My Phillips Family 000-010

My Phillips Family

Generations of Parents and Grandparents

Beginning With My Mother’s Generation

Thru My Grandparents 10 Generations From Me

by: Joni K. Coombs-Haynes

November 2011

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001 Mary Alice Phillips

Eddy, Mary Alice Phillips Maynes Date of Birth 1887-04-07

Date of Death 1982-07-24

Place of Birth Ione, CA

Place of Death Salt Lake City, UT

Fathers Name Bud William Phillips

Mothers Name Josephine Matilda Phillips

Cemetery Evergreen

Plot Description Sec. B Lot 330 Pos. 4 Walkway

General Information

Place of Birth: Ione, CA Born: April 7, 1887 Place of Death: Salt Lake City Died: July 24, 1982 Cause: n/c Parents: Bud William Phillips & Josephine Matilda Phillips

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001 Mary Alice Phillips

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003 Patrick Gartland

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004 Andrew R. Phillips 1850

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004 Bird Bates Walker 1850-1885

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004 Bird Bates Walker 1860

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004 Bird Bates Walker 1870

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004 Bird Bates Walker Marriage

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004 Loisa Jane Taylor-Walker 1850

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005 Ann Hoagland-Taylor

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Nathanial Ferrier Senior and Nancy Caroline Agnes Patterson's Marriage Licence

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006 Martin Hoagland

War of 1812 Service Records

Source Information:Direct Data Capture, comp.. War of 1812 Service Records [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations Inc, 1999. Original data: National Archives and Records Administration. Index to the Compiled Military Service Records for the

Volunteer Soldiers Who Served During the War of 1812. Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration. M602, 234 rolls.

Description:This database is a listing of men mustered into the American armed forces between 1812 and 1815 for the War of 1812. Taken from records in the National Archives, each record includes the soldier's name, company, rank at time of induction, rank at time of discharge, and other helpful information. It provides the names of nearly 600,000 men.

© 2011, The Generations Network, Inc.

Name: Martin Hoagland

Company: 4 REGIMENT (MOUNTJOY'S), MOUNTED, KENTUCKY VOLS.

Rank - Induction: ENSIGN

Rank - Discharge: ENSIGN

Roll Box: 100

Roll Exct: 0269

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006 Martin Hoagland - 1812

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006 Samuel Patterson

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006 Thomas Allen I — Biography

Thomas Allen of North Carolina

Thomas ALLEN notes

last updated on 22 Jun 2009

NC State Archives, Land Grant No. 161

To Thomas Allen

County: Rockingham

Acres: 180

Grant No.: 161

Issued: June 27, 1793

Entry No.: 2418

Entered: 5/22/1785

Book No.: 80

Page No.: 385

Location: On Privetts Fork of Hogan’s Creek

According to family history (gleaned from other branches of the family), Thomas Allen Sr served in the

Revolutionary War, along with some of his sons.

From “Historical Sketch of the Allen Family” — a copy that has been retyped. It has a number of blanks,

and I am unsure of who the author(s) are, although the end states: Grace Allen Baugh, Nettie David

Henry, __________ Lee Committee, Written June 1948, Marionville, MO.

The name Allen is an ancient and honorable one. As a family name in England it has been traced back to

about the dawn of the Christian era. While we have no positive record that we are descendants of the

Allens of England, Scotland and Ireland, the fact that the family names of Thomas and William were

common names in the recorded history of those countries, leads us to believe that we are. We should be

proud to claim that heritage, as history tell us that those men were all in high places, men of honor and

distinction.

The history of the Allen family in America dates from a time prior to the American Revolution. The name

has ever since been conspicuous on the pages of American history.

Thomas Allen, Sr., a farmer of Rockingham Co., NC, had the following children: Daniel, Moses,

William, Sampson, Bethel, Charity, Nancy and Thomas Jr.

Source: Chris Allen, descendant of Richard H. Allen

Rockingham County was formed from Guilford County, NC in 1785. Thomas Allen and some of his sons

signed the petition requesting the state to split off northern Guilford County to form Rockingham County.

Guilford County was formed from Orange and Rowan Counties in 1771. Orange was formed in 1752

from Bladen, Granville and Johnston Counties. Rowan was formed in 1753 from Anson County. Bladen

was formed in 1734 from New Hanover County. Granville was formed in 1746 fro Edgecombe County.

Johnston County was formed in 1746 from Craven County and Anson was formed in 1753 from Bladen.

Source: Mrs. Charles T. Allen (Chris Allen research)

POSSIBLE LINEAGE OF THOMAS, SR.:

1) SAMUEL ALLEN b 1688, New Kent Co., VA. Married HANNAH ARMISTEAD. Their children:

2) WILLIAM ALLEN b abt 1690, married MARY HUNT b 1695 d 1763 d/o William Hunt of Charles

City, VA. Their children:

3) WILLIAM HUNT ALLEN b 1724. Lived in Granville Co., NC. Married ANN OWEN. Their children:

4) Possibly, not confirmed: THOMAS ALLEN, SR. (or nephew)


4) NANCY URSULA ALLEN b 1743 married Captain GIDEON JOHNSTON of Rockingham, NC.

Children:

5) Nancy Johnston b 1765, Guilford Co., NC, married Captain JAMES COTTON, moved to Smith Co.,

TN. Their daughter:

6) TABITHA COTTON b 1801 married HENRY LEWIS. Their son:

7) GRANT ALLEN LEWIS

Source: Re: “General” R.H. Allen

Posted By: Chris Allen

Date: Tuesday, 12 December 2006, at 9:22 p.m.

In Response To: Re: “General” R.H. Allen (Chris Allen)

Here are details on this branch of the Allen family, from which I descend:

Well friends, here is my brick wall.

Who is the father of Daniel Allen (born c. 1750-1765, died 1834/5 in Giles County, TN)? His siblings

were Moses, William, Sampson, Bethel, Charity, Nancy, and Thomas Allen, Jr. Daniel was born in North

Carolina or Virgnia.

I do not know where his siblings were born, except for Thomas Allen, Jr., who was born abt 1790 in

Reidesville, Rockingham County, NC. Daniel Allen removed to Washington County, TN abt 1786 and

married Alathea Hale there about 1788. He owned a plantation along Cedar Creek in Sullivan County,

TN. About 1800, he moved west to Smith County, near Liberty, TN (which is present DeKalb County),

and about 1808 to Giles County, TN. He was said to have been a member of the Mount Moriah

Cumberland Presbyterian Church in Giles County, TN. His younger brothers Bethel and Sampson may

have moved with him as far as Smith County, and then migrated to Missouri as that state was settled. His

youngest brother, Thomas Allen, Jr. moved to Lawrence County, MO abt 1840 and sired a long line of

Allens, many descendents of whom remain in that part of Missouri (a beautiful area indeed.)

Descendents of Thomas Allen, Jr. believe the father was Thomas Allen or Rockingham County, and that

Daniel Allen was the elder brother. Others think that this Daniel Allen was related to the family of Joseph

Allen and Daniel Allen, Sr. of Rockingham County, NC, back to the Allens of Stafford County, VA, and

may have been the cousin of a man named Benjamin Allen (born mid-1700s, died TN abt 1830-40)

Daniel Allen is said by his wife to have served during the Revolutionary War in the Guilford County, NC

militia under an officer named William Bethel. Indeed, the name Bethel appears to this day as a middle or

first name among his descendents. In papers filed for a Rev War pension application, his wife states that

her husband was the son of a Thomas Allen, a farmer of Rockingham County, NC. But, I can find no

indication of this. There are many Allens in Rockingham County, NC but I cannot figure out a

connection.

Additional amplification here. Daniel Allen’s eldest son was Richard Hale Allen, born abt 1794 in

Tennessee. He was raised in Giles County, TN and lived there until his father died, when he moved a few

miles west to Lawrence County, TN. There, he opened and ran a stage coach/tavern called “Allen’s

Stand” in Ethridge, TN. There is an Allen burial ground there now, adjacent to his old property. Richard

Hale Allen did well in life, serving as an official in the local militia and participating in the development

of the railroad across TN and down to Corinth, MS. He also owned land in Corinth, MS and operated a

large plantation there. He also may have been an official of the Confederate government during the War

of Northern aggression.


Richard Hale Allen’s eldest son was William Bethel Allen. He died young at the Battle of Monterey

(1846) during the Mexican American War. He lead a charge of the Tennessee Volunteers, but was cut

down immediately. There is a monument to his troops in the town square in Lawrenceburg, TN.

I descend from another son of Richard Hale Allen, Richard Bethel Allen. He was born about 1835 in

Lawrence County, TN and died in Van Buren, AR in 1908. He was married to Adella Elizabeth Rose of

Lawrence County, TN. Richard Bethel Allen served as an officer in the Mississippi troops during the

Civil War. After the war, he ended up in Van Buren, AR, where he developed real estate and ran a brick

yard.

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006 Thomas Farrier 1800

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007 Andrew Ferrier

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007 Andrew Ferrier Military

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007 Elizabeth Booker-Bradford

Abstract of Graves of Revolutionary Patriots

Source Information:Hatcher, Patricia Law. Abstract of Graves of Revolutionary Patriots [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com

Operations Inc, 1999. Original data: Hatcher, Patricia Law. Abstract of Graves of Revolutionary Patriots. Vol. 1-4. Dallas, TX, USA: Pioneer Heritage Press, 1987.

Description:Collection of abstracts of Revolutionary War patriot graves found between 1900-87


Name: Martin Capt Hoagland

Cemetery: Orig Old Bapt Cem

Location: Now First Bapt Ch, Lexington KY 45

Reference: Abstract of Graves of Revolutionary Patriots, Vol.2, p. Serial: 10950; Volume: 13

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007 Martin Hoagland

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007 Martin Hoagland

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007 Philemon Bradford II

008 Benjamin Maple II — Biography

Further Information On Benjamin Maple Jr.

Benjamin was the constable for New Brunswick, New Jersey in 1728. In 1730, the constable was David

Lee, his half brother, the will of Henry Mershon of Maidenhead, Hunterdon Co., New Jersey, Weaver,

July 19, 1738 mentions plantation of 111 acres held by several deeds including Benjamin Maple, David

Cox, and Susannah Stockton. The will of Derrick Huff, blacksmith, Maidenhead, Hunterdon County,

mentions debts due from Benjamin Maple. In the Middlesex County clerk’s office there are four mortgage

deeds executed by Benjamin Maple and wife Isabella. The first, July 10, 1779 refers to “plantation where

Benjamin Maple lives in south Brunswick Middlesex County” containing 100 acres and “begins at corner

of William Scudder formerly Josiah Davison at a Ford across Millstone River”. The second, May 23,

1783, “land in Middlesex County where on his father Benjamin Maple lived at the time of his death, who

died intestate, where by Benjamin became seized of same as heir at law.” the third, march 7, 1785, “tract

in Mapletown, Middlesex County ... commencing at fording place across “. The fourth, December 16,

1785, also “commencing at a fording place across millstone river.” on February 22, 1772, Benjamin

Maple and wife Sarah also deeded to his son Jacob Maple, also of New Windsor Township, 113 and 1/3

acres on upper bear brook. In both of these deeds Benjamin and Sarah signed by mark. Benjamin and

Sarah made provision for three of their younger sons by dividing a 340 acre tract between them. No

provision for son Benjamin 3rd was necessary as under the English common law still in effect in 1772, he

was heir by the rule of primogeniture to all of the real property of his father at the time of the latter’s

death. We do not know what provision was made for the other sons, David and John: probably they were

given other tracts owned by Benjamin Jr. But the deeds have not survived

U.S. Revolutionary War Rolls, 1775-1783

Source Information:

Ancestry.com. U.S. Revolutionary War Rolls, 1775-1783 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations Inc, 2007. Original data:

Revolutionary War Rolls, 1775-1783; (National Archives Microfilm Publication M246, 138 rolls); War Department Collection of Revolutionary War Records, Record Group 93; National Archives, Washington. D.C.

Records indexed by Direct Data Capture.

Description:This database is a collection of records kept by the U.S. National Archives listing men who fought for the colonies during the war. Each record provides the soldier's name, category, rank information, and NARA microfilm roll number to aid the researcher in locating the original record. Images of the records are also included.


Name: Benjamin Maple

Rank - Induction: Private

Roll Box: 63

Roll State: NJ

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008 Benjamin Maple II

American Revolutionary War Rejected Pensions

Source Information:Ancestry.com. American Revolutionary War Rejected Pensions [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com

Operations Inc, 2000. Original data: Rejected or Suspended Applications for Revolutionary War Pensions. Washington, D.C.: n.p., 1852.

Description:Listing of men who applied for pension benefits from the government, but were rejected


Name: Benjamin Maple (Deceased)

State: New Jersey

Location: --, Middlesex

Reason: This claim was impractieable before he died, and his death has interposed more serious obstacles to attaining a description of his service.

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Passenger and Immigration Lists Index, 1500s-1900s

Source Citation: Place: Barbados or Jamaica; Year: 1710; Page Number: 209.

Source Information:Gale Research. Passenger and Immigration Lists Index, 1500s-1900s [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc, 2010. Original data: Filby, P. William, ed. Passenger and Immigration Lists Index, 1500s-1900s. Farmington Hills, MI, USA: Gale Research, 2010.

Description:Updated annually, this database is an index to passengers who arrived in United States and Canadian ports from the 1500s through the 1900s. It contains listings of approximately 4,838,000 individuals and references thousands of different records compiled from everything from original passenger lists to personal diaries. For each individual listed, you may find the following information: name, age, year and place of arrival, and the source of the record.


Name: George Booker

Year: 1710

Place: Barbados or Jamaica

Source Publication Code:

1217.4

Primary Immigrant:

Booker, George

Source Bibliography:

COLDHAM, PETER WILSON. Bonded Passengers to America. 9 vols. in 3. Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Co., 1983. Vol. 4. Home Counties, 1655-1775: Surrey, Hertfordshire, Kent, Essex, and Sussex. 231p.

Page: 209

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008 George Booker

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008 John Barnett — Biography

John Barnett, 1678-1734

John Barnett, 1 b. 1678, in the neighborhood of Londonderry, Ireland, christened there 20 August 1678.

He married Jeannette Power on 16 April 1700 also in Derry Cathedral. In company with his brother

William, immigrated with his family to Pennsylvania prior to 1730, locating in Hanover township in

Lancaster county, being among the earliest settlers in that township. He died on 6 September 1734; his

Will being probated in Lancaster on the first day of October 1734: JOHN BARNET, deceased , IN the

name of God AMANE I John Barnet being weake but of perfect memory blefed be God I first commit my

soul to the lord and my Boddey to the Grave my hope of a betfed resurechon first I leave to my well

beloved Wife the sum of Twenty pounds to be payd out of the Cattell & crop that is now on ye ground and

the remainder of ye Crop to maintain her & the famely and next I leave to my beloved Sons John and

Joseph my plantation Equally to be divided between them and if it please God that one of them Dy’s the

other shall have it all ans in case that both dye I leave it to my well Beloved sons Robert & James equally

to be divided but if it Pleas God to Spair John and Joseph to the Years of Mattorety and John desire to

have all the place it shall be vallued by two Indifferent men and John shall pay to Joseph the half of the

said Vallue and I leave to my son John one Black year old Coult and to John and Joseph I leave my

Working horses namly one Hors & too mean to each an equall part and to my Beloved daighther

Rebeckah I leave one Bay hors Coult cuning three year old and two cows to be given her afs the Stock

when it will Suit best with her Convnencey and my wifes — and to my befoued Daughter Marey I leave

one Black Mear six year old and if she live on the Place with her mother and ye boys till she come to Age

she shall then have two cows and in case gos to her own hand she shall have but one cow when shee is of

Age and for and in consideration of Ten Pounds payd to me in hand by by son Robert I leave my son

Robert One hundred and fifty nine acres of land that is to say the warrent right and survey which he hath

now Jin pofeson on the South East End of the land I leave and beqath to my Daughter Jean on Red

Coulerd and white faced Heffer Coming two year old and one rugo Or bed quilt this is my Will and

Testment given under my hand this first Day of July in ye Year of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ

1734.

John ( His mark) Barnet (Seal)

Wittnes Present Allexr. Davison, James Whithill I order ye Managment of my affairs at my deceas into the

hands of my well beloved Wife and my son Robit as Adminesterators and Guardens to the Children whill

under age. (Will Book A, Vol. 1, page #15 Lancaster county Archives).

Children according to Will: 1. Robert Barnett, Born: 10 March 1701, Londonderry, Ireland; died: Aug

1764, Orange, NC (1797?) m. and removed to Virginia. 2. James Barnett, Born: 1703, Londonderry Cath,

Londonderry, Ireland; Christened: 23 May 1703, Londonderry, Londonderry, Ireland. He married Jane

Johnson, 24 June 1723 and went to Virginia with his brother, Robert. 3. John Barnett ,2 (John ,1) b. 1705,

in County Derry, Ireland ; d. in January, 1785 , in Paxtang township, Lancaster , now Dauphin county, Pa.

; came to America with his father, having previously married Margaret Roan ; b. 1710 , in Greenshaw,

Ireland ; d. January, 1790 , in Paxtang 4. Joseph Barnett, Born: 1708, Londonderry, Ireland 5. Mary

Barnett, Born: 1710, Londonderry, Ireland 6. Jean/Jeanette Barnett, Born: 1713-15, Londonderry, Ireland;

Died: 1787 7. Rebeckah Barnett, Born: Abt 1717, Londonderry, Ireland

Biographical Sketch Of John Barnett 1780-1853 , Tennessee

H. R. Smith

With painful feelings we receive the intelligence above. We have been, in common with the whole

Church, familiar with the history of this good man, ever since the earliest days of our branch of Christ’s

Church. To record his history, would be to write that of the Church itself. He was brought into the

Ministry in the State of Kentucky, together with two other brothers, WILLIAM and JAMES BARNETT,


at a period, and under circumstances which tried men’s souls. From that, to the hour of his departure from

earth, he ever adorned the Gospel Ministry and the Christian profession. He was at one time intimately

connected with Cumberland College for several years. He has acted a long and conspicuous part in the

affairs of the Church; and while he has fallen depressed with age and infirmity of body, he has gone, we

doubt not, to reap a rich reward at God’s right hand. May all our young brethren imitate his virtues.--ED.

[Source: The Banner of Peace, and Cumberland Presbyterian Advocate, April 29, 1853, page 4]

Rev. John Barnett

OF the early life of John Barnett, as in the case of his brother, nothing is known to the writer. Even the

time and place of his birth are unknown. It was always understood the John Barnett was the older of the

two brothers, whilst William was first in the ministry, and, of course, the older preacher. I have therefore

placed him first in the order of my arrangement. It has always been understood, too, that John, as well as

William, entered the ministry some time after he became the head of a family. His wife’s name was Polly

McAdow. She was at least a remote relation of Rev. Samuel McAdow. The McAdows were of North

Carolina origin, but lived chiefly in Tennessee.

John Barnett was received as a candidate for the ministry by the Cumberland Presbytery at the Beech

Meeting-house, in Sumner county, Tennessee, April 9, 1813. At this meeting the Presbytery was divided,

and he was placed under the care of the Logan Presbytery. By that Presbytery he was licensed August 31,

1813, and ordained August 11, 1815. He is first mentioned as a member of the Cumberland Synod in the

records of its sessions in October, 1816.

At some time in the early part of his ministry he settled in lower Kentucky, which was considered at that

time a frontier of the Church in that direction. His settlement was made in the neighborhood of what is

now the Bethlehem Congregation. He originated that congregation, and in early time they built a log

meeting-house of very moderate dimensions, in which, as pastor of the congregation, he ministered for

near thirty years. Camp-meetings were introduced very early, and kept up forty years. Great numbers

have been converted at these meetings. Bethlehem in now a flourishing congregation. They have been

worshiping for twenty years in a capacious brick church. A neat brick academy stands hard by the church-

-a realization of the proper theory of Presbyterianism, the theory of a church and school combined.

During all the years of his connection with Bethlehem Mr. Barnett was also the pastor of Piney Fork

Congregation. A modest house of worship was built at Piney, and camp-meetings were held annually, and

mostly with great success. At Piney these meetings are still continued.

Whilst Mr. Barnett was pastor of these congregations, he was at the same time one of the best farmers in

his neighborhood. He was a strong man, had fine health, and labored daily with his own hands. He also

kept everyone around him busy. It is a matter of tradition that he frequently labored on his farm all day,

and in the evening rode four or five miles, and preached in some private house in his congregation,

continued his meetings till eleven or twelve o’clock at night, returned home, and was ready for another

day’s work in the morning. By labors of this kind Bethlehem and Piney Fork Congregations were

gathered and strengthened from year to year.

In 1826 Cumberland College commenced its operations. Mr. Barnett had an active agency in its location,

and in the organization and direction of its exterior system. I allude to the management of the farm and

boarding-house. He moved to the College, and for some two or three years had charge of these. After his

connection with them ceased, he moved to Christian county, and lived a few years, near Salubria Spring,

in the neighborhood in which his brother William had once lived, and perhaps upon the same farm. After

a few years he returned to the neighborhood of his former home near Bethlehem. In 1831 the Trustees of

Cumberland College, by the advice of the General Assembly, leased the institution to him and Rev. Aaron

Shelby for a term of years. This was an extraordinary measure, but the exigences of the College were

considered to require something extraordinary. It was deeply involved in debt, and still was not self-

sustaining irrespective of its debts. Of course it was becoming more deeply involved every year. The


lessees of the institution were to keep up the farm and boarding-house, manage its general finances, keep

up its Faculty, and pay its debts. To enable them to do all these things, they were to have the proceeds of

the farm and boarding-house, and the customary labor of each student two hours per day. The proceeds of

the tuition department were to be set apart of the payment of the instructors. Mr. Shelby continued his

connection with the institution two or three years, and sold his interest to Mr. Harvey Young. A new brick

building had been put up, a very coarse and inferior one, it is true, but still an improvement upon the

previous condition of things. Everything seemed to go forward rather prosperously till the summer of

1834, when the cholera visited the town. It did not reach the College, but it was followed by a most

malignant fever, which spread all over the country, including the College community. Mr. Young died;

three-fourths of the students were sick. Recitations were discontinued for some time. Myself and wife

were both prostrated for several weeks. I was myself evidently near the door of death. It was a terrible

infliction upon the College. Mr. Barnett considered it the turning-point in his administration of the

financial affairs of the institution. It was a prostration from which he never recovered.

After the death of Mr. Young, his interest reverted, of course, to the Trustees, and the partnership

henceforward was a partnership of the Trustees and Mr. Barnett. He, however, became practically the

administrator of the business. Things worked badly; a great deal of dissatisfaction grew up all over the

Church; he was sometimes unhappy in the temper in which he conducted his business; the wisdom of his

measures was thought in some cases to be very defective, and a few began to call in question his personal

integrity. He and Dr. Cossitt, the President of the College, differed in their views of measures, and,

unfortunately, became estranged from each other. I have told this unhappy story elsewhere. They were

both good men, earnest in their opinions, and unwavering in their fidelity to the Church; but they did not

harmonize; it was a misfortune. With regard to Dr. Cossitt, my esteemed instructor and friend, my

testimony is before the world. With regard to Mr. Barnett, and his connection with the College, I have a

few things to say, but for the present hold them in reserve.

It will be readily perceived that these difficulties must have had a disastrous influence upon the College.

At the General Assembly of 1837, a new plan was adopted, with a view to the relief of the institution

from its difficulties, which were rather increasing than diminishing. An association was formed under the

style and title of The Cumberland College Association, after the manner of a joint-stock company. Mr.

Barnett and the Trustees surrendered their interest in the College to the Association. It was to do the same

things which Barnett and Shelby were to have done, and after accomplishing them, to have pro rata

dividends of the proceeds, should it ever turn out that there were such proceeds to divide. This plan was

expected to be a success, whilst the preceding one had proved a disastrous failure. The history is known,

and needs not be repeated here. To say everything in the fewest possible words, an experiment of three

years proved its utter insufficiency. It, too, was a failure. In 1834, in the midst of the prevailing sickness,

Mr. Barnett lost his eldest son, a young man of rather unusual promise. He was one of the early graduates

of Cumberland College. Sometime between 1838 and 1843, he lost his wife, and third and fourth sons.

From this time he became unsettled for several years. After the lapse of a few years, however, he was

married a second time, to an estimable widow lady, of Henderson county, Kentucky. His constitution was

very much shattered, and his health soon failed, and in a few years his life of unusual trial came to an end.

Of the circumstances of death nothing is known to the writer. The most of his later years had been passed

under a cloud. A great many of his expectations had been thwarted. His providential discipline had been

severe. When death came, it was doubtless a release. A life very much made up of clouds and storms was,

we must confidently believe, exchanged for a companionship of the four and twenty elders, the hundred

and forty and four thousand, and the great multitude that no man can number.

My first recollection of Mr. Barnett goes back to the fall of 1819. He was attending a camp-meeting at the

Big Spring, in Wilson county, Tennessee. His first sermon there was delivered on Saturday evening. It

had rained in the forenoon, and meeting was held in the house, and William Bumpass preached. The rain

had ceased, however, and we removed to the stand, as it was called; there was no shelter. Mr. Barnett was

the preacher. I had never heard or seen him before. His text was the prophet’s personation of the Saviour


as a preacher: “The Spirit of the Lord God is upon me; because the Lord hath anointed me to preach good

tidings unto the meek; he hath sent me to bind up the brokenhearted, to proclaim liberty to the captives,

and the opening of the prison to them that are bound; to proclaim the acceptable year of the Lord, and the

day of vengeance of our God.” The preacher and the text were both new to me. The preacher was

certainly in a good spirit. It seemed to me that the fitness between him and the text was perfect. The

solemnity, and tenderness, and earnestness of his manner, and the unction which seemed to rest upon him,

were altogether unusual. I have seldom, in a long life, been more deeply interested, or more favorably

impressed; and I have often called to mind the apparent tenderness and gentleness of that occasion when,

in subsequent years, I have witnessed his struggles with the difficulties of the College, and his excusable

impatience with the impertinence and impracticability of men with whom he was thrown into contact in

his business transactions. The descent appeared to be very great. He felt it to be so himself; yet

Providence seemed to him to lead him into that line of duty. On Monday of the same camp-meeting he

preached again, from the text in First Corinthians: “And ye are not your own, for ye are bought with a

price; therefore glorify God in your body, and in your spirit, which are God’s.” The text was familiar, and

the sermon was good, but not equal to that of Saturday.

