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Marriage 1 Unity “Montie” HARRIS b: ABT 1722 in Cherokee Nation, Rockingham, NC
* Married: ABT 1740 in Orange Co. NC
Children
1. Has No Children Unity CALLAHAN b: ABT 1742 in Rockingham, NC
2. Has Children Edward CALLAHAN b: 1743 in Virginia
3. Has No Children Nathaniel CALLAHAN b: 1745
4. Has No Children Harris CALLAHAN b: 1747
5. Has No Children Jane CALLAHAN b: ABT 1750
6. Has Children Mary CALLAHAN b: 1752
7. Has No Children Nancy CALLAHAN b: ABT 1754
8. Has Children Ezekiel CALLAHAN b: 1759 in Rockingham, NC
9. Has No Children Catherine CALLAHAN b: 1749 in Hanover Co. VA
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# Name: Darby CALLAHAN
# Sex: M
# Birth: ABT 1717 in Halifax, VA
# Death: AFT 1790 in Rockingham, NC
# Note: Darby Callahan’s name appears in the 1741 Poll of Election, Prince William Co. VA. He is on the 1762 Tax Table of Halifax, VA, being taxed for 400 acres located on both sides of the South Fork of Mayo River. On July 21, 1762, Darby Callahan sold this tract of land to Ralph Shelton for 79 pounds. (This land is reported successively in Halifax, then Pittsylvania, then Henry, and finally in Patrick Counties in Virginia.) In 1765, a Rowan Co. NC marriage bond lists Darby Callahan, John Callahan, and John Duncan as witnesses to the marriage of Marshall Duncan, Jr. and Densten Rogers. In 1770 Darby Callahan received a land grant in Old Rowan Co. NC on the north side of Dan River at Matrimony Creek in what is, today Rockingham Co. NC. In 1776 Darby Callahan’s name appears on the church roll as a member of Matrimony Creek Baptist Church. In 1784, Darby Callahan and John Stagner signed a petition calling for the creation of Rockingham County from Rowan County. On 17 June 1789, Darby applied for a land grant for 53 and 1/4 acres of land on both sides of Matrimony
# Creek in Rockingham County. Grant #77 was issued 17 Sep 1790 and is recorded as entry #62, book 76, page 197, Rockingham Co. NC. It included a hand written surveyors description of the property as conveyence. Witness was Ezekiel Callahan. Darby Callahan left a will dated 29 Mar 1787. It is recorded in Vol. 1, page 79 Rockingham Co. NC Court Records. However, the condition of the document prevents most of its contents from being legible.
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# Name: Edward CALLAHAN
# Sex: M
# Birth: 1743 in Virginia
# Death: 1825 in Clay Co KY
# Note: The Callahans and the Brocks lived among the Creek Indians even though they were Cherokee by blood. Documented Court Records in Montgomery County, Virginia reveal that Edward and Ma-ha-li’a were “living together without the benefit of marriage and had 17 bastard children, therefore the court ordered that they marry.” They married in 1787.
