Simpson
Reunion
Murfreesboro, TN
June 9 & 10, 2001
Isaac Simpson
of Warren Co., TN, and
Nacogdoches Co., TX.
Nona has recently sent me a
question that led to the following and that illustrates the wealth of
information on Simpsons and others that can be mined from back issues of this
newsletter, The Simpson Clan, especially in conjunction with the
excellent indexes by Carolyn W. Bayse.
Nona had been asked by a
correspondent for information on the following SIMPSON. Julia (SIMPSON) MORROW, b. 11 Oct., 1796, Virginia; d. 1830, Washington Co., Illinois; md. Robert MORROW, 28 Nov.,
1816, Warren Co., Tennessee. Robert MORROW was a son of Robert
& Elizabeth (SHAW) MORROW of Warren County but formerly
of Guilford Co., North Carolina. Robert, Sr., died in Warren Co. 18
Mar., 1824.
Because of the marriage of Robert & Julia occurring
in Warren Co., Tennessee, Nona wondered if Julia could be related to the
Thomas SIMPSON clan
that early removed from North Carolina to old
Warren County, Tennessee, but that has proven not to be so.
Nona has abstracted the early
land grant surveys for lands in Warren County and published those in a four
volume set titled Warren County Tennessee Plat Book. Two of those
abstracts mention as adjoining property the land of the heirs of Robert MORROW, deceased, located on the Barren Fork of
Collins River (vol. 2, pp. 28 & 142). Collins River runs through the east
part of Warren County and the Barren Fork runs from west to east, heading along
the present line between Cannon & Coffee County passing west through McMinnville &
entering Collins River just east of that town. The Thomas SIMPSON clan
was located on the headwaters of Hickory Creek in present Coffee County and
some miles southwest of Barren Fork.
The 1820 census of Warren County
lists Thomas SIMPSON’s son, Peter
R. SIMPSON and
his sons, Thomas and Valentine, among other residents of the head
of Hickory Creek, on page 19. Robert MORROW is
listed on p. 5 of that census and on the same page is an Isaac SIMPSON. I do not find Isaac listed on any
later census in Warren County, nor
do I find him in Washington Co., Illinois where
the MORROWs later lived. Checking Nona’s plat abstracts I do not find
any mention of Isaac SIMPSON.
Using Carolyn Bayse’ index to the
first ten volumes of The Simpson Clan I found mention of an Isaac
SIMPSON who may be the same as the one on the 1820 census of Warren County. In volume 10, issue 3, pp.
5-8, is a detailed account of the probate of the estate of Isaac SIMPSON,
deceased, in Nacogdoches County, Texas.
Those records state that Isaac
SIMPSON had died intestate in April, 1840, and that at the Oct. term of
the Probate Court of Nacogdoches County, Oscar ENGLEDOW was
appointed Administrator of the Estate. The report of settlement (No. 122 on
Settlement Docket) states that after settlement of the Estate, there remained
$88.55 due to “Polly FOSTER and Julia
MORROW’s heirs of said decedent, their residence
unknown.” The Court then ordered that the said sum be paid over for their
benefit to the Treasurer of the State of Texas. It appears that because two of the
daughters or their heirs had residence unknown to Oscar, that their part
of the Estate had to be deposited with the State Treasurer until some
disposition could be made of that fund. Since Julia MORROW had
died in 1830 in Illinois it is
likely her heirs were among those for whom the remainder was set aside.
Returning to Nona’s abstracts of
Warren County plats, I find that an Oscar ENGLEDOVE was
chain carrier on a survey for John ENGLEDOVE of an eight
acre tract located on Barren Fork
(vol.1, p. 58). It appears that the name ENGLEDOW was
transformed into ENGLEDOVE by the clerks in Warren County.
A number of fine publications on
Nacogdoches County families have appeared in recent decades, some by
individuals and some by the Nacogdoches County Genealogical Society. In S. Kae
Partin’s They All Came to Texas, vol. 5, pp. 37 - 39, it is stated that Oscar
ENGLEDOW was
born 13 Nov., 1809, Wythe Co., Virginia, the son of John & Elizabeth
(SIMPSON) ENGLEDOW. John & Elizabeth
were said to have been married 14 Nov., 1808, in Grayson Co., Virginia. At that date, Grayson County included
present Carroll County and the area just south of the Pine Run area where the James
SIMPSON family
lived (see below). It further states, though it does not offer supporting
evidence, that Elizabeth was a daughter of Isaac & Hannah
SIMPSON. If this is correct, and I think it likely,
then the two heirs mentioned in the Isaac SIMPSON Estate records
were not the only children of Isaac & Hannah SIMPSON,
but may have been the only two whose current residence was unknown to Oscar
ENGLEDOW, the Administrator. If the ENGLEDOW information is
correct then Oscar was a grandson of Isaac & Hannah SIMPSON.
