Jane* Wear

Other Events and Attributes:

• Census: 7 Aug 1820, White Co, Tennessee
• Census: 1830, White Co, Tennessee
• Census: Nov 1830, Lafayette Co, Missouri
• Census: Nov 1840, Platte Co, Missouri
• Census: 14 Sep 1850, Marshall, Platte Co, Missouri

Notes:

Security to marriage: John Wear and James Wilson

http://www.joepayne.org/wear2.htm
site of Karl Kiser (ksquared77@aol.com)

Census:
Name: John B Bounds
Home in 1830 (City, County, State): White, Tennessee
Free White Persons - Males - Under 5: 1
Free White Persons - Males - 5 thru 9: 1
Free White Persons - Males - 20 thru 29: 1
Free White Persons - Females - Under 5: 1
Free White Persons - Females - 5 thru 9: 2
Free White Persons - Females - 20 thru 29: 1
Slaves - Males - 10 thru 23: 1
Free White Persons - Under 20: 5
Free White Persons - 20 thru 49: 2
Total Free White Persons: 7
Total Slaves: 1
Total - All Persons (Free White, Slaves, Free Colored): 8

Name: Jesse Lovelady
Home in 1830 (City, County, State): White, Tennessee
Free White Persons - Males - Under 5: 1
Free White Persons - Males - 20 thru 29: 1
Free White Persons - Females - Under 5: 1
Free White Persons - Females - 5 thru 9: 1
Free White Persons - Females - 20 thru 29: 1
Slaves - Males - 10 thru 23: 1
Free White Persons - Under 20: 3
Free White Persons - 20 thru 49: 2
Total Free White Persons: 5
Total Slaves: 1
Total - All Persons (Free White, Slaves, Free Colored): 6

Name: Thomas Lovelady
Home in 1830 (City, County, State): White, Tennessee
Free White Persons - Males - Under 5: 1
Free White Persons - Males - 20 thru 29: 1
Free White Persons - Females - 15 thru 19: 1
Slaves - Males - Under 10: 1
Free White Persons - Under 20: 2
Free White Persons - 20 thru 49: 1
Total Free White Persons: 3
Total Slaves: 1
Total - All Persons (Free White, Slaves, Free Colored): 4

Name: Jane Lovelady
Home in 1830 (City, County, State): White, Tennessee
Free White Persons - Males - 15 thru 19: 2
Andrew 1815 and William 1811
Free White Persons - Females - 10 thru 14: 1
Margaret 1818
Free White Persons - Females - 50 thru 59: 1
Free White Persons - Under 20: 3
Total Free White Persons: 4
Total - All Persons (Free White, Slaves, Free Colored): 4




Census:
Bounds, Obadiah (wife Nancy Wear Lovelady - sis to John and James)
Name: Obadiah Bounds (1789)
Home in 1830 (City, County, State): Lafayette, Missouri
Free White Persons - Males - 30 thru 39: 1 (1791-1800)
Free White Persons - Females - Under 5: 2 Eustacia & Sarah
Free White Persons - Females - 5 thru 9: 2 Martha & Maria
Free White Persons - Females - 10 thru 14: (1816-1820)
Amanda Bounds 1817
Free White Persons - Females - 30 thru 39: 1
(Nancy Wear Lovelady b 1799)
***** Free White Persons - Females - 50 thru 59: 1 (1771-1780)
Probably Nancy's mother Jane Wear; she was in White CO TN 1830 census with 3 children ages 12, 15, and 17. This census taken in Nov; so likely Jane moved that year and the children are living elsewhere. by 1940 Jane is with sons William and Andrew in Platte Co, Missouri.
His father still living, so doubt it's his mother.

Free White Persons - Under 20: 5
Free White Persons - 20 thru 49: 2
Total Free White Persons: 8
Total - All Persons (Free White, Slaves, Free Colored): 8


Census:
Name: William M Lovelady
brother of James* and John W and Elizabeth
Andrew Jackson another brother whose wife, Judah Newby, dau of Newton Newby.
Newton Newby 2nd m Nancy Bounds, dau of yet another Lovelady brother Jesse.

