Monday, November 14, 2011

1750 Amelia County, Virginia Tithables List of John Pardue, Sr and Sons



1750 Amelia County, Virginia Tithables List of John Pardue, Sr.

John Pardue, Sr. is shown as John Perdue in the bottom grouping in
Column 4 with sons John Jr., William, and son Joseph. Joseph now
appears in his father's tithables list for the first time, having arrived at the age
of 16 previous to June 11, 1749.


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Sunday, November 13, 2011

1749 Amelia County, Virginia Tithables Records For John P*rdue and Tithable Sons

1749 Amelia County, Virginia Tithable Records for John Sr, sons, John Jr, and William


The senior John is shown listed in column 4 in lower right corner grouping with his two eldest sons, John Jr. and William.

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Saturday, October 15, 2011

1748 Amelia County Virginia Tithables For John Perdue Senior & Sons, John Junior and William



1748 Amelia County Tithables For John Perdue Snr, Sons, John Jnr and William


Shown listed in the column two second grouping from the bottom.

1748 was the first year William appeared the household tithables lists of his father. He would have been at least 16 years old born between June 11, 1731 and June 10, 1732.  Since his brother, Joseph, was born between June 11, 1733 and October 1733, William's birth is reckoned to be in the year 1731.


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1747 Amelia County Virginia Tithables Listings For John Perdue, Senior And John Perdue, Junior

1747 Amelia County Tithable Record Shown as John Perdue Snr and John Perdue Jnr


John and his eldest son, John, are recorded in column two, third group from the top. 


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Saturday, May 7, 2011

1746 Amelia County, Virginia Tithable Listing of John Perdue, Sr. and Jr.



1746 Amelia County Tithables For John Perdue, Sr and son, John, Jr.


John Perdue, Sr and his son, John, Jr can be located in the first column, just barely visible in the eleventh line from the top, as Jno Perdue Snr and Jno Perdue Jnr, in Edward Booker's 1746 tithables' list on Deep Creek in Amelia County.

The 1745 tithables list for the senior John is not available. It is unknown if son, John Jr. was listed in his father's household that year. 

1729 is reckoned as the birth year of John, Jr. having been born no later than June 10, 1730.  Given that his brother, Joseph, first shown in his father's 1750 tithables, having been born no later than October 1733 as confirmed by records of his draft into the Seventh Virginia Regiment in October 1756 at the age of 23, and given that his brother, William, first shown in his father's tithables' list in 1748, born between 11June 1731 and 10 June 1732, and based on the probability that there were the usual two years between the births of the eldest children, John, Jr's birth year is calculated to more likely be 1729.

Most of the Amelia County tithables lists are available for the years from 1736 through 1764 and as I locate jpeg images they will be added as I find them.



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Thursday, May 5, 2011

1744 Amelia County, Virginia Tithables Record of John Perdue


1744 Amelia County, Virginia Tithables For John Pardue, Sr Died 1769


Shown in the list as Jno Perdue, located in the fourth column sixth from the bottom with one poll, he was the John Pardue who died in Bute County, North Carolina in 1769 shown as John Perdue on his will. 

He moved to North Carolina in 1761 from Deep Creek in Amelia County, Virginia, where the deed selling his land records his name as Pardue, where, from the tithable and court records, he appears to have been living on Deep Creek from at least as early as 21 October 1743.

The year 1744 is the first time he was listed in the Amelia County Tithables records, indicating that he moved to Amelia County sometime in the four months after June 11, 1743 and the 21 October 1743 date when he first appeared in the Amelia County court records. Most of the early Amelia County tithables records have been preserved and nowhere in any of the earlier lists does he appear, so it appears that his appearance in October 1743 is the first accounting of him anywhere in the Amelia County records.

This list of tithables of those living below Flatt Creek and Nibbs Creek (between Deep Creek and Flat Creek) was taken by Edward Booker and posted at the courthouse in Amelia County on June 10, 1744, June 10th being the date for which all tithables in Virginia had to be accounted for the taxable year.  As noted in a previous post, tithables were white and black males who were at least sixteen years of age between June 11 the previous year and the June 10 courthouse posting date of the following year, and all Indian women.  Tithables not accounted for were subject to a fine.


Genealogy is never done; it is always a work in progress!

Thursday, April 21, 2011

DNA Chart For P*rdue Families From The Lower Appomattox River


DNA Chart For P*rdue Families From The Lower Appomattox River
The above chart shows the matches establishing the genetic profiles for John Pardue who died in Bute County, North Carolina in 1769, and for a William Perdue through his son, Francis, as shown on the patriarchial page of the Perdue/Pardue DNA Project,  and his presumed descendant, Meshack Perdue, who died in Franklin County, Virginia - both John and William early living in the colonial period in the watersheds of the Appomattox and James Rivers. 