Although there were several Isaac
SIMPSONs in early Virginia it now seems likely the Isaac SIMPSON
of the 1820 census of Warren Co., Tennessee, had come from the area of old Wythe Co.,
Virginia.
In a part of old Wythe County
which was later cut away to form part of present Pulaski County, there was a SIMPSON family
whose land lay on Pine Run, a tributary on the north side of New River. James
SIMPSON left a
will in Wythe County dated 6 May, 1804, and recorded 13 April, 1808. In it he
named his wife, Mary, sons William, James, Robert, Hugh,
Isaac, John (deceased), & Alexander, and daughters Jean
BAXTER, Eleanor MEARS, Mary FOSTER, & Margaret SMITH. Mary SIMPSON made a
will 6 Aug., 1808, recorded 12 March, 1809, naming the same children and adding
mention of Alexander’s wife, Agnes, and their daughter, Elizabeth.
In Wythe County Deed Book 1, pp.
218-9, is a deed from Cornelius M’GLISTER to Isaac
SIMPSON dated
2 March, 1794, for 226 acres of land located on Pine Run of New River. In the
same book, p. 311, is a deed dated 9 June, 1795, from Isaac SIMPSON
and Hannah his wife to Franklin BRIDGEMAN for
the same 226 acre tract. I have not found any deed record in Warren Co.,
Tennessee, for Isaac SIMPSON but
have not had time for an extensive search.
In summary, it appears that Isaac
& Hannah SIMPSON from
Wythe Co., Virginia, came to Warren Co., Tennessee, probably in company with their son-in-law &
daughter, John & Elizabeth (SIMPSON) ENGLEDOW. In Warren County, their daughter, Julia,
was married to Robert MORROW, Jr. in 1816 and sometime thereafter the MORROWs
moved to Illinois. Sometime after 1820, the SIMPSONs
and ENGLEDOWs moved to Nacogdoches County, Texas, where Isaac died in 1840. It is not
clear at this point how many or who were the other children of Isaac
& Hannah SIMPSON.
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Additional from Barbara Cavanaugh, e-mail
address: cavanaugh@infowest.com
Robert
(Jr.) & Julia SIMPSON MORROW's 7 children were all
born in Warren County, Tennessee. They are: William
Lockhart MORROW, b. 24 September 1817; John MORROW,
b. 27 November 1818, Mary MORROW, b. abt. 1819; Isaac Newton
MORROW (a twin), b. 21 March 1821; R.D. MORROW (a twin),
b. 21 March 1821 (died when an infant); Alex M. MORROW, b. 22 Feb
1823; and Lafayette MORROW, b. 29 Jul 1825. Robert MORROW
(Jr.)'s second family with Elizabeth JOYNER, consisted of
8 more children. They were all born in Ozark, Greene Co., Missouri.
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William
Simpson of Caldwell Co., Kentucky
From the research of Dianna Williams, 5737 E.
Jacaranda, Mesa, AZ 85205
Note from Nona: Dianna contacted me sometime
ago wondering if her William SIMPSON could
be the brother of Reuben SIMPSON. She would appreciate hearing from anyone
with additional information about her family.
My earliest known SIMPSON is William
born ca. 1750 and died before 1831 in Caldwell Co., Kentucky. He left a will deeding property to my known
g-g-g-grandfather Daniel SIMPSON, wife Rachael along with other SIMPSONs
that are brothers and sisters in the Gasconade County area of Missouri. His children Joseph, James, Benjamin,
Nancy, Hanna, Daniel, John, Moses, Rachael and Rutha were born in
South Carolina from
beginning in 1775 until their move to Caldwell Co., Kentucky before
1819. My g-grandfather left a letter giving the names of his mother Sarah
Hannah SIMPSON, parents as Daniel SIMPSON and Rachel
DUFF. In the History of Maries County by
King. (where many of these children ended up in the early 1800’s) this family
was from Baltimore Co., Maryland. I also have PERKINS, HUGHES, BALLEWs, HIGGINS, BIRCHFIELDs and JONES from
Baltimore and they all seemed to have traveled this same path from Baltimore,
most of them going to Rowan and
Burke Cos., North Carolina then
to Kentucky and
Missouri, however, my SIMPSONs seems to have
gone directly to South Carolina.
