Ancestors of David James COUCH

Notes


260. Isaac WIDDOWS Sr.

Announced intention to marry at Oct 3, 1726 Concord MM; reported accomplished on the 5th.
Complaint against Isaac Widdows for drinking spiritous liquors and infamous language-no date given
8 Jan 1766 money collected for use of Isaac Widdows
8 May 1782 Friends agree to Isaac Widdows for the coming year.
26 Apr 1783 "The Friends continued respecting Isaac Widdows Effects, inform there is a Prospect of the same being dispos'd of before long, they are therefore continued."
9 July 1783 gave 16 pounds to keep Isaac Widdows for the ensuing year.
3 Mar 1784 and 7 Apr The Friends continued inspecting Isaac Widdows Effects.
5 Apr 1784 "Nothing further being done to respect Isaac Widdows Effects, the same friends continued."
7 Jul 1784 "Isaac Widdows Effects not yet being dispos'd of, the same Friends are continued and to report when performe'd."

A Mary Widdows married Isaac Wickersham 1 Mar 1744 (Bi-centennial Old Kennett Meeting House Chester co, PA - Walter H. Jenkins)

Certificate from Concord of two children of Isaac Widdows (John and Abraham)to New Garden MM 28 May 1757


264. Jacob Paul ANDERSON

came from the Delaware Valley in NJ to Grayson co, VA
Rev War-private in Capt. Enoch Osborn's Militia, Montgomery co, VA
received land from John Buchanan in 1773 in Fincastle County
1820-males: 1 10-16, 1 45 & over


132. Nancy ANDERSON

William (Horton) Hash, Jr. was a wealthy farmer who was born and lived all of his life just west of Bridle Creek above New River.
He married Nancy Anderson Dec. 12, 1796 and they had 12 children.

CHILDREN: [12]
1. Nancy Hash md Enoch Ward
2. Jane Hash md Stephen Ward
3. Anderson Hash md 1 Jane Hash 2 Polly Phillips 3 Jane Baker 4 Nellie Rutherford
4. Margaret Hash md John Rutherford
5. Robert Harvey Hash md Ruth Ward
6. Abraham Hash md Catherine Stamper
7. Susannah Hash md Joshua Stamper
8. John H. Hash 1798 md Jane Richardson
9. Thomas Hash 1799 md Cornelia Nellie Phipps
10. Joseph M Hash 1805 md 1 Triphina Hackler 2 Lycinda Wyatt
11. James Phipps Hash 1816 md 1 Betty Harrison 2 Margret A Stamper
12. William C. Hash 1819 md Mary Melissa Matheny

Or she is the daughter of John and Mary Anderson. (p. 27 Hache-Hash Gen)


132. Rebecca ANDERSON II

said to be niece of Rebecca I
1850-living with son Andrew
1870-living with son Jacob


132. Thomas? ANDERSON

1850-living 2 doors from Jacob and Lydia


132. John ANDERSON

1860-living next door to son Nelson and family


284. Aaron Chief Red Bird BROCK

Chief Red Bird Totsu'wha Aaron Brock
abt 1811, Red Bird River

According to a historical marker which reads, "Chief Red Bird -Was a legendary Cherokee Indian for whom this fork of the Kentucky River is named. He and another Indian, Jack, whose name was given the creek to the south, were friendly with early settlers and permitted them to hunt in the area. Allegedly they were killed in battle protecting their furs, and the bodies thrown into the river here. The ledges bear markings attributed to Red Bird." [1966 Kentucky Historical Society, Kentucky Department of Highways #908]

If Aaron, Sr. was aka Chief Red Bird - Cutsawah, the Sizemores claim that he was the chief of the White Mountain Laurel band consisting (for about a 10 year period) of about 2,000 Indians most of whom had the last name of Sizemore. No one believes that he formally married Rhoda Sizemore, just had children with her. Red Bird was a Northern Chickamauga (traditional Cherokee) Thunderbolt (Lightning people of the Cumberland plateau) Cherokee war chief who signed a peace treaty with Dillon Asher. Red Bird's uncle [or brother] was probably Doublehead, a feared raider of white settlers who was executed by the famous Cherokee leader Major Ridge who (after signing the treaty which gave all of the Cherokee lands to the whites), was himself executed after being removed to Indian Territory (OK).

After the massacre at Yawhoo Falls in 1810 led by Franklinite "Big Tooth" Gregory, in which the Indian lookouts were overrun, and scalped and 110 women and children that were hiding in the room below the falls were slaughtered - unborn babies cut out of their mothers and dismembered - females who were not killed in battle were then raped before they were killed by the Indian fighters.
Arriving late, Red Bird and cousin [or neice] War Woman Cornblossom d/o of Chief Doublehead fell upon the remaining Indian fighters and killed them. After this, some of the Northern Cherokee volunteered for removal to Northern Arkansas (later again removed to OK), while others began to conform to the white man's ways and hide out in the mountains among the white settlers. After Congress passed a few more acts, the Cherokee were forceably hunted and removed to OK with a few escaping removal by hiding out in the mountains, caves, etc.

