BADER

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Eli S. CHIDDIX

____ - UNKNOWN

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John Albert (Ab) CLAYTON

Jan 1892 - 1937

1.  John Albert CLAYTON
2.  Mary Louise CLAYTON
3.  William Seymour CLAYTON
4.  Charles Edward CLAYTON

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Uriah L. HUMPHRIES

ABT 1740 - 7 Jul 1817

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[135] Uriah Humphries was born in Northumberland County,Virginia about 1740 to Joseph Humphries and Elizabeth Tignor. The birth date is extrapolated from earlier birth dates of Joseph's children found in Beverly Fleets records. He participated in Captain Posey's Company of Regulars in the French and Indian Wars for which he received bounty land. He continued in the militia in Captain John Pryor's Company and was promoted from Ensign to Second Lieutenant and to Lieutenant prior to being dischared in 1780. He is listed in West Virginia Patriots and inscribed in the DAR list of patriots. He married Sarah Reynolds in Botetourt County about 1769 and seven children were born to this marriage. He provided horses for Colonel William Christian's Cherokee Indian Expedition in 1776 and 1783. At that time, he is listed as having 17 horses,28 cattle and 10 slaves. In 1785, he is listed on the tax list for Botetourt County,Virginia as living in Pryor District(name is listed as Humphros). While living in Botetourt County, he was a leading citizen and is listed as constable, keeper of an ordinary, a merchant and a soldier. He appears on many pages of Botetourt County Order Book and held a variety of county positions(Surveyor, Overseer of the Road and Deputy Sheriff). In March 1782,Uriah was to show cause why he should not appear as a witness in the trial of his brother Spencer who was accused of Counterfeiting. He resigned as Deputy Sheriff soon after this. On May 8,1787 Uriah was cited by the County Court for retailing liquors contrary to law and for not keeping the bridge in repair. He owned large tracts of land and was involved in several suits. Uriah moved to Clarke County, Georgia prior to 1798. In 1798 his wife Sarah filed for divorce from Uriah. He subsequently is cited in Superior Court with living in adultery with Nancy Burks. Three children were apparently born to this union prior to marriage and it is not clear that they were ever legally married. Nine children were born of this union. Uriah accumulated large tracts of land and possessed about 4000 acres on his death, 2000 in Virginia and 2000 in Georgia. He gifted much of this land to his children prior to his death. In the 1817 tax list for Clark County, Uriah is shown as paying taxes for 2000 acres for the Few Survey, 800 adjoining acres in Jackson County, 360 acres from the Lane Survey,372 acres from the Pope&Tidwell Survey and 950 acres from the Gorhum Survey in Jackson County-a total of 4,482 acres in Georgia. He died in February,1817 and his will(listed July 26,1816) was probated. The will stated that the land and slaves were to be left to the wife and children of the second marriage, with the children of the first marriage receiving one shilling each. This will was contested by the first family, as Uriah had predicted in the will and a special jury was impanelled to try the issue. The jury found that the Testator was of sound mind at the time of making the will;therefore the will was valid. However, the will was not executed according to the statue of frauds and perjury. Consequently, the personal property was distributed in accordance with the will and the real estate divided in accordance with the law of intestacy-each child receiving equal shares. This case was apparently appealed to the State Supreme Court,further records have not been found. One of the executors of the will was Thomas Mitchell,great-grandfather of Margaret Mitchell-the author of Gone with the Wind. His site of burial is not known.

References:
1.Roger S. Powell,Burke's Peerage-Humphries descendents.
2.Gone to Georgia by Wm C. Stewart pub. National Genealogical Society,Washington D.C.1979.
3.Virginia Colonial Militia 1651-1776(GPS,1965) pg. 56.
4.Compilation of West Virginia Patriots, Anne Waller Reddy.
5.Botetourt Tax List 1785.
6.Botetourt County Order Book.
7.Augusta County,Ga Judgement, OS 2 NS1, OS 171 NS60.
8.Superior Court Minutes of Clarke Co. Ga 1801-1808 pg 19 and 43,Georgia State Archives Atlanta,Ga microfilm 98/18.
9.Clarke Co. Deed Book K pg 14,Book G pg 199,Book K pg missing.
10. Clarke Co. Tax List of 1817.
11.Clarke Co. Ga Will Book A pg.83-88.
12. LDS Ancestral File 1G2F-PMJ.
PEDI: birth

Uriah was a soldier in Captain Posey's Company of Regular Virginia Militia and was discharged in 1780 at Botetourt County, Virginia. He also served in the French and Indian War of 1758. Uriah furnished horses for Colonel William Christina's Cherokee Indian Expedition in 1776 and 1783. He also served in Captain Joseph Pryer's Militia Company along with John Humphries. While serving Uriah was promoted from Ensign to Second Lieutenant then to Lieutenant.

