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David Lindsey of Shelby Co., Alabama
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James Spencer Lindsey and wife Tabitha, photo courtesy of Theresa Lindsey

July, 2015

David Lindsey was a Revolutionary War soldier who died in Shelby Co., Alabama about 1836.  In 1953, a manuscript was written about David and his descendants by Mrs. A. W. Vaughan, Genealogical Chairman of the David Lindsay Chapter of the D.A.R. of Montevallo, Alabama.  The research conducted by Mrs. Vaughan and others concluded that David Lindsey had served in the 2nd, 3rd, 4th, and 6th Virginia regiments during the Revolutionary War.  Descendants of David Lindsey were admitted as members of the D.A.R. based upon David's military service in those Virginia regiments.

In 2010, the national D.A.R. revised their records to show that David Lindsey had served in the Washington County, Pennsylvania militia under Captain Robert Miller.  David served with several of the sons of Henry Casey, who owned land near David Lindsey in Cecil Township.

Evidence suggests that David Lindsey of Shelby County, Alabama was a member of the Lindsey family that lived in Frederick County, Virginia (present day Clarke Co.) in the mid 1700’s.  The Lindsey family owned land there on a stream known as the Long Marsh, and are therefore called the Long Marsh Lindsey’s.  Some members of the Long Marsh Lindsey family migrated to the area of present day southwestern Pennsylvania, where they were soldiers in the Revolutionary War.

Records also show that David Lindsey was one of the Long Marsh Lindsey's who had migrated to Pennsylvania ca. the Revolutionary War.  David lived in present day Cecil, Washington County, PA during the Revolutionary War, where he was a soldier in the 4th PA battalion.  The area where David Lindsey lived in Pennsylvania was also claimed by Virginia at the time of the Revolutionary War.  Yohogania Co., VA and Westmoreland Co., PA encompassed the same territory during this time.  People living in the area often appeared in both Pennsylvania and Virginia court records, depending upon which court they had gone to in order to conduct legal matters. 

People born in the area during this time period could claim to have been born in either Pennsylvania or Virginia, which has led to confusion in identifying them many generations later.  Some of the conclusions that were drawn by Mrs. Vaughan in her research about David Lindsey's military service taking place in Virginia were based on the later census records of David Lindsey's children.  The 1850 census lists Rachel Lindsey Lovelady as being born in Pennsylvania in 1773, while David Lindsey Jr. is listed as being born in Virginia in 1787 on the same census. The census data for Rachel and David Jr. gave the impression of a migration from Pennsylvania to Virginia that might not actually have taken place (Additionally, David Lindsey had moved to Tennessee by 1783).

Because of the boundary dispute, the area will be referred to as the Fort Pitt area in this document.  Fort Pitt was used by both Virginia and Pennsylvania military units during the war.  Many soldiers who lived in the area performed military service in both Pennsylvania and Virginia troops.

The Lindsay Surname DNA project has provided evidence that David Lindsey of Shelby Co. was a member of the Long Marsh Lindsey family.  Two descendants of David Lindsey of Shelby Co. have been tested, and their  DNA matches closely with other proved descendants of the Long Marsh Lindsey family.  Several other men from the Long Marsh family also migrated to the Fort Pitt area where they appeared in numerous records and served as soldiers.

Following are records that support the belief that David Lindsey of Shelby Co., Alabama was a member of the Long Marsh Lindsey’s and that he was a soldier in the Revolutionary War in present day Washington Co., Pennsylvania where he also owned land.

A note about spelling of surnames in the records cited: There was quite a variation in how clerks spelled the surnames of the individuals in these Revolutionary War era records.  The spelling in this document will reflect the actual spelling as it appeared in each record.  For instance: Casey appeared as Casey, Keasey, Kirsey, and Kersey.

An assumption has been made by this researcher that the individuals surnamed Casey in this report were members of the family of Henry Casey.  At the time of this writing, the relationships have not been proved.  The records presented in this report strongly suggest that the Casey's were all members of Henry Casey's family.


David Lindsey in Frederick Co., VA

There are not many records that have been found for David Lindsey in Frederick County. He appeared in court twice, once as a co-defendant with Isaac Lindsey in 1770, and once as a co-defendant with Jacob Lindsey in 1773.1  David probably left the region to move to the Fort Pitt area as a young man. The connection between David Lindsey and Frederick Co. is mainly provided by the records of two men who were closely associated with David.  These two men appeared in records in Frederick Co. with known members of the Long Marsh Lindsey family up until 1770.  The same two men later appeared in numerous records with David Lindsey in southwestern Pennsylvania after 1770.

Henry Casey and Tobias Mattox had close ties to the Lindsey family in Frederick Co., Virginia before the Revolutionary War, and then in the Fort Pitt area during the war.  The association between these families continued on after the war in other areas.  Henry Casey is believed to have been the father of Mary Casey, who married David Lindsey.1a Tobias Mattox was the father or brother of Elijah Mattox, who married a daughter of Hezekiah Lindsey, a known member of the Long Marsh Lindsey family.2  Tobias may have been the son of another Tobias Mattox, who died in Frederick Co., VA in 1749, and whose widow, Elizabeth, married a Lindsey man in Frederick Co. about 1765.3

Henry Casey and Tobias Mattox both lived in Frederick Co., VA before the Revolutionary War.  They appeared in records with members of the Long Marsh Lindsey family as witnesses to deeds.  In 1767, Tobias Mattox and Henry Casey were both witnesses to a deed in which Edmund Lindsey purchased land from Edward Corder Jr.  Other witnesses were Jacob Lindsey and James Lindsey.4  Henry Casey witnessed numerous other Lindsey family land transactions in 1767, 1769, and 1770.5


David Lindsey in Washington Co., PA/ Yohogania Co., VA

In these records, a third associate of David Lindsey will be introduced.  Thomas Percifull appeared in numerous records with David Lindsey during the Revolutionary War period.  Though the relationship between Thomas Percifull and David Lindsey is not known, the two men appeared to have been closely associated in the Fort Pitt area.5a  Records from the area reveal that they were in the same military company, and that they were co-defendants in a court case.12  They also left the Fort Pitt area and moved to Greene Co., TN at the same time.14

The first record of David Lindsey in the Washington Co., PA area records was a mention of him in a 1774 court record.  Alexander Gilfillan, assignee of David and Edmund Lindsey, sued Michael Teggert.6  In 1778, David Lindsey signed a petition to divide Yohogania County. Thomas Percifull’s name also appeared on the petition.  Other names on the petition were Tobias Mattox and William Casey, a son of Henry Casey.6a

Tobias Mattox had migrated to the Fort Pitt area by 1774, when he settled on land on a stream called Miller's Run.  He was appointed an appraiser of the estate of a Widow Lindsey in 1778 by the Yohogania Co., VA court.7
David Lindsey owned land in Cecil Township, also on Miller’s Run.  David’s land was adjacent to land owned by William Kersey.  William Kersey’s land adjoined that of his father, Henry Kersey.8  The Casey/Kersey family first settled on Miller's Run in 1772.9  Since it is believed that the Casey's traveled to the Fort Pitt area with David Lindsey , it seems that David Lindsey must have also arrived in the area about 1772.9a
 

David Lindsey sold this tract to John Reed in 1780.
Click here for a copy of the deed.

