544. Samuel SCOTT I
Source for this connection is a Matthew SCOTT, 423 S. Finley, Lombard IL, 60148 (1983); also WFT #1973.
From: Ancestory.com: (Source: tomvinson@aol.com) Born ABT. 1680 Scotland and Died 1734
570. Jeremiah CLAYPOOLE
Children:
Comfort Claypoole 1713 – 1779
Jehu Claypool 1713 – 1777
Mary Claypoole 1717 – 1782
Sarah Claypool 1719 – 1800
Rachel Claypoole 1721 – 1767
George Claypoole 1727 – 1763
Elizabeth Claypoole 1727 – 1794
John Claypoole 1730 – 1777
Joseph Claypoole 1731 – 1759
WHITSETT Family data extracted from pg 278 of Volume II of the book "My Finding" privately published by Lillian Vesta BROWN-JOHNSON, Smyrna, TN 1991. A copy of which is in the possession of Mary Ann CALAHAN MCCAFFREY, 974 Greerland Dr., Nashville, TN 37204.
Came to PA from Ireland on or before 1740 with two brothers, John and Joseph.
632. Hugh MCWHORTER
New Castle County, Delaware Wills, 1682-1800
Name: Hugh McWhirtor
Will Loc: Pen. Hd.
Will Made Date: 17 Feb 1749
Will Probate Date: 6 Mar 1749
Will Book: G
Page: 372
Comment: Wife, Jean McWhirtor; son, John McWhirtor; daus Agnes and Jean; son, Alexander. Exc. Jean McWhirtor, (wife).U.S. and International Marriage Records, 1560-1900
Name: Hugh Mcwhorter
Gender: Male
Birth Place: Ir
Birth Year: 1690
Spouse Name: Jane Gillespie
Spouse
Birth Place: Ir
Spouse Birth Year: 1700
Number Pages: 1Death
1748 6 Mar Age: 78
Bermuda, New Castle, Delaware, USAFrom http://homepages.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~mcwgen/hughde.htm:
Hugh McWhorter of Pencader Hundred, New Castle County, Delaware may not have been the first McWhorter to come to North America, but he is the earliest whose appearance is presently supported by records. He was born, probably in Ireland, cir1690, became a linen merchant in County Armagh, Ireland and came to the colonies about 1730.
He settled on farmland in Pencader Hundred, New Castle County, Delaware where he resided until his death. He came to Delaware with his wife Jean/Jane and at least three children, Agnes , Jane and John. An older son, Alexander is reported to have trained for the ministry at the University of Edinburgh, remained overseas and died about 1734.
In 1734 a third son was born, also named Alexander in remembrance of his deceased brother. This second Alexander is the first documented McWhorter born in North America and the first McWhorter to gain a degree of fame in the new world. Alexander, son of Hugh, became an outspoken supporter of the patriot cause during the Revolution.
Hugh was of a strong religious persuasion as evidenced by his role as elder in the church of which the Rev. Rogers was the pastor. It is reported that "The first time that Mr. Rogers...assembled the children...to catechise them, it was at the house of Hugh Macwhorter, a wealthy and respectable farmer in his neighborhood." .
Hugh died in February or March 1749/50 as his will was written in Pencader Hundred 17-Feb-1749/50 and proved in New Castle County, Delaware on 6-Mar-1749/50. Although Hugh’s wife is most often referred to as Jane, her name in both the handwritten and typed copy of Hugh’s will is spelled "Jean". Jean’s maiden surname is unknown although the noted McWhorter researcher, Davis L. McWhorter the thought is that she was likely a Gillespie.
In Hugh’s handwritten will the surname is spelled McWhirter, but in the typed copy and the later inventory of the estate the surname is spelled McWhorter. Hugh is said to have had eleven children , but only five are certain from the records and only four, Agnes, John, Jane and Alexander, are mentioned in his will.
It is likely that Hugh was closely related to one or more of the McWh*rters who were early settlers near Octoraro Creek in Lancaster county, PA. Octoraro Creek, a tributary of the Susquehanna River, lies a mere 17 miles north of Pencader Hundred, DE. Among the early settlers there was Hugh E. McWhorter , also referred to as "Hughey" who in 1740 removed from "middle octorara", Lancaster co., PA and purchased land in Delaware from a James Kerr. At least one McWh*rter publication alleges that Hugh E. made an agreement in 1749 to purchase the farm of Hugh of Pencader Hundred and that this was confirmed by Hugh’s wife Jean after Hugh’s death.
The actual relationship of Hugh of Pencader Hundred to Hugh E. or other Lancaster co. McWhorters such as Moses McWhorter who located at Colerain Township on Octararo Creek between 1750 and 1752 is not known.
