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Curtis
Generation No. 1 1. GEORGE1 CURTIS. He married ELIZABETH.
Children of GEORGE CURTIS and ELIZABETH are: 2. i. BLUNDEL2 CURTIS, b. October 20, 1744, Northumberland County, Virginia; d. Aft. 1817, Clarke County, Alabama. ii. MARGARET CURTIS, b. 1746. iii. SARAH ANN CURTIS, b. 1748.
Generation No. 2 2. BLUNDEL2 CURTIS (GEORGE1) was born October 20, 1744 in Northumberland County, Virginia, and died Aft. 1817 in Clarke County, Alabama.Notes for BLUNDEL CURTIS: PETITION TO CONGRESS FROM THE ALABAMA TERRITORY
1817(?) To the Honorable the congress of the United States, the humble petition of the undersigned inhabitats of the Alabama Territory residing near the waters of the Mobile,--respectfully showeth , That your petitioners have heard with the most serious alarm that applications are about to b e made to your honorable body by the new state of the Mississippi for an extension of the boundaries of the said state so as to include at least the whole of the settlements on the western side of the Mobile & Tombigby rivers:Your petitioners view this proposed transfer of freeman, like the vassals of European potentats, from one sovereignty to another, as so repugnant to justice & so completely hostile to the priciples of republican America; that they persuade themselves it will receive from the representatives of the people of the United States, a prompt & indignant rejection. That venerable instrument,--the declaration of Independence,--both established the sacred maxim that "all men are equal"--and that "governments derive their just powers from the consent of the governed: But what equality of rights would exist; if the people of the Alabama territory were to be bound down by a form of government instituted without their co-operation by the people of the State of Mississippi? What equality could they boast of when they found themselves subjected to he control of governors, & bound by the ties of allegiance to a government, without having previously had the smallest agency in the choice of the one or the organization of the other? If the just powers of a government can be derived only from the consent of the governed; you r petitioners have certainly a right to expect that their inclinations will be consulted, & t hat some means will be provided by which their consent may be manifested, before they are entangled in the ties of allegiance to a new sovreingnty. They have indeed a right to expect more than this. They are as much entitled as their brethren of the Mississippi to have a voice i n determining the previous question submitted to the convention, whether it be expedient to form a partial state out of the Mississippi Territory? The voice of your petitioners has been decidedly against that measure. But it has been adopted, and they submit. But they cannot submit in silence to the doctrine, that after its adoption, they are liable to be bound like a ban d of captive slaves to the chariot wheels of triumphant majority. They are not the inhabitants of a province acquired by conquest, or by purchase from a foreign power. They claim the right s of original citizens of the United States. The Alabama territory is, for the most part, a portion of the state of Georgia, one of the old thirteen confederated sovreignties: it is entitled by a solemn compact with the state of Georgia to admission into the Union when its population shall be sufficient, on "an equal(?) with the original states, in all respects whatever, with liberty to form a permanent constitution & state government": But what will become of these privileges if the people of the territory can be transferred in parcels to the adjacent state s? & how dishonorably will the national faith be violated, if your petitioners are stripped o f that right of forming their own constitution, which they are as much entitled to, as any of the original parties to the federal compact! Your petitioners humbly conceive that the reasons which they have suggested must be conclusive with your honorable body, against any extension of the territorial limits of the State of Mississippi:--but there are various considerations which induce your petitioners to be immoveably hostile to the measure. 1.) It will retard the admission of the Alabama territory into the union as an independent state:--& will considerable augment the burthens of government, when it is admitted. 