Small Notebook - New England / Virginia

Brooke, Ted, trans. "Buckingham County 1788 Personal Property Tax List, Magazine of Virginia Genealogy, Vol. 55, No. 3, 2017. [Virginia Personal Property Tax List, Buckingham Co., 1783, mf RG48: Auditor of Public Acconts, Library of Virginia, Richmond]

Continued from Volume 55, No. 2, Column headings:

• Date 1788
• Persons Nameds Charged with the Tax
• Names of White Tithes
• [Number of White Tithes]
• Blacks Above 16 [number]
• Blacks Under 16 & Above 12 [number]
• Horses [number]
• Studs
• Rate pr season
• Carriages

Note: No quantities are given for the last three columns: Studs, Rate pr Season and Carriages except in rare cases and are only shown here where they appear in the tax list. It appears that "Names of White Tithes" are given only where different from the name of "Persons names

Small Notebook - NGS / Indiana

Bates, Alan, et al. "Falls Cities Ferries: A Note," Indiana Magazine of History, Vol. XCV, No. 3, Sept. 1999.

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Carter, James. Diseases & Death in the Nineteenth Century: A Genealogical Perspective, National Genealogical Quarterly, Vol. 76, No. 4, Dec. 1988.

Abstract: The study of diseases and causes of death yields important findings for the genealogist. Death certificates (limited in number prior to the twentieth century) contain useful information for identifying ancestors; the mortality schedules of several nineteenth-century federal censuses provide the month and cause of death; and church registers, within some denominations, yield some information on deaths of members. However, having a knowledge of the meanings of variou medical terms used in these records is also of interest to genealogical researchers. Information obtained in this manner not only better informs them about their forebears but also could lead to the detection of a familial or inherited disease in specific familes. To help the genealogist in the study of medically oriented records, this article treats three areas. First, a brief history of medicine and the medical profession during the nineteenth century is

Book Purge

Hamilton County Courthouse, McLeansboro, IL

Neff, Lea. Abstracts of Wills Hamilton County, Illinois, 1821-1915, Wayne City, IL: Family Ties, 1986.

Page 14 - Samuel M. Butler of Dahlgren, Will Box #1, File #134, written 10/5/1888, age 69, witnesses: A.M. Grigg, W.W. Hunter, no date of death, filed, 12/31/1888, real estate & personal property, Exe. wife Mary J. Butler. Heirs: son Charles W. Butler, daughter Mary Wisler

Page 32 - William W. Fitzgarrold of McLeansboro, Will Box #1, File #141, written 11/17/1890 age 63, wit: Herman Vorderbruggen, George W. Gross, Ed. H. Bowen all of McLeansboro, died 11/26/1890, filed 11/28/1890, real estate in Witchata, [Wichita?] KS & personal property, Exe. son Jerry Miah F. Fitzgarrold.  Heirs: son William Anderson Fitzgarrold, dau: Rebecka Ellen Fitzgarrold, Celista Jane (Fitzgarrold) Bond, grandsons: John Acker Fitzgarrold, William Thomas Fitzgarrold, granddau: Elizabeth Jane Fitzgarrold, Amy Adaline Fitzgarrold

Page 34 - Louisa Jane Garrison of Dahlgren, probate section B, Box #66, FIle #20, written 11/22/1905, wit: H.M. Echols, J.H. Voliva, L. Auxier, died 5/24/1907, filed 5/24/1907, real estate & personal property, ex: Elias Chalon Williamson, heirs: son Ambrose Maulding & his heirs, no relation given: Sidney Wilson Irwin, Elias Chalon Williamson

Page 45 - John Hopkins, Probate Section B, Box #1, File #14, date: 9/10/1834, wit: Robert Vanderventer, Mason Morris, filed: 9/25/1834, real estate & personal property, ex: Benjamine Hood.

Book Purge - Scotland

Edinburgh, Scotland

Dobson, David. The Original Scots Colonis of Early America 1612-1783, Baltimore, MD: Genealogical Publishing Company, Inc. 1989.

