Tapp Families in America

Genealogy of the Cloyd, Basye and Tapp Families in America WITH BRIEF SKETCHES REFERRING TO THE FAMILIES OF INGELS, JONES, MARSHALL and SMITH BY A. D. CLOYD, M. D. Omaha, N tbraska 1912 GENEALOGY OF THE CLOYD, BASYE and TAPP FAMILIES To the memory of my father and mother, whose pious Christian lives and ennobling example have been a constant inspiration and uplift to me throughout a busy life, this book is affectionately dedicated. Contents SECTION ONE-Descendants of James Cloyd, (1680-1769) of Chester County, Pennsylvania. SECTION TWO-Descendants of David Cloyd, (1700-1792) of Augusta County, Virginia. SECTION THREE-Descendants of John Cloyd, who died 1759 in Augusta County, Virginia. SECTION FOUR-Descendants of William Cloyd, (1751-1837) of Washington County, Tennessee. SECTION FIVE-Descendants of Daniel Clyde, (1683-1753) of Windham, New Hampshire, who changed the name to Cloyd. SECTION SIX-Descendants of Edmond Basye, (1730-1810) of Fauquier County, Virginia. SECTION SEVEN-Descendants of Elizabeth Tapp of - Spottsylvania County, Virginia. SECTION EIGHT-Brief sketches of Ingels, Jones, Marshall, and Smith families. Families Allied by Marriage-Alexander, Allen, Amiss, Atkinson, Baker, Banks, Barnhill, Baxter, Beale, Beard, Ben ton, Berney, Blosser, Bonsall, Boyd, Bradshaw, Branham, Brooks, Brown, Brubaker, Bryner, Burge, Caldwell, Camp bell, Cary, Clark, Cleveland, Clinging, Colley, Cox, Craig, Cri der, Crum, Culbertson, Cummings, Cunningham, Dameron, Davis, Dennis, Downs, Doty, Eik:enberg, Elliott, Field, Fellers, Finney, Fisher, Forgy, Foster, Galbreath, Gale, Gallemore, Gal loway, Gates, Graham, Gray, Green, Grisham, Griswold, Hamblen Hamill, Hamilton, Hamlin, Hargrove, Hartsell, Hays, Head, Heeter, Hensley, Herrold, Hopkins, Hooper, Houston, Hudson, Hughes, Hunton, Jackson, James, Jenkins, Jett, Johnson, Jones, Keister, Kemper, Kent, Kirk, Kirkpatrick, Knight, Lanterman, Larner, Latta, Law, Layman, Lee, Leslie, Lowe, Lowman, Lucas, Lukens, McBain, McDowell, McGavock, McKee, Mc Whinney, Manlove, Marshall, Mefferd, Melvin, Mendenhall, Miles, Mills, Minor, Moody, Moore, Morrell, Moser, Myers, Napier, Nassau, Neely, Nevin, North, Paekee, Patrick, Patton, Peoples, Pembleton, Philips, Postlethwaite, Read, Ream, Reid, Richardson, Roberts, Robertson, Robinson, Sears, Sharp, Shep herd, Showers, Smail, Smith, Smyth, Snipes, Spears, Spillman, Sprecher, Stamper, Stewart, Stone, Strouse, Swihart, Tate, Tay lor, Templeton, Thompson, Tilford, Todd, Townsend, Turner, Van Horn, Van Leer, Van Vichton, Waggoner, Warner, Watson, Watts, West, Williamson, Wilson, Withrow, Woods, Yancey, and many others. Explanation The collection of the information in this book was the re sult of circumstances. Like the majority of individuals the compiler had no thought of or care for his ancestry until one day in 1891, he received a letter from Dr. Thos. Cloyd Craig of Eas ton, Kans., making inquiries about the family name, Dr. Craig having seen the writer's name in some Medical Journal. In a very short time a similar letter was received from Dr. W. H. Long of Haddonneld, N. J. Following the correspondence with these two gentlemen an interest in family history was aroused and the correspondence gradually extended to other parties and to other branches of the family. The gradual unfolding of different lines of the family his tory proved so captivating and alluring that only business cares have prevented more extended research. Tbe correspondence has been voluminous and has extended over a period of fifteen years. Errors there are undoubtedly, but fundamental facts have been verified by incontrovertible proof. Government, county seat and church records have been carefully examined ; historical libraries have been visited repeatedly ; every genealog ical work of any bearing has been scanned, and hundreds of let ters have been written in the effort to confirm or secure informa tion. Often times conflicting testimony would be received from equally qualified persons, increasing and making more difficult the task of securing accurate records. To all who have so generously assisted and co-operated with me in the preparation of these notes, I wish to express my pro found appreciation. Special mention is due Dr. Thomas Cloyd Craig, Easton, Kans., Dr. Wm. S. Long, Haddonfield, N. J., Mrs. Ellen (Mendenhall) Beale, Parkersburg, Pa., David Cloyd James, Madisonville, Ky., Paul C. Cloyd, Plainfield, N. J., Miss Jennie Williamson, Lebanon, Tenn., I. Walter Basye, Bowling Green, Mo., Dr. James W. Cloyd, Mossheim, Tenn., and others who have assisted in every way possible. 