The Daughters of Isaiah Parker Mayfield Nash
Top (L→R) • Willie Parker Merritt • Sarah 'Susie' Angeline Summerlin • Piety 'Ruth' Othello Britt • Front (L→R) • Margaret Ida Nash • Maudie Louise Hughes • Berune Rosella Ball • Mayfield Assentha Ophelia Bolton • |
The Children of Miles Nash (1770 SC - 1840 AR):
| |
|
• DeKalb County GA Data • • Gwinnett County GA Nash Data • • Nash Civil War Summary Collateral Lines • Parker • Weed • Wells • Cary • Buck • • Miles • Patillo • Willard • Willis • Beauchamp • | ||
| Version 3.0 | March 2010 | |
| Michael S. Parks (parks@uh.edu) | ||
Isaiah Parker Mayfield Nash and Martha Angeline Weed
|
Miles Nash' Sons and Grandson's in the Civil War
Below is a table of the sons and grandsons of Miles Nash and their status at the end of the war.Of the 16 grandsons of service age, only Dr. Miles Nash's son Fletcher did not serve (rheumatism). Of the 16 service records found so far:
|
|
Edward Nash Data Edward Nash ( - ) Sources
Edward Nash Transactions
Miles Nash Data Miles Nash (1770 Orange NC-1940 Conway AR) Transactions:
Dekalb Nash Marriages:
DeKalb Will Records:
DeKalb Confederate Database Nash, Edward Newton Private 6 Nash, Francis M. Private 1* Nash, J.N. Private 2 Nash, John F. Private 1 Nash, John Miles Private 2* Nash, John Miles 4th Corporal 5 Nash, John W. Private 3* Nash, John W. Private 6* Nash, Miles H. Private 2 Nash, Thomas Washington Private 1 Nash, Willard P. Private 6* Nash, William Milton Private 1* Nash, William Riley Private 6 Nash, William T. Private 5 Regiment Key to the DeKalb Confederate Database: #1 Company E, 7th Regiment Georgia Volunteer Infantry, Army of Northern Virginia, C.S.A. DeKalb Light Infantry May 29, 1861 #2 Company A, 38th Regiment Georgia Volunteer Infantry, Evans' Brigade, Gordon's Division, Wright's Legion, Army of Northern Virginia, C.S.A. "Murphey Guards" September 26, 1861 #3 Company K, 38th Regiment Georgia Volunteer Infantry, Evans' Brigade, Gordon's Division, \Wright's Legion, Army of Northern Virginia, C.S.A. "DeKalb, Fulton, and Bartow Avengers" (also known as Co. G and New Co. B) September 26, 1861 #4 Company D, 42nd Regiment Georgia Volunteer Infantry, Army of Tennessee, C.S.A. "DeKalb Rangers" March 4, 1862 #5 Company D, 38th Regiment Georgia Volunteer Infantry, Evans' Brigade, Gordon's Division, Wright's Division, Army of Northern Virginia, C.S.A. "McCullough Rifles" April 1, 1862 #6 Company F, 36th Regiment Georgia Volunteer Infantry, Army of Tennessee, C.S.A. April 10, 1862 #7 Company B, 66th Regiment Georgia Volunteer Infantry, Army of Tennessee, C.S.A. July 16, 1863 #8 Company E, 66th Regiment Georgia Volunteer Infantry, Army of Tennessee, C.S.A. August 1, 1863 #9 Company H, 66th Regiment Georgia Volunteer Infantry, Army of Tennessee, C.S.A. August 8, 1863 #10 Company A, 10th Regiment Cavalry Georgia State Guards August 4, 1863 Nash Soldiers in Henderson's Roster Dekalb Co GA Company E 7th Georgia Infantry Nash, Francis M.----- private May 29, 1861. Died of disease at Richmond, Va. November 20, 1862. [note likely son of Robert Bolt Nash of Gwinnett] Nash, John F: ---- private July 17, 1861. Sick at Charlottesville, Va. April 11, 1862. No later record. [note there is NO "John Nash" at Footnote.com in Company E or any other company in the 7th GA; NPS Soldiers and Sailors says a "John T Nash" was in Company E 7th GA; a "John Nash" is NOT a son of Robert Bolt Nash like the three other listed here] Nash, Thomas Washington------- private May 29, 1861. Captured at Lawrence Mills, Va. January 5, 1864. Released at Rock Island, Ill. May 28, 1865. [note likely son of Robert Bolt Nash of Gwinnett] Nash, William Milton----- private May 29, 1861. Wounded at Garnett's Farm, Va. June 27, 1862. Died of wounds July 17, 1862. Buried in HollywoodCemetery at Richmond, Va. [son of Robert Bolt Nash, grandson of John Walker Nash] Dekalb Co GA 12th Battalion Georgia Light Artillery - Co C Nash Edward M., Pvt., Enlisted 11/8/63, Decatur, 8/31/64 absent sick, 11/1/64 absent sick last entry. 1850 Census list E.M. Nash age 6 living Dekalb Co in the household of John Nash. Dekalb County, Muster Roll of Company F, 36th Regiment [these are all sons of Larkin Nash of Dekalb GA] Nash, Edward Newton- private August 4, 1862. Captured at Vicksburg, Miss. July 4,1863, and paroled there July 9,1863. Leg disabled at Resaca, Ga. October 10,1864. Nash, John W. private August 4,1862. Captured at Nashville, Tenn. December 16, 1864. Died of pneumonia at Camp Chase, O. February 13,1865. Grave #1216, Camp Chase ConfederateCemetery. Nash, Willard P. private April 10, 1862. Captured at Nashville, Tenn. December 16,1864. Transferred to Camp Chase, O. January 4,1865, and died there of variola February 15,1865. Grave #1271, Camp Chase Confederate Cemetery. Nash, William Riley- private April 10, 1862. Captured at Baker's Creek, Miss. May 17,1863. Paroled at Fort Delaware, Del. and exchanged July 4, 1863. Wounded in hand, necessitating amputation of two fingers, at Missionary Ridge, Tenn. November 25, 1863. Pension records show he was at home on furlough close of war. (Born in DeKalb County, Ga. December 10, 1833. ) Dekalb County COMPANY A, 38th REGIMENT Nash, John Miles - private September 26, 1861. Transferred to Co. D, and appointed 4th Corporal April 1, 1862. Hand amputated in 1862. Died at Petersburg, Va. June 15, 1862. Nash, J. N.- private March 1, 1862. Transferred to Co. D, April 1, 1862. Appointed 2d Corporal July 1862; 4th Corporal January 1863. Wounded in left arm, necessitating amputation above wrist, at Gettysburg, Pa. July 1, 1863. At home, wounded, close of war. Nash, Miles H.- private September 26, 1861. Transferred to Co. D, April 1, 1862. Wounded at Cold Harbor, Va. June 27, 1862. Captured at Mine Run, Va. May 6, 1864. Sent from Elmira, N. Y. to James River, Va. for exchange, February 20, 1865. (Born in Ga. in 1841. Died in Gwinnett County, Ga. in 1913.) Dekalb County COMPANY D, 38th REGIMENT Nash, John Miles - 4th Corporal April 1, 1862. See private Co. A. Nash, J. N.- See private Co. A. Nash, Miles H.- See private Co. A. Nash, William T.- private May 1, 1862. Wounded at Sharpsburg, Md. September 17, 1862; Winchester, Va. September 19, 1864. [note: I cannot find this reference to Winchester in the compiled military service record] At home, wounded, November 1, 1864. (Born in DeKalb County, Ga. March 1, 1834.) Dekalb COMPANY K, 38th REGIMENT Nash, John W.- private May 15, 1862. Severely wounded at Fredericksburg, Va. December 13, 1862. Died of wounds in Richmond, Va. hospital January 2, 1863.
DeKalb Cemetery Records for Nash
Name: NASH, B.N.
Born: Oct 18 1844
Died: May 25 1914
Cemetery: SMC
Source: Garrett
Name: NASH, Bonnie Lee
Born: 1861
Died: 1893
Cemetery: DEC
Source: Garrett
Wife of Sanford S. Nash
Name: NASH, Charles Wickliffe
Born: Jul 9 1878
Died: Apr 7 1892
Cemetery: ICB
Source: Garrett
Name: NASH, F.M.
Born: Sep 30 1827
Died: Feb 4 1904
Cemetery: SMC
Source: Garrett
Name: NASH, Francis M.
Born: May 8 1872
Died: Oct 28 1949
Cemetery: DEC
Source: Garrett
Name: NASH, Henry W.
Born: May 11 1897
Died: Aug 18 1900
Cemetery: GHC
Source: Garrett
Name: NASH, Henry W.
Born: May 11, 1897
Died: Aug 18, 1900
Cemetery: GHC
Source: Mary West 1999
Son of ___ & __A Nash
Name: NASH, I.N.
Born: Jun 6 1843
Died: Nov 29 1913
Cemetery: SMC
Source: Garrett
Name: NASH, Jane Ann
Born: Feb 16 1830
Died: May 8 1904
Cemetery: SMC
Source: Garrett
Wife of F.M.Nash
Name: NASH, Jinnet
Born: Mar 8 1804
Died: Sep 25 1875
Cemetery: SMC
Source: Garrett
Name: NASH, Larkin
Born:
Died:
Cemetery: OFC
Source: Garrett
No marker
Name: NASH, Leonard Leslie
Born: Feb 7 1902
Died: Jul 2 1925
Cemetery: EAS
Source: Garrett
Name: NASH, Lewis
Born: Mar 11 1811
Died: Sep 11 1895
Cemetery: RCM
Source: Garrett
Name: NASH, Lillie Leoto
Born: 1884
Died: 1919
Cemetery: LTC
Source: Garrett
Name: NASH, Ludie Bond
Born: Jun 11 1866
Died: Jun 25 1929
Cemetery: RCM
Source: Garrett
Wife of L.T.Y.Nash
Name: NASH, M.D.
Born: Aug 10 1889
Died: Jan 3 1920
Cemetery: PHB
Source: Garrett
Name: NASH, M.K., Mrs.
Born: Oct 29 1842
Died: Jan 2 1921
Cemetery: RCM
Source: Garrett
Name: NASH, Maggie Eugenia
Born: Nov 1 1874
Died: Nov 4 1904
Cemetery: NHC
Source: Garrett
Wife of W.R.Nash
Name: NASH, Margaret Ida
Born: May 1, 18893
Died: Aug 26, 1979
Cemetery: GHC
Source: Mary West 1999
Name: NASH, Marinda Jane
Born: Apr 17 1842
Died: Sep 9 1923
Cemetery: NCP
Source: Garrett
Wife of Wm.Riley Nash
Name: NASH, Martha A.
