Cathy wrote:
Subject: Re: [CALVERT-L] Sixteen Tribes of Calverts
Date: Thu, 26 Mar 1998 12:14:47 EST
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In a message dated 98-03-26 00:42:38 EST, you write:
<< Book XII William Calvert and Elizabeth
Nodding (Now known to be
Quaker Calverts from Penn.) 7101-7428 >>
Dear George:
I was just wondering how that information was found, about William and
Elizabeth being Quakers. I am descended from them and would like to know if
any more information has ever come to light about them, and who William's
parents might have been.
p.s. My aunt Dorothy (Calvert) Frazier will be 91 in April. She is the
daughter of J.A. Calvert # 7314 in the Calvert book.
Cathy
Dear George, Cathy and all:
I too am interested in how someone determined that William Calvert and
Elizabeth Nodding Calvert came from Penn. I am a trained genealogist and also a
lawyer ( I beg forgiveness), and have spent innumerable hours tracking William.
I have the opportunity of living only a few minutes from the Family History
Center at Brigham Young University (which, btw, contains enormous amounts of
material not available or even cataloged at the Family History Center in Salt
Lake City.) And I frequent the FHC in SLC almost weekly. In fact, I was doing
more research on the Noddings/William Calverts, etc., just last Monday.
Anyway, as best I can determine, no one has successfully tracked William Calvert
out of Loudon Co., VA. As to Elizabeth Nodding, I do know that her father
William Nodding was in Loudon Co., VA as early as 1757. [Loudon Co. VA, Will
Book A, p.10-11] William Nodding and wife Mary ? were in Washington Co., TN by
at least 1778. William and Mary Nodding, along with most of their children and
spouses, including daughter Elizabeth, wife of William Calvert, were very early,
if not founding members of the "Limestone" and/or Cherokee Creek Baptist
Churches in Washington Co. [History of Washington Co., TN, 1988, comp. Watauga
Association of Genealogists, Upper East Tennessee, pp. 69-70, 167-168, 211,
252.]
While I have not yet found the proof, I suspect that the Noddings, Calverts, and
the rest of the families left VA in the 1770's to escape the "anti-Baptist"
sentiments from the Catholics and others. A huge number of Baptists settled in
western NC which later became Washington Co., TN. I deem it highly unlikely that
the Noddings/William Calverts would have been Quakers in Penn., but Baptists in
TN!
I have been attempting to "finish" my William Nodding family page and post it
to
the Net, but since it looks as though it might be some time until I get all of
my data input, I'll post what I have so far to the following address:
www.code-co.com/rcf/ancestry/nodding
I'll try to get this page up at this address by Saturday a.m. The Nodding page
will contain a link to my page on William Calvert/Elizabeth Nodding Calvert
which I have likewise not "polished" but which may help others who descend from
them.
I'd love to have more information on either William Calvert and William Nodding.
I am still fascinated by the fact that a William, Frederick and John Calvert all
were given Rev. war "land grants" in Washington Co. on the same date, 16 Aug
1782. [North Carolina Rev. Army Accounts, Vol. I, Book 3, p. 21]. If this is the
same William Calvert that was married to Elizbeth Nodding (and I have no current
reason to suspect otherwise), then Frederick and John Calvert may provide clues
as to William's parentage. In fact, one or the other could even be his father!
More likely is that they are his brothers.
If someone has found a William Calvert in the Penn. Quakers and surmised that he
is the same as the William who married Elizabeth Nodding, then perhaps there
should be a Frederick and a John Calvert lurking nearby.
And to Cathy:
If your aunt Dorothy is still lucid, I'd quiz her for all the info I could. Was
she born in MO? Pettis, Cooper or Carroll Counties by chance? I coordinate
Cooper and Carroll Counties for the USGenWeb Project is why I ask.
BTW, I descend through William and Elizabeth's son Jabez Calvert, (#7111) and
then dau. Malinda Jane Calvert ("7180) who married Edwin Cheatham of Livingston
Co, MO.
Robert Fillerup