Page vi - The record for each individual contains a maximum of twenty-three points of information in the following order: name, date of birth/baptism, place of birth, occupation, place of education, cause of banishment (where applicable), residence [res], names of parents [pts], date of emigration and whether voluntarily shipped [sh] or involuntarilty transported [tr], port of embarkation, destination, name of ship, place of arrival [arr], date of arrival, place of settlement, name of spouse, names of children, date of death, place of death, where buried, probate record & source citation. 

I've excluded the Darien Colony settlers and most of the island settlements such as Barbados, Jamaica and Leeward Islands. 

Book Purge - Genealogies

Arthaud, John. A Head Family History, Boston, MA: Newbury Street Press, 1999. 

Pages 145-152 Appendix B - Lingan Fmily  

George Lingan d. Calvert Co., MD ca. 1710, md. Anne (--?--). Children: 

1. Thomas Lingan md. Martha Cockshutt

2. Anne b. say 1670, d. by 8/7/1718 md. Edward Boteler

3. Martha Lingan md. Josiah Wilson, a gentleman, who died in Prince Georges Co., MD b/t 11 Nov & 5 Dec. 1717. His will named his wife Martha, five sons and 1 daughter. Sons Josiah & Lingan were named executors and the first division was to occur when Lingan reached 16.  Josiah was the son of James.  See Shearer, Ralph & Star Wilson Rowland. Wilsons & Burchells & Related Families, 1608-1976 for more information. 

4. Katherine Lingan md. 1) ca. 1690 Henry Boteler (brother of Edward above), b. say 1667 Calvert Co., MD, d. Prince Georges Co., MD 1713. 2) by 1722 Richard Normandsell.  Richard died by 1729. Katherine died by November Court 1725. 

1a. Martha Lingan b. b/t 1706 & 1722

1b. Ann Lingan b. before 1722

1c. Elizabeth Lingan b. before 1722

1d. Thomas Lingan b. b/t 1722 & 1734

1e. George Lingan b. b/t 1722 & 1734

Book Purge

Beverley Minster, Yorkshire, England

Continental Historical Bureau. History of Jefferson County, Illinois 1810-1962, Mt. Vernon, IL: Continental Historical Bureau, 1962.

Pages 2-3 -  The admission of the Illinois to the Union occurred December 3, 1818; the County of Jefferson was organized March 26, 1819, a periof of 113 days later.  The official beginning of Mt. Vernon took place June 7, 1819, seventy-three days after the organization; it wa only 186 days after the state had officially been admitted to the Union until Mt. Vernon was officially born.

The procedure took place int he following manner: After Illinois became the twenty-first state of the federal union and the legislature was in legal functioning order, an Act of the Legislature was passed March 26, 1819, which created Jefferson County. The Act also provided for five Commissioners to select a permanent seat of justice and to designate it as such. These Commissioners were appointed yb the Legislature instead of the citizens of the county. The five who were authorized wree: Ambrose Maulding, Lewis Barker. James Richardson and Richard Graham. 

Pages N4-N5 - New Hope (Webb) Missionary Baptist Church.  The exact date this church was organized is not known.  It is on record of being ost to the annual Baptist Association in the year 1858.  It is presumed the church existed for quite some time previous to this date. 

The first minutes on record are of 1862. New Hope had no pastor at that time. Messengers to the

Book Purge - Vermont

Crockett, Walter. Soldiers of the Revolutionary War Buried in Vermont, Baltimore, MD: Clearfield Company, Inc., 2003.

Section 1 Revolutionary Soldiers Interred in Vermont - by town

Page 23 - Brooks, Ebenezer - Dummerston

Page 25 - Hazen, William - Grand Isle 

Page 38  - Swanton

• Brooks, Azariah
• Brooks, Eleazer
• Brooks, Hananiah

Page 40 - Parks, Elijah - Wells

Page 42 - Brooks, John - Winhall 

Section 3 Pensioners Under the Act of June 7, 1832 - by county

Page 56 - Brooks, Alpheus - Addison Co. 

Page 63 - Lathrop, Elisha - Washington Co. 

Book Purge - Illinois / Plymouth Colony

Clay County Genealogical Society. Clay Roots, Summer, Louisville, IL: Clay County Genealogical Society, 1997.