  

Men living in the Fort Pitt area were soldiers in Dunmore's War in 1774.  Kiah (Hezekiah) Lindsey appeared on Capt. John Stevenson's roll of men who served in the Fort Pitt area, as did William and Henry Kersey.10

During the Revolutionary War, David Lindsey was a private in Capt. Robert Miller’s Company of the 4th Pennsylvania Battalion in Washington County.  Capt. Robert Miller lived nearby David Lindsey on Miller's Run, as shown on the warrant map, above.  Also in Miller's company were were Joseph, James and William Keasey, all sons of Henry Casey.  Another man in the company was Pvt. Thomas Piercefield.  Tobias Mattocks, who lived in a different neighborhood on Miller's Run, was also in the 4th PA Battalion, in Capt. Charles Reed's Co. of Washington Co.11

In 1780, David Lindsey was accused of perjury in the Yohogania Co. court.  Henry Kersey and Tobias Mattox posted bond for David in the case.  Henry Kersey also posted bond for Thomas Pearcesal, a co-defendant of David Lindsey.12
 

David Lindsey in Tennessee

David Lindsey sold his land on Miller’s Run to John Reed in 1780.13   In 1783, David Lindsey moved to Greene Co., TN, where he appeared on a tax list along with Thomas Percifull.  Other names that appeared on the 1783 Greene Co. tax list include those of the Lovelady and Crowson families, who intermarried with children of David Lindsey.14   Members of the Casey family also made the move to Greene County.  Joseph Casey, David Lindsey's brother-in-law, was made captain of a local militia company after arriving in Greene County.  He married in Greene County in 1788.  David's father-in-law, Henry Casey also appeared in Greene County records during this time period.15
 

In 1787, David Lindsey received grants for 640 and 400 acres of land on the waters of Lick Creek, Churn Camp Creek and Plum Creek in Greene Co., TN.  David had entered the land in 1784.  James Casey, a son of Henry Casey, was a chain carrier for David Lindsey's tract surveys.  James also received a grant for land on Lick Creek in 1790.  Casey's entry was made in 1783.16  David Lindsey signed a petition to the North Carolina Assembly in 1789, along with many other settlers who lived in eastern Tennessee in the area that had been part of the disbanded state of Franklin.  The settlers were considered trespassers on Indian land in 1789, and they appealed to North Carolina for protection, and for a legal means to formalize ownership of the land they had settled on.16a

    
Above are images of David Lindsey's surveys in Greene Co., TN.
Click on the image to download a pdf file containing the grant records.


David Lindsey sold his land in Greene Co. in 1789, and migrated to Sevier Co., TN at about this time.17   Militia records from Tennessee show that David and his oldest son Thomas were in a company of rangers commanded by Abraham Slover in 1794.  Later the same year David Lindsey was listed in a company that included Richard Crowson and William Lovelady.17a

David Lindsey's older children and their spouses appeared in Tennessee records, too.  David's son, John, had migrated to Sevier Co., TN by 1799, where he signed a petition requesting that a neighbor be relieved of his tax obligations due to infirmity.17b  John Lindsey appeared in the minutes of the Baptist Church of Sevier County in 1814.  Lydia Lindsey, daughter of David Lindsey, also appeared in the Baptist Church minutes of Sevier Co. with her first husband, Isaac Skillman.17c  Richard Crowson and William Lovelady, who married Sarah and Rachel Lindsey, daughters of David Lindsey, also appeared in records in Sevier Co. during this time period.17d

It is not known if David Lindsey remained in Sevier Co. until moving into Alabama in the early 1800's, but it is known that David lived somewhere in Tennessee until the late 1790's because several of his younger children were born in Tennessee, according to census records.18 


David Lindsey in Alabama

Members of the David Lindsey family began to appear in Alabama records in the early 1800's.  David Lindsey patented land on the Flint River in Madison Co. in 1809.  David and his son Thomas Lindsey both appeared on the 1809 census for Madison Co., as did Richard Crowson, who married David's daughter, Sarah.19  This census also revealed that David owned six slaves, while son-in-law Crowson owned two slaves.  David Lindsey, several sons, and in-laws appeared on Madison Co. tax lists between 1810-1816.  David Lindsey and his son-in-law, Richard Crowson, also served as jurors in Madison Co. during this time period.19a  David's sons Elijah, David Jr., and Joseph all married in Madison County between the years 1811-1819, as did his daughter, Rebecca.20

By 1820, David and his family had settled in Shelby County. In that year, David Lindsey and sons Elijah, James, John, and Joseph Lindsey all appeared on the Shelby Co. census, along with sons-in-law Richard Crowson and Joseph Hale.21

David Lindsey and his sons all bought land near each other in Shelby Co.  Between the years 1823-1834, they amassed a large quantity of land in Shelby Co.22

In 1830, David Lindsey, and sons Thomas, James, Elijah, John all appeared on the census in Shelby County, along with sons-in-law Richard Crowson, David Fulton, and Joseph Hale.  David's daughter Rachel, who had married William Lovelady lived nearby in Bibb County. 23  By this time, David Lindsey and his wife were both 80-90 years old. 

 

David Lindsey's Probate

Neither David Lindsey or his wife, Mary Casey Lindsey, appeared on the 1840 census.  David's grandson, David Fulton, stated that David had died in 1835 or 1836.24   Fulton's dates seem accurate because an administration bond was taken out on David Lindsey's estate in Shelby Co. in early 1837. David Lindsey's estate was administered by his sons, David and John.  Click here for David Lindsey's probate files.

 

DNA evidence for David Lindsey

In addition to the documents presented here, DNA evidence supports the assertion that David Lindsey was part of the Long Marsh Lindsey family of Frederick Co., VA.  Two descendants of David Lindsey have taken part in the Lindsay Surname DNA project and have been placed in Group 2.  Other participants in Group 2 include descendants of documented Long Marsh family members, including Edmund, Jacob, and Hezekiah Lindsey.  Hezekiah Lindsey owned land in Frederick Co., VA (footnote #5), and he later migrated to the Fort Pitt area where he was a soldier in the Revolutionary War.  Hezekiah Lindsey was also closely associated with Tobias Mattox (footnote #2).25


Footnotes:

1. "The Lindsey's of the Long Marsh", 1975 manuscript by William Thorndale, copied from FHL microfilm #928100 (item 2), p. 8.  Also, Frederick Co., VA Court Order Book 16, 1772-1778, p. 134, FHL microfilm #31423.


 
1a. Alabama Dept. of Archives and History.  James Hugh Blair Hall Papers: Notes on the Lindsey family.  A handwritten note by Dr. Hall states he spent the night at the home of the son-in-law of  Elijah Fulton (b.1835, son of Rebecca Lindsey and David Fulton, grandson of David and Mary Lindsey) in 1906.  At that time, Elijah shared a family tradition with Dr. Hall that told of David Lindsey courting Mary, who was then the daughter of a Mr. Casey, on the way to Alabama.  According to the tradition,  Mr. Casey had traveled with them. 
 
Note by researcher: They could not have been going to Alabama because they had already been married many years when they moved to Alabama ca. 1809.  This must have been the trip from Frederick Co., VA, to the Fort Pitt area.  David and Mary's daughter, Rachel, was born ca. 1773 in PA, according to the 1850 census for Shelby Co., AL
 
The given name of David's wife is known to have been Mary.  Mary was named as David's widow in his estate settlement in Shelby Co., AL: Will Book D, Pg. 315.
 
The migratory path of the Casey family from Maryland to the Fort Pitt area and then to Greene Co., TN is established by the Revolutionary War pension application of Joseph Casey.  (footnote #6)


 
2. History of Clermont County, Ohio, by Louis H. Everts. Philadelphia: J. B. Lippincott and Co.  Pg. 399:  "Hezekiah Lindsey...died about seventy years ago leaving sons...and daughters who married...Elijah Mattox."   Note by researcher:  Though the exact relationship of Tobias Mattox and Elijah Mattox is not known, it is known that Elijah Mattox appeared on the 1790 census for Allegheny Co., PA, in the portion that had been taken from Washington Co.  This is the same area that included an annexed part of Cecil Township where Tobias Mattox had owned land on Miller's Run (footnote #7).  Because Tobias Mattox had appeared in records beginning in 1767 (footnote #4), he was probably quite a bit older than Elijah.  Elijah was shown as being born between 1760-1770 on the 1830 census for Clermont Co., OH.   Tobias  may have been Elijah's father or a much older brother.
 


