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Descendants of Samuel Packwood

Generation No. 1

1. Samuel² Packwood (Samuel¹) was born Abt. 1745 in England, and died August 15, 1824 in Patrick County, Virginia b. Packwood-Prillaman Cem. Franklin County, VA (Source: Henrilee Eastham & Milton McCutcheon 2941 Charlemagne Ave. Long Beach, CA 90815). He married Elizabeth Turner Abt. 1769 (Source: Henrilee Eastham & Milton McCutcheon 2941 Charlemagne Ave. Long Beach, CA 90815), daughter of Shadrack Turner and Ann (Hill). She was born 1750 in Virginia (Source: Henrilee Eastham & Milton McCutcheon 2941 Charlemagne Ave. Long Beach, CA 90815), and died August 02, 1845 in Patrick County, Virginia (Pittsylvania) b. Prillaman Cem. Franklin County, VA (Source: Henrilee Eastham & Milton McCutcheon 2941 Charlemagne Ave. Long Beach, CA 90815).

Notes for Samuel Packwood:
Samuel and Elizabeth Turner Packwood are buried in the Prillaman Cemetary
near the Patrick and Franklin County lines. Note that Elizabeth Packwood's
second husband was Abraham Prillaman.(dau. of Sam & Elizabeth T. Pack)
Samuel Packwood owned land in Henry County, VA. Book G. pages 461. Fork
of Mill Creek of Smiths River.
Book #15 pgs. 135-543: Oct. 17, 1798, Samuel Packwood 63 acres on south
side of Smiths River, adjoining Reaves on Goblingtown Creek.(Patrick Co.)
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Page 141                                    Date 23 July 1824

Will of Samuel Packwood, sick and weak in body but of perfect mind.
Legatees: All of my estate both real and personal to be enjoyed by my well
beloved wife Elizabeth Packwood during her natural lifetime, except such useless stock or other property as she may direct my executor to sell in order for distribution amongst the legatees. After the decease of my wife all
lands except 63 acres lying on the south side of Smith River and adjoing land whereon Charles Smith now lives and being part of the land sold him by
William and Elisha Packwood which rite and lawful title I want said Charles
Smith to have. The balance of land is to be sold by the executors and div-
ided as follows: Give the profit of said land equally to my children: William
Packwood, Richard Packwood, Rachel Smith, Valentine Gearhart, Nancy
Packwood for the benefit of Sally Bartlett's children, to Nancy Packwood for
her own benefit, Edith McCutcheon, Elizabeth Prillaman, and Elisha Pack-
wood. Elish is to pay $100.00 out of his legacy to be divided among the rest named. My daughter Nancy Packwood is to have a negro girl. Executor:
My daughter Nancy Packwood and neighbor Peter Smith.
Witness: Larkin Packwood, Grandason Leseur, Richard Stone
Returned: Nov. Ct. 1825
Source: "Abstracts of Wills, Inventories, & Accounts- Patrick Co. Virginia"
      by Lela C. Adams; Sherwood Forest, Bassett, VA 24055 1973
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            The Samuel Packwood Letter
Pub. in May 1911- by The Argus, Greenfield, ILL

The following letter was written just one hundred years ago today. The writer,
Samuel Packwood, was the grandfather of Daniel Smith, who was one of the
well know characters of the Waller neighborhood in years gone by. Two of Daniel Smith's children are still living in that locality, they being Mrs. Sallie
M. Smith and Robert A. Smith. The letter is one of the family heirlooms and
has been in the possession of Mrs. Sallie M. Smith for many years. It was written from the Town Creek in Henry County, Virginia, the letter bearing no envelope, being folded and sealed with red sealing wax. The address thereon was as follows: "To Mr. John Smith living in the state of Kentucky in
Cumberland County near the mouth of mud camp favoured by Mr. gearheart."
The letter is in a fair state of preservation and is highly prized by the family. We have followed the style of the writer as to spelling, capitalization and punctuation. It is merely a family letter, its age being of greatest interest to
many of our readers:

                              May 5, 1811

Loving son and Daughter these few lines comes to let you noe that we are
in our usual state of helth at present thanks to god for his mercys hoping
these few lines will find you and your little children in the Same State of helth.
I gladly Received your letter by thomas Stone and I got your Sertificate and I
Sent it by thomas gearhart inclosed in the letter also I sent you a Detale of your affares in this part of the world. I sold your corn to your brother Charles
Smith for thirty thre Dollors and a half-- one of your hogs I never go and a nother one Died Soon after I sold them I Sold them for Sixteen Dollars and a
half. I paid Jacob prilaman thirteen pounds of Iron and five shillings and six
pence. I thrased out your Ry and theare was nine bushe's and a half and I
sold it for a half Daller a bushel I got four of corn ( bushels)- out of the crib and I got Seventy bundles of fodder out of the house is all that I got. Charles
Smith Sold the land and the man come on the place Soon your money will bee Ready by the first Day of September Except Standle and that I willtry to
git in Iron. Thare is nothing new worth a writting to you a mongst us. Mother
turner is very Loe in helth but some what amended your father and mother is
well our old Neighbor prelaman Lost his Daughter Elesabeth hellems. And
as you hav Rented Land I think it the best way for the first year. The people
are a going to the bend of Tennesy. Thomas Reves have bought William
Sharps Land and Sharp is going there I would come out and bring your money but I am afraid to promis but I intend to Com an Se you if the Lord
Spares me my helth So that I can before long Remember my love to brother
Larkington and his family. you wrote to me to Send you your ax by thomas
gearhart I got your ax but no chance to send it-- and now I will give you a
Small account of this part of the world-- corn is to be got at thirteen Shillings and Six pence a barrel--Ry at three Shillings a bushel-- bacon at Six pence per pound and as for Stock it is selling verry Loe and Land Does not Sell for
the haff of the valy of the Labour that is don on it --So i donte Expect to Ever
Sell my Land in my time, my children is scattered So that I never Expect to
see them all again but i would faign injoy the Sight of you if I could for I miss
the children So much I must conclude my Leter noing that you all are in the
hands of them that is abel to pervide for both body and Spirit So remaining
your Affectshinate father ang mother until Death Samuel and Elasabeth
Packwood to John and Rachel Smith and Samuel and Daniel and Steven.
Elisha deseirs his Love to be Remembered to you all. Nancy and Edith and Elasabeth Deseirs their Love to be Remembered.
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Samuel Packwood owned land in Henry County, Virginia:

June 13, 1782- Had 273 acres on northwest fork of Mill Creek of Smiths River
( Book G pgs. 461, 390 )
Oct. 17, 1798- Had 63 acres on the south side of Smith's River, adjoining
Reaves and on Goblingtown Creek ( Book 40 page 543, Book 15 page 115 )
(Patrick Co.)
Samuel Packwood, Sr. owned 65 acres beginning at the Angelicko Fawl's on
the north side of Smith's River ( June 9, 1802 Book 50, pg. 119 ) (Patrick Co.)

