Samuel Dent b. Abt 1760-1761 Newport W Hd, Charles Co., MD d. 10 Apr 1834 Franklin Co., MO: The Schrock-Birkey Connection

Samuel Dent

Male Abt 1761 - 1834  (~ 73 years)


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  • Name Samuel Dent  [1, 2, 3, 4
    Birth Abt 1760-1761  Newport W Hd, Charles Co., MD Find all individuals with events at this location  [5
    • Date 1760 calculated from census. GENI information gives birth year as 1765.
    Gender Male 
    Residence By 1787  Franklin Co., VA Find all individuals with events at this location 
    • Moved from Chas Co. MD to Snow Creek area of VA
    Residence 1795  Madison Co., KY Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Census 1810  Madison Co., KY Find all individuals with events at this location 
    • Head of household, with family
    PURC 1818  Franklin Co., MO Find all individuals with events at this location 
    • southeast quarter of Section 5, Township 43, Range 1 west, and the northeast quarter of Section 6, same township and  range
    Census 1820  St. John’s Twp., Franklin Co., MO Find all individuals with events at this location 
    • Head of household
    Census 1830  St. John’s Twp., Franklin Co., MO Find all individuals with events at this location 
    • Head of household, with family and 12 slaves
    HIST Place name: St. Johns https://shsmo.org/manuscripts/ramsay/ramsay_franklin.html

