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William Linville

Male 1770 - 1850  (80 years)


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Generation: 1

  1. 1.  William Linville was born in 1770 in Surry Co, North Carolina (son of Moses Linville and Elizabeth Hester); died in 1850 in Coldwater, Wayne Co, Mississippi.

    William married Mary Jane Anderson about 1807. Mary was born in 1786; died after 1820 in of, Tennessee. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

    Children:
    1. Iredell Hiram Linville was born on 4 May 1807 in Tennessee; died on 5 May 1885 in Macon Co, Tennessee.
    2. Moses Linville, (son of Wm) was born in 1816 in Smith Co, Tennessee ; died after 1850 in of, Macon Co, Tennessee.
    3. Eizabeth C. Linville was born about 1818 in Tennessee; died after 1850 in of, Wayne Co, Missouri.

Generation: 2

  1. 2.  Moses Linville was born in 1752 in Virginia (son of Thomas* Linville and Hannah* Morgan (?), (dau?)); died in 1826 in Surry Co, North Carolina.

    Other Events and Attributes:

    • Census: 1771, Surry Co, North Carolina; Early Tax List
    • Other-Begin: 1775, Surry Co, North Carolina
    • Census: 7 Aug 1820, Capt Davis Dist, Surry Co, North Carolina

    Notes:

    Other-Begin:
    Surry County N.C. Wills 1771-1827
    estate of John Miller, deceased, returned by William Hannah, adm. Mentioned are John Hannah, William Hannah, Barnabas Fair, Peter Lowork, George Holdsbrook, Richard Linville, Joshua Hannah, James Bond, George Pierce, REuben Knight, Henry Cook, William Pierce, Aaron Linwell (Linville?) James Halbrook, James Cook, George Comers, Moses Linwell (Linville), Cornelius Cook. Rec May Ct. 1775.


    Census:
    Name: Moses Linnell
    [Moses Linville]
    Township: Capt Davis District
    County: Surry
    State: North Carolina
    Enumeration Date: August 7, 1820
    Free White Males - 10 thru 15: 2
    Free White Males - 16 thru 18: 1
    Free White Males - 16 thru 25: 1
    Free White Males - 45 and over: 1
    Free White Females - 10 thru 15: 2
    Free White Females - 16 thru 25: 2
    Free White Females - 45 and over: 1
    Number of Persons - Engaged in Agriculture: 3
    Free White Persons - Under 16: 4
    Free White Persons - Over 25: 2
    Total Free White Persons: 9
    Total All Persons - White, Slaves, Colored, Other: 9

    Moses married Elizabeth Hester about 1769. Elizabeth was born in 1749 in Belews Creek, Forsyth Co, North Carolina; died in 1810 in Union, Union Co, South Carolina. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]


  2. 3.  Elizabeth Hester was born in 1749 in Belews Creek, Forsyth Co, North Carolina; died in 1810 in Union, Union Co, South Carolina.
    Children:
    1. 1. William Linville was born in 1770 in Surry Co, North Carolina; died in 1850 in Coldwater, Wayne Co, Mississippi.
    2. Thomas David Linville was born in 1776 in Lnville Falls, Stokes Co, North Carolina; died in 1850 in Kanawha, Virginia.
    3. Brace W.W. Linville was born in 1776 in North Carolina; died in 1860 in Johnson City, Washington Co, Tennessee.
    4. Henry Linville was born in 1786 in Virginia or Surry Co, North Carolina, or Tennessee; died about 1886 in Macon Co, Tennessee.
    5. Elizabeth Linville was born in 1780 in Surry Co, North Carolina; died about 1855 in Dry Branch, Macon Co, Tennessee.


Generation: 3

  1. 4.  Thomas* Linville was born in 1703 in Chichester, Chester Co, Pennsylvana (son of John* Linville, Sr. (Immigrant) and Mrs. (1st wife of John)* Linville); died before 1761 in Belews Creek, Stokes Co, North Carolina.

