Anglen Report

Anglin • Anglen

Much erroneous information has circulated concerning the history of Adrian Anglin, but important progress has been made beginning in 1982 with Evelyn West Williams's In Search of Anglins, and then later with Walter F. Anglin's The Anglin Families of Colonial America, and continuing with more recent discoveries of important documents.

Evelyn's and Walter's books both had conclusions which later information showed to be incorrect, but the books were very important for the data they gathered, and we are all greatly indebted to Evelyn and Walter for their extensive work. And my father, Paul D. Parker, did a great deal of research on this line, for which I'm grateful. Without his work, I'm not sure I ever would have gotten interested in this family.

The most important documents relating to Adrian Anglin are the following:

In addition to the foregoing, the papers in the suit between William Hays and Philip Anglin in the Chancery Court of Henry County, Virginia, in the late 1790's shed some light on the life of Adrian's widow and some of his children years after old Adrian's death.

Several Anglin documents, including Adrian's will and his petition for his freedom, can be accessed under "Documents" in the directory to your left.

See maps showing Anglin locations in Virginia in the early and mid-1700's.



Find out about our Anglin-Anglen DNA Project.


First Generation


1. Adrian Anglin. Adrian Anglin was born in 1693.10 He came to America in 1717 at the age of 24, paying for his passage with four years of indentured servitude, having been sold by Capt. Abraham Lewis to John Ragland of Hanover County, Virginia.12 In 1727 he is listed in the estate papers of John English of Hanover County as a creditor of the estate. In 1734 he was still in Hanover County, but by 1742, Adrian had moved to the part of Goochland County which later became Albemarle, and still later Buckingham County. 10     Read a royal land grant from King George II to Adrian Anglin. He served as a constable there and remained there the rest of his life. He died 25 Apr 1777, at the age of 84. Adrian first married Elizabeth.
       
  They had the following children:
       
    i. Ann. Born on 20 Mar 1724,10 Ann married a Mr. Cunningham.1
       
  2. ii. William (1733->1803)10
       
    iii. John. Born on 30 Jul 1734,10 John married Elizabeth and settled in Patrick County, Virginia.
       
    iv. Maryann. Born on 2 Feb 1735,10 Maryann married a Mr. Asher.
       
    v. Mary. Born on 13 Jul 1738,10 she married Cuthbert Webb. (Thanks to Donald Wilson for information on this family.)
       
  Adrian second married Mary Thornhill.10
       
  They had the following children:
       
    i. Philip. Born on 20 Dec 1742 in Goochland County, Virginia.10 Philip settled in Henry and Patrick County, Virginia, and was a veteran of the Revolutionary War. He married Frances Cox, and their children were Armine, John, Nancy Ann, Philip, Robert, and William. Many of his descendants remained in that area.
       
    ii. Elizabeth. Born on 10 Feb 1744.10 She married William Hunt Allen in Guilford County, North Carolina. He had been a neighbor in Buckingham County, Virginia. The marriage bond was filed 7 December 1773.
       
    iii. Sarah. Born on 29 May 1747.10 Before 1772 when Sarah was 24, she married William Hays in Virginia.
       
    iv. Lydia. Born on 16 Mar 1749,10 Lydia married a Mr. Goolsby.1
       
    v. Adrian. Born on 25 Apr 1752,10 Adrian married Elizabeth Estes.
       
    vi. Joseph. Born on 1 Apr 1755,10 Joseph was on a list of Henry County militiamen ordered to the assistance of General Greene in anticipation of the Battle of Guilford Court House in an order by Col. Abraham Penn dated 11 Mar 1781. Joseph married Elizabeth.
       
  Following Adrian's death, Mary lived for many years with her son Philip, and then went to live with her daughter Sarah Hays, where she was residing at the time of her death.
       

Second Generation


2. William Anglin. Born on 31 Mar 1733, William lived in Buckingham County, Virginia, until his father died, and then he and his children moved, first to Greenbrier County, in what is now West Virginia, and later on to the area where the Tygart Valley River divided Harrison and Randolph Counties in what is now Barbour County, West Virginia. He operated a ferry across the river between his land and the land of his son Samuel, and he also operated an ordinary (i.e. an inn), which the first Methodist bishop in America, Francis Asbury, found famously lacking. William died in Harrison County, (West) Virginia after 1803, when he was charged with failure to vote; he was at least 69. William married Susannah, and some say there was an earlier marriage to Jane. Susannah's name is in deed records, but I haven't seen any source for a marriage to a Jane. Read a little about life in (West) Virginia when William was there.
       
