Jonathan Tipton, Il

Jonathan Tipton II

• Born 25 Mar 1699 in Anne Arundel County, Maryland
• Died 16 Apr 1779 in Shenandoah, Virginia, United States
• Son of Jonathan Tipton I and Sarah (Pearce) Tipton
• Husband of Elizabeth Mary (Adams) Tipton — married about 1727 [location unknown]
• Husband of Elizabeth (Edwards) Tipton — married 1729 in Anne Arundel County, Maryland
• Husband of Mary (Chilcoat) Tipton — married 1735 [location unknown]
• Husband of Julithia (Unknown) Tipton — married about 1747 in Baltimore, Maryland

None of wives maiden names are proven.

Family

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Father of

• Edward Tipton,
• Clayton Tipton,
• John Tipton,
• Dolly Tipton,
• Briar Tipton,
• James Tipton,
• Sarah Tipton,
• William Tipton,
• Joseph Tipton,
• Jonathan Tipton III,
• Mary (Tipton) McGuire and
• Alice Elizabeth (Tipton) Reneau

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4. iii. JONATHAN TIPTON II, b. March 25, 1699, Anne Arundel County Maryland; d. 1779, Maryland. Baptism at St. James Parrish, Anne Arundel County, Maryland

From A history of Tennessee and Tennesseans: the leaders and ..., Volume 8 By Will Thomas Hale, Dixon Lanier Merritt Pg.2596-2608

TIPTON FAMLY IN TENNESSEE.

All the early records show conclusively that the Tiptons were English, eminently so; tradition says three brothers came to Maryland; some say by way of Scotland, others by way of Ireland but ultimately from the city of Tipton, Staffordshire, England, centuries old and whose parish records date from 1513. The Land Office at Annapolis records the arrival of Edward Tipton as 1668 on the ship "Friendship" of London, while the Annapolis Gazette of January 27, 1757, recites the death of Jonathan Tipton in Baltimore county, early in that month at the age of one hundred eighteen years. It further states that he was "born in Kingston on Jamaica which place he left while young and has lived almost ever since in this Province"--his youngest sons being reckoned among the oldest men of Baltimore county. Here the land and church records for one hundred and fifty years attest convincingly the prominence and loyalty of this family.

The entry of the Tipton Family in Tennessee history dates back to the year 1775, when the name of Jonathan Tipton appears among the first patentees in the Watauga Settlement under the authority of Charles Robertson's purchases from the Indian. (Ramsey, page 129.) The same of following year Jonathan Tipton is one of the signers petitioning North Carolina to annex the Watauga Settlement. As early as 1784 three Tipton brothers--Colonel John, Joseph and Major Jonathan are settled in the district of Washington and identified actively as leaders in its military and political life. Colonel John Tipton, the eldest, was born in Baltimore county, Maryland, 1732-5, from which Province he removed with his father about 1750 to Frederick county, Virginia, and settled on Cear Creek five and one-half miles southeast of Woodstock. Here his brother Jonathan, was born, 1750. So far as the writer can learn there were four sons, Colonel John, Joseph, Mordecai and Major Jonathan, though the father was married twice, and there were doubtless other children (Joshua Tipton who was in Tennessee as early as 1786, and who was killed on the Little Pigeon River by the Indians, April 18, 1793, was another brother or the son of Mordecai, since his son Senator John Tipton of Indiana stated that Colonel John was his Uncle). While some authorities claim that the father died in Frederick county, Virginia, Mr. Nelson is of the opinion that the Jonathan Tipton the first to come to Tennessee was the father and not son, Major Jonathan. Be this as it may Major Jonathan and his brother Joseph were in the Watauga Settlement previous to 1777, but it was not until 1783 that Colonel John removed from Virginia."......