Samuel Packwood had land near Shadrack Turner.
He was a witness to Pittsylvania County, VA Deed on Dec 25, 1770, Bk. 2.
Packwood farm was in Patrick County, VA until lake was formed that cut Pat-
rick County into 2 parts; NE part joined Henry County.
Elizabeth was in the 1830 Patrick County, VA census.
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PACKWOOD: Local, of 'Packwood,' a parish in Co. Warwick, near Henley-in-Arden (England)
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      THE PACKWOOD-MCCUTCHEN LINE FROM VIRGINIA TO TEXAS
contributed by Mrs. Roy L. Rogers, 5722 Winton, Dallas, TX
      ( A Descendant)
Samuel Packwood was an early pioneer of Patrick County, Virginia. Re-
ords indicate that he was born about 1750. It is not known who his parents were, but a Packwood who was burdered by the Indians in 1770 is believed to have been his father. A full account of the torture and burning at the stake of the earlier Packwood has been related by his great-grandaughter, Jane Pack-
wood Davis (of Indiana) in a letter written to Miss Edna Roth. This belief is further strengthened by a letter written by one of the children of Rachel Smith, a daughter of Samuel Packwood, in the year 1802 in which she related that her
grandfather was burned at the stake.
The Packwood who suffered this agonizing death was very elderly when
Shawnees on the prowl seized and carried him to Chillicothe, Ohio, across the
Ohio River. A neighborhood boy by the name of Billy Huff, who had accomp-
anied him, was allowed to live; but Packwood was considered too old and was
cruelly tortured three days and nights before he died. The youngster Billy Huff,
escaped when, after the Revolutionary War, the Shawnees took him with them to trade at Marietta, Ohio, the first permanent town on the Ohio River. He man-
aged to reach his home in Virginia and was reunited with his people. Unable to forsake his Indian ways, he later returned to his captors.
The wife of Samuel Packwood was Elizabeth Turner, the daughter of Shad-
rack Turner (will dated 1783, Henry County, VA). Their children are named in a
will which was probated at Stuart, Patrick County, VA, on the 25th day of July
1824 (Will Book 1, pg. 141). .......etc.
In Will Book 3, pp. 443-4, Feb. 9 and Feb. 11, 1846, and Will Book 4, pg. 37, an
inventory and sales and payments made of the Estate shows a Benjamin Davis as a Legatee, a Charles Davis and wife Ruth are named, plus others.
(Note the name Davis). This must have been after the death of his wife, Eliz-
abeth.
(Ruth Rogers died in Dallas, TX circa 1975)

Samuel was a Revolutionary War soldier, serving in the Henry County militia.

More About Samuel Packwood:
Fact 1: 1781, served in the Henry Co. Militia
Fact 2: 1810, Patrick County, VA Census,lists sons Elisha, Richard, Samuel, and William (Source: Rae N. Armstrong 15744 Terrace Lawn Dallas, TX 75248 (Mar. 8, 1981) courtesy HEM)
Fact 3: July 23, 1824, pg. 141 will; Patrick County, VA (Source: "Abstracts of Wills, Inventories & Accounts Patrick County, Virginia 1791-1823" by Lela C. Adams Sherwood Corest, Bassett, VA 24055 1973 courtesy Henrilee Eastham McCutcheon)
Fact 4: 1820, Patrick Co.,, VA census p. 120 (Source: Cynthia A. Nauman 5450 Astor Lane Rolling Meadows, IL)
Fact 5: 1830, Patrick Co., VA census p. 167 (Source: Cynthia A. Nauman 5450 Astor Lane Rolling Meadows, IL)

Notes for Elizabeth Turner:
(Quotes from the book by Lucile R. Maddox "Meshack Turner III, His wife
Sarah Robey Tucker" published 1976 by Gateway Press, Inc. Baltimore)

In the lineage of Shadrack, Elizabeth Turner is shown as having married
Samuel Packwood. This lineage has been deposited in the Library of Congress at least before 1970. The writer received photostats of the Shad-
rack Turner family from members of his descendents.
June 10, 1976, the writer received a letter from Mrs. Erma Dell Smith, 702
Lakeside Drive, Carlsbad, New Mexico, 88220, in which she enclosed a
xerox of a true copy of a letter written by Samuel Packwood, 5-11-1811, to his
daughter and son-in-law, Rachel Packwood Smith and her husband, John
Smith, who had recently taken up leased land in Cumberland County, Ken-
tucky. In the body of his letter he refers to Jacob Prillaman, a neighbor, and
Thomas Stone. Relatives of both of these men intermarried the descendents
of Shadrack Turner Senior as shown on other charts, see index. He speaks
of his grandchildren, Nancy, Samuel, Daniel, and Steven Smith, whom he
misses very much; of his wife Elizabeth who sends her love to their daughter
along with his, kof his mother-in-law, Mother Turner (Ann) and of brother,
Larkin Turner, who is then residing in Cumberland County, Kentucky, near
his daughter Rachel and her husband, John Smith.

