Monthly Archives: March 2010

Added Tennessee County Map and Reorganized Census Extracts

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I admit that alot of the enhancements I make to the Tennessee Pryor website, I make for myself. I really hate looking at a census record on the site and then having to find a map to see where a county is located and what other counties surround it. We know have a new way of looking at the Pryors in Tennessee!

In the MAIN MENU under the section called CENSUS EXTRACTS we have a new link called TN COUNTIES. Click on the link to go to a map of Tennessee. It’s not just a map, it’s a means to navigating to Pryor census extracts for each county. (Go to Map) It’s a cool way to explore which Pryor families lived in a particular county and also to explore which Pryors were living in neighboring counties. Who knows, we may be able to figure out some more relationships and ID a few more Pryors!

For the researchers who like the “tried and true” you can still view the Tennessee census extracts organized by the census year by goint to the section called CENSUS EXTRACTS and clicking on TN CENSUS. 

Let me know if you find any bugs, and of course let me know who you find!

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PRYOR FAMILY COURIER

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Has anyone seen an older publication called the PRYOR FAMILY COURIER?  It was supposedly a family history newsletter published back in the 1980’s.

Category: Genealogy

John Pryor of Grainger Co., TN

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“Ansearchin’ ” News, Spring 1981.  An article states John Pryor on the 1850 US Census in Grainger Co., TN was born about 1798 in Virginia. It also identifies his wife as Elizabeth BAKER and their son George, who was on the 1850 census, joined the Confederate army and migrated to Ft. Smith, Sebastian Co., AR.

I would like to know the source of the marriage information for John Pryor and Elizabeth Baker, because I’m a bit doubtful that it is their son George in Ft. Smith, AR.  The George W. Pryor in Ft. Smith appears to be a son of Seth Pryor, a probably son of Matthew Pryor born 1759*. of Marion Co., TN. Seth was in Titus Co., TX in 1850.  When George Pryor was counted in 1880 his parents places of birth were recorded as father born in NC and mother born in KY, which matches the place of birth of Seth Pryor and his wife Darcus in 1860. If George were the son of John and Elizabeth, his parents would have been born in VA and NC as recorded on the 1850 Census.

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*Originally post stated Matthew Pryor Jr. Seth is likely the brother of Matthew Jr. and a son of Matthe Pryor born 1759.

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Pryors in Tennessee Land Warrants

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From Laws of the State of Tennessee: Including Those of North Carolina …, Volume 2

Can we match these warrants to the correct Pryor in the correct Tennessee county?

“… one warrant issued by the commissioners of West Tennessee to JOHN PRYOR and since transferred by assignment to James Walker , No. 121, for 249 1-2 acres, dated November 8th, 1808.”

“… one duplicate military warrant issued by ———- to John Carter, jun. and since transferred by assignment to GREEN PRYOR, No. 236, for 640 acres dated May 30, 1817.”

Chapter 70, An act to provide for establishing a new Court House in the County of Morgan (1820)
“… Be it enacted, That PHILIP PRYOR, Ezekial Philpot, John M. Davis, Benjamin Hagler, and Joseph England, shall be, and they are hereby appointed commissoners to carry this act into effect, and a majority of them shall at all time be competent to transact any business, or perform any duty imposed upon them as commissioners.  (I suspect this is Philip Pryor of Marion County since some of the names on this document appear in Roane County records).

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