Samuel B. Gentry

	Volume 1 Issue 4

April, 2001

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NICHOLAS GENTRY, IMMIGRANT

PART 3. PARISH RECORDS AS A MEANS OF IDENTIFYING CHILDREN

By

Willard Gentry

Revised

Abstract

St. Peter's and St. Paul's Parish records provide virtually the only information concerning the composition of Nicholas Gentry's family. Baptismal records from St. Peter's Parish Register and vestry records from St. Paul's Parish provide identification for daughters Elizabeth and Mabel and son Nicholas, and evidence for the existence of sons Joseph, Samuel and James. Five grandchildren, sons of Joseph and James, are also proposed as well as a third daughter, Mary. The proposal by some that daughter Elizabeth married James Haggard is discussed and rejected.

Introduction

In the two previous articles of this series, and in the article about Nicholas Gentry by Denny Ellerman, it has been obvious that specific references to the immigrant Nicholas in Colonial Virginia are extremely limited. The situation with his children ranges from virtually non-existent to comparatively plentiful. In this article, we shall summarize the process of identifying those children

St. Peter's Parish Register

Only three of Nicholas' children are documented as his, specifically in the baptismal record found in the Register of St. Peter's Parish, New Kent County, Virginia<1>. A daughter, Elizabeth, was baptized 29 Aug 1689, a son Nicholas was baptized 30 May 1697, and a daughter "Mabell" was baptized 13 Dec 1702. (There is some confusion concerning the baptismal date of Elizabeth, since in "The Gentry Family in America" (GFA, p.32)<2>, the year is given as 1687. (This is a typographical error, as both the transcription of the Register by C. G. Chamberlayne, and an earlier transcription by the Colonial Dames of America<3> give the year as 1689.) As to the rest of Nicholas' children, we must use deductive reasoning based almost exclusively on evidence found in the Vestry Book of St. Paul's Parish (successor parish to St. Peter's).

St. Paul's Parish Vestry Book Early Records

A total of three references to Nicholas Sr. are found in the St. Peter's Parish Vestry Book between 1689 and the year 1704 when the parish was divided in two. At that time, a new St. Paul's Parish was formed which encompassed the upriver (western) half of the original parish (see discussion and map in Part I of this series). Nicholas was living in the territory of the new St. Paul's Parish along Totopotomoy Creek. (Today this creek runs for a distance of some 15 to 20 miles in a rather pronounced valley from west to east through the outskirts of the city of Richmond). The succeeding parish records for the Gentry family are found in this parish<4>. Four more records concerning Nicholas are found in the St. Paul's records, all dated 1709. All of these records have been summarized in the article by Denny Ellerman (JGG, vol 1, issue 1), and will not be repeated here with the exception of two.

On March 14, 1708/9, Nicholas Gentry, and a Joseph Gentry are ordered to assist in repairing and maintaining a road, and on the same date "Nich'o Gentry" and "Jo Gentry" were identified as members of parish precinct #13. We then have no further mention of any Nicholas Gentry until 1719, when a processioning return to the vestry (see Part I of this series for a review of the practice of "processioning"), identified this Nicholas as occupying land which related evidence shows to be located in the vicinity of Stone Horse Creek. This was at the opposite end of the parish from the Totopotomoy Creek homestead of Nicholas the Immigrant. The logical supposition is that Nicholas Sr died sometime after 1709, and the other Nicholas was his son, Nicholas Jr (the same one listed in St. Peter's Parish Register).

The Joseph Gentry mentioned above, continued to be included in vestry records from 1709 until 1743 in which year he was identified as "Joseph Gentry Sr.". A later reference to Joseph Gentry in 1751 is not specifically identified as Joseph Sr or Joseph Jr, and so could apply to either one. (Note. In that time and place, the term Senior and Junior did not necessarily imply father-son relationship, only that one was older than the other, although usually there was some relationship between them. Accordingly, from this evidence alone, one cannot conclude that because Joseph was referred to as "Senior", he necessarily had a son also named Joseph.)

These references to the senior Joseph include the two mentioned above when he was listed with Nicholas, and also four references between 1720 and 1743 in which Joseph was assigned vestry responsibilities. In addition, Joseph was included in processioning reports in 1712, 1716, 1720, 1731, 1735, 1739, and 1751, in all of which the precinct identification and names of neighbors appear to indicate that he never left the Totopotomoy Creek area. The initial reference in 1709 leads one to assume that Joseph was of age then, so must have been born by at least 1688.

We can conclude then that Joseph was a son of Nicholas, and based upon the age of Nicholas' oldest daughter, and Joseph's own apparent age, he was the eldest of Nicholas' children. Since there were no further references to Nicholas in the following years in which Joseph appears in the record, namely 1712 and 1716, one can also conclude that Nicholas probably died some time in the interval between 1709 and 1712.

Samuel Gentry and Nicholas Gentry Jr

The next appearance of a Gentry other than Nicholas Sr. and Joseph in the vestry records was in 1716 in which "... [Tithables from Golden Mine Creek, to Stony Run, ordered to] ... assist Sam'l Gentry in Clearing a road, from Stone Horse Creek to Stony Run". At the same vestry meeting, another group of tithables was charged with clearing a road downriver from Stony Run (a creek running south into the Chickahominy River, but lying in St. Paul's Parish), We conclude that the job of clearing this new road was divided in half, and that the first group, upriver from Stony Run, were residents of that part of the parish (Stone Horse Creek was effectively the farthest west boundary of St. Paul's Parish). The accompanying map will help to identify the various areas of the parish.

St. Paul's Parish and Environs, Hanover County, Virginia (1704-1779)

In 1719, Samuel was included in a processioning report along with Nicholas Gentry, in a precinct that was separate from that for Joseph Gentry in the same year, and presumably the same Stone Horse Creek precinct. Samuel was included in further processioning reports in 1731, 1739, and 1743, but in still another precinct, one different from Nicholas. In that same interval, Samuel received two grants of land in 1723 and 1724 along and south of the South Anna River in the vicinity of Beech Creek<5> (Beech Creek is the next tributary of the South Anna River downriver from Stone Horse Creek).

Besides his appearance in 1719, Nicholas [Jr] was included in the next succeeding St. Paul's Parish processioning return of 1731 (as mentioned above, in a precinct separate from Samuel). He was also named in an order in 1735 to assist (along with others), in clearing a road for which Samuel was the "Surveyor" or responsible individual. Beginning in 1739, and continuing in 1743, 1755, 1763, and 1767, Nicholas was named in the processioning report for this same precinct, which can be clearly identified as lying between Stone Horse Creek and Beech Creek<6>. (There is a problem with these latter references which does not affect our present use of the parish records and which will be addressed at a future time.)

