FRANCIS BELCHER SR.
LISTED IN 1769 LUNENBURG VA TITHABLES LIST WITH BROTHER EDMUND
DIED 7-29-1781 AMELIA CO VA FROM REVOLUTIONARY WAR WOUNDS
MARRIED:#1 MARY CABANISS AND THEN HER SISTER #2 PHOEBE CABANISS
MADE WILL, NAMING WIFE PHOEBE, (PHEBE) AND CHILDREN AS HEIRS
NO NAMES OF CHILDREN MENTIONED. AMELIA COUNTY VA
WILL WAS DATE 7-28-1771 BEDFORD COUNTY, WHICH WAS LATER (1785)FRANKLIN COUNTY VA(PARENT COUNTIES;
BEDFORD,HENRY AND PATRICK)
INVENTORY 8-1822 FRANKLIN COUNTY LISTS 14 SLAVES...
MARRIED:#1 MARY CABANISS AND THEN HER SISTER #2 PHOEBE CABANISS
MARRIED: PHOEBE IN NORTH CAROLINA BECAUSE VA FORBID THE MARRIAGE
OF A MAN AND HIS SISTER-IN-LAW IN VA:
BOTH DAUGHTERS OF MATTHEW CABANISS AND HANNAH CLAY CABANISS OF
NOTTOWAY CO VA:PHOEBE LATER
MARRIED: JOSEPH SEVENNY (Swinney) 4 July 1791 FRANKLIN CO VA
with Benjamin Cook as Surity
"marriage listed in Tenn Historical Society Marriages of Franklin co va"
PROPERTY APPRAISED 10-11-1822
HOGS,MARE, COW AND CALF,HEIFER, OATS, ETC. 4-6-1807
INDENTURE BETWEEN ROBERT PRUNTY OF FRANKLIN
CO AND FRANCIS BELCHER OF FRANKLIN CO. SOLD FRANCIS BELCHER THE LAND
LONG BRANCH.
Cabiness:
Henry Cabiness and Jane
Matthew Cabanis(s)
was born presumably in Prince George County Virginia between 1709 and 1720. He married Hannah Clay, daughter of Thomas Clay (great-grandfather of the Kentucky statesman Henry Clay), for on May 9, 1738 occurs the following statement in Prince George Marriage Book: "In the Suit in Chancery brot by Mathew Cabinis & Hannah, his wife, one of the Daughters of Thomas Clay deceased ...." On September 19, 1740 and again in April 1745, he was appointed by court as surveyor of a road.
On May 12, 1780 he petitioned for dissolution of vestries and for the election by free vote of the people, for marriage licensed to be issued to any regularly ordained ministers, for marriages without the ring by dissenting ministers to be declared lawful and every doubt of their validity removed, and for the good people of the state to be apprised of their just rights. That petition, deemed reasonable by the court on June 7, 1780, was ordered to be presented.
Matthew's Will disposing of his extensive estate of lands and slaves, date June 6, 1789, was admitted to probate on August 5, 1790. His children are therein named in the following order:
1...Ann Cabanis, born about 1735 in Amelia County, Virginia; married before 1790 to Mr. Lumpkin.
2...Charles Cabanis born about 1738 in Amelia County, Virginia; died in Lunenbury County, Virginia (Will probated 1816); married about 1765 to Ann.
3...Matthew Cabanis Jr. born 1740
4...Mary Cabaniss born 1748 Married: Francis Belcher
After she died He married her sister Phoebe
5...John Cabiness born 1742
6...Phoebe Cabaniss born 1750 Amelia County Va.
