Bucks Co PA Deed Records 1684-1763 by John David Davis, 1997, p 367 Seems like someone was looking for Gurley/Gourley and Rodman connection. This goes back to perhaps the earliest arrival in PA but could be saved until it is needed. Hope this is helpful. *** Chapter 10, Volume 10, 1759-1763 Bucks Co Deeds page 39 18 June 1759. Samuel and Mary Gourley, yeoman, of Warwick Twp. Bucks Co PA, mortgage to William Coleman and James Pemberton, of Phila., PA [executors of the estate of Samuel Powell Jr] owes L110, 120 acres, Warwick Twp....line of Robert Jeminson, William Rodman, Samuel Rodman, John Beard and Andrew Long. Signed; Samuel Gourley and Mary Gourley. Wit" Richard Walker and Andrew Long. Above couple are from my husband's lineage. Many of their descendants lived in Parks Twp. Armstrong Co PA and left wills there. Ginny Keefer PS: I have not proven any of the following. I copied it as posted. Please do your research using this as a finding help only. *** Ancestry.com records submitted by Susan Willis Dec 2004 [email protected] 1. Capt Thomas Gourley b ca 1752 Belfast, County Antrim, Ireland, died 1796 SC Lucy Womack Bates, Roster of Soldiers and Patriots of American Revolution Buried in TN [Brentwood, TN; TN Society, NSDAR, 1974, 1979, 192 pp] p 70, Johnson Co Public Library, TN "Thomas Gourly b 1752 Belfast, Ire, d 1796 while visiting his son in SC. Served with the Rangers in Western Maryland. Enlisted 1776 in Continental Army. Capt. in 1778 in 9th PA Dragoons under Col. Beckman. On Watauga he was under Sevier. Thomas married Elizabeth ______. Children; William b 17681 md Elizabeth ____; James b 1782 md Mary Patton McNeely, d 8/26/1920; John b 1799 md Sarah Simerly; Sarah md ____ McNeal; Charles b 1779 md Mary Morgan. Ref; DAR # 226054, Military Records Adj. Gen's Office: TN DAR 1931. Proceedings, p 64- McCown lists: SR 23-24." There were no Scranton and no Lackawanna Counties in PA in 1772. The area that would later become Scranton was only first settled by a tiny group of white settlers in 1769. More than likely in 1772, there was still no one available who could have married Thomas Gourley and Martha McNeely if in fact they were even in that location. Neither of their surnames appears in lists of the very small party of settlers in the first years of the townships. This raises an important question about the year and location of the Gourley's marriage. Also, if all of Thomas Gourley's children are accounted for, there would be a gap between a 1772 marriage and a firstborn son William b ca 1781. This would suggest a later marriage for Thomas and Martha. 2. Irene M. Griffey, Earliest TN Land Records and Earliest TN Land History [Baltimore, MD Genealogical Pub. Co., 2000, 504 pp] p. 205. Thomas Gourly files # 1290, Washington Co, 41 acres, entry # 2982 on 21 June 1794 grant # 1205, grant issued on 9 Dec 1795 on "Waters of Little Limestone". " The first settler on Gap Creek was Simeon Bundy, whose house stood near the Big Spring, the head of that stream. Matthew Talbot also lived on Gap Creek, where he built one of the first mills in the state. Another was built about the same time, perhaps a little before, by Baptist McNabb. It was on Buffalo Creek where Alexander Anderson now lives. Charles Robertson lived on Sinking Creek, on the farm now owned by Robert Miller. Michael Hyder settled on Powder Branch, about a mile from Watauga, on property still owned by his descendants. James Edens located near Big Spring on Gap Creek, above Simeon Bundy." Godspeeds History of TN. 1887. In Feb 1787 Thomas Gourley was named deputy clerk of the court of pleas and quarter