Johan Gustaffson 1618-1682

Many countries were involved in the colonizing of the New World.  Our family results from most of these countries.  There were disputes among these countries until we were finally a sovereign nation unto ourselves. This is but one example.

"Johan Gustaffson from the Kinnekulle area, Skaraborg Iän, came to New Sweden in 1643 as a soldier under Governor Printz. Printz' successor, Governor Rising, promoted him to the position of a gunner and, as such, he was stationed at Fort Trinity (New Castle) in 1655 when Captain Sven Skute surrendered the fort to the Dutch. . . After the surrender of New Sweden to the Dutch, Johan Gustafsson moved northward to Kingsessing where he died c. 1682, leaving a widow and at least eleven children. They kept Gustafsson as their surname, but it was heard and written by the English as Eustafason, Justison, etc. [John Gustafsson's name last appears in a public record on 14 March 1681/2 when it was agreed that the lawsuit by Peter [Mattson] Dalboe vs. John Eustasson for trespass would be referred to arbitration. CCR, 1:11-12]. Justis, Justus or Justice finally evolved as the family surname. By 1693, several members of the family had married and left home: Gustaf, Mans, Anna and Hans"

"Kinnekulle is a large wooded hill or plateau, nine miles long and four miles across, rising 860 feet above Lake Vanern in Skaraborg County in central Sweden. This was the home area of the Swedish soldier Johan Gustafsson, progenitor of numerous Justice, Justis and justus descendants in America. Johan Gustafsson came to New Sweden on the Swam in 1643 on the fourth Expedition and was initially stationed at Fort Elfsborg, commonly called 'Fort Mosquito' by the men living there. The fort was located on the east side of the Delaware River near the present town of Salem, N.J. Governor Rising replaced Governor Printz as Governor in 1654 and promoted Gustasson to the rank of gunner, transferring him to Fort Trinity at present New Castle, Delaware. While there, Johan Gustafsson married Brita Mansdotter, whose father Mans Andersson was then living nearby

"After the surrender of New Sweden to the Dutch in September 1655, Johan Gustafsson decided to join his countrymen in the new, self-governing 'Swedish Nation' located north of the Christina River. He established his plantation in Kingsessing (West Philadelphia) on the banks of the Schuylkill River. The English patent for this plantation, dated 16 May 1669, named him John 'Eustas' and described the tract as including 150 acres. He later expanded his holding to 300 acres. Johan Gustafsson died in Kingsessing around 1682 and was survived by his wife Brita and eleven children. Half of his plantation went to his eldest son. The other half was sold in 1699.

Johan Gustafsson * (1618 - 1682)

is our 8th great grandfather

Gustaf Gustafsson (1655 - 1722)

son of Johan Gustafsson *

Mans Justis * (1684 - 1774)

son of Gustaf Gustafsson

Catherine Justis * (1718 - 1790)

daughter of Mans Justis *

Magness McDonald * (1750 - 1809)

son of Catherine Justis *

John or Jack McDonald or McDaniel * (1794 - 1855)

son of Magness McDonald *

Nancy S McDonald * (1843 - 1869)

daughter of John or Jack McDonald or McDaniel *

Martin Crenshaw Holland * (1868 - 1940)

son of Nancy S McDonald *

Ollie Florence Holland * (1892 - 1969)

daughter of Martin Crenshaw Holland *

Margaret May Belle Bramblett * (1911 - 1988)

daughter of Ollie Florence Holland *

William Berry 1610-1654

William Berry was born in Norfolk, England, the son of Johan Berry. He was in service to Captain John Mason in 1631, when Mason sent 58 men and 22 women to the Piscataqua River in North America.

The following were returned as belonging to Sandy Beach in 1688: William Berry (his son), John Berry (his son), John Marden, John Foss 1st, John Foss Jr., John Odiorne, Anthony Brackett, Francis Ran, Thomas Ran, WIlliam Wallis, James Randall, William Seavie, James Berry (his son), Samuel Ran, John Seavie, Anthony Libbie, and Jos. 

William Berry married Jane Locke Hermins in 1636 in the town of Portsmouth, New Hampshire. He signed the Glebe Conveyance in 1640. {S7}. In 1640, only seventeen years after the first settling of Portsmouth, Francis Williams, (the governor,) Ambrose Gibbins, William Jones, Renald Fernald, John Crowther, Anthony Bracket, Michael Chatterton, Jno. Wall, Robert Puddington, Matthew Coe, Henry Sherburn, John Lander, Henry Taler, Jno. Jones, William Berry, Jno. Pickering, Jno. Billing, Jno. Wolten, Nicholas Row and William Palmer, the principal inhabitants of Portsmouth, made a deed of fifty acres of land in Portstmouth for a Glebe, or Parsonage.

He became a freeman on 18 May 1642 in Newbury, Massachusetts and is on the list of the first settlers of Newbury.

 He received a lot "upon the neck of land on the south side of the Little River at Sandy Beach on January 31, 1648 that included the area where 'Locke's Neck' is located.

Berry served as a Selectman of Strawberry Bank (which is now Portsmouth, New Hampshire) in 1646. 

