Genealogy Report: Ancestors of Deidre B. Jaynes
Ancestors of Deidre B. Jaynes
200.Robert Gott, born 22 Jul 1745 in Hillsboro, Orange, North Carolina, USA; died 01 Aug 1840 in Montgomery, Indiana, USA.
Child of Robert Gott is:
| 100 | i. | Robert Gott, born 22 Jul 1775 in Orange County, North Carolina; died 1840 in Montgomery county, Indiana; married Lydia Nichols 15 Feb 1800 in Shelby County, Kentucky. |
204.Richard Gott, born 15 May 1726 in Baltimore, Baltimore, Maryland, USA; died 24 May 1804 in Shelby, Kentucky, USA.He married 205. Margaret Weems.
205.Margaret Weems, born 1744 in Calvert, Maryland, USA; died 1783 in Washington, Maryland, USA.
Child of Richard Gott and Margaret Weems is:
| 102 | i. | Peter Gott, born 1786 in Orange, North Carolina, USA; died in Greene, Missouri; Adopted child; married Margaret McClemants Abt. 1809 in Shelby County, Kentucky. |
208.Robert Taylor, born 31 Dec 1743 in North Carolina; died 15 Apr 1799 in Sumner County Tennessee.He was the son of 416. Robert Benjamin Taylor and 417. Keziah Knight.He married 209. Ann Nancy Herring 18 Apr 1771 in Dobbs County North Carolina.
209.Ann Nancy Herring, born 07 Dec 1753 in Dobbs County North Carolina; died in Sumner County Tennessee.She was the daughter of 418. Benjamin Herring and 419. Mary Bright.
Notes for Robert Taylor:
Husband: Robert Taylor (1743-1799)
Birth: December 31, 1743, Orange County, North Carolina
Christening:
Marriage:April 18, 1771, North Carolina
Death: 1799, Sumner County, Tennessee, April 15, 1799 Will
Burial:
Father:Robert Benjamin Taylor - Mother:Keziah Knight
Other Wives: none known
Wife: Nancy Ann Herring
Birth:December 7, 1753, New Hanover County, North Carolina
Christening:
Burial:
Father: Benjamin Herring - Mother: Mary Bright inheritance from her father, Benjamin: August 28, 1789 Will
Other Husbands: None known
Will of Robert Taylor
Signed 15-Apr-1799
Submitted by Sue Pearson Carpenter, © 1999
Source: Will Book I, pages 56-57 (TSLA Microfilm)
In the name of God Amen. April 15th, 1799. I Robert TAYLOR of Sumner County being sick and weak of body but of sound and perfect mind and memory and calling to mind the mortality of my body and knowing that it is appointed for all men once to die do make and ordain this Testament to contain my last will and Testament in a manner and form following that is to say, principally and first of all, I give and recommand my soul into the hands of Almighty God that gave it to me and my body to the earth to be buried in a Christian like and decent manner at the discretion of my executor hereafter named.and and _ such worldly estate as it has been pleased God to bless me with in this life, I give, devise, and dispose of the same in manner following to wit.
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I leave to my beloved wife Ann the place and the my plantation whereon I now live including the upper part of this tract of land. beginning in the middle of the south line running north of the bank, then up the creek as the creek runs - also all my household furniture and all my money that I have on hand - also my stock cattle and horses during her widowhood.
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My desire is that my son Henning/Henry TAYLOR have all my land lying on the north side of the upper _ include _ _ ,au _ where Jesse KEEN now lives.
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My desire is that my sons Robert and Manoah have my lower tract of land to be divided equally as the two may think most convenient.
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My desire is that my son Benjamin, have the lower part of the south side of the creek of this tract I now live on Beginning in the middle of the south line as is mentioned in my wife's part to a north line to the creek and then up the creek as it runs.
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My desire is that my son John have the land I live on excepting my wife's part. Beginning on the south line as is mentioned in Benjamin's part and runs north course to the Creek, thence up the Creek as it runs - My desire is that my son John have privilige to improve what part of the land he may see cause to as not to interrupt his mother in her _ , that is I mean that he may improve convenient to either of the springs lying above.
