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PILGRIMS AND PURITANS:
BIOS OF OUR EARLY ANCESTORS
TO AMERICA
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PILGRIM AND PURITAN GRANDFATHERS
IN OUR FAMILY
TREE:
BIOS
17) ANTOINE GEVAUDEN
b: 1670 "of" HENRICO CO.,
VA (8GGF)
(thank you Cousin Carolyn Miller for the following data)
17a) Descendants of Antoine
Gevaudan Generation
No. 1 1.
ANTOINE1 GEVAUDAN was born 1665 in Pro
Provence,
France, and died 1726 in Henrico County,
VA. His
wife's name is unknown. They mar Abt. 1701.
She was
born Abt. 1680, and died Bef. February 03, 1726/27.
17b) Notes for ANTOINE GEVAUDAN:
The Gevaudan
family came
from the Gevaudan County towns of
Mende France,
and across the mountains into Dauphine.
There is
also a forest called Le Gevaudan Forest.
Anthony
(Antoine) native of Normandy, France came to
America
September 20, 1700, patented lands in
Albemarle
County, Virginia 1711. Anthony married
in America
but his wife's name is not known. Antoine
came to
early Virginia with other Huguenots and
settled
in Manakintowne. In 1818, Thomas, a great-
grandson
of Antoine, came with his wife Leah
(Hendrick)
Jividen and family to the Mason County,
VA (WV)
area. Thomas died the first year and by 1823
his family was living on
Parchment Creek in
present
Jackson County. The surname is spelled
Jividen
in West Virginia and Gividen or Gevedon
in Kentucky.
Carl and Frances Jividen of Londonderry,
OH did
much of the research on the early Gevaudan,
Gividen,
Gevedon, Jividen families. Joseph Gividen of
Fresno,
California in 1979 published a book on the
Gividen
line of the family. In 1981 Cameron Allen
of East
Orange, New Jersey wrote "Antoine
Gevaudan
of Manakin Town and His Immediate
Descendants"
published in Genealogies of Virginia
Families
from The Virginia Magazine of History and
Biography
Volume III. "Antoine Gevaudan was among
the
French Protestant refugees landing at the James
River Colony
of Virginia on September 20, 1700, in
the ship
"Ye Peter and Anthony" galley of London,
Daniel
Perreau, commander. The name was
(as transcribed)
Anthony Giovdan, presumably, a single man,
as listed
on the ship list. He, like many other Frenchmen
who settled
at Manakintowne, Virginia, had fled France
to avoid
persecution by the Roman Catholic Church.
Having fled
to England, they helped William of Orange
overthrow
King James II. For their help, they had been
given free
passage to the New World and 10,000 acres
of new land
had been surveyed for them. On March 23, 1715,
Anthony Gevodan was granted 128 acres in
King William
Parish
thus acquiring his share of the lands
distributed
to the French refugees. The patent of the
same date
to John Lavillian was bounded by the
land of
"Anthony Gevodan" while a patent of the same
date to
Abraham Salle' was bounded by the land of
"Anthony
Geavodan". On March 4, 1725, Anthony
Jevodan
patented 200 acres on Jones Creek, bounding
the land
of Mathew Oge (Agee). On August 25, 1718,
Antoine
Givaudan was among those newly elected to the
vestry
of King William Parish. His presence at vestry
meetings
is regularly noted thereafter, as Givaudan,
Givaudant,
Givaudant, and Givodan. On April 26, 1723,
"By a plurality
of votes the Sieur Antoine Givodan and
Jean Chastain
were elected church wardens of the parish
of King
William. The Sieur Givodan took the oath of
church warden."
At the end of their standard year as
church wardens,
Gevaudan and Chastain were replaced
April 7,
1724, by "the Sieur Pierre Dutoy and the Sieur
Pierre David,
Senior." On May 14, 1726, "Jean
Chastain
and Anthonine Givodan rendered account of
their administration
for the year 1723
in the presence
of the church wardens and vestrymen."
