Records Pertaining to
THOMAS SWEPSON
of 
Nansemond Co., Virginia

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Thomas Swepson was born about 1760, or earlier, in Virginia, and died in Suffolk,  Nansemond Co, Virginia Oct. 19, 1819.  He was serving as Deputy Clerk of Nansemond Co., Virginia in early 1780's..(Claims bet. 1781-1783), according to Revolutionary War Claims booklet for Nansemond Co., Va.

This document serves as evidence that this Thomas Swepson is probably NOT the son of Richard Swepson & wife Jane of Mecklenburg Co., Va, as their son was a resident of Mecklenburg Co., Va up to and including 1790 and afterwards, operating a post office at the last residence of Richard Swepson Sr., known as the old Field Jefferson place, and later as "Clifton"..  Also, their son Thomas was not old enough to serve as Deputy Clerk of Nansemond Co. between 1781-1783, having been born in 1765.

He was Customs Surveyor for Port of Suffolk, Va and later elected Manager of the Dismal Swamp Company.

Swepson, Thomas (Deputy Clerk).
Note Place of residence: Nansemond County.
Note Court booklet(s): II, p. 53.
Summary The certificates issued by the commissioners of the provision law include date, a description of the item impressed including its value, and the name of the owner of the item. Court booklets and lists compiled by the county courts contain excerpts from the court proceedings and lists of authenticated certificates. The commissioner's books recorded the date payment was authorized, the name of the claimant, and a description of the property.
Other Format Available on microfilm. Public Service Claims. Court Booklets and Lists (reels 1-4) (arranged by county).
Biog./Hist. Note During its session begun in May 1780 the General Assembly passed an act authorizing the governor to impress supplies needed by the American army. The governor appointed commissioners of the provision law in each locality to carry out the terms of the act. The commissioner, when he impressed property, gave the owner a certificate describing what was taken. Between 1781 and 1783 county courts held special sessions at which certificates were presented and authenticated, and booklets listing authenticated certificates were compiled and sent to Richmond for settlement. Two commissioners appointed to settle the claims recorded those for which they authorized payment, and warrants were issued by the auditor of public accounts.
Related Work These records are part of Auditor of Public Accounts. Administration of State Government: Military Expenditures - Public Claims. Impressed Property Claims and are housed in the Library of Virginia.
Subject - Personal Swepson, Thomas (Deputy Clerk).
Subject -Geographic Virginia -- History -- Revolution, 1775-1783 -- Equipment and supplies.
Virginia -- History -- Revolution, 1775-1783 -- Claims.
Genre/Form Claims -- Virginia -- Nansemond County.
Added Entry Library of Virginia. Archives.
Virginia. Auditor of Public Accounts (1776-1928). Court Booklets, indexes and lists, 1781-1783.
System Number 001086951

Thomas Swepson  (M)  #1 Charlotte Driver Ca 1790 Va 
              She died pr to 1804 Nans. Co., Va
              Dtr of John Driver, of Nans. Co., Va

Abstracts from 18th Century Virginia Newspapers
Driver, John, dec'd, e.a.w. his Admr., Thomas Swepson, and Edward Allen, Suffolk (NHPA 16 Sep 1797)

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Child #1 of Thomas Swepson & Charlotte Driver
 Frances Henop Swepson Born Ca 1793 Nans. Co., Va. & Died pr to 1850 Nans. Co., Va
 (M) Dr. William SHEPHERD Ca 1810 Nansemond Co., Va. He was born CA 1785 VA-Physician, 1850 Nans. Co, Va &1860 Nansemond Co, Va Occ: Gentleman-The Shepherd family lived at Mintomville, in Suffolk Co, Va.
                   a. Thomas Swepson Shepherd Born Ca 1811 Nans. Co., Va
                       Farmer, Nansemond Co, Va 1850
                       (M) Anne Eliza Browne (Dtr of Dr. Samuel Brown)
                              Born Aug. 16, 1813 Nans. Co, Va Died: Oct. 8, 1851 
                              Browne-Minton Cem., Mintonville, Va
                              1. Eliza Frances Born Aug. 28, 1832 Nans. Co., Va Died same day
                                  Browne-Minton Cem., Mintonville, Va
                              2. Mary Frances Born Oct. 26, 1833 Nans. Co., Va
                                   Died Sept 24, 1837 
                                   Browne-Minton Cem., Mintonville, Va.
                              3. William Samuel Born March 30, 1838 Nans. Co., Va (Mintonville)
                                   Died: Killed in Battle of Sharpsburg, Md. Sept. 27, 1862
                                   Lt. , 1st N. Carolina Inf., Co. E-CSA
                                   Cedar Hill Cem., Nansemond Co., Va Blk D Lot 71
                                   1860 Norfolk, Norfolk Co., Va Bookkeeper
                                   (M) Diana Virginia McGuire May 26, 1859
                                          Born Aug 19, 1838  Va Died: Dec 29, 1888
                                          Cedar Hill Cem., Nansemond Co, Va
                                          Dtr of Wm. Henry & Ann Marie Taylor Riddick McGuire
                                          a. Ada Browne Born May 18, 1860 Nans. Co., Va
                                              Died Feb. 28, 1936
                                              Buried Cedar Hill Cem., Nansemond Co., Va
                                              Had 7 children, 5 living 1900, 1910 Suffolk, Va
                                              (M) Burrell Riddick, II
                                                     s/o Burrell Riddick & Sophia Ann Allen
                                                     Born Jan 8, 1857 Belhaven, NC
                                                     Died March 13, 1930 
                                                     Cedar Hill Cem., Nansemond Co., Va.
                                                     Contractor, 1900 Suffolk, Va
                                                     House Contractor, 1910 Suffolk, Va, 1407 Washington St.
                                                     Contractor, 1920 Suffolk, Va
                                                     1. Diane R. Born May, 1883 Nans. Co., Va.
                                                         missing 1910
                                                     2. Burrell III (twin) Born Sept 19, 1886 Died Aug. 8, 1950
                                                         Cedar Hill Cem., Nansemond Co, Va
                                                         Architect, 1920 Suffolk, Va
                                                         (M) Nellie Marie Butler
                                                                Born Nov 16, 1887 Died May 24, 1970
                                                                Cedar Hill Cem., Nansemond Co., Va
                                                                Dtr of Rev. Harrison Holland Butler & 
                                                                Shepherd Helen Sarah Whitehurst
                                                                a. Helen S. Born Ca 1915 Suffolk, Va
                                                                b. Burwell Born Ca 1917 Suffolk, Va
                                                     3. Mary Emily (twin) Born Sept. 19, 1886 
                                                         Died Aug. 30, 1888
                                                         Cedar Hill Cem., Nansemond Co., Va
                                                     4. Willie Shepherd Born Dec. 30, 1889 Died Jan. 4, 1890
                                                          Cedar Hill Cem., Nansemond Co., Va.
                                                     5. Frances "Fannie" Shepherd Born Oct. 1, 1892
                                                         Died April 3, 1971 
                                                         Cedar Hill Cem., Nansemond Co., Va
                                                         Did not marry
                                                         Stenographer, 1920 Suffolk, Va
                                                     6. Virginia Browne J. Born Feb., 1895 Nans. Co., Va
                                                         single, 1920 Suffolk, Va
                                                     7. George R. Born Jan, 1899
                              4. Betty M. Born Ca 1844 Nans. Co., Va
                              5. James E. Born 1847-1910 Nans. Co., Va***
                              6. Fanny S. Born Ca 1848 Nans. Co., Va
                              7. Mary E. Born Ca 1849 Nans. Co., Va

                              Thomas Swepson Shepherd (M) #2  Maria Frances "Fannie" ALLEN, (Dtr of Thomas William Gilbert Allen & Emaline Sumner Allen) Thursday, Oct. 21, 1852 She died in Suffolk, Va July 11, 1854

                               8. Emma Allen Shepherd born July 29, 1853
                   b. Samuel B. Born 1818 Died 1825 Nans. Co., Va.
                       Buried Cedar Hill Cem., Nansemond Co., Va Blk D, Lot 25
                       grave moved from Family Cemetery, 1971
                  & Perhaps others

*** (North Carolina Dept of Archives & History-ID #PC.1876, James E. Shepherd Papers, North Carolina State Archives, Raleigh, NC, USA.

James Edward Shepherd (1847-1910), lawyer and jurist, was born at Mintonville, near Suffolk, Virginia, the son of Thomas Swepson Shepherd (1811-1860) and his first wife Ann Eliza Browne (1813-1852). Upon the death of his father, young Shepherd appears to have been put in the care of his much older brother, William Samuel Shepherd (1838-1862), who moved to Murfreesboro, North Carolina. Upon the opening of the Civil War, William S. Shepherd sent his younger brother James back to Suffolk to work as a clerk while he sought and obtained a commission as first lieutenant in Company F., 1st Regiment, North Carolina Infantry. At Suffolk, hating the job of clerk, the not quite fourteen-year-old James claimed to be aged eighteen and joined Company A (composed of Suffolk men), 16th Regiment, Virginia Infantry, as a private. At the end of summer in 1862, Lee's Army of Northern Virginia moved into Maryland during its first invasion of the North. During this campaign young Shepherd revealed the fact that he was aged only fifteen and was discharged from military service near Frederick, Maryland, on September 8. Nine days later his brother, William, was killed at the Battle of Sharpsburg, Maryland. Shepherd saw no further service as a soldier. Instead he spent the remainder of the war as a telegraph operator under contract with the C.S.A. War Department, first at the Narrows of New River in Giles County, Virginia, then at Wilson, N.C. In the meanwhile his sisters, Elizabeth Minton Shepherd and Frances S. Shepherd, who had been living with family members in the Suffolk area, moved to Forest Hill in the mountains of Virginia. The elder of the two, Elizabeth, earned an income by teaching school in both places.

At the war's end Shepherd visited his sisters and kinsmen in Virginia then returned to Wilson, N.C., where he sought employment as a telegrapher in the late summer of 1865. After studying law at the University of North Carolina in 1867 and 1868, Shepherd was admitted to the bar and opened a practice in Wilson in 1869. In 1872 Shepherd married Elizabeth Bowen Brown (1853-1929), daughter of Sylvester T. Brown, a lawyer of Washington, N.C., who had refugeed during the civil war years in Wilson, but who had returned home shortly after 1870. Upon his marriage Shepherd moved to Washington and joined his legal practice in partnership with that of an established local lawyer, Thomas Sparrow.

In 1875 Shepherd was elected delegate from Beaufort County to the Constitutional Convention of that year. The following year, 1876, he was elected judge of the Beaufort County Inferior Court, an office he held until 1882 when he was elected judge of the Superior Court. After six years on that bench Judge Shepherd was elected one of the justices of the North Carolina Supreme Court in 1888 and was appointed chief justice in 1892. Shepherd served as chief justice until 1895 when he was defeated for re-election to the high court. Having taught law at the University of North Carolina for eight summer terms, he was awarded an honorary LL.D. degree by the university in 1889. Upon his departure from the bench Shepherd was free to resume his practice of law and did so, entering into partnership with Charles M. Busbee of Raleigh. Having moved his family from Washington to Raleigh upon his election to the Supreme Court, Shepherd resided in the capital until his death.

