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~NOW EDITED~
Tangier
Tyler/Crockett connection is much firmer than Scarborough/West, which needs much untangling.
I. Tyler/Crockett ancestors
John Tyler 1650 - 1714 (two sons named John, diff. mothers 1686, 1694?),
father of:
John Tyler 1686 - 1734,
father of:
Elsie (Ailsie) Tyler b. 1706 m. Sampson Crockett
Richard Crockett 1640 - 1726,
father of:
Sampson Crockett 1700 - 1733,
father of:
Joseph Crockett 1722 - 1806 (first Crockett on official record on Tangier; grandson of John Tyler through his mother Elsie/Ailsie),
father of:
Leah Crockett 1758 - 1844 m. Stephen Hopkins b. 1750
Stephen Hopkins’ granddaughter, Margaret A. b. 1822, m. Thomas E. Fitzgerald (originally from Norfolk, VA...son of a shoemaker) b. 1811
Their daughter Martha b. 1847 m. John Thomas Chandler b. 1848
They were the parents of the first Carson F. Chandler (my great-grandfather.)
II. MAKE A LIST QUESTIONS for these…. Probable and possible West/Scarborough ancestors:
John West b. 1638 d. 1703 m. Matilda Scarborough.
Daugh. Frances West b. 1678 m. Richard Kellam b. 1664
Son West Kellam b. 1731 m. ?
Patience Kellam b. bef. 1756 father Scarburgh West Kellam s/o West Kellam b. 1698, Eliz. Cohoon
Patience Kellam b. 1725 m. Mitchell Chandler I b. 1763
Son Mitchel Chandler b. 1780 ? m. 3d wife S. Bird son Sylvester b. 1819
Sylvester m. Mary A. Kellam b. 1824
Mary A. Kellam b. 1824 d/o Charles Kellam b. 1798.
Son of James Kellam.
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- Richard I Kellam b. 1619 England m. Sarah Ansley 1651 VA
- Richard II Kellam b. 1651 m. Frances West b. 1680
Trace BACKWARDS from Chandlers/Kellams (John Chandler/Patience Kellam)
KELLAM FAMILY GENEALOGY FORUM: http://genforum.genealogy.com/kellam/
‘In the summer of 1608 John Smith started out on an exploration trip of the Chesapeake Bay. He traveled from Cape Charles and went up the bay to the Potomac River and went up as far as present day Washington D. C. and back down to Jamestown. It was actually two trips for at one point he was very badly hurt by a stingray and had to return to Jamestown to be treated. It was during these two voyages, while looking for fresh water that he came across a group of islands in the middle of the bay. He named them the “Russell Isles,” for a Doctor Russell who was then on board ship with him.
This group is today what is known as Smith’s, Tangier and Watts Islands. Tangier Island is about 6 miles below the Maryland-Virginia State line and at one point all the islands below the state line were known as the “Tangier Islands” in Virginia’s records. These, among others, included Shanks, Old Walnut Island, Piney Island, Queen’s Ridge, Horse Hummock, South Point, and Hog Neck. The latter three being attached to the lower part of Smith’s Island in Maryland. The “s” was probably lost sometime after 1880 when erosion took its toll on these islands and the inhabitants moved to Crisfield MD, Onancock VA or Tangier Island itself.
Tradition states that Tangier was first settled by a John Crockett and his eight sons in 1686, who had come to the island to tend cattle, but nothing has been found to verify this. The first Crockett of record on Tangier was Joseph, the son of Sampson and the grandson of John Tyler of Smith’s Island MD. It was this Joseph who bought 475 acres of the Andrews land in 1778. It does not seem likely that Joseph tended cattle at all for he was left a inheritance by his grandfather John Tyler, was bound to his uncle Thomas Tyler to be a weaver and learn his numbers, lived on Smith’s Island MD with his uncle until about 1744, was made constable of “Tangier Islands” in 1763 and was given all of “South Point” by John Fish in his will of 4 April 1765. It was not likely that a man of some means would be tending cattle. By 1799 the West part of the patent had descended down to a John West who in this year left his interest to his son Anthony, who was to complete an unrecorded deed for 100 acres to Joseph’s son John and the remainder was to be sold. Joshua Thomas, who was raised on Smith’s Island, living with his cousin David Tyler there and had married Rachel Evans, the daughter of Richard, bought 75 acres of it.’
