Some records in Middle Tenn.

Pictured below: Dr. Hiram Jacob Thomas--a son of William Thomas & Elizabeth Purviance Thomas.

Hiram Jacob Thomas, M.D., moved down to Vernon [County?], then Yazoo [County?] in Mississippi, where he died.

He was a brother to Jane Maxwell Thomas McCorkle (Mrs. Edwin Alexander McCorkle), inter alia. Jane McCorkle named one of her sons after this brother, viz., Hiram Robert A. McCorkle, d. 1907.

We have a letter from his brother David Thomas, 1st attorney general of the Republic of Texas & acting Secretary of War, to him dated 1836.

Blythe, Elizabeth	Douglass, Robert G.	20 May 1830	Tyree, John P.
Blythe, Elizabeth	King, James B.	5 August 1830	Blythe, Samuel
Blythe, Martha	Graham, Richard	2 May 1829	Blackmore, William M., Montgomery, William, Black, William, Hadly, James H. and Douglass, Y. N.
Blythe, Rachel	King, Richard	21 July 1794	Blythe, Andrew
Thomas Anderson	Elizabeth McCorkle	13 March 1809	Bowen, John H.

Anderson, Thomas

McKorkle, Elizabeth

13 March 1809

Bowen, John H.

Elizabeth McCorkle was the daughter of Robert McCorkle by his 1st wife Elizabeth Blythe. Robert McCorkle’s 2^nd wife was Margaret “Peggy” Morrison of Rowan County, N C.

Purviance, Martha [King] [widow of John Purviance (Jr.) who was scalped in Middle Tenn. in 1792] [Wm. McC m. again, his 3^rd wife, in 1800.]				McCorkle, William	25 December 1794	King, Samuel
McCorcle, Eliza	Leath, John H.	20 February 1847	Brigance, John W.
McCorkle, Harriet N. I don’t know who this is.	Blakemore, Andrew J.	25 January 1841	McMillen, David P.

Now, Elizabeth McCorkle married Thomas Anderson and had, I think, 4 children. One of those 4 children was Elizabeth Anderson who married a Cumberland Presbyterian Minister named J. McMurray [earlier spelled McMurry]. Below, this marriage is listed as 1837.

I believe another of the 4 children was Martha Anderson, who below is shown to have married James LEATH: Martha D. Anderson (Mrs. James T. Leath). Julia Anderson never married, according to Elmira Sloan McCorkle Roache’s letter to her nephew in Newbern, Tenn., James Scott McCorkle. The son Robert Anderson may have moved to ALABAMA, according to Elmira Sloan McCorkle Roache’s letter; but Elmira was uncertain what had happened to Mr. Robert Anderson, the son of Elmira’s half-sister Elizabeth McCorkle Anderson. –The only other indication I’ve ever found about him (on ancestry.com by a contributor about the parents of Thomas Anderson who m. Elizabeth McCorkle) is that Robert Anderson became an attorney and lived in Lexington and Durant, Mississippi.

Anderson, Ann	Hannah, James E.	20 January 1841	Blythe, Samuel M.
Anderson, Anna	Combs, Thomas	30 May 1829	Anderson, John
Anderson, Betsey	Barnes, Turner	26 March 1817	Huffman, William & Bell, John
Anderson, Eliza	Black, George	8 December 1829	Rippy, Jesse
Anderson, Elizabeth	Lindsey, Joseph B.	18 May 1822	Hodge, Samuel H.
Anderson, Elizabeth	McMurry, J. M.	27 December 1837	[Eliz. Anderson was a child of Elizabeth McCorkle & Thomas Anderson]
Anderson, Emily	Austin, Dickinson	23 March 1835	Busby, James H.
Anderson, Jane	Stewart, James	22 July 1800	Goudy, John
Anderson, Jane A.	Potts, James A.	17 November 1832	Barry, Thomas
Anderson, Mahalah	Nowlin, Nathaniel	27 September 1817	Boaz, Edmond
Anderson, Margaret	McReynolds, Joseph, Jr.	4 June 1818	Wallace, William C., Jr.
Anderson, Margarett	Winham, William	23 October 1817	Goyne, Amos
Anderson, Martha D.	Leath, James T.	16 March 1831	Winchester, V. P.
Anderson, Mary	Blythe, Richard	4 November 1812	Blythe, Samuel K.
Anderson, Mary	Morrison, John	22 March 1834
Anderson, Mary	Thurmond, James M.	29 October 1840	Carter, Allen
Anderson, Melvina J.	Alexander, Robert	19 October 1848	Brown, Squire
Anderson, Milley	Kirkham. James	19 May 1808	Payton, William
Anderson, Nancy	Alexander, Silas	29 April 1813	Follis, Raven C.
Anderson, Nancy	Pound, Vinyard	3 March 1828
Anderson, Rachel M.	Carver, Henry	28 July 1850	Heath, Richmond R.
Anderson, Rebeccah	McLin, John	3 February 1806	Anderson, Robert [Thomas Anderson m. Elizabeth McCorkle, 1809; so this is not their son Robert Anderson]
Anderson, Reziry	Weatherly, Joseph	6 August 1800	Crafford, Hugh & Crafford, William
Anderson, Sarah	Dobb, John	6 May 1813	Wygal, William
Anderson, Susan	Saunders, Lorenzo	19 April 1836	Eustice, John W.
Anderson, Thankful	Johnson, David	7 September 1830	Turner, John H.

