Moved from Albemarle Co., VA to what is now Madison Co., KY in 1786.
Served in Kentucky Militia.Christopher Harris (2/3/1725 - 3/14/1794) (died Madison Co., KY), m. (1) Mary Dabney on 2/22/1743/44, married (2) Agnes McCord about 1762
Children of Christopher Harris and Mary Dabney:
** Dabney Harris ** Sarah Harris ** Robert Harris ** Tyree Harris ** Elizabeth Harris ** Mourning Harris (6/4/1754 - ?) married Foster Jones
child of Mourning Harris and Foster Jones:
*-* Mourning Jones married Tyre Martin in 1798, Albemarle Co., VA
** Christopher Harris ** Mary Harris
Children of Christopher Harris and Agnes McCord:
** Jane Harris ** Benjamin Harris ** William Harris ** Barnabus Harris ** James Harris ** Samuel Harris ** Margaret Harris ** Isabella Harris ** Overton Harris ** John Harris
CHRISTOPHER HARRISS WILL - Will Book A-pg 54, 55 In the name of God Amen. I Christopher Harris being through the abundant mercy and goodness of God tho weak in body yet of perfect understanding and memory do constitute this my last will & Testament and desire it should be reviewed by all as such. Imprimis that I will & Desire that my first Children (Viz) Dabney Harris, Sarah Martin, Robert Harriss, Mourning Jones, Christopher Harrifs, & Mary Jones should have the following negroes (excepting thirty pounds out of my son Dabneys Legacy which is to be paid by the Executors of this Part of my Will for the use & Benefit of my wife and Other Children) (Viz) Ritter and her Children, Pomp, Moses, Allice, George, Betty, Lucy and Delphy the above Negores to be Divided Agreeable to Cornelias Dabneys Seniors Will and I do appoint Foster Jones, and Christoph Harrifs as Executors of the above part of this will and as to the Ballance of my Estate I Direct that first my Debts shall be paid out of what money I have by or is owing to me the house where I live I Direct should be finished which together with the tract of land whereon I live, I leave to my Dear & loving wife during her life and at ther death to son Overton Harrifs as to the Ballance of my Negroes (David, Cate, Fanny, Stephen, and Eddy together with my House hold furniture Stock of every kind and Plantation utensels I desire that my wife may have the whole Benefit of them during her life or widowhood and if she should Marry the whole to be sold and Equally Divided amongst her & her children as to my Lands on Muddy Creek I will and Bequeath them as follows, the Drowning Creek Tract of land I will and Bequeath to my son John Harrifs the Sycamore Spring Tract to my son Benjamin Harris the tract on which my son Wm. has Built to my son Harris and the Tract Clalled the Holly Tract to my son Barnabas Harrifs and my land in Albemarle County together with the Stock that is thereon I direct shall be sold and that my sons James and Samuel Harris shall Receive of the money as much as Col John Miller & Robert Rodes shall Judge the land to be worth that I will’d to my Other sons Viz to be made Equal to them, as to my three Daughters Viz Jane Gentry-Margret Harris, and Isabel Harris my will and Desire is that Jean Gentry should Receive ten pounds and Margret and Isbel Harris to have fifty pounds apeice out of the Ballance of what my Albermarld land and the Proffits arising from that place and if that should not be Sufficient that It shall be made up to htem out of any of Personal Estate that my wife and Executors after nemtioned shall think best as to my lands on Sinking Waters my will is that if they are obtained it should be sold and Wqually divided amongst my last Set of Children and I do appoint my dear & loveing wife with John Sappington and John Harris to execute that part of my will that respects my wife and her Children as witnefs my hand & seal this twentyeth day of February one thousand seven hundred and ninety four. Witnefs-Hartly Sappington Christopher Harrifs Rich’d Sappington Joseph Wells At a Court held for Madison County on Tuesday the 15th day of March 1794 This Will was proved to be the last will & testament of Christopher Harris by the oath of Joseph Wells, Hartly & Richard Sappington witnefses thereto and ordered to be recorded. Teste Will Irvine CMC Typed as spelled in will.
Captain during Revolutionary War.
