I should have added the name of the second daughter of Andrew W. Walker and Elizabeth Motlow below. I listed Laurette who married Mr. Massey because that is the line I was writing about. The second daughter of Andrew W. Walker and Elizabeth Motlow was named Elizabeth Motlow and she married another Andrew Walker. In 1850 Lincoln Co TN census, HH 912, you are looking at widow daughter, Elizabeth [Motlow] Walker age 63 b SC, her daughter, Mariah age 41 b SC and her father, Andrew W. Walker, age 70 born VA. Hope this clears up the query posted. I am glad to see researchers are questioning rather than running with what I 'found' on Ancestry.com and in Worth S. Ray's book. Ray did not have the advantages we do with computers and had to travel and interview all he could. He has mistakes but did the best he could in his time and place. It ALL need verified. Ginny Keefer ----- Original Message ----- From: "Virginia L. (Ginny) Keefer in LasVegas" <[email protected]> To: "Giles Co site" <[email protected]>; <[email protected]> Sent: Sunday, May 15, 2005 8:16 PM Subject: Re: [TNGILES] Massey Info. Needed > Hi Cousin John and other interest researchers of the Massey family. In > the booklet NC Land Grants to TN index is listed Massey on page 35. > > That page is missing from my booklet. This booklet was compiled [with no > date] by > Mrs. Leister E. Presley > 1708 West Center > Searcy, Arkansas 72143 > > Anyone on Giles Co site know this lady or have any information about her? > She may have the book she used to make this booklet and was not aware as > she compiled the book that she left out page 35. Also TN State Library and > Archives should have a copy of this book and be able to tell grant number > and first name of this Massey. The date would be close to 1791 if not > actually that date. > *** > TN Cousins by Worth S. Ray, 1950 > page 587 > Moore Co TN > In the year 1809, Andrew Walker came to the Lynchburg community, from down > in SC, and cleared land and erected a home. His wife was Elizabeth Motlow, > dau of Rev War soldier who came to this area about the same time. Mrs. > Motlow was a widow and had 5 sons; > One was Lauriet Motlow who married Mr. Massey. > > Monroe Co TN page 409 > Ralph Mazey, 600 acres New Kent Co Sept 12, 1665, 100 acres on North side > of Mattapony River beginning at Mr. Frederick Parsons corner at the extent > of his E.N.E. line, Adj. Hartquack Creek and land of Thomas Hickman. > Parallel with back line of Foson & William Henderson. To land of Peter > Ford, Haines, Henderson and Folon. Patent dated Oct 1, 1661 and 500 acres > for the transportation of 10 persons: Ann, Mary and Susan Melling, Mary > Jones, Andrew Petters, Peter White, Ann Hart , William Hart. > ** > Note, I looked in my book. Cavaliers & Pioneers, Nell Nugent, Vol. 1, page > 520 and it lists > Major William Wyatt, 1940 acres, New Kent Co VA, 20 May, 1664, Patent Book > 5, page 388 [429] > > It states that on 1 April, 1661, 250 acres assigned by Ralph Mazey to > Thomas Plunkett, who sold to Sd Wyatt, and 100 acres, the residue for > transporting 2 persons; Wm. Jarvis and Thomas Parker. > > Page 425 > William Henderson of the Rappahannock section of old Virginia, whose > neighbors were the Forster's and Massey's. > The Henderson's of Lincoln Co NC, the ancestor of whom was James > Henderson, who married Violet Lawson, sister of Mary Lawson, the wife of > James White, the founder of Knoxville, TN. > > William Henderson of New Kent and King Wm Co's VA. First settled in York > Co VA, but took up lands in New Kent though these lands had been located > in York Co VA. Aft 1691, the lived on the North side of Pamunsky in King > & Queen Co VA. Some settled in King William Co VA after 1702. > Robert Henderson's land adj the Massey's land and Cornelius Dabney's land > near the William's Ferry on Pamunsky River. > > page 419 > William Henderson who was already located in New Kent Co VA, when Ralph > Mazey, plumped down beside him in Sept 1665. He was a member of Forster & > Henderson [sometimes Henderson & Co] and when King & Queen Co was cut off > from New Kent Co VA in 1681, the Henderson's lived in the new county. > > Ralph Mazey's patents were issued in New Kent Co VA in 1661 and 1665. But > at the time they were issued, the Forster's and Henderson's were already > seated there. > > Knox Co TN 1830 census > page 245 > Names that appeared on the census included; > Thomas , Margaret and Peter Massey. > Also White's, Cobb's and Walker's. > These families lived close to each other long ago. Ginny Keefer > > > The old land records, as they have been transcribed, present some crude > and mystifying problems for the researcher. It took my breathe away > almost, when it finally dawned on my consciousness that the name, RALPH > MAZEY, in the foregoing patent was some transcribers died of the mane as > the entry looked to him, and the the patent was one of those issued to a > member of one of the oldest families in New Kent Co VA. for whom the name > 'Mazey" was intended. >