The Family of Aquilla Phelps and his sons Thomas and James, who left Rowan County, North Carolina to cast their lot in the Georgia and Louisiana Frontier. This Phelps family has it's origins in Baltimore County, Maryland where Aquilla Phelps' father, Avinton Phelps and grandfather, Thomas Phelps, had made their own migration into the wilds of North Carolina in the mid-1700's. I have compiled this data from through various sources available on the internet in an effort to place these widely scattered bits of information in a single document for all Phelps researchers to see and have at their disposal. Hopefully it will encourage further conversation and collaboration among present day Phelps family history afficianados.
I descend from James Phelps and his wife Mary of Caswell County, North Carolina. Recent DNA testing has confirmed a family relationship between my James Phelps of Caswell County, North Carolina and Thomas Phelps d.1751 of Albemarle County, Virginia. The specific relationship has yet to be determined, however as the DNA testing is expanded the answers will be discovered. I would like to encourageand challenge all Phelps researchers to find a living "Male" descendant of your line to gather a DNA test from. If you are a "Male" Phelps it is of utmost importance that you yourself submit your own DNA test, as it is where the future of Genealogy is headed. Many "brick walls" will be laid to rest as DNA will provide the evidence we all seek.
I am in the process of digesting the files on Southern Phelps in Georgia and elsewhere, graciously sent to me by Margaret Swanson, a noted Phelps Researcher who had published the "Phelps Connections Newsletters". Margaret is descended from the New England Phelps Group, yet she collected vast amounts of Phelps information on Southern Phelps and the "frontier states" that their descendants migrated to. Her work deserves an article by itself. Unfortunately I still work "Full Time" and only have limited time to devote to my research. I will try to share her work with everyone at a later date.
Latham Mark Phelps----April 2007
I begin with information provided by Ed Phelps, who in my opinion is the most authorative researcher on the Phelps/Felps family of Rowan County, North Carolina that I have seen. I'm sure there are others, yet Ed Phelps went one step further and shared his information with the world by posting his research for all to see. I would encourge all Phelps researchers to do the same. I have always shared this philosophy since I began my own research in the 70's. The Internet has provided us all with the vehicle to tell our family stories, so that future generations will be able to find their "Roots" as well.
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Author: Jim Drew-WhitakerDate: 7 Oct 2001 5:20 PM GMT
Hi Patsy
The Rowan Co., NC Felps were descendants of Baltimore Co.,
Maryland. There's a Samuel Felps mentioned. Please let me know
more about your ancestors in Russell Co., VA. There some
Whitakers who also migrated there. Thanks. Best regards, Jim
I received the following from Ed Phelps about 2 years ago.
Lots of great information here on several families in Rowan
Co., NC from Maryland & Pennsylvania.
Jim
You might be able to read this and get something from it. From
my research I do know the Whitakers in Rowan County NC came
down from Baltimore County Maryland about the same time as the
Felps, and then they all moved to GA in the 1770's the same
time. The Felps then again moved to Warren County KY during
the early 1820's. Our Felps name changed in the family bible
of my ggg grandfather during the later of 1850's for some
unknown reason.
AVINTON FELPS
Born in Baltimore County Maryland abt.1711
Died in Rowan County North Carolina abt.1790
"Blacksmith"
Son of Thomas Felps & Mrs. Rosanna Swift
Shown in the St. George's Parish Register in Baltimore County,
Maryland is the marriage record of Avinton Felps and Rachel
McElroy dated April 23, 1730. Rachel was born Aug. 7, 1713 and
was the daughter of John and Francis McElroy.
On June 20, 1725 John McElroy was granted a survey for 100
acres that was named "Rachel's Delight" and this tract of land
was located on the head of a small draught being a draught of
the upper groom spring the west side of Deer creek. John had
conveyed 50 of the 100 acres of "Rachel's Delight" to his
daughter at the time she had married.
On Sept. 5, 1732 the father of Rachel, who referred to himself
as a planter in various deeds, had sold the last of his land
"John's Beginning" in Baltimore County, Maryland to John Long
of Cecil County, L50, 200 acres, John (x) Mackelroy. Wit:
Signed Avinton Felps and Stephen Onions.
One must assume now that the McElroy family, Avinton and
Rachel Felps, had began their Southwest movement on the trail
of "The Great Wagon Road" also known as "The Carolina Road".
It does appear that both families left Baltimore County
Maryland during the later part of 1732. The family of John and
Francis McElroy have disappeared into the wilderness from the
years of 1732 until 1742, about 10 years before surfacing in
the North Carolina frontiers. It appears from the following
land deed that Avinton and Rachel Felps, temporarily located
in Orange County Virginia.
ORANGE COUNTY VIRGINIA
Formed from Spotsylvania County in 1734
Aug. 5, 1741 Avinton & Rachel Felps, Yeoman, of Orange County
Virginia to Henry Thomas, planter, of Baltimore County
Maryland, L10 paid by Isaac Webster, 50 acres...west side of
Deer creek, known as "Rachel's Delight" Signed Avinton Felps.
Wit: Isaac Webster and Richard Ruff.
Avinton and Rachel apparently returned to Baltimore County,
Maryland to sign the deed because his acknowledgement was
taken there, as well as Rachel's mark ( R ) on the release of
dower.
LAND HO!
NORTH CAROLINA
In Edenton, Chowan County North Carolina, the land office of
the Lord Granville Proprietory had opened in 1745 and
thousands of people in Maryland and Virginia took to the Great
Wagon Road that would lead them to these new frontiers in
North Carolina. By 1753, in the Granville district of North
Carolina, land was selling at the rate of 5 shillings per
hundred acres, regardless of acreage.
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CRAVEN COUNTY
Was first created as Archdale Precinct of Bath County in 1705.
The name was changed about 1712. It was named in honor of
William Lord Craven, one of the Lords Proprietors of Carolina.
The county seat was first called Chattawka, or Chattoocka, and
later in 1723 it was changed to New Bern.
The McElroy families arrive in Craven County
In 1742 William McElroy, planter, bought 150 acres from Edward
Frisby.
In 1743 Archibald McElroy bought 50 acres from Moses Tillman,
Witt; James and Ruth McElroy.
In 1744 John McElroy, planter, bought 198 acres from Henry
Owens Sr. Also in the same year he bought 350 acres, and then
another 150 acres from Thomas Barnett.
In 1745 Archibald McElroy, blacksmith, bought 320 acres from
John Fryer a merchant.
Apr. 6, 1750, Land Grant to William McElroy, 100 acres
JOHNSTON COUNTY
Was formed in 1746 from Craven County
Aventon Felps and the McElroy's are living on Crabtree Creek
near the Neuse River in St. Patrick's Parish, Johnston County.
Aventon Felps is listed there on April 12, 1749 as a sworn
chain-carrier for Lord Granville Surveyor, John Wade.
Johnston County Grantor Index Book l - Nov l746 - April l750
From To Page
Cole, George Abbinton Felps 16 (page 16 indicates recorded
early in the book 1746 or early 1747)
Mills, Thomas Abbinton Felps 38
McIllroy, John John Belk 56
McIllroy, Archibald Paul Hartsfield 140
McIllroy, William John Turner 156
Johnston County Grantor Index Book 3 - April 1754 - April 1755
From To Page
Felps, Avinton Alexader Avery 176
McIllroy, William John Belk 12
McIllroy, Archibald Thomas Bevan 56
McIllroy, Archibald Thomas Bevan 57
McIllroy, James William Blake 223
House, William Archibald Mukelroy 374
May 1755, Johnston County, NC Sir: this Comes to Let (sic)
Know that I have sold my Land containing one hundred & fifty
Acres, lying in Johnston County, on the North side of Walnut
Creek joying to the Great Branch on Both sides, to John SMITH
and I Desire your Honner (sic) to give the said John SMITH a
Deed in his own name and in Sodoing (sic) you will ablige your
friend and Humble Servant this 3rd. (sic) day of May 1755.
Signed Silus MONK, Witnessed and Signed, Thomas FELPS &
William BRYAN.
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In the fall of 1752 at the land office in Edenton in Chowan
County, Col. Francis Corbin the Commander of the Frontier
Militia and Land Agent for Lord Earl Granville, directed Lt.
Col. George Smith and some Militia Rangers, to escort William
Churton a Surveyor, the Bishop August Gottlieb Spangenburg and
a few other Moravians to the west along the Indian Trading
Path that meandered out of Virginia, crossed the Eno River at
Hillsborough and then on to the Trading Ford at the Yadkin
River in Anson County where William Churton would survey and
lay out the boundries for the 100,000 acres of a Wachovia
Tract of land that Lord Granville agreed to sell to the
Movarian Church in Bethleham, Pennsylvania.
ANSON COUNTY
Was formed in 1750 from Bladen County
In 1753, before the Movarians had received their land from
Granville, Avinton Felps received a survey of the Granville
land for 500 acres in Anson County that was surveyed by Major
James Carter, with his sworn chain-carriers, John Smith and
Abiga McCoy.
This tract of land was located on the Yadkin River near the
mouth of Reedy Creek. Later on, this land was found to be
within the surveyed boundries of the 100,000 acres of land
that Lord Granville had sold to the Movarians. Aventon Felps a
blacksmith, and his oldest son Aquilla Felps who was a
sawmiller, settled on Reedy Creek a tributary of the Yadkin
River. I am positive that the main purpose for the Felps
settlement at that time, was to provide skills and services
for the establishing of the new German settlements of,
Bethania, Bethabara and Salem, that was soon to follow.
Feb 12, 1753 Michael Miers sold to Avinton Felps a blacksmith,
both of Anson County, for L25 Virginia money, 357 acres in
Anson on North side of Yadkin river above mouth of Reedy
creek. Signed- Michael (+) Miers, Witt. James Carter, William
Bishop. Proved 20 Sept. 1753.
It appears that by 1753, Avinton Felps still owns property in
Johnston County and 1 platt with 500 acres, 1 platt with 357
acres, located on the North side of the Yadkin River between
Muddy and Reedy Creek. The land bought from Miers was the land
where Aquilla Felps lived, and built a sawmill and a
horse-ford, both of these landmarks were used in many deeds of
locations in the Reedy Creek area. There has been no records
found where Aquilla ever bought or sold land.
ROWAN COUNTY
Was formed in 1753 from Anson County.
It was named in honor of Matthew Rowan who was a prominent leader before the Revolution
and who for a short time after the death of Governor Gabriel
Johnston was acting governor. The county seat was first called
Rowan Court House. It has been called Salisbury since about
1755.
In 1753, Avinton Felps was commissioned as a Ensign in the
Rowan County Militia by Major James Carter.
July 12, 1754, Avinton Felps was appointed as commissioner
(Captain) of the roads from Muddy Creek to the District of
Henry Doland and Capt. John Hanby Esqr.
At periodic intervals, the court appointed prominent men
living at widely seperated points to serve as commissioners
for the roads. It was the responsibility of each of these
commissioners to obtain service for road construction and
maintenance from the able-bodied men living in his particular
district. Fines were levied upon commissioners and individual
settlers for failure to meet this obligation.
Avinton Felps also served on the petit jury for the Court of
Pleas and Quarter Sessions a number of times and stated his
claims against the county for his services. He also served
many times as a Juror for the Salisbury District Superior
Court.
The Movarian Records, Vol. #3, contains a map of Rowan County,
made in 1756, showing Avinton Felps living on Reedy Creek in
Wachovia. Aquilla Felps is living nearby on Reedy Creek
showing the location of his horse-ford crossing the creek.
PAGE 7
During the peak of the French and Indian War's in 1759 the
Cherokee Indians went on the warpath down the Yadkin River
terrorizing settlements of that part of the frontier. Captain
Aventon Felps was called upon to serve in several expeditions.
"May ye 15th 1759, The Publick of North Carolina to Capt.
Avinton Felps Dr. To Scouts, Sent Out a man Alarm of Indians
being seen on the Frontiers of Rowan County".
(Thomas Felps the son of Avinton is listed as a Private in the
company of scouts under the command of his father Avinton.
Thomas was not listed as a tax poll for 1759 or any other time
until 1768, therefore being that a taxable was a white male
above sixteen years of age, Thomas would have been under 16
years old in 1759 born after the year of 1743 and being that
he is listed on the 1768 tax list, he had to be at least 16
therefore he was born before 1752). The birth of Thomas was-
between 1743 and 1752.
June 11, 1759, To a Scout, Capt. Avinton Felps, Ordered out by
Lt. Col. George Smith to Range the Woods in Order to Discover,
the Enemy if any.
Oct. 19, 1759, This day came Capt. Avinton Felps before us the
Subscribers and made Oath on the Holy Evanangelist Almighty
God that the within account of Thirty two Pounds Eight
Shillings and Eight Pence proclamation money charged against
the Publick of North Carolina according to the best of his
knowledge is just and true as it now stands stated. Sworn
before us, Capt. John Hanby and William Buis. Signed......
Avinton Felpes
April 25, 1759, Avinton was named in his father's Will filed
in Baltimore County Maryland.
1759, Aquilla Felps, List of Taxables in Rowan Co. (born
before 1743)
Oct. 8, 1761, Aquiller and Avinton Felps was on the List of
Taxables in Rowan Co.
A taxable was a white male above sixteen years of age or a
negro or mulatto slave of either sex above twelve years
April 20, 1762, Avinton Felps and David McElwain of Rowan Co.
North Carolina sold 50 acres (1/2 of Jones Venture) to Edward
Morgan of Baltimore Co. Maryland. Avinton and David apparently
returned to Baltimore County, Maryland at that time to sign
the deed because their acknowledgement was taken there,
Signed...... Avinton Felps and David McElwain. (David McElwain
was indentured to Avintons father Thomas on Sept. 1, 1741).
Oct. 21, 1762, John McElroy was wittness to land deed located
on both sides of Reedy Creek.
July 14, 1764, On Motion of John Dunn Ordered that a road be
laid out the Neares & Best way from John Howards Ferry to the
road from Bethabara to Salisbury near Reedy Creek, running up
from said ferry in the fork to Boon's Road & persons following
appointed to lay of said road: John Roberts, Edward Turner,
Nicholas White, Edward Williams, Isaac Holdman, Capt. Avinton
Felps, Mathew Sparks, Will' Sparks, Francis Taylor, Thomas
Jones, James Whitaker.
Wild animals proved a great inconvenience to the frontier
agriculturists. Accordingly bounties were offered to all
persons who killed a wolf or a wild cat or a panther within
ten miles of any settled plantation.
On Oct. 10, 1765, presented to Rowan County as bounty claims
for woolfs, panthers and cats. The list of names included,
Quilla and John Felps.
