Campbell/Hays/Handley in Borden grant in 1739

 I was chatting with Elaine today about her Campbell family and the fact that she might join a lineage society with her connection to this family line.  I worked on my Campbell family several years ago and I believe it very likely that Elaine and I are cousins of some sort from our connections to the Campbells.  

Several months ago our DAR chapter had a member die who had held many offices in our chapter.  But always her passion had been genealogy.  Her name was Barbara Rutledge.  I attended the funeral with several of the women who had been in the chapter with Barbara.  Her daughter asked us if we would help her with her promise to her mother to find a good place to house her research and I agreed to take this responsibility.  I had lots of fun looking at Barbara's research.  She had had a very amazing genealogy life.  Her maiden name was McClure and I was able to find a woman in Ohio who was a member of the Allen County genealogical society and promised to make Barbara's research available in the location.  Barbara's McClure's live in that area for at least two or three generations.

But then I found I wished that I had known Barbara in the years she was doing research!  I figured out that her ancestor lived next door to my own ancestor in 1739 on the Beverley Patent in Virginia.  What might we have learned if we had worked together on this neighborhood?

You can see my own ancestor, Patrick Campbell (colored in pink) while her ancestor, Finley McClure is colored in Yellow. 

 The book The Campbell Clan In Virginia which I viewed at the DAR library in DC says that Patrick's wife was Delilah Thompson.  And that the couple had four sons and three daughters. This source is

Historical Sketches of the Campbell, Pilcher and Kindred Families: Including the Bowen, Russell, Owen, Grant, Goodwin, Amis, Carothers, Hope, Taliaferro, and Powell Families (Classic Reprint) by Margaret Campbell Pilcher.  The author names two of the daughter's and gives family information about them.  She does not name Grissell, but the fact that Grissell's grandmother Campbell was also named Grissell assures me that indeed she was a daughter of Patrick Campbell.  

Ms Pilcher names the children of Patrick as:  Son, William , son, Charles who served in the French and Indian Wars between 1742 and 1752 (Charles is the father of the William Campbell who led patriot forces at Kings Mountain)  and James who is named in road orders.  Daughters are Mary who married William Christian and Martha who married William Edmonson.  Grissell is not named in the book even though Ms Pilcher says there were three daughters.  Grissell married John Handley and I descend through their daughter Margaret who married William Clendenin.

Baptisms in the Christ Evangelical Lutheran Church

 Kim reached out to me last week about some Baptism records she wanted for proofs for a supplemental she is preparing papers for for the DAR.  She had found the locked key above the records on Family Search and traveled to the Barboursville library to see if she could access these records in our library.  I was very happy to hear that Family search had sent her to our library.  However, the records still were not accessible from the affiliate library.  So the librarians there gave her my number.

I am always excited to learn something new!  Family Search suggested that the images were available on the Find My Past site.  And indeed they are right there.  These images are held by the Pennsylvania Historical Society who I assume have entered into an agreement with Find My Past.  So below are the images that I found for Kim.  You will have to manipulate them to read as they are too hard to read when I add them to the site in a smaller format.

There was a  third image for the third child born to George Rumbaugh and his wife Anna but I had put it in the trash and it is too hard to figure out.  

But I wanted to add the following for my own information.  Almost certainly these images are from the baptisms in the 

Christ Evangelical Lutheran Church. This church is still located in Elizabethtown, PA as the address on their website is: 75 East High Street, Elizabethtown, PA 17022

Here is a screen shot from my blog that shows that this location makes excellent sense for where George Rumbaugh would have been living in the 1780s 

hmmmmm.....I could not get the screen shot to download to this blog post....I give up.  Here is the URL for the original map from which I took the screenshot.  It is a VERY wonderful map of Lancaster County's Townships.

http://www.usgwarchives.net/maps/pa/county/lancas/usgs/

Sammons and Revolutionary War

 My cousin, Hank, who did yDNA testing for me many years ago for our mutual Sammons line, sent me a text today asking for information and suggesting he has a friend who wants to prove Revolutionary service if it exists for our line.  First I spiffed up my Ancestry tree a little bit and then sent a link to Hank.  Then I decided to address this question since I am spending crazy amounts of time proving other people's patriots.

The Roland Salmons who is our ancestor was born in 1750 and died in 1819, so he is an excellent possibility for being a patriot.  And indeed my notes say that he took the oath of allegiance in Henry County, Virginia in 1777.  He was also listed on the tax records in 1782 at Henry County, Virginia.  And he is listed in Abercrombie and Slatten Virginia Revolutionary War Public Claims, Vol2, p514 for providing bacon and supplies to the troops for which he was paid.

Roland would have been married to his first wife Elizabeth at when he signed the oath of allegiance.  He would have had young children in his home as it seems these first children were born in the 1700s.  As far as I know Roland did not actually fight in the war.  But these three things would qualify Roland/Rowland Salmons/Sammons as a patriot for the DAR or SAR.  I looked on the DAR site and he does not seem to have ever had a member prove his service which seems VERY surprising because he certainly has a great many descendants.  Perhaps I should get someone else to look for me to be sure I am not overlooking anything.

Next I looked for John Salmons (father of Rowland).  He seems to have been proven as a patriot for the SAR for his service as a private in the war in Duchess County, NY.  Again I can not find anyone who has joined the DAR as a descendant of John Salmons.  

All very interesting!  Going to work on this a bit more.   Oh, wait the information on the SAR site gave me the idea to take the s off the end of Salmon....and John does show up!  And Rowland shows up as well with that spelling....it didn't make any sense that they had never been proven before....And it is beyond interesting that John Salmon was in Duchess County, NY before he moved to Cumberland County, VA.  I have some more digging to do!  Below is a screen shot of application on the SAR site:

Maryland genealogy

An e-mail was in by inbox from a company selling genealogy books.  The add read that Robert Barnes was the foremost genealogist of Maryland genealogy in the latter part of the 20th century.  Since I have Genealogy research still to do in Maryland, I thought I would write myself a note to look for this author via world cat when the time comes to work on My Sprigg and related lines.