Following are abstracts of original deeds:
Deed Book F pp. 412-413, Caldwell Co.,
Kentucky, 28 September 1831, John BRADLEY Sheriff of this town Princeton to Will
LANDON, from the Clerks office of the Caldwell
Circuit Court on 5 April 1829 in favor of William O’BUTTERY, administrator of William SIMPSON deceased and against the administration and
heirs of Joseph SIMPSON deceased for the trust of $576.95 deposited to
the sheriff and placed in the land of Jefferson G. MOOSE. . . two lots of ground in the town of
Princeton, Kentucky town
lots 12 & 13 sold at Sheriff’s sale. The sheriff conveys to the said LANDEN
the aforesaid lotts with their appurtenances [difficult to read] William C.
HAYOM? & Eliza his wife, Bum
CALDWELL and Martha
his wife, William McGOWAN and Caroline
his wife, James W. SIMPSON, Essy? (Espy?) SIMPSON, Julian SIMPSON and George
SIMPSON heirs
of Joseph SIMPSON deceased.
Deed Book H, pp. 89-92 Caldwell Co., Kentucky 7
December 1835 Robert BARR to John
SYMPSON and Delila
his wife of Franklin Co., Missouri, $20.00 and $80.00 to John SYMPSON
attorney in fact of James SYMPSON and Rachel
his wife, Daniel SIMPSON & Rachel
his wife, Anthony MARGRAVES and Ruth,
late Ruth SYMPSON his
wife, & Moses SYMPSON to
the said John SYMPSON and
delivered to the said Robert BARR, all being heirs at law of William
SYMPSON deceased late of the state of Kentucky and
now Caldwell County sold to Robert BARR. We John SYMPSON and Delila
his wife one undivided fourteenth & by virtue of the letter of attorney one
fourteenth parts owned and claimed by James SYMPSON & Rachel
his wife, Daniel SYMPSON, Rachel his wife, Anthony MARGRAVES
by his intermarriage with Ruth his wife and Moses SIMPSON heirs
of the William SYMPSON deceased a tract of land in Caldwell County
Kentucky which the said William SYMPSON died seized of on Donaldson’s
fork of the Tradewater containing 200 acres
Deed Book Q pp. 185-188, 3 December 1835
between Robert BARR of
Caldwell County Kentucky and Thomas
SYMPSON of the
estate of William SYMPSON late
of Kentucky and Keziah his wife, William
DODDS and Hannah his wife, late Hannah
SYMPSON heirs of the said William SYMPSON, Benjamin
SIMPSON son heir of the said William
SIMPSON aforesaid, Nancy EDDS late Nancy SYMPSON and heir at law of the said William
SYMPSON deceased of Gasconade Co., Missouri, Calob BALY by his intermarriage with Rachel
SYMPSON and Rachel his wife of
Franklin Co., Missouri of the second part in consideration of $40.00.
Signed by William DODDS, Hannah DODDS, Nancy EDDS, Benjamin SIMPSON,
Caleb BALEY, Rachel BALEY.
Deed Book Q pp.
511-514, 10 November 1853
between Thomas SIMPSON, Stephen SIMPSON, William SIMPSON, John SIMPSON, Elizabeth SIMPSON and Benjamin
SIMPSON of Saline Co., Illinois to Robert BARR. This
deed conveys property to the heirs of Isaac SIMPSON, deceased, heir of William SIMPSON of
Caldwell Co., Kentucky. Signed by Thomas SIMPSON, Steven SIMPSON, William SIMPSON, Elizabeth SIMPSON, Benjamin SIMPSON, John SIMPSON and
identified as heirs of Isaac SIMPSON deceased
10 November 1853 between Celia MARGRAVES heir
of Thomas SIMPSON deceased of Saline Co., Illinois and Robert
BARR of Caldwell
Co., Kentucky for
$10.00 for her interest as heir of the said Thomas SIMPSON deceased.
Deed Book N p. 212, 12 May 1847 Andrew W.
McCHEASNEY to William
SIMPSON both
of Caldwell Co., Kentucky for
$350.00, 100 acres on Donaldsons Fork of Tradewater. Signed by Andrew W. McCHENEY and Sarah S. McCHESNEY and witnessed by I.H. McCHESNEY and Thos.
M. GROGH
Deed Book Q p. 210,
16 March 1853 William SIMPSON heir at law of Thos. SIMPSON deceased to Robert BARR for $10.00 releases his interest in the land
on Donaldson Fork of Tradewater.