PAGE 8
During 1767, an act was passed requiring every master or
mistress of a plantation, or the overseer in case the owner
did not reside in the county, to kill or cause to be killed
every year seven crows or squirrels for each taxable under his
or her control. Failure to do so was penalized by a fine of
four pence for each crow or squirrel less than the required
number, while those who killed more than were required were
entitled to receive a bounty of four pence for each in excess
of the requisite number.
John Felps married Mary Williams 1766, Samuel Williams,
bondsman. Sometime between 1761 and 1768 Thomas Felps a son of Aventon
and Rachel (McElroy) Felps married Jane Smith a daughter of
Capt Aaron and Francis (Keeling) Smith. Children were:
Avington Felps, John Felps, Thomas Felps, Samuel Felps,
Brittain Felps, William Felps, Keeling Felps, Ezekiel Felps,
Pherabe Felps, Ede Felps, and Jane Felps. The sister of Thomas
Felps who was Laurania Felps married Ezekiel Smith the brother
of Jane Smith. Children were Abington Felps Smith, William C.
Smith, John Carraway Smith, Lovett Smith, Pheriba Smith,
Ezekiel Smith and Thomas Keeling Smith.
1768, Aquala 1 poll, John 1 poll, Avinton 5 polls, and Thomas
Felps 6 polls were on the list of John Ford's district of
taxables, also Peter Whitaker 1 poll, Mark Whitaker 2 polls.
Moses Parrish 2 polls. Poll = taxable persons, no distinction
was made on the 1768 tax list between the negro and white
taxables. (Moses Parrish was indentured to Avintons father
Thomas in 1729).
Aquala Felps (born before 1743)
John Felps (born before 1752)
Thomas Felps (born between 1743 and 1752)
Only Aquilla and Avinton was listed on 1759 and 1761 tax
rolls, they were the only Felps above 16 years old.
William Felps married Elizabeth Jones April 20, 1768, Mark
Whitaker, bondsman.
Nov. 23, 1768 The names of Aquilla and John Felps were
included with 28 other names on the Regulators petition that
was signed by some inhabitants of Rowan and Orange Counties.
April 3, 1769, Avinton Felps a blacksmith & wife Rachel to
Thomas Felps for L120 proclamation, 357 acres on north side of
Yadkin river 1/2 mile above branch of Reedy Creek,
Signed...... Avinton Felps and Rachel (R) Felps. Wit: Adam
Spaugh, Jonas Sparks. Proven, May Court 1769. Records indicate
that this land sold to Thomas was located between Avinton's
and Aquilla's places on the Reedy Creek.
From the will of Thomas Felps- "likewise all my farming
utensil, carpenter, blacksmith and toziners tools". This is a
good indication that Aventon had sold more than just land to
his son Thomas, it appears it was more like LOCK, STOCK &
BARREL. The blacksmith tools noted in the will, probably
belonged to Aventon.
PARTS FROM THE WILL OF THOMAS FELPS
1. I give and bequeath to Jane my dearly beloved wife all my
lands houses and orchards, from a cross fence against Charley
Catons fish pond up to Isaac Whites line.
2. Also I give to my well beloved son Thomas Felps Jr, the
upper part of my land about twenty paces or yards, below a
cross fence that is a little way below my upper fishing
landing (except one half of the fishery) and running from
thence to a little dam thence up the branch, with the water
course, to my back line straight as the cause will direct.
3. Also I give to my well beloved son Samuel Felps, all my
land lying between one above mentioned Thomas Felps Jr. and
the above mentioned Jane Felps land, at the cross fence
against the said Charles Catons fish pond, and likewise one
half of the upper fishing place.
Nov. 4, 1784, Rowan Co State Grant # 723, 50 shillings, 100
acres to Richard Dowell, 272 acres on Yadkin R betw Muddy &
Reedy Crk, adj Thomas Felps' fishing landing & Henry Miller.
1784 State Grant # 981 to Charles Caton, 150 acres in the
forks of the Yadkin River adjoining Aquilla Felps's mill.
Aug. 3, 1782, Avinton Felps to daughter Lucrsa Loyd, widow,
for love, Negro named Philes. Signed....Avinton Felps Wit:
George Reed...Proved Nov. 1782.
Aug. 1787, Avinton Felps sold a negro named Punch to James
Williams, Signed....Avinton Felps
PAGE 9
Notes;
1.) Avinton could read and write, and he always wrote his last
name as "Felps or Felpes" on all original researched
documents. I have found him on many documents as Avengton,
Avington, Abington, etc., Phillips, Phelps, Fealps, etc., that
was written by other people.
This is a true copy of Avinton's signature, signed by him in
1759, the original document is when Avinton made his Oath on
the Holy Evanangelist Almighty God that the within account of
Thirty two Pounds Eight Shillings and Eight Pence proclamation
money charged against the Publick of North Carolina.
It is located at Raleigh's History of Archives.
2.) Shown in the St. George's Parish Register, on the same
page as Rachel McElroy born August 7, 1713, daughter of John &
Francis Mackelroy, is James Whitaker born February 8, 1721 son
of Mark and Elizabeth Whitaker, and Peter Whitaker born May 6,
1716, son of John and Ann Whitaker, who had lived close to
Thomas Felps ( the father of Avinton) in Baltimore County,
Maryland.
3.) The family of Squire Boone (father of Daniel Boone) lived
in the same area as the Felps families in Rowan County.
From the Rowan County Militia List, The Publick of North
Carolina to Capt. Morgan Bryan on April 25th 1759, to a Scout
sent Out in the Alarm of *Daniel Hossey & Others being
Killed... includes the names of John and Danl Boone.
Richard Henderson purchased a large tract of land lying in
Tennessee and Kentucky and employed Daniel Boone to blaze the
way for a colony, which was established at Boonesborough,
Kentucky, just before the Revolution.
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Felps
Ed Felps/Phelps Posted: 8 Jul 2002 3:35PM GMT
THE FRENCH AND INDIAN WAR
NORTH CAROLINA
JOHNSTON COUNTY
Created in 1746 from Craven County
On April 12, 1749 Aventon Felps is listed as a Sworn Chain-Carrier for Lord Granville Surveyor, John Wade.
Mar. 25, 1749, William McIllroy, 181 acres N side Crabtree Creek, joining the said creek and the bent of the said creek. Wits: James Carter, John Haywood. SCC: Thomas House, John Belk. Surveyor John Wade.
April 25, 1749, William McIllroy, 340 acres on Crabtree Creek, joining Thomas House. Wits: James Carter, John Haywood. SCC: John McIllroy, John Cook. Surveyor John Wade.
During the fall of 1752 at the Granville land office in Edenton, Colonel Francis Corbin the Commander of the Frontier Militia and Land Agent for Lord Earl Granville, directed Lieutenant Colonel George Smith and some Militia Rangers, to escort William Churton a Surveyor, the Bishop August Gottlieb Spangenburg and a few other Moravians to the west along the Indian Trading Path to the Yadkin River where William Churton would survey and lay out the boundries for the 100,000 acres of a Wachovia Tract of land that Lord Granville agreed to sell to the Movarian Church in Bethleham, Pennsylvania. By 1753 in the Granville district of North Carolina, land was selling at the rate of 5 shillings per hundred acres, regardless of acreage.
In 1753 Avinton Felps received a survey of 500 acres in Anson County from Lord Granville, surveyed by James Carter with his sworn chain-carriers, John Smith and Abiga McCoy.
This tract of land was located on the Yadkin River near the mouth of Reedy Creek. Later, this land was found to be within the surveyed boundries of the 100,000 acres of land that Lord Granville had sold to the Movarians.
ROWAN COUNTY
Created in 1753 from Anson County
On Feb 12, 1753 Michael Miers sold to Avinton Felps a blacksmith, both of Anson County, for L25 Virginia money, 357 acres in Anson on North side of Yadkin river above mouth of Reedy creek. Signed- Michael (+) Miers, Witt. James Carter, William Bishop.
Long before the actual outbreak of hostilities powerful forces were gradually converging to produce a clash between the aggressive colonials and the crafty Indians. As the settlers pressed farther westward into the domain of the red men, arrogantly grazing their stock over the cherished hunting-grounds of the Cherokees, the savages, who were already well disposed toward the French, began to manifest a deep indignation against the British colonists because of this callous encroachment upon their territory.
Listed in the Colonial Soldiers of the South, during the years 1754 - 1760 Colonel Francis Corbin, Lieutenant Colonel George Smith, Major James Carter and Adjutant John Dunn was in charge of the Rowan County North Carolina Militia. Avinton Felps is listed as Ensign under the command of Captain John Hanby.
The frontier of North Carolina was placed in a very precarious situation. At the beginning of the war the Cherokees and Catawbas were friendly to the frontiersmen, but soon the savages began to molest the whites. There was great uneasiness among the people of Anson and Rowan County because they did not know at what moment the Indians might take up the tomahawk against the settlements.
Early in the year of 1754, one thousand pounds in proclamation money that is, in money which was issued by the provincial government and which was greatly depreciated in value was appropriated to buy arms for the poorer inhabitants of Rowan and Anson.
During the peak of the French and Indian War's in 1759 the Cherokee Indians went on the warpath down the Yadkin River terrorizing settlements of that part of the frontier. During that summer Indian alarms were frequent and Avinton Felps, now promoted to the rank of captain, and with his hardy frontiersmen, was called upon to serve in several expeditions to scour the woods in search of the lurking Indian foe. These armed rangers, who were clad in hunting-shirts and buckskin leggings, was also very skilful in the employment of Indian tactics when fighting.
1759 ROWAN COUNTY NORTH CAROLINA
FRONTIER MILITIA ROLL
May ye 15th 1759, The Publick of North Carolina to Captain Avinton Felps Dr. To a Scout Sent Out a man Alarm of Indians being Seen on the Frontiers of Rowan County-----
Avinton Felps 6 Days @ 7/6...................................... 2.5
Willis Ellis Senr. 6 Days @ 5/ ...................................... 1.10
Phillip Howard Ens. 6 Days @ 4/6...................................... 1.7
Israel Cox Sergt. 6 Days @ 4/ ...................................... 1.4
Private Men
Roger Turner 5 Days @ 2/8....................................... 13.4
Joseph Bryan 5 Days @ 2/8....................................... 13.4
George Parks 6 Days @ 2/8....................................... 16.
Allen Parks 6 Days @ 2/8....................................... 16.
Gabriel Enochs 6 Days @ 2/8....................................... 16.
Peter Cross 6 Days @ 2/8....................................... 16.
Henry Hagy 6 Days @ 2/8....................................... 16.
Mirack Davis 6 Days @ 2/8....................................... 16.
Phillip Davis 6 Days @ 2/8....................................... 16.
Thomas Evans 6 Days @ 2/8....................................... 16.
James Whitsitt 6 Days @ 2/8....................................... 16.
Conrod Carn 6 Days @ 2/8....................................... 16.
Danl Holyfield 6 Days @ 2/8....................................... 16.
John Fry 6 Days @ 2/8....................................... 16.
Leonard Hazzard 6 Days @ 2/8....................................... 16.
Thomas Felps 3 Days @ 2/ ....................................... 8.
L18.8.8
Thomas Felps under 16 years old, son of Avinton Felps
June 11, 1759, To a Scout Ordered Out by Col. George Smith to Range the Woods in Order to Discover the Enemy if Any.
Avinton Felps Capt. 6 Days @ 7/6.................................... L 2.5
Phillip Howard Ens. 6 Days @ 4/6...................................... 1.7
Jonathan Hanby Serg. 6 Days @ 4/ ...................................... 1.4
David Smith Serg. 6 Days @ 4/ ...................................... 1.4
Hermon Butler Private 6 Days @ 2/8...................................... 16
Henry Carns Private 6 Days @ 2/8...................................... 16
Martin Marr Private 6 Days @ 2/8...................................... 16
Solomon Ozburn Private 6 Days @ 2/8...................................... 16
Gidion Lewis Private 6 Days @ 2/8...................................... 16
Paul Whistenhunt Private 6 Days @ 2/8...................................... 16
Abraham Goss Private 6 Days @ 2/8...................................... 16
John Crow Private 6 Days @ 2/8...................................... 16
Jacob Yount Private 6 Days @ 2/8...................................... 16
Martin Birely Private 6 Days @ 2/8...................................... 16
L14. ---
North Carolina )
Rowan County )
This day came Capt. Avinton Felps before us the Subscribers and made Oath on the Holy Evanangelist Almighty God that the within Acct of Thirty two Pounds Eight Shillings and Eight Pence proclamation Money Charged Against the Publick of North Carolina According to the Best of his Knowledge is Just and true as it Now stands Stated. Sworn Before us this 19th day of October 1759.
John Hanby
William Buis
Avinton Felps
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Felps and Alamance
Ed Felps/Phelps (View posts) Posted: 8 Jul 2002 3:41PM GMT
Classification: Query
Surnames:
THE BATTLE OF ALAMANCE
May 16, 1771
Shortly after the end of the French and Indian War in 1763, American patriots began to resent English control of their affairs. Operating in loose-knit groups under a variety of names, these people resisted attempts by Britain to unfairly tax commerce. The Sons of Liberty resisted the Stamp Tax in 1765, throughout the 13 colonies.
HILLSBOROUGH
ORANGE COUNTY NORTH CAROLINA
WILLIAM FEW Sr., moved from Chester County PA, to St. George's Parish in Baltimore County Maryland and married Mary Wheeler a daughter of Benjamin Wheeler, in 1743. William and Mary (Wheeler) Few, moved to Orange County where Few bought 640 acres on both sides of the Eno river from James Taylor during March in 1758. Few owned a a grist mill on the Eno, and operated a tavern from his home in Hillsborough.
JOSEPH MADDOCK a Quaker, lived a few miles from Hillsborough on Cain Creek and owned a grist mill in Orange County. During the uprising of the regulators, at Maddock's Mill, in 1766 a group of men, apparently enthusiastic over the success of the Sons of Liberty in resisting the Stamp Act, called the people to gather to determine whether the free men of Orange county labor under any abuses of power or not.
WILLIAM CANDLER grew to manhood in the South River Quaker Settlement along the James River in Bedford County Virginia. In 1755, at age nineteen, William joined the Quaker meeting at South River. Several years thereafter, he was elected clerk of the Quaker Meeting. In 1760, William Candler contracted with Joseph Ray at Fort Lewis to carry supplies to soldiers stationed at Dunkard Bottom on the New River. Candler acquired 248 acres on the branches of Fishing Creek next to Joseph Anthony on July 11, 1761. William Candler married Elizabeth Anthony in 1761. Elizabeth was a daughter of Joseph Anthony and Elizabeth Clarke, also members of the Quaker Meeting. William Candler was the administrator of his father's will that was filed early 1766 in Bedford County. Then in late 1766, he asked the Quaker meeting officials at South River to settle his business -- to give him a certificate of good standing for departure. William and Elizabeth Candler moved to Orange County, near the Cane Creek Quaker meeting house. The Fews and the Candlers became intimate friends, and their children intermarried.
