GENEALOGICAL NOTES AND ANECDOTES

ANTECEDENTS AND DESCENDANTS
of
MOSES ALLEN, Sr.
(2 November 1754 - 22 August 1843)

G0497A: Archibald ALLEN I _[007]
Birth: BEF 1679

Marriage: BY 1697
Spouse: Unknown UNKNOWN

Child 1: Archibald ALLEN II (1697, King George County, Virginia, British North America - 3 June 1762, King George County, Virginia, British North America) [M]: m1. Sarah <HUDSON> (? - 12 November 1721, Stafford County, Virginia, British North America), ABT 1717, Virginia, British North America: m2. Elizabeth UNKNOWN (ABT 1699, King George County, Virginia, British North America - AFT 1737, <King George> County, Virginia, British North America), ABT 1717, Virginia, British North America

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G0496A: Archibald ALLEN II _[006]
Birth: 1697, King George County, Virginia, British North America
Death: 3 June 1762, King George County, Virginia, British North America
Father: Archibald ALLEN I (BEF 1679 -?)
Mother: Unknown UNKNOWN

Marriage: ABT 1722, Virginia, British North America
Spouse: Elizabeth UNKNOWN (ABT 1699, King George County, Virginia, British North America - AFT 1737, <King George> County, Virginia, British North America)

Child 1: Archibald ALLEN III (ABT 1722, Hamilton, Prince William County, Virginia, British North America - AFT 1754, <Westmoreland> County, Virginia) [M]: m. *Abigail RHODES (ABT 1721, <Stafford County>, Virginia, British North America - AFT 1754, Stafford County, Virginia), ABT 1722, Virginia, British North America

Child 2: Sarah ALLEN (1723, Prince William or King George County, Virginia, British North America - ABT 1802, Fauquier County, Virginia) [F]: m. Nathaniel DODD (Sr.) (ABT 1720, <Westmoreland County, Virginia, British North America - 1784, Fauquier County, Virginia)

Child 3: Jane ALLEN (1725, Prince William or King George County, Virginia, British North America - ?) [F]

Child 4: John ALLEN (ABT 1728, Prince William or King George County, Virginia, British North America - ?) [M]: m. Unknown UNKNOWN

Child 5: Ann ALLEN (1731, Prince William or King George County, Virginia, British North America - ?) [F]

Child 6: Martha ALLEN (1733, Prince William or King George County, Virginia, British North America - ?) [F]

Child 7: Elizabeth ALLEN (1735, Prince William or King George County, Virginia, British North America - ?) [F]

Child 8: William Allen (1737, Prince William or King George County, Virginia, British North America - ?) [M]

Other Marriage: ABT 1717, Virginia, British North America
Spouse: Sarah <HUDSON> (? - 12 November 1721, Stafford County, Virginia, British North America)

Child 1: Ann ALLEN (17 December 1717, Overwharton Parish, Stafford County, Virginia, British North America - ?) [F]

Child 2: Mary ALLEN (2 October 1721, Overwharton Parish, Stafford County, Virginia, British North America - ?) [F]

Note 1: A marriage is recorded, in St. Paul's Parish, Stafford County Virginia, as having been celebrated on 26 December 1722 between an Archibald ALLEN and a Penelope UNKNOWN. That this Archibald ALLEN should be identified with Archibald ALLEN II is questionable.

Note 2: In the family-group of Archibald ALLEN II and Elizabeth UNKNOWN, it is possible that yet another son, Joseph ALLEN, should be included.

Note 3: Nathaniel DODD, Sr., the husband of Sarah ALLEN, was the son of John DODD (died in 1745 in Washington Parish, Westmoreland County, Virginia) and Ann UNKNOWN.

Note 4: The births of Ann and Mary ALLEN, the daughters of Archibald ALLEN II and Sarah <HUDSON>, are recorded in George Harrison Sanford King, The Register of Overwharton Parish, Stafford County, Virginia: 1723 -1758 & Sundry Historical & Genealogical Notes.

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G0495A: Archibald ALLEN III _[005]
Birth: ABT 1722, Hamilton, Prince William County, Virginia, British North America
Death: AFT 1754, <Westmoreland> County, Virginia, British North America
Father: Archibald ALLEN II (1697, King George County, Virginia, British North America - 3 June 1762, King George County, Virginia, British North America)
Mother: Elizabeth UNKNOWN ABT 1699, King George County, Virginia, British North America - AFT 1737, <King George County, Virginia, British North America)

Marriage: BEF 1743, Stafford County, Virginia, British North America
Spouse: *Abigail RHODES (ABT 1721, <Stafford County>, Virginia, British North America - AFT 1754, Stafford County, Virginia)

Child 1: John ALLEN (12 August 1743 [date of christening], Overwharton Parish, Stafford County, Virginia, British North America - ?) [M]: m. Elizabeth UNKNOWN

Child 2: James ALLEN (ABT 1746, Virginia - ?) [M]

Child 3: William ALLEN (ABT 1747, Prince William [since 1 May 1759, Fauquier] County, Virginia, British North America - BEF April 1849, Wilson County, Tennessee) [M]: m1. Hannah PEPPER (died BEF December 1784), 4 November 1771, Fauquier County, Virginia, British North America [William PEPPER, bondsman]: m2. *Catherine ("Kitty") ATWOOD, 9 December 1784, Shenandoah County, Virginia

Child 4: Archibald ALLEN IV (7 February 1750/51, Warsaw, Westmoreland County, Virginia, British North America - 23 February 1846, Putnam County, Illinois: interment at Magnolia Cemetery, Magnolia Township, Putnam County, Illinois) [M]: m1. Jemima UNKNOWN, ABT 1770, Shenandoah County, Virginia, British North America: m2. Martha HATFIELD, ABT 1783, Jefferson County, Virginia [now Meade County, Kentucky]: m3. Anne MCELHOSE, 4 February 1788, Nelson County, Kentucky

Child 5: Moses ALLEN (Sr.) (2 November 1754, Prince William [since 1 May 1759, Fauquier] County, Virginia, British North America - 22 August 1843, Watertown, Wilson County, Tennessee) [M]: m. *Martha ATWOOD (ABT 1757, Shenandoah County, Virginia, British North America - 14 December 1837, Lebanon, Wilson County, Tennessee), 13 February 1783, Shenandoah County, Virginia

Child 6: Patrick ALLEN [M]

Child 7: Robert ALLEN [M]

Note 1: It is often said that James ALLEN was married to Mary STAMPS, the daughter of Thomas STAMPS and Mary ROSE, who was second married to James B. SHACKLEFORD. But the James ALLEN who married Mary STAMPS was the son of an Archibald ALLEN who resided in King George County, Virginia and who died in 1762. The Will of Archibald ALLEN of King George County was signed in 1758 and names all children. Archibald ALLEN of Prince William County may have been a nephew of Archibald ALLEN of King George County.

Note 2: On 7 March 1743/44, Archibald ALLEN III obtained land in the Northern Neck, in what is now Fauquier County, Virginia, on the north fork of Ceder Run adjacent to the lands of Lawrence DeButts, John Blowers, Rev. James Scott, and Thomas Barber.

In 1766, Archibald ALLEN III leased a tract in the Manor Leeds, in Fauquier County, adjacent to Morgan Darnell, Jr. for his life and for his sons Moses and William ALLEN

On 28 October 1771; Archibald ALLEN III and his wife, Abigail, conveyed their land-grant to Wharton Ransdell. Three days later, Archibald ALLEN IV, William ALLEN, and John ALLEN all leased adjacent tracts in the Manor of Leeds. By this time, Archibald ALLEN IV was married to Jemima UNKNOWN and had a son, Martin ALLEN. William ALLEN is still unmarried and acquires his lease under his own name and that of his nephew, Martin. All of the leases were adjacednt to that of Archibald ALLEN III.

Note 3: In Fauquier County, Virginia, the list of tithables for 1777 enumerates the following likely sons of Archibald ALLEN III: James ALLEN, Patrick ALLEN, Robert ALLEN, and William ALLEN. In 1778, the list of tithables adds John ALLEN.

Note 4: In 1782, Archibald ALLEN IV, of Fauquier County, Virginia entered service in the Revolutionary War at Yorktown, Virginia, and immediately went to Maryland.

John Frederick Dorman, Virginia Revolutionary Pension Applications, vol. 1, p. 60:

ALLEN, Archibald. R.102. 5 November 1840. Putnam County, Illinois Archibald ALLEN declares he was born in Westmoreland County, Virginia, and when an infant removed to Faquar [Fauquier]. He will be 90 on 7 February next. He moved to Washington County, Maryland, the fall after the capture of Lord Cornwallis's army [Cornwallis surrendered Oct. 19, 1781], resided in Maryland four years, moved to Nelson County, Kentucky, for 18 or 19 years, and then to Indiana. In 1828 he moved to Illinois. In 1780 he belonged to the 10th class of militia of Faquar County which was called into service. He procured a substitute who served for him two months. In 1781 the tenth class was again called into service and he was in the company of Capt. Charles Shelton in the regiment of Col. Elias Edmonds. He marched from Faquar Court House to below Richmond where they joined the main army under Gen. Muhlenberg and Gen. Lafayette. They then marched to Albemarle County where they were joined by reinforcements under Gen. Wayne, and then through Richmond in pursuit of the British to about ten miles of Williamsburg where he was discharged, having served two months and seven days. When he was going home he was placed by Capt. Shelton as a guard over a wagon and team which had been pressed into service and was about to be returned. Isaac D. GLENN¹ of Putnam Co., Illinois, declares he has known Archibald ALLEN 22 years in Indiana and Illinois. In Indiana he heard Yelley KENDALL² say he saw ALLEN on his return from the army. Rejected for insufficient length of service.

Note 5: In 1784, Archibald ALLEN IV and Thomas KENDALL were sued, in Fauquier County, Virginia, by the executors of the estate of John Ralls. As defendant, Archibald ALLEN IV's role was abated because, in 1784, he was no longer a resident of Fauquier County.

Note 6: In 1786, Archibald ALLEN IV moved to Nelson County, Kentucky where his brother, William ALLEN, is already in residence. Archibald ALLEN IV, in Nelson County, acquired land on Prathers Creek.

Note 7: Anne MCELHOSE, the third wife of Archibald ALLEN IV, may have been the kinswoman of John MCELHOSE who was a delegate, in Jefferson County, Virginia, to the county convention and who, on 23 November 1784, signed the petition - which was successful - in favour of dividing the county. On 30 April 1792, John MCELHOSE obtained a grant of land in Nelson County, Virginia - soon to become Nelson County, Kentucky - of "500 acres on the Middle Fork of a creek running in on the north side of the Rolling Fork now called Prathers Creek." [Virginia Land Office, Land Office Grants, No. 26, 1792, p. 292:

HENRY LEE, Esquire, Governor of the Commonwealth of Virginia, To all to whom these presents shall come, Greeting: Know ye that by virtue of Land Office Treasury Warrant number six thousand and fifty issued the twenty second day of August one thousand seven hundred and eighty there is granted by the said Commonwealth unto John MCELHOSE a certain tract or parcel of land, containing five hundred acres by survey bearing date the seventh day of April one thousand seven hundred and ninety, lying and being in the County of Nelson1 on the Middle Fork of a creek running in on the north side of the Rolling Fork now called Prathers Creek and bounded as followeth, To wit, Beginning at a cornered Black Oak on the head of a drain, running in on the West side of the Middle Fork, and about eighty poles nearley west from the fork of said Middle Fork, thence East one hundred and sixty four poles to a White Oak Buckeye and Sugar Tree standing on the South Bank of the Middle Fork, thence South four hundred and eighty nine poles to a White Oake White Ash and Black Walnut, thence West one hundred and sixty four poles to two White Oaks crossing the slaty2 fork of Prathers Creek at one hundred and fifty poles, thence North four hundred and eighty nine poles to the beginning with its appurtenances: To have and to hold the said tract or parcel of land with its appurtenances to the said John MCELHOSE and his heirs for ever. IN WITNESS whereof the said Henry Lee Esquire, Governor of the Commonwealth of Virginia hath hereunto set his hand and caused the lesser seal of the said Commonwealth3 to be affixed at Richmond, on the Thirtiteth Day of April in the year of our Lord, one thousand seven hundred and ninety two and of the Commonwealth the sixteenth.         Editorial Notes: 1. County of Nelson: This is the first Nelson County, Virginia which, on 1 June 1792, became Nelson County, Kentucky. Nelson County, Virginia was constituted in 1784 from Jefferson County, Virginia. Jefferson County, Virginia was constituted in 1780 from Kentucky County, Virginia. The second Nelson County, Virginia was formed in 1807 from Amherst County, Virginia. 2. slaty: This uncommon adjective refers to the colour of slate or to the fact that something contains slate. 3. lesser seal of the said Commonwealth: The lesser seal of the Commonwealth of Virginia only displays the obverse of the great seal.

This grant of land to John MCELHOSE was near to the tract which Archibald ALLEN IV obtained in 1795. See below, Note 10.

Note 8: In 1792, William KENDALL, the son of Thomas KENDALL, married Betsy ALLEN, the daughter of William ALLEN. William KENDALL, subsequently, moved to Washington County, Kentucky. Yelley KENDALL, mentioned in the application for a pension made by Archibald ALLEN IV, was the brother of William KENDALL.

Note 9: In 1795, William ALLEN moved to Hardin County, Kentucky and settled on Mills Creek, near to Thomas LINCOLN (5 January 1778, Linville Creek, Augusta [now Rockingham] County, Virginia - 17 January 1851, on his farm at Goose Nest Prairie, near Farmington, Coles County, Illinois: interment at Shiloh Cemetery, 3½ miles from his farm), the great grandson of Mordecai LINCOLN and Hannah Bowne SALTAR [see Thomas Saltar (d. 1790) and John Cox (1727 - 1804/05): The Indenture of 1782 and the Testament of 1785] and the father of the United States President, Abraham LINCOLN.

Note 10: On 15 December 1795, a survey was made of land granted in Washington County, Kentucky to Archibald ALLEN IV:

The Kentucky Land Grants, vol. 1, part 1, chapter 3: Old Kentucky Land Grants (1793 - 1856): The Counties of Kentucky, p. 141:

Grantee: Allen, Archibald
Acres: 171
Book: 7
Page: 107
Date Survey: 12-15-1795
County: Washington
Watercourse: Prathers Cr

Note 11: About 1801, Archibald ALLEN III moved to Hardin County, Kentucky.

Note 12: In 1818, William KENDALL and Archibald ALLEN III were enumerated on several poll-lists in Harrison County, Indiana.

Note 13: In 1819, Archibald ALLEN III moved to Crawford County, Indiana and affiliated himself with the Providence Baptist Church.

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G0494A: Moses ALLEN (Sr.) _[004]
Birth: 2 November 1754, Prince William [since 1 May 1759, Fauquier] County, Virginia, British North America
Death: 22 August 1843, Watertown, Wilson County, Tennessee
Interment: Brush Creek Baptist Church Cemetery, Brush Creek, Wilson County, Tennessee
Father: Archibald ALLEN III (ABT 1722, Hamilton, Prince William County, Virginia, British North America - AFT 1754, <Westmoreland> County, Virginia)
Mother: Abigail RHODES (ABT 1721, <Stafford County>, Virginia, British North America - AFT 1754, Stafford County, Virginia, British North America)

Marriage: 13 February 1783, Shenandoah County, Virginia, solemnized by Jacob Deefort
Spouse: *Martha ATWOOD (ABT 1757, Shenandoah County, Virginia, British North America - 14 December 1837, Lebanon, Wilson County, Tennessee)

Child 1: Nancy ALLEN (11 November 1783, Northeast Warren, Shenandoah [now Page] County, Virginia - 11 July 1848, Union Township, Licking County, Ohio: interment at Licking Baptist Church Cemetery near Luray, Licking County, Ohio) [F]: m. George HANCOCK (Sr.) (17 December 1777, Shenandoah [now Page] County, Virginia - 10 April 1867, Union Township, Licking County, Ohio: interment at Licking Baptist Church Cemetery near Luray, Licking County, Ohio), 9 October 1802, Shenandoah County, Virginia

Child 2: Archibald P. ALLEN (ABT 1784, Shenandoah [now Page] County, Virginia - 13 January 1873, Watertown, Wilson County, Tennessee) [M]: m1. Juliet UNKNOWN, BEF 1808; m2. Sarah ("Salley") BOOKER (1793 - 12 October 1875, Watertown, Wilson County, Tennessee), 10 December 1808 [Marriage bond date], Shenandoah County, Virginia

Child 3: Elizabeth ALLEN (1785, Shenandoah County, Virginia - AFT 16 September 1853 / ABT 1880, Lebanon, Wilson County, Tennessee) [F]: m. James WOOD (1785, Shenandoah County, Virginia - AFT 7 March 1853 [Will signed] and BEF 16 September 1853 [Will proved], Wilson County, Tennessee), 10 September 1810, Shenandoah County, Virginia [See G0493A: James WOOD in Antecedents and Descendants of Nehemiah Wood, Sr. (ABT 1731 - 3 October 1816).]

