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Ancestors and Family of Brian Scott Dickson and Kathleen Ann Boyle Dickson

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2051	Found at the same address in 1945, 1946, 1947, 1949, 1957, 1961	Ross, Charles Franklin (I5410)
2052	Found in 1850 Pope County census - then firefox crashed.	Crane, Isabella (I8085)
2053	Found in 1866 Paulding County tax list - 1 poll, poll tax $1	Hudson, John Wesley (I3754)
2054	Found in 1867 Paulding County tax list - 1 poll, $1 poll tax	Hudson, John Wesley (I3754)
2055	Found in 1868 Paulding County tax list - 1 poll, poll tax $1	Hudson, John Wesley (I3754)
2056	Found in 1869 Paulding County District 1087 tax roll - 1 poll, poll tax $1	Hudson, John Wesley (I3754)
2057	Found on the 1870 Paulding County, District 1087 tax roll - no land, 1 poll, $1 poll tax.	Hudson, John Wesley (I3754)
2058	Found this in FamilySearch - Arkansas Marriages - then firefox crashed. Might not be reliable.	Family: Otway Licepious Bailey / Isabella Crane (F3144)
2059	Founder of Petersburg, VA.	Jones, Maj. Peter (I4002)
2060	Four slaves are listed in the Northern Division of Rockingham county in households other than OL Bailey's, but he is noted as the owner. Looks like these people are contracted into the other households. In the home of David Osborn are a female age 25 and a female age 1. In the home of Samuel S Williams is a female age 11.	Bailey, Otway Licepious (I8087)
2061	Frances came to Virginia aboard the Elizabeth in 1621.	Frances (I2979)
2062	Frances came to Virginia aboard the Supply in 1620.	Greville, Frances (I3197)
2063	Frances was perhaps Frances Anderson.	Anderson, Frances (I431)
2064	Francis B and Evalina Bailey sold a plot of 250 acres for $380. This was land that Evalina inherited from her father when he died. This was a plot of land that John Hill purchased from William Cunningham, who purchased it from William Mumford.	Bailey, Francis Baker (I602)
2065	Francis B Bailey appeared to vouch for Thomas Puryear	Bailey, Francis Baker (I602)
2066	Francis B Bailey married Evalina B Hill, daughter of Elizabeth Clark, formerly Elizabeth Hill, widow of John Hill, daughter of Robert Marshall. From Robert Marshall, Elizabeth inherited a negro man Frank. At the death of Elizabeth and John Clark, the property should be divided between all of Elizabeth's living children. Deed refers to a marriage contract between John Clark and Elizabeth Hill. Francis Bailey sold for $25 any interest he and Evalina might have in Elizabeth's estate.	Bailey, Francis Baker (I602)
2067	Francis Baker Bailey and his family were certainly in Arkansas by February 1837, since his son Charles G. was born in Arkansas. Could they have been in Arkansas prior to statehood in 1836? In a letter to F.B. Bailey, dated 1848, he is addressed as Cousin Baker and is living in Warsaw, Missouri. 7 March 2006 - Today, I visited the Galley Rock Cemetery, the cemetery of the abandoned town of Galla Rock / Galley Rock. There are a number of stones standing and many more marked in the cemetery. It is located on Arkansas Highway 105, 7 or 8 miles south of Atkins, right on the highway, and well marked. Each grave that can be identified is marked with a modern marker from Lemley Funeral Services. They may be located in Atkins, Morrilton, or another close-by town and may have more burial records. According to a historical marker at the cemetery, Galla Rock, or Galley Rock as it also was known, was a trading post along to Arkansas River as early as 1819. By 1860, it had grown and was platted out as a town. However when the railroad came through in 1872 and bypassed the town, it began to fade as a trading port. Eventually, the town faded away and most of the remaining residents moved the 7 or 8 miles north to the town of Atkins. A Masonic lodge was established there but it also moved to Atkins. 