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Linville0-0/1eo-11o,v-c _ 0�e It cue It 4 1 THE LINVILLE nvill m.1-30-1612/13 Jane Napkin Telescombe 2m. Wm. Ford 1-1639 New Haven 1 FAMILY IN AMERICA Richard Wickersham m.4-3-1627 Elizabeth Evans St. John sub Castro bur. 10-16-1629 bap. 10-28-1604 Fletching Fletching Reeve of Sheffield Manor - lived at Woodgates, Fletching bur. -11-16-1657 Fletching Thou Laces Tuppen m. 1-23-1636/7 Thomas Linvill he 2m. Elizabeth Wickersham Thomas Hart m. Mary >. 9-22-1618 Piddinghoe Seaman of New Haven bap. 7-6-1628 Fletching bap. 9-25-1631 Ardingly 4-27-1640 New Haven bur. 1-11-1657/8 2m. Richard Deane 4-21-1662 hempdresser of Maresfield Horsted Keynes Fletching bur. 5-21-1690 Horsted Keyr Cassandra Linvill m. William Weller, aleseller Richard Linvill m. 1-28-1672/3 bap. 8-20-1653 Fletching b.c. 1654 Fletching? Maresfield bur. 3-29-1712 Fletching d. before fall 1683 Pennsylvania r Bryan re 1729 1792 Madison Co. KY f Morgan and Martha(Strode)Bryan ;an Nancy(Ann) Sara m. Ceorge ryan Boone sa See Biddle's lna BOONE-The If lie Orion Trace Ater 7 .. Gr%:.it Wagon Road Mary Hart b. 8-24-1653 Maresfield bap. 9-2-1653 Horsted Keynes 2m. Thomas Baldwin 3 -?-1684 Chester,PA John and 'Thomas Linvill came to America about 1682 I �! with their mother Mary. It is not known what happened to JV their father Richard. lie was not living in 1684. . I See Philadelphia Deed C-2, p. 185 12-12-16991 7 I � s ?John Linville m. ? Ann b.c. 1712 d.after 1751 SC d.before 10-29-1785 Abbeville Dist. SC William Peter Lewis John b.11-27-1757 b.4-25-1750 b.b. 1750 b.c. 1765 Frederick d.4-19-1834 d. 11122 d.1810-20 WV Co. VA Wash. Co. PA Laurens Co. d.c. 1840 CA SC no children Chapter 10 Chapter 14 Chapter 13 Old Brave South Carolina John of Soldier Linvilles Harrison Co.WV O EVIL Cry. FsU Er NO i Q,AVI co. eUsL:c; UORAW MpcKSVItL'E: Nil Joseph Linville Edward Linc b.c. 1720 b.c. 1724 m.c. 1753 PM Isaac Benjamin Joseph Elisha Margaret 1_`_ John M. Aun m. Sarah m. Andrew Mathews Moore Hoffman Isayas Agnes John Margaret John others? Rachel Josiah Lucy Benjamin Jeremiah James Joseph Martha others? Solomon James William Joseph Katy Elias Richard Hugh coater others? Chapter 3 Joseph Linvill of Berks Co. PA Mai documented lines as of July, 1987 - - - - - possible connections still being researched 'A 7:,r as Hart m. 4-22-1630 Mary Page West Hoathly ?2m. John Burleigh will proved 1645, laborer of Ardingly tory F bur. 3-27-1673 Horsted Keynes :ld Keynes Joseph Richards m. June ( ) a mason from Oxfordshire, ENC ?arrived August 7-8, 1682 An_ i1tY uplind Harbor, PA d. 1710 Chichester,_Chester Co. PA Joseph Richards m. Mary ( ) PA THOMAS LINVILL m.2_9_1713/14 Uinali Richards b.12-9-1679 Bolney, Sussex, E1C d. alter 1747, Chester, PA d, before 1747 Married at St. Paul's Episcopal Church Chester, PA 1 I E Linville m. Jane Collett William Linvill m.1-17-1753 Mary Donaldson 1724 dau. of Jeremiah b.c. 1728 1753 and Jane(_)Colle.tt d.4-25-1786 d.8-6-1801 buried in Sadsbury Friends Cem. l 1hn James Suzanne Sarah Frances Margaret James Thomas W111lam Arthur m. Daniel m. m. John m. ,Joseph m. Ann m. Martha m.Elizabeth m. Hope Abraham Criest Round Hoar Legang Wiggins Hoar Ware din William Benjamin ,cy .James Mary Imes Westron William :hers? Ann Arthur John Joshua Lydia Eliza Sol coon Chapter 4 Sarah Thomas Maryland Linvilles Joseph Chapter 6 t William Linvill , Shuenuiker of ujrby GAVIE CO. PUBL c UBRA,RY M,OCKSVILLE., NC n Tlwmas Linvill m.c. 1754 Ann Scarlett b, r.. 1 728 d.before 1785 d. 1785 dau. of Shadrack Scarlett William Ann Plieby Richard? Robert? in. Lydia lloa r Chapter- 5 Linville of Lancaster Co. PA Copyright tO 1987 Alice Eichholz, Ph.D. All rlghts reserved 0 Frances Linvill bap. 2-13-1626/7 New Haven bur 1656 New Haven John Linvill m.1-30-1612/13 J Telescombe bur 6-1-1639 New Haven Frances Tuppen m. 1-23-11 bap. 9-22-1618 Piddinghol bur. 4-27-1640 New Haven Frances Linvill m. 5-29-1656 Thomas Cooper Cassandra Linvill m. Fletching bap. 8-20-1653 Fletchi bap. 5-27-1638 Piddinghoe bur. 3-29-1712 Fletchi bur. 5-18-1667 Fletching JOHN LINVILL M.C. 1706 Ann( , b.5-24-1677 NA Sussex, RNC d. after 1733 Settled Couestuga, PA 1716 Settled Linville, VA 1733 'Phomas 1.111ville at. llannah( ) William Linville m.c.1738 Eleanor Bryan b.c. 1706-8 Chester. PA b. c. 1710 Cl1ester,l'A b.before 1729 d. NC d.7- -1766 Linville d. 1792 Madison Fal I s, NC Co. KY dau. of Morgan and Martha(Strode)Bryan LinviIIus Chapter 7 Down Lite Creat Wagon Road twpter 9 Along Lite App1egale Trail I Thumas and Sarah 1 if West Virginia ` John W1 I lam 11. i John William Morgan Nancy(Ann) b.c.1738 m. Sara m. Ceorge d.1- -1766 d. 1799 Bryan Boone, Linville KY Falls. NC unmarried Louisa See Cova Biddle's Sabrina BOONE-The William -to Caroline Oregon Trace Rockcastle Co. KY Chapter 11 Chapter 7 William and Down the Creat Wagon Road Worley (Daniel?) I 1 Dudley Chapter 15 Missing Links 1 ! 'Phomas Richard Aaron David Muses Andrew m. *!Catherine m.5-23-1769 at. Mary(_) d.c.1818 TN d. 1821 Charity d.1786/7 d.1826 to TN Stokes Co.NC Hutchins Surry Co.NC Surry Co.NC c. 1805 d.9- -1824 Stokes Co.NC afterUnknown after that .lane Muses David Thomas .John Tliumas David Elizabeth Worley Brace Rebeckah Richard Charity Richard Thumas Abraham Robert folly Charity r William LibelI John henry William others ? Henry Aaron Lydia John ` Margaret Richard Charity dau_ t Mary Richard I Moses Chapter 8 1 Missouri I Chapter 12 LinviIIus Chapter 7 Down Lite Creat Wagon Road twpter 9 Along Lite App1egale Trail I Thumas and Sarah 1 if West Virginia ` John W1 I lam 11. i John William Morgan Nancy(Ann) b.c.1738 m. Sara m. Ceorge d.1- -1766 d. 1799 Bryan Boone, Linville KY Falls. NC unmarried Louisa See Cova Biddle's Sabrina BOONE-The William -to Caroline Oregon Trace Rockcastle Co. KY Chapter 11 Chapter 7 William and Down the Creat Wagon Road Worley (Daniel?) I 1 Dudley Chapter 15 Missing Links FAMILY GROUP No. Husband's Full Name .-�j'LGLLLt2t ✓Z1 K f l� This Informatfon Obtained From: ::hin0• Day Month Year I Clty, Town or Place County or Pmvince. sta Sete or Country I Add. Info, on Husband /millk Cf 1a4le111. Wife's Full Maiden Name L4 , Daus Day Month Year City. Toes or Plan County or Province, eta. State or V.uritary A" Wo, on Wife Birth CMldren's Dau hr'n Sate or Country Ad Info. on ChUc rm Bath / 902 Burial C4, /7 Compil Addres City, st net. 9 1pation if other than Hou husba t, lg yz No.99Co separate set cr n. Father 779 eJL n n... - ria - ri •c. - rty Ivife Church Affiliatit Mother's Maiden Name Ser N e la F Chilhiren•3N.649 m (Auae N order of birth) CMldren's Dau Day Monty Yea Clty. Town o Place County or Provi , et, Sate or Country Ad Info. on ChUc rm 1 n irth C4, /7 ar. PW Name of Spouse \ eath / QP9 /776 a'rr2.r� 2 31rth --d, /7 C%t.e uJ .' �cul1 A9 vlar. Full Name a Spouse Bath Urial 3 irth %l ar. PWI NarnV Spouse Bath 1 _/) urial 4 irth r7Y G 2 auL Z� ar. Gr, /7644 a� Nuneofhpouse eath V 711 /8/ / urial 5 v 3irth Full Name of Spouse- Fon Name of Spousee Juriallg 7 Poll Name of Spousee $ 3irth ar. Full Name of Spouse• eath urial 9 irth ar. Full None of Spouse each Nz urial ,4 10 Birth Mar. Full Full None a Spouseeath Burial •U married more thou nm:e No. each mar. (1) (2) etc, and Ust In'Add, info on chlldren' column. Use mene side for additional ddldraq other vase, LINVILLE FALLS AND LINVILLE GORGE are named after William Linville and his son John Linville who hunted in the area in 1766 - 220 years ago. The Linvilles lived in "the Forks of the Yadkin" in the area of the Shallowford of the Yadkin River, mingled in with the many members of the Bryan and Boone families. William Linville's wife was Ellender (Eleanor?) Bryan. Her brother William Bryan was married to Mary Boone, a sister of Daniel Boone. Daniel Boone's brother, George Boone was married to Ann/Nancy Linville, a daughter of William and Ellender [Bryan] Linville. In the Fall of 1766, John Linville and a young friend, John Williams proposed to hunt and trap in the Blue Ridge Mountains. William Linville (John's father) who was in poor health decided to accompany the young men - hoping that his health would improve if he lived "in the great outdoors." The three men set out with full equipment, and several horses so that they could pack out the hides, pelts and meat. Before daybreak one morning, William Linville awoke from a terri- fying dream; in his dream he had seen himself and the youths murdered by Indians. He woke up his son and John Williams and insisted that they break camp and flee the area immediately. According to John Williams, no sooner had William Linville told them his dream than shots rang out and both of the Linvilles fell mortally wounded. John Williams had been hit in the thigh with a bullet which did not break his thigh -bone; he fled into the dark- ness and escaped - leaving the Linvilles, the supplies and the horses to the Indians. George Boone, husband of Ann/Nancy Linville was in the party of men 3 which was formed to locate the bodies of William and John Linville and bury them where they fell. Since their burial, the Falls and Gorge have been known as Linville Falls and Linville Gorge. �p OAVIE CO. PUBLIC LIBRARY MOCKSVtLLE, NC o U 121 LINVILLE Thomas Linville,yeoman Tn Fletching Parish,Sussex Co.,Eng- land,d.bef.1697 md.25 May 1648 Elisabeth Wichersham (dau. of Richard Wickersham and Elizabeth Evans;granddau. of Wals,iag- ham Wickersham and Mary Shackerly; great granddau.of William Wickersham and Toan ( ) Peak,Sussex,England. 1. Richard Linville .ca. 1652 d.bef.1684 md.ca. 1670 Eng. to Mary b.24 Aug.1653 Macefield Parish,Sussex.Eng. They were Presbyterians. They had 2 sons,John and Thomas. About 1683 they sailed from England to America. In 1684 Myry Linville and her 2 sons were living in Chester, Penn- sylvania, and she had mi. Thomas Baldwin. It isn't certain Just when her husband Richard Linville died. A. Thomas Linville b.9 Dec.1679 md.9 Feb.1713/14 Dinah Richards in Chester,Pa. at St.Paul's Episcopal Church. B. John Linville b.24 May 1677 md.bef.1706 Ann in Pa. Between 1716/23 was, living Lancaster -T- in they with their 2 sons,Thomas who md. Hannah ; and William who md.Ellender Bryan left Penn. and went down through York,Watkins Ferry, Winchester, Harrison - bur, and ca.1749-53 to N.C.to the Yadkin River Fork, R in owan Co.,N.C.They had probably 3 children; Thomas b. ca.1706 in Pa, md.1728/30 in Pato Hannah i.N.C.; William D. b.ca. 1710 in Pa. md.ca.1733 in Va.? to Ellen - der Bryan she 4.1766 in N.C.; probably a son Christian Linville b.ca. 17.06 in Pa.??? a. Thomas Linville b.ca.1706 in Pa. md,1728/30 to Han- nah J. in N.C.They had 5 children: Thomas b. ca.1730 md.Catherine? ; Richard b.ca.1735; Aaron b.ca.1750; David b.ca..1740/52; Moses b.ca.1754. (1). Thomas Linville b.ca.1730 md.Catherine? They had 7 children: 1. Jane Linville b.1754 N.C. or S.C. d.aft.5 Sept.1850 in Giles Co.,Tenn. m3.10 Mar.1780 to Edward Smith in Wilkes Co.,N.C. He d.be- tween 21 May 1822 and 31 Aug.1826 SEE PAGE_89 Z. Rebekah Linville b.ca.1765 md. James Campbell, lived in Washington Co.,Tenn. 3. Thomas Linville b.ca. 1760 N.C. 3.1836 md.. 1782 Mary lived Lafayette Co. Mo. 4. Abraham Linville bwca. 1768 N.C. d.1840 md. 1793 Margaret lived Ray Co.,Mo. 5. Libell Linville b.ca.1770 md.1794 in Knox Co.,Tenn, to John Mynatt 6. Aaron Linville b.1770/80 N.C. d.1838 in Mo. md.1800 Rebecca 7. Richard Linville b.1777 N.C.,d.1857 in Polk Co. Ore. md.1797 Mollie Yount b.1770/70 FROM: A Second Visit 44th The Lynnvilles by Eichholz Davie County PC`_'ic Library a-Nocksville, NC t HOWELL BOONE Boone Farm Road Route 1 Box 365A Mocksville,NC 27028 TELo (704) '492-5307 17 August 1984 Mrs IDROS ROBERTS 2588 Camino Rio Riviera,AZ 86442 Dear Mrs Roberts i About a year ago, I located a copy of "The Narrative of Col. David Fanning" edited with introduction and notes by Lindley S. Butler. Mr Butler is a researcher -editor known for his accuracy, and on page 72 he identifies the man Fanning describes as Capt John Bryan. According to Butler the man who "Received two Balls, the one through his head and the other through his body" was one JOHN BRYANT of RANDOLPH County and not John Bryan of ROWAN County. Can one set aside this footnote and place John Bryan in the path of those two balls, rather than the prominent and active patriot John Bryant of Randolph County ? On page 81 Fanning lists Co1.Samuel Bryan ( the Rowan County Tory) as one of "the gentlemen representatives". This is certain- ly an authoritative list of Tories of some prominence, and there can be no doubt as to this Bryan reference, which places Samuel Bryan in Charleston when this document was prepared. With all good wishes, h6wqw Da) • blic Libt� ounb1 pu �ocksville, NC The Linville family in America can trace its beginnings to the parishes in East Sussex, England in the 17th century. This despite the fact that much of the family's oral history has claimed they were French Huguenot. It seems more likely that several of the male Linvilles married, in later generations, women who clearly trace their ancestry to this beleaguered group of emigrants. In Sussex the name LINDFIELD, which means "open land of Cor with) lime -trees" 2, is found in two surname dictionari5s, both deriving it from the village of Lixdfield in Sussex. One phonetic pronunciation is "line 1" although in present-day Sussex it is pronounced "Linfield" without the "d". It is spelled numerous ways, sometimes even within the same document. Even the village's name is spelled Linfil and Linvill in other parish registers. The earliest example of use as a surname based on the village Is- found- in 1331/2 when -JOHN DE LINDFELDE became a co-feoffe for a messuage destined for the .