cute, thanks ----- Original Message ----- From: <mdstmary-request@rootsweb.com> To: <mdstmary@rootsweb.com> Sent: Monday, February 02, 2009 3:00 AM Subject: MDSTMARY Digest, Vol 4, Issue 65 > > > Today's Topics: > > 1. Re: MEDCALF, METCALF and YEAGER -- DAVIESS CO., KY > (mciveli@comcast.net) > 2. Re: Elizabeth Jarboe ( Norma Lundgren) > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > Message: 1 > Date: Mon, 2 Feb 2009 02:38:38 +0000 (UTC) > From: mciveli@comcast.net > Subject: Re: [MDSTMARY] MEDCALF, METCALF and YEAGER -- DAVIESS CO., KY > To: mdstmary@rootsweb.com > Message-ID: > <389371801.2292491233542318709.JavaMail.root@sz0103a.emeryville.ca.mail.comcast.net> > > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 > > > > I can't say for certain which Metcalf/Medcalf is referred to in the deed > you have posted. ?Allen & George MEDCALF both resided in Daviess?County, > Kentucky, before relocating to Spencer County, Indiana.? Their sons > (cousins) served together in the 42nd Indiana?Volunteer Infantry. > Additional information about these families can be found in?on the?42nd's > website: > http://freepages.history.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~indiana42nd/BIO_MTON.htm ? > I hope this clue is helpful.? > > > > ? > ----- Original Message ----- > From: EPERRY4616@aol.com > To: MDSTMARY-L@rootsweb.com > Sent: Sunday, February 1, 2009 9:32:42 AM GMT -06:00 US/Canada Central > Subject: [MDSTMARY] MEDCALF, METCALF and YEAGER -- DAVIESS CO., KY > > Does anybody have any idea who this METCALF/MEDCALF might be in ?Daviess > County, KY before 1817? > ? > DaviessCo. KY Deeds (FHL film ?579,992) > A-82: 17 April 1817, ?Commissioner William R. Griffith to Benjamin Duncan; > decree in ?Ohio Co. chancery court Sept. 1816, William Bell and Nancy > Bell, > admrs of ?estate of Nathaniel Bell decd, complts, vs. Eli Adams Sr. and > heirs & > reps ?of James Adams decd, deft; William R. Griffith & Charles Y. Duncan > ?appt. > as commissioners to sell land in decree; Benjamin Duncan became > ?purchaser; > deed to 385 acres along Yager's & ?METCALF'S line (MAD: no money given). > Wit. > Tom Moseley Jr., Jo. ?Allen, Ch. Henderson. > > Nelson Co. KY Deeds (FHL film ?482,736) > 6-580: 13 March 1806, William ?Williams and wife Nancy of Logan Co. KY to > Benjamin Duncan of ?Ohio Co., $1, 50 acres on Chaplins fork ?adj. Willis > Green's > line, Christopher Graham's line. Wit. Christopher Graham, ?Rolley > Williams, > Rosey Williams. Rec. on oath of ?wit. > 6-581: 3 Aug. 1807, Benjamin ?Duncan and wife Abigail of Ohio Co. KY to ? > Rawley Williams of Nelson Co. KY, $45, 45 acres on Chaplins fork, adj. > Willis ? > Green's line, Christopher Graham's line. No ?wit. > > > **************Great Deals on Dell Laptops. 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In the abstract, she is just called > "Elizabeth" and no surname or marital state mentioned. > > Do you or anyone else have a transcript that they could post? I would > surely > appreciate it. > > Norma > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Mary D. Kraeszig" <kittydoc@indy.rr.com> > To: <mdstmary@rootsweb.com> > Sent: Sunday, February 01, 2009 1:58 PM > Subject: Re: [MDSTMARY] Elizabeth Jarboe > > >> John Jarboe's will specifically states that Eliza was not married at the >> time he wrote his will in 1704. Therefore, it does not make sense to me >> that this Eliza(beth) Jarboe was the wife of George Medcalfe (who >> according to info below died in 1702). If so, she should have been >> named by her father as Eliza Medcalfe, or Eliza Davis if she had already >> remarried Samuel Davis by 1704 (possible, but unknown). >> >> Since this is a direct line for me (James and Elizabeth Gough), I am >> really trying to sort through what we know and what we don't know. >> >> Mary Kraeszig >> >> Even more snippets from Todd Whitesides and Mike Gough's exchanges on >> Genforum a few years back (Todd's statements/arguments): >> >> ----------------------------------------------------------- >> >> James Gough's wife Elizabeth was born ca 1682 [aged 28 on 28 Sept 1711 >> (date of a deposition--see below)], and had been married to (1) George >> Medcalfe (d. 1702) and (2) Samuel Davis (liv. 1707) previous to her >> marriage to Gough. Elizabeth Jarboe (d/o John Jarboe) was unmarried at >> the time of her father's will (1704), and our Elizabeth [who later >> married James Gough] was already a widow by this time. Our Elizabeth had >> no known children by her first two husbands, both of whom owned the >> tract "Rocky