Child 4: Gilbert ALLEN (ABT 1786, Shenandoah County, Virginia - ABT 1845, Shenandoah County, Virginia) [M]: m. Nancy Ann SMITH, 5 December 1810, Shenandoah County, Virginia

Child 5: Joseph ALLEN (ABT 1787, Shenandoah County, Virginia - ?) [M]: m. Lydia SANDY (ABT 1788, Shenandoah County, Virginia - ?), 19 July 1808, Shenandoah County, Virginia [See G0495A: Nehemiah WOOD (Sr.) in Antecedents and Descendants of Nehemiah Wood, Sr. (ABT 1731 - 3 October 1816) and see Note 3 under G0495A: Nehemiah WOOD (Sr.) in Antecedents and Descendants of Nehemiah Wood, Sr. (ABT 1731 - 3 October 1816).]

Child 6: William ALLEN (ABT 1787, Shenandoah County, Virginia - ?) [M]: m. Edith WOOD, 31 May 1821 [Bondsman: David WOOD], Shenandoah County, Virginia

Child 7: Moses ALLEN (Jr.) (ABT 1794, Shenandoah County, Virginia - ABT 1863) [M]: m. Juliet ROBINSON, 28 August 1818 [by license dated 24 August 1818], Shenandoah County, Virginia

Child 8: Mary ("Polly") ALLEN (ABT 1796, Shenandoah County, Virginia - 1856, Trigg County, Kentucky: interment at Canton, Trigg County, Kentucky: gravesite destroyed by commercial development in 1969) [F]: m. *James ATWOOD ABT 1793, Shenandoah County, Virginia - AFT 9 March and BEF 19 March 1850, Trigg County, Kentucky: interment at Canton, Trigg County, Kentucky: gravesite destroyed by commercial development in 1969), 7 December 1815, Shenandoah County, Virginia

Note 1: An account of Moses ALLEN, Sr. adapted from Raymond Thomas Atwood, The Genealogy of the Gilbert Atwood Family:

Moses ALLEN, Sr. appears to have enlisted with the Third Virginia Regiment at the rank of Corporal and was promoted to First Sergeant. Both the Third and Tenth Virginia regiments were raised in Fauquier County. The Third Virginia Regiment engaged the British at Chesapeake Bay, New York City, Northern New Jersey, Trenton-Princeton, the defense of Philadelphia-Monmouth, and - in 1780 - the defense of Charleston. The Tenth Virginia Regiment, on 12 May 1779, was redesignated as the Sixth Virginia Regiment. The Sixth/Tenth Virginia Regiment engaged the British in Northern New Jersey, at the defense of Philadelphia-Monmouth, and at the defense of Charleston. Both regiments were captured at Charleston on 12 May 1780. After the release of their personnel from captivity, both of these units were disbanded on 1 January 1783.

In 1786, in Fauquier County, Moses ALLEN, Sr. was appointed constable.

Note 2: The Tennessee Pension Roll for 1835 shows that Moses ALLEN, Sr., a resident of Wilson County, Tennessee, was the recipient of an annual allowance of $120.00 for having served in the Revolutionary War at the rank of Sergeant in the Virginia Line. His pension is said to have begun on 2 November 1832 when he was 80 years of age. By 1835, Moses ALLEN, Sr. is said to have received $360.00.

Note 3: The Siege of Charleston, adapted from The Patriot Resource:

Note 4: Because such a large portion of the Continental Army was surrendered to the Crown on 12 May 1780, it is not improbable that two soldiers named Moses ALLEN were imprisoned in the hulks at Charleston Harbour. Thus, the Bible-record of Daniel ALLEN:

The evidence, then, seems to be that two persons named Moses ALLEN were imprisoned - at some time or another - in the prison hulks at Charleston Harbour. The Moses ALLEN who, according to the Bible-record of Daniel ALLEN, appears not to have been married and who did not survive imprisonment was the son of Daniel ALLEN (12 September 1728, Hanover County, Virginia, British North America - 1807, Cumberland County, Virginia) and first wife Anne HARRISON. Daniel ALLEN was later married to second wife Johanna READ [Mrs. Joanna HILL], in Cumberland County, Virginia on 24 February 1775 [by marriage bond dated 21 February 1775]. Johanna READ is thought to have been a descendant of Pocahantas.

Note 5: Of American prisoners of war confined to the hulks in Charleston Harbour, record does exist of the names of those on board the Torbay and the Pack-Horse, as of 18 May 1781, verified in the following correspondence taken from Documentary History of the Battle of Camden: 16 August 1780:

The Jersey Prison Ship,
as moored at the Wallabout, near Long Island, in the year 1782

It was in the 1770s that the British began to make use of the hulls of disabled ships in order to house convicts. In these hulks, subject as they were to overcrowding, filth, and disease, the conditions of life were unbelievably squalid. On the landward side of a convict hulk, any portholes or openings were usually boarded up. At Charleston, the Torbay and the Pack-Horse were only two of the hulks which the British armed forces employed for the confinement of prisioners of war. There were a number of others. The Jersey, anchored in Long Island Sound and pictured above, served the British to the same end as the Torbay and Pack-Horse.

Note 6: The death of Martha ATWOOD, the wife of Moses ALLEN, Sr., is inscribed in the Records of the Brush Creek Primitive Baptist Church (vol. 1, p. 5), Smith County, Tennessee, under the name of "Martha ALLEN, Sen." as having occurred 14 December 1837. About the Brush Creek Primitive Baptist Church, see Brush Creek Primitive Baptist Church, Smith County, Tennessee.

Note 7: George HANCOCK, Sr., the husband of Nancy ALLEN and the son of John HANCOCK (ABT 1740, <near Luray, Shenandoah [now Page] County>, Virginia, British North America - ABT 1795, Shenandoah [now Page] County, Virginia) and Frances SAYER, was second married to Catherine HORNEY between 1848 and 1850. Nota bene: Luray, Licking County, Ohio is not to be confused with Luray, Page County, Virginia.

Note 8: From October 1828 until October 1837, Moses ALLEN, Jr. was clerk for the Brush Creek Primitive Baptist Church in Brush Creek, Smith County, Tennessee. Moses ALLEN, Jr., an attorney by profession, was a deacon at the church About the Brush Creek Primitive Baptist Church, see Brush Creek Primitive Baptist Church, Smith County, Tennessee.

Note 9: Archibald P. ALLEN served as deacon at the Brush Creek Primitve Baptist Church in Brush Creek, Smith County, Tennessee:

	Brush Creek Primitive Baptist Church Records, vol. 1, p. 18:       July Term, 1829. After Worship, Church sat in conference. Door was opened for the reception of members. none came. then proceeded to appoint Brethren Hooker, Parkhurst and Archibald ALLEN to attend the Section Meeting , and Brother Parkhurst to prepare a letter, then dismissed in order.  Brother Bethel chosen moderator.          Moses ALLEN , Clk
	Brush Creek Primitive Baptist Church Records, vol. 1, p. 20:
	March Term 1830.  Church sat in conference, a door opened for the reception of members, none came. Brother ALLEN reports that he attended at Hogans, and handed them our letter, and that they __ _ot receive the letter. the Church proceed to appoint a committee of Brethren to visit them, Named as follows, Brethren, Dedman, A. ALLEN,1 Walker, Denney, E. Turner, M. ALLEN2 and to report next meeting. Brother Fry and wife dismissed by letter, Sister Mary ATWOOD3 dismissed by letter.          Moses ALLEN, Clerk.   1. A. ALLEN: This is Archibald P. ALLEN 2. M. ALLEN: This is Moses ALLEN, Jr. 3. Mary ATWOOD: This is Mary ("Polly") ALLEN, the sister of Archibald P. ALLEN and Moses ALLEN, Jr.and the wife of James ATWOOD.
	Brush Creek Primitive Baptist Church Records, vol. 1, p. 20:       April Term <1830> Church sat in conference. Opened the door for the reception of members. Received Brother Zachariah Worley by by (sic) letter. The Committee appointed to labor with the Church at Hogans Creek, report that they have received satisfaction from them. Then proceeded to appoint Brother Edward Turner & Samuel Walker deacons for this church. Agreed that help be called for from Salem by Brother Dedman Emons and Spring Creek by Brother Archibald ALLEN - from Round Lick by Brother COMPTON1 to Ordain our Deacons on Saturday before the third Lords Day in July next. Dismissed letter Susannah Davis by letter.        Mo ALLEN.   1. Brother COMPTON: This is either Matthew COMPTON IV or his son, Howard Wilson COMPTON. See G0493A: Matthew COMPTON IV in Descendants of John F. Compton (BEF 1644 - AFT 29 May 1713 and BEF 5 March 1718).
	Brush Creek Primitive Baptist Church Records, vol. 1, p. 26:
	June Term 1833  Church sat in conference. Case 1st, Opened the door for the reception of members. Case 2d Took up the case of Robert B. Williams. It was proven to the satisfaction of the Church that he had joined the people called the Camelites, and says that he had come to the conclusion long since to leave this Church, and is excluded for same. Case 3d  Appointed the following Brethren to attend the Section meeting, William Barnett, Edward Pier_ier, Moses ALLEN. 4th Case  Brother L. B. Hughs, complaint against Br. Abel White for a high charge for stone masoning work for him and non complying with his agreement in docking his note. The following brethren appointed to settle their dispute and report on our next term, William Burnett, Edward Turner, Hezekiah Turner, Archibald ALLEN and Elijah A. Wright.        Moses ALLEN Clk.
	Brush Creek Primitive Baptist Church Records, vol. 1, p. 28:
	April Term 1834  Church sat in conference on Friday, Chose Brother William ALLEN1 moderator.  Open the door for reception of Members, Brother Archibald ALLEN brought a charge against sister Harriet TRAIL2 for joining the Camelites,3 and she was excluded from this church for the same.       1. William ALLEN: Because, in the Brush Creek Primitive Baptist Church, the moderator was the congregational executive and was unlikely to have been a person of anything less than middle age, this was probably William ALLEN, the son of Moses ALLEN, Sr. and the brother of Archibald P. ALLEN, both serving the church as deacons. 2. Harriet TRAIL: This was Harriet FISH (1787 [christened 15 November 1795] - AFT 1834), the wife of Edward Northcroft TRAIL (ABT 1784, Montgomery County, Maryland - AFT 1850 [United States Census], Second District, Clarksburg, Montgomery County, Maryland). See below, Note 10, under G0493A: Elizabeth ALLEN. Her exclusion from the church is consistent with the Baptist doctrine of closed communion. But, since the Baptists do not regard communion as a sacrament, serious-minded religionists may find, in this, something by which to be seriously amused. 3. Camelites: That is, Campbellites, the followers of Alexander Campbell. About Alexander Campbell, imbibe the syrupy account by H. Leo Boles, himself a Campbellite of some note, in Biographical Sketches of Gospel Preachers (Gospel Advocate Company, Nashville, Tennessee: 1932):        It is said that an explorer among the tombs of ancient Egypt found, in the dried up hand of a mummy, a few grains of wheat that had been placed there many centuries ago by some unknown hand. Desiring to test the strength of the preservation of the germ of wheat, the explorer planted the grains in suitable soil and a waited, the result In due time the moistened seed germinated, grew, and produced a little harvest in spite of the antiquity of the seed. It is said that many millions of acres of waving grain today are traceable to the handful of seed which the dried-up hand of the mummy held so long. In like manner I shall try to bring from the buried treasure of ideas which have been held by the relentless grasp of forgotten years some important lessons. I should like to bring these ideas from the treasury of biography and enrich the mind of the present generation.      So much has been written of Alexander Campbell, both by his admirers and his enemies, that it is hard to select from the great mass of writings just such fragments as will best serve the purpose. It is not my aim to eulogize the subject of this sketch; but I shall attempt to collate such facts as will impress some lesson or principle that should be preserved.      Alexander Campbell was born on September 12, 1788 in County Antrim, Ireland. His father, Thomas Campbell. was a Presbyterian preacher at that time. His mother was of French descent. Thomas Campbell was preaching for the Secession Church of the Presbyterian faith. He was independent in his thinking, though formally bound by the creed of his church. His son, Alexander seems to have inherited largely the love of freedom and independence of thought of his father. If one were tracing the history of the Reformation Movement, one would have to go back to the Secession Church in Ireland and Scotland.      Alexander Campbell had splendid advantages for an education His father was a teacher of no mean ability, as well as a preacher. He took great interest in the education of his son. Young Alexander was very fond of reading, and read with interest and profit the best books that he could find. His intellectual nature was such that he soon became one of the best scholars for his age in that country. He had an ambition in his youth to become "one of the best scholars of the kingdom." The traits of his mind soon became conspicuous and found free activity in the literary work which he did. The period of youth was the seedtime of life, and he neglected no opportunity in storing his mind with useful facts and principles. As early as was possible, Alexander entered the university at Glasgow. With his unquenchable thirst for knowledge and with all the energies of his great mind, he pressed on in his educational career at the university with an earnest desire to prepare himself for preaching the gospel. He was converted, according to the theology of that age, in early life, and joined the Presbyterian Church.      Like many today he did not examine the Bible or search from its pages to find out the will of the Lord. He united with the church of his father, and because his father was a Presbyterian he became one. Of course in later years he studied the Bible to know the will of God and to do it. He soon began taking public part in the church work It was his desire to be of the greatest service to the church-a desire which ought to inspire the young people of the church today. If young people were taught to prepare themselves for the greatest usefulness in the service of God and their fellow men, they could be worth so much more to society and the church.      Thomas Campbell emigrated to America in 1807. Alexander Campbell came to America in August, 1809. His father had been preaching for the Presbyterian Church in America, and because of his independence and distaste for the slavery of creeds he had withdrawn from the Presbyterian synod. Alexander Campbell united with his father in free America in teaching the will of God as he then saw it, independent of denominational restrictions. Step by step he advanced into the liberty of Christ, gaining encouragement at each step, until finally he defied creedal slavery. He enjoyed with his father the spirit of the great slogan: "Where the Scriptures speak, we speak; where the Scriptures are silent, we are silent." Following this motto; he soon began to doubt many of the religious theories to which he formally adhered. He began to examine the Scripturalness of every tenet of faith and act of worship. The Bible was his guide and the word of God his supreme authority. He soon became convinced that there was no Scriptural authority for infant baptism, and, true to God's word and his own conscience, he gave up these cherished theories of the Presbyterian Church.      He sought some one to immerse him He found Matthias Luce; a Baptist minister; to perform this rite. This was in 1812. He was now in full accord with the Baptist Church on what was called "the mode of baptism," and out of harmony with the Presbyterian Church. He soon discovered that he was out of harmony with the Baptist Church on its creed as well as much of its practice. For about seven years he published. The Christian Baptist. The first issue of this paper was published on August 3, 1823, and the last issue was published in 1830. In the Christian Baptist he tried to correct many of the errors common in that day. During this time he cut loose from all ecclesiastical bodies and called upon those who would worship God to do so in the liberty of Christ.      He affiliated for a time with a Baptist Church, but he saw that to follow the Scriptures he must repudiate all human institutions and exalt only the Church of our Lord. He had faith in this church and had the courage to stand by his convictions. He believed in the church of the Bible and had the courage to condemn sects and denominations with their creeds and human devices. He began calling upon people to worship as the New Testament directs, and he found many who were eager to do this. Local congregations were established on the New Testament pattern and guided only by the New Testament in their work and worship. After he had been preaching independent of the Baptist Church for some time, the Baptist Church in some formal way condemned his action. Alexander Campbell was not excluded from the Baptist Church. He was never in full faith and fellowship with the Baptist Church. He was baptized by a Baptist preacher. and affiliated in a rather loose way with the Baptist Church while he was groping in darkness. But soon the light of God's truth dawned upon his soul and he ignored the claims of the Baptist Church upon him and pursued a course independent of the Baptist Church.      He founded no new sect or denomination. He said in The Christian Baptist of 1826: "I have no idea of adding to the catalogue of new sects. I labor to see sectarianism abolished and all Christians of every name united upon the one foundation upon which the apostolic church was founded. To bring Baptists and Pedobaptists to this is my supreme end." It is contrary to fact and contrary to all reliable history to state that Alexander Campbell founded the "Campbellite Church" or any other church. He did no such thing, and those who so state contradict the facts and truthful history. He simply called upon people to take the New Testament as their guide and the church of the New Testament as the only church which is authorized by the word of God.      This sketch would not be complete if I did not call attention to some of the debates which Mr. Campbell had. Mr. Campbell was averse to debates. In his early life he thought that debates were contrary to the spirit of Christ. He was almost pressed into his first debate. The most notable of his debates were put in book form. The Campbell-Owen debate was on the evidences of Christianity. Robert Owen was a famous infidel of Scotland. This debate was held in Cincinnati in 1829. Another famous debate was the Campbell-Purcell debate. This debate was on the Roman Catholic religion and was held in Cincinnati in 1837. The Campbell-Rice debate was held in Lexington, Kentucky, in 1843. In this debate the subjects of baptism, human creeds, and the operation of the Holy Spirit were discussed. Any one may read with profit these debates today.      Alexander Campbell died on March 4, 1866. His wife comforted him with the following: "The blessed Savior will go with you through the valley of the shadow of death." He replied: "That he will! That he will!" These were his last words. The best authority on the subject of Alexander Campbell is, of course, Alexander Campbell. Thus, see Alexander Campbell, "Address to the Public," The Christian Baptist, volume 2, number 2 (September 6, 1824), pp. 91-93:        IT is no doubt known to some of you that a pamphlet, titled, "Letters to Alexander Campbell, by a Regular Baptist," has been published at Pittsburgh a few days ago. It will, doubtless, be expected that I would pay some attention to this work. The spirit and style of this "Regular Baptist" forbids my addressing one word to him. I will, therefore, without prepossessing my readers by expressing any opinion of the motives and object of this letter-writer, proceed to review his performance.       This "Regular Baptist" informs me that my character is of two kinds--extrinsic and intrinsic. My "intrinsic character" is that which he investigates, and on which he pronounces judgment. In coming at my intrinsic character, or the character of my heart, he has, he says, adopted "as a standard of judgment," principles admitted by "the christian and the philosopher." These principles, he adds, "direct to a general investigation of life, the whole area of action." But he regrets that the whole area of my action is unknown to him, every thing previous to my arrival in these United States being with him "something of conjecture." But although my "intrinsic character" is the object of investigation, and the principles of the christian and the philosopher require that the "whole area of action" should be examined, yet the ingenious author views "the area of my action" only since I joined the Baptists--and, in fact, while he professes to do this much, he only fixes his eyes upon me since 1820. And of all the area of my action from which my intrinsic character is to be ascertained, only four years come in review--and of these four years but my "two debates and the Christian Baptist" are particularly noticed. To what a span is the whole area of my action reduced! And from how few documents does he undertake to prove that I am unregenerated. Let not the reader be startled at the word unregenerated; for this is the point of investigation, and the whole area of this Regular Baptist's letters is filled with mighty and convincing proofs, as he alleges, that I am an no regenerated man. But the strangest point of all remains to be noticed, and that is, that of all the actions of my life, and of all the words I have spoken or written, not one is adduced as proof of his favorite position, but only his conjectures, with a reference to the Debates on Baptism, and the Christian Baptist. Of all that I have written not one word is cited. These letters then are, if anything can be so named, "a new thing under the sun." For I am tried and condemned upon mere conjecture, and worse than all, these conjectures are predicated either upon the most evident falsehoods, or upon a false view of facts. So much by way of introduction to my review.       A few remarks upon the writer of these letters are also necessary to their easy comprehension. They are anonymous, and necessarily to be ranked under the very common and general head of anonymous abuse. As such, I was not bound to notice them; for who knows not that the ebullitions of anonymous foes carry their own condemnation in their preface. But believing that medicine may be deduced even from the carcass of a serpent that has poisoned itself, I am induced to notice them under the conviction that good may result therefrom. The writer of these letters is the Reverend Mr. GREATRAKE, from the city of Baltimore, or somewhere thereabouts. He is now located in the city of Pittsburgh, and calls himself a "Regular Baptist." It is true that he either promised or prophesied in the conclusion of his address to the Baptist churches in the West, that while on earth he would "be known to them only by the name of a Regular Baptist." In his last letter to me he was kind enough to appear willing to give me his real name, on presenting to the publisher a "fair reason" for demanding it. But when I called on the publisher he presented me with written conditions which the "Regular Baptist" had given him, which precluded him from giving up his name except upon such conditions as the civil law would oblige him to give it up or suffer prosecution. This gentleman is at present hired by a party, who were excluded from a regular Baptist church, at least by a church which at the time of their exclusion, was recognized as such. He seems to glory in the name of "a Regular Baptist," yet with what propriety I cannot see, as he is ordained over a party that cannot be called regular Baptists. It is a truth that the last Redstone association recommended the calling of a committee to endeavor to promote a reunion of those excommunicated ones; or as they express it, "to compromise the difficulties;" and that a committee was called by the excluded party, which leaving undone what was the only thing recommended by the association to be done; they proceeded to do that which they were not commanded to do, and did, without any authority from the association, call or denominate the excommunicated ones a church; and thus, as far as in them lay, prevented their reunion on such grounds as could, on regular Baptist principles, constitute them a regular Baptist church. Although, then, Mr. Greatrake glories in the name of a Regular Baptist, as though the very name should "cover a multitude of sins," he is not at present acting as such, in the instances specified. This with me is, however, a very small matter, as I lay no stress on such names, whether assumed or bestowed. There is a church in Pittsburgh that would rejoice much more in being a regular church of Christ, than a regular Baptist church; which church has two bishops, who while they watch over and labor among the saints, labor working with their own hands according to the apostolic command; and not only minister to their own wants, but are ensamples to the flock in beneficence and hospitality. This church, by walking in the fear of God and in the comfort of the Holy Spirit, is edified and enlarged by regular accessions--and their example in that city is a dangerous one to those who would maintain themselves by maintaining such opinions as will maintain them. The object of the letter-writer [91] evidently being to defame this church as well as myself, it was necessary to present the reader with this brief notice of things in relation to the Rev. Mr. Greatrake. Now to the letters. There are four conjectures, in some respects different, and in some respects not very distinct, by which Mr. Greatrake demonstrates that I am unregenerated. The first is, that I "must have received some personal pique or experienced some severe disappointment, if not both, from the denomination or church to which I formerly belonged." The second is that I must be stimulated by an "insatiate vanity." The third, that I am actuated by avarice, or, as he expresses it, by my "pecuniary interest." The fourth is, that I am aiming at being the head of a party. Into one or more or all of these evil motives, he resolves my two Debates on Baptism, and the "Christian Baptist," and thence concludes that I am a very bad man--although my extrinsic character he acknowledges is good.       I could have wished that my biographer had taken a little more time, and a little more of the advice of his friends, in waiting to get acquainted with my history and myself, and have left it to some more skilful, though less benevolent hand, to write memoirs of my life. I have only to make a statement of a few facts and occurrences of general notoriety, and I think his efforts will require no comment nor praise.       I sailed from the city of Londonderry on the 3d day of October, 1808, destined for the city of Philadelphia; but being shipwrecked on the coast of the island of Ila on the night of the 9th of the same month, I was detained until the 3d day of August, 1809, on which day I sailed from the city of Greenock for New York. On the 27th of which month I and the whole ships company had almost perished in the Atlantic; but through the watchful care and tender mercy of our Heavenly Father, we were brought to the harbor which we desired to see, and safely landed in New York on the 29th of September, 1809. On the 28th of the next month I arrived in Washington, Pennsylvania, to which place I have been known ever since.1 I arrived in this country with credentials in my pocket from that sect of Presbyterians known by the name of Seceders. These credentials certified that I had been both in Ireland in the presbytery of Market Hill, and in Scotland in the presbytery of Glasgow a member of the Secession church, in good standing. My faith in creeds and confessions of human device was considerably shaken while in Scotland, and I commenced my career in this country under the conviction that nothing that was not as old as the New Testament should be made an article of faith, a rule of practice, or a term of communion amongst christians. In a word, that the whole of the christian religion exhibited in prophecy and type in the Old Testament, was presented in the fullest, clearest, and most perfect manner in the New Testament, by the Spirit of wisdom and revelation.       This has been the pole-star of my course ever since, and I thank God that he has enabled me so far to prosecute it, and to make all my prejudices and ambition bow to this emancipating principle. I continued in the examination of the scriptures, ecclesiastical history, and systems of divinity, ancient and modern, until July 15th, 1810, on which day I publicly avowed my convictions of the independency of the church of Christ and the excellency and authority of the scriptures, in a discourse from the last section of what is commonly called "Christ's Sermon on the Mount" During this year I pronounced one hundred and six orations on sixty-one primary topics of the christian religion in the western part of Pennsylvania, Virginia, and the neighboring part of Ohio. On the 12th day of March, 1811, I took to myself a wife of the Presbyterian connexion, and on the 25th of the same month became a resident in Virginia. I became a citizen of Virginia as soon as the laws of the state permitted, and have continued such until this day. In conformity to the grand principle which I have called the pole-star of my course of religious inquiry, I was led to question the claims of infant sprinkling to divine authority, and was, after a long, serious, and prayerful examination of all means of information, led to solicit immersion on a profession of my faith, when as yet I scarce knew a Baptist from Washington to the Ohio, in the immediate region of my labors, and when I did not know that any friend or relation on earth would concur with me. I was accordingly baptized by Elder Matthias Luse, who was accompanied by Elder Henry Spears, on the 12th day of June, 1812. In the mean time I pursued the avocations of a husbandman as the means of my subsistence; and while I discharged, as far as in me lay, the duties of a bishop (having been regularly ordained one of the Elders of the church of Christ at Brush Run) and itinerated frequently through the circumjacent country, I did it without any earthly remuneration. I did not at first contemplate forming any connexion with the Regular Baptist Association called "the Redstone," as the perfect independency of the church and the pernicious tendency of human creeds and terms of communion were subjects to me of great concern. As a mere spectator, I did, however, visit the Redstone Association in the fall of 1812. After a more particular acquaintance with some of the members and ministers of that connexion, the church of Brush Run did finally agree to unite with that Association on the ground that no terms of union or communion other than the Holy Scriptures should be required. On this ground, after presenting a written declaration of our belief (always distinguishing betwixt making a declaration of our faith for the satisfaction of others, and binding that declaration on others as a term of communion) we united with the Redstone Association in the fall of 1813; in which connexion the church of Brush Run yet continues. In the close of 1814 and beginning of 1815 I made an extensive tour through a part of the eastern region, visiting the cities of New York, Philadelphia, Baltimore, and Washington, and did to my present shame, by milking both the sheep and the goats, obtain about 1000 dollars for the building of a meeting-house in Wellsburgh, a place then destitute of any house for religious meetings. In 1816 I delivered a discourse on the law before the Redstone Association, which being published by request, gave rise to some discussion, which resulted, we believe, in some benefit to the searchers after truth. January, 1818, I undertook the care of a classical and mercantile academy, known by the name of the "Buffaloe Seminary." I continued the principal of this seminary for five and a half years. In 1820, after being thrice solicited by the Baptists, I did consent to debate with Mr. Walker on the subject of baptism. Of this debate two editions have been published--one by myself, of one thousand copies, and one by Messrs. Eichbaum and Johnson, of three thousand. In 1823 I commenced editing the Christian Baptist, and in the fall of 1823 held a public debate with Mr. MacCalla, which grew out of the former with Mr. Walker. These outlines bring me up till the present year, and render a further detail unnecessary. I should have observed that a church was organized in the town of Wellsburgh in 1823, which was composed for the most part of members dismissed [92] from the church at Brush Run, of which church I was appointed a bishop.       The reader will agree with me in the result that it was expedient for me to give the above abstract with circumstantial accuracy, and we can, not only solemnly testify the above statement to be correct and strictly true, but we are able to prove every item of it of any importance before any tribunal, civil or ecclesiastical. With this document before us, let us now attend to the first conjecture. It is founded on a falsehood. I never received any personal pique or experienced any disappointment from any Presbyterian sect, Seceder or other. I never asked one favor from any Paido-Baptist sect, and therefore never received any disappointment. Nay, so far from this, favors were offered and not accepted. Immediately after my arrival in this country the academy at Pittsburgh was offered me, and invitations to union with the Paido-Baptist sects presented to me. Every thing is just the reverse of Mr. Greatrake's conjecture. Time after time favors, ecclesiastical favors, were offered me, and no consideration under heaven, but conscience, forbade their acceptance. Indeed I am bound gratefully to remember the kind offers and offices of many Paido-Baptists; and a better return I cannot (as I think) make, than to admonish them of their errors. But this gentleman, to destroy my influence and my power to do them good, would persuade them that I am an enemy because I tell them the truth, and would conjecture that I was avenging an affront or an injury which I never received. Insults and injuries I have received from some Baptists, but until my appearance on the stage in defence of the truths I had espoused in common with them, no insults or injuries are recollected ever to have been received from any body of Paido-Baptists.2   1. The first night that I spent in Washington county, Pennsylvania, I enjoyed the hospitalities of Doctor Samuel Ralston. 2. The remainder of this address, relating to the unfounded charge of avarice, is useless to this work, as it would, were it inserted, prove uninteresting to the reader. All personalities as far as possible, are excluded from this edition.       PUBLISHER.
	Brush Creek Primitive Baptist Church Records, vol. 1, p. 37:
	June Term 1838 the chruch sat in conference opened a door for the Reception of members. Recieved Sister Mary Lancaster by letter. 2nd dismist (sic) Sister Joycy Burford by letter, 3rd the church proceded to nominate the members to send up to the Section  meeting and Br. John Hooker, William Barnet, Arch'd ALLEN and Edward Turner was nominated.  4th After some remarks respecting the choosing of a pastor it was motioned and seconed (sic) that the voice of the church be taken whether they wished Bro. Pickett to attend them one more year, it was found that the church was exactly divided, which matter was laid over until the next meeting, then Dismist by H. W. Pickett, Md          Samuel Paschal Clk.

Note 10: Sarah ("Salley") BOOKER, the second wife of Archibald P. ALLEN, was the daughter of John Phillip BOOKER (ABT 1761, Frederick County, Virginia, British North America - 9 April 1804, Shenandoah County, Virginia) and first wife Mary LAWRENCE (ABT 1770, Fauquier County, Virginia, British North America - BEF November 1802, Shenandoah County, Virginia). About the system of kinship of John Phillip BOOKER and Mary LAWRENCE, see below, Note 10 under G0493A: Elizabeth ALLEN.

The offspring of Archibald P. ALLEN and Sarah ("Salley") BOOKER were: John Phillip W. ALLEN (ABT 1817, Virginia - 27 November 1891, <Black Township, Posey County, Indiana>), [M]: m1. Evaline PICKETT (ABT 1820, Smith County, Tennessee - AFT November 1855 [Illinois state census] and BEF 29 May 1865), ABT 1838, Tennessee: m2. Mary E. ALLYN (19 August 1837, Farmersville, Posey County, Indiana - AFT 5 June 1901 [on that date, in Belknap, Johnson County, Illinois, applied for a pension, as the widow of first husband Laban P. GURLEY <name incorrectly given in Posey County, Indiana Marriage Book C-3: 408 as "Saban CURLEY"> (ABT 1831, Saline County, Illinois - 21 November 1861, Good Samaritan Hospital, St. Louis [then in St. Louis County], Missouri; interment at Jefferson Barracks National Cemetery, Section 58, Grave 10625, St. Louis, Missouri), the Federal soldier whom she married 23 October 1853 in Farmersville, Posey County, Indiana by permission of her father, Jehial ALLYN (1808, Sempronius, Cayuga County, New York - AFT 1870 and BEF 1879, Farmersville, Posey County, Indiana)]), 29 May 1865, Farmersville, Posey County, Indiana; Nancy ALLEN (died 1874) [F]: m. John D. IRVIN, 8 January 1840, Wilson County, Tennessee; Mary ALLEN (9 June 1810, Shenandoah County, Virginia - 29 May 1876) [F]: m. Eli DAVIS, 3 July 1832, Wilson County, Tennessee; Moses <T.?> ALLEN (1811, Shenandoah [now Page] County, Virginia - 1892, Smith County, Tennessee) [M]: m1. Mary MCKINNEY, BEF 1831; m2. Fannie KITCHENS (died ABT 1842, Tennessee), ABT 1831; m3. Lucinda Jane TRAIL (ABT 1818, Virginia - AFT 1881, Tennessee), ABT 1842; William Booker ALLEN, Sr. (26 December 1814, Shenandoah [now Page] County, Virginia - 22 December 1900, Greenville, Muhlenberg County, Kentucky) [M]: m1. Frances Moore SMITH (20 March 1816 - 15 August 1839: interment at Allen Cemetery, Muhlenberg County, Kentucky), 10 October 1833, Wilson County, Tennessee; m2. Candice Anne KITCHENS (24 November 1824, Smith County, Tennessee - 6 August 1898, Greenville, Muhlenberg County, Kentucky), 14 April 1841, Smith County, Tennessee; Martha Ann ALLEN (31 August 1816, Virginia - 23 September 1898, DeKalb County, Tennessee) [F]: m. Thomas Wilans (or Wilian) WEST (2 November 1815, Liberty, DeKalb County, Tennessee - 14 November 1887, DeKalb County, Tennessee: interment at West Cemetery, DeKalb County, Tennessee), 20 March 1838, Wilson County, Tennessee; Permelia ALLEN (1 September 1821, Tennessee - 19 July 1855, Cana, Williamson County, Illinois: interment at Atwood Cemetery, Cana, Williamson County, Illinois) [F]: m1. Fletcher IRVIN (1819, Tennessee - BEF 1873), BEF 1841: m2. Moses ATWOOD (9 February 1817, Smith County, Tennessee - 16 June 1877, Cana, Williamson County, Illinois: interment at Atwood Cemetery, Cana, Williamson County, Illinois), 24 January 1841, Wilson County, Tennessee, solemnized by Archibald Bass, Minister of the Gospel; James Nathan ALLEN (12 March 1822, Shenandoah [now Page] County, Virginia - 15 March 1873, Union Chapel, Muhlenberg County, Kentucky) [M]: m1. Unknown UNKNOWN; m2. Saphrona P. KITCHENS (26 August 1829, Smith County, Tennessee - 19 December 1912, Union Chapel, Muhlenberg County, Kentucky: interment at Union Chapel Cemetery, Muhlenberg County, Kentucky), ABT 1845, Wilson County, Tennessee; Archibald Smith ALLEN (1826, Tennessee - ABT 30 November 1864, Franklin, Williamson County, Tennessee: Confederate soldier, killed in action at the Battle of Franklin) [M]: m. Nancy Jane OAKLEY (June 1825, Watertown, Wilson County, Tennessee - ABT 15 October 1903, Wilson County, Tennesse), 24 June 1846 (by license granted 22 November 1845), Wilson County, Tennessee; and Joseph M. ALLEN (1830, Wilson County, Tennessee - 12 November 1876, Wilson County, Tennessee) [M]: m. Ar(a)minta UNKNOWN (1839 - ?).

