Searching for the parents and other information on these two Perrigan names. Descendants of Joseph Perrigan 1 Joseph Perrigan b: 1823 in Va. Occupation: Farmer .. +Mely Ann b: 1824 Occupation: Weaver 2 Siras Perrigan b: 1848 2 Jacob Perrigan b: 1849 2 Abel J. Perrigan b: 1852 2 James C. Perrigan b: 1855 2 Silvanus Perrigan b: April 04, 1857 in Wash.Va. 2 George W. Perrigan b: 1860 Descendants of Elizabeth Perrigan 1 Elizabeth Perrigan b: May 04, 1820 in WashingtonCounty,Virginia .. +William Canter b: 1824 in Wash.VA. Occupation: Farmer 2 Catherine Booher Canter b: July 26, 1846 .... +Marshall Dallas Goodson b: May 30, 1846 m: September 19, 1865, in Washington County, Virginia 2 William Harmon Canter b: 1847 in Washington County, Virginia Burial: 1904 Clearbranch Cemetery, Washington Co.,Va. Occupation: shoemaker .... +Mary Ann Whittaker b: 1847 in Washington County,Virginia m: July 09, 1867 in Washington County, Virginia Burial: 1900 Clearbranch Cemetery, Washington Co.,Va. 2 James Henry Canter b: March 24, 1849 in Washington County, Virginia Occupation: Farmer .... Mary Katherine ( Kate) Davis b: May 10, 1857 in North Carolina m: June 26, 1871 in Washington County, Virginia .... James Henry Canter: .... +Mary Harriet Perrigan m: August 25, 1905 in Washington County, Virginia 2 Joseph Alexander Canter b: March 24, 1849 in Washington County, Virginia .... +Mary Elizabeth Stewart b: January 11, 1865 in Washington County, Virginia Fleenor Memorial Cemetry,Va. m: May 12, 1898 in Washington County, Virginia 2 Molly Canter 2 Mary Canter b: 1853 .... +Unknown 2 Alfred Canter b: August 01, 1855
--part1_46.45f4b5e.26351c94_boundary Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit --part1_46.45f4b5e.26351c94_boundary Content-Type: message/rfc822 Content-Disposition: inline Return-Path: <[email protected]> Received: from rly-yg02.mx.aol.com (rly-yg02.mail.aol.com [172.18.147.2]) by air-yg04.mail.aol.com (v70.20) with ESMTP; Sat, 22 Apr 2000 21:49:47 -0400 Received: from smtp2.vnet.net (smtp2.vnet.net [166.82.1.32]) by rly-yg02.mx.aol.com (v71.10) with ESMTP; Sat, 22 Apr 2000 21:49:15 -0400 Received: from cliffordsandsCLIFFORDSANDS (ppp-ruf-88.dilyns.com [166.82.185.88]) by smtp2.vnet.net (8.9.1a/8.9.1) with SMTP id VAA12728 for <[email protected]>; Sat, 22 Apr 2000 21:49:11 -0400 (EDT) Message-ID: <[email protected]> From: "Clifford Sands" <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Subject: Sullivan Co. Date: Sat, 22 Apr 2000 21:51:02 -0400 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary="----=_NextPart_000_003E_01BFACA4.D9EA7AE0" X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.00.2919.6600 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.00.2919.6600 ------=_NextPart_000_003E_01BFACA4.D9EA7AE0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="ISO-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Connie, my name is Clifford Sands and I live in Rockingham Co. N.C. and am =20= looking for any information about a William Sands who moved to Sullivan Co w= ith his wife Sussanah to stay with their son William Jr. in abt 1830. Willia= m is supposed to have died there in 1836 and his widow moved back to Stokes=20= Co. N.C. If you ever come across anything about any Sands living or dying in= that area I sure would appreciate any thing you can give me. There is suppo= sed to be a will regersted for him there but haven't found anythiing about i= t. I know a lot of records were burned in the Civil War but hope some remain= . Thanks for anything Clifford Sands 7205 N.C. 704 Madison, N.C. 27025 ------=_NextPart_000_003E_01BFACA4.D9EA7AE0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="ISO-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable <!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN"> <HTML><HEAD> <META content=3D"text/html; charset=3Diso-8859-1" http-equiv=3DContent-Type> <META content=3D"MSHTML 5.00.2919.6307" name=3DGENERATOR> <STYLE></STYLE> </HEAD> <BODY bgColor=3D#ffffff> <DIV><FONT size=3D2>Connie, my name is Clifford Sands and I live in Rockingh= am Co.