Valentine Sevier, Jr. of Greene co., Tennessee
I am trying to determine if there is a family connection between Valentine Sevier, Jr. and my wife's ancestors, John and Phoebe (Meyers/Moyers) Roberts, all of whom lived in Greene county, Tennessee, in the late 1700's and early 1800's.James E. Moore of Dayton, Ohio, provided to the Logan county, Ohio Historical Society and series of family charts on the children of John and Phoebe Roberts.The one for their son Jesse reads in part as follows:"(I) have marriage bond for 1st mar(riage)., security by Valentine Sevier."
Jesse Roberts married (1st) Hannah Marsh in Greene county on January 24, 1820, so the Valentine who was security on his marriage bond would have had to have been Valentine, Jr.Jesse had a brother named James Valentine Roberts and a sister, Nancy (Roberts) Buller who named her second son John Valentine Buller and her third son Arthur Severe Buller (perhaps a misspelling of Sevier ?).This leads me to conclude that there must have been some family relationship between Valentine Sevier and the Roberts family.Does anyone have any information that might validate that.(John and Phoebe Roberts were married in Greene county and her father came into that part of North Carolina which became Washington, Jefferson and Greene counties of Tennessee, settling on the Nolichucky River near the border of Washington and Greene counties, so these families had been in the same area as the Seviers since receiving land grants there for service in the Revolutionary War and it is not unreasonable that they would be related, although it is, I suppose, possible that the Roberts simply revered their prominent neighbors enough to name children for them.I think it more likely there is some relationship, but have not been able to pin it down.)
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Re: Valentine Sevier, Jr. of Greene co., Tennessee
Patricia Sabin 6/28/09