Archibald P. ALLEN and his wife Sarah ("Salley") BOOKER resided in Shenandoah County,Virginia and in Wilson County ,Tennessee. The area of Wilson County, Tennessee in which they lived after 1849 was District 21 where they bought 200 acres from Lovin Clifton. Most of their children lived in the far southeastern portion of Wilson County, Tennessee.

After the death of Archibald P. ALLEN, suit was filed in Wilson County, Tennessee. (Chancery Court Minute Book: 1872- 1873, pp 380-384) The filing was dated 18 January 1873 and listed among his heirs is "John P. W. ALLEN a citizen of the state of Missouri."

Lucinda Jane TRAIL, the third wife of Moses <T.?> ALLEN, was the daughter of Edward Northcroft TRAIL (1778, <Shenandoah County, Virginia> or Maryland - 1834, Smith County, Tennessee) and Nancy Ann LAWRENCE (? - ?: interment at Lawrence Family Cemetery, Alexandria, DeKalb County, Tennessee) who were married 26 January 1801, in Shenandoah County, Virginia. About the system of kinship of Edward Northcroft TRAIL and Nancy Ann LAWRENCE, the sister of Mary LAWRENCE, wife of John Phillip BOOKER, and about the death of Edward Northcroft TRAIL, see below, Note 10 under G0493A: Elizabeth ALLEN.

Moses ATWOOD, the second husband of Permelia ALLEN, was the son of Edwin Young ATWOOD (1795, Shenandoah County, Virginia - 24 September 1841, Smith County, Tennessee: Will proved November 1846, Smith County, Tennessee) and Sarah MARKS (the daugthter of Thomas MARKS) who were married 28 June 1816 in Shenandoah County, Virginia. Edwin Young ATWOOD was the son of *Gilbert ATWOOD (ABT 1732, Westmoreland County, Virginia, British North America - 1818, Shenandoah [now Page] County, Virginia) and *Nancy Ann YOUNG (1734, Westmoreland County, Virginia, British North America - AFT 1795, Warren County, Virginia) who were married in 1752 in Westmoreland County, Virginia.

Saphrona P. KITCHENS, the second wife of James Nathan ALLEN, and Candice Anne KITCHENS, the second wife of William Booker ALLEN, were the daughters of James KITCHENS (1777 - BEF 1850) and Candice N. UNKNOWN. Fannie KITCHENS, the second wife of Moses <T.?> ALLEN, was - perhaps - their untraced sibling.

Nancy Jane OAKLEY, the wife of Archibald Smith ALLEN, was the daughter of John OAKLEY, Jr. (26 April 1827, Watertown, Wilson County, Tennessee - 20 July 1889, Salisbury, Wilson County, Tennessee) and Martha PHILLIPS (1833, Tennessee - 28 May 1901, Wilson County, Tennessee) who were married 11 November 1847 in Wilson County, Tennessee. John OAKLEY, Jr. was the son of John OAKLEY, Sr. (ABT 1789, Newgate, Loudon County, Virginia - ?) and Sarah PHILLIPS (1795, Washington County, Pennsylvania - ABT 1870, Wilson County, Tennessee) who were married 1 July 1816 in Wilson County, Tennessee. John OAKLEY, Sr. was the son of George OAKLEY, Sr. (1753, Newgate, Loudon County, Virginia, British North America - 9 September 1824, Wilson County, Tennessee: interment at Brush Creek Primitive Baptist Church Cemetery, Wilson County, Tennessee), a sergeant in the First Virginia Line (March 1777 - December 1779) of the Revolutionary Army, serving at Valley Forge, and Susannah CARNEY (1758 - ABT 1740) who were married 15 March 1780 in Loudon County, Virginia.

Sarah ("Salley") BOOKER, the second wife of Archibald P. ALLEN, was excluded from communion at the Brush Creek Primitive Baptist Church in Smith County, Tennessee on 16 February 1839.

Note 11: Lydia SANDY, the wife of Joseph ALLEN, was the daughter of William SANDY and Dinah WOOD, and was the second wife of Nehemiah WOOD, Sr. [See G0495A: Nehemiah WOOD (Sr.) in Antecedents and Descendants of Nehemiah Wood, Sr. (ABT 1731 - 3 October 1816) and see Note 3 under G0495A: Nehemiah WOOD (Sr.) in Antecedents and Descendants of Nehemiah Wood, Sr. (ABT 1731 - 3 October 1816).]

William SANDY enlisted for the French and Indian War at Leeds, in Westmoreland County, Virginia. He was a member of Captain Harry Woodward's Company. At his enlistment in October 1755, he was described thus: "Brown hair, slim, and tall with a long visage." He was also said to be 5 feet nine inches tall and occupied as a planter.

Note 12: William ALLEN, who had served as moderator of the Brush Creek Primitive Baptist Church, was elected - on 17 August 1739 - to represent the church at the Round Lick Association:

The relationship between Edith WOOD, the wife of William ALLEN, and James WOOD, the husband of Elizabeth ALLEN, is untraced.

Note 13: James ATWOOD, the husband of Mary ("Polly") ALLEN, was the son of John R. ATWOOD (ABT 1754, Shenandoah County, Virginia, British North America - 21 June 1816, Shenandoah [now Warren] County, Virginia) and Elizabeth ("Betsy") ROY who were married 25 May 1780, in Shenandoah County, Virginia. Elizabeth ("Betsy") ROY, who died in 1825, was the daughter of John ROY whose Will was signed 12 February 1813 and proved, in Shenandoah County, Virginia, on 13 April 1813. Because John R. ATWOOD was the son of *Gilbert ATWOOD (ABT 1732, Westmoreland County, Virginia, British North America - 1818, Shenandoah [now Page] County, Virginia) and *Nancy Ann YOUNG (1734, Westmoreland County, Virginia, British North America - AFT 1795, Warren County, Virginia) who were married in 1752 in Westmoreland County, Virginia, he was the brother of Martha ATWOOD, the wife of Moses ALLEN, Sr. James ATWOOD and Mary ("Polly") ALLEN were, therefore, first cousins.

Mary ("Polly") ALLEN and James ATWOOD were interred east bank of the Cumberland River in Canton, Trigg County, Kentucky. The graves were bulldozed and levelled in 1969 to clear the land now used for camp sites at Lake Barkley. This act of desecration was very much the result of collusion between government and commerce. The money-loving perpetrators of misdeeds such as this would be none the worse for a hanging.

The offspring of James ATWOOD and Mary ("Polly") ALLEN were: William Jackson ATWOOD (30 September 1817, Shenandoah County, Virginia - 24 November 1887, Canton, Trigg County, Kentucky) [M]: Martha ATWOOD (18 February 1819, Wilson County, Tennessee - 2 February 1887, Canton, Trigg County, Kentucky: interment 4 February 1887 at Oakley Cemetery, Jenny Ridge [now Land Between the Lakes], Trigg County, Kentucky) [F]: m. James B. ("Jim") OAKLEY (5 April 1816, Virginia - 19 February 1892, Canton, Trigg County, Kentucky: interment 21 February 1892 at Oakley Cemetery, Jenny Ridge [now Land Between the Lakes], Trigg County, Kentucky), 1835, Dickson County, Tennessee; Moses Allen ATWOOD (1820, Wilson County, Tennessee - 6 August 1863, Ft. Delaware, Pea Patch Island, New Castle County, Delaware: Confederate soldier: unmarked interment at Ft. Mott, across the Delaware River from Pea Patch Island, now Finns Point National Cemetery, Salem County, New Jersey) [M]; Thomas Hooker ATWOOD (6 July 1826, Dickson County, Tennessee - 4 December 1888, Canton, Trigg County, Kentucky) [M]; John H. ATWOOD (21 May 1829, Dickson County, Tennessee - 12 May 1904, Canton, Trigg County, Kentucky) [M]: James R. ATWOOD (23 October 1832, Dickson County, Tennessee - 16 January 1866, Canton, Trigg County, Kentucky) [M]; and Mary Jane ATWOOD (3 July 1834 - 8 July 1871, Canton, Trigg County, Kentucky) [F].

The family ATWOOD, with the family ALLEN, migrated from Virginia to Brush Creek, Wilson County, Tennessee. From there, the family ATWOOD migrated to Dickson County, Tennessee. In 1839, the family ATWOOD settled in Trigg County, Kentucky.

James B. ("Jim") OAKLEY, the husband of Martha ATWOOD, was the son of George OAKLEY, Jr. (1787, Shenandoah County, Virginia - AFT 1850 and BEF 10 August 1853, Stewart County, Tennessee) and Sarah UPTON (1800, Rowan County, North Carolina - 10 August 1853, Stewart County, Tennessee: perished from "rising in the foot," that is, tetanus) who were married in 1815 in Rowan County, North Carolina. George OAKLEY, Jr. was the son of George OAKLEY, Sr. (1753, Newgate, Loudon County, Virginia, British North America - 9 September 1824, Wilson County, Tennessee: interment at Brush Creek Primitive Baptist Church Cemetery, Wilson County, Tennessee), a sergeant in the First Virginia Line (March 1777 - December 1779) of the Revolutionary Army, serving at Valley Forge, and Susannah CARNEY (1758 - ABT 1740) who were married 15 March 1780 in Loudon County, Virginia. James B. ("Jim") OAKLEY was, therefore, the first cousin once removed of Nancy Jane OAKLEY, the wife of Archibald Smith ALLEN.

Ft. Delaware, which opened in April 1862 and where Moses Allen ATWOOD perished, is the site at which most Confederates captured at Gettysburg were imprisoned. Many of those who died at Ft. Delaware were afflicted by smallpox. Because Ft. Delaware is located on an island, the dead were transported to Ft. Mott, in New Jersey, on the east bank of the Delaware River, for anonymous mass-burial in trenches.

Ft. Delaware, Pea Patch Island, New Castle County, Delaware United States 35-star flag, adopted 4 July 1863, the last day of The Battle of Gettysburg and the day of The Fall of Vicksburg

Confederate monument at Ft. Mott, Finns Point National Cemetery, Salem County, New Jersey Confederate States third national flag, adopted 4 March 1865, during The Siege of Petersburg

ERECTED BY THE UNITED STATES TO MARK THE BURIAL PLACE OF 2436 CONFEDERATE SOLDIERS WHO DIED AT FORT DELAWARE WHILE PRISONERS OF WAR AND WHOSE GRAVES CANNOT NOW BE INDIVIDUALLY IDENTIFIED

Note 14: Account of Moses ALLEN, Sr. and Mary ("Polly") ALLEN adapted from Raymond Thomas Atwood, The Genealogy of the Gilbert Atwood Family:

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G0493A: Elizabeth ALLEN _[003]
Birth: 1785, Shenandoah County, Virginia
Death: AFT 16 September 1853 / ABT 1880, Lebanon, Wilson County, Tennessee
Father: Moses ALLEN (Sr.) (2 November 1754, Westmoreland, Fauquier County, Virginia, British North America - 22 August 1843, Watertown, Wilson County, Tennessee)
Mother: *Martha ATWOOD (ABT 1757, Shenandoah County, Virginia, British North America - 14 December 1837, Lebanon, Wilson County, Tennessee)

Marriage: 10 September 1810, Shenandoah County, Virginia
Spouse: James WOOD (1785, Shenandoah County, Virginia - AFT 7 March 1853 [Will signed] and BEF 16 September 1853 [Will proved], Wilson County, Tennessee) [See G0493A: James WOOD in Antecedents and Descendants of Nehemiah Wood, Sr. (ABT 1731 - 3 October 1816).]

Child 1: Martha WOOD (1811, Shenandoah County, Virginia - AFT 1870, Smith County, Tennessee) [F]: m. Alexander J(ones?) COMPTON (1809, Culpeper County, Virginia - 1855, Smith County, Tennessee), 4 September 1827, Wilson County, Tennessee [See G0492A: Alexander J(ones?) COMPTON in Descendants of John F. Compton (BEF 1644 - AFT 29 May 1713 and BEF 5 March 1718).]

Child 2: Moses Allen WOOD (20 April 1813, Shenandoah County, Virginia - 18 March 1884, Wilson or DeKalb County, Tennessee) [M]: m1. Delilah LAWRENCE (13 August 1819, Wilson County, Tennessee - 7 June 1880, in or near Alexandria, DeKalb County, Tennessee: interment at Eastview Cemetery, Alexandria, DeKalb County, Tennessee), 11 April 1839 (James Young, Justice of the Peace, officiating), Wilson County, Tennessee; m2. Mrs. M. N. DOSS, 29 September 1880, DeKalb County, Tennessee

Child 3: Margaret WOOD (9 August 1817, <Wilson County>, Tennessee or <Shenandoah County, Virginia> - 7 December 1856, Wilson County, Tennessee) [F]: m. Claiborne Wesley ("Wes") NEAL (11 November 1807, Tennessee - 1871, Wilson County, Tennessee), 2 November 1840, Wilson County, Tennessee

Child 4: James S. WOOD (ABT 1819, <Wilson County>, Tennessee or <Shenandoah County, Virginia> - AFT 12 January 1869 [Will signed] and BEF 17 September 1869 [Will proved], Wilson County, Tennessee [M]: m. Unknown UNKNOWN

Child 5: William J. ("Wiltz") WOOD (1 June 1820, Shenandoah County, Virginia - 10 March 1889, Lebanon, Wilson County, Tennessee) [M]: m1. Jane C. NEAL (20 February 1820 - 21 January 1857, Wilson County, Tennessee: interment at Wood Cemetery on the old Burkett Everett Place in Mt Juliet, located west of Mt. Juliet Road between Highway 70 and Mt. Juliet), 8 November 1849, Wilson County, Tennessee; m2. Elizabeth Letitia ALEXANDER (ABT 1826, Mt. Juliet, Wilson County, Tennessee - AFT 1900, <Wilson County>, Tennessee)

Child 6: Susan WOOD (1827, <Wilson County>, Tennessee - ?) [F]: m. Thomas KITTRELL (1825, North Carolina - ?), 25 December 1834 (William Laurence, Justice of the Peace, officiating), Wilson County, Tennessee

Child 7: Yandell WOOD (1827, <Wilson County>, Tennessee - AFT 18 May 1863) [M]: m. Harriet R. SNEED (1834, DeKalb County, Tennessee - ?)

Note 1: The marriage bond of James WOOD and Elizabeth ALLEN is recorded in Shenandoah County, Virginia Marriage Book: 1772 - 1850. The bond is dated 10 September 1810 and shows that Elizabeth ALLEN was the daughter of Moses ALLEN who acted as bondsman.

Note 2: In the United States Census of 1850 for Wilson County, Tennessee, Civil District 13, 3 November 1850, the domicile of James WOOD, farmer, said to be 65 years of age and to have been born in Virginia, is enumerated as household number 1594. Residing with him is his wife, Elizabeth ALLEN, said to be 65 years of age and to have been born in Virginia, and a Mary KILE, 11 years of age and said to have been born in Tennessee.

Note 3: From Wilson County, Tennesse Miscellaneous Records 1800-1875 (Partlow), p.108 - Wills and Inventories 1853-1858:

Note 4: William J. WOOD, the son of James WOOD, was a maker of coffins. Copies of the ledgers of his business are on file in the Genealogy Department of the Mt. Juliet Library. From the researches of Jesse Clay MARLER, which were conducted in the 1940s and 1950s, it is known that the nickname of William J. WOOD was "Wiltz."

