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 - 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 - 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 - 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] 

Notebook - Virginia #7, Part 2

Colonial Wedding in Philly . . . you get the idea

Wulfeck, Dorothy. Marriages of Some Virginia Residents 1607-1800, Volume I, Surnames A-H, Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Co., Inc., nd

Wulfeck, Dorothy. Marriages of Some Virginia Residents 1607-1800, Volume II, Surnames I-Z, Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Co., Inc., nd

Many of these entries have no location or date. There is a code system which probably refers to a source list that I did not copy. 

• Breeden, Polly md. William Breeden
• Breeden, Seeles md. Thomas Draper - grandparents
• Bushrod, Ann md. Coll. Griffin³ Fauntlerory, not sure what the 3 means
• Bushrod, Aphia (Apphia) md. Col. William³ Fauntleroy
• Bushrod, Aphia (Apphia) (--?--) m. 2) Dr. Henry Whiting
• Bushrod, Hannah md. Col. Vincent Branham, 1st wife
• Bushrod, Hannah md. John Augustine Washington
• Bushrod, John b. 30 Jan. 1663 Gloucester Co.; d. 25 Feb. 1719, tombstone in Westmoreland Co.; son of Richard & Apphia (--?--) md. Hannah Keene, dau. of William & Elizabeth (Rogers) Keene of Northumberland Co. 1V333; 1W(1)91; 7W(1)96; 8W(1)45-6.

Notebook - North Carolina #7

Absher, Mrs. W.O.  Surry County, North Carolina Court Minutes, Vols. I & II 1768-1789, Southern Historical Press, 1985. 

Page 10 - ca. 1778

• Ordered  Jacob Speer, overseer, road from Fortrees Creek to Rowan County line and hands from Crersons old place and waters of Turners Creek work thereon.
• Ordered Robert Speers Mill already built on Little Yadkin be deemed a publick Mill.
• Ordered Brazalia Rose, now 15 years old, orphan of Brasalia Rose, deceased, be bound to Robert Speer until he arrives age 21 to learn art and mistry of a carpenter and at end apprenticeship be given set carpenters tools and suit woolen clothes and learn him to read, wright [write] and cypher. 
• Order citation against Mary Nowlen produce her children and show cause why they not be bound out to some suitable trade and employment agreeable to law. 
• Ordered following attend next County Court second Monday May as Jurors:  . . . Andrew Speer

Tuesday, 11 May 1779 - Ordered copy oath & certificate for Joseph Cloud, Junr. to act as Deputy Surveyor in this county be recorded.

Wednesday, 12 May 1779

Notebooks - Kentucky #7

Brookes-Smith Joan. Index for Old Kentucky Surveys & Grants, no imprint, ca. 1974

It was on 16 June, 1774, when James Harrod and his party of pioneer settlers reached the plateau between the Salt and Kentucky Rivers in the heart of a land that would one day be called Kentucky. Physically exhausted from their long trip down the Ohio and up the Kentucky River and fearful of the ever present danger from roving bands of Indians, they gave no thought to the restless discontent of their counterparts who lived along the Eastern seaboard. Uppermost in their minds was survival.

Acutely aware that they had penetrated deep within enemy territory, they immediately set about laying out Harrod's Town. . . . 

They were followed shortly by Daniel Boone, Benjamin Logan, John Floyd, Simon Kenton and numerous other pioneer leaders. Their greatest enemy, or so they believed was the Indian. They could not have known that Fate was already laying the groundwork that would lead the Eastern seaboard revolutionary and the Western pioneer to a common goal, a goal to establish a permanent home which was destined to erupt into a long and vicious legal war. 

Unfortunately, many of the earliest settlers believing that just to settle the land was all that was necessary for ownership delayed too long the registration of their surveys and claims. Apparently

Notebooks - Pennsylvania #6

History of Cumberland & Adams Counties, Pennsylvania Part 1, Chicago: Warner, Beers & Company, 1886

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History of Cumberland & Adams Counties, Pennsylvania Part 2, Chicago: Warner, Beers & Company, 1886.

West Pennsborough 1751 - Samuel Wilson, John Wilson

Middleton 1761 - Walter Denny, Widow Wilson, Samuel Wilson, John Gilbreath

Hopewell Township 1751 - Robert McDowell, James McDowell

Robert Dinney

Following is the report of the proceedings made to the governor by Mr. Peters, under date of July 2, 1750:

To James Hamilton, Esq., Governor of Pennsylvania

May it please your Honor: - Mr. Weiser, having received your Honor's orders to give information to the proper magistrates against all such as had presumed to settle and remain on the lands beyond the Kittochtinny Mountains, not purchased of the Indians, in

Notebooks - North Carolina # 6, Part 1

Bennett, William, abs. Miscellaneous Records from Land Grant Record Book 9, NCGS Journal, Raleigh, NC: North Carolina Genealogical Society, Aug. 1986.