  William and his wife or wives had the following children:
       
    i. William.
       
    ii. John. Born in 1759 in Virginia. He lived in Greenbrier County and then in Harrison County, (West) Virginia with his father and some siblings, but then moved to Sullivan County, Tennessee, where he lived near his brother Isaac, and later went to Lee County, Virginia, where he died in 1814. He was married to Jemima. Several of his children moved to eastern Illinois, and from there to Texas with John Parker and others before the Texas Revolution. They built Fort Parker there and were in the area at the time of the famous Comanche attack on Fort Parker 19 May 1836, in which Cynthia Ann Parker, her little brother John, and 3 others were captured, and a number killed.
       
    iii. Isaac. Born about 1760, Isaac fought for three years in the Virginia Line of the Continental Army during the Revolution (see details). On 9 May 1782, when Isaac was 22, he married Nancy Dyer in Greenbrier County, Virginia. He and his brother John moved to Sullivan County (then North Carolina, later Tennessee) about the same time. By 1790, Isaac had moved on to that part of Burke County, North Carolina, which later fell within Buncombe County, and later still, within Yancey County. Isaac died in Burke County in 1795, Nancy remained on that land until at least 1810.11
       
    iv. Adrian. Born on 16 Nov 1762, Adrian was a veteran of the Revolution War (see details). On 23 Jun 1787, when Adrian was 24, he married Mary McClung, daughter of James McClung & Anna McClung, in Harrison County, (West) Virginia. She was born on 26 Mar 1772 in Virginia. After one of their daughters moved to Indiana with her husband and children in the 1830's, Adrian and a number of his other adult children moved out there as well. Adrian died there on 31 Aug 1839 at the age of 76, and Mary died there on 4 Aug 1840 at the age of 68. They are both buried in Stony Point Cemetery, Leesburg, Kosciusko County, Indiana. Their son Adrian moved his family back to the Tygart Valley River area in West Virginia, though, where there are probably still descendants of his.
       
    v. Elizabeth (1765-1775). She married Moses Cade, our ancestor, probably the son of Thomas Cade, in Randolph County, (West) Virginia, on 25 Nov 1788. Check out the Cade page. Elizabeth must have died in Harrison County (West) Virginia before 19 Sep 1796, when land was conveyed to Moses Cade "and his wife Lydia" (apparently his second wife, and the mother of our ancestress, Lydia Cade, who married Isaac Anglen). So maybe our gene pool isn't as shallow as I feared when I thought we were descended from both Elizabeth and her brother Samuel. But since we don't know the names of Elizabeth's and Samuel's sisters, and since Lydia was such a common name among the Anglins, and since an unmarried sister of a deceased woman so commonly moved in with the widower to take care of the little kids, I can't help thinking that perhaps our gene pool is as shallow as I feared after all.
       
  3. vi. Samuel (1768-<1857).
       

Third Generation



3. Samuel Anglin. Born in 1768 in Virginia, Samuel Anglin built the first gristmill in the area, an "undershot" mill with a double gear and a wheel which resembled a "flutter," whatever that is. It is to Samuel, however, that we owe our membership in the Black Sheep branch of the family. See why here. About 1787, Samuel married Nancy Cade, daughter of Major & Hannah Cade. Nancy is related to our ancestor Moses Cade, who married Samuel's sister Elizabeth. Nancy was born about March of 1771 in the part of Frederick County, Maryland, which is now in Allegany County. After Samuel lit out for Illinois following the unpleasantness responsible for our relegation to the Black Sheep branch of the family, Nancy remained in Barbour County, West Virginia, where she died on 9 Oct 1854 at the age of 83.2 Samuel died in Monroe County, Illinois, before 7 Apr 1845. I was very glad to attend a meeting of Anglin researchers and discover that there are a few more Black Sheep branches on the Anglin family tree.
       
