James Dilliard Byars

James married Nancy Bayne on 28 Mar 1822 in Simpsonville, Shelby County, Kentucky. Nancy was born on 1 Sep 1799 in Virginia; died on 20 Apr 1854 in Simpsonville, Shelby County, Kentucky. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

1. James Griffith Byars was born in 0Aug 1864; died in (Simpsonville, Shelby County, Kentucky).

Other Events and Attributes:

• Military: Revolutionary War Patriot

Notes:

Revolutionary Patriot...Nell Byars Thaten

James married Louvina Smith on 19 Dec 1782 in (Louisa County, Virginia). Louvina was born on 24 Apr 1761 in Louisa County, Virginia; died on 27 Apr 1842 in Oldham Co.,KY. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Military: Revolutionary War Patriot
• Will: 0Jun 1780, Louisa County, Virginia
• Probate: 11 Feb 1782, Louisa County, Virginia

Notes:

John Byars, Sr. was a captain in the Revolution...Nell Byars Thaten

Cty. Lou, Book: 2, Page: 397, John Byars, Type: Will, Date: 11-Feb-1782

Submitted by Jan Morrison; Lancaster Co. Will Book 2, 1767-1783, Pgs 397-400

In the name of God Amen. I, John Byars, of Louisa County of Sound mind and Memory & Knowing that is appointed for all Men to die I do make and Order this as my last will & Testament. First I Recommend my soul into the hands of Almighty God that Gave it & my Body to the Earth of which it is made and as touching such Worldly Estate wherewith it has pleas’d God to Bless me With, I give & Dispose of the same in the Following manner.

First, I lend to my beloved Wife my Estate both Real & personal During her life or Widowhood & Then to be Divided as Follows (to Wit) Each of my Sons & Daughters (to Wit) James Byars to have a Feather Bed & Furniture at the time he Comes to the Age of Twenty one Years or marries. Item.

I give to Each of my Children hereafter named One Feather bed & Furniture & Each of them a saddle (to wit) John, Fleming, George, William, Salley, Anna, Jemima & Betsey Byars & my Wife being with Child whether it is a son or Daughter to have a Bed & Furniture & saddle & if any of my Children above Shall die before they come of age, then his heirs or their parts to be Equally Divided among the rest of their Brothers and Sisters & at the Death of my Wife my Will & Desire is that my Estate both Real and personal be Sold & Equally Divided among all my children (to Wit)

James, John, Fleming, George, William Byars, Mary Smith, Jane, Matthews, Salley, Martha, Anna, Jemima & Betsey Byars & the son or Daughter my Wife is with child with {now known to be Rebecca} to have Equal part with the rest of my children & I do Appoint Elizabeth Byars, David Smith & Sharod Matthews my Exors.

Of this my last Will and Testament In Witness Whereof I have hereunto set my hand & Seal this Day of June 1780 –

Sign’d Seal’d & Aknowledged this § Jn’o Byars (Seal) My last will & Testament in presence of § Aaron Fontaine; Sam’l Cole; Fleming Thomasson; John Lea; Richard Thomasson; Char’s Wingfield At a Court held for Louisa County on Monday ye 11th of Feb’y 1782,

This Will was this Day Exhibited in Open Court by Elizabeth Byars the Executrix therein Named who took the Oath of an Executrix and Entered into Bond According to Law and was proved by the Oaths of Aaron Fontaine, Richard Thomasson and Fleming Thomasson, three of the Witnesses thereto and by the Court Ordered to be Recorded. Teste Know all men by these Presents that we Elizabeth Byars, Garrett Minor, Robert Fleming Bibb & Nathan Smith are held and firmly bound unto Thomas Johnson, Gent’n, The first Justice in the Commission of the Peace for Louisa County for and in behalf and to the Sole Use and behaaf of the Justices of the s’d County and their Successors in the Sum of Three Thousand Pounds Current money to be paid to the s’d Thomas Johnson, his Exors, Admors and assigns To the Which payment well and truly to be made, we bind ourselves and Every of us our and Every of our Heirs Exors and Admors. Jointly and Severally Firmly by these presents Sealed with our Seals Dated the Eleventh Day of Feb’y Anno Domini 1782.

The Condition of this Obligation is such that if the above Bound Elizabeth Byars Executrix of the last Will and Testament of John Byars Dec’d do make or cause to be made a true and perfect Inventory of all and Singular the Goods chattils and credits of this Dec’d which have or shall come to the hands possession or knowledge of the s’d Elizabeth Byars or into the hands and Possession of any other person or Persons for her and the same so made do Exhibit into the County Court of Louisa at Such time as She shall be thereunto Required by the s’d Court and the same Goods Chattels and Credits of the s’d Dec’d which at any time after shall come to the hands Possession or Knowledge of the s’d Elizabeth Byars or into the hands and Possession of any Other Person or persons for her do Well and Truly Administer According to Law and Further do make a true and Just account of her Actings and Doings therein when thereto Required by the s’d Court and also Shall Well and truly pay and Deliver all the Legacies Contained and Specified in the s’d Testament as far as the s’d Goods Chattels and Credits will Extend and the Law Shall Charge Then This Obligation to be Void and of none Effect or Else to Remain in full force and Virtue Sealed and Delivered §

Elizabeth Byars X her mark In Presence of § Garritt Minor; Rob’t Flem’g Bibb; Nathan Smith At a Court held for Louisa Cty on Monday the 11th of Feb’y 1782 This Bond was this Day in Open Court Acknowledged and by the Court Ordered to be Recorded.

