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Mother: Nancy QUIN |
_____________________ | _(RESEARCH QUERY) BRIDGES _| | | | |_____________________ | _Hugh Frank BRIDGES _| | (1780 - ....) | | | _____________________ | | | | |___________________________| | | | |_____________________ | | |--Lynus BRIDGES | (1820 - 1897) | _Hugh QUIN __________ | | (1723 - 1789) | _Peter QUIN Sr.____________| | | (1750 - 1824) m 1776 | | | |_Margaret FONDREN ___ | | (1725 - ....) |_Nancy QUIN _________| (1782 - 1867) | | _____________________ | | |_Judith ROBINSON __________| (1760 - 1840) m 1776 | |_____________________
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Father: (RESEARCH QUERY-VA) HARRIS of Old Virginia |
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Mother: Nancy Ann SHIPP |
_William MARTIN Sr.__ | (1660 - 1765) _Joseph MARTIN I Gent."the Immigrant"_| | (1705 - ....) m 1733 | | |_Ann CADE? __________ | (1660 - ....) _John "Jack" MARTIN of "Rock House"_| | (1752 - 1823) m 1784 | | | _John CHILES Gent.___+ | | | (1655 - 1723) m 1698 | |_Susannah CHILES _____________________| | (1712 - 1754) m 1733 | | |_Eleanor WEBBER _____+ | (1680 - 1745) m 1698 | |--Samuel MARTIN | (1800 - ....) | _____________________ | | | ______________________________________| | | | | | |_____________________ | | |_Nancy Ann SHIPP ___________________| (1763 - 1841) m 1784 | | _____________________ | | |______________________________________| | |_____________________
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Mother: Ann Elizabeth GLOVER |
_____________________ | _James MCLAUGHLIN ______| | (1813 - 1858) m 1833 | | |_____________________ | _John Allen MCLAUGHLIN _| | (1834 - 1920) | | | _____________________ | | | | |_Sarah "Sally" NICKLES _| | (1813 - 1858) m 1833 | | |_____________________ | | |--Mary E. MCLAUGHLIN | (1862 - ....) | _Chesley GLOVER _____+ | | (1761 - 1829) m 1785 | _Robert GLOVER _________| | | (1786 - 1845) m 1812 | | | |_Mary GUERRANT ______+ | | (1762 - 1849) m 1785 |_Ann Elizabeth GLOVER __| (1838 - 1877) | | _James ANDERSON _____+ | | (1763 - 1830) m 1787 |_Martha ANDERSON _______| (1795 - 1839) m 1812 | |_Jane GUERRANT ______+ (1769 - 1844) m 1787
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Mother: Mary Barr BROCKINGTON |
My father when a young man was a sufferer with dyspepsia. It
never entirely left him during his life, but he grew better as
he grew older, and looked healthier and very little older in
1863 the hour he died than when I first knew him. My father took
up residence in the house of his mother-in-law upon his
marriage. He and my mother lived there, and father managed the
plantation for the benefit of the whole family until 1839, when
he moved to Turkey Creek and settled on the place at which his
family were reared, and to which I have so often referred. He
left my grandmother Gotea and Aunt Maggie on the Cold Water Run
(Gotea Plantation) but still had a general supervision over
their business till the marriage of my Aunt Margaret. Four of my
father and mother's children were born in the old Gotea house,
Sister Mary, I, my brother James, and sister Martha Fowler.
My father had very little school education, but by his study and
reading acquired more than an average store of learning. A good
many years of his boyhood and early manhood were spent in the
employ of Black Mingo.
This Cleland Belin is a descendant of one of my Brockinton
ancestors.
My father was much given to politics, but never for himself. He
was a "power" for his friends in local elections. He had a
passion for hunting and fishing, the favorite sports of the
Southern gentleman.