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My desire is that my Daughter Lucy JOINER have five dollars.
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My desire is that my Daughter Keziah KEEN have one hundred acres of land including where she now lives. Beginning on the lower corner on the creek, running up the creek as far as will take in one hundred acres running across the land.
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My desire is that my Daughters Elizabeth, Nancy, and Polly have all my property that I have not mentioned. Also all my wife's property after her death except the lower tract I give to my son John, to be equally divided between them as is mentioned above to each of my children and to their heirs forever. And lastly I constitute nominate and appoint my loving wife Executor and my son Robert TAYLOR executors of this my last will and Testament and voiding and revoking and making all other wills and Testaments by me made. ratifying and confirming this and no other to be my last will and testament. In witness whereof I have ___ my hand and affixed my seal, the day first within written.
Robert TAYLOR (seal)
Signed sealed and delivered in presence of us
_ Daniel TAYLOR
Agness MAGLOHOM (her mark)
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More About Robert Taylor:
Died 2: 15 Apr 1799, W, Sumner CO, TN
More About Robert Taylor and Ann Herring:
Marriage: 18 Apr 1771, Dobbs County North Carolina
Child of Robert Taylor and Ann Herring is:
| 104 | i. | Herring Henry Taylor, born 24 Feb 1772 in Sumner County Tennessee; died 09 Mar 1842 in Webbs Prarie, Franklin, Illinois; married Sally Cotton in Tennessee. |
210.Thomas Cotton, born 04 Nov 1748 in Bertie, North Carolina, USA; died 1794 in Sumner, Tennessee.He was the son of 420. Thomas Cotton and 421. Patience Bridgers.He married 211. Priscilla Knight 1769 in Halifax, North Carolina, USA.
211.Priscilla Knight, born 07 Dec 1748 in Halifax, North Carolina, USA; died 01 Nov 1843 in Cottontown, Sumner, Tennessee, USA.
Notes for Thomas Cotton:
Will of Thomas Cotton
Signed 10-Feb-1794
Sources: TSL&A Microfilm Roll #91- Wills, pages 37 - 38
Lawsuit 10691, Cartwright, David vs. Walton, Josiah
Transcribed by Nathan Knight
267 Ragland Road, Cottontown, TN 37048
©1999
In the name of God Amen:
I Thomas COTTON of Sumner County and territory south of the Ohio being in perfect mind and memory thanks be to God; I do make this my last will and testament _ such worldly estate where it hath pleased God to bless me in this life I give and devise and dispose of the same in the following manner and form.
First
I give and bequeath to Priscilla my dearly beloved wife the use of my estate in the following manner - viz. The plantation where I now live and my negroes and all my stock of all kinds, likewise my household furniture with all my iron tools and any other things about the house or belonging to the plantation to her and her use for the support of my children until her death except she should die before the youngest son comes to twenty one years of age and if the said Priscilla my wife should died before Sanders COTTON my youngest son shall come to the age of twenty one years then the above mentioned estate to fall into the hands of Moore COTTON my eldest son for him to make use of in the same manner before mentioned until the said Sanders COTTON comes to twenty years of age then or age my wife's death. I give and bequeath to my two daughters Letha COTTON and Sarah COTTON each of them the sum of one hundred and thirty three dollars and a third in some kind of property that is most convenient to pay at that time. I give and bequeath to my son Moore COTTON the half of my land where I now live, it being the upper part of the tract to him the said Moore COTTON and his heirs forever. I likewise give and bequeath to my son Sanders COTTON the lower part of the same tract of land I now live one to him the said Sanders COTTON and his heirs forever. I give and bequeath to my two sons Allen COTTON and Noah COTTON six hundred and forty acres of land laying on the waters of little Harper by the name of Reeds S? be equally divided when Allen COTTON comes of age to them the said Allen COTTON and Noah COTTON to them and their heirs forever. I give and bequeath to my sons John COTTON and Arthur COTTON the tracts of land joining John _ plantation running east down a Branch with Stone's River to them and their heirs forever. I give and bequeath to my nine children Mary CRYER, Moore COTTON, Letha COTTON, John COTTON, Allen COTTON, Sarah COTTON, Arthur COTTON, Noah COTTON, and Sanders COTTON, all my negroes and all my stock of all kind and all my household furniture and perishable property of every kind to be equally divided among my nine children before mentioned, at the death of my wife Priscilla, without the said Priscilla COTTON should decease before Sanders COTTON shall come to the age of twenty years, then and in that case for the aforesaid Estate to be equally divided when the aforesaid Sanders COTTON shall come to the age twenty years to then the said Mary CRYER, Moore COTTON, Letha COTTON, John COTTON, Allen COTTON, Sarah COTTON, Arthur COTTON, Noah COTTON and Sanders COTTON to them and their heirs forever.