Page 6 - Lewis Family Tree by Jennie Lewis 

Gen. 1. Thomas Lewis b. ca. 1637, d. 1676 md. Catherine Blyssard

Gen. 2

a Richard b. 1657, d. 1719 md. Elizabeth (--?--)

b Thomas b. 1659 

c David b. 1662 md. Jane (--?--)

d John 

e Anne

f. Margaret

Gen. 3

c1 William 

c2 John

c3 Benjamin

c4 Jane

Book Purge - Illinois - Clay County

Clay County Genealogical Society. Clay Roots, Summer, Louisville, IL: Clay County Genealogical Society, 1994

Page 5 - Partial List of Clay County Soldiers who were Interred in Clay County During Hostilities of the Civil War - columns: name, date of death, unit, cemetery

• Hardin, John S. 10/29/1861, unit unknown, Burke, Bible Grove Twp.

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Clay County Genealogical Society. Clay Roots, Fall, Louisville, IL: Clay County Genealogical Society, 1994

Pages 20-24 - Eleventh Regiment, Missouri Infantry Volunteers

The report of the Adjutant General, State of Missouri, 1865, gives the following information: Eleventh Regimental Infantry, Missouri Volunteers was raised in the states of Missouri & Illinois between mid June and August, 1861 and organized the first of August the same year at the U.S. Arsenal at St. Louis,

Book Purge - Illinois - Clay County

Oak Mound Cemetery, Clay Co., IL

Clay County Genealogical Society. Clay Roots, Louisville, IL: Clay County Genealogical Society, Summer 1993.

Page 1 - Bible Grove Township - This township is situated in the northeast corner of Clay County. It's name was derived from the fact that a Bible was found by hunters in a grove near where Georgetown stood. Bible Grove is at town 5 north, range 7 east and lies between Effingham County on the north, and Hoosier Township on the south. On the east the boundary is Pixley Township and Jasper County and the west by Blair Township. In the northeast corner, running through Section 1 & 12 is Limestone Branch, on the banks of which John Pulliam settled in the early days. 

Cottonwood Creek rises in Section 12, flows south and leaves the township in Section 36. It is fed in many tributaries arising in Little Prairie which lies west of it. Little Muddy Creek rises in Effingham County and enters the township in Section 33.

Book Purge - Illinois - Clay County

Clay County Genealogical Society

Clay County Genealogical Society. Clay Roots, Vol. IV, No. 4, Winter, 1992, Louisville, IL: Clay Couny Genealogical Society. [first page is numbered 223] 

Page 241 - The Flora Journal-Record 1920s - The Flora Building Boom, more than 100 new houses two years. Record since securing international shoe factory. Milestones in the life of a town or city occur similar to those in the individual lives of the people. The Flora of a quarter century age is so unlike the city of today as to cause comment from those who knew the "old town" in its earlier period.

We have taken the time and effort to collect some statistics on material growth of Flora and find that most of the excellent modern buildings are creatures since 1903. 

From 1903 to 1922 we have listed the following new business or other buildings:

• Carnegie Library 1903
• Ebner Ice & Cold Storage 1903
• City Hall 1904
• Two ward school buildings 1906
• High school 1912
• M.E. Church 1914
• B&O station 1916-17

Book Purge - Illinois

Clay County Genealogical Society. Clay Roots, 2010 Annual Publication, Vol. XXII, Louisville, IL: Clay County Genealogical Society, 2010.

