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Tazwell, I sent a follow up question regarding the Whitley line from Isle of Wight, VA to your email address.
Here, for the benefit of others who may be researching similar lines, I post the question.
I am still seeking the parents of Mills Whitley, who may have been born in Isle of Wight County.
There are no less that two separate Mills Whitley’s from IOW who are often confused with each other.
The Mills Whitley I seek was born c. 1771-1774. He is often confused with a Mills Whitley born in IOW 20 years later, in c. 1791.
In 1791, when this other Mills was a newborn, my Mills Whitley provided surety bond in Isle of Wight Virginia for the marriage of Randolph “Randall” Whitley and Sarah Bracey (28 November 1791).
Thus, my Mills would have been fully an adult, and apparently with standing in the IOW community (being that he was able to provide surety bond). Randal Whitley and wife Sarah Bracey Whitley later bore a son--Mills W. Whitley, apparently named in my Mills Whitley’s honor.
My information has Randal and Sarah Bracey Whitley's son, Mills W. Whitley, born in IOW Virginia c. 13 May 1803; died 22 November 1856; and buried at Cedar Hill Cemetery in Suffolk, Virginia.
My Mills (born c 1771-1774) died in Nash County in 1834.
His will probated there in 1836 (and was then notated in 1840, apparently because his wife Martha Freeman died shortly after he did, and this complicated the executor process).
In 1800, nine years after the 1791 marriage of Randall and Sarah in Isle of Wight, VA, my Mills was enumerated in the Halifax County, NC census. He was then listed as a single man.
This 1800 Halifax County NC census is the first information I have on him beyond the 1791 surety bondsman in the IOW Virginia wedding. It is also the first information which places him in NC.
He later married Martha Freeman, apparently only a couple years after the 1800 census, because in 1804, my Mills was listed as the recipient of a shotgun in John Freeman’s will (1804 in Nash County, NC). John Freeman would have been his brother-in-law.
I have some court related abstract information on my Mills Whitley from Nash and Edgecombe Counties. For example, in 1816, my Mills does show up in Nash County Court records, as appointed guardian of Sally Atkins, (August Court, 1816, Nash County). He apparently also served as a magistrate there, and as a patroller.
My Mills is also listed in subsequent censuses (in 1820 and 1830) in Nash County. But I cannot locate him in the 1810 NC censuses in either Halifax County or in Nash or Edgecombe counties.
I am operating under the assumption that Mills and Randolph Whitley (from the 1791 Isle of Wight, VA marriage bond) were possibly brothers, or perhaps close cousins.
A Randolph Whitley does also show up in the 1800 Halifax County NC census. Thus, it is possible they both migrated southward into northeastern NC sometime after Randolph’s 1791 IOW marriage to Sarah Bracey.
If true, evidently, Randolph and Sarah migrated back to Virginia after the 1800 Halifax County, NC census--since their son, Mills W. Whitley, was born in IOW, VA in 1803.
Mills Whitley stayed, and at or about this time would have married Martha Freeman, since in 1804 he was bequeathed the shotgun from John Freeman's Nash County probated will.
Do you have any information in your mother’s notes which might shed light on the relationship of Randolph and Mills Whitley in Isle of Wight? Brothers? If so, who were their parents?
Thanks.
FWW
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