NORTH CAROLINA REGULATORS PETITION
Petition October ye 7th 1768
Rowan & Orange Counties
Partial list of Names
Benjamin Few-Orange
James Few-Orange
William Few Sr-Orange
Aquilla Felps-Rowan
John Felps-Rowan
Samuel Jones-Rowan
James Williams Senr-Rowan
Edward Williams-Rowan
James Williams-Rowan
Philip Williams-Rowan
Petition October ye 9th 1769
Anson County
Partial list of Names
Elijah Clarke-Anson
John Clarke-Anson
John Marshall-Anson
David Phelps-Anson
On April 3, 1769, Avinton Felps a blacksmith, and Rachel coveys to their son Thomas Felps, a tract of land containing 357 acres on the north side of Yadkin river 1/2 mile above branch of Reedy Creek. Signed...... Avinton Felps and Rachel (R) Felps.
Under the leadership of Joseph Maddock a group of Quaker colonizers from the Cane Creek meeting house, moved to Georgia in about 1770 to take up a large grant given to them by Georgia Governor Wright in St. Paul's Parish along Wahatchee Creek near the old Quaker settlement of Brandon, but which later became known as Wrightsborough.
QUAKER TRAIL TO GEORGIA
The state of irritation into which America had been thrown by the injudicious measures of the British Parliament was not allayed by its subsequent action. Before proceeding with the record of these events, reference may be made to an outbreak which at this time occurred in North Carolina, not directly due to English action, yet arising from the corruption and inefficiency of functionaries of the British government. Abuses in the collection of exorbitant fees by public officers, and in permitting the sheriffs and tax-collectors to delay the payment of public moneys, produced an association of the poorer colonists, who claimed that they were being overtaxed for the support of dishonest officers, and who assumed the title of Regulators. Other events added to their discontent, and they broke out into wild outrages, assembling in 1771 to the number of two thousand, and declaring their purpose to abolish courts of justice, exterminate lawyers and public officers, and overturn the provincial government in favor of some mad scheme of democracy devised by their foolish or knavish leaders. The respectable part of the community rose in opposition to these insurgents, but the battle came anyway, at Alamance, on May 16, 1771.
After the Regulator's had failed at Alamance and the day following the battle, Governor Tryon of North Carolina issued a proclamation offering with a few exceptions to pardon all those who would submit to the government and take an oath of allegiance to the King.
On 17 May 1771, Samuel Jones a Regulator was taken to Wachovia as prisoner and then on May 31, 1771 Jones was exempted from pardon by Gov. Tryon.
Many of the frontiersmen refused Governor Tryon's offer, became discouraged and felt that it was best to go where they would not be so oppressed. In 1771 more than 1500 families left the counties of Rowan, Orange and Anson of the provincial North Carolinia.
William Few Sr., and one of his sons James Few, had associated themselves with the Regulators. On May 16, 1771, three hundred of the Regulators was killed, and left dead on the Alamance Battleground. James Few was one of the leaders of the Regulators and he was captured that day at the Battleground, tried, convicted, and hanged by a royal "drum-head court-martial," for high treason. After leaving the Battleground that day, Governor Tryon and his royal army, rode back to Hillsborough, turned towards the Few Plantation, and rode through the fields destroying all crops that belonged to the Few Plantation.
Shortly after the Battle of Alamance, the Few and the Candler families moved to the Quaker Settlement at Wrightsborough in St. Paul's Parish Georgia. William Few Jr. remained behind to help settle his father's affairs. Such as being compensated by and from the Colonial Province of North Carolina, because of the act of Governor Tryon with his royal army in destroying crops, on his fathers plantation.
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Felps and Revolutionary War
Felps and Revolutionary War
Ed Felps/Phelps (View posts) Posted: 8 Jul 2002 3:50PM GMT
Classification: Query
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THE BATTLE OF ALAMANCE " WAS THE FIRST BATTLE OF THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION"
The struggle for American Liberty and Independence...began in North Carolina, at the "Battle of Alamance".... kindled the flame...that eventually....spread with the rapidity of a wild forest fire, until the oppressed of the thirteen colonies were aflame with righteous indignation and unitedly determined to throw off forever the YOKE of British oppression......at the hands of historians has never received due mention or proper credit...
WRIGHTSBOROUGH
(BRANDON)
ST. PAUL'S PARISH IN COLONIAL GEORGIA
Shortly after the arrival of Joseph Maddock in Georgia, he petitioned for 200 acres to build a gristmill on the north fork of Briar Creek. The petition was approved but not granted until April 2, 1771.
Dec. 3, 1771, Avinton Felps Granted to self, 150 acres, St. Paul's Parish, Bounded on East by land surveyed for---Wells, South and West by land surveyed for Ebenr. Smith, other side vacant. Signed by Edward Barnard for Avinton Felps. Feb. 5, 1772.
William Candler was appointed as the Deputy County Surveyor by Governor Wright - in Colonial America this was a major political appointment. This appointment marked a man of intelligence, education, woodsmanship, and military ability.William does not appear in the Quaker records of the Wrightsborough meeting. The events of the Revolution overtook the details of normal life for most Quakers and it was against their stated principles, but fought anyway against the British foe. Many Quakers was disowned and removed from amongst the faith, for that reason.
Daniel Marshall had charge of a Baptist Church on the Uwharrie River and was well known through-out the Yadkin River Valley in Anson and Rowan County North Carolina. Shortly after the battle of Alamance, the Rev. Daniel Marshall and his family moved to Wrightsborough. A meeting house was built in the Spring of 1772, and the Rev. Daniel Marshall became the first pastor, ministering from his headquarters at the Great Kiokee.
On Oct. 15, 1773, Greenbury Lee, from South Carolina, was granted 100 acres at head of branch of Brier Creek called Beaver Dam, half a mile above the Indian Trading Path. Greenbury Lee married Elizabeth Few, a daughter of William and Mary (Wheeler) Few.
In 1773, and on the eve that the Revolutionary War broke out, Elijah Clarke, one of the signers on the regulators petition on October 9, 1769 in Anson County North Carolina, moved his family near the Quaker settlement of Wrightsborough Georgia. Elijah Clarke (1733-1799) was born in Edgecombe County, N. C. and married Hannah Arrington (1737-1827).
July 5, 1774, William Felps, 350 acres, St. Paul's Parish, Bounded southwesterly by Benjamin Wells and James Brown, other sides vacant. Granted to William Felps by William Candler. Signed William Felps Sept. 14-1774.
Aug. 24, 1775, Thomas Ford of St. Paul's Parish, to William Felps, planter, of same parish, conveying 150 acres lying on both sides of Brier Creek on the north fork of the Great Kiokee, and to include Felps sawmill seat. Witnesses: Ormond Roe and Greenbury Lee.
In 1776, William Few Jr. joined his family near Wrightsborough in St. Paul's Parish Georgia. About this same time, Few won admittance to the bar, based on earlier informal study, and set up practice in Augusta, and married Catherine Nicholson.
RICHMOND COUNTY
Was created from St. Paul's Parish Feb. 5, 1777
Originally comprising the northern portion of Richmond County, the area initially was settled by Quakers, Baptists, and others who refused to fight in the Revolutionary War. The early years of the American Revolution were quiet in Georgia. In 1778 new orders from London marked out the south as the main theater of war. British warships that had been sailing off the New York Harbor headed to the South Carolina and Georgia coast.
GREENBURY LEE was commissioned as a colonel during the outbreak of the Revolutionary War. His Militia fought in the battle of Brier Creek, Ga 3rd day of March 1779 and was involved in several other expeditions of guerrilla fighting against the British.
WILLIAM CANDLER was commissioned as a major in the Royal militia, he resigned his commission and joined the fight for American Independence when he entered the Revolutionary War but afterward, rose to the rank of colonel and served in the GA militia as second-in-command under Gen. Elijah Clarke. William Candler was in the attack on Augusta, at King's Mountain, and Blackstocks. His distinction as a Major, then later Colonel of the Georgia "Refugees" of the American Revolution has been chronicled by his descendants.
SEE PLATE-WILLIAM FEW JR.
WILLIAM FEW JR. When the War for Independence began, William Few Jr. enthusiastically aligned himself with the Whigs. Although largely self-educated, he proved to be a leader; becoming Lieutenant-Colonel of the Richmond County Militia in 1779; he was elected to the Georgia Provincial Congress of 1776; in 1777 and 1779, served in the Assembly. During this same period, he sat on the State Executive Council, as Surveyor-General and Indian Commissioner.
ELIJAH CLARKE was commissioned as colonel, led American forces against the British in battles at Alligator Creek, Kettle Creek, Musgrove's Mill, Fish Dam, Blackstock's, Long Cane, Beatties Mill and two sieges at Augusta, the last one successful. Colonel Elijah Clarke became a Brigadier General. As soon as Colonel Clarke raised the siege of Augusta, in the summer of 1780, he withdrew to the Little River country, which had been overrun and devastated by the enemy. He there furloughed his men for a short time, in order that they might look after the welfare of their families and get themselves in readiness for another active campain. About the last of September they met at the appointed rendezvous and, "when Clarke was ready to march he found himself at the head of about three hundred men who had in their train four hundred women and children. The condition of the country for two years had been such that the vestiges of cultivation were scarcely to be seen anywhere, and to leave their families behind under such circumstances was to subject them to certain want, if not starvation, in a country under the control of an enemy whose barbarity has been fully described."
Colonel Candler's family was among those refugee's thus driven from their homes by a cruel and merciless enemy. (the women and children of the families; Felps, Fews, Jacksons and Clarks, was included among those refugee's). Colonel Clark therefore resolved to escort these helpless women and children to East Tennessee which was a part of North Carolina, between the French Broad and the Holston Rivers, on Nolachucky where they would be in a land of plenty and out of the reach of a barbarous enemy. With this helpless multitude, and with not more than five days subsistence, Colonel Clark commenced a march of near two hundred miles through a mountainous wilderness to avoid being cut off by the enemy. On the eleventh day they reached Wattauga and Nolachucky Rivers, on the north side of the mountains, in a starved condition. Many of the men and women had received no subsistence for several days, except nuts, and the last two even the children were subsisted on the same kind of food. Many of the tender sex were obliged to travel on foot, and some of them without shoes.
WILLIAM FELPS died sometime in 1782 or 1783 and he left no last will and testament. It is very possible that he died while fighting for the Revolution, but there is no evidence that he did, at this time. On May 10, 1783, Elizabeth Felps, Moses Marshall (son of Rev. Daniel Marshall) and William Candler of the county of Richmond (planters) are held and firmly bound unto the said county in the full and just sum of five hundred pounds sterling as surety for the estate of William Felps (planter) dec'd.. Elizabeth Felps was appointed Admx. Edmond Cartledge, Daniel Marshall and William Few Sr. was appointed as the apprs. for the estate inventory of William Felps. May 15, 1783, An Inventory of Goods and Chattels of the Estate of William Felps, dec'd both Real and Personal as appraised by us this day. Signed Edmond Cartledge, Daniel Marshall, William Few Sr.
WASHINGTON COUNTY
Created on Feb. 25, 1784.
A treaty had been made with the Cherokee at Augusta, May 31, 1783 and was signed by Lyman Hall, the Governor of Georgia, Col. Elijah Clarke and William Few Jr. The state of Georgia had devoted a large part of Washington County, for bounty land, to her soldiers. The land grants were made in lots of 250 acres free from taxation for some years, and if one preferred to pay tax'es, he was to have 287 1/2 acres. Washington County was much exposed in it's early settlement to Indian forays and was settled slowly, in the northern and eastern sections on the Shoulderbone Creek and the Ogeechee River.
DAVID D. FELPS was under the command of Col. Greenbury Lee during the Revolutionary War and on Feb 20, 1784, was issued a certificate of service #209 that would allow said Felps 250 acres of bounty land that was to be set aside in Washington County for Georgia's Revolutionary Soldier's. William Candler, the father in law of David D. Felps, was listed as the person taking up such certificate for said Felps. On July 25, 1784, David D. Felps received his bounty survey, Warrant 1309, lot 473 for 287 1/2 acres of "very good land" in Washington County bounded on all sides by vacant lands.
A partial list showing names of men that was also under the command of Col. Greenbury Lee during the Revolutionary War and was issued a certificate of service.
William Few Sr., issued Feb 25, 1784
Ignatius Few, issued March 11, 1784
William Candler Jr., issued Feb 20, 1784
Henry Candler, issued Feb 20, 1784
Certified Revolutionary Soldier's on Georgia's Roster of the Revolution;
John Felps
David D. Felps
Thomas Felps
John McIllroy
Reubin McIllroy
William McIllroy
Avinton McIllroy
Henry Candler
William Candler Jr.
William Candler was a member of the Legislature in early 1784; was appointed a Judge, and died at his seat in Richmond county, during the fall of 1784. The Inventory of the Goods and Chattels of the Estate of Esq. William Candler, dec'd, was appraised by Rhesa Howard, Bejamin Few and Joseph Ray on the 10th day of Dec. 1784. The amount of the estate appraisement was 2000 pounds sterling that included 27 slaves owned by said Candler. The Inventory of the Estate was recorded December 15, 1784 and did not include...the several thousand acres of land that William Candler owned.
JAMES FELPS, moved with his wife Mary (Sidden) and sons, David D Felps (born 1782), Thomas Felps, Joseph Felps and James Felps Jr. James Sr. settled land in Feliciana Parish, LA Nov. 1803.
JOHN FELPS, married Mary Williams in Rowan County North Carolinia, and was living next to Edward Williams on the Shoulderbone creek and the Ogeechee River in Washington County GA, June 26, 1784.
THOMAS FELPS, Declaration of Pension Claim;
On this twenty eighth day of October 1834, Thomas Felps personally appeared in open court before the Superior Court.
Thomas Felps a resident of the county of Jasper and state of Georgia aged seventy six years (born 1758) who being first duly sworn according to law doth on his oath make the following declaration, in order to obtain this benfit of the provision made by the act of Congress passed June 7th 1832. That he enlisted in the army of this United States in the year 1781 and served in the Georgia State Legion Regiments with Captain James Stallings and Col. James Garrison of the Regiment. He continued in the said Legion in active service in the company of Captain Stallings for the term of twelve months at which time his service expired and was legally discharged. Deponent says that he entered as a volunteer in Col. Jacksons Legion and recollects frequently seeing Col. Elijah Clark and Col. William Candler during the time he was in service and he futher states that he received a discharge from Col. Jackson at Augusta and now has it in his possessions. Deponent states that at the time of his enlistment in Col. Jacksons Legion he resided on the Kiokee Creek (1782) in the State of Georgia. Since the Revolution he lived in North and South Carolina, then moved back to Georgia where he has lived upwards of forty years (since 1794) now resides in Jasper County-he hereby relinquished every claim whatever to a pension or an annuity except the payment and he declares that his name is not on the pension roll of any agency in the state.
