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Dear
Scarborough researches:
First I
wanted to just tell you ahead of time, it did take
me quite
awhile to put this together. I typed word for word
what is
"Southern kith and kin". I hope that you enjoy it and
find what
you are looking for. More than likely if you're
family
names are in this book we're related. The index will
be off
slightly since the font originally used doesn't exit any
more so
please be patient with that. Also, I've changed this
document
into an Adobe Acrobat file for one main reason, and
that is
because not everyone has Microsoft word and Adobe
Acrobat
reader is free online. I've also added a link to my
personal
rendering of the Scarborough coat of arms. I hope
that you enjoy
this book as much as I did.
Sincerely,
Stephen T.
Stephan
Grandson of
Mildred Christine Scarboro(ugh).
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Southern
Kith
and
Kin
By Jewell
Davis Scarborough
Copyright
©1957
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http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~adjuvantedeo/images/Scarborough.jpg
THE
SCARBOROUGH COAT OF ARMS AND CREST
Artwork
Courtesy of Stephen Thomas Stephan/transcriber
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EDMUND
SCARBOROUGH, of North Walsham, County Norfolk,
England,
born circa 1584; of Accomac, Virginia; died circa 1634
ARMS: Or, a
chevron between three towers gules.
CREST: From
a Mural Crown gules a demi-lion or supporting a spear erect,
on the
point a Saracen's head, all proper, the head wreathed silver and azure.
Description
of Armorial terms:
Or means
gold; gules, red, all proper means in natural colors.
A chevron
symbolizes protection of the defenseless.
Castles are
symbols of grandeur and solidity; often granted to those who
have
captured or held them for the King;
The lion is
emblematic of service to one's country, and deathless courage;
The spear
is an emblem of knightly service, typifying devotion to honor;
The mural
crown was first used by the Romans, and granted to those who
first
mounted the niche in the walls of a besieged town or fortress. The word
comes from
the Latin MURUS meaning wall. In a Coat of Arms or a Crest
it
signifies "defender of a fortress or a token of civic honor.
The colors
in a Coat of Arms represent the personal characteristics of the
original
bearer, and are granted only on merit. The meaning of the various
colors is
as follows.
Gold
signifies generosity and elevation of mind;
Red means
courage and magnanimity;
The
Saracens head refers to deeds of prowess in the Crusades.
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Edmund
Scarborough of Accomac County, Virginia came to America circa
1636. His
wife was Hannah Butler, and from this family most of the
Southern
Scarboroughs are descended.
Line of
Descent of
DALLAS
SCARBOROUGH
From
MARHOR
HAMES SCARBOROUGH
Of
Edgecombe
County, North Carolina
Generation:
1. William
Scarborough, Emigrant, of Bacon's Rebellion, d. March 6, 1676-
77, Surry
county, Viriginia.
2. Edward
Scarborough, of Surry county, Virginia, d. 1716.
3. William
Scarborough, Isle of Wight county, Virginia, d. September 20,
1776.
4. David
Scarborough, Edgecombe county, North Carolina, d. 1774.
5. Major
James Scarborough, Edgecombe county, North Carolina, d. March
1, 1836.
6. Lawrence
Scarborough, b. Edgecombe county, North Carolina, d. in
Union
Parish, Louisiana, October 1, 1846.
7. Isaac
Polk Scarborough, August 17, 1919.
8. Dallas
Scarborough.
9. Davis
and Charles Lawrence (Larry) Scarborough.
10. Frank
and Charles Scarborough.
Lovingly
Dedicated
to
My
Grandchildren
Frank
Dallas Scarborough
And Charles
Davis Scarborough
ACKNOWLEDGEMENT
AND THANKS
Many people
have assisted in selecting these records of my children's
ancestors,
and to each of them their descendants owe a debt of gratitude.
My research
has carried me into all of the Southern states to musty court
records, to
abandoned cemeteries, and to the various State Archives. Most
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of the
Court officials have been courteous and helpful, though others have
failed in
simple courtesy, and seemed to resent having anyone ask to see the
old
records. It was much less trouble for them to say that "the records were
destroyed
during the War Between the States" than to find them for me on
their dust
covered shelves, neglected and almost destroyed. I found them
myself
piled in the basement, or learned that they were locked in the safe,
and never
shown to researchers, unless they knew of their existence and
asked
specifically for them.
My especial
thanks are due to Mrs. Guy L. Paxton, Laredo, Texas, and to
Mrs. F. L.
Cooper, Robeline, Louisiana, for help with the Allen
Scarborough
descendants; to Mrs. Benjamin F. Eagles of Crisp, North
Carolina
for much data and cooperation in collecting the North Carolina
records; to
Mts. Beulah Rawlings of Marfa, Texas; to Mrs. Horace L.
McSwain of
Macon, Georgia, who did a great deal of research for me on the
Georgia
records; to my loyal friend, Mrs. J. B. Jordan, who accompanied me
on many of
my research trips, and faithfully helped in deciphering the faded
script; and
last, but not least, to Mr. Hugh B. Johnson, Jr., historian and
genealogist
of Wilson, North Carolina, without whose valuable help I might
have given
up the task.
JEWEL DAVIS
SCARBOROUGH
Abilene,
Texas, March 14, 1957
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CONTENTS
Chapter I.
The Scarborough of Eastern Shore.
Chapter II.
William Scarborough, of Bacon Rebellion.
Chapter
III. David and Sarah Scarborough, of Edgecombe County, North
Carolina.
Chapter IV.
Major James Scarborough.
Chapter V.
Isaac Scarborough, son of Major James Scarborough and
Penelope
Eason.
Chapter VI.
Descendants of Major James Scarborough and Penelope Eason.
Chapter
VII. Major James Scarborough and Martha Tart Eason Scarborough.
Chapter
VIII.
Major James
Scarborough, Revolutionary Soldier.
Chapter IX.
Lawrence Scarborough and His Descendants.
Chapter X.
Isaac Polk Scarborough and His Descendants.
Chapter XI.
Allen Scarborough and His Descendants.
Chapter
XII. David and Nanna Scarborough and Their Descendants.
Chapter
XIII.
Early Land
Grants to Scarborough in Texas.
Chapter
XIV.
Some
Stringer and Clarke Notes.
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FOREWARD
This third
edition of SOUTHERN KITH AND KIN is going to the
printer
with a feeling of reluctance and disappointment, for there are so
many clues
that have not been established but Time, "that old Gypsy man" will
not stay, and will not put up his caravan "just for one day", and
even these incomplete records may be lost unless put into print.
In doing
the research for this book, I am impressed anew with the fact
that
history teachers, the world over, seem to have neglected to arouse the
interest of
students in the PEOPLE behind the great movements in our
history,
and the importance to our free world of not only the Declaration of
Independence, and the War of the Revolution, but of the early struggles, in
various parts of our country, that motivated the final united effort that
resulted in our freedom and independence. The struggles in North Carolina,
culminating in the Battle of Alamance, and followed by the great trek over the
mountains to Transylvania, the Wautauga Settlement and Kentucky, was probably
the most important, and far reaching of these movements. These same men who
struggled in the wilderness, because they were determined to be free, were the
heroes of King's Mountain, and Cowpens, and followed through with General
Jackson in the Indian Wars, in Georgia, Alabama, and Florida, and on to New
Orleans in the War of 1812. Their children and kinsmen were the leaders who
came to Texas to fight for independence there, suffered martyrdom and death at
Goliad and at the Alamo, and rejoiced in the final victory at the Battle of San
Jacinto. They remembered their own pioneering days in the wilderness of
Tennessee, Georgia, and Alabama, and though many of them were not even
residents of Texas, they were eager to assist their fellow Americans in a war
against an unjust tyrant.
The early
churches of our country played an important part in our struggle
for
liberty, and in the conquest of the wilderness, and though many of their
preachers had little education, they were devout, and their patriotic fervor
was.... Reading in one of the greatest surprises of my research, for I found
them invariably filled with patriotism, and eloquent in their partisanship.
They kept the fires of independence aflame, for they realized that there could
be no freedom of religion, without political freedom, and that the two must go
hand in hand. While working on the records of the various families in this
book, I found so many fascinating by-ways of history connected with their
stories,
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that it has
been very difficult to complete the work, because of the
temptation
to delve further into the past. I wanted to know more about the
early
colleges and academies, the courts of that particular period, of the
social life
the people enjoyed, their economic status, their political
convictions,
and their religious life. In fact, the subjects were endless, and I longed for
another lifetime to pursue these interesting subjects. If one does much
research, many mistaken ideas have to be corrected about the early immigrants.
The date of a land grant is not necessarily the date of the emigrant's arrival
in this country, for in many cases the person involved had been living on the
land for many years before his patent was
recorded;
that being brought over to this country by another person does not necessarily
mean that the person brought over was a servant, even if listed as such, for in
many instances they were members of the family, or kinsmen, but listed as
convicts were political refugees, and from as fine families as some of the more
affluent emigrants, but were sent from England, as indentured servants, because
of political opinions not popular in England at the moment, or because they had
been thrown into the Debtors Prison, and saw no hope for freedom in England.
Because of the law of entail in England, younger sons turned to the New World
as a haven, and were apprenticed in a trade and many of them can be found as
blacksmiths, tanners, etc. So, if your ancestor was found among this group, be
proud of his ambition, his integrity, and his patriotism, as those who came
bringing their Coat Armor. Only those who have done similar work can appreciate
the magnitude of the undertaking in writing a family history, and only those
who love the work will ever undertake it, for it is often a thankless task,
where those who have given the least help are the most violent critics of the
finished product. Though numerous letters have gone unanswered, if the compiler
omits one name, or makes a mistake in one date, there is a violent outcry. So,
with the hope that the reader will search these records, with understanding and
appreciation of both the pioneer and the cavalier, and will be stimulated to
further research concerning the families discussed, this volume is submitted
for your charitable consideration.
JEWEL DAVIS
SCARBOROUGH
Abilene,
Texas
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CHAPTER I.
THE
SCARBOROUGH OF THE EASTERN SHORE
Data
secured from Hayden's Virginia Genealogies; Nottingham's Virginia
Wills; J.
C. Wises's Col. John Wise of England and Virginia, supplemented by special
research in the Virginia Land Grants and official Court Records.
The
Scarborough name has been spelled in various ways-
Scarborough,
Scarbrough, Scarburgh, Scarborgh, Scarboro, Scarborh, to
mention on
a few, but a careful study of the family in America seems to
indicate
that all of them were from a common ancestor. The spelling,
Scarborough,
will be used in this record since the earliest records of the
family in
Virginia, wills list the name as Scarburgh, with one exception,
which is
pronounced as is Edinburgh in Scotland, would still be
Scarborough.
Much has
been written about the Scarborough family, in various
historical
and genealogical publications, but to my knowledge, no complete genealogical
record has been published. After beginning my research I can well understand the
reason. There were so many wives and children, many bearing the same given
name, and filling the same public and Church offices, that the genealogist
flounders constantly in a sea of uncertainty. During the early 17th Century the family seemed to be content to remain on the
Eastern Shore of Virginia and Maryland, though
one group settled in New England, but after the Revolutionary War there was a
great migration to North Carolina, Tennessee, South Carolina, and Georgia, with
the most venturesome ones going to Mississippi Territory, and to Louisiana,
after it was acquired from the French.
This record
is concerned primarily with the ancestors and descendants
of Major
James Scarborough, of Edgecombe County, North Carolina, whose family was
undoubtedly connected with the Scarboroughs of the Eastern Shore of Virginia -
Accomac and Northampton counties - but official proof of this connection has
not been found. Mr. Jennings Cropper Wise, in his Ye Kingdome of Accawmacke, or
the...the only... in speaking of Bacon's Rebellion, that William Scarborough
who was an active participant and lost his life and... as a result, was a
cousin of Col. Charles Scarborough, son of Col. Edmond Scarborough, of the
Eastern Shore, Virginia.
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No effort
will be made to present a complete record of the
Scarboroughs
of the Eastern Shore, which would require a large volume, but the most
important data concerning the early members of the family can not be omitted in
any record of the Scarborough family.
The
Scarboroughs of the Eastern Shore:
The
Scarborough of the Eastern Shore of Viriginia were descended
from Henry
Skarborowgh of North Walsham, County, Norfolk, England,
who was
baptized there September 21, 1565 died August 24, 1617, in North Walsham, where
there is a monument to him in the local church, married Mary Humberstone,
daughter of John Humberstone of Loddon, County Norfolk, England. His will,
(Norwich) was proved in 1617. We have record of four sons were: Edmond, who
married Hannah Butler and migrated to Virginia; Henry, who was baptized at
North Walsham, July 21, 1590, admitted to Caius College October 9, 1606, died
in College, and buried April 11, 1609; Samuel, who was baptized at North
Walsham, November 4, 1593, admitted to Caius College November 3, 1610,
receiving a B. A. degree in 1614, admitted to Lincoln's Inn in 1614, and died
April 20, 1655, (monument to him in the church at North Walsham); and John, who
was baptized at North Walsham May 7, 1598, admitted to Caius College in 1614
received a B/ A/ there in 1617, admitted to Gray's Inn in 1616. He married a
daughter of William King of Hempstead, Norfolk County. There may have been
other children though we have no record of them. The only one of the above four
sons who came to Virginia was Edmond Scarborough, the eldest son of Henry and
Mary Humberstone Scarborough, who was known in Virginia records as
"Captain Edmond Scarborough"" and was progenitor of the group of
the Eastern Shore. Though we know that William Scarborough, of Bacon's
Rebellion, was of this family, we have been unable to identify his father. He
may have been descended from one of the other three sons of Henry Scarborough
listed above.
Captain
Edmond Scarborough, founder of the family in Virginia was baptized on Christmas
day, 1584, in North Walsham... in 1634 or 1635,
married
Hannah Butler, daughter of Robert Butler, in England, and lived
there in St
Martin's in the field Parish, London, England. As stated before,
he was the
eldest son of Henry Scarburgh (Scarborough), Gentleman, born
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in 1565 in
North Walsham , where he died August 24, 1617, and his wife
Harry
Humberstone, daughter of John Humberstone of Loddon, County
Norfolk,
England. This Captain Edmond Scarborough was prominent in the affairs of Ye
Kingdome of Accawmacke from the time of his arrival, circa 1620, in Virginia,
serving as the first Justice of Accomac county in 1631, abd as Burgess in 1629,
1631, and 1632. It is evident that his wife Hannah, did not come to Virginia
with him, but remained in England until he was settled and had prepared a place
for her. She is listed in Greer's
Early
Virginia Immigrants as
arriving in 1635, and brought over by her husband, Captain Edmond Scarborough,
Accomac county. Captain Edmond must have died soon after the arrival of his
wife, for on November 28, 1635, his son, Edmond Scarborough, afterwards known
as Col. Edmond Scarborough, applied for a patent for land in Accomac county, on
Maggitye Bay, "50 acres in right of and for the personal adventure of my
mother, Mrs. Hannah Scarborough; 50 acres for my own personal adventure; and 50
acres for the transportation of a servant, Robert Button (Britton or
Butler)."
Some
historians have said that Hannah's maiden name was Butler, and
I have
accepted that assumption, though no official proof of the record has been
listed. If is possible that Robert Butler, listed as a servant, for whom Col.
Edmond Scarborough claimed 50 acres of land, was the father, brother or kinsman
of Hannah. Many of the people listed as servants in the early records of
Virginia were not servants at all, though their passage was paid by an
interested party in order to get the 50 acres of land to which they were
entitled by the existing laws. The arms used by the Viriginia Scarboroughs are
those of the Scarboroughs of County Norfolk, England as follows: Arms: Or a
chevron between three towers triple towered gules. Crest: Out of a mural
coronet gules a demi-lion, holding upon the point of a lance of the first a
Saracen's head proper, wreathed azure.
The known
children of Captain Edmond and Hannah Butler
Scarborough
were: Sir Charles ; Col. Edmond; Henry, who remained in ...; Hannah, who
married Col. John Wise, of Clifton Accomac County, Virginia; and Catherine (or
Katherine) who, according to Mr. T. T. Upshur, in the Virginia Historical
magazine (Vol 23, Nos. 2 and 3), married Randall Revel... Somerset County, Maryland. There may have been other children
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who
remained in England, among them the father of William Scarborough, of Bacon's
Rebellion, who Mr. J. C. Wise says was a cousin of Col. Charles Scarborough,
son of Col. Edmond and Mary Littleton-Scarborough, of the Eastern Shore. It is
this William Scarborough, of Bacon's Rebellion, from whom Major James
Scarborough, of Edgecombe County, North Carolina, is descended.
Issue of
Captain Edmond and Hannah Butler Scarborough:
1. Sir
Charles Scarborough, of London, England, born circa 1616, remained in England
when his parents came to America, and held many positions of honor under the
Crown; A.M. of Caius College in 1639, where he became a Fellow; Doctor of
Physics at Merton College, Oxford, in 1646; Court Physician to Charles II,
James II, and William III; Member of Parliament, and knighted August 11, 1669.
Samuel Pepys mentioned
him many
times in his chatty diary. He married Mary, daughter of
Thomas
Daniel, of Newberry, County Bedford. Sir Charles died
February
26, 1694, and is buried at Cranford, Middlesex. His portrait
hangs in
Barber Surgeons Hall, in London. His only known children
were:
Charles Scarborough, Esquire, who was in the service of Prince
George of
Denmark, and was Envoy from him to his brother, the King of
Denmark, on
his accession to the Crown; and Rev. Edmond Scarborough,
who was
born 1656, and died in 1705.
2. Col.
Edmond Scarborough, 1 the second son of Captain Edmond and
Hannah
Butler Scarborough, came to America with his father. He
married
Mary Littleton, 2 daughter of Col. Nathaniel Littleton, in
England,
and patented vast tracts of land in Virginia. (Mary Scarborough
did not
come over with her husband, but arrived in 1640, brought over by
her
husband, Edmond Scarborough, of Accomac, according to Greer.)
He held the
highest offices within the gift of the people, and the Crown,
and was the
most distinguished member of the family, as well as the most
spectacular.
There are many traditions concerning him and his high
handed
actions in Colonial Virginia, some of which
were called
unscrupulous.
He was called "Conjurer" by the Indians, who hated and
feared him,
and was anathema to the Puritans and Quakers whom he
considered
his special enemies.
The
Scarboroughs were the largest land owners on the Eastern Shore, and
with their
powerful connections, exercised almost feudal powers in the
Colony.
Though there were many clashes with Colonial
authorities, and
sometimes
with the mother country, Col. Edmond Scarborough was able
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to avoid
serious punishment because of the influence of his brother, Sir
Charles
Scarborough, Court Physician at the Court of St. James. When
under fire
in Virginia he conveniently removed temporarily to Maryland,
where he
had large holdings, or to New England, where his ships were
constantly
in port. (Some historians say that he owned the famous
Mayflower.
He certainly owned a ship by the name of Mayflower, but
whether it
was the identical ship that brought the Pilgrims to Plymouth,
Massachusetts,
in 1620 is uncertain.) As Surveyor-General, Col.
Scarborough
fixed boundary lines that suited his convenience, and was
able to
extend the southern boundary of Accomac County in order to
include his
home, which normally would lie in Northampton County, if
the two
counties were equally divided. He still owned land in
Northampton
after the division of the two counties, and was the King's
Collector
of Quit Rents, among his other official duties under the Crown.
When Col.
Edmond Scarborough surveyed and marked the boundary
between Maryland and Virginia, Governor Calvert, of Maryland, was
vigorous in
his protest. A new survey was finally made, called the
Calvert-Scarborough
Line, ratified by Legislatures of the two states, and
recognized
in 1688 as the boundary line.
Col. Edmond
Scarborough was indeed a versatile man. He not only
managed his
large plantations, with his many slaves and servants, and
had heavy
official duties with his various Colonial
offices, but he was
interested
in many of the colony's early manufacturing ventures. He had
the
exclusive right to make salt, had one of the earliest shoe factories and
malt
plants, and carried on an extensive shipping business. He was also
an able
lawyer, and a power in the Courts. Though an ardent Royalist, it
has been
said that he would undoubtedly have joined Bacon in his
Rebellion,
as his son, Col. Charles Scarborough did, had he lived a few
years
longer, for he was an avowed enemy of Governor Berkeley, with
whom he had
many clashes. Col. Charles Scarborough was joined in his
allegiance
to Bacon by his cousin, William Scarborough, though his
brother,
Captain Edmond Scarborough , remained loyal to Governor
Berkeley.
After the death of Bacon, and the collapse of the rebellion,
Col.
Charles Scarborough escaped with only a fine, while his cousin,
William
Scarborough, was sentenced to death and his property
confiscated,
March 16, 1677. The defection of Col. Charles Scarborough
was
evidently forgiven, for in 1692 he was the Naval Officer and
Collector
for the Eastern Shore, under Governor Andros, and served until
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1698. His
father, Col. Edmond Scarborough had held this office during
his
lifetime, and the son of Col Charles, Henry Scarborough succeeded
his father
in 1699.
This fiery
Col. Edmond Scarborough, with all of his fault, was a
remarkable
man of his day, for in spite of his unbridled violence, and
will, his
loyalty to Virginia and her Institutions could not be questioned.
Among his
many offices were the following: Member of the House of
Burgesses,
1642-1671; Speaker of the house of Burgesses,, 1645; Justice
of
Northampton County; Sheriff in 1666; Surveyor General for Virginia,
1665-1671,
and numerous offices in the Church. He died circa 1673, and
is probably
buried on his estate on Occahannock Creek, where his home,
called
Hedrick Cottage, was still standing a few years ago. The neck of
land
between Craddock's Creek, and Occahannock Creek was called
Scarborough's
Neck. His children, according to existing wills and deeds
were: Col.
Or Capt. Charles Scarborough b. in Virginia circa 1625, d.
1702;
Edmond Scarborough, Jr.; Littleton Scarborough; Henry
Scarborough,
d.1676, apparently without issue; Matilda Scarborough, b.
1644, who
married her first cousin, Major John West, son of John and
Matilda
West; and Tabitha Scarborough, who married 1) circa 1653, John
Smart of
Lancaster; 2) Devereaux Brown, of Accomac, circa 1672; 3)
Major
General John Custis, circa 1681, of Arlington, as his third wife;
and 4) Col.
Edmond (or Edward) Hill, in 1696, of Shirley, Charles City
County.
Issue of
Col. Edmond and Mary Littleton Scarborough:
2-1.
Captain, sometimes called Col. Charles Scarborough, b. in
Virginia
circa 1625, d. circa 1702-03, married Elizabeth Bennett,
daughter of
Richard Bennett, of Somerset county, Maryland,
who died
in 1719.
(Accomac Willis by Stratton Nottingham). He patented vast
tracts of
land in Northampton county in 1647, and held the following
important
offices in the Colony: Burgess in 1688; Member of the
Council in
1691 and 1696. In 1692 he was Councillor; Naval Officer;
Collector
of the Western Shore; Commander-in-Chief of Accomac,
and
Presiding Justice. As a member of the Council of the Colony of
Virginia,
he held the highest office ever held by a native Virginian in
Colonial times. All Colonial
Governors came from England, but
occasionally
the President of the Council acted as Governor. As
mentioned
before, he was an active participant in Bacon's Rebellion.
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The list of
his children was secured from reports on the administration
of his
estate; from the Land Patent Books, and from Accomac Wills
by Stratton
Nottingham. They were as follows: Bennett Scarborough;
Charles
Scarborough, Jr.; John Scarborough Henry Scarborough; Ann
Scarborough,
who married Major George Parker of Onancock; Mary
Scarborough,
who married Thomas Leatherbury; Sarah Scarborough,
who married
William Black before November 2, 1726; Tabitha
Scarborough,
who married John Bagwell before July 6, 1733; and
evidently a
daughter, Elizabeth, who married Capt. Richard
Drummond.
Issue of
Captain Charles and Elizabeth Bennett Scarborough:
2-1-1.
Bennett Scarborough, d. circa 1734, m.
Temperance-------------------------------3.
Only one
child known: Bennett Scarborough, Jr.
On October
2, 1721, Bennett Scarborough and his wife,
Temperance,
and various heirs of Capt. Charles and Elizabeth Bennett
Scarborough,
transfer "Bennett's Adventure" to George Dashiell of
Somerset
County, Maryland. (Somerset Deeds.) The heirs
listed
were:
Bennett and Henry Scarborough; Mary Leatherbury, widow of
Thmas;
Tabitha Bagwell, wife of John Bagwell; Sarah Black, wife of
Wil-
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3. Accomac
Wills, 77; Will of Bennett Scarborough, written February 24,
1733, probated
May 7, 1734.