=20 N.C. and am looking for any information about a William Sands who move= d to=20 Sullivan Co with his wife Sussanah to stay with their son William Jr. in abt= =20 1830. William is supposed to have died there in 1836 and his widow moved bac= k to=20 Stokes Co. N.C. If you ever come across anything about any Sands living or d= ying=20 in that area I sure would appreciate any thing you can give me. There is=20 supposed to be a will regersted for him there but haven't found anythiing ab= out=20 it. I know a lot of records were burned in the Civil War but hope some=20 remain.</FONT></DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV><FONT size=3D2>Thanks for anythin
Hello: I haven't posted here in awhile, so I thought I would retry. My ancestor, Henry Kingree (also Kingore/Kingary/var.) settled on Steele's Creek in Sullivan County in 1806. He purchased 107 acres from Jacob Miller in 1811. His wife's name was "Peggy". However, I find him listed on the 1820 and 1830 census for Washington Co. VA. Does anyone have access to these census records, or are they online somewhere, so that I can see how many people were in his household? I haven't been able to find ANYTHING out about him except this land purchase. There are several KINGREE's in the Bedford area and I can find them there as early as 1850, but can't connect to my Henry. ANY HELP OUT THERE????? Pamela Kingree Moats [email protected]
The war with the French lasted 7 years, beginning in Va.but fought in the West Indies, Europe, India, and Canada also.The final victory won in Quebec 1759, England, by the Treaty of Paris forced France to surrender Canada and all the region west of the Allegheny Mountains as far as the Mississippi River. The Treaty of Paris gave England complete control of the land westward to the Mississippi River, and the colonist expected to move into these lands. King George the 3rd in 1763 issued a proclamation that forbid the colonist to settle west of the Allegheny Mountains. The people already settled there were told to remove themselves from the area. The English Gov. was afraid the advance of English settlers beyond the mountains would injure the fur trade, and did not want to anger the Indians. Virginians and others that had helped win the war was extremely angry. For 20 years they had been west of the line and now many others still moved west directly disobeying the command of the King. As the settlers moved westward there were other short wars with the Indians. Dunmore's War was caused by the refusal of the Shawnee to accept a treaty by which the Iroquois surrendered the Ohio country to the English. A group of settlers killed the family of a friendly Indian chieftain named John Logan, and this sent the Indians on the warpath in earnest. The settlers begged Lord Dunmore for protection so he sent out two forces to strike at the heart of the Indian country. Dunmore took command of one force at the forks of the Ohio and Col.Anthony Lewis commanded the second body of troops which came from Southwest Va. ( Note: There is much on the web about Dunmore's war, and my Joseph Whittaker fought in this war. If you want to learn more e-mail privately for web addresses.) The Virginians who gave and suffered most in the winning of the west were the German and Scotch-Irish settlers in the Shenandoah Valley and in Southwest Va. Draper's Meadow was not the only settlement to suffer Indian massacres. Fort Vause, at Kerr's Creek , and other settlements along the frontier suffered greatly also. During the entire French and Indian War no fighting took place east of the Blue Ridge. After the French were defeated , the frontiersmen continued to fight the Indians for possession of the land until 1794 when Chief Benge was defeated near Benge's Gap in Wise County. ( Note: I have seen much on Benge in list discussions.) Had the German and Scotch-Irish pioneers not been willing to sacrifice lives and fourtains to hold the land on which they had settled the west may not have been won for Va.