Owned land on the Otter River in Bedford Co., VA, which he sold in 1759, having moved to Craven District (now Fairfield Co.) SC. In SC, Clement received four land grants totaling 550 acres between 1765 and 1773. In 1787 he sold his SC land and moved to KY, settled in Madison Co. (on tax list of April 27, 1789).
529. Mary Fox
Title: Bible Records of Fairfield County, South Carolina Author: Richard Winn Chapter NSDAR Publication: Jenkinsville, SC, about 1954 Page: pp. 64-65 Note: Reference from research of Stephen M. Lawson: Source gives vital dates for 12 children, but no death date for Mary and her brother Jonathan. 2 Title: Internet Note: / FOX Bible record gives exact birth date of Mary Fox. Copy of transcription is included above to aid researchers who seek a link with the FOX family of Dutch Fork area, SC. Source of Bible Record, Elda Bailey, on Dutch Fork Chapter SC-GS website: Text: David Fox Bible Record From the records of [Dutch Fork GS] chapter member Elda Bailey
536. Joseph Thames
Deed of gift from Martha's father John Newberry to his sons-in-law Joseph Thames and Peter Lord, Cumberland Co. Deed Book 1, pg. 358. 19 Aug 1760. Joseph and Martha sold it in 1761, DB 1, pg. 455.
537. Martha Elizabeth Newberry
Widow in 1781. Apears on Baden Co., NC tax exempt list of 1781. Made her will 11 Feb 1814, recorded June 1815.
Captain George Tigner was "Skipper of a Schooner," owning a line of schooners plying between Baltimore and Liverpool. Durng the Revolutionary War, the British confiscated the ships.
George moved to Acomac County, Virginia, and engaged in farming until his death.
586. Colonel Hugh Hall
Revolutionary War Colonel.
590. William Henry Benson
William Henry Benson and family moved from Virginia to Fairforest Creek in Spartanburg Co., SC abt. 1772. Besides farming, he operated a mercantile business known as "Cleveland and Benson." Estate papers are on file in Box 4, Pk, 19, Probate Judge's office in Spartanburg. He received land grant in 1784-86 in 96th District.
Notes for CHRISTOPHER CHOATE Christopher married Prudence who was a Cherokee Indian. He recieved land upon the death of his brother Austin also know as Augustine. He and the other brothers moved to Lundenburg- - later as Pittsylvania Co., VA about 1745 where his Uncle Edward and sons joined them about 1754. They were apparently very prolific tribe and began populating that county and on East into what is now East Tennesee until it became diffcult to distinguish the same names handed down by different ones.
From a Choate website:
Prudence STALEY was born about 1730 in Unknown. She died unknown in Unknown. Individual Note: She was a full-blood Cherokee Indian.
601. Prudence Staley?
From a Choate website:
Prudence was born about 1730 in Unknown. She died unknown in Unknown. Individual Note: She was a full-blood Cherokee Indian.ID: I64907586 Name: Prudence UNKNOWN Given Name: Prudence Surname: UNKNOWN Sex: F Birth: in Cherokee Nation
Note: Numerous Choate researchers indicate that Prudence was a full blood Cherokee Indian.
624. David Copeland (Coupland)
Moved through Virginia to Orange Co., NC where he bought 287 acres on Buck Creek for one hundred and twenty pounds sterling.
630. Thomas Gibbons
He was born in York County, VA 10/30/1734, and removed in 1746 with his family to south of the Blackwater River in what was at that time Surry County, later Sussex.
In 1778 they moved to Holson County, to Big Creek in what is now Hawkins Co., TN.
In 1785 the State of Franklin organized Spencer County, including, besides other territory, the present Hawkins County. In November, 1786, the Legislature of NC passed an act creating Hawkins County. It included within its limits all the territory between Bays Mountain and the Holston and Tennessee Rivers on the east to the Cumberland Mountains on the west.
The Act of the North Carolina Assembly, 6 Jan. 1787, establishing Hawkins County directed that the first court be held at his house, and appointed him as one of three commissioners to build the court house, prison and stocks. The county court was organized at the house of Thomas Gibbons, but as the early records were destroyed during the Civil War nothing is known of its transactions.Thomas Gibbons is on the DAR Patriot's Roll, a soldier from North Carolina (later Tennessee).Thomas Gibbons was in the Rev War from Tenn. Territory which later became Hawkins Co. This part of Tenn. was at one time part of NC and therefore Thomas was a soldier in the Rev. War from NC. He was a captain in the Hawkins Co. Militia and in service during the Great Indian uprising in 1795.
