Elizabeth PARSLEY

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They were married by Nicholas Regan.

She was the mother of 7 children before she died.
Buried in Elizabeth Cemetery, Saltville, VA,
Headstone for Elizabeth gives her age as about 36 years.

1810 Washington County VA Census, living close by Richard Whitaker, one male 16-26, 1 female 16-26.

Birth:
Now in Smyth Co. VA. Smyth County was formed on February 23, 1832, from Washington and Wythe counties.

Elizabeth married James S. WHITAKER, Sr. 6 Feb 1810, Washington, Co. VA. James (son of Richard WHITAKER and Rachel BENTLEY) was born 1790, Lincoln Co. NC ; died Feb 1856, Smyth Co. VA. [Group Sheet]

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Married:
Virginia Marriages, 1740-1850
Groom Name: James Whiteacre
Bride Name: Betsy Parcely
Marriage Date: 6 Feb 1810
County: Washington
State: Virginia
Source: Dodd, Jordan R., et al.. Early American Marriages: Virginia to 1850. Bountiful, UT, USA: Precision Indexing Publishers.

1. John WHITAKER was born 1811, Smyth Co. VA.
2. James S. WHITAKER, Jr. was born Abt 1815, Smyth Co. VA; died 1863, Tazewell Co. VA.
3. Mary Rachel WHITAKER was born 11 Nov 1818, Smyth Co. VA; died 21 Mar 1881, Willis, TX; was buried , Ayers Cemetery, Lindell, Washington Co. VA.
4. Alexander WHITEAKER was born 1823, Smyth Co. VA; died 1878, Smyth Co. VA; was buried , Elizabeth Cemetery, Saltville, Smyth Co. VA.
5. Jeremiah (Jerry) WHITEAKER was born Jun 1825, Saltville, Smyth Co., VA; died 20 Dec 1905, Smyth Co. VA; was buried , Whitaker Cemetery, Smyth Co. VA.
6. Jane WHITEAKER was born 13 Jan 1827, Smyth Co. VA; died 31 Jul 1897, Knoxville, Knox Co. TN; was buried , Old Gray Cemetery, Knoxville, Knox Co. TN.

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CENSUS RECORDS

1810 US Census
Name: Moses Pasley[Moses Parsley]
Home in 1810 (City, County, State): Washington, Virginia
Free White Persons - Males - Under 10: 1
Free White Persons - Males - 10 thru 15: 1
Free White Persons - Males - 16 thru 25: 2
Free White Persons - Males - 45 and over: 1
Free White Persons - Females - Under 10: 2
Free White Persons - Females - 45 and over : 1
Number of Household Members Under 16: 4
Number of Household Members Over 25: 2
Number of Household Members: 8

1820 US Census
Name: Moses Pasley Senior [Moses Parsley]
Home in 1820 (City, County, State): Lebanon, Russell, Virginia
Enumeration Date: August 7, 1820
Free White Persons - Males - 16 thru 25: 1
Free White Persons - Males - 45 and over: 1
Free White Persons - Females - 10 thru 15: 1
Free White Persons - Females - 16 thru 25: 1
Free White Persons - Females - 45 and over : 1
Number of Persons - Engaged in Agriculture: 2
Free White Persons - Under 16: 1
Free White Persons - Over 25: 2
Total Free White Persons: 5
Total All Persons - White, Slaves, Colored, Other: 5

1830 US Census
Name: Moses Parsley
Home in 1830 (City, County, State): Russell, Virginia
Free White Persons - Males - Under 5: 1
Free White Persons - Males - 70 thru 79: 1
Free White Persons - Females - 20 thru 29: 1
Free White Persons - Females - 60 thru 69: 1
Free White Persons - Under 20: 1
Free White Persons - 20 thru 49: 1
Total Free White Persons: 4
Total - All Persons (Free White, Slaves, Free Colored): 4

LAND TAX RECORDS

After Moses and Obedience married, they lived in various southwestern VA. counties as follows; Henry Co. (1770s and 1791-93) Montgomery Co. (1780s), Grayson Co. (1794), Washington Co. Northern District (1790s-1818), and Russell Co., Western District (1819-22 and 1828-31).

