Connecting Pryor from 1789 TN Frontier to 1840 MO Census

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It looks like friends and family stayed connected as they migrated from the TN frontier into Middle Tennessee, and onward to Missouri. I stumbled on this connection between 1789 and 1840 that may help Richard and Mourning Pryor line support their genealogy.

Petition Sundry Inhabitants South of French Broad

These are frontier residents petitioning North Carolina in 1789. (see petition transcript)

Page 15 of 19
Thomas Going | Toms Odle
Ezekel Ray | Moses Mckay
Jossaway (?) Movels(?) | Thomas Woodfin
Daniel Job | Niklas (?) Woodfin
Joseph Pryor | William Heney (Henry? or Haney?)
Isaac Odell(?) | Henery Jones

Ezekial Ray (or Rhea) was on the 1802 Tax List in Jackson County, TN. It’s thought that he died in White Co., TN before 1820. It’s thought that a younger Ezekial Ray (born about 1811) was his son. Daniel Job (or Jobe) is thought to the man who married Mourning Pryor, a daughter of Richard and Mourning Pryor.

Now, for something interesting. Similar names appear living in close proximity in 1840.

1840 Census in Van Buren County, MO

Osage Twp
Line 7, Thomas Woodfin
John Woodfin
Jas. M. Smith
John M Henry
James Goodrich
Line 12, Jonathan PRYOR
William Summers
William Barnes
Daniel Smith
Line 16, William Bartlett
Mark Whittied
Line 18 William PRYOR
Line 19 Ezekiel Ray
Line 20 John L. Wood

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Hilpy Chapin Pryor of Overton County: A Remarkable Record

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This is news article is of interest to Overton County, TN Pryors.

hilphy-pryorSpringfield Republican (Springfield, MO)
10 Dec 1898
REMARKABLE RECORD
Greenfield Viedette: Paul Chapin, a soldier of 1776 from New Jersey, has four surviving daughters, viz: Elizabeth Carmack of Dadeville, MO, aged 90; Elcy Carmack of Livingston, Tenn. aged 88; Hilpy Pryor of Osage, Ark., aged 81; Matilda McMasters of Dadeville, MO., aged 77; Hiram Chapin, a son and soldier of the war of 1812 resides in Indiana, aged 108 years.

Hilpha was born about 1823 in Tennessee. She married Jesse Pryor in about 1848-1849. Jesse is thought to be a son of James and Nancy Pryor of Overton County, TN. Jesse and Hilpy are on the 1850 Census in Newton County, AR and from 1860 onward in Carroll County, AR.

Looking at the Chapins is interesting because it illustrates just how mixed up recollections can be. It’s nice to know that it’s this confusing in other families, not just the Pryors!

The Revolutionary War pension file for Paul Chapin is on Ancestry. Rather than NJ as stated in the news article, he served through MA. He swore to his service in 1818 while still living in MA.

Chapin document from MA

Hilphy’s sister, Elizabeth Chapin Carmack, states her year of birth as 1810 in TN per the 1850 Census in Overton County, TN and in 1880 while living in Dade County, MO.  I’m wondering how her father was living in MA in 1818 and she was born in TN in 1810. Did they move back and forth? Was she just plain wrong about where she was born? The first document signed in Overton County in Chapin’s pension file is dated 1820.

chapin in Overton County, TN

 

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Matthew Pryor of Marion County, TN One Line From a Looney

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I mentioned Peter Looney from Botetourt County in a post earlier this week (see post). Now for something to chew on this weekend. There’s a man named Peter Looney counted one line from Matthew Pryor on the 1830 Census in Marion County, TN.

matthew-pryor-peter-looney

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Mr. Pryor Shot Mr. Green in 1875 – Waco, TX News Report

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It was reported in the October 11, 1875 in The Times-Picayune (New Orleans, LA) that a Mr. Pryor indicted Mr. Green in a magistrates court for obtaining money under false pretenses. Afterwards Mr. Green and his witness, a Mr. Evans tried to assault Pryor but were stopped by the police. Later that same evening they found Pryor again and this time he pulled out a gun and shot Evans dead. Pryor turned himself in to the police in the morning.

When I first started reading news stories about the Pryors I noticed that some reports were in papers far from the actual event.  I wondered if that was because the parties involved were from the area originally. Possibly. However I see that newspaper editors were subscribing to and reading other news reports– eventually re-printing them much in the same way (but not exactly) the AP syndicates news stories.

The most interesting part of the report was that Pryor, Green, and Evans were brothers-in-law. Sad to know this may have been a family dispute.

A report in The Waco Examiner stated that Evans was shot and killed and that J. S. Pryor escaped.

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Sumner County Pryors in Robertson County, TN

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Chart - BotetourtHere’s another morsel for our search for Tennessee Pryors. I had to differ back to the Botetourt County chart I made last year (above).

Mary Pryor married John Hannah on 20th January 1791 in Sumner county, TN. I have in my notes that William Pryor was surety for this marriage.

I see there’s an 1802 deed in Robertson county between James and Thomas Haynes on the Red River bordering Kentucky. This was near Logan County, KY. This deed also mentions that the land bordered property owned by “Hannah and Pryor” and adjoined William Pryor‘s corner. (see truncated deed). The deed is in Deed Book F, p. 318. Dated 6 Oct 1802.

Hmmm… Haynes? At times it feels like a game of Concentration with a never-ending deck of cards! Haynes was a name that I mentioned in a recent post: William Haynes May Connect Jefferson County KY Pryors in Tennessee and Missouri.  Last year I wrote about William Pryor of Stewart County, TN as the likely candidate for the surety for Mary Pryor and John Hannah: William Pryor of VA, TN, AL, and Texas – Kin to Richard Pryor.  You know where I”m going with this… I think he’s the same William who was in Sumner County, and perhaps the same one who was in Stewart County.

Remember William Pryor was supposed to have been from Botetourt County? Well, how about this transaction in Sumner County that involved Hannah and Looneys who hailed from Botetourt County, VA?

14 August 1790
Isaac Bledsoe paid for a slave named Sall. Signed John D. Hannah, Sumner County, NC
Peter Looney, Robert Looney

And well if you Google Haynes’ from Botetourt and Robertson Counites… well, a Haynes family went from Botetourt to Robertson County.

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