[Clare]: College [Cambridge].- There are examples of the spelling �ENFILE and LENFEL in the Threadneedle Street Register in London from French Huguenots as early as 1605, representing families from Normandy. This coupled with the following LINVILL progenitor's occupation as "seaman" on the south coasi"of Sussex, across the channel from Normandy still leaves unanswered the question whether the Linvilles were originally from France before the 1600s. Research on this particular line of LINVILL/LINDFIELD/ LINFIELD/LINVALL/LINWELL/LENVIL has conscentrated on interrela- tionships with others within their geographic communities and original documents to clarify the line. It appear t%at only two descendants of the Sussex family are the progenitors of those who spell the name LINVILL/LINVILLE and possibly LENWELL in the 3 United States. Any other connection with other in alternative spellings of th9 surname in the family apparently occurs earlier than the 1600s. DAVIE CO. PUBLIC LiBAAR{ MOCKSVtL.LE, (� 3 v I THOMAS LINVILL Shortly before the English Civil War, THOMAS LINVILL [spelled LINWELL, LINFIELD, LINFIELD, etc.] apparently left his home on the coast of Sussex and traveled inland, up the River Ouse from New Haven. As a "seaman" a marriage was recorded for him in Piddinghoe Parish Register on 23 Jan 1636/7 to FRANCES TUPPEN, baptised in that parish 22 Sept 1618, the daughter of THOMAS and KATHERINE (WICKERSONNE) TUPPEN later of Piddinghoe but married at Fletching 30 Nov 1612. FRANCES (TUPPEN) LINVILL bore two children with THOMAS LINVILL, apparently before dying in childbirth. The first child's baptism, FRANCES LINWELL, (dau. of THOMAS "de Myching ala Newhaven", and FRANCES) was. recorded 27 May, 1638 in Piddinghoe Parish Register, the pariah of the TUPPEN family. Two years later a second daughter's burial was recorded in Newhaven Parish Register 19 Apr 1640, she not having been baptised or named. Eight days later, 27 Apr, FRANCES LINWELL, wife of Thomas was recorded as buried there as well. THOMAS LINWELL signed the Newhaven Protestation Returns on 31 Mar 1644 which were copied in full into that Parish Register. Only one other entry appears for that surname in Newhaven Parish Register after that date until the mid 18th century, that of FRANCES LINVALL who was recorded as buried 13 Jun 1656. She is the possible sister of THOMAS LINVILL. Her baptism is recorded in Newhaven 13 F9 1626/7, dau of JOHN LINFIELD/LYNDELL who married JANE NAPKIN. The evidence that THOMAS LINVILL, of Newhaven was the same THOMAS LINVILL of Fletching who married as his second wife ELIZABETH WICKERSHAM is both convoluted and intriguing. THOMAS LINVILL's marriage to ELIZABETH WICKERSHAM is recorded in Fletching Parish Register 25 May 1648. She was baptised in Fletching 6 Jul 1628, the daughter of RICHARD WICKERSHAM of Fletching and ELIZAB§TH EVANS who married 3 Apr 1627 St John sub Castro, Lewes Sussex. The marriage seems to have been a "step up" for Thomas since his new wife was the daughter of the Reeve of Sheffield Manor, and active in manorial of;airs as evidenced by the extant Manor of Sheffield Court Book I. The LINVILL marriage is recorded in the first Fletching Parish Register as was the baptism of their daughter CASSANDRA LINVILL which comes one month beforToElizabeth's sister CASSANDRA WICKERSHAM married JOHN YEOMANS. Cassandra and Elizabeth apparently were very close as sisters,, It was CASSANDRA YEOMANS' second husband HUMPHREY KILLENBECK, who seems, from later evidence, the person sponsoring the Linvill's journey to Penn's Colony. C)AviE W. FU tit IlU UiSKAKI MOCKSALLE, MO. 9 The second parish register for Fletching has not faired well from the onslaught of rodents. The book has been severely eaten away and the Bishop's Transcript are not extant for that time period in the Parish either. From other evidence cited below, it seems clear that there was one additional issue to THOMAS and ELIZABETH (WICKERSHAM) LINVILL. Evidence in the next generation in the colonies, makes it seems likely that the family was Anabaptist which could explain the lack of baptismal record for their son RICHARD LINVILL. There is, however, one eaten ent� which reads "Oct 1655 .......rd, the sono of Thomas....." When THOMAS and ELIZABETH (WICKERSHAM) LINVILL's grand- children emigrated to Penn's Colony, they left behind some land. This habit seems to be been carried on for three more generations with land holdings and migration in the "New World." The Suss T3 land was held until 1699 when, in Philadelphia County Deeds sale of the land was finalized with NICHOLAS COX and HUMPHREY KILLENBECK, the grantees. The deed mentions "Norther or Northlands" a piece of land in Fletching of about 14 acres. In trying to trace the land holding it became apparent that it now fell within the newly created Danehill Parish in East Sussex with a very active parish historical society. With the second Manor of Sheffield Court Boohwhich-coveredthe years 1665-1735 missing for the last 25 years, the society had been unable to explain, without the Philadelphia Deed, how the land hadoassed from the LINVILLs to WELLERs, to COX, to BRISTOWs'in •1.735. The following translation of the relevant extant passage from the Manor of Sheffield Court Book I,* by Mrs. D.S. Rawlings of Danehill Parish Historical Society establishes the tenancy and conditions of inheritance of the "North Northlands Farm" situated on the ancient road between Brighton and London. [Manor Court 22 Apr 16561 Richard Martin senior and Richard Martin junior 2 customary tenants of this Manor out of Court and since last Court did surrender into the hands of the Lord by the acceptance of John Banister and John Skinner 2 customary tenants of this Manor, all their customary or copyhold, messuages, lands & tenements with the appurtenances called Norther Northlands containing by estimation ten acres more or less and all other their copyhold lands holden of this Manor lying in the parish of Fletching to the use and behoof of Thomas Linvill and his heirs for ever. As by the same surrender made the 29th of September 1655 will more large appear. And to this Court comes the said Thomas Linvill and Elizabeth his wife and desired to be admitted to the premises, to which said messuage, lands and premises with all and singular their appurtenances the Lord of this Manor by his steward did admit the said Thomas and Elizabeth his wife, to have and to hold the same for and during the terms of their two natural lives, and the longest liver of the two, and from and after their decease to the use of the heirs of their 3 QAVIE CO. NU'., .: � _iorV w Iig=SVILLE, M two bodies between them begotten, and for default of such issue to the right heirs of the said Thomas for ever. At the will of the Lord according to the forms and customs of the manor, by the rents, services, and customs formerly done and of right accustomed, who having 199eized by the rod paid for a fine £7 and did fealty. Two years later THOMAS LINVILL died, according to a burial record in the adjoining parish of Horsted Keynes dated 11 Jan 1657/8 for TIOMAS LINDFIELD of Fletching; Manor of Sheffield Court Book I ; and his intestath proceedings in the Prerogative Court of Canterbury 23 Sept 1658. The adminstrator appointed "by corder" to the estate was PETER GRUBBIN "ccreaditor of Thomas LINFIELD". This is the evidence which suggests that the THOMAS LINVILL seaman of Newhaven is the same one who married ELIZABETH WICKERSHAM and less strongly suggests the parentage for THOMAS LINVILLE. PETER GRUBBIN, the creditor, married MARY NAPKIN 30 MNov 1639 in Telescombe, she the daughter of THOMAS NAPKIN (bap. 4 Feb 1620/1, Telescombe). THOMAS NAPKIN was also the surety for 19the marriage of JANE(NAPKIN) LINWELLs marriage to WILLIAM FOORD in Newhaven 27 Nov 1639, JANE NAPKIN having formerly been married to JOHN LINDFIELD/LINWELL/LYNDELL, they being the parents of FRANCES LINVILL(bur 13 Jun 1656, Newhaven) and possible sister to THOMAS LINVILL-for whom;PETER•GRUBBIN was creditor. To convolute, yet tighten, the evidence further, -as noted above., the parents of THOMAS LINVILL's first wife FRANCES; THOMAS TUPPEN and KATHERINE WICKERSONNE married at Fletching 30 Nov 1612, and on 5 Apr 1627, THOMAS TUPPEN2atood surety for RICHARD WICKERSHAM and ELIZABETH EVANS marriage, the parents of THOMAS LINVILL's second wife ELIZABETH WICKERSHAM. The. TUPPEN children were all baptised in Piddinghoe, as recorded in that parish register, including daughter FRANCES TUPPEN, who first married our subject, THOMAS LINVILLE. This would make creditor PETER GRUBBIN his kinsman -in-law through the Wickersonne/Tuppen/Napkin families who resided in both Newhaven and Fletching parish areas. But, even as creditor, GRUBBIN would not have legal claim on North Northlands according to the original court mandate. Indeed,. a later entry in Manor of Sheffield Court Book for 1658 shows ELIZABETH LINVILL, widow of THOMAS LINVILL asks permission to lease out her copyhold lands for two seasons. She2yas then holding the lands by agreement made in the Manor Court. ELIZABETH WICKERSHAM LINVILL's father RICHARD WICKERSHAM died six months before her husband. WICKERSHAM's will written 29 July 1957 and proved at the Prerogative Court of Canterbury in London made, among other bequests, one to his daughter Elizabeth "now wife of Thomas Lindfield" (spelled Lyndfield also in the same document) which was to be paid ^ut weekly instead of one lump sum as with other bequests. Elizabeth second married 4 DAVIE CO. PUBLIC; UdKA:N. MOCKfAV1LLF,. {YAC RICHARD DEANE/DANE of Fletching at All Saints Church, Lewes, Sussex on 21 Apr 1662 and had at least one daughter ELIZABETH DEANE/DANE baptised 24 May 1663 who is mentioned in RICHARD DEANE's will written 15 Nov 1672 and proved in Lewes 21 Nov 1672. We then lose track of ELIZABETH WICKERSHAM LINVILLE DEAN in the same year when many events occured which lay the ground work for leaving Fletching, with its the comings and goings of Kings and peasants on the Brighton/London road, for a journey to the colonies and settling 75 years later at the end of the Great Wagon Road in North Carolina. Children of THOMAS LINVILL and FRANCES TUPPEN + 2 i FRANCES bap 27 May 1638, Fletching ii unnamed infant daughter not bap.; bur 19 Apr 1640, Fletching Children of THOMAS LINVILL and ELIZABETH WICKERSHAM + 3 i CASSANDRA LINVILL bap 20 Aug 1653, Fletching + 4 ii RICHARD LINVILL (possibly bap Oct 1655, Fletching) 2 FRANCES LINVILL (Thomas 1) She appears not to have figured in the land holdings in Fletching, principally because her half brother and half sister lived to maturity and had children themselves. She would only have been admitted to the land if her father Thomas had no children surviving from his union with her step -mother Elizabeth. Baptisms for five children are recorded in the Fletching Parish Register, one of whom apparently married the son of a witness to RICHARD WICKERSHAM 1657 will. She second married THOMAS COOPER 29 May 1656 Fletching and was buried in Fletching 18 May 1667, as wife of THOMAS COOPER. Children of FRANCES LINVILL and THOMAS COOPER i (CASSAND)RIA COOPER bap 3 ( --- ) 1656/7 Fletching. The rodents have eaten part of the entry but from the entry of her marriage it appears clearly that her name is CASSANDRA. Occasionally, Cassandra is spelled Cassandria in other records of that time. Mar 5 Oct 1676 in Fletching'to RICHARD GARRETT, JR., the possible son of RICHARD GARRETT who witnessed Cassandra's step -grandfather, RICHARD WICKERSHAM's will in 1657. She may be the "widow Garrett" buried in Fletching 20 May 1731 as "poor". Her husband predeceased her as a "poor man" 12 Dec 1716 in the same parish. They had six children baptised in Fletching Parish Register, none of whom apparently left the area. t GAVIE CO. PUjSU; U13RAN. MOCKSQM4 M ii ANNE COOPER bap 12 Sept 1658; bur 23 Jun 1675 both Fletching iii THOMAS COOPER bap Fletching 26 Aug 1660 iv FRANCES COOPER bap 7 Sept 1662; bur 3 May 1672 both Fletching v WILLIAM COOPER bap ( ) Jan 1666/7 Fletching 3 CASSANDRA LINVILLE (Thomasl) Cassandra apparently figures into the land holdings of North Northlands which is described as a "substantial timber -framed yeoman farm -house" originally built about 1550 which is still standing and has been beautifully renovated and moderized by its present owners on Church Lane, the former 'queens highylie' between Brighton and London in present-day Danehill Parish. She was married as CASSANDRA INVILL to WILLIAM WELLER, aleseller, in Fletching Parish 4 Jun 1672. The fragment remaining from the Court Roll dated 1735 in the East Sussex Record Office records that EDWARD BRISTOW and ELIZABETH his wife surrender "North Northlands" of 14 acres for the purpose he indicates' in his will. It was made in 1735 and proved in 1738. In it he is "meticuloup in identifying the property" as formerly belonging'to HOMPHREY 2 ILLINGBECK, and before that the WELLERS, LINVILLS and MARTINS. CASSANDRA WELLER, and her husband -WILLIAM WELLER, aleseller, we both buried in Fletching 29 Mar 1712 and 24 Apr 1706, respectively. Their wills, leaving bequests to their children still living, were proved at Archdeaconry of Lewes. William's was written 8 May 1705 and proved'25 Jan 1706/7 [Bk A 