 
3. Frederick Co. Will Book 1: Page 288: June 12, 1749 -  Elizabeth Mattox was named an administrator of the estate of her deceased husband, Tobias Mattox.  Page 312: August 2, 1749 - Elizabeth Mattox returned the appraisal of the estate of Tobias Mattox to the court. 

Abstracts of Virginia's Northern Neck Warrants & Surveys, [Vol. IV], compiled and published by Peggy Shomo Joyner.  Portsmouth, VA: 1987.  Pages 43-44: 11 Aug 1762 - Wm (x) Demoss swore Tobias Mattox was a neighbor to him & intended his son to have this place called Larrabee Bottom & he went on a journey to Maryland where he died.  13 Aug 1762 - Elizabeth Mattox had sold (the land) to Isaac Larue by John Constant's deposition.   William Robinson, guardian of Thomas Mattox, entered caveat 21 Mar 1763 on behalf of Thomas, an infant.  28 Mar. 1763 - Henry Switzer made oath he read summons to Wm. Robinson. 
 
N.d. (No Date)- It appears to his Lordship that Tobias Maddox lived on this land but neglected to Enter or survey it & after his death it was surveyed for his widow Elizabeth. She had no right to sell more than her 1/3 and the heir of Tobias has a right to the remainder. Deed to issue to Thomas Maddox reserving a third to Elizabeth Lindsay during her life. (The deed was recorded in 1766, see next reference.)

Virginia Northern Neck Land Grants, 1742-1775 [Vol. II], by Gertrude E. Gray.  Baltimore, MD, USA:  Genealogical Publishing Co., 1988.

(Pg. 172) N-68: Thomas Maddox of Hampshire Co.  192 A. on Great Cacapehon in said Co. reserving 1/3 unto Elizabeth Lindsay for and during her Natural Life and after her death whole to said Thomas Maddox.  Surv. John Mauzy.  31 July 1766

From these records we can see that Elizabeth, widow of Tobias Mattox, was remarried sometime between 1762 and 1766.  Her surname in 1766 had become Lindsey. (Since Elizabeth was born sometime in the 1720's, I think it is possible that she was the second wife of Thomas Lindsey (d. 1769), who married a woman named Elizabeth about 1765, after the death of his first wife, Mary.)


 
4.

Frederick Co. Deed Book 11, Page 351:  (5 Mar. 1767) Edward Corder, Jr. to Edmund Lindsey.  Witnesses: Jacob Lindsey, Henry (x) Casey, Tobias (x) Mattox,  James Lindsey.


 
5. Lindsey family deeds witnessed by Henry Casey were recorded in Frederick Co. deed books:
 
Book 11, Page 458:   3 June  1767: John Lindsey Sr. to Thomas Lindsey.  Signed Henry (H) Kersey
Book 12, Page  45:  20 Oct.  1767:  Mary and John Reagan appointed Edmund Lindsey as their attorney.  Signed Henry (H) Kersey
Book 13, Page 271: 17 Nov. 1769: John Palmore to James Lindsey.  Signed Henry Kersey
Book 13, Page 224:  2 Dec. 1770: Edmund Lindsey Sr. to Jacob Lindsey.  Note: On this deed, Hezekiah Lindsey is named as a co-owner of a tract of land with Edmund Lindsey, Jr.  Signed Henry Kersey Jun.
Book 13, Page 353:  8 Aug. 1770: Edmund Lindsey Jr. to Joshua Bishop.  Signed Henry Casey

 
5a. As of this date, a familial relationship between Thomas Percifull and the Lindsey or Casey families has not been discovered.  Thomas Percifull had lived in Frederick Co., MD prior to moving to the Fort Pitt area.  Thomas' brother, Richard Percifull, died in 1771, and his widow, the former Polly Lucas, married William Bruce.  William  and Polly Bruce moved to the Fort Pitt area where William was a soldier during the war, and where he owned land in Washington Co.  Polly Lucas, William's wife, was the sister of Robinson Lucas, whose daughters, Elizabeth and Drucilla, married John and Philip Lindsey, sons of Hezekiah Lindsey.  This information is from the following sources:

1. A web page titled "Percefull Family Stories" has information about the Percifull family genealogy: http://www.percefull.us/genealogy/Family%20Stories.htm

2. William Bruce's (b. 1776, son of Wm. Bruce, above) memoirs tell of the Bruce family connection to the Percifull's and of his Uncle Robinson Lucas: http://boards.ancestry.com/surnames.bruce/1086/mb.ashx

3. PA Archives Sixth Series Vol. 2, Chapter: Second Battalion Washington Co. militia, page 76: William Bruce was captain of a militia company in the Second Battalion of Washington Co.

4. Early Landowners of Pennsylvania: Atlas of Township Warrantee Maps of Washington County, PA, by Sharon MacInnes, Ph. D. Apollo, PA: Closson Press, 2004. Page 211:  William Bruce's land was in Mount Pleasant, just west of Cecil Township.  Bruce was an assignee of Barton Lucas, who had received the land as compensation for military services during Dunmore's War of 1774.

5. Information about the Lucas family intermarrying with the Lindsey's is from The History of Brown County, Ohio, published by W. H. Beers and Co., Chicago, IL: 1883,  page 331. (Franklin Township history written by S. C. Gordon, M. D.)  Excerpts of the Franklin Township  history are online: http://mimpickles.com/lindsey/ohio/brown/brown_co_lindseys.htm#brown


 
6. Old Westmoreland, the History and Genealogy of Westmoreland Co. Pennsylvania, Vol. 2, No. 4, May 1981, Page 17.  Westmoreland Co., PA Civil Court Docket, April Term 1774: Capias Case.  Though it isn't known what David and Edmund Lindsey had assigned to Gillfillan, it might have been land.  Alexander Gillfillan lived in Peters Township (adjacent to Cecil Township, where David Lindsey lived).  When Gillfillan had his tract in Peters surveyed in 1785, the plat showed Michael Taggert as an adjoining owner.

Link to Gillfillan's survey:
http://www.phmc.state.pa.us/bah/dam/rg/di/r17-114CopiedSurveyBooks/Book%20%20A1-A89/Book%20A-50/Book%20A-50%20pg%20202.pdf

Additionally, Michael Taggert had sued Alexander Gillfillan in 1773 to try to eject him from property (Old Westmoreland, Vol. 1, No.1,  August 1980: page 21.)   So it seems there was a boundary dispute between Taggert and Gillfillan.  Perhaps Gillfan's land had formerly been claimed by David and Edmund Lindsey, who had assigned their interest in the land to Gillfillan.
 

  

6a. “Petitions from Yohogania County, Virginia”, by Raymond M. Bell. Virginia Genealogist, Vol. 17, No. 3, 1973:  Pg. 213.  Bell noted that it was not likely that the petitioners had signed their own names because of the duplication of some names and because of the spelling.  The names of the four men referred to in this report were shown as David Linsey, Thomas Pearsafield, William Casey, and Tobias (?) Mateek.

Note by researcher: No record has been found that can prove that Henry Casey was the father of Mary Casey, who married David Lindsey.  The following records are presented that  help substantiate the claim:

 

NARA Publication M804; File #S15364: Joseph Casey Revolutionary War Pension Application.   It is known from Joseph Casey's pension application that he had lived in the Fort Pitt area.  In his pension application, Joseph said that he had been born in Maryland (ca.1763),  and that he had later lived in what is present day Allegheny Co., where he enlisted in the army in 1781 at age 18.  Joseph also stated that he later lived in Tennessee for four or five years and then in Campbell Co., Kentucky.

More information about the military record of Joseph Casey is presented in footnote #11, below:		  

  This is a letter from Joseph Casey's pension  file that summarizes his statements.

The following information provides a circuitous route to show that the man named Henry Kersey who married Elizabeth Whealand in Maryland in 1746 was the same man who later lived in Frederick Co., VA and after that in the Fort Pitt area.  I believe that Henry Casey of Maryland was the father of Joseph, the Revolutionary War pensioner, and of Mary Casey, the wife of David Lindsey. 