Hugh and Jean are reported to have had eleven children, but the five listed below are the only ones presently identified by the evidence:
672. WAGSTER
Information from: Wade & Marcia Scott (wambscott@home.com) (2002)
The name Wagster is probably English in origin, since Wagsters appeared in England in the 16th Century. One explanation, is Wagster is a corruption for Wag’s Star. It seems the pubs in England often used Star as a name; thus, if the Wags owned a pub Wag’s Star, it eventually shortened to Wagster. This applies to many English names that end in “ster.”
The name Wagster appears in an obituary in The Irish Times. It is definitely Irish. Many of the Wagsters were living in farming area’s close to London that were taken over by the industrial Revolution or City growth. This forced these people to go elsewhere. Options, at this time were into the City or to Ireland to oversee land for someone else or take what you have and try your luck in the ‘New World.” They could have come as investors in the Virginia Company or as members of the Carolinas, or Maryland colonization.
There are two Wagsters in Baltimore.
“Baltimore County Families, 1659-1759, by Robert W. Barnes, genealogical Co., Inc.
Register of St. John’s Protestant Episcopal Church, Index to register made by Helen Brown. Maryland Historical SocietyNiel, Thomas, married Mary Wagster after the bans were published in April 1747.
(And History would repeat its self when Jack Neil would marry Azzlee Wagster about 140 years later in Tennessee.)Isaiah Wagster married Mary Worrell November 6, 1776 in St Paul’s Parish.
They could have bought a plot, came as indentured, or could have been sent by the English Gentry in charge of that colonization. If we ever find Wagster passage records on ships of that time, they usually state their condition.
Maryland was a plantation colony founded by Lord Baltimore, a prominent English catholic. It was meant to be a haven for English Catholics who were still being discriminated against in England. The first settlers, 200 in number, founded Maryland at St Mary’s Catholic Church on Chesapeake Bay. Lord Baltimore intended Maryland to be a moneymaking proposition. So he sold sections of land and left it up to the landowner to do as he wished, as long as he produced a crop and contributed financially. Thus many landowners were absentee. They sent overseers and indentured servants and later slaves to grow and produce the valuable Tobacco to be sent back to England. Baltimore from the outset allowed freedom of worship, provided you were not atheist or Jewish. Society in Maryland could be small farmers, catholic and Episcopal Land barons and protestant back country planters.
The next Wagster we find in the new world is William Wagster in the Carolinas. We are descended from William. A Restoration Charter formed the Carolina’s in 1663. The Carolina’s were made up of small farmers and tobacco planters, Charles Town or Charleston, as we know it today, was founded in 1670. Many of the settlers in the Carolinas came from the English settlement in Barbados. There were a few French Huguenots (Protestants) and African slaves.
674. Millington BLALOCK
1790 United States Federal Census
Name: Millington Blalock
Home in 1790 (City, County, State): Caswell, North CarolinaNorth Carolina Census, 1790-1890
Name: Millington Blalock
State: NC
County: Person County
Township: Early Tax List
Year: 1793
Database: NC Early Census Index
688. William GILBERT I
Not a proved connect to our family!
Col. William Gilbert b. c1732 Ireland, lived in Gilbert Town NC (old Tyron-now Lincoln Co., NC) d. 1790 Gilbert town Occ: Furniture maker, Rev. War Soldier, served in the general assembly of Rutherford Co. NC, m. bond dated Dec 1780 Sarah McCandless of PA,(they reportly eloped.) Sarah was b. c1737 d. Dec 21, 1822 at age 85 yo, the dau of ALexander McCandless (he b. before 1734 SCT d. Aug 1776 Faun Township York Co PA m. Sarah) and is mentioned in his will. Information from: Hewitt F. Ryan, Birmingham AL, e-mail: hfrbluesky@msn.com (1999)
He was a furniture maker. Family tradition states that the first Gilbert came over the water and made furniture. William came from Ireland to PA. His wife's family was from there--McCandless. He got married (eloped according to his father-in-law's will) and went to SC. He was a furniture maker in NC and one of the largest landownders in SC before the Revolutionary War. He was in the state legislature, etc. Died in Charleston. His wife moved to TN and died there.He is probably the grandfather of John Gilbert. William made furniture in NC. He had a land grant in TN. Check for a will in SC. Maybe lived in Lauren Co., SC
The following information is taken from the records of Patsy West. Her webpage is found: http://www.websitewiz.com/genealogy/sketches/dagilbert.htm#puzzles
"For several years, Melanie Nolan and I have been trying to establish the connection of this family to William Gilbert I (ca 1730-1790) of old Tyron and Rutherford Co., NC who married Sarah McCandless ca 1765 in Philadelphia. She was the d/o Alexander and Sarah McCandless of York Co., PA (His will 1766 names his daughter, Sarah Gilbert).
