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This section of the Stokes web ring is under the direction of Don Raney, to whom all questions and additional genealogical information on Stokes in the Carolinas should be addressed, and who has provided the following thoughtful genealogical puzzle for your consideration. Please review this new speculation on Jacob Stokes ancestors and advise of any additions or corrections. Known Facts and Speculations about the ancestors of Jacob Stokes b. 17 Feb 1769 in NC 1. The will of Sylvanus Stokes,
b. ca. 1688 VA, dated 23 May 1758,proved 19 Jun 1766 in Sussex Co, VA,
lists his children as follows:
2. No further record has
been found for Marcus and Micajah Stokes until the 1790 Census for Claremont
Co, SC (now Sumter Co, SC) where we find on page 17:
3. Hartwell Stokes submitted
a Rev. War Public Service Claim in Court Booklet 1, page 11, Sussex Co,VA.
Micajah and Marcus Stokes do not appear in the 1800 Census for Sumter Co,
SC, but the following Stokes
4. An analysis of the ages
of the males in the above Census records indicates that the following speculation
about the ancestors of Jacob Stokes is possible:
5. Jacob Stokes (age 21)
could be in William Stokes, Sr.'s household in the 1790 Census because
three males over the age of sixteen are listed in William Stokes household.
6. One inconsistency with
this reasoning is that the 1850 Census for East Feliciana Parish, LA, lists
Jacob Stokes, his wife, Mary, and his son Jacob, Jr. as all being born
in NC. Many researchers have been
7. Additional research is
required to verify that this speculation is valid. All Stokes researchers
are invited to comment on these speculations. If this connection can be
proved, it provides a link to
8. Jacob Stokes SC
residence was discovered while searching for Jacob Stokes neighbor,
Revolutionary War veteran, Thomas Jackson, in the "High Hills of Santee"
in Sumter Co, SC. Jacob Stokes and his
9. In addition to the Stokes
listed in paragraph 2, the following names are found in the 1790 Census
for Claremont Co, SC:
10. All of these names are
later found as residents of East Feliciana Par, LA, or Amite Co, MS. This
reinforces the speculation that Jacob Stokes wife was Mary Dunn and that
they were married about 1800 in Sumter Co, SC. It is probable that the
Stokes, Dunn, and Taylor families traveled together from Sumpter Co, SC
to Amite Co, MS. All of this evidence supports the fact that the Jacob
Stokes found in
11. The minutes of the Ebenezer
Baptist Church in Amite Co, MS, indicated that Thomas Jackson, Jacob Stokes
and Timothy Dunn were admitted on July 25, 1806 and dismissed on 6 Nov
1813. (Probably to
12. Jacob Stokes daughter, Mary Stokes, was married to Thomas Jackson's son, Eslaphan Jackson, on 2 Jan 1817 in Amite Co, MS. 13. Jacob Stokes, Thomas Jackson, Timothy Dunn and Billington Taylor all settled in the same neighborhood north of Clinton, East Felicaina Parish, LA. 14. A review of the 1790
to 1850 Census data indicates the following facts:
15. A passport from the Governor of Georgia was required to travel across the Creek Indian Nation between 1785 and 1809. A passport was not found for the Stokes, Dunn or Taylor families. Therefore, it is assumed that they followed the alternate route that had been used by many of the earlier South Carolina settlers. They traveled north to the head waters of the Tennessee River, near Knoxville, where they built flatboats and floated down the Tennessee River past the treacherous rapids at Muscle Shoals to the Ohio River and down the Ohio to the Mississippi and down the Mississippi to Natchez. From Natchez, they traveled on foot and in wagons to Amite County. Don
Raney
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