| Notes |
- Things to do:
1. find Emily Starr in 1860 census, Missouri.
2 Find out why Lewry died on plains in 1852, when the story says they came in Oct 1853?
3. http://www3.nvusd.k12.ca.us/education/school/schoolhistory.php?sectiondetailid=7977&sc_id=1160959139
4.check out: War of 1812 Service Records http://search.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/sse.dll?rank=1&new=1&MSAV=0&msT=1&gss=angs-c&gsfn=Samuel&gsln=Griggsby&msbdy=1794&msbpn__ftp=Virginia%2c+USA&msbpn=49&msbpn_PInfo=5-%7c0%7c1652393%7c0%7c2%7c3245%7c49%7c0%7c0%7c0%7c0%7c&uidh=2u2&pcat=39&h=421108&recoff=4+5&db=1812muster&indiv=1&ml_rpos=3 about Samuel Griggsby
Name: Samuel Griggsby
Company: BROWN'S REG'T, EAST TENNESSEE VOLS.
Rank - Induction: SERGEANT
Rank - Discharge: SERGEANT
Roll Box: 86
Roll Exct: 602
U.S., War of 1812 Service Records, 1812-1815 <http://www.ancestry.com/search/db.aspx?dbid=4281&enc=1> about Samuel Grigsby
Name: Samuel Grigsby
Company: COFFEE'S REG'T, CAV., W. TENNESSEE VOLS.
Rank - Induction: PRIVATE
Rank - Discharge: PRIVATE
Roll Box: 86
Microfilm Publication: M602
http://sos.tn.gov/products/tsla/regimental-histories-tennessee-units-during-war-1812
COLONEL JOHN COFFEE
DESIGNATION: Tennessee Volunteer Cavalry
DATES: December 1812 - April 1813
MEN MOSTLY FROM: Rutherford, Davidson, Dickson, Robertson, Smith, Sumner, Williamson, and Wilson Counties
CAPTAINS: John Baskerville, Thomas Bradley, John W. Byrn, Blackman Coleman, Robert Jetton, Charles Kavanaugh, Alexander McKeen, Michael Molton, David Smith, Frederick Stump, James Terrill
BRIEF HISTORY:
This regiment of cavalry joined Jackson's forces at Natchez in early 1813. The strength of the regiment was approximately 600 men. While the bulk of Jackson's troops traveled by boat to Natchez, Coffee's mounted men went overland after rendezvousing near Franklin, Tennessee in mid-January 1813. The officers of this regiment were considered to be the elite citizens of their counties.
Many of the men in this regiment later became part of the unit led by Colonels Alcorn and Dyer during Jackson's first campaign into the Creek territory in the fall of 1813. John Coffee was a wealthy landowner in Rutherford County and a one-time business partner of Andrew Jackson. Coffee was married to Rachel Jackson's niece, Mary Donelson (they named two of their children Andrew and Rachel).
COLONEL JOHN ALCORN
DESIGNATION: 2nd Regiment of Volunteer Mounted Riflemen
DATES: September 1813 - December 1813
MEN MOSTLY FROM: Davidson, Rutherford, Sumner, and Wilson Counties (Winston's company from Madison County, Alabama)
CAPTAINS: John Baskerville, Richard Boyd, Thomas Bradley, John Byrne, Robert Jetton, William Locke, Alexander McKeen, Frederick Stump, Daniel Ross, John Winston
BRIEF HISTORY:
Colonel John Coffee commanded this regiment until the end of October 1813, when Coffee was promoted to Brigadier General. John Alcorn took over as colonel and the unit was incorporated with Colonel Newton Cannon's Mounted Riflemen to form the Second Regiment of Volunteer Mounted Riflemen. The Second Regiment, along with Colonel Robert Dyer's First Regiment of Volunteer Mounted Gunmen, formed the brigade under John Coffee. Muster rolls reveal that the regiment went by various designations besides volunteer mounted riflemen: volunteer cavalry; mounted militia; or mounted gunmen.
