thank you very much for that, my connection with this family is with the Vestals who went to California. I am very happy to that information. It was very hard finding the Vestal line that went to Ca, Dianne -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] <[email protected]> To: [email protected] <[email protected]> Date: Sunday, September 17, 2000 8:57 PM Subject: [VESTAL-L] SOURCE: "Geneology of the Vestal Family from 1683 to 1893" >I found this in my files and thought someone might be interested. I know >most have probably seen it before. > >Barbara Vestal Byrd >========================= > ><A HREF="http://www.fred.net/vestal/asaintvw.html">http://www.fred.net/vestal/ >asaintvw.html</A> > >SOURCE: "Geneology of the Vestal Family from 1683 to 1893", From the >Mendenhall/Lightfoot file folder collections at the Historical Society of >Pennsylvania, 1300 Locust St., Philadelphia, PA 19107 > >In the year 1682 William Penn founded Philadelphia. In the following year >there arrived from England two thousand emigrants; with the came one William >Vestal; original progenitor of the family of that name. Two brothers started >from London, England, Daniel and William, young men. Daniel died on the ocean >and was buried at sea. On board William formed an attachment for a young >woman from Wales named Elizabeth Messer, when they arrived at Philadelphia >they married. Nothing is said about the old gentleman, but that he was an >earnest and consistent members of the society of Friends (Quakers). To our >knowledge seven children came to the estate on manhood; they were David, >James, William, John, Thomas, Jemima and Mary. Of these very little is know >to us. Their father built a large stone house in which he lived and died. The >son John lived at the homestead. On of the girls married a man by the name of >Chapman and moved to South Carolina. William remained single. Thomas >emigrated to Chatham Co., North Carolina and married Elizabeth Davis; they >had ten children viz: Jemima, Thomas, Hannah, Mary, William, Rachel, John, >Jesse, David and Silas. >Jemima married Joseph Doane and moved to Hamilton Co., Ohio, in the earliest >settlement of that State. Of their several children we know nothing. >Thomas, commonly called Faubush Tom married a Miss Thomas. They had seven >children viz: William, Mary, Elizabeth, Jemimah, Rachel, Thomas and John. His >first wife dying he married a widow name Margaret Zacery; they had one >daughter, a remarkably handsome lass named Olivia. They lived and died in >Surrey County., N.C. He bore arms in the revolutionary struggle, thereby >depriving him of church membership, though very young at the time. >Hanna married John Pickett and lived and died in Chatham Co., N.C. Mary >married Wm. Marshall. They also lived in the same Co. >William Vestal married Mary Wheeler; they had eight children viz: Thomas, >John, William, David, Solomon, Alfred, Zemrey and Mary. He died in the old >settlement on Rocky River. Rachel married Stephen Hobson and moved to Surrey >Co., N.C. They had seven children viz: Thomas, William, George, David, >Stephan, Annie and Elizabeth. >John Vestal married Hannah Dickson and moved to Ohio. They had some children; >but he died young. Jesse Vestal married Sophia McDonald. They lived in >Chatham Co., N.C. They had nine children viz: Elizabeth, Jemima, Silas, Asa, >Mary, William, John, Messer A, and Tilman. Jesse was left a widower at thirty >odd. He never married again but spent the balance of his life in travel. He >died in Chatham Co., N.C. aged 82 years. >David Vestal married Elizabeth York. They had several children. As far as >known their names were Hiram, Seymour and Sarah. He married a second wife, a >Miss Evans. He lived and died in Chatham Co., N.C. >Silas Vestal married Rachel Calberson. Their Children as far as known are >Jesse, Zemrey, Rachel and Solomon. He lived and died on the Rocky River. >Chatham Co., N.C. "Faubush" Tom Vestal's first, was Mary, married William >Hamblin of Surrey, Co., N.C. Jemima married, name unknown to us, and moved to >Indiana. Rachel married a Jonathan North of Surrey and moved