THE FAMILY OF WILLIAM ANDERSON, >>SENIOR >> >> The original copy of this paper was found among the effects of William >>Anderson, 3rd. of Sullivan County, Tenn., and is now in the possession of >>Miss Nannie Anderson of Johnson City, Tenn. A copy was made by Mrs. Will H. >>Fain, of Johnson City, for Rhea Anderson of Blountville, Tenn. He is in >>turn made a copy for James A. Anderson of University, Ala. and he in turn >>makes this copy for J. Fain Anderson of Washington College, Tenn. >> >> "A brief history of the Anderson family given by William Anderson the >>son of John, the son of William the first: To James W. Anderson the son of >>W.T., the son of Thomas, the son of William the first. >> >> William Anderson, (the first) was born in Ireland in 1736. His >>father's name was James: William had one brother and one sister, James and >>Sussanna. James married Sarah Young, James was born in 1730 and had four >>children, William, Samuel, Sarah and Jane. William the first was married in >>Ireland to Jane Bryan, she had brothers and sisters, but none further came >>to America, her father's name was Andrew. William Anderson and Jane came to >>America in 1762. James Anderson their oldest child was born in Maryland, >>John, (the father of this sketch) was born in Cecil County, Maryland. His >>father, William the first then moved to New Jersey near Monmouth Court >>House. Sarah and William were born there. They then, 1770 moved near >>Staunton, Virginia and lived there three years: Sussanna was born there, >>then in 1773 moved to Holston (now Sullivan County) settled on the place now >>William Hancher's , Andrew and Mary were born there: then moved to the old >>place on Island Road in 1775 or 1776 where the other children were born. >> >> William Anderson the first as stated above was born in Ireland in 1736, >>had good common intellect, a quiet well disposed and sober citizen, was five >>feet nine inches high, of fair or sandy complexion, his person rather comely >>with small feet and hands. Jane Bryan his wife was about the same age, they >>were married in Ireland, were thirteen weeks crossing the Atlantic, she (for >>the writer well rembers her) had a well defined face for a strong mind, her >>person was large and bony for a female was surely of a stout family, was a >>pious woman, pockmarked, smoked a pipe, never forgot a friend or forgave an >>enemy. She died in Sullivan County, East Tennessee on the night of the 23rd >>of August 1819. >> >> William and Jane Anderson had twelve children, 6 sons and six >>daughters. >> >> 1st. James Anderson the eldest was born Aug. 18th 1763. He married a >>Cousin or second Cousin, Hester Anderson, at the head of Holstein Virginia. >>They had a large family, five were deaf and dumb, though they had good minds >>and fine personal appearance. James was intemperate, his wife was a good >>and beautiful woman. They lived in Sullivan County until 1808, and removed >>to Middle Tennessee and both died in Bedford County, Tenn. >> >> 2nd. John Anderson was born 19th of Feby. 1765 in Cecil County, >>Maryland, was married to Rachel Roberts in Knox County, Tenn. (handwritten >>in Dec. 28, 1792) had twelve children, eight sons and four daughters, was >>strictly temperate, neither using whiskey or tobbaco, or even cider. He and >>wife died in Sullivan County, East. Tenn. where they had lived for many >>years, and where he had been surveyor of the county. >> >> 3rd. Sarah Anderson was born Jany 23rd 1767, was married to John >>Sharp, had a large family, and both died in Roan(e) County, Tenn. >> >> 4th. William Anderson was born April 23rd 1769, married to Elizabeth >>Yancy, had many children, moved to Know County, Kentucky, where they both >>died. >> >> 5th. Sussanna Anderson was born April 12th 1770, was married to Joshua >>Taylor, and had a large family, both died in Wilson County, Tennessee. >> >> 6th. Andrew Anderson, was born Oct. 21st 1773, was married >>(handwritten in Knox Co. Dec.11, 1797) to Margaret Roberts, they also had a >>large family, she died in Sullivan Co. Tennessee, he in Meigs county, >>Tennessee. >> >> 7th. Mary Anderson was born Oct. 26th 1775 was married first to Isaac >>Cole, then to George Deckard. All dead have three children. >> >> 8th. Margaret Anderson was born April 15th 1777, married to Samuel >>Brittian, large family, both died in Smith County, Tennessee. >> >> 9th. Thomas Anderson was born April 22nd 1779 was married to Mary >>Davis, had a large family, lived in Sullivan County, Tenn. until 1811 then >>removed to Duck River, Bedford County, Tenn. He died in Panola County, >>Miss. She died in McNairy County, Tenn. Oct. 3rd, 1833 >> >> 10th. Samuel Anderson was born Sept. 16th 1781 was married to Sussanna >>Caswell, they had several children, he has been dead for many years, she is >>supposed to be yet living at Shelbyville, Tenn. >> >> 11th. Jane Anderson