Month: November 2019

Dennis Linchey/Lindsey (abt. 1700-1762): Post-Indenture Life in North Carolina, 1750-1762

November 26, 2019

Or, Subtitled: Yows, Weathers, Working Tules, Indiorn Corn, and Shillings Starling An assortment of deed, tax, and other records in Granville County, North Carolina, in the 1750s and 1760s provides an interesting snapshot of the final decade of Dennis Lindsey’s life. In 1750, he appears twice on Granville County tax lists, once in Edward Jones’ … More Dennis Linchey/Lindsey (abt. 1700-1762): Post-Indenture Life in North Carolina, 1750-1762

Dennis Linchey/Lindsey (abt. 1700-1762): Post-Indenture Life in North Carolina to 1750 — A Correction of Some Errors

November 25, 2019

  At the end of my last posting, I told you I’d move on to an account of the final decade of Dennis Lindsey’s life, ending with his death in Granville County, North Carolina, in August 1762. I now find that before I do that, I need to correct some mistakes I made in that … More Dennis Linchey/Lindsey (abt. 1700-1762): Post-Indenture Life in North Carolina to 1750 — A Correction of Some Errors

Dennis Linchey/Lindsey (abt. 1700-1762): Post-Indenture Life in North Carolina to 1750

November 21, 2019

Or, Subtitled: The Importance of Knowing County Boundary Changes as You Study Land Records To sum up some salient points of the previous posting about Dennis Linchey’s/Lindsey’s post-indenture life in Virginia (abt. 1725-1734/5): once he was freed from indenture, likely about 1725, he did what we’d expect a young man recently freed from servitude to … More Dennis Linchey/Lindsey (abt. 1700-1762): Post-Indenture Life in North Carolina to 1750

Dennis Linchey/Lindsey (abt. 1700-1762): Post-Indenture Life in Virginia

November 19, 2019

Or, Subtitled: A Failed Attempt to Patent Land, and Suits of Debt To recap (and link to the two previous postings in this series [here and here]): as Brendan Wolfe and Martha McCartney tell us, the indenture of Irish servants in colonial Virginia was subject to a law that required Irish servants in the colony … More Dennis Linchey/Lindsey (abt. 1700-1762): Post-Indenture Life in Virginia

Dennis Linchey/Lindsey (abt. 1700-1762): The Indentured Servant Years

November 15, 2019

Or, Subtitled: Strother Ties and Bristol Ties Everywhere You Turn The Indentured Servant Years As we’ve seen, Dennis Linchey/Lindsey, the Irish servant indentured in Richmond County, Virginia, on 1 June 1718 whom we’re now tracking, would likely have been born around 1700 — or perhaps a bit before or after that date. We noted that … More Dennis Linchey/Lindsey (abt. 1700-1762): The Indentured Servant Years

Dennis Linchey/Lindsey (abt. 1700-1762): Do DNA Work and Prepare for Surprises

November 13, 2019

Or, Subtitled: How DNA Findings Can Upend All You Thought You Knew about Your Family I want to return now to a topic I introduced in May 2018 (and here): the descent of my Lindsey family, classified as group 10 in the International Lindsay Surname Project, from an Irish indentured servant named Dennis Linchey, who … More Dennis Linchey/Lindsey (abt. 1700-1762): Do DNA Work and Prepare for Surprises

The Nottingham Ancestry of Strachan Monk (1787-1850/1860): Notes on the Possible (?) or Probable (?) Pett Ancestry

November 7, 2019

Or, Subtitled: Fatal Matches and Cruel Step-Parents It’s time for me to draw this long, long series of postings on the Nottingham ancestry of Strachan Monk (1787-1850/1860) to a close. As I’ve told you in my last several postings, an English researcher of the Virginia Nottingham family, Cedric Nottingham, has concluded that the father of … More The Nottingham Ancestry of Strachan Monk (1787-1850/1860): Notes on the Possible (?) or Probable (?) Pett Ancestry