Ahnentafel #429 - Martha (--?--)

Martha (--?--)
Born: ca. 1755
Died: after 1820 in Kentucky

Buried: Unknown

Married: 1) John Durall ca. 1769 probably in North Carolina
2) John Keath, Dec. 10, 1820 in Muhlenberg Co., Kentucky

Records:

1786 - John Durall on tax list in Capt. Whitehead's District

• 1 male 21-60
• 2 males -21 or 60 +2
• 2 females
• 0 blacks
• listed b/t Frederick Bearfield & Samuel Turner; Other surnames on page: Taylor, Killigens, Whitfield, Parker, Jones, Dobson, Sullivan, Sollis, Outlaw, Swinson, Westbrook, Hines, Pipkin, Alberson, Brock, Stroud, Dun, Wilkins . . . Martha could be from any of these families or not.  Several of these families moved on to Kentucky. 

Photos & Documents

All a genealogist ever wants for Christmas! Thanks to Robbin (Downey) Russell for these photos and documents.  

Zelphia (Lathrop) Shelton

Sisters who married brothers, Zelphia & Ruby (Lathrop) Shelton

Ahnentafel #428 - John Durall

John Durall

Born: ca. 1750
Died: 1808 Muhlenberg County, Kentucky

Buried: Unknown

Married: ca. 1770 Martha (--?--)

A John D. Durell b. ca. 1769 married Nov. 20, 1788 Martha Bibb in St. James Northern Parish, Goochland Co., VA. She was the daughter of Benjamin & Mary (Arnett) Bibb. It has not be determined if these are our grandparents. 

Records:

1776-1781 - John served with a North Carolina regiment during the American Revolution. The National Archives finds no military record for him, but he is listed as a Revolutionary soldier from Wilmington. 

Notebook - England, Canada, Ireland & Scotland No. 2

Allison, K.J. A History of the County of York, East Riding, Vol. II, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1974.

Map of the Wapentake of Dickering includes towns/parishes Lowthorpe, 

In 1086 the East Riding was the only part of Yorkshire which was divided into hundreds. The transformation of hundreds into wapentakes had already been completed in the other two ridings and was in various stages of completion in the rest of the Danelaw. The change took place in the East Riding during the next 80 years and by the 1160s the 18 Domesday hundreds had been formed into 6 wapentakes. Dickering wapentake, first mentioned in 1166, was broadly coextensive with the three Domesday hundreds of Hunthou, Turbar and Burton.

Burton hundred took its name from its principal township of Burton Agnes. It contained in 1086 the remainder of the townships, mostly in the centre and west, which make up Dickering wapentake. These were Binnington, Boythorpe, Burton Agnes, Butterwick, Carnaby, Caythorpe, Ganton, Gransmoor, Haisthorpe, Harpham, Kilham, Langtoft, Lowthorpe, Octon, Potter Brompton, Rudston, Ruston Parva, Swaythorpe, Thornholme, Thorpe, Thwing and Willerby, together with 'Fornetorp' later depopulated. 

The hundreds of Hunthou, Turbar, and Burton were probably grouped around the large manors of Bridlington, Hunmanby and Burton Agnes respectively. . . . Burton Agnes had 3 berewicks and soke in 5 townships in Burton. 

The wapentake remained in the hands of the Crown until at least the mid 17th century. In 1552 and 1567 the office of wapentake bailiff, traceable from c. 1220 was granted for life to successive holders, the second of whom was rewarded out of the issues of this and other wapentakes.

Ahnentafel #427 - Susanna Doggett

Susanna Doggett

Born: ca. 1740
Died: before 1822

Buried: Unknown

Married: ca. 1760 Charles Morgan

Records:

1779 - Aug. 26 - Charles Morgan and Susanna his wife of Fauquier Co., Virginia conveyed to Michael Keppel of "Shennando" for 1,100 pounds current money 430 acres granted to William Morgan, father of said Charles.  Recorded in Shenandoah Co., Deed Book C, p. 190.

1791 - Apr. 9 - Susanna is mentioned in her father's will: 

Research Log: Fitch Sermon re: Anne Mason, Part II

The conclusion of Rev. James Fitch's sermon honoring Anne (Peck) Mason.  