46 #2421; Cassandra's written 23 Mar 1711/12, proved 12 May 1712 [Bk A 48 #205]. Children of CASSANDRA LINVILL and WILLIAM WELLER all baptised at Fletching [F:2] i MARY WELLER bap 24 Aug 1673 d. infancy ii STEPHEN WELLER bap 7 Dec 1674; bur 11 Apr 1685 iii WILLIAM WELLER bap 20 Aug 1676 iv JOHN WELLER bap 29 Oct 1678; bur. 22 Jan 1679/80 v MARY WELLER bap 29 Oct 1678 vi SARAH WELLER bap 20 Feb 1680/1 vii ELIZABETH WELLER bap 19 Aug 1683; bur. "daughter of Widow Weller" 28 Jun 1706 viii JOHN WELLER bap 8 Nov 1685 ix RICHARD WELLER bap 22 Jul 1688 x THOMAS [WELLER] bap 9 Jun 1690, conn of [ ] xi JAMES WELLER bap 29 Mar 1692 xii EDWARD WELLER bap 12 Aug 1694 A GAME CO. PUBLIC WORM b=KSVILLE, NO 4 RICHARD LINVILL - the Immigrant (.ThomasI) Either his baptism was not recorded or it is possibly the entry eaten by rodents in the Fletching Parish Register, ( ) Oct 1655 as noted above. He is the son of THOMAS and ELIZABETH (WICKERSHAM) LINVILL by evidence of above cited Philadelphia Deed date 12 10th month (Dec) 1699 when his MARY BALDWIN, widow of RICHARD LINVELL, late of Fletching, Sussex, her new husband THOMAS BALDWIN and her two sons JOHN and THOMAS LINVELL turned over their rights and title to the North Northlands in Fletching Sussex to HUMPHREY KILLINGBECK and NICHOLAS COX. With the second Manor of Sheffield Court book missing, it is impossible to tell at what point Richard's sister Cassandra and her family occupied the farm. However, the fact that the land was held by RICHARD LINVILL's descendants leaves little doubt that he was the son of THOMAS and ELIZABETH (WICKERSHAM) LINVILL, and an heir to the land granted them in 1656 as required by the "villein tenure" nature of the property that required the land to be held by direct descendants of that couple. In the year 1672 (by the Julian Calendar) four major events happened in RICHARD LINVILL's family. First, as noted above, his step -father RICHARD DEANE died 15 Nov 1672, leaving his mother again unmarried with children from his first marriage, her first marriage and one young child from their own marriage. Second, his aunt, CASSANDAR WICKERSHAM YEOMANS married a man highly active in the Sussex Society of Friends, HUMPHREY KILLINGBECK, a a resident of Bolney, Sussex, about 1520les west of Fletching, and a man who clearly knew WILLIAM PENN. Third, RICHARD LINUELL(sic) married MARY HART in Maresfield, an adjoining parish 28 Jan 1672/3. She was the daughter of THOMAS HART, hempdresser of Maresfielg and grandaughter of THOMAS HART, laborer of Ardingly, Sussex. If Richard is the one who belongs to the "eaten" baptism in Oct 1655, he might have been trying to help his mother out by marrying a little early, at age 17. Fourth, his only sister CASSANDRA married that year as well in Fletching Parish 4 Jun 1672. Whether or when either Richard's or Cassandra's family continued to live in the 16th century house on Church Lane is uncertain. There appears from other evidence which follows that Richard's family lived in Bolney for a while before' emigrating. MARY HART LINVILL and her two sons JOHN and THOMAS LINVILL, are the first emigrants to the colonies in the family. According to material collected by THOMAS SHOURDS, an eminent genealogist in the late 19th25entury, Mary was reportedly born Aug 24, 1653 in "Macefield". This is well in keeping with her recorded baptism 2 Sept 1653 in Horsted Keynes, the parish directly north of Fletching. OAVIE. Co. PUBUG LIUK00 M.00KSVILLE SHOURDS also provides the only known record of the birth dates and places for JOHN and THOMAS LINVILL, apparently the only two children to reach majority. He states that J0!M LINVILL was born in Sussex and THOMAS LINVILL born in "Omny". Since aunt CASSANDRA KILLINGBECK and her new husband HUMPHREY were clearly residents of Bolney Parish, ["Omny" being a close pro- nunciation], this suggests that the family likely lived in Bolney before sailing for the colonies although the parish register has no record of this family. Perhaps indeed THOMAS LINVILL was born there although not baptised, lending some weight to the notion that the family was Anabaptist. As we will soon see, he was baptised as an adult in the colonies. Whether RICHARD LINVILL came as well, or died before or during the journey is not known. One piece of evidence suggests ' he might have died in the colonies. According to WILLIAM PENN's "conditions or concessions," those who came as servants with the fiist adventurers were entitled to 50 acres for rent at the end of their service. There is no evidence to suggest whether the LINVILLs came as servants or not. Recently, in tra26ng the orig- inal warrants listed in Pennsylvania Archives it seemed appropriate to locate the warrant indexed to MARY LINGWELL. Interestingly enough, 38 he original is clearly for MARY LINFIELD and dated 20 Oct 1683. Knowing the cross over of spellings in Sussex, it is highly possible that this MARY LINFIELD's request for a survey for 100 ac, which from the entry seems to have been ordered but never been actually completed, would have been MARY HART LINVILL requesting land for herself (50 ac) and her deceased or ill husband (50 ac). Perhaps it was never granted because he died (possibly frST the fever epidemic in the Delaware Valley in the fall of 1683? ) and she remarried the following spring. The most popular oral history of the family has consistently been that "three brotl2rs" came with WILLIAM PENN, in one case, on his second voyage. The next most purported fact is that the Linvilles were Quakers in the New World. As with all oral history, there may be a grain of truth - it is the researcher's job to find the right grains if they exist. Penn's "second" voyage was on the Canterbury. It le3ffi England 3 Sept 1699 and arrived at Upland Harbor 10 Dec 1699. As will become apparent, MARY HART LINVILL had -already been in the Penn's Colony for at least 15 years, having arrived at least by the time her sons were 6 and 4 years old. It is unlikely that the two sons would have been passengers on the Canterbury by themselves. Though not impossible for them to have stayed in Sussex without their mother at such a young age, both boys appear to have been very close to their half-brothers and sisters who were born in the colonies as evidenced by their patterns of migration between 1700-1735. In addition, the Philadelphia Deed conveying the land to KILLINGBECK and COX was executed just two days after the Canterbury dropped anchor in Upland. If anything related to the family came on the Canterbury with WILLIAM PENN, it more likely would have been news that Aunt CASSANDRA WICKERSHAM had died, the last familial tie to the land beside QAVIE CO. pU.BUC L.18�v=::' 8-MOCKSV"Es NC Richard's sister, and perhaps the precipitating cause for selling their right to the land. HUMPHREY KILLINGBECK was one of seven First Purchasers in book XLVII of the Second Catalogue, h14ing purchase 1000 acres of land 13 Apr 1682 from WILLIAM PENN. Several others 13 the group were either proven or possible Welcome passengers.- It seems likley that the LINVILLs would have journeyed to the new world under some connection to their Uncle KILLINGBECK, who never did come to the coluies, but deeded his 1000 acres to other WICKERSHAM relatives. In the year of WILLIAM PENN's first voyage, 1682, the Welcome was one of 21 ships which crossed the Atlantic with Penn's First Adventurers. Of the 21 ships in that year, the second -one was the Ami4y which left Downs 23 Apr 1682 and arrived a Upland 8 Aug 1682. While there are no known passenger lists extant for any of Penn's fleet, there are records of transactions for the First Purchasers, records of some individuals loading goods on the ships and court records in Penn's Colony listing individuals participation in proceedings. On this "second" of 3Ponn's 1682 ships, JOSEPH RICHARDS, a doctor and Episcopalian, loaded candles, glass, iron and nails. 39 Both JOSEPH RICHARDS, whose granddaughter later married THOMAS LINVILL, and JOSHUA HASTINGS, whose servants included one of three BALDWIN brothers, are listed next to each other as first purchasers in XXIII of the First Catalogue in a group of others from "Oxon" County -and -in the colonies for 46 he first time together on a jury in Chester County 12 Sept 1682. MARY HART LINVILL second married THOMAS BALDWIN (one of the three BALDWIN brothers one of whom was a servant to HASTINGS) in March, 1684 "on the 7th day o41the week, at the house where Michael Izard lately dwelt." Since THOMAS BfiDWIN bought MICHAEL IZARD's home in Chichester April 2, 1684 we could assume they had been living in the house before the purchase and that the marriage happened in early March of that year. Thus Richards and Hastings are listed together- in England before emigration and for the first time together in Penn's colony, one having loaded goods on the Amity, and their connection to the Linvills seems clear. What seems likely to X. have been the basis for the oral history was that the three BALDWIN brothers, one of whom was step father to both LINVILL boys, and the father-in-law of one of the LINVILLs came on the second ship in 1682 and not the LINVILLS themselves, _ D This leaves unanswered the question of when and on what ship the LINVILLs sailed. MARY HART LINVILL was in the colonies, as J evidenced above, by 1 Mar 1684 and possibly by 20 Oct 1683. The sponsorship of the family's emigration by HUMPHREY KILLINGBECK, a seems highly likely. In the list of Penn's ships sailing from geographical areas easily accessible to them in 1682-3 and comparing the list of first purchasers, known passengers, people 9 who loaded goads on ships, or living within close proximity to them in Sussex, the only known group with any possible association With the family seems to be the passengers on the Weld. But no specific evidence exists to place the LINVILLs on the Welcome. From their geographic location, it could be assumed- that whatever ship they came on had to sail from LONDON or the south coast of Sussex, and not likely Liverpool, Bristol or Plymouth which were some distance for a.family of apparently limited means. That being the case there dre, in addition to the Welcome, the -following are possibilities: It Ami from London, arrived 5-6 Aug 1682 Hannah and Heater from London, arrived 8 Aug 1682 Golden Hi; de arrived from London by 18 Sept 1682 Samuel arrived from London by 18 Sept 1682 Elizabeth, Ann & Catharine arrived from London 29 Sept 1682 Hopev ell arrived from London early Oct 1682 Jeffery arrived from London 28 Oct 1682 Thomas and Anne from London by 15 Apr 1683 America from London 20 Aug 1683 Vine from London 3 Sept 1683 Eliza & Mary from London'27 Sept 1683 MARY HART LINVILL BALDWIN was living at the time ner.. second . husband THOMAS BALDWIN, blacksmith- ' of Cheste44Coutity, PA wrote his will 17 Mar 1730 and proved 2 Jul 1731. Her whereabouts after tbot. date are not known, though she would have been 77 at the .time .of Baldwin's death, having mothered at least two LINVILL children and seven BALDWIN children, including two sets of twins. Children of RICHARD LINVILL AND MARY HART + 5 i JOHN LINVILL, b 25 May 1677, Sussex + 6 Iii THOMAS LINVILL, b 9 Dec 1679, Bolney, Sussex Children of MARY HART and THOMAS BALDWIN45 i THOMAS BALDWIN b 26 Aug 1685,* Chester PA; m HELL (ETHLEY) 4IENDRICKS, dau of JAMES HENDRICKS 31 Mar 1714"I. HENDRICKS was granted •a survey of 1100 acre47on Conestoga Creek as early as 19 Aug 1716. The land was divided to provide 200 acre lots for Us son JOHN HENDRICKS and his wife REBECCA WORLEY ; son -in law THOMAS BALDWIN; BalUin's half brother JOHN LINVILL and THOMAS GALE. THOMAS BALDWIN continues to be listed with his half brother on the Chester County Tax Lists (see below) and is found in eag6y Lancaster County records as late as 4 Nov 1735. ii JOSEPH BALDWIN b 26 Aug 1685; m ELIZABETH MEALIS 10 r, iii WILLIAM BALDWIN b 19 Dec 1687 iv ANTHONY BALDWIN b 10 Feb 1690; m HANNAH COBURN; 2m MARGERY HANNUM v MARY BALDWIN b 25 Feb 1692 vi MARTHA BALDWIN b 16 Dec 1694; m JOHN GRIEST and had several children. There is a JOHN GRIEST on the Chester County Assessments for Conestoga listed two lines from JOHN LINVILL in 1719. [See N. 65 infra] vii ELIZABETH BALDWIN b 16 Dec 1694; m RICHARD WEAVER 5 JOHN 3 LINVILL (Richard 2, Thomas I) The Baldwin lind, formerly owned by MICHAEL IZARD, is probably where JOHN LINVILL grew to maturity. It flanks what today is called Baldwin's Run, a branch of"11.10 a 190W eJ present day Delawgre County, PA. A year after the 1699 land conveyance JOHN ( indexed as LINNELL) was a witness for 4T plantiff JOSEPH RICHARDS in a Chester County Court trial. Three months later on the 10th day, 4th month 1701, JAMES SWAFER delivered a deed to JOHNS LINVILL (LINNEL) in open courh for 58 acres of land in Chichester township, Chester County. When JOHN LINVILL, husbandman of Chichester sold the 58 acres 22 May, 1704 to JAMES WHITAKER for £ 35 , the deed was recorded in Chester County. 