References:
(1) Journal of Ancient and Medieval Studies, Vol. VI, page 87.
The Octavian Society.
References:
(1) Journal of Ancient and Medieval Studies, Vol. VI, page 87.
The Octavian Society.
References:
(1) Journal of Ancient and Medieval Studies, Vol. VI, page 89.
The Octavian Society.Historical Notes:
(1) Emperor of Constantinople 1295-1320.
References:
(1) Journal of Ancient and Medieval Studies, Vol. VI, page 101.
The Octavian Society.Historical Notes:
(1) Jaropolk, Prince of Vyzngorod 1071-1078; Prince of Vladimir and Turov,
1078-1097.
References:
(1) Journal of Ancient and Medieval Studies, Vol. VI, page 101.
The Octavian Society.Historical Notes:
References:
(1) Journal of Ancient and Medieval Studies, Vol. VI, page 101.
The Octavian Society.Historical Notes:
(1) Otto, Margrave of Meissen 1062-1067.
References:
(1) Journal of Ancient and Medieval Studies, Vol. VI, page 101.
The Octavian Society.Historical Notes:
References:
(1) Journal of Ancient and Medieval Studies, Vol. VI, page 101.
The Octavian Society.Historical Notes:
DIRECT LINE OF: Larry Allen; Jane Alford; Olivia Andem; Bill Anderson; Louise
Ault; Cary Bailey; Richard Baker; Wm. L. Bell (dec'd); Gene Boggess; Debbie
Bosworth; Robin Bratton; O. J. Brittingham; Sarah Brooks; Olen Brown; Sally
Brown; Sylvia Brown; Whitfield Bryant; AnnMarie Chappell; Jeanna Perry Chowning;
Cathy Daniel; Jean Danielson; Ann Davis; Jamieson Davis; Kitty Eastwood; Mitch
Fincher; Joseph Fleming; Berta Fletcher; Doris Foley (Mrs. Tom); Barbara
Giddens; Jay Glidewell; P. C. Halt; Kenneth Henderson; Kathryn Harris Hines;
Harriett Jackson; Toni James; Charles Jordan; Paul L. Kines; Laney Littlejohn;
Joe Lineberger; Kaaren Linton; David McCabe; Jan McFarland; Terry McLean;
Jeanette Meinecke; Steve Meservy; Roger Mitchell; Vera Niemic; Don Noble; Donna
One Star; Marjorie Parsley (dec'd); Dr. Andrew T. Pickens; Charles R. Pickens;
David M. Pickens, Knoxville, TN; David M. Pickens, Florissant MO; Ed Pickens;
Frank Pickens; T. Boone Pickens; Mike Pope; Lynne Ramsaur; Ginny Reynolds; Tom
Richardson; Jack Rowe; Carl Scott Shannon; Rev E. M. Sharp (dec'd) [author,
PICKENS FAMILIES OF THE SOUTH]; Blake Smith; Christine Smith; David Thrasher;
Chuck Williams; John Key Williams; Ron Williams;Possible migration dates: to Ireland 1685, to PA 1719, to Paxton PA before
1735, to VA 1740.====== TIME LINE:
1719 - on records Duth Reformed Church, Bensalem, Bucks Co PA, 1719.
1719-1722 - William PICKENS and wife on records of Dutch Reformed Church,
Bensalem, Bucks Co PA (Sharp, PICKENS FAMILIES OF THE SOUTH, p. 2)
REF: Gen. Soc. of PA publications, Reformed Church, (Neshaminy), Bensalem,
Bucks Co: No. 5 1912-14, pg 35, 36; HISTORY OF BUCKS COUNTY PENNSYLVANIA by J.