    Description:
    A small village or settlement once located somewhere on St. Johns Creek. According to Kiel, when a post office was established there on August 30, 1833, it was on the upper part of the creek, in what is now the northeast part of Lyon Township. The post office was discontinued on July 29, 1840, and the place has so entirely disappeared that its exact location is uncertain. The earlier St. Johns Settlement, from which the village was doubtless descended, was probably nearer the mouth of the creek, a short distance west of the present Washington. It seems always to have been a scattered country community, and never became a place of any importance. Its insignificance probably accounts for the apparent mistake made on May 25, 1804, by the companies of Lewis and Clark in transferring the name to the village of La Charrette across the river in Warren County. The mistake is not made by Clark himself, or by Lewis, both of whom knew it as La Charrette or Charrette's village; but in the four other journals that are preserved, kept by subordinate members of the party, the place is called St. Johns. The four sergeants Floyd (Thwaites' ed., VII. 5), Whitehouse (Thwaites' ed., VII. 25), Gass (1847 ed., p. 15), and Ordway (Quaife's ed., p. 81) record the events of May 25 in almost identical words: After telling how they spent the night of May 23 encamped near Tavern Creek (q.v.) on the south side of the river, then occupied the whole day of May 24 in a difficult struggle with the rapid known as the Devil's Race-Ground, winning only ten miles during the day, and again encamping on the south side, they started out on the morning of Friday, May 25, and after passing the mouth of "a creek called Wood River" (i.e., on the north side) called St. Johns. This is the last settlement of whites on this River." The editors Coues, Thwaites, and Quaife accept these entries of the worthy sergeants as evidence that the Warren County village of La Charrette had previously borne the name of St. Johns, although they note that no other records survive of the use of the name on the north side of the river, whereas it was indubitably applied to a creek, an island, a village, and a township on the southern side. It may be observed that the almost identical wording of the four journals suggests that three of the entries were copied from the fourth, as we know was often the case among the Lewis and Clark diarists; hence we really have only a single witness to the name St. Johns for La Charrette, as against that of the two leaders Clark and Lewis. It is at least possible that these men, who had just passed close to the mouth of St. Johns Creek and perhaps also the St. Johns settlement on the south side, and near the St. Johns Islands (q.v.) as they crossed over, merely transferred the name to La Charette by pure inadvertence. Closely tied up with the question of whether the village of St. Johns was on the south or the north side of the river is that of the location of what must have been its predecessor, the Spanish "Fort San Juan del Misuri." Our information about the Spanish fort comes from Houck, who bases it apparently on a document from the Spanish archives which he unfortunately fails to quote in full. "Of this fort one Antonio Gautier, lieutenant of the militia, and who in 1796 was an inhabitant of St. Charles, had command. What manner of fort this San Juan del Misuri was, we do not know, nor whether the garrison was a squad of Spanish soldiers or composed of local militia; but most likely this fort was a small log-house built to protect the first settlers against the Indians" (Houck, HIST. MISSOURI, II, 91). In his SPANISH REGIME IN MISSOURI, Houck gives a little more information about the officer who was in command of the fort: he gives us the roster of St. Louis militia companies in 1780, and in the list appears (p. 184) the name "Antonio Gotie, twenty-six years old, born in Canada, rower." To this Houck adds a footnote (p. 190): "Antoine Gauthier married Elizabeth Becquet, widow of St. Joseph Chancelier. He moved to St. Charles, where he was an officer in the militia and in command of the Fort San Juan del Misuri above St. Charles, presumably where the village of Charette afterwards stood." Another document reproduced by Houck (p. 30) is a commission, dated July 9, 1793, to Don Antonio Gautier as Lieutenant in the militia at San Carlos del Misouri, granted by Baron de Carondelet." As for the location of his "Fort San Juan del Misuri" which is obviously not exactly given in the documents before him, Houck accepts La Charrette on the north side of the river. His only ground for doing so is the fact that Gass names the settlement "St. Johns" in his journal, although he notes with surprise that "All rememberance of Fort San Juan del Misuri in 1804 appears to have faded from the recollection of the people there" (HIST. MISSOURI II, 91). It would indeed have been strange if a fort in full operation in 1796 were already completely forgotton in 1804, and on the face of the facts we have it seems far more likely that the fort was south of the river, where it has left so large a crop of descendants. One other possibility may be suggested. Houck gives in his Spanish Regime in Missouri an account, taken from the Spanish archives, of a double fort erected by the Spanish at the mouth of the Missouri River on March 10, 1769: "the royal Spanish fort, Don Carlos el Senor Principe de Asturias, and of the blockhouse Don Carlos Tercero el Rey, both of which are located at the mouth of the Misuri--the first on the south bank, and the latter on the north bank." (p. 49). Might not the later "Fort San Juan del Misuri" have been a similar double fort or pair of blockhouses, one south of the Missouri at the mouth of the "Riviere St. Jean," and the other on the north side, somewhere near La Charrette? This would account for all the facts we have, and vindicate the sergeants from the imputation of error. A definitive solution of the whole problem must await the fuller publication of material from the Spanish archives. In any event, all the St. John names, on both sides of the river, must have been derived from the Fort. The name San Juan was doubtless chosen by the Spaniards in the same spirit as inspired the choice of San Carlos and San Fernando (q.v.): i.e., directly in honor of well known saints of the church, indirectly in honor of royal personages who also bore those names. Thus San Juan would be primarily named for the Apostle, secondarily for one of the many Johns in the royal lines of Spain or Portugal. The most likely candidate for such honor at this time was Don Juan of Austria (1547-1578), the famous Spanish general and victor at Lepanto, illegitimate son of the emperor Charles V. (L&C, & Pike, ed. Coues; L&C, & EWT, ed Thwaites; Gass's JOURNAL, 1847 ed.; Ordway's JOURNAL, ed. Quaife; Houck's HIST. MISSOURI & SPANISH REGIME; all with pp. as cited above; HIST. FRANKLIN, 217; Kiel's BIOG. DIR., 210; Miss Johnson: George Klenke)
    Source:
    Harrison, Eugenia L. "Place Names Of Four River Counties In Eastern Missouri." M.A. thesis., University of Missouri-Columbia, 1943. 
    MILF
    Death 10 Apr 1834  Franklin Co., MO Find all individuals with events at this location  [3, 6
    • Will in file. Franklin Co., MO
    PURC 1 Oct 1835  Franklin Co., MO Find all individuals with events at this location 
    • Twp. 43N, R1W
    Burial Franklin Co., MO Find all individuals with events at this location  [7
    • Valentine Miller Cemetery or nearby that area
    Person ID I708  Schrock-Birkey Connection
    Last Modified 3 Jun 2021 