As slavery is a thing of the past it might interest those who
come after me to hear how a Southern planter spent his time. My
father's means did not in his judgement justify his hiring an
over-seer, and he personally managed his plantation. After a
moderately early breakfast he went to his fields and inspect the
work of the day before. Then he visited the different gangs of
hands (Negro laborers) and saw that they were all at work and
doing tasks assigned them for the day. After this the planter
returned to his house and the balance of the day was spent with
his family, or reading, visiting, entertaining company, or such
other amusements as accorded with his taste and fancy. Just
before or after supper the "head man" of the Negroes reported on
the work of the day and the day and for orders for the next day.
The most trust man among the Negroes and one who could command
the respect of his fellow servants, was selected as "head man"
sometimes called "driver". My father never used on his
plantation this latter term to designate the leader of his black
people. On the larger plantations the head man did not work that
to look after the others. Where the number of hands were not
sufficient to require all of his time he worked as the others,
but not so much was required of him. Both the Master and
Mistress of the plantation looked after the sick. An old woman,
under the eye of the mistress, had supervision of the children,
who had reached the age to be left at home by their mothers.
Every mother with an infant had a nurse assigned her, one of
her older children, and if she had none the child of some other
woman that could be spared. When the babies were old enough for
the mother to work these nurses accompanied the mothers to the
field and took care of the babies in a house built for that
purpose, or under the shade of a tree where the cries of the
baby would be in the reach of the mother's ear who could attend
to its wants without loss of much time. Deductions were made in
her work when necessary. The clothing of the Negroes was made by
the mistress, or by seamstresses under eye. The special duty of
the boys of the family was to superintent the feeding and
generally of the livestock. They were the first of the white
family out of bed.
Negroes were by law accounted "chattels", but my experience is
that very few slave owners regard them as such, or in any other
light than as a part of the household, standing in the
estimation of the master and mistress next below the children. A
sale of one was generally looked upon as a great calamity. They
were very seldom over worked, indeed it often happened that the
(mistaken) affection of the master led him to require less work
of the Negro that he should have been required to do. On many
plantations one Saturday every fortnight was "Negro Saturday" on
which no one was required to work. When the character of the
work was such as to permit the assignment of tasks an
industrious active Negro could frequently gain a day out of the
week, which added to his "Negro Saturday" gave him more leisure
than white laborers whose families are dependent on their daily
wages. Sometimes the masters paid them for extra work. My
father's Negroes showed the effects of kind treatment. They were
all devotedly attached to the family, and proud of "we white
people" as they called their master and his family.
My father was very liberal to his children. Three of us had left
the paternal roof before his death, and when we set up for
ourselves he made a liberal division of his Negroes with us.
When the war commenced father wished to volunteer, but his boys
would not consent. He had two sons in the service from the
beginning and five before the end came. We thought he was giving
enough, and that he could serve his country best at home, making
provisions for the soldiers at the front.
John Brockinton Pressley, died on the 7th of May, 1863, of a
fever and disorder which brought on hemorrage of the bowels. I
was with him in his last illness. We laid him to rest with his
forefathers in our private graveyard at "Boyd's Old Field".
_(RESEARCH FAMILY SURNAME) PRESSLEY PRIESTLY _ | _William PRESSLEY ______| | (1750 - ....) | | |______________________________________________ | _John PRESSLEY _________| | (1780 - 1821) | | | ______________________________________________ | | | | |_Eleanor ORR ___________| | (1750 - ....) | | |______________________________________________ | | |--John Brockington PRESSLEY | (1810 - 1863) | _John BROCKINGTON I "the Immigrant"___________+ | | (1727 - 1795) | _John BROCKINGTON II____| | | (1754 - 1801) m 1773 | | | |_Mary DREW ___________________________________+ | | (1730 - ....) |_Mary Barr BROCKINGTON _| (1783 - 1849) | | _James FOWLER ________________________________ | | (1730 - 1772) |_Martha Screven FOWLER _| (1757 - 1822) m 1773 | |_Elizabeth SCREVEN ___________________________+ (1738 - ....)
