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Jim:
I do not know if this is helpful to you, but the following notes were recorded by me in the mid-1980’s. We were living in Atlanta at that time and I used the files stored in the National Archives located there for research records. We later moved to South Carolina and were able to use records there. I was a very inexperienced genealogist at that time and did not faithfully keep accurate records of my documentation. I was so happy just to find the linkages. While I want to be as accurate as I can, I guess I have always been more interested in the “story” of my ancestries and the times in which they lived than in the certification. I strive for perfection but am willing to accept oral histories and family traditions. I know this makes me a lousy genealogist, but I hope it makes the family history more meaningful to my grandchildren than just names and dates on the family tree.
I have attempted to search the Andra linkage back to France, but ran into the differences in spelling the names: “QUILLION,” which is practically non-existent in North America during the early and late colonial period but is common throughout France; the variations, such as “Gallian,” “Galleon,” and “Galyean” appear in later North American records and are traceable to the North Sea countries; and the Saxony name of “Gillion,” or the Scottish name of “Gillaland.”
Hope you can use the following information in your search.
Arlie G.
ANDRA (ANDREW) GALLION, born Abt 1700, believed to have emigrated from southern France and as indentured slave. He came to the colonies as cabinetmaker with 7-year indentured contract. On arrival at Charleston, ANDRA’s servitude contract was sold to a colonial master in Robeson and Rowan Counties, NC. There, ANDRA took a wife, Wife 1, and raised children, of which at least three were males. After the Proprietors returned their grants to the Crown in 1729, ANDRA changed his name to ANDREW and fled to the northwest part of the state in what is today Surry County leaving his wife and family behind. His family remained in the area and the reasons for his desertion are unknown. He may have broken his indentured contract or he may have been pursuing free land.
In Surry County, ANDRA married, Wife 2, and raised a family of at least six sons; the custom of that period was not to record girl-children’s birth. His second wife’s name had not been identified. ANDRA did not own land and is believed to have sharecropped on several farms and worked as a cabinetmaker in the Dobson and Low Gap areas of Surry County. However, Andre's sons became landowners. ANDRA died around 1750 in Surry County. The six male children of ANDRA and WIFE 2 were: (not necessarily in correct birth order) Samuel, Thomas, William, Gilbert, Amon, and JACOB
(Documentation: Ship manifest: Port of Charleston 1700-1750. History of Robeson and Rowan Counties. Surry County History.)
JACOB Gallion was born Abt: 1735 in Surry County, NC. He married NANCY in 1753 in Surry County and they had at least one recorded son, YOUNG, born Abt 1755. There is no record of NANCY’s maiden name or of what happened to her.
Sometime before 1765, JACOB married Elizabeth Arnold and they had eight children, four sons and four daughters that reached adulthood: Marcia and Thomas born in 1765, Elijah in 1767, Norma in 1768, Nathan in 1769, William in 1170, Alice in 1774 and Patsy in 1776. JACOB received a Surry County Land Grant in Yadkin on April 3, 1780. He sold his land to Abijah Elmore in 1784 and moved to Grainger County, TN. Elizabeth died before 1804 in Seveire County, Tennessee.
In 1804, JACOB moved to Hardin County, KY. In Kentucky, JACOB married a younger woman, Ruth, who was born Abt 1778 and fathered five additional children, two sons and three daughters. Children of JACOB and Ruth: John born in 1805, Mary in 1807, Joy in 1809, James in 1810 and Elsie in 1811. He was a farmer and saw mill operator in Hardin County and died there at the age of eighty in 1815.
(Documentation: Death: 1815 in Hardin Co, KY Will: 16 JUN 1815 Hardin County, KYC
Surry County, NC Will Abstracts: p. 1343: 104 Will of Jacob (A) Gallion, filed 16 June 1780. wife Elizabeth to have life estate of 150 A. Son: Young. Children: Marcia, Thomas, Elijah, Norma, Nathan, William, Alice, Patsy-- these to have had their part. Exrs: son Young Gallion and James Williams. Wit: William Cunningham, Richard Robinson. Prvd by Robinson. Rec. Feb. Ct. 1780.
Surry Co 1780 Tax List: Jacob Galyean, no acreage, 1 poll; Young Gallion with 500 A, 1 poll; Elizabeth Gallion, 320 A, no poll.