This is
the last reference to Gevaudan as alive. The King
William
Parish tithable lists from 1710 through 1725
contain
the name of Anthoine Givandan, Giauandant,
Givaudan
or Givodan. Occasional lists include
extraneous
adults residing with him: in 1715,
John
Robisson, in 1724, Jean Bernard. The
"Liste
Generalle de Tous les Francois Protestants
Refugies
Establys dans la Paroisse du Roy Guillaume"
of
about 1714 contains Anthoine Giraudan as head
of a household,
with a wife, one son and one daughter.
He drops
from the tiltable lists in the year 1726.
In consequence,
it would seem that his death may
be placed
sometime between his church warden's
accounting
of May 14, 1726 and the date of the
drawing
up of the tithable list for 1726. Source
"Antoine
Gevaudan of Manakin Town and His
Immediate
Descendants" by Cameron Allen.
Manakintowne,
VA is located 20 to 30 miles from
the
present city of Richmond.
I want to share with
you something
that was written in "Documents,
Chiefly
Unpublished, relating to Huguenot
Emigration
to Virginia and to the Settlement at
Manakin-Town.
"Edited and compiled for the
Virginia
Historical Society by R. A. Brock, 1973.
Hon. L.C.
Draper, LL.D., Madison, Wisconsin
furnished
the following.. Even though this is not
about our
Antoine Gevaudan, it gives you an idea
of France
in that time period and why our
ancestors
fled France. This is about a man that
came
over with Antoine Gevaudan on the ship
Ye Peter
and Anthony. The escape of Anthony
Trabue and
of the settlement at Manakintowne,
prepared
by his grandson, Daniel Trabue, son of
John James
and Olymphia Dupuy Trabue was
published
in the "Richmond Standard", May
10-17, 1879.
"My grandfather, Anthony Trabue,
fled
from France in the year of our Lord, 1687, at the
time of
a bloody persecution against the dissenters by the
Roman Catholics.
The law against the dissenters was very
rigid
at that time. Whoever was known to be one, or even
suspected,
if he would not swear to visit the priest, his life
and
estate were forfeited, and he was put to the most
shameful
and cruel torture and death. And worse than all,
they would
not let any move from the kingdom. Guards
and
troops were stationed all over the kingdom to stop
and catch
any that might run away. At every place where
they
would expect those persons might pass, there
were guards
fixed and companies of inquisitors,
and patrols
going on every road, and every other
place,
hunting for those heretics, as they called them;
and where
there was one who made his escape, perhaps
there
were hundreds put to the most shameful torture
and death.
When the decree was first passed,
a number
of the people thought it would not be put
in
execution so very hastily; but the priest, friars and
inquisitors
were very intent for their estates, and they
rushed quick.
I understand that my grandfather,
Anthony
Trabue, had an estate, but concluded he
would
leave it if he could possibly make his escape.
He was a
very young man, and he and another young
man
took a cart and loaded it with wine, and went on
to sell
it to the farthermost guard; and when night came
they
left their horses and cart, and made their escape
to
an English ship, which took them on board, and they
went
over to England, leaving their estates, native
country,
relations, and everything they had."
Our cousin
Denny Lee explans his theory as to
why some
people think the Gevaudans come from a
Scandinavian
County. " The French Huguenots got pushed
out of
France, then into Protestant, Germany, then into
Switzerland,
then up to Norway and from there onto England,
then
eventually the New World. I think some who heard about
this may
not of heard the full story of their travels. The Huguenots
stayed in
each of those countries for a significant time before
moving on
to the next country. Somewhere along the
VERBAL
line people forgot to tell about the countries
previous
to Norway. This would explain why some people think
we came
from Norway.
See
also: In River Time; The Way of the James,
by Ann
Matthews
Woodlief (Chapel Hill: Algonquin Books, 1985),
pp. 82-84.
Major sources of information: Richard P.
Maury's
"The Huguenots in Virginia" and "The French
Huguenot
Frontier Settlement of Manakin Town,"
James L.