53 As in the 1699 Philadelphia conveyance he used his mark ( ) for a signature. The land described is apparently part of a 190 acre tract of land, 4ater bought by THOMAS LINVILL from JAMES and ELIZABETH SWAFER. Its present day location is on both sides of Meeting House Road between Marcus Hook (Chichester) Creek and Market Street in Upper Chichester town- ship, Delaware County. JOHN next purchased two5gieces of land, comprising a 54 acre lot, from JOHN CHURCHMAN. According to an early (c. 172g� Map of Township of Chester showing early grants and patents, the land described is directly across Upland (or Chester) Creek from his step -father THOMAS BALDWIN's land. It is clea51y identifiable in the'1703 Tax list of Chester Township -as well. It is likely that JOHN married about the time of this later land purchase, though no marriage record has been found. Sometime before 1733, he married a woman named ANN( ). Whether she is the mother of his apparent children is not clear. ohe is recorded as wife of JOHN 5�INVILL in a Lancaster County Deed chain for PATRICK CARRIGAN which indicates that not all the land was sold at that time, only 126 of 200 acres. No record of the rest of the land being sold eit..er before or after 1733 is in the Lancaster County Deed records. Extensive search in early yet disclosed who Ann's pareg4s to suggest it is misleading. Chester County families has not were. The one source which seems 11 Chronologically, the next record for JOHN is in 1715 when he appgars on a tax list for Chester Township in Chester County. Following that a warrant was issued 13 Aug 1716 for his appearaOTe in a court case involving a debt owed to JOSEPH COBURN. The original debt borrowed 1 Jan 1714 was for £ 22 to be paid upon request. COBURN had asked several times that the debt be repaid and since it was not he was claiming damages as well. According to the warrant he was "late of Chester, in the said county,yoman, Otherwise Called John Linvel of the township of Astown" in Chester County. There are two related entr62s in the -Chester County Common Pleas Dockets for the year 1716, the final one dated Nov 1716 (p.142) stating "N.E.I." or non est iniventus, meaning that he "is not found". Leaving on the heals of an unpaid debt appears to be at least one reason for the family's migration in the next generation as well. Indeed, JOHN apparently was already living in Conestoga Creek along with his half-brother THOMAS BALDWIN. The Taylor Brothers, surveyors of WILLIAM PENN's sons, laid out the boundaries of JAMES HENDRICKS' 1100 acres of land on Conestoga Creek in Oct 1716 and apportioned 200 acres each to LINVILL, TROMAS BALDWIN, JOHN HEND RICKS' and THOMAS GALE. No deed was apparently ever directly recorded for the Linville transaction. No other marriage has been discovered for JOHN 3 LINVILL despite that fact 'that both his brother THOMAS LINVILL and neighbors in Conestoga, THOMAS GALE and JONATHAN LANGFORD were all, married at St. Paul's Episcopal Church in Chester between _1704-1714. Even his mother apparently felt pressure to baptism her children, including son THOMAS LINVILL, again in that church. There is however, some reason to feel from evidence cited later, that his wife ANN ( ) may have been a second marriage. The year 1718 saw the fairst tax collections from the new Conestoga settlement. JOHN 's name which appears consistently on the Conestoga Tax Rate for 1718; 1719-20; 1720; 1720-1; 1721- 2; 1722. In 1725 the list is grouped aphabetical by first name with nine "J"s being torn and unreadable, one of them with the same tax as John's in the previous year, suggesting he is one of the torn names. Whole he does not appear on this list, his apparent son, THOMAS LINVAL, is listed as a freeman, indicating that he reached the taxable age of 16 between 1722-25. This would be in keeping with his father marrying about 1709 at the time of the Churchman land purchase. The 1727 ConeAoge Rate includes both JOHN LINVELL and freeman THOMAS LINVELL. The inhabited settlements around the Conestoga River petitioned the colonial assembly on 6 Feb 1728/9 for Chester County to be divided, the upper part to become Lancaster County. The location of the original petition is unkpown. A copy of it, written by JOHN WRIGHT and THOMAS EDWARDS, , lists two Linvill names: "Jo Linvil" and "Wm Lindvil" indicating that a second Linvill was now old enough to sign a petition, reaching 16 probably between 1727-1728. Without the original petition to m � A compare JOHN LINVILL's mark ( ) or handwriting, it cannot be deter3m,ned whether the petition was signed by another son or JOHN himself. Robert W. Ramsey's book Carolina Cradle (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1968, p. 31) reports that three "Quaker" brothers, WILLIAM, THOMAS and JOHN LINVILLE, moved down the Shenandoah Valley from Virginia to North Carolina by the 17409. His reference for the statement is the Lancaster County Common Pleas Dockets phamplet #1, 1729-31. While most of the original dockets are not extant, this first one is presently located (though unp$$ed) in the basement of the Lancaster County Historical Society. There are references to court cases involving all three Linvill names, but there is nothing which would suggest their relationship. In addition, there is no indication that there are two JOHN LINVILLs. JOHNS LINVILL appears in the extant Lancaster County Court of Quarter Sessions as highway supervisor for the g8nestoga Township on the first date of that court - 5 Aug 1729.. Both the Quarter Sessions and the Common Pleas Courts met the same days in the same place (JOHN POSTLEWAITE's house - neighbors of the Linvills and Baldwins), with the same judges. John appears on a Grand Jury 5 May 1730 and the last entry for Quarter Sessions, 4 Aug 1730 when he paid his own bond of recognizance in a case involving his aledged assault on JOHN CAMMOL, though there is no further record of the case. The last entry in Common Pleas involved JOHN .LINVILL's caomplaint against JACOB OVERHOLTZER 4 May 1731, when Overholtzer confessed judgement of £ 17 3s 4p with cost of the suit and release of errors. The last evidence of his presence in PennsyUania is for the unrecorded deed transaction 15-18 Oct. 1733. There appear no record for him in either Virginia or North Carolina, where his sons clearly lied. Chronologically the next (and last) known records of JOHN LINVILL is an obscure reference to a "Path to John Linvel's" for 50 acres in Saxe Gotha township in the Broad River Area78f South Carolina, surveyed for JOHN HEIGLER dated 6 Mar 1749. No record for JOHN LINVILL himself appears to be extant in any other early South Carolina records. There are a few references to Linvill (variations in spelling) as a river for the same time period and township however: The most revealing of these is a tract granted to WILLIAM DICKSON on "Tiger River alias Linvills River" in 1753.71 The only additional extant piece of evidence for the Linvills being in this district of South Carolina is an admin- istraWn bond for the estate of ANN LINVILLE, dated 29 Oct 1785. No other Linvilles are involved in the one page bond. Consequently both an Ann Linville and a John Linvill last appear in Lancaster County together in 1733 at the end of the Great Wagon Road in the same geographical location in South Carolina. John by 1749. This is the evidence which suggests that John's wife Ann was a second wife. It seems unlikely (though not impossible) that Ann would have lived long enough to be the same QAVtE CO. PU.BUC 13 6MRSVILLEo NC person who mothered THOMAS about 1709 and died in 1785. On the other hand, son William be 1711 named his first two children John and Ann. Perhaps the Ann who died in 1785 was an unmarried daughter of John and Ann. JOHN would have been 72 in 1749. With no additional references to him it would seem that he died withiu a few years of his emigration to South Carolina and that there was not a son JOHN. There is, however, the birth of a LEWIS LINVILLE which occured about 3355 and later lived and died in the same area of South Carolina and a WILLIAM LINVILLE who was to appraise an inventory of an estate in the same time and place as ANN LINVILLEs death. 74 Both could have been born in other areas and migrated to live with their relative, aunt or possible grandmother ANN LINVILL. It The suggestion that JOHN died by 1753, when the River he lived on was no longer called Linville, but Tiger, seems inescapable. It was a long journey which started for John in Sussex and culminated in the small valleys of the Upper Broad River region in South Carolina. CHILDREN OF JOHN LINVILL and (?) ANN ( ) + 7 i THOMAS 44LINVILL be 1709 PA + 8 ii WILLIAM LINVIL� be 1711 PA + 9 iii (perhaps) ALICE LINVILLE be 1720 PA Others possible. 6 THOMAS LINVILLE (Richard 2, Thommaas1 THOMAS LINVILLE appears to have stayed in Chester County and Southeastern Pennsylvania throughout the 18th century after his emigration as a very young child to the Penn's Colony. He was baptised, as an adult, on 12 May 1706 at St. Paul's Episcopal Church in Chez er and married 9 Feb 1713/47!n that church to DINAH RICHARDS, daughter of JOSEPH RICHARDS. . As a laborer, he purchased 106 acres of liod with no buildings 15 Nov 1709 from THOMAS CHANDLER for £ 10. The land was on Brandywine Creek in Birmingham- Township. There appears no record indicating its later disposition. A few months before his marriage, he purchased land in Chichester Township. As recorded, the deed executed 29 May 1713 includes 90 acres of land which JAMES SWAFER had previously sold and then repurchased from JOHN LINVILL. The entire tract of Thomas' purchase, 190 acres, was then bounded by the Chichester Meeting House land, Marcus(Chichester) Creek; land held by EDWARD 74ICHARDS, Dinah's brother; DANTJEL and SUZANNA BROWN and a Grubb. From 1715 until 1732, THOMAS continued to be taxed on this land which eventually 06A,V1E Co. PU.BLIv 610"A% fell into Upper Chichester. 80 He is the only Linvill who appears on the lists, in "lower" Chester County before upper Chester became Lancaster County. On 23 June 1733 he, a husbandman, and his wife mortgaged 86 acres of the Chi§Mester land to JOHN WORRALL, a wheelwright of Ridley Township. W$IRAL was husband to DINAH (RICHARDS) LINVILL's sister RUTH. Dinah apparently died between the time her father's estate was divided (1736) and 30 Dec 1739 when she is not included in a very unusual indenture written on that date. In it her sister and brother-in-law, the Worrals returned the 86 acres to THOMAS LINVILL alone. The completion of a mortgage debt is rarely recorded as an indenture. What is more unusual is that the indenture was not recorded in Delaware County (erected from Chester in 1789) until 4 Apr 1882. it would seem that the indenture had been kept in the possg3si.,n of a family member for over 140 years before recording it. No will or estate record was recorded for him in Chester County, nor any other deeds. He does appear on the 1740 tax list as a resident of Aston, the township of the Richards' family. It is also the first year that another Linville nate appears on the tax lists - that of JOSEPH LINVILL. THOMAS LINVILL's last appearance is on the tax list for Upper 8�hichester for 1747(the lists between 1740-1747 are not extant). Chillbsl he EBHNPW3 and DINAH (RICHARDS) LINVILL + 10 i JOSEPH 44LINVILLE be 1720 + 11 ii WILLIAM LINVILL be 1724 + 12iii EDWARD LINVILLE be 1728 + 13 iv THOMAS 4 LINVILLE be 1728 Others possible 7 THOMAS LINVILLE (John 3, Richard 2, Thomas From his 4appearance on the Chester Cggnty Tax Assessments in 1725, THOMAS was probably born in 1709. He appears to be the first Linvill to leave the Conestoga Settlement. The last dabs recorded of his presence there is in the Common Please Dockets when on 3 Nov 1730 George Middleton brought a complaint to court. The term "N.E.I." for the case indicates that Thomas could apparently not be found in the jurisdiction. One of SAMUEL BLUNSTON's licenses issued for lands west of the Susquehanna River (including present-day York County) indicates Linville's next place of resident. Issued to HANS KAIGHE on 4 Mar 1734/5, the license reads "On the West Side of Codorus where Thome Linvil first 4Settled (having purchased his Improvement). Already THOMAS seems to have moved on - this time to the Shenandoah Valley of Virginia. ROBERT McKAY, Sr., a Quaker, along with JOST HITE, a leader of the German settlers, secured 100,000 acres from the Governor 15 AAVIE 'C0ko. PUBU@ LlSij Moms,m m IYaC and Council of Virginia 21 Oct 1731. The terms of the agreement required them to settle 1000 families on their land within two years,— which they apparently were not able to so. The period was extended to 1737, when Col. MORGAN ap MORGAN, representing the Governor and an agent for McKAY and HITE enumerated the residents and the order was found ig.compliance allowing McKAY and Co. to issue deeds on the lanaa By 29 Mar 1739 they held 7009 acres on "Linwell's Creek." s9 While no list exists of the famil'es which were enumerated, it seems highly probable that THOMAS 's was one of them. That area of Virginia, very sparsely settled in the 173019, fell under the jurisdiction of Orange County by 1734, the year in which he is no longer living on Codorus Creek. Though the earliest record for him in Orange County isn't until 22 Mar 1743 when he took the 4oath as C96net (one who carried the company's colors) in WILLIAM 's Troop. Two other court records follow: 29 Mar 1745 JAMES PENDLETON and PHILIP CLAYTON, both of whom were justices, claimed THOMAS LINML owed them a debt. The case was discontinued because of agreement between the parties. He is .refered to in the record as "Thos Linvell otherwise called I Thomas Linvell aboXe the ridge". The the fo4lowing 23 and 27 May 1746, THOMAS brought suit against WILLIAM which was also dismissed, it being agreed. Then the area called Linville's Creek( called Linville District in Rockingham County today) became part of Augusta County in 1745. Althougk less active in court and land dealings than his brother, THOMAS 's -first court case occured 12 May 1746 when JOST HITE in open court "made Oath to his Account against Thomas Linvill and agreed that is the said Linvill had any Just Discount to make 92n the the(sic) Loyal of the Cause that it should be allowed." Later "Thomas Linvell, yeoman" deeded in trust to MORGAN BRYANT £16 Virginia money and 3 cows, a set 99 Smith's tools to pay Capt. ROBERT GREEN and Co. the £ 16. Witnesses were EDWARD HUGHES and ABRAHAM CROSEN. It is at this same time that MORGAN BRYAN, who purchased the large tract of 1% on Opequon Creek in the 1730's, near present day Winchester, VA became clearly associated with both Linville's, though from the prtbable date of his daughter ELEANOR BRYAN's marriage to WILLIAVS LINVILLE, the association most likely began in the early 1730s. THOMAS served as a witness to part of the McKAY-HITE Land transaction 96 after -they started recording the deeds, _signing his mark "TL". He officially bought the 500 acres which had probably been his home for ov§5 ten years, from his brother William for £12 on 20 Aug 1746, [See Map 11 the same day that William sold another 500 of the acres granted him to .TOSEPH BRYAN, MORGAN BRYAN's oldest son, for the same amount. 