William Gilbert I emigrated from Ireland as a child with his parents. He lived in Charleston, SC by 1749 and moved to NC in 1769. He got his start making furniture. His home was known as Gilbert Town, later Holland, NC. He was the largest taxpayer and property holder in Tryon Co., NC. He was a Rev. War patriot. He signed the Association Oath in 1775 as a member of the Tryon Co. Committee of Public Safety. He served in the General Assembly from Rutherford Co. in 1779, 1780, 1782, 1783. He sold his property to Maj. James Holland, his son-in-law, in 1790. He died at Gilbert Town and was buried there in 1790. He received land in Williamson Co., TN and it was tied up in litigation until 1806.
The late Bessie D. Morton of Nashville, a granddaughter of D.A. Gilbert, owned furniture handed down in the family which was said to have been "made by the first Gilbert who came over the water."
According to a public sale in Williamson Co., TN, in 1810, William Gilbert I had the following nine children:
Jenny Gilbert Prince
Sarah Gilbert Holland
Alexander McCandless Gilbert
Milly Gilbert
Sally Gilbert
Fanny Gilbert
Philip Gilbert
William Gilbert
John Gilbert (deceased).For years, researchers have assumed that the Rev. John Gilbert of Lincoln Co., TN was the son of William Gilbert I. This cannot be so, as William Gilbert I's son, John, was dead by 1810.
Gilbert Town
Gilbert Town was located about the center of Rutherford County. The first courthouse was built on Holland's creek, about the middle of the community, and was torn down about 1878 by its owner, J.A. Forney. The small village of Gilbert Town consisted of a number of buildings and log homes.
It was said that William Gilbert brought a group of Scotchmen to the area where they manufactured furniture and other wood products.
William Gilbert
William Gilbert, of Scotch-Irish heritage, came to America and settled first in Philadelphia, where he met and married Sarah McCanless, who was born there in 1737. They traveled to Charleston, South Carolina, from Philadelphia and then came to Old Tryon County. In 1777 and 1778, he was assessor of taxes and, in 1778, collector of taxes. Mr. Gilbert held the office of justice of the peace in Old Tryon County, taking his seat in July, 1778. In 1779, he represented Tryon in the North Carolina House of Commons.
On February 8th, 1779, he was forced to resign his commission as justice of the peace on the charge of duplicating his vouchers as commissary of militia of Tryon County. His guilt or innocence can never be known. Despite the charge, when Rutherford County was formed from Old Tryon, Gilbert represented the new county in the North Carolina House of Commons. He was selected in 1779, 1780, 1782, and 1783.
Gilbert was appointed justice of the peace for Rutherford County in 1781. At the October, 1781, term of the Rutherford County Court, he was chosen chairman of the court. The court vindicated him of the legislative charge of duplicating his vouchers by an order in October 1781, reading "On motion of William Gilbert, Esq., and testimony produced to the satisfaction of the court, it is ordered that the opinion of the court be entered on the records, to-wit: It is the opinion of the court that the said William Gilbert is not guilty of the charge laid against to the General Assembly, and we do certify that the said William Gilbert never plundered, nor was guilty of plundering, to our knowledge."
In October, 1783, Gilbert wanted to visit his wife's relatives in Philadelphia. The court, sitting at his son-in-law's house prepared, under the seal of the court, a statement of his standing and civic virtues, by way of a letter of introduction. "That the said William Gilbert hath long been an inhabitant of this county, hath frequently represented the same in the General Assembly; that he is first in commission of the place, and that it appears from the lists of assessments returned into the clerk's office that he is possessed of and hath given in for assessing more taxable property than any other person in the county of Rutherford, and that he hath uniformly distinguished himself as a warm Whig and a true friend to his county in times of greatest distress and defection during the war."
Despite his successful defense of the charges of treason, Gilbert continued to have legal problems after the war, being engaged in numerous lawsuits, and eventually lost his property. In 1786, 1787, and a portion of 1788, he lived in Charleston, South Carolina. He later returned to Gilbert Town to live at the home of his son-in-law, James Holland, where he died in 1790. He was buried on Ferguson's Hill above Gilbert Town.
Sarah McCanless Gilbert lived until 1822. She went with the James Holland family in 1790 to Maury County, Tennessee, and is buried at Holland's Ford on the Duck River.
