The following information was researched, compiled and written by Connie Chumley Stringer: Copyright 2009 It appears David O’Sheal (b. 1690) married into the Conner family of Ireland who settled in the Colony of Virginia. My conclusion is based on several factors: (1) Lewis Conner, Sr. (d. 1698),was a wealthy ship builder and merchant who was [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
(VIRGINIA AND NORTH CAROLINA BOUNDARY LINE, by Mary M. Root, “Backsights” Magazine published by Surveyors Historical Society) Mary M. Root stated: “Two works emerged from Byrd’s diary: The History of the Dividing Line Betwixt Virginia and North Carolina and The Secret History of the Line Betwixt Virginia and North Carolina. The latter was intended as [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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, [...]