Christopher Hussey

lived in Burks County, Pa

Christopher Hussey son of John who is son of John: source: http://kirkmangenealogy.com/history/husseymanuscript.htm

This is the beginning of Christopher Hussey, son of John Hussey and grandson of John Hussey

"Christopher Hussey, late of Hockessin and Ann Garretson, late of the same place" were married 5th, 9th month, 1736, according to records of Warrington Monthly Meeting in York County, Pennsylvania where they subsequently located. Christopher Hussey was married 4th, 9th month, 1736 to Ann Garretson, daughter of Casparus Garretson and Ann Cox Garretson "of New Castle County, Delaware," according to another source.

Her family was Dutch and had lived in New Amsterdam and Delaware since 1658. Ann Garretson Hussey was born in Hockessin in 1715. Her father, Casparus Garretson, was born in 1676 in New Castle County and was married in 1713 to Ann Cox daughter of John Cox and Rachel Cox. "Casparus Garretson, yeoman, Christiana Creek Hundred," wrote his will 3rd, 12th month, 1726, and it was probated 6th, 2nd month, 1726-27, acccording to New Castle County Miscellaneous File 1. The will mentioned "wife, Ann; eldest son, John; son, Joseph and daughters [unnamed]. Ann Cox Garretson was named executrix, according to "Calendar of Delaware Wills."

Christopher Hussey and Ann Garretson Hussey may have been attracted to Warrington, Pennsylvania by letters from cousins who had preceded them to the Quaker community. Warrington Monthly Meeting had been established in 1730 and many of the early meetings were held in the home of William Garretson, according to "Inventory of Church Archives" published by the Society of Friends.

When the Quaker church was split in 1827 the membership of Warrington Monthly Meeting largely went with the Hicksite faction who retained control of the meetinghouse and the cemetery. Minutes of the men's meetings, minutes of the women's meetings, register of births, deaths, marriages and certificates of removal of Warrington Monthly Meeting have been transferred to the Quaker Archives in the vault of Baltimore Yearly Meetinghouse, Park Avenue Laurens Street, Baltimore, Maryland. These records when researched might give valuable data about the Hussey Quakers.

Christopher Hussey and Ann Garretson Hussey first became affiliated with Sadsbury Monthly Meeting, probably in York County, Pennsylvania in 1738. Minutes of Sadsbury Monthly Meeting reproduced in "The Immigration of Irish Quakers into Pennsylvania," reveal:

"Third month, 7, 1739. Divers families of Friends have settled of late on the west side of Susqwehanna. Some of them have produced certificates to this Meeting--Sadsbury--from Kenit Meeting [Kennett Monthly Meeting, Chester County, Pennsylvania] where they formerly dwelt, there being four mentioned in one certificate bearing date of 2nd month, 10th, 1738, viz: Nathan Hussey and Ann, his wife; John Garretson and Content, his [second] wife; Christopher Hussey and Ann, his wife; John Day and Ann, his wife. All which this meeting receives in Membership with us."

Christopher Hussey was appointed overseer of Warrington Monthly Meeting in the place of William Garretson. Approval of his appointment was dated 16th, 5th month, 1748 in Warrington Monthly Meeting minutes. He was a witness at the wedding of Nathan Hussey and Susannah Heald at Newberry, Pennsylvania 26th, 2nd month, 1749. Christopher Hussey was succeeded as overseer by Robert Comer 20th, 11th month, 1749. Later Christopher Hussey was reappointed overseer. Christopher Hussey and Ann Garretson Hussey were witnesses at the wedding of Record Hussey and Miriam Harrey at Warrington June 9, 1756.

A notation in the Warrington minutes on July 21, 1759 reads: "Christopher Hussey and Joseph Comer about to remove with their families to North Carolina, request our certificates." Ann Garretson Hussey and Elizabeth Hussey Comer made requests for certificates at the same time. Their certificates were granted August 11, 1759, and Christopher Hussey was succeeded by William Nevit as overseer on that date.