H. Battle, pg 473; and records of Dutch Reformed Church, Bensalem, Bucks Co.,
PA, under heading "Entries made by Elder Christophel Van-Zandt, during the
Ministry of Rev. Malachi Jones, 1719-1722" (list of "Newcomers from Earlandt
[Ireland]"); Bolton 'Scotch-Irish Pioneers'.=================================
Letter from Lynn Ramsauer to Terry McLean, 1994, include the following she
received from Idus Davis: (Enc #P-104)
"Law Office, W. B. SMITH, McRae, Georgia
HISTORICAL NOTES ON PICKENS NAME, as prepared by a descendant, W. V. MONTGOMERY,
who lived until last year at Selma Ala. [this document was proably prepared in
the early 1940's, as the accompanying correspondence Mr. Smith had bears the
date of 1943]
W. V. MONTGOMERY was a descendant of Israel PICKENS, brother of Captain Andrew
and his wife, Martha....
There is evidence which seems to prove that there were five brothers;
Israel PICKENS
Andrew PICKENS
John PICKENS
William PICKENS
Gabriel PICKENS. These five were the sons of William PICKENS who settled in
Bucks Co., PA in 1719....NOTES OF E. M. SHARP, as found in the Mississippi Dept. of Archives.
Provided to Terry McLean, Anaheim CA by Elwin T. PICKENS of Collinsville, MS.
I. "In the records of the Dutch Reformed Church, Bensalem, Bucks Co PA, under
the heading "Entries made by Elder Christophel Van-Zandt, during the
Ministry of Rev. Malachi Jones, 1719-1722" there is a list of 'Newcomers from
Eerlandt' who joined the church in which we find,
'1719 William PECKINS and his wife by certificate' and further down in the
list is:
'1720 Isrell PECKINS by profession'
'1722 Margaret PICKEN by profession'
From the fact that William PECKINS (PICKENS) and his wife joined the church by
certificate we believe that he was the head of the family and father of about
half a dozen teenage children, the oldest of whom Israel PICKENS joined the
church by profession when he became of age.
The records of Bucks County Penn., show the death of a William PICKENS in
1735.
II. Lancaster County Pennsylvania was formed from Chester County in 1729. Just
before or shortly after 1729 several PICKENS young men moved to Paxtang Parish,
or Township in Lancaster County, which is in that part of the County which in
1875 was cut off to form Dauphin County, Pennsylvania.
Between 1729 and 1739 there are many records of Israel PICKENS, Andrew
PICKENS, John PICKENS, William PICKENS, and Gabriel PICKENS. All of these were
brothers, we believe, and sons of William PICKENS who joined Bensalem Chruch in
Bucks County in 1719.
Letter dated 7 May 1994, from Charles Munat (Ramsey Repository), 11702 NE Sunset
Loop, Bainbridge Island, WA 98110: (Enc #P-118).
There's a PICKENS bible record in the NEW ENGLAND HISTORICAL AND GENEALOGICAL
REGISTER, vol 63, p. 196.
I'll put my copy of your ... query in my Philadelphia County, Pennsylvania
file ... If you write, please mention that file."KITH AND KIN, Genealogical Bulletin, Vol 1, #2:
Dorothy Fox Whitfield, "The Pickens Family".
The PICKENS are on record in Paxton (Harrisburg) known as Lancaster, which is
now Dauphin Co., PA. John PICKENS and Andrew signed a petition on May 21, 1735
asking that a road be laid out from Harris (Paxton) to Lancaster (PA archives
V1, 14,273.)....From Helen Luckett to Terry McLean [Enc #515]
"We have read that Robert's father, William, moved to Bucks Co PA in 1719 or
1720... Last April we went to Doylestown and found absolutely NO entries in tax
records, NO entries in either grantee or grantor indices, and NO entries in
records of the Courts of Quarter Session & Common Pleas...."
Margaret traditionally surnamed PIKE
NOTE: "FILE: Enc #___" refers to personal record system of Terry McLean.