County: Platte
State: Missouri
William M. Lovelady and Andrew Jackson Lovelady
Free White Persons - Males - 20 thru 29: 2 (1811-1820) William (not married yet); Andrew Jackson b 1815
Free White Persons - Females - 10 thru 14: 1 (1826-1830) Judah Newby (1826)
Free White Persons - Females - 60 thru 69: 1 (1771-1780) prob Jane Wear Lovelady b 1769

Total - All Persons (Free White, Free Colored, Slaves): 4
Persons Employed in Agriculture: 2
Free White Persons - Under 20: 1
Free White Persons - 20 thru 49: 2
Total Free White Persons: 4
Total All Persons - Free White, Free Colored, Slaves: 4
(father of these Lovelady brothers Thomas died 1830; mother Jane Wear d 1860.


Census:
residence 99
A.J. (Andrew Jackson) Lovelady 1815 35 Farmer 4800 Tennessee
Judy (Newby) 23 1840 Kentucky (dau of Nathan Newby)
Cynthia 10 Missouri
John 6 1844 Missouri
Nancy 4 1846 Missouri
Eliza 2 1848 Missouri
Jane (Wear Lovelady) 77 1773 Virginia <<<

residence 100
Nathan Newby 52 farmer 11,800 Kentucky
Nancy Newby 43 Tennessee
14 Sep 1850 Marshall Twp, Platte County Missouri

James Henry 9 1841 Missouri
Jeremiah 8 1842 Missouri
Alfred 3 1847 Missouri
Merit 2 1848 Missouri
Thos Lovelady 21 1829 Tennessee
Moses Lovelady 20 1830 Tennessee
Margaret Lovelady 18 1832 Tennessee

Loveladys are Nancy's children from her first marriage to Jesse Lovelady.

Residence 101
Jefferson Dyer 30 1820 farmer Tennessee
Jane (Lovelady) 25 1825 Tennessee
Margaret 9 1841 Missouri
Jesse 6 1844 Missouri
Nancy 4 1846 Missouri
Caroline 3 1847 Missouri
Samuel 7/12 (Feb 1850) Missouri

Jane* married Thomas* Lovelady on 8 Oct 1792 in Greene Co, Tennessee. Thomas* (son of John* Lovelady, Sr., Rev War and Sarah* Morgan(?)) was born in 1767 in Orange Co, North Carolina or Laurens Co, South Carolina; died between 1826 and 1830 in White Co, Tennessee; was buried in Lovelady Cem, Cookeville, Putnam Co (prev White Co), Tennessee. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

1. Sarah Lovelady was born in 1794 in Greene Co, Tennessee; died on 6 Jul 1857 in Potter, Atchison Co, Kansas; was buried in Old Young Cem, Potter, Atchison Co, Kansas.
2. John W. Lovelady was born in 1795 in Greene Co (prob), Tennessee; died on 1 Dec 1869 in Lafayette Co, Missouri; was buried in Dover Cem, Dover, Lafayette Co, Missouri.
3. Rev. James* Lovelady was born in 1797 in Sevier Co (prob), Tennessee; died in 1893 in Victoria Co, Texas; was buried in Memorial Square, Victoria, Victoria Co, Texas.
4. Nancy Wear Lovelady was born in 1799 in Sevier Co, Tennessee; died in 1846 in Lafayette Co, Tennessee.
5. Elizabeth Lovelady was born in 1803 in White Co, Tennessee; died on 13 Nov 1846 in Oregon Trail; was buried on 14 Nov 1846 in Roseburg in Douglas Co, Oregon.
6. Thomas J. (Jesse or Jefferson) Lovelady was born on 19 Mar 1806 in Jackson Co, Tennessee; died on 14 Dec 1890 in Dallas, Polk Co, Oregon; was buried in Dallas Cem, Dallas, Polk Co, Oregon.
7. Rebecca Mary Lovelady was born in 1807 in White Co, Tennessee; died on 9 Jun 1860 in Johnson Co, Missouri.
8. Jesse Lovelady was born in 1807 in White Co, Tennessee; died in 1834 in Jackson Co, Missouri.
9. William M. "Bill" Lovelady was born in 1811 in White Co, Tennessee; died on 16 Dec 1896 in Fremont Co, Iowa; was buried in Lovelady Cem, Fremont Co, Iowa.
10. Jemima Jane Lovelady was born in 1813 in White Co, Tennessee; died after 1850 in Atchison Co, Kansas.
11. Andrew Jackson Lovelady was born on 18 Oct 1815 in White Co, Tennessee; died on 10 Apr 1898 in Platte Co, Missouri ; was buried in Newby Cem, Weston, Platte Co, Missouri.
12. Margaret A. Lovelady was born in Nov 1818 in White Co, Tennessee; died on 16 Feb 1908 in Lakewood, Jefferson Co, Colorado.