·                  Savage, James A., A Genealogical Dictionary of the First Settlers of New England, 1860-   1862., (Boston 1860-1862; rpt Baltimore 1955), [Savage], 1:171
·                  The Berrys by the beach : one of New Hampshire's first families / by Sylvia Fitts Getchell.
·                  New England Marriages Prior to 1700,Charles Torrey,New England Historic and Genealogy          Society, Boston
·                  Parsons, Langdon B., History of the Town of Rye, NH From Its Discovery and Settlement to December 31, 1903, (1905; repr. Bowie, MD: Heritage Press 1992), [RyeHist], 269.
·                  Brewster, Charles W., The Selling of the Land, ~186
·                    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Berry_(pioneer)

Freeman in Colonial Times

Black's Law Dictionary (9th edition) defines Freeman as 1. A person who possesses and enjoys all the civil and political rights belonging to the people under a free government. 2. A person who is not a slave. 3. Hist. A member of a municipal corporation (a city or a borough) who possesses full civic rights, esp. the right to vote. 4. Hist. A freeholder. Cf. VILLEIN. 5. Hist. An allodial landowner. Cf. VASSAL. - also written free man.^[2]

"Freedom" was earned after an allotted time, or until the person demanding "payment" was satisfied – this was known as indentured servitude, and was not originally intended as a stigma or embarrassment for the person involved since many of the sons and daughters of the wealthy and famous of the time found themselves forced into such temporary servitude.

An indentured servant would sign a contract agreeing to serve for a specific number of years, typically five or seven. Many immigrants to the colonies came as indentured servants, with someone else paying their passage to the Colonies in return for a promise of service. At the end of his service, according to the contract, the indentured servant (male or female) usually would be granted a sum of money, a new suit of clothes, land, or perhaps passage back to England. An indentured servant was not the same as an apprentice or a child who was "placed out."

Once a man was made a freeman, and was no longer considered a common, he could, and usually would, become a member of the church, and he could own land. The amount of land he was able to own was sometimes determined by how many members there were in his family. As a freeman, he became a member of the governing body, which met in annual or semiannual meetings (town meetings) to make and enforce laws and pass judgment in civil and criminal matters. As the colonies grew these meetings became impractical and a representative bicameral system was developed. Freeman would choose deputy governors who made up the upper house of the General Court and assistant governors, the lower house, who chose the governor from among their ranks, and who passed judgments in civil and criminal matters. To hold one of these offices it was required, of course, for one to be a freeman. Thus, the enfranchised voters and office holders were landholding male church members. Women, Native Americans and other non-Puritans were not made freeman.

Initially, any male first entering into a colony, or just recently having become a member of one of the local churches, was formally not free. They were considered common. Such persons were never forced to work for another individual, per se, but their movements were carefully observed, and if they veered from the Puritanical ideal, they were asked to leave the colony. If they stayed or later returned to the colony, they were occasionally put to death.

There was an unstated probationary period that the prospective "freeman" needed to go through, and if he did pass this probationary period of time – usually one to two years – he was allowed his freedom.

A Freeman was said to be free of all debt, owing nothing to anyone except God Himself.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freeman_(Colonial)

William Berry (1610 - 1654)

is our 9th great grandfather

Henry Berry (1635 - 1672)

son of William Berry

Henry Berry (1660 - 1692)

son of Henry Berry

Rosanna Berry * (1682 - 1752)

daughter of Henry Berry

Elizabeth Ashby * (1720 - 1758)

daughter of Rosanna Berry *

Benjamin Hardin * (1753 - 1834)

son of Elizabeth Ashby *

Daniel Hardin * (1790 - 1850)

son of Benjamin Hardin *

Martin V Hardin (1834 - 1881)

son of Daniel Hardin *

Nancy Wilson Hardin * (1858 - 1933)

daughter of Martin V Hardin

Walter Scott Bramblett * (1882 - 1978)

son of Nancy Wilson Hardin *

Margaret May Belle Bramblett * (1911 - 1988)

daughter of Walter Scott Bramblett *

Captain Christopher Hussey (1599-1686)

Hussey Memorial Stone from Founder's Park, Hampton N.H.

Christopher Hussey was born & baptized in Dorking, Surrey, England. He was the son of John Hussey & Mary Wood. As a young man in Holland, he met Theodate Batchilder. Christopher, his new wife Theodate and her father & family Rev. Stephen Batchilder sailed for America in 1632 on the ship 'WILLIAM & FRANCIS'. Christopher was one of the first settlers of Hampton, New Hampshire. In 1639, Christopher Hussey was made Justice of the Peace. He also held office of town clerk & was a deacon in the church. He was one of the original "purchasers" of Nantuckett. Christopher Hussey was also a Sea Captain [and first whaler to take a sperm whale -- G.D.]. Christopher Hussey was the father of 3 boys and 3 girls.

SOURCE: The Internet website Heartland stated the following facts:

"He (Christopher) was admitted freeman in 1634 having journeyed to America aboard the William and Francis which arrived 5 June, 1632. In 1635 he was one of the first settlers in Hampton, New Hampshire. In 1639 her served as representative and again in 1658, 1659, and 1660. He was a provincial counsellor of New Hampshire and proprietor of Nantucket Island, Mass. Christopher died in 1685. He was married to Theodate, daughter of Rev. Stephen Batchelor."