Birth:
Map & History of Louisa County, Virginia ... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louisa_County,_Virginia

John married Elizabeth Thomasson on 23 Dec 1754 in Old Glade Cenetary, Rappahannak County, Virginia. Elizabeth (daughter of George Thomasson and Mary Pollard) was born on 27 Sep 1735 in St. James Northern Parish, Goochland County, Virginia; died on 12 Oct 1823 in Washington County, Virginia; was buried in Glade Spring Presbyterian Church Cemetery, Glade Spring, Washington County, Virginia. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Birth: 27 Feb 1733, Granville County, North Carolina
• Death: 12 Oct 1823, Rappahannock County, Virginia

Other Events and Attributes:

• Military: Patriotic Service (DAR Ancestor #: A017964)
• Alt Birth: 1713, New Kent County, Virginia
• Alt Death: 1792, St. John's Parish, Granville County, North Carolina

Notes:

From "Colonial Granville And It's People", by Ray, p. 174; we know that a John and James Byars were early Granville settlers...Margie Tucker

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Message #27 Monday, September 27, 1999

Subject: JAMES HENRY BYARS/BYERS b.1713 VA, m. PEGGY (MARGARET) GENTRY & CHILDREN

Posted by: CLARA BYARS/BYERS GREEN

Message:

Really hit jackpot today, my ancestors were the above, their son, Capt. John Henry Byars b.1734 m. Elizabeth Thomason (Thompson?) b.1735, they had a son called Capt. George Byars (1771-1843 )m. Sarah Watkins (1794-1869), their son William Peyton Byars (b.1792-1873) m. Nancy Sutton.

These two moved their family to southern Illinois (Marion Co.) in 1827 and the family pretty much stayed there until WW2 when my oldest brother,

William D. Byars, Jr., relocated to Oklahoma. His only son,

William Robert Byars lives near Tulsa. I've been trying to find info about James Henry's parents and how they came to America & from where.

Believe this is the Byers sept of the Clan Lindsay and they came from Scotland via Ulster in the Plantation of the 1600's.

Do please write me if you have anything to add. Sure hope you find this useful. CGreen2505@aol.com

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James (Henry) Byars Deed Granville Co NC

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James (Henry) Byars Deed Granville Co NC
Posted by: Tim Byars Date: January 25, 2001 at 23:08:44 of 473


I would like to share the following information from Marjorie Tucker. Marjorie was a Byars researcher over the past 20 + years. She passed from this life last year but wanted to share her work with other Byars
researchers. I have included below her comments regarding the James Byars deed in Granville County, North Carolina (1757), and her transcription of that deed.

From: MTucker211@aol.com
Sent: Wednesday, October 06, 1999 5:28 PM
To: tblife@bigfoot.com
Subject: James Byars Deed

Tim, I suppose you gave up on my transcribing the deed! It was very difficult, but I am satisfied with my results. I very much appreciate your scanning it for me. That helped a lot.

I am attaching it as a file, but I have made comments that I will paste here. I would very much like to have copies of this deed sent to all serious Byars researchers. I consider this a very important new breakthrough. I welcome comments by others.

Marjorie Stewart Tucker (1932-2000)

COMMENTS

The following is a copy of the abstract of the Granville Deed, which has appeared in print for many years - at least as early as 1944 in the Will Franke papers:

Granville Co., NC, Book C, page 334 - Indenture Nov. 3, 1757 Nathaniel Henderson and wife, Parish St. John to James Byars of Hanover County, Va. 400 acres in County of Granville, Parish of St. John - Both sides of Michael's Creek along Haywood (?) line. Witness Wm Sims - Proven Dec. 6, 1757.

There is a very important inaccuracy in this abstract. The location of the 400 acres is crucial to Byars research. It is a "parcel of land containing by estimation four hundred acres situate lying & being in the County of Granville & Parish of St. Johns & on both sides of Michael's Crook of Island Creek."

Both Nathan Byars and William Byars took the State Oath of Allegiance Nov. 15, 1777, being of 77 persons in the Island Creek so doing. For some time I had been unsure of the identification of this William, because there was only one William who received a pension from the Rev. War from either North or South Carolina, and he was William, son of David Byars and Margaret Carson.

I now believe the William of Island Creek, was the William who married Sarah Ann Doggett. I found a note in the Byars/Byers Family Enquirer, Vol. No. 1, March 1986, page 5 that there is a reference to William Byers being a Rev. Soldier in the DOGGETT FAMILY BOOK, Pub. 1894. This William has no DAR record, and did not receive a pension.

Nathan Byars and William Byars were most likely brothers or cousins.