1774: Appeared on list of titheables in Pittsylvania Co.,VA counted in a household totaling 12 tithes.

1775: List of tithables; Pittsylvania Co.,VA

13 Sept.1786: 91 acres on east side of the Little River surveyed.

24 Jan. 1788: Montgomery Co.,VA tax list; 2 horses, cattle

10 Nov. 1789: Personal Property Tax list: 1 horse

1790: 100 acres surveyed on east side of Little River

1792: Henry Co., VA Tax list; 1 white male and 1 horse

1793: Same

1794: One horse

1795 and 1796: Tax list in Grayson Co.,VA

1800: Washington Co.,VA; 1 white male over 16, 1 horse, 9 cattle

28 Sept. 1801; Henry Co. Tax list

1804: Washington Co. tax list

1805: Same; 1 male over 16, 2 horses.

1807: Same; 2 horses

1809: Same; 2 white males over 16; 3 horses

1810: Same

1811-1817: Same

1818: Russell Co.,VA tax list
Deed of purchase from John Baker; 2 tracts: 50 acres on Cedar Creek and 120 acres on Little Cedar Creek.

1819-1820: Russell Co Tax list

1820: Russell Co.,VA Census with Obedience and Alexander
Deed of Trust to Harry Smith, 2 tracts

1821-1822: Russell Co. Tax list
Deed of Release from Harry Smith for 2 tracts bought in 1818.

29 March 1822: Russell Co.: Deed of Sale to Samuel and Alexander Parsley; 2 tracts, bought in 1818.

1828-1830: Russell Co. Tax List

MILITARY RECORDS

On Oct.7, 1777, Henry Co. VA., Moses renounced allegiance to King, swears allegiance to VA. The Library of Virginia in Richmond lists Moses Parsley in the Bedford Co. VA Militia during the Point Pleasant campaign in 1774.

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He fought in Lord Dunmore's War under Captain Abraham Penn of Bedford County. Dunmore's War was a conflict between the Colony of Virginia and the Native Americans of the Ohio Valley. Following increased raids and attacks on frontiersmen in this region, the Royal Governor of Virginia, Lord Dunmore, organized a large force of militia and marched to Fort Pitt arriving at the end of August 1774. Dunmore also ordered Colonel Andrew Lewis, commander of the southwestern Virginia militia, to raise an army in the south and meet Dunmore?s force along the Ohio River. Lewis formed militia companies from Augusta, Bedford, Botetourt, Culpeper, Dunmore, Fincastle, and Kentucky counties. After Colonel Lewis' victory at the Battle of Point Pleasant, Dunmore successfully negotiated a peace treaty with the Delaware, Mingo, and Shawnee chiefs that prevented them from settling or hunting south of the Ohio River.

He fought at the Battle of Point Pleasant. This was a conflict between the Native American Confederation under the Shawnee chieftain Keightughqua, or Cornstalk, and the colonial forces under General Andrew Lewis. It was one of the bloodiest, hardest-fought battles ever waged between the early settlers and the Indians.

The Virginians suffered a loss of eighty-one men and one hundred forty were wounded. Chief Cornstalk's fatalities were enormous. He lost two hundred men and had twice as many wounded. The result was a victory for the Virginia colonists and the opening of the area for permanent settlers. This opened the way to rapid western expansion.

Some historians consider the Battle of Point Pleasant the first battle of the American Revolution in spite of the fact that this battle actually took place six months before the documented beginning of the war. However, no one questions the importance of this battle, which thwarted an alliance between Native American forces and British collaborators and established a peace with the Indians for the first three years of the Revolutionary War.

The Shawnee had never given up their claims to western Virginia and interpreted the rapid settlement of whites into the area as acts of aggression. Hostilities reached a climax in 1773 when a group of volunteers from Fort Fincastle raided Shawnee towns. One of the worst atrocities of the conflict was the murder of several family members of Mingo chief Logan. Logan, who had previously lived peacefully with the settlers, killed at least 13 western Virginians that summer in revenge.