Practical economic considerations motivated the early settlers. The first Nantucketers wanted to enhance their wealth and they chose the method that was currently most successful in England. The lifeblood of England was the wool textile industry. The geography of Nantucket was ideal for sheep raising. But sheep could not be raised profitably in most of New England because the land was heavily forested in the seventeenth century, and what land was cleared was needed for food crops. NANTUCKET ISLAND, however, was a natural sheep pasture.
The economic advantage of raising sheep on Nantucket and Martha's Vineyard was seen in earliest colonial times by (missionary) Thomas Mayhew, a Watertown merchant who bought Nantucket, Martha's Vineyard and the Elizabeth Islands from the original royal proprietor. Mayhew and his son set about Christianizing the Indians on the islands. In 1659, Mayhew sold Nantucket to nine defectors from the Bay Colony while keeping a tenth share for himself. In the same year ten other families were recruited to settle Nantucket (Island). This small company of less than 20 families determined to own the island in common, establish a society based on feudal property arrangements and develop a textile industry which they hoped would be as profitable as that in the old country. But unlike European feudal societies, which were church-ridden, the Nantucketers left their religion behind them in the Bay Colony. They were decidedly set against establishment religion and none existed on the island for the first half century. The ONLY practicing Christians were the Indians!
For the first half century of the island's history, there is little evidence of achievement. The homes that have survived from that period are modest and plain; they are totally lacking in ornament and luxury of any kind. ...Any hopes of developing a prosperous woolen industry on Nantucket were dashed in 1699 when Parliament passed an act that forbade the colonists to trade in woolen goods anywhere, including among themselves.
In 1712, a Nantucket whaler (HUSSEY) killed a sperm whale whose oil commanded a premium price. Soon the advantages of pursuing and harvesting sperm whales became evident. Homes that had been scattered for the most part in the western end of the island were taken apart and moved to the harbor area. ...By the third decade of the eighteenth century the Nantucketers had built a wharf to accommodate substantial vessels. A new industry was built whose raw material was taken from all the oceans of the world. Pioneering the oceans after the whale, Nantucket ships charted unknown waters, discovered Pacific islands and trade around the world.

Christopher Hussey* Captain (1599 - 1686)

is our 8th great grandfather

Stephen Hussey * (1632 - 1718)

son of Christopher Hussey* Captain

Batchelor Hussey * (1685 - 1737)

son of Stephen Hussey *

Christopher Hussey * (1706 - 1773)

son of Batchelor Hussey *

Amy Naomi Hussey * (1742 - 1818)

daughter of Christopher Hussey *

Enoch Cox * (1757 - 1840)

son of Amy Naomi Hussey *

Phoebe Hinton Cox * (1788 - 1848)

daughter of Enoch Cox *

Noah Stewart * (1828 - 1897)

son of Phoebe Hinton Cox *

Mary Lou Ella Stewart * (1883 - 1938)

daughter of Noah Stewart *

Doran Edgar Lute * (1901 - 1982)

son of Mary Lou Ella Stewart *





Elder Hatevil Nutter (1603-1675)

  ...quoted from the History of Dover, NH by John Scales... 
 Elder Hatevil Nutter was born in England in 1603, as appears from a deposition he made.  It seems he did not come over with the first lot of emigrants in 1633, but in 1637 he bought a lot of Captain Thomas Wiggin, which was rebounded in 1640, as follows: "Butting on ye Fore River, east; and on ye west by High Street; on ye north by ye Lott of Samewell Haynes; and on ye south by Lott of William Story."
     His house stood on the east side of High Street, about 15 or 20 rods from the north corner of the meeting-house lot.  An old pear tree stands (1923) in the hollow, which was part of the cellar.  He received various grants of land from the town, and had part ownership of a saw-mill at Lamprey River.  His ship-yard was on the shore of Fore River; the locality can be easily found by reference to the map.  He was one of the first Elders of the First Church, and helped organize it in November, 1638.  He remained a zealous and generous supporter of the Church.  When the Quaker Missionaries created disturbance in 1662, he vigorously opposed them, contending they had no right to come to Dover and make a disturbance.  The Quaker Historian, Sewell, speaks very harshly of the Elder.  He says: "All this whipping of the Quaker women, by the Constables (in front of the meeting-house), was in the presence of one Hate-Evil Nutwell (Nutter), a Ruling Elder, who stirred up the Constables (John and Thomas Roberts) to this wicked action, as so proved that he bore a wrong name (Hate Evil)."