98 Both pieces were eventually sold to JACOB CHRISTMAN of Frederick County. THOMAS 's deed of sale includes the only reference to his wife - called HANNAH. He used nis TL mark again, but there was no signature from hi Wife. By the next year, he was fined for not attending court, not found to be in the bailiwick for 16 QAV1E CO. PU€SU(f UOKa?�. MCKsVILL16 NO a case tg8inst him, again brought by BENJAMIN PENDLETON, an attorney, and along with WILLIAM LINVILLE and MORGAN BRYAN, a defendant in a case for de�blbrought by McKAY-RITE and Co. labeled "Returned not found." Indeed the BRYANs and the LINVILLEs were headed farther down the Great Wagon Road and by Jan 1748/9 surveying land in the north side of the Yadkin River in North Carolina aloY62with th4 same EDWARD HUGHES and ABRAHAM CREESON cited above. THOMAS first appeared named on the 1751 Tax Lis for the Ran River Distrim, along with appparent sons WILLIAM and THOMAS by then 16. For some reason the three Granville Certificates of Surveys done under the guidance of Wm Churton, surveyor for their land never got translated into a Granville Grant, though from later evidence, they clearly held the land. They ended up in a batch of surveys1aresently held by the Moravian Archives in Winston-Salem, NC By the 1759 Tax List for Rowan County, which then covered thg Belews Creek Settlement, dDAVID LINVILL, THOMAS 1b5NVILL, THO LINVILL, JUN; and RICH LINVILL, are listed. When the taxables were taken for 1761, despite the scurrying settlers were doing to avoid the French and Indian War's influence in North Carolina, the following LINVILLES were enumerated by their presence in CHARLES McANNALLY's list covering the Belews Creek area: ARRON LINVILJ56 "DAVID FNVILLE (Cons'ble) for brother" and RICHARD LINVILLE. THOMAS LINVILLE clearly returned to the area later, suggesting that he is the "brother4 DAVID was 5taxed for as well, but the absence of both THOMAS and WILLIAM suggests something else. By this time, the LINVILLEs were clearly joined in the North Carolina settlements by JOSEPH and ALICE BRYAN, who had recently (3 Jun 1755) solb their 500 acres on Linvills Creek in VA to JACOB CHRISTMAN. The deed states that one bound is "land in possession of Thomas Linville," though the description might simply have been recopied from the original deed transaction in the curt house. After arriving in the Yadkin settlement, WILLLIAM 1b8NVILLE sold to JOSEPH BRYAN the land on which he was to settle, but one bay mare branded TL; one gray mare branded D f on the near shoulder, and on the near Buttock thus L; a sorrel roan'd mare branded L;.a chestnut colored corse branded L and a sorrel gelding branded onthe near buttock L; 18 head of cattle marked with a crop and a slit in the near ear and a hald penny underside of the ear; 8 heT89of sheep, marked like the cattle; and sundry household goods. Perhaps, William4was selling the 4residue of his share of either his brother THOMAS or father JOHN estate. Since the Anson County Court records are no longer extant, any ear marks would have been recorded there, given it was the jurisdiction for the area upon their settlement in 1748-51. The disappearance of THOMAS at the same time may be AAV)E Co. PUbuo UD! a coincidence to the sale of household goods, but the suggestion M.CCKSVILLO, that Thomas died about 1761 is inescapable. He would have been 51 at the time. No will or estate proceedings nor additional court or land records yield his name. Whether HANNAH ( ) was 17 his only wife is not known. He would have been married in the early 1730's given the age of at least two children, both sons, taxed in 1751. His children a -d grandchildren and their descendants still populate the Belews Creek area in present day Forsyth County, NC. 1 Children of THOMAS LINVILLE and HANNAH (� i THOMAS 55LINVILLE be 1733 ii WILLIP LINVILLE be 1735 iii DAVID FNVILLE be 1738 iv RICHA§D LINVILLE be 1740 v AARON LINVILLE be 1745 vi MOSES LINVILLE be 1752 vii (perhaps) daughter who married _ COLE Other daughters possible. 8 WILLIAM4 LINVILLE (J=, 3 Richard, 2 , Thomas ) Most Linville descendants know the story about WILLIAM LINVILLE for whom the spectacular Linville Falls in North Carolina is named. Knowing the story has also perpetuated the family history that the "Linvilles were related to the Buones." Maybe, but how? After signing the petition to create Lancaster County,110 WILLIAM brought suit against JOHN NEWCOMAT in the Lancaster County Common.. Pleas Court as he appears in the docket 5-6 May 1730 ayflagain 4 May 1731. There is no dispensation of the case noted. At the same time MORGAN BRYAY12 brother to WILLIAM BRYAN, a resident of now Lancansr County, had obtained a 100,000 grant with ALEXANDER ROSS. with similar requirements of the McKAY- HITE arrangements. BRYAN was looking for families to settle the area bounded on two sides by Opequon Creek and on the south by the Potomac River. This would have been the next stop from Lancaster on the way to the Linville Creek in Virginia. At what point or exactly where WILLIAM LINVILLE met ELEANOR BRYAN, daughter of MORGAN and MARTHA(STRODE) BRYAN, is not clear, though from the apparent start of the birthtltf'their children, and ELEANOR's probable date of birth in 1722 they were like_y married about 1737. The marriage was to create a strong relationship between the familig15.across several future generations. MORGAN BRYAN's will , clearly indicates his daughter ELINOR LINVILL. From the court records in Orange and Augusta Counties Virginia the character of WILLIAM becomes more estatj�shed. He was Capitain of the Horse for the local militia. On the other hand, he had his hands full with court deliberations. Suit 18 QAVIE CO. PUBUG L!l KAIAY . MQCKSVJ J. was brought against him by NATHANIEL CHAPMAN, administrator of PETER10ALKNER's estate, for lack of payment of a £ 25 promisory note. ABRAHAM HINCKLE assured the court he would have WILLIAM at the next session of court. The case was continued until 24 Sept 1742 when the jury declared that WILLIAM owed £6 5s llp for the debt and 1 penny damages. In another case, WILLIAM LINVILL and THOMAS JONES had their cases joined in an anion of debt which ROBERT GREEN, sheriff brought against them. Later others were added to the suit, including SAMUEL HARRISON, Vfi;NTINE SEVIER, DAN'L HARRISON, ABRAHAM HINCKLER, JACOB DYE. At the same time an additional debt case was taken against WILLIAM (as with his broMr THOMAS) by JAMES PENDLETON and PHILLIP CLAYTON for 1£ 169 6p,. By4 the time the county jurisdictions changed in 1745, WILLIAY21 appears in court, committT12 and fined for being drunk. and had a garnishee attached. He then seems to have gone about the business of legally squiring and then disposing of the land he had been living on for some time, in the expectation, no doubt of moving on to another area for a fresh start. He finally seems to have been able to legally acquire the 1500 acres which he had been living on for sombjime but had been legally granted to YEW and HITE in 1739. He paid £ 62 10s for it 18 June 1746 and then sold it in three lots of 500 acres each to GEORGE BOWMAN of12grederick Co. on 15 Aug 1746 for £100 Pennsy4vania curf2gcy; and then tt27last two 500 acre lots to THOMAS LINWILL and JOSEPH BRYAN on the same day 20 Aug 1746 for £12 pounds. (See Map 1) The last Virginia reference for him is the joint suit brought by McHJ and HITE against WILLIAM and THOMAS LINVILL and MORGAN BRYAN. Things went much better in North Carolina where he surveyed a number of future Granville Grants and established a plantatin first on the northeast side of the Yadkin along Linvill Creek this time with no question about his ownership. The land was strategically located at the end of the "Great Road" as descrBe in Jeffrey's Map in Congressional Library in Washington, DC. He acquired seven Granville Grants, eventually selling all seven: one to his son JOHN LINVILLE, located on land across the Yadkin from their former plantation at the mouth of Linville Creek, which feel to his brother WILLIAM LINVILLE, as heir-at-law and }iter was sold to oAMUEL BAIHT for an astonding sum of 1 3600; another to JOSEPH BRY44S a third to WILLIAM JOHNSON on which he had built a cabin. This latter one was to become part of the WILLIAM REYNOLDS estate, now a beautifully preserved "Tanglewood," a major recreation and nature area in Forsyth County, NC. He appears on the 1759 Tax List for Rowan County,134 on CALEB OSBORN's list in 1761 along kith sons JOHN and WffiIAM LINVILL and probable nephew WILJJAM LINVILL (Thomas ); a sheriff of Rowan County in 1762; and as a road fury member 11 DAV I E CO. PUBLIC Lt U M"N r 19 MOCKS=% PC Jan 1764.137 As evidenced by his deteriorating signatures (marks WL) on the Granville Grants, he was either aging or struggling with his health. Both seem to be operating. His last appearance in the court records is for a j%t brought against him by SATTERWAITE & CO. on 11 July 1766. Within days, his name would become forever imbedded in both family and local history. Perhaps no more than a week later, WILLIAM LINVILL, SR., hoping to improve his health, his son JOHN LINVILL and another young man journeyed over the mountains to the west of the Yadkin settlement for hunting and trapping. Both Linvilles were killed in -a surprise attack by Indians at the head of what is now known as Linville Falls [ located on the shoals near the Linville Falls Visitors Center, Linville Falls, NC]. The young man eventually, after much trouble, escaped back to camp to tell GEORGE BOONE and others. who went out to bury the bodies,148ne of themapparently George's favorite brother DANIEL BOONE. Local residents point to a spot near a church basketball court in the Altamont district about two miles above the falls, as the place where WILLIAM and JOHN LINVILLE were buried. ifttice of the killings was taken by Gov. TryTX2on 30 July 1766 and the South Carolina Gazette 9 Sept 1766. ELINOR LINVILLE, refered to ay "Nelly", by her grandson in his interview with Draper in 1868, 43 continued to live in the Yadkin settlemeY44on the "new" Linville Creek on the south side of the Yaffi* n. She acquired additional land after the Revolution, possibly in panat for confiscation of land, given her brother SAMUEL BRYAN's Loyalist activities in Rowan County. Rowan County Court of Pleas and Quarter Sessions lists in Aug 1778 [p. 1691, her children WILLIAM LINVILL, MORGAN LINVILL, sons-in-law THOMAS THOMSON and JOHN BRINEGAN, and possible nephew WILLIAM LYNVILL are found in a group of men refusing to take the Oath of Alliegance. She sol Warts of the land to EVAN ELLIS and HENRY HENDRICKS in 1785-6. For some reason, the latter must have reverted back to thS family because after her death, Ah was resold by her son WILLIAM LINVILLE to EVAN ELLIS in 1805. She acquired one additional piece of land shortly before her emigration to Kentucky and her death. The State granted her 285 acres on the west side of Linville Creek (the one whi%flows ne into the Yadkin River and is now called Carter Creek) on 18 May 1791 which she sold as "Elinor Linvel}58f Berben Virginia" to her brother SAMUEL BRYAN 22 Sept 1791. According to her grandson, she died about 1792 when he was tgglyears old and was then living with "her children" in Kentucky. DAVIE CO. PUBLIC UBRARY MOCKSVILLF,6 Na 20 Children of WILLIAM4 and ELINOR "Nelly"(BRYAN) LINVILL i JOHN LINVILL be 1738; d July 1766 "Linville Falls" ii ANN "Nancy" LINVILL be 1740; me 1765 GEORGE BOONE; d. 14 Mar 1814, age about 70 with 18f52descen- dants. Buried 2 mi west of Richmond, KY. iii WILLIAM LINVILL be 1745 m. dc. 1810 Rockcastle County, KY. iv MORGAN LINVILL 1p� 1754 me 1798 SARAH BjjjN(dau of SAMUEL BRYAN) ; do 1830 Clark Co. KY v LUCRETSLINVILLE be 1757 m. JOHN BRINNIGER 9 Feb 1779 vi ELIZABM LINVILLE be 1759 m. THOMAS THOMPSON 2 May 1780 Is Other daughters possible. 