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Note: omerset-Wicomico Co. border, or at Goose Neck, Mill Hundred, Third Haven Crk., across from Oxford, Talbot Co., Maryland. The former belongedto William Brereton II: believed, as a result of extensive research, to have been the father of Elijah's mother. Brereton's Chance was also less than 1/2 mile from the property of Isaac Noble, whose will was witnessed by Brent Nuthall in 1731.A family legend, told by John R.Nuttall to his son Wade Hampton Nuttall, and grandson Nelson Nuttall, in the 1930s, which was apparently based on stories the former heard from his grandfather, Price Brewington Nuttall, as a young boy c.1855-65,indicates the identification of a person who shared certain experiences identical to those of Brent Nuthall only with the father of Elijah. If Brent was indeed the father, however, it would almost certainly mean that Elijah was eitherillegitimate or born in what at least one party presumed at the time was a common-law cohabitation, (the latter in particular being what is suggested by the fact that the father of Elizabeth King, whom Brent married ca.1735, disinherited hisdaughter soon after the marriage). Goose Neck was the home of Edward Banning, (d.ca.1712), whose second wife Susanna had previously been married to a John Nuttle, who seems to be descended from Charles Nuttall, elder brother of Brent'sgreat-grandfather John Nuthall. In 1733 it was the home of Susanna's stepson William Banning and son John Nuttle. At the same time Susanna's own son by Edward Banning, Charles, was living near Trappe, in Bullenbroke Hundred, with hisbrother-in-law, John Beesley, both being married to daughters of William Marshall. In February 1739 John Beesley married, as a second wife, Sarah Nuttle, the mother of Elijah. This marriage record, from St.Peter's Parish, represents the firstappearance which can be positively linked to Elijah's mother. It might be possible to suggest that she was a granddaughter to Susanna, or a widow to someone in the Nuttle Family that lived at Goose Neck: except for other evidence whichindicates not only that Price Brewington Nuttall, who is buried in Crawford Co., believed his grandfather was Brent, although he never mentioned the latter by first name, perhaps not having been told the whole story by his own father Elijahbecause of the latter's illegitimacy, but also that Brent had one or more unnamed children living on the Eastern Shore in 1759, whose potential attempts to make a claim against his estate had to be offset by the unusual act of making his willin deed form, which thus avoided all probate. Solving the mystery of Elijah's background has proven a major problem for many different researchers over the years. Whether because of fires or simply the unusual circumstances of his birth,nothing has ever been found in surviving records, whether state; county; or parish, to indicate exactly when, where, and to whom he was born, although his mother's marriage to John Beesley was certainly well known to some of his Kentuckydescendants. The interpretation of his ancestry which is offered here derives from many different sources: family legend; unusual clauses found in wills; old land records, etc.. This represents the result of over 80+ years of research byvarious geneologists. Further proof, or disproof, will require a discovery of new, or previously overlooked, sources of information.THE HISTORY OF ELIJAH NUTTALLHe lived on a farm in Maryland, on the eastern shore of Chesapeake Bay. Of his family, nothing is known, or where he was born [research by Lindsay Nuttall has uncovered Elijah's ancestors]. The family thought he was Welsh. His motherlived with him in her old age, and they called her Sallie Beasley, she had married a second time it is supposed. She lived to be more than ninety years old. What her name was before her marriage, or where she was reared is not known.Elijah Nuttall and his wife Polly Price had eleven children: Sallie, Nancy, Fanny, Martha, Mollie, Price, Betsey, Sooky, Thomas, Rebecca, and Elijah.In the spring of 1784, he started to migrate to Kentucky. They came over the mountains to Pittsburgh in wagons, horseback, and on foot. They brought all their household goods, horses, cows, and sheep. There was nothing in the wilds ofthe country to which they were going to be had for love or money. He owned about one dozen slaves: men, women, and children. When they arrived at Pittsburgh, the river was so low. The spring freshets were over, and the danger from thesavage Indians was so great, he rented a farm near Pittsburgh and made a crop.In the spring of 1785, they descended