to Indiana. >Thomas commonly called red-headed Tom, married Obediana William and moved to >California. They had several children viz: as far as known William, Louis, >Harden, Mary, Sarah, Lucinda, Anna and Thomas. >Wm. Vestal and Mary Wheeler's family settled as follows: Thomas Vestal >married a girl named Brower; had a large family; names unknown to us. They >lived and died in Chatham Co., N.C. John Vestal moved to the town of Belford >Indiana; was a man of wealth and integrity. He married there and raised five >children. of the family nothing more is known by us. >Wm. Vestal married Miss Nubia; lived in Chatham Co.; family unknown to us. >David Vestal also married a miss Nubia. They had some children; he died >young; was killed trying to save the life of his father. >Solomon Vestal married a Miss Branson and lived in Chatham Co. N.C. >Alfred Vestal married a Dutch girl named Staley; lived and died in the same >Co. >Zemry Vestal unknown. Mary Vestal married a Nubia; brother to the wives of >her brothers. They also lived in Chatham Co., N.C. >Rachel and Stephen Hobson's family having lived more immediately in our >neighborhood and being very intimate, we will step out of our original design >and say that Thomas married a Miss Williams and moved to Indiana, of them >nothing more is known. >Wm. Hobson married a Miss Hadley and raised a numerous family. They lived in >Surrey Co., N.C. >George Hobson married Annie Marshall and moved to Indiana. >David Hobson married a Miss Annie Hadley. They had ten children viz: Hadley, >Lemuel, Rachel, Ruth, George, Alfred, William, David, Elizabeth and Joshua >Stephen Hobson was married four times. His first wife was named Bond. They >had children as follows: William David; Annie, Caleb, Jesse and Stephen. The >second wife was named Elizabeth Vestal, a member of out family. They had one >child. The third wife was named Moore; they had several children. They lived >in Surrey Co., N.C. >Annie Hobson married a Marshall and moved to Indiana. One other daughter of >Aunt Rachel Hobson married a Jonathan Wiles and moved to Indiana. >The family of John vestal and Hannah Droxson are unknown to us. >Jesse Vestal and Sophia McDonald's family comes next in order. Elizabeth >Vestal married Joshua Barker of Chatham Co., N. C. They had seven children >viz: Ruth, Samuel, Brantly, Jemima, Ameria, Tilman and Jesse. >Jemima Vestal and Benjamin Cox married and moved to Indiana near >Indianapolis. Their children were Lavina, Paulina, Asa, and the names of the >rest we do not know. Silas Vestal married Bethsheba Jones of Surrey Co., N.C. >They had four children viz: Alexander, Isaac, Nancy and Caswell. He died in >Tenn. >Asa Vestal married Elizabeth De Jarnette; they had six children: Richard, >Martha (dead), Emily (dead), Columbus (dead), DeWitt C. and William (dead). >They were married in Surrey Co., N.C.; moved to Missouri and in 1819 moved to >California and settled in San Jose, Santa Clara Co. (where they lived until >their death in Dec. 1883). >Mary Vestal married one of the same name and line, John T. Vestal. They moved >near Nashville, Tenn. Their children are named Anderson, William, Henderson, >Jessie and Eliza. >William Vestal married first Nancy Runnels of East Tenn. Their children is as >far as known: Jesse, Madison, Tilman, Eliza, William, Maria, Lucinda and >Martha. He has been married to four wives. P.O. address is Bentonville, >Arkansas. >Messer. Amos Vestal married Rhonda Mendenhall; their children are Delphina, >Laura, William and Tilman. P.O. Nashville, Tenn. John died single in Paducah, >Ky. Tilman Vestal married in South Carolina; his children are unknown to us. >He know lives in Alabama. > >The above genealogy was dictated by Asa Vestal son of Jesse Vestal and Sophia >McDonald in the year 1862. >Return to main page. > > >==== VESTAL Mailing List ==== >Please Help Support Rootsweb! By becoming a member, your donation will continue to have this great surname e-mail list, and the new surname boards on a website at Rootsweb! Your donations are the only thing that keep them going! Just go to: http://www.rootsweb.com/ > >