Born: Oct 29, 1861
Died: Mar 15, 1929
Cemetery: GHC
Source: Mary West 1999
Mother
Name: NASH, Martha Ann
Born: Mar 23 1857
Died: Jun 4 1913
Cemetery: PHB
Source: Garrett
Name: NASH, Mary J.
Born:
Died: Sep 18 1850
Cemetery: HAC
Source: Garrett
Name: NASH, Mayfield
Born: Oct 1, 1860
Died: May 6, 1937
Cemetery: GHC
Source: Mary West 1999
Father
Name: NASH, Nancy A. Parker
Born: Oct 28 1830
Died: Apr 16 1916
Cemetery: FPB
Source: Garrett
Wife of Larkin Nash
Name: NASH, S.E., Miss
Born: Feb 28 1832
Died: Jun 23 1889
Cemetery: SMC
Source: Garrett
Name: NASH, Sanford S.
Born: 1853
Died: 1917
Cemetery: DEC
Source: Garrett
Name: NASH, Sarah E.
Born: May 1 1821
Died: Jul 19 1894
Cemetery: RCM
Source: Garrett
Wife of Louis Nash
Name: NASH, T.Y.
Born: Apr 13 1843
Died: Feb 1 1908
Cemetery: RCM
Source: Garrett
Name: NASH, Walter D.
Born: May 8 1877
Died: Oct 13 1914
Cemetery: SMC
Source: Garrett
Name: NASH, William
Born: Dec 15 1803
Died: Jun 22 1871
Cemetery: SMC
Source: Garrett
Name: NASH, William R.
Born: Dec 10 1833
Died: Mar 19 1899
Cemetery: NCP
Source: Garrett
Gwinnett County Georgia Nash Data
For sources on this family, begin at this site by James Nash. You will have
to page through the data generation by generation. This site is probably the
most definitive site on the descendants of Edward Nash who married Lucinda
Bell who was a son of the Edward Nash discussed at the beginning of this site.
Thus, this Edward Nash would be the older brother of the Miles Nash -- both
sons of the Edward Nash who died in 1783 in Spartanburg. Most the sons of
this Edward Nash migrated to Gwinnett County Georgia.
Here is what James Nash says about the Edward Nash who married Lucinda Bell
and the family lore:
Three traditions as to the origin of Edward Nash have been passed down through
his descendants...
None of these traditions have been documented.
Both James Hemery Nash and Edward Walker Nash stated that their grandfather
Nash was a Revolutionary soldier. Family records offer few clues as to his
Revolutionary War service. North Carolina records indicate that an Edward Nash
served in that state's Militia. However, an Edward Nash served in the British
army along with a brother, John, and these men had a mother named Elizabeth.
Was Edward a Tory or a patriot? It is conceivable that he served both in the
North Carolina Militia and as a loyalist soldier as well. Many did. We simply
do not know.
Sara Mary Nash ? time ? they migrated to Laurens District, South Carolina. About
1806, they moved several miles up and across Rabun Creek into Greenville
District, to the place known as 'Nash's Mill,' where Edward Nash operated grist
and saw mills, shops and a farm."
I will not contest nor confirm James Nash's conjectures above on the origins of either
Edward Nash or his son Edward. No direct evidence is put forward except what is largely
from oral traditions or Sarah Mary Nash documents I have discussed above.
The confusion I wish to address is identifying the Nash Civil War soldiers. As Gwinnett
and DeKalb counties are adjacent, several of the Confederate regiments (a regiment 10 companies each, 100 men per company) have both Gwinnett and DeKalb companies (e.g., 36th Georgia has Company F from DeKalb and Company K from Gwinnett) and some
members of a single company from both counties.
There are a plethora of descendants of Edward Nash (son of Edward who died in 1783) that are mostly from Gwinnett county and descendants of Miles Nash (son of Edward who died in 1783) who are mostly in DeKalb county.
To help identify which soldier belongs to which family, I have abstracted the data from James Nash's site including males of service age who are descendants of Edward Nash in Gwinnett County. I have omitted:
The remaining males are:
The following sections are collaterally related lines to Edward/Miles Nash families -- typically on the female sides sides. These sections do not necessarily trace the entire ancestry. Most all the research presented here is secondary. I have documented sources where available.
Nash Collateral Surname Occurences
1.0
Miles
Willis
Newton
Patillo
Willard
1.2.2.7 1.2.2.8
1.2.4.8
1.2.4.11
1.2.4.13
Collateral Miles Line
The above table makes it clear that the descendants of Edward Nash (1.0) utilize the family name "Miles" at least ten times in the first few generations.
The supposition is that Edward Nash was married to Elizabeth Miles and maintained close relations with her father and her brother. See Death of Captain William Miles section in this document.
Collateral Willis Line The table above indicates that the "Willis", "Willard","Newton" and "Patillo" enter the Nash family after "1.2 Miles Nash" (1760 SC - 1840 AR) was married. These surnames do NOT appear in the Gwinnett county Nash families descendants of "1.1 Myles Edward".
A further interesting note in this Chapter of Sara Mary Nash's book is:
"Roll 1261, Index of Judgements shows that Starling Willis (of Spartanburg), plantiff, brought suit against Miles Nash for $90 and obtained judgement." Starling Willis was the son of Richard Willis (Rev. War soldier in Benjamin Roebuck's regiment -- the one who noted Edward Nash's death). This Richard was married to Drusilla Barnett -- daughter of Joseph Barnett the J.P. who signed many of Edward and Miles' land transactions.
See the Spartanburg Willis page of Henry & Dianne Blankenship (here. There is a daughter Elizabeth Willis -- but I cannot connect her to Miles Nash (she married a Harmon Smith -- see this). So the Willis' below have all the right info -- except that Elizabeth marries a Smith!
"Richard Willis born 1745 married Drusilla Pearson Barnett about 1744 in Spartanburg County, SC. Drusilla is listed as the first child in the Bible of Joseph Barnett [Note: witness and adjacent landowner on Mile Nash's transaction above] & Lucy Wade. She is listed as Drusilla Pearson in the Willis Bible. Where did the name Pearson originate? Had she been married before Richard? Who were Richard's parents?"
They show:
RICHARD WILLIS, SR. was born February 25, 1745/46 in Virginia, and died December 25, 1837 in Spartanburg, South Carolina. He married DRUSILLA PEARSON BARNETT 1774 in South Carolina, daughter of JOSEPH BARNETT and LUCY WADE. She was born July 12, 1755 in Virginia, and died May 04, 1845 in Spartanburg, South Carolina.
All of the sons below appear on the Spartanburg censuses below.
Children of RICHARD WILLIS and DRUSILLA BARNETT are:
This Elizabeth Willis born in 1787 may be Mile Nash's wife. She is of the right age and location and could have had a child as early as Mils Nash's eldest known son Miles in 1802 when she was about 15.
The Blankenships provide much information on this Elizabeth Willis' father, Robert Willis (see this), such as:
Specifically they note:
"for duty in Roebuck's regiment since the fall of Charleston"
1 male over 16
Mile Nash is on the previous page (image40). The census shows:
This from "Migrations into Spartanburg Co." by Frank Scott, says:
"In covering the origins of settlers in this lower part of Spartanburg County before the Revolution the following are known or suspected of being from Orange, Culpeper or neighboring counties in Virginia:
Roebuck (Orange, Madison);
Collateral Patillo Line
From www.genforum.com/patillo (post 347) Gary Patillo posted the following text on the Patillo family:
"My father, George Pattillo, aged about twenty and his brother, Henry Pattillo, about eighteen years old, came to America in the year 1740. My father had not been in America in a great while, before he was married to Martha Varner, of Pennsylvania. He afterwards settled in Charlotte Co. Virginia, where he reared the most of his family – five sons and three daughters – their names as follows: James, William, David, John, and Samuel – Sarah, Mary and Janet.
My father’s brother, Henry Pattillo, settled in North Carolina; and in time became an eminent Presbyterian minister. He married, and reared several children. All the Pattillos in America are descendants of those two brothers; the most of them being those from George Pattillo, my father, who was a devout, holy man, a Wesleyan Methodist – my mother of the same faith.”
See this bio:
Licensed to preach in Virginia in 1757, he moved to NC in 1765. Rev. Henry Patillo ran a school in Orange NC. This was one of the first schools in Orange. Sent by Govenor Tyrone to pacify the Regulators in 1771. Trustee of Queen's College in Charlotte NC.
From Orange County, 1752-1952 By Hugh Talmage Lefler, Paul Woodford Wager:
Rev. Henry Patillo and Mary "Millie" Anderson. Children (see this).
Henry's older brother George Patillo (1720 Scotland-1798 Charlotte VA) married 1735 in Lancaster PA to Martha Varner (1735- ).
From This rootsweb site
"George Alexander Pattillo, b. ca. 1720 in Scotland; d. 9 June 1798, Charlotte Co., Va. Married Martha Varner (Varnor, Vernon) of Penn. in Va., 1 July 1757. She was b. 1 Feb. 1735.
Came from Dundee, Angus County, Scotland to America with his brother, Henry Pattillo in 1740. George and his younger brother, Henry, had supposedly been in Penn. before moving to Va. They were closely associated with a large group of Scotch-Irish Presbyterians who had emigrated at an earlier date, by way of Penn., to the southern part of Virginia. The group we speak of settled in and around Cub Creek, Charlotte Co., then Lunenburg Co. John CaIdwell seemed to be the leader of this particular group as the area near Cub Creek was known as the "Caldwell Settlement
William Caldwell executed a deed, 2 Apr. 1751, in Lunenburg Co., Va., for the conveyance of one acre of ground on his land for a burial place to thirty-one men in his neighborhood. Among these men whose families we find closely associated with the Pattillo family were David Logan, James Logan, John Middleton, Isaac Vernon (Varner, Varnon) and Henry Pattillo. (Va. Hist. Mag., Vol. XVIII, pp. 40-41)
The first record we have of George Pattillo is in Lunenburg Co., Va., where he was listed as a tithable in 1752 by William Caldwell. The surname was spelled Portiilo, The name of John Varnon follows that of George, (Sunlight on the Southside, L. C. Bell, p. 187).
