·Lindsay Newsletter: Southern Colonial Branches
Volume 1, Number 1 February 1981 Whole Number 1
CONTENTS:
Wh ere WeAr e in 1981 .•.•...... •.... 3 by William Thorndale
Lindsay Pension Files in the National Archives •... 6
Southern Colonial Material in the Annual Reports, Lindsay Family Association of America, 1904- 1909 10
'The Lindsay Newslett~r: Southern Colonial Branches is published quarterly (February, May, August, and November) at New York City. A yearly subscription is $10.00, checks payable to Elliott L. Stringham. Please send checks, all changes of address, and all inquiries about back issues to: Elliott Lindsey Stringham Publisher, Lindsay Newsletter 124 East 7lst Street New York, NY 10021 2
COMMENTS:
The shading shows the 1790 population for two or more persons per square mile. The 00000 line is the approximate divider between the "New England" and "Middle Atlantic" styles of folk housing, while the xxxxx line separates the "North" and "Hidland" speech areas as seen by linquists. Clearly the settlement pattern placed Pennsylvania in the colonial South, the migrants out of Pennsylvania going southwest into Virginia and Kentucky. Conversely, the opening of the Ohio territory afte~the Revolution allowed Pennsylvan• ians to go straight west.
All material on colonial Lindsays in the 1904-1909 Annual Reports of the old Lindsay Family Association of America is reprinted here because complete sets of the Annual Reports are hard ,to find.
The Newsletter seeks to bring together the serious researchers of the Southern Lindsays in all spellings of Lindsay to untangle the many branches into their correct families and thus extend the lines back to the immigrants and their British ancestors. Although the Newsletter is concerned with Lindsays born before the Revolution, it publiShes information tracing such persons to their deaths, even if long after 1775. The South before the Revolution is defined as all the eastern u.s. south and we.st of the Delaware ~ive.t;. That_includes Pennsylvania. The editor solicits any relevant material--from short queries, bible entries, and tombstone inscriptions to lengthy lineages and analytical articles~discussing "stonewall" problems. The editor wants to corre• spond with everyone doing Southern colonial Lindsay research, so write: William Thorndale Editor, Lindsay Newsletter 1156 East 300 South, Apt. C Salt Lake CitYI UT 84102 The Newsletter is not copyrighted, but all authors may copyright their articles at their own discretion. 3
Where We Are in 1981
William Thorndale
What follows is a mess. A hundred years ago Margaret Lindsay of the Fairfax County, Virginia, family founded the study of Southern colonial Lindsays and in many instances the researches are still where she left them. She worked without many of the library collections and the microfilmed original records we have today and, as a result, her ideas are based too much on family traditions and guesswork. But she did preserve much useful information. The confusion of the present-day Lindsay genealogies of the colonial South is a reflection on those who followed, not on her fine beginning.
For many years it was believed by Margaret Lindsay and others that the Lindsays of Fairfax County, Virginia, were descended from the Rev. David Lindsay (d. 1667), whose tombstone at Cherry Point, Northumberland County, Virginia, says he was the eldest son of Sir Hierome Lindsay of "The Mount" in Scotland, Lord Lyon King at Arms.l The Fairfax County family named its homes "The Mount" and "Annatland" after the ancestral Scottish homes. However, the Rev. David's will left his whole estate to his daughter Helen, casting doubt on whether he had a son. The Robert Lindsay of Cherry Point is the ancestral immigrant of the Fairfax County family and the will of Thomas Opie, Sr., mariner of Bristol, England, called Robert "brother-in-law."2 While Thomas was married to the Rev. David's daughter, the will was interpreted to mean Robert Lindsay had married a sister of Thomas, which meant Robert was probably a close kinsman of the Rev. David but not his son. Recent researches in Scotland now propose the fOllowing reconstruction: 3
Rev. David LINDSAY Sir David LINDSAY Thomas LINDSAY c1530-16l3 "The Mount" of Kingswark, Leith Bishop of Ross Snowdon Herald
S .. 1 ( - I "AnnatlandII -1626 of Lochehill
lr Hlerome uerome)--~I------Agnes Bernard 1603-1667 1612-1645 1603- of Cherry Point
I I I
Helen,Thomasmariner BristolOPIE OPIE TRObertof1641-Cherry Point Lindsay OPIE Opie LINDSAY and others Fairfax County ancestor
In this view three of Robert's grandparents were Lindsays. Robert's son Opie (d. 1727 Northumberland Co., Va) is thought to have had three sons: (1) Robert (1710-1784) of liTheMountll in Fairfax County, (2) Thomas, who may have gone to Nor~~ Carolina, and (3) John (d. c1780), who with his son Robert founded the Deep River line in Guilford County, North Carolina.4
Another prominent Lindsay line in Virginia also claims descent from the noble ScottishLindsays. According to one source, James Lindsay in Gloucester County, Virginia, by 1635 was a son of Sir Jerome (Hierome) of "Annatland. II Descendants of James are supposed to have moved into Caroline County and then further up river to Spotsylvania County. Another descendant went to Halifax County, North Carolina.S Margaret Lindsay gives a different version of the origins of the Caroline County family, saying that a William went to Jamaica and later reached Caroline County. From this line came Col. Reuben Lindsay of the Revolution, who lived in Albemarle county, virginia.6 wl1ether there were one or two main Caroline County Lindsay families is very unclear. So far as I am aware, no significant research has been published on these lines for over fifty years.7 The severe losses to Caroline County records would greatly hamper such research.
A later arrival to Virginia was the Long Marsh line in what is now Clarke County. A deposition says Edmond Lindsey arrived on Long Marsh about 1733 and it is assumed his kinsman and probable brother John also came about then. Given the origins of the o~~er first settlers of the lower Shenandoah valley, this family probably came from Pennsylvania or Maryland around the head of Chesapeake Bay. It is very possible L~e fa~ily descends from ~~e Edmond of Portobacco, Charles County, Maryland, who was in Maryland by 1650, though this is not yet proven. These Long Marsh Lincseys spread all acrossc the colonial South and also into L~e Northwest Territory. Branches are known to have gone to Pickaway County, Ohio, to Newberry and Laurens Counties, South Carolina, and to Sumner and Maury Counties, Tennessee.S Since ~~ese Lindseys are the ancestors of both the publiSher and editor of this Newsletter, more will be published on these lines in future issues.
Mention was just made of the Portobacco Lindseys of Charles County, Maryland. According to one genealogist the famous Anthony Lindsay of Lindsays Station in Kentucky was a cescendant.9 This see~s unlikely, since records point to Anne Arundel County, Maryland, for his ancestry. Some good work has recently been done on Anthony's line.IO As to L~e Portobacco Lindseys, the statement that the founder was a Capt. Edward Lindsey will be shown in a later issue of ~~e Newsletter to be untrue, since it is doubtful if such a man ever existed.ll
Of Kentucky Lindsays, two other lines have received published accounts. The Campbell County family was founded by Thomas, who was Irish-born and arrived wi thhis wife and children' in Ph ilad el-phia in 1789.12 The Elkhorn Lindsays were founded by Col. Joseph Lindsay, whose ancestors settled in Franklin County~ Pennsylvania. Joseph and his brother William went to Kentu~ky_ in 1775. According to an account of his life, Joseph ranged as far as the West Indies before dying in the 1782 battle of Blue Licks.13
Of the Carolina Lindsays, a recent book details the family in Albemarle County, North Carolina, which is said to descend from a Daniel who appears on a 1715 tax list. in CurrituckCountv.14... -. In- Sou~~ Carolina the major recent research bas been on the Newberry~Laurens Lindseys mentioned above and on Thomas Lindsay of Abbeville County, who married Grizel. The latter couple were the ancestors of the late Rev. Smythe Lindsay, who was generous with his notes and who saw that his findings reached many files, though I am 5
unaware of any article or book he published on this line.15 There are several active genealogists in Greenville doing Lindsay research, but I do not have enough information to summarize their lines.
There remains one final Lindsay line that will be mentioned: Maj. John Lindsay of Wilkes County, Georgia, who was called Silverfist for the silver cap on his lost hand, an injury suffered in the Revolution. He came from Pennsylvania to Georgia just before the Revolution. The story of his being the son-in-law of John Lindsey, Sr., of Newberry County, South Carolina, is not likely.16
These are the main Lindsay lines for which I have found published accounts or have some familiarity.17 There are many more that deserve mention but are not easily cited. Mention should be made of Kenneth Lindsay's Lindsay Links & Lagacy, a quarterly begun in 1980 but perhaps since discontinued. For the Lindsay books and articles missed, I apologize and hope the authors will rectify my ignorance. My files have bible and cemetery records plus letters detailing lines and persons not mentioned here. Two subscribers' to this News• letter have already sent synopses of their ancestors of the Revolutionary periOd. In the files of other genealogists there must be a great amount of like information. It is my hope ~~at we can all bring together this data and untangle the Southern colonial Lindsays once and for all.
l'Vhilethe ultimate aim is to publish formal lineages from the imm.igrants down to all descendants bearing the Lindsay surname born before about 1775, I hope everyone will submit interim data, reports, queries, documents, and problems. At the least it would help to know who is hunting whom. The more colonial Lindsays who can be identified and placed in their correct families, the easier it will be to work qn the remaining unplaced lines.
1. The Lindsays of America, Margaret Isabella Lindsay, (Albany, NY: 1889), p. 34; Annual Reports, Lindsay Family Association, 3 (1906) 50-53; "Rev. David Lindsay," William and Mary Quarterly, 1 ser., 16 (1907-1908) 136-138; "Thomas Opie of the Ci ty of Br is tol, •. ," Virginia Magazine of History and Biography, 18 (1910) 90-92.
2. "Lindsay-opie," William and Mary Quarterly, 1 ser., 20 (1911-1912) 297-299.
3. The Gray Family and Allied Lines: Bowman, Lindsay, Millis, DiCk, Peebles, Wiley, Shannon, Lamar, McGee, Jo White Linn, (SaliSbury, NC: !976), pp. 315-331. 4. Ibid., pp. 331-375.
5. "Lindsay Line to Wal ton," William and Mary Quar terly, 2 ser., 6 (1926) 347-348.
6. The Lindsays of America, Margaret Isabella Lindsay, (Albany, NY: 1889), pp. 323-240; "Lindsays in Virginia," Armistead C. Gordon, Virginia Magazine of History and Biography, 10 (1902-1903) 96-97, 203, 310-311, 11 (1903-1904) 101-102.
7. But see Record of the Lindsey and Allied Families of Southern Georgia, Matthew Robert Lindsey, (n.p.: n.d.). 6
8. The Lindseys: A Genealogy of Thomas and Mary Frost Lindsey and Their Descendants, Ferrell A. Brown, (Point Lookout, Mo: 1970): unpublished papers, "Lindseys of Long Marsh, Lower Shenandoah Valley, 1733-1770," and "The Lindseys of Maury County, Tennessee," William Thorndale, available on Salt Lake Genealogical Department film (US) 928,100: "Lindsey" in "The Reason for the Tears": A History of Chambers County, Alabama, 1832-1900, Bobby L. Lindsey, (1971), pp.279-281.
9. Grandpas, Inlaws, and Outlaws: (A Lindsay Family Genealogy), Kenneth Gene Lindsay, (Evansville, In: 1976).
10. "Lindsay," Mrs. J.W. Singer, Kentuckv Ancestors, 4 (1968-1969) 149: "Anthony Lindsay of Lindsay Station and His Descendants," Richard Orr Sebree, Ibid., 5 (1969-1970) 141-144, 188-195, 6 (1970-1971) 30-32.
11. Grandpas, Inlaws,'and Outlaws: (A Lindsay Familv Genealogy) , Kenneth Gene Lindsay, (Evansville, In: 1976), pp. 1-5.
12. "Early Settlers in Campbell County, Ky: Lindsey - McPike - Noble," Helen Bradley Lindsey, Register, Kentucky State Historical Society, 26 (1928) 190- 203, 311-318.
13. "History of Col. Joseph Lindsay," Mrs. S.V. Nuckols, Register, Kentucky State Historical Society, 12 (1914) 61-64.
14. The Albemarle Lindseys and Their Descendants (1585-1979), Gordon C. Jones, (?Great Bridge, Va: 1979).
15. Armstrong, Branyon, Bryson'and Allied Families of the South, Ethel S. Updike, (Salt Lake City, Ut: 1967), pp. 364-380.
16. "Lindsay," in Miami Valley Genealogies, Lindsay M. Brien, (n.p.: c1968), 3:18-19: also see "Old Papers Tell of Early Lindsay Family," Tri-state Trader, 4 March 1978.
17. I have not seen The Linzey Family Genealogy, C. Herbert Linzey and Dorothy K. Linzey, (Baltimore, Md: 1975). * * * * * * * * * *
LJ.ndsay Pension Files in the'National Archives
The National Archives Microfilm "Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty• land-warr ant Applications," series 804, is familiar to all serious Amer ican genealogists. All Southern Lindsay files are abstracted here: Lindsly is a distinct surname and not abstracted. In brackets after the veteran's name and file number are given ~~e National Archives reel and frame numbers.
Remember that the 1800 War Department fire destroyed the previous files. The 1818 act brought in so many pension claims that an 1820 act was passed requiring a statement of need and of how many dependants the veteran 7
had. Statements of having no family usually mean no family living with• the veteran. These abstracts stress dates and places lived, so many tours of duty are not copied. In these files are many letters from descendants asking for copies of the service records. Some are abstracted here but remember there is no proof the information--such as where a veteran is buried or when he died-• refers to the veteran in whose file the query now lies. Lastly, as a matter of precise usage, an affidavit is a sworn statement of facts, while a deposition is a sworn answer to interrogatories.
Abraham Lindsey, Va, S36043, (1566:0471, i.e., reel 1566, frame 0471). Affi• davit 11 Apr 1825 Butler Co, Ky, age 74: Entered 1776 Capt. Morgan Alexan• der's Co. of 2nd Va Regt, transferred to Capt. willis's Co. of 13th Va Regt where ensign, transferred to Capt. Marquis Calmess' s Co. where 1 t. Lives with children.
Benjamin Lindsey, NC, R6354, (1566:0489). Affidavit 5 May 1851 Jackson Co, II, of William Lindsey of Jackson Co, age 69, "the only child and heir at law of Benjamin Lindsey" and "only surviving child" of widow Abigail. William's father Benjamin served in NC militia, pvt, four or five years, at least part in Capt. Smith's Co. Benjamin and Abigail married 1778 Halifax Co, NC, or Abbeville Dist, SC. Benjamin killed 1793 near the Cumberland River, Tn. Abigail married Ebenezer Pyatt who died 1835 Jackson Co, II. She died 19 Sep 1845 Jackson Co, II.
Benjamin Lindsey, SC, S18082, (1566:0499). Affidavit 5 Nov 1834 Edgefield Dist, SC, age 81: Entered from Fairfield Dist, SC, 1777 Capt. Anderson Thomas's Co. Born Va and brought to SC by parents when quite young. Affidavit 8 Mch 1838 Newberry Dist, SC, of Benjamin Lindsey, Jr, esquire (JP), born 15 Dec 1773, says Benjamin Lindsey, Sr, his uncle and remembers him leaving from and returning to his--Jr's--father's home in Fairfield Dist. for battle of Eutaw Springs. Letters 17 and 23 Apr 1838 reference Mr. Amen/Amon Lindsey son of Benjamin, Sr. Payment 2 Jun 1842 to "the children of Benjamin Lindsey dec 'd...• "
David Lindsey, NC~ S7154, (1566:0549). Died 1 Dec 1836. Affidavit 29 Aug 1832 Currituck Co, NC, age 80: Entered 1776 as soldier a guard at Currituck Banks; capt. 1780 expedition to the Yadkin. Payment 23 Jly 1835 to "the children of David Lindsey."
David Lindsey, Pa, S40090, (1566:0570). Born abt J1y 1854. Affidavit 29 May 1818 Huntingdon Co, Pa, age 63y 10m, resident of Frankstown Twp: Entered at Carl-isle, Pa, Feb-Mch 1776_Capt.W~11iam Rippey's Co; in 1816 gave his little grandchild the discharge and other old papers. Affidavit 13 Aug 1821 Huntingdon Co, Pa, age 67 on J1y last, resident of Frankstown Twp: Entered -1776 Capt. William Rippey I s Co. at Shippensburgh, Pa; his residence contains his wife age 61 and a son abt 18. Letter 16 Feb 1828 says he and his wife infirm, "his property squandered by his family, who has deserted him in a great measure." Affidavit 17 Jan 1828 Huntingdon Co, Pa, by David: At his residence are his wife age 67, an unmarried daughter age abt 40, and an unmarried son age 27. Letter says David buried Presbyterian cemetery, Hollidaysburg, Pa, (i.e., a much later letter of inquiry).
David Lindsey, Pa, R6356, (1566:0602). Died 3 May 1809 Oil Creek, Venango Co, Pa. Affidavit 30 Sep 1843 Warren Co, Pa, of Edward Jones of Pine Grove Tep, Warren Co, age 77: David entered 1776 Capt. Robert Burn's Co. in 8
Derry Twp, Cumberland Co, Pa, (now Mifflin Co.), he being at siege of Yorktown, Affidavit 2 Oct 1843 Chautauqua Co, NY, of Sarah Lindsey of Cold Springs, Cattaraugus Co, NY: Married David 15 Apr 1787 Lewistown, now Mifflin Co, Pa; they lived there until 1809 when he "with his family" moved to Oil Creek. Affidavit 10 Apr 1854 Cattaraugus Co. of David Lindsey of Little Valley, Cattaraugus Co, son of David and Sarah, both deceased .
Hezekiah Lindsey, Va, S41770, (1566:0641). Affidavit 5 June 1818 Clermont Co, Oh, age 71: Entered in Westmoreland Co, Pa, Capt. Uriah Springer's Co, Va Cant Line (i.e., southwestern Pa regarded as part of Va) and discharged at Ft. Pitt (Pittsburgh), Pa. Affidavit 8 June 1820 Clermont Co, Oh, age 73: "... he has no family but himself," Letter 1915 says Hezekiah lived in or near Marysville, Ky.
James Lindsay, Va, R6353, (1566:0327). Born 20 Feb 1755 Cumberland Co, Pai died 25 June 1833 Gallatin Co, Ky. Affidavit 15 Oct 1832 Shelby Co, Ky, (but resident of Gallatin Co, Ky), age 78: Entered 1780 as resident of Lexington, Ky, in Lexington, Capt. Robt. Patterson's Co. as Indian spy and served in 1781 campaign against Chillicothe and Piqua Indian towns. Affidavit 10 Nov 1834 Gallatin Co, Ky, of widow Hetty Lindsay. Affidavit 28 Mch 1836 Hancock Co, Ky, of widow Hetty Lindsay. She dead by 3 Jan 1837.
James Lindsey, NC, S10992, (1566:0702). Born abt 1765 Pa; died 13 Apr 1849 presumably in Marion Co, AI. Affidavit 25 Sep 1834 Marion Co, AI, age 69: Entered abt age 16 in Feb 1781 Orange Co, NC, Capt. Thompson's Co, pvt and later corp; lost his papers in defeat abt 1789-1790 by Cherokees on Clinch River, Tn. Affidavit 1 Mch 1849 Orange Co, NC, of John Lindsey Woods, age 53, resident of Orange Co, NC, "a distant relative of James Lindsey of Marion County, Alabama." Power of attorney 28 Sep 1849 Marion Co, Al, by Susannah Lindsey, widow of James.
James Lindsey, Va, W25476, BLWT 44933-160-55, (1566:0773). Affidavit 9 May 1818 Champaign Co, Oh: Entered late Oct or early Nov 1775 Capt. Morgan Alexander's Co, Va Cant Line, and discharged at Williamsburgh. Affi• davit 22 Aug 1820 Champaign Co, Oh, age 72: His family consists of only his wife age 50 odd years. Affidavit 13 Oct 1855 Champaign Co, Oh, of Priscilla Thomas, age 84 on 23 Nov next, resident of Champaign Co, Oh: Widow of James Lindsey, ~~ey married late Jan 1812 in Frederick Co, Va, when she was Priscilla Stubblefield; she married John Thomas 10 May 1826 in Champaign Co, Oh, (he diea Feb 1844). Affidavit 20 June 1856 ChampaignCd\ Oh, of Priscilla ThoIDps,age 85, of Wayne Twp, Champaign Co, Oh: She married James Lindsey in Winchester and he died 4 Feb 1824; her husband30hn Thomas died 19 Feb 1846 . Affidavit 20 June 1856 Ch£mpaign Co, Oh, of Susannah Lindsey, age 65: She has known Priscilla for at least 50 years. Affidavit 29 June 1819 Ross Co, Oh, of John Lindsey, age 73: Knew James Lindsey in Va. Certified marriage license for James Lindsey and Priscilla Stubblefield, widow of Beverly Stubble• field, issued 20 Dec 1812 in Frederick Co, Va.
John Lindsay, Ga, no papers, (1566:0349). Correspondence 1917-1923 on John, maj. in Col. Elijah Clarke's Regt, Ga. Buried ten miles from Washington, Wilkes Co, Ga, in Lindsay'cemetery. 9
John Lindsay, Pa, 54550, (1566:0358). Affidavit 15 Sep 1832 Philadelphia, Philadelphia Co, Pa, age 88: Entered as militia, pvt, residence Lancaster, Pa, in Lancaster, Capt. Paul Zantzinger's Co, in June 1776 and served eight months, pvt. For many years has been a dealer in glass and china in Philadelphia.
John Lindsey, Md and Pa, 830545, (1566:0815). Born 1759 Baltimore, Md. Affidavit 21 Aug 1833 Henry Co, Ky, age 74: Entered in Frederick Co, Md, 5ep 1777 Capt. Simon Meredeth's Co, sgti moved to the disputed south• western part of Pa on Buffalo Creek (called Ohio Co, Va), and entered Apr 1780 Capt. Ogle's Co. as Indian fighter; moved to Westmoreland Co, Pa, May l78li moved to Ky 1784. Affidavit 23 May 1838 Hancock Co, Ky, per his lost pension papers. Letter 3 Nov 1840 refers to John as dead and his son living in Hancock Co, Ky.
John Lindsey, Pa, R6355, (1566:0838). Born abt 1760 Radnor Twp, Delaware Co, Pa. Affidavit 28 Aug 1836 Delaware Co, Pa, age 77, of Middletown Twp, Delaware Co, Pa: Entered 8 Aug 1780 4th Co, 5th Regt, Pa Cant Line, resident of Nether or Lower Providence Twp, Delaware Co.; has lived in various townships of Delaware Co, Pa, since the war. Letter 20 Jly 1853 says John dead many years ago but left five children, of whom Walter Lindsey and Mrs. Siddle live now--1853--in Mount Holly, NJ.
Laban Lindsey, NC, S7153, (1566:0859). Born 14 Jly 1756. Affidavit 6 Aug 1832 Surry Co, NC, age 76: Entered abt Jly 1780 Capt. Bartlet Searcy's Co, NC, militia, sgt, resident in Granville Co, NC.
Lewis Lindsay, Va, S8862, (1566:0374). Affidavit 6 Apr 1833 Charlotte Co, Va, age 78: Served several Va militia tours from Mecklenburg Co, the last in Capt. Thompson Fowlkes' Co. at siege of Yorktown.
Mongo Lindsay, Pa, 840087, (1566:0381). Affidavit 27 Apr 1818 Centre Co, Pa. Affidavit 29 Aug 1820 Centre Co, Pa, age 68, resident of Bald Eagle Twp, Centre Co, Pa: Entered in Lancaster Co, Pa, Mch 1776 Capt. Morrow's Co. and discharged 1 Jan 1778 Valley Forge, sgt. Affidavit 30 Nov 1826 Centre Co, Pa, age 74: Lives with three of his children (Oliver, James, and Elizabeth, allover 21).
Moses Lindsey, SC, 84551, (1566:0875). Born in Frederick Co, Va. Affidavit 28 Aug 1832 Williamson Co, Tn, age 70: Entered 1776 Capt. Garret Smith's Co, James Lindsey, It.; a resident in Newberry Dist, 8C, age 15; then in uncle'Capt. John Lindsey"s Co; moved l810 to Williamson Co, Tn.
~eter Lindsey, Va, no papers, (1566:1900). BLWt 12328 issued 9 Dec 1793 to " Francis Graves, assignee.
8amuel Lindsay, Pa, no papers, (1566:0397). Died 16 Apr 1800. Correspondence 1914-1939 on Samuel, It. in the war, a resident (?) of Nether Providence, Delaware Co, Pa. 8everelywounded 16 Nov 1776. Granted pension from 4Mch 1793, when resident of Philadelphia Co, Pa.
Walter Lindsey, Pa, W8048, (1567:0077.). Died 28 June 1820 Harrison Co, Va (now WV). Affidavit 18 May 1818 Harrison Co, Va, age 61: Entered in Chester Co, Pa, Jan 1776 Capt. Frederick Vernon's Co, 5th Regt, Pa Cant Line. Will of Walter Lindsey of Harrison Co, Va, 15 June 1820. Affi- 10
davit 23 Jly 1839 Harrison Co, Va, of Mary Lindsey, age abt 75, of Harrison Co, Va, widow of Walter: They married Feb 1781 and eldest child (a girl) born June 1782, next a boy born J1y 1783; in 1785 or 1786 Walter and family moved to Harrison Co, Va. Affidavit 23 Jly 1839 Harrison Co, Va, of Martha Blain, born 1769, sister of Mary: Their father opposed marriage, so Mary left home to meet Walter at his brother-in-law John Lowdon's house to marry. Affidavit 19 Nov 1849 Harrison Co, Va, of Mary Lindsey, age 88, widow of Walter. Affidavit 28 June 1838 (?date uncer• tain) Harrison Co, Va, of Mary Lindsey, age 75, widow of Walter: She born in Chester Co, Pa. Affidavit 26 Nov 1838 Harrison Co, Va, of Catherine Carperter, wife of David Carpenter and sister of Mary Lindsey: Recalls seeing Walter come "with his regimentals on courting my sister Mary."
Walter Lindzey, NC, W4017, BLWt 25000-160-55, (1567:1259). Born 1764 pa; died 17 J1y 1837. Affidavit 22 Apr 1835 Buncombe Co, NC, age 71: Entered in Mecklenburg Co, NC, Dec 1779. Affidavit 24 Sep 1845 Buncombe Co, NC, of Catherine Lindsey, age 77, widow of Walter: They married 24 Jan 1786 Mecklenburg Co, NC. Bible page (hard to read) has births: Abigail __ Mch , Lydia 19 Feb 1792, Archea (?) 27 Sep 179_, William 14 June 1797, Ann 10 Mch 1800, Eli 25 Mch 1803. Affidavit 9 June 1855 Buncombe Co, NC, Catherine Lindsey nee Cannin, age 91 sic. Affidavit 29 Sep 1866 Buncombe Co, NC, of William Lindsey of Buncombe Co, NC: Son of Catherine Lindsey who died 12 Dec 1863 without remarry• ing, she leaving surviving children Lydia Gibson, Acheah Lindsey, Ann Lindsey, and William Lindsey.
William Lindsay, Pa, W553 and BLWt 28649-160-55, (1566:0402). Born 1760 Chester Co, Pa; died 8 Oct 1836 Vincennes, Knox Co, In. Affidavit 3 Sep 1832 Knox Co, In, age 72, of Vincennes: Entered pvt, Chester Co, Pa, militia 1776 Capt. Nathaniel Vernon's Co; enlisted Capt. Wm. Price's Co, whose Lt. Lindsay was an uncle; at battle of Ft. Washington, NY, most of William's regt. captured and his father and two of William's uncles died paws, a third uncle escaping. After war moved to Charks• burg, Harrison Co, Va, for five or six years, then to Jefferson Co, Ky, and adjoining Shelby Co, Ky, then 1805 to Vincennes, In, until present. Affidavits 11 Apr 1853 and 8 Sep 1853-Knox Co, In, of widow Clarissa Lindsay nee Prior, age abt 60: Married William 20 Apr 1824 at Vincennes. Affidavit 15 May 1855 Knox Co, In, of widow Clarissa Lindsay, age 59. Another affidavit says William died 8 OQt 1836 age 76y Sm 23d. Letter 1908 says William bQrn 15 Apr 1760. Letter 1920 says Clarissa died 19 Feb 1883.