Bugg, Jr. in The Virginia Magazine of History
and Biography,
V. 61, Oct. 1953, 359-94.
More recently
published is The Diligence and the
Disappearance
of Manakintowne's Huguenots by
Allison
Wehr Elterich (Spartenburg, SC: Reprint
Company,
1999). "In 1700 the frontier was still just
upstream
a ways, in the more hostile world of granite,
islands,
and rapids above the tidewater.
In July a ship
[the
Mary Ann] sailed into Hampton filled with 207 Huguenots,
exiled for
years from their cozy, prosperous villages in France,
who hoped
to build a French Protestant town in the Norfolk area.
They were
welcomed by Governor Nicholson with disturbing
news;
their destination had been changed and they were
to
go up the
James. William Byrd I, inheritor of land in the Falls
area
and influential in the colony, had had the last word
on their
fate.
They were to settle in the wilderness above the Fall
Line,
securing
that land for the white man. The omens were all
foreboding
at Jamestown where the prospective settlers had
to transfer
to smaller boats that could negotiate the curls.
The town
had recently burned for the third time and so had
been abandoned
as a capital. Sickness was still prevalent,
and many
of the French proved as vulnerable as the earlier
settlers.
As they learned more details about the requirements
of survival
on the frontier, especially without a navigable
waterway,
they became even more apprehensive, for their
skills were
those of business, not farming. Not surprisingly,
many chose
to desert here. Only 120 trusted themselves
to
the small boats and the currents of the James. Almost
immediately
a boat that was filled with goods sank, claimed by
the
rough waters. This last leg of the voyage, overcast
by dread
and
illness, must have been the worst. They passed the
site of
an
earlier settlement called World's End, made the left
turn into
the
Fall zone, and landed at the tiny trading outpost
of rude
houses
around Shockoe Creek. Loading what was left of their
supplies
onto borrowed wagons, they trudged through the
thick
forests, following a faint path more than twenty
miles
into
land long ago cleared by the Monacan Indians on the
south
bank of the river. Their ears still rang with the
rushing
of
water over granite that would block their boats from
the
outside
world of commerce. But the key to their survival
lay
in
the unusually fertile floodplain of that same river.
It was a
desperate fall and winter as the ill-prepared settlers
used
up their meager supplies, especially when another
group of
more than a hundred Huguenots arrived in October
expecting
to find a thriving town. [Three other ships arrived
on
the James and the Rappahannock Rivers: the Peter and
Anthony,
the Nassau, and one whose name is not known.
All told,
500 prospective settlers boarded, but far fewer
settled
at Manakin Town.] ]Friction developed between the
l
eaders,
meaning that the new group had to hack out a
settlement
several miles downstream. Soon, though,
Byrd and
Governor Nicholson proved their support by
soliciting
charitable donations throughout the colony. The
ensuing
generosity proved justified, for within a year the
French had
learned to be adept farmers, growing fruit
and fat
cattle on their bottom land, and establishing trade,
not warfare,
with neighboring Indians. Although plans had
been drawn
for a French-style village around a central
square,
with outlying farmland along the river, these
never proved
practical. The fertility of the piedmont
floodplain
encouraged the Huguenots, like the Monacans
before them,
to live more separately than they had intended,
becoming
a segmented agrarian society which
stretched
back from five miles of river bank. In time,
they
too lost their cohesive identity by
intermarrying
and moving to other rivers." Children of
ANTOINE
GEVAUDAN and MRS GEVAUDAN are:
2.
i. THOMAS2 GEVAUDAN, b. 1702, Henrico, Co., VA;
d. Bef.
July 23, 1731, Goochland, VA. 3. ii. ELIZABETH
GEVAUDAN,
b. 1705, King William Parish, VA;
d. July
27, 1739. Generation No. 2 2. THOMAS2
GEVAUDAN
(ANTOINE1) was born 1702 in Henrico,
Co., VA,
and died Bef. July 23, 1731 in Goochland, VA.
