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Descendants of Michael Sizemore


5. HENRY3 SIZEMORE (WILLIAM2, MICHAEL1) was born Abt. 1698. He married (1) ELIZABETH PARKER. He married (2) ELIZABETH RHODES Abt. 1721 in Henrico Co., Va..

Notes for HENRY SIZEMORE:
William (m. Margery) b. ca. 1670 in London; his father was Michael, a merchant of London who appears to have been R1b. The Q American Indian haplotype only appears in the male descendants of his grandchild Tory Ned b. abt. 1720 and George All, a great-grandchild, b. 1754. The likely suspect is Henry Sizemore b. abt. 1698 according to Alan Lerwick's recent speculation, based on land records. Even according to an extended haplotype, it is the very same Q DNA. The only descendants of this Indian male who developed a distinguishing mutation were the Barnwell District, S.C. Ephraim cluster, which has a value of 18 in DYS 464d.(This is my line, btw, from Richard Sizemore, whose daughter Mary Ann married my gg-grandfather Jackson Cooper). Henry's brother, Ephraim b. abt. 1696 continued the R1b line, though he married a part-Indian named Mary and their child Ephraim was recorded as a Mulatto (contemporary term for taxed Indian). Ephraim was mixed from the mother, not the father; his Y-chromosome haplotype continued to be R1b. His brother William (m. Winifred Greene, who was Jewish) passed the R1b gene to John H. Sizemore who married Mollie Gregory (who was Jewish). These Gregories moved with the Yateses, Coopers, Sheldons, and Rameys through Pittsylvania Co., and Mordecai Gregory was part of a minyan in Wayne Co., Ky. with Isaac Cooper and John Adair and others. There is no male-only Indian genetics in any of Ephraim's descendants.

So Edward (Tory Ned) and James (father of George All) must both have come from the same father; if Henry himself was not the carrier of Q3 he was cuckolded twice by the same Indian male and raised Edward and James as his own. George All's mother (Henry Sizemore's wife, Elizabeth Rhodes, told him he was "all" Indian (she herself may have been another Mulatto; her name was probably the origin of the numerous Rhodas in the family, but it is more likely James' unknown wife was Indian or part-Indian as he was), and the legends say the Indians tried to take him back. Edward also married a Mulatto woman, Elizabeth Jackson, whose father William Jackson (married to Dorcas Greene) had the Cherokee chief's name of Bear Hart. So we see a definite pattern in this line from Henry, who is only sketchily attested in the records.

Also, I think James' other son, Edward Sizemore, of Hawkins Co. (where the Sizemores also bear the Q signature) was the father (with Mahala Jackson -- now there's a Melungeon name!) of the easily confusable George (Edward) Sizemore 1769-1859 who married another Sizemore (Lydia) in cousin marriage.[Sizemore.FTW]