The treaty did not save Red Bird, for he and his friend Jack were murdered by white hunters and their bodies thrown into Jack's Creek just off the Red Bird River.


286. Samuel Howard

served in Revolutionary War


143. Samuel Howard

One of the first white settlers of Harlan Co, KY
21 Apr 1804 land grant of 150 acres on Martin and Clover forks, Knox Co, KY


312. William Brown Sr.

12 and 13 Apr 1726 received a grant from Lord Fairfax for 312 acres near Dumfries, Prince William, VA
was deeded 212 3/4 acres Apr 12 and 13, 1726
will dated 29 Dec 1732; gave all his land to son William


156. John Brown

Orphaned about 1744; 24 July 1744 placed under guardianship of George Byrn and Cuthbert Harrison

17 Apr 1746 apprenticed to Richard Beeson Jr of Frederick Co.


156. George Brown

Orphaned about 1744; 24 July 1744 placed under guardianship of George Byrn and Cuthbert Harrison


314. George Byrn

came from Ireland
5 Apr 1740 bought 196 acres in Prince William County, VA
1741 bought 84 acres from William Fairfax on Quantico Creek
1744 apppointed guardian of William, John, and George Brown after the death of their mother Ann Hales Brown (William married their daughter Elizabeth B.)
1752 or 1753 while surveying he was bitten by a mad dog; made it home but died soon after
24 Sept 1754 court ordered an inventory of his estate


157. Samuel Byrne

wife was his niece
surveyor
moved to Monongalia Glades 1791-1792
will dated 1793


159. Elizabeth Byrne

will written 29 Dec 1783; recorded 6 Dec 1784


159. Samuel Byrne

wife was his niece
surveyor
moved to Monongalia Glades 1791-1792
will dated 1793


332. James Cantrell

owned a plantation of Buck Creek


352. HENSON

shoemaker and English
all 7 sons were in Revolutionary War and all married Holder sisters after the war
Source from Mildred Roden: Thompson N. Henson letter in 1858


356. James Bennett LANGSTON

Captain in Rev. War from SC


360. Rene LaForce II

1744 in Hanover co, VA

CHRONICLES OF THE Scotch-Irish Settlement IN VIRGINIA EXTRACTED FROM THE ORIGINAL COURT RECORDS OF AUGUSTA COUNTY 1745-1800

AUGUSTA COUNTY COURT RECORDS. ORDER BOOK No. XXIV, page 345

Martin vs. Lindsay.--George Chowning, aged about 32 years, 14th August, 1765, deposes: Rene Laforce, aged 42, August 8th, 1765. Agnes Laforce, his wife, aged 40, August 8, 1765. Robert Cawthon, aged 29 years, 8th August, 1765.

Rene La Force (Jr.) was granted 900 acres in Goochland County, VA on the south side of the James River on June 1, 1750.

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Rene, a Virginia Loyalist, sought refuge from the persecutions of his neighbors by removing from Virginia to the wilds of Kentucky about 1777. After crossing into KY they made camp one night. Two sons went off to hunt for dinner & caught something. One son laid down his gun to help clean their kill. After going to bed he remembered his loaded gun sitting outside. While trying to retrieve it in the dark it went off killing his father. Rene II was buried near their camp somewhere in KY

He was a man of means, with several sons and sons-in-law and a considerable number of slaves. The removal to Kentucky was a wholesale family migration, and, although La Force was accidentally killed en route when a member of the party dropped a gun, the others persisted in the enterprise and built a palisaded settlement.

There are records of an Indian raid at Martin's Station, June 1780 in Kentucky by a Shawnee raiding party led by a Capt. Alexander McKee. Among those captured and taken into Ohio and later Canada were the two daughters of Rene LaForce and their Negro servant girl (Candis). It is believed that Candis is the mother of Rachel. Documents recieved in Oct 2000 confirm the raid, capture, disposition and linkage between Candis, her mother Hannah, grandmother Betty and her daughter Rachel. These records are in the form of petitions by the LaForce family in 1784 and again in 1812-13 to the British government in Canada for the return of their slaves taken in the Martin's Station raid. They (petitions) describe the relationship between the captured slaves, and how, and to whom they were dispersred upon their arrival in Canada

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Family links:
 Parents:
 Rene LaForce (1660 - 1728)
 Sarah LaForce (1700 - 1757)

 Spouse:
 Agnes Mosby LaForce (1725 - ____)*

 Children:
 Trephenah LaForce Farrar (____ - 1793)*
 Zulina LaForce Cawthon (____ - 1773)*
 Samuel LaForce (1750 - 1822)*
 Rene LaForce (1754 - 1816)*
 Ann LaForce McGeorge (1758 - 1784)*
 Agnes LaForce Clarkson (1760 - 1791)*
 William Bailey LaForce (1764 - 1824)*
 Judith LaForce McGeorge (1765 - 1820)*
 Robert LaForce (1765 - ____)*
 Mount Moncier LaForce (1768 - 1814)*

 Siblings:
 Rene LaForce (1720 - 1779)
 Sarah LaForce Harding (1725 - 1797)*
 Rachel LaForce (1726 - 1754)*
 Judith LaForce Paul (1728 - 1820)*