St. John's and St. George's Parish Registers, 1696-1851, by Henry C. Peden (transcription of 1880 copy made by Lucy J. Harrison), Family Line Publications, Westminster, MD. 1987.
 
Page 26:
John Kersey, son of John and Eleanor Kersey, was born May 1723.
Henry Kersey, son of John and Eleanor Kersey, was born November 1726.

Page 201: John Kersey Jr. married Susannah Shaw in 1749.

Note by researcher: It is possible that these Kersey's were related to the man named John Kersey, who operated Kersey's Ferry, which was close to the Lindsey family lands in Frederick Co., VA.  Kersey's Ferry Road ran alongside the Lindsey property, and Kersey's plantation was close to the Lindsey property, too.  As of this writing, no familial relationship has been discovered between the Kersey's of Maryland and the Kersey's of  Kersey's Ferry.

Page 88:
Henry Kersey married Elizabeth Whealand in St. John's Parish, Baltimore Co., MD in 1746. 
Solomon Whealand married Elizabeth Ward in Baltimore Co. in 1766.

Solomon Whealand may have been related to Elizabeth Whealand, the wife of Henry Kersey.  Though she could not have been Solomon's sister (see the parish record, below), Elizabeth may have been part of Solomon's extended family.

Page 45: Solomon  (Soll) Whealand, son of Henry and Rebecca Leggoe, was born Oct. 26, 1738 .
Page 48: Elizabeth Whealand, daughter of Henry and Rebecca, was born July 19, 1741

This information about the Whealand's is added to this discussion because Solomon Whealand appeared in  a Long Marsh area. record, and because he later lived in Harrison Co., KY where his daughter married  a Tobias Mattox in 1806.  Though the parents of this Tobias Mattox are not known (he is a possible son of the Tobias Mattox found in the Fort Pitt area records), it seems certain that he must have been related to the other Tobias Mattox found in the research about the Lindsey family.  Census records show that the name Tobias Mattox was very rare in early times.

Solomon Whealand in Frederick Co., VA area: 

Gray, Gertrude E. Virginia Northern Neck Land Grants, 1775-1800. [Vol. III]. Baltimore, MD, USA: Genealogical Publishing Co., 1993.  Pgs. 2-3: Solomon Weyland assigned land that was adjacent to John Stackhouse's land to William Thompson in Hampshire Co., VA, which Thompson sold in 1775. (The Long Marsh Lindsey's owned land in Hampshire Co., which was adjacent to Frederick Co.)

Solomon Whealand in Harrison Co., KY:
 
Harrison Co. KY  1806 Marriage Bond #467: Tobias Mattox and Anna Whalan
Bondsman: SOLOMON (X) WHALAND
Consent of Solomon & Elizabeth Whalon, Parents of Anna, given 16 May 1806.
Wts: Solomon Whaland and Henry Whalon
Marriage date: 10 May 1806. (First Marriage Book of Harrison Co., KY, p. 12)
Bride's name: Anny Whealand

Some evidence suggests that the Solomon Whealand who gave permission for Anna to marry Tobias Mattox was Solomon Whealand Jr., the son of Solomon Whealand and Elizabeth Ward.


Joseph Casey also stated in his pension application that after leaving Allegheny Co., he had settled in Tennessee for a time.  Joseph stated that while in Tennessee, he was made captain of a military company that had fought the Creek Indians. Though Joseph didn't state exactly where he lived in Tennessee, records show that Joseph Casey had actually lived in Greene County:

Tennessee's First Settlers and Soldiers, By Edward C. McAmis. St. Leonard, MD : Edward Crawford McAmis, 2000.  Pg. 349:
KERSEY, Joseph, An early settler to today's Gr. TN was appointed as Capt of Militia for Greene Co., State of Franklin in the yr 1790.

Dodd, Jordan. Tennessee Marriages to 1825 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: The Generations Network, Inc., 1997:

Joseph Casey married Elizabeth Blackwood in 1788 in Greene Co., TN.

Other records about the Casey family living in Greene Co., Tennessee are given in footnote #15 , below.

Joseph Casey was living in Campbell Co., KY  in 1834 when he applied for his Revolutionary War pension at the age of 71.   It is believed that Joseph was the father of  Henry Casey, who married Polly Stephenson in Campbell Co., KY in 1816 (marriage record per  Dodd, Jordan. Kentucky Marriages, 1802-1850 [database on-line]).  The 1810 U.S. census for Campbell Co. lists only one Casey of any spelling  living there.  This was Joseph Casey, whose age was over 45.  There was a young man, age 16-25 living in Joseph's household who may have been Henry Casey, who was not yet married.  The 1820 U.S. census shows that there were two Casey families living in Campbell Co.,  headed by Joseph Casey and Henry Cassey, who both lived in Covington Township.  It seems that young Henry Casey may have been named for the earlier Henry Casey, his grandfather.
 

 
7.

"Virginia Land Grants in Pennsylvania", The Virginia Genealogist, Vol. 7, No. 2, Page 103:  Tobias Mattocks received a Virginia certificate for 400 acres of land on Miller's Run. He had settled on the land in 1774.  Note: In this journal article the given name has been transcribed as Thomas.   However,  in “Land Certificates 1779-1785 Yohogania County, Virginia",  Old Westmoreland, the History and Genealogy of Westmoreland Co. Pennsylvania.” Feb. 1982, page 41, the given name was transcribed as Tobias.  Because no other records have been found in the area for a Thomas Mattox, I believe the correct transcription to be Tobias.

Virginia Court Records in Southwestern Pennsylvania (Records of the District of West Augusta and Ohio and Yohogania Counties, Virginia 1775-1780), by Boyd Crumrine.  Pg. 181: Tobias Mattocks was appointed to be one of the appraisers of the estate of William Lindsey, deceased.  Note: The actual inventory was recorded in Washington Co. Deed Book E-1, Page 38.  The deceased was a Widow Lindsey, not William Lindsey as Crumrine's transcription shows.

 

 
8. Early Landowners of Pennsylvania: Atlas of Township Warrantee Maps of Washington County, PA, by Sharon MacInnes, Ph. D. Apollo, PA: Closson Press, 2004. Page 58.  The portion of the warrant map shown above is reproduced  from the companion CD to MacInnes' book, which contains images of the warrant maps.

The surveys for the Kersey tracts are available online at the Pennsylvania Historical and Museum Commission website:

Henry Kersey's tract on Miller's Run (Survey Book C104, Pg. 16) :
http://www.phmc.state.pa.us/bah/dam/rg/di/r17-114CopiedSurveyBooks/Books%20C1-C234/Book%20C104/Book%20C-104%20pg%2031.pdf

William Kersey's tract on Miller's Run (Survey Book A82, Pg.155):
 http://www.phmc.state.pa.us/bah/dam/rg/di/r17-114CopiedSurveyBooks/Book%20%20A1-A89/Book%20A-82/Book%20A-82%20pg%20312.pdf
 
9. Virginia Land Grants in Pennsylvania, The Virginia Genealogist, Vol. 7, No. 2, Page 83: William and Henry Kirsey are each listed as receiving Virginia land grants for land they settled on in 1772, both on Miller's Run.

9a Alabama Dept. of Archives and History.  James Hugh Blair Hall Papers: Notes on the Lindsey family.  A handwritten note by Dr. Hall states that Elijah Fulton (b.1835, son of Rebecca Lindsey and David Fulton, grandson of David and Mary Lindsey) spent the night at his home in 1906.  At that time, Elijah shared a family tradition with Dr. Hall that told of David Lindsey courting Mary, who was then the daughter of a Mr. Casey, on the way to Alabama.  According to the tradition,  Mr. Casey had traveled with them. 
 