Elizabeth McCorkle, daughter of our Robert McCorkle by his first wife Elizabeth Blythe, married Thomas Anderson in the year 1809:

Anderson, Aaron	Dempsey, Margaret	5 April 1849	Anderson, William
Anderson, Andrew	Clark, Darkass	15 October 1812	Griggs, William
Anderson, George W.	Haynes, Telitha	14 December 1844	Groves, William
Anderson, Horace F.	Franklin, E. M.	? January ?
Anderson, Isaac	Rogers, Peggy	25 October 1816	Cantrell, William & Desha, Robert
Anderson, James	Biggs, Polly	13 September 1817	Biggs, Adam
Anderson, James	Old, Charlotte E.	4 July 1835
Anderson, James M.	Pitt, Louisa	7 December 1846	Bandy, Woodford
Anderson, John	Buckhanan, Sarah	2 April 1817	Bennet, Joseph, Anderson, Thomas, & Anderson, Isaac
Anderson, John	Grooms, Nancy	24 December 1849	Sadler, William T.
Anderson, John A.	Austin, Sarah	28 December 1849	White, Robert M.
Anderson, John B.	Stamps, Nancy	19 September 1816	Stamps, John
Anderson, Jonathan	Condon, Elizabeth	4 April 1813	White, David
Anderson, Mabin	McCall, Maria	4 December 1834
Anderson, Marcus	Turner, Francis	29 March 1830	Martin, Enoch
Anderson, P. L.	Carter, Mary	8 May 1837
Anderson, Pliny L.	May, Mary	30 July 1827	Parker, William
Anderson, Robert	Winham, Permelia	27 February 1817	McLin, John & Scurry, Thomas
Anderson, Sampson	Hinton, Elizabeth	23 July 1827	Holmes, Albert G.
Anderson, Samuel	Bull, Jane	31 October 1811	Anderson, James & Holmes, Albert
Anderson, Samuel	Clark, Ann	25 August 1812	Anderson, Andrew
Anderson, Thomas	McKorkle, Elizabeth [Daughter of Robert McCorkle by his 1^st wife Elizabeth Blythe]	13 March 1809	Bowen, John H.
Anderson, Thomas H.	Roney, Lucinda	11 March 1850	Griffin, William D.
Anderson, William	Dempsey, Matilda	20 January 1848	Anderson, Aaron
Anderson, William	Jones, Betsey	23 November 1791	Anderson, Stephen
Anderson, William	Roberson, Martha	21 April 1840	Perdue, Louis

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1798 Court of Pleas & Quarter Session Records
Sumner County, TN

[This is NOT my, Marsha Huie’s, work, but Leslie Garinger’s and Dinaa Payne’s. I’ve just pulled out pertinent parts and tried to show who our people and their associates were to us.]

To read the History of the Court of Pleas and Quarter Sessions Click Here.

Sumner County Court of Pleas & Quarter Sessions held for the County of afored on the first Monday in April 1798. At the house of William Gillespie agreeable to adjournment.
Members Present - Wm Cage Thomas Martin James Gwin Witheral Latimer

Inventory amt of the sale of Nath Latimer decd is rendered into Court by James Gwin and duly proven.

Jacob Thomas records his ear mark a half _ in the right and slit in the left.

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[I think our Jacob Thomas remained in Statesville, North Carolina, area. Our Jacob Thomas m. Margaret BREVARD and begot 4 sons, each of whom served in the Revolutionary War, viz., John Thomas (remained in Statesville, NC, I think); Henry Thomas; James Thomas; and our ancestor William Thomas who m. Elizabeth Purviance, a daughter of Revolutionary War “colonel” John Purviance, Sr., and his wife Mary Jane Wasson (Purviance); also a Thomas sister married a SHERRILL man.  I have no doubt this 1798 entry records the doings of many of our Thomas-Purviance-Morrison-McCorkle relatives. The names and dates fit with out people.  --  John Thomas – Revolutionary War; remained in Statesville, North Carolina (old Thomas home-place).  The following three brothers removed to Western Tennessee, viz.,

James Thomas --  Revolutionary War

Henry Thomas –Revolutionary War

William Thomas  --  Revolutionary War * * * *  [This William Thomas is our ancestor:  Purviance/ Thomas/ McCorkle/ Huie]

William Thomas and 3 other brothers were in Revolutionary War. Juanita Cook writes Marsha Huie, “My John [from Juanita Cook] was the oldest, then James--Henry--William. John stayed in Statesville NC (old home place) but the other 3 came into west TN.” -- Email from Juanita Cook to Marsha Huie, 2003]

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Ordered that James Gwin Coroner of Sumner County Recd four dollars out of the County Treasury for holding an inquest on the body of a Negro name Peter. The property of Charles Carter.

