Dear Cousins: Evelyn sent the below to me with permission to post to the list. I found the Jarninan name of interest since I have Jarman. WILLIAM???????? Cousin Sandi ========== Subj: Some Maupins Without DATES or PLACES Date: Sunday, January 5, 2003 12:23:13 PM From: Hdanw To: [email protected], [email protected], [email protected] cc: SandKatC, [email protected] Dear Researchers, I am posting this to several message boards because of probable general interest in these colonial Virginians whose descendants went to Kentucky and kept on going west and south. Among my genealogical archives is a photocopy of some material about The Maupin Family taken from Virginia Magazine of History and Biography, Vol 8, No. 2 (Oct 1900), pages 216 ff. Beneath the title is this word: (Communicated.) There is much material here about the Maupin family, but there are few dates and no places for the most part, making it most difficult to determine when these events/marriages occurred. There is much intermarriage of the Maupins with their neighbors--Dabney [also of Huguenot background], Jarvinan [a new name to me]; Gentry; and Harris. The marriages to Harris spouses, male and female, are of interest to me. Does anyone have dates or places of these marriages indicated in the following paragraph? And what is the parentage of the bride, Mourning Harris? I believe John Harris in the first quoted line is the son of Christopher Harris the elder, who migrated to Madison Co., KY ca 1787-1790. Mourning Harris is probably NOT the child of Christopher Harris. That daughter married Foster Jones, who migrated to Madison Co., KY, also, and Foster seems to have had a second marriage in Madison Co., KY to a widow Margaret Black as implied in the marriage of a stepdaughter named Black. The numbers assigned to various Maupins are those of the person(s) submitting the information and seemingly have no consistency. The preceding paragraph to this quoted one states that John Maupin [son of Daniel and Margaret Via Maupin] was married to Fanny Dabney. Fanny is described as the second daughter of Cornelius Dabney, or d'Aubigne, and Sarah Jennings, his wife. [I am omitting much of the Dabney references.] At any rate, Fanny's older sister *the eldest daughter* married Daniel, the brother of John Maupin. (Again, hardly any dates, but Cornleius Dabney reportedly married Sarah Jennings, his second wife, in April 1721.) Quote from page 217 [again with few dates or places] "[The issue of John and Fanny Maupin were]: Peggy married John Harris; Sally, married Wm. Jarvinan; 3. Daniel, married, first, Sally Jarvinan, second Patsey Gentry, third, Hannah Harris, nee Jamison; John, married Sally Crossthwait [some of the descendants of John Maupin claim that this was Sally Craig]; 5. Cornelius, married, first, Mourning Harris, second, Nancy Tomlinson, third, Mary Paul, fourth, Mary Ellis; 6. Thomas, married, first, Judith Cobb, second Peggy Maupin [daughter of his uncle William Maupin]; 7. William, married Jane Jamison; 8. Gabriel, married Susan Bailey; 9. Robert, married Mary McGhee; 10. Jennings, married Sarah Miller [daughter of his aunt Peggy Maupin, who married Robert Miller]; 11. Frances, married Wm. Shelton; 12. Carr, married Jane Burch; 13. Dabney [no record of his marriage, died a young man]. Comment 1: The comments in this article continue, but, again there are hardly any dates nor places--providing scant clues for genealogists of this century. Comment 2: I am looking at the index of Rosalie Edith Davis's Fredericksville Parish Vestry Book 1742-1787, Vol. I [Manchester, MO: Privately published, 1978] and see many of the surnames of the spouses are indexed. This book is NOT a register Fredericksville Parish of births, marriages, and deaths. That register is among the missing records of Virginia, it seems, but this vestry book deals with the business of the vestry--expenditures (naming names and giving dates) and processioning orders. Here is an excerpt of one of the processioning orders *at a vestry held for Fredericksville Prish 24th day of October 1759* (p 61) Ord. That James Harris and Gabriel Maupin do procession all the lands on North side the Buck elbow to the Extant of the County and so along the Ridge of Mountains to the Coty. line Northward down the County line to where it crosseth Doyls River down the same to Moremans River up Moremans River to Danl. Maupins Junr. and so to the Lower Point of the Bucks elbow. (Davis, p. 66) Later, Bucks Elbow seems to be in Albemarle Co. as found in this abstracted patent for Christopher Harris, 1770-71: 17 Aug 1770 - 234 A on the side of one of the Mountains in the Blue Ridge called Bucks Elbow. Patent No. 39, 1770-71, p. 10 Reminder: I am seeking information concerning the identity and/or parentage of Mourning Harris cited above. Who she is NOT: She is NOT the wife, Mourning Glen (?), of Major Robert Harris, who was a vestryman of Fredericksville Par. during this time period. She is NOT the daughter of Robert's son Christopher Harris the elder, who migrated to Madison Co., KY ca 1787-1790. That daughter Mourning married Foster Jones, who was one of the executors of Christopher's will. Appparently Mourning [Harris] Maupin did not live long after her marriage, and she may be but a dim memory if she had any descendants. Many of the surnames found in this Fredericksville Parish vestry book are found later not only in Louisa Co. but also in Albemarle Co. and Amherst Co. E.W.Wallace