Judy's Ancestors - Person Page 20

Isham Davis

M, #478

Parents

Father	Robert Davis, Sr. (b. about 1676, d. about 1771)
Mother	Abadiah Lewis (b. 1680, d. 1750)

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Property	16 August 1756	On 16 August 1756 in Albemarle County, Province of Virginia.¹
Property	5 September 1771	Named in his father's will on 5 September 1771.²

Last Edited

7 June 2022

Citations

[S1506] "Ancestry.com." Virginia Genealogical Society Quarterly https://www.ancestry.com/imageviewer/collections/6131/images/VGS_1994_01_01_0160?indiv=try&h&db. Accessed 11 Jan. 2022., Image of the page available.
[S609] "Mississippi Probate Records, 1781-1930; https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3QS7." 89Q8 https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3QS7-89Q8-XRTB?i=6&wc%5B%5D=M7MB-12H%3A344538601%2C345852801&wc%5B%5D=M7MB-12H%3A344538601%2C345852801&cc=2036959. Accessed 15 Aug. 2021., I can't make that link to familysearch work, so here is a link to it on ancestry:
"Ancestry.com - The Natchez Court Records, 1767." 1805 https://www.ancestry.com/imageviewer/collections/48049/images/NatchezCourtRec-002904-182?indiv=try&h&db. Accessed 7 Jun. 2022.

James Davis

M, #479, b. about 1705, d. 12 September 1765

This might be James Samuel. But note, there is a Samuel Davis in Evan Davis family that Jefferson Davis descended from.

But note, Jefferson Davis' father was said to be Samuel. So this assignment of Samuel to a son of Robert (Nathaniel) Davis may be false.

If he's the James Davis who died in 1765, he would not have been named in his father's will...

The James Davis who died in 1765 in Rowan North Carolina has been assigned many different parents, including Judge James L Davis, Jr., Nathaniel Davis (could be our Robert because we believe his name included a Nathaniel), William Davis, Samuel Davis.

Parents

Father	Robert Davis, Sr. (b. about 1676, d. about 1771)
Mother	Abadiah Lewis (b. 1680, d. 1750)

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Birth	about 1705	In Amherst County, Virginia, British America.
Death	12 September 1765	In North Carolina, British America. Again, is this our James Davis in North Carolina?^1,2

Property	18 February 1746	570 acres in B.M. on 18 February 1746 in Augusta Co., Virginia, British America.³
Property	19 March 1748	Survey of Davis Fancy, 1300 acres on 19 March 1748 in Holston River, Virginia, British America.⁴
Misc	1753	At near the WIlderness Road in Holston River, Virginia, British America. This I believe is our guy...^5,6
Residence	1760	In Rowan County, North Carolina, British America. It's not clear that this is "our" James Davis. He lived and died in North Carolina... Especially since another James Davis was in Virginia in 1763.⁷
Misc	17 July 1763	Indian danger in Virginia.⁴
Will	8 May 1765	In Rowan, British America. The will lists children¹

Last Edited

26 January 2023

Citations

[S1494] "James Davis in the North Carolina, U.S., Wills and Probate Records, 1665." 1998 https://www.ancestry.com/discoveryui-content/view/2060529:9061?indiv=try&h&pid=242254017963&db. Accessed 10 Jan. 2022., Image available.
[S1495] "James Davies in the U.S., Find a Grave Index, 1600s." Current https://www.ancestry.com/discoveryui-content/view/104773718:60525?indiv=try&h&pid=242254017963&db. Accessed 10 Jan. 2022.
[S2971] "James Davis in the Virginia, U.S., Land, Marriage, and Probate Records, 1639." 1850 https://www.ancestry.com/discoveryui-content/view/32846:7832?indiv=try&h&db. Accessed 25 Jan. 2023.
[S2980] Summers, L. P. (1903). History of Southwest Virginia, 1746-1786, Washington County, 1777-1870. United States: J. L. Hill Printing Company.
[S1496] Chalkley, Lyman. “Before the Gates of the Wilderness Road: The Settlement of Southwestern Virginia.” The Virginia Magazine of History and Biography, vol. 30, no. 2, Virginia Historical Society, 1922, pp. 183–202, http://www.jstor.org/stable/4243877. Downloaded 1/10/2021
[S1507] "Dr. Thomas Walker's Journal (1749." 1750), TNGenWeb/TNGenNet https://www.tngenweb.org/tnland/squabble/walker.html. Accessed 11 Jan. 2022.
[S1493] "James Davis in the North Carolina, U.S., Compiled Census and Census Substitutes Index, 1790." 1890 https://search.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/sse.dll?indiv=try&h=17218930&pid=242254017963&dbid=3566. Accessed 10 Jan. 2022.

Elizabeth Davis

F, #480, b. 1700

Named in her father's will as Elizabeth Sexton.

Parents

Father	Robert Davis, Sr. (b. about 1676, d. about 1771)
Mother	Abadiah Lewis (b. 1680, d. 1750)

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Birth

1700

In Virginia.¹

Property

5 September 1771

Named in her father's will on 5 September 1771.²

Last Edited

30 November 2021

Citations

[S1274] "Elizabeth Davis in the American Genealogical." Biographical Index (AGBI) https://www.ancestry.com/discoveryui-content/view/2463838:3599?indiv=try&h&db. Accessed 30 Nov. 2021., This could be her... No image, no more info...
[S609] "Mississippi Probate Records, 1781-1930; https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3QS7." 89Q8 https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3QS7-89Q8-XRTB?i=6&wc%5B%5D=M7MB-12H%3A344538601%2C345852801&wc%5B%5D=M7MB-12H%3A344538601%2C345852801&cc=2036959. Accessed 15 Aug. 2021., I can't make that link to familysearch work, so here is a link to it on ancestry:
"Ancestry.com - The Natchez Court Records, 1767." 1805 https://www.ancestry.com/imageviewer/collections/48049/images/NatchezCourtRec-002904-182?indiv=try&h&db. Accessed 7 Jun. 2022.

Nathaniel Davis

M, #481, b. about 1722, d. after 1 November 1779

Parents

Father	Robert Davis, Sr. (b. about 1676, d. about 1771)
Mother	Abadiah Lewis (b. 1680, d. 1750)

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Family: Elizabeth Anne Atkins (b. 1732)

Son	Robert Davis
Son	James Davis
Son	Nathaniel Davis (d. 1860)
Daughter	Sarah ("Sally") Davis
Son	Theodosha Davis
Daughter	Nancy Davis
Daughter	Elizabeth Davis (b. about 1750, d. 25 June 1828)
Son	Charles Davis (b. 1751, d. 1820)
Son	Isham Davis (b. about 1771, d. Inferred 1842)
Daughter	Matilda Davis (b. 9 November 1773, d. 12 February 1856)

Birth	about 1722	In Amherst, Virginia, British America.^1,2
Marriage	1752^1,3,2,4
Death	after 1 November 1779¹

Misc		Another marriage. Familysearch tree has another wife named Mildred Hardin, with children John and Mary listed born 1730 and 1733.
Misc		Family Search ID LK4T-9RL.
Misc		Children named in will (see source.)^5,3
Misc		Parents: Robert Davis.^3,6
Misc		Merchant's Account Book, Hanover County.⁷
Misc		Ten Thousand Name Petition.⁸
Misc	1738	At Partridge Store in Hanover Co, Virginia, British America.⁹
Military		1ST RIFLE COMPANY, AMHERST CO in Amherst County, British North America.¹
Property	1750	331 ac in 1750 in Albemarle, Virginia, British America.¹⁰
Property	3 November 1750	200 acres on 3 November 1750 in Isle of Wight Co, Virginia, British America.¹¹
Misc	1755	Mentioned in records.¹²
Property	1756	400 acres in 1756 in Albemarle, Virginia, British America.¹³
Misc	26 June 1759	Mentioned in records.¹⁴
Property	4 July 1759	On 4 July 1759 in Albemarle, Virginia, British America.¹⁵
Misc	1760	Mentioned in records.¹⁶
Property	5 September 1771	Named in his father's will on 5 September 1771.⁶
Will	10 May 1778	In Amherst, Virginia, United States. He provided for his children and wife, including education for the children.^5,17

