Individual Notes
Note for: Thomas Gaskins, ABT 1601 - BEF 20 NOV 1665
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Individual Note: Family orginally came from Gascony, France. Pireated payed a large paret in family's live. Thomas experienced cruel and barbaric treatment from pirates in Cheaspeake Bay.
His estate was called Gascony, located on Wicomoco Bay in Northumberland Co., Va. Gascony still stands and has retained the name for 3 centrueis. The Gaskin coat of arms is in the state Library of Richmond. A noble Norman family, early seated in Youkshire, England. Head of family was Sir Wm. Gascoyne, Lord Chief Justice of England under Henry IV, who as born at Gaythorpe, Yorkshire, in 1350 and died in 1415.
Events:
1619 came to VA on Bona Nova Ship
Feb. 16, 1623/24 lived at Flowerdieu Hundred, Pr. George Co., Va.
Bef. Feb. 7, 1624/25 moved to Eastern Shore, Va.
Sept. 9, 1636 patent for 300 acres in Accomach Co., Va.
Patent BK. 2, page. 180 as Gascoyne.
Bef. Sept. 15, 1649 moved to Northumberland, patented 250 acres in Great Wicocomoco River, Va.
1619 emigrated from Yorkshire, England
1624 listed as Thomas Gascoyne on Muster List
May 28, 1658 bought 1000acres of land in Lancaster Co., Va.
Estate called Gascony, Wicomoco Bay-notes.
John and Henry are named in Thomas's will.
Also stated coming with Thomas from England to America was a cousin, John Gamble (not his wife maiden name is Gamble).
Individual Notes
Note for: George Vezey (Vesey), ABT 1633 - 1665
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Individual Note: Va. Vezey's belonged to Aldham bronch of English Vezey (Vesey) family. He was a merchant. Settled in Lancaster Co., Va. Moratico Creek.
Source Genealogies of Va. Family Tylers Quarterlys, Vol. 1, page 799.
Individual Notes
Note for: Rowland Rev. Dr. Taylor, 6 NOV 1510 - 5 FEB 1555
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Individual Note: Birth: May Taylor Brewer, "FRon Log Cabins to the White House" (Wooton, Ky, 1985, page 10.
Marriage Ibid.
DEATH: Ibid., p.26.
Individual Notes
Note for: \\Basham, WFT Est 1663-1697 - WFT Est 1724-1781
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Individual Note: This out of Vol. 5, family 1975 World family tree maker CD rom.
Individual Notes
Note for: Thomas Dowell, ABT 1705 - 6 SEP 1769
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Individual Note: Occupation-farmer.
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Note for: William Dowell, 1683 - 1756
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Individual Note: Crossed on the ship Harpshire as a 12 yr. old boy from England, May 28, 1695, he was bound to Wm. Edward of Surry Co., Va. who received 50 acres for a head count of 12, including William.
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Note for: William (?) Angela, WFT Est 1635-1665 -
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Individual Note: William Angela's name is from internet Gene. Ancestry Homepage gedWilliam Angela's name is from internet Gene. Ancestry Homepage ged
NOTE: this is the first time I have seen this name. 12-5-1997.
Individual Notes
Note for: Christopher Tackett, ABT 1740 - 27 AUG 1790
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Individual Note: Christopher died at Ft. Tackett in a mascare in then Kanawha Co., Va. and now St. Albans, WV. He died intestate in 1790 leaving "minor children".
This is from the Kanawha Co. KY Home Page:
In 1789 Kanawha County was formed from portions of Greenbriar and
Montgomery Counties. At the time of its formation, it was approximately
120 miles long, almost 100 miles wide and nearly an unbroken wilderness
(Atkinson 1876).
From Vol. 16, #2; page 26, "In 1787 Lewis Tackett, his brother Christopher, John Young and their families came from Greenbrier section via the Kanawha River and stopped at the mouth of Coal River. Seeing the wied and fertile bottom lands, they decided to establish their new home. They settled on a section of land bordered by the Kanawha and Coal Rivers and a stream which they named Tackett's Creek. On that site they erected a fort for protection against the Indians and named it Fort Tackett. The fort was located approximately a half miel west of Coal River and a few hundred yeard south of the Kanawha River, near Sans's Landing. At that time it was the only fort of any size between Point Pleasant and Fort Donnally, located near Lewisburg. Layter in 1788 George Clendenin came from Lewisburg and built Fort Lee where Charles now stands.