9 M ALICE "Allee" LINVILLE (John 3, Rices , Thi ) The evidence that JOHN had a daughter ALICE who lived to maturity is circumstantial. The Bryan family has for some tM "thought" that JOSEPH BRYAN's second wife was a4 LINVILLE. JOSEPH BRYAN bought his 5004acre land from WILLIAM LINVIIJE as did William's brother THOMAS for the low price of £ 12. (See Map 1) -The Joseph Bryan family apparently continued to live on that poj�jon of the Linville Creek land until 1755 when they sold it to move again "next door" to WILLIAM and ELINOR (BRYAN) LINVILLE on Linville Creek in the Yadkin Settlement JOSEPH 118YAN bought his land here again from WILLIAM LINVILL. The same day as he purchased the land in North Carolina, ..he also bTgpt the animals and sundry household items from WILLIAM. It is possible to assume from the information that in addition to the fact that JOSEPH BRYAN was ELINOR LIFILL's brotheg, his wire ALICE, may indeed have been WILLIAM and THOMAS LINVILL's sister, and the animals and household items were the remains of the estate of either brother THOMAS or father JOHNS. If ALICE BIYAN was a Linville 4she would more likely be the daughter of JOHN and not of THOMAS since her apparent date of birth Iould have been 1720. She was bearing children by 1740 and THOMAS seems not to have had children until 1733, possibly as early as 1730. In additi3n, their location in North Carolina was some distance for THOMAS at jelews Creek, choosing instead to live as neighbors of WILLIAM. Had she been Thomas's daughter, one would expect her to have chosen to ' closer to him. JOSEPH and ALICE OLINVILLE) BRYAN eventually moved to Kentucky as well, but not until after the death of his brother SAMUEL BRYAN in 1798. JOSEPH and ALICE both died at Floyd's Fork, Jefferson County RY, he in the winter of 1804 and she after DAVIE CO. PUBL!'' '_:n Y 21 MOCKSVILLE, So the probate of his Will 4 Mar 1805.162 Children of ALICE4 (?LINVILL) and JOSEPH BRYAN163 i REBECCA BRYAN b 7 Feb 1739 me 1756 DANIEL BOONE d 18 Mar 1813 St Charles Co., NO age 87 ii MARTHA BRYAN be 1743 me 1760 EDWARD BOONE iii MARY BRYAN me 1761 CORNELIUS HOWARD iv SAMUEL BRYAN v SUSANNAH BRYAN m HINKLE ` vi PHOEBE BRYAN m. 1779 JAMES FORBUSH vii AYLEE BRYAN m 1789 nc JOSHUA HOWARD viii JOHN BRYAN be 1760 ix ELEANOR BRYAN m. ADAMS x CHARITY BRYAN m 1797 JOHN DAVIS It Others possible, order not certain 10 JOSEPH4 LINVILLE (Thomas , Richard-, Thomas ) JOSEPH4 LINVILLE appears to be the first son of THOMAS and DINAH RICHARDS, not only l om having as his namesake his grandfather JOSEPH RICHARDS, but from his first appearance on the Chester Counig5tax lists along with father Thomas in Aston township in 1740. Whether this was the first time he was old enough to pay taxes is not known because the Chester County tax records from 1732-1740 are not extant. Neither are they from 1741-1747 when JOSEPH's name appears in Uwchlan township, northwest from Uppe4 Chichester and Lower Darjg6where his father .and brother WILLIAM are reigictively listed. - In the 1749 and 1751 tax list he is listed as an "inmate", a non -land owner who was eligible to be taxed and to vote. He next appears to have moved even farther north and west to Cumru township in Berks County five miles southwest of Reading, where he is taxed in 1755 as "poor", in 1758 as "tenan16Sand landlord", and for the final time in 1760 with no notation. No land records are attributed to him in either Chester or Berks County,- nor:any probate or estate records. His apparent sons, on the other hand, neatly start being taxed in Cumru town- ship, first as single en, in 1773 after a 13 year gap in toe tax collection records. In addition two of thm JOSEPH and ISAAC had service records from the Revolution, one possible daught9f, MARGARET baptised a child with ANDREW ROFFMAN in 1781. The descendants of JOSEPH4 passed on the 'story' about the 'three brothers' coming with WILLIAM PENN through two of his great grandchildren PHILIP BRUCE LINVILLE and Dr. DAVID GOFF LINVILL. Their fathers were both sons of BENJAMIN and ANN (MATTHEWS) LINVILLE who apparently settled on same 500 acre farm 22 GAVIE CO. PUBW �.I801W MOCKSVILL�, Nb in Linville Creek, Virginia which htd previouili belonged to Benjamin's his father's cousin, THOMAS LINVILL. It seems likely that JOSEPH LINVILLE died during the 13 year gap in the Berks County tax records. He apparently had childrtn until the mid -176019. There is n?7e5vidence regarding JOSEPH 's wife, though DAVID GOFF LINVILL said she was a riULLIGAN. The name is not apparent in the areas where the family lived, though the name MILLIKIN is. No connection has yet been found. Children of JOSEPH LINVILLE + i ISAAC LINVILL be 1757 ii MARGARET LINVILLE m. ANDREW ROFFMAN • iii BENJAMIN LINVILL be 1760 me 1782 ANN MATHEWS lived at Linville Cfnk, VA do 1820 OH iv JOSEPH LINVILL be 1762 v (perhaps) ELISHA LINVILLE be 1763 vi (perhaps) JOHN LINVILLE be 1765 Other daughters possible. 11 WILLIAM4 , LINVILLE (Thomas3 Richard,2 John,1) William Linvill is the next one appearing in the south- eastern Pennsylvania tax list when iY71747, 1749 and 1750 he is listed as a freeman in Lower Darby. From 1753 until 1763 he continues to be a resident of Lower Darby in Chey qr County When in 1765 115 acres" is listed as his land hyllings. He married MARY DONALDSON, a Quaker, 17 Jan 1753, which explains the change in his tax status in that year. Estate reoords for Mary's fathe178WILLIAM DONALDSON, mention both of them as heirs 29 May 1770. They continued to live in Lower Darby of Chester through the winter at Valley Forge, during which two so&s apparently served. They would have been near their Uncle THOMAS LINVILL's house in Sadsbury on the Chester/Lancaster line. The family were active members of the Sadsbury Friends meeting. The family "generational fan" and parchment provide much of the documentation for their descendants, ampilfied and verified by wills of two sons, deeds, Orphans Court and cemetery records for Delaware, Lancaster, Philadelphia, Chester, Northumberland and Columbia Counties in Pennsylvania, and Harrison County, WV. One son died in 1840 in Pike County, IL, the farthest west this branch of the family emigrated by the fifth generation. V 23 DAME CO- PU,B13C QBRIRt�I'.Y M.00KSVi" NC Children of WILLIAM LINVILLE and MARY DONALDSON179 i FRANCES LINVILL b 1755, m JOHN ROUND ii MARGARET LINVILL b 1756, m JOSEPH HOAR iii JAMES LINVILL b 1759, m 1 Jan 1782 ANN LEGANG (LOGAN) iv THOMAS LINVILL b 1759, m MARTHA WIGGINS v WILLIAM LINVILL b 2 Dec 1763, m ELIZABETH HOAR vi ARTHUR LINVILL b 1766, m. 24 May 1810 HOPE WARE vii EDWARD LINVILL b 1770, m. 11 Apr 1804 MARY GRIFFITH viii ELIZABETH LINVILL b 1773 11EDWARD4 LINVILLE (Thomas,3 Richard,3 Thomas',YI) Edward is the next son who reaches taxable age in Pennsylvania, when in 1750 he is listed inl96s father's home township of Upper Chichester as an "inmate". By 1753 he is a freeman in the same township and continues to be taxed there until 1779-1781 why he is again an "inmate", apparently having no taxable land. He married JANE COLLETT, daughter of JEREMIAH and JANE (MAY) Sr. The as evidenced by wills of both JEREMIAH COLLETT, Jr184nd The family first settled in Chester County in 1682. JEREMIAH COLLET, Sr.'s will indicates that his daughter's name is JANE BAZELLA. JEREMIAH COLLET, Jr.'s will, written eight years later, leaves. bequests to his sister JANE LINWELL and her son JOHN LINWELL. EDWARD LINWELL is an executor along with Collet's wife MARY COLLETT. The tax lists for Chester County between 1765 and 1781 reveal that JOHN LINVILL was first taxed as a freeman in 1779 (tax gap between 1774-1779) suggesting that JANE (COLLETT) BAZELLA and EDWARD LINVILLE were married about 1755-7 and son JOHN born by 1757 which would be in keeping with the tax information. From 1780-1788 in Surry County, 'NC where Thomas #7 and children were living, there are several references to an EDWARD LINVI� who participated in various aspects of community life. He does not appear on the 1790 census. No other record of an Edward Linville appears in any of the North Carolina families. There is, however, a death record in the card file at the Kentucky Historical Society which states: ELIZABETH LINVILLE LASLEY, daughter of EDWARD LINVILLE, was born in Green County, KY 1784 and died there 26 Dec 1857. Lasley is a family name from the Belews Creek area in the then Surry/Stokes County, North Carolina. Whether this is the same Edward Linville is certainly not clear. EDWARD and JANE (COLLETT) LINVILLE are known to have other children, including a second son JAMES who along with JOHN served in the Revolution, the latter moving to Baltimore and later 24 0AVIE CO. PUSUC LXI MCKSVILLE; NO Hardin Co., KY. There were at least two daughters, SUSANNA and SARAH, yho are mentionxd thsuch in the will of Edward's cousin WILLIAM, son of THOMAS. Children of EDWARD LINVILLE and JANE COLLETT i JOHN LINVILLE bc. 1757 ii JAMES LINVILLE b after 1760 iii SUSANNA LINVILLE m. ABRAM iv SARAH LINVILLE m. GRIST v (perhaps) ELIZABETH m.� LASLEY It 12TROMAS4 LINVILLE (Thomas, Richard, 2 Thomas ) THOMAS does not appear on the Chester County tax lists. He had moved to Sadsbury Township on the Chester/Lancaster County line where he was recieved as a member of the Sadsbury Friends Meeting in Aug 1754. His wife ANN LINVEL transfued her membership to that meeting a year later in Jul 1755. They later held land, lived and and 1VI57 taxed in Salisbury Township, Lancaster County, PA as well. She was the daughter of SHADRACK SCARLET of London Grove a198 received his Lancaster County land in his estate settlement. ANN LINVEL died in 1785 and left a simple wil}89which left bequests to son WILLIAM, daughters ANN and PHEBE. There are record .of two additional Linvilles in the area, one a Quaker' record who might have been sons of theirs as well. In 1782 ROBERT LINVILL was disowned from Concord Monthly Meeting in Chester because of his mjj6tary service, though no record can be found of such service. The second is for a RICHARD LINVILL who appears as a tax payer in Sadsbufg,Township in Chester County Tax Records for 1779 as an inmate. His name also does not appear again.. THOMAS LINVILL cannot be accounted for in the 1790 Census for Pennsylvania, suggesting that he died before then. ANN appears to be living with her son WILLIAM who became a proming$j land owner in Lancaster County and whose will in 1813 provide the first legally recorded instrument with substantial genealogical information about the Linvilles after 130 years in the "colonies." Children of THOMAS LINVILL and ANN SCARLETT i WILLIAM LINVILLE be 1755, m. LYDIA HOAR; do 1813. ii ANN LINVILL d after 1813 unmarried i i i PHEBY LINVILLE m. WHELAN DAVIE CO. PUBLIQ WDRAW M.00KSVILLE. IMG ENDNOTES 1This work is a substantial revision to that previously published by the writer on the Linvilles. The former works were primarly published to encourage others in the family to research their own branches in order to present a progressively more accurate history of the family. All of the research presented here was conducted entirely by the writer, with the exception noted in N. 6 infra. Research at present now concentrates on the fifth generation presented here. That generation is not to be considered entirely complete. Because the Linvilles so consistently migrated during this time period within the context of an extended community, continued research in the fifth and sixth generation research my indeed yield additional speculation about the wives of JOHN and his son THOMAS, as well as additional chilren in the fourth. 2Allen A. Mawer znd Frank M. Stenton, The Place N_ in Sussex (Cambridge, ENG Cambridge University Press, 1929-30) and Eilert Khwall, ed., The Concise Oxford Dictionary of English Place Names (3rd. ed., 1947, Rpt. Oxford: Clarenden Press), p. 284. 3Basil Cottle,Penguin Dictionary of Surnames (2nd ed., London: Allen Lane, 1978) and Mark Anthony Lower, English Surnames: An Essay on Family Nomenclature, Vol. 1 (London: John Russell Smith, 1849), p. 57. 4 N. 2, supra. 5 Alfred B. Emden, Biographical Register of the University of Cambrid a to 1500 (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, T9-63-79 p. 6Research clairfying the details of THOMAS LINVILL in Sussex and his three children in Sussex was completed with the indespensible collaboration of Mrs. Louise Mestal, 13 Prince Edwards Road, Lewes, Sussex. Vital records in Sussex are, unless otherwise noted, from microfilm copies of the extant parish registers in the respective parishes held by the East Sussex Record Office, Lewes [Hereafter, ESRO]. In addition, Mrs. Mestal was allowed access to the original Fletching Parish Registers [Hereafter F:1 and F:2, respectively] the first of which she judges to be "clearly a copy of a non -extant original," the second of which has been severly damaged by rodents. Both are at ESRD. Only the descendants of the emigrant are followed here. 7Marriage for Jane Napkin to John Linfield 30 Jan 1612/13 Telscombe, ESRO. 8Marriage license is for Richard Wickersom of Fletching, N. 19, infra. The record itself is for Richard Wickerson of oAVIE CO. "LIC Li"Alt ,WCK5v1LLEa NO r Barcombe. 9Richard Wickersham Was present at Court as Reeve of Sheffield Manor on 22 Apr 1656; 15 Apr 1657; 1 Oct 1657. Manor of Sheffield Court Book I, presently held by ESRO. 10Marriageof John Yeomans to Cassandra Wickersham 26 Sept 1653 F:1. 11Marriagebetween Humphrey Killingbeck and Cassandra Yeomans occured betwen 20 Sept 1672 and 19 Dec 1672 as indicated by the minutes on those dates in the "Proceedings of Lewes Men's Monthly Meeting 1669-1695." ESRO. It 12Letterfrom Louise Mestal 25 Nov 1986 as read from F:2. ESRO. 13 "Thomas Baldwin et.al to Killingeck and Cox" Philadelphia County Deeds, Book C-1, Vol 3, p. 185. Copy of original in possession of writer [Hereafter possession by the writer of original copies is referred to as ORG]. 