Father: Darby CALLAHAN b: ABT 1717 in Halifax, VA
Mother: Unity “Montie” HARRIS b: ABT 1722 in Cherokee Nation, Rockingham, NC
Marriage 1 Mahalah Susan (Ma-ha-li’a) BROCK b: 1749 in Cumberland Co VA
* Married: 1767 in Washington Co. VA
* Married: 1767 in Washington Co. VA
Children
1. Has Children Jennie (Jane) CALLAHAN b: 1770 in Virginia
2. Has Children Zilpha CALLAHAN b: 1772
3. Has No Children William CALLAHAN b: 1773
4. Has Children Mary CALLAHAN b: 1779 in Stokes, NC
5. Has Children Charlotte CALLAHAN b: 4 JUL 1779 in Washington Co. VA
6. Has Children Elizabeth CALLAHAN b: 1783 in Washington Co. VA
7. Has No Children Louisa CALLAHAN b: AFT 1784 in Rockingham, NC
8. Has Children Isaac CALLAHAN b: 1785
9. Has No Children Ezekiel CALLAHAN b: 1794 in Rockingham, NC
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# Name: Isaac CALLAHAN
# Sex: M
# Birth: 1785
# Death: 17 MAY 1817 in Knox Co. KY
# Note: Isaac Was hanged in Knox Co. Kentucky for the murder of David Newberry.
# Note: Isaac, nicknamed “The Fiddler”, was hung for murder in 1817 in Barboursville, Knox Co. KY. Isaac and two other men , Thomas Begley and Achelles Gibson, were arrested and charged with the murder of David Newbery in 1816. The death of Newberry was just one incident among many that made up what has been called “The North Fork Cattle Wars. Isaac claimed that Newberry was stealing Callahan cattle, and that his death was a result of their trying to reclaim the stollen cattle. Achelles Gibson testified at the trial against Isaac and Begley. Another witness in the trial against the pair was Plesant Wilson, Isaac’s brother-in-law. Ironically, Gibson’s wife was a sister to Begley. Isaac and Begley were found guilty and both were hanged the same day.
Father: Edward CALLAHAN b: 1743 in Virginia
Mother: Mahalah Susan (Ma-ha-li’a) BROCK b: 1749 in Cumberland Co VA
Marriage 1 Susannah Mahala WILSON b: 1790 in Stokes Co. NC
Wow!
Now to my “is it true”? find.
Mary Stott married to John Callahan..is sister to John Stott..same parents.
This John Stott is my direct descendant. What I often have wondered is some other names coming up in this line. (same as married into some of the Jeffries in Whitley and Rush co.’s Ind per another post.)
My Uncle talked of an Eli Brock. Also the Thompsons..a Mary and Art Thompson. Mary set their house on fire. Also in a family photo of the Stott family are two Wallin children. No idea who they are. (Oh I just recently discovered this John Stott married to Ann Carpenter.) Anyway, this is interesting!!
Would Mary Stott born in 1689 Lancaster co Va really be Cherokee or ? of another tribe? Saj
This Callahan family is my line also. Edward(Ned) Callahan m Mahala Brock their Daughter Charlotte born August 17, 1799 in Washington County Va and died after 1838 in Benge, Clay County, Kentucky and married Roger Cornett and their daughter Zelphia Cornett born 1811 m Alfred/Alford Parker and are my Great Great Grandparents.
Hi Crowwoman!
This is an area of research for me relatively new. The Stott line has had a lot of holes in it but recently I’ve found more. The Mary Stott and John Callahan is a certainty but as to her being of Native American origin I doubt I can verify it. I tried to e-mail the source of the info and she says she researched it so long ago and she has no contact for an ancestor of Mary who claimed she was of native origin. This family was in Lancaster co VA very early..
1662 Lancaster Co. Va. 600 acres to Bryant Stott and Thomas Stott
1663 Lancaster Co. Va. 800 acres to Bryan Stott for transporting 16 persons
1664 Lancaster Co. Va. 850 acres to Bryan Stott for transporting (same as above plus one headright) for transporting Paul Kinsey. Patent renewed 1670.
I don’t think we have all of the wives of this line at all. Saj
tarcarion wrote: Bill and Brenda,
Hawkina and Eliza Bowman are my relations! Eliza is my gr.gr. grandmother! I got very excited when I found your info on them. I’ve seen the article about “Indian Blood Runs Deep in Harlan …” and there seems to be some mistakes in the article. I do know that there are two Eliza Coles in Harlan Co. Mine was born in 1842. To make matters more complicated, it seems both had daughters named Rebecca Jane Cole. My dad remembers “Aunt Becky” and has plenty of stories about her. Aunt Becky lived with my gr. grandmother, her sister, until her death. I have a picture of Aunt Becky. I also have a good picture of Eliza Bowman sitting in front of her cabin shortly before her death in 1927, but the forum server says it’s too big to post. If anyone wants a copy, email me or leave your email and I’ll send it to you. I want to find the cabin site which I’m told by my gr. aunt Willa Mae Thompson was in the Poor Valley, VA but I doubt if much is left of the cabin itself. I make regular trips to Lee County, VA.
Someone also mentioned the name “Benge” which is also in my lineage. Many great stories about Bob Benge on the web.
Sincerely,
Jim
I have great interest in the Bowman & Cole Families. According to the 1850 census records:Hawk Bowman had a daughter named Eliza b 1842 another daughter Elizabeth born around 1832-35. Census records show that Eliza appeared in Hawks household in 1850 @ 8 years old, then she is missing in 1860 but appears in John Jack Coles household in 1860 @ 18 years old.
I have on file an affidavit that Eliza swears that she and John Jack were married in KY, by Steve Daniel. I think she made this statement in 1919.
