I was trying to think of something clever to say about Thanksgiving and thought I should tell you about the FIRST THANKSGIVING - the one that took place in Virginia before the Pilgrims landed. Then I received a greeting from someone in another family and thought it was a much better thought to pass that along.
. . . . . .Then someone else sent me the following, so I rethought my first thought.
*****
Happy Thanksgiving to all. And now the question of the day .
. . where was the first Thanksgiving in America?. . . . . according to
the story touted at Berkeley Plantation (the Harrison home on the
James River in Virginia). . . . . . . . The first Thanksgiving took
place on the Berkeley One Hundred in
1619, one year before the pilgrims landed at Plymouth. The settlers
called themselves the Berkeley Company named after Berkeley Castle.
The truth is, Virginia seemed to have everything except good public relations people and book publishers. How is it that Massachusetts got to be 'first' in everything Virginia did first!
NEW MEMBERS
All New Member profiles have been used - no one is sending
any in. A word to the wise from a seasoned newsletter veteran, if
you want to find others who are following your line, who live near you,
who might have information about your family in another area, the way to
find out is talk about it. The purpose of the New Member section
is open communication lines; but if you sit back and wait, you might not
find any help among this group because they won't know about you and your
interests.
QUERIES
JOYCE BROWNING (JBrown7169@aol.com)
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The name Hardin is sprinkled about as a given name through many of
my Surry Co NC families and Dr. John Taliaferro who lived in Surry
was married to Mary Hardin. I suspect her father/grandfather was
Mark Hardin of Prince William Co VA. Can anyone confirm this or have information
about the Hardin
family: Would appreciate your help.
RESPONSES
ANN HAMLIN ( AHamlin777) sends the following response to GLEN TAYLOR
(DGT54)
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I am not sure exactly how much you already have on these ancestors
of Elizabeth Taliaferro > Rose Berryman, but since you mentioned Rose I
went in that direction in my file... I don't have much on the Berryman,
but had some on Rose (Sturman) Tucker Gerrard Newton so I began with her...
On this
branch, past Rose Sturman, I do not have any source documentation so
hopefully there will be others in our group who will be able to supply
more... Maybe there will be something you can use here.. I do have
quite a bit of information on John Taliaferro & Sarah Smith's ancestors
if you need anything there just let me know.
1 STURMAN, Rose b: Bef 1645 src: MAIDEN NAME:
{Src. Correspondence from:elee@crosslink.net (E. Lee)}. She was a
client of Wm. FitzHugh's law practice in VA. She proposed that he
marry her 11 yr old dau. Sarah Tucker. Source: Wilderness At
Dawn; by Ted Morgan, 1993, Pub. by, Simon & Schuster, NY. She
was married 3 times... 1st to John Tucker, 2nd to Thomas Gerrard,
3rd to John Newton.
*3rd Husband of Rose Sturman was John Newton. m: Abt 1670 I have 2 children listed for this couple:
1. Gerrard Newton &
2. Elizabeth Newton who m. Benjamin
Berryman
GENERATION 2 NEWTON, Elizabeth ... +BERRYMAN, Benjamin
GENERATION 3 BERRYMAN, Rose b: 1706 Westmoreland Co., VA d: 1763 Caroline Co., VA Source: Correspondence from F. Richey; CIS#73100,564. I have also seen this info in other correspondences, but have not been able to get a source documentation for them.
+TALIAFERRO, Richard b: 1706 Caroline Co., VA m: June 19, 1726 Caroline Co., VA d: September 21, 1748 Port Royal, Caroline Co., VA Colonel in the British Army. Drowned in the Potomac River in 1748 Source: Correspondence from AOL member: BRUCSAND@aol.com. I have also seen this info in other correspondences, but have not been able to get a source documentation for them. Father : John "the Ranger" TALIAFERRO Mother: Sarah SMITH [John the Ranger is John-2]
GENERATION 4 TALIAFERRO, John (son of Richard & Rose B.) b: April 07, 1733 Caroline Co., VA d: April 07, 1821 Wilkinson Co., GA Source: F. Richey; CIS#73100,564. A physician at the Battle of Guilford Court House, Virginia in the Revolutionary War. First resided in Pittsylvania Co., VA, moved to Caroline Co., VA in 1779 Moved to Baldwin Co. GA in 1790; & finally to Wilkenson Co., Ga. Source: AOL member: BRUCSAND@aol.com (I do not have any source documentation for this)
+HARDIN, Mary b: 1733 Pittsylvania Co., VA m: Abt 1755 d: 1787 Surry Co., NC Source: AOL member: BRUCSAND@aol.com (I do not have any source documentation for this)
..... 5 TALIAFERRO, Charles b: 1763 Westmoreland, Westmoreland Co., VA d:1838 Surry Co., NC. He married twice. (I have in my file that his first wife was Diadra Tucker but I don't have any source documentation for this)
*2nd Wife of Charles Taliaferro: +BURROUGHS,
Sallie b: 1770 Surrey, NC m: 1786 Surrey, North
Carolina d: 1810
..... 6 TALIAFERRO, Elizabeth 'Bettie' b: Abt 1796 Surry,
Surry Co., NC + Hardin Jones
(I do not have anything further on this
couple, but do you have any idea about whether Hardin Jones is descended
from to Richard & Frances (Baldwin) Jones?)
