Mansell Crisp

Ancestry.com shared picture from Crisp & Mathews descendant, W. Mansell Crisp III. Ancestry.com claimants claim Matthews back to Carolina natives. Matthews were serving Gov Matthews and Old Tapp in Wicocomico lands.

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https://swingdancerlady.wordpress.com/2015/03/01/crisp-lineage/ Info from this page Mansell Crisp, b. 1764 in Edgecombe, North Carolina, died 1850 in Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tennessee. Married Margaret Rodgers (Rogers) b. 1766 in South Carolina, died 1845 in Bolivar, Hardeman, Tennessee. They were married in 1787 and had 10 children. I could not establish that Mansell is the father of Tillman by records; however, the dates are probable, Tillman was a saddler as was Mansell, and the locations match up. Mansell was a good friend of Davey Crockett. They were both early settlers in Tennessee. Crockett was quoted as saying that Mansell was like a second father to him. Crockett had borrowed money to build a grist mill, which was destroyed by a flood. Consequently, several people sued him for the money he had borrowed. Crockett gave Mansell power of attorney to represent him in selling his land and settling his debts. By some accounts, Mansell succeeded Crockett in the Tennessee legislature, but I could find nothing to confirm this. Crockett also officiated at the marriage of one of Mansell’s daughters, Sallie. On the way to the Alamo, Crockett wrote a letter to the family saying that he had found good farm land along a river in Texas and there were many honey bees in the area. Mansell’s daughter and her family, on Crockett’s advice, moved to this area which is now known as Honey Grove, Texas. His son William also moved to this area in Texas, and later went to Oregon; he was one of the first pioneers to use the Oregon Trail. Mansell was appointed one of the early justices in this part of Tennessee. There are records of his being a witness for the sale of a slave and land. There are no records of his owning slaves. The ledger of deaths for that area shows that he died of neuralgia, after being ill for 10 days. At the bottom of the ledger there is a note stating that there were a large number of deaths during that period due to typhoid fever. There is also a note which is largely illegible about the condition of the water; apparently they had realized the connection with contaminated water and typhoid. Margaret Rodgers’s parents are unknown; there is one account that her mother was part Indian, but this is not borne out by my DNA results.