2.) considering the actual situation of the country, & the state of its population;--the dividing line proposed to be established between the State of Mississippi & the Alabama Territory, i s the most unnatural one that could possible be devised. It is true that in a county where the population is regularly scattered over the whole surface of it, a river may be regarded a s a natural boundary. But in a country where the population is confined to the vicinity of the water courses, & the whole face of the territory besides is a wide waste; a river, especially if it be only of a second rate in point of magnitude becomes the most inconvenient 7unnatura l boundary imaginable. Such a boundary separates neighbors. It places under different governments those who are in habits of daily intercourse. it facilitates the evasion of both civil & criminal process, &multiplies the means of rendering the laws a laughing stock to the lawless. Under the circumstances in which your petitioners are placed, it will frequently separate one p art of a family from the other,&leave the plantation of a citizen in one state &his mansion house in another. And what would be gained, to compensate for these inconveniences? nothing: but the saving of t he expense of running one additional line through a country where hundreds of thousands are al ready run under the authority of the national government. 3.)--If your petitoners have been accurately informed, one of the most impressive considerations which induced the late congress to divide the Mississippi Territory was the danger of a collision of interests between the two great communities living adjacent to the Mississippi, & t o the water of the Mobile. A future want of harmony in the counsels of the new government,&perpetual feuds among the people, were anticipated as the natural result of such a collision. But the proposed alteration i n the boundary line will renew &augment those very dangers which the division was meant to guard against. The only difference to be perceived is that with the limits now contemplated by the Mississippi people, the result of every struggle between the two communities will be that the people o f the Mobile, will be made to pass under the yoke. 4.) The rivers Tombigby & Mobile are formed by nature to be one great channel of intercourse between the western states & the gulf of Mexico. This channel ought to be subject to the regulation of a single sovereignty. It should be under the superintendence of a legislature, which will, not only be sensible of its importance, but feel an interest in promoting its utility &affording to nature all the needful succours of art. But will such an interest be felt by a legislature, of which a majority of members will be elected by the inhabitants of a country adjacent to arrival channel of commercial intercourse? It cannot be expected. The Alabama territory as it now stands, possesses an identity of interest, as complete, as any state of equal extent in the American Confederacy. Whether the people are stationed on the Tombigby or Alabama,--on the Mobile or the Tennessee; they are all deeply interested in bringing to perfection the same channel of trade & commerce. But if you divide them, if you connect one portion of them to the Mississippi, & leave the other portion of them to themselves; you paralize their energies, & drop a cloud over their fair prospects of future prosperity. The general interests of the Union, call for the highest possible improvement, of every part of it:--and the Congress of the United States will watch with the most sedulous jealous y against every measure calculated to obstructor retard it. Your petitioners therefore, humbly and respectfully hope that no proposition for making any encroachments on the Alabama Territory, will receive any countenance from your honorable body. 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McEGirard John Cox S Nabors Wm Tait P F Crowel Stephen Grice Reason Pew Bartlet Brown Wm H Robertson David Phillips Bodo Adams David Childres Francois Girard John D Lorry Miql Gitara Michael Secrest G B Cotters John Reid L Judson Robert WhiteM McKinsey Lewis Nabors J S Patten William Jaunson Joseph Swett A Quinnelly J W C Fleeming John McGrew J Whitehead Robert Harrison J P Smith Clak McGrew Aron Barlow Willim McGrew Ser George Woodruff William McGrew Jr Noah Adams Alexander McGrew Jos McCandless Alexander Kilpatrick P H Hobart Nesbitt McGrew Wm Hall urtis Blinderbush Walter Bourke Middleton Harrison Carman Frazee Bengaman Rogers John Bolton Alexander Mckdaniel Gerald Byrne** John Cox William Pollard John Lowery Dque Saller jeune William LoweryDiego McCoy* Richard W Hall M PerraultThomas Lowery James Wilson Andrew LowertSaml Acre Benjamin Deloch Henry V ChamberlainJohn C Parist Benjn Dubroca V S AlexanderJ G Viennedez J Saml Browing Danl DuvalCharles Nabours Louis Dolives David PhillipsS H Garrow James Steap D S FisherGreen D Caller Alvan Robeshow Georg P DenisGeorge Gullett Charles Ray John Eades James Ray Charles Hall Hall Ray Cyrus Sibley John Stokes Thomas M Mervin James Deuit Jr Thos W Daily Blasingan Johnson Nicolas Weeks George Opry Buford Weekley William Curtis Harry Toulmin
* Diego McCoy is Diego McVoy who was a commisioner of Mobile, Alabama from 1815. ** Gerald Byrne is Gerald Byrne Jr. His father, Gerald Byrne Sr, was massacred in 1814 b y a band of Redstick Indians. Both above notes were provided by Bonnie McVoy Treon. She can be contacted at gateon@ctc.net. It is amazing how many of the above I remember from reading about the Massacre at Fort Mims. Sharman
Child of BLUNDEL CURTIS is: 3. i. ELIZABETH3 CURTIS, b. Abt. 1770, Craven County, South Carolina.