-liam
Black; Scarborough Drummond, son of Elizabeth Drummond,
deceased,
wife of Capt. Richard Drummond; and George Parker, Jr.,
son of Ann
Parker, deceased, wife of Major George Parker.
Bennett
Scarborough names as heirs his kinsmen; Henry
Scarborough,
son of his brother Col. Henry Scarborough, and Charles
Parker,
presumably the son of his sister, Ann, who married Major
George
Parker on Onancock.
2-1-2
Charles Scarborough, Jr., second child of Captain Charles and
Elizabeth
Bennett Scarborough, died suddenly late in 1724, or early in
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1725.
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He left one
son, Charles, who was named in his grandmother's will.
2-1-3 John
Scarborough, third child of Captain Charles and Elizabeth
Bennett
Scarborough died in 1743, leaving a will in Accomac written
July 12,
1743, leaving a will in Accomac written July 12, 1743, and
probated
November 29, 1743. He married Tabitha -------------, and
had the
following children: Charles, who was under age at the death
of his
father; Bradhurst, who married William Drummond circa 1749-
1752;
Elizabeth, Tabitha, and Sarah, who married James Henry before
February
24, 1761. Tabitha married Edward Bayly after her husband's
death
December 26, 1749. (Accomac deed, Vol. 2, p. 236.)
2-1-4 Henry
Scarborough, fourth child of Captain Charles and Elizabeth
Bennett
Scarborough, d. 1735. His will was written August 31, 1735,
and
probated November 4, 1735. He married Winefried (sic)----------,
who died in
1756, leaving a will, written August 17, 1756, and
probated
September 28, 1756. Henry Scarborough held the rank of
Colonel;
was Burgess for Accomac in 1726; Justice of the Accomac
County
Court, and County Lieutenant. His children were: Henry,
William,
Comfort (daughter), Ann, Sarah, who probably married ------
---- Watts;
and Henrietta, who married George (?) Dashiel. Winefried
Scarborough,
in her will, names a granddaughter, Sarah Watts; a
daughter,
Elizabeth Watts, and a sister, Sarah Watts. The daughter
mentioned
as Elizabeth Watts must have been a granddaughter,
though she
could have had two daughters who married Watts, though
Elizabeth
is not named in the will of Henry Scarborough.
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Accomac
Wills 59: Declared will verbally December 22, 1724.
Issue of
Henry and Winifried Scarborough:
2-1-4-1.
Henry
Scarborough, d. 1744-45, leaving a will written October
4, 1744;
probated March 26, 1745. He married Margaret ----------,
probably a
Custis, as Henry names Henry Custis as his brother-in-law
in his
will. Their children were: Henry, Charles, Bennett, Margaret,
who married
John Watts; Ann, and a child unborn at the time of the
writing of
Henry's will in 1744, probably Tabitha. Henry
Scarborough
was active in the affairs of the Colony, and was Burgess
for Accomac
in 1736, 1738, and 1740.
Issue of
Henry and Margaret Scarborough:
2-1-4-1-1.
Henry Scarborough, d. 1770, leaving the following children:
Henry,
Bennett, George and Sarah.
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2-1-4-1-1-1.
Henry Scarborough.
2-1-4-1-1-2.
Bennett Scarborough, d. 1799, without issue. Will dated May
14, 1799,
probated October 28, 1799.
2-1-4-1-1-3.
George Scarborough.
2-1-4-1-1-4.
Sarah Scarborough, probably married either a Rodgers or a
Parker, as
one of the heirs named in the will of Bennett
Scarborough
was a niece, Elizabeth Parker Rodgers.
2-1-4-1-2.
Charles Scarborough, second child of Henry and Margaret
Scarborough,
d. circa 1762, and married Mary Ann ----------.
Records
show only one child, Henry Scarborough.
2-1-4-1-3.
Bennett Scarborough, third child of Henry and Margaret
Scarborough,
d. in 1767, evidently without children. His will,
written
October 2, 1764, probated May 26, 1767, names sister
Tabitha
Scarborough; kinsman, Henry Watts, son of John
Watts;
brother, John Watts (evidently brother-in-law); brother,
Henry
Scarborough, heir-at-law.
2-1-4-1-4.
Margaret Scarborough, m. John Watts. No record of Ann and
Tabitha
Scarborough, the other two children of Henry and
Margaret
Scarborough.
2-1-4-2.
William Scarborough, second child of Henry and Winefried
Scarborough,
d. 1756, Will probated September 28, 1756, m.
Alice
----------, who married after her husband's death Dunten
E.
Scarborough written May 18, 1767, and probated April 26,
1768, names
her mother as Alice Dunton; brother William
Scarborough,
and Executor her father-in-law (step-father), Isaac
Dunton. The
children of William and Alice Scarborough were
Edmond,
William, and Eliza.
2-1-4-2-1.
Edmond Scarborough, d. 1799. His will was dated September
14, 1777; partly
proved December 31, 1799, and proved
January 27,
1800. He mentions Peggy Coward, though he does
not
specifically say that she was a daughter. His children were:
Edward K.;
William Mered; K. Scarborough; Alice; Peggy
Scarborough,
who probably married ---------- Coward.
2-2 Edmond
Scarborough, Jr., second child of Col. Edmond and Mary
Littleton
Scarborough, d. circa 1711 or 1712. His will was dated May
21, 1711,
and probated February 5, 1711-12. He married Elizabeth ---
-------,
and held the ranks of Captain and Colonel. His children were:
Edmond, b.
circa 1680
5
; Edmond,
Mitchell, Ursley, Elizabeth, Mary,
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who married
---------- Bayly. The fact that Col. Edmond
Scarborough,
Jr., named his eldest and his "second son" both Edmond
is somewhat
confusing. One of these Edmonds died circa 1714,
declaring,
October 1, 1713, that he wished what he received from his
father to
go to his brothers Scarborough and Mitchell. The
Declaration
was proved July 6, 1714. He was probably the first
Edmond.
It is not
unusual in Colonial times to name two children
with the same
name, and
it is evident that Col. Edmond Scarborough, Jr., was
determined
to carry on the family name of Edmond. One of these
children,
probably the second Edmond, was Burgess from Accomac in
1723, 1726,
1738, and 1740. He was also a Justice of the Accomac
Court.
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5.
Mrs. Mary
Scarborough in her will in 1691, names her grandson,
Edmond
Scarborough, son of Edmond Scarborough, Jr., and says that
he is under
12 years of age.
6.
Virginia
Historical Magazine April ... Virginia in 1726.
Issue of
Col. Edmond Scarborough, Jr., and Mary Scarborough:
2-2-1.
Edmond Scarborough, b. circa 1680, probably died in 1714.
2-2-2.
Edmond Scarborough, Burgess for Accomac in 1723, 1726, 1738, and
1740; m.
Mary ----------. He died circa 1764-; his will was written
February 4,
1764, and probated April 24, 1764. He had the following
children:
John and Americus.
Issue of
Edmond and Mary Scarborough:
2-2-2-1.
John Scarborough
2-2-2-2.
Americus
Scarborough. Will dated July 10, 1773, probated
March 29,
1774. His children were: Americus, John Edmond, and
Charles.
Issue of
Americus Scarborough:
2-2-2-2-1.
Americus Scarborough.
2-2-2-2-2.
John Scarborough.
2-2-2-2-3.
Edmond Scarborough.
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2-2-2-2-4.
Charles Scarborough, m. Bridget and died in 1776. In his will,
dated
November 25, 1796, and probated December 26, 1796, he
names his
wife, Bridget, and his brother Edmond, and says that
his mother
is still living.
2-2-3.
*Mitchell Scarborough b. August 13, 1695, third child of Col.
Edmond
Scarborough, Jr., and his wife, Elizabeth, d. 1763, and his
will was
written September 27, 1762, and probated June 28, 1763. He
was County
Surveyor for Accomac in 1726. He married November
24, 1715,
Dorothy Wainhouse, b. August 4, 1695, who died in 1775.
Her will
was dated July 20, 1775, and probated August 29, 1775.
Their
children were: Edmond, Mitchell, who died in 1764; Americus,
Margaret,
who married ---------- Thorowgood; Matilda, who married
Benjamin
Stewart; Dorothy Wainhouse Scarborough; Sarah, who
married
---------- Jamison.
Issue of
Mitchell and Dorothy Scarborough:
2-2-3-1.
Edmond Scarborough
2-2-3-2.
*Mitchell
Scarborough, Jr., d. in 1764, (March 12-16) evidently
without
issue. "He was drowned over to Wicocomico". His will was
written
February 19, 1764, and probated March 27, 1764, in which he
names his
sister, Sarah Scarborough; cousin, Mitchell Thorowgood;
cousin, Scarborough
Stewart; cousin, Sarah Scarborough, and brother
Americus
Scarborough.
2-2-3-3.
Americus
Scarborough.
2-2-3-4.
Margaret
Scarborough, m. Thorowgood.
Issue of
Margaret Scarborough Thorowgood:
2-2-3-4-1.
Thomas Scarborough Thorowgood.
2-2-3-4-2.
Mitchell Thorowgood.
2-2-3-4-3.
Pennebruck Thorowgood, daughter.
2-2-3-4-4.
Sarah Scarborough Thorowgood.
2-2-3-5.
Matilda Scarborough, m. Benjamin Stewart.
Issue:
2-2-3-5-1.
Andrew Stewart.
2-2-3-5-2.
Eliza Stewart.
2-2-3-5-3.
Scarborough Stewart.
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2-2-3-6.
Dorothy Wainhouse Scarborough, m. 1) Edmond Bayly; m. 2)
John
Custis.
Issue of
Dorothy Wainhouse Scarborough (daughter by which husband
uncertain):
2-2-3-6-1.
Dorothy Wainhouse, m. ---------- Walker.
2-2-3-6-2.
Henry Custis.
2-2-3-7.
Sarah Scarborough, who m. ---------- Jamison.
(The lines
of the other children of Edmond Scarborough, Jr., and wife,
Elizabeth,
have not been followed.)
2-3.
Littleton Scarborough, was the third child of Col. Edmond
Scarborough
(d. 1671), and his wife, Mary Littleton, d. 1691. No
issue.
2-4. Henry
Scarborough, fourth child of Col. Edmond and Mary Littleton
Scarborough,
d. apparently without issue in 1676. In his will he
names his
nephews, "sons of Major John West."
---------------
*William
and Mary Quarterly, Vol. 7 bible Records of Degge...
2-5.
Tabitha Scarborough, fifth child of Col. Edmond and Mary
Scarborough;
m. 1) in 1653, John Smart
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; m. 2)
Devereux Brown,
circa 1672;
m. 3) circa 1681, Major Ceneral John Custis, as his third
wife; and
m. 4) circa 1696, Col. Edmond (or Edward) Hill. This
Tabitha
Smart-Brown-Custis-Hill died in 1717, and her will was
probated
January 7, 1717, Accomac County. She appears to have had
only two
children; a daughter, Tabitha, by John Smart, who married
William
Whittington; and a son, Edmond, by Devereux Brown, who
died in
Turkey in 1678. Tabitha administered on the estate of
Devereux
Brown in 1673. Most of the early records refer to Tabitha
as
"Madame Hill". When Mrs. Mary Scarborough, mother of Tabitha,
died in
1691, she names her daughter as Mrs. Tabitha Custis and
mentions a
granddaughter, Tabitha Custis.
2-6.
Matilda Scarborough, b. circa 1644, sixth child of Col. Edmond and
Mary
Scarborough, m. Major John West, her first cousin, son of John
and Matilda
West.
Issue:
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2-6-1.
Anthony West, who had a daughter, Matilda.
2-6-2. Mary
West.
3. Hannah
Scarborough, daughter of Captain Edmond and Hannah
Butler
Scarborough, third known child of this couple, married Col.
John Wise,
of Devonshire England, b. 1617, and died 1695, who
settled on
the Eastern Shore of Virginia, Accomac County, in 1635.
They were
the progenitors of the numerous Wise families of Accomac
and the
Eastern Shore. No effort has been made to follow this line,
but it is
believed that they were married in England before coming to
Virginia.
4.
Katherine Scarborough, fourth known child of Captain Edmond and
Hannah
Butler Scarborough, married Randall Revell of Somerset County,
Maryland, according to Mr. T. T. Upshur, but this line has not been
studied by
the author. According to Mr. Upshur, Randall Revell, who
left a will
in Somerset County, Maryland, May 5, 1685,
settled first in
Northampton
County, Virginia, and was a Burgess from that county,
March,
1657-58. He later moved to Maryland.
---------------
7.
Mr. Thomas
T. Upshur in Virginia.....
New England
Scarboroughs:
There were
at least two other Scarborough families in Colonial
America
though I have been unable to connect them with those of the
Eastern
Shore of Virginia. One group Settled in New England, and another
in
Pennsylvania, and WERE QUAKERS, the religious sect so abhorred by
Col. Edmond
Scarborough of the Eastern Shore.
American
Ancestry
, Vol. 111,
p. 218 says: "The ancestors of the
Scarborough
family came from Yorkshire, England, to Massachusetts about
1650."
One of this family settled in Roxbury and "in July of 1686, Samuel
Scarborough
was of the party sent to colonize the northern part of
Connecticut,
(now Windham county), where descenants still also refers to
John
Scarborough of Roxbury in 1639.
Colonial Fanukues of the U. S.,
(Vol. V, p.
162), also mentions John Scarborough, of Roxbury.
The Quaker
Scarboroughs of Pennsylvania:
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Ex-President
Herbert Hoover is supposed to be descended, through his
father's
maternal line, from the Quaker Scarboroughs, of Pennsylvania,
Bucks
County, and the first of the family there, John Scarborough, of
London,
England, who received a deed to 250 acres of land in Pennsylvania,
July 4,
1682, from William Penn. (Hobbies Magazine, November 1949.)
The
Scarboroughs of Iowa:
One branch
of the North Carolina Scarboroughs migrated to Iowa,
John
(Lewis?) Scarborough, b. 1804-1810, and died in Salem, Iowa,
September
20, 1867. Dr. William John Scarborough, President of West
Virginia
Wesleyan College, of Buckhannon, West Virginia, is a descendant.
There may
be mistakes in this Scarborough record, but I hope that it
may furnish
clues to family historians for further research.
SCARBOROUGH
GRANTS ON EASTERN SHORE
Patents of
Colonel Edmund Scarborough:
November
28, 1635, Col. Edmond Scarborough, 200 acres in
Accomac
County, Westerly on Maggitye Bay, fifty acres in right of his late
father,
Capt. Edmond Scarborough, 50 acres for the personal adventure of
his mother,
Hannah Scarborough, 50 acres for his own personal adventure,
and 50
acres for the transportation of his servant, Robert Butler (or Butter).
November
28, 1635, 200 acres on Dunn Creek, Accomack County, for
transporting
four persons.
May 18,
1637, 200 acres on Maggitye Bay, Accomack County,
renewal at
first.
February
20, 1638, 400 acres on seashore and Penenoec Creek,
Accomack
County, for transporting eight persons, assigned to Thomas
Savage.
August 3,
1640, 600 acres, 300 acres Seaboard side at Cedar Island;
300 acres,
Bayside, adjoining inhabited lands of said Edmund Scarborough;
100 acres
for personal adventure of self and wife, Mary; and 500 acres for
transporting
ten persons.
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October 6,
1646, 100 acres adjoining ancient grant of 200 acres to said
Scarborough
in Northampton County, on main bay, for transporting two
persons.
April 10,
1649, 1050 acres, 300 acres on bay, adjoining inhabited land
of said
Edmund Scarborough; 50 acres on bay adjoining Ed. Scarborough;
400 acres
seaboard side; 250 acres seaboard side, Crattuck's Creek, all in
Northampton
County. 600 acres renewal of patent of August 3, 1640, and
450 acres
for transporting nine persons.
----------
26, 1662, 600 acres, Great Nuseqattoke River, Northampton
County, for
transporting twelve persons.
March 26,
1662, 2100 acres, Great Matomkin, Northampton County,
for
transporting fifty-two persons.
September
29, 1663, 1450 acres, Neck of land between Gurgaphe and
Arcadia
Creeks, Accomack County, for transporting twenty-nine persons.
June 21,
1664, 1000 acres, Middle branch of Muddy Creek,
Accomack
County for transporting twenty persons.
April 20,
1664, 1000 acres, Timber Creek and Bay, Accomack
County, for
transporting twenty persons.
August 17,
1664, 150 acres, Boulman's Branch, Accomack County,
for
transporting three persons.
June 22,
1664, 3000 acres, Gingotege Creek and sea, Accomack
County, for
transporting sixty persons.
September
10, 1664, 2000 acres, Crooked Creek and bay, Accomack
County, for
transporting forty persons.
October 20,
1663, 2400 acres, Middle Creek and sea, between great and
little
Matomkin Creeks, Accomac County, for transporting forty-eight
persons.
June 20,
1664, 1400 acres, Stekeley's and Arathusa Creeks, Accomack
County, for
transporting twenty-eight persons.
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November
12, 1664, 1000 acres, Little Metomkin Creek and sea,
Accomack
County, for transporting twenty persons.
October 9,
1667, 3000 acres, Sea, between Great and Little Metomkin
Creeks,
Accomack County, for transporting sixty persons.
May 13,
1673, 2350 acres in Northampton County; 2000 acres due by
former
patent, 8-12-1649; 350 acres for transporting seven persons
(including
Edmund Scarborough --- 3 times).
Patents of
Charles Scarborough, son of Col. Edmund Scarborough:
November
23, 1647, 550 acres on Matchipungo Creek, Northampton
County, for
transporting eleven persons.
October 12,
1652, 400 acres, on Purgotogue Creek, Northampton
County, for
transporting eight persons.
May 20,
1652, 3050 acres, on Pungotogue Creek, Northampton
County, for
transporting sixty-one persons (assigned by father Edmund
Scarburgh).
April 3,
1655, 3050 acres, on Pungotogue Creek, Northampton
County, on
Pungotogue Creek, Northampton County, renewal of above.
November
12, 1664, 3050 acres, Accomack County, formerly
Northampton
County, renewal of above grants.
----------,
1678, 2100 acres, Great Matomkin Creek and sea, formerly
granted
Col. Edm. Scarburgh, father of Charles Scarburgh, by him deserted;
granted
Charles by General Court.
October 21,
1687, 30 acres, "Scarburgh's Winter Island" in Marsh
River, for
transporting one person.
Patents of
Littleton Scarborough, son of Col. Edmund Scarborough:
May 10,
1652, 1000 acres on Maine bay, Curratuck and ......
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November
12, 1664, 1000 acres in Accomack County, formerly
Northampton
County; first granted in 1651 and now renewed.
Patent of
Edmund Scarborough, Jr., and Little Scarborough:
March 31,
1655, 800 acres, Chyconnosock Creek, Northampton
County, for
transporting sixteen persons.
August 12,
1649, 2000 acres, Occahannocke and Cradock Creeks,
Northampton
County, for transporting. Forty persons.
Patents of
Matilda Scarborough, daughter of Col. Edmund Scarborough:
March 31,
1655, 500 acres, on Pungotogue Creek, Northampton County, for
transporting
ten persons.
Patents of
Tabitha Smart, daughter of Col. Edmund Scarborough:
July 10,
1664, 1000 acres, Accomack County, at Deep Creek,
bounded by
one-half of a dividend of 3000 acres granted to Matilda and
Tabitha
Scarborough.
Patent of
Matilda and Tabitha Scarborough, daughters of Col. Em.
Scarborough:
March 27,
1656, 3500 acres, Deep Creek, for transporting seventy
persons.
Patent of
Tabitha Smart, daughter of Col. Edmund, and sister of Littleton
Scarborough,
and Littleton Scarborough and John Alexander:
March 24,
1659, 1500 acres on Little Matomkin Creek, Northampton
County.
Patent of
Capt. John West (husband of Matilda Scarborough), Mr. Charles
Scarborough,
and Mr. Devereux Browne (husband of Tabitha Scarborough):
September
26, 1671, 1400 acres, Land granted Col. Edm.
Scarborough
6-20-1664, by him deserted and now granted to above three. A
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note on the
margin says that West, Scarborough, and Browne "let fall" this
land and it
was granted to Daniel Jenifer...
Patent of
Capt. John West, Mr. Charles Scarborough, Mr. Devereux Browne,
and Mr.
Edmund Scarborough:
September
26, 1671, 3000 acres, Land granted Col. Edm.
Scarborough
6-1664, by him deserted.
Patent of
Captain John West, Charles Scarborough and Devereux Browne:
March 23,
1671-2, 4500 acres, Muddy and Hunting Creeks,
Northampton
County, for transporting ninety persons.
Patent of
Captain John West and Mr. Charles Scarborough:
October 3,
1672, 2500 acres on Crooked Creek and Pocomonk River,
Northampton
County, for transporting fifty persons.
September
20, 1674, 8000 acres to Capt. John West, Mr. Charles
Scarborough,
Capt. Edmund Scarborough, Jr., and Mrs. Tabitha Browne
(sister of
Charles and Edmund); 3000 acres granted Col. Edmund
Scarborough
11-9-1667; re-granted to Captain John West and Charles
Scarborough
9-30-1672; 5000 acres for transporting 100 persons.
John West,
250 acres Northampton County, adjoining land of Charles
Scarborough.
Part of patent for 500 acres granted to Matilda Scarborough,
March 31,
1655, and due said West "as marrying with the said
Scarborough".
(No date given.)
Patents of
Elizabeth Scarborough, widow (of Charles), and Mr. Anthony
West, son
of Major John and Matilda Scarborough West, and nephew of
Charles
Scarborough:
May 2,
1713, 900 acres, all of Tangier Island, Accomack County; 400
acres
granted Capt. Charles Scarborough, deceased, and Major John West,
deceased,
4-4-1678; 500 acres importation of ten persons.
May 2,
1713, 170 acres, Sandy Beach Island, Accomack County, for
transporting
four persons.
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Miscellaneous
Scarborough Records:
From:
Ancestral Records and Portraits, from Archives of Chapter 1 of the
Colonial Dames of America. Published by The Grafton Press, New York,
N. Y., in
1910, in 2 Volumes.
Vol. 1, p.
289:
Lieut. Col.
John West (1638-1705), son of Anthony West, the
emigrant,
m. Matilda Scarborough, daughter of Col. Edmond and Mary
Charlton
Scarborough, who was the daughter of Stephen Charlton. (There is
a difference
of opinion concerning the name of the wife of Col. Edmond
Scarborough,
as most authorities claim that Mary was the daughter of
Nathaniel
Littleton.)
Vol. II, p.
511:
Their son,
Major John West, m. Frances Yeardley, and daughter
Sarah, m.
Isaac Smith 1.
Vol. 1, p.
290:
Edmond
Custis, son of Thomas Custis of Baltimore, Maryland,
married
Tabitha, daughter of Col. William and Tabitha Smart Whittington.
(Tabitha
Smart Whittington was the daughter of Tabitha Scarborough.)
pp.
340-342:
Scarborough
Arms described, and brief history of the family. Col.
Edmond gave
1000 acres of land to Hungars Church (Va. Carolorum, pp.
186-198),
in Northampton County, Virginia. This church was built in 1680.
Among his
children were: Matilda, who married John West 1, and
Tabitha
,
who married
several times: William Smart, Deveraux Brown, and John
Custis II,
and Edward or Edmond Hill.
P. 346:
Major Gen.
John Custis II (1630-1696), of "Arlington", Northampton
County,
Virginia, is buried near Cape Charles, Northampton County.
Tabitha
Scarborough Smart, widow of William Smart, was his second wife.
Col. John
Custis III, son of the above, of "Wilsonia", (1653-1713),
married
twice: 1) to Margaret, daughter of John and Elizabeth
Thoroughgood
Michael; and 2) to Sarah Littleton. A daughter of the first
marriage,
Elizabeth Custis, married her cousin Thomas Custis, son of
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Edmond and
Tabitha Whittington Custis, who was the daughter of Taitha
Smart
Whittington and William Whittington. *Tabitha Smart Whittington
was the
daughter of Tabitha Scarborough and her first husband, William
Smart.
The two
marriages of Col. John Custis of Wilsonia, were evidently
not happy,
for "at the positive order" of Col. John Custis himself as recorded
on his
tomb, he recites that though he was 71 years old, he really lived but
seven
years, the years he "kept Bachelor's House at Arlington, on the Eastern
Shore of
Virginia".