[Editor's Introduction: The last seventy-five pages of Land Grant Record Book 9 (1735-1745) in the Land Grant Office, Department of the Secretary of State, Raleigh, contain a miscellaneous grouping of wills, letters of administration powers of attorney, bonds, deeds, land inquisitions, depositions, affidavits, and other items. Many of these records concern North Carolina property owned by persons outside the province. Thanks are due Mrs. Martha Paskewich of the Land Grant Office for her assistance in the preparation of this material.]

p. 414 Will of Michael Beezley, of City of New York, Mariner, 12 September 1747. Mother; Mary Humphys, wife of William Humphrys of Baptist Mils in Bristol in Great Brittain - 100 pounds sterling to be paid from Cape Fear in North Carolina out of effects in hands of Richard Quince, Merchant. Friend: James Mills of City of New York, peruke maker - 50 pounds of current money of New York as executor. Helena Mills, daughter of the said James Mills - 10 pounds New York. Wife: Mary Beezley formerly Mary Stathams - remainder. Executors: Wife & Friend James Mills. Witnesses: Edmund Knight, Jonathen Fitch, Lawrence Green.

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McBride, Ransom. List of Taxables for 1762 in Granville, NC, NCGS Journal, Raleigh, NC:

Notebooks - Mom's Families #7

Branom, Jeanne. "Kalcklőser / Colclasure Family Research," Typescript, 1998.

Johan Hendrick Kalcklőser was born in Frankenthal (Rhineland Palatinate), Germany about 1696.(1)  Frankenthal is near Mannheim. Very little proof is available, at this time, concerning the early life of Johan Hendrick. However, it is probable that he joined the Seventh Day Baptists at an early age, since it has been recorded that he left Frankenthal at age 19 to join Alexander Mack's group in Schwarzenau (Wittgentstein),(2) due to religious persecution in the Frankenthal area. . . . 

In 1724, after the reading of the banns (three times at two-week intervals) or proclamations, Johan Hendrick and Anna Flys Layen were married on 28 February 1724.(4)  It is believed that all three sons were born of this union. Some time between the date of this marriage and the departure for Philadelphia in 1729, Anna Flys Layen probably died, since Johan Hendrick had a different wife, Agnes (Anna) Margaretha,(5) at the time of sailing from Rotterdam. (Alexander Mack, Jr. records that he knew "the two wives of Johan Hendrick.")(6) . . . 

The ship Allen arrived in Philadelphia on 15 September 1729.(7) Among the passengers were Johan Hendrick Kalcklőser with his family: his wife Agnes, sons Christophel (or

Notebooks - Kentucky #6, Part 1

Boyle County Genealogical Association. Boyle County, Kentucky, Cemetery Records, 1792-1992, Danville, KY: Boyle County Genealogical Association, 1992

Goodknight Cemetery - This cemetery is located 3 miles north of Perryville, off US 68, near the Mercer County line on Claunch Road. 

 

Confederate Marker with inscription - Erected by the United States to mark the burial place of an unascertained number of Confederate soldiers said to have died while prisoners of war at Goodknight farmhouse, from wounds received at the Battle of Perryville, October 8, 1862, whose graves cannot be identified and whose names are unknown.

• Dye, Elizabeth, b. 10 Dec. 1797, d. 5 Oct. 1874 
• Hankla, Infant son of J.H. & M.F. Hankla b. 18 Dec. 1894, d. 18 Dec. 1894
• Weems, Frances M. CSA Company B, 3rd Florida Infantry, b. 16 Jan. 1842, d. 8 Oct. 1862
• Goodknight, Willie L. son of John J. & D.V. Goodknight b. 7 Aug. 1859, d. 13 July 1860
• Goodknight, H.L. stone broken, son of J. & S.C. Goodknight, b. ----, d. ---- 

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Fint, Susan & Anne Lee comp. Repeat After Me, Marriage Bonds 1795-1810 Franklin County, Kentucky, Baltimore, MD: Gateway Press, Inc., 1983

• William Lowry and John Pemberton signed the bond June 7, 1802 for the intended

Notebooks - Mom's Families No. 4, Part 4

Cagle, John. The Cagle Family in the South, to 1850, Vol. 1, North Carolina, Little Rock, AR: Cagle, 1983.

The Gurley/Cagle Connection - A second-hand report (dating back to an unidentified Cagle researcher in 1931) has provided the following item, which seems to relate to the Cagles of Montgomery County:

John Gurley married Mary Cagle in North Carolina. His orphan children came to Morgan Co., Alabama about 1825, with their uncle John Cagle. They were Jessie, 1823-1906, married Elizabeth Lowery of Bulox Creek, York Co., SC; Polly married John Brisco; John, d. Hartselle, Alabama, Tillman, the oldest son, stayed in North Carolina.

