Samuel, D by Clarence McDaniel, February 2002, Jul 2008 Samuel, as recorded in his Bible, was born the 1st day of April, 1727, probably in Middlesex County, NJ. He has always been considered the oldest of the eight sons and most likely the oldest child of William and Reliance. Samuel is the best documented of the eight sons. It is from his Bible that we know the name of his mother; this being the sole source of her name. The 1754 Militia list of Granville contains Samuel's name in a separate company of men from his father. From the Bible we know Samuel married Phereba Ward, daughter of John and Sarah Ward on the 14th of July, 1748. There was a John Ward family in Middlesex County, NJ, but there is no assurance as yet that it was the same family. Samuel was given two plats of land by his father in the 1760's. Samuel also received three grants of land from North Carolina; one for 400 acres adjoining the property his father gave him and another for 700 acres on the northwest end of his father's grants and another 700 acre tract. Samuel seems to have managed quite well and had many land transactions. Since we have a source for his birth we can verify that the tax lists of Warren County dropped him from the poll tax after a certain age. The 1787 and prior lists show this poll but the 1788 and subsequent lists do not. This indicates Samuel was excused from the tax after age 50. Records show Samuel in the 1771 tax list of Bute County with son, William. There are many deeds concerning Samuel from 1771 to the 1790's. The state census of 1786, Warren County, shows a family of two sons and two daughters. In the 1790 federal census we find two sons and one daughter and assume one daughter had married, most likely this was the oldest, Reliance. About the year 1795, Samuel disposed of his property and moved to Abbeville County, SC. This second residence was near the state line with Georgia and bordered on Wilkes County of that state where Samuel's oldest son and daughter had moved about ten years previously. Samuel is found on the 1800 census of Abbeville County. In July, 1805, Samuel made his will. The will was very well executed and named all Samuel's children and his daughters' husbands. Fortunately some of the children were married in Warren County and a few bonds have survived. South Carolina lacked civil marriage records until a much later period. Samuel's widow was listed in the 1810 census of Abbeville. The descendants of Samuel's children are found principally in two areas, Rockingham County, NC, and Georgia. A brief history of each child follows. Reliance,D1 Reliance was born the 8th of December, 1749, in Granville County. She married John Hammock but she died before her father and likely before 1786. We have a deed of John Hammock of 1786 in which his wife is named as Phebe. Reliance may have been the mother of Samuel, Dx, whose father is unknown. Mary,D2 Mary was born the 4th of February,1752, in Granville County and married a Chadwick. William,D3 William was born on the 15th of April, 1753 or 1754 in Granville County. There are two Bibles that record his birth and they differ by one year. William married Mary Hammock about 1773 and was given a tract of land by his father in 1775. We do not have a marriage record but this has been well established through other records of the family. William's name appears on many records of Warren County and many prior searchers have considered some of these records to be those of William,G, but the writer believes William,G, left the area about 1760. William,D3, is often tagged with the junior designation; this being not for parentage but for age. After William,C, died in 1774 the junior was dropped. William's older sister married John Hammock and they went to Wilkes County, GA. About 1786 William,D3, also moved there. He obtained several tracts of land in the Wilkes/Lincoln County area which has caused searchers to speculate that this showed he was a revolutionary soldier. There is no reason to believe this merely from the land acquisition. There was, however, an account of a William from Nutbush District of Granville County who was in the revolutionary militia. There is no certain way to tell which of the several Williams this was. William and his sister may have married siblings but this is not certain. Positive identification of William,D3, occurs by means of a deed in Warren County of 1790. In this deed William, living in Wilkes,GA, sells the land his father had given him in 1775. William died, intestate, about March, 1807, and his widow and son administered the estate. John, D4 John was born the 1st of July, 1756, in Granville County. He received from his father 333 1/3 acres of land and this may be used to identify him in later Rockingham County. John married Mary Robertson, daughter of Nathaniel Robertson, on the 26th of November, 1783, in Warren County. This John and his wife are incorrectly identified in printed works but the evidence is absolutely clear. This error constitutes one of the major errors that persists in the C-line possibly due to the