In the 1820 Census for Clermont County, Ohio (Ohio Twp) I have a record of a Pherel Littleton that is the head of a household. The information in that microfilm shows 1 male under 10, 1 male 16-26, 1 female 16-26, and 1person engaged in agriculture. This may be the same information that Rick is refering to below. I also show a Fielding Lyttleton in the same township in the 1830 Census. In this case it shows 1 male under 5, 1 male 5-10, 1 male 30-40, 2 females under 5, 1 female 5-10, 1 female 20-30. Since I don't find Pherel Littleton in the 1830 census one could speculate that they are the same person. Cal Brostrom ---------------------- Forwarded by Cal Brostrom/Raleigh/IBM on 09/01/99 11:48 PM --------------------------- Rick Phillips <Edwin-P@worldnet.att.net> on 09/01/99 01:05:50 AM Please respond to Edwin-P@worldnet.att.net To: LITTLETON-L@rootsweb.com cc: Subject: Pherryl Littleton Here is the information that I have seen on Pherryl/Farrell/Pherel Littleton In a Fairfax Co. VA Will Book (abstracts) at the Seattle Public Library, I found references to him on pg 48, 51, 57, 62, and 103. On these pages, he is a witness in wills dated 1750, 1751, 1752, 1753, and 1761(or 1765). His name is spelled Ferrill or Ferrell Littleton. These wills are not connected to other Littletons as far as I can tell. The second reference to this name that I have found is the 1820 census of Clermont Co OH, in which John and Martha's son is written Pherel Littleton - this is their son Pherel Fielding Littleton. A third reference, from "BUCANAN COUNTY HISTORY, VOLUME 1, 1984" (Missouri) AUGUSTUS LITTLETON "This branch of the Littleton family probably came to the United States when the immigrant, John, Sr. sold the family jewels in England to pay for passage for himself and several children to Virginia. He was a widower at the time. His son, Pherel, Loudon County, Virginia was killed by a falling tree around 1775. John, son of Pherel, married Leanner Goddard around 1785-86. Leanner was one of a large family who lived on Fox Creek in Fleming County, Kentucky. They became progenitors of many Buchanan County early families" These three references certainly suggest a connection for John to Farrell (Sr), as John's son was given this name. Also the fact that Farrel Littleton was in Fairfax Co in the 1750s, makes him a prime candidate for John's father, but I have seen no proof as yet. One possiblity is that John's father's name was a combination like John Pherel, or Pherel John, etc. and that he used different names during different parts of his life. In any event, there was a man in VA who used the name Farrell/Pherel/etc. during the 1750s. Rick Phillips >Littleton, Terry wrote: > > Hello all, > > Well this is really stretching it a bit, BUT, what do you who are descended from the John Littleton - Martha Goddard line think of this scenario? > > Brian, a fellow Littleton researcher and I have been working on finding out just who this Pherryl Littleton, father of John Littleton who married Martha Goddard actually was so we can connect him back to our VA tree. Everyone says the same thing, John was the son of Pherryl who was the son of John, BUT Brian and I can find NO written record of a Pherryl Littleton in any VA records. People say - OH yeah, there is a record of Pherryl in ....... Co records, but if so, we have yet to find them an > > Brian proposed the following scenario: > > Hiatt's "Implied Marriages of Fairfax Co." (next to Loudoun Co) has a John Littleton m. to a Frances Harle. (I presume this would be before 1760) > > John, who married Martha Goddard, was born 1760 > > I have a note that says that John's father (the mysterious 'Pherryl'?) was killed by a falling tree in Loudoun Co, VA in 1775 > > In 1787 a presumably-widowed Frances Littleton lived in a cluster > in Loudoun Co. with William3 Littleton and his sons Charles, Thomas and Solomon. Earlier, (wonder what date - pre 1775?) a John and Thomas Littleton entered Loudoun Co. public service claims for supplies they provided to the Marquis de Lafayette. > > What we propose is that William3 Littleton also had a son John who was married to Frances Harle, that this John died early, such that the Tavener genealogy research did not pick him up and why he wasn't in his fathers will. This John Littleton and Francis Harle had a son, John who married Martha Goddard and moved to Fleming Co. KY. > > Is it possible that 'Pherryl' is a confabulation of 'F.Harle' which would have been John's mothers maiden name and over the years, F Harle got converted into > P-herryl and people started saying this was John's father because it would sound more like a fathers name than a mothers? > > OK, I've got my flame retardant suit on, fire away. > > Terry Littleton (listdad) > > ==== LITTLETON Mailing List ==== > LITTLETON-L@rootsweb.com ==== LITTLETON Mailing List ==== LITTLETON-L@rootsweb.com