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25 June 2024

Citations

[S614] "DAR Genealogical Research Databases." Services https://services.dar.org/Public/DAR_Research/search_adb/?action=full&p_id=A030573. Accessed 16 Aug. 2021.
[S1498] Family Data Collection, Ancestry.com
[S1321] Ackerly, Mary Denham and Parker, Lula Eastman Jeter (1930). "Our Kin", J. P. Bell Company, Inc., Lynchburg, VA. Downloaded.
[S2973] Davis families of the southern states, V1. Compiled by Charles Brunk Heinemann. 1938, Chicago. IL. Downloaded from archive.org.
[S1256] "Nathaniel Davis in the Virginia, U.S., Wills and Probate Records, 1652." 1900 https://www.ancestry.com/discoveryui-content/view/1603476:62347?indiv=try&h&db. Accessed 29 Nov. 2021.
[S609] "Mississippi Probate Records, 1781-1930; https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3QS7." 89Q8 https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3QS7-89Q8-XRTB?i=6&wc%5B%5D=M7MB-12H%3A344538601%2C345852801&wc%5B%5D=M7MB-12H%3A344538601%2C345852801&cc=2036959. Accessed 15 Aug. 2021., I can't make that link to familysearch work, so here is a link to it on ancestry:
"Ancestry.com - The Natchez Court Records, 1767." 1805 https://www.ancestry.com/imageviewer/collections/48049/images/NatchezCourtRec-002904-182?indiv=try&h&db. Accessed 7 Jun. 2022.
[S1240] "Ancestry.com." Virginia Genealogical Society Quarterly https://www.ancestry.com/imageviewer/collections/6131/images/VGS_1998_01_01_0105?indiv=try&h&db. Accessed 28 Nov. 2021.
[S1239] "Ancestry.com." Virginia Genealogical Society Quarterly https://www.ancestry.com/imageviewer/collections/6131/images/VGS_2000_01_01_0239?indiv=try&h&db. Accessed 28 Nov. 2021.
[S1236] "Ancestry.com." Virginia Genealogical Society Quarterly https://www.ancestry.com/imageviewer/collections/6131/images/VGS_1986_01_01_0217?indiv=try&h&db. Accessed 28 Nov. 2021.
[S1235] "Ancestry.com." Virginia Genealogical Society Quarterly https://www.ancestry.com/imageviewer/collections/6131/images/VGS_1992_01_01_0208?indiv=try&h&db. Accessed 28 Nov. 2021.
[S1238] "Ancestry.com." Virginia Genealogical Society Quarterly https://www.ancestry.com/imageviewer/collections/6131/images/VGS_1992_01_01_0302?indiv=try&h&db. Accessed 28 Nov. 2021.
[S1232] "Ancestry.com." Virginia Genealogical Society Quarterly https://www.ancestry.com/imageviewer/collections/6131/images/VGS_1993_01_01_0251?indiv=try&h&db. Accessed 28 Nov. 2021.
[S1233] "Ancestry.com." Virginia Genealogical Society Quarterly https://www.ancestry.com/imageviewer/collections/6131/images/VGS_1994_01_01_0159?indiv=try&h&db. Accessed 28 Nov. 2021.
[S1234] "Ancestry.com." Virginia Genealogical Society Quarterly https://www.ancestry.com/imageviewer/collections/6131/images/VGS_1994_01_01_0325?indiv=try&h&db. Accessed 28 Nov. 2021.
[S1237] "Ancestry.com." Virginia Genealogical Society Quarterly https://www.ancestry.com/imageviewer/collections/6131/images/VGS_1994_01_01_0328?indiv=try&h&db. Accessed 28 Nov. 2021.
[S1231] "Ancestry.com." Virginia Genealogical Society Quarterly https://www.ancestry.com/imageviewer/collections/6131/images/VGS_1994_01_01_0338?indiv=try&h&db. Accessed 28 Nov. 2021.
[S1269] Catherine H. C. Seaman, Tuckahoes and Cohees: the settlers and cultures of Amherst and Nelson Counties, 1607-1807 (1992). p 157

Evan Davis

M, #482, b. about 1702

No Evan Davis is in Robert Davis' will. Nor is there anything in ancestry or familysearch.

But this is the "person" that is said to be the grandfather of Jefferson Davis, Confederacy, apparently a family tradition.

He is named as part of the family on this page:
https://www.genealogy.com/forum/surnames/topics/lewis/8009/
"Robert Davis (called The Black Davis)who married Abadiah Lewis who was his first wife and had children: Susannah who married David Cox; Martha (sometimes seen as Hannah) married Abraham B. Venable- some books have Martha as the daughter of Nathaniel Davis and Elizabeth Hughes); Isham(Isom); James married Jane Black; Robert married Jane Jopling; John; Abadiah (Abby) married William Floyd (some books have Abadiah as daughter of Nathaniel Davis and Elizabeth Hughes); Elizabeth married Unknown Sexton; Nathaniel married Elizabeth Atkins (who is the sister of his stepmother Anna Atkins); Evan married Mary E. Williams.
Second wife was Anna Atkins - they had a son Absolom - she may have died in childbirth or shortly thereafter.
His third wife was Grace Unknown - they had children Lewis, Landon, and Hugh."

But there is another Evan Davis:
From Notable Southern Families Vol II, page 75:

Of the many Davis emigrants to America the family which later became most notable is that of Evan Davis, Samuel Davis and Joseph Davis; three brothers who emigrated form Cardiff, Wales, about 1730. Evan Davis and Samuel Davis landed at Philadelphia; Joseph Davis was drowned on the voyage. Samuel Davis went to what was then the Middle West.

Some time after 1701, the exact date not being known, Evan Davis emigrated from Pennsylvania to Georgia. He married whie still in Pennsylvania, Mrs. Mary Emory Williams, a widow. Her father was Joseph Emory. ...

Evan Davis and his wife (Mary Emory Davis), had at least one son, Samuel Davis, mentioned agove, who was born in Pennsylania in 1750. This Samuel Davis, who was in the Revolution, was the father of President Jefferson Davis of the Confederate States of America.

Parents

Father	Robert Davis, Sr. (b. about 1676, d. about 1771)
Mother	Abadiah Lewis (b. 1680, d. 1750)

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Birth

about 1702

Last Edited

14 February 2023

Abadiah ("Abigail") Davis

F, #483, b. 1730

Parents

Father	Robert Davis, Sr. (b. about 1676, d. about 1771)
Mother	Abadiah Lewis (b. 1680, d. 1750)

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Family: Colonel William Floyd (b. about 1720, d. 1800)

Daughter	Abigail Davis Floyd (b. ABT 1762–1770, d. 11 December 1834)
Son	Major Robert Clark Floyd+ (b. before 1747, d. before 7 March 1807)
Daughter	Sarah ("Sallie") Floyd+ (b. 15 October 1747, d. after 1824)
Son	Isham Floyd (b. about 1748, d. 1790)
Daughter	Elizabeth Floyd (b. about 1749, d. 1833)
Son	Colonel John Floyd+ (b. 1751, d. 13 April 1783)
Son	Jemima Floyd (b. 1753)
Daughter	Nancy Floyd+ (b. about 1755, d. before August 1791)
Son	Charles Floyd (b. 6 July 1760, d. 1828)
Son	Nathaniel Floyd (b. 1767, d. about 1842)
Daughter	Nicati Floyd (b. circa 1779)

Birth	1730	In Virginia, British America.¹
Marriage	1747	In Amherst County, Virginia. Some people, even early ones, have this Floyd marrying the Abadiah who was the daughter of Nathaniel. She would have been fairly old when she married and then had a dozen kids?^2,3,4,5,6

