I am not that well versed on all the Simmons families so Tracy you or someone correct me. From the information I have something is not right with this Moses Westbrook - Percis Simmons line. Am running all of this since sending to the Jones list. I have the following information Abraham Bussett Simmons married 3 times - Rachel Lavender, Lucy Gunter, and Sarah Watson. In his Will, which I don't have, he mentioned his son in law Charles Westbrook. Charles md Winifred Simmons who was born in 1778. The following Bible records Abraham Bussett Simmons and Rachel Bryan were married Feb. 28, 1764. Rachel Bryan daughter of William Lavender and Rachel his wife was born March 20, 1737. Children: Mary Simmons was born Jan. 16, 1765. Dovey Simmons was born March 11, 1766. Laney (Eleanor) Simmons was born April 24, 1767. Lavender Simmons was born Jan. 19, 1769. Betsy Simmons was born July 7, 1770. Regin (Lezin?) Simmons was born April 19, 1772. Bonetta Simmons was born May 16, 1774. Liberty Simmons was born July 4, 1776. Winnifred Simmons was born July 5, 1778. >From notes of Tucker R. Littleton found on page 111 of Onslow Register Records of Onslow & Jones County Citizens and Related Families, Vol. 2, by Roger E. Kammerer - 1988 Martha >Resent-Date: Tue, 19 Feb 2002 08:40:02 -0700 >X-Original-Sender: [email protected] Tue Feb 19 08:40:01 2002 >Date: Tue, 19 Feb 2002 09:40:10 -0600 >From: "Jack D. Elliott, Jr." <[email protected]> >Reply-To: [email protected] >X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.03 [en] (Win95; U) >Old-To: Trish Worthington Cobb <[email protected]>, > "[email protected]" <[email protected]>, > "Greg W. Lasley" <[email protected]>, Mary Makima <[email protected]> >Subject: Re: [NCLENOIR] correction: re Westbrooks >To: [email protected] >Resent-From: [email protected] >X-Mailing-List: <[email protected]> archive/latest/1365 >X-Loop: [email protected] >Resent-Sender: [email protected] > >Trish, > >Sorry about the delay in answering. However, I received your message at >home over a long weekend where I do not have my sources. Had to wait to >get back to the office to have sources before me, so that I could answer >intelligently. > >It appears, as you will see below, that your Sallie Westbrook Darden, >was indeed a sister of Charles Westbrook (1774-1843) and a daughter of a >Moses Westbrook who married apparently a Percis Simons/Simmons. > >I answer your questions below: > >> Are you saying that Charles had a son named Henry and also a brother named >> Henry? > >Charles apparently did not have a son named Henry. He very likely did >have a brother named Henry if we can infer that the long line of >sequential births, which included Charles and Henry, (referring here to >the Charles Westbrook Bible) were all siblings. > > >> >> > >> > This speculation is based on what is usually referred to as the James W. >> > Prowell bible which identifies a number of Westbrook births .... > >> > >> > James 30 Dec. 1772 >> > Charles 22 Dec. 1774 >> > Simon 14 Dec. 1776 >> > John 17 Dec. 1779 >> > Sarah 22 Sept. 1781 >> > Henry 10 May 1782 >> > Elizabeth 7 Feb. 1783 >> > Mary 25 Dec. 1786 >> > Moses 9 May 1788 >> > Fanster 10 Feb. 1790 >> > >> >> Do you think all the above are children of Moses Westbrook? > >I PRESUME that they are but don't know. First, as noted above they >appear to be siblings by virtue of the proximity and sequence in time of >their births. Second, Nell Coleman Ropp's history of the Charles >Westbrook family which appeared on pages 785-786 of the Clay County MS >history book identifies Charles's parents as being Moses Westbrook and >an unnamed daughter of Abram Bassett Simons of Jones County, NC. If >these two contentions are correct then the above are all children of >Moses Westbrook. > > >> >> I am sending the following information which I had in my data on Moses and >> Persis Westbrook, from Chronicles of Pitt County, North Carolina. >> >> They are listed as parents of Sally Westbrook who married Abraham Darden. >> Her birthdate is the same as the Sarah you listed from the Prowell (or is it >> Powell?) bible. > >It's "Prowell" with an "r", however, I prefer to call it the "Charles >Westbrook Bible" because the entries have nothing to do with the >Prowells. The Bible apparently passed down to Westbrook descendants by >the name of Prowell. > >Yes, Sarah/Sally's birthdate is the same. Bet it's the same lady. > >> >> I wonder if Persis was a Prowell/Powell?? > >No. As noted Prowell was a later name to come in. However, as you >probably noted, Nell Ropp had the maiden name of Moses's wife "Simons" >(could it also be "Simmons"?) but not her given name. You have her >given name but not her maiden name. Putting two and two together looks >like her name was Percis Simons/Simmons. > >> >> (1) 1 Moses WESTBROOK 1 >> >> Spouse: Persis __________ 1 >> >> Children: >> Sally (1781-1830) >> >> (2) 1.1 Sally WESTBROOK 1,2 >> Birth: 22 Sep 1781 1 >> Death: 1830-1840 1 >> Marr: 8 Sep 1803 1 >> >> Spouse: Abraham DARDEN 1,2 >> >> >> Trish Worthington Cobb >> PO Box 486, Winterville, NC 28590 >> [email protected] >> > >