In 1824, or 1825, Mr. Barnett and Rev. David Lowry made a visit to Western Tennessee, to assist

William Barnett in two or three camp-meetings. They preached with great interest and power, and left a

deep impression behind them. In that visit Mr. Barnett was condescending enough to make me a sort of

companion in one or two of his excursions outside of his regular movements, in visiting some of his old

acquaintances and friends. I say, “condescending enough;” I really thought it a privilege and an honor to

be permitted to attend him. He seemed to me tender, and kind, and even paternal in his manners.

I had but little connection with him after these occurrences, until I went to Cumberland College, in 1830.

At that time he was living

In Christian county. In the spring of the following year, as it has been said, he became connected with the

College as one of the lessees. My own connection with the College continued to 1838. From 1831 to

1837, his connection, as general administrator of its business affairs, continued. We were frequently

thrown together under circumstances of great trial. A large part of the period was passed under

discouragement, darkness, and distress. In these he, of course, shared very largely. He had embarked

every thing in the experiment of trying to improve the financial condition of the College. If he failed,

poverty was staring him in the face, whilst yet he had a heavy family on his hands. As it has been

mentioned, he lost his eldest and most promising son in the midst of those years. He had fondly expected

help from that son, and the loss on that account seemed the more severe. The Church complained of his

general administration; the students complained of his stringency in providing for the boarding-house; the

teachers complained that they did not receive much more than half pay. He was made answerable for a

great many evils. The year 1837 came around, and public sentiment seemed to require a change of the

outward administration of the affairs of the College.

It is fitting that I should say here, in my place, that no man could have labored more earnestly for the

accomplishment of the great objects of a mission than Mr. Barnett did, in those years, for the fulfillment

of his engagements with the General Assembly. He did not succeed. No man could have succeeded in his

circumstances. He had entered upon a Herculean task; he was a strong man, but still only a man. He was

no Hercules. He committed errors, without doubt; but they were the errors of a man governed, upon the

whole, by good intentions. He meant well. Of this I have no doubt. His personal integrity was sometimes

impeached; but the best possible vindication that could have been offered was the fact at last disclosed,

that whilst he entered into his connection with the College a prosperous man, and bringing into it a

respectable property, he left it with his temporalities in ruins, and from these ruins he never recovered.

After the lapse of thirty-six years, I have no patience with charges which affect his personal integrity. I

am ashamed of him who reiterates them.


He thought the Church owed him something in consideration of his losses. He pursued that thought for

years, but without success. I do not pretend to decide upon the justice of his claims from this source, but

there are a few living who can recollect the persistence of his efforts in prosecuting those claims, which

we all thought, whether just or unjust, to be hopeless.

No man in the Cumberland Presbyterian Church was ever so generally misunderstood. It rarely happens

to a man, in any of the relations of life, to be so generally misunderstood by those who ought to

understand him. Public sentiment took a wrong direction. There were, of course, reasons for it, but still

the direction was wrong. The Church, instead of quarreling with a man who had taken one of its heaviest

burdens upon his shoulders, should have reached out a helping hand, and, if possible, lightened that

burden. Such a course, however, was not pursued. He was in the ditch, and was left very much to take

care of himself.

I make one farther remark in this connection. Other men have quarreled with the Church, and have left it.

In one or two cases the quarrel has been very bitter. Mr. Barnett, however, in the midst of all the

vituperation and reproach, and, as he thought, ingratitude and unkindness which he endured, never

faltered in his fidelity and devotion to the Church of his early choice to his dying day. In illustration of

this a fact may be stated, which, of course, is not known generally, but which, for the sake of his memory,

should be known. In making a final settlement of his shattered affairs, he set apart a thousand dollars for

the use and benefit of Cumberland College, in the service of which he had suffered so much, and of which

he had at that time high hopes. This is an argument which any man can appreciate.

After Mr. Barnett’s second marriage I seldom saw him. His home was remote from mine, and he did not

travel much. The infirmities of age were closing in upon him. In a few years he ended his stirring and

stormy life. He had left home with the view of traveling some time, in hope of an improvement of his

health. In a few days he reached the residence of his son-in-law in Western Tennessee, and stopped to

rest. It proved to be his last resting-place. He died there.

The case of Mr. Barnett brings up to our minds the darkest chapter in our history as a Church. The history

of Cumberland College has never been written. Most likely it will never be written. In twenty years from

this time it cannot be truthfully done. The actors in the transactions will all have passed away, and no man

can write it who has not, to some extent, been one of those actors. Dr. Cossitt, Mr. Barnett, Judge

Morrison, Aaron Shelby, and Harvey Young, have all been removed from among us. A few still remain,

but will not remain long. The College has ceased to exist. Many will say that a great deal of labor has

been lost, and a great deal of money has been expended in vain. So thought Judas and the other disciples

which the anointing oil was poured upon the Master’s feet. He gave them to understand, however, that

they were mistaken. It was not a waste. Nor has the labor and money expended upon Cumberland College

been a waste. It has fulfilled its mission. In many respects it was a noble mission. Some of those

connected with it were never appreciated. Even time itself may not fully vindicate them; still, their works

follow them. The seed sown there is producing a harvest all over the West. Our pioneers in the work of

education have been amongst our benefactors. Their work has been silent, but it has been none the less

effective and vital in its influence on that account. It will live forever in its results.

William and John Barnett had a younger brother, or, rather, half-brother, Rev. James Young Barnett, who

entered the ministry in early life. He was a man of fine ability, and was thought in his early life to be the

equal of his older brothers. He never filled so wide a space, however, in public estimation. He married the

daughter of Mr. David Usher, of Christian county, Kentucky, and settled in the neighborhood of his

father-in-law, where he lived till his death, which occurred some years ago. he was an estimable and

useful man. His widow still lives.

There was a fourth brother, Robert Barnett, who also entered the ministry, in Western Tennessee, in his

early life. He married the daughter of Hon. Adam R. Alexander, but of his subsequent history I have no

knowledge.


[Source: Beard, Richard. Brief Biographical Sketches of Some of the Early Ministers of the Cumberland

Presbyterian Church. Second Series. Nashville, Tenn.: Cumberland Presbyterian Board of Publication,

1874, pages 186-197]

The BARNETTS were an extraordinary family in their time. John, William, and James Y. Barnett were

brothers, and all ministers of the Cumberland Presbyterian church. John Barnett lived and labored in

Caldwell county. He had a long, and at one time troublesome connection with the financial department of

Cumberland college. William Barnett was one of the most powerful and popular preachers of his time. He

lived a number of years in Christian county, then removed to Henderson, and finally to western

Tennessee, where he died in 1827. James Y. Barnett lived and labored in Christian county.

[Source: Collins’ History of Kentucky, vol. 1, 1976 reprint, pages 435-436]

The Fathers JOHN and WM. BARNETT, were both stout, able-bodied men, and men of good minds,

improved about as the others whose opportunities then were not such as are now enjoyed. They were also

natives of Tennessee, and of the mountains at that. They were rough-looking men, of florid complexion,

and dauntless, yet they were men of clear heads and warm hearts, full of energy that knew no flagging.

They were both a few times at the other camp-meetings in this State, but their labors were limited to Mt.

Zion, McAlister’s and Milbourn’s. They were usually considered “sons of thunder.” There was less of

thunder in John. He was often more deliberate, but impressive, and they were both more or less eloquent

at times. Wm. was regarded as the more successful in the pulpit, yet both were active, energetic and very

useful men. My acquaintance was less familiar with John than William.

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Source Citation: Place: Pennsylvania; Year: 1730; Page Number: 177.

Source Information:Gale Research. Passenger and Immigration Lists Index, 1500s-1900s [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc, 2010.

Original data: Filby, P. William, ed. Passenger and Immigration Lists Index, 1500s-1900s. Farmington Hills, MI, USA: Gale Research, 2010.



Name: John Barnett

Year: 1730

Place: Pennsylvania


9450

Primary Immigrant:

Barnett, John

Annotation: Published extracts from The Magazine of American Genealogy, section 4, nos. 1-27 (1929 - [1932]). Good compilation but incomplete, since publication of the magazine was suspended; it contains names from beginning of alphabet through 'Battles' only. Source


VIRKUS, FREDERICK A., editor. Immigrants to America before 1750. An Alphabetical List of Immigrants to the Colonies, before 1750, Compiled from Official and Other Records. Surnames 'A through Battles.' Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Co., 1965. 220p.

Page: 177



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008 Moses McWhorter — Biography

Moses McWhorter 1700 To 1756

February 1998 , Geneaology Newsletter Vol 2, Issue 1

Moses McWhorter [db#3677] was born probably in Ireland around 1700. He is said to have obtained a

land grant located on Octoraro Creek in Colerain township, Lancaster County, PA between 1750 and

1752. The most well known source of information on this family [see reference #1] states that “Moses and

his son Henry fought in the French and Indian War which began in 1754. They served in a company of

militia formed in Colerain Township. Moses died during the war and may have died as a result of this

service. No records of him have been found after 1756”.

The name of his wife is not known with any certainty, but noted McWhorter researcher, Davis L.

McWhorter [db#6234] has suggested that her last name may have been MARLIN. The name appears in

the family for several generations and a Margery Marlin of Chester co., PA in her will dated and probated

in 1769 left a bequest to Elizabeth Ferrier [db#3779] the wife of William McWhorter [db#3768], son

of Moses.

Whether or not all of the children presently assigned to Moses are indeed his is still not certain. Although

Anna Harman Bowman [see reference #1] concludes they are, Davis L. McWhorter as well as Frances

Small and Mary Starnes [see reference #2] are less emphatic. In Davis’ words “He appears to have had

these children: Henry, George, William Aaron 1st, Moses 2nd, James and three daughters”.

It also appears almost certain that there existed a familial relationship between the family of Moses and

that of David McWhorter [db#118] who removed first from Lancaster co., PA to Rutherford co., NC and

later, after the Revolutionary War, to western South Carolina. [See McWh*rter Genealogy Newsletter,

Vol. 1, Issue 3, Summer 1997, p. 5-10] Two of the grandchildren of Henry McWhorter [db#3678], son

of Moses, married children of David.

If past researchers are correct Moses had at least nine children, six sons and three daughters. These

children resulted in at least twenty-four grandchildren, fourteen of them grandsons to carry on the

surname. The descendants of Moses comprise the largest family in the McWh*rter Database with over

3000 persons connected therein including some 1885 direct descendants of Moses.

The children of Moses were:

George [db#787] was born cir 1730 and married Elizabeth Walkup [db#788] Her surname has been

spelled many ways including “Waughop”. George found his way to Mecklenburg co., NC where he

appears as a head of family in the 1790 census. He appears on the subscription list for the Waxhaw

Associate Reformed Presbyterian Church on 9-Sep-1800. His will written 30-Nov-1805 and proved Jan-

1806 in Mecklenburg co., NC mentions sons Moses [db#789], George [db#790], James [db#791], John

[db#795] and Aaron [db#796; and, daughters Elizabeth [db#792], Rose [db#793] and Agness [db#794].

Another son Samuel [db#797] is said to have died “while a prisoner of the British” during the

Revolutionary War.

Henry [db#3678], the son of Moses, is said to have served with him in the Colerain militia during the

French and Indian War. He is said to have lived in Lancaster co., PA from about 1750-1770; lived briefly

in Chanceford township, York co., PA (1770-71); and then removed to Mecklenburg co., NC and in 1784

to Abbeville co., SC. Records from the bible of his grandson Allen Marlin McWhorter [db#1106] state

that he was born in Ireland.

William [db#3768], supposedly born in Ireland as early as 1706, was married first in Chester co., PA to

Elizabeth Ferrier [db#3779]. It is she who received the bequest from Margery Marlin. According to one

source William lived in both PA and Mecklenburg co., NC before removing to TN where he received a

land grant of 640 acres on Goose Creek in Sumner co. According to other sources he was “born in South

Carolina”. He was both a farmer and “physician” and died in 1802 in Davidson co., TN. By that time he

appears remarried to a Mary ? [db#3780] who’s will in 1817 leaves her estate to a William Dorris.

008 Moses McWhorter — Biography

Aaron [db#3769] gave his residence as Colerain township, Lancaster co., PA in deeds recorded in

Cumberland co., PA in 1767 and 1774. Both a William McWhorter and a Moses McWhorter, a

shoemaker of Chanceford township, York co., PA, are also mentioned in these deeds. Aaron is called

“trader”. In his will dated and probated in 1799 in Mecklenburg co., NC he names his wife Fanny ?

[db#3778] and children. It is said that the original copy of the will at Raleigh is signed with the “o” in

McWhorter crossed out and “i” inserted.

Moses [db#3770] provides us with many questions. A Moses McWhorter of York co., PA served as a

“Ordl Sgt” in the Revolutionary War. He is also mentioned as “shoemaker” of Chanceford twp., York co.,

PA in several deeds. According to one source [see reference #4] Moses had studied law at the University

of Glasgow and following the Revolutionary War settled with his wife Jean in Washington co., PA. A

Moses is found there as head of family in the 1790 census. Whether this is the son of Moses [db#3677] is

quite uncertain although the name “Moses” is extremely uncommon among McWh*rters and is found

almost exclusively among descendants of Moses of Lancaster co., PA.

James [db#3771] is a mystery as next to nothing is known of him. There is some speculation that he is the

James McWhirter who settled in Washington co., TN and had at least two daughters there.

Daughter [db#3772] may have married a William Scott [db#3775].

Daughter [db#3773] may have married a ? Byrd or Boyd [db#3766].

Daughter [db#3774 is said to have married a ? Calhoun [db#3777].

Moses McWhirter From Ireland To America

From about 1700 to about 1756 , Ireland — Pennsylvania, USA

Most sources report Moses McWhirter to have been born in Ireland around 1700. He is first seen in

America between 1750 & 1752 when he receives a land grant on Octoraro Creek in Colerain township,

Lancaster County, Pennsylvania. Moses and his son fought in the French and Indian War starting in 1754.

They served in a company of militia formed in Colerain Township. It is believed that Moses died during

this time and that his death may have been a result of his service in this conflict. As far as I have seen this

suggestion is supported solely by the absence of any record of his existence after 1756.

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009 Amadohiyi Pidgeon Tellico Moytoy — Biography

Nicknames:

“Ani’-Ga’tâge’wi”, “of Tainesi (Cherokee)”, ““Trader Tom” Carpenter”, “First

Beloved Man”, “Emperor of the Cherokee”, “Water Conjuror or Rainmaker”,

“Supreme Chief of the Cherokee”

Birthdate: 1687

Birthplace: Chota, Cherokee Nation, Tennessee, America

Death: Died 1741 in Cherokee Nation East, Tennessee, America

Cause of death: Died in a battle.

Occupation: The Pigeon of Tellico, Wolfclan “Emperor of the Cherokee”

Managed by: Glenna Murdock

Last Updated: July 12, 2011

Chief Pigeon Of Tellico Moytoy 2

Moytoy II Moytoy Pigeon of Tellico, Principal Chief and Emperor of the Cherokee

was the leading Chief of the Cherokee tribe from April 3, 1730 to 1760. He was also

created “Emperor of the Cherokees” by the British envoy Sir Alexander Cumming in

1730, and had previously been Chief of Great Tellico. He is known as Moytoy II, or

Moytoy the Younger, as he succeeded his father, Moytoy I, or Amatoya Moytoy of

Chota. Moytoy II was originally named Pigeon of Tellico (English translation), and

was born around 1687 in that town. His father, Moytoy I, was the town chief of Chota

ca. 1700-1730. His mother, Quatsy, was from Tellico, so this was his home (Cherokee

society is matrilineal and matrilocal, and inheritance for males is avuncular). Moytoy was crowned with

the “Crown of Tannassy,” as described by Cumming (the name probably has origins with the traditional

capital of Tanasi, near Chota). It is said to have been a traditional Cherokee hide cap covered in feathers

and several hanging animal tails. Some sources refer to Moytoy II’s wife as a woman named Go-sa-du-

isga, and title her the “Queen of the Cherokee” (in fact there are no traditional consort titles, so this was a

European distinction). They had many children who went on to become prominent Cherokee leaders,

among them Oconostota (Stalking Turkey), who succeeded his cousin Attacullaculla as Principle Chief in

1775 or 1777. Moytoy’s daughter, Waw-Li, married the Scottish immigrant John Joseph Vann, making

the Cherokee town chief, James Vann, Moytoy’s grandson. Another son, Amo-Scossite, took the title

“Emperor of the Cherokees” after his uncle Old Hop’s death. However, this European title alone held no

authority, and Attacullaculla was the de facto ruler. The imperial title fell out of use after 1761. Preceded

by: Moytoy I Leading chief of the Cherokee tribe 1730–1760 Succeeded by: Attacullaculla


Chief Pigeon Moytoys Children

http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~coatsblueprints/96.htm

Moytoy also known as the Pigeon Of Tellico was born ca. 1687 in Tellico, TN.

Unknown who his wife was issue:

1. Oconostota (Very Famous Cherokee War Chief) born ca. 1704 died about 1783.

2. Clogoittah born ca. 1706 was one of the members of the delegation that went to

England in 1730 to see King George II

3. Kitegista born ca. 1708 died aft. 1788

4. Tathtowe born ca. 1712 also was one of the delegates to King George II in 1730

5. Killaque born ca. 1714

6. Skalilosken born ca. 1718

7. Ounaconoa born ca. 1722

8. Kollannah born ca. 1724

9. Oukaii-Oukah born ca. 1726

10. Amo-Scossite “Bad Water or Dreadful Water” born ca. 1728 11. Ahna-Wakie born ca. 1730

James Hicks Book “Cherokee Lineages”

3. MOYTOY 2

(A-MA-DO-YA 1

) was born Abt. 1687 in Tellico, CNE, and died 1741 in CNE. He married

WOMAN OF ANI’-G A’TÂGE’WI. She was born Abt. 1686.

Notes for MOYTOY:

Moytoy Pigeon, of Tellico; Supreme Chief of the Cherokee 1730 — 1760

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The Eastern Band of Cherokee, by John R Finger, Univ of TN Press, Knoxville:

[Early Cherokee society was atomized into clans with individual chiefs]... Sir Alexander Cuming boldly

addressed this problem in 1730 by traveling to Cherokee country and proclaiming a single chief, Moytoy,

as the first chief and King of his people.

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from Don Chesnut’s web page; www.users.mis.net/~chesnut/pages/cherokee.htm

Moytoy: a Cherokee chief recognized by the English as “emperor” in 1730. Both the correct form and the

meaning of the name are uncertain; the name occurs again as Moyatoy in a document of 1793; a boy upon

the East Cherokee reservation a few years ago bore the name of Ma’tayi, for which no meaning can be

found or given.

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Old Frontiers, by John P Brown, also details a Moytoy of Settico who was rampaiging through VA after

the death of “Emperor” Moytoy of Tellico, and in the Colonial Records of South Carolina, 1754-1765, a

letter dated 1/31/1757 references a “Moyatoya, son to the Mankiller of Highwassey deceased”. [Moytoy’s

son Raven of Hiwassee had a son called Moytoy who could be this Moytoy of Settico]


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AKA A-ma’-he-ta-i or Rain Conjuror; I’m guessing the name “Moytoy” is an abbreviated form of A-ma’-

he-ta-i = a-MA-HE-TA-I = Mahetai = Moytoy. (I also think that the “Pigeon” is a different person than

Moytoy.)

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More About MOYTOY:

Aka (Facts Pg): The Pigeon

Blood: Full Blood Cherokee

Chief: Bet. 1730 — 1741, Principal Chief, CN

Clan: Ani’-Wa’ya = Wolf Clan (Quatsy)

More About WOMAN OF ANI’-G A’TÂGE’WI:

Clan: Ani’-Ga’tâge’wi = Kituah or Wild Potato (Wa-Wli Vann)

Children of MOYTOY and WOMAN ANI’-G A’TÂGE’WI are:

8.i. OCONOSTOTA 3

, b. Abt. 1704; d. Abt. March 1783. ii. CLOGOITTAH , b. Abt. 1706. More About

CLOGOITTAH :

Attended: 1730, Delegation to King George II



9. iii. K ITEGISTA, b. Abt. 1708; d. September 30, 1792, Buchanan’s Station, CNE.10.iv. A-NU-WE-GI

MOYTOY, b. Abt. 1710.11.v. RAVEN OF HIWASSEE , b. Abt. 1712; d. Bef. 1761.12.vi . GRE AT

EAGLE, b. Abt. 1714. vii. OUNACONOA, b. Abt. 1716. More About OUNACONOA:



viii. S-KA-LI-LO-S-GE-NV , b. Abt. 1718. More About S-KA-LI-LO-S-GE-NV :



ix. OUKAII-O UKAH, b. Abt. 1722. More About OUKAII-O UKAH:


x. BAD WATER, b. Abt. 1728. Notes for BAD WATER:

Old Frontiers, pg 66;

“The name Amo-Scossite means bad or dreadful water. A descendant of the same name died while on the

way to the west during the removal, 1838.

More About BAD WATER:

Aka (Facts Pg): Emporer of Tellico, Tacite of Euphassee, Mankiller of Hiwassee, the Young Emperor



Translation: A-ma’-s-go-si’-te = Bad (Dreadful) Water


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Great Tellico- Chief Pigeon of Tellico Moytoy

Great Tellico

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Great Tellico was a Cherokee town at the site of present-day Tellico Plains, Tennessee, where the Tellico

River emerges from the Appalachian Mountains. Great Tellico was one of the largest Cherokee towns in

the region. Its name in Cherokee is more properly written Talikwa. It is sometimes spelled Telliquo, or,

in Oklahama, Tahlequah. There were several Cherokee settlements named Tellico, the largest of which is

distinguished from the others by calling it “Great”. The meaning of the word “Talikwa” is thought to be

lost by the Cherokees.

The Warrior Path— a branch of the Great Indian Warpath— passed through Great Tellico, linking it to

Chota in the north and Great Hiwassee in the south, via Conasauga Creek. In addition, the Trading Path

(Tellico Road), later called the Unicoi Turnpike Tell, ran from Great Tellico southeast over the Unicoi

Range of the Appalachian Mountains, linking the Overhill Cherokee to the Middle and Lower Cherokee

towns in North Carolina and South Carolina. The Trading Path became the main route of trade between

the British and the Cherokee during the 18th century (Duncan 2003:245).

In the early 18th century, Great Tellico was the de facto capital of the Overhill Cherokee. Several

prominent Cherokee leaders came from the town, such as Moytoy of Tellico. After his death in 1741,

Great Tellico began to fade. By the 1750s, Chota was largely recognized as the principal town of the

Overhill Cherokee.

The monument on New Echota Historic Site honored the

Cherokees who died on the Trail of Tears.

009 Benjamin Maple I - Biography

Benjamin Maple I History

Born 1663, Ipswitch, Suffolk, England

On May 8, 1684, Benjamin Maple of Ipswich, England, signed with his mark a plantation indenture to

John Smith, for 4 years of service. He then was to be transported on the ship “Friendship” to America.

Left England at the age of 21 to go to Barbados to serve as an indentured servant for four years to pay for

his travel expences to America. After his term in

Barbadoes he entered the Colonies at New Jersey.

May have worked to finish paying his passage debt

or was trying to make a home to start a family.

No Maple from this line ever owned any slaves. This

may have been due to the experiences Benjamin had

in Barbados.

A weaver, who lived in New Brunswick

Married 6/4/1694

Died c. 5/13/1727, New Brunswick, Burlington, NJ

Will:

THE WILL OF BENJAMIN MAPLE SR.

On May 13, 1727, Benjamin Maple Sr. made his

will, signed by mark. The will names his wife

Elizabeth, son Benjamin Maple Jr., Eldest daughter Ruth Ashley, youngest daughter Catherine Mellot and

step-son David Lee, and was witnessed by Daniel Cayles, Reune Runyon and Tho: Broderwick. His wife

and son were made executors. It was probated Sept. 8, 1727. Text of the will copied from a photostat of

the original follows:

IN THE NAME OF GOD AMEN this thirteenth day of May in the year of our Lord one Thousand Seven

hundred twenty Seven I Benjamin Maple of New Brunswick in the County of Middx: and Province of

New Jersey Weaver being very sick and weak in body but of

Sound and Perfect mind and memory Thanks be given to God

Therefor but calling unto mind the Mortality of my body and

knowing that it is Appointed for all men once to die do make

this my Last Will and Testament Principally and first of all I

give and Recommend my Soul into the hands of Almighty God

my Creator and as for my body I recommend it to the Earth to

be Buried in a Christian Like and Decent manner at the

Discretion of my Executors and as Touching such Worldly

Estate wherewith it hath Pleased God to bless me withal I give

devise and dispose of the Same in the following manner and

form.

IMPRIMIS I give and bequeath to my well beloved wife

ELIZABETH MAPLE after all debts and Legacys are fully

Satisfied and Paid all the remaining part of my Movable Estate

also the use of the Plantation during her Natural Life,

Item I give and bequeath to my well beloved Son Benjamin

Maple and to his heirs forever after the decease of my Said

Wife Elizabeth Maple all my Plantation Containing one

Location Where Benjamin Maple Married Elizabeth

Lee On 4 June 1695. The Ceremony Was Performed

By Thomas Revell.


hundred Acres of Land and Meadow with the house Barn and all other Improvements thereunto belonging

also five pounds to be levyed out of my Stock after my Decease

Item I give to my Eldest Daughter Ruth Ashley the Sum

of ten pounds to be levyed out of my Stock Either in

Cattle or horses as shall be adjudged by two Neighbors

or Apraysors

Item I give and bequeath to my Youngest Daughter

Catherine Mellot the Sum of ten pounds to be levyed

out of my Stock Either in Cattle or horses as shall be

Adjudged by two Neighbors or Apraysors

Item I give to my Son in Law David Lee the Sum of

five pounds to be Levyed out of my Stock Either in

Cattle or horseflesh as Shall be Adjudged by two

Neighbors or Apraysors

Lastly I make ordain Constitute and Appoint my Said

Wife Elizabeth Maple and my Son Benjamin Maple my

whole and sole Executrix and Executor of this my Last

Will & Testament and I do hereby Utterly disallow

Revoke and Disannul all and every other former Wills

Testaments and Legacys Requests and Executors by me

in any ways before this time Named Willed and

bequeathed Ratifying and Confirming this and no Other

to be my Last Will and Testament In Witness whereof I

have hereunto put my hand and Seal the Day and Year Above Written

SIGNED SEALED PUBLISHED PRONOUNCED ) his

AND DECLARED BY THE SAID BENJAMIN ) Benjamin Maple

MAPLE AS His Last Will and Testament ) mark

in the presence of us the Subscribers )

Daniel Cayles

Rogue Ronnion

Tho: Broderwick

Maple Family

All members of the Maple or Mapel surname with a family tradition of a New Jersey origin appear to be

descended from Benjamin and Elizabeth (Lee) Maple whose marriage was recorded at Burlington, NJ

June 4, 1695. Benjamin is believed to be the Benjamin Maple of Ipswich, County of Suffolk, England,

who at age 21, signed by mark on May 8, 1684, an agreement to be an indentured servant to John Smith,

merchant of London, England, for four years as a husbandman in Barbadoes in return for his

transportation and keep there.