In Thomas Partlow's Wilson County, Tennessee Guardian Settlements: 1863 - 1875, William J. WOOD is named guardian of his son William T. WOOD, a minor heir of L.Y. NEAL. The guardianship was recorded 10 July 1868. Lunsford Yandell NEAL had died in Yazoo City, Yazoo County, Mississippi 11 April 1856.

The Will of Lunsford Yandell NEAL was an object of legal contest. According to the Wilson County, Tennessee Court Minutes, John B. SCOBEY, executor, filed suit, on 20 January 1857, against W. J. WOOD and wife Jane, Jane NEAL, Claiborne W. NEAL, William G. NEAL, William C. BRANCH by his guardian W. H. HARRIS, Joseph B. SCOBEY, Robert Z. SCOBEY, and Mary Jane SCOBEY, infants who are legatees in the Will of L. Y. NEAL.

Jane C. NEAL, the wife of William J. WOOD and the mother of William T. WOOD, died on the day following John B. SCOBEY's filing of the suit, 21 January 1857. William T. WOOD, therefore, remained as heir to his mother's portion of the estate of her brother, Lunsford Yandell NEAL.

Note 5: William J. WOOD, the son of James WOOD, signed his Will 23 February 1889 in Wilson County, Tennessee:

Note 6: William .J. WOOD died at his home on 10 March 1889. Francis Harmon BASS, the husband of Mary Elizabeth WOOD [see below, Note 7], reported that he was at the house of William J. WOOD on Thursday after the burial on Monday.

Note 7: William J. WOOD was first married to Jane C. NEAL (20 February 1820 - 21 January 1857, Wilson County, Tennessee: interment at Walter Reeves place, up Hearn Hill Road, near Watertown, Wilson County, Tennessee) on 8 November 1849, in Wilson County, Tennessee. Jane C. NEAL, the daughter of William NEAL, Jr. and Jane [GREEN?], died in childbirth. She and the twins whom she was carrying lie interred in the Wood Cemetery on the old Burkett Everett place in Mt Juliet (located west of Mt. Juliet Road between Highway 70 and Mt. Juliet). About Jane C. NEAL and her immediate system of kinship, see G0491A: Richard ("Uncle Dick") MARLER, note 5, in Antecedents and Descendants of Richard Marler (1 August 1823 - 28 June 1903).

William J. WOOD, sometime between 1857 and 1860, was second married to Elizabeth Letitia ALEXANDER (1826, Mt. Juliet, Wilson County, Tennessee - AFT 1900, <Wilson County>, Tennessee). Elizabeth Letitia ALEXANDER was the daughter of Benjamin ALEXANDER (1785, Alamance, Guilford County, North Carolina - 22 July 1866, Mt. Juliet, Wilson County, Tennessee and Sarah ("Sallie") CLOYD (1 February 1789, Wytheville, Montgomery County, Virginia - 1864, Mt. Juliet, Wilson County, Tennessee), who were married 24 July 1806 in Wilson County, Tennessee. The family ALEXANDER is said to include Cherokee ancestry. About 1801, Benjamin ALEXANDER, in the Donnell Settlement, taught the first school in Wilson County.

Elizabeth Letitia ALEXANDER had been first married 15 March 1848 (Rev. John Beard officiating), in Wilson County, Tennessee, to Horace C. FINNEY (1822, Mt. Juliet, Wilson County, Tennessee - AFT August 1855 and BEF December 1859, Wilson County, Tennessee) by whom she engendered Thomas Lowry FINNEY (April 1856, Wilson County, Tennessee - AFT 1900, Wilson County, Tennessee).

By William J. WOOD, Elizabeth Letitia ALEXANDER engendered Mary Elizabeth WOOD (20 August 1860, Wilson County, Tennessee - 5 March 1941, Mt. Juliet, Wilson County, Tennessee: interment at Bass Family Cemetery, located about one mile from Highway 70 on Bass Lane, south of the highway, 1/4 mile west of Cooks Church) [F]: m. Francis Harmon BASS (21 October 1857, Wilson County, Tennessee - 22 May 1925: interment at Bass Family Cemetery, located about one mile from Highway 70 on Bass Lane, south of the highway, 1/4 mile west of Cooks Church), 20 November 1879, Wilson County, Tennessee, solemnized by Rev. G. L. Staley; and Jennie Ruth WOOD (9 May 1866, Wilson County, Tennessee - ?) [F]: m. W. A. GLEAVES (1852, <Tennessee> - ?), 5 December 1892, Wilson County, Tennessee.

United States Census for 1900, Wilson County, Tennessee:

Obituary of Mary Elizabeth WOOD:

W. A. GLEAVES, the husband of Jennie Ruth WOOD, was the son of John T. GLEAVES, M. D. (1823 - BEF 1893, Wilson County, Tennessee) and Tabitha P. MOORE (1827 - ?), who were married, in Davidson County, Tennessee, 7 April 1846. John T. GLEAVES, who practiced medicine at Green Hill, was a member of the 31st Tennessee Assembly (House of Representatives, 1855-57) and of the Tennessee Senate, 1877-79.

For more information about the family BASS, see "The Old Bass House" in The Chronicle published by the Mt. Juliet - West Wilson County Historical Society, Vol VII No. 2, May 1985.

Note 8: It was Joseph NEAL who stood as bondsman for the marriage of Susan WOOD and Thomas KITTRELL.

Note 9: Margaret WOOD and Claiborne Wesley ("Wes") NEAL:

Note 10: For the marriage of Moses Allen WOOD and Delilah LAWRENCE, Robert Donnell signed as bondsman on 9 April 1839 (date of bond).

Delilah LAWRENCE was the daughter of Joseph B. LAWRENCE (ABT 1797, Fauquier County, Virginia - ABT 1848, Wilson County, Tennessee) and Mary ("Polly") NEAL (6 June 1799, .Lincoln County, Kentucky - ABT 15 September 1873, DeKalb County, Tennessee: interment at Eastview Cemetery, Alexandria, DeKalb County, Tennessee). Joseph B. LAWRENCE, who died about 1848 in Wilson County, Tennessee, was married to Mary ("Polly") NEAL on 27 June 1816 in Wilson County, Tennessee (marriage officiated by Thomas Durham, minister of the Gospel). [See Byron and Barbara Sistler, Early Middle Tennessee Marriages (Byron Sistler and Associates, Nashvillle, Tennessee: 1988]

After the death of Joseph B. LAWRENCE, Mary ("Polly") NEAL was married to William WRIGHT (ABT 1801, North Carolina - 5 October 1865, DeKalb County, Tennessee: interment at <Eastview Cemetery>, Alexandria, DeKalb County, Tennessee) on 28 August 1849, in Wilson County, Tennessee, at a ceremony officiated by William VANTREASE, "minister of the Gospel." William WRIGHT was the widower of Unknown UNKNOWN whom he had married before 1825.

The Will of William WRIGHT, who settled in Wilson County, Tennessee in the 1820s, is of some interest. His orthography has not been altered:

Mary ("Polly") NEAL was the daughter of Patroclus ("Pallis") NEAL (1776, Virginia - 20 March 1851, Wilson County, Tennessee: interment at C. Foutch Farm, Hickman Creek, Wilson County, Tennessee) and Sarah ("Sally") MOORE (29 October 1776, Surrey County, North Carolina - 24 July 1865, Wilson County, Tennessee), who were married 13 May 1796, in Lincoln County, Kentucky; and she was the sister of Elizabeth NEAL (22 March 1797, Lincoln County, Kentucky - 1865, Wilson County, Tennessee), the wife whom William LAWRENCE (13 September 1792 [date on gravestone], <Shenandoah County>, Virginia - 16 August 1855, Wilson County, Tennessee), the brother of Joseph B. LAWRENCE, took on 28 February 1815, in Wilson County, Tennessee. William LAWRENCE was the widower of Unknown UNKNOWN whom he had married, in Virginia, previous to 1811.

Of Mary ("Polly) NEAL and Elizabeth NEAL, the remaining siblings were: William NEAL (8 February 1801, Wilson County, Tennessee or Lincoln County, Kentucky - ?) [M]; Ashley NEAL (6 June 1803, Watertown, Wilson County, Tennessee - 10 August 1886, Watertown, Wilson County, Tennessee: interment at Neal-Young Cemetery, Watertown, Wilson County, Tennessee) [M]: m. Elizabeth ("Betsy") WATERS (16 August 1804, Virginia - 4 May 1865, Watertown, Wilson County, Tennessee: interment at Neal-Young Cemetery, Watertown, Wilson County, Tennessee), 13 November 1823, Watertown, Wilson County, Tennessee; George NEAL (28 January 1805, Wilson County, Tennessee - ABT 1893) [M]: m1. Patsy BRANCH (died ABT 1839), 9 October 1824: m2. Mary ("Polly") VANTREASE (ABT 1809 - ?), 24 July 1840; Isaac NEAL (15 February 1808, Wilson County, Tennessee - BY 11 January 1834 [Will recorded], Wilson County, Tennessee) [M]: m. Sally ("Sary") JOHNSON (died BY 1840), ABT 1828; Jonathan NEAL (15 April 1810, Wilson County, Tennessee - BEF 7 May 1883) [M]: m. Mary ("Polly) BEARD (1810 - AFT 1880), 17 January 1837, Wilson County, Tennessee; Amy NEAL (28 September 1813, Wilson County, Tennessee - AFT 1870) [F]: m. Daniel SMITH, Jr. (19 October 1807 - ?), 2 August 1828, Wilson County, Tennessee; Sarah NEAL (25 November 1815, Wilson County, Tennessee - ?) [M]: m. Isaac SMITH (22 February 1810, Wilson County, Tennesee - 1877, DeKalb County, Tennessee), 25 February 1832, DeKalb County, Tennessee; Nancy C. NEAL (22 October 1820, Wilson County, Tennessee - 20 May 1863, Wilson or DeKalb County, Tennessee: interment at Salem Cemetery, Liberty, DeKalb County, Tennessee) [F]: m. James ALLEN (31 December 1814 - 14 April 1860, Wilson or DeKalb County, Tennessee: interment at Salem Cemetery, DeKalb County, Tennessee, 15 November 1837, Wilson County, Tennessee; and Martha NEAL (2 May 1823, Wilson County, Tennessee - BEF 1850) [F]: m. John H. ALLEN, 16 October 1840, Wilson County, Tennessee.

Isaac SMITH and Daniel SMITH, Jr., who married the sisters Amy and Sarah NEAL were brothers, the offspring of Daniel SMITH, Sr. (27 February 1778, Virginia - 1841, DeKalb County, Tennessee) and Mary GRANDSTAFF (15 January 1779, North Carolina - BEF June 1843, DeKalb County, Tennessee), who were married 15 January 1801, in Virginia.

Patroclus ("Pallis") NEAL was the son of William NEAL, Sr. and Elizabeth UNKNOWN. His siblings were William NEAL, Jr. [M] (20 February 1780, Lincoln County, Kentucky - 5 February 1849, Wilson County, Tennessee: interment at the Walter Reeves place, up Hearn Hill Road, outside of Watertown, Tennessee): m. Jane <GREEN> (10 October 1790, North Carolina - 26 May 1869, Wilson County, Tennessee: interment at the Walter Reeves place, up Hearn Hill Road, outside of Watertown, Tennessee); Mattison NEAL (1784, Lincoln County, Kentucky - AFT 1850, Wilson County, Tennessee) [M]: m. Nancy UNKNOWN (1784, North Carolina - AFT 1850, Wilson County, Tennessee); Sally NEAL (ABT 1771, Lincoln County, Kentucky - ?) [F]: m. Unknown BLACK; Sophia NEAL (ABT 1778, Lincoln County, Kentucky- ?) [F]: m. Unknown BUCK; Charles NEAL [M]: (ABT 1779, Lincoln County, Kentucky - ?); George NEAL (ABT 1780, Lincoln County, Kentucky - ?) [M]; and Doshia Elizabeth NEAL (ABT 1781, Lincoln County, Kentucky - ?) [F]: m. William COMMONS.

About William NEAL, Jr., Jane <GREEN>, and their offspring, see G0491A: Richard ("Uncle Dick") MARLER, Note 5, in Antecedents and Descendants of Richard Marler (1 August 1823 - 28 June 1903).

Joseph B. LAWRENCE and William LAWRENCE, who married the sisters Mary ("Polly") NEAL and Elizabeth NEAL were the sons of William LAWRENCE (1762, Fauquier County, Virginia, British North America - 22 June 1846, Wilson County, Tennessee) and Mary BARBEE (1765 - 1856, DeKalb County, Tennessee), who were married, in Virginia,14 April 1783. Their siblings were: Edward ("Neddie") LAWRENCE (16 December 1785, <Fauquier County>, Virginia - 15 June 1870, Smith County, Tennessee: interment at Lawrence Cemetery, near Alexandria, DeKalb County, Tennessee) [M]: m. Delilah ("Lillie") WOODWARD (12 May 1791, Virginia - June 1875, <Smith County>, Tennessee: interment at Lawrence Cemetery, near Alexandria, DeKalb County, Tennessee), 21 February 1810 [marriage-bond date: 29 January 1810], Wilson County, Tennessee; John LAWRENCE (ABT 1788 - 2 June 1833, Wilson County, Tennessee) [M]: m. Mary PRAETOR (ABT 1790 - AFT 1848), 27 July 1807, Shenandoah County, Virginia; Lewis LAWRENCE (ABT 1789, <Fauquier County>, Virginia - 1823, Shenandoah County, Virginia) [M]: m. Mary ("Polly") ROY (ABT 1790 - 23 March 1855, Flint Hill, Warren County, Virginia), 1 August 1809, Shenandoah County, Virginia; Elizabeth LAWRENCE (23 May 1790, <Shenandoah County>, Virginia - ?: interment at Barbee Cemetery near Commerce, Wilson County, Tennessee [the gravestone is toppled and illegible]) [F]: m. James MARKS (1785, Virginia - ABT 1856, Wilson County, Tennessee), 13 January 1809, Shenandoah County, Virginia; Sarah LAWRENCE (8 March 1800, <Shenadoah County>, Virginia - 1 February 1878, Wilson County, Tennessee) [F]: m. Thomas PHILLIPS (16 August 1795, Pennsylvania - 18 January 1874, Wilson County, Tennessee), 2 September 1819 [marriage-bond date: 28 August 1819], Wilson County, Tennessee; Turner M. LAWRENCE (8 March 1800, <Shenandoah County>, Virginia - AFT 22 May 1862 and BY November 1862) [M]: m1. Ann BARBEE, 19 April 1821, Wilson County, Tennessee: m2. Sarah TAYLOR (7 July 1804 - 2 April 1884, Alexandria, DeKalb County, Tennessee: interment on land near Adrian LAWRENCE, Wilson County, Tennessee), 27 February 1838 [marriage-bond date: 25 February 1838], Wilson County, Tennessee; and Mary ("Polly") LAWRENCE (1 June 1802, <Shenandoah County>, Virginia - 20 December 1891, DeKalb County, Tennessee: interment at West Cemetery [Helton Farm], DeKalb County, Tennessee) [F]: m. John Franklin WEST (6 April 1796, Sussex County, Delaware - 17 July 1854, DeKalb County, Tennessee: interment at West Cemetery [Helton Farm], DeKalb County, Tennessee), 4 March 1819, Wilson County, Tennessee.

For the marriage of John LAWRENCE and Mary PRAETOR, John Boyd was the bondsman. Shortly after 1799, John LAWRENCE settled in Wilson County, Tennessee in the vicinity of Round Lick Creek. After the death of John LAWRENCE, Mary PRAETOR married Unknown ALLOWAY, about 1836. She was third married, in September 1848, to James BIRCHETT (or BADGETT).