Vol. II.
p. 483:
Matilda
Scarborough
, daughter
of Col. Edmond Scarborough,
married,
1679, Lieut. Col. John West, Gentleman (1638-1703), son of
Anthony
West, who died circa 1652. Their son, Anthony West II, died circa
1716, and
his daughter, Mary Scarburg West, married Nathaniel Bell, son of
Robert
Bell, of Accomac County, Virginia.
p. 484:
Randall
Revell, member of the House of Burgesses in 1660, married
Katherine
Scarborough. Their only son, Edward Revell, died in 1687. He
married
twice: 1) to Frances ----------; and 2) to Rachel, whose son, John,
died in
1727, leaving a daughter Rachel (1702-1749), who married Abel
Upshur
(1702-1753). Their daughter, Elizabeth Upshur, married Thomas
Teackle
III. (Hening's State Papers.)
From: Colonial Families of the U. S. of America, by Nelson
Osgood
Rhodes,
Waverly Press, Baltimore, Md., 1920, Col. VII.
p. 67:
Thomas
Bell, b. 1618, and came to Jamestown, Virginia, from
London,
England, June 16, 1635; d. December, 1678; m. Mary Neal,
daughter of
Capt. John Neal, merchant and pioneer, who was a Burgess for
Accomac
County, Virginia, 1639-1741, d. after 1644.
*Lieut.
Col. William Whittington, who married Tabitha Smart, daughter of
Tabitha
Scarborough and William Smart, was the second son of Capt.
William
Whittington, of Northampton County, Virginia, and his wife,
Elizabeth Weston.
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Issue:
Robert
Bell, third son of above Thomas, d. April, 1709, m. Tabitha
Scarborough.
Thomas
Bell, Jr., eldest son of above Thomas Bell (1618), lived in
Accomac
County, Virginia, and married Barbara Robins Wise, daughter of
John and
Hannah
Scarborough Wise
. John Wise
came to Virginia in 1625,
d.
November, 1695.
p. 71:
(This
record below does not coincide with records I have concerning
the wife of
Col. Edmond Scarborough and his children J. D. S.)
Col. Edmond
Scarborough, d. 1671, m. Mary Charlton (?), daughter
of Stephen
and Elizabeth Charlton.
Col.
Charles Scarborough d. 1703, m. Katherine West, daughter of
Anthony
West, who was in Virginia before 1622, and died in Northampton
County,
Virginia, in 1652.
p. 476:
Katherine
Scarborough
, died
before May 5, 1688, daughter of Capt.
Edmond
Scarborough, m. Randall Revel of England, who came to Virginia
from
England circa 1632. Randall Revel was a Burgess from Northampton
County,
Virginia, and Somerset County, Maryland. Left
will in Somerset
County
1685-1686.
Data from
William and Mary Quarterly, Vol. 8, No. 1, January, 1928:
Eastern
Shore: Scarborough.
Col. Edmond
Scarborough, 4
th
of the name
in Virginia, died in 1753,
and left a
will in York County. He was a Burgess from Accomac, and son of
Edmund
Scarborough, third, and Elizabeth Edwards. He was married twice.
First wife:
Priscilla.
Issue:
Elizabeth,
b. July 14, 1714, d. Nov. 14, 1777, m. 1734, Col. Thomas
Hall.
Issue:
Margaret,
Anna Maria, Jane, and Elizabeth.
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Second
wife: Anna Maria Jones, daughter of Rev. Rowland Jones,
Rector of
Bruton Parish and great grandfather of Martha Dandridge. Anna
Maria Jones
was married four times, but had no Scarborough children.
(Above data
is from Family Bible of Mrs. S. P. Ward of Belle Haven,
Virginia.
The Bible was printed in England in 1725.)
From Vol.
8, No. 3, July, 1928; Warren Notes from Archives of Virginia
State
Library.
p. 194:
Marriages performed by John Alderson. Book prepared by Henry
W.
Scarborough, 1200 Lincoln Bldg., Philadelphia, PA.
p. 196:
July 5, 1780: Sarah Scarborough and James Christie.
P. 199: May
3, 1786: David Scarborough and Elizabeth Anderson.
p. 201:
Rachel Scarborough and James Kennaday.
Vol. 8, No.
4, October, 1928:
p. 228:
Executive Council of Colonial Virginia,
meeting at the college.
Vol. 2, p.
142:
May 8,
1701: Charles Scarborough, member of the Council.
VIRGINIA
SCARBOROUGH TAX PAYERS, 1782-1787
Virginia
Census Records burned during War of 1812, hence we must
rely on tax
records.
Scarborough:
Howell: One
poll 11 slaves, Southampton County.
Isaac: One
poll, Bedford County.
Mary: One
poll, Southampton County.
John: One
poll, 4 slaves, Brunswick County.
Lewis: One
poll, 5 slaves, Brunswick County.
William:
One poll, Brunswick County.
Americus:
Two polls, 11 slaves, Accomac County.
Bennett:
Accomac County.
Edmund:
Four polls, 16 slaves, Accomac County.
Edmund,
Jr.: One poll, 8 slaves, Accomac County.
Henry: Three
polls, 9 slaves, Accomac County.
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William:
Two polls, 8 slaves, Accomac County.
David,
Isaac, James, Robert and William: Greenbrier County, 1785-
86: in West
Virginia since 1863.
SOME
SCARBOROUGH MARRIAGES IN VIRIGINIA
From:
Southampton County Marriages, 1750-1800, by Chapman and Knorr:
August 8,
1782: Brittain Scarborough and Molly Carr, bonded by Benjamin
Stewart,
and witnessed by John Mitchell.
June 14,
1794: John Scarborough, son of Mary Scarborough, and Phoebe
Stuart,
bonded by Samuel Kello and witnessed by Jesse Rollins, of
Southampton
County.
December,
1785: Samuel Scarborough and Lydia Hines (Harris written on
back of
bond), bonded by Brittain Scarborough.
September
5, 1789: Susannah Scarborough and Edwin Pope, bonded by
William
Pope, and witnessed by Nathan Pope and Elisha Williams.
March 24,
1796: Patsey Scarborough and Edwin Pope, bonded by William
Pope, and
witnessed by Nathan Pope and Elisha Williams.
From Sussex
County Marriages by Knorr, 1754-1810:
January 21,
1808: Collin Scarborough and Susan Dunn, bonded by Henry
Tudor, Jr.,
Rev. Robert Murrell, of Southampton County, Minister.
From
Marriages of Brunswick County, 1750-1810, by Knorr:
February
23, 1784: Ann Scarborough, daughter of the late Edward
Scarborough,
and William Ragsdale, bonded by Lewis Scarborough.
October 16,
1787: Lucy Scarborough, daughter of William Scarborough, and
William
Lloyd, bonded by Moses Pritchett. Rev. Thomas Lundy, St.
Andrew's
Prish, Minister.
December
14, 1785: Rebecca Scarborough, daughter of John Scarborough,
and William
Turbyfill, bonded by Henry Andrews, and married by Rev.
Thomas
Lundy, St. Andrew's Parish.
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February 8,
1791: Sally Scarborough and Allen Jackson, bonded by Jordan
Jackson,
and witnessed by Joseph Price and Daniel Dugger, Rev. Aaron
Brown,
Methodist Minister.
October 24,
1798: Enos Scarborough and Nancy Neal, age 21, daughter of
John and
Susannah Neal. Rev. Aaron Brown., Methodist Minister.
February,
1787: James Scarborough and Sally Saunders, married by Rev.
Thomas
Lundle, in St Andrew's Parish.
September
19, 1800: Sterling Scarborough and Mary Reese, daughter of
Isham
Reese, bonded by Joseph Reese, and married by Rev. John Neblett.
January 13,
1798: William Scarborough and Elizabeth Samford, bonded by
Robert
Blackwell, and witnessed by Sterling Scarborough. Married by Rev.
John
Neblett.
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CHAPTER II.
WILLIAM
SCARBOROUGH, OF BACON'S REBELLION
From the
record that we have, it seems that William Scarborough, first
of the
family, in Surry County, Virginia, formed from James City in 1652,
was the
ancestor of Major James Scarborough. He was probably a younger
son of the
same family as those of the Eastern Shore, had to learn a trade,
and came to
America to seek his fortune. The trades were high in repute in
England at
that time, for it was necessary for the younger members of a
family who
did not inherit their father's lands, to acquire some method of
making a
living. The younger sons, therefore, resorted to the cities, and
became
tailors, grocers, coopers, weavers, etc., according to an article in
William and
Marry College Quarterly, of July, 1895. Jennings Cropper
Wise, in
his
Ye
Kingdome of Accawmacke, etc.,
says that
the above William
Scarborough,
who was an active participant in Bacon's Rebellion, was a
cousin of
Col. Charles Scarborough, which would place him definitely as a
member of
the family of Scarboroughs of the Eastern Shore.
On December
29, 1656, William Scarborough of Surry County, made
a
deposition to the effect that he had been at Mr. Robert Stanton's house, and
had talked
to Roger Potter, who was under accusation of plotting to run
away to
remote parts of the bay. Scarborough stated that Potter tried to
persuade
him to accompany him on the flight, but that he had refused,
"because
of his engagements".
1
On
September 2, 1663, it was recorded in
the County
Court, held at Southwarke: "William Scarborough, bond to the
King's
Majesty: for five thousand pounds of tobacco and caske, for good
behaviour.
Securities: Jordon and Ro: Spenser.
2
William
Scarborough had become a fairly responsible citizen by June
18, 1675,
when the Court mentioned: "Commission of Administration
granted
William Scarborough on the estate of Ann Holdsworth, sign at
James City
by the Governor".
3
(The
Holdsworth, name was spelled in
several
different ways in the old records.)
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1. Surry
Deeds, etc., No. 1 (1652-1672), p. 124.
2. Ibidem,
p. 216.
3. 3....
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William
Scarborough married Amy Holdsworth, widow of Walter
Holdsworth,
and mother of the above Ann, of Martin's Brandon, and on
March 6,
1673-74, the above Ann Holdsworth, step-daughter of William,
made a will
in Surry County, in which she mentions her brother Walter
Houlsworth,
and sister, Mary Hooulsworth, and requested burial "at the
discretion
of my father (step-father_, William Scarbro", witnessed by John
Rutherford,
and William Simons.
4
William
Scarborough, with his cousin, Col. Charles Scarborough
became an
active participant in Bacon's Rebellion, and white Col. Charles
escaped
with only a fine, William was sentenced to death by the Governor,
Sir William
Berkeley, March 6, 1676-77, and his estate confiscated.
5
Shortly
after William's execution, his widow, Amy Scarborough, married
Thomas
Tyus, and on August 6, 1679, Thomas Tyus petitioned the County
Court for
administration on the estate of William Scarborough, "whose
widow he
had married."
6
The
appraisal of the estate was made by William
Simmons and
Henry Francis on September 15, 1679, and Amy Tyus, now
the wife of
Thomas Tyus, swore to its accuracy in Court on January 6,
1679-80.
7
On November
6, 1683, the Court reviewed the indebtedness of
the
Scarborough estate to the Holdsworth heirs.
8
William and
Amy Houldsworth Scarborough had several children and
we have
identified the following:
1. Edward
Scarborough, who was on the list of tithables in Surry County in
1688, on
the Rent Rolls, and owned 150 acres of land in Surry in 1702.
His wife
was Ann ---------.
2. William
Scarborough, Jr., whose wife was also named Ann, and who was
a tithable
in Surry County in 1688.
9
On
September 18, 1717, Ann
Scarbrow
came into Southwarke Parish Court and stated that her lately
deceased
husband, William Scarborough, left no will. She was granted
the
administration of his estate.
10
As Ann
Scarborough she attested "An
Inventory
and Appraisement of
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4. Ibidem, p.
81.
5. Boddie:
Colonial Surry
, pp. 127,
138, 139.
6. Surry
Deeds, etc., No. 2, (1671-1684), p. 3; and Surry Co. Order Book, p.
194.
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7. Ibidem,
p. 247.
8. Ibidem,
p. 339.
9. John
Bennett Boddie, Colonial Surry County
(Richmond, 1948, p. 196).
10. Order
Book. 1713-1718, p. 122.
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the estate
of William Scarborough, deceased", by John Andrews, John
Grantham,
Christopher Morring, and John Avary, on October 9, 1717,
11
which was
recorded on December 18, 1717.
12
From the
articles listed in the
Inventory,
it appears that William Scarborough, Jr., was a shoemaker by
trade.
3. John
Scarborough, the other son of William and Amy Houlsworth
Scarborough,
probably died in 1696. Mary Scarborough, widow, was
listed in
the Surry records in 1782, with two white polls, and may have
been his
wife.
1. Edward
Scarborough, listed above, evidently continued to live in
Southwarke
Parish in Surry County, until his death in 1716-17, and we
have the
following records of his activities:
On
September 4, 1694, he failed to appear in Court to be sworn as a
Grand Juror
for the ensuing year, and the Sheriff was instructed to bring
him to the
next Court to show cause for his absense,
13
and on
November
6, 1694, he
appeared, and was discharged, "after paying his fees."
14
On July 22,
1697, Edward Scarborough and Mary Rawlings witnessed
the will of
Anna Jordan;
15
the Rent
Rolls of Surry County for 1704,
credited
him with 150 acres of land,
16
and on
October 13, 1710, he and
John Tyus
witnessed the will of Richard Hide.
17
On November
25,
1711, he
and Tyus appraised the estate of Noah Barefoot.
18
On March
20,
1716-17, Daniel Duggard, Nicholas Cocke, Richard Lewis, and
Nicholas
Davis appraised the estate of Edward Scarborough,
19
and on
March 18,
1718-19, the account of his estate showed payments to
Nicholas
Cocke, John Simmons, Ann Scarborough, (probably the wife of
William),
and Grace Lucas.
20
We only
have the record of two children
for this
Edward and Ann Scarborough: Edward , about whom we know
very
little, and William Scarborough, who was the ancestor of Major
James
Scarborough, and whose name was mistakenly spelled
SCABOTH.
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11. Wills
and Deeds, 1715-1730, p. 86.
12. Order
Book, 1713-1718, p. 125.
13. Order
Book, 1691-1713, p. 112.
14. Ibidem,
p. 117.
15. Surry
County Record Book 5, p. 147.
16. John
Bennett Boddie, Colonial Surry County, p. 215.
17. Surry
County Record Book 6, p. 40.
18. Ibidem,
p. 83.
19. Record
Book 7, p. 52.
20. Ibidem,
p. 253.
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Issue of
Edward and Ann Scarborough:
1-1. Edward
Scarborough, son of the above Edward and Ann Scarborough,
was at
least sixteen years of age when he appeared in the Surry County
Court, on
March 20, 1716-17, and chose Richard Lewis as his legal
guardian.
21
He probably
died in 1742, for on January 19, 1742-43, the
County
Court "Ordered that the Church Wardens of Southwarke Parish bind
out the
children of Edward Scarborough ----- according to law".
22
On
February
17, 1742-43, the Sheriff was directed to sell the estate of Edward
Scarborough,
deceased, at public auction, and to report to the next court.
23
On August
17, 1742-43, the "Account of Edward Scarborough, deceased,
Estate,
sold in obedience to an order of the Court", was recorded by the
Sheriff
Robert Wynne.
24
This Edward
Scarborough was listed with one
poll in
1741 and 215 acres of land in 1742.
1-2.
William Scarborough, son of Edward and Ann Scarborough probably
patented
land in Isle of Wight County, Virginia, though the deed records do
not show
where he got it, and the Land Grant Books in the Virginia State
Library
have not been searched for this record. He died in 1736, and his will
was written
by someone who used the remarkable spelling of SCABOTH, as
some of the
early Scarborough records were spelled, and miscopied by a
Clerk, when
the record was transcribed in the Will Book. The will was
dated
November 9, 1735, and probated on September 28, 1736.
25
William
Scarborough, in his will filed in Isle of Wight County, VA.,
names his
wife, Sarah, as Executrix, and his son, William, as Executor. It
was
witnessed by Robert Ricks, William Wood, Richard Bryant, and John
Wood, and
presented in Court, Isle of Wight County, by Sarah and William
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Scarborough,
the Executors, September 20, 1736, and approved. Eight
children
are named as follows:
1-2-1.
William Scarborough, Executor, who may have been the father of the
other David
Scarborough, who left a
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21. Order
Book, (1713-1718), p. 110.
22. Order
Book, (1741-1744), p. 86.
23. Ibidem,
p. 100.
24. Ibidem,
p. 152; and Wills, etc. (1738-1754) vol. 3, p. 450.
25. Isle of
Wight Will Book 4. P. 140.
will in
Edgecombe County, North Carolina, and whose wife was Nanna or
Nannie.
1-2-2. John
Scarborough. Probably the John Scarborough of Southampton
County,
Virginia, who left a will there, signed in 1778, and proved in 1782.
1-2-3.
Thomas Scarborough
1-2-4.
Edward Scarborough.
1-2-5.
David Scarborough. Father of Major James Scarborough.
1-2-6.
Samuel Scarborough. Revolutioonary soldier of Southampton, who
received a
pension in Wake County, North Carolina.
1-2-7. Jane
Scarborough.
1-2-8.
Sarah Scarborough.
Issue of
William and Sarah Scarborough, of Isle of Wight, Virginia:
1-2-1.
William Scarborough, who was named one of the Executors in his
father's
will, was given the home plantation, near his brother John.
On October
21, 1741, the will of John Cannon, (wife, Joanna), of
Surry
County, named daughter, Joannah Justice, apparently the wife of the
Executor of
the will, John Justice, and Justice's grandchildren, John, Jean,
Mary,
Elizabeth and Lydia, among the legatees; granddaughter Joannah
Scarborough,
and William Scarborough, to have the use of a slave until
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Mary
Justice should come of age. The will was witnessed by John
Nicholson
and John Collier.
26
Joannah
Scarborough was probably the
eldest
granddaughter, as she was heir to 370 acres of land. It is probable that
it was this
William Scarborough who brought suit in Surry County on
October 19,
1743, against Thomas Williams for two pounds current money,,
"said
to be due on account."
27
1-2-2. John
Scarborough, in his father's will, was given the "land where he is
now
living", and his inheritance fell into Southampton County at the
time of the
division of the county in 1749. On March 21, 1745-46,
William
Scarborough of Isle of Wight County, sold John Scarborough
of Isle of
Wight County, 125 acres of land
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26. Surry
County Will Book 9, p. 338.
27. Order
Book (1711-1714) ... p.172
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east of
Village Pocosin, "being a Patent granted to William Scarborough",
witnessed
by Henry H. Clark, William Kelley, and Isaac Mason.
28
On
August 8,
1771, John Scarborough was succeeded as Highway Surveyor in
his area of
Southampton County, by Thomas Ricks.
29
John
Scarborough
made his
will in Southampton County on January 10, 1778, and it was
probated on
February 14, 1782.
30
In this
will he names his wife, Mary
Scarborough,
as Executrix, with the use of the home plantation, a slave girl,
and certain
personal property "in order to raise her children with". Ten
children
were named: Benjamin, Robert, Ann Hines (wife of John Hines),
Lydia
Stewart (wife of Benjamin Stewart), Brittain and five children called
"my
younger children", where John, who was to have the home plantation
after his
mother's death; Sukey, Patty, Betsy, Sarah. The witnesses were:
Lewis
Joiner, Drury Cotton, and Richard Tatem.
Issue of
John and Mary Scarborough:
1-2-2-1.
Benjamin Scarborough. No record.
1-2-2-2.
Robert Scarborough
Robert
Scarborough was dead when his father made his will, but he
left
legacies to Robert's children. On January 12, 1769, John and Elizabeth
Mason of
Sussex County, sold Robert Scarborough, of Southampton
County, 275
acres of land, north of the Nottoway River, on the former Isaac
Mason line
31
for six
pounds current Virginia money. On May 15, 1772,
Robert and
Howell Scarbury were witnesses in Benjamin Stewart's suit
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against
Eliza Nash.
32
(Benjamin
Stewart was the husband of Robert's sister,
Lydia.)
1-2-2-3.Ann
Scarborough, wife of John Hines. No further record.
1-2-2-4.
Lydia Scarborough, wife of Benjamin Stewart.
1-2-2-5.
Brittain Scarborough.
On August
8, 1782, there was a marriage recorded in Southampton
County for
Brittain Scarborough and Molly ----------
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28. Isle of
Wight County Deed Book 7, p. 283.
29. Southampton
County Order Book 9, 1768-1772, p. 436.
30.
Southampton County Will Book 3, p. 304.
31. Deed
Book 4, p. 129.
32. Order
Book 5, (1768-1772, p. 540.
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Carr,
bonded by Benjamin Stewart (husband of Brittain's sister, Lydia), and
witnessed
by John Mitchell.
33
There was a
Brittain Scarborough who made his will in Southampton
County
October 5, 1825, probated November 21, 1825, (Will Book 9, p.
289) but it
appears from the records that he was a son of Howell
Scarborough,
who died in 1824.
1-2-2-6.
John Scarborough was called "one of the younger children" in
his
father's will, and was given the home plantation, after the death of
his mother.
On January
16, 1804, John Scarborough bought a tract of land,
adjoining
Adam Wolfram from Jesse and Susan Rawlings, for twenty
pounds
Virginia money, witnessed by B. Cobb and Samuel Kello.
34
He left
a will in
Southampton County, signed December 19, 1843, and probated
February
19, 1844,
35
listing the
following grandchildren:
Robert,
Julia, and Caroline, children of his son James. In a codicil in
his will,
John recites that his son James had still another child James, who
died
shortly before the will was written:
Martha
Scarborough, granddaughter, parents unnamed; children of
Patsey
Bassett, not named, but presumably grandchildren:
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William
Scarborough, grandson, son of his son, John. Children
mentioned:
James, listed above, who was presumably deceased; John
Scarborough,
Julia Scarborough, Nancy Scarborough, and Elly Scarborough.
The
unmarried daughters were to have the use of the houses and 30
acres of
land until they married or died, and then the property was to revert
to John
Scarborough. Witnesses were: Samuel Kello, James F. Peck, and
David Kitchen.
1-2-2-7.
Sukey Scarborough, seventh child of John and Mary Scarborough.
1-2-2-8.
Patty Scarborough.
On March
24, 1796, there was a marriage recorded in Southampton
County for
Patsy Scarborough and Edwin Pope, bonded by William Pope
and witnessed
by Nathan
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33.
Southampton Marriages by Chapman and Knorr.
34. Deed
Book 10, p. 237.
35. Will
Book 13, p. 191.
Pope and
Elisha Williams, but whether it was the daughter of John and Mary
we do not
know.
36
1-2-2-9.
Betsy Scarborough. No record.
1-2-2-10.
Sarah Scarborough. No record.
1-2-3.
Thomas Scarborough, third child listed in the will of William
SCABOTH
(Scarborough), and whom we have no record.
1-2-4.
Edward Scarborough. No record.
1-2-5.
David Scarborough, father of Major James Scarborough, whose
record is
covered in a separate chapter.
1-2-6.
Samuel Scarborough.
1-2-7. Jane
Scarborough.
1-2-8.
Sarah Scarborough.
The above
Samuel, Jane, and Sarah Scarborough have been merely named,
as we have
done no research concerning their descendants.
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CHAPTER
III.
DAVID AND
SARAH SCARBOROUGH, OF EDGECOMBE
COUNTY,
NORTH CAROLINA
1-2-5.
David Scarborough, fifth child of William and Sarah Scarborough.
David and
Sarah Scarborough and their Descendants:
Major James
Scarborough, in his application for pension as a
Revolutionary
soldier, stated that he was born in Southampton County,
Virginia,
in 1748, and came with his parents to Edgecombe County, North
Carolina,
when he was ten years old, which would place the arrival of David
and Sarah
Scarborough in the county circa 1758.
From the
deed records and Court Records which we have previously
discussed,
we believe that we have proved beyond the shadow of doubt that
Major James
Scarborough was the son of David and Sarah Scarborough, son
of William
Scaboth (Scarborough), and a grandson of William Scarborough,
of Bacon's
Rebellion. The family had remained in Virginia for three
generations
before coming to North Carolina-in Surry, in Isle of Wight, and
then in
Southampton.