The origin of the surname is not known. The name Maple is found in English parish registries as early as

1531 when the burial of an Edward Maple on June 9, 1531 was recorded in Carberton. Bardsley’s

Dictionary of English and Welsh Surnames notes a Robert De Mapleton of the County of York in 1273,

as well as a William De Maplesden and Stephen De Maplesden in the County of Kent and a Robert De

Maplesden and Thomas De Maplesden in the County of Derby in the same year. In 1528-31, there was

recorded at Ipswich the will of Johnis Mepall, de Shottley [Calendar of Wills at Ipswich, Book X, 1528-

31, 1 vol.-Folio 61]. The will mentions his wife Johan, and the Mother Church at Norwich. No names of


children.{See also, Suffolk Green Book, No. XVI, p. 74-5]. In 1564-66 is recorded the will of a Johnis

Mapled de Metfield [Calendar of Wills at Ipswich, Book XXI, 1564-66, Folio 148].

There is no reason to believe the name is a contraction of Shakemaple, as claimed by Monette. Nor is ther

any known connection with the Maples (spelled with an s) of Conneticut. The same is true for the Henry

and Jacob Mayle of New York City who were made freemen May 21, 1691.

The family is also distinct from the Marple family of NJ, who are found primarily in Gloucester County.

There is some reaon to think that the abstractors who prepared the NJ Archives for publication

occasionally mistook the handwritten”p” of the eighteenth century for “rp”.

Some descendants spell the name as Mapel, others Maple. John Jameson Mapel, convinced that Mapel

was the original spelling, often recorded the name as Mapel even though letters show the individual wrote

his name as Maple. Early notaries used whatever spelling seemed best to them, sometimes even

“Maypole” or “Maipel”. The correct spelling today is that which usage has established for each branch of

the family.

Benjamin Maple, Sr., Progenitor Of The Maple/Mapel Family In America

On May 8, 1684, a Benjamin Maple of Ipswich, County of Suffolk, England, aged twenty one, wsgned by

mark an indenture to John Smith, merchant of London, for service of four years as a husbandman on

arrival in Barbadoes. He was to be transported in the vessel ‘Friendshipp”, commanded by Captain

William Bodding. The original, known as a Plantation Indenture, is in the keeping of the Greater London

Record Office(Middlesex Records), 1 Queen Anne’s Gate Buildings, Dartmouth Street, London SW1.

A letter from Mrs. Krohne to the Archivist of Barbadoes elicited the reply “Few records of arrivals and

departures of ships have survived for this period/ However as there is no trace of the name MAPLE

among the population records for the 17th century, if he did come here it may have been for a very brief

period.” The Governor of Barbadoes ordered a census taken in 1684 which disclosed a population of

20,000 whites and 16,000 slaves. The “Friendshipp” likely sailed sometime in May and probably arrived

in Barbadoes by Early July 1684, unless bad weather at sea forced a change in port of arrival. The name

of the vessel suggests that John Smith may have been a member of the Society of Friends, commonly

called Quakers. The first settlement of Quakers in America was in 1677 at Burlington, NJ, founded by

230 Quakers from London and Yorkshire. The oldest house there is the Revell House on E. Pearl St., built

in 1685, now in the care of the Burlington Foundation, Inc.

The handwritted record book of Thomas Revell, Justice of the Peace, Burlington, NJ contains the

following entry, copied by the author from a photostat of the original supplied by the Office of the

Secretary of State for NJ:

Benjamin Maplin Benjamin Maplin & Elizabeth Lee Solemnized

their

& marriage at the House of Thomas Revell in the

County

Elizabeth Lee

of Burlington the fourth day of June 1695: before

Tho. Revell Justice: And these witnesses:

Tho. Tindall, Math. Champion, Robert Chapman,

Robert Pearson,

Person Hugh Hutchin, Willm Wardell, Willm Spenser,

John Dickson, Roberta

Roberta Chapman, Eliz. Bingham & Alice Bingham


The next record we have of Benjamin Maple is a deed of March 18, 1688-9 by Jeremiah Basse and

Thomas Revell, as agents of the West Jersey Society, to a group of men, all of Maidenhead, Burlington

County, for 100 acres there of the Society’s 15,000 acre tract above the falls of Delaware, to be used for a

meeting house, burying ground and schoolhouse. Among those listed is “Benja. Maple”. (NJ Archives,

First series, Vol. XXI, Calendar of New Jersey Records, 1664-1703, pp. 17-18).

The name of the town of Maidenhead was changed to Lawrenceville in 1816 by act of the NJ Legislature,

to honor Capt. James Lawrence, of Burlington, NJ, who in 1813, while commanding the frigate “Hornet”

captured the British ship “Peacock,” for which action he was promoted to captain and given command of

the frigate “Chesapeake”. He engaged the British ship “Shannon” off Boston harbor, was defeated and

while lying mortally wounded enjoined “Don’t give up the ship”. He died June 5, 1813.

The will of Thomas Smith of Maidenhead, Burlington County, was made Oct. 8, 1702. An inventory of

the estate dated Nov. 14, 1702 mentions “debts due from Benjamin Maple”. (NJ Archives, Wills, Vol., I,

P. 433)

The next notice we have of Benjamin Maple is the records of a town meeting at Maidenhead in 1712 at

which he is listed among others as having subscribed to the formation of a new county.

Benjamin Maple of New Brunswick, County of Middlesex, Province of New Jersey, weaver, made his

will May 13, 1727. The will was proved Sept. 8, 1727. (NJ Archives, Wills, Vol., I). His wife Elizabeth

was named executor. Children named were his son Benjamin, eldest daughter Ruth Ashley, and youngest

daughter Catherine Mellot (Marlett). He made a bequest to his son-in-law (used at that time in place of

the modern “stepson”) David Lee, who was also named co-executor. Witnesses were David Bayles,

Rugne Ronnion (Reune Runyon) and Thos. Broderick. His plantation of 100 acres together with house

and barn were left for the use of his widow Elizabeth, and on her demise to go to his son Benjamin. The

will was signed by mark, a sort of vertical cross placed next to a dot that was, no doubt, made by the

scribe to show him where to place his mark, and is very similar to the mark used to sign the plantation

indenture. When a will was filed for probate, it was usual for an inventory of the deceased’s person estate

to be ordered taken. However, no inventory is listed in the NJ Archives.

That he was a weaver reinforces the belief that he is the Benjamin Maple of the 1684 indenture. Ipswich

was an important center for the wool and cloth trade in the 14th and 15th centures. This was later

superseded by sailcloth manufacture. Weaving was still a cottage industry until the middle of the 18th

century and Benjamin probably learned his craft as a youth.

A period of eleven years elapsed between signing the indenture and his marriage. After serving four years

of indentured service, seven years remain unaccounted for. These were likely spent accumulating funds

for the purchase of land and construction of a home, before he could afford to marry.

The reason for the misspelling of his surname in the marriage record is not known.

Source: Genealogical History of the Maple/Mapel Family In America, by Telford Grant Maple, Ph.D.

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Source Citation: Place: Barbados; Year: 1684; Page Number: 454.

Source Information:Gale Research. Passenger and Immigration Lists Index, 1500s-1900s [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com

Operations, Inc, 2010. Original data: Filby, P. William, ed. Passenger and Immigration Lists Index, 1500s-1900s. Farmington Hills, MI, USA: Gale Research, 2010.



Name: Benjamin Maple

Year: 1684

Age: 21

Estimated Birth Year:

abt 1663

Place: Barbados


1219.5

Primary Immigrant:

Maple, Benjamin

Annotation: For the majority of entries, date and port reflect date of the transportation or apprenticeship orders and the intended destination. Information was extracted from English records of apprenticeship bindings or criminal transportation orders and from port


COLDHAM, PETER WILSON. The Complete Book of Emigrants: A Comprehensive Listing Compiled from English Public Records of Those Who Took Ship to the Americas for Political, Religious, and Economic Reasons; of Those Who Were Deported for Vagrancy, Roguery, or Non-Conformity; and of Those Who Were Sold to Labour in the New Colonies. Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Co. 1661-1699. 1990. 894p.

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009 Elizabeth Harbert Herbert-Davis — Biography

Cooke’s And Herbert Family History

1600’S TO 1700’S , COLONIAL NEW JERSEY

Herbert Family Of Middletown Township, Monmouth Co, New Jersey

Bridget Herbert of Gravesend, Long Island, New Netherlands, the widow of Richard Herbert of Bermuda,

appeared in the Town Book of Middletown on 25th of March, 1671 for rental of a house and land of

Edward Smith’s. She registered Thomas Herbert, her son, for a cattle ear mark.(1) Dr. John E. Stillwell,

New Jersey historian, wrote Bridget married (2) William Bowne, son of Gershom Bowne,a but Edith

Herbert Mather disputed the second marriage in her Genealogical Notes. Essentially what the Herbert

descendants agree on is that (a) the Monmouth Co NJ Herberts were founded by a widow, Bridgett

Herbert-Harbert-Harbour of Gravesend, Long Island, New Amsterdam and (b) she was possibly the

widow of *Richard Herbert as documented in the Bermuda records outlined in the book “Bermuda

Settlers of the 17th Century:Genealogical Notes from Bermuda.” (1a & Appendix)

In the September 28, 1654 will of Anthony Cooke of Bermuda, Anthony appointed as executor his son-

in-law, Capt. Richard Harbert, making Bridget Cooke Harbert the widow of Richard Harbert, not Walter

Harbert. This new data comes from Brett Burrowes who descends from both Walter Herbert of

Shrewsbury and from Bridget’s son, Thomas Herbert. Brett’s family have lived in Monmouth County,

New Jersey from 1667 until his grandfather died in 1977.

Documents prove four Herbert males were in Monmouth Co New Jersey in the 1600s: Walter Herbert and

Henry Herbert, brothers, of Shrewsbury, Monmouth Co, New Jersey, and Francis Herbert and Thomas

Herbert, sons of Bridgett Herbert, widow, of Monmouth Co, New Jersey.

Mary Barnes married Walter Herbert on 14 August 1678 at Albany, New York. This marriage, however,

was probably between Mary Barnes and Walter Herbert Jr., son of Bridget Herbert. The widow, Bridget

Herbert, died 9 March 1681/82/83 in Monmouth Co, NJ. The Herberts were not among the original

patentees of Monmouth County, as were the Grovers. (3a & b)

Bridget Herbert Was The Mother Of At Least *Three Children: (several New Jersey historians have

add three more):

1. *Thomas Herbert b. c1647, mar. Mary (?), d. 4 December 1721 Monmouth Co New Jersey

2. *Francis Herbert b. c1648, mar. (1) Mary Bowne (2) Hannah Applegate; d. 25 Nov. 1719 Monmouth

Co N.J.

3. Elizabeth Herbert b. c1650; d. 14 Aug 1729; mar. Richard Davies c1673

4. Walter Herbert b. c1660 mar. (1) Mary Barnes 14 Aug 1678 (2) Sarah Tilton, d/o John Tilton &

Rebecca Terry 2nd June 1704

5. *Susannah Herbert b. c1671, d. 16 March 1681

6. Henry Herbert b. ? ; died 23 June 1747; mar. Elizabeth ?

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Thomas Herbert (The First) Of Middletown, Monmouth Co, New Jersey:

Thomas Herbert was born c1647 in Monmouth Co, New Jersey, resided Middletown Township,

Monmouth Co, NJ [Patent Bk 1:168]. Married Mary ___; died intestate on 4 December 1721 in

Monmouth Co, NJ. Mary Herbert, widow,married (2) __ Cooper. (some dispute over the second marriage

of widow Mary Herbert) Daniel Herbert, their son, in his will refers to his mother as Widow Mary

Cooper. (Daniel Herbert will. Aug 11, 1747 Mon Co NJ. “Calendar of NJ Wills,” Nelson & Honeyman,

Vol II:232; see Appendix)


Thomas Herbert was in Middletown by June, 1667, when he patented 131 acres sold to him by R.

Hamilton and William Lawrence. (2) In 1670, Thomas Morfort’s deed referred to Thomas Herbert’s

Proprietary deed. In 1675, Thomas Herbert buys 140 a. of bay and meadow land next to James Grover.

Thomas Herbert Patents & Property In Monmouth Co NJ :

June 4, 1667: Thomas Harber patented 131 acres for 0-5-5; one-half sold by him to R. Hamilton, by him

to Wm Lawrence. Pay 1/2 price per acre to Proprietors. (Bk 1:168)

1670: Thomas Morfort’s lands are referred to in Thomas Herbert’s Proprietary Deed. (Stillwell, Op.Cit.

Vol 4 )

25th of March 1675: Thomas Harbour 140 a. for 1.5.10 pounds.(Bk C:135) Thomas Harbour conveys one

of Stephen Arnels two shares to John Throgmorton of Middletown; formerly surveyed, now resurveyed,

being n.e. part by Bay & Meadows of Sundrys; s.e. by Benj. Debell; s. John Job & s.w. James Ashton, w.

unsurveyed part of James Grover.. (Bk D:191)

1676: Thomas Harbert rec’d 372 acres of land claiming rights under the Grants and Concessions

June 4, 1677: Thomas Harbert rec’d patent for land as follows: (1) a tract of 120 a. on Horse Neck, n. of

Navesink River (2) 3 a. of meadow w. of Thomas Merefoot (3) 8 a. of meadow at Sholde Harbor n. of

Thos. Morford.

Frances Harber patented 142 acres June 20, 1677 for 1.5.11 First payment 35 March 1678. ( Bk 1:171)

Sept. 22, 1683, Province of East NJ, to High Sheriff of Monmouth Co, Summons to Thomas Harbert, Wm

Whitlock, James Bowne, Henry Marsh & Wm Layton, all of Middletown, to appear at next co court 25th

of Sept to give evidence in case betwixt Thos. Snawsell & Bej. Devell. Richard Gardiner, Clerk of

Monmouth Co Court.

1685 Thomas Harbert owed 10 shillings for quit rent according to Gawin Lewries account.

March 1, 1687: Thomas Harbert resided between Richard Gardiner and Benjamin Devell when six King’s

Highways were being laid out.

Thomas Herbert Of Middletown In Mercer Co New Jersey Deeds

1688 May 10: Patent to Thomas Harbur at Middletown for 140 acres s.e. Benjamin Devell, s. John Job,

s.w. of James Ashtone, w. unsurveyed land and James Grover, n.e. James Ashtone, Richard Davis, John

Jobs and the Bay.

1689 April 20: Robert Hamilton to William Lawrence Jr. both of Middletown for 131 a. as granted by

patent to Thomas Herbert who sold the lot to grantor.

1690 May 6 Deed: Thomas Harbert to John Throgmorton, both of Middletown, for one share of upland

and four lots of meadow of the Neversinks lands, as purchased by Stephen Arnold of Pautixit,

Providence, R.I. and others of whom the present grantor, both 2 shares.

1698 Mar 10. Elisha Lawrence and wife Lucy of Middletown to Jeremiah Stillwell, late of Gravesend LI

for the following lots in Middletown: (1b) 120 a. of Horse Neck, e. Thomas Morfoot, w. at creek. n.

unsurveyed, s. Neversinks. (2) 3 a. meadow e. Thomas Morfoot, s.w. & n. unsurveyed, the whole 123

acres granted to Thomas Herbert by patent June 4, 1677, by him sold to Robt. Hamilton, by him to Wm.

Lawrence, who conveyed it to present grantor. (3) a lot on Hogpen Neck, boght. of John Reid June 9,

1691.

Thomas (The First) And Mary Herbert’s Progeny:

Thomas Herbert II b. 27 Oct 1694; mar. Easter/Esther Tauer or Tower; died 18 Aug *1735


Note: Parish Register of Christ Church at Shrewsbury, Monmoth Co NJ: Thomas & Easter Herbert’s son,

John Herbert, baptized April 14, *1734.(4) [photo right}

Mary Herbert b. 30 Jan 1695/6; d. c1700 (“Genealogy of NJ Families,” p. 553)

Richard Herbert b. 22 Jan 1697; mar. Martha Dorsett Carman 2 June 1742, res. Monmouth Co NJ. d.

1777

Jonathan Herbert b. 2 Nov 1699; d. 4 March 1777

David Herbert b. 8 April 1701, d. Aug 1747; mar. Margaret Lyon 2 July 1744.

Daniel Herbert b. 8 April 1701; d. 1747; mar. (1) Susannah (2) Amy Borden McGee on 2 Oct 1745

James Herbert b. c1703; d. 1746 New Brunswick, Middlesex Co, NJ, mar. Margaret Mount 24 March

1739.

Notes: Birth dates of above children not from a Bible record, but from a Copy Book which belonged to

Thomas Harburt, then to his grandson Jonathan Herbert of Middletown. “Herbert Family Records” was

contributed by Frederick D. Herbert to “Genealogy of New Jersey Families” in NJ Genealogy Magazine.

The copy book dates on p. 176: Bridgett harburt deyed on the ninth day of March in the year 1682; the

death of Thomas herbert he died 4th day of December in the year 1721; the death of Elizabetbh Davies,

she deyed on the fourteenth dah of August in the year 1728; Inside back cover: The death of *Thomas

Herbert he deyed on eighteenth Day of August in the year of our Lord 1735 (eldest son) The key to

understanding the text is the Children of Thomas Herbert is followed by the list above. (5)

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Thomas Herbert II was b. 27 Oct 1694, d. 18 Aug 1735 at age 41. (4) He evidently lived in Middletown

Township, Monmouth Co, New Jersey, but a baptismal record for his son John Herbert (April 14, 1734)

can be found in Christ Church (Episcopal) Parish Records in Shrewsbury. John Herbert must have been

the last child of Thomas & Easter Herbert because Thomas died the following year in 1735. Thomas

Herbert married Easter-Esther-Hester (Tuer/s). Being a devout Baptist, Thomas Herbert would have had

his son John christened at Christ Church Shrewsbury to protect his son’s inheritance right. (5) Marriages

performed by Anglican rectors were legal, Baptist or Quaker marriages were not. Before the

Revolutionary War, the Anglican Church became entwined with all aspects of the civil government

including authority over marriage. Children born to Quaker or Baptist parents were not legitimate until

christened in the Anglican Church, a way to harass religious non-conformists or dissenters. There was a

migration of Baptists to Hopewell and Amwell Townships in Hunterdon County from Monmouth County.

A new church was formed in Hopewell Township called “the Old School Baptist Church.” (photo left)

Grounds of the Old School Baptist Church were donated by John Hart, a singer of the Declaration of

Independence and an outspoken leader of the American cause during the Revolution.

The Kingwood Baptist Church in Hunterdon Co was consequently formed by Hopewell’s Old School

Baptist Church in 1742. Baptists in Hopewell followed others to Hunterdon County’s Kingwood Church.

Thomas Herbert III, son of Thomas Herbert II, can be found among Kingwood Baptist church records.

Today, only the cemetery of Kingwood church in Baptistown remains with a newer church across the

road. “The New Jersey Churchscape” web site has history & pictures of NJ’s colonial churches:

http://www.njchurchscape.com/photography.html

Thomas Herbert II (D. 1735) Probate Records Of Monmouth Co NJ:

Edward Higbee Middletown, Mon Co NJ. Aug 21, 1716/Mar 25, 1717. Inventory “made” by Thomas

Herburt; Obadiah Winter debtor.

Henry Swingler, Mon Co NJ. Adm. Wm Lawrence, Jr. Jan 22, 1725/6. Inventory “made” by Thomas

Harburt, Jon. Smock, Guisbert van Matre.


Eleazer Cotterell, Middletown, Mon Co NJ. Mar 18, 1726/Apr 20, 1727.Inventory “made” by Thomas

Harbert & John Bray. April 15, 1727. Worth: 446.16.3

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Thomas Herbert III married Hannah Winter October 21, 1751, in Monmouth Co, NJ. (6; Appendix)

Hannah Winter was the daughter of Andrew Winter, the son of William Winter and Hannah Grover. The

Winter and Grover families were pioneers of Monmouth Co, New Jersey. Andrew Winter was born about

1790, and died before April 30, 1760. Andrew Winter’s daughter, Catherine Winter, married James

Bray.(7)

Thomas and Hannah Herbert in 1766 in Kingwood Township, Hunterdon Co, NJ, had neighbors Joseph

Everits of Kingwood Township, who in a deed dated October 6th, 1766, sold his property (277 acres) to

Smith Cornwell of Bucks Co, Pa. The deed described the tract lying along “Abraham Gray’s line” near

“Thomas Herbert’s plantation” and “Hezekiah Bonham’s & Daniel Everit’s line.” (8) Abraham Gray Sr.

died 1782 in Kingwood Twp., Hunterdon Co, NJ. His wife was Ariaantje Aertsen, and his children

included Anne Gray, Daniel Gray & Isaac Gray Sr. (8a)

Baptist interest at Kingwood Township began in 1722. By 1734, Kingwood Township has eight Baptist

families. Mr. Thomas Curtis, a minister and a member of Hopewell Church, supervised construction of a

small meeting house. James Bray and his wife, former members of Middletown (Holmdel), a son of John

Bray (who built the 3rd house of worship and parsonage at Holmdel in 1705) arrived in Kingwood

Township.(9) John Bray of Middletown had acquired 500 acres in the Baptistown area; and in 1737, he

bought another 1,000 acres. In 1748, a year after the Kingwood Baptist Church was founded, John and

James Bray moved from Middletown to Kingwood. At the formation of the Kingwood Baptist Church in

1742, all member signed a covenant formally and solemnly obligating themselves to live up to its rules

and to accept penalties for transgression of those rules.

Thomas and his wife Hannah Herbert were members of the Kingwood Baptist Church at Baptistown. (10)

Thomas Herbert became Deacon of Kingwood Church on 21st of October 1765. Hannah (Winter) Herbert

was baptized (adult baptism) on 21st of June 1766. (11) The Winter, Bray and Herbert family lived in

Kingwood Township, Hunterdon Co, in the years before the Revolutionary War. Thomas Herbert was

“excluded” from Kingwood Church 12th of October 1770; Hannah Herbert was “dismissed” toward the

end of October 1776. Dismissal was for the purpose of membership to another church; exclusion was for

chastisement. Thomas Herbert sold his “plantation” Sept. 5, 1770, to Isaac Gray and Hendrick Gulick

(12) Thomas Herbert IV and Josiah Herbert, sons of Thomas III, removed to Loudoun Co Va. in 1772.

Thomas Herbert remained in Hunterdon Co as shown by final settlement of “mortgage debt” to James

Gray and John Jones in August, 1774. Andrew Bray Esq. settled his debt to Thomas Herbert at the same

time. (see #12 under Hunterdon Co NJ Common Pleas Court Entries next)

Thomas Herbert III Documentation

Hunterdon Co NJ Deeds

Vol. 1 p. 18-19: 6th day of Oct 1766 Indenture between Joseph Everits of Kingwood Twp. Hunterdon Co

NJ and Smith Cornwell of Buck Co Pa. land lying along Thomas Herbert’s plantation south, along great

road to corner of Hezikiah Bonham land to Daniel Everit’s corner to line of Abraham Gray. 277 a. for 105

pds.

Vol. I p. 116 : Mortgage Deed from Thomas Harbert of Kingwood Twp. co of Hunterdon in the Province

of Western Division of New Jersey to Henry Gulick and Isaac Gray both of township aforesaid bearing

date fifth day of Sept 1770 for tract of land lying in co of Hunterdon bounded by corner of Richard

Opdick by the road etc. cont. 105 a. to be paid on/bef first day of April 146 pds 15 shilling etc. Signed

Thomas Herbert, Hendrick Gulick, Isaac Gray. Proved Sept 10, 1770 & Oct 2, 1770 by Wm Allen before

John Grandin. Wts. Wm Allen, Go. Birkhead Sr.(May 20, 1772 org. mort. produced).


Mortgage Deed from Thomas Herbert Kingwood Twp, Hunterdon Co etc. to Henry Gulick and Isaac

Gray, same, 5th of Sept. 1770 tract lying bounded by etc. corner of Daniel Everit and by the road of

Everit’s land to corner of said Everit and Richard Opdike, 63 a. for 100 pds. Signed Thomas Herbert,

Henrick Gulick & Isaac Gray. Wts. Wm Allen, Geo. Birkhead Sr. (May 20, 1772 orig. mort. produced).

Court Of Common Pleas Of Hunterdon Co NJ:

(1) Book VIII p. 134: Feb. Term, 1758 : Stephen Jones (plaintiff) vs.Thomas Herbert (defendant) Capius

Debt 105 pds.

(2) Bk VIII p. 151: May 1758 Stephen Jones (same plaintiff) vs. Thomas Herbert & John Everit Decline

speciality warant & attorney bid warrant recently. filed Note: Everits lived next to Thomas Herbert (see

1766 deed)

(3) Feb 1771 Bk XI p. 420: John Jones vs. Thomas Herbert Captis cout. 500 pds.

(4) 16 Oct 1771, Bk XI p. 466: John Jones vs. Thomas Herbert “subpoena”

(5) Oct 1771 Bk XI p. 467: Dom Rex (the King) vs. Thomas Herbert an indictment in motion made on

behalf of the Attorney Gen. that the tryal of the indictment do come on immediately, Mr. Blackston of

Coriel? for the defendant, it is ordered the same be part of the next term, to come in person to be sworn on

Wed. and defendant defray all costs of the Justices.

(6) 22 Nov 1771 Bk XI p. 477: Feb Turn 1771 The King vs. Thomas Herbert “in debt subpoena sealed

(7) 16 Mar 1772 Bk XI p. 495: Sarah Perkins vs. Thomas Herbert Bk XI p. 495 “in case captis 100 pds.

(8) Feb Tern 1772: The King vs. Thomas Herbert in debt subpoena sealed (p. 477)

(9) Feb Term 1772: The King vs. Thomas Herbert per indictment in obed.to His Excellency command to

me under the Seal of Arms, I hereby enter a nonved uloriem presequi in the court case. Col. Skinner,

Attorney Gen. (p. 481)

(10) March-May Term 1774. Sarah Perkins vs. Thomas Harbert in case Capius 100 pds.