Other Events and Attributes:

• Military: 1780, Battle of Kings Mountain, Cherokee Co, North Carolina

Notes:

Early in the spring of 1800 John Wear, Nathan Wilkinson, and others including Obediah Lovelady journeyed in small boats from Fine's Ferry on French Broad River at the mouth of Nolachuck River destined for Boone's settlement on the Missouri River. Generally the Indians were friendly and helpful, but towards the end of their journey they encountered hostile Cherokees who were waging war with the Kikapoo. They were led by John Watts who gave John Wear the same protection he had given to Robert Wear and the party landed safely at Fort Massac about the first of May and continued on to the Mississippi River and settled near the swamps in the vicinity of Old Jackson. They were immediately taken sick with fever. Many of the party died among them Nancy Moore, John Wear's wife, and his son John and the rest only survived due to the care given them by the Indians.
On his application for a Revolutionary War pension, John Wear gives his birthdate as 12 January 1741. John Wilkinson says that John's wife Nancy Moore, the daughter of Moses and Jane Moore. She died on their ill-fated trip to Cape Girardeau, Missouri, in 1800.
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John Wear states in his Rev. Was pension application that he entered the army from Greene Co NC (later Tennessee) in January 1781, spending 3 months in Capt John Sevier's company, "in pursuit of the tories'; three months in Capt. Wm. Tate's company in the siege of Yorktown and the capture of Cornwallis; four months in Capt. Moses Moore's company; and the last two months under Col Sam'l Wear (his brother) against the Cherokee Indians. After the war he lived in Cape Girardeau briefly, Christian Co KY, and finally Sevier County, Tennessee.

1792 was the security for his daughter Jane's marriage in Greene Co, Tennessee.

Military:
Revolutionary War soldier

John* married Rebecca Nancy* Moore about 1765 in Rockbridge Co, Virginia. Rebecca (daughter of Captain Moses* Moore and Jane (..) Moore) was born about 1745; died in May 1800 in en route to Cape Girardeau, Missouri. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Nancy Moore, according to various family records was one of three wives of John Wear. She was the daughter of Moses Moore, quite likely the same Capt. Moses Moore in whose company John Wear served four months in the Revolutionary War. It is believed that John Wear's second and third wives were Margaret and Diana.

Nancy's name is also given as Rebecca in Notable Southern Families where it states:
"Mary Thompson died in 1797 and Samuel married Polly (Mary) Gilliand a few years later. Polly was the daughter of John and Margaret Gilliand. Margaret Gilliand was a daughter of Moses and Jane Moore and sister of John Wear's wife Rebecca."
In support of this, they did name a daughter Rebecca. On John's application for a Revolutionary War pension, John Wear gives his birthdate as 12 January 1741. John Wilkinson says that John's wife Nancy Moore, the daughter of Moses and Jane Moore.