In 1662 three young Quaker women from England came to Dover. True to their
faith, they preached against professional ministers, restrictions on
individual conscience, and the established customs of the church-ruled
settlement. They openly argued with Dover's powerful Congregational
minister John Reyner. For six weeks the Quaker women held meetings and services at various dwellings around Dover. Finally, one of the elders of
the First Church, Hatevil Nutter, had had enough. A petition by the
inhabitants of Dover was presented "humbly craving relief against the
spreading & the wicked errors of the Quakers among them". Captain Richard
Walderne (Waldron), crown magistrate, issued the following order: "To the
constables of Dover, Hampton, Salisbury, Newbury, Rowley, Ipswich, Wenham,
Linn, Boston, Roxbury, Dedham, and until these vagabond Quakers are carried
out of this jurisdiction, you, and every one of you are required in the name
of the King's Majesty's name, to take these vagabond Quakers, Ann Coleman,
Mary Tompkins, and Alice Ambrose, and make them fast to the cart's tail,
and driving the cart through your several towns, to whip their naked backs,
not exceeding ten stripes apiece on each of them, in each town; and so to
convey them from constable to constable, till they are out of this
jurisdiction". Walderne's punishment was severe, calling for whippings in
at least eleven towns, and requiring travel over eighty miles in bitterly
cold weather.
On a frigid winter day, constables John and Thomas Roberts of Dover seized
the three women. George Bishop recorded the follow account of events.
"Deputy Waldron caused these women to be stripped naked from the middle
upwards, and tied to a cart, and after awhile cruelly whipped them, whilst
the priest stood and looked and laughed at it." Sewall's History of the
Quakers continues " The women thus being whipped at Dover, were carried to
Hampton and there delivered to the constable...The constable the next
morning would have whipped them before day, but they refused , saying they
were not ashamed of their sufferings. Then he would have whipped them with
their clothes on, when he had tied them to the cart. But they said, 'set us
free, or do according to thine order. He then spoke to a woman to take off
their clothes. But she said she would not for all the world. Why, said he,
then I'll do it myself.. So he stripped them, and then stood trembling whip
in hand, and so he did the execution. Then he carried them to Salisbury
through the dirt and the snow half the leg deep; and here they were whipped
again. Indeed their bodies were so torn, that if Providence had not watched
over them, they might have been in danger of their lives." In Salisbury,
Walter Barefoot convinced the constable to swear him in as a deputy.
Barefoot received the women and the warrant, and put a stop to the
persecution. Dr. Barefoot dressed their wounds and returned them to the
Maine side of the Piscataqua River.

Eventually the Quaker women returned to Dover, and established a church. In
time, over a third of Dover's citizens became Quaker.
John Greenleaf Whittier immortalized the suffering of the Quaker women in
the following poem.
How They Drove the Quaker Women from Dover

The tossing spray of Cochecho's falls
Hardened to ice on its icy walls,
As through Dover town, in the chill gray dawn,
Three women passed, at the cart tail drawn,
Bared to the waist, for the north wind's grip
And keener sting of the constables whip
The blood that followed each hissing blow
Froze as it sprinkled the winter snow.
Priest and ruler, boy and maiden
followed the dismal cavalcade;
And from door and window, open thrown,
Looked and wondered, gaffer and crone.

[Amelia's note: The above John Roberts was Hatevil Nutter's son-in-law.]

Residence: 1633 Dover, New Hampshire ·  Note: was one of the first settlers 4 ·  Occupation: set up a sawmill on the Lamprey River which became a prosperous business. In 1659, he was elected the first Moderator of Dover 1647 4 ·  Religion: an influencial elder of the Dover church who persecuted Quakers and helped drive them out of Dover colony 1650 4  

Note: He was prominently identified with the early history and development of Dover, NH. He is presumed to be one of the "Company of persons of good estate and of some account for religion" who were induced to leave England with Capt. Wiggans in 1633 and to help Found on Dover Neck a compact town.

  Hatevil was a Puritan Elder who was active against the Quakers. He is listed as a puritan immigrant who came to America prior to 1640 on www.angelfire.com. He is listed in 1653 in Dover Extracts as a freeman.

 The following was submitted by Jan Nutter Alpert.

