Note the name David CARLOCK listed below, whom I believe to be my direct
ancestor. See the following site for additional information about David and
his family:
http://familytreemaker.genealogy.com/users/t/i/l/Susan-E-Tilleman/GENE18-000
2.html
Coincidentally, the John FUNK also listed below was one of my uncles. See
the following site for further information about this FUNK family:
http://familytreemaker.genealogy.com/users/t/i/l/Susan-E-Tilleman/GENE11-001
9.html#CHILD263683
I am also a DOBKINS descendant, but do not yet have enough information to
determine whether or not I am related to the John DOBIKIN, Sr., listed
below. See the following site for further information about my DOBKINS
ancestors:
http://familytreemaker.genealogy.com/users/t/i/l/Susan-E-Tilleman/GENE11-000
7.html
Susan Cearlock Tilleman
List Administrator of the CARLOCK and DOBKINS Lists
http://familytreemaker.genealogy.com/users/t/i/l/Susan-E-Tilleman/?Welcome=1
046272098
----- Original Message -----
http://archiver.rootsweb.com/th/read/VASHENAN/2005-10/1128890927
From: Chocybrown(a)aol.com
To: VASHENAN-L(a)rootsweb.com
Sent: Sun, 9 Oct 2005 16:48:47 EDT
Subject: Re: [VASHENAN] Fairfax Land Suit
Sue,
Peter Wolf's deposition in the lawsuit taken 6th March 1754 and
witnessed by Isaac Parkins, Ger'm Keys and Thomas--------(?).
--------------------Peter Wolf being first sworn-----------------Deposeth as
followeth, The he is now in the fifty fourth year of his age that he came
into this Colony from the Jerseys some time in the year 1733, and that he
settled upon a tract of Land which was supposed to belong to Joist Hite and
as
this Deponent believe the same was in Dispute That sometime in the year of
our
Lord 1736 this Deponent was sent for by the Lord Fairfax who was then as
Samuel Timmands's to Pilot him up to Joist Hite's which accordingly he
did.---------------
There is also a couple of references to Peter Wolf's list that he took
known as the number of Settlements upon the Grant granted to Robert McCay
Jost
Hyte and their Partners in the forks of Shannando and the several Branches
thereof as follows:
(This is the 100,000 acre grant given to Jost Hite and his Quaker partner
Robert McKay. They needed to seat 100 families to fulfill their obligation
under
that conditional grant to seat 1 family per 1000 acres)
Robert McCay Senr.
John Funk
Henry Johnston
Thomas Parmer
John Denton
Jonah Denton
Henry Falkenburg
Edward Wormwood
Andrew Falkenburg
Jacob Falkenburg
David Carlock
Benjamin Allen
Reiley More
John lewis
William White
John Dobikin Senr.
James Gill
Andrew Bird
John Nichols
William Bridges
Charles Smith
Daniel Holeman
Charles Robinson
William Linviel
John nGorden
John Wood
John Cannaday
Robert McCay Jr.
Joseph Whites
William Oldham
William Barke
William Anns (?)
Barnel Hegin
Samuel White
Joshua Jobe
George Robinson
James Sickles
William Barnett
James Leeth
John Calbreth
John Edmondson
Isaac Howell
John Read
Joseph Tindell
Michael Brook
Joseph Read
David Keath
William Goodwin
George Leeth
Whereas the said Robert McCay Jost Hyte and their Partners have
requested of us George Hobson and Morgan Morgan two of his Majesty's
Justices of the
Peace at Opeckon in the County of Orange to view the Settlements within
their
said Grant and that Mr. George Hobson went part of the Way with me in order
to view the same the weather proving bad he returned and there being no
other
Migistrate over the Ridge Mr. Jost Hight appointed Peter Wolfe in his room
to go with me to view the said Settlements within the said Grant.
I the said Morgan Morgan do hereby certify that the said Peter Wolfe and
myself have viewed and that we seen the above Settlement being in number
forty-nine and that the same are now improving by the above named persons
within
the said Grant Given under my hand this 26 day of January A:Dom: 1735/6.
Morgan Morgan
(This is followed by Peter Wolf, on January 26th, 1735/36, stating that he
had in fact viewed the settlements in the Fork of Shannando and the several
Branches thereof and that he did see forty-nine Settlements in number and
that
the same were now improving by the Persons named in the list.)
Chocy