of Right Hon. Reginald Pole Carew of Antony, Cornwall.

REGINALD THISBLETHWAYTHE COCKE was a brother of above.

Lieutenant-Colonel CHARLES LYGON COCKS, of Treverlyn-Vean, Cornwall, was a third brother. (In Henrico the Cocks, the Lygons and the Beauchamps were near neighbors. In England the Cocks family had intermarried with the Lygons, and the Lygons had intermarried with the Beauchamps-all three families living in Worcestershire and Herefordshire. Earl Beauchamp's name (1860) was Henry Beauchamp Lygon (of Madresfield Court, Worcester).

RICHARD SNEAD COX, Esquire, of Broxwood Court, magistrate and Dep. Lieutenant for County Hereford (High Sheriff 1858), was doubtless of same stock.

SIR WILLIAM COX, K. T. S., Ireland was a lineal descendant of Dr. Richard Cox, one of the compilers of the Liturgy, and tutor to Edward VI.

ARTHUR ZACHARY COX, Esquire, of Harwood Hall, Essex, is another of this name. Balsall Heath, Worcestershire,

EDWARD TOWNSEND COX, Esquire, of Balsall Heath, Worcestershire belongs to a family which came over with William the Conqueror.

And there are several others. There was a celebrated Dr. DANIEL COXE, one of the court physicians of Queen Anne and under William and Mary, who was the chief patron and promoter of the Huguenot settlement in Virginia. See Va. Hist. Col., V, p. 9, note.

It is hardly to be doubted that Richard Cocke or Coxe, who came to Virginia bring with him the name of “Malvern Hills”, was connected with these Cocks' and Coxes of Hereford and Worcester in England. (The name Cocke is so exceedingly rare in England and in this country that it may be quite safely assumed that all who bear it are of a common stock. In the “American Christian Record”, a volume containing lists of the clergy of all the religious denominations in the United States and Canada, 1860, giving 20,000 names alphabetically arranged, the name Cocke does not occur once; Cox and Coxe only five times (Episcopal clergy).

With the little beginnings which we have described, the Cockes of Virginia established themselves in the James River Valley, and as time rolled on they intermarried with the families of the Pleasants;, the Carys, the Harwoods, the Eppes', the Fields, the Poythress', the Randolphs, the Coles, the Masons of Princess Anne, the Webbs, the Farrers, the Claibornes, the Thorntons, the Ruffins, the Hartwells, the Hills, the Ashtons, the Brownes, the Peters and Allens of Surry, the Taliaferros, the Nelsons, the Bollings, the Archers of Amelia and Norfolk, the Innes', the Carters, the Lewis', the Minges, the Adams', the Cabells, the Smiths, the Nicholas', the Ruffins, the Shorts, the Kennons, the Barrons, the Harrisons, the Fitzhughs, the Custis', the Lees, the Bowdoins, the Barrauds, the Chastains, the Egglestons, the Prestons, the Taylors of Southampton, &c.

At the close of the seventeenth century they were seated at Malvern Hills, Curles and Bremo, in Henrico, and later at Shirley (Bowler Cocke (6) who married daughter of Colonel Edward Hill), Turkey Island, Bacon's Castle (Surry), Shoal Bay (Isle of Wight), Sandy Point (through Sarah Steward Minge, daughter of Elizabeth Cocke (6) of Surry, and at the same time through Colonel Robert Buckner Bolling of Centre Hill, descended from Robert Bolling (2) and Anne Cocke), Bremo, in Fluvanna, Bremo in Powhatan (correction: For “Bremo, in Powhatan” read “Belmead in Powhatan”. (Ph. St. George Cocke).

The first glimpse that we get of this name in Virginia is an entry in the records of the Virginia Land Patents; “WILLIAM COX, of Elizabeth City, planter (lease for ten years), 100 acres in Elizabeth City. September 20, 1628.”

The next is in a list of the members of the Grand Assembly for 1632, given in Hening's Statutes, Vol. 1, p. 178, and among these names we find:

Both Shirley Hundreds, Captain H. Epes

From Kethes Creek to Mulberry Island, Th. Harwood

Warrasquyoake (Isle of Wight afterwards), Thos. Jordan

Waters Creeke and upper parish of Elizabeth City, Captain Thomas Willoughby

Weyanoke, Richard Coxe

This is the manner of our introduction to Richard Cocke of Weyanoke.

In 1646, in a list of the House of Burgesses, we come again upon the name of William Cocke, and he represents Henrico, to which county he must have removed from Elizabeth City. He was no doubt a brother or relative of Richard and perhaps died unmarried; he disappears as suddenly as he appears - we have no historian of that day.

In the Land Office Book, Vol I, at end of grant, it is stated that Lewis Cocke “came over in 1635”.

In 1635 William Prior patented 200 acres of land in Charles City, “bounded N. E. by Charles River (York Co.), south by his own dividend and west by land of Lewis Cocke” (Virginia Magazine History, October '95. p. 184). This is all we know of Lewis Cocke; he too was, no doubt, related to Richard.

In 1654, we in Hening another list of the members of the Grand Assembly. Among them are:

Henrico, Richard Cocke

Surry, William Batt, James Mason (later the Cockes intermarry with these Masons).

In 1658 there was a Nicholas Cocke in Lancaster county, and in 1673 a Nicholas Cocke (same no doubt) was naturalized, and in 1687 a Nicholas Cocke died in Middlesex county (coat of arms).

In Lancaster county the will of one Oliver Segar (1658)(mark) refers to his “friends Nicholas Cocke and Richard Lee”, and one of his legatees is a son named Randolph.

The pedigree of Valentine Wood, clerk of Goochland, 1753 (maternal ancestor of General Joseph E. Johnston and Valentine Wood Southall), represents that his father, Henry Wood, married Martha Cox, daughter of William Cox, at Bremo, in Henrico, in the year 1723. This was a descendant of Richard Cocke (1) (for Richard Cocke (2) and Richard Cocke (3) lived at Bremo), and it is introduced to show that the name was spelled Cox as well as Cock (as has already appeared from Richard Coxe and William Cox). The well-known Cox family of Chesterfield are probably descended from this William Cox. (The Cox's of Chesterfield and Henrico are descended from John Cox, who lived near Dutch Gap in 1677. The Cockes of this period all lived in this neighborhood. John Cocke (2) was a son of Richard Cocke (1) - Editor)

We have mentioned that in Alexander Brown's “Genesis of the United States” the name is variously spelled Cocks, Cocke, Cox, Coxe, as also in the early Virginia Chronicles.

In England it is only in old Pepys' book, 1688, (the Diary), that the word is spelled as we spell it in Virginia now. One of his principal characters is a certain “Captain Cocke” whim (I, 27) he describes as “a man of great reputation and repute”, and whose opinions he quotes on all occasions. He was connected (like Pepys) with the Admiralty and had “a most pleasant seat at Gravesend”. Pepys also refers to one Colonel Charles George Cocke, whom he mentions as having “formerly been a very great man:, iii, 398.

In Governor Dinwiddie's correspondence (Dinwiddie Papers) during the French Wars, 1754-'55, he refers frequently to Captain Thomas and Captain William Cocke, and he spells the name indifferently -sometimes Cocks, sometimes Cock, and sometimes Cocke. (Similarly we read of Captain John Wilcocks, who came to Virginia in 1623. His will is printed in the New England Historical and Genealogical Register. There was a John Wilcocks who was Burgess for Northampton, 1657-'8, A John Wilcox was Burgess for Nansemond in 1655.)

There was a great deal of reckless independence in the spelling of that day, even in official documents and especially in the seventeenth century: Poythress was Poythes and Poythers; Eppes was Epes, Eps; Flood was Fludd; Randolph was Randall and Randle; Percy was Persy, Peirsey, Pierse; Byrd was Bird; Bland was written Blund and Blunt; Cabell was Kebel; Baker was Becker; Powell was Powel, Powle; Calthorpe, Cailtropp; Ashton, Aston; Barbour, Barber; Brazier, Brazure, Brashear, Brasseur, Brassier, Brashaw; Goggin (according to Campbell, see his History of Virginia, page 164) was Colkin, Cockin, Cockayn, Cocyn, Cokain, Cokin, Gockin, Gokin, Gookin, Gookins, Gooking.

We should make a mistake in conceiving of the old Colonial times if we should call u the picture suggested by the title of Mr. Moncure D. Conway's recent book. “The Barons of the Potomac and the Rappahannock”. There was a distinct gentry class in Virginia, and some of them, for that day, were quite wealthy, but they did not live in baronial castles, nor have the “Pride, pomp and circumstance” of the old feudal aristocracy of England, who maintained their estates by the system of entails. They were simply planters and farmers, and owned slaves (in the beginning there were a good many white servants) and ruled the counties. They had little learning. Books were very rare. Few lf the planters had such a library as Colonel Richard Lee of Westmoreland, 1715, or Edmund Berkley, Esquire, 1719. See William and Mary College Quarterly, April 1894. Their inventories show that not many of them owned more than one or two dozen books and the state of education is indicated by the fact that even men of property often sign their wills by making their mark. The spelling (as mentioned just above) is lawless beyond our imagination. In an old MS. Will (written evidently by an attorney) the testator appoints his loving wife “the hole and soul executor of this my last will and testament”. Jane Lightfoot, in 1649, signs her will with her mark. As late as 1730 the will of Harry Beverly, of Spotsylvania, who devises to his children a half dozen plantations in several counties, containing some 10,000 acres, is witnessed by four persons, all of whom make their marks.)

Nor did our gentry ancestors live in fine houses. There were no bricks in the country (CORRECTION: It is not true that there were no bricks in the country in the seventeenth century. Bricks were made in Virginia in 1609. The dwellings were generally==almost universally, except the chimneys - of wood; but the first story of all the houses at Henricus City was of brick court-house in Middlesex, in Gloucester and in James City counties. See Bruce ii, 134-44. The old colonial house at Malvern Hills is also of brick.) and few good mechanics, little money, and at first “very few people”. They lived in the forest on the great River that swept silently to the sea that interposed between them and the civilization of Europe. A few miles up the river (where is now Goochland and Powhatan) were the “Indians”.

They had in the seventeenth century few cattle, few horses and the importation of Negro slaves had only been a short time in progress. There were in 1648 about 15,000 whites and 300 negroes in the Colony. The number of horses was 250; of asses, 50. In 1670 the whole population was 40,000, of which 2,000 were Negroes, and 6,000 white servants.

When we recall the fact that in Virginia at the close of the late war, there were few country houses containing more than eight or nine rooms and a kitchen, we should not expect the Virginia planters of the first colonial century to possess very spacious dwellings. In those days places like Warner Hall, Westover, Rosehill, Rosegill, Stratford, which numbered perhaps sixteen or seventeen rooms, were the exception; few of them had more than six or eight rooms. The rooms are often enumerated in the inventory: Mr. Samuel Timson of York (1704) , had seven rooms in his house; Rosegill, the residence of Ralph Wormley, esquire, President of the Council and Secretary of State ()1701), one of the greatest and wealthiest men in the Colony, contained nine rooms. (ADDITIONS: Governor Berkeley's house (brick), 1645, at Green Spring, had only six rooms. The house of Nathaniel Bacon, Sr., had five rooms, “an old and new hall”, a kitchen, dairy and storehouse. He was very rich. 1694. Mrs. Elizabeth Digges, of York (1690) who owned 108 slaves, lived in “six rooms and a cellar”. Major Robert Beverley of Middlesex, 1687, had “a chamber, a second chamber above, a porch and hall, chamber, a dairy and kitchen and the overseer's room. He had forty-two Negroes. William Fitzhugh's house had twelve or thirteen rooms. (Mr. Bruce's Economic History of Virginia in the Seventeenth Century, ii, 151-8) Mr. R. Heber Nelson who lives near Malvern Hills and whose grandfather Robert Nelson, bought the Malvern Hills property from the Cocke family, informs us that the house here contains eight rooms (one added by his grandfather), with a hall through the center and a side hall. The house is of brick, and there is a brick porch.

The inventory of Ralph Wormley's personal property as 2,861 pounds. Samuel Timson owned 14 negroes, 10 horses, 78 cattle, &c. Inventory, 472 pounds.

The total inventory of Colonel Thomas Ballard of 1707, one of the most famous men of that period, amounted to 603 pounds, comprising 18 slaves, 7 horses, 51 cattle, 70 oz. of plate &c. (The wants of the people in those old days were exceedingly few, so that a little money went a great ways. This is illustrated by the salary paid the ministers of the Established Church which was 1,700 pounds of tobacco, equal to about $70, which is estimated in purchasing power as equivalent to about $500 of the present day. In 1665 Lord Paulett, of England, to whom his brother, Captain Thomas Paulett, of Virginia, had in 1644 devised the Westover estate on James river, sold the same, 1,200 acre to Theoderick Bland for 170 pounds, which was about 50 cents an acre, equal to about $5 now. In 1688 the Blands sold it to Colonel William Byrd for 300 pounds sterling and 10,000 pounds of tobacco.) Mrs. Elizabeth Digges, widow of Governor Digges, left (1692) personal property amounting to 1,102 pounds. (The pound of that day was 20s of the value of 16 2/3 cents each shilling. Money went a great deal farther than it does now. Five pounds was about equal to $150.

These inventories (applying of course only to the personal estate) throw a good deal light upon the condition of the gentry. That of John Washington (son of the immigrant), who died 1712, amounted to 377 pounds, 3s, 7d. (See William and Mary Quarterly) That of John Carter, Jr., of Lancaster, however, (1690), included 71 slaves and 63 books in various languages. The inventory of Thomas Jefferson (1696), one of the justices of Henrico, and grandfather of President Jefferson, amounted to 97 pounds 16 06 ½, including “1 p'cell of old books, 10s.” Virginia Historical Magazine, ii, 237; I, 209

One of the features of the earlier Colonial period which has attracted our attention in the progress of this investigation is the comparatively short duration of life; and 2. The frequency of marriage. They died young and there was brief delay on the part of the survivor in finding a new companion. We have to meet with the first instance of an octogenarian; they rarely passed 50 or 60, and they all seem to have married twice-and some four and six times. See examples of this last Virginia Magazine of History, ii, 237; iii, 61.

After the County Lieutenant, the most important officer in the county in Colonial times was the County Clerk, who was not only the clerk, but whose house was the Clerk's Office, where the county records were kept, and who was probably the legal adviser for the people in general at time when educated lawyers at least did not abound. The office also brought in a certain salary, probably greater than the products of the plantation; official position too in that day carried with it a great deal of power and importance, as is the case in all monarchies and even in Republican governments in Europe at the present day. The Clerk was, therefore, what that champion gossip, whom we have quoted. Samuel Pepys, denominates “a very great man”, and he was always not only taken from the gentry, but he was the leading, or one of the leading men in the county. This is illustrated by referring to a list of county officers for any year, some of which are yet preserved. (ADDITION: Salary of the County Clerk - In the valuable book on the descendants of Roger Jones, Colonel Thomas Jones (4), clerk of Northumberland county, 1781, in a letter to Mr. Turberville, states that the office yielded him about 400 pounds a year.) The following are from the official records of 1702: We have in Charles City, Benjamin Harrison, Clerk; in Elizabeth City, Nicholas Curle; in Essex ffra Meriwether; in Gloucester, Peter Beverly; in Henrico, James Cock; in King & Queen, Robert Beverly; in King William, Wm. Aylett; in Stafford, William Fitzhugh; in Warwick, Miles Cary, &c. Next in importance to the Clerk was the Sheriff, who was appointed by the Governor. In 1702 the sheriffs were: York county, Henry Tyler; New Kent, Nicholas Merriwether; Middlesex, Sir William Skipwith; Lancaster, John Tayloe; King William, John Waller; Henrico, Giles Webb (Captain Thos Cocke (2) had been sheriff (1699) and was sheriff in 1707, but he was now (1702) in the House of Burgesses); Gloucester, Peter Kemp, &c. Robert Bolling was Surveyor in Charles City (His son Robert, in 1706 married Anne Cocke and had issue: Lucy (Cocke) Bolling, who married Richard Eppes, Burgess from Chesterfield; and Robert, of Bollingbrook, father of Robert Bolling of Centre Hill. See History Bristol Parish, p. 141); Edm'd Scarburgh in Accomac; Charles Smith in Essex; Miles Cary (there were two at this time; one of them married Elizabeth Cocke, daughter of Richard Cocke (2) of Bremo) in Gloucester; James City, James Minge, Jr.; King and Queen, Henry Beverley; New Kent, James Minge, Sr., &c.

When Thomas Cocke, Sheriff of Henrico, died in 1707, he was succeeded by William Randolph, whose competitors for the office were Lieutenant-Colonel Francis Epes and Major William Farrar, two of the most influential names in this county at that period.

There is on record (see Va. Magazine History, October, '75) in Henrico Courthouse a certificate in behalf of Colonel Edward Hill, of Charles City, which gives the following names of the members of the Henrico County Court at a session held in 1680; Mr. Thomas Cocke, High Sheriff; Colonel Wm. Byrd, Lieutenant-Colonel John Farrar, Mr. Richard Cocke, Sr., Mr. Abell Gower, Mr. Thomas Batte, Mr. Peter Field and Mr. Richard Kennon.

Lieutenant-Colonel Richard Cocke (1) was in the House of Burgesses in 1632 from Weyanoake; again in 1654 from Henrico. William Cocke was a Burgess from Henrico in 1646. In 1702 Thomas Cocke (3), grandson of Richard, represented Henrico in this body. Thomas Cocke (2) (son of Richard) was sheriff 1680-88. Thomas Cocke (3) (grandson) was sheriff in 1699 and 1707, and in the interim between these dates was probably either sheriff or member of the House of Burgesses. James Cocke, son of Thomas, was clerk of the county, 1691-1707. In 1680, 1699, 1702, 1714 (and no doubt in intervening years), Richard Cocke and Thomas Cocke were members of the county court. In 1728 Bowler Cocke (4) succeeded William Randolph as clerk; which office he held until 1751, when he was succeeded by his son, Bowler Cocke (5) who was clerk until about 1762. In 1752, Bowler Cocke (5) was a member of the House of Burgesses, and his son, Bowler Cocke (6) was in the House of Burgesses in the famous session of 1766. Colonel Allen Cocke and Hartwell Cocke (Surry) were also members of both the last-named bodies. Hartwell Cocke was in the Convention of 1788. (CORRECTION AND ADDITONS: The statement about Bowler Cocke, Allen Cocke, &c., should be as follows:

In 1752 Lieutenant-Colonel Bowler Cocke (5) was a member of the House of Burgesses and in 1765 Bowler Cocke (6) and Hartwell Cocke (5) of Surry were members of that body.

In 1773 and 1775 Colonel Allen Cocke (5) of Surry, was a member of the House of Burgesses, and in 1776 he was in the State Convention.

In 1778 there was a Cocke in the Legislature from Washington county.

In 1786, Colonel Lemuel Cocke of Surry, was a member of the House of Delegates.

In 1787-'8 John Hartwell Cocke (6) of Surry, was a member of the House of Delegates.

In 1788 John Hartwell Cocke (6) above-mentioned (son of Hartwell Cocke (5) and father of General John Hartwell Cocke (7) of Bremo, Fluvanna) was a member of the Convention.

In the Journal of the House of Delegates for 1793 the name of Cocke occurs on a committee, as also in subsequent years in the Journal of the Senate and House of Delegates.

ENGLISH MERCHANTS OF THE SEVENTEENTH CENTURY - RICHARD COX AND ANTHONY COCKE --

In the Economic History of Virginia, ii, 333-4, a list is given of the twenty-four English merchants who in the seventeenth century furnished the greater part of the supplies imported into Maryland and Virginia. Among them is the name of RICHARD COX. This was no doubt the same RICHARD COX who in the years 1690020 was one of the Wardens of the Grocers' Company in London, a member of the East India and Russia Companies, of the Virginia Company (paid 25 pounds) and chief of the first English factory in Japan. Genesis of the United States, ii, 856. Anthony Cocke traded with Middlesex.

We have recently obtained information of an important character about the Cockes of England (counties Durham, Worcester, Hertford and Suffolk), who were all connected with each other, and with the Cockes of Henrico and Princess Anne and Middlesex, but shall have to defer a notice on the subject to our next article.

The earliest Cocke of whom we know anything in England was CAPTAIN WILLIAM COCKE of Plymoutht, county Devon, who fitted out a ship at his own expense, and “went out to fight the Spanish Armada” (1588) and was killed in the engagement. He was called “the Cock of the Game”. Prince's “Worthies of Devon”.

We have indulged in this somewhat protracted dissertation on the Colonial age because it seemed to us necessary to give a certain entours and setting to the genealogy which is about to follow, and which would otherwise be a mere barren list of names without associations and without significance.

We will begin our next installment with the descendants of Richard Cocke (1).

RICHARD COCKE OF HENRICO - HIS DESCENDANTS

I. RICHARD COCKE (1) born about 1600, died 1665. Married twice. Name of first wife not known; married second, Mary Aston. Children by both wives. Was County Commandant or Lieutenant Colonel of the county of Henrico. Was a member of the Grand Assembly or House of Burgesses, 1632, from Weyanoake, and in 1644 and 1654 from Henrico. (The presence of Richard Cocke in this Assembly was inadvertently overlooked in referring to the matter in our article in the January number. The second is wanting from 1632 to 1644 except for one year. In the year 1655, having been appointed sheriff, he resigned his seat in the House of Burgesses. We take occasion also to mention that the first land patented by Richard Cocke (3,000 acres in 1636) was for the bring over of sixty persons, a list of whom is given in the books of the Land Office, and among them is the name of Margaret Powell, a fact to which we shall advert again hereafter.

His relative, Thomas Jordan, represented Warrosquyoake in the Assembly of 1632. In the will of Richard Cocke there is a legacy to his “cousin Daniel Jordan”. Samuel Jordan was a member of the first Legislative Assembly in Virginia from Charles City (16619); his plantation was called in the alliterative style of that day “Jordan's Journey”. Thomas Jordan was Burgess for Isle of Wight 1629, 31, 32. Richard Jordan was a Burgess in 1676 and sheriff of Nansemond in 1718. George Jordan was a Burgess from James City county in 1644. The name Jordan was also a prominent one at the beginning of the eighteenth century in Bristol Parish (Prince George). Dr. Slaughter writes: “The representative names” (in this parish) “were Wood, Jordan, Poythress, Wynne, Hatcher, Cocke, Hamlin, Eppes, Bolling, Bland, Jones, Randolph, Kennon, Bott, Batte, Gilliam, Walker, Munford, &c.,” p. 121

Another member at this time was Walter Aston (Ashton) who was the father of Mary Aston, Richard Cocke's second wife, as mentioned above. Lieutenant-Colonel Walter Aston (his tomb is at Westover) was in the House of Burgesses for Shirley Hundreds and Charles City in 1629-30, 1631-32, 1632, 1632-3 and 1642-3. When Richard Cocke died, Mary Ashton married, second, Colonel Edward Hill, of Charles City, a very great man in that day. (CORRECTION: Mary Ashton, widow of Richard Cocke, did not marry second, Colonel Edward Hill, but her mother, the widow of Colonel Walter Aston who married Colonel Edward Hill) His descendants owned “Shirley”, on James River and intermarried with the Carters (Hill Carter). About 1750 one of the Bowler Cockes married the daughter of Colonel Edward Hill, the widow of Colonel John Carter of “Corotoman”. There were Ashtons in the 17th century also in Elizabeth City and Northumberland. In 1655 Peter Ashton was a Burgess from Elizabeth City and in 1658 from Northumberland and is called “Colonel Ashton”. The tomb of Colonel Henry Ashton, 1731, is in Westmoreland, with family arms. Brown (see Genesis of United States) affirms that Lieutenant- Colonel Walter Ashton was a cousin of Sir Walter Ashton, Lord Ashton, of Forfar, in Scottish Peerage, who was Ambassador to Spain, 1635.

Another member of this Assembly was John Smith, who represented Smythe's Mount and Peryces Point. He was probably the ancestor of Obadiah Smith, who married Mary Cocke (3) daughter of William Cocke (2) about 1685-'90.

The will of Richard Cocke is on record in Henrico County Clerk's Office, and bears date October 4, 1665. The witnesses are Henry Randolph (then clerk of the House of Burgesses) and Henry Isham. Henry Randolph is a different line from William Randolph of “Turkey Island”, who did not come to Virginia till 1674. He was Wm. Randolph's uncle. Captain Henry Randolph came over in 1637. In 1656 he was clerk of Henrico county. In 1660 he was made clerk of the House of Burgesses. In 1665 William Tanner or William Randolph was clerk of Henrico. In 1678 William Randolph was clerk. In 1683, Henry Randolph. In 1693-1707, James Cocke. In 1679 Peter Field was guardian of Henry Randolph, aged 13.

He left issue, five sons and one daughter

1. Thomas 2. Richard 3. John 4. William 5. Richard “the younger”6. Elizabeth

In the name of God Amen” (his will commences) “I Richard Cocke, Sen'r, being at present in perfect health and memorie for which I render hearty thanks to Almighty God my Creator, yet considering the uncertainty of this transitory life I have therefore for the peaceable settling that little Estate God in his Goodness hath given me made and ordained this m last will and testament hereby reversing all former wills at any time made by me. Imprimis. I beg to bequeath my soule to God that gave it trusting in the merits of my Redeemer to obtaine a joyfull Resurrection” - and his “body to be Interred according to the usuale Solemnities of the Church of England.

He devises and bequeaths one-third of his estate to his wife for life. He divides his lands among his sons - some 600 acres to each of his and 100 pounds to his daughter, and divides his personalty equally among his children (except two Negroes and some cattle, &c., given Richard, Sr., by his mother).

He devises some land to his cousin Daniel Jordan.

And appoints his son Thomas to see after “the mill” for the use of his younger brothers and sisters, for which he was to be paid “three thousand pds. Of tobacco and casket p. Annum” (equal to about $700 a year at present)

We notice his children in order:

II. THE CHILDREN OF RICHARD COCKE (1)

1. THOMAS COCKE (2) (styled of “Pickthorne Farm”, Henrico ) born 1638, died 1696 (at age 58). Married, 1663, Margaret Jones, widow, and mother of Major Peter Jones, founder of Petersburg.

Both Thomas Cocke (2) and Richard Cocke (2) were justices of Henrico in 1678 and 1680, and in the last named year Thomas Cocke was also sheriff of the county, and in 1680 he was coroner. The office of coroner at that time seems to have been a prominent one. He was sheriff also in 1688.

In 1689 Thomas Cocke (2) deeds 625 acres of land to William Randolph (very probably Turkey Island)

In 1681, Thomas (2) and Richard (2) own a Ferry and an “Ordinary” at the courthouse (Varina). (The first Colonel Edward Hill was owner of an “ordinary” in Charles City county, and there is complaint against him for his exorbitant charges). It was still “Cocke's Ferry” in 1810.

Thomas Cocke 92) left six children: Thomas, Stephen, John, James, Agnes and Temperance.

COUNTY OFFICES

There was a military establishment in all of the counties, and he was called Captain Cocke, a title which his son, Thomas (3) bore after him.

Like his father, as we learn from the Henrico Records, he was a member of the House of Burgesses in 1679, and it is probable that he was a member between 1680 and 1697. From 1660 (after the restoration of the Stuarts) to 1776 there was no election of Burgesses, and afterwards there is no list of Burgesses until 1792.

We mentioned in our previous article that his son, Thomas Cocke (3), was one of the Burgesses from Henrico in 1702. We have ascertained since the writing of that article that the county of Henrico was represented in this Assembly in the year 1698-99 by Thomas Cocke (3) and his brother James Cocke (3). It is probable that they were members of the body in other years of which we have no record.

HIS WILL

The will of Thomas Cocke(2) was probated April 1, 1697. It appears that he lived at “Malvern Hills”. (His father had lived at Bremo (probably an Indian name), which is brother, Richard (2) inherited.)

For those days he was quite a wealthy man, and left a considerable estate - including the advancements made to his children, some 5,000 acres of land, the home place “Malvern Hills” having on it a flour-mill and two tanneries. This was of course the mill that had been owned by his father prior to 1665, and was undoubtedly one of the first mills erected in the Colony.

TANNERIES

Besides the mill, he owned, as stated two tanneries, and he mentions by name one of his tanners whom he bequeaths to his son James. He owned another mechanic (Jack Long) at the ill, whom he leaves “with all his tools” to his son Stephen (probably a Cooper).

MANUFACTURES LINEN CLOTH

In 1693 the Assembly offered a reward for specimens of linen cloth of home manufacture - 800 pounds of tobacco for that of the first quality. In 1695 this amount was paid to Thomas Cocke for such a piece of cloth, fifteen ells in length and three=quarters of a yard in width. (See Bruce's Economic History of Virginia, ii, 459.)

Thomas Cocke (2) and his brother, William Cocke (2), both owned looms also, and manufactured woolen cloth (see Bruce ii, 470) and in his will Thomas Cocke bequeaths to his daughter, Agnes Harwood, a mulatto girl (whom he enjoins was to be tenderly treated, she having waited on him in his sickness), with a weaver's loom “and all the stages and harness” thereunto belonging.

Among his slaves were some four or five Indian girls.

He leaves a legacy of 1,000 pounds of tobacco “towards purchasing a bell for the Church”.

He makes several special legacies of horses.

His son, James and his wife are his executors, and the will is sealed with red wax, as was the will of Richard Cocke (1) (implying arms)

VALUE OF HIS ESTATE

The estate left by Thomas Cocke (2) amounted to about $75,000 in present figures. His land (5,000 acres), including the improvements, dwelling, mill, tan-yards, tobacco houses, orchards, gardens (all referred to in his will) must have been worth at least $1 an acre, and estimating the one pound went as far in 1690 as 9 pounds in 1896, the landed estates must have been worth $45,000, and the personalty must have amounted to 1,000 pounds or some $30,000.

During the same period (see Bruce, ii, 251) in Henrico county the appraisements of Francis Eppes (who also owned a store) was 600 pounds; of Thos. Osborne, 208 pounds; John Davis, 250 pounds.

In York county, 1672-'90, the largest personalty is 642 pounds (James Vaulx). The next highest are 455, 355, 235, 220 pounds. Nathaniel Bacon (1690-1700) is rated at 925 pounds.

The highest personalty in Elizabeth City, 1690-1700 was 282 pounds (Wm. Marshall).

Colonel John Carter, Sr., in Lancaster, is rated at 2,250 pounds and Robt. Beverley in Middlesex at 5,000 pounds.

There is an advertisement noticed in the old county records in which Thomas Cocke offers land for sale or rent. From the land-books we learn that he patented some 5,100 acres f land in Henrico and Charles City county in 1675.

Since this article was in the printer's hands we have seen the will of Margaret Cocke, widow of Thomas Cocke (2). She die not die till 1718, surviving him over twenty years. We discover from the will that before marrying Thomas Cocke, she had been married to -------- Jones, and had three children, one of whom was MAJOR PETER JONES, the founder of Petersburg, and after whom the town was named. It is the same family with Roger Jones of Northumberland and Lieutenant-Colonel Cadwallander Jones of Stafford. On the register of Bristol parish, 1725, is the name “Cadwallander Jones, son of Peter Jones”.

The executors of Margaret Cocke's will are Peter Jones and William Randolph. She leaves a Negro girl to Mrs. Mary Randolph and a “mulatto boy” to her “godson William Randolph, son of William Randolph.”

A COLONIAL PICTURE

In an article on Racing in Virginia, Mr. W. G. Stanard (Virginia Historical Magazine, ii, 294) gives some interesting extracts from the Henrico Records about Thomas (3) and Stephen Cocke (3) in this connection in 1689. We have only room for one of them which follows below:

In 1689 Thomas and Stephen Cocke were twenty-five and twenty-three years of age. In the will of this Thomas Cocke (3), who died 1707 he makes reference to the “Race Paths” at Malvern Hills.

The following is a deposition filed in the Henrico Records, 1688-'97, p. 74.

“William Randolph, aged about 38 years, Deposeth: That about Saturday last was a fortnight this ep't was at a race at Mauvern hills at which time Mr. Wm. Epes and Mr. Stephen Cocke came to this depon't & desired him to take notice of ye agreement: w'ch was that ye hore of ye s'd Epes and ye horse of Mr. Sutton was to run that Race for ten shillings on each side, and each horse was to keep his path, they not being to crosse unlesse Stephen Cocke could get the other Rider's path at ye start at two or three Jumps (to ye best of the dep'ts knowledge) and also that they were not to touch neither man nor horse, and further desired the dep't to start the Horses, w'ch this dep't did and to the best of this dep't's judgment they had a fair start and Mr. Cocke endeavored to get the other rider's path as aforesaid according to ye agreement, but to ye best of the depon't's Judgment he did not get it at two or three Jumps nor many more, upon which they Josselled upon Mr. Epes horse's path all most part of the race. And further saith not.

“Wm. Randolph”

Aug. 1, 1689.

2. RICHARD COCKE (2), the elder, of “Bremo” in Henrico. Born 1639; died 1706. Married Elizabeth -------------. He seems to have been surveyor of the county, and was a member of the county court 1678, 1680, 1699 and probably during all of this period. The justices of Henrico at this time were: Richard Cock, William Randolph, Peter Field, Francis Epps, William Farrer, John Worsham, Thomas Cock (sheriff), Giles Webb, Joseph Royall, John Bolling, James Cock (3), clerk court. In Charles City county, Robert Bolling (2), whose son Robert (3) married (1706) Anne Cocke, was sheriff. John Brasseur (Brazure - Mary Brazier married Thomas Cocke (3)) was a justice in Nansemond; Miles Cary in Warwick; Coll: Lemuel Mason (whose daughter married Captain Thomas Cocke) in Lower Norfolk; William Cocke in Surry.

The will of Richard Cocke (2) was admitted to probate December 2, 1706 and is witnessed by William Randolph and William Randolph, Jr. and certified by James Cocke, Cl. Cur. He left one son, Richard (3) who is his executor) and two daughters, Elizabeth (3) and Martha (3) (married to Joseph Pleasants, ancestor of Governor James Pleasants, and Miles Cary) and a number of grandchildren. He leaves an estate worth at present $35,000.

The Cockes at this time were all nestled along Turkey Island Creek, Thomas (2), Richard (2), William (2), Thomas (3) and Stephen (3) on the north side of the creek in Henrico; Richard Cocke (2), the younger, on the south side, at “Old Man's Creek”, in Charles City county.

Henrico and Charles City counties originally lay on both sides of the river, including what are now Prince George and Chesterfield. Prince George was created in 1702.

The town of Charles City was what is now called City Point, at the mouth of the Appomattox, five miles below Henricus City in the remarkable loop of the river at Varina or Dutch Gap. In this neighborhood lived the Cockes, the Randolphs, the Ishams, the Bollings, the Eppes', the Pleasants', the Kennons, the Poythress', the Ligons, the Banisters, the Fields, the Jeffersons, the Royalls, the Davis', the Hardimans, the Jones' (the father of Major Peter Jones, the founder of Petersburg).

Immediately opposite Charles City, on the north side of the river, Turkey Island creek, about two miles in length, emptied into the James. It is the dividing line between Henrico and Charles City counties. Midway, on its north side, is Malvern Hills, which is separate from the river by the estate of Turkey Island (William Randolph's and afterward owned by Bowler Cocke (6)). On the river above Turkey Island plantation was Curles, where James Cocke (3) lived, and Bremo in a little loop (the river makes a tremendous bend) lies just between, about two miles from Malvern Hills.

Above Malvern Hills, on the creek, in the year 1700, were Stephen and William Cocke (3), and about half-way between the Malvern House and the head of the creek still stands the line of an old dam, where stood Thomas Cocke's mill. Half a mile farther, at the head of the creek, Carters Mill (Shirley) is still standing.

3. JOHN COCKE (2). Born 1647, died --------------, married Mary Davis. There was a planter in Henrico county at this time named John Davis, whose personalty was appraised in 1690 at 265 pounds, rather above than below that of the larger landholders in Henrico at this date. At the close of Dale's administration (1616) Captain James Davis had command of the colonists in Henrico. In 1619 Thomas Davis was a member for Martin-Brandon of the Assembly of 1619, the first that met in Virginia. William Davis was a member of the House of Burgesses from James City in 1642 and 1647. Captain James Davis died in 1657 at his plantation over against James City.

John Cocke (2) was the progenitor of the Cox family of Chesterfield. (Judge James H. Cox was in the Legislature in 1840-]'50 and a member of the Constitutional Convention of 1850 from the Petersburg District.). It was probably this family of Cox's that lived at Arrahattocks, near Dutch Gap.

There is no will of John Cocke on record, and we are ignorant of the names of his children. He was he godson of Walter Aston and the first child of Mary Aston.

4. WILLIAM COCKE (2) born 1655, died 1693. He married first, Jane Clarke in 1678 and second Sarah Flower, about 1689 . Jane Clarke was the daughter of Lieutenant-Colonel Daniel Clarke of Charles City county, possibly the son of Captain Jon Clarke, “an Englishman by nation, a native of London, and of the same religion as his king” (See Brown); died in Va., 1623. The Henrico Records mention a judgment against estate of Lieutenant-Colonel Daniel Clarke, late guardian of Lieutenant-Colonel Richard Cocke's orphans for 500 pounds sterling, 1686. Sarah Flower was of James City county. In the “William & Mary Quarterly” for April 1894, page 1, is an epitaph from a tomb in Gloucester county (Abingdon Parish), the grave of Jeffrey Flower who died in 1726. The arms of the family are on the tomb and are “those of Flower of Chilton, county Wilts. Sa. A unicorn pass., or on a a chief ar.” He left three children: William, Mary and Elizabeth. This Mary Cocke(3) married Obadiah Smith and these were the parents of Obadiah Smith of Westham, Chesterfield county, whose daughter Lucy Smith, was the second wife of James Powell Cocke (6).

5. RICHARD COCKE (2) the younger (It was not unusual in those days for brothers to have the same Christian name) settled at “Old Man's Creek”, in Charles City county, left him by his father's will. The records of Charles City county (like those of James City) were mostly destroyed by the Federal soldiers in the late war, and we know almost absolutely nothing about this youngest of Richard Cocke (1). There is good reason to conjecture that he may have been the father of Anne Cocke (3) who married Robert Bolling of Charles City in 1706 and became the maternal ancestor of the line of the Petersburg Bollings.

There was a Littleberry Cocke, a justice of Charles City in 1768; an Acrill Cocke, a Bolling Cocke and an R. Cocke Tyler in the same county in 1790-'93. (William Acrill was a member of the Convention of 1736 from Charles City. His grandson, William Acrill of Charles City was in the Convention of 1776.

6. ELIZABETH COCKE (2). We know absolutely nothing of her - save an entry in the Henrico Records, 1678, that “Elizabeth Cocke, Mary Randolph and Anne Isham are witnesses to Eliz. Eppes' will”.

GENEALOGY OF THE COCKE FAMILY OF VIRGINIA

THE COCKE FAMILY OF HENRICO - THIRD GENERATION

I. THE CHILDREN OF THOMAS COCKE (2) (SON OF RICHARD COCKE AND TEMPERANCE BALEY/BAILEY AND MARY ASTON)

(He left six children: 1. Thomas Cocke; 2. Stephen Cocke; 3. John Cocke; 4. William Cocke; 5. Temperance Cocke and 6. Agnes Cocke)

1. THOMAS COCKE, (JR.)(3) (Captain), born c. 1662; died 1707; married first, about 1687 Mary Brazier (Brazure, Brashear, Brasier, Brassieux, Brashure) of Nansemond; married second Frances -----------------. I think that at least four of his six children (including his two daughters) were by his first wife. (In the Richmond Enquirer of 1824 there is mention of Gen. Brazure W. Pryor of Elizabeth Cit, who was a candidate for Congress. (A sister of President Tyler married one of the Pryors.) In Vol I. of the “Dinwiddie Papers”, p. xxiii, it is stated that Col. Gerard Fowke of Gunston Hall, Eng., of the Bedchamber to Charles I and his cousin, Col. Geo. Mason, both of the Royalist Army, came to Virginia about 1650. Chandler Fowke, son of the above, had issue: Chandler, Gerard and Elizabeth, the last of whom married Z. Brazier, son of Robert Brazier, of Isle of Thanet, Eng. Gov. Dinwiddie married into the family. In 1680 John Brassier was one of the Justices of Nansemond Co.; also in 1699. In 1702-9 (See Meade) John Brasseur and Maj. Thos. Jordan were vestrymen of Chuckatuck Parish, Nansemond. In 1696 John Brassieux and Thomas Jordan (sheriff) were in the House of Burgesses from Nansemond. There is a deed from John Brasher (as it is spelled in the deed) on 17th May 1692, which is signed by Thomas and Mary Cocke.)

His life was a short one, but he, with James, were the most prominent members of the family at this time. James Cocke and Wm. Randolph were in the House of Burgesses from Henrico in 1696. In 1698 Thomas and James were the representatives from this county. Thomas was made sheriff in 1699. The law did not permit the sheriff to be a member of the House of Burgesses (See Hening), but in 1702 we find him again a member of this body, and in 1707, when he died, he was again sheriff. We have no record for the intervening years.

On his death Colonel William Randolph was appointed sheriff, competing with Lieutenant-Colonel Francis Epes and Major William Farrar.

At this time (say 1702) his brother James Cocke (3) was the county clerk; his brother or cousin William (3) was coroner; Richard (3) of Bremo, was (like the others) a member of the county court. One of the justices of the county at this time was Thomas Jefferson, great-grandfather of President Jefferson.

Thomas Cocke's will was admitted to probate 1707. He appointed his son Thomas (4) his executor, and his “beloved friends Thomas Farrar, Littlebury Epes and Sam'l Harwood (his brother-in-law), Gent., overseers of his last will and testament”. He left six children: Thomas, James Powell, Henry, Brassuir, Mary, Elizabeth.

His wife (Frances) had a separate estate settled on her by her father, which she retains intact.

The testator first devises 650 acres of land to his son Thomas; then to James Powell Cock the tract on which testator lives (Malvern Hills); also another tract of 200 acres to same; and also to said James Powell Cocke a third tract lying in Charles City County, containing 920 acres; to son Henry he gives a tract of land in Henrico and another tract containing 943 acres; to Brassuir two tracts, containing 1650 acres. He devises in all about 6,000 acres of land in Henrico, and another tract containing 943 acres; to Brassuir two tracts, containing 1650 acres. He devises in all about 6,000 acres of land. He gives land, Negroes, tobacco and money to his two daughters, and certain Negroes to his sons, and divides, excepting certain special legacies, all his personal property equally among the four sons with certain provisions for the support of his daughters.

As Thomas receives much less land than the other sons, it is probable (he was older) that he had been advanced in the testator's life-time.

Among the special legacies are: 100 acres of land to his servant, Edward Richardson; to his son, Thomas, his horse “Desperate”, his “longest cane and great silver-hilted sword with m best trooper's saddle and furniture with brass plate Crooper, Holsters, Pistolls and Carbine” to so James Powell Cocke, “a Bay horse called 'Prince' with my silver-headed cane and Baginet”; unto son, Henry “a spayed mare called 'Bonny' & his old silver-hilted sword”; to Mary “my old silver Tankard and the one half of her deceased mother's wearing apparel (he was married twice), best chest of Drawers, Rusha Leather Trunk, 10 pounds sterling, one of my silver wine cups, largest Gold Ring marked J. P. and M. C., with a silver Tumbler, ear Bobbs, and one silver wine cup marked to M., &c”; to Elizabeth “Walnut chest Drawers, 1 Seile Skin Trunk, newest Silver Tankard, 10 pounds sterling, one of my silver wine cups, gold ring and ear-rings and bobs of Gold and five silver spoons”. He gives to wife and children and son, Thomas, the wearing apparel had “sent for to England”.

In the account of the Huguenot Emigration to Virginia in the yer 1700 published in the Virginia Historical Collections, Vol. V, pages 17-21, there is a statement of moneys paid out “for the Transport and Supplies of ye French Refugees”, and among the items are the following:

To Cap't. Cocke and his brother for 10 Cowes and a Calfe, 23 pounds 11 0

To Capt. Cocke for 3 tin pans, one Cullinder, &c., &c., 9 pounds 1 6

In 1687 Thomas Cocke, Jr., patented 671 acres of land in Henrico county for transportation of 14 persons: Sarah Carter, Peter Dangerfield, &c.

In 1688 he patented in Henrico 1650 acres. Showing the capriciousness in the spelling, there is in the Land-Books about 1690 an entry for 79 acres of land to Thomas Cox. His estate at his death we judge amounted in present figures to about $75,000 - very large, considering that he was only about 45 years of age.

2. STEPHEN COCKE (3) born c. 1664, died 1717, married 1. Mrs. Sarah Marston, 1688; 2. Martha Banister, 1694. There was at this time a Marston Parish in James City county. In 1702 William Marston was sheriff of James City county. Frances Benskin, daughter of Henry Benskin of England (died 1692) married William Marston of James City, and her son Benskin was sheriff of Charles City 1747. Benskin was a name in the Lightfoot family. In 1638 Francis Epes, John Banister and other imported thirty Negroes into Virginia. There was a Lieutenant John Banister (no doubt the same person) who died in Charles City county prior to 1661. On the 5th January 1689, the Rev. John Banister baptized Henry Randolph at Appamatock. This last-mentioned John Banisher (2) was no doubt the father of Martha Banister (3) and of John Banister (3) the celebrated botanist, who was killed by an accident near the Falls of Roanoke. (See Campbell, page 724.) John Banister (3) was the father or grandfather of Colonel John Banister (5) of Revolutionary period, who was in the Convention of 1776 and in the Continental Congress, and who was a man of very large wealth. He lived at “Battersea”, and married about 1760 Elizabeth Bland, daughter of Colonel Theodorick Bland and sister of Frances Bland, mother of John Randolph of Roanoke and Judge Henry St. George Tucker. Martha Banister (5) was a sister of Colonel John Banister (5) born (see Slaughter's Bristol Parish) February 9, 1732 and married, 1751, Robert Bolling (4), son of Robert Bolling (3) and Anne Cocke (3).

We have no will of Stephen Cocke, but it is ascertained from the few remaining records of Prince George that he died in that county in the year 1717. He had crossed over among the Banisters and Bolling and Jones'. He had a son Abraham Cocke (4) who settled in Amelia Co. (then part of Charles City Co., and became the progenitor of the distinguished line of Tennessee Cockes: General Wm Cocke (in U. S. Senate, 1795), General John Cocke, his son, in House of Representatives 1819-27 and Hon Wm. M. Cocke in Congress, 1849-53.

Stephen Cocke left also a daughter Agnes (4). He patented, as appears, 1040 acres of land in 1695 in Henrico and Charles City In 1687, his father, Thomas Cocke (2) conveyed to him 200 acres of land “one part of which was part of ye tract of dividend of land at Malvern Hills”, which included the Mill property; and in 1701 Stephen Cocke (3) conveyed 56 acres on which the mill stood, to John Pleasants who married Dorothea Cary (3), daughter of Henry Cary (2) of Warwick. Her brother Miles Cary (3) married Elizabeth Cocke (3) daughter of Richard (2). This piece of property is described as adjoining lands of Thomas Cocke (3), William Cocke (3) and Stephen (3). Sealed by Stephen Cocke with a red wafer. Sealed by Martha Cocke with “seal of yellow wax”. Witnessed by James Cocke, Theodorick Carter, Benj. Hatcher.

In 1700 there is a deed from Stephen Cocke (3) to Robert Bolling (3) who married Anne Cocke (3)). In 1698 Stephen (3) deeds to brother Thomas (3) land left him by his father's will. In 1704 Stephen (3) deeds to Thomas (3) the land, taken from Malvern Hills, deeded to Stephen by his father in 1687. In 1701 Stephen Cocke (3) gives a Negro girl to Martha Jones (his half-niece). These Jones' intermarried with the descendants of Colonel Abram Wood (of the Governors Council in 1657), and they all moved (along with Abraham Cocke (4)) to the vicinity of Petersburg, and thence into Amelia. There is a Richard Jones from Amelia in House of Burgesses in 1736, and a Wood Jones from Amelia in 1752, and Colonel Joseph Jones, Binns Jones (son of Peter) and John Jones are in the Convention of 1788 from Dinwiddie and Brunswick.

3. JAMES COCKE (3) (son of Thomas (2)), born c. 1666; died 1721; married Elizabeth Pleasants, January 1691, daughter of John and Jane Pleasants. (John Pleasants, ancestor of this Virginia family, was a Quaker; came to Virginia in 1665 from Norwich, England and settled in Henrico. He received grants for some 5,000 acres of land and married Jane Tucker, widow of Samuel Tucker. He died at “Curles”, on James river, 1698. He had three children: 1. John married Dorothea Cary and was a patentee of some 10,000 acres of land; 2. Elizabeth married James Cocke and their children intermarried with the Harrisons and Poythress', 3. Joseph married Martha Cocke (3), daughter of Richard Cocke (2). John Pleasants of “Pickanockie”, son of Joseph Pleasants and Martha Cocke (3) married Susanna Woodson, daughter of Colonel Tarleton Woodson (grandson of Stephen Tarleton, of the family of Colonel Banater Tarleton, the famous British partisan) and Ursula Fleming said to be descended from Sir Tarleton Fleming, second son of the Earl of Wigton (Judge William Fleming and Tarleton Fleming, who married Mary Randolph were of this family). James Pleasants, third son of John and Susanna Pleasants, married Anne, widow of Isham Randolph, of “Dungeness”, Goochland county, son of William Randolph of “Turkey Island”. They were the parents of Governor James Pleasants. See Brock I, 139. Through this marriage he acquired the estate of “Curles” on James River, he being known as “James Cocke of Curles”. He was clerk of Henrico from 1692 to 1707, in which office he was succeeded a few years after by William Randolph.

His cousin, Martha Cocke (3), daughter of Richard Cocke (2) of Bremo, married Joseph Pleasants; brother of his wife. Here was a double alliance with the Pleasants'. But it did not top here. At the same date the Carys intermarried with both the Cockes and the Pleasants' of Henrico. So that there was a dual connection with the Carys and a triple connection with the Pleasants' family.

James Cocke (3) was a member of the house of Burgesses in 1696 and in 1698-9, and probably in other years. He was clerk of Henrico for the period 1692-1707. We lose sight of him after this date, except some conveyances to his son, James Cocke (4) (1713) and others. Unfortunately we have not got his will, but we have the will of his widow, Elizabeth Cocke who survived him many years and died about 75 years age in 1731. They had two sons, James (executor of Elizabeth Cocke's will) and Pleasant (from Pleasants) who died 1744, and left a son, William Fleming (he married a Fleming) Cocke, and a son named Pleasant, who was a captain in the Revolutionary War. They also left a daughter who married a Poythress and we are told that there were intermarriages with the Harrisons.

