COMMENTARY from my CLARK / MOORMAN Pile by Linda Sparks Starr JUL 1996 While re-organizing after vacation, I came across a letter from Kay Baganoff dated JAN 1996 which somehow got into the wrong pile of letters, e-mail etc. Some of her comments started me thinking about another family surname we've yet to consider -- TERRELL. There's a lot of later intermarriages between TERRELLS/CLARKs/ MOORMANs/JOHNSONs; but, I want to concentrate on those who ar rived 1600s and backtrack into England and Scotland where TERRELL and JOHNSON/JOHNSTONE marriages are found. May I remind you, one version of the MOORMAN legend has a David TERRELL accompanying the CLARKs and MOORMANs to Barbadoes from Isle of Wight, England. I find it very interesting that the given names "Micajah", "Penelope", "Jonathan", and "Rachel" appear in at least one TER RELL line [David Sr. b. 1670] well before any KNOWN marriages into our CLARK line. All of this early "stuff" comes from pages 6 and 7 of a very small booklet, _Genealogy of the Terrell Family_, compiled by C. M. Terrell, Lynchburg VA: M.P. Bell Printers, no copyright date provided; neither is it documented but I can provide documentation for a TERRELL contempory of Capt. Xpher having children named "Micajah" et al -- that is once I lo cate the folder I put it in! Note to long-time correspondents: are your files better organized than mine? I remember making copies to send all-around three to five years ago; I THINK it's from from one of the _VA Genealogies_ reprint books -- pos sibility connecting with the Chiles line? Meanwhile, I'll keep looking. While looking for this documentation I came across another TER RELL (un-numbered page) "booklet" -- _A Genealogy Line of the TYR- RELL, TERRELL and TERRILL Family of VA & TX..._, by Roy Lee Ter rell of Grass Valley, CA 1934. This info is found on the sixth page of text under generation #21, Timothy TERRELL, son of Timothy of Allhollows, London deceased: "Timothy, an orphan boy took ship from England, and located in New Kent Co. VA ... leav ing his brother, Avery Terrell in England. Timothy settled in the same county in VA, in which his near relatives, Robert of Lon- don and VA, and William and Richmond of VA, had taken up large land grants during the years 1656 and 1670...Timothy married Elizabeth Foster. Sons, Robert and Joseph." This will first appear to be a change of topic, but please bear with me; I hope to eventually tie it all together. The following comes specifically from pages 220-222 "Tidewater VA Families", edited by Virginia Hutchison Davis, vol. 4, No. 4, Feb/Mar 1996. The article, "Broach Neck & Hocady Creek", actually begins on page 214; it was written by Lt. Col. James W. Doyle Jr., USAF, Ret. In the section titled "Eltham", Doyle begins with the origins and history of that name. He suggests a possible link between the "Kent" English location of Eltham and "New" Kent in VA. The original Eltham was a manor house at the time of the Nor man Conquest; it's now a village and parish located southeast of London in Kent. A closer connection between the two Elthams than "Kent" begins with King Edward IV, who made his last visit to El tham in 1483. Edward died leaving two sons whose mysterious deaths are attributed to Edward's brother, Richard III. Shakespeare in "Richard III" goes so far as to accuse Sir James TYRRELL as doing the actual murderous deed. Doyle says there's another reading of history, but doesn't go into it beyond recom mending Audrey Williamson's _The Mystery of the Princes_, Chicago: Academy Chicago Pub. 1986. Quoting Doyle page 222: "4. The reign of Richard III was short. He was killed ... 1485, but not before he had slain Sir William Brandon, the standard bearer of his enemy, Henry Tudor. Sir William Brandon's widow married Sir Thomas TYRRELL, brother of the infamous Sir James Tyrrell, and fourth great grandfather of Richmond TERRELL; Richmond settled in New Kent County in 1656, about twenty miles west of Eltham. 5. There is a tradition in the TYRRELL family that the princes and their mother lived at the country home of Sir James Tyrrell during the reign of Richard III..." I may err here, but I think 20 miles west of Eltham puts one very close to where Capt. Xpher Clark, Edward Johnson, Thomas Moorman et. al. lived in 1690s. And as we'll see in the next article, El tham was the location for the upper church of Blisland Parish where Peter Massie, Richmond Terrell, Edward Johnson and Thomas Moorman, among others, signed the list of grievances in 1677. One last quote from Doyle's article, which might prove helpful while reading patent records: [page 214] "In bygone days, the Eltham VA area was known as 'Broach Neck,' and West Point was labelled 'Clayborn'. These names appear on at least one early map, dated 1719... [page 