We do not
know the maiden name of Sarah, wife of David
Scarborough,
and there has been some confusion in the minds of some
family
historians, because of the fact that there were two David
Scarboroughs
who left wills at about the same time in Edgecombe County,
North
Carolina. Some of the researchers have said that Sarah was Sarah
DUNN., but
we know this not to be correct, for it was the other David,
whose wife
was Nanna or Nanney, who made provision in his will for John
and Easter
Dunn, and this same John Dunn, Sr., in a deed refers to his
"grand-son-in-law
David "Scarborough", which would make Nanna
Scarborough
his grand-daughter.
On April
17, 1762, Robert Wright sold David Scarborough 100 acres
on Town
Creek, in Edgecombe County, for ten pounds proclamation
money
1
, and on
February 12, 1771, David Scarborough bought 150 acres
south of
Beaver Dam Swamp, Edgecombe County, from Dunnagan, for 45
pounds
proclamation money, with Nathaniel Perminter, and Solo-
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1.
Edgecombe County Deed Book 1, p. 310.
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mon
Forehand as witnesses
2
. David and
Sarah sold the 100 acres on Town
Creek on
April 18, 1774, to Lazarus Drake, with Samuel Scarborough and
Richard
Tomlinson, as witnesses
3
, so it is
evident that their home place at
the time of
their death was the 150 acres South of Beaver Dam Swamp.
David
Scarborough made his will on November 20, 1773, and it was
probated in
the July Court of Edgecombe County in 1774
4
. At that
time
Sarah was
still living, but unfortunately we have no further record of her.
The will
provided that wife, Sarah, should have use of all houses, chattels,
etc., left
after debts are paid, during her life or widowhood, unless she
wastes it. IF
she is wasteful, and of the sons will have the right to take
charge of
the property, and give her a living. After the death of Sarah, the
home
plantation was to be divided between the two youngest sons, Joel and
Labe-Joel
to have the plantation part, and Labe to have the woodland part.
The rest of
the property, real and personal was to be divided equally between
the other
children: James who was named executor; Tabithey, Samuel,
Addison,
Shadrach, Obed,, and Sally. On January 19, 1775, James
Scarborough,
as Executor, presented the Inventory of the Estate to the
Edgecombe
County Court.
5
Samuel
Scarborough evidently acquired more land near his parents for
on November
28, 1786, he sold to
Jesse
Rasberry
, of Dobbs
County, North
Carolina,
for 106 pounds, 176 acres in the fork of Dunnagan's Spring
Branch,
Marshey Branch, Beaver Dam Swamp, on Sarah and James
Scarborough's
line.
6
Witnesses
were: William Wallis and James
Scarborough.
On December
7, 1786, Samuel Scarborough appointed his friend,
Henry
Holland, his attorney in Edgecombe county to get his share of 132
acres on
Dunnagan's Spring Branch, Johnston's Mill Swamp, "where mother,
Sarah
Scarborough, now lives, and by father's will, at her death to Joel
Scarborough".
7
Witnesses:
Hezekiah Cartwright, Amos Johnston, and John
Wilson. On
this same day, Samuel Scarborough deeded Henry Holland 131
acres of
the above described land, for forty pounds, "except one acres
joining
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2. Ibidem,
Deed Book, D, p. 316.
3. Ibidem,
Deed Book 3, p. 181.
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4. Will
Book A, p. 223.
5. Will
Book B, p. 60.
6. Deed
Book 4, p. 519.
7. Deed
Book 4, p. 488.
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James
Scarborough's mill, on said Dunnagan's Spring Branch, which is
hereby
reserved to the only use and benefit and behoove of said mill", being
land left
by father, David Scarborough, and given to brother, Joel
Scarborough,
deceased.
8
Witnesses:
Amos Johnston, Hezekiah Cartwright,
and John
Wilson.
David
Scarborough's will had provided that Joel was to receive this
property,
after the death of his mother, but from the deed, it appears that
Sarah was
still living, as Samuel describes the property as the place where
mother,
Sarah, still lives. This may have been done with Sarah's consent.
From the
above deed, we know that Joel was dead by 1786, and we also
know that
he was under age when David made his will, so he apparently
died before
reaching his majority, and without issue. Labe was probably
dead also
by this time, as we have no further record of him.
Samuel
Scarborough was a Revolutionary soldier, and is listed many
times in
the North Carolina Revolutionary Army Accounts, from 1781-1784.
His
official record shows that he enlisted in 1781 for twelve months service
in Captain
Ephraim Brevard's Company, Col. Abraham Shepard's 10
th
N.C.
Infantry
Regiment, Continental Line.
9
There was a
Samuel Scarborough from North Carolina who received a
pension in
1831, from Wake County, NC, at which time he was 74 years old,
10
who recited
in his application that he was from Southampton County,
Virginia,
but I am sure that he was a different man, though perhaps a
kinsman.
There seems to have been two men by the name of Samuel
Scarborough,
from North Carolina, who served in Revolution, as one of
them is
listed as Samuel Scarborough, Sr., and the other is listed merely as
Samuel
Scarborough.
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8. Deed
Book 4, p. 487.
9. N.C.
D.A.R. Roster of Rev. Soldiers, pp. 19, 164, 181.
10. Ibidem,
pp. 464, 585.
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From: North
Carolina revolutionary Army Accounts:
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II, p. 10,
f.l. "August 26
th
, allowed
Samuel Scarborough, Soldier,
including
Ints., to the first day of Aug., 1783 (3 mo. & 8 days not Settled"
25-9-7, by
the Commissioners oat Halifax, July 25, 1783.
III, p. 8,
f. 2, No. 7, Samuel Scarborough $(63) .63) paid $57.30
actually
due.
N.C. Cont.
Line in U.S. Army, passed on by Com. Of Army Accounts.
North
Carolina Revolutionary Army Accounts:
IX, page
89, f. No. 13, (Samuel) Scarborough, 3-8-0, paid by
Hillsborough
Treasurer's Office to Etheldred Phillips, Sheriff of Edgecombe
County.
Book of
Settlements No. 30, p. 66, No. 447. Samuel Scarborough, 6-7-4 in
cash,
19-2-3 in Certificates-total 25-9-7 receipted by Spencer Thomas;
settled by
Commissioners, at Halifax in 1783 & 1784. (Halifax Military
District.)
Revolutionary
Army Accounts:
Book K, p.
62, No. 70, Samuel Scarborough 6 lbs. Of Salt Pork worth
0-4-9 paid
to Joseph Boon, commissioner of Wayne County, in 1781, by
Comptroller's
Office at Kinston, May, 1783.
The only
other child of David and Sarah Scarborough, of whom we
have any
record is Shadrack Scarborough, who was also a Revolutionary
soldier,
enlisting in December, 1779, as an Ensign. His officers, according
to the
Revolutionary Pension Claim of Micajah Pettaway (No. S. 3668)
were: First
Lieutenant John Batts, Captain Frederick Bell, Lt. Col. John
Lowrey, and
Col. John Shepard. He apparently later joined the same
Company,
April 12, 1781, to which his brother Samuel, belonged, the
Company of
Col. Abraham Shepard's 10
th
Regiment,
under Captain William
Hall; and
was honorably discharged on April 12, 1782.
11
(N. C. D.
A. R.
Roster, p.
164.) Various Claims for pay for his services are listed in the
North
Carolina Army Accounts, through 1784.
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Revolutionary
Army Accounts, Book K, p. 101, No. 538, Shadrach
Scarborough,
Claim of 2-6-0 paid by Green Hill, Treas. Of Halifax Military
District,
Comptroller's Office at Kingston, May, 1783.
North
Carolina Revolutionary Army Accounts:
II, p. 5,
f. 4. "Allowed Shadrach Scarborough for his pay as Soldier
including
Interest to the first of August, 1783, 2 months & 8 days unsettled
for,
"25-9-7 pounds, by the Commissioners at Halifax, July 25, 1783.
Book of
Settlements No. 30, p. 63, No. 70, Shadrach Scarborough, 6-
7-4 in
cash, 19-2-2 in Certificates, 25-9-7 total, receipted by Thos. Talton;
settled by
the Commissioners at Halifax in 1783, and 1784. (North Carolina
State
Archives, at Raleigh. All except D. A. R. Roster are manuscripts
volumes.)
Settlement
of Accounts, No. 19, p. 286, Shadrach Scarborough
soldier,
was paid $62.62 3-4 by the State of North Carolina.
North
Carolina Revolutionary Army Accounts:
III, p. 2
f. 1, No. 70. Shadrach Scarborough, $63.63 paid by State;
$57.30
actually due. N.C. Continental Line in U. S. Army, passed on by
Comr. Of
Army Accounts.
North
Carolina Revolutionary Army Accounts:
VII, p. 66,
f. 1, No. 538: Shadrach Scarborough, 2-6-0 in specie Certificates,
paid by
Green Hill, Esq., Treasurer for Halifax Military District.
Shadrach
Scarborough, on August 5, 1778, purchased 133 1/2 acres
South of
Town Creek, from Thomas Davis, of Edgecombe County for 108
pounds proclamation
money,
12
but he did
not remain in North Carolina after
the
Revolution, but migrated to Burke County, Georgia, with others of his
kinsmen. On
December 19, 1807, Shadrack Scarborough, of BURKE
COUNTY,
GEORGIA, sold the above described land to Jonathan Gardner,
Jr., of
Edgecombe County, for $200.00 silver dollars, the deed being
recorded in
the North Carolina State Archives, in Raleigh, in Manuscript
Volume 20,
p. 63. Shadrack Scarborough had left North Carolina by March
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3, 1798,
when Solomon Forehand in his will bequeathed land "on the road
where
Shadrack Scarborough did live".
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12.
Edgecombe County, NC Deed Book...
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Issue of
David and Sarah Scarborough:
1-2-5-1.
Major James Scarborough, Revolutionary soldier, Executor of
father's
will.
1-2-5-2.
Tabitha Scarborough.
1-2-5-3.
Samuel Scarborough, Revolutionary soldier, who removed to
Georgia.
1-2-5-4.
Addison Scarborough, who removed to Burke County, Georgia.
1-2-5-5.
Shadrack Scarborough, Revolutionary soldier, who removed to
Burke
County, Georgia.
1-2-5-6.
Obed Scarborough, of whom we have no record.
1-2-5-7.
Sally Scarborough. No record.
1-2-5-8.
Joel Scarborough. Deceased by December 7, 1786.
1-2-5-9.
Labe Scarborough. No record.
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CHAPTER IV.
MAJOR JAMES
SCARBOROUGH
1-2-5-1.
Major James Scarborough, first child listed in the will of David
Scarborough,
in Edgecombe County, North Carolina, was born in
Southampton
County, Virginia, November 29, 1748, according to his
declaration
in his application for a pension as a Revolutionary
soldier,
and moved with his parents, when he was ten years old, to
Edgecombe
County, North Carolina. He died in Edgecombe County,
North
Carolina, March 1, 1836.
The
Scarborough lineage is very hard to unravel for there were so
many wives
and so many children, most of whom seemed to have had the
urge to
move west. From the records that we have found, it seems that only
three of
Major James' children remained in North Carolina-Isaac and his two
sisters,
Polly (Martha) Parmer (or Palmer) Scarborough, and Zillah, usually
called
Zilly, who never married.
According
to Joab Lane Scarborough, son of John Rasberry
Scarborough,
and grandson of Major James, in a letter writter to Isaac Polk
Scarborough,
of Abilene, Texas, from Koskiusco, Mississippi, in 1913,
when he was
ninety-one years old, Major James Scarborough was married
five times,
and had twenty five children. He names Lawrence Scarborough,
to whom his
father wrote many times and recalled that he was living in
Louisiana;
Allen Scarborough, who migrated to Georgia; William
Scarborough,
who moved to Tennessee; and Isaac, who was the only Uncle
that he
ever saw. He also verified the fact that Lawrence Scarborough was a
preacher
and had written a book on his religious faith, which his father
possessed
at one time. He related that the Scarborough Family Bible, which
his father
owned, was destroyed by Indians, when he first moved to
Alabama
Territory.
After
careful and painstaking research we have only been able to
locate four
wives of Major James Scarborough, and only six children, with
certainty,
though we feel sure there were others. Joab Lane Scarborough
was an old
man in 1913, but he would hardly have stretched the list of
children
from six to twenty-five, without some reasonable evidence.
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We do not
know the name of Major James Scarborough's first wife
who he...
rather suspected that she was a Lawrence, as the Lawrence name
has
persisted in the descendants of Lawrence Scarborough, and in the family
of his
brother, Allen Scarborough. However, I have not found any data
which would
confirm this "hunch", though I did discover Lawrence in Isle of
Wight
County and even a few in upper Edgecombe County, North Carolina.
Judging
from the records we have, Major James Scarborough's wives
were as
follows:
1. Name of
wife unknown, but probably married in 1766, as his first child
was born in
Edgecombe County, N.C., October 22, 1767.
Issue of
Major James Scarborough and first wife:
1-1.
Lawrence Scarborough, b. in Edgecombe County, NC, October 22,
1767, d.
Union Parish, Louisiana, October 1, 1846.
1-2. Allen
Scarborough, migrated to Georgia, and received a Land Grant in
Burke
County, Georgia, in 1790. He moved later to Pulaski County,
Georgia,
where he left a will, probated September 6, 1819, naming his
wife,
Nancy, and providing for his children, unnamed, except for
Arcadia
Scarborough. From the Minutes of Ordinary Court, Pulaski
County,
Ga., (1818-1841), p. 101, the Commissioners appointed to
divide the
estate of Allen Scarborough were ordered to assign to
Mathew
Cannon (who had married Arcadia Scarborough, August 23,
1820), and
to Irwin Scarborough (who had married Frances Cannon,
March 14,
1821), their share of the estate of Allen Scarborough "in
compliance
with the will of said Allen Scarborough, deceased."
1-3. Noah
Scarborough. By inference, as no definite proof has been found,
and it has been
impossible to separate the several men in Georgia by
the name of
Noah.
The
following records are from Mrs. Water Adams, of Seattle,
Washington,
descendant of Noah Scarborough, whom she believes was a
son of
Major James Scarborough, though I have not been able to identify
him from
the records I have.
Noah
Scarborough, b. 1805, d. 1890, at Morrow, Louisiana, St.
Landry
Parish,; m. Nancy Stringer in 1825. (It would be very unusual for
two
brothers to marry a girl with the same name and we know that Allen
Scarborough
married a Nancy.
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Issue of
above Noah Scarborough and Nancy Stringer:
1-3-1.
Allen Scarborough, b. 5-4-1833, Lawrence County, MS.
1-3-2.
Frances E. Scarborough, b. 8-11-1834, Lawrence County, Mississippi.
1-3-3.
Celiann Scarborough, b. 12-10-1835, Lawrence County, Mississippi.
1-3-4.
Evalina Scarborough, b. 1-1-1838.
1-3-5.
Rachel Scarborough, b. 11-3-1842.
1-3-6.
Richard Scarborough, b. 8-20-1845.
1-3-7.
Margaret Scarborough, b. 8-26-1846.
Mrs. Adams
is descended from the above Celiann Scarborough, who
married
C.W. Mulkey, 2-15-1853, at New Roads, Louisiana, where she died,
12-11-1859.
Her mother was Nancy Elizabeth Mulkey, reared by her
grandparents,
who married 3-4-1880, Alfred Martin Merritt, in New Roads,
Louisiana.
Mrs. Adams, who was Coralie Augusta Merritt, b. 11-10-1883,
Morrow,
Louisiana; m. 1) 5-21-1905, D. J. Osborne, and m. 2) 9-2-1911,
William
Adams.
Perhaps a
future family historian will be able to identify definitely the
above Noah
Scarborough.
Mrs. Adams
also lists the following Stringers who were listed in the
Family
Bible of Noah Scarborough, but does not give the name of the father
and mother
of these children:
Abel
Stringer, b. 4-23-1788.
Abea (?)
Stringer, b. 11-5-1789.
Feribea
Stringer, b. 5-7-1791.
Daniel
Stringer, b. 9-1-1798.
Elizabeth
Stringer, b. 1-10-1804.
John
Stringer, b. 1-10-1804.
Noah
Stringer, b. 10-12-1807.
Nancy
Stringer, b. 11-6-1809.
Evaline
Hogan, b. 9-11-1810.
1-4.
Jonathan Scarborough. By inference.
Jonathan
Scarborough, wife Mourning, is believed to have been the
son of
Major James, and brother of Lawrence, though we have no
official
proof. He was living in Bulloch County, Georgia, at the same
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time that
Lawrence was a resident there. On November 1, 1807, in
Bulloch
County, Georgia, he gave Power-of-Attorney to his "trusty
friend",
Samuel Scarborough, to sell his land in Baldwin County,
Georgia,
1
and in 1809
he received a Passport from the Governor of
Georgia to
go to Mississippi Territory. By 1810 he was settled with
his family
in Jefferson County, Mississippi-the same county where
Lawrence
resided. He was listed immediately after Lawrence in the
Census of
1810 for Jefferson County, Mississippi, with two males
over 21,
and five under 21, two females over twenty-one, and one
female
under twenty-one. He was one of the signers of a "Petition to
Congress by
the Inhabitants of Mississippi Territory, Oct. 10, 1814,
regarding
settlement of land claims derived from the British
Government"
2
in 1811 he
was listed in Jefferson County, Mississippi
Tax Rolls,
with one white poll.
3
1-5. David
Scarborough. By inference.
David
Scarborough was also living in Bulloch County, Georgia, in
1807, and
received a Passport from the Governor of Georgia, to go to
Mississippi
Territory in 1809, and was settled in Jefferson County,
Mississippi,
by 1811, being listed with one white Poll in 1811.
1-6. Simeon
Scarborough. By inference.
Simeon
Scarborough. We have no very definite record of Simeon
Scarborough,
but some descendants interviewed in Union Parish, Louisiana,
in 1955,
insisted was a brother of Noah and of Lawrence, and son of Major
James
Scarborough.
1-7.
William Scarborough, mentioned by Joab Lane Scarborough, as
migrating
to Tennessee, but we have found no record of him.
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1. Book AA,
pp. 188-189, Bulloch County, Georgia, Deed Records.
2.
Territorial Papers of the U.S., Miss Territory, by Cater, pp. 449-456.
3. ...
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1-8. Lemuel
Scarborough. Burke County, Georgia. By inference.
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The only
reason that we have to believe that Lemuel Scarborough was
one of
Major James Scarborough's sons is the fact that he was born in
Edgecombe
County, North Carolina, and settled in Burke County, Georgia,
with the
other Scarboroughs. In 1803, his orphans drew in the Land Lottery
from Burke
County, Georgia. He son, Lemuel Scarborough, b. 1801, moved
to Benton
County, Alabama, married and had twelve children. He died in
1850, near
White Plains, Calhoun County, Alabama, and in 1867 the family
moved to
Texas.
There may
have been other children, including daughters, but we have
for no
records.
We are sure
of Allen Scarborough as the brother of Lawrence, from
records and
letters of various members of the family. These two men and
their
descendants moved to Mississippi Territory and to Louisiana, at about
the same
time, and many of them came to Texas where they have known
each other
intimately throughout the years.
Issue of
Major James Scarborough and Grace King (?):
2. The
second wife of Major James Scarborough, of whom we have any
record, was
Grace, and identified by some of the kinsmen as Grace King,
(wife
Frances), in Edgecombe County, North Carolina, on October 15,
1784, and
proved in the County Court in 1785.
4
Witnesses
were John
Stringer
and John Proctor. Whether this is the right identification we do
not know,
for James Scarborough was not named as son-in-law in any
will in
Edgecombe County that we have found, and we have found no
official
record of any of his marriages. Since we do not know the date of
this
marriage, nor the date of death of Grace, we can not be sure which of
Major
James'' children were of this marriage. We feel sure, however, that
Isaac, born
in 1780,
5
was a son
of this marriage for Joab Lane
Scarborough,
in a letter of 1913, to Isaac Polk Scarborough, said that his
father,
John Rasberry Scarborough, was the only son of Penelope, the
third wife,
and James Scarborough. We know that Isaac was a son of
Major James
from a deed executed by him to Isaac on September 19,
1806, in
which he calls him son, and deeds him, for love,
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3. Will
Book C, pp. 8 and 9.
4. Census
of 1850.
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100 acres
North Beaver Dam Swamp adjoining Miry Meadow Branch
Dempsey
Skinner, James King, Henry Skinner, on Little Pocosin with
Samuel
Ruffin and Nathan Eason as witness.
6
Strange to
say, he is not
listed in
the Scarborough Bible, yet he was the only son who continued to
live in
Edgecombe County, not too far away from his father's home.
It is also
probable that Zillah Scarborough was a daughter of Grace
King
Scarborough, as she was born in 1776, and could not have been a
daughter of
Penelope, whose first husband, Obed Eason, did not die until
1785. She
was unmarried and is listed in the Scarborough Bible as dying in
her 80
th
year,
February 20, 1856, which would place her birth in 1776.
From the
above facts we have the following children from Major
James and
Grace King Scarborough:
2-1.
Probably Zillah, or Zilly Scarborough, b. in 1776, d. February 20,
1856 in 80
th
year of her
age, according to the Scarborough Bible.
Unmarried.
2-2. Isaac,
b. in 1780, in Wilson County, North Carolina, cut off from
Edgecombe
County in 1855.
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CHAPTER V.
ISAAC
SCARBOROUGH, SON OF MAJOR JAMES
SCARBOROUGH
2-3. Isaac
Scarborough, son of Major James Scarborough and wife, Grace
Clark (/)
of Edgecombe County, was born in 1780. During the War of
1812 he was
a private in the Edgecombe County Company (detached
from the
First Edgecombe County Regiment), Second North Carolina
Regiment of
Detached Militia, organized in August, 1814, and called
into service
of the United States Army by orders issue on September
17, 1814.
1
He
campaigned around Norfolk, Virginia, and was
honorably
discharged.
On
September 13, 1848, he married Nancy Tyson, bonded by Lewis
(X) Dildy.
2
In the
Edgecombe County Census taken on June 1, 1850, he
was a
farmer worth $4500.00 with wife, Nancy, born in 1812, and daughter
Victoria
born in February of 1850.
3
In the
Wilson County Census taken on
July 19,
1860, Saratoga District, Nancy Scarborough was worth $11, 070.00
in personal
property; Victoria was worth $834.00 in real property, and
$11,533.00
in personal. Susan (born in 1853) was worth the same, and
Lawrence
(born in 1857, after the death of his father), was worth the same.
4
On July 30,
1804, Andrew (X) Phillips of Sumner County, Tennessee
sold Isaac
Scarborough of Edgecombe County for $60 silver dollars 87 1/3
acres north
of Beaver Dam Swamp, witnessed by James King and Nathan
Eason.
5
On March 2,
1821, Kinchen Cherry sold him for $300 a tract of
100 acres
west of Miry Marsh adjoining Scarborough and Miry Meadow
Branch,
witnessed by Samuel Ruffin and B. Wheeler.
6
On December
19,
1822, Isaac
Scarborough sold Turner Bynum for $250 a tract of 87 1/3 acres
north of
Beaver Dam Swamp adjoining James Pitt, witnessed by
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1.
Muster
Rolls of the Soldiers of the War of 1812, etc., Raleigh, 1873,
pp. 89,
146-147. No. 24, First Edgecombe County Regiment.
2.
Edgecombe
County Marriage Bonds, in the N. C. State Archives at
Raleigh.
3.
Original
Mss. Volume in the National Archives, No. 853, 848.
4.
Edgecombe
County Deed book 11...
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James
Pender (father of Major General William Dorsey Pender, C. S. A.),
and
Benjamin Sharpe.
7
On March
28, 1828, Dempsey S. Eason sold Isaac Scarborough a
mortgage
against Gardner Skinner, son of the late Dempsey Skinner and of
Lydia
Skinner who held life estate in the property, 300 acres north of Little
Swamp
adjoining Dempsey Skinner, Enos Harrel, and James Scarborough,
witnessed
by Isaac Eason and John Dunford.
8
On January
10, 1829,
Dempsey
Skinner sold him for $653.00, 168 1/2 acres on Johnston's Mill
Pond, Long
Branch, and the lines of Forbes, Johnston, Hobbs, and Skinner,
witnessed
by John Skinner and Enose Harrell.
9
On January
1, 1834, Isaac Scarborough sold Stephen Edwards for $650.00,
193 1/2
acres adjoining William Tyson, Spring Branch, and Ruffin,
witnessed
by John A. Vines and Amos Wooten.
10
On April
29, 1837,
James Pitt
sold him for $1,000.00, 330 acres north of Beaver Dam Swamp,
adjoining
Henry Skinner, Miry Meadow Branch, Hardy Phillips, Raccoon
Branch,
Dempsey Eure Scarborough, and Saddler's Meadow, witnessed by
David
Williams and A. P. Sessums.