[Accidentally omitted: Walter Lindsey, NC, (1567:1076). No papers.] * * * * * * * * * * *
Southern Colonial Material in the Annual Reports, Lindsay Familv Association of America, 1904-1909
The Lindsay Family Association of America was organized 16 February 1904 in Boston and published six Annual Reports in the years 1904 to 1909. The pagination of these six reports was consecutive as follows:
1 (1904) 1-17 2 (1905) 18-35 3 (1906) 36-58 11
4 (1907) 59-79 5 (1908) 80-101' 6 (1909) 102-140
Aside from accounts of the annual Boston dinners, announcements concerning living Lindsays, and details of British research findings, the Annual Reports also have notes on various American lines, most written by Margaret Lindsay (later Atkinson), the association's historian. The Southern cOlonial material is reprinted here verbatim. The Annual Reports and Margaret Lindsay's The Lindsays of America, (Albany, NY: 1889), are on the Salt Lake Genealogical Department film (US) 1,016,924. The original pagination will be noted by square brackets: [56].
[28] Proof is wanted of the marriage bond between Captain Thomas Opie of the British Army from Bristol, England, and Helen or Helena Lindsay, daughter of the Rev. David Lindsay, all of Northumberland County, Virginia. They were married in Northumberland after 1667. They have many descendants.
Evidence of a will wanted, of Robert Lindsay, the first of Northumberland County, Virginia, living there in 1665. He was twenty-four years old at that time. Any Virginia family whose ancestress may have married him will kindly give information from their family papers or record.
Is there any old Virginia family whose family record shows an ancestress married a James Lindsay of Gloucester County, Virginia, who patented land there in l6"1'4? He was the immigrant ancestor of the Lindsays of Caroline, Essex and Albemarle Counties, Virginia, and tradition says was a son or grandson of a Sir David or Earl Lindsay of Scotland, whose family estates were forfeited to the government on account of political reasons and rebellion. He had four sons, Caleb, Joshua, Adam and William.
More information desired of the Lindsays of Zanesville, Ohio, the early immigrant of whom, James Lindsay, went from Pennsylvania to Winchester, Virginia, and in 1805 removed to Zanesville, and in 1825 returned for a while to Virginia when a recruiting officer in the army. He was said to have served in the War of 1812 under General Harrison; was in Hull's surrender.
[29] We should also be glad to hear more_about the Kentucky Lindsays whose immigrant ancestor, Anthony Lindsay and wife nee Dorsey, (daughter of Lloyd Dorsey of Maryland) went from Maryland to Scott County, Kentucky, to a place then called Heyden's Station, in 1784, and were the parents of twelve children. The said Arfthony Lindsay had two brothers, -it was stated, who went to Virginia.
The ttadi tion is that the father of these sons was a weal thy sea-captain who was lost at sea. He had several sons who settled in America long before the ReVOlution: Anthony, the one just mentioned, and two in Virginia and one in SOuth Carolina. Anthony's eldest daughter, Kate Lindsay, married her full cousin, John Lindsay of Baltimore County, Maryland, and remained there and has probably descendants.
And better data of the Lindsays of Boonesborough, Clark and Bourbon Counties, Kentucky, is asked for. The founder of this family in Kentucky was the widow of Thomas Lindsay of Culpepper County, Virginia, nee Margaret Thomas of Maryland, who emigrated with her partly grown sons and daughters to Boones• borough County [sic.], Kentucky, 1809, and said her husband's family was of 12
Scotch-Irish descent, the early ancestor coming to America from the north of Ireland. Her sons were Jacob, Reuben, Thomas, Nimrod and Charles. The daughters were Eliza and Elizabeth. The daughters left no descendants. Nimrod Lindsay was a prosperous gentleman farmer of Bourbon County and cele• brated for his splendid breed of horses and other cattle. He had eight children. His youngest daughter, Henrietta Lindsay, married (1) a Mr. A.W. Hamilton, (2) General and Senator John S. williams of Kentucky.
[42] A most fitting opportunity for a special Lindsay meeting is at the coming Jamestown Exposition and we hope the Vice-President for Virginia, Mr. Stuart F. Lindsay's health will permit of him convening one there this summer, or if he is unable to do so, then perhaps some of the visiting Vice-Presidents of other states will preside over a meeting there.
We have seen that the Powell descendants of Maryland and Virginia are arranging to hold one contemporary with the Captain John Smith day and his descendants, and as Captain Smith wrote that the Earls of Lindsey were his patrons and protectors 1595, (In TraIls and Adamtras, page 2,) probably the earliest connections with Virginia, a Lindsay meeting on this day would be most appropriate. A Lindsay is among the list of names on the second charter granted to Virginia, 1609. (See Charters and Constitutions of the United States, Part 2, page 1893: also Hennings' Virginia Statutes.) The name is also among the list of nobles and gentry given as members of the General Quarter Court of the Virginia Company of London held 31 January, 1620-21. (See R.A. Brock's Historical Collections Virginia Company of London, 1619 to 1624, edited by Conway, Vol. 1, page 104.)
Lyndsays, Lindseys and Lindsays, (the name is spelled variously in old records) were among Virginia's earliest emigrants and not without their share of the honors in building up the old Dominion. Many of the oldest families in Virginia, descended from Governor Alexander Spottswood, have strains of this blood in their veins. The Governor was the great grandson of Rachel Lindsay, the wife of Archbishop John Spottswood of St. Andrews, the noted Scotch historian and the King's Primate and the [43] daughter of David Lindsay, Minister of Leith, and Bishop of ROss, privy-Councilor to James the Sixth and sister to Sir Jerome Lindsay, Kt. of "Annatland" and "The Mount," the Lord Lion-King-at-Arms of Scotland who has many descendants in America.
[48] Pennsylvania , Query 1. We again solicit better information from the many branches of Lindsays and Lindseys both of Scotch and Scotch-Irish descent in this state. There were early settlements in Philadelphia, Allegheny, Pittsburgh, Chester, Franklin and LaI:icasterCounties, Hallidaysburgh in Blair County, Chambers• burgh and throughout the Cumberland Valley, Carlisle and McConnellsburgh, West Pennsboro, Ch~ster, Riceville, Reading, Blairsville, Indiana County.
Can anyone give family information of Samuel Lindsey of West Pennsboro township, in Cumberland, who was on the tax list of this town in 1750 and is recorded as a Captain in the 25th Battalion, Pennsylvania Regiment, Colonel Armstrong, of the Revolution. In 1787, his son William was twenty-seven years old according to a record in the history of the Big Spring Church here, written by Swope.
This Samuel Lindsey was shipwrecked on his way to America first but was rescued along with his mother and returned to Edinburgh. Can any of his 13
descendants give the year of the wreck and the name of the vessel and further knowledge of his ancestry and descendants to date and if he was Scotch or Scotch-Irish.
Delaware Query 1. We understand there are several branches of Lindsays here but only know of one, W. Allan Lindsay's of Philadelphia, Penn., and Wilmington, who we hope will soon send us the record of his ancestors and their descedants to date and that those of other branches will also be furnished.
Maryland Query 1. The Lindsays and Lindseys were among the early settlers in this state, coming over with the first Lord Baltimore colonists. They were of St. Mary's County, Charles County, Calvert County, Baltimore County, Somerset County, Worcester County, Frederick County, and Harford County and possibly elsewhere. James Lindsay, 1644, is a joint heir to personality in the will of Governor [49] Leonard CalVert, the early Maryland governor, a brother of Lord Baltimore. He left a son, James Lindsay and daughters Elizabeth and Mary.
While we possess some information of these Lindsays there are yet several branches to be heard from, many descendants are living in other states, south and west, particularly in Kentucky.
will they all please send us their family history?
Virginia The Lindsays of York, Gloucester, James City, Northumberland, Essex, Caroline, Rappahannock, Norfolk, HanOVer, Brunswick, 'Middlesex, New Kent, Frederick, Clark, Fairfax, Prince William, Albemarle, Orange, Rockingham, Rockbridge and Alexandria Counties have more or less descendants in Virginia' and also scattered throughout the western and lower southern states. Owing to the migratory character of the Lindsays, old family Bible records and history, have been misplaced, disregarded and lost. But we ask for all that is now known. No one so far has answered the query in our last year's report: "Is there an old Virginia, family whose family record shows where an ancestress married a James Lindsay of Gloucester County, who patented land there in 1676? (See Patent Rolls, Richmond, Va.) Was he from Scotland and the son or grand• son of a Sir David or Lord Lindsay of Scotland and the father of Caleb, Joshua, Adam and William Lindsay?
Some of his descendants in Virginia or elsewhere may be able to furnish the information needed. Caleb' Lihdsaysettled a home on the Rappahannock River in Essex, now Caroline County, but died in St. Mary's parish in Gloucester Qpunty, in '~712. His wife was a Miss Clare. He left two sons, Joshua b. 1698 and James b. 1700 .
. As Gloucester was formed in 1642 from York County, one of the eight original counties of Virginia, which was formed in 1634 and, as I am told by the clerk of the Court House at Yorktown, there are a number of ancient Lindsay wills and deeds there, beginning with the will of Adam Lynsey or Lindsay, 1636, it may interest some of the descendants to investigate them.
A descendant of Caleb Lindsay has a fine collection of Lindsay wills from him downwards. It is one of the finest collections of old ancestral wills I have ever seen. But we wish to find documentary proof of Caleb's father. 14
North Carolina There are three or four branches of Lindsays in this state we earnestly desire to obtain better family records from. The [50] Lindsays of Guilford, (formerly Anson County) whose early ancestor settled a home there about 1725, have many descendants in the state and elsewhere. We should appreciate records from them all.
South Carolina There are branches of Lindsays here, in Charleston, and other places and a number of descendants who we hope will respond to our query for family history.
Georgia There are a number of Lindsays here who should be heard from, in particular the descendants of Colonel John Lindsay of Wilkes County of the, Revolution, from one of whom we have some data, but more is desired.
Ohio Large numbers of Lindsays of different spellings and principally from parent trees in Virginia and Maryland and Pennsylvania are here and we should like to have them respond with their family histories.
Kentucky This state was largely patronized by Lindsay emigrants from Virginia, Maryland and Pennsylvania. We have been furnished with records by two or three of the descendants but hope more will follow.
Notes Lindsay - Opie of Virginia. Since our last annual report a most important discovery has been made for these families, the Lindsays of Northumberland [51] & Fairfax Counties and the Opies of Northumberland, Jefferson and Clark Counties, Virginia which has removed a doubt in some minds that there was such 'an inscription except in their family records, which was the finding of the original tombstone erected to their emigrant ancestor, the Rev. David Lindsay from Scotland, an Episcopal clergyman, who settled on the banks of the Potomac, not far from the Chesapeake Bay in Nor thurnberland, Virginia, about 1640, and bears out the statement of the epitaph as given in my Lindsay Genealogy, published several years ago.
An epi taPtl w.hich has been zealop.sly. guarded _and handed down in each family for generations and which testifie~ to their origin from the ancient Lindsay houses of~rawford and Edzell in Scotland. The discovery was made this pastslL'1lmer by an Opie and Lindsay descendant, Mrs. Juliet Opie Ayres of Leesburg, Virginia, the widow of the late General Romyn B. Ayres, United States Army, and niece and adopted daughter of the late Mrs. Juliet Opie Hopkins, widow of Chief Justice A.F. Hopkins of the Supreme Court?f Alabama, and all the Lindsays and Opies of to-day who belong to these branches will unite with me I am sure in a vote of thanks to Mrs. Ayres for her energy and perseverance in her discovery. She was most careful in arranging to have it done by legal methods and I think for the benefit of other lines I can best illustrate this in her own words in her letter to me of August 26, 1906.
"You can now challenge your critics as regards the truthfulness of your 15
statement of the tombstone er-ected to David Lindsay. He was the fir-st and lawful son of Sir- Hier-ome (called Jerome in Scotland) Lyndsay, Lor-d Lion-King• at-Ar-ms, for- I have the stone with the inscr-iption, part of it was buried in the grave of the minister, the balance twenty feet away partly bur ied. I followed my mother's instructions, I left no loopholes for doubting Thomas' but on my first trip took a magistrate with me to the grave where in his presence I had the gr ave opened. Before bringing the stone and pieces away the magis• trate took down each and every word on stone, also chiseled his name on back of stone. Each and every detail 0 f the gr ave and stone I had him cer ti fy to and then I had the seal of Virginia attested to his seal."
This old inscription is as follows:
"Here lyeth interred ye Body of That Holy and Reverent Devine Mr. David Lyndsay, late Minister of Wicomico, who was born in ye Kingdom of Scotland ye first and lawfull sonne of ye Rt. Honerable Sir Hierome Lyndsay Knt of ye Mount, Lord-Lion-King-at-Armes, who departed this life in ye 64th year of his age ye 3d April anno Dom 1667"
[52] The Coat of Arms
This par-t of the stone was broken away and missing. Accor-ding to ancient Scottish Heraldry Sir Hierome Lindsay's Ar-ms was the same as that borne by the present Earl of Crawford and Balcarres, the Chief of the Clan Lindsay, with the exception of a Knight armor head directly under crest~ denoting his Knighthood. Motto, Endure Fort.
The inscription on the present Tombstone reads as follows, with no change in the spelling:
"Here Lyeth the Body of Mr. David Lyndsy, Doctor of Divinity Who departed This life The 3d April 1667
"Her e also Lyeth The Body Of Captian Thomas Opie, Junior, of Bristoll, Grandson of Mr. David Lyndsy who departed This Life the 16 Day of November 1702"
This tombstone is now proved to have been a second stone probably erected there at th~ interment of Captain Thomas Opie, Jr., as the former was most probably so defaced and broken as not thought worth repairing. It is in the burying ground on the original Lindsay plantation and the only tombstone there to the memory of the Lindsays or the Opies. It is about six miles from Heaths• ville, the county seat of Northumberland and now owned by strangers.
So far 'no evidence has been found that Robert Lindsay or Lyndsay whose name appears in Court Records a few times as a witness and once in a suit of his own, from 1665 to 1682 in Northumberland, left a will nor any Virginia family responded saying an ancestress married him. These were queries in our last Report. We hope by our next Report to record more success. 16
There are so many of the old Court and early Parish Records missing in Northumberland as to make the task of the genealogist here very difficult. The family record denotes that a Robert Lindsay was the emigrant ancestor of the Lindsays of The Mount, in Fairfax County, Virginia, and that the said Robert Lindsay came from Scotland to Virginia in the early history of the colony and was accompanied with a brother. One settled in Northumberland County. Both were sons of Sir Jerome or Hierome Lindsay, Kt. of Annatland and The Mount, Lord-Lion~King-at-Arms of [53] Scotland and one of the commis• saries of Edinburgh, 1630. We have documentary evidence from the Register House, Edinburgh, that Sir Jerome was married twice, first to Margaret Colville, by whom he had a son, David, baptised the 2.January 1603, the wife died before the 10 MaYf 1603. Secondly to Agnes Lindsay, eldest daugher and co-heiress of Sir David Lindsay, Kt. of The Mount, the former Lord-Lion-King-at-Arms, by whom he had a large family and among the younger sons a James and Robert Lindsay.
In the Sherifdom of Fife, Scotland, by a Registration of Sasine of 1644, James Lindsay of The Mount, lawful son of the deceased Sir Jerome Lindsay of Annatland, proves himself heir-at-law to his grandfather, Sir David Lindsay, Kt. of The Mount, his brother Robert being a witness to this Sasine. James Lindsay of The Mount was a clerk in the Exchequer in Edinburgh in 1661 and died in 1674. Search is being made in Scotland for the descendants of these brothers.
We are waiting for prooof of the parentage of Susanna Opie of Northumber• land, who is supposed to be fifth in descent from the Rev. David Lindsay whose' daughter Helen (according to the Opie Family Record) married as her second husband Captain Thomas Opie of Bristol, England, a sea captain, owning his vessels and travelling between England and Virginia, a gentleman of Cornish family. Susanna Opie married in Northumberland, Robert Lindsay, son of Opie Lindsay of Northumberland, whose will there is of date September 20th, 1727, and grandson of Robert Lindsay, the emigrant from Scotland. They removed to and were the founders of a large plantation in Fairfax County, near the Great Falls of the Potomac, prior to 1743, which they called The Mount, in honor of the ancestral home in Scotland. This home remained to their descendants over a hundred years.
[73] Notes Rev. David Lindsay of Virginia who died in 1667. In our former annual report I made mention of the important discovery by Mrs. Juliet Opie Ayres of Virginia, in 1906, of the original tombstone and inscription or a part of it in the old burying ground of the Lindsays to the memory of this early colonial minister, the emigrant ancestor of the Opies of Northumberland, Jefferson and Clark C-ounties, and the Lindsays of Northumber• land and Fairfax Counties, Virginia, and wish to add that a more de-(74]tailed account of this interesting discovery can be found in the Willian and Mary Quarterly for October 1907, Vol. XVI, Page 136, a historical and genealogical magazine edited by the President of William and. Mary College, Lyon G. Tyler, L.L.D. The article there is descriptive of there having been two stones to the memory of the minister, which was brought about by this discovery of fragments of the earlier one. It is full and complete vindication of the early and more pretentious epitaph as given in my book "The Lindsays of America," published under my maiden name in 1889, which many years afterwards was called an "erronious ver sion" by the Rev. Dr. G.W. Beale, then of Nor th• umberland County, Virginia, said to be a distinguished genealogist and antiquarian of Virginia, who notwithstanding this vindication insists on 17
maintaining• both in public letters in the genealogical columns of the Baltimore Sun and in private letters to Mrs. Ayres and myself that the first or earlier inscription never existed on a tombstone and is not now fully verified. In other words he is disinclined to accept the verified testimony of "several reputable persons in Northumberland County in regard to its authenticity." Dr. George P. Merrill head curator of geology at the Smithsonian Institute, Washington, D.C., has written a letter describing the stone "as oolitic lime• stone identical with the well-known oolitic of Bath, England, formerly much used in ecclesiastical architecture and still in use. The carving and inscrip• tion on stone have been partially obliterated by weather, but the latter is still fairly legible."
By other letters to persons not of the family this reverend gentleman has tried to cast doubt and obliquity on the whole transaction of the discovery of the old stone and it is the more curious and noticeable that he is called a distinguished genealogist and antiquarian which would suggest to the most disinterested that he should rather help up than pull down proofs of ancestry in a family, particularly when said proofs are so well verified as in this case.
By permission I give here a letter to me from the editor of the William and Mary Quarterly, showing his opinion regarding the discovery of the old tombstone and epitaph:
William and Mary College williamsburg, Virginia December 14, 1907
Mrs. Margaret Lindsay Atkinson: Roslindale, Mass., Dear Mrs. Atkinson:
In reply to your letter of December 8, 1907, I beg to say that it afforded me great pleasure to receive your kind letter, and I would [751 like very much to be present at the reunion of the Lindsay family. The only Object of my magazine is to state facts and I see no reason to discredit the statement of a lady like Mrs. Ayres especially as her discovery coincides with the epitaph in your own book which epitaph could not have been a mere fiction.
I am, Sincerely yours, Lyon G. Tyler
Proposal fqr resea~ch fund The Lindsays of Northumberland and Fairfax Counties, Virginia, will kindly take notice.
I would like to call the attention of the descendants of this branch to the generous proposal of one of the descendants, John Landstreet, Vice• President R.A. Patterson Tobacco Co., Richmond, Virginia, in his letter to me of September 25, 1907. Mr. Landstreet writes: "I beg to suggest that some united effort could probably unravel your perplexities and that I will gladly be one of ten or more members to contribute $100 each, for the purpose of prosecuting your work." Considerable money has already been spent in researches for this branch over in Edinburgh in the Scottish Register House, and while some important data 18
has been obtained the work was interfered with for the lack of more funds. It is my hope that by a prolonged search into the Scottish Registers of the Court of Sessions or Books of Council and Sessions, which I am told embrace all sorts of people in the registers and the records of their law pleas in the other, we would have most fortunate results. It is a voluminous register and unindexed, consequently it has to be carefully examined page by page and of a necessity consumes much time. The old registers of the marriages, births and deaths are also exceedingly tedious to examine. In Northumberland, Virginia, the same difficulty meets the searcher, but increases when volumes are missing of the very periods required to prove records of ancestry. It is also the same in the Fairfax court and parish records, but a search is to be kept up from time to time in both counties in the hopes clues will be found to assist us.
I trust that in the next annual report I will be able to show great progress in the building up of this needed fund. We earnestly calIon the more wealthy ones of the descendants to contribute and hope they will see the importance of it. The family record and traditions of thls branch evince that it is descended from the oldest [76] and noblest of the name in Scotland, is recognised as such in the "Lives of the Lindsays," by Lord Lindsay, and other books, but that no doubt should rest upon its antiquity and origin in the mind of the critical genealogist we must have documentary proof.
We need further proof of the descent of this branch from the Rev. David Lindsay through his daughter and heiress Helen Lindsay, the widow Wathen, whom tombstone evidence indicates married an Opie, as the second tombstone to~c the minister has beneath his epitaph one to Captain Thomas Opie, Jr., grandson to the minister. See page 52 of our third annual report.
No marriage record has been discovered to legally prove that Helen Lindsay Wathen became the wife of the first Opie though a search has been made, nor can his or her will be found.
No marriage record has come to light showing when Robert Lindsay the second, first of Northumberland, latterly of Fairfax, Va., married Susanna Opie of Northumberland, a descendant family tradition records of these Opies mentioned and a daughter of a Captain Thomas Opie of Northumberland, but whether he was the Opie interred in his Grandfather Lindsay's tomb or was a son of that Opie is something to be proved if possible.
A record of the probate of will of a Thomas Opie is recorded in the No~thumberland Court House, of June, 1704, probated by a Susanna Opie, but we have to conjecture whether she was a widow or the daughter of the said Opie. The volume recording the will is missing., Fourteen years after the death of the minister, 1681, the records of this Court House show that a "Robert Lindsay of Cherry poynt was a resident." This is proof he lived near the minister as the mini~ter's home was in Cherry Poynt in this county.
Robert Lindsay being the name of the emigrant ancestor from Scotland of these Lindsays we have to get more knowledge about the said Robert of Cherry Poynt if possible. The search in Northumberland so far has revealed nothing legal as to his family, his marriage or his will. The missing records of the Court House probably contain the needed information, but data may corne to light in some other locality_
[88-92] [These pages contain the verbatim text of the will of Opie Lindsay 19
of Fairfax County, Virginia, dated 22 Sep 1814, proved 16 Jan 1815.]
[Ill] Revolutionary Soldiers of the name [of Lindsay] who served from Pennsylvania. William Lindsay, sergeant in Captain Joseph Erwin's Company, raised in West• moreland county, January 1, 1778. David Lihdsey, private in Captain William Rippey's Company, January 18, 1776. The company was raised in Shippenburgh, Pa. John Lindsey, private in Captain William Butler's Company. He enlisted from Greensburgh in Westmoreland County. John Lindsey, sergeant in Captain James Taylor's Company of-Lancaster County, appointed January 27, 1776, deserted July 1, 1776. Joseph Lindsay, private in Captain Moses Carson's Company, raised in Westmore- land County, ordered to range on the frontiers, July 9, 1776, to August 9,1776. David Lindsay, private in Colonel Hazen's Regiment from 1776-7. John Lindsay, private in Captain Isaac Seeley's Company, 1777-83. Samuel Lindsay, Lieutenant. This was taken from a list of Revolutionary pensioners, beginning from March, 1789, to September, 1800, according to the United States Revolutionary Pension Records. Archibald Lindsay, private in Captain John Marshall's Company, raised in Hanover Township in old Lancaster County, now called Dauphin County, March, 1776. Mungo Lindsay, first private, then corporal in Captain John Murray's Company from paxtang Township, now Dauphin County. When promoted he served in Captain Moore's Company, 1776.
[112] The Parkers and Dennys, who are intermarried and again intermarried with the Lindsays of Pennsylvania, carne,we find, from County Ulster, Ireland, in 1725, and settled three miles from Carlisle, Cumberland County, where so many Lindsays also located on their arrival from the old world. From the Parkers descend Mary and Jane Parker of Revolutionary time. Mary Parker married William Lindsay, by whom she had John and William Lindsay. John Lindsay married Rachel Davidson. Jane Parker married John Forbes, by whom she had John, Elizabeth and Jane Forbes. Elizabeth Forbes married William Dunbar of Cumberland, by whom she had Mary and Jane Dunbar. Jane Dunbar married James Lindsay, by whom she had Jane Elizabeth Lindsay, who married Andrew Ralston of Pennsylvania. John Forbes the 2d or younger (?) married Agnes Grayson.
Another family intermarried with the Lindsays ?f Pennsylvania is the Hays family. The early Hays' ancestor was of Scottish birth, but during the Scottish Revolution, fled to County Tyrone, Ireland, and it was from here his son, John Hays, emigrated to America and settled in Path Valley in Franklin County, not long before-the Revolutionary War. This ea-rlyemigrant's son, Dickey Hays, born in Franklin County, March 15, 1777, married Margaret Lindsay, by whom he had John and Margaret Hays. They lived in Path Valley.
We shall be pleased to hear from any Lindsays or Lindseys deducing their descent f~om any of these families given, as perhaps we can aid them in completing their family history.
Maryland Lindsays The Lindsays were early emigrants to Maryland, corning over with the Lord Baltimore early colonists, and in fact they seem to have been personally acquainted with the Calverts, as we find them among those holding considerable landed property, of which one descendant says a royal deed was given the first 20
Lindsay signed• by Charles the Second, which is yet extant; and in the will of Leonard Calvert, the first governor of Maryland, for his brother, the first Lord Baltimore, who remained in England, we see a James Lindsay as one of his chief legatees, the date of will being June 14, 1644. We also find these Lindsays acting as executors and administrators of many of the best families of their day in the colony. They lived in St. Mary's County, Charles County, Worcester County, Calvert County and Somerset County.
James Lindsay's will was proved May 3, 1671. He left his personality to the Roman Catholic Church; his estate to his widow and children. He had a wife, Mary, and daughters, Mary and Elizabeth and at least one son known, a David Lindsay, whose will is proved in [113] Somerset in 1681, who is supposedly the father of Thomas Lindsay of the same county, whose will is proved, 1698, and his son, David Lindsay's will in same county, proved in 1720. David Lindsay, who died in 1720, left a widow, Sarah, and two sons, one of whom was a James Lindsay, who mar.ried a Miss Nicholas of Delawre. His will is proved in Worcester County in 1796. He left three children, Mathias Nicholas, Major and Betsey. From the sons are numerous descendants, but much scattered.
James Lindsay, the emigrant, had brothers, it is said. We wish to trace all these brothers' lines if possible, and have considerable data which appears to connect them with these other Lindsays, but the proofs are wanting. Many of these Maryland Lindsays went to Virginia before and after the Revolution, and also to Ohio and Kentucky from Maryland and Virginia. All those tracing their lines to Maryland may be assisted by us by sending in their records as far as they have them.
I am told by the Maryland Lindsays that although many of them now use the "e" in the name, their ancestors used the "a," unless where the clerks of the court misspelled the name, which seemed commonly done in those p're-Revolu• ionary times, both in Maryland, Virginia, and wherever those of the name lived in America; but of course we also recognize rules of spelling were different in those days, --it seemed to be more by sound.
From the Virginia State Papers. Vol. 5. Page 424. January, 1792. Thomas Newton, Jr., enclosed to Governor Lee the award of George Kelly and William Lindsay, arbitrators between Thomas Newton, Jr., for and in behalf of the state of Virginia, and John McCoomb of New York, undertakers to build the lighthouse on Cape Henry, Norfolk, Virginia. The arbitrators are of the opinion that raising the stone from the water had cost Mr. McCoomb more than the same amount of stone delivered on the spot.