    Notes:

    Thomas Linvil
    Date: Jun 3, 1755
    Location: Augusta Co., VA
    Record ID: 32131
    Description: Neighbor
    Book-Page: 7-219

    Property: 500 acres on Linvil's Creek; corner to land in possession of Thomas Linvil.

    Remarks: £150. Purchased by Joseph Bryan from Wm. Linvil and part of 1500 acres purchased by Linvil from Hite, &c..

    This land record was originally published in "Chronicles of the Scotch-Irish Settlement in Virginia, 1745-1800. Extracted from the Original Court Records of Augusta County" by Lyman Chalkley

    Son Thomas Linville built a cabin along the Codorus Creek ( now Adams County, PA), on the other side of the Susquehanna from the Conestoga community before 1730 when Penn's government had already forbidden such moves because of agreements with the Susquehanna Indians.

    Thomas* married Hannah* Morgan (?), (dau?) about 1746 in Pennsylvania. Hannah* (daughter of Edward Morgan, (immigrant) and Margaret Elizabeth Jarman (?)) was born on 19 Feb 1713 in Gwynedd, Montgomery Co, Pennsylvania; died in 1773 in North Carolina. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]


  2. 5.  Hannah* Morgan (?), (dau?) was born on 19 Feb 1713 in Gwynedd, Montgomery Co, Pennsylvania (daughter of Edward Morgan, (immigrant) and Margaret Elizabeth Jarman (?)); died in 1773 in North Carolina.

    Notes:

    her ancestors are here:
    http://wc.rootsweb.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=PED&db=rlgabriel-3&id=I7741&style=TABLE

    Notes:

    Married in St.Pauls Episcopal Church. (not verified)

    "Thomas WAS married to a Hannah, but as with his father, I am not sure if she is a first or second wife -- I am reasonably sure he had two. There is no place for a marriage for them and we only know that he was married to her from one record in 1746/7. Children were born to him before that and after that, but no evidence related to her definite surname or her children with Thomas."
    (From Alice Echols via email, Oct 1, 2012)

    Some researchers have said she was Hannah Morgan, daughter of Edward Morgan (b. Abt 1650 d. Aft 1734) and Margaret Elizabeth Jarman (?) (b. 16 Nov 1691 d. 1730); however there is no substantiation that Hannah was a Morgan, nor is there any substantiation that Edward & Elizabeth had a daughter named Hannah.

    The birth order of these children is not necessarily their real birth order. There may have been one more son.

    Children:
    1. Thomas* Linville was born in 1735 in Virginia; died in 1818 in White Co, Tennessee; was buried in Howell Farm Cemetery, White Co, Tennessee.
    2. Richard Linville was born about 1740 in Surry Co, North Carolina; died in 1821 in Surry Co, North Carolina.
    3. David Linville was born about 1742; died about 1787 in North Carolina.
    4. Aaron Linville was born in 1750 in Granville Co, North Carolina; died in Sep 1824 in Stokes Co, North Carolina.
    5. 2. Moses Linville was born in 1752 in Virginia; died in 1826 in Surry Co, North Carolina.


Generation: 4

  1. 8.  John* Linville, Sr. (Immigrant) was born in 1677 in Sussex Co, England (son of Richard* Linville, (Immigrant) and Mary* Hart, (Immigrant)); died after 1739 in of, Pennsylvania.

    Other Events and Attributes:

    • Emigration: 1682, Penn Colony, Pennsylvania
    • Immigration: 1682, Fletching, Sussex, England

    Notes:

    The story of this historical marker begins with the story of children.

    Two young boys, ages about 3 and 5, left their home in Fletching, Sussex, England to embark on an adventure that 300 years later would lead their descendants to this place after countless other journeys in between.

    John Linville and his younger brother Thomas Linville sailed to Penn's Colony on one of William Penn's 22 ships in the sailing year of 1682-3 along with their mother Mary (Hart) Linville and probably their father Richard. Richard either died at sea or possibly in an epidemic in southern Jersey shortly after they arrived. Before a year was up, their mother remarried to Thomas Baldwin - the first marriage license issued by Penn's Colony.

