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1846 -
Generation: 1
1. | Mary (Mollie) P. Parsley was born ca 1846, DeKalb Co. TN (daughter of John Parsley and Nancy). Notes:
CENSUS RECORDS
1850 US Census
Name: Mary P Pardey [Mary P Parsley]
Age: 2
Birth Year: abt 1848
Birthplace: Tennessee
Home in 1850: District 5, DeKalb, Tennessee
Gender: Female
Family Number: 1079
Household Members:
John Parsley 41
Nancy Parsley 37
Madinson Parsley 19
Travis Parsley 17
Amon Parsley 16
Hixy Parsley 14
Owen Parsley 11
Adline Parsley 8
Amanda Parsley 7
Erwin Parsley 5
Rachel Pardey 4
Mary P Parsley 2
Bethel Parsley 0
William Parsley 74 [grandfather]
Amy Parsley 72 [grandmother]
1860 US Census
Name: Mary P Parsley
Age in 1860: 12
Birth Year: abt 1848
Birthplace: Tennessee
Home in 1860: District 5, De Kalb, Tennessee
Gender: Female
Post Office: Smithville
Household Members:
John H Parsley 51
Nancy Parsley 48
Maddison Parsley 30
Hixey Parsley 24
Owen Parsley 21
Adaline Parsley 18
Amanda Parsley 17
Ervin Parsley 15
Mary P Parsley 12
Bethe 5l Parsley 10
Martha A Parsley 8
Harriett Parsley 7
Thomas Parsley 5
Lockey J Parsley 3
1870 US Census
Name: Mary P Parsley
Age in 1870: 21
Birth Year: abt 1849
Birthplace: Tennessee
Home in 1870: District 5, DeKalb, Tennessee
Race: White
Gender: Female
Post Office: Smithville
Household Members:
John H Parsley 61
Nancy Parsley 58
Madison Parsley 40
Hixey Parsley 35
Mary P Parsley 21
Bethel Parsley 19
Martha A Parsley 17
Thomas L P Parsley 15
Lockey I Parsley 13
1880 US Census
Name: Mollie Parseley [Mollie Parsley]
Age: 32
Birth Year: abt 1848
Birthplace: Tennessee
Home in 1880: District 5, DeKalb, Tennessee
Race: White
Gender: Female
Relation to Head of House: Daughter
Marital Status: Single
Father's Birthplace: Kentucky
Mother's name: Nancy Parseley
Mother's Birthplace: Kentucky
Occupation: At Home
Household Members:
Nancy Parseley 67 [mother]
Patterson Parseley 50
Erving Parseley 35
Mollie Parseley 32
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Generation: 2
2. | John Parsley was born ca 1809, Tennessee (son of William Parsley and Amy Pedigo); died Aft 1870, Dekalb Co. TN. Notes:
CENSUS RECORDS
1850 US Census
Name: John Pardey [John Parsley]
Age: 41
Birth Year: abt 1809
Birthplace: Tennessee
Home in 1850: District 5, DeKalb, Tennessee
Gender: Male
Family Number: 1079
Household Members:
John Parsley 41
Nancy Parsley 37
Madinson Parsley 19
Travis Parsley 17
Amon Parsley 16
Hixy Parsley 14
Owen Parsley 11
Adline Parsley 8
Amanda Parsley 7
Erwin Parsley 5
Rachel Parsley 4
Mary P Parsley 2
Bethel Parsley 0
William Parsley 74 [father]
Amy Parsley 72 [mother]
1860 US Census
Name: John H Parsley
Age in 1860: 51
Birth Year: abt 1809
Birthplace: Kentucky
Home in 1860: District 5, De Kalb, Tennessee
Gender: Male
Post Office: Smithville
Household Members:
John H Parsley 51
Nancy Parsley 48
Maddison Parsley 30
Hixey Parsley 24
Owen Parsley 21
Adaline Parsley 18
Amanda Parsley 17
Ervin Parsley 15
Mary P Parsley 12
Bethe Parsley 10
Martha A Parsley 8
Harriett Parsley 7
Thomas Parsley 5
Lockey J Parsley 3
1870 US Census
Name: John H Parsley
Age in 1870: 61
Birth Year: abt 1809
Birthplace: Kentucky
Home in 1870: District 5, DeKalb, Tennessee
Race: White
Gender: Male
Post Office: Smithville
Household Members:
John H Parsley 61
Nancy Parsley 58
Madison Parsley 40
Hixey Parsley 35
Mary P Parsley 21
Bethel Parsley 19
Martha A Parsley 17
Thomas L P Parsley 15
Lockey I Parsley 13
John married Nancy. Nancy was born ca 1813, Kentucky. [Group Sheet]
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3. | Nancy was born ca 1813, Kentucky. Notes:
CENSUS RECORDS
1870 US Census
Name: Nancy Parsley
Age in 1870: 58
Birth Year: abt 1812
Birthplace: Kentucky
Home in 1870: District 5, DeKalb, Tennessee
Race: White
Gender: Female
Post Office: Smithville
Household Members:
John H Parsley 61