the beautiful Ohio River in a large flatboat, which was arranged in rooms for his wife and children, with quarters for the Negroes and stalls for the horses, cows, and sheep. There was three guardswho sat on the bow of the boat with guns loaded on the lookout for their deadly foes, the Indians. They sat there day and night, each one in turn.On their way down the river, they landed to get food. The black women went out to the bank to get some wild mustard for greens to cook. The youngest girl, Rebecca, was with the women. The wood was soon got on board and the word wasgiven to cut loose and start, but the child was no where in sight. They thought she was lost and they dare not stay to search for her. They shouted and called and as the ax was raised to cut the rope that tied the boat to the shore, she camebounding over the bank, he arms full of flowers and all their sorrow was soon turned to joy.In a few days, his daughter Martha was married to Jarrett Dement. Elija Craig, a famous Baptist Divine, performed the ceremony. After they landed at Louisville, this marriage took place. She was the first to marry of his children.Elijah Nuttall did not stay long at the falls, but moved to Lexington and bought himself a fine farm between there and Versailles. He built a fine house and lived there in ease and comfort to old age. His children soon married and lefthim.Sallie Nuttall, the oldest child, married Daniel Rollens and lived on the Kentucky River below the mouth of Mill Creek, four miles above the mouth of that river. They had five children. Betsey, [who] married a Mr. Meeks and they moved toIndiana. Levy and Stephen moved to Indiana. Polly married John Stuart and lived in Kentucky. Daniel Rollens was a very devout Methodist, and had Divine Service at his house very often. It was in his garden that he buried the infantchildren, and his relation placed their dead beside them. And that was the beginning of the grave yard where almost the whole family are buried. His wife went with her two children to Indiana and lived to be very old.Nancy Nuttall and Fanny Nuttall married Sam and Jack Penniston and moved to Missouri. They both had children, but I don't remember the names of any of them. They wrote back to their kinfolks that they had found land near Lexington,Missouri as good as any they had left in Kentucky and had bought as much land as they wanted.Martha Nuttall was born in 1765 and marred Jarrett Dement in 1785. They remained in Louisville one year where their oldest child was born named William, January, 1786. They moved within four miles of Frankfort where Sookey was born in 1789.Betsey was born in 1792. Elijah was born in 1795. Jarrett Dement was born in 1760 in Virginia and fought in the Revolution for our national freedom. He drew a pension for many years for his services. And, all of his descendants aresons and daughters of the Revolution if they want to be.Elijah Nuttall the elder, bought a large tract of land on the Kentucky River below the mouth of Mill Creek and five of his children settled on it. He sent a slave woman, who was a good nurse, with them to attend the families and wait onthe sick. Jarrett Dement and his wife were the first ones to move on the land. They brought their plunder down the river from Frankfort and camped in the woods to scare away the wolves and other animals. They came in 1796. Jacob Lamb andJohn Faulkner, brothers-in-law, came with them to assist them in building cabins, and making them comfortable. The great dense forest was full of wild game of fattest and finest kind. And wild hogs abounded in large numbers. Billy Dement wasten years old and could handle a gun very well. He was delighted with the fine sport and was always contented with life. He married the beautiful Polly Scott. She was the daughter of Elisha or Elijah Scott and his wife had three childern:Smith who married Kittie Turk; Nancy, who married Sam English; and, Leanna, who married Jesse Carrico.Sooky Dement, daughter of Jarrett and Martha Dement married James Sales and had five children: Eliza, Jarrett, Josiah, Blanton, and Elijah. He died and she married George P. Gullion and had three children: Ben, Dock (George P.), andSusanna. Betsy married James W. English and had six children: Price, Martha, Sarah, Jane, Susan, John, and Olive. Elijah Dement married Teressa Vincent and had ten children: Ditto, Mary Ellen, Martha, Susan, Will, Jarrett, Lizzie, Price,Nancy, and Comfort.Molly Nuttall, daughter of Elijah and Polly Price Nuttall, married Jacob Lamb and [had] four children" Jamima, who married Richard Batts; Polly married a Mr. Vories and then a Mr. Foree; Kitty