Many of the men from this unit were with Andrew Jackson on the expedition to Natchez (December 1812 - April 1813) and, consequently, felt their one-year's enlistment expired in December 1813. Jackson insisted that the time not spent in the field did not apply to the terms of enlistment. Hence, a dispute broke out between the troops and Jackson late in 1813. Most of the troops did leave by the end of that year, despite Jackson's strenuous efforts to keep them.
The regiment participated in the battles at Tallushatchee and Talladega (3 November and 9 November 1813) and muster rolls show that practically all of the companies sustained casualties, the most being in Captain John Byrne's company. The regiment's line of march took them from Fayetteville (where the regiment was mustered in), through Huntsville, Fort Deposit, Fort Strother, to the battles, and back the reverse way.
COLONEL ROBERT DYER
DESIGNATION: Tennessee Volunteer Mounted Gunmen or Cavalry
DATES: September 1813 - May 1814 (some enlisted in January 1814)
MEN MOSTLY FROM: Davidson, Rutherford, Williamson, Dickson, Giles, Overton, Robertson, Stewart, and Sumner Counties
CAPTAINS: (Lt.)James Berry, Samuel Crawford, Nathan Farmer, James Haggard, Charles Kavanaugh, Archibald McKenney, John Miller, William Mitchell, Michael Molton, Edwin G. Moore, David Smith, George Smith, James Terrill
BRIEF HISTORY:
One of two regiments which Dyer commanded at different times of the war, this regiment was part of General John Coffee's cavalry brigade throughout most of the Creek War. The unit participated in most of the battles of the war, including Talladega (9 November 1813), where they formed the reserves, and Horseshoe Bend (27 March 1814). There were several companies of "spies" in the regiment: companies of cavalry that were sent on reconnaissance patrols and usually took the lead in the line of march for Jackson's army.
DESIGNATION: 1st Regiment of West Tennessee Volunteer Mounted Gunmen
DATES: September 1814 - March 1815
MEN MOSTLY FROM: Davidson, Dickson, Williamson, Bedford, Maury, Montgomery, Rutherford, Smith, and Stewart Counties
CAPTAINS: Bethel Allen, Ephraim D. Dickson, Robert Edmonston, Robert Evans, Cuthbert Hudson, Thomas Jones, James McMahon, Glen Owen, Thomas White, Joseph Williams, James Wyatt
BRIEF HISTORY:
Part of Coffee's brigade at New Orleans, most of this regiment took part in the night battle of 23 December 1814. Most of the company muster rolls show casualties from this engagement. Portions of this regiment also participated in the capture of Pensacola from the Spanish in West Florida (7 November 1814). The initial rendezvous point for this unit was Fayetteville, Tennessee. From there they passed through Fort Hampton, to Baton Rouge, and finally to New Orleans.
Source Information
Direct Data Capture, comp. U.S., War of 1812 Service Records, 1812-1815 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations Inc, 1999.
Original data: National Archives and Records Administration. Index to the Compiled Military Service Records for the Volunteer Soldiers Who Served During the War of 1812. Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration. M602, 234 rolls.
About U.S., War of 1812 Service Records, 1812-1815
When the United States declared war on Great Britain in 1812, Congress authorized the President to accept and organize volunteers in order to win the war. This database is a listing of men mustered into the armed forces between 1812 and 1815. Taken from records in the National Archives, each record includes the soldier's name, company, rank at time of induction, rank at time of discharge, and other helpful information. It provides the names of nearly 600,000 men. For researchers of early American ancestors who may have served in the military, this can be a helpful source of information.
These records were taken from Record Group 94 Records of the Adjutant General's Office, microfilm publication M602, a total of 234 rolls of film.
Compiled Military Service Records (CMSR)
Each volunteer soldier has one Compiled Military Service Record (CMSR) for each regiment in which he served. The CMSR contains basic information about the soldier's military career, and it is the first source the researcher should consult. The CMSR is an envelope (a jacket) containing one or more cards. These cards typically indicate that the soldier was present or absent during a certain period of time. Other cards may indicate the date of enlistment and discharge, amount of bounty paid him, and other information such as wounds received during battle or hospitalization for injury or illness. The soldier's place of birth may be indicated; if foreign born, only the country of birth is stated. The CMSR may contain an internal jacket for so-called "personal papers" of various kinds. These may include a copy of the soldier's enlistment paper, papers relating to his capture and release as a prisoner of war, or a statement that he had no personal property with him when he died. Note, however, that the CMSR rarely indicates battles in which a soldier fought; that information must be derived from other sources.
