Wednesday, February 8, 2017

First time we see H2 Patrick Morrison

Luan shared her timeline today and it had me pulling out information that I remember thinking about before....but while I am organizing it in my mind, I think I'll post to this blog, so that I will remember what I knew when we visit the area in September.

First thought is that the first mention we have of OUR Patrick Morrison is in Albemarle County in 1751.

Marsha, the deed in 1751 that H2 Patrick witnessed was in Albemarle County:
3 Jun 1751 - Witnessed Deed from Thomas Higginbotham to Robert Rose (Deed bk. 1, pg 378) Patrick Morrison appeared as a witness on a deed in Albemarle County for sale of 540 acres of land on the Piney River and Piney Woods.This Patrick Morrison would have been at least 16 years old to sign legally as a witness on this deed.
Thomas Higginbotham, son of John and Frances (Riley) Higginbotham was living in Albemarle Co., in 1751, when on June of that year, he conveyed by deed to Robert Rose also of Albemarle, for a consideration of 45 lbs, three messages or tenements . . . Witnesses: John Walker, Robert Green and Patrick Morrison” 
(Albemarle County Deed Book 1, page 378). 

My comment to this is:

Thank you so much.  I remember that deed!  I pulled out my copy of Robert Rose’s diary  when we talked about it before.  It was apparently the last official thing that Robert Rose did.  His very last entry in his his diary was on June 13 in which he mentions that “Thos Higgenbotham gave Me a deed for his three tracts of land, 2 of 540 Acres in consideration of 45 pounds….rode to the Mines and Home again at night”.  the book says that there is a handwritten note next in the diary explaining that Robert Rose died on the 30th of June in Richmond.

So what I think of to look at next are the following:
1. Are there any Morrison references in Robert Rose's diary other than this. 
2. on page 104 of Robert Rose's diary he describes the land that he rode through between Mr. Burden's home where he was well entertained to Mr. Matthew's House on a Creek in Augusta.  I might want to copy that in if it is of interest to us later on. 
3. Who were John Walker and Robert Green?  Do they have a relationship with the H2 Morrison family?  Why was Patrick Morrison asked to witness this deed?  Were they all friends of Higginbotham?

Next Luan said the following:  And I answered with:

The Higginbothams were related by marriage to an older William Morrison who married Rachel Higginbotham. I think that William Morrison was eliminated somehow as not being an H2, but I don't remember now how that happened. 

And I answered with:

I think that I remember that we had ruled out the William Morrison who married Rachel Higginbotham as an H2 as well….and I also do not remember why.  But I did a bit of looking on the Ancestry family trees and see that this William Morrison died young…maybe 35 years old….but had several children before he died….and that some of the trees say that he was born in Goochland County, Virginia about 1727.  the marriage between this William Morrison and Rachel would have been 1749 in Amherst County.  Amherst County was carved out of Albemarle County in 1761, so someone who was born in Albemarle and married in Albemarle might have died in Amherst without every having moved from his farm.


By 1779 Patrick Morrison is likely to have been in Pittsylvania County:

13 January 1779
Patrick Morrison signed as a witness to a deed in Pittsylvania Co., VA for land on the north side of Pigg River between one William Lawson and Sarah his wife and David Ross of County of Dinwiddie
witness: 
George Herndon
David Wall
Patrick Morrison
(Pittsylvania Co., VA  Deed & Will Bk 5 1767-1780, 126-127).
While I had the Robert Rose Diary book out, I looked to see if there were any other mentions of Morrison in it.  All of the mentions had to do with William Morrison and his wife Rachel Higginbotham and their friends and family.  There is interesting information if at a later time, we find that this couple is of interest.

I will start another blog post with military service of Morrison men in the Revolutionary War.