Regarding the location of John Cagle and his nephews, the Gurley orphans, the writer has been unable to locate any records on them in early Morgan Co., Alabama, nor do they seem to appear in the 1830 Alabama census. However, looking into later Alabama records, it is noteworthy that the Gurleys seem to be living in Marshall Co. (adjoining Morgan Co.) at the time of the 1850 census; the family seems to consist of three teenagers, each of whom was living in a separate household, as though they were orphans;

Notebook - Kentucky No. 4 Part 3

Cook, Michael & Bettie Cook. Kentucky Court of Appeals Deed Books A-G, Vol. 1, Evansville, IN: Cook Publications, 1985.

Indenture Dec. 5, 1796, Henry Banks of the city of Richmond, VA to John W. Hunt of Fayette Co., KY; whereas Henry Banks appointed Cuthbert Banks on November 10, 1795 as his attorney in fact (recorded Kentucky Court of Appeals May 14, 1796) to sell and dispose of his lands in Kentucky, now this Indenture witnesses that the said Henry Banks by Cuthbert Banks his attorney in fact, for $2000, conveys to John W. Hunt an undivided moiety of a tract of 2,784 acres in Jefferson County, Kentucky on Bullskin Creek adjoining a 1,000 acre survey

Notebook - Virginia No. 4, Part 1

Crumrine, Boyd. Virginia Court Records in Southwestern Pennsylvania, Baltimore, MD: Genealogical Publishing Co., Inc., 1974.

Minute Book of the Virginia Court Held at Fort Dunmore (Pittsburgh) for the District of West Augusta 1775-1776.

Note: in copying these minutes no portions will be omitted, save certain lists, here and there, containing the names of cases called and unintelligible memoranda concerning them, with nothing identifying the parties, the causes of action, or the localities whence they came.

The formal organization of the court - His Majesties Writ for adjorning the County Court of Augusta from the Town of Staunton to Fort Dunmore, and with a new Commission of the Peace and Dedimus and a Commission of Oyer & Terminer and Dedimus from under the hand of John, Earl of Dunmore, his Majesties Lieutenant & Governor in chief, bearing date the Sixth day of December One Thousand Seven Hundred and Seventy four, directed to . . . Samuel McDowell, George Moffett . . . Alexander Robertson . . . David Shepherd . . . Gentlemen, being read, & thereupon, pursuant to the said Dedimus, the said George Croghan, John Campbell, John Connolly, 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

Research Notes - McDowell Family

John Grove Speer in his memoir states:

Grand-mother Speer's maiden name was Margaret Cloyd; where born I do not know. . . . Gen. Joseph McDowell, of Revolutionary war fame, was her uncle, whose life and service in freedom's cause is made honorable mention of in our country's history of that struggle. 

The Catawba river runs through Burke County, and McDowell County joins Burke on the west, and Marion is the county seat. After her marriage she visited her uncle Joseph McDowell and it seems he thought very highly of her, for when her visit was out and she was ready to return home, he gave her a negro girl and boy to take home with her. I have thought that her mother was a sister of Joseph McDowell - if not, McDowell's wife was a Cloyd. I am inclined to the first view, for I always heard it said that he was her uncle. It was said that he was wealthy and owned a good many negroes. My grand-mother either hired these colored servants, or they were a present to her from her uncle McDowell.  I take it that the McDowells are of Scotch descent.

Margaret Cloyd was born ca. 1760 probably in VA the probable daughter of Thomas Cloyd, definitely sister of Solomon Cloyd.  She married John Speer ca. 1784 in North Carolina. 

Notebook - North Carolina #2, Part 3

Bass, Cora. Marriage Bonds of Duplin County North Carolina, 1749-1868, Southern Historical Press, 1983.

Harris, Daniel x, Abbe Sanders, 21 Apr. 1801 bond David Durall. wit. Wm. Dickson, CC

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Bean, Eugene. Rowan County (N.C.) Records Early Settlers, Washington, DC: Carnahan Press, 1914.

