Marilyn & all,
Good thinking about Martha Callesone being a daughter of John Callison Sr. &
not his wife.
Makes much more sense now that u've pointed it out! McCorkles lived about in
the middle of the Beverley land grant - there is more than one family of
McCorkles.
Also see John McNutt 1754 200?Ac. in Beverley. Very hard to read the acreage
on my map; he's just north of Robt. McCorkle on the map. I also see William
Nutt 650 ac & I always wondered if someone just left the Mc off by mistake.
Nutt Mill Creek runs thru Wm Nutt's property & on south.
My guess is the families met at church or barnraisings etc. & knew each
other.
James Gillespie has 210Ac 1749 over toward the eastern side of the Beverley
map. He also has 130 Ac. 1771 (unless a son). There's even a "Gillespie
Run"
named after him??off South River. There are Gillespie's in Pocahontas Co on
my 1825 map; so expect they traveled west building roads like the others. This
would originally by Greenbrier Co.
Martha Mitchell with 279Ac 1739 lived due south of James Callison's 226Ac
1749 on the Beverley map. John Mitchell 609Ac 1747 lived a little further
south. John Buchanan is in between the two with 784Ac.
Agnes/Nancy Callison married to Thomas Blair 1795 Greenbrier. I don't think
it would be too unusual for a younger sister (of John Sr., & William etc) to
go off with older siblings to help out with their younger children. She knew
her brother Robert was taking care of her mother back in Augusta!
The 1742 Augusta muster list is a great find. Would be easy to misread J or
S. And James was often abbreviated Jas. The earliest I can find we have James
in Augusta is 1749 - land records. I thought we might have had a court case
with James Bell in 1746 but can't find it. Think the court cases are the
first reference to "James Callison from Albemarle Co". But maybe its 1752. Too
bad so many records in Albemarle were burned.
James Bell had several different properties in Beverley grant. I'm wondering
if James Callison had some land in Augusta that became Albemarle (when
formed in 1744).
more later ginger