Going West: Beyond the Old World: 1180-1930
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SOME of theBUZBEES and THEIR BESTFRIENDS COMPILED BY Richard E. Buzbee Some of The Buzbees and Their Best Friends was first published in a single volume for the family at Christmas 1967. The Second Edition was published for the family, 25 December 1983. Since that time, the increase in family data discovered or created, as well as the increase in the family, have allowed the expansion into multiple volumes. The original volume is now Volume 1, though it, too, has been rewritten and enlarged. This is Volume 1, Going West: Beyond the Old World: 1180-1930. Volume 1 is set in 12 pt. Palatino, using a Power Macintosh 7600/120 computer. Published at 4 Crescent Boulevard, Hutchinson, Kansas 25 December 1997 1 August 1998 SOME OF THE BUZBEES AND THEIR BEST FRIENDS 2 VOLUME 1: BEYOND THE OLD WORLD Buzbees, Darlings, Palmers, Cauthorns, In Old, New Worlds (Many arrived early and most headed west in first 300 years) THIS IS A COLLECTION of stories about good friends. It also is a collection of dates that influenced their lives. It tells of some men and women who carried the names of Buzbee, Darling, Koester or Saunders, and of families who were to become best friends, such as Palmer, Cauthorn, Thomas, January, Cooper, Van Anglen and Gautier. This is a copy from a Third Edition in a printing of 6 copies. The First Edition was published 25 December 1967 in 30 pages. The Second Edition was published 25 December 1983 in 196 pages. The Third Edition, in 10 volumes, is published 25 December 1997 and 1 August 1998, specifically for my best friends, with acknowledgement that much of the work was by others. These volumes reflect research and careful preservation of family history for more than 100 years within the family and among friends, as well as historians for many years. Richard E. Buzbee 4 Crescent Boulevard Hutchinson, Kansas 67502 SOME OF THE BUZBEES AND THEIR BEST FRIENDS 3 VOLUME 1: BEYOND THE OLD WORLD THE SERIES Some of the Buzbees and Their Best Friends VOLUME 1: Going West Beyond the Old World: 1180-1930 VOLUME 2: Redbug Country The Darlings, Buzbees and Fordyce, Ark., in the 1900s VOLUME 3: Box 493 Beyond the Great Depression: 1931-1957 VOLUME 4: Olathe! Chanute, Burlington, Olathe: 1957-1979 VOLUME 5: Home Base Hutchinson: 1979-1993 VOLUME 6: Mostly Page 4 Dick’s Editorials, Essays and Columns (Parts 1 through 6) VOLUME 7: Mostly Page 4 Dick’s Editorials, Essays and Columns (Parts 7 through 14) VOLUME 8: Going East Beyond the Old Deadlines: 1994 onward Some of the Palmers and Their Best Friends VOLUME 9: Apple Country They Planted a Town as well as Trees in Waverly, Mo. VOLUME 10: Family Recipes Marie’s Letters, Notes & Ideas: 1932-1993 SOME OF THE BUZBEES AND THEIR BEST FRIENDS 4 VOLUME 1: BEYOND THE OLD WORLD SOME OF THE BUZBEES and THEIR BEST FRIENDS From our Ship art collection: Artist is unknown GOING WEST VOLUME 1: Beyond the Old World: 1180-1930 SOME OF THE BUZBEES AND THEIR BEST FRIENDS 5 VOLUME 1: BEYOND THE OLD WORLD GOING WEST The Buzbees They escaped the Black Death---but not the Tax Collectors.......................................... 8 Dr. Richard Busby---one of England’s distinguished teachers......................................12 Edward Busby got out of prison---to be deported to the Colonies in 1620............... 22 Other early Virginians..........................................................................................................24 Virginia’s first Thomas Busbys.......................................................................................... 27 Thomas Busby, interpreter to the Indians for the Crown...............................................47 Lt. Thomas Busby tears up the jail.....................................................................................63 Bacon’s Rebellion: Where was Lt. Thomas Busby?.........................................................73 Thomas Busby serves as land expert in Virginia dispute.............................................120 Colonial Thoms Busbys: How many were there?.........................................................139 William Busby (ca. 1700-ca. 1800), John Buzbee (ca. 1737-ca. 1778)........................... 144 Jacob (ca. 1760-1839), Joshua (1806-1875), and Edgar Farrior (1869-1951)................. 165 Purmelia Fry (1841-1912)................................................................................................. 186 Edgar Andrew Buzbee (1906-1978)................................................................................. 248 The Saunders A martyr, an admiral, and a couple of young pirates.................................................. 192 The Sanders in Colonial America................................................................................... 