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Mother: Eleanor DAUGHERTY |
__ | _ REDDELL ___________| | (1700 - ....) | | |__ | _John REDDELL _______| | (1730 - ....) m 1760| | | __ | | | | |_____________________| | | | |__ | | |--Robert RIDDELL | (1775 - 1849) | __ | | | _William DAUGHERTY __| | | (1720 - ....) | | | |__ | | |_Eleanor DAUGHERTY __| (1742 - ....) m 1760| | __ | | |_Mary BARTLE ________| (1720 - ....) | |__
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Mother: Mary TALIAFERRO |
Widow of Nicholas Meriwether (They had a daughter Mildred).
Sister of Alice Thornton who married James Taylor III
Sister of Meriwether Lewis' maternal grandmother
Daughter of Col. Francis Thornton, Jr. and Mary Taliaferro
Died at Castle Hill, Albemarle Co., Va
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Albemarle Co. VA
_William III THORNTON "the Immigrant"____+ | (1620 - 1708) m 1648 _Francis THORNTON I____________| | (1651 - 1727) m 1673 | | |_Elizabeth ROWLAND ______________________+ | (1627 - ....) m 1648 _Francis THORNTON II_| | (1682 - 1737) m 1703| | | _Anthony III SAVAGE Esq. "the immigrant"_+ | | | (1605 - 1695) | |_Alice Stafford SAVAGE ________| | (1653 - 1695) m 1673 | | |_Alice STAFFORD _________________________+ | (1610 - ....) | |--Mildred THORNTON | (1721 - 1778) | _Robert TALIAFERRO I "the Immigrant"_____+ | | (1626 - 1671) m 1654 | _John "The Ranger" TALIAFERRO _| | | (1656 - 1720) m 1682 | | | |_Katherine DEBNAM _______________________+ | | (1628 - 1680) m 1654 |_Mary TALIAFERRO ____| (1686 - 1780) m 1703| | _Lawrence SMITH I "the Immigrant"________+ | | (1629 - 1700) m 1651 |_Sarah SMITH __________________| (1660 - 1720) m 1682 | |_Mary DEBNAM ____________________________+ (1629 - 1700) m 1651
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Mother: Mary Ann TURK |
_William TRAYLOR _____________+ | (1764 - 1812) m 1780 _George Archer TRAYLOR _________| | (1782 - 1847) m 1806 | | |_Sarah "Sally" HANCOCK _______+ | (1760 - 1816) m 1780 _Joseph Alford M. TRAYLOR _| | (1823 - 1899) m 1849 | | | ______________________________ | | | | |_Nancy Breeding GATES __________| | (1789 - 1872) m 1806 | | |______________________________ | | |--Samuel K. TRAYLOR | (1873 - 1882) | _Thomas TURK _________________+ | | (1782 - 1826) m 1802 | _Noah (Manoah) Gleaves TURK Sr._| | | (1807 - 1866) m 1827 | | | |_Margaret GLEAVES ____________+ | | (1784 - 1855) m 1802 |_Mary Ann TURK ____________| (1832 - 1907) m 1849 | | _Benjamin Franklin CARTER Sr._+ | | (1788 - 1852) m 1807 |_Ann Bolene CARTER _____________| (1812 - 1891) m 1827 | |_Mary Elizabeth SLEDD ________+ (1787 - 1864) m 1807
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Mother: Amanda MOREHEAD |
______________________________ | ________________________________________| | | | |______________________________ | _Samuel Johnson WALKER _| | (1828 - 1884) m 1858 | | | ______________________________ | | | | |________________________________________| | | | |______________________________ | | |--Marguerite WALKER | (1862 - 1938) | _Charles MOREHEAD of Kentucky_+ | | (1762 - 1828) | _Charles Slaughter MOREHEAD of Kentucky_| | | (1802 - 1868) m 1831 | | | |_Margaret SLAUGHTER __________+ | | (1764 - 1836) |_Amanda MOREHEAD _______| (1832 - 1903) m 1858 | | _William A. LEAVY Sr._________ | | (1750 - 1831) |_Margaret LEAVY ________________________| (1804 - 1871) m 1831 | |_Sarah GATEWOOD ______________+ (1775 - 1853)
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