In the same papers, volume 1, on page 185, the name of James Lindsey appears ,Fmong a li'stof rebel prisoners transported from the mother country to the colony on the ship Elizabeth and Ann, Captain Edward Trafford, and landed in Yorktown, January 14, 1716. Eighty-three of the said prisoners were not indented, which doubtless indicated a better rank in life. James Lindsay was in ~~is list. The papers state that most of these prisoners of war were Scotch and followers of the Pretender, Prince Charles Stuart, captured at Preston and carried to London for trial and transported to the Virginia colony.
[to beecontinue] Lindsay Newsletter: Southern Colonial Branches
Volume 1, Number 2 May 1981 Whole Number 2
CONTENTS:
William Lindsay, M.D., 1795 NC-1876 OH, Nephew of Maj. John Lindsay of Georgia 23
Southern Colonial Material in the Annual Reports, Lindsay Family Association of America, 1904- 1909 (Concluded) ...... •...... 28
The British Spelling of Lindsay: "A" or "E"? 30
Queries:
1. Carlton Lindsay (Mrs. Fred D. Switzer) 32
2. Philip Lindsay (Margaret Lindsay Descheneaux) 33
3. Jacob and Phoebea Lindsey (James A. Lindsey). 34
Tennessee Land Grants to 1820 38
The Lindsay Newslett~r: Southern Colonial Branches is published quarterly (February, May, August, and November) at New York City. A yearly subscription is $10.00, checks payable to Elliott L. Stringham. Please send checks, all changes of address, and all inquir.ies abou t baCl< issues to: Elliott Lindsey Stringham Publisher, Lindsay Newsletter 124 East 7lst Street New York, NY 10021 22
COMMENTS:
Elliott had the address labels and envelopes ready for mailing this issue by mid-May. It was the editor who has caused the delay. By mid-May I had two-thirds of the issue typed and then decided to switch to a smaller type. By using 12-pitch--twelve letters to the inch--rather than the IO-pitch of the first issue, we can get eleven to twelve more pages of texts a year. But changing to the smaller type required retyping the first issue for consist• ency, plus retyping the dozen pages already completed of this issue. Then my typewriter broke down and had to have repairs. Thus the delay. End of sad story.
Those with copies of the original first issue are urged to destroy it because the new version is different in having more material due to the smaller type.
In the first issue on page 2 is an explanation of the geqgraphical coverage of the Newsletter. As for the chronological coverage, the emphasis is on the colonial period and people born by 1775. However, the Revolutionary generation moved around so much--wars often bring large migrations--that many SOuthern Lindsay lines are stuck in the years 1780-1820. The Newsletter will cover this period and the people born in the late eighteenth century. After all, ~~eir parents were probably born before the Revolution.
Can anyone tell me the addresses of Morn Lindsay of South Carolina and Gloria Schouw of California? Also, is Bobby L. Lindsey still living? He wrote "The Reason for the Tears": A History of Chambers County, Alabama, (1971), which has Lindsey material on pages 279-281.
Lastly, is there any demand for our publishing the list of Newsletter subscribers?
The Newsletter seeks to bring together the serious researchers of the Southern Lindsays in all spellings of Lindsay to untangle the many branches into their correct families and thus extend the lines back to the immigrants and their British ancestors. Although the Newsletter is concerned with Lindsays born before the Revolution, it publishes information tracing such persons to their deaths, even if long after 1775. The South before the Revolution isde£ined as all the eastern U.S. south and west of the Delaware River. That includes Pennsylvania. The .editor solicits any relevant material--from short queries, bible entries, and tombstone inscriptions to lengthy lineages and analytical articles discussing "stonewall" problems. The editor wants to corre• spond with everyone doing Southern colonial Lindsay research, so write: William Thorndale Editor, Lindsay Newsletter 1156 East 300.South, Apt. C. Salt Lake City, UT 84102 The Newsletter is not copyrighted, but all authors may copyright their articles at their own discretion. 23
William Lindsay, M.D., 1795 NC-1876 Oh, Nephew of Maj. John Lindsay of Georgia
(The "Old Papers Tell of Early Lindsay Family," Tri-State Trader, 4 March 1978, mentioned in the Newsletter page 6, footnote 16, refers to eight long sheets of handwritten notes about William Lindsay, M.D., 1795 NC-1876 Oh. The papers are unsigned and undated but were written by one of his children from Dr. Lindsay's papers and other sources. Dr. Lindsay was a nephew of Maj. John Lindsay of Wilkes County, Georgia, sometimes called Silverfist. The following is a verbatim copy courtesy of Helen Silvey, 6947 Serenity Drive, Sacramento, CA 95823, a descendant of Dr. Lindsay. Is it possible that William Lindsay's father Samuel and Maj. John were brothers of the Benjamin Lindsay who applied for a pension in Edgefield District, South Carolina, in 1834 as abstracted in the Newsletter page 7?)
[Page 1] Lindsay, Earl of Balcarras Scotland.
This noble family is descended of the branch of the Lindsay's of Edzell, descended from Alexander Lindsay, second Earl of Crawford, (See that family*) whose third son was Walter, and he, by another Sir David, his eldest son, who made a great figure in the reign of James V., to whom David Lindsay Earl of Crawford conveyed his estate and honors in 1541, occasioned by the cruel treatment of his sonSi but he afterward conveyed them back again, to the~Earl's grand-son reserving to himself the title for life &c. &c. He was succeeded by his eldest son Sir David, one of the senators of the College of Justice. To him succeeded his eldest son David, who dying without issue, the estate devolved on Sir David Lindsay of Balcarras, son of John, second son of Sir David, Earl of Crawford above mentioned, Which David was created Lord Lindsay of Balcarras. He married Lady Sophia, daughter of Alexander Seton, Earl of Dumferline, and left issue a son.
Alexander Lord Lindsay, who was created Earl of Balcarras; and dying in 1659, left issue by his wife Lady Ann Mackenzie, daughter of Colin Earl of Seaforth, two sons and twodaughers: Lady Sophia, wife of Col. Charles Campbell, son of Archibald Earl of Argyll, and Lady Henrietta, wife of Sir James Campbell of Auchinbreck, of his sons, Charles, the eldest, succeeded in the earldom, and dying unmarried, was succeeded by his brother.
Colin, third Earl, who was a privy councellor to King Charles II, and James VI. [VII = II], by whom qe was appointed one of the commissioners of the treasury. He married three wives; and bytbe f'ir'st,Lady Jane, daughter of David Earl of Nor~hesk, he had a daughter, Lady Anne, she married Alexander Erskine, Earl of Keliy. By his second Lady, Jane Ker, daughter of William, the [Page 2] second Earl of Roxburgh, he had issue a daughter, Lady Margaret, married to John Flemming, sixth Earl of Wigtoun; and a son Colin, Lord Cumbernauld, who died unmarried, and by his third wife, Lady Margaret, daughter of James of Loudoun, he had issue, two sons Alexander and James; and two daughters, Eleanor, married to James Fraser of Loumay, third son of William, Lord Sutton; and Lady Elizabeth, who died unmarried. He deceased in 1722, and was succeeded by his eldest son. Alexander fourth Earl, who was elected one of the sixteen peers for North Britain in the parliament beginning 1734: but dying in 1746 without issue, was succeeded by his brother.
James, now fifth Earl of Balcarras, who in 1749 married Anne, daughter 24
of Sir Robert Dalrymple, son of Sir Hugh, Lord president of the session, by whom he had issue six sons and two daughters, viz.; Alexander, Lord Cumbernauld; Robert, Colin, James, william and Charles; Ladies Anne and Margaret.
(Titles.) The right honorable James Lindsay Earl of Balcarras, apd Lord Lindsay of Cumbernauld. (Creations.) Lord Lindsay, 7th June 1633, by Charles 1st: and Earl of Balcarras, in the County of Fife by Charles IInd 1650. (Arms.) Quarterly 1st and 4th ruby, a gules fesse chequee pearl and sapphire, for Lindsay; 2nd and 3rd topaz a lion rampant ruby, delruised [debruised] with a ribband diamond, for Abernethey; all within the 3rd semee of stars topaz. (Crest.) On a wreathe, a tent proper, a semee of stars as the arms. (Supporters.) Two lions segeant gardant ruby, each having a collar, charged with three stars as the crest. (Motto.) Astra, castra, numen, lumen, munimen. (Chief seat.) At Balcarras in Fifeshire.
*Father's cousin J.C.W. Lindsay added the following. I will send you a transcript of the Crawford family of Lindsays, if I am spared, sometime or other. It is as good as the Edzell branch, but from their tent proper in their coat of [Page 3] arms, I am of the opinion, the Edzell family of Lindsays was the bravest and most undaunted son's of courage. Read• ing the descent of the Lindsay family, need it be wondered at, that your uncle John Lindsay, when landing in a country like North America, should exert every~, nerve in fitting and preparing himself for active, useful life. It hath been asserted, that after the labor of the l.~~-G;-~Ae [sic] day, he would burn a large armfull of light wood, (pitch, pine,) instead of a better light, to read, write and criticise by. --But he was a Lindsay and his ancestors were not only freemen, but indpenently [sic] so.
Father wrote -- The above was communicated to me, by my cousin John C.W. Lindsay of Wilks County, near Washington, Georgia, (in the third year of my practice, professionally, in the summer of 1824 at Lawrenceburg Indiana.) Son of my uncle Major John Lindsay. --A brave patriot of Revolutionary fame, who was severely wounded at the battle of Camden S.C., having his right hand so severely wounded, by a hand to hand uncounter, that he had it amputated; subsequently wearing a silver cap on the wrist. AlSO, had a leg so badly shattered, he was left on the field, it was said, for dead, being recovered by a soldier, who carried him cool water in his hat to drink. Years afterward an intimate friend, having by earnest request, obtained a portion of the as Tibula, (small bone of the leg,) had it fitted to the handle of a carving bowie knife.. West Alexandria Preble Co. O. Nov .•2, 1861. N.B. The foregOing,. transcribed for the original as above refered to. W.L.
I would here state that Major Lindsay as above, was first cousin to my aunt Mary Lindsay whom he married. Their residence being in Georgia, had not a opportunity of seeing them ever, or any of the family. But during my residence in R~ Lawrenceburg, as above open-[Page 4] ed up a correspondence with the family in 1824. which was kept up many years. This cousin, J.C.W. Lindsay, being the principle correspondent. He was a member M.E. Church, and from the status, great note and respectability of the family, and the moral, pious bearing of all my letters received, place every confidence in history and details as above given. 25
At Lawrenceburg, I met with an old man by the name of Moss, to whose family I was physician. He said in Georgia many.years previous, he was acquainted with my uncle, Major Lindsay and spoke highly of his standing and military talents. Subsequently, during my professional career in Richmond Ind. embracing a period between 1829 and 1840, an elderly gentleman, by the name of Neil, said my uncle had been deputed, by the government, to hold a friendly council with the Cherakee Indians at ~Re Muscle Shoal Tenn., in reference to the purchase of their lands, and that he, Neil, was present at the time of holding said council. W.L.
I will now give the fallowing history which is now in my possession, hoping by this means to keep in memory recollections connected with my dear father and his family. It is with regret I state that we were careless in making ourselves perfectly acquainted with his relatives in the South and thereby establishing our relation to different members of the Lindsay family to be found there and in other parts of America. I believe they all claim to have come originally from Scotland. From the great love-and respect I cherish for the memory of Wm. Lindsay M.D., my father, I am interested in everyone who bears the name.
Samuel Lindsay, my grand-father, was married to Eleanor Wilson in N. Carolina, (she was born in S. Carolina 1772). Grand father died in Lincoln county N. Carolina when father was a boy. His complection was fair, his hair remarkably light, his eyes blue and had what is called dancing eyes. He was pious, intellectual and highly esteemed. [Page 5] Their children according to their ages were James, Mary, Nancy, William, Samuel, John, Paul G, and Elizabeth. All of whom I have seen with the exception of James and Nancy. James died in N.C. about 1835, and Nancy some years previous.
The following is copied from father's notice of grand-mother Lindsay's death • "Our Sainted mother, Eleanor Lindsay, was born in S.•Carolina, 1772, died Jan. 1850 and interred at WeSley Chapel, five miles N.E., of Piqua, Shelby Co. O. She was brought up and educated in the Church, as known by the title of Covenenters or Seceders.
Shortly after marriage mother and father became members of the Presbyter• ian Church, Olney North Carolina, and during a period of several years, father was a Deacon or Elder of this denomination. Some years after the death of father, mother became a member of the M.E. Church, in which faith she died. Long as we can remember her as Presbyterian or Methodist, she was a devoutly pious woman.
Her long established faith in God and in the Savior, amidst all the trials and sufferings of mortality, held her firm in the profession of religion and the post of duty; and no storm that swept the voyage of life could break her achorage or trust in Heaven. The haven of eternal rest was before her and thither• ward did she steer; and as year after year was buried in the past, clearer and still clearer, arose upon her vision the land beyond the river, far upon the plane of which rests down the.light of immortality. And when seventy-eight summers and winters had nearly closed with their clouds and their sunshine, their storms and calms and their toils anxieties and rests, had hung upon her brow their ensignia, she stands an aged matron, and mother in Israel upon the brink, just ready to launch away from the shores of time. 26
One after another of life's fastenings are cut loose, and she feels the swell of the waves creeping up, around her frail barque. Out upon the ocean all boundless, she casts her gaze, and in the distance sees her home at last, In response to inquiries as to the prospect, she (Page 6J exclaims, ("J All is well, all is well!" and calmly awaits the moments of her release. And it came soon. She laid down and slept the last, long sleep, and as she closed her eyes on Earth's fading and changing scenes, she opened them on Heaven's all bright, glorious, fadeless and changless beauty, and as the ear became insen• sible to the voices of Earth, it became alive to the voices of Heaven chanting anthems of praise.
Thus passed away our venerable and sainted mother, like a shock of corn in its season, and autumnal fruit, ripened long, - e'en wondered at, it did not drop sooner.
Father's Obituary, written by Rev. H.M. Herman, pastor of the German Reformed Church, at West Alexandria Preble Co. Ohio. --May 1876.
Wm. Lindsay M.D., was born in Lincoln Co, N. Carolina, near the S. Carolina line Dec. 24, 1795. He commenced teaching school whe[n] only fifteen, and taught after coming to Ohio, near Carlisle Clark Co., and at Dayton O. He commenced reading Medecine with Dr. Robins, of Mad River, afterward with Dr. Steele of Dayton i attended lectures at the Ohio Medical Cincinnati, and received his diploma from Medical College at Columbus O.
TwO weeks after the death of Dr. Lineweaver, 1849, he carne to West Alexandria, and has been here until his death; excepting fourteen months service in the Army as Surgeon.
Dr. Lindsay has been long known as a man of fine culture in literature generally and, professionally, especially. [Page 7J I believe he was one of the finest educated men in the country. A reader all his life, not of novels or literature of a frivalous character, but a reader of works of merit, and his mind was stored with useful knowledge. As a physician he was successful, and in surgery, especially, he excelled. He has left behind several proofs in which he has given the results of his practice, that do honor to his head and proficiency in his practice.
Morally he was a man of unexceptional character. He was never known to do a mean ~~R~ or unbecoming act. A man of strict integrity, he was never given to evil speaking, profane or unbecoming language. He was a man of deep religous convictions, and from his earliest manhood he lived in the fear of God. His parents jVere presbyterians, ,and.in tl:1is_faithhe was reared, united with the church when a young man. He was identified with M.E. Church for a number of years. 9ct. 24, 1869, he united with the Reformed Church, and from that tima until his death, he never failed of any religious duty. On his death bed, at his own request, he celebrated the Lord's Supper.
In his death the community has lost one of its best citizens. He was to any community an honor. A well educated mind -- an honor to his profession, an example worthy of imitation to a.l.LAs a member of the fraternity F.A.M., he was faithful and consistent. As we review his life in this respect, not a blush crimsons our cheek. He di.ed in the hope of blessed immortality May 7th 1876, aged 80 years, 6 months and 14 days. 27
An obituary written by J.W. Defrees, editor of Miami Union, Lindsay. -- At West Alexandria, Preble County Ohio, on Sunday night last, after a severe illness of several months duration, Dr. Wm. Lindsay, father-in• law of the editor of this paper, died in the 8lst year of his age.
_ Dr. Lindsay was a man of bright and cultivated intellect, well versed in general literature, and especially in all works pertaining to his profession. As a practical physician and skillful surgeon he ranked for many years while in the [Page 8] prime of life, at the very head of the profession in a large section of Western Ohio and Eastern Indiana. For several years past however, he had done but little practice -- his last active service having been rendered as Surgeon at Camp Morton, Indianapolis, during the late rebellion, where he was posted something over a year. He was a man of great moral worth, exemplary in all his habits, faithful in the discharge of every duty to Society, to his Church and to the Masonic Order of which he was a worthy and much respected member.
The funeral of Dr. L. took place on Tuesday last, and was largely attended by citizens and brethren of the Order, the latter, as had been requested by the deceased, having the management. In a beautiful spot in the handsome village Churchyard the mortal remains of this aged father were consigned to the narrow house of the dead with the solemn and impressive ceremonies of both the Church and the Order 1 there to repose until the appointed morn when all Peoples, all Nations and all Kindreds shall hear and obey the summons to rise, and Earth and Sea shall be compelled to deliver up their dead.
A true and generous heart lies still in death, and a noble soul has gone to his reward.
The great love I cherish for the memory of my Father is my apology for transcribing the above notices and makes me anxious to find out, if possible, whether there yet remain in the states of N. Carolina, S. Carolina or Georgia any of Father's family.
I have been told that he had an uncle and cousins living at Greensboro, a merchant, reputed to be very wealthy. The family related to us in the South would, no doubt, preserve their genealogy, as my Father did, which may prove a means of proving our relationship on Earth, and although we may never establish our right of descent, by regular line, to the earldom of Balcarras, we can prove there have been in our family of Lindsay those who have nobly lived on Earth and have been prepared by trials be life for crowns of glory in Heaven above. [End of manuscript.l
(In a typed paper by Lindsay M. Brien entitled "Clan Lindsay," 33pp., c1962, copy in the'DAR Library, Washington, DC, is given a letter from Dr. William Lindsay to his daughter Eliza DeFrees, 14 June 1843. The letter gives an account of the noble Scottish Lindsays as sent to the doctor by his cousin James M. Lindsay [according to Lindsay M. Brien] of Wilkes County, Georgia. Part of the letter reads: "The foregoing transcript of t.i1eLindsay family was sent me many years ago, about 1823, by one of my cousins, a son of my Uncle Major John Lindsay, formerlyof Georgia •••• His first wife was my Aunt Mary Lindsay, but previous to marriage were first cousins. I never saw any of this family but my Uncle had the reputation of being a brave officer of the Revolution, ... - p. 13.) * * * * * * * * * * * 28
Southern Colonial Material in the Annual Reports, Lindsay Family Association of America, 1904-1909
(Concluded from pages 10-20. Square brackets indicate the original pagination. These are verbatim transcripts from the Annual RepOrts, Lindsay Family Associ• ation of America.)
[114] In Vol. 2. Louisville, Kentucky, 1781. Colonel Slaughter, in replying to John Floyd in regard to some witnesses required in a certain trial, not being able to appear at the time specified, mentioned the name of one as Joseph Lindsay of Lexington. The said witnesses were too remote to reach the place set, and therefore Colonel Slaughter desires the proceedings to be postponed, and that a Captain Robert Todd was expecting soon to be a bearer of express (mail) to Fort Pitt, who would convey the summons to said witnesses.
Vol. 4. Page 654. On June, 1789, by order of the court, be it recommended to His Excellency, the Governor of Virginia, that among those as proper persons to appoint militia officers for Woodford County, Kentucky, is William Lindsay, captain.
Same papers. Page 160, 161. In July, 1786, is an appeal for aid from the inhabitants of Jefferson County, Kentucky, to Virginia against the Indians; among the names is that ox" James Lindsay.
Notes and Collections.
From Hening's Virginia Statutes at Large. Page 82. May 23, 1609. In the second charter of Virginia to the treasurer and company of Virginia, from James the First of England, among a long list of grantees, is Captian RiChard Lindesey, Captain John Smith, George Calvert, Esq., William Atkinson et al. In Richard Chechester's will, made in 1675, prob. 1685 in Lancaster County, Virginia, legatee mentioned along with his nieces, the Misses Heale, is Catherine Lindsay. From Rev. Mr. Hayden's History of the Glassell Family of Virginia. Quantico Church, Dettinger Parish, Prince William County, Virginia. The records of the above Church of December 4, 1769, show that a William Lindsay of this parish had a boy named George Adam Gardinhire indented to him until he should reach the age of twenty-one. From R.A. Brocks' Historical Collections. Virginia Company of Londort~ 1619-2~. Vol. 1. Page 104. In a long list of the members of this company given at a General Quarter Court he}d in London, 31 January, 1620-21, including nobles and gentry, was a Mr. Lynsey. A William Lindsay was cited among a long list of merchants, traders and citizens of Norfolk, Virginia, in 1791, who petitioned to the Honorable President and Directors of the Bank of the United States of America for a branch of said Bank to be established in Norfolk for the good and convenience of its citizens. Virginia Magazine of History. vol. 8, 1900-1.
[121] A further proof of the genuineness of that old inscription on the early tombstone of the Rev. David Lindsay, who died in Northumberland County, Virginia, 29
in 1667, the emigrant ancestor of the Opies of Northumberland, Clark and Jefferson Counties, and the Lindsays of Northumberland and Fairfax Counties, Virginia, is the discovery this past year in England of the missing will of his grandson, Captain Thomas Opie, Jr., who died 16 November, 1702, in Virginia, and was buried in his grandfather's grave, and which also explains the cause of the double stones. I hope that some of the disc?uraged ones in ancestry, after reading the following account of this discovery, will recognize the necessity to nurse patience, for frequently what looks impossible can often be attained where energy and perseverance work, darkness shall give way to light and doubt• fall away from man's mind. I take much pleasure in quoting the following from the 1908-9 issue of the Virginia Magazine of History and Biograghy, pages 90, 91 and 92. [The text from the VMHB article will not be repeated here.]
[124] A war story of more than usual interest to the virginia Lindsays came to light this year in a correspondence with one of our new life members, Edwing B. Lindsay of Los Angeles, California, who served on the Union side from Ohio, through the greater part of our Civil War.
While he was acting as Provost Marshal at City Point, Virginia, in the latter part of Mayor the first part of June, 1865, and after the surrender of General Lee at Appomattox Court House, Virginia, he made a visit to the Capitol building in Richmond in company with a Mr. Russell of Washington, D.C., the father of Captain Charles S. Russell of the Twelfth united States Infantry, then in command at City Point, afterward Brigadier-general Colonel Russell, U.S.A., and alone they ascended to the garret of the CapitOl, which they found in much confus ion, with paper s 1 itter:ed around everywher e i and her e Mr. Russell came across an ancient 3/4 of a deed or grant of land to a Jeremiah Lindsay of New Kent County, Virginia, the considerations being certain pounds of tobacco, by order of George the Third, and [125] signed by the provisional governor of _ ~irgini_a,. Alexander Spotswood. The grant. was over a hundred years old .
As Governor Spotswood was succeeded in 1723 by Sir Hugh Drysdale, the deed was probably prior to this year.
Mr. Russell was anxious to retain the document on account of its age and the signature of the provisional governor, but he waived his right to it and presented it to Mr. Lindsay because of his surname being similar and his ancestry from the South. Mr. Lindsay, to preserve the deed, sent it to a sister in the West, now deceased, and never afterwards claimed it. On my request he kindly wrote to his sister's daughter in Piqua, 0., to see if it was in existence, and if so to have her send me a verified copy:to put on record in our archives. Up to date of going to press it has not come to hand; so I do not know what the result of his enquiry has been, but hope it is favorable and that our next r~port will give a copy of the old document.
At any event the story is a proof of ~~e value of this Association, if for nothing else, in bringing Lindsays together and exchanging their family history and relating experiences that may be of wonderful assistance to many in establishing their lines of descent.
[125-126] [A verbatim transcript of the will of James Lindsey of Franklin County, Pennsylvania, 8 Sep 1804, proved 17 Oct 1804, is given here but will not be reproduced. There follows a note on one of the legatees, Elizaebth Lindsay, who married Robert Culbertson, MatL~ew Sharp, and Robert Peebles.]
[Annual Report Transcripts Concluded.] * * * * * * * * * * * 30
The British Spellin9 of Lindsay: "A" or "E"?
In August 1978 the Genealogical Library in Salt Lake City published on microfiche its 47-million name file now called the International Genealogical Index (IGI). The file is divided into either countries--Scotland, Ireland, Wales--or national subdivisions--the counties of England. All Lindsay spelling variants are gathered under "Lindsay." This IGI was analyzed for "A" and "E" spellings. Ignoring such spellings as Lindzy, Linsie, etc., the "A" and "E" spellings of Lindsay, Linzay, etc., were counted for each English county for the 1500s, l600s, and l700s. Scotland, Ireland, and Wales were not counted because Wales did not have the surname listed, and Scotland and Ireland were overwhelmingly "A", probably at least 99% "A."
The accompanying chart and map show that the English normally spelled the surname with an "E" except in counties near Scotland and in London in the 1700s. (To provide some feel for the total number of names in the file for each county, the number of microfiche cards for each county is given in the chart. A full microfiche card contains over 20,000 names.)
The conclusion, then, is that a colonial Lindsay family spelling its name with an "E" was of English origins. Of course, the colonial spelling may be that of the county clerk rather than the family, but if a clerk consistently spelled one family as "E" and another as "A" in the same time and locale, there is good :::easonto think the "E" family was English. The "A" family has only a good probability of being Scottish .