  Samuel and Nancy had the following children:
       
    i. Hannah. Born in 1798 in Harrison County, (West) Virginia.3 I am not aware that Hannah ever married. In 1850, she was still unmarried at the age of 52 and living with her mother and other family members.
       
    ii. Philip. Born in 1800/1810 in Harrison County, (West) Virginia, Philip died in Monroe County, Illinois in 1840/1850. Philip's first wife died before 2 Jul 1839, leaving him with at least three children: Mary, Nancy; and John, who died in 1855. I believe there was at least one more daughter who lived long enough to marry and have children, but I haven't tracked her down yet. On 2 Jul 1839, in Monroe County, Illinois, Philip second married Mary Kidd, who was apparently born about 1787 in Illinois.
       
  4. iii. Isaac (1800-1864).
       
    iv. William. Born in 1805, William bought land in Monroe County, Illinois, in January, 1839, but by the time of the 1840 census, he was no longer there.
       
    v. Phineas. Born about 1810 in Virginia.4,3 Phineas married Fanny, born about 1812 in Virginia.3 About 1847, they moved from Harrison County, Virginia (now Barbour County, West Virginia), to Jo Daviess County, Illinois, where Phineas and Fanny died some time after 3 Jun 1880. They had six children, only three of whom survived childhood: Almira, Marietta, and Melissa.
       
    vi. Samuel. Born about 1815 in Harrison County, (West) Virginia. By 1843, Samuel had moved to Monroe County, Illinois, whither his father had withdrawn following the unpleasantness with Jonas Grimes. There in 1849, at the age of 34, Samuel married Elizabeth Rutledge, who was born in 1830 in Maryland. Samuel died in Monroe County, Illinois on 8 Mar 1855, leaving his widow with one minor child, John. Within the next two years, Samuel's widow, Elizabeth, had married James Irwin and moved out of Illinois with her new husband and and her young son.
       
    vii. Elizabeth. Born about 1815 in Harrison County, (West) Virginia, Elizabeth died after 1870. She was still unmarried at the time of the 1870 census.2
       
    viii. Garrett. Born about 1821 in Harrison County, (West) Virginia.3 Garrett married Mary, widow of Joshua W. Cole. She was born in Apr 1816,5 Mary had children by her marriage to Joshua Cole, and then Mary and Samuel had four sons: Samuel, Emery, McClellan, and Cecil. Unfortunately, Garrett lost his inheritance to creditors. Garrett died in Barbour County, West Virginia between 1880 and 1900, and Mary died there after 1900.6,7
       
    ix. David. Born about 1821 in Harrison County, (West) Virginia.3 David married Nancy Heatherley, who was born 10 Jun 1828 in the same area,3,2 They had nine children, only six of whom lived to adulthood: Mary V., Jacob B., David Ira, Columbia, Emily J., and Harriet. David died in Barbour County, West Virginia between 1870 and 1880, and Nancy died there on 13 Sep 1873 at the age of 45. 2

Fourth Generation


4. Isaac Anglen. Born on 6 Jul 1800 in (West) Virginia, Isaac died in Monroe County, Illinois on 20 Nov 1864; he was 64.
       
  On 20 Nov 1823, when Isaac was 23, he married Lydia Cade, daughter of Moses Cade, and apparently the stepdaughter of Isaac's Aunt Elizabeth Anglin. Lydia was 19 when they married in Randolph County, (West) Virginia. By 1838 they were in Monroe County, Illinois, with Isaac's father Samuel, and his brothers, Philip, Samuel, and William. Isaac died there on 20 Nov 1864. Lydia died after 12 Nov 1865, but I don't know where or when.
       
  Lydia and Isaac had the following children:
       
  5. i. John L. (1829-1874)
       
    ii. Elam. Born about 1834 in Harrison County, (West) Virginia.
       
    iii. Isaac N. Born on 6 Mar 1841 in Monroe County, Illinois, Isaac N. died there on 28 Sep 1859; he was 18.8 Buried in Hesterburg Cemetery, Monroe County, Illinois.
       
    iv. Harriet Ann. Born about 1844 in Monroe County, Illinois.

Fifth Generation


5. John L. Anglen. Born in 1829 in Harrison County, (West) Virginia, John died in Carroll County, Missouri in 1874; he was 45. Buried near Carrollton, Missouri. On 28 Jul 1853, when John was 24, he first married Almyra Jane Arthur, in Monroe County, Illinois. Born on 15 Apr 1837, Almyra Jane died in childbirth in Monroe County, Illinois on 31 Mar 1855; she was 17.
       