7 June 2007 - Last night, I visited with C. Tennyson Bailey at his home near Russellville, Ark. He lives very near to the old Rufus A. Bailey homeplace. We visited the Booher cemetery where Rufus and his wife, along with many of Tennyson's aunts and uncles are buried. We also visited the Bailey cemetery on the Bailey homeplace where Tennyson's parents, brothers, sisters, son, and other family are buried. Mr. Bailey says that F.B. Bailey moved around a lot. After leaving Virginia, he stayed in Montgomery County, Tennessee, in Kentucky just across the border (near present day Ft. Campbell) where a daughter lived, into Illinois, toward Memphis, and finally into Arkansas. Even in Arkansas, he lived near Batesville, in Crawford Co (when it included Pope), in Pope Co, and other places. In Pope Co, he ran an iron works at the town of Galla Rock (Galley Rock). He and Evalina are supposedly buried in the Galla City cemetery but most of the graves in this cemetery are unmarked at present. Tennyson said that there used to be a cast iron marker on one pair of graves that he had always presumed was F.B. and Evalina's grave since they had the iron works. But that marker has since been lost. Even when it was there, the name plate had long since been lost. Tennyson said that the Shinn family moved with the Bailey family from NC / VA into Arkansas and that they intermarried both in NC / VA and in Arkansas. MILITARY: F.B. Bailey served in the Virginia Militia during the War of 1812. He received a warrant for land as a result of that services.The land warrant number was 73339. "[F.B. Bailey] was a farmer by occupation, served as Justice of the Peace for many years, made a prospecting trip through Texas in 1845, afterward roamed through Arkansas and Missouri, and subsequently returned to Arkansas, where he died in January 1855." I want to track down when FB Bailey came to Arkansas. I have searched 1835-1840 Pope Co tax lists - found no Bailey. Did find John Hill 1839 Crawford Co tax list - No FB Bailey, instead PH Bailey 1840 Crawford Co tax list - FB Bailey, Wm H Bailey both found 1841 Crawford Co tax list - FB Bailey, Edward Bailey, Ward, Joseph 1842 Crawford Co tax list - FB Bailey, Ward, Joseph 1843, 1844, 1845, 1846 Crawford Co tax list - FB Bailey and others 1847 Crawford Co tax list - FB Bailey not found. 1848, 1849 missing. 1850 - FB Bailey not found 1821, 1829, 1830, 1831, 1832, 1833, 1834, 1835, 1836 - no FB Bailey No early Franklin Co tax lists available - not established Johnson County - 1833-1837 - no FB Bailey Carroll County - 1834-1839 - no FB Bailey Izard County - 1829, 1830, 1831, 1832 - no FB Bailey	Bailey, Francis Baker (I602)
2068	Francis Barnes appointed guardian to Peter Cock Bailey, son of Roger Cock Bailey, in place of the said Roger. Charlotte County Order Book 5 (1780-1784), pages 21, 22 If Francis Barnes is appointed guardian for Peter Cock Bailey, then that presumably means that Roger Cock Bailey has died and that Peter is less than 14. But, this doesn't really make sense. By this point, Peter has already been in the military and should be 16 at least. Maybe this is a secondary appointment and he really was selected. I think this original record needs to be investigated. However, if Peter had inherited property from one of his grandparents, then a guardian would have had to be appointed to protect his rights.	Bailey, Peter Cock (I660)
2069	Francis Billington and Christian had 9 children.	Family: Francis Billington / Christian Penn (F3354)
2070	Francis Dade died at sea returning from England.	Dade, Capt Francis (I2315)
2071	Francis Eaton and Christian Penn had three children. He brought at least one child into the marriage by his previous wives.	Family: Francis Eaton / Christian Penn (F3356)
2072	Franklin is listed in the censuses as a farmer. In 1860, his farm is described in the non-population schedule. In 1880, Franklin is listed as a widower. Preliminary research on this line looks like it goes back to Plymouth in the early 1600s.	Peterson, Franklin (I7040)
2073	Frederich is a boarder in the home of Cora S. Ross in 1920. By 1930, they are married. The 1920 Census lists his father as from Canada and his mother from Mass.	White, Frederick (I6457)
2074	Free White: 01-111001 Slaves: 0	Lewis, Esther (I4296)
2075	Freeman of Plymouth by 1633. Listed as a Fustian-worker on his Leiden marriage record.	Pontus, William (I8704)
2076	At least one living or private individual is linked to this note - Details withheld.	Friesen, Harold Jonathan (I3050)
2077	At least one living or private individual is linked to this note - Details withheld.	Friesen, Jeretta Rose (I3054)
2078	At least one living or private individual is linked to this note - Details withheld.	Friesen, Jeretta Rose (I3054)
2079	From "School Notes", The library society hosted a debate on the proposition "Resolved, that women should have suffrage in Oklahoma." Lida Higgs argued for the negative.	Higgs, Lida (I3535)
2080	From a deed written 28 Oct 1830, it appears that John Clark is already dead since it refers to a document written during his lifetime.	Clark, John (I9530)
