James Turner

James Turner

• Birth: ABT 1705 in Dorchester, MD
• Death: BEF OCT 1773 in Halifax, VA
• Father: Edward TURNER b: ABT 1656 in St. Mary's, MD
• Mother: Sarah MEREDITH b: BEF 1680 in Dorchester, MD

Marriage

1. Kerenhappuch NORMAN b: ABT 1716 in Spotsylvania, VA Married: 30 JAN 1732/1733 in Spotsylvania, VA Children
2. James TURNER b: ABT 1742 in Spotsylvania, VA
3. Mary TURNER b: ABT 1738 in Spotsylvania, VA
4. Sarah TURNER b: 1735 in Spotsylvania, VA
5. Elizabeth TURNER b: ABT 1736 in Spotsylvania, VA
6. Susannah Kerenhappuch TURNER b: ABT 1740 in Spotsylvania, VA

Kerrenhappuch Norman Turner was the wife of James Turner, one of the early settlers of Maryland. Oral tradition indicates that upon news of her son’s grave injury at the Guilford Courthouse, Kerrenhappuch rode on horseback to her wounded son’s aid. She is said to have nursed him to health at Guilford Courthouse. This statue depicts her holding a cup of water and a towel as she nurses her son back to health.

will

Title: Halifax County VA Deeds, WILL BOOK 1, 1773/1783.
Page: p. 45 Text: The following is dated 21 July, 1773:

"Being low in body but in perfect memory. To my loving wife during her
widowhood four Negroes, Daniel, Sancho, Jeany and Milly, also 2 feather beds & furniture, and one horse called Lightfoot, one mare called Flye, and four trunks, 3 iron pots, 1 frying pan, 2 dishes, 12 pewter plates, 6 basins, 6 cows, and 8 sheep. Also 100 acres of land, also 1 doz. of the choice of my hogs. To my son JAMES after my wife's marriage or decease the above 4 Negroes, 1 large iron pot called consion (sic) and the choice of one of my best shirts. To my son-in-law, JAMES SMITH all my wearing cloaths. I give the rest or residue of my estate of what soever to be sold and equally divided amongst my children. Exr. Son JAMES TURNER and my wife KIPPERHAPON TURNER. 21 July, 1773 S/JAMES TURNER. Witness: Thomas Hope, William Drake, Abraham LeGrand. Nathaniel Terry, Gent. Sec." (Bennie Altom)

20 Oct 1774 Halifax County VA Inventory & Appraisement Page 97
JAMES TURNER, total 438.17.1; Extr. Kerranhappuck Turner, James Turner [II]. [Chiarito and Prendergast]

notes

From http://boards.ancestry.ca/localities.northam.usa.states.virginia.co...

DNA evidence indicates that JAMES TURNER who married KERENHAPPUCH NORMAN was the son of EDWARD TURNER and SARAH MEREDITH of Dorchester County MD. EDWARD TURNER was the son of ARTHUR TURNER of Charles County Maryland. Edward Turner and Sarah Meredith had the following children: William, James (m/ Kerenhappuch Norman), Edward, Jame, Sarah, Margaret. From Edward Turner's second marriage to Mary Smith of Charles County MD resulted in two sons, Arthur Turner and Alexander Smith Turner. Review all proof for this on Rootsweb using ARTHUR TURNER d. MD - find gwenbjborkman'records.

• Baker, Beeman, Boyer, Crown, Estep, James, McBee, Nusbaum, Shally, Turner and related families Rootsweb database
  • "CANNOT PROVE THIS CONNECTION!!(We have a DNA match, but we do not have record proof of the parents of James and William Turner.)"
• http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~turnerdna/group5....
  • Edward Turner b 1661 St. Mary’s Co. MD d 1720 Westmoreland Co. VA m (2) Sarah Meridith
  • James Turner Sr. b c1705 Pr. Wm. Co. VA d bef 10/1773 Halifax Co. VA m Karenhappuch Norman
• ftDNA Hapolgroup: R-M269
• Kerrenhappuch Turner Monument, Guilford Courthouse
• http://benmorehead.com/history.html
• Notes for James Turner, Sr.
  • "Historians are undecided about the exact birth date of Kerenhappuch Norman, but it seems fair to assume that she was born in the north central part of the Colony of Virginia, probably in what was then Spotsylvania Co., in about 1715. She was the daughter of a well known tobacco planter, Isaac Norman and his wife, the former Frances Courtney. In about 1730 she met James Turner, the son of a prominent Maryland family and also a tobacco planter, and they were married in Spotsylvania County in 1731. Deed records show that following the wedding, Isaac Norman deeded a portion of his home plantation to his daughter and her new husband. It was on this land that the first child, James Turner, was born in 1732, and he was followed by four sisters - Sarah, Mary, Elizabeth and Susan.

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