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Sumner County Pryor Deed Mentions Greene County, TN and Logan County, KY

This Indenture made this twentyeth of march in the year of our lord on thousand seven Hundred & Ninty six between Joseph Poyr of the one part of the county of Green & District of washington & Richard Proyer of the County of Lowgin & state of Kentucky witnesseth that the said Joseph for & in consideration of the sum of two hundered pounds current mony of virginia to him in hand paid the receip whereof is hereby acknowledges hath bargined sold [—?—] conveyed & confirmed & by these payments Doth bargin sell aline convey & confirm unto the sd Richard his heirs & assigns forever that certain tract of land situate lying & beaing on the Cainey fork of fork of Cumberland river in the Country of Sumner & District of [—?—] begining two hundred & eight three poles & forth poles east of the beach & dogwood trees marked ass for ta begining to survey which includes the bargined p[—?—] runing North five hundred & six four poles to teh North boundrey line of the original survey thence East with sd. boundry line seven hundred twenty six & one quarter poles thence South five Hundred & sixty four poles to the sout East corner of said Survey thence west to the begining containing two thousand five hundred & sixty five acres be the same more or less which tract of land is part of a tract of land grant to Captain Howel Taytom* for his services in the continental trupes of said State Conveyed to me by said howel togethe[r] with all woods water mines minerals [—?—]ments appurtenances & to the same belonging or in any wise appertaining to [—?—] hold the aforesaid land & bargined premises to the [—?—] proper use benefit & hehoof of him thesaid Richard His Heirs & assigns & the said Joseph Doth by these presents [—?—] himself his heirs executors & administrators covenent & agree to and with the said aforesaid Richard his heirs executors & administrators that he aforesaid tract of land & bargined premises will worrent & defent against all maner of persons whatever laying claim to the same in witness whereof he the said Josepph Pryor hat hire unto set his hand & affixed his seal the day & year [—?—] above writen
Signed and delivered in presence of
James Ewing
John Young
[signed]
Joseph Pryor [seal]
17 April 1796

  • This is likely Howel Tatum

Allen Pryor of Georgia

I was looking at the Allen Pryor who appears in Green County, GA records. I was wondering if there were one, two or even more Allen Pryors and how many of them overlapped in family trees. I wasn’t able to determine how many Allen’s but hopefully this sheds some light on Allen for people who are working on this tree.

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William Pryor Estate in Hancock County, IL

The estate of William Pryor piqued my attention since it’s thought that he was from a Pryor line that was in early Greene County and later White County and migrated into Illinois Continue reading

Signature William Pryor and Joseph Pryor on French Broad Petition

I’ve got another old petition in my hands. Petition Sundry Inhabitants South of French Broad, filed in 1789 by men living on the NC frontier (the French Broad River area would become Greene County, TN).

I recently mentioned this petition again in a post: Connecting Pryor from 1789 TN Frontier to 1840 MO Census

And like the petition filed by the Inhabitants of the west country, we now have 2 more Pryor signatures: William Pryor and Joseph Pryor. Joseph’s signature is very unique, using an old-fashioned “s” that looks like an “f”.

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Discover Kingsport (an online history outline of Kingsport, Sullivan Co., TN), states mentions Gilbert Christian several times as well as John Pryor. Christian was from Virginia and first explored the area in 1769.  Moses Looney was there by 1774 and John Pryor was living in the area by December 1787 (date the petition was submitted to the NC State Senate.

I think this is the John Pryor who stated his place of birth as England and year of birth as 1757 on the 1850 Census in Sullivan County.

Connecting Pryor from 1789 TN Frontier to 1840 MO Census

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)

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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