He married
JUDITH MARTIN 1728 in King William
Parish,
daughter of JOHN MARTIN and MARGARET
LECAZE.
She was born 1710 in Manakintowne, Henrico,
VA, and
died January 27, 1786. Notes for THOMAS
GEVAUDAN:
Thomas Gevaudan died at some time
between
19 Sept 1730 (at which time he took the oath
of
vestryman) and the composition of the 1731 tithable
list.
On this list his widow "Judith Giudon" was noted.
Thomas,
who inherited 200 acre tract of land (located on
south side
of James River on Jones Creek bounded
as by patent
to Thomas March 24, 1725) from his father,
sold this
land for 5 shillings to William and Elizabeth
Sallee on
February 3, 1727. More About THOMAS
GEVAUDAN:
Source: Turff & Twigg p 149 Notes for
JUDITH
MARTIN: Judith is recorded by Turff & Twigg
page 149
as owning a slave child William. Judith and Rene
and her
son John Gevaudan removed to Albemarle County
ca 1744
from their home on the north side of Jones' Creek
where
they had been living on land Rene had inherited
from his
father. They lived in part of Albemarle Co that is
now
Buckingham Co and probably on land that had been
patented
by Rene's brother, Peter Chastain Jr. in 1740.
Register
Containing the Baptisms made in the Church
of the French
Refugees at Manakintown in Virginia, in the
Parish of
King William. In the Year of our Lord, 1721,
the 25th
March. -- Done by James Soblet, Clerk. 25th October,
1731, was
born to Judith Girodan a black named
Guillieaume.
Child of THOMAS GEVAUDAN and
JUDITH MARTIN
is: 4. i. JEAN/JOHN3 GEVAUDAN,
b.
March 01, 1729/30, King William Parish Goochland Co,
VA; d. Abt.
1780. 3. ELIZABETH2 GEVAUDAN
(ANTOINE1)
was born 1705 in King William Parish,
VA, and died
July 27, 1739. She married
GUILLAUME
(WILLIAM) SALLE 1727 in Manakintown,
VA, son
of ABRAHAM SALLE and OLIVE PERRAULT.
He was born
1705, and died February 15, 1789. Notes for
GUILLAUME
(WILLIAM) SALLE: William Salle' was
willed
a "plantation", a little mulatto boy and twenty pounds
sterling,
or five thousand weight of tobacco (see the Will of
Abraham
Salle'). After the birth of Oliver in 1749, he moved
west
to what later became Buckingham County (the courthouse
burned in
1869). We do have tax and tithable lists as records.
On January
12, 1747, William patented 1200 acres on both
sides of
Joshua Creek, a branch of the Slate River, at that
time,
in Albemarle County. Three years later he sold practically
all of his
and his 2nd wife, Magdalen's holdings in King William
Parish.
At one time he seems to have owned 2050 acres, but
by
1782 he
had reduced his holdings to 700 acres. William was
about 83
years old when he died. Magdalen seems to have died
after 1800
(she may be on the tax list of Lincoln County,
Kentucky
?). William Salle' of the Parish of St. Anns, in the
county of
Albemarle, in a whole series of deeds in May 1750,
virtually
stripped himself of realty in King William Parish
(Cumberland
County). In 1771, he advertised for sale,
two tracts
of land "on the branches of Slate River in the
County
of Buckingham", containing 950 acres and 400 acres
"with
all necessary houses for cropping and is convenient
to
Church,
Mill and Courthouse". (Virginia Gazette) William
was
taxed
in 1782 on 700 acres in Buckingham.
