|
|
Story told to Josephine Sullivan Davis:
"Jeremiah Sullivan grew up in Kentucky. With his family, and McPherson (a neighbor), they moved on to Williamson County, Tennessee, where they claimed land (about 1200 acres) and homesteaded. They built two room houses with a fireplace in each room, and a loft. The houses were made of split wood and mud."
Kelly Iler, another researcher, has Jeremiah as being born in Davidson County, Tennessee, but that is not possible. It is apparent that Davidson County did not exist in 1760. Explanations follows:
From m1c2fields@aol.com on Davidson County,TN:
Established 1783 - actually settled 1780 - previously Indian Lands. First Census 1820. North Carolina in 1776 accepted all of what is now Tennessee as Washington County but later (TN settlers) organized into separate state - 1796.
From xlpn@aol.com on Davidson County, TN:
Davidson County was officially first established by legislature of the North Carolina on October 6, 1783. At that time it had been occupied by settlers since about 1779, when General James Robertson and Colonel John Donaldson's expeditions had arrived the "French Lick" where the present City of Nashville now stands, on the banks of the Cumberland River. It originally included about all Ohio and then the west side of the Cumberland Mountains in Tennessee. Nashville was first called French Lick, then Nashborough, and finally Nashville. The establishment of "Tennessee County" (now extinct) in 1788 and Sumner County in 1766 reduced the county of Davidson to something near its present size after Rutherford was cut off in 1803.
From cbstark@@aol.com on Davidson County, TN:
The colony of North Carolina extended from the Atlantic to the Mississippi River, which included what is present day Tennessee. In 1760 there were no permanent settlements in Middle Tennessee where Davidson County is located. Long hunters were the only Europeans to visit the area, and in the late 1770's began to settle in what is now Nashville, Davidson County. In 1790, North Carolina ceded the Western Territory to the United States Government and it became known as the Territory South of Ohio. In 1776 Tennessee was admitted to the Union.
DOCUMENTED ITEMS:
Note (I don't have any of these items yet. If anyone wants to send my copies, I'd love it....Contact me at paperheath@aol.com.)
Book - "Pioneers of Dickson County, TN -- A Genealogical Abstract of the Earliest Minute Books" by Carol Wells. Source states the there were seventeen distributees of Jeremiah Sullivan's Estate ( 8 Jul 1817, pg. 170).
1817
In Jeremiah's Will, he appointed his wife Nancy and son George as executor's of his estate.
April 7, 1817
Court appointed Elisha Sullivan and Nancy Sullivan to administer Jeremiah's estate, at Nancy's request. Daniel, George, William Porter, and Samuel Smith stood as bondsmen of $120.00.
July 1817
Court ordered 7 Negroes, owned by Jeremiah, be sold as there were 17 heirs to his estate.
October 1817
Court acknowledged "quit claim" of property from Simon and Elizabeth (Sullivan) Myers to Jessee Burton.
April 1, 1819
Nancy and Elisha Sullivan, administrators of Jeremiah's estate, brought suit against Jesse Benton for $1515.00 plus damages and court costs in Franklin, Williamson County, TN for money owed to them on an obligatory note dated in 1817.
November 26, 1824
Jesse Benton of Tipton County sold his rights in Jeremiah's land to George for $200.00. Witnesses: John Sewell and Lewis D. Lowell. Isaiah and Mary (Sullivan) Brown, and Joshua and Rhoda (Sullivan) Mullen had sold their shares to Jesse Benton.
September 5, 1828
Eppa Sullivan and wife Sarah (Sullivan) sold their share of Jeremiah's land to George for $100.00. Witness: John Sullivan, Sr. and Jr.
February 27, 1833
Elisha Sullivan (Davidson Co., TN) sold his rights in Jeremiah's land to John Sullivan (Williamson Co., TN) Witnesses: Samuel Eastep and Ebben Perkins.
April 20, 1838
State of Tennessee granted 100 acres to Owen Sullivan, and assignee of Zachariah Sullivan.
October 6, 1838
Zachariah sold 57 acres to Owen. Witnesses: Willis Johnson and James M. Tucker.
September 2, 1844
George sold balance of Jeremiah's land to Owen Sullivan (310 acres) for $80.00.