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Child # 2. of Thomas Swepson & Charlotte Driver

Elizabeth Ann Swepson Born Nov 18, 1798 Suffolk Co, Va 
            Died Mar. 16, 1866 Marshall, Clark Co., Ill
            Buried: Marshall Cem., Marshall, Clark Co, Ill
            Lived w/dtr Eliza A Greenough 1850 Marshall, Clark, Ill
            Lived w/dtr Fayette Ann Booth 1860 Marshall, Clark, Ill
            (M) James Raglan Whitlock, April 14, 1814 Nansemond Co., Va
                    He was born Aug. 25, 1791 Suffolk, Va. Died Oct. 2, 1847 Clark Co., Ill
                    Buried: Marshall Cem., Marshall, Clark Co., Ill
                    a. Thomas May 11, 1815
                    b. Charles July 20, 1817 
                    c. Eliza Ann Aug 25, 1819 Va. Died after 1900 Census, Marshall, Clark, Ill
                        Widow, 1860-1900 Marshall, Clark, Ill
                        Widow, Age 80 yrs, 1900 Marshall, Clark, Ill had 8 children, 5 living
                        (M) Jonathan K. Greenough
                               Born Ca 1811 Mass Died PR to 1860 Marshall, Clark, Ill
                               Merchant, Marshall, Clark, Ill 1850
                               1. James P Born Ca 1839 Ill
                                   Bkkpr-1870, 1880 Marshall, Clark, Ill
                                   (M) Caroline "Carrie"  A. Clayton Aug. 24, 1864 Clark, Ill
                                          a. Ogden Born CA 1865 Clark, Ill
                                          b. Helen "Nellie" Born Ca 1867 Clark, Ill
                                          c. Gracie Born Ca 1876 Clark, Ill
                               2. Ogden Born Ca 1840 Ill Died Killed, Jan. 15, 1864 Civil War
                                    Co. F, 30th Illinois Infantry Pri/1st Lt.
                               3. Hannah K. Born Ca 1842 Ill 
                                   (M) Charles S. Andrews Dec.2, 1869
                               4. Frances E. "Frank" (dtr) Born Sept., Clark,  Ill
                                   Single, 1870-1900 Clark, Ill
                               5. Mary E. Born August, 1847 Clark, Ill
                                   Single, 1870-1900 Clark, Ill
                               6. Charles B. Born Ca 1849 Clark, Ill
                                   Single, Clerk, dry gds. store, 1870 Clark, Ill
                                   Clerk, Gro. Store, 1880 Marshall, Clark, Ill
                                   (M) Alice L. Clark June 20, 1874 Clark, Ill
                                          a. Kimball (son) Born Ca 1877 Clark, Ill
                                          b. Carroll (son) Born Ca 1879 Clark, Ill
                               7. Willis William P  Born Ca 1852 Ill
                                    single, clerk, dry gds store, 1870 Marshall, Clark, Ill
                                    (M) Mary E. Barbour Dec. 9, 1874 Marshall, Clark, Ill
                                           Widow, 1910 Clark, Ill Had 5 children, 3 living
                                           a. Russell Born Ca 1878 Clark, Ill
                                           b. Frank W. Born Ca 1886 Marshall, Clark, Ill
                                               single clerk, 1910 Marshall, Ill
                                           c. Edwin ? Born Ca 1891 Marshall, Clark, Ill
                                               single clerk, 1910 Marshall, Clark, Ill
                               8. Eva Born May, 1855 Clark,  Ill
                                   Single, 1880-1900 Marshall,  Clark, Ill
                   d. Richard July 31, 1821
                   e. William C. Feb 3, 1822 Richmond, Va Died July 5, 1875 Clark Co, Ill
                       Buried Marshall Cem., Marshall, Clark, Ill
                       Saddler, 1850 Marshall, Clark Co, Ill
                       County Judge, 1860 Marshall, Clark, Ill
                       Lawyer, 1870 Marshall, Clark, Ill
                       (M) Maranda Lagore Jan. 5, 1847 Clark Co, Ill
                              Born 1831 Died 1909
                              Buried Marshall Cem., Marshall, Clark, Ill
                              Widow, 1900 Chicago, Cook, Ill (Lake T/S) Had 8 children, 4 living
                              1. Sarah E.  Born Ca 1848 Clark, Ill
                                 (M) James L. Archer, Dec 24, 1867 Clark Co, Ill
                              2. Mary E. Born Dec 14, 1850  Died Jan. 27, 1852 Age 1 yr, 1 Mo, 13 days
                                  Marshall Cem., Marshall, Clark, Ill
                              3. Charles Born Jan 25, 1853 Died Dec 11, 1855 Age 2 Yr. 10 Mo, 17 days
                                  Marshall Cem., Marshall, Clark, Ill
                              4. Fayette Born Ca 1854 Clark, Ill
                                  Single, lives w/gr/parents, 1880 Marshall, Clark, Ill
                              5. Kate Born Ca 1858 Clark, Ill
                              6. William S. Born Sept., 1861 Marshall,  Clark, Ill
                                  single, Real Estate Agt., 1900 Chicago, Ill
                                  single, clerk grain office, 1910 Chicago, Ill
                              7. Daniel Young Born Oct., 1867 Marshall, Clark, Ill
                                  single Clerk, 1900 Chicago, Ill
                                  1910 Chicago, Ill Poultry Fancier @ home
                                  (M) Catherine ______Ca 1904
                                         Born Ca 1881 Ill
                                         a. Gertrude Born Ca 1905 Ill
                                         b. Margaret Born Ca 1907 Ill
                              8. John A. Died July 18, 1874 Age 6 Mos, 24 days
                                  Marshall Cem., Marshall, Clark, Ill
                   f.  James Born March 16, 1823
                   g. Fayette Ann  Born Sept., 1831 Ill Died After  1901 Clark Co, Ill
                       Lived with Seth & Frances Paine 1850 Lake Co., Ill & 1850 LaSalle Co, Ill
                       Widow, 1900 Marshall, Clark, Ill age 68 Had 6 children, 3 living
                       (M) Lymon B. Booth Jan. 12, 1852 Clark Co, Ill
                              Born Ca 1830 Ind Died pr to 1900 Marshall, Clark, Ill
                              Merchant, (dry goods) 1860-1880 Marshall, Clark, Ill
                              1. Edwin Born Dec,  1858 Clark, Ill 
                                  Lumber dealer, 1880-1910 Marshall, Clark, Ill
                                  (M) Kate Harlan Dec 14, 1881 Clark, Ill
                                         Born Jan, 1859 Ill
                                         a. Ruth born Aug, 1884 Ill
                                             (M) Arthur G. Booring, Lawyer, Marshall, Clark, Ill
                                                    1. Edwin Booth 
                              2. Truman Born Ca 1866 Clark, Ill
                                   Retail Merchant, Clothing store, 1910 Marshall, Clark, Ill
                                   (M) #1________
                                   (M) #2 Nettie Shaw
                                          Born Ca 1876 Missouri
                                          Had 3 children, 2 living, 1910 Marshall, Clark, Ill
                                          a. Lyman Born Ca 1895 Ill (By #1 wife)
                                          b. Edwin S. Born Ca 1906 Ill
                                          c. Walter Born 1910 Ill
                              3. Fenton W. Born May, 1869 Clark, Ill
                                  Lawyer, 1900 Marshall, Clark, Ill
                                  (M) Mable Anna Harlan May 17, 1893 Clark, Ill
                                         Born June, 1873 Ill
                                         a. Margaret Born March, 1894 Ill
                                         b. Virginia Born Oct., 1898 Ill
                                         c. Marion Born Apr, 1900 Ill
                   h. John 1836 Ill
                       Lived w/bro William 1850 Clark, Ill
                    i. Ogden Born Ca 1839 Ill 
                       Lived with Seth & Frances Paine, 1850 Lake Co., Ill & 1850 LaSalle Co, Ill
                    j. Young Goring 1843 Ill Died 1881  Clark Co., Ill
                       Buried Marshall Cem., Marshall, Clark, Ill
                       Lived w/sister Eliza Greenough, 1850 Clark Co, Ill
                       Lived w/sister Fayette Ann Booth, 1860 Clark Co, Ill
                       1880 Marshall, Clark Co, Ill-Retired Druggist
                       Did not locate 1870 Ill
                       (M) Florence J Bartlett Nov 18, 1868 Clark Co, Ill
                              Born Ca 1848 Ill Died 1929
                              Marshall Cem., Marshall, Clark, Ill
                              She (M) #2 Walter Bartlett Nov. 1885
                              Shown as Florence J. Whitlock, Wid, age 71, 1920 Marshall, Clark, Ill
                              1. Swepson Young Born Sept., 1869 Ill Died: Aug. 1, 1928 Sullivan Co, Ind. Obit shows Survivors as wife & 1 Dtr.
                                  Buried Marshall Cem., Marshall, Clark, Ill
                                  Bookkeeper, 1900 Danville, Vermillion Co, Ill
                                  Bank Cashier, 1920 Douglas, Tuscola, Ill (Poor film)
                                  (M) Francis Martin Nov 4, 1891 Clark Co, Ill-Lived w/Dtr 1930 Summit Co, Ohio
                                         Born Jan, 1870 Ill Died 1948
                                         Buried Marshall Cem., Marshall, Clark, Ill
                                         a. Florence W. Born May, 1894 Ill (M) Clarence W Hackett abt 1918, Real Estate Salesman, Summit Co, Ohio in 1930 Census

                                              1. Barbara A. born abt 1922 Ill

                                               2. Walter W  born abt 1925 Ill

                                         b. Child b/died young

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Thomas Swepson (M) #2 Ann Riddick April, 1804 and had 1 Son & 2 Dtrs
Thomas Swepson died in 1819 in Nansemond Co. Widow Ann appears in 1820-1840  Nansemond  Co, census  She died in 1846 Suffolk, Nans. Co., Va

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Child #3 of Thomas Swepson  (This child by wife #2 Ann Riddick)

Lucy Swepson Born Sept. 26, 1807 Suffolk, Nans. Co., Va Died: May 14, 1864 Nans. C., Va Buried Cedar Hill Cem., Nansemond Co., Va
    (M) Rev. Allen Rodney  Bernard Dec 18, 1828 Nansemond Co., Va
           Born Oct. 9, 1795 Fluvana Co., Va Died: June 20, 1866 Nans. Co., Va
           Buried Cedar Hill Cem., Nansemond Co., Va
           Minister of the Gospel. 1850-1860 Suffolk, Nans. Co., Va
           a. Charles Born Ca 1831 Suffolk, Nans. Co., Va
           b. Mary Swepson Born Ca 1836 Suffolk, Nans. Co., Va
           c. Lucy Swepson Born Ca 1838 Suffolk, Nans. Co., Va

War of 1812 Nansemond Co, Va-A R Bernard, Co D-No other info

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Child #4 of Thomas Swepson (This child by #2 wife Ann Riddick)

Mary Louisa Swepson Born Feb. 16, 1810- Died June 19, 1860 Va
Buried Allen Cemetery, Oak Island, near Suffolk, Va
    (M) Archibald Allen July 22, 1824 Va Nansemond Co., Va
           Born Sept. 17, 1795 Died Feb. 28, 1846 50y 5m 11d
           Buried Allen Cemetery, Oak Island, near Suffolk, Va
           s/o Edward Allen & Elizabeth Reid
           Children: ALLEN
           a. Mary Ann Born July 14, 1825 Died Sept. 18, 1826 1y, 2m, 4d
                       Allen Family Cem., Oak Island, near Suffolk, Nans. Co., Va
           b. stillborn Son B & D July 06, 1827 Nansemond Co., Va
                       Allen Family Cem., Oak Island, near Suffolk, Nans. Co., Va
           c. Edward Thomas Born July 27, 1828 Died Aug. 29, 1833 5y, 1m, 2d
                       Allen Family Cem., Oak Island, near Suffolk, Nans. Co., Va
          d. Elizabeth Reid Born Feb. 20, 1831 Died Sept. 22, 1833 2y, 7m, 2d
                       Allen Family Cem., Oak Island, near Suffolk, Nans. Co., Va
          e. Archibald Born June 5, 1833 Died Sept. 20, 1840 17y, 3m, 15d
                       Allen Family Cem., Oak Island, near Suffolk, Nans. Co., Va
          f. William Henry Born Dec 03, 1835 Died Oct 2, 1836 10 mos.
                      Allen Family Cem., Oak Island, near Suffolk, Nans. Co., Va
          g. Mary Swepson Born Oct. 4, 1837 Suffolk, Nans. Co., Va
              Died Oct. 16, 1913 Suffolk, Nansemond Co., Va
              Cedar Hill Cem., Nans. Co., Va Blk C Lot 71
              Widow, Had 4 children, 2 living, 1900 Suffolk, Va
              Widow, Had 4 ch, 1 living, 1910 Suffolk, Va , 436 Main St
              (M) Algernon Sidney Darden Dec 28, 1855
                     Born Jan. 28, 1829  IOW Co, Va  
                     Died April 3, 1893 Suffolk, Nansemond Co, Va
                     Cedar Hill Cem., Nans. Co., Va Blk C Lot 71
                     Aide to Gen. Armstead & Gen. Chambers, CSA
                     Retired Dry goods Merchant, 1870 Suffolk, Nansemond Co, Va
                     Merchant, Suffolk, Nansemond Co, Va 1880
                     Also President of the Commercial Bank of Suffolk