Generation No. 3 3. ELIZABETH3 CURTIS (BLUNDEL2, GEORGE1) was born Abt. 1770 in Craven County, South Carolina. She married (1) MICHAEL HORN August 26, 1796 in Warren county, Ga. She married (2) ROBERT HAWKINS August 21, 1806 in Hancock County, Georgia, son of DRURY HAWKINS?.Notes for ELIZABETH CURTIS: I believe your Elizabeth Curtis is my Elizabeth Curtis. Elizabeth married Michael Horn in Warren county,Ga.about1796.They had two children Richard Whitehead Horn and Emily. Emily married John W. Johnson. They moved to Clark County, Al. Richard also moved to Al. but to a different county. An entry in Clark county records states that Blundell Curtis, Elizabeth Hawkins, and John Johnson have been given power to sell land in Washington and Hancock counties Georgia for the min or Richard Horn. I can't remember the year but I think it was around 1806.Would like to share any information on Elizabeth Curtis you have. Rachel Turner redscali@aol.com tsoalice@intcomm.net Hi Sharman and Rachel, I think I have some information on your Elizabeth Curtis. She is my 4thgrt grandmother and the daughter of Blundell Curtis, mother unk. I am her descendant by way of her first child, John Douglas Curtis, who seems to have been illegitimate. I know she later married a Horn. Since this story is a little lengthy and am going to E-mail it to you. Regards, Gary Cloud
Notes for ROBERT HAWKINS: The Hancock County records mention only a Drury Hawkins and a Hardress Hawkins. Interestingly , after finding those two names in records in Hancock County, I glanced back over records I had collected and found a document from the will Book V V 1776-1784 which mentions a Robert Hawkins, St. Mark's Parish, Craven County. Wife: Jane, formerly Jane Davis, 1/2 estate, then to son . Son: Thomas, under 19 years, other half estate. Brother: Drury Hawkins. Mentions: Thomas and Robert, under 18 years and William Hawkins, sons of my brother. Exors: Wife; Samuel Little; D avid Guelyard. Wit. Sm. Little, Thos. Sumter.d: 29 May 1775. P: nd. R:nd. P. 181
Children of ELIZABETH CURTIS and MICHAEL HORN are: i. RICHARD WHITEHEAD4 HORN. ii. EMILY HORN, m. JOHN W. JOHNSON. Children of ELIZABETH CURTIS and ROBERT HAWKINS are: iii. WILLIAM CURTIS4 HAWKINS, b. 1807; d. 1835; m. ESPA GOODING HILL. Notes for WILLIAM CURTIS HAWKINS: William C. HAWKINS Estate Settlement Extract (1835): Pike County, Alabama, Book 20, pages559-578 Adm: Lewis HILL and Epsa (Espa?) G. HAWKINS, appointed on 13 October1835. Sigining the bond as sureties were Daniel SARTOR and The estate owed James H. PONDER $50 for medical services from 30 May - 25June 1835. The estate owed James M. STAGGERS of Millville, Butler County, Alabama $29.92 on funeral expenses for black cloth, black silk, bleached homespun, and coffin tacks purchased there on 26 Jun e 1835 by Lewis HILL.The estate owed B.M. TUCKER & Co. for purchases for November 1834 - 29 June 1835: whiskey mostly and rum, cigars, tobacco, coffee, one fine tooth comb, one almanac, a tin bucket, two spelling books, shoes, and a pair of long-waisted stockings.The estate also owed money to John S. FOWLER (?), John WHITE, Abijah RICHBURG, Robert SIMS, E . GODWIN, W. Futrill, and others.Property of the estate was sold on 18 November 1835 by Lewis HILL. Som e of the purchasers were James M. STAGGERS, B.M. TUCKER, Archibald SHAW, Asla G. Hill, David CLEMENTS, Hugh LINTON, Bartholomew STAGGERS, Daniel SARTOR, Angus CURRIE, James H. PONDER, and David ROLLIN.Source: Papers of the Pike County Historical and Genealogical Society (Troy Alabama), Vol. XXX IX, Nos. 3 & 4, 2000. Abstracts from General Estate Books 20-25, 1823-1880. I'm interested in furthur information on this William C. Hawkins. I believe he is the brother of Malinda Hawkins who married Daniel SARTOR. William and Malinda evidently are the children of Robert Hawkins and Elizabeth Curtis. Is anyone else researching this line?? Thanks! Ann Ann Chernow chernow@mindspring.com Sharman, Thanks for the information. Years ago, I got some information from those Adams who were mentioned in your notes. I see a definite list of who Epsy's father was supposed to