11
On November
24, 1841, James J.
Phillips
and Joab Horn sold him for $2,800.00, 1219 acres south of White
Oak Swamp
adjoining Richard Hocutt, Elisha Felton, John Mason, Lewis
Dildy,
Cabin Branch, Little Branch, and William Barnes, witnessed by
William
Tunnell and Wldon Hunter.
12
On December
1, 1841, Isaac Scarborough sold Joab Horne for $154.00, 154
1/4 acres
south of White Oak Swamp adjoining Richard Hocutt, witnessed
by William
Ellis and Coffield Ellis.
13
On January
20, 1847, Lewis (X)
Dildy sold
Isaac Scarborough for $450.00, 200 acres adjoining White Oak
Swamp, John
Mason, deceased, Cabin Branch, and Scarborough witnessed
by William
Ellis and Louisa O. Ellis.
14
On December
13, 1847, David P.
Shallington
sold him for $2,000.00, 417 acres on White Oak Swamp "at the
bridge",
adjoining Hickman Ellis, Scarborough, William
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7. Deed
Book 18, p. 49.
8. Deed
Book 19, p. 152.
9. Deed
Book 19, p. 375.
10. Deed
Book 21, p. 79.
11. Deed
Book 22, p. 23.
12. Deed
Book 23, p. 715.
13. Deed
Book 23, p. 156.
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14. Deed
Book 24, p. 245.
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Barnes and
Tosnot Swamp, witnessed by Bassett Sikes and William
Tunnell.
15
On December
15, 1847, Isaac Scarborough sold Amos W. Cobb for $700.00,
148 1/2
acres at the mouth of a small branch on Johnston's Mill Pond, Long
Branch,
Forbes, Johnston, Hobbs, and Skinner, witnessed by William Forbes
and Nathan
R. Eason.
16
On December
7, 1850, he sold Willis Flemming for
$300.00,
100 acres west of Miry Marsh on Miry Marsh Branch, witnessed
by R. T.
Eagles and William L. Weaver.
17
On December
9, 1851, Isaac Scarborough sold William L. Weaver for
$800.00,
300 acres north of Beaver Dam Swamp adjoining Willis Flemming,
Miry Meadow
Branch, Hardy Phillips, Raccoon Branch, the former
Dempsey
Eure, Turner Bynum, and Sadler's Meadow, witnessed by William
Forbes and
J. T. Weaver.
18
He Made his
will in Wilson County, North Carolina, on October 1,
1853, and
it was probated in April Court, 1857:
19
(1) wife
Nancy
Scarborough,
lifetime use of the home plantation purchased of Joab Horne
adjoining
the Lewis Dilda tract: gift of 7 slaves; use of 3 slaves, household
and kitchen
furniture, 2 brandy stills, apple mill, and cider casks; gift of
hogs,
horses, cattle, sheep, poultry, crops, and farming tools and equipment,
(2) eldest
daughter Queen Victoria Scarborough, the Shallington tract on
White Oak
Swamp, reversional half-interest in the three slaves, gift of half-
interest in
any other slaves, reversional half-interest in other personal
property,
and gift of $1,000.00, (3) youngest daughter Isaac Susan
Scarborough,
reversion of mother's land, reversional half-interest in three
slaves,
gift of half-interest in
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15. Deed
Book 24, p. 439.
16. Deed
Book 24, p. 486.
17. Deed
Book 25, p. 387 and 478.
18. Deed
Book 25, p. 615.
19. Wilson
County, Will Book 1, pp. 37-38.
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any other
slaves reversional half-interest in other personal property ...
Coffield
Ellis, and (5) witnesses William... Benjamin Bynum.
Children of
Isaac Scarborough and wife, Nancy Tyson:
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2-2-1.
Queen Victoria Scarborough was born in February, 1850. On October
13, 1870,
in Wilson County, she married Thomas Felton (born in
1840), son
of John and Tanzy Felton. He was a Corporal in Company
E, 19
th
North
Carolina Cavalry Regiment, Confederate States Army.
2-2-2.
Isaac Susan Scarborough was born in 1853.
2-2-3.
Lawrence Scarborough was born 1857.
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CHAPTER VI.
DESCENDANTS
OF MAJOR JAMES SCARBOROUGH AND
PENELOPE EASON
Issue of
Major James Scarborough and Penelope Rasberry (?) Eason:
3.
The third
wife of Major James Scarborough, of whom we have
any record,
was Penelope Eason, widow of Obed Eason, who died 7-29-
1785. The
Scarborough Bible birth as March 26, 1749, and her death as
occurring
October 16, 1822, "age 72 years, and about seven months". Joab
Lane
Scarborough, grandson, said that Penelope's maiden name was
Rasberry,
and we assume that this is true, as her only son was named John
Rasberry
Scarborough, and the name has been continued in this branch of
the
Scarborough family. On November 28, 1793, James and Penelope,
lately the
wife of Obed Eason", petitioned the Edgecombe County Court for
her dower
on the lands of said Eason,
1
and on
February 28, 1798, James and
Penelope
Scarborough were appointed guardians of the orphans of Richard
and
Elizabeth Lyon and William and Penelope Phillips, and of Nathan Eason
on the
following day.
From the
above records we know that James and Penelope Eason
Scarborough
were married between 1785, the date of the death of Obed
Eason, and
1793, when the petition was presented to the Court for
Penelope's
dower from her late husband, Obed Eason. There is a marriage
record on
file in Bertie County, North Carolina, for a Penelope Eason and
William
Gardner, December 25, 1797, with Joel Cook as security, but
whether
there is any connection with Penelope Eason of Edgecombe County,
we do not
know.
The only
issue, so far as we know of James and Penelope Eason
Scarborough,
was Polly Parmer (Palmer) Scarborough, who married Joshua
B. Eason,
and John Rasberry Scarborough, who married Nancy Elizabeth
Watkins,
and removed to Alabama circa 1832.
Issue of
Major James Scarborough and Penelope Eason Scarborough:
1. John
Rasberry Scarborough, b. 1785, m. in 1812, Nancy Elizabeth
Watkins, of
Nash County, North Carolina, b.
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1. Court
Minutes, March 26, 1749 - October 19, 1822.
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1787, and
was his father's only son of this marriage. He was baptized into
the Baptist
Church by Elder Joshua Barnes, on November 8, 1811, according
to the
records in the Scarborough Bible. John Rasberry Scarborough moved
to Alabama
in 1832, and to Mississippi in 1838. *(He may have moved by
1826, as a
child was born there on that date.)
Joab Lane
Scarborough, son of the above John Rasberry Scarborough
from
Koskiusho, Mississippi, in a letter to Isaac Polk Scarborough in 1913,
at which
time he was ninety-one years old, said that his father had twenty-
one
children, but the Bible only lists twelve. However, we have the names
of two more
children who were born after the removal to Alabama, who
were listed
with John Rasberry Scarborough in the 1850 Census of Clarke
County,
Alabama: Peter, age 24 at that date, making his birth date 1826, and
Sarah, age
22, born in 1828.
From the
records in the Scarborough Bible, and from Census Records
in Clarke
and Sumter Counties in Alabama, and tombstone records in
cemeteries
in Sumter County, Alabama, and Attala County, Mississippi,
(Koskiusko),
we have the following:
Issue of
John Rasberry and Nancy Watkins Scarborough:
1-1. James
Richardson Scarborough, b. February 5, 1814.
1-2. Rev.
Abner R. Scarborough, b. January 31, 1815, d. 1888, buried
Bluffport
Cemetery, Sumter County, Alabama; left will in Sumter
County,
Alabama, dated August 27, 1887, probated May 8, 1889, and
recorded in
Will Book No. 3, p. 187. He names the following
children:
James T. Scarborough, b. 1850; Alice G. Hawkins; Ann C.
Hawkins, b.
1845; John > Scarborough, b. 1847; William H.
Scarborough;
Mary E. Hoit, b. 1849; Abner P. (Porter) Scarborough,
Andrew G.
Scarborough, and Maranda A. Gibbins.
Abner
Rasberry Scarborough married September 19, 1842, Sumter
County,
Alabama, Ruth Greer Talbot, b. 1822, in Tennessee. They were
married by
M. W. Christian, Minister of the Gospel, and bonded by William
P. Gould
who swore that A. R. Scarborough was over twenty-one. (Sumter
County,
Alabama, First Marriage Book, p. 231).
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*Biographical
and Historical Memoirs of Miss., Vol. 2, p. 723.
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1-3. Isaac
Watkins Scarborough, b. May 22, 1817, in north Carolina,* d.
June 7,
1901, buried in Koskiusko, Mississippi, m. Lucy Garrett, b.
June 5,
1826, in Virginia, d. April 8, 1886.
Issue of
Isaac Watkins and Lucy Garnett Scarborough: (From Census
and
Cemetery records, so there may have been others):
1-3-1. Otis
Woodbury Scarborough, b. 1848.
1-3-2. Male
infant, b. 1850, probably Othello C. Scarborough; m. Samantha,
in Attala
County, Mississippi, in 1880 Census.
In the
Scarborough cemetery plot in Koskiusko, Mississippi,
surrounded
by a black iron fence, with the names of I. W. and L. G.
Scarborough
on the iron gate, we found the following tombs, and data, with
all buried
in vaults:
1-3-3. Ida
Comora Scarborough, daughter of Isaac Watkins Scarborough,
and Lucy
Garnett Scarborough, 1852-1853.
1-3-4.
Oreano (?) Harrison Scarborough, March 14, 1854-June 26, 1855.
1-3-5.
Overton Davis Scarborough, Dec. 22, 1855-June 26, 1856.
1-3-6.
Fenton Garnett Scarborough, wife of J. Wade Fletcher, b. April 7,
1857, d.
March 4, 1923.
1-3-7.
Isaac Watkins Scarborough, b. Dec. 13, 1858, d. Nov. 22, 1892.
1-3-8.
Newton John Scarborough, b. Nov. 10, 1860, d. Aug. 27, 1861.
1-3-9.
Soule Simmes Scarborough, b. July 29, 1862, d. May 22, 1884.
1-3-10.
Dolla Pink
Scarborough, b. Dec. 6, 1864, d. Oct. 9, 1865.
1-3-11.
Willie
Precious Scarborough, b. Nov. 1, 1866, d. June 26, 1867.
1-3-12.
Lucy Lee
Scarborough Chestnut, 1869-1953.
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*The tomb
in the cemetery lists the birth of Isaac Watkins as April 17,
1816, but I
have used the date given in the Scarborough Bible.
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1-4.
Lawrence ... b. May 22, 1817, in North Carolina, m..., b. 1818.
Issue of
Lawrence and Caroline Scarborough:
1-4-1. Ann
(N...) Scarborough, b. 1836, in Koskiusko Mississippi.
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1-4-2.
Sarah E. Scarborough, b. 1837, in Mississippi.
1-4-3. Mary
E. Scarborough, b. 1842.
1-4-4.
Alice L. Scarborough, b. 1845.
1-4-5.
Willie Scarborough (male), b. 1849.
1-5. Susan
Parker Scarborough, b. December 3, 1818.
1-6. John
Rasberry Scarborough, Jr., b. February 28, 1820.
The above
John Rasberry Scarborough has not been identified in the
records of
Koskiusko, Mississippi, but a Dr. John W. Scarborough, with
wife,
Martha E., was located there in 1850, 1860, and 1870, whose birth is
the same as
that John Rasberry Scarborough, and the records may have been
confused.
He apparently had no issue.
1-7. Martha
Andrews Scarborough, b. April 3, 1821.
1-8. (Rev.)
Joab Lane Scarborough, b. July 16, 1822.
Rev. Joab
Lane Scarborough corresponded for some time with Isaac
Polk
Scarborough of Abilene, Texas, in 1913, when he was ninety-one years
old, but
did not list his children, nor mention the name of his wife. The
Census
records give only initials, hence there are hard to identify.
Joab Lane
Scarborough from the Census Records of 1850, 1860, and
1870, with
wife listed as F. E. A. Scarborough, b. 1835, apparently had the
following
children:
1-8-1. A.
L. Scarborough, male, b. 1856.
1-8-2. E.
J. Scarborough, female, b. 1862.
1-8-3. E.
W. Scarborough, male, b. 1864.
1-8-4. F.
W. Scarborough, male, b. 1867.
The Census
of 1880 lists three children still at home with the father:
A. L., E.
W., and F. W. We have been unable to learn just when Joab Lane
Scarborough
died, but his wife must have died between 1860-1870, for she
is not
listed in the 1870 and 1880 Census records.
1-9. Nancy
Margaret Scarborough, b. September 25, 1823.
1-10.
William Jesse Scarborough, b. October 24, 1824.
1-11.
Zillah Scarborough, b. February 24, 1827.
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Records of
John Rasberry Scarborough, son of Major James Scarborough:
Edgecombe
County, North Carolina, Deed Book 18, page 27,
December
28, 1820, John R. Scarborough, son of James, executor of will of
Elizabeth
M. Andrews, deed to Peter Evans, 300 acres of her land adjoining
Simon
Edwards, road, Scarborough. Richard Hines, witness.
Edgecombe
County, North Carolina, Deed Book 17, page 279, April
2, 1821,
Edwin Norvell to John R. Scarborough (for $500.00), agent of
Samuel
Ruffin, 120 S. Otter's Creek, adjoining Sarah Norvell, Cornfield
Branch,
Stephen Wooten. Witnesses: Elvin (E) Joyner and W. W. Ruffin.
Edgecombe
County, North Carolina, Deed Book 17, page 284, May 3,
1821, John
R. Scarborough, Executor of Eliz M. Andrews, deceased, deed to
Esther
Johnson (widow of Colonel Jonas Johnston) land South of Beaver
Dam Swamp,
adjoining Peter Evans. J. B. Eason and Peter Moore,
witnesses.
Edgecombe
County, N. C., Deed Book 17, page 479, James (I B) Burris to
John R.
Scarborough, trustee for John R. Eason, November 9, 1821, for
$325.00,
200 acres on Otter's Creek. Samuel Ruffin and Hardy F. (HB)
Burris.
Edgecombe
County, N. C., Deed Book 17, page 530, February 7,
1823. Sarah
(X) Norvell to John R. Scarborough for $126.21, agent for
Levina
Norvell. Dower right in deceased husband's land, stock, etc.
Benjamin
Moore and William Moore, witnesses.
Edgecombe
County, N. C., Deed Book 20, page 360, November 23,
1832, John
R. Scarborough of Edgecombe, to Isaac Scarborough of
Edgecombe,
for $500.00 in hard money, adjoining William Tyson, Spring
Branch,
Ruffin 196 1/2 acres. Turner Bynum and Wiley Belcher, witnesses.
This land
was probably sold in preparation for his move to Alabama.
2. The
second child of Major James Scarborough and Penelope Eason
Scarborough,
was Polly Palmer (Parmer) Scarborough, whose family
continued
to live in North Carolina. She was born in 1794, and married
Joshua
Barnes Eason, son of Coburn Eason and his wife, Elizabeth
Barnes,
daughter of Reverend Joshua Barnes of Pitt County, North
Carolina.
She was named, along with her children in the will of Major
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James
Scarborough. Her children, listed in the Scarborough Bible, were
as follows-
2-1.
Penelope Scarborough Eason, b. Edgecombe County, North Carolina,
March 8,
1813, d. March 16, 1869, m. January 12, 1832, Richard
Tilghman
Eagles, son of Levi and Tabitha Eagles, who was born
November
13, 1799, d. July 26, 1864, and buried on the old John
Eason farm.
They were listed in the Edgecombe County, North
Carolina,
Census of 1850, with the following children.
2-1-1. Mary
Eagles, b. 1834.
2-1-2.
Lorenzo Dow Eagles, b. 1837, Confederate soldier, who died of
wounds, May
24, 1864.
2-1-3.
Thomas B. Eagles, b. 1841.
2-1-4.
Zilpha Ann Eagles, b. 1844.
2-1-5.
Benjamin Franklin Eagles, b. May 28, 1846, Confederate soldier, d.
190.; m.
February 10, 1870, Sidney Elizabeth Bradley (1845-1910).
Issue:
2-1-5-1.
Benjamin Franklin Eagles, Jr. (1877-1950) was married three
times.
Issue by
first wife:
2-1-5-1-1.
Rebekah Eagles Moss.
2-1-5-1-2.
Margaret Eagles Overman.
2-1-5-1-3.
Benjamin Franklin Eagles.
2-1-5-1-4.
Joseph Elliott Eagles.
Issue by
second Wife:
2-1-5-1-5.
Robert Bradley Eagles.
Issue by
third wife, Elizabeth Butler, m. 1935:
2-1-5-1-6.
Francis Rogan Eagles, b. 1938.
2-1-6.
Sarah Louise Eagles, b. December 15, 1849, d. December 22, 1913,
m. July 28,
1870, Almon Leonidas Fountain 1842-1907)
2-1-6-1.
Lula
Fountain, b. Nov. 10, 1893, m. October 18, 1922, William
Leggett
Goodwyn b. May 3, 1889.
2-1-7. Dr.
Columber W. Eagles, b. Oct. 15, 1852, d. July 14, 1886, and
buried at
Crisp, near Mac Clesfield, Edgecombe County, North
Carolina.
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2-2. Bynum
Eason, b. July 2, 1814.
2-3.
Zoroann Eason, b. March 21, 1816.
2-4.
Millicent Eason, b. January 28, 1818.
2-5. Eliza
Lane Eason, b. June 28, 1819.
2-6. Martha
Ann Eason, b. March 9, 1821.
2-7. James
Scarborough Eason, b. April 28, 1823.
The Bible
of Major James Scarborough:
Through the
courtesy of Mrs. Benjamin F. Eagles of Crisp,
Edgecombe
County, North Carolina, I have photostats of pages from an old
Scarborough
Bible, with many early records of some of the members of the
family.
Mrs. Eagles' husband was the great great grandson of Major James
Scarborough,
through his daughter, Polly Parmer Scarborough. This
Scarborough
Bible was the possession of Penelope Eason Eagles, wife of
Richard
Tilghman Eagles, who was a grand-daughter of Major James
Scarborough,
and has been kept by the Eagles family. The old Eagles' home
was located
at Crisp, and the Scarborough home was near Saratoga, just
about ten
miles away. The Bible was printed in Edinburgh Scotland, in
1795, and
recites that it is the Bible of James Scarborough, but it has no
records in
it of any members of the family except those of John Rasberry
Scarborough
and Polly P. Eason. By 1795, when this Bible was printed,
James
Scarborough's first two wives had been dead for many years, and the
children of
those marriages had moved to widely scattered states. Zilly
Scarborough's
death is recorded, but neither Isaac Scarborough nor Martha
Scarborough,
the last wife of Major James, are mentioned.
Some of the
writing is very hard to read, and time and the weather
have
completely obliterated some of the entries. There are no marriage
records
listed, and it seems that some of the pages have been lost.
Though no
date of birth or death was given for John Rasberry, son of
Major James
and Penelope,
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IMAGES
HOME OF
MAJOR JAMES SCARBOROUGH IN WILSON COUNTY,
NORTH
CAROLINA.
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an entry
listed in the date of his baptism. The entry was as follows: "John
R.
Scarborough was baptized on November 8, 1811, by Elder Joshua Barnes,
pastor of
the church at Old Town Creek, departed this life August 1, 1816".
Joab Lane
Scarborough, in a letter to Isaac Polk Scarborough in 1913,
at which
time he was ninety-one years old, said that his father, John
Rasberry
Scarborough, had twenty-one children, but the Bible only lists
twelve.
John R. Scarborough moved to Alabama in 1832,
2
and to
Mississippi
in 1838, and it may be that he had other children after he
removed
from North Carolina.
Second only
in interest to this Scarborough Bible is the old home of
Major James
Scarborough, which is still standing, and owned by
descendants
of Isaac Scarborough, son of Major James. It is located in
present
Wilson County, North Carolina, about one mile north of Saratoga,
on the old
road from Stantonsburg to Tarboro, in the part that was cut off in
1855 from
Edgecombe County, when Wilson county was formed. The
present
owners, Mr. And Mrs. Donohue White Bryant, are descendants of
Isaac
Scarborough, and the line of descent is as follows: Donohue White
Bryant is
the son of Albert Sydney Bryant and Addie Owen, grandson of
James
Bryant and Susan Scarborough, who was the daughter of Isaac
Scarborough,
son of Major James Scarborough. Major James, in his will,
left this
home to his wife, Martha, and his unmarried daughter, Zilly, during
their
lifetime. Isaac was the only one of the sons who remained in North
Carolina,
so it is probable that he purchased the property from other heirs.
On an old
chimney of the house is the date, June 26, 1830, but
members of
the family believe that the house was built much earlier. There
is an old
cemetery across the way from the house, but a few wooden markers
with all
names and dates obliterated, are all that remain to indeicate that any
graves were
ever there. If there were ever any stone monuments there, they
have been
removed by vandals long ago.
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CHAPTER
VII.
MAJOR JAMES
SCARBOROUGH AND MARTHA TARTT
EASON
SCARBOROUGH
Major James
Scarborough and Marth Tartt Eason:
4. The
fourth wife of Major James Scarborough, according to our
records,
was Martha Tartt Eason, widow of Abner Eason, who was a brother
of Obed
Eason, first husband of Penelope Rasberry Eason Scarborough.
Martha
Tartt was the daughter of Jonathan Tart and his wife, Catherine, and
is named in
her father's will, proved in Edgecombe County Court in 1789.
(Book 3, p.
87).
On November
18, 1823, James Scarborough and Martha Eason
entered
into a marriage agreement in which James transfers to his son, John
R.
Scarborough, with Martha's consent, all property, real and personal, and
relinquishes
any dower rights on her estate. Witness: John Dunford.
1
It is
presumed
that James Scarborough and Martha were married shortly after
that time,
though the marriage may not have taken place until 1826, for on
November
26, 1826, James Scarborough transfers to his son, John R.
Scarborough,
for love, "The plantation where he and I now live", south of
Johnston's
Mill Swamp, also Pearney plantation on the north side of the
swamp, and
five slaves, reserving life estate in same. Witness: Richard
Hines.
2
Just a few
days earlier, November 18, 1826, James and Martha
Scarborough,
deed Abner Eason, land from Martha's late husband, Abner
Eason,
located south of Baggett's branch, and six slaves for love and
$300.00.,
reserving Martha's life estate in the land and one slave
3
. On
February
26, 1827, John Dunford appeared in Court and proved the marriage
contract
between James Scarborough and Martha Eason. There was no issue
of this
marriage.
On February
23, 1837, Abner Eason, W. D. Petway, Martha
Scarborough
(wife of James), sold to Bassett Sykes, 640 acres north of
Contentnea
Creek, adjoining Baggett Branch, "the thoroughfare", Bennett
Eason
(formerly Coburn Eason line), for $1850.00. Bryan Barnes, witness.
4
Major James
Scarborough had died on March 1, 1836.
The first
record found in Edgecombe County of purchase of land by
James
Scarborough was on May 13, 1769, when
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1. Deed
Book 18, p. 540.
2. Deed
Book 18, p. 512.
3. Deed
Book 18, p. 514
4.
Edgecombe County, N. C., Deed Book 22, p. 158.
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Robert
Wright son him 100 acres South of Town Creek, adjoining Jacob
Dunn and
Solomon Forehand, the purchase price being seven pounds
Proclamation
Money, (State Script, and not hard money or "specie".)
5
He
appears to
have sold this land on September 21, 1770, to Solomon Forehand,
for 19
pounds Proclamation Money.
6
Other
records found among the Deeds
of
Edgecombe County are as follows:
Patent Book
31, p. 22, James Scarborough No. 22, File No. 1816,
entered
June 4, 1778, issued December 10, 1778, 365 1/4 acres South of
Jacob
Johnston's Mill Swamp, adjoining James Johnston, James
Scarborough,
and Edward Sumrell.
Edgecombe
County, N. C., Deed Book 3, p. 491, December 10, 1778,
Governor
Richard Caswell, to James Scarborough, for fifty shillings per
hundred,
365 1/4 acres South of Jacob Johnston's Mill Swamp, adjoining
self, Jonas
Johnston, Edward Sumrell. (Patent Book 31, p. 22, above.)
Edgecombe
County, N. C., Deed Book 4, p. 67, October 9, 1780,
James
Scarborough, Planter of Edgecombe, to Samuel Scarborough, for 40
pounds
current N. C. money, 40 acres, adjoining Sarah Scarborough,
Dunagan's
Mill Branch. Witnesses: John Perry, Phillip Perry, and Peter
Cartwright.