Many thanks to Ed Phelps for his superb research.
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Family Tree of Aquilla Phelps
http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~cas1453/mine.htm
1. AQUILLA3 FELPS (AVENTON2, THOMAS1) was born Abt. 1735 in Baltimore Co., Md., and died Abt. 1788 in Rowan Co., N.C.
Children of AQUILLA FELPS are:
i. AVENTON4 FELPS.
2. ii. JAMES FELPS.
iii. JOHN FELPS, m. MARY WILLIAMS.
3. iv. WILLIAM FELPS, b. Abt. 1750, Johnston Co., N.C.; d. Abt. 1783.
4. v. THOMAS PHELPS, b. August 19, 1759, Rowan Co., N.C.; d. July 12, 1835.
Generation No. 2
2. JAMES4 FELPS (AQUILLA3, AVENTON2, THOMAS1)
Children of JAMES FELPS are:
i. JAMES5 PHELPS, JR.
ii. THOMAS PHELPS.
iii. DAVID D. PHELPS.
3. WILLIAM4 FELPS (AQUILLA3, AVENTON2, THOMAS1) was born Abt. 1750 in Johnston Co., N.C., and died Abt. 1783 in Richmond Co., Ga.. He married ELIZABETH JONES April 20, 1768 in Rowan Co., N.C.
Children of WILLIAM FELPS and ELIZABETH JONES are:
i. DAVID D.5 FELPS, b. Abt. 1769; m. FALBY CANDLER, Abt. 1785, Richmond Co., Ga.
ii. SARAH FELPS, b. Abt. 1771.
iii. AQUILLA AVENTON PHELPS, b. Abt. 1773, Ga.; m. NANCY NOLEN.
4. THOMAS4 PHELPS (AQUILLA3 FELPS, AVENTON2, THOMAS1) was born August 19, 1759 in Rowan Co., N.C.1, and died July 12, 1835 in Jasper Co., Ga.2. He married TEKEL in Rowan Co., N.C..
Children of THOMAS PHELPS and TEKEL are:
i. NANCY5 PHELPS, b. September 09, 1785, Rowan Co., N.C.3; d. Abt. 1808.
ii. AQUILLA PHILIP PHELPS, b. December 12, 1789, Rowan Co., N.C.
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The Family of
MATTHEW SPARKS
& wife Sarah
of North Carolina & Georgia
http://home.inu.net/sadie/matthewsparks.htm
7: 88 April 3, 1769 Aventon Phelps, blacksmith, & wife Rachel to Thomas Phelps, for 120L proc. money, 357 AC N/S Yadkin Riv, 1/2 mi. above branch of Reedy Creek, Wts: Adam Spaugh, Jonas (JS) Sparks May Court, 1769
County Court Minutes, Rowan Co, NC
July 14, 1764, On Motion of John Dunn Ordered that a road be laid out the Nearest & Best
way from John Howards Ferry to the road from Bethabara to Salisbury near Reedy Creek,
running up from said ferry in the fork to Boon's Road & persons following appointed to lay
of said road: John Roberts, Edward Turner, Nicholas White, Edward Williams, Isaac
Holdman, Capt. Avinton Felps, Mathew Sparks, William Sparks, Francis Taylor, Thomas
Jones, James Whitaker.
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Pocahontas and Descendants
http://www.angelfire.com/oh4/tangledwoods/page22.html
Generation No. 7
10. BENJAMIN8 BOLING (JOHN7, JOHN6, JANE JANA5 ROLFE, THOMAS SMITH4, MATOAKA POCAHONTAS REBECCA3 POWHATAN, POWHATAN2 WINSINOCOCK, SCENT1 FLOWER) was born June 30, 1734 in Henrico County, Virginia, and died January 20, 1832 in Flat Gap, Russell, Virginia. He married (1) CHARITY LARRIMORE. He married (2) PATTY FELTS PHELPS June 20, 1753 in Albermarle County, Virginia. She was born 1737 in Albemarle County, Virginia, and died March 08, 1767 in Rowan County, North Carolina.
Notes for BENJAMIN BOLING:
Moved from Virginia to North Carolina before 1760, then on to Tennessee, then to Eastern Kentucky
BENJAMIN
1734-1832
FIRST SETTLER IN AREA
BORN WILKES COUNTY, N. C.
SON OF MAJOR JOHN
BOLLING AND ELIZABETH BLAIR.
WED FIRST TO PATSY PHELPS AND THEN
TO CHARITY LARRIMORE BOLLING
Inscribed on tombstone, Flat Gap Cemetery, Wise County Virginia
More About BENJAMIN BOLING:
Burial: Bolling Family Cemetery, Wise County, Virginia
Notes for PATTY FELTS PHELPS:
Died while giving birth to youngest daughter Elizabeth
Children of BENJAMIN BOLING and PATTY PHELPS are:
13. vii. BENJAMIN JR.9 BOWLING, b. 1754.
viii. BARNETT BOWLING, b. 1755.
ix. JOHN BOWLING, b. 1755.
x. WILLIAM BOWLING, b. 1755.
xi. JAMES BOWLING, b. 1756.
xii. ROBERT BOWLING, b. 1757.
14. xiii. JESSE BOWLING, b. May 22, 1758, Hillsboro, North Carolina; d. March 10, 1841, Quicksand Creek, Breathitt County, Kentucky.
xiv. HANNAH BOWLING, b. 1763; m. SOLOMAN OSBORNE.
xv. DELANEY BOWLING, b. 1764; d. 1819.
xvi. ELIZABETH BOWLING, b. 1767; d. 1819; m. BRITTAIN WILLIAMS JR.
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Phelps connections to Pocahontas
Pocahontas and the Bolling Lineage
http://billjames.org/Family%20Tree%20-%20Web%20Pages/Pocahontas%20and%20the%20Bolling%20lineage.htm
Generation No. 7
BENJAMIN BOLLING was born June 30, 1734 in Henrico County, Virginia, and died January 10, 1832 in Flat Gap, Wise County, Virginia. He married (1) PATTIE PHELPS June 20, 1753 in Albemarle County, Virginia. She was born 1736 in Albamarle County, Virginia, and died March 08, 1767 in Rowan County, NC. He married (2) CHARITY LARIMORE 1768. She was born 1734, and died in Flat Gap, Wise County, Virginia.
He was the first settler on the Pound. He first came into what is now Wise County about 1789 and claimed all the land that he could see on the Guest River (esserville). The pioneer built a cabin and lived there two to three years. One day a home seeker came by with a rifle and a couple of hound pups, which caught his eye. A trade was soon made and the pioneer, Ben, returned to his home and civilization thinking the lure for adventure was over. Little time had elapsed until the call of the wilderness overcame him. He shouldered his gun, whistled to his dogs, and hit the trail. A few weeks later Benjamin reached Fox Gap in the Black Mountains. He viewed the valley which was to be his home. This was to be later known as Flat Gap ( located in now what is Wise County, Va. ).
Family of Benjamin Bolling ( June 30, 1734-Jan. 20, 1832 ) and Patsy (Molly) Phelps who died March 8, 1767 and then married Charity Larrimore.
Family of Benjamin Bolling ( June 30, 1734-Jan. 20, 1832 ) and Patsy (Molly) Phelps who died March 8, 1767 and then married Charity Larrimore.
Children:
1. Benjamin Bolling Jr.
2. John Bolling
3. Jesse Bolling
4. William Bolling
5. Hannah Bolling
6. Delaney Bolling
7. Elizabeth Bolling
8. Jeremiah Bolling
9. Barnett Bolling
10. Justice Bolling
11. Issac Bolling
12. Levi Bolling
13. James Bolling
Genealogy Source: Bollings by Hattie L. Bolling
This is also shown in the graphic charts (see top of page). The "blue" Bollings are so called because they appeared "out of the blue" in 1963, in the book Of Whom I Came, From Whence I Came, by Judge Zelma Wells Price. The source she relied on was a family tree made by John Tarpley Bolling/Bolding in the 19th century. This family tree made both of his parents Pocahontas descendants, and created the "blue" Bollings as a side effect. Hmm! If the "blue" Bollings are not descendants, then who are they?
The Bolling Family Association has undertaken a DNA study to shed light on this and related questions. They coordinated DNA testing of men with the Bolling surname (including spelling variants), who trace their ancestry to various Bolling/Bowling/Bolen/Bouldin immigrants to the US. The test results show that the early Bollings divide into different family groups.
Benjamin married (1) PATTIE "PATSY" PHELPS June 20, 1753 in Albermalre Co., VA, daughter of UNKNOWN PHELPS and UNKNOWN GIBSON. She was born Abt. 1736 in Albemarle Co., VA, and died March 08, 1767 in In childbirth, Rowan Co., NC.
Benjamin then married (2) CHARITY LARIMORE 1768. She was born 1734, and died in Flat Gap, Community, Russell Co., VA (near Esserville, in what is now Wise Co., VA).
While single Benjamin went to live on his father's estate in Albemarle Co., which later became Amherst Co.. About 1760, after he married Mary Patsy Phelps,
Benjamin and wife moved to Rowan Co., NC and later to Randolph Co.. Patsy died in childbirth of Elizabeth in 1767.
In 1791 after Benjamin remarried he and second wife Chariety Larrimoree moved near Esserville, near Flat Gap, VA, later on they moved to Russell Co., VA and then Lee Co., VA.
They then went on to NC because of Indian trouble. Benjamin died in 1832, age 98, and was the first person buried in the Flat Gap Cemetery and Charity is buried beside him. His tombstone is inscribed: "B. Bolling, b. 1734, d. 1832." The tombstone was made by his son Jeremiah. Benjamin is shown on the 1790 Randolph Co., NC census and on the Russell Co., Virgina 1810 tax list and the 1820 census. He was a Baptist Minister who visited some of his brothers in KY.
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Phelps Deeds in Rowan County, N.C.
Felps Family Rowan Co NC
Posted by: Virginia Keefer (ID *****6402) Date: April 16, 2005 at 01:12:31
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There is an excellent write up by Attorney, Roy H. Parks, of Lynchburg, TN on the internet.
http:://www.knology.net/~jparks/genealogy/parks/papers/hisfelps.htm
How above works for you. He has not covered enough back further in NC that I would like to share. I am not related by this family came from Reedy Creek in old Rowan Co NC to Lincoln Co TN about the same time my ancestor; William White did.
I have set of Rowan Co NC Deed Abstract Books by James W. Kluttz.
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DB 24, Rowan Co BC, p 822,
William [+] Spry and wife Elizabeth [+] to James Douthey for $50.00, all of Elizabeth [Felps] Spry's land of her father, John Felps, dec'd, and as one of his 8 legatees, she is able to sell. Wit; George Howard, James Spry, James [X] Orrel. Prvd by Spry Aug Court, 1818.
DB 23, Rowan Co NC, page 162 24 Nov 1813
State Grant #3043 at 50sh per 100 acres, to John Felps as assignee of William Moore, Robert and Eben Moore, 76 Acres and 6 chains, on Yadkin River, adj Hugh Cunningham and Thomas Felps, dec'd. Entered 25 Nov 1779
DB 19, p 199, 14 Dec 1804
Abbenton [X] Felps to John Stanly for L20, 40 acres on Yadkin River adj Brittain Felps and Phillip Dowel. May Ct 1805
DB 23, p 898, 7 Nov 1815
Kelin [+] Felps of Lincoln Co TN to Peter Younts for $156.00, 78 1/2 acres of East side of Yadkin River and on Big Branch. Adj. Hugh Cunningham and Jane Felps. Nov Ct 1816
DB 23, page 345 29 Nov 1814
State Grant # 3056 @ 50 sh per 100 acres to Kelin Felps, 78 1/2 acres on Big Branch of Yadkin River, adj Hugh Cunningham, John Kent, Jane Felps. Entered 21 Aug 1809.
[ Kelin appears on 1820 Lincoln Co TN census.]
DB 22, p 898 21 Nov 1807
Thomas/Samuel Felps to Ezekiel Felps for $300.00, all his rights in the estate of Thomas Felps, dec'd, after the death of Jane, the relict [widow], Wit; William Keith, J.D. Murray Jr. Prvd. by Wm. Keith. Nov Ct 1813.
DB 19, p 4, 28 Nov 1804, in Deed Abstract Book by Jo White Linn.
Jonas Leatherman to Samuel Felps for L150, 81 1/2 acres of E side of Reedy Creek, adj. Hugh Cunningham. Ack. Aug Ct 1804. [ Jonas appears on 1820 Lincoln Co TN census]
DB 19, p 679 8 Feb 1805
Charter's Creek, Brittain Felps, Prvd, May Ct 1806
Book by Jo White Linn again;
1753-1785
Page 2, 12 Feb 1753
Aventon Phelps, blacksmith of Anson Co NC, north side of Yadkin River above mouth of Reedy Creek. Prvd. 20 Sept 1753.
Abstract book by James W. Kluttz 1786-1797
DB 11, p 493
3 Feb 1787 Aventon Felps for L50 one Negro boy named Punch. Witn. Samuel Williams. Prvd Aug Ct 1788
DB 12 p 255 13 Nov 1790. Richard Dowell and wife Mary [X] to Phillip Dowell for L200, 272 acres on Yadkin River adj Eguel, Felps Mill Br. Feb Ct 1791
DB 11, p 832 1789. Thomas Phelps and wife Jane [they signed as Felps]- to Abington Phelps for L40, 100 acres on N Side of Reedy Creek adj. Thomas Phelps original survey. Wit. Thomas Phelps, Samuel Phelps. Pvd by Thomas Phelps Feb Ct 1790.
DB 13, p 20, 26 Jan 1792. James Felps to William White[my direct line ancestor]for L50, 52 Acres on N side of Carter's Creek adj the mill dam and Asa Martin. Wit. John Sedden, John Wioyatt [White?], Mary Felps also signed. Prvd by Sedden Nov Ct 1792.
DB 12, 1 Aug 1791 David Woodson of Jacob Bower for L15 , 130 acres on both sides of Hamby's Fork and W side of Abbotts Creek Adj. John Lopp and PETER FELPS, Part of 843 acres granted to this grantor on 15 April 1788. Aug Ct 1791
DB 13, page 13, 3 Sept 1791 David Woodson to Peter Fouts [Faust/Foust] for L100, 374 Acres on Hanby's Fork of Abbotts Creek adj PETER FELPS, Samuel Parks. Nov Ct 1792.
