Willoughby Rose

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Willoughby Rose
BIRTH
Dec 1781
Warren County, North Carolina, USA
DEATH
15 Dec 1852 (aged 70–71)
Lafayette County, Missouri, USA
BURIAL
Burial Details Unknown. Specifically: Location of body unknown
MEMORIAL ID
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MEMORIAL
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FLOWERS 2
From "Origins of Willoughby Rose" p1735-1737 by Seth Warner) The origins of Willoughby Rose: Willoughby Rose, who on 27 February 1795, having attained the age of "13 years last December", was apprenticed to Sterling Clack by order of the Court of Pleas and Quarter Sessions of Warren County, North Carolina, who married Charity Barton in 1806 at Bowling Green, Kentucky, and who died in 1852 in Lafayette County, Missouri, was the illegitimate son of a Nancy Rose, as the following Warren Court minute of Friday following the fourth Monday in February 1795 shows* :

"ORDERED that Williby Rose and Nancy Rose base born children of Nancy Rose dec'd. be bound to Sterling Clack until they arrive to lawful age."

The evidence points to Ann Rose, widow of George Rose, who died testate
in Warren County between 26 February 1777, the date of his will, and August 1778, when it was proved, as the mother of Willoughby and Nancy.

Ann Rose, had, indeed, just died, as the following Warren Court minute of the fourth Monday of August 1794 shows:

"Admn. on the Estate of Anne Rose dec'd. is granted to Sterling clack with the Will Annexed who executed. a bond for that purpose with William Smith his security in the sum of two hundred pounds & qualified accordingly. **

The will has not survived.

Warren Co tax lists exist from the year 1779, when the county was formed
from the northern half of Bute co. to 1801, although the 1780 list is very incomplete. The total worth of a head of household was recorded in 1779-1783 and the amount of acreage thereafter. Ann Rose is listed as a head of household each year from 1779 to 1793, the year before her death, except 1780 and 1790. she is called Anney in 1783, Nanney in 1791, Nancy in 1792, and Ann the other years. she is listed as owner of 200 ac in 1784, 208 in 1785, 200 in 1786, 208 in 1787, 268 in 1788-9, 60 in 1791-3 [these acreages
undoubtedly refer to the two plots of land purchased by her husband George; 200 (perhaps actually 208, but recorded as 200 by clerical error) acres on 11 May 1761, 60 ac on 2 Oct 1765]

Since Willoughby was 13 years old in 1795, it seems clear that Nancy Rose was able to provide for her children which she was alive without county intervention, and that her children were forced into apprenticeships only by her death. The tax lists establish that Ann Rose had sufficient means to support at least two children. They also establish the fact that Nancy, a common nickname for Ann at the time, was applied to Ann Rose near the time of her death.

Sterling Clack was both administrator of Ann Rose's estate and master of
Willoughby and Nancy, another tie suggesting that Ann Rose and the children's mother were the same person.

Was Ann Rose sufficiently young to bear children in 1781? No record of
her marriage has survived, but it seems likely that her maiden name was Parham and that she married George Rose around 1761, when he settled in that part of Granville co that became Bute Co in 1764 and Warren Co. in 1779. As noted in a research report on George Rose by Christine Rose, Ann was named Admn of the estate of Richard Parham in August 1792. Also, Ann had a grandson named John Parham Rose, born 12 Mar 1793. Moreover, immediately preceding George Rose on the Bute co 1771 tax list (the only reasonably complete tax list taken in that county) is Nath(anie)ll Bullock,
assigned four polls, one for himself, one for Richard Parham, and two for slaves. Thus Richard Parham, certainly a close relative and probably the father of Ann Rose, was an immediate neighbor of George Rose after George settled in Granville Co. Consequently, Ann very likely did not meet and marry George before 1761, and so was probably not born before the early 1740s.

Finally, there really are no other Rose families that might have candidates for the mother of Willoughby and Nancy. George Rose's son William, who appeared in the Warren Co tax lists of 1792-4, and a Samuel Rose are the only Rose heads of household in Warren Co other than Ann to appear on either a census return or a tax list in 1779-1799. Samuel Rose was listed among the "men not worth 100 pounds" on the 1779 tax lists and as owner of no land on the tax list of 1781, 1784, and 1787-8. It seems unlikely that a daughter of the impoverished Samuel had sufficient means to support two illegitimate children, one for 13 years, without support from the county.

No information about the fathers of Willoughby and Nancy is available. There were no bastardy bonds, and indeed, Warren County officials had no reason to believe, in view of Anne Rose's land holding, that her children would become a financial burden to the county. The only possible hint concerning Willoughby's father is his name, which was very uncommon in Warren co at the time. Only one person having that first name was sufficiently prominent to be mentioned several times in the Warren court records for 1779-1800, namely Willoughby Fann, who purchased from James Dozer on 8 Aug 1777 land adjacent to Ann Rose's (for George Rose's purchase from Benjamin and Sarah Parham on 31 Oct 1765 of 60 acres adjoined Dozer's land, and also on 26 Sept 1776 John Fowler sold LEWIS PATRICK 200 acres adjacent to Rose's and Dozer's land.)

footnotes:
[*Minute Docket, vol 4, May 1792-May 1800, p 59b. The page number refers
to the number stamped on each sheet of the minutes, not the original pagination, which is incomplete.]

Family Members
Parents
George Rose
unknown–1778

Anna Nancy Parham Rose
1739 – unknown

Spouse

Charity Barton Rose
1786–1865 (m. 1806)

Siblings
Nancy Rose
1783 – unknown

Children
Ahigha Rose
1806–1895

Piety Rose James
1807–1897

Harvey Rose
1809–1873

Charity Barton Rose Nichols
1811–1860

Bluford Calvin Rose
1817–1902

Melissa Rose
1822 – unknown

Nancy P. Rose Jennings
1824 – unknown