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Col. 8 has the number of fiche. 31 99%+ Composite Percentages 1500-1799 for "A" Spellings of Lindsay Relative to Totals 32 Queries Query 1: Carl ton Lindsay Who were the parents of Carlton Lindsay and wife Polly? Were they from Rutherford Co., NC, before Ky? Is this Carlton Lindsay the same found in Rutherford Co, NC, 1800 census? Carlton Lindsay and brothers Caleb, Josiah, and James L. were in Ky with early land grants, along Donaldson Creek and members of the Early Oak Grove Baptist Church. By 1817 Carlton and family were in Christian Co. along Fords Fork, Salem Creek, Buck Creek, and Dallaston Creek. In 1823 Carlton is deceased and his will probated by 1825. Wife Polly and eleven children were named. The oldest son was John Lindsay. Also mentioned were son Tbliver and dau Martha (Patsy) Lindsay who m. Joseph Nontry Cooke in 1816. Martha and Joseph Nontry Cooke were found in Hinds Co., Ms. My family records give their children as: (1) Ruth, b. 1819 Ky, m. Young, d. Ms; (2) Jas. A., b. 1820 Jackson, Ms, m. Nancy Evelyn Harris, d. Tx; (3) Mary, m. Hunt, d. Ari (4) Missouri, m. Grey, d. Tx; (5) JoAnn, m. Meredith Wilson, d. Ms; (6) Joseph Nontry Cooke, d. 1830 Hinds Co., Ms. Miscellaneous: James Lindsay, son of Carlton, b. 1806 SC, m. Tabitha Cook 18 Oct 1819; Montry somehow became Moultrie or Nontry. John Lindsay m. Peggy Linn 13 Mch 1810 (Is this mine?), m. 2nd Nancy Stephens 1831 Hinds Co, Ms (Is this the same?). Something rather odd: Toliver,b. 1816, was admin• istrator of estate of John and Nancy Lindsay 1841-2 in Choctaw Co, Ms. The Hollands must have moved to Choctaw Co. along with Lindsaysi Basil Holland family was along Donaldson Creek in Ky with Lindsays, and Hollands found in southern Choctaw Co. along Natchez Trace. ------Mrs. Fred D. Switzer, Switzer Ranch, Box 577, McAlester, OK 74501. (Editor's note: In 1975 I corresponded with a Mrs. Gloria J. Schouw, 20091 Big Bend Lane, Huntington Beach, CA 92646; does anyone have her current address? She was working on the same family as Query 1 above. Here are two excerpts from a letter of hers. "Trigg Co. KY was formed in 1820 from Christian Co. By 1820 our Lindseys were gone from there, except, apparently, for Carlton, who died in 1825. He didn't actually MOVE, rather, the land on which he lived became part of Trigg Co. when it was formed. He lived on Donaldson creek (spelled Donelson on some maps and on some old tax records.) I have stood on this creek--in short, I have searched the Christian and Trigg county records thoroughly. "Caleb, brother of my James and of Carlton, apparently went out to KY. first, as he can be found on Christian Co. tax records as early as 1798. Then a few years later James and Carlton and even Joshua are on the tax records, and their names are to be found in various and sundry deeds and court records. "Now, let me explain where my bunch came from before they went to KY. Let' s start back in 1785. In that year they are in Surry Co. N.C. I can document this--Carlton was a resident of Surry Co. and is mentioned in a few court records--records that don't tell much but do establish that he was a resident. Also, James is mentioned as a witness in a court case (and, again, it is clear that he was a resident of the county) .•.. 33 "THEN, they are to be found in Rutherford Co. N.C. in 1794. Both James William Lindsey and Caleb bought land in Rutherford Co. in 1794; also Carlton bought land in 1798; and a John Lindsey (whom we believe is another brother) received a land grant in 1798. The deed books of Rutherford Co. are just full of James', Carlton's, and Joshua's dealings, as well as those of Caleb. There is no doubt whatever that these are our men. Furthermore, Carlton is involved in some land deals with a Micajah Lindsey, whom you may have run into in some of your research. He moved to KY. also, and later moved back to S.C. (Spartan• burg Co.) for a brief time, then moved to Alabama, thence to Miss. where he died, leaving a large family. I have quite a bit of info on them, also. 14icajah is a cousin to my James, or some such relationship, but I can't prove it at this point." "I can say with certainty that my Lindseys were: 1. In Surry Co. N.C. in 1785. My James would have been about 20-25 yrs. old at this time; Carlton was about the same age and Joshua was a bit younger, I think. Also think there was a John and of course a Caleb--Caleb was the oldest, I G~ink. 2. In Rutherford Co. N.C. in 1790 thru about 1797; they are in numerous court records and deeds; they were also listed in Spartanburg Co. S.C. records a few times--but as I mentioned that border dispute was going strong. 3. In Christian Co. KY. in 1802; Caleb was there earlier. They stayed there until 1817 (maybe a year earlier they left: can't pin it down exactly.) Carlton stayed on and d. 1825 Trigg Co. I can't say what happened to Joshua; he did not move on to Arkansas and there are no probate records for him in Ky that I can find. John went to Ark., I think, but can't be sure the John I find there is the same John. There was a John living in Conway Co., however, later on. 4. James & Caleb did go to Ark--to old Lawrence County and then in 1825 they moved down into what is now Grant Co. Ark. (It was Pulaski Co., then became Saline Co. in 1825, then Grant Co. after the Civil War.) JameS d. 1831: he had a son CARLTON also, who died the same week--cholera. I have the death notices, etc. Carlton was married and had a couple of small children when he died. James also had a son Elijah, from whom I descend.") Query 2: Philip Lindsay Born 1758 on a paternal estate called Dykehead, Evandale in Lanarkshire, Scotland. Son of a James Lindsay, himself the son of "a weal thy country gentleman." It is not known exactly when he left Scotland for the colonies , but he turned up in Virginia, where in 1791 he married Elizabeth Barnes Lego, a young widow with an infant son, Andrew Lego, at Mt. Crawford, Virginia. Their children were Philip Lindsay, Jr., Elizabeth, Cathryn and Mary. They are buried in an old, neglected, small cemetery (probably Methodist) off the road between Mt. Crawford and Bridgewater. In the 1930s the graves of Elizabeth Barnes (1760-1844), her son by her first marriage, Andrew Lego (1788-1868), and his wife Mary (1789-1853) were marked by still readable headstones. The grave next to Elizabeth is obvious but the headstone is partly destroyed, the inscription 34 unreadable but it is probably that of Philip. Philip, Jr., lived in Bridge• water, fought in the War of 1812 & died & was buried there in 1875. I have no record of the three daughters born to Philip & Elizabeth Lindsay. Scottish origin--from the correspondence of cousin Andrew Gladden (his mother was a Lindsay, daughter of Philip, Jr.) who around the turn of the century, spent some time in Scotland tracing the line & of cousin Thomas Gladden of Annapolis, Maryland, who got the information regarding the military service of Philip, Jr., from the office of the Adjutant General, War Department, Washington, DC. The other Lindsays of this line lived not only in Mt. Crawford (?) and Bridgewater, but also in Churchville and in Harrisonburg and in Rockingham County. Whether Andrew Gladden conducted his Scotland research on his own or with professional help is unknown. One version states that Philip was the son of James Lindsay -- another that Philip "descended from the family of a James Lindsay who was the son of a weal thy country gentleman of Scotland." The link between his birth in Scotland in 1758 and his marriage at Mt. Crawford in 1791 needs more research. Cousin Thomas Gladden had three volumes of Lindsay family lore, but stressed "no direct line" could be established altho much coincided with family "hand-me-downs" -- legends & his tories. It was believed that this line was connected with Northumberland County & Dry River lines. The name "Edzell" (a place name) & that of a "Bishop Lindsay" (a person) crop up often in the family lore -- just what connection is there? ------Margaret Lindsay Descheneaux, 1625 Concord Drive, Charlottesville, VA 22901 Query 3: Jacob and Phoebea Lindsey To begin with, my line of Lindseys go back from Coosa County, Alabama, to Jones County, Georgia, and my Great-great-great-grandfather JACOB LINDSEY, JR. JACOB, JR., was born in Virginia on February 5, 1778, the son of JACOB LINDSAY, SR., JACOB, SR. 's wife's name is unknown to us, as are the names of all his sons, although we know that JACOB, JR., had a brother named THOMAS, and another named JOHN. We think there may have been other brothers, but if so, ~~eir names have been lost to us. We do know that JACOB LINDSEY, SR., and his family, inCluding JACOB, JR., carne to Wilkes County, Georgia, and settled on land acquired on a bounty land warrant issued on April 4, 1785. The land in the warrant book was described as "200 acres good land." JACOB, SR., was granted an additional 350 acres in Wilkes County on Morris's Creek under a warrant dated May 2, 1785. On March 24, 1792, JACOB, SR., sold thirty acres of this last land to a neighbor, Richard Heard, for the sum of 30 pounds Sterling, and the deed was witnessed by JOHN LINDSAY. On the 7th of May, 1800, JACOB, SR., sold an additional eleven acres of his land on Morris's Creek to his neighbor Isaiah Laudder for the sum of "twenty-five dollars." This deed was witnessed by ABRAHAM LINDSEY and JACOB LINDSEY, JR. In 1807, Jones County was distributed by the 1807 Land Lottery, and JACOB LINDSEY, SR., living in Wilkes County at the time, drew land lot 56 in the 10th land district of original Baldwin County. That lot lies in Jones County, which was created in 1807. This lot contained 202~ acres, and was granted to JACOB LINDSEY, SR., on September 2, 1808. 35 At this point, let us back up for two years to 1806. Wilkes County marriage records show that JACOB LINDSAY and PHOEBEA LINDSAY were granted a marriage license on May 12, 1806, and were married by Thomas Anderson, Justice of the Peace, in Wilkes County on May 14, 1806. Now back to 1808, and the above 202~ acres granted to JACOB, SR., in newly created Jones County. A deed filed with the Jones County Court Clerk on April 26, 1810, shows that JACOB LINDSEY, SR., of Wilkes County, sold to JACOB LINDSEY, JR., of Jones County, the above 202~ acres of land in Jones County for the sum of fifty dollars. So, JACOB, JR., and PHOEBEA had left JACOB, SR's, farm in Wilkes County and started farming their own land in Jones County. Interestingly, PHOEBEA LINDSEY was a first cousin to her husband JACOB, JR. Her father was ISAAC LINDSAY of South Carolina, brother of JACOB LINDSAY, SR. PHOEBEA's mother's name was RACF~EL. PHOEBEA LINDSEY was born in South Carolina on March 10, 1781. Before we take up JACOB, JR., and PHOEBEA's history and their children, let us return to JACOB, SR., in Wilkes County. JACOB, SR., and wife continued to live on their large farm on Morris's Creek and on the 22nd day of September, 1810, sold and conveyed title to the farm to JAMES LINDSEY (thought to be either a son or nephew) with the express proviso in the deed that he and his wife continue to live on the land in the place they resided on without any disturbance during the remainder of their lives. This deed was recorded in Wilkes County courthouse on August 3, 1811. Another interesting point about JACOB, SR's, life in Wilkes County is this: His father was supposedly named ELIJAH LINDSEY~ however, we know almost nothing about ELIJAH LINDSEY except for the fact that he was the father of JACOB, SR., ISAAC, THOMAS, ELIAS, HIRAM, and DAVID LINDSEY. However, we did uncover this information in old Wilkes County records: Apparently ELIJAH LINDSEY came to Wilkes County sometime in the late 1780s or early 1790s, from where we know not. We do know that he was granted 200 acres of land on Pistol Creek in Wilkes County from a warrant dated August 6, 1798. This land adjoined THOMAS LINDSEY's land, and somehow the transaction involved both THOMAS LINDSEY and EDMUND LINDSEY. An interesting point here is that the surveyor's plat or drawing of this 200 acres with its description is almost identical to the drawing and description of the 200 acres granted to JACOB, SR., in 1785. I believe it is thes~el~d. Question is, who exactly was this ELIJAH LINDSEY? He was not a brother, of this we are almost certain. He'must have been either JACOB, BR's, father or a son whom we have been unaware of all these years. My guess is that it was JACOB, SR's, father ELIJAH who carneon to Georgia from one of the Carolinas to spend his last years close to his son or sons. Anyway, ELIJAH LINDSEY died in wilkes County sometime in the Spring of 1815. Wilkes County records show that JOHN LINDSEY was appointed administrator of ELIJAH's estate and that JACOB LINDSEY, SR., entered into a bond on his account as administrator in the sum of two thousand dollars. Subsequent to an appraisal of ELIJAH's estate, his personal property was sold and those individuals buying portions of it were: DUEY (7) LINDSEY, JAMES LINDSEY, LANDFORD PULLIN, JOHN LINDSEY, and JACOB LINDSEY. The sale of the estate was made on the 23rd of June, 1817. Al~~ough there is no will found for ELIJAH, we do know that a portion of the 200 acres grant to ELIJAH in 1798 was 36 l inherited •by JACOB, SR., as evidenced by the deed to this portion granted by JACOB, SR., to one JOS. PULLIN on August 22, 1816, in Wilkes County, wherein JACOB, SR., conveys " .••his rights and claim of a proportionable part of a tract of land formerly owned by Elijah Lindsay, Deceased .... " This deed was recorded in Wilkes County on April 13, 1818. As far as we are able to determine, JACOB, SR., died sometime after 1818 in Wilkes County, although he did not leave a will. He apparently continued to live until his death on his land and farm which was bought by JAMES LINDSEY, as set forth above. Now, let us go back to JACOB, JR., and PHOEBEA in Jones County and pick up there in 1809 or 1810. They had left JACOB, SR's, farm in Wilkes County and brought their first born son, JOSEPH, along to Jones County, where they began building a farm out of the 202~ acres on Glady Creek in northern Jones County. They built a rail pen to hold the livestock and a portion of it was used by them for living quarters until their log house was finished. There in this log house was born their second son, JAMES, on May 7, 1808, the first of their children to be born in Jones County on the so-called "Old Home Plantation." A list of the names, birthdates, places of death, and dates of death of JACOB, JR., and PHOEBEA LINDSEY's children are as follows: 1. JOSEPH, born February 28, 1807, in Wilkes County; died December 20, 1883, in Tallapoosa County, Alabama. 2. JAMES, born May 7, 1808, in Jones County; died October 28, 1878, in Jones County. 3. WHITEFIELD, born July 9, 1809, in Jones County; died March 13, 1886, in Alabama. 4. ELIAS, born October 26, 1810, in Jones County; died February 6, 1861 in Coosa County, Alabama. 5. JACOB, born February 3, 1812, in Jones County; died October 6, 1858, place unknown. 6. BENJAMIN, born May 28, 1813, in Jones County; died September 12, 1839, place unknown. 7. THOMAS, born October 11, 1814, in Jones County; died December 1, 1877, place unknown. 8. JOHN, born February 1, 1816, in Jones County; died July 3, 1850, place unknown. 9. ELIJAH, born May 31, 1817, in Jones County; died February 22, 1884, place unknown. 10. JESSIE, born August 25, 1818, in Jones County; died January 2, 1849, place unknown. 11. CAROLINE, born October 3, 1819, in Jones County; died January 25, 1832, in Jones County. 12 ELIZABETH, born January 28, 1821, in Jones County; died April 4, 1898, in Alabama. 13. REBECCA, born April 20, 1823, in Jones County; died February 10, 1844, in Jones County. 14. HIRAM, born April 2, 1826, in Jones County; died December 25, 1849, in Jones County. 37 JACOB, JR., and PHOEBEA LINDSEY lived on the 400-plus acre,Old Home Plantation and raised cotton until JACOB, JR's, death at 12 O'C~ock on June 13, 1857. He left a fairly substantial estate, including eight Negro slaves. My Great-great-grandfather ELIAS was named as administrator [executor?] of the will, in which the old gentleman stated: " ...1 c~mmit my soul to God who gave it, and direct my body to be decently interred in the Family burial grounds in such manner suitable to my condition and circumstances in life." Subsequent to the settlement and sale of the JACOB LINDSEY estate, PHOEBEA left Georgia and went to live with her oldest son JOSEPH on his large plantation near Newsite, Alabama, in Tallapoosa County. Other members of the family also left Jones County, Georgia, after the death of JACOB, JR., one of whom was my Great-great-grandfather ELIAS, who married MARY ANN BUTLER on September 3rd, 1857, in Jasper County, Georgia. Shortly after JACOB, JR's, estate was settled, ELIAS and MARY ANN migrated to Coosa County, Alabama, where they established a good cotton farm, began a family; and lived until ELIAS's death on February 6, 1861. He left a substantial amount of land and thirteen Negro slaves at the time of his death. My Great-grandfather ELIAS was born just two days after his death, on February 8, 1861. PHOEBEA LINDSEY continued to live in Tallapoosa County, Alabama, until her death on March 16, 1867. She is buried in the LINDSEY family cemetery beside Lindsey Mill Road, off Hillabee Road, near Alexander City, Alabama. The following chart of Lindseys in our line is based on information con• tained in the JACOB LINDSEY, JR., bible, which was last known to be in ~he possession of a Levis Tankersley in Tallapoosa Ccunty, Alabama, about thirty or forty years ago. It has disappeared and we no longer are sure of its exist• ence. However, the information written in it has been transcribed by various people in years past and the basic information is always the same, except for some differences in dates. For instance, the bible stated that THOMAS LINDSEY came to this country from England in 1615, or another version, in 1715, or another, 1675. However, all versions all agree that he settled in Halifax County, Virginia. This is very strange, in as much as I understand that Halifax County was not formed until around 1750. Also, old handed down tradition is that the early Lindseys came from the Shenandoah River Valley in Virginia, and had raised fine horses and tobacco on their land along the Shenandoah River. I have a copy of an old letter written in 1921 to my grandfather from a James Benjamin Franklin Lindsey of Roanoke, Alabama, which states that the Lindsey line as given in JACOB, JR's, bible was corroborated by another Lindsey in that area who, while in Virginia fighting during the Civil War, got acquainted with an old lady there who gave him the same Lindsey line. This old lady's name was "BROCKMAN." Another tradition handed down was that" ...Great-grandfather Jacob fought in one of the old wars." This has always been understood to have been the Revolutionary War by recent generations of our line. This reference is to .JACOB LINDSEY, SR., and I have found mentions of JACOB LINDSEY, SR., of Wilkes County, Georgia, as being a Revolutionary soldier whose name appeared on land lottery lists as such. In as much as JACOB, JR., was born on February 5, 1778, in Virginia, it would appear that any Revolutionary service rendered by JACOB, SR., would have been in Virg inia dur ing this per iod. Also, you will remember that he appeared in Wilkes County, Georgia, in the early part of 1785, after th e CHar ended. I have found wher e a JACOB LINDSEY was recommended for the 38 rank of ensign in the Frederick County, Virginia, militia on April 11, 1783. Also, an ABRAHAM LINDSAY was recommended for the rank of captain, both in the 1st Battalion. I have no way of knowing if this JACOB LINDSAY is our JACOB LINDSEY, SR., of Wilkes County. Our line as taken from the JACOB LINDSEY, JR., bible: I Sr.ThomasIsaac?Abraham*• AbrahamH1.ramI•rIJonntJamesJohnI?James*Il.asJacobThomas Thomas Jacob,ElijahJacob,Jr. •El'# I, 1t y *names not in bible, so far as I know There is some conflict in the information handed down on PHOEBEA LINDSEY's parents. Not as to her father: We know for certain that he was ISAAC LINDSEY of South Carolina, brother of JACOB LINDSEY, SR., of Wilkes County. However, some have said that PHOEBEAls mother was named RACHAEL. Others have said her name was REBECCA. Still another bit of information was that she descended from John Alden, a well-known early American pilgrim. PHOEBEA's father ISAAC LINDSEY was said to have been a well-known woodsman and explorer of the early American frontier, and tradition has it that he guided such notables as Daniel Boone and Captain "Billy" Rush in explorations into Kentucky and other areas of the region. These stories are all vague and uncorroborated at least as far as I know personally. ------James A. Lindsey, 705 Beverley Drive, Laredo, TX 78041 [Editor IS note: Whereas Mr. Lindsey in the above query has used "A" and "E" spellings interchangeably, I have put the Georgia line into "E" except where I missed one or two. The Isaac Lindsey who was the explorer must be Isaac Lindsey of Lindseys Bluff, Sumner County, TN, who was a Long Hunter and a founder of Heatons Station in Middle Tennessee in 1779. A list of Isaac's children by his second wife--Rhoda--has a daughter Rhoda born 21 Mch 1780 and a daughter Prudence born 22 Jly 1782, both born at Heatons Station, which leaves no room for Phoebea born 10 Mch 1781. I suspect Isaac Lindsey the Long Hunter was the brother of Elijah, putative father of Jacob, Sr., of Wilkes County, GA, and that he is confused with another Isaac who could have been Phoebea's father. I further suspect Elijah and Jacob, Sr., were brothers, possibly sons of Abraham Lindsey, who also settled in Wilkes County, Georgia, after the Revolution.] * * * * * * * * * * Tennessee Land Grants to 1820 The Tennessee Archives, Nashville, has consolidated its several land grant indexes into one master card index, which has been filmed and made avail• able at the Genealogical Library in Salt Lake City. The following are all the land grants to Lindsays issued by the state of Tennessee or by North Carolina 39 to lands in Tennessee. The index does not seem to include warrants and surveys that were assigned later to others; thus there may exist Lindsay warrants and surveys not in the following if such rights were assigned by the Lindsay to persons of other surnames. NC Grants #483 C:126 to David Lindsey 20 Sep 1787 for 640 acres in Green Co. on Plumb Creek and Churin Camp Creek, including his improvements, near Browns Path adjoining James Mitchell. On warrant #1356. Chain carriers: James Casey and James Mitchell. NC Grants #434 C:126 to David Lindsey 20 Sep 1787 for 400 acres in Green Co. on waters of Lick Creek and Plumb Creek, adjoining Christians War Path. On warrant #1357. Chain carriers: James Casey and James Mitchell. NC Grants #63 G7:29 to Isaac Lindsey 17 Apr 1786 for 640 acres in Davidson Co. on north side of Cumberland River on both sides of Turney's Branch adjoin• ing Turney. On warrant #298. Chain carriers: Thos. Jemeson and Ezekiel Lindsey. [This is Lindseys Bluff.] NC Grants #47 H8:29 to Isaac Lindsey 8 Oct 1787 for 320 acres in Davidson Co. at mouth of Wills's Creek on north side of Cumberland River adjoining McAdoes field ana the Cumberland River. On warrant #1 to Isaac Lindsey as "one of the Guard to the Commissioner for laying off the lands allotted the officers and"soldiers of the Continental line," Le., the NC Military Reserve. [Actually, the guard was probably William Loggins, whose assignee Isaac Lindsey was.] Chain carriers: Lewis Crain and David Shannon. [This is Heatons Station.] NC Grants #154 HS:96 to Isaac Lindsey 1 Dec 1794 for 400 acres in Sumner Co. on south side of Cumberland River adjoining William Dillard. "No warrant or Survey." Isaac Lindsey is here the assignee of Seaward Clayton, a private in Evans's Battalion of Troops. This same grant is also recorded in NC Grants 10:97. NC Grants #181 F6:152 to Isaac Lynsey 26 Mch 1795 for 2S0 acres in Sumner Co. on south side of Cumberland River adjoining said Linsey's 640 acres. "No date of Entry." Isaac Lynsey is here assignee of Martin Arms trong, surveyor of the NC Military Reserve. Chain carriers: Ezekiel Linsey and Isaac Lindsey. NC Grants #253 F6:llS to Isaac Lynsey 27 Feb 1796 for 640 acres in Sumner Co. on south side of Cumberland River on south side of dividing ridge between Stones River and Cumberland River, beginning at the road at the north fork of Hurricane Creek. Entered 19 Dec 1789. Isaac Lynsey is here assignee of Martin Armstrong, surveyor of the NC Military Reserve. Chain carriers: Ezekiel Lynsey and Isaac Lynsey. General TN Grants #2379 M899 to Isaac Lindsey 19 Jly lSlO for 200 acres in Wilson Co. in the first district on waters of Spencer's and Cedar Lick Creeks, adjoining William Cage, Donelson, and Gillispie, including said Isaac Lindsey's improvement. By virtue of certificate #318 1 Sep 1809 from commission of West TN and entered 13 Nov 1809 by #4100 as occupant claim under Act of 1809, surveyed 10 Oct 1809. 40 General TN Grants #3567 M904 to Isaac Lindsey 3 Dec 1811 for 200 acres in Sumner Co. in first district, lOth Range 4th Section, adjoining Joshua Hadley. By virtue of certificate #262 18 Aug 1807 from commission of West TN and entered 26 Aug 1807 by #140, surveyed 10 Oct 1807. General TN Grants #3568 M906 to Isaac Lindsey 18 Aug 1807 for 76 acres in Sumner Co. in··first district, 10th Range 4th Section, adjoining Joshua Hadley and the river bank, on Isaac's own land, and David Shelby. By virtue of the residue of certificate #262 18 Aug 1807 from commission of West TN and entered 26 Aug 1807 by #358, surveyed 10 Oct 1807. NC Grants #171 A77 to James Lyndzey 20 Dec 1791 for 250 acres in Middle District on Catheys Creek on south side of Duck River, adjoining Henry Rutherford. On warrant #22, a guard right. Chain carriers: Elijah Patton and Jos. Kilpatrick. NC Grants #367 A194 to James Lindsey 17 Dec 1794 for 1000 acres in Middle District on both sides of Duck River and both sides of ~eatherwoods Creek and along the NC Military Reserve line. On warrant #2103. Chain carriers: John Rains and Michael Cline. General TN Grants #14133 Q259 to John Linsey 24 Dec 1819 for 10 acres lying in second district in Lincoln Co. at head of the second creek above mouth of Mulberry called Roundtrees Creek, adjoining Matthew McGehee. By virtue of certificate #875 3 Jan 1818 issued by co~mission for West TN to Boling Fisher and entered 6 Jan 1817 by #9866, surveyed 14 Mch 1816. Boling's original certificate was for 1200 acres. East TN Grants #1018 4:144 to Rachel Lindsey 12 May 1810 for 16 acres in Sevier Co. in district south of French Broad and Holston on waters of Birds Creek. Pursuant to Act of 1809. Surveyed 23 Apr 1807. East TN Grants #3533 4:217 to William Linsey, also Lindsey, 1 Oct 1815 for 6 acres in Carter Co. on Plumb Creek on north bank of Watauga River. On entry 6th District, Surveyor's Office #57 21 Aug 1811 on certificate #30 19 Jly 1808 issued to heirs of Andrew Green for 2480 acres, of which 6 acres assigned to William Linsey. Surveyed 22 May 1812. * * * * * * * * * * * Lindsay Newsletter: Southern Colonial Branches Volume 1, Number 3 August 1981 Whole Number 3 CONTENTS: North Carolina Marriage Bonds to 1820 ...... • 43 An Incorrect Ancestry for the portobacco Lindseys of Ear ly Maryland ...... •...