    The young boys, John and Thomas, grew up along Chester Creek in Pennsylvania in their step-father's household. In those times, few children grew to adulthood in a home with both birth parents. Thomas, the youngest son stayed close to that home base for the next 150 years. Even today some of Thomas's descendants still operate a spectacular home/farm/market just 3 miles up Chester Creek from the original Baldwin-Linville home.

    But, older son John, only five when he arrived, was more adventurous. He began an association with the local merchants and Indian traders. In 1715, John at age 36 with a family of at least two sons, Thomas and William, whose life we commemorate today with this marker, joined his half- brother Thomas Baldwin and Baldwin in-laws, the Hendricks, in a new adventure - an Indian trading point along the Conestoga River only 45 miles west, but in those days, completely uncharted county. The move of this group to the west represented the first leg of a movement west which would 100 years later become a rallying cry for all young men to go west.

    Two things about this move mark a pattern of human behavior in the colonial period. First, where younger brother Thomas's descendants stayed close to home in Pennsylvania for generations, older brother John's descendants were present in every "first" settlement west along the westward migration all the way to Oregon by 1846. That movement west actually began with a move south along the back side of the Appalachians.

    The second pattern is that the move west was not done by isolated families as is so often the impression found in history books, but by groups of interrelated families creating large extended families and the foundation of a community which offered the support necessary to sustain a life on the frontier.

    Within 15 years of John Linville's move to Conestoga his sons, Thomas, William and John, Jr. were moving again. This time farther west across the Susquehanna River, having learned the basics of frontier survival from their older relatives in the community. That survival included experience in Indian trading, bartering with neighbors and, for the most part lack of governmental oversight.

    Son Thomas Linville built a cabin along the Codorus Creek ( now Adams County, PA), on the other side of the Susquehanna from the Conestoga community before 1730 when Penn's government had already forbidden such moves because of agreements with the Susquehanna Indians. Son William Linville participated in the famous Cresap Affair challenging Maryland's claim to Pennsylvania. Disguising himself as a native American and brandishing a weapon William and a group of several others tried to scare Thomas Cresap off the land which Cresap claimed as Maryland's territory and the Linvilles, Hendricks and others claimed as Pennsylvania's.

    Within a year, sometime between 1733 and 1735, William developed a close association with Morgan Bryan?s family, marrying Morgan?s daughter Ellender Bryan and then moved with older brother Thomas Linville and his wife Hannah to an uninhabited 1500 acres of land around what became known as Linville Creek, VA. In the 1730s no more than a handful of families joined them at this place within sight of what would develop into the Great Wagon Road of migration a decade later.

    Linville Creek was the furthest point south of European settlement on the back side of the Appalachians in the 1730s. Father-in-law Morgan Bryan was still further north in and around what is now Martinsburg, WA and brother John Linville married into the Stephens family and settled half way between the two in what is now near Stephens City, VA. Sister Ann (Linville) Hendricks was still living back at the Codorus in PA.

    Such was the pattern of migration in those days, sending part of the family out along the trial, no more than a few days? distance. This made it possible to move family members up and down that trail in times of need, whether it be emotional, economic or safety.

    Again, within 15 years of their settlement of Linville Creek, VA, the brothers were on the move south again along the Indian Trail which was fast becoming the Great Wagon Road. This time they left sister Alice and her new husband, Joseph Bryan (William's wife's brother) in Linville Creek and two other sisters still back in PA.

    In 1747-8, William and Ellender Linville established a frontier plantation with their Bryan relatives on both side of the Yadkin River in what would become a hub of an active community in the forks of the Yadkin. What is now Blanket Creek and Lassiter Lake was then called Linville Creek, NC, a major geographic marker for all who passed down the Great Wagon Road.

    Brother Thomas Linville and his family established a similar family enclave along Belews Creek to the northeast of here, before the Moravian claim was established. Brother John moved even farther to the south to the mouth of the Tyger River, SC, originally called Linville River.