(11) Feb Tern 1774: John Herbert vs. Richard Reed in state of guardianship in the year being filed

according to Act of Assembly and ng plea upon motion of warrant, attorny for the plaintiff ordered

judgment be entered insitu.

(12) August Term 1774: John Jones vs. Thomas Herbert per attachment the Auditors apt. in the cause

having returned their report of the Mortgage to them by counterclaim it appears the defendant indebted to

the plaintiff in the sum of 79 pds, 18 shilling, 7 pence, proclamation money, and to James Bray in the sum

of nine pds, 11 shillings; and the auditors hereby certify Andrew Bray Esq. is indebted to Thomas Herbert

in the sum of 52 pds, ten shilling, 11 pence, due first day of May on the motion of Smith for the judgment

entered to rule etc. (p. 106) [Andrew Bray was f/o James Bray who mar. Catherine Winter, sister of

Hannah Winter who mar. Thos Herbert; therefore James Bray was bro-in-law of Thos. Herbert]

Probate Records Of Monmouth Co NJ:

Jacob Covenhoven, Middletown, Mon Co NJ. Yeoman. July 5, *1743 Will. Inventory Dec 3, *1744:

Debtors — Thomas Harbert, Andrew Bray, etc.

Henry Van Hook, Upper Freehold, Monmouth Co NJ. Yeoman. Will Feb 18, 1750. Inventory: bills of

Thomas Herbert & Nathaniel Bowman. 1750/1.

1752, June 26. Margaret Watson, d/o Wm Watson, dec’d, released & quit-claimed land to Ufamy

Johnson, d/o Wm Watson, left them by the will of Wm Watons. Land lying on Milstone Brook. Wts.

Peter Imlay Jr. & Thomas Herbert Jr.. (Freehold Records Lib 1:64 & 269)


Joseph Grover, Upper Freehold, Monmouth Co NJ, Will dated 24 March 1771, prob. 6 March 1772. Wt.

Thomas Herbert (7)

William Winter will dated July 3, 1722 and qualification of Andrew Winter, the Surviving Executor.13

June 1733. Proved by deposition of Rich. Gibbens, wit., signed in presence of Robt. Lawrence, 13 June

1733.

New Jersey Early Census Index: Thomas Herbert Monmouth Co March-Nov 1778 p. 7.

Thomas Herbert Monmouth Co March-Jan 1779 p. 7.

Lt. Thomas Herbert Monmouth Co Upper Freehold June Tax List 1793

Grover Web Sites:

“Jack Mounts Genealogy: My Grover Ancestry” http://members.cox.net/mountgen/grover.html

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Footnotes:

1a. Mercer, Julia E., “Bermuda Settlers of the 17th Century: Genealogical Notes from Bermuda,” Balto.

Md. GPC, p. 82-83. Harbert Wills E. Vol 1, p. 91. Inventory of estate of Capt. RICHARD HARBERT,

lately dec’d, August 25, 1664, taken bef. Capt. Geo. Hubbard, Councillor of Devonshire Tribe. “Mrs.

BRIDGET HARBERT hath averred upon oath that this is the just inventory of all good, chattels, debts of

her late dec’d husband, Capt. RICHARD HERBERT, Sept. 1664. (p. 83). Also see: Dec 1678: 46.

Plaintiff BRIDGET HARBURT, late of Devonshire (town in Bermuda) now of New York, widow, def.

Nathaniel Smith, TT, planter.

Anthony Cooke Will, Bermuda, Sept. 28, 1654: planter, wife Ann, d/o BRIDGET HARBERT, wife of

Capt. RICHARD HARBERT, silver cup and negro. Two grandchildren: Richard & Anthony Harburt.

Wife Ann Cooke, & son-in-law Capt. Richard Harbert, excr. (Mercer, op. cit. p. 30) For more data,

contact Brett Burrowes <[email protected]>

1b. Joseph Wilson his marke is the top of the eare cutt off beeing the left eare and a halfe penny or halfe

round cutt out of the forepart of the right eare. Joseph Wilson’s name erased by the clerk and the

following substituted: “Widdow harbertt or her sons Thomas and Francis Herbert. from “Historical &

Genealogical Miscellany,” by John E. Stillwell, Data Relating to the Settlement & Settlers of NY and NJ,

Vol. II, NY, 1903.

2. Horner, Wm S. “This Old Monmouth of Ours” & Mon. Co. Bk 1:168 (Thomas Herbert 1667 Mon. Co

NJ Patent)

3a. Monmouth Patent

3b. Grover Family of New Jersey: Original Patentee

4. “Genealogy of New Jersey Families” in New Jersey Gen. Magazine, GPC reprint titled “Herbert

Family Records” contributed by Frederick D. Herbert, 117 Liberty St. NYC. The following records are in

a school copy book, once the property of Thomas Herbert (p. 1 “It is Thomas Harburt Book upon which

you now do looke”) then of Jonathan Herbert, and now of Miss Ida Conover, 40 Linden Pl, Red Bank,

NJ. The book is four by six inches and contains 88 leaves. The following transcript has been carefully

checked in the original. Editor.

5. Stillwell, John, “Historical & Genealogical Miscellany” p. 157-58 “The Parish Register of Christ

Church, Shrewsbury, N.J.” Baptiisms 1735: 1734, April 14, John Herbert, son of John (miscopy) and

Easter Herbert [Thomas & Easter Herbert] and Aug 11, 1734 Thomas Herbert s/o Daniel & Susanna

Herbert. Both famillies “of Middletown” and both sons baptized at Shrewsbury. (unclear if baptism took

place at Christ Church)


6. “Historical Miscellany” Vol. 5, p. 414: “The Winter Family,” Hannah Winter married Thomas Herbert

by marriage license dated Oct 21, 1751; and Catherine Winter married James Bray by marriage license

dated Feb. 23, 1756. .

7. “NJ Calendar of Wills 1771-1780,” Vol V

8. Hunterdon Co Deed/Mortgage Bk Vol I, pp. 18-19.

9. “History of the Baptists of New Jersey,” Thos. S. Griffiths, Hightstown NJ: Barr Press, 1904, p. 72.

10. “Records of Old Hunterdon Co 1701-1838,” Phillis B. D’Autrechey, Trenton, NJ: Trenton Printing

Co, 1979, p. 80.

11. “Records of Old Hunterdon Co 1701-1838,” Phyllis B. D’Autrechey, 1979, p. 81 & 83.

12. Hunterdon Co NJ Deed/Mortgage Vol. I, p. 116: 5th Sept. 1770: Deed between Thomas Herbert, King

Township, to Hendrick Gulick and Isaac Gray 105 acres for 146 pds 15 shiullings. 5th Sept 1770 tract of

corner of Daniel Everit & Rich. Opdyke 63 a. for 100 pds.

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APPENDIX

Andrew Winter Will dated Feb 28, 1760, proved April 30, 1760. Middletown, Monmouth Co NJ.

Yeoman. Will proved Apr 30, 1760, mentions sons: James Winter (who had daughter Deborah) and

Moses Winter; daughters: Catharine Winter, Ann Winter, Hannah Winter, and dau-in-law Mary Winter

(w/o James); Excrs: James Winter, son, with friends John Taylor Esq. & Nathaniel Leonard. Wts.

Matthew Lofborow, John Layton and John Young. (“Calendar of NJ Wills, Adm. etc” Voll III, 1751-

1760, p. 363-64)

James Bray Sr. of Kingwood, Hunterdon Co NJ. Will. 1758 Mar 22/May 1, 1758 to wife Elizabeth; to

eldest son *James Bray Jr. land on s. side creek from Wm Fowler; daughters Susanna & Anne Bray get

10 pds each from estate; Hannah Bray; to sons Daniel, John ; Excrs: Andrew Bray, brother of Legannon

& friend Isaac Leet of Kinwood. Wts:Thomas Herbert, Dan’l Everitt, James Warford. Inventory: Feb 6,

1759: Daniel Lake & Jeremiah Thatcher. 337.4.4 pounds.

Progeny of Andrew Winter d. c1760 and wife Alice Winter:

James Winter mar. Mary Shepherd Oct 21, 1755. Rev War Sol, d. Sugar House, NY during war. Mary

Winter, d. July 4, 1824 bur. Winter farm.

Moses Winter

Catherine Winter mar. *James Bray mar. license Feb. 23, 1756

Ann Winter

Hannah Winter mar. Thomas Herbert mar. license Oct 21, 1751.(Source: Stillwell, “NJ Hist Misc,” Vol V,

p. 414)

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Herbert Researchers Supposition of Walter Herbert as husband of Bridget Herbert:

Walter Herbert born c1615 England, died before 1668 at Gravesend, Kings Co, New York. Walter

Herbert as a grandson of Philip Herbert, Earl of Montgomery 1606, who succeeded his brother Philip as

4th Earl of Pembroke in 1630 (Wm. S. Hornor, “This Old Monmouth of Ours,” p. 215), is a theory tested

by Randi Robinson who used Alice McWater [email protected] account that Walter Herbert may have

come off the Herbert of St. Julian’s line begun by Sir Geo. Herbert of St. Julians, son of Sir William

Herbert, Earl of Pembroke. His gg-grdson, Edward Herbert of Merthvr Gerin, (will proven 1667) had


sons Henry, Wm, Edward, Walter, Isaac, and Abraham Herbert. With the location of the Bermuda records

by Brett Burrowes, the marriage doesn’t connect to Bridget.

“Herbert’s of Undy (from”Genealogies of Glamorganshnire, p. 283) were the most likely ancestors of the

New Jersey Herberts based on naming patterns and family lore. Many descendants thought the family

descended from the Earl of Pembroke, grandson of Philip, Earl of Pembroke, second creation; but all

grandsons have been accounted for. This was an extremely wealthy family, and it just doesn’t make sense

that any of this line would settle in New Jersey. All of the grandchildren of Philip Herbert married into

families of dukes & earls, or died before they could marry. The St. Julian line, however, descends from

Wm Herbert (Black Will 1421-1459) Earl of Pembroke of the 1st creation. His eldest son Wm inherited

the title, but traded it back to the King in exchange for the Earl of Huntington. His only heir, Elizabeth,

married a Somerset who became Dukes of Beaufort and Earls of Worcester. Black Will’s grandson, by an

illegitimate son, was made Earl of Pembroke of the second creation. Black Will’s 3rd son, Sir George of

St. Julian b. 1460 was father of Sir Walter Herbert (b. c1490, d. 1550) who had son George Herbert of

Newport (b. c1520) who had son Walter Herbert. of Christchurch b. c1550 who was father of Edward

Herbert b. c1590 of Merthyr Gerin/Geraint, will dated 27th June 1666, proved 28 Nov 1667. His issue

were all born between 1615-1625. It also substantiates the claim of descent from the Earl of Pembroke,

although not from Philip of the second creation as alleged by Ellis & Stillwell. It’s possible that any

money Walter inherited in 1666/67 was used to emigrate to America.”

HerbertCrest1.jpg and “Herbert Family of Raglan Castle” http://www.castlewales.com/raglan.html

“Herbert of Ireland & Wales” Randi Robinson

http://familytreemaker.genealogy.com/users/r/o/b/Randi-Robinson/

Note: Brett Burrows emailed: “I believe the Walter Herbert of the St. Julian line may be the ancestry of

Walter Herbert of Gravesend, but not the ancestry of Richard, Bridget, Thomas and Francis Herbert.”

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Winter-Grover lineage

See “Winter GenForum” Message #1141 by David Winter

James Grover (b.1607 Eng; d.1685 Middletown, Monmouth Co NJ), had daughter Hannah Grover (b.

1655 Gravesend Long Island New York, d. 1733 Monmouth Co NJ) who married (1) Richard Gardiner)

and (2) William Winter (b. 1616 Ireland, d. 1733 Middleton Co, NJ), who had son Andrew Winter who

married Alice (unknown) who had daughter Hannah Winter who mar. Thomas Herbert Oct. 21, 1752, in

Monmouth Co New Jersey.

Grover-Gardiner-Winter Probate

James Grover Sr. Will dated Dec 1, 1685, Middleton, Monmouth Co NJ, proved Jan 28, 1685/6 wife

Rebecca. Children: James, Joseph, Safety, Abigail w/o Benjamin Border, and Hannah, wife of Richard

Gardiner. Land on n.e. side of Mill Creek. Personal property. Excrs. son James and soin-in-law Richard

Gardiner. Wts: Rich. Hartshorne & Tho. Webley. Bond of Richard Gardiner of Neversinks and James

Grover Jr. excrs. of last will. (“Calendar of NJ Wills,” Vol 1 1670-1730, Part I, p. 196.

Richard Gardiner of Middleton, Monmouth Co NJ, Inven. dated Dec 30, 1687, receipts by Benj.

Devell, Nickcallas Winewright, James Grover and John Whitford to Hannah Gardiner, widow, for sums

due the estate in 1688-1690-1691. Jan 18, 1687 Bond of widow Hannah Gardiner as admistrx. of the

estate; Safety Grover and Ben. Griffith bondsmen. Dec 26, 1688. Account of Richard Gardiner’s est. and

*Feb 20, 1693-4 shows payment to Safety Grover, widow Hannah Grover & Rich. Burges. Letter from

Hannah Winter re payment of a bill due James Emit, her former husband Richard Gardiner. Minute of

County Court held at Middletown in Sept. last re suit of Lewis Morris of Tinton Manor vs. William

Winter, husband of Richard Gardiner’s widow, for debt. May 14, 1895, Act. of William Winter agst. the


estate. April 14, 1704: Affidavit of Hannah Winter as admtx. of est. of Rich. Gardiner, estate amt. to 9

pds. May 22, 1704, Quietus granted to William Winter husband of the admtx. Hannah Winter, formerly

widow of Richard Gardiner. (Monmouth Co NJ Wills Lib. 1 p. 184)

William Winter Will dated July 3, 1722 of Middletown, Monmouth Co NJ, probated June 13, 1711.

Wife Hannah Winter. Eldest son John 4 a. salt meadow on e. side Shoal Harbor. Second son ANDREW

WINTER land where testator lived with land bgt. of James Grover. Youngest son James. Grandson

Benjamin, second son to testator’s eldest son John. Son, Andrew Winter currier’s knife and all tolls of the

currier’s and shoemaker’s trade. Son James great Bible and carpenter’s tool. Daughters: Zerniah Border

and Rebecca Applegate. After wife’s marriage or death, residue of est. to testator’s two sons-in=-law

Richard & Joseph Gardiner and testator’s own five children above named. Excrs. sons Andrew & Jas.

Winter. Wts: Rich. Applegate & Richard Gibbens. Andrew Winter surviving excr. sworn. (Liber B:460)

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Will of Daniel Herbert, Middletown, Mon Co NJ, yeoman, dated Aug. 11, 1747/Sept 23, 1747

to wife Amy Herbert to have goods she bgt. testator since given her by her grandfather Safety Grover

to mother MARY [Herbert] COOPER, a widow. [remarried after Thos died] ; to children: Jonathan,

Mary; brother, David Herbert; Excrs: friends John Taylor & Joseph Stillwell of Middletown, gent.

Wts: Samuel Legg, Jos. Patterson Jr, Nathan Hutrchins.

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Lady Deborah Moody, an English aristocrat, was an early champion of the cause of religious freedom.

She was also the first woman to found a settlement in the New World. In England, she became a convert

of the Anabaptist sect which held that baptism should not be given to infants, but withheld until a child

can understand its meaning. She sailed for the New World colony of Massachusetts in 1639, but found the

Puritans intolerant of her sect. In 1643, she received an invitation from Willem Kieft, Director-General of

New Netherlands, to lead a small colony of followers to New Netherlands with the promise of religious

tolerance. She founded an English town, Gravesend, in the midst of five Dutch towns at the west end of

Long Island. Original Patentees of Gravesend include familiar New Jersey names: James Grover, Thomas

Applegate, Thomas Cornwall, John Tilton, Richard Stout. In 1667, Long Island, New Netherlands

became English and was called New Yorke for the Duke of York. Gravesend’s founding by Lady

Deborah Moody of England for Anabaptists can be read on-line at “Long Island: Our History.”

Revolutionary War Pension Index

Source Information:Graden, Debra, ed.. Revolutionary War Pension Index [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations Inc,

2000. Original data: Washington, D.C.: A. and G. Way, Printers, 1813. Taken from a book in the collection of the Leavenworth County Genealogical Society titled Letter from the Secretary of Way, communicating A Transcript of the Pension List of the United States showing the Number of Pensioners in the Several Districts. Also, The Amount Allowed to each Pensioner dated June 1, 1813, Referred to the Committee of Claims.

Description:Index to some pensions awarded before 1813 for Revolutionary War veterans.


Name: Henry Hurst

State: Virginia

Number: 80

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009 Henry Hurst

009 John J. Smithson — Biography

Story Of John And Elizabeth

They agreed to be indentured servants for 4 years for a man named Larkin Chew, who paid their ships

passage and agreed to give them each room & board and fifty acres of land after the 4 years at the main

run in lowermost falls, just above a little island. On Dec 23, 1714, 27 persons were transported by Larkin

Chew to 1330 acres of land. This land later became Hanover Co. VA.

The first winter they all lived in tents, but the following spring they built a series of one room log houses

and began clearing the 1330 acres for planting. Family legend has it that John & Elizabeth learned to care

for horses and cultivate tobacco. They sold their 100 acres in Hanover Co and bought cheaper land in

Louisa Co. VA. Thus in thirty six years they went from being servants to owning hundreds of acres of

land.

In 1757 they moved from Louisa Co. to Lunenburg Co. VA with their son, Frances Marion Smithson and

his wife Sarah. They sold app 1800 acres held by the family and bought land in Lunenburg Co. In 1765,

Francis had 8 tythes land, 1246 acres.

John J. Smithson filed a will to be found in Willbook 1, 1746-1762, page 336 giving his soul to God and

to his loving wife all his estate goods and chattels and personal estates whatsoever. Lastly he made his sad

wife sole excutix of his last will & testament dated sixth day of April, in the year of our Lord,1760. The

will was probated Dec 1, 1761 in Lunenburg Co. Elizabeths death is recorded at St John Parish.

Note that John appears to have been betrothed to Elizabeth of Barnard, before she was born and married

the same year she was born, 1693. The marriage date shows him at thirteen years of age. 1693. This was a

common practice in the sixteen hundreds. The days of arranged marriages were made to tie one family to

another strong family either money wise or strength wise. Especially for defense purposes or to give

families allies in enemy territory. Boys as small as five years old were sent to foster with other families,

they were trained to be Knights and would remain there until they had earned their spurs and were

knighted, often times by age sixteen. Betrothed to an Infant daughter or first unborn daughter, was not

unusual. The boy would send gifts to the girl until she was around 14 years old. Note: Girls who were

over 20 years old they thought was questionable if they might bear children. The ceremony of the

betrothal was binding; it was actually the same as a wedding ceremony. The bride and groom sometimes

were not even there. The families would send proxy. This is what we think happened to John and

Elizabeth of Barnard. Everything we can find suggested this conclusion.

Will Of John Smithson

In the name of God Amen I John Smithson of Cornwell Parish in the County of Lunenburgh Planter

Being of Sound and disposing mind and memory do make and ordain this my last will and Testatment in

manner and form following that is to say Imprimis first I give and bequeath my sole (sic) to God and

Secondly I do give unto my Loving wife all my estate good and chattles and personal estate whatsoever

Lastly I do make and Consititute my sade (sic) wife sole executrix of this my Last will and Testament

dated this sixth day of April in the year of our Lord one thousand seven hundred and sixty.

In presents (sic) of us:

Robert Breedlove, Isbell Johnson Breedlove, John J Smithson

Kindness Shorter his mark

At a court for Lunenburgh County the first Day of December 1761 The within written Last Will and

Testament of John Smithson deceased was exhibited in court and the same was proved by the oaths of all

the witnesses thereto subscribed and the same is ordered to be recorded.


Source: Fournier history of the Smithson family.

http://denversuddaths.homestead.com/f iles/Anc2003/2003anc/pafg10.htm

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The following is a story of John J. Smithson, handed down from generation to generation. This story was

forwarded to me by Frank W. Smithson of Nashville, TN.

John J. Smithson is thought to have been born in 1684 in St. Pauls parish in Northumberland England. He

apparently came to this country in 1714 after being married to Elizabeth. They each agreed to be

indentured servants for a period of four years to a man named Larkin Chew, who paid their ship’s passage

and agreed to give them each “room and board and fifty acres of land after four years at the main run in

lowermost falls, just above a little island.” In a book, Cavaliers and Pioneers by Mrs. Nugent, it states, “In

the forks of the Mattapony, December 23, 1714, twenty-seven persons were transported by Larken Chew

to 1,330 acres of land.” This land later became Hanover County, Virginia. The first winter the twenty-

seven lived in tents, but the following spring they built a series of one room log houses and began

clearing the 1,330 acres for planting. There is no record of how much corn was grown, how many hogs or

what the land produced during the four years for landlord Chew, but family legend has it that John and

Elizabeth learned to care for horses and cultivate tobacco. They sold their one hundred acres in Hanover

County and bought cheaper land in Louisa County. Thus in thirty-six years, the went from being servants

to owning hundreds of acres of land. We have no record of how many children they had, but late in their

lives, (1757) they moved from Louisa County to Lunenburg County with their son, Francis Marion

Smithson and his wife Sarah. They sold approximately 1,800 acres held by the family and bought land in

Lunenburg County. In 1765, Francis had eight “tythes” land 1,246 acres of land. The father, John J., filed

a will to be found in Will Book 1, 1746-1762, page 336, giving his soul to God and to his loving wife all

his “estate goods and chattels and personal estates whatsoever.” Lastly, he made “my sad wife sole

excutix of this my last Will in Testament, dated this sixth day of April in the year of our Lord, one

thousand and seven hundred and sixty.” The will was exhibited and probated on the first day of December

1761 in Lunenburg County. There are further records in the Cumberland Diocese record book of the St.

John Parish in Lunenburg County, Virginia where Elizabeth’s death is recorded. Family legend has an

earlier John Smithson coming to Jamestown, Virginia with the younger Captain Newport in 1649. It is

now thought that this could have been a great uncle of John J., who started another branch of the family.

Other Smithson’s were early settlers in southern Maryland and later in Pennsylvania. Lunenburg County,

Virginia, Will Book No. 1, With Inventories, Accounts, Etc, 1746-1762 Page 336. Will. I, John Smithson

of Cornwall Parish in L, planter — To my wife — my estate. Executrix — my wife. Signed Apr 6, 1760

— John Smithson (J his mark). Witnesses — Robt. Breedlove, Isbell Johnson Breedlove, Kindness

Shorter (X his mark). At Dec 1, 1761 Court, the will of the deceased was exhibited, and the same was

proved by the oaths of all the witnesses, and the same is ordered to be recorded.

Additional info: Occupation: teacher Bet 1710 and 1760 Virginia Title: Estate settlement. Occupation:

surveyor of roads Bet 1740 and 1745 Lunenburg County, Virginia Title: Parish Records Page: Vestry

book of Cumberland Parish, Lunenburg Co., VA area His will: “In the name of God Amen I John

Smithson of Cornwell Parish in the County of Lunenburgh Planter Being of Sound and disposing mind

and memory do make and ordain this my last will and Testatment in manner and form following that is to

say Imprimis first I give and bequeath my sole (sic) to God and Secondly I do give unto my Loving wife

all my estate good and chattles and personal estate whatsoever Lastly I do make and Consititute my sade

(sic) wife sole executrix of this my Last will and Testament dated this sixth day of April in the year of our

Lord one thousand seven hundred and sixty. In presents (sic) of us: his Robert Breedlove, Isbell Johnson

Breedlove, John J Smithson Kindness Shorter mark At a court for Lunenburgh County the first Day of

December 1761 The within written Last Will and Testament of John Smithson deceased was exhibited in

court and the same was proved by the oaths of all the witnesses thereto subscribed and the same is

ordered to be recorded. Dunkin Bohannan of Gloucester Co., VA claimed “headright” land in 1704 for


the transportation of John SMITHSON to the Colonies. However, it was not unusual for men to hold

these headright certificates for several years until they accumulated enough for a large tract of land.

Therefore, we cannot be certain exactly when John SMITHSON came.

Note that John appears to have been betrothed to Elizabeth of Barnard, before she was born and married

the same year she was born, 1693. The marriage date shows him at thirteen years of age. 1693. This was a

common practice in the sixteen hundreds. The days of arranged marriages were made to tie one family to

another strong family either money wise or strength wise. Especially for defense purposes or to give

families allies in enemy territory. Boys as small as five years old were sent to foster with other families,

they were trained to be Knights and would remain there until they had earned their spurs and were

knighted, often times by age sixteen. Betrothed to an Infant daughter or first unborn daughter, was not

unusual. The boy would send gifts to the girl until she was around 14 years old. Note: Girls who were

over 20 years old they thought was questionable if they might bear children. The ceremony of the

betrothal was binding; it was actually the same as a wedding ceremony. The bride and groom sometimes

were not even there. The families would send proxy. This is what we think happened to John and

Elizabeth of Barnard. Everything we can find suggested this conclusion.

His will: “In the name of God Amen I John Smithson of Cornwell Parish in the County of Lunenburgh

Planter Being of Sound and disposing mind and memory do make and ordain this my last will and

Testatment in manner and form following that is to say Imprimis first I give and bequeath my sole (sic) to

God and Secondly I do give unto my Loving wife all my estate good and chattles and personal estate

whatsoever Lastly I do make and Consititute my sade (sic) wife sole executrix of this my Last will and

Testament dated this sixth day of April in the year of our Lord one thousand seven hundred and sixty.

At a court for Lunenburgh County the first Day of December 1761 The within written Last Will and

Testament of John Smithson deceased was exhibited in court and the same was proved by the oaths of all

the witnesses thereto subscribed and the same is ordered to be recorded. Dunkin Bohannan of Gloucester

Co., VA claimed “headright” land in 1704 for the transportation of John SMITHSON to the Colonies.

However, it was not unusual for men to hold these headright certificates for several years until they

accumulated enough for a large tract of land. Therefore, we cannot be certain exactly when John

SMITHSON came.

Book: “FLAT CREEK: ITS LAND AND ITS PEOPLE” c. 1986 Woodward & Stinson Printing Co.,

Columbia, Tennessee — Compiled & Written By: Ennis C. Wallace, Sr.; JoAnn Petty; Marjorie

Redmond; and Martha Ann Hazelwood

Descendants Of John Smithson

1680

Generation No. 1

1. JOHN1 SMITHSON was born March 28, 1680 in Skelton, Northumberland, England, and died

December 01, 1761 in Fluvana, Lunenberg Co., VA. He married (1) ELIZABETH BOULTON January

11, 1691/92 in Barnard Castle, Durham, England. She was born Abt. 1676 in Lunenberg Co., VA, and

died Aft. 1710. He married (2) ELIZABETH UNKNOWN 1704 in Louisa Co., VA. She was born

Unknown, and died Unknown.

