Descendants of BENJAMIN FOOKES Generation No. 1 1. BENJAMIN25 FOOKES (WILLIAM24, BENJAMIN23, THOMAS22 FOWKES III, JAMES21 FOWKE,JR., JAMES20, ROGER19, WILLIAM18, ROGER17, WILLIAM16, ROGER15, WILLIAM14, WILLIAM13, SIR RICHARD12, SIR HENRY11, SIR RICHARD10, SIR JOHN9, THOMAS8, SIR WILLIAM7, SIR HENRY6, SIR MARMADUKE5, HENRY4, SIR JOHN3, SIR THOMAS2, SIR RICHARD1) was born in WORCHESTER CO. MD., and died 1831 in HARRISON COUNTY. He married HANNAH////. She was born in MD., and died in HARRISON COUNTY, KY.. Notes for BENJAMIN FOOKES: BENJAMIN AND HIS WIFE HANNAH EVIDENTLY WERE THE FIRST TO DECIDE TO GO TO KENTUCKY AS THEY SOLD ONE PROPERTY MARCH 12, 1808, AND THE OTHER APRIL 11, 1809. APPARENTLY AS TIME DREW NEAR FOR BENJAMIN AND HANNAH TO LEAVE FOR THE WEST, PURNELL TOADVINE AND ZEPORAH FOOKS DECIDED TO MARRY , SELL PROPERTY AND GO ALONG. THE FIRST DEED FOR BENJAMIN AND PURNELL IN COURT HOUSE, CYNTHIANA, KENTUCKY WAS RECORDED IN 1814 AND BENJAMIN'S WIFE WAS MENTIONED AS HANNAH IN THE DEED. PEACE AND PLENTY ENLARGED 1796 411/2 ACRES. BENJAMIN FOOKS LIBER 1C NO. K FOLIO 485. BENJAMIN FOOKS HIS CERTIFICATE 41 1/2 ACRES STATE OF MARYLAND. PEACE AND PLENTY ENLARGED PAID 2ND MARCH 1790 WORCESTER COUNTY TO WIT: BY VIRTUE OF A SPECIAL WARRANT GRANTED UNTO BENJAMIN FOOKS OF WORCHESTER COUNTY BEARING DATE OF APRIL ANNO DOMINI 1793 . TO SURVEY A TRACT OF LAND CALLED PEACE AND PLENTY AND ORIGINALLY GRANTED TO PATRICK CAUSEY ON THE 15TH DAY OF OCTOBER ANNO DOMINI 1785 FOR 25 ACRES OF LAND. THESE ARE HUMBLY TO CERTIFIE THAT I JOSHUA MITCHELL SURVEYOR OF WORCHESTER COUNTY HAVE CAREFULLY RESURVEYED AND LAID OUT FOR THE AFORESAID BENJAMIN FOOKS, OF THE COUNTY AFORESAID, THE AFORESAID TRACT OF LAND CALLED PEACE AND PLENTY AGREEABLE TO THE ANCIENT MEETS AND BOUNDS AS PER BLACK LINES, AND FIND IT TO CONTAIN THE EXACT QUANTITY OF TWENTY FIVE ACRES OF LAND TAKEN OUT OF THE LINES OF THE ORIGINAL TRACT, BY THE LINES OF THE ELDER TRACTS INTERFERING AS MARKED ON THE PLOTT, THE QUANTITY OF EIGHT ACRES AND ONE QUARTER OF AN ACRE WHICH REDUCES THE ORIGINAL TRACT TO SIXTEEN ACRES AND THREE QUARTERS OF AN ACRE OF LAND, TO WHICH I HAVE ADDED TWENTY FOUR ACRES AND THREE QUARTERS OF LAND AS PER DASHT LINES WHICH MAKES THE WHOLE FOURTY ONE ACRES AND A HALF ACRE OF LAND NOW CALLED PEACE AND PLENTY ENLARGED SITUATE LYING AND BEING IN WORCESTER COUNTY BOUNDED AND DESCRIBED AS FOLLOWETH: BEGINNING FOR THIS RESURVEY AT A MARKED RED OAK STANDING IN THE FORKS OF A BRANCH IT BEING THE FIRST BOUNDER OF THE ORIGINAL TRACT THENCE RUNNING SOUTH SIXTY EIGHT DEGREES EAST FOUR PERCHES THENCE EAST SIXTEEN PERCHES THEN NORTH THIRTY ONE DEGREES