DB 12. p 41. 4 April 1791. Samuel Williams of Iredell Co NC to SARAH FELPS of Rowan Co for L50, 211 acres, on N Fork of Yadkin River adj. Vincent Williams, Edward Williams,Joseph Sedden, George Holebrok-sic and Richard Dewel. Being part of a State Grant to this Grantor on 25 Oct 1786. Wit. Thomas Felps, James Felps, Prvd by Thomas Felps at Aug Ct 1701.
DB 13, p 755. 12 June 1794. Jane Felps amd John Felps, exrs of Thomas Felps Sr. dec'd, to Charles Caton Sr for L30, 29 1/4 acres of both sides of Yakdin River adj. Thomas Felps, dec'd, Zachariah Harris, and ACQUILLA FELPS HORSE FORD BRANCH. Wit;.Joshua Caton, Edward Cox. Prvd. by Caton at Aug Ct 1794.
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Thomas Phelps, Revolutionary War Pension Papers-- See Images of Original Copies at Southern Phelps Site
http://pages.suddenlink.net/phelpsdna/Southern_Phelps_Research/index.htm
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Miscellaneous Phelps Postings
Re: James FELPS, Sr./Mary of Rowan Co., NC; LA 1700's
Posted by: Sandra Ellenburg Date: August 22, 1998 at 17:19:35
In Reply to: James FELPS, Sr./Mary of Rowan Co., NC; LA 1700's by Bettiann White Lloyd of 4083
Ihave a James Phelps, Sr. The only info I have is his children were - James,Jr. Thomas and David. His father's name was Aquilla b.- 1730's and James,Sr.was a Revolutionary War Soldier, then went to Louisana.
If you think this is him, let me know,
sge42@yahoo.com
Re: Aquilla Phelps of Jasper Co.Ga.
Posted by: Ed Phelps Date: December 17, 1999 at 11:54:41
In Reply to: Aquilla Phelps of Jasper Co.Ga. by Dale Johnson of 4083
There were several Aquilla Phelps/Felps living in Jasper Co. Ga. They both descend from the Aventon Felps families of Rowan Co. NC and both were born there. One is the son of William and Elizabeth Felps, Aquilla Felps (1773 GA-June 1853 GA) and the other was a son of Thomas and Teckel Felps, Aquilla Felps (1789 NC - 1871 GA) married 1 Dec. 1807 Jane (Jenny) Hinson.
Re: Aquilla Phelps 1789-1853 m. a Hanson
Posted by: Virginia P. Edwards Date: November 12, 2001 at 18:13:20
In Reply to: Re: Aquilla Phelps 1789-1853 m. a Hanson by Mary of 4083
Thomas Phelps, born Rowan County North Carolina, died Jasper County Georgia, was the son of Aquilla Phelps, son of Aventon Phelps, of Rowan County.
Re: Aquilla Phelps 1789-1853 m. a Hanson
Posted by: Virginia P. Edwards Date: October 30, 2001 at 20:29:57
In Reply to: Re: Aquilla Phelps 1789-1853 m. a Hanson by Charles Bennett Lindwall of 4083
Yes, the information you have is correct. Thomas Phelps, born in Rowan County North Carolina, died in Jasper County Georgia was the father of both Nancy and Aquilla. The only name I have for Thomas's wife if Tekel. That is how he referred to her in his will and and the name she used in her application for a pension based on Thomas' Revolutionary War service. E-mail me at jdandcaroledwards@earthlink.net and I will be happy to share what information I have. I have a copy of Thomas' will as well as a copy of the will of Joshua Brantley.
Re: Aquilla Phelps 1789-1853 m. a Hanson
Posted by: Charles Bennett Lindwall Date: October 30, 2001 at 15:14:25
In Reply to: Re: Aquilla Phelps 1789-1853 m. a Hanson by Virginia P. Edwards of 4083
It's my understanding from other researchers that my gggg grandmother Nancy Phelps was the sister of Aquilla. She was married in 1804 in Clarke County GA to Joshua Brantley. She was born in 1785 somewhere in NC. These researchers suggest that their father was named Thomas Phelps and that the mothers last name was tekel (probably Teakle or Tickel). There are two Thomas Phelps in the 1790 Caswell 1790 census and a John Tickel and a Peter Tickel.
From the information that you have, is this possible?
Chuck
Re: Aquilla Phelps 1789-1853 m. a Hanson
Posted by: Virginia P. Edwards Date: July 13, 2001 at 17:52:24
In Reply to: Aquilla Phelps 1789-1853 m. a Hanson by Ginger Perry of 4083
Aquilla Phelps 1789-1871 married Jenny Henson/Hanson in Clarke County Georgia in 1807. They were my GGGgrandparents. Their daughters were Sarah, Nicey, Elizabeth, Martha, Nancy and Mary Ann. I don't recall seeing the name you mention in any of my research. If I can give you any information, I will be pleased to do so.
Re: Eliza R. Phelps -m- in Floyd Co Ga
Posted by: Dale Vaughn Date: May 17, 2001 at 16:29:35
In Reply to: Eliza R. Phelps -m- in Floyd Co Ga by Marilyn Houser of 4083
Eliza Rebecca Phelps father was Thomas H. Phelps. Her mother was Sarah Thomason.
Thomas' parents were Aquilla Phelps and Jenny Hanson.
North Carolina Phelps
Posted by: Jerry Phelps (ID *****7066) Date: May 05, 2004 at 11:26:33
of 4083
I am just starting to research my Felps/Phelps family. I have seen on this forum and on other forums an Ed Phelps who seemed to have a tremendous amount of information on the Felps/Phelps. All of his postings I saw were a few years old. I tried his email address that was given but it was no good any more. Ever seen anything posted by Ed Phelps? Is he related to your line?
What I believe to be my line has many Aventon/Avinton/Avington/Abington's etc.
What I believe to be my line (I have a long way to go to document):
Thomas Felps I (Quakers) Limerick Ireland
Thomas Felps II b. 1644 m. Jane Renyolls
Thomas Felps III b. 1664 d. MD m. Rosanne Swift in 1710
son Avinton Felps b. Baltimore Ct. d. Rowan CT NC
son William Phelps b. Rowan Ct NC m. Elizabeth Jones
son Aquilla Phelps b.1768 Rowan m. Nancy Nolan d. GA
son William Felps b. 1799 GA d. GA
son William Hearn Phelps b. 1822 d. 1911
son Benjamine Aquilla b. 1850 m. Laura Poindexter
son Wilburn Phelps b. 1880's TN d. 1961 TN
All of the Avintons I've seen so far seem to tie in somewhere but, like I said, I am new at this.
I would appreciate any information I can get on these to help me correct and complete this line.
Thanks
Jerry Phelps
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Descendants of William W. Milam
Generation No. 1
1. WILLIAM W.1 MILAM was born Abt. 1813 in S.C.1, and died Abt. 1910 in Alabama2. He married ELIZABETH PHELPS October 20, 1833 in Jasper Co., Ga.3, daughter of AQUILLA PHELPS and JANE HANSON.
Children of WILLIAM MILAM and ELIZABETH PHELPS are:
2. i. SARAH JANE2 MILAM, b. May 31, 1837, Floyd Co., Ga.; d. October 28, 1916.
3. ii. GEORGE WASHINGTON MILAM, b. July 19, 1839, Floyd Co., Ga.
iii. JEREMIAH JEFFERSON MILAM, b. January 25, 1841, Floyd Co., Ga.
iv. MARY ANN MILAM, b. September 28, 1843, Floyd Co., Ga.
v. AQUILLA PHILIP MILAM, b. April 22, 1845, Floyd Co., Ga.
vi. WILLIAM W. MILAM, b. January 17, 1847, Floyd Co., Ga.
4. vii. MARTHA ADELINE MILAM, b. January 07, 1849, Floyd Co., Ga.
viii. THOMAS GLADNA MILAM, b. March 06, 1851, Floyd Co., Ga.
ix. ELIZA NEVADA MILAM, b. December 22, 1852, Floyd Co., Ga.
5. x. JESSE LUCIUS MILAM, b. January 14, 1856, Floyd Co., Ga.
6. xi. JAMES CLAUDE MILAM, b. May 22, 1858, Floyd Co., Ga.
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Phelps-Georgia Census Records
Jasper county, GA, 1820 Federal Census - INDEX File
This Census was transcribed by Nancy Mann
proofread by (Not Proofread yet) for the USGenWeb Archives Census Project
http://www.rootsweb.com/~usgenweb/census/
Census_Year 1820
Microfilm #M33-6
State GA
County Jasper
District None listed
Enumerator Joel Baley
PAGE # LINE # LAST NAME FIRST NAME FILENAME
174 69 Phelps Aquila pg0170.txt
212 732 Phelps Aquila pg0194.txt
182 221 Phelps Hillery pg0170.txt
Year: 1820 State: Georgia County: Jasper Page No: 3
Reel no: M33-6 Division: Montecello Township
Sheet No: 174 & 175 Enumerated by: Joel Baley
Transcribed by Nancy Mann (1999) and Evan Crow for USGenWeb,
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| Free White | | Slaves | |
| Male | Female | | Male | Female |
| 0 10 16 16 26 45 | 0 10 16 26 45 | | 0 10 26 45 | 0 10 26 45 |
LINE | Firstname Lastname | 10 16 18 26 45 . | 10 16 26 45 . | Fo | Ag Co Ma | 14 26 45 . | 14 26 45 . |
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Page No: 3
10 | Aquila Phelps | 3 . . 2 . 2 | . 1 . . . | . | 9 . 2 | . . . . | . . . . |
20 | Hillary Phelps | . . . 1 . 1 | . 1 1 . . | . | 2 . . | . 1 . . | 1 . . . |
Page 22
7 | Aquilla Phelps | 1 . . 1 . 2 | 3 2 . 1 . | . | 6 . . | 4 1 . 2 | 1 2 . . |
Jasper COUNTY GA Census 1840
File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by Sforte3@cs.com Suzanne Forte
ftp://ftp.rootsweb.com/pub/usgenweb/ga/jasper/census/1840/1840pt1.txt
1840 Census
Jasper Co., Georgia
Census completed Oct 30, 1840
TOTAL POPULATION: 11, 111
White: 4921
Black: 6155
Free Black: 35
This census was transcribed by Suzanne Forte (sforte3@cs.com)from the original hand-written census.
There was one person listed over 100 years old - David Walens, on Page 67 in household of Wiley
Henderson.
NOTE: There were 35 free blacks listed in the 1840 Jasper County Census. These are listed by
the head of household under Remarks column.
60A&B Shaw's 365th GMD Phelps, Aquella . . . . 1 . . 1
60A&B Shaw's 365th GMD Phelps, Elizabeth . 1 . . . . . . .
Jasper Co Ga 1850 census
23 188 188 Phelps Aquilla 78 M W Farmer 15,000 Ga
24 188 188 Phelps Mildred 54 F W SC
25 188 188 Bull Mildred A 23 F W Ga
26 188 188 Smith Elizabeth 17 F W Ga
27 188 188 Sanders Brown 28 M W Farmer Ga
28 189 189 Phelps Elizabeth ? 52 F W Ga
REMARKS: middle initial written over
29 189 189 Phelps Aquilla 24 M W Mechanic Ga X
JASPER COUNTY GA Census - Slave Schedule 1850
File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by
ftp://ftp.rootsweb.com/pub/usgenweb/ga/jasper/census/1850/slave.txt
PHELPS, Aquilla 15 Black Males 1 to 84 21 Black Females 1 to 60
PHELPS, Elizabeth 2 Black Females 10 mo. & 60
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Georgia Land Lotteries
1821 Land Lottery GA - P - Q
Phelps Aquilla Jasper Pollards 10/9 Dooly
Phelps Aquilla Jasper Pollards 199/1 Henry
Phelps James C. McInto Dist 22 119/11 Henry
Phelps James C. Pulaski Lesters 212/3 Henry
Phelps William Clark Fosters 152/8 Henry
Phelps William Jones Pitts 2/14 Monroe
1827 GEORGIA LAND LOTTERY, Jasper County Residents, by date of drawing
Source: "Reprint of Official Register of Land Lottery of Georgia
1827," Compiled and Published by Miss Martha Lou Houston, Columbus, Georgia,
printed by Walton-Forbes Company, Columbus, Georgia 1928.
Section 1 is Lee County
Section 2 is Muscogee County
Section District, Lot No. Name County, Captains District
10th Day's Drawing - 17th March
2 9 162 Phelps, David orphans Jasper County, Sparks
19th Day's Drawing - March 28
1 26 82 Phelps, Thos. R.S. Jasper County Farleys
37th Day's Drawings - April 18
2 16 124 Phelps, William W. Jasper County Sparks
1 9 213 Phelps, John A. illegit Jasper County Sparks
40th Day's Drawing - April 21
2 23 131 Phelps's, Washington ors. Jasper County Dardens---Descendant of John Phelps d.1801, Bedford Co., Va.
(orphans)
43rd Day's Drawings - April 25
2 3 25 Phelps, Augustin J. Jasper County Sparks
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JASPER COUNTY, GA - MILITARY INDIAN WARS Capt Davis Lane's Company of the 38th Georgia Militia
Phelps, Jesse
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Jasper County GaArchives Deed.....Several Surnames - Several Surnames September 16 1816+
File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by:
Walter Ward wward@cafes.net September 5, 2003, 9:28 am
Written: September 16 1816+
Jasper County, Georgia Deed Abstracts, 1816-1832, partial.
Sources: Microfilm of the actual Jasper County, Georgia, Deed books. Book A,
LDS Microfilm # 158497; Book B1, LDS Microfilm # 158498; Book B2, LDS
Microfilm # 158499.
NOTE: Unless stated otherwise, all grantors and grantees were from the area
now called Jasper County, Georgia. Before 1807 this same area was a part of
Baldwin County and from 1807 until 1812 it was called Randolph County. In 1812
the name was changed to Jasper County. The names listed here are spelled the
same as the actual record to the best of my ability to read the record. Words
that could not be identified are placed in parenthesis with my best guess
followed with a question mark. WHW
Book B2, page 420, dated Apr. 30, 1830. WILLIAM PEACOCK sold to JOHN NEWBY for
$200. Description: 101 1/4 acres, District 17, Lot number not recollected, but
adjoining lands of the said WILLIAM PEACOCK, AGUILLA PHELPS, MARTIN COCHRAN,
and others and known by the half lot whereon JOHN PEACOCK, Senr, died. Signed:
WILLIAM (his X mark) PEACOCK. Witnesses: MARTIN COCHRAN and MARIAM COCHRAN
plus an affidavit dated June 5, 1830 by MARTIN COCHRAN witnessed by J.
MCCLENDON, J.P. Recorded Mar. 15, 1832 by WILLIAM B. STOKES, Clk.