Individual Notes
Note for: Lewis Tackett, WFT Est 1695-1725 - WFT Est 1750-1810
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Individual Note: The following information was sent to me by Jerry McCormack a researcher in Kanawha Co., Va. on 12/13/1997.
1810 Kanawha Co., Va. census has the following
Lewis Tacket, Sr 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 1 0 1 0 0
John Tackett 3 0 0 1 0 2 2 0 0 0 0 1
Samuel Tackett 0 0 0 1 0 1 0 1 0 0 0 0
Lewis Tackett 1 0 1 2 0 2 2 0 1 0 0 1
Lewis Tackett, Sr, own 468 acres on Left Hand Fork of Mud River (Lincoln
County) and 700 acres on Big Hurrican creek (Putnam County). He built a
fort at the mouth of the Coal River on the Kanawha River which was
attacked by Indians, where John and Lewis Tackett with their mother were
taken prisoners along with a man named McElhany and his wife, Betsy
Tackett. Another Tackett, Chris, was killed in the fort. Lewis's
daughter, Keziah, wife of John Young, had just borne a son the day
before the attack and under cover of darkness John Young managed to get
his wife and son into a canoe and leave for Fort Clendenin which was
upstream. Supposedly, Hannah and Polly tackett (sisters of Keziah?)
hid in a vegatable patch, then made their way south to Mud River and
safety. (deGruyter's The Kanawha Spectator)
In the 1820 annotated census is the following:
Jacob Young b 26 Aug 1790 Kanawha County d. 1875 Putnam County mar
1810 Kanawha County to Nancy Stephenson, b 1785, d before 1870 Putnam
County. Jacob was the son of John Young b Aug 1760 Lancaster Pa d Jun
1850 Kanawha County and Keziah (Tackett) Townsend) Young, b 1767. John was the son of Conrad Young adn Keziah the daughter of Lewis Tackett. Jacob and
Nancy had a son, John Valley Young b 5 June 1813 Kan Co. d 13 Nov 1867
who married on 23 Jan 1840 in Kna Cop to Paulina Marshall Franklin b 25 Oct 1820 Nelson Co Va d 19 Dec 1883 Kan Co. (Nina Wills Combes of Newland, NC)
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From Gracie Stover home page (www.geocities.com/heartland/Ranch/1322/)
her email
"Peaceful Park Scene of Indian Outbreak. Beuty Spot Was Once Bloody a
Blackshoe Tribe Swooped Down on Men, Women, and Children and Killed
Them", by Cal. F. Young.
Copied from Microfilm in the Cabell County, WV
Library:
The Herald-Advertiser,
Huntington, WV,
Sunday morning, January 12, 1930
More than a score of men, women and children massacred on
Four Pole Creek, Ritter Park, by a band of Black Shoe
Indians, an off-spring of The Shawnee or Mingo Tribe.
Such a story would circle the globe within a few hours and
be printed in newspapers within a day in more than a score of
languages--as if it had "broken" yesterday, instead of 140
years ago.
There are evidences of the truth of the slaughter.
What is stated abve is reorted to hve taken place
about 1790, or early in the 1790's.
Betty Tackett, a young woman living with her parents at the
junction of the Ohio and Guyan rivers, now Guyandotte, witnessed
the scene of the slaughter before the bodies were disposed of
and frequetly related the incident to members of her
family and relatives. Betty Tackett, as Mrs.Reuben Cremeans, died
in Mason county in 1884 at the age of 118.
Shopman Relates Story
A son, Henderson Cremeans, through whom much of the data
relative to the early inhabitants of Huntington, was brought
down to existing relatives, was well known in the Ohio Valley.
His death occurred in 1913 at the age of 115.
Our information comes through these two persons to Henry
R Bryan, 2344 Ninth Avenue, a night foreman at the Chesapeake
and Ohio shops. Some of the data Mr Bryan remembers having
heard Mrs. Reuben Cremeans (Betty Tackett) relate on visits
to the home of his parents in Mason County, to himself and
Henderson Cremeans, and as retold by Henderson Cremeans, to
Henry A Bryan. Of some of the incidents Mr. Bryan is not
certain of the exact date but he is certain as to the
incidents and the approximate dates.
