Book Purge - Genealogies of Pennsylvania Familes

Genealogies of Pennsylvania Families, Vol. 1 Arnold - Hertzel, Baltimore, MD: Genealogical Publishing Co., Inc. 1982.

Page 261 - Herndon, John. "Notes on the Ancestry of Robert Burton (1730-1785) of Sussex County, Delaware, & Some Related Lines: Cotton, Leatherbury, Bagwell, Robinson, Rickards & Russell," 1951, 1970.

The deposition of Joshua Robinson aged fifty seven or thereabouts deposeth and sayeth that about 16 years ago he heard Joshua Burton, exec. of William Burton, late of Worcester County, Md., say that they (meaning the Representatives of the sd William Burton) had made a Division of all the estate they had come at but the Bonds, and some time after, the sd Deponent heard the sd Joshua and his sisters Elizabeth Burton and Sarah Ingram who was (sic) the Representatives of the sd. William Burton say that they had made a division of the Bonds, and further this Deponent who was executor of his sister, the above sd William Burton's widow, never say or complain that she was not satisfyed or that she had not received her full part of her deced husband's estate, nor never heard any of the heirs or representatives of the said William complain until about a year ago since the above Joshua Burton's [page 262] widow has bin married to William Tunnell and further this Deponent sayeth not.   

Sept. 6th 1766. Then was the Above Deposition taken by Direction of the Comm'ry Genl before Benton Harris, Deputy Commissary for Wor County /s/ Joshua Robinson . . . 

Small Notebook - Magazine of Virginia Genealogy, Part 2

Surry County, VA

Chiarello, Susan. "List of Debts Due to Cabin Point Store, 1 November 1775," Magazine of Virginia Genealogy, Vol. 49, No. 4, 2011, p. 311+. [Auditor's Office 13/30, Loyalist Claims, Series II, Virginia Claims, Folder G1;  Colonial Records Project mf #252 LVA, Richmond.]

Page 311 - Unlike the vast majority of the merchant claims, this list was created between 1 November 1775 and 29th March 1776 when it was sworn to before John Watkins, a justice of the peace for Surry County. The maker of the list, John Stewart, was apparently the factor for the Cabin Point store operated by Mess'rs Dunmore Blackburn & Company, merchants of Glasgow. The list is found among the claims made in 1784, 1788 and 1789 by Robert Gilmour for compensation for losses incurred as a British subject. He states that he was a principal partner in Logan Gilmour & Co. of Norfolk and Logan and Dunmore & Co. and had incurred heavy losses. Heavily in debt in Britain, Gilmour had lost his private fortune and had brought ruin to his other partners. He does not explain why the list was compiled. Although used to support his claim for losses, the list was obviously not compiled for that purpose and indeed appears not to deal with either company with which he notes an involvement.  Perhaps a transfer of ownership occurred between the creation of the list and Gilmour's first claim some eight years later. 

Caing Point Ledger C 

• Col. John Cocke, folio 1, good debt 75.4.0 
• Page 312 - Lemuel Cocke, folio 5, good 102.5.3 3/4

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

Notebook - Virginia #7 Part 4

Bentley, Elizabeth. Virginia Marriage Records, Baltimore, MD: Genealogical Publishing Co., Inc., 1982

From the Virginia Magazine of History & Biography, the William & Mary Quarterly & Tyler's Quarterly.

Amelia County Marriage Bonds

• Robertson, Henry & Tralucia Greenwood, April 1762
• Robertson, Frances & Lucretia Townes, Wm. Townes, March 20, 1769
• Robertson, John & Elizabeth Royall (d. of John), June 31, 1776
• Robertson, George & Nancy Anderson, John Anderson, July 10, 1779
• Robertson, Wm. & Betty Branch Worsham, Wm. Worsham, Oct. 25, 1777
• Robertson, Matthew & Elizabeth Hurt, May 5, 1785
• Robertson, George & Betsy Bayley (d. of Dicey), Dec. 21, 1786
• Robertson, Jno. & Betty B. Robertson, April 8, 1786
• Robertson, Robert (s. of Nathan) & Molly May Porter (d. of James May), June 5, 1785
• Robertson, James & Mary Epes Robertson, Nov. 1798
• Robertson, Archer Jr. & Frances Brooking, ward of Vivion Brooking, Aug. 1795

Notebook - Virginia #7 - Part 1

Bell, Landon. Charles Parish York County, Virginia History & Registers Births 1648-1789 Deaths 1665-1787, Richmond, VA: Virginia State Library Board, 1932.  Available on Ancestry.

