Margaret Brooks (1772 – 1857) and Husband Joseph Day: Additional Material

November 6, 2022

Or, Subtitled: The Value of Land Records to Pinpoint When Families Moved Hither and Yon Here’s some more material I’ve added to a previous posting after I did research recently at the Family History Library in Salt Lake City and had access there to records locked to people accessing the FamilyHistory site via our home … More Margaret Brooks (1772 – 1857) and Husband Joseph Day: Additional Material

Thomas Whitlock (abt. 1745 – 1830): Additional Material, Montgomery County, Virginia, Years

November 4, 2022

Or, Subtitled: Thomas Whitlock Again — A Bit of Backwards Sleuthing In my work of the preceding two weeks, retrieving material at the Family History Library in Salt Lake City that I cannot access from FamilySearch via my home computer, I also found and added to a previous posting the plat for Thomas Whitlock’s 369-acre … More Thomas Whitlock (abt. 1745 – 1830): Additional Material, Montgomery County, Virginia, Years

Hannah Whitlock, Bedford County, Virginia, Court Minutes, July 1769: Additional Material

November 3, 2022

Or, Subtitled: Tracking Parrish v. Guthery in Bedford County, Virginia, Court Minutes I recently reported here that I had found a record for Hannah Phillips Whitlock, wife of Thomas Whitlock (abt. 1745 -1830) in Bedford County, Virginia, court minutes in July 1769. Minutes of Bedford County’s court of common pleas for 26 July 1769 state … More Hannah Whitlock, Bedford County, Virginia, Court Minutes, July 1769: Additional Material

Margaret Brooks (1803 – 1855) and Husband Ransom Van Winkle: Additional Material

November 3, 2022

Or, Subtitled: And more new material to add to old postings Here’s another posting to which I added material in the past two weeks as I did research at the Family History Library in Salt Lake City, adding material to previous postings here when I had access to documents that are under lock and key … More Margaret Brooks (1803 – 1855) and Husband Ransom Van Winkle: Additional Material

Benjamin Benton Hollingsworth (abt. 1785 – 1844): Additional Material

November 2, 2022

Or, Subtitled: More new material added to a previous posting Here is another addition I’ve made to a previous postings on this blog, after my visit to the Family History Library in Salt Lake City gave me access in the past two week to documents previously locked to me as I worked at my home … More Benjamin Benton Hollingsworth (abt. 1785 – 1844): Additional Material

Thomas Jefferson Brooks (1835/8 – 1862): Addendum and Corrections to Previous Posting

November 2, 2022

Or, Subttitled: There’s always more to be found in historical rexearch Another interruption to my series of postings about Thomas Whitlock (abt. 1745 -1830): During the past two weeks, I did research at the Family History Library in Salt Lake City. One of my research goals on this trip there was to retrieve material I … More Thomas Jefferson Brooks (1835/8 – 1862): Addendum and Corrections to Previous Posting

Thomas Whitlock (abt. 1745 – 1830) of Louisa and Wythe Counties, Virginia, and Cumberland County, Kentucky: The Case of Jonathan Jennings

October 22, 2022

Or, Subtitled: When the name you ignore in a document turns out to be the key to the problem you’re trying to solve In my penultimate posting, I told you that, having recounted Thomas Whitlock’s (abt. 1745 – 1830) story up to the point that he and wife Hannah Phillips Whitlock sold their land in … More Thomas Whitlock (abt. 1745 – 1830) of Louisa and Wythe Counties, Virginia, and Cumberland County, Kentucky: The Case of Jonathan Jennings

An Interesting Find: Hannah Whitlock, Bedford County, Virginia, Court Minutes, July 1769

October 17, 2022

Or, Subtitled: Eureka! Here’s an interesting find that allows me to determine more accurately when Thomas Whitlock (abt. 1745 – 1830) married his wife Hannah Phillips, and when they arrived in Bedford County, Virginia, as they made their way towards Montgomery (later Wythe) County, where they had settled by March 1776.

Thomas Whitlock (abt. 1745 – 1830) of Louisa and Wythe Counties, Virginia, and Cumberland County, Kentucky: Whitlock vs. Whitlock Chancery Court Case, 1799 – 1805

October 16, 2022

Or, Subtitled: In Which I Read the Fusty Old Documents and Summarize Them, Saving You the Trouble As the previous posting tells you, in this posting I’m going to discuss the lawsuit filed in September 1799 by William Davies, guardian of Agnes and Hannah Whitlock, the orphan daughters of Thomas Whitlock’s son Charles, which ended … More Thomas Whitlock (abt. 1745 – 1830) of Louisa and Wythe Counties, Virginia, and Cumberland County, Kentucky: Whitlock vs. Whitlock Chancery Court Case, 1799 – 1805

Thomas Whitlock (abt. 1745 – 1830) of Louisa and Wythe Counties, Virginia, and Cumberland County, Kentucky: Wythe County, Virginia, Records, 1790 – 1805

October 14, 2022

Or, Subtitled: Road Orders, Estate Appraisals, and Dams Interfering with Fishing for Catfish I’m now picking up the story of Thomas Whitlock’s life in 1790, when Wythe County was formed from Montgomery, where Thomas was living from before March 1776. If you click the “previous post” link beneath this posting, that will take you to … More Thomas Whitlock (abt. 1745 – 1830) of Louisa and Wythe Counties, Virginia, and Cumberland County, Kentucky: Wythe County, Virginia, Records, 1790 – 1805