Notes for JOHN SMITHSON:

Notes for John Smithson:

John Smithson was born 1680 in North Umberland, England. It is likely that he is the John Smithson who

in 1704 was a headright of Duncan Bohannon who was granted land in Gloucester County, Virginia.


The first reference to John Smithson is a note in St. paul’s Parish Vestry Book, Hanover Co., Virginia

1721. Further references are found in same records until 1742, when John Smithson became a citizen of

Louisa County, formed in 1742 from Hanover County. Last reference to John Smithson in Louisa

County., Virginna in 1755. His will, proved december 1, 1761, lunenburg County, Virginia Will Book

1:336, mentioned only his wife. It is known, from Louisa County deeds, howeve, that he and Elizabeth

had 3 children.

[Source: Smithson and Relatives by Jesse Hezekiah Smithson, edited by Kenneth Wayne Smithson; LDS

Geneology Library, Salt Lake City Utah.]

1st gen.

_________Smithson b 1650 in England.

2nd Gen.

John Smithson b 1680, Norththumberland, England

Immigrated to Glocester Co Virginia 26 Apor 1704

Died ca 1761, Fluvabia Co. Va. Mar Elizabeth b 1671.

3rd gen.

Francis Smithson b 1704/10 in Hanover, Gouchland Co. Virginia

Mar abt 1729/33

Died 9 Dec 1784, Lunenberg Co. Va.

Mar Sarah Edwads Chiles b 1707/15 Hanover Coi Va.

4th gen.

* John S Smithson b 1739, Hanover Co Va. m. ca. 1763 (REF; SAR #108262) to Drusilla Walker died

1783 ( Ref: DAR # 516686 )

Ref; above are in Will Book 2 page 175 dated 31 Dec 1785, recorded 12

June 1786 Mecklenburg Co. Va.

John was Pvt in Capt James Johnson’s 6th Va Reg.t of Colonial Forces--- Lt

Col James Hendricks Com.

Early mar of Lunenberg Co Va 1746-1961.

Ann Walker, dau. of Sylvanus Walker, mar. John Smithson but there is no extant mar. bond.

Deed of gift from Sylvanus Walker to John Smithson ordered to be recorded

Court 14 May 1772.

Drucilla’s parents were. Sylvanus Walker and Susanah Hightower, widow of Wm. Hightower.

5th gen.

Children of John and Drucilla Walker Smithson. above

1.......Francis M. Smithson b 1765 Lunenberg Co Va

mar to Lucretia Powell he died 1852/53 Maury Co Tennessee.

2...... Drucilla Ann b 1767 Lunenberg Co Va

mar 25 Nov 1780 to William Pennington.


3.......Clemants S. n 10 Nov 1768 LunenbergCo Va

mar 18 dec 1792 to nancy D Pettus .He died 24 sep 1814 in Williamson, Tnn.

4...... **CHARLES b 1770 Lunenberg, Co Va mar Elizabeth Cheatham.

5..... Nathaniel N. b 1773 Lunenberg Co Va.

mar to Mary ( Polly) Cheatham.

6...... JOHN Jr. b 1777 Lunenberg, Va

mar 1801 to Elizabeth G. Knott in Lunenberg Co Va. he died 1838 Prob

Williamson, TN

7.....Sylvanus b 1780

8..... Sarah Wade b 1775

mar 1788 to James Knott.

NOTES;

The children of this family moved to Jefferson Co TN and then to Williamson Co TN 1812/30.

** Deed by Francis M. Smithson dated 30 Dec 1811 recorded in deed book 22, pages 209 — 209 A, at

the Lunenberg Co Va Court House, conveying to Charles Smithson, all his rights, titles, interest and

demand on and to the goods, chattles, hereditamnets of my Father, John Smithson, deceased, which I now

claim, or hereafter may claim and etc. also names their mother Drucilla Ann.

* Letter from John and Drucilla Ann Smithson giving their consent to the marriage of their daughter,

Drucilla to William Pennington. — Early Virginia Marriages, Lunenbery Co Va by Crozier.

Children of JOHN SMITHSON and ELIZABETH BOULTON are:

2.i. FRANCIS HUGH2 SMITHSON, b. 1708, Louisa Co., VA; d. December 09, 1784, Lunenberg Co.,

VA. ii. SUSANNAH SMITHSON, b. 1709; d. Unknown; m. JOHN DAVIS, 1728; b. Abt. 1705, Louisa

Co., VA; d. Unknown. Notes for SUSANNAH SMITHSON:

Susannah Smithson, who married John Davis of Louisa Co., Virginia had numerous progeny, including

the founders of Lynchburg, Virginia. Susannah’s sons were Quakers, and seem to have settled in Western

Virginia about the time of the Revolutionary War. It is claimed that Jefferson Davis, President of the

Confederacy was a great grandson of Susannah Smithson davis. two widely divergent sources make this

claim.

Source Rulon N. Smithson 1956 Descendent\\

3.iii. JOHN SMITHSON, JR., b. 1710, Louisa Co., VA; d. Unknown.

Child of JOHN SMITHSON and ELIZABETH UNKNOWN is:

iv.

JOHN2 SMITHSON, b. Abt. 1710; d. Unknown.

Generation No. 2

2. FRANCIS HUGH2 SMITHSON (JOHN

1) was born 1708 in Louisa Co., VA, and died December 09,

1784 in Lunenberg Co., VA. He married SARAH EDWARDS BURNLEY CHILES Abt. 1730 in

Hanover, VA, daughter of MICAJA CHILES and ELIZABETH EDWARDS. She was born Abt. 1714 in

Hanover Co., VA, and died July 18, 1797 in Lunenberg Co., VA.


Notes for FRANCIS HUGH SMITHSON:

Will Probated 9 Dec 1784 Will book 3 page 187 Lunenberg Co Va. G S Vol 13 P 187 1784 9 Dec G B.

975.5 K2bl index. Cumberland Parish, Lunenberg, Va. Vestry b. 1746-- 1816 Mrs Charles E Davis

Smithville, Va.

mar. Sare ( Sarah) Edwards Chiles 6th ( her line back, Micajah

5th, Micajah 4th, Col. John 3rd, Walter 2nd, Walter 2nd, Chiles).

Sare b abt 1704--15 Louisa , Va.

Cert. of Admin of Estate granted 13 Apr 1797 Lunenberg Co. va to Thomas

Edwards-- order book---17, 201,

Parents were Micajah Chiles jr and Elizabeth Edwards.

Children of Francis and Sarah ..

1.....Micajah b ca 1730/40 Hanover Co Va Will prob 4 Jul 1823. mar 1755 to mary Cox.

2.....John b ca 1732-36 mar 1760 to Ann Walker died ca 1782.

3......William b 1730-40 Hanover Co Va mar ca 1770 to Sarah Lester, he died 6 june 1797,

Their children,

Sally, Nancy, Frank, mar. to Mary Lester a 1st cousin Approved.

4....Elizabeth b ca 1736--40 Hanover Co Va. mar ca 1760 to Thomas Edwards.

5.... Manoah b 1738--42 Louisa , Hanover Co. Va mar to a Mary____? died after 1826.

6....Charles b ca 1740--44 Louisa , Hanover Co Va mar 1772 to Lucy Schelburne,

7..... Miland “ Millie” b ca 1742--46 Louisa, Hanover Co. Va, mar ca 1766 to Mathew Hobson

8..... Bartlett b ca 1744--48 Louisa Hanover Co. Va mar ca 1779 to Martha Williams died 12 Jan 1804.

9.... Francis Jr. b ca 1746--50, Louisa, Hanover Co. Va mar 21 feb 1782 to Martha Wood. he died 9 jun

1808.

NOTES;

Micajah ‘s ( all 3 of them, mentioned here above other two), Old Free State of Va page 332, The County

Courts of Lunenberg, Va 1836; Justices, Charles Smithson and William Smithson... Visitors of the Court

were Sarah Smithson and Elizabeth Smithson. Miland “ Millie’s” husband, Mathew Hobson, in his Will

dated 9 feb 1782 probater 11 jul 1782. ( Wills 3;117 Mentions two minor children John and Sally Goode

Hobson. 9 Apor. 1795, John Hobson of georgia grants Power of Attorney to his cousin, Peter Edwards in

re lands in Pittslyvania Co. Lunenberg Deeds 17;34)

Bartlett Smithson, his first child b 22 dec.

Francis Smithson Jr, first apears in tax list with his father in 1775..

The above is from the book of the Late Dr Jessie Hezakiah Smithson and Dr. Rulon N Smithson 1974.

Macomnb ILL.


Here is Will of Francis Smithson.

Lunenburg Co Virginia, ( Will Book 3, page 187)

In the name of God Amen, I Francis Smithson of lunenburg C. being all this time in perfect health and

memory, yett consider the uncertainty of life have thought fitt to make and appoint this to bee my Last

Will and Testement in maner and forme as followeth----. Item, I give my Soule unto the hands of God

that gave itt and my Boddy I give unto the earth to be Buryed att the Discreason of my executors which

will bee hereafter mentioned.. I give unto my son MICAJA SMITHSON and to his heirs and assigns one

Negro man named James which he hath allready Received. Item, hereas I have a certain negroe man

named Nedd, which I have long intended to give my son JOHN SMITHSON and to his heirs butt itt hathe

so happened that my son JOHN SMITHSON is now deceaste before he had lawfull wright to the above

named Nedd and by my son’s dieing without a will his Six Youngest children are likely to be Sufferers I

doo theirfore hereby will and appointe the said Nedd to be Disposed of in the following maner in the first

place I do appointe the produce of the said Nedd labor to be applied to the support and manetanance of

the above Six Children whose names are, CLELMENTE, CHARLES, NATHANIEL , Salle WADE,

JOHN, and SILVANUS, until the said SILVANUS arrives to the age of fourteen yeares and then I do

order Nedd to be solde att public oction to the Hiest Bidder and currente mony of Virginia allowing

twelve months creadit the Purchaser Giving Bond and Good Security, the Bond to bare interest from the

date and the mony Arisein theirby to the Princeaple, and intriste to be equally divided amongst the above

named Six Children and or so many of them as are then liveing and I do hereby appointe my Sons,

WILLIAM and BARTLEY SMITHSON trustease to manage the above affare for the above Six Children.

Item I give my son WILLIAM SMITHSON etc. one Negroe man named Yorke.

Item I give my son MANOAH SMITHSON etc. two Negroes, Jame and Luci together with their future

increase.

Item I give my son CHARLES SMITHSON and etc. one Negroe woman, named Jude with hir Presente

and furure increase.

******* ITEM, I give to my Son FRANCIS SMITHSON two hundred acres of Land to him his Heires

and assigns be the same more or less according to the Bounds theirin of itt.

Being the Land I now LIVE on I likewise give to my son, FRANCIS and his Heires and assigns, one

negroe woman named Hanna, together with hir futer increase.

Item, I give to my son FRANCIS SMITHSON twenty pounds curant mony of Virginia to be paid oute of

my Estate.

Item I give to my son BARTLEY SMITHSON, etc. two hundred acreas of Land the said BARTLEY

SMITHSON now lives on.. I likewise to my son BARTLEY SMITHSON etc, one negroe woman named

Eade, together with hir futer increase.

I give to my five youngest Sons my Whipp Saw.

Item I give to my Daughter, ELIZABETH EDWARDS and etc. two negroes, Jeffary, and Mendor

together with their futer increases.


Item I give to my Daughter, MILLE HOBSON and etc. two negroes, Isaac and Hager together with their

increase.

Item I have given to Eache of my children a feather bed and furniture, a ridein Beaste and Saddle and five

head of Neate cattle. I chuse to mention itt here in General without Being att the trougble to mention itt

each one in Pertickaler which effectes I do Hereby alow to be their lafful property against any person

cl_ng under any Pretence rights or Titel to all soever.

Item I lend to my wife Sara Smithson, durein hir naturall life foure Negroes whose names are, Tom, and

James , his wife Cloe and Hary hir brother. I likewise lend to my wife durein her life, two Feathebedss

and furniture, two ridein Beasts and hir side Saddle likewise eighr head of Sorteasable Neate cattle, six

hed of Sorteable Sheepe, ten hed Sorteable Hogs, one Iron pott and a frying pan and other Trifelin

necesarys suitable to a woman of hir years to keepe house wqith my wife liveing with my son FRANCIS

and tendein part of the plantation for hir own private use, Item at my wife Decease I do hereby order and

apoint the four negroes i have lent my wife and their increase iff any together with every artikle I have

lent my wife and their increase to be solde at publick Sale to the highest Bidder for ready Curant mony of

Virginia and the mony arisen theirby to be equally divided amongst all my childen then living.

Item I do hereby order and appooints Beck and Tom his Brother together with every artikell of any estate

that has not already beane pertickertised to be solde att Publik sale to the hiest bidder within two months

after my death for ready Curante Mony and the mony ariseing thereby to be equaly divided amongst all

my children that are then living.

Item whereas I have a Lawful righte to the third parte of five negroes, in Hardin Burnley’s Lenox’s

possession, in Hanover Co. which negroes he has had in his possession ever since the years 1757 as well

as I now remember and I have never received any satisfaction for them as yett, I do theirfore order and

appoint that if my Exexutors shall think fitt upon advising with an able lawyer think fitt to seu the said

Burnley as if the said Burnley be ded to seu his Exectors and if they recover any mony from Mr. Burnley

or his executors Will and appoint the same to be equally divided amongst all my children then living.

Item I do hearby appointe my sons, WILLIAM and BARTLEY SMITHSON as my Executors of this my

Last Will and Testement in Witness thereof I have hereunto set my hand and seale this 26 day of June

1783. Seale and signed in the presence of

Richard Jones

Samuel Estis

his

Joseph Chockley Fr. SMITHSON ( seale)

mark

At a court held for LUNENBURG COUNTY, the 9th day of December, 1784, the within last will and

Testament of Francis Smithson, deceased was exhibitted in Court by WILLIAM and BARKLEY

SMITHSON, two of the executors therein named and was ordered to be recorded and on the motion of the

said executors who made oath according to Law certificate, is granted therein to be allowing a probate of

the said Will is due for its giving security where upon they together with security entered into

acknowledgd Bond for that purpose.


Wm Taylor, Clerk

Attatchment X. page 3. To Virginia Dee Smithson Mauldin’s Supplemental Application to NSCD XVII

Century membership No. 16358 State No. 1079 from 28 Mar. 1978, Cora B Ransom, 308 So. Pioneer,

Mesa, Arizona 85204 to Dr. Jessie Hezekiah Smithson Jr., 2495 Ricky Road, Melbournne, Florida,

22935.

Copy made here by Maxine M Baldwin Brooks, Wilton,

P O Box 177, Roy, Wa 98580

Francis Smithson will proved in Lunenburg Co., Virginia on December 9, 1784 Book 3:187

Francis Smithson moved from Louisa Co., Virginia in 1752 and settled in Lunenburg County, Virginia. In

this county all his children matured and married.

[Source: Rulon N. Smithson 1956, Descendent]

More About Francis Hugh Smithson:

Occupation: Teacher and Farmer

Will: December 09, 1784, Will proved

Notes for SARAH EDWARDS BURNLEY CHILES:

Appraisement of her estate 7-18-1797 Lunenberg County va

Children of FRANCIS SMITHSON and SARAH CHILES are:

4.i. ELIZABETH3 SMITHSON, b. Abt. 1733, Hanover Co., Va; d. 1806, Lunenberg Co., VA.5.ii.

MICAJAH SMITHSON, b. 1736, Hanover Co Va; d. July 04, 1823, Anderson (Pendelton Co.) SC.6.iii.

JOHN S. SMITHSON, b. 1739; d. Abt. 1780.7.iv. WILLIAM SMITHSON, b. 1742, Hanover Co., Va; d.

June 06, 1797.8.v. MILAND SMITHSON, b. 1742, Louisa, Hanover Co., VA; d. Unknown. vi.

MANOAH SMITHSON, b. 1745, Louisa, Hanover Co., VA; d. 1827; m. MARY UNKNOWN,

Unknown; b. Unknown; d. Unknown. vii. CHARLES SMITHSON, b. 1747; d. Unknown; m. (1) LUCY

SHELBURNE; b. Abt. 1750; d. Unknown; m. (2) LUCY SCHELBURNE, 1772; d. Unknown. viii.

FRANCIS SMITHSON, JR., b. 1750, Louisa, Hanover Co., VA; d. June 09, 1808; m. MARTHA WOOD,

February 21, 1782, Lunenberg Co., VA; b. Abt. 1762; d. Unknown.9.ix.

BARTLETT SMITHSON, b. 1752, Louisa, Hanover Co., VA; d. January 12, 1804.

3. JOHN2 SMITHSON, JR. (JOHN

1) was born 1710 in Louisa Co., VA, and died Unknown. He married

JENNIE UNKNOWN 1749 in Albemarle, VA. She was born Abt. 1720, and died Unknown.

Children of JOHN SMITHSON and JENNIE UNKNOWN are:

i. SAMUEL3 SMITHSON, b. June 18, 1750, Albemarle, VA; d. Unknown.10.ii. DRUMMOND

SMITHSON, b. July 12, 1754, Fluvanna, Lunenberg Co., VA; d. December 31, 1843, Windsor, Randolph

Co., IN.


Source Citation: Place: Virginia; Year: 1704; Page Number: 82.





Name: John Smithson

Year: 1704

Place: Virginia


6223

Primary Immigrant:

Smithson, John

Annotation: Abstracts of Virginia Land Office patent books 9 through 14, covering the early decades of the eighteenth century. Includes numerous references to land patented by "French refugees," the Protestants (Huguenots) who fled France after Louis XIV revoked the


NUGENT, NELL MARION, abstractor. Cavaliers and Pioneers: Abstracts of Virginia Land Patents and Grants. Vol. 3: 1695-1732. Richmond [VA]: Virginia State Library, 1979. 578p. Indexed.

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New York City Marriages, 1600s-1800s

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Name: Jan Wouterse Van Bosch

Marriage Date: 1659

Marriage Place: New York City, New York, New York

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Source: The New York Genealogical and Biographical Record (quarterly), 1884, selected extracts

Publisher: New York Genealogical and Biographical Society

Publication Place: New York, NY

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010 Abraham Toppan — Biography

Abraham Toppan

http://genealogy.wikia.com/wiki/Abraham_Toppan_(1606-

1672)

Abraham Toppan was the son of William Topham, of

Calbridge, in the parish of Coverham, Yorkshire, England.

He was admitted as a Freeman of Yarmouth, England in 1627,

having been apprenticed to Richard Elvyn. [Jewson, p.29.] He

lived for some time

His wife, whose maiden name was Taylor, was born in 1607.

Her mother, Elizabeth, inherited considerable property from

her second husband John Goodale of Yarmouth, who died in

1625.

Abraham Toppan, along with his wife Susannah, two children

Peter and Elizabeth and maid Anne Goodin emigrated from

Great Yarmouth, England to New England in May, 1637, on

the ship Marey Anne.

The passenger register reads:

"May: the 10th 1637. The examination of ABRAHAM TOPPAN of Yarmouth, Cooper ageed 31 yeares

and Susanna: his wife ageed 30 yeares with two Children Petter: and Elizabeth: and one Mayd Sarvant

ANNE GOODIN: ageed 18 yeares and desirous to passe to New England to inhabit." [Jewson, p. 29.]

Toppan's mother-in-law also made the journey with them to New England.

Abraham Toppan was admitted to the township of Newbury, Massachusetts on 16 October, 1637. At

different times the following year, several lots of land were granted to him, on one of which, he erected

his home, near where the town's meetinghouse was built in 1646.

He served several years as a selectman in Newbury.

During his life it is said he made, "sundry voyages to the Barbadoes, of which one or two were

profitable." In the county records of Salem, Massachusetts, a "sometime servant to Abraham Toppan"

testified that "the produce being brought home in sugar, cotton, wool and molasses, which were then

commodities rendering great profit, being at twelve pence for wool, sugar at six or eight pence per pound

profit — of which he brought great quantities" (Registry of Deeds, Salem.)

He made his will on 30 June, 1670. In it, he speaks of "having done for his son Peter beyond what I have

done or can do in proportion for ye rest of my children." He died 5 November, 1672, in his 66th year, in

his home on "Toppan's Lane." The home was built around 1670 for his son, Jacob. His widow died 20

March, 1689, aged 82 years. Her mother, Mrs. Goodale, died in Newbury 8 April, 1647.

Arrival Of Toppans In North America

In the first volume of the fourth series of the publications of the Massachusetts Historical Society, pp 98

and 99, is the following:

A Register of the names of such persons, who are 21 years and upward and have license to passe into

forraigne parts from March 1637 to the 29th of September, by virtu of a Commission of Mr. Thomas

Mayhew, Gentleman----


Abraham Toppan, Cooper, agend 31, Susanna his wife age 31, with their children Peter and Elizabeth,

and one mayd servant Anne Goodin aged 18 years, sailed from Yarmouth 10 May 1637 in the ship Rose

of Yarmouth, Wm. Andrews Master.

In October, 1637, Abraham Toppan was in Newbury, as appears by the following extract from the town

records;

"Abraham Toppan being licensed by John Endicott Esqr. to live in this jurisdiction, was received into the

town of Newberry as an inhabitant thereof and have promised under his hand to be subject to any lawful

order that shall be made by the town. Oct. 1637.

Passenger list of the Mary Anne

1637

Passengers on the Mary Anne of Yarmouth

(Keep in mind that 76 men, women and children and their

provisions and livestock, spent more than 5 weeks crammed into a

space that was twice as long as a bus, twice as wide, but half the

height)

Thomas Paine 50 was a weaver of Wrentham, Suffolk and was

going to Salem, MA.

Mrs. Elizabeth Paine 53

Thomas Paine, Jr.

John Paine

Mary Paine

Elizabeth Paine

Dorothy Paine

Sarah Paine

Margaret Neave 58 widow of Great Yarmouth, Norfolk

Rachel Dixon

Benjamin Cooper 50 husbandman of Brampton, Suffolk. Going to

Salem, MA.

Mrs. Elizabeth Cooper 48

Lawrence Cooper

Mary Cooper

Rebecca Cooper

Benjamin Cooper, Jr.

Frances Fillingham 32 (his son-in-law)

Ester Cooper (Benjamin's sister)

Abraham Toppan

To begin the adventure of the Hampton Toppans, we must first start in

Newbury, Massachusetts. Traveling from England on the ship Mary Ann,

Abraham Toppan brought his wife, his wife’s servant and mother, and two

young children, Peter and Elizabeth, to seek out a new prosperity for his

family. Abraham was “received into the town of Newbury as an inhabitant

thereof, and hath here promised under his hand to be subject to any lawful


order that shall be made by the towne. October 16, 1637. Abraham Toppan.” He was a selectmen of the

town and very profitable in the shipping industry, making several voyages to Barbados with loads of

cotton, sugar, wool and molasses. Abraham Toppan died November 5, 1672, aged 66 years in the house

on Toppan Lane, built in 1670. His wife, Susanna Taylor, died March 20, 1689, aged 82.

The children of Abraham and Susanna were (1) Peter, born c. Aug. 1633/1634, was married to Jane Batt,

April 3, 1661. Jane was born in Salisbury, England Dec 1631, and died after 1679 (2)Elizabeth, born

October 16, 1635, married March 21, 1657 Samuel Mighill of Rowley (3)Abraham born in 1644, married

November 9, 1670, Ruth Pike and moved to Woodbridge, New Jersey, having three children, Mary ,

Hannah and Joseph, all died young (4) Jacob, born Dec. 24, 1645, who married first Hannah Sewall, sister

of Judge Samuel Sewall, and second Mrs. Hannah Fessenden Sewall . Lieutenant Jacob died in 1717, at

age 73. (5)Susanna, born June 13, 1649, (6)John, born April 23, 1651 John married first September 3,

1688 Martha Brown and second in 1717 to Ruth Heard and (7) Isaac, born 1653 married first September

29, 1669 Hannah Kent, and second March 27, 1691 Mary March, also moving to New Jersey with his

brother Abraham to start the New Jersey Toppans.

John Killin

Philemon Dickerson, servant going to Salem, MA.

Listed in Banks as being from the Parish of Dewsbury.

(Wintrop:Journal, I, 222; Wyman, Charlestown, I, 563; and original list in Public Records Office).

Abraham Toppan 31 a cooper of Great Yarmouth, Norfolk, England. Going to Newsbury

Mrs. Suzanna Toppan 30

Peter Toppan

Elizabeth Toppan

Anne Goodin 18 servant

William Thomas 26 of Great Comberton, Worchester, England.

John Thurston 30 husbandman of Wrentham, Suffolk, England. Going to Salem, MA.

Mrs. Margaret Thurston 32

Thomas Thurston

John Thurston

Lucy Poyett 23 spinster

John Burrowe 48 Cooper of Great Yarmouth, Norfolk, England. Going to Salem, MA.

Mrs. Anne Burrowe 40

William Gault 29 cordwainer of Great Yarmouth, Norfolk, England. Going to Salem

Augustine Ca.....

Mrs. Anne Ca.....

John Darrell

Mrs. Joan Ames 50 widow of Great Yarmouth, Norfolk, England. Going to Salem.

Ruth Ames 18

William Ames

John Ames

John Gedney of Norwich, Norfolk, England. Going to Salem.

Mrs. Sarah Gedney 25

Lydia Gedney

Hannah Gedney

John Gedney


William Walker servant

Burgess 26 servant

Samuel Greenfield 27 weaver of Norwich, Norfolk, England. Going to Salem, MA.

Mrs. Barbara Greenfield 25

Mary Greenfield

Barbara Greenfield

John Teed 19 servant

Thomas Jones 25 butcher of Elzing, Norfolk, England. Going to Charlestown.

Thomas Oliver 36 calender of Norwich, Norfolk, England. Going to Salem, MA.

Mrs, Mary Oliver 34

Thomas Oliver, Jr.

John Oliver

Thomas Doged 30 servant

Mary Sape 12 servant

William Cockram 28 mariner of Southold, Suffolk, England

Mrs. Christian Cockram 26

.Cockram

John Cutler Going to Hingham

Mrs. Mary Cutler

7 children are listed with only the last name given, and one servant.

Henry Tuthill of Saxlingham, Norfolk, England. Going to Hingham.

Mrs. .....Tuthuill

Isaac Wright

John Tower Going to Hingham, MA.