195 Joel Sanders (ca. 1720-1782).............................................................................................. 204 Benjamin Sanders (1746-1822)......................................................................................... 205 Thomas Saunders (ca. 1780-1848).................................................................................... 205 Lindsey Saunders (1806-1865).......................................................................................... 208 Lindsey Saunders, Jr. (1836-1897) & Mary Elizabeth Justice (1841-1898).................. 211 Jennie Justice Saunders (1880-1964)............................................................................... 219 Poems by Mama Buzbee: “The Buzbees,” and others................................................. 221 SOME OF THE BUZBEES AND THEIR BEST FRIENDS 6 VOLUME 1: BEYOND THE OLD WORLD 5 May 1674: Tho: Busby records a crop mark for his daughter, Jane Busby Documents, Illustrations and Art 1. Colonial documents from Surry Reproductions of colonial court records from Surry County are of the original copies made at the time by Surry County clerks, mostly by Clerk William Edwards in the late 1600s. The transcriptions of Thomas Busby’s signatures show Edwards’ elegant penmanship, and signify that Busby had signed the original documents. 2. Colonial engravings and other illustrations Colonial-period engravings are part of the Catchpenny prints, popular in 18th century England. Prints are used with permission from Dover Pictorial Archive Service, “Catchpenny Prints,” published by Dover, 1970. The sources of other illustrations are identified as used. Illustrations include woodcuts from a 1557 copy of Lycosthenes’ Chronicon Prodigiorum, which Bill Buzbee added to his rare book collection; oils, lithographs and engravings in the Buzbee collection at 4 Crescent; and original drawings and watercolors specifically for this series of books, by Pat Potucek, Hutchinson. 3. Timelines and genealogical hypotheses Timelines of the families are designed to show life spans and comparable generations in England and America, and not always direct heritage. Dr. Busby did not have children. A direct link with Capt. Thomas Busby, Thomas Busby, Thomas Busby the Indian, Jeffrey Busby and William Busby has not been established, though they were certainly in the neighborhood. PART 1 France, England, and The Colonies They escaped the Black Death-----but not the Tax Collectors Some survived the Hundred Years Wars Grocer Ralphe Busby bought stock in Virginia Company Dr. Richard Busby, England’s great school master A flight from ‘The Great Plague’ ‘Spiriting’ and chains in England Early arrivals in the Colonies The Thomas Busbys in Virginia Back in England: The London merchants SOME OF THE BUZBEES AND THEIR BEST FRIENDS 7 VOLUME 1: BEYOND THE OLD WORLD They escaped the Black Death..... but not the king’s Tax Collectors HUGH DE BUSBEE lived in Normandy in 1180. It was the time of Henry II and 23-year-old Richard who would become Richard the Lionheart. Henry and Richard were Plantagenets who would rule England and as much of France as they could manhandle as the 12th century came to a close. On the Normandy side of the nation, Hugh de Busbee would have lived at least relatively close to the relatively-new Bayeaux Tapestry. The historic tapestry then was hanging in Bayeaux Cathedral, 114 years after Busbee’s fellow Norman, William (the Bastard) had managed to change his name into William (the Conqueror) by defeating Saxon English King Harold at Hastings. Within the next few generations, Busbys were recorded on the English side of the channel. 1273 John Busseby was listed in Oxfordshire’s “Hundred Rolls.” That was 58 years after the English barons had forced the 7th Norman king (John) to surrender some of his absolute power, and sign the Magna Charta, on a field at Runnymede, between Windsor and Staines. The follies and vices (of John) were his salvation. Had John inherited the great qualities of his father, or Henry Beauclerc, or of the Conqueror, or of Richard, and had the King of France at the time been as incapable as all the other successors of Hugh Capet had been, the House of Plantagenet must have risen to unrivaled ascendancy in Europe. But, just at this juncture, France, for the first time since the death of Charlemagne, was governed by a prince of great firmness and ability. John was kicked out of Normandy---and the Normans (in control of England) were forced to make a choice between the island or the continent. They chose the island.....” (The History of England, Macauley, p. 11) It had taken 200 years, but by the time John Busseby had been recorded in 1273, the Normans and Saxons had reconciled. In his History of England, Macauley wrote that when John had succeeded Richard the Lionheart as King