4. WILLIAM COCKE (3), son of Thomas (2) (on an earlier entry we enumerate John Cocke among the children of Thomas Cocke (2) instead of William. In this we followed the genealogy published in the Fifth Volume of the Virginia Historical Collections; but we find from an examination of the will of Thomas Cocke (2) that his fourth son was named William NOT JOHN.) born c. 1670; died 1717; married 1691, Sarah Dennis. (Richard Denis was a member of the House of Burgesses from Charles City in 1714, very probably the father of Sarah Dennis. Sir Thomas Dennis paid 105 pounds as member of the Virginia Company of Bicton and Holcombe, Devon. He married Anne, daughter of Wm Powlett, Marquis of Winchester; died 1613. Captain Robt. Dennis was sent over in 1652 by Cromwell to establish his authority in the colony) These had issue: William (4) Temperance (4), Catharine (4), Mary (4) and Sarah (4).

5. TEMPERANCE COCKE (3), daughter of Thomas (2) born c. 1670; died ------------; married Captain Samuel Harwood, who was the delegate from Charles City county in the House of Burgesses in 1710, '14, '23 and '26. His son, Samuel Harwood, Jr. of Weyanoke, was sheriff of the county in 1730, '31, '37. Temperance Cocke was certainly a daughter of Thos. Cocke's first wife. .

6. AGNES COCKE (3), daughter of Thos Cocke (2), born c. 1672; died ------------------, married Captain Joseph Harwood of Charles City, Justice of the county and Member House of Burgesses 1710.

(Few Colonial families can show such a record as the Harwoods. The first of the name is Sir Edward Harwood, Governor of North Carolina in 1625. We next meet with Captain Thomas Harwood, who represented Mulbury Island (Warwick Co.) in the House of Burgesses continuously from 1629 to 1642. In 1642 and 1652 he was a member of the Council. In 1685 Major Humphrey Harwood, was a Burgess from Warwick and he was sheriff in 1692. In 1693, Anne Harwood, daughter of Thomas Harwood, married Thomas Wythe, ancestor of Chancellor Wythe. Colonel William Harwood (Warwick) was a member of House of Burgesses 1744, 1748, 1752, 1753, 1755, 1758, 1764, 1765, 1769, 1772, 1774 and of the Convention of 1776. The first of the name who appeared in Charles City county were Capt. Joseph and Capt. Samuel Harwood (who married the daughters of Thomas Cocke (2) of Henrico). They were both (as mentioned) in the House of Burgesses in 1710 from Charles City, and Samuel Harwood was a member of this body also in 1714, 1723 and 1726 (as above stated). In 1730, '31 and '37 Samuel Harwood, probably son of foregoing, was (as stated above) sheriff of Charles City, and Samuel Harwood, Jr., of Weyanoke, is appointed justice in 1739. In 1775 Samuel Harwood, probably grandson of he first Samuel, is appointed a major of the Virginia Forces; and in 1776 (along with his kinsman Colonel Wm. Harwood, of Warwick) he is a member of the State Convention. William H. Harwood, of Charles City, c. 1770, married Margaret Waldrop, who had issue: Agnes Harwood married Fielding Lewis of Gloucester, 1788 and Nancy Harwood married Thomas Lewis of Gloucester. Christopher Harwood of King and Queen, married Margaret, daughter of Thomas Roane, and had issue: Col. Archibald Roane Harwood of "Newington", member House of Delegates from King and Queen 1816, '22, '23, '24, '32, '34. He married Martha, daughter of Samuel G. Fauntleroy, and their children married with Brockenbroughs, Garnetts, Pollards, Winders. All of these Charles City and King and Queen Harwoods were descended from Temperance and Agnes Cocke (3). There was a Harwood of Warwick in Legislature in 1823, 1824 and 1829. In 1819 John R. Harwood was a Director in Exchange Bank in Norfolk; and Wm. B. Harwood was a Director in Farmer's Bank, Petersburg.)

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II. THE CHILDREN OF RICHARD COCKE (2)

RICHARD COCKE (2) of Bremo, born 1672; died 1720; married first Anne Bowler. We don't know the name of his second wife.

Anne Bowler was the daughter of Thomas Bowler of the county of Rappahannock (now Essex and Richmond); member of the Governor's Council in 1670. She was born in 1695 and died 1705. There appear to have been three children by this marriage, on of them Bowler Cocke (4) of Bremo. Among the children of the second marriage was Richard (4) the ancestor of Col. Richard Cocke of Bacon's Castle, of Hartwell Cocke (5), General John Hartwell Cocke (7) &c. (In the Revolutionary period there was a Bowler's Wharf on the Rappahannock. The name now is spelled also Boulware.

In the William and Mary College Quarterly for January 1895, p. 204, is the following interesting notice of the grave-yard at Bremo: “At Bremor, in Henrico county, I observed two badly shattered stones with the following inscriptions.

“Here lyes Interr'd the Body of

Richard Cocke (2)

Son of Richard (10 of B * * * *

He was born the 105h day

* * ecember 1639, and departed

* * * ife on the 20th November * * “

“Here lyeth Interr'd the Body

of Anne, the wife of Richard Cocke (3)

the younger, of Bremor in this county,

and daughter of Thomas Bowler, late

of the County of Rappahannock.

She was born the 23d day of Jan:

1675 and departed this life the 24th

day of April, 1705 Aged

30 * * 3 months 1 day”

In the year 1710 (see Vol. V, Virginia Historical Collections, Huguenot Emigration to Virginia, p. 73) Mr. Robert Bolling is ordered by the Honorable the Liet.-Governor and the Council to survey and lay of the second 5,000 acres of land assigned to the French Refugees at Manakin Town, and Colo. Wm. Randolph and Mr. Richard Cocke are appointed to here and determine all disputes in regard to the distribution of the above shares, &c.

In 1714 (Dr. William Cocke was at this time secretary of the colony) Richard Cocke (3) bought of Lt.-Governor Spotswood, as appears by a deed recorded at Williamsburg, for the sum 12 pounds 10 shillings (about $350 at present), 2,447 acres of land on the north side of James river, in what is now Goochland county, adjoining the lands of Nicholas Meriwether and Joseph Lewis. A part of this tract, 1,100 acres, was bought in 1770 by the Rev. Wm. Douglas, the teacher of Mr. Jefferson, and given to his grandson Thomas Meriwether. (In the county of Goochland in 1751 Patty Wood, daughter of Henry Wood and Martha Cox, married Wm. Meriwether.)

About 1700 Richard Cocke (3) or Richard Cocke (2) patented 975 acres land.

We have not the will of Richard Cocke (3) but there is a memorandum in the Order-Book of Henrico county that it was proven October 1720, with Ebenezer Adams, Nathaniel Harrison and Henry Harrison as executors. Nathaniel Harrison was son of Benjamin Harrison of Surry county. He was the grandfather of Benjamin Harrison of Brandon “the signer”. (CORRECTION: We erroneously represented Nathaniel Harrison as the grandfather of Benjamin Harrison, “the signer”. But this Benjamin Harrison was of Berkeley and was the son of Benjamin Harrison (2), Eldest son of Benjamin (1).)

Ebenezer Adams was the father of Thomas Adams (afterwards of New Kent) who married Martha Cocke (4), daughter of Richard (3), member of the Continental Congress 1778, 1780 and the progenitor of the Adams family who lived in Richmond in beginning of present century. (CORRECTION: In our last article we stated that the ancestors of the Adams family of the Revolutionary period, and afterwards so prominent in Richmond were Thomas Adams, son of Ebenezer Adams and Martha Cocke (4), daughter of Richard Cocke (3). This was an error, as we learn from a carefully prepared genealogy of the Adams family in the January number of the William and Mary College Quarterly by Mr. C. W. Coleman. It was from “Ebenezer Adams and Tabitha Cocke(4)” daughter of Richard (3) that Richard and Thomas Adams and Colonel Richard Adams, Jr., and the other members of that family were descended. Tabitha Cocke (4) was a daughter of Anne Bowler (Richard (3) Cocke's first wife). She married c. 1718 (she must have been born about 1698), Ebenezer Adams and it was through their son Richard (5) (not Thomas (5)), that the descent of the Richard Adams' was drawn. Thomas Adams (5) died childless, although he married in 1775 the widow of his first cousin, Colonel Bowler Cocke (5) whose maiden name was Fauntleroy (died 1791).)

It is not unlikely that there was some connection by marriage with Nathaniel and Henry Harrison.

2. ELIZABETH COCKE (3) was the second child of Richard Cocke (2). She married in 1695 (and was probably born about 1675) Miles Cary (3), clerk of Warwick County.

The Carys are an ancient Devonshire family, of which collateral branches were Barons of Hunsdon, Earls of Monmouth and Dover, and Viscounts Falkland. (See Burke for the descent.)

Miles Cary (1) came to Virginia in 1640-46 and died 1667. Settled in Warwick and the name continued potent in that county down to 1800, and very prominent elsewhere. Miles Cary was a member of the Governor's Council in 1665. His children were:

1. Thomas Cary (2)

2. Ann Cary (2)

3. Henry Cary (2)

4. Bridget Cary (2)

5. Elizabeth Cary (2)

6. Miles Cary (Jr.) (2)

7. William Cary (2)

Thomas Cary (2) died 1708. Issue: Thomas, James, Milnor, Elizabeth

Henry Cary (2) was the father of Miles Cary (3) who married Elizabeth Cocke. He lived at a place called “The Forest”, and was appointed to erect and superintend the building of William and Mary College and the capitol at Williamsburg. He had issue: Henry (3); Miles (3); Ann (3), Elizabeth (3), Judith (3) married ------------ Barber.

Henry Cary (3) was the father of Colonel Archibald Cary (4) of Ampthill, died 1787; prominent in the Revolutionary period; married Mary Randolph, daughter of Richard Randolph (3). One of his daughters married Thomas Mann Randolph; another Carter Page

Miles Cary (3) son of Henry (2) died 1724; married, as we have said, Elizabeth Cocke (3) and they had issue:

1. Anne Cary (4)

2. Elizabeth Cary (4) (who married Benjamin Watkins of Chesterfield and had descendants: Benjamin Watkins Leigh (grandson)(who was descended from the Cocke family), Conway Robinson, Finney, Royall, Worsham, Barksdale &c.)

3. Bridget Cary (4)

4. Dorothy Cary (4)

5. Martha Cary (4)

6. Miles Cary (4)

7. Thomas Cary (4)

8. Nathaniel Cary (4)

Colonel Miles Cary (2) died 1708; surveyor-general, naval officer, &c.; married daughter of Colonel William Wilson (Naval Officer for Lower James). They had issue:

1. Colonel Wilson Cary (3) of “Cesley's”, and “Richneck”, born 1702. Educated at William and Mary and Cambridge, England. One of his daughters married Robert Carter Nicholas; another Bryan Fairfax, Baron Fairfax; 2. Miles Cary (3) d.s.p.; 3. Mary Cary (3) married Joseph Selden.

William Cary (2) had issue:

1. Harwood Cary (3)

2. Miles Cary (3) died 1766; father of Judge Richard Cary of the Court of Appeals;

3. Martha Cary (3) who married Edward Jaquelin, whose daughter married Richard Ambler

Miles Cary (3) who married Elizabeth Cocke, was clerk of Warwick county 1699-1714, and perhaps after 1714. He seems also to have been in the year 1714 clerk of the Committee of Claims in the General Assembly.

About this time (1690) Dorothea Cary (3) married John Pleasants, establishing a very close connection between the Carys, the Cockes and the Pleasants'. She must have been a cousin of Miles Car (3), not the daughter of Miles Cary (3), son of Miles (2).

3. MARTHA COCKE (3), daughter of Richard (2) died -------------------; married Joseph Pleasants. (See under head of James Cocke (3)). (It is restated here by transcriber: 3. JAMES COCKE (3) (son of Thomas (2)), born c. 1666; died 1721; married Elizabeth Pleasants, January 1691, daughter of John and Jane Pleasants. (John Pleasants, ancestor of this Virginia family, was a Quaker; came to Virginia in 1665 from Norwich, England and settled in Henrico. He received grants for some 5,000 acres of land and married Jane Tucker, widow of Samuel Tucker. He died at “Curles”, on James river, 1698. He had three children: 1. John married Doethea Cary and was a patentee of some 10,000 acres of land; 2. Elizabeth married James Cocke and their children intermarried with the Harrisons and Poythress', 3. Joseph married Martha Cocke (3), daughter of Richard Cocke (2). John Pleasants of “Pickanockie”, son of Joseph Pleasants and Martha Cocke (3) married Susanna Woodson, daughter of Colonel Tarleton Woodson (grandson of Stephen Tarleton, of the family of Colonel Banater Tarleton, the famous British partisan) and Ursula Fleming said to be descended from Sir Tarleton Fleming, second son of the Earl of Wigton (Judge William Fleming and Tarleton Fleming, who married Mary Randolph were of this family). James Pleasants, third son of John and Susanna Pleasants, married Anne, widow of Isham Randolph, of “Dungeness”, Goochland county, son of William Randolph of “Turkey Island”. They were the parents of Governor James Pleasants. See Brock I, 139. Through this marriage he acquired the estate of “Curles” on James River, he being known as “James Cocke of Curles”. He was clerk of Henrico from 1692 to 1707, in which office he was succeeded a few years after by William Randolph.

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III. THE CHILDREN OF JOHN COCKE (2)

1. WILLIAM COCKE (3) married Sarah Perrin 1695; died 1711 (In Gloucester county, at the mouth of York river, opposite Yorktown, the old Perrin mansion is still standing in good condition. It is of the style of architecture so usual in Virginia during the reigns of the Georges - a large, brick building, two stories high and four rooms on each floor, wainscoted and paneled. The house is in full view of Yorktown, at the mouth of Sarah's Creek on the east side of Gloucester Point.

There are several graves of the Perrin family her, among them that of John Perrin, the epitaph stating that he died November 2, 1752, aged 63 years. See William and Mary Col. Quar., April 1895, p. 254.

In a list of slave owners in Abingdon Parish, Gloucester, 1786, the largest slave-holders were: John Page, 160; Warren Lewis, 143; John Perrin, 116; John Seawell, Sr., 39; Sam'l Cary, 39; Joseph Cluverius, 32, &c.

Major Wm. Farrar of Henrico, d. 1715; Burgess 1700, 1701, 1702; son of Lt.-Col. John Farrar; had a brother, Thomas who married Katherine, daughter of Richard Perrin. These had issue: Perrin Farrar (a child in 1691). Sarah Perrin was, no doubt, the daughter of Richard Perrin. The Farrars (Ferrars) were of a very distinguished English descent.)

In the course of the investigation of a subject like this, accompanied by published articles as the investigation progresses, new information is, or course, constantly obtained from old records, and more especially from the correspondence which is naturally developed with the scattered members of the connection who become interested in the family memoir.

We have just received from Lieutenant Champe Carter McCulloch of the United States Arm, a descendant of Co. Valentine Wood, and grandson of Edward Carter of Blenheim, a very interesting letter, which gives us the children and descendants of John Cocke (2) and solves several very important collateral questions.

From this we learn that John Cox (2) (this line seems to have adopted this spelling) left a will on record in Henrico, dated 19 February 1691 - 1692 and probated February 1, 1696. He had six sons: John (3); Bartholomew (3); Richard (3); William (3); Henry (3) and George (3) and his wife MARY COX.

There is also on record the will of William Cox (3) dated February 10, 1711, probated June 1712, which mentions son Stephen, daughters Martha, Mary Prudence, Judith, Elizabeth and wife SARAH.

There is recorded in Goochland county the will of Sarah Cox, dated March 26, 1726, probated January 20, 1747. She mentions son Stephen, daughters Edith, Martha, Elizabeth, Mary, Prudence and Judith. She appoints Henry Wood her executor, and the will is in the handwriting of Henry Wood (the clerk of Goochland county at that date, and father of Col. Vakebtube Wood), who married Lucy Henry, and was the grandfather of General Joseph E. Johnston, Beverly Johnston of Abingdon, Valentine Wood Southall and Dr. Philip Southall of Amelia and whose daughters married Edward Carter of Blenheim, Albemarle county; William Meriwether, grandson of Col. Nich. Meriwether of Hanover; and Wm. Pryor.

In the genealogy of the Wood family, it is stated that Henry Wood (for forty-odd years an attorney-at-law and county clerk of Goochland) married Martha Cox, 13 October 1723 at Bremo, in Henrico county. Martha Cox, says the genealogy, was the daughter of William and Sarah Cox of Henrico.

The genealogy proceeds: Valentine Wood (son of Henry) was baptized Oct. 23, 1724; William Finney, Stephen Cox and Ann Hoper sureties; and married (Valentine Wood) to Lucy Henry, daughter of Colonel John Henry, January 3, 1764. At the baptism of other children of Henry Wood, one of the sureties is Judith Cox.

William Finney, referred to above was the Rev. Wm. Finney, M. A. of the University of Glasgow, who married Mary Cocke (4) daughter of Thomas Cocke (3). He was minister of Henrico Parish 1714-27.

The foregoing facts negative of course the statements on p. 411 of our January article, that William Cocke (3) son of William Cocke (2) was father of Martha Cox who married Captain Henry Wood.

It appears that William Cox (3), son of John (2) died in 1711. This explains the marriage of his daughter in 1723 “at Bremo”. He left a widow and a family of young children, who found shelter at Bremo with their relative Richard Cocke (3).

2. JOHN COCKE (3) married Mary -------; born c. 1670; died 1710. Issue: William (4); James (4) died 1713; Martha (4) married ------- Wilkinson; Robert (4).

We know nothing farther of any of these individuals, nor have we information about the other children of John Cocke (2). The family is said to have lived at Dutch Gap, and to have been the ancestors of the Coxes of Chesterfield.

The Cockes became also a very prominent family in Goochland (See Meade's “Old Churches”). This may be connected, however, with the large tract of land bought in this county in 1714 by Richard Cocke.

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IV. THE CHILDREN OF WILLIAM COCKE (2)

1. WILLIAM COCKE (3). He may have been a son of William Cocke (2) by his first marriage with Jane Clarke. If so, he was born about 1679. If his mother was Sarah Flower, he was not born before 1690. His two sisters were certainly by the second wife. There was a “Captain William Cocke”, of this period, who died in 1736. This may have been the person.

2. MARY COCKE (3) born c. 1690; married Obadiah Smith; died 1754. Her husband died 1746. Their wills are on record in Henrico county. They left a son named Obadiah Smith (died 1765) and a son named Luke, who was the father of Obadiah Smith (3) (lieutenant in the Revolution and a man of considerable property), whose daughter, Lucy Smith married James Powell Cocke (6) in 1777. (Previously we state that he was the son of Obadiah Smith (1). We confounded him with his uncle, Obadiah Smith (2) who died in 1765. There is a case reported in 3 Randolph's Reports involving some contest about the will of this Obadiah Smith (3).

THE COCKE FAMILY OF VIRGINIA

(HENRICO) FOURTH GENERATION

1. DESCENDANTS OF THOMAS COCKE (3) SON OF THOMAS COCKE.

1. THOMAS COCKE (3) left six children: Thomas (4), James Powell (4), Henry (4), Brazure (4), Mary (4) and Elizabeth (4)

1. Thomas Cocke, born c. 1684, died unmarried 1711.

By his will, probated November 5, 1711, he leaves all his property to his three brothers. His appraisement was 147 pounds; appraisers, John Cocke, Joseph L. Royall, John Archer, John Worsham, Jr. Executors, Littlebury Eppes and Samuel Harwood.

He leaves the tract of land “on which his Grandmother now lives” (relict of Thomas Cocke (2)), called “Mawborn Hills” (note the pronunciation), to his brother Brashaw Cocke, being the land given him by his grandfather. This property, the homestead, had been left to Margaret Cocke, widow of Thomas Cocke(2), for life, and she was still living in 1711.

Thomas Cocke (4) had the executor of his father's will, and he was in “loco parentis” to his younger brothers. It appears from the settlement of his accounts that Brazure Cocke had been at a boarding-school.

His funeral sermon was preached by the Rev. Charles Anderson (He was minister of Westover Parish from 1694 to 1718. His tomb is still standing at Westover. His daughters married John Stith, Henry Taylor and Ellison Armistead, all belonging to prominent families in Charles City.) He is charged for this sermon, as also attendance of “Dr. Cocke” and “Dr. Irby”. Who was this “Dr. Cocke?” That is an interesting question which we cannot answer. Where did he take his degree? About the same time (1705) in the Henrico Records there is noted a payment to “Dr. Chastain”, at Manakin Town. (These families subsequently intermarried.)

2. JAMES POWELL COCKE(4) married Martha Anderson(?) born c. 1688, died 1747. Martha Anderson may have been sister to Rev. Charles Anderson.

Another member of this Anderson family at this time in Henrico was “Henry Anderson” probably brother to Rev. Charles Anderson. His daughter, Anne Anderson married Benjamin Ward (4) (died 1732) and they had issue: 1. Colonel Seth Ward (5) of “Wintopock”, member House of Burgesses from Chesterfield about 1769; 2. Benjamin Ward (5); 3. Henry Ward (5) of Amelia, alive 1746; 4. Rowland Ward (5). Benjamin Ward (6) had a daughter Maria (7) born 1784 who married Peyton Randolph. She was said to have been John Randolph's only love. See Virginia Historical Magazine, January 1895, page 312.

James Powell Cocke (4) resided at Malvern Hills, and it was he no doubt who built the old colonial house now standing. He appears to have been County Surveyor of Henrico county, and his name occurs on the vestry records of Henrico Parish as Vestryman as early as 1731, and frequently afterwards (In the handwriting of John Randolph, copied from a family Bible, the following entry occurs: Sarah Randolph, daughter of Henry Randolph, baptized 1715 by Mr. William Finney. Sponsors Mr. Richard Randolph, Mr. James Powell Cock, Mrs. Anne Epes, Mrs. Sarah Epes. (William and Mar Quarterly, IV, 2, 126.))

It is a matter of conjecture how the name Powell was introduced into the Cocke family. Thomas Cocke (3) married Mary Brashear (or Brazure) in Isle of Wight county. Her mother may have been a Powell. Or it may be that Margaret Cocke, wife of Thomas Cocke (2) was a Powell.

There lived in the latter half of the seventeenth century in Isle of Wight (or Nansemond) county, a MAJOR JAMES POWELL, who had (as we learn from his will) a sister named Margaret.

In Thomas Cocke's (3) will he bequeaths to his daughter a gold ring marked “J. P. and M. C.”, which had probably belonged to her mother, Mary (Brashear) Cocke, and might have been a gift from James Powell (in this case supposed to be her mother's brother).

In all events it is to be noted that Thomas Cocke (3) married in Nansemond county, in the neighborhood of Major James Powell.

Thomas Cocke (2) had a son named James, and had also a son named Stephen. Now Stephen was distinctively a name in the Powell family, and it does not occur anywhere else either in England or Virginia in the Cocke family. Sir Stephen Powell (a member of the Virginia Company) sub. 37 pounds, 10 shillings and paid 100 pounds. He was one of the six clerks of chancery, London, and was knighted at Theobold's July 21, 1604; M. C. for Virginia Company, 1609, and still living in 1619. The name of Captain Nathaniel Powell is one of the most prominent in Captain John Smith's History - “one of the first planters”, as he calls him, “a valiant souldier, and not any in the country better knowne amongst them”, Vol ii, 68. About 1730 there was a descendant of Richard Cocke (2) named Nathaniel. All these facts are worthy of consideration.

These Powells were a famous group in the early period of Virginia. The first of them, Sergeant-Major Anthony Powell, was killed at St. Augustine in 1586 in the expedition of Sir Frances Drake.

In 1618 Captain Nathaniel Powell was Governor of Virginia and member of the Council in 1621, and was killed at Powel's Brooke, “near Flowerda hundred”, in the Indian massacre of 1622. He married a daughter of William Tracy, son of Sir John Tracy, and it was about 1680 that Dorothy Cocke, daughter of Thomas Cocke of Castleditch, county Hereford, England, married Viscount Tracy of Ireland. (her brother Charles Cocke, M. P. for the city of Worcester, 1691, married the niece of Lord Chancellor Somers) Captain William Powell was also famous at this time (administration of Governor Yeardley). He was a member of first House of Burgesses, 1619. Captain John Smith, in his history, mentions Captain John Powell as “one of the first and leading adventurers to the planting of this fortunate isle (the Barbados)”, and states that “Capt. Henry Powell brought thither the first planters” (40 English and 7 or 8 negroes).

William Powell it is stated, left two sons, Cuthbert and Thomas, who were living in Lancaster in 160, and were ancestors of the Powells of Lancaster and Loudoun counties. (See American Monthly Magazine, February, 1895.)

OLD ST. JOHN'S CHURCH

“In 1737, at a vestry meeting held at Curl's Church for Henrico Parish, there were present: James Powell Cocke, James Cocke, church wardens; Richard Randolph, John Redford, Bowler Cocke, John Bolling, William Fuller, John Povall, John Williamson and Robert Mosby. At this meeting a resolution was passed to build a church, 60 feet long by 25 feet in breadth, after the model of Curl's Church, near Thomas Williamson's.

“At a meeting held December 20, 1739 (same names pretty much), it was agreed to build a church 'on the land the Hon. William Bird, Esq., 60 feet long and 25 feet broad'. Richard Randolph, gentleman, was the contractor. The sum of 317 pounds 10 shillings to be paid for same.

“At a vestry meeting held for Henrico Parish October 13, 1740, the following members were present: William Stith, clerk; James Powell Cocke, James Cocke, gentlemen, church wardens; Richard Randolph, John Redford, Bowler Cocke, John Williamson and William Fuller, gentlemen vestrymen.

A letter was read by Richard Randolph, gentleman, as follows:

From the Hon. William Byrd, Esq.

'Sir -- October 12, 1740 - I should with great pleasure oblige the vestry, and particularly yourself, in granting them an acre to build their church upon; but there are so many roads already thro' that land that the damage to me would be too great to have another of a like cut through it. I should be very glad if you would please to think Richmond a proper place, and considering the great number of people that live below it, and would pay their devotions there, that would not care to go so much higher. I cannot but think it would be agreeable to most of the people, and if they will agree to have it there, I will give them two of the best lots that are not taken up, and besides give tem any pine timber they can find on that side of Shockoe Creek, and wood for burning of bricks into the bargain. I hope the gentlemen of the vestry will believe a friend to the church when I make this offer, and that I am both theirs, sir, and your humble servant,

W. Byrd.'

“Whereupon the question was put whether the church should be built on the hill called Indian Town, at Richmond, or at Thomas Williamson's plantation, on the Brook road, and is carried by a majority of votes for the former.

It is therefore ordered that the church formerly agreed on to be built by Richard Randolph, gentleman, on the south side of Bacon's Branch, be built on Indian Town, at Richmond, after the same manner as in the said former agreement was mentioned.

James P. Cocke

James Cocke”

This is the origin of old St. John's Church, on Church Hill, in Richmond, which thrilled with Patrick Henry's eloquence in the Revolutionary period.

It will be observed that there were three Cockes on the Vestry Board of Henrico Parish at this. (In his “Life and Times of James Madison”, the Hon. W. C. River has the remarks: “The vestrymen of that day, we shall find, were the Washingtons, the Lees, the Randolphs, the Masons, the Blands, the Pendletons, the Nelsons, the Nicholas', the Harrisons, the Pages, the Madisons, and other names far too numerous to recapitulate in detail, which stand among the first on the roll of our Revolutionary worthies”. Vol I, 50.

3. HENRY COCKE (4) was the third son of Thomas Cocke (3). Born c. 1690; died 1715. James Powell Cocke and his brother-in-law, William Finney, his executors. He was only some 25 years old. No record of his marriage.

4. BRAZURE COCKE (4) was the fourth son of Thomas Cocke (3). He was born c. 1694, and was living in 1753 in James City county, where he removed about 1730. He probably married there, and the most interesting fact about him is that he was probably the father of Auditor James Cock of Williamsburg, who died 1781-90 and was very prominent figure in the Revolutionary period.

Brazure Cocke was named after his mother's family, and was the youngest son. It appears from an entry in the executorial accounts of (his brother) Thomas Cocke (4) that he had been sent to a boarding=school, which is an interesting fact at this early period, about 1710.

(“There was a Horse Race” says the Virginia Gazette of December 14, 1739, “round the Mile Course (at Williamsburg) the First Day (of the Fair), for a Saddle of Forty Shillings Value. Eight Horses started, by Sound of Trumpet, and Col. Chiswell's Horse, Edgecomb, came in First, and won the Saddle; Mr. Cocke's Horse, Sing'd Cat, came in Second and won the Bridle, of 12 Shillings Value; and Mr. Drummond's Horse, ------------- came in Third, and won the Whip.” Virginia Historical Magazine, ii, 3, page 300. This “Mr. Cocke” was probably Brazure Cocke. There were no other Cockes in James City county.)

5. MARY COCKE (4), daughter of Thomas (3), married the Reverend William Finney, who died in 1727. His will is in Henrico clerk's office. They left issue William and Mary Finney.

There is a deed of gift for 370 acres of land, in 1736, from James Powell Cocke and his sister, Mar Finney, to William Finney.

The Rev. William Finney, M. A. was a graduate of the University of Glasgow (name spelled Finnie). Colonel William Finney in the Revolution was Quartermaster-General of the Virginia forces. There was a Rev. Alexander Finnie, minister in Prince George, and a Captain Alexander Finnie, of Williamsburg, in employ of Governor Spotswood in 1752.

William Finnie was minister of Varina Parish 1714-27 and in 1724 he was one of the “sureties” at the baptism of Valentine Wood, son of Henry Wood and Martha Cocke.

6. ELIZABETH COCKE (4) daughter of Thomas (3). We know nothing of her.

II. DESCENDANTS OF STEPHEN COCKE (3), Son of Thomas (2)

1. ABRAHAM COCKE, born c. 1690, died 1759. He got is name from the Jones'. Stephen Cocke had a half brother named Abraham Jones.

Abraham Cocke journeyed to Amelia, to the banks of the Nottoway River, then part of Prince George; he had interests near Petersburg. His children were related to the descendants of Major Peter Jones and Colonel Abram Wood.

The Act of Assembly (1720 - see Hening) enabling Abraham Cocke to sell certain entailed lands, mentions the land granted to Stephen Cocke (3) at Malborne Hill, and farther says the said Stephen Cocke departed this life, leaving issue a son and a daughter, to-wit: Abraham Cocke and Agnes, “now the wife of Richard Smith”.

The will of Abraham Cocke was probated in Amelia county May 22, 1760. He died 1759.

He seems to have owned large estates in what is now Nottoway and Lunenburg counties. He leaves a plantation or one (sometimes two) tracts of land to each of his six sons: Peter, Abraham, Stephen, Tomas, John and William and he leaves two slaves to each of his four daughters, slaves to his sons, and a mill to his wife. These lands lay in Amelia (now Nottoway), o the Great and Little Nottoway Rivers, and in Lunenburg.

His four daughters were named Mary (married Richard Ellis), Agnes (married Charles Hamlin), Martha and Elizabeth.

In the year 1751 he was Sheriff of Amelia, then a large county, and a justice 1745-60. In 1749 he is recorded as a Vestryman of Nottoway Parish.

His youngest son was General William Cocke (5) one of the founders of the State of Tennessee (Cocke county is called after him), and one of the first two Senators in Congress from that State (1795-1805).

General John Cocke (6), son of General William Cocke (5) had a fierce controversy with General Andrew Jackson (see Parton's Life of Jackson).

2. AGNES COCKE (4), daughter of Stephen (3). She married Richard Smith; we know nothing more of her.

III. DESCENDANTS OF JAMES COCKE (3), Son of Thomas (2)

James Cocke (3) married Elizabeth Pleasants. They had issue:

1. James Cocke (4), born c. 1690; died c. 1769. His mother (Elizabeth Pleasants) lived, as we have stated, until 1751. The will of Elizabeth (Pleasants) Cocke, recorded in Henrico county, mentions her daughter, Elizabeth Poythress, her grandson, William Fleming Cocke (son of Pleasant Cocke, deceased), her granddaughters, Rebecca, Ann and Tabitha and her son James Cocke (4) who is made her executor. She bequeaths 12 negroes to the above and the residue of her estate to James Cocke (4).

James Cocke (4) was a member of the vestry of Henrico Parish in 1735, and afterwards down to 1750 or later. It was he whose name is associated with that of James Powel Cocke (4) in connection with the founding of old St. John's Church.

He lived a long life. A deed is on record in Henrico courthouse, dated July 2, 1763, from James Cocke, Sr., to James Cocke, Jr. We have stated that he probably died about 1769; but it is likely he died about 1765. He interests us not only from his association with Old St. Jon's Church, but also because his name is connected with the lot which states the present court-house of Henrico county, as appears from a deed, dated Oct. 19, 1751, recorded in Henrico clerk's office, in which William Randolph, gentleman, conveys to James Cocke, gentleman “a certain half acre of ground in the city of Richmond, and designated as lot No. 22 in plan of said city.” See Richmond Enquirer, July 23 25, 1876. This lot is the land on which the present court-house stands. The deed is recorded Nov. 4, 1751, and certified by Bowler Cocke, C. C.

We have not his will and know the name of only one of his children, Capt. James Cocke (4).

2. PLEASANT COCKE (4) born, perhaps, 1692; died 1744. He must have married a Fleming. He seems to have left two sons; William Fleming Cocke (5) and Pleasant Cocke (Jr.)(5). He seems to have left two sons: William Fleming Cocke (5) and Pleasant Cocke (5). He may have also been the father of Rebecca, or Ann, or Tabitha Cocke mentioned as her grand-daughters in the will of Elizabeth Pleasants Cocke, the widow of James Cocke (3). Pleasant Cocke(5) was an officer in the Revolution. (The Flemings were a distinguished family in Goochland and Cumberland in the Revolutionary period. Several of them were officers high in command in the Continental army, and several of them in the House of Burgesses. Judge Fleming of the Court of Appeals in the post-Revolutionary period, was prominent as a member of that court.)

3. ELIZABETH (COCKE) POYTHRESS (4). In the next generation there was a marriage between another Poythress and a certain James Cocke, who lived at “Bon Accord”.

Dr. Bock states in his “Virginia and Virginians”, Vol. I, page --, that the children of James Cocke (3) intermarried with the Harrisons. We do not know the authority for this statement, but that accomplished genealogist is rarely wrong.

IV. The other children of Thomas Cocke (2) were William Cocke (3) and Temperance (Cocke) Harwood (3). We know nothing of the children of this William Cocke (3) and of the Harwoods we have already spoken. (There was a Captain William Cocke and a Captain Thomas Cocke in the French-Indian wars of the middle of the century.)

V. DESCENDANTS OF RICHARD COCKE (3) SON OF RICHARD (2) (FOURTH GENERATION)

Richard Cocke (3) left three sons and four daughters, to-wit: Bowler Cocke (4); Richard Cocke (4), Benjamin Cocke (4), Martha Cocke (4) (married Thomas Adams, who became quite prominent afterwards); a daughter who married William Acrill, of Charles City, member House of Burgesses 1736; Mary Cocke (4) who married ------------- Eppes, ancestor of Senator John W. Eppes) and a daughter named Tabitha Cocke (4). We notice them in order.

1. BOWLER COCKE (4) born 1696, died 1771, at “Shirley”, in Charles City. He married twice: 1. Sarah ----------------; 2. Mrs. Elizabeth Carter, widow of Colonel John Carter of “Corotoman” and a daughter of Colonel Edward Hill of “Shirley”. Colonel John Carter married Elizabeth Hill in 1723. He died in 1743. Colonel Bowler Cocke was then living at “Bremo”. His first wife had died about 1736. He probably married Mrs. Carter about 1745. When he moved to “Shirley” is not ascertained; probably about 1752, when he ceased to be clerk of Henrico, which office he held from 1728. On the death of his second wife, he became the owner of “Shirley” for life as tenant by curtsey. He died in 1771. (On the death of Bowler Cocke (1771) Shirley passed to Charles Carter, the eldest son of Elizabeth Hill by her first marriage. He was father of Edward Carter of Blenheim, Albemarle county (represented Albemarle in House of Burgesses 1768 and 1785 and no doubt other years), who was grandfather of Dr. Charles Carter of Charlottesville, who married Mary Cocke, daughter of James Powell Cocke of Edgemont, Albemarle.)

There were four of these Bowler Cockes in succession. Bowler Cocke (4) was clerk of Henrico 1728-52; Vestryman for Henrico Parish 1730-43, probably until 1748; member House of Burgesses from Henrico 1752, 1756, 1757, 1758, 1759, 1761 (and probably other years), and was Lieutenant-Colonel of the militia of the county (then a prominent position).

2. RICHARD COCKE (4) son of Richard (3) born c. 1706 (by second wife) died 1772; married Elizabeth Hartwell, daughter of John Hartwell of Swan's Point, Surry County (opposite James City), and great-niece of Hon. Henry Hartwell, Clerk of Council in 1675-95.

Richard (4) and Benjamin (5) were half-brothers of Bowler (4) and both ancestors of distinguished lines. And both moved from Henrico to Surry County. (This has led to confusion with the regular line of the Surry Cockes, who were established in Surry before Richard Cocke (4) and Benjamin Cocke (4) moved into that county from Henrico. Hartwell Cocke (5), John Hartwell Cocke (6), Richard Cocke (5), Richard Herbert Cocke (6), Colonel Allen Cocke (5) all of Surry and Isle of Wight, were descended from the Henrico Cockes. Colonel Lemuel Cocke, Colonel John Cocke, Colonel Thomas Cocke were descended from William Cocke, the emigrant of 1690. Nicholas Cocke, Walter Cocke, Commodore Harrison Cocke were also descended from William and Walter Cocke, who came over about 1690. Colonel Richard Cocke (5) was living in Surry in 1784, in which year he represented that county in the House of Burgesses. He was by a second marriage of Richard Cocke (4) and his mother was a daughter of Colonel Augustine Claiborne. He was born about 1745, and was still living in 1813, when he gave to General John H. Cocke of Fluvanna, an exceeding valuable and interesting genealogy of the family, drawn up by himself. He had met many of the actors on the scene in the latter half of the eighteenth century. We shall give this genealogy in full further on.)

Richard Cocke (5), son of Richard (4), afterwards moved to Isle of Wight and was known as “Richard Cocke of Shoal Bay”, five miles from Smithfield on James River. (The grandson of Richard (4), Richard Herbert Cocke (6) of “Bacon's Castle”, who was very wealthy, lived in Surry.) Richard Cocke (4) left a number of other children, among them the distinguished Hartwell Cocke (5) grandfather of General John Hartwell Cocke (7), of Bremo, in Fluvanna. His son, Colonel Richard Cocke (4) was also prominent.

3. BENJAMIN COCKE (4) Son of Richard (3). Born c. 1710, died 1763. He married Catharine Allen, daughter of Arthur Allen, of Surry County. (These Allens were among the most influential people in Surry county. John Allen was clerk of the county, 1708-51. His son, Col. John Allen was an officer in the Revolution, a member of the Virginia Convention of 1776 and a member of the Privy Council, 1780. William Allen of Claremont, who died in 1793, was probably the wealthiest citizen of Surry County.) She was the daughter of Mrs. Elizabeth Stith, who married three times: 1. Arthur Allen of Surry; 2. Arthur Smith, Jr., of Isle of Wight; 3. ------------- Stith. (See William & Mary Quarterly, Oct. 1896, p. 113.) Her maiden name was Elizabeth Bray, sister of Thomas and James Bray.

Benjamin Cocke (4) had moved from Henrico to Goochland, and in 1744-47, he was vestryman in the parish of St. James-Northam in that county. The vestry records for 1747 have the same entry that “Peter Jefferson (father of Thomas Jefferson) is appointed vestryman in the room of Benj. Cocke, removed.” (Signed by Thomas Cocke. Who was this Thomas Cocke? In 17674 “it is ordered that Thomas Cock and Stephen Perkins do Procession the lands within the Precincts, &c.”)

Richard Cocke (3) in 1714 had bought a large body of land in Goochland county. This was probably the occasion of his son (Benjamin (4)) moving to that county. But when Benj. Cocke married Catharine Allen (who was probably rich) he removed to Surry.

Benj. Cocke (4) and Catharine Allen left three children: 1. Catharine Allen Cocke, m. ---------- Bradly; 2. Arthur Allen Cocke (6) m. Nancy Kennon; 3. Rebecca Cocke m. ------------- Eaton. When he (ARTHUR ALLEN per Corrections) died in 1763, his widow married Arthur Smith, Jr., and afterwards ---------- Stith. She lived until 1774. Her will is recorded in Surry county and evidences that she was quite rich. She leaves (Arthur) Allen Cocke (her grandson) her gold watch, chain and seals, three silver castes, four silver salt spoons, one silver can, a gold ring and a mourning stone ring, her father's picture, and a plantation called Rockohock in James City county. To her granddaughters, Catharine Allen Bradly and Rebeckah Cocke, large silver tankard, a dozen and a half silver spoons, silver tongs and strainer, certain lots in Smithfield, &c. She gives a silver tankard to Col. Joseph Bridger (Lt. Col. James Bridger, in the latter part of the seventeenth century was, perhaps the leading citizen of Isle of Wight county. In 1680 he was commander-in-chief of the Horse in Isle of Wight, Surry, Nansemond and Lower Norfolk. Wm. Bridger was sheriff of Isle of Wight in 1702 and Burgess in 1714 and 1718. In 1752, 1765, 1768 and 1770 Capt. James Bridger (the executor of this will) was a member of the House of Burgesses. Col. Joseph Bridger was no doubt his brother, and in 1761 both of them were in the House of Burgesses from Isle of Wight) and to Col. Philip Johnson and Mrs. Elizabeth Johnson ten pounds to “buy them two neat rings” (Beginning with 1644 and coming down to 1825 the family of Arthur Smith has been one of the best known in Isle of Wight. The first of the name was a member of House of Burgesses in 1644. Nicholas Smith (probably brother) in 1660. Arthur Smith in 1718. Thomas Smith (c. 1780) married Elizabeth Waddrop, daughter of John Waddrop and Nancy Hunt Cocke of Surry (dau. Of Col Allen Cocke. (CORRECTION: On p. 325, note, the statement (taken from Virginia Hist. Mag., Oct. 1895, p. 197) that Nancy Hunt Cocke married John Waddrop, is erroneous. As will appear hereafter, she married: 1. Gen. James A Bradley. 2. Patrick Henry Adams 3. Col. Richard Herbert Cocke (6)). They had a daughter Elizabeth, who married James Johnson and these had a daughter Eliza, who married Lieut. Wm. H. Cocke of Surry, U.S.N. and was killed in 1822 by accidental discharge of a gun off Moro Castle. James Johnson was a member of Congress 1813-20. There was a James Johnson (of James City) who was member of Convention of 1788. In 1752 Capt. Arthur Smith, the husband of Catharine Allen, our testatrix, founded the town of Smithfield. His son, Col. Arthur Smith was a member of the Legislature in 1839-40. “Col Philip Johnson of James City county, married Elizabeth, heiress of James Bray, and had issue: James Bray Johnson and others. James Bray Johnson married Rebecca, daughter of Col. Littlebury Cocke of Charles City county and had Eliza, sole heiress, who married Chancellor Samuel Tyler of Williamsburg”. See for the foregoing William & Mary College Quarterly, Oct., 1896, p. 114. Col. Philip Johnson represented James City co. in the House of Burgesses, 1765, 1768.) also 15 pounds to three godchildren to buy cups. She gives unto Parish of Southwark 50 pounds “to purchase an Altar piece”. “I would have” (she adds) “Moses and Aaron drawn at full length, holding up between them the ten commandments * * and the Lord's Prayer a small Fraim to hang on right hand of great Pew, and the Creed * * on left hand over other great Pew.” She gives then unto her free school at Smithfield 120 pounds, &c. These legacies were to be discharged by the sale of certain Negroes. Executors: Mr. Wm. Edwards and Capt. James Bridger.

Benjamin Cocke (4) seems to have lived at “Bacon's Castle”, Surry, which afterwards passed into the hands of Col. Richard Herbert Cocke (6)

4. MARTHA COCKE (4), daughter of Richard Cocke (3). She married Thomas Adams. (There is an account of the Adams family, (Richard, Samuel and John Adams) in Mordecai's, “Richmond in B-gone Days”. He speaks of their large wealth and states that they owned the Eastern portion of the city (Church Hill), then called “Adams' Hill”. This was about 1800-1825. The late Mrs. Gen. George W. Randolph, so well known in the social circles of Richmond, was of this family.

Ebenezer Adams (with Nathaniel Harrison and Henry Harrison), was the executor of Richard Cocke (3). He moved to New Kent county. He had two sons, Thomas and Richard Adams. Richard was in the House of Burgesses from New Kent in 1752 and 1765, 1773. He was also a member of the convention of 1776. He married Elizabeth Griffin, daughter of Judge Cyrus Griffin, President of Congress in 1788. He was born 1723, and died 1800. Thomas Adams, who married Martha Cocke (4) is stated to have been clerk of Henrico, He went to England and was in his earlier life a merchant in London. He returned to Virginia in 1772, and was a delegate to the Continental Congress in 1778 and 1780. Afterwards removed to Augusta county, and died in 1788. In 1785, he represented Augusta, Rockingham, Rockbridge and Shenandoah in the Senate of Virginia. Ann Hunt Cocke, daughter of Col. Allen Cocke (5) married Patrick Henry Adams. The names of both Thomas and Richard Adams are recorded in the list of the Association of Williamsburg, 1776. Col. Richard Adams and his brothers, who lived in Richmond at the beginning of the present century, were descendants of Thomas Adams and Martha Cocke.)

5. MARY COCKE (4) daughter of Richard Cocke (3) married --------------- Eppes c. 1730. This is mentioned in the account of the descendants of Richard Cocke (3) given in 1813, by Richard Cocke (5) now in possession of the family of the late Gen. Philip St. George Cocke. It is also mentioned in the pedigree in possession of Capt. Edmund Randolph Cocke's family of Cumberland. Col. Richard Cocke (5) states that his contemporary United States Senator John W. Eppes, as descendant of the above marriage.

6. ANNE COCKE (4) daughter of Richard Cocke (3). Married William Acrill, of Charles City county, member House of Burgesses 1736. He died in 1737, and Richard Cocke (4) and (4) were his executors. She died about 1755. Then had issue (amongst others) Susanna, Rebecca and Hannah Acrill.

Another William Acrill, probably son of above, represented Charles Cit in House of Burgesses, 1768, 1777 and in the convention of 1776, and was member of the Association of Williamsburg of 1770 - a list of the most distinguished names in the colony.

There was an Acrill Cocke living in Charles City county in 1790, and in 1775 we find an Acrill Cocke in Surry.

7. TABITHA COCKE (4), daughter of Richard Cocke (4). We know nothing of her.

VI. DESCENDANTS OF ELIZABETH (COCKE)(3) CARY, DAUGHTER OF RICHARD(2) (FOURTH GENERATION)

ELIZABETH CARY (3) nee Cocke, daughter of Richard Cocke (2) and wife of Miles Cary (3) (married 1695) had issue: Ann Cary (4); Elizabeth Cary (4); Bridget Cary (4), Dorothy Cary (4), Martha Cary (4), Miles Cary (4), Thomas Cary (4), Nathaniel Cary (4).

One of the daughters of Miles Cary (4) married Benjamin Watkins (4), who was first clerk of Chesterfield county, and was a member of the convention of 1776, and a member of House of Burgesses from Chesterfield in 1777.

BENJAMIN WATKINS LEIGH. The Rev. William Leigh of King and Queen, married the daughter of Benjamin Watkins and Elizabeth Cary (4). These last were the parents of Benjamin Watkins Leigh and Judge William Leigh, and of Mrs. Finney (See Meade)

Another daughter of Miles Cary (4), son of Miles Cary, Jr.(3) married the Rev. William Selden of Henrico, father of Miles Selden and progenitor of the Seldens of James River.

The eminent lawyer, Conway Robinson, of Richmond and Washington, was also descended from Miles Cary (3) and Elizabeth Cocke (3).

VII. DESCENDANTS OF MARTHA (COCKE)(3) PLEASANTS (FOURTH GENERATION)

She was the daughter of Richard Cocke (2) and wife of Joseph Pleasants (2). They married about 1730-35. They had issue: 1. Joseph Pleasants; 2. John Pleasants m. Susanna Woodson; 3. Richard Pleasants; 4. Thomas Pleasants; 5. Robert Pleasants; 6. Jane Pleasants; 7. Martha Pleasants m. Nathaniel Vandewall; Elizabeth Pleasants.

Martha Pleasants (4) and Nathaniel Vandewall had issue: 1. Mary Vandewall (5) m. Wm. Lewis, 2. Martha Vandewall (5) m. Col. Turner Southall, in House of Delegates and Senate of Virginia from Henrico, from 1779 to 1791. (Col. Marks Vandewall, son of Nathaniel, was appointed by Mr. Jefferson, Postmaster of Richmond in 1804, in which office he as succeeded by Dr. William Foushee in 1812.)

GOVERNOR JAMES PLEASANTS

John Pleasants (4) and Susanna Woodson had a number of children, among them James Pleasants of “Contention”, m. Ann Randolph of “Dungeness”, who were the parents of Gov. James Pleasants.

VIII. DESCENDANTS OF WILLIAM COCKE (3) (FOURTH GENERATION)

This William Cocke (3) was the son of John Cocke (2) and was the only child of John Cocke (2) of whose descendants we have any information. He married Sarah Perrin 1695, and died 1711.

His daughter, Martha Cocke (4) married as we have mentioned in a previous article, Colonel Henry Wood in 1724, who was the first clerk of Goochland (He qualifies as captain 1730, and as a vestryman in 1744. Was afterwards elected or appointed Colonel. Henry Wood's tomb is still preserved at his old homestead, “Woodville”, about twelve miles northwest of Goochland Courthouse. An oblong granite slab, mounted on pedestals. It bears the inscription: “Henry Wood, son of Valentine and Rachel Wood. Born in London July 8th, 1696, and departed this life May 2nd, 1757. Fuimu quoque nos.” Was a justice for Albemarle county (cut off from Goochland) in 1744, one of the first appointed) and who was the father of Colonel Valentine Wood (second clerk), who married Lucy Henry, sister of Patrick Henry.

