Seymour CATCHING and his Descendants

Seymour's Notes:
1820 CENSUS, Knox Co, KY, Clear Creek, page 288: "Saymore", 1 male under 10; 1 male under 26; 1 male 45+; 1 female under 16; 1 female under 26; 1 female 45+. (Next door are Daniel and Judy COFFMAN and their daughter) This is on the Southeast side of the Cumberland River.
1830 CENSUS, Knox Co, KY: 1 male 20-30; 1 male 70-80; 1 female 70-80; 1 female slave 10-24. (Still next to Daniel and family).

Tax List, Wilkes Co, GA: Seymore CATCHING, 1785, 1786, 1787, 1790, 1791. (Seymore was listed in Wilkes Co. as early as 5 Aug 1877.)
Tax List, Greene Co, TN: 1805
Tax List, Knox Co, KY: 1820 (Seymore), 1821, 1822, 1823, 1824 (Saymore), 1825, 1826, 1827, 1828, 1829, 1830, 1831.

Earl TN Marriages, Volume 1, Grooms, page 62: Saymore CATCHING and Mary DAVIS, 5 Jun 1805, Greene Co, TN.

Seymour's Will was dated 26 Oct 1833; Inventory taken in Oct 1833 by Larkin Erwin, John T. Wooden, and John Hogan; Administrator, Benjamin CATCHING. Sale report, Nov Term, 1833.
There is supposed to be a "CATCHING Cemetery" at the head of Sugar Tree Branch of Little Poplar River, Knox Co, KY.

From Poehler, Feb 1999: Seymour was a major in the Revolutionary War, from GA. He became a member of the Cumberland River Baptist Church and was buried there. (This area is now houses.) He was also a land holder.
Fran Laaker: Seymour and his brothers, Benjamin, Meredith, and Joseph, left VA about 1769 and went to Wilkes Co, GA.

Tessesseans in War of 1812, page 118: CATCHERS, Saymore; Lieutenant-Colonel William Johnson, Captain Elihu Millikin, 3rd Regiment, East TN Militia. (Residence omitted.)

The Georgians, by Austin, page 62: Seymour listed as a First Lieutenant in the 5th Company, Alexander's Battalion, 22 May 1789, Wilkes Co, GA. He is also listed in the 1792-94 Wilkes County Tax Digest with 287.5 Acres. 16 Nov 1791, he deeded 200 Acres (bounded on Northeast by Little River) to Joseph CATCHING.

Revolutionary War Bounty Land Grant: 24 Feb 1784, Seymore CATCHINGS, GA, 250 Acres.
Cherokee Bounty Land Grants, page 165: Seymour CATCHINGS, Wilkes Co, GA (Headrights and Bounty Grants, 1790-1795).
1784: Listed with 575 Acres, Washington Co, GA; 1784: 200 Acres, Wilkes Co, GA; 1784; 200 Acres, Wilkes Co, GA; 1790: 93 Acres, Wilkes Co, GA.

From 1801 to 1805 Seymore was living in Hancock Co, GA, adjacent to Wilkes Co.

GA Intestate Records, pages 136-137: Seymour is referred to as "Dr. Seymour CATCHINGS" at deaths of 2 orphans, Mar 1836.

Article from Poehler: from 1783-1785 Seymour was in Jones Co, GA, having had land granted; he was granted 400 Acres on Kettle Creek, 1784. He also owned 400 Acres on Little River. He paid taxes that year in Washington Co, GA, at 3 shillings per acre, to be tax free after 1785 with 1000 Acre maximum (200 Acres per headman and 50 Acres per family member and each slave.) Seymour was on the 1785 tax list of Wilkes Co, GA. He received another land grant in 1790 for 93 Acres on Little River. 16 May 1790: Seymour and Rachel sold 200 Acres on Kettle Creek, Wilkes Co (This was part of original 400 Acre grant.)
Seymour and Rachel were received into membership of Bent Creek Baptist Church, on the second Saturday of Mar, 1793 (now Hamblen Co, GA). They later joined the First Baptist Church on Lick Creek, where Seymour owned land.
Seymour acted as security in Clower Letters of Administration in Feb 1794 (for widow Clower).
2 Jul 1802 Seymour (of Greene Co, TN) bought 200 Acres in Knox Co, KY, for $300 from James Barber; recorded 24 May 1804, Benjamin CATCHING, witness.

GA land transactions: Saymore CATCHING to John MISMER, 14 Jul 1810, 19 Acres, $6.60; witness: William MISMER (Book DB 9, page 42). Saymore also sold land on Lick Creek of Nolachucky River to Mary MESSIMER, 4 Jan 1817, 17 Acres. (Henry MESSIMER adjoined Saymore's land in 1819, Greene Co, TN.)

Semore CATCHINGS listed page 61, Jones Co, GA Ordinary Minutes, 1808-1814.

From Dan Bowman: According to the pension application of my ancestor, Job Broughton, dated 26 Aug 1833, Knox Co, KY, "I was also well acquainted with Seymour CATCHING who acted as my Lieutenant during a portion of my service in Wilkes Co, and who departed this life in this county a few weeks ago."

Rachel 's Notes:
Name and vitals from Mary A. Bryan Poehler in Knox County KY Kinfolk, Dec 1997. Rachel was a member of the Cumberland River Baptist Church, Knox Co, KY.