Re: Jeremiah Pate -- A Missing Child
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Jeremiah Pate -- A Missing Child
Fred Booth 3/26/12
Fred,
Thank you for that very thoughtful analysis of Nancy Rowton's origins.Your discussion of the Anne Worrell's book and her list of marriages reminded me of a similar problem for the Wright family.Attached below is what I wrote up about the dating of one of the marriages listed in that book and hope this is some help in your further research on the Pate family.
My line of descent is as follows:
1. 1782 (year of death) Anthony Pate of Montgomery County, VA (place of death) and Sarah (English) Pate,
2. Elizabeth (Pate) Wright and 1803 John Wright of Bedford County, VA,
3. 1850 Anthony Wright of Bedford County, VA, and Elizabeth (Mayse) Wright,
4. Rhoda (Wright) Wright and 1876 William S. Wright of Highland County, OH, and
on down to the present.
The Thomas Wright discussed in the excerpt below was 1845 Thomas Wright of Pittsylvania County, VA, and a paternal uncle of 1876 William S. Wright of Highland County, OH, but from a different Wright line than Rhoda's Wright line.The two unrelated Wright lines in Bedford County, VA, had farms within one mile or so of each other.
Best wishes,
Robert N. Grant
15 Campo Bello Court
Menlo Park, CA 94025
[email protected]
Excerpt from Sorting Some Of The Wrights Of Southern Virginia, Part II: John Wright (Goochland County Carpenter):
Over The Mountain Men, Their Early Court Records In Southwest Virginia, compiled by Ann Lowry Worrell, Geneological Publishing Co., Inc., Baltimore, Md., 1976, (originally published 1934) listed the marriage bond of Thomas Wright and Betsy Pullen on March 31, 1785, at Bedford County by Nathaniel Shrewsbury and stated that it was one of a list of marriage bonds not published before 1934.However, the original source for this was a list of marriages filed by Nathaniel Shrewsbury in Bedford County, Virginia, Marriage Book 1/215 that did not list the year of marriage.The list was just before other lists by Nathaniel Shrewsbury that were dated in 1785, 1786 and 1787, and then 1789 and 1790.Ms. Worrell apparently assumed that the placement of the list meant the years were in 1785 and so reported them.However, immediately below the entry for Thomas Wright in that list on page 215 was the listing for the marriage of William Watts and Ann Wright on July 26.The marriage bond for that couple was dated on July 23, 1792, indicating that at least one marriage on the list was in 1792.In handwriting different from that of Nathaniel Shrewsbury are dates of 1791 and 1792 listed after most of the marriages.The conclusion seems fair that this list was properly from 1791 and 1792, not 1785.Given the marriage bond of Thomas Wright and Sally Pullen on March 26, 1792, the marriage listing for Thomas Wright and Betsey Pullen on March 30 would clearly be the same marriage.The difference in the bride's name between the marriage bond and the marriage record indicates that her name was probably Sarah "Sally" Elizabeth "Betsey" Pullen.In addition, as will be set forth below, Thomas Wright and Sarah Elizabeth (Pullen) Wright's first child Margaret (Wright) Mahan named two of her children Thomas Wright Mahan and Sarah Pullen Mahan.
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Re: Jeremiah Pate -- A Missing Child
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