Three of the daughters of Colonel Valentine Wood, Martha, Mary and Lucy married respectively, Major Stephen Southall, Judge Peter Johnston and Edward Carter of Blenheim, in Albemarle (afterwards owned by Hon. Andrew Stevenson, who died there in 1857).

In 1765 Valentine Wood, Edward Carter and Bowler Cocke (4) were on a commission appointed by the General Assembly to improve the navigation of James River. The Board consisted of Hon. Peter Randolph, William Byrd, Archibald Cary, &c., for Chickahominy; Bowler Cocke, Jr., Benjamin Harrison, &c., for North Bend James River; Thomas Walker, Thomas Jefferson, Edward Carter, Valentine Wood, &c., for district Goochland and Albemarle. (See Hening, VIII, 149.)

IX. DESCENDANTS OF MARY (COCKE 3) SMITH. (FOURTH GENERATION)

She was the daughter of William Cocke (2) and married Obadiah Smith (3) and died 1754. Their children were: William Smith (4), John Smith (4), Obadiah Smith (4), Jacob Smith (4), Luke Smith (4), Elizabeth Smith (4), Annie Smith (4), Mary Smith (4) married William Smith of “Montrose”, Powhatan county).

This Mary (Cocke) Smith was the grandmother of Obadiah Smith (6) of Westham, Chesterfield county, who married Mary Burks, and was the father of Lucy Smith (6) second wife of James Powell Cocke (6) of Albemarle. (Mary Burks was sister of Elizabeth Burks, who married Dr. William Cabell, progenitor of the Cabell family. See “Cabells and their Kin”, page 59)

This brings our record down to about the middle of the eighteenth century or a little later. The lines of the James Powell Cockes, the Bowler Cockes, the Richard Cockes, the Hartwell Cokes, the Allen Cockes are now prominent. Contemporary with this fourth generation were the children of Secretary William Cocke of Williamsburg: 1. Elizabeth Cocke who married Colonel Thomas Jones (2), son of Captain Roger Jones, ancestor of General Walter Jones and Commodore Catesby Jones; 2 Catesby Cocke born 1702 of “Belmont” Fairfax county, father of Captain John Catesby Cocke of the Revolution; 3. William

Cocke, who lived mostly abroad; 4. Ann Cocke who married Major William Woodford of “Windsor”, Caroline, father of General William Woodford, of the Revolution; 5. Lucy Cocke who married Colonel Thomas Waring, Burgess from Essex, 1736.

Contemporary also were the earlier members of the Surry line, descended from William and Walter Cocke, who arrived in Surry about 1690. These intermarried with the Fludds, the Masons, the Harrisons, the Shorts, the Edmunds of Surry county, and of these were Colonel Thomas Cocke of Surry, who died 1750, and Colonel Lemuel Cocke of the pre-Revolutionary and the Revolutionary period.

We have made reference to two Captain Cocke's in the French-Indian wars in the time of Governor Spotswood, whose correspondence frequently mentions them; Captain William Cocke (174), and Captain Thomas Cocke (1758).

The Cockes had also penetrated into Goochland and had become a prominent family there. In 1744 Henry Wood (who married Martha Cocke) and Benjamin Cocke were vestrymen for the parish of St. James, Northam. In 1747 Thomas Cocke is a vestryman for same parish and Peter Jefferson is appointed vestryman in place of Benjamin Cocke, who had removed from the parish. This is, no doubt, the Benjamin Cocke referred in Hening, Vol VI, page 15 (1748-55), who had lands and a ferry on the Rivanna river (in Fluvanna or Albemarle).

X. DESCENDANTS OF ANNE COCKE (3) AND ROBERT BOLLING (3)

In his genealogy of the Bolling Family (Bristol Parish), Dr. Slaughter gives the descendants of Robert Bolling (3) and Anne Cocke (3), who were the progenitors of a most notable line of prominent names in the history of the colony.

Robert Bolling(3) was of Charles City (he was thrown into Prince George in 1702), and was surveyor of that county. (Either he or his father was sheriff in 1699) It is probable that his wife was of the same county, and was the daughter of Richard Cocke (2) “the younger”, who lived in Charles City at “Old Man's Creek”. The Charles City Records being lost, we cannot verify this conjecture. (William Lightoot (4) of Teddington (Sandy Point, Charles City), had a daughter named Anne Cocke and a daughter named May Elizabeth Bolling. See William and Mary Quarterly, October 1894, page 108. And there was a Bolling Cocke in Charles City county in the latter part of the Eighteenth Century).

We give the descendants of this pair as given by Dr. Slaughter, with such additional comments as have appeared to us of interest.

The Bollings belonged to the English family of Bollings of “Bolling Hall, Yorkshire”. Robert Bolling (2) (son of John Bolling of Bolling Hall) born 1646, came from London to Virginia in 1660, and married 1675, Jane, daughter of Thomas Rolfe, and granddaughter of Pocahontas; he marred second, 1681, Anne Stith of Brunswick county, and lived at “Kippax” in Prince George county. Died 1709. Issue by first marriage:

1. John Bolling (3), born 1675. He became a prominent citizen of Henrico and represented that county in the House of Burgesses in 1714, 1723 and 1726. He became, says Dr. Slaughter, “immensely rich”, and was buried at Cobb's, April 20th, 1729.

Issue by second marriage

2. Robert Bolling (3), born 1682, married 1706, Anne Cocke, died 1749

3. Stith Bolling (3)

4. Edward Bolling (3)

5. Anne Bolling (3)

6. Drury Bolling (3)

7. Thomas Bolling (3)

8. Agnes Bolling

Issue of Robert Bolling (3) and Anne Cocke (3):

1. Mary Bolling (4) born 1708, married William Starke, who died 1755 (The Starkes came from York County. William Starke of York, son of Dr. Richard Starke, moved to Prince George, and married Mary Bolling(4) in 1727. William Starke was one of the vestry of Bristol Parish, 1733, 1737. These had issue:

a. Bolling Starke born 1733, who was a man of prominence during the Revolution. He represented Dinwiddie in the House of Burgesses 1761 and 1770, and in the Convention of 1776, and was one of the Governor's Council; 1n 1781 was appointed by Governor Jefferson one of the auditors to succeed Thomas Everard.

b. William Starke married Mary Bassett Dangerfield

c. Robert Starke, father of Dr. Powhatan Bolling Starke, who married Miss Orgaine

2. Anne Bolling (4) married John Hall. (In 1720 we find the name of Instant Hall among the vestry of Bristol Parish. In 1718 Robert Hall was Burgess from Prince George County

3. Elizabeth Bolling (4) born 1709, married James Munford. (The Munford family of Richmond, was originally from Prince George. Robert Munford was clerk of the House of Burgesses and married Anne, daughter of Richard Bland. Robert (2) was a colonel in the Revolutionary war. He married a Beverley. Their children intermarried with the Kennons, Byrds, &c.

4. Lucy Bolling (4) born 1719, married Colonel Peter Randolph of Chatsworth. (Colonel Peter Randolph was a son of William Randolph (2) of “Turkey Island” and Elizabeth Beverley. He lived at “Chatsworth” on James River and was a member of the Council 1761, 1768 and other years. Also Attorney-General and Surveyor of Customs of North America 1749. He was the father of Governor Beverley Randolph, who married, 1775, Martha Cocke, daughter of Auditor James Cocke of Williamsburg.)

5. Jane Bolling (4) born 1722 married Hugh Miller. (Hugh Miller was one of the vestry of Bristol Ford Parish in 1746. Sir Peyton Skipwith, Seventh Baronet, married Ann, daughter of Hugh Miller, born 1743.

6. Martha Bolling (4) born 1726, married Richard Eppes of Bermuda Hundreds. (This Richard Eppes (5) represented Chesterfield in the House of Burgesses 1742, 1755, '58, '62, '63, '64, '65, in which last year leaving a large estate.) (The Cockes intermarried a number of times with the Eppes. The mother of Benjamin Cocke (5) of Prince George, was Mary Eppes, daughter of Richard Eppes (4). His son married an Eppes. The Eppes' were among the most distinguished families of Virginia and were prominent during the seventeenth and the whole of the eighteenth centuries in Henrico, Charles City, Prince George and Chesterfield. There were three Colonel Francis Eppes in succession in Henrico from 1650 to 1734, the first of the name having been a member of the Governor's Council in 1652. In Charles City county Colonel Littlebury Eppes was frequently Burgess, and members of the family were the clerks and sheriffs of the county repeatedly from 1707 to 1770. In Prince George they held the same offices repeatedly during the same period, as well as that of Burgess. Francis Eppes of Prince George was Colonel of the Second Virginia Regiment in the Revolution. They were also prominent in Chesterfield and Nottoway.

7. Susanna Bolling born 1728 married Alex Bolling of Prince George. He represented Prince George in the House of Burgesses 1761, 1768.

8. Robert Bolling, Jr.,(4) born 1730, died 1775; settled at “Bollingbrook”, Peterburg, Va., and married first, Martha, sister of Colonel John Banister of “Battersea”, M. C.; she dying, he married second 1758, Mary Marshall, daughter of Colonel Thomas Tabb of “Clay Hill”, Amelia county, who died 1814. Thomas Tabb was a Burgess from Amelia 1751 and 1768. John Tabb was a Burgess from same count in 1777 and was a member of the Convention of 1776.)

Issue of Robert Bolling and Mary Tabb

a. Robert Bolling III (of “Centre Hill”) born 1759, married first 1781, Mary Burton, only daughter of Colonel Robert Bolling of “Challowe”, who died 1787, married second 1790, Catharine, daughter of Buckner Stith of “Rockspring”, Brunswick county, who died 1795; married third 1796, Sally, daughter of Lawrence Washington who died 1796; married fourth, Anne Dade, daughter of Buckner Stith, who died 1846. (This Lawrence Washington must have been a nephew or more probably a cousin of General Washington.)

Issue of Robert Bolling (5) and Mary Burton

(1) Mary Burton Augusta Bolling (6) born 1789, married John Monro Banister, son of Colonel John Banister, died 1853

Issue of Robert Bolling (5) and Catharine Stith

(A) W. C. Banister, killed in battle June 9th, 1864

(B) John Munro Banister, Jr. D. D. (7) married Mary, daughter of General Wm. H. Broadmax;

(C) Edith C Banister (7) married Commodore Harrison H. Cocke, U. S. N. of Prince George (He was the son of Walter Cocke of Surry, who died 1802, of the line of Surry Cockes. His family had married with the Harrisons, Travises and Henleys.

Issue of Robert Bolling and Catharine (Stith) Bolling (second marriage)

(2) Rebecca Bolling (6) married John Blackwood Strachan, M.D. died 1845

(3) Lucy Ann Bolling (6) married N. Snelson

Issue of Robert Bolling (5) and Ann Dade Stith

(4) Ann Robertson Bolling (6) married J. N. Campbell of Philadelphia; died 1828

(5) Martha Stith Bolling (6) married first Martin Slaughter of Culpeper and second E. C. Freeman of Culpeper

(6) Robert Buckner Bolling (6) married 1831, Sarah Melville, only daughter of John and Sarah Stuart Minge of Sandy Point, Charles City county, on the river-a splendid estate. She died July 20th 1854. (Colonel Robert Buckner Bolling as very wealthy and lived at the beautiful residence in Petersburg called “Centre Hill”. By his wife he obtained the splendid estate of “Sandy Point” on James river. He represented Petersburg in the Legislature for a number of years - 1840 - 1850. His wife, Sarah Melville Minge (a lovely woman), was the great-great-granddaughter of William Cocke, the progenitor of the line of the Surry Cockes, who died 1720.

Issue of Robert Buckner Bolling and Sarah Melville Minge

A. Robert Bolling (7) M. D. of Philadelphia

B. John Bolling (7)(lawyer) of New York (&c.)

(7) George W. Bolling (6) married Martha, daughter of W. N. Nicholls of Georgetown, DC

Issue of Colonel George W. Bolling (6) and Martha Nicholls

A. Robert Bolling (7) married Nanny Webster

B. William N. Bolling (7) married Susan, daughter of Hon. Richard Kidder Meade.

C. Mary Tabb Bolling (7) married 1867, General W. H. F. Lee, son of General Robert E. Lee

b. Thomas Tabb Bolling (5) born 1763 who married Seignora, daughter of Sir John Peyton of Gloucester county, died 1810

Issue of Thomas Tabb Bolling and Signora Peyton

(1) John Peyton Bolling (6) married Anne Skelton Gilliam

(2) Frances Bolling (6) married Everard Meade, M. D.

(3) Martha Tabb Bolling (6) married Thomas Tabb of Amelia

(4) Harriet Bolling (6) married Charles Eggleston of Amelia

(5) Thomas Bolling (6) married Mary Carter of Goochland

(6) William Bolling (6) married Pocahontas Robertson of Richmond

c. Anne Bolling (5) married John Shore, M. D.

d. Frances Bolling (5) married John Lemessurier

e. Marianna Bolling (5) died unmarried.

THE COCKE FAMILY OF VIRGINIA (HENRICO) - FIFTH AND SIXTH GENERATIONS

1. LINE OF THOMAS COCKE (2)

Thomas Cocke (2) left the following children: Thomas Cocke (3), Stephen Cocke (3), James Cocke (3), William Cocke (3), Agnes Cocke (3) and Temperance Cocke (4)

Thomas Cocke (3) left the following children: Thomas Cocke (4), James Powell Cocke (4), Henry Cocke (4), Brazure Cocke (4), Mary Cocke (4) and Elizabeth Cocke (4)

We have in our last article gotten through with the fourth generation of the Cocke family from Richard Cocke (1). We now enter upon generations five and six, and begin with the children of Thomas Cocke (4), the eldest son of Thomas Cocke (3), the eldest son of Thomas Cocke (2), the eldest son of Richard Cocke (1).

1. DESCENDANTS OF THOMAS COCKE (4) - Thomas Cocke (4), son of Thomas (3), died unmarried, and left no descendants. As we have mentioned he was the executor of his father's will. Henry Cocke (4), son of Thomas (3) also died unmarried; and of Elizabeth (4) we know nothing. The only children left of Thomas Cocke (3) are James Powell Cocke (4), Brazure Cocke (4) and Mary Cocke (4).. Mary Cocke (4) who married Rev. William Finney, we have noticed. There only remain the descendants of James Powell Cocke (4) and Brazure Cocke (4).

2. JAMES POWELL COCKE (4), son of Thomas (3) - He left only two children: James Cocke (5) and Martha Cocke (5)

JAMES COCKE (5), son of James Powell Cocke (4) was born at Malvern Hills about 1721. He was alive in 1781. (A letter from Colonel Charles Fleming to Colonel Davies, describing the movements of the enemy, dated January 10, 1781, says: “Colonel Nicholas is at Mr. James Cock's of Malburn Hills with between 3 and 400 men”. Calendar Virginia State Papers, I, 426. This was at the time of Arnold's landing with 800 troops at Westover, and marching upon Richmond.). He married in 1742, Mary Magdeleine Chastain, daughter of Dr. Stephen Chastain, one of the French Huguenots at Mannikin Town, who came over, we are told, “in the first ship”, and whose name occurs on the records in Henrico Clerk's Office in 1706. The wife of Stephen Chastain was named Martha, and we learn from the Parish Records of King William Parish, signed by Jean Chastain, clerk, that she died in 1725, aged 52 years.

The Huguenot settlement at Mannikin Town was made in the year 1700, one of the most active promoters in the enterprise being Dr. Daniel Coxe of London, who owned large tracts of land in the Carolinas, and who was no doubt of the family of the English Cockes, whose name as early as 1600 is spelled interchangeably Cock, Cocke, Cox, Coxe.

Prominent among the names of the Huguenot settlers in Virginia were those of Salle, Fontaine, Chastain, Dupuy, Latane, Marye, Maury, Duval, Contesse (Tylers descended from) &c., &c. (There were other Huguenot names in the colony, not of this settlement: The Barrauds, the Bowdoins, the Bertrands, the Trezvants, the Moncure, the Ghiselins, &c.)

There were three Chastains among these settlers in the beginning of the eighteenth century: Dr. Stephen Chastain, Pierre Chastain (vestryman) and Jean Chastain (clerk of the parish).

In the year 1700 more than 500 immigrants, under the Marquis de la Muce, were landed in Virginia, by four successive debarkations. Dr. Brock has published a most interesting account of them in the fifth volume of the Virginia Historical Collections, with the pedigrees of some of the prominent families, including the Chastains.

Among the settlers at Mannikin Town were three ministers and two doctors, one of the former being Louis Latane; and the physicians being Etienne Chastain (Castaing) and La Soree.

The parishioners at Monocantown proceeded to erect it into a parish (King William parish), and to elect a vestry of twelve men, one of whom was Pierre Chastain. Another was Abra. Salle, who seems to have been a leading man, and who was a justice of Henrico in 1709.

In the year 1726 the clerk of the parish is Jean Chastain, who holds the office until 1754, wee the Register of Births ends.

As time rolls on the names of Anne, Charlotte, Elizabeth, Magdelain, Jane, Martha, Judith, Rene occur on the record.

It appears from the foregoing account that there were three of these Chastains originally at Mannikin Town. The name of Dr. Stephen Chastain is spelled both Castaing (In La France Protestante we find the following notice of this family: “Castaing, ancienne famille de Manvezin (at foot of the Pyrenees, in extreme south of France, on northern frontier of Spain), Jean Castaing, practitioner (lawyer) for pendant long temps un des members actif de Consistoire de sa ville natole en xvii e siecle “En 1635 ses collegues au sein de ce conseil etaient Sebastian de Saint-Faust, docteur; Joseph D. Lamigue, docteur; de Gouland bourgeois; Isaac Dirah; Jean Machat, docteur; deputi en synolde de Castres, 1637; John Charles, medecin; Jean Dupre, bourgeois; Jean Dubarr, notarie; Etienne Lassene, docteur; Daniel Cadours, marchand.” III.833.) and Chastain (See Virginia Historical Collections V, page viii)

On pages 112-14 of the Virginia Historical Collections is a list of “Tithables”, at Mannikin Town, in 1744 - apparently the head of the family and the blacks. The highest number of blacks is credited to James Cocke, who was a very young man, and apparently living (with his Huguenot wife) at Mannikin Town. His list is eight persons: Wm. Salle, fice; estate of John James Flournoy, six; John Chastain, five; Mrs. Ann Scott, eight; Mrs. Eliza Bernard, six. On page 194, James Cocke and Mary Magdelain Chastain have a son born to them in 1743 - Chastain Cocke.

From the records in the Land Office we learn that Stephen Chastain between 1714 and 1730, received patents for some 1,400 acres of land in Henrico and Goochland counties, chiefly the former. Peter Chastain patents some 500 acres.

We ascertain through the Land Records that there was a fourth member of this family among these refugees. There is a warrant, dated April 1, 1717 to Charles Chastain, for 672 acres of land in Charles City county, “granted for divers good reasons, but more especially for the importation of 100 persons to dwell within this our colony of Virginia.” George II, Governor Spotswood, 1717

This Charles Chastain no doubt resided in Charles City county, and not with the main colony. Land, it would appear, had greatly appreciated in value, as in the middle of the previous century the Government had allowed fifty acres per head for the importation of colonists.

The Chastains, as a name, have disappeared from Virginia. In the Richmond Enquirer of September 15, 1818, is a non-resident chancer notice in a suit in Buckingham county, of David Guerrant vs Lewis Chastain, John Chastain, William Chastain, Jacob Chastain, Judith Chastain and others.

In the Enquirer of October 25, 1822, is a long chancery publication: Thomas Keeran and Sarah Gillis vs Miles Botts, John Brockenbrough, William Archer, Ph. N. Nicholas, the President and Directors of the Bank of Virginia, &c. &c., and Millon Clarke, Colin Clarke and William B. Chastain, later merchants and partners, &c.

Colin Clarke was father of Captain Maxwell Clarke of Richmond, and of the first Mrs. Douglas Gordion. He lived at Warner Hall, Gloucester county, having moved there from Chesterfield county.

The mother of Colin Clarke was a Salle, with which Huguenot family the Chastains had intermarried.

Captain Clark informs us that the late Chastain White of Hanover was a son of Larkin White, who was the son of General Mercer White. In the year 1752, we find the name of Isham Chastain among the vestrymen of Antrim parish in Halifax County, VA. Henry Isham settled at Bermuda Hundred; died 1675. Was son of Mary Brett, sister of Sir Edward Brett and William Isham. He married widow of Joseph Royall and left issue: Mary Isham who married William Randolph of “Turkey Island”, and Elizabeth Isham married Fr. Eppes of Henrico. He must also have left a daughter who married circa 1710 a Chastain, probably Pierre or Jean. Otherwise, except as a fancy name, we cannot account for Isham Chastain of Halifax in 1752.)

Rene Chastain of Chesterfield, married 1810, Winifred Goode, daughter of William Goode, son of Richard Goode, born 1750. Rene Chastain left issue: Judge Samuel Chastain of Kentucky and John William Chastain of Kentucky.

Colin Clarke was son of Colonel James Clarke of Powhatan, born 172, married Mary Goode Lyle, who died in 1884 in South Carolina at the residence of her son-in-law, Governor Manning.

The Bowdoins, Barrauds and Bertrands intermarried with the line of Richard Cocke (4) and Bowler Cocke(4) of Bremo, and will be noticed further on.

James Powell Cocke (4) left also a daughter Martha, referred to in his will as married, but we do not know the name of her husband.

THE DESCENDANTS OF JAMES COCKE (5) OF MALVERN HILLS

1. CHASTAIN COCKE (6) born March 14, 1743, died March 19, 1795; married Martha Field Archer (born 1752, died 1816) daughter of John Field and Elizabeth Royall (her mother a Field), a sister of the father of Hon. William S. Archer, United States Senator. He was ancestor of the “Cockes” of “Clover Pasture”, Powhatan county. Among his children were:

a. William Archer Cocke (7), died 1844; in Legislature from Powhatan 1822; married Catherine Murray Winston Ronald (William Ronald of Powhatan, was at this period one of the leading public men in the State. He was in the Legislature during and after the Revolution, and in the Convention of 1788. Mr. Rives, in his “Life of Madison”, classes him with the ablest men the parliamentary bodies of that epoch. His brother (they were both Scotchmen), Andrew Ronald, was one of the most eminent lawyers of Richmond. He was opposed to Patrick Henry in the great suit arising from the confiscation of British debts during the war.)

b. John Field Cocke (7), died 1857; captain of cavalry in war of 1812; married Anne Waller Ronald.

c. James Cocke (7) married Mary Lewis of Williamsburg.

Captain John Field Cocke (7) was father of the late Richard Ivanhoe Cocke (8), Commonwealth's Attorney for Fluvanna; member of Legislature and of Constitutional Convention of 1850-51; and of the late Judge Ronald Cocke (8) of Fluvanna.

2. JAMES POWELL COCKE, JR. (6) born 1748, died January 13, 1829. He married twice: First Elizabeth Archer, sister of Martha Archer, wife of Chastain Cocke (6), and of the father of Hon. Wm. S. Archer (died 1773 without issue) (Col. William Archer, County Commandant of Amelia, was a distinguished officer during the Revolution. His son, Hon. William S. Archer, was U. S. Senator from Virginia, 1841-47 and was a man of large wealth and a striking type of the old Virginia gentleman. His brother, Dr. Branch T. Archer of Powhatan, is recommended (see Richmond Enquirer) by Legislative Caucus of 1819-20 as a Presidential Elector. He was President of the Convention which framed the Constitution of Texas, and Secretary of War for that republic. See Howe's Historical Collections, page 173-4.) married second, September 1777, Lucy Smith, born October 1756; died February 27, 1816. He was born at Malvern Hills and lived there until about 1785, and was a justice of Henrico County in 1770.

Lucy Smith, the second wife of James Powell Cocke (6), was the daughter of Obadiah Smith of Westham, Chesterfield county, who was man of considerable property, and owned lands in Chesterfield, Mecklenburg, North Carolina and a fourth plantation at the junction of Hico and Dan rivers in the southeastern corner of Halifax. He died in 1777. His son, Obadiah, was a lieutenant in the Continental army, (There were also in the Continental Line two William Smiths, one whom was certainly a brother of Lucy Smith. The other of a collateral branch was of Powhatan).

It will be remembered that in a previous article (see April Number Magazine, page 411) we stated that Mary Cocke (3), daughter of William Cocke (2) married (about 1700) Obadiah Smith. The present Obadiah Smith, of Westham in Chesterfield county, was his grandson, and the son of Luke Smith.

There was another Obadiah Smith, who was the contemporary and cousin of Obadiah Smith of Westham. He died in 1765, and there was a litigation about his will, the case (Smith vs. Carter) being reported in 3 Randolph's Reports, page 166.

James Powell Cocke (4) and Lucy Smith, his wife, were, therefore, both descended from Richard Cocke (1) - the former through Thomas Cocke (2); the latter through William Cocke (3). (The pedigree of Lucy Smith, as a descendant of William Cocke (2), is given farther on under the head of the line of William Cocke (2).

On account of his health, James Powell Cocke, who seems to have lived t Malvern Hills, removed to the up-country in 1791. Malvern Hills had been sold some time before to Robert Nelson, brother of Governor Nelson and James Powell Cocke (as is stated by Mr. R. Heber Nelson, grandson of Robert Nelson) received in exchange for it lands in the North Garden, Albemarle county.

But he did not leave Henrico until 1791, when he removed to Augusta county, having purchased the Spring Hill estate (840 acres), near Tinkling Spring, from the Rev. James Waddell, D. D., the celebrated blind preacher immortalized b Wirt. He paid for this land 1,050 pounds ($3,500), which he sold in 1793 for $5,333.331/3, and which was bought by John Coalter in 1812 for $13,700 (Joseph Addison Waddell in Staunton Spectator, February 1885). (The Rev. James Waddell bought this property from heirs of John Preston, who lived on it and who was the progenitor of the Preston family of Virginia. Died c. 1780)

James Powell Cocke was a member of the Board of Trustees of the old Staunton Academy, which consisted of the following distinguished names: Rev. John . McCue, Gabriel Jones (a famous man in that day); Alex. St. Clair, Archibald Stuart, Robert Gamble, William Mower, General Robert Porterfield (married half-sister of J. P. C.), James Powell Cocke, John Tate, Robert Grattan, Gentlemen.

In 1793, James Powell Cocke sold his plantation in Augusta, removed to Albemarle and lived at Edgemont, on the Hardware river, near the Green Mountain, thirteen miles south of Charlottesville - a handsome old place still in good preservation, where his monument stand in the old family burying-ground.

James Powell Cocke (6) and Lucy Smith (6) had issue:

a. James Powell Cocke (7) born October 10, 1779; died 1811, married Martha Ann Lewis; died 1856; connected with Lewises and Randolphs of Albemarle.

b. Another son born and died 1783.

c. Mary Cocke (7) born 1785, died in infancy

d. Martha Cocke (7) born 1788 and died in infancy

e. Chastain Cocke (7) born 1790 and died in infancy

f. Smith Cocke (7) born 1792, died in Kentucky 1835, educated at Washington College

g. Chastain Cocke (7) (the second of this name) born February 1795, died (unmarried) at Edgemont December 16, 1838

h. Mary Cocke (7) born October 21, 1796, died March 5, 1888

i. Martha Cocke (7) born June 14, 1799, died July 12, 1874

Mary Cocke (7) daughter of James Powell Cocke (6) married about 1817, Dr. Charles Carter of Charlottesville. Charles Warner Lewis Carter (he called himself Charles Carter) was son of Edward Carter (the second), of Blenheim, Albemarle, and Mary Lewis, and grandson of the first Edward Carter of Blenheim who was a son of Colonel John Carter of Shirley; son of “King” Carter. The first Edward Carter represented Albemarle in House of Burgesses about 1770 and again in 1785, and probably other years. Dr. Charles Carter was also in the Legislature about 1849. Mary Lewis was the daughter of Colonel Charles Lewis (of the family of Colonel Fielding Lewis), of Buck Island, Albemarle. (Represented Albemarle in Convention of 1776.)

Martha Cocke (7) daughter of James Powell Cocke (6) married 1825, Valentine Wood Southall, son of Major Stephen Southall and grandson of Colonel Turner Southall of Henrico. There was a singular conjunction here. Both of the parties were descended from Richard Cocke (1) by a double line. Martha Cocke (7) daughter of James Powell Cocke (6) as descended through James Powell Cocke (4), from Thomas Cocke (2), eldest son of Richard (1). Through her mother Lucy Smith, she was descended from William Cocke (2), father of Mary Cocke (3), wife of Obadiah Smith (3). Valentine Wood Southall was descended from Martha Cocke (4) who married Henry Wood in 1724. She was daughter of William (3), son of John (2) so that he traces through John Cocke (2), son of Richard (1). This was his maternal line. His grandfather, Colonel Turner Southall, married Martha Vandewall, who was the daughter of Martha (Cocke) Pleasants (4), who was daughter of Martha Cocke (3), who was daughter of Richard Cocke (2). So that the descent by this line is to Richard Cocke (2) son of Richard (1). The pair traces their descent to four of the five sons of Richard Cocke (1) by four different lines, and Richard Cocke, “the Younger”, of Charles City, alone, is not represented.

Colonel Turner Southall, paternal grandfather of Valentine Wood Southall, was a very prominent figure in Henrico in the last quarter of the eighteenth century. He represented Henrico in the House of Delegates 1778-84, and was a member of the State Senate in 1790, at the time of his death, from the Senatorial District of Henrico, Goochland and Louisa. He was Colonel Commandant of the county of Henrico (and kept pretty active) during the Revolution; a member of the Committee of Safety 1774-75; appointed on a commission to erect the new capitol in Richmond, and to lay off the streets of the new city; Director of Public Buildings; one of the trustees to improve the navigation of James river; vestryman with Peyton Randolph and Bowler Cocke in 1785 of Henrico parish. He was connected with every prominent public movement in Henrico from 1770 to 1790.

Major Stephen Southall of Henrico, who served as a lieutenant through the Revolutionary War (he lived in Richmond, cor. Leigh and 7th streets, and at Westham, Henrico), was the father of Valentine Wood Southall.

The latter was for many years the leading member of the bar in Albemarle; for many years represented Albemarle in House of Delegates; was Speaker of that body; was member of the Constitutional Convention of 1850-51; attorney for the Commonwealth of Albemarle for may years; member of the State Convention of 1861, and acting President of the body after President Janney's sickness, (He ran against Mr. Janney for the presidency, the latter being elected by the more extreme Union vote.)

3. STEPHEN COCKE (8) was the third son of James Cocke (5) and Mary Magdalene Chastain. He married Jane Segar Eggleston of Amelia, daughter of Major Joseph Eggleston of the Revolution. (Judge Peter Johnston was in Major Eggleston's command during the Revolution, and he called his son, Joseph Eggleston Johnston after him. Maj. Eggleston is said to have been a man of considerable literary attainments, and he was made a general of militia by the Legislature after the war, but he declined it. John Eggleston was M. C. from Virginia 1798-1801. (There was another Stephen Cocke (5) living at this time, son of Abraham (4).)

The Segars were from Lancaster. Joseph Eggleston married Judith Segar of Lancaster 1753. The will of Oliver Segar, 1658, of Middlesex, refers to his friends Nicholas Cocke (who was a vestryman of the old Christ Church (Middlesex), still standing, in 1670) and (Col.) Richard Lee. He mentions his “son Randolph”.

The name of Joseph Eggleston occurs in 1775 as a member of the James City Co. Committee of Safety. He probably removed to Amelia. There were several intermarriages of the Cockes with the Egglestons.)

Stephen Cocke (6) died in 1794, and must have been an exceedingly wealthy man. The will was probated in 1795. He directed his hole estate to be kept together during the life of his wife for the support of the family.

The tract of land on which he lived was divided equally between his sons Joseph and James Powell Cocke (this last for many years represented Amelia in the Legislature.)

He devises two tracts of land on Flat Creek in Nottoway, and on Beaver Pond in Amelia, to his son Charles. He left to Charles also 330 pounds to build such houses as were needed.

He left to each of his daughters 1000 pounds apiece.

The personal estate to be divided between his sons.

He appoints as executors, his wife and his friends, Richard Archer, Daniel Hardaway, Richard Ogilby, Everard Meade, John Archer, Samuel Farrar and Joseph Eggleston.

The executors gave bond in the penalty of $133.333.

Dr. Charles Cocke (7) son of Stephen (6) settled in Albemarle. He was very rich in early life, but speculated unfortunately in Texas lands. He represented Albemarle for many years in the Senate and the House of Delegates. He was beaten in some political contest on leaving the Democratic party (he was a great Whig), and at a 4th of July dinner, someone offered the following toast: “Dr. Charles Cocke of Albemarle: A dead cock in the pit - killed in wheeling.”

He married Sarah W. Taylor of Southampton, daughter of John Taylor, descended from Ethelred Taylor, and her sister Charlotte married Gen. Armistead Mason, who was killed in the famous Mason-McCarty duel.

Ethelred Taylor was a Burgess for Surry county 1714, and his son Ethelred Taylor in 1752. William Taylor represented Southampton in 1761. Henry Taylor was in the Convention of 1776 (from Southampton). John Taylor was in Legislature 1784, 1785.

The brother of Dr. Charles Cocke (James Powell Cocke) was in the House of Delegates from Amelia 1809, 1811, 1822, 1824, 1842, 1843 and perhaps other years.

Two of the daughters of Stephen Cocke (6) married Peterfield and Richard Archer.

4. Martha Cocke (6) was the fourth child of James Cocke (5). She married Col. William Cannon of Buckingham county. (William Cannon of Buckingham, is mentioned several times in Hening's Statutes and seems to have been a man of influence in that county. Martha Cocke was his second wife; he had been previously married to Sarah Mosby, daughter of Col. Littlebury Mosby, of Fort Hill, Powhatan county, who was quite prominent in the Revolutionary period. He was county lieutenant of Cumberland, in 1780; sheriff 1795, a member of the Cumberland Committee of Safety 1775, and a captain in the Revolution.

There is an Act of Assembly given in Hening (1758) appropriating money to reimburse Capt. Henry Anderson, William Cannon and Maj. Wood Jones of Amelia, for provisions, &c, furnished militia. This last William Cannon of Amelia, was probably the father of William Cannon of Buckingham.

Thomas Cannon, Esquire, was one of the list of “Adventurers” for 1620. In the Revolutionary war, there was a Captain Jesse Cannon in the Virginia navy and a Capt. Luke Cannon in the Continental army.

5. ELIZABETH CHASTAIN COCKE (6) was the fifth child of James Cocke (5) of Malvern Hills. Born c. 1745-50. She married c. 1767, Capt. Henry Anderson of Amelia county, who was no doubt the Capt. Henry Anderson of 1758, mentioned by us in the note about William Cannon. (We have already spoken of Henry Anderson of Henrico, who was probably a brother of Rev. Charles Anderson; this Henry Anderson was probably his grandson.)

Henry Anderson and Elizabeth Chastain Cocke (6) had issue:

a. Crawford Anderson, d.s.p.

b. William Anderson, d. s. p.

c. James Anderson. Lost sight of

d. Henry T. Anderson, born c 1766-70, married circa 1790, Elizabeth Bass, daughter of Col. Joseph Bass of Chesterfield (member of the Chesterfield Committee of Safety, 1774) (Nicholas Bass was a member of the second “Grand Assembly”, held in the Colony (1724)).

Issue of Henry T. Anderson (7) and Elizabeth Bass:

(1) Stephen Anderson (8)

(2) James Powell Anderson (8)

(3) Dr. Peter Anderson (8). Went to California and married.

(4) Dr. Joseph Bass Anderson (8), born 1795, married first 1819, Sally Scott Merriwether (daughter of Dr. Wm. Merriwether and Sally Scott of Amelia county); married second Jane B. Archer (8), no issue.

Issue of Dr. Joseph Bass Anderson and Sally Scott:

(a) Ann E. Anderson (9) married -------------Harris, married second Col. --------- Davis

(b) Martha Anderson (9) married Col. Austin

(d) Francis J. Anderson (9)

(e) Laura Anderson (9)

(f) Mary Chastain Anderson (9) born November 14, 1829, married 1845, Josiah M. Jordan of Prince George, died 1866. Left a number of children; among them Sarah Rebecca Jordan, married Judge William J. Leake of Richmond.

After the death of James Cocke (5), his widow, Mary (Chastain) Cocke, married Samuel Farrar of Amelia. (The Farrars of Henrico, in early times were exceedingly prominent.) Their daughter, Rebecca Farrar, half sister to James Powell Cocke (6) and his brothers married General Robert Porterfield of Augusta county, who was a captain the Continental army. The family seems to have been from Berkeley. There was a Porterfield from this county in House of Delegates, 1819.) He had also a brother, who was distinguished in that war, Lieutenant- Colonel Charles R. Porterfield, and there was yet another, Charles Porterfield, who was a captain in the same service. Colonel Charles R. Porterfield was killed fighting gallantly at the disastrous battle of Camden.

General Robert Porterfield had a fine estate twelve miles from Staunton, in Augusta county, on South river. His daughter, who was Rebecca Porterfield, married William Kinney of Staunton, who represented Augusta county for many years in the House of Delegates and the Virginia Senate, as did his father, Jacob Kinney, who was clerk of Augusta, 1793-1818. And after him his son Chesley Kinney was clerk, and after him his son-in-law, Erasmus Stribling, and after him Jefferson Kinney, son of Chesley, who was also clerk of the District Court. And Nicholas Kinney (1831-5) was clerk of the Superior Court.

II. FIFTH AND SIXTHE GENERATIONS (LINE OF THOMAS COCKE (continued)

DESCENDANTS OF BRAZURE COCKE (4), SON OF THOMAS (3), SON OF THOMAS (2), SON OF THOMAS (2)

Brazure Cocke, as we have stated, went to James City County - possibly settled in Williamsburg. Records are wanting. We trace him as late as 1753. In 1753, there was a James Cocke in Williamsburg, to whom Henry Hacker, “a rich merchant of Williamsburg”, left a legacy. This was no doubt, Auditor James Cocke, who was also Mayor of Williamsburg about 1760. In conjunction with Thomas Everard he was Auditor of the State for the period 1761-80 (James Cocke and Thos. Everard were succeeded by Harrison Randolph and Leighton Wood, Jr.) There is no trace (excepting his daughters) of any other Cocke in James City county, and James Cocke must (as would suit the dates) have been the son of Brazure Cocke. (We cannot help thinking that in certain enquiries submitted in 1671 by the Lord Commissioners of Foreign Plantations, the name of A. Broucher (one of the commissioners) is equivalent to Brashear. See Hening ii, 511.

James Cocke left two daughters (possibly other children, but his ill is lost, who both married Randolphs (CORRECTION: Page 440 (middle of page). “For both married Randolphs” say one (Martha) married a Randolph; the other Colonel James Innes, whose daughter married a Randolph.); one (Martha) Gov. Beverly Randolph (1775)(See York county Records for marriage license), the other (Elizabeth) the celebrated Col. James Innes, Colonel in Revolutionary army, member Convention of 1788, first attorney-general of Virginia, to whom Washington offered the attorney-generalship of the United States, which he declined.

The daughter of Col. James Innes, married Peyton Randolph of Wilton and from them was descended the late Innes Randolph of Baltimore, of whom it is enough to say that he wrote, “The Night Before Christmas”. (CORRECTION: Page 440. Clement C. Moore, not Inness Randolph, was the author of “The Night before Christmas”.)

A member of this family sends us the following record preserved by this family, which we copy verbatim:

Col. James Innes was an officer during the entire Revolutionary war, and raised a company in Williamsburg, he joined Patrick Henry in his visiting Dunmore, and was present in command of the portion of the army stationed on Gloucester Heights at the surrender at Yorktown. He was afterwards Attorney-General of Virginia. He and Governor Beverly Randolph married sisters.

James Cocke of Williamsburg, Virginia married Catherine Richards, their daughter Elizabeth Cocke married Colonel James Innes, officer in the Revolution; Attorney-General of Virginia; their daughter Anne Brown Innes, married Peyton Randolph of Wilton, Virginia; their son James Innes Randolph married Susan Peyton Armistead. (In Enquirer March 12, 1805, Peyton Randolph advertises for Eliza Innes, the estate of “Vermouth”, on the Chickahominy, ten miles from Williamsburg, containing 2,700 acres.)

Benjamin Harrison of Berkeley married Ann Carter of Virginia; their son Benjamin Harrison married Lucy Bassett. He was the signer of the Declaration of Independence, and father of the President of the United States; their daughter, Lucy Harrison married Peyton Randolph of Wilton, Virginia; their son Peyton Randolph married Ann Brown Innes; their son James Innes Randolph married Susan Peyton Armistead.

John Armistead of Hesse Castle, Gloucester county, Va., married Luc Baylor of Essex county; their son, Addison Bowles Armistead, married Mary Peyton of Winchester, Va.; their daughter, Susan Peyton Armistead married James Innes Randolph.

James Cocke was one of the executors of Peyton Randolph (the other was John Randolph), first President of the Continental Congress. (Peyton Randolph's Will and Inventory include 105 negroes, 173 head of cattle, books 250 pounds, wine 60 pounds, 30 gal. rum, 5 chariot 230 pounds and &c.)

Governor Beverly Randolph (6) and Martha Cocke (6), the other daughter of Auditor James Cocke, left issue: Lucy Randolph (6) married William Randolph of “Chitower, son of Gov. Thos. Mann Randolph (4).

FIFTH AND SIXTH GENERATIONS (LINE OF THOMAS COCKE (2)

III. DESCENDANTS OF ABRAHAM COCKE (4) OF AMELIA

ABRAHAM COCKE (6) son of Stephen (3), son of Thomas (2), as we have already set out, moved to the banks of the upper Nottoway river, in Nottoway, then Amelia County. He prospered, grew wealthy and left a number of children, to-wit:

1. Peter Cocke (5)

2. Abraham Cocke, Jr. (5) (removed to Alabama)

3. Stephen Cocke (5) married (1764) Amy Jones, daughter of Richard Jones, who represented Amelia in House of Burgesses in 1736 (Wood Jones represented it in 1752), (There was a Peter Jones who died in 1721 and he left sons: Abraham Jones, Peter Jones, William Jones, Thomas Jones, John Jones, Wood Jones. Margaret Cocke, widow of Thomas Cocke (3) had by a first marriage two sons, named Abraham and Peter Jones. It was a numerous family and there were several Peter Jones.) (ADDITIONAL INFORMATION ON THIS FAMILY IS SHOWN LATER ON IN THIS TRANSCRIPTION.)

4. Thomas Cooke (5) removed to Tennessee

5. John Cocke (5)

6. William Cocke (5) born 1748, ancestor of Tennessee Cockes

7. Mary Cocke (5) married William Ellis

8. Agnes Cocke (5) married Charles Hamilin of Prince George, 1757

9. Martha Cocke (5) married Theophilus Lacy, 1760

10. Elizabeth Cocke (5) married John Cross, 1765. (In 1790 Elizabeth Cocke (6), a descendant of Abraham Cocke, married in Amelia, William Cameron, son of Rev. John Cameron, minister of Bristol Parish, who was ancestor of Judge Duncan Cameron of North Carolina and of Governor William E. Cameron, of Virginia.)

Abraham Cocke (4) lived in 1730-59 in what is now the extreme southeast corner of Nottoway county, in the fork of the Great and Little Nottoway rivers, and at a point where the three counties of Nottoway, Brunswick and Mecklenburg come together. Nottoway was then (as we have stated) part of Amelia, which in 1720, had been taken off from Prince George. Many years ago the main thoroughfare from Petersburg to Clarksville, in Mecklenburg county, which crossed the fork of the Nottoway river, was called “Cocke's Road”. There was a Cox's creek in Lunenburg county on this route, and a Cock's creek, we think, in Mecklenburg, on the same line.

We know little of the children of Abraham Cocke (4), excepting Stephen and William (5).

1. STEPHEN COCKE (5), son of Abraham (4), was sheriff of Amelia county for a number of years (about 1775-90). He lived in southeast corner of what is now Nottoway, in the fork of the Great and Little Nottoway rivers. He lived and died at the old family homestead, And his son, John H. Cocke, succeeded him.

He was the contemporary of his relative Stephen Cocke (6) of Amelia, son of James Cocke (5) of Malvern Hills, but their homes were far apart, Stephen Cocke (6) probably lived among the Archers, near (the present) Chula Depot.

2. GEN. WILLIAM COCKE (5) of Tennessee, son of Abraham Cocke (4) , married Sarah Maclin (Sarah Maclin was probably the daughter of Frederick Maclin, who represented Brunswick in the House of Burgesses 1777.), was in the Virginia House of Burgesses from Washington county, Virginia, in 1778. He was at this time thirty-one years old. He had gone “West”, and located in what was then known as the “Wtanga” settlement, at a point then claimed by both Virginia and North Carolina. He was elected to the House of Burgesses of both Virginia and North Carolina about the same time, and after coming to Williamsburg (1778) he sat in the General Assembly of North Carolina. (ADDITION: Page 442, note. Francis Maclin also represented Brunswick in House of Burgesses 1766, 1767 (no session) and 1768. Francis (it should probably be Frederick) in 1775.)

He was a man of very active life, and was at this time a captain in the Revolutionary army and fighting the Indians in the South-west on the North Carolina and Tennessee line.

There is a memoir of General William Cocke by William Goodrich of Philadelphia, one of his descendants, in the July number (1896) of the "American Historical Magazine", Nashville, TN. We learn from this sketch, that William Cocke studied law in his early life and it is there stated that at the age of twenty-seven he was sent for by Lord Dunmore and offered a very high position if he would espouse the cause of King against the Colonies, which he indignantly declined.

Somewhat previous to this he had, in company with Daniel Boone, explored what is now East Tennessee and Western Kentucky, being absent about a year. In 1776 (see Ramsay's History of Tennessee) four companies, principally Virginians, were raised, who marched to Heaton's Station, where a fort had been built by the advice of Captain William Cocke and named after him "Cocke's Fort:. There was here a fierce battle with the Indians, in which they received a crushing defeat. After this he was very active in the military operations in this quarter, and took part in the engagements at Long Island, Threkeldry Fort and King's Mountain.

He was very prominent in the efforts to withdraw from the State of North Carolina and establish he separate State of Frankland or Franklin and made a speech of great power before the House of Commons of North Carolina. He was sent by the people of Franklin to Philadelphia with a memorial to Congress applying for admission to the Union.

In 1796 he was elected by the new State of Tennessee the first Senator from the State of Tennessee to the Federal Congress, having been previously very prominent in the Convention which framed the first Constitution of that State. Andrew Jackson became his colleague in the U. S. Senate in 1797. The State of Tennessee honored him in 1797 by naming a county after him. He continued in the Federal Senate until 1809, when he was appointed Judge of the First Circuit.

Removing to Mississippi, he was elected to the State Legislature and in 1814 President Madison appointed him Agent for the Chickasaw Nation. two wars, the Legislatures of four States (Virginia, North Carolina, Tennessee and Mississippi) and in the Senate of the United States. He was active also in laying the foundations of the educational system of his adopted State. He was the founder of the University of Tennessee, a trustee of Greenville College and incorporator of Washington College.

He died in Columbus, MS on 22 August 1828 in the 81st year of his age and is buried there under a tombstone erected to his memory by the State of Mississippi. This monument bears the inscription:

"Here lie the remains of William Cocke, who died in Columbus, Miss., on the 22d of August, 1828. The deceased passed an eventful and active life. Was Captain in command during the war of 1776. Was distinguished for his brave daring and intrepidity. Was one of the pioneers who first crossed the Allegheny Mountains with Daniel Boone into the wilderness of Kentucky. Took an active part in the formation of the Franklin Government, afterwards the State of Tennessee. Was the delegate from that free limit to the Congress of the United States. Was a member of the convention which formed the first Constitution of Tennessee, and was one of the first Senators from that State to the Congress of the United States for a period of twelve years, and afterwards one of the Circuit Judges. He served in the Legislatures of Virginia, North Carolina, Tennessee, and Mississippi, at the age of sixty-five was a volunteer of the war of 1812, and again distinguished himself for his personal bravery and courage. He departed this life in the eight-first year of his age, universally lamented."

3. GENERAL JOHN COCKE (7), son of General William Cocke, was in the Legislature of Tennessee for many years as Representative and Senator, and was in the United States Congress from 1817 to 1827. He was very prominent in the Florida and Creek wars; was a major-general in the army, and had a fierce controversy with General Andrew Jackson, who was his superior in command, and who had him cashiered. Parton, in his “Life of Andrew Jackson”, blames Jackson and states that General Cocke was completely vindicated on the trial.

He founded the School for the Deaf and Dumb, at Knoxville.

4. COLONEL WILLIAM M. COCKE (8), son of John (7) (CORRECTION: Son of Sterling (7)) died in Nashville in February 1896. He had been also prominent; was for a number of years a member of the General Assembly; and in the United States Congress in 1845-59.

FIFTH AND SIXTH GENERATIONS (LINE OF THOMAS COCKE (2))

IV. DESCENDANTS OF JAMES COCKE (4), SON OF JAMES (3), SON OF THOMAS (1)

We know nothing of the children of James Cocke (4), except that he had a son named James (5), who died in 1772, and whose will is on record.

James Cocke (4) must have died about 1765, between seventy and seventy-five years of age. His son James (5) was called James Cocke, Jr., and had the title of “Captain”. He (James (5)) had seven children, viz:

1. James Cocke (6)

2. William Cocke (6)

3. John Cocke (6)

4. Elizabeth Pleasants Cocke (6) (after her grandmother)

5. Sarah Lewis Cocke (Joseph Lewis was a member of the Revolutionary Committee for Henrico (1774). So also was Samuel Price, who was of the executors of the will)

6. Ann Cocke (6)

7. Susanna Cocke (6) (We know in addition to the above, that one of the daughters of James Cocke (5) married Elisha Meredith, son of Samuel Meredith (c. 1740). Sampson Meredith was sheriff of Prince George in 1714. Samuel Meredith was a member of the Hanover Committee of Safety 1775.

He seemed to have been in moderate circumstances, perhaps 1,000 acres of land (partly in Goochland) and ten or fifteen negroes.

He appointed his son James and William Lewis of Goochland, and Samuel Price of Henrico, his executors.

There were several other James Cockes living at this period (1750-80). There was a James Cocke (the auditor) in Williamsburg, probably son of Brazure Cocke (4). There was also a James Cocke (5) (son of John Cocke (3) of Surry, son of Nicholas (2) of the line of the Surry Cockes, who had married a Poythress) living at “Bon Accord”, in Prince George county, on the river, and who was captain in the Virginia Navy in the Revolution.