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BETTY SMIDDY (103107.3363@CompuServe.COM) sends a correction to my
mess up about Nicholas Taliaferro in the last issue. Thanks for clarifying
this, Betty.
******
In the last issue is mentioned Nicholas Taliaferro of Totterdown Hill,
Culpeper Co. Va. This is the Revolutionary War diary I transcribed.
According to his diary, Nicholas Taliaferro was born 30 Oct. 1755 (not 57) and died Jan. 12, 1812. He married first Miss Ann Taliaferro, 3 Nov. 1781, daughter of Col. John & Ann Taliaferro of "Dissington." She died 3 Feb. 1798. They had 6 children:
1- Lucy Mary (b Aug 6-1782, died 1854 )
2- John Champe (b Oct 12, 1784 m. Susan Buckner)
3- Matilda Battaile (b Sept 30, 1787 m Martin Marshall,
son of Rev.
William & Mary
Ann (Pickett) Marshall)
4- Mary Willis (b Aug 11. 1789 d Jan 25, 1797)
was buried in Penn. while
the family was migrating
to Ky. by way of the Ohio and Monongahela
Rivers.
5- George Catlett (b Mar 21, 1792). George Catlett
m Mary King. Their
daughter, Matilda
Ann (b Dec 28, 1814), m Col. Alfred Seward.
6- Willaim Thornton (b Jan 16, 1795, named by his
grandfather). William
Thornton was a noted
surgeon and at age 17 was with Perry at the Battle
of Lake Erie. He m
Elizabeth Ramsey and had no issue.
Nicholas Taliaferro married 2nd Miss Francis Blasingame, daughter of Mr. James and Mary Blasingame. They had:
7- Carr Blasingame (b Aug 13, 1799 died 1806)
8- Lawrence Washington (b Oct 28, 1800)
9- Ann Patterson (b Oct 29, 1802 died Nov 25,
1803)
10- James Hay (b Sep 2, 1804 died Aug 18, 1808)
11- Nicholas (b Aug 14, 1806)
12- Marshall Howe (b Mar 9, 1809) and Francis Ann
(b Nov 9, 1811).
Noted in the family Bible is also:
Ann Hay Taliaferro b Feb 27, 1760 (note: dau. of Wm & Eliz. Taliaferro).
My brother, John Taliaferro m Ann Stockdell, dau. of Capt. John and Mary
Stockdell of Orange Co..
After the Rev. War, Nicholas left "Totter-down-hill" 11 Oct. 1796 and traveled to Limestone Ky, landing 5 Feb. 1797. He purchased from James Blasingame (his future father-in-law), 337 1/2 acres in Bracken Co. Ky. at $24.00/acre and there made his new home "Grampian Hill." This also is the name of a line of mountains in Scotland.
Nicholas's daughter, Lucy Mary, married William Buckner, the son of
Capt. Philip and Tabitha Ann (Daniel) Buckner., on 26 June 1799. Capt.
Phillip Buckner had numerous land warrants throughout Ohio and Ky. from
his military service. Capt. Buckner first came to Ky in 1783 and
again a decade later, this time bringing his family and servants and neighbors.
He built his home in 1795 in Mason Co., Ky. which was split to form Mason
& Bracken Co. Ky. He gave 600 acres of his Bracken Co. land, where
he and Nicholas lived, to the town of Augusta, Ky.
Nicholas also wrote his family genealogy in the blank pages of a family
medical recipe book. It stayed in the family, eventually carried to Vicksburg,
Miss. from Ky by Judge Thomas A. Marshall (1st cousin to Chief Justice
Marshall), Nicholas' grandson, and was destroyed in the Civil War fire
that consumed "Openwoods" the Marshall home. However copies were made.
Nicholas was captured in Charleston SC in 1780 along with his cousin, Benjamin, who after the war, settled in Georgia.