Died:
Early in the spring of 1800 John Wear, Nathan Wilkinson, and others including Obediah Lovelady journeyed in small boats from Fine's Ferry on French Broad River at the mouth of Nolachuck River destined for Boone's settlement on the Missouri River. Generally the Indians were friendly and helpful, but towards the end of their journey they encountered hostile Cherokees who were waging war with the Kikapoo. They were led by John Watts who gave John Wear the same protection he had given to Robert Wear and the party landed safely at Fort Massac about the first of May and continued on to the Mississippi River and settled near the swamps in the vicinity of Old Jackson. They were immediately taken sick with fever. Many of the party died among them Nancy Moore, John Wear's wife, and his son John and the rest only survived due to the care given them by the Indians.

Other Events and Attributes:

• Property: 1752, Augusta Co (later Rockbridge Co), Virginia
• Residence: 1779, Washington Co (now Sevier Co, Tennessee), North Carolina

Notes:

Robert Wear was of the first generation of his family born in this country. His father was a native of Ireland, but was educated in England. A silversmith by trade, he came to America "at a very early day." Robert Wear and Rebecca Carrell were married in Bucks Co, Pennsylvania, and later moved to Rockbridge Co, Virginia. Their three children, John, Rebecca, and Samuel were married there. In 1779 they moved to Washington Co, Tennessee.
During the time of the Cherokee War they moved with their son Samuel from Green Co to Sevier Co and made their settlement and fort on the west fork of Little Pigeon River in a cove which became known as Wears Cove. They were not more than 20 (mil?)es from the enemy Indian towns on the Little Tennessee. The Indians knew the country so well that they could easily pass through and invade the weaker settlements or ambush the hunter. John Watts, a famous Cherokee warrior, the Corntassel and other warriors harassed the settlers for several years. Finally Col John Sevier and Co. Samuel Handley raised a volunteer regiment and marched against the Indians. They made peace at a council held at Telico in 1796.
Robert Wear was a strict Presbyterian and he was true to his faith. He loved all men and was not an enemy to the Indians. John Watts could have killed him many times but did not because "he do good to everybody, and why should anybody hurt him" His wife Rebecca also was held in high esteem. She was Mama Wear to all her neighbors and friends. They died 1790-1800 and are buried side by side in the old graveyard near the old fort in Sevier County.

Info on Robert Wear through Jane Wear came from a report on the internet: GenServ Genealogical Server, Document@GenServ.Com

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Notable Southern Families:
COLONEL SAMUEL WEAR AND THE WEARS

The father of Elizabeth Wear who married Robert Armstrong
the Third, was Colonel Samuel Wear. The first Wear whom we
know definitely is Robert Wear, the father of Samuel. The family came from Ulster Province, Ireland, and was Scotch-Irish. Robert Wear's wife was Rebecca.

The Wears reached Augusta County, Virginia, by way of Pennsylvania and Frederick County, Virginia, like many other emigrants. The name Wear was originally de Vere which betrays the Norman origin and it can be traced in that form for hundreds of years. It is variously spelled in early histories Weir, Wier, Wear, etc., and this variation causes confusion, but Robert Wear, ancestor of the Virginia -
Tennessee family and his son Samuel Wear spelled their name Wear and both were men of education and have left written proof of this spelling, though Ramsey's Annals and other volumes in giving Colonel Wear full credit for his important service in the Revolution and early history of Tennessee spell his name Weir. He was Clerk of the State of Franklin, a signer of the Constitution of Tennessee and Clerk of the County of Sevier and signed his name literally hundreds of times.

In April 1719 a Robert Weir was one of the settlers in Nutfield, near Haverhill, Massachusetts, but in New Hampshire, under the leadership of James McKeen. It is possible that this Robert Weir was the father of Robert, whom we afterwards have located in Augusta County, Virginia.

The settlement of Nuffield was thought to be in Massachusetts, but the General Court of May, 1719, decided it was in New Hampshire. James Gregg and Robert Wear, in behalf of the Scotch Irish at Nutfield, asked the Governor and Court assembled at Portsmouth, N. H., for a township ten miles square. They and others obtained a deed from Colonel John Wheelwright. Londonberry, N. H., was then incorporated June 1722. Robert Wear's name appears on petition. The
town in December, 1719, voted to grant a lot to each of the first comers "which is the number of twenty." Robert Wear is one of these.