They were caught up in the Quaker migration to the Piedmont section of North Carolina. Quakers had begun settling in North Carolina by 1720, according to "I Have Called You Friends" by Francis C. Anscombe. Most of them found themselves in Orange County when it was created in 1752. A record book preserved in the Quaker Archives states that the emigrants came from Pennsylvania, Maryland and Virginia by way of Cape Fear River and founded a meeting for worship in 1727. The beautiful land on which they located embraces the present counties of Orange, Chatham and Guilford, North Carolina. The preserved records of the Quaker community begin October 7, 1751. Laura D. Worth, a Nantucket Quaker emigrant descendant, restored the first minute book of "Cane Creek Monthly Meeting, Volume I, 1751-96" to preserve it for the church archives. More than half of the records contained pertain to reception of members, marriages and disownments. Much data on the Hussey family could possibly be located by an inspection of this volume. The William C. Folger genealogical records housed by Nantucket Historical Society has many unpublished records of Hussey families in Massachusetts, New York, Pennsylvania, North Carolina and Indiana. An inspection of these manuscripts might reveal more about the Hussey family in this period.

Additional Friends in the next few years arrived in North Carolina from Pennsylvania, Maryland, New Jersey, New England, Ireland and England. Names of 200 persons of 48 families are known. The ministers who were active in this period included Thomas I. Dixon and Jeremiah S. Cox. Jeremiah S. Cox later became one of the founders of Richmond, Indiana. Following the establishment of Cane Creek Monthly Meeting October 7, 1751 a wave of migration from Pennsylvania began in 1754 and continued until about 1770.

Nantucket Island contributed a large number of emigrants to Cane Creek Monthly Meeting. At that time over two-thirds of the island's population were Quakers, and seeking to escape the coming war with England and the depredations that would come to the island in its exposed location, many of them removed to the Cane Creek area. No less than 43 Nantucket certificates were received by New Garden Monthly Meeting alone. The list included families named Barnard, Barney, Beard, Bunker, Clasby, Coffin, Coggeshall, Davis, Dixon, Gardner, Gifford, Macy, Ray, Reece, Russell, Stanton, Starbuck, Swain, Sweet, Way, Wickersham and Worth. After the Revolutionary War began it was extremely difficult for the Nantucket Quakers to migrate to North Carolina, so only 13 such certificates were received from Nantucket in North Carolina between 1783 and 1800.

Among the English emigrants to Cane Creek was Simon Dixon, a son of Thomas Dixon of England. He was a millwright who brought a large family. Cane Creek was the bivouac of the troops of Charles Lord Cornwallis after the Battle of Guilford Courthouse March 15, 1781. The English helped themselves to hundreds of head of livestock and other provisions while encamped there. Cane Creek received a second name, "Snow Camp," as the result of a heavy snowstorm that occured while the British were encamped there.

The family of Christopher Hussey was "received on certificate" May 7, 1760, according to the records of Cane Creek Monthly Meeting. He was received back at Warrington Monthly Meeting October 1, 1763 on a certificate from Cane Creek Monthly Meeting apparently to dispose of property there. Peter Cleaver and William Underwood were appointed to "endorse the certificate with a few lines for his return to that meeting," according to the minutes of Warrington Monthly Meeting.

The road court of Orange County, North Carolina in its session of August 1764 ordered that "Christopher Husay, Stephen Husay, Samuel Cox, Thomas Cox, John Cox, Jr. and Solomon Cox meet and layout a road from the south side of Deep River to Rowan County line to cross creek." Christopher Hussey was named overseer on the section "to the county line of Rowan and to Richland Creek."

Christopher Hussey recorded his cattle brand and his "ear mark" in August 1765, according to "Court of Pleas Quarter Sessions, Orange County, North Carolina" by Ruth Herndon Shields.

Christopher Hussey wrote his will April 1, 1773, after his area of Orange County had been set off to create Guilford County. The will read:

"Whereas Christopher Husey of Guilford County in North Carolina, yeoman, being weak in body, but in perfect mind and memory and takeing to confirmation the certainty of death and uncertainty of life, hath thought good to make order and appoint this my last will and testament in manner and form following, Revokeing and disannuling all maner of will or wills before by me made, this only to be my last will and testament--Imprimis:

"I comit my soul to almighty God who gave it me and my body to be decently buryed by my sons, Stephen Husey, Solomon Cox and Joseph Comer, whome I appoint my executors to see the accomplishment of this, my last will and testament and make full satisfaction for all funerell charges and other worldly debts every where to be paid--and it is my will and desire that my executors shall take out a Deed for a tract of land, where Samuel Hendricks now lives, provided that if the same can be obtained upon entry by me before the land office was Shut, and it is my will that if the said Deed is obtained, that my said Executors Shall make a Deed for a part thereof to Robert Hodgins a minor to his heirs and assigns. I will also that the said Robert Hodgins pay the half of all the costs that have already been and Shall hereafter be in takeing out the said Deed, otherwise my Executors shall be under no obligation to make a Deed to the Said Hodgins, and it is my will that my Said Executors Shall make a division line between the place whereon I live and the place where my son, Stephen formerly lived and that in such a form as may be most profitable to both places in their Judgement and So as to make up in my Son, Stephen's place with an adition of the north end of the new Survay two hundred acres of land, and it is my will that my Executors shall sell the Said place of two hundred acres of land where my Son, Stephen formerly lived at, Either privet or publick Sale at aney time or in what manner they shall think most proper, and it is my will that after Sale is made of the aforesaid tract of land that my Executors shall take their pay out of the price thereof for their trouble at their discretion and the Remainder part of the price of the Said Land to be equally divided in four parts, one part thereof I give to my Son, Stephen Husey, and other three parts I give to Daughters, Viz: Elizabeth Comer, Naomi Cox and Ann Hodgins. I leave and give to Anne Husey, my beloved wife, one fether bed bed furniture, and I leave and give to my Son, Christopher Husey, one fether Bed bed furniture. I leave and give to Anne Husey, my beloved wife, a third part of all the remainder part of my personal estate to be divided by an appraisement in the following maner--Viz: to be appraised by two divout men, one to be appointed by my beloved wife and the other to be appointed by my Executors and then her part to be devided off and all the remainder part of my personal estate I leave and give to my son, Christopher Husey and I leave and give to my Son, Christopher, all the plantation and tract of land whereon I live excluding only what is before mentioned, to him, his Heirs and asigns for ever, provided that he shall allow and shall not debar my wife of the benefits of the third part thereof during her lifetime.

In witness whereof I have herewith set my Hand and Seal this first day of the fourth month, in the year of our Lord one thousand Seven hundred and Seventy-three.

Witnessed by: Christopher Hussey" William Wireman Samuel Penrose (his mark) Mary Penrose ..(her mark)

"Guilford County, North Carolina Will Abstracts" by Irene B. Webster show "Samuel Hendrix and Mary Hendrix, witnesses."

Probate was recorded by the court in May 1774 with the following:

"North Carolina Guilford County, May Court, 1774

"Then the written will of Christopher Hussey was proved in Open Court by the oath of William Wireman on motion, ordered to be recorded. [two illegible words] Stephen Hussey, Solomon Cox Joseph Comer who was by Said Testator appointed his Executors agreeable to law." Test L. W. Henderson, CC"

Robert Hodgins mentioned in the will is believed to be son of Robert Hodgins and Theodate Hussey Seal Hodgins. Theirs was the first wedding recorded at Newberry Monthly Meeting 29th, 5th month, 1740. Theodate Hussey Seal was the widow of Joseph Seal, and the wedding was performed at the home of John Day, her brother-in-law.

William Wierman and Samuel Penrose are believed to have been brothers-in-law to Christopher Hussey. The Wierman family and the Penrose family were closely associated with the Hussey and Cox families in Pennsylvania.

Some of the intermarriages of these families were presented in "Thomas Wolfe's Quaker Connections" by William Perry Johnson which was published in "North Carolina Quarterly," December 1955. Portions of the article read:

"Thomas Wolfe (1900-1938) was born October 3, 1900 at Asheville, North Carolina, the son of William Oliver Wolfe and Julia Elizabeth Westall Wolfe. In 1920 he received an A.B. degree from the University of North Carolina and an A.M. degree from Harvard University in 1922.

Although Wolfe's own religious affiliation was Presbyterian, he had some Quaker ancestry and numerous Quaker connections. His paternal grandmother was Elenor Jane Heikes (d1912, age 97), a daughter of Emanuel Heikes and Sarah Wierman Heikes. Two hundred years ago the Wiermans were a Quaker family in what is now Adams County, Pennsylvania.

