Luan Marks sent me information at my request about a man named Patrick Morrison who was probably born c. 1750. A woman named Ruth Sammons Nassar who did a great deal of research on family lines that my mother and Ruth shared in the mid 1900s had said that the wife of Solomon Hensley was Elizabeth Morrison and that Elizabeth's father was Patrick. The Patrick in the below information would have been of a suitable age to have been a father to Elizabeth.
I decided to work on Luan's information immediately and added the first fact to the time line that I am working on:
3 June 1751
Patrick Morrison appeared as a witness on a deed in Albemarle County for sale of 540 acres of land on the Piney River and Piney Woods.This Patrick Morrison would have been at least 16 years old to sign legally as a witness on this deed.
“Thomas Higginbotham, son of John and Frances (Riley) Higginbotham was living in Albemarle Co., in 1751, when on June of that year, he conveyed by deed to Robert Rose also of Albemarle, for a consideration of 45 lbs, three messages or tenements . . . Witnesses: John Walker, Robert Green and Patrick Morrison”
(Albemarle County Deed Book 1, page 378).
I have for a long time been interested in Robert Rose, so I was very excited to see this first item!
On March 16, 1749, the remarkable planter-minister Robert Rose introduced a new era in Piedmont with the discovery that two canoes lashed together could convey downstream eight or nine hogsheads of tobacco as compared to one hogshead on a single canoe.
Gotta quit....Christmas stuff.....but fun....afraid I'll loose what I have saved so far if I don't publish.
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