James Holland married Gilbert's daughter Sarah. He represented Rutherford County in the North Carolina House of Commons and the Senate. He was elected to the first board of trustees of the University of North Carolina.
William Gilbert - Patriot
As mentioned, William Gilbert was charged with treason, because Ferguson used the Gilbert home as his headquarters. Lyman Draper in his definitive history, King's Mountain and Its Heroes, on page 159, states Gilbert "was a Loyal friend of King George." In 1897, Flournoy Rivers wrote in a Nashville newspaper that "Draper seemed to have presumed that Gilbert was a Loyalist simply because Major Ferguson camped at Gilbert Town, as though an invading army would ever quarter on a friend while in an enemy's country. As a fact, the Assembly was then sitting at Hillsborough and Gilbert, being the county's representative in the House of Commons, was most likely absent there, and Ferguson, in his absence, most probably quartered on [Gilbert] as an object lesson by way of making treason odious, as it were. "
North Carolina records indicate that on October 25th, 1775, Gilbert and others, including the Committee of Safety, signed the "Association Oath," expressing profound regret that "his Brittannic Majesty had been so ill-advised as to encroach on the undoubted rights of the colonists as Englishmen, with the firmly expressed intention of sustaining both the Continental and Provincial Congresses." http://www.nps.gov/ovvi/nc3/kmf-gton.htmWe are working on the assumption that the Rev. John Gilbert was a grandson of William Gilbert I, and we have been researching all the heirs of William Gilbert I. We have not been able to make a provable connection."
WILLIAM GILBERT
In 1770's, WILLIAM GILBERT of TYRON CO, NC, Broadriver area sold a slave, FRANK, To the Wachovia Administration of Salem, NC (What was and still is a Moravian Community located in Winston-Salem, Forsyth Co., NC). FRANK was a native African and worked as a mason's assistant before transferring to Bethabra. He later married a native African, PATTY, aka ANNA, NANCY who also belonged to the Wachovia Administration. Any information on and/or documents regarding these transactions would be greatly appreciated by the Forsyth County Genealogical Society, Winston-Salem, NC
700. William SMITH Sr.
Place of residence Prince William Parish, Beaufort Co., SC
704. John FREEMAN
I have searched the surname FREEMAN vertical file in the TN State Archives & Library, 2012.
Map in Norfolk Co., shows that John owned 200 acres on the Dismal Swamp with Andrew TAYLOR as his next-door neighbor.
Land records found showed a John FREEMAN receiving 50 acres for importation into the country.
John and Hannah were bonded Hanah, an orphan daughter of Wm. WALLIS. Andrew TAYLOR assumed responsibility for Hanah after John and Hannah FREEMAN both died.
John Freeman born about 1650, probably in England. He was in Lower Norfolk, VA (now the City of Chesapeake) as early as Oct. 1673. Married to Hannah ? prior to 1683/4 most likely in Lower Norfolk. John and his wife Hannah both died after May 15, 1711 and before May 18, 1711 in Norfolk Co., VA. He lived near the Western Branch of Elizabeth River, adjoining the Great Dismal Swamp, near the boundary with Nansemond Co., VA.
See DNA project posted at: http://dna.carnicle.com/test.htm (2003) (Our John-mint green)
706. Thomas CORDING
Will record for Thomas CORDING, of County of Lower Norfolk, Book 6, f 162, dated 4 Oct 1698, proved 15 Sep 1699 by Henry Skyner & Wm Southerland.
...unto Elizabeth my beloved wife the Plantation whereon I now live during her Naturall Life...unto my Son Thomas CORDIN the One halfe of my land when....twenty and one yeares ....known by the name of Buckes plantation...affter his Mothers Decease and if my Son Thomas Shall Chose Buckes Land...unto myu Son William Cordin...the other helfe....the land I now live on affter his Mothers Decease...when...twenty and One...and in case they boath dye without Issue...the Land bee Equally Devided amongst my Daughters after my Wife Decease....wife...Sole Executrix..mr. John Hodges...gordenship of my Children
witnesses: Henry Skynner, Tho Hoffler, William Southerland
708. Col. Elias ALEXANDER
From: SERIES II of "REGISTER of MARYLAND'S HERALDIC FAMILIES", by Alice Norris Parran, 1938. Page 66:
"ELIAS ALEXANDER, son of ANDREW (and grandson of William Sr. of Somerset); wife, dau--of JOSEPH ALEXANDER of New Munster, and O'Dwire tract.
Issue--six sons and daughters--
William 1715, m. Agnes, his cousin.
Abraham,1717-1786, m. Dorcas. Zebulon, 1720-1784, m.(first two unnamed)
3rd. Jane McClung.