The Battle of Point Pleasant, fought between the Long Knives of Virginia and the Shawnee Indians and their allies on October 10, 1774, was the final battle of Governor John Murray, the Earl of Dunmore, and is considered by many to be the first battle of the American Revolution. It is said that when George Washington surveyed the area in the 1740s, he referred to it as the Pleasant Point.

Cornstalk was the principal chief of all the Shawnee sects at this time. He led both the Shawnee warriors and other tribes who joined the Shawnee in this battle. The Shawnee, who had lived in this area for hundreds of years, were hunters and farmers. They burned parts of the forests to make fields, and then they grew maize, beans, and pumpkins. They lived in wigwams, which they made by bending small trees and tying them together, then draping animal skins over them.

Virginia Governor John Murray, Earl of Dunmore, plotted to crush the Shawnee and end hostilities. Dunmore drew up a plan to trap the Shawnee between two armies. The governor personally led the northern army while land speculator Andrew Lewis led a smaller force from the south. But Shawnee leader Cornstalk struck the southern regiment before it united with Dunmore's troops.

On October 10, 1774, Cornstalk's force of approximately 1,200 men attacked Lewis at the confluence of the Kanawha and Ohio rivers at present-day Point Pleasant. After the battle, which resulted in significant losses on both sides, the Shawnee retreated to protect their settlements in the Scioto Valley in present-day Ohio. As a condition of the subsequent Treaty of Camp Charlotte, the Delaware, Shawnee, and Mingo relinquished all claims to land south of the Ohio River. The Battle of Point Pleasant eliminated Native Americans as a force on the frontier for the first three years of the American Revolutionary War, which began in April 1775, clearing the way for peaceful settlement of the region.

WILL OF MOSES PARSLEY

Russell County, Virginia; Will Book 4a, Page 564 Executed Sep 1831

In the name of God amen. I Moses Parsley of the County of Russell and common wealth of Virginia being weak in body, but of perfect sound mind and memory, do this thirtieth day of August in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and thirty one, make this my last will and testament in manner and form following.

I will and bequeath to my loving wife Obedience all my estate real and personal during her natural life to make use of at her discretion for the support of her to have and to hold it without any appraisement or sale.

This my last will and testament revoking all other wills heretofore made by me. In witness, whereof I have hereunto set my hand and seal the day and the year above written.
his Moses x Parsley (Seal) markSigned, sealed and published in the presence of us

Anderson Hendricks, Samuel Sergant, Abraham Rearly

his Rolin x Chiles mark

At Russell September Court 1831. This instrument of writing was exhibited in court as and for the last will & testament of Moses Parsley deceased, and proven by the oath of Anderson Hendricks and Abraham Rearly, two of the subscribing witnesses thereto, and ordered to be recorded.



Birth:
U.S. and International Marriage Records, 1560-1900
Name: Moses Parsley
Gender: Male
Birth Place: VA
Birth Year: 1752
Spouse Name: Obedience Ryburn
Number Pages: 1

Moses married Obedience (Biddy) Ryburn Between 1770 to 1775, Pittsylvania Co. VA. Obedience was born ca 1757, Pittsylvania Co. VA; died ca 1850, Logan Co. WV. [Group Sheet]

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CENSUS RECORDS

1850 Census
Name: Biddy Pasley [Biddy Parsley]
Age: 93
Birth Year: abt 1757
Birthplace: Virginia
Home in 1850: District 32, Logan, Virginia
Race: White
Gender: Female
Family Number: 436
Household Members:
Name Age
Moses Pasley 56
Polly Pasley 47
Sarah Pasley 21
Lucinda Pasley 15
Saml Pasley 12
Biddy Pasley 93

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Married:
U.S. and International Marriage Records, 1560-1900
Name: Moses Parsley
Gender: Male
Birth Place: VA
Birth Year: 1752
Spouse Name: Obedience Ryburn
Number Pages: 1