According to the information thus obtained the first white
settlers in the Huntington section were the Tacketts--Mr and Mrs
Ambrose Tackett, one daughter, Betty and four sons. They
came from the waters of the Rappahannock in Virginia via the
New River to the Creek just east of St. Albans, now known as
Tackett's Creek.
Talks With Cornstalk
Here the caravan of ox teams and many hogs encountered Indians,
who showed no diposition to be friendly and the Tacketts
headed down the kanawha River to Point Pleasant, reaching
there before the Battle of Point Pleasant on October 10, 1774,
in which Tackett participated against the Shawnees under Cornstalk.
At this time, Betty Tackett was about eight yeard old, having
been born in 1766. Betty was also present at the killing of
Cornstalk in 1777, and was reported to have frequently talked
with the great Indian chieftain, who she greatly admired and
whom she always had been mistreatd by the white men.
Following the battle between Lord Dunmore's forces and the
Shawnees in 1774, and the killing of Cornstalk, the Tacketts
came down the Ohio to the junction of the Guyandotte and Ohio,
and built a home where now Guyandotte is situated.
Trips back and forth between here and Point Pleasant were
numerous. On one of these trips to Point Pleasant Betty frequently
related, she saw General George Washington.
Friendly With Indians
As handed down, the early trials of the Tackett family in
what is now Guyandotte, were varied. Tackett counted upon
this section as his future home. In most instances he and the
scattered Indian bands had few difficulties. About 1790, it is
related, a band of Red Hawks, with which Cornstalk's son,
Elinipsico, at one time affiliated, were located at what is
now known as Indian - Guyan, opposite the Ohio from Guyandotte.
With this band the elder Tackett and his sons had numerous
and friendly dealings, frequently trading hogs to the
Indians. This tribe is claimed to have been a branch of the
Shawnees.
At the same time there was also a settlement of Indians on
the hill east of Guyandotte. Some of the old mounds are still
visible.
The exact date of the massacre on Four Pole is not definitely
fixed by the data available, but was either in 1790 or
within the next year of two. Just when this white band settled
on Four Pole and erected their block houses, is also lacking,
except they were not there when the Tacketts reached the
junction of the Guyan and Ohio and the immediate year thereafter.
It is known that the white band had erected a number
of block houses and had taken precautions against an Indian attack.
White Coloy Attacked
These precautions were neglected on a hot summer day and
the double barricades to the houses were left open.
Apparently watching for an opportunity the Indian band of
Black Shoes swooped down and completely annihilated the white
colony. Children were picked up and swung about, their brains
being smeared about the trees. every one of the colony was
either killed or later died from injuries received in the conflict.
It was from the injured that the Tacketts got their story.
The Tackett family witnessed the scene immediately after
the attack and saw the bodies scattered about the stockade.
Betty and her son, Henderson Cremeans, are reported to have
frequently related. Henderson's story coming from his father,
mother and uncles.
In 1797 Betty Tackett married Reuben Cremeans from what is
now Mason County. She is said to have been the first white
woman married west of the Blue Ridge Mountains. The ceremony
was performed by an army chaplain at Point Pleasant.
Almost immediately the Cremeans took up their abode near the
junction of Muc river and Lower Creek, about one mile from
the present town of Milton in this county.
Felled Indian iwth turnip
In 1820 the family moved to Mason County, locating on Knife Branch
of Guyan Creek.
Henderson Cremeans, a son of Reuben and Betty, was born
in 1798. He died in 1913, aged 115 years. Until a few years before
his death he ws very active and frequently visited the
scenes of his parents' early life.
Like most frontiersmen, Henderson was of a rugged type and
able to give a good account of himself in any kind of an encounter.
While a resident of Mud River Henderson was attacked by three Indians
while gathering turnips. With a turnip he felled one of the
Indians and sprang on him and soon finished the Indian off.
The others escaped. These were the last Indians seen in
that community. This experience was related with a
certain degree of satisfaction
by Henderson.
Mr Bryan stated that both Betty and her son Henderson,
who was Mr Bryan's uncle, enjoyed relating their early
experiences. Expecially would the latter enjoy relating
the exeriences of his mother as she had related them to him.