large number of John given names and the lack of surviving marriage bonds. He became identified as the senior John after the death of John,E, in 1776. John was quite rich for the time and moved to Rockingham County, NC, about the summer of 1808. This being shown by the dropping of the senior and junior tags in records of Warren County. John appears on the 1810 census of Rockingham County as John, Sr, having again picked up the tag due to a younger John, H6, also in residence. The 1810 census duplicated the entries of the two Johns resident there. John died, intestate, about February of 1816. There was considerable property to be disposed of and we can establish the complete family from the estate and land proceedings. The youngest son, John, was a minor and had a guardian until about 1823. Mary, the widow, died in Hawkins County,TN, and is listed in the mortality census schedules of 1850. John had a family of three sons and two daughters. Rachel,D5 Rachel was born the 29th of November,1759, in Granville County and married a Cole. Sarah,D6 Sarah was born the 18th of March, 1762, in Granville County and married John Glover. This is identified by the names of the Glover children. Susan,D7 Susan was born the 18th of March, 1764, in Granville County and married Archibald Loftis in Warren County on Jan 2, 1782. Nancy,D8 Nancy was born the 15th of August, 1766, in Bute County and married a Bell. Some speculation is that the name Bell was transliterated from the German name, Dingle. A Nancy Dingle died in Georgia with will. Mildred,D9 Mildred was born the 17th of December, 1768, in Bute County. She married James Corthon(varies) in Warren County on September 14, 1783. Betty,Da Betty was born the 12th of March,1771, in Bute County. She married Henry Vanlandingham on January 24, 1787, in Warren County and they lived in Lancaster County, SC. Phereba,Db Phereba was born the 1st of October, 1773, in Bute County and married Martin Loftis in Warren County on October 9, 1790. Samuel,Dc Samuel was born the 28th of December, 1775, in Bute County, NC. He apparently moved with his father to Abbeville County, SC, and married Frances Cochran(Cockerham) about 1799. No marriage document has been found but this information has been handed down. He moved to Morgan County, GA, by 1807 and died testate there in 1822. He was in the War of 1812 and several documents relate to this. He had a family of four sons and five daughters. He named a son, Samuel Dennis, Jr. Milton,Dd Milton was born the 19th of July, 1778, in Bute County, NC, and moved with his father to Abbeville County, SC. He married Sarah B about 1804 in South Carolina. He died there c1834, leaving a will that names his widow and children. Samuel,Dx Samuel was born prior to 1775 probably in Bute County, NC. He was likely the son of one of the older daughter's of Samuel,D. We presume this from the fact that his oldest children were born in GA before Samuel,D, moved from North Carolina. This tends to indicate that Reliance,D1, was his mother or that he had been adopted by that family.His father is unknown. Samuel married Elizabeth Leverett about 1794. Samuel entered the Georgia land lottery of 1807 and won land in Baldwin, later Jasper, County. He moved there and died, without will, in 1812. His widow and Burwell Greene were the administrators of the estate. There were several minor children and the estate records carry on for many years. Samuel's widow married Benjamin Reason and they moved to Gwinnett County, GA. The widow and her daughter, Betty, have been confused by others working on this line, recording the widow as a daughter. Samuel,Dx6, moved to Heard County, GA, where he sold his mother's dower about 1840. The land description of the dower matches that of the land won in the lottery which serves to identify Samuel,Dx6, as the son. Samuel,Dx, had two sons and six daughter's. Source notes for Samuel Paschall(not up to date) 1753 Gran/NC Ld Gt; order for survey, 640a; not completed; Apr 30 1754 Gran/NC Militia list-father, brothers named 1755 Gran/NC TL father and six brothers named 1761 Gran/NC DB D314 & E421 land from father 1762 Gran/NC Ld Gt 420a; Jun 11 1762 Gran/NC TL Smith's Cr 1763 Gran/NC Ld Gt survey order, 700a; Mar 11; returned, May 7 1766 Gran/NC DB I230 land fr father 1771 Bute/NC TL 1772 Bute/NC DB 3-449 and others 1775 Bute/NC DB to son, Wm, 245a (ID's him as in GA when he sold it) 1779 Gran/NC Lt Gt Bk 40 #318, 775a 1784 Warr/NC TL 611a 2 polls; also others 1785 Warr/NC Will of Mary Jones; connected to this line; John Ward? 1786 Warr/NC State census; 1-2-3 1788 Warr/NC TL 333a; no poll, > 50 1790 Warr/NC 1-2-2; alpha list 1792 Warr/NC WB proved will of Twitty Russell; May 1792 Warr/NC TL 303a 1 poll; last tax list for him in Warren 1794 Moved fr Warr/NC to Abbe/SC 1805 Abbe/SC Will & Bible have been published 1800 Abbe/SC 00101-00001 p35 1805 Abbe/SC WB will named ch and dau's husbands 1810 Abbe/SC 0-00001 p16 widow as Ferba 1936 Bible publ; named m/f; wife's m/f; her birth; marr date 1986 Papers of Charles R Bentley; PFR files; data from Bibles