•. 4'6 1790 u. s. Cen su s •.••...... •••...•....••...... 5 a Index 56 Queries: 4. Abraham Lindsey of Marengo County, Alabama (Lindsey Keene) ...... •..•..•...... 57 5. David Lindsey of Pennsylvania (Forres t 1;-'1ood)...... •.....•.•.....•.. 57 Lt. Col. John Lindsey of Newberry County, SC ..... 59 Lindsey Family Graveyard, Clarke County, VA ....•• 60 The Lindsay Newsletter: Southern Colonial Branches is published quarterly (February, May, August, and November) at New York City. A yearly subscription is ~lO.OO, checks payable to Elliott L. Stringham. Please send checks, all changes of address, and all inquires about back issues to: Elliott Lindsey Stringham Publisher, Lindsay Newsletter 124 East 7lst Street New York City, NY 10021 42 COMMENTS: TO the North Carolina marriage records on pages 43-46, please add: North and South Carolina Marriage Records from the Earliest Colonial Days to the Civil War, William Montgomery Clemens, (New York, NY: 1927), p. 164: Sarah Lindsay married Samuel Kearney 10 N0U 1796 in Halifax County, Ne. On Lindsay Newsletter pages 10-20 and 28-29 are verbatim extracts from the Annual Reports of the Lindsay Family Association of America, founded 1904 in Boston. The statement that only six yearly issues (1904-1909) were published is not correct, although that is all appearing on the LOS Genealogical Library film used to make the abstracts. While rereading my notes made at the Library of Congress, I found there were actually ten yearly issues (1904• 1913). A future issue will complete the abstracts. In taking on editorship of this newsletter, I promised myself not to dun people for articles nor bemoan in print any seeming lack of support. If articles and lineages are submitted, they will be considered for publication and probably printed. If no such articles are sent, then it is likely the only historical and analytical articles to appear will be those of the line of the publisher and editor. The general source material will continue. The newsle~ter will actively request queries and such primary material as bibles, old letters, and cemetery records. The descendants of the Long Marsh Lindseys are beginning a campaign to collect family group sheets on all descendants surnamed Lindsey, carrying the lines down to the Civil War. In perhaps ten years the material will be published in a book on the Long Marsh family. All Long Marsh descendants who are interested should write the editor or publisher. (The foregoing is not worded too well; the group sheets are only for the Long Marsh lines surnamed Lindsey. ) The Newsletter seeks to bring together the ser ious researchers of the Southern Lindsays in all spellings of Lindsay to untangle the many branches into their correct families and thus extend the lines back to the immigrants and their British ancestors. Although the Newsletter is concerned with Lindsays born before the Revolution, it publishes information tracing such persons to their deaths ,even if long after 1775. The South before the Revolution is defined as all the eastern u.S. south and west of the Delaware River. That includes Pennsylvania. The editor solicits any relevant material--from short queries, bible entries, and tombstone inscriptions to lengthy lineages and analytical articles discussing "stonewall" problems. The editor wants to corre• spond with everyone doing Southern colonial Lindsay research, so write: William Thorndale Editor, Lindsay Newsletter 1156 East 300 South, Apt. C Salt Lake City, UT 84102 The Newsletter is not copyrighted, buc all authors may copyright ~~eir articles at their own discretion. 43 North Carolina Marriage Bonds to 1820 Over the decades early in this century the counties of North Carolina sent their surviving marriage bond records to the state archives in Raleigh. They were directed to do so by state law. In the 1930s a federal make-work project indexed the bonds, which were later typed by county by the Genealogical Society of the LDS Church. In 1978 the state archives consolidated all the bonds found in the typed Genealogical Society volumes and reproduced the result• ing master index on microfiche. In colonial North Carolina from 1741 to 1868 there were two procedures for giving notice of intent to marry: (1) By having the banns read ~~ree successive Sundays in the church where the marriage was to be performed, or by posting notice on the courthouse door in two successive general court terms, or (2) by the groom securing a license in the bride's county, for which he had to post bond that no legal encumbrances existed to the proposed marriage, for which bond he paid a fee. It is likely only a minority of colonial marriages were by bond/license and it is certain few survive before 1790. The noted Raleigh genealogist William Perry Johnson estimated only 10% of North Carolina marriages are recorded in the surviving bonds and most of those are dated after 1790. Thus few Lindsay marriages for North Carolina are likely to have left a present-day record if they occurred before 1790. Such as survive are given below, to which are added one bond where the bride's middle name is Linsay and one marriage which was found in a periodical. The periodicals The North Carolinian (1955-1975) and the North Carolina Genealogical Society Journal (1975• to present) have been checked for any Lindsay marriages in any new bonds found recently. Along with the groom's surety (i.e., bondsman), who was often a kinsman, is given the witness to the bond, who was usually the county clerk. Linsey (first name not given} to marry William Woods, Orange bond 1 Aug 1781. No bondsman listed; witness: A. Tatom. Adam P. Lindsey to marry Elizabeth Edge, Orange bond 13 Mch 1802. Bondsman: William ~earson; Witness: Jno. Taylor. Anderson Lindsey to marry Sally Moody, Surry bond 14 Oct 1806. Bondsman: Abner Searcy: no witness listed. Anne Lindsey to marry George Hodge, Orange bond 25 Oct 1815. Bondsman: Jos. Hodge; witness: J. Taylor. Atha Lindsay to marry Sarah Loyd, Orange bond 19 Nov 1792. Bondsman: Isaac Morris; witness: John Taylor. Caleb Lindsey to marry Temperance House, Warren bond 28 Jne 1803. Bondsman: Sugan Jones: witness: M. Duke Johnson. Caleb Lindsey to marry Martha Brewer, Orange bond 17 Dec 1807. Bondsman: Willis Lee: witness: J. Taylor. Church Lindsay to marry Ann Dowday, Craven bond 14 Apr 1814. Bondsman: Cymbo Yarrow: no witness listed. Darcas Lindsey to marry William H. Searcy, Warren bond 24 Dec 1805. Bondsman: Atkins McLemore; witness: Jo. Terrell. Dempsy Linsey to marry Sally Johnson, Craven bond 28 Nov 1820. Bondsman: Asa Spelman: witness: Eliza Stanly. I 44 Dorcas Lindsay to marry Robert Clarke, Mecklenburg bond 27 Feb 1790. Bonds• man: James Spears; witness: Isaac Alexander. Elizabeth Lindsay to marry Thomas Horton, Craven bond 30 May 1784. Bondsman: Elias Justice; witness: Abner Neale. Elizebth Lindsay to marry Samuel Wilkins, Craven bond 2 Apr 1800. Bondsman: Thomas Webber; witness: Saml Chapman. Elizabeth Lindsey to marry Joseph Bray, Surry bond 11 May 1820. Bondsman: Jno. Williams; witness: ? Frances Lindsay to marry Hugh Stubblefield, Rockingham bond 29 Nov 1809. Bondsman: Robt. Menzies; witness: Ja. Campbell. Grief Lindsey to marry Elizabeth Estes, Burke bond 18 Jly 1817. Bondsman: John Loving; no witness given. Hetty E. Lindsay to marry John Slaide, Guilford bond 14 Nov 1815. Bondsman: William Herefo£; witness: Jo Davis. Isaac Lindsey to marry Betsey Slaughter, Richmond bond 28 Dec 1802. Bonds• man: Zebulon Slaughter. James Lindsey to marry Mary McMan, Orange bond 28 Aug 1792. Bondsman: Joseph Ellison; witness: Abner B. Bruce [the middle B. may be his mark]. James Lindsey to marry Nancy Clark, Orange bond 29 Apr 1807. Bondsman: James Clark; witness: J. Taylor. James Linsey to marry Fanney Logan, Rutherford bond 15 Mch 1813. Bondsman: Thomas Morelang; witness: Wm. McBrayer. James Lindsey to marry Isabella Wright, Lincoln bond 8 Mch 1814. Bondsman: Henry Wright; witness: Saml Wilson. James J. Lindsey to marry Polley W. Hall, Orange bond 19 Dec 1815. Bondsman: Levi McCollum: witness: J. Taylor. Jeanett Lindsay to marry Charles Adams, Craven bond 30 Aug 1792. Bondsman: Isaac Taylor: witness: S. Chapman. Jenney Lindsay~ to marry Jesse Hargrove, Guilford bond 18 Meh 1803. Bonds• man: Robert Lindsay; witness: John Hamilton. Jesse Lindsay to marry Mary Banton, Craven bond 13 Aug 1820. Bondsman: Church Higgin: no witness listed. Jno. Lindsay to marryJno.Shd.Taylor.SarahGreen.K~rney, Warren bond 9 Nov 1796. Bondsman: H.G. Lloyd;Kearney;wiwitness:tness : John Lindsey to marry Fanny Morris, Orange bond 8 Feb 1800. Bondsman: Henry John Lindsey to marry Elizabeth Hudson, Orange bond 23 Meh 1803. Bondsman: James Milliken: witness: Jno. Taylor. John Lindsay to marry Bethiah Clark, Orange bond 25 Aug 1808. Bondsman: Wms. McNeill: witness: J. Taylor. John Lindsey to marry Maria Pendleton, Craven bond 12 Nov 1813. Bondsman: Asa Ransome: no witness listed. John Lindsay to marry Martha Webb, Northampton bond 20 Oct 1816. Bondsman: Thomas Sexton: witness: Tom Hughes. 45 Judith Lindsey to marry Isaac Dillard, Surry bond 11 Jan 1808. Bondsman: Laban Lindsay no witness listed. Leonard Lindsey to marry Winney Patterson, Surry bond 9 Sep 1818. Bondsman: Joseph Bray; no witness listed. Lucy Lindsay to marry Abraham Johnston, Craven bond 13 Apr 1805. Bondsman: Donum Montford; witness: S. Chapman. Margareth Linsay Doudle to marry John Wilson, Cabarrus bond 5 Mch 1793. Bonds• man: William McEntire; witness: John Simianer. Maria Lindsay to marry Thomas Mitchell, Craven bond 20 Jly 1816. Bondsman: Shaderik Gatlin; no witness listed. Martha Lindsay to marry Jesse Clark, Orange bond 27 Jan 1792. Bondsman: Jas. Lindsey; witness: A. Benton Bruce. Mary Linsey to marry Josiah Roberts, Rutherford bond 1 Sep 1803. Bondsman: Morris Roberts, witness: Wm. McBrayer. Mary Linsey to marry Morris Roberts, Rutherford bond 4 Feb 1804. Bondsmen: James Linsey and William McSwain; witness: C. Wilkins. Mary Lindsey to marry Phil~p Hain, Lincoln bond 20 Dec 1812. Bondsman: Jacob Reinhardt; witness: V. McBee for Hains. Milly L~nsey to marry Benjamin Thurmon, Warren bond 13 Jne 1790. Bondsman: Caleb Lindsey; witness: M. Duke Johnson. Milly Lindsay to marry Jno. A. Patrick, Rockingham bond 2 Jne 1819. Bondsman: A Patrick; witness: Wm. Fewel. Moria Lindsey married John Mills, in Iredell __ Feb 1801. Performed by John Huggins, Esq. (Marriage entry taken from McCubbins Collection, Rowan Public Library, Salisbury, NC, as cited in the North Carolinian 6 (1960) 650.) Nancy Lindsay to marry Nathaniel Kimbell, Warren bond 8 Nov [not given] . Bondsman: Caleb Lindsey; witness: M. Duke Johnson. Polley Lind~ to marry Archibald Clark, Orange bond 7 Mch 1810. Bondsman: Joseph Smith; no witness listed. Polly Lindsey to marry Samuel Campbell, Rowan bond 7 Aug 1816. Bondsman: Robert Moore; witness: Jno. Giles. Polly Lindsey to marry William Wilkinson, Orange bond 16 Sep 1819. Bondsman: S. Clark; witness: Joseph A. Woods. Prudence Lindsay to marry Jeremiah Gaskins, Craven bond 17 Dee 1816. Bondsman: Church Lindsay; no witness listed. Rebecca Lindsey to marry Ephraim Cates, Orange bond 7 Oet 1803. Bondsman: John Bailiff; witness: Jno. Taylor. Rebecca Lindsey to marry Ephraim Cates, Orange bond 24 Aug 1804. Bondsman: Wrn. Smith; witness: Jno. Taylor. Robert Lindsay to marry Ann McGee, Guilford bond 23 Jne 1772. Bondsman: Saml. Henderson; witness: Thos Clark. Robert Lindsay to marry Letty Harper, Randolph bond 9 Jne 1803. Bondsman: John Allen; witness: J. Harper. 46 Robert Lindsey to marry Margret Ellison, Orange bond 25 Oct 1804. Bondsman: Thomas Ellison: witness: Jno. Taylor. Rosanah Lindsey to marry James Martin, Orange bond 28 May 1795. Bondsman: 28 May 1795. Bondsman: John Snipes: witness: M. Hart. Ruth Lindsey to marry willis Lee, Orange bond 19 May 1800. Bondsman: Henry Edwards: witness: Jno. Taylor. Sally Lindsey to marry Joseph Hodge, Orange bond 7 Sep 1812. Bondsman: James Rily: witness: John Taylor. Samuel Lindsey to marry Elaner Wilson, Jr., Lincoln bond 25 Sep 1790. Bonds• man: James Graham: no witness listed. Samuel Lindsay to marry Hetty W. Causey, Randolph bond 30 Apr 1801. Bondsman: Elisha Mendenh~; witness: Robt Lindsay. [? Mendenhall] Samuel W. Lindsay to marry Vilet W. MacLean, Lincoln bond 22 Feb 1820. Bonds• man: Richard D. S. McLean: witness: V. McBee. Susanah Lindsay to marry Joseph Wood, Guilford bond 7 Jne 1811. Bondsman: Joseph Davis: witness: Jo. Davis. William Lindsey to marry Rosy C~leman, Caswell bond 17 Sep 1800. Bondsman: William Florencei witness: Sol. Debow. Wm. Linsey to marry Salley Fossett, Orange bond 21 Jne 1806. Bondsman: Rt. [Robert] Glenn: witness: J. Taylor. Wm. Lindsay to marry Elizabeth Briggs, Stokes bond 17 Feb 1807. Bondsman: T. Armstrong: no witness listed. Zillah Lindsey to marry Charles Riggin, Bute bond 10 Jan 1774. Bondsman: Joseph Lindsey: witness: Thos. Machen. * * * * * * * * An Incorrect Ancestry for the Portobacco Lindseys of Early Maryland Among the earliest settlers of Kentucky was Anthony Lindsay, the founder of Lindsays Station on the Elkhorn.l Anthony's Lindsay ancestry is the subject of the first thirteen pages of a book titled Grandpas, Inlaws, and Outlaws, and a captivating ancestry it is. The author traces the Lindsay line back to a Scot who "held a close relationship wi th George Calvert," First Lord Baltimore. Thomas, the Scot in question, supposedly died in 1608 at Fen-Stanton in Hunt• ingdonshire, England, leaving at least sons Christopher, who went to Massa• chusetts, and Edward, who followed Calvert to Newfoundland in 1627 and to Jamestown, Virginia, in 1629. Further, according to this book, Edward was a ~ea captain and commanded the ship that brought Gov. Leonard Calvert to the New World to establish the colony of Maryland. Edward is said to have had four sons: (1) James, who is named in the governor's will and later became prominent in Charles County, (2) Edmund, whose Portobacco inn at one time served as the Charles County courthouse, (3) Thomas, who ultimately settled in Cecil County, and (4) John, who lived in Isle of Wight County, Virginia. 2 On the face of it, the ancestry is historically entrancing: The link with an English parish, the close association with the Calverts in the settling of Newfoundland and Maryland, and the tying together of Lindsay branches in Maryland, 47 Massachusetts, and Virginia. Unfortunately, the book has no reliable docu• mentation to substantiate its claims and there is primary evidence to contradict the book's assertions. Consider sea captain Edward Lindsay, who came to Maryland with Leonard Calvert, "made his home in Charles County," and died at sea in 1677. According to contemporary sources, Governor Calvert's ship--the Ark--was captained by Richard Lowe, while the accompanying ship--the Dove--was under the command of Richard Orchard.3 A list, reconstructed and not contemporary, of all known persons who came on the Ark and the Dove has no Lindsay.4 A history of early Maryland sea captains lists no Lindsay master.S As will be shown below, no sea captain Edward Lindsay appears in the early published Maryland records. According to Grandpas, Inlaws, and Outlaws, the sea captain's sons James and Edmund arrivedin 1643 and 1656 respectively. Yet the author also says they and two younger brothers were born about 1621-1630 in England, but their father Edward came to Maryland by 1634. Does this mean the sea captain left his family in England while he became so settled in Maryland that his estate was probated in Charles County? This is possible but not likely. The greatest weakness -of the book's account of the earliest Lindsay genera• tions is the lack of primary sources. Generalized secondary sources such as Burke's Peerage and Baronetage, Andrews' History of Maryland, and Fiske's Old Virginia and Her Neighbours, plus the Charles County tercentenary history are cursory sources that contribute nothing significant about the Lindsays. Stripped of such secondary sources, the book's references that might supply primary evidence on the first three Lindsay generations are: 1. The Early Settlers of Marvland - G. Skordas, pp. 290-291 2. Maryland Land Records - Burns 3. Maryland Historical Magazine pp. 270, 312, 360, 144, 160, 161, 162, 355, 142, plus XIX, p. 339 4. Cparles County, Maryland, Registrar of wills Sources 1, 2, and 4 do contain Lindsay references but not to any sea captain named Edward. No where are the more than seventy volumes of the Archives of Maryland mentioned, yet volumes 53 and 60 contain a verbatim copy of the Charles County court minutes, which are filled with references to James and Edmund Lindsay and no reference to any Edward. Source~ 1 and 2 do contain abstracts of Maryland's patent books, but none of the references do more than prove that James and Edmund lived in early Maryland. The one reference to an Edward (Liber Q:131) is clearly Edmund in the original record.6 Likewise, the early Charles County wills have no support for the tale of sea captain Edward Lindsay and provide no proof of the family ties given in the book. 7 The author's remaining source is the Marvland Historical Magazine. The reader must first determine the volume numbers, since with one exception the author gives no volumes for where the various paged references are found. There were 71 volumes published 1906 to 1976, all of which were checked here for Lindsay references given in Grandpas, Inlaws, and Outlaws, the following having been found: 48 XIX:339 "Two Forgotten Heroes," Arthur L. Keith, 19 (1924) 339. Nothing on any Lindsay. 270 Not found. 312 "Private Manors: An Edited List," Donnell MacClure Owings, 33 (1939) 312. Lists the Snow Hill Manor of James Lindsay of Charles County. 360 Not found. 144 "Smallwood Family of Charles County," Arthur L. Keith, 22 (1927) 144. "On Sept. 24, 1677 James Smallwood and Ralph Shaw were apprs [appraisers] of Edward Lindsay." 160 "The First Church in Charles County," Louis Dow Scisco, 23 (1928) 160. A brief note on a court case initiated by Edmond Lindsay as churchwarden, 1662. 161 Ibid. 162 Ibid. Reference to sheriff James Lindsay of Charles County, 1662. Or the p. 162 refers to "First Land Grants in Maryland," 3 (1908) 162, which is another summary of the James Lindsay ownership of Snow Hill Manor. 355 "People of Early Charles County," Louis Dow Scisco, 23 (1928) 355. Brief accounts of James and Edmund Lindsay of Portobacco. 142 "Smallwood Family of Charles County," Arthur L. Keith, 22 (1927) 142. "On Apr. 20, 1687 Edmond Lindsey sold to James Smallwood land called "May Day", 300 acres, (LaPlata, Lib. N, No.1, fol. 210)." All the above references apply to James and Edmund of early Portobacco except for one-instance (22:144), which has the 1677 appraisal of Edward's estate. A check of the original Charles County inventories 1677-1717, pages 11-12, shows that on 24 September 1677 the estate of "Edmond Lindsy late of Charles Coun ty Deceased Apr ised by us James Smallwood and Ralph Shaw •.•." In summary, the primary sources of Grandpas, Inlaws, and Outlaws fail to substantiate the existence of a sea captain Edward Lindsay and do not supply any proof of kinship for the first three generations as outlined in the book nor even give any family ties between James and Edmund. Nor do the book's sources document any connections with Fen-Stanton, Newfoundland, or Jamestown.8 And finally, the claim that the family was of English origins is cast in doubt by an entry found in the Charles County court minutes and published in the Archives of Maryland, volume 53, page 119. In the case of Thomas Kelle, pIt., vs Mr. James Linsey, dft., heard 7 May 1661, the plaintiff asked for an attorney:9 Whereupon the Plantiue alleging that through sirnplicitie hee was not able to mannage his Caus humbly requesteth Leaue to macke Choyce of an Atturney to plead his caus which is granted him whearupon he Chose Mr John hawkings to bee bee [sic] his Attur: Whearupon the the Defendant by reason that hee was an Iris~uan and finding great 49 difficultie to deliuver himself in ow English tounge humblie requesteth the lick fauor to macke choyse of an Atturney whereupon hee made choyce of for his Atturney Mr Richard Cosdin .... Since James Lindsay was Catholic as proven by his will and that of his daughter Eliza, it seems he was of native Catholic Irish birth.9 The other hypothesis is only marginally plausible: James was a Gaelic-speaking Highland Scot from Ulster either Catholic by birth or a convert while an indentured servant to Gov. Leonard Calvert. But whatever his Irish ethnic origins, it seems he was not born in England. In light of James's Irish and Catholic background, the question of any kinship to Edmund is raised because Edmund was Protestant. James's only son James, Jr., died about 1676-1677 and "left no heir behind him at the time of his death that can lay claim to the said land [he owned]" and thus his land inherited from his father escheated to the Lord Proprietor rather than passing to Edmund or Edmund's son. Does this mean James, Sr., and Edmund were not kin or merely reflect the complicated English land inheritance laws? At present all that can be said is that no direct evidence exists making James and Edmund kin. In summary, Grandpas, Inlaws, and Outlaws must be rejected concerning the existence of a sea captain Edward Lindsey. The earliest Lindseys of Maryland were James and Edmund of Portobacco, with James being born in Ireland and Edmund's origins unknown. But it should be noted that the great bulk of the book concerns the descendants of Anthony of Lindsays Station and collects a large amount of data on the family. While all statements in this book--or any other genealogy--should be independently verified, the author is commended for getting so much information into print. It is just that the ancestry of the first Anthony Lindsay as given in Grandpas, Inlaws, and Outlaws appears to be wrong and it is doubtful if Anthony's line is even related to the Portobacco men. Proof to the contrary will be happily published in this newsletter if supplied. 1. "Anthony Lindsay of Lindsay Station and His Descendants," Richard Orr Sebree, Kentucky Ancestors,S (1969-1970) 141-144, 188-195, 6 (1970-1971) 30-32. 2. Grandpas, Inlaws, and Outlaws (A Lindsay Family Genealogy), Kenne~~ Gene Lindsay, (Evansville, IN: c1974), pp. 1-7. 3. "The Ark and Dove," Maryland Historical Magazine, 1 (1906) 352-354; "New Light on Maryland History from the British Archives," Bernard C. Steiner, ibid., 4 (1909) 251-255, 5 (1910) 73; "The Ark and the Dove," ibid., 33 (1939) 13-22. 4. Colonial Families of the United States of America, George Norbury Mackenzie, (Baltimore, MD: 1915), 5:593-606. 5. Captains and Mariners of Early Maryland, Raphael Semmes, (Baltimore: MD: 1937). 6. The Early Settlers of Maryland, Gust Skordas, (Baltimore, MD: 1968), 290-291, no Edward listed; "Maryland 'Early Settlers' (Land Records)," Annie Walker Burns, (Annapolis, MD: 1936-1937), partly typed, 5 parts. Part 1, p. 34, had Edward Lindsay but the original Maryland patent series Liber Q (redesignated no. 5), p. 131, had Edmond. 50 7. "Charles County, Maryland, wills," Maryland & Delaware Genealogist, vols. 6 and 7 (1965-1966); The Maryland Calendar of Wills, Jane Baldwin Cotton, (Baltimore, MD: 1904-1928), original Prerogative Court wills 1:249. 8. Research on this phase might begin wi th "George Calver t and Newfound• land: 'The Sad Face of Winter, '" Thomas M. Coakley, Maryland Historical Magazine, 71 (1976) 1-18. 9. Proceedings of the County Court of Charles County 1658-1666 ..., J. Hall Pleasants, ed., Archives of Maryland, (Baltimore, MD: 1936), 53:119; see also, "Servitude and Opportunity in Charles County, Maryland, 1658-1705," Lorena S. Walsh, p. 123, in Law, Society, and Politics in Early Maryland, Aubrey C. Land et als., (Baltimore, MD: 1974) . * * * * * * * * 1790 U.S. Census Although there are sizeable parts of the 1790 U.S. census no longer extant, by the use or substitutes' such as state censuses and tax lists it is possible to illustrate fairly well the distribution of Lindsays from Pennsylvania to Georgia. The poorest records are for Georgia and Tennessee, which are so incomplete as not to tell us much. In cases where lists for years other than 1790 are used as substitutes for the lost U.S. census, the maps may not exactly fit, since the maps all show 1790 boundaries. Missing areas shown as~;s~' PENNSYLVANIA Heads of Families ... 1790 Pennsylvania, U.S. Census Bureau, (Washington, DC: 1908) No counties missing. 