The immigrant ancestor, William Wierman, a blue dyer by occupation, was a native of Germany, according to tradition and removed to Holland where he was married to Gertrude Seitman and soon thereafter sailed for America. The fact that this couple possessed a family bible printed in Dutch is strong evidence that at least one of them was a native of Holland. As early as 1717 William and Gertrude Wierman were living at Germantown, Pennsylvania, and were probably members of the Mennonite church. In 1723 the family removed to the Mennonite settlement on Skippack Creek in present Montgomery County, Pennsylvania where William Wierman purchased 57 acres of land and engaged in farming as well as his original occupation of blue dyer. He purchased 187 acres more in 1729, adjoining the oldest of the Mennonite meetinghouses. In 1737 William Wierman and family settled on Bermudian Creek, Huntington Township, Lancaster, (later York, now Adams County) Pennsylvania, and it was apparently about this time that they joined the Quakers. William Wierman died, testate, in 1765. The inventory of his estate suggests that he owned and operated a store; his real estate amounted to over 1,000 acres.

William and Gertrude Wierman had six children: Henry, born 10th, 8th month (October) 1721, married first to Priscilla Pope and second to Elizabeth Ross; Nicholas, married 1745 to Sarah Cox; Hannah, married 1747 to Samuel Cox; William, married 1753 to Naomi "Amy" Cox; Gertrude married first in 1754 to Samuel Wright and second to a man named Ferguson; and John married Mary Morrow. Henry Wierman was a farmer, and Nicholas was a miller. Some of these children and several of the grandchildren settled in North Carolina.

John Wierman, son of Henry Wierman and Priscilla Pope Wierman, remained in Pennsylvania and became a judge. He married Ruth Cox, daughter of William Cox and Naomi Garretson Cox. Sarah Wierman (1785-1858), daughter of Henry Wierman and his second wife, Elizabeth Ross Wierman, was the great-grandmother of Thomas Wolfe.

Mary Wierman, daughter of Henry Wierman and Priscilla Pope Wierman, married Jesse Cook, and their son, Henry Cook, was the maternal great-grandfather of Albert Cook Myers (born 1874), noted historian and genealogist of Moylan, Pennsylvania. Myers is best known for his "The Immigration of the Irish Quakers into Pennsylvania, 1682-1750.

Another Wierman descendant who made a name for himself in the literary world was Leroy Scott. He was born May 14, 1875 in Grant County, Indiana, son of Eli J. Scott and Eleanor Reeder Scott; died July 2, 1929 in New York state. His wife, whom he married June 24, 1904, was Miriam Finn, daughter of Moses Finn and Gittel Seletchnick Finn, born August 9, 1882 in Russia.

Leroy Scott's maternal grandmother was Gulielma Cox (married Spencer Reeder), daughter of John William Cox and Lydia Littler Cox, Quakers of Randolph County, North Carolina. John William Cox was the son of Samuel Cox and Hannah Wierman Cox and a grandson of William Wierman and Gertrude Wierman of Pennsylvania.

Thus Judge John Wierman was a grandson of William Wierman and Gertrude Wierman; Henry Cook (great-grandfather of Albert Cook Myers), Harmon Wierman (son of Henry and grandson of Henry and Priscilla), Eleanor Jane Heikes Wolfe (grandmother of Thomas Wolfe) and Gulielma Cox Reeder (grandmother of Leroy Scott and great-great-grandmother of William Perry Johnson) were all great-grandchildren of William and Gertrude Wierman, Pennsylvania Quakers."

Albert Cook Myers in "Immigration of the Irish Quakers into Pennsylvania, 1682-1750" give additional insight into the Quaker community which met at Huntington Meetinghouse. He wrote that Huntington Meetinghouse was situated on a wooded ridge overlooking Bermudian Creek about nine miles southwest of Warrington, Huntington Township, Adams County, Pennsylvania.

Members of the congregation in 1745, according to Myers, included Joseph Cox, John Wierman, William Wierman, Martha Garretson, Naomi Cox Garretson, Hannah Cox Ann Hussey [probably Anna Hussey, Mary Garretson, Naomi Cox, Hannah Wierman, William and Gertrude Wierman, John Cox, William Cox, Samuel Cox and Ann Cox, Joseph Garretson, Henry Wierman and Benjamin Cox.

The first marriage at Huntington was that of Nicholas Wierman, son of William Wierman of Huntington to Sarah Cox, daughter of John Cox of the same place 24th, 8th month, 1745. The first meetings (unauthorized) were held in the home of John Cox where nearly all of the marriages were known to have occurred.