2081	From Ancestry tree Gehr Family Tree, ng501821 Obituary for Lucinda Page Garner: Post Dispatch Newspaper: Mrs. Lucinda Garner, aged 84 years died at the home of her daughter, Mrs. George Moore, four miles south of this city Saturday morning. Funeral services, conducted by Rev. G. D. Faulkner, were held Sunday morning, after which interrment was made in New Hope Cemetery. Mrs. Garner had been a resident of Yell County since early pioneer days, making her home for many years near Danville. She was a noble, Godfearing woman, a devoted wife and a faithful, affectionate mother. She was mother of Mrs. George Moore, of near Dardanelle, Ike Garner, of near Danville, T.N. Garner, of Bryne, OK, and other children whose names we failed to learn. We join the friends of the family in extending our sympathy in their great loss. There is no marker for Lucinda at the New Hope Cemetery.	Page, Lucinda (I4905)
2082	From Ann Green, widow of Matthew Green, on a note lent by the executors of Matthew Green's estate, John Hill purchased 11 slaves: Frank, Tom, Jack, Peter, Milly and child, Peg, Jenny and child, Tiller, and Molly.	Hill, John (I3553)
2083	From at least 1809 until his move to Florida, Hardy Vickers lived in Wilkinson County, Georgia, the part of which became Pulaski County. It looks like he still owned land in Georgia even at the time of his death. Notes from Betty Wren to Kelly Vickers: http://kvickers.tfc.edu/Hardy_Vickers.htm May6, 1996, Material Contributed by Betty Wren: HUSBAND: Hardy Nixon VICKERS-281 Yr of Birth 1775 WIFE: Sarah LESTER-282 Yr of Birth 1784 HUSBAND - Hardy Nixon VICKERS-281 TAX LIST: 1818 Pulaski Co GA, Bryan's Dist., pll4. John Lester was also on same page. Abraham Vickers was in Lester's Dist., pll5. CENSUSES: 1820 Pulaski Co GA, ROLL 8; 1830 Leon Co FL, ROLL 15. DEATH: Leon Co FL Probate Rec, 1827-l827. WILL filed for probate 27 Nov 1833, FHC, film no. 0982903; DB-D, p 92, 3 Feb 1834, Leon Co FL, Sarah Vickers, James J. Vickers, executrix and executor of Hardy Vickers, deceased. NOTE: Sarah Vickers marries John Jordan, Bk-B p.44, 19 Dec 1838 Thomas Co GA. MILITARY: HISTORY OF PULASKI & BLECKLEY COS. GA, 1808-1956, Harris Hawkensville Chpt. DAR, p 48, Pulaski Co, 3 Nov 1814, Pay rolt of Militia stationed at Fort Pike, under the command of Capt Gedion Kellan, HARDY VICKERS PVT, 9 Sept, $8.00, HARDY VICKERS PVT, $2.66 2/3, Ft. Green, 10 days. COURT: GENEALOGICAL MATERIAL FROM LEGAL NOTICES IN EARLY GEORGIA NEWSPAPERS, Southern Historical Press, 1989, p 232, Burke Co., Nathan & Hardy Vickers, Admrs. of estate of John Vickers, 14 May 1816. NOTE: 1805 GEORGIA LAND LOTTERY, Living in Burke Co GA for one year with wife and child, US citizen, 2 draws. HISTORY OF PULASKI & BLECKLEY COS. GA (above), p 74, Grand jurors, 7 Dec 1805, Burke Co GA, Hardy & Abraham Vickers. NOTE: According to will had land in WiLkinson Co GA that later became Pulaski Co GA. RELIGION: Was a contributor to Myrtle Springs Baptist Church, Leon Co FL according to his estate. This may have been the church of his wife as her father, John Lester, was known to be a Baptist. Later Vickers appeared to be Methodist. NOTE: 1821 Pulaski Co GA, Academy of Hartford formed, Hardy Vickers, Commissioner. NOTE: Leon Co., FL, Lots sold in original plan of city of Tallahassee, #179 Geo. Graves [original owner] to HARDY VICKERS, $116, 5 Feb 1829. A copy of the original plat of Tallahassee was obtained at the Florida Archives, Tallahassee on 10-2-96with a List of original owners. Hardy Vickers is listed as Hood Vickers. Lot179 which is on the west side of Monroe about mid block between Clinton & Jefferson. Nathan Vickers has Lot 161 on west corner of Monroe & Pensecola. WIFE- Sarah LESTER-282 BIRTH: Census, 1850 Bienville Pr LA, pl23. FATHER: A GENEALOGICAL HISTORY OF THE TOOKE FAMILY, Mary Tooke Rockwell & Ida Gertrude Tooke, p 190. Leon Co FL,D BK-B, 126, 110 Mar 1830. MARR: NO 2. John Jordan, Thomas Co GA, 19 Dec 1838. DEATH: Tooke reference above, 'some place in Arkansas'. DIVORCE:Thomas Co, GA, 1846, November Term of Court. NOTE: She was probably living with son James J Vickers Sr. or daughter Eliza Vickers Snell in Hempstead Co AR. Eliza Vickers Snell is buried at Emmet, Nevada, AR. Other marriages: 19 Dec 1838(div) John JORDAN-685	Vickers, Hardy (I6214)
2084	From Big Spring Daily Herald: Friends have received and announcement of the marraige of Jere Will Higgs, formerly a resident of this city, to Miss Mary Pauline Langley, of Ardmore, Okla. The ceremony occurred last Thursday. mr. and Mrs. Higgs will make their home in Dallas.	Family: Jere Will Higgs / Mary Pauline Langley (F3572)
