CHARLTON HALL
In
researching the possible father of Reuben and Margaret HALL who were left
orphans in December 1802 with the death of Elizabeth HALL, there is only one
real possibility.
Smith
County, Tennessee was formed in 1799
from Sumner County.
1798 tax list of Sumner Co. TN, Tennessee State Library
and Archives, original record
“A list of the free tithable inhabitants in the districts
of Captain WILIAMS, BRADLEY’s, MURRY’s, CARR’s & HARPOLE’s Companies. (this is the area of county that became Smith
Co. in 1799).
155 Cain ECIFF
156 William MCMAHON
157 John CROSSLIN
158 Charlton HALL
159 Patrick MCBRIDE
160 William BEARD
161 George POE
162 Nathaniel MCBRIDE
…
261 William WILKERSON
262 Josiah R__(?)
263 James MORGAN
264 Joel DIER
265 David COCHRAN
266 Anthony SAMUEL
267 William HANEY
268 Wm. STAFFORD
269 Richard. HEATON
270 James BRADLEY
271 Wliam GIBSON
272 Thomas BOWMAN
273 James BOWMAN
274 Robert BOWMAN
…
1799 Tax List, Smith Co. TN, Tennessee State Library and
Archives, Nashville
“A list of Capt. Jas. BELEW’s Company their taxable
property and poles for the year 1799
David COCHRAN – 2 black poles
Joel DYER – 2 white poles; 2 black poles
James MORGAN – 1 white pole
(all these are consecutive)
There is NO entry for Charlton HALL - either he died or perhaps he is the other white poles (poll) listed under Joel DYER! The fact that Joel DYER purchased the land later owned by Claiborne HALL cannot be a coincidence!
NOTE: Joel DYER (Jr.) believed to brother of a Charlton
DYER awho were sons of Joseph DYER of Virginia and Grainger Co. TN. Joel DYER was appointed guardian of Reuben
HALL to learn trade of blacksmith in 1802.
This Joel DYER is affiliated in some Sumner Co. TN records with David
COCHRAN who came from Caswell Co. NC.
William HAYNIE, Sr. and several other early Smith Countians came from
Caswell Co. NC. In 1802 Joel DYER sued
Nathaniel DICKERSON, Sr. and Nathaniel DICKERSON, Jr. in Sumner Co. – they were
also from Caswell Co. NC. There was a
William HALL who migrated from Caswell Co. NC to Smith Co. TN (for five years
about 1813) and then went on to Missouri.
This William HALL was a Rev. War pensioner.
NOTE: This Cain ECIFF above near Charlton HALL is Cain
ACUFF who moved from Spotsylvania/Caroline Co. VA to Henry Co. VA and then came
to Smith Co. TN. He has a near relative
named Cain ACUFF whose children appear to marry Halls in Grainger Co. TN.
Petitioners of Sumner County, TN dated 30 September 1799 to the
House of
Representatives 30 September 1799: The Honourable the General Assembly
of the State of Tennessee The Petition of a number of
inhabitants of the
upper end of Sumner County Eastwardly of Rocky Creek
Respectively sheweth
that from the great extent of said county we humbly conceive it
ought to be
divided into two separate and distinct counties we having
advertised
agreeable to law respecting the division of counties. We your petitioners
beg leave to state your honourable body some of the hardships we
labored
under in our present situation, many of us having to attend
courts and
general assembly & other publick meetings at the distance of
sixty and
seventy miles which makes our local situation disagreeable from
these
reasons and many others........ could assign to your ...we beg
leave to
recommend to your honourable body to divide the said county of
Sumner
as follows:
begining at a portion on the line which divides the State of
Kentucky from
this State which is a due south course will strike the head of
the main fork
of Rocky Creek and down the same to its confluence with the
Cumberland
River thence a South Southeast course to the INDIAN BOUNDARY and
all that part of the said county lying Eastward from the above
described
line is the part we wish it in Justice think ought to be formed
into a
Separate county and we your petitioners as in duty bound shall
ever pray.