Rebecca Cox, daughter of Thomas Cox, was married to James Frazier 22nd, 8th month, 1740 at the home of William Garretson at Warrington. Witnesses include Joseph Garretson, Christopher Hussey, John Garretson, William Garretson, Ann Cox, Content Inskeep Garretson, Ann Cox Garretson, Thomas Cocks [Cox] Mary Cocks, Isaac Cox, John Cox and Nathan Hussey. Myers also reported that a meeting was held at the house of William Cox at Hackess (now Hockessin) New Castle County, Delaware in 1730.

Christopher Hussey died in 1774 in Guilford County, North Carolina, which was formed from Orange County in 1771. His will was probated there in that year.

Ann Garretson Hussey was granted a certificate by Cane Creek Monthly Meeting December 6, 1778 to Warrington Monthly Meeting [possibly for a visit]. She presented the certificate to Warrington Monthly Meeting March 13, 1779. She was a member of Huntington Monthly Meeting August 12, 1780 when she requested a certificate from Warrington Monthly Meeting to New Garden Monthly Meeting in North Carolina.

Ann Garretson Hussey appeared in the 1790 census of Chatham County, North Carolina which was formed from Orange County in 1771 in the Hillsborough District as the head of a household composed of "one white male over 16, four white males under 16 and four females," according to "Heads of Households, North Carolina, 1790," page 85. Ann Garretson Hussey died April 9, 1801.

Children born to Christopher Hussey and Ann Garretson Hussey, according to "Brooks Photostats of Warrington Monthly Meeting," include:

Elizabeth G. Hussey born 6th, 9th month 1737 Stephen Hussey born 10th, 7th month 1739 Naomi "Amy" Hussey born 29th, 2nd month, 1742 Ann Hussey born 27th, 7th month, 1744 Thomas Hussey born about 1746 Christopher Hussey born 2nd, 7th month, 1756

Elizabeth G. Hussey, daughter of Christopher Hussey and Ann Garretson Hussey, was born in Warrington, Pennsylvania 6th, 9th month, 1737, according to minutes of Warrington Monthly Meeting. She was listed as the "eldest child" in "Cope's Abstracts" of the meeting's minutes. She declared a marriage intent October 21 and November 18, 1758 with Joseph Comer. They were married December 7, 1758. Joseph Comer was born 3rd, 2nd month, 1736 in Chester County, Pennsylvania, according to the research of Dorothy Clark Hickman, Hurley, New Mexico, a descendant. He was the son of Robert Comer and Rebecca Gregg Houghton Comer.

On July 21, 1759 Joseph Comer and Elizabeth G. Hussey Comer applied for a certificate to remove to North Carolina. Their certificate was granted August 11, 1759. Elizabeth G. Hussey Comer was mentioned in the will of her father written April 14, 1773.

Children born to them include:

Joseph Comer born August 8, 1759 Rebecca Comer born July 25, 1761 Anna Comer born December 13, 1763 Elizabeth Comer born June 6, 1766 Lydia Comer born February 12, 1768 Robert Comer born April 17, 1771 Stephen Comer born December 12, 1773 Tamer Comer born August 26, 1776

Joseph Comer, son of Joseph Comer and Elizabeth G. Hussey Comer, was born August 8, 1759 in York County, Pennsylvania. Of this individual nothing more is known.

Rebecca Comer, daughter of Joseph Comer and Elizabeth G. Hussey Comer, was born July 25, 1761 in Orange County, North Carolina. Of this individual nothing more is known.

Anna Comer, daughter of Joseph Comer and Elizabeth G. Hussey Comer, was born in Orange County December 13, 1763. She was married about 1780 to Amos Hawkins, according to Kathryn Jeanette Bunton. Children born to them include:

Charity Hawkins born about 1790

Charity Hawkins, daughter of Amos Hawkins and Anna Comer Hawkins, was born about 1790. She was married about 1810 to William Hill. Children born to them include:

Samuel Benjamin Hill born about 1815

Samuel Benjamin Hill, son of William Hill and Charity Hawkins Hill, was born about 1815. He was married about 1840 to Mary Henly. Children born to them include:

Henry Henly Hill born about 1845

Henry Henly Hill, son of Samuel Benjamin Hill and Mary Henly Hill, was born about 1845. He was married about 1875 to Lena Mae Jones. Children born to them include:

Harold Mather Hill born about 1880

Harold Mather Hill, son of Henry Henly Hill and Lena Mae Jones Hill, was born about 1880. He was married about 1905 to Winoma Martha Higgins. Children born to them include:

Anna Lee Hill born about 1910

Anna Lee Hill, daughter of Harold Mather Hill and Winoma Martha Higgins Hill, was born about 1910. She was married about 1936 to Maurice Edward Burns. Children born to them include:

Anna Lee Burns born about 1940

Anna Lee Burns, daughter of Maurice Edward Burns and Anna Lee Hill Burns, was born about 1940. She was married about 1965 to Thomas Beisecker.