A CMSR is as complete as the surviving records of an individual soldier or his unit. The War Department compiled the CMSRs from the original muster rolls and other records some years after the war to permit more rapid and efficient checking of military and medical records in connection with claims for pensions and other veterans' benefits. The abstracts were so carefully prepared that it is rarely necessary to consult the original muster rolls and other records from which they were made. When the War Department created CMSRs at the turn of the century, information from company muster rolls, regimental returns, descriptive books, hospital rolls, and other records was copied verbatim onto cards. A separate card was prepared each time an individual name appeared on a document. These cards were all numbered on the back, and these numbers were entered onto the outside jacket containing the cards. The numbers on the jacket correspond with the numbers on the cards within the jacket. These numbers were used by the War Department only for control purposes while the CMSRs were being created; the numbers do not refer to other records regarding a veteran nor are they useful for reference purposes today.
Timeline for Samuel Harrison Grigsby
1794 Sep 18, Samuel Harrison born in Wythe County, Virginia
1808 Samuel moved with his family to Roane County, Tennessee (Roane Co created in 1801,
1815 Dec 4, Samuel married Mary Lindsey in Roane County Tennessee
1816 May 10, daughter, Drewsilah, born in Lynnville, Giles, Tennessee (Giles Co created in 1809, county seat Pulaski)
1818 Feb 3, son, Terrell Lindsey, born in Lynnville, Giles, Tennessee
1820 Apr 2, daughter, Chillnery, born in Lynnville, Giles, Tennessee
1822 May 1, son, Achilles Fine, born in Lynnville, Giles, Tennessee
1824 May 29, son, Lillard Harrison, born in Lynnville, Giles, Tennessee
1827 Aug 2, daughter, Lewry, born in Lynnville, Giles, Tennessee
1831 Oct 1831, son, John Melchesadeck, born in Lynnville, Giles, Tennessee
1833 Samuel moved his family to Pulaski County, Missouri
1840 US Census, Samuel living in Pulaski County, Missouri with family
1850 US Census, Samuel living in Pulaski County, Missouri with family
1851 Made a land claim in Laclede County, MO T 32, R 16,
1853 Moved his family overland to California
1853 Oct 11, Samuel's wife Mary died in Yountville, Napa, CA
1860 US Census, Samuel living in Yount, Napa, CA with freed slave, Lucy Grigsby
1870 US Census, Samuel living in Yount, Napa, CA with Lucy, and Starr family (I believe Emily Starr is Lucy's daughter
1873 Mar 28, Samuel died in Yountville, Napa, CA at age 78
Much of the information on this family came from Barbara Bickford who has the Grigsby family bible
In 1808 Samuel Harrison Grigsby moved to Giles County, Tennessee from Virginia when he was fourteen. He may have served under William Henry Harrison (perhaps his uncle, brother of his mother? There was a Benjamin Harrison who moved to Pulaski County Missouri ) during the War of 1812.
He moved his family to Pulaski County, Missouri, in 1833. (Perhaps in Waynesville.) He squatted and farmed on the Osage Fork of Brush Creek making a land claim in Laclede County, Township 32, Range 16 in 1851. (The lands embraced in the territory of Laclede County were not surveyed into sections, townships and ranges, and put into market and made subject to entry, until from 1835 to 1840. LaClede County was made from Pulaski County in 1838)
In 1853, Samuel, his wife and family made the overland journey to California, but she survived after the trip only a few days. The party they traveled with was struck with valley fever in Bear Valley. (Could this have been the Colorado tick fever or Mountain fever? This malady included severe headaches, muscle and joint pains, chills, and fever) Their daughter-in-law, Elizabeth, (wife of Lillard) died at Bear Valley, California, as did her husband who came from the Napa Valley to meet them. Their two small children survived. Samuel Harrison Grigsby lost another daughter-in-law on the plains in 1852, the wife of Achilles Grigsby. In 1852, Lewrey Grigsby also died on the plains coming west. Accompanying Samuel and Polly Grigsby on the trip west was Lucy, a slave they had freed before starting west. She refused to be left behind and became Samuel's housekeeper. According to the family bible, Lucy was born 11 November, 1806.