sessions at Jonesborough, Washington Co TN- Godspeeds History of TN 2887 On 1 Nov 1790, Thomas Gourley was a witness to the will of Joseph Whitson-- Washington Co TN Will Book, pp 161, 162 Burial; Womack's statement that Thomas Gourley is buried in SC contradicts the statement in Abstracts of Graves of Rev War Patriots, Vol 2, p __, Serial: 8399, Vol. 7 which places his grave in Gap Creek, Carter Co TN Ancestry; Some researchers believe Thomas Gourley also had brothers , Hugh, Robert and James [Hugh is supposed to have settled in SC and then moved ca 1805 to NC, dying in Buncombe Co in 1833]. Name; Even as later as 1890, the majority of Irishmen with the Gourley surname were to be found in County Antrim- Robert E. Matheson, Special Report on surnames in Ireland [together with] Varieties and Synonyms and Christian Names in Ireland [Baltimore: Genealogical Pub. Co. 1968, 1901, 1909] p 51. Thomas married Martha Hannah McNeely. Children; 1. Charles McDonnell b 23 Oct 1792 2. William b ca 1781 3. James b 10 Feb 1782 4. Mary [Polly] v 16 Jan 1787, md William Rogers 5. John b ca 1799 TN 6. Thomas Jr b ca 1806 7. Edward md Jane Robinson 8. Robert md Elizabeth Patton 9. Sarah md ____ McNeal 10. Samuel b ca 1794 TN [ see below] Samuel Gourley b ca 1794 TN, d 10 Feb 1817 Carter Co TN Birth: 1. 7th census of US, 1850. Wyatt Twp. Laurence Co AR taken 29 Nov 1850, p 247, Samuel Gorley, 56, farmer, b TN, has wife Margaret 30 b TN cannot read or write. Children; 1. Mary 13 TN 2. Minerva 5 b AR 3. Elizabeth A. 3 b AR Marriage; 2. Brenda Jordan Raymond. Carter County, TN Marriages, 1796-1825, Gourley, Samuel married Wiseman, Dorothy, Dorrety, on 10 Feb 1817 in Carter Co TN Dorothy Wiseman d ca 1831 Children; 1. Thomas b 11 Jan 1822 Carter Co TN [ listed in 1850, 2nd Dist, Union Co IL, p 151 Thomas 25 b TN wife Nancy 26 b TN Mary 4 b AR Charles 1 b IL Juda Simons age 55 b SC 2. Martin b ca 1826 TN 1850 Wyatt Twp, Laurence Co AR, page 247, Martin age 24 b TN wife Eleanor b ca 1825 TN Martin 24 b TN Elender 25 b TN Samuel married 2nd Margaret ___ ca 1820 TN. Children; 1. Mary b ca 1837 TN 2. Minerva b ca 1845 AR 3. Elizabeth A. b ca 1847 AR Charles McDonnell Gourley b 23 Oct 1792, d 4 Oct 1839, 1. Gourley Family Notes in Old Book, Gourley names and dates written on inside covers of old arthritic book [published in link on Carter Co TN, USGENWEB page], Jean Evans of Dublin, VA. C.M. D. Gourley born 23rd October, 1792. C. McD. Gourley died Oct 4, 1839 Nancy Gourley was born 26th of April 1804 Nancy died 5th Oct 1840 Lorina Gourley was born 15 May 1837 Thomas Ricky Gourley was born Mar 11th, 18-- & died 11 May 1841 There is an entry here that is unreadable because of the ink from a previous bleeding through, but it looks like W. ____ md Mc N.G. was born the 23rd of Mar 1829. The date is clear but not the name. Marcus Lafayette Gourley was born 19th April 1831 David Nelson Gourley was born 3rd of 25th Jan 1833 Charles McDonnell Gourley was born 3rd of April 1835 Mary E. Gourley was married to James W. Kite on Aug 4th 1844 Daniel Webster Kite was born Dec 5th 1848. Charles McDonnell Gourley married Nancy Morgan 26 April 1804. Children; 1. William McNeely b 23 Mar 1829 Carter Co TN 2. Mary Eveline b ca 1828 " 3. Marcus Lafayette b 19 April 1831 " 4. David Nelson b 25 Jan 1833 " 5. Charles McDonnell Jr b 3 April 1835 " 6. Lorina C. b 15 May 1837 " 7. Thomas Ricky William Gourley b ca 1781, d 19 Jan 1799 Carter Co TN, Census 1850, 3rd Civil Dist, Carter Co TN, p 171 A, line 22 John W. Hyder 41 farmer md 1832, born TN, wife Levina 36 b TN and Children; Martha J. 16 Michael B 14 George W. 13 John