was born April 16th 1783 married to John Roberts, >>they lived first in Knox County, then in Franklin County, both are dead >>having raised a large family. >> >> 12th. Elizabeth Anderson was born Mar. 30 1785, married to William >>Roberts, they first lived in Knox County, Tenn., then removed to Franklin >>County, Tenn., lived there a few years and returned to Knox County where >>they resided for several years, then removed to Texas where he died, she is >>supposed to be living in Texas (if so) she is the only one left of the >>family of William and Jane first mentioned and is over seventy five years of >>age. >> >> And the six daughters of William and Jane were of medium size, and all >>were one height, of good native intellect, of industrious and ious habits >>and was what was in their day called, Comely. Of the six males, William was >>the taller man, being over six feet high: Thomas the stouter, and Samuel >>the weaker. Though of respectable mental endowments, the writer of this >>sketch will not pretend to draw a distinction between them: either of them, >>though qualified to fill important offices, sought very few, and were >>contented and happy with a mere competence and comfortable living, though >>William had more property than any of his brothers. They were all peacable >>if unassailed, but dangerous if attacked. >> >> Of the family of William and Jane only one daughter is left, and about >>75 grandchildren; about 3 or 4 hundred great grandchildren and more than >>four times that many great-great-grandchildren. In that family the youngest >>must have been near fifty years of age before the dath of either of the >>brothers or sisters, and the medium age of the family was more than seventy >>years. >> >> The ancestors of William and Jane for many generations before their day >>must have lived and died in Ireland, and all of their descendants not now >>alive must have lived an died in the States and Territories of North >>America. Very many of their spirits it is hoped have been home to the >>bright world above, and the scattered dust of their bodies over this wide >>field, will be the hand of Omnipotence on that great day be brought forth >>and form a part of that great throng around the white throne, which we all >>are told will be so numerous that no man can count them: >> >> Sent to Jas. W. Anderson, this 20th of Dec. 1860. >> Copy made by Rhea Anderson of Blountville, Tenn. for Jas. Anderson, of >>University, Ala. Aug 19th, 1916. >> This copy made by Jas. Anderson, for J. Faither Anderson, of Washington >>College, Tenn. this 11day of Nov. 1916. >> >>
Carved out of Brunswick and Prince George counties in 1734 was Amelia County. Lunenburg County was organized 14 yrs. later from a region west of Amelia and Brunswick counties. Augusta county was created in 1738 and extended from the Blue Ridge to the Mississippi River and from the present day states of Wisconsin and Michigan to the borders of North Carolina. The general assembly claimed that the banks of the Mississippi were a part of Va.and formed the western boundary of Agusta county in 1752. Botetourt County was formed from Agusta in 1770. Fincastle County was cut out of Botetourt in 1772. The huge county of Fincastle covered a large portion of S.W. Va. and all of Kentucky, Four years later Fincastle was divided into 3 parts that formed Montgomery, Washington, and Ky. counties. Out of the 1st 2 formed before 1800 , the counties of Wythe, Grayson, Russell, and Tazewell. In 1792 formed from the 3rd came the state of Ky. In 1748 the Ohio Company granted 200,000 acres west of the Alleghenies on condition it would make settlements south of the Ohio River. This company was made up largely of Va. and Maryland planters. Christopher Gist surveyed the Ohio Valley and reported the land full of buffalo, fertile land, full streams, and grassy plains. A trading post was established at Wills Creek, later known as Cumberland, Maryland. Try to do more another time, hope it was helpful. The book goes into the french and Indian war and gets lengthy. I have to work on reading and shorting up the info and rewrite in my own words so as not to cause a copywrite problem. I may result to sending notes next.
Searching for any hint of information on the DILLOW family that settled in Sullivan County, Tennessee. PETER DILLOW purchased several parcels of property between 1820-1830 in the vicinity of Bays Mountain known as CLOVER BOTTOM. Would appreciate any information on the exact location of CLOVER BOTTOM........ a place that seems to have disappeared from any may for that period that I have been able to locate. PETER DILLOW married PERMELIA HUNT about 1837 or 38. Some few years later lost some of his property to NATHAN BACHMAN. One son, JOHN LOGAN DILLOW married LYDIA WETZEL in Sullivan County. Her family may have been the WETZELS who settled atop Bays Mountain.