To Robert Wear and his wife, Martha, a daughter, Elizabeth, was born in 1723.

Bolton gives the settlers of Londonderry, N. H., in 1722, and among the names are several of interest to people reading this volume, for instance, Robert Armstrong, James, John and Robert Doak, Robert Wear, etc.

[note ~ss: These Doaks of N.H. do not appear to be of the same line of Doaks represented in this file who immigrated to Pennsylvania and later to Augusta Co. More about the N.H. Doaks here:
http://wc.rootsweb.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=GET&db=jacquelinesr&id=I21338 ],

Robert Weir, or Wear, probably this same Robert, was Commissioner in Antrim County, Antrim, Ireland, in I717.

In 1752 a deed is recorded to Robert Wear and John Cunningham, of eight hundred and thirty-three acres in Borden's Tract, Augusta County, Virginia, and in 1754 Borden's executors deeded two hundred and forty acres to Robert Wear. So we have the family of Robert Wear and his wife Rebecca settled in Augusta County close to the year
1750. There their children were born, including Samuel Wear, who was destined to become a distinguished pioneer of the new state of Tennessee, John Wear and probably other children whose names have not been preserved. Robert Wear was still living in the year 1789. Samuel Wear was born in Augusta County, Virginia about the year 1753.

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Property:
In 1752 a deed is recorded to Robert Wear and John Cunningham, of eight hundred and thirty-three acres in Borden's Tract, Augusta County, Virginia, and in 1754 Borden's executors deeded two hundred and forty acres to Robert Wear. So we have the family of Robert Wear and his wife Rebecca settled in Augusta County close to the year
1750.
Southern Notable Families

Robert* married Rebecca* Carrell about 1740 in Bucks Co, Pennsylvania. Rebecca* (daughter of James* Carrell, Jr. (eldest) (immigrant) and Diana* Van Kirk) was born on 25 May 1725 in Bucks Co, Pennsylvania; died in 1790 in Sevierville, Sevier Co, Tennessee. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

from John Reedy (1/31/05)
In regards to Moses Moore, and I'm not positive that this is our guy, but he is the only one that makes sense from a standpoint of time and place (to be a daddy to Nancy and to be in Augusta Co. VA) from Lyman Chalkley's "Chronicles of the Scots-Irish in Virginia", Lyman Chalkely, 1912, Moses Moore was a prisoner taken at the Jackson River in May, 1758 (by the Indians), and later in Augusta, Administration of his estate in Aug and appraisers in Nov, 1758 would seem to point out that he died, probably as a soldier at the end of that war. There is no mention of his wife Jane, (as supposedly given) nor any mention of a daughter Nancy.

Moses* married Jane (..) Moore about 1740. Jane was born about 1710; died after 1748. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Other-Begin: 1717, Co Antrim, Ireland; commissioner
• Immigration: Bef 1719, Ireland
• Residence: Apr 1719, Nutfield, near Haverhill Massachusetts (New Hampshire)

Notes:

Born in Ireland but was educated in England. A silversmith by trade. Came to America in "at very early day."

In April 1719 a Robert Weir was one of the settlers in Nutfield, near Haverhill, Massachusetts, but in New Hampshire, under the leadership of James McKeen. It is possible that this Robert Weir was the father of Robert, whom we afterwards have located in Augusta County, Virginia.

The settlement of Nuffield was thought to be in Massachusetts, but the General Court of May, 1719, decided it was in New Hampshire. James Gregg and Robert Wear, in behalf of the Scotch Irish at Nutfield, asked the Governor and Court assembled at Portsmouth, N. H., for a township ten miles square. They and others obtained a deed from Colonel John Wheelwright. Londonberry, N. H., was then incorporated June 1722. Robert Wear's name appears on petition. The
town in December, 1719, voted to grant a lot to each of the first comers "which is the number of twenty." Robert Wear is one of these.