married a Mr. Sullivan, and Fanny married a Mr.Cropper.Price Nuttall, son of Elijah and Polly Price Nuttall, married Mary Ditto and had eight children: Elija married Jane Pollard; Ditto married Miss Lovelace; Wilkey married John Shaw; Cassandra married John Ford; Rebecca married her cousin ElijahNuttall; Mary married her cousin Archibald Nuttall; Price married Mary Berry; Tom died young.Price Nuttall moved to Illinois in 1842, his four daughters lived there. He lived to a very old age, wanted only a few years of one hundred, and his wife lived to be very old also.Betsey Nuttall married John Faulkner. Her father was very much opposed to the match. Faulkner was very handsome and smart, but wild and reckless. She dressed herself and stood on the style blocks, and he rode up on a fine horse and shemounted behind him. He put the spurs to his horse and he ran down the road. He wheeled the horse around and cried out "now shoot" but no one took any notice of them. They road away and were married a real Lochinvar. She had one child, agirl and she only lived a few years.Sookey Nuttall, daughter of Polly Price Nuttall and Elijah Nuttall married Moses Walls and had five children: Mary, Lydia, Eliza, and William and Jackson, twins. Mary married _?_. Lydia married a Mr. Denbo, Eliza never married. And thetwins did not marry.Rebecca Nuttall, daughter of Elija and Polly Price Nuttall married a Mr. Penniston, a nephew of Sam and Jack Penniston. They had five children: Jefferson, who married a Miss Lovlace and lived on an adjoining plantation to Ditto Nuttall, onCiccelia Island, Louisiana. They were brothers-in-law. Frankey married Elizabeth Hopkins. Almarine married _?_. Susan never married. Price married _?_, and he studied medicine and lived in Fayette County. William, another son. I do not knowwho he married or where he lived.Thomas Nuttall, son of Elijah and Polly Price Nuttall married miss Fanny Moon and had three sons and one daughter. He lived on the plantation with his father and mother until they died. His two sons married (Elijah and Archibald) Rebeccaand Mary Nuttall, daughters of their Uncle Price Nuttall.Elijah, the youngest child of Elijah and Polly Price Nuttall died when he was a small child.Louisville, KentuckyMay 25th, 1898Martha English Green daughter of [note by BCN, name not supplied]Presented to KEMP JOHNSON by his aunt Lela (Ida) Johnson. The original copy given to his cousin Marselle Johnson.SignedLela (Ida) JohnsonCopy by KEMP JOHNSONTyped by Brandon C. Nuttall ("BCN") 8-Dec-1996 from a typed copy supplied by Nelson and Lindsay Nuttall.Additional notes from material compiled by Nelson and Lindsay Nuttall:ELIJAH NUTTALL IN PENNSYLVANIAElijah Nuttle(various spellings, including Allega Nuttle) was a member of the Third Battalion, Washington County, Pennsylvania Militia. He did various tours of duty, usually of short duration. He was a private Third Class, and is listedon the Class Roll of Capt. William LeetsPENNSYLVANIA ARCHIVES SIXTH SERIES VOLUME II (pages 98-129)This battalion was ordered to rendezvous on April 4th, 1782, according to an order of April 12, 1782. His name was spelled Elijah Neetle. James Dement, Thomas Craig, and Barton Tuel were listed in the same company. Lieut. Col.Williamson (David) was the senior officer. This is the same Lt Col David Williamson who was in command of the militia during the infamous massacre of friendly Christianized Indians at Gnadenhutten on March 8th, 1782. It however does notappear that Elijah Nuttall was present at this affair. This massacre aroused the greatest feeling of revulsion among people living along the Atlantic shore, and also incited the Indians to great fury, and directly resulted in the burning atthe stake of Col William Crawford.Capt. Leets' and his command in which Elijah Nuttall serving as a result of the April 1782 muster appears to have been at Vance's Fort from April 16th, 1782, to May 16th, 1782. This probably covered the period of Elijah Nuttall's muster.For 1783-1784 Elijah Nuttle, shown as a private Third Class was with the St. Desker expedition in the Mingo Bottoms. The battle of Mingo Bottoms in which Col Crawford's forces were routed and Col Crawford was captured and later torturedand burned at the stake was June 4th, 1782. Elijah Nuttall does not appear to have been on the expedition.Lt Col John Marshall seemed to have been the commanding officer when Elijah Nuttall saw service in 1783-1784, and William Leets was still in command of the Company.
Note: He was probably born either at Brereton's Chance, on Passerdyke Crk., near Allen, along the S
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