Note by researcher: They could not have been going to Alabama because they had already been married many years when they moved to Alabama ca. 1809.  This must have been the trip from Frederick Co., VA, to the Fort Pitt area.  David and Mary's daughter, Rachel, was born ca. 1773 in PA, according to the 1850 census for Shelby Co., AL

 
10. Virginia's Colonial Soldiers, by Lloyd DeWitt Bockstruck, Genealogical Publishing Co., Inc.  Baltimore Maryland, 1988. Pg. 143
 
The Library of Virginia has an image of this record online: http://lvaimage.lib.va.us/Microfilm/DW/001/00020.tif

 






 
11. Pennsylvania Archives, Sixth Series, Vol. 2, Chapter: Fourth Battalion Washington County Militia, pages 154 and 155: David Lindsey was in the third class with Joseph Keasey, William Keasey, and Thomas Pearcefield  (pg. 154), while James Keasey was in the seventh class (pg. 155).  All were in Capt. Robert Miller's company of the 4th Battalion of the Washington Co. militia.

NARA Publication M804; File #S15364: Joseph Casey Revolutionary War Pension Application.   It is known from Joseph Casey's pension application that he had lived in the Fort Pitt area.  He stated that he had enlisted while living in present day Allegheny Co.  Below are images from Joseph Casey's pension application:

1. Page 3: Joseph Casey stated that he had lived in the same neighborhood with Col. George Valandingham.

2. Page 4: Casey stated he had been given command of a group while serving a tour as a ranger.

3. Page 4: Casey stated that he had been a member of Crawford's expedition in 1782.  His captain in that expedition was Craig Ritchie.

1. One of Joseph Casey's statements (Pg. 3) was that he had lived in the same neighborhood as Col. George Valandingham.  The warrantee map of South Fayette Township, Allegheny Co., PA  shows that George Valandingham owned property on Robinson's Run.  This map can be viewed online at the Historic Pittsburgh website:  http://images.library.pitt.edu/cgi-bin/maps/warrantee.pl?client=maps&image=14warp22

South Fayette Township was originally a part of Cecil Township of Washington Co.  In 1789, part of Cecil Township was annexed to Allegheny Co.  George Valandigham's property was in the annexed area, just a few miles from the property owned by Henry Kersey on Miller's Run.   The boundary change can be viewed online: http://www.mypennsylvaniagenealogy.com/pa_maps/pa_cf.htm

2. Another statement by Joseph Casey in his pension application (Pg. 4) was that he had been given command of a group of men while serving as a ranger.  The Pennsylvania Archives Series 6, Vol. 2, Chapter: Fourth Battalion Washington County Militia, page 138 validates Casey's statement:

(c) This is Certify that Joseph Casey hath Sarved his Tower of Duty at a 

good malitia man Ranging on the frontears at the mingo bottom from the 6th 
of March until the 6th of April and Drue public Rashings. 1782.
 
EDMOND BAXTER, Captain Commanded.
JOSEPH CASEY, Sargen.This record, and the one below are online at Rootsweb: http://ftp.rootsweb.com/pub/usgenweb/pa/washington/military/must136-140.txt


3. Joseph Casey also stated that he had gone on the Crawford expedition in 1782 (Page 4).  He stated that his captain was Craig Ritchie on that tour of duty.  Robert Miller was actually the captain, and Craig Ritchie was a lieutenant in the company, as shown in Pennsylvania Archives Series 6, Vol.2, Chapter: Fourth Battalion Washington County Militia, page 138:

A RETURN 3D CLASS CAPTAIN ROBERT MILLER'S COMPANY 4TH BATT'N WASHINGTON 
COUNTY MILITIA ORDERED TO RENDEVOUZE THE 8TH DAY OF MARCH, 1782. (c.)
 
Craig Ritchie, Lieut.
William Keasey.
Robert McRorey.
Alex'r Fegan.
William Oram. (Note by researcher: Wm. Orum was the later owner of Henry Kersey's property. See warrant map, above)
David Ralston.
David Lindsey.
James Brown.
John Stillwell.
Joseph Keasey.
Thos. Pearcifull.
 
Given under my hand this 16th day March, 1782.
ROBT. MILLER, Capt.


Since Joseph, James, and William Keasey all served  under Capt. Robert Miller, it seems they must have lived near him in the Miller's Run neighborhood (see the warrant map, above)  And it also seems they were the sons of Henry Casey, who owned land in the Miller's Run neighborhood, but who did not appear in any military records because he would have been too old to serve as a soldier in the Revolutionary War.  William Keasey of the 4th PA Battalion must be the same person as William Kersey who owned land next to Henry Kersey and David Lindsey on Miller's Run.  Below are images of the military records of the three Casey men who served.  These images were downloaded from the Pennsylvania Archives website:  http://www.digitalarchives.state.pa.us/archive.asp
 

James Keasey Joseph Keasey William Keasey


Below are images of the military records for David Lindsey and Tobias Mattox.  The image for David's record is from the PA Archives website, URL above,  while the image for Tobias Mattox was downloaded from http://www.footnote.com/ which has the Pennsylvania Archives online free of charge. The citation for Tobias's record is Series 6, Vol. 2, Page 148:

     
  David Lindsay   Tobias Mattocks  

A study of the names of the men in Tobias Mattox's battalion (4th PA, under Capt. Charles Reed) shows that many of them were landowners in the portion of Cecil Township that was later annexed to Allegheny Co., which was a little east of David Lindsey's land.  Capt. Charles Reed's land was close to the tracts owned by Col. George Valandingham.  I think Tobias lived in a different neighborhood than David Lindsey and the Casey boys, so that is why they had  a different captain than Mattox, and therefore did not muster with Mattox.

 
12. Virginia Court Records in Southwestern Pennsylvania (Records of the District of West Augusta and Ohio and Yohogania Counties, Virginia 1775-1780), by Boyd Crumrine:  Pg. 328. (using numbers at bottom of page)

No details of the case are given in Crumrine's book that tell exactly why David Lindsey was accused of perjury.  The case was not referred to again after Henry Kersey posted bond to guarantee David Lindsey's appearance at the next court.  But a perusal of the court records preceeding the day David appeared in court reveals that it is likely that David had testified in a lawsuit involving Henry Kersey, who had been sued by John Springer. It seems that David Lindsey, his wife Mary, and Thomas Percifull had all given testimonies that they were later indicted for. Following are all the references this researcher has found concerning the case in Crumrine's book:

4-29-1778: John Springer vs. Henry Kearsey.  In Asst. Al. Cap. (p. 149)

5-25-1778: John Springer vs. Henry Kearsey. Parties motion to have the case referred to John Hall, Henry Taylor, and George Vallandingham. (p.152)

7-27-1778: Court orders the award in the suit of John Springer vs. Henry Kearsey to be set aside because the proceedings of the artbitrators appear to have been illegal. (p. 177) Note: This is the point in the case where it seems that David and Mary Lindsay, and Thomas Percifull may have been involved.  It appears that the three may have given testimony that later resulted in indictments for perjury. See the entries for 3-25-1779 and 1-18-1770.

9-29-1778: Springer vs. Kersey. Sp. Imparl. (p. 192)

11-24-1778 Springer vs. Kersey. N. G. with Leave Agd. (p. 203) Note: Does N G mean next Grand Jury?

3-23-1779: John Springer vs. Henry Kearsy. Left to award of John Cannon, Joshua Wright, George Vallandingham, Gabriel Cox, and John McDonald (p. 232)

3-23-1779: Charles Records with Henry Kearsey as security for personal appearance of Records at next Grand Jury. (p. 233)

3-25-1779: Springer vs. Kearsey contd. (p. 236)

3-25-1779: Kearsy vs. Springer. Referred. (p. 260)

3-25-1779: Grand Jury Presentments: Commonwealth vs. Lindsay, vs. Mary Lindsay, vs. Percifull (p. 261) Note: There were a number of indictments made that day.  Many people on the list appeared in court on September 29-30 (p. 318) and had their cases heard and settled, but not David and Mary Lindsay, nor Thomas Percifull.