Saw Buffalo in River
Among some of the experiences were the activities of the
Buffalo when the family resided at what is now Guyandotte,
She told of having seen droves containing as many as 75
buffalo and swimming the Ohio river at that point. The
only land routes in those days were the Buffalo Trails. That
is all they had to follow over the Blue Ridge Mountains
into the New and Kanawha River Valleys, and on to the Ohio
they would declare.
What is now known as Reservoir hill, was named Panther
Knob by the Tacketts A disturbance among the hogs one night
was found to have been caused by a panther, but that fact
was not definitely known until the next morning when the animal
was found in a tree top where it had been chased by a number of
dogs. The Tackett boys secured one of their flintlocks and killed
the panther. The animal measured eleven feet from tip to tip.
thereafter the hill was known as Panther Knob...
Individual Notes
Note for: Lewis Tackett, 1670 - 1744 Index
Individual Note:
Dorsey Thomas, 689 Westwood Dr.; Abilene, Texas 79603, 22 Jul 1997;
email:
Our Immigrant Ancestors
The Immigrant Ancestor of most with this surname in the U.S. was the
French Huguenot (Protestant), Lewis Tacquett [aka Taquet, Tacquet]
(c1675-1743/44), born in France, moved to England as an apparent
youngster, and who shortly after 1686 migrated to the Colony of
Virginia. By 1711 he had settled on a small land grant on Cedar Run in
present Prince Wm. Co., VA (then in Stafford Co.) along with another
French Huguenot, Lewis Reno. Lewis Tacquett & his wife, Mary Sarah, (a
British subject) were the parents of four known children: Lewis Jr., b
c1709, John, b c1712, William, b c1722, and Rachel, birthdate unknown.
To the best of our knowledge, all those in the records of the American
British Colonies, and in the U.S. before 1850, and who left progeny,
were from this line. There may be an additional family line that does
not fit with this branch. This is the line of Rev. War veteran, Benoni
Tackett, for whom we have yet to prove parentage. Our research indicates
that he does not now have any descendants who bear the surname.
Our member Anthony Garland Tackett, a resident of Lancashire, England,
secured our earliest record showing "Louis Taquet." This was in a
1686-87 list in the Huguenot Library in London, England, of Huguenots
for whom passage was paid to Virginia by Englishman Nicholas Hayward.
Included on this list were the family of Louis Reynaud (Reno), Jean de
la Chaumette (Shumate), Michel Mauri, Marquis Calmes, Pierre Disboteau &
Jean Mairac. We could not fully decipher the other names.
Variant Spellings: The sons and grandsons of LEWIS TACQUETT used various
spellings of the old surname but the most common were TACKETT & TACKITT.
Variations later adopted include TACKKETT, TACKETTE & TACKET. The most
common spelling is TACKETT.
Individual Notes
Note for: Issac Pinson, 1760 - 1842 Index
Individual Note:
Isaac Pinson was a Revolutionary War Soldier.
Individual Notes
Note for: Rev. Aaron Pinson, BET 1694 AND 1734 - ABT 1794 Index
Individual Note:
This Aaron Pinson was a Lieutenant in The Orange Co, NC Colonial Militia, built a grist mill on the North Fork of the Haw River in what today is Rockingham Co, NC , got a land grant in Ga in 1767 and another the same year in Laurens Co, SC, Moved to the Nolichucky settlement in what today is Eastern Tn during the Revolution and was ordained a Baptist minister in Laurens Co, SC , where he died in 1794.
Aaron Pinson was also a Justice of the Peace in NC during the American Revolution. Loreita Riter Hayden qualified this Aaron Pinson as a Patriot of the American revolution with the DAR based on his J.P. service.
Rev. Aaron Pinson , presiding over the ruling elders, established the Rabun Baptist Church in Laurens Co, SC in 1767 upon his arrival there.
The Marmaduke surname was linked to Elizabeth, the wife of our Rev. Aaron Pinson without any proof by some of those who published, but they referred to her as Jean Marmaduke for reasons unknown. Since Aaron's wife was clearly Elizabeth, their linkage without documentation is unacceptable.
This was all taken out of the Pinson Chronicles in Aug. 1998
Individual Notes
Note for: Jerry Hendrickson, 18 JUN 1938 - 22 MAR 2000 Index
Burial:
Date: 24 MAR 2000
Place: Cisco, Tx