From website “Tangier Island Virginia”
(http://mysite.verizon.net/goldmar/tangier/)
From “A Short History of Tangier Island”, Walczyk and Philip L. Goldsborough
Document by; Gail M. Walczyk, Peter's Row, 27 Thomas St., Coram, NY 11727
From Wikipedia:
'Tangier is a town in Accomack County, Virginia, United States, on Tangier Island in Chesapeake Bay. The population was 604 at the 2000 census. The tiny island community has attracted the attention of linguists because its people speak a unique English Restoration era dialect of American English, hypothesized to be nearly unchanged since the days of its first occupation by English colonists. Each of the original surnames and several of the present surnames on the island originated in the United Kingdom, predominately from Scotland.
Prior to the arrival of the American colonists to Tangier, it was a summer retreat to native Americans for centuries. Although not a lot is known about these people, their existance is evidenced by the thousands of stone arrow heads that have been found all over the island. Almost any morning after gale force winds have been blowing all night, new arrow heads can be found on the beach, uncovered by the blowing away of sand. The discovery of an ancient, oyster midden offshore, consisting of a huge pile of shells which could only have been deposited by humans, thousands of years old, is further evidence that there was a regular population, at least in the warm part of the year, on Tangier, long before it had an English name and long before John Smith or John Crocket set foot on it. The enormous amounts of arrow heads and spear points found here suggest the island was probably a lot larger than recorded history can verify and home to many more species of animals.
The first known explorer of the island was John Smith. He named Tangier and the surrounding islands the "Russel Isles" after the doctor on board his ship.[3]
In 1670, Ambrose White received a patent for 400 acres (1.6 km²) called an Island in the Chesapeake Bay. The next year White assigned his patent to Charles and John West. In 1673 William Walton was granted 400 acres (1.6 km²) on the western island which was formerly patented by White. There is a similar entry in the patent book three years later but Scarburgh and West were the recipients instead of Walton and in 1678 a formal patent was issued to both of them. Charles Scarburgh (often now spelled Scarborough) left his interest to his wife Elizabeth in 1702 and John West’s interest went to his eldest son a year later. In 1713, two patents were granted to Elizabeth Scarburgh and Anthony West for Tangier Islands.** One was for 900 acres (3.6 km²) which included the original 400 acres (1.6 km²) and 500 acres (2 km²) more found within its bounds. The other grant was for 170 acres (0.7 km²) of new land south of Tangier called “Sandy Beach Island” which was probably the hook shaped part that is now attached to the main of the island. This was the first time Tangier Islands was named in the records. Although Elizabeth Scarburgh left her interest to her daughters, the title went to her oldest son, Bennett. It then passed to Henry Scarburgh and then to a Charles Scarburgh. In 1762, Charles Scarburgh confirmed an undeeded sale of his half to Colonel Thomas Hall. The next year Hall sold this to William Andrews as 475 acres (1.9 km²).
John Crockett settled the island in 1686. Many of the inhabitants still have the surname Crockett. Pruitt, Thomas, Marshall, Charnock, Dise, and Parks are other common surnames on the island. The population of Tangier was 79 in the 1800 census. By 1900 there were 1064 inhabitants.
Because of its distance from the mainland, Tangier is very isolated, its nearest neighbors being other islands such as Smith Island. The only methods of transportation off the island are boats and airplane. There is an airport, open from dawn to dusk. There are two boats that travel regularly from Crisfield, Maryland across Tangier Sound to Tangier. Passengers and the mail are carried on these boats.'
**Charles Scarburgh and Anthony West are direct ancestors, through the Kellams and male Chandlers, to my dad.
Wills, etc. to be added soon.