Misc		Family and Indian connections. William Floyd in naming his children seems to have been scrupulous in bestowing on them a due proportion of Christian names taken from his wife's family and I believe he did the same for his own family. He called a daughter Abadiah after his wife, a son Robert after his wife's father, another son Nathaniel after his wife's grandfather Davis, and another son Isham who is his wife's uncle. [JN - Isham was his wife's brother, uncle of the child] https://www.genealogy.com/ftm/s/t/e/Pat-M-Stevens-iv/GENE6-0006.html^7,8
Misc		Family History. From an unpublished manuscript by second great grandson Dysart McMullen, courtesy of Valerie Baugher: Being read to was not our only way of passing a long evening. Our mother's sisters from Richmond spent many months as guests of the family. Our Aunt Letty, her older sister who never married and who was the writer's dearly loved and never to be forgotten godmother, was one of them. She knew the family pioneer history, covering Virginia and Kentucky, and never tired of recounting stories of early Indian fights and deeds that were to make a country out of adventure. One of her favorite characters was our second great grandfather Colonel John Floyd, known in Kentucky history as the "Indian fighter." There were three Floyd brothers, Welshmen, owning ships making regular business trips shortly after the settlement of Jamestown. Two of them finally settled on the Eastern Shore of Virginia, the third going north and settling on Long Island, becoming the ancestors of the Floyds of New York State, one of whom was to sign the Declaration of Independence. The two in Virginia ultimately crossed the Chesapeake Bay and took up residence on mainland Virginia. One of the brothers married Abidah Davis, daughter of the Princess Nicketti, daughter of Opechancanough, foster brother of Powhatan, and who succeeded him, thereby becoming the last Emperor of the Chickahominy. Tradition had it that Opechancanough was not a Chickahominy Indian, but had come to the James River territory fully grown from the far south, saying he was a refugee from his own people. Since he wore gold arm bands in the shape of serpents with emerald green eyes, the supposition was that he may have been an Aztec. He is known in Virginia history for having staged the last great massacre of English settlers. Such was the story our Aunt Letter told us, seated in the library before a blazing log fire. An adventure story that had the advantage with children of being family tradition. The man who was to become Colonel John Floyd and Kentucky's Indian Fighter, and incidentally our second great grandfather, thus had a strain of Indian blood. Some of his descendants bore visible proof of this. Our grandmother, who was named Nicketti after the long-dead Princess, had the wide, high cheekbones of the typical Indian. Our middle sister, named Nicketti after her, inevitably was called Nick, as a nickname. John Floyd married quite young. his wife died in childbirth, leaving an infant daughter, whom the father named "Mourning." One of our Aunt Letty's bearers thought, and still does, that such a name for an infant girl was a bit out of the ordinary, to put it mildly. When grown, the daughter married and raised a family, but there is no record that any daughter of hers was given her mother's name of "Mourning." The widower John Floyd, having settled his wife's infant daughter with his dead wife's family, accepted an offer from Col. William Preston, then an officer of the Commonwealth living at Smithfield, the present site of Virginia Polytechnical Institute. He was to help the colonel to keep his office work in order as well as act as tutor to the Colonel's young ward, Jane Buchanan, orphan daughter of the Colonel's dead friend Major Buchanan. That was the beginning of John Floyd's adventurous career. At that period, Kentucky was still a part of Virginia. It therefore came within Col. Preston's official sphere. Also, its lands were being surveyed by groups sent out by Virginia men of influence looking toward ownership of large tracts of rich territory. In 1774, Col. Preston decided to organize such a group, choosing John Floyd as the member to represent his interest. Our grandmother, who was granddaughter of John Floyd, gave to our sister Nicketti the diary kept by some member of this expedition, in which is listed the day-to-day progress of the expedition. Nicketti in 1956 presented this diary to the Manuscript Division of the Library of Congress. In it are listed tracts surveyed and for whom. Among them, including 2,000 acres for George Washington, among others for unstated amounts, were tracts for Col. William Preston, John Floyd, and Patrick Henry. This was John Floyd's first visit to Kentucky, where later he was to become an associate of Daniel Boone and be given the rank of Colonel. Since his life has been written in detail for publication of by our Floyd Cousin, Miss Ann Carthidge of Baltimore, we must keep to the story as told to us children by our Aunt Letty Johnston before the blazing wood fire one winter evening at Woodley. It should be explained here that my father and mother had been blessed with eight children, one, Louisa, dying in infancy. There was, therefore, a considerable gap in ages. Mary, the eldest, being at school in Richmond, John, the next in age, preparing for college, and Letty at the Convent of the Visitation in Georgetown, D.C. This left the four of us younger ones to constitute our Aunt letty's tales of pioneer Virginia. Of these, Joe was the eldest, already showing indications of the inventive faculty he presumably had inherited from our grandfather McMullen. Nicketti was next, intense and with some share of the high temper of our mother's family, the Virginia Johnstons. Next, the writer, inflicted with the surname Dysart, of his paternal grandmother. And last and youngest, Elizabeth, named after her grandmother McMullen, possessing a musical gift, as yet, in embryo. So our aunt Letty had a young audience when she told of John Floyd, whose deeds and personality were as remote to us as though he had been a fictional character from one of our favorite adventure novels. He must have had an itch for change, for though he had been in Kentucky at the outbreak of the American Revolution, he returned to Virginia and somehow managed to assemble of group of similar spirits which ended in their investing in a ship to prey on English shipping in the Atlantic. Calling from Alexandria, they left the Capes and headed for the Caribbean. There, they captured an English merchantman and headed back with their prize for the Virginia capes. But falling in with an English man-of-war, they lost prize, their own ship, and their liberties. John Floyd was taken to England and thrown into jail at Bristol. He was young, handsome, and ardent. Family tradition had it that he got on the good side of the jailor's daughter who helped his escape and got to France. He must have walked from the coast to Paris, where he appealed to Ben Franklin for help to return to America. When Franklin told Marie Antoinette of the stranded American, the Queen gave him money to buy his passage home. When John Floyd received this, instead of buying a passage home, he bought a pair of diamond shoe buckles for the girl he intended to marry and a scarlet wedding coat for himself. Family tradition says "diamond shoe buckles." Actually, they were paste. At one time, one was in possession of our first cousin Ann Lee in Richmond. The girl he intended to marry was his former pupil, Jane Buchanan. Broke again, Floyd went to the Mission representing the Colonies in Paris and borrowed money for his passage home. The writer has seen photostats of the loan and its subsequent repayment by Floyd years later. Back in Virginia, FLoyd discovered Jane Buchanan on the point of marrying another swain. But giving that unfortunate the mitten, she promptly married Floyd and the newlywed pair lived a year on property Floyd owned near the estate of his patron, Col. William Preston. They then decided to move to Kentucky, the trip to be made on horseback. Jane carried tied to her saddle two hens and a rooster, the first recorded domestic chickens to be taken to Kentucky. She also took items of household import, among which were a pair of silver sugar tongs, much later to be owned by the writer. They are now in the D.A.R. Museum in Washington D.C. Once in Kentucky, the Floyds settled in land John Floyd had surveyed for himself, now comprising the site of the City of Louisville. There, John Floyd's adventurous life took on new dimensions. He became at once the mentor and the protector of his fellow pioneers. He was given the rank of Colonel of Militia, an active job since incursions of Indians led by English Army officers were of frequent occurrence. Another family tradition, which is without documentary proof, is that he and George Rogers Clark, were offered large sums of money and any title under that of Duke, by the English government, if they would desert the cause of the Colonies and side with England. This was, of course, refused. The most publicized exploits of Col. Floyd were undertaken with the help of Daniel Boone. Two young girls had been captured and carried off by a band of hostile Indians. Boone and Floyd tracked the gang, and came up with them still holding the girls unharmed. A flight followed in which Boone and Floyd slew the Indians and rescued the girls. The Indian that Floyd accounted for was a chief who wore heavy silver arm bands. These were taken home by Floyd, and later made into silver table forks by a silversmith. They had been given to our Aunt Letty by her mother, who was Col. Floyd's granddaughter. After Aunt Letty's death, they were given to our first cousin Ann Lee of Richmond. They had been offered to the writer, who was too young at the time to make a selection. In his stead, his mother chose a gift from his godmother, a helmet style silver cream pitcher, which had been won as a boy in a shooting match by Col. Floyd's posthumous son, Gov. John Floyd of Virginia. It is now in the D.A.R. Museum in Washington, D.C. The Colonel's activities in Kentucky have often been written up. Theodore Roosevelt, in his "Winning of the West," gave him full credit for what he had accomplished in Kentucky. Four or five of his brothers and brothers-in-law having been killed by Indians. The youngest, his brother isham, having been tortured at the stake for two days before his heart was out and thrown to the dogs. His own death at the hand of an Indian came when he was still under 30 years of age. This was in Kentucky, where he was living in the house he had built on the lands he had surveyed at Floyd's Station. He was riding out on a tour of inspection accompanied by his brother-in-law named Hart. He had a favorite black riding horse he named "Pompey." For some reason, that day he was on another horse, name unknown. Returning home on approaching a growth of virgin trees cluttered with thick underbrush, he said to his brother-in-law, "I wish I had Pompey instead of the horse I'm on. He can smell Indians when they're nearby. And I think Indians are around." By chance, he was wearing the scarlet wedding coat he had bought in Paris. As they drew abreast of the clump of big trees, an Indian concealed in the underbrush fired a musket, the bullet striking Col. Floyd in the back. He slumped in the saddle, but Hart managed to support him until they reached home. Col. Floyd lingered for a day and a half before dying; his widow giving birth to a son some weeks later. This son was to become our great grandfather, Gov. John Floyd of Virginia. Col. Floyd was buried near his home, the site of his grave being long forgotten. His widow married a Breckenridge and had children by him. Breckenridge and his children later were to acquire most of the extensive land holdings Col. Floyd had surveyed for himself and his legal heirs. But the Colonel's widow on her deathbed made one final request. She asked that she be buried in the scarlet wedding coat worn by her husband, John Floyd when he was shot. https://www.geni.com/people/James-Floyd/6000000000891990673
Misc		Parents- Robert Davis.⁹
Property	about 1771	Named in her father's will about 1771.⁹

Last Edited

25 January 2023

Citations

[S613] "Abigail Davis in the American Genealogical." Biographical Index (AGBI) https://www.ancestry.com/discoveryui-content/view/2460154:3599?indiv=try&h&db. Accessed 16 Aug. 2021.
[S612] Brown, Alexander (1978), The Cabells and their Kin, Virginia Book Company. p 45
[S1246] Floyd, N. J. (1912). Floyd Biographical Genealogies, Williams and Wilkins Company, Baltimore. p 11. Downloaded.
[S1325] "Elizabeth Hughes in the U.S., Sons of the American Revolution Membership Applications, 1889." 1970 https://www.ancestry.com/discoveryui-content/view/973680:2204?indiv=try&h&pid=392109253777&db. Accessed 14 Dec. 2021.
[S2740] The Tuley Family Memoirs: An Historical, Biographical and Genealogical Story of the Tuleys and the Floyd Family Connection in Virginia, Kentucky and Indiana, William Floyd Tuley (1906). Downloaded from archive.org 11/17/2022., Includes a section: The Floyd Family Connection
[S3027] Amherst County records, Aug 2, 1779, property transfer. Information found in a tree. https://www.genealogy.com/ftm/s/t/e/Pat-M-Stevens-iv/GENE6-0006.html. Feb 2023.
[S1247] Floyd, N. J. (1912). Floyd Biographical Genealogies, Williams and Wilkins Company, Baltimore. p 11. Downloaded.
[S1308] Collection Number: 03414-z. Collection Title: George Frederick Holmes Letter, 1886. in the George Frederick Holmes Letter, #3414-z, Southern Historical Collection, The Wilson Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
[S609] "Mississippi Probate Records, 1781-1930; https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3QS7." 89Q8 https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3QS7-89Q8-XRTB?i=6&wc%5B%5D=M7MB-12H%3A344538601%2C345852801&wc%5B%5D=M7MB-12H%3A344538601%2C345852801&cc=2036959. Accessed 15 Aug. 2021., I can't make that link to familysearch work, so here is a link to it on ancestry:
"Ancestry.com - The Natchez Court Records, 1767." 1805 https://www.ancestry.com/imageviewer/collections/48049/images/NatchezCourtRec-002904-182?indiv=try&h&db. Accessed 7 Jun. 2022.