Point" in Newtown Hundred which had been patented in 1652 >> to Richard Nevitt. John Nevitt was Richard's son and senior heir, and it >> appears that he gave that tract to his daughter's first two husbands as >> dower lands. After they died without issue he repossessed it and sold it >> on 11 May 1715 to William Maria Farthing and James Wheatley. After two >> marriages Elizabeth would have acquired enough property that her father >> would not have to provide a dowery for her. >> >> A possible explanation for James Gough owning part of the Jarboe tract >> is that he was a son of Mary (Tattershall) Gough-Jarboe who had a >> partial claim to the Jarboe tract as part of her widow's dower. Also, in >> 1708 James Gough was also named as a trustee for the children of his >> half-brother Henry Jarboe. >> >> Another possibility for the appearance of Jarboe land in the Gough >> family is that John Nevitt's other daughter, Ann, was the wife of Peter >> Jarboe and after his 1698 death served as his executrix. She and her >> newborn child died later that year and her father, John Nevitt of >> Newtown, assumed administration and the estate remained in his >> possession. Perhaps he gifted part of this land to his daughter >> Elizabeth's family. >> Respected historian and writer, Dr Lois Green Carr, also lists James >> Gough's wife as Elizabeth (Nevitt), widow of George Medcalfe, in her >> notes at the Archives of Maryland. >> In spite of the difficulty of establishing the identities of John Nevitt >> and Richard Nevitt, I do feel confident that James Gough's wife was most >> likely Elizabeth Nevitt. >> >> If you want proof of James Gough's wife Elizabeth being married before >> him, see Maryland Chancery Court Records Liber 2, folio 751. In 1711 the >> boundary of Richard Vowles's dwelling plantation on St Clement's Bay was >> disputed. On 28 Sept 1711 two depositions were taken to help resolve >> this. John Nevitt, aged 70, describes the boundary of Vowles's "Redbudd >> Thickett" being next to "Rocky Point," both tracts had formerly belonged >> to his father Richard Nevitt according to this deposition. On the same >> day, Elizabeth Gough, aged 28, said she had formerly been the wife of >> George Medcalfe who possessed "Rocky Point," and gave a deposition >> regarding the land's boundary. The 1707 Rent Rolls show the owner of >> "Rocky Point" to be Samuel Davis, who had married George Medcalfe's >> widow, and that he had a life estate in the tract. The 1715 Rent Rolls >> show John Nevell (sic) Sr. to be possessor of the tract, and later that >> year he sold it as I mentioned in a previous post. >> >> If you want proof of debunking the misconception that James's wife >> Elizabeth was Elizabeth, daughter of John Jarboe, just see John Jarboe's >> 1704 will [Wills Liber 3, pt.2, folio 505]. She was unmarried at that >> time. Our Elizabeth's first husband George Medcalfe's estate was >> administered in 1702, so she was already a widow at the time of Jarboe's >> will. >> >> I think the idea that James Gough was married to an Elizabeth Jarboe >> needs to be let go. If he was married to a granddaughter of Lt-Col John >> Jarboe named Elizabeth then he would have been married to his niece of >> the half blood. Even with a clerical dispensation I don't think this >> would have been done. >> >> Elizabeth (nee Nevitt) was married to James Gough by 1711, and an >> Elizabeth was named as his executrix in 1725. At this point there is no >> reason to doubt they are the same person. Elizabeth was a savvy woman, >> and did not abide by her husband's will. She claimed her right to the >> widow's third of the estate. She probably felt entitled to this as she >> had brought Nevitt land into this family by marriage. >> >> >> ------------------------------- >> To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to >> MDSTMARY-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the >> quotes in the subject and the body of the message > > > > ------------------------------ > > To contact the MDSTMARY list administrator, send an email to > MDSTMARY-admin@rootsweb.com. > > To post a message to the MDSTMARY mailing list, send an email to > MDSTMARY@rootsweb.com. > > __________________________________________________________ > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > MDSTMARY-request@rootsweb.com > with the word "unsubscribe" without the quotes in the subject and the body > of the > email with no additional text. > > > End of MDSTMARY Digest, Vol 4, Issue 65 > *************************************** >