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Phelps Marraiges
Jasper CO. GA Marriage Book - 1808-1820
Submitted by Scott E. Warren
Transcribed by Bill Lynch
Groom Bride Date
Johnston, William Phelps, Luvania 12/04/1816
Phelps, Daniel W. Horley, Susannah 03/25/1817
Phelps, Washington Lang, Bersheba 04/21/1816--Descendant of John Phelps d.1801, Bedford Co., Va.
Phelps, William Johnson, Ann 07/09/1816
Jasper Co. GA Marriage Book, 1821-1835-1841
Compiled by Bill Lynch
Groom Bride Date Page
Brown, Robert Phelps, Nancy 09/08/1831 138
Jackson, Green B. Phelps, Barbara 03/02/1823 43
McDannel, Jacob Phelps, Martha 11/18/1829 142
Milum, William Phelps, Elizabeth 10/20/1830 160
Phelps, Thomas Thomason, Sarh 11/21/1833 160
Phelps, William Parker, Judy 11/18/1827 95
Smith, John B. Phelps, Sarah 08/22/1830 126
Smith, William W. Phelps, Mary 09/01/1825 74
Jasper Co. GA Marriage records, O and P
Phelps, William to Anne Johnson 07/09/1817
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Martha Odom MAKODOM@aol.com - 12/22/97
Researching Aquilla PHELPS (b. 12 Dec 1789 in Rowan County, NC - d. About 1871 in Floyd County, GA) who married Jane HENSON (b. Unknown - d. Unknown) in Clarke County, GA on 1 Dec 1807. Aquilla's father was Thomas PHELPS (b. 19 Aug 1759 in Rowan County, NC - d. 12 Jul 1835 in Jasper County, GA) who married a TEAKLE (not sure if this was her first or last name). Aquilla lived in Jasper County, GA for most of his life; however, most of his children had migrated to Floyd County by the 1850s. If anyone has information on this family, please contact me.
From: Pattylshaw@aol.com
Subject: Phelps of Georgia came to Missouri
Date: Fri, 7 Jan 2005 19:06:29 EST
This is old information from a couple of years ago and would love to hear
from Nora or Margaret again - lost contact with them and this is what they sent
me when I was researching my Albert Phelps b. Georgia abt 1812. Also have
this info on a James Phelps:
possible brother of Albert on same family page with Eliza Phelps age 65.
Household: 1880
Name Relation Marital Status Gender Race Age Birthplace Occupation
Father's Birthplace Mother's Birthplace
James PHELPS Self M Male W 56 GA Farmer VA GA
Darkiss PHELPS Wife M Female W 53 TN Keeps House TN TN
Mollin M. PHELPS Son S Male W 26 MO Laborer GA TN
Mary E. PHELPS Dau S Female W 18 MO GA TN
James F. PHELPS Son S Male W 12 MO Laborer GA TN
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Source Information:
Census Place Crawford, Osage, Missouri
Family History Library Film 1254707
NA Film Number T9-0707
Page Number 420A
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Patty,
I do have a line of Phelps that moved from SC to GA between 1810-14. They settled in Pulaski Co. GA. Would Albert Phelps lived near there. You didn't say where. Wish we could get a WebSite of Southern Phelps. We really need to pull these southern Phelps together. I have some material on mine: William and Sophia Lee Phelps at home. When I get home, I will look for Albert.
We do have an Arthur Phelps (my line) but no Albert that I remember.(?). I will be home on the 10th of Dec. William was b. c. 1773 but don't know where but believe in NC or SC. Sophia Lee was b. c. 1776-77 SC. I believe there were about 5 different Phelps in SC on or before the 1790 Census but all moved to GA or other parts West. Moses and his son James Phelps from Edgefield, SC and Aquilla Phelps along with my William were all in SC before moving through GA to other states. Talk
later. Nora
12-4-2002
There are several groups of Phelps in Georgia in the early 19th century. No one has "adopted" the state as a project to work on identifying relationships ifany between the families. A Thomas Phelps born 19 Aug. 1759 in Rowan Co.,North Carolina; died 12 July 1835 in Jasper Co., GA. Thomas served in the Revolutionary War. At the time he enlisted he was living on Great Kiokee Creek, which runs into the Savannah River almost across from Edgefield Co., S.C. In 1784 he married a woman named Teckel (1767- died Floyd Co., GA ca. 1855).Thomas and Tekel had two children, a daughter Nancy b. 9 Sept 1785, died before 1851 (affadavit of brother, Aquilla, on pension application). and a son, Aquilla, b. 12 Dec 1789; died 1871, Floyd Co., GA . Tekel received a widow's pension W3551. Aquilla lived in Floyd Co., had several children, Sarah,Thomas, Nancy, Jesse, Pickney, Elizabeth, Polly and Jane. Some of them or Aquilla's grandchildren moved to Tennessee and on to Texas after "THE WAR". There was second Aquilla who lived in GA at the same time. Relationship if any unknown at present.
No Albert among descendants identified by Betty Cason of Rome, GA, a
ggg-granddaughter of Thomas.
There were also New England Phelps who lived the vicinity of Columbus, GA,
and
others in Pulaski Co.
Margaret Swanson
These are emails from Phelps Family mailing list.
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File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by:
Larry Childs http://www.rootsweb.com/~archreg/vols/00014.html#0003325 January 11, 2006, 7:50 pm
Cemetery: Bull
Name: Mildred Bull
Photo can be seen at:
http://www.rootsweb.com/~usgenweb/ga/monroe/photos/tombstones/bull/bull8020gph.jpg
Image file size: 111.6 Kb
Mildred Gibson Willis Bull
Additional Comments:
Wm H. Bull married Mildred Gibson 22 Jul 1818 Wilkes Co.,
GA. This was her second marriage. Her first was to George
Willis before 1807. George Willis died 5 Nov 1816 Wilkes
Co., GA. After Wm H Bull died, she married 1848 Jasper Co.,
GA to Aquilla Phelps.
(Information from: Barbara Waldrop User181801@aol.com )
Mildred Gibson Willis Bull Phelps was an ancestor of most of
the many people of Monroe County who are Willis
descendants. She was a daughter of John Gibson who died in
1827 in Wilkes County Georgia and his wife Mildred (Millie)
Holladay Gibson.
Her first husband was George Willis who died 1816 in Wilkes
County Georgia. He was a son of James Willis of Virginia who
died 1813 in Wilkes County and his first wife Ann/Nancy.
They had sons:
Owen J willis,
George A Willis,
John G Willis
Mildred Gibson Willis married 2nd William H Bull (he is
buried in the Carlton-Bull Cemetery Mildred married
William H Bull 1818 in Wilkes County and they had several
children who lived to adulthood.
Mildred Gibson Willis Bull married 3rd Acquilla Phelps
Matilda Gibson (Mildred's sister) married 1st David Allison
who was guardian of Mildred's three Willis sons. Matilda,
who was Mildred's sister, married 3 more times. Matilda was
married last to James Lamar
Children in the cemetery are said to be a child of Mildred
and William Bull and a Bryant child. I don't know who the
Bryant child could be. One of Mildred's sons, John Gibson
Willis b 10 Jun 1810 Wilkes County, GA had a daughter by his
second wife who married a Bryant. Could this Bryant child be
Mildred's Great Grandchild? [I have Mary Lena Willis m.
Hiram J. Bryant in Butts Co., GA but no date. Mary Lena was
b. 1874]
File at: http://ftp.rootsweb.com/pub/usgenweb/ga/monroe/photos/tombstones/bull/bull8020gph.txt
This file has been created by a form at http://www.genrecords.org/gafiles/
File size: 2.6 Kb
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1827 GEORGIA LAND LOTTERY, Jasper County Residents, sorted by last name
Source: "Reprint of Official Register of Land Lottery of Georgia
1827," Compiled and Published by Miss Martha Lou Houston, Columbus, Georgia,
printed by Walton-Forbes Company, Columbus, Georgia 1928.
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SEC DIST LOT NO. NAME RESIDENCE CAPT. DIST. COUNTY OF DRAW
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2 3 25 Phelps, Augustin J. Jasper County Sparks Muscogee County
2 9 162 Phelps, David orphans Jasper County Sparks Muscogee County
1 9 213 Phelps, John A. illegit Jasper County Sparks Lee County
1 26 82 Phelps, Thos. R.S. Jasper County Farleys Lee County---Thomas Phelps of Rowan Co. N.C.
2 16 124 Phelps, William W. Jasper County Sparks Muscogee County
2 23 131 Phelps's, Washington orphs. Jasper County Dardens Muscogee County--Descendant of John Phelps d.1801, Bedford Co., Va.
1827 Land Lottery Registration List Jasper County, GA
THIS IS THE JASPER COUNTY REGISTRATION LIST FOR THE 1827 GEORGIA
LAND LOTTERY. REGISTRATION WAS HELD WITHIN TWO MONTHS OF THE PASSAGE
OF THE LAND ACT OF 7 DEC 1824. (THE JASPER COUNTY REGISTRATION WAS
FILED 3 SEP 1825). THE BOOK HAS TORN PAGES AND IS DIFFICULT TO READ
IN PLACES - THOSE SPOTS HAVE BEEN NOTED.
THE REQUIREMENTS WERE: U.S. CITIZEN, INHABITANT OF THE STATE OF GEORGIA
FOR THREE YEARS IMMEDIATELY PRIOR TO 1 JAN 1827.
REASONS A PERSON COULD NOT DRAW: HE/SHE WAS A WINNER IN A PREVIOUS
LOTTERY (SEE EXCEPTIONS); REFUSED TO SERVE IN MILITARY; CONVICT
SERVING TIME
QUALIFICATION AND NUMBER OF DRAWS:
1 DRAW - WHITE MALE OVER AGE 18
1 DRAW - EVERY WIDOW
1 DRAW - FAMILY OF ORPHANS UNDER 18 WITH FATHER DEAD
1 DRAW - FAMILY OF 1-2 ORPHANS (APPLIED IN THE DISTRICT OF THE
ELDEST ORPHAN OR THE GUARDIAN - SEEMS TO IMPLY BOTH PARENTS DEAD)
1 DRAW - MALE OR UNMARRIED FEMALE IDIOT, LUNATIC, INSANE, BLIND, OR DEAF
AND DUMB, 10-18 YEARS OLD
2 DRAWS - WHITE MALE OVER 18 WITH WIFE AND/OR LEGITIMATE MALE CHILD(REN)
UNDER 18 OR UNMARRIED FEMALE CHILD(REN)
2 DRAWS - FAMILY OR MORE THAN 3 ORPHANS (APPLIED IN THE DISTRICT OF THE
ELDEST ORPHAN OR THE GUARDIAN - SEEMS TO IMPLY BOTH PARENTS DEAD)
SPECIAL EXCEPTIONS:
1 EXTRA DRAW - WIDOW OF HUSBAND KILLED/DIED IN WARS WITH GREAT BRITIAN
OR INDIANS OR ON THE RETURN MARCH HOME
1 EXTRA DRAW - ORPHAN WHOSE FATHER KILLED/DIED IN WARS WITH GREAT
BRITIAN OR INDIANS OR ON THE RETURN MARCH HOME
1 EXTRA DRAW - MAN DISABLED IN WARS WITH GREAT BRITIAN OR INDIANS
2 EXTRA DRAWS - REVOLUTIONARY WAR VETERAN WHO HAD NOT DRAWN A LOT FOR
SERVICE IN THE 1821 LOTTERY, EVEN IF HE WAS A PREVIOUS
WINNER IN OTHER LOTTERIES
1 EXTRA DRAW - REVOLUTIONARY WAR VETERAN WHO HAD DRAWN A LOT FOR SERVICE
IN THE 1821 LOTTERY
1 EXTRA DRAW - REVOLUTIONARY WAR VETERAN'S WIDOW
* ANYONE WHO HAD WON PREVIOUSLY AS A MEMBER OF A FAMILY OF ORPHANS
BUT WAS 18 OR OLDER COULD HAVE ONE DRAW; THE REMAINING ORPHANS UNDER
18 HAD ONE DRAW AS A FAMILY
* CHILDREN OF CONVISTS WERE TREATED AS ORPHANS
* ILLEGITIMATE CHILDREN WERE TREATED AS ORPHANS
* A WIFE OF A HUSBAND THREE YEARS ABSENT WAS TREATED AS A WIDOW, CHILDREN
AS ORPHANS
THE BOOKS WERE COMPILED WITH ONE OR TWO LETTERS ON A PAGE, NAMES ADDED
AS THEY REGISTERED. THIS HELPED TO INDENTIFY AT LEAST THE BEGINNING
LETTER OF SOME OF THE NAMES WHERE PAGES WERE TORN.
THE LIST CONTAINS: NAME, NUMBER OF DRAWS ENTITLED TO, NOTES
DARDEN'S DISTRICT
PHELPS, WASHINGTON, 1, ORPHANS OF----Descendant of John Phelps d.1801, Bedford Co., Va. ______________________________________________________________________________________________________
Phelps Plantation, Jasper Co., Ga.
W. E. SANDERS, merchant and mayor of Forsyth, Monroe County, Georgia, son of Brown and Elizabeth A. (Smith) Sanders, was born in Jasper County, Georgia, October 13, 1851. The family came from England to South Carolina before the Revolutionary War. Mr. Sanders’ great-grandfather, Ephraim Sanders, a soldier in the Patriot Army, was killed in the battle of Eutaw Springs, South Carolina, September 8, 1781. The latter part of the last century, his grandfather, a planter, migrated from South Carolina to Georgia and settled in Jones County, where he raised a large family, whose members scattered and made homes elsewhere. Here Mr. Sanders’ father was born in 1808 and grew to manhood. He then moved over into Jasper County, where he married in 1850. His mother’s family was of Georgia birth, and she was raised by her grandfather, Aquilla Phelps, one of the older of the first settlers. After their marriage his parents moved to Jones County, where they lived seven years, and then returned to Jasper County to the old Phelps Plantation, where they are living now, his father engaged in his lifetime business of farming. They had four children born to them: W.E., the subject of this sketch; Mary A., died at thirteen; Frances M., died when eighteen months old; Florence, died when seventeen years of age. Mr. Sanders was reared in Jasper County, and educated in the county schools and the Monticello high school, and took a course in the Macon Business College. In 1871 he clerked in Monticello, Georgia, and beginning with 1872, he clerked for L. Greenwood & Brothers, Forsyth, for several years – clerking in the fall and winter – making a crop in the summer in Jasper County. In 1877 he engaged with Solomon & Mount, remained with them until 1881, when he went into business with E.R. Roberts, under the firm name of Roberts & Sanders. The firm continued until 1883, when they were burnt out. Mr. Sanders then bought his partner’s interest, and has since conducted the business with phenomenal success on his own account. He carried a fine assorted general supply stock. He was elected mayor of Forsyth in 1890, re-elected since in 1892, 1893 and 1894, and is mayor now. He is captain of the Quitman Guards (Company K, Second Regiment Infantry, Georgia Volunteers). This is a “crack” company, and he has been a member of it twenty years. He is also a member of the Military Advisory Board of the State of Georgia. Mr. Sanders was married Dec. 13, 1876, in Forsyth, Georgia, to Miss Ada O., daughter of W.B. and Mattie A. Chambers, who now live in Griffin, Spalding County, Georgia. To them seven children have been born: Florence; W.B., died in 1890; May; Charlie; an infant, died unnamed; W.E., Jr., deceased. Mr. Sanders is a Democrat. He is very popular, ranks high for energy and business capability, and commercial integrity. His accomplished success gives assurance of a brilliant business future.