2085	From C. Michael Bailey's Facebook page, 24 Jun 2017: I was very grateful for all of the kind comments regarding my noting of the anniversary of Normie Bailey's death. Today would be his 62nd birthday. I have been thinking a lot about him and my parents Because of a crazy set of proximities, I grew up believing that (1) everyone was Catholic (I did not know any exotic protestants with any appreciation until I went to college...as a Methodist School, go figure) and (2) that every family had what has come to be called a "special-needs" child. I knew few families that did not and a special needs child because my mother and father knew them all. Even some of my closest friends who were there would be surprised and the prevalence of these great teachers. As adults, these siblings of these special children remain lock in my soul, if I have one. Normie was born Norman James Bailey in 1955. He was not a "Jr." having is first name come from my father and his middle name come from his maternal grandfather, Frank James Fox (Dad Fox loved that Norm-boy!). The 1950s was not the most enlightened period intellectually. I recall several well-meaning, but ignorantly-handicapped adults making a religious issue of my brother noting that some penance was taking place, sins of the father and and all of this truly progressive thought. This is one of the many reasons I reject organized religion today (with prejudice) (no comments on this please. Pray for me if you must). After my brother's birth, my mother suffered from what is now known as post-postpartum depression and was hospitalized in New Orleans for a period after his birth. I credit part of her pathological reaction to her German Catholic upbringing in a small, Northwest Arkansas town and the fact that children like Normie rarely lived to adulthood, much less our of infancy. And, there was no YouTube to tell you what to do. My father arranged that my brother be cared for by the Nuns at St. Joseph's Orphanage in North Little Rock while my mother was hospitalized. Those girls would not allow my father to pay them, so he purchased them a washer and dryer. My father, meanwhile, funded my mother's treatment by, as he told me much later in my life, "by bootlegging unlicensed alcohol into Oklahoma." He spoke about having been questioned by the FBI for this and telling me that had they had evidence, they would have arrested him. I don't care if any of this is true or not, that is one great Southern Story, if not a Southern Gothic story, and it has stuck with me. I leaned from my father that one must take care of one's family by any means necessary, whether it is pretty of not. My mother eventually came home from the hospital and proceeded to do what I can only think of as miraculous. With no well-meaning how-to guides of instructions, my mother toilet-trained this blind and deaf child and taught him to feed himself with a spoon she specially crafted to have the right angle to enable my brother to get it to his mouth. Years later, when I was caring for my parents at the end, during many dinners, I would asked them how my multiply-handicapped brother could eat without getting a spec of food on his face and they could wear their entire meal on theirs? (Careful, this is coming for all of up, Pilgrims). My mother taught Normie him to use a glass to drink from and to make his wishes known even though he could not speak. She gave him a stable environment for him to live and even thrive. My mother taught me a quiet and fierce goodness exist as sure as F=ma. My father once told me that the two most profound changes in my mom were Normie's death and when she manifested Alzheimer's Disease. These two events caused my mother to draw inward revealing all that was left...pure love. I believe that Alzheimer's Disease strips its victims to their bare essence. If this is true, my mother was pristinely beautiful. What I learned from her is that even the bad is beautiful and all can change over time (like Monet's visualization of his Giverny Garden as he was losing his eyesight late in life). This is how a picture my mother's surrender to Alzheimer's Disease. Go have a look at Monet's Giverny portfolio over time; it is a revelation.. I have attached two photographs of Normie. Any person who attended Our Lady of Holy Souls School with me between 1965 and 1973 will recognize that yellow brick and will be assured that the man behind that camera was