Colonel William Floyd

M, #484, b. about 1720, d. 1800

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Family: Abadiah ("Abigail") Davis (b. 1730)

Daughter	Abigail Davis Floyd (b. ABT 1762–1770, d. 11 December 1834)
Son	Major Robert Clark Floyd+ (b. before 1747, d. before 7 March 1807)
Daughter	Sarah ("Sallie") Floyd+ (b. 15 October 1747, d. after 1824)
Son	Isham Floyd (b. about 1748, d. 1790)
Daughter	Elizabeth Floyd (b. about 1749, d. 1833)
Son	Colonel John Floyd+ (b. 1751, d. 13 April 1783)
Son	Jemima Floyd (b. 1753)
Daughter	Nancy Floyd+ (b. about 1755, d. before August 1791)
Son	Charles Floyd (b. 6 July 1760, d. 1828)
Son	Nathaniel Floyd (b. 1767, d. about 1842)
Daughter	Nicati Floyd (b. circa 1779)

Birth	about 1720	In Virginia, British America.
Marriage	1747	In Amherst County, Virginia. Some people, even early ones, have this Floyd marrying the Abadiah who was the daughter of Nathaniel. She would have been fairly old when she married and then had a dozen kids?^1,2,3,4,5
Death	1800	In Beargrass Creek, Jefferson, Kentucky, United States.

Occupation		Surveyor.⁶
Residence		Floyd's Station in Kentucky, United States. This is confusing because everywhere else Floyd's Station is associated with James John Floyd⁷
Misc		Family note: Floyd.^8,9

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22 May 2023

Citations

[S612] Brown, Alexander (1978), The Cabells and their Kin, Virginia Book Company. p 45
[S1246] Floyd, N. J. (1912). Floyd Biographical Genealogies, Williams and Wilkins Company, Baltimore. p 11. Downloaded.
[S1325] "Elizabeth Hughes in the U.S., Sons of the American Revolution Membership Applications, 1889." 1970 https://www.ancestry.com/discoveryui-content/view/973680:2204?indiv=try&h&pid=392109253777&db. Accessed 14 Dec. 2021.
[S2740] The Tuley Family Memoirs: An Historical, Biographical and Genealogical Story of the Tuleys and the Floyd Family Connection in Virginia, Kentucky and Indiana, William Floyd Tuley (1906). Downloaded from archive.org 11/17/2022., Includes a section: The Floyd Family Connection
[S3027] Amherst County records, Aug 2, 1779, property transfer. Information found in a tree. https://www.genealogy.com/ftm/s/t/e/Pat-M-Stevens-iv/GENE6-0006.html. Feb 2023.
[S1229] Floyd, N. J. (1912). Floyd Biographical Genealogies, Williams and Wilkins Company, Baltimore. p 11. Downloaded.
[S1250] Brown, Alexander (1978), The Cabells and their Kin, Virginia Book Company. Downloaded. page 47
[S1284] Floyd, N. J. (1912), Biographical Genealogies of the Virginia-Kentucky Floyd Familiesa: : With Notes of Some Collateral Branches, Williams and Wilkins Compnay, Baltimore. Digitized.
[S2051] Ambler, Charles Henry. The life and diary of John Floyd, governor of Virginia, an apostle of secession and the father of the Oregon country. [Richmond, Richmond Press, 1918] PDF. https://www.google.com/books/edition/The_Life_and_Diary_of_John_Floyd/fS_4bLG-MV4C. Downloaded 12 Jun. 2022.

Elizabeth Anne Atkins

F, #485, b. 1732

Parents

Father	William Adkins, Sr. (b. 1689, d. 1774)
Mother	Elizabeth Parker (b. 1695, d. 1763)

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Family: Nathaniel Davis (b. about 1722, d. after 1 November 1779)

Son	Robert Davis
Son	James Davis
Son	Nathaniel Davis (d. 1860)
Daughter	Sarah ("Sally") Davis
Son	Theodosha Davis
Daughter	Nancy Davis
Daughter	Elizabeth Davis (b. about 1750, d. 25 June 1828)
Son	Charles Davis (b. 1751, d. 1820)
Son	Isham Davis (b. about 1771, d. Inferred 1842)
Daughter	Matilda Davis (b. 9 November 1773, d. 12 February 1856)

Birth	1732	In Henrico County, Virginia, British America.¹
Marriage	1752^2,3,4,5

Misc

Parents: William Adkins or Atkinson, Elizabeth Parker.⁶

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25 January 2023

Citations

[S1510] "Elizabeth Anne Atkinson in the Family Data Collection." Births https://www.ancestry.com/discoveryui-content/view/157244:5769?indiv=try&h&pid=240087539384&db. Accessed 12 Jan. 2022.
[S614] "DAR Genealogical Research Databases." Services https://services.dar.org/Public/DAR_Research/search_adb/?action=full&p_id=A030573. Accessed 16 Aug. 2021.
[S1321] Ackerly, Mary Denham and Parker, Lula Eastman Jeter (1930). "Our Kin", J. P. Bell Company, Inc., Lynchburg, VA. Downloaded.
[S1498] Family Data Collection, Ancestry.com
[S2973] Davis families of the southern states, V1. Compiled by Charles Brunk Heinemann. 1938, Chicago. IL. Downloaded from archive.org.
[S1256] "Nathaniel Davis in the Virginia, U.S., Wills and Probate Records, 1652." 1900 https://www.ancestry.com/discoveryui-content/view/1603476:62347?indiv=try&h&db. Accessed 29 Nov. 2021.

Captain Thomas Joplin

M, #487, b. May 1708, d. 1 September 1789

The Joplins are of Welsh extraction, and the first of whom we have any definite knowledge settled in the Valley of Virginia.
...
Thomas Joplin, the founder of the family in Virginia, as living on Rockfish River, in Albemarle County, in 1749. (Summer's History of Southwest Virginia, page 786). We find him again in Amherst County as Captain of Minute Men, after that country had been formed from Albemarle (1761).

He died in Amherst in 1789. His will, which was made August 10, 1789, and probated september 7, 1789, mentions: wife, Hannah; children: Josiah, James, Thomas, Martha (married John Griffin), Ann Childress, Jane Davis, Lucy Powell, Rebecca Martin, Hannah Allen; grandson Jesse Joplin.

Witnesses to his will were Henry Martin, Joseph Thomas, Thomas Farrer, and John Joplin. (Will Book No 3, page 116.)

References

Ancestors

Parents

Father	Ralph Jopling (b. 10 February 1674, d. 1720)
Mother	Mary Moberly (b. 1692, d. 1740)

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Family: Hannah Freeman (b. about 1710, d. 10 August 1789)

Son	Sargeant Ralph Joplin (b. about 1730, d. about 1776)
Daughter	Jane ("Jenny") Joplin+ (b. about 1732)
Son	James Joplin (b. 1735, d. 1839)
Daughter	Ann Joplin (b. 1740, d. October 1781)
Daughter	Martha Joplin (b. May 1740, d. 31 January 1814)
Son	Thomas Joplin (b. 1745, d. 29 March 1837)
Daughter	Lucy Joplin (b. about 1746, d. 1822)
Son	Josiah Joplin (b. about 1747, d. about 1797)
Daughter	Hannah Joplin (b. about May 1754, d. after 1815)
Daughter	Rebecca Joplin (b. 2 October 1758, d. 18 April 1797)

Birth	May 1708	In New Kent or Henrico County, Virginia, British America.^1,2,3,4,5
Marriage	1726	In Henrico County, Virginia, British America. North America Family Histories says they were married in 1738, but her father's will dated 3 Oct 1735 lists her as Hannah Joplin and Thomas Joplin as his son in law. Item I leave to my Son in law Thomas Joplin and my Daughter Hannah Joplin a Negro girl named Judy to them during there (sic) lives and afterward to the hairs of her Body lawfully begotten.^3,6,7,4,8
Death	1 September 1789	At age 81 in Amherst County, Virginia, United States.^2,3,4,9