Spinning Your Ancestors Web A Genealogy and History Featuring the uses of Technology and the Internet Presented by: The Pellissippi Genealogical & Historical Society Featured Speakers: Billie McNamara"The internet" {2hour class} Shane Rhyne, East Tennessee Historical Society and others, I will send a later update. Genealogy Book Sales Genealogical Materials and Forms Local and East Tennessee History Free Genealogy Catalogs and Literature Free Door Prizes Saturday, April 29, 2000 9:00 a.m.--4:00 p.m. Clinton Senior High School 425 Dragon Drive Clinton,Tennessee Free Admission Includes Refreshments for Breaks and Lunch Everyone Is Welcome Pellissippi Genealogical & Historical Society Homepage http://pghs.home.att.net/ Email Address [email protected]
Spinning Your Ancestors Web A Genealogy and History Featuring the uses of Technology and the Internet Presented By: The Pellissippi Genealogical & Historical Society Featured Speakers: Billie McNamara"The Internet"{2 Hour Class} Shane Rhyne, East Tennessee Historical Society and others, I will send a later update. Genealogy Book Sales Genealogy Materials and Forms Local and East Tennessee History Free Genealogy Catalogs and Literature Free Door Prizes Saturday, April 29,2000 9:00 a.m.--4:00 p.m. Clinton Senior High School 425 Dragon Drive Clinton,Tennessee Free Admission Includes Refreshments for Breaks and Lunch Everyone Is Welcome
East Tennessee Historical Society Hosts Genealogy Conference and Family Reunion Celebration The sons and daughters of Tennessee's pioneer founders are heading home this Memorial Day weekend. The East Tennessee Historical Society (ETHS) is hosting a weekend-long genealogy conference and family history fair, May 26-28, in Knoxville, Tennessee. A highlight of the conference will be a "family reunion" of members of the society's family heritage project, First Families of Tennessee (FFT)the debut of a new First Families of Tennessee book. Guests attending the conference will face a wide variety of options and activities, including a two-day genealogy conference featuring national and regional experts, a family history fair and street party in downtown Knoxville, motorcoach tours of historic East Tennessee sites, and a "family reunion" dinner at the home of Tennessee's first governor, John Sevier. The genealogy conference, held at Knoxville's Hilton Hotel, May 26-27, will examine Southeastern "roots and routes" - focusing on our ancestors and their migrations into and out of East Tennessee. Guest speakers will discuss a variety of topics including Scots-Irish research, Cherokee genealogy, Tennessee land records, Tennesseans in the California gold rush, frontier religion, and more. Experts will also discuss research topics in states associated with Tennessee's earliest residents, including Alabama, Georgia, Kentucky, North Carolina, Pennsylvania, South Carolina, and Virginia. Descendants of Tennessee's first families will celebrate the publication of the East Tennessee Historical Society's newest book, First Families of Tennessee: A Register of Early Settlers and Their Descendants. The book, a tribute to the ancestors enrolled in the FFT project, will include names and vital stats of the more than 2,000 ancestors enrolled in the project, along with a registry of FFT members. The book will be unveiled in a special ceremony and will be available for purchase at the history conference. Guest speakers will include Dr. George K. Schweitzer, Charles Sherrill of the Tennessee State Library and Archives, Russell Baker, Robert Davis, historian Walter Durham, and other experts on a variety of genealogical and historical topics. In addition to the multi-track genealogy conference, ETHS will host a genealogy and family history fair featuring mini-workshops for beginners, vendor displays, tours of local historic sites, carriage and trolley rides in downtown Knoxville, and living history demonstrations. The fair will also include a downtown street party outside the historical society's headquarters with live music, dramatic performances, historic reenactments, children's activities and more. While the theme of the weekend will be built around a family reunion of First Families of Tennessee members, attendance at all the events is open to anyone with an interest in history and genealogy. The First Families of Tennessee was founded by the East Tennessee Historical Society in 1993 to honor the state's early residents and to recognize their descendants. The program is open to those who can prove descent from a person living in any part of Tennessee by 1796. Housed in Knoxville's Calvin M. McClung Historical Collection, the First Families of Tennessee files provide a one-of-a-kind resource for historical and genealogical research. For additional information about ETHS, the First Families of Tennessee project, or the upcoming genealogy conference and First Families of Tennessee reunion, visit the historical society's website at www.east-tennessee-history.org # # #
In 1745 The Woods River Land Co. was oranized and the Council of Va. gave Vast land grants along New River. James Patton was given a grant of 125,000 acres. This made him so wealthy he was called " the monarch of southwest Va." After Patton died Colonel William Preston took over his affairs. Preston and John Buchanan both owned much land in this area. The Loyal Land Co. in 1749 granted 800,000 acres in southwest Va. The grant made on the condition that land be located and surveyed in 4 yrs. Dr. Thomas Walker was sent westward to explore and find places for the settlers. In 1749 he took with him from his home Castle Hill in Albemarle County a party of men. They passed through Big Lick and Draper's Meadows, and stopped at the middle fork of the Holston River. They visited with a Samuel Stalnaker who at the time had moved further west than any other Va. pioneer. Then Walker and his men went west into the unknown into country claimed by the French and Indians. When they left the Holston River they went in a northwest direction and crossed the Clinch Mountains at Looney's Gap. They reached the Clinch River in what is now Hancock County,Tn. On April 12, 1750 Walker passed through a gap in the mountains at the extreme southwestern end of Va. and entered Ky. The gap named Cumberland after the Duke of Cumberland , a son of King George 2. Walker's Mountain near Wytheville was named in Dr.Walker's honor. On the lands granted to him was established Wolf Hills ( Abingdon,Va) . In 1760 Fort Chiswell was built in what is now Wytheville,Va. The fort named for Colonel John Chiswell who owned lead mines nearby. Because of the treaty of Fort Stanwix made with the Iroquois in 1768 land as far west as the mouth of the Tennessee River was open for the settlers.This included much of the present day Ky. and Tn. The land had much to offer such as wildlife, forest, coal, zinc, lead, & copper.