• Morgan, Charles son of William by Ann b. Sep. 25, 1710
• Morgan, Elinor dau. of Thomas by Elinor b. Aug. 24, 1690
• Morgan, Gerrard son of Humphrey & Anne b. Dec. 15, 1762, bapt. Jan. 15, 1763.
• Morgan, John son of William by Ann b. May 24, 1714
• Morgan, Martha dau. of Humphrey & Anne, b. Oct. 15, bapt. Nov. 18, 1764
• Morgan, Mary dau. of John by Ann b. Dec. 8, 1734
• Morgan, Roger son of Thomas by Elinor b. Aug. 2, 1688
• Morgan, Samuel son of Simon by Elizabeth bapt. April 30 [1703] Denbeigh Parish
• Morgan, Sarah dau. of Thomas by Elinor b. March 10, 1684
• Morgan, Thomas son of Thomas by Elinor b. Jan. 1, 1679
• Morgan, Thomas son of John by Ann b. Oct. 25, bapt. Nov. 26, 1732
• Morgan, William son of Thomas by Elizabeth b. Nov. 17, 1677
• Morgan, William son of William by Alice b. July 12, 1690

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First Marriage Record of Augusta County Virginia, 1785-1813, Augusta Co., VA: Col. Thomas Hughart Chapter, DAR, 1992. - available on Ancestry.

• Aug. 18, 1785 Samuel Blackburn to Ann Mathews - Rev. Archibald Scott

Ahnentafel #988 - Martin Brill

Martin Brill

Born: 1710, Bochweiler, Saarpfalz-Kreis, Saarland, Germany

Died: April 1791 Loudoun Co., Virginia

Buried: May 1, 1791, New Jerusalem Church Cemetery, Lovettsville, Loudoun Co., Virginia. 

Married: Anna Maria (--?--) ca. 1730 in Germany

Genealogy:

Brill Coat of Arms - is officially documented in Riestap Armorial General. The original description of the arms (shield) is as follows (translated):

Black: three silver crescents with a face, points turned to the left; each crescent is placed on a silver ring.  Above the shield and helmet is the crest which is described as a black column adorned on each side with a silver crescent and surmounted by five silver feathers. 

The Martin Brill Family - Martin Brill was born in Germany in 1710. About 1733, he married Anna Maria (-?-), in Germany. She was born ca. 1712. Martin arrived in America on October 22,

Notebooks - Virginia No. 6, Part 1

Burns, Annie. Virginia Genealogies & County Records, Vol. 7, Washington, DC: Burns, nd

Census of 1810, List of Persons Residing in Frederick County

• Clark, George
• Cornwall, William
• Crockwell(?), John Jr. 
• Robertson, John 
• Robinson, Andrew
• Robertson, James
• Smith, Patrick Jr.
• Smith, Jabez
• Smith, Bartholomew
• Smith, Michael
• Smith, George H.
• Smith, John - 4
• Smith, Thomas - 2
• Smith, Edy
• Smith, William - 4
• Smith, Edward

Notebook - Virginia #4, Part 2

Prince William County, Virginia

Adams, Lela, comp. Marriages of Patrick County, Virginia, 1791-1850, Bassett, VA: Adams, 1972

• 1 May 1802 James Dove & Avice Davidson, Surety Richard Davidson
• 1 Sep 1803 Richard Dove & Elisabeth Taylor, Surety Daniel Martindale

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Dorman, John. Essex County, Virginia Deeds & Wills No. 13 1707-1711, Washington, DC: Dorman, 1963.

4 April 1706. John Morgan received payment from an estate

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Dorman, John, comp. Essex County, Virginia Records 1706-1707; 1717-1719 Washington, DC: Dorman, 1963.

20 Jan. 1717/18. John Taliaferro of St. Mary's Parish, Essex County, to John Taliaferro Junr. son to the aforesaid John, of same. For natural love and affection. Two plantations with 1000 acres on the upper side of Snow Creek in the forke thereof which was formerly given to me by my brother Fra[ncis] Taliaferro late of said parish by deed of gift. Jno. Taliaferro. Wit: Robt. Parker, Jno. Ellitts. 21 Jan. 1717/18 Acknowledged by John Taliaferro

16 Jan. 1717/18 Samuel Ward of St. Ann's Parish, Essex County, planter to John

Notebook - Pennsylvania No. 5, Part 2

Closson, Bob & Mary Closson. Surname to 52 Westmoreland County, Pa. Cemeteries, Vol. I, no imprint.