Surry County, TN Deeds: Apr 1781 320 ac from state, 50 shill. per 100 ac (SCDB #B-162)
1782 Taxpayers of NC: Jacob Gallion 320 A, Surry County
7 May 1784 to Abijah Elmore, 145 L for 320 ac (SCDB #C-51)
1790 Census, Sevier County, TN: Jacob Gallion, 2 males 0-15, 1 male 16+, 2 females
Owned land on Forbis Creek in Hardin County, KY, originally 620 acres
Hardin County, KY Deeds:
20 Sept 1804 to Elizabeth Calton, North Fork of Deep Creek, part of 400 ac grant, 60 L (SCDB #G-198)
13 Nov 1804 to Jacob Gallion, Sr, Planter, 50 L on Firshing River, 75 A "part of tract I live on" (SCDB#G198) witnessed by William Jones, Samuel Gallion, and William Cunningham
20 Oct 1808 granted by John Underwood to Amos Gallion, Fisher River proved by Jacob Gallion, Abner Freeman, Abraham Jones (SCDB#G263)
7 Nov 1810 Nathan Gallion to Jacob Gallion Sr, 120 silver dollars, 75 A on Firshing River (same bought from Jacob Sr)
1810 Census, Firshing River, Hardin County, KY: Jacob Gallion, wife Ruth, 2 males, 2 females.)
JACOB and NANCY’s son, YOUNG GALLION, was born about 1755 in Surry County. He moved to Tennessee in 1770. The area along the Cumberland River was still Indian country. YOUNG was a fur trapper and ranged throughout the western slopes of the Appalachians in search of beaver, fox, and wolf skins. He took an Indian wife, from the Cherokee Tribe, who was given the Christian name of APRIL and they had four children: CATHERINE born about 1776, Amos in 1776, Rachael born in 1777, and Thomas in 1778.
YOUNG returned to Surry County with his family and lived with JACOB. Leaving his family with JACOB, YOUNG would continue to make hunting and fur trips into the mountains of Tennessee and Kentucky. APRIL would sometimes accompany him with JACOB and Elizabeth taking care of the children. APRIL returned to her people in Tennessee around 1780. When JACOB moved to Tennessee in 1784, YOUNG’s children remained in Surry County with his uncle Thomas, son of ANDRE and brother to JACOB. Thomas moved his family, including CATHERINE and the YOUNG’s other children to Alleghany County, NC in 1790. Alleghany County, NC borders to Grayson County, VA and it was there that CATHERINE met BARTLETT SEXTON.
BARTLETT’s father, JOHN, operated a gist mill on Elk Creek of the New River. CATHERINE is believe to have met BARTLETT in 1794 while accompanying her uncle Thomas to have grain grounded at the gist mill. CATHERINE and JOHN fell in love and THOMAS (SEXTON) GALLION was the result of their love. THOMAS was named for his uncle.
YOUNG abandoned APRIL and his family in 1790 to fight Indians in the West; near the present day Tennessee and Alabama border, Wayne County, TN. There he took a second wife, Susan, in 1799 and had five children, who later became the Gallion settlers of Alabama. The Alabama Gallion’s ended up concentrated in the south central part of the state, for which the town Gallion, located in Hale County, was named. James R. Gallion was elected as Lieutenant Governor in the late 1950’s. Young and Susan’s children: Dorsie born in 1799, Abner in 1802, Joshua in 1803, Laba in 1803, and William in 1805.
YOUNG left Susan and children in 1806 to fight Indians in Florida and then went on Indian campaigns west of the Mississippi. In one fight, he is believed to have suffered a disabling injury and returned to Surry County, NC in 1810. He became a farmer, married a younger woman, Charlotte, and raised a completely new family consisting of 11 children. There is no record that he ever attempted to contact members of his families in Seveier County or in Wayne County. YOUNG died a respected member of the community in Surry County in 1845 at the age of ninety-five. Young and Charlotte’s children: Webster born in 1812, Dolly in 1814, Marlene in 1816, Constance in 1818, Abigail in 1818, Thomas in 1820, William in 1821, Susan in 1825, Betsy in 1827, Neshma in 1830 and Dorobet in 1832.
YOUNG, at the age of 25, may have participated in the Battle of Kings Mountain in North Carolina during the Revolutionary War. While no official records show that he was present at Kings Mountain, the absence would not be unusual because of the nature of the battle. However as YOUNG lived to his mid-90’s, his progeny in Surry County carried forth the oral tradition of his very colorful history as an Indian fighter and Patriot.
APRIL GALLION ca: 1760 was YOUNG’s first wife and the mother of CATHERINE and her three siblings. APRIL was a Cherokee Indian. After YOUNG abandoned his family to fight Indians in the West, APRIL returned to her Indian family, took an Indian husband and raised another family. Soon after the birth of THOMAS SEXTON, CATHERINE joined her mother in Tennessee. APRIL and her Indian family, along with CATHERINE are believed to have been a victim of the Trail of Tears march in 1938.
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