Re: Joseph Marsee
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Re: Joseph Marsee
David Rains 5/25/05
My wife is part of the Marsee line which starts with the first Rev. Thomas who was the brother of the Joseph you referenced but both of them were sons of Joseph Massey/Marsee and Thomas and Joseph the elder are on the records of Lee county as witnesssing a Middleton will prior to the move of Joseph sr. and jr. into Yellow Creek. Yellow Creek was Cherokee land and whites were not allowed in but planted crops and hid out in Lee until federal troops under Meigs came up to run them back to Va. and then they tried to return for the harvest.This is all prior to the first Tellico grants.I think Thomas stayed in Claiborne county the first part of his life and there had John C. whose son was Chadwell Marion who fathered Reuben Brownlow who fathered Wililiam Brownlow Marsee father to my wife.This Rev Thomas went back to Knox county, Ky and wsa heavily involved in the founding of many Pabtist churches there.The name was written as pronounced until someone took a look at the double s written like an inverted f in Massee, whicdh they took to be an r, and revised the spelling accordingly.Do you know the book by Trecia Northrup who wrote extensively on the second Joseph who died in Knox county c. 1814?She and a few others were active researchers of this line 15-20 years ago and it has gained by leaps and bounds since then.
What references do you have to a Virginia background?
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Re: Joseph Marsee
David Rains 5/25/05