Misc		Parents - Father Ralph Jopling. Don't know who his mother is^2,1,10,11
Misc		Ancestry: Welsh.
Misc		DNA Matches - excellent. 7/11/2024 Scott's DNA on Dessie Anderson 50 matches across multiple siblings 6/24/2024 Judy's DNA on Dessie Anderson 13 matches not on our Jane. James 1 on both parents Hannah 2 on both parents Martha 1 on both parents Thomas 1 on both parents Lucy 1 on both parents Josiah 2 on both parents Rebecca 4 on both parents Benjamin 1, only Ralph Jopling, one level UP... called half need to find out who Benjamin is! Scott's DNA on Dessie Anderson a whopping 63-5 (Jane)= 58 matches!
Property	17 December 1735	Deed, settlement of estate of Geo Freeman on 17 December 1735 in Henrico County, British America.¹²
Residence	1750	In Rockfish River, Virginia, British America.^13,5,14
Military	1761	Captain Amherst Co VA Militia (GGF-PM.) Service Description: 1) FURNISHED SUPPLIES; PAID 1783 SUPPLY TAX^{3,15,16,17,18}
Residence	1779	In Amelia County, Virginia, United States.¹⁹
Residence	1783	In Amherst County, British North America. Could be his son Thomas...²⁰
Will	10 August 1789	In Amherst County, Virginia, United States. THOMAS T. JOPLING'S WILL: AMHERST COUNTY WILL BOOK 3, 1786-1800. 6 7 076 1. IN THE NAME OF GOD AMEN I Thomas Jopling of the County of Amherst being Weak in Body but of sound Memory and Since for preventing disputes in my Family about my Worldly Estate do make and Ordain this my last Will and Testament hereby Revoking all former Wills by me made. - - - Imprimis I lend to my beloved Wife Hannah Jopling the use and benefitt of my Tract of Land whereon I now live Containing Seven hundred Acres more or lefs during her Natural life, also two hundred and Ninety Acres Land lying on Glady Creek for her use during life, also I Lend to my said Wife all my Household Furniture, all my Stocks of every kind Horses, Cattle, Hoggs, and Sheep, also the following Slaves Bowser, Lewis, Will, Watt, Tumbler, Jane, Moll, Sam, Peter, Amey. - - - Imprimis I give, devise and Bequeath to my Grand Son Jefsee Jopling after my Wife Decease the Tract of Land Whereon I now live Containing Seaven hundred Acres more or lefs also Two hundred and Ninety Acres lying on Glady Creek during his natural life but on these Conditions in Case my said Grand Son Jefsee Jopling Should die without Heir - Lawfully begotten of his Body then the said Lands to Return to my Family and I give and bequeath the said Lands to my Son - Josiah Jopling and to his Heirs forever also I give and Bequeath to my said Grand Son Jefsee Jopling one Negro Girl named Feeby, to him and his Law-ful Heires but in case my said Grand Son should die without Heir then the said Negro Grile Feeby and her Increase to Return to my Family to be Equally divided amongs my Children. Imprimis I give and bequeath unto my Son James Jopling one Tract of Land Containing four hundred acres lying on the Piny Mountain, Land I purchased of Jefsee Marten to him and his Heirs forever. Im- primis I give and bequeath unto my Son Josiah Jopling one Tract of Land Containing four hundred Acres lying on the North side Manascoes Mountain Land I purchased of Richard W. Cary to him and his Heirs forever. Imprimis I give and Bequeath to my Son Thomas Jopling tract of Land Containing four hundred Acres on the South fork of Rockfish River the Land he now lives on. Which I purchased of Doctr. Wm. Cabell, also one hundred Acres Joyning the above Tract, which I purchased of James Mathews to him and his Heirs forever. Also I give to my Said Son One Negroe Man named Ashur which he now has in his Pofsefsion. Imprimis My Will and desire is my Just Debts may be paid by my Executors hereafter mentioned, and after the Decease of my said wife Hanah Jopling I give all the remaining part of my Estate to be Equaly divided amongst all my Children Vizt. James Jopling, Josiah Jopling, Thomas Jopling, John Griffin who Maryed my Daughter Martha, Ann Childers, Jane Davis, Lucy Powel, Rebecka Martin, Hanah Allen. Item I constitute and appoint my Beloved Sons James Jopling and Josiah Jopling and my Freind Henry Martin Executors of this my Last Will and Testament hereby Revoaking all former Wills by me made, and thus having set my House in Order by Settling my Temporal Affairs I chearfully submit my eternal Concerns to the wise and Mercifull Disposer of all things, and patiently wait his mandate for my great change and to this my Last Will and Testament have set my Hand and affixed my Seals this~Tenth day August 1789. his mark Thomas T Jopling S S Sealed Signed and Acknowledged to bee his last Will and Testament in presence of us Henry Martin Joseph Thomas Thos. Farrar John Jopling ---^16,21,22
Misc	1837	Lawsuit. Jopling/Carroll, 1837 lawsuit, Albemarle Co, VA Found this in an old newspaper while searching for something else, but all the names and relationships described made me think it important enough to transcribe (I am a Carroll descendant, but not these). Hopefully this will be of use to someone. [Virginia Mylius, [email protected]] December 8, 1837, Enquirer newspaper (Richmond, VA): At a Circuit Superior Court of law and Chancery held for Albemarle County, on the 19th day of May 1837: JAMES JOPLING, JR., JAMES JOPLING, SR., WILLIAM JOPLING, HOLMAN JOPLIN, HANNAH BRIDGEWATER, JACOB TYRE, and MARTHA his wife, formerly MARTHA ALLEN; JOSHUA CARROLL, RICHARD WOOD and FRANCES his wife, formerly FRANCES CARROLL; BENJAMIN CHILDRESS, SAMUEL CHILDRESS; WILLIAM THOMAS and JURUSIA his wife, formerly JURUSIA CARROLL; JEFFERSON L. EDMUNDS, Executor of the last will and testament of JAMES L. EDMUNDS; JUDITH CARROLL, OBADIAH THOMAS and BETSEY his wife, formerly BETSEY CARROLL; JOHN FARRAR and NANCY his wife, formerly NANCY CARROLL; and HARRISON GRIFFIN and LUCY WRIGHT, plaintiffs; Against REUBEN B. PATTERSON, adm’r with the will annexed of JESSE JOPLING, dec’d; SHEDERICK SAMUELS and ALICE his wife, formerly ALICE JOPLING, ------BAILY and NANCY his wife, formerly NANCY JOPLING; THOMAS JOPLIN; and ------OSBURGH and JANE his wife, formerly JANE JOPLING; HANNAH JOPLING; JAMES NEST and SALLY his wife, formerly SALLY CARROLL; ------LIVINGSTON and ELIZABETH his wife, formerly ELIZABETH JOPLING; BENJAMIN JOPLING; EDMUND JOPLING; THOMAS JOPLING; DAVID LUMHAM (sic) and SALLY his wife, formerly SALLY JOPLING; JOHN BAKER and MILDRED his wife, formerly MILDRED JOPLING; SHERROD GRIFFIN; ------TOWS (sic) and CHARLOTTE his wife, formerly CHARLOTTE GRIFFIN; JOHN PHILIPS and JANE his wife, formerly JANE GRIFFIN; JOHN THOMAS and ALEY his wife, formerly ALEY GRIFFIN; JOHN PEMBERTON and BETSY his wife, formerly BETSY CHILDRESS; RIAL CHILDRESS; THOMAS DAVIS; LANDON DAVIS; LINDSEY POWELL; JAMES POWELL; RALPH HENRY MARTIN; GEORGE MARTIN; JOHN HAWKINS and MARTHA his wife, formerly MARTHA HAWKINS; JAMES W. MARTIN; PLEASANT M. MARTIN; WILLIAM POWELL and BETSY his wife, formerly BETSY MARTIN; JESSE ALLEN; SAMUEL H. ALLEN; JOHN ALLEN, JAMES POWELL and BEHETHELAND (sic) his wife, formerly BEHETHELAND ALLEN; WM. HARRIS and WINNEY his wife, formerly WINNEY GRIFFIN; REBECCA WARE; THOMAS CHILDRESS; THOMAS MARTIN, and HANEY EDMUNDS, formerly HANEY TINDAL; WILLIAM A. PAYNE and MARTHA his wife, formerly MARTHA TINDAL; NATHANIEL GOOLSBY and SUSAN his wife, formerly SUSAN TINDAL; ARCHIBALD PAMPLIN and NANCY his wife, formerly NANCY TINDAL; RICHARD TINDAL; JAMES S. JOPLING, MARSHAL BOWMAN and BEHETHELAND his wife, formerly BEHETHELAND JOPLING; JAMES T. SAUNDERS and ELIZA his wife, formerly ELIZA VINCENT; JOHN VINCENT; SPENCER VINCENT; JOSEPH VINCENT; TALLEYRAND BROWN; JUSTIN WHITE, EDWARD K. FIFE; MINERVA BROWN and WILLIAM WHITE (the last two are infants under the age of 21 years, by Ira Garrett, assigned their guardian), Ad litem, defendants. It appearing to the court that the bill filed in this cause, and verified according to law, seeks a sale and division of lands belonging to the late JESSE JOPLING, of the county of Albemarle and State of Virginia, who departed this life some time in December 1836, intestate as to a great part of his real estate, and as to the whole of his personal, after the payment of his debts; and also the sale and division of the slaves supposed to belong to the estate of THOMAS JOPLING, dec’d., late of the county of Amherst and State of Virginia, who departed this life some time in the y ear 1789, having made and published his last will and testament, probate whereof was had in the county Court of Amherst on the 7th day of September 1789; and it further appearing to the Court, that the defendants named in the bill and resident within this Commonwealth, and the defendants named, and not resident within the Commonwealth, have been regularly convened before the Court by subpoena, executed and publication, as in other suits in Chancery, and that there are others who are interested in the distribution of both estates aforesaid, whose names and whose first share thereof are unknown, and who are made parties thereto, under the general description of parties unknown; whereon, on motion of the plaintiffs by counsel, the Court, in pursuance of the act of Assembly in such case made and provided, doth order, that all the parties interested in the said estates, be warned and notified, and that they are hereby warned and notified to appear and make themselves defendants to this bill, file their answers and assert their rights; and that unless the parties unknown and not named, shall do the same within four months from and after their publication, that the Court will proceed to decree, at any time thereafter, a sale and division of the said estates, according to the act of Assembly in that case made and provided; and that a copy of this order be forthwith published in the Richmond Whig and Public Advertiser, and Richmond Enquirer, newspapers published in the City of Richmond, and the National Intelligencer, published in the City of Washington, for six weeks successively. A Copy – Teste, Alexander Garrett, C.C. Nov. 24.²³

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16 July 2024

Citations

[S619] "Thomas Jopling in the Family Data Collection." Births https://www.ancestry.com/discoveryui-content/view/2489471:5769?indiv=try&h&pid=13107067153&db. Accessed 20 Aug. 2021.
[S620] "Thomas Jopling in the Millennium File." Ancestry https://www.ancestry.com/discoveryui-content/view/10321557:7249?indiv=try&h&pid=212260737430&db. Accessed 20 Aug. 2021.
[S621] "North America, Family Histories, 1500." 2000 for Thomas Jopling https://www.ancestry.com/imageviewer/collections/61157/images/46155_b290438-00221?indiv=try&h&db. Accessed 20 Aug. 2021.
[S1528] Edmund West, comp.. Family Data Collection - Individual Records [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations Inc, 2000.
[S1321] Ackerly, Mary Denham and Parker, Lula Eastman Jeter (1930). "Our Kin", J. P. Bell Company, Inc., Lynchburg, VA. Downloaded.
[S624] "George W. Freeman Will." Ancestry https://www.ancestry.com/mediaui-viewer/tree/120273014/person/302024617165/media/c2d3b3ea-0336-47eb-94b4-3b3b6f58f547?indiv=try&h&_phsrc=Sgq766&db. Accessed 20 Aug. 2021.
[S1509] "Thomas Jopling in the U.S. and International Marriage Records, 1560." 1900 https://www.ancestry.com/discoveryui-content/view/669134:7836?indiv=try&h&db. Accessed 11 Jan. 2022.
[S2969] "Thomas Jopling in the Family Data Collection." Individual Records https://www.ancestry.com/discoveryui-content/view/1407345:4725?indiv=try&h&db. Accessed 23 Jan. 2023.
[S5831] "Thomas Jopling (1708-1789)." WikiTree FREE Family Tree https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Jopling-49. Accessed 11 Jul. 2024., Nice bio and some sources:
Joplin Thomas (1708-1789) WikiTree.pdf
[S1524] "Ralph Jopling in the Millennium File." Ancestry https://www.ancestry.com/discoveryui-content/view/10321565:7249?indiv=try&h&pid=262223190637&db. Accessed 14 Jan. 2022.
[S7354] WikiTree contributors, "Ralph Jopling (1674-1730)," WikiTree: The Free Family Tree, (https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Jopling-68 : accessed 09 November 2024)., The hackerscreek.com link is blocked by adguard, no doubt no longer there.