Monsignor Francis A. Allen, who photographed all of he Holy Souls students and those who attended he Holy Souls School for Exceptional Children. He also baptized Normie, Michelle Bailey Haynes and me. If this is a tribute, it is to those friends I had in grade school, my earliest mates and confidants. I have been blessed with many, many good friends; certainly any more than I deserve. But, it is those who knew and interacted with my brother that live in my heart today. They are the same friends that call me "Mike," a familiar diminutive used only by my mother, father, and Michelle Bailey Haynes. I thank you all for for your friendship and understanding. That was a long slog. thank you for letting me get this off my chest. I never knew I was able to write about this. ---------	Bailey, Norman James (I652)
2086	From Cathy Myers Mattix: Arthur Patterson worked at various jobs after high school. He married Martha Quintana, who immigrated from Chihuahua, Mexico as a child and they had one son, Arthur Frederick. Arthur Patterson became a watchmaker. During the Depression, times were bad and he obtained money to open a business in California. He set up a bookstore in Glendale, CA. He allowed some Patterson cousins to run it while he was preparing his family for a move. They needed income so he allowed them to assume ownership of that business and opened another bootstore, The Booknook, in Pasadena, CA, which he ran until the late 1980s.	Myers, Arthur Patterson (I7115)
2087	From Cathy Myers Mattix: Cecile attended college and became a teacher. She did not enjoy teaching and went to southern California where she met and married Carl Johnson. They had two children, Charles and Carlina.	Myers, Cecilia (I7116)
2088	From Cathy Myers Mattix: The family story says that after John (JD)'s death, Carrie left her children with her parents to go to New York to attend college. She later taught in women's schools, including college, throughout Mississippi and Louisiana, as far as can be determined, as well as in schools in the Indian Territories.. She lived into her 90s as did both her children. The family moved to Uvalde with her parents and sister, Mattie Dee. Mattie Dee and her husband, Seth Orndorff later moved to El Paso and Carrie and her father followed.	Patterson, Aletha Caroline (I4937)
2089	From Dickson-Online (http://dickson-online.com/?p=301 2 Jun 2012) Garrett Cemetery is located on Brummit on the Jim Wellens farm. Turn off of Greenwood Rd. onto Brummit Rd. About 100 yds up Brummit Rd, on the right there is a tobacco barn. About 300 yds. up the hill behind the barn is a groves of trees with several big cedars. The graveyard is in this grove of trees. There are a few rock markers. There are no markers with any writing. It is impossible to tell how many graves are there. There are fifteen to twenty places where the ground appears sunken as if it were a grave that has settled. My great-great grandparents, Thomas Carter Morris and Sarah (Sally) Bowker are supposed to be buried there.	Redden, Mary V. (I5272)
2090	From Familysearch: A native of Kentucky, Thomas Dunn migrated to Lawrence Co., Tennessee after the Civil War, where he operated a cotton mill. In 1884, the L & N Railroad completed a line south of Lawrenceburg and Mr. Dunn donated a supply of cross ties. The depot, when it was built, became known as Dunn Station in honor of him and was a major shipping point for products such as livestock, farm produce and wood products. Some manufacturing companies used it as well. Thomas was the husband of Sarah T. Sykes. They were married 27 Nov 1873 in Lawrence Co., Tennessee. From Newspapers.com obituary: was a resident of this place for 40 years, during nearly this entire period being in the mercantile business under the name Dustin & Dunn. burial preceded by services in the Catholic Church	Dunn, Thomas (I9737)
