Mary Callaway

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Birth: 1715, USA Death: 1778 North Carolina, USA

Wife of FRENCH AND INDIAN WAR SOLDIER & REVOLUTIONARY WAR PATRIOT CAPT.THOMAS CALLAWAY

According to the Draper Manuscripts Mary Baker was the aunt of Rev. Andrew Baker, a Chaplain in the Revolutionary War, during which time he resided in Montgomery County, Virginia He was a Baptist Minister.

Children of Capt. Thomas CALLAWAY and Mary BAKER were: i. Charles CALLAWAY married (?). He was born before 1746. He died after 1810 in Burke County, North Carolina. ii. James CALLAWAY was born before 1746. He died before 1810. iii. Richard CALLAWAY was born before 1746. He died on 5 Mar 1819 in Ashe County, North Carolina. He had no children. iv. Elizabeth CALLAWAY married (?). She died after 1808 in South Carolina or Georgia. It is not certain that her name was Elizabeth. v. Thomas CALLAWAY Jr., born 1753 in Halifax County, Virginia; married Jude Ann _____. vi. William CALLAWAY was born before 1755. He died after 1800. He appears to have moved to South Carolina by 1790.11 + 16. vii. Joseph CALLAWAY, born after 1755; married Polly BARRETT. viii. Frances CALLAWAY, born circa 1758 in Halifax County, Virginia.---Allie Nelson

Family links: Spouse: Thomas Callaway (1712 - 1800)

Children: Elijah Calloway (1769 - 1847)*

• Calculated relationship

Burial: Unknown

Maintained by: Allie Nelson Originally Created by: Carole Conrad Record added: Mar 17, 2015 Find A Grave Memorial# 143841396

Sarah Hughes' date of death corresponds with the probate date of her Will, which was dated June 15, 1821. She was the daughter of Thomas Hughes and Mary Susannah Baker Hughes.

Sarah Hughes and Michael Stump Jr. were married in 1763. They had five children: Michael III, Catherine who married George Whitecotton, Leonard, Sarah who married Jacob R. Simons, and Jesse.

Sarah's father, Captain Thomas Hughes, was killed by Indians at Hacker's Creek, Monongalia County VA, now WV, on May 4, 1778. She and her husband with her siblings and their families became quite famous as first settlers of what became central West Virginia.

Will of Sarah Stump, dated 15 JUN 1821, proved 12 FEB 1822, Hardy County Will Book No. 3, p. 140: I Sary Stump widow of Michael Stump this mi last Will and Testament I give to my daugh Catherine sun James one mare Colt and to my sun Leonard & youngest daughter Sarah five dollars and the rest of all mi property to three of my children which is to be divided between then three equil Jessey Stump, and Catharine Whitecotton and Sarah Simons her request is to give Jesse Stumps daughter Sarah five dollars out of her legesey.

Sarah (her X mark) Stump Witness: Leonard Stump Senr William (his X mark) Teawalt [or Tevault] G. George (his X mark) Simon

• Updated from Find A Grave Memorial via brother Jesse D. Hughes by SmartCopy: Nov 24 2015, 23:15:53 UTC

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GEDCOM Note

10. Mary11 Baker (Robert10, John9, Andrew "Andy"8, Alexander7, George6, Christopher5, John4, John3, Thomas2, Thomas1) was born Bet. 1700 - 1714 in Wilkes Co. , NC, and died 1800 in Walnut Grove, Ash County, NC. She married Thomas Callaway, Capt.. He was born October 12, 1700, and died February 1800 in Walnut Grove, Ash County, NC.

Notes for Thomas Callaway, Capt.:
Thomas Callaway was a soldier of the French and Indian War. He and his wife Mary settled in Ash Co., NC., at a place called "Walnut Grove". It was there they both died and are buried.

Children of Mary Baker and Thomas Callaway are:
40 i. Carey12 Callaway.
41 ii. John Callaway.
+ 42 iii. Joseph Callaway.
43 iv. Mary Callaway. She married James M. Nye.
44 v. Shadrack Callaway.
+ 45 vi. Thomas Callaway, Jr., born 1753; died Unknown.
+ 46 vii. Elijah Callaway, born November 12, 1769; died March 03, 1847 in Ash Co., NC.

