John Carter/Amos Byrd, 1777+, Washington/Greene Co. NC/TN
-
In reply to:
Re: John Amos Byrd/Bird, 1777+, Wahington/Greene Co. NC/TN
Suzan Bird Conliff 2/22/05
Suzan,
As a child, I often visited Gene Dunn's home in Maryville. He was Mary Alice and Samuel Houston Dunn's son. His home was near the main entrance and across the street from Maryville College. He was dad's 1st cousin and close friend. I think my parents told me that Gene's home was where Mary Alice and Sam had lived. After Mary Alice died, Sam married Flora Dykes.
There were two John Carter Byrds from eastern VA. John Carter Byrd, b:1720,. John Carter Byrd, son of Col Wm III, is reported to have married Maria(Molly)Page, daughter of John and Jane Byrd, Wm III's sister, as well as Ann Harrison. Neither is likely to have been true. Mary was born 1765 and supposedly married twice after John's "death". Anne Carlin Harrison died before John Carter was born 27,Jan,1751. The other John Carter Byrd might have married Ann Harrison.
Stella Pickett Hardy's "bible", "Colonial Families of the Southern States of America" mixes up the two John Carter Byrds in her chapter "The Byrds of Westover". As a result, many research sources have shown Westover's John Carter Byrd as being "without issue". He was very much alive when Wm III drafted his 1774 will. He was also very much alive during the life of Fincastle County, Dunmore's War(1774),the founding of Montgomery County,VA(1777), and when he bought and sold "Kingsmill Plantation" via his brother Francis Otway Byrd(1783,1787). "Kingsmill Plantation" is the current site of "Busch Gardens, Virginia".
Francis Otway Byrd became Sheriff of Charles County,VA, after the war. He "represented" his brother, John Carter Byrd, in John's Eastern Virginia post war asset transactions. That seems to say John did not return to Eastern VA after Fincastle County was abolished.
Since John Carter Byrd was legally trained and experienced, he could have become the Amos Byrd who was in the 1st Washington County, NC, Grand Jury; with John Smith Washington County Jurers in the Salisbury(NC) District, and Magistrate at the 1783 founding meeting of Greene County,NC/TN. The "1783 Greene County Tax list" supposedly includes a notation "the first pioneers here were....and Amos Byrd from Westover Manor in VA".
Bill Bird
More Replies:
-
Re: John Carter/Amos Byrd, 1777+, Washington/Greene Co. NC/TN
Suzan Bird Conliff 2/23/05
-
Col. William Evelyn Byrd I, 1674-1744
William Bird 2/23/05
-
Re: Col. William Evelyn Byrd I, 1674-1744
Suzan Bird Conliff 2/23/05
-
Col. Wm E. Byrd I, II & III of Westover
William Bird 2/23/05
-
Re: Col. William Evelyn Byrd I, 1674-1744
sharlene gregg 3/17/05
-
Col. Wm E. Byrd I, II & III of Westover
-
Re: Col. William Evelyn Byrd I, 1674-1744
-
Col. William Evelyn Byrd I, 1674-1744