He was taxed one
person
in Buckingham annually through 1789, then the tax
lists of
1790 records tax imposed on "Wm. Sallie Est." Magdelaine
is
listed through the year 1800, and still carried on
the realty lists
in
1803. The following are land entries found in Jillson's
"Old
Kentucky
Deeds and Entries" 1782, 1783, 1785 - Abraham Sally
, 4 deeds,
amounted to 1,600 acres. The location was at the
Watercourse
of the Kentucky River, Howards upper Creek, none
&
Grey's Run. (page 143) 1780 - John Sally, 400 acres,
Knob
Lick
Branch George Sally, 400 acres, Willson's Creek
Phillip
Sally, 400 acres, Willson's Creek William Sally,
400
acres,
Knob Lick Creek Guillaume Salle' was born in 1705
in
Manakintowne,
Virginia. LDS Ancestral File 416F gives
birth
in 1720. He died on February 15 1789. The Douglas
Register
lists the births of his children. He was married to
Marie Magdelaine
Chastain in 1740 Elizabeth Givaudan
-
Married: about 1727- Virginia, Spouse: William (Guillaume)
Sallee
More About GUILLAUME (WILLIAM) SALLE:
Misc: donated
supplies for Rev War effort Children of
ELIZABETH
GEVAUDAN and GUILLAUME SALLE
are: i.
ELIZABETH3 SALLE, b. July 04, 1728,
Manakintowne,
VA; d. Abt. 1729, Manakintowne, VA.
More About
ELIZABETH SALLE: Source: Huguenot
Emigration
to Virginia page 81 ii. ELIZABETH SALLE,
b.
February 21, 1728/29, Manakintown, VA. iii.
GUILLIAUME
WILLIAM SALLE, JR, b.
April
17, 1732; d. 1732. More About GUILLIAUME
WILLIAM
SALLE, JR: Source: Huguenot
Emigration
to Virginia page 87 5. iv. WILLIAM
(GUILLAUME)
SALLE, b. May 08, 1734, King
Edward Parish,
VA; d. Bet. 1816 - 1820, Washington
County,
KY. v. ISAAC SALLE, b. July 27, 1739,
Manakintowne,
VA; d. 1739, Manakintowne, VA.
Generation
No. 3 4. JEAN/JOHN3 GEVAUDAN
(THOMAS2,
ANTOINE1) was born March 01,
1729/30
in King William Parish Goochland Co, VA,
and
died Abt. 1780. He married MAGDALENE
CHASTAIN
1755, daughter of PIERRE CHASTAIN
and
MILDRED ARCHER. She was born 1733. Notes
for
JEAN/JOHN GEVAUDAN: Jean (John) lived all his
adult life
in Buckingham Co. Records from this county are
very limited
since the Court House burned in 1869 and
destroyed
all records. Jean may have had daughters
but
there are no records to indicate who they were or
whom
they married. Turff & Twigg page 84 John, son
of
Thomas
Gevaudan, was called John Jeffdon in his
Grandfather
Martin's will. John Gevaudan was reared in
the home
of his stepfather Rene Chastain, son of Peter
Chastain
Sr. who died in 1728. Rene and Judith Chastain
and
her son John Gevaudan removed to Albermarle
County
about 1744 from their home on the north side
of Jones'
Creek. Shortly after attaining his majority, he
and
his stepfather Chastain in effect "swapped" several
negroes
between themselves. On October 3, 1751,
"John
Givodan" sold to Rane Chastain for 150
one
parcel of negroes, one woman named Bate,
another
named Mary & one boy named Jack
& one
girl Base." John Gevodan signed by mark.
The same
date "Rane Chastain sold to John Givodan
for
160 one parcel of Negroes, a man Will, Woman Luce,
and three
children Ginne and Nane and Olimp". "Bate"
was presumably
the "Betti" his father had owned in 1730.
Will
may have been the black "Guillieaume"
baptized
in 1731. One month later, on November
12,
1751, "William Cannon, carpenter, sold John
Givodan
for 75 four hundred acres on the north
branch of
Willisses Creek in Albermarle County."
source "Antoine
Gevaudan of Manakin Town and His
Immediate
Descendants" by Cameron Allen 1981
By the
birth of Jean's first child in 1756, Manakintowne
was virtually
deserted.