Elizabeth was called “Granny Cole”, she worked as a midwife for Dr. Morgan for many years in Lee County, VA. My Great Grandmother was Rebecca Jane Cole Brittain is buried in Pulaski County, KY. I have a picture of Granny Cole given to me by her grand daughter in PA. I would like to see your Eliza Cole picture for a comparison.
There is a book written by Jess Wilson about Isaac Callahan..”When They Hanged the Fiddler” It happened very near the county lines of Brethitt and Perry county in Kentucky. He is buried on a ridge there. That did not happen all that long ago!..
I should find the book.
Here is something else…Edward Callahan’s grandmother would be Mary Stott. Out of Lancaster co Va ending up in Ky. Rawleigh Stott and Lucy Stott, my direct lines were first cousins. They were ordered to give up tavern keeping by the church. The old Salt River baptist church, then in Franklin co Ky 1798. They were ordered again in 1800 to give up tavern keeping. Then Jonathan Stott opens a tavern in 1800 at Scuffletown in Henderson Co. On a Wikipedia article he is listed as Shawnee and his wife Cherokee. I can’t find anything else on this except Scuffletown was on the Ohio River in Henderson co Ky, the same county I just referred to in the genealogy section of the Smith family. We know that people traveled back and forth on the waterways. Saj
I don’t think the book is in print at this posting. However you may find it on ebay or in a used book store. I wish I had purchased it years back. Jess is still living in Clay County, Ky. Clay County History and Genealogical Society used to sell it. Nancy
The first white settlers of [what became] Harlan Co. were the family of Samuel Howard (then spelled Hoard). When they first set foot on Harlan soil, in 1796, they found an almost impenetrable forest, interspersed so thickly with cane breaks that in many places they had to cut their way through.
During Harlan County’s early history a number of Native Americans of mixed heritage, or commonly called Melungeons, settled the area. From the late eighteenth through the mid-nineteenth century, Harlan County and nearby counties were settled by numerous persons of multiracial descent, with African, European and often Native American ancestors. The Melungeons were there when the first white man came, and they had always been there.
The first European settlement in the vicinity of present-day Clay City, Powell County, was in 1786, by Stephen Collins and his brother. John and Mary Jackson were married in Madison County, Kentucky, January 15, 1786. They were the parents of Jarvis Jackson. Stephen Langford led the first settlers in Rockcastle County in 1790. John Spurlock Jr. was the first permanent white settler in what is now Prestonsburg, Floyd County, Kentucky, moving there in 1791. After an aborted attempt at settlement in 1794,the hill overlooking the Horseshoe Bend of the Licking River just downriver from the present city in Magoffin Countywas fortified and settled c. 1800 by Archibald Prater, Ebenezer Hanna, and others; The first person known to have settled on the South Fork, then known as Goose Creek, was one James Collins who built a cabin on Collins Fork of Goose Creek in 1780. The first persons to become permanent settlers in the area now composing Owsley County were James Moore, John Abner, Henry Gabbard, William Baker and William Neal (spring of 1798); Somerset, Pulaski County, was first settled in 1798 by Thomas Hansford and received its name from Somerset County, New Jersey, where some of the early settlers. These are the counties which were settled prior to the year 1800.
They hid their backgrounds with the Indian myth, with the orphan myth (my family are all dead), and the adopted myth, and they changed either the spelling of their surnames or they picked an entirely new name, moving many times, anything to distance themselves from their Melungeon heritage. They sometimes became “Black Dutch” or “Black Irish”, or some other combination. {This and that Genealogy Tips, by Shirley Elro Hornbeck}
Charity Adams, my 5th great-grandmother, was born in Eastern Kentucky in 1783, several years before the first white settlers. She also predated the first white children born in the area:
Jarvis Jackson, was the first legitimate white male child born in Madison County on January 18, 1788;David Chapman, born on October 25, 1791, was the first white child born in Kentucky south of the Green River; Nancy Turner, born 1795, was said to be the first white child born, or at least the first white girl, born in what was to become Harlan County; the first white child born in Barren County, Kentucky was Franklin Gorin, born on May 3, 1798; The first white child born in Knox County wasWilliam Morgan Hart, born in June 5, 1804. As one can see, Charity Adams predates the birth of the first white children born in Eastern Kentucky counties at least by five years. Numerous counties were formed after the year of 1800.
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