HIS CHILDREN

"Colonel John Tipton was married 1750-1 to Mary Butler, daughter of Thomas Bulter, who was killed by the Indians on his farm on Cedar Creek, Shenandoah county, Va., at the beginning of the Revolutionary War. She bore him nine sons, to-wit; Samuel, Benjamin, Abraham, William, Isaac, Jacob, John, Thomas, Jonathan. Mary (Butler) Tipton died in Shenandoah coutny, June 8, 1776. July 22, 1777, Colonel Tipton was married to Marth (Denton) Moore, widow of Dr. James Moore, Shenandoah county. By her he had one son, who was killed in Clark's Expediton against the Indians 1782. Colonel Tipton is said to have had several daughters; whether by the first or second marriage is unknown, as are their names also. Col. John Tipton died, it is said, August, 1813, and, with his wife Martha, is buried on his farm on Sinking Creek, on the hill above the historic old house that still stands pratically unchanged since its erection before 1800. Here after the death of old Col. John Tipton, his son John Tipton of Sullivan county, lived until his death in 1831, after which the home was sold to David Haynes and became the home of Tennessee's silver-tongued orator, Landon C. Haynes.".....

Joseph Tipton, one of the pioneer brothers of that name is believed to have come to the Watauga settlement with his brother, Jonathan, about 1775. At any rate as early as September and December, 1774, Joseph and his wife, Elizabeth, had signed the lease and released deeds respectively of their lands in Shenandoah county. "About 1809, he sold his three large tracts of land, grants from North Carolina, subsequently went to Warren county, Tennessee, where he died, prior to 1842."

The third of the pioneer brothers was Major Jonathan Tipton, soldier in the Revolutionary War, and second in command under General Sevier at King's Mountain. He was born in Frederick county, Virginia, 1750, but was early a member of the Watauga settlement." "His pension declaration further states that he lived in Washington county, in North Carolina, until seventeen years after the war, then moved to Buncombe county, North Carolina, and lived there about twenty-seven years, then moved to Overton county, Tennessee, where he lived at the time of his death, January 18, 1833. Major Jonathan was married in April, 1810, in Buncombe county, North Carolina, to Levina Stephens who in 1853 was in White county, Tennessee, aged sixty-seven years and was drawing a widow's pension. In Jonathan's declaration he mentions two sons of a former marriage--Samuel and John (who is said to have been the Tipton who married the widow of Robert Sevier)--and in 1832 he had a son, name not given, living in Buncombe county, North Carolina, Major Jonathan's first wife is said to have been a Robertson. How many children Major Jonathan had is not known; they are variously given as Samuel, John, Jonathan, Wiley, David, Jacob, Joseph, Betsy, Kennedy, William and Esau."...."Two grandsons, Jacob Tipton and a brother living 1908 in Mitchell, North Carolina county, were in the Mexican war; two grandsons, Jackson Tipton and Joe Tipton, four great-grandsons, Sid, David, of 3d North Carolina, Captain John D. in Geo. Kirk's Tennessee Regiment and Lafayette Tipton of Company D, 8th Tennessee Cavalry, and later Leieutenant of Company A, 3d North Carolina Mounted Infantry, all in the Federal army."

Joshua Tipton, father of United States Senator John Tipton, Indiana's hero, soldier and statesman, was born in Maryland and came to Tennessee before 1786, settled in Sevier county, where his son John was born August 14, 1786. Joshua Tipton was killed by the Indians April 18, 1893, on Little Pigeon river; in 1807 John Tipton with his mother and two sisters and a half-brother removed to Indiana Territory, where among the pioneers of Indiana few did a greater work than John Tipton--a great man in council and in field. ..."to the time of his death, 1839, he was Senator in the United States Congress from Indiana.

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Captain Tipton was born on 15 August 1730 in St. Paul's Parish at Baltimore, a son of JONATHAN & ELIZABETH (Edwards) TIPTON. He married firstly Mary Murray about 1747 at Baltimore, then Mary, a daughter of Thomas Butler in 1753 at Cedar Creek in Shenandoah County, Virginia, and lastly Martha, a daughter of Abraham Denton II (and the widow of James Moore) on 22 July 1777 in the same county. He was a Gentleman Justice and Vestryman for Beckford Parish, served on the Resolution Committee in June 1774, and the Virginia Contitutional Convention of 1776 for what is now Shenandoah County. He was also the Sheriff and County-Lieutenant, and represented it in the House of Delegates (when Dunmore) in 1776-7, and as Shenandoah in 1778-81. He went soon after to Washington County, Tennessee (then North Carolina) which he represented in the Jonesboro and Franklin Conventions in 1784 and 1785. He also served in the North Carolina Senate, and represented the county in the 1796 Tennessee Constitutional Convention. Colonel Tipton died on 9 August 1813 at his homestead on Sinking Creek in Washington County, Tennessee but was buried at Elizabethton, Carter County, Tennessee.