                     1. Mary Allen Born Nov 5, 1856 Died May 30, 1857
                     2. Annie Jordan Born Aug. 17, 1858  Nans. Co., Va
                         Died Jan. 23, 1945
                         Cedar Hill Cem., Nansemond Co., Va
                         Widow, Had 1 child, 1 living, 1900, 1910 Suffolk, Va (Mother's HH)
                         Wid. liv. w/bro-in-law, 1920 Suffolk, Va
                         (M) Joseph Prentis Webb Jan. 27, 1881 Nansemond Co, Va
                                Born Oct. 30, 1843 Va Died Dec. 27, 1892 Va.
                                Cedar Hill Cem., Nansemond Co., Va
                                Sgt., Co. I, 13th Va. Cav. CSA; shot in knee, leaving him disabled.
                                s/o Dr. Robert Henning Webb & Margaret Susan Prentis
                                Attended University of Va., was a merchant in Suffolk, Va
                                a. Robert Henning Webb Ph.D Born Feb. 21, 1882
                                    Died Nov. 2, 1952
                                    Cedar Hill Cem., Nansemond Co., Va
                                    Student, 1900 Suffolk, Va
                                    single, Professor of Greek,  University of Virginia, 
                                    1910 Suffolk Co, Va Professor of Greek, University, 1920 Charlottesville, Va
                                      (M) Blanche Farrington Miller, Lisbon, Ohio
                                             Born April 3, 1889 Steubenville, Ohio
                                                    Died May 6, 1983, Suffolk, Va
                                                    Cedar Hill Cem., Nansemond Co., Va
                                              1. Joseph Prentis, II Born June 3, 1913 Died Nov. 22, 1966
                                                  (M) Katherine Barnes Miller
                                                        Dtr of Mark Willard & Margaret Jane Riddle Miller
                                                        Born Jan. 19, 1914 Died Dec 26, 1965
                                                        Both buried Cedar Hill Cem., Nansemond Co., Va     
                      3. Mary Allen Born Sept. 8, 1861 Suffolk,  Nans. Co. Va
                          Died June 27, 1904 Cedar Hill Cem., Nansemond Co., Va
                          Had 1 child, 0 living, 1900 Suffolk, Va (Mother's HH)
                          (M) Hon. Robert Riddick Prentis, Jan 6, 1887 
                          LL.B of Richmond & Suffolk, Va  graduate of the University of Virginia Law School, 1876  Practiced in Charlottsville,  Norfolk, & Suffolk, Va Mayor of Suffolk, Va 1883-1885 State Corp., Commission, 1910 Suffolk, Va Wid'r
Born May 25, 1855 Died Nov. 25, 1931 Cedar Hill Cem., Nansemond Co., Va  s/o Robert Riddick Prentis & Margaret Ann Whitehead (Dtr of Elliott & Catherine Flynn Whitehead)
                                    a. Janet Whitehead Born Oct 28, 1887 Died Aug. 20, 1888
                                        Cedar Hill Cem., Nansemond Co., Va
                     4. Archibald Allen Born Nov. 14, 1863 Nans. Co., Va
                                  Died March 22, 1888 Buried Cedar Hill Cem., Nansemond Co.,
                                  Va Blk C Lot 71
          h. Lucy Frances. Born January 20, 1841  Nansemond Co., Va Died April 26, 1893 Cedar Hill Cemetery, Suffolk, Va
single, 1860 Suffolk, Va HH of Sister Mary S Allen Darden (M) Rev. James Murray DD,  August 13, 1868 Nans. Co, Va  s/o Robert & Elmira Wilkerson Godwin Murray. He was Born August 24, 1834 Southampton Co, Va Died April 11, 1914 Cedar Hill Cemetery, Suffolk, Va (Minister,1880 Riverside, Augusta Co, Va) NO children by Lucy F. Allen)
          i. Edward Archibald  Born Oct. 3, 1843 Nansemond Co., Va
                       Died 1922 (M) Priscilla Armistead Saunders
                       HH of sister Mary Swepson Allen Darden, 1860 Suffolk, Va
                       CSA- 13th Virginia Cavalry, Co. C, Private
                       Graduate of University of Virginia, was professor of English at the University 
                       of Missouri and professor of Language at Farmville College after the War.
           j. Robert Riddick  Born Dec.18, 1845 Nansemond Co., Va
                       Died Nov. 15, 1920
                       CSA-13th Va., Cav. Co. C Pvt.  
                       believed to have been killed in Civil War, but appeared at his home riding a mule, after the War.  Businessman in Suffolk, Va.
                       (M) Frances Jane Cosby Jan. 27, 1891
                              Born Nov. 18, 1859 Danville, Va.
                              Died May 7, 1896
                       Both buried Cedar Hill Cem., Nansemond Co., Va.
                       HH of sister Mary S. Allen Darden, 1860 Suffolk, Va
                       single, Merchant, 1880 Suffolk, Nans. Co., Va
                       Hardware & Bldg. Materials Merchant, 1900-1920 Suffolk, Va
                       1. William Boisseau Born Sept 25, 1893 Died Aug. 10, 1965
                                   PFC U. S. Army, Ambulance Corps, WW I
                                   Cedar Hill Cem., Nansemond Co., Va
                                   single, college student, 1910 Suffolk, Va
                                   Hardware  Merchant, 1920-1930 Suffolk, Va
                                   (M) Virginia H. Wright pr to 1920
                                          Born Dec. 25, 1896 Died May 17, 1986
                                          Cedar Hill Cem., Nansemond Co., Va.
                                           a. Robert Riddick II. Born Ca 1924 Suffolk, Va

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Child #5 of Thomas Swepson (this child by #2 wife Ann Riddick)

Thomas, Born  Abt 1814 Nans. Co, Va-He is under 5 yrs. 1820 Censu, Nans., Co, Va died pr to 1830 Census, Nansemond Co, Va

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Norfolk herald (Norfolk, Va. : 1814)
Title Married- On Thursday last by Rev. Keeling, James Whitlock, merchant of Richmond, to Miss Eliza Swepson, second daughter of Thomas Swepson of Nansemond County. (p. 3, c. 4)
Publication Tuesday, April 19, 1814.

Norfolk and Portsmouth herald (Norfolk, Va. : 1815)
" Died- On Oct. 19, in Nansemond County, Thomas Swepson." (p. 3, c. 2)
Publication Monday, October 25, 1819.

American beacon and Norfolk and Portsmouth daily advertiser (Norfolk, Va. : 1827)
" Married- On Thursday, Dec. 18, by Rev. O. Bernard, Rev. Allen R. Bernard, of Suffolk, to Miss Lucy Swepson, daughter of the late Thomas Swepson, dec'd, of Nansemond County." (p. 2, c. 5)
Publication Monday, December 22, 1828.

American commercial beacon and Norfolk & Portsmouth daily advertiser.
"Married- At "Farmer's Delight" near Suffolk on Tuesday, July 22, by Rev. Jacob Keeling, Mr. Archibald Allen, to Miss Mary Swepson, youngest daughter of Thomas Swepson, dec'd, all of Nansemond County." (p. 2, c. 5)
Publication Tuesday, July 27, 1824.

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Matthias JONES, s/o Matthias Jones & Bethsheba,  his wife was born March 19th, 1772 & (M) Mary Polly Riddick, dtr of Rev. Moore  Riddick,& #1 wife Theresa Riddick (Dtr of Willis Riddick)  Aug. 11, 1796, who was born Feb. 1st, 1781 Matthias Jones died May 6, 1834

 Matthias Jones' wife Mary Polly Riddick had a sister Anne Riddick who (M) Thomas Swepson, who was Admr. of the Est of Robert Moore Riddick.  Matthias Jones was a brother-in-law to Thomas Swepson.  This may account for the given name of Matthias Jones' dtr Susan Swepson Jones.

Children: 

1. Bethsheba Byrd Jones Born May 21, 1797 Died Oct. 3, 1826

2. Nancy Newton Jones Born April 25, 1800 (M) Joseph B. Baker Oct. 26, 1815 & he died Dec. 23, 1815 Nancy (M) #2 John Thompson Kilby May 1, 1817

3. Robert Jones Born April 3, 1802

4. Mary Prentis Jones Born Nov 6, 1803 Died: Sept. 9, 1832(M)  Re. H Webb Aug, 1922 

5. Susan SWEPSON Jones Born Feb. 20, 1806 & Died August, 1806

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MUTUAL ASSURANCE CO., INSURANCE POLICY INFORMATION

SWEPSON THOMAS SUFFOLK NANSEMOND W SIDE MAIN ST 1798 1 7 232 D 2150 FY DWE.2_WW STH.2_WW KIT.1_WW

SWEPSON THOMAS SUFFOLK NANSEMOND W SIDE MAIN ST 1798 1 7 239 D 3250 FY DWE.2_WW STH.2_WW KIT.1_WW

SWEPSON THOMAS SUFFOLK NANSEMOND W SIDE MAIN ST 1801 1 7 323 R 481,502 3000 EY DWE.?_??

SWEPSON THOMAS SUFFOLK NANSEMOND MAIN ST 1806 8 64 726 R 323 4250 FY DWE.2_WW WIN.1_WW STH.2_WW KIT.1_WW

SWEPSON THOMAS NANSEMOND 1813 6 48 462 D 3250 FY DWE.2_WW

SWEPSON THOMAS & CHARLES WHITLOCK SUFFOLK NANSEMOND W SIDE MAIN ST 1813 8 68 1183 R 223 1725 FY DWE.2_WW KIT.1_WW DAI. SMH.

SWEPSON THOMAS NANSEMOND 1816 5 46 2356 R 462 3250 FARMERS DELIGHT FY DWE.2_WW

SWEPSON THOMAS & CHARLES WHITLOCK SUFFOLK NANSEMOND W SIDE MAIN ST 1817 9 73 2329 R 1183 2125 FY DWE.2_WW KIT.1_WW

SWEPSON THOMAS SUFFOLK NANSEMOND MAIN ST 1817 9 73 2331 R 726 4250 FY DWE.2_WW WIN.1_WW SPO.2_WW KIT.1_WW

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The Fabulous History of the Dismal Swamp Company-
A Story of George Washington's Time
By Charles Royster - copyright 1999

(Excerpt from Chapter VII - Terraphobia. Pg. 393-397)

Managers of the Dismal Swamp Company summoned their partners to gather in Suffolk for a "full meeting" on October 15 1796. A meeting took place on Friday, November 18, but only the managers attended: William Nelson, Jr. Alexander Macaulay, and John Jameson. They approved the company's contract with Thomas Shepherd and purchase of sawmills as an aid to the company's drive to profit from timber. They authorized Macaulay to hire an overseer for Dismal Plantation and to buy six young males slaves. They resolved to invest $10,000 in United States government bonds bearing 6 percent interest. And they declared that no single partner - meaning, Alexander Macaulay - would be allowed to draw money from the company's assets. Macaulay signed the minutes. Three weeks later, he made his largest withdrawal, more than $8,000.

John Driver died in the last week of April 1797. To succeed him as the company's resident agent in Suffolk, the managers chose his son-in-law, Thomas Swepson, a resident of Nansemond County and surveyor of customs for the Port of Suffolk. Thomas Shepherd still supervised hired slaves felling trees and cutting shingles.

The company needed to exclude trespassers who were stealing trees. It must repair its mills and cut canals to float logs to them. In Richmond, Alexander Macaulay met a newly arrived young English architect and engineer, Benjamin Henry Latrobe, who knew about "the old dismal Swamp Company, " as he called it. On a visit to Mount Vernon in the past summer, Latrobe had heard George Washington give "a detailed account" of it, saying that he "gave up all further hopes of any thing effectual being done for their interests, and sold his shares in the Proprietary at a price very inadequate to their real value." In the first week of June 1797, Latrobe accepted Macaulay's invitation to work for the company. On Tuesday, June 6, the large Macaulay and the slender , curly-haired Latrobe entered a stagecoach and headed down the James River, toward the Dismal Swamp.

