She needs help ----- Original Message ----- From: <janethunter703@aol.com> To: <TNDAVIDS-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Wednesday, May 03, 2006 8:14 AM Subject: Re: [TNDAVIDS] Thomas W Pate (also Robertson & Carroll Co. TN Pates) > In a message dated 4/19/2006 8:19:35 PM Central Daylight Time, > ross@empowering.com writes: > > >> I hope you have a newspaper that might have something about my great >> grandfather Thomas William Pate or William Thomas Pate d 27 Apr 1897. >> Would >> appreciate it. Thanks >> >> Helen Pate Ross >> > > Hello Helen and other Davidson County researchers, > > I have an interest in Pates in the area surrounding Davidson County TN > because of their connection with the Byrd/Bird family. I have BIRD/BYRD > can't > connect her John Bird who married Nancy COUTS, probably in Robertson Co. > TN with > the other Birds in the area. She was the daughter of John Couts and Leah > STARK. > I wonder if any of the following is familiar. > > In 1810 the heirs of William Byrd deeded their deceased father's land, > purchased of David Beard, in Robertson County to a likely (though not > certain) > brother Thomas Byrd. The deed says "the legal Heirs of William Byrd Decd > all of > the County of Robertson and State ofTennessee". The land was located on > the Red > River somewhere between what is now Cross Plains and White House, places I > have visited and where my ancestral Bird, Choate, Haley, Couts, Stark, > Stone, > Webb families lived. The court record says the following to be brief: > > "Robertson County CourtAugust Term 1819 > This deed from William GILBERT, Cafsy Gilbert, Joseph Byrd, Benjamin > PHILIPS, > Nancy Philips, Webster Gilbert, Susanna Gilbert, WILLIAM PATE, NANCY > [signature says Jane] PATE, and William Byrd toThomas Byrd was proven in > open Court by > the oath of William FINLY and Alfred CRABTREE subscribing witnefses > thereto > and ordered to be Registered. > Test > Wm.Seal CC > > Oct 25th 1819" > > In 1805 Robertson County a Thomas Bird died and per a similar deed to > Valentine Choate by the heirs: Jacob Brown, John Rule, Francis Byrd, John > Pike, > James Pike, Elizabeth Byrd and Thomas Byrd. 'Witnesses: John Choate, > John BYRD, > Francis BYRD. > > My John Byrd, wife Nancy COUTS, are believed to have moved to Carroll Co. > TN > around 1820 or so. John disappears from Robertson County records around > 1815. > On the Carroll County TN list, one extremely helpful volunteer is > transcribing/abstracting information from early Carroll County papers > (missouriborn@hotmail.com). The following is an exerpt of an abstract > that appeared recently > from an 1839 paper on the heirs of a STEPHEN PATE, who may have been a > member > of the family of the William Pate with wife Jane/Nancy Byrd noted above. > Many > from Robertson County moved to Carroll County TN. > > "Huntington Advertiser > Huntington, Tennessee (Carroll County) > by W. W. GATES > Vol. 1, No. 1 > Friday Evening, July 5, 1839" > > <snip> > > "Valuable land for sale. In case of estate of STEPHEN PATE, deceased, > plaintiffs, vs. JOHN PATE, ELIJAH PATE, ELISHA PATE, STEPHEN S. PATE, > DUNCAN PATE, > RICHMOND L. PATE, and NATHANIEL HAWTHORNE in the right of his wife > ELIZABETH, > ELI ELY in right of his wife HANNAH, and SAMUEL PATE, NATHANIEL PATE and > HONOR > GIBSON, children of DANIEL PATE deceased and ALEXANDER CAMPBELL in right > of his > wife SALLY deceased, the heirs at law of STEPHEN PATE" > > I would be interested in contacts from others with an interest in these > families. > > Best Regards, > Janet (Baugh) Hunter P.S. Other names of direct interest in Davidson > County > are GAY and CORBITT/CORBET > > > > > ============================== > New! Family Tree Maker 2005. Build your tree and search for your ancestors > at the same time. Share your tree with family and friends. Learn more: > http://landing.ancestry.com/familytreemaker/2005/tour.aspx?sourceid=14599&targetid=5429 >