Along with being a soldier Uriah was a leading citizen of Botetourt serving a Constable in 1773, Keeper of an Ordinary at his home in 1780, a merchant and a Deputy Sheriff. Uriah did not remain a Deputy Sheriff for long as he resigned his position when asked to show cause why he should not appear as a witness in the trial of his brother, Spencer who was accused of counterfeiting.

Uriah Humphries of Botetourt vs. Hollingsworth, Johnston & Co.--O. S. 2; N. S. 1--In 1783-84 payments by customers in the upper country among the mountains were usually made in butter, cordage, deerskins, hemp, ginseng and other commodities. The dispute arose because defendants refused to give plaintiff credit for commodities sent them which they claimed were destroyed in the conflagration which took place in Richmond about January, 1787. Thos. P. Johnston (a member of the firm) gives his deposition in New Jersey, 6th September, 1798, and says he lived in Richmond until summer of 1788.

On May 8, 1787 Uriah was cited by the county court of Botetourt for retailing liquors contrary to law and for not keeping the bridge in repair.

Uriah is very traceable as he bought and sold land in Virginia, North Carolina, Tennessee, West Virginia, Kentucky, Ohio and Georgia where he finally settled with his 2nd wife. Uriah had accumulated more than 4000 acres of which approximately 2000 of it was in Georgia. By 1817 the tax records show Uriah paying taxes on lands totalling 4482 acres in Clarke County, Georgia alone. Sarah had filed for divorce in 1798 in Virginia. The marriage was in question as Superior Court Minutes of Clarke County shows Uriah and Nancy were charged with living in Adultry.

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Clarke County Ga. Court House Records...Will Book-A
Humphries, Uriah
Last Will and Testament dated July 26, 1816.
Caveat overruled and will admitted to probate March 21,1818. States that his three daughters Leddy, Polly and Mariah, have already been provided for. Bequeaths to wife Nancy, and son Joseph, dau. Patsy, son Elijah, son Presley, son Mattison, and dau. Julia Ann Humphries. He states "I have had a number of children by another woman in Va. before I came to Ga.; all have been provided for, but they will probably try to claim a portion of my estate. Their names are Mary Ann McLeod, Betsy Tigner, Henderson, Nancy Kimberling, Judy Lane, George Washington Humphries and Uriah Humphries.
Exe. William Cole Stevens and Edward Paine.

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Court Records Clarke Co. Georgia

State of Georgia
Clarke County

Know all men by this presents that Nancy Humphries, George W. Moon and Daniel Nowlin are held and bound unto their Honor, the Justice of the Court of Ordinary for said County, and their successors in office, in the just and full sum of five thousand dollars, for the payment of which sum to the said Judges and their sucessors, we bind ourselves, our heirs, executers, and administrators Jointly and Securally, firm by these presents, sealed with our seals and dated this seventh day of July, 1817. The bondition of the above obligation, is such that whereas the said Nancy Humphries, is this day appointed guardian to Joseph Humphries, Elijah Humphries, Presley Thorton Humphries, Maddison Tigner Humphries, and Julian Humphries, orphans of Uriah Humphries, deceased, now if the said Nancy, do well and truly demean herself as guardian aforesaid, agreeably to letters of guardianship bearing date herewith ans agreeable to have in such case made and provided the above obligation to be void otherwise to remain in full force and virtue.
Signed, Nancy "her X mark" Humphries
George W. Moon
Daniel Nowlin

Book K-pg. 14
Uriah Humphries for love and affection to dau. Polly Humphries of Clarke Co., Ga.- and sum of $200 paid by Polly and land 250 acres, beginning near County Road to Akin and Joseph Lawrence at mouth of branch. 47 chains to James Akin Juner(now dead and one negro girl named Lucinda, bed and furniture also a horse or mare worth $50 and saddle and bridle, 2 cows, and $20 worth of hogs at her arrival of age of 18 years or on her marriage, or if she marry, before coming of age of 18 years. May 7, 1819.
Recorded, Mar. 29, 1815

Book K-pg. 15
Same as before to Polly Humphries, corner to 250 acres property is to continue in my hands as executer for dau. until she arrives to the age of 18 yrs. at which time she is to receive full possession. Sept. 15, 1813.
Recorded, March 30, 1815

Book I-pg. 147
Steven Thomas and Edward Paine, of Clark appointed Executers of Last Will and Testament of Uriah Humphries, not convient to ask for Major Thomas Mitchell to be appointed. May 4, 1818.
Recorded, June 15, 1818

Book G-pg. 197
Uriah Humphries of Clark Co.,Ga., sold land to Hannah Crockston of Clarke for $300.

