Researching William Guy

Hi,

I am interested in the Guys that you mentioned. William Guy and Abigail Chavous’ great-granddaughter, Mary Jane Guy, married my 2nd great-grand uncle, William Jones. Her line going back is…

Mary Jane –> Thomas L. –> Vines –> William

My cousin Beth is on this forum, too. She is a direct descendant of them.

I have access to William Guy’s Revolutionary file through HeritageQuest. I haven’t read the full file in detail yet (old handwriting is hard on the eyes 🙂 ). But, in it, it states: he “enlisted in the spring of 1779, served 6 months as private in Captain Reuben Vaughan’s company, Colonel David Mason’s Virginia regiment, and was in the battle of Stone Ferry. He enlisted in 1780, served in Captain Stephen Mabry’s company, on the march to Portsmouth, Virginia, he was bitten by a dog, which rendered him unfit for active duty, he was furloughed after a service of four weeks. He enlisted in the fall of 1781, served three months in Captain Stephen Mabry’s company, Colonel Lewis Burwell’s Virginia regiment, marched to Yorktown and was stationed on the Gloucester side of the river during the siege.

William Guy was allowed pension on his applicated executed, February 5, 1833, then seventy years of age and living in Granville County, North Carolina, where he had lived about thirty years. He stated at this time that he was a ‘free man of color'”.

The entire file is 11 pages long. It is a 1.5MB .pdf file. If you would like a copy of it, just let me know your email address and I will send it to you.

I looked in HeritageQuest for Simon Jeffers’ file, but didn’t find one. I haven’t checked the other names.

Stacey

I just emailed the file to you. Let me know if you have any problems receiving it.

Stacey

Good. If you think of any others that need looked up, don’t hesitate to ask.

I did go back to that web page that you listed and looked for some of the others (Robert Brooks Corn, Simon Jeffries, Britton Jones, John Jeffries, and Charles Whitmore).

All of the surnames were listed, just not those specific ones. The only one that I found for sure was John Jeffries because it listed his widow as Delilah Ballard. His file is also 11 pages long.

As far as the Britton Jones goes, there were four possibilities listed, but I am not sure how to tell if any of these are the “right” one. The four listed are Albridgton Jones (VA), Brereton Jones (NC), Britain Jones (NC), Britton Jones (NC). I need to download and read through all of these. I believe my Jones line is somehow connected to him. When my Joneses left Virginia, they went to Greene County, Ohio as did some of the descendants of some of the others listed above.

Stacey

SGJack

Could you tell me a little more about what you found in that book- Journeys, I’m working backwards from Macon. My Stewart, Chavis, and Guy families keep leading back to Person, Orange, Granvile, Caswell,NC and Greensville VA.

In particuliar, I’m following Sophronia Anderson Stewart. Her parents were a Stewart from Orange NC (born 1812 or 1813) and Mary Jane Eppes or Evans, supposedly born in Halifax NC in 1825, but I think it may have been Halifax, VA. I’m assuming that “Anderson” for a girl’s middle name means there were Andersons in the family- but I haven’t found the connection yet.

Thanks

Akhasa