It is important to find that James Byars bought land in the Island Creek area, but it is still unclear whether he ever lived there. Note that he paid for the 400 acres with Virginia currency, indicating he was living in Virginia at the time (1757). Note also that James and his wife, Rachel, of Hanover Co., VA, sold half of New Market Grist Mill Feb. 8, 1790, indicating that he was still living in Virginia then.

The 400 acres bordered the land of Capt. Sherwood Haywood. His name was not clear in the abstract.

Note: I still have not found that James' name was James Henry.


Granville County, NC, Book C, pp. 334-335 November 3, 1757

This Indenture made this third day of November in the year of our Lord one thousand seven hundred & fifty seven Between Nathaniel Henderson & his wife Patience in the County of Granville Carolina of His own part and James Byars in the County of Hanover in Virginia the other part Witnesseth that the said Nathaniel Henderson & Patience his wife for and in consideration of the sum of forty pounds Virginia Currency to them in hand by the said James Byars at or before the onsealing & delivery of the sd. presents the sd. script whereof they the sd. Nathl. Henderson & Patience his wife doth hereby acknowledge & thereof & of & from every part & parcel thereof doth acquit & discharge the said James Byars his heirs Exers. & Admrs. They the said Nathaniel Henderson & Patience his wife hath granted bargained & sold aliened (transferred) enfeoffed (made a gift of any corporeal hereditamints to another) released & confirmed and by these presents doth grant bargain & sell alien enfeoff Release & Confirm unto the said James Byars and to his heirs & assigns forever one certain tract or parcel of land containing by estimation four hundred acres situate lying & being in the County of Granville & Parish of St. Johns & on both sides of Michaels Crook of Island Creek the same land being part of a greater quantity granted by Deeds to the said Nathaniel Henderson dated the fourteenth day of May 1757 and bounded as follows to wit Beginning at a Red Oak in a line of the said Nathl Henderson thence along Sherd Haywoods (Capt. Sherwood Haywood - his name is spelled in full in the deed preceding this one) line South 30 degrees West one hundred & fifty two poles to a Red Oak thence South one hundred fifty six poles to a Hicory thence East two hundred poles crossing the I Creek (Island Creek) to a Red Oak then North one hundred & four poles to a red oak then East ninety poles to a pine then North one hundred seventy three poles to a Red Oak then West two hundred & four poles to the beginning and all houses out houses edifices buildings trees woods underwoods waters water courses fences yards gardens feedings profits commodities advantages hereditaments & appurtenances whatsoever to the said tract or parcel of land belonging or in anywise appurtaining and the Reversion Remainder and Remainders Rents issues & profits of all & singular the said premises and of every part & parcel thereof and also all the Estate Right Title or claim whatsoever of them the said Nathaniel Henderson & Patience his wife of in or to the sd. premises above memtioned & every part thereof To have and to hold the said four hundred acres of land & premises above mentioned & every part & parcel thereof to the appurtenances unto the said James Byars his heirs & assigns to the only proper use and behoof of him the said James Byars his heirs & assigns forever and they the sd. Nathaniel Henderson & Patience his wife for themselves their heirs Exers & Admrs doth covenant & grant to and with the said James Byars his heirs & assigns forever against the claim challenge or demand of them the sd. Nathaniel Henderson & Patience his wife their heirs and all & every other person or persons shall & will warrant and forever defend by these presents.

In Witness whereof they the sd. Nathaniel Henderson & Patience his wife hath hereunto set their hands and Seals the day and year first above written.

Nathaniel Henderson (LS)
Patience X Henderson (LS)

Memorandum that on the day & year first within mentioned (can't read) & quiet possession and Livery of seizin (archaic phrase meaning an act of transferring physical possession of property) of the lands & premises within mentioned was conveyed & delivered by the within named Nathaniel Henderson & Patience his wife unto the within named James Byars to hold to him his heirs & assigns according to the purport bias intent & meaning of the within written Deed.

In the presence of Nathaniel Henderson (LS)

William Sims mark

Patience X Henderson (LS)

Received the day & year first within mentioned of the within named James Byars the sum of forty pounds Virginia Currency it being the consideration within mentioned to be by him paid.

William Sims Nathaniel Henderson

At a Court for Granville County 6th December 1757. Nathaniel Henderson acknowledged this Deed with the Livery of Seizin & the Receit thereon endorsed to be his Acts & deeds, previous to which, Patience, wife of the sd. Nathaniel Henderson, who being first privately examined according to Law by Samuel Henderson, Esqr. appointed for that purpose by the Court, relinquished her right of Dower in the Lands by this Deed conveyed all which on Motion were Ordered to be Register'd.

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Truly Register'd. William Eaton, Public Registrar

Will book- 8 Feb 1790

James Byars of Hanover Co., and Rachel his wife to Pleasant Terrell; 1/2 of New Market Grist Mill on Little River and 2-1/2 acres of land loining said mill; the one half acre on the opposite side of the river from the mil and the other acre and 3/4 joining the mill house...Dossels line...Browns line...to the mill house there being about 1-3/4 acres in said line; further I give said Terrel liberty to build a Cay Dam on my land joining William Harris provided said Harris is willing for same to be built and logs to build said dam.