14Letterfrom Louise Mestal 20 Mar 1987. 15 [P.G. Lucas and Mr. and Mrs. D.S.Rawlings], "Church Lane, Danehill Parish Historical Magazine [Heareafter DPHM], 2(Feb 1983), p. 8. 16 N. 14, supra. 17DPHH, 2(Feb, 1983), p.8. 18 "Administration of Thomas Linvill," Prerogative Court of Canterbury. Administration 1658. Quire #180. Public Record Office, Chancery Lane, London [Hereafter PRO]. 19Indexto Sussex Marriage Licenses, 1586-1642/3 (Lewes: Sussex Records Society) Vol. 1, p. 261. Archdeaconry of Lewes. 20Ibid2 p. 159. Archdeaconry of Lewes. Dated 3 Apr 1627. 21 N. 15 supra. w 22"Will of Richard Wickersham," Prerogative Court of Canterbury. Wills 1658. Quire #82. PRO. 23DPHM, p . 2-3 . QAYiE CO. P 24 �IOCKg ! BUC Li®I��Y Ibid, p. 8. I.L 25 "Will of Humnhrey Killingbeck, of Bolney" Proved Lewes, 1 1710. A 48/47. ESRO. Also bap at Bolney 31 Jan 1630. 26"Will of Thomas Hart, hempdresser of Maresfield, " written 18 May 1690. Proved Lewes, 14 Sept 1691. ESRD. "Will of Thomas 2 Hart, laborer of Ardingly," written 25 May 1640. Proved Lewes, 1645 (no day or month written). ESRD. ORG. [See also, Linville Roots 3(Feb, 1987) p. 1-6 for history of the three generations of the Hart family. 27ThomasShourds, History of Fenwick's Colony (Bridgeton, NJ: n. pub., 1876), p. 411. and Gilbert Cope Collection, [Hereafter COPE], Vol. 52, p. 103. Historical Society of Pennsylvania [Hereafter ASP]. Both inacccurately cite "Macefield" for Mary's place of birth, probably because it was the way it sounded when pronounced. 28 COPE, N. 27, for place of Thomas' birth as "Omny". It Z9PennsylvaniaArchives (Third Series), III, (Harrisburg, 1894-909 p. 144. [Publication hereinafter cited: Series PA Vol.: page, as 3PA 3:144 for above]. 30 -.Pennsylvania Warrants and Surveys" Chester County "L", p. 292, #32. Microfilm Collection. Genealogical Library of Church of Latter -Day Saints, [Hereafter LDs]. U.S. and Canada, 020,886. ORG 31Letterfrom Aubrey Baldwin [Baldwin Family genealogist] to writer 25 Sept 1982 citing "Wm. Haig, commissioner,letter to William Penn." 32On16 Jul 1894 two Linvilles, both physicians, met each other and exchanged "information" about their ancestry. What they didn't know 3 i that one of them (Dr. A.Y. Linivlle) ..escended from John and the other (Dr. D.G. Linvill) descended from his brother Thomas 3. The "information" they shared was recorded on a parchment stating, "A Chronological History of Wm Linville and children who came from England with Wm Penn his 2nd voyage & two other brothers Benjamin & Solom [Isaac written above] Linville accompanied him one went soth (sic) of Pa & was never heard of by other two." ORG The genealogical chat include was for William Linville of Darby who is William , (Thomas , Richard -the emigrant). While the details in the statement are inaccurate, the genealogy of William's descendants is reasonably accurate, though not complete. Obviously the statement shows an error in the generation and in the relationships between his supposed brothers who are really his cousins. Other Linville have then seen the parchment both in North Carolina and the midwest, changing the names of the brothers depending on their knowledge of their own ancestry. 33CharlesPenrose Keith, Chronicles of Pennsylvania from the English Revolution to the Peace of Aix-la-Chapelle, 1688-1745, r I, (Philadelphia: Patterson and White, 1917) p. 375. 34Thedate of purchase from William Penn according to 2PA 19:217, is 13 Apr 1682. The Linvilles would probably have not left before this date. twit CO. PU8LIG MOCKSMLLF, 3 35Othersin Group XLVII were Sarah Fuller, Elizabeth Lovett, John Rowland, Edward Buckman, John Bish, and "A.B." [See: Hannah Banner Roach, "The First Purchas rs of Pennsylvania," in Walter Lee Sheppard, Jr., Passengers and Ships Prior to 1684 (Baltimore: Genelogical Pub. Co., 1970), p. 208. [The book hereafter: Ships] Buckman and Rowland are proven Welcome passengers. Sarah Fuller knew several of the known passengers [See: George E. McCracken, The Welcome Claimants, Proved, Disproved and Doubtdul with an Account of Some of Their Descendants, (Baltimore: Genealogical Pub. Co., 1970), p. 60; 107; 460.1 Rillingbeck's aunt Margaret was married to Rev. John Bishe/Bysshe, Rector at Pycombe. [See: Letter from Louise Meatal 5 Feb 1987.1 There may be some relationship between them and this John Bish. ,36McCracken, Welcome`, p. 267, though Thomas Wickersham was married to his sister Ann's daughter; and 2PA 19: 217. 37WalterLee Sheppard, Jr., "Digest of Ships and Passenger Arrivals in the Delaware," in Ships, p. 122-5. 38 Will of Joseph Richards," Philadelphia County Wills, Book C p. 234 written 6 Jul 1705, proved 16 Feb 1710/11 and [Gilbert C. Cope] "Genealogical Collections Relating to the Family of Dr. Joseph Richards" compiled for Joseph T. Richards, 1913. [Hereafter RICHARDS] HSP, SCR1 Box 75. 39MarionBalderston, "William Penn's Twenty-three Ships, With Notes on Some of their Passeng r..," in Ships N. 36, supra, p. 36. 40N. 34, supra. 41ColonialSociety of Pennsylvania, Chester County Court Records, 11681-1697 I (Philadelphia: 191), p. 59 transcripts of originals held at Chester County Historical Society.[Hereafter CCHS] ORG.; also 2PA 8: v; and COPE, N. 17, supra. 42"Michael Izard to Thomas Baldwin," Philadelphia County Deeds, Bk A, p. 80. Recorder of Deeds d ffice, Philadelphia, PA. 43N. 37, supra. 44ChesterCounty Wills, Bk a p. 334. Chester County Court House, West Chester, PA. 45Allbirths and marriages are from COPE, Vol. 5, p. 22, whose authority is apparently Thomas Shourds. They apparently occured in Chester County, PA and ire presented here to illustEate the connection between John and his half-brother Thomas Baldwin. Also letter from Aubrey Baldwin 25 Sept 1982, N. 27, supra, which states that the children had been previously baptised by "an itinerant Baptist minister on Delaware (according to Shourds) and they wre required to be rebaptised in joining the mewl, formed St. Paul's Episcopal congregation in Chester i�AV�E 1705." [See William Shaler Johnson, "A Copy of the Register - Co. PUbLIr; M KSVILLF, r� Baptisms -Marriages -Burials St Paul's Church at Chester on the Delaware from date of origins of the Parish April .18, 1704 to April 18, 1903 to which is added a 'Woman's List' of marriages for coneveniet reference." HSP. MSS #DE 4E:1. 46 COPE, Vol. 5, p. 22; and Charles Candee Baldwin, Baldwin_ Genealogy (Cleveland, OH: n. pub., 1881), p. 744. 47 "Warrants and Surveys for John Taylor, Accounts of Land in Chester, 1721," Pennsylvania Manuscripts #32. Large Folio. HSP, ORG; and Warrant Requests #578 and #579 for Robert Hodgeson and James Hendricks on Conestoga 16 Dec 1714/15, "Minute Book of Property Book H," in Warrants and Surveys -Lancaster County 1710- 1734. LDS. Microfilm U.S.and Canada 0020360, item 8. Is 48 COPE, Vol. 90, p. 148. 49[H. Frank Eshleman], "Old Conestoga Neighbors," Lancaster County Historical Society Payers (Lancaster, PA) 19: 282. 50 "Lancaster county Pennsylvania Quarter Sessions Book I, 1729-17429" p. 150. Lancaster County Historical Society, [Hereafter LCHS]. Basement vault, ORG; also abstracted by Gary T. Hawbaker (Hersey, PA: n.pub., 1986), p.41. 51 "Records of Court of Chester County Pennsylvania, Vol. 2, 1697-1710," P. 71, CCHS. ORG 52Iv p. 75. 53I9 p. 116; and "John Linvill to James Swafer," Chester County Deeds Bk A, p. 271. Office of Recorder of Deeds, West Chester, PA. ORG 54"James Swafer to Thomas Linvill," Chester Coounty Deeks Bk C, p. 378, dated 29 May 1713, purchase price £95. Recorder of Deeds, West Chester, PA. ORG 55Ibid, p. 80-83 dated 5 Apr 1709. ORG 56Richards, n.p., Several expertly done maps Qf the southern Chester townships (later Delaware Co.) which appear to have been drafted and drawn by Joseph T. Richards in 1898 and 1910. ORG 57 "Arno 1703. Accompt of Lands I Resurveid on ye gropes accompt," Taylor Papers #3311-3313. HSP, Misc. Vol. 1672-1775. ORG 58"Patrick Carragan, et. al. to John Bare. 2 May 17519" Lancaster County Deeds, Book C p. 79, Lancaster County Court of Common Pleas, Archives Division. Copy of transcript of original in possession of writer. The deed indicates that "James Hendricks and Mary his wife, afterwords by their deed dated the fifteenth day of October 1733 for the consideration therein mentioned did grant bargain and sell unto one John Linvill and IDAVIE CO. PU13LIC UM."• 5 M,OCKsvILLK6 NO his heirs two hundred acres part of the said eleven hundred acres dated the eighteenth day of October Anno Dominini 1733 .... sell unto the said John Postlewait.... one hundred and twenty six acres part of the said two hundred." 59N. 49, supra. Eshleman stated that Thomas Baldwin was Bon- in -law to James Hendricks and a brother-in-law of John Linvill. He apparently meant the term "brother-in-law" to mean brother at law or half-brother - both having the same meaning in the 170019 but different meanings today. 60ChesterCounty Tax Lists, 1693-1740. Formerly part of COPE at the HSP and presently held by CCHS. [Note These have been „recatalogued from the time I originally saw them, consequently bhe citation above is not completed.] also J.S. Fulty and Gilbert Cope, History of Chester County Pennsylvania (Philadelphia: Louis & Everts, 1881). 61LoosePapers under "Linville" in the family collection of the Chester C^unty Archives and Records Service, CCHS. ORG. 62"Chester County Court of Common Pleas Docket," 1716, p. 126 and 142. CCHS. ORG. 63N. 47. 64Letterfrom Aubrey Baldwin to writer, N. 45. 65ChesterCounty Tax Lists, N. 60. ORG. John Linvill enumerated 1718, p.19, c.l, 1.14; 1719-20 p.11, c.1,1.44; 1720, p.24, c.2, 1.49; 1720-1, p.23, c.l, 1.34; 1721, p.14,c.1, 1.55; 17229 p.l, c.l, 1.47; 1725 (John? p.6, c.l, 1 49-54; Thomas p.9, c.1,1.33; 1727 (John, p.6, c.2, 1.9; Thomas p.9, c.l, 1.9). There is an inaccurate transcript of these lists in H. Frank Eshleman, "Assessment Lists and Other Manuscript Documents of Lancaster County Prior to 1729," Lancaster County Historical Socciie_ty_ Publications, Vol. 20, p. 155-192 which includes the name Christian Linvill under "freeman" on P. 186 for the 1725 list instead of Thomas Linvil as it appears on the original. 66"The Petition of the Inhabitants of the upper.part of th= _ounty of Chester," Pennsylvania Historical and Museum Commission. Division of Archives, Harrisburg, PA. ORG. 67"Comon Pleas Docquet from August 1729 to August 1731," LCHS. ORG. 68N. 50, sura. OAV1E CO- F1j8L1C Utlpj^l 69 MQCKSYII.I.Fo NoN. 58, supra. 70"Colonial Plats," Vol. 59 p. 179. South Carolina Department of Archives and History, Columbia, SC.[Hereafter SCA]. ORG. 71MilesS. Philbeck, Upper Broad River Basin Pioneers, 1750- 6 1760(0hapel Rill Turner and Philbeck, 1986) and in correspondence between Philbeck and writer, 8 Jun 1987. 72"Estate of Ann Linville," Abbeville County Estate Papers, Box 108, Pack 2951. SCA. Administrators: Elisha Rhodes, George Hughes and Elijah Whitten. ORG. 73"Estate of Lewis Linville," Laurens County, SC Estate Records, Box 4, #8, 1822; and 7 Nov 1825, SCA; and correspondence with descendant Edgar D. Byler, III and writer Jun 1980 -Jul 1986. 74"Estate of William Duncan." Abbeville Estate Papers, Box 27, Pack 618, SCA. Dated 19 Aug 1785 and 13 Oct 1785. ORG. 75N. 45 supra. .76Ibid. and 2 PA 8:208. 77 Richards, p. 37 and "Will of Joseph Richards" #552 Chester County Clerk, West Chester, PA. Dated 28 Jan 1732;'Inventory 8 Jan 1735/6; N. 45, su ra, Dinah Richards, daughter of Joseph bap 9 June 1706 along with other siblings. 78"Thomas Chandler to Thomas Linvill," Bk C, p. 111, Chester County Deeds, Recorder of Deeds, West Chester, PA. ORG. 79"James Swafer to Thomas Linvill," Chester Deeds, Bk C, p. 3789 CD. ORG. 8000PE "Handwritten Chester County Tax Lists -1693-1740," see N. 60. 81"Thomas and Dinah Linville to John and Ruth Worrall," Chester Deeds. Bk E, p.253...CD.,ORG. 82N. 77, sum 83"John and Ruth Worral to Thomas Linvill," Bk H-5, p. 242. Delaware County Deeds, Delaware County Clerk, Media, PA 84Cheater County Tax Assessment, N. 60, supra. 85N. 65, supra. 86N. 67, supra OWE CO- pUSUC L18RAIR4' ,MOCKSW.LE, tit: 87"Samuel Blunston Licenses," Drawer 0016, item #9. Pennsylvania Department of Land Records, Harrisburg, PA. 88JointCommittee of Hopewell Friends, Hopewell Friends History, r 1734-1934, Frederick County. Virginia Strasburg, PA: Shenandoah Pub., 1936), p. 185-6. 89AugustaCounty Deeds, Bk 1, p. 102-110; 115-120; 135-158. 7 Deeds for the sale from McKay and Co. Microfilm Collection of original Augusta County Deeds, Virginia State Library, Richmond, VA. [Hereafter VSL] 90OrangeCounty Court Records, Order and Minutes Bk 4, p. 58. VSL. 91Iw.9 p. 239; 313. VSL. 92AugustaCounty Court Records, Order Bk.l, p. 45. VSL- 93 Augusta SL. 93Augusta County Deed Book 1, p. 188. VSL. 94OrangeCounty Deeds Bk 2, p. 42, 60, 64, 73-74; 124-8; 452-57 all have transactions for Morgan Bryan dated in 1737-8. VSL. 95N. 67, spa. 96AugustaCounty Deeds, Bk 1, p. 148. VSL. 97lbid., 152 (See Map 1) 98 lb -idle, 155 and "Will of Morgan Bryan," Rowan County Wills, Bk A, p. 13, Rowan County (NC) Court House, Salisbury,NC. 99AugustaCounty Order Bk 1, p. 240, VSL. dated 19 Jun 1947. 