Nancy Parsley 58
Madison Parsley 40
Hixey Parsley 35
Mary P Parsley 21
Bethel Parsley 19
Martha A Parsley 17
Thomas L P Parsley 15
Lockey I Parsley 13
1880 US Census
Name: Nancy Parseley [Nancy Parsley]
Age: 67
Birth Year: abt 1813
Birthplace: Kentucky
Home in 1880: District 5, DeKalb, Tennessee
Race: White
Gender: Female
Relation to Head of House: Self (Head)
Marital Status: Widowed
Father's Birthplace: Virginia
Mother's Birthplace: Virginia
Occupation: Keeps House
Household Members:
Nancy Parseley 67
Patterson Parseley 50
Erving Parseley 35
Mollie Parseley 32
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Generation: 3
4. | William Parsley was born ca 1776, Virginia (son of Moses Parsley and Obedience (Biddy) Ryburn); died Aft 1850, Dekalb Co. TN. Notes:
CENSUS RECORDS
1830 US Census
Name: William Parsley
Home in 1830 (City, County, State): Warren, Tennessee
Free White Persons - Males - 10 thru 14: 1
Free White Persons - Males - 15 thru 19: 1
Free White Persons - Females - 5 thru 9: 1
Free White Persons - Females - 50 thru 59: 1
Free White Persons - Under 20: 3
Total Free White Persons: 4
Total - All Persons (Free White, Slaves, Free Colored): 4
1840 US Census
Name: William Parsley
Home in 1840 (City, County, State): De Kalb, Tennessee
Free White Persons - Males - Under 5: 1
Free White Persons - Males - 60 thru 69: 1
Free White Persons - Females - 60 thru 69: 1
Persons Employed in Agriculture: 1
No. White Persons over 20 Who Cannot Read and Write: 2
Free White Persons - Under 20: 1
Total Free White Persons: 3
Total All Persons - Free White, Free Colored, Slaves: 3
1850 US Census
Name: William Pardey [William Parsley]
Age: 74
Birth Year: abt 1776
Birthplace: Virginia
Home in 1850: District 5, DeKalb, Tennessee
Gender: Male
Family Number: 1079
Household Members:
John Parsley 41 [son]
Nancy Parsley 37
Madinson Pardey 19
Travis Parsley 17
Amon Parsley 16
Hixy Parsley 14
Owen Parsley 11
Adline Parsley 8
Amanda Parsley 7
Erwin Parsley 5
Rachel Parsley 4
Mary P Parsley 2
Bethel Parsley 0
William Parsley 74
Amy Parsley 72
William married Amy Pedigo 26 Sep 1804, Henry Co. VA. Amy was born ca 1778, Virginia; died Aft 1850, Dekalb Co. TN. [Group Sheet]
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5. | Amy Pedigo was born ca 1778, Virginia; died Aft 1850, Dekalb Co. TN. Notes:
CENSUS RECORDS
1850 US Census
Name: Ama Pardey [Amy Parsley]
Age: 72
Birth Year: abt 1778
Birthplace: Virginia
Home in 1850: District 5, DeKalb, Tennessee
Gender: Female
Family Number: 1079
Household Members:
John Parsley 41 [son]
Nancy Parsley 37
Madinson Parsley 19
Travis Parsley 17
Amon Parsley 16
Hixy Parsley 14
Owen Parsley 11
Adline Pardey 8
Amanda Parsley 7
Erwin Parsley 5
Rachel Parsley 4
Mary P Parsley 2
Bethel Parsley 0
William Parsley 74
Amy Parsley 72
Birth:
U.S. and International Marriage Records, 1560-1900
Name: Amy Peregoy [Pedigo]
Gender: Female
Birth Year: 1778
Spouse Name: William Parsley
Marriage
Year: 1804
Number Pages: 1
Notes:
Married:
Dodd, Jordan R., et al.. Early American Marriages: Virginia to 1850. Bountiful, UT, USA: Precision Indexing Publishers
Name: Amey Pedigo
Gender: Female
Spouse Name: William Parsley
Spouse Gender: Male
Marriage Date: 26 Sep 1804
County: Henry
State: Virginia
Children:
- 2. John Parsley was born ca 1809, Tennessee; died Aft 1870, Dekalb Co. TN.
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Generation: 4
8. | Moses Parsley was born 1752, Pittsylvania Co. VA; died 30 Aug 1831, Russell Co. VA. Notes:
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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9. | Obedience (Biddy) Ryburn was born ca 1757, Pittsylvania Co. VA; died ca 1850, Logan Co. WV. Notes:
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
Notes:
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
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