Samuel may have been a half-brother to Captain John's father.
CHECK DATES IN THE ABOVE. THEY DON'T SEEM TO MAKE SENSE!
Transcription of Will of Samuel H. Grigsby dated 4 Nov 1868
In the name of God Amen - I Samuel H Grigsby Sr of the county of Napa and State of California being weak in body but of sound a disposing mind being advanced in years and in view of the uncertainty of life, do make publish and declare this my last will and testament in manner following
My estate consists of real and personal property to wit about Two Hundred (200) acres of land lying and being situate in said Napa County State aforesaid, promissory notes, cash and some stock.
My first request is that if die in California that I be buried near my departed wife and that our graves be enclosed in one enclosure. That I be buried in decent and fashionable order and that a proper and fitting tomb stone with suitable engravings of my age, place of birth, death, etc. thereon engraved be erected and maintained over and upon my grave. And that the expenses of and in order to the complete execution of the above request be paid out of my undivided estate.
Second - I give devise and bequeath to my old servant woman - Lucy, the house and orchard thereto attached and adjoining known as the march house during her life and widowhood, and after her death or widowhood the said premises, house, orchard to revert back to my estate and be disposed of as the other real estate.
Third - I give will and bequeath to my son Terrel L. Grigsby One Thousand Dollars in money, or the value of one Thousand Dollars in land of my real property said land to be valued quality quantity location and improvements considered at it then market valuation.
Fourth - I give will and bequeath to my son John M Grigsby, Five Hundred Dollars in money or the value of Five Hundred Dollars in land of my real property. Said land to be valued quality quantity location and improvement considered at its then market valuation. I make this difference owing to my having paid a debt for said John M Grigsby to the heirs of L H Grigsby, deceased.
Fifth - I give will and bequeath to my grand child Samuel H Grigsby, a minor, heir of L H Grigsby - deceased, seven hundred and fifty dollars in money, or the value of seven hundred and fifty dollars in land of my real property quality, quantity location and improvement considered at its then market valuation.
Sixth - I give will and bequeath to my grandchildren Rachel Barker and Samuel Cooper Five Hundred dollars each in money or land of my real property quality quantity location and improvements considered at its then market valuation.
Seventh - I knowingly and intentionally refuse to give will or bequeath any of my estate or property to Elizabeth White (my grand child)
Eighth - I hereby nominate and appoint my son A F Grigsby of Napa County, California to be my sole executor, without bond, of this my last will and testament to settle my entire estate and to settle with each and all of the legaties without the interposition, aid, or authority or control of any court or courts of this State. Except for the purpose of Probate of this my last will and testament. To take possession and control of my estate at my death and to pay the before mentioned legacies, giving and granting to my said executor the privilege and entire discretion of paying the same either in land or money as and in the manner herein before provided. Granting to my said executor two years to pay and discharge said legacies to the legatees who are of age at the time of my death, and to the minors so soon after the two years as they may become of age.
Ninth _ After the above and foregoing bequests and requisitions have been done, performed and complied with by my executor, I will devise and bequeath to my said Son A F Grigsby all of the residue of my estate, whether real personal or mixed, and where ever it may exist.
Saml H Grigsby Sr.(his signature)
Subscribe by the testateor, Samuel H. Grigsby Sr. in the presence of each of the undersigned. The said testator at the time of subscribing the said will, declared the same to be his last will and testament and we in his presence and in the presence of each other, and at the request of said testator have subscribed our names witnesses.