Nicholas's mother, Mary Battaile Taliaferro, died at his birth. His father married 2nd Elizabeth Taliaferro Dec. 5, 1758. She was the dau. of Francis & Elizabeth (Hay) Taliaferro of "Epsom." Elizabeth outlived her marriage to Nicholas' father, William, and married for her second time a distant cousin, William Taliaferro.
COLONIAL TALIAFERRO
Note: The chapters Elreeta and Ray Weathers have provide us with a splendid base on which to found our study. I hope everyone has found these chapters from "Historic Georgia Families" as interesting and informative as I have. I also hope no one considers that they are the last word on any of the early ancestors.
Rather, consider them be the beginning of a discussion which will enrich
our knowledge by challenging or confirming work of earlier family historians.
Many times, they had the advantage of listening to older ancestors who
could pass along the family history, or they could open a Family Bible
to read of the begats, and births, and deaths, and marriages. They rarely
had what we have - a plethora of available records to enlarge
our perspective of our family.
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ELREETA AND RAY WEATHERS (rrw@htcomp.net) - Continue from "Historic
Georgia Families"
CHAPTER III. "THE TALIAFERROS IN VIRGINIA"
"The known lineage of the Virginia branch of the Taliaferro family begins
with the Emigrant, Robert Taliaferro, who came to Virginia in 1645.
He was a man of prominence; he and his sons holding high state and church
offices in the Colony. He owned large tracts of land including one
of 6,500 acres,
which he patented jointly with Major Lawrence Smith. His children
and grand-children were related by blood and marriage to the first families
of Virginia; their names being mentioned in "The Genuine Aristocrats of
Virginia" and in the Richmond Critic as "The First Families of Virginia."
Robert Taliaferro was married to Sarah Grymes, daughter of Rev. Charles
Grymes, of "Brandon," then of Gloucester, now of Middlesex County.
Robert Taliaferro and Maj. Lawrence Smith, being great friends and intimately
associated in business, were drawn closer together by the intermarriage
of their children, John Taliaferro and Sarah Smith. The terms of
the treaty at Yorktown were arranged in the Moore House which, at one time,
belonged to Maj. Lawrence Smith, and at this time was owned and occupied
by his great-granddaughter, Lucy, the wife of Col. Augustine Moore.
Nicholas Taliaferro, the great-great-gandson of Major Lawrence Smith, was
present when the treaty was made. This estate is now known as "Temple
Farm." (See William and Mary College Quarterly, Vol. II., Nos. 1, 4; Vol.
IX, No. 1; Vol. X, No. 4; Vol. XX, No. 4; Vol. V, No. 3; Vol. VIII, No.
2; Vol. X, No. 1; Vol. XII, Nos. 1, 2; Second Series, Vol. I, No. 3.)
"Robert Taliaferro-1 and his wife Sarah (Grymes) Taliaferro had
issue:
Robert, Francis, John, Richard, Catherine, and Charles.
1. "Robert Taliaferro, (son of the Emigrant Robert Taliaferro
and Sarah (Grymes) Taliaferro).............Authorities: In 1672-3
Robert Taliaferro, Jr., "Son of Robert Taliaferro," had a grant of land
on the Rappahannock River, adjoining the land of Henry Corbin and Mr. Grymes,
which was due him, the said "Robert Taliaferro, Jr.," as "the grandson
of Mr. Grymes." On June 1, 1687, Robert Taliaferro gave bond for
the estate of Robert Taliaferro, deceased. He married Sarah Catlett,
daughter of Col. John Catlett and Elizabeth Underwood. (Elizabeth
Underwood was one of the step-daughters of Capt. John Upton of Isle of
Wight County. She married first Capt. Francis Slaughter of
Rappahannock County [Elreeta's comment: Elizabeth Underwood married first
Dr. James Taylor from whom she was divorced in 1654; married second, Capt.
Francis Slaughter; third Col. John Catlett; and fourth,Rev. Amory
Butler.] A deed in Essex County, dated 1687, shows that Robert Taliaferro
and Francis Taliaferro and their wives Sarah and Elizabeth sold 300 acres,
part of the land bequeathed to said Sarah and Elizabeth by John Catlett,.their
father. Robert and Sarah (Catlett) Taliaferro had issue:
"1. Robert Taliaferro (In 1711-12 Robert Taliaferro, calling himself
"only son and heir .apparent of Robert Taliaferro, deceased," made a bond
to Augustine Smith.) He married Margaret (Buckner?). Margaret Taliaferro,
on Aug. 7, 1711, appoints R. Buckner, Attorney, to relinquish dower in
100 acres sold by her husband, Robert Taliaferro. Robert and Margaret
(Buckner?) Taliaferro had issue:
"2. Francis Taliaferro (son of Emigrant Robert Taliaferro and Sarah
(Grymes)Taliaferro). In 1688, John and Francis Taliaferro gave bond
for Mrs. Sarah (Grymes) Taliaferro, widow of Robert Taliaferro. Francis
Taliaferro of Gloucester made a deed to his brother, John, son of Robert
Taliaferro, deceased, of Rappahannock County, Sept. 28, 1682.