The records of King
William
Parish end in 1750. There may have been other
children,
especially daughters. James Monroe Gevedon,
November
26, 1953, wrote the following: John Givadon
was
raised by stepfather Rane Chastain and was known
by
the name John Gividon Chastain but at his maturity
he and his
mother sold his inherited land
by deed
made in 1750 and he signed as John Gividen.
About this
time John married Magdalin Chastain, his
stepsister.
They had a large family but I have no record of
but
one Joseph who grew up to be a large strong man and
a
Baptist preacher." In an email from Gerre Buland,
Genealogist
for the Pierre Chastain Family Association
dated 10/07/1999.
Dear Carolyn, I checked both the
PCFA
database & Cameron Allen's articles on the Chastain
family
in Manakintown, Virginia. We do not show that Rene
Chastain
(2) had any other wife than Judith (Martin) Gevedon.
I have heard
this rumor before but found no evidence of
any
other marriage. The only children we have documentation
for
are: Isaac, Peter, Marianne, Rene, Jr. & Judith.
Gerre
Since Rene
was never married more than once, Jean/John
could not
have a stepsister. ======= Register Containing
the
Baptisms made in the Church of the French Refugees
at
Mannikintown in Virginia, in the Parish of King William.
In
the Year of our Lord, 1721, the 25th March. -- Done
by
James Soblet,
Clerk. The 1st March, 1729, was born Jean
Gierodan,
son of Thommas Girodan and of Judith, his wife;
was
baptized the 12th of April following by Mr. Massom;
had
for godfather, Guillaume Salle and Jaque Martain;
for
godmother, Md. Martain. The parties have declared
that
he was born the day and year above. Jean Chastain,
Clerk
More About JEAN/JOHN GEVAUDAN:
Christening:
April 12, 1730, Goochland, VA Source:
Huguenot
Emigration to Virginia page 84 Notes for
MAGDALENE
CHASTAIN: I have no proof that this
Magdalene
Chastain is the wife of Jean Gevaudan.
However,
after comparing information with several people
and checking
things as carefully as possible, it seems that this
Magdalene
makes more sense than Jean's stepsister being
his wife.
There is no information that Rene was married
before
Judith Martin, therefore, there is no stepsister.
CJM
10/07/1999
In an email from Shirley Chasteen, 10/12/1999.
"In the
book Pierre Chastain and his Descendants, Vol 1
first five
generations is this listing. Magdalene Chastain
married
to Jean Gevaudan/John Gevedon listed as known or
speculated
children of Pierre Chastain, Jr. and his wife, Mildred
"Middy"
Archer. page 17." Children of JEAN/JOHN
GEVAUDAN
and MAGDALENE CHASTAIN are: i. ELIZABETH
ANN4
GIVODAN, b. Abt. 1750, VA; d. January 30, 1823, Shelby
Co., KY;
m. JOSEPH FOREE, 1774, Buckingham Co., VA; b. May
31,
1744, King William Parish, Goochland Co., VA; d.
1835, Shelby
Co.,
KY. ELIZABETH ANN GIVODAN: Burial: Old Shelbyville
Cemetery
by Presby. Church Source:
Julia Mortenson and the
Foree Family
Bible lists the children of Joseph and Ann
stating
her given name as Elizabeth. Notes for
JOSEPH FOREE:
The Trimble Co. Heritage book of
1989 contains
several pages of information about the
Foree
family including this very touching letter from Joseph
to
his sister Keziah in NY. Joseph Foree is writing to
his
sister,
Keziah Foree Wyckoff, who lived in New York State.
She
was captured by Indians at Martin's Station in 1780
and
taken
to Detroit then on to Quebec where she met and married
Mr.
Wyckoff. Can you imagine??????
Shelby County, Ky.