II. FIFTH AND SIXTH GENERATIONS (LINE OF RICHARD COCKE (2)(DESCENDANTS OF BOWLER COCKE (4), SON OF RICHARD (3), SON OF RICHARD (2)

1. BOWLER COCKE (4) married twice.

Sarah ---------------, by whom he had following issue:

a. Susanna Cocke (5), born 1712, died 1713;

b. Anne Cocke (5) born 1720;

c. Tabitha Cocke, born 1724;

d. Bowler Cocke (5) born 1726, died 1772;

e. Sarah Cocke (5) born 1728

f. Elizabeth Cocke (5) born 1731

g. Richard Cocke (5) born 1733, died 1733

h. Charles Cocke (5) born 1735, died 1739

Mrs. Elizabeth Carter, widow of Colonel John Carter of Shirley (no issue)

Bowler Cocke (4) was clerk of Henrico from 1728 to 1748 (not 1752, as stated in previous articles.

Most of the above children died in infancy. We know nothing of any of the rest except Bowler (5)

2. BOWLER COCKE (JR.) (5)

He succeeded his father as clerk of Henrico in 1748. He was at various times a member of the House of Burgesses from Henrico in 1761 (when he ceased to be clerk), 1765 (Colonel Hartwell Cocke of Surry, was also a member of this body at this memorable session. It was the session when Patrick Henry offered his resolution against the Stamp Act. Among the members occur the names of Philip Johnson, Arch Car, Richard Eppes, Benj. Harrison, John Fleming, Robert Bolling, Richard Adams, Fielding Lewis, William Fitzhugh, Thomas Ludwell Lee, William Harwood, Richard Lee, Richard Henry Lee, Wythe, Pendleton, Marshall, Washington, Page, Cabell, &c.), 1767, 1768, 1769 and probably other years; and he was a vestryman of Henrico parish 1749-1771.

In 1769 Bowler Cocke, Sr. of Shirley, as appears from a deed recorded in Henrico clerk's office, gave to Bowler Cocke, Jr. of Henrico, 30 slaves. The latter was then residing at Bremo, where his son, Bowler Cocke (6) was living in 1775, as appears from an advertisement in the Virginia Gazette, but Bowler Cocke (6) afterward resided at “Turkey Island” until his death in 1812.

In 1752 the General Assembly (see Little's Hist. Richmond, p. 19) passed an Act to lay off the city of Richmond, with power to elect successors and fill vacancies. The following were the trustees: Hon. Peter Randolph, Esq., William Byrd, Esq., Wm. Randolph, Bowler Cocke, Jr., Richard Randolph, Thos. Atkinson, Sam'l Gleadowe, Sam'l Duval and John Pleasants, gentlemen.

In 1765 (see Hening, viii, 149) an Act was passed by the Assembly for the improvement of the navigation of James River. The trustees to carry out the act were. For James River, Hon. Peter Randolph, William Byrd, Arch'd Cary, &c. For Chickahominy, Bowler Cocke, Jr. (6), Benj. Harrison, &c. For North Branch James River (Rivanna), Thos Walker, Thomas Jefferson, Edward Carter, Valentine Wood, &c.

Col. Richard Adams, Sr., of Richmond, Aug. 8, 1771, writes to his brother, Thomas Adams: “I had a most unfavorable account our poor old uncle of Bremo (Bowler Cocke (4)) yerday. I fear he will not survive may days.

Again Aug, 12: “The old gentleman our uncle …..cannot survive many days. He had acted nobly by his son's estate”, &c. He died soon after. The death of his son, Bowler Cocke (5) occurred in the following year (1772).

There is an advertisement, Dec. 1, 1774, of the household and kitchen furniture, &c., of Col Bowler Cocke (5) dec'd, signed George Webb ex'or. (He was treasurer of the State and member of the Council.0. in q780 Gen'l Andrew Lewis, George Webb and (we forget the third) are appointed to the Council to succeed John Page, David Blackbourne, and David Mead.

Bowler Cocke (5) shortly after 1750 married Elizabeth, widow of Harry Turner, and daughter of Colonel Nicholas Smith (Thomas Turner was a Burgess from King George in 1736, 1752. Nicholas Smith was a Burgess from King George in 1723. An earlier Nicholas Smith was a Burgess from Isle of Wight in 1659 and probably of family of Arthur Smith. Nicholas Smith of King George, was probably of same family, and both of same family as Merriwether Smith of Essex.) Harry Turner died in 1750 and his wife survived him but a short time. There were probably no children by this marriage and Bowler Cocke (5) must have married again, but we do not know he name of his second wife. (The cousin of Bowler Cocke (5) Anne Adams (5) (as will be seen under the head of the “Adams Family”) married Colonel Francis Smith of Essex in 1748; contracted a second marriage with Miss Fauntleroy. (CORRECTION: Page 446, note, last line: omit words “contracted a second marriage with Miss Fauntleroy.”)

DESCENDANTS OF BOWLER COCKE (5). We only have the names of three children: Bowler Cocke (6), William Cocke (6) and Sarah Cocke (6)

1. BOWLER COCKE (JR.) (6). He lived at Turkey Island, and was born 1750-55, died 1812. We find his name as a vestryman of Henrico Parish, 1785.

The first vestryman of Henrico, says Bishop Meade (Old Churches, I, 141) after the Revolution were: Edmund Randolph, Turner Southall, Jaq. Ambler, Nath'l Wilkinson, Wm. Foushee, Miles Selden, Jr., Bowler Cocke, &c.” This was in 1785. Edmund Randolph and Bowler Cocke were church-wardens.

We have reason to believe (it was perhaps about 1775-80)that he married a Miles Fox (we are so informed by Mr. R. Heber Nelson, grandson of Robert Nelson, who lived at Malvern Hills, 1783-1800. (The Foxes were of King William and a very old family. Henry Fox married Anne West, daughter of Governor John West, son of Thomas, second Lord de la War. Captain David Fox was a Burgess from Lancaster in 1692 and William Fox represented the county in 1702.)

His son was named Bowler F. Cocke (7)and he had a daughter named Ellen F. Cocke (7), who married Walter Coles of Albemarle.

We have then soon after 1800, three marriages of “Bowler Cocke”, viz: About 1800, Bowler F. Cocke (as we suppose) married Ann Eliza Agnes Pleasants Heth, daughter of Captain Harry Heth of the Revolution, Va. Hist. Col., xi, 329. (Harry Heth was a captain in the Revolution, and possessed large landed estates. He lived at Blackheath, Chesterfield county. His executor was one of the Randolphs. William Heth was a colonel in the Revolutionary Army. Andrew and John Heth were Lieutenants.)

We have then, Nov. 1802, the marriage of Bowler Cocke (6) to Nancy Dandridge, daughter of Col. Francis Dandridge. Letter of Bowler Cocke dated February 4, 1803.

We have again an obituary notice in the Richmond Enquirer of April 1, 1804 of the death of Maria Cocke, wife of Bowler Cocke of Henrico, aged seventeen years.

So it would seem that Bowler Cocke (6) of Henrico, when nearly fifty years of age, married twice between 1802 and 1804. On the 29th July 1798, Bowler Cocke (6) exor. Of Francis Dandridge of King William Co, advertises “Huntington “on the Matagony”” as it is necessary for me to go over the mountains for my health. I have requested Mr. Edmund P. Chamberlayne to attend to the business.” In the Richmond Enquirer , December 22, 1812, Bowler F. Cocke, administrator of the late Bowler Cocke, advertises the sale of the estate “Turkey Island”, containing 900 acres, fifteen miles below Richmond on James River.”

2. WILLIAM COCKE (6) of Bremo, was another son of Bowler Cocke (5). He removed to Cumberland county, and resided at “Oakland”, which family seat is still occupied by one of his descendants, Captain Edmund Randolph Cocke, brother of Preston Cocke of Richmond. He married Jane Armistead of Hesse, Gloucester county and had issue:

a. WILLIAM ARMISTEAD COCKE (6) of Oakland (died 1855), who married Elizabeth Randolph Preston, who was the daughter of Major Thomas Lewis Preston and Edmonia Randolph daughter of Governor Edmund Randolph. Major Thomas Lewis Preston was brother of Governor James Patton Preston; of General John Preston, Treasurer of Virginia; of General Francis Preston and of some five or six other distinguished members of the Preston family, all of whom were the children of Colonel Wm. Preston, son of John Preston of Spring Hill, Augusta county, afterwards owned by Rev. James Waddell who sold it to James Powell Cocke (6).

(1) Wm. Fauntleroy Cocke (7) killed at Gettysburg

(2) Thomas L. P. Cocke (7)

(3) Captain Edmund Randolph Cocke (7)

(4) Preston Cocke (7)

3. SARAH COCKE (6) who married about 1780, Major Thomas Massie, was a daughter of Bowler Cocke (5). She was born (according to the record in “The Cabells and their Kin”, page 377) at “Turkey Island”, in 1760 and died at “Level Green”, in Nelson county, 1838. Major Thomas Massie (ancestor of the Massies of Nelson county) was born in New Kent county, 1747, and was a distinguished officer in the Revolution. They had issue:

(1) Thomas Massie (7), surgeon in war of 1812 and member of Virginia Convention of 1829-30. Married Lucy Waller of “Bellfield”.

(2) William Massie (7), married Miss Steptoe, and several other times

(3) Henry Massie (7) married Miss Lewis

Thomas and Lucy (Waller) Massie had issue: Sarah Massie married Hon. Wm. O. Goode and several others

Mrs. James Pleasants of Richmond (wife of James Pleasants, son of John Hampden Pleasants) is a daughter of the late Henry Massie of Charlottesville who married Miss Lewis of Bath county.)

THE ADAMS FAMILY

III. DESCENDANTS OF TABITHA COCKE (4) AND EBENEZER ADAMS

In our last article we stated that the ancestors of the Adams family of the Revolutionary period, and afterwards so prominent in Richmond were Thomas Adams, son of Ebenezer Adams and Martha Cocke (4), daughter of Richard Cocke (3). This was an error, as we learn from a carefully prepared genealogy of the Adams family in the January number of the William and Mary College Quarterly by Mr. C. W. Coleman.

It was from “Ebenezer Adams and Tabitha Cocke(4)” daughter of Richard (3) that Richard and Thomas Adams and Colonel Richard Adams, Jr., and the other members of that family were descended. Tabitha Cocke (4) was a daughter of Anne Bowler (Richard (3) Cocke's first wife). She married c. 1718 (she must have been born about 1698), Ebenezer Adams and it was through their son Richard (5) (not Thomas (5)), that the descent of the Richard Adams' was drawn. Thomas Adams (5) died childless, although he married in 1775 the widow of his first cousin, Colonel Bowler Cocke (5) whose maiden name was Fauntleroy (died 1791).

We followed the statement of Colonel Richard Cocke, in the paper given by him to General John H. Cocke in 1813, and which will be given in our next article. Ebenezer Adams (we learn from the William and Mar Quarterly) came to Virginia in 1714 and patented 3,883 acres of land in New Kent and Henrico. He died 1735.

He was (as we have previously mentioned) one of the executors of Richard Cocke (3). With him were associated Nathaniel Harrison and Henry Harrison, sons of Benjamin Harrison of Surry, progenitor of the Harrisons of Berkeley and Brandon and Sussex county. We erroneously represented Nathanial Harrison as the grandfather of Benjamin Harrison, “the signer”. But this Benjamin Harrison was of Berkeley and was the son of Benjamin Harrison (2), Eldest son of Benjamin (1).

Colonel Nathaniel Harrison (2) second son of Benjamin (1), Naval Officer for the Upper James, Burgess in 1702, member of the Council 1715, &c., was the ancestor of the Harrisons of Brandon and grandfather of the Honorable Benjamin Harrison of Brandon, member of the Council.

A third son of Benjamin (1) was Henry Harrison (2) ancestor of the Sussex Harrisons. His descendant, Henry, married a daughter of John Cocke (died 1798) of Surry, who was of the line of William Cocke (1) of Surry. In 1718, Henry Harrison was Burgess from Surry.

Issue of Ebenezer and Tabitha (4) Cocke Adams:

1. Richard Adams (5) died in infancy

2. Bowler Adams (5) died in infancy

3. William Adams (5) d.s.p

4. Richard Adams (5) to be noticed

5. Tabitha Adams (5) married Richard Eppes. (This seems to differ also from paper of Colonel Richard Cocke (5), which represents that ------------ Eppes (ancestor of John W. Eppes) married a daughter (Mary) of Bowler Cocke (4))

6. Thomas Adams (5) (who was a member of the Continental Congress, died 1788)

7. Anne Adams (5) married Colonel Francis Smith (1748) of Essex county, member House of Burgesses 1752-58 (he died 1762), who had been previously married to Lucy Merriwether, mother of the distinguished Merriwether Smith. (Among the descendants of Colonel Francis Smith and Anne Adams were Thomas Adams Smith (7), Brigadier-General United States Army, died 1844; Lucy Ann Smith (8) (died 1867) married Judge Beverley Tucker of Williamsburg.)

8. Sarah Adams (5) married Colonel John Fry of Albemarle and had issue:

a. Joshua Fry (6) married Peachy, daughter of Dr. Thomas Walker of “Castle Hill”, Albemarle

b. William Adams Fry (6)

c. Tabitha Fry (6) married Bowler Cocke of Kentucky

Colonel Richard Adams (5) of Richmond, born 1726 in New Kent. We have already noticed him in our previous article. He was very prominent. He married Elizabeth Griffin, daughter of Leroy and Mary (Bertrand) Griffin of Richmond county and sister of Judge Cyrus Griffin of Williamsburg, who was a delegate to the Continental Congress in 1778-81-87-88, and in the last named year was President of that body. He married Lady Christine Stuart, daughter of John, sixth Earl of Traquar, Scotland.

Richard Adams represented New Kent in House of Burgesses, 1752-61-65-68 and Henrico in 1770. Was a member of the Committee of Safety, 1774-5. His residence on Adams' (Church) Hill, was the building now known as the Convent of Monte Maria. He and a number of his descendants are buried in Richmond. We think it is a mistake that Adams street was named after him. It was probably called after President Adams, along with Jefferson, Madison and Monroe.

He left issue:

1. Thomas Bowler Adams (6) who married Sarah Morrison, whose mother was a Miss Bland.

2. Colonel Richard Adams, Jr. (6) born 1760, died 1817. He married first, Elizabeth, widow of Peter Skipwith Randolph and daughter of Colonel James and Frances (Jones) Southall; married second Sara Travers, daughter of Travers and Frances (Moncure) Daniel

3. Anne Adams (6) married Colonel Mayo Carrington of Cumberland (died 1803)

4. Sarah Adams (6) married in 1793, George William Smith, Governor of Virginia

5. John Adams (6) physician and prominent member Legislature, 1803-4; mayor of Richmond. Erected and occupied house in Richmond now known as the Van Lew residence

6. Samuel Griffin Adams (6) married Catherine Innes

Thomas Adams (says Mr. Coleman) used a seal identical with arms of English branch of the family (Co. Salop). A pedigree of eleven generations appears in the Visitation of Shropshire for 1623. The arms are: Ermine, three cats passant in pale azure.

“Tabitha (Cocke (4)) Adams (wife of Ebenezer Adams) owned that portion of her grandfather's estate in Essex county still known as Bowler's (where was a warf) and on which there was a public warehouse.” She was still living, a widow in New Kent county in 1760.

CORRECTIONS: (Since this transcription doesn't correspond to these page numbers, the changes have been noted in their location)

In the January number, p. 324, at line 27, for “he” substitute “Arthur Allen”.

On p. 325, note, the statement (taken from Virginia Hist. Mag., Oct. 1895, p. 197) that Nancy Hunt Cocke married John Waddrop, is erroneous. As will appear hereafter, she married: 1. Gen. James A Bradley. 2. Patrick Henry Adams 3. Col. Richard Herbert Cocke (6)

THE COCKE FAMILY

A bound copy of Vol. IV of your Magazine, page 442, says “Stephen Cocke (5) son of Abraham ……………… and his son Jno. H. Cocke succeeded him”, which interested me very much as my grandmother was Amy Elizabeth Cocke of Somerville, Tennessee, m. Dr. Josiah Higgason, born 1801 in Hanover Co., Va., and a son of Chas. R. Higgason. Before her death in 1890 she gave me some Cocke genealogical data taken from old family Bibles the may show a slight error in the above quoted statement concerning Stephen Cocke. I am taking the liberty of sending it to you for perpetuation in your valuable journal.

This is the record:

Stephen Cocke Sr. was born March 31, 1740

Amy Jones his wife was born Jany'y 26, 1747

The children of Stephen and Amy Jones Cocke were:

1 Richard Cocke, born 1766, d. Feb. 17,1823

2 Mary Cocke, born 1768

3 Elizabeth Cocke, born 1770, ------------ 1804

4. Martha Lacy Cocke, born 1772, d. ---------- 1824

5. Sarah Stratton Cocke, born 1774

6. Rebecca Cocke, born 1776

7. Amy Jones Cocke, Jr., born 1778, d. June 1, 1824

8. Thos Jones Cocke, born 1780, d. Aug. 21, 1845

9. Stephen Cocke, born 1784, d. April 5, 1822

Stephen Cocke, Sr. died 1792 & Amy Jones Cocke died Sept 15, 1788

Thomas Jones Cocke married Lucy Watkins Nicholson on Jany 20, 1802 (Lucy W. Nicholson was b. Feby 4, 1783, d. Nov. 2, 1836.)

Their children were as follows:

1 A son born Feby 10, 1803

2 James Nicholson Cocke b. Jany 3, 1805, d. Dec. 29, 1850

3 Stephen William Cocke b. Feby 10, 1807, d --------------

4 Thomas Cocke Oct. 27, 1808, d. Oct. 29, 1808

5 Martha Ann Cocke, Mch 20, 1810

6 Amy Elizabeth Cocke b. Oct. 17, 1812, d. ----------1899

7 Thos Richard Cocke b. Oct. 13, 1814, d. -------- 1883

8. Edwin Cocke b. Aug 27, 1817, d. July 21, 1830

9 Jack Lacey Cocke b. May 11, 1821, d. Oct. 26, 1822

My grandmother said her parents moved from Virginia and settled in Kentucky, afterwards in about 1825 coming to Fayette Co, Tennessee. Her father, Thos. Jones Cocke was wealthy, owned many slaves and much land, was for years a member of the County Court.

Lucy Watkins Nicholson, wife of Thos Jones Cocke, was the daughter of James Nicholson, b. Nov. 1, 1748, and his wife Sally Harris b. May 11, 1787

Martha Ann Cocke m.. Maj. Edmund Winston of La Grange, Tennessee on Feb. 11, 1828.

The record also gives this information:

Richard Cocke, oldest son of Stephen & Amy Jones Cocke, married Mary Watkins Dec. 6, 1797 (Mary dying Feb. 20, 1823). Their children:

1. John Watkins Cocke b. Jany 21, 1808

2. Rich'd Cocke b. July 12, 1815

3. Mary Ann Cocke b. Dec. 13, 1816

4 Martha Frances Cocke

Stephen Cocke, Jr. son of Stephen Sr. & Amy, married Mch 10, 1806, Harriet A. Nance & their children are as follows:

1 Susan Francis Cocke, b. Dec. 29, 1806

2 Stephen Frederick Cocke b. Dec. 29, 1809

3 Thomas Robert Cocke b. April 23, 1815

Thinking this data might be interesting to some of the numerous Cocke heirs in Virginia and elsewhere, and considering its reliability as I have explained, I am in hopes that you will be able to print it.

Very Respty

J. H. Dortch

1510 Park Road, N. W.

Washington, D.C.

Oct. 9, 1920

COCKE-COX

It is no reflection upon the late Dr. Southall that I wish to suggest a few corrections in his article on the Cocke family of Henrico, in Vol 4, of the Virginia Magazine of History and Biography. If he were living today, in the light of deeper researches, these corrections would most probably be made by himself.

The following marriages are taken from the old records of Henrico County:

Sept. 25, 1682, John Cox paid for license to marry Mary Kennon

Nov. 10, 1686, John Cocke to marry Mary Davis

June 16, 1691, William Cocke Sen., married Sarah Dennis

1695, William Cocke married Sarah Perrin

John Cox, Sen., had among others, a son William, to whom Dr. Southall erroneously assigns the above Sarah Perrin as wife. When the above wives are transferred to their proper mates, it leaves William Cox with a wife, Sarah --------------, They had a daughter, Martha who married Henry Wood at Bremo, 1723. Through this Martha Cox comes to the Wood family the tradition of Cocke descent. Dr. Southall, in trying to place the tradition which he got from Lieutenant Champe Carter McCulloch (deceased as Colonel C. C. McCulloch, Oct. 14, 1928), assigned it to the Cox side of the family, making John Cox, Sen., appear to be the son of Lieutenant Col. Richard Cocke.

After exhaustive search, Judge Edwin P. Cox, Attorney Walter L. Hopkins (both of Richmond), the late Col. C. C. McCulloch, as well as myself, have come to the conclusion that an error was made that the tradition came through the wife of William Cox, who instead of being Sarah Perrin, as Dr. Southall outlined, was in fact, Sarah Cocke. Many thing point to this conclusion. Her only son was “Stephen”, a Cocke name. After her husband's death in 1711, Sarah Cox retired to “Bremo”, the Cocke family estate, where her daughter Martha, married Henry Wood, 1723. At the baptism of Martha (Cox) Wood's son Valentine Wood, Oct. 23, 1724, William Finney and Stephen Cox (probably Martha's brother) were sureties. William Finney was the Rev. William Finney, M. A. of the University of Glasgow, who married Mary Cocke, daughter of Thomas Cocke (3). There is no record that points in the least to John Cox having been born a Cocke.

William Elam's will, 1688, gives to “so-in-law John Cox, Sen., one shilling. The rest to cousin Martin Elam.”

Were William Elam's daughter the then wife of John Cox, Sen., would he not have left his estate to her instead of to his cousin, Martin Elam? Or, had his daughter been the mother of John Cox's children, would he not have left his estate to her children? The conclusion is forced upon me that instead his being “son-in-law”, John Cox, Sen., was step-son to William Elam, as the expression so frequently meant in those early days. There is no record of the wife of William Elam among Henrico records.

“William Cox, Elizabeth Jux” were among headrights to Matthew Edloe, 1737. Although the “J” in “Jux” is very distinct, in Photostat copies just received of old records from the Archives Division, State Library, Richmond, Va., I find an exact reproduction of the “J” in “Jux” used as the symbol “&”. I believe, as does also Mrs. Nugent, of the State Land Office, that the rendering should be “William Cox, Elizabeth & ux. “

1636, William Cox had a grant of land “about 3 ½ miles above Harroe Attocks”, 1685. John Cox, Sen., in a deed calls himself “of Harry Addocks, planter”. The probability is that they were father and son.

1646, a William Cocke was a Burgess from Henrico. There was no known adult William Cocke in Henrico at that time. The foregoing points to the scribe having mis-written the name. The so-called William Cocke, Burgess, was in all probability, William Cox, father of John Cox, Sen. My conclusion is that after William Cox's death his widow married William Elam. John Cox, Sen, was born Cox not Cocke, and was the step-son of William Elam.

Ella Foy O'Gorman, 226 E. St., N. E., Washington, D.C.

THE COCKE FAMILY OF VIRGINIA (HENRICO)

FIFTH AND SIXTH GENERATIONS

LINE OF RICHARD COCKE (2)

III. DESCENDANTS OF RICHARD COCKE (4), SON OF RICHARD (3), SON OF RICHARD (1)

Richard Cocke (4), as stated in the article for January, was the second son of Richard (3) and half-brother of Bowler Cocke (4)

We shall now publish entire (with such annotations as may seem proper) a paper drawn up in the year 1813 by Colonel Richard Cocke (5), son of Richard (4) and given to him to General John Hartwell Cocke (7) of “Bremo” on James river in Fluvanna county. It carries with it, therefore, unusual authority as a family record. It gives the descendants of Richard Cocke (4) in full and has a brief account of the family of Benjamin Cocke (4) and the daughters of Richard (4).

The following is the pedigree:

FAMILY RECORD OF COLONEL RICHARD COCKE (5) OF “SHOAL BAY”

“The following genealogical narration was received from Col. Richard Cocke (5) of Shoal Bay, in the county of Isle of Wight, at an advanced period of his age, by John H. Cocke of Bremo, Fluvanna county, April, 1813”.

The original ancestor of the Cockes of Virginia emigrated from Leeds in Yorkshire, England about the year 1650 and settled at Malvern Hills in the county of Henrico.

(We know of no authority for this statement. We have not been able to find any traces of the Cocke family in Yorkshire, though they were widely scattered in England in the beginning of the 17th century. Nor is it probable, as stated further on, that Richard Cocke (1) settled at “Malvern Hills”, which does not appear in the family until the second generation (Thomas Cocke (2)), though the place was probably owned by Richard Cocke (1). On one of the tombstones at Bremo we have the inscription: “Here lyes Interr'd the Body of Richard Cocke, son of Richard Cocke of B * * (born 1639)”, which shows that Richard Cocke, the first, lived at Bremer, as it is spelled on the tombstone of Anne (Bowler) Cocke, wife of Richard (3).

In a previous article we have stated that Bremo” or “Bremor” was probably an Indian name, but we have discovered that there is a “Breamore House” in the county of Wilts, and also that there is a village called “Breamore” in the western part of the county of Hants (Hampshire), about 7 or 8 miles south of Salisbury, just to the southern frontier of Wilks, which last county adjoins Gloucester, where the Cockes were numerous and where lay “Malvern Hills, that Richard Cocke (1) came, and that he was nearly connected with the Cockes of Gloucester, who settled in that county from Kent about 1450.

Colonel Cocke was also mistaken as to the date of Richard Cocke's arrival in the colony. We have stated in a previous article that his name first appears in 1632 as a member of the Colonial Assembly from Weyanoke. We have since ascertained that Richard Cocke patented 100 acres of land in Elizabeth City in 1628. We have already mentioned in our first article (January, 1895, page 287) that “William Cox patented 100 acres in Elizabeth City September 20, 1628.” (They came over together) In 1636 Henry Southwell or Southall (Spelt both ways on the land-books) patented 700 acres of land “on Lynn Haven” in Elizabeth City. Elizabeth City then included what is now Princess Anne county, lying on Lynn Haven Bay, and it is probable that Richard Cocke (1), William Cox (1) and Henry Southall all landed in what is now Princess Anne county, on Lynnhaven Bay, and they were about the three first Virginians who ever realized the delicious flavor of the famous bivalve now in such esteem among all the epicures of the western world.

In 1632, as we have said, Richard Cocke (1) was in the House of Burgesses from Weyanoke. This is in Charles City county. In March 1636, he is entered on the land-books as patenting 3,00 acres of land in Henrico. Lands adjoin those of Thomas Harris. Same year Thomas Harris adds by patent 700 acres to his lands near “the Bremoes dividend”. This must have been Bremo, and it was this time it got its name.

Richard Cocke (1) came over when Captain Francis West, brother of Lord De La Warr (first governor) was in charge of the colony (1627). Governor West was succeeded by his brother in 1635, Captain John West, who remained in Virginia, and he (Francis) owned lands near “Westover”. In England, about 1675, Elizabeth Cocke, daughter of Sir Henry Cocke of Herts, married Robert West, son of Lord De La Warr. About this date the family of Sir George Percy, Governor of Virginia (1609-11) and brother of Henry, Earl of Northumberland, had intermarried with the family of Thomas Cock (1620), county Gloucester, England.

The Cockes at this time were very prominent in England. Richard Cox was a prominent Virginia merchant in London. Several members of the family were connected with the Royal Household in the reigns of Henry VIII, Mary, Elizabeth and James I. They were connected by marriage with the Wests and Percys, Lord Chandos, the Berkeley, Sir Hugh Poyntz, Sir Robert Oxenbridge, Sir Edmund Lucy, Lord Somers, Lord Wentworth, &c.)

A descendant from the English emigrant settled at Bremo, near the same place in the same county, were Richard and Benjamin Cocke were born, who both married heiresses in Surry and settled in that county. Richard and Benjamin were young and “half brothers” of the elder Bowler Cocke of Bremo (Henrico). They had sisters, one of whom married Mr. Adams, ancestor of the late Col. Richard Adams of Richmond; another married Mr. Epps, of the Hundred, near City Point, progenitor of John W. Epps, Esq., (U. S. Senator from Virginia 1817) and a third married Mr. Acrill of Charles City, whose family name is extinct.

IV. BENJAMIN COCKE'S BRANCH. Benjamin (4) married Miss Allen, (daughter of Arthur Allen of Bacon's Castle) of Surry and raised a son and two daughters, namely Allen Cocke (5), Nancy Cocke (5) and Rebecca Cocke (5).

1. Allen Cocke (5) married Nancy Kennon of Charles City and raised three sons and two daughters, viz: Benjamin Allen Cocke (6), Richard Cocke (6), Allen Cocke, Jr. (6), Nancy Cocke (6) and Catharine Cocke (6). The two elder sons married but left no children; (6) Allen Cocke (6), the youngest, died single. Nancy Cocke (6) first married General James A. Bradley, by whom she raised no child; Secondly, Patrick H. Adams -- no child-and is now living, the wife of Richard H. Cocke (6) of Bacon's Castle, Surry. (We may notice here the prominent position occupied at this time by the Cocke family in the county of Surry, which at this date seems to have been one of the leading counties. There were living during this period (1759-1790) in this county, Colonel Richard Cocke (5), Colonel Allen Cocke (5), Colonel Hartwell Cocke (5),Colonel Lemuel Cocke (4) and Colonel John Cocke (4) (these last two of the line of William Cocke, who came over in 1690). They were all prominent men. Richard Cocke (5) was a member of the House of Delegate, 1784, and no doubt other years. Allen Cocke (5) was a member of the House of Burgesses in 1773, 1775, 1776. Hartwell Cocke (5) was a member in 1759, 1761, 1765, 1767, 1768, 1770 (and no doubt other years). Col. Lemuel Cocke was a member 1786, 1788 and probably other years. John Hartwell Cocke (6) 1787. During the same period, Bowler Cocke (5) and Bowler Cocke (6), Wm. Cocke of Washington, Charles Cocke of Lee (a few years later), Anderson Cocke of Cumberland &c., were members.

In the year 1886, in Surry county, on the Revolutionary Committee of Safety, there were five Cockes: Col. Allen Cocke, Col. John Cocke, John Cocke, Jr., John Hartwell Cockes, Col. Lemuel Cocke. Hartwell Cocke was just dead.)

Catherine Cocke (6), daughter of Allen (5) married first Wilson C. Wallace (by whom she had a daughter, Sally, now living) and died the wife of Thomas Hare, leaving him a son.

2. Catherine Cocke (5), the daughter of Benjamin (4) married Mr. Bradley and raised James A. Bradley (who married his cousin Nancy Cocke (6) as above stated) (General James Allen Bradley (6) (he is called general by Governor Bev. Randolph in 1794) was the issue of this marriage. He married Nancy (Ann Hunt) Cocke (6), daughter of Allen Cocke (5) and Nancy Kennon, ad died leaving her a widow. She married second, Patrick H. Adams and third, Richard Herbert Cocke (6), her cousin, son of Richard Cocke (5). Robert Bradley in 1680 was one of the attorneys of the colony. William Bradley was a Burgess for Norfolk county, 1761 and 1768. It was a prominent name in Charles City county.)

3. Rebecca Cocke (5), daughter of Benjamin (4) married Mr. Eaton (of James City. Colonel John Eaton was a Burgess for James City in 1736 and in 1739, in which last year he died) and raised a son, William (who is now living in North Carolina and has several children and two daughters, Mrs. Brownloe, who has left two children and Mrs. Williams, who is living and has several.

RICHARD COCKE'S (4) BRANCH

Richard Cocke (4), (born 1707; died 1772) married Elizabeth Hartwell (4) of Swan's Point, Surry, and raised the following named children, viz: Hartwell Cocke (5), Benjamin Cocke (5), Elizabeth Hartwell Cocke (5) and Rebecca Cocke (5). In a second marriage with Elizabeth Ruffin, relict of Mr. Kinchin, he raised Nancy Cocke (5), Richard Cocke (5) (the author of this narrative), Lucy Cocke (5), Nathaniel Cocke (5) and John Cocke (5).

1. Hartwell Cocke (5) married Ann Ruffin, daughter of John Ruffin of Rich Neck in Surry and raised John Hartwell Cocke (6), Hartwell Cocke (6), Mary Cocke (6), Richard Cocke (6) and Martha Cocke (6) (twins), Nancy Cocke (6), Benjamin Cocke (6), Robert Cocke (6) and Elizabeth Cocke (6). (This line of Cockes intermarried several times with the Ruffins. 1. Richard Cocke (4) married Elizabeth Ruffin (Mrs. Kinchin), Hartwell Cocke (5) son of Richard (4) married Anne Ruffin of “Rich Neck”, Surry county, daughter of John Ruffin. 3. Lucy Cocke (5) sister of Hartwell Cocke (5), married William Ruffin, of “Rich Neck (1770). (Rich Neck” had been the seat of Colonel Philip Ludwell). The daughter (Nancy Ruffin) of Lucy Cocke (5) and Wm Ruffin married William Browne of “Four Mile Tree”, Isle of Wight.

2. Benjamin Cocke (5) (the brother of Hartwell) died unmarried.

3. Elizabeth Hartwell Cocke (5) married Mr. Thornton and raised four daughters and one son, viz: Nancy Thornton (6), Rebecca Thornton (6), Francis Thornton (6), Lucy Thornton (6), Elizabeth Thornton (6). Elizabeth Thornton (6) daughter of Elizabeth Hartwell (Cocke) Thornton first married William Wilkinson of James City, and had a son, Cary Wilkinson (7) who is now (1813) living. (Cary Wilkinson was one of the Committee of Safety of James City county, in 1774. In 1819-20, Cary Wilkinson, John Tyler, Capt. John Armistead &c. constitute the County Committee for Charles City county, in the Presidential election (Republican). In the Virginia Argus for Nov. 20, 1810, Cary Wilkinson advertises three tracts of land of 180, 200 and 234 acres - the last as agent for Miss Martha B. Southall.) By her second marriage with Robert H. Taliaferro, there are four children.

Nancy Thornton (6), daughter of Elizabeth Thornton (5), married Mr. Branch and raised a son, Henry F. Branch (7).

Francis Thornton (6) son of Elizabeth Hartwell Thornton (5) died at New Orleans in the military service of the United States, about 1812.

4. Rebecca Cocke (5), the daughter of Richard Cocke (4), married Colonel Richard Taliaferro of “Powhatan”, in the county of James City, and raised three sons and seven daughters, all of whom, except one, she survived. The eldest son Richard Taliaferro died unmarried. The second son, Benjamin Taliaferro, raised no children. The children of the third son, Robert H. Taliaferro are noticed above.

The eldest daughter (6) of Rebecca (Cocke (5)) Taliaferro married Daniel Call of Richmond, who has one daughter living. Daniel Call was one of the most eminent lawyers of Richmond in the beginning the century. He was the author of Call's Reports.)

The second (6) married the late Judge William Nelson from whom there are no descendants now living. (President William Nelson (acting Governor in 1770, as President of Council) died in 1772. His son, Judge William Nelson, was a member of the Convention of 1776 and 1788, and one of the Privy Council in 1785. He was also a member of the Legislature in 1783, and probably other years.

The third (6) married Mr. Carter Nicholas, who raised no children.

The fourth (6) (married) Mr. William Browne - no children.

The fifth (6) (married) Mr. Wilkinson, who raised one daughter, the present Mrs. Harrison of Petersburg.

The sixth (6) married Mr. William P. Harris, and raised no children.

The seventh (6) married Mr. McCandlish, at present living in Williamsburg, and who has several children.

5. Nancy Cocke (5), daughter of Richard Cocke (4), a child of the second marriage, married Colonel William Browne of Four Mile Tree, Surry, and raised Richard, John and Polly Browne, all of whom died early and left no descendants. (One of the wealthiest and most influential families in Surry County in the eighteenth century was the “Browne” family of “Four Mile Tree”. These were neighbors to the Cockes (Richard Cocke (4) and his descendants, intermarried with them, and held evidently very intimate relations toward them). As far back as 1637, Captain Henry Browne patented 2,250 acres of land in James City county, on the south side of the river (Surry), at “Half-way Tree”; in 1639, 900 acres of James City county; and in 1643, 2,450 acres at “Four Mile Tree”. He was a member of the Council in 1634-60. William Browne was member of the Council in 1646 and repeatedly a member of the House of Burgesses.

In 1747 the inventory of Captain William Browne amounted to 2,630 pounds in Surry and 619 pounds in Isle of Wight. In 1734 there is a record of the will of Henry Browne, who leaves rings to Richard Cocke (4) and his son Hartwell (5). By a nuncupative will, 1744, Captain William Browne leaves the direction of his wife and children to his “good friends, Captain Richard Cocke and William Eaton”. About 1768 Colonel William Browne, born 1739, married Anne Cocke, daughter of Colonel Richard Cocke (4).

6. Richard Cocke (5), son of Richard (4), married Ann Claiborne and raised Richard H. Cocke (6), Augustine Cocke (6) (born 1771), Lucy Cocke (6), and Buller Cocke (6). (FOOTNOTE: Colonel Augustine Claiborne of “Windsor”, born at “Sweet Hall”, 1721; eminent lawyer; married Mary, only daughter of Buller Herbert of “Puddledock”, near Petersburg, brother of Martha Herbert, wife of James Powell Cocke (4) who was immensely wealthy. They had issue: 1. Mary Claiborne, born 1744, married General Charles Harrison of the Revolution, son of Benjamin Harrison of Berkely, uncle of President William Henry Harrison; 2. Herbert Claiborne married a Ruffin of “Sweet Hall”, King William county; second a daughter of William Burnet Browne; 3. Thomas Claiborne, born 1747, married ---------- Scott whose mother was a Miss Cocke of James River; member House of Burgesses, 1775-8, from Brunswick; 4. Anne Claiborne, born 1749, married 1768, Richard Cocke (5) of Shoal Bay, Isle of Wight county, author of this paper; 5. Buller Claiborne, born 1755, Major in Revolution, aid to General Lincoln; married Patsy Ruffin; issue: Sterling Claiborne of Amherst; 6. Lucy Herbert Claiborne married Colonel John Cocke (5), son of Richard Cocke (4).)

In a second marriage with Mrs. White he has now living Nathaniel Cocke (6), William Cocke (6) (married Eliza Johnson) FOOTNOTE: William Henry Cocke (6) son of Colonel Richard Cocke (5) married Eliza Johnson, daughter of James Johnson of James City (in Convention of 1776). William H. Cocke was in United States Navy and was killed in 1822 by accidental discharge of a gun off Moro.

), John Cocke (6) (married Ann Bressie Webb, 1820), Leonard Cocke (6) and a daughter.

(Martha Anne Cocke (7) who married, 1. Batt Henley; 2. John Peter. Issue by first marriage: Indiana Henley (8) who married Dr. Emmett Robinson of Petersburg.)

a. Richard H. Cocke (6) married first Miss Markie and has a daughter living and by second marriage with Mrs. Adams (nee Ann Hunt Cocke), daughter of Colonel Allen Cocke, has no children. (She married first, General James A. Bradley). (Richard Herbert Cocke (6) died 1833. His wife (Ann Hunt Cocke) renounced the will. His appraisement was $29,048.39; he had seven coaches and sets of harness and twenty-two horses)

b. Buller Cocke (6) married Miss (Eliz. ) Barron and has several children living. (There was a Commodore James Barron, a Commander, Richard Barron and a Lieutenant William Barron in the Revolution. Commodore James Barron killed Commodore Stephen Decatur in a duel (1820).) (Elizabeth Cocke (7), daughter of Buller Cocke (6) married Lewis Curzon Tresvant. James Tresvant represented the Southampton District in Congress in 1825-31 and was in the Convention of 1829-30. It is a Huguenot name. The family came from Maine.

Colonel Richard Herbert Cocke (6), son of Richard (5) lived at “Bacon's Castle”, Surry, and his brother, Buller (6) lived at “Monk Dale”, both on James River, near the old Surry Church. Bacon's Castle had been a seat of Benjamin Cocke (4) whose granddaughter (the widow of General James Allen Bradley), Richard H. Cocke married. In 1675 it had belonged to Arthur Allen, father of Benjamin Cocke's wife, and was taken possession of and defended by parties engaged in Bacon's Rebellion, and got its name from this circumstance. The original house is brick dwelling of two stories and some six or eight rooms, four gables) is still standing.

c. Lucy Cocke (6), daughter of Richard (5), married William Ruffin of Richneck, and raised a son and daughter, Wm. Cocke (7) and Betsey Cocke (7). William (7) married Miss Edwards and has left two sons, William Cocke (8) and Thomas Cocke (8). Betsey Cocke (7) married the late Wm. Browne, Esq. of Four Mile Tree and has left an daughter, lately (1813) married to John T. Bowdoin, Esq.

d. Nathaniel Cocke (6) son of Richard (5), married Miss Thompson of Halifax, and raised three sons, Nathaniel Cocke (Jr) (7), John Cocke (7) and William Cocke (7), the two first died young, the latter still lives in Savannah, Georgia. Nathaniel Cocke (6), son of Richard Cocke (5) (of Halifax) was Lieutenant Colonel in the State Line in the Revolution.

7. John Cocke (5), son of Richard (4), married Miss Claiborne (Lucy Herbert) of Sussex (born 1769) and raised two sons, Herbert Cocke (6) and John Cocke (6), both of whom are now living in the count of Halifax, and have children (1813).

DESCENDANTS OF HARTWELL COCKE (5)

a. JOHN HARTWELL COCKE (6), son of Hartwell (5) married Elizabeth Kennon of Mount Pleasant, in Chesterfield, daughter of Robert Kennon and Sally (formerly Sally Skipwith, daughter of Sir Wm. Skipwith), and raised the following children, viz: Sally Cocke (7), Nancy Cocke (7), Elizabeth Cocke (7), John Hartwell Cocke (Jr.)(7) and Mary Kennon Cocke (7). Nancy Cocke (7) married first Carter Nicholas of Chesterfield, by whom she raised no child, and secondly Merrit M. Robinson of Richmond, leaving a son Merrit M. Robinson (8) now (1840) living. Elizabeth Cocke (7) married Arthur Sinclair, late a commodore in the United States Navy, and died, leaving no child. Mary Kennon Cocke (7) married John Faulcon of Surry, deceased, leaving one child, Elizabeth Ann Faulcon, now Mrs. Upshur. (Nicholas Faulcon and Colonel Allen Cocke represented Surry in the Convention of 1776. In 1781 (to 1801) Jacob Faulcon was clerk of Surry, and from 1801 to 1829 John Faulcon was clerk. Several of these Faulcons married with the line of John Hartwell Cocke (6).) (the ancestor of the Kennon family (see Slaughter) was Richard Kennon, who, with Francis Eppes, Joseph Royall and George Archer appear as joint patentees of 2,8727 acres of land in Henrico in 1670. Wm. Kennon (3) in 1713, was in House of Burgesses from Prince George. General Richard Kennon (4) of the Revolution, was a brother of Robert Kennon (3).

b. HARTWELL COCKE (6) son of Hartwell (5), married Miss Clements of Southampton and died without having a child.

c. MARY COCKE (6) daughter of Hartwell (5), married Captain Edward Archer of Norfolk Borough and left two son, Richard Arthur (7) and Samuel B. Hartwell (7) and a daughter Maria Hartwell (7) married Mr. Woodruff of Fredericksburg.

d. RICHARD COCKE (6) son of Hartwell (5), died unmarried.

e. MARTHA COCKE (6), daughter of Hartwell (5) is now living, the wife of Colonel Daniel Coleman of Caroline and has three sons, viz: John Coleman (7), Ruffin Coleman (7) and Daniel Coleman (7) now residing in Kentucky and Alabama. (She died in Alabama, March 1842).

f. NANCY COCKE (6), daughter of Hartwell (5) is now living, the wife of Thomas Gray, Esq., of Southampton and has four sons and two daughters living, viz: Edwin Gray (7), Joseph Gray (7), Robert Gray (7) and Thomas Gray; Catherine Gray (7) and Nancy Gray (1813). (William Gray was a Burgess from Surry, 1710-15. Joseph Gray was a Burgess from Isle of Wight, 1736. Joseph Gray (son probably) was Burgess from Southampton in 1744, 1755, '56, '57, '58, '62, '67, '69. Edwin Gray (probably his son) was a member of the Convention of 1776, from Southampton (with Henry Taylor, grandfather of Sarah W. Taylor, who married Dr. Charles Cocke of Albemarle county). Edwin Gray also represented the Southampton District in Congress, in 1799-1813. John C. Gray represented this district in Congress, 1820-21.)

g. BENJAMIN COCKE (6), son of Hartwell (5), died unmarried.

h. ROBERT COCKE (6), married twice; first, Miss Browne and then Miss Newsum. No child by either marriage.

i. ELIZABETH COCKE (6), daughter of Hartwell (5), married Wm. Taliaferro.

JOHN HARTWELL COCKE (6)

Copied from an old prayer-book in the possession of Dr. C. C. Cocke, 1848.

John Hartwell Cocke (6), born November 26, 1749, married, November 28th, 1773, to Elizabeth Kennon (7), who was born July 13, 1755; died 1791; of which marriage was born: Sallie Cocke, May 10, 1775. Ann Hartwell Cocke (7) November 11, 1776. Elizabeth Cocke (7). John Hartwell Cocke (7), September 19, 1780. Mary Kennon Cocke, July 25, 1783. Robert Kennon Cocke (7), December 26, 1785; died 1790. Martha Ruffin Cocke (7), January 26, 1788. Rebecca Kennon Cocke (7), July 10, 1791; died 1791.

GENERAL JOHN HARTWELL COCKE (7)

John Hartwell Cocke (7), the son of John Hartwell (6), the son of Hartwell (5), the son of Richard (4), was married to Ann Blaus Barraud, daughter of Dr. Philip Barraud of Norfolk, Va., December 25th, 1802 (died 1816). From which marriage were born: John Hartwell Cocke (8), January 25, 1804, died September 1846. Louisiana Barraud Cocke (8), June 24, 1806; married Dr. John Faulcon, of Surry; died 1829. Philip St. George Cocke (8), April 17, 1809; married Sally Elizabeth Courtney Bowdoin; died December 26, 1861. Ann Blaus Cocke (8), December 15, 1811, died 1862. Cary Charles Cocke (8), January 1, 1814. Sallie Faulcon Cocke (8) September 8, 1816.

C. FIFTH AND SIXTHGENERATIONS (LINE OF JOHN COCKE (2))

DESCENDANTS OF MARTHA COCKE (4), DAUGHTER OF WILLIAM COCKE (3), SON OF JOHN COCKE (2)

MARTHA COCKE (4), daughter of William (3), married Henry Wood, whose commission as Clerk is the first paper in the county records of Goochland (1728).

Henry Wood was born in London in 1696 and arrived at Yorktown 1713, after which he lived for two years, as his apprentice, with Christopher Robinson, a wealthy merchant on the Rappahannock river, and who was Secretary of State, 1705.

We find him (Henry Wood) thin in Henrico county, where he married Martha Cocke at Bremo, in 1723. He was (says the family record) a person of good education, strong natural parts, and a great vivacity of temper. He practiced law and acted as Clerk of Goochland for forty odd years. He was a person of unblemished character and acquired a considerable property. (Henry Wood and Benjamin Cocke (4) (son of Richard)(3)) were Vestrymen of Goochland in 1744.) He was appointed Clerk in 1728, which office he held until 1757, when he as succeeded by his son, Col. Valentine Wood. He died and was buried at his seat, “Woodville”, and his tomb, a heavy, oblong, granite slab mounted on pedestals, bearing the inscription “Fuimus quoque nos”, is still well preserved.

Issue of Henry and Martha (Cocke) Wood:

1. VALENTINE WOOD (5), born Sept. 2, 1724, married January 3, 1764, Lucy Henry, sister of Patrick Henry, born in Hanover county, March 29, 1743, died in Fluvanna, July 14, 1826.

2. SALLY WOOD (5), born 1726; married William Pryor

3. PATTY WOOD (5), born 1732, married Wm. Merriwether, 1751

4. Three other children who died unmarried.

a. Valentine Wood succeeded his father as Clerk of Goochland (1757-81). He was Colonel of the County Militia, and one of the first justices appointed for Albemarle (1744 taken from Goochland). Lucy Henry, the wife of Valentine Wood, was of an intellect comparing in vigor with her brother's (Patrick Henry). She was a woman of most earnest piety, and was an attendant on the ministry (more or less frequently), of the celebrated Samuel Davies. (“Two of the sisters of Patrick Henry,” say Campbell (Hist. Va., p. 522) - “Lucy, who married Valentine Wood, and Jane, who married Col. Samuel Meredith, were members of Davies' congregation.)

The descendants of Valentine Wood and Lucy Henry were: Henry Wood, died unmarried. 2. Martha Wood, married Major Stephen Southall, son of Col. Turner Southall of Henrico. 3. Mary Wood married Judge Peter Johnston, father of Gen. Joseph E. Johnston. 4. Valentine Wood, died unmarried. 5. Lucy Wood married Edward Carter of Blenheim, Albemarle, son of Colonel John Carter of Shirley. 6. John Henry Wood married Eliz. Spencer.

b. Sally Wood and William Pryor. The latter was Sheriff of Goochland county, 1753, 1754. Colonel of Va. Militia, many years one of his Majesty's justices for Goochland. He died in 1777. His will mentions wife Sarah, sons, Samuel, William and John Pryor; daughters, Sally Payne, Patty and Mary Pryor.

c. Patty Wood and William Merriwether. The latter was a captain in Revolution and died in Louisa county, where his will is probated. He left several children, of whom one, David Wood Meriwether (born 1756) married Mary Lewis, daughter of John Lewis, one of the most eminent members of the bar of that period, and moved to Kentucky in 1801. (There was a David Merriwether in the United States Senate from Kentucky in 1852.)

William Merriwether was the son of David Merriwether, who was son of Major Nicholas Merriwether and Elizabeth Woodhouse, the former of Surry county, the latter of the old Woodhouse family of Princess Anne. (There was a Nicholas Merriwether, Burgess from New Kent in 1714, 18, 23 and 26. George Merriwether was in the Virginia Convention of 1776, from Louisa.)