2091	From Familysearch: Sarah T. Sykes Dunn The Lawrence Democrat 5 Mar 1919 At her home on Waterloo Street. Mrs. Thomas Dunn, one of the best loved of Lawrenceburg's good women, died Tuesday at 2 o'clock after a long illness, at the age of 66 years, 9 months and 20 days. Funeral services will be held at the home today, by the venerable Rev. S. L. Fain, and the burial will be at the Dunn Cemetery. Pall bearers will be W. C. Parkes, J. H. Stribling, John Gibbs, Tom Gaither, D. E. Williams and J. W. Garrett. Mrs. Dunn, before her marriage, was Miss Sarah T. Sykes, a daughter of James and Elizabeth Sykes, her father having been an Englishman who came to Lawrence County in 1843, and engaged extensively in cotton manufacture. In 1873 she married the late Thomas Dunn, a native of Louisville, Kentucky. She is survived by the following children: James T. Dunn of the First National Bank, Mrs. Mamye Finney, Mrs. H. D. Derrick, and Mrs. Robin Harvey. Mrs. Dunn was a real gentlewoman, sunny hearted, and thoughtful, she gave her entire life in ministry to those she loved. Her interest and helpfulness included more than her family and kinfolk, however, taking in as well neighbors and friends, and everyone with whom she came in contact. Hers was a very fine life indeed, and many there be who will miss her, and mourn because of her death. Of her it may be truly said, "To live in hearts we leave behind is not to die."	Sykes, Sarah T. (I9738)
2092	From FindaGrave Born by about 1611, if he was eighteen at the indenture date. Came from "Clisdon, Somersetshire to Plymouth Colony in 1630. Died by 5 March 1677/8. Married Elizabeth _____ by about 1644. She died at Little Compton 28 July 1687. (Claims that she was Elizabeth Risley have no basis.) Their 3 children: Elizabeth Washburn, John & Elias.	Irish, John (I8741)
2093	From findagrave John O. Council Marriage Date: 8 Oct 1879 Spouse: Anna E. Sadler County: Franklin State: Arkansas	Council, John Overton (I8515)
2094	From FindaGrave John was born the son of John and Martha (Timbrell) Washborne. Martha was the widow of Mr. (__) Stevens. John was baptized at Bengeworth, Worcestershire, England, on 2 July 1597. John married Margery Moore about [23 November?] 1618 in Bengeworth, Worcestershire, England. They had children: Mary Washborne @1619- John Washborne 1620- Philip Washborne 1622-1622 Philip Washborne 1624- John moved to Plymouth Colony in 1632. He traveled alone, and was joined by his wife Margery and their sons John and Philip in April 1635. John lived in Duxbury and, towards the end of his life, in Bridgewater. John died early in 1671 (living on 17 March 1670/71 and 22 May 1671 when his son was called Jr, but died soon after, as the will was altered to call the son Sr.) and is presumed to have died in Bridgewater. Where and when exactly is unknown, along with the location of his burial place.	Washborne, John (I8737)
2095	From findagrave Oak Cliff Cemetery, in Dallas, TX, the grave of Charlie Dansby (1884-1897). Charlie is Will and Mary Frances (Fannie) Dansby's son. Fannie Dansby died in Arkansas in 1891. Will Dansby was living in Dallas, TX in 1898. At some point Will's nephew, Walter Dansby (1883-1978) and his wife, Eula Lee Dansby (1885-1951), came to Dallas, TX. Will Dansby remarried, sometime before 1925, and moved to California, while his nephew, Walter, stayed in Dallas. Walter Dansby named his son, Will T. Dansby (1910-1999), after his uncle. The younger Will T. Dansby became a Baptist minister. Walter and Eula Dansby are buried by Charlie Dansby in Oak Cliff Cemetery. thanks MROYAL for this bio info.	Dansby, William Thomas Thornton (I10092)
2096	From Findagrave: A Mayflower passenger. John Billington (also spelled Billinton) was born in Lincolnshire around 1580. He lived in Cowbit, Lincolnshire before emigrating to the New World. Billington departed on the Mayflower in September 1620 with his wife Eleanor and sons John Jr. and Francis. Thanks to inclement weather, the ship arrived in America hundreds of miles further north than intended. Along with forty others, Billington signed the Mayflower Compact on November 11 (O.S.), while the ship lay at anchor. Disembarking at Cape Cod, the Pilgrims founded Plymouth, a colony that would lose almost half its inhabitants the first winter. The Billingtons thoroughly established themselves as troublemakers among the Pilgrims. John Sr. challenged Myles Standish's authority on multiple occasions. Though implicated in a 1624 revolt against the Plymouth church, Billington insisted that he was innocent and escaped punished. In 1625, William Bradford wrote a letter to Robert Cushman denouncing Billington as a "knave." Other incidents only contributed to the Billington family reputation. Francis nearly blew up the Mayflower. John Jr. got lost in the woods and was captured by the hostile Nausets. Eleanor was pilloried and whipped for slander. John Billington is best remembered for an event in September 1630, on a day he went out hunting for deer. He stumbled across his mortal enemy, a young settler named John Newcomen. Newcomen, fearing for his life, hid behind some trees. Billington, deadly marksman to the