Thanks, Mary. You've given me some other avenues to research for my John Stover. He was born in PA, and it's my understanding that John Stover in PA then was like John Smith in the US now. Gayle ----- Original Message ----- From: <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Monday, February 19, 2007 1:01 AM Subject: TNDAVIDS Digest, Vol 2, Issue 28 > > > Today's Topics: > > 1. Re: Stover (Mary Miller) > 2. Preemptors book ([email protected]) > 3. Re: Lee Sullivan's Will (Barry H. Beattie) > 4. Re: Land of settlers of Ft Nashborough ([email protected]) > 5. Re: Preemptors book (Richard and Pat) > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > Message: 1 > Date: Sun, 18 Feb 2007 11:54:51 -0500 > From: "Mary Miller" <[email protected]> > Subject: Re: [TNDAVIDS] Stover > To: <[email protected]> > Message-ID: <[email protected]> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" > > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Gayle" <[email protected]> > To: <[email protected]> > Sent: Sunday, February 18, 2007 9:34 AM > Subject: [TNDAVIDS] Stover > > >> Mary, >> >> In your study of the German-speaking inhabitants, have you come across >> any >> Stovers? I've hit a brick wall with my ancestors at 1817, and feel they > may >> have migrated with Robertson. They were supposed to be German. Any >> suggestions? >> >> Gayle > > > I would begin with War of 1812 - was he in it? That was 1812-1815.... > > TENNESSEANS IN THE WAR OF 1812 > by Sistler > Officers: > STOVER, John , 2 Lt., Col Samuel Bayless, Capt Joseph Rich, E TN Inf. Res. > omitted > > (my note in Records of Officers in TN Militia I found from Campbell County > Regiments - Joseph Stover, Lieutenant 33rd regiment...commission given > March > 20, 1811) > > under enlisted men there are 8 Stovers listed.....do you have a first > name? > > I would try military records on your Stover to get you back a few years > and > might also give you a location to look. > > I also looked at index to Erly Tennessee tax lists by Sistler and there > were > several Stovers ca 1796 in Carter co > Christian - Carter 1796 > Christian Sr Carger 1798 > Daniel Carter 1796, 1798 > John Carter 1796 > > so seems 1790s there were 4 Stover found in Carter Co. If I were you, I > would look at those. > > the Turneys.....in VA they lived among Peters, Petre, Painter, Funkhouser, > Nicely/Knisely, Buhler/Beeler, Summers, Hawkins, Byrd, Dieter/ Teeter, > Bumgarden, Barger, Nuland/Newland, Miller, Bowman, Countz/Kontz, and so > on. > As a neighbor of the father of the TN Turneys in Shenandoah Co VA in 1785 > was a John Stover. There were other Stover in Shenandoah Co VA in this > 785 > head of household census. > > On Holston I see many of these names, plus Ramsey (out of Augusta Co VA). > The John Teeter (wife Eva Turney) had a daughter who married into the > Miller > and Nicely family after the move 1774.....Buhler/Beeler family connected > to > Petre and Peters.....and so on. Some of them stayed in 1780 in eastern TN > but a few moved to the Cumberland. Casper Mansker at one point lived I > think on the Clinch river or in that area. So many people from that area > did move to the Cumberland. > > Mary > > > > > ------------------------------ > > Message: 2 > Date: Sun, 18 Feb 2007 12:35:03 EST > From: [email protected] > Subject: [TNDAVIDS] Preemptors book > To: [email protected] > Message-ID: <[email protected]> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" > > The book that Mary referred to, THE PREEMPTORS, MIDDLE TENNESSEE'S FIRST > SETTLERS, was compiled by Irene Griffey in 1989 from an original book at > the > North Carolina Archives. The original was kept by David Shelby for the > commissioners, Anthony Bledsoe, Isaac Shelby and Absalom Tatum, who had > been > appointed by North Carolina to survey the boundaries of the military > reservation. The > reserve covered what is now northern Middle Tennessee. Originally the > land > was to be set aside to give to soldiers of the Revolution. Before the > survey > was started settlers began moving into the wilderness area near the > present > Nashville, Davidson County and surrounding counties. > > In the beginning years, the settlers established a number of small > fortified > communities across Middle Tennessee. They suffered through one of the > coldest winters ever known in the region, built cabins, cleared land, > planted > crops, brought in live stock, got married, had babies, were killed in > Indian > battles and died from disease and hardship. These settlers petitioned > North > Carolina for a right to lay claim to the land on which they had settled. > North > Carolina decided that the pioneers, for their heroic efforts, would be > given > preemption certificates for land within the reserve. Preempt means they > had > prior right over the military claimants. Griffey's book is a > transcription > of the preemption rights. > > The commissioners were authorized to give certificates for 640 acres to > each > head of family and each single male of the age of 21 years who had been > living on the land before the first day of June 1780. The certificates > were > given to the settler found living on the land when the commissioners made > their > survey in late 1782 and 1783. In many cases this was not the original > settler > who had been there in 1780, but a latecomer who had purchased the > preemption > rights. > > I have a copy of the book and if you email me off-list [email protected]_ > (mailto:[email protected]) I will check the index for one surname and > send you > any information I find. Only those who lived in Middle Tennessee by 1783 > will be listed. Please just ask about one surname at a time. If you send > the > request to the Davidson Co. list I will not respond. > > > > ------------------------------ > > Message: 3 > Date: Sun, 18 Feb 2007 11:55:25 -0800 > From: "Barry H. Beattie" <[email protected]> > Subject: Re: [TNDAVIDS] Lee Sullivan's Will > To: [email protected] > Message-ID: > <[email protected]et> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format=flowed > > Jeanette, > Thank you for your response in looking for Lee Sullivan's > Will in Davidson Co., TN. I was aware of the microfilm that is > available at Nashville, TN at the State Archives. In fact, I > currently have one on order through the LDS FHCL research catalog > service. It takes about a month to receive one from the LDS Archives > for viewing after ordering it. > I have been very active in using this method of research > because my Mother was born in Berlin, Germany my Grand Father in > Breslau, Stadt Schlesien, Preussen, Germany (Warclaw, Poland) and my > Grand Mother in Glogau, Schlesien, Preussen, Germany (Glogow, > Poland). The draw back is, it takes a very long time to sometimes get > the information but in my case I have found it very rewarding. > The reason I posted my message was to make sure I wasn't > missing a more simple direct method of finding the information. > Thanks again for your response. Barry Hubert Beattie. P.S. My > Mother's Family were Huberts. > > At 04:47 PM 2/17/2007, you wrote: >>Hello, You might trying writing or contacting someone in Nashville, TN at >>the State Archives, they have jillions of microfilm there, and will surely >>have the wills and probates on film. I do not have their exact address, >>it >>is probably on their site. That would be Davidson Co., J. >> >>Jeanette Henson McClure >> >>----- Original Message ----- >>From: "Barry H. Beattie" <[email protected]> >>To: <[email protected]> >>Sent: Saturday, February 17, 2007 7:15 PM >>Subject: [TNDAVIDS] Lee Sullivan's Will >> >> >> > Would some one tell me how to find Lee Sullivan's Will. I believe he >> > died after 1838 and before 1860 in Davidson Co., TN. I believe he >> > married an Unknown Hadley and had at least one son named Lee. Thanks >> > much for your help, Barry H. Beattie, San Marcos, San Diego Co., CA. >> > >> > >> > ------------------------------- >> > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to >>[email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the >>quotes >>in the subject and the body of the message >> > >> > >> > -- >> > Internal Virus Database is out-of-date. >> > Checked by AVG Free Edition. >> > Version: 7.5.432 / Virus Database: 268.17.24/668 - Release Date: 2/4/07 >>1:30 AM >> > >> > >> >> >>------------------------------- >>To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to >>[email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without >>the quotes in the subject and the body of the message > > > > ------------------------------ > > Message: 4 > Date: Sun, 18 Feb 2007 18:28:20 EST > From: [email protected] > Subject: Re: [TNDAVIDS] Land of settlers of Ft Nashborough > To: [email protected] > Message-ID: <[email protected]> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" > > Could you look up Nehemiah Courtney in that book, PLEASE! He appeared in > Davidson Co TN in 1770, , married and started a baby but died before she > was > born in July 1771, and that is ALL I can find about him! > > Catherine Clline > > > ------------------------------ > > Message: 5 > Date: Sun, 18 Feb 2007 20:05:13 -0800 > From: "Richard and Pat" <[email protected]> > Subject: Re: [TNDAVIDS] Preemptors book > To: <[email protected]> > Message-ID: <[email protected]> > Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed; charset="iso-8859-1"; > reply-type=original > > Debie: > I tried to e-mail you at the address you have below to request a look-up > in > your book but the e-mail came back. Could you e-mail me at my home > address? > [email protected] > Thank you, > Pat Stevens > ----- Original Message ----- > From: <[email protected]> > To: <[email protected]> > Sent: Sunday, February 18, 2007 9:35 AM > Subject: [TNDAVIDS] Preemptors book > > >> The book that Mary referred to, THE PREEMPTORS, MIDDLE TENNESSEE'S FIRST >> SETTLERS, was compiled by Irene Griffey in 1989 from an original book at >> the >> North Carolina Archives. The original was kept by David Shelby for the >> commissioners, Anthony Bledsoe, Isaac Shelby and Absalom Tatum, who had >> been >> appointed by North Carolina to survey the boundaries of the military >> reservation. The >> reserve covered what is now northern Middle Tennessee. Originally the >> land >> was to be set aside to give to soldiers of the Revolution. Before the >> survey >> was started settlers began moving into the wilderness area near the >> present >> Nashville, Davidson County and surrounding counties. >> >> In the beginning years, the settlers established a number of small >> fortified >> communities across Middle Tennessee. They suffered through one of the >> coldest winters ever known in the region, built cabins, cleared land, >> planted >> crops, brought in live stock, got married, had babies, were killed in >> Indian >> battles and died from disease and hardship. These settlers petitioned >> North >> Carolina for a right to lay claim to the land on which they had settled. >> North >> Carolina decided that the pioneers, for their heroic efforts, would be >> given >> preemption certificates for land within the reserve. Preempt means they >> had >> prior right over the military claimants. Griffey's book is a >> transcription >> of the preemption rights. >> >> The commissioners were authorized to give certificates for 640 acres to >> each >> head of family and each single male of the age of 21 years who had been >> living on the land before the first day of June 1780. The certificates >> were >> given to the settler found living on the land when the commissioners >> made >> their >> survey in late 1782 and 1783. In many cases this was not the original >> settler >> who had been there in 1780, but a latecomer who had purchased the >> preemption >> rights. >> >> I have a copy of the book and if you email me off-list >> [email protected]_ >> (mailto:[email protected]) I will check the index for one surname and >> send you >> any information I find. Only those who lived in Middle Tennessee by >> 1783 >> will be listed. Please just ask about one surname at a time. 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