The Jopling-Joplin family is in sources, books
The Jopling - Joplin Family - FL3652680_198888.pdf
[S4913] "Ancestry.com." Virginia Colonial Abstracts, Vol. III https://www.ancestry.com/imageviewer/collections/48431/images/VAColonialAbstractsIII-005740-409?indiv=try&h&db. Accessed 6 Mar. 2024.
[S632] "The Project Gutenberg eBook of Historic Highways of America (Volume 6), by Archer Butler Hulbert.." Gutenberg https://www.gutenberg.org/files/41143/41143-h/41143-h.htm. Accessed 20 Aug. 2021.
[S1530] "Dr. Thomas Walker's Journal (1749." 1750), TNGenWeb/TNGenNet https://www.tngenweb.org/tnland/squabble/walker.html. Accessed 15 Jan. 2022.
[S627] "Captain Thomas Joplin in the U.S., Sons of the American Revolution Membership Applications, 1889." 1970 https://www.ancestry.com/discoveryui-content/view/1230700:2204?indiv=try&h&db. Accessed 20 Aug. 2021.
[S629] "Ancestry.com." Our kin : the genealogies of some of the early families who made history in the founding and development of Bedford County, Virginia https://www.ancestry.com/imageviewer/collections/10559/images/dvm_LocHist000211-00403-1?indiv=try&h&db. Accessed 20 Aug. 2021., [The book goes on to describe his son's Josiah's tree.]
[S2994] Ancestry.com. North America, Family Histories, 1500-2000 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2016.
[S5830] "DAR Genealogical Research Databases." Services https://services.dar.org/public/dar_research/search_descendants/?action=list&MyPrimary_Seqn=650858&MyLineageCount=1&Control_Min_Seqn=650858. Accessed 11 Jul. 2024.
[S1529] "Thomas Jopling in the Virginia, U.S., Compiled Census and Census Substitutes Index, 1607." 1890 https://search.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/sse.dll?indiv=try&h=32431303&pid=13107067153&dbid=3578. Accessed 15 Jan. 2022.
[S1508] "Thomas Jopling in the Virginia, U.S., Compiled Census and Census Substitutes Index, 1607." 1890 https://search.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/sse.dll?indiv=try&h=32443541&db=3578. Accessed 11 Jan. 2022.
[S1269] Catherine H. C. Seaman, Tuckahoes and Cohees: the settlers and cultures of Amherst and Nelson Counties, 1607-1807 (1992). p 157
[S5672] "Thomas Jopling in the Mississippi, U.S., Wills and Probate Records, 1780." 1982 https://www.ancestry.com/discoveryui-content/view/4902588:8995?indiv=try&h&pid=362327828920&db. Accessed 24 Jun. 2024., See image
Jopling Thomas b1708 will.jpg
[S5903] "Bacheche." Ancestry https://www.ancestry.it/boards/surnames.carroll/7817?indiv=try&h&db. Accessed 16 Jul. 2024., See PDF:
Joplin Thomas b1708 lawsuit 1837 Bacheche.pdf

Hannah Freeman

F, #488, b. about 1710, d. 10 August 1789

References

Ancestors

Parents

Father	George Freeman, II (b. 1684, d. 1735)
Mother	Jane Holman (b. 1689, d. May 1752)

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Family: Captain Thomas Joplin (b. May 1708, d. 1 September 1789)

Son	Sargeant Ralph Joplin (b. about 1730, d. about 1776)
Daughter	Jane ("Jenny") Joplin+ (b. about 1732)
Son	James Joplin (b. 1735, d. 1839)
Daughter	Ann Joplin (b. 1740, d. October 1781)
Daughter	Martha Joplin (b. May 1740, d. 31 January 1814)
Son	Thomas Joplin (b. 1745, d. 29 March 1837)
Daughter	Lucy Joplin (b. about 1746, d. 1822)
Son	Josiah Joplin (b. about 1747, d. about 1797)
Daughter	Hannah Joplin (b. about May 1754, d. after 1815)
Daughter	Rebecca Joplin (b. 2 October 1758, d. 18 April 1797)

Birth	about 1710	In Henrico County, Virginia, British America.^1,2,3
Marriage	1726	In Henrico County, Virginia, British America. North America Family Histories says they were married in 1738, but her father's will dated 3 Oct 1735 lists her as Hannah Joplin and Thomas Joplin as his son in law. Item I leave to my Son in law Thomas Joplin and my Daughter Hannah Joplin a Negro girl named Judy to them during there (sic) lives and afterward to the hairs of her Body lawfully begotten.^4,5,3,6,7
Death	10 August 1789	In Amherst County, Virginia, United States. I don't know where this date comes from.

Misc		Parents: George Freeman. Named Hannah Joplin in her father George Freeman's will in 1735^2,5,8
Misc		DNA Matches - SUPER. 6/29/2024 Scott's DNA as Dessie Anderson 50 DNA matches with siblings of Jane Joplin Ann - 1 both parents, James 1 both parents, Martha - 5 matches - checked 2 both parents Lucy- 1 match both parents Hannah 8 matches - 1 no CA, 1 both parents Hannah married a Childers! Thomas - 3 matches - 2 checked both parents one of the Thomas matches is huge! Josiah - 6 matches - checked 2 both parents, one another big match Rebecca - 2 matches, 1 checked both parents Elizabeth (?) - 4 - checked 1 both parents Daniel (? - 9 matches - checked 1 both parents Another Hannah?- 6 matches, 1 checked both parents Another Rebecca? - 4 matches, 1 checked both parents
Misc	3 October 1735	Named in father's will in Henrico County, Virginia, British America.⁵

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18 September 2024

Citations

[S625] "Hannah Freeman in the Family Data Collection." Births https://www.ancestry.com/discoveryui-content/view/1622668:5769?indiv=try&h&pid=302024617165&db. Accessed 20 Aug. 2021.
[S626] "Hannah Freeman in the Millennium File." Ancestry https://www.ancestry.com/discoveryui-content/view/10321562:7249?indiv=try&h&pid=302024617165&db. Accessed 20 Aug. 2021.
[S1509] "Thomas Jopling in the U.S. and International Marriage Records, 1560." 1900 https://www.ancestry.com/discoveryui-content/view/669134:7836?indiv=try&h&db. Accessed 11 Jan. 2022.
[S621] "North America, Family Histories, 1500." 2000 for Thomas Jopling https://www.ancestry.com/imageviewer/collections/61157/images/46155_b290438-00221?indiv=try&h&db. Accessed 20 Aug. 2021.
[S624] "George W. Freeman Will." Ancestry https://www.ancestry.com/mediaui-viewer/tree/120273014/person/302024617165/media/c2d3b3ea-0336-47eb-94b4-3b3b6f58f547?indiv=try&h&_phsrc=Sgq766&db. Accessed 20 Aug. 2021.
[S1528] Edmund West, comp.. Family Data Collection - Individual Records [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations Inc, 2000.
[S2969] "Thomas Jopling in the Family Data Collection." Individual Records https://www.ancestry.com/discoveryui-content/view/1407345:4725?indiv=try&h&db. Accessed 23 Jan. 2023.
[S1353] "Henrico County, southside, 1736." Ancestry https://www.ancestry.com/discoveryui-content/view/74:29401?indiv=try&h&pid=282222711580&db. Accessed 19 Dec. 2021.

George Freeman, II

M, #489, b. 1684, d. 1735

George Freeman was born in 1684, in James City, Virginia, British Colonial America as the son of George W. Freeman and Abigale Ballinger. He married Jane Holman in 1706, in Henrico, Virginia, British Colonial America. They were the parents of at least 4 sons and 3 daughters. He died in 1735, in Henrico, Virginia, British Colonial America, at the age of 51, and was buried in Henrico, Virginia, British Colonial America.
--familysearch.org.

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Ancestors

Parents

Father	George Freeman (b. between 1650 and 1660)
Mother	Abigail Ballinger (b. 3 December 1660, d. 5 May 1685)

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Family: Jane Holman (b. 1689, d. May 1752)

Daughter	Hannah Freeman+ (b. about 1710, d. 10 August 1789)
Son	George Freeman, III (b. 1712, d. about 1743)
Son	Holman Freeman (b. circa 1714, d. 1782)
Daughter	Allis Freeman (b. about 1715, d. about 1735)
Son	John Freeman (b. circa 1717, d. 1771)
Son	Joseph Freeman (b. circa 1720, d. 1750 or 1800)

Birth	1684	In Jamestown, James City, Virginia, British America.
Marriage	1707	Wife Jane named in George Freeman's will¹
Death	1735	At age ~51 in Henrico County, Virginia, British America.