LUNENBURG CO., VA, RECS.
1763 - George PATTILLO sells Feather beds and Furniture to Robert Hastie & Co. for the sum of 20 Pds.
1764 - George PATTILLO acquires a land Patent in Lunenburg Co. on the branches of Little Louse Creek. Sum of 40 shillings for 400 acs. 27 June.
CHARLOTTE CO., VA. RECORDS (Formed 1764-5 from Lunenburg Co.) 1765 - 6 Aug. George PATTILLO and Isaac Vernon mentioned in a court proceeding.
- i July. George PATTILLO and David Caldwell to John Holt. 40 Pds.
for 540 acs. (DB 1, p. 42).
1767 - George signs as a witness to David Caldwell's will. 6 Mar. 1770 - 2 July. George witness for John Sandefer.
1774 -- George PATTILLO paid for schooling and boarding Anne Jackson, orpha: of William Jackson, dec'd. Theodorick Baker, her guardian. (Charlotte Co. Guardian Accts, - Film 7321, pt. 1, p. 46 (?).
1775 - 1 May. George purchases land on east side of Turnip Creek from John White. 221 acs, for 16 Pds. (DB 3, p. 511). 1781 - George exempted from payment of levees. 2 Apr. 1782 - George enumerated in tax list as head of household of 12. (If Geo. was a schoolmaster, some of the people enumerated in his household may have been students. It was customary for schoolmasters to give students room and board. Also see 1774.) 1783 - George is plaintiff in case against T. Wright. 5 May. 1788 - 5 Apr.; rec. 7 Apr. - George sells 221 acs. to Wm. Armistead for 200 Pds. (DB 6, p. 17).
1789 - George buys 400 acs. from Wm. Armistead for 200 Pds. His sons,James.: and John PATTILLO were witnesses to this sale as well as Benj. Hazelwood 13 May. Rec. 1 June (DB 6, p. 51).
1796 - George sells 447 acs. to Lewis Hammock for 143 Pds, Wit: Rebekah PATTILLO, James PATTILLO and others. 22 July. Rec. 5 Dec, (DB 7, p 224)."
(From Melba C. Crosse book)
"Mrs. Mattie Janet Miller, youngest daughter of Rev. Samuel Pattillo, son of George,wrote a history of the Pattillo family. In this she states the following: "The following facts are from my father, Samuel Pattillo. 'My father, George Pattillo, aged about 20, and his brother Henry Pattillo, about 18 years old, came to America in the year 1740. My father had not been in America a great while before he was married to Martha Varner of Penn, He afterwards settled in Charlotte Co., Va., where he reared the most of his family, five sons and three daughters their names as follows: James, William, David, John and Samuel, Sarah, Mary and Jane. My father's brother, Henrv Pattillo, settled in North Carolina, and in time became an eminent Presbyterian minister. He married and reared several children. All of the Pattillos in America are descendants of these two brothers, the most of them being those from George Pattillo, my father who was a devout, holy man, a Wesleyan Methodist, my mother of the same faith. My father, Samuel Pattilio was a Methodist preacher more than forty years before he was called to his reward in 1844. He was twice married; first to Frances Hall, by whom there were nine children. Their names: George Alexander, Leroy, Martha Reid, Wesley, Simeon, James, Elizabeth, Urban and Fannie. His second wife was Martha Bailey, by whom there were eight children, (three died in infancy), their names: Samuel Henry, Mary Louise, Robert Fletcher, Benjamin ;Upheus and h?fatde Janet."
(Signed) M. J. Miller
The first portion of this history by M. J. Miller has been included in the first chapter of this book.
George Pattillo gave his daughter Jane the middle name of JOHNSTONE. His brother, Henry, named a son William JOHNSTONE Pattillo. He, too, had a daughter named Jane who was a namesake of his mother. Was Jane, the mother of George and Henry, a JOHNSTONE before her marriage.
George Alexander Pattillo and Martha Varner had the following children whose names and birth dates were taken from the Bible of John Varner Pattillo:
Patillo Note (see this):
Jane Strother James was born 12 NOV 1796 in St. Paul's Parish, King George County, Virginia, and died in Laurens County, South Carolina. She married Patillo Farrow 2 JAN 1826 in St. Paul's Parish, King George County, Virginia, son of Thomas Farrow and Anne 'Nancy' Patillo. He was born 2 SEP 1796 in Spartanburg District, South Carolina, and died 18 OCT 1849 in Laurens County, South Carolina. [Thomas Farrow's land adjacent to Miles Nash]
See this article on the Spartanburg Farrows (see this) from Spartanburg Herald-Journal - Jun 9, 1974
It says John Farrow and wife Rosanne Waters settled on Musgrove's Mill on the Enoree River circa 1764 and reared 8 children. Eldest was Capt Thomas Stobo Farrow wounded at Cowpens whose third wife was Sophia W. Widowed daughter of Reverend Henry Patillo
This says: Anne 'Nancy' Patillo, b 1757 in Spartanburg District, South Carolina , died 21 AUG 1809 in Spartanburg District, South
Married 1 1774 Major Richard Benjamin Harrison NC Militia (1751-
Children:
Father: Henry Rev. Patillo b: 1726 in Scotland
Marriage 1 Richard Benjamin Harrison b: 1751/52 in Greenville County, South Carolina Married: 16 DEC 1774 in Bute, Surry County, North Carolina
Marriage 2 Thomas Farrow b: 5 FEB 1755 in Prince William County, Virginia
Married: AFT 1791 in Spartanburg District, South Carolina"
This is the Rev. Henry Patillo entry:
"Patillo, Henry, born in Scotland, in 1726. came to America at nine years of age, settled in Virginia, and became a merchant's clerk. He studied for the ministry, was ordained in 1758, and removed to North Carolina, where he had charge of Presbyterian churches until his death. He was a member of the North Carolina provincial congress in 1775, and chaplain to that body, and chairman of the committee of the whole. He also taught for many years. His ministry among the negroes was particularly successful. Hampden-Sidney College gave him the degree of Master of Arts in 1787. He published in that year a collection of sermons, edited John Leland's "Deistical Writers," and left in manuscript a catechism, several essays, and a geography. He died in 1801, in Dinwiddie county, Virginia.
"
The Reverend Henry Patillo's daughter Anne Patillo (Harrison Farrow) was Miles Nash's neighbor in Spartanburg SC from 1791-1809 when she died. The appearance of the surname "Patillo" three times is perhaps a homage to Rev. Patillo? I cannot as of yet find a Nash-Patillo bloodline connection.
Collateral Willard Line
Larkin Nash's wife Margaret Willard was born in SC about 1807 according to the 1850 DeKalb Cenus. Their eldest child -- Willard Nash -- was born circa 1829 -- in Georgia, implying the couple was in Georgia by that year. I cannot locate father Miles Nash on the 1830 census, however, Larkin is on the 1830 DeKalb Census as they alledgedly moved to DeKalb around 1826.
The existence of several Willard families in South Carolina makes the identification of Margaret Willard difficult. Geography suggests that John Willard who appears on the 1800 and 1810 Laurens census is the closest to the Spartanburg location where Larkin was born. Further, ALL the other Willards in SC are across Spartanburg County in the adjacent Union County. John Willard in Laurens is clearly the most geographically statisfying candidate.
This 1998 genforum.com.willard posting by Doris Buford says:
"My known ancestor was John Willard d.abt 1810 in Union County, S.C.. Is this the same John Willard that married Molly Howard in Mass.? John had at least five sons, James, John, Thomas, William and Beverly (or Barbery)..."
These names all appear census in Union County above:
A John Willard served under Brandon after the fall of Charleston (Bobby Moss, SC Revolutionary War Soldiers at ancestry.com page 993. This would be Col. Thomas Brandon's "Fair Forest Regiment" also commanded by Col. John Thomas. This was also known as the Spartan regiment -- referring to Spartanburg County.
This 1999 genforum.com.willard posting by Cathy Willard
"...Laurens SC , Township of Waterloo...Revolutionary War Tory John Willard was from this same area."
rootsweb says:
"John Willard, died 1816 Laurens, married Martha Hendrix. Son Micajah b 1797 SC. Mother-in-law was Margaret Hendrix...Tory Militia..."
Mustered at the shipyard on the Cooper River 23 Sep 1782
These entries are in "Bloody Bill" Cunningham's unit. See this,
This mother-in-law Margaret (Wynne) Hendricks daughter of William Wynne was married to Hance Hendricks (1723-1784) of Virginia who settled in Laurens County. Children:
Micajah and William served in Tory Militia: William Young's Troop of Dragoons, 96 Brigade, Charleston SC
Another Hendricks family:
James Hendricks was born 1707 Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, and died 1775 or 1780, 2-Mile Creek, Spartanburg Co., SC. He married 1728, Chester Co, PA, Elizabeth Linville. I think this your ... James Hendricks of 2-Mile Creek. Children:
Children:
James Hendrix and Frances Lea's son Larkin Hendrix was born 1780, Spartanburg Co., SC; d. Laud, Covington Co., AL, m. 1804 Elizabeth House, b. 1787, Spartanburg Co., SC; d. 1852, Lauderdale Co., AL (daughter of John House, b. 1760, Brunswick Co., VA; d. Sept. 18, 1840, Lauderdale Co., AL and Catherine Westmoreland, b. 1765, Brunswick Co.,> VA; d. 1810, Spartanburg, Co., SC)
Collateral Parker Line
From Parker in America, 1911 and Virginia heraldica: being a registry of Virginia gentry entitled to coat armor, with genealogical notes of the families by William Armstrong Crozier:
"Septemb'r ye 1st, 1673, Will Parker, Arch-Deacon of Cornwall and Justice of the Peace of ye same County, was the sec. bro. of Tho. Parker of Browsholme, Esq'r, who went from Browsholme into Cornwall about ye yeare 1580 whoe he m. is not knowne, but her Christen name was Joane, and was a mighty thrifty provident woman, and ye said will had two sonnes, James and Will, and his house is called Traugoe in ye parish of Wartigen, in Cornwall, about 16 miles of Launston, ye size towne of ye said county: James his eldest s. was m. to Katteran, eldest dau. of Sir Richard Bullar, of Shillingham, in ye said county, her porcon was 2500 pounds, ye said Bullar beinge a man of 7000 pounds per annum; Will ye younger bro. of Parson of Stoake in Cornwall, ye personage beinge worth 300 pounds p. an. and who was never m."