The John, shown in the chart, born circa 1711, is the same John shown born circa 1705 and who died in 1769 in Bute County, North Carolina.  His son, John The Younger, born circa 1729/30, as determined by tithables' records, indicates that, while not improbable, it is unlikely, that the elder John was born as late as 1711. Descendants of the elder John's sons: Joseph, Bevel, Richard, and Lilliston were the participants who determined the elder John's DNA profile.  At the present time, while, it is definitively documented that Francis was a son of William Perdue, it has not effectively documented that Meshack Perdue was a descendant of William Perdue, though, their descendants share the same DNA profile. Remember, that DNA use for genealogy purposes can only establish genetic kinship, not the degree of kinship, at this point in scientific research projects.

The above chart shows a Joseph Pardue who died in 1845 in Chester County, South Carolina.  While some of Joseph's descendants claim descent from John Pardue who died in 1769 through John's son, Joseph Pardue, who died in 1790, at the time of this writing, there has been no documentation that can confirm descent from any of John's 11 sons.  And, though descent from John Pardue who died in 1769 and shown above as John Pardue born circa 1711, is a strong possibility, descent through Joseph, the third son of John, cannot be one of them, as shown by the following facts.

Joseph Pardue who died in 1790 did have a son named Joseph, but, as was stated in Joseph's will written in 1789, his son, Joseph was not yet 19 years old, putting his birth no earlier than 1770. The Joseph Pardue who died in 1845 was born in 1761 according to his tombstone records, further confirmed by 1780s Warren County, North Carolina tax records where he was shown as a single man, when he would have been at least 21 years old.

If the Joseph Pardue who died in 1845 was a grandson of John Pardue who died in 1769, the strongest probability of which of John's sons was his father lies with John's second, son, William Pardue, born circa 1731 and who died in 1813 in Warren County, North Carolina, where the younger Joseph lived in close proximity to William, from his marriage in the 1782 until his move to South Carolina between 1800 and 1810.  Unfortunately, William did not, from all the available records, appear to have named all his children in his will. A father often did not name the children to which he had previously presented to those children some form of his estate that he intended for them.

From research by descendants of the families who remained in the Virginia area, it is conjectured that Meshack was a descendant of the William shown in the chart.  But, at the time of this posting, the documentation necessary to confirm their relationship has not been established.  As previously noted in the earliest posting this webiste on the Perdue/Pardue yDNA Project, without documentation, dna testing, at the present time, cannot determine the degree of relationship each has to the other; only that within a parameter of generations they shared a recent common ancestor.  

As more participants of the Appomattox River P*rdue families join the dna project, updates of the information will be posted.  Any male with the P*rdue surname, or any variant, is encouraged to join the project.  As more participate in the project, at some future date dna might well be able, in some situations, to determine closer relationships.  Informaton can be obtained from the following website.  http://www.worldfamilies.net/surnames/perdue  

Also on the website project are links to explain how to read the test results, as well as other information that further explains questions wanting answers.

Called the Perdue Project, it was originated by descendants of the Perdue families from the Eastern Shore of Maryland, which until the advent of yDNA testing, researchers had never been sure that there was not an extant document somewhere that would establish a connection to the Virginia variant of the name. Now, it is known there is no common ancestral connection between the Maryland and Virginia variants of the P*rdue surname within the past one thousand years.

The Maryland Perdues more consistently spell their name Perdue, as do descendants of the Chesterfield County, Virginia Appomattox River families whose DNA matches the descendants of John Pardue of Bute County, whose descendants spell their names variously as Pardue, Perdue, and Purdue, as well as Pardew, Pardieu, and other variations, though Pardue is the more common form. As can be seen, yDNA is very helpful in sorting out whose lines belong to whom, and why males with any variation of surname spelling are encouraged to join this project!

Genealogy is never done; it is always a work in progress!

Friday, March 25, 2011

Perdue/Pardue/Purdue y-DNA Project Update


Perdue/Pardue y-DNA Project Update 25 March 2011


The following  http://www.worldfamilies.net/surnames/perdue/results  links to the latest update of the Perdue/Pardue/Purdue y-DNA Project. 

After decades of research on the lines of Richard Perdue who died in Montgomery County, Tennessee in 1811 and whose sons and grandchildren moved into Illinois and Indiana, and unable to effectively connect him to the Richard Perdue in the family of eleven sons of John Pardue who died in 1769 in Bute County, North Carolina, DNA submitted by descendants of Richard demonstrates that Richard belongs to the Appomattox River Pardue/Perdue family and was the very probably Richard the son of John Pardue who died in 1769 in Bute County, North Carolina.  Unfortunately, the submitter did not provide a patrilineal history of the line of decent.

Once again, y-DNA testing has narrowed place and names in the search for ancestors and as time continues and the DNA research results become more established, DNA tests will continue to be a valuable research tool!