Married: Francis Belcher who died in 1781 and remarried to Joseph Swinney
7...George Cabaniss born 1744 Amelia County Va
Married twice: once to a ??Carter and second to Palatea Harrison dau. of Henry Harrison. They lived in NC thn to Georgia
8...Henry born 1746
9...Elijah born 1752
10..Hannah born 1753
11..Elizabeth born 1755
12..Amey born 1760
11 1 ...MATTHEW BELCHER
LIVED IN OGLETHORPE CO GEORGIA
RELINQUISHED LAND OWNED BY FATHER TO ISHAM BELCHER
12-29- 1814 AMELIA COUNTY VA LEFT IN FRANCIS SR.'S WILL
OF AMELIA CO 1781. PHOEBE M SWINNEY/ BELCHER DEED LISTED
FRANKLIN COUNTY COURT HOUSE. 4-20-1807
12 1....NANCY BELCHER B 1802 M RICHARD MANOR
1-11-1822 PATRICK CO VA. MOTHER NANCY
12 2... JANE BELCHER B 1810
MARRIED JESSE HAN 8-17-1826
12 3...MATTHEW JR BELCHER BORN 1812 LISTED 1830 NEWTON COUNTY GEORGIA
CENSUS RECORDS
12 4...BENJAMIN LISTED FRANKLIN CO
1850 AGE 30 BORN 1820
12 5...ELIZA BORN 1839
(COULD BE BENJAMINS DAU)L>
FRANCIS AND PHOEBE'S CHILDREN:
11 2...ANNY EVILINE BELCHER
MARRIED JOHN COOK 12-1805 EVILINE SIGNED DEED OF PHEBE BELCHER SWINNEY(MOTHER)
WHEN SHE DEEDED LAND OVER TO HER GIRLS 29 MAY 1818
11 3... FRANCIS BELCHER JR. B 10-19-1781
D. AFT. 5-29-1853 MARRIED CHARLOTTE DUNN 8-1-1809 SURETY WAS THOMAS DUNN
SERVED IN WAR OF 1812 ON PAY AND MUSTER ROLLS 28 SEPT 1850 RICHMOND
FRANCIS BELCHER JR LISTED IN VIRGINIA TX RECORDS 1806-1809
1811-1812-1812-184-1816-1818
CHILDREN:
12 1...NANCY BELCHER MARRIED JAMES M. WHITE BROTHER TO
CELIA A. WHITE WHO MARRIED WILLIAM C. BELCHER
12 2...JANE BELCHER MARRIED ROBERT PINKARD 9-19-1829
11 4...PRUDENCE BELCHER DIED BEFORE 9-1846 SHE MADE WILL
DEEDED LAND BY HER MOTHER PHOEBE BELCHER SWINNEY 29 MAY 1818
NAMING CHILDREN:ALL CHILDREN NAME OF BELCHER???
12 1...WILLIAM BELCHER
12 2...ELIAS BELCHER MARRIED NANCY BELCHER 4-1-1833
(A COUSIN)SURETY WAS ISHAM BELCHER SEE ISHAM BELOW
12 3...EVELINE BELCHER MARIED JOHN A. DEARING ON 1-20-1834
FRANKLIN CO VA: CHILDREN: HENRY DEARING B 1834:
FRANCES DEARING B 1837: ANN DEARING B 1841: JULIA DEARING
B 1842: CATHERINE DEARING B 1843:
12 4...POLLY BELCHER MARRIED PRESTON BENNETT
11 5...KESIAH BELCHER MARRIED JOHN PAULEVIN (PAULEVON)4-5-1790
MARRIED ALSO A BALDWIN:OR BALDWIN COULD BE MISTAKEN FOR PAULEVIN?