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http://duplin.lostsoulsgenealogy.com/ncparishes.htm

St. John’s Parish in Granville County In 1746, when Granville Co., N.C. was formed from Edgecombe, St. John's Parish was created, including all of Granville Co. In 1761, Granville Co. was divided into two parishes, the western part becoming Granville Parish and the eastern part remaining St. John's. In 1764, the whole of St. John's Parish, the eastern part of Granville Co., became Bute County and a small part of Northampton Go., N.C. was added to Bute, in 1766.

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Military:
provided supplies to the American Army...

James married Margaret "Peggy" Gentry(Louisa County, Virginia). Margaret was born in 0___ 1693 in (Virginia); died after 1734 in (Louisa County, Virginia). [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Probably connected to Nathan Gentry... http://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Gentry-249

Notes:

click here for earlier THOMASSON generations... https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.2.1/MWHZ-J66

George married Mary Pollard in 0___ 1734 in Louisa County,Virginia Colony. Mary was born on 6 Nov 1703 in Louisa County,Virginia Colony. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Alt Birth: ~ 1675, (England)
• Will: 18 Jan 1734, Hanover County, Virginia
• Residence: 1748, Lunenburg County, Virginia, British Colonies of North America
• Residence: 1749, Lunenburg County, Virginia, British Colonies of North America

Notes:

27 Feb 2013 Follow-up and 15 years later...

Found on WikiTree, John BYARS, born 1612, Newcastle Upon Tyne, England, lists three more BYARS generations. Very likely that this is an early progenitor... http://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Byars-36

----- Original Message -----
From: David Hennessee
To: Margie Tucker
Sent: Thursday, March 19, 1998 11:13 AM
Subject: John BYERS

Cuz - Was searching through County Durham,England Marriages 1575-1837 confirming a DURHAM line of mine and ran across:

"21 Apr 1694 John Byers + Jane Kirton". There are no further references to BYERS/BYARS. Many "Johns" appear in progeny of James Henry. Through serendipity I think I've found a possible clue. What do you think? Could this "John Byers" be our "John Byars'" antecedent?

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From: MTucker211
To: schoolstuff@worldnet.att.net
Subject: Re: BYARS
Date: Tuesday, March 31, 1998 11:35 PM

Cuz, I found a page sent to me years ago by Faye Robbins. This is what has led Byars researches to believe that it constitues proof. A note at the top of this page she writes that she never tried to prove it. I need to xerox it and send to you. I have a fax modem but don't know how to use it, so I am typing it..

John Byars m. ______?

Children: (2)

1. James Henry Byars b. ca. 1713
wed (1) Peggy Gentry
(2) Rachel Mathews

2. Jonas Byars b. ca 1718

According to THE VESTRY BOOK, ST. PAUL'S PARISH, Hanover County, Virginia, pages 130 and 183 that John Byars was living in New Kent Co., VA on Sept. 24, 1708. That he resided in St. Paul's Parish before 1734 was living in St. Martin's Parish on Feb. 8, 1734.
________________________

(1) JAMES HENRY BYARS

James Henry Byars, m. , (1) Peggy Gentry

Born: ca. 1713

Died: ca. 1792

Children:- (4) (known)

1. John Byars Mar. 16, 1734, Louisa Co., VA

2. James Byars 1740

3. William Byars Apr. 6, 1747
wed Sarah Ann Doggett

4. Nathan Byars 1749
wed (1) Drucilla Harrelson
(2) Delphy Logan

(2) JONAS BYARS

Jonas Byars m. Frances "Fanny" Collins Born: ca. 1718

Children: (2) Known

1. William Byars 1755/60 1819
wed Elizabeth Bedford

2. Henryetta Byars

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An excellent monograph on the BYARS Family by Joe Logan ... http://logan-family.org/doc/byars.html

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28 Mar 2007 Joel Hager reports a compilation of "John Byars" sightings in the Virginia Colony... http://wc.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=GET&db=hagerj&id=I278629

Hanover County, VA 1706 - 1786 Vestry Book of St. Paul's Parish File submitted for use in the USGenWeb Archives by: Pat C. John

This volume was the sixth in the series of parish books started in 1931. Churchill Gibson Chamberlayne, B.A., B.D., M.A., Ph.D., LL.D., the editor of four previous volumes in the series, agreed to transcribe and edit the volume. Dr. Chamberlayne was headmaster of St. Christopher's School near Richmond, and a recognized authority on the history of the Protestant Episcopal Church in Virginia. His efforts on four of the five previous volumes in the series, plus three volumes published at his own expense, made him a highly qualified transcriber and editor of early parish records. He undertook the work as a labor of love without remuneration.