    Sisters Alice (Linville) Bryan and Ann (Linville) Hendricks and their families eventually joined the Yadkin enclave 10 years later, at the same time the Boone family caught up with the now thriving community in the forks of the Yadkin. It was Alice's step-daughter, Rebecca Bryan who became Daniel Boone?s wife and William Linville's daughter who married Daniel's brother George.

    No matter how convoluted the intermarriages between the Linvilles, Bryans, Boones and Hendricks were, the message of that association was clear. When living on the frontier, you needed the relationships in an extended family to sustain you and the tutelage of survival skills for the younger generation was dependent on the successful older generation which had already been tested in that survival. The Daniel Boone generation had been preceded by 40 years of experience in forging a survival on the frontier and the skills became part of those families legacy to the next generation.

    The Rowan County records convey the evidence of William Linville's activities in this early community from hunting wolves to speculating in Lord Granville Grants. Three of those grants - the ones encompassing Tanglewood Park, were his first plantation. A cabin he built, already referred to as old in 1757 when he sold it to John Johnson, stood somewhere near this spot along Linville's Run (now called Johnson's Creek). William then established a plantation directly across the Yadkin, surrounding himself with his in-laws and his sisters' children.

    The record is unclear as to William's activities during the skirmishes of the French and Indian War which caused families to move up and down the Great Wagon Road for safety. Both of this brothers John and Thomas died before the end of that period. His wife Ellender and sister Alice outlived all their siblings, and followed the trail to Kentucky laid out by Daniel Boone and others in the extended family.

    Sometime in the late summer of 1766, William, along with son John Linville and another young man went up into the mountains 70 miles west of here to hunt and fish. What happened on that trip became immortalize in two ways. The first report came in the South Carolina Gazette in Sept, 1766,

    One William Linville, his son and another young man, who had gone over the mountains at the head of the Yadkin River to hunt, were there surprised by some Indians. The father and son were both killed on the spot, the other young man got off though much wounded and arrived at his settlement.

    Something about the incident left an indelible imprint in the community, for sometime in the next 20 years, the location of the event became known as Linville River and later Linville Gorge and falls and much later, Linville Falls Wilderness Area.

    The scant report of the event was considerably embellished and the details written down for history one hundred years later when Lyman Draper, a famous 19th century historian sought out the descendants of the early migrating families to record their experiences. In an interview with William Linville's grandson, Capt. Samuel Boone, son of his daughter Nancy, reported that William had had a premonition about his death:

    The elder Linville aroused the young men just before morning, and bid them hasten away, or they would be massacred by the Indians.... "I have just dreamed that the Indians came up and massacred us. The circumstance was so vividly infused in my mind that I feel this it is a warning. So you escape and save yourselves. I am too feeble to make the attempt." The words had scarcely died upon his lips, and before the young men had time to make the least movement, when the Indians...now fired a volley and shot - killing the two Linvilles.

    The story goes on to tell of the surviving, but wounded, young man's attempt to get back to the Linville household for help, eventually reaching son-in-law George Boone who, with others, including probably Daniel Boone, according to the interview, went out to bury the bodies. Local residents near Linville Falls, point to a spot ten miles above the falls where William is buried.

    His widow, two remaining sons and grandchildren remained here on the Yadkin until others in the extended family encouraged them to join the settlement of Kentucky, which they did by 1792.

    Today, none of William's known descendants still live in the area but hundreds of his brother Thomas's still do and thousands of their descendants live along each stop of the westward movement. The area which commemorates the "Linville Affair" in the Blue Ridge mountains remains a active recreation area, available for many others to pursue some of the same activities in the wilderness that marked most of William's live. But nothing marks his presence at this place where he established an active participation in the early development of the forks of the Yadkin.

    This beautiful park remains a fitting memorial for all the families who preserved and cared for it, making it a place of joy, leisure and recreation for thousands. Today we add the Linville name to that list of families by placing this marker recognizing William and his families place in this important first settlement in western North Carolina.