'ye 9th, Dr. of Phyzicke, went into Virginy, m. a Londoner and had issue 6 chn. Liveth upon the James River in ye uplands of Virginy and hath been High Sheriff of ye s'd County'
High Sheriff 1654-73 Nansemond County VA
From the Virginia Magazine of History and Biography (Vol. 19 pp. 191-2), Richard Parker (d. 1680) patented 400 acres on the south branch of the Nansemond River in 1654; 300 acres of land in Henrico County Virginia in 1669; 314 acres in Surry County VA in 1670; and 100 acres in Nansemond in 1675.
Richard Parker was married to Elizabeth Bailey daughter of Capt. Richard Bailey of London. Three sons are identified as acquiring 1420 acres on the Nansemond River headwaters. Though the land was in Virginia at the end of the 1600's, it ultimately became Northampton County North Carolina after the North Carolina-Virginia border was drawn and redrawn.
This says:
"To all people, etc. whereas, etc.... Now know ye that I, the said Sr. Henry Chisheley, Kt., his Majesties Deputy Governor, do give and grant unto Thomas, Richard and Frances Parker, the three sons of Richard Parker, dec'd. one thousand four hundred and twenty acres of land on the marsh adjoining, lying and being in the souther branch of nansemond, beginning at a red oak standing on a point to the northward of Cranny Creek mouth and opposite to a small island called Cranny Isle and at Crain's ehancing, thence running down by the main branch side according to the several curvings and windings of the said branch 'till it comes to a great decayed white oak standing a little above the creek's mouth which is called Parker's Creek;"
Richard's sons were:
rootsweb.com shows 256 descendant charts for Richard Parker the Immigrant. See this
See this rootsweb entry. It says this Richard was married to an unknown Pender
This says: "Richard Parker II - Richard PARKER - b. about 1653/4, probably in Nansemond Co., VA; d. after 1714, Nansemond Co., VA. Son of Richard PARKER I. Resided in that portion of Nansemond Co., VA which later became part of NC. Richard received land by grant in 1681 after the death of his father. However, patents for this land were not issued until Apr. 26, 1698, in parcels of 100 and 400 acres. He received additional land patents between 1698 and 1714 for a total of nearly 700 acres located near his existing holdings and the head of Bennett's Creek in what is now Gates Co., NC....Married Pender"
Sons of Richard II:
This says he married Elizabeth King.
"Richard and Elizabeth (King) Parker - Richard PARKER - b. about 1677, Nansemond Co., VA; d. about 1752, Chowan Co., NC. Son of Richard PARKER and Miss PENDER. Lived in that portion of Nasemond Co., VA that became part of Chowan Co., NC in 1728, and appointed a justice for Chowan Precenct 1731. He received patents between 1718 and 1749 to just over 1000 acres in Upper Parish of Nansemond and near the head of Bennett's Creek in what is now Gates Co., NC. Will dated Sep. 22, 1749, and admitted to probate in Chowan Co., NC in Apr. 1752.
One of his wives died in the summer of 1728, but his will indicates he was survived by another. Richard's lengthy will mentions 14 surviving children, and reveals that he, like his father and grandfather, acquired much land during his lifetime. Since his youngest two sons received no real estate, it is possible that they had received land transfers previously. His children are listed below in the order they appear in his will. Probably married second a Miss SWAN, and possibly married a third time."
Children:
This says:
"Richard PARKER was in Orange County as early as 1753; is listed in "Orange County Court of Pleas and Quarterly Sessions" as a 'Justice', and in 1766, "Richard Parker, Esq. presents his commission as Captain of Foot in the Regiment of Orange". He bought land "on Waters of New Hope", which, later was located in Chatham. Several deeds name wife, Ann. In 1771 a deed of sale was witnessed by James Turner, LEWIS PARKER and JOHN BOOKER. Lewis believed to be son of Richard. Lewis's wife believed to be Sarah HATLEY.
This on Chatham Land Grants says:
"1784 Jul 28 - Indenture made James Sellars Senior by virtue of power of
attorney from William Black to said Sellars of the County of Chatham and State of North Carolina of the one part and Nancy Hogan of same ... for and in consideration of 40 pounds paid the said James Sellars doth sell unto said Nancy Hogan that tract of said land lying in Chatham County on the waters of Great Bush Creek, the waters of New Hope consisting of 250 acres. Boundry neighbors: Richard Parker, Hogan, Clement,
Kirby."
Then this on Chatham Land Grants says:
"1795 Apr 25 - Indenture made between David Sellars of Chatham County,
NC, on the one part, and James McIver of same county, on the other part, witnesseth the said David Sellars for and in consideration of the sum of 50 pounds paid by said James McIver doth grant that tract of land being in Chatham County, NC, on the waters of Newhope containing 100 acres. Boundry neighbors: James Bynum, Griffin, Lewis Parker.
Another Chatham County Deed says:
"pg. 3, Aug. 38 1783
Isaiah Hogan ( - 1781) and Richard Parker (1718-1799) both of Chatham County NC were contemporaries. Isaiah was Sheriff of Chatham County 1777-1779. He was the son of Thomas Hogan. He was Captain of the Chatham County Militia in 1772. This says:
"On October 15th, 1776, an election was held in the various counties for the purpose of selecting delegates, who were to meet at Halifax on November 12th to frame a Constitution and establish a permanent form of government for the State. Isaiah Hogan represented Chatham County as one of these delegates"
This says that "Captain Isaiah Hogan (1746 VA-1781 NC) married Ann Parker" (perhaps a sister of Richard?).
This site on Chatham NC Deeds says:
p. 418, 20 Jan, 1775
This site says:
"John HOGAN, b. bef 1772 Chatham Co., NC, dau of Nancy Ann (Parker??) Hogan, later Jackson, moved to Greene or Hancock Co, GA; may be one in 1820 Jackson Co., GA, p. 234, near Cates and Culpepper fams?" He was only child of Capt. Isaiah Hogan who died 1781 Chatham Co., NC. Widow married a Jackson and moved to GA."
From Elanor Davis McSwain's
Some Ancestors and Descendants of Richard Parker , Chirurgeon, Born in Cornwall, 1629, Died in Virginia, Ca. 1680 and Many Other Parker Records. See this. The section on Richard Parker IV says:
Another member of the Nansemond Parkers that needs more research is
RICHARD PARKER who left North Carolina and came into Georgia. In the Parker
search many facts were gathered about this man, but the search has not been completed. He is an outstanding Parker and should be properly placed.
Jonathan(4) and Jonas(4) Parker, sons of Richard(3) Parker, went to Granville
County. Their brother, Francis Parker, has never been carefully traced. Some
researchers have thought that he was the Francis Parker who made a will dated 1791 and probated in Gates County, North Carolina. That Francis Parker appears
to be a younger man than Francis(4) Parker, son of Richard(3) Parker. As has been
stated before, the Nansemond Parkers were "land hungry" and their love of the land
makes them easier to trace. Francis(4) Parker, son of Richard(3) Parker, like his
brothers bought some land in Granville County.
William Bennett to Francis Parker, late of Chowan Co.
N. C., 450 acres on both sides of a creek of N. E.
Prong of the Tar River in Granville Co. April 4, 1756
wit. Jonas Parker, Jno. Edwards, Temperance Bodie
Since in the year 1756 there were few Parkers in Granville Co., and Jonas(4)
Parker, son of Ricahrd(3) Parker, had a brother Francis(4) Parker, who had been living
in Chowan Co. and there was no other Francis Parker in Granville, Jonas(4) Parker
was most certainly witnessing a deed for his brother Francis(4) Parker. Francis(4)
Parker sold the land to Benjamin Wade on February 20, 1759 {159}. The same land is
mentioned in a deed from William Taylor to Phillip Taylor for "250 acres in Gran-
ville Co., North Carolina, land on "Lick Branch" a prong of the Tar River. This land
was granted to William Bennett, April 20, 1745 and by him sold to Francis Parker
and by him to Benjamin Wade who sold to Wm. Taylor (160}
Jonas(4) Parker, son of Richard(3) Parker named sons Richard Parker and Stephen
Parker. Richard Parker of Orange County named sons Richard Parker, Stephen Parker,
and Daniel Parker, all names used by descendants of Richard(3) Parker. No records
are available to the author on the descendants of Stephen(4) Parker, son of Richard(3)
Parker.
Orange County was created from Granville County in 1752. Major Richard
Parker was in Orange County owning land on "Lick Branch". Richard Parker of
Orange County, North Carolina was made a J. P. in March 1757 {161}, He proved the
will of Wm. Milton in 1759, {162} had his mark recorded in 1761 and in August {163}
1763 he "presents comm as Capt. of Foot in Regt. of Orange County {164}. Again in
1764 he was made J. P. {165}. He and Patience Booker were granted "Letter of Adm."
on the est of Patience Booker, dec'd, about 1764 {166}. He made an inventory of the
estate of Patience Booker to the Court in 1764 {167}. In 1765 he, with two other men,
was to attend court at Halifax as Petit Jurors {168} and in 1766 Richard Parker as
Adm. was involved in a law suit. {169} One reference referred to "Maj. Parker" {170}
in 1787 so evidently Richard Parker had been promoted from Capt. to Major.
Richard Parker received a number of Land Grants in Orange County. There are four
grants recorded for 700 acres {171}, 300 acres {172}, 148 acres {173} and 345 acres {174}
In the early days of Chatham Co. North Carolina there appears to be only
two families of Parkers -- Richard Parker who was from Orange County abd Robert
Parker, son of Simon and Judah Parker of Edgecombe County, who has already been
traced. The first recorded deed to Richard Parker was on February 17, 1771 when
he sold to Oldham Hightower 180 acres on Newhope where Hightower was living. The
deed stated "Richard Parker of the County of Orange" and was witnessed by James
Turner, Lewis Parker and John Booker. {175} There were many deeds recorded in
Chatham County made by Richard parker and by him and his wife Ann Parker. A
few that give information are given here.
Richard Parker to William Griffin, land on New Hope
includes plantation where Stephen Parker now lives...
300 acres... on North side of Haw River, East side of
Pokeberry. Jan. 8, 1783
Richard Parker to Lewis Parker 643 a. on waters of
Newhope on Lick Branch... 400 pounds
Wm. x Copeland, Edward Edwards Rich'd Parker
Richard Parker and Ann Parker to John Hogan of Orange County
land on both sides of Newhope... 120 acres being a part
of a tract of 300 acres granted to sd. Rich Parker by
Earl Granville by deed bearing date of 12 May 1755.
13 Oct 1784 Rich'd Parker
Richard Parker Sr. of Chatham Co. to Tignall Jones
Sr. of Wake County.. 700 acres.. parts of three surveys..
sd. Parker's plantation where he now lives.. land on Pike-
berry Branch mentioned.
Maj. Richard Parker was closely allied with the Hogan Family. He sold
Isaiah Hogan land on "Lick Branch". {180} Isaiah Hogan died and on February 12,
1782 Nancy Hogan, Nancy x Hogan, J. Williams and Rich'd Parker were appointed
"Executors". {181} By 1785 John Hogan was appointed administrator of the est-
tate of his father. {182} (One deed states that John Hogan was the son of Isaiah
Hogan, dec'd.) In 1787 Nancy Hogan was appointed administrator of the estate. {183}
John Hogan came to Georgia about the same time Maj. Richard Parker and his
family came. Further proof that the Hogans were relatives is that Lewis Parker,
who seemed to be the oldest son of Richard Parker, named his oldest son, Isaiah
Parker
There were many changes in the county lines in Georgia about that time.
Washington County was created from Indian Lands in 1784. Greene County was made
from Washington in 1786, and in 1793 Hancock was made from Greene and Washington.
Warren was an adjoining county to Hancock. In 1825 Taliaferro County was formed
from Green, Hancock, Warren, and Wilkes Counties. The Parkers settled in this
area and are found in the records of several of them.
Major Richard Parker and Ann Parker moved to Georgia. In Wilkes Co., Georgia
Court Minutes of 1784, p. 29, is a notice, "Ordered that Richard Parker have a
Warrant for 200 Acres on the Waters of the Ogeechee, on his own Head Right". At
the same time Warrants were issued to Lewis Parker and Sherwood Hatley, both
from Chatham Co., North Carolina. In the Tax Digest for Wilkes Co., Georgia
for 1785, Capt. Thompson's District, the following men paid tax:
In the Minute Book Powellton Baptist Church, Mayfield, Hancock Co., Georgia
(organized in 1786) for the year 1786 were the names of Richard Parker and Ann
Parker. Although recorded deeds have not been located to show how much land was
owned by Richard Parker, he acquired a number of acres. On April 1, 1799 he
made a deed to his son, Richard Parker Jr., giving him some slaves and 516 acres
of land. In this deed he mentioned his "other children" but did not name them.
Richard Parker, Sr. of Greene County, Georgia, to son,
Richard Parker, Jr. for the consideration of the love,
good will & affection which I have & do bear toward
my son Richard Parker, Jr. & further for the con-
sideration of ten dollars, four negroes, to-wit, Cader,
Judah, James & Jincy; also one tract of land which I now
live on, containing 516 acres, lying on Powells creek,
part in Greene & part in Hancock, adjoining land of
John Cain, James Alford & John Johnston; together with
dwelling house thereon & all furniture, stock & ______
of all kinds, together with all my substance of any kind
whatever not posted to other children before this date.
April 1, 1799 Richard Parker (Seal) {184}
Signed, Sealed and delievered in the presence of
Reuben Slaughter, John C. Mason, Tho. Baldwin, J. G.
Recorded the 6th of April, 1799. Tho. Carleton, Clk.
By 1799 Major Richard Parker was growing old. When and where he died has
not been found but he evidently died between 1799 and 1811 as shown by this deed,
recorded in Chatham Co.
Richard Parker of Grreene County, Ga. to Francis Jones
land on Pokeberry Creek granted to Isaiah Hogan and
from John Hogan, son of Isaiah, deeded to Richard
Parker, Sr. Apr. 1, 1811
Of the four men, Lewis Parker, Stephen Parker, Daniel Parker and Richard
Parker, Jr. Only one, Richard Parker, Jr. is actually mentioned as a son of
Richard Parker, Sr. However Richard Parker, Sr. mentioned "other children" in
a deed and Lewis, Daniel and Stephen were so closely associated with him they
had to be his children. He sold the land on which Stephen Parker lived in Chatham
which certainly shows a close relationship. No doubt, Major Richard Parker and Ann
Parker had some daughters but their names are not known. Until proven other-
wise Lewis, Daniel and Stephen Parker are here considered sons of Richard and
Ann Parker.
In 1980 Elanor Davis McSwain produced:
Some Ancestors and Descendants of Richard Parker , Chirurgeon, Born in Cornwall, 1629, Died in Virginia, Ca. 1680 and Many Other Parker Records. See this. The section on Richard Parker V says:
Sarah "Sally" Relaford
Unmarked grave. According to her obituary in The Christian Index, she "Departed this life, at the house of Richard Parker, in Taliaferro county." She left behind "her weeping companion, and her seven affectionate children..." At the time of her death she "had been a member of the Baptist Church about 37 years..."
Family links: Children: William Parker (1793 - 1847)*
Burial: Parker Family Cemetery Taliaferro County Georgia, USA
Created by: R. L. Vaughn Record added: May 26, 2014 Find A Grave Memorial #130387274
Richard Parker, Jr.
Marriage Richard T. Parker
Will of Richard Parker, Jr.
Children of Richard and Sally Parker:
Granddaughters: Mary Celiar and Tobitha Louisa Holland
In the 1827, Richard and William Parker (father and son) are shown living adjacently in Taliaferro County. Richard is shown with:
William is shown with:
On the myFamily.com site, Lee Nelson provided the following text:
By: Lee Nelson (LN Notes enclosed in braces '[]')
Source: Certified Copies from Dr. Sidney J. Landman
- - - - - - - - - Page 1 - - - - - - - - - -
William Parker was born July 19th 1793 and died Sept the 14 1847
Eunice J. Parker was born December the 14th 1793 Oct the 8 1850
She was the twin of Perry Nelson and daughter of John Taylor Nelson and Chloe Kesterson.
Chla Kesterson was born January the 27 1763
Nancy Hill was born May the 29 1761
[Very different hand writing from that above]
Wife was Eunice Jane Nelson, Daughter of Taylor Nelson and
Elenor Carson Nelson
William was a soldier in the War of 1812
In 1832 William received a draw in the land lottery as a "soldier in the late war (1812)". No soldier records for William Parker have yet been found.
Later in 1832, Richard and William both received two draws as "heads of households" in the Georgia gold lottery of 1832.
In the 1830 Taliaferro County Georgia Census, William Parker is shown with 5 sons and 2 daughters. Father Richard's slaveholdings have increased to 18. In 1840, William is shown as the head of household with 7 sons and 3 daughters.
By 1850 William has died. The census for that year shows, father Richard at age 88, and adjacently, widow Eunice J (or I) Parker with the following children:
1. George (student) (1827
Also adjacent is Eunice and William Parker's son, Joseph Roberts Parker (age 29) with three small children. We may infer from this data that William Parker was married to Eunice (birthplace shown as Maryland).
To account for the seven sons and three daughters shown on the 1840 census, the three daughter are still at home in 1850, five of the sons can be accounted for (Joseph, George, Asa, Ezekial, and Wilie). The William M. Parker living with Tobias Holland can be connected to William via his sister Susanna who married a Holland.
moved to Dekalb Co, GA 1859
Collateral Weed Line
Jonas Weed and the Winthrop Fleet
Jonas Weed was an early puritan settler in Massachesetts arriving with the "Winthrop Fleet" in 1631. This was a successor immigration to the original Mayflower/Plymouth Rock of 1620.
Generations to from Jonas Weed (1598-1676) to Martha Angeline Weed (1861-1929)
Immigrant from Stanwick, England, 1631 to Watertown MA
Jonas Weed (1598-1676) was a Englishman born in Stanwick, Northhamptonshire (60 miles NW of London), England in 1598 on the banks of the River Nene. Jonas left England in 1630 to become a member of the Massachusetts Bay Colony and exercise his religious freedom.
As a Puritan dissenter facing increasing conformity to the Anglican church, Jonas set off with about 700 colonists on 11 ships of the Winthrop fleet. He sailed on the fleet flagship the Arbella from Yarmouth on April 8, 1630 and arrived in near Salem Massachusetts in June 12, 1630 after an uneventful crossing of eight weeks.
Jonas settled at a site ten miles up the Charles river and was a principle in the founding of the town of Watertown, Massachusetts.
Jonas was one of forty men who formed the Church at Watertown in July of 1630. In September of the year the settlements of Watertown, Boston and Dorchester were first recognized as towns by the Massachusetts Bay Colony.
In September 1634, he expressed dissatisfaction with the Church at Watertown and requested permission to "remove". In May 1635, six men were authorized to form a new Church Covenant in the wild west of Massachusetts.
Jonas and five others left to form a new colony on the Connecticut River one hundred miles west of Boston. With only six others, Jonas formed the first white settlement -- Wethersfield -- in what would become the state of Connecticut in May of 1635. One month later, Thomas Hooker founded the town of New Town (Hartford) ten more miles up the Connecticut river. New Town (Hartford) would become the capital of Connecticut.
In 1636, the newly settled commission for governing the Connecticut plantation permitted the Whethersfield group to form the Church at Whethersfield. In 1639 there were seven members of the church. Jonas Weed’s Jonas married Mary ? during his stay at Whethersfield. Two children were born in this Connecticut town. In 1640, thirty-three Whethersfield residents left to follow the Rev. Richard Denton to form another settlement based on ideological differences with the church.
This time Rev. Denton, Jonas Weed and twenty other purchased a tract of land for 30 pounds sterling. This purchase would become the town of Stamford Connecticut. The land was on the coast and called Toquams and then to Rippowams. After 1641, the settlement was named Stamford after the English town north of Stanwick -- home of Jonas Weed. Jonas Weed prospered here and had eight more children. He died in 1676 in his third American home in Stamford.
The following document survives Jonas.
"At a Courte at Stamford when ye Govenor and Capteayn Ashwood was members of the Courte, an action by Jonas Weed, Plaintiffe, agt. William, a captive Indian servant of Rich Crabb, defends. Declare of ye Plaintiffe, ye sayd William on a Sabbath Day stowll from me out of my house, in meeting time, one cloth gown, and one staffe gun, and some wampon, and some other things. Te sayd Indian confesseth all ye things; Gooodman Weed compleayns agst Goodman Crab for saying, 'ye goodman Weed his daughter might have drunks upe ye sack and hid ye things: Goodman Crab denies ye charge. --- Courte sentenc ye sayd Indian shall be whipped at ye pleasure of ye Courte, and shall be kept close prisoner till he may be sent out of ye countray, and be sold as a slave."