WILL OF HATEVIL NUTTER

 Dover 1674 I Hatevill Nutter of Dover in New England Aged about seventy one yeares at prsent weake in body but havinge in some good meashure (by gods blessinge) the use of my understandinge and memory, Do make this my last will and testament in maner and forme as followeth, hereby abrogatinge all former and other wills by me made, whatsoever Com'endinge my soule to my blessed god & saviour, my body to the Dust by christian buriall in hopes of a glorious resurection, I appoint and will my outward estate to be had and held as followeth viz: To my prsent wife Anne I will and bequeath (after my Debts payed and funerall expenses defrayed) the use and improvement of my prsent Dwellinge house barne orchard & land thereunto adjoininge, with all com'ons pastures priviledges and appurtenances thereunto belonginge, as also the use & benefit of that marsh which belonges to me in the great Bay, at Harwoods cove, the other halfe whereof I have formerly given to my son, Anthony, this also descendinge to him at his mothers Decease, To her also I bequeath the use of two other marshes, the one of them lyinge on the easterne, the other on the western side of the back river, which both fall from her to my Daughter mary Winget To her also my said wife I bequeath the use of my houshold stuff cattle Debtes goodes & all other movables whatsover; that is to say the above bequeathed partes of my estate I bequeath to her use Duringe her widdowhood, but if she shall see meet to marry I appoint that at or before her Marriage, halfe the movables or assignes and that then my Daugher Mary receive the marsh on the eastern side of the back river. The other halfe of the movables, and the house & land & other marshes to continue in her handes and use duringe her life, and at her Decease to descend as followeth--To my sonne Anthony Nutter his heires and assignes I Bequeath (besides what I have formerly made over to him) my mill-grant at Lamprill River with all dues and Demands priviledges and appurtenances thereunto belonginge to be had and held by him or them forever after my Decease. To him also I bequeath one third part of my movables as they fall from his mother at her marriage or Decease as above said. To him I also bequeath my prsent dwelling house barne orchard and land on dover neck with my right in the ox pasture calve pasture sheep pasture on the said neck as also one quarter part of my land graunted to be in the woodes above Cuchecha, with the priviledges and appurtenances belonginge to any and every one of them, to be had and held by him or them his said heires or assignes forever after the Decease of his mother. To my Daughter Abigail Roberts I Bequeath one halfe of my two hundred acres of Land granted to be in the woodes above cuchecha to be had & held by her her heires and assignes for ever after my Decease. Also to her I give one third part of my movables to be received as above said when they fall from her mother at marriage or Decease. To my Daughter Mary Winget her heires or assignes I bequeath the other quarter of the above said Land graunted to be above cuchecha to be had & held by her or them for ever after my Decease To her also I Give my marsh on the eastern side of the back river to be had & held by her her heires or assignes forever after the marriage, or Decease of her mother. To her also I give the other third part of the movables as they fall from her mother by mariage or decease as above said. Lastly I Do by these prsents Constitute and appoint, my wife Anne above said and my said sonne Anthony, joint executor and executrix of this my will, duringe their lives, and the longer liver of them solely after the Decease of either of them. In wittnes of the prmises I doe hereunto set my hand & seale this 28th day of Decembr Anno. D. 1674. Hatevill Nutter (seal)The word (mother) interlines betwene 40th & 41st Line before signing & sealinge Wittness Jno Reynr John Roberts (Proved June 29, 1675. See Court Records)Inventory, June 25, 1675; amount 398.7.4 pounds; signed by Henry Langstaff and Peter Coffin.

Source: The Nutter Home Page 

Hatevil Nutter * (1603 - 1675)

 is our 9th great grandfather

 Abigail Nutter * (1604 - 1674)

 daughter of Hatevil Nutter *

 Abigail Roberts * (1658 - 1700)

 daughter of Abigail Nutter *

 Abigail Hall * (1680 - 1751)

 daughter of Abigail Roberts *

 Christopher Hussey * (1706 - 1773)

 son of Abigail Hall *

 Amy Naomi Hussey * (1742 - 1818)

 daughter of Christopher Hussey *

 Enoch Cox * (1757 - 1840)

 son of Amy Naomi Hussey *

 Phoebe Hinton Cox * (1788 - 1848)

 daughter of Enoch Cox *

 Noah Stewart * (1828 - 1897)

 son of Phoebe Hinton Cox *

 Mary Lou Ella Stewart * (1883 - 1938)

 daughter of Noah Stewart *

 Doran Edgar Lute * (1901 - 1982)

 son of Mary Lou Ella Stewart *

Callaway Family

Early Callaway history is unclear.  Records indicate a William Callaway died in VA in 1642.We are interested in the story of the Joseph Callaway (1680-1732) and his family.  Joseph settled in Caroline County and had seven sons and two daughters.  The father, mother and a brother died of fever in a short period of time. The remaining family continued several years to live in the old homestead and then sold out and about 1740 settled in Brunswick County (the portion which ultimately became Bedford), locating on Big Otter River at the Eastern base of the Peaks of Otter. When the French and Indian War broke out in 1754 the country had become considerably populated and the people collected in forts which Washington occasionally visited. Three of the Calloway brothers held the commission of Captain, Thomas at Hickey's Fort, William at Pig River Fort and Richard at Blackwater Fort. The frontiers were constantly alarmed, marauding parties frequently pursued, and were sometimes overtaken and punished. For services in these engagements Richard and William were promoted to rank of Bedford Militia Colonels.

Colonel William Callaway

Our seventh great grand uncle.

William Callaway was the second son of Joseph and Catherine Ann (Browning) Callaway. He was born in 1714, probably in Caroline County, Virginia and became a prominent and wealthy land owner of that State, as he patented fifteen thousand acres of land in Lunenburg, Brunswick, Bedford, and Halifax Counties. William commanded militia in the French and Indian Wars that were waged between 1755, and 1761. He was commissioned a Colonel during his service, and also participated in the American Revolutionary War. He later presided at the first court held in Bedford County, but this was just the beginning of his civil service, because William remained in the Virginia House of Burgesses for thirteen sessions. In 1754, William Callaway, Gentleman, made a free gift of one hundred acres of land to the newly formed County of Bedford to be developed into a town called New London, the county seat. William first married on January 8, 1735, to Elizabeth Tilley, and after her death he married a second time, about 1752, to Elizabeth Crawford. Colonel William Callaway died in Bedford Virginia in 1777, and is buried in the Callaway-Steptoe Cemetery. His first son James buried near his father, was also a man of great wealth who fought in the French and Indian Wars and the Revolutionary War. James, a close personal friend of General George Washington also built the first iron furnace south of the James River. This furnace played a big roll in the production of military supplies used in the revolution.

