Saturday, September 1, 2018

Asa Dupuy papers, Stevilie Letter, 6 Nov 1813

North Carolina Morganton November the 6th 1813,


Dear Sir



Having this day by an Accident Discovered an advertisement in the Raleigh Register from the Contents of Which I was induced to take the Freedom of Writing to you on the Subject of said advertisement and Inform you that I am well acquainted with Elizabeth Cawthon formerly Elizabeth Womack and she was alive & well a few Weeks past living in the State of Georgia.


I am also acquaint[ed] with the Children of Olive[r] Spradlin who was a Son of John Spradlin & the Wife of Said John Spradlin was Sister to Elizabeth Cawthon.  I also knew a William Womack who I believe was a son of Abner Womack [incorrect, William was son of Isham Womack].  I would be thankfull if you would give me some Information so far as respects Elizabeth Cawthon, of what is comming to her as she is very old and is entirely Supported by one of her Son in law at present.  I did Expect to see her again in 2 or 3 Weeks, but in Expectation of an Answer from you I shall wait some time longer, as a reason of my writing to Inform you that I am Married to a Grand Daughter of Elizabeth Cawthon, (not Cauthorn as I find in the Advertisement) formerly Elizabeth Womack and of Course Consider myself in Duty bound to write you, as also to give you her information respecting said Advertisement, as she never would know anything of the Affair without my so doing.  Therefore Expect you will Oblidge me with a few lines on the subject while I am with due Esteem your humble Sevt.  [Servant]

Frederick Stevilie


Mr James Dupuy Junr


[Back Side]

Please to Direct a Letter to
Frederick Stevilie Esqr
Morganton, North Carolina
Yours &
Fredk Stevilie [signature]


[Envelope]

For Asa Dupuy


From Frederick Stevilie respecting Womack’s Est dated 6th Novr rec’d 22nd


Mr James Dupuy Junior
Living in Nottoway
The Postmaster of Nottoway is kindly requested to give Mr Dupuy notice of this Letter and oblidge a Stranger


25 [price of postage?]
Virginia

Sunday, March 18, 2018

Franklin County, Georgia, Petition, 5 Mar 1790 - Womack, Bean, Cawthon, McBee, etc.

Telamon Cuyler Collection, University of Georgia, Hargrett Library (http://www.libs.uga.edu/hargrett/index.shtml).
Box 42. Folder 3 - “Georgia. Governor Edward Telfair, 1790 March”.

[pg. 1]

State of Georgia / March the 5th 1790
Franklin County \

The Honorable Edward Telphar [sic, Telfair] Esqr Captain General Governor and Commander in Chief in and over the said State Greeting. Whereas we the Citizens of the Said County Have Ever laboured under Every Difficulty En that Ever free men had to incounter With and more Especially at the present time than heretofore by the ill proceedance of a few individuals who convened together in South Carolina not at most over fore men of our County who appointed and recommended the field officers of Our Country to your Honour; for which the county at Large are Greatly Dissatisfied not alleging anything to the charge of your Excellency but to the ill Conduct of those Designing men who Have Recommended those officers to answer their own Designing End and to gain Toppalarity [?] to them selves who is not careful to support the corrector of a gentleman nor the dignity of this State; for which Reason your Humble Petitioners Prayeth that your Excellency would please to Remove this Great appression off of the minds of the people by Granting your Honour Granting us a free Election to allect officers for our County by a mejority of Votes or som other way that your Honour might think most propper; and your humble Petitioners as in duty bound shall Ever Pray.