Jonas Weed is identified in numerous colonial records. He was a notable member of The Massachusetts Bay Colony, original settler of Watertown, Massachusetts, one of first settlers of Connecticut and the city of Stamford. The Stamford descendants were a prominent New England family for generations (see e.g., this or this or this).
Married first 1663 Joanna Wescott (1644-1678) daughter of Richard Wescott
Married 1702 Mary Beamon (1681-1743 Derby CT) daughter of George Beamon and Mary Jackson
Married 1730 Sarah Richardson (1710-1748) daughter of John Richason [sic] (See The Town and City of Waterbury Connecticut, Volume 1 by Sarah Johnson Pritchard, page 113. This says Sarah married Samuel Weed and...
"wife of Samuel Weed, 'who lately resided under covert at Waterbury, being an outlaw,' according to Probate rec."
Samuel Weed was notorious for his involvement in the "Derby Gang" of colonial counterfeiters.
From The Public Records of the Colony of Connecticut [1636-1776], 1747, pg.303.
"Whereas Samuel Weed, Daniel Tucker and Nathaniel
Worster, all of Derby in the county of New Haven, before a
special superior court held at New Haven on the 4th Tuesday
of April last past, were severally indicted for counterfeiting
the bills of publick credit on this Colony, or being aiding or
assisting therein, and the said Weed and Tucker before said
court were found guilty of the crime aforesaid on their con-
fession, and the said Worster was found guilty of the said
crime by the verdict of the jury, and thereupon the said Weed,
Worster and Tucker, were severally sentenced by the said su-
perior court to suffer the corporal punishments by law ordered,
and also that they should, each of them, forfeit all his estate
unto this government, and the sheriff of the county of New
Haven was by the said court ordered and directed to make
due enquiry alter and to seize and take into his possession the
estate of the said Weed, Worster and Tucker, until this As-
sembly should make some orders about the same: It is now
resolved by this Assembly, that Capt. John Fowler and Capt.
Samuel Bassett be a committee with full power, and authority
to demand and receive of Samuel Mansfield, Esq, sheriff of
the county of New Haven, all such goods or estate of the said
Weed, Worster and Tucker, as he has seized and is in his
hands or that may be found in the hands or possession of any
other person, both real and personal, and to make sale of the
same to the best advantage for the use of this government,
and to make and execute deeds of any lands sold as aforesaid
to any purchaser or purchasers, in behalf of this government;
and the money that shall be raised on such sales shall be de-
livered to the Treasurer, taking his receipt for the same ; and
in case any part of such estate cannot be sold to good advan-
tage for ready money, it may be sold on good bonds with sure-
ties payable at the expiration of a time not exceeding
two years, which bonds shall be lodged in the Secretary's
office. Always provided, that the said committee do not retain
or dispose of any of the estate of either of said persons as is
for necessary use and by law is already exempted from being
taken by execution, but allow them respectively to have the
same, and necessary provisions for their wives and families till
the first day of January next."
See also:
This reference states that Samuel Weed, Daniel Tucker and Nathaniel Wooster were arrested in 1746 for counterfeiting. Weed pleaded guilty and was sentenced to prison in Hartford CT and forfieted his property. Sarah Richardson (his wife) died in while he was in prison. He was paroled and sentenced to never leave Hartford County. In 1752 he remarried and had 4 children.
Samuel's children were:
Married 1759 Martha Messor
Rueben was born in Derby Connecticut and died in Abbeville SC. The sons of Samuel Weed apparently left Derby CT and moved to Newburg New York on the Hudson River. Sons Nathaniel, John and Reuben then migrated from Newburgh New York to South Carolina in 1774 prior to the beginning of the Revolution.
Reuben and Nathaniel were early members of the Long Cane Presbyterian Church in Abbeville SC.
Ethyle Porter Weed wrote in 1935 regarding his military service:
While interesting to find Reuben Weed's name on a Westchester County NY Militia unit in 1776 -- and to be recalled by Ethyle Weed in 1935. It is generally accepted that Reuben Weed was born in New Haven CT and moved to Orange County NY (Newburgh) where all his children were born 1760 through 1768. Some data implies that Reuben and his brothers Nathaniel and John moved to South Carolina in 1774 -- before the Revolution. Land records in Newburgh say he sold his property in 1774. Further there are many Weeds in and around the NY-CT border in Stamford CT who were more likely to be in the Westchester County militia."
I doubt the veracity of Porter's NY lieutenant claim for the Reuben who migrated to South Carolina.
For example there is a Rebuben Weed in Westchester NY (See this):
"10. Reuben Weed was born 3 Feb 1740 in Stamford, Fairfield County, Connecticut, and died 24 Jun 1810 in Greenfield, Saratoga County, New York. He was buried in Oakwood Cemetery, Troy, Renssalaer County, New York. He was the son of 20. Reuben Weed and 21. Lydia Holly.
11. Mary Schofield was born 1746-1747, and died 10 Feb 1812 in Greenfield, Saratoga County, New York."
or this:
"vii. Reuben Weed was born 03 FEB 1740 in Stamford, Fairfield Co., CT, and died 24 JUN 1810 in Greenfield, Saratoga Co., NY. He married Mary Scofield 30 MAY 1764 in South Salem, Westchester Co., NY, daughter of Ebenezer Scofield and Mary Smith. She was born 1746 in Stamford, Fairfield Co., CT, and died 10 FEB 1812 in Greenfield, Saratoga Co., NY. "
This Reuben Weed is the son of Reuben Weed 1717-1761 Stamford CT; grandson of Daniel Weed 1685-1765 Stamford CT; great grandson of Daniel Weed 1652-1697 Stamford CT; great great grandson of Jonas Weed, immigrant to MA. This makes him a distant cousin of The SC Reuben Weed and the likely Westchester County NY militia lieutenant.
The Reuben who moved to SC in 1774 was:
South Carolina Militia
"His March, 19 1785 petition in the Abbeville (96th) District issued Reuben 52 pounds for his "...duty as a private and also rum, provisions and forage for militia use in 1780 and 1781."
Ethyle Porter Weed in 1935 wrote to the Dept. of Pensions in Washington D.C., she states:
"...Reuben Weed was appointed Lieut. in 1776 (in N.Y. I believe). His services were under Gen Clinton....He moved to South Carolina in 1778 or 1779...This is NOT the Reuben Weed who migrated to South Carolina!
This is:
"...Aug 18 a Reuben Weed his account of militia duty before and after the reduction of Charleston and for rum, Provisions and forage for Militia use in 1780 and 1781."
Reuben, Jr. married Elizabeth Hawthorne who came to Pennsylvania with congregation of 87 families of Presbyterians of the Rev. Thomas Clark of Ballybay, Ireland in 1764. In the 1770's many of these Scotch-Irish Protestants came to South Carolina.
In 1832, Reuben, Jr. drew a 160 acre tract in the Chamber's district of Gwinnett County, Georgia. By 1840, Reuben had returned to Abbeville, SC. John Weed (1792-1883), Reuben Jr.'s oldest son, remained in Gwinnett county. He was also a successful lottery drawer -- moving to Gwinnett County in 1827. Reuben's Jr's other son Reuben III migrated to Indiana in 1837.
Regarding his military service:
Private, South Carolina Militia
"To Reuben Weed for Duty Col Anderson's Regiment #161.10
"96 District
In 1935 a letter summarizing his pension application says:
"He applied for a pension October 7 1839 while living in the Abbeville District, South Carolina aged 74 years and alleged that while a resident of said place he enlisted in February 1782, served as a private in Captain Joseph Calhoun's company in Colonel Anderson's South Carolina Reginment and was discharged November 30, 1782...
His claim was not allowed as he failed to furnish proof of service, in accordance with the requirement of the pension law."
In 1840 a discharge from service was submitted signed by Captain Joseph Calhoun in 1782. Proof was requested about the authenticity of the signature.
John Weed married Mary Buck in Abbeville, SC. Mary was the daughter of William and Margret Eiken Buck ( -1799) immigrated to Abbeville SC from Ireland in 1793. Mary was their first American born child.
William Buck and Margret Eiken Buck's children were:
John (1785-1871) Born Ireland died in Morning Sun, Ohio
John Weed and Mary Buck had the following children:
1st Lt. of Gwinnett Militia 1841
After 30 years in Gwinnett, John Weed moved to near Columbus on what is now the Fort Benning Military Reservation in Chattahoochee County in 1857. John Weed and Mary Buck moved with sons William, John H. and Samuel.
After the War Between the States John and Mary Weed and son John moved to Dale County Alabama and then to Texas in 1870. John died in Texas in 1882 at the age of ninety.
1st Lt. of Gwinnett Militia 1841
In 1857, John and Mary Buck Weed and three of their sons left Gwinnett County for Chattahoochee County. One son remained. Our bloodline through the Weed family follows son James left behind.
There are two works on the descendants of the Weed families:
James H Weed is omitted from the "Southern Weeds and Allied Families" work apparently owing to the mispelled last name on the census ("Weade").
James Weed and Rossana Wells were both born in South Carolina in 1820. They were married in 1838. This is the connection of the Weed to the Wells family line.
See 1850 Gwinnett census above, adjacent to father John Weed and mother Mary Buck.
Eldest son William, son John B. and father James all enlisted as privates in the "DeKalb Light Infantry", Company E, 7th Georgia regiment. Son William volunteered early (August 11, 1861). Father James (age 42 -- and son John D.B. -- age 16) enlisted the following summer on July 26, 1862.
On August 30, 1862, the three Weeds saw action at 2nd Manassas. Younger son John was killed, William and James were both wounded. This 100% family casualty rate must have been high, even for soldiers like these with only 5 weeks of military service.
William was noted as a "stock driver for the division" during 1863 and 1864. No later official records of his service have been found. Father James "lost four fingers in an accident" and is listed as "deserted Oct. 1864".
Compiled military service records for:
William Weed
Roxanne (Rosana Wells) died in 1899. Her obituary from the Gospel Messenger of October 1899 noted that she left "...her husband, eight girls, two boys (two deceased), forty-seven grandchildren (ten dead) and thirteen great grandchildren (five dead)".
