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- Email from Walter Turner, 24 Sep 2018:
Going back to John Adam Link. Two of his daughters married Warrens. I can add this. Sarah?s husband was James Warren, and their family is well-worked-out by their descendants and by other Warren family researchers. Milly Link?s husband is less certain. Some say he was Timothy Warren, but I think that is rather a guess.
JAL?s daughter Peggy Link married a Foster, as we know from his will. I have looked for her family, but have nothing definite. On circumstantial evidence, I have identified her husband as the Ambrose Foster, who died in Halifax County in 1802. Ambrose Foster was in Spotsylvania County, Virginia, as JAL was. He bought land in Halifax County in 1761 and 1762, a couple of years after JAL bought his land there. The Foster land in Halifax was just to the west of the Links and Turners. You see his two large plots in the attached page 16A from Mr. Dodson?s book. Ambrose was a major purchaser at the sale of JAL?s estate, and his will named his wife Peggy. There were admittedly other men named Ambrose Foster around, including a son of the one I am writing about here, but It would be hard to confuse them.
Thomas Link, son of John Link, didn?t marry Mary (Dupuy) Chambers in 1808. That is probably a typo. They married in 1848. He was in his late 50?s at the time, and it seems he must have been married before, but nothing I have found suggests that. Mary wasn?t born till after 1810, and her first husband was still alive in 1840.
From the book:
The will of Barton Link served to identify his family as
Rachel, who married Thomas Atkinson in 1799, Lucy, Milly,
John (deceased), and Byrd Booker. The will refers to "children
of my deceased son John". This son died in 1829. His
children were Barton, Lucy Ann Whitlow, Byrd B., William, Mary
Wilkerson, and Rachel Blackwell. A land settlement in 1850
named the first five of these in a sale to James Blackwell.
Rachell Link had married a Blackwell.
As I understand it, the Rachel Link who married Thomas Blackwell was the widow of Barton?s son John (who died in 1813 instead of 1829). Rachel Rogers and John Link had no daughter Rachel. There are many records for this, including a bible record for the Blackwell family that includes Rachel?s first husband and her Link children. Plus records like Rachel?s will associating these Blackwell and Link family members later. The mistake is repeated on page 13 in the outline. It doesn?t affect either your wife?s descent or that of Mrs. Annie Daniels, but I?m surprised Mrs. Daniels didn?t know it. I do have a John Link who died in 1829. He was the grandson of JAL through his son William. The land purchaser may have been Rachel (Rogers, Link) Blackwell?s son James Lipscomb Blackwell. Rachel had died in 1849. Here is an abstract of her will. It was written September 1849 and in probate the following December.
https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.3.1/TH-1941-20078-30186-8?cc=1867501&wc=10922777
North Carolina, Probate Records, 1735-1970, Person, Wills, 1847-1851, Vol. 13, Image 119 of 285 (p. 230 of ledger)
son William Link 40 acres I purchased of William D. Holloway and household furniture (except bed and chest) and a sorrel mare
son James L. Blackwell that bed and chest
son Byrd B. Link cow and calf
daughter Mary Wilkerson(?) cow and calf
Balance of estate divided equally amongst all children
portion of daughters Lucy Whitlow and Mary Wilkerson in trust of J. H. Clay and at the death of one or both to be divided equally among their children
son William Link and J. H. Clay to be executors
Witnesses: James? Drumright?, James B. Buchanan. Both appeared in court.
The Mississippi county where Sarah Link and Ransom Turner lived was Yalobusha, not Galabasha.
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Abt 1715 - Abt 1789 (~ 74 years)
, d. 1817 (Age ~ 62 years)