WEST TWENTY POLES THENCE SOUTH WEST SEVENTEEN PERCEHES THENCE NORTH FORTY SIX DEGREES WEST ONE HUNDRED AND FORTY [ERCHES THENCE SOUTH TWELVE DEGREES AND THIRTY MINUTES WEST SEVEN PERCHES TO THE END OF THE FIRST AND BEGINNING OF THE SECOND COURSES OF A TRACT OF LAND CALLED HENRY'S CHOICE SOUTH TWENTY DEGREES EAST THIRTY SIX PERCHES THENCE SOUTH FIFTY FIVE DEGREES WEST FIFTY TWO PERCHES THENCE SOUTH TWENTY EIGHT AND A HALF PERCHES TO THE FIRST BOUNDER OF A TRACT OF LAND CALLED BARREN NECK NOW IN THE POSSESSION OF SAMUEL POLLIT THENCE EAST ONE HUNDRED AND SIXTEEN PERCHES THENCE WITH A STRAIGHT LINE TO THE FIRST BEGINNING CONTAINING AND NOW LAID OUT FOR 41 1/2 ACRES OF LAND MORE OR LESS. TO BE HOLDEN UNTO THE MANOR OF WORCHESTER THIS 30TH DAY OF OCTOBER ANNO DOMINI 1793. APRIL 3, 1794 EXAMINED AND PASSED PR WM. HANSON ERAM. GENL. JOSHUA MITCHELL SENR. WOR. CO. ON THE BAACK OF THE AFOREGOING CERTIFICATE WAS THE FOLLOWING RECIPT. RECD. APRIL 4, 1794 THREE POUNDS ONE SHILLING AND TEN PENCE HALF PENNY CAUTION . THOS. HARWOOD, SR. THIS BENJAMIN FOOKS REMVED TO A FARM NEAR CYNTHIANA, KENTUCKY, ABOUT 1810-1814. PATRICK CAUSEY MARRIED UNICY FOOKS, SISTER OF THIS BENJAMIN. THE LAND IS NEAR FOOKS POND, THE BRANCH HAS BEEN CALLED POUND BRANCH. MARCH 12, 1808, BENJAMIN FOOKS GAVE DEED TO SAMUEL POLLITT-- FOR SUM OF $500.00 --8 1/4 ACRES OF LAND--- BOUNDED BY SAME TRACTS OF LAND AS DEED TO OUTTEN TOADVINE ON APRIL 11, 1809. (SEAL) BENJAMIN FOOKS EXCERPT FROM GRANTORS OF DEEDS--- WORCHESTER COUNTY COURT HOUSE, SNOW HILL, MARYLAND. "APRIL 11, 1809 BENJAMIN FOOKS DEED TO OUTTEN TOADVINE FOR SUM OF $1500.00 CURRENT MONEY........LANDS BEING PART OF FORT NECK AND PART OF TRACT OF LAND CALLED FOOKS COST, ALSO PART OF TRACT OF LAND CALLED LONG ACRE AND PART OF TRACT OF LAND CALLED PEACE AND PLENTY ENLARGED..............STARTING AT BOUNDER OF BARREN NECK.......TILL IT INTERSECTS A LINE BETWEEN THOMAS FOOKS AND BENJAMIN FOOKS ........ON TO LAND OF PURNELL TOADVINE." (SEAL) BENJAMIN FOOKS. "ALSO APPEARED HANAH FOOKS, WIFE OF BENJAMIN FOOKS AND ACKNOWLEDGES THE SAID DEED TO BE HER ACT AND DEED ( HAVING BEEN INTERVIEWED SEPARATELY AND APART)." JOHN HANDY, CLERK. Children of BENJAMIN FOOKES and HANNAH//// are: i. JESSE26 FOOKES, d. 1833, HARRISON COUNTY. ii. SARAH (SALLY) FOOKES, m. (1) TOMMY PROWSE; m. (2) WILLIAM O. MULLINS, September 18, 1828, HARRISON COUNTY. iii. ABIGAIL FOOKES, m. (1) BROCK JENKINS; m. (2) GEORGE ABDEL, November 20, 1815, HARRISON COUNTY. iv. LEAH FOOKES, m. MATTHEW KEARNS (RICHARD?), September 02, 1851, BOURBON COUNTY. v. CHRISTIANA FOOKES, m. //////WILSON. vi. HANNAH FOOKES, m. KEZIAR HARRIS. vii. HARRIET