List of Taxable Real Estate in the Town of Songer, 1890, pages, 2-14 

Columns: Name, Description, Acres, Land Patentee, Description, Date

• Anderson, David S. nw1/4nw1/4, s15, t3, r5, 40 a, Nancy Blackburn n1/2nw, 1/17/1853
• Lucas, Mary C. Spt E1/2, ,NE1/4 s13, t3, r5, 20 a, Silas Brooks, e1/2 ne, 9/19/1837
• Sefton, A.P. nw1/4nw1/4, s13, t3, r5, 40 a, Micajah Brooks, w1/2, nw 6/19/1836
• Aetna Life Insurance Co., se1/4NW1/4, s13, t3, r5, 40 a, Micajah Brooks senw, 1/21/1836
• Sefton, Henry nw1/4sw1/4, s13, t3, r5, 40 a, Elijah Brooks, nwsw, 6/19/1838
• Sefton, D.M. n1/2sw1/4, s13, t3, r5, 20 a, Micajah Brooks nesw, 1/21/1836
• Sefton, Henry ne/14se1/4, s13, t3, r5, 40 a Micajah Brooks e1/2se, 10/22/1839
• Aetna Life Insurance Co. w1/2se1/4, s13, t3, r5, 80 a, Silas Brooks, w1/2se, 9/19/1837
• Sefton, Henry ne14/23/14, s14, t3, r5, 40 a, Elizah Brooks, n1/2se 9/13/1847
• Hendy, Wm. se1/4se1/4 s14, t3, r5, 40 a William Brooks, sese 10/22/1839
• Hendy, J.B. w1/2ne1/4ne1/4, s24, t3, r5, William Brooks, nene 11/21/1837
• Colclasure, J.P. ne1/4nw1/4 s24, 3, r5, Micajah Brooks nw, 10/22/1839
• Colclasure, W.H. se1/4se1/4 s13, t3, r5, 40 a, no patentee
• Howard, Cyrus se1/4sw1/4 s13, t3, r5, 40 a, Richard R. Colclasure, sesw 8/28/1852

In Memoriam - Joe Boone

Joe Marshall Boone

Born: April 27, 1956, Fairfield, Wayne Co., IL

Died: May 23, 2025, Fairfield, Wayne Co., IL

Married: September 10, 1974 Barbara Robertson  

No children

Ahnentafel:

1. Joe Boone b. 1956, d. 2025

2. Olen Boone b. 1918, d. 2009

3. Mary Katherine Vaughan, b. 1927, d. 1992

Joe Marshall Boone, 69, of Fairfield, passed away at 9:33 am on Friday, May 23, 2025 at his home.

Joe was born on April 27, 1956 in Fairfield, IL to Olen and Mary (Vaughan) Boone. He graduated from Merriam Grade School, Fairfield Community High School and Frontier Community College, earning his associate in science degree. On September 10, 1974, he maried the love of his life, Barbara (Robertson) Boone, in Trenton, TN.

Book Purge - Illinois

Clay County Genealogical Society. Clay Roots, Vol. XXI, Louisville, IL: Clay County Genealogical Society, 2010.

p. 64 5 generation chart of Mary Ann Bryan translated as ahnentafel

1. Mary Ann Bryan, b. 13 Dec 1923 Clay Co., IL, d. [FindaGrave indicates burial in Ingraham Cemetery] md. 12 Aug. 1945 Champaign, IL Garland Walter Heinrich Poehler

2. Norva Cassel Bryan b. 9 Apr 1887 Clay Co., IL, d. 13 Dec. 1971 Bible Grove Twp., Clay Co., IL, md. 12 Dec. 1906 Clay Co., IL

3. Anna Colborn b. 30 Aug. 1886 Richland Co., IL, d. 23 June 1975 Clay Co., IL

4. Wesley Ingraham Bryan b. 14 Aug. 1852 Bible Grove Twp., Clay Co. Il, d. 16 Oct. 1925 Clay Co., IL md. 22 Aug 1875 Clay Co., IL

5. Catherine Isabel Smith b. 21 Apr 1858 Clay Co., IL, d. 13 Jan 1931 Clay Co., IL

6. Thomas Jefferson Colborn b. 10 Mar 1852 Richland Co., IL, d. 11 Apr 1923 Richland Co., IL md. 19 Nov. 1877 Richland Co., IL

Book Purge - Capon Valley, Vol. II, Part 2

Pugh, Maud. Capon Valley: Its Pioneers & Their Descendants 1698 to 1940, Vol. II, Baltimore, MD: Clearfield Company, Inc., 2000.  Originally printed in 1946.

p. 281 Brills, Confederate Veterans

Company K, Captain Pyles, 18th Virginia Cavalry:

• Joseph Brill
• Isaac Brill
• L.S. Brill
• W.P. Brill
• L.P. Brill

Company E, 24rd Virginia Cavalry, J. Mort, Captain - Harrison Brill

Company D, 11th Virginia Cavalry, E.H. McDonald, Captain - Mathias Brill killed at Darksville

Company B, 18th Virginia Cavalry, George W. Stump, Captain: 

• Joseph Brill
• John H. Brill
• Morgan Brill, killed
• perhaps others not reported

Book Purge - Capon Valley, Vol. II, Part 1

Capon Bridge, West Virginia

Pugh, Maud. Capon Valley: Its Pioneers & Their Descendants 1698 to 1940, Vol. II, Baltimore, MD: Clearfield Company, Inc., 2000.  Originally printed in 1946.

p. 20 Fort Edwards: This fort was built by Joseph Edwards on his 400-acre ract, lying on both sides of Capon River, where Capon Bridge now [p. 21] stands. It was completed in or before the year 1748. It stood about one-half mile below where the old North Western Turnpike at a later date crossed Capon near a ferryboat crossing.