be, but isn't it curious that she was listed as a Goodman in Mandy Hawkins DuBose's Bible? But at least that will give me something to check on. I had seen the Gooding notation before, as I said, but never with any proof attached. I would like to put that matter to rest, once and for all.Something is off about those different names, and I would really like to know the truth. I meant to mention that my best friend here has Ramseys in her line, and I told her about your site. She has already been in contact with you or your husband, I think. She is originally from Wesson, MS. Sharron Baird has worked on a DAR line through someone like William Ramsey. Small world. Going back to the information on the DuBoses and the two Hawkins sisters, Mary Elizabeth and Amanda Evelinah. Go back and check those dates for the sisters. Mary Elizabeth died in childbirth in 1845, and it was Hezekiah, not her, who died in 1902. The dates I quoted yesterday came from their tombstones in the Marlin Texas City Cemetery, and are verified by obituaries and funeral cards. I am personally certain of those dates. Mary Elizabeth's son was William Joel DuBose, not William Joseph. I also see that someone had William M. Gray as my great grandmother Epsy Ann DuBose's husband. His name was William Garrett Gray. Her sister Melissa Jane DuBose married William Garrett's brother, Clinch Marzette Gray. More later....I want to look at the Hawkins possibilities in the 1790 SC census when I get a chance. Anita Sharman Ramsey wrote: > You have told me much more than I knew before! Murdered? Do you know more about that? How could we find out? Do you know where you came up with the information about Sumter County, South Carolina? That is quite helpful. I'll do a search there. As for the Gooding, it was included on a list of names my husband's Aunt Janis gave him. Maybe if we get the names right we can find who we're looking for. > Thanks, Sharman > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Anita N. Nail" <nail@tecinfo.com> > To: "Sharman Ramsey" <style@southern-style.com> > Sent: Monday, March 05, 2001 3:29 PM > Subject: Re: Hawkins Family in Alabama > > > Sharman, I was killing some time the other night, just idly typing some of my surnames into a search engine. When I typed "DuBose," the Hawkins site came up. I scrolled down to see if anyone looked familiar, and there was my family! I was so excited to see William Curtis Hawkins listed, as I have been unsuccessful in finding anything on him. I know he was said to be murdered at an early age, and that his wife was pregnant with a daughter; the daughter was William Epsy Hawkins, which has confused descendants ever since!I would be very grateful if you could tell me anything about William Curtis and his wife, Mary Epsis Goodman. Your site shows her as Mary Gooding Hill - would you mind telling me where you found her listed as that? I can not find documentation proving their marriage or her name, but my family has always known her as a Goodman. We also knew that the Hill surname was involved, but thought that she remarried after the murder of William Curtis. I also knew nothing about Robert except for his name. I did not know his wife's name, though. I think Robert was in Sumter County, SC. in 1800. This is just a guess, but right now, that is all I have. Anything you would be willing to share with me would be wonderful. I am more than glad to reimburse you for any costs for copying and postage. I am so glad to make contact with a new "cousin," and I look forward to hearing > > from you. Thanks so much! > > Anita Nail > > > > Sharman Ramsey wrote: > > > > > If only we could find the parents of Robert Hawkins and Elizabeth > Curtis! They are truly elusive. I am goad to have someone join in thesearch! > > > Sharman Ramsey > > > ----- Original Message ----- > > > From: "Anita N. Nail" <nail@tecinfo.com> > > > To: <style@southern-style.com> > > > Sent: Saturday, March 03, 2001 5:09 PM > > > Subject: Hawkins Family in Alabama iv. MALINDA HAWKINS, m. SALTER. v. EVELINE AMANDA HAWKINS, m. SOLOMON. |
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