Misc		Slaveholder.
Misc		DNA Matches - 2 matches. 6/23/2024 Judy's DNA on Dessie 1 match on both parents Scott has a different match on both parents.
Property	1704	FREEMAN GEORGE 197 in 1704 in James City County.²
Property	22 January 1718	400 acres on 22 January 1718 in Henrico County, Virginia, British America.³
Property	9 July 1724	On 9 July 1724 in Henrico County, Virginia, British America.⁴
Will	3 October 1735	In Henrico County, Virginia, British America. Will of George Freeman Date Written: 3 October 1735 Date Proved and Recorded: 2 February 1736 Deeds & Wills, 1725-1737 - Page 518 Henrico County, Virginia In the name of god amen I George Freeman of ye parish and county of Henrico do make this my last Will and Testament as followeth (viz) first I bequeath my Soul to god and my Body to be buries and all my worldy Debts to be justly paid. Item I give and bequeath one Certain Tract of Land which I hold under Several Surveys amounting to one Thousand Six hundred and eight Acres be Divided and distributed in manner and form as followeth and the Said Tract of Land is lying and being in ye parish and County of Henrico where I now lived. Item I leave to my Daughter Allis Freeman during her Natural life one Certain parcel of the Above named Tract of Land begining on Buck Meadow in Randolphs line thence up the Said Meadow and continuing the Same Course untill it meet my back line the Said Tract or parcel of Land containing by Estimation one hundred acres or be there more or less to her my Said Daughter during her Natural life and afterwards to the heirs of her Body lawfully begotten and if She Should Die without Heir the Said Land to be to my Son Joseph his heirs or assigns. Item I give unto my Son George Freeman one certain parcel of the Aforesaid Tract of Land Containing by Estimation three hundred Acres or be there more or less begining on buck Meadow and running thence a Straight Course to the mouth of Scraping Branch so up the said Branch untill it meet my back line to him my Said Son Geo his heirs or assigns. Item I give to my Son John Freeman one Certain parcel of the Said Tract of Land Containing by Estimation Three hundred Acres or be there more or less begining on the East Side the flat Branch at the place where Georges line crosses the said Branch thence down the said Branch to Randolphs line and so including allys end of my D Survey to him my Son John his heirs or assigns. Item I give to my Son Joseph Freeman the plantation and whereon I now live with all the remaining part of my D Survey of Land to him my Son Joseph his heirs or assigns. Item I leave one hundred Acres of Land whereon John Shoemaker now lives to be firmly made over unto the Said Shoemaker by Deed of Sale by my Executors. Item I give to my Son in law Thomas Joplin and his Wife my Daughter Hannah Joplin one Certain parcel of ye Said Tract of Land begining on John Shoemakers line after his land is laid off and Running thence along Thomas Alleys to a corner thence a South Course to Deep Run thence down the Said Run to Randolphs line to them my Son in law and Daughter during their Natural lives and After their Deaths to my Grand Son James Joplin son to the Said Thomas and Hannah Joplin to him his heirs or assigns. Item I give to my Son Holman Freeman all the remainder of my aforesaid Tract of Land to him his heirs or assigns. Item I give to my Son George Freeman a young Negro named Will to him his heirs or assigns. Item I give to my Son Holman Freeman a Negro boy named Lewis to him his heirs or assigns. Item I leave to my Daughter Allis Freeman a Negro Girl named Nan to her and her heirs. Item I leave to my Son in law Thomas Joplin and my Daughter Hannah Joplin a Negro girl named Judy to them during there lives and afterward to the heirs of her Body lawfully begotten. Item I give to my loving Wife Jane Freeman one Negro man named Tom and a Negro Girl named Pheby to her During her Natural Life and afterward of that is after her Decease I give and bequeath the Said Negro man named Tom to my Son John Freeman his heirs or assigns and I give and bequeath the said Negro Girl named Pheby to my Son Joseph Freeman his heirs or assigns. Item I give and bequeath to my four Sons Namely George, Holman, John and Joseph and my Two daughters Hannah and Allis each of them Two Cows and Calves & Two Sows and piggs. Item I give and bequeath all of rest of my estate in what manner and form soever Esp. unto my loving wife Jane Freeman, and I do appoint my Said Wife and my Son George Freeman and my Son Holman Freeman Jointely Executors of this my last Will and Testament. In Witness whereof I have here unto Set my hand and Seal the Third day of October in the year of our lord 1735. G.Frd. (Seal) Test John :G: Grifin Thomas :T:B: Butler Arch :H: Hix James Holman At a Court held for Henrico County the Second Day of February 1736, This Will was presented by the Executors therein Named upon oath and proved by the oath of John Grifin and Arch Hix Two of the Witnesses thereof whereupon it was Admitted to Record./ Test Bowler Cocke ClCr [This will is often attributed to his father and most trees have them both dying in 1735. I found it in the WikiTree entry for his father as his father's will.]^5,6,7,8
Probate	2 February 1736	In Henrico County, Virginia, British America.⁷

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21 September 2024

Citations

[S6563] "Jane (Holman) Freeman (abt. 1690." abt. 1752) ID/Link/URL/Cite/UserID https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Holman-732. Accessed 13 Sep. 2024., Sources mostly trees.
[S1351] "Early Virginia Families Along the James River: Their Deep Roots and Tangled Branches, Vol. III." Ancestry https://www.ancestry.com/discoveryui-content/view/32499:49136?indiv=try&h&pid=412126174764&db. Accessed 19 Dec. 2021.
[S1350] "Early Virginia Families Along the James River: Their Deep Roots and Tangled Branches. Vol. I." Ancestry https://www.ancestry.com/discoveryui-content/view/32022:49134?indiv=try&h&pid=252081704034&db. Accessed 19 Dec. 2021.
[S1352] "Early Virginia Families Along the James River: Their Deep Roots and Tangled Branches. Vol. I." Ancestry https://www.ancestry.com/discoveryui-content/view/32073:49134?indiv=try&h&pid=412126174764&db. Accessed 19 Dec. 2021.
[S624] "George W. Freeman Will." Ancestry https://www.ancestry.com/mediaui-viewer/tree/120273014/person/302024617165/media/c2d3b3ea-0336-47eb-94b4-3b3b6f58f547?indiv=try&h&_phsrc=Sgq766&db. Accessed 20 Aug. 2021.
[S1353] "Henrico County, southside, 1736." Ancestry https://www.ancestry.com/discoveryui-content/view/74:29401?indiv=try&h&pid=282222711580&db. Accessed 19 Dec. 2021.
[S6620] "George W Freeman (abt. 1660." abt. 1735) ID/Link/URL/Cite/UserID https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Freeman-10092. Accessed 16 Sep. 2024., The will surely belongs to his son George, whose wife was named Jane.
[S6623] "Ancestry.com." Virginia Colonial Abstracts, Vol. III https://www.ancestry.com/imageviewer/collections/48431/images/VAColonialAbstractsIII-005739-408?indiv=try&h&db. Accessed 18 Sep. 2024.

Jane Holman

F, #490, b. 1689, d. May 1752

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Parents

Father	James Holman (b. about 1660, d. before 1706)
Mother	Sarah Miller (b. about 1670, d. 8 November 1764)

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Family: George Freeman, II, (b. 1684, d. 1735)

Daughter	Hannah Freeman+ (b. about 1710, d. 10 August 1789)
Son	George Freeman, III (b. 1712, d. about 1743)
Son	Holman Freeman (b. circa 1714, d. 1782)
Daughter	Allis Freeman (b. about 1715, d. about 1735)
Son	John Freeman (b. circa 1717, d. 1771)
Son	Joseph Freeman (b. circa 1720, d. 1750 or 1800)

Birth	1689	In James City, Virginia, British America.
Marriage	1707	Wife Jane named in George Freeman's will¹
Death	May 1752	At age ~63 in Henrico County, Virginia, British America.¹

Misc		DNA Matches - 2 matches. 6/23/2024 Judy's DNA on Dessie Holman Freeman 1 DNA match on both 10cM 1 segment Scott also has a match on Holman, but different from mine 8cM 1 segment both parents
Misc		Quote -- follow up. George names wife Jane executor of 1735 will note on pdf page 5 T Jefferson recorded Jane as dau of James Holman I found this here: http://www.bookofbowie.net/family/INDIs/II0089.html
Misc		Parents. Her mother is considered unknown, but DNA would appear to indicate she is the daughter of Sarah Miller as well. Need to check that again.
Misc	1735	Inheritance.²

Last Edited

21 September 2024

Citations

[S6563] "Jane (Holman) Freeman (abt. 1690." abt. 1752) ID/Link/URL/Cite/UserID https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Holman-732. Accessed 13 Sep. 2024., Sources mostly trees.
[S1353] "Henrico County, southside, 1736." Ancestry https://www.ancestry.com/discoveryui-content/view/74:29401?indiv=try&h&pid=282222711580&db. Accessed 19 Dec. 2021.

Rebecca Joplin

F, #491, b. 2 October 1758, d. 18 April 1797

Married a Martin.

Parents

Father	Captain Thomas Joplin (b. May 1708, d. 1 September 1789)
Mother	Hannah Freeman (b. about 1710, d. 10 August 1789)

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Birth	2 October 1758	In Amherst, Amherst, Virginia, British America.¹
Death	18 April 1797	At age 38 in Botetourt, Virginia, United States.