100AugustaCounty Court Judgments, June 1947, n.p. VSL. See also Lyman Chalkley, Chronicles of Scotch -Irish Settlem_en_t_;,. Extracted from the Original Court Records of' Augusta County. - 1745 -1800 (1912-3. Rpt. Baltimore: Genealogical Pub. Co., 1980) 3Vol. 1. Augusta County Court Jundgements, Nov. 1747A9 n:p. VSL. 102MargaretM. Hoffman, The Granville District of North Carolina, 1740-1763: Abstracts of Land Grants.TWeldon, NC: Roanoke News Co., . 1986), Vol. 1, p.4 - citing Patent -Bk #11, p. 2; Bk'#129 p. 3, #179 p. 4 and others. 103"A List of Taxables on Dan River.•for the Year 1751," Granville County Tax Lists, 1748-1770," North Carolina State Archives, Raleigh, NC [Hereafter NSA] #044.701.23. ORG..A non- alphabetical list showing on p. 2, c.2, 1. 17-19: "Thos Linvil Senor GAV1E ,COO PUBLlc ► Tho Linvil Junor ) 3 Wm Linvil MCCKSVILLE, no 104AdelaideL. Fries, Records of the Moravians in North Carolina. Publications of the North Carolina Historical Commission (Raleigh: Edwards & Broughton, 1922), Vol. 2, 1752- 1771, "Granville Certificates of Surveys" for Thomas Linvall Sr., 200 acres Belews Creek, 17 May 1753, Wm-Linvall Sworn Chain 8 Carrier (SCC); Thomas Linvall Jr., 200 acres Belews Creek, Thomas Linvell and Wm Linvell SCC,16 May 1753; Thomas Linvell 500 acres Mayo Road South side of Fishers or Piney Mountain, David Linvill and Wm Linvill SCC, 7 Mar 1754. Originals at Moravian Archives in Salem Village, Winston-Salem, NC. 1051759 Tax List of Rowan, NCA, #85.701.1, "L" p. 19 1.7-9; p. 3; 1.6 respectively. ORG. 106[WilliamPerry Johnson], "Rowan County Tax Lists, 1760'x," North_ Carolina Genealogy (Spring -Summer, 1972) p. 2706. 107AugustaCounty Deeds, Bk 7 p. 219-221; VSL; Rowan County Deeds, Bk 4 p. 543, Rowan County Building, Salisbury, NC. ORG. It 108RowanDeeds, Bk 4 p. 543. ORG. 109RowanDeeds, Bk -4, p. 545. ORG. In addition the presence of the "DJ" mark suggests that it might belong to David Jones, a man who lived next to the Linvilles in Conestoga and in North Carolina. Thomas and Hannah named a son David after the "usual" family names of Thomas and William were used. Research continues to determine whether there may be another family connection here. It is complicated by the presence of at least four David Jones in similar geographical areas. 110N. 66. supra. ill N. 67. sura. 112„Lancast-^r County Pennsylvania Quarter Sessions," N. 50, sera. 4 May 1731. 113H. R. Mcllwaine, ed. Executive Journals of the Council of Colonial Virginia. 1721-1739. (Richmond: n.pub., 1930), Vol. 4 p.253. 114 Consultations with John K. Bryan, 56 Cedar Lane, Scotia, NY, Bryan family genealogist. He has been working on up -dating Morgan Bryan's family and trying to eliminate the inaccuracies generated by previous histories on the family, including some in Harriet Spraker Boone, The Boone Family (1922, Rpt. Baltimore: Genealogical -Publishing Co , 1982. In August, 1987 he provided me with a draft of "A Synopsis of the Lives of Morgan Bryan (1671-1763), Martha Strode Bryan (1697-1762) and their Children." I have drawn on it somewhat, but since I have not yet seen the documentation for the draft am not refering to it specifically here. He was unaware of my work on the Linvilles, though was assuming Joseph Bryan's wife to possibly be a Linville. I had not, on the other hand known of this speculation until conversa- tions with him. Further collaboration between us will undoubtedly be more definitive, since the information I shared with him regarding the drafts of the land (Map -1) and the chronological movement of the Linvilles, particularly with the sale of the animals and household sundries, which thicken the 9 O,AVIE CO. Nut3UC Lia.._':' tAOCKSVIL LF -a NG connection a bit. 115N. 98, supra, written 28 Mar 1763 proved Bk II, p. 441, Rowan County Court of Pleas and Quarter Sessions, 13 Jul 1763. 116OrangeCounty Order and Minutes Bk 4, p. 58, 22 Mar 1743. VSL. 117jbid, Bk 21, p. 385-6; Bk 3, p. 3, 129 629 1179 2079 258. 118lbid p. 434-5.. 119I`s Bk 49 p. 167. 120I0 p. 311, 29 Mar 1745. 121 Augusta County Court Order Bk 19 p. 61, 10 Feb. 1745/6. VSL. 122I9 p. 42, 16 Apr 1746. 123N. 94, suyra. 124AugustaCounty Deed, Bk 1, p. 103. VSL 125I9 p. 142-3. 1261 d, p. 152. 127h, p. 155. 128N. 102, supra. 4 129GranvilleGrants, Survey and Certificates, NCS, #.SSLG 122-F; #SSLG-112-G; #SSLG 122-H; ORG. 130William L. Saunders, Colonial Rec o ords f N� rth.Carolina (Raleigh: Rale Printeis,_1886) Vol. 4, p. -xxi. 131"William Linville to John Linville,".Rowan County Deeds, Bk 4, p. 543, Rowan County Recorder of Deeds, .Rowan County Building, Salisbury, NC. ORG. 132"William Linville to Joseph Bryan," Rowan Deeds, Bk 4, p. 544, also deed for animals and sundry household items. See N. 109, supra, 133"William Linville to William Johnson," Rowan Deeds, Bk 3.9 p. 553-4. ORG 134 gAV1E CO. PVSUC UBRB�Y 1759 Tax List, N. 105, s, upra, "L", p. 3, 1. 11-2: MOCKSVILL% "Linvill 1P o ) 3 ..,.twill John & UP D Jun. 135N. 106, supra "A LIST OF TAXABLES SUMMONED BY CALEB 10 OSBORN." 1761. p. 2700. NCA. 136 Fries, Moravians, Vol. 1 p. 263, spelled "Lengwill." 137RowanCounty Pleas and Quarter Sessions, Bk II, p. 502. 138 p. 516. 139Ibid p. 641. 140LymanCopeland Draper, "Draper Manuscripts," State Historical Society of Wisconsin, Vol. 22 S, p. 241-268. Draper interviewed George and Ann (Linville) Boone's son Capt. Samuel Boone for the information obtained. Samuel Boone was born in 1782 in Roy's Station, KY (now Old Route 25 between Boonesborough and Richmond). Apparently his grandmother Elinor "Nelly" Linville, Ann's mother lived with them. It is his account of the "Linville Affair'!.- and the deaths of William and John Linville which has been the source of stated "fact" about the family. The interview with Draper took place in 1868, nearly .one hundred years after the event. Boone was not sure of the names of his ancestors then and apparently not sure how many Linville aunts and uncles he had. Mrs. Nelly Linville had "a son William who came to Kentucky - also a son Morgan - Wm was unmarried. Morgan married his cousin, a daughter of Col. Samuel Bryan, & had a son Coleman Linville living in Clark Co. KY ....Old Mrs. Linville beside these sons & daughter Mrs. George Boone, had at least two other daughters, both married." Many of the stories he related in these. --pages about the Boones, Bryans and Linvilles -occured before he was born. He apparently spent some time' with Uncle DanielBooneright before his death, which seems to be the source of much of the recounting. ORG. 141N. 1309 summa, Vol..7, p. 245. 142So� Carolina Gazettes, Sept. 9, 1766. in "Draper MSS," 22 S, p. 274. 143N. 140, supra. DAVIE CO. PUBLIC LIBRARY MiOCKSSVILLE. MC 144William S. Powell, North Carolina Gazatteer: A Dictionary of Tar Heels Places (Chapel Hill: University. of North Carolina Press, 1968) p. 283. The first Linville Creek appears on Collett's 1770 map and in the description of the Great Wagon Road [See N. 1301 and is now Blanket Creek. A second one, which seem to appear in use later is on the south side of the Yadkin, flowing NE, and is now called Carter's Creek. The third use of the name is for Linville River, which flows over the falls in the mountains, named for the two Linvilles killed there. 145 "Stat of North Carolina to Elinor Linvill," #529, Book 9, p.39273, dated 10 Oct, 1784. Rowan Deeds. 146LorenzoSabine, Biographical Sketches of Loyalists with 11 an Historical Essay (Boston: Little and Brown, 1864) Vol. 1, p.- 272. 147"Elinor Linvill to Henry Hendricks, " Bk 10, p. 459, and "Elinor Linvill to Evan Ellis," Bk 10, p. 497, both Rowan Deeds. 148 "William -Linville to Evan Ellis," Rowan Deeds, Bk 19, p. 343. 149N. 144, s• upra. and "State of North Carolina to Elinor Linvill, " #1847, Rowan Deeds, Bk 12 p. 443, dated 8 May 1798(sic -1789). 150"Elinor Linvell to Samuel Bryan," Bk. 12, p. 640. Rowan Deeds. 151N. 140, supra, p. 249. 152[H. Thomas Tudor], "George Boone Buried Near Richmond," Boonesborough Post Vol. l(June 15, 1976), p. 4. Tombstone transcriptions taken before destruction of Boone -Barris cemetery, two miles west of Richmond. 153"Will of Samuel Bryan", Rowan County Wills, Bk D, p. 121, dated 4 Aug 1798, proved Jun 1798, -Rowan County Court House. 154"Estate of Morgan Linville," Clark County, KY Wills, Bk 1, p. 157, 565, 6379 6489 752. LDS, IIS and Canada, 0183146. 155Rovan County Marriages, Ree1.20, p. 1067, RCD. ORG.— 156Ibid., Reel 22, p.'2757, RCD. ORG. 157N.,114, sem. 158N. 127, supra. 159N. 107, supra 160N. 132, supra. 161N. 109, supra DAVIE CO. pUgW Ueltlw fi1QCKSWLLE; NO 162ND 114, supra and Jefferson County Cills, Bk 1, p. 158, Jefferson County Court House, Louisville, KY. 163Bryancorrespondence. N. 114, su ra. Joseph had a son Joseph, Jr., though he appears to be the son of an earlier marriage. Whether, Joseph married Alice before Rebecca's birth is not certainly. The evidence for her birth date is not conclusive. In addition, there may have been other children, particularly a daughter Dinah whom John K. Bryan says was baptised by the Moravian. The children listed here are only the ones living when Joseph's will was written. r- 12 164N. 389 supra. 165N. 84, !Ura 166Ibid. 167Ibid. 168 "Barks County Taxables" 1753-1758; 1758-1763. Historical Society of Berks, Reading,, PA. F10 EA; T235t. [Note: These and the microfilm which follows has been recatalogued since transcriptions were taken, consequently the references are not as complete. Copies of the microfilmed versions which are of the 'originals have been sent for but not received in time for notation here.] 169BerkoCounty Taxables, Microfilm Collection, Historical Society of Berks, 1773-1782; also 3PA 18: 191 "Isaac Lynfield" 200 acres, Cumru Twp. 1779; and 194 "Benjamin Lynfield" single freeman, Cumru twp 1779. 1705PA 5: 211, Joseph Linvill in Capt Millers Co. 31 May 1781; and 286 paid for service in Reihm's Co., Berks CO. 1781; and 5PA 2:374 Isaac Linvill 9 Apr 1776 private in Berks Co.; 376 desertd_1 May 1776;- 7:56 Isak-Linvil 6th Class in Lancaster 1782. 171,,Hohn's (Haines) Church Records, 1745-1805 for St. John's Reformed Church in Heidleberg Township," [Genealogical Society of ~ - Pennsylvania], Publications f -the Genealogical Societyf Pennsylvan_ (Philadelphia: n.pub., 1900) Vol. 5, p. 73. 172Manyof the Rockingham County records were burned during -~ the Civil Aar, making it very difficult to trace back the ownershi, of property. However, of the few records that do exist: Rockingham "Deeds" Covrt Minute.Books, Bk 000, p. 26 VSL. A deed was acknowledged from Coffman to Linville in the county court Apr 1802. No first names.given. Also Augusta County Tithables, 1777;• VSL. "Daniel Smith's List" has a Jacob Coffman and Samuel and John Bear next to each other. - The land on Linville Creek was, according to J. Houston Harrison, Settlers on the Low Grey Trail (Dayton, VA: Ruebush, 1935)9 p. 350 says that the deed chain was Hite to Linville to Joseph Briant to Jacob Chrisman to Francis McBride to John Bear by 1768. Benjamin Linvill, son of Joseph is listed on the reconstructed 1790 census list, as taxed in Rockingham County, 1791-1792 [ U. S. Bureau of the Census, Heads- of Families of the First Census of the...1790. Virginia. (Washington, 1908. Further research is continuing on this connection and may explain how the Linville "resettled" on the same farm after being away for nearly 50 years. See N. 389 supra, the Conestoga land which John Linville sold to John Postlewaite, eventually became owned by John Bear/Bare. 173 Dr. David Goff Linvill, "Rockingham Register of Virginia" Gavot (;(), PU8 Ic MQCKS�yEu, ��ar� 13 4 MU (n.pub.) written c. 1890. An oral history of the Linvilles filled with inaccurate, but fascinatingly close version of the events in Linville Creek, VA. ORG. 174"Joseph Linvill to Jacob Bower," Berks County Deeds, Bk 13, p. 18. Berks County Records of Deeds, Reading, PA. 175N. 65, supra 176 3P 11:79 1410 2769 3959 677. 177N. 32, supra. 178"Distribution of.estate of William Donaldson," Delaware County Deeds, Bk G-29 p. 138. 1.79N. 177 and 32, supra and "Will of Linville Linville,of a Lancaster County," written 11 Jan 1813, proved 9 Jun 1813. Bk K Vol. 1, p. 510. Lancaster County Wills, Lancaster County Court House. 534. 180N. 65, s, u2ra. 181 3P 11: 15, 2849 .451, 548, 718; 12: 31, 222, 356, 405, 182"Will of Jeremiah Collett," Chester County Wills #1436, written 8 Jun 1752 proved 8 Aug 1782. ORG and "Will of Jeremiah Collett, Jr.," Philadelphia Wills Bk L p. 454 #292 written 21 May - .-1760 proved 29 May 1760. ORG. and correspondence between Mrs. ... Charles Hardesty and Dr. H.R. Linville 1939-1941.-ORG. 183ColonialSociety of Pennsylvania, Records of the Courts of Chester.County, Pennsylvania, 1681-1697 (Philadelphia, 1910), p. 15; 90. 184Surry County (NC) Pleas and Quarter Sessions Minutes, Bk 1, NCA. 15 Aug 1781, Collector in Horn's District; Sept 1782 appears for jury; 2 Nov 1788, appears for jury. 185N. 180, supra 186Sadsbury Friends Meeting Minutes,' Bk 1, CCHS. Also LDA, IIS and Canada, 0389403. 187EstateRecords of Shadrack Scarlett, #650 Chester County Wills and Adminsitrations, 26 Mar; 16 Apr; 24 Apr, 1739. "Will of Shadrack Scarlett," #2097 Chester County Wills, written 19 Mar 1762; proved 31 Jul 1762, ORG. Also Dorothy B. Lapp and Francis B. Dunlap, Che County Orphan's Court Minutes 1734-1746/7 Vol. 39 p.289 77. DAVIE CO. PUBLIC L,Itii AKY 188 Ibid. M.00KSVILLF. NO leg "Will of Ann Linvill," Lancaster County Wills, Bk F, Vol. 14 E] 1, p. 606; written 21 Aug 1795. 190(;enealofca_1 So_ cety_ f Pennsylvania Vol. 3, p. 130-2. 191CheaterCounty Tax Assessment, 1779, Sadsbury, CCHS. 192H. 179, supra. OAVIE CO* PUBLIC LIQ hocKSWL .g, kr