Soon after the volume had gone to press in January 1939, Dr. Chamberlayne died on April 3, 1939. Under the general direction of Mr. Wilmer L., Hall, State Librarian, members of the library staff assisted in completing the work. Mr. William J. Van Schreeven, then Head Archivist and later State Archivist edited Dr. Chamberlayne's rough draft of an introduction and compiled the appendix. The proof reading was done by Mrs. Marjorie C. Gough and the index was prepared by Miss Virginia E. Jones. St. Paul's Vestry Book and four other vestry books published in the series relate to the contiguous area in which the early local records have been either lost or destroyed. This volume is distinctive because it was regularly used to enter processioning orders and returns as well as the recording of minutes of vestry meetings. Thus it is a comprehensive record of land owners in the parish. Since records of Hanover County were destroyed during the evacuation fire in Richmond in 1865, the entries in the vestry book are the only existing record of land ownership. Louis H. Manarin State Archivist Richmond, October 27, 1972 Introduction (p. xi) The manuscript volume hereinafter reproduced in print embodies the earliest consecutive records of St. Paul's Parish, Hanover County Virginia, known to be in existence.

It covers, with more or less completeness, the period from January, 1706 to August 1786. The history of the volume from the day the last entry in it was written until 1907, when the writer examined it along with other parish records at the Theological Seminary at Alexandria, is unknown to the editor. That Bishop Meade was unaware of its existence when writing his "Old Churches, Ministers and Families of Virginia" (first published in book form in 1857) is evident to those who have read his chapter on the "Parishes in Hanover County - No. 1." At some date unknown to the editor the volume was deposited by someone, whose identity the editor has been unable to establish, in the library of the Protestant Episcopal Theological Seminary in Virginia, at Alexandria. With the other parish record books on deposit there, it was in 1931 transferred for safe-keeping to the Virginia State Library in Richmond, and is preserved in the Archives Division of the library. It is the property of the Protestant Episcopal Church in Virginia. It has not hitherto been published…. (p. xii) St. Paul's Parish was established in 1704 by act of the General Assembly convening on April 20 of that year. Under the terms of the Act the parish was to come into being on June 1; it may fairly be assumed therefore that the vestry records began with the minutes of a vestry meeting held within a month or two of that date, and it is possible that they began with a transcript of the proceedings of the meeting of the "ffreeholders and Housekeepers of the Parish" which was scheduled under the Act to convene on the "second thirsday in June next and there choose twelve of the most able and discreet persons of the parish to be Vestrymen for their said parish…"

But whatever may have been the date of the first entry in the original vestry book, the first complete vestry minutes in the extant book are those for the meeting held on July 10, 1706 - or two years subsequent to the establishment of the parish. Another circumstance of interest, and indeed of importance, in connection with this old manuscript volume, raising as it does some doubt as to the absolute validity of the record up to the year 1754, is the fact that the volume is for the first two hundred and forty- one pages merely a transcript, of an older and long since disappeared, manuscript volume, which was ordered to be made ( p. xiii) in the year 1754. Furthermore it is not certain that the volume transcribed in 1754, was the original record prior to the year 1742, for under the date Oct. 12, 1742, there occurs the item "To Do, for Transcribing the Register Book from ye; year 1704, to this p'sent time. 1000," the matter hinging entirely upon the meaning of the term "Register Book." If this term means here vestry book, then there were two transcripts made (one in 1742, the other in 1754) and the present manuscript is from 1742 to 1754 a copy of the original record, while for the entries prior to 1742 it is only a copy of a copy of the original. On the other hand, if the term "Register Book" here refers to the record kept of births, baptisms, and deaths in the parish, then the present manuscript vestry book is for the entire period prior to 1754 a transcript of the original record. The Extent of the Parish In order to determine the extent of St. Paul's Parish in 1704, the year of its establishment, it is necessary first to know the boundaries of St. Peter's Parish, from which St. Paul's was cut off. In 1704 St Peter's Parish was bounded on the north-east by the Pamunkey River up to the fork and from (p.xiv) that point on by the north fork (North Anna River); on the south-east by the line dividing it from Blisland (or Blissland) Parish and by the north-west boundary of Wilmington Parish, if there ever was any definitely fixed north-west boundary line of that parish; on the south-west by the ridge between the Pamunkey and the Chickahominy rivers (the dividing line between the parishes of St. Peter's and Wilmington) up to the north-west extent of Wilmington Parish, and then by the Chickahominy River. To the north-west the parish extended theoretically indefinitely; practically it extended to the farthest point of settlement. From 1704, then, until St. Martin's Parish was in turn cut off from it, St. Paul's Parish extended indefinitely north-west from the north-west boundary of St. Peter's Parish between the Pamunkey (in its upper reaches the North Anna) and the Chickahominy. In 1726 when St. Martin's Parish was cut off from St Pauls, the new parish included all that part of St. Paul's Parish lying in the fork of the Pamunkey (made by the junction of the North Anna and the South Anna rivers) together with all that part of the original parish lying north-west of Stone Horse Creek, which flowed north-east into the South Anna. In 1923, that part of St. Paul's Parish lying between Stone Horse Creek and a line running parallel to the Richmond, Fredericksburg and Potomac Railroad and two and a half miles to the east of it was by action of the Episcopal Diocesan Council formed into a new parish to which was given the name Ashland. The St. Paul's of this vestry book, however, which originally extended from Matadequin Creek on the east indefinitely to the west, after 1726 extended west as far as the fork of the Pamunkey and as far as Stone Horse Creek for the territory south of the South Anna. Processioning (p.xv) Each one of the parish vestry books still in existence has perhaps something of peculiar interest attaching to it. The thing of most outstanding interest in connection with the vestry book of St. Paul's Parish, Hanover County, is that the volume served a unique as well as a double purpose. It was the repository of two very different sets of records; i.e., the minutes of the vestry meetings and, as well, the orders for processioning and the returns made by the processioners. In view of the fact that in this old vestry book the processioning orders and processioning returns together comprise so large a part of the record as a while, it may not be out of place here to make clear what the terms "processioning" and " processioners" mean, what the practice of processioning was, and what the reason for the practice; and all the more so as even the term, "processioning" itself has become practically obsolete, and therefore meaningless, in Virginia. The first reference to processioning that the editor can find in the Virginia colonial records occurs in Hening's Statues…..