Early Chesapeake Families/Chesapeake DNA Project: http://hdhdata.org/chesapeake.html
Tangier
Tyler/Crockett connection is much firmer than Scarborough/West, which needs much untangling.
I. Tyler/Crockett ancestors
John Tyler 1650 - 1714 (two sons named John, diff. mothers 1686, 1694?),
father of:
John Tyler 1686 - 1734,
father of:
Elsie (Ailsie) Tyler b. 1706 m. Sampson Crockett
Richard Crockett 1640 - 1726,
father of:
Sampson Crockett 1700 - 1733,
father of:
Joseph Crockett 1722 - 1806 (first Crockett on official record on Tangier; grandson of John Tyler through his mother Elsie/Ailsie),
father of:
Leah Crockett 1758 - 1844 m. Stephen Hopkins b. 1750
Stephen Hopkins’ granddaughter, Margaret A. b. 1822, m. Thomas E. Fitzgerald (originally from Norfolk, VA...son of a shoemaker) b. 1811
Their daughter Martha b. 1847 m. John Thomas Chandler b. 1848
They were the parents of the first Carson F. Chandler (my great-grandfather.)
II. MAKE A LIST QUESTIONS for these…. Probable and possible West/Scarborough ancestors:
John West b. 1638 d. 1703 m. Matilda Scarborough.
Daugh. Frances West b. 1678 m. Richard Kellam b. 1664
Son West Kellam b. 1731 m. ?
Patience Kellam b. bef. 1756 father Scarburgh West Kellam s/o West Kellam b. 1698, Eliz. Cohoon
Patience Kellam b. 1725 m. Mitchell Chandler I b. 1763
Son Mitchel Chandler b. 1780 ? m. 3d wife S. Bird son Sylvester b. 1819
Sylvester m. Mary A. Kellam b. 1824
Mary A. Kellam b. 1824 d/o Charles Kellam b. 1798.
Son of James Kellam.
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- Richard I Kellam b. 1619 England m. Sarah Ansley 1651 VA
- Richard II Kellam b. 1651 m. Frances West b. 1680
Trace BACKWARDS from Chandlers/Kellams (John Chandler/Patience Kellam)
KELLAM FAMILY GENEALOGY FORUM: http://genforum.genealogy.com/kellam/
‘In the summer of 1608 John Smith started out on an exploration trip of the Chesapeake Bay. He traveled from Cape Charles and went up the bay to the Potomac River and went up as far as present day Washington D. C. and back down to Jamestown. It was actually two trips for at one point he was very badly hurt by a stingray and had to return to Jamestown to be treated. It was during these two voyages, while looking for fresh water that he came across a group of islands in the middle of the bay. He named them the “Russell Isles,” for a Doctor Russell who was then on board ship with him.
This group is today what is known as Smith’s, Tangier and Watts Islands. Tangier Island is about 6 miles below the Maryland-Virginia State line and at one point all the islands below the state line were known as the “Tangier Islands” in Virginia’s records. These, among others, included Shanks, Old Walnut Island, Piney Island, Queen’s Ridge, Horse Hummock, South Point, and Hog Neck. The latter three being attached to the lower part of Smith’s Island in Maryland. The “s” was probably lost sometime after 1880 when erosion took its toll on these islands and the inhabitants moved to Crisfield MD, Onancock VA or Tangier Island itself.
Tradition states that Tangier was first settled by a John Crockett and his eight sons in 1686, who had come to the island to tend cattle, but nothing has been found to verify this. The first Crockett of record on Tangier was Joseph, the son of Sampson and the grandson of John Tyler of Smith’s Island MD. It was this Joseph who bought 475 acres of the Andrews land in 1778. It does not seem likely that Joseph tended cattle at all for he was left a inheritance by his grandfather John Tyler, was bound to his uncle Thomas Tyler to be a weaver and learn his numbers, lived on Smith’s Island MD with his uncle until about 1744, was made constable of “Tangier Islands” in 1763 and was given all of “South Point” by John Fish in his will of 4 April 1765. It was not likely that a man of some means would be tending cattle. By 1799 the West part of the patent had descended down to a John West who in this year left his interest to his son Anthony, who was to complete an unrecorded deed for 100 acres to Joseph’s son John and the remainder was to be sold. Joshua Thomas, who was raised on Smith’s Island, living with his cousin David Tyler there and had married Rachel Evans, the daughter of Richard, bought 75 acres of it.’