Mrs. Smith seems to have doubt that this is sufficient proof that Elizabeth
Turner, daughter of Shadrack and Ann Turner, is the daughter of Shadrack, but it seems to the writer that if the will of John Smith shows children by the above names or any papers of administration, that there could be no doubt
of her parentage.

The lineage of Shadrack Turner is a supplemental line for this book in that
he was the brother to Meshack Turner I, the ancestor of Meshack III. The
correspondence added a form of proof of the Packwood marriage and Mrs. Smith was very kind to allow the writer to take notes from the letter. It is most
interesting. It also did not seem appropiate to copy the letter, as much as I
would have desired, in that Mrs. Smith may herself write a book on the lineage of Shadrack Turner. It is called to the reader's attention that Mrs.
Smith co-authored a book, "James F. Moody", which is indexed, has 454 pages, and is now available for sale. Anyone interested in James F. Moody
may contact Mrs. Smith at the address given.

Added note of interest: the letter was handcarried to Rachel and John Smith
from Henry County, Virginia by a Mr. Gearhart, addressed as following, "To
Mr. Smith living in the State of Kentucky in Cumberland County near the mouth of Mud Camp, favored by Mr. Gearhart."

Jacob Prillman herein mentioned maried Barbara, daughter of Sarah Turner
and Christian Snidow. Sarah was born 1788, married ca 1806. The Jacob
Prillman who married Barbara was probably the son of Jacob mentioned in
the letter in 1811. Perhaps not; at any rate ther is a connection.

Elizabeth may have been from York County, PA.

More About Elizabeth Turner:
Fact 1: 1820, Patrick County, VA Census, p. 120 (Source: Cynthia A. Nauman 5450 Astor Lane Rolling Meadows, IL 60008 (1988) courtesy HEM)
Fact 2: 1830, Patrick County, VA Census, p. 167 (Source: Cynthia A. Nauman 5450 Astor Lane Rolling Meadows, IL 60008 (1988) courtesy HEM)

Children of Samuel Packwood and Elizabeth Turner are:

2.	i.	WILLIAM³ PACKWOOD, b. 1770, Patrick County, Virginia; d. 1852, Clark County, Indiana (some say Salem, Washington Co., IN).
3.	ii.	EXONIA PACKWOOD, b. 1772, Patrick Co. Virginia; d. December 25, 1825, Celina, Overton County, Tennessee, buried on home place.
4.	iii.	LARKIN PACKWOOD, b. 1772, Patrick Co. Virginia; d. 1862, Stone County, Missouri.
5.	iv.	ELISHA PACKWOOD, b. February 22, 1773, Patrick Co. Virginia; d. 1865, Olda Creek, California, (Cajuicas, n. of Los Osos, California) b. Cayucos Cem..
6.	v.	SAMUEL JR. PACKWOOD, b. April 09, 1775, Patrick Co. Virginia; d. December 18, 1848, Borden, Clark Co., IN.
7.	vi.	RICHARD PACKWOOD, b. 1777, Patrick Co. Virginia; d. Bet. 1820 - 1830, Bartholomew County, Indiana.
8.	vii.	SARAH POLLY (SALLY ANN) PACKWOOD, b. 1780, Patrick Co. Virginia; d. Bef. 1835, Burkesville, Cumberland County, Kentucky.
9.	viii.	RACHEL PACKWOOD, b. 1784, Patrick County, Virginia; d. 1835, Cumberland County, Kentucky.
	ix.	NANCY PACKWOOD, b. 1787, Patrick Co. Virginia; m. BENJAMIN DAVIS, November 30, 1826, Patrick County, Virginia (Source: Henrilee Eastham & Milton McCutcheon2941 Charlemagne Ave.Long Beach, CA 90815).
10.	x.	EDITH PACKWOOD, b. August 10, 1788, Patrick County, Virginia; d. 1862, Coffee County, Tennessee.
11.	xi.	ELIZABETH PACKWOOD, b. May 23, 1793, Patrick Co. Virginia; d. May 19, 1863, Calloway, Franklin County, Virginia.

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