Samuel and Nicholas Gentry have both been documented rather extensively in other early Virginia references and genealogical compilations. Nicholas in particular is the primary focus of "The Gentry Family in America" which contains extensive descriptions of his line of descendants. At some time later, there will be separate articles in this journal devoted to each of them. But these present references in the St. Paul's Parish records certainly indicate strongly that Samuel, as well as Nicholas, were sons of Nicholas Sr. Moreover, the evidence clearly suggests that Samuel was the older of the two, with a date of birth undoubtedly between that of their sister Elizabeth, and that of Nicholas. With that, we will leave these two, and go on to discuss the other Gentrys included in the parish records.

William Gentry and James Gentry

In 1732, and again in 1735, there are brief references to a William Gentry who was ordered to assist in road maintenance. The reference in 1732, further, includes Joseph Gentry in the same order. This is the first Gentry to be mentioned after the earlier references to Joseph, Samuel, and Nicholas Jr. The timing of this reference suggests that William was a son of Joseph. William almost certainly must have been of age in 1732, which indicates that he was born in 1711 or earlier. William was not included with Joseph in the processioning report of 1731, but that shows nothing of his age, since he was apparently not occupying land separate from his father at the time. William has no further references in any Virginia records, and we have no positive clue as to what may have become of him.

[Editor's Note. The text and some of the conclusions in the following paragraph and related material later in the article have been revised from that included in the original publication of this article - June 2008.]

We know from other information that Nicholas Jr moved away from St. Paul's Parish by 1736, and Samuel had moved by 1742. Accordingly, the next appearance of a new Gentry name, that of James in 1751, at first glance suggests that here was another son of Joseph. There were processioning returns that included James in 1751, 1759 and 1763. In 1756, there was also a reference to a suit in Hanover County Court in which James testified in a processioning land dispute. (The original court record is missing but an account of the suit is reported in the St. Paul's Vestry Book records). Beginning in 1767, and again in 1771 and in 1779, processioning returns involving James refer to "James Gentry heirs" or "James Gentry dec'd". What can we conclude from James' relatively late appearance in processioning records (compared to references to William), and which appear only a dozen or so years before his death? In estimating the age of James, other evidence suggests he had several sons including James Gentry Jr., George Gentry, David Gentry and William Gentry. George Gentry had a Revolutionary War veteran son, also named James, who was reportedly born in 1757. With a grandson of this age, the elder James must have been born before 1710. His absence from vestry records before 1743 suggests that he left home at a relatively early age well before William is thought to have done the same. What may have happened to him is discussed in considerable detail in later articles in the Journal of Gentry Genealogy. For now, it will be sufficient to say that most evidence suggests that James was a younger son of Nicholas-I, rather than a son of Joseph.

[An editorial note: This James is undoubtedly the Gentry by that name listed as #184 in GFA (p.242) with a proposed date of birth of 1710.]

Joseph Gentry Jr.

We turn now to references to a younger Joseph. The reference to Joseph Gentry in 1751 is ambiguous, was this the Joseph Gentry Sr. of 1743, or was it a Joseph Jr. The next references to Joseph skip the processioning records of 1755 and 1756, and jump to 1759 and 1763 when a Joseph Gentry is included in a processioning precinct with James Gentry. Joseph is included further in returns of 1767, 1771, and 1779. The other people, besides James, named in the 1759 and 1763 returns, are generally the same as those included with James in 1751, and different from the separate precinct cited in that year for Joseph. My conclusion is that the earlier reference is to Joseph Sr., and the later ones are to Joseph Jr., leading to the conclusion that Joseph Sr. died between 1751 and 1755. If we estimate birth at about 1684, this would place Joseph's age at death at about 70 --a reasonable conclusion.

Despite two references in 1764 and 1765 to "Joseph Gentry Jun'r" in which he was awarded vestry funds for the care of a George Cawthon, this is probably just a continuation of an earlier custom and did not necessarily mean that there was still a Joseph Sr. alive. The need to identify a Joseph Sr. in 1743, suggests that Joseph Jr. was of age by that time and it was necessary or convenient to differentiate between the two Joseph's. This would indicate that Joseph Jr. was probably born at least by 1722, and perhaps two to four years earlier. We can conclude from this date of birth that this Joseph could not have been a son of either William or James, and we believe from other evidence that he was not a son of Samuel or Nicholas Jr. Consequently he must have been a younger son of Joseph Sr.

David Gentry, William Gentry (the Younger), and George Gentry

The only Gentrys included in the St. Paul's Parish records other than those already mentioned, appear late in the sequence of vestry records. In 1767, there is a processioning reference to "James Gentry heirs", "Jo. Gentry", and David Gentry in the same precinct. In 1771, there is a reference to "James Gentry's heirs", William Gentry, and Joseph Gentry in the same precinct as 1767, and to a George Gentry in the far western precinct adjoining Stone Horse Creek. In 1775, David Gentry was appointed to oversee a different precinct. In 1779, "James Gentry's heirs", Wm. Gentry, and Jo's Gentry were in one precinct, David Gentry was in a different one and George was listed again at Stone Horse Creek. These three Gentrys deserve more consideration in detail, and will be deferred to later articles devoted to Joseph's and James' family.

Summary of Gentrys Listed in St. Paul's Parish Vestry Book

The vestry book references to Gentrys, limited though they may be, are sufficient to give us the names of families who were present in the parish and clues as to their geographical location in the parish. Based upon the dates of occurrence of these references, we can make informed judgments as to the possible relationships between the families and the order of birth of children. Furthermore they are the only known references to either Joseph Sr. or his son William. Briefly, the records show the presence of the following individuals, whose proposed relationship to each other is indicated.

1704-1709 Nicholas (Sr)

1709-1751 - - Joseph (Sr) Son of Nicholas (born perhaps abt.1684)

    1732-1735    - - - - William        Son of Joseph (born perhaps abt.1710)

    1759-1779    - - - - Joseph (Jr)   Son of Joseph (born perhaps abt.1718)

1716-1743 - - Samuel Son of Nicholas (born abt.1691)

1719-1735 - - Nicholas (Jr) Son of Nicholas (born 1697)

    (plus references 1739-1767 when Nicholas Jr presumably was not present)

    (This is the same individual as recorded in St. Peter's Parish Register,

     baptized 30 May 1697)

1751-1763 - - - - James Son of Nicholas (born perhaps abt.1705)

    (and 1767-1779, references to "James Gentry heirs" or "James Gentry decd")

    1767-1779, David, George, and William (the younger) listed and not discussed

   here, assumed to be children of James.