Mary ("Polly") ROY, the wife of Lewis LAWRENCE, was the daughter of Elijah ROY (ABT 1768, Shenandoah County, Virginia, British North America - Will proved 24 December 1840, Warren County, Virginia) and, as it seems, Susannah LAWRENCE (ABT 1766, <Prince William County>, Virginia, British North America - BEF September 1798, Shenandoah County, Virginia), who were married, in Shenandoah County, Virginia, on 30 September 1790. [See G0494A: William WOOD, Note 2 in Antecedents and Descendants of Nehemiah Wood, Sr. (ABT 1731 - 3 October 1816]

After the death of Lewis LAWRENCE, Mary ("Polly") ROY was married to John STINSON (14 February 1783, Pennsylvania - 19 June 1869, Flint Hill, Warren County, Virginia), in Shenandoah County, Virginia, on 3 April 1832. [See G0494A: William WOOD, Note 2 in Antecedents and Descendants of Nehemiah Wood, Sr. (ABT 1731 - 3 October 1816]

Will of Mary STINSON, Shenandoah County, Virginia In the name of God, amen. I, Mary STINSON, of the County of Shenandoah, State of Virginia, being weak in body, yet of a sound mind and memory, do constitute and appoint this my last will and testament. My soul I recommend to almighty God, who gave it me, and my body to be buried in a decent manner at the discretion of my children. First, I give unto my daughter, Ann ROY, my side saddle & bridle and my wearing apparel. Secondly, I give unto my grandson, Wilie S. ROY, one feather bed, two blankets, two sheets, and one coverlet. Thirdly, I give unto my son, John STINSON, the balance of my household & kitchen furniture and all my horses, cattle, sheep, & hogs, and my Negro woman Rody and her increase, should there be any, to him and his heirs forever. Fourthly, I give unto my sons, John & James STINSON, and my grandson, Wilie S. ROY, an equal share of my proportion of money, bonds, & property in the hands of my son, James STINSON, which is a part of my late husband's estate, provided my son James will settle and divide the same without a lawsuit; but if he will not, I wish it equally divided between my son John and my grandson, Wilie S. ROY. Lastly, it is my wish that those of my children & grandchildren that receive a part of my estate that they should pay in proportion to what they receive towards my just debts, & that my son John should attend to and settle up all my business. In witness hereof I have hereunto set my hand & seal the 3rd day of January, 1832. Witnesses: N. W. Yager [indecipherable name] his Leroy X LAWRENCE mark her Mary X STINSON mark

Susannah LAWRENCE was the sister of William LAWRENCE, husband of Mary BARBEE and father of Lewis LAWRENCE. Lewis LAWRENCE and Mary ("Polly") ROY were, therefore, first cousins.

Susannah LAWRENCE, the mother of Mary ("Polly") ROY, was the daughter of Edward LAWRENCE (ABT 1737, Prince William County, Virginia, British North America - ABT 1817, in the Shenandoah Valley, Augusta County, Virginia) and Mary MOREHEAD (ABT 1738, Prince William [since 1 May 1759, Fauquier] County, Virginia, Virginia, British North America - AFT 1779, Fauquier County, Virginia). In addition to William LAWRENCE, the husband of Mary BARBEE, her siblings were: Mary LAWRENCE (? - BEF November 1802, Shenandoah County, Virginia) [F]: m. John Phillip BOOKER (ABT 1761, Frederick County, Virginia, British North America - 9 April 1804, Shenandoah County, Virginia), 25 January 1790, Shenandoah County, Virginia; Lucy LAWRENCE (ABT 1775 - ?) [F]: m. John A. BARBEE (1771, Fauquier County, Virginia, British North America - ?), 2 January 1795, Shenadoah County, Virginia [For this marriage, Edward LAWRENCE stood as bondsman.]; Nancy Ann LAWRENCE (? - ?: interment at Lawrence Family Cemetery, Alexandria, DeKalb County, Tennessee) [F]: m. Edward Northcroft TRAIL (1778, <Shenandoah County, Virginia> or Maryland - 1834, Smith County, Tennessee), 26 January 1801, Shenandoah County, Virginia; Hannah LAWRENCE (? - ?) [F]: m. Nathan TRAIL, 31 December 1801, Shenandoah County, Virginia; Elizabeth LAWRENCE (ABT 1765, Fauquier County, Virginia, British North America - ?) [F]: m1. Joseph BARBEE (11 February 1743/44, Stafford County, Virginia, British North America - BEF October 1800, Fauquier County, Virginia), 28 April 1783, Fauquier County, Virginia (the bondsman was Edward LAWRENCE): m2. Raleigh HICKERSON, 3 January 1803, Fauquier County, Virginia ( the bondsman was Charles MOREHEAD); and Edward LAWRENCE (? - ?) [M]: m. Susanna MOREHEAD, 17 August 1812, Fauquier County, Virginia.

After the death of Mary LAWRENCE, John Phillip BOOKER was second married to Nancy CLOUD, in Shenandoah County, Virginia, on 22 November 1802. The Will of John Philip BOOKER, signed 8 April 1804 and proved 13 April 1804, mentions three children. William and Salley are given to their grandfather, Edward LAWRENCE. The remaining child must have been the offspring of Mary LAWRENCE's second marriage.

[Note: Shenandoah County marriage records mention Hannah TRAIL, Mary BOOKER, and Nancy TRAIL as the daughters of Edward LAWRENCE. Edward LAWRENCE was bondsman for the marriages of Lucy LAWRENCE BARBEE and Susanah LAWRENCE ROY. Edward LAWRENCE is also named as the grandfather of Sarah BOOKER in her marriage to Archibald ALLEN.]

John MOREHEAD, Sr. died in Fauquier County, Virginia, in 1768, leaving a Will, signed 22 June 1768 and proved 24 October 1768, which named his wife Mary and the following children: Hannah JOHNSON, Charles MOREHEAD (who married Mary TURNER, the daughter of James TURNER [born ABT 1715] and Kerenhappuch NORMAN [ABT 1715, Spotsylvania, Gloucester County, Virginia, British North America - 1807, Richmond County, North Carolina] who were married 7 May 1734 in Spotsylvania, Gloucester County, Virginia, British North America), Joseph MOREHEAD (who married Elizabeth TURNER, another daughter of James TURNER and Kerenhappuch NORMAN, and went to Barren County, Kentucky), John MOREHEAD, Jr. (Will signed 14 June 1819 and proved 22 January 1821), Alexander MOREHEAD, Mary LAWRENCE (putative wife of Edward LAWRENCE of Shenandoah and Fauquier counties, Virginia), Elizabeth BRIXTRAW (BRIXSTRAW), Samuel MOREHEAD (died 26 December 1796), and Presley MOREHEAD. John MOREHEAD, Sr., who was born in Northumberland County, Virginia about 1682, was - after being first married to Unknown UNKNOWN - second married to Mary ARMISTEAD (ABT 1700, King George County, Virginia, British North America - ABT 1768), in Virginia, about 1725. Their children were: Hannah MOREHEAD (ABT 1726, Halifax, Halifax County, Virginia, British North America - ?) [F]: m. Unknown JOHNSON, ABT 1753, <Halifax, Halifax County>, Virginia, British North America; John MOREHEAD, Jr. (ABT 1732, Halifax, Halifax County, Virginia, British North America - Will signed 14 June 1819 and proved 22 January 1821, Fauquier County, Virginia) [M]: m. Frances RIXEY, ABT 1764; Joseph MOREHEAD (19 January 1732/33, Hamilton Parish, Prince William [since 1 May 1759, Fauquier] County, Virginia, Virginia, British North America - 11 July 1806, Rockingham, Richmond County, North Carolina) [M]: m.Elizabeth TURNER (1740, <Spotsylvania, Gloucester County>, Virginia, British North America - AFT 14 February 1795), ABT 1753, Orange County>, Virginia, British North America; Captain Charles R. MOREHEAD (19 January 1733, Prince William [since 1 May 1759, Fauquier] County, Virginia, Virginia, British North America - 30 September 1783, Leeds Parish, Fauquier County, Virginia ) [M]: m. Mary TURNER (ABT 1738, Halifax County, Virginia, British North America - 27 March 1835, Warren County, Kentucky), 1756, King George County, Virginia, British North America; Alexander MOREHEAD (ABT 1738, Prince William [since 1 May 1759, Fauquier] County, Virginia, Virginia, British North America - 1816) [M]: m. Lydia NELSON (24 September 1746, Overwharton Parish, Stafford County, Virginia, British North America - AFT 1784); Mary MOREHEAD (ABT 1738, Prince William [since 1 May 1759, Fauquier] County, Virginia, Virginia, British North America - AFT 1779, Fauquier County, Virginia) [F]: m. Edward LAWRENCE (ABT 1737, Prince William County, Virginia, British North America - ABT 1817, in the Shenandoah Valley, Virginia); William MOREHEAD (ABT 1740, Hamilton Parish, Prince William [since 1 May 1759, Fauquier] County, Virginia, Virginia, British North America - BEF 3 November 1809, Fauquier County, Virginia) [M]: m. Mary JONES [the daughter of Solomon JONES (1727, St. Mary's County, Maryland, British North America - ?) and *Elizabeth NEVILLE (3 December 1730, Middlesex County, Virginia, British North America - 1786)]; Elizabeth MOREHEAD (14 May 1745, <Halifax, Halifax County>, Virginia, British North America - 1821, Fauquier County, Virginia) [F]: m. Lawrence BRIXTRAW (BRIXSTRAW), BEF 1768; Samuel MOREHEAD (1747, Halifax, Halifax County, Virginia, British North America - 26 December 1796, Fauquier County, Virginia) [M]: m. Lucy WILMARTH (1751, Prince William County, Virginia - ?), ABT 1776; and Presley MOREHEAD (1749, Halifax, Halifax County, Virginia, British North America - 27 March 1830) [M]: m. Elizabeth HUNTON, 18 May 1778, Fauquier County, Virginia. [Halifax County, located in Southside Virginia, was created in 1752 from Lunenburg County and named for the British statesmen George Montagu Dunk, Earl of Halifax. At the time of its creation, its territory included what is today Pittsylvania, Patrick and Henry counties and parts of Franklin and Floyd counties. Its present-day boundaries were established in 1766 when Pittsylvania County was created from the western portion of the county. In addition to the Virginia counties of Pittsylvania, Charlotte, Campbell and Mecklenberg, Halifax County is also bordered by the North Carolina counties of Caswell, Person and Granville. Fauquier County,Virginia was formed 1 May 1759 from Prince William County, Virginia. Warrenton (22186) is the County Seat. It received its name from Francis Fauquier, Governor of Virginia at the time.]

[Note: According to Fauquier County Deeds: 1759 - 1778 (Heritage Books, Bowie, Maryland), pp 90-9: On 8 August 1768, John MOREHEAD, Sr. assigned a slave purchased on 2 August 1768 to his son Samuel. This assignment was recorded 24 October 1768. John MOREHEAD, Sr.'s date of death was then between 8 August 1768 and 24 October 1768. Also see Edward A. Humston, Humston Gleanings (1981).]

Kristin Kuhlman, k r i s k u h l f a m i l y @ y a h o o . c o m, gives the following:

Kerenhappuch NORMAN TURNER, the mother-in-law of Charles R. MOREHEAD, not only sent her sons and grandsons to war, but at the battle of Guilford gave valuable service in nursing the wounded. A monument in her memory was erected at the site of the battle of Guilford.

[Note: It is Edward A. Humston who, in Humston Gleanings (1981), reported that John MOREHEAD, Sr. was born in 1682, in Northumberland County, Virginia and that he moved to Fauquier County, Virginia. Humston is the source of information about the marriages of John MOREHEAD, Sr.]

[Note: An Elizabeth MOREHEAD was married to Richard RIXEY, Sr. (ABT 1743 - September 1808, Culpeper County, Virginia) on 15 November 1764 in Fauquier County, Virginia, and, by him, engendered Richard RIXEY, Jr. (who married Polly MOREHEAD, the daughter of Presley MOREHEAD, 23 December 1799 in Fauquier County, Virginia), Samuel RIXEY (who married Fanny MOREHEAD, another daughter of Presley MOREHEAD, 6 June 1809: Bondsman, Richard RIXEY), John RIXEY, Janney RIXEY, and Molly RIXEY (who married Andrew CHANCELLOR, 30 October 1792, in Fauquier County, Virginia). The bondsman for this marriage was William MOREHEAD, indicating that he, William, was either the bride's father, brother, or uncle. Richard RIXEY may have been the brother of Frances RIXEY, who married John MOREHEAD, Jr.]

[Note: The Elizabeth HUNTON, who married Presley MOREHEAD in 1778, should not be confused - as she often seems to be - with Elizabeth Marye HUNTON, the daughter of Col. Eppa HUNTON, Sr. (30 January 1789, Fauquier County, Virginia - 8 April 1839, Fauquier County, Virginia) and Elizabeth Marye BRENT (3 July 1792, Fauquier County, Virginia - 6 February 1866, Fauquier County, Virginia), who were married 23 July 1811.]

John A. BARBEE, the husband of Lucy LAWRENCE, was born in 1771, in Fauquier County, Virginia. He was the son of Joseph BARBEE, Sr. (ABT 1748 Warrenton, Fauquier County, Virginia, British North America - September 1790, Warrenton, Fauquier County, Virginia) and Ann ("Nancy") WITHERS (20 December 1751, Prince William County, Virginia - AFT September 1809, Hampshire, Mineral County, Virginia [now West Virginia]), who were married 2 February 1769 in Warrenton, Fauquier County, Virginia. His siblings were: Elizabeth Withers BARBEE (1772, Fauquier County, Virginia, British North America - ?) [F]: m. Matthew DAVIS (1771 - ?), 19 January 1791, Fauquier County, Virginia; Thomas Withers BARBEE (1774, Fauquier County, Virginia, British North America - ABT 1830, Warren County, Virginia) [M]: m. Sara FOLEY (ABT 1772, Fauquier County, Virginia), 6 February 1806, Fauquier County, Virginia; Anna F. BARBEE (1777, Fauquier County, Virginia - ?) [F]: m. Richard COMPTON (ABT 1766, Culpeper County, Virginia, British North America - 1811, <Culpeper County>, Virginia), 4 March 1799, Fauquier County, Virginia; Jane D. BARBEE (ABT 1779, Fauquier County, Virginia - ?) [F]: m. William KEYES, 29 December 1803 [Ann and Thomas Jordan stood bond], Fauquier County, Virginia; Charlotte T. BARBEE (1779, Fauquier County, Virginia - ?) [F]: m. Tarpley MORRISON, 4 December 1804 [consent furnished by Ann and Thomas Jordan], Fauquier County, Virginia; Nathaniel BARBEE (1781, Fauquier County, Virginia - ?) [M]: m. Catherine BRADFORD (1785 - ?), 26 November 1816, Kentucky; Joseph BARBEE (Jr.) (1784, Fauquier County, Virginia - ?) [M]; William W. BARBEE (veteran of the War of 1812) (ABT 1785, Fauquier County, Virginia - 12 November 1857, Columbia, Adair County, Kentucky) [M]: m. Sally FOLEY (1795, Fauquier County, Virginia - 1887, Columbia, Adair County, Kentucky), 4 November 1816, Fauquier County, Virginia; and Andrew Russell BARBEE (19 May 1788, Fauquier County, Virginia - 10 May 1869, Rappahannock County, Virginia) [M]: m. Nancy BRITTON (9 November 1791, Virginia - ?), 14 November 1810, Shenandoah County, Virginia.

Richard COMPTON, the husband of Anna F. BARBEE, was the son of Matthew COMPTON III (31 December 1745, Trinity Parish, Charles County, Maryland, British North America - 19 March 1810, Culpeper County, Virginia) and Mary UNKNOWN, ABT 1765, Culpeper County, Virginia, who were married, about 1765, in Culpeper County, Virginia. His siblings were: Matthew COMPTON (ABT 1767, Culpeper County, Virginia, British North America - BEF 1810) [M]: m. Nancy UNKNOWN (ABT 1777, <Culpeper County>, Virginia - ?), BEF 1810, Culpeper County, Virginia; Charles COMPTON (ABT 1771, <Culpeper County>, Virginia, British North America - ?) [M]: m. Margaret BARBEE (ABT 1773, Fauquier County, Virginia, British North America - 1828, Wilson County, Tennessee), 3 November 1800, Shenandoah County, Virginia; Edward COMPTON (ABT 1774, <Culpeper County>, Virginia, British North America - ?) [M]; Garrett COMPTON (ABT 1777, <Culpeper County>, Virginia - ?) [M]: m. Charlotte YATES (ABT 1780, <Culpeper County>, Virginia - ?); and Furman COMPTON (ABT 1778, <Culpeper County>, Virginia - ?) [M]. [See Child 10, Matthew COMPTON III, under G0495A: Matthew COMPTON II, in Descendants of John F. Compton (BEF 1644 - AFT 29 May 1713 and BEF 5 March 1718).

Margaret BARBEE, the wife of Charles COMPTON, was the daughter of the Joseph BARBEE (11 February 1743/44, Overwharton Parish, Stafford County, Virginia, British North America - 1799, Fauquier County, Virginia) who first married Unknown THOMAS about 1765. This Joseph BARBEE was second married to Elizabeth LAWRENCE (see above) . This Joseph BARBEE was the son of Thomas BARBEE (1690, <Stafford County>, Virginia, British North America - 1752, <Stafford County>, Virginia, British North America) and Margaret DULANEY (DELANEY); and he was the brother of Andrew BARBEE (1716, Stafford County, Virginia, British North America - 28 December 1795, Fauquier County, Virginia) who was married to Jane DELANEY (ABT 1724, King George County, Virginia, British North America - 3 September 1803, Fauquier County, Virginia) on 29 September 1748 in King George County, Virginia. Andrew BARBEE and Jane DELANEY, who was first married to Unknown LACEY, were the parents of the Joseph BARBEE, Sr. (see above) who married Ann ("Nancy") WITHERS (see above).