Adams, Garner, Goodnight, Hinkle

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Bradley, Stephen, ed. Will Book C Franklin County, North Carolina, 1804-1812, no imprint, nd

[74] Will of Jacob Fox. March 22, 1807. Executors to sell as much of stock as needed to pay debts. To son Robert Fox the negroes Mary, Ned Burkly. To son Isham Fox negroes Adam, Nat, Noah. To son Richard Fox negroes Pat, Cyrus, Reuben. To son Arthur Fox negroes John, Peter Kere. To daughter Nancy Smith negroes Hannah, Gooden. Lend to wife Elizabeth Fox the use during her life of all lands, all household and kitchen furniture; the use of the negroes Mark, Tom, Lucy, Easter and her child; the use of all livestock (after debts paid). After her death to son Richard Fox all my lands; to Nancy Smith Tom and Lucy; remainder of estate be divided equally among Robert Fox, Isham Fox, Arthur

Notebook - North Carolina #2, Part 1

Drake, Julia. The Lost Joseph of the McDowell Family, North Carolina Historical & Genealogical Record, Vol. 1, No. 1, January 1932.

The McDowell family is legion and it is not strange that in the extreme emphasis placed on Colonel Joseph McDowell, of Quaker Meadows (1756-1801) and his nephew Captain Joseph, of Pleasant Gardens (1758-1795), that another Joseph McDowell living in Guilford county should have been overlooked. The United States census of 1790 for North Carolina records two Josephs as "Heads of Families" in Burke county and the Joseph McDowell of Guilford county, who is thus registered:

Salisbury District - 1 free white male over 16; 2 free white males under 16; 3 free white females.

The first land record so far discovered shows that this Joseph McDowell held:

A tract of land containing two hundred and fifty acres lying and being in our county of Guilford on the waters of the south side Reedy Fork of Haw River beginning at a Black Gum in William Scotts line . . . near a branch running thence west crossing two branches one hundred sixty poles to a post oak thence north crossing a branch to Abraham Whitesides corner black oak thence . . . in John Whites line . . . to his corner stake thence . . . in William Scotts line. . . Record of deeds, Guilford county, NC Vol. 2, page 118.

There is also the following purchase of land:

This indenture made this fourth day of January in the year of our Lord one thousand seven hundred and ninety four between Thos. Morgan of the county of Guilford and State of North Carolina of the one part and Joseph McDowell of the state and county afore of the other part witnesseth that the sd. Thos. Morgan for and in consideration of the sum of one hundred and fifteen pounds

Notebook - Mom's Families #6, Part 1

Bradley, John. Notes on William Gurley, One of the First Settlers of Johnston County, North Carolina, & Some of His Descendants, 9/1946.

In Johnston County, North Carolina, Deed Book S, No. 1, pages 352-6, there is recorded a long deed, dated 2 February 1793, wherein Arthur Gurley of said County conveys to William Worley, for 130 pounds, 125 acres situated in Johnston County on the north side of Neuse River and on the north side of Moccasin Swamp, and reciting that the same is:

The upper part of two hundred acres of land granted to William Gurley under the seal of his Excellency Gabriel Johnston, Esquire, Governor, bearing the date of 20th day of April AD 1705, and transferred by deed from William Gurley to John Gurley and descended by heirship from John Gurley to Frederick Gurley and transferred by deed from Frederick Gurley to Nathan Gurley and descended by heirship from Nathan Gurley to Arthur Gurley and transferred by deed from Arthur Gurley to William Worley.

The date of 20 April 1705 is a copyist's error, and has "crossed up" a number of genealogists. In 1940, the writer spent several days at Smithfield, North Carolina, county seat of Johnston County, and employed Rev. James P. Smith of that city to assist him in his search of Gurley records, as Rev. Smith is an excellent genealogist and was 15 February 1941, Rev. Smith wrote to me as

Notebook - Kentucky #3 Part 2

Doss, Brenda. Muhlenberg County, Kentucky Circuit Court Orders Book One, 1803-1807, Greenville, KY: Muhlenberg County Genealogical Society, nd.

March Term 1804 - Ambrose Maulding elected to jury, tried and sworn in case Commonwealth vs. Roland Harris & Samuel Worthington

March Term 1804 - Ambrose Maulding, Charles Morgan, John Cornwell elected, tried and sworn in case Thomas Walke vs. Stephen Boren

March Term 1804 - John Mcfarlin, Plff. vs. John Cornwell, Deft. In Covenent. This day came the parties aforesaid by their attornies and the Defendant by the consent of the Plaintiff says he cannot gain say the Plaintiffs action against him for Three hundred and twenty dollars current money besides his costs. It is therefore considered by the Court that the Plaintiff recover against the said Defendant the three hundred and twenty dollars aforesaid confessed aforesaid and also his costs by him about his suit in this behalf expended and the said Defendant in Mercy &c.

March Term 1804 - Charles Morgan, John Cornwell elected to jury, tried and sworn in case George Adams vs. Benjamin Garris

June 25, 1804 - Armstead Morehead sworn to Grand Jury for the body of this Circuit, who after having received their charge retired from the barr to consult &c. and after some time spent therein returned into Court & found the following presentments . . .