Kristy Lewallen - Sep 2, 2008
I started a family tree last night. I know some of the dates may be wrong, but it's a work-in-progress and will take me a while to get everthing correct. Check it out and see which relatives we share...and if you notice any incorrect info, please let me know. A lot of my dates are different than what some of you have posted and I don't know which is right.
Also in the family tree, under a persons name, where it says they are found in "9 trees"...that link doesn't work for me. The new page never loads:(
Does anyone else have this problem or is it just me?
Billie Harris - Sep 2, 2008
Kristy, I did check it and you did a very good job. Congrats on the work.
Kristy Lewallen - Sep 2, 2008
Thanks, I just added two more to the top...starting with Thomas Llewellyn Sr. b.1620 in Carmathian Wales. I think that's as far as I can go......for now..lol
Billie Harris - Sep 2, 2008
Kristy, can you edit your Tree? Frederick County was in VA, not TN.
Two more things I noted. (1) I know others have also posted the name as Jesse John Lewallen and I've said this before but giving a child two names didn't become a practice until after the Revolutionary War and that wasn't until 1775-1783 so I seriously doubt that he had two names and I'm not sure if we should be looking for a Jesse or a John when researching him. And (2) Do you know where in Tennessee he died?
Kristy Lewallen - Sep 2, 2008
Yes, I have a few things to edit. I think Jesse John should be looked up as just Jesse Lewallen. I have found that in more searches. I'll delete "John" and add it as a note.
As for Frederick co, ....oops. I will fix things as I go. Thanks for catching that. I can't find anything as of yet that states where he died in TN. I'll keep digging.
Billie Harris - Sep 3, 2008
As I said before, you did a good job, Kristy. If we can find where in Tennessee he died, then that may help in finding more about the family.
Kay McKinnon - Sep 6, 2008
Might want to check out Perry co TN I've seen reports of a William Lewellen being there in early 1800s, family having come from Anson Co N C
Billie Harris - Sep 6, 2008
Kay, here's a chronology for Anson County, N.C. [NOTE: to link later]
John Corn - Sep 3, 2008
Billie -
Jesse Lewallen reportedly died in TN in 1788. There are a number of references that say he died at Sand Mtn. As close as I can tell, Sand Mtn is in either Henderson or Decatur County. However, in 1788 Sand Mtn was located deep in Indian Territory. That area of TN was not opened for white settlers until at least 30 years after Jesse's death. And there are certainly no TN death records from that time.
Dennis Lewallen - Sep 4, 2008
My two cents worth (which may be exactly what it's worth) on Jesse Llewellyn. I have that he was born in 1689 in southeastern VA. Married Anne Owens. In 1752, "Jessey Lewelling" is mentioned in the Amelia County, VA will book regarding an estate inventory and appraisal for a Thomas Lewelling. In 1760, there is a Jesse Lewelling living in Anson County, NC. At this time Anson County incorporated a huge area of NC--part of which became Randolph County, where Jesse's son William settled and helped to establish a Quaker "colony" (Back Creek, near Asheboro).
Strange coincidence regarding Sand Mountain. My ancestor Jackson Lewallen (who would be Jesse's great-great grandson, was said to have died in Sand Mountain, AL. I searched every way I knew how to find exactly where Sand Mountain was (a town? a county?). All I could determine was that it was a "region"--and no trace of Jackson Lewallen, or why he would have moved there from the area in GA where he had spent his entire life. Turns out, he had no connection to Sand Mountain, but died in Calhoun, GA in the home of one of his sons. The closest I know that a member of my line got to Sand Mountain, was Jackson's uncle, Worthy, who settled in Carroll County, GA, on the GA-AL line and raised a large family...but well after Jesse Lewelling's time.
Other factors which would make me question Jesse in Sand Mtn., OR TN: If he died in 1788, then he died at age 99...not impossible, but unusual for that time. Tracking the Lewallens as they moved out of southeastern VA, here is the little I've found. Jesse (Jessey) appears to have moved to NC as late as 1760. It's known that the Quakers in southeastern VA left and moved into NC because of intolerance towards Quakers in VA. North Carolina had a strong Quaker population, second only to PA. If you accept that the Jesse Lewelling in Anson County, 1760, is "the" Jesse--then he went to TN after the age of 70--once again, not impossible, but unusual for that time.
Jesse's oldest son, Shadrach, married Deborah Burson of Bucks County, PA and settled in Loudon County VA (later WVA). His descendents appeared to have migrated west into PA, Ohio, Kentucky and Indiana. Could it be part of his line, who settled and died in TN.?
Finally, I found several references from other family trees/lines which listed Jesse as having died in 1778.
Just my thoughts, and based on very fragile information at that
Billie Harris - Sep 4, 2008
There was a Jesse Llewellyn named in a document 1753 with his mother Susannah in Amelia County which pertained to the estate of Thomas Lewallen. Susannah was Thomas' wife and Jesse his son.
Dennis Lewallen - Sep 4, 2008
Do you know if Susannah was a second wife? My info says Thomas, father of Jesse, was married to Ruth Vernon, daughter of Daniel Vernon
Billie Harris - Sep 4, 2008
Dennis, maybe I should backtrack on the fact that Susannah was married to Thomas and say that I've only assumed it. Also at the same time in Amelia, a Richard Llewellyn's estate papers were mentioned - same year as those of Thomas, however, Richard's wife was Elizabeth Owens. Since you mentioned Jesse's wife as being an Owens, then it seems there may possibly be a connection between Richard and Jesse somehow.
Here's a chronology for Amelia and some of the other Virginia counties of documented information. Take a look at it.
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This is the county where Richard Lewallen died. He probably owned land in Amelia and that's the reason his Will was filed there.
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Then here's a good county formation group of maps for Tennessee and it shows the state about the time Jesse died.
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Dennis Lewallen - Sep 5, 2008
Billie-
I think the Thomas connected with Jesse and the will-estate documents is Jesse's brother Thomas, not their father. The information I have on Thomas, Sr is this:
Thomas, an indentured servant, was born in 1645, Pemney, Carmathian, Wales. By 1664, he was indentured to Daniel Vernon of Virginia--and in 1674 married Daniel's daughter Ruth. Thomas and Ruth lived in the southeastern portion of the Virginia colony--Amelia county and the Isle of Wight. The family of Daniel were strong Quakers and Thomas converted to that faith.
Thomas and Ruth's children are:
Thomas Henry, born 1675
Daniel, born 1677
Mary, born 1679
Richard, born 1681. Richard's will, dated may 18, 1723 lists his wife Elizabeth, and son Able (Able was a common Quaker name). Able's will, dated October 28, 1758, lists wife sarah and sons Daniel, Able and John. Both of the wills are listed in Norfolk, VA.
Margaret, born 1684
Hannah, born 1686
Jesse, born 1689
Billie Harris - Sep 5, 2008
Probably Isle of Wight which was an original shire. Amelia wasn't formed until 1734 from Brunswick and Prince George.
By any chance do you have any of the Quaker records. I know there were a number of Lewallens/Lewellings/etc. who were Quakers and my information is limited.
Kay McKinnon - Sep 6, 2008
I check Hinshaw's Encyclopedia of American Quakers Genealogy yesterday and disappointingly found nothing that seemed to connect to anybody we'd been discussing.
Found a late (1800s) family listed in Philadelphia