Edward Northcroft TRAIL, the husband of Nancy Ann LAWRENCE, was said by Robert TRAIL to have been "walking up a skid log which fell, causing him to jump; and he stuck a staub (recte: stob) in his foot and died of blood poisoning in 1834." [Robert TRAIL, Early Trails in Maryland, manuscript, 1979; and Judy Wendt, James Trail Descendants, unpublished manuscript, 1988]

Edward Northcroft TRAIL and Nathan TRAIL, the husband of Hannah LAWRENCE, were the sons of William TRAIL (ABT 1740, Maryland, British North America - 1779, Montgomery County, Maryland and Frances NORTHCROFT, who were married in Montgomery County, Maryland before 1765. Their siblings were: William TRAIL (ABT 1765, Montgomery County, Maryland, British North America - 17 August 1833) [M]: m1. Priscilla SHAW, BEF 1798: <m2. Ann BELT, 30 March 1807>: m3 (or m2): Abigail HAYS (5 June 1789, Barnesville, Montgomery County, Maryland - 10 May 1857, Barnesville, Montgomery County, Maryland: interment at Methodist Episcopal Church, Barnesville, Montgomery County, Maryland), 14 June 1809, Montgomery County, Maryland; Rachel TRAIL (1767 - ?) [F]: m. Francis WOODWARD; Elizabeth TRAIL (3 June 1765, Prince George County, Maryland, British North America - ?) [F]: m. William FISH; James TRAIL (1772, Montgomery County, Maryland, British North America - ?) [F]: m. Hannah Cottrell HOWARD (16
January 1772, Montgomery County, Maryland - 20 May 1868, Maryland: interment at Mt. Olivet Cemetery, Frederick County, Maryland); and Susanna TRAIL [F]: m. William HEMPSTONE (?, Frederick County, Maryland - June 1828, Montgomery, County, Maryland), BEF 1794.

William TRAIL, the husband of Frances NORTHCROFT, was the son of James TRAIL (ABT 1715, Prince George County, Maryland, British North America - 2 May 1799, Montgomery County, Maryland: interment at Prince George Parish, Montgomery County, Maryland) and Rachel JENKINS (or WOFFORD). His siblings were: Eleanor TRAIL (ABT 1742, Maryland, British North America - ?, Spartanburg County, South Carolina or Campbell County, Kentucky) [F]: m1. Amos LEE: m2. George NICHOLS; Jean TRAIL (1744, Maryland, British North America - 1832, Union County, South Carolina) [F]: m. Benjamin WEST (1742 or 1747, Maryland, British North America - 12 May 1780, Glenn Springs, Spartanburg County, South Carolina); Sarah TRAIL (ABT 1746, Montgomery County, Maryland, British North America - AFT 1783) [F]: m1. William MCCOY: m2. John BUXTON, 1780; James TRAIL (ABT 1748, Montogomery County, Maryland, British North America - AFT 1 February 1823 [Will signed] and BEF 8 April 1823 [Will proved], Montgomery County, Maryland) [M]: m. Mary Ann NORTHCROFT (died 4 November 1802, Montgomery County, Maryland), 26 August 1777, Montgomery County, Maryland; Cassandra TRAIL (ABT 1750, Montgomery County, Maryland, British North America - 31 October 1831, <South Carolina>) [F]: m. Zadock FORD (ABT 1752 - 9 April 1801, Spartanburg County, South Carolina), BEF 1772, Maryland, British North America; Rachel TRAIL (ABT 1752, Montgomery County, Maryland, British North America - AFT 1783, Virginia) [F]: m. Henry CYBERT; Archibald TRAIL (ABT 1755, Montgomery County, Maryland, British North America - BEF 1820) [M]: m. Monica HOWE, Montgomery County, Maryland; Margaret ("Margery") TRAIL (20 March 1757, Montgomery County, Maryland, British North America - 9 May 1824, Pendleton County, Kentucky) [F]: m. Walter Horace FRYER (11 June 1760, Frederick County, Maryland, British North America - 20 April <1821>, Pendleton County, Kentucky), 9 May 1780, Montgomery County, Maryland; Ozborn (Osborne) TRAIL (December 1759, Montgomery County, Maryland, British North America - AFT 5 December 1814 [Will signed] and BEF 28 November 1815 [Will proved], Campbell County, Kentucky) [M]: m. Frances Merrill FRYER, 9 October 1781, Montgomery County, Maryland; Nathan TRAIL [M]; and David TRAIL [M].

Frances NORTHCROFT, the wife of William TRAIL, and Mary Ann NORTHCROFT, the wife of James TRAIL, were the daughters of Edward NORTCROFT (died AFT 16 June 1766 [Will signed] and BEF 5 August 1766 [Will proved], Frederick County, Maryland, British North America) and Elizabeth Frances FRYER. Their siblings were: Edward NORTHCROFT [M]; Unknown NORTHCROFT [F]: m. Unknown COLLUM; and Richard NORTHCROFT (died ABT 1789) [M]: m.Verlinda FORD (died 1822, Iredell County, North Carolina), 1762. Verlinda FORD is said to have been the daughter of Cassandra TRAIL and and Zadoc FORD.

About Benjamin WEST, the husband of Jean TRAIL, it was reported in the Spartanburg Herald-Journal of 14 May 1933, on the occasion of dedicating a marker to him and Joseph WOFFORD, that he - a soldier in the Revolutionary War - was ambushed on 12 May 1780 by a band of Tory raiders. Benjamin WEST was shot, scalped, and hanged. In this same issue of the Spartanburg Herald-Journal: "According to tradition, Benjamin WEST and JosephWOFFORD came to what was then Ninety-Six District from Maryland and bought a large tract of land from Brownlee and Bailey. WEST settled on that part nearer the WEST springs section while WOFFORD built his cabin northwest of WEST's toward Glenn Springs although not far away.WEST's cabin was built of logs and stood on a wedge of ground at the intersection of a branch with McElwain Creek on the same side of the present highway and not five hundred yards from the old Winnsmithhouse."

During the Revolutionary War, Zadock FORD, the husband of Cassandra TRAIL, was in the 7th Company of the Maryland Militia (Montgomery County).

Archibald TRAIL enlisted as a soldier for the Revolutionary War in 1776 and took the Patriots' Oath in 1778.

Walter Horace FRYER and Margaret ("Margery") TRAIL moved to Campbell County, Kentucky and, from there, to Pendleton County, Kentucky. Walter Horace FRYER was the son of John FRYER and Mary UNKNOWN.

Frances Merrill FRYER was the daughter of George FRYER and Mary MERRILL. Frances Merrill FRYER and Walter Horace FRYER are said to have been cousins.

The children of James TRAIL and Mary Ann NORTHCROFT were: Nathan TRAIL (ABT 1778, Montgomery County, Maryland - 19 November 1825, Montgomery County, Maryland [M]: m. Susanna BUXTON, 22 December 1801 [by license dated 19 December 1801]; Eleanor TRAIL (ABT 1779, Montgomery County, Maryland - 8 December 1863) [F]: m. William BUXTON; Ashford TRAIL (ABT 1780, Montgomery County, Maryland - 8 December 1825) [M]: m. Anne SANDERS, 29 December 1803 [by license dated 18 December 1803]; Edward Northcroft TRAIL (ABT 1784, Montgomery County, Maryland - AFT 1850 [United States Census], Second District, Clarksburg, Montgomery County, Maryland) [M]: m. Harriet FISH (1787 [christened 15 November 1795 - AFT 1834), 27 April 1813, Prince George County, Maryland; Mary Ann TRAIL (11 March 1786, Montgomery County, Maryland - 9 March 1861, Southampton, Bedford County, Pennsylvania: interment at Buxton's Graveyard, Bedford County, Pennsylvania) [F]: m. George Washington BUXTON (died 6 January 1853, Southampton, Bedford County, Pennsylvania: interment at Buxton's Graveyard, Bedford County, Pennsylvania), 7 December 1802 [by license dated 4 December 1802], Montgomery County, Maryland; James TRAIL (1781, Montgomery County, Maryland - BEF 8 April 1821 [Will proved], Montgomery County, Maryland) [M]: m. Mary BUXTON, 11 May 1811, Montgomery County, Maryland; Rachel TRAIL (1782, Montgomery County, Maryland - AFT 1835, Maryland) [F]: m. Nicholas RICKETTS, 15 April 1811; Notley TRAIL (ABT 1785, Montgomery County, Maryland - AFT 1850 [United States Census], Cracklin District, Montgomery County, Maryland) [M]: m. Verlinda RICKETTS, 19 March 1817, Montgomery County, Maryland), 19 March 1817, Montgomery County, Maryland; Susanna TRAIL (1792, Montgomery County, Maryland - ?) [F]: m. Clement BOSWELL, 24 December 1821 [date of license], Montgomery County, Maryland; Gulielma Maria TRAIL (10 October 1794, Montgomery County, Maryland - 7 July 1873, Montgomery County, Maryland: interment at family cemetery, Derwood, Montgomery County, Maryland) [F]: m. Merchant ("Marchand") RICKETTS (8 October 1794 - 1 June 1875, Montgomery County, Maryland: interment at family cemetery, Derwood, Montgomery County, Maryland), 12 February 1817, Montgomery County, Maryland; and Frances ("Fanny") TRAIL (11 December 1798, Prince George Parish, Montgomery County, Maryland [christened 23 June 1799, Prince George Parish, Montgomery County, Maryland - ?) [F]: m. William RICKETTS (15 August 1799, Prince George Parish, Montgomery County, Maryland - ?), 18 December 1822.

Susanna BUXTON, the wife of Nathan TRAIL, was the daughter of Thomas BUXTON and Mary PLEASANTS. George Washington BUXTON, the husband of Mary Ann TRAIL, was her brother.

Edward Northcroft TRAIL (1778), the husband of Nancy Ann LAWRENCE, and Edward Northcroft TRAIL (1784), the husband of Harriet FISH, were - as is clear from the account of the family TRAIL given above - double first cousins. Nancy Ann LAWRENCE, as Nancy TRAIL, was excluded from communion at the Brush Creek Primitive Baptist Church, Brush Creek, Smith County, Tennessee in October 1833 for having affiliated with the Campbellites. Harriet FISH, as Harriet TRAIL, was received into communion "by experience" at the Brush Creek Primitive Baptist Church, Brush Creek, Smith County, Tennessee in October 1832 and was excluded from communion in April 1834 for having affiliated with the Campbellites. [See above, Note 7, under G0494A: Moses ALLEN (Sr.).] This suggests that, in the early 1830s, both Edward Northcroft TRAIL (1778) and Edward Northcroft TRAIL (1784) were residing in Smith County, Tennessee. Edward Northcroft TRAIL (1778) is known to have died in Smith County, Tennessee in 1834.

Ann ("Nancy") WITHERS, the wife of Joseph BARBEE, was second married to Thomas JORDAN on 29 October 1791, in Fauquier County, Virginia. On behalf of the bride, James WITHERS, her brother, stood as bondsman. She was the daughter of Thomas WITHERS (15 February 1723/24, Potomac Creek, Overwharton Parish, Stafford County, Virginia, British North America - November 1794, Fauquier County, Virginia and Elizabeth ("Betty") Ashby WILLIAMS (ABT 1723, Stafford County, Virginia, British North America - BEF 1791, <Fauquier County>, Virginia), who were married about 1743. Her siblings were: James WITHERS (16 March 1744/45, Prince William County, Virginia, British North America - BEF July 1791, Fauquier County, Virginia) [M]: m. Elizabeth WILLIAMS (ABT 1745 - 27 March 1783, Woodford County, Kentucky), ABT 1767, Prince William County, Virginia, British North America; Hannah WITHERS [F] (10 September 1746, Prince William County, Virginia, British North America - ?): m. James WINN, (ABT 1750, Prince William County, Virginia, British North America - ?), ABT 3 March 1767, Fauquier County, Virginia, British North America; Elizabeth WITHERS (ABT 1749, Prince William County, Virginia, British North America - ?) [F]: m. Minor WINN (1730, Prince William County, Virginia, British North America - 1813, Loudoun County, Virginia, British North America), 17 October 1766; John WITHERS (1753, Prince William County, Virginia, British North America - November 1816, Sumner County, Tennessee) [M]; m. Katherine PORTER (1753 - AFT 1830, Sumner County, Tennessee), BEF 13 March 1786; Matthew Keene WITHERS (3 February 1755, Prince William County, Virginia, British North America - 1830, Fauquier County, Virginia) [M]: m. Nancy JENNINGS (7 October 1753, Prince William County, Virginia, British North America - 26 July 1823, Fauquier County, Virginia), BEF 13 December 1776 [See Child 8: Nancy JENNINGS under G0495A: Augustine JENNINGS (Sr.), Major, in Descendants of John Jennings (ABT 1630/35 - 1669).]; William Hamlin WITHERS (ABT 1756, Prince William County, Virginia, British North America - 24 August 1834, Fauquier County, Virginia) [M]: m. Martha Ann ("Patsy") ASHBY (ABT 1770 - 15 September 1838, Gibson County, Tennessee), 28 March 1786, Fauquier County, Virginia; Enoch Keene WITHERS (14 October 1760, Fauquier County, Virginia, British North America - 26 July 1813, Green Meadows Plantation, Fauquier County, Virginia) [M]: m. Unknown UNKNOWN, 13 May 1786, Fauquier County, Virginia; Benjamin WITHERS (22 January 1763, Fauquier County, Virginia, British North America - ABT March 1823, Bullitt County, Kentucky) [M]: m. Nancy ROBINSON (ABT 1763 - BEF 1820, Bullitt County, Kentucky), 24 February 1783, Fauquier County, Virginia; Sarah WITHERS (13 October 1765, Fauquier County, Virginia, British North America - AFT 1794, <Fauquier County>, Virginia) [F]: m. Charles Cato WEST (ABT 1764 - ?), 10 June 1785, Fauquier County, Virginia; Susannah WITHERS (20 August 1767, Fauquier County, Virginia, British North America - ?, Bourbon County, Kentucky) [F]: m. Chichester CHINN (ABT 1767 - ?, Bourbon County, Kentucky), 9 June 1789, Fauquier County, Virginia; Joseph WITHERS (22 June 1769, Fauquier County, Virginia, British North America - AFT 1825, Pulaski County, Kentucky) M]: m. Lydia MAUZY (ABT 1769, Fauquier County, Virginia, British North America- ?), 24 January 1791, Fauquier County, Virginia; and Roger WITHERS (ABT 1770, <Fauquier County>, Virginia - ?) [M].

Thomas WITHERS was the son of James WITHERS (6 June 1681, Potomac Creek, Overwharton Parish, Stafford County, Virginia, British North America - 6 June 1746, Overwharton Parish, Stafford County, Virginia, British North America) who, before 1781 in Stafford County, Virginia, was married to Elizabeth KEENE (ABT 1682, Stafford County, Virginia, British North America - 26 July 1769, Stafford County, Virginia, British North America). His siblings were: Elizabeth WITHERS (23 December 1706, Stafford County, Virginia British North America - 26 July 1798, Stafford County, Virginia) [F]: m. Abraham FIELD (ABT 1699 - 1775, Culpeper County, Virginia, British North America), BEF 21 July 1723, Stafford County, Virginia; Ursula WITHERS (29 September 1709, Stafford County, Virginia, British North America - BY 3 September 1793, Fauquier County, Virginia) [F]: m. Capt. John ALLEN, Commisioner (Justice) of the Peace (1731 -1734) and Sheriff (1735) of Prince William County, Virginia and Church Warden of Hamilton Parish (1705, New Baltimore, Stafford County, Virginia, British North America - AFT 3 November 1759 [Will signed] and BEF 26 March 1761 [Will proved], Fauquier County, Virginia, British North America), ABT 1729; Mary WITHERS (twin of Martha WITHERS) (1711, Stafford County, Virginia, British North America - AFT 1746 and BEF 1783) [F]: m. Joseph HUDNALL (Sr.), Justice of the Peace (ABT 1711, Virginia, British North America - 1783, <Hamilton Parish, Prince William County>, Virginia), ABT 1731, King George County, Virginia; Martha WITHERS (twin of Mary WITHERS) (1711, Stafford County, Virginia, British North America - BEF 1788) [F]: m. James MCDANIEL (ABT 1711 - 1783), BEF 1746; John WITHERS (Sr.) (29 January 1713/14, Stafford County, Virginia, British North America - 25 October 1794, Stafford County, Virginia) [M]: m. Hannah ALLEN (ABT 1715, Prince William County, Virginia, British North America - 16 July 1801, Stafford County, Virginia), 1735, Stafford County, Virginia; Keene WITHERS I (29 January 1714/15, Stafford County, Virginia, British North America - ABT 1720, Stafford County, Virginia, British North America) [M]; Bridget WITHERS I (29 January 1714/15, Stafford County, Virginia, British North America - ABT 1717, Stafford County, Virginia, British North America) [F]; James ("Old Nigh") WITHERS (11 February 1716/17, Stafford County, Virginia, British North America - 9 January 1784, Fauquier County, Virginia) [M]: m1. Catherine BARBEE (1 November 1720, Stafford County, Stafford County, Virginia, British North America - BEF 1778), BEF 8 November 1748: m2. Jemima GARNER (ABT 1753, Stafford County, Virginia, British North America - AFT 1807, Fauquier County, Virginia), ABT 1778, Stafford County, Virginia; Ann Sophia WITHERS (20 June 1718, Stafford County, Virginia, British North America - died in infancy, Stafford County, Virginia, British North America) [F]; Irvine WITHERS (20 June 1718, Stafford County, Virginia, British North America - ABT 1718, Stafford County, Virginia, British North America) [M]; Bridget WITHERS II (20 July 1720, Stafford County, Virginia, British North America - AFT 1788) [F]: m. William ALLEN (Jr.) (ABT 1719 - ?), 15 February 1742/43, Overwharton Parish, Stafford County, Virginia, British North America; Ann WITHERS (2 October 1722, Stafford County, Virginia, British North America - BEF 1765) [F]: m. Henry MAUZY, 11 November 1744, Stafford County, Virginia, British North America; William WITHERS (25 April 1726, Stafford County, Virginia, British North America - 6 January 1804, Fauquier County, Virginia) [M]: m. Elizabeth HORD (22 September 1732, King George County, Virginia, British North America - 17 October 1781, Fauquier County, Virginia), 15 December 1756, Prince William County, Virginia, British North America; and Keene WITHERS II (13 February 1727/28, Stafford County, Virginia, British North America - 1756, Stafford County, Virginia, British North America) [M]: m. Elizabeth CAVE (ABT 1727 - 1790, Stafford County, Virginia, British North America), 21 December 1747, Stafford County, Virginia, British North America.