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Source Citation: Place: Newbury, Massachusetts; Year: 1637; Page Number: 65.





Name: Abraham Tappan

Year: 1637

Place: Newbury, Massachusetts


9448

Primary Immigrant:

Tappan, Abraham

Annotation: In the years from 1925 to 1942, Frederick A. Virkus edited seven volumes with the title, The Abridged Compendium of American Genealogy, published in Chicago by the Institute of American Genealogy. Each volume has a section in the main body of the work, co


VIRKUS, FREDERICK A., editor. Immigrant Ancestors: A List of 2,500 Immigrants to America before 1750. Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Co., 1964. 75p. Repr. 1986.

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010 Amatoya 'Rainmaker' Moytoy - Biography

Notes for A-MA-DO-YA MOYTOY:

There has been a lot of confusion about the

descendants of Moytoy. I think this is because

some people are not aware that there were two

Chief Moytoys. The first was Chief Amatoya

Moytoy of Chota, b abt 1640, who married Quatsy

of Tellico (of the Wolf Clan). The second is Chief

Moytoy, aka the Pigeon of Tellico, b abt 1687. The

second Moytoy is believed to be either the son or

grandson of Amatoya Moytoy.

It is believed that Amatoya Moytoy had 3 sons and

8 daughters. These include Chief Kanagatoga “Old

Hop”, Nancy Moytoy, and two daughters with

unknown names. Nancy Moytoy is believed to have

been the mother of Chief Attakullakulla “Little

Carpenter”, Killaneca the Buck, Betsy and Tame

Doe. Tame Doe was the mother of Tsistuna-Gis-Ke

(Nancy Ward), and Longfellow of Chistatoa.

More About A-MA-DO-YA MOYTOY:


Translation: A-ma = Water [Am-a = Salt], Do-ya = Beaver

More About QUE-DI-SI:



Children of A-MA-DO-YA MOYTOY and QUE-DI-SI are:

i. TISTOE 2 I, b. Abt. 1680. More About TISTOE I:


ii. OUKAH-U LAH, b. Abt. 1681; d. Abt. 1755. More About OUKAH-U LAH:

Attended: 1730, Delegation to King George II



2. iii. N ANCY MOYTOY, b. Abt. 1683.3.iv. MOYTOY, b. Abt. 1687, Tellico, CNE; d. 1741, CNE.4.v.

OLD HOP , b. Abt. 1690, Chota, on Little Tennessee River; d. August 1761, Chota, on Little Tennessee

River.

cvanor1018originally submitted this to MOYTOY Family Tree on 20 Dec 2008

The French Descent Indian

Amatoya Moytoy of Chota (pronounced mah-tie) was a Cherokee town chief of the early eighteenth

century in the area of present-day Tennessee. He held a prominent position among the Cherokee, and held

010 Amatoya 'Rainmaker' Moytoy - Biography

the hereditary title Ama Matai (From the French matai and Cherokee ama--water), which meant “Water

Conjurer.”

His father was a European, Thomas Pasmere Carpenter, who was descended from the noble Anglo-

Norman family of Vicomte Guillaume de Melun le Carpentier. Thus, Moytoy’s European lineage can be

traced to the Frankish Duke Ansegisel of Metz Meroving, Peppin II, and Charles Martel. This ancestry

also makes the Cherokee Moytoys cousins to the Carpenter Earl of Tyrconnell, and thus related to the

current British royal family.

Twenty year old Thomas Pasmere Carpenter came to Jamestown, Virginia from England in 1627, living

in a cave near the Shawnee. Thomas was called “Cornplanter” by the Shawnee, derived from their sign

language that matched as near as possible to the work of a carpenter. He married a Shawnee woman

named “Pride” and bore a son around 1635 named Trader Carpenter.

Amatoya was taught by his father to “witch” for water with a willow stick. He had become so adept at

water witching that the Cherokee called him “water conjurer” or Ama Matai (Ama is Cherokee for water).

Ama Matai eventually became pronounced as Amatoya. It was later shortened to “Moytoy”, so he is

known as Moytoy I. He ruled the town of Chota sometime between the beginning of the eighteenth

century and 1730.

In 1680, Amatoya married Quatsie of Tellico. Many of their descendants went on to become prominent

leaders, founding a family that effectively ruled the Cherokee for a century.

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New York Genealogical Records, 1675-1920

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Description:This database is a comprehensive index of more than 600,000 individuals who are found in various New York records between 1675 and 1920 in the United States. Some of the records used to compile this index include passenger lists, land records, city directories, and census records. Information provided in this index includes the name of the individual, event type, date of event, location or place of event, and source information.


Name: Stoffel Hooglandt

Event: Lived

Year: 1661

Place: New York City

County: New York

Province: New York

Source: The New York Genealogical and Biographical Record (quarterly-1876) -Extracts


Publication info: New York, NY.

Additional Info: Also available on microfilm at Family History Library, Salt Lake City, Utah.

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010 Christoffel Stoffel Hooglandt

New York Genealogical Records, 1675-1920

Source Information:

Ancestry.com. New York Genealogical Records, 1675-1920 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations Inc, 2004. Original data: For individual sources please see the source information listed with each record. Many of the source documents are available in the Genealogical Research Library collection or at the Family History Library.

Please note: The original data.

Description:This database is a comprehensive index of more than 600,000 individuals who are found in various New York records between 1675 and 1920 in the United States. Some of the records used to compile this index include passenger lists, land records, city directories, and census records. Information provided in this index includes the name of the individual, event type, date of event, location or place of event, and source information.


Name: Christoffel Hooglant

Event: Baptized

Year: 1669

Place: New York City

County: New York

Province: New York

Source: The New York Genealogical and Biographical Record (quarterly-1879) -Extracts


Publication info: New York, NY.

Additional Info: Also available on microfilm at Family History Library, Salt Lake City, Utah.

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Source Citation: Place: New Netherland; Year: 1661; Page Number: 116.





Name: Christoffel Hoogland

Year: 1661

Place: New Netherland


6324.10

Primary Immigrant:

Hoogland, Christoffel

Annotation: Date and place of mention in the New World. Occupation provided for some persons.


O'CALLAGHAN, E.B. The Register of New Netherland, 1626 to 1674. Albany, NY: E. B. O'Callaghan, 1865. Reprinted for Clearfield Co. by Genealogical Publishing Co., Baltimore, 1995, 1996, 1998.

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010 Cornelius Empson — Biography

Cornelius Empson Of New Castle, Delaware

By Grant Pinnix

http://genforum.genealogy.com/cgi-bin/pageload.cgi?fitch::empson::187.html

Cornelius Empson Of New Castle Co., Deposted by: grant pinnix (ID *****9659) Date: August 10,

2005 at 20:18:33 of 223

Descendants of Cornelius Empson, Honorable

Generation No. 1

1. CORNELIUS7 EMPSON, HONORABLE (RICHARD6, RICHARD5, GREGORY4, ?XY...3,

RICHARD2, PETER1) was born Abt. 1655 in Yokefleet Hall, Booth, Yorkshire, England, and died Abt.

December 1710 in New Castle Co., Delaware. He married (1) MARY WATKINS 1679 in Yorkshire,

England, daughter of ?XY WATKINS. She was born Abt. 1660 in Yorkshire, England, and died January

30, 1688 in New Castle Co., Delaware. He married (2) ELIZABETH WATKINS July 10, 1689 in New

Castle Co., Delaware, daughter of ?XY WATKINS. She was born Abt. 1665, and died 1692 in New

Castle Co., Delaware. He married (3) SARAH WILLSON June 02, 1693 in Burlington Co., New Jersey,

daughter of ROBERT WILLSON and ANN HOAG. She was born December 14, 1673 in Scarborough,

Yorkshire, England, and died November 30, 1700. He married (4) MARY RICHARDSON October 25,

1703 in Salem, New Jersey, daughter of ?XY RICHARDSON. She was born Abt. 1680.

Notes For Cornelius Empson, Honorable:

New Castle Co., DE

Will of Cornelius Empson

December 1710

In the name of God Amen. I, Cornelius Empson of the County of New Castle of Delaware, Gentleman,

being sick and weak in body but of sound and perfect mind and memory & understanding, thanks be

given to Almighty God for the same. Do make & ordain this my last will and testament in manner and

form following, Viz.

First & principally, I commit my soul into the hands of Almighty God my creator hoping through the

meritorious death and passing of Jesus Christ my beloved Savior and Redeemer to obtain full pardon &

Remissions of my sins and my body I commit to the Earth to be buried in such devout and Christian

manner as to my Executors shall seem fit and convenient, And as concerning such worldly estate as it

hath pleased God to bless me with all I give devise and bequeath the same in manner and form following

that is to say.

First I will that all such debts as I owe in Right or conscience to any person whatsoever together with my

funeral expense, and probate of this my last will and testament be by my Executors hereafter named first

paid & Discharged.

Item, it is my will & Testament and I do hereby give & bequeath unto my son RICHARD EMPSON five

shillings wh: shall be in full of all his portion of share of my Estates so that he nor his heirs shall hereafter

have any more to pay or demand of any of my Leavening Estate Either Real or personal.

Item, I give & bequeth unto my son EBENEZER EMPSON Tenn Shillings and the Nego boy called

ZACHARIAS wh: shall be in full of all his portion or share of my whole Estate, Soe that he nor his shall

never hereafter have any more to say or Demand of any of my Leaving Estate Either or Real or personal.

Item, I give unto my daughters SARAH and ELIZABETH one Moiety and halfe of the Mill at

WHITECLAY CREEK for them and their Heirs and afs. Forever.


Item, I give and bequeth unto my daughter Sarah my Mollatta Girl HENN.

Item, I give and bequeth unto my Daughter Elizabeth my Negro Girl ABIGAIL.

Item, I give unto my son CHARLES the Easterly part of my plantation wh: is the half part of moiety of

the said plantation with all the meadows pastures woods and underwoods containing by the said

Estimation four hundred acres more or less.

Item, I give unto my said son Charles one moiety of halfe part of a grant of land called CHESTNUT

HILL with the Houseing and all the cleared Land of the said Grant that is the Easterly part the said

Charles to hold the said Tract & moieties with all the appartenances there unto belonging for hims & his

Heirs & assignees forever.

Item, I give unto my said son Charles one Negroe boy called ROBBIN.

Item I give unto my son JAMES my plantation known and called by the name of HORSE HOOKE

containing by Estimation Three hundred acres more or less and twenty acres of marsh by estimation be it

more or less Lying on the West side of ROOK CREEK on BRANDYWINE unto him and said James his

Heirs and assignees forever.

Item, I give unto my said son James one Mollatto Boy called ANDREW.

Which said Gifts I have given unto my said son James with this proviser that he shall give unto his Sister

SUSANNAH EMPSON thirty pounds silver money when the said Susannah shall come to arrive to the

age of twenty three years.

Item, I give & bequeth unto my loving wife, MARY and my daughters ANN & Susannah all my

personall Estate in general of what name or Nomination whatsoever wh: personall Estate shall be shared

Equally betwixt them wh: said consideration of my personal Estate who I have unto my loving wife and

my Daughters Ann & Susannah I have given with this proviser that they shall pay & discharge all my

Real and like wise that my said wife and my daughters Ann & Susannah shall pay unto my daughter

MARY EMPSON Eighty pounds silver money when she shall come and arrive to the age of twenty one

years.

Item, it is my absolute mind & will that all I have given unto my son Charles and James Empson my

plantations Chestnut Hill & Horse Hooke that my loving wife, Mary, shall during her widowhood have

the full benefit of those mentioned plantations and all the Negroes wh: is given unto my said Children wh:

are not at age, that my said wife to have the benefit of those Negroes until my sons shall arrive to age and

my Daughters to the age of twenty one or when they shall marry, But if my said wife Mary shall happen

to change her condition & marry that then she shall have noe more Liberty to Dwell upon the aforesaid

plantations Chestnut Hill and Horse Hooke nor have anything to Doe with any of the Negroes belonging

to the children, but to deliver the plantations & Negroes, and all the childrens Estate unto my Executors

whom I hereafter shall appoint and nominate.

Item it is my will that if my said wife shall happen to marry that she shall have one hundred pounds & the

Negroe woman GRACE. Wh: is all that she shall have wh: said money shall be paid her by my Executors.

Item, I give & bequeth unto my Daughter Mary my Mullatto Girl called MOLL.

Item, it is my will that there shall be sawed Eight Thousand foot of Boards at the Mill at Whiteclay Creek

wh: shall be fore the use of my wife only she shall be at the charge of cutting the Timber and hauling of it

wh: quantitiy of timber & sawing is Hereby Executed.

Item it is my will that my trusty friends my Executors shall see good cause of if need require they shall

hereby be Impowered to sell this my now Dwelling plantation wh: I have given unto my son Charles

together with Chestnut Hilll wh: they shall have liberty to sell wh: I leave wholly to their manishment.


And if in case those moieties be sold then my Executors shall pay unto my son Charles 200 pounds in

money wh: shall be in Lew of the aforesaid moieties.

Lastly I doo hereby ordain appoint & confirm my true & well-beloved friends GEORGE ROBINSON,

ISAAC TAYLOR, THOMAS BABB, Ebenezer Empson & my beloved wife Mary Executors & I doe

hereby Revoke and make void all former wills by me at any time made. In witness whereof I have

hereunto set my hand & Seal this 12th day of December 1710 at GOULD GRANGE in New Castle

County upon Delaware.

/s/ CORNELL EMPSON

Signed & Sealed in the presence of,

Charles SPRINGER

Israel PETERSON

Sarah (her mark) GOODMAN

��

“The Empson Families In America” by Donald Empson, 1984. Pg. 11 states:

Cornelius Empson left England from Port of Deal, just north of Dover, on August 30, 1682 aboard the

“Welcome,” and arrived with William PENN on October 27, 1682.

Contact Mr. Howard Empson, Columbus, IN (812) 372-5762; David A. Wilmore, [email protected]

or (513) 385-8850.

“Greetings from South Texas [where we were lucky enough to escape the wrath of “Bret”! Cornelius

Empson is my husband’s ggggggggg grandfather and then his dau. Sarah who m. Thomas Bird is the

direct line. I just ran across the GenForum Empson page today. Glad to find some cousins.

Patsy HAND.” [See Robinson MUMFORD.]


Source Citation: Place: New Castle Co., Delaware; Year: 1682; Page Number: 118.





Name: Cornelius Empson

Year: 1682

Place: New Castle Co., Delaware


5916.10

Primary Immigrant:

Empson, Cornelius

Annotation: Date and place of immigration, or place and date of first mention in the New World. Some original records are located at the Meeting House on Eustace Street, Dublin, and the Public Record Office of Dublin. Place of residence prior to immigration, occupati


MYERS, ALBERT COOK. Immigration of the Irish Quakers into Pennsylvania, 1682-1750, With Their Early History in Ireland. Swarthmore, PA: Swarthmore College, 1902. Reprinted by Genealogical Publishing Co., Baltimore, 1969, 1985, 1994.

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Source Citation: Place: Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; Year: 1683; Page Number: 331.





Name: Helena Claypoole

Year: 1683

Place: Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

Family Members: Wife Helena; 7 children


6460

Primary Immigrant:

Claypoole, James

Annotation: From a manuscript in the Historical Society of Philadelphia. Also in no. 2313, Futhey & Cope; and in no. 9120, Tepper, Emigrants to Pennsylvania, pp. 6-18.


"A PARTIAL LIST OF THE FAMILIES WHO ARRIVED AT PHILADELPHIA between 1682 and 1687. With the Dates of Their Arrival." In The Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography, vol. 8:3 (July 1884), pp. 328-340.

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010 Hugh March — Biography

Hugh March

It was written that Hugh March was born “about 1618” in a “playce near unto the Greate Mannour House

at The Wallops.” We found him listed as being born at Newbury, England. His father seemed to be

George March, we do not know the name of his mother. He served his carpenters apprenticeship “at that

Shoppe at the Great Manour House of Upper Wallop.” He was an experienced “housewright” by 1638.

Hugh March came to Newe-England in the summer of 1638 aboard the “Good Shippe Confidence of

London”,

“...the good “shipp”, the Confidence of London, of 200 “tonnes,” . . . the 11th of “Aprill,” 1638. “The

nuber of the passengers afore mentioned, greate & little are 110 soules.” “ S. P. O. Am: & West Indies v.

375) (New England)” he was noted upon the manifest as “Hugh Marche Servante to Stephen Kent”

The records of the Kent family say that Stephen Kent had been in “old” Newbury, Massachusetts, and

that he had “sized up the situation there,” and had returned to England to get married. Both Stephen Kent

and his bride spent time at “The Wallops” before they made their journey to the Port of Southampton.

They were authorized “toe Sayle uppon that Shippe Confidence and Intending for Newe England there in

to inhabitt and Remaine” by Port Commissioner on April 11, 1638.

One of Stephen Kent’s plans had been to bring a house carpenter back with him to construct a home for

himself at “old” Newbury. Hugh March was the person he “playced under his indenture” for that purpose.

The Kent home in “old” Newbury was adjacent to the lot and home of the Knight family. It was at that

time that Hugh met Judith Knight.

During his indenture which lasted seven years, Hugh March erected the Kent house along with numerous

other outbuildings and homes in and around the small Parker River town. Some of the buildings were at

Newbury’s port on the Merrimac, and across the river at Salisbury, and nearby Hampton.

When Hugh March came to Essex County, the county was still in it’s infancy. There were just two

“towns” in the northern portion of the county. The towns were Ipswech on the north back of the Ipswich

River, and “old” Newbury on the north bank of the Parker River.

When his indenture was over, Hugh March moved to an area of York County named Kittery-Old Eliot, a

providence of Maine.

For a year or so, Hugh worked as a lumberman. He was “employed at ye felling of timbers and ye cutting

of Mastes and sparres” for the ship building interests at nearby Portsmouth, then known as “Strawberrie

Banke.” One account relates that he worked for the “interests of the Shapleigh’s” and another that he

worked for the interests of the “Treworthies”. It’s believed he worked in and around the Sturgeon Creek

area of Kittery.

Sometime around 1651, Hugh married Judith Knight as his first wife. Judith was either the sister or a

daughter of either John or Richard Knight, brothers and tailors from Romsey, Hampshire, England. They

had come to New England aboard the ship James in 1635 and settled at “old” Newbury. Judith was the

mother to all five of Hugh’s children.

In December of 1667, a group of Essex County citizens got together and made plans to “settle” at the

“new” towns of Woodbridge and Pascataway in New Jersey. Among the citizens was Hugh March and

his oldest son, George, both noted as “of Newbury”.

Hugh March was held in high esteem by the citizenry and officials of “old” Newbury and Essex county.

He was often called upon by the General Court to act as their “checker” of Weights and Measures. He

served as a “Legal Representative” (a Lawyer) for the Essex County Quarterly Court, and was to

successfully plead the cases of two people he had been appointed to represent. He was the Selectman of

“old” Newbury in 1669. It is quite possible that he served in that same capacity in other years as well.

010 Hugh March — Biography

Hugh was a member of the militia but, was dismissed from training in 1679 but, was to pay 5/ per year to

the Newbury company.

Hugh March was also the plaintiff brought before the same court. In 1653 he appeared before the court

when his wife Judith was before it for wearing a silken scarf in public. In that case, Hugh displayed

evidence that he “held Worthe in excess of 200”. The case was dismissed. In 1663 he was again called

before the court, the time for “playing cards” with Richard Knight at the Knight home. The person who

complained was Bathsheba, the wife of Richard Knight.

It was documented that Hugh was in Woodbridge. On February 27, 1668 he owned 320 acres of land. The

records of Woodbridge say that George March held title to 90 acres himself. Colonel John March, a

younger brother of George, became a land owner at Woodbridge in 1687.

In 1669/70 Hugh became the proprietor and “keeper” of the BLUE ANCHOR TAVERN, a favorite

gathering place for the men of the Newbury’s Port area. Hugh made his home in the quarters above the

tavern.

Traditional family stories say that the last time all the members of this family were together was at the

funeral of their mother, Judith in December of 1675. After that, certain differences arose between Hugh

and his son John March. These differences led to harsh words, and, from the time of his marriage in 1676

Hugh was not to have “a cordial father-to-son talk” with John.

Hugh’s marriage to Dorcas was not a happy one. Her first husband had deserted her, disappeared and was

presumed dead. In 1678, two years after their wedding, Hugh, his sons Hugh and John, and his friends

Thomas Woodbridge and John Taylor submitted affidavits in an action in the General Court stating that

Blackleach was not dead but living in Virginia when Dorcas married Hugh and that she was fully aware

of the fact but, concealed it. Dorcas denied the accusation and said that the scandalous report originated

from the malice of Hugh’s children. The court evidently believed her as the decision was made that Hugh

should keep her as his wife.

Obviously this lead to domestic problems. Hugh had a maid, Elizabeth Jago, who complained that Dorcas

had slandered her, but the case was withdrawn when Dorcas confessed that she had wronged the girl. On

15 Aug. 1679 Hugh mortgaged his home to Simon Lynde of Boston for £ 110 and on 31 Jan. 1679/0 he

gave all his property to his son John reserving for himself only the old parlor and the chamber above it. In

1682 John Edwards Sr. of Ipswich said that he had kissed Dorcas “in the face of the court” and that there

was no harm in it.

Of all his children, Hugh March was perhaps “the closest” to his first born, George. When he took over

the operations of the Tavern, he gave the “old farm and dwelling house” to George. In later years, George

was to “erect a fence” around the graves of his parents “within the Sawyers Hill Burying Ground”.

Hugh Jr. March had his “house and Lotte” and his “Blacksmiths Shopp” close to the BLUE ANCHOR

TAVERN. He was always on “friendly terms” with his father.

Hugh March died in Newbury Massachusetts on December 12th, 1693

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Source Citation: Place: Newbury, Massachusetts; Year: 1638; Page Number: 187.





Name: Hugh March

Year: 1638

Place: Newbury, Massachusetts


1262

Primary Immigrant:

March, Hugh

Annotation: Date and place of settlement or date and place of arrival. Names not restricted to the Order of Founders and Patriots of America.


COLKET, MEREDITH B., JR. Founders of Early American Families: Emigrants from Europe, 1607-1657. Cleveland: General Court of the Order of Founders and Patriots of America, 1975. 366p.

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Source Citation: Place: New Netherland; Year: 1659; Page Number: 20.





Name: Jan Wouterse Van Bosch

Year: 1659

Place: New Netherland


508.1

Primary Immigrant:

Van Bosch, Jan Wouterse

Annotation: Date and port of arrival. Name of ship, country of origin, and occupation are sometimes provided.


BERGEN, VAN BRUNT. A List of Early Immigrants to New Netherland. From the manuscripts of Teunis G. Bergen. In Family Chronicle, Jan/Feb 1998.

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010 Nicolas Davis — Biography

Nicholas Davis in Hyannis, Mass. 1666

1666 , HYANNIS, MASS.

Hyannis, MA — History

Hyannis is the largest village within the city of Barnstable, which is on Cape Cod. It is often referred to as

the “Capital of the Cape.” It is named for the Indian settlement Sachem Yanno or Yannough.

Nicholas Davis was the first settler in 1666. By 1840, more than 200 shipmasters had homes in Hyannis.

The first railroad cars reached Hyannis on July 8, 1854.

In 1925, Joseph and Rose Kennedy, parents of John F. Kennedy, rented the Malcolm Cottage in

Hyannisport and three years later purchased it. In 1956, John F. Kennedy bought an adjacent residence,

which later became the summer White House.

Nicholas Davis Flees The Puritans To New Jersey.

About 1665 , Colonial New Jersey

Nicholas was among the first converts from Puritanism to Quakerism in 1658/59; Nicholas’ and Sarah’s

home in Barnstable was ransacked by Constables seeking “heretical” Quaker documents, and Nicholas

was “banished” from Massachusetts because of his Quaker faith, “upon pain of death”, by Boston

(Massachusetts Bay) Court authorities.

His close friend, Mary Dyer, was convicted with Nicholas, but, unfortunately she immediately returned to

Boston and was hanged there ca. 1660. I believe that Mary was the very first woman martyred on U.S.

soil.

FROM NEW JERSEY LAND RECORDS: A large portion of the lands in the northern part of the county

are held under the Monmouth patent or Nicholls patent.

This celebrated writing, granded by Richard Nicholls, Esq., first governor of the province under the Duke

of York, on the 8th day of April, in the year 1665,

conveyed unto William Goulding, Samuel Spicer, Richard Gibbons, Richard Stout, James Grover, ***

John Bowne, John Tilton, Nathaniel Sylvester, WIlliam Reape, *** Walter Clarke, *** NICHOLAS

DAVIS, and *** Obadiah Holmes, patentees, and their associates, their heirs, successors and assigns, all

the lands from Sandy Hook westward to the mouth of Raritan River, and up the same to a certain point,

thence southwestward into the woods twelve miles, thence to turn away southeast by south until it falls

into the main ocean.

Davis And Holder Quaker History In Mass. 1659 , Massachusetts Bay Colony

Christopher Holder

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Christopher Holder (ca. 1631 — ?) was an Anglo-American Quaker minister who was persecuted in the

Massachusetts Bay Colony for his beliefs.

Early life

Holder was born in Alverton, Nottinghamshire, England. Not much is known about his childhood. At

some point he became a member of the Religious Society of Friends (Quakers) and began to spread their

message.


First Journey To The American Colonies

Holder went to Boston, Massachusetts, aboard the Speedwell, landing on July 27, 1656. He and seven

other passengers were listed with a “Q” (for Quaker) beside their names, because at that time, the Puritans

in England and in the English colonies were persecuting Quakers, members of the Religious Society of

Friends. The port authorities were alerted to the presence of the Quakers and searched the ship before

anyone disembarked. Governor John Endicott ordered that they be brought directly to court. Holder and

another member of the group, John Copeland, displayed a thorough knowledge of the Bible and the law

as they testified in court.

Holder was put in jail to await the next available ship to take them back to England. While they were still

in the jail, Mary Dyer and Anne Burden, two other Friends, arrived in another ship and were arrested on

the spot. The authorities in the Massachusetts Bay Colony considered the teachings of the Quakers both

heretical and blasphemous. They apparently wanted to put Quakers on alert that they were not welcome

there. Eventually Holder and the seven who had come with him were deported to England.

Second Journey To The American Colonies

Holder was determined to return to New England and went to George Fox, one of the leaders of the

Friends, for help in securing passage on another ship. Holder and Copeland traveled back to

Massachusetts together.

This time around, Holder was actually able to preach to people, and many responded favorably. In the

town of Sandwich several people became convinced of the truth of the Quaker message and adopted those

beliefs and practices themselves. A small band of Friends had already been meeting for a few months

when Holder arrived, under the ministry of Nicholas Upsall, a new Friend who was in exile from Boston.