Elizabeth Comer, daughter of Joseph Comer and Elizabeth G. Hussey Comer, was born June 6, 1766 in Orange County. She was married about 1785 to Joseph Smith.

Lydia Comer, daughter of Joseph Comer and Elizabeth G. Hussey Comer, was born February 12, 1768 in Orange County. She was married to John Hawkins, Jr., son of John Hawkins and Mary Moore Hawkins November 30, 1799, according to Dorothy Clark Hickman.

Robert Comer, son of Joseph Comer and Elizabeth G. Hussey Comer, was born April 17, 1771 in Orange County. He was married about 1795 to Martha Hawkins, believed to be a sister of John Hawkins.

Stephen Comer, son of Joseph Comer and Elizabeth G. Hussey Comer, was born December 14, 1773 in Guilford County, North Carolina. He was married October 31, 1799 in Union County, South Carolina to Mary Hawkins, believed to be a sister to John Hawkins. They continued in South Carolina until removing to Wayne County, Indiana about 1805. They were "among the early leading members of the Society of Friends at Dover Monthly Meeting, Dover [later Webster], Indiana," according to "History of Wayne County, Indiana." Both were buried in the Dover Quaker cemetery.

Children born to them include:

John Comer born July 1, 1800 Joseph Comer born April 17, 1802 James Comer born February 5, 1804 Rebecca Comer born March 5, 1807 William Comer born January 4, 1811 Tamer Comer born October 7, 1814 Stephen Comer, Jr. born January 10, 1816 Mary Comer, Jr. born October 13, 1819

John Comer, son of Stephen Comer and Mary Hawkins Comer, was born July 1, 1800 in South Carolina. He was "among the first teachers in Wayne County," according to "History of Wayne County, Indiana."

Joseph Comer, son of Stephen Comer and Mary Hawkins Comer, was born April 17, 1802 in South Carolina. He was married in Wayne County April 5, 1820 to Sarah Rollerhide.

James Comer, son of Stephen Comer and Mary Hawkins Comer, was born February 5, 1804 in South Carolina. He was married November 22, 1826 to Bulah Jessup.

Rebecca Comer, daughter of Stephen Comer and Mary Hawkins Comer, was born March 5, 1807 at Dover, Indiana. She was married September 20, 1827 to Walter Thornburg and was disowned for "marrying out of unity" by Dover Monthly Meeting. Apparently her religion was important enough to her that she persuaded her husband to join the Quakers also. He was born at Shepherdstown, Virginia (now West Virginia) October 22, 1807, the son of William Thornburg and Elizabeth Clark Thornburg.

Rebecca Comer Thornburg died October 11, 1855, and Walter Thornburg was remarried to Clarissa Russell, a widow with six children. Four more children were born to them. He died August 14, 1874, according to the old Thornburg bible in the possession of Nell K. Clark. All were buried in the Dover Quaker cemetery.

Children born to Walter Thornburg and Rebecca Comer Thornburg include:

John Thornburg born June 29, 1828 Mary Thornburg born November 18, 1829 George C. Thornburg born September 15, 1831 Stephen Thornburg born August 24, 1833 Elizabeth Thornburg born July 25, 1835 Tamar Thornburg born March 16, 1837 Lydia Thornburg born August 15, 1839 William Thornburg born March 3, 1842 Rebecca Ann Thornburg born November 12, 1846

John Thornburg, son of Walter Thornburg and Rebecca Comer Thornburg, was born June 29, 1828 in Wayne County. Of this individual nothing more is known.

Mary Thornburg, daughter of Walter Thornburg and Rebecca Comer Thornburg, was born November 18, 1829 in Wayne County. Of this individual nothing more is known.

George C. Thornburg, son of Walter Thornburg and Rebecca Comer Thornburg, was born September 15, 1831 in Wayne County. Of this individual nothing more is known.