Macaulay commissioned Latrobe to resurvey the company's tract and to cut a lande around the edge of its 40,000 acres, clearly marking a boundary. He was also to select the courses of canals leading to the sawmills. At dawn on Friday, June 9, Macaulay, Latrobe, and Thomas Swepson left Suffolk. After breakfast at Dismal Plantation, they went into the swamp, accompanied by two black men. The group walked along the narrow canal or ditch leading to Lake Drummond until the water in it became deep enough for canoes. "Millions of Muskitoes surrounded us," Latrobe said. Trees, both "immensely large" and "younger and smaller" enveloped them - gums, maples, elms, bald cypress, and white cedar - and, as they advanced, stands of bamboo grew taller and thicker. Latrobe was impressed by Lake Drummond, its silent immobility ringed by "the most gigantic trees in the world." He said of the lake: "It absorbs or expells every other idea, and creates a quiet solemn pleasure, that I never felt from any similar circumstance." On their way back to Dismal Plantation, the five men were drenched by a thunderstorm.

Two months after Latrobe left the swamp for Norfolk, Thomas Shepherd sent Alexander Macaulay an estimate of the cost of rebuilding his sawmill. Macaulay had other things on his mind. He owed a great deal of money, almost $13,400 of it to the Dismal Swamp Company, and his creditors' suits moved through the courts. Knowing that his assets would not suffice, he tried to protect some of his creditors by executing a deed of trust on November 15, 1797. Those named in the deed were to have first rights to the tow quarter-shares in the Dismal Swamp Company, his livestock, vessels, household goods, and slaves, all held by trustees. Among the preferred creditors were his brother-in-law, Francis Jerdone, and John Jameson, who understood, without anything in writing, that £5,000 Virginia currency owed to him included Macaulay's debt to the Dismal Swamp Company.

Thomas Shepherd felt the lack of Latrobe's services in protecting the Dismal Swamp Company's boundary. Some residents of Nansemond and Norfolk counties grew bolder in stealing timber from the company's tract in 1798. Among them were men who had claimed land in the swamp, then lost it to the company in the new survey for the grant of 1784. They said the title was not good, offering as proof the company's failure to stop them from taking trees. They "bid defiance" to the Dismal Swamp Company and to Shepherd, passing "boldly over the line, a running main bridges to & fro as they think proper" and "cutting and a Slaying the Timber in a most horrid manner." Shepherd knew who they were: William and John Bartee, the Butt brothers, Willis Wilkins and others. He reported to the company's managers: "I prepared to drive them off, but my friends advised me to desist, otherwise I would certainly be killed, as they so frequently threaten my life." There was money in shingles and lumber. Although wartime seizures of vessels on the high seas interrupted trade with the West Indies, construction of new buildings in Boston, New York, Philadelphia, Baltimore, and the Federal City kept up demand. Shingles sold for $10 per thousand. Shepherd wrote: "Every persons, Owners of the lower Swamps is Opposed to the Dismal Swamp Company.  I believe they hate me upon the Earth."

Writing to an English friend in May 1798, Alexander Macaulay said that he long had been ill. He could neither defend himself against his creditors' lawsuits nor pay judgments issued against him. In the summer a writ of execution hung over his property, threatening him with a general auction. His trustees hoped to save his plantation and slaves. Before the sheriff came to carry out the court's order, Macaulay died.

After the estate auction, Elizabeth Jerdone Macaulay felt bitter. She had not received protection and consideration of the kind extended to Joanna Tucker under similar circumstances thirty years earlier. At a cost of almost £1,300 she kept the plantation intact. The only concession to her was a low price for the house and lots in York Town, "which was sold rather in a private manner."

Just before Christmas, William Nelson, Jr., John Jameson, and John Brown held another meeting of the Dismal Swamp Company. They resolved to put its accounts in order and to sort out Macaulay's land transactions. They believed that the company ought to buy Macaulay's two quarter-shares if Thomas Swepson said the "the funds in hand will justify it." Elizabeth Jerdone Macaulay thought she had made a sale. Eight months later, however, she had received no money. Through a friend, she asked to be paid. The company's managers were still considering the purchase ten years later.

Swepson advised the managers to combine Jericho Mills west of the company's tract with a puchase of 600 acres adjoining the tract's western boundary - Lemuel Riddick's Paradise Plantation, for sale at a price of $3,000. They could take oak and "excellent pine" from Paradise Plantation, then cut a canal through it, connecting Jericho Mills to thick stands of white cedar in the swamp's interior, drawing water from Lake Drummond to float logs to the mill. Swepson tempted them with images of tree trunks 6 feet in diameter rising as much as 70 feet above the ground before putting out their lowest branches. The managers followed his advice in 1799.

On the eastern edge of the company's land, trespassers worked faster. Thomas Shepherd guessed that each month they were cutting 100,000 shingles, which they sold to George Capron, contractor for the Dismal Swamp Canal Company, the same man diverting water away from Shepherd's mill pond. As a further insult, Capron built "a very Elegant Saw Mill" along Deep Creek at the canal's northern end. Trespassers also were "selling the Timber to people by the thousand which makes prodigious destruction." The company's hired slaves, working the western reaches of the swamp, cut shingles, but in the spring much was lost in a fire set by "incendiaries." Nevertheless, Thomas Swepson invested in the company's future. After Chancellor Wythe decided in David Meade's favor in his suit against the estate of Justice James Wilson, Meade's two qurarter-shares were each sold for £1,ooo Virginia currency, one to Swepson and one to Richard Willing Byrd, brother of Charles Willing Byrd. They paid the same price George Washington had charged Henry Lee.

Sources p.393: Latrobe and the Dismal Swamp: Journals of Latrobe, ed. Carter et al., I, 167-169, 229-235, 239, II, 341, 364; B. Henry Latrobe to Thomas Swepson, June 21, 1797, Dismal Swamp Land Company Records, Duke University, Durham, NC.
p.394 "Doghole wrongly": B. Henry Latrobe to Henry Banks, Nov. 28, 1797, The Correspondence and Miscellaneous Papers of Benjamin Henry Latrobe, ed. John C. Van Horne and Lee W. Formwalt et al. (New Haven, 1984-99), I, 64.
Macaulay had other things: Alexander Macaulay, Deed of Trust, Nov. 15, 1797, and Pleading, Dismal Swamp Land Company v. Alexander Macaulay, Legal Papers of Dismal Swamp Company, Jerdone Family Papers, Box 12, College of William & Mary, Williamsburg, VA.
p.395 An ApologyL Talbot Hamlin, Benjamin Henry Latrobe (New York, 1955), 87-89; Journals of Latrobe, ed. Carter et al., I, 274, II, 333-356, 373-374; Forrest McDonald, Alexander Hamilton: A Biography (New York, 1979), 334-336.
company's title not good: Thomas Shepherd to John Jameson, Sept. 14, Nov. 23, 1798, Dismal Swamp Land Co. Records, Duke Univ., NC
p.396 His trustees: Corbin Griffin to Francis Jerdone , Aug. 23, 1798, Jerdone Family Papers.the estate auction: Elizabeth Macaulay to Francis Jerdone, May 6, 1799, ibid.
his two quarter-shares: Charles Young to Thomas Swepson, Sept. 5, 1799, Dismal Swamp Land Co. Records, Duke Univ. NC.
"excellent pine": Thomas Swepson to John Brown, Aug. 31, 1798, Dismal Swamp Land Co. Records, Duke Univ., NC.; Extracts from Minutes, Jan. 18, 1809, BR Box 50 (Ib), CSmH; Nansemond County Land Book, 1799, Nansemond Co. Land Tax Lists, Library of Virginia, Richmond.
p.397 "a ver incendiaries": Thomas Shepherd to John Brown, Jan. 13, April 11, Aug. 17, 1799, John Brown to Thomas Swepson, May 6, 1799. Dismal Swamp Land Co. Records, Duke Univ. NC.
(Excerpt from Chapter VII - Terraphobia. Pg. 398-401)
(George) Washington wrote a new will in July 1799. His will directed that his slaves, 124 of the 316, be freed upon Martha Washington's death, with provision for support of the old and infirm and with tenancy or apprenticeship for the others. He added: "I do hereby expressly forbid the Sale, or transportation out of the said Commonwealth, of any Salve I may die possessed of, under any pretence whatsoever."

In the last year of the Revolutionary War, the General Assembly of Virginia made private emancipation of slaves easier. About 15,000 black people eventually were freed under the new law. But emancipation on the scale undertaken by George Washington remained rare. In 1790, Virginia held about 306,000 black people, of whom almost 13,000 were free. Five years later, in connection with his lectures on law and policy at the College of William and Mary, St. George Tucker began to think about general emancipation in Virginia. He said that he would "endeavor to do justice to the rights of human nature, and to banish deep-rooted, nay, almost innate, prejudices." But he acknowledged that this was "a task, perhaps, beyond the power of human nature to accomplish". He suspected that continuation of slavery was "now perhaps unavoidable." Nevertheless, he offered the General Assembly his proposal.

Tucker published it in the fall of 1796.

The General Assembly heard from some constituents on the subject of emancipation. A petition from 214 citizens of Mecklenburg County said that a right to own slaves was part of the liberty won in the Revolution and secured by the new American government. An attack on that right was an attack on America: "a very subtle & daring Attempt is on Foot to dispossess us of our Country, Tools of the British Administration, and supported by certain Men among us of considerable Weight, to effect our Destruction by Subtlety & Craft." The text cited scriptural authority in defense of slavery and argued that emancipation would bring poverty and ruin to whites, famine and death to infants and the aged among blacks. It would lead to "the Horrors of all the Rapes, Robberies, Murders, and Outrages, which a vast Multitude of unprincipled, unpropertied, vindictive, and remorseless Banditti are capable of perpetrating." The petitioners also disapproved of the new law facilitating private emancipation and asked that it be repealed. They said: "many of the Slaves liberated by the said Act, have been guilty of Thefts, & Outrages, Insolence & Violences."

Thomas Swepson's father Richard Swepson* (See note below) signed the petition. Familiar names appeared among the signers - the same men who had irritated Robert Munford twenty years earlier by demanding harsher punishment of Scottish storekeepers - names such as Reuben Vaughan, Philip Poindexter, Sr., Philip Poindexter, Jr. and Joseph Royster.

Sources, p. 398: wrote a new will: Writings of Washington, ed. Fitzpatrick, XXXVII, 275-303; Eugene E. Prussing, The Estate of George Washington, Deceased (Boston, 1927)
p.399 emancipation remained rare: Winthrop D. Jordan, White Over Black: American Attitudes Toward the Negro, 1550-1812 (Chapel Hill, 1968), 347, 353; "endeavor unavoidable": St. George Tucker to Jeremy Belknap, June 29, 1795, The Belknap Papers, Massachusetts Historical Society, Collections, 5th ser., II-III (1877), II, 406.

p. 400 A petition: Remonstrance and Petition of the Free Inhabitants of Mecklenburg County, Legislative Petitions, Mecklenburg Co., Library of Virginia, Richmond. (Ca 1798)

* The signer of the petition was Richard Swepson, Jr., since *Richard Swepson Sr. died sometime in 1787/1788 according to records of his estate settlement in Mecklenburg Co., VA. There is no evidence this Thomas Swepson was the son of Richard Swepson, SR of Mecklenburg Co., Va..  Since this Thomas Swepson was Deputy Clerk of Nansemond Co., in 1780 (Rev. Claim Filed), he was too old to be the son of Richard Swepson SR of Mecklenburg County, Va.. Richard's son Thomas was born in 1765, and resided in Mecklenburg County, Va up to and including 1790 and probably later, as he operated a Post Office and General Mercantile for several years, at the last residence of Richard Swepson, SR., which was the old Field Jefferson place in Mecklenburg County, Va., later referred to as "Clifton"-sgs

General Collection-Virginia Historical Society
NA737 L34 C37 v.2
Title Thomas Swepson : Biographical Sketch.
In: The Virginia journals of Benjamin Henry Latrobe. New Haven, CT. v.2 (1977), p. 555.
Subjects Swepson, Thomas, d. 1819.