215] ... The first meetings of New Kent County Court met at the brick house on Broach Neck, and some of the last of Bacon's Rebels camped in the surrounding woods." Doyle [TVF vol. 2, No. 2, AUG/SEP 1993, pages 72-75] authored another article of interest to us, "The Origins of Blisland Parish": Quoting from Chamberlayne's introduction to _Vestry Book of Blisland Parish_, Doyle says the parish was established a few months before 13 OCT 1653. The name derives from a manor lo cated in Cornwall, anciently written "Bluston" and "Bliston". The rest of the article is interesting, but not of interest to our study. However, this article spurred David Winfred Gaddy to write more about early Blisland. This is found in TVF vol. 3, No. 2, Aug/Sep 1994, page 82-85, entitled "Warranigh Church, 1703, Upper Church, Blisland Parish, New Kent County": "This 'Upper Church' of Blisland Parish was apparently named for Wahrani Creek (this is the spelling on a contemporary map) because of its location in close proximity to the creek ... Early land patents describe land as bordering Warrany Creek. The church was erected at the head of what is today, Wahrani Swamp, shown on a contemporary map to flow in a southerly direc tion into Diascund Creek Reservoir and the Chickahominy River (US route 60). Wahrani Creek emerges between Routes 30 and 33 on the south side of the York River. This is just a few miles from West Point on the north side of the Pamunkey River, and Eltham on the south side..." In 1814 Samuel Mordecai wrote his sister Rachel, [page 84] from the "ruins of the old church. The church was set on a high elevation overlooking the junction of the Pamukey and Mattaponi rivers at the formation of the York. It was by the old road, the colonial highway, that ran from Eltham to Williamsburg. In 1814 only the walls and a part of the roof remained ... An inscription over one of the doors survived, with the inscription 'Blisland Parish' and '1703'." Is there any doubt this is the location where parishioners of the upper church of Blisland Parish met to voice and sign grievances against the government of Gov. Berkeley in 1677. Does all this warrant an in-depth study of Richmond TERRELL and his family? Or am I going off on a wrong tangent? Are there TERRELLs in Bar badoes? Malcolm Hart Harris in _Old New Kent County: Some Acct of the Planters, Plantations & Places ..._, vol. 1 and 2, [sorry I didn't note more publishing data!] says "There are two distinct TERRELL families who came -- the TERRELLs of Drayton and Hagborne and the TERRELLs of Reading." The Reading bunch produced the Quakers of Louisa and Hanover. Which line does Richmond Terrell belong to? Are there CLARKs, MOORMANs and JOHNSONs in Reading? Now to my e-mail messages through July 20 ... After vacation I posted a query to TANDY family researchers about the relationship between Agnes & Anne, their father John and Alexander McKinney. It's best to just say the data I received from three sources differed in some respect, with one exception--all had Anne and Agnes as daus of Thomas Tandy, and John Tanday as having no issue; this is curious since my abstract of Henrico Co. court records clearly says they are the daus of John deceased. Basically the early New Kent Co. TANDY "story" is this: Wil- liam Tandy b. 1615 arrived in Annapolis mid-century (dates differ according to sender) as a headright for (again depends on sender). William Tandy Sr. died 1677 Warwick and/or New Kent Co. VA. He had two or three sons -- William d. 1692 Warwick Co. VA is the one in question; John Tandy 1647-1693 New Kent Co. VA and Thomas Tandy d. 1701 m. Joan d. 1693 New Kent Co. OR deathyears for Thomas and Joan are reversed. One interesting tidbit -- "Allen" only is given as source: "Ann Tandy was arrested for the murder of her bastard child and held in goal awaiting action of the Attorney General. There is no report of this action, but justice in the period was summary and often swift." Another writer did give the following cita tion: "In _VA Colonial Abstacts, King and Queen County_, Vol. 7, page 7, there is a claim of John Redwood for housing and guarding Ann Tandy, a criminal person." Chuck Johnson answered a query on va-roots in early July which I found interesting. The writer was asking about the economy along the Blackwater River in early Isle of Wight County. He noted they used barrels of pitch to purchase land instead of tobacco. Chuck replied that VA had "a thriving commercial activity provid ing marine repair support for ships." He explained VA had the trees to provide new mastings and pitch and tar to repair leaks, as well as deep water anchorage for ships needing major repairs. VA also "produced" salted fish to restock ships sailing to far away ports. Chuck then added this comment which was new