UPDATE: 1995-11-07
ALSO AF# FJHX-8C; HP6H-DP
MARRIAGE: Archive Records, Sharp, Reynolds, Bell, as above; Sharp, PICKENS
FAMILIES OF THE SOUTH, pp 2-3 (1963) (believes them to have md in Ireland);
Shule/Anderson, THE JOHN PICKENS FAMILY, p. 35 (Gateway Press, Baltimore
1981).SPOUSE-CHILDREN-RESIDENCE: E. M. Sharp, THE PICKENS FAMILY; ; author, Memphis
TN, 1961; p. 1-3; copy in possession of Terry McLean, Anaheim CA.SPOUSE: Tom Foley, Granger IN, to Terry McLean, Anaheim CA; ; pedigree chart; FILE: Enc #P-226.
PENNSYLVANIA VITAL RECORDS:
p. 108-111: RECORDS OF THE DUTCH REFORMED CHURCH, BENSALEM, BUCKS COUNTY,
PENNSYLVANIA:
Jun 6th 1724. Communicants.
... Margrat PICKINS [is this the mother or daughter?]
DIRECT LINE OF: Larry Allen; Jane Alford; Olivia Andem; Bill Anderson; Louise
Ault; Cary Bailey; Richard Baker; Wm. L. Bell (dec'd); Gene Boggess; Debbie
Bosworth; Robin Bratton; O. J. Brittingham; Sarah Brooks; Olen Brown; Sally
Brown; Sylvia Brown; Whitfield Bryant; AnnMarie Chappell; Cathy Daniel; Jean
Danielson; Jamieson Davis; Kitty Eastwood; Mitch Fincher; Joseph Fleming; Berta
Fletcher; Doris Foley (Mrs. Tom); Barbara Giddens; P. C. Halt; Kenneth
Henderson; Kathryn Harris Hines; Harriett Jackson; Toni James; Charles Jordan;
Paul L. Kines; Laney Littlejohn; Joe Lineberger; Kaaren Linton; David McCabe;
Jan McFarland; Terry McLean; Jeanette Meinecke; Steve Meservy; Roger Mitchell;
Vera Niemic; Don Noble; Donna One Star; Marjorie Parsley (dec'd); Charles R.
Pickens; David Pickens; Frank Pickens; T.
Boone Pickens; Mike Pope; Lynne Ramsaur; Ginny Reynolds; Jack Rowe; Carl Scott
Shannon; Rev E. M. Sharp (dec'd) [author, PICKENS FAMILIES OF THE SOUTH]; Blake
Smith; Christine Smith; David Thrasher; Jay Glidewell; Dr.Andrew T. Pickens;
Chuck Williams; John Key Williams; Ron Williams;PARENTS: Robert's parents may be William PICKENS of Edinburg Scotland md. Isobel
MATTHISONE? (see Peggy Mitchell post, below - tmc).--------------------------------------------------------------
Letter dated 8 Mar 1994 from Lynn Ramsaur, Rt 1, box 1432, Clarkesville GA
30523, included information she received from Idus Davis. The following was
part of that material (Enc #P-104):
Easley SC, Route 4
July 26 [?], 1943
M. W. B. Smith,
Dear Sir,
In answer to your first question we have no complete family tree. The PICKENS
family can be traced back to the massacre of the Huguenots August 1572.
Robert escaped to Scotland and his son Andrew raised a family there. His
grandson Robert migrated to La Rochelle, France about 1660. After the revocation
of the Edict at Nantes, 1685 he returned to Scotland for a short time. England
and Scotland were still in a row about their church doctrines and he then moved
to Limerick on the Shannon river in Ireland where his sons, John, Robert and
Andrew were born who moved to America.
John settled in Virginia, Andrew in Pennsylvania where his son, Gen. Andrew
PICKENS was born. My ancestor Robert settled in Maryland. Andrew and Robert with
their families moved to the Waxhaws in 1755; thence to Long Cane in Abbeville,
S.C., where the massacre by the Indians occurred in 1761. Ezekiel CALHOUN's wife
was killed and scalped by the indians in sight of her daughter Rebecca who was
in hiding in a thicket of bushes nearby.