This Fort, located on the west side of the river, enclosed a never-failing spring of water, the same spring used by the family of Mr. Fenton Riley at this time, who lives north of and near Capon Bridge High School.

Fort Edwards must have been large, considering that it was for some years the only safe shelter from the Indians nearer than Wincheser and, it is thought, saved nearly all the families then in the whole Capon Valley from slaughter during the early Indian warfare. 

The 400 acres was willed by Edwards to Samuel and Jesse Pugh, his grandson, the latter being the great grandfather of Mr. Amos L. Pugh, and he former the reputed founder of Capon Bridge, Settlement "the Ferry" - Mary Edwards, daughter of Joseph Edwards, married Robert Pugh, father of Samuel and Jessie. They, Robert and Mary, were later parents of ten other children, twelve in all. 

Book Purge - Capon Valley Vol. I

Pugh, Maud. Capon Valley: Its Pioneers & Their Descendants, 1698 to 1940, Baltimore, MD: Clearfield Company, 1995.  Originally published in 1948. 

p. 21 Hampshire County, Now, West Virginia, This division of the Old Dominion was first Spottsylvania County, 1720 to 1734, then Orange County, 1734 to 1738. In the year 1738 the portion of Orange County, Virginia, west of the Blue Ridge, was made into two counties, Augusta and Frederick, since there were already many settlements there.  Frederick county embraced the lower, or northern part of Shenandoah Valley with Winchester as the county seat, and Augusta, the southern or pper, with Staunton as the county seat.  This division embraced the whole Northwest Territory which extended to the Mississippi River and from this Hampshire, the oldest county in West Virginia, was chiefly formed in 1754, in pursuance of an Article passed by the General Assembly on December 13, 1753, and then included Hardy, Mineral, Grant counties, parts of Morgan and Pendleton, Hardy, being cut off from it in 1785, and Mineral soon after the Civil War, and Grant from that fourteen days later, 1866.

Hampshire is now a part of the Eastern Pan Handle of West Virginia. It contains 640 square miles and

Book Purge - The Story of Winchester in Virginia

Morton, Frederic. The Story of Winchester in Virginia: The Oldest Town in the Shenandoah Valley, Bowie, MD: Heritage Books, Inc., 2001.  First published in 1925.

p. 22 The business quarter of Winchester lies in the basin of the little stream known as Town Run. It is therefore depressed, but the gradual improvement of the streets and lots has made it almost level throughout. In every direction is slightly rising ground; For Hill in the north, Church Hill in the east, Potato Hill in the south and Academy Hil and Powell's Ridge in the west. But these elevations are gentle in ascent, and are broadtopped belts of tableland rather than tre hills. Even the tower of the Handley schol does not rise high enough to permit a quite satisfactory examination of the field of view. . . . 

Running twenty miles southward, a little more than twenty miles northward, and a similar distance east and west, lies the Lower Shenandoah Valley, as distinguished from the Middle Valley between Strasburg and Harrisonburg.  To speak accurately, it is not a true valley, but a long and relatively narrow plain, separated by the narrow rampart of the Blue Ridge from the plain of Piedmont Virginia. The watercourses around Winchester are not tributaries of the Shenandoah, bu turn directly to the Potomac.

