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Note: Witness to his father's 3-28-1766 Halifax Co., VA will but was unnamed as a beneficiary in the will. A beneficiary of a will may not be a witness to the will.
Joseph Edgar died there in September 1767. Joseph must have been the only child over age 20 when Joseph Edgar died because the Pittsylvania (Halifax Co., in 1767) Virginia Court ordered the Church Wardens of the Parish to bind his other children under age 21, Jesse, Obediah, and Judith to David Terry.
27 Nov 1767 Pittsylvania Co., VA.; Joseph Spradling ordered to be bound out again. The conditions of this Legal Judgment meant that Joseph would have been released from a Legal Ruling upon attaining his majority, the age of 21 as recognized by the Virginia Courts at that time. This means that Joseph was born about 1746. What the legal ruling was is not known. He was not one of the children bound to David Terry in Joseph Edgar's will. He apparently was over age 21.
Part of Halifax Co., became Pittsylvania Co. in 1768.
27 Feb 1768 Pittsylvania Co., VA.; Joseph Spradling declared qualified administrator of Joseph Spradling, Dec'd estate.
Note: It's interesting that he was named Administrator of Joseph Edgar's estate. Joseph had a will and an administrator is appointed only if an individual dies intestate. Here, Joseph clearly had a will. Joseph Edgar's brother James 'Jack' was executor of his estate. James 'Jack' moved to North Carolina shortly after Joseph Edgar's death and Joseph probably took over his duties as executor. This probably was what is meant by a 'qualified administrator'.
However in those days children 17 or older were required to pay Tithables (Taxes), could enter into a contract, witness a document including the administration of an estate so the children named above were probably under age 17. Jesse was listed as being born in 1750 in the 1782 Halifax Co., VA Continental Census, but this may have been a mistake given the information in the Virginia Court records above. He was probably under age 17 then, if so, he was born after 1751. He was listed as age 106 in the 1850 Wayne Co., KY Census, likely another mistake. However, he was probably around 100 years old.
28 May 1768 Pittsylvania Co., VA.; Joseph Spradling ordered to record inventory of Joseph Spradling, Dec'd estate, wife, Jane.
1771 Halifax Co., VA Record for Joseph Spradling.
30 Aug 1779 Halifax Co., VA, Deed Bk, p362; Joseph Spradling and wife, Jane. This was probably the sale of his property in Virginia before his move to Georgia.
Then Joseph moved to Georgia sometime between Sep 1779 and Jun 1784. He probably served in the Revolutionary War and moved to Georgia afterwards. (See paragraph below)
Wilkes Co.,, GA Land Court Minutes, Jun 1784: Ordered that Joseph Spradling have a Warrant for 200 Acres, on the Waters of Fishing Creek, in lieu of a former Warrant. (Miscellaneous Records of Wilkes County Georgia, Vol. II.) Bounty land warrants were grants of land issued to veterans in return for military service from the time of the Revolutionary War through 1855. Therefore, Joseph must have been a Revolutionary War Soldier.
1785 Wilkes Co., GA Record. (excerpt from The Story of Georgia and the Georgia People, 1732 to 1860. Second Edition)
'These inventories give a better insight into the domestic affairs of the first settlers than any general description. They show the first comers were men of some property, who had but few comforts and fewer of the luxuries of life. The description of Governor Gilmer of life among the first North Carolinans who came to Georgia and settled in Wilkes is borne out by the inventories of the first estates, but belonged to all first comers. There was, however, immediately after the Revolution a large influx of Virginians who were in better circumstances, and who brought with them their large wagons from Virginia, a supply of better furniture, and furnished their tables more bountifully. As illustrative of this we have the inventory of John Wingfield, who died in 1798, and whose inventory is elaborate and extensive. He had, besides a sufficient supply of plain household and kitchen furniture, some articles mentioned in no other inventory up to this time. They were bacon, sugar, turkeys, a riding chair, some books, some lard and some table cloths.
The land was usually secured by headright, or if purchased cost about two shillings per acre for the best quality. These Virginians, who knew the value of good land, bought large bodies and laid the foundations for the great estates their children had in after time.
There were no court houses until 1785 and court was held in private houses. Acccording to Governor Gilmer, 'Prisoners, in the absence of a jail, were bound with hickory withes, and confined occasionally by putting their heads in between the rails of a fence, and sometimes putting them in pens.'
The old Governor gives some some extracts from the presentments of the grand jury as follows:
Georgia 1785 The following presentments of the Grand Jury of Wilks County, describe the habits and manners of the people.
We present Hezekiah Wheat for profain swearing, Also Stephen Brooks for profain swearing, also John Boggs for profain swearing, also William Vardiman for profain swearing, also Robert Jackson, also Andrew Frazer, also Joseph Purham, also Thomas Morris, also William Osborn, also Moses Harris, also Peter Carnes, also C. Z. William Moor, also Jefrey Early, also William Thornton, also Grant Taylor, also Richard Powell, also Samuel Criswell, also Daniel Young, also Peter Stubblefield, also Joseph Cook also James Stwert, also B. Smith, also JOSEPH SPRADLING, also John Bragg for fighting & gambling, also . . . . . . . (Wilkes Co. GA is just northeast of Greene Co.,GA)
After this, Joseph moved to Greene County, Georgia. Or he may not have moved. Part of Wilkes County, GA became part of Greene County according to the records.