Holder and Copeland were jailed for their activities in Sandwich, and the Friends began meeting secretly

in a place that was called “Christopher’s Hollow” in Holder’s honor. The hollow is still known by that

name.

Holder and Copeland made their way throughout several towns in Massachusetts. Wherever they

preached, some people were convinced.

Holder then made his way to Salem and attended a service at the Salem Congregational Church, the very

church where Governor Endicott worshiped. Endicott’s men seized Holder and stuffed a glove and a

handkerchief down his throat. Another member of the church, Samuel Shattuck, rescued Holder from this

treatment. Holder and he were friends from that point on. Holder, Copeland, and Shattuck were put in

prison. Shattuck was released on bond. The two visitors were given thirty lashes. After several months in

prison, they were released.

Holder’s hosts, Lawrence and Cassandra Burnell Southwick, were put in jail for associating with him.

Lawrence was released, because he was a member of the church. Cassandra remained for a few weeks

and was then fined for possessing a paper written by the Friends..

On April 16, 1658 Holder and Copeland returned to Sandwich, but were arrested by a delegation sent by

Endicott. This time they were given 33 lashes.

On June 3, the two Friends went to Boston, where they were immediately arrested. This time, Holder’s

right ear was cut off to punish his “heretical” preaching. A woman named Katherine Scott, the sister of

Anne Hutchinson and future mother-in-law of Holder, protested. Because she stood up for Holder and his

companion, she was put in prison for two months and given 10 lashes.

In June 1659, two Friends, William Robinson and Marmaduke Stephenson, felt called to go to

Massachusetts, although a new law imposed the death penalty on Friends. A young lady named Patience

Scott, the future daughter-in-law of Holder, accompanied them, as well as a Friend named Nicholas


Davis. They were all thrown in jail, which prompted Mary Dyer to return and protest their treatment. For

this action, she was put back in jail.

Dyer was released after her husband wrote a letter to Endicott. On September 12 of that year, all of the

Quakers were released from prison and banished, under pain of death. Robison and Stephenson stayed

and continued to preach. They and Holder were put back in prison, prompting three women—Mary Dyer,

Hope Clifton, and Holder’s future wife, Mary Scott—to come and visit them and plead for their release.

Dyer was arrested yet again for speaking to Holder through the bars of his cell.

Settlement In Rhode Island

Holder eventually moved to Providence, Rhode Island and married Mary Scott on August 12, 1660. She

was the daughter of Richard and Katherine (Marbury) Scott and the niece of Anne Hutchinson, who had

also run afoul of the Puritan leaders in Massachusetts. With his first wife Holder had two daughters, Mary

and Elizabeth. He married a woman named Hope Clifton after his first wife died, and they had seven

more children, including Christopher, Jr.

Holder is mentioned in Chapter 18 of George Fox’s journal. He died in Rhode Island sometime after

1676.

New England Quakers History

Early Colonial New England History

American colonies

Quaker William Penn founded Pennsylvania

As the movement expanded, it faced opposition and persecution. Friends were imprisoned and beaten in

Great Britain, Ireland and the British colonies. In the Massachusetts Bay colony, Friends were banished

on pain of death — some (most famously Mary Dyer) were hanged on Boston Common for returning to

preach their beliefs. In England, Friends were effectively banned from sitting in Parliament from 1698 to

1833. Friends were most welcome in Rhode Island and composed half of the population (the other half

were Baptists), with 36 of the governors for the first 100 years being Quaker. Roger Williams, in addition

to his Baptist affiliation, was one of the Seekers, a diverse group that attended George Fox in Cumbria

before becoming organized by him as the Quakers, in County Durham. After the Burlington, Yorkshire

migration to West Jersey, the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania was founded by William Penn in 1682, as

a safe place for Friends to live in and practice their faith. Indeed, the British crown had granted

Pennsylvania outright to Penn, a Quaker, in settlement of a large debt to his father, so Friends governed it

for over 80 years. Anne Hutchinson’s exile to Eastchester (town), New York, was part of the general

journey outwards from Puritan hostility, while East Jersey, Barbados and the Province of Carolina (under

John Archdale) were also regions of Quakerism, with the latter also having Baptists, just as in Rhode

Island. Quakerism was also clearly preceded in the Mid-Atlantic by the Maryland Toleration Act, until

Anglicanism was forced upon Maryland by the Virginians. In the New Amsterdam colony, efforts by

Peter Stuyvesant to suppress Quaker worship on Long Island led to the Flushing Remonstrance by

Quakers and others. This led the Dutch to force Stuyvesant to allow Quaker worship and is one of the

bases of religious toleration in the United States.

The Quaker leader William Penn had signed a peace treaty with Tammany, leader of the Delaware tribe,

beginning a long period or friendly relations between the Quakers and the Indians.[5]

Additional treaties

between Quakers and other tribes followed. The treaty of William Penn was never violated.[6]

Friends had no ordained ministers and thus needed no seminaries for theological training. As a result they

did not open any colleges in the colonial period, and did not join in founding the University of

Pennsylvania. The first major Quaker colleges were all founded much later: Haverford College (1833),

Earlham College (1844), Swarthmore College (1864), and Bryn Mawr College (1885).[7]


Nicholas Davis On Cape Cod

1640’S , Barstable, Cape Cod Mass.

Ancestral grandfather, Nicholas Davis, lived in the Town and County of Barnstable from 1643 to 1672

CE. His ancestors were farmers, and Puritans, in Kent County, England in the 1620s. Nicholas migrated

in the early 1630s, along with his Uncle Dolar Davis, to Plymouth Colony.

In 1650/51, he married Rev. Lothrop’s step-daughter, Sarah (Ewer) Blossom.

Nicholas was among the first converts from Puritanism to Quakerism in 1658/59; Nicholas’ and Sarah’s

home in Barnstable was ransacked by Constables seeking “heretical” Quaker documents, and Nicholas

was “banished” from Massachusetts because of his Quaker faith, “upon pain of death”, by Boston

(Massachusetts Bay) Court authorities.

His close friend, Mary Dyer, was convicted with Nicholas, but, unfortunately she immediately returned to

Boston and was hanged there ca. 1660. It may be that Mary was the very first woman martyred on U.S.

soil.

They lost a two-year-old son who died by drowning in a creek near their home in Barnstable.

From 1660 to 1664, Nicholas was among the first English landholders of Whitestone, Flushing, NY, and

of Monmouth, NJ, both of which were early Quaker strongholds.

Within the 1664 to 1666 CE time frame, Nicholas Davis purchased waterfront property in Hyannis from

Sachem Iannou for 10 shillings, and he built the first commercial warehouse in Hyannis to pack and ship

oysters around the world.

Nicholas conducted extensive trade with the native Americans of Cape Cod, and imported expensive

clothing material from England. The Inventory taken upon Nicholas’ death around 1673 showed that a

dozen or so Cape Cod Indians owed him money.

He gradually “transformed” from farmer to mariner. In 1672, Nicholas transported the founder of

Quakerism, George Fox, on Nicholas’ private ship to Newport, RI, for George to attend a Friends

Meeting there. Nicholas died by drowning in Newport Harbor as he departed. George Fox’s Book Of

Martyrs mentions Nicholas Davis at least 4 times.

Nicholas was actually the “nephew” of Puritan “Dolar” (or “Dolor”) Davis, who lived as a carpenter and

landholder in Barnstable from 1639 to his death around 1675. [Some genealogical publications incorrectly

list Nicholas as Dolar’s son, based on speculation by Amos Otis.]

New England To New Jersey Quakers History

Colonial N.J. And New England , Colonial New Jersey And New England

Quakers

This Quakers. The sect of “Friends,” who were called Quakers in derision, was founded at about the

middle of the seventeenth century. At first they were called “ Professors (or Children) of the Light,”

because of their fundamental principle that the light of Christ within was God’s gift of salvation—that “

Light which lighteth every man that cometh into the world.” It is said that GEORGE FOX, the founder of

the sect, when brought before magistrates at Derby, England, in 1650,told them to “quake before the

Lord,” when one of them (Gelvase Bennet) caught up the word “quake,” and was the first who called the

sect “ Quakers.” They were generally known by that name afterwards. They spread rapidly in England,

and were severely persecuted by the Church and State. At one time there were 4,000 of them in loathsome

prisons in England. The most prominent of Fox’s disciples was William Penn, who did much to alleviate


their sufferings. Many died in prison or from the effects of imprisonment. Grievous fines were imposed, a

large portion of which went to informers. They were insulted by the lower classes; their women and

children were dragged by the hair along the streets; their meeting-houses were robbed of their windows;

and, by order of King Charles and the Arch-New Netherland. He compelled the Lutherans to conform,

and did not allow other sects to take root there. In 1657 a ship arrived at New Amsterdam, having on

board several of “ the accursed sect called Quakers.” They had been banished from Boston, and were on

their way from Barbadoes to Rhode Island, “ where all kinds of scum dwell,” wrote Dominie

Megapolenses, “ for it is nothing else than a sink of New England.” Among the Friends were Dorothy

Waugh and Mary Witherhead. They went from street to street in New Amsterdam, preaching their new

doctrine to the gathered people. Stuyvesant ordered the women to be seized and cast into prison, where,

for eight days, they were imprisoned in dirty, vermin-infested cells, with their hands tied behind them,

when they were sent on board the ship in which they came, to be transported to Rhode Island. Robert

Hodgson, who determined to remain in New Netherland, took up his abode at Hempstead, where a few

Quakers were quietly settled. There he held a meeting, and Stuyvesant ordered him to his prison at New

Amsterdam. Tied to the tail of a cart wherein sat two young women, offenders like himself, he was driven

by a band of soldiers during the night through the woods to the city, where he was imprisoned in “ a filthy

jail,” under sentence of such confinement for two years, to pay a heavy fine, and to have his days spent in

hard labor, chained to a wheel-barrow with a negro, who lashed him with a heavy tarred rope. He was

subjected to other cruel treatment at the hands of the governor, until the Dutch people, as well as the

English, cried “ Shame!” There were no other persecutions of the Friends in New Netherland after

Hodgson’s release.

Quaker Appearing Before Court of Charles II.

The executions of Mary Dyer [FRIEND OF NICHOLAS DAVIS] in 1660 and William Leddra in 1661,

both in Boston, caused an amazing addition to the number of converts to Quakerism. The same year

monthly meetings were established in several places in New England, and not long afterwards quarterly

meetings were organized. On hearing of the death of Leddra, Charles II. sent an order to Endicott to stop

the persecutions and to send all accused persons to England for trial. This order was sent by the hand of

Samuel Shattuck, a banished Quaker, who appeared before Governor Endicott with his hat on. The

incensed governor was about to take the usual brutal steps to send him to prison, after ordering an officer

to remove Shattuck’s hat, when the latter handed the magistrate the order from the throne. Endicott was

thunderstruck. He handed back Shattuck’s hat and removed his own in deference to the presence of the

King’s messenger. He read the papers, and, directing Shattuck to withdraw, simply remarked, “ We shall

obey his Majesty’s commands.” A hurried conference was held with the other magistrates and ministers.

They dared not send the accused persons to England, for they would be swift witnesses against the

authorities of Massachusetts; so they ordered William Sutton, keeper of the Boston jail, to set all the

Quakers free. So ended their severe persecution in New England; but the magistrates continued for some

time to whip Quaker men and women, half naked, through the streets of Boston and Salem, until

peremptorily forbidden to do so by the King.

After Massachusetts had suspended its laws against Quakers, Parliament made a law (1662) which

provided that every five Quakers, meeting for religious worship, should be fined, for the first offence,

$25; for the second offence, $50; and for the third offence to abjure the realm on oath, or be transported to

the American colonies. Many refused to take the oath, and were transported. By an act of the Virginia

legislature, passed in 1662, every master of a vessel who should import a Quaker, unless such as had been

shipped from England under the above act, was subjected to a fine of 5,000 lbs. of tobacco for the first

offence. Severe laws against other sectaries were passed in Virginia, and many of the Non-conformists in

that colony, while Berkeley ruled, fled deep into the wilderness to avoid persecution.

Because the Friends refused to perform military duty or take an oath in Maryland they were subject to

fines and imprisonment, but were not persecuted there on account of their religious views. When, in 1676,

George Fox was in Maryland, his preaching was not hindered. He might be seen on the shores of the


Chesapeake, preaching at the evening twilight, when the labors of the day were over, to a multitude of

people, comprising members of the legislature and other distinguished men of the province, yeomen, and

large groups of Indians, with chiefs and sachems, their wives and children, all led by their emperor.

Fenwick, one of the purchasers of west Jersey, made the first settlement of members of his sect at Salem.

Liberal offers were made to Friends in England if they would settle in New Jersey, where they would be

free from persecution, and in 1677 several hundred came over. In March a company of 230 came in the

ship Kent. Before they sailed King Charles gave them his blessing. The Kent reached New York in

August, with commissioners to manage public affairs in New Jersey. The arrival was reported to Andros,

who was governor of New York, and claimed political jurisdiction over the Jerseys. Fenwick, who denied

the jurisdiction of the Duke of York in the collection of customs duties, was then in custody at New York,

but was allowed to depart with the other Friends, on his own recognizance to answer in the autumn. On

Aug. 16 the Kent arrived at New Castle, but it was three months before a permanent place was settled

upon. That place was on the Delaware River, and was first named Beverly. Afterwards it was called

Bridlington, after a parish in Yorkshire, England, whence many of the emigrants had come. The name

was corrupted to Burlington, which it still bears. There the passengers of the Kent settled, and were soon

joined by many others. The village prospered, and other settlements were made in its vicinity. Nearly all

the settlers in west Jersey were members of the Society of Friends, or Quakers. One of the earliest erected

buildings for the public worship of Friends in New Jersey was at Crosswicks, about half-way between

Allentown and the Delaware River. Before the Revolution they built a spacious meeting-house there of

imported brick.

Colonial Quaker Town

From the founding of the government of Pennsylvania the rule of the colony was held by the Quakers,

they being more numerous than others. When wars with the French and Indians afflicted the colonies their

peace principles made the members of the Assembly of that sect oppose appropriations of men and money

for war purposes. When, in 1755, the frontiers of Pennsylvania were seriously threatened, the Quakers,

though still a majority in the Assembly, could no longer resist the loud cry “ To arms “ in Philadelphia

and reechoed from the frontiers. The hostile Indians were among the Juniata settlements. The proprietary

party successfully stirred up the people. After a sharp struggle, the Assembly, in consideration of a

voluntary subscription of £5,000 by the proprietaries. consented to levy a tax of £50,000, from which the

estates of the latter were exempted. The expenditure of the amount was entrusted to a committee of seven,

of whom a majority were members of the Assembly; and these became the managers of the war, now

formally declared, against the Delawares and Shawnees. So the golden chain of friendship which bound

the Indians to William Penn was first broken. This was the first time the Quakers were driven into an

open participation in war. Some of the more conscientious resigned their seats in the Assembly, and

others declined a reelection. So it was that, in 1755, the rule of the Quakers in the administration of public

affairs in Pennsylvania came to an end.

The “ Testimony “ of Friends, or Quakers, at their yearly meeting in Philadelphia in May, 1775, against

the movements of the American patriots attracted special attention to that body. The papers and records of

their yearly meeting in New Jersey, captured by Sullivan in his expedition against the loyalist regiments

on Staten Island, gave Congress the first proof of the general disaffection of the society. The Congress

recommended the executives of the several colonies or States to watch their movements; and the

executive council of Pennsylvania were earnestly exhorted to arrest and secure the persons of eleven of

the leading men of that society in Philadelphia, whose names were given. It was done, Aug. 28, 1777, and

John Fisher, Abel James, James Pemberton, Henry Drinker, Israel Pemberton, John Pemberton, John

James, Samuel Pleasants, Thomas Wharton, Sr., Thomas Fisher, and Samuel Fisher, leading members,

were banished to Fredericksburg, Va. The reason given by Congress for this act was that when the enemy

were pressing on towards Philadelphia in December, 1777, a certain seditious publication, addressed “ To

our Friends and Brethren in Religious Profession in these and the adjacent Provinces,” signed John

Pemberton, in and on behalf of the “ Meeting of Sufferings,” held in Philadelphia, Dec. 26, 1776, had


been widely circulated among Friends throughout the States. At the same time the Congress instructed the

board of war to send to Fredericksburg John Penn, the governor, and Benjamin Chew, chief-justice of

Pennsylvania, for safe custody. While the British army was in Philadelphia in 1778, Joseph Galloway, an

active Tory, and others employed John Roberts and Abraham Carlisle, members of the Society of Friends,

as secret agents in detecting foes to the British government. Carlisle was a sort of inquisitor-general,

watching at the entrances to the city, pointing out and causing the arrest of Whigs, who were first cast into

prison and then granted permission to pass the lines. Both Roberts and Carlisle acted as guides to British

expeditions when they went out of Philadelphia to fall upon and massacre their countrymen. These facts

being laid before Congress, that body caused the arrest of Roberts and Carlisle. They were tried, found

guilty, and hanged.

Maine Pioneers, 1623-60

Source Information:Ancestry.com. Maine Pioneers, 1623-60 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: The Generations Network, Inc., 1999.

Original data: Pope, Charles Henry. The Pioneers of Maine and New Hampshire, 1623-1660. n.p., 1908.

Description:Biographical sketches of early pioneers in Maine and New Hampshire


Name: Nicholas Davis; Davess; Davies

Comment: ae. 40, Sarah, ae. 48, Joseph, ae. 13, with Wm. Lock, ae. 6, cert. from Stepney parish, came in the Planter March 22, 1634. Res. at Charlestown; rem. to Woburn, 1640. Wife Sarah d. 24 (3) 1643. He m. July 12, 1643, Elizabeth Isaac. Rem. to York. Juryman Oct. 17, 1650. Took oath of allegiance to Mass. govt. 22 Nov. 1652, and was appointed constable.

Will dated 27 April, 1667, inventory rendered 12 March, 1669-70; beq. to wife Elizabeth; daughter Astine and her children, Mary and Sarah, cousins, Matthew Barnard, son of Matthew B. of Boston, and William Locke of "Owborne" [Woburn]; Mary, Elizabeth and Mehitable Dod: friends Capt. John Davis and Mr. Peter Weare overseers; wife executrix. Admin. of his est. in Plym. Col. given by Mass. Gen. Court to John Wales of Boston; inv. filed at Plym. 13 (5) 1673.

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Name: Nicholas Davis

Year: 1634

Place: Massachusetts

Family Members: With relative


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Primary Immigrant:

Davis, Nicholas

Annotation: Most are date and port of arrival; some are date and place of settlement in Massachusetts. Name of ship, place of origin, occupation, and other genealogical data pertaining to will administration may also be provided.


POPE, CHARLES HENRY. The Pioneers of Massachusetts, A Descriptive List, Drawn from Records of the Colonies, Towns and Churches, and other Contemporaneous Documents. Baltimore, MD: Genealogical Publishing Co., Inc., 1998. 550p.

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Name: Richd Bradford

Year: 1653

Place: Virginia


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Primary Immigrant:

Bradford, Richd

Annotation: Record of 20,000 very early immigrants, with much relevant information. Taken from Patent Books 1 through 5. Title page states, "In 5 volumes," but up to 1979 only three had appeared. See nos. 6221 and 6223 for second and third volumes, published in 1977


NUGENT, NELL MARION. Cavaliers and Pioneers: Abstracts of Virginia Land Patents and Grants, 1623-1666. Vol. 1. Richmond [VA]: Dietz Printing Co., 1934. 767p. Reprinted by Genealogical Publishing Co., Baltimore, 1983.

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Virginia Company of London May 23, 1609 , London England

The Second Charter of Virginia May 23, 1609

http://www.learner.org/workshops/primarysources/virginia/docs/svc.html

The Virginia Company of London was a joint-stock company set up by a group of merchants and wealthy

gentry for the purpose of financing and establishing a colony in America, with the aim of making a profit.

They petitioned England's King James I to grant them a charter, which he did more than a year later in

1606, and then again in 1609 and 1612. These charters gave the Virginia Company the authority to

establish and govern a colony on the coast of America. The Second Charter was given exclusively to the

Virginia Company of London.

Below is the text of the Charter ----------------------------------

JAMES, by the Grace of God, King of England, Scotland, France and Ireland, Defender of the Faith, &c.

To all, to whom these Presents shall come, Greeting. WHEREAS, at the humble Suit and Request of

sundry our loving and well-disposed Subjects, intending to deduce a Colony, and to make Habitation and

Plantation of sundry our People in that Part of America, commonly called VIRGINIA, and other Parts and

Territories in America, either appertaining unto Us, or which are not actually possessed of any Christian

Prince or People, within certain Bounds and Regions, We have formerly, by our Letters-patents,

bearing Date the tenth Day of April, in the fourth Year of our Reign of England, France, and Ireland,

and of Scotland the nine and thirtieth, GRANTED to Sir Thomas Gates, Sir George Somers, and others,

for the more speedy Accomplishment of the said Plantation and Habitation that they should divide

themselves into two Colonies (the one consisting of divers Knights, Gentlemen, Merchants, and others, of

our City of London, called the FIRST COLONY; And the other consisting of divers Knights, Gentlemen,

and others, of our Cities of Bristol, Exeter, and Town of Plimouth, and other Places, called the SECOND

COLONY). And have yielded and granted in any and sundry Privileges and Liberties to each Colony, for

their quiet settling and good Government therein, as by the said Letters patents more at large appeareth:

Now, forasmuch as divers and sundry of our loving Subjects, as well Adventurers, as Planters, of the said

first Colony, which have already engaged themselves in furthering the Business of the said Colony and

Plantation, and do further intend, by the Assistance of Almighty God, to prosecute the same to a happy

End, have of late been humble Suitors unto Us, that (in Respect of their great Charges and the Adventure

of many of their Lives, which they have hazarded in the said Discovery and Plantation of the said

Country) We should be pleased to grant them a further Enlargement and Explanation of the said Grant,

Privileges, and Liberties, and that such Counsellors, and other Officers, may be appointed amongst them,

to manage and direct their Affairs, as are willing and ready to adventure with them, as also whose

Dwellings are not so far remote from the City of London, but they may, at convenient Times, be ready at

Hand, to give their Advice and Assistance, upon all Occasions requisite.

We greatly affecting the effectual Prosecution and happy success of the said Plantation, and commending

their good desires therein, for their further Encouragement in accomplishing so excellent a Work, much

pleasing to God, and profitable to our Kingdom, do of our especial Grace, and certain Knowledge, and

mere Motion, for Us, our Heirs, and Successors, GIVE, GRANT, and CONFIRM, to our trusty and well

beloved Subjects, Robert, Earl of Salisbury, Thomas, Earl of Suffolk, Henry, Earl of Southampton,

William, Earl of Pembroke, Henry, Earl of Lincoln, Earl of Dorset, Thomas, Earl of Exeter, Philip, Earl

of Montgomery, Robert, Lord Viscount Lisle, Theophilus, Lord Howard of Walden, James Montague,

Lord Bishop of Bath and Wells, Edward, Lord Zouche, Thomas, Lord Lawarr, William, Lord

Mounteagle, Ralph, Lord Ewre, Edmond, Lord Sheffield, Grey, Lord Chandois, Lord Compton, John,

Lord Petre, John, Lord Stanhope, George, Lord Carew, Sir Humphry Weld, Lord Mayor of London,

George Piercy, Esq. Sir Edward Cecil, Knt. Sir George Wharton, Knt. Francis West, Esq. Sir William


Wade, Knt. Sir Henry Nevil, Knt. Sir Thomas Smith, Knt. Sir Oliver Cromwell, Knt. Sir Peter Manwood,

Knt. Sir Drue Drury, Knt. Sir Peter Scott, Knt. Sir Thomas Challoner, Knt. Sir Robert Drury, Knt. Sir

Anthony Cope, Knt. Sir Horatio Vere, Knt. Sir Edward Conway, Knt. Sir William Brown, Knt. Sir

Maurice Berkeley, Knt. Sir Robert Maunsel, Knt. Sir Amias Preston, Knt. Sir Thomas Gates, Knt. Sir

Anthony Ashley, Knt. Sir Michael Sandys, Knt. Sir Henry Carey, Knt. Sir Stephen Soame, Knt. Sir

Callisthenes Brooke, Knt. Sir Edward Michelborn, Knt. Sir John Ratcliffe, Knt. Sir Wilmot, Knt. Sir

George Moore, Knt. Sir Hugh Wiral, Knt. Sir Thomas Dennis, Knt. Sir John Holles, Knt. Sir William

Godolphin, Knt. Sir Thomas Monson, Knt. Sir Thomas Ridgwine, Knt. Sir John Brooke, Knt. Sir Robert

Killigrew, Knt. Sir Henry Peyton, Knt. Sir Richard Williamson, Knt. Sir Ferdinando Weyoman, Knt. Sir

William St. John, Knt. Sir Thomas Holcroft, Knt. Sir John Mallory, Knt. Sir Roger Ashton, Knt. Sir

Walter Cope, Knt. Sir Richard Wigmore, Knt. Sir William Cocke, Knt. Sir Herbert Crofte, Knt. Sir Henry

Fanshaw, Knt. Sir John Smith, Knt. Sir Francis Wolley, Knt. Sir Edward Waterhouse, Knt. Sir Henry

Seckford Knt. Sir Edwin Sandys, Knt. Sir Thomas Waynam, Knt. Sir John Trevor, Knt. Sir Warwick

Heele, Knt. Sir Robert Worth, Knt. Sir John Townshend, Knt. Sir Christopher Perkins, Knt. Sir Daniel

Dun, Knt. Sir Henry Hobert, Knt. Sir Francis Bacon, Knt. Sir Henry Montague, Knt. Sir George Coppin,

Knt. Sir Samuel Sandys, Knt. Sir Thomas Roe, Knt. Sir George Somers, Knt. Sir Thomas Freake, Knt. Sir

Thomas Harwell, Knt. Sir Charles Kelke, Knt. Sir Baptist Hicks, Knt. Sir John Watts, Knt. Sir Robert

Carey, Knt. Sir William Romney, Knt. Sir Thomas Middleton, Knt. Sir Hatton Cheeke, Knt. Sir John

Ogle, Knt. Sir Cavellero Meycot, Knt. Sir Stephen Riddleson, Knt. Sir Thomas Bludder, Knt. Sir Anthony

Aucher, Knt. Sir Robert Johnson, Knt. Sir Thomas Panton, Knt. Sir Charles Morgan, Knt. Sir Stephen

