Have you seen this ... I was googling Samuel Durham to see what documentation I could find....I thin a Lindsey is yours...just interesting...MCH Name: Samuel Davis DURHAM Sex: M Birth: 1755 in Hanover County, Virginia Birth: 1755 Death: 1801 Note: Enlisted in Washington's Army and fought five years. His pension application is filed in the National Archives in Washington No. W 7053, wife listed as Isabel. Samuel was engaged to marry Esbal at the outbreak of the war but Jeremiah Lindsey said he objected to his daughter marrying a soldier so they waited untilt he war was over. Isabel always said that the Lindsey's were Tories and that Jeremiah said his daughter would marry no rebel and that Samuel replied that after he came home from the service all would be rebels. Jeremiah told him that in that unlikely event he would give his consent for their marriage. In Administration Book E, page 173, Greene county, Georgia, shows date of January 11, 1802, Isabellah Durham and Abraham Durham applied for letters of Administration on the estate of Samuel Durham, deceased. February 18, 18-02, Letters of Administration granted. Marriage Bond of Samuel Durham, Batchellor and Miss Isbell Lindsey in the County of Hanover. Bound unto his Excellency Thos. Nelson Junior Esq., Governor of commonwealth of Virginia, 10th day of September 1781 War Department records (far from complete) show in the Adjutant General's Office, Washington, d.D. that Samuel Durham served in the War of the Revolution as a private in Captain Richard Call's Troop, 1st Regiment Light Dragoon's Continental troops, also known as 1st Regiment Virginia Light Dragoons, commanded by Theodorick Bland. The records indicate he enlisted February 14, 1778 to serve three years and his name last appears on that company's master role for November 1778. Samuel came home latter part of 1781. Isabel said he had been gone five years, making his first enlistment in 1777. Application of Isabel Durham for pension of Certain Widows: State of Georgia Green County On this 21st day of May 1845 before me the Subscriber a Justice of the Superior Court in and for the said county the same being a court of record personally appeared Isabel Durham a resident of said county and state aged eighty five years past who being first duly sworn according to law doth on her oath make the following Declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the provision made by the Act of Congress passed on the 7th of July 1838--entitled an Act granting half pay and provisions to certain widows, that she is the widow of Samuel Davis Durham commonly called Samuel Durham who resided in Hanover County, State of Virginia and enlisted at the commencement of the War of the Revolution for the Term of two years on the Virginia Continental Line and faithfully served out the term of his enlistment as private of Infantry and before he returned home enlisted for the Term of three years in a troop of Horse and faithfully served out his Term of enlistment as a private of Cavalry in the State troop in Continental Line in Virginia was at the Battle of Brandywine--Bunkerhill and others and while in Service marched as far South as Savannah, Georgia; That she does not make the foregoing statements of her own knowledge but speaks from hearsay and her present recollection. The name of the Corps and Regiment in which the said Samuel served not recollected at this late period even from hearsay; That she was aquainited with the said Samuel prior to his first enlistment and was engaged to be married on his return from Service. He again enlisted for a second term which he faithfully served out and received an honorable discharge and returned home in the latter part of the year 1781 which was the first time that she saw him from the timie that he first entered the Service, foresaid making five years that he was private and served in the Virginia Continental Line in State troops. That she knows of no person living who could give the name of the Corps or Regiment in which the said Samuel served or that could give a narrative of his Service or their own knowledge. That she has no documentary evidence showing the service of said Samuel. That the same Samuel D. Durham died on the 27th day of December Eighteen hundred and One in Green County, State of Georgia, and at the time and after his death the deponent had his discharges in her possession and that some 30 years since she gave up her house and home and resided among her children when all her papers went into the possession of her daughter, afterwards into the possession of her brother-in-law who moved to the State of Alabama and died and she is unable to learn anything of the discharges aforesaid and deponent further declares that she was legally married to the said Samuel D. Durham soon after he returned from the Service aforesaid to wit in the latter part of the year seventeen hundred and eighty-one. That she has no family registry in her possession, her family Bible was delivered with the other papers and is gone from her knowledge, but that she was legally married in Hanover County, State of Virginia and moved from there to Georgia Green County where her husband died on the day aforesaid. That she has remained a widow ever since the period of her husbands death. That she was not married prior to her husbands last service but was married prior to the 1st day of January 1794. Isabel Durham Sworn to and subscribed on the day and year first written before me a Justice of the Inferior Court, County of Green, State of Georgia,May a.d. 1845. J. R. Hall JIC JP Father: Abram DURHAM b: in Durham County, England Mother: ANNE Marriage 1 Isabel LINDSEY Children Lindsey DURHAM b: 22 NOV 1789 -----Original Message----- From: ragan-roots-bounces@rootsweb.com [mailto:ragan-roots-bounces@rootsweb.com] On Behalf Of james garrett Sent: Sunday, September 23, 2007 12:28 AM To: ragan-roots@rootsweb.com Subject: Re: [RAGAN-ROOTS] oddities to share Maryellen, I regards to Joseph b. 1710 s/o Francis Jr, I do NOT have any additional info pertaining to him. I am only speculating that he could be a possible anditate as the fathr ofboth John & Fracis since we know nothing more of him. Regarding Daniels mother Ann Noyall I do not have a copy of her will. From what you are saying Ann had a SISTER Martha Noyall who supposedly took the two orphans of Ann. Then in Daniel's wil he mentions his uncle William Noyall. Since William was a "Noyall" he wouldn't marry another "Noyall", namely Martha Noyall. We know Martha is a "Noyall" because she is a SISTER to Ann Noyall. So it appears that Ann Noyall had a sister Martha & a brother William. Sorry I am no help on this one, but I agree that women not married could not be guardians and in the case of Ann & her children it does NOT make since that her sister Martha is named as guardian. In regards to Jane Gross, WHEN did her father, Richard leave her his inheritance? Did Richards will give a last name of Jane? According to source Francis & Jane married either in 1682 or abt 1689/90, depending upon the birth dates of their children. Was Joseph Sr the eldest child b. 1683 or 1690 as source indicates? If we knew the correct marriage date & if Jane received the inheritance before the correct marriage date, then likely she was married before. And lastly, unfortunatley, I know very little abt the Durham & the Shearin connection with the Regans. My focus is primarily on Peter Regan & wife Rebecca Lindsay, trying to identify Peters father. I have yet to connect with any Durhams or Shearins in Peters line of decendants. ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to RAGAN-ROOTS-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message