Matthew Cowan comes in the Court and submitted to Court in two suits of assault and battery ordered that he be fined fifty cents.

Deed from William Cage to Reubin Cage for one acre of land was duly acknowledged.

Deed from Roger Gibson to John Withers for 104 acres of land was proved by Gabriel Black.

Deed from William Brigance to William Stalcup for 50 acres of land was proved by Saml Stalcup.

An article of agreement in the nature of a lease between Wallis Estell of the one part, Henry Truett and Elyah Truett of the other part was proved by Robert Steel. [Samuel Eusbeius McCorkle, the Presbyterian NC preacher, married a woman née Gillespie whose mother was Elizabeth Gillespie Steele, widowed, I think, by a Mr. Gillespies.]

Deed from John Withers to George Gabriel Black for 52 acres of land was duly acknowledged.

Deed of gift from Laban(r) Benthall to Willis Benthall, Rhody Benthall, Enos Benthall, and Mary Benthall for stock household furniture and 150 acres of land was duly acknowledged.

Deed from William Benthall to Laban(r) Benthall for 140) acres of land was proved by James Cryer.

Deed from Robert Sharp to Jacob Thomas for 100 acres of land was proved by Joseph McElwarth. [?Is this a grandson of the progenitor Jacob Thomas, the latter the father of the 4 sons: John Thomas, James Thomas, Henry Thomas, and our William Thomas who m. Elizabeth Purviance?]

Deed of Gift from Robert Espy to John Espy and Alexander Espy for a tract of land whereon the said Robert liveth was proved by Drury Milam. [One of our Thomas men, I think John Purviance Thomas, married an Espy woman.]

Deed of gift from Robert Espy to John Espy and Alexander Espy for all and singular the personal estate of the said Robert was proved by Drury Milam.

On motion of James Morrison ordered that he have the privilege of keeping a ferry on Cumberland River opposite to the mouth of Station Camp Creek, who enters into bond in the penal sum of Twelve hundred and fifty dollars with Samuel Snoddy security.

On motion ordered that James Cryer have the privilege of keeping ordinary at his main dwelling house who enters into bond into the penal sum of two thousand five hundred dollars with John Josey security and received tavern license.

The Court Adjourned until tomorrow 9 o clock Tuesday April the 3 1798

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The court met according to adjournment. Present: Edward Douglass Thomas Mastin
Witheral Latimer

Deed from Tilmon Dixon to Joseph & William Clark for 640 acres of land was proved by Larkin Thacker. Deed from Tilmon Dixon to Joseph & William Clark for 403 1/4 acres of land was proved by Larkin Thacker. Deed from Robert Looney to Hugh Elliott for 224 acres of land was duly acknowledged.

Grand jury impanelled and sworn to wit Wm Douglass foreman, Joseph McElwarth, William Wier, William McCorkle, John Sadler, Edward Gwin, Mathew Cartwright, Saml Harris, Robt Desha, John Withers, Ezekial Douglass, and Thomas Edward, and Robert Shaw
John Vinson is appointed Constable to attend the grand Jury.

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· I’m always suspicious when I see a name like HINDS that might be a misspelling of Huie. In one NC census, Huie is even listed as Wharrey. _ of conveyance from John Hinds to William Campbell for sundry tracts of land was in exhibited to Court with a certificate of the acknowledgment of said deed certified by Thomas Bradley esq clerk of Lexington District in the state of Kentucky with his seal of _ thereto annexed which deed is thereby admitted to record & ordered to

The court adjourns until tomorrow at 8 oclock

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End. Many thanks to Linda Carpenter and compilers Leslie Garinger and Diane Payne for the Sumner County, Tennessee, court records above.

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[End of former Chapter Eleven]

McCorkle, George	Maxy, Eliza	7 September 1832	Twopence, William
McCorkle, William	Purviance, Martha King	25 December 1794	King, Samuel
McCorkle, William [3^rd marriage]	Graham, Jenny	9 June 1800	Rutherford, Griffith

Graham, Jenny

16 March 1831

22 March 1834

Anderson, Robert [Thomas Anderson m. Elizabeth McCorkle, 1809; so this is not their son Robert Anderson]

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1798 Court of Pleas & Quarter Session Records Sumner County, TN

1798 Court of Pleas & Quarter Session Records
Sumner County, TN