This is a multi-part message in MIME format. --------------6C4372FA2595A477924DBB72 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Dear Listers, I need some help verifying a discrepancy of who LOYD FORD/MARY GRANT FORD'S children were. Loyd FORD b. 10 Nov. 1727 at St.Pauls Parish, Baltimore Co., MD (son of THOMAS FORD & LEAH PRICE) married Mary GRANT b. 6 May 1733 at St. Pauls Parish, Baltimore Co., MD (dau of ALEXANDER GRANT & ELIZABETH COLE) I would really appreciate your help. Sincerely, Vickie Vose [email protected] --------------6C4372FA2595A477924DBB72 Content-Type: text/x-vcard; charset=us-ascii; name="wegofish.vcf" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Description: Card for MICHAEL & VICKIE VOSE Content-Disposition: attachment; filename="wegofish.vcf" begin:vcard n:Vose;Michael & Vickie x-mozilla-html:TRUE adr:;;;;;; version:2.1 email;internet:[email protected] fn:Michael & Vickie Vose end:vcard --------------6C4372FA2595A477924DBB72--
I am searching for my great grandfather Nathaniel Wagner. All I know of him is that he is listed in the 1900 Johnson Co. census I don't know where he was in the years before and after 1900. He may have lived there all his life? But he is not listed in the 1910 census. In 1900 he had a wife listed: Serelda and 3 daughters: Callie(18), Mertie(16), Margaret(13) and a grandson: William S.(Stacy) age 2; son of Callie (my grandfather) Serelda wasn't listed as the mother of the 3 girls. Also found was a marriage record for 1889 of the marriage of Nathaniel and Serelda in Johnson Co. This is all I know of them. There were several Nathaniel Wagner's from Johnson Co. I haven't been able to make a direct link to any of them. I believe that my Nathaniel was born about 1854. He was listed as 46 in 1900. I am trying to find his parents as well but just keep hittting brick walls. If you know any information please reply! Thanks, Dana Hughes Hunnicutt
This is a multi-part message in MIME format. --------------2653CEE32490511A27729D9B Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Dear Listers, I'm looking for info. on JOHN HENRY FORD b. 25 Mar 1821 in Sullivan Co., TN. He is the son of Loyd Ford b. abt. 1786 in Washington Co., NC & Mary Branstetter b. abt. 1789 in VA John Henry FORD m. Salina SHIPLEY, dau. of Joshua SHIPLEY of Scott Co. VA Most interested in knowing all the names of his siblings, date of death, info. on that line of the SHIPLEY family, John & Salina's children, etc. Thanks for your help! Vickie [email protected] --------------2653CEE32490511A27729D9B Content-Type: text/x-vcard; charset=us-ascii; name="wegofish.vcf" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Description: Card for MICHAEL & VICKIE VOSE Content-Disposition: attachment; filename="wegofish.vcf" begin:vcard n:Vose;Michael & Vickie x-mozilla-html:TRUE adr:;;;;;; version:2.1 email;internet:[email protected] fn:Michael & Vickie Vose end:vcard --------------2653CEE32490511A27729D9B--
What I have learned from this wonderful old yard sale book has been valuable and would like to pass some more knowledge along to you. Some people of English descent settled the Shenandoah Valley and brought the customs and habits of the Tidewater. ( One group settled around Thomas Lord Fairfax's home at Greenway Court about 12 miles southwest of Winchester. Wealthy men from the Tidewater needed fresh land to raise tobacco. The Randolph family was one of the wealtiest to go up the James river and were followed by friends and relatives. William Byrd had many acres along the Roanoke River and Sir Peyton Skipwith built a plantation in 1765 called Prestwood near Clarksville. Peter Jefferson the father of Thomas Jefferson went into what is now Albemarle County. Colonel Nicholas Meriwether was probably the earliest and largest landowner in that section of the Piedmont at the time. Tidewater planters would send their overseer and a gang of slaves to the Piedmont to clear land and build a home before the planter and family moved in. The General Assembly passed laws to prevent selfish men from controlling the land. Cash payment was the only accepted way to get land in the Piedmont, and landowners were required to pay a land tax and to cultivate 3 out of every 50 acres they owned. The land was so cheap that even smaller farmers not so wealthy could afford to buy a small tract of land.The Tidewater people outnumbered the Scotch-Irish in the Piedmont region. In 1743 Colonel James Patton found a river west of New River , but it did not flow into it. Three yrs. later Stephen Holston built a home at the source of this river. In 1748 he explored the lower part of this stream and discovered it flowed into the Tennessse River. The river and the valley is named Holston in his honor.