D. FIFTH AND SIXTH GENERATIONS (LINE OF WILLIAM COCKE (2))

THE FAMILY OF OBADIAH SMITH

In a previous article (page 95 of Virginia Historical Magazine, July, 1896 and page 328, October 1896), we stated that Mary Cocke (3), daughter of William Cocke (2), married Obadiah Smith, and some seventy-five years afterwards (1777) his descendant, Lucy Smith (daughter of his grandson, Obadiah Smith (4),) married James Powell Cocke (6) of Malvern Hills.

Obadiah Smith (3) and Mary Cocke (3) left issue: William Smith, John Smith, Obadiah Smith, Jacob Smith, Luke Smith (4), Elizabeth Smith, Anne Smith and Mary Smith.

Luke Smith (4) left a son, Obadiah (5) who married Mary Burks, in Albemarle county, Va., and died in 1777. (In “The Cabells and their Kin”, we have the following (page 59), Elizabeth Cabell (Burks), wife of Dr. William Cabell, was the daughter of Samuel and Mary Davis Burgs of Hanover count (when that county extended to the Blue Ridge mountains). Her only sister, Mar Burks, married Obadiah Smith (who died 1777 in Chesterfield county) and became the mother, inter alias, of Peartree Smith, whose descendants went to Kentucky; of William Smith who married Elizabeth Mayo of Lucy Smith who married James Powell Cocke and of Elizabeth Smith who married Isaac Winston.

Peartree Smith got his name from John Peartree Burke, the brother of Mary Burks, the wife of Obadiah Smith. He moved to Kentucky. In 1852 “Mrs. Hebe Carter Preston married her cousin, Wm. Peartree Smith of Henderson county, Ky.” (page 455).

Isaac Winston married second, daughter of John Coles. He was a son of Isaac and Mary Ann (Fontaine) Winston: the latter born 1718 and daughter of Rev. Peter Fontaine. Peter Winston, brother of Isaac, was a member of the Henrico Committee of Safety, 1774 and he was the grandfather of John Winston Jones, Speaker of House of Representatives.

William Smith (6) and Elizabeth Mayo (he died in Chesterfield County in 1800) (She descended from Joseph Mayo who came to Virginia, 1727, from Barbdoes and settled at “Powhatan” (near Richmond), the seat of the Indian chief. The intermarried with the Carringtons. Philip Mayo represented Henrico in House of Burgesses in 1768. John Mayo represented Cumberland in 1770 and 1777. William Mayo, Jr., represented Powhatan in 1785. John Mayo was a member of the Cumberland Committee of Safety, 1775.) left issue: Mary Smith, William Smith, Elizabeth Smith, Dr. Beverly Smith, Lucy Ann Smith, Signora Tabb Smith, William Mayo Smith, Edward Warren Smith and Obadiah Smith. We get the above information from Mr. Charles L. Pullen, of New Orleans, great grandson of William Smith (6), son of Obadiah (5).

We have another pedigree of the Smith family sent us by Mr. Willis B. Smith of Richmond, which gives the descendants of Mary Smith (3), who was daughter of the first Obadiah Smith. Mr. Willis Smith writes that their “old book says” that Obadiah Smith (3) who married Mary Cocke (3) was the son of John Smith of Charles City, who came there from England. (Captain Roger Smyth (who had been a captain (1692) under Sir Francis Vere in the Netherlands), a member of the Virginia Council in 1621, had a plantation in Charles City county. John Smith (or Smyth), gentleman of Nibley, spent large sums of money in Virginia, though he never came to the colony himself. He was interested in the Tracy-Berkeley-Smith-Thorpe plantation at Berkeley. Some of his family probably cane to Virginia. From one of the above it is likely that Obadiah Smith (3) was descended.) (Neill (Virginia Carolorium) thanks that Roger Smyth was a son of John Smyth, Esq., of Nibley, in Gloucestershire.

Mary Smith, born 1726, died 1804, the ancestor of Mr. Willis B. Smith, married a William Smith of Gloucester, son of Robert Smith of Gloucester, son of William Smith of Gloucester, probably of the family of Colonel Lawrence Smith. William and Mary Smith settled at “Montrose”, in Powhatan county. (Robert Smith of Gloucester had a large estate now Rockcastle” in Goochland county, owned by Mrs. John C. Rutherford, just opposite “Belmead”, former seat of Philip St. George Cocke. Robert Smith was a member of the Cumberland Committee of Safety in 1775.) They had a number of children, among them: 1. Josiah Smith, who was the father of the late Benjamin Mosby Smith, D. D., of Union Theological Seminary, Virginia. 2. Mary Smith married James Morton, father of W. S. Morton of Cumberland county; 3. Anne Smith married Rev. Drury Lacy, who was the grandmother of the Rev. Moses D. Hoge, D. D., of Richmond; 4. Judith Smith, who was grandmother of Mrs. Terhune (Marlon Harland).

Josiah Smith married Judith Michaux Mosby, daughter of Colonel Littlebury Mosby and granddaughter of Jacob Michaux.

The will of Obadiah Smith (3), probated in Chesterfield county, May 2, 1777, disposes of lands in Mecklenburg county, “with negroes and stock” to son of Peartree Smith; to son William land on James River “above Moses' creek, &c.”; to Obadiah the residue of tract of land in Chesterfield county, “being plantation whereon I now live”, to William land at mouth of Hico and Dan rivers (Halifax county); to Obadiah all his land in North Carolina; to Lucy two Negroes; to Elizabeth two Negroes; to Edith Christmas one Negro boy and 100 pounds in money, and two girls for life; to granddaughter Eliz. Winston, one girl and 100 pounds; to Peartree Smith 250 pounds; and all the residue of his estate to William, Obadiah and Lucy.

There is a letter from “Will Scott” dated “Bunkershill, Va., Feb'y 25, 1777”, to “Mr. Wm. Smith, Paymaster 5th Virginia Regiment”, who was with the army in New Jersey, informing him of the death of his father.

There was an Obadiah Smith and two William Smiths , who were lieutenants in the Continental Line in the Revolutionary War.

E. THE COCKES OF CHARLES CITY COUNTY

We have given the descendants of Robert Bolling (3) and Anne Cocke (3), and we stated that this Anne Cocke was probably the daughter of Richard Cocke (2), the younger (youngest son of Richard Cocke (1)), who settled in Charles City county.

The destruction of the records of Charles City county leaves us only a few glimpses now and then of the Cocke family in Charles City in the 18th century. In the “Calendar of Virginia State Papers”, vol. I, page 261, there is a record of the justices appointed for Charles City county in April, 1769: Edward Cocke, Benjamin Harrison, Littlebury Hardyman, Littlebury Cocke, &c. - twelve in all. (Captain Littlebury Hardyman of “Indian Fields”, Charles City county, is named in the article on “Racing in Colonieal Virginia”, in the Virginia Historical Magazine for Jany'y '95, p. 301, along with Colonel John Tayloe, Colonel Wm. Byrd, Mr. Maclin, Wm. Lightfoot, George Washington, Lewis Burwell, Sir Marmaduke Beckwith, and a number of other gentlemen, who were engaged at that period in the importation of horses of the English racing stock. He married Elizabeth Eppes, and she married, second, ---------- Cocke and had by him a daughter named Eliza Cocke, who in the year 1830, at the house of George Hairston of Henry county, married Amos Allen Atkinson of Alabama. George Hairston had married her half-sister, Louisa (Eppes) Hardyman. Another half-sister, Susan (Eppes) Hardyman, married John Southall of Charles City. Littlebury had a sister Lucy who married Colonel John Bradley of “Laurel Hill”, Charles City county, and these had a daughter Maria, who married Philip Southall, son of William Southall of Charles City. (c. 1800).) The grandmother of Eliza (Cocke) Atkinson was also a Hardyman (Anne), and she had a brother, Stith Hardyman, who married (c. 1770), Rachel Tyler, sister of Governor Tyler, the father of President John Tyler. See Wm & Mary Quar., April '97, p. 272.) In 1768 there is a deed on record from Littlebury Cocke (and Rebecca his wife) to his daughter, Rebecca Cocke. In 1773 there is a marriage license to Bray Johnson and Rebecca H. Cocke. In 1793, there is recorded the will of Rebecca H. Cocke, widow of Colonel Littlebury Cocke, devising a tract of land called “Westbury”, and thirteen negroes to R. Cocke Tyler. In 1790 there is a mortgage from Acrill Cocke to Major Willcox. In 1791 a power of attorney from Jane Cocke to John Harwood. In 1792 a deed from Bolling Cocke to John Cocke. In 1810 a deed from John Minge to John Cocke. In 1793 the will of Jane Cocke, devising tract of land called “Bullfield” to Frances Riddlehurst.

From the will of William Lightfoot of Tedington, Charles City county, proved 1809, we learn that his first wife was named Anne, and they had a daughter named Anne Cocke Lightfoot and a daughter named Elizabeth Bolling Lightfoot. Three daughters were born about 1780 and in 1790 there is a deed on record in Charles City Clerk's office, from Bolling Cocke, who was therefore a contemporary of William Lightfoot. We think it probable that William Lightfoot married a daughter of Bolling Cocke. See Wm. And Mary College Quarterly, Oct. 1894, p. 108.

Tedington (says Dr. Slaughter) was one of the four farms which composed the splendid estate of Sandy Point, between the James and Chickahominy rivers. (Three of these farms were inherited by Miss Minge (Mrs. Robert B. Bolling), and the fourth was added by Col. Bollong.). These Lightfoots were extremely wealthy. Philip Lightfoot, of York, father of William of Tedington, who died in 1748, owned 180 slaves and plantations in York, Charles City, Surry, Brunswick, Goochland, New Kent and Hanover, and he left 2,000 pounds sterling to each of his sons. His will mentions large amounts of plate, “two-wheeled and four-wheeled chase”, “coach and six horses”, &c.

Wm. Lightfoot imported many fine horses.

We have mentioned just above, Acrill Cocke, who was living in Charles City county in 1790, whose father no doubt married the daughter or sister of Capt. William Acrill, who died in 1738. This William Acrill (as mentioned elsewhere) had married Anne Cocke (4) of Surry, sister of Richard Cocke (4) and Benjamin Cocke (4). He was a member of the House of Burgesses at the time of his death.

His son, William Acrill was in the House of Burgesses, 1766, '68, '69, '70, '71, '72, '73, '74, '75.

We learn from the marriage license cited above and from the William and Mary College Quarterly, Octobe4 1896, page 114 (note), that James Bray Johnson, son of Colonel Philip Johnson of James City county, married Rebecca, daughter of Colonel Littlebury and Rebecca Hubard Cocke of Charles City county, and that Elizabeth, daughter James Bray Johnson and Rebecca Cocke, married Chancellor Samuel Tyler of Williamsburg. This explains the gift in 1793 from Rebecca H. Cocke of the estate called “Westbury” to R. Cocke Tyler, who was her grandson and son of Chancellor Tyler. (James Bray of James City county, was a member of the Council in 1676. His grandson, David Bray (3), son of David Bray (2), was a member of the Council in 1699. James Bray (2), son of James Bray (1), was a Burgess from James City in 1702. He was grandfather of Elizabeth Bray (4) who married Colonel Philip Johnson. The wife of Governor Edward Diggs was a Bray.)

It may be gathered from the foregoing facts that the Cockes of Charles City (descendants, as may be presumed of Richard Cocke (2), “the younger”) intermarried with the Bollings, the Lightfoots, the Johnsons, the Tylers and the Acrills, of that county. We may mention in this connection the name “Littlebury Cocke”. We can find no trace of any Littlebury family in Virginia, and yet there was a Littlebury Cocke, Littlebury Harrison, a Littlebury Ligon, a Littlebury Eppes, a Littlebury Royall, a Littlebury Carrington, a Littlebury Mason, a Littlebury Harwood.

ADDITONS AND CORRECTIONS.

JAMES POWELL COCKE (4) - It is now ascertained from the Virginia Gazette of August 7, 1752 (see William and Mary Quarterly, Vol. 4, page 240), that James Powell Cocke (4) married, not Martha Anderson, as heretofore conjectured, but “Martha Herbert”, daughter of John Herbert, said to have been “a merchant on James River,” who had married Frances Anderson, probably of Henrico or Prince George. (The Herberts were a prominent family in Lower Norfolk county in the 17th century.) John Herbert, who died in 1704, was the son of John Herbert of London, Apothecary, and grandson of Richard Herbert, of London, Grocer. His tomb was until a year or two, since, at “Puddledock”, on the north side of the Appomattox, near Petersburg, but the slab, which is of slate, about six inches thick, has been removed to Blandford Churchyard, Petersburg. On it were inscribed the FAMILY ARMS: Per pale az, and gu. 3 lions rampant ar. Armed and langued or. Crest: A bundle or arrows or headed and feathered ar., six in saltire, one in pale, girt round the middle with a belt gu. Buckle and point estended, of the first. The arms are those of Colbrook, County Monmouth. See Slaughter's Bristol Parish, 167.

John Herbert had three sons and one daughter: John Herbert, Buller Herbert, Richard Herbert and Martha Herbert. The three sons were all among the earliest vestrymen of Bristol Parish, 1722-27.

Buller Herbert “said to be (Slaughter) a grandson of one of Lords Herbert”, married a Miss Stith of Brunswick, by whom he got 200 slaves, 15,000 acres of land south side of the Appomattox, 3,000 acres on Monkananock creek, the Puddledock estate, including Matoax, and lots and houses at Bolling's Point.” The left only one child --- a daughter - Mary Herbert, who married Colonel Augustine Claiborne of “Windsor” , a distinguished lawyer, member House of Burgesses, 1748, '53 and '54, from Surry. In addition to the great fortune inherited from her father, Mary Herbert got a block of Houses in London from her aunt, which sold for 80,000 pounds. Nor was this all; her uncle, John Herbert, whose will is on record in Chesterfield, left her the bulk of his large estate - he presumably had no children. This accounts (the absence of sons) for the rare occurrence of the name in the succeeding generations. Of Richard we only know that he was a vestryman in 1727. Martha, the daughter of John Herbert, married, in 1718, James Powell Cocke.

In regard to the marriage of James Powell Cocke (4) with Martha Herbert, we find on going over our notes, that in the Henrico Clerk's office there is a record of the Inventory of Herbert Powell in 1690. His mother must have been Herbert, and his father one of the Powells of 1620 and thereabouts. The children of Thomas Cocke (2) were not by his second wife, Margaret Jones, but by his first wife, and she was probably a Powell. In this way the names Stephen Cocke, James Cocke and James Powell Cocke, may have gotten into the family, and in that way James Powell Cocke (4) may have met Martha Herbert (a relative), whom he married.

We note that in 1635, Henry Harte patented 350 acres “on the south side of the main river over against James Town island”, “adjoining apt. Powell's land”. This was in what is now Surry County. It was in Surry County that Thomas Cocke (2) married Mary Brashear and Major James Powell lived in Isle of Wight adjoining.

In 1619, Capt. William Powell was a member of the first House of Burgesses, and represented James City. He was the “Capt. Powell” of 1635, as we know from the fact (see Burk I, 332), that in the allotments of land in the year 1620, in the “Territory of Tappahannock over against James City”, 200 acres, planted were allotted to Capt. William Powell.

Among the original “Adventurers”, his name is entered as “William Powell, Gentleman, Paid 25 pounds. Major James Powell of Isle of Wight, was probably his son.

It is from this Capt. William Powell that the Powells of Loundoun, claim to be descended, and in their genealogy, the family is said to have been from Wales co. Brecon, and is traced from Bliddyn ap Macnyrch ap Driffen ap Hwgan, Lord of Brecon, in the reign of William Rufus, 1087. It is stated that he left two sons, Cuthbert and Thomas, who were living in Lancaster in 1660.

Among sixty persons whom Richard Cocke brought over in 1636, was a Margaret Powell. James Cocke of Surry, had a sister Margaret. And there was a Margaret descended from the Capt. Wm. Powell of the Loudoun family.

Herbert is the family name of the Earls of Pembroke and Montgomery.

William Herbert, third Earl of Pembroke, was a member of the Virginia Company in 1609. Paid 400 pounds. Born in 1850. Married sister of Sir Philip Sidney. He patented 30,000 acres of land in Virginia in 1630. The Rappahannock river was originally called Pembroke river. He took an active part in Virginia affairs.

Philip Herbert, the second earl, was also a member of the Virginia Council in 1612, Paid 169 pounds.

JAMES COCKE (5), son of James Powell Cocke (4) was living at Malvern Hills in 1781. But this must have been James Powell Cocke (6). We have discovered that James Cocke (5) died in 1753, some six years after his father, aged about 34; and this is the reason that we hear so little of him. His wife, Mary Magdaleine Chastain Cocke, about a year after his death, married again - Peter (not Samuel) Farrar. These facts are given in a pedigree in the possession of DR. Charles Irving of Amelia (one of the Cocke family). In this pedigree it also appears that James Cocke (5) had two sons named Chastain, the elder of whom died in infancy, about a year after his grandfather, James Powell Cocke (4), who had left him all of his landed property, reserving a life estate in his widow (which she afterwards deeded to her son). The death of this infant (and his father) gave the estate to his heirs, who were his brothers and sisters. The children were all very young; Mrs. Cocke married Peter Farrar, who is said in the family tradition to have “managed” her property. (She probably remained at Malvern Hills.) When James Powell Cocke (6) grew to manhood he probably bought out the interests of his brothers and sisters, and Peter Farrar and his wife moved to Amelia. It was always stated in the family that James Powell Cocke (6) owned Malvern Hills. He must have been there in 1781, when Arnold was at Westover. Some years afterwards he exchanged the property with Robert Nelson for lands in Albemarle. The other estate, Four Mile Creek, willed by James Cocke (4) to his grandson, Chastain (6) passed into the hands of one of the Pleasants family.

MARGARET COCKE (2), wife of Thomas Cocke (2) and Peter Jones. It is stated (see Virginia Historical Magazine III, 3, page 252) that Peter Jones married the daughter of Major-General Abram Wood. This must have been Margaret Jones who married (her third marriage (questioned by transcriber)) Thomas Cocke (2) (his second marriage). She had a son, Peter Jones, who died 1721, and he left a son, Peter Jones, who in 1733, with Colonel Byrd was the founder of Petersburg. Peter Jones left a son, Wood Jones, who represented Amelia in House of Burgesses 1752.

On page 431, April number of Magazine, for Roman numeral I substitute letter A; on page 445, for numeral II substitute letter B; on page 448 (Adams Family), substitute numeral II for III.

Page 440. Clement C. Moore, not Inness Randolph, was the author of “The Night before Christmas”.

Page 440 (middle of page). “For both married Randolphs” say one (Martha) married a Randolph; the other Colonel James Innes, whose daughter married a Randolph.

COLONEL JAMES INNES. See page 440. It was his mother who was Catharine Richards. She married the Rev. Robert Innes of Drysdale Parish, Caroline.

Page 442, note. Francis Maclin also represented Brunswick in House of Burgesses 1766, 1767 (no session) and 1768. Francis (it should probably be Frederick) in 1775.

Page 444. Colonel William M. Cocke was the son of Sterling Cocke, brother of General John Cocke.

Page 446, note, last line: omit words “contracted a second marriage with Miss Fauntleroy.”

Page 447. Top line. See page 449, third line from top.

BOWLER COCKE (T) (see page 447). His will bears date 24 February 1771. He left the following children: Bowler Cocke (Jr.)(6), Elizabeth Cocke (6), Sarah Cocke (6), Charles Cocke (6), William Cocke (6), all under age at above date. Exors.: Thomas Adams, George Webb, Peter Lyons of Hanover and son Bowler “when of age”. Witnesses: Richard Randolph, Beverly Randolph, David I. Hylton, &c.

There was a Colonel Charles Cocke in Legislature from Lee county in 1797-'8. Engaged in southwest against the Indians, 1792. This must have been the son of Bowler Cocke (5). There was no other Charles Cocke at this time.

LIST OF BURGESSES AND REPRESENTATIVES (COCKE FAMILY) 1750-1850

We have already made some reference to this subject, but on imperfect data. And the following, which is a list of the Cockes who were in the House of Burgesses or the General Assembly for the period 1750-1850, is not complete; the record is frequently wanting. There is no record preserved for the period 1728-52, except one year (1736):

COLONEL BOWLER COCKE (4) of Henrico, 1752, 1756, 1757, 1758, 1759, 1761. There is no record from 1761 to 1765.

BOWLER COCKE (5) of Henrico, 1765, 1766, 1767, 1768, 1769.

COLONEL HARTWELL COCKE (5) of Surry, son of Richard Cocke (4), 1759, 1761, 1765, 1766, 1767, 1768, 1769, 1770, 1771 (died)

COLONEL ALLEN COCKE (5) of Surry, son of Benjamin Cocke (4), brother of Richard (4) both sons of Richard (3)), 1772, 1773, 1774, 1775, 1776, 1777. Also in Convention of 1776.

GENERAL WILLIAM COCKE (5), son of Abraham Cocke (4), afterwards United States Senator from Tennessee, 1778.

COLONEL RICHARD COCKE (5) of Surry, son of Richard (4), 1784.

COLONEL LEMUEL COCKE, of Surry, of the line of William Cocke (1), who settled in Surry, 1691 (brother of Captain Thos. Cocke (1) of Princess Anne), 1786, 1788.

JOHN HARTWELL COCKE (6) (Surry), 1787, 1788, also in Convention of 1788.

---------------- COCKE (county unknown), 1793

ANDERSON COCKE of Cumberland, of the line of Bowler Cocke (4), 1795, 1796, 1798

COLONEL CHARLES COCKE (6) of Lee (probably son of Bowler (5)), 1797, 1798, 1799, 1800

------------ COCKE (60) of Prince George, 1796

JAMES POWELL COCKE (7) of Amelia, of the line of James Powell Cocke (4), 1809, 1811, 1822, 1824, 1842, 1843

PETER PRESLEY COX, of Westmoreland, descended from Presley or Fleet Cox (1700-25), 1809

WILLIAM ARCHER COCKE of Powhatan, of the line of James Powell Cocke (4), 1812

CHARLES COCKE (7) of Albemarle, son of Stephen Cocke (6) of Amelia, of the line of James Powell Cocke (4), 1822, 1827, 1828 (House of Delegates), 1832, 1833, 1835, 1842, 1843 (Senate from Albemarle, Nelson and Amherst.)

JUDGE JAMES H. COX of Chesterfield, descended from John Cocke (2), 1839, 1840, 1842 (H. of D.), 1844, 1845, 1847, 1848, 1849 (Senate from Chesterfield and Petersburg). Member of Convention of 1851.

CHASTAIN COCKE (7) of Powhatan, of the line of James Powell Cocke (4), 1844, 1845, 1846, 1847, 1848.

RICHARD IVANHOE COCKE of Fluvanna, of the line of James Powell Cocke (4), 1851, 1852. In Convention of 1851.

In the above deliberative bodies the female line was largely represented by the Harwoods, the Bollings, the Banisters, the Randolphs, the Eppes', the Adams', the Balls, the Jones, the Warings, the Carters, the Lees, the Archers, the Egglestons, &c.

Col. Richard Adams, son of Tabitha Cocke (4), was member of the House of Burgesses almost continuously from New Kent and Henrico, from 1752 to 1775. His brother, Thomas Adams, was in the Continental Congress, and in the Senate of Virginia.

OFFICERS IN THE REVOLUTION

There were in the Revolutionary War, the following officers of the Cocke Family:

COL. WILLIAM FINNIE, PROBABLY SON OF Rev. William Finnie and Mary Cocke (4).

COL. JAMES INNES, married daughter of Auditor James Cocke.

LT. COL. NATHANIEL COCKE (6) of Halifax, son of Col. Richard Cocke (5)

CAPT. PLEASANT COCKE (5), son of James Cocke

CAPT. JOHN COCKE of Surry

CAPT. COLIN COCKE of Surry

CAPT. JOHN CATESBY COCKE, grandson of Col. Thomas Jones, married daughter of Secretary William Cocke (Navy)

CAPT. JAMES COCKE of Prince George, son of John Cocke, line of Surry Cockes. (Navy)

CAPT. JOHN COX, died 1837. (Navy)

CAPT. WILLIAM (afterwards General) COCKE (6) of Southwest Virginia.

CAPT. CADWALLADES JONES, descended from Secretary William Cocke.

LIEUT. STEPHEN SOUTHALL, grandson of Henry Wood and Martha Cocke (4).

LIEUT. PETER JOHNSON, grandson of same

LIEUT OBADIAH SMITH (6), son of Obadiah Smith (5)

LIEUT. WILLIAM SMITH (6)

COCKE GENEALOGY

In the July number of the Virginia Magazine, in the Genealogy of the Cocke Family”, page 76, there is note which I desire to correct, as to the only surviving child of Mrs. Elizabeth Marion Cocke Trezevant, who was the only child who married and left issue, of Buller Cocke and Elizabeth Barron his wife. The said Elizabeth married Dr. Lewis Cruger Trezevant, only child of Judge Lewis Trezevant of Charleston, South Carolina. The judge died in 1808, at the early age of thirty-nine years, having been nine years on the bench; “he was the youngest judge who had ever been appointed”. The Trezevants were a Huguenot family, mentioned by Ramsay in his “History of the United States” as coming to America, 1685, soon after the revocation of the Edict of Nantes. I might give the page, &c., if my notes were not in America. Colonel James Trezevant, as he was always called, who represented the Southampton district in Congress in 1825-31, and was in the Convention of 1829-30, was a cousin of Dr. Lewis Cruger Trezevant, being a son of Dr. John Trezevant, a surgeon during the Revolution, who left South Carolina with the army, and later settled in Virginia. I cannot account for the statement that “the family came from Maine”.

Dr. Lewis Cruger Trezevant was the father of the gallant Colonel Edward Buller Trezevant, whose biography you will find in “General Bedford Forrest's Cavalry “, by Strange. He lost his life at Spring Hill, before Columbia, Tenn.

The Barrons deserve a full sketch from the State of Virginia, as in the early days, they did much service, and in the familial of Captain James Barron Hope, the commission “Commander-in-Chief of the State Navy” was transmitted from Com. Samuel Barron, signed by Thos. Jefferson, then President of the United Sates.

I have written in haste, having just received my Magazines, without my papers, but on my return I shall be glad to furnish any further information I may possess.

BETTY T. KEIM

Hamburg, December 30, 1897

CONCERNING COX AND COCKE FAMILIES OF HENRICO

By James P. C. Southall

Published in Genealogies of Virginia Families from The Virginia Magazine of History and Biography

1. Many years ago Dr. Bruce stated that the Coxes of Chesterfield and Henrico are descended from John Cox who lived near Dutch Gap in 1677 (3 V 288). Unfortunately John Cox's son William Cox and Thomas Cocke's son William Cocke have been confused with each other in this Magazine, Vol. III, 94, and one main purpose of this note is to separate these two Williams who, as far as known, were not related (See particularly 37 V 157-159. (Pages 163-165, this volume).

Coxes were among the earliest immigrants to Virginia. William Coxe who came in the Godspeed in 1610 (Nugent, C&P, I, Intrude., p. xxix) was apparently a lad not more than eleven years old when he landed at Jamestown; and doubtless he is the same as William Cox, Planter, who patented, 100 acres of land within the “precincts” of Elizabeth City, 20 September 1628. (Id., p. 12; 3 V 287)

Arthur Bayly, merchant and real estate dealer, had a grant of 550 acres of land in Henrico Co., “on N. side the Riv., known by the name of Harristocks, beg. Next to land of Capt. Edloe”; which had been purchased from Bayly by Wm. Johnson and then assigned to John Cox, early in April 1666 (29 March, 1665, O.S.) This John Cox was perhaps a son of William Cox who had patented 150 acres of land in Henrico Co., 29 November 1636, “About 2 ½ mi. above Harroe Attocks”. (Id. P. 447.)

John Cox, Sr., had two sons, John Cox, Jr., who married Mrs. Jane Gower's daughter Mary Baugh, and William Cox, whose wife was named Sarah, and who has been confused, as above stated, with William Cocke (3), youngest of the four sons of Thomas Cocke (2) “of Pick-thorn Farm in the County of Henrico” (43 V 75) or Thomas Cocke who was the first of Henrico Cockes to live at Malvern Hills adjoining Old Bremo.

2. As well as can be ascertained, William Cocke(3) (Thomas (2) Richard (1)) married twice and lived to be nearly 50 years old. He was born probably about 1669, for when his father made his will, 10 December 1696, William Cocke's first wife, mother of his eldest daughter Sarah Cocke (4), was then no longer alive. We know that William Cocke (3) married Sarah Perrin in 1695 a year or more before his father's death, and that nearly a decade earlier, namely in 1686, Thomas Farrar (b. 1665) grandson of Councilor William Farrar and his wife Cicely, had married Katherine Perrin, daughter of Richard Perrin and perhaps an elder sister of Sarah Perrin. William Cocke and his wife Sarah Perrin had one son and three daughters all of whom came of age: William Cocke (4), Temperance Cocke (4), Mary Cocke (4) and Catharine Cocke (4).

About William Cocke(3) little more is known beyond the fact that a deed is on record of date 16 November 1708 from John Pleasants who married Dorothia Cary, whereby part of a tract of land that had been patented by Pleasants in 1699, on the south side of Chickahominy Swamp, was conveyed to William Cocke, and that soon afterwards, 1 April 1709, William Cocke sold some of this land. William Cocke (3) died near the end of 1717 or early in 1718, not long after the death of his brother Stephen Cocke (3); for his will, dated 5 November 1717, was probated 3 February 1717-1718.

3. Sarah Cocke (4), eldest of William Cocke(3)'s children, married (1) William Cox (d. 1711), son of John Cox, Jr., above mentioned and (2) Thomas Jordan who survived her. Sarah Cocke died around 1730, for by May 1734 she had been dead some four years, when her husband Thomas Jordan was plaintiff in a law-suit Jordan vs. Cox in which Sarah's son John Cox(5) was defendant against his stepfather. (27 W, 140-141, Sarah Cocke(4), whose first husband was William Cox (d. 1711) is not to be confused with Sarah who married the elder William Cox an whose will, dated 29 March 1726-7, names her only son Stephen Cox, and her six daughters, one of the latter being Martha Cox, Henry Wood's wife.)

William Cocke's only son William Cocke (4) (William (3), Thomas (2), Richard (1)) married Judith Stewart. Neither of their two children lived to be eight years old although both were alive when their father died perhaps about a year after the death of his half-sister Sarah Cocke (4) or possibly earlier, say, between 1727 and 1731.

Mary Cocke (4)(William (3), Thomas (2), Richard (1)) married John Redford (or Radford).

Temperance Cocke (4), perhaps named for aunt Temperance Cocke (3) (Thomas (2) Richard (1)) wife of Samuel Harwood, married Abraham Bailey, a large landowner in Henrico county, in 1704, who flourished there apparently long years afterwards. (27 V. 209. Wright and Tinling, Secret diary of William Byrd, p. 150. Henrico Records, p. 310. Valentine Papers, II, y4i, 1050, and III, 1441.) Accordingly, if Temperance Baley (b. 1618) was the first wife of the immigrant Richard Cocke of old Bremo, Mrs. Abraham Bailey, nee Temperance Cocke, was her great grand-daughter.

Catharine Cocke (4)(William (3), Thomas (2), Richard (1)) possibly named for Katherine Perrin (Mrs. Thomas Farrar) married John Burton. Her husband and her son John Burton, Jr., both survived her.

Early in January 1743, N.S., Abraham Bailey, John Redford, Jr., Thomas Jordan and John Burton joined in asking the court to appoint them administrators of the estate of “Miss Judith Cocke”, dec'd. The inference is that she was Judith Cocke (5), daughter of William Cocke (4) and his wife Judith Stewart, afterwards wife of Francis Redford (10).

4. It is easy to see how the confusion arose between William Cox, son of John Cox, Sr., and William Cocke, son of Thomas Cocke of Pick-thorn Farm, who both lived in Henrico county about the same time. Each had a wife named Sarah and William Cox and his wife Sarah ------ had a son Stephen Cox, while William Cocke had a brother named Stephen Cocke. One of William Cox's daughters was Martha Cox who married Henry Wood at Bremo in 1723 (4 V 94, 95), but why the wedding took place at the home of Bowler Cocke (4) (Richard (3), Richard the Elder (2), Richard (1)) is something of a puzzle.

Rev. William Finney (Finnie), who married Mary Cocke, daughter of Thomas Cocke (3) (Thomas (2), Richard (1)) was minister of Varina Parish 1714-1727. In 1724 he was one of the sureties at the baptism of Valentine Wood, son of Henry Wood and his wife Martha Cox. (4 V 216).

In the light of the facts here put together, corrections need to be made in the Cocke Genealogy as given in Volume IV of this Magazine not only pp. 94-95 but pp. 327 and 436. (Pages 122-123, 136 & 147, this volume.)

MALVERN HILLS, HENRICO COUNTY, AND EDGEMONT, ALBEMARLE COUNTY, HOMES OF JAMES POWELL COCKE (4) AND JAMES POWELL COCKE (6)

By James P. C. Southall

Published in Genealogies of Virginia Families from The Virginia Magazine of History and Biography

In a valuable and painstaking article recently contributed to William and Mary College Quarterly, 2nd ser., XIII, 207-213, Dr. William Cabell Moore, of Washington, D. C., has related in some detail an outline of the history of old Bremo on James River, where Richard Cocke (1), ancestor of the Cocke family of Henrico Co., settled in 1636 or soon afterwards (Note 1) and where one line of his descendants continued to live for several generations or nearly 175 years down to the beginning of the nineteenth century. This estate which comprised about 640 acres when Richard Cocke (1) died in 1665 and was buried in his “orchard” or garden by the side of his early wife, was situated on the north bank of the river between Curles Neck and Turkey Island, as may be seen on the folded map which is attached to Dr. Moore's article.

The two eldest sons of Richard Cocke (2), both by his first wife whose identity has never been ascertained (Note 2), were Richard Cocke (2) of Bremo (1639-1706), known as Richard Cocke (2) the elder to distinguish him from his half-brother Richard Cocke (2) the younger, and Thomas Cocke (2) of Malvern Hills (c. 1638-1697) (Note 3), who in 1672 speaks of himself as “Thomas Cocke of Pick-thorn Farm in the County of Henrico” (Note 4). Both brothers were prominent and influential personages in Henrico in the latter half of the seventeenth century.

The land patented by their father in 1636 and 1639 comprised not only the plantation called Bremo, but a larger tract on the ridge a mile or two from the river which extended to the head of Turkey Island Creek and was called Malvern Hills or “Mawborne” Hills, as is frequently written, phonetically, in the old documents with many variations of spelling (Va. M. H. & B., III, 285 (Page 96, this volume) and XIV, 192; Wm. & M. C. Q., 2nd ser., XI, 228 and XIII, 207-212). From the will of Richard Cocke (1) (Miscel. Records of Henrico Co., Book I, p. 27, Archives Div., Va. State Library; abstract in Edw. Pleas. Valentine Papers, II, 640), dated 4 October 1665, it may reasonably be inferred that shortly before he died he had given Malvern Hills by deed to Thomas Cocke (2) for his home, perhaps about 1663 near the time of his first marriage. When the latter died more than thirty years afterwards, no doubt he likewise was buried in his garden at Malvern Hills in compliance with the wish expressed in his will dated 10 December 1696 and probated 1 April 1697 (Henrico County Records, Book 5, 1684-1697, pp. 684, foll., Archives Div., Va. State Library), but according to Dr. Moore no trace of a grave can be found now at Malvern Hills.

The four sons of Thomas Cocke (2), namely, Thomas Cocke (3) (1664-1707), Stephen Cocke (3) (1666-1717), James Cocke (3) (1667-1721) and William Cocke (3) (d. 1717), as well as his two daughters, Temperance Cocke (3) (m. Samuel Hardwood) and Agnes Cocke (3) (m. Joseph Harwood), all named in their father's will were undoubtedly Thomas Cocke's children by his first wife. Her identity, like that of his mother, remains undiscovered, although it has been conjecture that she may have been a Miss Powell (Va. M. H. & B., V, 84; see IV, 90). Some time after 1670, Thomas Cocke (2) married again. His second wife (by whom he had no issue as far as known) was a widow named Margaret Jones (Va. M. H. & B., III, 407 (for pages 84,90, 407 &36 see p. 179, 118, 106 & 181, this volume.) where several errors need to be corrected in the light of the above account). She was a daughter of Major-General Abraham Wood, a very prominent character in the annals of colonial Virginia from 1644 to 1656, and the grandmother of Major Peter Jones who, with Colonel Byrd, founded Petersburg in 1733 (Va. M. H. & B., III, 252 and V, 86). Thomas Cocke 92) left Malvern Hills to his widow, Margaret Wood-Wynne-Jones-Cocke, for life and afterwards to his grandson, Thomas Cocke (4), son of Thomas Cocke (3), naming his “loving wife and dutiful son James” executors of his will. The old lady outlived all her husband's sons except her co-executor, James Cocke (3), and even outlived the grandson above mentioned; dying at Malvern Hills in 1718 (Note 5).

The eldest son of Thomas Cocke (2) was Captain Thomas Cocke (3) and although his life was comparatively short, he also, like his father and grandfather before him, was a prominent citizen of Henrico Co, being a man of affairs and of considerable means. Probably about 1684, before attaining the age of manhood, he married Mary Brazure (Brassuir, Brashear, etc.), daughter of John Brazure or Brasseur from Nansemond Co. She was certainly the mother all his children, possibly with the exception of the youngest. Doubtless he married his second wife, Frances ----------, not long before his death in 1707. Thomas Cocke (3) may have lived at Malvern Hills with his step-mother as implied in his will which was probated 1 April 1707, is eldest son Thomas Cocke (4) (c. 1684-1711), who was himself little over twenty-one years old at the time was appointed executor by his father, evidently with the intention of his acting in loco parentis to his younger brothers and sisters who were all under age. Their names were as follows: James Powell Cocke (4), (b. 1688), Henry Cocke (4) (born about 1693, Brazure (or Brassuir) Cocke (4) (born about 1694), Mary Cocke (4) who may have been born about 1693, and Elizabeth Cocke (4).

Thomas Cocke (3) leaves to his second son, James Powell Cocke (4), “the plantation I now live upon and part of the land adjoining thereto which I purchased from by brother Stephen Cocke”, all in Henrico Co., besides a tract of land in Charles City Co. consisting of 920 acres, amounting in all to considerably over 1,500 acres. Presumably the land in Henrico Co., included some part of the Malvern Hills estate, although James Powell Cocke doubtless acquired the whole of this property subsequently by purchasing his youngest brother's (Brazure) share. It has been conjectured with some plausibility that James Powell Cocke derived his name in some way from Lieutenant-Colonel James Powell of Isle of Wight Co., on the supposition that the latter was kinsman of his mother's family in Nansemond Co. Her husband's will mentions a gold ring “marked J. P.' which may have been hers before her marriage. James Powell was a leading citizen in his part of the country between 1677 and 1682 (Va. M. H. &B., IV, 213 and VI, 116). See also another conjecture connecting the Powells with the Cockes and likewise with the Herberts who intermarried with the Powells (V. M. H. 7 B. V. 84-85).(For pages 213, 84-85, 95, 21t & 440 see pp. 126, 179-180, 95, 129 & 151, this volume)

In July 1711 when Henry Cocke (4) (1693-1715), third son of Captain Thomas Cocke (3), was nearly eighteen years old and was “designing to leave” Virginia, he appointed his “kinsman Richard Cocke” to receive from his brother, Thomas Cocke (4), in his absence abroad the property which had been left him in trust in his father's will. About four years later Henry Cocke died (at sea, so it is said, Va. M. H. & B., XXXVII, 230), unmarried. His will dated 1 February 1714 was proved 4 April 1715; the executors being Mr. William Finney, M. A. (Glasgow), minister of Henrico Parish 1714-1727 (Va. M. H. & B., IV, 95, 216 and XXXVII, 230), who had married his older sister, Mary Cocke (4), and his brother, James Powell Cocke (4). An inventory of his books at the time of his death is given in Va. M. H. & B., X, 404.

Brazure (or Brassuir) Cocke (4) (c. 1694-1770, youngest of the four brothers, was only thirteen years old when his father died (in 1707). Three years later (1710) he was at boarding school, as we know from the accounts kept by his eldest brother. He long outlived all his brothers, dying in Brunswick Co. in 1770, where his will, dated four years earlier (1766), is on record (Brunswick County Will Book, IV, 32; Va. M. H. & B., XXII, 78 and XXVIII, 162). Earlier in life, from about 1730 until 1753 or later (some years after the death of his nephew, James Cocke (5) of Cumberland Parish in Lunenburg Co.), he seem to have resided in James City Co. (Va. M. H. & B, IV, 216, 440 (Note 6)).

The eldest son, Thomas Cocke (4), did not long survive his father, dying four years later in 1711, shortly after his brother Henry went abroad. Not more than twenty-six years old at the time of his death, he left all his property to his three younger brothers above mention. To “Brashaw” Cocke in particular he left the tract of land called “Mawborn Hills” “on which his Grandmother now lives”, that is, the property which had been left him by his grandfather, Thomas Cocke (2), after the death of his widow, Margaret Wood-Wynne-Jones-Cocke. At that time (1711) the old lady still had seven years longer to live, as mentioned above.

Whatever interest Brazure Cocke(4) had in Malvern Hills in consequence of the bequest above referred, presumably he afterwards disposed of it some way to his elder brother, James Powell Cocke (4)(1688 - 1747) who had himself inherited part of this land from his father, as has been pointed out. At all events the fact is that James Powell Cocke (4) lived at Malvern Hills nearly all his life and died there; and apparently it was he who built the old brick dwelling (Va. M. H. & B., IV, 213)(for pages 213, 413, 447, 283, 84, 215, 86 & 214 see pp. 126, 112, 158, 94, 179, 128, 181 & 127 of this volume) which seems to have contained originally seven rooms and a main hall that extended from the front of the house to the rear, as was the fashion in so many country houses in old Virginia (Va. M. H. & B., III, 413 and IV, 447). The simple and unpretentious structure (a picture of which photographed by H. P. Cook and reproduced from General Dabney H. Maury's History of Virginia may be found in Va. M. H. & B., IV, opp. P. 434 and XXXVII, opp. P. 230) is said to have been “one of the best specimens of colonial architecture” in Tidewater, Virginia (Va. M. H. & B., II, 283).

James Powell Cocke (4) married Martha Herbert in 1718. She was the daughter of John Herbert (d. 1704) of Puddledock, Prince George Co., and his wife, Frances Anderson (Va. M. H. & B., V, 84 and SVIII, 190; Wm. & M. C. Q., XIII, 4); and doubtless it was by this marriage that, some time prior to 1727, James Powell Cocke had acquired the “land on Nibb's Creek” in Prince George Co. which was adjacent to a place called Beachtree belonging to Henry Anderson, whose daughter, Judith, married one of the Cockes (Va. M. H. & B., XXII, 374, 388). Besides Malvern Hills, James Powell Cocke (4) owned also another plantation in Henrico Co. known as Four Mile Creek (Va. M. H. & B., IV, 215 and V, 86; Wm. & M. C. Q., XXVII, 143), which was not far from the site of Richmond below the falls in the river. He and his wife had two children, Martha Cocke (5)(married --------------), and James Cocke (5), sometimes called James Cocke, Junior.

Contemporary with James Powell Cocke (4) (Thomas (3), Thomas (2), Richard (1)) in Henrico Co. were James Cocke (4) (James (3), Thomas (2), Richard (1)) and Bowler Cocke (4) (Richard (3), Richard the elder (2), Richard (1)); all three of whom were present, for example, at a meeting of the vestry of Henrico Parish held in Curls Church in 1737 when it was first proposed to build old St. John's Church in Richmond (Va. M. H. & B., IV, 214). The following year (1738) we hear that Luke Smith, grandfather of Lucy Smith, who married James Powell Cocke's grandson, James Powell Cocke (6), in 1777, had been appointed inspector at “Shochoes” Warehouse in place of James Cocke (4) above mentioned (Va. M. H. & B., XIV, 241). These items serve to give us some little idea of James Powell Cocke and his neighbors. At this time (1738) his only surviving brother, Brazure Cocke, was perhaps living in James City Co., as had been previously stated.

In his will dated 19 August 1747 and probated in Henrico County Court early in the following month (Va. M. H. & B., IV, 215, Wm & M. C. Q., XXVII, 143) James Powell Cocke (4) appoints his only son, James Cocke (5), executor and leaves to his “loving wife the use of all my hole estate during her Natural life except what is Given to my Daughter and to her Husband in a bond Signed but not recorded the particulars that are in that bond to be Given by my Exrs when required according to the true intent of the bond” (plainly indicating, as does the entire document, that the testator, like the Emperor Sigismund, was super grammaticam and apparently disdainful of orthography also). After his wife's death his grand-daughter, Martha Cocke (6) is to have “four Negro Garls not under twelve years of age”. His two plantations at Malvern Hills and Four Mile Creek are to go to his grandson, “Chasteen” Cocke (6) (Note 7), after the death of his father James Cocke (5); and all the rest of his estate is to be divided between James Cocke (5) and his son Chastain Cocke (6), when the latter comes of age. Shortly after the testator's death his widow, Martha Herbert Cocke, by a deed recorded in Henrico County Court in June 1749, conveyed to her son, James Cocke (5), the plantation of “Malborne” Hills, together with all her other interest in her late husband's estate as devised to her by the latter in his will.

James Cocke (5) (c. 1721-1753), only son of James Powell Cocke (4) is the same as James Cocke of Cumberland Parish in Lunenburg Co., (Wm. & M. C. Q., XXVII, 141). He married Mary Magdaleine Chastain, 19 April 1742, daughter of Dr. Stephen Chastain, who was one of the Huguenot settlers at Mannikin Town (Va. Hist. Col., new series, Vol. V; Va. M. H. & B., IV, 431, foll.). They had five children (the two eldest being named in their grandfather's will, as above noted), namely: Chastain Cocke (6), Martha Cocke (6) (born about 1744 and named for her grandmother), James Powell Cocke (6), Stephen Cocke (6) (youngest son, named after his maternal grandfather), and Elizabeth Cocke (6) or Elizabeth Chastain Cocke. As was so frequently the case in Colonial Virginia, James Cocke (5) had a short life, dying 13 April 1753 before he was thirty-five years old and before any of his children had reached the age of ten years (Note 8). According to his will dated 30 April 1753 and probated 3 July 1753 (Lunenburg County Court Will Book, No. 1, p. 96; abstract in Wm. & M. C. Q., XXVII, 141-143), he died possessed of over 7,000 acres of land in various localities comprising Malvern Hills (670 acres) in Henrico Co., a tract of 750 acres in Cumberland Co., his home in Cumberland Parish (300 acres), Lunenburg Co. (not far from the place in Brunswick Co., where his uncle, Brazure Cocke, afterwards lived and died, a large tract of 2,560 acres on the south side of the Staunton River in Halifax Co., and another large tract containing 2,771 acres in Amelia Co., which was left to his widow (Note 9) for her lifetime and afterwards to his youngest son, Stephen Cocke (6).

Notwithstanding the fact that James Powell Cocke (4) had left “the Plantation Malborn Hills” in his will to his grandson, Chastain Cocke (6), “after the Death of his Father James Cocke”, the will of James Cocke (5) clearly sets forth that Malvern Hills, together with the stock, household goods and sixteen of the Negroes on the place, was left to his second son, James Powell Cocke (6) as well as his land in Cumberland Co., amounting in all to over 1,400 acres (Note 7). On the other hand, to his oldest son, Chastain Cocke (6), his father left his land in Halifax Co. with twenty-five negroes; and to his youngest son, Stephen Cocke (6), his home in Lunenburg Co., together with the reversion of the land in Amelia Co. above mentioned. To each of his two daughters he left 500 pounds to be paid when they were eighteen years old or married;;; with the stipulation that his elder daughter, Martha Cocke (6), should relinquish her claim to the legacy (four Negro girls) left her in her grandfather's will (Note 10).

At the outbreak of the Revolutionary War in 1776 James Powell Cocke (6) (1748-1829) was a young man still under thirty years of age living at Malvern Hills. Early in his life, indeed before he was grown, he had married Elizabeth Archer in Amelia Co., 25 November 1767 (Wm. & M. C. Q., XVI, 84). She was the sister of Martha Field Archer, wife of his elder brother, Chastain Cocke (6) (1743-1795); and dying in 1773 she had left her young husband a childless widower (Va. M. H. & B., IV, 434). Three or four years afterwards (September 1777) James Powell Cocke (6), still under thirty years of age, married his second wife, Lucy Smith (1756-1821), daughter of Obadiah Smith of Westham in Chesterfield Co., and great-granddaughter of Mary Cocke (3) (William (2), Richard (1)) (Va. M. H. & B., IV, 95, 328; v, 80, 81) (For pages 434, 95, 328, 80 & 81, see pp 145, 133, 137, 175 & 176, this volume). They lived happily together many years until she died at Edgemont in Albemarle Co., leaving husband a widower again in his old age. She was the mother of nine children, only four of whom survived her, namely, her two sons, Smith Cocke (7) and Chastain Cocke (7) and her two daughters, Mary Cocke Carter (7) and Martha Cocke (7) (Note 11).

Near the end of the Revolutionary War when Arnold landed at Westover with a considerable force, we infer that James Powell Cocke (6) was still living at “Malburn Hills”, because Colonel Charles Fleming, writing to Colonel Davies, 10 January 1781, notifies him that Colonel Nicholas was stationed at “Mr. James Cock's” with three or four hundred troops (Cal. Va. State Papers, I, 426; Va. M. H. & B., I , 431 and, 86) (for pages 431, 86, 435, 447 & 283, see pp. 142, 181, 146, 158 & 94 this volume)

Apparently not long after peace was restored James Powell Cocke (6) sold Malvern Hills to Robert Nelson, brother of Governor Nelson, taking in exchange 1,600 acres in the North Garden of Albemarle Col (Va. M. H. & B., IV, 431 and V, 86) (For pages 431, 86, 435, 447 & 283, see pp. 142, 181, 146, 158 & 94, this volume.); and thus Malvern Hills, one of the original seats of the Cockes of Henricom passed out of the hands of that family (Note 12). Robert Nelson is said to have lived there from 1783 to 1800 (Va. M. H. & B., IV, 447). Twenty years later, when so many of the old plantations in Virginia were being sold at auction, the “fine estate” of Malvern Hills was advertised for sale by Messrs. Berkeley and Nelson as commissioners to sell under decree of the court (Richmond Enquirer, 10 May 1820). In 1862 Malvern Hills was the scene of one of the most desperate and bloody conflicts of the Civil War “in the battles around Richmond between the troops of General Magruder and a heavy detachment of the army of General McClellan”. (Va. M. H. & B., III, 283) Having long survived the ravages of three wars, including the War of 1812 (Note 9), the historic and venerable and mansion was destroyed by fire, 3 December 1908. At that time it had been the country residence of Mr. William Hall of New York for some fifteen years. Near the ruins of the house, which are still standing, a small modern dwelling has been erected (Wilstach's Tidewater Virginia, p. 146).