To Robert Wear and his wife, Martha, a daughter, Elizabeth, was born in 1723.

Bolton gives the settlers of Londonderry, N. H., in 1722, and among the names are several of interest to people reading this volume, for instance, Robert Armstrong, James, John and Robert Doak, Robert Wear, etc.

[note ~ss: These Doaks of N.H. do not appear to be of the same line of Doaks represented in this file who immigrated to Pennsylvania and later to Augusta Co. More about the N.H. Doaks here:
http://wc.rootsweb.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=GET&db=jacquelinesr&id=I21338 ]

Robert Weir, or Wear, probably this same Robert, was Commissioner in Antrim County, Antrim, Ireland, in I717.

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Residence:
The settlement of Nuffield was thought to be in Massachusetts, but the General Court of May, 1719, decided it was in New Hampshire. James Gregg and Robert Wear, in behalf of the Scotch Irish at Nutfield, asked the Governor and Court assembled at Portsmouth, N. H., for a township ten miles square. They and others obtained a deed from Colonel John Wheelwright. Londonberry, N. H., was then incorporated Jime, 1 722. Robert Wear's name appears on petition. The town in December, 1719, voted to grant a lot to each of the first
comers "which is the number of twenty." Robert Wear is one of these.
NOTABLE SOUTHERN FAMILIES
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Robert* married Mrs. Martha* (...) Wear before 1720. Martha* was born about 1690; died after 1723. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

John W. Wilkinson, "Autobiography and Historical Reminiscences," (a copy in Salt Lake Library), tells us that Robert Wear married a "Holland dutch" woman, or at least her mother was from Holland and her father was an Englishman kidnapped from his country when a small boy by a sea captain and turned loose lonely, penniless, and friendless on the then almost wild shores of the Chesapeake Bay. When Olda Edwards found out that Robert Wear married Rebecca Carrell, her search took her to Diana Van Kirk whose forefathers had served the West Indian Company and traded beads for Manhattan. The family must have been very proud of this connection for the story has been carried down six generations.
The story of James Carrell is just as amazing. Wilkinson states that William Carroll/Carrell, a sheep and wool merchant adopted the friendless abandoned boy and raised him as his own. The boy grew to manhood and followed the sea managings father's affairs. James Carrell married Diana Van Kirk and was the father of Rebecca Carrell. When he died his adopted mother placed the coat "of curious construction" he had on when he came to them in his coffin. An old woman observed the coat and said, "If it were possible, I should claim some remembrance of that coat. Many years have passed since, but if I am not mistaken, I made that coat with my own hands for a little nephew of mine in old England. He was lost directly after the coat was made with the coat on, and all the search and inquiry we could make, we never could learn anything of him. His mother died of grief and his father would have paid thousands for his return." Mrs. Carroll explained how she and Mr. Carroll had adopted a homeless boy and they compared dates until both were satisfied that this was indeed the woman's nephew. The old woman took the coat back to the father in England as a testimonial of what had happened to his son.
It has been proven that William Carrell was indeed James Carrell and his adopted son, James Carrell, Jr. James Carrell, Sr., settled in Bucks Co, Pennsylvania about 1700 and possibly came from Rhode Island in 1683 with Rev Thomas Dungan. s Carrell, Sr., married Sarah Dungan, the daughter of Rev Thomas Dungan and Elizabeth Weaver. (Rev.Thomas Dungan was the son of William Dungan and Frances Latham. He died in 1687 in Bucks Co, PA. Elizabeth Weaver was the daughter of Clement Weaver and Mary Freeborn, granddaughter of William Freeborn, and she died in 1697 in Cold Springs, PA.)
Tradition relates that James Carrell, Sr., was a weaver and had a mill or loom in Philadelphia here he wove linen and linsey-woolsey. He purchased 100 acres of land in Southhampton in 1704 and lived there until his death about 1730. This Cll homestead (Carrelton) was a tract of land purchased from Thomas and Clement Dungan, it being a tract of land purchased by the Dungans of the widow of Arthur Cook in 1699 for a sum of five shillings lawful money. It was originally part of a tract of 1,000 acres purchased by Arthur Cook from James Claypool and Robert Turner, commissioners for William Penn in 1686.
James Carrell and his wife Sarah Dungan had six children:
1. (adopted) James, who married Diana Van Kirk
2. Benjamin Carrell who died in 1733
3. Elizabeth Carrell, m Samuel Gilbert of Warminster
4. Sarah Carrell, m Silas McCarty
5. Lydia, m Robert Thompkins
6. unnamed daughter
In 1732 the other heirs of James Carrell, Sr., conveyed the homestead in Southhampton to the eldest son James and in 1731 he also purchased the Northampton homestead on which he settled and lived until his death in 1750.
The family were of Scotch-Irish Presbyterian stock and are supposed to have emigrated from Scotland or Ireland in the 17th Century. Tradition relates that James Carrell, Sr., was imprisoned in Londonerry during that memorable siege of 105 dand soon after came to America.
James Carrell, Jr., was a man of great energy and drive and accumulated a large amount of property and wealth. He left three farms and about $4,000 in money. He and his wife Diana Van Kirk had eleven children, though John Wilkinson mentioly one; Rebecca born 25 May 1725, who married Robert Wear.
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Land sale: 19 Aug 1732 100 Acres, Warminster Township, Bucks County, PA