Genealogy is never done; it is always a work in progress!


Saturday, March 5, 2011

The Battle of Chickamauga



National Military Park in Chickamauga, Georgia Where 18th Tennessee Infantry 
Was In Heat Of The Battle


The marker in the above picture is located at the place on the Chickamauga battlefield where the Confederate Army of Tennessee, under the command of General Alexander Stewart's Division of Buckner's Corps, in the most intense fighting of the two days battle at Chickamauga Creek, Georgia in September 1863, routed the Union line creating a breakthrough for the Army of Tennessee to advance. This breakthrough gave the Confederate Army the victory when General Rosecrans withdrew the Union forces from the battlefield. It was the second largest battle of the Civil War after Gettysburg in size of troops and casualties.

Brigadier General John C. Brown commanded the brigade of Stewart's Division in which the 18th Tennessee Infantry, led by Colonel Joseph Palmer, was in the heat of the battle where Company E "The Ashland City Guards" from Cheatham County, Tennessee was commanded by Captain Gideon H. Lowe. Note his name on the marker.

Later when Colonel Palmer was promoted to brigadier general, Captain Lowe was assigned to his headquarter's company, and in his stead, Lt. David Crockett Pardue was made acting captain of Company E where he served in that capacity until his capture at the Battle of Bentonville, NC in the late winter of 1865. 

In his application for a Confederate pension, mention was made by one of the soldiers in Company "E", that at the battle of Chickamauga Captain Pardue "led a charge with his arm in a sling and a leave of absence in his pocket."  He had been wounded in the January 1863 Battle of Murfreesboro  (Tennessee) and had been furloughed.  From this account it appears he had not yet recovered from his wound, but, in any event, had come to the battlefield.


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Monday, January 31, 2011

Colonial War Records of Joseph Pardue Who Died 1790 Warren County, NC




The George Washington Papers located in the Library of Congress in Washington, DC houses the collection of the official records of the public life of George Washington, as well as many of his private papers.  His official public life began when he was in his early twenties. And, by the time he was 24, he was a young colonel leading the Virginia Militia against the French during the French and Indian War in the English American colonies' part of Europe's Seven Years War.

In the George Washington Papers are located 2 images showing the signatures of Joseph Pardue who died in1790.  Those signatures and other references to him are located in the segment of Captain Joshua Lewis' Seventh Virginia Militia Company.

To see Joseph Pardue's records click on the following link and located on upper right side of page in the search box enter "Joshua Lewis" which will take to all entries for Joshua Lewis.


  http://www.memory.loc.gov/ammem/gwhtml/    



In the following headings in the Joshua Lewis section you find the Joseph Pardue references:

Muster Roll July 1757

The muster roll of the Joshua Lewis' Seventh Virginia Company in July 1757 consists of two pages and Joseph appears in the 45th position on the second page as Jos'h Purdue, shown drafted at the age of 23 in October 1756, a planter  from Amelia County 5 feet 10 inches tall with brown hair.



July 12, 1757 Payroll Receipts Of Captain Joshua Lewis' 7th Virginia Militia Company 

Joseph Pardue's signature in the image of the September 12, 1757 payroll receipts is located in the last column midway from top to bottom, clearly signed, "Joseph Pardue".

The second signature is located in last column at the end of the page where  Joseph, once again, signed his name, "Joseph Pardue", apparently as a witness attesting to the completion of payment to the soldiers of Captain Lewis' Seventh Virgina Militia Company in the same 12 September 1757 payroll receipts.
                                            

List of Necessities Returned To Seventh Virginia Company In September 1757

In Captain Joshua Lewis' 7th Virginia Company, Joseph, shown as J'sph Pardue, appears in the list at number 43 on the List of Necessities.  This list appears to have been a list of  the various military supplies issued to the respective soldiers returned to the Seventh Virginia Militia Company in September 1757.  The next month, in October, Joseph, shown as Joseph Pardue, was listed as deserted.  Perhaps, since having turned in his supplies, he thought he was discharged. You think?


                     
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Sunday, January 30, 2011

1820 Georgia Census for P*rdue


1820 Census Jefferson County, Georgia

It is unknown who was the father of this William Pardue.  He appears to have been born before 1760 from other records that appear to pertain to him.  He lived close to Richard Pardue, the son of John Pardue, who died 1769 in Bute County, North Carolina, but a birth year prior to 1760 would likely rule him out as a son of Richard, though, a story of one of his descendants seems to indicate that William lived on or near the Pee Dee River in North Carolina at some point, seemingly in the area that Richard lived in Anson County in 1790. So he may be younger than he appears to have been from the few references for him. Richard's move to Edgefield County, South Carolina also puts him near Richard in the 1790s.

Genealogy is never done; it is always a work in progress!