GEORGE DILLARD
GEORGE DILLARD
OLD BUNCOMBE COUNTY HERRITAGE, VOL. 1- PAGE 195-196
GEORGE DILLARD
Article 316
George Dillard, the ancestor of the Dillard Family in America, was born in England about the year 1624, a descendant of an ancient French Huguenot family originating in the Illard province of France, whose descendants acquired the name de Illard and finally Dillard. On 22 May 1650, Captain James Moore Faultery was granted 450 acres of land on the Rappahannock river in Virginia, on the north side of Swan Bay, for the transfer of nine persons to Virginia, among them was our ancestor, George Dillard.
In 1660 George Dillard was granted 250 acres of land in New Kent County (later King and Queen County) Virginia, for his services against the Indians, as a member of the Jamestown militia. On 29 November 1665, he was granted another 250 acres in New Kent county for the transfer of five persons to Virginia.
From available records it seems George Dillard's plantation was in what is now King and Queen County, Virginia and near the old Stratton Major Parish Church on Arracoa Creek. The tax list of King and Queen County for the year 1704 gives the names of George Dillard, Thomas Dillard, Nicholas Dillard and Edward Dillard.
Some traditions of the Dillard family claim that George left a will naming his son James Stephen Dillard and two daughters, whose names are unknown, however no record of the wills of George of James Stephen Dillard can be found although it is quite plausible that were suck wills and they were destroyed with the rest of the early King and Queen County records.
Through most of the present members of the Dillard family claim descent through James Stephen Dillard, it is the belief of this writer that they are actually descended from one of the following sons of George, the immigrant; Edward Dillard; Nicholas Dillard; Thomas Dillard.
Edward Dillard, born ca 1668, from available records it is believed by this writer Edward Dillard was our ancestor, and that it was he, with Thomas and George Dillard moved first to Essex county and then to Orange (now Culpepper) County, Virginia, as early as 1734. I believe he was the father of Thomas Dillard, born ca 1695.
By: Albert Stevens McLean
THOMAS DILLARD, SENIOR
Article 317
Major Thomas Dillard, Senior, was born ca 1695, probably in King and Queen Co, Virginia, He married Winnifred Nall, daughter of Martin and Eleanor (Willis) Nall, ca 1728 in Essex County, Virginia. Around 1734, he and his wife Winnifred, his brother George, and their father Edward, moved first to Essex County, then to Orange (now Culpepper) County, Virginia, where they lived until ca 1750 and then moved to Halifax (now Pittsylvania) County, Virginia.
Thomas Dillard, Sr., Thomas Dillard, Jr., and James Dillard patented 5000 acres of land along the Staunton River and Straitstone creek in 1752. Thomas Dillard, St., was a Colonel magistrate, Church Warden at Antrim Parish, Commissioner of Peace, Colonel officer of a company of foot soldiers, coroner, and recommended for Sheriff (which he declined). He was a prosperous land and slave owner and a successful planter. He died July 1774, at his plantation of Straitstone creek in Pittsylvania County, Virginia. His will dated 4 May 1774, is on file in Pittsylvania County naming the following sons, Colonel Thomas Dillard and Major James Dillard.
By: Albert Stevens McLean
COLONEL THOMAS DILLARD, JR.
Article 318
Colonel Thomas Dillard, Jr. was born ca 1730, probably in Essex County, Virginia. When a young man his family moved to Culpepper County, Virginia and ca 1750 to Halifax (now Pittsylvania) County, Virginia. He married Martha Webb, daughter of Merry (Merriwether) and Elizabeth Webb of Henry County, Virginia.
In 1756 he was a Justice of the Peace and Deputy Sheriff of Halifax County, Virginia. In 1766 he was appointed High Sheriff of the County by King Charles II of England. In 1767 he was in charge of listing the Tithables in his County and also commissioned Lieutenant Colonel of Halifax County by Governor Francis Fauquir. In 1768 he was appointed to procession lands and received a commission as Coroner of Pittsylvania County. In 1769 he was one of the commissioners to select the gentleman of the vestry of Antrim Parish to build a house of the poor and a new church, and in 1770 was appointed a reader of the Parish. In 1771 he was one of the gentlemen appointed to examine the records and papers of the Clerks Office of the Court. In 1772 he was appointed Church Warden and Coroner.