Simpson Family of New York
a work in progress by Jim Doty Martin Jr., 1017 N. Niagara St.,
Burbank, CA 01505-2628
1. John SIMPSON, b. 3 July 1758, New York, d. 16 January 1812, Camillus twp (in that
part that later became Elbridge twp), Onondaga Co., New York, m. ca 1779,
probably Newburgh, New York, Deborah COLEMAN, b. 29 October 1763, New York, d. 30 July
1826, Elbridge twp, Onondaga Co., New York. Deborah 2nd m. before 21
June 1813, Onondaga Co., New York, David REDMAN Sr. David is bur with his 1st wife Christina
SNYDER in
Elbridge Rural Cemetery so it seems Deborah would be bur with John.
John and Deborah are possibly bur on the John SIMPSON farm
in lot 62 Camillus now Elbridge where a "grave yard in the S.W. comer of
the farm formerly owned and occupied by John SIMSON" is
mentioned in a David REDMAN Sr. to David REDMAN Jr. deed as a
boundary marker in deed book I page 629. Not too far to the north of the S.W.
comer and probably also on the old John SIMPSON farm
is Redman cemetery. In Redman cemetery John's grandson John 2nd,
son of Benjamin is buried on the side of a small knoll. There is nothing
atop this knoll but there is enough room for several burials. If there were
any, no markers remain today. Surely John and Deborah are buried
close to this area.
John served in Rev War as a pvt. in the 4th Reg
Orange County Militia. He was also a Corporal in Col. Jonathan
HASBROUCK’s Reg. He is identified with Wolvert
ACKER and Brom
JOHNSON and
the trio were noted for hunting Tories. They had a song which began;
"Gallus Brom Johnson rides up and down,
Bringing the poor Tories to Newburgh town"
After the war John
and Deborah of Newburgh, Ulster Co., New York, on 17 October 1795, sell ten acres of land
in the town of Newbugh to John DOWNS and moved to Onondaga Co., first obtaining a 138 1/2 acre farm in lot
62 on 29 December 1796, 50 acres in lot 35 in 1806, and also in lot 35 a 126
acre parcel with sawmill in 1811 on the bank of the Seneca River.
Col. Jonathan
HASBROUCK's home with landing on the bank of the
Hudson River in Newburgh was Washington's headquarters late in the war. It is
still standing
2. Samuel SIMPSON
3 Benjamin SIMPSON
4 William SIMPSON
Seely
SIMPSON, b. 6 March 1787, Newburgh, New York, d. 21 November 1858, Carlton, Orleans Co., New York, bur Brown, also called Two Bridges
cemetery, Carlton
5 Asa SIMPSON
6 Mary "Polly"
SIMPSON
David
SIMPSON, b. 15 February 1795, d. 26 July 1816,
Elbridge, New York, buried Elbridge Rural cemetery, d.
previous to nine way division of father's estate. John SIMPSON heirs
as of 1819 named in Onondaga Co., New York Deed
book DD, pp. 521 & 522
7 Hannah
SIMPSON (twin)
Moses
SIMPSON (twin), b. 22 July 1797, Elbridge, New York,
d. 1798, bur probably in family farm cemetery
8 John
SIMPSON
9 Ira B.
SIMPSON
Ward
SIMPSON, b. 4 April 1806, Elbridge, New York, d. 29
May (probably 1806), bur probably in family farm cemetery
SECOND GENERATION
2 Samuel
SIMPSON, b. 9 May 1780, Newburgh, New York, d. 4 Jul 1806, Camillus later Elbridge, New York, bur probably in family farm cemetery., m. a
daughter of John KESTER and Charity
SNYDER
Benjamin
SIMPSON (Jr.),
b. 22 February 1805, Elbridge, New York, d. 5 Jun 1827, Clarendon, Orleans Co.
New York, m. Sarah Ann. Probate papers show Benjamin
had no children mention widow Sarah Ann, aunts and uncles Seely
SIMPSON, John SIMPSON, Polly TAPPAN, Hannah KESTER Ira
SIMPSON, and the children of Benjamin SIMPSON. This document signed by Asa SIMPSON. There is no mention of Margaret, the
child of William SIMPSON, or any of his mother's siblings
3 Benjamin
SIMPSON, b. 21 November 1782, Newburgh, New York, d. 30 September 1822, Elbridge, New York, bur Elbridge Rural cemetery, m. Elizabeth REDMAN, b. 15 October 1790, Orange Co., New York, d. 30 April 1864, Clinton Co., Iowa, bur in William BROWN family
farm cemetery S.E. of DeWitt, Iowa, daughter of John REDMAN and Sarah
(John REDMAN, b. 14 February 1769, d. 12 May 1827, bur Redman cemetery
Elbridge, New York, is found on 1790 census Newburgh, New York with David
REDMAN and John SIMPSON, all of whom came to Onondaga Co., New York, also in this migration were Daniel VAIL who
served in 4th Orange Co Militia
and bur Elbridge and Moses CARPENTER from
Warwick in Orange County whose daughter Susannah married Col. Michael
REDMAN) (Newburgh, New York, now in Orange County, was in Ulster County
in 1790). Benjamin purchased land near his father's and later the Erie
Canal passed through his farm probably after his death, though this section may
have opened in April or August of 1822). The Erie Canal opened the entire
length on 25 October 1825 with the passing of the first boat "Seneca
Chief”.