[Shenandoah River flows from southwest to northeast entering the Potomac River at Harper's Ferry, WV.  The "upper river" is in the south, the "lower river" is in the north.]

p. 31 [Lord Fairfax owned land around Winchester and gave out 99 year leases which allowed him to

Book Purge - They Called Stafford Home

Eby, Jerrilyn. They Called Stafford Home: The Development of Stafford County, Virginia, from 1600 until 1865, Bowie, MD: Heritage Books, 1997.

p. xiv Stafford County Timeline [abstracted]

• 1608 John Smith explores and maps river and creeks of Stafford
• 1620 Indians destroy English trading post at Marlborough
• 1646-47 Giles & Margaret Brent settle at mouth of Aquia Creek
• 1650 Sandstone quarries open on Aquia Creek, 50 acres set aside for Aquia town
• 1662 Potomac Parish formed from Washington Parish (Westmoreland County)
• 1662-63 Assembly orders road built from Aquia to Passapatanzy
• 1662-64 Potomac Church built
• Potomac Parish divided into Upper Parish and Lower Parish
• 1664 first court meets in Stafford
• 1668 John Waugh becomes rector of parish
• Brent's Mill built
• 1676 Nathanile Bacon led planters against Gov. Berkeley and burned Jamestown
• 1680 Upper Parish becomes known as Stafford Parrish
• Act of Parliament establishes Marlborough as official port town
• 1686-87 George Brent, Nicholas Hayward, Richard Foote & William Bristow purchase land for

Book Purge - The Land that is Pulaski County, Virginia - Part II

Smith, Conway. The Land that is Pulaski County, 2nd edition, Pulaski, VA: Pulaski County Library Board, 1981.

p. 144 In 1790 Wythe County was formed from a part of Montgomery. The land that was to become Pulaski County now lay in both Montgomery and Wythe. 

Montgomery's county seat was moved from Fort Chiswell to Hans Meadows. Some two years later the village was renamed Christiansburg. The conty seat of Wythe County, shortly after its establishment, became known as Evansham - now Wytheville. . . . 

The line between Montgomery and Wythe was run by Gordon Cloyd, son of Joseph Cloyd of Back Creek. Montgomery court records show that on 6 June 1792 he was allowed 20 pounds for running the line. . . .

p. 148 The most lucrative occupations in southwestern Virginia during the late 1700s were land speculation, farming, surveying and merchandising. Joseph Cloyd's family on Back Creek became involved in all these pursuits. The Cloyds were rapidly becoming the largest landowners in the area. And, as we have seen, Joseph's son Gordon became county surveyor of Montgomery County. In 1792 Joseph Cloyd, with his three sons, Gordon, Thomas and David, launched a new venture - merchandising. 

Book Purge - The Land that is Pulaski County, Virginia - Part I

Smith, Conway. The Land that is Pulaski County, 2nd edition, Pulaski, VA: Pulaski County Library Board, 1981.

p. 1 1738-1769 - Pulaski County Area a Part of Augusta County:

Augusta County was taken from Orange County in 1738; but due to the unsettled state of the territory the first county court did not convene until 9 December 1745. When the first settlers came into the New River Valley, the territory was a part of the County of Augusta. The boundaries of this huge county were ill defined. Based on the original British claim to the western empire, then being challenged by the French, Augusta County might have been considered as extending from the Blue Ridge Mountains to the Pacific. The county seat of this vast area was Stuanton - and Staunton remains the county seat of present-day Augusta.

1770-1772 - Pulaski County Area a Part of Botetourt County: 

The Botetour County Court was organized 13 February 1770. Botetourt, carved out of Augusta County, was also a sizeable county. The western border of the county was the Mississippi River.

Book Purge - History of Scott County, Virginia

Locataion of Scott County

Addington, Robert. History of Scott County, Virginia, Bowie, MD: Heritage Books, Inc., 2002. 

Originally published in 1932.

p. 1 Some Important Dates in Scott County History

• 1749-50 - Dr. Thomas Walker and companions visit Cumberland Gap and adjacent regions.
• 1763 - Treaty in which France gave up to England all claim to the mainland east of the Mississippi River. 
• 1769 - Danile Boone passes through Big Moccasin Gap on his way to Kentucky.
• Uriah Stone, Casper Mansker, John Rains, and Abraham & Isaac Bledsoe pass through Big Moccasin Gap to Kentucky. 
• Thomas McCulloch made the first settlement within the territory of Scott County near Fort Houston, on Big Moccasin Creek.
• 1770 - The Long Hunters pass through Big Moccasin Gap on hunting expeditions.
• Peter Livingston settled on the North Fork of the Holston at the mouth of Livingston Creek.
• 1771 - Silas Enyart settled on Little Moccasin Creek.
• 1772 - James Green settled near the mouth of Stony Creek.
• Patrick Porter settled on the west side of Fall Creek, near Osborne's Ford.