Pole, Knt. Sir John Burlacie, Knt. Sir Christopher Cleave, Knt. Sir George Hayward, Knt. Sir Thomas

Davis, Knt. Sir Thomas Sutton, Knt. Sir Anthony Forrest, Knt. Sir Robert Payne, Knt. Sir John Digby,

Knt. Sir Dudley Digges, Knt. Sir Fowland Cotton, Knt. Dr. Matthew Sutclide, Dr. Meadows, Dr. Turner,

Dr. Poe, Captain Pagnam, Captain Jeffrey Holcrofte, Captain Romney, Captain Henry Spry, Captain

Shelton, Captain Sparks, Captain Thomas Wyat, Captain Brinsley, Captain William Courtney, Captain

Herbert, Captain Clarke, Captain Dewhurst, Captain John Blundell, Captain Fryer, Captain Lewis Orwell,

Captain Edward Lloyd, Captain Slingsby, Captain Hawley, Captain Acme, Captain Cookhouse, Captain

Mason, Captain Thomas Holcroft, Captain John Coke, Captain Holles, Captain William Proud, Captain

Henry Woodhouse, Captain Richard Lindesey, Captain Dexter, Captain William Winter, Captain Pearse,

Captain John Gingham, Captain Burray, Captain Thomas Conway, Captain Rockwood, Captain William

Lovelace, Captain John Ashley, Captain Thomas Wynne, Captain Thomas Mewtis, Captain Edward

Harwood, Captain Michael Everard, Captain Comock, Captain Mills, Captain Pigot, Captain Edward-

Maria Wingfield, Captain Christopher Newport, Captain John Sicklemore, alias Ratcliffe, Captain John

Smith, Captain John Martin, Captain Peter Wynne, Captain Waldo, Captain Thomas Wood, Captain

Thomas Button, George Bolls, Esq. Sheriff of London, William Crashaw, Clerk, Batchelor of Divinity,

William Seabright, Esq., Christopher Brooke, Esq., John Birigley, Esq., Thomas Watson, Esq., Richard

Percival, Esq., John Moore, Esq., Hugh Broker, Esq., David Woodhouse, Esq., Anthony Aucher, Esq.,

Robert Boyer, Esq., Ralph Owens, Esq., Zachary Jones Esq., George Calvert, Esq., William Dobson,

Esq., Henry Reynolds, Esq., Thomas Walker, Esq., Anthony Barnars, Esq., Thomas Sandys, Esq., Henry

Sandys, Esq., Richard Sandys, Esq., Son of Sir Edwin Sandys, William Oxenbridge, Esq., John Moore,

Esq., Thomas Wilson Esq., John Bullock, Esq., John Waller, Esq., Thomas Webb, Jehu Robinson,

William Brewster, Robert Evelyn, Henry Danby, Richard Hackluit, Minister, John Eldrid, Merchant,

William Russel, Merchant, John Merrick, Merchant, Richard Banister, Merchant, Charles Anthony,

Goldsmith, John Banks, William Evans, Richard Humble, Richard Chamberlayne, Merchant, Thomas

Barber, Merchant, Richard Pomet, Merchant, John Fletcher, Merchant, Thomas Nicholls, Merchant, John

Stoke, Merchant, Gabriel Archer, Francis Covel, William Bonham, Edward Harrison, John Wostenholme,

Nicholas Salter, Hugh Evans, William Barnes, Otho Mawdet, Richard Staper, Merchant, John Elkin,

Merchant, William Coyse, Thomas Perkin, Cooper, Humphrey James, Cooper, Henry Jackson, Robert

Singleton, Christopher Nicholls, John Harper, Abraham Chamberlayne, Thomas Shipton, Thomas

Carpenter, Anthony Crew, George Holman, Robert Hill, Cleophas Smith, Ralph Harrison, John Farmer,

James Brearly, William Crosby, Richard Cox, John Gearing, Richard Strongarm, Ironmongers, Thomas


Langton, Griffith Hinton, Richard Ironside, Richard Dean, Richard Turner, William Lawson, Mercer,

James Chatfield, Edward Allen Tedder, Robert Hildebrand Sprinson, Arthur Mouse, John Gardiner,

James Russell, Richard Caswell, Richard Evans, John Hawkins, Richard Kerril, Richard Brooke,

Matthew Screvener, Gentleman, William Stallenge, Gentleman, Arthur Venn, Gentleman, Sandys Webbe,

Gentleman, Michael Phetiplace, Gentleman, William Phetiplace, Gentleman, Ambrose Prusey,

Gentleman, John Taverner, Gentleman, George Pretty, Gentleman, Peter Latham, Gentleman, Thomas

Montford, Gentleman, William Central, Gentleman, Richard Wiffin, Gentleman, Ralph Moreton,

Gentleman, John Cornelius, Martin Freeman, Ralph Freeman, Andrew Moore, Thomas White, Edward

Perkin, Robert Offley, Thomas Whitley, George Pit, Robert Parkhurst, Thomas Morris, Peter Harloe,

Jeffry Duppa, John Gilbert, William Hancock, Matthew Brown, Francis Tyrrel, Randolph Carter,

Othowell Smith, Thomas Hammond, Martin Bond, Haberdasher, John Moulsoe, Robert Johnson, Wiliam

Young, John Woodal, William Felgate, Humfrey Westwood, Richard Champion, Henry Robinson,

Francis Mapes, William Sambach, Ralegh Crashaw, Daniel Tucker, Thomas Grave, Hugh Willeston,

Thomas Culpepper, of Wigsel, Esq., John Culpepper, Gentleman, Henry Lee, Josias Kerton, Gentleman,

John Pory, Gentleman, Henry Collins, George Burton, William Atkinson, Thomas Forest, John Russel,

John Holt, Harman Harrison, Gabriel Beedel, John Beedel, Henry Dawkes, George Scot, Edward

Fleetwood, Gentleman, Richard Rogers, Gentleman, Arthur Robinson, Robert Robinson, John Huntley,

John Gray, William Payne, William Field, William Wattey, William Webster, John Dingley, Thomas

Draper, Richard Glanvil, Arnold Hulls, Henry Roe, William More, Nicholas Gryce, James Monger,

Nicholas Andrews, Jeremy Haydon, Ironmonger, Philip Durette, John Quarles, John West, Matthew

Springham, John Johnson, Christopher Hore, Thomas Snead, George Berkeley, Arthur Pet, Thomas

Careles, William Berkley, Thomas Johnson, Alexander Bents, Captain William King, George Sandys,

Gentleman, James White, Gentleman, Edmond Anne, Charles Towlar, Richard Reynold, Edward Webb,

Richard Maplesden, Thomas Lever, David Bourne, Thomas Wood, Ralph Hamer, Edward Barnes,

Mercer, John Wright, Mercer, Robert Middleton, Edward Littlefield, Katharine West, Thomas Web,

Ralph Lying, Robert Coppin, James Askew, Christopher Holt, William Bardwell, Alexander Chiles,

Lewis Tate, Edward Ditchfield, James Swifte, Richard Widdowes, goldsmith, Redmond Brudenell,

Edward Purcell, John Hansford, Edward Wooller, William Palmer, haberdasher, John Badger, John

Hodgson, Peter Mounsel, John Carril, John Bushride, Lillian Dun, Thomas Johnson, Nicholas Benson,

Thomas Shipton, Nathaniel Wade, Randal Wetwood, Matthew Dequester, Charles Hawkins, Hugh

Hammersley, Abraham Cartwright, George Bennet, William Cater, Richard Goddard, Henry Cromwell,

Phineas Pet, Robert Cooper, John Cooper, Henry Newce, Edward Wilkes, Robert Bateman, Nicholas

Farrar, John Hewhouse, John Cason, Thomas Harris, Gentleman, George Etheridge, Gentleman, Thomas

Mayle, Gentleman, Richard Stafford, Thomas Richard Cooper, John Wrestrow, Edward Welch, Thomas

Britain, Thomas Knowles, Octavian Thorne, Edmond Smith, John March, Edward Carew, Thomas

Pleydall, Richard Let, Miles Palmer, Henry Price, John Joshua, Gentleman, William Clauday, Jeremy

Pearsye, John Bree, Gentleman, William Hampson, Christopher Pickford, Thomas Hunt, Thomas

Truston, Christopher Salmon, Jolm Howard, clerk, Richard Partridge, Allen Cassen, Felix Wilson,

Thomas Bathurst, George Wilmer, Andrew Wilmer, Maurice Lewellin, Thomas Godwin, Peter Burgoyne,

Thomas Burgoyne, Robert Burgoyne, Robert Smith, Merchant Taylor, Edward Cage, grocer, Thomas

Cannon, Gentleman, William Welby, stationer, Clement Wilmer, Gentleman, John Clapham, Gentleman,

Giles Francis, Gentleman, George Walker, Sadler, John Swinhow, stationer, Edward Bishop, stationer,

Leonard White, Gentleman, Christopher Baron, Peter Benson, Richard Smith, George Proctor, minister,

Millicent Ramsdent, widow Joseph Soane, Thomas Hinshaw, John Baker, Robert Thornton, John Davis,

Edward Facet, George Newce, Gentleman, John Robinson, Captain Thomas Wood, William Brown,

shoemaker, Robert Barker, shoemaker, Robert Pennington, Francis Burley, minister, William Quick,

grocer, Edward Lewis, grocer, Laurence Campe, draper, Aden Perkins, grocer, Richard Shepherd,

preacher, William Sherley, haberdasher, William Taylor, haberdasher, Edwin Lukin, Gentleman, John

Franklyn, haberdasher, John Southwick, Peter Peate, George Johan, ironmonger, George Yeardley,

Gentleman, Henry Shelly, John Prat, Thomas Church, draper, William Powel, Gentleman, Richard Frith,

Gentleman, Thomas Wheeler, draper, Francis Easlerig, Gentleman, Hugh Shipley, Gentleman, John


Andrews, the Elder, Doctor of Cambridge, Francis Whistler, Gentleman, John Vassal, Gentleman,

Richard Howle, Edward Berkeley, Gentleman, Richard Keneridgburg, Gentleman, Nicholas Exton,

draper, William Bennet, fishmonger, James Haywood, Merchant, Nicholas Isaac, Merchant, William

Gibbs, Merchant, Bishop, Bernard Mitchel, Isaac Mitchel, John Streate, Edward Gall, John Martin,

Gentleman, Thomas Fox, Luke Lodge, John Woodliffe, Gentleman, Richard Webb, Vincent Long,

Samuel Burnham, Edmund Pears, haberdasher, John Googe, John St. John, Edward Vaughan, William

Dunn, Thomas Alcocke, John Andrews, the younger, of Cambridge, Samuel Smith, Thomas Gerrard,

Thomas Whittingham, William Canning, Paul Canning, George Chandler, Henry Vincent, Thomas

Ketley, James Skelton, James Mountaine, George Webb, gentleman, Joseph Newbridge, smith, Josiah

Mand, Captain Ralph Hamer, the younger, Edward Brewster, the son of William Brewster, Leonard

Harwood, mercer, Philip Druerdent, William Carpenter, Tristian Hill, Robert Cock, grocer, Laurence

Grecie, grocer, Samuel Winch, grocer, Humphry Stile, grocer, Avern Dransfield, grocer, Edward Hodges,

grocer, Edward Beale, grocer, Thomas Culler, grocer, Ralph Busby, grocer, John Whittingham, grocer,

John Hide, grocer, Matthew Shepherd, grocer, Thomas Allen, grocer, Richard Hooker grocer, Lawrence

Munks, grocer, John Tanner, grocer, Peter Gate, grocer, John Blunt, grocer, Robert Phipps, grocer, Robert

Berrisford, grocer, Thomas Wells, grocer, John Ellis, grocer, Henry Colthurst, grocer, John Cavady,

grocer, Thomas Jennings, grocer, Edmond Baschall, grocer, Timothy Bathurst, grocer, Giles Parslow,

grocer, Robert Milmay, grocer, Richard Johnson, grocer, William Johnson, vinetner, Ezekiel Smith,

Richard Martin, William Sharpe, Robert Rich, William Stannard, innholder, John Stocken, William

Strachey, gentleman, George Farmer, gentleman, Thomas Gypes, cloth-worker, Abraham Davies,

gentleman, Thomas Brocket, gentleman, George Bache, fishmonger, John Dike, fishmonger, Henry

Spranger, Richard Farrington, Christopher Vertue, vintner, Thomas Bayley, vintner, George Robins,

vintner, Tobias Hinson, grocer, Urian Spencer, Clement Chickeley, John Scarpe, gentleman, James

Campbell, ironmonger, Christian Clitheroe, ironmonger, Philip Jacobson, Peter Jacobson, of Antwerp,

William Berkeley, Miles Banks, cutler, Peter Higgons, grocer, Henry John, gentleman, John Stokley,

merchant taylor, the Company of Mercers, the Company of Grocers, the Company of Drapers, the

Company of Fishmongers, the Company of Goldsmiths, the Company of Skinners, the Company of

Merchant Taylors, the Company of Haberdashers, the Company of Salters, the Company of Ironmongers,

the Company of Vintners, the Company of Clothworkers, the Company of Dyers, the Company of

Brewers, the Company of Leathersellers, the Company of Pewterers, the Company of Cutlers, the

Company of Whitebakers, the Company of Wax-Chandlers, the Company of Tallow-Chandlers, the

Company of Armourers, the Company of Girdlers, the Company of Butchers, the Company of Sadlers,

the Company of Carpenters, the Company of Cordwaynes, the Company of Barber-Chirurgeons, the

Company of Paintstainers, the Company of Curriers, the Company of Masons, the Company of Plumbers,

the Company of Innholders, the Company of Founders, the Company of Poulterers, the Company of

Cooks, the Company of Coopers, the Company of Tylers and Bricklayers, the Company of Boyers, the

Company of Fletchers, the Company of Blacksmiths, the Company of Joiners, the Company of Weavers,

the Company of Woolmen, the Company of Woodmongers, the Company of Scriveners, the Company of

Fruiterers, the Company of Plasterers, the Company of Brownbakers, the Company of Stationers, the

Company of Imbroiderers, the Company of Upholsterers, the Company of Musicians, the Company of

Turners, the Company of Gardners, the Company of Basketmakers, the Company of Glaziers, John Levet,

Merchant, Thomas Nornicot, clothworker, Richard Venn, haberdasher, Thomas Scott, gentleman, Thomas

Juxon, merchant-taylor, George Hankinson, Thomas Seyer, gentleman, Matthew Cooper, George Buttler,

gentleman, Thomas Lawson, gentleman, Edward Smith, haberdasher, Stephen Sparrow, John Jones,

merchant, Reynolds, Brewer, Thomas Plummer, merchant, Jame Duppa, brewer, Rowland Coitmore,

William Southerne, George Whitmore, haberdasher, Anthony Gosnold, the younger, John Allen,

fishmonger, Simon Yeomans, fishmonger, Lancelot Davis, gentleman, John Hopkins, alderman of

Bristol, John Kettleby, gentleman, Richard Clene, goldsmith, George Hooker, gentleman, Robert

Chening, yeoman, and to such and so many as they do, or shall hereafter admit to be joined with them, in

the form hereafter in these presents expressed, whether they go in their Persons to be Planters there in the

said Plantation, or whether they do not, but adventure their monies, goods, or Chattles, that they shall be


one Body or Commonalty perpetual, and shall have perpetual Succession and one common Seal to serve

for the said Body or Commonalty, and that they and their Successors shall be known, called, and

incorporated by the Name of The Treasurer and Company of Adventurers and Planters of the City of

London, for the first Colony in Virginia.

And that they and their Successors shall be from henceforth forever enabled to take, acquire, and purchase

by the Name aforesaid (Licence for the same from Us, our Heirs, and Successors, first had and obtained)

any Manner of Lands, Tenements, and Hereditaments, Goods and Chattles, within our Realm of England,

and Dominion of Wales.

And that they, and their Successors, shall likewise be enabled by the Name aforesaid, to plead and be

impleaded, before any of our Judges or Justices in any of our Courts, and in any Actions or Suits

whatsoever.

And we do also of our special Grace, certain Knowledge, and mere Motion, give, grant and confirm, unto

the said Treasurer and Company, and their Successors, under the Reservations, Limitations, and.

Declarations hereafter expressed, all those Lands, Countries, and Territories, situate, lying, and being in

that Part of America, called Virginia, from the Point of Land, called Cape or Point Comfort, all along the

Sea Coast to the Northward, two hundred miles, and from the said Point of Cape Comfort, all along the

Sea Coast to the Southward, two hundred Miles, and all that Space and Circuit of Land, lying from the

Sea Coast of the Precinct aforesaid, up into the Land throughout from Sea to Sea, West and Northwest;

And also all the Islands lying within one hundred Miles along the Coast of both Seas of the Precinct

aforesaid; Together with all the Soils, Grounds, Havens, and Ports, Mines, as well Royal Mines of Gold

and Silver, as other Minerals, Pearls, and precious Stones, Quarries, Woods, Rivers, Waters, Fishings,

Commodities, Jurisdictions, Royalties, Privileges, Franchises, and Preheminences within the said

Territories, and the Precincts thereof, whatsoever, and thereto, and thereabouts both by Sea and Land,

being, or in any sort belonging or appertaining, and which We, by our Letters Patents, may or can grant,

in as ample Manner and Sort, as We, or any our noble Progenitors, have heretofore granted to any

Company, Body Politic or Corporate, or to any Adventurer or Adventurers, Undertaker or Undertakers of

any Discoveries, Plantations, or Traffic, of, in, or into any Foreign Parts whatsoever, and in as large and

ample Manner, as if the same were herein particularly mentioned and expressed; To HAVE AND TO

HOLD, possess and enjoy, all and singular the said Lands, Countries and Territories, with all and singular

other the Premises heretofore by these Presents granted, or mentioned to be granted to them, the said

Treasurer and Company, their Successors and Assigns forever To the sole and proper Use of them, the

said Treasurer and Company, their Successors and Assigns forever; To BE HOLDEN of Us, our Heirs

and Successors, as of our Manor of East-Greenwich, in free and common Soccage, and not in Capite;

YIELDING and PAYING therefore, to Us, our Heirs and Successors, the fifth Part only of all Ore of

Gold and Silver, that from Time to Time, and at all Times hereafter, shall be there gotten, had, or

obtained, for all Manner of Services

Probate Of Richard Herbert's Estate

Bermuda Wills E. Vol 1. P. 91.

Inventory of estate of Capt. RICHARD HARBERT, lately decd, August 25, 1664, taken before Capt

GEORGE HUBBARD, Councillor of Devonshire Tribe.

In the Grounds: 1 black cow & calf, 2 cows & 1 black bull. 1 young bull calf 1 young heifer, 5 hoggs.

In outward room: 1 ½ h. . . . bedstead with the furniture. 1 old box with clothes 1great chest, a beame &

scales with leaden weights. Several pieces of earthen ware. 1 trundle bedstead & furniture, several pieces

of pewter, old 7 new 1 chest in her chamber. 3 trays, 2 platters, 1 case of bottles & 2 lamps. 3 prs sheets, 2


small boxes, 1 Bible, 2 chests, 1 chair & 2 small stools, 1 table & forme, 1 tablecloth & napkins, “His

wearing clothes & Hat”

In another room: 2 old chests & bedstead. 1 square box. 1 copper, 1 stool

In Kitchen: All the iron ware, 2 brass skillets. Old brass kettles. Old cross Sawes & 2 hand sawes. Hoes,

Axes, Tubs, pails & piggins. 6 jars. Last year’s Tobacco.

Total Appraisement £82.17.0. Appraisers: JOHN HARRIOTT, JONOTHAN TURNER. Against the

estate: To Mr. THOS CLARKE for rent of MARTIN POTTER’S land £6 To legacies out of old Oneday’s

estate not pd £1

To ROBERT BURTON & R. HUNT £4.9.0

MRS BRIDGETT HARBERT hath averred upon oath that this is a just inventory of all goods, chattels &

debts belonging to her late decd. Husband, Capt RICHARD HARBERT, Sept. 1664. HENRY TUCKER,

Sect.


Source Citation: Place: New England; Year: 1637; Page Number: 458.





Name: Susanna Tappan

Year: 1637

Age: 30

Estimated Birth Year:

abt 1607

Place: New England

Family Members: Wife Susanna 30; Child Elizabeth; Child Peter


6799.25

Primary Immigrant:

Tappan, Abraham

Annotation: Most are date and port of arrival; some are date and place of settlement in Massachusetts. Name of ship, place of origin, occupation, and other genealogical data pertaining to will administration may also be provided.


POPE, CHARLES HENRY. The Pioneers of Massachusetts, A Descriptive List, Drawn from Records of the Colonies, Towns and Churches, and other Contemporaneous Documents. Baltimore, MD: Genealogical Publishing Co., Inc., 1998. 550p.

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010 Thomas Byrd — Biography

Colonel William Byrd

William Byrd came to the Virginia Colony in 1677 and lived at “Belvedere” in Hanover Co VA, the

estate of his late uncle, Thomas Stagges (Stegge). Col. Byrd bought the Westover property in 1688 and

built WESTOVER circa 1730. It is said he was a Virginia planter and son of an English goldsmith.

His son Wm Byrd II is considered the founder of Richmond, VA

William Byrd (1674-1744). A Virginian aristocrat, landowner, author, and governor, Byrd served as a

commissioner in the 1728 survey conducted to establish the boundary between Virginia and North

Carolina. He recorded the journey in “The History of the Dividing Line” and “The Secret History of the

Line”.

From: “Encyclopedia of Virginia Biography”, edited by Lyon Gardiner

Tyler, Published 1915, Lewis Historical Publishing Company

Original from Harvard University

“William Byrd, Sr., founder of the distinguished family of “Westover” Virginia born about 1649 in

London, a descendant of an old Cheshire family. Appointed to the office of auditor-general of Va. was

one of the men appointed to form the first board of trustees to the new William and Mary College. His

home library became the largest in America in its time. His land holdings included three miles on both

sides of the James River, an area that includes present day Richmond, 42,000 acres in all. He carried on

trade with the Indians.” He died at Westover, his residence on the James River, Dec 4 1701.”

010 William Barnett I — Biography

William “The Migrant” Barnett

William was also known as William “The Migrant” Barnett (per Dale P Barnett tree).

The derry cathedral, Parish of Templemore Register 1642, lists the baptisms.

The following was published in the Belfast Ireland Times in 1858 by R.M. Sebbets, Historian -

“There was a William Barnett, born ca 1609 migrated from Scotland to Ireland prior to 1634, who was a

weaver, a manufacturer of wool, and he settled in Londonderry, Ireland, where he died 5 January 1652

and was buried there. His wife was Margaret born ca 1613 and she died Londonderry, 19 Feb. 1682.”

All the dates of children and grandchildren, not found in Derry Cathedral were from registers in St.

Columb's Cathedral, Londonderry, Ireland

The Barnetts

The Barnett family is allied with the Scotch house of Livingston, and in the sixteenth century a branch

was transported from Scotland to county Derry, Ireland.

The Barnetts were prominently associated with the political life of Belfast and Dublin and with their

educational and benevolent institutions. One of them held the office of mayor of Dublin, and another

served in defense of Londonderry. This family were the founders of the Presbyterian church in Ireland.

The Barnetts were a Presbyterian family, driven by the Church of England under King James I from

Scotland to Londonderry, Northern Ireland before 1634.

Between 1728 and 1730, continuing persecution drove then on to America.

Pennsylvania, Quaker arrivals at Philadelphia (Meeting), 1682-1750

Source Information:Ancestry.com. Pennsylvania, Quaker arrivals at Philadelphia (Meeting), 1682-1750 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations Inc, 2000. Original data: Myers, Albert Cook. Quaker Arrivals at Philadelphia, 1682-1750. Baltimore, MD, USA: Southern Book Co.,

1957.

Description:Listing of Quakers who immigrated to Philadelphia in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries


Name: William Bethell

Location: From MO. Mtg. At Amboy Perth

Date: 14 Jul 1687

Comments: unmarried, of Amboyperth, New Jersey, Bricklayer, "hath for the space of three years & an half lived in the said place." To marry Eleanor Claypoole. Not recorded. At Phila. 10 mo. 30, 1687.

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Buckinghamshire, England, Extracted Parish Records

Source Information:Ancestry.com. Buckinghamshire, England, Extracted Parish Records [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com

Operations Inc, 2001. Original data: Electronic databases created from various publications of parish and probate records.

Description:A collection of parish records in England and Wales, from the 1500s to the 1800s.


Text: p. 82. John Grimsdale and James Harding, chief constables for Burneham, William Hurst and John Gaylor, chief constables for Stoke, John Jones, chief constable for Ashendon, Henry Browne, chief constable for Newport, and Richard Sear, chief constable for Cottesloe, were paid their respective bills of £7. 10s., £8. 10s. 3d., £5. 13s. 9d., £10. 9s. 6d., £5. 6s. 10d., £7. 5s., and 17s. for passing vagrants. (Sess. R. 35/100-106)

Book: Banns After 1811 (Marriage Bann)

Collection: Buckinghamshire: - Calendar To The Sessions Records, 1705-1712

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Source Information:

Ancestry.com. Buckinghamshire, England, Extracted Parish Records [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations Inc, 2001. Original data: Electronic databases created from various publications of parish and probate records.



Text: William Hurst of Leckhamstead, labourer, for Anne, his wife, to appear and answer.





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Source Information:Ancestry.com. Buckinghamshire, England, Extracted Parish Records [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com

Operations Inc, 2001. Original data: Electronic databases created from various publications of parish and probate records.



Text: p. 311. The inhabitants of Upton complained that John Butler had "erected a Cottage or Tenement contrary to Lawe neere the Crosse Lanes End about halfe a Mile distant from the Towne upon the greate Roade leading from Mayden head to London, that he had lett the same to one John Barnsby whoe lived and sold Ale, Beer, and other Liquors therein and hath by some meanes obteyned a Licence from twoe ... Justices ... that Live remote from Upton for that purpose, that the place where the house standeth alone is a dangerous place for the harbouring Robbers, Theives, Rogues, and Vagabonds, and for that reason the Justices of the Peace acting within the hundred of Stoke, in which the said House is scituate, did refuse to grant the said Barnsby any Lycence." The whole matter was referred to the justices who granted the licence, in order that they might investigate these allegations. The complaint was signed by the following inhabitants of Upton: William Hurst and David Perryman, churchwardens, John Webb, farmer, Robert Pitt, James Lawrence, and Benjamin Parker, overseers, John Webb, freeman, John Bevin, John Landen, Robert Conbeare, Thomas Smith, and Robert Gilbert. (Sess. R. 12/37.)





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