FOOKES, m. (1) /////STOKER; m. (2) BENJAMIN DEBRULER, January 29, 1827, HARRISON COUNTY. viii. POLLY FOOKES, m. CHARLES BAYLESS, October 17, 1816, HARRISON COUNTY. ix. MARGARET (PEGGY) FOOKES, m. WILLIAM (BILLY) KEARNS. x. WILLIAM FOOKES, d. HARRISON COUNTY KENTUCKY; m. STACEY CALLOWAY, October 28, 1813, HARRISON COUNTY. Notes for WILLIAM FOOKES: NOT SURE THAT I HAVE THIS WILLIAM ATTACHED TO THE RIGHT PARENTS. xi. ZEPPORAH FOOKES, b. October 1788, WORCHESTER CO. MD.; d. October 05, 1861, KENTUCKY; m. PURNELL TOADVINE, February 21, 1811, SNOW HILL MD.; b. 1786, WORCHESTER CO. MD.; d. 1831, HARRISON COUNTY, KY.. xii. ELIZA JANE FOOKES, b. June 20, 1820, HARRISON COUNTY; d. February 26, 1896, HARRISON COUNTY; m. HARRISON COUNTY; m. (2) THOMAS KEARNS, December 27 , 1854, HARRISON COUNTY; b. December 08, 1802, HARRISON COUNTY; d. August 14, 1886, HARRISON COUNTY. Notes for ELIZA JANE FOOKES: I AM HAVING A GREAT DEAL OF TROUBLE SOLVING THIS FAMILY RELATIONSHIP. IRENE WAS LISTED IN THE 1850 BOURBON CO. CENSUS WITHOUT AN ADULT MALE IN THE HOUSEHOLD. HER MOTHER'S MAIDEN NAME APPEARS TO HAVE BEEN FOOKES, THE DAUGHTER OF BENJAMIN AND HANNAH FOOKES. IT IS UNKNOWN WHETHER SHE WAS MARRIED TO ANOTHER FOOKES OR WAS UNMARRIED WHEN IRENE WAS BORN. THERE IS ALSO THE POSSIBILITY THAT IRENE WAS AN ORPHAN BEING RAISED BY RELATIVES. ELIZA JANE MARRIED THOMAS KEARNS IN 1854; HE WAS 51, SHE WAS 32 ON THE MINISTER'S STATEMENT, HE DESCRIBED THOMAS AS BEING 50 YEARS OLD AND A WIDOWER. HE THEN DESCRIBED ELIZA AS BEING 33 YEARS OLD AND SINGLE. IT IS MY OPINION THAT ELIZA WAS NOT MARRIED AT THE TIME IRENE WAS BORN, IN LATER YEARS THERE WAS A GREAT DEAL OF OBJECTION WHEN PEARL HARNEY WANTED TO MARRY MONROE WITHERS, THE SON OF IRENE FOOKES WITHERS, AND THE GRANDSON OF ELIZA JANE FOOKES KEARNS. IN THOSE DAYS AN ILLEGITIMATE BIRTH WAS CONSIDERED AN EXTREMELY SHAMELESS ACT WHICH THE ENTIRE FAMILY MUST BEAR HER OBITUARY SAYS IRENE HAD TWO HALF BROTHERS FRANK AND MONROE AND A HALF SISTER BELLE, INDICATING THAT SHE WAS INDEED THE DAUGHTER OF ELIZA JANE. Notes for THOMAS KEARNS: THOMAS KEARNS WAS BORN ON THE PARENTAL HOMESTEAD, ON TWO LICK PIKE, HARRISON COUNTY, IN 1802, AND HERE GREW TO MANHOOD. WHEN READY TO ESTABLISH A HOME OF HIS OWN HE MOVED TO CURRY'S RUN, AND HAVING PURCHASED A TRACT OF HEAVILY TIMBERED LAND FOR THE SMALL SUM OF ONE DOLLAR AND TWENTY-FIVE CENTS AN ACRE HE CLEARED AND IMPROVED A FARM, ON WHICH HE LIVED AND LABORED UNTIL HIS DEATH IN 1886. HE WAS AFFILIATED WITH THE DEMOCRATIC PARTY IN POLITICS, AND WAS A MEMBER OF THE METHODIST EPISCOPAL CHURCH, TO WHICH HIS THREE WIVES ALSO BELONGED.. Kay Withers