Book Purge - Kentucky / North Carolina

Theiss, Nancy. Oldham County Live at the River's Edge, Charleston, SC: The History Press, 2010.

Richard Taylor

p. 10 Commodore Richard Taylor was certainly one of the most distinguished pioneers and early citizens of Oldham County. Born in Orange County, Virginia, the commodore married twice and had six sons and five daughters. Taylor was comissioned as a captain in the navy during the Revolutionary War in 1775. He was wounded twice, in the knee and thigh, and retired from active duty in 1781. His vessel, the Tartar, was engaged in battle with an English schooner when he received his first wound (the thing). In November 1781, he was commondore of the Patriot in another battle with an English cruiser just outside Chesapeake Bay. The following description of the battle scene was written by Mr. ANderson, who worked with Commodore Taylor and collected historical records, according to Lucien Rule's Pioneering in Masonry:

The sea was calm and the breeze insufficient to manipulate his vessel. Captain Taylor, therefore, determined to attack the Englishmen in open boas and board and capture her by a hand to hand fight. As his boats approached the enemy, they were the target for volley after volley from the guns of the British, but without damage to any of them. The American seamen were enthusiastic and felt that victory was within their grasp, when one of Captain Taylor's sailors, making mock of the British fire, exclaimed, "Why don't you elevate your mettle?"  This hint to elevate the

Book Purge - History of Shelby County, Kentucky

Willis, George. History of Shelby County, Kentucky, Baltimore, MD: Clearfield Company, 1993.

p. 35 Note - Up until the Civil War many old residents dated all happenings from "the night the stars fell." The meteoric shower which so startled all the people of this section and the State at large and so terrorized not alone the superstitious and uninformed, occurred in 1831. [November 12-13, 1833]. The old fashion blacks left over from the Civil War, when in care of the juvenile whites wound up their grave yard stories around the kitchen fireplace in the late evenings with tales of the "night the stars fell." Mr. L.C. Willis, the veteran lawyer, during the famous campaign of 1896 when all the "fixed" stars of deocracy seemed "slipping used to refer to the Carlisle's, Lindsays's, et al, as the "Pleiades," and then tell the story of the mountaineer, who on the  "night the stars fell,' rushed out in his night clothes, found his wife on her knees in front of their little cabin, and after viewing the awful phenomenon called to her, "Pray Ol' WOman, pray hard. I'll step around back, and if the seven stars has slipped, we're gone to hell, shore."  That the phenomenon was general throughout the State is further evidenced by a stroy that Judge Lawrence Anderson, of Graves County, quotes his grandfather, a county physician as elling. The latter

Book Purge - A History of Rowan County, North Carolina

Rumple, Jethro. A History of Rowan County, North Carolina . . . Salisbury,  NC, J.J. Bruner, 1881.

p. 43 - But the Scotch-Irish were probably the most numerous and the leading people of the settlement. The old records of the Court here show names of many of these old families, some of then now extinct . . . 

But along with these Scotch-Irish immigrants, and settling side by side with them there came settlers of another nationaliy to whom Rowan is no less indebted for her material wealth and prosperity. These were the Germans, or as they were familiarly called the "Pennsylvania Dutch." They were of course not of Dutch or Holland extraction, but Germans from the Palatinate, and from Hesse Cassel, Hesse Homburg, Darmstadt, and the general region of the upper and middle Rhine. Prominent among these for its history and the number of emigrants is the Palatinate or "Pfalz" as it is called in the maps of Germany.  This counry lies on the western banks of the Rhine, below Strasburg, and along the eastern boundaries of France. This beautiful land is watered by numerous small streams, the tributaries of the Rhine, and is divided by a range of mountains, the Haardts, running from north to south. Manheim and Speyer (Spires) are the two principal cities, situated on the Rhine, while Neustadt, Anweiler, Zweibrucken, Leiningen, are among its towns.  The Province was ther theater of many bloody [p.44]