4-28-1779: Springer vs. Kearsy. Contd. (p. 266)

5-25-1779: The Grand Jury, finding several bills of indictment, orders that the persons be summoned. (p. 277)

9-29-1779: Springer vs. Kearsey. Referred (p. 293)

9-29-1779: Kearsey vs. Springer. Referred (p. 305)

1-18-1780: "At a Called Court held the 18th day of January 1780 for the Examination of David Lindsey and Thomas Pearcesal who
stands charged with Perjury. Present Edward Ward, William Goe, Benjaman Frye, Joseph Beckett, John Cannon, Joshua Wright Gent. Justices.
The Prisoners being sent to the Bar pleads not Guilty, but they refusing to go through the Examination before the Examining Court, offered to Enter into Recognizance to appear before the next Genl. Court, Ordered that they Enter into recognizance accordingly. Whereupon the said David Lindsey with Henry Kersey & Tobias Mattocks his Securitys enter into recognize as aforesd, the sd. David held in L 1000 and his Secur'y. in L 500 Each, and the said Henry Kearsey enters securities for the personal appearance of the said Thomas as aforesaid held in L 1000. John Springer with Isaac Springer his Surety enter into recognizance for the Personal appearance of the sd. John at the next Gen. Ct. to Testify agt. the sd. David & Thomas. John Springer Surety for Enoch Springer as afsd. held as aforesaid. Joseph Ross with John Springer his Security held as afsd." (p. 328)

5-23-1780: Kersey vs. Springer. Not guilty. (p. 345)

Note: There are no further references to the case in Crumrine's book.  David Lindsey sold his land on Miller's Run in March of 1780.  Perhaps the sale was in anticipation of having to pay a heavy fine if David was found guilty of perjury.  It is known that David did not leave the area at this time, and that he was serving in the local militia.  David's military record showed that he served in the Pennsylvania militia from 1781 to 1783.


 
13. Washington Co., Pennsylvania Deed Book 1A, pg. 160: David Lindsey to John Reed.  Copy of deed: PDF file (806K)

 
14. Web Page: http://www.tngenweb.org/revwar/counties/greene/1783.html

The information on the web page was extracted by C. Hammett from "1783 Greene County, TN Tax List" by Mrs. Louise Wilson Reynolds, published April 1919 D.A.R. Magazine, reprinted in The Overmountain Men by Pat Alderman, Overmountain Press, Johnson City, Tennessee, 1970, pp. 239 and 242.

David Lindsey and Thomas Perciful were enumerated on the tax list.  William Crowson, father of Richard Crowson who married David's daughter, Sarah Lindsey, was on the list.  John and Marshall Lovelady, father and uncle of William Lovelady, the husband of David Lindsey's daughter Rachel, were also on the 1783 tax list.


 
15. Tennessee's First Settlers and Soldiers, by Edward C. McAmis. St. Leonard, MD : Edward Crawford McAmis, 2000.  Pg. 349:
KERSEY, Joseph, An early settler to today's Gr. TN was appointed as Capt of Militia for Greene Co., State of Franklin in the yr 1790.

                  
The image on the left, above, is from page 131:  American Militia in the Frontier Wars 1790 - 1796, by Murtie June Clark. Genealogical Publishing Co., Inc., Baltimore, MD: 1990.  Clark lists him as Joseph Casey.  The image on the right is from the Greene County, TN marriage register for 1788.  It shows that Joseph Casey married Elizabeth Blackwood that year in February.  Click on the images to see a larger version.
 

Greene County, TN Court of Common Pleas 1783-1796, compiled by Goldene Fillers Burgner. Easley, SC: Southern Historical Press. 1982

August Term Minutes 1786,  Page 68:
The jurors appointed to view a road from the Puncheon Camp to the county line at Mr. Cassen's meeting house report that the way is convenient. Thos. West is appointed overseer of sd road from Mr. Cassens to James Rogers from sd Rogers to Babbs Mills sd Rogers from sd Rogers to Wm Williams, Corban Lane, Henry Cassey from thence to the Puncheon Camp.  Order Issued.
 
February 1793, Page 280:
Henry Casey from thence to his own house, Alexander Williams from thence to James Pattersons, Thomas Robinson from thence to Lick Creek, Andrew English, Senr from thence to the line of Washington County. Issd.
 
February 1794, Page 326:
John Simpson is appointed overseer of the road from Henry Kerseys to Jas Pattersons,  Issd.


 
16.



 

 

 

Lindsay Newsletter: Southern Colonial Branches, edited by William Thorndale. Vol. 1, Issue 2 (1980). http://www.clanlindsay.com/sln_v1_n2.pdf

Page 39:
 
North Carolina Grants #483 C:126 to David Lindsey 20 Sept. 1787 for 640 acres in Greene Co. on Plumb Creek and Churn Camp Creek, including his improvements, near Browns Path adjoining James Mitchell.  On warrant # 1356.  Chain carriers: James Casey and James Mitchell.

North Carolina Grants #434 C:126 to David Lindsey 20 Sept. 1787 for 400 acres in Greene Co. on waters of Lick Creek and Plumb Creek, adjoining Christians War Path..  On warrant # 1357.  Chain carriers: James Casey and James Mitchell.

Earliest Tennessee land records & earliest Tennessee land history, by Irene M. Griffey. Baltimore, MD: Clearfield Co., 2000.
      
Page 133: James Casey grant for 300 acres on Lick Creek, Greene Co.
Page 269: David Lindsey, 2 grants (same as above), entry dates on each shown as 1784.
 
This map shows the approximate location of David Lindsey's land (red dot), and Henry Casey's residence (blue dot).

The map was downloaded from:
http://www.davidrumsey.com/maps3220.html


 		  
16a. North Carolina State Archives: Petition Sundry Inhabitants South of French Broad North Carolina General Assembly Session Records Nov-Dec 1789, Box 4, Folder 81.  This petition has been transcribed and is available online.  David Lindsey's surname is spelled Linsey on the petition. (Pg. 7 of the PDF file): 
 
17. Greene County, Tennessee Deed Abstracts 1785-1810, Volumes 2, 4, 6, 7 and 8, abstracted by Joyce Martin Murray.  Dallas, TX: 1996.

Pg. 50, Vol. 2: Indenture 6 May 1789 - David Lindsey to Neeley Newman, 100 pounds pd., 400 acres on Lick Creek called Plumb Creek, beginning at Christian's War Path, dated 11 September 1787.

Pg. 14, Vol. 4: Indenture 5 May 1789 - David Lindsey to John Kelsey, both of Greene Co, NC.  160 pounds VA money paid, tract on Plumb Creek and Churn Camp Creek, including his improvement, 640 acres being tract granted to Lindsay by Grant #483, 20 September, 1787 at Kinston.  Wit: Daniel Kennedy, CGC  Reg. 2,  June 1789.
 
17a American Militia in the Frontier Wars 1790 - 1796, by Murtie June Clark. Genealogical Publishing Co., Inc., Baltimore, MD: 1990.  Pages 139 and 141. Click on the images below to enlarge them.