This reference is embodied in Act LXXVIII of the session of the Grand Assembly begun March 23rd 1662, the preamble of which, giving clear the purpose of the proposed practice, is as follows: "Whereas many contentious suites are dayly incited and stirred up about the bounds of land for which noe remedy hath yett bin provided, the ffifty seaventh act prohibiting resurveighs not applying the expected remedies, for if the surveighs be just (p.xvi) yet the surveighors being for the most part careles of seeing the trees marked, or the owners never renewing them, in a small time the chopps being growne up, or the trees fallen, the bounds become as uncertaine as at first, and upon a new surveigh the least variation of a compasse alters the scituation of a whole neighborhood and deprives many persons of houses, or chards and all to their infinite losse and trouble; for prevention whereof, Bee it enacted" etc. The purpose of processioning, accordingly, was to obviate lawsuits over boundary lines, with the necessary expenses and possible injustices incident to resurveys, which were almost inevitably attendant upon law suits over disputed property lines. The wording of the Act proper was as follows: "….that within twelve months after this act, all the inhabitants of every neck and tract of land adjoining shall goe in procession and see the marked trees of every mans land in those precincts to be renewed, and the same course to be taken once every fower years, by which meanes the inconvenience of clandestine surveigh will be taken away, and the bounds wilbe soe generally known and the marks soe fresh that noe alteration can be made afterwards. And be it further enacted that the bounds by the consent of the present proprietors being once thus setled shall conclude the said proprietors, and all others clayming from or under them, from any future alterations of their bounds, be there within the said bounds more or lesse land than they pretend to: And if it shall happen any difference to be at present that cannot be by the neighbors themselves decided, Bee it further enacted that two honest and able surveyors shall in presence of the neighbour-hood lay out the land in controversie, and the bounds than laid out to be the certaine bounds, and ever after to be renewed and continue soe, but the person causing the difference to pay the charge of the survey, it tending much more to the preservation of ffriendshipp among neighbors to have a present and finall decission of their (p.xvii) differences, while men yet live that are acquainted with the ffirst surveys, and while land is yet at a low value, then it will be when time hath rooted out all knowledge to the bounds and added a greater value to the land. Be it enacted further that each county court shall appoint and order the vestrys of each parish to devide the parishes into soe many precincts as they shall think necessary for the neighbors to joyne and see each others markes renewed, and to appoint certaine dayes between Easter and Whitsunday to goe the said processions and put this act in effectuall execution, and in case the court shall omitt to make such orders and to send the same to the severall vestryes of the parishes in their counties, they shalbe fined ten thousand pounds of tobacco, and the vestry failing in ordering the precincts and the persons to goe together shall be fined twelve hundred pounds of tobacco and the persons fayling to goe upon the day appointed, or to renew his marke accordingly shall for his neglect be fined three hundred and fifty pounds of tobacco." The practice of processioning, as inaugurated under the above Act of the session of 1662 was later amplified and altered in certain important details by subsequent legislation, as follows: 1. In 1673 provision was made for the processioning of lands of orphans 2. In 1691 the time of year for processioning was changed to the six months between September 30 and March 31st. 3. In 1705 it was directed (1) that the court orders for processioning should go out between June 1 and September 1 of every fourth year, beginning with the year 1708; (2) that the vestries were each to appoint "at least two intelligent honest freeholders of every precinct, to see such processioning performed, and take and return to the vestry an account [in writing] of every persons land, they shall proscession, and of the persons present at the same, and of what lands in their precincts, (p.xviii) they shall fail to proscession, and of the particular reasons of such failure"; (3) that the vestries were to see to it that the written returns of the processioners were "registered in particular books to be kept for that purpose by the clerk of the vestry," the registers to be examined by the churchwardens for the purpose of seeing that the returns made by the processioners had been copied fully and exactly; (4) that specified fines should be the penalties for failure on the part of county and parish officials, and the other persons affected by the act, to perform their respective duties under the act; and (5) that bounds three times processioned should be considered settled and determined forever. 4. In 1710 the processioning legislation of 1705 was ineffect re-enacted, the one change of importance being the requirement that from thenceforth the court orders for processioning should go out every fourth year beginning with the year 1711; and the one material addition being a provision for the processioning under special court orders of lands whose owners had refused to have them processioned in ordinary and regular course. 5. In 1748 the processioning law of 1710 was re-enacted without any important change by way of addition, omission or substitution. C.G.Chamberlayne,