In the interval from 1783 to 1791 presumably James Powell Cocke (6) continued to reside in Tidewater Virginia, although the place of his abode at this time is not definitely known. It was during this period that two of his children died in infancy, and he himself appears to have been in poor health, perhaps being a victim of the malaria that was prevalent malady in the low country. At any rate, in 1791 James Powell Cocke (6) purchased Springhill in Augusta Co., and moved there with his family (Va. M. H. & B., IV, 435), perhaps at the instance of General Robert Porterfield of Augusta Co., who had married his half-sister, Rebecca Farrar (Note 9). Two years later (1793) he sold Springhill and moved from the Valley to Albemarle Co., where he built his home, called Edgemont, on the south fork of he Hardware River, occupying part of the land which he had purchased some years before from Robert Nelson; and here he dwelt all the rest of his life, and here also his son, Chastain Cocke (7), continued to dwell until he died in 1838, the last male survivor of his father's household. Since that time for nearly a century none of all this extensive property has been in the possession of the Cocke family.

The old house at Edgemont with its surroundings is now rather desolate and forlorn in appearance, showing the effects of neglect and the ravages of time, and it takes an effort of imagination to reconstruct the picture it must have presented in the days when James Powell Cocke and his family lived there. Nevertheless, thanks to its solid foundations and enduring material, the original structure is still standing in a state of fair preservation and could be renovated and remodeled at no great cost so as to be both comfortable and imposing. The dwelling, which faces west toward Applebury mountain, occupies a commanding site on a high hill and is plainly visible from the highway, about a quarter of a mile away. The driveway leading to the house has fallen into decay from long disuse and is well-nigh impassible for a large modern vehicle. The entrance to it is about four miles from the railway station at North Garden and not far beyond the old plantation mill (formerly Coles's Mill) on the south fork of the Hardware River along the road from North Garden to Keen which leads past “Estouteville” in the Green Mountain district of Albermarle. The driveway turns a little abruptly into the front yard, and as the visitor stands face to face with the deserted old mansion for the first time he cannot fail to admire its simple grace and dignity and the beauty of the wide plateau on which it is situated; and this first impression is heightened by closer inspection. The front porch surmounted by a gable roof which is supported by four tall pillars is perfectly proportioned; and the proportion and symmetry of the whole plan constitute on of the chief chars. Formerly there were two side porches, each exactly like the front porch, but one of them has fallen away and been replaced by an unsightly addition on the south side of the house, where the well-worn path ascends from the spring about fifty yards away. (The water from the spring gushes from the mountain slope and is deliciously pure and fresh. Miss Julia Peyton, of University, Va, inherited from her grandmother, Mrs. Charles Warner Lewis Carter (Mary Cocke (7)) a china mug which her father used to send to the spring to be filled with water for his own use.) The outward appearance of the structure is that of a plain frame house, but in reality the walls are thick brick masked over by heavy weather-boarding on the outside after the manner of the “stock brick buildings” that were not uncommon in colonial days (Wilatach's Tidewater Virginia, p. 127). The woodwork was put together almost entirely by concealed wooden pegs, occasionally also by hand-made iron nails. The front porch leads directly into what was probably the sitting-room or drawing-room. There are six large rooms on the main floor, the three front rooms being separated from the three back rooms by a commodious hall 56 feet long extending the whole width of the house from the north porch to the south porch. The house bulges out at the back to make space for the large octagonal dining-room which is across the hall from the drawing-room and directly opposite the front door. The characteristic shape and dimension of the dining-room leads to the supposition that Thomas Jefferson was the architect of Edgemont, and indeed there are many other details that point to his influence (Note 13). The six rooms on the main floor, each with its old-fashioned fireplace and mantelpiece, all open on the hall, which was the only means of access from one room to another. The doors all have brass-ring knockers instead of knows, the locks in some instances being of solid brass.

The basement has the same dimensions as the floor above it, but is divided differently into six compartments, including a spacious kitchen and a long dining-room for the servants. The fireplace in the kitchen, 8 feet wide and 5 feet high, contains two large cranes and various other iron utensils and furniture still in place as of yore. Here in the basement the huge beams can be seen that support the main floor and superstructure. Five of the basement doors have massive iron clasps and the old H-L hinges that are so dear to the colonial antiquary. The smokehouse is one of the outbuildings in the back yard that is still standing.

Behind the house is the old brick-terraced garden on four levels of four plots each, the foundations of which were so securely laid in the beginning that to this day the plan symmetry of the design are still intact. Much of the boxwood has perished by fire and from neglect, but enough has survived to give an idea of its former luxuriance.

North of the garden lies the old graveyard, overgrown now with think underbrush, making it difficult to find the monuments over the tombs of those who lie buried there. The column that marks the three graves of James Powell Cocke (6) and his wife and their son, Chastain Cocke (7), has toppled over and lies flat on the ground. The inscription on the monument to James Powell Cocke (7) states that it was erected by his widow. One of the graves is that of Sarah W. Taylor, who died 26 November 1831; she was the daughter of John Taylor, of Southampton, and the wife of Dr. Charles Cocke (7), nephew of James Powell Cocke (6). Long afterwards (about 1861) her husband was buried by her side.

Apparently about four or five years before his death James Powell Cocke (6) sold Edgemont to Martha Ann Lewis Cocke, widow of his eldest son. She died intestate in 1856 and Edgemont descended to her heir, Mrs. Judith A. Randolph. For sixty years, from 1862 to 1922, this property was owned by a family named Yates, one of whom lived at Edgemont a long time. During the past twelve years it has been in the possession of Mr. J. R. Johnson and his family.

In conclusion, it may be added that the writer has several heirlooms associated with Edgemont which came to him through his grandmother, Martha Cocke Southall, a youngest child of James Powell Cocke (6). One of them is a handsome old mahogany desk or “secretary” which was brought from Malvern Hills to Edgemont. Another highly prized memorial is a small crayon portrait of James Powell Cocke (6) made in his old age. Some of the old Edgemont silver which undoubtedly came originally from Malvern Hills is owned by Mrs. Florence Sharp Grant, widow of Admiral Albert W. Grant, U.S.N. who was as granddaughter of Martha Cocke Southall (7).

Note 1 -

In the colony of Virginia in early days there were numerous other individuals named Cocke (Cock, Cocks, etc.) who were contemporary with Lieutenant-Colonel Richard Cocke (1) of Henrico Co., some of whom were presumably more or less distantly related to him, although positive evidence on this point is lacking. A partial list of such persons is worth keeping in mind, as follows:

(1) Hugh Cockes or Cocks of Charles City Co., 1634 (Greer's Early Va. Imm. 50, 83, 148, 164, etc; Va. M. H & B, V, 313; Wm & M. C. Q., 2nd ser. IX, 57 and X, 160)

(2) Lewis Cock or Cocke, of Charles River Co., who was transported to Virginia in 1635 by Thomas Harwod (Early Va. Imm. 71; Va. M. H. & B, III, 60, 288 and IV, 187; Wm. & M. C. Q. 2nd ser., IX, 57 and X, 160);

(3) Thomas Cocke, who witnessed an assignment of land belonging to Margarett Rogers in the Upper County of New Norfolk, 9 June 1636 (Va. M. H. 7 B., VII, 296; Wm. & M. C. Q., 2nd ser, IX, 57)

(4) Richard Cocke, whose name, together with that of Robert Asten (Aston)?, is found in a list of forty persons transported to Virginia by Theodore Moyses in 1637 (Va. M. H. & V., III, 188, 191, Wm. & M. C & Q 2nd ser., IX, 57 AND xi, 229; Early Va. Imm., 14, etc);

(5) William Cocke, who (according to Mr. William Ronald Cocke, Jr., of Columbia, Va.) was a “surveyor” in Middlesex or Lancaster Co. about 1646, and contemporary with a certain

(6) Richard Cocke of Middlesex Co., and his wife Sarah, who made a deposition in that county about 1646

(7) William Cock or Cox, who was burgess from Henrico Co. in 1646 (Va. M. H. & B., III, 288, 292; Wm. & M. C. Q., 2nd ser. IX, 57)

(8) Edward Cock or Cocke, a headright of Thomas Browne of York Co., 1648, who had a land transaction of some kind with George Jordan in 1652 (Early Va. Imm., 71, 81; Wm. 7 M. C. Q., 2nd ser. IX, 57; Edw. Pleasants Valentine Papers, p. 716);

(9) Richard Cocke who patented 180 acres of land in Northumberland Co., 24 August 1662 (as reported by Mr. Ronald Cocke, Jr.), and who devised land to John Wet (Wm & M. C. Q., X, 64; see land patent records of Northumberland Co. in which both Richard Cocke and Nicholas Cocke are named as being in that county in 1664, according to Mr. William Ronald Cocke, Jr.). Little more is known about any of these individuals beyond the bare facts briefly alluded to above in connection with each name. Likewise during the lifetime of Richard Cocke (1), of Henrico Co., there were numerous individuals in Virginia by the name of Cox which in some instances was probably really Cocke. In Hening's Statutes, I, 178, we find the name of Richard Coxe as a member of the Grand Assembly for Weyanoke in 1632, and it has been assumed but not established that he and Richard Cocke (1) of Henrico Co., were one and the same individual (Va. M. H. & B., III, 282,288,292, etc). A patent or grant of 100 acres of land was issued by Governor John West to Richard Cox or Cocke, in Elizabeth City, 20 September 1628 (Va. M. H. & B., V, 72, Wm & M. C. Q., 2nd ser., XI, 231). Undoubtedly there were Cox's in colonial Virginia who had no connection whatever with the Cockes, but that the two names were sometimes confused and interchanged in the old records seems to be beyond question. Thus, for example, it is difficult to suppose that Symon Cox, immigrant in Isle of Wight Co., in 1648 (Early Va. Imm. 71; Wm & M. C. Q., 2nd ser., IX, 57) was not somehow related to “Symon Cocke of Plymouth” in England; or that Christopher Cox or Coxe, Northampton Co., 1652-1658 (Early Va. Imm. 81; Wm. & M. C. Q., 2nd ser., IX, 58) was not one of the Christopher Cockes whose name recurs so often among the Cockes.

The Cox's of Chesterfield Co. were not related to the Cockes of Henrico Co. Unfortunately John Cocke (2), younger brother of William Cocke 92) of “the lowgrounds” in Henrico Co., has been confused with John Cox. Senior (Va. M. H. H. &B., III, 288) whose second wife was Mary Kennon (Va. M. H. & B., XXXVII 157-159). This John Cox, Sr. (and not John Cocke (2) as stated in Va. M. H. & B., III, 411 and elsewhere), was the progenitor of the Chesterfield Cox's. His grandson, William Cox, has likewise been confused with William Cocke (3), son of John Cocke (3) (Va, M. H. & B., IV, 94). William Cox married Sarah --------, and their son, Stephen Cox, had a daughter, Martha Cox, who was the wife of Henry Wood.

Sarah Perrin was the wife of William Cocke (3), son of Thomas Cocke (2)

Doubtless Richard Cocke (1) of Bremo likewise had other relatives in Virginia whose surname was not Cocke. In his will he himself alludes to his “Couzon Daniell Jordan” (Va, N, G, 6 B,M UUUM 495, 406). He mentions also “Mr. John Beauchamp”, who was not his cousin but his close friend and partner. The Beauchamps and Ligons, who were his near neighbors, were related to each other (Va. M. H. & B. III, 285, 286 and V, 310; Wm. & M. C. Q., 2nd ser., XI, 228). Thomas Harris, whose land patented in 1636 adjoined the “Bremoes dividend”, was a cousin of Richard Ligon.

Note 2 - It is just possible that the first wife of Richard Cocke (1) of Henrico Co., was John Browne's widow (whoever she was) who married a certain Richard Cocke in 1632 (Minutes of the Council and Gen. Court of Va., p. 201; Wm. & M. C. Q., 2nd ser., XI, 231). According to Mr. William Ronald Cocke, Jr., this John Browne was living at “Flower dew Hundred” in 1623, the year after the great Indian massacre and was burgess for Shirley Hundred in 1629. It may have been his son, John Browne, who paid a debt of 400 pounds of tobacco to the estate of Richard Cocke (1), of Henrico Co., as recorded by William Randolph, clerk of the court, in 1679.

Note 3 - In his will Richard Cocke (1) distinctly names each of his five sons in succession from the oldest to the youngest, namely, Richard Cocke (2), Sr., Thomas Cocke (3) and their half-brothers, William Cocke (2), John Cocke (2) and Richard Cocke (2), Jr.; (Edward Cocke (2), the youngest of all his children, was not born when Richard Cocke (1) made his will and was probably a posthumous child) and more than once in this carefully worded document he specifically designates Richard Cocke (2), Sr., as “my eldest Son”. To this son who bore his name he left his estate of Bremo which would have fallen to the eldest son by the law of primogeniture in Virginia; and, moreover, to this one of her two sons his mother had made a special gift before she died, as is likewise stated in the father's will. Accordingly, the fact that Richard Cocke (2), Sr., was his father's eldest son seems to be established beyond dispute.

Nevertheless, it has been maintained that Thomas Cocke (3) was the elder of the two brothers, and in view of the careful phraseology of their father's will it cannot be altogether without significance that in each of the four instances where the two brothers are mentioned together, as, for example, “my two Sons Tho: & Richd Cocke Senr”, Thomas's name comes first. Moreover, the provisions of the will seem to imply that the father relied chiefly on his son,, Thomas, and appointed him to manage the mill for the benefit and “use of my other Children until they come to Age”.

Entirely apart from the evidence here adduced from the will of Richard Cocke (1), we know by the inscription which is still legible on one of the old tombstones in the graveyard at Bremo that Richard Cocke (2), Sr., was born 10 December 1639 (Wm. & M. C. Q., III, 204: Va. M. H. & B., IV, 91, Wm. & M. C. Q., 2nd ser., XIII, 135); and the fact that he was indeed born near the end of the year 1639 is confirmed by a deposition which was dated 1 August 1685 and in which he declares that he was then 46 years old (Id., p. 327). This statement implies that his birth occurred not earlier than towards the end of the year (1638 in accordance with the date given in Va. M. H. & B., III, 407) nor later than August 1639. This process of reckoning makes Thomas Cocke (2) older than Richard Cocke (3), Sr.,. But it must be in error, because it seems impossible to refute the plain declaration the will of Richard Cocke (1) that his eldest son was Richard Cocke (2), Sr. (Wm. & M. C Q., 2nd ser., XIII, 151).

Note 4 - The writer is indebted to Mr. Wm. Ronald Cocke, Jr., for much of the information in this article and above all for a Photostat copy of an agreement which was made by Thomas Cocke (2) of Pickthorn Farm, Henrico Co., with an individual named “Tho East” who was tenant on his land. This document duly signed and executed in the presence of witnesses, 20 August 1672, was long afterwards, 1 October 1691, “Produced in Court at tryall of a Cause between ye subscribed Cocke and East” (Col. Records Henrico, V, folio 245, Va. State Library). In it Thomas Cocke (2) confirms in writing an oral agreement which he made with Thomas East some three or four years earlier whereby East was to “lease” for a term of twenty years “One parcel of land lying & being within the line of that land belonging now to me and my brother as being given us by the Will of our father and Pattent in the name of him and John Beauchamp”, etc., etc. The chief interest of this document at present is that it clearly established the fact that Thomas Cocke (2) of Malvern Hills had formerly lived at “Pick-thorn Farm in the County of Henrico.”

Although the English origin of the Cocke Family of Henrico Co., remains unsolved, the fact that Thomas Cocke (2) was “styled of Pick-thorne Farm” (Va. Hist. Collections, new ser., V, 194; Va. M. H. 7 B., III,406) leads to the plausible conclusion that he and his father had some close and direct connection or association with the Cockes of Shropshire in England (who were themselves perhaps connected in some way to the Cocks of Gloucestershire), especially with “Tho. Cocke de Pickthorn in com. Salop” whose daughter Alice Cocke married “Thomas Holland de Burwarton et de Medio Temple ao 1592 (Harl. Soc. Pub., XXVIII, 250-251; Wm. & M. C. Q., 2nd ser., XI, 232-233). Pickthorn or Pickthorne is an ancient place-name peculiar to Shropshire. A family of Cockes flourished there in the sixteenth century. It may have been the boyhood home of Richard Cocke (1) of Bremo or the home of his near kinsfolk, and thus it would be easy to see how the name had been revived and perpetuated in far-off Virginia.

Thanks to the courtesy of Dr. E. G. Swem, a copy of the will of Thomas Cocke, “yeoman”, of Pickthorne in the Parish of Statesdon, Shropshire, is now in the writer's possession (which was transmitted to Dr. Sem by Mr. Boddie of Chicago). Thomas Cocke died in August 1587. His will, dated 26 July 1587 and proved 2 October 1587, indicates that he was a person of some standing and intelligence. He and his wife Agnes had five daughters, namely, Elizabeth who married John Buckhowse, Elinor who married William (?( Blakeseye, Alice who married Thomas Holland, Ann who married Walter (?) Dolman and Joan who married John (?) Norgrove. Thomas Cocke left legacies to friends and kinsfolk and also to the poor in his own and neighbouring parishes. He left his featherbed to his daughter Alice (Cocke) Holland and five pounds to each of the five children of his son-in-law “Mr. Holland”, at the same time specifying that “Thomas Holland of Burwarton, gent., owes me 80 pounds, this to be divided equally among his children”. Generally the testator refers to his grandchildren by name, and the fact that he does not do so in the case of his Holland grandchildren may imply that all five of them were still very young at the time; whence it may be inferred that Alice Cocke married Thomas Holland about 1580. (Her husband Thomas Holland was a member of the Middle Temple of the two Inns of Court in London, “ao 1592” as above stated. In a footnote in Wm. & M. C. Q., 2nd ser., XI, 232, the year of his marriage is given as 1592; but this is a mistake, as pointed out above.)

Thomas Cocke likewise left legacies to his brother Humphrey Cocke, to his “kinsmen” William, Robert and Thomas Cocke, to his “kinswomen” Margery Cocke, and to his sister-in-law Elizabeth Cocke. The name Humphrey Cocke recalls the fact that Humfrey Cocke of Steeple was church-warden of the parish of Neen Savage in Shropshire in 1582 (Parish Registers of Shropshire, Hereford Diocese, XVII, p. 2 of Register of Neen Savage; Wm & M. C. Q., 2nd ser. XI, 233). This church contains handsome monuments to Cocks and Somers which were closely allied families in the neighbouring count of Gloucester (Va. M. H. & B., V, 308-314, Wm. & M. C. Q., 2nd ser., IX, 51-53 & X, 146-147).

In the Visitation of Shropshire 1623 (p. 218) the arms of Cocke of Shropshire are: Orgent, a bend and chief an annulet azure.

Note 5 - The will of Mrs. Margaret Wood Wynne-Jones- Cocke, widow of Thomas Cocke (2) of Malvern Hills, dated 12 August 1718, is preserved in the Virginia State Library in Miscel. Court Records of Henrico 1650-1807, pp. 433-434. Thomas Cocke (2) was her third husband (see Va. M. H. & B., V, 86) (For pages 86, 409, 88, 89, 412 & 90 see pp. 181, 108, 116, 117, 111 & 118, this volume). The will alludes to her first marriage named Wynne and to those by her second marriage named Jones. It is evident that she had no children by her last husband. (TRANSCRIBER NOTE: The Wynne's mentioned in her last will and testament were her GRANDCHILDREN not her children so she did not have a first marriage to a Wynne.)

Concerning the sons of Thomas Cocke (2) it is appropriate to add here several comments. It is in connection with Thomas Cocke (3) (1664-1707) and his brother Stephen Cocke (3) (1666-1717) that we first hear (1689) about the horse-races at Mauvern Hills” (Va. M. H. & B., II, 294 & III 409) and the “Race Paths” mentioned by Thomas Cocke (3) in his will.

Stephen Cocke (3) is said to have married (1) Mrs. Sarah Marston in 1688 and (2) Mrs. Martha Bannister in 1694 (Va. M. H. & B., II, 294 & III, 409)(for pages 86, 409, 88, 89, 412 & 90 see pp. 181, 108, 116, 117, 111 & 118 this volume). In 1704 he and his wife Martha executed a deed to his brother Thomas Cocke (3); and after his death his widow Martha presented at the court of Prince George Co., 9 July 1717, a list of small debts owed by Stephen Cocke to various individuals including Littlebury Eppes and John and Richard Bolling. Concerning Martha Bannister there is a curious record of the Henrico Court dated 1 December 1694 (Colon. Records Henrico, V, 352) as follows:

“Report-false-that the late Mrs. Bannister was hung up by a hook under chin by - Her husband, Stephen Cocke at the supposed time was aboard a ship with Peter Jones.”

We can merely conjecture that the lady referred to here as “the late” (or former) Mrs. Bannister, who had suffered this cruel treatment 20 August 1694, was near being killed; that to make matters worse, her husband to whom she had been married only a short time before was suspected of the dastardly crime; and that the court, having investigated the charge, had exonerated him by establishing an alibi.

Stephen Cocke (3) and Peter Jones above mentioned, who was doubtless the son of Stephen's step-mother seem to have been close friends. In 1697 Stephen Cocke made a deed to him.

Stephen Cocke likewise had connections with the Bollings. There is a deed on record from him to Robert Bolling, merchant, of Charles City Co., in 1700 or 1701 (Va. M. H. & B., IV, 89 & XXII, 104); which leads to conjecture whether Anne Cocke who married Robert Bolling in 1706 (Va. M. H. & B., III, 412) was perhaps Stephen Cocke's daughter, although there is no positive evidence that he had a daughter named Anne.

Concerning James Cocke (3) (c. 1666-1721) who was executor of his father's will, see Va. M. H. & B., IV, 89-90.

William Cocke (3), youngest son of Thomas Cocke (2), is said to have married Sarah Perrin in 1695 (Va. M. H. & B., XXVII, 230). His was NOT Sarah Dennis, as stated in Va. M. H. & B., IV, 90.

Note 6 - In his will dated 20 September 1766 Brazure Cocke (4) leaves bequests to his wife Frances, son William Cocke (5), children of son Thomas Cocke (5) (who had doubtless died before 1766), daughter Elizabeth Holt (= Elizabeth Cocke (5)), daughter Fanny ( = Frances Cocke (5)) who married John Oliver), daughter Mary Anderson (= Mary Cocke (5)) who may have been the Mary Cocke who married Parsons Anderson in Cumberland Co. in 1748; see Wm. & M. C. Q., 2nd ser., XII, 282, also 289), daughter Susanna Coleman (= Susanna Cocke (5)) and daughter Martha Cocke (5). Mention is likewise made of son James Cocke (5), dec'd. The latter is said to have died in Lunenburg Co., with will in 1761 (Note 8).

Auditor James Cocke was mayor of Williamsburg in 1752 and who died in 1769 (Va. M. H. & B., XX, 283) was not Brazure Cocke's son as was formerly conjectured (Va. M. H. & B., IV, 440) (For pages 440, 216, 330, 441, 85-86, 217, 322, 444-445, 284, 84 & 186 see pp. 151, 129, 139, 152, 180-181 130, 141, 155-156, 95, 179 & 190 this volume) nor was he descended from Richard Cocke (1) of Bremo. On the contrary he was James Cocke (4), son of Lemuel Cocke (3) (Thomas (2), Walter (1)) of Surry Co. and his wife Jane Browne (Wm. & M. C. Q., XVI, 231; XX, 229; XXV,164; Wm & M. C. Q., 2nd ser., XII, 287. See also Va. M. H. & B., IV, 216, 330, 440, 441; V, 86 XXVI, 153, 155).

Note 7 - The story “that James Cocke (5) had two sons named Chastain, the elder of whom died in infancy, about a year after his grandfather James Powell Cocke (4)”, etc., as derived from “the pedigree in the possession of Dr. Charles Irving of Amelia” (Va. M. H. & B., V, 85-86), may be dismissed from consideration in the light of all the facts and especially in view of the will of James Cocke (5) which the author above quoted never had the opportunity of seeing. On the other hand, James Powell Cocke (6) did have two sons called Chastain, one of whom died in infancy (Note 11); and doubtless it is this circumstance which is the basis of the above story. It is true, it is difficult to explain why Chastain Cocke (6) did not inherit Malvern Hills after his father's death in accordance with his grandfather's will and the story may have originated in order to account for this difficulty. It is not unlikely to suppose that during his lifetime James Cocke (5) had given his eldest son Chastain certain land in exchange for his rights in the Malvern Hills estate; but, however that may have been, it is certain that in his will James Cocke (5) left Malvern Hills expressly to his son James, that is, to James Powell Cocke (6).

Note 8 - Contemporary with James Cocke (5) (James Powell (4), Thomas (3), Thomas (2), Richard (1)) were several other James Cockes who are liable to be confused with one another. One of these was James Cocke (4) (James (3), Thomas (2), Richard (1)) of Henrico Co, who lived to be nearly eighty years old (dying about 1769) and who really belonged to the same generation as James Powell Cocke (4) with whom, as has been mentioned, he was associated on the vestry of Henrico Parish (Va. M. H. & B., IV, 217, 332). However, his son Captain James Cocke (5) (Va. M. H. & B., IV, 444-445) who was born about 1720 was nearly the same age as James Cocke (5), son of James Powell Cocke (4).

Another contemporary was James Cocke (5), son of Brazure Cocke (4) (Thomas (3), Thomas (2), Richard (1)) who seems to have died in Lunenburg Co., in 1761 with will, nine years after the death of his first cousin of the same name who likewise died in Lunenburg Co.

More eminent of all these James Cockes was James Cocke (4), son of Lemuel Cocke (3) (Thomas (2), Walter (1) of Surry Co., who was mayor of Williams burg in 1752 near the close of the short life of James Cocke (5), son of James Powell Cocke (4). This was Auditor James Cocke (Note 6). However, both he and his rather distant cousin Captain James Cocke (4) of Bon Accord, Prince George Co. (Va. M. H. & B., III, 284; V, 84 & 186), who was the eldest son of John Cocke (3) (Nicholas (2) William (1) of Surry Co, really belonged to the revolutionary era in the generation succeeding James Cocke (5), son of James Powell Cocke (4).

Note 9 - Mary Chastain Cocke, widow of James Cocke (4), married Peter Farrar (Va. M. H. & B., V, 85)(For pages 85, 439, 438 & 434 see pp. 180, 150, 149 & 145, this volume) Acting as the guardian of his stepsons, Peter Farrar had some litigation in their behalf with the executors of their father's will.

Rebecca Farrar, daughter of Mary Chastain Cocke Farrar and half-sister of James Powell Cocke (6), married Robert Porterfield of Augusta Co., who was adjutant to General Washington in the Revolutionary War (Va. H. h. & b., iv, 439). Afterwards in the War of 1812, General Porterfield wrote to the Governor of Virginia, 2 September 1814, calling his attention to the strategic importance of Malvern Hills and requesting the Governor “to furnish me with two twelve pounders to be used at Malvern Hills” to check the enemy if he attempted to advance (Cal. Va. State Papers, X, 383-4).

Note 10 - Who were the husbands of the two sisters, Martha Cocke (6) and Elizabeth (Chastain) Cocke (6), daughters of James Cocke (5) ?

(a) We know that Martha Cocke married Henry Anderson in Amelia Co., 24 January 1760 (Va. County Rec., IV, Early Va. Mar., p. 63). If she was Martha Cocke (4) above mentioned, she was not much more than sixteen years old at the time of her marriage.

(b) We know also that Elizabeth Cocke married William Cannon in Amelia Co., 24 June 1790 (Va. County Rec. IV, Early Va. Mar., p. 66). If she was Elizabeth (Chastain) Cocke(6), she must have been about forty years old at that time.

On the other hand, we are told that Martha Cocke (6) married Col. William Cannon of Buckingham Co. who was perhaps the son of William Cannon of Amelia Co.; and also that Elizabeth Chastain Cocke (6) married about 1767 Captain Henry Anderson of Amelia Co. (Va. M. H. & B., IV, 438). Evidently in view of the undoubted facts above mentioned, neither of the latter statements is correct.

Note 11 - James Powell Cocke (6) and his wife Lucy Smith had nine children in all, as has been stated. Four of them died in infancy, namely, a son born in 1783 who lived only a few weeks, the eldest daughter Mary Cocke (7) (1785-1793) who did not live to be eight years old, Martha Cocke (7) (b. 1788), and Chastain Cocke (7) (1790-1793). Each of these names, Mary, Martha and Chastain is duplicated the following list of their other children, three sons and two daughters, all of whom attained maturity:

1. James Powell Cocke (7) (1779-1812), who married Martha Ann Lewis in Powhatan Co., 25 December 1804, and who died seven years afterward without issue.

2. Smith Cocke (7) (1792-1835), who was a student at Washington College in 1812-13 and afterwards (1814) for a short time member of a company of militia commanded by his cousin Captain John Field Cocke (7) who died in 1857 (Va. M. H. & B., IV, 434). Smith Cocke died in Kentucky, unmarried.

3. Chastain Cocke (7) (1795-1838), who lived at Edgemont and died unmarried.

4. Mary Cocke (7) (1796-1888) who married Dr. Charles Warner Lewis Carter (b. 1793) of Charlottesville 18 April 1816 five years before her mother's death (19 March 1821).

5. Martha Cocke (7) (1799-1874) who married Valentine Wood Southall (1793-1861) of Charlottesville in 1825 four years after her mother's death.

James Powell Cocke (6) had no grandsons who bore his surname and agnatic descent along this line ceased with his sons (see Va. M. H & B., IV, 436) (For pages 436, 438, 77, 88 & 83 SEE PP. 147, 149, 172, 183 & 269 this volume.) He had a nephew named James Powell Cocke (7) who was the son of Stephen Cocke (6) and a brother of Dr. Charles Cocke (7) who lived near James Powell Cocke (6) at Esmont in the Green Mountain district of Albemarle Co. (Va. M. H. & B., IV, 438; V, 77,88; XXXV, 83) This J. P. Cocke (7) married Caroline Lewis, but apparently they had no issue.

There was a number of other Chastain Cockes besides those that have been mentioned already, all of them descended, of course, from James Cocke (5) and his wife Mary Magdaleine Chastain. Thus, for example, Chastain Cocke (7), who was born 30 January 1775 and died at sea in 1797, was a son of Chastain Cocke (6), eldest brother of James Powell Cocke (6). Chastain Cocke (8), eldest son of William Archer Cocke (7) and grandson of Chastain Cocke (6), is said to have married Sarah Meade Eggleston, daughter of Edward Eggleston, in January 1825 (Wm. & M. C. Q., XVI, 84; see also Va. M. H. & B., XXXV, 83), he was a member of the legislature from Powhatan Co. from 1843 to 1848 and died in Mississippi in 1855.

Note 12 - During the decade that succeeded the Revolutionary War both Bremo and Malvern Hills changed hands by sale, but Bremo continued to be one of the Cocke places a few years longer, As well as can be ascertained from the meager records of the period, William Cocke (6) (1758-1828) having inherited Bremo from his father Bowler Cocke (5) (Bowler (4), Richard (3), Richard, the elder (2), Richard (1), sold it about 1791 to his older brother Bowler Cocke (4) of Turkey Island and lived thereafter at Oakland in Cumberland Co. This was the same year (1791) when James Powell Cocke (6) took up his abode at Springhill in Augusta Co. The subsequent history of Bremo has been given by Dr. Moore in his article above mentioned.

Note 13 - The story, still current among the countryfolk in the vicinity, that “Edgemont was built for James Powell Cocke by Jefferson's own carpenters”, perhaps has little basis of fact.

James Powell Cocke (6) was five years younger than Thomas Jefferson (1743-1826); both of them lived to be over eighty years of age so that their lives almost completely overlapped from beginning to end. In his younger days doubtless Jefferson had been a frequent visitor at Malvern Hills, and for over thirty years he and James Powell Cocke were near neighbors in Albemarle. Thus notwithstanding the fact that the two individuals were obviously far apart in some respects, it is reasonable to suppose that they were often thrown together and were perhaps close friends. However, as far as the present writer is aware, no reference to James Powell Cocke has been found in Jefferson's wide correspondence.

RICHARD COCKE (1) OF BREMO AND HIS CHILDREN

By James P. C. Southall

In the year 1636 Richard Cocke (1), who may have been born about 1600, patented 3,000 acres of land on the James river in Henrico County, Virginia, due him for the transportation of sixty immigrants into the colony (Wm & MCQ, 2nd ser., XIII, 207, see also VaMH&B, III, 285, 405; V, 72; VI, 186; and Wm&MCQ, 2nd ser., XI, 228) (For pages 285, 405 & 72 see pp. 96, 104 & 167, this volume). Three years later (1639) “Richard Cocke gent” obtained a grant of 2,000 acres of land in the county of Henrico for the transportation of forty persons, of which a tract of 300 acres was at the place called Bremo where Richard Cocke had his home on the bank of the river and rest called by the name of “Mauburne Hills” or Malvern Hills was along the ridge at the head of “Turkie Island Creek” (VAMH&B, III, 285; XIV, 192 and Wm&MCQ, 2nd ser., XI, 228; XIII, 208). However, this second parcel of land of 2,000 acres was included in the first patent, for the second patent sets forth his fact specifically. Finally, some twelve or thirteen years later in 1652 Richard Cocke (1) obtained a third patent, this time for 2,482 acres of land (VaMH&B, III, 285; Wm&MCQ, 2nd ser., XI, 228) made up of “1860 acres near the head of Turkey Island Creek” and “622 acres the residue thereof commonly called by the name of Bremo”. This third patent likewise was chiefly in order to confirm and establish Richard Cocke's exclusive rights to the domain which he had acquired by the two previous patents; as has been clearly elucidated in Wm&MCQ, 2nd ser., XIII, 209, where the details of these several transactions are given. (See also “Cavaliers & Pioneers”, I, 54, 120 and 266).

(It seems that Arthur Bayly, merchant in Jamestown in 1638 (Id., I, 97; see I, 131), who was perhaps a son of William Bayley, ancient planter (Id., I, p. xxix), had sold prior to year mentioned a tract of 1,000 acres in Henrico County to Robert Hallom's heirs, one of whom was his widow, Ann Hallom formerly the wife of John Price, labourer (Id., I, 86). John Price and his son, Matthew Price, after him owned land on Turkey Island Creek (Id., I, 88). The above facts help us to understand the references to some of these names in Richard Cocke's several patents.)

The name Richard Cocke appears here and there occasionally in the old colonial records of Virginia as early as 1627 (Wm&MCQ, 2nd ser. XI, 231), although there is no certain evidence to show that Richard Cocke (1) of Bremo in Henrico County was in Virginia prior to the date of his first patent (1636) which is now three hundred years ago or indeed that he came Virginia until after that date. It is has generally been taken for granted that he was the same as Richard Coxe or Cocks whose name appears in the list of burgesses of the Grand Assembly of Virginia for the year 1632 as a member for Weyanoke in Charchles City Count (Hening's Statutes, I, 178; VaMH&B, III, 287; XLIII, 84), and it seems more than likely that this is true. Possibly also he was the Richard Cocke who married John Browne's widow in this same year (1632)(Minutes of Council & Gen. Court of Va., p. 201) (This John Browne who was living at Flower Dew Hundred in 1623 (the year after the great Indian massacre) was burgess for Shirley Hundred in 1629. The name John Brown is such a common name that it is perhaps hardly worth while to note that in the list of thirty persons transported to Virginia by Richard Cocke (1) of Bremo in 1626 the name “John Browne” occurs twice. It is just possible that one of them may perhaps have been a son or kinsman of John Browne whose widow married a person named Richard Cocke. One of the debtors of the estate of Lt.-Col. Richard Cocke (1) of Bremo was likewise named John Browne, as is recorded by William Randolph, clerk of court, in 1679 in a list of “Debts Received” or payments made to Richard Cocke's estate.

Concerning the early occurrences of the name Richard Cocke in Virginia, it would be helpful, for example, if we could identify “Richard Cock, the Attorney of Patrick Canada” in 1628 (Wm&MCQ, 2nd ser. XI, 231) who may have been the same as Richard Cox who was attorney for “John Hudleston, Marriner” in connection with land that Hudleston had patented in 1621 (Caval. & Pion. I, 44) or the same as Richard Coxe, burgess for Weyanoke in 1632. “Patrick Canada” above mentioned in unquestionably the same as Patrick Kannady (Kennedye, etc.), also a “Marriner” who doubtless speculated in colonial lands on a small scale as was quite frequently done by ship-captains whose voyages brought them to Virginia (Id. I, 55, 78, 118, 119). Moreover it appears that Captain Thomas Harris whose land in Henrico County was closely adjacent to the “Bremoes devident” (as subsequently stated) had sold some land to Patrick Kannaday (Id. 188).)

Although it is abundantly evident that Richard Cocke (1) was a gentleman of birth and standing in the community where he lived, little or nothing positive is known about his English origin. Perhaps the most direct of all the clues to this puzzle is the fact that Thomas Cocke (2), on of his two eldest sons, describes himself in 1672 as “Thomas Cocke of Pickthorn Farm in the County of Henrico” (Col. Records of Henrico, Vol V, folio 245, Va. State Library; Va. Hist. Collections, V, 194; VaMH&B, III, 406; XLIII, 75) (For pages 287, 84, 406 & 75 see pp. 98, 241, 105 & 231, this volume); which points almost unmistakably to the conclusion that the Cockes of Henrico County in Virginia had some close and direct connection with a family of Cockes who flourished in Shropshire, England, as far back as the latter part of the sixteenth century; and more specifically with a yeoman known as “Tho. Cocke de Pickthorn in comp. Salop” whose daughter Alice married “Thomas Hollard de Burwarton et de Medio Templo London ao 1592” (Harl. Soc. Pub., XXVIII, 250-0251, Wm&MCQ, 2nd ser., XI, 232-233; VaMH&B XLIII, 86-87). (According to the will of Thomas Cocke of Pickthorne in the Parish of Stotesdon, Shropshire (a copy of which is in the writer's possession), his daughter Alice married Thomas Holland perhaps about 1580. Thomas Cocke himself died in 18587. Pickthorn was an ancient place-name in Shropshire doubtless of Danish origin. So far as the writer has been able to ascertain, this name occurs nowhere else in the world except in Shropshire and in the single instance in colonial Virginia which is cited here.) Circumstantial evidence seems to indicate that the Cockes of Henrico County in Virginia were more or less distantly related also the Cocks family of Gloucestershire in England who were connected by marriage with Hon. George Percy, one of the leaders of the original company at Jamestown (VaMH&B, V, 309, 318p Wm&MCQ, 2nd ser., IX, 53, 56; X, 147) and likewise with the family of Walter Lord Aston (Wm&MCQ, 2nd ser., IX, 56) who was a cousin of Lt.-Col. Walter Aston of Charles City County, Va.

Bremo, where Richard Cocke (1) made his home some time prior to 1640, was an estate of more than six hindered acres of land in the bend of James river called Curles Neck (Wm&MCQ, 2nd ser., XIII, 207, foll.). It was situated between Turkey Island where the Randolphs lived and the Curles estate which belonged originally to Captain Thomas Harris (“an Ancient planter and Adventurer in the time of Sir Thomas Dale his government”, Caval & Pion., 1, p. 34) and which was afterwards conveyed by him to Nathaniel Bacon, Kr., “the rebel” (Va. MH&B, XXXVII, 354-357; Wm7MCQ, 2nd ser., XI, 228). In Thomas Harris's patent dated 2 May 1636 (less than two months after Richard Cocke (1) was granted his first patent) his land is described as extending “southwest toward the Bremoes dividend” (Wm& MCQ, 2nd ser., XIII, 209); which is apparently the first mention of the name Bremo in the old records. (All efforts to discover the origin of this name have been in vain, although various conjectures have been offered (Wm&MCQ, 2nd ser. XIII, 210). Contrary to the opinion of Dr. Wm. Cabell Moore (loc. Cit.), the writer is disposed to think that the name had probably been in use in this locality before Richard Cocke (1) came there to live and the name Bremo was not original with him. It may be noted that shortly after Richard Cocke (1) took out his first patent in Henrico County, one of the individuals who was transported to Virginia by Richard Maior in 1638 was Thomas Breamer (Caval. & Pion., I, 90). Doubtless he was the same as Thomas Bremor who was probably a gentleman of standing in the colony and who may have been in York County in 1647 (VaMH&B, in the colony and who may have been in York County in 1647 (VaMH&B, XII, 453); and possibly “Bremers land” adjoining Mulberry Island Parish may have been named after him or some of his family (VaMH&B, XXIII, 247; Wm &MCQ, 2nd ser., XI, 229). Thomas Bremo (as his name is spelt in Caval. & Pion., I, 222) patented 1,500 acres of land in “Gloster Co”, 9 January 1651; and we hear of him afterwards in 1656 as “Capt. Thomas Breamor” (or “Bremor”) and again in 1663 as “Mr. Bremar” of Gloucester County (Caval. & Pion. I, 341, 473). It seems reasonable to suppose that the “Bremoes devident” was called after the antecedents in Virginia of this Captain Thomas Bremo (Bremer, Bremor, Breamor, Bremar).

The ridge called Malvern Hills was certainly named after the famous range of bills in England of that name, possibly in the days of Sir Thomas Dale when the city of Henricus was founded and fortified against the Indians.

In short there is no good reason to suppose that Richard Cocke (2) bestowed the names Bremo and Malvern Hills on his adjoining places in Henrico County. On the other hand, the name Pickthorne Farm which is associated with one of his two eldest sons is in a different category and doubtless had some peculiar connection with the Cockes themselves.)

Other neighbours of Richard Cocke (1) were the Lygons and Beauchamps (VaMH&B, III, 285, 286) who were closely inter-related (VaMH&B, V, 310)(For pages 310, 285, 84-85, 405 & 406 see pp. 210, 96, 241-242, 104 & 105, this volume)

In his will dated 10 February 1678, Thomas Harris alludes to his “Cozen Richard Lygon”. Not long before Richard Cocke (1) died he and “Mr. John Beauchamp”, as he is called in Richard Cocke's will, patented (1664) a tract of nearly 3,000 acres of land on the south side of the Chickahominy river (VaMH&B, III, 285; V, 310), and long afterwards in 1689 when Beauchamp had “gone out of the Country” and was then no longer alive, this property was amicably divided between three of Richard Cocke's son and Mr. John Pleasants acting as attorney for the executors of John Beauchamp (Colon. Records Henrico, V, 88, Va. State Library).

In the colony of Virginia there were numerous other individuals named Cocke (Cock, Cocks) who were contemporary with Richard Cocke (1) of Bremo, some of them doubtless more or less distantly kin to him, although now little is known about any of these early immigrants (VaMH&B, XLIII, 84-85) (For pages 310, 285, 84-85, 405 & 406, see pp. 210, 96, 241-242, 104 & 105, this volume). We know of his “Cousen Daniell Jordan” (VaMH&B, III, 405) because he happens to be mentioned in Richard Cocke's will.

For at least a quarter of a century Richard Cocke (1) of Bremo was a leading and influential personage in Henrico County (VaMH&B, III, 405-406). His will (Miscellaneous Records Henrico, I, p. 27, Va. State Library) is an interesting document in many ways. It is dated 4 October 1665, shortly before his death, although the date when the will was probated is not given. He expresses the wish “to be Interred in my Orchard near my first Wife decently according to the usual Solemnities of the Church of England”. The word “Orchard” is used here to mean garden, as in Shakespeare's Much Ado About Nothing, Act III, Sc. 2. Neither his grave nor that of his wife can be located now in the old graveyard at Bremo (Wm&MCQ, 2nd ser., XIII, 135-136). To his loving wife Mary Cocke”, who was his second wife, he leaves “the one third of all my Estate whether in lands or Chattels” “for her naturall life and no longer”; particularly stipulating “that she lay no Claims to any part of that land formerly given by me to my sons Thomas and Richard Cocke but that they may enjoy the Same Intirely to them & their heirs according to a deede of gift thereof recorded in Henrico Court.”

To the two eldest sons of Mary Aston Cocke, “Will & John Cocke”, their father devises: “the residue of that dividend of land not disposed by the aforesaid deed of gift and the mill always excepting in the Gift the Six hundred and forty Acres called Bremo to be held to them and their heiress for Ever & to be equally divided between them when they Come to age.”

To his son Richard Cocke (2), Sr., his father leaves his estate of Bremo above mentioned: “I give and bequeath the afore excepted Six hundred and forty Acres of land to my eldest Son Richard Cocke & the heire males of his body lawfully begotten & for want of such issue to my Son Tho. Cocke & the heir males of his body lawfully begotten & for want of such issue to my Son Will Cocke and the heire males of his body lawfully begotten & for want of Such heires to the heire males of John Cocke & for want of Such to the heir males of Richard Cocke my youngest Son.”

However, an express condition was attached to this bequest on behalf of his daughter Elizabeth Cocke (2) which reads as follows:

“Provided always that my first named Son Richard Cocke if he lives to Inheritt it or any other of my sons or their heirs that shall after my decease first possess the said land shall pay to my Daughter Elizabeth Cocke for her portion one hundred pounds Sterling & if he or they shall refuse payment or fail of making good payment of the said Sum to the said Elizabeth when she attaines the age of Seaventeen years or at the day of her Marriage which shall first happen then the said land to be extended to the use of the said Eliza: until the said Sum by annuall value of the land shall be accomplished and in Case the said Eliza should die before either of the said terms of Seaventeen years of age or Marriage then my will is that the hundred pounds be paid to my other Children by my now Wife by equall portion as they shall attaine to be full age.”

The following paragraph in the will of Richard Cocke (1) of Bremo concerns his son Richard Cocke (2), Jr., half-brother of Richard Cocke (2), Sr., the latter being perhaps at least twenty years older than the former: “I give and bequeath to my now youngest Son Richard Cocke and his heirs seven hundred and fifty Acres of Land out of the patent of land taken up Jointly between Mr. John Beauchamp & my Self of which Seaventeen hundred & fifty belongs to me the residue of which Seaventeen hundred & fifty I have already given and hereby Confirm to my Sons Thomas Cocke and Richard Cocke the older & their heires.”

Having thus provided for each of his children in turn, Richard Cocke (1) makes a number of special provisions in his will, as follows: “And for my personall Estate I do hereby acknowledge that all the Cattle of my oldest Son Richard & the hogs being of a distinct mark-all known by my Cozen Daniell & the two Negroes do properly belong to him by a gift from his Mother which I hereby Confirm they being never by me reputed as any part of my proper Estate, as for the rest of my Estate my wives thirds being deducted, I give to be equally divided between my Children by my present Wife Mary Cocke willing that the Make & Stock of Cattle & Sheep run in Comon for their point benefit & as any of my said Children come to Age that they receive their equall portion of the female Stocks then in being & all the male Increase to the Guardian of my Children.”

*I give & bequeath to my Couzon Daniell Jordan as much manured land as he & two hands shall be able & will manure with a teame during his life or abode in the Country provided he accept the same upon these terms, Vizt. To employ himself & one hand, my Son finding team & Seedes & all housing & tackling belonging to it & one hand more & to have my said Cozen the third part of the produce of all theire labours.”

Item my will is that in Case my Son Thomas Cocke will look to the Mill for the use of my other Children until they Come to Age that then he Shall have for his paines & Care the grinding of his Cornet ole free & three thousand pds of Tob & Cask per Annum out of the profits my other Childrens Estate keeping his in repair.”

“It. I make my loving Wife Mary Cock & my two Sons Tho: & Richd Cocke Senr my Executors of this my Will-appointing my Wife the Guardian of all my Younger Children born of her - until they Come to age & in Case of her decease then my said Sons Tho: & Ricd.”

“It. I desire & request the Justices of the County of Henrico in whose fatherly Care & Integrity towards the Widdow & fatherless I repose much Confidence to bee my Overseers of this last will & Testament & to take care that it be performed according to the true Intent & meaning Thereof.”

This document “Declared Signed & Delivered” by “Richd Cocke Senr” was witnessed by Henry Randolph and Henry Isham. It shows that the testator was twice married, although it affords no clue as to the identity of his first wife. The elder Richard Cocke (2) who bore his father's name and naturally inherited Bremo and his brother Thomas Cocke(2) of Pick-thorn Farm who afterwards lived at Malvern Hills were her two sons. At the time of their father's death the two brothers who were nearly the same age and who were closely associated all their lives were not more than twenty-five years old, whereas none of Richard Cocke's other children had come of age, all of them being in fact quite young.

It may be conjectured that Elizabeth Cocke (2) was perhaps between twelve and fourteen years old in 1665, and it also seems reasonable to infer that her mother was the mother of her two older brothers. However, the language used by Richard Cocke (1) in his will when he speaks of his only daughter in connection with “my other Children by my now Wife” may be construed literally to imply that she was the eldest child of Mary Aston Cocke, her father's second wife. On the assumption that Elizabeth Cocke (2) was the daughter of the first wife of Richard Cocke (1) of Bremo, it may be supposed that he married his second wife Mary Aston about ten years before his death. She was the daughter of Lt.-Col. Walter Aston of Charles County and the sister of Walter Aston, Jr., whose tomb as likewise the tomb of his father is at Westover. William Cocke (2), John Cocke (2) and the younger Richard Cocke (2) were about eight years old. Mary Aston Cocke's fourth son, Edward Cocke (2) was undoubtedly a posthumous son of Richard Cocke (1) of Bremo; and this explains why he is not mentioned in his father's will, although the expression which his father uses in speaking of Richard Cocke (2)(Jr.) as being “my now Youngest Son” seems to imply that he was not without expectation of his wife's bearing another child in his old age.