    Father Thomas Manning Dent,   b. 1715, Trinity Parish, Charles Co., MD Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 1789, Newport W Hd, Charles Co., MD Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 74 years) 
    Mother Catherine Manning,   b. Abt 1721, Port Tobacco W Hd, Charles Co., MD Find all individuals with events at this locationd. Abt 1790, Newport W Hd, Charles Co., MD Find all individuals with events at this location (Age ~ 69 years) 
    Marriage Abt 1744  Pt Tobacco W Hd, Charles Co., MD Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Family ID F501  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

    Family Martha “Patsy” Harris,   b. 3 May 1770, Orange Co., VA Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 10 Feb 1842, Franklin Co., MO Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 71 years) 
    Marriage Abt 1791  Henry Or Franklin Co., VA Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Children 
     1. Winnie Ann Dent,   b. Between 1792-1795, Franklin Co., VA Find all individuals with events at this locationd. Aft 1832, Franklin Co., Boone Twp., MO Find all individuals with events at this location (Age ~ 38 years)
     2. Bailey Dent,   b. 5 Dec 1794, Franklin Co., VA Find all individuals with events at this locationd. Aft 1870, Randolph Co., MO Find all individuals with events at this location (Age > 77 years)
     3. Olive (Olly) Dent,   b. Abt 1800-1802, KY Find all individuals with events at this locationd. Aft 1850, Franklin Co., Boone Twp., MO Find all individuals with events at this location (Age ~ 49 years)
     4. Josiah Dent,   b. 4 Feb 1800, Madison Co., KY Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 9 Nov 1875, Hickory Co., MO Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 75 years)
     5. Henry Dent,   b. 1801/02, Madison Co., KY Find all individuals with events at this locationd. Bef 1860, St. Clair, Franklin Co., MO Find all individuals with events at this location (Age < 57 years)
     6. Lavina Dent,   b. 1804, Madison Co., KY Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 1873, Livingston Co., MO Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 69 years)
     7. Malinda Dent,   b. 6 Apr 1814, Madison Co., KY Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 13 Nov 1897, Franklin Co., MO Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 83 years)
    Family ID F440  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
    Last Modified 28 Jan 2019 

  • Event Map
    Link to Google MapsBirth - Abt 1760-1761 - Newport W Hd, Charles Co., MD Link to Google Earth
    Link to Google MapsResidence - By 1787 - Franklin Co., VA Link to Google Earth
    Link to Google MapsResidence - 1795 - Madison Co., KY Link to Google Earth
    Link to Google MapsCensus - 1810 - Madison Co., KY Link to Google Earth
    Link to Google MapsPURC - 1818 - Franklin Co., MO Link to Google Earth
    Link to Google MapsCensus - 1820 - St. John’s Twp., Franklin Co., MO Link to Google Earth
    Link to Google MapsCensus - 1830 - St. John’s Twp., Franklin Co., MO Link to Google Earth
    Link to Google MapsDeath - 10 Apr 1834 - Franklin Co., MO Link to Google Earth
    Link to Google MapsPURC - 1 Oct 1835 - Franklin Co., MO Link to Google Earth
    Link to Google MapsBurial - - Franklin Co., MO Link to Google Earth
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  • Notes 
    • Following info from Leon Wilde's Genealogical Research Website:

      In 1777, in Charles Co., VA, Samuel was on county-wide militia list (listing able-bodied men 16-50 years) as private in Henry Clarkson’s Company of militia, 12th Bttn, published in Clements & Wright “Maryland Militia of the Revolutionary War.”
      1778 - Charles Co. MD. Samuel Dent not in 1778 constables' lists, and not in Co. oath of fidelity lists of men 18 and up.
      Virginia courthouse records show Samuel was in Henry and Franklin Co. Virginia from about 1782. He probably moved there in 1786-87.
      1781-82 - Samuel Dent on 18 Aug 1781 to receive 18s each from the western shore treasurer "of the money appropriated for the present Campaign for rations."
      1787 - By this time Samuel had moved his family from Charles Co. MD to the Snow Creek area of Franklin Co. VA.. Bought 150 acres of land.
      1791 - Married Martha Harris, possibly in Henry Co. VA
      1795 - Moved to Madison Co. KY
      Samuel sold his 150 acres on Reedy Creek (NC) in 1795 to John Dent (possible brother), and by 1796, both Samuel and his father-in-law Henry Harris, were living in Madison Co., Ky. and were listed on the annual tax list.
      1818 - Went to Franklin Co., MO and received a land grant in 1818.
      Samuel is listed in the 1810 census for Madison Co., Ky., but in 1817 once again sold land, this time 118 acres on Drowning Creek in Madison Co., KY. A year later Samuel was granted land, on Aug. 26, 1818, in Franklin Co., MO. (SE Qtr. of Sec 5, Twp. 43, Range 1 W, and the NE Qtr. of Sec 6, same Twp. and Range.) Krakow area.
      Settled and owned property at what is now Krakow, MO. Purchased more land in 1831 and 1835.
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      Early land entries – Franklin Co. MO
      Source: Goodspeed's Franklin County History, 1888, Goodspeed Publishing Co
      Transcribed by: Barb Z. © 2009
      August 26, 1818-  Samuel Dent, southeast quarter of Section 5, Township 43, Range 1 west, and the northeast quarter of Section 6, same township and  range; 
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      Deed made 6th day of August, 1827, between Samuel Dent and his wife Patsy and Baley Dent for the sum of $1

      The western half of the north east quarter of section six in township forty three or range one west.

      Patsy signed with her mark.

      Entered and recorded 6 August, 1827, Hurt, J.P. and Owens, Clerk

      Deeded land is northwest of Krakow.


      Deed made 6th day of August, 1827, between Samuel Dent and his wife Patsy and Ephriam Strickland for the sum of $250

      The eastern half of the north east quarter of section six in township forty three of range one west.

      Patsy signed with her mark.

      Entered and recorded 6 August, 1827, Armstrong Hurt, J.P. and Wm. G. Owens, Clerk in Book A, page 383 ff.

      Deeded land is northwest of Krakow.}


      This info from a book named PIONEER TIMES/July 1966 Vol. 10., NO 3
      THE FAMILY OF SAMUEL DENT 1755-1834
      Bonds and Administrations of Franklin Co., MO. 1836 - 1847 list Patsy Dent, Dec'd. Administrator of her estate was Robert Beatty, son-in-law, and husband of daughter, Lavinia. Securities were Thomas McCalister/ McAlister and Masters Campbell. This document was dated 10 Feb. 1842 and recorded 3 March 1842. Patsy Dent died intestate in Franklin Co., MO. Robert Beatty, son-in-law, was the administrator of her estate in records dated 10 Feb. 1842 (book A p. 230). Her personal property was sold 25 Feb. 1842. Some purchasers included: F. Regle, M. Closemore, Wm. Neidermire, James Parks, John Williams, John Barrett/Bassett, G. Stumper, D. Johnson, Wm. Quesenberry, C. Dimler, R. Beatty, F. Dearking/Dearling, Wm. Holtmire, H. Sickendick, Lewis Cox, Samuel Cahill, Richard Clark, C. Lesker, John River, E. B. Stricklen/Strickland, F. G. Mosley, H. Kahmann, J. T. Gregory, Thomas G. Childers, H. Otty, H. Longumback, J. T. Gregory, F. Beckmann, G. Lay, and a couple of others.