L 11 Mary E. 9 Henry H. 8 Nathaniel G. 6 Jane A. 2 Living next door is Houston Gourly-sic, age 28, shoemaker, md 1840 with HH; Henry A. 9 Margaret S 3 Mary E. 10 mos Celia 29, noted as deaf William Gourley 71 This William Gourley would have been Houston's father. William Gourley married Elizabeth Schultz. Children; 1. John b ca 1800 Carter Co TN 2. Joseph b 31 July 1801 " 3. Thomas b 4 Oct 1804 " 4. Henry b 29 Sept 1806 " 5. James Samuel b 3 April 1809 " 6. Allen b 21 Jan 1812 " 7. Martha b 14 Feb 1814 " 8. Elizabeth b 17 Mar 1816 " 9. Mary Margaret b 16 April 1818 " 10. Jane b 5 Aug 1820 " 11. Houston b 24 June 1822 " James Gourley b 10 Feb 1782, d 21 Aug 1804 Carter Co TN, buried Sinking Creek Cem. Carter Co TN. [son of Capt Thomas Gourley b ca 1752 and Martha Hannah McNeely] md Mary [Polly] Patton b ca 1788 Carter Co TN. Children; 1. Johanna b 16 Jan 1805 Carter Co TN 2. Manina S. b ca 1808 " 3. Adeline b 26 Oct 1810 " 4. Alfred T. b ca 1813 " 5. Elkanah D. 6. Eliza b ca 1819 " 7. Catherine b ca 1825 " 8. David J. b ca 1827 " 9. Loretta b ca 1831 " 10. Nathaniel G. b ca 1834 " Death; Robert Acklen, TN Records, Bible records and Marriage Bonds {Nashville, TN, Cullom and Ghertner, 1933] pp 89, 90. Copied Mar 8, 1932 from the Bible of James I. Tipton, by Mary Hardin McCown, Johnson City, TN. Bible dated 1828. John Gourley b ca 1799 TN, d ca 1870 Meigs Co TN. Census 1850, 22nd Subd. Meigs Co TN, page 383, John Gorely 50, farmer, b TN, wife Jane 46 b TN and children; 1. Eliza Jane 20 John H. 12 Amantha 8 1840 census 4th Civil Dist. [Decatur] Meigs Co TN, p 168 B, John Gourley 61, Carpenter, b TN, wife, Eliza 38 b TN, and household; Elizabeth Belvins 80 b TN Ruth 17 James 16 Samuel 14 F.A. L. [female] 14 This last child was the dau of Clarissa Gourley Leaver. Francis A.N. Leaver was noted as a male in the 1850 census and female here. Ruth, James and Samuel are Elizabeth' Blevins Gourley's children. 1870 4th Civil Dist [Decatur] p 391 B, John Gourley 70, carpenter, b TN, can not read or write. Wife Eliza J. 47 b TN and household; Elizabeth Blevins 91 b TN Ruth Blevins 25 TN Samuel Blevins 22 TN Eliza Blevins 2 TN Bolvor Blevins 1 F.A.J/ 22 Joiner, b TN [male] It is not clear who Ruth is, It can not be Amintha, as she is supposed to have died in MO in 1868. John was son of Capt Thomas Gourley and Martha Hannah [McNeely]. John married Elizabeth J. {Eliza] Blevins b ca 1822 TN. John md 2nd Jane [Jennie] Patton b ca 1804 TN. Children by Jennie Patton; 1. Levina P. [Vina] b ca 1820 Carter Co TN 2. Mary Ann 3. William Patton b 22 Jan 1824 TN 4. Sarah F. 5. Samuel Houston b 13 April 1828 TN 6. Clarissa b ca 1832 TN 7. Rebecca b ca 1834 TN 8. John D. b ca 1838 TN 9. Amintha b ca 1842 TN 10. Eliza Jane b ca 1830 TN Thomas Gourley Jr. b ca 1806, d 24 Feb 1829 Carter Co TN. [son of Capt Thomas Gourley and Martha Hannah McNeely]. Thomas md Susannah Simmerly. Children; 1. John C. b ca 1830 2. Adam b ca 1831 Carter Co TN 3. Robert b ca 1833 " 4. Benjamin b ca 1834 5. Elizabeth b Sept 1835 " 6. Alfred b ca 1837 " 7. Seraphina b ca 1939 " 8. Martha b ca 1841 " 9. Joanna b ca 1843 " 10. Mary Ann b ca 1845 " 1850 census, 7th Civil Dist, Carter Co TN. page 409, line 8. Thomas Gorley, 57, farmer, md in 1828, wife Susannah, no age given. Household; John C. 20 Adam 19 Robert 17 Benjamin F 16 Elizabeth 14 Alfred 13 Seraphina 11 Martha 9 Joanna 1 Mary Ann 5 Mary A. 62 " And he who gives a child a treat Makes joy-bells ring in Heaven's street, But he who gives a child a home Builds palaces in Kingdom come, And she who gives a baby birth Brings Savior Christ again to Earth. John Masefield