          

17b. Smoky Mt. Historical Society Newsletter, Vol. 9, Issue 3 (1983).  Richard Shields Petition.  Other people signing the petition in addition to John Lindsey included Sarah Lindsey's husband, Richard Crowson, and Richard's father and brother, William and Aaron Crowson.  It seems that John Lindsey must have lived near Richard Shields and the Crowson's in 1799 when he signed the petition.  Footnote 17c, below, has information which places Richard Shields and the Crowson's as landowners in Crowson's Cove (today's Wears Valley) in Sevier Co.  Shields' land was close to the Crowsons'.  See the Crowson's Cove Map Platting project website: http://www.gwingenealogy.net/GENEALOGY/TENNESSEE/CrowsonsCove/CrowsonsCovePlatMaps.htm
 
17c. Names extracted from the minutes of the First Baptist Church in Sevierville, originally named the Forks of the Little Pigeon Baptist Church.  Transcribed by Joe Sharp in 1985.  The minutes are online at the Sevier County Genealogy website: http://sevier.tngenealogy.net/research-aids/50-religion/151-some-forks-of-the-little-pigeon-baptist-church-records-1807-1824
Also at this site: http://www.gwingenealogy.net/GENEALOGY/SURNAMES/Gwin/gwinisham.htm#forkslittlepigeonbaptchurch
Excerpts:
 

November 1814

Church in Wears Cove

Richard Wood

George Long

Jonas Moon

Spencer Clack

Nauls meating house

Isaac Scelman

Smauel Stocton

John Lindsey

September 1815

Church in Wears Valley

Jonas Moon

George Long

Joel Haggard

Isaac Scelman

Brother Stocton

William Henderson

Spencer Clack junor

Spencer Clack senor

 

October 1815

Br Scelman

Joel Haggard

 

November 1815

Br Scelman

 

December 1815

Joel Haggard

Br Scelman

John Ballard

John Varnal
 

January 1816

Joel Haggard

Isaac Scelman

October 1819
 Lida Scelman letter of dismission

 
Isaac Skillman received a land grant on Gist's Creek in Sevier Co. in 1808: Warrant #383   ISAAC SKILLMAN - 88 ˝ acres-Sevier County-Gists Creek.  Source: Ancestry.com. North Carolina and Tennessee, Early Land Records, 1753-1931 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2013. Image 384 0f 911. Accessed 6-11-2016.  The same source lists additional grants for Isaac Skillman in 1808 and in 1815.
It is not known where Isaac Skillman married Lydia Lindsey.  The marriage may have taken place in Greene County.  Records there show that Isaac's sister, Achsa Skillman, married Alexander McLaughlin in 1789.  The image below shows that Isaac Skillman was a bondsman for the marriage of his sister, Achsa, and Alex McClaughlin.

Source: "Tennessee, County Marriages, 1790-1950," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:XZ72-B51 : accessed 12 June 2016), Alan Mclaughlin and Sarah Shilman, 20 Dec 1789; citing Greene, Tennessee, United States, Marriage, p. 165, Tennessee State Library and Archives, Nashville and county clerk offices from various counties; FHL microfilm 1,148,701.

Isaac Skillman and Alexander McLaughlin signed the same petition that David Lindsey signed in 1789 (footnote 16a, above, page 2 of the PDF file).  Since Alexander McLaughlin is known to have been in Greene County in 1789 to have married Ascha Skillman that year, it seems that Isaac Skillman and David Lindsey were also in Greene County in 1789.

Alexander McLaughlin later moved to Shelby Co., AL, where he patented land in 1823, 1824, and 1826: http://www.glorecords.blm.gov/PatentSearch/

McLaughlin also appeared in census records in Shelby Co. in 1820:  http://www.rootsweb.com/~alshelby/census1820.html

 
17d. Tennessee State Library and Archives.  Letters of the Tennessee Governors: John Sevier 1796-1801(Part 3).  Box 2, Folder 1.
http://www.state.tn.us/tsla/history/govpapers/letters/letter04.pdf

Page 4 of PDF file: Richard Crowson was appointed Lieutenant in the Sevier Co. militia in 1796. Alexander McLaughlin (brother-in-law of Lydia Lindsey, see footnote 17c, above) was appointed Captain at the same time. The same information is presented here:
http://www.sevierlibrary.org/genealogy/state/commbook.htm

Richard Crowson and William Lovelady were both landowners in the area, known then as Crowson's Cove.  This area was also called Wear's Cove (see Baptist Church minutes in footnote 17c, above), and is today known as Wear's Valley in southwestern Sevier Co. (Map of area )

Richard Crowson and William Lovelady both received land grants on Walden's Creek (today's Cove Creek) in Crowson's Cove in 1807:
 http://www.sevierlibrary.org/genealogy/landgrant/tsfb.htm

The record above shows that Richard Crowson assigned his grant to John Kelly in 1808.  Crowson family research notes that Richard Crowson moved to Giles Co., TN in the early 1800's with his father, William Crowson: The Crowson Family, compiled by Leone Amott Rose.  1956: Genealogical Research and Publishing Co., West Los Angeles, CA.  Page 101.

William Lovelady's land was surveyed on April 20, 1807.  It was near Richard Crowson's land, according to the land description, which named  Kinsey Veach as an adjoining owner..  Veach was also named as an adjoining owner of Richard Crowson's land, which was surveyed for John Kelly on April 27, 1807. This information is from the Crowson's Cove Plat Mapping Project website: http://www.gwingenealogy.net/GENEALOGY/TENNESSEE/CrowsonsCove/CrowsonsCovePlatMaps.htm

Sevier Co. deed books are cited for the plat descriptions on the website. Deed Book 2, page 620 is the citation for Richard Crowson's plat, while only page 569 is given as the citation for William Lovelady's land.  I'm guessing page 569 is also from Deed Book 2 as Lovelady's land was surveyed a week before Crowson's land was surveyed.  Alexander McLaughlin is also shown as having land surveyed in Crowson's Cove on August 31, 1807.  No citation is given for McLaughlin's land.

Excerpt from the website:

Kelly, John, assignee of Richard Crowson, 146.25 acres, bk. 2 p. 620

1. Beg at a red oak w/Aaron Crowson s85e w/vacland 34/45 tas w/Mary Renfro
2. w/Renfro: Parten and Walker s7w 57/50 tas
3.w/vacland n35w 38/27 to a hickory
4.n82w 5/0 tas
5.n58w 14/28 tas on Wm. Crowson's line
6.  w/said Irwin and William Crowson n29e 23/53 to the Beg

 
 

Crowson Family Records.  Dr. Joseph Sharp Collection from the McClung Historical Collection, Knoxville, TN.  The Sevier County Library has digitized the Crowson family records from Dr. Sharp's Collection.  They are available online: http://www.sevierlibrary.org/genealogy/drsharp/index.htm

http://www.sevierlibrary.org/genealogy/drsharp/crowson/crowson3.PDF

Page 3 of the PDF files (excerpt):

North Carolina Grants #21; July 11, 1788; State of N.C. to Wm Crowson, 400 acres on N.E. side of Big Pigeon.

July 11, 1788; to David Stuart, John McNabb, Wm Crowson, Abraham Denton, James Baldridge and John Eliot, 155 acres in fork of  Big Pigeon and Fr. Bd. rivers.


http://home.att.net/~graypac/Wmofaug/nti00620.htm

1792 Greene 7. Conveyance from William Crowson to John Lillard, both of Greene co
Tenn, 11 Sept 1792, 290 Acres, wit John McNabb, William Job, signers
William and Mary (his wife) Crowson

1797 Sevier Co. 8. William Crowson (of Sevier Co Tenn) to John Nelson 5 Sept 1797, 10
Acres, adj John Lea. Test. John McNab and William Lillard.

Jefferson Co. Tenn: John McKnabb to William Lillard, adj John McKnabb
and adjacent William Crowson. 30 Sept 1794, 315 A east side of Pigion River

5. Conveyance: William Crowson to Moses McKey, May 3 1794 100 Acres,
adj Thomas White, wit: Robert Mcfarland, John McNab attorney.
 

Family Bible of William and Catherine Harrison Crowson.  Information received via e-mail 12/20/2007 from William Crowson, author of Crowson Genealogy (published 1999), who owns a copy of the bible record:  Richard Crowson married Sarah Lindsey 14 June 1792 (marriage year difficult to decipher according to Wm. Crowson).  The bible record listed Sarah Lindsey Crowson's date of birth as 8 Jan. 1775, and her date of death as 20 Oct. 1835.


 
18. Children of  David Lindsey born in Tennessee who were still living for the 1850 census were Mary (married Patrick Smith), b. ca. 1788,  and Rebecca (married David Fulton), b. ca. 1796:

The 1850 U. S. census for Coosa Co., AL lists Mary Smith, age 62, b. Tennessee.
The 1860 U. S. census for Coosa Co., AL lists Mary Smith, ag/e 71, b. Tennessee.