      PIONEER TIMES, July 1966 Vol. 10., NO 3
      THE FAMILY OF SAMUEL DENT 1755-1834
      Samuel Dent, according to census records, was born circa 1755, although his birthplace and his family ties have not been determined. Many Dent families settled originally in Maryland during the late 1600s and early 1700s. Some of these Dents are said to have emigrated from Yorkshire, England. Records in the Maryland Archives list a Revolutionary War service record of one Samuel Dent, of Capt. Clarkson's Company in the Charles Co., MD militia. Many of the Maryland Dents moved westward into neighboring Virginia. Courthouse records list a Samuel Dent in Henry and Franklin (formed 1786 from portions of Henry and Bedford) Counties, from about 1782, as the name appeared on a petition of inhabitants requesting that the county be divided and again on a land record in 1787. Oaths of Allegiance were recorded for Peter Dent and John Dent in 1777 in Bedford Co., Va. Samuel Dent married MARTHA (PATSY) HARRIS, daughter of Revolutionary War Soldier, HENRY HARRIS and ANNIE BIRD/BYRD of that same area, although the Harrises had lived in pre-revolutionary war days in Orange Co. and possibly in Albermarle Co. Patsy Harris Dent was born 23 May 1770. Samuel Dent sold his 150 acres on reedy Creek in 1795 to John Dent, and by 1796, both Samuel Dent and Henry Harris were living in Madison Co., KY., and were listed on the annual tax list. In 1817, Samuel and Patsy Dent decided to head west and once again sold land, this time, 188 acres on Drowning Creek in Madison Co., KY. (Book M, page 212) A year later, the Dents were over in Franklin Co., MO. Many of the other settlers of Franklin Co., MO were familiar names from KY. About twelve years later, in 1830, Henry Harris, Samuel's father-in-law, being old and infirm, divided and deeded all his Madison Co., KY property to his children and grandchildren. Samuel Dent died in 1834 in Franklin Co., MO. The inventory of his estate was witnessed by John Goode, William Truesdell and C. B. Hinton. Alexander Chambers was executor of the will. The inventory contained notes on H. Fackler, A. Chambers, Samuel Beatty, Dyson Johnson, William Parks, John Harris, Prior Brauly and L. D. Walls. Securities of the estate were William Truesdell and Sion Pritchett.
      (Note: Anthony S. Garrett died in 1855 in Monroe Co., MO. Bailey Dent was a witness. Garrett (1850 census) lived with his grandson, John Truesdell. Perhaps the William Truesdell, mentioned above, was related to him).

      See http://dkwilde.com/Genealogy/Dent/genmain/dent/john1/john2/thos3/saml4_chrono.html for more information about Samuel Dent.

      Place name: https://shsmo.org/manuscripts/ramsay/ramsay_franklin.html
      Krakow
      Description:
      A town located on the northern border of Union Township. It is the successor of Henrietta, which was only a short distance to the north, on the southern border of St. Johns Township. Henrietta was named by Peter Haeverle, the only postmaster, for his wife. The post office was established July 15, 1867, and discontinued November 8, 1869. Its place was taken by Krakow, where a post office was established August 11, 1870. The office was discontinued in 1867 or thereabouts to the star mail route between Union and Washington. Krakow, which had many Polish settlers, was named for Krakow, chief city of Galicia, Poland, formerly a province of Austria-Hungary. Krakow is the correct Polish spelling of the city, which usually appears as Krakau in German and Cracow in English. Both Krakow and Henrietta were and still often called St. Gertrude, from St. Gertrude Catholic Church (q.v.) and Cemetery in the same neighborhood. (Postal Guide; COUNTY ATLAS, 1878, 13; HIST. FRANKLIN 342; Kiel's BIOG. DIR., 203-5; Miss Johnson: Charles Cole; Miss Agnes Neider; Rev. R.B. Schuler; E.O. Griese)
      Source:
      Harrison, Eugenia L. "Place Names Of Four River Counties In Eastern Missouri." M.A. thesis., University of Missouri-Columbia, 1943. [3, 8]

  • Sources 
    1. [S9] Mrs. Gerri Cagle George, Samuel Dent-Circa 1755-1834.

    2. [S89] Will of Samuel Dent, Will.

    3. [S37] Leon Wilde’s Genealogical Research Website.

    4. [S1225] Descendants of Henry Harris - Family Lineages.

    5. [S1294] Park/Parks/Parke Families File, 1760-1761.

    6. [S1294] Park/Parks/Parke Families File, Gives the year 1835.

    7. [S1060] Find-A-Grave, https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/60231846/samuel-dent.

    8. [S587] Ancestors of Ann Elizabeth “Aneliza” Dent.


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