June
24,1826 Dearly beloved Sister, I am in possession
of
your address written December 15,1825, which only came
to
hand the 20th of the present month, and it affords
me no
small degree
of pleasure to receive it, and learn that you are
yet
spared upon the land of the living. Though there is
pain,
mingled
with joy when I learn of your losses in the way of
family,
yet I know it is what we should all expect, and I
hope
you
will exercise that cool philosophy which we are all
commanded
to do. He or she who hath, can only lose,
and death
we know is the final end to all who live on this earth,
and your
loss may have been their gain. I have not heard
one
word from you for years, and when I look at your address
and discover
that you have intentions of visiting your old
brother,
it makes my heart leap with joy in anticipation of it.
How
happy it would make me feel if we should live to realize
the
meeting moment. If your family conditions would admit
of it,
I
should like for you to stay some considerable time,
or to make
your
home with me for life. I now stand alone as it was
the will
of
Almighty God to take your sister** from me the 30th
of
J. 1823.
My children are as yet all living, save my son
Joseph,
who departed this life in 1815. My daughter,
Nancy, lives
in the state of Tennessee, 300 miles
distant
from me. Rebecca, my youngest daughter,
save
Virginia, lives in Christian County, Kentucky,
230 miles
from me. The balance of my children are
all
in 15 miles of me and are well, with their families
as far as
I know. My youngest son, Jefferson, is yet
single and
lives with me. This will start for you while
I am in
health and thanks be to God, in my proper
mind,
which I pray Almighty to continue with me whilst
I
remain on earth, and matter and life connected. I hope
you
will be sure to make your intended visit to Kentucky.
Our
brothers, so far as I know, are yet all living. Brother
Peter
has lost his wife, though he lives himself upon the
farm
where you last saw him. Silas lives near Peter and
Jesse is
where he lived when you were in Kentucky.
Brother
John is yet in Georgia, and Frank in Tennessee.
Our sister,
Mary, is not very far distant from Natchez.
You
will
now be so good as to present my love to each of your
children
as an uncle to them, and accept for
yourself
the undivided love of your old brother. Praying
that
we may meet again upon the shores of time. But if
it
should
be the will of God to order differently that we may
be
of the goodly number who will hear our Father say,
"Come, enter
in, thou good and faithful servant", and
enjoy the
Crown that fadeth not, laid up for thee from
before
the foundations of the Earth. O may it be so with
all of
ours when we may see and know all of ours. When
there will
be no further parting. May this be our happy
lot is my
chief concern. Remember each of my children,
as they
wish, to yourself and family. From your old
brother
an affectionate
farewell, Joseph Foree ("To
his well
beloved
sister, Keziah, being four score and four years
old
on
the 22nd of June, 1826." This letter was written to
Keziah
Foree Wyckoff and a copy sent to the Kentucky
Historical
Society.
This is also certified.) Rebecca,
married
Richard
P. Dawson, moved to Christian Co., later Trigg Co.
(Note:
This Joseph Foree was brother of Jesse Foree who
is
buried
in Trimble County. Silas and Peter were in Henry
County
at this time.) ** : the "sister" referred to here
is
Ann
Gividen Foree. I have seen "sister-in-law", as
we
now call
it, referred to as "sister" in other old documents.
Also
note it took 6 months for the letter to get from
New York
to KY. I guess they were lucky it got there at
all! Julia
Mortenson** More About JOSEPH FOREE:
Military
service: Revolutionary War Soldier, having
fought
at Guilford Courthouse Source: The Douglas
Register
ii. JOHN GIVIDEN II, b. 1756, Alebemarle
County,
VA; d. April 17, 1835, Henry County, Kentucky;
m.
MARY MIMMS, January 31, 1785, Alebemarle
County,
VA; b. June 18, 1766, Goochland, VA; d. 1848,
Henry
County, Kentucky. Notes for JOHN GIVIDEN II:
John Givodan
and Mary Mims moved to Henry
Co.,Kentucky
in 1826. Most all the descendants of
John and
Mary Mimms Givodan spell the name Gividen.
As
a young man John served five tours of three month's
duration
each as drafted militiaman from Buckingham County.
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