Record no. 146623-Virginia Historical Society
Call Number Manuscripts
Mss2 C6742 a 1
Author United States. Customs Bureau (Suffolk, Va.)
Title Clearance papers, 1805 May 1, for the ship "Eagle" (under the command of Abraham Cole) bound for New York, N.Y.
Description 1 p. : printed form with handwritten completions ; 8 1/2 x 14 in.
General Note Photocopy made from the original in the possession of John Byrd, Suffolk, Va., in 1966.
Signed by Thomas Swepson, surveyor.
Summary Note Verso: manifest for 46,000 shingles, signed by Abraham Cole.
Provenance Note Gift of John Crump Parker, Suffolk, Va., in 1966. Accessioned 7 March 1967.

Manuscripts -Virgnia Historical Society
Mss1 B7332 b 362-425
Author Brand, Benjamin, 1778-1843.
Title Papers, 1779-1863. Section 3.
Description 64 items.
Summary Note Correspondence, 1802-1820, of Benjamin Oliver (concerning the mercantile firm of Oliver & Brand, Hanover Town, Va., opperated by Oliver and Benjamin Brand) with James C. Anthony, Warren Ashley, Duncan Pearsall Campbell, Aggy Christie, George Clark, William Cuningham, John Darracott, Augustine Deneufville, Peter Robert Deneufville, Thomas Griffin, John Hopkins, George Meredith, Robert Munro, Carter Braxton Page, George Page, Thomas C. Pearsall, John P. Pleasants, Joseph Pleasants, Robert Pollard, Thomas Price (of "Newfound Mills," Hanover County, Va.), Joseph M. [Shepperd] (of "Scotchtown, Hanover County, Va.), Richard Graves Smith, Bowling Starke, Dr. John Thomas Swann, Thomas Swepson, Philip Taliaferro, John Taylor, Thomas Taylor, John Waldrop, Thomas White, and Thomas & James Chrystie of New York, N.Y., Colin & James Ross of Fredericksburg, Va., and Taylor & Brown of Richmond, Va.

1802 Land Tax List B, Nansemond Co., Va
Thomas Swepson, 2 lotts, 300 Acs, $4.68

Article Title: Thomas Swepston note, VA
Surname: SWEPSTON
Volume: 64
Number: 1 (January 1956 )
Periodical Title: Virginia Magazine Of History And Biography

See ALSO Henings Statutes at Large
Vol XV P 365; Vol XVI P 101, 135, 185 (2) 346-Thomas Swepson

Also, Dismal Swamp Land Co. Records, University of North Carolina @ Chapel Hill (Thomas Swepson)

INDEX OF PAPERS, BURNED COUNTIES
NANSEMOND COUNTY, VA-LIBRARY OF VA
Swepson, Thomas to Richard Byrd Nansemond County Deed 1802
Swepson, Thomas from John Brewer and wife Nancy and Demsey Hollowell [Hollowell, Holloway] and wife Elizabeth Nansemond County Deed 1808
Haywood, Peggy v. Dismal Swamp Company Award 1809
Swepson, Thomas from Frederick Hall and wife Mary Nansemond County Deed 1817
Swepson, Thomas from Joesph Prentis and wife Susan Caroline Nansemond County Deed 1817
Whitlock, James R. to Mary Shelton Nansemond County Deed 1821
Bernard, Lucy wife and Allen R., Mary Allen, Samuel Bernard and wife Elizabeth to William B. Whitaker Nansemond County Deed 1854
Bernard, Lucy wife and Allen R., Mary Allen, Samuel Bernard and wife Elizabeth to William B. Whitaker Nansemond County Deed 1853
Shepherd, William S. to John Kilby Nansemond County Deed 1860

Inventory of Prentis Family Papers
Descriptive Summary
Prentis Family Papers
1807-1830
REF: Swem Library, College of William & Mary
Source: Peter Prentis Causey, Jr.
Number of items: 12. Number of Volumes: 2.
Legal papers and accounts, relating to the Joseph Prentis estate, and various members of the Riddick and Bowdoin families. Includes correspondence of Joseph Prentis, Jr., and Peter Bowdoin Prentis' license to practice law.
Scope and Content Note
Form of material and dates: Legal papers and accounts, primarily 1807-1830, relating to the settlement of the estate of Joseph Prentis (1754-1809), of Williamsburg, Va., and various members of the Riddick and Bowdoin families, of Nansemond Co., Va. Also included are correspondence of Joseph Prentis, Jr., and Peter Bowdoin Prentis' license to practice law. 
Includes:

20 August 1817
Notice that Josiash Riddick, executor of William Riddick, deceased, has settled all "matters of difference" with Thomas Swepson, executor of Robert M. Riddick deceased, and exonerates the estate of Robert M. Riddick from all "contracts, actions and causes of actions" which existed between Robert M. Riddick and him. 2pp. DS.

4 Feb. 1820
Statement of the settlement of the estate of Robert M. Riddick, deceased, 27 Nov. 1809-1 Jan. 1820. 9 pp. CyD. Includes CyDS, 4 February 1820, of the settlement of the account of Robert M. Riddick, deceased, in the presence of Joseph Prentis, administrator, with Thomas Swepson, signed by R.H. Baker and Thomas P. Smith, Nansemond County, Va., 1p. CyDS.

13 December 1819-31, December 1827
Copies of legal records relating to the settlement of the estate of Robert Moore Riddick, (Jospeh Prentis, "administrator de bonis nom"), Nansemond Co. court record, including the substance of his will; inventory and appraisement of his slaves; inventory of his estate, 1820-1827; including the accounts for medical and other expenses of his slaves; and the final settlement of the estate, June 1827. 27 pp. MsV. 

Call Number CS71.A43 1980a  (Library of Virginia)
Author Belden, Allen.
Title An Allen lineage, c. 1500-1979 : with ten related families : Armistead, Copeland, Harmanson, Riddick, Robins, Saunders, Savage, Swepson, Tabb, Thorpe / by Allen Belden.
Publication Washington, D.C. : Belden, 1980.
Material 193 p. ; 28 cm.
Gen. note Includes index.
Subject - Personal Allen family.
holdings (1) All items
System Number 000262849

The Virtual Library of Virginia (VIVA) Virginia Heritage Project
Guides to Manuscript & Archival Collections in Virginia
University of Virginia Library

A Guide to the Webb-Prentis Family Papers
Accession number 4136
Guide to Manuscript & Archival Collections in Virginia
University of Virginia Library

# SERIES I: CORRESPONDENCE
* A. Joseph Prentis, Sr. and Family
Some extracts include the following:

Contents List: co3
Box 3 
1809-1820 Thomas Swepson to Joseph Prentis and Joseph Prentis, Jr
Box 12
1821-1827 Lucy Swepson to Margaret Susan Prentis and Susan Caroline Prentis
1834-1852 Thomas Swepson Shepherd to Joseph Prentis Jr and Mary Swepson Allen
Box 13 
1822-1831 Margaret S Prentis Webb to Susan C. Riddick Prentis, Mary Louisa Swepson, Marianna L. Prentis, and Joseph Prentis, Jr.
Box 14 
1807-1828 Swepson Whitehead to Joseph Prentis, Jr.
Box 15 
1836-1841
# Honoria O'Grady (Nony) to Mrs. Algernon Sidney Darden and Mrs. Mary Allen 
# Rev. B. B. Miles to Archibald Allen

1855-1866 
Mary Allen Cook to Mary Swepson Allen Darden
1847-1848
Betty Swepson Diggs* to Mary Swepson Darden Allen
1844-1846
I have not identified Betty Swepson Diggs as yet; perhaps a dtr of Frances H. Swepson Shepherd?-sgs
W. W. Kennedy to Archibald and Mary Swepson Allen
1846-1865
# J. H. Riddick to Mollie S. Allen 
1854
# Mary [Taylor] Riddick to Mrs. Mary Allen 
1860
Indiana Virginia Kilby to Mary Swepson and Lucy Allen
1854, 1881
E. H. Thompkins to Mary Swepson Allen
1826-1866
Eliza Ann Swepson Whitlock to Mrs. Archibald Allen
n.d. Edward Allen? to Mary Swepson Allen
1860 
Lizzie _____? to Mary Swepson Allen

Box 32, 1847-1851
# A:9 Account book of Algernon S. Darden. Includes accounts with Mills W. Darden and Archibald Allen, and their children (his wards) 
1859-1866
# A:10 Inventory of Real Estate owned by A. S. Darden,  Shelf

Contents List : c02
1808 Office of the Surveyor of the Port of Suffolk under Thomas Swepson

A Guide to the Webb-Prentis Family Papers
Accession number 4136-d
Guide to Manuscript & Archival Collections in Virginia
University of Virginia Library
Container List
* I. PERSONAL PAPERS OF THE PRENTIS, WEBB, DARDEN, AND ALLEN FAMILIES 

This collection, consisting of ca. 1300 items and 29 bound volumes, (4 boxes, 1 oversize folder, 1.5 linear shelf feet), is an addition to the papers of the Webb and Prentis families given to the Library on 24 November 1972 (accession number 4136), and contains papers of related families, the Dardens, Allens, and Riddicks, all of Suffolk, Nansemond County, and of Williamsburg, Virginia. The collection spans the years 1735 to 1942, but the bulk of the papers date from ca. 1850 to 1890. Most of the papers relate to members of the above families who lived in Suffolk, with only a few papers pertaining to the branch of the Prentis family which resided in Williamsburg.

The personal papers in this collection consist of scattered correspondence, financial papers, miscellaneous manuscripts, memorabilia and printed material. The correspondence dates from 1823 to 1939, and for the most part is made up of invitations and calling cards received by members of the above families.

The financial papers date from 1735 to 1887, and consist of 18th century tax receipts from land owned in Virginia, probably by the Prentis family in Williamsburg; bills of exchange, bonds, and bills of lading belonging to William Prentis, John Prentis, and Robert Prentis; and miscellaneous financial papers of various members of the above families.

The miscellaneous manuscripts date from 1771 to 1888, with much of the material undated. These papers consist of poems, quotations from books, songs, memoranda of children's birth dates, lists of subscribers, compositions, gardening notes, recipes, and other assorted papers. Of particular interest in this section is the photocopy of a Civil War diary kept by Joseph Prentis Webbca. 1862 to 1863.

The memorabilia is for the most part undated and unidentified, and consists of such items as paper dolls, silhouettes, and locks of hair. There is also a photograph of "Rose Hill, " an early home of the Allen family in Suffolk. The printed material dates from 1774 to 1942, and is comprised of newspaper clippings, programs, and advertisements. Of particular interest for local history relating to this collection is a Sketch Book of Suffolk, Virginia, dating from ca. 1886.

The professional papers of Robert Riddick Prentiscomprise the next main series in this collection. These papers, mainly correspondence and some related legal material, concern four cases of estate settlement and other fiscal litigation handled by Withers and Prentis, the Suffolklaw firm in which Robert R. Prentiswas a partner. The series dates from 1812 to 1887. Robert R. Prentis(born 11 April 1818) was the son of Joseph Prentis, Jr., who served as clerk of the Circuit and County Courts for Suffolk, and surveyor and inspector of the port of Suffolk, and Susan Caroline Riddick. Robert R. Prentisserved as mayor of Suffolkfrom 1883 to 1885, and practiced as an attorney in the courts of Nansemond, Isle of Wightand Southhamptoncounties, and the United States District Courtat Norfolk.

A major portion of this collection consists of the financial papers of Joseph Prentis Webb. Webb was the son of Robert S. Webband Margaret Susan (Prentis) Webb, the sister of Robert R. Prentis. He was born in Suffolkon 30 October 1843, and served in the 13th Virginia Cavalrywith the Army of Northern Virginiafrom 1862 to 1865, during which time he wrote the diary referred to earlier. Immediately after the war he started a drug company in Suffolk, and later expanded the business to include paints, building supplies, books, stationery, and a variety of other goods. He served as treasurer of the board of vestry of St. Paul's Episcopal Churchin Suffolk, a vice-president of the Suffolk Y.M.C.A., and was treasurer of the Suffolk Street Railway Company(formerly the Suffolk Street Car Company).

