Hello,
If you have any more research on this line, let me know. This is some of
what I've gathered. I am related to the Welch-Callaway-Wyatt lines.
Would like to know how they fit in with the Peter Callaway line.
PatWelch
23. JOHN13 WYATT (WILLIAM12, JOHN11, HAUTE10, GEORGE9, THOMAS8, THOMAS7,
HENRY6, RICHARD5, GEOFFREY4, ROBERT3, WILLIAM2, ADAM1) was born April
26,1679 in Perquimans Co., NC, and died December 26, 1739 in Perquimans NC.
He married RACHEL CALLOWAY November 17, 1696 in Perquimans Co., NC. She >was
born 1675 in Perquimans County, North Carolina, and died 1738
in North >Carolina. According the book Old Albemarle County Perquimans
Precinct North Carolina Births, Marriages, Deaths, and Flesh Marks 1639-1820
by Wynette Parks Haun, Rachel was born in 28/Feb/1687 this is supposedly
from the Original Records
Children of JOHN WYATT and RACHEL CALLOWAY are:
i. SARAH14 WYATT, b. 1697; m. STANDING.
ii. ELIZABETH WYATT, b. 1697; d. 1798, Perquimans Co., NC.
iii. WILLIAM WYATT, b. Abt. 1698.
iv. JOHN WYATT, b. January 31, 1713/14, Bute County, North
l. Thomas Calloway
....+ wife
....2. CALEB CALLOWAY
"Orderd, that Caleb Calloway appraise ye estate of William Lawrence, and
make return thereof to ye Precinct Court"
....+Elizabeth Lawrence/Laurence, dau of William Laurence and Rachel Welch.
Rachel married 2nd Samuel Pricklove. Elizabeth Larance, b. 24 Dec 1655.
Caleb Calloway and Elizabeth Lawrence "was married by Jeremiah Taylor
Minister of the gospell on the 20th of (torn )"
......3. William Calloway, b. 13 Feb 1671/2. Departed this life 13 Aug
1694
...........+Margaret _____ . Francis Tomes (son of Francis and wife
Presillo) and Margaret Lawrence, relic of William were married June 8,
1696 at a meeting at ye said Lawrences house. Piney Woods Mo Mtg, Perquimans
Co. N.C..: "Francis Tomes, son of Francis and Margaret Laurance, widow of
Willaiam of same place, decalred intention of marriage at a meeeting house
of Francis Tomes,and were married 1696-4-8, at the house of Margaret
Laurance. Witnesses: Mary Toms, Ann Wilson, Jane Byar,Eliner
Bogue,Elizabeth Nicholson, Francis Tomes, Joshua Tomes, Gabriel Newby,
Robert Wilson, Isaac Wilson, Rachel Wilson, Elizabeth Clare, Israel
Snelling,William Bogue, CALEB CALLOWAY, William Moore, John Laurence,
William Butler, Richd. Cheaston,Richd. Dorman,John Nicholson, Saml
Nicholson,Timothy Cleare.
......3. Rachel Calloway
..........+John Wyatt
............4. John Wiatt, b. 31 Jan 1714or 13 Jan.
............4. Mary Wyatt
............4. Sarah Wyatt
................+_____Standing
............4. William Jacob Wyatt
............4. Joshua Longe Wiatt
............4. Elizabeth Wyatt, b. 1697 , m. at age 19
.................+Joseph Oates m. 1719, at age 22 a d. 1768-1774 or 1790's.
Her husband(Elizabeth's) was listed in the Bladen Co. NC Tax list for
1768, 1772 and 1774. It is possible that she (Elizabeth) might have been
with him and their son Carraway also listed on this tax list.
.................5. Carraway Oates
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Article from: WELCH'S CREEK IN CAROLINA, from Welch-Welsh-Walsh, September
1959, page 31-32
The creek rises near the junction of Beaufort, Martin, and Washington Cos.,
N.C. and flows north, forming the baoundary between Martin and Washington
Cos. It flows into the Roanoke River which was once called theMoratuck. No
record has been found of any name which preceded that of Welch's Creek.
Proof that the name has persisted at least two hundred and fifty-eight years
since the departure of the last Welsh family from that vicinity is found in
a deed recorded in Chowan Co., N.C., and abstracted below:
Deed Book W., p. 27, 13 Oct 170l
Jam (James?) Welsh of the County of Bath unto Mr. J__ Long of the prec of
Chowan in the Count of Ambem "for divers good Causes thereunto Moving but
more especially for the just sum of ten pounds" 500 acres "in Welshe's Creek
in MaratockRiver", including "housing, fencing, clear ground, Orchards, with
all timber growing laying or appertaining to the land". Signed by name. Wit:
Jon Hawkinse,Wm(?) Lillington, Humphrey Legg. Ordered to be registered
April 7, 1702.