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Phelps-- Legal name changes in Georgia
ACTS OF THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY, OF THE STATE OF GEORGIA, PASSED IN MILLEDGEVILLE. AT AN ANNUAL SESSION IN NOVEMBER AND DECEMBER, 1839.
ACTS OF THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF GEORGIA. PASSED IN NOVEMBER AND DECEMBER, 1839.
NAMES.
1839 Vol. 1 -- Page: 166
Sequential Number: 153
Full Title: AN ACT to alter and change the names of certain persons therein named, and to legitimatize the same, and for other purposes therein mentioned.
Section 1. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the State of Georgia, in General Assembly met, and it is hereby enacted by the authority of the same, That the name of Elizabeth Robinson, be, and the same is hereby changed to that of Eliza Elizabeth Blount; the name of Elizabeth Ann Harrell, shall be, and the same is hereby altered and changed to that of Elizabeth Ann Johnson; the name of Anna Atline Davis, be, and the same is hereby
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changed to that of Priscilla Atline Graham; the names of Elizabeth Chiles, Aquilla Chiles, Thomas W. Chiles, and Lucinda Chiles of Jasper county, shall be, and the same is hereby changed to that of Elizabeth Phelps, Aquilla Phelps, Thomas W. Phelps and Lucinda Phelps; the name of William James of Richmond county, shall be, and the same is hereby changed to that of William Little; the name of Henry Hines of Stewart county, shall be, and the same is hereby changed to that of Henry Brewer; the names of Henry T. F. Stokes, William A. A. Stokes, and Rebecca E. E. Stokes, of Taliaferro county, be changed to that of Henry T. F. Towns, William A. A. Towns and Rebecca E. E. Towns, the children of Thomas T. Towns of Taliaferro county; and the name of Emily Green of Newton county, be changed to that of Emily Kinney; that the name of James Morrison of Burke county, be changed to that of James Grubbs; and that the names of Harry G. Hunter, Harriet Hunter, Sophrina Hunter and Louisa Hunter, be changed to that of Harry G. Murphy, Harriet Murphy Sophrina Murphy and Louisa Murphy, and as such they shall be called and known in all courts of Law and Equity; and are hereby declared to be fully and completely legitimatized, and entitled to all the rights and legal privileges that they would have been, had they been born in lawful wedlock
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The Family of James Phelps/Felps and wife Mary, Son of Aquilla Phelps Of Rowan County,North Carolina. James Phelps and his family came from Rowan County,N.C. to Elbert County, Georgia and then on to East Feliciana Parish, Louisiana.
JAMES FELPS, moved with his wife Mary (Sidden) and sons, David D Felps (born 1782), Thomas Felps, Joseph Felps and James Felps Jr. James Sr. settled land in Feliciana Parish, LA Nov. 1803.
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"EAST FELICIANA, LOUISIANA, PAST AND PRESENT."
SKETCHES OF THE PIONEERS,
By H. Skipwith 1892 Hopkins Printing Office,
20 & 22 Commercial Place, New Orleans
PIONEERS OF THE FIFTH WARD.
I am so habituated, Mr. Editor, to chronological arrangement that I think I would not begin writing a history of Rome before making close and critical search for vestiges of the wall, to build which, Romulus cut down the reeds of Tiber, nearly three thousand years ago. My present search is limited to the inquiry "Who made the earliest blazings of civilizations in the fifth ward of East Feliciana?" Tradition carries us then back, in answer to this question, to the closing years of the last century; when the three Yarborough brothers from Georgia, and Joseph Felps, from the same State, in company with his brothers, James, Thomas and David; and as part of the same immigration movement, those sturdy old front- iersmen, Isaac Taylor from Pennsylvania, and Robert Nettles and Thomas Albritton from South Carolina, who commenced to make their hatchet clearings, to lay off fence rows and to build log cabins with puncheon floors in the heart of the primeval forests and cane brakes, the dark green curtains of the water-courses, which irrigated and fertilized the lovely valleys of the Fifth Ward, in the year 1798. And two years later came into the same community another colony from Elbert County, Georgia, which included several well rememb- ered pioneers, who figured conspicuously in shaping our civlization, namely: Charles Ingraham, James Higginbotham, Matthew Edwards, Natt Cobb and William Blount. Mr. Ingraham, who cleared the place now owned by Mr. I.T.Felps, was a worker in wood, possessing a large and active mechanical genius, and to him the settlers were indebted for the first grist and saw mill, and he was likewise the owner of several slave mechanics, workers both in iron and wood, and Ingraham's mill and blacksmith shop were leading land marks for many years, of which there are still some vestiges. His old Elbert County neighbor and friend, James Higginbotham, who likewise was a slave owner, was the Master of the first lodge of Masons organized in East Feliciana. He lived and died on his first clearing, but his son, John B., on his father's death, moved eastward into the Sixth Ward, near Nat Cobb and William Blount and the Briants, who had migrated from the banks fo the Comite river, in the Fifth, to the valley of the Amite, in the Sixth. Throughout his long and active life, John B. Higginbotham was a strong pillar of the Methodist Church, an earnest and devout class leader. It is one of the traditions of the Elbert County colony, along the Comite, that young Charles Ingraham was the first Anglo American to die, and that his father put him away in a solid lightwood coffin, which was made air tight by ingenious devices without corroding nails. As the Felps and Yarborough brothers certainly came into the wilds earlier than the Elbert County colony, those earliest leaders of the column of civilization have had so much influence in shaping the societies which they founded that each may claim a short biographical paragraph. James Felps founded the ancestral seat, seven miles east of Clinton, on the Greensburg road, in the Eighth Ward. His brothers, Thomas and David Felps, founded their family seats two miles south of him, on the banks of Bluff Creek, in the Sixth Ward. The fourth brother, Joseph, whose descendants still cling in large numbers around the "clearing" which their ancestor made in 1798, a little south of the present site of Clinton, chose his home in the Fifth Ward. The three Yarborough brothers, who came from Georgia with the Felps, founded their homes along the banks of Pretty Creek, in clannish proximity, in the Fifth Ward. Lewis Yarborough made his hatchet clearing and built his log cabin (which I have seen standing in good repair, in 1825) just between the present store of Mr. R. Carow and the new residence of Henry Hartner. His descendants, not long ago, under the advice of Judge J.B. Smith, contemplated bringing suit for all the land on which the town of Clinton now stands.
"EAST FELICIANA, LOUISIANA, PAST AND PRESENT."
SKETCHES OF THE PIONEERS,
By H. Skipwith 1892 Hopkins Printing Office,
20 & 22 Commercial Place, New Orleans
PIONEERS OF THE SIXTH WARD.
Notwithstanding, Mr. Editor, that this sixth sub-division of East Feliciana has been sneeringly nick-named "the Dark Corner", I find on closer scrutiny that is annals are as full of stirring incidents, its settlement as early, its progress as fast and its social development as healthy and steady as in any of the other wards, and a glance at its admirable distribution of forest and stream, of meadows and valleys and picturesque building sites, on the crown of its lofty ranges of forest clad hills, will convince the home seekers that I am sketching one of the choicest haunts of civilized man; a land conspicuously adapted to the uses of agricultural and pastoral endeavor. The bold and turbulent Amite, with its wealth of broad and fertile bottoms, and its miles of dense primeval forests, is the ward's eastern border, Sandy Creek, a smaller stream of living waters, presenting on a smaller scale the same features as are found along the Amite, is the western boundary of the ward. The same general features likewise attach to the courses of its two diagonal feeders, namely Hunter's Branch, which rises a little north of the centre and flows south-west into Sandy Creek, and Bluff Creek which also rises north of the centre and discharges south-east into the Amite river. It is almost needless to add that the flocks and herds of the Sixth Ward never suffer for water, and the meadows bordering all these streams in large broad bodies of fertile land hold out a promise of rich remuneration to agricultural and pastoral endeavor. It goes, too, almost without saying, that the bold headlands hemm- ing in these streams abound in picturesque sites, calling eloquently to roaming pilgrims to stop and build and beautify a home. It has already been asserted in these sketches that there were two tidal waves, which floated into these wilds; two streams of immigrat- ing humanity; some by single spies, some by families, and some by whole neighborhoods. The first wave was set in motion by the treaty with Spain in 1795, which defined the 31st parallel of north latitude as the boundary between Spain's provinces of Florida and the United States, and also guaranteed to American citizens, for three years, the right of deposit. On this first wave came into the Sixth Ward, to battle with the bears, panthers and wolves for possession and a peaceful home, John Morgan and Morgan Morgan, who having emigrated from Virginia to the wilds of Kentucky with their relative Daniel Boone, soon after the revolutionary war, turned their migratory longing southward in 1796, and in company with the Vardells and Thackers, founded their homes in the Sixth in the broad and fertile Amite valley. Impelled by the same wave, though not quite so early, but before the close of the century, came the Chaneys from South Carolina, the Phelps from Georgia, and John Hobgood from Virginia. These early comers founded seats along the valleys of Bluff Creek, except Capt. James Hobgood, whose early life was so eventful and full of interesting incidents, as to suggest a separate biographical paragraph. James Hobgood was a Virginia lad during the Revolution, with strong longings to go and fight for Washington and freedom, but being too young was denied enlistment. After the war closed, the restless, aspiring lad commenced his migrations southward, through the Carolinas, stopping in South Carolina long enough to fascinate a blue-eyed daughter of the Barfields, who came with him to found a home on the plantation in the Sixth Ward, now owned and cultivated by Mr. Porter Rowley. The ancestor of the Hobgoods was not only one of the earliest comers, but was for many years the most conspicous figure of the early society of the Sixth Ward, especially at "House Raisings" and "Log Rollings" and all other occasions at which physical strength always won the crown of admiration. He was a long armed, heavily muscled athlete, and as a jumper, wrestler and fighter had no equal. His son, Mr. W.B. Hobgood, relates with pardonable pride the feats of prowess of his gigantic ancestor, but he had one weakness, for which Billy, after the lapse of over half a century, has not been able to fully forgive him. When the oats were ready for the harvest the long armed old giant would shoulder his scythe and buckle on his can- teen full of whiskey, and his son Billy ws summoned to carry a fresh pail of water, and when the day's work was done the canteen was always empty, but Billy had been rigidly confined to the con- tents of the pail of water, and to this day Billy protests that he was the victim of a most unfair distribution of the fluids. Within a year or two of those already mentioned came from Georgia, the Cobbs, Higginbothams, Carrolls and Blonnts, and the Barfields from South Carolina, who founded their seats along the Amite river. While these eastern colonists were developing their scattered communities, settlements were being made on the western border, along the valley of Sandy Creek, by the Hatchers, Storys, McMurrays and Gideon White. A little later, say about six years, the earliest of that large column of immigration which was set in motion by Mr. Jefferson's proclamation of 1803, announcing the purchase of Louisiana, came B.M.G. Brown, senior, who brought his wife, his little ones, and his slaves, and his chattels, in 1804, from Darlington District, South Carolina, to found a new home on the banks of Hunter's Branch, in the Sixth Ward, near the line of the Baton Rouge road, where he reared and equipped his four sons, Major Reddin Brown, B.M.G. Brown, jr., Elly Brown and Eli Brown, for active, useful and honorable service in the van of civilization, around their southern homes. Nearly contemporaneous with the Browns, the society of the ward was recruited by the Lees, Reddins, Carrolls, and by the mother of Sothey Hayes, and the late Sheriff Jno. W. Hayes, who came, a brave widow from South Carolina, to found a new home for her sons in the wilds of the Sixth Ward.
PIONEERS OF THE SEVENTH WARD.
About the time when the Yarboroughs and Phelps and the other colonists migrated from Elbert County, Georgia, at the close of the late century, into the Fifth Ward to make their clearings and found their homes along the margin of the Comite river and Pretty Creek----
"EAST FELICIANA, LOUISIANA, PAST AND PRESENT."