Webb's papers, dating from 1838 to 1892, are financial and legal records from his various business and service activities. In addition to receipts, accounts, and correspondence relating to his building supply contracts and store, there are deeds, bonds, and other legal records of property ownership, tax and license receipts, pension records, receipts of dues paid the Knights of Huron, and records from Webb's other activities as listed above. Webb's papers extend to within two months of his death on 27 December 1892.

In 1885, a fire swept through Suffolk, destroying not only Joseph P. Webb's store but the business of Darden and Eley. This dry goods and hardware store was established in 1866 by Robert Seth Eley and Algernon Sidney Darden, president of the Commercial Bank of Suffolk, whose daughter, Annie Jordan Darden, in 1881 had married Joseph Prentis Webb. Following the fire the two businesses cooperated in building a new store on Washington Square in Suffolkto house them both. Robert S. Eleydied in 1886, and the business was carried on by A. S. Dardenwho continued to build and expand it in cooperation with Webb, and to divide the profits from the business with Eliza P. Eley(possibly the former Eliza Jaekson (Prentis) Vickery), the widow of R. S. Eley.

The records of the business of Darden and Eleyform the last major series in this collection. These papers, which date from 1867 to 1905, consist mainly of deeds, receipts, and accounts, and chronicle the changes the business went through as a result of the events related above. They include: store receipts of Darden and Eley; deeds made by Darden, Webb, Eley, and others; tax receipts; accounts from the settlement of the estate of R. S. Eley; and receipts and invoices from the building of the new store.

The remainder of the collection is comprised of ledgers, oversize materials, and Bible records. The ledgers and oversize items are listed at the end of this guide. The ledgers date from 1733 to 1907, and include court memoranda books of Joseph Prentisand an 18th century Robert Prentis, various financial ledgers and cashbooks, commonplace books, a diary of Joseph P. Webb, and some pastoral notebooks of the Reverend James Murray. Papers formerly inserted in the ledgers and photocopies made of fragile material in the ledgers can also be found in this section. The oversize material consists of six scattered items pulled from various parts of the collection. The Bible records are electrostatic copies of pages in Bibles of the Allen family, the Darden- Allen- Webb- Prentisfamily, and the Prentis- Riddick- Webbfamily, and they are filed in the Bible transcripts tray in the Reading Room. The originals were returned to the owners.
* Organization

The Webb-Prentis papers are divided into six main series: I. Personal Papers of the Prentis, Webb, Darden, and Allen Families; II. Professional Papers of Robert Riddick Prentis, Attorney; III. Financial Papers of Joseph Prentis Webb; IV. Business Papers of Darden and Eley; V. Ledgers; and VI. Oversize .

The personal papers are arranged in five sub-series: 1. correspondence, 2. financial papers, 3. miscellaneous manuscripts, 4. memorabilia and photograph, and 5. printed material. Sub-series one and three--the correspondence and miscellaneous manuscripts--are divided between the 18th and early l9th century papers of the Prentis and Riddick families and the late l9th century papers of the Webb and Darden families, with some exceptional items foldered separately. The financial papers comprising sub-series two are divided according to type of document. Each sub-series has been arranged chronologically.

The professional papers of Robert R. Prentis--Series II are grouped according to case, as they were arranged when they arrived in the Library. Any notations which appeared on the original wrappings of the papers have been transferred to the present folder headings. Series III, the financial papers of Joseph Prentis Webb, and Series IV, the business papers of Darden and Eley, have also been kept in their original order as far as it existed, and any original labelling which survived has been copied onto the new folder headings. These three series are in chronological order.

The ledgers and oversize material comprising Series V and VI are arranged chronologically. Any titles which appeared on the ledgers have been incorporated in quotation marks into the listing. Papers pulled from the ledgers and photocopies made from the ledgers are filed in chronological order at the end of the ledger series.

 [Contents List: c02]
Correspondence: Webb and Darden Families 1881 Jan 27-1939 May 19 Box 1
10 items
* [Contents List: c02]
Miscellaneous Manuscripts: Darden and Webb Families 1862 Feb 22-1888 Mar 22, n.d. Box 1
12 items
* [Contents List: c02]
Deeds Relating to the Business of Darden & Eley 1867 Nov 14-1905 Jan 18, n.d. Box 3
25 items
* [Contents List: c02]
Receipts, Accounts, etc. of Darden & Eley 1885 May 23-1887 Oct 29 Box 3
100 items
* [Contents List: c02]
Receipts and Accounts of A. S. Darden and Joseph Prentis Webb from Building Projects 1887 Jun 1-1892 Feb 25 Box 3
42 items
* [Contents List: c02]
Tax Receipts of Darden & Eley 1887 Nov 28-1892 Box 3
12 items

Include, among other things:
o Correspondence: Prentis and Riddick Families Box 1
1823 Dec 18-1862 Feb 24, n.d. 24 items
o Correspondence: Webb and Darden Families Box 1
1881 Jan 27-1939 May 19 10 items
o Miscellaneous Manuscripts: Prentis Family of Suffolk and Williamsburg, and the Allen and Riddick Families Box 1
1771 Sep 16-post 1861, n.d. 21 items
o Miscellaneous Manuscripts: Darden and Webb Families Box 1
1862 Feb 22-1888 Mar 22, n.d. 12 items
o Miscellaneous Manuscripts: Civil War Diary of [Joseph Prentis Webb] (photocopy) Box 1
ca. 1862-1863 1 item
o Miscellaneous Manuscripts: Deed from Wm. W. Eley to Robert R. Allen Box 1
1881 Dec 13 1 item
o Memorabilia and Photograph Box 1
1870 Jul, n.d. 13 items
o Printed Material Box 1
ca. 1774-1942 Jul 19, n.d. 51 items
* II. PROFESSIONAL PAPERS OF ROBERT RIDDICK PRENTIS, ATTORNEY
Include:
o Correspondence and Related Material re Court Cases Handled by Withers & Prentis Box 2
1883 Jun 13-1887 Dec 28, n.d. 11 items
* III. FINANCIAL PAPERS OF JOSEPH PRENTIS WEBB
o Miscellaneous Legal Papers, mainly of Joseph Prentis Webb Box 2
1838 Jan 20-1890 Nov 11 18 items
o Overdue Notes Box 2
1855 Sep 19-1889 Aug 7, n.d. 29 items
o Miscellaneous Business and Financial Papers of Joseph Prentis Webb Box 2
1871 Jan 24-1892 Oct 22, n.d. 86 items
o Tax and License Receipts Box 2
1873-1890 Jul 1, n.d. 95 items
o Knights of Huron Dues Receipts Box 2
1880 May 4-1888 Sep 1 143 items
o Papers of Joseph Prentis Webb as Treasurer of St. Paul's Episcopal Church, Suffolk, Virginia Box 2
1882-1892 Oct 10 99 items
o Correspondence with Nash, Porter & Co. and Others re Business Deal with Joseph Prentis Webb Box 2
1886 Sep 22-1887 Mar 14, n.d. 18 items
o Suffolk Street Railway Company Papers Box 2
1891 Jul 8-1892 Apr 30, n.d. 51 items
* IV. BUSINESS PAPERS OF DARDEN & ELEY
o Deeds Relating to the Business of Darden & Eley Box 3
1867 Nov 14-1905 Jan 18, n.d. 25 items
o Receipts, Accounts, and Invoices from the Building of New Stores by D & E and JPW Box 3
1884 Jan 11-1887 Feb 11, n.d. 60 items
o Receipts, Accounts, etc. of Darden & Eley Box 3
1885 May 23-1887 Oct 29 100 items
o Receipts and Accounts from the Settlement of the Estate of R. S. Eley Box 3
1886 Mar 10-1893 Jan 13 55 items
o Notes on the Settlement of Building Costs Shared by D & E and Jospeh Prentis Webb Box 3
ca. 1886 13 items
o Receipts and Accounts of A. S. Darden and Joseph Prentis Webb from Building Projects Box 3
1887 Jun 1-1892 Feb 25 42 items
o Tax Receipts of Darden & Eley Box 3
1887 Nov 28-1892 12 items
* V. LEDGERS
Incl:
o 18
Diary of Joseph P. Webb Box 4
1858, 1864
o 20
Commonplace Book of Joseph P. Webb Box 4
1864-1865
Commonplace Book Box 4
1890, 1902
o 26
Political Notebook Box 4
ca. 1892 (Newspaper clippings and photocopies at back of box)
o 27
Register of Insurance Policies of R. R. Allen Box 4
1905-1907
o Commonplace book of Mary S. Allen Box 4
1852-1861
* VI. OVERSIZE FOLDER
o Diploma - from Wesleyan Female College, Murfreesboro, North Carolina, awarded to Lucie F. Allen Oversize
1859 Jul 20

Kilby family Papers 1665-1947: #26674 (1 match-SWEPSON)
Library of Virginia Contents list :c02
*Land deed between Mills Cowper and Thomas Swepson for land in Nansemond Co, Va 1807 Folder: 1

A Guide to the George Washington Estate Papers, 1784-1870
Accession Number 7797-f-g
A Collection in
The Special Collections Department
University of Virginia Library
*Thomas Swepson to [Bushrod Washington] 1811 Jun 22
Reports that he has exchanged the North Carolina notes for notes acceptable to the Bank of Norfolk and agrees to deposit the dividend from the Dismal Swamp Land Company in the bank for Washington

Call Number Manuscripts-Virginia Historical Society
Mss1 B5325 a 2218-2239
Author Bird family.
Title Papers, 1825-1980. Section 26
Description 22 items.
Summary Note Correspondence, 1840-1856, of William Maghee (of Petersburg and Winfield Academy, Dinwiddie County, Va.) with George Washington Bolling (concerning the Petersburg Classical Institute, Petersburg, Va.), John G. Claiborne, Sylvanus Littlepage Ingram, John Estave Lemoine, Charlotte Meade (Stockdell) Randolph Maghee, Gillison Maghee, William Plummer (concerning the Warrenton Male Academy, Warrenton, N.C.), Thomas Swepson Shepherd, Jonathan Smith (concerning the Petersburg Classical Institute, Petersburg, Va.), Mary L. Spruill, Daniel Turner, and John White (concerning the Warrenton Male Academy, Warrenton, N.C.).

CIVIL WAR SERVICE RECORDS, NANSEMOND CO, VA
Edward Archibald Allen
13th Virginia Cavalry, Company C, Private.
He was the son of Archibald and Mary Swepson Allen of Suffolk,Va. He was born Oct.3,1843 in Nansemond Co. and married Priscilla Armistead Saunders. Allen graduated from University of
Virginia, was professor of English at the University of Missouri and professor of Language at Farmville College after the war. He died in 1922.

Robert Riddick Allen
13th Virginia Cavalry, Company C, Private
Allen was born Dec.18,1845 in Nansemond Co. the son of Archibald and Mary Swepson Allen. He married Frances Jones Cosby (1859-1896) on Jan.27,1891. Allen was believed to have been killed in the war but appeared at his home riding a mule after the war. He
entered the business world and became one of the most substantial business men of his
day in Suffolk. He always took great interest in the Tom Smith Camp of Confederate Veterans and was one of the last survivors of that organization. He died Nov. 15,1920 and is buried in Cedar Hill Cemetery Block B, Lot 44.

Algernon Sidney Darden
13th Virginia Cavalry, Company C
On staff of General Chambliss as Aide without Commission Darden was born January 28, 1929 in Isle of Wight. He married Mary Swepson Allen (1837-1913), daughter of Archibald and Mary Swepson Allen. He was a merchant in Suffolk after the war and lived on Main Street where the Birdsong Recreation Center is now located. Darden died April 3, 1893 and is buried in Cedar Hill Cemetery, Block C, Lot 71.

William Samuel Shepherd 1st North Carolina Infantry, Company E, Lieutenant
Shepherd was born March 30, 1838 at Mintonsville, Nansemond County, Va., the son of Thomas Swepson and Ann Eliza Browne Shepherd. He married Diana Virginia McGuire (8/19/1838-12/29/1888) on May 26, 1859. Shepherd was killed leading his company in a bloody charge at the Battle of Sharpsburg on September 17th, 1862 and is buried in Cedar Hill Cemetery Block D, Lot 71.