The Shenandoah Valley was ceded to the English by treaties with the Indians. This made it possible for the settlers to come. Among them were a few Virginians who come across the Blue Ridge and also a large number of German and Scotch-Irish most of whom had lived in Pa. The Germans had come to America because their rulers had been unjust to them and many had lost their homes in wars with the French. They first moved into Pa. then south into Va. They tried to make their new homes look like their farms and villages in Germany and continued to speak German and use their German Bibles. They decorated cabinets and chest with Bible verse, birds, and tulips. The Mennonite and Dunkard families wore extremely plain clothes very different from the usual dress of the day. The English settlers thought them very strange. The Germans were better farmers than the English as they used deep plowing, used fertilizer, and rotated crops. The Germans were skilled potters, tanners, cabin and wagon makers, tinsmiths, and brought an improved type of log cabin by cutting all sides of the logs flat instead of being left rounded. From Pa. they brought with them a better gun than the English had. It was a long rifle much better suited to the frontier. The Germans brought with them a love of music, and brought hymns from the Lutheran Church. From that love of music grew the school at Singers Glen near Harrisonburg run by the Joseph Funk Family. At Singers Glen many hymn books were published and used by many thousands over a period of many years. The Scotch-Irish came about the same time as the Germans, but out numbered then 4 to 1. They were of Scottish blood and Presbyterian faith. About the time Jamestown was founded they had been sent to Northern Ireland by the English gov. Because of taxes and rent and payments to the Established Church being unfair they moved to the new world and settled in Pa. long before Gov.Gooch of Va. invited them to the Shenandoah Valley. Gooch was gov. from 1727-1749 and he was Scottish. Settlements would help form a defense against the French and Indians and make it possile for the English to control the Ohio Valley.The Scotch-Irish pushed south, then west steadily. The Winchester region was occupied around 1730, and Stauton was made in 1736, Lexington in 1739, and Big Lick, ( now Roanoke) in 1740. In 1745 a settlement was made at Draper's Meadows ( now Blacksburg) by John Drapper, William Ingles, and others. This place was west of the Allegheny Divide in a frontier region where Indians were a deadly threat. What the Scotch-Irish brought: Presbyterian Faith, good hunting and farming methods, a great desire for schools, religious freedom, experience in Gov. and experience in fighting Indians gained from their time in Pa. More later Thank you all for the nice comments. There have been so many I can not reply personally. I am just happy I have found a small way to repay everyones goodness to me. P.S. I have another cyber cousin tonight found because of list members. This is a wonderful thing I am grateful for the List. Good Night.
I have been reading a book called Virginia History Government Geography. This is what I have learned from this book and wanted to share. Alexander Spotswood was Gov. of Va.from 1710-1722. He knew that the James, the Roanoke, and the Rappahannock Rivers could be used as avenues to the lands west of Tidewater. In 1714 he built Fort Christanna on the Meherrin which is a branch of the Roanoke River. That same year he brought German colonist to settle on the Rapidan River. This colony was called Germanna. In August of 1716 Gov.Spotswood and a troop of horsemen set out to explore beyond the Blue Ridge. Tidewater roads were smooth and horses did not need to be shoed there, but for a mountain exploration the horses would need to be shoed so they stopped at Germanna to have the horses shod. At Germanna the explorers were joined by 2 companies of rangers made up of 6 men and 1 officer, and 4 Meherrin Indians used as guides. They followed the Rapidan to it's headwaters.They climbed the east side of the Blue Ridge to Swift Run Gap, ( 10 miles west of Stanardsville, which is present day Greene County). The next day they rode down the western slope of the mountains and on to the Shenandoah River. The Gov. buried a bottle there containing a statement that all of the land drained by the Shenandoah River was property of King George 1. The Gov. gave each man that was on the trip with him pins of gold in the shape of horseshoes studded with jewels, and the Latin words on each pin said " What a pleasure it is to cross the mountains". These genlemen became known as " The Knights of the Golden Horseshoes". The Gov. wanted people to settle the Shenandoah Valley that were friendly to England and Va. to share in the fur trade with the Indians and serve as a barrier of protection for the eastern part of Va. In 1720 the general assembly made 2 new counties on the frontier called Brunswick and Spotsyvania. People that settled in this region were granted lands and tax exemptions for 10 yrs. Next- Germans come to the valley of Va.