In extracting this data on the Surname Harris from the above referenced book, there are two things I want to tell you. I will indicate the book page first and in parenthesis, I will indicate the page in the actual vestry records. When given, I will also show the date. I will extract data only, making no assumptions. You will also note that there are entries in the vestry minutes that have the abbreviations C: and C:C. From what I can determine, the C:C stands for Contra: Credit and the C: stands for Credit. Permission to publish this data online was obtained from John T. Kneebone, Director of Publications & Educational Services, Library of Virginia on February 3, 2000. Pat C. Johns (pacj11945@aol.com)

P. 39 & 40 (46), dated April 11, 1710 "In Obedience to an order of New Kent Court, dated 28th Feb. 1709/10, Its ordered that Henry Mills, Joseph Poors, Joseph Brown, Henry Farmur, Col. Dukes Quarter, Roger Smith, Charles Rhodes, William Howlet, Samuel Rennolds, John Byas, Rob't Walker, John Kinbrow Junr., John Harris, Rennold Allen, Wm Hatfield and Daniel Dishman, with all their Male Thitables, are to Assist John Glenn to clear the road according to the said Court Order."

RECORDS OF HANOVER COUNTY, VIRGINIA William and Mary College Quarterly Historical Magazine, Vol. 21, No. 1. (Jul., 1912), pp. 47-63. File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by: Edward Reynolds I have tried to maintain the exact format of the originals. This is a copyrighted Transcription of this article by Edward Reynolds on 9-15-1997. It may be distributed and copied for any non-profit use without written permission from Edward Reynolds. All other uses are prohibited. WLLLIAM AND MARY QUARTERLY 47 RECORDS OF HANOVER COUNTY. There are only two old books in the clerk’s Office of Hanover county, Va The oldest, designated the "Small Book" in these notes, covers the years 1734 and 1735, and contains orders, wills, deeds, etc. The other, "The Larger Book" of these notes is a deed book for 1780-1790. The following are the abbreviations: adj, adjoining; extor --executor: adm.-administrator; s.-son; d.-daughter or died; est. estate; X - his mark; a.---acres. These notes were copied by me in the winter of 1910-1911 - S. 0. Southall. THE SMALL BOOK, 1734-1735.

P. on Totopotomoy Creek. Feb., 1734.~John X Byars to his son James Byars.

Hanover County, Virginia Deed Book References Page 181-182

I John Byars of St. Martins par., Hanover Co., for good will and fatherly love do give my loving son, James Byars my plantation and all my 200a. of land with houses edifices buildings and tenements, gardens, ordhards, and woods: sd. James Paying what quitrent shall grow due to the king. 18 Jan 1734. Wit: Robert Harris, Wm. Hendrick, Richard Harris.

Note: there are many othe references to James Byars and James Byars, Jr. and wife Rachel in Hanover records until the late 1790's.

Transcribed by Alan Bias

http://ftp.rootsweb.com/pub/usgenweb/va/brunswick/deeds/book3pt1.txt

BRUNSWICK COUNTY, VA - DEEDS - Deed Book 3 Abstracts Part 1 (1744-1749)

Indenture dated 1 August 1745, between Runall Alling of Brunswick County and Andrew Presley of Amela County, 100a, œ25, Release. Signed Runall Alling (bhm), Mary Alling (bhm). Witnesses: John Hearn, John Byas (bhm), Edward Matthis (bhm). Court August 1, 1745, Indenture acknowledged by Runal Alling and Mary the wife of the said Runal personally appeared and relinquished her Right of Dower. Deed Book 3, Page 57.

http://ftp.rootsweb.com/pub/usgenweb/va/lunenburg/census/sun002.txt

Lunenburg County, Virginia Lewis Deloney's List of Tithables, 1748

John Bias .................................................. 1

http://ftp.rootsweb.com/pub/usgenweb/va/lunenburg/census/sun003.txt

Lunenburg County, Virginia

William Howard, "from Butchers Creek to the extent of the County downwards."

William Howard's List of Tithables, 1749 Tithes H. & Scalps

John Byas [?] ................................ 1 6

Carrie Bias Hoffert - Mar 14, 2005

"April 11, 1710, O.S., p. 24 [new pagination p. 32; Chamberlayne p. 40] In Obedience to an Order of New Kent Court, dated 28th Feb,ry 1709/10 Its ordered that Henry Mills, Joseph Poors, Joseph Brown Henry Farmur, Col,o Dukes Quarter, Roger Smith, Charles Rhodes, William Howlet, Samuel Rennolds, JOHN BYAS Rob,t Walker John Kimbrow Jun,r John Harris, Rennold Allen, W,m Hatfield and Daniel Dishman, with all their Male Tithables, are to Assist John Glenn to clear the road According to the said order of Court" Source; This is information copied from original ROAD ORDERS for the state of VA NOTE THE YEAR 1710 in NEW KENT CO, VA….Could this be the father of our JAMES BYAS????? Maybe this is where we will finally find his origins??? Definitely bears a lot more investigation. NOTE THE NAMES OF others, FARMER, HATFIELD, names that have continued continuity with the BYAS/BIAS family for generations! I wonder if we might find a will for the above JOHN BYAS…..Naming patterns for our James Byas are correct, he had a son Jonathon. Give me your thoughts…. IS there anyone out there that has access to NEW KENT Co, records on a direct basis, also can someone might want to check out adjoining counties that were formed from part of NEW KENT Co, after 1710 to see if we might find a will there. I live in NC, so I do not have access to NEW KENT county court house and their records.

