David O’Sheal followed in his father, John O’Sheal, and his grandfather, David O’Sheal’s footsteps. He was an attorney in the Portsmouth and Norfolk, Virginia, area. David O’Sheal owned properties and lived in Norfolk, Virginia. He married Catherine Veale, daughter of George Veale, in 1773. The last Royal Governor of Virginia, Lord Dunmore, burned the town [...]
It has been determined through DNA testing that Wiley O’Shields descends from a male WOOTEN. Some individuals have said Wiley O’Shields and Elizabeth O’Shields Harrison shared the same mother and the same father. This is questionable and preposterous because O’Sheal/O’Shields researchers are now asked to believe: (1) Elizabeth O’Shields Harrison was the d/o Teresa O’Shields [...]
The following is a partial list of names as they appear in the 1820 Census Records of Spartanburg, South Carolina: Henry White (aka HUGH White, friend of Jethro O’Shields) Tyre Harrison (husband of Elizabeth O’Shields, daughter of Jethro O’Shields) Daniel O’Shields (son of Jethro O’Shields, brother of Elizabeth O’Shields Harrison. This Daniel O’Shields cannot be [...]
I am writing this post to confirm LUCRETIA WOOTEN did in fact marry Jethro O’Sheal. I have personally spoken to a daughter of Mary Ethel Howell Cotterell, who was the great grand-daughter of Tyrie/Tyree Harrison and Elizabeth O’Shields and great great grand-daughter of Jethro O’Sheal and Lucretia Wooten. Mary did extensive family research many many [...]
Sometime in 1766, Daniel O’Sheal, his wife, and five children removed from Granville County, North Carolina to St. George Parish, in the colony of Georgia. After hours of research in the Georgia Archives, along with a veteran archivist of twenty-five years experience, we found that Daniel O’Sheal was never granted land in Georgia. Daniel requested [...]
Descendants of John Neighbors Generation No. 1 1. John1 Neighbors was born in South Carolina, and died Aft. 1852. He married Susan. She was born Abt. 1810 in South Carolina, and died Aft. 1860. Children of John Neighbors and Susan are: + 2 i. Elizabeth2 Neighbors, born Abt. 1829; died June 1850 in Lumpkin County/Dawson [...]
The following information was taken from OSHEAL-CHUMLEY, Copyright 2003, page 108, published by Connie Chumley Stringer, and this section of the book was researched, compiled, and written by J. V. Michael Motes: 1. Samuel O’Shields was b. aft. 1799 in Spartanburg, SC. Notes for Samuel O’Shields: Although he has been reported to be the son [...]
LORDS PROPRIETORS TO DAVID OSHEAL Aug. 5, 1729. Grant. 440 A. “…according to Our great Deed of grant bearing date the first day of May Anno Domini 1668…” Land on WS *Ahotskey Ridge* at Timber Branch adj. Robert Lanier, Edward Howard, Joseph Jones, John Jones, Jun. Land formerly granted by patent to James Hamelton Aug. [...]
Colonial Bertie County North Carolina Deed Books A-H, 1720-1725, abstracted by Mary Best Bell, 2nd Ed., Southern Historical Press David O’Sheal witnessed the sale of slaves, land, and livestock: Elizabeth Lockhart of Virginia to John Beverly of Ahoskey, November 1727, Two negro women for 500A. One woman named Betty; one named Nann. Land on Ahoskey [...]
22 March 1787 Mary CHUMLEY against John Osheals & others. Dismissed at Pltffs. Costs. Betsy CHUMLEY against Same & Same. Dismissed at Pltffs. Costs. 16 June 1789 The State against John Roebuck & John CHUMLER. Indictment for Petty Larceny. The defendants came into court and acknowledged themselves to owe to the State 20 each and [...]