Edgecombe
County, N. C., Deed Book 9, p. 481, Land Grant, to
James
Scarborough, No. 623, at 51 shillings per hundred acres, Governor
Richard
Dobbs Speight grant of 36 acres South of Town Creek, adjoining
Solomon
Phillips, William Stokes, Dempsey Stokes, entered June 10, 1782,
and granted
December 5, 1794. (See also Patent Book 86, p. 130.)
Edgecombe
County, N. C., Deed Book 4, p. 489, December 1, 1786,
Peter
Hines, John Ellis, Hezekiah Cartwright, Owen Cravey, Henry Holland,
Henry Hines,
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over their
brother Joel's part of their father's estate, decree that Samuel sell
the land in
dispute, and divide the proceeds among all surviving brothers.
Edgecombe
County, N. C., Deed Book 8, page 126, Land Grant No.
607, for 10
pounds per hundred acres, Gov. Alexander Martin grant for 100
acres to
James Scarborough, at head of Autrey's Creek (sometimes spelled
Otter's
Creek), adjoining Beauty Spot Pocoson, Abraham Brinkley, entered
February
11, 1789, and granted on November 27, 1792. (See also Patent
Book 78, p.
506).
Edgecombe
County, N. C., Deed Book 8, p. 464, November 19, 1793,
Amos
Johnston to James Scarborough for
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5.
Edgecombe County, N. C., Deed Book D, p. 169.
6.
Edgecombe County, N. C., Deed Book D, p. 290.
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$150.00
silver dollars, 140 acres North of Beaver Dam Swamp, adjoining
Dempsey
Skinner, Miry Meadow Branch, John Perminter. Witness: Amos
Quinn and
John Colwell.
Edgecombe
County, N. C., Deed Book 8, p. 896, December 26, 1797,
James
Scarborough to William Phillips for 50 pounds, 100 acres at the head
of Autrey's
Creek on Beauty Spot Pocosin adjoining Abraham Brinkley. J.
Colwell and
Wright Perminter, witnesses.
Edgecombe
County, N. C., Deed Book 9, p. 187, April 20, 1799, James
Scarborough
to Amos Johnston (brother to the late Colonel Jonas Johnston),
for $36.00
silver dollars, 36 acres south of Town Creek, on Little Swamp,
adjoining
Solomon Phillips (now Wm. Phillips'), William Stokes, Amos
Johnston,
Dempsey Stokes, (Scarborough's Patent of December 5, 1794.)
Witnesses:
Henry Hines and Shadrack Owens.
Edgecombe
County, N. C., Deed Book 21, p. 39, November 30, 1833.
Elizabeth
and John Dunford to James Scarborough, for $50.00, 30 acres
west of Cow
Branch, adjoining Thomas Dunford, Amos Wooten, Amos
Johnston,
John R. Scarborough, and the road. Witnesses: Richard T. Eagles
and Joshua
B. Eason.
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Edgecombe
County, N. C., Deed Book 14, p. 285. On August 22,
1810, David
Pitt (brother of Keziah Pitt Johnston) of Lower Town Creek,
sold James
Scarborough, of Edgecombe County, for $300.00 silver dollars,
one certain
Negro girl named Treecy, aged about twelve years, with all her
increase
forever hereafter, witnessed by John R. Scarborough. The Bill of
Sale was
proved in the August Court, 1812, by the oath of John R.
Scarborough.
The record is from the original deed, with the actual signature
of James
Scarborough.
In the 1790
Census of Edgecombe County, North Carolina, Halifax
District,
James Scarborough was listed with two males over sixteen,
including
head of the family, five males under sixteen, and six females, and
six slaves.
It is probable that some of these children were step-children, as
all of the
children of the first marriage, of whom we have any record, had
moved away
from North Carolina at this time, and so far as we know, Isaac,
Polly
Palmer Scarborough, John Rasberry, and Zillah, were the only children
left in
Edgecombe County, North Carolina.
The record
of James Scarborough's participation in the Revolutionary
War was
secured from his Pension Application and from the North Carolina
Revolutionary
Army.
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CHAPTER
VIII.
MAJOR JAMES
SCARBOROUGH
REVOLUTIONARY
SOLDIER
Major James
Scarborough was born November 29, 1748, in
Southampton
County, Virginia, and came with his parents, David and Sarah
Scarborough,
to Edgecombe County, North Carolina, when he was ten years
old. About
the time of the Scotch defeat at the Battle of Moore's Creek
Bridge,
February 17, 1776, he enlisted for thirty days as a Sergeant in the
Company of
Captain Jonas Johnston, and Col. Henry Irwin, of Edgecombe
County.
1
Captain
Johnston was fatally wounded at the Battle of Stone Ferry
on June 20,
1779, having already attained the rank of Col. Of the North
Carolina
Militia.
2
Col. Henry
Erwin had been commissioned Lieutenant
Colonel on
September 9, 1775, and was killed at the Battle of Germantown
on October
4, 1777.
3
James
Scarborough volunteered as Captain of a Company of
Edgecombe
County Militia, as did Henry Irwin Toole, and marched under
Col. Henry
Hart to Virginia to assist in expelling Lord Dunmore, when he
"laid
to waste the country and caused Norfolk to be burnt", January 1, 1776.
They
arrived too late to take part in the affair at Great Bridge, on December
9
th
, and
returned subsequently to North Carolina to complete this tour of
three
months. Captain Toole was commissioned in the Second North
Carolina
Regiment on September 1, 1775, and resigned in April of 1776.
4
The
Revolutionary Pension Claim of Micajoh Pettaway says that he
volunteered
on August 1, 1780, under Ensign Randolph Hancock, 1
st
Lieutenant
Jesse Howard, Captain James Scarborough, Lt. Col. Branch, and
Col. Henry
Hart. Their Regiment was organized near Wake Court House on
September 1
st
, and
marched under Gen. Allen Jones to Hillsborough and
Charlotte,
where they spent a month in irregular movements in South
Carolina,
and around a place called New Providence, serving there under
General
William Smallwood.
5
James
Scarborough's original deposition
concerning
this is also in the Pettaway file.
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1. Rev.
Pension Claim No. S, 7467.
2. Heitman,
p. 322.
3. N. C. D.
A. R. Roster, p. 502.
4. Heitman,
p. 545.
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In 1780
according to James Scarborough's own account, he
volunteered
again as Captain of a Company of Militia, under Lieutenant Col.
Branch,
Col. Henry Hart, of Edgecombe, and Gen. Allen Johns, of
Northampton.
His commission signed by Governor Richard Caswell, was
dated March
4
th
1780. They
did some marching in North Carolina before
joining the
Continental Army at New Providence, on the border of South
Carolina,
commanded by Brigadier General William Smallwood, of
Maryland. Scarborough was in the detachment that Gen. Smallwood
sent,
under Col.
William Richardson Davie, commissioned on Sept. 5, 1780, to
assist Col.
James Williams of the South Carolina State Cavalry. They
arrived too
late for the Battle of King's Mountain, fought on October 7,
1780, but
had a nice little skirmish on the way. They returned to
Smallwood's
headquarters and after a few days were sent to get some corn in
the
possession of the Tories, near a fort on Crance Creek, in South Carolina.
Captain
Scarborough brought back such accurate information about the
weakness of
the enemy that Smallwood and Col. William Washington, of
Virginia,
were enabled to capture them all. Since he was the oldest Captain
in the
North Carolina Regiment, he was temporarily given the commission
of Major
and served until about the middle of January, or perhaps five
months
later, and returned to his home.
The
Revolutionary Pension Claim of Joel Cahoon says that he was
mustered
for three months in June 1781, at Tarborough, under Ensign
William
Fort, Lieutenant Hall, Captain James Wilson,
Major
James
Scarborough
, and Col.
Henry Hart, for the purpose of pursuing the Tories in
the neighboring
counties, and that Col. Hart discharged him at Tarborough at
the end of
the tour.
6
After
participating for about a month in an informal expedition against
the Tories
of Eastern North Carolina, continued Scarborough's account, he
volunteered
again with the rank of Captain of a Militia Company, under
Major Gen.
Richard Caswell (died on November 20, 1789), to meet the
British
threat against Wilmington. At Kingston, they united with Col.
Abraham
Shepard's (of Dobbs County), Regiment, before marching into
Onslow
County. He was in service about three months and resigned on the
last of
November 1781. However, he continued to be active in the military
affairs of
Edgecombe County and on December 20, 1787, the General
Assembly of
North Carolina appointed him Second
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5. Pension
Claim No. W. 8576.
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Major of
Edgecombe County Regiment of Militia, and First Major in 1795.
6
On February
25, 1833, James Scarborough applied for a Federal
Pension for
his Revolutionary services. It was issued on July 31, 1833, but
was
retroactive to March 4, 1833, at the rate of $225.00 per year. He died
on March 1,
1836, and the last payment was made at the Fayetteville office
on June 29,
1836, to James Hart, attorney for the widow, Martha
Scarborough.
7
James
Scarborough made his will in the Saratoga neighborhood of
Edgecombe,
now Wilson County, on May 12, 1835, and it was probated in
May Court,
1836.
8
It provided
that, (1) his wife Martha and daughter Zilly
should have
the use of the home plantation north of the swamp; (2)
grandchildren,
Millicent Eason, Elizabeth Eason, Martha Eason, and James
S. Eason,
equal shares of the slaves and their increase; (3) daughter Polly P.
Eason, wife
of Joshua B. Eason, use of the plantation where she was living,
and then to
her daughter, Penelope Eason Eagles; (4) son, John R.
Scarborough
and daughter, Polly P. Eason, equal shares of notes, bonds and
money
coming from sale of stock; (5) son, John R. Scarborough, 196 acres
and seven
slaves; (6) Executors, Stephen Wooten and Richard T. Eagles; and
(7)
witnesses, Stephen Edwards and Rial Edwards.
An
Inventory and Account of Sales was filed in the Edgecombe
County
Court on March 1, 1836, September 20, 1836, and on December 6,
1836,
giving an interesting account of the personal property sold at auction,
the amount
paid for each item, and the names of the persons who made the
purchase.
9
There was
another James Scarborough who was a Revolutionary
soldier
from North Carolina, who received a pension for his services, but we
have for no
records connecting him with the family of Major James
Scarborough,
of Edgecombe County, North Carolina. His record is included
in this
history, so that there will be no confusion concerning the two men.
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7. N. C.
State Records XX, pp. 273 and 461; N. C. Archives Dept., G. D.
147, p. 67.
Pension Claim No. S, 7467.
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8. Will
Book F, pp. 189-190.
9.
Inventory and Accounts, 1816-1842. Edgecombe County, pp. .....
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Rev. War
Pension of James Scarborough, W. 17783
Declaration:
November 3, 1818, Caswell County, N. C., by James
Scarborough,
age 68, of Rockingham County, North Carolina, swears that he
enlisted in
Loudon County, Virginia, for 18 months, in May 1779, "or
thereabouts",
as a private in Capt. Benjamin Lawson's Co. Va. Line, on
Continental
establishment. He was under the command of Col. John John
Green
(formerly of Culpepper Co., Va.), and Lt. Col. Benjamin Haws or
Haus,
formerly of Fredericksburg, Va.
He served
until March 15, 1781; in January 1781, he was in the battle
of Guilford
where he received a severe gun shot wound in the ankle and foot
which made
it necessary to be left behind. He stayed at the house of Capt.
Peter
O'Neal in Guilford County, now Rockingham county, until his
Regiment
was discharged, after the making of peace. He remained in
Rockingham
county, a great distance from where he enlisted.
David
Little, Esq., testified knowing James Scarborough, and seeing
him
disabled in 1781, etc. He also was in the battle of Cowpens. James
Scarborough
made Declaration Nov. 3, 1820, and lists his property as: 5
hogs valued
at $10.00, necessary bedding and clothing excepted. He was a
stone
mason, and well digger but unable to work to support himself and
wife, age
65, and a young woman about 14, an orphan, who he had raised.
Declaration
of John Scarborough, of Rockingham County, N. C., age 64,
May 25,
1846:
John
Scarborough of above county, swears that he is the only heir at
law of
Sarah Scarborough; that James Scarborough died April 13, 1839,
leaving the
declarant the only heir. He believes to the best of his knowledge,
that his
parents were married in 1781. His Bible records have been
misplaced.
The marriage records had not been found, but John Walker, age
78, swears
that he was present at the wedding of James Scarborough and
Sarah
Martin, who were married by William Clark, Esq., at his (John
Walker's)
father's house in Rockingham County, North Carolina.
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William
Conner, of Rockingham Co., N. C., makes affidavit
supporting
the claim of John Scarborough. Similar affidavits were made by
Samuel H.
Walker, and John B. Young, Bayliss Lynn, and John Taylor of
Rocking ham
County, North Carolina.
James
Scarborough received $8.00 per month under Act of 1818;
Sarah
Scarborough received $60.00 per annum under Act of 1838.
Will of
Major James Scarborough, Edgecombe County, North
Carolina.
May the
Twelfth day in the Year of one thousand eight hundred and
thirty
five, I, James Scarborough of the County of Edgecombe and State of
North
Carolina being in a low state of health but in reasonable sense and
knowing the
certainty of death, wishing to dispose of my worldly goods in
manner and
form following, that is to say:
I. I lend
unto my loving wife Martha and daughter Zilly Scarborough
jointly
together the plantation whereon I now live, also the plantation on the
North side
of the swamp adjoining to the same with all my crop both in dore
and out
dore with all my household and kitchen goods and furniture, and
brandy
still and cider implements. I also lend to them a parcel of Negroes
that is to
say, Nan, Aggy, Simon, Silvy, Lemon, Washington, Sumpter, and
young Aggy,
and Haywood, these eight Negroes and their increase I lend
them
jointly together to my wife and daughter Zilly but by no means to be
hired out
but to remain on the plantation to labor for them during their
natural
lives. After their deaths I give the aforesaid Negroes by name tand
their
increase to my grand daughters and my grandson Millicent Eason,
Elizabeth
Eason and James S. Eason, daughters and son of Joshua B. Eason
to be
equally divided between the above named grand children at the death
of my wife
and daughter Zilly, to their use and benefit forever. If either or
any of the
above named children dies the surviving one has it all. I also lend
my stock of
horses, cattle, hogs, and sheep with all of my living stock of
every kind
jointly to my wife and daughter Zilly during their natural life and
at their
death my will is it should be sold on a twelve months credit by
giving bond
with approved security to the Executors, and the money arising
from the
same is to be equally divided between John R. Scarborough and
Polly P.
Eason, wife of Joshua B. Eason, to their use and benefit forever,
also all my
judgments, notes, and accounts to be collected, and after paying
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my lawful
debts out of the same the balance to be equally divided between
the same
John R. Scarborough and Polly P. Eason and all my ready money,
if any, I
want equally divided between my wife and daughter Zilly to their
use and
benefit. My will is that the plantation whereon Joshua B. Eason
now lives I
leave it with my daughter Polly P. Eason during her life without
interruption
and after her death I give it to my grand daughter Penelope
Eason, now
Eagles, to her and her heirs lawfully begotten of her body.
I have
given to my son John R. Scarborough the land whereon he did
live, one
hundred and ninety six acres; I also have given him three likely
Negroes
when he went away, and now I give him four more after my death,
their names
being as follows: Luke, Gilford, Orange, and Willis. The above
Negroes are
not to be carried away without a lawful authority either by
himself or
his heirs of Executors. I now desire this to be my last will and
testament
and do appoint my friends Stephen Wooten and Richard T. Eagles
Executors
to this my last will and testament in witness whereof I have set
my hand and
fix my seal the day and date above written.
James
Scarborough (seal)
Witnesses:
Stephen
Edwards
Real
Edwards.
NORTH
CAROLINA SCARBOROUGH CENSUS
RECORDS FOR
1790
Montgomery
County, Salisbury District:
James and
John, Both slaves.
Edgecombe
County, Halifax District:
Major James
Scarborough: 2 males over 16; 5 males under 16, and 6
females. 5
slaves.
Capt.
Samuel Scarborough, 1 male over 16, 2 males under 16; and 5
females. 2
slaves.
Rockingham
County, Salisbury District:
James
Scarborough, Revolutionary Soldier. Not identified with the
Scarboroughs
of Edgecombe County.
Sampson
County, Fayette District:
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*John
Scarborough, Benjamin and Michael.
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*In August
1783, the Auditors of Wilmington District allowed John
Scarborow
Certificate No. 1153 for 8-4-0 from Oct. 16, 1781.
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Wake
County, Hillsborough District:
John
Scarborough; Samuel Scarborough and Samuel, Jr., both
Revolutionary
Soldiers.
Currituck
County, Edenton District:
Edward;
Ignatius; George; George, Jr.; Austin; William; Mary, and
Ruth.
Perquimans
County, Edenton District:
Benjamin
Scarborough.
Camden
County, Edenton District:
Christopher
Sharborough.
Pasquotank
County, Edenton District:
Luke,
Joseph and Jehu.
Montgomery
County, Salisbury District:
John and
James Scarber.
Beauford
County, New Bern District:
Benjamin
Scarborough.
Dobbs
County, New Bern District:
(Upper part
of Dobbs County became Glasgow in 1791, and Greene in
1799; Lower
part of the county became Lenoir in 1791.)
Nathan,
Martha, Jesse, and Benjamin.
Nathan
Scarborough. In 1782 he enlisted for 18 months as a private
in Captain
Joseph Thodes' Company, Colonel Abraham's 10
th
N. C.
Infantry
Regiment,
The Continental Line. (Nor. Car. D. A. R. Roster, Durham, 1932,
p.167.) In
September, 1791, Nathan Scarborough, Certificate No. 2,
received
1-0-0 plus 0-8-0 interest from Comptroller John Haywood, Public
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Treasurer.
(N. C. Rev. Army Accounts, VII, 28, f. 4, in the State Archives.)
(There was
a Nathaniel Scarborough in Craven County in 1790 with only
himself.)
Martha
Scarborough. Perhaps she was the widow of Nathan
Scarborough.
On December 10, 1788, there was delivered to Simon Totvine
of Dobbs
County for the heirs of Nathan Scarborough, Grant No. 3683 for
640 acres
for 84 months of military service (State Archives, Military I and...
Jesse
Scarborough received through Mr. Barnhill a certificate for 1-0-
0 plus
0-9-8 interest, total 1-9-8, passed by the Treasurer's Office in
December,
1789 (N. C. Revolutionary Army Accounts, IX, p. 13, f. 4). In
July of
1790, the Treasurer paid the Comptroller, who delivered it to
Benjamin
Caswell, Sheriff of Dobbs County, Certificate No. 1093, for 9-0-0,
plus
interest of 3-4-6 (N> C. Rev. Army Accounts, VII, p. 92, f. 1).
Benjamin
Scarborough. In 1781, Comptroller's Office at Kinston,
Militia of
N. C. allowed by the Auditors of New Bern Military District,
Benjamin
Scarborough of Dobbs County received voucher No. 298, 10 1-
13-8 specie
for clothing (State Archives, Accounts of Comptroller's Office,
Book D,
1777-1783, p. 143.)
(All the
early records of Dobbs and Greene Counties have been
destroyed
down to about 1876).
Craven
County, New Bern District:
Nathaniel.
Carteret
County, New Bern District:
Thomas and
William.
New Hanover
County, Wilmington District:
Thomas
Scarborough.
Franklin
County, Halifax District:
Edward and
Peter.
Anson
County, Fayette District:
Rebecca
Scarborough.
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Scarborough
South Carolina Census Records of 1790:
Charleston
District, St. Philip and St. Michael's Parish:
William
Scarborough.
Orange
District, South part:
William
Scarborough.
Claremont
County, Cambden District: p. 18:
Anderson
Scarborough
Addison
Scarborough
(Anderson
and Addison may have been the same man.)
Lancaster
County, Cambden District:
Benjamin
and John Scarborough.
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CHAPTER IX.
LAWRENCE
SCARBOROUGH AND
HIS
DESCENDANTS
1-2-5-1.
Lawrence Scarborough, eldest child of Major James
Scarborough,
of Edgecombe County, North Carolina, and his
first wife,
whose name we do not know, was born in
Edgecombe
County, North Carolina October 22, 1767, and died
in Union
Parish, Louisiana, October 1, 1846. Though the
Family
Bible, with names and dates of Lawrence's parents and
his
brothers (and sister, if there were any), was lost in the
remarkable
meanderings of Lawrence through the Western
Country, we
do have family records of Lawrence' children,
giving the
date of birth of Lawrence and his father, and letters
and reports
from various members of the family certifying to
the fact
that Lawrence was the son of Major James
Scarborough.
Among these old letters was one from Margaret
Scarborough
(Rogers) in 1879, daughter of Lawrence, who was
born in
1833, and another was from Joab Lane Scarborough, in
1913, son
of John Rasberry Scarborough, written in his ninety-
first year.
In this letter he says that Major James Scarborough
was married
five times and had twenty-five children, though his
fifth wife
had no children, and that his father, John Rasberry
Scarborough,
was the only son of the fourth wife. He
remembered
that his father, John Rasberry Scarborough,
corresponded
with "Uncle Lawrence" while he was living in
Louisiana.
There is a tradition in the family that Lawrence
Scarborough
witnessed the surrender of Cornwallis at
Yorktown,
where he had gone to take some clothes to his
father,
Major James Scarborough. He was a boy of fourteen at
that date,
and he related this story to his children many times.
Major James
Scarborough left a will in Edgecombe County,
North
Carolina, in 1836, but as he only names his last wife, Martha,
and three
children, to-wit, Zilly, a daughter; John R., and a daughter,
Polly P.
Eason, wife of Joshua B. Eason, it does not help us in
untangling
the family records. Children of his other marriages had
married and
moved away many years before his death, so it is not
surprising
that he does not mention them in his will. Though Joab
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Lane
Scarborough says that Major James was married five times, we
can only
find evidence of four marriages. Besides the mother of
Lawrence these
were: Grace Clark... whom he married in 1793, and
Martha
Eason, whom he married in 1827. The fact that Major James
was about
thirty-seven years of age at the time he was married to
Grace Clark
is further evidence that there was another marriage before
this time,
as men of that day rarely waited that long to marry, and in
the 1790
Census he was listed with eleven children.
Family
tradition says that Lawrence Scarborough was married
four times
and had thirty-two children, be we have only found three
wives and
twenty-two children. His first wife, according to the
records
that we have was Agnes Stringer, probably the daughter of
Daniel
Stringer of North Carolina, by whom he had ten children. His
second wife
was a widow, Mrs. Elizabeth Given, by whom he had
three
children; and his third wife, whom he married in 1824, after
moving to
Louisiana, was Sarah Conn, by whom he had nine children.
From a Deed
in Trust to Ashel and Bryan Gardner, his son-in-law, in
Jefferson
County, Mississippi, July 24, 1820,* in which he makes
provision
for his children and step-children, and the report of Sarah
Conn
Scarborough, in Union Parish, Louisiana, in 1846, as
Administrator
of the Lawrence Scarborough Estate, we have compiled
the
following list of the children of Lawrence Scarborough and his
three known
wives:
Children of
Lawrence Scarborough and Agnes Stringer:
1. Asa
Scarborough, m. Hannah Gardner, in Jefferson County,
Mississippi,
January 17, 1822. (Marriage Book "A", p. 174.)
2. Silas
Scarborough, m. 1) in Jefferson County, Mississippi, Harriett
Connell,
April 22, 1824. (Marriage Book "A", p. 209); 2) in Bienville
Parish,
Louisiana, May 12, 1832, Rachel Russell, daughter of Samuel
Russell and
Elizabeth Doughty.
3. Zilla
Ann Scarborough, m. before 1820, to Bryan Gardner.
4. Polly
(Mary) Scarborough, m. before 1820, Thomas Lacy of
Louisiana.
(Jefferson County records also list a marriage of a Mary
Scarborough
to John I. Lester, June 21, 1826, though this may not be
the same
person.)
5. Alice Scarborough,
m. before 1820, to Aaron Cox of Louisiana.
6. Allen
Scarborough. Residence unknown.
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7. Nancy
(Ann) Scarborough, m. before 1820, John Weatherlee, of
Mississippi.
8. Lawrence
Scarborough, Jr.
9. John Scarborough,
Residence, Arkansas.
10.