After the organization of Hudson's Bay Company in 1668 Sir William Berkeley ordered Col.Abraham Wood to send an expedition to find the Great Lakes and a northwest passage to the Pacific Ocean. Col.Wood was a wealthy land owner and Indian trader whose headquarters were at Fort Henry ( now Petersburg). From there in 1671 he sent out an expedition under Thomas Batts and Robert Fallam.These 2 men went up the Roanoke Valley, crossed the Blue Ridge, & the 1st crest of the Allegheny Mts. & to the New River. The spot they made camp on is today the town of Narrows in Giles County. On Sept.17,1671 Batts and Fallam claimed this land and all land west of it in the name of King Charles 2. They marked the spot by burning the king's initials into one tree,& the initials of Gov.Berkeley & Abraham Wood into another.On a 4th tree they put their own initials. They were the 1st white men to leave any record of exploration of Southwest,Va. Two years later Col.Abraham Wood sent out another expedition led by James Needham.Friendly Cherokee Indians helped Needham and his party push westward. They crossed 9 streams which flow eastward into the Staunton and James Rivers. Then they crossed the headwaters of the New River and climbed a ridge where they could see the streams that flow southwest to form the Tennessee River. The next year while leading an expedition in western N.C. Needham was killed by his Indian guide at a ford on the Yadkin River.
I have received a lot of e-mail saying thank you for the history of Bristol and my bits and pieces. I am really glad you like them and find them useful. Please, no need for thanks! This was the only way I could think of to repay and thank all of you list people. Every one of you have bent over backwards to help me every time I beg for family lookups and I always get my questions answered (even the dumb ones). I have learned a lot of history and found a lot of cousins and ancestors through these list. It is I who owes the thank you, and needs to contribute in some way. Each and every one of you I appreciate and respect greatly. When you tire of the history yell at me enough, OK? I really love doing it and I am starting to type a little faster (LOL) . Here is a start of Virginians Go west which I found interesting: Most of the land between the Atlantic and Pacific Ocean belonged to Va. under the charter their King had given them. Virginians were interested in the land west but did not move beyond Tidewater during the 1st hundred years of the colony. In 1700 all the settlements were within a line drawn from the modern Suffolk westward to present day Petersburg, then northward to present day Richmond, Fredricksburg, & Aquia Creek. The reasons no one had gone westward before 1700 was: ( 1.) every farmer wanted land which touched Chesapeake Bay or the rivers that ran into it. There were not many good roads so waterways were used to take goods to market. (2) farmers had built comfortable homes and prosperous farms in Tidewater. (3) they could go safely from one settlement to another in boats, (4) Tidewater still at that time was not populated enough to feel overcrowded, ( They should see it now,LOL) , and (5) the main reason was they knew on the eastern side of the Blue Ridge were the Iroquois Indians, they feared no settelers home would be safe from these Indians. Will continue later. Thank you all again and God Bless one and all.
Wythe County is named for George Wythe who was one of the signers of the Declaration of Independence. Dec.1,1789 from Montgomery County, Wytheville is county seat.( 1790- present). Tazewell County named for Henry Tazewell,a U.S.senator created Dec.17,1799 from Russell & Wythe County, County seat, Tazewell. First land surveyed 1748 in Burke's Garden area. James Burke settled there in 1754. He and his wife were killed by Indians there 20 yrs. later. Several Forts were around during the late 18th century for protection from the Indians. Here is a list of some of the Forts: MAIDEN SPRINGS FORT, BIG CRAB ORCHARD FORT ( 1771), WILLIAM WYNN"E"S FORT (1776), Tazewell was established 1800, on land given by Samuel Ferguson & William Perry. The 1st mine in the Pocahontas Coalfield was opened 1882 in Pocahontas. Smyth County - named for Alexander Smyth, Brigadier General, War of 1812. County seat-Marion ( 1853-present). In 1782 Arthur Campbell realized commercial potential of salt deposist around Saltville and developed. Slave labor ( over 2,000) produced hundreds of thousands of bushels of salt for the Confederacy during the Civil War. In 1864 the Union and Confederacy fought 2 battles over the salt. Lee County named for Henry " Light Horse, Harry" Lee a Rev.War officer and gov. of Va. ( 1791-1794) was created Oct. 25,1792 from Russell County. County seat- Jonesville.