Ezra A, 172?-1800, m.(wife not listed.)
Arthur, d. 1763, m. Margaret McKamy.
Daughter of Elias unnamed."" Sophia ALEXANDER married Elias ALEXANDER, son of Andrew ALEXANDER.
DAR Magazine Elias and Sophia Alexander --- were the parents of two Signers of the Mecklenburg declaration of Independance (Abrham and Ezra Alexander) and the grandparents of two others (Adam and Charles Alexander) " Abraham Alexander b 9 Dec 1718 Cecil Co Md."
Maryland Families pg 87 " Elias Alexander b Feb 26,1679 Somerset Co Md"
DAR Magazine The Somerset Register Liber IKL states that Elias Alexander was born 26 Feb 1679,and he died in Frederick Co Md about 1750, leaving a second wife Ann (Taylor) and a number of children of whom Elias (Colonel Elias of Rutherford Co.NC) was one.
PA Genealogical Magazine " The children of Andrew Alexander were Abigal, b 15 Sept 1677, and Elias, b 1679, Brevard "Elias Alexander (b Feb 1679-d 1747)
Brevard D Pg 174 " Elias Alexander was born in Somerset Co., MD. 26 Feb 1679, and died in 1747 probably near Slate Hill, York Co., PA. "
Alexander Pioneers "The first record of Andrew Alexander apears in the Somerset Register DB, I.K.L., states "Elias was born 26 Feb. 1679 and he died in Frederick Co., MD abt 1750 leaving a second wife Ann (Taylor) and a number of children of whom Elias (Colonel Elias of Rutherford Co., NC ) was one. The register was begun in 1714/15 records birth of his son and daughter "Abigail Alexander daughter of Andrew Alexander was born of his wife the fifteenth day of Sep 1677; Ellies (Elias) Alexander the son of Andrew Alexander and his wife 26 1779. No other childen are registered."
Pioneers " the will of Joseph Alexander dated 1726 names sons James and Francis daughters Sophia, Jane Muley (or Mackey), Abigaill Chapham and his son in law Elias Alexander: who we know was the son of Andrew Alexander of Somerset (So.Register, I,.K.L.)"
Alexander Kin p.14 Sophia Alexander m. Elias Alexander, son of Andrew Alexander and Ann Taylor"
Virkus Vol V p 42 Andrew Alexander 1650 two children: Abigail-1677 and Elias-1679 m. dau of Jos Alexander of New Munster. He died in 1753 in Slate Hill, York Co.,PA.
DAR Magazine " the Somerset Register states that Elias died in Frederick County MD abt 1750 leaving a second wife Ann (Taylor) and a number of children of whom Elias (Colonel Elias of Rutherford Co., NC) was one. "
Alexander Kin pg 10 " will: Dec 1726 d.1747, Slate Hill, York Co, PA Probate PA ADMINISTRATION BONDS PA A,73 8 May 1753. Estate of Elias Alexander of York Co., Will PA Your A:73 * May 1753 Estate of Elias Alexander of York Co. Francis Alexander, administrator. Tenet in Đ200. Inventory filed with bond [19 May 1753] mentions a legacy of Đ20 from descendant's brother Jededia Alexander. (Descendants of James Alexander (1742-1778) taken from Bible Records in possession of Mrs. Margaret Alexander Muse of Mt. Pleasant, NC)
DAR Magazine "Elias Alexander Sr. Col. (Elias) Married Sophia his first cousin, dau of his uncle Joseph Alexander, was designated "son-in-law" in will of Joseph Alexander, tanner. One of the seven Alexander deeded land in New Munster recorded Oct 22 1714 Cecil Co., MD. Buys from Stephenson "New Munster" 15 Aug 1718 (MD Land Records J.S.3:206) CCMD Land Deed's 10:147
1730 Elias sold to John Alexander land sold by Stevenson to Elias in Mildford HD.in 1718 John's wife Susannah of Chester Co., PA widow in 1762 sell's New Munster land. Ellas and Sophia are said to have had seven children (Ref record written in 1853 by W.R.Morgan,a descendant of Second Child of Abraham Alexander) "
Alexander Pioneers " Elias Alexander was designated "son in law:" in the will of Joseph Alexander "Tanner" of Cecil Co., Will prob in 1730, and no doubt married his (Joseph's) daughter, Sophia. Elias probably married three times and Ann Taylor, his last wife, is well authenticated."
709. Sophia ALEXANDER
Simpson Pg 183 " Sophia Alexander married her paternal 1st cousin Elias Alexander, son of Andrew Alexander