Indenture clearly states that James Carrell, eldest son of James Carrell, late of the James place, deceased.

Land Sale 22 Oct 1748 100 Acres And 50 Acres Land, Northampton Township, Bucks County, PA [3]
On July 21, 1749, Dinah, appearing after James death, stating that the she was Administrator of the mortgage for James Carrell's estate.
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From: John Reedy
Date: 04/05/09 10:14:29
To: 'Sherry'
Subject: James Carrell

Sherry,
I seem to recall that I owed you a response to an item that came up on your gedcom from last year.

It was on James Carrell Jr. ? remember, you had a story that from a Wilkinson book that he was really adopted and I had never heard that.

I doubt that the story is true for several reasons.

I got to do firsthand research in Bucks County, PA as it was only an hour from where we lived and Sandy and I went there several times. They have a really nice genealogy center there. A number of people had done Carrell, Dungan and Wear research before us. One of those was named Ezra P. Carrell and we were able to view his work while there. Also, more work by a John Beans Carrell, Ezra's son.

Your story says that "It has been proven that William Carrell was indeed James Carrell." ??

I have never seen that. Every bit of material that I have seen or read says that his name was James Carrell Sr. and that he emigrated about 1695 and first took up business in Philadelphia.

Also, I doubt that the Wilkinson story is true for another simple reason. An adoptee would very likely never be named after the father and be known as Jr.

Certainly, that name would go to his own flesh and blood son.

Your story also mentions "Olda Edwards" and her name is really Olga Jones Edwards and she and Ida Wear Roberts wrote a book entitled "East Tennessee Pioneers" and either I have that book or I have seen it and it is about the Wear families and others, but is thin on Carrell, Van Kirk and Dungan items. It does not mention the Wilkinson story that I recall. Olga may have also written another book and if so, the title escapes me.

My guess is that this is a case of a hand-me-down story that made a wrong turn somewhere with confused facts. For instance, it says "The boy grew to manhood and followed the sea managing his father's affairs." Neither James Sr. or James Jr. were seamen. James Sr. was in the weaving business and James Jr. lived on the family estate; the inventory after his death shows weaving items and farm implements and sheep, cattle, etc.

As confusing as this might be, I found that the Wear or Weir family was just plain ridiculous.

Olga got confused on that one too. You have whole families of Hugh, John and George Wear right next to another with the exact same names, most all of these in Virginia.
John
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Sources (John Reedy)
...History of Bucks County, PA, William H. Davis, (Lewis Publishing Co., New York, NY - Chicago, IL, 1905), Volume III, pp. (Reliability: 3).