The Second Particular follows, what our duty is in observing these observable things; The Lord calls us to mark and behold:

Quest. What is the making and beholding?

Ans. It's an affectionate Attention of the minde, It's as when the eye affects the heart, and the heart being affected keeps the eye looking upon the Object, you have the like expression in another place, used by Jobs friends to Job Job 33:31, Mark well. Oh Job, and hearken to me, hold thy peace and I will speak, Oh mark well the life and latter end of the upright! Oh hearken to what the Lord improves to the Prophet, when he would prepare him for the Visions of the Ordinances of his House, Ezek 44.5 The Lord said, Son of Man, mark well, and behold with thine Eyes, & hear are with thine Ears all that I say to thee, concerning the Ordinances of mine House, and mark well the entring into it; But in my Text the Lord Saith, Mark the perfect and behold the upright, it's as if the Lord had said, as I wou'd have you mark well and behold mine Ordinances, so I do require you

Ahnentafel #426 - Charles Morgan

Charles Morgan

Born: ca. 1740 Prince William Co., Virginia
Died: 1822 Muhlenberg Co., Kentucky

Buried: Unknown

Married: Susanna Doggett in Virginia before 1766

Occupation: land agent, farmer, ran a grist mill with his sons at old Millport, near the mouth of Isaac's Creek, Muhlenberg Co., Kentucky.

Following the close of the Revolutionary War, many of the officers and soldiers received military land grants in the wilderness of Virginia west of the Cumberland Mountains. A great area was reserved for this purpose. The boundary line ran roughly from the headwaters of Green River eastward to the Cumberland Mountains thence southward with said mountains to the Tennessee line, thence westward with said line to the Tennessee River, thence up the Ohio River to the Green River, thence up said river to the beginning.  Prior to 1792, the ear that Kentucky was admitted as a state, all grants of land had been made by Virginia. There were three classes of grants (1) settlement preemption (2) military and (3) Virginia Land Office treasury warrants. Any person could buy a Land Office treasury warrant covering a specified number of acres of unreserved and vacant land west of the Cumberland Mountains. However, it was necessary for the holder of such a warrant to survey and plainly mark the boundary of the survey, then file his claim with a branch Land Office, where it must remain on record for six months before issuance of the deed.   It was in this field that Charles Morgan built his reputation as a noted land agent of Kentucky. He established his business shortly after the close of the War in what later became Clark County, Kentucky. He employed numerous agents and operated from this location until about 1801, when he moved westward, settled in Muhlenberg County and continued his land business with his eldest son, Willis Morgan.  The Virginia Land Grant records in the Kentucky Land Office show that he surveyed millions of acres for his clients and surveyed and purchased in his own name over 100,000 acres covered by some twenty grants from 1783 to 1789 in Jefferson, Fayette, Bourbon and Mason Counties.  In a series of books entitled Fayette Entries are recorded some seventy-nine deed granted in his name, plus many joint ownership grants. In addition to surveying and tradining in land, Willis Morgan established a trading post, grist mill and shipping post on Pond River, named Millport, about 1805.  Flatboats were built, loaded with produce and floated down Pond River and on to the market of New Orleans.

Research Log - Fitch Sermon re: Anne Mason

Anne (Peck) Mason was born 1618 in Hingham, Norfolk, England, the daughter of the Rev. Robert & Anne (Lawrence) Peck.  She immigrated to Massachusetts with her family at age 19 arriving in 1638.  The next  year she married Major John Mason and moved to Windsor, Connecticut.  Two years later her parents went back to England during the Long Parliament and the English Civil War.  Anne & John Mason had seven children.  Anne (Peck) Mason died in Norwich, Connecticut in 1672 and this is the sermon her son-in-law the Rev. James Fitch wrote in her honor.

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Peace

The End of the Perfect and Upright,

Demonstrated and usefully Improved in a

Sermon,

Preached upon the Occasion of the Death and Decease of that

Piously Affected and truly Religious Matron,

Mrs. Anne Mason

Sometime Wife to Major Mason, who not long

After finished his Course, and is now at rest.