7 The collection of the material for this book has been a pleas ure. It has occupied many spare moments. It will prove in teresting to but few, yet it is too valuable to perish with the writer. Its publication is undertaken without the hope of finan cial reward. The pleasure it will give a few of those who read will be my recompense. If another shall take up the work at any point where. I have left off, I shall be the more abundantly gratified. In writing the history of the Cloyd family in America an effort has been made to harmonize facts with traditional reports but not always with success. That there were three brothers who came from Ireland is a tradition commc,n to different branches, of the family widely separated. That the original immigrants or their ancestors were in the memorable siege of Londonderry, England, in 1689, is an equally common tradition. It has been impossible, however, to locate the particular ancestor who underwent the terrible privations and sufferings that mark a religious war which forms one of the worse stains on England's history. It has been equally impossible to establish the identity of the three brothers, as being the only and original immigrants. It has been well established that the family came out from Ulster the northernmost province of Ireland in which London derry is situated. It is evident the name is closely associated with that of Clyde. Several instances can be adduced where a part of a family would retain the original name Clyde and the others take the name Cloyd after coming to America. Various claims have been advanced in reference to the original name having been Cloy, 0 'Cloyd, McCloyd, McLeod, etc., but prepon derance of real evidence indicates that the original name was Clyde. The Cloyd immigrants were pure Scotch though they were called Scotch-Irish, a term which had its origin in the fact that great colonies of Scotchmen concentrated in Northern Ireland, especially in Ulster Province in the 17th Century. Respectfully submitted, A. D. CLOYD, M. D. Omaha, Nebr., April 1, 1912. 8 Mrs. A. D. Cloyd NOTE ORIGIN OF THE SCOTCH-IRISH SETTLERS OF PENNSYLVANIA AND VIRGINIA The following is taken from the ' ' History of the Colony and Ancient Dominion of Virginia", by Charles Campbell, published by J. B. Lippin cott & Co., Philadelphia, 1860, page 423 :- ''During the reign of Queen Elizabeth, the dissatisfied and turbu lent Provihce of Ulster, in Ireland, suffered pre-eminently the ravages of civil war. Quieted for a time by the sword, insurrection again burst forth in the second year of James the First, and repeated rebellions crushed in 1605, left a large tract of country desolate, and fast declining into barbarism. Almost the whole of six counties of Ulster thus, by forfeiture, fell into the hands of the king. A London company under his auspices, colonized this unhappy district with settlers, partly English, principally Scotch-one of the wise and salutary measures of his feeble reign. The descendants of these colonists of the plantation of Ulster, as it was now called, came to be distinguished by the name of Scotch-Irish. Archbishop Usher, who was disposed to reconcile the differences between the Presbyterians and Episcopalians, consented to a compromise of them, in consequence of which there was no formal separation from the estab lished ehurch. But it was not long before the persecutions of the house of Stuart, inflicted by the hands of Strafford and Laud, augumented the numbers of the non-conformists, riveted them more closely to their own political and religious principles, and compelled them to tum their eyes to America as a place of refuge for the oppressed. The civil war of England ensuing, they were for a time relieved from this necessity. Their unben~ding opposition to the proceedings of C:r:omwell drew down upon them (1649) the sarcastic denunciation of Milton. (Milton's Prose Works, i. 422, 430, 437). The persecutions that followed the restoration (1679) and after wards, at length compelled the Scotch-Irish to seek refuge in the New World, and many of them came over from the North of Ireland and settled in several of the colonies, especially in Pennsylvania. From thence a por tion of them gradually migrated to the western parts of Virginia and North Carolina, inhabiting the frontier of civilization, and forming a bar rier between the red men and the whites of the older settlements. The Scotch-Irish enjoyed entire freedom of religion, for which they were indebted to their remote situation". There was an exodus of Scotch-Irish from Pennsylvania to Virginia which began about 1732. They were good Presbyterians, and as soon as they had built their houses they proceeded to build churches; and the '' Tuscarora Meeting House'', was near Martinsburg, and the '' Opeqnon Church'' a little south of Winchester. The first Presbyterian minister settling west of the Blue Ridge was the Rev. John Craig, a native of the 9 North of Ireland. In 1840 he became pastor of the ' ' Stone Meeting House'', afterwards called '' Augusta Church'', near Staunton, Augusta Co., Va., organized in 1738, and settled by the Scotch-Irish from Penn sylvania, ( descendants of the Covenanters) a race distinguished for their intelligence, energy, morality, and piety. In 1737, John Lewis, a native of Dublin Co., Ireland, secured a grant of land covering half of what is now Rockbridge Co. To settle up the land he imported upwards of one hundred families from the north of Ireland, Scotland, and border counties of England.

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