1st col. = whitewhislaveste malesfemalesund16+ 16 3rd2nd5th col. 1 Allegheny Co. p. 16 Josiah Lindsay 223 portion taken from Washington Co. 2 Chester p. 69 Robert Linsey 412 Pennsbury Twp 3 Cumberland p. 79 Andrew Linsey III Hopewell, Newton, Tyborn, W. Pennsboro Twps p. 85 David Lindsey 152 Eastern Cumberland p. 84 David Lindsy 543 Eastern Cumberland p. 76 Samuel Lindsey 314 Hopewell, Newton, Tyborn, W. Pennsboro Twps p. 83 Walter Lindsay 122 Eastern Cumberland p. p.98 76 Wm Lindsey 121 Hopewell, Newton, Tyborn, W. Pennsboro Twps 4 Delaware p. 10310210098 Charles Linsey 202 Chester Twp James Linsey 121 Upper Darby Twp James Linsey 112 Ashton Twp John Linsey 43301 Haverford Twp John Lincy 112 Ridley Twp Robert Linsey 10000 Springfield Twp 51 p. 98 Samuel Linsey 105 Ashton Twp . p.l04 Thomas Linsey 112 Upper Providence Twp 5 Fayette p. 106 no given name Lindsey 102 Georges Twp 6 Franklin p. 121 Jas Lindsey 417 p. 118 Robt Linsey 143 p. 120 Thos Linsey 304 7 Huntingdon p. 122 Alexander Lindsey 122 p. 126 William Lindsey 305 8 Lancaster p. 127 Richard Lincy 101 Caernarvon Twp 9 Mifflin p. 155 Alexr Linsey 123 p. 154 David Linsey 102 10 Northumberland p. 184 Polly Linsey 002 p. 189 Mungo Linsey 321 11 Philadelphia p. 231 John Lindsay (house carperter) 113 Philadelphia City p. 235 John Lindsey (shop keeper, store) 00000 Philadelphia City p. 235 John Lindsey (shop keeper) 324 Philadelphia City p. 213 Susanh Lindsey (gentlewoman) 102 Southwark Twp p. 203 Thomas Lindsay 103 Northern Liberties Twp p. 198 Wm Linsey 10000 Moyamensing & passyunk Twp p. 209 WID Lindsey (weaver) III Southwark Twp p. 235 Wm Lindsey (shop keeper) 10000 Philadelphia City 12 Washington p. 248 Jacob Linsay 105 13 York p. 287 Jams Lindsey 212 Berwick, Cumberland, Franklin, Germany, Hamiltonban, Heidelberg, Mt. Pleasant, Mountjoy, & Straban Twps DELAWARE "Reconstructed 1790 Census of Delaware," Leon deValinger, Jr., National Genealogical society Special Publications no. 10, (Washington, DC: 1953). The whole 1790 Delaware census is missing; tax lists have been substituted for all three counties. 1 New Castle Co., John Lindsey, Samuel Lindsey, William Lindsey- all Mill Creek Hundred 2 Sussex Frances Linsey- Cedar Creek Hundred MARYLAND Heads of Families ... 1790 Maryland, U.s. Census Bureau, (Washington, DC:1907); 1783 Tax List of Maryland, part 1, Cecil Talbot, Harford & Calvert Counties, Bettie Caro.thers, (Lutherville, MD: 1977), for missing Calvert. The 1790 Maryland is complete except for missing counties of Allegany, Calvert, and Somerset. 1 Baltimore Co., p. 25 John Lindsey 246 Two Delaware Hundreds 2 Charles p. 51 William Lindsay 227 3 Frederick p. 72 Oliver Lindsay 112 4 Harford p. 75 Eliza Lindsay 12402 5 Prince Georges' p. 95 Charles Linsey 103; Charles Linsey 101i Charles Linsey 103; John Linsey 11302; Samuel Linsey 11201 6 Worcester p. 123 James Lindsey 21206 52 VIRGINIA (excluding Kentucky) Heads of Families ... 1782 to 1785 Virginia, U.S. Census Bureau, (Baltimore, MD: 1966, reprint of washington, DC: 1908); Virginia Tax Payers 1782-87 Other Than Those Published by the united States Census Bureau, Augusta B. Fothergill & John Mark Naugle, (Baltimore, MD: 1974, reprint of Richmond, VA: 1940). The whole 1790 Virginia census is missing, for which the state censuses 1782-1785 and tax lists are used as a substitute; there is some duplication of the state censuses, which will be evident below. if a county is shown with more than one year. The state censuses give the number of whites--6w--and sometimes the number of blacks--4b--in the household. The tax lists give the number of white polls, i.e., white males above fifteen subject to the pell tax, and sometimes the number of slaves in the household--1p l5s. After the page number will be an H or V for Heads of Families ••• or Virginia Tax Payers ..•. 1 Albemarle Co., p. 80H Reuben Lindsay l2w 1785 census 2 Botetour t p. 76V Samuel Linsay lp; Walter Linsay Ip; widow Linsay Op 2s 3 Brunswick p. 76V William Linsday lp 1782 tax ,1784 tax 4 Caroline p. 76V Lucy Lindsay lp 3s; William Lindsay Ip 2ls 1783 tax 5 Culpeper p. 75V James Lensey 1p 1783 tax p. 76V John Lincey Ip 2s 1783 tax 6 Essex p. S2H Ca1ib Lindsay lw 22b 1783 census 7 Fairfax p. l7H Robert Lindsay 6w 6b; Thomas Lindsay Sw 2b 1782 census p. 86H Susanna Lindsay Sw; Thomas Lindsay Sw 1785 census p. 8SH William Lindsay lOw 1785 census 8 Fluvanna p. 19H Landy Lindsay 7w 4b 1782 census 9 Frederick p. 21H Abram Lindsay lw 1782 census p. 20H James Lindsay 1w 1782 census 10 Greenbr ier p. 109H Jane Lindsey, Jno Lindsey, Kat. Lindsay 1783-1786 tax 11 Hanover p. 28H Jeremiah Lindsay llw 1782 census St. Paul's Parish 12 Henrico p. 76V James Lindsey --; Moses Lindsey Ip; William Lindsey -- 1782 tax 13 Henry p. 76V James Lindsey 1p 15s 1783 census 14 James City p. 76V Edward Linsey 1p 25 1782 tax p. 76V Jesse Linsey Ip Is; John Linsey lp Is 1782 tax 15 King William p. 76V James Linsey lp 1782 tax 16 Moncgomery p. 76V William Lindsey Ip; Matthew Linsey 1p 1782 tax 53 17 New Kent p. 36H John Lindsey 4w 1782 census p. 92H James Lindsay 4w 1785 census Upper Precinct p. 92H John Lindsey 4w; Samuel Lindsey 3w 1785 census St. Peters Parish 18 Orange p. 40H Caleb Lindsay lw 3b 1782 census p. 97H Adam Lindsay 5w~ Caleb Lindsay lw; William Lindsay 2w 1785 census 19 Prince George p. 76V Edward Linsey Ip 1782 tax 20 Prince William p. 78V William Lyndsey lp 7s 1782 tax 21 Spotsylvania p. 76V Daniel Lindsay lp 20s 1782 tax KENTUCKY First Census of Kentucky 1790, Charles B. Heinemann, (Baltimore, MD: 1956, reprint of Washington, DC: 1940). The whole 1790 Kentucky census is missing, for which tax lists are used as a substitute. 1 Bourbon Co., p. 58 Nic1as Lincey 1791 tax 2 Fayette p. 58-59 Anthony Lindsay, Anthony Lindsey, James Lindsay, Ja~es Lindsay, James Lensey, John Lindsay, John Linsey, Nicholas Lindsay, Vachell Lindsay, William Lindsay, Wm. Linsey, Jr., William Linsey all 1789 tax 3 Nelson p. 58 George Lindsay 1792 tax 4 Woodford p. 58 Anthonv Lindsav, Anthony Lindsay, James Lindsay, John Lindsay, Nicholas Lindsay, Vachel Lindsey, Wm. Lindsay, Note re Kentucky tax lists: There seems to be duplication where a man owned land in more than one county. NORTH CAROLINA Heads of Families ... 1790 North Carolina, U.S. Census Bureau, (Washington, DC: 1908). Caswell, Granville, and Orange have tax lists for their missing censuses. 54 1 Anson Co., p. 35 George Lindsey 22401 p. 36 Edward Lindsey 331; william Lindsey, Jr. Ill; William Lindsey 125 p. 37 George Lindsey 32201, William Lindsey, Jr. III 2 Chatham p. 85 James Linsey 13302 3 Craven p. 130 Elizabeth Lindsey 01412 p. 134 Joshua Lindsey, Senr. 0004; Mary Lindsey 0003 4 Currituck p. 20 Jonathan Lindsey 10102 p. 21 Daniel Lindsey 10202; David Lindsay 11311; John Lindsay 20108 p. 22 Elizabeth Lindsy 021 5 Franklin p. 59 Saml Lindsey 113 p. 60 Betty Lindsey 122 6 Granville p. 91 Sarah Linsay Oxford District; Elijah Lindsey Ragland District tax lists 7 Guilford p. 154 Robt Lindsey 2440-11 8 Halifax p. 63 John Lindsey 1150-26 9 Iredell p. 155 John Lindsay 201 10 Lincoln p. 113 Sam Linsey 101 11 Mecklenburg p. 164 Walter Lindsey 103 12 Nash p. 70 Billy Lindsey 113; Sion Lindsey 114; willia~ Lindsey 151 13 Orange p. 92 John Lindsay Caswell District tax list p. 94 Ely Lindsay Orange District tax list p. 95 Matthew Lindsay Orange District tax list 14 Rutherford p. 117 Mary Linsey 132 15 Warren p. 77 Joseph Lindsey 20203; Laborn"Lindsey 12201 TENNESSEE (Territory South of the Ohio River) Indian lands Early East Tennessee Taxpayers, Pollyanna Creekmore, (Easley, SC: 1980); Tennessee Genealogical Records: Davidson County Pioneers, Edythe Rucker Whitley, (n.p.: 1965). The whole of the Territory South of the Ohio River (Tennessee) was counted by order of Secretary of State Thomas Jefferson, but the census is lost. There are some tax lists, but in no way can Tennessee be considered well covered by substitute lists for the missing 1790 census. 1 Davidson Co., (Whitley) James Lindsay 1787 tax 2 Greene p. 275 (Creekmore) David Linsey 1783 tax 3 Washington p. 209 (Creekmore) Benjn Lindsay 1 poll 1787 tax SOUTH CAROLINA Heads of Families ... 1790 South Carolina, U.S. Census Bureau, (Washington, DC: 1908). 55 (continued) SOUTH CAROLINA Indian 1ands_ 1 Abbeville Co., p. 58 James Lindsey 111; Thomas Lindsey 101; Elizth Lindsey 001; Ephraim Lindsey 30201; p. 61 Jno Lindsey 303; Saml Lindsey 325 2 Charleston p. 36 Robert Lindsey .QQQQ-I0 St. tholomew Parish p. 36 (not given) Lindsay 2060-14 St. James Goose Creek Parish p. 37 Barnard Lindsey 11207; Charles Lindsey 10003 both St. Pauls Parish p. 39 Robert Lindsey 10005 St. Phillips & St. Michaels Parish 3 Fairfield p. 21 Benjn Lindsay 123; Robert Lindsay 113 4 Laurens p. 75 Elizabeth Lindsey 122; Capt. John Lindsey 253 5 Newberry p. 76 Moses ~ensey 121; Jesse Lensey 134; Edmd Lindery 523; Wm Linsey 121 (Edmd Lindery is probably a misreading for the Edmond Lindsey known to have lived in Newberry.) p. 79 Saml Linsey 13405; Jas Linsey 231i Abrm Lindsey 123; Col. Jno Linsey 32105i Thos Linsey 2530-13 6 Orangeburg (NO:t"th)p.94 Elzy Linzay 022 p. 95 John Linzay 111 7 Pendleton p. 84 James Lindsay 315 8 Spartanburg p. 86 Wm Lindsey 241; Dennis Lindsey 111 p. 87 James Lindsey 214; James Wm Lindsey 103 9 Union p. 92 James Lindsey 13003 10 York p. 29 Isaac Linsey 205; Sarah Linsey 003 p. 30 Isaac Lency 116 Indian lands Disputed with Spanish 56 GEORGIA Index to Some Early Tax Digests of Georgia, 1790-1818, Earldene Rice & Betty L. McCay, (n.p.: 1972); Substitutes for Georgia's Lost 1790 Census, Delwyn Assoc., (Albany, GA: 1975). The loss of the 1790 Georgia census is the most disruptive of the missing schedules and nothing really supplies a statewide substi~ute. There are some tax lists for Camden 1794, Chatham 1790, Glynn 1789, and Wilkes 1792-1974 (parts), but even these seem incomplete. What follows must be regarded as merely some Lindsays found in Georgia about 1785-1795. The names all come from the Delwyn Assoc. 's Substitutes, except for the last three names for Wilkes County. 1 Burke Co., Eliz. Lindsey headright 1790-95 2 Camden Jas. M. Lindsey state officer 1787-95; Jas Lindsey 1794 tax 3 Chatham Rev. Benj Lindsey deeds 1789-91 grantor; Mary Lindsey deeds 1789-91 grantor; Benj Lindsey deeds 1789-91 grantee; Benj Lindsey witness to deed; Chas. Lindsey 1790 tax 9 Columbia Dennis Linsey and Wm Linsey 1793 muster roll 4 Effingham no Lindsays 11 Elbert Reubin Linsey 1793 tax defaulter; Reuben Lindsey 1795 voter 5 Franklin Jno. Lindsey 1786-93 deeds grantor: Mary Lindsey 1786-93 deeds grantor; Jacob Lindsey deed witness 1786-93; Jno. Lindsey deed witness 1786-93 6 Glynn none 7 Greene Jacob Lind~ 1793 muster roll 8 Liberty none 9 Richmond Moses Lindsey land court 1786-7 10 Washington Jno. Lindsay headright 1789-93 11 Wilkes Jno. Lindsey headright 1790-95 p. 5 (Rice & McCay) John Lindsey 1793 tax p. 15 (Rice & McCay) Abraham Linsey and Thos. Linsey 1794 tax (Note: Columbia was created in December 1790 from Richmond, and Elbert was created December 1790 from Wilkes.) Index to 1790 census and substitute lists: Nicknames and abbreviated given names are listed under the formal versions--Betty and Eliza under Elizabeth, Billy and Wm under William, etc. The counties are given by their number codes--Moses GA9, SCS, VA12 mean Georgia-Richmond Co., South Carolina• Newberry Co., and Virginia-Henrico Co. Given names appearing more than once in a county are indicated by brackets--William KY2(3). There are duplicate entries for some persons in the lists above, especially for Kentucky and Georgia. The most popular names are John (29), William (26), and James (25) for the men and Elizabeth (7) and Mary (5) for the women. PAS SC2 Charles GA3 MD5(3) PA4 SC2 widow VA2 Daniel NC4 VA2l Abraham GAll SC5 VA9 David NC4 PA3(2) PA9 TN2 Adam VAl 8 Dennis GA4 SC8 Alexander PA7 PA9 Edmond SC5 Andrew PA3 Edward NCI VA14 VA19 Anthony KY2(2) KY4(2) Elijah NC6 Barnard SC2 Elizabe~~ GAl MD4 NC3 NC4 NC5 SCI SC4 Benjamin GA3(3) SC3 TN3 Ely NCl3 Caleb VA6 VA18(2) Elzy? SC6 57 Ephraim SCI Landy VA8 Frances DE2 Lucy VA4 George KY3 NCI (2) Mary GA3 GAS NC3 NC14 PAID Isaac SCIO(2) Matthew NC13 VA16 Jacob GAS GA7 PA12 Moses GA9 SC5 VA12 James GA2 KY2(3) KY4 MD6 NC2 Mungo PAID PA4(2) PA6 PA13 SCI SC5 Nicholas KYI KY2 KY4 SC7 SC8 SC9 TNI VAS VA9 Oliver MD3 VA12 VAl3 VA15 VA17 Reuben GAll(2) VAl James M. GA2 Richard PAS James Wm. SC8 Robert NC7 PA2 PA4 PA6 SC2(2) Jane VAIO SC3 (2) Jeremiah VAll Samuel DEI MD5 NC5 NCIO PA3 Jesse SCS VA14 PA4 SCI SCS VA2 VAl? John DEI GA5(2) GAIO GAll(2) Sarah NC6 SCID KY2(2) KY4 MD1 MDS NC4 Sion NC12 NC8 NC9 NCl3 PA4 (2) Susannah PAll VA7 PAll(3) SCI SC4 SCS SC6 Thomas GAll PA4 PA6 PAll Sel VAS VAIO VA14 VA17(2) SC5 VA7(2) Jonathan NC4 Vachel KY2 KY4 Joseph NCIS Walter NCll PA3 VA2 Joshua NC3 william DEI GA4 KY2(3) KY4 MD2 Josiah PAl NCl(3) NC12(2) PA3 PA7 Kat. VAIO PAll(3) SC5 SC8 VA3 VA4 Laborn NC15 VA7 VA12 VA16 VA18 VA20 * * * * * * * Queries Query 4: Abraham Lindsey of Marengo County, Alabama The oldest information I have is that my G.G.G. Grandfather Abram (Abraham) Lindsey or Lindsay was married the second time to a Martha Varner. She was the widow of a James Varner. They were married on January 24, 1827, in Marengo County, Alabama. They had eight children. I believe Abram died about 1843. One of Abram's children was William Lindsey, who was my G.G. Grandfather. In one of the censuses William Lindsey said he was born in Kentucky. William married one of Martha Varner's daughters. -----Lindsey Keene, Rt. 10, Box 258, Meridian, MS 39301 Query 5: David Lindsey of Pennsylvania Margaret Lindsay Atkinson's 1889 book, The Lindsays of America, pp. 218• 220, provided the key to my Lindsey-Lindsay connection back to the pre-Revolu• tionary War era. She tells of a David Lindsay who emigrated from Scotland and bought and settled on a large farm near "or where the city of Pittsburgh now is." There he lived and died, leaving four sons: Hezekiah, who settled in Ohio i David, Jr., of Kentucky (then western Virginia); Edward of North Carolina, and William, who died in the Revolutionary War leaving two sons, John of Kentucky and william of Kentucky and later of Vincennes, Indiana, (where William died). (See National Archives W553, BLWt 28649-160-55, film 1566:0402, and Hezekiah's file 541770, film 1566:0641.) Research to establish further data concerning L~e senior David Lindsay, who settled near Fort Pitt, has revealed little. In Book lA, page 160, Wash• ington County 1 PA, is recorded a deed conveyance from David Lindsey to John 58 Reed, 4 March 1780, recorded 6 December 1783: David Lindsey of Youghagania County, Virginia, receiving twelve thousand pounds currency of Pennsylvania from John Reed of same county and state, said tract of 400 acres "lying and being on the waters of Miller's Run wi thin the County and State aforesaid." The Washington County, PA, Canonsburg quadrangle map (1960) shows this apparent propen:y, referred to as "Justice," warranted to a John Reed in 1786, the boundaries bordered by the same property owners referred to in David Lindsey's deed release in 1780. Pennsylvania records today apparently contain no records of the former ownership by David Lindsey of John Reed's property "Justice." The diary of George Washington, 20 September 1784, states, "Went early this morning to view my land and to receive the final determination of those who live upon it .••• Dined at David Reed's, after which Squire Reed began to inquire whether I would part with the land, and upon what terms, adding that although they did not conceive they would be dispossessed yet to avoid contention they would buy .... I told them I had no inclination to sell ...•" A footnote in the publishep diary discloses that David Reed and his brother Squire John Reed came from Lancaster County to Washington County in 1777 and bought land on Miller's Creek from an agent of George Croghan, who claimed the land to the exclusion of Washington. Apparently, the senior David Lindsey of Youghagania County, Virginia, (now Washington County, PA), sold title to disputed land. There is no known genealogical data on the man other than what is revealed in Margaret Lindsay Atkinson's book of 1889, her information being given to her by Tipton Lindsey, Esq., of Tulare County, California, pioneer and state senator (1874) and his daughter Kate. They revealed that their early ancestor David Lindsey came directly from Scotland before the Revolu• tion but expressed the possibility he may have settled for a time in Ireland. As to the data conc~rning Tipton Lindsey, son of John Tipton Lindsey, Columbus, Indiana, grandson of William Linds~, Revolutionary soldier and pensioner W553, Vincennes, IN, or data on David Lindsay, Jr., son of David mentioned earlier, who died in Cynthiana, Harrison County, Kentucky, in April 1814, the reader should write the undersigned in Seattle. David Lindsay, Jr., was a ranger on the frontier and settled near Ruddle's Fort, Bourbon County, KY, circa 1780 (later lying in Harrison County three miles northwest of Cynthiana). He married twice, first to a woman whose name is unknown and second to Nancy McNay on 16 November 1796. By the first marriage there were twelve children: James, John, William (my ancestor), Joseph, Mary, Margaret, Rebekah, David, Isabella, Jane, Ann, and Samuel. There were no children by the second marriage. ------Forrest Wood, 5001 44th Avenue NE, Seattle, WA 98105 (Editor's note: (1) "Petitions from Yohogania County, Virginia," Raymond M. Bell, Virginia Genealogist, 17 (1973) 212-223, has one Lindsay entry: p. 213 27 Oct 1778 petition requesting division of YohoganiaCounvj, which petition signed by David Linsey; (2) Virginia Court Records of Southwestern ?ennsvlvania: Records of the District 59 of West Augusta and Ohio and Yohogania Counties, Virginia, 1775-1780, Boyd Crumrine, (Baltimore, MD: 1974, reprinted from Annals of the Carnegie Museum, Pittsburgh, PA: 1902-1905), has several Lindsay entries but only one for David: p. 398 18 Jan 1780 YOhogania County court appear• ance by David Lindsey charged with perjury.) * * * * * * * * * Lt. Col. John Lindsey of Newberry County, SC (The Biographical Directory of the South Carolina House of Representatives, volume III, 1775-1790, N. Louise Bailey and Elizabeth Ivey Cooper, (Columbia, SC: 1981), pp. 435-436, has a biography of Lt. Col. John Lindsey (1740-1795). This entry is reproduced here verbatim, except that the sources are expanded from abbreviations into full citations. Note that the authors are not certain Lt. Col. John Lindsey is the same John who served in the SOU~~ Carolina assemblies, but express their opinion that he was. Formerly, many genealogists working on this Newberry line have identified John's father John (d. 1787) as the colonel and legislator" but it is much more likely that the younger John was the colonel--lieutenant colonel, actually--since it known for certain he was a militia company captain during part of the war. The older John was probably too old to have served actively in the Revolutionary War.) John Lindsey was the son of John Lindsey (d. 1787) and Alice Crosson. He resided in that area of Ninety Six District which became Newberry County. Between 1774 and 1786, he received through grants at least 1,769 acres near the Enoree River and Indian and King's creeks. The 1790 federal census listed five slaves as part of his Newberry household. During the ~erican Revolution, Lindsey served as a lieutenant colonel in the militia. Beginning his legislative service simultaneously, he represented the Upper District Between Broad and Saluda Rivers (Spartan) in the Second Provincial Congress (1775-1776) and the First General Assembly (1776). Later, Lindsey was elected by the Lower District Between Broad and Saluda Rivers to the Fifth (1783-1784), Seventh (1787-1788), and Eighth (1789-1790) General Assemblies. As a Lower District delegate at the state convention, he voted against ratification of the federal Consti.tution (1788). Two years later, he served the same district at the state constitutional convention (1790). Locally Lindsey was a justice of the peace for Newberry County (1786).- Marr ied to Elizabeth Humphrey, he was the father of seven children: Alice, Caleb, Humphrey, rJoshua, John (1776-1864), James (1779-1841), and Elizabeth. John Lindsey died sometime in 1795. [Footnote] Possibly the John Lindsey who served in the House for ~~e Second Provincial Congress and the First and Fifth General Assemblies was John Lindsey (d. 1787), the father of John Lindsey (1740-1795). The elder man, also recorded as a colonel, was a native of Frederick County, Virginia, and the father of five .other children, including James (d. 1799), Sarah Speaks, Esther (m. Jared Smith), Abigail Wells, and Thomas. He died testate in Newberry County. Furthermore, the John Lindsey who represented the Upper Distr ict Between Broad and Saluda Rivers could have been someone other than either of the foregoing John Lindseys. Extant records indicated there were several men of that name in Ninety Six District and L~ree alone in Newberry County, but they did not give political and biographical information. Therefore, for L~e lack of discerning, conclusive data, ~~e sketch of John Lindsey was based on the most logical evidence. 60 [Expanded source citations to main biographical sketch.] Leonardo Andrea's Genealogy Files on microfilm at South Caroliniana Library, University of South Carolina, Columbia, roll 27, #578, pp. 4,5,7,11,47. Audited Accounts of the American Revolution in SC Archives, 4595. Yearbook, City of Charles.ton, 1893, 232. Heads of Families ... 1790: South Carolina, (Washington, DC: 1908), 79. The Debates in the Several State Conventions on the Adoption of the Federal Constitution, Jonathan Elliot, ed" 5 vols., (2nd ed. 1836-1845, reprinted New York, NY: 1974), 4:339. Journal of the Constitutional Convention of South Carolina, May 10, 1790-June 3, 1790, Francis M. Hutson, ed., (Columbia, SC: 1946), 5. Journal of the Convention of South Carolina which Ratified the Constitution of the United States, 23 May 1788, A.S. Salley, Jr., (Atlanta, GA: 1928), 47. Miscellaneous Records of the Secretary of the Province in SC Archives, WW:71. The History of Newberrv County, 1749-1860, Thomas H. Pope, (Columbia, SC: 1973), pp. 55, 62, 63, 67. Royal Grant Books in SC Archives, 33:531. South Carolina Historical Magazine, 7:108. State Grant Books in SC Archives, 1:67, 8:375, 11:689, 13:625, 15:399. [Expanded source citations to footnote.] Leonardo Andrea's Genealogy Files on microfilm at South Caroliniana Library, University of South Carolina, Columbia, roll 27, #578, pp. 2,4,5,7,11,47. Audited Accounts of the American Revolution in SC Archives, 4595. Heads of Families ... 1790: South Carolina, (Washington, DC: 1908), 61, 75. Census of 1800 Abbeville District, SC, 14, 15, of Greenville County, se, 278, of Newberry District, SC, 83. Grand Jury Lists in SC Archives, 1779, 1783. Miscellaneous Records of the Secretary of the Province in SC Archives, VV:229. Newberry County, SC, wills, book A:9. Petit Jury Lists in SC Archives, 1779. State Grant Books in SC Archives, 12:128, 15:398, 20:483, 25:445, 48:152. * * * * * * * * * Lindsey Family Graveyard, Clarke County, VA (~Lindsey Family Graveyard,H Ruth Lincoln Kaye, National Genealogical Society Quarterly, 65 (1977) 15.) This family graveyard is located midway between upperville and Millwood in Clarke County, Virginia, at the northeast end of the Shenandoah River Bridge on Route 50. Now quite neglected, it is enclosed in a high iron fence and contains three gravestones and a monument. Inscriptions contributed by Ruth Lincoln Kaye of Alexandria, Virginia. Sarah, wife of Dr. James Lindsey, d. 31 Dec. 1861, aged 75yrs. 8mos 5days. Member of Baptist Church. HMother." A.V. Lindsey, b. 30 Oct. 1818; d. 31 July 1895. John T. Lindsey, b. 6 Sept. 1817; d. 9 Aug. 1895. Sarah M., wife of A.N. Bowen, d. 21 Sept. 1887, aged 72yrs. 9rnos. 10days. Member of Baptist Church. Elizabeth, wife of William Colston, b. 12 Mch. 1846; d. 30 Jan. 1920. * * * * * * * * * * Lindsay Newsletter: Southern Colonial Branches Volume 1, Number 4 November 1981 Whole Number 4 CONTENTS: The Biographical Dictionary of Early Virginia, 1607-1660 63 The Lindseys of Lindseys Bluff 67 Kentucky Land Grants to 1820 72 Immigrants to the South before 1800 78 The Lindsay Newsletter: Southern Colonial Branches is published quarterly (February, May, August, and November) at New York City. A yearly subscription is $12.00, checks payable to Elliott L. Stringham. Please send checks, all changes of address, and all inquiries about back issues to: Elliott Lindsey Stringham Publisher, Lindsay Newsletter 124 East 71st Street New York, NY 10021 62 COML'v1ENTS: Finally! This issue will be mailed to Elliott on 16 February for printing and distri• bution. He has had the address labels ready to go since late October. The delay has been mine, caused by my taking oITer editorship of the APG Newsletter. The Association of Pfofessional Genealogists was officially created in August 1979, but in the following year its newsletter--which was mostly what members got for their $35 a year--came out very irregularly wi th many "double" issues (i.e., an issue covered two months). In t.'""irteen months they got only eight issues, though they were promised one each month. There was much cormnent on the unprofessionalism of this professional association and a lot of skepticism about APG's worth. When the editor retired, Tagreed--no, I actually volunteered--to become editor. A clear case of a fool stepping in •... Anyway, it has taken a majority of my working hours up to now, especially because two issues were special, much enlarged productions as promised before I became editor. There will be no more specials and September is my last month as editor. In seven months I have put out seven issues and raised the monthly number of pages from nine to sixteen. And I think the more professional newsletter is one reason APG is now being accepted by the other major genealogical societies and will be cosponsoring the August Institute in Washington, DC, and the bic conference in Buena Park (Los Angeles) in October. I am telling 211 this to explain (1) w~y the Lindsav ~ewsletter has been so late--my clients' work and my geneal09ical maps beok have been neglected just as much--and (2) to say that things are nearly caught up, that there will be no more special APG Newsletters to overwhelm again, and that my APG editorship ends in September. Meaning, I hope no one will fail to renew a subscription to the Lindsay Newsletter because it was so late. It may have seemed I was not interested, but this is not so. There are so many more records to be searched and distributed and so many early Lindsay lineages to get into print, that we need to keep publishing L~e newsletter. The Newsletter seeks to bring together the serious researchers of the Southern Lindsays in all spellings of Lindsay to untangle the many br anches into their correct families and thus extend the lines back to the immigrants and their British ancestors .. Although the Newsletter is concerned with Lindsays born before ~~e Revolution, it publishes information tracing such persons to their deaths, even if long after 1775. The South before the Revolution is defined as all the eastern U.S. south and west of the Delaware River. That includes Pennsylvania. The editor solicits any relevant material--from short queries, bible entries, and tombstone inscriptions to lengthy lineages and analytical articles discussing "stonewall" problems. The editor wants to corr e• spand with everyone doing Southern colonial Lindsay research, so write: William Thorndale Editor, Lindsay Newsletter 1156 East 300 South, Apt. C Salt Lake City, UT 84102 The Newsletter is not copyrighted, but all authors may copyright their articles at tIleir own discretion. 