[pg. 2, 2 columns of names]


[Col 1]
Thomas Payne Esqr
Moses Payne
Nathaniel Payne
Champness Payne
John Payne
Wm Payne
Claborn Cawthon
Benjamin Echols Esqr
John Mullins Senr
John Briant
John Mullins junr
Benedick White
Nathaniel Hunt
James Hunt
John Hunt
Ambras Down
Samuel Payne
Wm Goff
Wm Goff junr
Thos Goff
Joseph Edwards
Clem Walters
John Walters
Thos Cottom
Samuel Walters
Poyndexter Payne
Thos Payne junr
Joseph Payne
Daniel Payne
Hennery Smith


[Col 2]
Moses Walters
Wm Harper
Daniel Ayerse
Baker Ayerse Senr
Barker Ayerse
Berry Payne
Robert Bean
William Womack
Robert Walters
William McBee
Elijah Waters
Moses Clark
George Clarke
John Clark Junr
John Clarke Senr
John Reddin
Robt Thresher
Warren Philpot
Thomas Sparks
Jeremi Sparks
James Sparks
James Wright
Elijah Sparks
Tom [?] Ward
Thomas Cotham
Aaron Campbell
Charles Gilbert
Ellickander [Alexander?] Caldwell


[pg. 3, one column of names]


Wm Liewes
Thomas White
Peter Jones
Wm Wood
Jas Freeman
John Conner Senr
Boley Conner
Sammule Porter


[pg. 4]


Petition from inhabitants of Franklin about electing Militia Officers
Order taken 30th March 1790

Saturday, March 17, 2018

Powell Weaver, son of Cecilia Womack?

Powell Weaver was a famous mountaineer who helped lead the Mormon Battalion to present-day Utah.

In 1832, he married Dolores Martin in New Mexico.  Before marrying, he was baptized as a Catholic.  In the Spanish records, his name was rendered as Paulin Guivar.  There is no "W" in Spanish, and the "Gu" sound is as close as Spanish gets.  His baptismal record lists his parents as Venito Guivar and Secilia Guamaca. "Guamaca" may be a Spanish version of  Womack, which was often spelled Wamack and pronounced Waw-muck (which is my grandma's pronunciation from Arkansas).

I found the Spanish marriage and baptism records at Family Search, see below.  If anyone can translate old Spanish handwriting, let me know!

Christina Chavez message on WGN, 17 Dec 2003 -
http://www.womacknet.com/message/archive/2003/2003.12.html


Wednesday, December 17, 2003 at 14:24:17 (PST)
Christina Chavez
e.c.chavez@worldnet.att.net

I am Looking for a Cecilia Womack who was married to a Joseph Benjamin Weaver from TN-White County. Based on the marriage record for Powell (Paulino Guivar)Weaver, 2 Sept 1832 Taos, NM, his parents were Jose Benito Weaver and Cecilia Guamaca (Womack) Powell was born ca. 1798/1800 in White County, TN. He had some property in 1828 in Lovely Co, AR. Eventually he moved to NM and Arizona. He was better known as Paulino Weaver - the famous mountain man and guide to the Mormon Battalion. Powell had a brother named, Duff Weaver.

I am still looking for Powell's parents. I assume they were Benjamin Weaver and ??

Thanks you for any help.

Christina

Also, Duff and Powell Weaver -
https://www.ancestry.com/boards/thread.aspx?mv=flat&m=10&p=localities.northam.usa.states.arkansas.arhist.lovely


LDS Film #17020/7548732, Baptisms 1701-1837, Our Lady of Guadalupe [Catholic Church], Taos, Taos, NM. [Part of Mexico until 1848]
Paulin De Jesus Guivar, baptized 26 Aug 1832, Parents Venito Guivar, Secilia Guamaca in United States.
Book #48, Baptisms 1830-1833, p.128 (img 795 of 1115).
https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3QS7-L9DX-8H9Y?i=794&cat=414536



LDS Film #17022/7854398, Marriages 1777-1856, Our Lady of Guadalupe [Catholic Church], Taos, Taos, NM. [Part of Mexico until 1848]
10 Sep 1832, Paulin Guivar to Dolores Martin
Book #39, Marriages 3 Jan 1837 - 30 Dec 1833, p.91 (img 200 of 862)
https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3Q9M-CSHS-1W3G?i=199&cat=414536

Monday, March 5, 2018

Womack and Farley records, Charles City County Virginia

The Virginia Archives is in the process of having volunteers transcribe a recently found portion of "Charles City County Record Book, 1692-1700".  Part of this book was abstracted year ago by Benjamin B Weisiger III, see American Womack Records Before 1701, Part II (read this link for abstracts of the the earliest Farley and Womack deeds in Charles City Co).  Part of the record book was recently returned to Virginia after being taken by a Union soldier back to Pennsylvania where it stayed in his family for generations.  See story in Richmond newspaper.