    Alice Eichholz, Ph.D., C.G.
    24 Oct 1998

    John* married Mrs. (1st wife of John)* Linville about 1702 in Pennsylvania. (1st was born about 1677; died after 1710 in of, Pennsylvania. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]


  2. 9.  Mrs. (1st wife of John)* Linville was born about 1677; died after 1710 in of, Pennsylvania.
    Children:
    1. 4. Thomas* Linville was born in 1703 in Chichester, Chester Co, Pennsylvana; died before 1761 in Belews Creek, Stokes Co, North Carolina.
    2. William Linville was born in 1710 in Winchester, Frederick Co, Virginia; died in 1766 in Linville Fall, Avery Co, North Carolina; was buried in Wilksboro, Wilkes Co, North Carolina.

  3. 10.  Edward Morgan, (immigrant) was born about 1650 in Llantarnam, Wales; died after 1734 in Gwynedd, Berks Co, Pennsylvania.

    Other Events and Attributes:

    • Research Notes: 5 Dec 2011; ancestors

    Notes:

    THE MORGAN LOG HOUSE -- This 1695 medieval, 2 1/2 story log house, the only one of its kind still surviving in America, was built by grandparents of Daniel Boone, the frontiersman, and forebears of General Daniel Morgan famed Revolutionary War raider." In this house the American roots of a distinguished family tree were planted. Besides Morgan offspring, Rittenhouse, Morris, Roberts, Lloyd, Robeson and Hanks are family names on its branches. The latter being ancestors of Abraham Lincoln, Lowell Thomas, the explorer, broadcaster-author, is a descendant. Eminent local Morgans include Walter L. Morgan, a pioneer in the mutual fund industry, founder of the Willington Fund and Wellington Mgt. Co., manager of 14 Vanguard funds. This cabin erected on an 800 acre site by well-to-do Welch Quaker Edward Morgan. Near Gwynedd, PA, site of historic William Penn Inn, The Morgan House adjoins Valley Force road and Allentown Road. The latter was the escape route taken by those escorting the Liberty Bell to be hidden in Allentown's Zion Church. Morgan House is open to the public on Saturdays and Sundays from 1-5 p.m. Tel: (215) 368-2480. Edward Morgan's son, Morgan, had built a house on 197 acres of the original 800 acres in 1718.

    Edward Morgan and Elizabeth, his wife, both free, arrived at Philadelphia in the same ship (The Morning Star) from Liverpool, in the 9th month 1683 (20th 9th month)." (Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography, Vol 8, page 329).

    The ancestry of Edward Morgan, progenitor of the Morgan family of Montgomery County, Penn., and grandfather of explorer Daniel Boone & Edward Boone, is still a matter of speculation. One of the most objective analyses of the identity and family of Edward Morgan was made some fifty years ago by Mrs. Hazel Atterbury Spraker, in her book, THE BOONE FAMILY. Excerpts from this source are as follows:

    "There is an early record which states that "Edward Morgan and Elizabeth his wife, both free, arrived at Philadelphia in the same ship (The Morning Star) from Liverpool, in the 9th month 1683 (20th 9th month)." (Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography, Vol.8,page 329)

    "Another Edward Morgan, recorded in Radnor Monthly Meeting, was born in Merionithshire, Wales, 25 August 1679; was a son of Cadwalader Morgan, and came to Pennsylvania with his parents."

    "A third Edward Morgan is referred to by Thomas Allen Glenn in his Wlesh Founders of Pennsylvania, Vol. 2, page 1, in which it is stated that Edward Morgan of near Bala, Co. Merionithshire, a tailor, had a son named Morgan who removed to Gwynedd, PA, about 1700 and was a freeholder of 800 acres of land in Gwynedd, died in Towamencin, 1727, leaving a wife Dorothy.

    A fourth record of an Edward Morgan is found in a "History of the Family of Morgan, from the year 1089 to Present Times," by James Appleton Morgan, New York (1897-1902). In this it is stated that Edward Morgan was the son of Sir James Morgan, 4th Baronet of Llantarnum, and wife, Lady Alice Hopoton; that Edward came to America with his sister Sarah, wife of Stephen Beasley, married Margaret --- and had a daughter Sarah Morgan who married Squire Boone. No authority is given for this last statement. In this book the ancestry is carried back through many royal lines to as early as the year 605.

