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In addition to my ggg-grandfather Newitt Drew, five other Drews can be documented in Wilson Co. TN in the early 1800's: Benjamin, Edward, Priscilla, James, and Lucy. Except for Lucy, all these names were also used by Newitt's relatives in Southampton Co. VA, some of them more than once, but these particular people have not been traced to any of the Southampton branches. Priscilla was a member of the Big Cedar Lick Baptist Church, of which Newitt was one of the founders. James and Lucy both married people called BROWN. I have some guesses about the identity of these five people, and would appreciate help from anyone who can prove or disprove them.
1. The marriages of James and Lucy were probably a case of siblings from one family marrying siblings from another, a common pattern at that time.
2. James' wife Rebecca Brown (m. 1812) was probably a daughter of Moses Brown, age 62 in 1812 according to his Revolutionary War pension application, a member of the Big Cedar Lick Church who was previously identified as "mulatto" in the 1810 Southampton Co. census. This would account for the later appearance of a Moses or M.B. Drew, born in TN in 1814 and living in Rutherford Co. in 1870 (discussed in an earlier message on this forum.)
3. All five of these people were connected in some way to Benjamin Drew, a rich plantation owner in Southampton Co. who appears in a tax list from around 1800 as head of a family of five, but who was apparently absent from his plantation at the time of the 1810 census.
4. And finally - the biggest stretch of all - some or all of these people were the same as some or all of the five unnamed "other free" people who were listed at the Benjamin Drew plantation in 1810.
Anyone care to comment? I don't mind having my theories blown out of the water if there are facts to contradict them.
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