Mary Aston Cocke and her two stepsons “Tho: & Richd Cocke Senr” were appointed executors of her husband's estate and she was named as “the Guardian of all my Younger Children born of her.” The widow afterwards married Lt.-Col. Daniel Clarke of Charles City County, as is proved by the will of her oldest son William Cocke (2) dated 13 October 1969 (Colon. Rec. Henrico, V, 452, Va. State Library), in which he refers to “my mother, Mrs. Mary Clarke”, and likewise by a deed executed in 1680 win which William Cocke(2) speaks of Daniel Clarke as his “father-in-law” meaning step-father. In consequence of this marriage Daniel Clarke became the guardian of “the orphants” of Lt.-Col. Richard Cocke (1) of Bremo (VaMH&B, III, 411)(page 110 of this volume) and much litigation ensured thereafter between him and Richard Cocke's sons in settlement of their just claims, as is shown by the records of Henrico County for many years as late as 1692 (Col. Rec. Henrico, Vol. IV, under years 1677, 1681 and 1692).

The fact that Richard Cocke (1) names all his sons in his will in due order of succession from the oldest to the youngest and more than once specifically designated Richard Cocke (2), Sr., as “my elder Son”, and likewise the fact to this one of her sons his mother had made a special gift before she died, would seem to establish Richard's primogeniture beyond question (Wm&MCQ, 2nd ser., XIII, 151; VaMH&B, XLIII, 85-86)(For pages 85-86, 410, 91, 71, 90, 84 & 76-77 see pp. 242-243, 109, 119, 166, 179 & 232-233, this volume) although in spite of these facts it has been argued on other grounds that Thomas Cocke (2) was the oldest son. Richard Cocke (2), Sr., (1639-1706) of Bremo was the ancestor of a long line of Cockes many of whom including the Bowler Cockes of Henrico County and General Hartwell Cocke (7) (1780-1866) of Bremo in Fluvanna County (Wm&MCQ, 2nd ser., XIII, 150, foll. & 213, foll.) were persons of much influence and distinction in their day. He married Elizabeth ---------------- by whom he had two sons Richard Cocke (3) (b. 1672) whose first wife was Ann Bowler and John Cocke (3) who married Obedience Branch in 1696 and died several years later, according to VaMH&B, XXXVII, 230; Wm&MCQ, XXV, 63, 108, 109-110; Wm&MCQ, 2nd ser., XIII, 151, and had two daughters, namely Elizabeth Cocke (3) (who married Miles Cary, Jr., in 1695) and Martha Cocke (3) (who married Joseph Pleasants in 1699). For further information concerning Richard Cocke, Sr., see for example: VaMH&B, III, 410; IV, 91; V. 71; XXVI, 21, 38; XXVIII, 210,211; XXXVII, 230, 231, 354-357; Wm&MCQ, III, 204; XXIV, 131; Wm&MCQ, 2nd ser., XI, 228, 229; 2nd ser., XIII, 135, 150, foll., 211,212.

Thomas Cocke (2), who was born between 1638 and 1640, was likewise an active man of affairs and a prominent personage in the community where he lived. He married his first wife probably about 1663 several years before the death of his father. Without any sure basis of fact and perhaps chiefly in order to account for the name of his grandson James Powell Cocke (4), it has been conjectured that Thomas Cocke's first wife was related to the Powells of Isle of Wight County (VaMH&B, IV, 90; V, 84; XLIII, 76-77). At all events she was undoubtedly the mother of his four sons, namely, Thomas Cocke (3) (1664-1707), Stephen Cocke (3) (c. 1666 - 1717), James Cocke (3) (1667-1721), and William Cocke (3)(d. 1717), and of his two daughters Temperance Cocke (3) (born probably about 1670; married Samuel Harwood) and her younger sister Agnes Cocke (3) (wife of Joseph Harwood).

By a deed dated 29 August 1672 (to which reference has already been made) “Thomas Cocke of Pick-thorn Farm in the County of Henrico” confirmed in writing an oral agreement which he had made about four years previously with one of his tenants named Thomas East; whereby in consideration of a nominal rent “of one Ear of Corn” payable on Christmas Day each year, the said East was to have for his own use, subject various stipulations, a certain parcel of land for a term of twenty years, with the option of buying it at the expiration of the lease. The land in question was part of a tract that had been given to Thomas Cocke (2) and Richard Cocke 92), Sr., “by the Will of our father & Pattent the name of him and John Beauchamp who also acknowledges our Right to be good in Court as the Records will show” (Colon. Rec. Henrico, V, folio 245, Va. State Library). Apparently therefore some five or six years after his father's death Thomas Cocke (2) was living at Pick-thorn Farm. During the latter part of his life, perhaps after his second marriage, he lived at Malvern Hills on the ridge overlooking his brother's estate of Bremo. His second wife was a widow named Margaret Wood-Wynne-Jones, daughter of Major-General Abraham Wood. She was the grandmother of Major Peter Jones who with Colonel Byrd founded the town of Petersburg two hundred years ago (1733) (VaMH&B, III, 252; V, 86; XLIII, 76, 88) (For pages 86, 76, 88, 407 & 206-208 see pp. 181, 232, 245, 106 & 747-479, this volume)

In 1678 Thomas Cocke (2) of Malvern Hills was appointed a justice of Henrico County and in 1679 he was a member of the House of Burgesses. About this time he owned and operated “Cocke's ordinary at Varina” (VaMH&B, III, 407) which was some little distance from his home at Malvern Hills. The colonial records afford occasional glimpses of this old tavern, as, for example, in a deposition made by William Farrar, 20 February 1681, when he was 24 years old, in which he states that he saw Thomas Cocke, Jr., a youth about seven years younger than himself, and Robert Sharp playing with each other in “the Ninepin Alley at the Ordinary”. Thomas Cocke (2) was one of the appraisers of William Farrar's estate in 1687 (VaMH&B, VIII, 206-208). Not long afterwards William Byrd writing to Lord Eppingham in 1690 complains that “for ordinary's wee have none in our County, mr Cocke having left of(f) these two years” (VaMH&B, XXVI,254); from which it may be inferred that Thomas Cocke(2) had abandoned his inn at Varina as far back as 1688.

In a deed dated 1 October 1689 Thomas Cocke (2) gives a black mare to his god-daughters Mary and Anne Aust, daughters of John Aust (Colon. Rec. Henrico, V, 185). The latter may have been the John Ast whose place was adjacent to William Cocke's (2) plantation of the “Lowground”.

It would seem that in 1691 Thomas Cocke (2) had fallen out with his tenant Thomas East and there was some litigation between them, as has been indicated previously. At any rate in 1693 Thomas Cocke (2) advertises for an overseer to take care of his land in both Henrico County and Charles City County, some of which he offers for sale (Colon. Rec. Henrico, V, folio 487, Va. State Library).

Shortly before his death in 1696 Thomas Cocke (2) was “Security” for the marriage of Richard Ward and Elizabeth Blackman (Wm&MCQ, XXVII, 195). It appears that he “was Secty for the delivery of some Estate, in the hands of Richard Ward, belonging to his Ward's children, as a legacy left them by Edward Deeby dec'd.” Thomas Cocke 92) having died in the meantime, and the executors of his estate “refusing to stand bound”, the Court ordered 20 August 1697, that the executors “be discharged and that the sd Richard Ward doe provide new Sec'ty for the delvry of said Estate” (Colon. Rec. Henrico, IV, 39, Va. State Library).

For other data concerning Thomas Cocke (2), in addition to the references given above, see VaMH&B, III, 406-409; IV 90, 213; VIII, 206-208; XXVIII 15, 1211; XXXII, 49; XLIII, 75-76, 85-86; Wm&MCQ, 2nd ser., IX, 56 57; 2nd ser., XI, 230, 132; 2nd ser., XIII 211 (For pages 406-409, 90, 213, 206-208, 75-76, 85-86, 412 & 410 SEE PP. 105-108, 118, 126, 747-749, 231-232, 242-243, 111 & 109, this volume)

All that is known about Elizabeth Cocke (2) (born perhaps about 1653) is contained in her father's will. Whether she ever “attained the age of Seaventeen years” or “the day of her Marriage”, whether her brother Richard Cocke (2), Sr., paid the “one hundred pounds Sterling” to her, or whether she died and the money was divided among the sons of Mary Aston Cocke, are questions that cannot be answered. It is supposed that she witnessed will of Elizabeth Eppes in 1678 (VaMH&B, III, 412).

William Cocke (2) (1657-1693) who is described in his will as “William Cocke of the Lowground in Henrico co”, was Mary Aston Cocke's oldest son. His plantation was close to the homes of several of his brothers on the north side (VaMH&B, III, 410) of “Turkey Island Creek adjoining the mill of John Pleasants and (extending) to the Lines of Robert Povey, John Cocke and Giles Carter and so along the said Criik Now in possession of John Ast (Aust?) and Henry Lester containing about 254 acres” (Indenture Deed dated 6 April 1705 between Obadiah Smith & his wife Mary Cocke (3) and Launcelot Woodward & his wife Elizabeth Cocke (3), Col.. Rec. Henrico, 1700-1709, p. 127).

Perhaps about a year or two after William Cocke (2) came of age a deed dated 19 July 1680, signed by him and acknowledged a few days later in Henrico County Court, absolves his “father-in-law” (= step-father) Daniel Clarke from all further indebtedness to him in consideration of his having received from Clarke 5,490 lbs tobacco “which is my full due from him of what was due to me by my father Lt. Coll. Richard Cocke of Bremo”; and accordingly I do “hereby acquit and discharge the said Clarke of all debts dues or demands wtsover from the beginning of the world to this day accrueing by that estate, as witness my hand”, etc.

Another paper dated 20 February 1681/2 relates that one day when William Cocke (2) was of “age 24 years or thereabouts” his brother Thomas Cocke (3) “sent his sonne Stephen Cocke down to my house” to fetch him to Valvern Hills; and that on his arrival at his brother's home the latter asked to go with hit to “the old tobacco house” for the purpose of inspecting a hogshead of tobacco which had been delivered to Thomas Cocke (2) by a certain John Watson and in which the tobacco was mixed in with layers “of ground leaves and trash tobacco” such as was “not fit to be put into a hd.” While this incident is not of much interest in itself, it has a human touch which lends it a little importance and wee seem to share Thomas Cocke's anger at finding he had been cheated by John Watson.

William Cocke (2) had three children, namely, two daughters Mary Cocke (3) and Elizabeth Cocke (3) and one son William Cocke (3). The two girls were certainly the children of his first wife and the son was almost certainly her child also. She was a Miss Flower, sister of John Flower (or Flowers) of James City County (VaMH&B, IV, 96) (for pages 96, 411 & 90 see pp. 124, 110 & 118, this volume) Her name was probably Jane Flower inasmuch as we know by several deeds that in 1684 and earlier the name of William Cocke's (2) was Jane. Undoubtedly a little more that two years before he died William Cocke (2) married again 16 June 1691, the name of his second wife being Sarah Dennis (Colon. Rec. Henrico, V, 253). (FOOTNOTE: It has been stated (VaMH&B, III, 411) that William Cocke (2) married first, Jane Clarke, daughter of his step-father Daniel Clarke, and second Sarah Flower; but each of these statements appears to be erroneous. It has not ascertained that Daniel Clarke had a daughter named Jane. Moreover, it is not true that William Cocke(3), son of Thomas Cocke (2) married Sarah Dennis (VaMH&B, IV, 90), the fact being that this William Cocke married Sarah Perrin in 1695)

Mary Aston Cocke who married Daniel Clarke after the death of her first husband outlived her son William Cocke(3), as we know by his will dated 13 October 1693 and proved early in the following February (Colon. Rec. Henrico, V, 452). The witnesses of this will were his step-father Daniel Clarke, his brother Richard Cocke(2), Jr., Mary Horner and Mary Cocke. The two last named witnesses being unable to write made their “signum” or mark. This Mary Cocke could hardly have been William Cocke's elder daughter Mary Cocke (3), because at that time was probably not more than about twelve or fifteen years at most.

To his only son and youngest child William Cocke (3) the father gives that tract of Land I now live on” called “the lowground”; on condition that in case the lad died before coming of age, this property should be divided equally between his two older sisters Mary Cocke (3) and Elizabeth Cocke (3). Moreover on each of these girls their father bestow the sum of 20 shillings which he says he had “received of my mother Mrs. Mary Clarke” to buy rings for them when “they come of age or are married.”

Ample provision was made in the will for the widow of whom the testator seems to have stood perhaps a little in awe, as may be inferred from the following paragraphs:

ITEM: I desire that my Wife, and it is my will that she be no way molested to Fall, Maul, Saw, Cutt off Sell and dispose of what timber she pleases, either for Boards, Pipe, Staves or for Cask Soe far forth as to ye paying my Debts, I am now engaged as also if my son William should live till he be of age for himself that then the Land to be divided, she to enjoy the one half during her natural life and so otherwise if my sd Son should Die ere he come of age but then that she shall keep the Mannour House and Land adjoining to be her half and no way therein to be molested”.

ITEM: I give unto my loving Wife to her Heirs for Ever two Hundred acres of Land Lying out at Shipley's Quarter.”

ITEM: All the rest of my Estate I leave unto my Loving Wife Sarah who I make, ordain, Constitute and to be my whole and sole Execux of this my last will and testament. In witness whereof I have hereunto sett my Hand and Seal this 13th day of 8ber 1693.”

That the testator was not without some anxiety about entrusting his daughters to their step-mother's care is shown by the following paragraph:

ITEM: It is my desire that my children Mary and Elizabeth may remaine with my wife till they are of age or married, but is my wife be not able or willing to keep them, then I do desire that they may be both put to my mother, Mrs. Mary Clarke or to my brother Richard Cocke, Jr., there to remain till they are of age or married.”

As a matter of fact the two girls went to live with their uncle Richard Cocke(2), Jr., continuing under his roof until each of them was married. The lad William Cocke (3) doubtless remained with his father's widow. Apparently he died early in life, for he disappears from sight entirely and his sisters inherited his estate as provided in their father's will.

Mary Cocke (3) who died in 1754 married Obadiah Smith (VaMH&B, 8V, 95)(For pages 95, 96, 411, 288 & 157-159, see 123, 124, 110, 99 & 163-165 this volume) Her younger Elizabeth Cocke (30 married “Lanse-lott” (Launcelot) Woodward in 1708 (VaMH&B, IV, 96, Wm&MCQ, 2nd ser., XIV, 179).

Little is known of John Cocke (2) and his descendants. He was born probably before 1660, possibly in 1658 (certainly not in 1647, as stated in VaMH&*B, III, 411) (FOOTNOTE: The name John Cocke or John Cocks occurs in Virginia as early as 1619-20 (Brown's “First Republic in America” p 629). A certain John Cocke who was apparently a merchant in Bristol, England, was a contemporary of Richard Cocke (1) of Bremo, as we know by the will of Richard Fielding of Northumberland County, Va., dated 16 July 1666 (Wm&MCQ, IX, 265).

Unfortunately John Cocke (2) has been confused with John Cox, Sr. (VaMH&B, III, 288), WHOSE SECOND WIFE WAS Mary Kennon (VaMH&B, XXXVII, 157-159)(For pages 95, 96, 411, 288 & 157-159 see pp. 123, 124, 110, 99 & 163-165, this volume). This John Cox (and not John Cocke (2), as stated in VaMH&B, III, 411 and elsewhere) was the progenitor of the Cox's of Chesterfield County who were not originally related to the Cockes of Henrico County, although the two families intermarried (Concerning these Cox's and some of their connections with the Cockes of Henrico, see several paragraphs at the end of this paper.) William Cox, grandson of John Cox, Sr., has likewise been confused with William Cocke (3), son of John Cocke (2) (VaMH&B, IV, 94). The wife of William Cox was named Sarah but she was not Sarah Perrin. William Cox and his wife Sarah had a son Stephen Cox and a daughter Martha Cox who married Henry Wood. Sarah Perrin (as has been stated already) was the wife of William Cocke (3), son of Thomas Cocke (2). One of her daughters was named Temperance Cocke (4) after her aunt Temperance Cocke (3))

Undoubtedly younger than William Cocke (2), John Cocke (2) was perhaps nearly the same age as his older brother with whom he seems to have closely associated all his life. Both brothers lived not far apart on Turkey Island Creek, and their names are found frequently liked together in the old records; as for example in the following dated 5 August 1682: “Wee William and John do acknowledge the above survey containing 84 acres - the bounds of the land formerly sold to our brother Thomas Cocke (with the mill)”, etc. (Colon Rec. Henrico, I, 222, Va. State Library), from which it may be inferred that Thomas Cocke (2) had bought the mill (mentioned in his father's will) from his younger brothers. Again (p.390) almost immediately after John Cocke (2) had married Mary Davis, 10 November 1686, it appears that he and his wife Mary relinquished dower to Francis Cleavely with reference to the “line between William Cocke and ye aforesaid John Cocke”. John Cocke (2) paid quit rent in Henrico County in 1704 and we hear of him in this same year in connection with his half-brother Richard Cocke (2), Sr., of Bremo, his younger brother Richard Cocke (2), Jr., of Charles City County, and his two nephews Thomas Cocke (3) and James Cocke (3) (VaMH&B, XXVIII, 210, 211). He appraised the estate of Roger Carr, Henrico County, 1717. Was he the John Cocke whose will was proved 6 April 1724, with James Powell Cocke (4) as executor?

As in the case of John Cocke (2), little information is available about his brother Richard Cocke (2), Jr., of Old Man's Creek in Charles City County. Born probably soon after 1660, he was scarcely more than a baby when his father died leaving him the plantation above mentioned, as may be conjectured from his father's will. Perhaps Richard Cocke (2), Jr., was the same as Richard Cocke of Westover Parish, Charles City County, who in 1735 conveyed 500 acres of land in Henrico County to his daughter Mary Cocke Eppes (VaMH&B, XXXVIII, 231); and if so, Richard Cocke (2), Jr., lived to be about 75 years old or more (FOOTNOTE: It is likewise possible to suppose that Mary Cocke Eppes was the granddaughter of Richard Cocke (2), Jr., and therefore the daughter of his son Richard Cocke, although whether Richard Cocke (2), Jr., had a son named Richard is not known. Richard Cocke of Westover Parish, Charles City County, may have been a son of Edward Cocke (2), although it is doubtful whether Edward Cocke (2) could have had a marriageable granddaughter in 1735. At all events it is obvious that Mary Cocke Eppes was not the daughter of Richard Cocke (3) (1672-1720, about) of Bremo, elder son of Richard Cocke (2), Sr., as stated in VaMH&B, IV, 323, 326, Because Richard Cocke (3), who was about 12 or 15 years younger than his uncle Richard Cocke (2), Jr., had been dead about fifteen years when Richard Cocke of Westover Parish, Charles City County, deeded the land in Henrico County above mentioned to his daughter Mary Eppes.)

It is conjectured that Richard Cocke (2), Jr., may have been the father of Anne (or Mary Ann) Cocke who married Robert Bolling in 1706 (VaMH&B, III, 412 (For pages 412, 88 & 411, see pp. 111, 245 &110, this volume); also XXVII, 210, 211; XXXVII, 230). However, another conjecture is that this Anne Cocke may have been a daughter of Stephen Cocke (3) (Thomas (2), Richard (1)) who had business transaction with Robert Bolling (VaMH&B, XLIII, 888). (FOOTNOTE: The various Richard Cocke's are confusing. Besides those above mentioned there was Richard Cocke (3) (Thomas (2), William (1)) of Surry County, who was not one of the Henrico Cockes at all and who died in 1773, and his contemporary Richard Cocke (4) of Surry County (1707-1772), who was the son of Richard Cocke (3) of Bremo. Was Richard Cocke (3) of Bremo the same as Richard Cocke, burgess for Henrico County who was assaulted by John Bolling of Hanover County in 1715 (Wm&MCQ, XXI, 215)?)

In the will of Walter Aston, Jr. (1638-1666), which was proved 4 February 1666(7) was not long after the death of his brother-in-law Richard Cocke (1) of Bremo, he leves to his nephew and godson John Cocke (2), son of Richard Cocke (1), deceased, 4,000 lbs. tobacco and to his nephew and godson Edward Cocke (2), likewise said to be the son of Richard Cocke (1), deceased, 6,000 lbs. tobacco (Wm7MCQ, IV, 149; 2nd ser., XI, 230; 32 and 48 pounds sterling, respectively, assuming that the court's valuation in 1632 in the case of John Browne's debts was valid in 1666-7 (Wm&MCQ, 2nd ser., XI, 231, where a thousand pounds of tobacco is estimated as worth about eight pounds sterling). At the time of their uncle's death John Cocke (2) was perhaps not more than five or six years old and Edward Cocke (2), supposed to be a posthumous son of Richard Cocke (1) was still an infant in arms. If Edward Cocke (2) was born in 1666, he was 38 years old in 1704 when we first hear of him in Charles City County (VaMH&B, XXXI, 314). The same individual appears as a resident and petitioner in Charles City County in 1710 (VaMH&B, XVIII, 399). In 1732 Edward Cocke was appointed sheriff by the Council (Exec. Journals, IV, 273) and in 1734 he succeeded Dasey Southall (or Southwell) as tobacco inspector at Soan's warehouse (Exec. Journals, IV, 335). In 1739 Mary, relict of Edward Cocke, deceased, came into court in Charles City County and made oath he died intestate (VaMH&B, XXI, 85; XXII, 334). Although it cannot definitely be established, it seems reasonable to suppose that Edward Cocke who lived in Charles City County in the early part of the 18th century, who married Mary -------, and who died prior to April 1739, was Edward Cocke (2), youngest son of Richard Cocke(1) of Bremo. (FOOTNOTE; Among the Cockes Edward is an uncommon baptismal name. As has been mentioned already, one of the immigrants in York County in 1648 was Edward Cocke who reappears as Edward Cocks in 1651 and who was probably the same as Edward Cocke who was concerned in a land transaction with George Jordan in 1652. There is no ground for supposing that he was related to Richard Cocke (1) of Bremo except that they had the same surname and both in Virginia at the same time; but in connection with the name George Jordan mentioned above (who was burgess from James City County in 1644), it is perhaps worth pointing out that Richard Cocke (1) had two cousins, Thomas Jordan (burgess for Isle of Wight County in 1629, 1631 and 1632) and Daniel Jordan to whom he left a legacy in this will, as has been stated (VaMH&B, III, 405, 406). Mary Aston Cocke, widow of Richard Cocke (2), may have named her youngest son Edward Cocke (2) after her brother-in-law, Lt. Col. Edward Major of Charles City County, who married Susanna Aston in 1655 (Wm&MCQ, VII, 62; 2nd ser., IX, 56, 229). Still another possibility is that Edward Cocke (2) was named after Colonel Edward Hill who married Hannah, widow of Lt.-Col. Walter Aston, Sr. (VaMH&B, IV, 96)(For pages 94-95, 495, 406 & 96, see pp. 122-123, 104, 105 & 124, this volume)

In conclusion, owing to several intermarriages between the Cox's of Chesterfield County and the Cockes of Henrico County, some confusion has arisen between certain individuals of these families which is desirable to straighten out as far as possible. John Cox, Sr., presumable the son of William Cox who obtained a grant in 1636 of 150 acres of land 3 ½ miles above Harroe Attocks near Dutch Gap, was twice married. By his first wife whose identity is not known he had two sons, John Cox Jr., and William Cox. He married his second wife Mary Kennon in 1682.

John Cox, Jr., son of John Cox, Sr.., married Mary Baugh, daughter of Jane Gower of Kingsland, Henrico County. Mary Baugh Cox was a sister or half-sister of John Branch, eldest son of Jane Gower, whose daughter Obedience Branch married John Cocke (3), son of Richard Cocke (2), Sr., of Bremo (Colon. Rec. Henrico, V, 689, Va. State Library) in 1696, as have been previously stated.

William Cox, younger son of John Cox, Sr., and brother of John Cox, Jr., married Sarah --------------, by whom he had one son Stephen Cox and a number of daughters one of whom, Martha Cox, married Henry Wood at Bremo in Henrico County in 1723 (VaMH&B, IV, 94-95). The fact that this wedding took place at Bremo seems to imply some connection with the Cockes of Henrico, but what this connection was is not clear.

The youngest of the four daughters of William Cocke (3) (Thomas (2), Richard (1)) was Sarah Cocke (4) (named after her mother who was Sarah Perrin). The first husband of Sarah Cocke (4) was William Cox, son of John Cox, Jr.

John Cocke (3), younger son of Richard Cocke (2), Sr., of Bremo, married Obedience Branch, daughter of John Branch, in 1696, as above stated. He died soon afterwards before August 1699 (Wm&MCQ, XXV, 109). He and his wife had three children, namely: John Cocke (4) of Henrico and Albemarle counties who died in 1759 (Wm&MCQ, XXV, 109). Obedience Cocke(4) who married Benjamin Branch and Martha Cocke who married, 1st, Arthur Moseley, Jr., and 2nd, Edward Friend (Wm&MCO, XXV, 110). (FOOTNOTE: There was likewise a John Cocke who married, Elizabeth, relict of Edward Baxter of Charles City County, who died in 1726. She died before 1746 (VaMH&B, XXXVII, 231).

There appears to be no doubt about the fact that the first husband of Martha Cocke (4) (John (3), Richard (2), Sr., Richard (1)) was Arthur Moseley, Jr., as above stated; and if so, this married occurred perhaps about 1720. On the other hand, it is said that the second husband of Elizabeth Cox Jameson, daughter of William Cox and sister of Martha Cox Wood was Arthur Moseley, Jr., both of these statements cannot be true, unless there were two different individuals named Arthur Moseley, Jr. )

NOTES ON THE COCKE FAMILY (From “Virginia Council Journals, 1726-1753” prepared by Fairfax Harrison

The genealogy of the Cocke family (or rather families) prepared by Dr. Southall and published in this Magazine, is remarkable piece of work, when the field to be covered in considered. But there were many branches he did not treat of fully and many details which did not come to his attention. A number of accounts prepared by various people and notes from records of various counties, etc., will be given here. It is understood that, for some years past, a member of the Cocke family has been making a most careful study preparatory to writing a history of the family.

Richard and Anne (Bowler) Cocke had (as is shown by the will of Richard Cocke, 1706) at least two children, Bowler and Tabitha.

FOURTH GENERATION

Bowler Cocke of Bremo, was clerk of Henrico County in 1728 to 1738. In 1733 he sold certain lands which he states in the deed was granted to his father, Richard Cocke, in 1706. He married Sarah ------------------, and they had issue, first, Ann, born at Bowler's farm on the Rappahannock River, June 18th, 1720. Second, Susanna, born at Bremo, November 6th, 1722; died in October following. Third, Tabitha, born September 25th, 1724. Fourth, Bowler, born March 7th, 1726. Fifth, Sarah, born February 6th, 1728. Sixth, Elizabeth, born May 15th, 1731. And seventh, Richard, born March 7th, 1733, and died in twenty-days. (These dates are from the fragment of the Henrico Parish Register.) Bowler Cocke, the father of these children, died about Aug. 20, 1771.

FIFTH GENERATION

Bowler Cocke, Jr., of Bremo, born March 7th, 1726, was appointed Clerk of Henrico County, February, 1749 to 1750. There is recorded in Henrico, a deed dated March 31st, 1769, from Bowler Cocke, the elder, of Shirley, to his son Bowler Cocke, Jr., of Bremo, conveying thirty-seven slaves. He is stated by the Virginia Gazette to have died in April, 1772. Bowler Cocke, Jr., was a member of the House of Burgesses for Henrico, 1758, 1761, 1764 and 1765. He had issue, according to old letters, in the Virginia Historical Society Collections, first William, second Bowler, third Sarah, who married Massie. The Virginia Gazette notes the marriage in 1778 of Sarah, daughter of Col. Bowler Cocke, Jr., of Bremo, to Major Thomas Massie.

SIXTH GENERATION

Bowler Cocke of “Turkey Island” made his will March 1st, 1812, proved in Henrico, September 7th 1812. Directs his executors to see ten thousand acres of land in Lincoln County, Kentucky. States that his brother William and himself own four thousand acres in Randolph County, Va., part of forty thousand acres which was deeded to him as assignee of Foster Webb, and which was sold at auction to pay a debt for said Webb, to Mr. Carter of Shirley. Bequests to his daughters Rebecca C. and Lucy Webb Cocke, to his wife all his title to the negroes which were owned before her marriage. Son Bowler F. Cocke, daughter Sallie W. Dandridge, and the children of his daughter, Betsy F. Coles, deceased.

SEVENTH GENERATION

Bowler F. Cocke of “Strawberry Plain”, will dated June 3rd, 1825, proved July 5th, 1825, legatees, son Bowler (not of age), daughters Rebecca and Elizabeth, appoints his friend, John Stagg, guardian to his daughters and Gurdon H. Buckers one of his executors.

EIGHTH GENERATION

Elizabeth Cocke married first, Joseph Henderson, June 11, 1830, recorded in Memphis, Tenn. Issue: one daughter, Catherine. Joseph Henderson died in 1843. On Oct. 7th, 1846, Elizabeth Henderson married Jarman M. Fletcher. Issue: one son, Claude, and three daughters, Annie, Ida and Elizabeth, all dead except Ida.

NINTH GENERATION

Catherine Henderson married first, Tighlman H. Bunch of Memphis, Tenn., Nov 20 1860. Issue: one daughter Laura Tate, and one son Tighman Howard. T. H. Bunch, Sr., died in 1866. Catherine Bunch married again, 1871, Edwin Henry Skipwith, of Little Rock, Arkansas, no children.

The following notes from Henrico County records relate to the several Bowler Cockes.

Will of Bowler Cocke of “Turkey Island”. Executors are desired to dispose of 10,000 acres of land in Lincoln County, Ky. My brother, William Cocke and myself own 4,000 acres in Randolph County, Va., part of 40,000 acres decreed to me as assignee of Foster Webb and sold at auction to pay a debt due to Mr. Carter of Shirley from said Webb. The testator directs how the 10,000 and 4,000 acres shall be sold to pay certain debs. Daughters Rebecca C. Cocke and Lucy Webb Cocke to be supported and maintained. Wife to have all his estate in the negroes that were her own before marriage. Son Bowler F. Cocke, daughter Sally W. Dandridge, daughter Betsy F. Coles' four children. Dated March 1, 1812, proved Henrico, Sept. 8, 1812.

Will of Bowler F. Cocke of “Strawberry Plain”. Son Bowler Cocke not 20 years of age. Daughters Rebecca and Elizabeth. Friend John Stagg, guardian to daughters. Dated June 3, 1825, proved July 5, 1825.

Marriage Bond, Henrico, November 18, 1797, Walter Coles and Eliza F., daughter of Bowler Cocke of “Turkey Island”.

Marriage Bond, Jan. 4, 1808, Bowler F. Cocke and Eliza Agnes Pleasants Heath (Heth).

Deed Oct. 1783 from Bowler Cocke of Bremo to Charles Carter, in regard to the property of Foster Webb.

Deed 1807 from Bowler Cocke and Sally his wife.

Deed, March 1808, from Bowler Cocke, conveying in trust the land he lives on called “Turkey Island”, 1,400 acres.

In April, 1814, B. F. Cocke, executor of Bowler Cocke, sold Turkey Island to Pickett.

Deed March 31, 1769, from Bowler Cocke the elder, of Shirley, conveying to his son, Bowler Cocke, Jr., of Bremo, 37 male and female slaves.

Deed, July 1748, from Bowler Cocke, the elder, to his son, Bowler Cocke, the younger, 96 acres in Curles Swamp.

Col. Bowler Cocke, Jr., of Bremo, had a daughter, Sarah, who in 1778 married Major Thomas Massie.

Richard Cocke of Henrico, died May 11, 1820, aged 67 years.

Bowler F. Cocke, of Strawberry Plain, Henrico, separated in 1825 from his wife, Mary B.

Col. Bowler Cocke, Sr., married secondly, Elizabeth, widow of John Carter of “Shirley”, but there was no issue by this marriage.

SOME COCKE FAMILY RECORDS

(Contributed by Mr. W. Ronald Cocke, Jr.)

From an original paper of Charles Cocke of Albemarle County, dated 7 February 1860, in possession of his grandson, Judge Bennett Taylor Gordon, Nelson County, Virginia.

Chronologically arranged and contributed by William Ronald Cocke, III.

James Powell (1) Cocke, was born at Malvern Hills, where he lived until just before his marriage with Mary Magdalene Chastain, an heiress of a Huguenot family at Manakin Town, Chesterfield county; by whom he left three sons and two daughters:

1. CHASTAIN (2) married Judith Archer, daughter of Colonel William Archer, conspicuous in the war of the Revolution, by whom he had six sons and two daughters:

a. CHASTAIN COCKE (3) died young

b. JAMES POWELL COCKE (3) married Polly Lewis and had five children:

(1) John Lewis Cocke (4) died unmarried

(2) James Cocke (4) died unmarried

(3) Aubion Cocke (4) married Armistead Green

(4) Mary Cocke (4) married a Mr. Boyd

(5) Martha Cocke (4) died unmarried

c. WILLIAM ARCHER COCKE (3) married the widow Ronald and left four children:

(1) Chastain Cocke (4) married first, Sally Eggleston, daughter of Major Joseph Eggleston of Amelia and second, Mary Eggleston, daughter of Edward Eggleston, Esq.

(2) William Archer Cocke (4) married Murray and left one son: William Archer Cocke (5)

(3) Judith Cocke (4) married Fran. Eggleston, both of whom are dead leaving two children:

(a) William Eggleston (5)

(b) Judith Eggleston (5)

(4) Mary Cocke (4) married a Mr. Saunders

d. JOHN FIELD COCKE (3) married Miss Ronald and left two sons:

(1) R. Ivanhoe Cocke (4)

(2) William Ronald Cocke (4)

e. ELIZABETH COCKE (3) married John Royall and left one son: (1) Albert Royall

f. MARY COCKE (3) died at age of 18

g. RICHARD COCKE (3) died young

h. JOSEPH COCKE (3) died young

2. JAMES POWELL COCKE (2) married first Martha Archer by whom he had no issue and second Lucy Smith, by whom he had three sons and two daughters.

a. JAMES POWELL COCKE (3) married Martha Ann Lewis, by whom he had no issue

b. SMITH COCKE (3) died unmarried

c. CHASTAIN (3) died unmarried

d. MARY C. COCKE (3) married Dr. Charles Carter and had one son and three daughters

(1) C. Everett Carter (4) is dead

(2) Mary Carter (4) married John Singleton of S.C.

(3) Lucy Carter (4) married P. Minor

(4) ----------- Carter (4) married Champelo (Champe?) Green Peyton

e. MARTHA COCKE (3) married V. W. Southall, has three sons and three daughters:

(1) William Southall (4) married Miss Alden of Richmond

(2) James C. Southall (4)

(3) Valentine Southall (4)

(4) Lucy Southall (4) married Mr. Sharp

(5) Mary Southall (4) married John Thompson Brown

(6) Florence Southall (4), died unmarried

3. STEPHEN COCKE (2) married Jane Segar Eggleston by whom he had three sons and five daughters:

a. JOSEPH E. COCKE (3) married Ann Mosby, no issue

b. JAMES POWELL COCKE (3) married Caroline Lewis, still living and never had issue

c. CHARLES COCKE (3) (the writer of this), married Sally W. Taylor of Southampton, by whom he had one living child

(1) Charlotte Mary Cocke (4) married William Gordon, and had six sons and two daughters:

(a) Sally Taylor Gordon (5)

(b) Charles Cocke Gordon (5)

(d) Agnes Stuart Gordon (5)

(e) William F. Gordon (5)

(f) Bazel B. Gordon (5)

(g) Bennett Taylor Gordon (5)

(h) Robert Walker Gordon (5)

d. JUDITH E. COCKE (3) married Peter Field Archer, and had two sons and two daughters

(1) John F. Archer (4) died young

(2) Richard Archer (4) died young

(3) Fanny Archer (4)

(4) Jane Segar Archer (4), wife of Dr. Jos. B. Anderson

(By a former married, Peter Field Archer had three sons: William Archer, Branch T. Archer, Peter F. Archer, and three daughters: Fanny Tanner Archer, Martha Archer and Elizabeth Archer.)

e. MARY M. COCKE (3) married Richard Archer and had two sons:

(1) Stephen C. Archer (4)

(2) Richard T. Archer (4)

(They removed to Mississippi where Stephen died, leaving one son, Edward Archer (5), Richard Archer is still alive and has eight or ten children)

f. MARTHA COCKE (3) married William T. Eggleston and left one son and four daughters:

(1) Everard Eggleston (4) died unmarried

(2) Mana? Eggleston (4) married Alfred B. Eggleston and has two sons and three daughters

(a) William Eggleston (5) married Miss Booth

(b) Irving Eggleston (5)

(d) A daughter (5)

(e) A daughter (5)

(3) Charlotte Eggleston (4) married Dr. May of Petersburg

(4) Martha Eggleston (4) married George Johnson

(5) Jane Eggleston (4) married first, Dr. Irving, and second, L. Masters; three children

g. NANCY COCKE (3) died fifteen years of age

h. JANE S. COCKE (3) married Captain James Hobson of Cumberland and is now a widow without children

4. ELIZABETH COCKE (2) married Henry Anderson of Amelia and left fur sons and two daughters:

a. HENRY ANDERSON (3) married and had two sons

(1) Dr. Joseph B. Anderson (4) of Amelia

(2) Dr. Stephen C. Anderson (4) of Chesterfield

b. CRAWFORD ANDERSON (3)

c. JAMES P. ANDERSON (3)

d. WILLIAM ANDERSON (3)

e. MARTHA ANDERSON (3) died unmarried

f. ELIZABETH ANDERSON (3) married John Royall of Nottoway - no issue

5. NANCY COCKE (2) (I think) married Colonel William Kennon or Cannon of Buckingham and left two sons who moved with their father to the west before this century.

The James P. (3) and the writer of this (Charles) are now (1860), the only surviving children of Stephen Cocke (2). In our branch of the family and that of my uncle James P. (2), the name is extinct in the next generation, although the two brothers had between them six sons to hand down.

A few years after his marriage, my grandfather, James P. (1), removed from Malvern Hills to the “old place” in Amelia, where he lived until his death, and where he and my grandmother are buried. The estate in Amelia was inherited by my father, and is now owned by my brother, James P. (3), the property in Powhatan, and an estate on Roanoke River, were given to my uncle, Chastain (2), who lived and died on the former, and Malvern Hills, and land in Albemarle were given to my uncle, James P. (2), who sold out and removed to Augusta but afterwards settled and died in Albemarle.

After the death of my grandfather, my grandmother married Peter Farrar, by whom she had to sons and two daughters:

1. John Farrar

2. Samuel Farrar married Elizabeth Eggleston (first cousin of my mother) and left two sons and two daughters

a. Dr. Stephen C. Farrar of Mississippi

b. Dr. Richard Farrar of Amelia

c. Polly Farrar married Beverley Eggleston

d. Jane Farrar died unmarried

3. Judith Farrar married Richard Ogilby and left several children

4. Rebecca Farrar married General Porterfield of Augusta, and left two sons and two daughters

a. Robert Farrar

b. John Farrar married Miss McCue and left a son, Robert Farrar, who I believe died without issue

c. Mary Farrar married --------------

d. Rebecca Farrar, married William Kenney of Staunton, is still living and has several children

I have reason to believe that my grandfather and great grandfather was an only child, which adds to the difficulty of tracing the remote family connections. Strange as it may seem, my old uncle, forty years ago, could tell me little or nothing of his grandfather, and did not seem to know whether he had an uncle or an aunt on the father's side. I know he had none on the maternal.

The total ignorance of family connections may have grown out of the fact that he was reared in a region of country as remote in those days from that in which his father had been born and dwelt, as California is from Virginia, in our times, besides, his father, from whom alone he could have obtained information on the subject, had he been curios enough to seek for it, had died when he was quite a small boy.

My uncle thought our branch of the family was nearest related to Bowler Cocke of Turkey Island. Contemporary with my father, there was a Stephen Cocke of Nottoway, with whose son, Stephen, I was at college. The family removed west before I was grown and I always though that Judge William Cocke and General John Cocke, both United States Senators from Tennessee were of the Nottoway family.

I do not remember that any relationship was claimed between my family and that of Nottoway, but my father died when I was six years old.

Feb. 7, 1860 ------------------------------------------------- Chas. Cocke

COCKE, GRAY, BOWIE, ROBB, &c. by Miss Fanny B. Hunter, Alexandria, Va. Published in Genealogies of Virginia Families from The Virginia Magazine of History and Biography

Some partial tracing through the line of Lucy (2) the fourth daughter of Secretary Cocke (1) of Williamsburg and Elizabeth Catesby, his wife (Va. His. Mag., Vol. ----, p. -----), who married Frank Waring of Essex county, Va., May 12, 1744.

Of this marriage there were four daughters and three sons, viz: Lucy Cocke (3), Ann, Elizabeth, Susanna, Thomas, William and Henry. The late Mr. Lewis of ------------, in his history of the family, from which the most of this is taken, wrote of these sons: “They entered heart and sword into the Revolution, and were in all hard-fought battles at the North, and we, their descendants, may well be proud of the part they bore.” Henry Cocke (3) the youngest, was Capt. Of the 7th Virginia Regiment, and died from exposure near the close of the war, leaving no children. Thomas Cocke (3) was unmarried in 1803. William Cocke (3), second son, left one son Henry Cocke (4), father of Mrs. Mary Waring Buckner. His first wife was Lucy Robb, daughter of Robert Gilchrist Robb; the second was Lucy Stiff, of Middlesex county.

Lucy Waring (3), eldest daughter of Frank and Lucy Cocke Waring, m. December 14, 1769, James Robb, of Port Royal, a native of Scotland, and nephew of Robt. Gilchrist, a man of much prominence in the Colony. Mr. Robb died April 21, 1805; his wife died October 3, 1819. Their children were:

I. William Robb (4) b. in Essex, 1771; d. 1820

II. Lucy Robb (4), b. April 1773, married John Gray, of Traveller's Rest, Stafford county, Va.

III. Robert Gilchrist Robb, born in Orange county, 1775; m. 1st Nellie, dau. of Dr. Wm. Bankhead and Ellen Stewart; 2d Mrs. Serephena Norfleet, nee Vermecula, of Naples

IV. Anne Robb (4), b. January 1777, married John Catlett of Port Royal; died March 10, 1853 (issue: Robert Catlett (5), James Catlett (5), Peter Catlett (5) and 2 daus.)

V. Margaret Robb (4) b. in Orange county 1779; d. aged 13 years

VI. Elizabeth Robb (4), b. in Orange county 1782; d. 1804

VII. James Robb, b. 1784; d. 1788

VIII. Patrick Robb (4) b. 1771, m. ----------Pratt, dau. of John Pratt of Caroline county

Issue of John and Lucy (Robb)(4) Gray (Roman Number II above)

I. Agnes Gray (5) b. March 2, 1794; died at “Eastwood” in 1864-a woman of great force of character, a devoted churchwoman; “given to hospitality”, especially to its ministers, several of whom bestowed her name upon their children.

II. Atcheson Gray (5), b. December 1, 1798; d. 1822; married Catherine Lewis Willis; left no children

III. Margaret Gray (5), b. March 3, 1803; d. 1839 unmarried

IV. Janet Robinson Gray (5), b. September 10, 1805; d. 1879; married Jan. 3, 1827, her 1st cousin, William Pollock of Scotland, who was b. in Glasgow August 20, 1797

V. John Bowie Gray (5), born November 11, 1808; died June 1861; married, 1829, Jane Moore Cave of Fredericksburg, daughter of Benjamin Cave and Jane Moore Glassnell (FOOTNOTE: Glassell Family - Andre Glassell of Torchorwald, Madison county, emigrated from Dumfries, Scotland, in 1756. He was grandson of John Glassell and his wife Mary Coulter, and son of Robert, who in 1734, married Mary Kelton of Torchorwald Town near the castle of the Douglas. The eldest son by this marriage was John Glasell, who was for many years a merchant in Fredericksburg, but returned to Scotland and bought an estate near Edinburgh, where he resided with his wife, Helen Buchan. Their one daughter married Lord John Campbell, whose son, George, became Duke of Argyle. Andrew Glassell, the send son, was born October 8, 1738. He married Elizabeth, daughter of Erasmus and Jane (Moore) Taylor.)

VI. Robert Gray (5), born December 12, 1811; died aged 18

Issue of William and Janet (Gray) Pollock (Roman Numeral IV above)

I. William Pollock (6) , Captain C.S.A.; died 1864 unmarried

II. John Gray Pollock (6), Captain Confederate Army, married Estelle Lewis, daughter of Fielding Lewis, King George county (three children, Catherine Lewis Pollock (7), wife of Harry Knox Gore, of Ireland; Margaret Aitcheson Pollock and John Gray Pollock (Jr.))

III. Aitcheson Pollock (6) married Hannah Jett of King George (six children, Janet Robinson Pollock (7), Julia Lane Pollock, John Gray Pollock, Nellie Pollock, Malcom Pollock, Agnes Pollock)

IV. Matthew Bailey Pollock (6) married, 1870, Catherine Lewis, second daughter of Fielding Lewis, who died 1871, married second Lucy Daingerfield Tayloe, daughter of Colonel John Tayloe of Chatterton, King George, who married a sister of Field Lewis. Issue: Matthew Tayloe Pollock (7) married Elizabeth 1. Bernard Pollock (one son Matthew Tayloe Pollock (8); Helen Janet Pollock (7); 3. Andrew Pollock (7); Catherine Lewis Pollock (7)

Children of John Bowie (5) and Jane Moore (Cave) Gray:

I. Robert Acheson Gray (6) married Adelaide Heyman of Georgetown, D. C. Issue: Anna Heyman (7); Julia Heyman (7) Robert Heyman (7), John Heyman (7)

II. Lucy Robb Gray (6) married first, Dr. Joseph Alexander, second ----------- Ongley (no children).

III. Agnes Spruel Gray (6) married Captain Paul Venable, C. S. A., of Danville, Va.

IV. Margaret Gray (6) married William Dickinson of Caroline county. She died young, leaving one child, Margaret Gray who married William Madison (no children).

V. Gertrude Gray (6) married Walter Hamilton of England, later of New Jersey (2d wife). Their four children are: Maud Hamilton (7), Isabel Hamilton wife of Chas Atkinson of Palmyra, N. J.; Gertrude Hamilton, wife of Geo. Ricardo of Hackensack; Henry Hamilton and Agnes Gray Hamilton.

VI. Jane Glassell Gray (6)

VII. Isabella Bowie Gray. These two last named are residents of Fairfax, Va.

VIII. John Bowie Gray (Jr.)(6) of Travellers Rest, a graduate of Virginia Military Institute, and participant in the battle of New Market. He married Mary, fourth daughter of Maj. Bushrod Washington Hunter, C.S.A., formerly U. S. Navy of “Abingdon”, Alexandria Co., and his wife Mary Frances, daughter of Col. George Blow of Sussex Co. Va. Their children:

1. Mary Hunter Gray (7), married to Ernest Deans of Wilson, N.C., (one child, Mary Hunter Deans (8)

2. Jane Moore Gray (7)

3. Aylmer Gray (7)

4. John Bowie Gray (III) of Wilson, NC

Issue of Capt. Paul and Agnes (Gray) Venable: (Roman Numeral III. Above)

1. Samuel “Woodson” Venable of Wilson, married Jean Armstead (four children: Jean St. Clair Venable; Mary Howard Venable; Paul Carrington Venable; Samuel Armistead Venable).

2. Wade “Hampton” Venable married Eliza Talbot.

Issue of Robert Gilchrist (4) and Nellie (Bankhead) Robb:

1. Robert Gilchrist Robb (5) Capt. U. S. and C. S. Navy, married Fanny Lightfoot and had two sons and one daughter, viz:

a. Robert Lightfoot Robb (6) married 1st Augusta Turner, daughter of Carolinus Turner of King George co., who died, leaving two sons, Robert Robb (7) and Turner Robb (7), his second wife was Mr. Ada Randolph, daughter of Col. Richard H. Stuart of that county;

b. Philip Lightfoot Robb (6) married Helen Bernard of Caroline county. Their children are Fanny Bernard Robb (7); Helen Struan Robb (7); Gay Robertson Robb (7); Robert Gilchrist Robb (7); Philip Lightfoot Robb (7); Frances Randolph Robb (7)

c. Mittie Robb (6) married William Augustine Smith of King George. There only child, Frances Lightfoot Smith (7) is the wife of A. Randolph Howard of Fredericksburg. (One daughter Frances Randolph (8)

2. Mary Robb (5) died unmarried

3. Elizabeth Robb (5) married Robert Waring

4. Ellen Robb (5) died unmarried

5. Lucy Robb (5) was the first wife of Henry Waring

(by 2nd wife)(Mrs. Serephena Norfleet, nee Vermecula of Naples

6. Roberta Robb (5) died young

7. Margaret Robb (5) married Dr. Banum

Issue of Dr. Patrick Carrick (4) and Unknown (Pratt) Robb:

1. Lucy Ann Pratt Robb (4) married Dr. George Lewis of Westmoreland

2. John Robb (4) married Mary Turner of King George

Issue of Dr. George and Lucy (Robb (5)) Lewis

1. Millie Lewis (6) married ------------ Long or Clarke County

2. Alice Lewis (6) married Henderson Wallace

3. James Lewis

4. Eliza Lewis

Issue of John and Mary (Turner) Robb (5)

1. Mary Robb (6)

2. Lelia Robb (6)

3. Jennie Robb (6)

4. Patrick Robb (6)

5. Alice Robb (6) married 1st ---------- Maddox by whom she had one daughter, Josephine Maddox; married 2nd George Richardson

Issue of Colonel Spencer and Lucy (Waring) Ball (3), second daughter of Colonel Frank Waring and Lucy Cocke:

I. William Ball (4), a distinguished Colonel in the War of 1812, died unmarried.

II. -------------- Ball, a physician of note, resident of Fairfax County.

III. Spencer Ball married Bettie Landon Carter, daughter of Councellor Robert of Nomini, Westmoreland County

IV. Henry Ball

V. Elizabeth Ball married John Burwell

Issue of William Latane of Essex County and Anne Waring (3), third daughter of Colonel Frank and Lucy (Cocke) Waring:

I. John Latane (4) born April 27, 1777, married Parthenia Robinson, daughter of Robert Payne Waring of Paynesfield, Essex County (three children: Roberta Latane (5); William Latane (5); Mary Latane (5).

II. Lucy Latane (4), born September 14, 1778, married July 1800, Robert Payne Waring of Edenetta, son of Robert P. Waring of Paynesfield (two children: Robert Waring (5); Mary Waring (5).

III. Samuel Peachy Latane (4), born December 30, 1779, died 1794

IV. Henry Latane (4), born July 29, 1782, died June 1860; married October 28, 1818, Susan Allan, daughter of James Allan of Spring Hill, Essex county.