1799 SUMNER
COUNTY, TN by Wanda Gant [some names illegible
& not included] [as always, check the original record for
accuracy]
1799 petition of residents of Sumner Co. TN - http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~tnsumner/petition.htm
Presly, David
Hardison, Gabriel
Cage, Wilson
Young, Samuel
Carr, William
Stephenson, William
Hall, Charelton
Cooper, John
Gwin, James
Strain, James
Sulyvan, Isom
Sulyvan, Daniel
Miles, John
Dancey, Henry
Hensley, Charles
Cooper, James
Hensley, Harmon
Fisher, James
Fisher, John
Johnson, James
Stratton, Owen
Box, Isaac
Box, Stephen
Sadler, Henry
Bower, Richard
Enochs, Shadrick
Furgerson, Alex
Burk, John
Eubanks, William
Galbraith, W.
Dyer, Joel Jr.
Morgan, James
Dier, Joel [Dyer]
Chambers, John
Chambers, James
Loving, William
NOTE: I excerpted those around HALL and DYER – there are
many others but Charlelton HALL is the only with surname HALL.
JOEL DYER, Jr.
(ca. 1769 – 1836)
DYER researchers
believe he is son of Joseph DYER who was born in Caroline Co. VA, son of John
DYER. Joseph DYER is found living in
Halifax Co. VA, Pittsylvania Co. VA,. He
migrated to Grainger Co. TN, back to Virginia (Henry Co. VA in 1807), then died
in Grainger Co. TN by 1813. A probably
brother of Joel DYER, Jr. was Charlton DYER who was born about 1780 in NC or
VA; moved to Grainger Co. TN with his father.
Joel
DYER was in the Tennessee state legislature.
There is information in the Carthage Gazette in the 1810s. He once owned the land purchased in 1811 by
Claiborne HALL. He is in many records
with the HALLs, was appointed guardian to Reuben HALL in 1802. He has
to be someone of importance to the family.
Dr. A. B.
PRUITT, Glasgow Land Fraud Papers, Part 2, page 80. 1783 – 1800
4490
Soldier Andrew
HIDE, 274 acres, assignment by Andrew HIDE to Joel DYER, warrant drawn by S.
DONELSON, certified by Jno. MEDERS, surveyed for Joel DYER. Remarks: assignment forged by S. DONELSON,
mustered.
NOTE: Following
this history of this 274 acres, it becomes the 274 acres owned by John WALTERS
in which he sold part to Claiborne HALL in 1812!
11
March 1954 – “Cal’s Column” as published in Macon County (TN) Times
Joel
DYER of 1802 lived Peyton’s Creek below the present town of Pleasant Shade,
somewhere about the village of Graveltown.
He erected the first mill of which we have any record on that
streatm. He was commonly called Big Joel
DYER, he having a son, commonly called Little Joel DYER (Rick’s note – this
last statement has been proven untrue!).
Two
sons of Joel DYER are remember to have lived in Carthage. The older, B. F. DYER, was a tailor and
carried on that business there for awhile.
He married the daughter of Maj. Wm. HAYNIE and emigrated to Texas some
fifty or more years ago. The younger
studied medicine, practiced a while in Carthage, then went to Hartsville where
he attained considerable reputation as a physician. Dr. James DYER was a man above ordinary
intelligence, of strong convictions, high predjudices, but sincere and honest,
and possessed of the confidence and esteem of the community in which he lived.
I have much more
info on Joel DYER, Jr. in Smith Co. TN
and on the other DYERs in Virginia and Grainger Co. TN. There is a John HALL (married Grizel) in
Grainger Co. TN living in same area as Joseph DYER and Charlton DYER. There
are other Halls in that area as well – William HALL, James HALL, and a Thomas
HALL who bought land in 1816 – 1818 period.
John HALL and wife Grizell relocated to Bledsoe Co. TN about 1819. Various descendants have John’s birthplace as
Virginia and North Carolina.
No comments:
Post a Comment