The land is speciffically located by a record of the Long family as being
"between Conaby's and Welch's Creek" in Chowan Precinct. (Hathaway,
North
Carolina Historical and GenealogicalRegister, Vol 3, p. 51) This would be
near the present town of oPlymouth, N.C. which some historians think was the
site or near the site of the first permanent settlement in N.C. Corbitt,
in his F"Formations of North Carolina Counties, Introduction, p. xi,
mentions the fact that Roger Green, aclergyman from Nasemond Co., Va., took
a leading part in exploring the region south of the Chowan River. Winslow
states in her "History of Perquimans County"p. 1, that Roger Green started
with a colony to settle on the lower Chowan River in 1653 and "came vested
with power to possess lands in Carolina". Supporting the date of settlement
in Albemarle County about that time are the words of Governor Walker written
in a letter to the Bishop of London October 21, 1703, "we have been hear
near fifty years".
A manuscript map of the are, dated 1657, only four years later than 1653
marks the house of a Mr. Ball on the AlbermarleSound between "Flatts Creek"
and the "Morattico River". (Cummings, "The Southeast In Early Maps, Plat
32.) Corbitt states o p. xii, "Formation of North CarolinaCounties, that
"ROBERT LAWRENCE, in 1707, said that in 1661 he seated a plantation on the
southwest side of Chowan River where he lived for seven years. Other early
settlers there were THOMAS RELFE, SAMUEL PRICKLOVE, CALEB CALLOWAY, GEORGE
CATCHMAID, JOHN JENKINS, JOHN HARVEY, THOMAS JARVIS, GEORGE DURANT."
The proximity of the above settlers including kin, allies, and associates,
of WILLIAM LAWRENCE and his wife,RACHEL WELSH, to the Welsh land "in
Welshe's Creek", leads to the belief that Rachel, who was at least a
generation older than JAMES WELSH who sold the land, was herself a member
ofthe same family;and that perhaps she and her husband themselves had lived
uring the decade preceding their residence in Perquimans County, somewhere
southwest or south of the Chowan River amongh their kinsmen and
contemporaries who, most of them, also, moved a little later to Perquimans
County.
WILLIAM LAWRENC married RACHEL WELSH about 1654/5, and according to the
"Berkeley Parish Register," they had their first child, Elizabeth, December
24, 1655. Of the above named settlers southwest of Chowan River by 1661,
CALEB CALLOWAY, probably of the second generation married ELIZABETH
LAWRENCE; SAMUEL PRICKLOVE became the second husband of RACHEL (WELSH)
LAWRENCE; ROBERT LAWRENCE who was adjoined by his brother John (The North
Carolinian, Vol I, No 2, Number Tw, p. 44) was undoubtedly the brother of
WILLIAM LAWRENCE. (The
Lawrence family, Boddie, "Historical Souther Families, Vol II, p. 181). And
of the remaining list of settlers, most of them appeared a little later in
the records of Perquimans County where, as early as 1663,WILLIAM LAWRENCE
and RACHEL are noted as adjoiners to WILLIAM VOSE. (Perquimans County
History, Deed Book A, p. 51. There is evidence that by this date WILLIAM
LAWRENCE had already lived somewhere in Albermrle County for at least a
decade:
Winslow's "History of Perquimans County" p. 63, Deed BookA., # 325.
"Thomas
Meriday and Elizabeth my wife, dau of JOHN LARANCE (lAWRENCE) dEC'D SON OF
oLD wILLIAM lARENCE, THE FIRST IN THE cO. OF aLBEMARLE,n..c.'..
The question which affects Welch's Creed is whether he went to Albemarle
County preceding all settlers. If so he must have married Rachel in
Albemarl County; and she must have gone there with her own Welsh family
about 1653, probably in Roger Green's colony. Even if it was meant that
WILLIAM LAWENCE was only the first of his family in Albemarly County he
would have had to go there before Robert and JOHN LAWRENCE who settled on
the southwest side of the Chowan River in 1661. No colony is known to have
preceded that date except that of Roger Green in 1653.
Evidence that the name of Welch's Creek may indeed be three hundred years
old lies in the deed itself, the absence of any record showing a previous
name, native or other, and in the logic that no landmark of importance waits
around withouta a name for thirty or forty years, or even a decade, in a
settled area. There is no feeling of transiency, either, about a family
whose name prefixes a landmark. The inference, usually from such
circumstances is that the family arrive there before other families and
somehow dominated the scene. Brief residence ina spot seldom affects place
names, and certainly doesnot in an area previously inhabited.
In regard to Rachel Welsh's vital statistics in the "Berkeley Parish
Registar" it should be said that they do not necessarily prove residence in
Berkeley Parish, "later Perquimans County". Before the Vestry Act of 1715
all of Orth Carolina was in one parish. Berkeley Parish, as conterminous
with Perquimans County, did not exhist until 1715, by which date Rachel
probably had died. The consecutive entries in the "Register" indicate that
they were made long after the event occurred, possibly copied from records
left among her children, most of them residens of Perquimans County in
Berkley Parish
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