Depiction of Fort Boonesborough

Settled by Colonel Richard Callaway with Daniel Boone and others.

Our seventh great grand uncle.

Richard Callaway (c. 1724 – March 8, 1780) was an early settler of Kentucky which was now a state in the United States. With Daniel Boone, in 1775 he helped mark the Wilderness Road into central Kentucky, becoming one of the founders of Boonesborough, Kentucky. There, he took part in organizing the short-lived colony of Transylvania.

Richard Callaway was commissioned to survey a road into Kentucky for the Henderson Company in Feb 1775 which he did in company with Daniel Boone and a party of thirty persons. He returned to VA and brought families to Boonesborough Sept 1775. He was a member of the first Transylvania convention which met under a tree near Boonesborough May 23, 1775 and was later elected to the VA house of Burgesses 1777-79 from Kentucky county. He was granted the ferry privilege across the Kentucky River at Boonsborough Oct 1779 and was killed by Indians while working on a ferry boat in 1780.

Richard Callaway was a man destined to play an important role in Boone's life during the next few years. Callaway had joined Henderson's enterprise at about the same time as Boone and was in charge of hauling the goods and supplies to treaty grounds. The  son of a powerful landowning family in the Shenandoah Valley of Va. Callaway was ten years Boones' senior.

Upon their arrival at the selected site on the Kentucky River, 1 Apr 1775, Boone, Callaway and the other men immediately began construction of a fort. Located on the south bank of the river, the fort was considered by Henderson to be inadequate to accommodate the settlers to follow. So, he elected a site near the river bank about 300 yards from the original fort. Though the dimensions of this second or main fort are not known precisely, it is estimated to have been about 240 feet long and 180 feet wide. The gate opened on the side away from the river. There were blockhouses on each corner and cabins all along the walls. In the courtyard were three structures built in a row and connected to each other. The house and gun shop of Squire Boone occupied two of these. The other was the house of Col. Richard Callaway.

"Upon leaving his attractive surroundings in Virginia to come to the wilderness that was to become Kentucky, he was simply continuing his habit of pioneering. By reason of his experiences in the French and Indian Wars, in constructing and defending outposts forts, in the clearance and cultivation of frontier lands, and in the settlement and founding of New London, Colonel Callaway was, perhaps, the best prepared man with the Transylvania Company for the work in hand. As Colonel Callaway is never spoken as a member of the Transylvania Company it may be assumed that he joined them as commander of the military escort and as consultant to Colonel Henderson in drawing the plans for the fort that was to be built. The fort at Boonesborough apparently was built upon the most approved style of the times, since it succeeded in withstanding the most terrific siege of the pioneer days. This was not the hasty lodge thrown up on  arrival. It was a carefully planned construction. And Colonel Callaway had the experience in such matters. The "big fort" at Boonesborough was begun on April 22, 1775, on the south side of the Kentucky River, in what is now Madison County. Collins says it was finished on June 14, and "by compliment it is called Boonebourg or Boonesborough." Other stations or block houses were built at Harrodsburg, Boiling Springs and St. Asaph's. Colonel Henderson and his party arrived at Boonesborough on Thursday, April 20, 1775. In his diary he notes: "Sunday 23d passed the day without public worship as no place is provided for that purpose. Monday proceeded with the assistance of Capt. Boone & Col. Callaway in laying off lots, finished 19 besides one reserved round fine spring." The Transylvania Company or the Henderson Company opened a land office at Boonesborough and deeds were issued by the company as "Proprietors of the Colony of Transylvania." At the call of Colonel Henderson, representatives chosen by the people of Transylvania met on May 23, 1775, at Boonesborough and agreed upon, says Collins, "a proprietary government, and pass nine laws-the first legislative body west of the Allegheny and Cumberland Mountains." irbdgs_1originally submitted this to Draime Family Tree on 20 Jul 2011

In 1776, two of his daughters, along with a daughter of Daniel Boone, were kidnapped outside Boonesborough by Native Americans. Callaway led one of parties in the famous rescue of the girls.

On Sunday, July 14, 1776, Indians captured three teenage girls from Boonesborough as they were floating in a canoe on the Kentucky River. They were Jemima, daughter of Daniel Boone, and Elizabeth and Frances, daughters of Colonel Richard Callaway. The Cherokee Hanging Maw led the Indians, a war party of two Cherokee and three Shawnee men. The settlement was thrown into a turmoil and a rescue party was organized by Callaway and Boone. Meanwhile the captors hurried the girls north toward the Shawnee towns across the Ohio River. The girls attempted to mark their trail until threatened by the Indians.
The third morning, as the Indians were building a fire for breakfast, the rescuers came up. "That's Father's gun!" cried Jemima, as one Indian was shot. He toppled into the fire and was seriously burned but not immediately killed. Two of the Native Americans later died from being wounded during the brief gunfight. The Indians retreated, leaving the girls to be escorted home.
Jemima soon married one of the rescuing party, Flanders Callaway. Elizabeth Callaway married Samuel Henderson and Frances, John Holder. The episode served to put the settlers in the Kentucky wilderness on guard and prevented their straying beyond the fort.

