Hi, all, Installment 15 of the families coming out of Cedar Creek, Hanover County, Virginia. Pam ==================================== Brewer, op. cit. p. 120: 27/2/1778. Representatives appointed by the preparative meetings: for Cedar Creek Nicholus HUTCHINGS [Hutchens] & Jeremiah HARRIS, for Camp Creek David TERRELL & William DAVIS, for Amelia Jesse JOHNSON, Benjamin JOHNSON & Jesse JOHNSON Junr, for Geneto [Genito] James HUNNICUTT, who are mostly present. - p. 121: 21/8/1778. Strangman HUTCHINGS, James CREW, John PAYNE, Pleasants TERRELL & Micajah CREW appointed to visit Amelia preparative meeting on their repeated neglect of sending accounts. - p. 125: 11/9/1779. Representatives from Cedar Creek preparative meeting are Joshua STANLY [Stanley] & Nicholas HUTCHINGS, from Caroline James HARRIS & Thomas TERRELL, from Camp Creek Byrom BALLARD. [James HARRIS, son of Benjamin & Sarah Dumas HARRIS] - p. 11: Accillis DOUGLAS (son of John DOUGLAS) of Orange Co & Elizabeth TERREL (daughter of Micajah TERREL) of Caroline Co, married 10th da, 10th mo, 1779 in Caroline Co. Witnesses: Micajah TERREL, Pleasant TERREL, John DOUGLAS, Elijah JOHNSON, Catlet JONES, Thos TERREL, Elizabeth EASTIN, Sarah TERREL, Ann BARKSDALE, Milley DOUGLAS, Rachel MOORMAN, Judith CHEADLE, Martha HARGRAVE, Elizabeth CHEADLE, Lucy CHEADLE, Judith CHEADLE, Salley CHILES, Ursla CHEADLE, Salley HARGROVE, Mary HARGROVE, Rebecca TERREL, Agatha TERREL. [Rachel Harris MOORMAN, wife of Clark Terrell MOORMAN, and daughter of Benjamin & Sarah Dumas HARRIS; Judith Woodson CHEADLE, wife of Thomas CHEADLE; and this Elizabeth CHEADLE, whose maiden name I have not yet discovered, appears likely to have been the second wife of John CHEADLE {1692-1768}; a notation as to the death of this Elizabeth, on p. 10 of this book, indicates that she died Feb. 16, 1794, aged about 94 years.] - ==================================== DAVIS, Virginia, op. cit. - p. 468: . An entry in the minutes of the Cedar Creek Monthly Meeting gave the approximate date of the death of Benjamin Harris. On March 13, 1762, the name of Benjamin Harris was lately removed by death. [Virginia cited Hinshaw, Vol. 6, p. 246.] [I have previously provided that fact to this list, from Brewer, op. cit., p. 70.] Sarah Harris lived almost twenty years longer. At the time of the death of Benjamin it is probable that only Judith and Obediah had married. Thomas was about two years old when his father died, and was just twenty when his mother died. He was, then, the only one unmarried. It must have given Sarah a sense of accomplishment to have had all of her children marry within the faith. Sarah was an elder in the Cedar Creek Monthly Meeting at the time of her death. [Virginia again cited Hinshaw, p. 247.] [I have previously provided that fact to this list, from Brewer, p. 63.] She died in St. Martin's Parish, Hanover County. Her will was written on July 7, 1780, and was proved at a court for Hanover County on Thursday, the 7th of September, 1780. [Virginia cited the Woolfolk Papers, which I have already mentioned, but without any further identification.] Sarah left her son, Thomas, one third part of her stock and all of her household furniture, except for one feather bed and furniture, which she left to her granddaughter, Unity Crew. Sarah gave her son, Thomas all of the lands that she owned in Hanover County, and one Negro man, Bobb. She gave her son, James Harris, all of the land that she owned in Caroline County. Sarah had just received 472 acres in Caroline County, from Joseph Richeson on May 11, 1780. [Virginia cited Caroline County Land Tax Records.] The remainder of her estate was to be equally divided among her six children. - ==================================== Brewer, op. cit. pp. 11-12: Thomas STANLEY (son of John STANLEY) and Unity CREW (daughter of James CREW) both of Hanover Co married 20th da, 12th mo, 1780 at Cedarcreek, Hanover Co. Witnesses: John STANLEY, James CREW, Micajah CREW, Joshua STANLEY, Littlebury STANLEY, Shadrick STANLEY, Moses HARRIS, John HARRIS, John SHELTON, Nicholas WATKINS, John STANLEY, Jno ANDERSON, Agness STANLEY, Ursla STANLEY, Mary PAYNE, Elizabeth STRONG, Sara STRONG, Rebecca STANLEY, Huldah STANLEY, Mary STRONG, Margaret STANLEY, Sarah HARRIS, Nancy SHELTON, Dolley PAYNE, Elizabeth HARRIS, Susanah STANLEY. [I haven't been able to sort out all the Stanleys in this record. Thomas Stanley had three sons born in St. Peter's Parish, New Kent Co., in 1688-1691; this John who was Thomas' father has to have come from that Thomas Stanley through one of his sons, James or John, but I don't have the generations between. Unity Crew was the eldest daughter of James & Judith Harris Crew, and the granddaughter of Benjamin & Sarah Dumas Harris. I have not identified the Sarah Harris or Elizabeth Harris in the above record.] - p. 138: 12/4/1783. James CREW is appointed to receive the estate of Elizabeth ELMORE deceased from John PAYNE, executor. Micajah CREW, James HARRIS & James HUNNICUTT are appointed to assist him in dividing the said Elizabeth ELMORE's cloths & give their advice in settling all other matters. [James Crew, husband of Judith, and son-in-law of Benjamin & Sarah Dumas Harris; Elizabeth Elmore was the daughter of John & Mary Stanley Harris; she married John Elmore in 1740 {this book, p. 31.} James Harris was the son of Benjamin & Sarah Dumas Harris, and the husband of Mary Cheadle. John Payne, his wife, Mary, and their children, Walter, Williams, Temple and Dolley moved to Cedar Creek in 1768 from the New Garden Meeting in Guilford Co., North Carolina{p. 89 of this book.} John Payne was relinquishing the executorship of the Elizabeth Harris Elmore state because he was moving his family to Philadelphia. John Payne was not a birthright Quaker, but married Mary Coles, who was. He became a pillar of the Friends Society, and died in 1792 in Philly. Dolley Payne first married a Quaker attorney {THAT must have been interesting!} named John Todd in Philadelphia, and was widowed with a young son by 1793, when she was 25 {a yellow fever epidemic had killed many in Philly that year.} She appears to have met James Madison in Philadelphia; he was a member of the Continental Congress, which met in that city through 1800. James Madison & Dolley Payne Todd married in 1794; she was, of course, disowned by the Friends for "marrying out." James Madison, of course, became the 4th President of the United States {tiny man, huge & brilliant mind.} Dolley Payne Todd Madison was known for her social abilities, and she helped to more clearly-define the role of the First Lady of the United States. But Dolley Payne Todd Madison was more than a pretty face. She had a real sense of history and the proverbial steel in her spine: she refused to leave the White House in 1814 without rescuing the famous portrait of George Washington by Stuart {this, when the British were quickly approaching, and setting fire to the city of Washington, which was completely burned.} NOT genealogy, as James & Dolley didn't have any children, but a big old chunk of interesting American history...] - ============================================ [END OF FILE] ============================================