    At this late date it seems impossible to determine which, if any of the above Edward Morgans was the father of Sarah, and hence the grandfather of Daniel Boone. Althought his ancestry, his early life and the name of his wife, may always remain in obscurity, we yet have a brief history of the later life and children of Edward of Gwynedd, as given in "Historical Collections of Gwynedd by Howard Jenkins, page 410." This history of Edward Morgan reads as follows:

    "The first settler in Gwynedd or its vicinity named Morgan, was Edward. He seems to have been here as early as 1704, as the road upward through Gwynedd, made in that year, was to go as far as his place. He was a tailor by trade, a Welshman by birth, no doubt, and probably advanced in years when he came. He had lived previously near Philadelphia. In February, 1708, he bought 300 acres of land in what is now Towamencin, of Griffith Jones, merchant, Philadelphia. The tract lay along William John's land, and was therefore on the township line. In 1714 he bought 500 acres more, nearby, of George Claypool of Philadelphia, who, like Griffith Jones,was a speculative holder of Towamencin lands. By 1713 he had apparently moved to Montgomery; in the deed from Claypool he is described as a "yeoman of Montgomery."

    Edward Morgan no doubt had several children. His sons probably received and held the Towamencin lands. In the list of 1734, for that township there appear: Joseph Morgan, 200 acres, Daniel Morgan, 200; John Morgan, 100. In 1727, Morgan Morgan of Towamencind died leaving a will in which he mentions his wife Dorothy, his brothers Joseph, John and William, his two sons Edward and Jesse (both minors), and his niece Elizabeth, John's daughter."

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    another study of Edward Morgan here:
    http://wgscroggins.kueber.us/Morgan01%20Edward%20(1670-1732).pdf



    Research Notes:
    Tree at Rootsweb that has these ancestors.
    http://wc.rootsweb.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=GET&db=rlgabriel-2&id=I6175
    Tree name Gabriel Jones Family
    curious that there are no Loveladys or Bounds

    Edward married Margaret Elizabeth Jarman (?) about 1686 in Gwynedd, Philadelphia Co, Pennsylvania. Margaret was born about 1670 in Radnor, Delaware Co, Pennsylvania; died in 1730 in of, Pennsylvania. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]


  4. 11.  Margaret Elizabeth Jarman (?) was born about 1670 in Radnor, Delaware Co, Pennsylvania; died in 1730 in of, Pennsylvania.
    Children:
    1. Elizabeth Morgan was born about 1688; died after 1731.
    2. Edward Morgan, Jr. was born about 1690; died in 1718 in Philadelphia Co, Pennsylvania.
    3. Margaret Morgan was born about 1693 in Montgomery, Co of Pennsylvania; died after 1714.
    4. Daniel Morgan was born in 1691 in Moyamensing, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; died on 6 Jul 1773.
    5. William Morgan was born about 1695; died after 1732 in of, Chester Co, Pennsylvania.
    6. Alice Morgan was born about 1698 in Philadelphia Co, Pennsylvania; died after 1820.
    7. Morgan Morgan was born about 1700 in Towamencin, Gwynedd, Pennsylvania; died in 1727 in Philadelphia Co, Pennsylvania.
    8. Sarah Morgan was born in 1700 in Philadelphia Co, Pennsylvania; died in 1777 in Mocksville, Rowan Co, North Carolina; was buried in Joppa Cem, Mocksville, Rowan Co, North Carolina.
    9. Jane Morgan (?), (not proven child) was born about 1699; died after 1721.
    10. John Morgan was born about 1702 in Philadelphia Co, Pennsylvania; died after 1725.
    11. Joseph Morgan was born about 1708 in of, Pennsylvania; died after 1748 in Of, Winchester, Frederick Co, Virginia.
    12. 5. Hannah* Morgan (?), (dau?) was born on 19 Feb 1713 in Gwynedd, Montgomery Co, Pennsylvania; died in 1773 in North Carolina.
    13. Leah Morgan (?), (not proven child) was born about 1720; died after 1766.