Elizabeth Callaway our seventh great grandmother married William Bramblett. William and Elizabeth were with the group that settled Boonesborough.   According to Reminiscences from the Life of Col. Cave Johnson (1760-1850), who was an eyewitness to the event, a rather large party was returning to VA from Bryant's Station, KY in the summer of 1779. The Rev. William (Bethel Baptist of Bedford) was mistaken for an Indian and shot by Aquila White  near the Cumberland River. KY Court records show William established Bramlett's Station 'on a branch of Stoner's Fork, a branch of Licking' this same year, 1779. There is a dearth of information on this family and some confusion as to which William Bramblett we are talking about.  Some accounts list Aquila White as William's son-in-law.  Some documentation on the Brambletts is lacking for this line.

Joseph James Callaway * (1680 - 1732)

is our 8th great grandfather

Elizabeth Callaway * married William Bramblett

daughter of Joseph James Callaway *

Henry, Sr. Bramblett * (1710 - 1756)

son of Elizabeth Callaway *

Reuben Bramblett * (1734 - 1807)

son of Henry, Sr. Bramblett *

William Bramblett * (1770 - 1818)

son of Reuben Bramblett *

William Bramblett *Jr. (1785 - 1850)

son of William Bramblett *

Fielding Bramblett * (1814 - 1897)

 son of William Bramblett *Jr.

George Edward Bramblett * (1851 - 1922)

 son of Fielding Bramblett *

Walter Scott Bramblett * (1882 - 1978)

 son of George Edward Bramblett *

Margaret May Belle Bramblett * (1911 - 1988)

 daughter of Walter Scott Bramblett *





Daniel Duval (1675-1717)

Daniel Duval was an honored Chevalier de France, a title equivalent to the present one of Knight in England. The earliest of the name that can be traced in Normandy France is one Richard DuVal, 1260, Sieur de France, a title of respect.

Daniel DuVal, Huguenot Refugee, landed in America on March 5, 1701. He settled in Ware parish, Gloucester County, Virginia. He came on the ship "Nassau" commanded by Captain Traian, leaving from Blackwell in London, Dec. 8, 1700 with 197 passengers, landing in York River, Va. "DuVals of Kentucky from Virginia, Margaret G. Buchanan.

"It seems that most French refugees settled at Manakin Towne on the James River, a tract of 10,000 acres, formerly belonging to the extinct tribe of Monacan Indians. We presume however, that Daniel DuVal brought enough money with him to settle elsewhere. Records show that he settled in Ware parish, Gloucester county, Va.

 Daniel DuVal soon became established as an architect and joiner.

 Daniel DuVal  was born about 1675 in Normandy, France; died about 1740 in Gloucester Co, VA. He married Philadelphia DuBois about 1700 in France.   Philadelphia DuBois, born 1677 in Brive, Correze, France; died 1715 in Gloucester Co, VA. She was the daughter of 1666. Jean DuBois and 1667. Marie Deyaget. Notes for Daniel DuVal I:Daniel DuVal came from Lorraine La Ville Remiremont in Normandy, France.

 As a Huguenot, he sought refuge from France after the revocation of the Edict of Nance. He sailed on The Nassau, an independent ship of Huguenots, at their own expense, from Blackwall, London, England, on December 8, 1700, landing in the York River on March 5, 1701. He is shown in records of Ware Parish, Gloucester County, VA, in 1704, practicing his profession as an architect and "joiner".

 Notes for Philadelphia DuBois: According to Margaret Buchanan, a DuVal descendant, Philadelphia married Daniel DuVal in France and under the protection of her uncle, Abbe' DuBois, she was advised to disguise herself as a courier of the King and escaped to England where she joined her husband who had been compelled by his convictions to give up his native home and sought refuge in friendly England. 

It features a Huguenot Cross, and the following inscription: "In Memory of Daniel DuVal. An architect and Huguenot refugee he immigrated to Virginia from England on March 5, 1701 aboard the ship Nassau and by 1704 was established in Ware Parish." Erected by the DuVal Family Association on the anniversary of his arrival 2001"         

Daniel Duval *Chevalier (1675 - 1717)

is our 6th great grandfather

Benjamin DuVal * (1709 - 1770)

son of Daniel Duval *Chevalier

Sally Duval * (1761 - )

daughter of Benjamin DuVal *

Rebecca Stockwell * (1789 - 1860)

daughter of Sally Duval  *

Nancy Springer * (1815 - 1915)

daughter of Rebecca Stockwell *

Mary Mariah Springer * (1840 - 1913)

daughter of Nancy Springer *

Mary Lou Ella Stewart * (1883 - 1938)

daughter of Mary Mariah Springer

Doran Edgar Lute * (1901 - 1982)

son of Mary Lou Ella Stewart *





Hans Jacob Holtzclaw (1683-1763)

Passage from Germany to Germanna, Virginia
Jacob Holtzclaw was one of the fourteen German ironworkers, a total 42 people, from the town of Siegen and Muesen in the principality of Nassau-Siegen, Germany, who upon an agreement with Baron de Graffenreid came to open the mines in Virginia. However, their arrival was early and surprised the Baron, as he had not had an audience with Queen. The families so valued their freedom, they refused to return to their homeland and instead found trades in Europe to support their families until Queen Anne opened the mines. These were master mechanics, and were an intelligent, progressive set of people, which turned Germanna into the first sector of industrialization for Virginia.