On the same day Francis Taliaferro made a deed to brothers Richard and
John. Francis Taliaferro was living in Gloucester County in 1682;
Justice of Essex Co. 1696-1700; married Elizabeth Catlett, daughter of
Col. John Catlett. In 1701 Francis and Elizabeth (Catlett) Taliaferro
sold 416 acres in Essex Co., half of a tract granted to Col. John Catlett
Sept. 10, 1600; [sic] and by his will given to his two daughters, Elizabeth
and Sarah. "The said land was surveyed and perfected for Mr. Francis Taliaferro,
as marrying Elizabeth, daughter of Col. John Catlett, May 4, 1691. Per
Will Moseley, Surveyor." Francis Taliaferro died 1710. In 1710,
Elizabeth, as admx. of Francis Taliaferro, presented an inventory of estate.
On March 20, 1716, John Taliaferro of "The Mount," and Thomas Catlett go
on Elizabeth Taliaferro's bond as adms. Francis and Elizabeth (Catlett)
Taliaferro had
issue:
"3. John Taliaferro (son of Emigrant Robert Taliaferro and Sarah (Grymes) Taliaferro); was the first of the family to bear the name of "John" in Virginia and it was from him that Dr. John Taliaferro descended. (For his descendants See Chapter IV).
"4. Richard Taliaferro (son of Emigrant Robert Taliaferro and Sarah (Grymes) Taliaferro); very little is known of him. Records in Essex Co. show that he and his brother, Charles were under age in 1682.
5. Catherine Taliaferro (Daughter of Emigrant Robert Taliaferro and Sarah (Grymes) Taliaferro.) In 1686 Charles and Catherine Taliaferro chose brother Robert as guardian. In 1687 a deed shows that Capt. John Battaile, Sr. married Catherine, daughter of Robert Taliaferro, deceased. There is no record of issue by this marriage. John Battaile was a captain of rangers in active service against the Indians in 1692. He was a burgess from that same county in the same year and again in 1696. At the time of his death he was colonel of the militia. He married I. Catherine Taliaferro; II Elizabeth Smith. That his second wife was a daughter of Major Lawrence Smith is proved by a deed recorded in Essex, February 1707-8. The legatees of his will were his wife Elizabeth, his sons, John, who was under seven years at the time of the will: Hay, Lawrence, and Nicholas, and his daughter Elizabeth. On account of the destruction of most of the records of Caroline County, where thefamily afterward resided, it is difficult to trace the descendants. Capt. Nicholas Battaile, youngest son of John Battaile, resided at "Hay" in Caroline County. He married I. Mary Thornton; II. Hannah Taylor, sister to Zachary Taylor, grandfather of President Taylor. She had a son, Hay Battaile, who went to Kentucky in 1819.
"6. Charles Taliaferro. (Son of Emigrant Robert Taliaferro and Sarah (Grymes) Taliaferro). Living in Essex 1724; married ____?
"The Will of the elder Charles Taliaferro (1734) devises his estate
to three granddaughters, Mary, Sarah, and Catherine Taliaferro, with reversion
to daughter-in-law, Sarah Taliaferro.
RESEARCH
JOSEPHINE BASS (jbass@digital.net) sends the following information about
Charles Taliaferro and recommends an account of this Confederate Army Regiment.
*****
Taliaferro, Charles F. Pvt, 2nd Lt; 1st Lt, Co. E; Asst
Surgeon, Staff *Resigned 9 Oct 62; Pre Surg P.A.C.S. [Provisional
Army of the Confederate States]; Coles; NARS E roll; Riley; Promoted
Asst Surgeon, 62; full regimental surgeon, 64*
,26, /physician/
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R.T. Coles's History of 4th Regiment, Alabama Volunteer Infantry, C.S.A.,Army
of Northern Virginia
Voices of the Civil War Series
Published by The University of Tennessee Press, Knoxville
"Coles's History, edited by Jeffrey Stocker, is a fourfold barnburner. It is a story of one of the Confederacy's premier fighting units. Coles was there, and in his manuscript, never before published, tells it like it was. Unlike too many post-Civil War regimentals and reminiscences it is graceful, narrative history at its best, while Stocker's notes inform but do not overwhelm." - Edwin C. Bearss, special assistant for military sites, the National Park Service.