SON, d. prior
to his father
SON, d. prior
to his father
DAUGHTER, d.
prior to her father
10 John SIMPSON (II,
Second, Jr.)
11 Elizabeth "Betsy" SIMPSON
Michael
SIMPSON, b. 6/9 June 1819, Elbridge, New York, d.
13/16 September 1841, Elbridge, New York bur Elbridge Rural cemetery
12 William Ward SIMPSON
4 William
SIMPSON, b. 4 February 1785, Newburgh, New York, d. 9 April 1814, Elbridge, New York, bur Elbridge Rural cemetery, married but name of wife unknown. No one
in the SIMPSON family was appointed Guardian for Margaret at William’s
death. The Guardian was Truman ADAMS. Perhaps he or his wife were some relation
to William's wife.
Margaret
SIMPSON, property dispersed to her on 18 June 1821,
when she came of age (what age?). In 1833 William WEAR of
Newburgh, New York was appointed special Guardian of Margaret under aged
21 to sell her land in Onondaga Co. The relationship of William WEAR, if
any, is unknown
5 Asa
SIMPSON, b. 10 October 1789, Newburgh, New York, d.
19 April 1868, Carlton, New York, m. before April 1814, Mrs. Minerva (FISH) ELLIS, b. 6 Jun 1794, Cayuga Co., New York, d. 10 Jul 1858, Carlton, New York, daughter
of Nathan FISH and PRITCHARD, both bur Mt Albion
cemetery,
Albion, New York. Minerva had a daughter by previous m. Halliet D.
ELLIS, b. 8 Aug 1811. Asa lived Aurelius,
Cayuga Co. New York, moved to Carlton in 1822
13 Dalphon
V. SIMPSON
Walter W. SIMPSON, b. 2 June 1815, Aurelius, New York, d. 31 July 1888, Wall Lake, Iowa, first m. Ophelia BOARDMAN, b. 1824, d. 14 May 1880, bur Mt Albion
cemetery, Albion, New York, daughter of Col. John BOARDMAN and Hannah
H. FULLER Walter second m. about one month before his death,
his cousin Margaret SIMPSON, b. 14 December1823, Elbridge, New York, d. 18 Aug 1902, Wall Lake, Iowa,
daughter of John SIMPSON and Mary
WALROD, both bur Wall Lake, Iowa cemetery
14 Nathan
Fish SIMPSON
15 Fannie
M. SIMPSON
Eliza
SIMPSON b. 19
October 1819, Aurelius, New York, d. 3 June 1825, Carlton, New York
Ellen W. SIMPSON, b. 7 December 1821, Aurelius, New York, NFI
Thomas W.
SIMPSON, b. 20 April 1825, Carlton, New York, d. 11
August 1825
16 Emery
Hall SIMPSON
17 Enos
Throop SIMPSON
18 John
Chamberlain SIMPSON
6 Mary "Polly"
SIMPSON, b. 13 January 1793, Newburgh, New York, d. 27 April 1884, at the home of her daughter Alzina in East
China twp, St Clair Co., Michigan bur Rosehill
Cemetery East China twp, m. Asher TAPPEN, b. 6 September 1785, Camillus twp (in that
part that later became Van Buren twp), Onondaga Co., New York, d. 9 October 1858, bur Adair cemetery,
Adair, Michigan (Casco
twp), son of Rev War patriot "Deacon" John TAPPEN and Sarah
MUNSON, Asher and Polly moved to
Casco twp, St Clair Co., Michigan in 1837. Most, if not all descendants, have
adopted the spelling TAPPAN
19 Hannah
TAPPEN
20 David
TAPPEN
John
TAPPEN, b. 2 May 1816, Camillus/Van Buren twp,
Onondaga Co., New York
DEBORAH
TAPPEN, b. 25 May 1818, Camillus/Van Buren twp,
Onondaga Co., New York
21 Alzina
TAPPEN
22 A(t)chisen
TAPPEN
23 Allen
TAPPEN
24 Rochester
TAPPEN
25 Benjamin
TAPPEN
26 James
V. TAPPEN
27 Bradford
Chase TAPPEN
to be continued
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