During the Revolutionary War, Colonel Thomas Dillard raised a company of men and served as its Captain. On July 1, 1776 the State of Virginia issued a warrant to Captain Thomas Dillard in the amount of L88.123 for provisions, hunting shirts, leggins, blankets to his company of Minute Men, also for 25 Duffee Blankets, 10 Kettles or Potts and 7 Pouches. In June he commanded a company of militia men under General Andrew Lewis and marched against Gwynn's Island. His men were called "Shirt Men" because they wore hunting shirts. This company under Captain Thomas Dillard marched from Pittsylvania through Halifax, Charlotte and Dinwiddee Counties to Petersburg, crossed James River at Cobhams and proceeded by way of Jamestown and Clevar's Tavern to Gwynns Island where they were stationed five of six weeks under General Lewis and took part in battle of Gwynns Island, fought on 9 July 1776.
In January 1778, Captain Thomas Dillard and Lieutenant Charles Hutchings commanded a company of militia that marched directly from Pittsylvania County to Isaac Riddle's house twelve miles along the Long Island of Holston River, then to Boonesboro, Kentucky where they were stationed for three months.
After the war, Colonel Thomas Dillard sold his Virginia lands consisting of 3000 acres and moved in 1782 his family to Washington County, North Carolina (now Unicoi County, Tennessee). There he purchased a 400 acre farm on the Nollchuckey River in the Webb settlement, which is now Erwin, Tennessee. Here Colonel Thomas Dillard died in 1784, a highly respected and worthy citizen. His wife Martha (Webb) Dillard died ca 1796 at her home in what is now Erwin, Tennessee
Their children were: Stacy Dillard, married before 1784 to Gabriel Elkins; Benjamin Dillard, born 29 Sep 1767, a Soldier of the Revolution, who died in Greene County, Tennessee; Wenesophia Dillard, married James Love and lived in Maury County, Tennessee; Mary Ann Dillard, born 21 September 1767 and died 25 March 1842, married Colonel Robert Love, founder of Waynesville, North Carolina; Thomas Dillard III, married Dorcus Love, descendants in Jackson County, North Carolina; Martha Dillard, married 12 January 1788 in Washington County, Tennessee to Colonel Thomas Love, brother of Colonel Robert Love. She is buried in the Methodist Church cemetery in Franklin, North Carolina. Colonel Thomas Love moved to Tennessee where he died; Ann Dillard, no information, maybe unmarried; John Dillard, moved to Haywood County, North Carolina and later to Georgia; Rebecca Dillard, married 19 Apr 1803 to Joseph Beyler, Jr. of Buncombe County, North Carolina and moved to Cooper County, Missouri. Elizabeth Dillard who married Lieutenant Charles Hutchings.
Undated Research by Albert Stevens McLean
The William (Mallet) and Martha (Elkins) Anderson Family, page 139-140
Article 212
William Mallett Anderson was born March 1, 1784 in Delaware, the son of James and Lydia Mallett Anderson. He was about thirteen years old when his family moved to the Paint Fork of Little Ivy River.
Here William or “Billy” grew into manhood and in 1806 married Martha Elkins, born September 8, 1787 in Washington County, NC (now Unicol Co. Tenn.) daughter of Gabriel and Stacy (Dillard) Elkins. (picture of Martha “Patsy” Elkins Anderson included here)
William Anderson inherited his father’s place on Paint Fork and lived there until 1817 when he purchased his brother George’s land on Big Ivy River. This farm was adjoining present-day Barnardsville, NC. to the west and extended to the west of Whittlemore Branch and to the north of Big Ivy River. His home, a large two-story log house, stood 300 yards northeast of the confluence of Whittlemore Branch and Big Ivy, upon a rise overlooking the present Town of Barnardsville, not then in existence.