Married Isaiah Mayfield Parker Nash
Collateral Wells Line
Data for this section is based on the Wills-Wells Family.rtf document from the yahoo.com Wells Genealogy Group
Emanuel Wills was born Unknown in England, and died Aft. 1653 in Warwick Co., VA. He married Elizabeth Cole 13 Oct 1635 in St. Gregory by St. Paul's Parish, London, England. She died Aft. 12 Jan 1670/71 in Warwick Co., VA.
Notes for Emanuel Wills:
The Wills/Wells Family of Warwick, VA
The Earliest Members of the Wills Family of Warwick County, VA. A "Working Draft" written September 1982 by Mr. Fred Eggleston of 11600 Stephen Road, Silver Springs, MD 20904-2728. The Draft was revised in 1992. Mr. Eggleston also produced an excellent chart of the likely connections of various Wills families to the immigrant Emanuel Wills and his wife Elizabeth Cole.
The Earliest Members of the Wills Family of Warwick County
(This is a "Working Draft" written in September 1982 by Mr. Fred Eggleston of 11600 Stephen Road, Silver S pring, MD 20904-2728. The Draft was revised in 1992. Mr. Eggleston also produced an excellent Chart of the likely connection of various Wills families to the immigrant Emanuel Wills and his wife Elizabeth Cole.)
"Among the 17th century settlers of Mulberry Isiand Parish in Warwick County, Virginia were members of the Wills family, whose descendants later spread to isle of Wight, Southampton, Surry, Amelia, Fluvanna, and other counties in the colony and state, and to North Carolina. The nearly complete destruction of Warwick County records during the Civil War and earlier has hampered efforts over the years to put together the early history of the family.(l) Sufficient pieces of the puzzle survive, nevertheless, to construct at least the begirining of an outline of the first three generations of the family in Virginia.
The Virginia family can be traced with reasonable assurance to an Emanuel Wills who was living in London by the 1630's (.2) "Emanuell Willes" married Elizabeth Cole at London's St. Gregory by St. Paul's Parish on 13 October 1635.(3) in the poll tax of 1641, Emanuel was listed as a freeman of the cooper's company, residing in the east-side parish of St. Olave, Hart Street.(4) The baptism of seven children of Emanuell and Elizabeth Wills, and the burial ( one, are recorded in the register of St. Olave, Hart Street for the following date!
Not five years after the last of these entries, an "Eman. Wille, Elizabeth his wife, and six children" had arrived in Virginia as shown by the list of headrights for a land patent for 1,850 acres on the Potomac River, granted to Peter Knight and Baker Cutt(s) on 13 October 1653.s Emanuel died very soon after his arrival, most likely before the patent, for Captain Baker Cutts had married Elizabeth and then left her a widow for the second time by 26 February 1656/7, when she and Peter Knight split the acreage and renewed the patent.(7)
Elizabeth very shortly took a third husband, Captain Henry Jackson of Mulberry Island Parish in Warwick County. Captain Jackson and Elizabeth sold her portion of the Potomac River patent to Capt. Thomas Fowke, whose son hat the patent renewed in 1665 after his father's death.(8)
By the middle of 1659, the rigors of early colonial lifes had cost Elizabeth her third husband and half the children she had brought to Virginia perhaps nine years or so before. The will of Captain Henry Jackson of Mulberry island Parish was dated 7 May and proved 20 July 1659.(10) He left a brick house with land on Mulberry island held in right of his wife Elizabeth to her eldest son John Wills then living there, with remainder for want of issue to his younger brother Emanuel Wills and then their sister Elizabeth Wills. A personal property bequest was to be divided equally at his wife's death among the three Wills children and Henry's own minor children Sarah and Robert Jackson, which may tend to suggest that these latter two were also children of Elizabeth. Henry also left property to two adult children, evidently by an earlier wife: Henry Jacksonll and Dorothy Dennet, together with grandchildren Mary and Ann, Dorothy's daughters. The will also gave property to Henry's "loving friends" and executors Miles Cary and Robert Pyland,(12 )with Miles Cary designated to care for the minor children.
By 18 June 1661, the widow Elizabeth had married a fourth time, to Major Edward(13) Griffith of Mulberry Island, who assumed charge of the minor Jackson children's estate.(i3) Major Griffith had been appointed a surveyor by the Council of the colony on 15 December 1656, and had moved to VVarwick by 20 January 1659 from Westmoreland County, where he had been a commissioner (justice) on 4 August 1658.(14) He represented Warwick in the General Assembly along with Miles Cary for the sessions of March and October 1660, and alone for the next session beginning in 1662.(15)
Major Griffith had died by 4 May 1669, when Mr. Thomas Iken obtained a patent for 1,350 acres in Mulberry island Parish, including 400 acres for headrights in right of his wife Elizabeth, widow of Major Edward Griffith, deceased.is On 21 April 1670, iken was appointed sheriff of Warwick County. (17 )He was still living on 23 September 1671, when the Council appointed him to audit an account.is Mrs. Elizabeth iken was living on 12 January 1671/2, when she prosecuted a lawsuit in York County.(19)
Thomas Iken had died without issue and apparently without will before 6 January 1674/5, when a jury found that his 400-acre tract on Mulberry island had escheated to the Crown. The rights were granted to John and Emanuel Wills.(20) The two brothers together and singlv recorded patents totaling 667 acres mostly from escheated Iken land, with additions for headrights, in 1676, 1682, and 1694." Little is known of the life of the elder brother John Wills. What may be his autograph survives along with the autograph of his stepfather Edward Griffith in witness to an original assignment from Henry Filmer to Robert Filmer dated 27 August 1664.22 Johnls last patent was dated 22 November 1682. (23) He was dead before 15 December 1685 when Jeremiah Peirce returned in Warwick court an account of horse and mare "outlyers" belonging to the estate of Mr John Wills, deceased.(24)"
Son of Emmanuel Wells from Bristol England to Newport News, VA
"Emanuel Wills, brother of John, married Elizabeth, a daughter of Lt. Col. Miles Cary and Ann Taylor, after her father's wili and before 11 April 1670, when they sold her bequest under the will. (25)
This plantation was the homesite of Miles Cary Sr., who camew from England in 1645 at the age of 22. He was killed defending Old Point Comfort against the Dutch June 10, 1667. His grave nearby is said to be the oldest in Newport News. Father of Miles Cary, Jr. of Richneck, his descendants left an endelible mark on the development of this nation. Orinally the Baymham Patent. His father-in-law Thomas Taylor willed the Warwick County land to Col. Cary.
See also Hampton Roads History Tours.
Emanuel evidently served as captain of a company of Warwick militia, for a surviving court entry made shortly after his death referred to him by that title. 26 He and Robert Hubbard, (27) as churchwardens of Mulberry Island Parish, went to England in'April 1683 to secure a legacy to the parish under the will of Henry Filmer. Emanuel's autograph is on the original document acknowledging receipt of the legacy. (28) Fragments of county court minutes show Emanuel serving as justice of the county court in January 1690/1 and April 1691. (29 )He died after 18 November 1695, when he executed a deed to Thomas Rogers, and before 2 August 1697, when Miles Wills waived the widow Elizabeth's dower rights in connection with the deed in accordance with her power of attorney. (30)
The Warwick quit rent roll of 1704 shows entries in the names of William "Wells," 615 acres, Elizabeth Wells, widow, 155 acres; Capt. "Mills" Wells, 425 acres; Emanuel Wells, 325 acres; and Elias Wells, 50 acres. (31)
The widowed Elizabeth Wills was presumably Elizabeth (Cary) Wills, widow of Emanuel II. She held 160 acres at the rent roll of 1713. (32)" [same reference as above]
Photos from yahoo.com Wells Genealogy Group
Married Elizabeth Roberts
"A fifth member of the third generation was John Wills, who listed 750 acres in York and none in Warwick in the 1704 quit rent rolls. (64) John Wills had married, shortly after 25 January 1699/1700, Elizabeth, a daughter of Thomas and Rose (Forgusson?) Roberts of York County and widow of Thomas Harwood of that county. (65) John acquired Lot No. 38 in Yorktown in 1707 and one-half acre and rights to a watermill there in 1711. (66) He was a merchant in York and Warwick, acquiring ordinary and ferry licenses in York in 1707/8 and engaging in much commercial litigation there. (67) He was a churchwarden of Charles Parish in York in 1708 (68) and road surveyor in 1710. (69 ) The Charles Parish register lists the births of sons Thomas, John, Pate, and John Pate Wills and daughter Ann, and the deaths of Pate and Ann all during the period 1702-1712, in some cases identifying John as "of Warwick." (70) The 1713 rent roll listed John Wills for 100 acres in Warwick. (71) John Wills and Miles Wills in partnership maintained an ordinary kept by William Chancey in Yorktown in 1715. (72 ) On 15 August 1715,
John Wills patented 130 acres in King and Queen County adjoining a tract devised to him by the will of John Pate. (73 )By 14 November 1718, when he sold the Yorktown mill, and on 29 March 1721/2, when he sold 200 acres in York, he was living in Mulberry lsland. (74 ) Elizabeth Wills, who had deeded several slaves in York County in 1713 to her sons John and Thomas, carpenters, (75) was a widow in January 1738, when she gave 200 acres in York, left by her first husband Harwood, to her son and prospective heir "Thomas Wills, Jr."
.
Marriage Date: About 1700
Children:
[same reference as above]
Married Elizabeth Spivey, daughter of Abraham Spivey.
"November ye 25th 1762 The Account of Sales of Estate of John
Wells Decest by Miles Wells Adm
...
I don't know about you, but I have found this inventory of the sale for John Wells' estate to be very interesting. It very clearly
delineates John Wells as a carpenter with very special skills. In old Warwick and York Counties, Virginia, as in Old Jamestown,
the cooper was a very important and necessary person within the community. Practically all goods brought into this country
and exported from here were shipped in hogsheads or barrells, especially tobacco, sugar, and rum. These skilled craftsmen
could also turn their trade very readily to ship building, as many of the same principals of carpentry could be applied.
John Wells had originally purchased 250 acres of land, of which he sold 225 acres, apparently when he could not meet the quit
rent payments; keeping just 25 acres for himself. That probably provided enough for a garden spot, house, workshops, and
necessaries like barns and housing for his fowl. His trade was probably what kept and supported his family."
Children:
He married (1) Unknown.
