Slater, Redmon, Sprigg,

It is my birthday today and it is a particularly hot summer.  So I am sitting on my porch until it gets too hot and then I will do my errands for the day and later go out to dinner with family.  But on my birthday I am doing very little work.....or what I consider work.  So I am playing with my ancestors on my grandmother Hawkins' side in preparation for some genealogy events to be held at that Barboursville library this late summer and fall.  I have found two patriots so far and looking for more.  And as I am working on quick and dirty trees for these people, I am finding some information that I don't want to loose, but honestly they are too iffy to add to any of my trees.  So here goes:  Joseph Sprigg

this morning I am working on the ancestors of Helen Louise McKinsey.  So I have started a fan chart with Helen in the 1st generation.  Immediately I found three ancestors that I had not found in the past:  Morecai Moore whose name is on a monument in Georgia....because he was a quaker I had not thought to look at him before.  Then I found Joseph Sprigg who was in Maryland and Ignatius Taylor also in Maryland.  Ignatius Taylor is a proven ancestor on DAR site.  The newest DAR member to join with him connects to member #515406 who descends from his daughter Ann who married Joseph Sprigg.  Joseph Sprigg is also a proven patriot with the DAR.

Joseph Sprigg is said to have been born in Prince Georges County, Maryland in 1736 and died in Washington County Maryland in 1800.  Frederick County, Maryland, was founded on December 10, 1748. It was created by an act of the Maryland legislature and carved out of the western portions of Prince George's County and Baltimore County....and Washington County was formed in 1776 from the western part of Frederick County....so it is possible that this was not a move but two county changes.  

I am a dna match to 

Much to my great sorrow Suzanne is now deceased.  She did a great deal to give me a big head start on these lines as she had accomplished a great deal of research before she died.  Her best public tree is on Ancestry and I get to it by doing a search on Joseph Sprigg and Ann Taylor.  Suzanne's tree is the Lindner-Sprigg Tree.

Among the thoughts that I wanted to capture is the idea that John Redmon who married Lucretia Sprigg probably lived in Prince Georges County MD before his migration west.  

and here is a link to a book on Ancestry that is of interest:

https://www.ancestry.com/imageviewer/collections/25957/images/dvm_LocHist010768-00432-1?pId=818 

The book is (in case link does not work)

Register of Maryland's heraldic families : period from 1634, March 25th to March 25th, 1935