In 1852 “Billy” Anderson donated the land and other advancements for a erection of a church----“for the purpose and no other, for a place of public worship for all Christian denominations of people with the condition that the Baptist have the preference of their set or monthly days of worship and also that the Protestants or the Methodists denomination have their set days of worship without molestation.”
This old church, now gone, stood as the mouth of Whittlemore Branch. The Church of God denomination has, in recent years, built a church upon the site and is quite active at the present time.
William Anderson was a successful farmer and stock raiser, and his home was always open to his friends. Many religious, social and civic meeting were held there.
He died in July 1856 and his wife, Martha, died in 1877. They are buried in a small family cemetery on the southwest corner of his home farm, about fifty yards east of the old church property on the Whittlemore Branch.
William and Martha (Elkins) were the parents of:
Stacy Eliza Anderson, born 1808, married Edmund Deweese and moved to Cherokee County, NC
William Anderson Jr. drown in Big Ivy
Mary Pauline Anderson, born 1813, married Thomas Foster Dillingham
Nancy Anderson, born January 15, 1813, married William Gardner of Yancey Co, NC on March 22, 1832 (a picture of Nancy Anderson Gardner is included here)
Colonel Albert Galliton Anderson, born June 3, 1817
Darkus (Dorcas) Anderson, born February 15, 1820, died May 11, 1898, married George W. Wilson (September 7, 1807-February 6, 1887)
Martha Anderson, born 1825, married Benjamin F. West (born 1820)
Catherine Eliza Anderson, born November 24, 1829, married April 21, 1853 to Garrett Deweese Carter. He was born March 9, 1823, and killed in the Battle of Petersburg, VA. on September 29, 1864. She married secondly, Benjamin F. West, widower of her sister Martha.
Sarah Anderson married John Ramsey, and secondly on October 25, 1852, Major John Daugherty, and thirdly, Thomas F. Dillingham.
Susan Anderson married Rev. Joseph Eller.
Undated Research by: Albert Stevens McLean
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THE DILLINGHAMS OF BIG IVY,
By Margaret Haile, undated, Page 10
ANDERSON
James Anderson, said to have been an immigrant from Ireland, participated in the Revolutionary War, afterwards settling in North Carolina. He received a grant of land in 1798 on Gabriel’s Creek, Little Ivy, Buncombe County. His son, William Anderson was born 1 March 1784 in Delaware or Maryland, and married ca 1806-1808 Martha “called Patty” Elkins. Patty was born 8 September 1787 in Burke County, later Buncombe County, North Carolina. She was the daughter of Gabriel and Stacy (Dillard) Elkins, and granddaughter of Colonel Thomas and Martha Dillard of Pittsylvania County, Virginia, and Washington County, Tennessee.
William Anderson was first enumerated in the U. S. Census of Buncombe County in 1810, and was listed in the Big Ivy area of the county in 1820, with wife, five daughters and one son. He was sometimes called Bill, or Uncle Billy Anderson, and he gave the land for the first church established in the Big Ivy community in 1821. On 22 Feb 1842 he mad his will, and named his wife, one son, and eight daughters, with N. Blackstock and Joseph Barnard as witnesses. William Anderson died at his home on Big Ivy, 20 June 1856, and is buried in what is now a pasture between Barnardsville and Democrat, the only marker on his grave, a large natural stone. His will was probated in 1857 and is recorded in Buncombe County Will Book “A”, page 181.
Martha “Patty” Anderson, as a widow, was living with her son Albert and his family in 1860, and in the 1870 U. S. Census she was enumerated as a member of the household of her son-in-law, George E. Wilson, at Big Ivy. She was then eighty-three years old.
Children of William and Martha (Elkins) Anderson
- Stacy Anderson, born ca 1808, married Edmund DeWeese. They lived in Cherokee Co, NC. And raised a large family
- 2. Susan Anderson, married Joseph Elle, Eller was
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