Draper Manuscripts
In 1838 Lyman C. Draper became very concerned about the alarming number of romanticized and highly fanciful narratives that were beginning to appear about the early American pioneers, so he began writing letters to, and personally interviewing the survivors of these early pioneer days in an attempt to learn the facts. Over the next 53 years he compiled notes and letters that now amount to over 500 volumes that are on file in the State Historical Society of Wisconsin. Among these records are a number of letters exchanged between Lyman C. Draper and Dr. James Calloway (son of Elijah Calloway and grandson of Thomas Calloway), and earlier letters to Draper from Elijah Calloway. [Note: in one of these letters Dr. James Calloway says that all of his early ancestors spelled the name Callaway with an "a" in the second sylable but now they all spell it Calloway with an "o". ]
My abstracts of these letters with my notes in [brackets]:
Letter from Dr. James Calloway to Draper. August 1845. Col. James Calloway is of Bedford and was the oldest son of Capt. Wm. Calloway. Nephew of Col. Richard Calloway.Richard Calloway was seriously wounded at the capture of Col. Cleveland and left on the ground by the Tories ... he lived many years and died in Tenn. in the year 1822. Mentions John Shirley brother-in-law of Richard Calloway. . . Thos. Calloway married about the year 1735, Mary Baker in N.C. She was aunt of Rev. Andrew Baker.[Richard Calloway who was wounded at the capture of Col. Cleveland and brother-in-law of John Shirley is a son of Thomas Calloway. Col. Richard Calloway was a brother of Thomas Calloway.]
Lyman C. Draper Questionaire for James Callaway and his replies. Berry Toney was brother-in-law of Richard Calloway and was present when he was wounded at the Old Fields. Married the sister of Richard Calloway. John Shirley also brother-in-law of Rich Calloway, married his sister.[This Richard is the son of Thomas Calloway, not his brother.]
Letter from James Calloway to Draper. Wilkesboro, N.C. Feb. 21, 1846.Says he remembers his father, mother, and grandmother Calloway telling of the trip his grandfather Cutbirth made to the Mississippi River and New Orleans about 1760 ... at the time he[Cutbirth] lived in the forks of the Yadkin, Rowan Co., N.C. Names grandmother Cutbirth's sons Daniel and Benjamin and daughters Seary (SP?) and Sally. . .All of his ancestors originally spelled the family name Callaway but now all spell it Calloway with an "o". . . Sarah Calloway captured by Indians . . .Samuel Henderson married Sarah Calloway, daughter of Col. Richard Calloway. [There is some conflict here. Most sources, including other letters in the Draper Manuscripts say that the daughters of Col. Richard Calloway who were captured along with Daniel Boone's daughter, Pemima, were Francis and Elizabeth and that Elizabeth Calloway married Samuel Henderson and this is verified by letters to Draper from their son ]
Letter from James Calloway to Draper. Feb. 19, 1852. Note at top apparently in Draper's hand says "Death of Elijah Calloway". "My father died the 3rd day of March 1847. He was born the 12th day of Nov. 1769." Letter mentions his brother Josepth W. Calloway. Most of this letter was devoted to the location of Daniel Boone's home on the Yadkin in Wilkes Co., NC. He then answers Draper's questions about relationship to Cutbirth family and Daniel Boone. Says his grandfather was Benjamin Cutbirth. His great grandmother was the sister of Col. Daniel Boone and wife of John Wilcoxin. His grandmother's name was Elizabeth. [Sarah Cassandra Boone, sister of Daniel Boone, married John Wilcoxin. Their daughter Elizabeth Wilcoxin married Benjamin Cutbirth. Their daughter Mary Cutbirth married Elijah Callaway, son of Thomas Callaway and father of the writer, James Calloway.]
On June 10, 1845 Elijah Calloway sent a 20+ page history on Col. Richard Calloway to Lyman C. Draper. Perhaps there are better copies available but much of this is unreadable on the micro-filmed copy I have studied. Some pages were completely unreadable and as much had no genealogy value I have only transcribed what I could that has genealogy value:
Col. Richard Calloway. The Hero of ___ Kentucky who was killed by the Indians in the early settlements of that Country was Born in the County of Caroline State of Virginia about the year 1717 his grandfather Joseph Callaway imigrated from England among the first settlers in Virginia Who had one son by the name of Joseph and who settled at the place where Richard was born, when it was a frontieer wilderness, Where he lived and had seven sons and two daughters. His eldest son Thomas the authors Father was born Oct. the 12th 1700. 2nd son Joseph, William, Francis, John, Richard, and James his Two Daughters, Nancy and Seneath. Richard's Father and Mother and Joseph all died with the feaver in a ____ Six weeks leaving a large house full of Children where they all lived together until they were nearly grown. They being an enterprising set of young men and finding that tract of land being two small to be Divided among them all They mutally consented to sell off that Land and move to the west in quest of gitting more and better land. They sold off and started about the year 1738 to the frontier of Virginia and settled on Big Otter River in the frontier of Bedford County and was the first white men that cut the first stick of Timber to make corn on Big Otter River, and they being enterprising men they ____ a great deal of land and as Richard is to be the principal man of this memorial, He was shortly afterwards married to the Daughter of George Walton who was a near relation to _____ Walton who helped to ____ the day with Co. Cleveland on Noby Chuckey (SP?) River --- and as Richard's wife was an older Sister to Sherwood Walton who was ____ surveryor of Bedford County it enabled Richard and all the rest of his Brothers to to _____ a ____ of land so that most of them got very rich, and some went to farming and some to Merchandizing. The Author's Father, Thomas Calloway, took up the business that was then called Indian Trader by which Practice he took great quantity of goods and a number of horses frontieers Letters among the white people and the Indians and recieved in the exchange Furs and peltry of all kinds. But as the Indians was frequently troublesome on the frontieer by killing and driving off people's stock it became nessary that the militia should be trained and Dissiflea and kept in readiness, and as the Calloways were throughing and _____ _____ men, Richard, Thomas, and William was all appointed ____ Capts for to raise and train and keep in _____ Three companies of Volunteers to repell any hostilities as the Indians were was obligesed to be kept in check. About the year 1753 when the Indians _______ very troublesome being set only the Canadain the Capts Richard Calloway, William Calloway and Thomas Calloway the authors father with their volunteer companies was called in to active service as the Indians began to butcher the ______ on all sides and war being declared between Great Brittan and France _____________The Author thinks that the Black water fort was assigned to Richard Calloway the Pig River fort to William Calloway and Hickeys fort to Thomas Calloway. . . [at this point the letter goes into great detail about the French and Indian war but contains no genealogy data] . . . The war being ended the Calloways returned to their private consernes. Richard Calloway soone rose to the Col. Commandant of Bedford County which office he held until he left that County. Col. Daniel Boone having discovered the vast rich body of land in Kentucky and Calloway being _____ of a great land speculator he determined to move to it and selling off most of his lands in Virginia and about the year 75 he moved with his whole family to Boones Station in Kentucky.

Draper Manuscripts for Callaway

In this paper Elijah Calloway tells of the capture and rescue of the Calloway girls and Boones daughter. He gives one of the Calloway girls name as "Sarah" and all other accounts I have seen of this say the girls were Elizabeth (Betsy )and Fanny Calloway. He then says that Calloway's daughter was soon after married to Samuel Henderson and shortly afterward Col. Boones daughter was married to Flanders Calloway who was one of the company that captured them from the Indians. At the end of this letter Elijah Calloway gives a brief history of himself saying he born in Bedford County, Virginia Oct. 12, 1769 and came to Surry County, NC with his parents in 1774. He married Mary Cutbirth, daugher of Benjamin Cutbirth and grand niece of Daniel Boone. They were married on 7th day of April 1789. Elijah was a justice of the peace and served 12 years as a North Carolina legislator.[From deeds, grants, patents, court orders, etc. it appears that although the other Callaway men lived in Bedford Co., Va. Elijah's father never did .At the time of Elijah's birth his father, Thomas, was living in Pittsylvania Co., Va.]