The 4th Alabama Volunteer Infantry was among the most famous and hardest fighting regiments in the Civil War - and one of the few military units to see action in both the western and eastern theaters of the conflict. As part of Lee's Army of Northern Virginia, it fought in every major engagement in the East - Manassas, Antietam, Fredericksburg, Gettysburg - before joining General James Longstreet's First Corp in the West for such battles as Chickamauga and Knoxville. Returning to Lee's fold for the bloody campaign of 1864, the regiment saw the war through to its conclusion at Appomattox.
This book represents the first publication, in its entirety, of Robert T. Coles's stirring history of the 4th Alabama. As the regiment's adjutant, Coles had intimate access to its day-to-day functions and decision-making processes, including its relationships with other Confederate units. His account not only details battles and strategies but captures the human drama of soldiers engaged in front-line combat. The swiftly paced narrative is marked by engaging turns of phrase - Antietam, Coles says, was "a perfect homespun Waterloo" - and by an eye for the poignant detail: Coles describes how, upon learning of Lee's surrender, the men of the 4th Alabama tore apart their bullet-torn battle flag ("our precious old rag") and distributed the pieces among themselves.
In editing Coles's history, Jeffrey D. Stocker offers extensive notes that provide background details and alternative perspectives on the events and individuals Coles describes. In addition, Stocker has included unedited accounts of three key battles - First Manassas, Gettysburg, and the Wilderness - by other members of the 4th Alabama. These elements combine with Coles's narrative to create an informative and richly textured volume.
The Editor: Jeffrey D. Stocker is a practicing attorney in Jenkintown,
Pennsylvania. He is currently writing a history of General John Bell Hood's
division at the battle of Gettysburg.
MISCELLANY
No history of the Taliaferro family can be written without the including the poignant story of Richard Taliaferro, hero of the Revolutionary War Battle of Guilford Courthouse in North Carolina. Richard Taliaferro was the son of Dr. John Taliaferro of Surry County NC, later of Georgia. Information for this article came from a variety of sources, but the story of Jesse Franklin's sad home coming was taken from an article given to me by a member of my Surry County family, "Dr. John Taliaferro - His Life, Work and Posterity."
In 1779 Dr. John Taliaferro sold his property in Virginia and moved to Surry County, N.C along with Bernard Franklin and his family. . . .
Richard Taliaferro, eldest son of Dr. John Taliaferro, and his father joined the Volunteer Riflemen from Wilkes, Surry, Stokes, and Guilford Counties. At the same time a young cousin, Jesse Franklin, enlisted with them. Taliaferro was 25 years old and Franklin was only 17. In later life he became US Senator, and Governor of North Carolina. They rode down from Surry to join Green's forces. The two young men fought as privates side by side, Jesse loading their two old flint locks and Richard doing the firing. The order to retreat was given, but Richard Taliaferro continued to fire, giving cover to his retreating comrades.
Richard Taliaferro was the last man in the field; he died from a saber thrust executed by one of Tarleton's dragoons on March 15, 1781. . . .and he was buried on the field that day in the spring of 1781. On the crest of the hill beyond Lake Wilfong, a monument was erected in 1803 by Governor Thomas M. Holt in the memory of three heroes of the battle: Major Joseph Winston, Captain Jesse Franklin and Private Richard Taliaferro. The tablet reads: "In memory of North Carolina Troops under Major Joseph Winston, who were fighting the Hessians and Tarleton's cavalry near this spot after the Continental line had retreated from the field of battle, March 15, 1781. Jesse Franklin and Joseph Winston joined Richard Taliaferro in death for they were buried many years later at the base of the monument.
Members of the family still tell of the Jesse Franklin's return home
from the battlefield with Richard Taliaferro's horse and trappings.
His dogs recognizing his clothing, whined and moaned for him throughout
the day. The entire scene was so pathetic that it was indelibly impressed
upon the hearts
of all who witnessed the return of the horse without his master.
What of the father, Dr. John Taliaferro? He followed the wounded
into the mountains where the Perkins family (parents of the wives of Richard
Taliaferro and later Jesse Franklin) opened their homes to care for the
hundreds of wounded American soldiers.
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TALIAFERRO TIMES: Compiled from email and other sources
Distributed by Joyce Browning
cJBrown7169@AOL.com
27 November 1996