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1820 Census, Spartanburg, SC

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 [...]

Daniel O’Sheal Lived on This Property in the State of Georgia

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 [...]

Neighbors Family, Dawson County, Georgia

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 [...]

Land Grants, David O’Sheal

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. [...]

Some Chumley Court Records in Spartanburg, South Carolina

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 [...]

Some Descendants of Burkett, Rice, Gasaway, and Whitten Families of South Carolina

South Carolina, Pickens County I  John H. Stone of the District aforesaid for Thirty Dollars paid by Sarah Burket of said District all that tract of land containing as supposed seventy acres on the branches of the Beaver Dam Creek Waters of  Tugalo River joining lands of Charles Hunt, Joseph White, and others situate NW [...]

Richard Marchant, Kingston Parish, Gloucester and Mathews, Virginia

Researched, Compiled, and Written by Connie Chumley Stringer, 1996-2009 Generation No. 1 1.  Richard1 Marchant, Sr. was born Abt. 1671 in England.  He arrived at the Colony of Virginia in 1691.  (Cavaliers and Pioneers, Nell Marion Nugent,  Abstracts of Virginia Land Patents and Grants Volume 2-1666-1695, p. 359) Richard Marchant was granted 84 Acres in [...]

Land Grants for John O’Sheal, son of David O’Sheal

1704  “Lewis CONNER, Jr. was granted 90 acres of land in Nansemond County, Virginia, on Loosing Swamp (near John Powell).”  (Powell History, Silas Emmett Lucas, 1961)     This same Lewis CONNER transferred his land to John O’SHEAL, son of David O’SHEAL. Lewis CONNER of Norfolk Co., Va., to Jno. O’SHEAL(son of David).  90 acres on Loosing [...]

Lewis Family of Sharp Top Mountain

Copyright 1990-2010 Connie Chumley Stringer Lewis Family of Sharp Top Mountain When the Lewis family arrived in Georgia, they were counted in the 1850 Census in Roswell District, Cobb County.  From there they moved into Gordon County and from there to Pickens County, Georgia, in the Sharp Top Mountain District. Sharp Top Mountain lies in [...]

Stephen Carleton and Susannah Childs

Stephen Carleton and his wife, Susannah Childs, copyright 2006 This book is housed in the Georgia Room in the Cobb County Library, Marietta, Georgia; the Hart County, Georgia, Library; The Elbert County, Georgia, Library Researched, Compiled, and Written by Connie Chumley Stringer Stephen Carleton and Susannah Childs Generation No. 1 1.  Stephen4 Carleton  (Henry3, Thomas2, [...]