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A deed documents that Jonathan gave property to at least one of his sons, and there are hints in the following transactions that he at least helped his other sons acquire property:

4. In 1733, Jonathan gave his third son, Jonathan, one-half (100 acres) of the tract he had named "Molly's and Sally's Delight." (This tract was probably named in honor of two granddaughters, Mary (Molly) and Sarah (Sally), who were 13 and 8 years of agre respectively at the time of the purchase.

Reference: Tipton, The First Five American Generations by Charles D. Tipton, page 50.

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    The migration patterns of the Tipton families in the early days (i.e. pre-1800) are interesting because the movements tended to be rather sporadic and clannish although more so in some branches of the family than in others.  Jonathan Tipton (b. 1659), the first of our line to reach this country, settled in Anne Arundel County, Maryland, sometime around 1680 (give or take 5 years).  Thirty years or so later, in 1713, he moved his family to Baltimore County, and he and his descendants lived there for about another 30 years before some branches of the family began to disperse.

Jonathan married sometime around 1726, because records in St. Paul's Parish show that Jonathan and Elizabeth Tipton were the parents of Edward Tipton, born October 27, 1728. Subsequently, Elizabeth gave birth to two other children, John in 1730 and Sarah in 1734. Elizabeth Tipton died (possibly during or shortly after the birth of Sarah) sometime prior to 1736, because records document that Jonathan and Mary Tipton were the parents of William Tipton, born August 30, 1736. Jonathan had at least two other children subsequent to William: Joseph born 1738, and Jonathan born 1750. The identity of the mothers of these two latter children is uncertain because the evidence indicates that Jonathan Tipton married two more times. A deed executed by Jonathan signifies a third marriage for Jonathan, while still another deed executed by Jonathan Tipton and wife Elizabeth in 1774 in Virginia denotes yet a fourth marriage by this man. However, the dates of these marriages are too hazy to enable the identity of the mother of these children. Neither Mary nor Julithia can be eliminated as candidates for the mother of Joseph; similarly, neither Julithia nor Elizabeth can be discounted as the possible mother of Jonathan.
Jonathan Tipton moved from Baltimore County, Maryland to Frederick County, Virginia sometime prior to the birth of his son Jonathan in 1750. The most likely time for the move would appear to be in the last half of 1747, because Jonathan disposed of some of his Baltimore County assets and settled some other Baltimore County affairs in the first half of the year. The first document that verifies his residency in Virginia is a grant from Lord Fairfax in 1766. Jonathan and his wife Elizabeth sold this property in December of 1774 and moved shortly thereafter (1775 or 1776), in company with his son Jonathan, to the Watauga settlement in Tennessee (then North Carolina). A second son, Joseph, either accompanied them or followed shortly thereafter for he appears in the 1778 Watauga tax list.
The last recorded transaction that can be attributed to Jonathan with any degree of confidence is the sale of his land in Washington County, Tennessee, in 1785. Carter County tax records show that a Jonathan Tipton, Sr., and a Jonathan Tipton, Jr., were residents of Carter County in 1796. Although it is possible that these two men were Jonathan and Major Jonathan, it is also possible and perhaps likely that Jonathan had passed away by this time (he would have been 97) and that Major Jonathan had assumed the use of "Sr." with some other descendant using "Jr." as a courtesy to Major Jonathan Tipton.
TIPTON - The First Five American Generations by Charles D. Tipton, page 75.

    Jonathan Tipton seems to have been accompanied in his move to Virginia by all of his sons except Edward.  Edward remained in Maryland until after the birth of his son Luke in 1760 and sometime after this moved to Pennsylvania.  Jonathan's daughter Sarah, was presumably married to Mordecai Tipton by 1750 and did not make the move with the family. Jonathan later moved to the Watauga settlement with, or at about the same time, as his sons Joseph and Jonathan.  Colonel John Tipton deferred his move to Tennessee until late 1783.  The other son, William, almost surely moved to Virginia with his father since he was only 14 years of age at the time, but the indications are that he remained in Virginia when the rest of his family (except for Edward) moved on to Tennessee.

TIPTON - The First Five American Generations by Charles D. Tipton, page 79.

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