  They had the following child:
       
    i. Margaret C. Born on 31 Mar 1855 in Monroe County, Illinois. On 18 Jun 1868, when Margaret was 13, she married Joseph Wilcox in Monroe County, Illinois.
       
  On 2 Dec 1856 when John was 27, he second married Mary Elizabeth Erwin, who was almost 16 years old, the daughter of Joseph & Abigail Erwin, in Monroe County, Illinois. Mary Elizabeth was born on 30 Jan 1841 in Monroe County, Illinois, Mary Elizabeth died in Crawford County, Arkansas in 1885; she was 43.
       
  They had the following children:
       
    i. Harriet. Born on 30 Jan 1858 in Monroe County, Illinois, Harriet died on 18 Mar 1925 at the age of 67. Harriet married Thomas Vaughn.
       
  6. ii. Isaac Newton (1861-1943)
       
    iii. Cora. Born in 1864 in Monroe County, Illinois. On 31 Oct 1882, when Cora was 18, she married George A. Dobbs, in Crawford County, Arkansas.9
       
    iv. William Thomas. Born in 1867 in Maeystown, Monroe County, Illinois, William Thomas died in Ganns, Sequoyah County, Oklahoma on 9 Feb 1949; he was 82. Buried in Mitchell Cemetery, Ganns, Sequoyah County, Oklahoma. William Thomas married Lydia Russell Bratton. Born in 1872, Lydia Russell died on 13 May 1843 in Ganns, Sequoyah County, Oklahoma.
       
    v. Mary D. Born in 1869 in Monroe County, Illinois.
       
    vi. John Joseph. Born in 1870 in Monroe County, Illinois. Joe married Willie Mae Ballard in Crawford County, Arkansas on 28 Mar 1897, when he was 27. Willie Mae died in 1905 in Arbuckle Island, Sebastian County, Arkansas. Joe died there in 1909 at the age of 39, leaving 4 small children orphans.
       
  After John died, Mary Elizabeth married Benjamin Rust. Mary Elizabeth died in Crawford County, Arkansas in 1885 at the age of 43, and may be buried in Whiteside Cemetery.
       
  They had the following children:
       
    i. Carrie Rust. Born 1875-1880.
       
    ii. Leonard Hugh Rust. Born 1880, Leonard married Una Mae George, with whom he had six children: Thelma, Anna E., Mary Ann, Mabel Irene, Lorene, and Hazel. Leonard died in 1949.
       

Sixth Generation


6. Isaac Newton Anglen. Born on 8 Nov 1861 near Maeystown, Monroe County, Illinois. In Crawford County, Arkansas, on 12 Jul 1885, when he was 21 years old, Ike married Margaret Jane Langston, daughter of Samuel N. Langston & Mary A. Bostick. Meg was born in that county on 2 Jan 1867. Ike was a nurseryman, and their front yard looked like an English garden. Meg died in Graphic, Crawford County, Arkansas on 2 Feb 1939 at the age of 72, and Ike died there on 8 Mar 1943 at the age of 81. They are buried in Pope Cemetery, Crawford County, Arkansas.
       
  They had the following children:
       
    i. Sarah Isadora. Born on 9 Jun 1888 in Crawford County, Arkansas, Dora died in Van Buren, Crawford County, Arkansas in Dec 1978; she was 90. Buried in Peters Cemetery, Crawford County, Arkansas. On 19 Nov 1910, when Dora was 22, she married Frank Simmons, son of Henry Simmons, in Crawford County, Arkansas. Born on 20 Jun 1892, Frank died on 12 Dec 1965; he was 73. Their children were Vesta Lee, Dorothy Vivian, Reva Maxine, Lora Juanita, Norma Arlene, Bernice Eve, and Evalena.
       
    ii. Samuel Rollie. Born on 24 Nov 1889 in Dawn, Livingston County, Missouri, Rollie died in Biggs, Butte County, California on 14 Jul 1972; he was 82. On 25 Dec 1916, when Rollie was 27, he married Ruby Emma Jones in Graphic, Crawford County, Arkansas. She was born in 1899. Their children were Ernest Elvin, Opal Juanita, Floyd Isaac, Dow Truman, Margaret Christine, John Fount, and Lois.
       