Daughters of Nicholas Sr

For the sake of completeness of discussion of Nicholas' family, we will briefly touch on his daughters, although they do not appear in any records in this capacity other than Elizabeth and Mabel's baptisms in the St. Peter's Parish Register. One other daughter in addition to these two, has been suggested. This is Mary, who married John Spradling. Mary was appointed administrator of John's estate in 1733<6>, and both Nicholas and Samuel Gentry posted bond for Mary. Nicholas was a neighbor of the Spradling family at the time, so could have been serving as security simply as a neighbor. However, Samuel had moved from the immediate area before 1731, so would not necessarily have been expected to serve as security just for neighborly reasons. If indeed Mary was a daughter of Nicholas, we have no idea as to her place in the order of his children, but she might most logically fit between Samuel, born about 1691, and Nicholas, born 1697. Mary's name appears repeatedly in the St. Paul's Parish records, but of course as "Mary Spradling". She was paid by the vestry year after year from 1750 to 1765 to care for a Thomas Snead, probably an incompetent or incapacitated member of the parish who could not care for himself. On another occasion she was paid for caring 6 months for "Widow Cawthon with a cancer".

The two confirmed daughters of Nicholas figure in a controversy concerning whether or not either or both were married to a James Haggard. Members of both the Haggard family, and also Gentry family members, have suggested that Elizabeth was the wife of James Haggard, founder of the Haggard family in America. The sometimes fanciful tale of James is given in a book by one of his descendants,<7> with the story of his marriage to a student of his (he was a teacher at the time), but no name of this wife is given in the original book. Inasmuch as James was said to be living in Norfolk County then, on the coast far from New Kent County, the likelihood of Elizabeth ever coming into contact with him is very slight. What is more likely is a misplacement of Elizabeths. To make it easier to identify the different Elizabeths, I will number them according to their generation in the Gentry family, Nicholas' daughter being Elizabeth-II. This Elizabeth had a niece, Elizabeth-III (daughter of Nicholas Jr), who married Nathaniel Haggard, a descendant (son?) of James, after Nathaniel moved to what later became Louisa County. To complicate matters further, Nathaniel and Elizabeth's son, Rev. James Haggard married his first cousin, Elizabeth-IV (a daughter of Moses Gentry who was a son of Nicholas Jr, and brother of Elizabeth-III). WHEW! With such chances for confusion, it is no wonder that one or the other of these Elizabeths has been mistaken for the proposed wife of the immigrant James. Not only Elizabeth, but also Mabel has been suggested as a wife of James, with even less justification, and appears to be one of the many fabrications connected with family members trying to complete a family tree long after the fact.

References

1. "The Vestry Book and Register of St. Peter's Parish, New Kent and James City Counties, 1684-1786", transcribed and edited by C.G. Chamberlayne, published by The Library Board, Richmond, VA, 1937.

[Previous edition: "The Parish Register of St. Peter's, New Kent County, VA from 1680 to 1787, transcribed by National Society of the Colonial Dames of America in the State of Virginia, 1904.]

2. "The Gentry Family in America, 1676 to 1909", by Richard Gentry, The Grafton Press, New York, NY, 1909. [It will be standard practice in this journal to refer to this book as GFA.]

3. "The Vestry Book of St. Paul's Parish, Hanover County, VA, 1706-1786", transcribed and edited by C.G. Chamberlayne, published by The Library Board, Richmond, VA, 1940, reprinted 1973.

4. "Cavaliers and Pioneers, Abstracts of Virginia Land Patents and Grants, Vol III (1695-1732), abstracted by Nell Marion Nugent, published by Virginia State Library, Richmond, VA, 1979

p.260 (20 Feb 1723), Samuel Gentry, 400 acs Hanover Co., on N. side the South Anna (Riv);

p.277 (22 Feb 1724), Samuel Gentry, 196 acs Hanover Co., on both sides of Beech Cr.

5. St. Paul's Vestry Book, for 31 Mar 1756, [Continuation of report for Princinct 6] "In compliance with the within Order, we have procession'd all the Lands beginning at the Mouth of Beech Creek, and up the [South Anna] River to the mouth of Stonehorse Creek, and up the Creek to the main Road, and down the road to the head of Beech Creek, and down the Said Creek to the mouth".

6. "Hanover County, Virginia, Court Records 1733-1735: Deeds, Wills, and Inventories", transcribed by Rosalie Edith Davis, (1 Mar 1733) "Nicholas and Samuel Gentry post £100 bond with Mary Spradlin [/Spradling], administrator of the estate of John Spradlin".

7. "The History of the Haggard Family in England and America, 1433-1899", by David Dawson Haggard, published 1899. This book relates how James Haggard, claimed by David Haggard to be the son of an English lord, was tricked into indentured service which resulted in him becoming a school teacher in Norfolk County. "Among his pupils was a young lady of good appearance who pleased James and whom James pleased. They, knowing they could not marry in the Colonies, because James was not a free man, agreed and ran away together, going to North Carolina, where they were married. After a few years they went back to Virginia." (This marriage has been variously dated as 1703 or abt.1707.)

Revised June 2008

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JOURNAL OF GENTRY GENEALOGY

Volume 1 Issue 7

July, 2001

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SONS OF NICHOLAS GENTRY, IMMIGRANT

Part 1. Samuel-II Gentry and Family

By Willard Gentry

Revised 2008

Abstract

All known references to Samuel Gentry, son of the immigrant Nicholas Gentry, are reviewed in detail, and arguments are advanced for the identification of Samuel's children. In a revision of this article as originally written, any discussion of David Gentry has been posponed to a later time because the author now believes him to be a son of Nicholas Gentry, rather than a son of Samuel. The coverage of Samuel's children begins with Samuel's daughter, Ann, in this article. The remaining children will be described in the next succeeding Journal article.

Introduction

It will be recalled from previous articles in this Journal that Nicholas Gentry immigrated to New Kent County, Virginia some time before 1680, and established a home in the vicinity of Totopotomoy Creek, a tributary of the Pamunkey River. While the baptism of his youngest son, Nicholas-II was recorded in the St. Peter's Parish Register in 1697, the identity of his two older sons, Joseph-II, and Samuel-II (the suffix "-II" is being used as an indicator of the generation within the Gentry family descent) can only be inferred from contemporary records. Joseph is documented in (and only in) St. Paul's Parish Vestry records. Samuel's record is found in a variety of colonial Virginia documents. Nowhere is he specifically identified as a son of Nicholas-I, but the accumulated evidence is overwhelmingly in favor of this assertion. Surprisingly, he is not identified as such in Richard Gentry's compilation, "The Gentry in America" (GFA) and his name is only mentioned briefly in passing, although many of his descendants are included in a section entitled "Other Gentrys".

This article is the first of three parts which will review in detail all the available documentary evidence relating to Joseph, Samuel and Nicholas-II. Rather than treat these in chronological order of age it will be more convenient to review Samuel and Nicholas first. The extremely limited information concerning Joseph will then be supplemented with what little is known about Gentrys of early Hanover and Louisa Counties, Virginia who are "orphans" - not clearly identified in their relationship. Some of these were almost certainly descendants of Joseph, others were desdendants of James Gentry, a younger brother of Joseph. The following then is a comprehensive review of all of the information that is known to this writer concerning Samuel and David, and a discussion of the arguments for the identification of his children. Because of the length of the material covered, the article has been split into two halves and is being published in two separate installments.

Samuel-II Gentry

   - Born about 1692, in the vicinity of Totopotomoy Creek, New Kent Co. (later Hanover Co.), Virginia.

   - Married about 1715 to Ann (maiden name unknown but may be Allen).

   - Samuel died perhaps shortly after 1779, probably in Caswell Co. (later Person Co.), North Carolina at the home of his son Allen.

Samuel's name is found in the St. Paul's vestry records for the first time in 1716(1a) at which time it appears he was living at the far western end of St. Paul's Parish in the vicinity of Stone Horse Creek. This was about 30 miles upstream from Totopotomoy Creek, as the crow flies, along the Pamunkey River, and probably half again that distance if traveling along the river. The 1716 reference for Samuel was one in which he was in charge of building a road. We can use this as a rough measure to estimate his age at the time--certainly he would be over twenty-one, and probably several years older than that in order to have this responsibility. This would place the latest year for his birth as 1695. We know that his sister Elizabeth was christened in 1689, and that their parents did not appear to have a large number of closely-spaced children. An approximate year of birth in 1692 seems reasonable for Samuel.

Based on the limited information available, we can infer some of the details of Samuel's life from the time he left his father's home along Totopotomoy Creek until he moved away from Dirty Swamp in Louisa County. Samuel must have moved initially about 1713, probably shortly after marrying, wanting to establish a new home for his family. He was undoubtedly attracted by the availability of new land at the far end of the parish along Stone Horse Creek, which was essentially the limit of settlement at that time, The road from Stone Horse Creek to Stony Run to which reference is made in the parish records was presumably a new land route from the west end of the parish which would link up with established roads in lower St. Paul's Parish, and minimize the need for river travel from one end of the parish to the other. This is probably the same road mentioned in 1756 as one boundary of the precinct in which Samuel (and then later Nicholas-II) was located in 1716(1g). What may be the same road, exists to this day as a country road that passes the upper ends of Stone Horse Creek and Beech Creek and then crosses Stony Run.

Map of Louisa and Hanover Counties

Figure 1. Hanover and Louisa Counties, 1742

Samuel's brother, Nicholas-II, also left his father's home and came to the Stone Horse Creek precinct to join Samuel sometime between 1716 and 1719 (when the latter's name is first mentioned in the parish records), at which time Nicholas would have been between 19 and 22 years old. Nicholas may have lived first with his brother, but by 1719 he apparently was living on land of his own, and had presumably married. Whereas Nicholas remained in that same precinct for some 15 or more years, Samuel obtained new land not far away in 1723 and 1724(2a,b). Since he was not included in the processioning report for the original precinct when next it was filed in 1731, Samuel presumably either sold his first land, or he may have turned it over to Nicholas. (Recall that colonial land office grant documents have been preserved for Hanover County, but subsequent county deeds for the sale or purchase of those land have all been lost.) The succeeding processioning reports which continued at intervals until 1743(1b-f) show Nicholas and Samuel living in separate precincts. This reflected Samuel's presence on his land along Beech Creek (the land he owned on the north side of the South Anna River was a part of St. Martin's Parish and thus would not be included in St. Paul's Parish records). A collateral piece of evidence shows the presence of a Gentry, undoubtedly Samuel, living on the east side of Beech Creek in 1734(2c). One further reference to Samuel in Hanover County was in 1733 when he and his brother Nicholas served as surety for Mary Spradling who was appointed executor of the estate of her husband John Spradling(3). This has been interpreted as suggesting that Mary was a sister of Samuel and Nicholas, born perhaps in the interval between the two.

In 1742, Samuel was granted land upriver along the South Anna River along a creek by the name of Dirty Swamp in an area that became Louisa County(2d). Samuel would necessarily have moved to his new property in order to consummate the grant by working the land. This was some 30 miles or so farther upstream along the South Anna River from where he previously lived. Louisa County was a brand-new county at that time, having been split off from Hanover County in 1742. Samuel's grant adjoined his brother Nicholas who had preceded him to Dirty Swamp in 1736. A portion of this land, Samuel obtained from Richard Brooks Jr., the father-in-law of David and Nicholas Gentry. The remainder was new land, never before granted. A series of six deeds relating to the eventual disposition of this land are recorded in Samuel's name in Louisa County deed books during the period from 1747 to 1762(5a-f). At the end of this time he had sold or given away all of his Louisa County land and had moved to Lunenburg County, following his family (as well as the Brooks family) to fresh settlements along the Meherrin River. In addition to the deeds, the only other Louisa County references to Samuel are two of a minor "housekeeping" nature in the records for Fredericksville Parish, the new parish to which he had moved(4).

Samuel moved to Lunenburg County between 1753 (when he sold land to John Gilbert while still in Louisa County) and 1755 (when as a resident of Lunenburg County he served as an appraisor of Richard Brooks' estate in that county(6a). Two deeds were recorded in Louisa County in 1757 and 1762 in which Samuel was identified as "of Lunenburg Co"(5e,f). No references to him are found in the records of Cumberland Parish, which served Lunenburg County. The only reference to Samuel in addition to these three that places him in Lunenburg County, is found in an order of the County Court in which a Joseph Gentry, orphan son of John Gentry, was bound to Samuel in 1761(6b) (see discussion below concerning Samuel's children). However, there are many references throughout the Lunenburg records to Samuel's children beginning in 1748 and continuing to 1772.

The lack of any deed references to Samuel after 1762 is surely a case of Samuel (now over seventy) living during that time of his life with one of his children rather than on land of his own. Two references for a Samuel Gentry in Caswell County, North Carolina(7), suggest that Samuel spent the last years of his life with his son Allen, and died soon after 1779 in Caswell County, in an area that later became Person County.

As for Samuel's wife, other than her name Ann, there is no information concerning her birth, her death, nor her family. Given the relatively large number of Allens among Samuel's descendants (beginning with one son and three grandsons), a name that is not found among the descendants of Samuel's two brothers, one can speculate that "Allen" came from Ann's family. Ann may have been a daughter of Richard Allen of Hanover County, and a sister or aunt of David Allen and William Allen whose names are found along with Gentrys in Lunenburg and Halifax County records in Virginia, and in Johnston County records in North Carolina.

Samuel Gentry's Children

(The order of children listed below is uncertain. All were born in what became Hanover Co. after 1720. All were probably born in the vicinity of Stone Horse and Beech Creeks along the South Anna River.. Birth dates are very rough approximations and are so uncertain, they are omitted in a number of cases.)

   * [David] [Originally included as a son of Samuel, now in the revised version of this article, he is proposed as a brother of Samuel rather than a son.]

   * Nicholas born about 1717

   * Joseph born about 1720

   * Allen born about 1722

   * [tentative] Nathaniel

   * Simon born about 1726

   * Ann born about 1725; married about 1750, Louisa Co. to French Haggard.

   * John

   * Richard born about 1731

   * William born about 1734

   * Samuel born about 1737

The older sons, and daughter Ann, are probably correct in their order of birth, and their dates of birth are probably reasonably correct. Only four of Samuel's sons are mentioned in "Gentry Family in America", and he is not listed at all.

   [Note. The GFA references are for Joseph (#204, p.254), Allen (#205, p.255-257, which includes the text of Allen's will), Richard (#202, p.254), and William (listed under the name of James Gentry, #219, p.263-265). Allen is listed as "Allen A.", but there is no evidence of any middle name or initial for him, rather his mark, "A" when signing documents, has been confused for a middle initial. The listing for William/James is a composite of partial facts for each of these individuals - the William who married Lucy Claiborne and lived in Surry County, North Carolina, and the James Gentry who married Sarah Dickerson and died in Guilford County, North Carolina, 1783, leaving a will. The children in the article are those for William.]

Ann Gentry

The only one of Samuel's children identified specifically in contemporary documents was his daughter Ann, in a Louisa County deed dated 1750 in which Samuel gave 88 acres of his Dirty Swamp land grant to French Haggard, "for paternal affection to said French Haggard, my son-in-law"(5b). This property was sold by "French Haggard & Ann his wife" in August 1757(9b). The 1750 gift by Samuel was probably on the occasion of their marriage. In December of 1757, the same year they sold their Louisa County property, French and Ann purchased 100 acres of land on Flat Rock Creek in Lunenburg County adjoining David and Hezekiah Gentry(10a). French appeared several times in subsequent Lunenburg County references. In 1762, they cut back on their property and sold half of it, then in 1772, French and Ann sold the remainder of their Lunenburg land(10b,c). Their later movements are not known to this writer.

   [Note. While outside the scope of this article, French is believed to have been a son of Richard Haggard who appears in other Gentry deed references in both Louisa and Lunenburg Counties, and who had a daughter, Hannah Ann Hight, to whom Richard gave land in Lunenburg County in 1767. Richard Haggard had moved to Bute County, North Carolina by 1777 when he sold the last of his Lunenburg land. According to Haggard family sources, Richard was a brother of the Nathaniel Haggard [was it French who was the brother not Richard?] who married Ann's first cousin, Elizabeth Gentry, daughter of Nicholas-II Gentry.]

The Sons of Samuel Gentry

The identification of Samuel's sons depends entirely upon interrelated evidence of varying degrees of persuasion. Before doing so, we can eliminate a number of potential names, especially the Gentrys named in the will of Nicholas-II who thereby are known to be a part of that family, and not a part of Samuel's. Less specific but just as valid, is the elimination of those Gentrys who lived in Hanover County in the period following Samuel's departure in 1742 who are all believed to be related in some way to Samuel and Nicholas' older brother Joseph or their younger brother, James..

Positive evidence for a relationship of individuals with Samuel and with each other include the following:

  1. The individual or individuals in question witnessed deeds for Samuel or for each other under circumstances suggesting a close relationship between the individuals concerned.

  2. The individuals were joint principals in the purchase or sale of land, or in court orders and actions.

  3. Because there is very strong evidence that all of Samuel's sons were at some time residents of Lunenburg County, is there any record of the proposed son in that county.

  4. Evidence of proposed sons having a continued close relationship after leaving Lunenburg County, especially for those who settled in Surry County, North Carolina.

No one of these various types of evidence is conclusive in itself, but taken together, they can provide a strong argument for the proposed relationship. During the period of time Samuel was living in Louisa County, there were few occasions for documents relating him to his children. The gift of land by Richard Brooks in 1743 to his son-in-law, Nicholas Gentry serves to identify the latter's wife. It also gives an estimate of the age of Nicholas(11b), but does nothing to establish any relationship of Nicholas with Samuel. When taken together with the later association of Nicholas with other Gentrys in Lunenburg County, Virginia, and Surry County, North Carolina, their relationship to each other and to Samuel becomes clearer.

A more direct association of Samuel with his family can be found in a deed of sale by Samuel which was witnessed by his sons. In 1762, Samuel, "of Lunenburg Co." signed a deed witnessed by Joseph Gentry, Richard Gentry, and Simon Gentry(5f). This has significance because neither Samuel nor any of the sons (except possibly Richard) were living in Louisa County at the time. The fact that the sons returned with Samuel to witness and participate in the land sale shows more than a casual relationship. An earlier deed, in 1757 in which Samuel Gentry "of Lunenburg Co." signed a deed in Louisa County witnessed by David Gentry(5e), cannot be explained in this way. We argue below that Samuel and David were brothers rathern than father and son. Perhaps we can rationalize this witnessing of a deed as being an occasion, coinciding with French Haggard moving from Louisa to Lunenburg County, when David visited French in Louisa County to make plans for a joint purchase of land in Lunenburg County later that year. Samuel may have taken advantage of the situation to accomplish his own business transaction at the same time.

These instances of witnessing plus the fact that all of these individuals moved to Lunenburg County where Samuel eventually joined them, point strongly to the identification of six of Samuel's children: Nicholas, Joseph, Allen, Simon, Richard and his daughter Ann. All of these are repeatedly documented in Lunenburg County records with joint deeds of sale, witnessing for each other, appearing in court as defendants or plaintiffs in joint suits, and living in adjacent areas. We would add David and his son Hezekiah to this list of Samuel's family if it were not for the difficulty mentioned above. The only exception to any of Samuel's children appearing in Lunenburg records is Nathaniel. It is very difficult to imagine any relationship for Nathaniel except that of a son of Samuel, yet he is not listed in any Virginia records--whether they be for Louisa County or Lunenburg County--although a proposed son of Nathaniel, Richard Gentry, reported in his application for a Revolutionary War pension that he was born in Lunenburg County. A number of these Lunenburg references will be discussed below in brief individual summaries of each of Samuel's children. The case of Nathaniel Gentry is covered in more detail in a later issue of the Gentry Journal of Genealogy.

While Simon broke apart from the others and moved to Cumberland County, Virginia, Nicholas, Joseph, Richard, and two of Allen's children (Meshack and Abednego) went on from Lunenburg County to live in closely-neighboring locations in Surry County, North Carolina. Joining them in Surry County were William Gentry (who is referred to repeatedly in Lunenburg County records with the other Gentrys), and a younger Samuel Gentry. The latter is not included in any Lunenburg records, but there is some fragmentary evidence that he was living with his uncle David both in Lunenburg County and also during a time when David was in Johnston County, North Carolina. Both Samuel Jr. and William then must be considered as candidates for children of Samuel Sr.

Hezekiah Gentry also appears repeatedly in the Lunenburg County records, but there is strong evidence that he was a son of David, not of Samuel. After David's death, in 1766 David's widow Sarah moved with seven of her children, and with her brother Elisha Brooks and father Richard Brooks, to South Carolina, in an area that was later organized as Edgefield District. Hezekiah was not with the family at that time, but later came to join them, and spent the rest of his life with his siblings in South Carolina. Hezekiah was not listed as a tithable in David's household when the latter was included in tax lists in 1749, 1750, and 1752(12), although there is other evidence that he he was older than sixteen at the time, thus liable for a tithe. All we can conclude from this is that this was a time when he was approaching marriage and struck out on his own. More positive evidence lies in the fact that Hezekiah appeared as a witness in county court in 1755 and served on the jury in 1757. In addiion he bought and took title to land in 1757(13b) which would indicate he was well over twenty-one at the time and probably born before about 1732.

In the second half of this article we will be briefly summarizing in turn, each of the Gentry sons we have identified above. To make the Lunenburg references that will follow, more easily understandable, a little background information on that county will be helpful. Lunenburg County was formed in 1746 from Brunswick County, and many of the grants of land there date from just a few years before that time. It was virgin territory at the time the Gentrys moved there compared to the areas of central Virginia that had been settled in a stepwise fashion, working upstream along the York and Pamunkey rivers. Lunenburg initially encompassed ten counties that were eventually organized as separate entities, beginning with a separation from Lunenburg County of an enlarged Halifax County in 1752. Lunenburg attained its present size in 1764 when Mecklenburg County to the south, and Charlotte County to the west, were separated from it.

Figure 2. (left) Lunenburg County as first organized in 1746 and showing divisions of 1752 and 1764; (Right)A portion of Lunenburg County as of 1746 - 1764 showing land grants and watercourses

Lunenburg County is shown in Figure 2 as it existed from 1746 to 1764, and shows the waterways named in various Gentry deed references. As a supplement to the various waterways, the approximate location of seven land grants are indicated on the map. These grants are mentioned a number of times in the text of deeds relating to the Gentrys, Samuel's son-in-law French Haggard, and the closely-related Brooks family. They help to a considerable extent in identifying the locations of various land transfers. It is interesting that all of Samuel's family moved into a small geographical area in Lunenburg County, and that every one of them had left within 25 years. The most obvious explanation is that the land had played out in that length of time, and was not worth staying in the neighborhood. The county today still has the forlorn appearance of an abandoned ghost county, the county courthouse in the town of Lunenburg (which is on the National Register of Historic Places) stands in lonely isolation in the midst of a small rural settlement. Perhaps one of the claims to fame for the courthouse is that it has not been burned or destroyed by passing army forces, thus leaving largely intact its store of county records.

Continuation of Samuel's Children

To publish this account of Samuel Gentry in a convenient length, we will break here. The remainder of the article, in which the other sons of Samuel are briefly discussed in turn, will be published in the next issue of the Journal. We turn now to a discussion of Samuel's brother, David, which has been revised extensively from its first publication in 2001. The revisions do not include any appreciable change in factual content aside from a re-evaluation of David's date of birth, but the conclusions that are presented are appropriate to the proposed change in David's position within the Nicholas Gentry family.

Notes Relating to Samuel Gentry

1. "The Vestry Book of St. Paul's Parish, Hanover County, Va, 1706-1786", transcribed & edited by C. G. Chamberlayne, published by The Library Board [of Virginia], Richmond, 1940, reprinted 1973.

(a) 1716 Sep 22 p.75 [73]: Vestry meeting

 	"In Obedience to the [Order of new Kent County Court] its Ordered that all the Tithables from Golden mine Creek, to Stony run with Mr. Geo. Dabney's Quarter, and Thomas Harris, do assist Sam'l Gentry in Clearing a road, from Stone Horse Creek to Stony Run."

(b) 1719 "8br" [Dec] 10 p.265 [205]: Processioning return.

 	[Precinct 31]: "The lands of ... Nich'o Gentry, ... Sam'l Gentry, of which Mr. Geo. Alves & Nich'o Gentry were Overs'rs; who made this return, the within Order comply'd with ... [signed] Geo. Alves, Nich'o Gentry."

(c) 1731 Oct 29 p.273 [211]: Vestry meeting.

	[Precinct 3]: "Orderd into one precinct for processioning the lands of ... Sam'l Gentry, ...; Michael Holland and Sam'l Gentry to see the same procession'g performd etc. ... [signed] Michael Holland, Sam'l Gentry.

(d) 1735 Oct 18 p.143 [120]: Vestry meeting.

	"Ordered that Sam'l Gentry have the Tithables of ... Nich'o Gentry, ..., to Assist him in Clearing the road, whereof he is Surveyor."

(e) 1739 Sep 11 p.296 [228]: Vestry meeting, lands divided for processioning.

	[Precinct 11: The Lands of ... Sam'l Gentry, ... Mich'l Holland Gent and John Haden appointed to oversee.]

(f) 1743 Nov 18 p.306 [236]: Vestry meeting, lands divided for processioning.

	[Precinct 11: The Lands of ... Sam'l Gentry, ... Mich'l Holland Gent. and John Hayden appointed to oversee.]

(g) 1756 Mar 31 p.343 [271]: [Continuation of processioning of Precinct 6]

	In compliance with the within Order, we have procession'd all the Lands beginning at the Mouth of Beech Creek, and up the River to the mouth of Stonehorse Creek, and up the Creek to the main Road, and down the road to the head of Beech Creek, and down the Said Creek to the mouth...

2. "Cavaliers and Pioneers, Abstracts of Virginia Land Patents and Grants"

"Vol III (1695-1732)", abstracted by Nell Marion Nugent, published by Virginia State Library, Richmond, 1979;

"Vol IV (1732-1741)" and "Vol V (1741-1749), edited. by Denis Hudgins, published by Virginia Genealogical Society, Richmond, 1994;

(a) 1723 Feb 20 Vol III p.260 (Patent Bk 11, p.328):

	"Samuel Gentry, 400 acs (new land) Hanover Co., on N. side the South Anna (Riv), bet. lines of Drumond, Scott & Taylor".

(b) 1724 Feb 22 Vol III p.277 (Patent Bk 12, p.145):

	"Samuel Gentry, 196 acs (new land) Hanover Co., on both sides of Beech Cr.; adj. Mr. Alves cor; William Harris' line; & line of Drummond & Scott".

(c) 1733/34 Jan 18 Vol IV p.28 (Patent Bk 15, p.153)

	"Buckley Kimbrough of Hanover Co., (new land in sd. Co.) on North Fork of Stagg Cr., adj. Drummond, Hudson, Lacey, Holland & Gentry". [N. fork of Stagg Cr. lies within 1/2 to 1 mile east of Beech Cr., indicating this reference must be to Samuel Gentry's land].

(d) 1742 Jul 30 Vol V p.23 (Patent Bk 20, p.347)

	"Samuel Gentry, 700 acs. Hanover Co. on both sides of dirty Sw; adj Clark, Henson & Brooks. 108 acs part formerly gtd Richard Brooks by Pat. 5 [sic] Aug 1731 (Patent Bk 14, p.219, 400 acs to Richard Brooks Junr. dated 15 Aug 1732 [sic]) & by him sold and conveyed unto the sd. Samuel Gentry. The Residue never before gtd."

3. Rosalie Edith Davis, "Hanover County, Virginia, Court Records 1733 - 1735: Deeds, Wills and Inventories"

	1733 Mar 1	p.8

	Nicholas and Samuel Gentry post 100£ bond with Mary Spradlin [Spradling], administrator of the estate of John Spradlin.

4. "Gentry Family Gazette and Genealogy", published by Richard H. Gentry, McLean, VA, vol ii, #12, (Apr 1982), p.103-120, -- "The Gentry Family Working File", by Lee Corley Hendrix extracts entries for Fredericksville Parish [Louisa County]:

(a) 1748 Oct 3

:	At a Vestry held for Fredericksville Parish, paid 15 pounds to Samuel Gentry for setting up benches etc. at Trinity Church...

(b) 1752 Aug 26

	At a Vestry held for Fredericksville Parish...the accounts from 1749 through Aug 1752 records Samuel Gentry was paid 15 pounds.

5. Louisa County Deed Book

(a) 1747 Mar 26 Bk(A-276)

	Samuel Gentry and Nicholas Gentry to Richard Walker, for 30 pounds, sold 125 acres, being part of 400 acres granted 28 Dec 1736 to Nicholas Gentry and the residue being 110 acres, being part of 700 acres granted 30 Jul 1742 to Samuel Gentry on both sides of Dirty Swamp, adj. to Samuel Gentry and Mathew Jouette's line.

Signed: Samuel Gentry, Nicholas Gentry;

Witnessed: Danl. Burford, Junr., William Rice, Richard Haggard.

(b) 1750 Aug 28 Bk(A-398)

	Samuel Gentry of Fredericksville Parish, Louisa Co VA to French Haggard of same. For paternal affection to said French Haggard, my son-in-law, gave 88 acres on both sides of Dirty Swamp in Fredericksville Parish, ... Nicolis Gentry's line...

Signed: Samuel (X) Gentry, 28 Aug 1750; ack. by Samuel Gentry, and Ann his wife, relinq. her dower...

(c) 1752 Oct 24 Bk(A-83)

	Samuel Gentry of Fredericksville Par., Louisa Co VA to John Gilbert of same place for 20 pounds, sold 125 acres on both sides of Dirty Swamp, adj. French Haggard's corner ...

Signed: Samuel(x) Gentry.

Wit: James Tate, Waddy Thomson. 24 Oct 1752; ack by Samuel Gentry.

(d) 1753 Aug 28 Bk(A-521)

	Samuel Gentry of Fredericksville Parish., Louisa Co VA, Planter, to John Gilbert of same place, for 12 pounds, sold 144 acres on head of Dirty Swamp in Fredericksville Par., being part of 700 acres granted said Gentry by patent 13 Jul 1742 ...

Signed: Samuel Gentry. 28 Aug 1753; ack. by Samuel Gentry, Ann Gentry, his wife, relinq. her dower right...

(e) 1757 Nov 22 Bk(B-184)

	Samuel Gentry of Lunenburg Co VA, Planter, to David Cosby of Louisa Co VA, for 15 pounds, sold 108 acres in Frederickville Par...

Signed: Samuel (S) Gentry. Wit: Charles Cosby Junr., David (D) Gentry. 22 Nov 1757 ack. by Samuel Gentry.

(f) 1762 Jul 11 Bk(C-160)

	David Cosby, the younger, and Mary, his wife, of Louisa Co VA to Alexander Bayne of Town of Richmond Co of Henerico, 108 acres bought of Samuel Gentry late of Louisa Co 21 Nov 1757...

(g) 1762 Aug 10 Bk(C-151)

	Samuel Gentry of Lunenburg Co VA to Zacharia Colley/[Corley] of Louisa Co for 10 pounds, sold 125 acres on north side of Dirty Swamp, being part of a larger tract of 700 acres, granted said Samuel Gentry 13 Jul 1742...

Wit: Joseph (X) Gentry, Richard Gentry, Simon Gentry, Richard Hargard [Haggard].

Signed: Samuel (S) Gentry...; Proved 10 Aug 1762 Richard Gentrey [Gentry] & Simon Gentrey [Gentry].

6. Lunenburg County Order Book

(a) 1755 Nov Court Bk(4-64)

	Ordered that John Williams, Samuel Gentry & Drury Moore appraise the slaves & personal estate of Richard Brooks decd, and return the appraisement to the next court.

(b) 1761 Oct Court Bk(7-142A)

	Ordered that the Church Wardens of Cumberland Parish bind out Joseph Gentry, orphan of John Gentry to Samuel Gentry, awarding bondage.

7. W. P. Johnson, editor, "North Carolina Genealogy" ("Journal of North Carolina Genealogy" prior to 1967)

(a) vol 20, p.2918 (1974): Caswell County, NC, 1777 Tax Lists for Nash District includes:

	1777   Allen Gentry and Shadrick Gentry (assessed for land), and Samuel Gentry (no land tax but liable for poll tax).

(b) vol 16, p.2572 (1970); North Carolina Legislative papers, box 29, Abstracts of papers includes:

	1779 Oct 26-30     Samuel Gentry and Obednego Gentry sign petition for division of Caswell County [Obednego (or Abednego) being a son of Allen Gentry].

Compare contemporaneous reference to two other Samuels, in Surry County rather than Caswell County, namely Samuel-III and Samuel-IV (son of Joseph Gentry):

(c) vol 12, p.1680 (1966): NC legislative papers, Folder 27, 28 July 1778:

Petition of inhabitants of Surry Co. concerning land entries. Signatures include Samuel Gentrey, Auther Gentrey, Saml Jentery.

Selected Other References

8. Lunenburg County Original Land Grants

	Denis Hudgins, "Cavaliers and Pioneers, Abstracts of Virginia Land Patents and Grants"

"Vol IV (1732-1741)" and Vol V (1741-1749), published by Virginia Genealogical Society, Richmond, 1994;

(a) 1740/41 Mar 24 Vol IV p.240 (Patent Bk 18, p.931):

	Col. Henry Embry, Gent. 400 acs Brunswick Co. [Lunenburg Co. after 1746] on the ridge bet. the Nap of Reeds Cr. and Couches Cr.

(b) 1747 Oct 1 Vol V p.322 (Patent Bk 28, p.234):

	Henry Embry, 237 acs. Lunenburg Co. on the N side of Couches Cr. adj. his own old line.

(c) 1749 Sep 5 Vol V p.296 (Patent Bk 27, p.398):

	Richard Taliaferro, 783 acs. Lunenburg Co. on the N side of Meherrin Riv. on the S side of the Beaver Br. to a corner marked "[DB overlaid]" [for David Bray] on flatt Rock Cr., adj. Buller Herbert.

References of Ann Gentry Haggard

9. Louisa County Deed Book

(a) (See Samuel Gentry reference 5b)

(b) 1757 Aug 23 Bk(C1/2-59)

	French Haggard & Ann his wife, to Charles Cosby, sold 88 acres adj. to lands late Richard Walker, Thomas Emmerson...Nicholas Gentry line...

Wit: Richard Blaloke, Jno Gilbert...

10. Lunenburg County Deed Book

(a) 1757 Dec 6 Bk(5-93)

	William Embry of Lunenburg Co VA to French Haggard, for 20 pounds, sold 100 acres on upper side of Flat Rock Creek, being part of a grant of 5 Sep 1749 to Richard Talliferro and conveyed to Embry in General Court.

Signed: Wm Embry. Recorded Dec 1757 Court.

(b) 1762 May 3 Bk(7-390)

	French Haggard to Thomas Ayre for 40 pounds, sold 50 acres, granted 5 Sep 1749 to Richard Taliaferro on south side of Flat Rock Creek of Meherren. Wit: Ruben Vaughn, Allen (A) Gentry, John Hight.

Signed: French Haggard, and Ann (A) Haggard. Recorded 5 Oct 1762.

(c) 1772 Feb 29 Bk(12-104)

	French Haggard of Lunenburg Co. to Roger Atkinson, merchant of Dinwiddie Co., for 45 lbs sells 50 ac in Lunenburg Co. bounded by Flatt Creek to the east ..., which land Haggard purchased of William Embry.

Signed and ack. by French Haggard [no mark].

Wit: David Garland, Wm Taylor, Nicholas Murray.

Revised Aug 2008

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Samuel Gentry (II) was a second generation Samuel and was named after his uncle; Samuel's father was Nicholas Gentry I, the immigrant, and brother to Samuel Gentry I, the other immigrant. Samuel II's wife was documented as being named Ann and was possibly Ann Allen, but her surname has not been proved. Their 10 children & approximate dates of birth: Nicholas III (about 1717), Joseph (about 1720), Allen (about 1722), Simon (about 1726), Ann (Haggard) (about 1728), Richard (about 1732), William (about 1734), John (about 1736), Samuel (III (about 1737), Nathaniel (about 1740). [ Journal of Gentry Genealogy] Another child named David Gentry was first thought to be Samuel's son, but is now considered to be his younger brother and another son of Nicholas I. SOME OF THE CHILDREN ATTACHED (David, Elizabeth, George, Jeremiah, Polly Ann Elizabeth) WERE NOT THE CHILDREN OF THIS COUPLE AND APPEAR TO BE THOSE OF ONE OF SAMUEL'S BROTHERS OR ANOTHER GENERATION; LIKELY COUSINS OR POSSIBLY GRANDCHILDREN.

Patriot in the Revolutionary War by providing supplies to the Army 1776

They had the following children: i. Nicholas (ca1694-ca1797)

ii. David (ca1696-1760) iii. Joseph G. (ca1698-ca1804)

iv. Richard (ca1700-)

v. Samuel

vi. George

vii. Simon

viii. Allen A. ix. Ann (ca1736-)

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