Carrie

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Surname: Byars

Recorded in a number of modern spelling forms including Byars, Byers, Byre, Byres, Bier, Biers, and Buyers, this is an English topographical or occupational surname, and one associated with the pre 7th century Viking. It derives from the word "bi or byre", meaning the cattle barn or dairy, and is one of a group of surnames which originate from working or living on a farm. These include Bull, Heffer, Stott, and Palfrey, and all relate to the keeping of livestock, the prime agricultural function of the medieval period. Perhaps not surprisingly given the importance of the occupation, this is one of the earliest of all recorded hereditary surnames, and it is also not surprising that it was in the then cattle breeding regions of East Anglia and the West Country, where originally the surname was most prevalent. There is also a possibility that in some cases the surname may have descended from an Olde English personal name "Bye", of unproven meaning. This is suggested by the recording of Thomas filius Bye of Cambridge, in the Hundred Rolls of the year 1279. Other early examples of the name recording include John Attebey also in the same Hundred Rolls of Cambridge and John Buyres of Somerset in the Subsidy Tax rolls of 1327. The famous portrait painter of the 17th century Nicholas Byer, who died in 1681, was actually born in Norway, although possibly of English parents. The first known recording is believed to be that of Elias de la Byare of Devonshire in the year 1275. This was during the reign of King Edward 1st of England, 1272 -1307.

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John married Elizabeth Glen in 1712 in New Kent County, Virginia. Elizabeth (daughter of James Glen and Hanna (Thompson)) was born in ~1694 in New Kent County, Virginia; died in ~1763 in Louisa County,Virginia Colony. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Elizabeth Byars formerly Glen
Born about 1694 in New Kent County, Virginia
ANCESTORS ancestors
Daughter of William Glen and Constance Taylor
Sister of Elizabeth MacKyger [half]
Wife of John Byars — married 1712 in New Kent, Virginia
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Mother of James Henry Byars and Jonas Byars
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Questioned Parents
No evidence is presented on this profile to substantiate the statement that William Glen and Constance Taylor are Elizabeth's parents. Other sources state that Elizabeth is the daughter of John Glenn and Hannah Thompson.[1] Also note that in a court order of 28 February 1709/10, John Byars is required to join other neighbors in assisting John Glenn to clear a road.[2] This seems to indicate a relationship between this John Glenn and Elizabeth Glenn.

There is another possibility. James Glen's will, dated 11 June 1762 and proved 3 February 1763 in Hanover County, Virginia names wife Hannah and children. Among the children are Elizabeth Byass.[3] It is of course not certain that this Elizabeth is the one we are dealing with here.

Biography
Elizabeth was born about 1694.

Sources
? Tucker, Marjorie Stewart Genealogical Collection: Descendants of John Byars https://dcms.lds.org/delivery/DeliveryManagerServlet?dps_pid=IE66973
? Hanover County, VA 1706-1786 Vestry Book of St. Paul's Parish, p 39 & 40 as cited on The Hennessee Family http://www.thehennesseefamily.com/getperson.php?personID=I25588&tree=hennessee
? Tucker, Marjorie Stewart Genealogical Collection: Descendants of John Byars
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http://trees.ancestry.com/tree/11183518/person/65435048

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Other Events and Attributes:

• Probate: 0___ 1762, Hanover County, Virginia

Notes:

JAMES GLEN, who in 1717-1719 owned land adjacent to the North Anna River in St. Paul's Parish, New Kent County.

He is listed in the Vestry Book of St. Paul's Parish from 1719-1724, in connection with John Glenn.

In 1725-1731 he owned land further upstream along the same (North Anna) river, in Hanover County. He is probably the same James of St. Martin's Parish, Hanover County, who purchased land in 1739 on Great Guinea Creek, St. James Parish, Goochland County (southeast of Hanover), an area that later became Cumberland County.

He left a will in 1762 in Hanover County naming wife Hannah (maiden name probably Thompson) and children:

GIDEON,
NEHEMIAH,
NATHAN,
JAMES,
GEMIMA GLEN SYMES,
HANNAH GLEN AUSTIN,
MARY GLEN HOPKINS,
ELIZABETH GLEN BYARS,
ANNA GLEN,
THOMPSON GLEN,
KEZIAH GLEN HARRIS, and
SARAH GLENN DABNEY.

Also named were grandchildren Frances Harris, Judy Harris, Anna Glen Harris, Molley Glen Harris, Peter Harris and Tyre Harris.

James married Hanna (Thompson). [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]