Meadors

Shannon,

An Indian living apart from a Nation would have been considered legally White or listed as Mulatto. Rarely will you find them listed as Indian.

Bill

Hi Suze, Welcome. Don’t know how you found your way here but are you refering to the Barnabus Meaders/Meadors, d.1861 Banks Co., Ga.? If so, don’t tell your mother. 🙂

Bill

Correction to the last post.

Even though my text shows that I did say 1811. It comes up 1881, in the posted version.

Hope this shows correctly. It is supposed to be 1811 tax list not 1881.

Sue

Hi Shannon,

Thanks so much for replying!

I don’t know anything about the KY Meadors family. Mine were all in NC and GA. But, it is interesting that you have a Middleton. That name is carried in my Fanning line which was in Amelia Co. VA>Caswell Co. NC>Lincoln Co. TN.

In the data that you sent from the Meadors site it said:

A HEADRIGHT WAS 160 ACRES, AND WAS GRANTED TO THE HEAD-OF-HOUSE UPON ARRIVAL. THEY HAD TO WORK THE LAND AND MAKE IT PRODUCTIVE FOR 15 YEARS BEFORE THEY COULD “PATENT” THE LAND. THEIR NAMES WERE KEPT ON A “RENT” ROOSTER (SIC) (It was a rent roll/roster) UNTIL THE END OF THE 15 YEAR PERIOD. IF THEY BARGAINED FOR MORE THAN ONE HEADRIGHT, THEN THEY SERVED 15 YEARS FOR EACH AND THEY COULD NOT SERVE THEM CONSECUTIVELY. THEY HAD TO BE SERVED ONE AFTER THE OTHER AND ALL LAND WAS HELD UNTIL THE END OF ALL THE 15 YEAR PERIODS.

My Note:

A headright was a contract done by a person paying the way for one or more persons passage from England to the colonies. The person paying the passage received 50 acres per person whose passage was paid.

So, in this case, if there was 150 acres, it was for 3 people whose passage was paid.

( I’m wondering if she is confusing this, with a 160 acre homestead patent?)

And, even then, they only had to live on and improve the land for 5 years.

But, to continue on the headright subject—-

The sponsor/person paying the passage got the 50 acre headright and the person whose way was paid either repaid the sponsor,on arrival, or served 7 years as an indentured servant.

If he/she was an adult, a child under 21 had to serve until his 21st birthday)

He didn’t get a choice of whom he/she served for, either. The Sponsor could and did, sell the headright to others for money or merchandise (tobacco for instance)

After the person served his indenture then, he could claim another 50 acres for himself.

If the indentured person was not married at the time of his passage and indenture, he was not permitted to marry except on the permission of his “master”.

It was often given, because a “master” got the wife as a servant also. A two-fer, if you will.

I don’t know where the “15 years” comes from. I would like to see the citation for that. Everthing I’ve seen and studied says 7 years.

This can all be found in “Henings Statutes at Law, for Virginia”

The series of books “Cavaliers and Pioneers” by Nugent, is most helpful in doing early VA emigrant research.

And, more in “Swem’s Index” and “Adventures of Purse and Persons”

There is a lot more on the headrights, etc. of Virignia that can get really confusing and after over 40 years of doing this, I still may not be getting all of it right. 🙂

And, it is all “clear as mud” to you, I’m sure

I will double check on some of this and get back to you.

I do know about Ambrose.and Thomas I have tried to track them, also.

I may have more on them than is on the website.

Because of the variations in spelling this line has been a real challenge, hasn’t it?

Speaking of which, I hope mine is o.k. I get carried away and my fingers don’t go as fast as my thoughts..

Thanks for all your data, I will see if I can copy mine and send to you. Maybe there will be a link, somewhere.

Do you prefer I email you, privately?

Thanks again!!

Suze

Hi All,

I’ve been working today for others, and just didn’t have time to get back to you all. Thanks so much Shannon for your post. I will see what I have in my library that can help you.

Thank you too, Bill.

I do already have that info on my Meadors/Garrison lines.

Some of it is a bit different than what you found at the family search site, thanks very much though, I didn’t expect you to do searches for me…!!!

I would like to know if you have anything on them being ndn, however?

Jane Garrison didn’t have a middle name. Candace Garrison married Christopher Meadors.