Thomas received three NC land grants in Tenn. for Rev. War Service: Warrant # 1244 for 640 acres in Sullivan Co., on N. Side of the Holston River in Stanley Valley. Warrant # 2577 for 300 acres (1788) on both sides of Big Creek, Carter's Valley, Hawkins Co. (The family lived here) Warrant # 2590 for 300 acres in Carter's Valley on east side of Big Creek NOTE: No one knows for sure where Thomas is buried. It is assumed that he is buried on the farm. Historical Southern Families, Vol XVII, Edited by Mrs. John Bennett Boddie, Genealogical Pub. Co. Inc. Baltimore 1972
According to the book Tennessee Cousins- pg 197-Thomas Gibbons, Sr . was born and raised in old Albermarle Parish, in Surrey Co., VA. He married Anne Eppes, the daughter of Col. Edward Eppes, who settled in the upper parts of Knox Co., near the line of Grainger and later Claiborne Co. This Thomas Gibbons, Sr. was the father of the Thomas Gibbons who was on the first Grand jury.
The Albermarle Parish Register kept by Rev. William Wylie, the Rector, in those old days, shows the children of Thomas and Anne Eppes Gibbons.
Will of Thomas Gibbons- Secondary source: Vivian Travis of NC 4/99 The State of Tennessee Page 205 County of Hawkins June 13 1809
In the name of God Amen, I, Thomas Gibbons of the County of Hawkins and the State of Tennessee, being weak in body, but of sound and perfect mind and memory, blessed be almighty god, do make and publish this my last will and testament in manner and form following (that is to say)
It is my will that all my children, Thomas Gibbons, Nancy Hoard, Betsy Chisolm, Edward Gibbons, William Gibbons, Sallie Gillinwater, and Epps Gibbons, and a childs shard to be dqually divided between my grandchildren, Nancy Shaw, Garrett Fitzgerald, and Elizabeth Babb, children of my daughter, Molly Fitzgerald. I further bequeath to my son, Edward Gibbons, two hundred pounds in lieu of land, over and above his share. I also give and bequeath to my daughter, Rebecca Bell, one dollar. I also give and bequeath to my son, John Gibbons, one dollar. I also give the heirs of my son, James Gibbons, one dollar, they having already received their share of my estate. I hereby appoint my son-in-law, William Hoard, and my son, Edward Gibbons, my executors of this my last will and testament, hereby revoking all former wills by me made.
In witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand and seal, this 13th day of June AD 1809. His /s/ Thomas X. Gibbons (seal) mark
Signed, sealed, published and declared by the above named, Thomas Gibbons, to be his last will and testament in the presence of us who at his request and in his presence have hereunto subscribed names as witnesses to the same.
/s/ Tom Stryker (Spyker) ? /s/ John Starnes (Jurat) /s/ Joel Gillenwaters (Jurat)
631. Ann Eppes
The first mention of Albemarle Parish Register was the recording of the deaths of Daniel Eppes and his wife, Mary, 1735 and 1753 and the recording of all of Edward Eppes children, including Ann Eppes Gibbons and her six oldest children. The last five were born in Hawkins County, TN, where they were real pioneers.
Anne Eppes was the daughter of Edward Eppes and Mary Anderson. The birth of Anne Eppes is recorded in the Albemarle Parish Register. She was born on 09/15/1743 and was christened on 01/08/1743/4 with godparents Richard Avery, Arthur, Freeman, and Eliza Bell.
She lived with her husband in Sussex County from 1762 to 1774. Where they resided throughout the period of the American Revolution is not known. In 1787 the first court of Hawkins County, North Carolina (later Tennessee) was held in his home. Here the family resided until the death of Thomas Gibbons in 1809. Anne is not mentioned in the will of her husband, it is therefore presumed that she predeceased him.
644. Philemon Yancey
Drafted to serve in the Revolutionary War for 18 months under the act of the Virginia Legislature of May 1779. Then his son Philemon entered the service as a substitute for his father.