In a message dated 6/24/2006 8:25:36 PM Central Standard Time,
jtex37(a)sbcglobal.net writes:
in one letter that I have from Evelyn Witeck she says for me to be
careful
and not get the Callison and Kellison families mixed up. I know they spell
Callison Kellison on occasion. Do you think she was right?
Any ideas on who the William Callison might have been who got he land in
Tenn. Co., Tenn. in 1785-1781? He would have been too old to have bee the
William who married Marian Chapman, I think. For one thing, it would be hard for a
very young man to come up with the money to buy the land unless he had
inherited some money, but maybe not.
Joyce, I am trying DESPERATELY to find a Kellison to submit to DNA testing to
answer that question. So far no luck. All the old queries on genforum are no
longer working email addresses <sigh>
I have no clue about the William in Tennessee Co but from what I can
understand, what was TN now was NC at that time and Tennessee Co is now Robertson and
Montgomery Co. TN and right on the KY border near Todd and Christian Co. KY.
Seems like there were some land records for the thrice married James Callison
who went to Grainger Co., TN found in NC records but don't remember that for
sure.
Robert Callison, son of James and Isabella, went to Todd and Christian Co.,
KY but not until the 1830 time period.
That still does nothing to help with an unknown William in TN that early.
William who married Chapman was barely born. I don't know of any other William
either that we can account for or that we cannot account for. The only known
William who would have been old enough would probably be William Sr. Perhaps the
person who got the land was really not even in TN but was living somewhere
else.
This page has info on Kentucky land grants
http://www.genealogyforum.com/gfnews/february99/gfn9902w.htm
and includes this remark
>> >>> Due to surveying error, the Kentucky Land
Office became responsible
>> for patenting lands in a small northern area of Tennessee north of the
>> parallel 36 degrees and 30 minutes. The series includes 4327 patents issued by
>> Kentucky for lands in Tennessee
>
Some research says that land patents in this time period were recorded in
Virginia but I can't vouch for that. Just another puzzle piece. TAke care.
Marilyn
Shame there are no census records that early in TN but it was not even a
state yet. Take care. Marilyn