Patrick CALHOUN, born in Ireland came to Penn. with his father when quite a
youth. He married Catherine CALDWELL. Their boys [sic?]: William Patrick
CALHOUN, Catherine CALHOUN married Moses WADDELL, John C. CALHOUN married
Florida CALHOUN, Ezekiel CALHOUN (this seems to be brother of Patrick) wife not
known) and daughter Rebecca who married Gen. Andrew PICKENS.
Col. John Erving CALHOUN married Martha DAVIS. Their daughter Florida married
John Caldwell CALHOUN. [The old man must be mixed up a little in his arrangement
as this must be the same as Florida CALHOUN mentioned above - id].
Gen. Andrew's uncle Robert, born in Ireland, married Miriam DAVIS, a sister to
Samuel DAVIS, a Rev. soldier and father of Jefferson DAVIS, the only Confederate
president. So you see the general was much mixed up with the CALHOUNs, DAVISes
and WADDELLs.
Unless Ezekiel CALHOUN had more than two children, Hugh McCANE could not be a
brother-in-law to General Andrew. His sister Susan married James CALHOUN.
Margaret married Isaac BOLE. Jane married John MILLER.
Gen. Andrew and Rebecca had four sons and six daughters. He was married only
once.
The half has not been told but when I have to scribble I can hardly make it
sensible. The PICKENS history is here in abundance and a graveyard in sight of
my dwelling with seven generations buried in it of the PICKENS family. There are
twenty four Revolutionary soldiers buried here. General Andrew's uncle Robert
was the first to be buried in it. There are six generations of Roberts in it and
the land surrounding it has belonged to Robert all the time, having been passed
down from one Robert to the next. The first church in old Pendleton district
was built in this place in 1765.
I am 96 years old and trying to write this without the aid of glasses. Served
8 months as a confederate soldier. Did not receive a cent of pay or draw a
thread of clothing or shoes, lived mostly on coarse corn meal and black sorghum.
I came into the world when U. S. was engaged in war (Mexican), got into a war
myself, and it appears I will have to be in a war when I leave the world.
But back to your inquiry my opinion is Hugh McCANE was in the crowd that moved
from Penn. to VA., thence to S.C. and was in the Rev. War perhaps in the command
of Gen. Andrew PICKENS, and liked him as an officer and named his sons for him.
Just as the Pickens family have named children LEE for three generations for
they think Robert E. LEE the greatest general America ever produced. Sincerely,
R. W. Pickens, Route 4, Easley"
[END]------------------------------------------------------------
Prodigy post to Harriett Jackson (VXAY22A) 8/14/96 From: Peggy Mitchell
(YBER27A) [FILE: Enc #P-238]
"... (my husband is...) Roger Dale MITCHELL m. Peggy KIMERY His PICKENS
line is:
William PICKENS m. I. MATTHISONE
Robert PICKENS m. Ester J. BONNEAU
William PICKEKNS m. Margaret PIKE
Gabriel PICKENS m. Zerubiah SMITH
Jonathan PICKENS, Sr. m. Mary ?
J. PICKEKNS, Jr. m. Lydia HARRISON
Hannah PICKENS m. Archibald DAVIS
Roger's grandmother, Emma Earle DAVIS, was born in Alcorn Co., MS. I don't have
all her family information yet, but she had a brother named Monroe DAVIS.
Familiar? PeggyProdigy post To: JOYCE REAGAN (HJJN21A) Date: 08/07/96 From: Peggy Mitchell
(YBER27A): [FILE: Enc #P-240]
"Do you know anything about the MATTHISONEs? William Pickens married I.
MATTHISONE (b. 10/27/1626 Edinburgh Parrish, Edinburgh, Midlothian, Scotland.
Her parents were supposed to be David MATTHISONE and Marian ANDERSONE.
Marian's mother was supposed to be Isobel ?..."