Elizabeth Scarborough, m. February 22, 1821, Jefferson County,
Mississippi,
to David Cook (Book A, p. 163). She was not mentioned
by Sarah
Conn Scarborough in 1846, so she may have died intestate
before that
date.
Children of
Lawrence Scarborough and Mrs. Elizabeth Given:
11. Jackson
M. Scarborough, of Louisiana.
12. Martha
(Patsy) Scarborough, m. John Driskill. Residence, Arkansas.
13. Lydia
Agnes Scarborough, under fifteen in 1820.
Children of
Lawrence Scarborough and Sarah Conn Scarborough:
14. Philiip
De Kalb Scarborough, b. 1829.
15. Laura
Scarborough, b. 1831, and died circa 1860.
16. Maude
Scarborough, b. 1833, and died circa 1862.
17. Rebecca
Scarborough, b. 1834, in Arkansas.
18.
Margaret A. Scarborough, b. 1837.
19.
Lafayette D. Scarborough, b. 1839, in Louisiana.
20. Sarah
M. Scarborough, b. 1841, in Louisiana.
21. William
Tyler Scarborough, b. 1843, in Louisiana.
22. Isaac
Polk Scarborough, b. 1846, in Louisiana.
In addition
to these twenty-two children, Lawrence Scarborough also
names six
step-children in his Deed of Trust in Jefferson County,
Mississippi,
in 1820, children of his second wife, Mrs. Elizabeth Given, by
her first
husband: Ruth, Pamela, Catherine, Elizabeth, Martin, and Lucinda
Given.
Lawrence
Scarborough undoubtedly settled first in Burke County,
Georgia,
when he moved from North Carolina, and though we found no
Land Grants
for him there, an interesting document, listing his name in
Burke
County, was found among some loose papers in an old record book in
the office
of the Clerk of the Court, in RICHMOND COUNTY, GEORGIA,
of all
places. Just WHY this record was on file in Richmond County I do
not know.
The list was copied by Mrs. John F. Humphrey, native of Burke
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County, who
has done considerable research in old Georgia records. The
document
was listed as follows:
"General
List of Land Lots, Buildings and Wharves, owned,
possessed
and occupied on the first day of October, 1790, within the Second
Assessment
Division, in the county of Burke, State of Georgia, excepting
only such
Dwellings, Houses, Outhouses, with their appurtenances and the
lots on
which they are erected, not exceeding two acres in any case, or above
the value
of one hundred dollars." The following Scarboroughs were listed:
Lawrence,
Shadrack, Samuel, Miles, Aaron, Allen, and Rachel, and Josiah,
Noah,
Charles and John
Stringer
. In the
Lottery of 1803, Allen, Aaron,
Samuel, and
Shadrack Scarborough drew from Burke County, in addition to
Addison,
Daniel, Hardy, Ichabod, and Jonathan. All of these men were
married and
had two draws, except Addison and Jonathan. Lawrence
Scarborough
had evidently left Burke County by this time, as he was not
listed in
the Lottery of that year in Burke, and we know that in 1807, he was
in Bulloch
County, Georgia.
On May 22,
1807, "Reverend Lawrence Scarborough" was granted a
tract of
500 acres on Ashes Swamp, in Bulloch County, Georgia, (Play Book
A, p. 356
of Bulloch County), and on October 15, 1807, he was granted a
Passport by
the Governor of Georgia, through the Creek and Cherokee
Indian
Nations, to the Western Country. He was recommended by Charles
McCall,
Judge of the Inferior Court, George McCall, and William Parker, of
Bulloch
County. The recommendation recited that "Reverend Lawrence
Scarborough
has lived in this state for the term of fifteen years, as a good
citizen,
well disposed amongst his neighbors, and has used industry for the
interest of
his family".
Unfortunately
the early records of Burke County have been destroyed,
and it has
been impossible to locate records there, though the Georgia State
Archives
contain some meager records. From those records I learned that
one of the
early churches of the county was the Bark Camp Baptist Church,
and among
members listed there in 1805 were: Miles Scarborough, Pastor,
who also
paid taxes in Montgomery County, Georgia, in that year; Rachel
Scarborough,
Samuel Scarborough, Jonathan Scarborough, and Elizabeth
Scarborough.
Lemuel Scarborough's orphans drew in the Lottery of 1820
from Burke
County, as well as Mary, Samuel, and William Scarborough..
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Listed in
the Militia Records in the Georgia State Archives from
Burke
County, Georgia, were the following:
Ichabod
Scarborough, Lieut. Burke County Militia, September 5, 1803;
Joel
Scarborough, Capt. 75
th
District,
Burke Co. Militia, August 4, 1807;
Moses
Scarborough, Capt. Light Infantry Co., 17
th
Bat., Burke
Co. Militia,
July 30,
1804;
Shadrack
Scarborough, Lieut. Vol. Infantry Co., Burke Co. Militia, January
23,
1799-May 20, 1801, and Capt. 1801-1804.
Lawrence
Scarborough, with his family, probably left Bulloch
County,
Georgia, for the Mississippi Territory, soon after receiving his
Passport in
1807, and settled in Jefferson County, Mississippi. He must of
disposed of
his 500 acres on Ashes Swamp in Bulloch County, Georgia,
though no
record has been found of any transfer.
On December
22, 1809, Jonathan and David Scarborough, of Bulloch
County,
Georgia, received Passports from the Governor of Georgia, to travel
through the
Creek Nation of Indians with their families, and in 1810 we find
them
located in Jefferson County, Mississippi, and listed on the Tax Rolls
and Census
Records of Mississippi Territory. They were evidently brothers
of Lawrence
and had followed him to Mississippi. On November 1, 1807,
(Deed Book
AA, pp. 188 and 189, Bulloch County, Georgia), Jonathan
Scarborough
gave Power-of-Attorney to Samuel Scarborough to sell his land
in Baldwin
County, Georgia, no doubt in preparation for his removal to
Mississippi,
where his kinsmen had migrated. This Samuel Scarborough
had
received a Land Grant of 100 acres "on the waters of Ogeechee River",
on August 3,
1798, (Plat Book A, p. 209, Bulloch County, Georgia), and we
believe
that he too may have been a brother of Lawrence Scarborough.
From A
COMPLETE HISTORY OF MISSISSIPPI BAPTISTS, by
Leavell and
Bailey, published in 1904, and from
Minutes
of the Baptist
Association,
printed in
1849, we learn that Rev. Lawrence Scarborough was
living in
Jefferson County, Mississippi, in 1809 and active in the Baptist
Church. He
was present at the meeting at Salem Church, in Jefferson county
in 1809, as
a Messenger from Morgan's Fork Church, and was appointed to a
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committee
to attempt to adjust some difficulties at New Hope Church. At
the...
17, 1812,
at the Zion Church in Amite County, Miss., he preached the
Association
Sermon, and was appointed one of the members to ordain
"Brother
Willis in Opelousas", and to constitute a church where he lived.
On October
18, 1817, the Association met with Bogue Chitto Church
in Pike
County, and Lawrence Scarborough was appointed on a committee
to: 1.
Submit a plan for raising funds for the education of ministers;
2. Solicit
funds for same.
3. Draft a
Constitution and By-Laws for the Association to be
submitted
at the next meeting;
4. Urge the
churches to contribute yearly to the education fund;
5. Require
that reports be submitted for the circular letter, and printed
in the
Minutes.
On October
14, 1820, the Association met with the Zion Hill Church
in Amite
County, on Cole's Creek, and Lawrence Scarborough was
mentioned
among the visiting preachers, and delivered the Association
sermon. The
Union Association had been organized in September of 1820,
and
Lawrence Scarborough was evidently transferred to the new
Association,
which was composed of churches in Jefferson, Claiborne,
Adams, and
Franklin counties. The records described him as "one of the
strong men
of the Union Association from 1820-1825". In 1822, he
represented
the Union Association at the meetings of the Mississippi and
Pearl River
Associations, and was described by the Historian of the
Association
as: "Plain in person, manners, and style of preaching. He was
given to
the Heavenly tune in his delivery of sermons, but was an
exceedingly
useful man for many years."
On July 28,
1820, Lawrence Scarborough executed a Deed in Trust in
Jefferson
County, Mississippi, for the benefit of his children, and named
Bryan
Gardner, husband of his daughter, Zillah Ann Scarborough, and Ashel
Gardner,
Bryan's father, as Trustees, for Carrying out the provisions of the
Trust. He
specified that is the two men named should die before the
provisions
of the Trust were executed, that John Burch should take their
place. The
document was signed by Lawrence, Ashel, Bryan Gardner, and
John Burch.
It is probable that Lawrence's second wife, Mrs.
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*Deed Book
A p. 131.
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Elizabeth
Given, died about that time, and he decided to move to parts
unknown,
after providing for his children and step-children. In making the
disposition
of his property, real and personal, he says: "I intend to depart
from this
state and travel in other states, for a long time, and perhaps forever,
and wish to
make preparation for my children and step-children". The
distribution
included various sections of land, with their improvements, all
stock of
horses, sheep, cattle and hogs, and all household and kitchen
furniture,
reserving only one riding horse for his own use. The distribution
was as
follows:
1. To son,
Jackson Scarborough, one roan mare and the quarter section
of land n
which Lawrence Scarborough lived, on the middle fork of
Homochitto
Creek, in Jefferson County, specifying that title to said
property
would not vest in Jackson until all of Lawrence's minor
children
should come of age. Until that time, the plantation must be
cultivated
for the use of said minors.
2. To son,
Silas Scarborough, one-half of the quarter section adjoining
the home
plantation, and one sorrel horse.
3. To
Lawrence Scarborough, Jr., the other half of the above quarter
section,
and one bay horse.
4. To son
John Scarborough, the half quarter section to be conveyed by
Annanias
Pate, and one sorrel mare.
5. To son,
Asa Scarborough, a horse and $100.00, to be paid out of the
crop
growing on the plantation.
6. To three
minor daughters: Elizabeth, Patsy (Martha), and Lydia
Agnes
Scarborough, all of the residue stock of every kind-horses,
cattle,
etc., when they shall arrive at the age of fifteen years.
7. To the
following step-children: Ruth, Pamela, Catherine, Elizabeth,
Martin, and
Lucinda GIVEN, a cow and calf each when they shall
become
fifteen years of age. He did not mention his daughter, Zillah
Ann
Gardner, as he had probably provided for her at the time of her
marriage.
We do not
know the exact date of Lawrence Scarborough's removal
from
Jefferson County, but ny 1824, he had married Sarah Conn, probably in
Claiborne
Parish, Louisiana, though no official record of this marriage has
been found
there. The date of this marriage was secured from Sarah Conn
Scarborough's
affidavit in Union Parish, Louisiana, when she qualified as
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administrator
of Lawrence's estate in 1846. We know that Lawrence
Scarborough
was residing in Claiborne Parish in 1829, for on October 15,
1829, he
deeded a slave and some personal and real property to his wife,
Sarah. It
is probable that he was preparing to go on another journey and
wished to
make provision for Sarah and her children, for by 1830, Lawrence
Scarborough
was residing in Arkansas Territory.
The first
Census of Union County, Arkansas, that of 1830, listed
Lawrence
and John Scarborough as residing at Scarborough's Landing, on
the
Ouachita River, the name being changed at a later date to Champagnolle,
and became
the first settlement and Post Office in present day Union
County,
Arkansas. In 1830, William Young passed through Scarborough's
Landing
with 900 Cherokee Indians from Alabama, which he was escorting
to the
Indian Territory, and which he delivered to Federal authorities at Red
River.
According to Isaac Polk Scarborough, his father bought his land in
Arkansas
directly from the Indians, and the purchase price for five miles
square,
about twenty-five sections of land, was: a rifle, a gun, and two beef
steers.
A series of
articles in El Dorado, Arkansas, News, in 1954, based on
the history
thesis, written by Juanita Whitaker Green, in 1936, relates the
early
history of Union County, and describes the early settlers as people of
refinement
and education, who came west because of cheap land and good
climate.
Education and religion were stressed, and schools and academies
were
erected in various parts of the county. The county was organized by an
Act of the
Territorial Legislature, November 7, 1829.
The first
county seat of Union County, Arkansas, was Ecore Fabre,
later
renamed Camden, but as the population increased, and Ecore Fabre was
no longer
in the center of the county, an election was called and
Scarborough's
Landing was selected as the new county seat, July 30, 1838,
at which
time the name was changed to Champagnolle. Champagnolle
became a
place of much importance immediately, as it was the shipping
point for
immense territory and a Government Land Office was established
there.
However, by the changing of the county lines, it was not long until
Champagnolle,
too, became an inconvenient county seat, as it was located in
the extreme
Northeastern frontier, so in 1840, El Dorado was selected.
It was not
until September 21, 1839, that Lawrence Scarborough filed
with the
County Clerk of Union County, Arkansas, his authority as a
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"Minister
of the Reformed Baptist Church of Christ". The record was filed
from Pine
Hills Church, of Ouachita Parish, Louisiana, and recited: "Elder
Lawrence
Scarborough, of the Pine Hills Church, whose creed is the New
Testament,
entered into our fellowship by letter and acknowledgment
January 4,
1827". John Scarborough also served as a Baptist Minister if this
denomination
in Union County, where his name is listed on many marriage
certificates.
Another
Scarborough who was active in the Union Association of the
Baptist
Church in Mississippi, was J. A. Scarborough, whom I have not beed
able to
identify. He was mentioned in the Pearl River Association in 1878.
In 1881 he
was listed in the Union Association as a Missionary, and in 1885,
was active
in the Pearl River Association where, "He thundered forth, 'Every
Christian
should hold it as a duty to God, a duty to his family, and a duty to
the world
at large, to use all fair and honest means to procure a prohibition
law'."
By 1895 he was still mentioned among the prominent pastors of
churches in
the Mississippi Association.
The only
records that we have of the children of Lawrence
Scarborough
and Agnes Stringer are for Silas Scarborough and his sister,
Zillah Ann,
who married Bryan Gardner, and lived in Jefferson County,
Mississippi;
and of John Scarborough of Union County, Arkansas, whom we
believe was
a son, and a few records of the children of Elizabeth Given
Scarborough.
Records of
Lawrence Scarborough's children by his last wife, Sarah
Conn, are
incomplete, with the exception of those who moved to Texas :
Margaret,
who married Dr. George Rogers, and lived in Bell County,
Texas, and
had no issue.
Lafayette
called "Fate", who lived in Jasper, Texas.
Sarah M.,
who married George Halbert, and lived in Temple, Texas.
William
Tyler Scarborough, of Abilene, Texas.
Isaac Polk,
the youngest child, and meager records of Rebecca.
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Of the
older children of Lawrence and Sarah Conn Scarborough,
Phillip D.
lived in Union County, Arkansas, as did Rebecca, with whom
Isaac Polk
lived after the death of his parents, and Laura and Maude died
during the
War between the States, whether married we do not know...
Since we do
not know the exact birth dates of most of Lawrence's
children,
we have listed them in the order in which they appeared in the
Deed of
Trust executed by Lawrence in Jefferson County, Mississippi, in
1820.
Believing
that incidents in the daily lives of our ancestors are
important
in helping us to appreciate them and to form a vital link to the
past, the
descendants of Lawrence Scarborough may be interested in an
account of
an Independence Day celebration that was held on July 4, 1841,
at
Lawrence's plantation in Union Parish, Louisiana. The celebration was
described
by Margaret Scarborough, called "Magg " by her family in a letter
to her
brother, "Ike". It was dated July 24, 1879, from Oenaville, Bell
County,
Texas, and was as follows: "Since I an engaged in telling old
stories, I
will give you a brief account of the first celebration of
Independence
that I ever witnessed. It was given by Pa (Lawrence), on the
fourth of
July, 18414. The ground chosen for the occasion was beneath
those large
spreading oaks which stood in front of the old homestead. They
furnished
ample shade for speaker, audience, pits, and table. The
Declaration
of Independence was read by brother P. D., then about twelve
years old,
which was printed on a large linen handkerchief, which was a
present to
Pa when he was a young man. It was treasured and kept by him
as a
trophy, and he had placed it in a frame for this occasion. After the
reading, Pa
delivered a short, but pathetic address, judging from his
appearance,
which my memory retains vividly, and from the large tear drops
that I saw
chasing each other down the furrowed cheeks of the more aged
ones in the
assembly.
I said that
Pa gave the dinner, which is strictly true, with two
exceptions.
Some kind friends had offered their services in dressing and
barbecuing
the meats, and had loaned some old pewter basins. The meats
were: beef,
pork, mutton, venison, wild turkey, and buffalo fish, all nicely
dressed and
well cooked. Memory does not serve me so well in regard to
breads,
cakes and pies, and I can not give a list of them, but the quantity was
ample, and
of various kinds, and just as Ma was capable of preparing. Table
room was
commodious, and the table was built in half square, constructed in
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such a
manner in order to have the advantage of shade. The plates were
made by Pa
of cypress, of usual size, round and very thin and smoothe. The
knives and
forks were made of well polished canes.
While the
crowd was appeasing their appetites, Pa moved around with
quick but
steady steps for one of his age bearing a small cane basket full of
roasted
peas, telling the astonished listeners that was what he lived on, as a
boy, during
the Revolutionary War."
Issue of
Lawrence Scarborough and Agnes Stringer:
1. Asa
Scarborough, m. Hannah Gardner in Jefferson County,
Mississippi,
January 17, 1822. (Marriage Book A, p. 174.)
2. Silas
Scarborough b. 1805, d. 1857, m. 1) in Jefferson County,
Mississippi,
Harriet Connell, April 22, 1824. (Marriage Book A, p.
209) m. 2)
in Bienville Parish, Louisiana, May 12, 1832, Rachel
Russell, b.
May 5, 1812, d. August 29, 1890, in Ranger, Texas.
Rachel was
the daughter of Samuel Russell and Elizabeth Doughty.
In the 1850
Census of Bienville Parish, we found, among the children
of Silas
Scarborough, the name of Sarah Scarborough, age 21, which would
place her
birth at 1829, so she was evidently a daughter of the first marriage,
though we
have no record of any other children.
Issue of
Silas Scarborough and Rachel Russell:
2-1. John
Lawrence Scarborough, b. 1832, d. 1905.
2-2.
Urzillah (Zillah) Scarborough, b. 1834, d. 1863, m. 1859.
2-3. Silas
Scarborough, Jr., b. 1835, d. 1905.
2-4. Mary
Scarborough, b. 1838, d. 1902.
2-5.
Christopher Columbus Scarborough, b. 1844, d. January 13, 1908.
2-6. Rachel
Frances Scarborough, b. 1846, d. 1870.
2-7. Emma
Agnes Elizabeth Scarborough, b. 1850.
2-8. Oliver
Cromwell Scarborough, b. circa 1851, d. 1922.
The above
dates do not correspond with dates given in the Census
Record of
1850 for Bienville Parish, Louisiana, but were furnished by one of
the
descendants, so we assume that they are correct. The Census Records
give the
following differences: Urzillah, b. 1834; John Lawrence, b. 1837;
Silas, Jr.,
b. 1839, and Mary, b. 1841.
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2-1. John
Lawrence Scarborough, b. December 5, 1832, in Arcadia,
Bienville
Parish, Louisiana, d. Jan. 30, 1900, m. in 1850, Augusta A.
Waldrip, b.
May 4, 1835, d. August 5, 1909. The family moved from
Louisiana
to Texas, circa 1855, and settled in Anderson County, some
of them
living at Old Fosterville, Frankston, and Palestine at different
times... a
short period in 1872, but returned to Anderson County,
where John
Lawrence died and is buried. There were ten children of
this
marriage, eight of whom lived to be g...
2-1-1.
Richard Scarborough.
2-1-2.
Theodosia Scarborough.
2-1-3.
Lenora Scarborough.
2-1-4. John
Lawrence Scarborough, Jr., b. 9-4-1864. d. 8-5-1953.
2-1-5.
Luther Dixon Scarborough, twin, b. 7-4-1866, d. 1939.
2-1-6. Dr.
Ezem Hebron Scarborough, b. 3-4-1869, d. 1-5-1948.
2-1-7.
Walter William Scarborough, b. 6-25-1872, d/ 10-18-1939.
2-1-8.
Richard Scarborough, lived in Anderson County, Texas, died circa
1919, and
is buried in the Pisgah Baptist Church Cemetery, on Brushy
Creek, in
Anderson County. He Married Matilda Gore, and had the
following
children:
Issue:
2-1-1-1.
Luther Scarborough,
died in young manhood.
2-1-1-2.
Green
Scarborough, who lived in Port Arthur, Texas.
2-1-1-3.
Pearl
Scarborough, m. Gordon Boyd.
2-1-1-4.
Charity
Scarborough, m. Archie Brown, one time
Sheriff
of
Anderson
County.
2-1-1-5.
Oran
Scarborough.
2-1-1-6.
Henry
Scarborough
2-1-1-7.
Claude
Scarborough
2-1-1-8.
Clarence
Scarborough
2-1-1-9.
Lou
Scarborough.
2-1-2.
Theodosia Scarborough, m. Frank Dean, and had ten children, five of
whom lived
to be grown, but her marriage was not a happy one, and
she finally
divorced her husband. She lived to be 93 years old, and
was quite a
favorite of her kinsmen.
Issue of
Theodosia Scarborough and Frank Dean:
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2-1-2-1.
Una Dean.
2-1-2-2.
Theodosia
Dean.
2-1-2-3.
Warner
Dean.
2-1-2-4.
Lawrence
Dean.
2-1-2-5.
Mary Dean,
m. Joe Alexander, and lived in Tyler, Texas.
2-1-3.
Lenora Scarborough, b. 8-21-1862, d. 1-14-1929; both buried in
Hopewell
Cemetery, in Anderson County, Texas.
Issue of
Lenora Scarborough and Oran L. Wylie:
2-1-3-1.
Queen
Wylie, m. Graves Williams.
2-1-3-2.
Arthur L.
Wylie.
2-1-3-3.
Floyd
Wylie, b. 9-22-1891, d. 8-21-1940.
2-1-3-4.
Green
Lawrence Wylie.
2-1-3-5.
Lenora
Wylie, b. 6-23-1905, d. 8-3-1915.
There were
other children, but they died in childhood.
2-1-4. John
Lawrence Scarborough, Jr., b. November 7, 1859, d. November
2, 1918, at
Poyner, Texas.
Issue of
John Lawrence Scarborough and Anna Blanche Hanson:
2-1-4-1.
Augusta
Lenora Scarborough, b. July 25, 1882.
2-1-4-2.
John
Lawrence Scarborough, III, b. June 23, 1884, d. March 12,
1941.
2-1-4-3.
Richard
Carlton Scarborough, b. January 1, 1886, d. December
20, 1928.
2-1-4-4.
Mary Anna
Scarborough, b. June 16, 1888, d. May 24, 1947.
2-1-4-5.
James Walter
Scarborough, b. June 5, 1890, d. January 5, 1930.
2-1-4-6.
Howard
Hanson Scarborough, b. Aug. 29, 1895, d. July 5,
1939.
2-1-4-7.
Eddie
Hebron Scarborough, b. January 10, 1898.
2-1-4-8.
Ike L.
Scarborough, b. February 7, 1900.
2-1-4-9.
Ole Clyde
Scarborough,b. Aug. 19, 1902, d. April 11, 1919.
2-1-4-10.
Mildred Thelma Scarborough, b. August 20, 1904.
Issue of
John Lawrence Scarborough, Jr., and Anna Blanche Hanson:
2-1-4-1.
Augusta
Lenora Scarborough, b. July 25, 1882, m. 4-30-1905,
Joel Baker
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Issue:
2-1-4-1-1.
Carl Baker Milner, b. 9-29-1908 m. 8-27-1933, Maydelle
Sadler.
2-1-4-1-2.
Earl Hanson Milner, b. 9-29-1915, m. 7-25-1941, Sybil Gay.
Issue:
2-1-4-1-2-1.
Carroll Ann Milner, b. 11-1-1944.
2-1-4-1-2-2.
Earl Hanson Milner, Jr., b. 1949.
2-1-4-1-3.
Eva Joe Milner, b. 11-2-1917, m. 7-25-1941, C. G. Woody.
2-1-4-2.
John Lawrence Scarborough, III, b. 6-23-1884, d. 3-12-1946,
m.
4-11-1903, Etta Mae Murphy.
Issue:
2-1-4-2-1.
Elmer Lee Scarborough, b. 1-30-1905, m. 7-23-1948, Anna
Faye
Holmes.
2-1-4-2-2.