SKETCHES OF THE PIONEERS,
By H. Skipwith 1892 Hopkins Printing Office,
20 & 22 Commercial Place, New Orleans
PIONEERS OF THE EIGHTH WARD. When, in 1800, old Leonard Hornsby took passage on a flat boat and floated out of South Carolina down the head waters of the Tennessee river and around by the Ohio and Mississippi to Natchez, with all his father's slaves and herds, his house- hold and kitchen outfit, his wagons, teams and agricultural implements, his gunsmith and his one-legged shoemaker, his big mastiffs, bull dogs and deer hounds, he was tolerably well equipped to plant and defend and expand an outpost in the vanguard of civilization, which he did in 1802 in the forks of Beaver Creek and the Amite river, to which his Anglo-Saxon love of running waters had attracted him. This outpost of the Hornsby's, in 1802, lies in the extreme corner of the Eighth Ward, and is now the property of Judge W.F. Kernan. When its site was selected there were none within hearing of his cock's crowing for day-break, except the sly, scheming foxes, thirsting for chanticleer's blood; none to hear the deep-mouthed baying of his big dogs, except the frightened bears, panthers, wolves and deer. No human being was nearer than old Mr. Furlow, a Georgian, who, with a hermit's love of solitude, had planted his solitary log cabin on the west side of Hepzibah Creek, about half a mile below the high hill, out of the sides of which gush the living waters as fresh and strong and life-giving as those which gushed from the rocks of Horeb when struck by Aaron's rod. The place is central and has had many different proprietors after old Mr. Furlow was put away in his grave. His immediate successor was Daniel Eads, of Kentucky, who constructed the first grist mill just above where Hephzibah Church now stands. Two other leaders of Eighth Ward society, Elisha Andrews and Major Doughty, followed Mr. Eads as proprietors of the Furlow place, and in 1812 or 1814 the Rev. Ezra Courtney, having organized a numerous Baptist congregation, selected the portion of the place lying on the east side of the creek for the site of a Baptist house of worship, to which was given the name of HEPHZIBAH. Furlow, Eads, Andrews and Doughty, after life's fitful fever, all sleep quietly in their graves, but the head waters of Hepzibah Creek still ripple and gurgle joyously by the foot of holy Hepzibah Church, the congregation of which multiplied amazingly under the zealous ministrations of its venerable founder. It remained a harmonious brotherhood, without any family jars, except when old Chesley Jackson, one of Hephizbah's stock-holders, took it into his head to invite a Universalist named Rogers to preach in Hepbzibah. This desecration of the Hephzibah pulpit by an unbaptized heretic who didn't believe n Sheol, was bitterly opposed by another body of organized Baptists, under the lead of that good Christian and citizen, Major Doughty, who locked the heretic out, and carried off the keys in their pockets. Then there was war in Hephzibah and the contending factions were not appeased until the Rev. H.D.F. Roberts, from Sumpter District, S.C., with a diploma from Columbia College, and Rev. Thomas Adams, and impassioned and learned divine, from Richland District, S.C., came to pour oil on the troubled waters. Under the impassioned appeals of these two missionaries the conscience of the eighth ward was stirred to its lowest depths and the list of Hepzibah members rapidly doubled. Perhaps it will add to the interest of my narrative to say that Mr. Roberts left the work here to serve a pulpit in a Tennessee church, where he reared four promising sons, of whom our esteemed fellow citizen, J.M. Roberts, Esq., was one, and all of whom have been, from time to time, members of eighth ward society, as guests of their father's older brothers, Messrs. William and Sylvester Dunn Roberts, both immigrants from Sumpter District, S.C. The Rev. Thos. Adams founded a home and raised a family on the banks of Pretty creek, and continued his minist- rations in the East Feliciana church until his death near Clinton in 1859, where he was buried, and over his honored grave the congregations he had so faithfully served united in erecting a handsome monument. After Furlow and Hornsby, the dim and scattered germs of Eighth Ward settlers were first recruited by John Chance and James Felps from Georgia, in 1803 and 1804, and probably by the ancestor of Jack, Booker and Smith Kent. Mr. Chance made his first clearing on the place in the Seventh ward on which in 1806 old Mr. Henry Dunn moved with his family and slaves. This John Chance became conspicuous in the annals of the Eighth Ward, for long and honor- able services as a leader through its early struggles, and as the founder of a numerous and powerful family by his marriage with Miss Zilpha Doughty, who came into the ward in 1806 in company with her father, old Mr. Levi Doughty, from Darlington District, S.C. In the same fleet of flatboats which floated the Doughtys out of South Carolina, down the head waters of the Tennessee and through the perilous Muscle Shoals, down the Ohio and Mississippi to Natchez, came out of the same neighborhood a column of immigrants with their families, slaves and household goods; and from Natchez, on foot and in wagons, probably along the same trace which old Leonard Hornsby blazed out in 1802, to the banks of Beaver creek, near which most of these colonists commenced their clearings. This large column of colonists coming into the ward in 1806, embraced the ancestors of the Doughtys, Rentzs, Brians, Morgans and Whites, who used to tell their descendants some thrilling tales of hairbreadth escapes from shipwreck on the snags, sawyers and hidden rocks in the un- known channels of the French Broad, and how, appalled by the angry roar of the swift torrents, whirlpools and eddies of the Muscle Shoals, the immigrants from Darlington District landed their wives, little ones and slaves at the head of the Shoals and trusted the ark containing their herds, household and kitchen and plantation outfits to a skilled Indian pilot, who, standing with his long pole at the bow, with his squaw at the helm, would brave the dangers of the perilous passage while the human passengers footed around the shoals by a "cut-off." The Indian pilots brought most of the boats safely to the foot of the Shoals, but sometimes one would be wrecked and an outfit for a home in the wilderness would go to the bottom.
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East Feliciana Parish was created in 1824 when Feliciana Parish, once part of Spanish West Florida, was split into
East and West Feliciana Parishes.
1820 Census, Head of Household Feliciana Parish, La.
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This LARGE Feliciana Parish was divided in 1824 and split into East &
West Feliciana Parishes. The Heads of the Households for this census
were transcribed from the original rolls. Some designated areas on this
census may correspond to places in later East or West Feliciana
Parish. A head of household on this census, by 1830, would either be
listed in East or West Feliciana Parish if they remained in the area.
Make note of the names of neighbors on this census, whose records may
later assist you in your research. The men listed on this census
may have participated in the War of 1812 and fought at the Battle of
New Orleans on 8 January 1815.
AREA SURNAME FIRST NAME
Amite Miller..........................Isaac
" Smith...........................Ephm
" Blunt...........................Wm.
" Powers..........................Mark
" Crittenlon......................Jeremiah
" Cobb............................Nathl.
" Morgan..........................Jese
" Bryan...........................James
" Kerby...........................William
" Lurk (?)........................Jno.
" Neasom..........................Abraham
" Phelps..........................Thos.
" Fulcher.........................Wm.
" Knight..........................Zacha.
" Knight..........................Willis
" Miller..........................William N.
" Carr............................G.V.J.
" Cock............................Ara L.
" Allbrittan......................Richard
" Middleton.......................Saml.
" Splane..........................Thos.
" Carr............................Cornelius
" Chapman.........................Thos.
East Feliciana, Louisiana: 1830 Census
Submitted by Don Johnson
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1830 Census
Enumeration Year 1830
County (Parish) East Feliciana, State Louisiana
By Donald W. Johnson, Mrs. Dixie A. Moss, Mrs. Beatrice B. Denham and
Mrs. Barbara C. Strickland.
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Lines 1 - 12 are males in the households, 13 - 24 are the females in the
following age categories.
Under 5 yrs.
5-10 yrs.
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40-50 yrs.
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Joseph Phelps 100001000000 100010000000
George T. Phelps 101020000100 100100000000
David Felps 211010100000 100200100000
Margaret Felps 020100000000 001001000000
James Felps 202101000000 101101010000
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YARBOROUGH / YARBROUGH / FELPS /PRITCHITT
RON YARBROUGH
RJBEARTXM@AOL.COM
5/20/97
I am seeking more info on my ancestors LEWIS LIRONUS YARBOROUGH d 1854 who married HENRIETTA FELPS, d. 1833 both born in 1785 in GA and migrated to E.Feliciana Parish , Clinton La. along the banks of Pretty Creek in the fifth ward Lewis & his two brothers JAMES Y AND STEPHEN Y and the Felps were one of the first families to settle in this area in 1798. Lewis married at least twice after the death of Henrietta. 2nd wife ElizabethHUMPHRIES, M. 11/30/1837, 3RD wife Millie PRITCHITT MCMURRAY.I would like to know their children names by Lewis. Lewis & Henrietta children were: JamesR.YARBOROUGH my ggggrandfather who married a S.A.? would like info on her maiden name. In Marion County Miss, 1850 census shows James & SA living there with their 9 children which included my gggrandfather another James Rufus Yarboroughb. 1848 died in Jasper County Tx. M Demerius HARGROVE b 5/21/1849 M 3/1869, D2/7/1932 Houston, (Harris Co) Tx at Hollywood Cemetery. They had 7 children included my ggrandfather DeVerney Yarborough b1874 in Jasper Co, Tx d. 1950 in Jarrell,(Williamson Co) Tx m Mary KELLER 4/21/1901 in that county and is where they settled and had three children and my grandfather George Wright Yarbrough b.1904 d 1932 married Jewell JACKSON b 1915 of Salado, (Bell Co) Tx They had twins my fatherJoseph Charlie Yarbrough and Mary Fay Yarbrough. Deverney Yarbrough dropped one of the o from our name. I am looking for census, marriage, death, births records and any info would be very much appreciated. Ron Yarbrough. RJBEARTXM@AOL.COM
THANK YOU
WHITE / FELPS / GREGSON / RUSHING / TALBERT
Bettiann White Lloyd
Genechaser@aol.com
9/3/97
Henry Lafayette WHITE, b 15 Feb 1842, Clinton, East Feliciana Parish, LA (s/o Virgil WHITE/Janette Scott TALBERT); m 3 May 1866, Clinton, EFP, LA, to Casandra FELPS, b Aug 1844, LA. This couple had the following known children: James W. WHITE, b 7 Mar 1867, d 16 Dec 1917, McComb, Pike Co., MS; Lewis Lafayette WHITE, b Feb 1872, MS; Catherine "Katie" WHITE, b Jan 1881, MS; Daisie WHITE, b Sep 1882, MS, m Harry GREGSON; John Scott WHITE, b 7 May 1885, Amite Co., MS, m 9 May 1914, Magnolia, MS to Evelyn Myriam BOSTICK; Elizabeth "Lizzie" WHITE, b Aug 1888, MS, m Ben RUSHING. Looking for: (1) parents of Casandra FELPS; (2) spouses of James, Lewis and Catherine WHITE; (3) any further information on these children and/or their children with dates and locations for births, marriages and deaths.
YARBOROUGH / YARBROUGH / FELPS /PRITCHITT
RON YARBROUGH
RJBEARTXM@AOL.COM
1/1/98
My line of Yarboroughs starts in E.& W. Feliciana Parish with Lewis Lironus Yarborough b. 1798 d. 1854, m. Henrietta Phelps b. 1798 d. 1834 who lived in Clinton La. Their families lived in E and W Feliciana Parishes.
I am on the committee of the Yarborough Quarterly Newsletter and we have a data base we are building on the surname Yarborough and other spelling variations of this surname. I am in charge of the state of Louisiana and already have a lot of information but we want a lot more We are looking for census records, births,marriages, deeds,court records, etc or your line as long as you include a source.. If you have a verifiable source of information you would like to submit, Please email me or send to Ron Yarbrough 15711 Banty Falls ct Houston, Tx 77084 This information is being saved on a database to help anyone who is researching this surname. Thank you . Ron Yarbrough
FELPS / PHELPS
Edna Felps
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7/23/98
Searching for any FELPS descendants. JAMES FELPS came to EAST Feliciana Parish ,LA. from NC. Or TN. James was b.abt 1761in NC. died abt 1834 LA. Would like to correspond with any Felps descendant. Edna Felps edfel@gvtc.com
PHELPS, Meade Hubbard, M.D., E. Feliciana, then Natchitoches Parish, Louisiana
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Louisiana: Comprising Sketches of Parishes, Towns, Events, Institutions, and
Persons, Arranged in Cyclopedic Form (volume 3), p. 358. Edited by Alc‚e
Fortier, Lit.D. Published in 1914, by Century Historical Association.
Phelps, Meade Hubbard, M. D., a leading physician and surgeon of the city of
Natchitoches, was born Jan. 29, 1886, in Clinton, East Feliciana parish, La.,
the son of Bailey Thomas and Emma (Sample) Phelps. His father was a native of
Clinton, La., and followed the occupation of farmer, and is now retired,
residing in Natchitoches. The mother of Dr. Phelps was born at Lake
Providence, West Carroll parish, and was the daughter of John Sample. Dr.
Phelps is the 4th child and only son in a family of five. He was educated in
the public schools of his native parish and at the Natchitoches state normal
school, from which he graduated in 1906. After teaching school for 1 year, he
studied medicine at Tulane university, during 4 years, and graduated in 1912.
Immediately after receiving his diploma, the doctor located in Natchitoches,
where he is a general practitioner, rapidly establishing a reputation as an
able and skillful physician and surgeon. He is a member of the Natchitoches
and Red River Bi-parish Medical society, and of the Louisiana State Medical
society and American Medical association. He served 1 term as interne in
Shreveport charity hospital.
This Article Compiled and Edited by Latham Mark Phelps--2007
8 comments:
Hello,
I am a descendant of Benjamin Bolling and Patty Phelps. Patty died giving birth to her daughter Elizabeth in Rowan Co., NC.
So far, I know that Patty's father is John Phelps. Patty's father is the great-great-nephew of John Phelps of England, who signed the Death Warrant on King Charles I.
John's family goes back 700 years in England, but are also connected to Dublin, Ireland.
They are also descendants of Thomas Phelps and Ellinor Howard of Ann Arundel, MD.
I have a document on them, if you are interested in reviewing it.
What is your connection with Patty's family? I noticed the information on your page on Benjamin and Patty.
I am a descendant of William Phelps, Sr., born 1773 in NC and died about 1828 in Pulaski County, GA. He married Sophia Lee. They had a son, William Phelps, Jr., born about 1814 in Pulaski Co., GA; who had a son John Arthur Neal Phelps, born 14 Nov 1849 in Pulaski Co., GA; who had a son David Edgar Phelps, born 12 Feb 1883 in Burleson Co., TX; who had a son Carl Benjamin Phelps, born 1917 in Arcata, CA; who is my (Carla Phelps Wert)'s father.
It is difficult to get a lead on William Phelps, Sr.'s ancestry. If anyone has information it would be greatly appreciated.
Thank you.
Your line has been traced likely to Tyrrell Co, NC and has been ydna tested at www.phelpsdna.com You can see your ancestor and the tested kit at http://www.phelpsdna.com/Lineages/Tyrrell/lineage.htm
It is very likely that you are NOT part of the lineage coming from Rowan Co, since their ydna has been proven to be entirely different.
In addition the lineage coordinator for those Tyrrell Co Phelps has posted a fuller set of matching ydna lines at
http://genealogies.phelpsdna.com/phelps_of_tyrrell_co.htm
You may want to join the Phelps ydna project with a ydna test of your father. For more info, I am at dkphelps@suddenlink.net
I am a descendent of Thomas C. Phelps. My great, great, great grandmother was Elizabeth Brantley (daughter of Nancy Phelps and Joshua Brantley) I am very interested in any additional information about Tekel/Teckel that Thomas married.
For many years I have tried to track down Native American ancestry based on family stories. Any information you could provide would be awesome. firekatt134@gmail.com
As far as I have traced back I am a descendant of Thomas jr phelps of Rowan county north Carolina
I am a descendent through Brittain ---> Ezekel ---> Andrew Lafayette ---> George ---> and my grandfather Floyd Phelps. If my memory serves correctly, we came west through Tennessee to Kentucky and then settled in Jefferson County, IL in the late 1800's.
Coincidentally, I am also a descendent of Pocahontas (11th great grandmother) through Thomas Bolling (not one of the questionable blues) and you got my hopes up for a second thinking I might be descended through two different Pocahontas lineages! Alas, Benjamin is one of the "blue" Bollings. Oh well.
I am a Williams and a lineal descendant of Aquilla Phelps' daughter Ferby who married James Williams (and if memory serves) my great great great great grandfather was named Aquilla Williams.
I knew James Williams Sr signed the Regulator Petition but glad to see Aquilla Phelps did as well.
My children and stepson are descended from Aventon Phelps. Their great great grandfather is James Roy Phelps of Oklahoma. We went to Old English cemetery in Salisbury NC where Aventon is supposed to have been buried, and no Phelps or Felps Graves are visible there any longer. Aventon son Thomas is supposedly buried in Felps family grave plot along Reedy Creek in Davidson Co NC I am wondering if this site is visible accessible or on private land??
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