And lastly I do hereby constitute and appoint Moore COTTON, George PERRY and Isaac WALTON, my whole and sole Executors of this my last will and testament said I do hereby utterly disallow, revoke and disannul all other former wills before by me made and this only take to be my last will and testament. In witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand and seal this 10 day of February 1794
Thos. COTTON
Signed and sealed pronounced and declared in presence of us
Abraham ROGERS Arch MARTIN
Isaac WALTON
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The Robert Hobdys, together with the Thomas Cottons came by wagons to Sumner County, Tennessee, from Halifax, North Carolina in 1795 or 1796. The Hobdys settled on acreage and established the Hobdy plantation, near the Kentucky line, in the present 13th district of Sumner County. The first tract of land, that is recorded as purchased by Robert Hobdy, was "86 acres on Drake' s Creek, purchased from John Payton, 15th of January, 1796, for $50."
Robert Hobdy was a carriage maker by trade. His wife's maiden name was Talitha Cotton. She was the older sister of Capt. Thomas Cotton, a Revolutionary soldier, who in 1795 first settled on a land grant and founded Cottontown, Tennessee. They were cousins, once removed, from John Cotton, who came with John Donelson and helped found Nashville, Tennessee.
Thomas Cotton was born November 4, 1748, in North Carolina, died June 5, 1795, at Cottontown, Sumner County, Tennessee. He married about 1769, in North Carolina, Priscilla Knight, who was born in Halifax County, North Carolina, December 7, 1748, and died at Cottontown, Tennessee, November 1, 1843.
Thomas Cotton is said to have been a Captain of Hertford County Militia during the Revolution.
The children of Thomas and Priscilla Cotton were: Moore; Mary (Polly), born 1770, married (1)....Cryer (2).....Foxall; Arthur, married Sally Daniel; John, born 1790; Allen, born March 12, 1781, married Polly Parham; Sarah, married Strother; Alexander, died fairly early; Noah, born 1785; Elizabeth (Betsy), died at seven (7); and Talitha, born 1778, married John Orr.
More About Thomas Cotton:
Date born 2: Abt. 1750, Tennessee
Died 2: 05 Jun 1795, Cottontown, Sumner, Tennessee, USA
More About Priscilla Knight:
Name 2: Priscilla
Date born 2: Abt. 1750, Tennessee
More About Thomas Cotton and Priscilla Knight:
Marriage: 1769, Halifax, North Carolina, USA
Children of Thomas Cotton and Priscilla Knight are:
| 105 | i. | Sally Cotton, born 1772 in North Carolina; died Bef. 1850 in Webbs Prarie, Franklin, Illinois; married Herring Henry Taylor in Tennessee. | ||
| ii. | Sanders Cotton | |||
| iii. | Leatha Cotton | |||
| iv. | Moore Cotton | |||
| v. | Allen Cotton | |||
| vi. | Noah Cotton | |||
| vii. | John Cotton | |||
| viii. | Arthur Cotton |