Joseph Prentis Webb 13th Virginia Cavalry, Company C, 1st Sergeant
Webb was born October 30, 1843 the son of Dr. Robert Henning and Margaret Susan Prentis Webb. He was shot in the right knee during the war and permanently disabled after serving three years. He attended University of Virginia. Webb was a merchant in Suffolk
after the war. He married January 27th 1881, Annie Jordan Darden (b.08-07-1858), daughter of Algernon Sidney and Mary Swepson Darden. He died December 27, 1892, his tombstone reads: "Segt. of Co. C, for Gen. Chambliss". Webb was buried in Cedar Hill Cemetery Block C, Lot 70.

ALLEN FAMILY CEMETERY, NANSEMOND CO., VA
ALLEN FAMILY CEMETERY - OAK ISLAND, SUFFOLK, VA. NEAR SHRINE CLUB - LAND OWNED BY TONY DARDEN

SACRED TO THE MEMORY OF ARCHIBALD ALLEN
(09-17-1795)
02-28-1846 AGE 50 YRS, 4 MO., 11 DAYS
S/O EDWARD C. & ELIZABETH ELLEN REID DRIVER ALLEN

SACRED TO THE MEMORY OF
MARY (SWEPSON) ALLEN
(02-16-1810)
6-19-1860
(D/O THOMAS & ANN RIDDICK SWEPSON)

OUR LITTLE MARY
(SWEPSON)
10-04-1837
D/O ARCHIBALD & MARY SWEPSON ALLEN

SACRED TO THE MEMORY OF ARCHIBALD ALLEN
(06-05-1833)
09-20-1840 AGE 17 YRS, 3 MO., 15 DAYS
S/O ARCHIBALD & MARY SWEPSON ALLEN

WILLIAM HENRY ALLEN
(12-03-1835)
10-02-1836 AGE 10 MONTHS
S/O ARCHIBALD & MARY SWEPSON ALLEN

ELIZABETH R.(REID) ALLEN
(02-30-1831)
09-22-1833 AGE 2 YRS, 7 MO, 2 DAYS
D/O ARCHIBALD & MARY SWEPSON ALLEN

EDWARD THOMAS ALLEN
(07-27-1828)
08-29-1833 AGE 5 YRS. 1 MO.& 2 DAYS

STILL BORN SON
07-06-1827
S/O ARCHIBALD & MARY SWEPSON ALLEN

MARY ANN ALLEN
(07-14-1825)
09-18-1826 AGE 2YRS, 7MO, 2 DAYS
D/O ARCHIBALD & MARY SWEPSON ALLEN

SUFFOLK PICTORIAL P.24 " ALLEN FAMILY CEMETERY -
NORTH END OF ELIZABETH ST., SUFFOLK, VA.

BROWNE - MINTON CEMETERY
NANSEMOND PARKWAY, SUFFOLK, VA.
"MINTONVILLE, VA."
COPIED FROM THE BROWNE - MINTON BIBLE, PAGE 97 - 99, OWNER: HENRY RAWLS

TO THE MEMORY OF ANN ELIZA (BROWNE) SHEPHERD*
BORN AUG. 16TH A.D. 1813
DIED OCT. 8TH A.D. 1851
UNSURPASSED AS A FOND
DEVOTED AND CONFIDING WIFE
THE MOST AFFECTIONATE OF MOTHERS
AND BELOVED BY ALL WHO KNEW HER.
SHE DIED THE DEATH OF A TRUE CHRISTIAN
AFTER A LIFE OF SPOTLESS PURITY
ADORNED BY EVERY VIRTUE ENNOBLING IN MAN
OF VALUED BY HIGH HEAVEN.
THIS TRIBUTE OF AFFECTION IS ERECTED
BY HER HUSBAND. *(THOMAS SWEPSON SHEPHERD)

TO THE MEMORY OF ELIZA FRANCES
DAUGHTER OF THOMAS
AND ANN E (BROWNE) SHEPHERD
BORN AUG. 28, 1832
DIED ON THE SAME DAY.

SACRED TO THE MEMORY OF
MARY FRANCES
DAUGHTER OF THOMAS
AND ANN E. (BROWNE)  SHEPHERD
BORN OCT. 26, 1833
DIED SEPT. 24, 1837
THIS LOVELY CHILD HAS JUST BEGUN
TO UNFOLD ITS NOBLE QUALITIES
OF HER PIOUS SOUL WHEN DEATH CALLS
ITS VICTIM TO THE BOSOM OF HER
REDEEMER.

SHE SLEEPS IN DEATH
HER BEAUTIES DWELL
IN THE LONE VISIONS OF THE PAST
AS SOME LOVED FLOWER
CHERISHED WELL
THAT BLOOMED IN SWEETNESS
TO THE LAST.

Index to Chancery Court Suits, Nansemond Co, Va (Not filmed) DARDEN
ALGERNON S DARDEN vs  ROBERT M DARDEN 1866-002
A S DARDEN ETC vs ADMR OF PHILIP ROGERS ETC 1869-001
ALGERNON S DARDEN ETC vs ADMR OF ROBERT J LUKE ETC 1869-012
A S DARDEN FOR ETC vs JETHRO R FRANKLIN 1875-005
ALGERNON S DARDEN vs ELIZA P ELEY ADMX ETC 1887-006
The following involve ALLEN
ADMR OF ARCHIBALD ALLEN vs BENJAMIN RIDDICK & WIFE ETC 1868-024
The following involve BERNARD
RICHARD T HOLLAND EMILY ANN HOLLAND 1866-004
EXRS OF GEORGE WILLIS DARDEN vs LOWELL GLOVER BY ETC 1889-002
ALBERTA BERNARD vs LEMUEL BERNARD 1907-014
The following also involves PRENTIS
ADMR OF ARCHIBALD ALLEN vs BENJAMIN RIDDICK & WIFE ETC 1868-024
JOSEPH P WEBB vs WELLS BOONE & CO] ETC 1883-004
SYDNEY T ELLIS TRST vs CARRIE M SHEPHERD 1895-022
SYDNEY T ELLIS TRST vs JOHN M SHEPHERD ETC 1895-022
FARMERS BANK OF NANSEMOND] FOR ETC vs ROBERT R PRENTIS TRST ETC 1895-031
MARY MCRAE PINNER ETC vs ROBERT R PRENTIS TRST ETC 1909-072
MILLARD F PINNERvs  ROBERT R PRENTIS TRST ETC 1909-072
Involving SHEPHERD
BETTIE M SHEPHERD ETC vs FANNY SHEPHERD ETC 1868-016
JOHN M SHEPHERD vs ANN ELIZA MOODY 1875-028
JOHN M SHEPHERD vs WILLIAM MOODY 1875-028
Involving WEBB
JOSEPH P WEBB vs WELLS BOONE & CO] ETC 1883-004

:I have Not seen the book, and do not know if Thomas Swepson of Nansemond Co, Va. has been linked to Richard Swepson of Mecklenburg Co.-sgs
LIBRARY OF VIRGINIA
Call Number CS71.A43 1980a 
Author Belden, Allen.
Title An Allen lineage, c. 1500-1979 : with ten related families : Armistead, Copeland, Harmanson, Riddick, Robins, Saunders, Savage, Swepson, Tabb, Thorpe / by Allen Belden.
Publication Washington, D.C. : Belden, 1980.
Material 193 p. ; 28 cm.
Gen. note Includes index.
Subject - Personal Allen family.
holdings (1) All items
System Number 000262849

Call numbers for SPEC-COLL Material Location 
MSS 5312 MANUSCRIPT Special Collections SC-STKS 
Title: Nansemond County genealogical notes [manuscript], n.d.
Description: 1 microfilm reel : positive ; 35mm.
Note: Manuscript Division reel #M-1207.
Summary: The collection contains genealogies relating to the following families: Allen, Belson, Brassier, Darden, Holladay, Jordan, Shore, Stringer, Robins, Savage, Webb, Armistead, Bridger, Dandridge, Fisher, Gardner, Harmanson, Murphrey, Pitt, Ricks, Swepson, Tabb, Tembte, and Williamson of Nansemond County, Virginia.
Cite as: Nansemond County Genealogical Notes, n.d., Accession #5312, University of Virginia Library, Charlottesville, Va.
I have Not seen this material-sgs

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CLARK CO, ILL RECORDS

During the Mexican War, Clark County raised a company of about seventy-five men in Marshall, Illinois. The men had elected William B. Archer as captain, who was a veteran of the Black Hawk War; Nicholas Hurst as 1st lieutenant, and Charles Whitlock as 2nd lieutenant.
The company left Marshall on June 6, 1846, and was transported to Alton, Illinois in wagons. Captain Archer presented his company to the governor on June 9, who received them as Company Number 27. However, the men were discharged on the 27th of June, as the state's quota had been filled by previously accepted troops. Several members of the company foresaw this possibility, and rather than return home, they enlisted in other organizations.
The state appropriated $600 for the company to defray the expenses and pay for services rendered. The volunteers returned home.
The rosters listed below are reasonably accurate, though others may have served whose names have been inadvertantly excluded.

RAILROAD MEETING CLARK COUNTY, IL
THE ILLINOIS STATE DEMOCRAT
10-MARCH-1849

At an adjourned meeting of the citizens of Clark County, Illinois, on the subject of railroads, assembled at the court house in Marshall, on Monday the 5th of March, Col. W.B. Archer, presiding.

Mr. Greenough from the committee appointed at the last meeting, (March 1) to prepare a Preamble and Resolutions expressive of the sense of the people of this county on the subject of Railroads.

Before the adoption of the Preamble and Resolutions, Col. Archer and Mr. Cooper addressed the meeting in favor of the resolutions. After which the question was taken, and resulted in their adoption by a unanimous vote.

On motion of Mr. Crane, a committee of three: J.M. Crane, Uri Manly and John Allwood were appointed by the chair to select delegates to represent this county in the convention to be held at Salem, Marion County, Illinois, on the second Monday in May next—which committee retired, and in a short time appeared and reported the names of the following gentlemen as suitable persons to represent Clark County in said convention. Includes:
MARSHALL-MARSHALL---J.P. Cooper; J.K. Greenough; J.M. Crane; William Montgomery; R.L. Dulany; and Col. William B. Archer.
On motion, the chairman was added to the list of delegates from Marshall Precinct. 

Mr. Manly moved that the delegation from each precinct be authorized to fill any vacancy that may occur in their respective delegation.

On the motion “Illinois State Democrat” and all papers friendly to Internal Improvements, are requested to publish the proceedings of this meeting.

On motion, the meeting adjourned.

WILLIAM B. ARCHER---CHAIRMAN
W.C. WHITLOCK---SECRETARY

Company "K" 130th Illinois Infantry
Name Rank Residence Date of Enl.Muster Remarks
WHITLOCK, Young 1st Serg. Marshall Oct 25, 1862 Tr. to Co. K, 77th Ill. Inf.

Letter written to the Flag of the Union Newspaper (1861-1864, Clark Co, IL)
[After the Battles of Mansfield and Pleasant Hill, LA., 1864)

Army Correspondence--Headquarters 4th Division, 13th A. C. Grand
E'coy, Louisiana, April 16, 1864

Editor "Flag"--Being about the only one left of Co. K to tell the story, and desiring as much as possible to avoid a repetition of so unpleasant a duty, I will furnish for the information of your readers generally, and especially the relations of members of my company, the following brief statement.........Our Regt. was in the first line of battle on 8th inst. The company went in with 48 men, 14 of whom were assigned to us from Co. G. Our morning report in the morning of the
6th shows the following:
Missing since the 8th: [These soldiers were captured] Incl:
1st Sergt. Young Whitlock [Marshall]
Yours truly
Capt. J. W. Wilkin
Little Rock, Arkansas
April 17, 1864

Company "K" 77th Illinois Infantry
YOUNG, Whitlock Rec. trans. from 130th Ill. Inf. -- --- Sgt. Re-tr. 130th Ill., revived
130th Illinois Infantry (Revived) Consolidated into Battalion of 6 Companies, July 11, 1865
Company C
WHITLOCK, Young 1st Serg. Marshall Oct 25, 1862 Mustered out Jun 17, 1865

Clark County Prisoners of War & Missing in Action
Civil War 61 reported,  Includes: WHITLOCK, Young

Company "F" 30th Illinois Infantry
Name Rank Residence Date of Muster Remarks
GREENOUGH, Ogden Private Marshall Aug 23, 1861 Promoted 2d Lieutenant [Feb 16, 1862]
GREENOUGH, Ogden 2nd Lt. Marshall --- Promoted [Mar 24, 1862]
GREENOUGH, Ogden 1st Lt. Marshall Aug 10, 1862 Killed Jun 15, 1864

CLARK COUNTY WALL OF REMEMBRANCE
COUNTY MEN KILLED IN ACTION OR DIED ON DUTY WHILE IN THE ARMED FORCES
There are a total of 338* County Men -Includes: GREENOUGH, Ogden

EARLY RECOLLECTIONS OF CLARK COUNTY
BY JOHN LITTLEFIELD, EDITOR
MARSHALL WEEKLY MESSENGER
4-FEB-1869

"William P. Bennett, the father of William P. Bennett, now proprietor of the Sherman House was one of the first settlers of York and the first lawyer in the county and a very good one at that. Capt. Thomas Handy, now a citizen of Melrose is said to be the first white child born in the county and John A. Whitlock, now of Wheaton, IL, the first child born in Marshall.