Verna Blanche Scarborough, b. 1-25-1913, m. 1-14-1934,
Lyndon
McKamy Turnage.
Issue:
2-1-4-2-2-1.
James Larry Turnage, b. 12-3-1934, m. 5-12-1954, Patsy
Gwendolyn
May.
Issue:
2-1-4-2-2-1-1.
James Barry
Turnage, b. 10-20-1955.
2-1-4-2-2-2.
Ronald Leland Turnage, b. 11-18-1937.
2-1-4-2-2-3.
Carole Janene Turnage, b. 11-19-1939.
2-1-4-3.
Richard
Carlton Scarborough, b. 1-1-1886, d. 12-20-1928, m.
10-23-1913,
Annie McMillan.
2-1-4-4.
Mary Anna
Scarborough, b. 6-16-1888, d. 5-24-1947, m. 10-6-
1915, Bowen
Welborn.
Issue:
2-1-4-4-1.
Maggie Fern Welborn, b. 3-16-1917.
2-1-4-4-2.
Edith Bowen Welborn, 5-16-1919.
2-1-4-4-3.
Mary Louise Welborn, b. 10-8-1922.
2-1-4-5.
James Walter Scarborough, b. 7-5-1890, d. 1-5-1930, m. 6-29-
1916,
Adeline Lee.
2-1-4-6.
Howard
Hanson Scarborough, b. 8-29-1895, d. 7-5-1939, m. 8-
9-1917,
Elma Padgett.
Issue:
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2-1-4-6-1.
Carl Hanson Scarborough, b. 8-11-1918, d. 11-5-1918.
2-1-4-6-2.
Mildred Joyce Scarborough, b. 8-13-1919, m. 9-19-1939,
John T.
Banks.
2-1-4-7.
Eddie
Hebron Scarborough, b. 1-10-1898, m. 12-3-1938, Mary
Corrinne
Burkhaulter.
Issue:
2-1-4-7-1.
Jane Anna Scarborough, b. 12-12-1940.
2-1-4-8.
Ike L.
Scarborough, b. 2-7-1900, m. 1) 6-25-1920, Grace
Bouchellon,
divorced in 1934.
Issue:
2-1-4-8-1.
Gweneth Adrine Scarborough, b. 5-30-1922.
2-1-4-8-2.
Betty Vernice Scarborough, b. 7-16-1928
Ike L.
Scarborough, m. 2) 8-12-1945, Mary Catherine Myers, two
children by
adoption.
2-1-4-9.
Ole Clyde Scarborough, b. 8-19-1902, d. 4-11-1919.
2-1-4-10.
Mildred Thelma Scarborough, b. 1-30-1905, m. 8-20-1926,
James
Patterson Parker, Jr.
Issue:
2-1-4-10-1.
James Patterson Parker, III, b. 1-26-1929, m. 7-7-1950,
Velma Leota
Cook.
Issue:
2-1-4-10-1-1.
James
Patteroson Parker, IV, b. 7-9-1951.
2-1-4-10-1-2.
Betty Lou
Parker, b. 12-12-1953.
2-1-4-10-2.
Eddie Ray Parker, b. 4-15-1932.
Gary Gale
Parker, by adoption.
2-1-5.
James Rufus Scarborough, b. 9-4-1864, at Hamlet, Anderson County,
Texas d, at
Athens, Texas 8-5-1953, m. 3-14-1888, Bradford, Texas,
Martha
Charity (Dolly) Welborn, b. 4-19-1871, Ellisville, Mississippi,
daughter of
Edward Calhoun Wellborn and Margaret Kay.
James Rufus
Scarborough was married twice, but the name of the first
wife is
unknown.
Issue of
James Rufus Scarborough and Martha Charity Wilborn:
There were
ten children born to this union: Charlie Rufus, Hebron, Oscar,
Ora, Linna,
Clark, Ruby, Isaac, Myrtle and Herman.
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2-1-5-1.
Charlie
Rufus Scarborough, b. 6-10-1889, m. 4-22-1915, Annie
Laurie
Miller, d. 12-14-1944.
Issue:
2-1-5-1-1.
Sidney James Scarborough, b. 1-8-1916, m. Ann Monroe.
Issue:
2-1-5-1-1-1.
James Rufus Scarborough, b. 12-6-1943.
2-1-5-1-1-2.
Charlie Rufus Scarborough, Jr., b. 2-10-1918, d. on
Luzon in
World War Two.
2-1-5-1-2.
Hebron Scarborough, b. 2-14-1892, d. 9-21-1894.
2-1-5-1-3.
Oscar Scarborough, b. 3-13-1894, d. 9-21-1895.
2-1-5-1-4.
Ora Scarborough, b. 3-13-1896, m. 4-16-1935, Dan Marion
Dickerson,
d. 9-12-1945.
2-1-5-1-5.
Linna Scarborough, b. 1-26-1899, d. 10-2-1902.
2-1-5-1-6.
Clark Scarborough, b. 7-28-1901, d. 9-10-1902.
2-1-5-1-7.
Ruby Scarborough, b. 7-26-1903, m. 10-18-1925, Albert
Ryerson.
2-1-5-1-8.
Isaac Reba Scarborough, b. 8-8-1905, d. 3-20-1943, m. 12-26-
1924, Lois
Newman.
Issue:
2-1-5-1-8-1.
Isaac Newman Scarborough, b. 2-7-1929.
2-1-5-1-9.
Myrtle Scarborough, b. 10-16-1910, m. 3-21-1942, Emmie Lou
James.
Issue:
2-1-5-1-9-1.
Carole Lee Cartlidge, b. 1-11-1941.
2-1-5-1-10.
Herman Scarborough, b. 10-16-1910, m. 3-21-1942, Emmie
Lou James.
Issue:
2-1-5-1-10-1.
Steven
Scarborough, b. 11-2-1944.
2-1-5-1-10-2.
John
Keltner Scarborough, b. 10-24-1949.
2-1-6.
Luther Dixon Scarborough, a twin, b. July 4, 1866, d. 1939, and is
buried in
Old Liberty Cemetery, near Palestine, Texas; m. 1) 1888,
Mary
Pickle, daughter of William and Georgia Pickle, d. March 20,
1910; m. 2)
1912, Laura Emerson, a teacher, daughter of Judge J. M.
and
Elizabeth Murphey, Frankston, Texas. They lived in Frankston
for a time,
and in 1942 they moved to Fort Worth, Texas. He lived for
a while in
Kaufman, where he was District Clerk. His twin brother,
Benjamin
Franklin, died in infancy. Luther Dixon Scarborough and
his wife,
Mary Pickle, had eight children: Leona, Elmore Dixon, Ala,
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who died in
infancy, John William, Mary Llee, Luther Taylor, and
Adeline.
Issue of
Luther Dixon Scarborough and Mary Pickle:
2-1-6-1.
Leona
Scarborough, b. 3-15-1890, m. 1) Gaston Wigginton in
1909; m. 2)
12-18-1940, George F. Perry.
Issue:
2-1-6-1-1.
Luther Edward Wigginton, b. 4-27-1910, d. 6-25-1910.
2-1-6-1-2.
Dorothy Wigginton, b. 12-14-1911, d. 1913.
2-1-6-1-3.
Mary Alma Wigginton, b. 2-18-1914, m. James Moore.
Issue:
2-1-6-1-3-1.
Grace Moore.
2-1-6-1-3-2.
James Maurice Moore.
2-1-6-1-4.
Gaston Wigginton, b. 6-21-1916, m Evelyn Edmondson.
Issue:
2-1-6-1-4-1.
Cora Sue Wigginton.
2-1-6-1-4-2.
David Lee Wigginton.
2-1-6-1-4-3.
Leonard Wigginton.
2-1-6-1-4-4.
Pete Wigginton.
2-1-6-1-4-5.
Carol Joy Wigginton.
2-1-6-1-5.
Alfred Maurice Wigginton, b. 2-20-1917, m. Joy Hull.
Issue:
2-1-6-1-5-1.
Fred David Wigginton.
2-1-6-1-6.
Jack H. Wigginton, b. 11-6-1918, m. Virginia Bacon.
Issue:
2-1-6-1-6-1.
Jackie Wigginton.
2-1-6-1-6-2.
Linda Wigginton.
2-1-6-1-6-3.
Donald Glynn Wigginton.
2-1-6-1-6-4.
Jeffery Wigginton.
2-1-6-1-7.
Ruby Wigginton, b. 7-7-1922, m. Orin Shaid.
Issue:
2-1-6-1-7-1.
Annette Shaid.
2-1-6-1-7-2.
Orrin Shaid, Jr.
2-1-6-1-8.
Bill Wigginton, b. 7-26-1826, m. Betty Thems.
Issue:
2-1-6-1-8-1.
Richard Wigginton.
2-1-6-1-9.
Donald B. Wigginton, b. 2-1-1929, m. Ann Snowden.
Issue:
2-1-6-1-9-1.
Carol Ann Wigginton.
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2-1-6-2.
Elmore
Dixon Scarborough, b. 11-11-1892, in Anderson
County,
Texas, d. 4-27-1951; m. 1) Ruby Anna Milner of
Poyner,
Texas, d.12-6-1921; m. 2) Mrs. Leola Bates Buie, and
was
divorced; m. 3) Minnie Angelo, d. 1-6-1945; m. 4) Mrs.
Tincy
Raymer.
Elmore
Dixon Scarborough worked for the railroad most of his aduly
life, and
in 1925, invented a safety signal for railroad crossings. He is buried
in
Hollywood Cemetery in Houston, Texas.
Issue of
Elmore Dixon Scarborough and Ruby Anna Milner:
2-1-6-2-1.
Ruby Adeline Scarborough, b. 1-7-1913, m. 11-11-1932,
Raymond
Marshall Love.
2-1-6-2-1-1.
Ruby Marie Love, graduate of Southern Methodist
University,
b. 9-30-1933, m. 6-18-1955, Lt. Neely E.
Keyser,
graduate of Texas A. & M. College.
Issue:
2-1-6-2-1-1-1. Neely Edward Keyser, Jr., b. 8-15-1956.
2-1-6-2-1-2.
Raymond Marshall Love, Jr., b. 1-5-1947.
2-1-6-2-2.
Luther Dixon Scarborough, Jr., b. 1-18-1915, Chief Warrant
Officer in
the Navy, m. 8-11-1940. Elizabeth Nixon Crain.
Issue:
2-1-6-2-2-1-1.
Janice
Chaney.
2-1-6-2-2-1-2.
Paul Dixon
Chaney.
2-1-6-2-2-1-3.
Steven
Chaney.
2-1-6-3.
Alva
Scarborough, died in infancy.
2-1-6-4.
John
William Scarborough, b. Nov. 16, 1897, m. 11-24-1917,
Gladys Shaw
of Kaufman, Texas.
Issue:
2-1-6-4-1.
John William Scarborough, Jr., b. 7-15-1919, m. 8-20-
1939, Jean
Runnels of Kaufman, Texas.
Issue:
2-1-6-4-1-1.
Susan Scarborough, b. 8-28-1940.
2-1-6-4-1-2.
Don D. Scarborough, b. 2-1-1948.
2-1-6-4-2.
Martha Janes Scarborough, b. 11-11-1920, m. 8-15-1941,
Thomas R.
Seely.
Issue:
2-1-6-4-2-1.
Tommy Seely, b. 9-12-1943.
2-1-6-4-2-2.
Billy Truman Seely, b. 11-24-1946.
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2-1-6-4-3.
Mary Lee Scarborough, b. 8-13-1922, m. 12-3-1944,
Robert G.
Pyle.
Issue:
2-1-6-4-3-1.
Robert Hamilton Pyle, b. 7-28-1948.
2-1-6-4-3-2.
Clara Pyle, b. 2-29-1952.
2-1-6-5.
Mary Lee
Scarborough, died in 1913.
2-1-6-6.
Adeline
Scarborough, m. 1924, Raymond McNab, and died in
1925.
2-1-6-7.
Luther
Taylor Scarborough, b. 7-26-1906, in Kaufman, Texas,
m. 1928,
Anna Belle Johnson, daughter of Mr. And Mrs. W. M.
Johnson,
who died March 16, 1952. Luther Taylor
Scarborough
graduated from Texas Christian University in Fort
Worth,
Texas, in 1927, where he was an outstanding football
player and
is now Principal of Handley High School of Fort
Worth. He
is active in the Christian Church, serving as
President
of the Tarrant County Joint Board of Christian
Churches.
Issue:
2-1-6-7-1.
Luther Taylor Scarborough, Jr., b. 2-28-1930, m.
Betty
Brittain, daughter of Mr. And Mrs. Ray
Brittain,
of Fort Worth. He is a graduate of the
University
of Texas, and like his father, was an
outstanding
athlete.
Issue:
2-1-6-7-1-1.
Brittain Taylor Scarborough, b. 8-26-1954.
2-1-6-7-2.
Margaret Marian Scarborough, b. 7-31-1931, m.
1954,
William Raymond Massey, son of Mr. And
Mrs. Arthur
Massey.
Issue:
2-1-6-7-2-1.
Annabelle Massey, b. 9-5-1954.
2-1-6-7-2-2.
Elizabeth Massey, b. 10-18-1955, d. 10-19-
1955.
2-1-6-7-3.
James Allen Scarborough, b. 10-10-1933, m. 6-2-
1954, Quita
Crow, Lieeutenant in the Air Corps.
He received
his education at Texas Christian
University
in Fort Worth.
2-1-6-7-4.
Jon David Scarborough, b. 6-30-1943.
Issue of
Luther Dixon Scarborough and second wife, Laura
Emmerson:
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2-1-6-8.
Augusta
Elizabeth Scarborough, b. 5-29-1915, m. 3-31-1936,
Fred E.
Bell.
Issue:
2-1-6-8-1.
James Preston Bell, b. 1950.
2-1-7. Dr.
Ezem Henbron Scarborough, b. 3-4-1869, d. 1-5-1948, and buried
in Hopewell
Cemetery in Anderson County, Texas, 12-19-1896, to
Margaret
Elizabeth Welborn.
Issue:
2-1-7-1.
Hebron
Hartzel Scarborough, b. 3-29-1899, in Anderson
County,
Texas; m. 8-4-1936, Essie Ozelle, b. 11-16-
1912.
Issue:
2-1-7-1-1.
Beulah Elizabeth Scarborough, b. 6-4-1937.
2-1-7-1-2.
Bettie Lou Scarborough, b. 8-7-1940.
2-1-7-1-3.
Hebron Earl Scarborough, b. 3-11-1943.
2-1-7-1-4.
Margaret Ozelle Scarborough, b. 3-11-1952.
2-1-7-2.
Ezem
Gillian Scarborough, b. 4-18-1907, m. 12-9-1933,
Genever
Holcomb, b. 10-7-1915.
Issue:
2-1-7-2-1.
Ezem Gillian Scarborough, Jr., b. 4-18-1936.
2-1-7-2-2.
John Buck Scarborough, b. 12-19-1938.
2-1-8.
Walter William Scarborough, b. 6-25-1872, in Bell County, Texas, d.
10-18-1939,
in Houston, Texas; m. Brushy Creek, Anderson County,
Texas,
8-15-1896, Abbie Lou Elrod, b. 8-30-1872, d. 9-13-1953, in
Houston,
Texas, and buried in Frankston, Anderson County, Texas.
She was the
daughter of John Calhoun Ellrod and Sarah Welborn.
Walter
William Scarborough taught school in Anderson County,
Texas, for
nine years; became a successful farmer and rancher, and
following
World War I, he entered the construction business and built many
of the
first hard-serfaced, and concrete highways in Texas, retiring in 1925.
He
sponsored the Possum Festival at Frankston, Texas, for many years,
which was
held on his property, and was ...
Issue of
Walter William Scarborough and Abbie Lou Elrod:
2-1-8-1.
Lochie Mae
Scarborough, b. 1897.
2-1-8-2.
G. Cameron
Scarborough, b. 1905.
2-1-8-3.
Walter
Welborn Scarborough, b. 1908.
2-1-8-4.
Abbie Joe
Scarborough, b. 1911.
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Nearly all
of the descendants of Walter William Scarborough have
followed
the teaching profession.
2-1-8-1.
Lochie Mae Scarborough, eldest daughter of Walter William
Scarborough,
b. 7-14-1897, at Fosterville, Anderson County,
Texas, m.
5-8-1919, Joe F. Williams.
Issue:
2-1-8-1-1.
Jozie Mae Williams, b. 3-20-1920, m. 1-6-1945, Harry
Mock. Jozie
Mae was educated at the East Texas State
Teachers
College and the University of Houston, and is a
teacher in
the McReynolds Jr. High School in Houston.
2-1-8-2.
G. Cameron
Scarborough, b. 8-1-1905, m. 6-4-1933, Mary
Elizabeth
McClendon, who received her B. A. at the University
of Texas,
in 1925, and teaches history in the John H. Reagan
High School
in Houston, Texas.
G. Cameron
Scarborough was educated in the law, and received his
law degree
in 1933, but he has followed in the teaching profession. He did
his undergraduate
work at North Texas State Teachers College and received
his M. A.
Degree in 1942 from the University of Houston. He has served as
a teacher
and principal in the Houston schools for thirty years. In spite of a
busy life,
he belongs to many civic and professional organizations, and has
received
many honors, as a teacher, an administrator, and a civic leader.
Issue of G.
Cameron Scarborough and Mary Elizabeth McClendon:
2-1-8-2-1.
John Cameron Scarborough, b. Houston, Texas, 2-6-
1938, is a
graduate of Lamar High School in Houston,
and
presently a student of engineering in Texas
Technological
College in Lubock.
2-1-8-2-2.
Mary Jean Scarborough, b. Houston, Texas, 3-9-1942.
2-1-8-3.
The third
child of Walter William Scarborough was Walter
Wellborn
Scarborough b. Anderson County, Texas...
Walter
Wellborn Scarborough was also a teacher in the Houston
public
Schools, receiving his education at the University of Houston, where
his wife
also graduated. After his death his wife became the principal of the
Coop
Elementary School, a position held by her husband at the time of his
death. In
appreciation for his services as a teacher , one of the newer
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elementary
schools in Houston, has been named the Walter W. Scarborough
Elementary
School in his honor.
Issue:
2-1-8-3-1.
Walter William Scarborough, b. 4-21-1936, student of
Architecture
in the Univ. Of Houston.
2-1-8-3-2.
Thomas Lloyd Scarborough, b. 6-27-1946.
2-1-8-4.
Abbie Joe Scarborough, fourth child of Walter William
Scarborough,
b. 9-20-1911, m. 12-21-1940, George Truett
Dorrill.
She received her education at the University of
Houston,
and teaches at the Burbank Junior High School in
Houston.
2-2.
Urzillah (Zillah) Scarborough, second child of Silas Scarborough, Sr.,
and Rachel
Scarborough, was born in Lousiana in 1834, in Bienville
Parish,
Arcadia Township, d. circa 1892; m. 1) Reubin Vaughan, and
after his
death, m. 2) John Allison. No further records.
2-3. Silas
Scarborough, Jr., third child of Silas Scarborough, Sr., and
second son,
was born in Bienville Parish, Louisiana, in 1835, d.. in
1905. Our
records are incomplete, but we know that he married 1)
Josephine
McCullough, circa 1853, and had three children, Junetta,
Cornelia,
and Silas, III. After the death of Josephine in 1863, Silas
married 2)
Cynthia ----------.
The three
children of Josephine, who died when her son, Silas, III,
was born,
were reared by their grandmother, Rachel Scarborough, second
wife of
Silas Scarborough, Sr.
After his
second marriage, Silas Scarborough, Jr., moved to
Oklahoma,
where he died in 1905.
Issue:
Incomplete. By first wife:
2-3-1.
Junetta Scarborough, b. 1860, m. Allvin Reeder.
2-3-2.
Cornelia Branch Scarborough, b. 12-3-1861, in Bienville
Parish,
Louisiana, m. 10-22-1879, in Merriman, Eastland
County,
Texas, Robert Crawford Stuard. Cornelia Scarborough
Stuard died
in 1944, but her husband lived to be 108 years old,
dying in
Ranger, Texas, in 1955.
Robert
Crawford Stuard was a very colorful West Texas Pioneer. He
was born in
Raleigh, Smith County, Mississippi, October 8, 1847, son of
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Benjamin
and Nancy Stuard, and was the tenth child in a family of twelve.
In 1861 he
moved to Texas with his parents and settled in Milam County.
His father
and his brothers were Confederate soldiers, but since he was too
young to
serve, he remained at home too help his mother. The Scarboroughs
and the
Stuards were living in Milam county in 18700, and it was there that
Robert knew
Cornelia, and when her family moved to Eastland County he
journeyed
there to marry her. Though he took his bride back to Milaam
County,
they returned to Eastland County at the end of one year, and lived
there the
rest of their lives. Living first on a farm at Merriman, they moved
to Ranger
in 1883, where Robert built and operated the first cotton gin in the
county.
There were six children of this marriage, but we only have the
names of
four: Clarence Stuard, of Breckenridge, Texas; Ross R. Stuard, of
Fallas;
Truman T. Stuard, and Mrs. Amy Brown, of Ranger, Texas, with
whom Robert
made his home in his old age.
Issue by
second wife:
2-3-3.
Silas Scarborough, III, b. 1863, m. Minerva Stuard, though we
do not know
whether she was a relative.
2-3-4.
Sarah Scarborough, fourth child of Silas Scarborough, Jr., who
was married
twice, first to ---------- Bass, and second to Frank
Chandler.
2-3-5.
Selita Scarborough, fifth child of Silas Scarborough, Jr., was
also
married twice first Reubin Vaughn, and second to John
Chandler.
There may
have been other children.
2-4. Mary
Scarborough, fourth child of Silas Scarborough, Sr., b. 1838-
1841,
Census Records , d. 1902, married 1858, Ab. Guillatt. No
further
records.
2-5.
Christopher Columbus Scarborough, b. 1844, d. 1-13-1908, in Big
Spring,
Texas, m. Rebecca Dubose. No further records.
2-6. Rachel
Frances Scarborough, b. 10-15-1846, Bienville Parish,
Louisiana,
d. 3-28-1928, Eastland, Texas, m. 10-18-1871, George
Ross
Whittington, b. 1-24-1841, Copiah County, Mississippi, d.
Eastland,
Texas, 11-10-1911.
Issue of
Rachel Frances Scarborough and George Ross Whittington:
2-6-1.
Arthur George Wittington, b. 8-14-1872, Milam County, Texas, d. 12-
23-1935, in
Houston, Texas; m. 11-5-1894, Lula Cantrell, b. 12-14--
1874.
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Issue of
Arthur George Whittington and Lula Cantrell:
2-6-1-1.
Marcus K.
Whittington, b. 11-15-1895, Mart, Texas, d. 3-27-
1955,
Houston, Texas, m. 1917, Ollie Dean.
Issue of
Marcus K. and Ollie Dean Whittington:
2-6-1-1-1.
June Whittington, b. 1918, m. 1948, J. Q. Baldridge.
2-6-1-2.
Arthur
George Whittington, Jr., b. 6-10-1896, Erath County, d.
Austin,
Texas, 4-15-1915.
2-6-1-3.
Harmon
Whittington, b. 10-4-1900, Baird, Texas, m. 1925,
Corrine
Garrison.
2-6-2. Emma
Gretchen Whittington, b. 12-14-1874, Milam County, Texas,
m.
6-24-1890, Matthew Hilsman Hagaman, b. 10-11-1861, Johnson
County,
Tennessee, d. 9-8-1940, Ranger, Texas.
Issue of
Emma Gretchen Whittington and Mathew Hilsman Hagaman:
2-6-2-1.
Leslie H.
Hagaman, b. 1-9-1896, Ranger, Texas, m. 2-6-1929,
Helen
Howdeshall.
2-6-2-1-1.
Frances Ruth Hagaman, b. 2-12-1930, m. 5-17-1952,
William
McGrath.
2-6-2-1-2.
Elizabeth Louise Hagaman, b. 12-23-1934.
2-6-2-1-3.
John Leslie Hagaman, b. 11-23-1938.
2-6-2-2.
Ruth
Hagaman, b. 3-29-1902, m. 6-24-1925, Edward F.
Horrigan.
Issue of
Ruth and Edward F. Horrigan:
2-6-2-2-1.
Patrick Hilsman Horrigan, b. 10-14-1932.
2-6-2-3.
Fred W.
Hagaman, b. 8-8-1904, m. 4-27-1937, Kathleen W.
Long.
Issue of
Fred W. and Kathleen Long Hagaman:
