There’s an interesting group of African-American Pryors in North Carolina. They were free-blacks 50 years before the Civil War. Joseph Pryor and Peter Pryor (also spelled Prior) Continue reading
The photos above are of Miss Epes Fickling daughter of Gerald Pryor Fickling and Miss Carolina Pryor Baker, daughter of Mr. G. L. Baker (published the Washington D.C. Evening Star, June 3, 1922). I wondered which line of Pryors they are from. Continue reading
Last week while looking at David Pryor and the Amherst Pryors it got me wondering about trying to figure out if we can come up with a list of the VA Pryors who served in the Revolutionary War. The most concise source is a 1912 book I found in Google Books.
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Back to the David Pryor who appears on Revolutionary War rosters 1778/1779 […read more]. The war ended in 1783 which is the same year David Pryor was recorded on a State Enumeration in Amherst County, VA. I suspect this is the same David Pryor because of a familiar name: Richard Tankersley. Continue reading
Since I just wrote about one or two or three David Pryors, I thought I should mention one more. There’s a David Pryor in who appears on the 1790 Census (first US Census) in Georgetown, SC. He’s also on the 1800 and 1810 Census. I found an obituary for his daughter, Continue reading