John ALLEN, the husband of Ursula WITHERS, was the son of William ALLEN (died after 16 August 1738 and before 12 May 1741 in Stafford County, Virginia) and Margaret LUNSFORD.

From Wills, Administrations, and Marriages of Fauquier County, Virginia: 1759 - 1800, compiled by J. Estelle Stewart King (1939):

From Wills, Administrations, and Marriages of Fauquier County, Virginia: 1759 - 1800, compiled by J. Estelle Stewart King (1939):

From Wills, Administrations, and Marriages of Fauquier County, Virginia: 1759 - 1800, compiled by J. Estelle Stewart King (1939):

John WITHERS (Sr.) and Hannah ALLEN were the parents of: James WITHERS (29 August 1736, Stafford County, Virginia, British North America - BEF 1819, Stafford County, Virginia) [M]: m. Susan Sara WALLER ( ABT 1738, Stafford County, Virginia, British North America - BEF 1810), 7 December 1757, Stafford County, Virginia, British North America; John WITHERS (Jr.) (15 December 1738, Stafford County, Virginia, British North America - 12 June 1818, Jessamine County, Kentucky) [M]: m. Dilly ALLEN (ABT 1738 - ?), AFT 1775; Elizabeth WITHERS (28 February 1740/41, Overwharton Parish, Stafford County, Virginia, British North America - 15 July 1826, Garrard County, Kentucky: interment at W. Jennings Cemetery, Garrard County, Kentucky) [F]: m. William JENNINGS, Captain (ABT 1740, Prince William County, Virginia, British North America - 6 April 1814, Garrard County, Kentucky: interment at W. Jennings Cemetery, Garrard County, Kentucky), 24 December 1764, Fauquier County, Virginia, British North America [See Child 3: William JENNINGS, Captain, under G0495A: Augustine JENNINGS (Sr.), Major, in Descendants of John Jennings (ABT 1630/35 - 1669).]; Margaret ("Peggy") WITHERS (3 February 1741/42, Stafford County, Virginia, British North America - AFT 1830, Stafford County, Virginia) [F]; Mary WITHERS (23 January 1743/44, Stafford County, Virginia, British North America - BEF 1794, Culpeper County, Virginia) [F]: m. John ROUTT (13 December 1742, Stafford County, Virginia, British North America - ?, Culpeper County, Virginia), ABT 1762; William WITHERS (21 March 1746/47, Stafford County, Virginia, British North America - 18 October 1821, Hardin County, Kentucky) [M]: m. Hannah ROSSER (6 August 1747, Prince William County, Virginia, British North America - 17 November 1825, Hardin County, Kentucky), 21 March 1769, Fauquier County, Virginia, British North America; Thomas WITHERS (15 January 1747/48, Stafford County, Virginia, British North America - ABT 1760, Stafford County, Virginia, British North America) [M]; Ursula WITHERS (24 December 1750, Stafford County, Virginia, British North America - ?) [F]: m. Unknown WALLER, BEF 1794; George WITHERS (2 February 1753, Stafford County, Virginia, British North America - 1825, Stafford County, Virginia) [M]: m. Elizabeth C. SCANLON (ABT 1753 - October 1834, Jessamine County, Kentucky), BEF 1804; Hannah WITHERS (8 September 1754, Stafford County, Virginia, British North America - 1800) [F]: m. Joseph de JARNETTE, AFT 1794; Ann WITHERS (9 November 1756, Stafford County, Virginia, British North America - ?) [F]: m. Nathaniel SMITH, BEF 1804; Sarah WITHERS (22 April 1759, Stafford County, Virginia, British North America - 1800) [F]: m. William MOUNTJOY (ABT 1759, Stafford County, Virginia, British North America - ?), BEF 1794; and Benjamin WITHERS (8 October 1762, Stafford County, Virginia, British North America - 14 October 1830, Prince William County, Virginia) [M]: m. Ann MARKHAM (ABT 1762 - AFT 1830), BEF 1796.

Keene WITHERS II and Elizabeth CAVE were the parents of: Ann WITHERS (14 December 1748, Stafford County, Virginia, British North America - ?) [F]: m. Thomas MOUNTJOY, ABT 1768; Amelia WITHERS (1750, Stafford County, Virginia, British North America - ?) [F]: m. Robert SCANLON, ABT 1770; James Cave WITHERS (9 May 1752, Stafford County, Virginia, British North America - 1828, Fauquier County, Virginia) [M]: m. Chloe JENNINGS (ABT 1755, Prince William County, Virginia, British North America), 4 November 1775, Fauquier County, Virginia, British North America [See Child 9: Chloe JENNINGS, under G0495A: Augustine JENNINGS (Sr.), Major in Descendants of John Jennings (ABT 1630/35 - 1669)]; William WITHERS (20 February 1754, Stafford County, Virginia, British North America - September 1809, Hardin County, Kentucky) [M]: m. Mary WITHERS (18 February 1762, Fauquier County, Virginia, British North America - 1807, Culpeper County, Virginia), 4 January 1780, Fauquier County, Virginia [Mary WITHERS, the wife of William WITHERS, was the daughter of William WITHERS and Elizabeth HORD. See above.]; and John WITHERS (23 February 1756, Stafford County, Virginia, British North America - ?, Botetourt County, Virginia) [M]: m. Elizabeth WITHERS (ABT 1748, Prince William County, Virginia, British North America - ?), 21 July 1791, Fauquier County, Virginia. [Elizabeth WITHERS, the wife of John WITHERS, was the daughter of William WITHERS and Elizabeth HORD. See above.]

[Note: The Will of Thomas DENT named his stepdaughter-in-law as Elizabeth WITHERS (the wife of Keene WITHERS II) and refers to her deceased natural father, William CAVE. Elizabeth CAVE was the longest surviving child of William CAVE (ABT 1700 - 1742, Stafford County, Virginia, British North America) and Ann TRAVERS. Her siblings were: David CAVE (died after 12 September 1748, <Orange County>, Virginia, British North America) [M]: m. Sarah UNKNOWN; and John CAVE (died AFT 6 August 1714 and BY 1721, Stafford County, Virginia, British North America) [M]: m. Anne DONIPHIN, BEF 1721. (Anne DONIPHIN, after 1721, was second married to Giles TRAVERS) Elizabeth CAVE was second married to Andrew EDWARDS, 9 January 1758, Stafford County, Virginia, British North America; and she was third married to Thomas WALKER. Ann TRAVERS married Thomas DENT in 1747.]

James Cave WITHERS and Chloe JENNINGS were the parents of: John WITHERS (17 August 1776, Fauquier County, Virginia - 1859, Alexandria, Fairfax County, Virginia) [M]; Augustine WITHERS (11 April 1778, Fauquier County, Virginia - 1826, Fauquier County, Virginia) [M]: m. Katherine WITHERS (ABT 1784, Fauquier County, Virginia - ?), 12 September 1803, Fauquier County, Virginia [About Katherine WITHERS, see below.]; Elizabeth Cave WITHERS (10 May 1780, Fauquier County, Virginia - 15 March 1857, Fredericksburg, Spotsylvania County, Virginia) [F]: m. Fielding LUCAS (1764 <Fredericksburg, Spotsylvania County>, Virginia, British North America - 21 November 1829, <Fredericksburg>, Spotsylvania County, Virginia), 24 April 1798, Fauquier County, Virginia [See Child 3: Fielding LUCAS, under G0495A: Peter LUCAS, in Descendants of Peter Lucas (ABT 1729 - 16 November 1781)]; Cave WITHERS (12 September 1782, Fauquier County, Virginia - 4 February 1813, Fauquier County, Virginia) [M]; Jennings WITHERS (25 August 1784, Fauquier County, Virginia - 14 November 1857, Boone County, Missouri) [M]: m. Catherine B. THEOBALD (30 July 1806 - 10 March 1872, Columbia, Boone County, Missouri), 31 December 1829, Kentucky; Hannah WITHERS (25 April 1787, Fauquier County, Virginia - 1844, Fauquier County, Virginia) [F]: m1. Dickerson WOOD (Jr.) (ABT 1773, Fauquier County, Virginia - BY 6 December 1827), 24 December 1793, Fauquier County, Virginia: m2. Field HENRY (Jr.) (ABT 1780 - ?), 6 December 1827, Fauquier County, Virginia [Field HENRY (Jr.) was the son of Field HENRY (Sr.) (3 February 1755, Culpeper County, Virginia, British North America - 27 May 1823, Bullitt County, Kentucky) and Susan Waller WITHERS (19 January 1765, Stafford County, Virginia - ?), who were married 4 March 1789 in Stafford County, Virginia. Susan Waller WITHERS was the daughter of James WITHERS and Susan Sara WALLER. See above.]; Sarah Jennings WITHERS (2 June 1789, Fauquier County, Virginia - BEF 1859) [F]: m. Zephaniah R. ENGLISH (1780, Maryland - ?), 25 April 1819 [Zephaniah R. ENGLISH was first married to Elizabeth Jane WITHERS on 6 October 1806. About Elizabeth Jane WITHERS, see below.]; James WITHERS (30 April 1792, Fauquier County, Virginia - 1861, Culpeper County, Virginia) [M]: m1. Frances FUNSTEN, 12 December 1822: m2. Ellen Adelaide GRIGGSBY (1806, Culpeper County, Virginia - ?), 21 November 1840, Fauquier County, Virginia; Travers WITHERS (6 April 1795, Fauquier County, Virginia - BEF 1820) [M]; and Walter WITHERS (25 February 1797, Fauquier County, Virginia - 1858, Middleburg, Loudoun County, Virginia) [M]: m. Margaret A. BAGGOTT (1808, Caroline County, Virginia - 1886), 8 March 1858, Fredericksburg, <Stafford> County, Virginia.

Katherine WITHERS, the wife of Augustine WITHERS, and Elizabeth Jane WITHERS, the first wife of Zephaniah R. ENGLISH who was first married to Sarah Jennings WITHERS, were the daughters of James WITHERS (ABT 1750, Prince William County, Virginia, British North America - BY December 1808, Fauquier County, Virginia) and Sarah PICKETT (ABT 1750, Prince William County, Virginia, British North America - March 1825, Jeffersonton, Culpeper County, Virginia), who were married about 19 November 1773 in Fauquier County, Virginia. James WITHERS was the son of James ("Old Nigh") WITHERS and Catherine BARBEE. [See above.]

Thomas PHILLIPS, the husband of Sarah LAWRENCE, was a veteran of the War of 1812.

Concerning Turner M. LAWRENCE:

SOME WILSON COUNTY, TENNESSEE CHANCERY COURT LOOSE RECORDS:

Thomas E. Partlow's WILSON COUNTY, TENNESSEE, CHANCERY COURT RECORDS 1842 - 1892:

Margaret Jane NEAL (10 October 1833, Wilson County, Tennessee - 15 July 1852, DeKalb County, Tennessee), the daughter of Isaac NEAL and thus the granddaughter of Patroclus ("Pallis") NEAL, who was married to William Henry WHALEY (14 March 1821, Libery, DeKalb County, Tennessee - 30 December 1872, Liberty, DeKalb County, Tennessee: interment at Salem Cemetery, Liberty, DeKalb County, Tennessee) on 4 April 1849, died leaving Sarah Frances WHALEY as her only issue. William Henry WHALEY was the son of Elijah WHALEY (24 February 1792, Anne Arundel County, Maryland - 16 November 1859, Smithville, DeKalb County, Tennessee: interment at Whorten Springs, DeKalb County, Tennessee) and Rebecca DOUGHERTY (8 February 1800, Augusta Springs, Augusta County, Virginia - 30 July 1868, Smithville, DeKalb County, Tennessee: interment at Whorten Springs, DeKalb County, Tennessee), who were married 20 June 1816 in Liberty, DeKalb County, Tennessee. And he was the brother of Seth Madison WHALEY (18 June 1824, Liberty, DeKalb County, Tennessee - 19 June 1899, Forest Home, Lawrence County, Missouri: interment at Union Cemetery, Mt. Pleasant, Lawrence County), who was second married to Mary Elinor ROSS (8 September 1837, Hardin County, Tennessee - 26 March 1890, Lawrence County, Missouri) on 31 May 1860. Seth Madison WHALEY and Mary Elinor ROSS engendered Eliza Jane WHALEY (18 February 1866, Carthage, Jasper County, Missouri - 7 July 1927, Nome, Jefferson County, Texas: interment at Magnolia Cemetery, Beaumont, Jefferson County, Texas) who, on 15 October 1885, in Lawrence County, Missouri, was married to Sion Wilson MARLER (18 May 1859, Alexandria, DeKalb County, Tennessee - 28 June 1929, Beaumont, Jefferson County, Texas: interment at Magnolia Cemetery, Beaumont, Jefferson County, Texas). Sarah WHALEY, whose guardian ad litem in 1854 was John K. HOWARD, and Eliza Jane WHALEY were, therefore, first cousins.

Sally ("Sary") JOHNSON, the wife of Isaac NEAL, was the daughter of Duncan JOHNSON and Margaret UNKNOWN. Sarah Frances WHALEY, her granddaughter, was born after 22 July 1850 and by 1851. She died in June 1938. Sarah Frances WHALEY was heiress to a portion of the estate of Sarah NEAL, her great-aunt, the sister of Isaac NEAL.

Of interest, then, is the following report:

The households of James WOOD (spouse Elizabeth ALLEN) and Moses A. WOOD (spouse Delilah LAWRENCE) are immediately next door to that of Pallis NEAL.

After the death of Delilah LAWRENCE, Moses Allen WOOD appears to have remarried. Thus, an M. A. WOOD was married to Mrs. M. N. DOSS on 29 September 1880 in DeKalb County, Tennessee.

United States Census of 1850 for the 13th Civil District, Wilson County, Tennessee, 3 November 1850:

Moses Allen WOOD, it should be noted, was a grandson of Moses ALLEN, Sr. and *Martha ATWOOD; and he was a nephew of Archibald P. ALLEN, who married *Sarah ("Salley") BOOKER, the granddaughter of *Edward LAWRENCE.

The Will of Moses Allen WOOD was proved, in DeKalb County, Tennessee, 25 March 1884. His executor was Irenus Beckwith; and his bondsmen for the Will were William WOOD, J. W. WOOD, and J. L. Bryan, of Wilson County, Tennessee. [DeKalb County, Tennessee Wills and Inventories, p. 269]

Note 11: It seems evident that Yandell WOOD was named after Lunsford Yandell NEAL (2 April 1828 - 11 April 1856, Yazoo City, Yazoo County, Mississippi), the short-lived brother of Jane C. NEAL, the first wife of William J. WOOD. See G0491A: Richard ("Uncle Dick") MARLER, note 5, in Antecedents and Descendants of Richard Marler (1 August 1823 - 28 June 1903). About the Will of Lunsford Yandell NEAL, see above, G0493A: James WOOD, Note 4.

Note 12: Yandell WOOD and Harriet SNEED:

The household of Yandell WOOD is listed as number six in Alexandria, Civil District 1. In this same locale, the household of Thomas J. SNEED, M. D. is listed as number four:

That the precocious Harriet SNEED was the daughter of Thomas J. SNEED, M. D. seems likely.

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