This has two important records in the first set of records abstracted by Weisiger:

  • John Farley Sr, and wife (not named) to John Farley Jr, 1693.  John Farley Jr married Elizabeth Akin, and they were the parents of Mary Farley who married Thomas Womack.
  • John Farley Sr, and wife Mary to John Womack, 1693.  John Womack was marred to Mary Akin, sister of Elizabeth, who was married to John Farley Jr.

The will of James Akin Sr in 1712 (Henrico Co, VA Wills & Deeds 1710-1714:240) mentions 4 children including Mary Womack and Elizabeth Farlow [sic, Farley].

John Farley Jr and John Womack lived side by side for a while in a section of Charles City County which became Prince George Co, VA in 1702, so the two Akin sisters were next to one another.

Those deeds can be found here, "Charles City County Record Book, 1692-1700", images 8 and 9, which are pages 155 and 156.  (Note, search the page for "Image 8", etc., since they are not all in order.)

There are two important research questions that can hopefully be answered by the transcription of the Charles City records:

  1. In the 1704 Virginia Quit Rent Roll for Prince George Co, John Womack had 550 acres, but in 1693, he had only 75 acres.  How did he acquire the 475 acre difference in 11 years?
  2. When was Mary Farley, daughter of John Farley Jr and Elizabeth Akin, born?  Several sources on the internet claim John Farley Jr and Elizabeth Akin married in 1700; furthermore, they assert that John Farley Jr's will (Chesterfield Co, VA WB 1:200) states that they married in 1700.  Having seen the will on microfilm, I can assert it does not.  The birth year of Mary Farley is important, because I believe she was born closer to 1690, and had son Abraham Womack Sr circa 1708, who in turn had son Abraham Womack Jr in 1726 per his Bible record: "Abraham Womack departed this life May 6, 1800, aged seventy four years."  Farley researchers have Mary born circa 1702, far too late to be the mother of Abraham Womack Sr.
These questions have been partially answered by recent transcriptions.

Images 265 - 267 cover pages 455 - 457 of Charles City Co, VA RB:1692-1700.

Charles City Co, VA RB:1692-1700:455-456.  Abstract by me: 3 Aug 1696, John Farley Jr of Charles City Co and Westopher [sic] Parish to John Hardiman of same county and parish, 75 acres purchased of Hercules Flood by John Farley Sr, who purchased 150 acres and made over to John Womack one half and son John Farley the other half, "divided with the apurtance of Herk Flood Will:m Jones & Henry Jones", Elizabeth Farley wife of John consents and releases dower.  Witnesses Mary Kennon and Elizabeth Kennon.  Signed John Farley I F his mark, 5 Oct 1696.  On back side of deed, John Hardiman assigned the land to Samuel Brooke.  Acknowledged by John Hardiman in open court 4 Nov 1698.  Samuel Brooks and wife Mary made this deed over to Henry Read, 3 Jan 1699, Witnesses: Jonas Liskam, David Owen.  Acknowledged by Saml Brooks in Westover open court, 3 Jan 1699.

