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- !NOTES:Marty Grant's 6th Great Grand Father;
!REFERENCE:
http://www.martygrant.com/genealogy/sams/sams-william-union-il.html
!REFERENCE:
Reference the books "Sams Family of Virginia," Dr. Crawford F. Sams, Conway C. Sams and Col. Robert C. Hackett, 1981, (out of print)
and
"The Sons and Daughters of Sams, Volume I," Beck Sams, 2007. (Available from Lulu.com)
Both are great resources for the Sams family, and also the reasons I didn’t do much first hand Sams research until recently. I’ve not attempted to verify everything in the books, but I have done my best to verify a lot of it;
!TAXLIST:1770 Pittsylvania Co, VA William SAMS, 1 Poll;
* Might be his father instead;
!TAXLIST:1782 Henry Co., VA
p. 33
William Sams 1-0-3-6
Columns: White Tithes-Negroes-Horses-Catttle;
!COURT: 5 Feb 1783 Washington Co, NC Court of Pleas and Quarter Sessions Volume 1 1778-1779, pg 197 Mark off Road ... Edm'd SAMS ... Wm SAMS ...;
!TAXLIST:1783 Henry Co., VA Personal Property Tax List
Pg. Taxed W. Tithes-W. Tithes 21+-Slaves16+-Slaves-16-Horses-Cattle
32 Lanier (by whom taxed)
William Sams 1-1-0-0-2-5;
!TAXLIST:1784 Henry Co., VA Personal Property Tax List x
* I didn't find William Sams (or any othe Sams)listed
* He's probably in Washington Co., NC (now TN) already by 1784;
!NAMED: 7 Aug 1787 Burke Co, NC Land Grants # 1194 to Charles McDOWELL, 120a both sides Middle fork of Ivey River. ent 1 aug 1783 # 62, surv 7 Aug 1787 Chain Bearers: William SAMS, David McPETERS. Granted # 1195 18 May 1789;
!CENSUS:1790 x
* Lost for TN;
!COURT:Jul 1792 Buncombe Co, NC Court Minutes. Jury to lay off road from Ivy
River to Caney River ... James SAMS ... William SAMS ... George BAKER ...
John BAKER, James HENSELY, Henry HENSELY and John EDWARDS;
!COURT:Apr 1794 Buncombe Co, NC Court Minutes. Jurors for July sessions 1794 ... William SAMS ...;
!COURT:Jul 1794 Buncombe Co, NC Court Minutes. Jury ... William SAMS ...;
!CENSUS:1800 Buncombe Co., NC p. 189
William Sams age 45+ (bef 1755)
12201-01010-0-0;
!CENSUS:1810 x
!STATE-CENSUS:1818 Pope Co., IL
William Sams, 3 white males 21 and upwards, 3 other white persons
* Might not be our William Sams. See 1820 census entry.
!CENSUS:1820 Pope Co., IL, Monroe Township, p. 83
W. Sames age 16-25 (1794/1804)
320100-01001-0-0
* Same neighbors as man in 1818. Too young to be our William Sams unless mis-enumerated.
!NAMED-WILL:14 Apr 1828 Hickman Co., KY Will Book 1822-1836 pp. 85-86
William Sams of Hickman Co., KY
Sick and Afflicted in body but of sound mind ...
to my aged father (no name) 25 shillings <---
my brothers
Rice Sams
Thomas Sams
Wiley Sams
$5 each in young cattle
my brother David Sams $100 in cash
my sisters
Elizabeth Deweese
Lavina Carter
$5 each in catttle
my beloved wife Sarah my plantation on waters of Mayfield Creek
my Negro girls Devendar 25, Tammy 11, Negro boy Isaac 9,
small Negro girl named Tener about 3
my step-son Joseph D. Montgomery my Negro girl Tener 37 and Katherine about 12
also a Negro boy Solomon age 5, also $100
Samuel Gibson, William Holeman executors
S: Wm Sams
Wit: J. D. Martin, Samuel Hows, Wm Holeman
Proven June court 1828;
!REFERENCE:THE SAMS FAMILY OF VIRGINIA." he was born in what is now Henry County, Virginia, Although he is first recorded in the tithables of Halifax County of 1773 when he was just sixteen years old. This was before the western portion of Halifax County was split off as Henry County in 1777, therefore William bas born under the jurisdiction of Halifax County as Halifax County had been split off of the Western part of Lindenburg County in 1752. The date of his birth is confirmed by the data on his grave stone in the Sams family cemetery south of Jonesboro, Union County, Illinois, where he died in 1825. He was commissioned a 2nd Lieutenant in the 5th Virginia Continental Regiment March 28, 1776. There is no record of when William left the service. He did return to Henry County to be married to Martha Edwards. Martha was the daughter of Thomas Edwards who died November 17, 1790 and was a neighbor of John Sams Born 1749, a brother of William Sams, Jr. who lived on Turkey Cock Creek in what is now Henry County, Virginia. Martha's father willed to Martha Sams one negro girl names Jane. Martha and William, Jr. were married before 1780, since William established his own household by recording a survey of 223 acres south of what is now Martinsville, Virginia and east of Ridgeway on Simon Creek, a branch of Matrimony Creek, which flows into the Smith River east of Ridgeway where the present route 622 crosses Smith River. Martha would have been 16 years old at the time of her marriage, if she were married in 1779. She died on July 19, 1824 at the age of 61 years making her birthdate 1763, as shown on her tombstone where she is buried next to William, Jr. in the Sams family cemetery south of Jonesboro, Union County, Illinois. William was further recorded in Henry County, Virginia as being on the tax list in 1782. He was also recorded in a court record as having been granted compensation for twenty pounds of pork furnished General Lee's troops in 1783. Martha's first son William Sams III was born in 1780 confirming the probable date of her marriage as 1779 and William's service in the Revolutionary Was as probably being three years. Sometime after 1783 and before 1791 William Sams, Jr. went directly from Henry County to Buncombe County, now Madison County, North Carolina to follow his brothers John born 1749, James born 1750 and Edmond, born 1757. John and Edmond had first gone to Tennessee and James had first gone to Burke County, North Carolina.";
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Bef 1752 - 1828 (> 76 years)