11 6...POLLY BELCHER WARWICK B 1774 GIVEN LAND BY HER MOTHER
PHOEBE SWINNEY BELCHER ON 29 MAY 1818
11 7...ISHAM BELCHER B 1775 AMELIA CO DIED BEFORE 10-22-1857:
WILL RECORDED 10-5-1857 WILL INVENTORIED 1-4-1836
MARRIED: MARTHA (PATSY) MITCHELL B: 1793 DIED 10-9-1853
IN 1818 ISHAM AND PATSY MITCHELL WERE CHARGED WITH FORNICATION:IN 1818
FOUND NOT GUILTY. THEY OFFICIALLY WED IN 1849
BIBLE RECORD STATES; "ISHAM BELCHER WAS MARRADE (SIC)2-15-1849"
CHILDREN WERE BORN BEFORE THE OFFICIAL MARRIAGE:
CHILDREN:
12 1...HARRISON C BELCHER MARRIED SUSAN E. HUNT 12-15-1842
12 2...MARTHA BELCHER HUNDLEY MARRIED: JOHN HUNDLEY
12 3...ELIZABETH BELCHER B 1812 MARRIED JOHN DANIEL BARROW:
HENRY COUNTY VA 9-9-1841 FRANKLIN CO VA:
CHILDREN:WILLIAM HENRY BARROW B;1842: JOHN ALEXANDER BARROW B 7-17 1843:
ABSALOM FLOURNOY BARROW B 3-29-1849: MARTHA ELIZABETH
SUSAN BARROW B 1850: JESSE ISHAM DANIEL BARROW B 1854:
12 4...MATTHEW C BELCHER B 1813 DATE OF WILL 12-1-1869 MARRIED:
MARTHA ZEIGLER 11-5-1842:CHILDREN: MATHILDA BELCHER B 1843:
JOHN BELCHER B 1815 : CATHERINE BELCHER B 1850: WILLIAM C BELCHER B 1852
NANCY V. BELCHER B 1853: CABANISS P. BELCHER B 1859
12 4...NANCY BELCHER B 1815 MARRIED ELIAS BELCHER SON OF PRUDENCE
ISHAM BELCHER SURETY
12 5...ISHAM BELCHER JR B 12-19-1825 FRANKLIN CO VA
(HAVE COPY OF ISHAMS BIBLE RECORD)
DIED 2-17-1879 ACCORDING TO BIBLE RECORD AGE 52:
ISHAM BELCHER JR.: MARRIED #1 MELISSA E. BELCHER
B 11-25-1826 ACCORDING TO BIBLE RECORD:
DIED 3-3-1867 (AGE 40) ACCORDING TO BIBLE RECORD:
MARRIED:#1 MELISSA E.BELCHER 22-5-1849 ACCORDING TO BIBLE RECORD:
MELISSA WAS DAU OF WILLIAM C. BELCHER THEN HE
B: 6-30-1840, HIS SISTER-IN-LAW ON 9-1-1867
ISHAMS DATE OF DEATH ALSO LISTED IN JULIA BELCHERS APPLICATION FOR A
CIVIL WAR PENSION FROM HER FIRST HUSBAND: TAZEWELL T COOPER:
AFTER ISHAM DIED SHE APPLIED FOR A PENSION FROM HER FIRST HUSBAND
APPLIED 20 APRIL 1908 SHE WAS 67 YRS OLD:HE WAS KILLED IN BATTLE
TAZEWELL COOPER SERVED IN COMPANY D OF THE 24TH VIRGINIA REGIMENT
HAVE A COPY OF THIS APPLICATION
JULIA HAD CHILDREN: JOHN COOPER B 2-8-1861: THOMAS COOPER 4-7-1862
13 1...FRANCIS E. BELCHER 3-5-1865:
13 2...GEORGE WASHINGTON BELCHER B 8-8-1869
13 3...MARTHA BELL BELCHER B: 9-7-1871:
13 4...ANN ELIZA BELCHER B; 2-5-1873
13 5...PRINCIES ANNIE BELCHER B 4-17-1867:
LISTED IN BIBLE:
13 6...ADA BELCHER B:4-16-1868:
13 7...SALLIE JANE BELCHER B: 7-10-1876:
13 8...WILLIAM BELCHER B: 1878(UNCLE BUCK):
12 6...WILLIAM C. BELCHER B 1827 MARRIED LUCINDA BELCHER
B 1833 3-12-1854
12 7...JOHN BELCHER B 1829
12 8...SALLIE J. BELCHER B 1832 MARRIED JOHN W. MEREDITH
MARRRIED: 11-21-1850 SURETY WAS WILLIAM BELCHER
12 9...CHARLOTTE TEMPLE BELCHER B 1835
11 8...AMEY BELCHER COOK: GIVEN LAND BY HER MOTHER PHOEBE BELCHER SWINNEY
29 MAY 1818
THE PHOEBE BELCHER SWINNEY DEED IS SHOWN BELOW CLICK TO SEE IT:
BELCHERS SWINNEY'S DEED TO HER GIRLS
ALSO A DEED FROM JOSEPH SWINNEY TO FRANCIS BELCHER JUNIOR