Stephen Thornburg, son of Walter Thornburg and Rebecca Comer Thornburg, was born August 24, 1833 in Wayne County. Of this individual nothing more is known.

Elizabeth Thornburg, daughter of Walter Thornburg and Rebecca Comer Thornburg, was born July 25, 1835 in Wayne County. She was married March 10, 1850 to John Kirkman. She died October 10, 1881 in St. Charles County, Missouri.

Tamar Thornburg, daughter of Walter Thornburg and Rebecca Comer Thornburg, was born March 16, 1837 in Hamilton County, Indiana. She was married November 22, 1857 to Jonathan Kirkman, brother of John Kirkman. She died March 23, 1926 at Kokomo, Indiana.

Children born to Jonathan Kirkman and Tamar Thornburg Kirkman include:

Alza Kirkman born about 1875

Alza Kirkman, daughter of Jonathan Kirkman and Tamar Thornburg Kirkman, was born about 1875. She was married March 31, 1895 in Baca County, Colorado to Harry Clark.

Children born to Harry Clark and Alza Kirkman Clark include:

Robert Harry Clark born in 1897

Robert Harry Clark, son of Harry Clark and Alza Kirkman Clark, was born in 1897. He died in 1973.

Children born to him include:

Dorothy Clark born about 1922

Dorothy Clark, daughter of Robert Harry Clark, was born about 1922. She was married about 1946, husband's name Hickman. Dorothy Clark Hickman, who has done extensive research on the Hussey family, provided the Comer data for this manuscript. In May 1983 she lived in Hurley, New Mexico.

Lydia Thornburg, daughter of Walter Thornburg and Rebecca Comer Thornburg, was born in Wayne County August 15, 1839. Of this individual nothing more is known.

William Thornburg, son of Walter Thornburg and Rebecca Comer Thornburg, was born in Wayne County March 5, 1842. He was married about 1866 to Mary Elizabeth Spradlin.

Rebecca Ann Thornburg, daughter of Walter Thornburg and Rebecca Comer Thornburg, was born November 12, 1846 in Wayne County. She was married November 5, 1868 to John K. Jessup. She died January 24, 1922.

William Comer, son of Stephen Comer and Mary Hawkins Comer, was born January 4, 1811 in Dover, Indiana. He was married about 1836, wife's name Rebecca.

Tamer Comer, daughter of Stephen Comer and Mary Hawkins Comer, was born October 7, 1814 in Dover. Of this individual nothing more is known.

Stephen Comer, Jr., son of Stephen Comer and Mary Hawkins Comer, was born January 10, 1816 in Dover. He was married May 11, 1837 to Martha Harvey.

Mary Comer, Jr., daughter of Stephen Comer and Mary Hawkins Comer, was born October 13, 1819 in Dover. Of this individual nothing more is known.

Tamer Comer, daughter of Joseph Comer and Elizabeth G. Hussey Comer, was born August 26, 1776 in Guilford County, North Carolina. Of this individual nothing more is known. To see original page Click Here

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Christopher was a miller and yeoman by trade and, like his father, a Quaker. He had a sawmill on Dutchman’s Run which bisected his farm. The family moved to North Carolina in 1760 and with Christopher’s brother-in-law, Robert Hogdin, Sr., and acquired a 600 acre tract four miles southwest of Ramseur . The Husseys lived on the western half and Hodgins on the eastern. They worshipped at the Holly Springs Preparative Friends meeting, a mile south of the farm. In his will dated 1 April 1773, he left his son Christopher the plantation and a feather bed and furniture and one-third of his personal property to his wife, Ann.

In 1779 Ann and her son Christopher moved back to Pennsylvania, possibly to arrange for Christopher, Jr.s marriage. Ann returned to North Carolina in 1780 where she died in 1801.

Sources Our Grandfathers by Alverta Brown Martin Wills Quaker monthly meeting records

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Legend has it that sometime in the early 18th century, supposed to be not far from 1712, Captain Christopher Hussey, while cruising for Right Whales near shore, was blown offshore by a northerly wind, where he encountered a school of sperm whales and killed one. It is not clear whether this story is apocryphal, since no Christopher Hussey would have been the proper age in 1712. However, another member of the Hussey family, possibly Bachelor (Bachelder) or Sylvanus Hussey, may have been the actual person referred to in the story.[5]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sperm_whaling Simons, B. "Christopher Hussey Blown Out (Up) to Sea". Nantucket Historical Association.

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