Nov 4, 1868 R N Sture
Jesse Grigsby
1829, Wed. Feb 25 Samuel H. Grigsby vs. Judge Hudspeth, Wiley C. and Arthur Hudspeth - lands condemned for sale. (Every name index to 18 Middle Tennessee County Record Books, Giles County Chancery Court Records)
1836, Aug 1, Samuel Grigsby was Justice of the Peace in Laclede County, Missouri. He was also JP in 1840, Aug 3. (reference: "Our Ancestors in Pulaski Co. MO, Supplement 1, compiled by Tom Turpen, FHL, Salt Lake City, Utah)
1840 United States Federal Census Samuel H Grigsby
Name: Samuel H. Grigsby
Township: Not Stated
County: Pulaski
State: Missouri
Number of persons in household: Ages of persons in household:
1 male 5-10; 2 males 15-20; 1 male 20-30; 1 male 40-50; 1 female 10-15; 1 female 40-50 1
Slave schedule Pulaski County, Missouri
Samuel H Grigsby
# age colour
1 40 F M ( Probably Lucy)
2 26 F B
3 23 M B
4 23 M M
5 21 M B
6 6 M M
7 4 F B
8 3 M B
1850 United States Federal Census
Name: Samuel H Grigsbey
Age: 54
Estimated birth year: abt 1796
Birth Place: Virginia
Gender: Male
Household: Mary wife age 54 born N. C.
Home in 1850 (City,County,State): District 72, Pulaski, Missouri
1860 United States Federal Census Samuel H Grigsby
Name: Samuel H Grigsby
Age in 1860: 65
Birth Year: abt 1795
Birthplace: Virginia
Home in 1860: Yount, Napa, California
Gender: Male
Post Office: Sebastopol
Value of real estate:
Household Members: Name Age
Samuel H Grigsby 65
James A Meritt 30 bn Illinois Occupation: Ostler, (a person who takes care of
horses; groom.)
Lucy Grigsby 46, mulatto, bn Virginia
1870 United States Federal Census Saml H Grigsby
Name: Saml H Grigsby
Estimated Birth Year: abt 1794
Age in 1870: 76
Birthplace: Virginia
Home in 1870: Yount, Napa, California
Family and neighbors:
Race: White
Gender: Male
Post Office: Napa City
Household members:
Lucy 70 white, keeping house, bn Virginia, (this probably is the mulatto servant brought with them)
Cebar Starr 35, black, labor, bn Tenn
Emily Starr 31, black, at home, bn Missouri (probably Lucy's daughter?)
Robert Starr 7 black, at home, bn Missouri
Edward Starr 10 at home, bn Missouri
*Re: Emily Starr:
1880 United States Federal Census
Name: Emily Starr
Home in 1880: Napa, Napa, California
Age: 40
Estimated birth year: abt 1840
Birthplace: Missouri
Relation to Head of Household: Self (Head)
Father's birthplace: Tennessee
Mother's birthplace: Virginia
Occupation: Laundress
Marital Status: Married
Race: Black
Gender: Female
Household Members: Name Age
Emily Starr 40
Appendix:
Pulaski County, Missouri is located in the scenic Ozarks of Southcentral Missouri. It is composed of woods, forested hills and beautiful streams.---------
Condensed from "Missouri As It Was" pg 6.
The early settlers were mostly deer hunters and farmers from Tennessee, North Carolina and Kentucky. They drove through the country and where ever they found good land and good water, they squatted. Between 1835 and 1840 settlers from Tennessee took squatters claims along the Gasconade & Ozark Forks. Among them were Samuel Grigsby, Robert Faires and John Honsinger. The Gasconade and Osage Forks were two large rivers buttressed by towering bluffs. Robert Faires built a Mill and store on the Osage Fork. The lives of the well to do families were not so different from that in their native state. Samuel Grigsby brought with him at least one slave, Lucy.
In the house, the walls would be hung with festoons of dried fruit and vegetables. Dried flax would be strung from the rafters. There would be no glass in the windows. Perhaps they were covered with shutters or oiled paper or cloth. These pioneers would have brought with them everything they needed to live. A rifle and ammunition were indespensible both as protection and as a means of procuring food. Also needed were a hunting knife, an ordinary ax, a broad ax, and other tools, implements and household furnishing depending upon the financial condition of the settler.
Well to do families came with their slaves and whatever furniture they could bring be wagon trains. Their women and children rode in carry-alls with some degree of comfort. They had some horse teams and a sufficient number of cattle, sheep, hogs and domestic fowls. Each family would always have at least one hound or a pack of hounds if they could afford it.
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1794 - 1873 (78 years)