Joseph Spradling was among the members of the first Greene Co., GA Grand Jury. Source: First Settlers of Upper Georgia, by George R. Gilmer, (1926-1965)
1786 Greene Co., GA, Deed
Tax List: Joseph Spradling, Greene Co., GA, Wiggins Dist., 1797.
Douglass Carroll sold a farm in Franklin County, NC in 1791. He bought some more land from Joseph Spradling on Shoulderbone Creek in Greene County, Georgia, in 1798. This is all from County land records. (http://www.littleco.net/carrell.html) This means that Joseph probably moved to Alabama, Mississippi Territory, sometime around 1798.
Note: Douglas Carroll, above, was a Revolutionary War Soldier. He died Nov 1827 and is buried in Greene Co., GA. Several of his relatives lived in Madison Co., AL between 1790-1820. A John Spradling was listed in the 1815 and 1816 Madison Co., AL Tax Lists. An Alexander Spradling married Patsy Pumell 13 Nov 1819 in Madison Co., AL.
Also, it's interesting that William Spradling, 1770, NC, wife, Margaret McCracken, stated that he lived in Franklin Co., NC where Douglas Carroll, above, lived when he was about 16, as a witness in Charles Holt's Revolutionary Pension Application. William was probably the grandson of Jonathan 'John' and Mary (Womack) Spradling. William lived in Franklin Co., GA in 1803 where court records stated that Jonathan 'John' and Mary Spradling's children and grandchilden lived.
Joseph Spradling, Alabama, Mississippi Territory:
Name on petition to Congress, ref. 14 Dec 1815, by inhabitants of eastern part of MS Territory, who lost much income/property in the wars with England and the Indians, asking that money already paid be applied. Source: Territorial Papers of the U. S., Vol. 6, page 571, Family No. 79.
U.S. Census Reconstructed Records, 1660-1820
Name: Jos Spradling
Gender: M (Male)
State: Alabama
Locality: Mississippi Territory
Residence Year: 1820
Household Remarks:
Name on petition to Congress, ref. 14 Dec 1815, by inhabitants of eastern part of MS territory, who lost much income/property in the wars with England & Indians, asking that money already paid be applied.
He or his son, Joseph, may have been listed in two Giles Co., TN Land Records.
North Carolina and Tennessee, Early Land Records, 1753-1931.
Joseph Spradling, Record date: 10 Feb 1826, Giles County, Tennessee
Joseph Spradling, Record date 28 Mar 1826, Giles County, Tennessee.
Giles County, Tennessee is right across the border from Lauderdale, Madison and Lawrence County, Alabama.
None of Joseph's children have been identified.
Joseph may have been the father of William Spradley/Spradling, b. 1796-1800, Alabama, Mississippi Territory, who was married to Keziah Boydstun, 5 Jul 1832, Crawford Co., MO. A Joseph Spradlin married Matilda Snodgrass 4 Oct 1832 in Crawford Co., MO, in the same township as William and Keziah, and by the same minister, John Avery. He may have been William's brother. William was born in either Georgia or Alabama, Mississippi Territory between 1796-1800. Two descendants of William and Keziah closely matched several descendants of Charles S. Sr. & Agnes Spradling. One matched four of their descendants exactly and another one genetic distance from an exact DNA match. The first descendant of William, above, matched sixteen other descendants of Charles and Agnes one genetic distance from an exact DNA match on FamilyTreeDNA. (Brothers can match this close.) Joseph, here, was their grandson, son of Joseph Edgar. One of William's descendants matched a descendant of Joseph's brother, Jesse Spradling, on 65 of 67 DNA markers on FamilyTreeDNA.
The Territory of Mississippi was an organized incorporated territory of the United States that existed from April 7, 1798, until December 10, 1817, when the final extent of the territory was admitted to the Union as the state of Mississippi.
The Mississippi Territory was expanded in 1804 and again in 1812 until it extended from the Gulf of Mexico to the southern border of Tennessee. (Georgia gave up the northern portion in 1802, and the Gulf Coast region was acquired from Spain.) Originally Mississippi Territory included what is now Alabama, and 9 months before Mississippi was admitted into the Union in 1817, the Alabama Territory to the east was separated out on March 3. [1] On December 10, 1817, Mississippi was admitted to the Union as the 20th state.
The state of Georgia maintained a claim over almost the entire area of the present states of Alabama and Mississippi (from 31° N to 35° N) until it surrendered its claim in 1802 following the Yazoo land scandal. Two years later, Congress extended the boundaries of the Mississippi Territory to include all of the Georgia cession. Wikipedia
I find it interesting that Joseph, here, probably my gggggf, and Joshua Ellis, Sr., my proven gggggf, both owned land in Georgia on Shoulder Bone Creek. See Joshua's will and Joseph's sale of his land on Shoulderr Bone Creek 1798. Glenn Spradley
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