63 The Biographical Dictionary of Early Virginia, 1607-1660 "The Virginia Settlers Research Project, sponsored by the Association for the Preservation of Virginia Antiquities--the nation's oldest statewide historic preservation society--seeks to learn as much as possible about the people of seventeenth-century Virg inia and to make this knowledge available to the public as quickly and easily as possible. To accomplish this, researchers read seventeenth-century documents and extracted all the biographical informa• tion from them. The information was then coded, keypunched into data processing cards and entered into the computer. There it was sorted by name to produce The Biographical Dictionary of Early Virginia, 1607-1660, and by event or category to produce The Subject and Source Guide to Early Virginia, 1607-1660. "The first part of this work is now completed and the 1980 revised editions of both works are available from the APVA. The Bioqraphical Dictionary of Early Virginia, 1607-1660 is an alphabetical listing of over 20,000 Virgin• ians in the period 1607-1660. It contains over 100,000 separate entries and 3,000 pages. All of the information about a person, from whatever source derived, is collected together and printed in logical order and in ordinary English in a single listing. Each listing includes all the entr ies for that person. Each entry includes the event (or fact or happening), the date when and place where it occurred and the source and page from which the information was drawn." The above is quoted from the descriptive order form of the APVA. For 510 D1e AFVA will search a surname in all spellings. Write: Dr~ Ransom B. True, APVA, Jamestown, VA 23081. The collection is also on microfiche ($250) and available at the Salt Lake Genealogical Library. There is a 1982 edition which has 20% more names, but it has not yet arrived at the Salt Lake Genealogical Library. I will repor t later on any Lindsays added to the 1982 ed ition. Below are all Lindsay entries for the 1980 edition. Since this collection includes 34 of the 39 extant manuscript volumes of county court records, plus other sources, it is by far the most comprehensive compilation we have on the first Lindsay settlers of Virginia. I checked the orginial source for each reference aside from those for David Lindsay of Northumberland County, who is so well known and had so many entries that spending time on him diq not seem justified. Besides, no Lindsay surname survives from him because he left no sons. The following sources were checked for the 1980 edition. The prefix A on the source code means a manuscript copy of the record; the prefix B means a publish• ed copy. A-I Bristol, England, Servants to Foreign Plantations A-2 Charles City County, Deeds, Wills, Orders, 1655-1665 A-3 Lower Norfolk County, wills and Deeds, 1651-1656 A-4 Northumberland County, Order Books, 1652-1665 A-5 Lower Norfolk County, Wills and Deeds B, 1646-1651 A-6 Lower Norfolk County, Wills and Deeds, 1637-1646 A-7 Northumberland County, Deeds and Orders, 1650-1652 A-8 Charles City County, Order Books, 1650 A-9 Westmoreland County, Deeds, Wills, Patents, 1653-1659 A-lO Warwick County, Livestock Registry, 1656-1687 64 B-17B-18B-26A-23A-ISA-13A-17A-19A-21A-22A-25A-29A-30B-6A-33A-34A-12A-14A-20A-27A-32A-24A-28A-31A-1813-15./i.-16A-26 13-51B-16B-31B-35B-488-50B-3B-1B-7B-8B-14B-4 A-ll Isle of Wight County, Deeds, Wills, Accounts, 1636-1767 Surry County, Deeds, Wills, 1652-1684 Henrico County, Deeds, Wills, 1650-1717 Lancaster County, Deeds, Wills, 1654-1702 Rappahannock County (Old), Records, 1656-1664 Lancaster County, Orders, 1655-1666 Northumberland County, Records, 1652-1658 Lower Norfolk County, Minute Book, 1637-1643 Lower Norfolk County, Minute Book, 1643-1646 Northampton County, Deeds, Wills, 1654-1656 York County, Deeds, Wills, 1633-1657 Northumberland County, Records, 1658-1666 Westmoreland County, Deeds, Wills, 1661-1662 Northumberland County, Records, 1649 Lancaster County, Deeds, Wills, 1652-1657 Northampton County, Deeds, Wills, 1645-1651 Northampton County, Deeds, Wills, Orders, 1651-1654 Charles Parish Register, 1652-1660 Northampton County, Orders, 1655-1656 Warwick County, Orders, 1647 Lower Norfolk County, Wills, Deeds, 1656-1666 York County, Wills, 1645-1649 westmoreland County, Deeds, Wills, 1653-1671 Northampton County, Deeds, Wills, 1654-1668 Annie Lash Jester, Adventures of Purse and Person (Muster of 1624/25 sic!) S.M. Bemiss, Three Charters of the Virginia Company of London, (1957) John Smith, Complete Works, (Edward Arber, ed., 1895) Thomas Smith, A Plain Description of G~e Bermudas, (Force, vol. 3, no. 3) Council of Virginia, A Declaration of the State of Virginia, (Force, vol. 3, no. 5) Northampton County, County Court Records, 1632-1640, (Susie - Ames, ed., 1954) Charles Norwood, A Voyage to Virginia, (Force, vol. 3, no. 10) Records of the Virginia Company of London, vol. 1, (Susan M. Kingsbury, ed.) Robert Johnson, Nova Brittania, (Force, vol. 1, no. 6) Alexander Brown, Genesis of the United States, vol. 1, (1890) Robert JOhnson, The New Life of Virginia, (Force, vol. 1, no. 7) Philip L. Barbour, The Jamestown Voyages, (List of Original Planters) William Strachy, A True Repertory, (A Voyage to ViLginia, L.B. Wright, Ed.) John Rolfe, A True Relation of the State of Virginia, (H.B. Taylor, ed., 1957) Minutes of the Council and General Court of Colonial Virginia, (H.B. McIl~aine, ed.) Records of the Virginia Company of London, vol. 4, (Susan M. Kingsbury, ed.) Records of the Virginia Company of London, vol. 2, (Susan M. Kingsbury fed. ) 65 B-56 Records of the Virginia Company of London, vol. 3, (Susan M. B-79 John Pory, Proceedings of the General Assembly, 1619, (W.J. VanSchreeven, ed.) B-80 Journals of the House of Buroesses, 1619-1659, (H.R. McIlwaine, ed) B-81 John C. Hotten, The Original Lists of Persons of Qualitv B-85 William G. Stanard, Some Emigrants to virginia B-87 Frederick A. Virkus, Immigrants to ~~erica before 1750 B-88 Samuel Purchas, Purchas's Pilorims B-90 The Statutes at Large ..• , vol. 1, (William W. Hening, ed.) B-91 The Statutes at Large ... , vol. 2, (William W. Rening, ed.) B-92 Virginia General Assembly, The General Assembly of Virqinia, 1619- 1978 B-93 Nell Nugent, Cavaliers and Pioneers, vol. 1 B-94 Virginia General Assembly, Calendar of State Papers, vol. 1 B-99 John Pory, Proceedings of the General Assembly Held at Jamestown B-lOl Edward Bland, The Discovery of New Brittaine, 1650, (A.S. Sally, ed) B-120 The Parish Register of Christ Church, Middlesex County, 1653-1812 B-130 Charles F. McIntosh, Abstracts of Lower Norfolk County Wills Comments on coding and input problems explained by APVA: A-3l and A-32: Some material is incorrectly coded as A-32 which should be A-31. Dates l642-1647=York should be A-32; dates 1655 or later= Lower Norfolk should be A-31. A-34: Only the first 64 pages included in 1980 edition. B-15, B-50, B-51, B-56 Records of the Virginia Company of London: Not all material included in 1980 edition; you must check book indexes. B-17: Only selected documents abstracted, mostly relating to the Virginia Company of London. B-48: Not all material included in 1980 edition. Check book index. B-93: Essentially NOT in the 1980 edition. Only 3% of the material up to 1660 was included (as a sampling to determine how long it would take to input Nugent) . Doctor Linsey, adventurer 1622 London Company general meeting, 22 May 1622: present: Dor Linsey. (B-5l, p. 22) --This meeting was in London-- Adam Lynsey, will, 30 Jly 1636, York County, names: to Ann the wife of John Jackson, to Christian OWin, to my good friend Edward Mollson. Witnessed by: Wm Hockaday, Allexander Gregory. Inventory taken 21 Jne 1637. (A-21, p. 35, LDS film 034,402) Mr. David LindsayjLindsaye (none of his entries were check by the Lindsay Newsletter editor). David, witness, 1655 Northumberland County (A-4, p. 35) David, subject of a headright, 1656 Northumberland County (A-4, p. 45) David, witness to a ~i11, 1656 Northumberland County (A-17, p. 63) David, granted power of attorney to another, 1656 Northumberland County (A-17, p. 74) 66 David, creditor, 1656 Northumberland County (A-I?, p. 74) Da:, witness to a bill of sale, 1656 Northumberland County (A-I?, p. 104) David, payment ordered to, 1656 Northlli~berland County (A-4, p. 43) David, creditor, 1657 Northlli~berland County, (A-4, p. 70) David, made a bond, 1657 Northumberland County (A-17, p. 128) David, payment ordered to, 1657 Northumberland County (A-4, p. 70) Da:, witness to a bill of sale, 1657 Northumberland County (A-I?, p. 105) Da:, witness to a bill of sale, 1657 Northumberland County (A-17, p. 128) David, acknowledged a document, 1657 Northumberland County (A-17, p. 128) Daivd, received land, 1657 Northumberland County (A-17, p. 128) David, minister (preacher), 1657 Northumberland County (A-4, p. 70) David, witness to a bill of sale, 1658 Northumberland County (A-17, p. 137) Da:. witness to a bill of sale, 1658 Northumberland County (A-22, p. 4) David, acted as a minister, 1658 Lancaster County (A-16, p. 59, ?2 entries) David, payment ordered to, 1658 Lancaster County (A-16, p. 59) David, payment ordered to, 1658 Northumberland County (A-4, p. 94) David, payment ordered from, 1658 Northumberland County (A-4, p. 93) David, creditor, 1659 Northumberland County (A-4, p. 107) David, minister (preacher), 1659 Northumberland County (A-22, p. 33) David, named in a will, 1659 Northumberland County (A-22, p. 33) David, payment ordered to, 1660 Northumberland County (A-4, p. 123) Da, teste, 1660 Rappahannock County (Old) (A-IS, p. 145) David, witness to a will, 1660 Nor~~umberland County (A-22, p. 40) David, mentioned in a document, 1660 Northumberland County (A-4, p. 120) Edmund Lindsey alias Yeoman, convicted of slander, 1647 Lower Norfolk County (A-5, p. 58) --see text of this entry reproduced below-- Edmund Lindsey, named in will 20 Mch 1658 C?1658/9) of William Baldr ioge as to be paid sixty pounds of tobacco (A-33, p. 2; actually, p. 2 refers to Wills of Westmoreland County, Virginia, 1654-1800, Augusta B. Fothergill, (1925), while the actual entry is in Westmoreland deeds, wills 1653-1671, p. 93, LDS film 034,267) Edward Lindsey, in a list of debtors to an estate, 1655 Lower Norfolk County (A-3, p. 148, LDS film 032,823) --the name does read Edward-- James Linsey, witness an assignment of a bill of sale from WIn Fisher to George Carter, 24 Jan 1659 (1659/60), signs with a mark (A-12, p. 147, LOS 034,099) Surry County. Robert Lindsey, listed in the 1623/4 muster as living 16 Feb 1623 "over the river" (B-8l, 'p. 178) Susanna Linsay, court session 20 May 1659 orders ~m Bound to pay Mrs. Susanna Linsay 50 pounds of tobacco, Northumberland County (A-4, p. 105, LOS film 032,642) William Linsey/Lindsay William Linsey, court 20 Sep? 1652 says Wm Linsey's indentured servitude shall run only four years to WIn Reynolds although Thomas Hawkins sold him for five years, Northumberland County (A-4, p. 2, LDS film 032,642) Wm Linsey, reference that WIn Reynolds entitled to 100 acres headright for importation of Wm Linsey and Thos. Backster, Nor thumberland County court session 20 Sep 1653 (A-4, p. 15, LDS film 032,642) 67 William Linsey, in debt to 350 pounds of tobacco, Northumberland County (A-17, p. 91) Wm Lindsay, indebted to Anthony Linton 615 pounds of tobacco, court session 20 9br (Nov) 1658, Northumberland County (A-4, p. 96, LDS 032,642) There are two mild surprises in the above entries. First, the name William Linsey in Northw~berland County 1652-1658 is new, at least to me. Second, the Edmund Lindsey entry for Lower Norfolk County, modern Norfolk County on the south side of the James River, may be the same man who appears in the late 1640s in Maryland. Could it be that, having gotten in legal trouble in Virginia., he moved to Maryland? If so, then we have two clues to the origin of the Portobacco Lindseys: (1) Edmund of Portobacco, Charles County, Maryland, may not be related closely to James, or at least they did not arrived in Maryland at the same time, and (2) the Lower Norfolk entry refers to Edmund as Lindsey alias Yeoman. The full entry is as follows, taken from the Lower Norfolk County, Virginia, wills and deeds B, 1646-1651, court session 15 Dec 1647, p. 58a, LDS film 032,823: "Whereas it appeares unto the Court by sufficient proof yt Edmund Lindsey also Yeoman hath spoken divers scandalous words & infamous speeches concerning Lucye the wife of Edward Hall much tending to reproach and defamaTon, It is there upon ordered by the Court that the said Lindsey als Yeoman shall in presence of the Court receive twenty good lashes on his bare backj and shall stand three sabboath dayes in the parish Church of Linhaven the congregaion there being present with a paper upon his head written with these words following in Capitall letters (vizt) I Edmund Lindsey als Yeoman doe stand here to acknowledge the great wrong I have done in G~e slandering Mris Hall with my tongue And the said Lindsey als Yeoman shall pay the Court charges als execulon and the Churchwardens of Lynhaven parish or eyther of them [i.e., there were two churchwardens in each pariSh] are to see the due performance of this order or they will answere the contrary at theire uttermost perills." (Note on transcription: it was the custom in those days to omit the "t" in words ending in "tion" and indicate the omission with a bar above the "i". The bar is omitted in the word congregation at the end of line six above.) * * * * * * * * * * The Lindseys of Lindseys Bluff The Lindseys of Lindseys Bluff (Sumner County, Tennessee) have never been the subject of a published genealogy. Portions of the family have been retrieved from the records, while other branches remain lost in the extensive migrations of the Ante-bellum South. The family possibly descends from the Edmond Lindsey of Portobacco, Maryland, who arrive about 1650. (The surname is spelled with an "e" here, though in later years some branches switched to "a".) 1. Isaacl Lindsey was born about 1742, probably in the vicinity of Long Marsh in what is now Clarke Co., VA, the son of Abraham Lindsey of the Enoree settlement, Newberry Co., SC, and Wilkes Co., GA.l Isaac saw active service in the Virginia militia during the French and Indian War.2 According to his grandson's bible, Isaac married (1) Susannah Smith 4 May 1762.3 He bought land in Frederick Co., VA, in 1763 and sold it a year later when he moved to South Carolina with his father.4 After a brief time in Newberry Co., SC, he 68 settled on Pacolet River in Spartanburg Co., SC, where a deed of gift 17 J1y 1769 from his brother John names Isaac's children Mary, Ezekiel, and Jemima.l About 1767 he made a Long Hunt from South Carolina through the Cumberland Gap, passed Rockcastle River (which he named for its ice formations), to Middle Tennessee--one of the earliest recorded trips to the region.5 By the middle l770s he lived in the North-of-Hol~ton settlements in East Tennessee, where he s~rved in the Cherokee campaign of late 1776 and as a constable in 1777, and where he later received bounty-land credit for 36 months of Revolu• tionary War service.6 He apparently married (2) Rhoda in East Tennessee. In late 1779 he and his family were among the founding settlers of Middle Tennessee, helping build and defend Heatons Station, Davidson Co., TN, 1779• 1785, which site Isaac patented.7 He located his own 640-acre pre-emption on the Cumberland River northeast of Nashville, to which tract he moved about 1786 and which ever since has been called Lindseys Bluff, lying across the river from Lindseys Island and Lindseys Bend.8 He served as a justice of the Cumberland Compact in 1783, was an original justice of the peace for Davidson and Sumner Counties, and an original trustee of Nashville.9 In 1787 he converted to Methodism and became a lay exhorter. Several of his children and grandchildren were Methodist preachers or married Methodist preachers. His will was dated 13 Feb 1812 and he died within a month.lO He was buried at Lindseys Bluff, just south of Saundersville, Sumner Co., TN.ll Children of Isaac Lindsey and Susannah Smith, his first wife; i. Mary2, b. 24 Jan 1764 probably in SC; m. date and place unknown Lewis Crane (b. c1761 SC-d. 4 Sep l827 Sumner Co., TN); 9 Jly 1822 Sumner Co., TN. She and Lewis lived at Cages Bend, Sumner Co., on his 640-acre pre-ernption.12 Their farm and lives were held to be models of Methodism. Cranes Meeting House stood there. Lewis was a lay exhorter, while sons Caleb and John were circuit riders. The will of Lewis was dated 4 Sep 1827.13 Mary and Lewis were buried near Bender's Ferry, Sumner Co., TN.ll 2. ii. Ezekie12, b. abt 1766-1769. iii. Jemima2, b. abt 1766-1769 in SC. Named as child of Isaac in deed of 17 jly 1769.1 Not named in father's 1812 will and presumed dead. Perhaps she m. John Pearcy, a son-in-law in Isaac's will. iv. Anne2, b. abt 1775 according to her tombstone, probably in East TN; m. abt 1802 James Mills (b. c1775 MD-d. 13 Apr 1850 Ralls Co., MO); eight children born abt 1804-1826; d. 28 Nov 1841 Ralls Co" MO. Her fa~~er sold James 114 acres on Lindseys Bluff in 1806, which was sold in 1819 when Anne and James moved to what became Mills Creek, Ralls Co., MO.14 They and their son Isaac Lindsey Mills were buried at Mills Creek family cemetery.15 James's intestate probate file survives in Ralls Co. courL~ouse.16 Children of Isaac Lindsey and Rhoda, his second wife (birth dates from bible17 of their granddaughter Mary E.D. Lindsey Crittenden, daughter of vii.): v. Rhoda2, b. 21 Mch 1780 Heatons Station; presumably d. young, since not named in father's 1812 will and no known marriage. vi. prudence2, b. 22 Jly 1782 Heatons Station;.m. 24 Apr 1800 Sumner Co., TN, to Abraham Ellis; received property by father's 1812 will.18 3. vii. Isaac2, b. 28 Dec 1784. viii. Salley2, b. 14 Nov 1786 Davidson or Sumner Co., TN; named unmarried in father's 1812 will. 69 lX. HannahZ, b. 19 Mch 1789 Sumner Co., TNi presumably d. young, since not named in father's 1812 will and no known marriage. x. MargaretZ, b. 22 Meh 1791 Sumner Co., TN; m. 5 May 1812 Sumner Co., TN, to James Bruce.18 Called "Peggy." xi. Ruth2, b. 4 J1y 1795 Sumner Co., TNi named unmarried in father's 1812 will. 2. Ezekie12 Lindsey was born about 1766-1769 in South Carolina. As the eldest son, he must have stood beside his father during the trek to Middle Tennessee and the long Indian conflict, but he was too young to be eligible for a pre• emption grant of his own, so his father in 1796 gave him half the 640-acre tract at Lindseys Bluff.19 He married Nancy Green on Zl Sep 1793 in Sumner Co., TN,18 and lived at Lindseys Bluff, dying intestate before 1817.20 Ezekiel's early death caused his family to scatter and pass from knowledge of the Middle Tennessee branches. In 1818 his land was divided among eight chi1dren.2l His widow Nancy was dead by 1833.21 Children of Ezekiel Lindsey and Nancy Green (order not known; all born by 1817, presumably at Lindseys Bluff): i. Elizabeth3, b. abt 1794; m. 16 Jly 1813 Sumner Co., TN, to Litt1eberry R. Starks (b. c1792-d. 1 Feb 1852 Memphis, Shelby Co., TN) .18 ii. susannah3, b. abt l800i m. 8 Dec 1818 Sumner Co., TN, to Alexander McFarlin.I8 In 1819 they sold her share of her father's estate.Z1 Call ed II Luckv ." iii. William L.3, i~ 1818 he gave his brother Isaac power of attorney to sell his share of his father's estatei in 1831 witnessed Sumner Co., TN, deed.21 4. iv. Lewis3, b. 1 Dec 1806. v. Lowry3, in 1831 he sold to his bro~~er Lewis his share of his father's estate plus the shares that came from his dead sisters Mary and Nancy.2l He may be the Lowry Lindsey in the Marshall Co., KY, 1850 census, age 41.22 vi. Mary3, d. by 1831 when her estate had been inherited by her brothers and sisters.21 vii Isaac3, in 1825 and 1830 he sold his share of father's estate, includ• ing the share inherited from his sister Nancy.2l viii. Nancy3, d. by 1830 when her share of her father's estate was sold by her brother Isaac.21 3. Isaac2 Lindsey, Jr., was born 28 Dec 1784 at Heatons Station and graduated from the seminary of the Methodist Episcopal Church Sou~~ in 1808. He was a circuit rider 1808 to 1816 through Tennessee, Missouri, and Kentucky. His father's 1812 will gave him land at Lindseys Bluff "on condition he returns from his traveling enjoyments and make settlement as his permanent home for two years", which requirement he fulfilled.10 He married (1) Cynthia Peeder on 2 Oct 1825 in Wilson Co., TN, when he was age 40.23 After her dea~~ he married (2) Mary Elizabeth Dale Warren (b. 8 Mch 1795 MD-d. 9 Feb 1863 Wilson Co., TN) on 15 Jne 1830 in Sumner Co., TN.18 He was a successful plantation owner, amassing considerable lands and slaves in \vilson Co., and it was this "fall" from doing God's business t.l]atearned him L"te sighs of Methodists historians, especially because he was murdered 14 or 15 Dec 184Q near Lindseys Bluff by a rObber.ll, 24 He was buried at the Bluff.25 His platted Madison• ville at Lindseys Bluff was never more t.~an a paper town.26 All three of his children were probably born at Lindseys Bluff, or possibly in Wilson Co., TN. 70 The birth and death dates below are from the bible of iii.17 Children of Isaac Lindsey, Jr., and Cynthia Peeder, his first wife: i. Thomas Dale3, b. 10 Apr 1826; family letters 1852 place him in Franklin Co., TN.27 He was a Methodist circuit rider. Children of Isaac Lindsey, Jr., and Mary Elizabeth Dale Warren, his second wife: ii. Thomas Hubbard Saunders3, b. 16 Apr 1831; d. 12 Oct 1853 Richmond, TX, unmarried. His atta~pts at farming and Methodist preaching having failed, he went to'law school in New Orleans and then began practicing law at Texas in 1852, where he died of either a pulmonary infection or yellow fever.27 iii. Mary Eli2abeth Dale3, b. 19 Oct 1833; educated at a boarding school in Lebanon, TN; m. 8 Jly 1852 presumably in Wilson Co., TN, to Thomas Parham Crittenden (b. c1823 Nottoway Co., VA-d. 29 Oct 1901 Nashville, TN)28; their six children born l855-c1862; d. 13 Jan 1864 and buried at Lindseys Bluff. Her husband Parham was a Methodist preacher and his sermons against the Union during the Civil War landed him in prison where, according to family tradi• tion, he contracted an illness that made him mute and where his wife on a visit may have caught the illness that killed her. Parham later became a physician, remarried twice, and practiced in and near Nashville until his death. 29 4. Lewis3 Lindsey was born 1 Dec 1806 at Lindseys Bluff and married (Ii Jane Rachel McFarland (b. c1806) on 6 Jan 1831 in Wilson Co.30 Jane died of complications from giving birth to twins, who also died.31 Lewis married (2) Elizabeth Everett (b. IS Oct 1815-d. 23 Feb 1893) on 27 Jne 1841 in Davidson Co., TN.32 He lived in Wilson Co., where he seems to have been the post master 1839-1843 of Lindsayville.33 He was a slave holder. He died 5 Aug 1877.34 His bible survives in the Tennessee State Library and Archives.30 Children by (1): John E. b. 15 Mch 1832, Elizabeth M. b. 6 Mch 1834, James M. b. 30 Dec 1835, Nannie Jane b. 7 Jan 1838, Lafayette b. 27 May 1840, Victoria b. 27 May 1840. Children by (2): Thomas H. E. b. 9 Jne 1842, Benjamin F. b. 1 Sep 1843, George W. b. 21 Oct 1845, Evolina Jane Everett b. 27 May 1848, Zipporah Ellen L. b. 24 Dec 1852. Footnotes: 1. Laurens Co., SC, Deeds A:294-297; Tryon Co., NC, Deeds 1:45. 2. Statutes at Large ... of All the Laws of Virginia, William H. Hening, (Richmond, VA: 1820), 7:215-217. 3. DAR Lineage Book 80:254; National Society DAR Application #79703, 26 Feb 1910, with Supplement, refers to bible of Caleb Crane, as cited by Katherine Coker Dalton, great granddaughter of Caleb, who was a grandson of Isaac and Susannah Lindsey. Hhereabouts of bible present• ly unknown. 4. Frederick Co., VA, Deeds 8:239, 9:345; South Carolina Plat 8:489 (not patented), Plat 23:561 and Grant 16:366, Plat 16:371 and Grant 32:310. 5. Civil and Political History of t..'1eState of Tennessee, John Haywood, 71 (Nashville, TN: 1891 reprint of 1823 ed.), p. 88. 6. History of Southwest Virginia, 1746-1786, Washington County, 1777-1870, Lewis Preston Summers, (Richmond, VA: 1903), p. 240; also his Annals of Southwest Virginia, 1769-1800, (Abingdon, VA: 1929), pp. 960, 962: North Carolina Warrant 3937: North Carolina Secretary of State Papers, 5 May 1795 certification by Joshua Hadley for three years a soldier. 7. North Carolina Grant (Tennessee copy) H8:29: Davidson Co., TN, Deeds A:216, 229-242, 254, B:121; Davidson Co., TN, Minutes 1783-1790, A:33, 7 Jly 1784. 8. State Records of North Carolina, Walter Clark, ed., (Goldsboro, NC: 1901, 1905), 19:571-573, 24:629-630; North Carolina Grant (Tennessee copy) G7:29; plso recorded in Isaac's own surveyor's notebook of 1784, Tennessee Historical Society, Nashville, TIOO, 32 pp. 9. Three Pioneer Tennessee Documents, no author, (Nashville, TN: 1964), pp. 21, 23-40; State Records of North CarOlina, Walter Clark, ed., (Goldsboro, NC: 1905), 24:616-617; Davidson Co., TN, Deeds vol. A has at least 27 deeds where Isaac is listed as a trustee, 3 Jly-16 Aug 1784. He was a trustee for only a short time. 10. Sumner Co., TN, wills 1:153-156. 11. The lives of Isaac Lindsey, Lewis and John Crane, and Isaac Lindsey, Jr. I are recounted together in several Methodist histories: The Life and Times of the Rev. John Brooks, John Brooks, (Nashville, TN: 1848), p. 116; History of Methodism in Tennessee, John B. M'Ferrin, (NaShville, TN: 1875), 1:49-50, 490, 11:74-75, 118-122, 143, 151-157, 192-202, 274• 275: Recollections of the West, L. Garrett, (Nashville, TN: 1834), pp. 103-104: Pioneer Methodism in Missouri, J.E. Godley, (Kirkwood, MO: 1929), p. 13; Early Times in Middle Tennessee, John Carr, (Nashville, TN: 1958 reprint of 1857 ed.), pp. 7, 60-61: Lyman C. Draper Collection, State Historical Society of Wisconsin, 6XX63 letter of John Carr, 10 Oct 1854; Minutes of the Annual Conference of the Methodist Episcopal Church, 1773-1828, (New York, NY: 1840), pp. 220-221: Ibid., .