Misc		Parents: Thomas Jopling and Hannah Freeman.¹
Misc		Married Pleasant Martin Sr (1756-1836.)²

Last Edited

24 June 2024

Citations

[S1349] "Hannah Freeman in the Millennium File." Ancestry https://www.ancestry.com/discoveryui-content/view/10321562:7249?indiv=try&h&pid=362225349198&db. Accessed 19 Dec. 2021.
[S1269] Catherine H. C. Seaman, Tuckahoes and Cohees: the settlers and cultures of Amherst and Nelson Counties, 1607-1807 (1992). p 157

Josiah Joplin

M, #492, b. about 1747, d. about 1797

"Josiah Joplin, born 1747, son of Thomas and Hannah Joplin, married, December 1, 1767, in Amherst County, Va., Elizabeth Ware. We learn from Hardesty's Encyclopedia, page 410, that he served as private in the Revolutionary War. He died in Amherst in 1798. His will, which was made November 16, 1797, and probated April 18, 1798, mentions children: Hannah Bridgewater, James Joplin, William Joplin, Edward Ware Joplin, Holeman(?) Joplin, Thomas Joplin, Bennett Joplin, Elizabeth Bridgewater Joplin, and Sarah Joplin. (Will Book No. 3, page 9."
Our Kin page 695.

Parents

Father	Captain Thomas Joplin (b. May 1708, d. 1 September 1789)
Mother	Hannah Freeman (b. about 1710, d. 10 August 1789)

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Birth	about 1747	In Virginia.^1,2
Marriage	1 December 1767	In Amherst County, Virginia, British America.^3,4,1,5
Death	about 1797^1,3,6

Misc		Parents Thomas Jopling and Hannah.⁶
Military	1776	Minute Man in Amherst County, British America.^7,5
Residence	1783	In Amelia County, Virginia, United States. Tax list.⁸

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29 June 2024

Citations

[S628] Edmund West, comp.. Family Data Collection - Individual Records [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations Inc, 2000.
[S1321] Ackerly, Mary Denham and Parker, Lula Eastman Jeter (1930). "Our Kin", J. P. Bell Company, Inc., Lynchburg, VA. Downloaded., The story continues with Josiah Joplin's family
[S627] "Captain Thomas Joplin in the U.S., Sons of the American Revolution Membership Applications, 1889." 1970 https://www.ancestry.com/discoveryui-content/view/1230700:2204?indiv=try&h&db. Accessed 20 Aug. 2021.
[S1321] Ackerly, Mary Denham and Parker, Lula Eastman Jeter (1930). "Our Kin", J. P. Bell Company, Inc., Lynchburg, VA. Downloaded.
[S2994] Ancestry.com. North America, Family Histories, 1500-2000 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2016.
[S629] "Ancestry.com." Our kin : the genealogies of some of the early families who made history in the founding and development of Bedford County, Virginia https://www.ancestry.com/imageviewer/collections/10559/images/dvm_LocHist000211-00403-1?indiv=try&h&db. Accessed 20 Aug. 2021., [The book goes on to describe his son's Josiah's tree.]
[S1348] "North America, Family Histories, 1500-2000." Ancestry.com https://www.ancestry.com/discoveryui-content/view/3495387:61157?indiv=try&h&pid=362225349198&db. Accessed 19 Dec. 2021.
[S2993] "Josiah Jobling in the Virginia, U.S., Compiled Census and Census Substitutes Index, 1607." 1890 https://www.ancestry.com/discoveryui-content/view/32443475:3578?indiv=try&h&db. Accessed 27 Jan. 2023.

Thomas Joplin

M, #494, b. 1745, d. 29 March 1837

Parents

Father	Captain Thomas Joplin (b. May 1708, d. 1 September 1789)
Mother	Hannah Freeman (b. about 1710, d. 10 August 1789)

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Birth	1745	In Virginia, British America.¹
Marriage	6 April 1772	In Amherst County, Virginia, British America.¹
Death	29 March 1837	At age ~92 in Nelson, Virginia, United States.

Misc

1789

Parents- Thomas Joplin.²

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29 June 2024

Citations

[S1526] "Thomas Joplin in the U.S. and International Marriage Records, 1560." 1900 https://www.ancestry.com/discoveryui-content/view/669126:7836?indiv=try&h&db. Accessed 14 Jan. 2022.
[S1269] Catherine H. C. Seaman, Tuckahoes and Cohees: the settlers and cultures of Amherst and Nelson Counties, 1607-1807 (1992). p 157

Martha Joplin

F, #495, b. May 1740, d. 31 January 1814

Married John Griffin.

Parents

Father	Captain Thomas Joplin (b. May 1708, d. 1 September 1789)
Mother	Hannah Freeman (b. about 1710, d. 10 August 1789)

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Birth	May 1740	In Rockfish River, Goochland, Virginia, British America.
Marriage¹
Death	31 January 1814	At age 73 in Oglethorpe County, Georgia, United States.

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29 June 2024

Citations

[S629] "Ancestry.com." Our kin : the genealogies of some of the early families who made history in the founding and development of Bedford County, Virginia https://www.ancestry.com/imageviewer/collections/10559/images/dvm_LocHist000211-00403-1?indiv=try&h&db. Accessed 20 Aug. 2021., [The book goes on to describe his son's Josiah's tree.]

Lucy Joplin

F, #497, b. about 1746, d. 1822

Married a Powell.

Parents

Father	Captain Thomas Joplin (b. May 1708, d. 1 September 1789)
Mother	Hannah Freeman (b. about 1710, d. 10 August 1789)

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Birth	about 1746
Marriage	about 1764¹
Death	1822	In Lincoln County, Kentucky, United States.²

Misc		Married Edmund POWELL (1742-1825.)³
Misc		Children.⁴
Misc	1789	Parents" Thomas Joplin.¹

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11 July 2024

Citations

[S1269] Catherine H. C. Seaman, Tuckahoes and Cohees: the settlers and cultures of Amherst and Nelson Counties, 1607-1807 (1992). p 157
[S2984] Find a Grave, database and images (https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/205371949/lucy-powell: accessed 26 January 2023), memorial page for Lucy Joplin Powell (1746–1822), Find a Grave Memorial ID 205371949; Burial Details Unknown, Buried in Tennessee; Maintained by Barry Powell (contributor 48533658).
[S2981] "Lucy Jopling in the West Virginia, U.S., Marriages Index, 1785." 1971 https://www.ancestry.com/discoveryui-content/view/10110594:2538?indiv=try&h&db. Accessed 26 Jan. 2023.
[S2983] Find a Grave, database and images (https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/16925191/edmond-powell: accessed 26 January 2023), memorial page for 2Lt. Edmond Powell (1742–1825), Find a Grave Memorial ID 16925191, citing Powell Cemetery, Casey County, Kentucky, USA; Maintained by Mark Parks (contributor 46878476).

Ann Joplin

F, #498, b. 1740, d. October 1781

Parents

Father	Captain Thomas Joplin (b. May 1708, d. 1 September 1789)
Mother	Hannah Freeman (b. about 1710, d. 10 August 1789)

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Birth	1740	At Rockfish River in Goochland, Virginia, British America. I'm thinking Hannah and Ann are the same person. They both married Benjamin Childress... BUT WikiTree has both children, although Hannah is called "Hannah 'Eliza Ann'" which is very susicious. And she marries Samuel Allen.^1,1
Marriage	1758	In Virginia, British America.
Death	October 1781	At age ~41 in Amherst, Amherst, Virginia, United States.¹

Misc		Third Cousin. Ann Joplin married Benjamin Childress, a third cousin of our Pleasant Childers.
Misc	1789	Parents- Thomas Joplin.²

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17 July 2024

Citations

[S5902] "Ann (Jopling) Childres (1740-1781)." WikiTree FREE Family Tree https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Jopling-75. Accessed 16 Jul. 2024.
[S1269] Catherine H. C. Seaman, Tuckahoes and Cohees: the settlers and cultures of Amherst and Nelson Counties, 1607-1807 (1992). p 157

Sargeant Ralph Joplin

M, #499, b. about 1730, d. about 1776

Parents

Father	Captain Thomas Joplin (b. May 1708, d. 1 September 1789)
Mother	Hannah Freeman (b. about 1710, d. 10 August 1789)

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Birth	about 1730	In Virginia, British America.¹
Death	about 1776

Misc		Married Alsey Allen.
Military	4 August 1777	Sargeant at 6th Regiment in Virginia, British America.²
Misc	1789	NOT named in his father's will. Maybe because he was already dead...³

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11 July 2024

Citations

[S630] "Ralph Jopling in the American Genealogical." Biographical Index (AGBI) https://www.ancestry.com/discoveryui-content/view/3553275:3599?indiv=try&h&db. Accessed 20 Aug. 2021.
[S631] "Ralph Jopling in the U.S., Revolutionary War Rolls, 1775." 1783 https://www.ancestry.com/discoveryui-content/view/1807917:4282?indiv=try&h&db. Accessed 20 Aug. 2021.
[S1269] Catherine H. C. Seaman, Tuckahoes and Cohees: the settlers and cultures of Amherst and Nelson Counties, 1607-1807 (1992). p 157

Maria Catharina Steiger

F, #500, b. 1 June 1787

Parents

Father	Johann Peter Steiger (b. 23 March 1766)
Mother	Anna Margaretha Weiss

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Birth

1 June 1787

In Ruchheim, Pfalz, Bayern, Deutschland.¹

Baptism

3 June 1787

In Ruchheim, Pfalz, Bayern.¹

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21 August 2021

Citations

[S635] "Germany Births and Baptisms, 1558." 1898 https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:NK7N-W5W?from=lynx1UIV8&treeref=26KF-ZP1. Accessed 21 Aug. 2021.