• Blackburn - Rehoboth Presbyterian Church Cemetery, Rostraver Township
• Blackburn - Parnassus Presbyterian Church Cemetery, City of New Kensington
• Blackburn - United Methodist Church Cemetery, Sewickley Township
• Coy - Emanual Evangelical & Reformed Cemetery, Franklin Township
• Coy - Middle Presbyterian Church Cemetery, Mt. Pleasant Township
• Coy - Pine Run Church Cemetery, Washington Township
• Coy - St. Clair Cemetery, Greensburg
• Coy - St. James Lutheran Church Cemetery, Bell Township
• DeWalt - Harrison City Cemetery, Penn Township
• DeWalt - Sewickley Presbyterian Cemetery, Sewickley Township
• Dewees - Mars Hill Baptist Church Cemetery, Sewickley Township
• Deweese - Long Run Presybeterian Church Cemetery, North Huntington Township
• Fitzgerald - Pleasant Hill Cemetery, Allegheny Township
• Fox - Middletown United Methodist Church Cemetery, Hempfield Township
• Fox - Harrold Lutheran Church Cemetery, Hempfield Township
• Fox - United Methodist Chruch Cemetery, Sewickley Township
• Fox - Zion Evangelical Lutheran Church Cemetery, Hempfield Township

Notebook - Mom's Families #6, Part 3

Brill, Ray & Joanne Baker. The Brill Family in America & Their Allied Families, Hagerstown, MD: Joanne Baker, 1993.

Brill Coat of Arms - is officially documented in Riestap Armorial General. The original description of the arms (shield) is as follows (translated):

Black: three silver crescents with a face, points turned to the left; each crescent is placed on a silver ring.  Above the shield and helmet is the crest which is described as a black column adorned on each side with a silver crescent and surmounted by five silver feathers.

The Martin Brill Family - Martin Brill was born in Germany in 1710. About 1733, he married Anna Maria (-?-), in Germany. She was born ca. 1712. Martin arrived in America on October 22, 1754 at the port of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. His age is listed as being 44 years old.  With Martin on the ship Halifax was Herman and Heinrich and Christopher.

According to the records of the Lutheran Church of Bucks County, Pennsylvania, Martin and his wife and children attended Springfield Lutheran Church from 1755-1758.

Ahnentafel #495 - Catherine (--?--)

Catherine Barbara (--?--)  backtracking to generation 9

Born: ca. 1740
Died: before 1814

Buried: unknown

Ahnentafel #494 - Henry Brill

Henry Brill aka Johann Heinrich Brill / Bruehl, backtracking to Generation 9

Born: ca. 1740 Germany
Died: Frederick County, VA between May 27 & October 31, 1814 

Buried: unknown

Married: Catherina Barbara (--?--) ca. 1760

Records:
1754, Oct. 22 - Philadelphia, PA, Heinrich Brill arrives on the Halifax with his father Martin and brothers Herman and Christopher.

1778 - living in Lancaster County, PA.

1778, May 28 - Frederick Co., VA, Henry Brill purchased 124 acres from Isaac Zane:

This indenture made the twenty-eighth day of May in the year of our Lord one thousand seven hundred and seventy eight. Between Isaac Zane of the county

Notebook - Illinois No. 4

Davis, Patricia. White County Illinois Marriages 1866-1880 no imprint, nd

• Apr. 7, 1878 David H. Allen 26, 2nd marriage, s/o George & Manervia (Hucheson) Allen & Fannie Spry 18 d/o Frank (?) E. & Sarah (Fowler Allen) Spry, Vol. A, p. 11
• Jan. 30, 1866 Susan Burkhardt & Casper Stine Box 7
• Apr. 5, 1866 Margaret Burkhart & John Erkman, box 7
• Jan. 3, 1876 Oliver V. Dennis 52 & Matilda Fitzgerald 37, vol. 6, p. 10
• Feb. 25, 1877 William Dietz 22, Affier Clark 18, Vol. 6, p. 10
• Feb. 19, 1876 Christian Dexheimer 32 & Louisa Erkman, Mrs. 39, Vol. 6, p. 10 - 2nd wife of Jacob Erkman
• Dec. 13, 1869 Daniel Dietz & Emma Tucker, Mrs. box 8
• Marc. 29, 1878 Daniel Dietz 31, 3rd marriage s/o Godfrey & (--?--) (Kinner) Dietz & Mary Jane Johnson 17 d/o George & Lucinda (Burket) Johnson, Vol. A p. 11