THE HOLTZCLAW FAMILY

 Hans Jacob Holtzclaw and Anna Margreth Otterbach

Hans Jacob Holtzclaw, was born in Truppbach, Germany, in 1683, the son of Hans Henrich Holtzclaw and his wife, Gertrut Solbach. He was christened at St. Nicolai Church in Siegen, Germany on Laetare Sunday, 1683. Jacob grew up in Truppbach with his ten brothers and sisters. His parents had moved there in about 1680, when his father, Hans, took the position of Schoolmaster. It is probable that Jacob attended the famous Latin School in Siegen. Jacob's brother, Johann served as schoolmaster at Oberfischbach, a nearby village. In 1707, Johann, who was only thirty-eight years old, died. Immediately after the death of his brother, Hans seems to have been asked to take the position of Schoolmaster in Oberfischbach left vacant by his brother's death. He was then twenty-four years of age. No doubt the acceptance of this new position enabled him to marry the following summer. On the 5th Sunday after Trinity, August 7, 1708, Hans Jacob Holtzclaw, schoolmaster at Oberfischbach, married Anna Margreth, daughter of Hermann Otterbach of Truppbach and his wife, Elizabeth (Heimbach) Otterbach. Anna Margreth was born at Truppbach in 1686, being christened at St. Nicolai Reformed Church in Siegen on the 9th Sunday after Trinity, 1686.
For five years after his marriage, Jacob Holtzclaw lived quietly at Oberfischbach, carrying on his work as schoolmaster. Both of his eldest children were born there.

Germanna was a German settlement in the Colony of Virginia, settled in two waves, first in 1714 and then in 1717.  Virginia Lieutenant Governor Alexander Spotswood encouraged the immigration by advertising in Germany for Miners to move to Virginia and establish a mining industry in the colony.
The name Germanna, selected by Governor Alexander Spotswood, reflected both the German immigrants who sailed across the Atlantic to Virginia and the British Queen, Anne, who was in power at the time of the first settlement at Germanna. Though she was to die only months after the Germans arrived, her name continues to be a part of the area.
The Germanna Colonies consist primarily of the First Colony of forty-two persons from the Siegerland area in Germany brought to Virginia to work for Spotswood in 1714, and the Second Colony of twenty families from the Palatinate and Baden-Wuerttemberg  area of Germany brought in 1717, but also include other German families who joined the first two colonies at later dates. Although many Germanna families later migrated southward and westward from Piedmont, Virginia, genealogical evidence shows that many of the families intermarried for generations, producing a rich genealogical heritage.

First Germanna Colony Timeline

• Late spring of 1713: the people left Nassau-Siegen, apparently not in a single group
• Summer of 1713: the people arrived in London
• January 1714: they left for Virginia on an unknown ship
• Late March 1714: Spotswood first learns from Col. Nathaniel Blakiston, the agent for Virginia in London, that Germans are coming
• April 1714: the Germans arrived in Virginia
• 1716: they started mining operations at the silver mine
• 1718, early in the year: they were instructed to search for iron
• During 1718: the search for iron continued and a statement in a courthouse says they worked until December of 1718 at mining and quarrying. Also during the year they made their commitment to buy land at "Germantown." By December of 1718, Spotswood says he spent about 60 pounds on the endeavor so there was no iron furnace.
• January 1719: they moved to Germantown. Pastor Haeger may not have moved at this time. By this time they had completed the four years of service they committed themselves to in London.

Second Colony Timeline

• 1717: Eighty-odd Germans from Wuerttemberg, Baden, and the Palatinate agree with Capt. Tarbett in London to take them to Pennsylvania in the ship Scott.
• 1717/1718: Capt. Tarbett hijacks the Germans to Virginia where they become indentured servants of Lt. Gov. Spotswood
• 1719/1722: Some of the Germans who left in 1717 arrived in Virginia at a later time
• 1723/25: Spotswood sues many of the Germans
• 1725: Most of these Germans move to the Robinson River Valley
• 1733: Johann Caspar Stoever becomes their (Lutheran) pastor
• 1740: The German Lutheran Church (Hebron Lutheran Church today) is built with funds raised in Germany

Hans Jacob Holtzclaw * (1683 - 1763)

is our 7th great grandfather

Alice Katherine Holtzclaw * (1722 - 1810)

 daughter of Hans Jacob Holtzclaw *

Margaret Peggy Darnell * (1735 - 1820)

 daughter of Alice Katherine Holtzclaw *

William Bramblett * (1770 - 1818)

 son of Margaret Peggy Darnell *

William Bramblett *Jr. (1785 - 1850)

 son of William Bramblett *

Fielding Bramblett * (1814 - 1897)

son of William Bramblett *Jr.

George Edward Bramblett * (1851 - 1922)

son of Fielding Bramblett *

Walter Scott Bramblett * (1882 - 1978)

son of George Edward Bramblett *

 Margaret May Belle Bramblett * (1911 - 1988)

 daughter of Walter Scott Bramblett *