Re: Need stories on Byram,David Bowman etc
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Re: Need stories on Byram,David Bowman etc
7/09/01
Thomas Bibee was born abt, 1734 in Goochland County, Virginia. I have him as son of John Bybee 1706- in New Kent St Peters Parrish, Goochland County, Virginia, John Married Sara Giles in 1732. Several war records show Thomas was in the American Revolutionary War as early as February 1776 in the march to Charleston, South Carolina.Thomas married Wahanee an Indian Princess from the Powhatan Tribe around 1800.Moved to Cocke County, Tennessee abr 1812 until his death in 1834.I have old letters from the 1800's that talk about the ancestors of David Bybee 1740-1816 had a father named Long John Bybeeearly land records show the same John Bybee had property inFluvanna County (then Goochland County) 1500 acres near Ballengers Creek nine miles north of Palmyra, which is close to a small town Bybee, Virginia.Land records near this point 1758 showsa land deed to David and Ann selling property to George Thompson on October 11, 1787.Also land was bounded property by William BybeeDon Bybee