Notebook - Pennsylvania, No. 2, Part 1

Boyer, Carl. Ship Passenger Lists Pennsylvania & Delaware (1641-1825), Newhall, CA: Boyer, 1980

Naturalizations, Germantown, Pa., 3/7/1691-2; Copia Naturalisationis of Francis Daniel Pastorius and of 61 Persons More of German Town from William Penn, Esq., National Genealogical Society Quarterly, 28 (1940), 7-8 [Lancour No. 129].

William Penn, Proprietary of the Province of Pennsilvania, etc. On the King & Queen's authority, to all to whom these Presents all come Sends Greeting, etc. Whereas:

• Paul Wolff
• Willm Rittinghuysen
• Claes Rittinghuysen - land owner

High and low Germans, Inhabitants and Owners of land in German-Town and in the County of Philadelphia, being foreigners, and so not freemen, according to the acception of the Law of England, Have requested to be made freemen of the said Province, pursuant to the Powers granted by the King's Letters patent, and Act of Union and Naturalization, etc. made in this Government, Now Know ye, that for the further Incouragement of the Industry and Sobriety of the said Inhabitants, And for the better and further Security of their Estates reall and personal, to them and their heirs, They the said Inhabitants having Solemnly

Notebook - Ohio No. 2

1850 Federal Census Index

Columns: Name, County, Page, Township

• Brooks, Anthony S. Muskingum, 158, Jefferson
• Brooks, Caleb, Muskingum, 331, Jackson - grandpa
• Brooks, David . Licking, 329, Liberty
• Brooks, Hiram, Muskingum, 335, Jackson
• Brooks, James, Muskingum, 80, Clay
• Edward, Jacob, Muskingum, 291, Madison
• Edward, Job, Licking, 222, Hartford
• Edward, John, Licking, 238, Hartford
• Edward, John, Licking 151, Union
• Edwards, Charles H., Muskingum, 359, Perry
• Edwards, David, Muskingum, 121, W. Zanesville
• Edwards, David, Muskingum, 114, Falls
• Edwards, David, Licking, 273, Harrison
• Edwards, Ellen, Licking, 50, Newark
• Edwards, Ellen, Licking, 10, Newark
• Edwards, Henry, Licking, 23, Newark
• Edwards, Henry, Muskingum, 249, Zanesville

Ahnentafel #247 - Margaret Brill

Margaret Brill

Born: before 1775
Died: Unknown

Buried: Unknown

Married: Peter Tewalt January 20, 1795 in Frederick Co., Virginia

1790 no Brills listed on the Virginia census

1800 not listed on census 

1810 not listed on census

1820 Stephensburg, Frederick Co., VA a Peter Tewalt family listed on census.  

Children:
Son
Daughter
Elizabeth 
Son
Daugher
Son

Notebook - West Virginia

Brannon, Selden. Historic Hampshire, Parsons, WV: McClain Printing Co., 1976.

Hampshire County map 1758 showing forts, current county lines, rivers

Hampshire County Census of 1782, not sure what the code means
no Brills listed
Tivault, Andrew 7 whites, 0 blacks, 5 code
Tivault, John 11 whites, 0 blacks, 5 code
Tivult, Nicholas 6 whites, 0 blacks, 7 code

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Forbes, Harold. "A Brief Guide to Published Research Resources in the West Virginia and Regional History Collection," Newsletter, Vol. XXIX, No. 2, April 2003, Richmond, VA: The Virginia Genealogical Society. 

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Garner, Grace. Earliest Settlers Western Frederick - Eastern Hampshire Counties in Virginia Their Descendants, no imprint. 

From Warranties of Lands; Vol. 24, Series 3, Penn. Archives.  These names soon show in Frederick and Hampshire Counties in Virginia: Briel, 1759; Edwards, 1734; Grove, 1737; Smith (Christian), 1736

January 20th

Birthdays

1909 Vernie Colclasure in Louisville, Illinois son of Clarence & Marybelle (Fitzgerald) Colclasure, died 1985.  He married 1) Edith Cates and 2) Anna Cox.  He had 5 children.

twins George & Ruby Smallwood children of Bill & DeEtta (Withrow) Smallwood