1790 Granville NC Census
From Granville County Legacy:
Miles Wells Family
The Wills(Wells) family had a long and prominent existence on
the American scene, beginning in Old Warwick County, Virginia
where the family intersected with the Cary family. The progenitor
of the Cary family, Miles Cary, presented the Wills family with the
given name of Miles, which has been carried down through
many generations.
John Wills(Wells) was the first of our Wells line in North
Carolina. He was the son of John Wills and Elizabeth Roberts
Harwood of York County, Virginia; his birth listed in the The
Charles Parish register in York, as 29 November 1705. He
appears on record in Bertie County, North Carolina in 1738. The
identity of his wife is still a mystery, but she must have had
connections to a Hardy family, as at least two of John's children
named sons, Hardy, the first such use of that given name in the
family. John died intestate in 1760. It is believed that he had at
least 10 children, among whom was our ancestor, Miles.
The earliest record of note for Miles was in the Bertie County
Court Records the second Tuesday of the October Term when
he was given a letter of administration for his father's estate in
1760. It is with Miles' generation that we find the spelling of the
family name changes from Wills to Wells.
Miles was born ca. 1740 in Bertie County, and married around
the time of his father's death to Frusanna Lee (Perry?), believed
daughter of John Perry and his second wife, Sarah Moudlin
(Bond). Their daughter, Frusanna, was born in 1744 in Bertie
County, North Carolina.
We know that Miles and his family were in Granville County by
1765 He apparently purchased his first land in 1765 according
to this land entry: 15 April 1765, James Reaves to Miles Wells,
wit. Larken Johnston, Thomas (X) Morris for 250 acres on the
branches of Fishing Creek. Miles was given permission by the
Granville Court of Pleas and Quarter Sessions in 1780-1787 to
build a water grist mill on Cubb Creek.
According to History and Genealogies of Old Granville County,
North Carolina, 1746-1800, page 131, dated February 3, 1783,
Miles was one of about thirty people who were appointed to a
committee in Granville County, "to lay out a road the best and
most convenient way from near Shearman's Meeting House to a
road laid out from Caswell Court House to Granville County line."
This directive may have been the incentive for Miles to continue
to investigate and invest in land in Caswell County, which he had
already begun to do. The Court House was then located in
Leasburg, when the present Caswell and Person Counties were
one.
There is no record of Miles having served in the Revolutionary
War. There is proof that he was a patriot to the cause, as there
is a pay voucher on file in the State Archives which indicates that
he provided supplies to the Army. There is also a record in the
North Carolina Colonial Papers noting that Miles was one of a
group of Granville County folks who signed a petition against
high taxes before the Revolution began. So any descendant is
eligible for membership in either the Daughters of the American
Revolution or the Sons of the American Revolution, based upon
his patriotic service.
It would appear from deed books and court records, that Miles
was quite a land speculator. He purchased his first tract of land
in Caswell County long before he made the move from Granville
County to Caswell County, from William Eaken of Caswell
County, a tract for 100 pounds a 110 acres section near the head
of the South Hico, on 2 October 1782.
An additional 323 acres on South Hico were purchased 10
November 1784, which was a State Land Grant. The 13 June
1797 found Miles buying land, also in Caswell County, some
640 acres on Sandy Creek from an Edward Atkinson of Person
County. On the 24 November 1797, Henry Williamson sold to
Miles some 250 acres on Linch's Creek of the Hico. All in all,
Miles amassed some 1375 acres of land in the Person and
Caswell County area.
Miles lived in the easternmost part of
Caswell County, where his land bridged the line which divided
the two counties of Caswell and Person, making him a taxpayer
in both counties, and active in the affairs of both. Miles continued
buying land in more westerly territories, especially in Iredell
County, NC: land that he included in his legacy to the children of
his daughter, Elizabeth Wells Bowles.
Miles was the founder and major supporter of the Lynch's Creek
Primitive Baptist Church in 1799 near his home in Caswell
County, North Carolina. Several of the Wells family also were
members and supporters of the Church in various ways: James,
Willis, Elisha, Hardy, and Elizabeth, were among some of those
named.
Miles died in 1828 in Person County; his will dated 9 April 1825.
His heirs were:
Children:
Elizabeth Marsh
Children:
moved to Spartanburg SC
Abner WELLS married 1814 or 1817 Henrietta WILLIAMSON
Abner led the Wells family migration to Georgia "by the luck of the draw" in the land lottery in 1825. Abner Wells and Henrietta Williamson were both originally from North Carolina. They were raised in Spartanburg SC and married in 1817. Abner drew land in the Gwinnett Lottery in 1825 and began a migration of the entire family of Elisha Wells from South Carolina to Gwinnett and DeKalb counties (father Elisha and sons and daughters Eunice, Sarah, Willis Lea and Henry Miles followed Abner). Abner and Henrietta had -- by one count -- nine children (See this):
Children:
This says:
From files of The 12th Georgia Battalion Georgia Light Artillery History and Family Connections Page Company C, 12th Georgia Battalion. The research for this project was done by George H. Watkins, 155 Thorn Ridge Trail, Fayetteville, GA 30214.
Married 1857 Nancy Almedia Chapman
Children:
This list is based on Gwinnett County Families (1818-1968). Abner and Henrietta appear on the 1850 Gwinnett County Census as a farming family with seven children. Abner's real property is valued at only $100. Both note their birthplace as North Carolina. Children are listed as:
The census shows if "Lucinda" and "Cynthia are the same, the Gwinnett County Families book is in error. Four additional children and one orphan are shown in the census. By the 1860 census, Abner has become a shoemaker, as has his elder son James. Abner has increased his real property to a value of $400 and his personal property to $800. Children are listed as:
Abner moved to Cobb Co late in life and died at the home of the son William Wilder Wells in Milton Co., GA (See this). Both Abner and Henrietta are buried at Mt. Beulah Cemetery in Cobb county.
This says:
"We also know that Elisha Wells had married an Elizabeth Marsh prior to his making a move to the Spartenburg County, SC area. Elizabeth Marsh Wells' brother, who also settled into SC, Abner Marsh married a Nancy Layton in SC; her uncle, James Layton married Mary Williamson, daughter of Henry Williamson and Susannah WILDER; Henry Williamson's mother was Mary MARSH."
This says:
"
Here is how I have it..
Descendants of: William WILDER
1 William WILDER
Collateral Cary Line
English Cary Family -- Drapers and Mayors of Bristol
Emmanuel Wells II of Yorktown Virginia (above) was married to Elizabeth Cary daughter of Col. Miles Cary who was killed in the Second Anglo-Dutch War in 1667 at Old Fort Comfort in Virginia.
Col Miles Cary was an immigrant to Virginia from Bristol England. The Cary line is well documented back to the crusades in the twelve century. Neil Cary's site The Cary Family in England provides the genealogy of the Cary family beginning in 1170 A.D.
This genealogy shows the line from Adam de Karry born 1170 to Col. Miles Cary in Virginia as follows:
This was part of the "War of the Roses" from 1455-1485 between the House of Lancaster (the red rose) established in 1399 by Henry Bolingbrooke, Duke of Lancaster (later Henry IV). Henry IV deposed his cousin Richard II above -- who Sir John de Cary supported. The Lancaster line descended from John of Gault, fourth son of Edward III to Henry IV.
The opposing faction in the War of the Roses was the House of York (the white rose). Richard II (Duke of York) also descended from Edward III through 3rd son Lionel and fifth son Edmond.
This contest for the kingship of England ended in with ascencion of Lancastrian Henry Tudor (later Henry VII) and was consolidtaed under his son Henry VIII.
"In the beginning of the reign of Henry V a certain knight-errand of Arragon performed many feats of arms, to his high commendation, arrived here in England, where he challenged any man of his rank and quality to make tryal of his valor and skill in arms. This challenge Sir Robert Cary accepted: between whom a cruel encounter and a long and doubtful combat was waged, in Smithfield, London. Sir Robert Cary vanquished the presumptuous Arragon; for which King Henry V restored unto him good part of his father's lands, which for his loyalty to King Richard II, he had been deprived of by King Henry IV." (1) He married Jane Hanchford, born 1379 in Holway, Devon, (daughter of Sir William Hanchford and Unknown) died 4 Dec 1449. Jane:. (2) Married 1395, Margaret Courtenay, (daughter of Sir Philip Courtenay of Powderham).
"An eminent Lancastrian, who upon the issue of the battle of Tewkesbury, 10th Edward IV fled to a church for sanctuary, but was brought forth under promise of pardon, and beheaded. (1) Married 1458, Elizabeth Ann Paulet, born 1445 in Hinton St George, (daughter of Sir William Paulet of Hinton St George and Elizabeth Denebaud). Elizabeth:. (2) Married 1464, Alice Fulford, born 1443 in Devon, England, (daughter of Sir Baldwin Fulford of Dunsford)."
Two primary Cary lines diverge here.
All three children of John Cary came to America -- John to New England, Miles and Mary to Virginia.
Miles came to Warwick County Virginia in 1640. He married Anne Taylor -- daughter of Capt. Thomas Taylor. They lived on a plantation called "Magpie Swamp". In a few years Miles had begun a succession of public offices:
Justice 1652
In 1667 during an attack by the Dutch Fleet at Old Point Comfort (Fort Monroe), Col. Miles Cary died of wounds received. His tomb at Ft. Monroe is called "Cary's Quarter" with an inscription naming Miles Cary's ancestors.
Col. Miles Cary and Anne Taylor had seven children:
1. Maj. Thomas Cary (1646-1708) married Francis Milner
Col. Miles Cary's untimely death at the hands of the Dutch, left widow Anne Taylor Cary with a brood of teenagers. Shortly after father Miles' death, daughter Elizabeth married Emmanuel Wells, recently arrived from Bristol England. See Col. Miles Cary's home -- Windmill Point -- marker above.
Collateral Beauchamp Line
Beauchamp Family in DeKalb Georgia
William Beauchamp (1760 MD-1836 GA) m Nancy Parker (1760 Worchester MD)
http://wc.rootsweb.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=GET&db=sbeau&id=I06347
The long list of children below is commonly found for this John W Beauchamp.
However, the DeKalb Censuses show:
Collateral Buck Line
James H. Weed (1820-1903) was the son of John Weed (1792-1883) and Mary Buck (1796-1873). The Buck family originated in Ballbay Monaghan County Ireland.
| ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