From website “Tangier Island Virginia”
(http://mysite.verizon.net/goldmar/tangier/)
From “A Short History of Tangier Island”, Walczyk and Philip L. Goldsborough
Document by; Gail M. Walczyk, Peter's Row, 27 Thomas St., Coram, NY 11727
From Wikipedia:
'Tangier is a town in Accomack County, Virginia, United States, on Tangier Island in Chesapeake Bay. The population was 604 at the 2000 census. The tiny island community has attracted the attention of linguists because its people speak a unique English Restoration era dialect of American English, hypothesized to be nearly unchanged since the days of its first occupation by English colonists. Each of the original surnames and several of the present surnames on the island originated in the United Kingdom, predominately from Scotland.
Prior to the arrival of the American colonists to Tangier, it was a summer retreat to native Americans for centuries. Although not a lot is known about these people, their existance is evidenced by the thousands of stone arrow heads that have been found all over the island. Almost any morning after gale force winds have been blowing all night, new arrow heads can be found on the beach, uncovered by the blowing away of sand. The discovery of an ancient, oyster midden offshore, consisting of a huge pile of shells which could only have been deposited by humans, thousands of years old, is further evidence that there was a regular population, at least in the warm part of the year, on Tangier, long before it had an English name and long before John Smith or John Crocket set foot on it. The enormous amounts of arrow heads and spear points found here suggest the island was probably a lot larger than recorded history can verify and home to many more species of animals.
The first known explorer of the island was John Smith. He named Tangier and the surrounding islands the "Russel Isles" after the doctor on board his ship.[3]
In 1670, Ambrose White received a patent for 400 acres (1.6 km²) called an Island in the Chesapeake Bay. The next year White assigned his patent to Charles and John West. In 1673 William Walton was granted 400 acres (1.6 km²) on the western island which was formerly patented by White. There is a similar entry in the patent book three years later but Scarburgh and West were the recipients instead of Walton and in 1678 a formal patent was issued to both of them. Charles Scarburgh (often now spelled Scarborough) left his interest to his wife Elizabeth in 1702 and John West’s interest went to his eldest son a year later. In 1713, two patents were granted to Elizabeth Scarburgh and Anthony West for Tangier Islands.** One was for 900 acres (3.6 km²) which included the original 400 acres (1.6 km²) and 500 acres (2 km²) more found within its bounds. The other grant was for 170 acres (0.7 km²) of new land south of Tangier called “Sandy Beach Island” which was probably the hook shaped part that is now attached to the main of the island. This was the first time Tangier Islands was named in the records. Although Elizabeth Scarburgh left her interest to her daughters, the title went to her oldest son, Bennett. It then passed to Henry Scarburgh and then to a Charles Scarburgh. In 1762, Charles Scarburgh confirmed an undeeded sale of his half to Colonel Thomas Hall. The next year Hall sold this to William Andrews as 475 acres (1.9 km²).
John Crockett settled the island in 1686. Many of the inhabitants still have the surname Crockett. Pruitt, Thomas, Marshall, Charnock, Dise, and Parks are other common surnames on the island. The population of Tangier was 79 in the 1800 census. By 1900 there were 1064 inhabitants.
Because of its distance from the mainland, Tangier is very isolated, its nearest neighbors being other islands such as Smith Island. The only methods of transportation off the island are boats and airplane. There is an airport, open from dawn to dusk. There are two boats that travel regularly from Crisfield, Maryland across Tangier Sound to Tangier. Passengers and the mail are carried on these boats.'
**Charles Scarburgh and Anthony West are direct ancestors, through the Kellams and male Chandlers, to my dad.
Wills, etc. to be added soon.
Early Chesapeake Families/Chesapeake DNA Project: http://hdhdata.org/chesapeake.html