A Transcription of “A
History of the West Family As far Back to 1665”
by Charlotte West
Dade
The transcription provided in Judd and Smith Family Lines, by
khsmith2245, Ancestry.com, was used along with the enlarged original to
complete the following transcription.
A History of the West Family As far Back
to 1665
John West
was born in 1665 Emigrated to American from
England John
Alex Solomon & Isaac were all sons of this John
West who
settled in the lower part of South Carolina and lived
there until
he died Alex West settled in Georgia and died there
Solomon West
moved to Wayne County Kentucky Isaac West and
Susan
Anderson was married in Orange Co North Carolina They
were the
parents of Anderson West Isaac West & Susan Anderson
was married
in 1769. They moved from NC to
Greenville District
South
Carolina in 1782 They moved to Dickson
County in 1801
Susan West died
And in 1814 Isaac West died From home near
Shawneetown
on the Ohio river Sisters of Anderson West One
married John
Barnhill Pheba West married Isaac Green Susan West
married Lynn
Walker Mary West married Elisha Simmons he died
she then
married Henry Bugg Sallie West married John May Nancy West
married
Jerry Ward Elizabeth West married Samuel Sharks Brothers
John West
married Sallie Walker Isaac West married Hannah
Russel
Solomon & Abner West both young men unmarried
died aged 22
Brothers of Anderson West, Anderson West and
Celia Tubb
were married the 30th of April 1812 Moved from
Dickson
County Tenn To Alabama in 1816 (1816)
In 1837 they moved
to Holmes Co
Miss In 1842 they moved back to Alabama, Anderson
West health
was so bad his two oldest sons went over to Alabama
and moved
them back to Holmes County Miss Where the most of their
children
lived Anderson West died May 11th 1856
Celia West died
3rd of Oct
1875 George West son of Solomon West moved to Salina County
Ark The daughter[s] of John West that emigrated
from England one
married a
man by the name of Cole. Two married two brothers by
the name of
Collins, Nelly West married Alex Barnhill
Analysis of This Narrative
By Charlotte West Dade (presumptive 6th great
niece of Isaac West)
·
Most of the information in this narrative agrees
with the information that I have. I was
able to use my data along with the transcription provided by khsmith2245 in
Ancestry.com’s tree, Judd and Smith Family Lines, to confirm some of the names
and dates that were difficult to read in the narrative.
·
Alex (Alexander) West, who was my 5th
great grandfather, is the presumed brother of Isaac West. Even though in his later years, Alexander appeared
to have moved to Georgia where he died.
However, he had previously lived in Orange, Surry, and Wilkes Counties
of North Carolina. Two of his sons (Alexander II and John – my 5th
great grandfather) were born in Orange County, NC. In addition, I have found land records linking
John Sr., John Jr., Solomon, and Alexander together in Orange County.
·
Therefore, it may be assumed by the
preponderance of circumstantial evidence that John West, Sr. was the father,
and John West, Jr., Solomon West, Alexander West, and Isaac West were his sons.
·
Isaac West married Susanna Anderson in 1769 in
Orange County, NC. Another land record connects Alexander and Isaac in Wilkes
County where Isaac served as a chain carrier for the survey of Alexander’s
property on Glady Fork in 1782.
·
Isaac West married Susanna Anderson, the
daughter of Peter Anderson and Catherine.
In William D. Bennett’s Orange
County Records, Vol. III, p. 173, I found the following documentation for
them:
26 Feb 1787, “Peter Anderson of Orange, yeoman, & Catherine his wife to Ellenor Garrison of same, forty pounds, 66
acres, on W side of Stony Cr., bounded on S by Bracking, on W by Boyle, begin
at a stake near William Brackin's line, N 32 ch. to a post oak, N38E 4 ch. to a
WO on side of Stony Cr., down fork to Wm. Bracking's cor., his line to firs
station, to Anderson from John West
Senior 2 August 1768; signed: Peter (X) Anderson, Catherine (X) Anderson;
witness: Garret Garrison, George Garrison; proved February Term 1787 by Garret
Garrison."
This Orange County, NC entry provides
the link between Isaac West (son of John West) and Peter and Catherine Anderson
whose daughter Isaac married.
·
The Jerry Ward who married Nancy West was probably
Jeremiah Ward.
·
The Samuel Sharks who married Elizabeth West was
probably Samuel Sparks.
·
One daughter married a Cole and one married John
Collins. Perhaps, another daughter
married the brother of John Collins. I
do not have any information regarding this daughter.
·
The History of the West Family written by E. C.
Page, in 1903, appears to be an eye-witness account of one who lived during the
period in which Isaac West lived and would have had first-hand knowledge of the
family. Since Mr. Page wrote the history
in 1903, 28 years after Celia Tubb West died in 1875, I think his history of
the family could be considered an eye-witness account.
· A few problems that exist which must be
addressed in using this letter as documentation for proof are the following:
o
The written history does not contain a date.
o
The written history does not contain a
signature.
o
The relationship of the writer to the West
family is unknown.
o
The relationship between the person for whom the
history was written and its author is unknown.
o
The family
history appears to have been trimmed from a page of a yellow legal pad
which, I, at first, wondered, would have been
available in 1903? My research revealed that the legal pad was invented by a 25-year-old
paper mill worker in 1888. Originally, the pads were white with no down-lines on the
left margin. By 1900 the down-line was added.
No one seems to know when they became yellow. Therefore, the paper on which the West Family History is written
passes this test of time!
- My genealogical research has taught me that when an original item is transcribed the original spelling, capitalization, punctuation, spacing, and alignment on the page should be preserved in the transcription. In "those early days" writers did not adhere to the same standards of spelling and writing that we do today. They seldom used punctuation which makes their writing difficult to read, and they used capital letters as they thought fit interspersing them throughout their writing.
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