V. Mary Latane (4), born July 29, 1785; died February 8, 1838; married January 10, 1804, John Temple of King and Queen

VI. Thomas Latane (4), born May 14, 1787; died August 1837; married October 1, 1818, Mary Bassett, daughter of Nelson Berkeley of Hanover county (one daughter Lucy Robinson Latane (5)

VII. William Catesby Latane (4), born April 14, 1788; died August 1846, married Ann Eliza Burwell, daughter of James and Judith Ball Burwell.

VIII. Ann Susanna Latane (4), born November 7, 1791; died July 7, 1822; married May 22, 1810, Warner Lewis of “Lewis Level”.

IX. Elizabeth Latane (4), born May 11, 1794; died February 1727; married December 1810, James Waring, son of Robert Payne Waring of Paynesfield.

X. Susan Latane (4), born November 7, 1797; died May 12, 1807

Issue of Henry (4) and Susan (Allen) Latane:

Lewis Latane (5); John Latane (5); Thomas Latane (5); Ann Ursula Latane (5); Henry Waring Latane (5); James Allen Latane (5); William Samuel Latane; Peachy Lewis Latane and John Latane (twins)(5)

Children of John and Mary (Latane (4)) Temple were Arthur Temple (5); John Temple (5); Lucy Latane Temple (5); Henry Waring Temple (5)

Children of William Catesby (4) and Ann (Burwell) Latane: James Henry Latane (5) born 1820; Ann Waring Latane; Susan Catesby Latane; John Lafayette Latane

Children of Warner and Ann S. (Latane(4)) Lewis: Thomas Waring Lewis (5); William Latane Lewis (5); John Lewis (5); Joseph Lewis (5); Henry Lewis (5)

Children of James and Elizabeth (Latane) Waring: William Payne Waring; John Henry Waring; Thomas Waring; Warner Lewis Waring.

Susanna Waring, third daughter of Colonel Frank and Lucky Cocke Waring, married Dr. John Taliaferro Lewis of Culpeper county, a distinguished graduate of Edinburgh, Scotland, and a son of Colonel Charles Lewis, who resided at Cedar Creek, near Port Royal, Va., who was brother of Fielding Lewis of Fredericksburg, Av.

WARING FAMILY

Colonel Thomas Waring emigrated from England and settled at Goldsburg, St. Anne's Parish, Essex county, VA, in the latter part of the seventeenth century. He was vestryman, justice of the peach and represented Essex in the House of Burgesses in 1736. He died at his family seat, January 17674, leaving two sons Frank and Thomas Waring, and three daughters, Elizabeth Waring, the eldest married Thomas Todd of King and Queen county, from whom are descended the Fauntleroys and Todds of that county. Mary Waring, the second daughter, married Henry Robinson of Hanover, brother of Speaker John Robinson, from whom descend the Robinsons, Winstons and Pollards of Hanover. Anne Waring, the younger married Rev. James Stith of St. Anne's Parish, a man of distinguished talents and piety. Mrs. Ann Lile Butler was their daughter.

Thomas Waring, the second son above named, born September 8, 1719, married Betty Payne, an heiress, and the owner of Payne's Island. Frank Waring, the elder son, was born July 23rd, 1717, died 1771. He inherited Goldsberry; was a vestryman, justice of the peace, and represented Essex in the House of Burgesses in 1758 and 1764. He married Lucy Cocke, daughter of Sec. William Cocke, of Williamsburg, who was aunt of Mrs. Bishop Madison, of Gen. Woodford of the Revolution and of Dr. Walter Jones, who represented the Northern Neck in Mr. Jefferson's administration, and was a writer of great force and perspicuity.

GRAY FAMILY

William Gray, of Garleraig, Scotland, married in 1718 Jennett Barrie.

William Gray, his son, also of Gareraig, was born 1729, died 1777; married Isabella, only child and heiress of John Bowie of “Hill of Bath”, and Agnes Spreul, and grand-daughter of John Bowie and Marian Gow, whose silver ladle, marked J. B. & M. G., and Bowie seal is in possession of their descendant, Mr. John Bowie Gray, Sr., of “Traveler's Rest”, Stafford county, Va.

The following is from the diary of Mr. John Gray, grandfather of the above, written in 1845. The said Mr. Gray was born 1769, at Garlcraig; came to America 1784, settled first in Port Royal, and in 1809 purchased Traveller's Rest, once the residence of Col. Burgess Ball, and spoken of in a pamphlet by his grandson, Capt. G. W. Ball, as “the well-known and most appropriately named seat”, whose unbounded hospitality characterized it literally. This reputation was no less marked in the change of owners, even to the present day.

“My brother William being the eldest, inherited the whole of my father's estate. My first cargo of goods I purchased with my small patrimony, about 400 pounds, that I got from my grand-uncle, Andrew Spreul's will who lived in Gosport, Va., and I believe owned the site on which the Navy Yard now stands”.

The old seal of Gray is described by Nesbit as follows: (This seal, with that of Bowie, was inherited by Mr. Gray, and is now in possession of his great-grandson, John Bowie Gray, Jr.)

Gray Arms: Gules. A lion rampant within a bordure engrailed argent Crest. An anchor in pale of Suppartors. Two lions guardant gules. Motto: Anchor fast anchor.

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Land: 1698, Carolina (VA).³⁷³ Indenture made 2d day of May, 1698, between Daniel Cox, in the County of Middlesex, Proprietary of Carolana and fflorida, on the one part, and Sir William Wailer, Knight, Oliver, Marques de la Muce and Monsieur Charles de Sailly, of the other part: "Whereas a discovery being made of a region or Territory in ye parts of America between ye degrees of 31 and 36 North latitude inclusively, King Charles V, by Letters Pat. under the great seal bearing date Westminster, 30 October, in the 5th year of his reign, granted and confirmed unto Sir Robert Heath, Kn'ght, all this land lying within certain boundaries; and also all those Islands of Veanis, Bahamas, and all other Islands or Isletts there or neare thereto, and lying Southwards of and from ye s'd Continent, all w'ch lye within ye degrees of 31 and 36 northern latitude inclusively,'' &c., &c. Of this land, Daniel Cox sells to the above nam'd parties 500,000 acres, English measure, on ye west side of ye River Spiritu Sancto, which empties itself into ye Bay of apalache at ye N. E'd of ye Gulph of Mexico, which shall be purchased by ye Proprietary of ye Indian natives; To have and to hold the s'd Tract of land to them, the said Sir William Waller, Knight, Oliver, Marques de la Muce and Monsieur Charles de Sailly, their heires and assigns forever; and if ye s'd parties and their associates shall take up 500,000 acres more, they shall have power from ye Proprietary so to doe, Provided it be taken up within ye space of Seaven yeares ensueing the date hereof, paying quit rents for the same," &c., &c. The late King did erect this Territory into a Province, and named it Carolana, and the said Islands the Carolana Islands. The last 500,000 acres to be purchased by the parties to the second part "of ye Indian natives at their own proper charge and expence;" and they shall be allowed "six months' time to view the country in order to their choice of such Lands whereon they intend to settle, and that from and after the time of their choice of such lands, that the said Sir Wm. Wailer, Kn'ght, Oliver, Marques de la Muce, and Monsieur Charles de Sailly, or their associates, shall enjoy the said lands Seven yeares, paying only a ripe Ear of Indian Come in the season if demanded ; and from ye Expiring of the said Seaven yeares 5 shillings Sterling money of England, or the value thereof, in either Come or Bullion of Gold or silver, as a Quitt-rent for every 500 acres of Land soe taken up and purchased by the Proprietary as aforesaid." Dr. Cox also reserved for himself the selection of 2 or more places for Ports or Harbours, with a competent Tract of land adjoining; also stipulates for certain royalties on all mines, quarrys, or pearl fisheries discovered. Also certain concessions are made for the introduction into the country of " 100 families or 200 Persons," Protestants. " It is mutually agreed, that if the said parties and their associates doe not within the space of 2 yeares, next ensuing ye date hereof, transport, or cause to be transported, at least 200 families to plant and settle within ye s'd Colony, then this Grant and commission shall cease, Determine, and be utterly void and ineffectuall to all Intents and purposes whatsoever."

DAN' LL COXE.

Land: 1700, VA.³⁷³ Daniel Cox sold 500,000 acres to the Huguenots.

Conjecture: 2006, TX Hunt County, Greenville.²⁵² I linked the two Daniel Coxes together because they were in the same county at the same time. And also the name Daniel is exrememly rare in Cox antiquity.

Don Giddens

Fact: Land ownership, From 1685, NJ. 1. Certain deeds of conveyance vesting in Daniel Cox two shares of propriety in East New Jersey. These deeds are : First. One from Edward Byllynge, one of the original 24 proprietors of East Jersey (see Learning & Spicer, 73), being a lease and release for one share, dated 19th and 20th of March, 2 Jas. II. (1685-86) ; second, a deed from the widow and heir of William Gibson, another of the original 24 proprietors, to Thomas Cox, for one share, dated 6th April, 3 Jas. II. (1687), and a deed from R.it‹Tt West and Thomas Cox to Daniel Cox, for the same share, dated 4th December, 1 W. & M. (1639). These deeds, if duly authenticated, show that Daniel Cox- who, history tells us, was not only a noted person at court, being physician to the queen of James II., and to Princess, afterwards Queen, Anne, but a very prominent man in the affairs both of East and West Jersey - was the owner of two shares of propriety in 1689. It will be seen that he disposed of them to the West Jersey Society in 1692. But in the mean time he made other deeds or mortgages affecting these shares. The records show that he conveyed the first share, purchased from Byllynge, to one Samuel Stancliff, in April, 1687, and that Stancliff got out a warrant for 10,000 acres of land upon it, but whether he ever procured surveys therefor is not shown. It would seem that this conveyance was by way of secuiity or mortgage, and that the share was recon- veyed to Daniel Cox ; for, in January, 1690-91, Cox conveyed the same share to John Hyde and John Haskins by way of mortgage ; and they joined him in releasing it to the West Jersey Society, in March, 1692, soon after the conveyance of his propel'ty in America to that association, as will presently be mentioned. The other share, derived from the Gibson estate, was also mortgaged by Daniel Cox to Roliert West and Benjamin Wetton, by lease and release, dated 5th and 6th of June, 2 W. & M. (1690) ; and these persons joined him in a quitclaim to the West Jersey Society, in March, 1692. The records and certified copies of all these conveyances were produced in evidence on the trial. The objections to their reception will be noticed hereafter. Meanwhile it is pertinent to observe here that they were recognized by the proprietors of East Jersey, as will presently appear.

2. The next link in the plaintiffs chain of title is a survey to Doctor Daniel Cox, returned and entered October 7, 1691, for 2,400 acres of meadow at Little Egg Harbor beach, which it is conceded embraces the premises in question. The plaintiff first introduced a resolution of the council of proprietors, adopted May 20, 1690, as follows : -

" Forasmuch as this board is given to understand by the surveyor general that there is at least 24,000 acres of meadow at Barnegat, it is therefore agreed and ordered that each propriety have allotted to it 1,000 acres of the said meadow, and that warrants be granted to each proprietor, and such other person or persons, their equal quantity, according to each one's proportional share in a propriety as they now hold, when desired, and that all the upland adjoining to the said meadows be granted to such of the said proprietors as desire the same, provided it join their own meadow."

Several of the proprietors availed themselves of this resolution, and took up lands at the Barnegat meadows and on Little Egg Harbor beach, and took patents therefor. Four of these patents were produced in evidence, -one to Peter Somans, dated 24th May, 1690, for 6,300 acres, partly on the beach ; one to A. Gordon, of same date, for about 4,000 acres, embracing 3 miles of the beach ; one to Thomas Hart ; and one to William Dockwra, -all including portions of the beach in continuous tracts. The tenor of the survey to Dr. Cox is as follows, to wit: -

" By warrant from the proprietors of East New Jersey, dated May 20, 1690, surveyed and laid out for Doctor Daniel Cox (in right of two proprieties), two thousand four hundred acres of meadow and upland at Barnrgat, in two tracts : The first on ths beach of Little Egg Harbor, beginning at the north side of the mouth or opening of

Fact: Governor of Jersey Colony, 1690.

Daniel married Rebecca Coldham [11817] [MRIN: 5062] in 1671 in London.

Children from this marriage were:

384 i. Daniel Cox [5864]

ii. Judge Daniel Cox [68] was born in 1664 in England, London³⁷⁴ and died on 21 Mar 1737 in NJ Hunterdon Will at age 73.

Daniel next married someone.

His child was:

i. Daniel Cox [17452] was born in 1674 and died in 1738 in NC Craven Will at age 64.

769. Rebecca Coldham [11817], daughter of John Coldham [11818] and Rebecca Dethick [11819], was born circa 1640.

Rebecca married Dr. Daniel Cox Physician to the Queen [11816] [MRIN: 5062] in 1671 in London.

770. William Windley [2169], son of Robert Windley [6024] and Mary [17014], was born in 1652 in NC Bath County⁷⁸ and died after 1705.

General Notes:

I am descended from Daniel Cox of Chowan Co NC and I found this deed as follows:

"Chowan Co NC Deed from Daniel Cox to Samuel Patchett dated 8 July 1707 my plantation conveyed to me by my father-in-law, William Windley. Wit: Nathaniel Chevin and Silas Smith." Would you please check your Windley Genealogy book and see if you have any information on this William Windley and his daughter who married Daniel Cox.

William married ANN [5865]⁵¹ [MRIN: 597].

Children from this marriage were:

385 i. Windley [59]

ii. William Windley [17037] was born circa 1675 in NC Albemarle County and died after 1717 in NC Beaufort County.

771. ANN [5865]⁵¹ died after 1705.

ANN married William Windley [2169] [MRIN: 597].

772. Major Robert Beverly Grandchild? [10111],²⁹⁷ son of Robert Beverly [10113] and Frances Fairfax [5876], was born circa 1630 in Beverley, Yorkshire²⁹⁷ and died circa 1678 in VA Middlesex County, Christ Church Parish²⁹⁷ at age 48.

Will: 20 Aug 1686. John Beverley named in his father's will dated August 20, 1686: I give unto my sonne John Beverley and to his heirs forever three thousand acres of land part of the Devident of land situate in Rappahannock Countie on both sydes a great runne and commonly called and known by the name of Beverley Parke and adjoining on one part thereof to Buttons Rainge. The Said three thousand acres to be contiguous and in a square or long square or neer that figure and to be by him made choice of at the age of twenty-one years out of the whole tract, or within three years after my decease at his pleasure and the lines and bounds thereof to suit his Choyce (for ascertaing the same) to be put upon the records of Rap'a Countie, New Kent Countie or in the Master secretaries office.

Robert married Mary Keeble [10112] [MRIN: 4381] on 1 Apr 1656 in VA Middlesex County, Christ Church Parish.²⁹⁷

Children from this marriage were:

i. Harry Beverly [10106] was born circa 1660 and died circa 1731 in VA Spotsylvania County at age 71.

ii. Peter Beverly [10116] was born circa 1658.²⁹⁷

iii. Robert Beverly [10117] was born circa 1659 and died in 1733 at age 74.

386 iv. John Beverly [10134]

v. William Beverly Grandson? [10135] was born in 1698 and died in 1756 in VA Essex County at age 58.

vi. Mary Beverly [10137] was born circa 1664.

vii. Catherine Beverly [10138] was born circa 1665.

viii. Thomas Beverly [17574]

Robert next married Catherine Hone [23294] [MRIN: 10061] on 28 Mar 1679 in VA Middlesex County.

773. Mary Keeble [10112] was born in 1635 in Yorkshire²⁹⁷ and died on 1 Jun 1678 at age 43.

Mary married Major Robert Beverly Grandchild? [10111]²⁹⁷ [MRIN: 4381] on 1 Apr 1656 in VA Middlesex County, Christ Church Parish.²⁹⁷

Mary next married someone.

Her child was:

386 i. John Beverly [10134]

774. William Early [4371],²⁹⁸ son of William Early [5935] and Elizabeth Stephens [5939], was born in 1650³⁷⁵ and died in 1704 in NC Craven County, New Bern²⁹⁸ at age 54.

William married Eleanor Williams or Stephens [4372]²⁹⁸ [MRIN: 1748] in 1670 in VA.²⁹⁸

Children from this marriage were:

387 i. Margaret Early [4018]

ii. Eleanor Early [5936]

iii. William Early [5937] was born in 1670 in NC,³⁷⁶ was christened in 1717 in NC Chowan County tax list, and died on 6 Aug 1740 in NC Chowan County³⁷⁶ at age 70.

775. Eleanor Williams or Stephens [4372],²⁹⁸ daughter of John Stephens [5934] and Ann Wade [5940], was born on 1 Jun 1655 in VA York County³⁷⁷ and died on 2 Sep 1732 in NC Craven County maybe⁷⁸ at age 77.

Eleanor married William Early [4371]²⁹⁸ [MRIN: 1748] in 1670 in VA.²⁹⁸

780. James Bruton [5942],²⁸⁶ son of Bruton [5943] and Unknown, was born circa 1650 of Lawns Creek Parish and died after 1683 in VA Surry County titheables.

James married someone.

His child was:

390 i. James Bruton Unproven f/o Barbary [5941]

782. William Seward [11467]³⁷⁸ was born of Lawns Creek Parish and died after 1684 in VA Surry County titheables.²⁸⁶

William married someone.

His child was:

391 i. Mary Seward [11464]

800. Edward Hudgens [5493] was born in 1676 in England, Liverpool area.²²²

Edward married someone.

His child was:

400 i. William/Ambrose Hudgins [1598]

804. Robert Foster [21181], son of Major Richard Foster [21182] and Unknown, was born circa 1660³⁷⁹ and died in 1716 in VA Gloucester at age 56.

Robert married Elizabeth Garnett [21183]³⁷⁹ [MRIN: 9023] circa 1682 in VA Gloucester.³⁷⁹

Children from this marriage were:

402 i. Richard Foster [21180]

ii. John Foster [21188] was born in 1688 in VA Essex.

805. Elizabeth Garnett [21183] .³⁷⁹

Elizabeth married Robert Foster [21181] [MRIN: 9023] circa 1682 in VA Gloucester.³⁷⁹

808. James 1668 Davis S/O Simon And Mary [4172],³⁸⁰ son of Lt Simon Dolar Davis S/O Dolor And Margery [4186] and Mary Blood [4187], was born in Jan 1668 in MA Concord.

James married Ann [4183]³⁸⁰ [MRIN: 1674] JOINED together in genealogy by Don Giddens-.

Children from this marriage were:

i. James 1701 Davis S/O James And Ann [4192] was born in Oct 1701 in MA Concord.³⁸⁰

ii. Ruth Davis D/O James And Ann [4194] was born in Sep 1703 in MA Concord.³⁸⁰

iii. Thomas Davis S/O James And Ann [4173] was born in Nov 1705 in MA Concord.

iv. Joseph Davis S/O James And Ann [4193] was born in Jan 1707 in MA Concord.³⁸⁰

v. Ann 1709 Davis D/O James And Ann [4184] was born in Mar 1709 in MA Concord.³⁸⁰

404 vi. Benjamin 1712 Davis S/O James And Ann [2312]

vii. Zachariah Davis S/O James And Ann [4195] was born in May 1715 in MA Concord.³⁸⁰

viii. Esther 1717 Davis D/O James And Ann [4185] was born in Sep 1717 in MA Concord.³⁸⁰

809. Ann [4183] .³⁸⁰

Ann married James 1668 Davis S/O Simon And Mary [4172]³⁸⁰ [MRIN: 1674] JOINED together in genealogy by Don Giddens-.

816. Jeremiah Ellis [5593],²²⁷ son of Edward Ellis [5595] and Unknown, was born in 1643 in VA Surry County²²⁷ and died circa 1722 in VA Surry County²²⁷ at age 79.

Tax List: 1668, VA Surry County. Southwarke Parish

Jeremiah married Mary maybe Skinner [1526]²²⁷ [MRIN: 2377].

The child from this marriage was:

408 i. Jeremiah Ellis II [336]

817. Mary maybe Skinner [1526]²²⁷ was born about 1645.

Mary married Jeremiah Ellis [5593]²²⁷ [MRIN: 2377].

818. Harvey [7019], son of Sir John Harvey The Council [21907] and Unknown, was born circa 1650.

Harvey married someone.

His child was:

409 i. Sarah Harvey [1515]

820. VA Surry County Wiggins Unproven [5598] .

VA married someone.

His child was:

410 i. William Wiggins Unproven [5597]

832. Martin Sanders [4644],⁶¹ son of Rev. David Saunders or Sanders Baptist minister [3739] and Elizabeth Isaac [3740], was born on 20 Dec 1595 in England, Berkshire³⁸¹ and died on 4 Aug 1658 in Braintree, MA at age 62.

Immigrated: 1635.³⁸² Sailed for New England on the "Planter" with

Martin married Mrs. Rachel Wheatley Brackett [4662]³⁸² [MRIN: 1916] circa 1618.³⁸³

The child from this marriage was:

i. Martin Sanders s/o David [3738] was born on 4 Mar 1631 in England²³² and died on 4 Sep 1706 in Braintree, MA³⁸⁴ at age 75.

Martin next married Elizabeth Isaac [3740]²³² [MRIN: 1915].

Children from this marriage were:

416 i. Martin Saunders or Sanders s/o David [3736]

ii. Daniel Saunders or Sanders [4650]

833. Elizabeth Isaac [3740]²³² was born circa 1587.

Immigrated: 1622, VA.³⁸⁵ NIcholas Isaac, merchant

Elizabeth married someone.

Her child was:

i. Martin Sanders s/o David [3738] was born on 4 Mar 1631 in England²³² and died on 4 Sep 1706 in Braintree, MA³⁸⁴ at age 75.

Elizabeth married Martin Sanders [4644]⁶¹ [MRIN: 1915].

Elizabeth next married Rev. David Saunders or Sanders Baptist minister [3739]²³² [MRIN: 1941].

The child from this marriage was:

832 i. Martin Sanders [4644]

840. Frederick Hamilton [6993],³⁰⁵ son of Robert Hamilton [6995] and Christian Robeson [6996], was born on 4 Sep 1625 in Scotland, Lanark, Kitticide.³⁰⁵

Frederick married Christian Glen [6994] [MRIN: 2990].

The child from this marriage was:

420 i. Ireland James Hamilton [3744]

841. Christian Glen [6994] was born in 1633 in Scotland, Lanark, Glasgow.³⁰⁵

Christian married Frederick Hamilton [6993]³⁰⁵ [MRIN: 2990].

848. John Robins [17846], son of Dr. Thomas C Robins [17401] and Mary Hansford [17400], was born in 1668, was christened in 1704 in VA Gloucester County rent rolls, and died on 5 Aug 1725 in VA Gloucester³⁸⁶ at age 57.

John married Jane/ANNE Throckmorton [17847] [MRIN: 7496] in 1691.³⁸⁶

Children from this marriage were:

i. William Robins [17812] was born in 1715 and died in 1786 of Robin's Neck at age 71.

424 ii. Our John Robins [17272]

849. Jane/ANNE Throckmorton [17847], daughter of Captain John Throckmorton [17907] and Frances Mason [17911], was born in 1675 in VA Gloucester, Ware Parish.³⁸⁷

Jane/ANNE married John Robins [17846] [MRIN: 7496] in 1691.³⁸⁶

852. William Strother [8186],³⁰⁷ son of William Strother [8205] and Dorothy Savage [8207], was born in 1665 in VA Gloucester County and died in 1726 in VA King George County at age 61.

General Notes: Great-great grandfather of President Zachary Taylor

William married Margaret Thornton [8187]³⁰⁷ [MRIN: 3533].

Children from this marriage were:

426 i. William Strother [8181]

ii. Francis Strothers [8182] was born in 1700 in VA Culpeper County and died in 1752 in VA Orange County²³⁵ at age 52.

853. Margaret Thornton [8187],³⁰⁷ daughter of Francis Thornton [8188] and Anne Alice Savage [8189], was born in 1678.³⁰⁷

Margaret married William Strother [8186]³⁰⁷ [MRIN: 3533].

854. Richard Watts [8184]³⁰⁷ was born circa 1675 in If 25 When Child Born.

Richard married Mary Blagg [8185]³⁰⁷ [MRIN: 3532].

The child from this marriage was:

427 i. Margaret Watts [8183]

855. Mary Blagg [8185]³⁰⁷ was born circa 1675 in If 25 When Child Born.

Mary married Richard Watts [8184]³⁰⁷ [MRIN: 3532].

858. Thomas Salmon [17252], son of Thomas Salmon [17256] and Elizabeth Read [17257], was born in Mar 1676 in En Hertfordshire, Harpenden¹⁵⁹ and died circa 1751 in VA Orange County¹⁵⁹ at age 75.

Thomas married Mary Theriot [17253]¹⁵⁹ [MRIN: 7239].

The child from this marriage was:

429 i. Mary Salmon [17251]

859. Mary Theriot [17253],¹⁵⁹ daughter of William Theriot [17254] and Unknown, was born in 1680¹⁵⁹ and died after 1751 in VA Culpeper County.¹⁵⁹

Mary married Thomas Salmon [17252] [MRIN: 7239].

860. Andrew Harrison [17260],¹⁵⁹ son of Andrew Harrison [17263] and Eleanor Long [17264], was born circa 1650 in VA Old Rappahannock County and died in 1686 at age 36.

Andrew married Thomasine [17261]¹⁵⁹ [MRIN: 7244].

The child from this marriage was:

430 i. Andrew Harrison Jr. [17258]

861. Thomasine [17261] .¹⁵⁹

Thomasine married Andrew Harrison [17260]¹⁵⁹ [MRIN: 7244].

862. Robert Lovell [17265]¹⁵⁹ was born circa 1675.

Robert married Ursula Nicolas [17266]¹⁵⁹ [MRIN: 7247].

The child from this marriage was:

431 i. Mary Lovell [17259]

863. Ursula Nicolas [17266]¹⁵⁹ was born circa 1675.

Ursula married Robert Lovell [17265]¹⁵⁹ [MRIN: 7247].

864. Matthew M. Rushing persecuted Protestants [1315] was born before 1684 in Possibly In Germany Along The French Border Or Wales and died before 1730 in NC Anson County.³⁸⁸

General Notes:

The following information was supplied by Charles C. Rushing and appears

in the "Rushing Past" newsletter, II(1), March 1980. "Let's start with the Isle

of Wight County, Virginia. 'Early Eighteenth Century Palatine Emigration' by

Knittle (on Page 252) states that on the 2nd sailing from Holland to England

then to Virginia, there was listed 23 May 1709 Mathys Riesin (German for

Rushing) and Vrow (wife) and three children. Then on page 262 Mattys Russin --

they were of Protestant faith and could not worship as Protestants in Germany.

(Rushings) were living in an area overrun by Louis XIV of France and had

escaped to Holland. There they were helped by Queen Anne of England who

promised to take them to Virginia to settle there.

Researchers: 2000, Ayers.

Matthew married Elizabeth Vrow [1316] [MRIN: 491] about 1709.²³⁶

Children from this marriage were:

432 i. William Rushing [1305]

ii. Matthew Rushing [1317] was born about 1722.

865. Elizabeth Vrow [1316] was born about 1684 and died about 1743 about age 59.

Elizabeth married Goodson [1655] [MRIN: 647].

Elizabeth next married Matthew M. Rushing persecuted Protestants [1315] [MRIN: 491] about 1709.²³⁶

868. John Meador [6805],³⁰⁹ son of Thomas Meadors [6808] and Sarah Hoskins [6810], was born in 1653 in VA Essex County³⁰⁸ and died on 21 Nov 1721 in VA Essex County³⁰⁸ at age 68.

John married Elizabeth/Frances Aubrey [6807]³⁸⁹ [MRIN: 2892].

The child from this marriage was:

434 i. Jason Meadors VA [1324]

869. Elizabeth/Frances Aubrey [6807]³⁸⁹ was born in 1678 in VA Essex County.

Elizabeth/Frances married John Meador [6805]³⁰⁹ [MRIN: 2892].

872. William Coleman Nichols [6083], son of Nichols [6086] and Coleman [6087], was born circa 1710.³⁹⁰

William married Unknown [6085]⁸⁸ [MRIN: 2622].

Children from this marriage were:

436 i. Isaac Nichols [6077]

ii. Coleman Nichols [6082] was born circa 1737 in NC Bladen County.

iii. Jeremiah Nichols [6088] was born in 1740 in NC Bladen County maybe.

873. Unknown [6085] .⁸⁸

Unknown married William Coleman Nichols [6083] [MRIN: 2622].

880. William Freeman [4387], son of John Freeman [4388] and Elizabeth Hancock/ Stokes [5190], was born circa 1700 in VA Surry County maybe³¹¹ and died before 1761 in NC Granville County.³¹¹

William married Elizabeth Bridges [5189]³¹¹ [MRIN: 1756].

Children from this marriage were:

440 i. Bridges Freeman [945]

ii. Barbary Freeman [5194]

iii. Thomas Freeman [11483] was born in 1739 in VA Surry County.³⁹

iv. Thomas Freeman [11484] was born circa 1720.

881. Elizabeth Bridges [5189],³¹¹ daughter of William/Thos/Joseph Bridges Jr [9669] and Unknown, was born circa 1700 in If Same Age As Spouse.

Elizabeth married William Freeman [4387] [MRIN: 1756].

882. William Howell G'father [18583], son of William Howell [18579] and Rebecca [18580], was born circa 1680 and was christened in 1704 in VA Surry rent rolls.³⁰⁰

William married someone.

His child was:

441 i. Elizabeth Howell [4399]

888. Captain Thomas Massie House of Burgesses [2012], son of Peter Massie [5161] and Lucretia Ashley [8159], was born in 1675 in VA New Kent County³⁹ and died in Mar 1731 in VA New Kent County or Goochland³⁹¹ at age 56.

Rent rolls: 1704, VA St. Peters Parish.

Thomas married Mary Walker [5162] [MRIN: 865] on 23 Mar 1699 in VA Middlesex County, Christ Church Parish.³⁹²

Children from this marriage were:

444 i. Sylvanus Massie [2011]

ii. William Massie House of Burgesses [2013] was born on 28 May 1718 in New Kent, VA, St. Peter's Parish and died in 1749 in VA New Kent County³⁹² at age 31.

iii. John Massie [2014] was born on 3 Oct 1721 in New Kent, VA, St. Peter's Parish.³⁹³

iv. Mary Massie [2015] was born in Jan 1719 in New Kent, VA, St. Peter's Parish.³⁹³

v. James Massie [5160] was born in 1708 in VA New Kent County and was christened on 16 May 1708 in VA New Kent, St. Peters Parish.³⁹³

vi. Peter Massie [5196] was born on 4 May 1718 in VA Middlesex County, Christ Church Parish and died in 1756³⁹ at age 38.

889. Mary Walker [5162] was born circa 1676.

Mary married Captain Thomas Massie House of Burgesses [2012] [MRIN: 865] on 23 Mar 1699 in VA Middlesex County, Christ Church Parish.³⁹²

892. Robert Hudson [6033],²⁴² son of Robert Hudson [6036] and Mary F Farguson Ferguson [6814], was born in 1685 in VA Henrico County, Richmond²⁴² and died in 1757 in VA Chesterfield County at age 72.

Rent rolls: 1704, VA Henrico County, Richmond.

Robert married Martha Hancock [6034]²⁴² [MRIN: 2595].

The child from this marriage was:

446 i. Simon Hudson III [6030]

893. Martha Hancock [6034],²⁴² daughter of John Hancock [6035] and My Jane Holt if same John Hancock [6842], was born in 1689 in VA Chesterfield County²⁴² and died after 1758 in VA Chesterfield County.²⁴²

Martha married Robert Hudson [6033]²⁴² [MRIN: 2595].

896. William 1654 Lindsey [950], son of VA rent rolls Lindsey [23328] and Unknown, was born circa 1654 and died after 1704 in VA St. Peters and St Pauls rent rolls.

William married someone.

His children were:

448 i. William 1695 Lindsey Va [309]

ii. Joseph Lindsey Maybe A Son [23329] died after 1704 in VA St. Peters and St Pauls rent rolls.

900. John Martin [4424]²⁴⁷ was born circa 1659 in VA Essex County maybe²⁴⁷ and died after 1704 in VA Essex rent rolls.

John married Mary Johnson [4425]³⁹⁴ [MRIN: 1776].

The child from this marriage was:

450 i. Henry Martin [1541]

901. Mary Johnson [4425]³⁹⁴ was born circa 1663 in VA Essex County and died in 1715 in VA Essex County at age 52.

Mary married John Martin [4424]²⁴⁷ [MRIN: 1776].

902. Anthony Samuel [11521], son of Anthony Samuel [17306] and Anna [17307], was born in 1660 in EN Cornwall County, was christened in 1704 in VA Essex rent rolls, and died on 15 Jun 1731 in VA Essex County at age 71.

General Notes: only Samuel surname in the rent rolls.

Anthony married Mary Ann Rogers [17299] [MRIN: 4942].

The child from this marriage was:

451 i. Jane Samuels [1469]

903. Mary Ann Rogers [17299], daughter of Giles Rogers [17300] and Rachel Eastham [17301], was born in 1687 in VA New Kent.

Mary married Anthony Samuel [11521] [MRIN: 4942].

904. Sackfield Brewer Immigrant [4100],²⁴⁹ son of of London Edmund Brewer Desc Not Proven [4103] and Marie Waterman of London [4104], was born Est 1625 in If 25 When Child Born and died in Oct 1699 in VA James City County²⁴⁹ about age 74.

GenKin: 2003, GenForum#6763. Top of Form 1 Posted by: Davis Brewer </cgi-genforum/email.cgi?160583501> (ID *****3501) Date: August 14, 2003 at 08:43:08

In Reply to: Possible Lineage of the Sackfield Brewers fr 1530 <6492.html> by Don L Giddens of 6763

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Thank you Don for your hypothesis on the origin of our Sackfield line of Brewers. It is the first clue I ever saw to a family across the Atlantic.

Using your info, I have found one other site that gives the names of people of your first three generations--that of Janet Reakes from Australia that is easily found by searching Ancestry for Bartholomew Brewer. Janet does not name a Sackfield child and that is the key I need to fully accept your proposal.

Next, I think you may have an extra generation (and extra Sackfield). The Sackfield who died in James City county, VA, in 1699 (and had children Edmund and Katherine) was in Virginia nlt 1652. he was the only Brewer among 40 persons brought in by Jane Harmer so was in his late teens or early adulthood when he came over, most likely unmarried. His birth has been placed at 1632 but could have been several years earlier. Thus, he could have been your 4th generation Sackfield who named his two known children for his grandparents.

I have not studied your subsequent generations enough to comment yet, but if you would like to compare notes, my data can be seen at: <http://worldconnect.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?db=dbrewer1838>.

Would like to pursue your ideas. Please post comment or email me direct.

Davis Brewer

Immigrated: 1652, VA Northumberland County.

Sackfield married Mary Smith [4139]³⁹⁶ [MRIN: 1642].

Children from this marriage were:

i. Edmund Brewer [1872] was born in 1655 in England³⁹⁷ and died on 2 Oct 1699 in VA James City County at age 44.

ii. Sackfield Brewer [4137] was born circa 1650.

452 iii. Peter Brewer [532]

iv. Katherine Brewer [4140] was born in 1680.³⁹⁷

905. Mary Smith [4139],³⁹⁶ daughter of James Smith Immigrant [4136] and Unknown, was born on 26 Jan 1624 in VA³⁹⁸ and died in 1721 at age 97.

Mary married someone.

Mary married Sackfield Brewer Immigrant [4100]²⁴⁹ [MRIN: 1642].

906. George Lanier [11871] died after 1704 in VA Surry County rent rolls. Another name for George was Laneer.

George married someone.

His child was:

453 i. Letitia Lanier [1870]

920. William Ewing Persecuted Protestant [771],¹⁶³ son of William Ewing [772] and Eliza Milford [773], was born in 1665 near Sterling Castle, Ireland and died in NJ.

General Notes: The Ewings are of Scottish descent, originally from the West of Scotland, near Glasgow. They were located on the river Forth, near Stirling Castle, in the vicinity of Loch Lomond. Their religion was Presbyterian (John Knox).

During the mid 1600's there was a great religious persecution of the Protestants in Scotland. They fled to Ireland, settling in Colermaine, Londonberry, Ireland. July 12, 1690, the Ewing brothers took place in the Battle of Boyne. In this battle King James II was opposed by William of Orange who was fighting for the Irish Protestants. The result of that battle was the complete overthrow of King James II, thus forcing the abdication of his throne to William and Mary.

Immigration: 1689, NJ. Ewing, NJ is named after this family.

Fact. a "John Knox" Presbyterian, persecuted for his faith.

William married Findley Maybe [7123] [MRIN: 198].

Children from this marriage were:

i. Nathaniel Ewing [770] was born in 1692 in Coleraine, Londonderry, Ulster, Ireland.

460 ii. Captain Findley Ewing fled Northern Ireland [317]

iii. Charles Ewing [383] was born about 1735 and died about 1770 about age 35.

iv. Robert Ewing [158] was born in 1654 in Scotland, Stirlingshire, Stirling Castle and died in Londonderry, Ireland.

v. William Ewing [1751] was born in 1665 in Coleraine, Londonberry Ireland.

vi. James Ewing [1752] was born about 1667.

vii. Alexander Ewing [1753] was born in 1679 in Northern Ireland, Londonberry.

viii. Thomas Ewing Descendant [22592] was born in 1695, was christened on 10 Oct 1690 in Coleraine, Londonberry Ireland, died in Aug 1747 in NJ Greenwich, Cumberland County at age 52, and was buried in Old Presbyterian Chrurch.

921. Findley Maybe [7123] was born circa 1665.¹⁹⁴

Findley married William Ewing Persecuted Protestant [771]¹⁶³ [MRIN: 198].

922. Joshua Porter [1703]¹⁶³ was born about 1675.

Joshua married Margaret, grandtr Ewing [1704]¹⁶³ [MRIN: 843].

Children from this marriage were:

i. Rachel Porter [774] was born about 1700.

461 ii. Jane Porter [747]

923. Margaret, grandtr Ewing [1704],¹⁶³ daughter of William Ewing [772] and Eliza Milford [773], was born about 1675.

Margaret, married Joshua Porter [1703]¹⁶³ [MRIN: 843].

924. Robert Baker [319], son of Joseph Baker [157] and Mary [7135], was born in 1686 in PA, died in Apr 1759 in VA Prince Edward County at age 73, and was buried in New Connaught Myd.

Rent rolls: 1704, VA Nansemond County.³⁰⁰

Robert married Susan Packer [375] [MRIN: 691] in 1728 in VA Prince Edward County.

Children from this marriage were:

i. Douglas Baker [356] was born in 1688 in PA and died in 1765 in VA Prince Edward County at age 77.

462 ii. Rev. Caleb Baker Ireland [318]

iii. Rev. Andrew Baker "A Joshua" [972] was born in 1692 in MS Panola County³⁵⁶ and died in VA.

iv. Mary Baker [984] was born in 1696 in NC Wilkes County.

v. May Baker [985] was born in 1700 in NC Wilkes County and died in 1800 in NC Ash County, Walnut Grove at age 100.

vi. Samuel Baker [219] was born about 1732.

vii. Robert Baker [19062] was born in 1686 in VA Lancaster³⁹⁹ and died in Apr 1759 in VA Prince Edward County at age 73.

925. Susan Packer [375] was born about 1686.

Susan married Robert Baker [319] [MRIN: 691] in 1728 in VA Prince Edward County.

926. Rev. John Brooks [1869],⁴⁰⁰ son of Rev. John Brooks Minister of God's Word [9723] and Unknown, was born about 1670 in Lancashire maybe.

General Notes: unproven by DG 2004

John married someone.

His child was:

463 i. Martha Brooks [975]

928. John Wormington [905], son of John Wormington [21113] and Unknown, was born about 1675 in VA Norfolk County and died about 1744 in VA Princess Anne County about age 69.

Rent rolls: 1704, VA Norfolk County.

Will: 1728.³²⁶ In Jan 1728 - Jun 1729: The will of Richard Silvester of Beaufort County, North Carolina (besides bequests to son, Richard William Silvester including land at Bridgetown, Norfolk County, Virginia) "to William Worminton two bitts of ground in Virga att ye Bridgetown."

In 1730, 1732, 1733, 1734, 1735 - Norfolk County tithables (1 poll)

On 5 Sep 1744 Princess Ann County deed (see father, John Wormington notes)

On 18 Feb 1747 the Norfolk County will of George Griffen was witnessed by William Wormington, Richard William Silvester, and John Lockhart.

On 10 Jun 1750 and 10 Jun 1751 Norfolk tithables list: "William Worminton and negroes Dick and Sarah".

On 11 Jun 1753 the Norfolk tithables lists: "William Wormington and son Abraham and negros Dick and Sarah". (note: a white male became a tithable at age 16)

On the 1754 Norfolk County tithables lists: "William Wormington and son Abraham and negros Dick and Sary".

On 12 Feb 1755 in the Norfolk County deeds, he sold 18 1/2 acres to John Murden "adjacent to Murden's high ground".

On 10 Jun 1756, the Norfolk County tithables list: "William Wormenton and son Abraham and William and negros Dick and Sarah".

On 10 Jun 1757 the Norfolk County tithables lists: "William Worminton and son Abraham and negroes Simon, Dick, and Sarah.

On 10 Jun 17 59 and 10 Jun 1761, the Norfolk tithables lists: "William Wominton and negroes Dick, Simon, Sarah, and Violet" (Abraham is listed on his own on another page)(note: Samuel was 16 at this time, but had been at that age only 5 months and was not listed)

- 10 Jun 1762, Feb-Mar 1762 William's will in Norfolk County (Will Book 1, page 76) too much info to list here. See notes on father. Mentions living children Abraham, Alice, Letice, Samuel, and Mary with Samuel as Executor (age 17?) with Richard Silvester. Property includes slaves (Dick, Sarah, Simon, Violet, and Jack) and just over 285 acres of land around Great Bridge. His own plantation went to grandson William, son of Abraham (after death of Abraham) with 135 acres and his father's plantation to son Samuel with 150 acres.

John married someone about 1700 in Princess Anne Co VA.

His children were:

464 i. William Wormington [895]

ii. Abraham Wormington [906] was born about 1705 in VA? and died in 1734 in Norfolk? Co VA about age 29.

iii. Grace Wormington [907] was born about 1707.

iv. John Wormington [908] was born about 1710.

930. John Lockhart [897],¹ son of Lockhart [11517] and Unknown, was born about 1675.

John married someone.

His child was:

465 i. Mary Lockhart [896]

932. Edward Denby [11519], son of William Danby [21070] and Unknown, was born in 1665 in VA³²⁶ and died after 1704 in VA Norfolk County rent rolls. Another name for Edward was Denby.

Edward married Elizabeth Pullen [21114]³²⁶ [MRIN: 4940].

The child from this marriage was:

466 i. Edward Denbigh [886]

933. Elizabeth Pullen [21114]³²⁶ was born circa 1665.

Elizabeth married Edward Denby [11519] [MRIN: 4940].

934. Thomas Sikes [21069]³²⁷ was born circa 1695.

Thomas married someone.

His child was:

467 i. Ann Sikes [887]

936. Our John Hassell [17578],¹⁶⁴ son of Edward Hassell [17580] and Johannah Briggs [17062], was born in 1678¹⁶⁴ and died in 1734 in NC Tyrrell County maybe¹⁶⁴ at age 56.

John married Rachel/Jane Wheeler [17579]¹⁶⁴ [MRIN: 7386].

Children from this marriage were:

468 i. Our Abraham Hassell [17576]

ii. Joseph Hassell [21021] died in 1783 in NC Tyrrell County.

iii. Benjamin Hassell [21023] was born circa 1700 and died in 1781 in NC Tyrrell County at age 81.

iv. John Hassell [21024] died before 1781.

v. Isaac Hassell [21026] died on 15 Jan 1776 in NC Tyrrell County and was buried in Presilar's Ridge maybe.

937. Rachel/Jane Wheeler [17579]¹⁶⁴ was born circa 1680¹⁶⁴ and died in 1724¹⁶⁴ at age 44.

Rachel/Jane married Our John Hassell [17578]¹⁶⁴ [MRIN: 7386].

938. Anthony Alexander Patentee [21016] was born circa 1690 and died in 1741 in NC Tyrrell County at age 51.

Anthony married someone.

His children were:

469 i. Priscilla Alexander [17577]

ii. Anthony Alexander [21017] died in 1784 in NC Tyrrell County.

iii. Benjamin Alexander [21018] died after 1748 in NC Tyrrell County Quit Rents.

iv. Joshua Alexander vestryman, St. Andrews parish [21019] died after 1748 in NC Tyrrell County Quit Rents.

v. Isaac Alexander [21020] died in 1777 in NC Tyrrell County.

vi. Joseph Alexander [21059] died in 1746 in NC Tyrrell County.

vii. Anne Alexander [21060] died after 1741.

viii. Lemuel Alexander [21061] died in 1778 in NC Tyrrell County.

ix. Rachel Alexander [21062] died after 1741.

x. Sarah Alexander [21063] died after 1741.

xi. John Alexander [21064] died after 1741 and was buried in Mocason Plantation maybe.

xii. Josiah Alexander [21065] died afft 1741 and was buried in Huttle Fields Plantation maybe.

xiii. Gideon Alexander [21066] died after 1741.

940. John Jennett Sr [17050], son of John Jennett [17571] and Dorothy [21055], was born circa 1700, was christened in 1735 in NC Tyrrell County Quit Rents, and died in 1738 in NC Tyrrell County at age 38. Ancestral File Number: 605 acs.

John married someone.

His children were:

470 i. John Jennett Jr [17045]

ii. Abraham Jennett [17051] was born circa 1725, was christened in 1740 in NC Perquimans County tax list, and died in 1761 in NC Tyrrell County at age 36.

944. Mathew Turpin [4379],³³⁰ son of Michael Turpin IMMIGRANT [4383] and Unknown, was born in 1664⁴⁰¹ and died in 1689⁴⁰² at age 25.

Rent rolls: 1704, VA Henrico County, Richmond. Thomas Turpin, Sr. and Jr.

Mathew married Sarah Hatcher [21162] [MRIN: 9006], daughter of Edward Hatcher [21163] and Unknown, in 1686 in VA Henrico, St. John's Church.⁴⁰³

Mathew next married Elizabeth Becket [4380]³³⁰ [MRIN: 9008].

The child from this marriage was:

472 i. Henry Turpin [4378]

945. Elizabeth Becket [4380],³³⁰ daughter of Thomas Beckitt [11510] and Unknown, was born Est 1675.

Elizabeth married someone.

Elizabeth married Mathew Turpin [4379]³³⁰ [MRIN: 9008].

Elizabeth next married Turpin [21878] [MRIN: 1752] Est 1700.

The child from this marriage was:

i. Michael Miles Turpin [11509] was born in 1735 in VA Lunenberg.⁴⁰⁴

948. John Lewis [11522]⁴⁰⁵ was born circa 1690.

John married Elizabeth Claibourne [11523]⁴⁰⁵ [MRIN: 4944].

The child from this marriage was:

474 i. Littleberry Lewis [4384]

949. Elizabeth Claibourne [11523],⁴⁰⁵ daughter of John, Thomas, or William Claibourne [11524] and Unknown, was born circa 1690.

Elizabeth married John Lewis [11522]⁴⁰⁵ [MRIN: 4944].

960. Our Isaac Lewis [6923],²⁵⁹ son of Our Edward Lewis [6924] and Bridget [6925], was born in 1692 in Chesthunt, Herefordshire⁴⁰⁶ and died in 1742 in NC Bertie County²⁵⁹ at age 50.

Isaac married Our Margaret Hooker [10280] [MRIN: 2958].

The child from this marriage was:

480 i. Our William Lewis [6921]

961. Our Margaret Hooker [10280], daughter of William Hooker [10281] and Unknown, was born circa 1692 in If Same Age As Spouse⁴⁰⁷ and died in NC Maybe.

Margaret married Our Isaac Lewis [6923]²⁵⁹ [MRIN: 2958].

962. Banks [18231] was born circa 1690 in NC Maybe.

Banks married someone.

His child was:

481 i. Janet Banks [6922]

964. Teunis Jansen Van Pelt [10248],³³¹ son of Teunis Jansen Van Pelt [10250] and Unknown, was born circa 1699 in NY Kings County, Manhattan.

Teunis married Elsje Hendricks [10249]³³¹ [MRIN: 4458] circa 1690 in Manhattan.

The child from this marriage was:

482 i. Jan Van Pelt Belgian [9461]

965. Elsje Hendricks [10249]³³¹ was born circa 1699.

Elsje married Teunis Jansen Van Pelt [10248]³³¹ [MRIN: 4458] circa 1690 in Manhattan.

966. Henry Perrine [10273], son of Daniel Perrin HUGUENOT [10274] and Maria Thorell [10275], was born circa 1669 in Richmond, Staten Island, NY.⁴⁰⁸

Henry married someone.

His child was:

483 i. Mary Ann Perrine [9462]

970. John Tavener [22135], son of John Tavener [22136] and Unknown, was born in 1675 and died after 1712 in VA Richmond.

John married someone.

His child was:

485 i. Tavner Maybe [22129]

992. Our William Stinnett [8642],²⁶¹ son of Our William Stinnett [8643] and Unknown, was born in 1682 in MD Calvert.

William married someone.

His child was:

496 i. Benjamin H Stennett/ Stinnett [8641]

994. Our William Saunders/ Sanders Planter [9482], son of Our Matthew Saunders/ Sanders [9484] and Eleanor [9485], was born in 1684 in MD Charles County and died in 1731 in MD Charles County at age 47.

William married Alice Faulkner Only Heir [9483] [MRIN: 4076].

The child from this marriage was:

497 i. Our Elizabeth Sanders [9481]

995. Alice Faulkner Only Heir [9483], daughter of Shipwright John Faulkner [18215] and Alice [18216], was born circa 1694 in MD Charles County and died circa 1711 in MD Charles County at age 17. Another name for Alice was Falkner.

Alice married Our William Saunders/ Sanders Planter [9482] [MRIN: 4076].

996. Our Isham [17419], son of Our Henry Isham [7236] and Katherine Banks 3rd Wife [10338], was born circa 1680.

Isham married someone.

His child was:

498 i. Our James Isham [8644]

1000. Hightower [18236] was born circa 1690.

Rent roll: 1704, VA. No Hightowers are listed.

Hightower married someone.

His child was:

500 i. Hightower [18235]

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