last, struck Newcomen in the shoulder, a shot that spelled death for both of them. Billington was tried by jury, convicted, and hanged for the murder. Two contemporary sources record the details. "This year John Billington the elder (one that came over with the first) was arraigned; and both by grand, and petty jury found guilty of willful murder; by plain and notorious evidence. And was for the same accordingly executed. This as it was the first execution amongst them, so was it a matter of great sadness unto them; they used all due means about his trial, and took the advice of Mr. Winthrop, and other the ablest gentlemen in the Bay of Massachusetts, that were then newly come over, who concurred with them that he ought to die, and the land be purged from blood. He and some of his, had been often punished for miscarriages before, being one of the profanest families amongst them; ... His fact was, that he waylaid a young man, one John Newcomen (about a former quarrel) and shot him with a gun, whereof he died." - William Bradford "So when this wilderness began first to be peopled by the English where there was but one poor town, another Cain was found therein, who maliciously slew his neighbor in the field, as he accidentally met him, as he himself was going to shoot deer. The poor fellow perceiving the intent of this Billington, his mortal enemy, sheltered himself behind trees as well as he could for a while; but the other, not being so ill a marksman as to miss his aim, made a shot at them, and struck him on the shoulder, with which he died soon after. The murderer expected that either for want of power to execute for capital offenses, or for want of people to increase the plantation, he should have his life spared; but justice otherwise determined." - William Hubbard, clergyman http://mayflower.americanancestors.org/john-billington-biography From http://mayflower.americanancestors.org/john-1 (NEHGS) John Billington traveled on Mayflower with his wife Elinor and sons John and Francis. John and his family were particularly troublesome for the order-loving Puritans. He was hanged in 1630 for the crime of killing a fellow colony member, John Newcomen, with whom he had a long-running feud. He was the first man executed by hanging in the colony.	Billington, John (I8708)
2097	From FindaGrave: A Mayflower passenger. John Billington Jr. was born around 1604. His family had some connections to Lincolnshire. John sailed on the Mayflower accompanied by his brother Francis and parents John and Eleanor. Author David Beale writes of a time when young John "wandered off into the woods and was captured five days later by Nauset Indians, the same hostile Indians the Pilgrims had encountered during their initial exploration around Cape Cod. At the familiar sight of the Pilgrims' muskets, the Nausets gladly turned the young Billington over to the ten men who had come to rescue him!" He died in Plymouth Colony some time between May 1627 and September 1630.	Billington, John (I8709)
2098	From Findagrave: A Mayflower passenger. Francis, born about 1606. He married Christian (Penn) Eaton in Plymouth in July 1634 and had nine children. A survey in 1650 indicated that Francis Billington was then in New England. He died in Middleboro on December 3, 1684.	Billington, Francis (I8706)
2099	From Findagrave: Agnes Clark, daughter of John Clark and Ann Macye, was baptised May 16, 1548 at Colyton, Devonshire. She married at at All Saints in East Budleigh on February 4, 1578, Richard Conant. He was probably born at East Budleigh, Devonshire, about 1548, the son of John Conant. Richard was later described as a church warden of East Budleigh and John Clark was one of Colyton's leading merchants. Richard and Agnes had eight children baptised at East Budleigh. Richard & Agnes Conant were buried the same day, September 22, 1630.	Clarke, Agnes (I8760)
2100	From FindaGrave: Anne Hamilton McNairy was the daughter of Gen. John Hamilton and Elizabeth Archer. She married Robert McNairy 23 Jul 1790 in Guilford Co, NC. They later moved to Giles Co, TN and lived there the remainder of their lives. Both she and Robert McNairy died in Davidson Co, TN visiting family but are buried on their old home place in Giles Co, TN. The cemetery is TOTALLY destroyed as a fenced in cow lot now. Thank heaven there was a cemetery survey made years ago before ALL of the graves were lost. We will never know about the graves that were lost before the cemetery survey was FINALLY taken.	Hamilton, Ann (I8151)