to me -- at least the NE to VA angle: "Many of the major plantation owners in VA dispatched one of their sons to England to handle the com mercial interests of the family in the London market. Similarly, wealthy New England business men in Boston and other ports would send a son to VA to represent the family shipping businesses." Others in this group are more on top of things; while Dave and I were discussing our Yankee roots, he wrote: "[I] am interested in CLARKs and ANTHONYs there (yes, the VA ANTHONYs and the Rhode Island ANTHONYs are of the same family and I THINK the CLARKs who came to RI MAY be connected to "ours". These Clarkes were of the Clarke family of Wrotham, Kent, who have a different coat of arms, but also had some kind of connection to the DAVEY family I've been writing about..." This is a prime example of reasons for sharing research. Finally, can anyone help this "cousin"? Please send comments to him, not me. He wrote: "I am looking for information on my 4grandfather, James JOHNSON, born 1759 in Louisa Co. VA. He moved to Bedford Co. as a child, and then Campbell Co. when it organized. [He probably didn't move; the county lines just changed. LSS] He was living with a brother in Amelia Co. about 1781. He was possibly the son of Benjamin JOHNSON and Mary "Molly" MOORMAN, but I cannot establish a positive connection. They were members of the South River Monthly Meeting. He served in the Revolutionary War under several officers, including Capt. Pamplin. He moved to SC sometime after the war, then to ... TN and ... KY ... died in Washington Co. MO in 1834." Elbert Johnson. ejohnson@tie.net 13430 Rockwood Road Rapid City, SD 57702 ------------- [I'm appending these comments from Doug which "got lost" in the shuffle last May and June. LSS] Thomas Clarke, Possible Father of Christopher by Douglas Tucker APR 1996 The Thomas Clarke in the 1689 NKC processioning orders, if re lated at all, is more likely Edward's older brother than his father. Based on the traditional age range of the Clark children, Thomas was a couple of years older than Edward. Both legally could have been landowners by 1689, but only Thomas shows up in the processioning order. To be on the 1689 order, he prob ably had to have been a property owner of record in 1688 when Ed ward would have been just 21. Can we place these Clarke's in Vir- ginia that early? I also believe we can place this same Thomas Clarke in adjacent Charles City Co. after 1689, which suggests that his land may have been in the border area between NKC and Charles City Co. The border shifted between 1689 and 1704. That also is why Alex. McKenney's land ended up in Charles City Co. Instinct (but few hard facts) tells me that surviving members of the Barbadoes Clark tribe were all resident in Virginia, or perhaps Carolina, by the late 1680's. There is no clear record of any of "our" Clarks remaining in Barbadoes after the 1680 Cen sus, with the possible exception of Francis. If they had rem mained, wouldn't their marriages or their children's births have shown up in the Church of England registers? As you know, I do not think the Barbadoes Clarks were Quakers. There are three known lists of Barbadoes Quakers reprinted in ap pendices to _Barbadoes Families_. There are two Clarke's on the list, a Thomas who was a leader of the Barbadoes Friends move ment, and a William who appears to have been Thomas' brother. Both were still in Barbadoes in 1696 when they signed travel cer tificates for fellow Quakers leaving for Philadelphia. Impor tantly, this Thomas Clarke is much too old to have been a member of "our" Clark family. There is also a list of 186 Quaker women in Barbadoes circa 1677, but no Margaret Clarks or Clarkes. This list is probably fairly comprehensive because it covers all six Barbadoes meetings and there were supposedly fewer than 300 Quakers on the island in 1679. If other Clark brothers migrated to VA, logic says they did so together but may have scattered after they arrived. Someone with the time may check to see if any adult male Clark's (named Fran cis, William, Christopher, or Thomas) suddenly appear on the Vir ginia scene between 1680 and 1690 with ready-made families and no other apparent family ties. We probably ought to check North Carolina as well because there are Quaker Clark's in Pasquotank (near Elizabeth City) and New Hanover (near Wilmington) Counties in the late 17th and early 18th centuries. One Virginia Clark family that I know about did migrate to Carolina before 1700. That was the family of Humphrey Clark of Nansemond Co. Humphrey was a VIP of sorts and there is a solid historical track, both backward and forward, for him. He was not Quaker but there is some sentiment that he was distantly related to "our" Clarks. I don't know about that.