••1852, (New York, NY: 1852), p. 131- 12. North Carolina Grants (Tenness.ee copy) G7:123. 13. Sumner Co., TN, Wills 2: 81- 14. Sumner Co., TN, Deeds 4:113, 240, 9:124; General Land Office, St. Louis Cash Book 1818-1822, receipt no. 4315, 27 Nov 1819, National Archives and Records Center, Suitland, MD. 15. "Cemetery Records of Ralls County, Missour i," \>\1illiamJ. Ganunon, WPA typescript, p. 43, Mills family cemetery, (Microfilm MS 36 Collection 3008, State Historical Society of Missouri); 1850 Ralls Co., MO, Mortality Census, p. 656; Hannibal Missouri Courier, 25 Apr 1850, p. 3; Biographical Review of Cass, Schuyler and Brown Counties, Illinois, Biographical Review PUblishing Co., (Chicago, IL: 1892), pp. 253-256. 16. Ralls Co., MO, Probate Files #763, James L. Mills, Sr., estate packet. 17. Bible of Mary E.D. Lindsey Crittenden, copy supplied by Dr. Lindsay K. BishOp" Nashville I TN, 1980. 18. "Tennessee: Records of SUlnner County, Marriage Record 1787-1838," HRS, WPA, (Nashville, TN: 1939). This HRS work apparently compiled from 72 loose records, there being not early registers, and loose bonds still survive for Ezekiel (1793), Prudence (1800) ~ Margaret (1812), and Isaac, Jr., (1830), all children of Isaac Lindsey, Sr., and for Elizabeth (1813) and Susannah (1818), children of Ezekiel Lindsey. 19. Sumner Co., TN, Deeds, 1:404. 20. Sumner Co., TN, Inventories and Settlements, 1808-1821, pp. 341, 370. 21. The division of Ezekiel's land and the subsequent passing of shares among his children can be found in Sumner Co., TN, Deeds 9:74, 185• 187, 330, 11:279, 13:97, 156, 253, 407. 22. Marshall Co., KY, 1850 Census, p. 469, #526/527. 23. Wilson Co., TN, Marriage Bonds (with ministers' returns endorsed on the back) . 24. Nashville Union, 24 Dec 1840; Nashville Whig, 25 Dec 1840; Nashville Daily Republican Banner, 23 Dec 1840. 25. "Tennessee Records: Vol. 1, Tombstone Inscriptions and Manuscripts," Jeanette T. Acklen, (Nashville, TN: 1933), p. 97. 26. Sili~nerCo., TN, Deeds 8:263-269, 420, 454. 27. Letters of Hubbard Lindsey, Mary E.E. Lindsey Crittenden, Thomas Dale Lindsey, and others, 1840s and 1850s, copies sent by Dr. Lindsey K. Bishop, Nashville, TN, 1980. 28. The Wilson Co., TN, marriage records are very incomplete and do not list this marriage. The date is rr0ffithe bride's bible (note 1; above). 29. Letter, Shirley Wilson, CGRS, Hendersonville, TN, to Dr. Lindsay K. Bishop, Nashville, TN, 22 Nov 1980. 30. Bible of Lewis Lindsey, original in Tennessee State Ms. Div., ac. no. 67-85. 31. Nashville Daily Republican Banner, 9 Jly 1840, p. 3. 32. Davidson Co., TN, Marriages 2:78 (license), 23 Jne 1841. 33. The History of Wilson County, Dixon Merritt, (Lebanon, TN: 1961), p. 264. 34. Wilson Co., TN, Wills 1871-1878, p. 522. * * * * * * * * * * * Kentucky Land Grants to 1820 Early Kentucky land grants (and their surveys) evolved into six collections: Virginia grants 1782-1792, Old Kentucky grants 1793-1856, grants south of Green River 1797-1866, Tellico grants 1803-1853, grants west of Tennessee River 1822-1858, and grants south of Walker's line 1825-1923. The last three collections have no Lindsay grants before 1821. All grants (and their located surveys) are abstracted below. There are other state land records-• such as Court of Appeals deeds, land entry lists, and payment books--but only the actual patents (and their surveys-) are abstracted here. Arthur Lindsay: Survey dated 16 J1y 1783 on pre-emption warrant #1252 (no date) entered 11 Dec 1782, 400 acres on Little Cain Run of South Fork of 73 Elkhorn, adjoining James Lindsay's lOOO-acre pre-emption. Chain carriers: William McConnall and James ~varden;marker: Robert Patterson. Gr ant issued 10 Jly 1785. Fayette County. Virginia Surveys vol. 2, p. 398 (LDS 272,940). Grant 10 Jly 1785 on pre-emption treasury warrant #1252 (3 Jan 1781), 400 acres by survey dated 16 J1y 1783 in Fayette County on branch of South Fork of Elkhorn called Little Cane Run, adjoining James Lindsay's 1000-acre pre-emption. Virginia Grants vol. 10, p. 55 (LDS 272,814). Arthus Lindsay: Survey dated 7 Jne 1784 on treasury warrant #4910 entered 17 Oct 1780, 334 acres on South Fork of Elkhorn, adjoining Fulton Lindsay's 1000-acre pre-emption, Cain Run. Chain carriers: Robert Pa!erson and James Lindsay; marker Thomas Paterson. Virginia Surveys vol. 8, p. 545 (LDS 272.943). Grant 18 May 1787 on treasury warrant #4910 (11 May 1780), 334 acres by survey dated 17 Jne 1784 in Fayette County on waters of South Fork of Elkhorn, adjoining Fulton Lindsay, Little Cane Run. Virginia Grants vol. 9, p. 537 (LDS 272,814). Caleb Lindsay: Survey #2478 of 200 acres on commission certificate #3472 on Donnalson Creek, adjoining John Edmondson. Survey dated 14 Jan 1799. No county named. Chain carrier: Humphrew Dixon. Surveys South of Green River vol. 3, p. 103 (LDS 272,953). Caleb Linsey assignee of Elias Veach assignee of William Winfield: Grant 24 Dec 1814 on survey certificate #11065 south of Green River on certificate #256 granted by cour;tycourt of Warren (Sep 1301): 5[; acres survey dated 21 Oct 1810 in Warren County on Green River, adjoining Edmund Pardy. Examined and delivered to Fran Johnston 27 Jan 1815. Grants South of Green River vol. 15, p. 461 (LDS 272,835). Caleb Lindsey assignee of Elias Veach assignee of William Winkfield: Grant 10 Feb 1816 on survey certificate #11066 south of Green River on certificate #951 grant·edby county court of Warren (Apr 1803), 100 acres survey dated 22 Oct 1810 in Warren County, adjoining Green River, Veaches 50-acre survey between mouth of Little Beaverdam and Anderson's Creek. Examined and delivered to FranS Johnson the day of issue. Grants South of Green River vol. 18, p. 218 (272,836). Caleb Lindsey: Surveyed for James Dixon, survey #6209 in Christian County on Chr istian county court certiticate #1587 on Ramsey I s Creek of Cumberland River. Survey dated 5 Nov 1803. Chain carriers: Thomas McLaughlin and James McLaughlini marker: James Dixon. Attached notice: 10 Oct l807 Jas Dixon assigns plat to Joshua Lindsey. Surveys SOUL~ of Green River va. 7, p. 50 (LDS 272,955). Caleb Lindsey assignee of Carlton Lindsey assignee of Joshua.Lindsey assignee of James Dixon: Grant 6 Jan 1815 on survey certificate #6209 south of Green River on certificate #1587 granted by county court of Christian (Oct 1803) 150 acres survey dated 5 Nov 1803 in Christian County on Ramseys Creek of Cumberland River . Examined and delivered to Benjamin W. Patton 13 Jan 1815. Grants South of Green River vol. 13, p. 554 (LDS 272,834). Caleb Lindsey: Surveyed for Thomas Weaver, survey #6225 in Christian County on Beechy Fork of Dollarton on a Christian county court certificate #1995. 74 Survey dated 9 Aug 1804. Chain carriers: Joshua Lindsey and George Wilcox. Attached notice: 26 Feb 1807 Thomas Weaver assigns plat to Lawrence Kelley. 1809 Larnce Killebrew assigns plat to Joshua Lindsey. Surveys South of Green River vol. 7, p. 58 (LDS272,955). Caleb Lindsey assignee of Lawrence Killebrew assignee of Thomas Weaver: Grant on survey certificate #6225 south of Green River, grant dated 23 Jan 1816 on certificate #1995 granted by county court of Christian (Jly 1804), 400 acres survey dated 9 Aug 1804 in Christian County on Beechy Fork of Dol1arton. Grants South of Green River vol. 17, p. 420 (LDS 272,836). Caleb Lindsey assignee of Thomas Weaver: Grant 23 Dec 1816 on survey certificate #12921 south of Green River on certificate #1995 granted by county court of Christian (n.d.), 96 acres survey dated 10 Nov 1814 in Christian County on Beech Fork of Dollison, adjoining Drury Bridges. Examined and delivered to B.H. Reeves 31 Dec 1816. Grants South of Green River vol. 19, p. 503 (LDS 272,837). (Editor's note: I am not clear just how these grants relate to each other.) Carlton Lindsey assignee of Jacob McFaddin assignee of William McFarland: Grant on survey certificate #14566 south of Green River, grant dated 5 Jne 1818 on certificate #2187 granted by county court of Christian (Dec 1804) 146 acres survey dated 8 Sep 1817 in Christian County on Ford's Fork south of Cumberland River. Examined and delivered to B.W. Patton 28 Aug (no year) "by mail." Grants South of Green River vol. 23, p. 256 (LDS 272(839). Fulton Lindsay: Survey dated 15 Dec 1783 on pre-emption warrant #280 entered 29 Apr 1780, 1000 acres on Cane Run waters of South Fork of Elkhorn, adjoining old military survey. Chain carriers: Robt Patterson and Elijh Pogue; marker: William Henderson. Attached notice: 12 Apr 1781 Fulton Lindsay assigns his 1000-acre pre-emption to Joseph Lindsay, this pre-emption earned by making an improvement in 1776. Virginia Surveys vol. 6, p. 209 (IDS 272(942). George Lindsay assignee of James Love: Grant 21 May 1802 by treasury warrant #13319 29 Jne 1784, 230 acres by survey 30 May 1798 in Hardin County on branches of Knob Creek, adjoining Hughes' lOa-acre survey, Hazles. Examined and delivered to owner 12 Oct 1802. Old Kentucky Grants vol. IS, p. 424. James Lindsey: Survey dated 20 Jne 1783 on pre-emption warrant #855 (4 Dec 1782), 1000 acres on South Fork of Elkhorn about nine or ten miles below Lexington, adjoining Taylor. Chain carriers: Robt Patterson and David Vance; marker: James Lindsey. Grant issued 22 Mch 1785 #1172. Virginia Surveys vol. 2, p. 91 (LDS 272,940). Grant: 22 Mch 1785 on warrant #855 (22 Jne 1780), 1000 acreS on survey dated 20 Jne 1783 in Fayette County on South Fork of Elkhorn about nine or ten miles below Lexington, adjoining Taylor, Lindseys Run. Virginia Grants vol. 5, p. 87 (LDS 272,812). James Lindsey: Surveyed for William Ashmore, survey #6227 in Logan County on commissioners certificate #2687, 110 acres on waters of Rockhouse Fork of Gaspers River. Survey dated 29 Nov 1798. Chain carriers: Wm Hardin and James Dickey; marker: W. Ashmore. Attached notice: 13 Oct 1801 Samuel Ashmore assigns to Nenian Tannihil1. Surveys South of 75 Green River vol. 7, p. 60 (LDS 272,955). James Lindsay assignee of Ninian Tannahill assignee of Samuel Ashmore assignee of Hezikiah J. Balch assignee of William __ are (?Ashmore): Grant 23 Jan 1811 on survey certificate #6227 south of Green River on certificate #2687 (1798), 110 acres survey dated 29 Nov 1798 in Logan County on waters of Rockhouse Fork of Gaspers River. Bounds refer to the Barrens. Examined and delivered to J.W. Walker 26 Jan 1811. Grants South of Green River vol. 9, p. 153 (LDS 272,832). James Lind~: Survey 18 May 1804 #6207 for 200 acres in Christian County on Christian county court certificate #1390 on Dollarton's Creek. Chain carriers: James Lindsey and Oldham Hightower. Surveys South of Green River vol. 7, p. 49 (LDS 272,955). James Lindsey assignee of James Trimble: Survey 27 Feb 1807 #6192 for 250 acres on a removed Christian county court certificate #2975 in Christian County on headwaters of Pootts (77) Creek, adjoining survey for Elizabeth Lindsey, crossing road to Terrpin's Ferry. Chain carriers: James Lindsey, Joshua Lindsey. Surveys South of Green River vol. 7, p. 42 (LDS 272,955). James Lindsey: Grant 6 Feb 1809 on survey certificate #3442 south of Green River on certificate #2234 (1798), 200 acres survey dated 4 Jly 1800 in Warren County on waters of Barren River, adjoining Thompson Briggs (assignee of Gladen Gosser), Black, a military line. Examined and delivered to John Ray 11 Feb 1809. Grants South of Green River vol. 6, p. 208 (LDS 272,830). James Lindsey: Grant 13 Jan 1810 on survey certificate #9704 south of Green River on certificate #444 granted by county court of Warren (Dec 1801) , 100 acres survey dated 4 Nov 1808 in Warren County on G~e waters of Barren River, adjoining Thompson Briggs. Examined and delivered to Alex Graham 15 Jan 1810. Grants South of Green River vol. 6, p. 451 (LDS 272,830). James Lindsey: Grant 13 Jan 1810 on survey certificate #9705 south of Green River on certificates #275 and 276 granted by county court of Warren (Sep 1801), 100 acres survey dated 5 Nov 1808 in Warren County on Jennings Creek, adjoining Wycoff, Edmund Rings, said Lindsey's old line. Examined and delivered to Alex Graham 15 Jan 1810. Grants South of Green River vol. 6, p. 449 (LDS 272,830). James Lindsay assignee of Charles McGehee: Grant 25 April 1820 on survey certificate #15243 south of Green River on certificate #2454 granted by Christian County (1805), 342 acres survey dated 26 Mch 1819 in Christian County on waters of Little River, adjoining 200 acres patented to Francis Summers, 400 acres surveyed for Wilson Allen, Lemuel Allen, Joshua Cates. Examined and delivered to W. Reeves at Hopkinsville 3 May 1820. Grants South of Green River vol. 24, p. 453 (LDS 272,839). John Lins€y: Survey (forgot to copy date) on part of a military warrant #715 in Nelson County in waters of Pottingers Creek about four miles above Pottinger's field, adjoining near Kinchloe's cabbin. Granted 16 Meh 1791. Chain carriers: "Two of the name of Clark. 11 Virginia Surveys vol. 10, p. 200 (LDS 272,944). Grant: 16 Mch 1791 on military warrant by King of Great Britain's proclamation of 1763 #715, 300 acres by survey 25 Jne 1788 in Nelson 76 County on waters of pottengers Creek about four miles above Pottenger's field, adjoining Kinchlow's cabin. Virginia Grants vol. 11, p. 566 (LDS 272,815). John Lindsey assignee of William Dees assignee of John Clark assignee of James Court: Grant on survey certificate #10233 south of Green River, grant dated 22 Dec 1814 on certificate #1907 granted by county court of Logan (n.d.), 54 acres survey dated 23 Oct 1810 in Christian County on waters of Ramseys Creek near John Lindsey's house, adjoining Croghan's 804-acres military survey. Examined and delivered to Benjamin W. Patton 11 Jan 1815. Grants South of Green River vol. 15, p. 457 (LDS 272,835). John Lindsey and Willis Wilbanks assignees of Hamton Reese assignee of David Moore assignee of William Barnett assignee of James Rogers: Grant 1 Mch 1817 on survey certificate #13371 south of Green River on certificate #1040 granted by county court of Christian (Jan 1803), 400 acres survey dated 14 Nov 1814 in Christian County on water of Salem Creek, adjoining Jennett Roger. Examined and delivered to Morgan Hopson (?) 5 Dec 1817. Grants South of Green River vol. 21, p. 367 (LDS 272,838). Joseph Lindsey assignee of Fulten Lindsey: Grant 8 Men 1786 on pre-emption treasury warrant #280 (22 Mch 1780), 1000 acres by survey dated 15 Dec 1783 in Fayette County on head of Cane Run of South Fork or Elkhorn, adjoining an old military survey. Virginia Grants vol. 7, p. 269 (LDS 272,813). Joseph Lindsay's heiLs: Survey dated 1~ Jly 1786 part of a 1000-acre entry on a pre-emption warrant #?2039 entered 17 Jan 1783, 518 acres on waters of Town Fork of South Elkhorn, adjoining David Perry, McDowel, McCracken, Garret's line otherwise Shelby's on the north line of their settlement. In Fayette County. Chain carriers: James Lindsay, William Lindsay; marker: William Lindsay, Senr. Virginia Surveys vol. 11, p. 408 (LDS 272,945) • Joseph Lindsey heirs: Survey 20 Nov 1797 by entry 17 Jan 1783 part of pre-emption warrant for lOOO-acres #2039, 634 acr.es in Fayette County, adjoining Garrett, David Perry, McDowell's military survey, John McCrackin's pre-emption. Chain carriers: John McCrackin, Samuel Ruby; marker: Joseph Lindsey. Old Kentucky Surveys vol. 4, p. 342 (LDS 272,947) . Joseph Lindsay and Fulton Thompson devisees of Joseph Lindsay deceased: Grant 20 May 1799 by part of pre-emption warrant #2039, 634 acres by survey 20 Nov 1797 in Fayette County on waters of Town Fork or Elkhorn, adjoining Garrett, David povey, McDowell's military survey, McCracken's pre-emption, Lindsay's settlement. Old Kentucky Grants vol. 11, p. 88 (LDS 272,822). Joseph Lindsey's heirs: Survey 6 Nov 1792 by a certificate of settlement granted Joesph Lindsey by Fayette court 14 Nov 1781, entered 7 Jan 1783, 400 acres in Fayette County on Middle Fork of Elkhorn. Ctlain carriers: Hugh Thompson, Fulton Thompson; marker: Wm Lindsey. Old Kentucky Surveys vol. 3, p. 385 (LDS 272,946). Joseph Lindsay, Junr., devisee of Joseph LIndsay deceased: Grant 20 May 1799 by survey dated 6 Nov 1792 in consideration or right of settlement in Fayette County, 400 acres on Middle Fork of Elkhorn. Old Kentucky Grants vol. 11, p. 87 (LDS 272,822). 77 Joshua Lindsey: Survey #6202 for 92 acres in Christian County on Christian county court certificate #977 on Oollarton Creek of Cuwberland River, adjoining James Wilson. Survey dated 12 Nov 1808. Chain carriers: Joshua Lind~ and James C . Attached notice: 10 Sep 1807 Joshua Lindsey assigns plat to Henry Slanherd. 19 Nov 1810 Henry Slanhared assigns plat back to Joshua Lindsey. Surveys South of Green River vol. 7, p. 46 (LOS 272,955). Joshua Lindsey assignee of Henry Slanhard assignee of Joshua Lindsey: Grant 20 Dee 1815 on survey certificate #6202 south of Green River on certificate #279 granted by county court of Christian (Dee 1802), 92 acres survey dated 12 Nov 1803 in Christian County on Dollarton's Creek of Cumberland River, adjoininq James Wilson. Examined and delivered to Ben W. Patton 22 Jan 1816. Grants South of Green River vol. 17, p. 360 (LDS 272,836) . Mark Lindsey assignee of George Bruton: Sur~ey #6150 for 100 acres in Wayne County on entry made on a duplicate #119 (Jne 1801) on southwest side of Bever Creek, adjoining said Bruton. Survey dated 24 Feb 1805. Chain carriers: Jaconiah (?) Langston, Geo. Bruton; marker: Mark Linsey. Surveys South of Green River vol. 7, p. 18 (LOS 272.955). Mark Lindsey assignee of George Bruton: Grant 11 Oec 1811 on survey certif• icate #6150 south of Green River on certificate #119 granted by county court of Wayne (Jne 1801), 100 acres survey dated 24 Feb 1805 in Wayne County on southwest side of Never (?) Creek, adjoining Bruton, Nowland. Examined and delivered to E.N. (7) Cullom. Grants South of Green River vol. 10, p. 214 (LOS 272,832). Nevel Linsey assignee of John Readen assignee of CaL~erine Harry: Grant 28 Dee 1809 on survey certificate #8487 south of Green River on certificate #726 granted by county court of Henderson (Aug 1805), 286 acres survey dated 10 Oct 1807 in Henderson County on the waters of Highland, adjoining Polly Crump, William Ficklin, Redde assignee of McCalester, McGraedey, Alneus (7) McCollester. Grants South of Green River vol. 7, p. 595 (LDS 272,831). Nevill Lindsey or Lindley assignee of John Reedy assignee of Polly Crump: Grant 12 Dec 1817 on survey certificate #8486 south of Green River on certificate #6481 granted by county court of Henderson (1805), 400 acres survey dated 10 Oct 1807 in Henderson County on waters of Highland. Grants South of Green River vol. 22, p. 29 (LDS 272,838). Opie Lindsay: Survey dated 4 Feb 1783 on treasury warrant #12735 in Lincoln County, 1835 acres on headwaters of Buck Creek, adjoining Christopher Clark's 806-acre survey. Virginia Surveys vol. 4, p. 94 (LDS 272,941). Grant: 30 Aug 1785 on treasury warrant #12735 (1 Jly 1782), 1?30 acres survey dated 4 Feb 1783 in Lincoln County on headwaters of Buck Creek, adjoining 806 acres of Christopher Clark. Virginia Grants vol. 7, p. 130 (LDS 272,813) . William Lindsey: Survey dated 3 May 1783 on pre-emption warrant #855 entered 4 Dee 1782 and amended 26 Feb 1783, 1000 acres on Lindsays Run, an east branch of South Elkhorn, adjoining David Vance. Chain carriers: Robt Patterson and David Vance; marker: James Lindsay. Grant issued 21 Jne 1784. Virginia Surveys vol. 3, p. 90 (LDS 272,941). Grant 21 Jne 1784 on warrant #855 (22 Jne 1780), 1000 acres by survey 3 May 1783 in Fayette County on Lindsay Run, an east branch of South Elkhorn, 78 adjoining David Vance. Virginia Grants vo. 3, p. 55 (LDS 272,811). William Lindsay: Survey 7 Jne 1784 on treasury warrant #12143 entered 20 Jan 1783, 293 acres, adjoining William Lindsay's pre-emption, James Lindsey's lOOO-acre pre-emption, John Cackey Owing's survey, David Vance, Duncan. Chain carriers: Robert Patterson, James Lindsey; marker: David Vance. Virginia Surveys vol. 2, p. 372 (LDS 272,940). Grant: 2 Dec 1785 on warrant #12143 (3 Jne 1782), 293 acres by survey dated 7 Jne 1784 in Fayette County, adjoining William Lindsay's pre• emption, Duncan, James Lindsay's 1000-acre pre-emption, David Vance. Virginia Grants vol. 4, p. 417 (LDS 278,811). William Lindsay: Survey dated 20 Jan 1785 on part of a military warrant #1199, 1000 acres on Trade Water River, adjoining Thomas Gaskin's lOOO-acre surveys 55 and 89, John Gillison's 1000-acre survey #348. Chain carriers: Silas Ashby and David Clarke; marker: David Byars. Virginia Surveys vol. la, p. 87 (LDS 272,944). Grant: 6 Nov 1788 military warrant #1199 (n.d.), 1000 acres by survey dated 20 Jan 1785 "in the district set apart for the officers and soldiers of L~e Virginia Continental Line on the waters or Trade Water River", adjoining Thomas Gaskin's 1000-acre surveys #55 and 89, John Gillison's lOOO-acre survey #348. Virginia Grants vol. 11, p. 476 (LDS 272,816). (From the above it is obvious that a person could enter and have surveyed a tract of land and then assign it to another before the grant was issued; likewise, an already surveyed tract could be 3ssigned to a new owner, Wh0 would get the actual grant. Thus, ther-e are Lindsay surveys wi Llcut gran',:s, and grants without surveys. Also, there are somewhere one member of a family got the survey and another member L~e granti I do not pretend to have every survey and grant matched in such cases.) * * * * * * * * * * Immigrants to the South before 1800 The following extensive listing of passenger lists was published late last year. It will be followed by more lists. There is considerable overlap, since the work indexes all names in each book or article without screening out duplication. Passenger and Immigration Lists Index: A Guide to Published Arrival Records of about 500,000 Passengers Who Came to the United States and Canada in the Seventeenth, Eighteenth, and Nineteenth Centuries, P. William Filby with Mary K. Meyer, (Detroit, MI: Gale, 1981). All entries for Pennsylvania and south to 1800 have been copied, plus one or two where the destination was not given. The following works had Lindsay items. 263 Charles Edward Banks, Planters of the Commonwealth (1930). 702 Carl Boyer, Ship Passenger Lists National and New England (1977). 943 Bristol and America: A Record of the First Settlers in the Colonies of North America (1929). 1088 Viola Root Cameron, Emigrants from Scotland to ~~erica (1930). 1222)} 'I Idh . h .. l' 1 7,. .. 1~?3) Peter Wl son Co am, Enqlls Convlcts In Co onla ~~erlca ~- vol. 1 (122~) Middlesex (1974); vol. 2 (1223) London (1976) 1272 Colonial Records of Virginia (1874). 79 2128 Gerald Fothergill, Emigrants from England (1913). 2524 Michael Ghirel1i, List of Emigrants from England to America' (1968) 2772 George Cabell Greer, Earlv Virginia Immigrants (1912). 2989 Cecil Headlam, Calendar of State Papers. Colonial Series, vol. 29 (1930). 3283 John Camden Hotten, Original Lists of Persons of Quality (1874). 5243 William Forbes Marshall, "Names of Some Ministers ..• ," in Ulster Sails West (1943). 7207 "Record of Indentures of Individuals Bound Out as Apprentices ... ," Pennsyslvania-German Society Proceedings 16 (1905). 7343 Janie Revill, Compilation of the Original Lists of Protestant Immigrants to South Carolina (1939). 8690 Clifford Neal Smith, "Transported Jacobite Rebels, 1716," National Genealogical Society Quarterly 64 (1974), 27-34. 9151 Michael Tepper, Passengers to America (New England Register) (1977). n.a. = no age n.d. = no date Linsay, n.a., n.d. 1223:93 Linsey, n.a., n.d. 1223:93 Lyndsey, n.a., n.d., 1222:172 Agnes Lindsey 35, Charles Town, SC, 1766-1767, 7343:69 Agnes Lindsay 13, Charles Town, SC, 1766-1767, 7343:70 Alexander Linsey, n.a., Virginia 1655, 2772:206 Anthony Lindsey, n.a., Maryland, 1735, 1222:168 Barbury Lensey 20, Virginia, 9151:204. Catherine, n.a., America, 1760, 1222:168 Colin Lindsay, n.a., no port mentioned, 1790, 702:18 Colin Lindsay, n.a., no port mentioned, 179Q, 5243:64. David Lindsay, n.a., America, 1707, 1223:92 Eliz'h Lindsay 35, Charles Town, SC, 1766-1767, 7343:70 Eliz'h Lindsay 4, Charles Town, SC, 1766-1767, 7343:70 Elizabeth Lindsay, n.a., Pennsylvania, 1771, 7207:20 Hannah Lindsey 19, Charles Town, SC, 1767,7343:97 Hannah Lindsey, n.a., Charles Town, SC, 1767, 7343:99 Isabella Lindsey, n.a., Charles Town, SC, 1766-1767, 7343:67 Jane Lyndsey, n.a., Virginia, 1726, 1222:168 Jane Linsey, n.a., America 1745, 1222:168 Jane Lindsay, n.a., Charles Town, SC, 1766-1767, 7343:72 James Lindsey, n.a., Virginia and/or Jamaica, 1716, 2989:169 James Lindsey, n.a., Virginia and/or Jamaica, 1716, 8690:29 James Lindsay, n.a., Charles Town, SC, 1763, 7343:7 James Lindsay 3,Char1es Town, SC, 1766-1767, 7343:70 John Lindsey 18, Montserrat, 1700, 9151:193 Jno. Lindsey, n.a., Virginia, 1716, 2989:168 John Lindsey, n.a., America, 1716, 8690:29 John Lindsey, n.a., Charles Town, SC, 1766-1767, 7343:67 John Lindsey 7, Charles Town, SC, 1766-1767, 7343:69 John.Lindsey 23, Jamaica, 1774, 2128:101 John Lindsey 23, Jamaica, 1774, 9151:324 Joseph Lindsay, n.a., America, 1798, 9151:406 Lucretia Linsay, n.a., Maryland, 1741, 1223:93 Margaret Lindsay, n.a., Charles Town, SC, 1763, 7343:12 Mary Lindsey, n.a., Virginia, 1685, 2524:52 Mary Linsey, n.a., Maryland, 1742, 1223:93 Mary Lindsey, n.a., .;merica, 1759, 1222:168 80 Richard Lindsey, n.a., Virginia, 1721, 1222:168 Robert Lindsey, n.a., Virginia, 1623, 1272:45 Robert Lindsey, n.a., Virginia, 1623, 3283:179 Robt Lynsey, n.2., Virginia, 1652, 2772:212 Robert Lindsay, n.a., Virginia, 1663-1679, 943:105 Robert Lindsay, n.a., Virginia, 1663-1679, 943:166 Robert Lindsey 5, Charles Town, SC, 1766-1767, 7343:69 Samuel Lindsey, n.a., Charles Town, SC, 1766-1767,7343:67-8 Sarah Lindsey, n.a., Charles Town, SC, 1766-1767, 7343:72 Thomas Lynsey, n.a., Barbadoes, 1672, 1222:168 Thomas Lindsay 16, Virginia, 1699, 9151:191 Thomas Lindsey, n.a., Virginia, 1735, 1222:168 Thomas Lindsey, n.a., Charles Town, SC, 1766-1767, 7343:67 Thomas Lindsay 1, Charles Town, SC, 1766-1767, 7343:70 Thomas Linsey, n.a., America, 1770, 1222:168 William Lindsay, n.a., Charles Town, SC, 1763, 7343:9 William Linsey, n.a., America, 1766, 1222:168 William Lindsay, Jr., n.a., Pennsylvania, 1771, 7207:20 * * * * * * * * * * *