Book G-pg. 199
Uriah Humphries to dau. Liddey Humphries land in Clarke Co., Ga., on federal land road know as Shinnot
Place-250 acres.

Book I-pg. 171
Simeon Lane and Judith, his wife, George W. Humphries, James Kimberling, and Nancy, his wife, and Alexander Henderson and Betsy, his wife and Norman McCloud and Marion his wife, Heirs of Uriah Humphries, late of said county deceased devers good causes us thereunto moving have constituted and appoint and by these presents do constitute and appoint George Swain, Jr. our true Attorney-- heir claim tract of land 800 acres in Jackson Co., on Beach Creek. Land in Clarke on Turkey Creek purchased by Uriah of Ignatus Few. Tract of land on Sandy Creek, partly in Jackson and partly in Franklin 700 acres. Land at Gum Spring- Clarke Co., and all others in Ga., which Uriah had at the time of his death.
Signed:Simeon Lane
Judith Lane
G.W. Humphries
James Kimberling for Nancy Kimberling
Alexander Henderson
Betsy Henderson
Norman McCloud
Maryann McCloud
Recorded, December 23, 1819.

Book Q-pg. 29--Feb. 28, 1829, Clarke Co., Ga.
Nancy Humphries to ransom for $200 land in Clarke Co., Ga., on waters of Middle Fork of Oconee River, being part of the tract of land conveyed by deed of gift from Uriah Humphries to Mariah Humphries as bounded as follows to Mariah's land and also in T. Mitchells--line--down branch containing fifty acres more or less including plantation whereon said Nancy now lives.

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Excerpt from "Gone to Georgia."

981 Uriah Humphries 210010-21210-0
Uriah Humphries the elder was a leading citizen of Botetourt Co., Va., a consable, keeper of the ordinary, a merchant, and a soldier. The first of the family in Augusta Co., Va., appear to have been James and William Humphries, granted land there June 20/25, 1747, although William was in the vicinity as early as 1742, when he served in the militia. William was dead before Sept. 16, 1747, leaving an orphan James. James, Sr. moved to Rowan Co., N.C., prior to Sept. 13, 1763, when he sold his land on a branch of James River to Henry Smith. Uriah served under Captain Posey in the French and Indian wars c1758, for which he asked for bounty land in 1870. Beginning May, 1771, Uriah began to buy large quantities of land, some of which he and his wife Sarah sold Aug. 6, 1782. He furnished horses for Col. Wm. Christian's Cherokee Indian expedition in 1776 and 1783, Uriah and John Humphries were in Capt. Joseph Pryors militia company. Among the many land transactions, Uriah bought in 1792 land granted David Mays, in 1787 (see Uriah's neighbor just below , Stephen Mays). During the period 1771-1792, Uriah appeared almost on every page of the Botetourt Co., Order Book, and held a variety of positions. An interesting sidelight on the mercantile business of the time is given by a suit by Uriah against Hollingsworth, Johnson & Company(Augusta Co., Judgements, O.S. 2, N.S. 1). Showing the removal from Botetourt Co., to Ga. is given in another suit, Henderson vs. Uriah Humphries, O.S. 171, N.S. 60, Uriah giving his answer to the suit, from his new home in Clarke Co., Ga. (where Uriah left a will). During this period, various members of the family had moved over to Rowan, Wilkes, Rockingham, and Surry Counties, N.C. joining James Humphries who had moved there during earlier Indian disturbances, and also in Va. counties, notably Henry, along the N.C.- Va. boundary. A number of these families
moved to S.C., being found in Union and Spartanburg Dist. and onto Pendleton Dist., where in 1800, David, George, and William were enumerated, David having moved from Surry Co. between 1795 and 1796 (Anderson Co., S.C., Deed Bk. CD, pps. 143, 337). (See 1800 Census of Pendleton, p. 93).
Uriah Humphries witnessed in Jackson Co., Mar. 24, 1801, a deed from Ignatius Few to Wm. Pentecost, and on Sept. 28, Uriah bought of Harris and Williamson for $1050, 750 acres in Jackson Co., where Edward Reighley was then living, orginally granted to John Gorman, Joseph Humphries (who left a Jackson will) was one of the orig. judges at the first Jackson Court, Aug.1, 1796. In the 1805 lottery, George, John, Joseph, Shadrack, Uriah and William (2) Humphries were listed. Only Uriah-- a younger man than the Va. soldier was enumerated in Jackson in 1820, but in Gwinnett Co., were John Humphrey (No.30), Shadrack (no. 416), and George Humphries (No.452). Also in 1820, Nancy was in Clarke Co., Isaac in Walton Co., and others were in Jasper, Oglethorpe, and various others Ga. counties. James and Shadrack were listed in the 1827 Walton County lottery.

Thomas RICHARDSON

BEF 1820 - ____

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