!Entry Record Book 1737-1770 (Land entries in the present Virginia
Counties of Halifax, Pittsylvania, Henry, Franklin & Patrick) FHLbook
1745 John WALL
400 acres adjoining him thence up. Transferred to Buckner STITH abd by
him to Henry SIZEMORE. (Land recorded in Brunswick Co, VA)
!Entry Record Book 1737-1770 (Land entries in the present Virginia
Counties of Halifax, Pittsylvania, Henry, Franklin & Patrick) FHLbook
1746 Henry SIZEMORE
400 acres on Bluewing Creek adjoining GRIFFIN's and OVERBY's entry
thence up the Creek on both sides. Transferred to Peter FOUNTAINE. Also,
400 acres on a branch of Sandy Creek of Banister River called Bad Luck
beginning in the fork of the said branch thence up and down.
(Land recorded in Lunenburg Co, VA)
!Entry Record Book 1737-1770 (Land entries in the present Virginia
Countes of Halifax, Pittsylvania, Henry, Franklin & Patrick) FHLbook
17 Oct 1746 Henry SIZEMORE
400 acres beginning at a little blazed white oak at the head of a small
branch of Difficult Creek running down the south side of the said branch.
(Land recorded in Lunenburg Co, VA)
!Entry Record Book 1737-1770 (Land entries in the present Virginia
Counties of Halifax, Pittsylvania, Henry, Franklin & Patrick) FHLbook
1746 Henry SIZEMORE
400 acres on the Double Branches of Difficult Creek on the south side
thence down on both sides. Transferred to Peter FOUNTAINE, transferred
again to John WOOTON. (Land recorded In Lunenburg Co, VA)
!Entry Record Book 1737-1770 (Land entries in the present Virginia
Counties of Halifax, Pittsylvania, Henry, Franklin & Patrick) FHLbook
1748 Isaac WINSTON Jr
400 acres on Little Buffalo Creek beginning at the Grassy Creek path
thence down both sides. Also, adjoining Henry SIZEMORE's survey that he
had of Buckner STITH beginning on the south fork of Difficult Creek.
(Land recorded in Lunenburg Co, VA)
!Entry Record Book 1737-1770 (Land entries in the present Virginia
Counties of Halifax, Pittsylvania, Henry, Franklin & Patrick) FHLbook
1748 Peter WINSTON
400 acres adjoining Henry SIZEMORE's said survey beginning at his
maple tree on Difficult Creek. (Land recorded in Lunenburg Co, VA)
!Entry Record Book 1737-1770 (Land entries in the present Virginia
Counties of Halifax, Pittsylvania, Henry, Franklin & Patrick) FHLbook
1748 Henry SIZEMORE
300 acres beginning at SPARROW's spanish oak corner on a branch on
SEYMORE's line thence adjoining said SPARROW, SEYMORE & Ephraim HILL
and out. (Land recorded in Lunenburg Co, VA)
!Entry Record Book 1737-1770 (Land entries in the present Virginia
Counties of Halifax, Pittsylvania, Henry, Franklin & Patrick) FHLbook
14 Jun 1749 William IRBY
800 acres on south fork of Difficult Creek beginning at Henry SIZEMORE's
line thence up both sides. (Land recorded in Lunenburg Co, VA)
!Entry Record Book 1737-1770 (Land entries in the present Virginia
Counties of Halifax, Pittsylvania, Henry, Franklin & Patrick) FHLbook
1752 John COOK
400 acres on Sandy Creek of Banister River beginning on Henry
SIZEMORE's upper line on the Creek thence up the Creek on both sides.
(Land recorded in Halifax Co, VA)
!Entry Record Book 1737-1770 (Land entries in the present Virginia
Counties of Halifax, Pittsylvania, Henry, Franklin & Patrick) FHLbook
1754 Henry SIZEMORE
400 acres on head of upper fork of Great Polecat Creek between said
Polecat and ye branches of Sandy Creek. Beginning at a rock house
thence southward. Also, 400 acres at the fork of Reedy Creek adjoining
Col. WYNNE's line of his Order Council thence down both sides of said
Creek. (Land recorded in Halifax Co, VA)

More About HENRY SIZEMORE:
Fact: 1753, Grand jury presentment against Henry and Elizabeth for living in adultery, brought by Edward Parker, Hance Hendrick and Daniel Green

Marriage Notes for HENRY SIZEMORE and ELIZABETH RHODES:
From Alan Lerwick: am assuming that this Sizemore family was in Henrico Co because of the
witnessing of Richard Homes in 1712 (Henrico Co, VA) by Margery and of the Court
Order dated Nov 1741 (Henrico Co, VA) with both William & Ephraim.

     
Children of HENRY SIZEMORE and ELIZABETH RHODES are:
8. i.   JAMES4 SIZEMORE, b. Abt. 1722.
  ii.   SARAH SIZEMORE, b. Abt. 1728, Henrico Co., Va.; m. GEORGE WEIR; b. Abt. 1728.
  More About SARAH SIZEMORE:
Note:: May have been a sister of Henry Sizemore
9. iii.   EDWARD SIZEMORE, b. Abt. 1720, ,Henrico, Virginia; d. Abt. 1780, Wilkesboro, Wilkes, North Carolina.

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