 

Fleming County, Kentucky

Below map shows where Fleming county is located (it is outlined in Red)  I live in Huntington, WV....why have I never visited this place?  It is an easy drive on I64!  You will have to manipulate the big map to see location of Fleming County between Huntington, WV and Lexington KY

 My 4-gr-grandfather, James Hawkins, died in Fleming County, Kentucky in 1834.  I was 40 years finding the relationship with this man.  I know a lot about the Hawkins side of the family who settled in Fleming County,  But I know very little about the Ross side.  James Hawkins married a woman with maiden name of Ross....probably in Stafford County....c. 1790.  I have looked with no success for a marriage record for the couple.  I do not know this 4-gr-grandmother's first name.  But I do know that almost certainly her father was William Ross,  The reason I know this is that James Hawkins pays the personal property tax for Wm Ross in 1798.  William is ailing as he dies c. 1800.  I have given support to this information:  James and his Ross wife name my ancestor Thomas Ross Hawkins when he is born c.1797 and they almost certainly they gave all of their sons the Ross middle name as they all appear on Ancestry as John R. Hawkins, William R. Hawkins, and James R. Hawkins in trees of descendants.  James is the only Hawkins found in Stafford County in the time period, so it is almost certain that he moved there after his marriage to his Ross wife.  And the most telling piece of support is my 50 plus dna matches to all of James' children.  And these matches are on magic Chromosome #13 on the segment that I have identified as having come from John and Elizabeth Butler Hawkins.  I am very convinced of the validity of this connection! 

I have talked with Karen Carty about the Ross family.  I am not sure that I understand all that she has told me.  I hope to get it sorted out.  But one thing of great interest is that there seems to have been a birth incident between the Ross and Calvert family.  Other surnames to look for in Fleming County besides.  

This blog post is a place to look at the families who moved from Stafford County, Virginia to Fleming County, KY after 1820 (I find James Hawkins in census in Stafford County that year) and before 1834 when James Hawkins dies in Fleming County.  I am looking for the FAN club of this family.  

What made me start this project today?  I have a new dna match on Ancestry who has surname Calvert.  We have a good match of 19cM.  This man's tree shows his earliest know ancestor on his Calvert line to be:

Prince William County adjoins Stafford County just to the north.  And Rowan County. Kentucky adjoins Fleming County to the south east as you can see by the above map.

However, according to the tree of my dna match on Ancestry, William B. Calvert's wife died in 1851 in Fleming County, KY, so likely they were living in Fleming County before her death.  Her name was Hester Elizabeth Rigdon and her father was James Rigdon.  James Rigdon also died in Fleming County.  He died there in 1835.  

 

So we now have surnames of Rigdon, Calvert, Hawkins living in Fleming County.  I would add Ross to the list as I know that at least one of James' first wife's siblings accompanied the group.  I just double checked and it was brother Benjamin Ross who died in Fleming county after 1830.  

I found a few books of interest:

This book by Wade Cooper is available at the Boyd County Library very close to my home.  

And an amazing atlas that I want to look at better.  It is on-line at:

https://kycarter.com/maps/1884_Fleming_Bath_map/1884_Fleming_Bath.htm

The closest place where I can look at the atlas is the Fleming County Public library.

Nantucket research ideas

 This morning, a message came across my computer from Genealogy Bank.  It is a link to a blog post by Melissa Davenport Berry about the founders of Nantucket.  Melissa includes ideas for further research.  As I have time I will add my own ideas here.  

https://blog.genealogybank.com/scions-of-nantucket-founders-part-1.html

Washtub and Potato Hole Woodsons

Following a hint from Ancestry I was able to add a maiden name for the wife of Obadiah Woodson to my children's tree.  The hint led to getting in touch with Ancestry member karenjlewis.  Karen shared a great story to add to this Woodson family line from https://virginiahistory.org/exhibitions/taking-aim 

A massive 7-foot, 4-inch English long fowler often referred to as the “Woodson” musket. According to family tradition, the oldest part of the musket (dating to the mid-1600s) was used by Lt. Col. Thomas Ligon, who helped Sara Woodson defend her Prince George County home during the Third Anglo-Powhatan War. Many Woodson descendants refer to themselves as “potato hole” or “washtub” Woodsons based on their relationship to Sara Woodson’s sons—John (10 years old) and Robert (12 years old). During the skirmish, John was reportedly hidden under a washtub and Robert in a “potato hole” (cellar). Many well-known figures in U.S. history are related to the Woodson family including Dolly Madison (first lady of the United States) and Jesse Woodson James.

 If I eventually adopt John and Sarah Winston Woodson into the tree of my husband and children here are sources I found on Ancestry to look at:

And here is information about Sarah found on find a grave:

Sara was born around 1600 in Devonshire, England. She may have been the daughter of Isaac Winston and Mary Dabney. However the surname and ancestry of Sara seem to be a matter of some dispute.

Sara married Dr. John Woodson about 1619 in Dorsetshire, England and the couple sailed on the ship "George" for Virginia on 29 Jan 1619 arriving in Jamestown 16 April 1619. The ship George sailed from England and landed nearly a year before the more famous ship, the Mayflower, came to Plymouth's shore.

Dr. Woodson was MD Oxford University; 1604. Dr and Sarah Woodson came in the capacity of surgeon to a company of soldiers who were sent over for the protection of the colonist against the Indians.

Children:

John Woodson b. 1632

Robert Woodson Sr. b.1634