So, John Farley Jr and Elizabeth Akin were married at least by 5 Oct 1696 when they sold out in Charles City Co and moved back to Henrico Co (modern Chesterfield).  They were very likely married before 20 Nov 1692, when John Farley Sr gave the land to his son, John Farley Jr.  John Farley Sr went to go live on the land in Henrico Co (modern Chesterfield Co) that he had traded with John Womack, meaning John Farley Jr was a grown man and likely married already.  So, I believe my assertion that Mary Farley, daughter of John Farley Jr and Elizabeth Akin, was born circa 1690, is correct.  Mary was the name of John Farley Jr's mother, and by naming patterns of the time, it makes sense that Mary was the oldest daughter.  Also, Mary was the second child listed in John Farley Jr's will, perhaps indicating she was early in the birth order.

There is another interesting deed in Prince George Co, VA:

Records 1713-1728:152.  11 Mar 1716.  Harman Read and wife Ann lease to Michael Wallice 75 acres in Westopher parish on north side of Blackwater Swamp, next to John Womack, being land John Farloe purchased of Hercules Flood.  Witnesses Richard Bland, Gilbert Hay.  Signed Harman (HR) Read, recorded 12 Mar 1716.

This is obviously the same land John Farley Jr and wife Elizabeth sold to John Hardiman, who assigned it to Samuel Brooke, who assigned to Henry Read; somehow by 1716 it belonged to Harmon Read who leased it to Michael Wallace.

This is important for two reasons:
  1. Later Prince George records show that Michael Wallace was the father of Elizabeth Wallace, who married Abraham Womack, son of John Womack and Mary Akin.
  2. The Farloe spelling is significant.  I checked the original on microfilm, and it definitely says John Farloe, so Farloe/Farlow were legitimate variations of Farley, and when James Akin Sr named Elizabeth Farlow in his will, he was referring to Elizabeth Farley, wife of John Farley Jr.
Land Patents:
  • Hercules Flood/Fludd had 4 patent in Charles City Co between 1663 and 1690; not sure which contained the land he sold to John Farley Sr.  See LVA website.
  • William Jones got 400 acres in Charles City Co on 8 Apr 1674 (VA PB 6:510), described as 470 acres on the south side of the Appamattox River, beginning at a corner surveyed for Hercules Flood.

Some thoughts on when John Womack married...

John Womack was a mean guy who got in a lot of trouble, including for beating his wife and kids.  He had no land until 1680, when his brother Richard Womack gave him 100 acres (Henrico WD 1677-1692:168), the same land John Womack traded in 1692 with John Farley Sr for the land in Charles City Co, VA (later Prince George Co) (see https://sites.google.com/site/womackgen/womack-records/us/virginia/henrico-county).  Since he was a trouble-maker with no land, I find it unlikely that James Akins let John Womack marry his daughter before he had land, and there is no proof John was married prior to 1680, though he was definitely married in 1692 when he traded the land, because his wife Mary [Akin] consented (Henrico WD 1688-1697:378).  In fact, John Womack was married to Mary by 1 Feb 1688 (1689 in modern style) when Mary took him to court for beating her and "small children".  (Henrico OB 1681-1701:297).  It was also in Feb 1688/1689 that Barthlomew Roberts deposed that about April last year (so April 1688), he saw John Womack beat Mary and a 3-month old child for wetting the bed (Henrico OB 1688-1697:36).

 John Womack made his will in 1725 in Prince George Co, VA (Records 1713-1728:856, naming wife Mary, oldest son John, youngest son Abraham and son William.  An earlier deed record showed he had a son Richard Womack (Prince George Co, VA Records 1713-1728:152).  The records of Prince George Co are fragmentary, but John Womack Jr does not appear until 9 Dec 1712 when he bought land (Wills & Deeds 1710-1713:171).

All of this is to say that John Womack likely did not marry Mary Akin until circa 1685, and Mary was probably about 10 years younger than him.  Their son William Womack, from whom a large branch of the Womack family descends, was likely born circa 1700, and died 1778 when his will was probated in Halifax Co, NC.  John Jr (the oldest son) was likely born circa 1687, Richard circa 1690, and youngest Abraham circa 1703.

NOTE: Blogger editor ate a couple paragraphs concerning a significant Charles City Co, VA deed for John Womack; I will post more on this later.