Silas Wooten and Thomas Lovelady

Silas P. Wooten was supported in his application for Revolutionary war pension by Thomas Lovelady and Anthony Hall.  In turn, Silas made deposition supporting the Revolutionary War Pension for Thomas Lovelady and Anthony Hall.  It is interesting to note that while many of the old soldiers make a mark when they sign....perhaps some because they are old....perhaps some because they do not read nor write.  But Silas P. Wooten signs his entire name with careful penmanship.  He was a school teacher all of his life and his penmanship shows his life calling.

Thomas Lovelady in his own deposition for pension, says that he was born and lived in Guilford County before the war.  After the war he seems to have moved to Washington or Russell County in Southwest Virginia.  In 1833 he appears in court in Russell County and is said to be a resident of that county.  Thomas Lovelady seems to have been an enthusiastic participant in the war....enlisting several times in different places.  He seems to have enlisted at Abingdon for the fight at Guilford County....not Halifax.  However, he does serve under Col Campbell as did Silas who had enlisted at Halifax.  So they did indeed serve together for this battle.

Zachariah Worley

Yesterday Harry sent me the following about Zachariah Worley:

I was messing around in Ancestry and ran across a Revolutionary War pension file on a 1st Cousin, 7x removed. I already had several pages linked in my off-line family tree but I was shocked at the size of the whole original file.  Anyway the file was for Zachariah Worley, son of William Worley, grandson of my John Worley. The interesting things about Zachariah:
1) He was born in Powhatan Co., VA
2) He enlisted in 1779 and served at Petersburg.
3) He enlisted again in 1780 and was in the Battle of Hanging Rock (near present-day Lancaster Co., SC).
4) After his second enlistment was finished he went to his fathers home in Bedford Co., VA
5) He enlisted a third time and was in the Battle of Guilford Courthouse.

Because I am only now meeting these people it took me a while to get my head around everything.  I was off and running thinking about Revolutionary War Pensions marriage records in Hinshaw and Silas P. Wooten and etc etc etc.  So this morning I am going to slow down and think about what Harry's information tells me.

First of all John Worley and his family and then the next generation which would be (insert Harry's ancestor) and William Worley lived in Powhatan County from the early 1700s (at least) until after 1779 when Zachariah enlisted.



Why do I think that they were still living there as the Revolution broke out?  Because Zachariah enlists in Petersburg and his first round of service is right there in Petersburg.  However, William Worley moves his family to Bedford County very soon after as Zachariah goes home to his father's home in Bedford County after his second enlistment which take him to the Battle of Hanging Rock In SC.  Did Harry's ancestor move, too?  Why did William move?

Then Zachariah enlists one more time and this time he almost certainly enlists in Halifax, Virginia as the troops gather to fight the British who are moving towards Virginia.  And this time Zachariah takes a part in the Battle at Guilford Courthouse.

James Hawkins and William Ross

I can not believe that I did not make a blog post about my biggest find of 2018!  This find was from Elaine!  She found on Binns a tax record in which James Hawkins is paying a tax for Wm. Ross in 1798.  This is a personal property tax.  

Jerilynn McGregor shared information with me after my visit to hear her speak at the Stafford County Historical/Genealogical Society's meeting the weekend that I went to Richmond.  It seems that from the land tax records, Wm Ross may have died around 1799-1800.

Ross paid taxes on 202 acres of Parke from 1797 through 1800.  From 1801 through 1803, it was listed under "William Ross estate."  Since it sometimes took a year or two for the Commissioner of the Revenue to find out that a tax payer had died, it's probably safe to say that William departed this life sometime between 1799 and 1800.  In 1804, Mary Ross commenced paying the taxes "for Wm. Ross Estate." 

And from these records, it is possible that Mary was William Ross's widow.