Virginia 6th regiment of the Continental Line Orderly Book

 In preparation for out Morrison zoom meeting in March, I am listening to the presentation made by Craig Scott last year for the DAR Genealogy Lecture Series--Revolutionary War era Genealogy.  Craig mentioned checking to see if there are any unit histories about the unit that your ancestor was a part of.

Wow....how crazy is it that I have not done any of that kind of reading.  So I googled The Virginia 6th Regiment of the Continental Line Books.  And guess what popped up first!  the Orderly Book has been digitalized by the Huntington Library in California:

https://hdl.huntington.org/digital/collection/p15150coll7/id/29066

and on Hathi Trust is a transcribed copy with an excellent introduction

https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=emu.000011333590&view=1up&seq=1  

but Ronald explained this is not the same book that I copied last year at the DAR library.  The book that I copied there was maybe a day book?  I can not remember.  But neither Ronald nor I found anything about the Morrison men in the book.

and I bought the book:

When the Revolutionary War erupted in Massachusetts in April 1775, no American army existed. Each colony had its own militia that required inhabitants, typically free men between the ages of sixteen to fifty years old, to defend the colony when needed. Few colonists imagined prior to 1775 that such colonial militia would be pitted against the professional regulars of the British army, but that is precisely what occurred as a result of the bloodshed at Lexington and Concord.

Within two months of the start of the war, the Continental Congress moved to strengthen the colonies by creating a Continental Army under General George Washington of Virginia. Aside from providing a commander-in-chief for this new, regular army of American troops (who were to serve until the end of the year), Virginia initially supplied just two companies of riflemen to the continental army.

This soon changed, however, as both Congress and Virginia realized the need for vastly more continental soldiers. By the end of 1775, Congress called upon Virginia to supply six continental regiments of over 700 officers and men each to the Continental Army. Within another year, that number more than doubled to sixteen regiments and also included two regiments of light dragoons (cavalry) and one regiment of artillery.

This book explores the formation and service of Virginia's continental troops during the first several years of the Revolutionary War. 

 

How does John Hensley fit into the Hensley tree?

 Don't ask me how I happened to look at my Hensley family this morning.  Sometimes my ancestors seem to speak to me?  I have totally convinced myself that John Hensley who married Milly and lived in Pittsylvania County, Virginia during the Revolutionary War had Foster paternity.  And when that happened, I quit looking at him and turned to other lines.  But this morning when I sat down at my computer, I pulled up the Ancestry tree of Suzanne Baird.  I know without a doubt that Suzanne is a fastidious researcher and has spent MANY hours on the Hensley family that I have always believed to be my family.  And there it was:  a new theory about my 5-gr-grandfather, John Hensley!

This is only a theory.  After I run it by Suzanne and Marty Grant I will either incorporate the new theory into my data base or I will totally erase this post from my blog when they shoot holes in it....such as Benjamin and Elizabeth Hensley had no female offspring.  Here is a screen shot from Suzanne's Ancestry tree:

What do you see?  That Benjamin Hensley and wife, Elizabeth Hickman have the last son, John almost 25 years after the birth of their first son, William.  It is not impossible.  But is it not a possibility that there were some daughters in the gaps between the men's births?  And that one of those daughters might have been born in the gap between 1727 and 1735?  And that it is daughter of John and Elizabeth who gave birth to John Hensley in 1751 after a relationship with a Foster male?  I have always known that the Hensley family and the Foster family were intertwined in Albemarle County.  Oh my, this would be the best of all scenarios as I would not have to give up my connection to the Hensley family.  

Ok, first I will run this by Marty and Suzanne to see if they can shoot holes in it before I spend more time on this thought.  

Where did John and Milly Hensley live in Pittsylvania County, Virginia?

I was explaining to Ronald where John and Milly Hensley lived in Pittsylvania County and decided to put it on the blog because I think I never added it to the other blog post.  From my data base:

10 Dec 1785 between John Henslee of Pittsylvania and Harmon Cook of Pittsylvania 50 pounds, a parcel of land containing by estimation 110 acres on both sides of Potter’s Creek.  Signed John Henslee….no witnesses.

We know from our trip to Pittsylvania County with the Morrison h2 group that Patrick Morrison's land is located on the below map at the spot where Frying Pan Creek crosses route 40.  Potter Creek also crosses Route 40 a very short distance west from where Patrick Morrison lived.,  You will see the red marker below showing Potter Creek.  It begins a short distance south of Route 40 and flows northwest until it flows into the Pigg River. .....The land that John Hensley is selling could be any where along the Creek...but no matter where he is a close neighbor of Patrick.

http://marshamoses.blogspot.com/2017/09/h2-morrison.html

 

William Morrison's location when he died

I was trying to tell George where William Morrison was living when he died.  I could drive to the spot, but I couldn't remember the proofs.

First we have the words of Patrick Henry late in his life that both of us had seen at the Lambert Collection:

This would have been Patrick Henry Morrison who was born in Cabell county and was the son of the Patrick Henry Morrison who moved with his Family from Pittsylvania County to Cabell.  

So William Morrison was still alive in 1816.  If we go with a birth of 1750 for Willam Morrison, which our group has guessed to be close,  he would have been 66 in 1816.  In February 2022, Ronald sent me a copy of this deed.  And indeed I believe the above to be accurate after looking at the deed.  It would seem that William was squatting on the land.  However, Thomas Ward was Patrick Henry's father-in-law and he had married Anna when she was a young widow with last name Scales.   Perhaps the two men had just allowed Willam to live on the land.

Haplogroup I

 I have been chatting with a small group of researchers who are Family Group #5 in the Hawkins yDNA project.  There group has done major upgrading of their yDNA results to the Big Y.  And they have shared their block tree with me.  I wanted to write back that I have found myself assuming that I Haplogroup (which their participants do have) is Viking related.  However, before I made such a statement, I thought I might look at the information on the internet to see if my assumption has any basis.

I have a Witcher participant for whom the Witcher research group threw in money to buy the Big Y when I approached them to find a YDNA participant for me.  And he is a part of the

It turns out that there Haplogroup is I2 instead and that is not considered Viking.