The early settlers were men possessing great strength. It is a well known fact that William Hollenbeck, one of the early settlers of this county possessed remarkable strength. Milton Lake was a celebrated wood chopper, William Haddicks and Stephen Archer as corn huskers and Henry Taylor and Sinky as rail makers. Mr. Taylor told us that he had split 400 good oak rails walking two or three miles to work and back in the daylight. There are some persons who claim Sinky made 600 rails a day but that fact is doubted.

Among the first settlers mentioned are John Bartlett, Abraham Washburn, James Whitlock, James Pound, James B. Anderson, Stephen Archer, and Uri Manly. The first death was James G. Mathews.

The county seat of Clark County (Marshall) is located on a beautiful swell of land, 127 feet above Terre Haute, Indiana, and is the highest point of land between that place and Vandalia as determined by government surveys in locating the National Road. The land on which it stands was purchased by Governor Joseph Duncan and col. William B. Archer, in 1818, at government prices of $1.25 per acre. Archer laid out the town. The first log cabin was erected there in 1835."

COUNTY TAX RECEIPTS-1874
MARSHALL MESSENGER 12-MARCH-1874
The committee of tax receipts lists the following people as receiving payment from county money.
Includes: W C Whitlock

MARSHALL CITY CLERKS REPORT-1882
CLARK COUNTY HERALD
16-MAY-1882

Clarence Bryan—Treasurer of City of Marshall.
FUNDS EXPENDED MAY 5, 1881
Include:
Booth, Ed -lumber-1.44
Booth, Lyman -pavement-20.28
MAY 11, 1881 Include:
Greenough, W. -alderman-6.00

1892 Platbook of Clark County, Illinois
Compiled and Published by Geo. A. Ogle & Co.
Name/Business/Township or Village/Sec./Post-Office/Year of Birth/Nativity/When Came to County-Incl:
Greenough, Mrs. E. A./ Marshall/Marshall/1818/VA/1838
Greenough, W. P./Merchant/Marshall/Marshall/1851/IL/1851
Whitlock, Miranda/Casey/5
Whitlock, S. Y./Dealer in Stationery, etc./Marshall/24/Marshall/1869/IL/1869

CLARK COUNTY HERALD
17-OCT-1894
A more beautiful day for the old settlers reunion than last Thursday could not
of been ask. People did not arrive early but when they did begin to come,
they came with a rush and soon the city was over flowing with them. The old
folks registered at the Herald Office and later in the county clerks office,
each one receiving a souvenir badge and a ticket entitling the holder to a free
dinner. Just about 350 tickets were given out by the secretary and nearly the
same number of badges. The dinner was spread in the old Booth and Company
storeroom and was furnished mainly by the ladies of Marshall. It was
universally pronounced by the old settlers to be the best they had ever
partaken of.
The band discoursed sweet music all day and was highly praised by all. They
boys fairly surpassed themselves on this occasion. The evening concert was
especially beautiful. It is undeniable that the band was one of the main
attractions of the day.
The program in the courtroom was carried out to the letter. Promptly at 10 AM
President Hughes called the meeting to order and the room was then fairly
packed.
After briefly stating the objective of the meeting he called on S.S. Whitehead
who delivered the address of welcome. A fervent invocation by Rev. S.G. Lamb
followed and then James Sheapley responded to the address of welcome on behalf
of the old folks. Rev. J.D.R. Brown next addressed the gathering and lead in
singing the old hymn, "How Firm A Foundation". Interesting reminiscent talks
were then made by Anderson Lansbery, of Johnson Township, and Jehu Farr, of
Wabash. The morning session ends with the singing of "America" by the
audience to the accompaniment of the band.
In the afternoon the courtroom was again packed and the old folks refreshed and
invigorated by the bountiful meal.
Reminiscent talks were indulged in by Dr. J.D. Mitchell, of Darwin, William
Murphy and Mrs. B.C. Foster, of York, ROBERT HENSLEY of Auburn Township and
Mrs. Susannah Coombs, of Marshall. Mrs. Foster quaintly declared that "things
don't taste as good now as they did in the old days". You never get such corn
bread as we used to in those days. The corn meal ain't good and sweet like
that ground in the old horse mills. Ed Harlan made a characteristic speech,
which pleased every one.
Mr. Murphy, of York, moved that at the next meeting an old spinning wheel be
placed on the rostrum and some old lady give an exhibition of old time
spinning.
S.S. Whitehead moved that some of the old ladies bring pones of old fashion
corn bread that we of the younger generation may compare with the present
generation. Frank Travioli made a closing speech commending the citizens of
Marshall for the grand welcome.
The election of offices was then held. E.J. Hughes was re-elected president.
Dr. J.D. Mitchell elected vice president, O.L. Kilborn elected secretary and
D.D. Doll re-elected treasurer.
We published below a list of all the old settlers registered together with
their ages and the year they came to the county. There some inaccuracies but
not many.

NAME AGE YR. CAME TO COUNTY
MARSHALL TOWNSHIP includes:
Booth, Mrs. Fayette 63 1836

CLARK COUNTY HERALD
9-FEB-1899

Dr. C.D. Gulley is the only physician or healer known to have received the
endorsement of almost the entire county, the ministry, the legal profession,
the press, the representative citizens where he is known. His hundreds of
strong testimonials telling of great relief given and of wonderful cures read
like miracles.

The petition below demonstrates his remarkable popularity as a healer. This
petition is signed by 2000 leading citizens of Clark County, 1500 of them from
three townships. A canvas of the entire county would easily secure 10,000
names. Here is the petition:

A PETITION TO THE ILLINOIS LEGISLATURE

To the honorable members of the Senate and House of Representatives of the
Legislature of Illinois.

We, the undersigned citizens of the State of Illinois, do hereby pray your
Honorable body to pass a law granting Dr. C.D. Gulley of Terre Haute, Indiana,
permission to heal the afflicted in the State of Illinois, as the State Board
of Health refuses to grant him a licenses to do so.

From our personal knowledge of Dr. Gulley and from what our neighbors say and
from his long list of testimonials from our friends and neighbors, we believe
him to be a physician of marked ability and skill and we believe the law upon
our statues book was intended to protect the people from impostors and not to
prevent them, as free born Americans, from employing the physician of their
choice.

We respectfully ask your honorable body to make such investigation as you deem
proper and firmly believe if you do you will say with us that the afflicted
should not be deprived of the services of so skillful a physician as Dr. Gulley
and will pass the law we ask and your petitioners will ever pray.
Signatures include: Booth, F.W. (Attorney), Whitlock, Charles; Whitlock, G. W.

VETERANS ASSOCIATION WILL CAMP IN CLARK COUNTY
CLARK COUNTY HERALD 9-SEPT-1896

The following citizens have been appointed by the president of the association on the different committees and his appointments were approved without a dissenting vote by the Grand Army at their meeting Saturday night.

The citizens of the town will all work together to give the veterans a warm welcome.

Reception Committee Includes Booth, Fenton W.

Committees will meet as soon as possible and proceed with the duties assigned them, without further notice. The temporary chairman will call the committee together and will so preside until a permanent chairman is elected.

Hotels and boarding houses and private residences that can entertain the visitors at 25 cents a meal or one dollar per day should report the number they can entertain to any member of the Entertainment Committee at once.

Newton McCann
Pres. 19th Dist. Association
W. M. Harlan, Secretary

1899 PERSONAL PROPERTY TAX LIST
MARSHALL TWP, CLARK COUNTY, ILLINOIS
CLARK COUNTY HERALD 29-JUN-1899 
The following is the personal property tax assessment list for Marshall Township, Clark County, Illinois. NOTE: Even though a person (head of household) doesn't own land or a house and lot, they still have to pay personal property tax. The personal property tax list is a more complete listing of families living in a township than the land tax list. Includes:

Booth, Ed,  Booth, Fayette,  Booth, Fenton,  Booth, Truce, Greenough, Eliza A. Greenough, Mrs William P.,  Whitlock, M.E.

1900 Personal Property Tax List, Marshall Twp., Clark Cp., Ill Incl
Booth, Edwin, Booth, F.W., Booth, Fayette A., Booth, True, Greenough, M.E., Whitlocke, M.E.

1901 Personal Property Tax List, Marshall Twp., Clark Co., Ill Incl
Booth, Edwin, Booth, F.A., Booth, Fenton W.
Booth, True, Greenough, Mary E., Whitlocke, M.E.

1902 Personal Property Tax List, Marshall Twp, Clark Co., Ill Incl
Booth, True, Booth, Edwin, Booth, F.A., Booth, F.W., Greenough, Mary, Whitlocke, M.E

1905 Personal Property Tax List, Marshall Twp., Clark Co., Ill Incl
Booth, E.D. Booth, Fent, Booth, True, Greenough, Mrs. W.P., Whitlock, M.E.

1907 Personal Property Tax List, Marshall Twp, Clark Co., Ill Incl
Booth, E.D. Booth, True, Greenough, Mary, Whitlock, M.E.

1909 Personal Property Tax List, SCHOOL DIST 16 (INSIDE CITY_) Marshall T/W
Booth, Edwin, Greenough, Mary, Whitlock, M.E.

1910 Personal Property Tax List., Marshall Twp, Clark Co, Ill Incl School Dist 16, Inside City Incl : Booth, Edwin, Booth, True, Greenough, M.C., Whitlocke, Florence J.

1911 Personal Property Tax List., Marshall Twp, Clark Co., Ill Incl (School Dist 16, Inside City) Incl: Booth, Edwin, Booth, True, Greenough, F.W., Greenough, Mary E., Whitlock, Florence, Whitlock, M.E.

1912 Personal Property Tax List, Marshall Twp, Clark Co, Ill School Dist 16, Inside City Incl:  Booth, Edwin, Booth, True, Greenough, Mary, Whitlock, M.E.

Civilian Draft Registrations, 1917
MARSHALL TOWNSHIP PCT. NO. 1 Incl:
Booth, Lyman

Clark Co, Ill WW I Rosters Incl:
Booth, Lyman, Marshall
Cole, Fenton Booth, Marshall

Marshall Cemetery, Marshall, Clark County, IL (Partial listing)
NAME BIRTH DEATH OTHER 
Whitlock, Charles 11 Dec 1855 2y 10m 17d s/o W.C.&M.
Whitlock, Eliza 18 Nov 1798 18 Mar 1866 w/ James b. Suffolk, VA
Whitlock, Florence B. 1848 1929
Whitlock, Frances M. 1870 1948
Whitlock, James 25 Aug 1791 02 Oct 1847 b. Suffolk, VA
Whitlock, John A. 18 Jul 1874 6m 24 d S/O W.C. & M. 
Whitlock, Mary E. 27 Jan 1852 1y 1m 13d d/o W.C.&M.
Whitlock, Miranda 1831 1909 w/o W.C.
Whitlock, Nancy N. 1877 1932
Whitlock, Swepson Y. 1865 1928
Whitlock, Wm. C. 3 Feb 1822 05 Jul 1875 53y 5m 2d b. Richmond,VA
Whitlock, Young 1843 09 Oct 1881 

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