299-301 James CARRELL, Jr., married Diana VAN KIRK, of Holland descent, daughter of Bernard and Rachel (VANDEGRIFT) VAN KIRK, and granddaughter of Jan Janse VER KIRK or VAN KIRK, who emigrated to Long Island in 1663 from the little town of Bueer Maetsen, in Gelderland, Holland, and settled at New Utrecht, where he died in 1688. His wife was Maykje GYSBERTS and they were the parents of the following children; Roelof Janse, born 1654; Aert Janse, born 1655; Geertje, married Jan Dirckse VAN VLIET; Barentje, married Nicholas VANDEGRIFT; Cornelis Janse; Jan Janse, Jr. and Bernard or Barnet, the father of Diana, above mentioned, who married Rachel VANDEGRIFT. The maternal ancestor of Diana (VAN KIRK) CARRELL is given in full in this work under the head of "The VANDEGRIFT Family." James and Diana CARRELL were the parents of eleven children, viz; Rebecca, born May 25, 1725, married Robert Weir, of Warrington, and their descendants later migrated to Kentucky. Sarah, born September 25, 1726, married Robert PATTERSON, of Tinicum, whose descendants settled in Virginia, from whence they migrated to Ohio and Missouri. Bernard married Lucretia McKNURE and settle d on one of his father?s farms in Warminster purchased of the heirs of Rev. William TENNENT, and including the site of the famous log college of which TENNENT was the founder, and which remained in the tenure of the descendants of Bernard until quite recently. James, born March 26, 1730, married Sarah ----- and settled in Tinicum township, Bucks county, in 1765, on land purchased of his brother Solomon and died there leaving four children who have numerous descendants scattered over the whole union. He was a private in the associated company, of Tinicum, Nicholas PATTERSON captain, during the revolution. Jacob and Rachel (twins), born April 27, 1735; Rachel became the second wife of Robert STEWART, of Warwick, Bucks county, and after her husband's death settled with her son Robert in Tinicu m, from whence the family migrated to New Jersey. Phoebe, born August 20, 1837, married Andrew SCOUT, of Warminster. Solomon, born May 25, 1740, died 1777, married Mary VAN KIRK, and in 1761 purchased a farm of three hundred and five acres in Plumstead, one hundred and forty-three acres of which he conveyed to his brother James in 1765 and the balance of which he sold in 1774, and then settled in Kensengton, Philadelphia; he went with WASHINGTON to New York, dying of the fever on Staten Island, whence his body was never removed; his widow married Charles RYAN, and died in Wallingford, Chester county, in 1821. Descendants of Solomon now reside in Chester, Pennsylvania, and in Delaware. Elizabeth, born May 16, 1742. Diana married Elias DUNGAN, who was a soldier in the Revolutionary war, and has left numerous descendants; her daughter Rachel married Jesse JOHNSON.


--- Deed, from James Carrell Jr. (Reliability: 3).
and Dinah, his wife, of Northampton to Gideon DeCa mp 100 acres, including houses, barns and buildings in Warminster Township for the sum of 132 pounds, lawful money of Pennsylvania. Recorded Oc t 14, 1756. Bucks County Court records, Book and pages unknown.

--- Deed, Bucks Co. Book pages 487, 488 James Carrell and Dinah, his wife, selling two separate parcels of land totalling 150 acres to William Atwood, merchant of Philadelphia or three hundred pounds. Mortgage given for 150 pounds. (Reliability: 3).
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James* married Diana* Van Kirk on 17 Aug 1723 in Bucks Co, Pennsylvania. Diana* (daughter of Bernard* (Barent Verkirk) Van Kirk and Rachel Jacobse Vandegrift) was born in 1697 in Bensalem, Bucks Co, Pennsylvania; died after 1761 in Bucks Co, Pennsylvania (possibly). [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Moses Moore, born c. 1686; died in November 1758. (Abstracts from the Records of Augusta County, Virginia, Lyman Chalkley, Vol. I, page 82). He left at least one son, Moses Moore