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- It All Started In Virginia
Henry Childers of Virginia and Kentucky
If it has been impossible to prove who is Henry Childers who married Susannah Goolsby, it has been possible to prove who he is not. A Henry born after 1740 is probably too young to be the parent of Goolsbury, the Revolutionary War veteran. A Henry born before 1700 is unlikely to be the parent of sons born 1732 and 1785. So let us look at the known Henry Childers born in Virginia between 1700 and 1740.
The Virginia Genealogist, a magazine edited by Frederick Dorman, published an article entitled British Mercantile Claims after the Revolution, and the list included a Henry Childers who died without an estate during the war. I have been unable to identify this Henry, except to know that he obviously did not go to Kentucky in 1790 and remain to 1809.
Henry Childers, son of Henry and Lucretia (Jonas) Childers was born circa 1714 and died 1760 Lunenburg County, Virginia. His wife was Mary Earner who survived him. They had a son Henry named in his father's will. The son Henry resided in that part of Lunenburg County that became Charlotte County in 1762. He remained there until 7 April 1777 when a land deed states he is a resident of Bedford County., VA. Henry Childers signed his name to this deed. From 1782 until 1790 or later Henry Childers is on the tax list of Bedford County.
According to the 1737 Virginia tax lists published by Nellie Schreiner-Yantis, there were two Henry Childers in Virginia that year, one in Bedford County and one in Greenbrier County. Since Henry who married Susannah Goolsby was in Greenbrier County, it is very unlikely that he was the same man who paid -taxes in Bedford County.
The Edward Pleasants Valentine Papers edited by Torrence, tells of Abraham Childers who owned land on Roundabout Swamp, which was mortgaged, to Pleasants And Son Merchants when Abraham died in 1757 in Henrico County, Virginia. Abraham's sons Abraham, Henry and Frederick in 1763 sold the land inherited from their father to pay the father's debt. The father has been identified as the son of Abraham and Hester (Pledge) Cannon Childers. His wife was Mary, whom he had married by 1729. Mary's surname is unknown. Abraham and Mary's son Abraham died in Henrico County 1773 and the son Frederick died there in 1785. Nothing has been found to tell what happened to the son Henry.
Could he be the Henry Childers that married Susannah Goolsby?
Henry and Abraham, both, when selling their land to Pleasants And Son, Merchants in 1763 made a mark, not signed, their deeds. Henry and Susannah when selling their land in Amherst County in 1765 both made a mark, not signed, their deed. Is it significant that Abraham, the father died in 1757 and in 1760 Henry bought land in Amherst County? For Henry and Susannah to have moved to Amherst County is not illogical; her father and brother lived there and were landowners. The probable marriage date of Abraham and Mary Childers and the probable birth date of Henry Childers are two or three years apart. Circa 1755 Henry married and struck out on his own, going into Albermarle County (where the Goolsbys were) and then to Amherst County when it was formed in 1761. While he was not at Roundabout Swamp, he was not so far away that he could not travel there to help his brothers when the father died in debt.
Are these Henrys, indeed, the same man?
References used for this section:
Amherst and Greenbrier County, Virginia deeds, vital records, census and tax records
Research of Arthur A. Childers, T. H. Hutzelman, Virginia Zeboski and B. F. McKinzie
Albermarle, Henrico, Lunenburg, Charlotte and Bedford Counties,
Virginia deeds, wills and tax records
The Edward Pleasants Valentine Papers, edited by Torrence
"Progenitors and Kinfolk Of Abraham Childers III" by Marjorie
Alberta Dunnstedt, published in The Virginia Genealogist
(http://www.childers-childress.com/spanningpart5.html)
Selections iron The Virginia Genealogist, edited by Frederick Dornan [3]
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