    iii. Edith Lucinda. Born on 11 Oct 1891 in Dawn, Livingston County, Missouri, Edith died in San Bernardino, San Bernadino County, California on 3 Jan 1986; she was 94. Buried in Green Acres Cemetery, Bloomington, California. On 21 Aug 1910, when Edith was 18, she married Isaac Linder Satterfield, son of Francis Marion Satterfield & Nancy Ann Simmons, in Crawford County, Arkansas. Born on 5 Jun 1890 in Crawford County, Arkansas, Isaac died in Bloomington, San Bernardino County, California on 28 Jul 1975; he was 85. Their children were: Dola, Clayton, Castle Newlin, Dale, Curtis L., Kenneth E., Margaret, and Duane.
       
    iv. Ethel May. Born on 27 Jul 1893 in Dawn, Livingston County, Missouri. On 18 Feb 1912, when Ethel was 18, she first married Calvin L. Simmons, in Graphic, Crawford County, Arkansas. They were divorced. On 14 Jul 1918, when Ethel was 24, she second married Benjamin Chisholm Done in Graphic, Crawford County, Arkansas. Born on 2 Oct 1880,8 Benjamin Chisholm died on 8 Apr 1936; he was 55.8 Ethel died in Graphic, Crawford County, Arkansas on 23 May 1938 at the age of 44, and is buried in Pope Cemetery, Crawford County, Arkansas. Their children were Clovis, Cressie, and Elsie.
       
    v. Geneva Edna (1895-1992). Born on 24 Jan 1895 in Livingston County, Missouri, Geneva died in Grand Prairie, Tarrant County, Texas on 19 Mar 1992; she was 97. Buried on 21 Mar 1992 in Restview Cemetery, Jacksonville, Texas. On 2 Apr 1916, when Geneva was 21, she married James McKinley Parker, son of James Calvin Parker & Sarepta West, in Crawford County, Arkansas. Born on 27 Apr 1896 in Mulberry, Crawford County, Arkansas, Mac died in Palestine, Texas on 24 Mar 1945; he was 48. These are my grandparents.
       
    vi. Earl Granville. Born on 16 Nov 1896 in Dawn, Livingston County, Missouri, Earl died in Graphic, Crawford County, Arkansas on 13 Apr 1966; he was 69. Buried in Pope Cemetery, Crawford County, Arkansas. On 17 Feb 1918, when Earl was 21, he married Leecy Dora Satterfield, daughter of Francis Marion Satterfield & Nancy Ann Simmons, in Graphic, Crawford County, Arkansas. Born on 4 Jul 1900 in Graphic, Crawford County, Arkansas, Leecy died in Fort Smith, Sebastian County, Arkansas on 28 May 1982; she was 81. Their children were Mildred, Decema, Vona, Hildred, Helen, Dow, Jack, and Jo Ann.
       
    vii. Isaac Newton. Born on 12 Jun 1903 in Graphic, Crawford County, Arkansas, Mick died on 11 Feb 1965; he was 61. On 7 Feb 1925, when Mick was 21, he first married Mildred Morgan, in Detroit, Wayne County, Arkansas. They were divorced. On 22 Apr 1946, when Mick was 42, he second married Hildegard Elizabeth Schmall, in Springdale, Benton County, Arkansas.

Sources


     
1.   Will of Adrian Anglin, a copy of which can be found in the Library of Virginia, Accession Number 34126, Box 18, Folder 543: The Gravely Family Papers (Anglin - Athey Families).
       
2.   Mary S. Coffman, Barbour County West Virginia Book of Deaths I, 1853 - 1919 (Heritage Books, Inc.)
       
3.   1850 census.
       
4.   1840 census.
       
5.   1900 Census.
       
6.   1900 census.
       
7.   1910 census.
       
8.   Tombstone.
       
9.   Crawford County Marriages, on the internet.
       
10.   Handwritten list dated 1859 found by Leslie Ross among her deceased aunt's things, reproduced in: Evelyn West Williams, In Search of Anglins (Boyd, Texas: 1982).
       
11.   Walter F. Anglin, The Anglin Families of Colonial America: In search of Descendants (2000).
       
12.   June, 1721, Hanover County Petition of Adrian Anglin for his Freedom.




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