My deceased cousin who was LDS submitted all this for Temple work. But, she did get some things mixed up.

I have Grandmother Jane Garrison’s bible and photos, family memoirs and the Garrison’s published a book several years ago, with the best documented sources for that family.

Now, to answer Shannon’s question. I use Ancestry.com and Genealogy.com, and any other online genealogy resource site that is available, like familysearch.com, they are imperative for my work, when it is some locality that I can’t get to or don’t have the resource material for, at my home.

It can be expensive but, if I get all that they offer, I get discounts and the newspapers are really something that is wonderful.

So, yes, I use them, even if they are frustrating sometimes. (I only can get dial up, where I live)

I’m not LDS but I have volunteered many years at the Family History Centers in the areas where I have lived (that has been in many places too)

Long before there were census indices for us to use and before the internet, that was ALL we had, and I still find things that aren’t available, elsewhere.

This is a short descendant tree of my line. As you can see, I just don’t have much entered into my computer, on the Meadors.

(lI have hard copy in my file cabinet but, we are still unpacking from a move)

I’ll try to dig out some of the material that hasn’t been entered, and get it online.

My Meadors married with Quillians and Chitwoods in GA.

The Quillian (Quillen) line is VA-GA Methodist, with lots of Methodist Preachers, as you can see, if you know the names of some of the old time Circuit Preachers. My family didn’t name after brothers and sisters, etc. They named their kids after preachers… 🙂

Which reminds me, the name Clements is the name of one of them. It is used over and over in some of the family lines.

And, I saw the Clements name in your posts.

1 John Meadors 1750 –

.. +Mary “Molly” Justice

2 Barnabus Meadors 1783 – 1861

… +Jane Garrison 1785 – 1875

. 3 Christopher (M.) Meaders 1808 – 1886

….. +Candace Garrison 1817 – 1893

… 4 D. A. Meaders

… 4 John M. Meaders

… 4 Julia Meaders

… 4 Molly Meaders

… 4 Jane Meaders

… 4 Sally Meaders

… 4 Louis Q Meaders

… 4 Barnabus R. Meaders

… 4 N. L. Meaders

… 4 Fanny Meaders 1829 –

… 4 Elizabeth Jane Meaders 1834 – 1894

……. +Wesley Fletcher Parks 1831 – 1864

. 3 Martha Jane (Jincy) Williams Meaders 1820 – 1916

….. +Osborne Phillips Quillian 1816 – 1898

… 4 Sarah Malinda Quillian 1839 – 1890

……. +James Jefferson Chitwood 1834 – 1906

… 4 James Meaders Quillian 1841 – 1862

… 4 William Fletcher Quillian 1843 – 1905

……. +Lucy Ann Vail 1847 – 1932

… 4 George Knox Quillian 1845 – 1890

……. +Ella Smith 1849 – 1890

… 4 Asbury Chappell Quillian 1848 – 1921

… 4 Harwell Parks Quillian 1850 – 1924

……. +Mary Elizabeth Oliver

… 4 Martha Jane Quillian 1852 – 1936

……. +Leonidas Franklin Finger

… 4 Mary Elizabeth Quillian 1855 – 1881

……. +Clayton C. Quillian 1858 – 1899

… 4 Osborne Benson Quillian 1858 – 1893

……. +Fannie Smith 1851 – 1930

… 4 Barney Milligan Quillian 1858 – 1878

… 4 John Wiley Quillian 1861 – 1934

……. +Lucy Zachry 1863 – 1955

… 4 Julia Ann Quillian 1864 – 1864

. 3 Keziah Malissa Meaders 1827 – 1900

….. +Fletcher Arnold Quillian 1825 – 1864

… 4 William Anthony Quillian 1846 –

… 4 James Tarpley Quillian 1849 –

… 4 Henry Milton Quillian 1851 – 1931

……. +Alice Estella Smith 1852 – 1918

… 4 John William Quillian 1854 – 1885

… 4 Joseph Asbury Quillian 1856 – 1948

……. +Mary Clifford 1858 – 1925

… 4 Fletcher Arnold Quillian 1859 –

… 4 David Daniel Quillian 1862 –

O.K., Have to do a bit more work tonight. So, must get off here and make a client happy.

Thanks to all of you for your imput.

I’ll get back as soon as I can.

Suze