The 1850 U.S. census for Shelby Co., AL lists Rebecca Fulton age 54, b. Tennessee.
The 1860 U.S. census for Shelby Co., AL lists Becky Fulton age 62, b. Tennessee.
The 1870 U.S. census for Shelby Co., AL lists Rebecca Fulton age 74,  b. Tennessee.

 

 
19.

The patent for David Lindsey's land in Madison Co. was recorded in a ledger book in Nashville, TN.  Nashville was the location of the first land office for Madison Co., AL.  The ledger book was partially transcribed by Kathleen Paul Jones in 1925.

REGISTER OF APPLICATIONS AND PERMISSIONS
NAME # LOCATION RANGE/TWSP SECTION ACRES DATE
Lindsey, David 113 Flint River 1E/3 23 320 03 Feb 1809

Information about the early land patents in Madison Co. can be found online: http://co.madison.al.us/mcrc/1809land.html

 

1809 State census for Madison Co.,  AL.  Below are images of pages from  The Territorial Papers of the United States, vol. 5, The  Territory of Mississippi, 1798-1817, Carter, Clarence Edward, editor.  Washington, D.C.: Government Printing Office, 1937-38,  pp. 684 - 688.  Website: https://dcms.lds.org/delivery/DeliveryManagerServlet?dps_pid=IE5124048

Explanation - Pg. 684 David Lindsey, Richard Crowson - Pg. 687 Thomas Lindsey - Pg. 688

 
19a.

http://co.madison.al.us/mcrc/1810tax.html    
1810: Lindsey's - David Jr., David Sr., Elijah, Thomas.  Also William Lovelady, John Canterberry, Zachariah Canterberry, Richard Crawson, Patrick Smith,  John Kirksey.

http://co.madison.al.us/mcrc/1811tax.html
1811: Lindsey's - David Jr., Flint River; David Sr. 160 acres on Flint River; Elijah, Thomas 160 acres on Flint River.  Also Richard Crowson 160 acres on Flint River; John Canterbury 160 acres on Flint River; Zicheriah Canterbury, William Lovelady, Patrick Smith, John Kirksey 320 on Huntsville Fork of Indian Creek.

http://co.madison.al.us/mcrc/1812tax.html
1812: Lindsey's - David Jr., David Sr. 160, Elijah, Thomas.  Also William Lovelady 160, John Canterberry 160, Zacheriah Canterberry, Richard Crowson 160, Samuel Fulton 160, John Kirksey 320.

http://co.madison.al.us/mcrc/1816tax.html
1816 (at bottom it says it is for 1815): Lindsey's - David Jr., David Sr.  Also William Lovelady, John Canterberry, Zachariah Canterberry, Richard Crawson, Saml Fulton. (No Thomas Lindsey, he was on the Monroe Co. list that year) John Kirksey.

In all of these records, David Lindsey and three of his six sons appeared.  Missing were sons Joseph, John, and James.  The 1809 census showed that David Lindsey had one son under the age of 21.  James Lindsey was born in 1791, so he would have been the underage son in 1809.  James first appeared in census records in Shelby Co. in 1830.  On that census, James had a wife and a son age 5-10.  The son was William Lindsey, b. 1821, so James probably didn't marry until around 1820.  He may have been living with his father, David Lindsey, during all the above censuses.  Joseph and John must have lived elsewhere.  Joseph married in Madison Co. in 1815, so it seems he may have arrived in the area at about that time.  It is known from the Sevier Co. Baptist Church minutes that John was in Sevier Co. in 1814, so it appears that he didn't arrive in Alabama until he was enumerated on the 1816 Monroe Co. census.

http://www.co.madison.al.us/mcrc/mcminbk.html
Madison Co. court minutes for 1811-1819 show that David Lendsey and Richard Crawson both served as jurors.



 
20.

Madison Co., AL marriage records have been transcribed and are available online.  Below are the lists for brides and grooms that include the Lindsey surname:
 
http://madisoncountyal.gov/mcrc/marriagerecords.shtml
Rebecca Lindsey married David Fulton in 1816.
 
http://madisoncountyal.gov/mcrc/marriagerecords.shtml
Elijah Lindsey married Polly Harrison in  1811,  Joseph Lindsey married Venia (Vina) Landrum  in 1815, and David Lindsey married Martha Crouch in 1819.



 
21. 1820 Shelby County census.  The census records for Shelby County have been transcribed and they are available online at Rootsweb.  I've pasted the information for the Lindsey family and allied families below.  The blue numbers delineate slaves.

http://www.rootsweb.com/~alshelby/census1820.html

Linsey, David                1     0     1     0      2    0     8     10
Linsey, Elijah                1     4     1     0      6    0     0      6
Linsey, James               1     0     1     0      2    0     0      2
Linsey, John                  1     2     0     3      6    0     0      6
Linsey, Joseph              1     1     1     2      5    0     0      5

Lovlady, Jno.                      1     1     1     1      4    0     0      4 
Crowson, Richard              1     4     1     6     12    0     2     14
Pendergrass, Spencer      1     2     2     3      7    0     0      7
Hale, Joseph                       1     3     2     2      8    0     0      8
 


 
22. The land patents are available online at the Bureau of Land Management website.  http://www.glorecords.blm.gov/PatentSearch/Default.asp?

I've made a separate web page detailing the Lindsey land purchases in Shelby County: http://mimpickles.com/lindsey/group2/david/david_ala/land.htm
 


 
23. 1830 U.S. census for Shelby Co., Alabama.  The transcribed records are online at Rootsweb.  I've pasted the Lindsey and allied family information below.  The numbers after each name refer to page numbers of the census.

http://www.rootsweb.com/~alshelby/CensusIndex1830.html
 
LINDSEY, DAVID ~ 258
LINDSEY, DAVID ~ 264
LINDSEY, ELIJAH ~ 258
LINDSEY, JAMES ~ 258
LINDSEY, JOHN ~ 277
LINDSEY, THOMAS ~ 258 		CROWSON, DAVID ~ 277
CROWSON, JOHN ~ 258
CROWSON, MOSES ~ 264
CROWSON, RICHARD ~ 265
CROWSON, THOMAS ~ 277
 		 CROWSON, WEST ~ 275
CROWSON, WILLIAM ~ 277
HALE, JOSEPH ~ 257
 
     

The 1830 U.S. census for Bibb Co., AL lists Wm. Lvelady, age 50-60, with a wife the same age.
 

 
24. Alabama Dept. of Archives and History.  James Hugh Blair Hall Papers: Notes on the Lindsey family.  A handwritten note by Dr. Hall states that Elijah Fulton (b.1835, son of Rebecca Lindsey and David Fulton, grandson of David and Mary Lindsey) spent the night at his home in 1906.  During that visit, David stated that his grandfather, David Lindsey,  had died in 1835 or 1836.


 
25. Lindsay Surname DNA Project Group 2 web page: http://www.clanlindsay.com/virginia_lindsay_lineage_dna_grouping.htm

Two descendants of David Lindsey of Shelby Co., AL are represented in Group 2 by L0028 and L0164, who are both descendants of James Spencer Lindsey.  James Spencer Lindsey was a grandson of David Lindsey and Mary Casey Lindsey.

A descendant of Edmund Lindsey of the Long Marsh is represented in Group 2 by L0156.  L0156 descends from Edmund's son, Jacob Lindsey of Frederick Co., VA and Wilkes Co., GA.

A descendant of Hezekiah Lindsey of Frederick Co., VA and Westmoreland Co., PA is also represented in Group 2 by L0038.  L0038 descends from Hezekiah Lindsey's son, Philip Lindsey.

NARA Publication M804; File #S41770: Revolutionary War Pension application of Hezekiah Lindsey.  Hezekiah stated that he had entered the service of the 13th Virginia Regiment in Westmoreland Co., Pennsylvania.  He served three years in Capt. Uriah Springer's company.



This page was updated on 07/22/15

Susan Grabek