I’ve made an major update to the TNPryors website… mostly to the extracted Pryor records in TN and VA. Take a look you might find an interesting connection to solve one of our many Pryor puzzles.
There’s a small update in the Jackson County, TN records: an 1826 land grant to William Pryor on Blackburn’s Fork. Small but significant. I wrote earlier this year about the Pryors on Blackburn’s Fork: http://tennessee-pryors/pryors-on-blackburns-fork-of-roaring-river-in-jackson-county-tn/
The grant included “improvements” made by William Pryor — likely fences, fields, houses, and outbuildings. That means that Pryor had been on the land for some time before 1826. I was pondering WHICH William Pryor this might be. There was William and Alsey Pryor on the 1850 Census, but I don’t think he was that William because the William married to Alsey would have been about 12 years old in 1826. There was no William Pryor on the 1820 Census in Jackson County–Was William a son of one of the 3 Pryors (Joseph, Jane, Jeremiah) on that census?
The 1826 deed to William Pryor was for 50 acres. In 1847 Nancy Pryor sold 50 acres on Blackburn’s Fork to Isaac Haney. Was this the same 50 acres? Was Nancy the widow of William Pryor? Was she the Nancy Pryor who was living with Love McGhee and family in 1850? This is Nancy is the one I’ve referred to as “Nancy the Weaver” because she was… well, a weaver. The 1914 death record for Nancy’s son, Amos Pryor, identified his father as Caleb Pryor, not William.
